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RACHEL NOTLEY GUIDES THE NDP TO A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT, ENDING 44 YEARS OF TORY RULE

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VOTERS WAKE UP TO THE NEW ALBERTA

EDMONTON — The NDP has won n itts first majority government in Allberta by toppling the Progressive e Conservative colossus that has dom min nated the province for decades and d driving leader Jim Prentice from m public life.

The New Democrats, under lead der Rachel Notley, swept all 19 constituencies in Edmonton on Tuesday and made significant inroadss in n previously barren NDP territory y in n Calgary, Lethbridge and rural Alberta.

“Friends, I believe that change e has finally come to Alberta,” Not-le ey, told cheering supporters who o changed “Rachel! Rachel! Rachel!” ch “New people, new ideas and a fresh start for our great province.”

The Wildrose party took second d place and will form the official Op-position, while Prentice and his bat-te ered PCs had to settle for third.

It was a crushing defeat for the e Tories, who had steered the ship of sttate since 1971 — longer than any y party anywhere in the country.

Prentice told subdued supporters in Calgary that he was stepping g d wn as leader effective immediate do ely y and would also leave the Calgary y Foothills seat he just recaptured.

“As leader of the party, I accept re esponsibility for tonight’s outcome e.

I also accept responsibility for the e decisions that led up to this eve ening,” he said.

“Clearly ... my contribution to o public life is at an end. It is time for me to dedicate my time to other re esp ponsibilities I have as a husband d, an nd as a father and a grandfather.”

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Voters dealt the ruling Progressive Conservative government a knockout in Central Alberta, shutting them out of all seven local MLA seats.

NDP candidates were elected in Red Deer North and South ridings as part of a historic New Democrat sweep to provincial power. It is the first time NDP candidates have been elected in Red Deer. Since 1971, Red Deer has elected only PC MLAs. Wildrose candidates were elected in all five rural Central Alberta ridings, a repeat of the last election.

Two relatively unknown NDP candidates — Kim Schreiner in Red Deer North and Barb Miller in Red Deer South — beat Tory newcomers Christine Moore and Darcy Mykytyshyn. Indeed, Moore placed third in Red Deer North behind Buck Buchanan (Wildrose).

The Red Deer ridings had been vacated by retiring Tory MLAs Mary

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Red Deer North MLA elect Kim Schreiner, centre celebrates with supporters, bottom left, Michelle Goodman, Brenda Corney, left, and Monica Milinazzo, right and others at the 111 Grill in Red Deer Tuesday as results from the Alberta election were broadcast.

Anne Jablonski and Cal Dallas. It was an eight-way race in Red Deer South and a five-candidate race in Red Deer North.

When Schreiner was declared winner in Red Deer North, her supporters chanted “NDP, NDP.” Schreiner said it was the news Albertans were waiting for.

Miller said people wanted change and they got change. But even she was surprised by the margin of NDP victory.

“When I was knocking on doors, probably about 80 per cent of the doors I hit, people were so angry they said ‘Anything but PC.’ There was no way to know where that vote

was going to go,” said Red Deer South Wildrose candidate Norman Wiebe, who finished third in his riding.

“There was a lot of animosity toward the PCs,” he said.

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April 7: Premier Jim Prentice announces in Edmonton that he has visited the lieutenant-governor to ask for a provincial election on May 5. Under Alberta law, an election wasn’t supposed to be held until early 2016, but many believe Prentice hopes to take advantage of an opposition in disarray. He’s running on a tough-love budget that increases taxes and runs a record $5-billion deficit.

April 12: Prentice says it was disappointment with previous Progressive Conservative administrations in Alberta that ultimately led him to re-enter public life. “Albertans were disappointed and so was I.” Prentice is the seventh person to serve as premier since the PCs took power in 1971.

April 16: A Wildrose candidate apologizes for the way an old-fashioned pie auction was advertised in his constituency. The fundraiser invited supporters to take a break from calving, farming and the NHL playoffs to meet Rick Strankman, but made it clear it was a BYWP — Bring Your Wife’s Pie event.

April 17: Notley says her government would be up front with people about school and hospital projects, with a public accounting system that would end political interference.

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Alberta PC leader Jim Prentice speaks on stage following Alberta election results in Calgary on Tuesday. The NDP has won a majority in Alberta by toppling the Progressive Conservative colossus that has dominated the province for more than four decades. was relentlessly upbeat and optimistic during her campaign. She urged Albertans to embrace uncertainty, accept it as a challenge and focus on making life better for families.

It provided a stark choice for voters.

ELECTION: ‘A clear message from Albertans’

where Nathan Cooper beat his closest competitor (PC Wade Bearchell) by 5,000 votes. Cooper garnered more votes than his three competitors.

In Lacombe-Ponoka, Ron Orr (Wildrose) was elected MLA, besting Doug Hart (NDP) and two other candidates.

Tory newcomer Peter DeWit came third in that riding.

What could Alberta look under the NDP? A look some of the party’s key promises

In Central Alberta, the most dramatic loss was in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake where Kerry Towle lost her seat to Wildrose candidate Don MacIntyre by more than 2,500 votes. Towle had been elected as a Wildrose MLA last election but crossed the floor to join the PCs last year.

MacIntyre said voters in InnisfailSylvan Lake wanted to bring back integrity saying many felt betrayed when Towle crossed the floor to join PCs. “There’s a clear message from Albertans,” said Towle. “They don’t want the entitlements. They don’t want the corruption from any party and they want health care fixed and they want certain issues dealt with.

“Mr. MacIntyre didn’t win. He won by default for our mistakes. I get that. I own that.”

However, MacIntyre was just one of the local Wildrose MLAs who said the NDP government will be a disaster.

That viewpoint was shared by former Red Deer North MLA Jablonski who said: “I totally fear for the future of Alberta.”

Also losing his seat on Tuesday was MLA Joe Anglin in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.

Jason Nixon bested Anglin by more than 4,000 votes. Anglin finished dead last in a four-way race. Anglin was elected as a Wildrose MLA in the last election, but he left the party to run as an Independent.

Wildrose incumbent Rick Strankman beat PC Jack Hayden in Drumheller-Stettler by more than 2,000 votes.

The most decisive victory in Central Alberta was Olds-Didsbury-Sundre,

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EDMONTON — The NDP have won a majority in Alberta. What could Alberta look like moving forward? Leader Rachel Notley campaigned on having the wealthy pay more to fund better health care and education. Here’s a look at some of the party’s key platform planks: ● A Resource Owners’ Rights Commission to review the royalties oil companies pay to the province with any amount earned above the current rates going into savings. ● A boost in the corporate tax rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and an increase in the minimum wage to $15 and hour by 2018. ● More tax brackets on high earners than the Tories are proposing: A 12 per cent tax rate on income between $125,000 to $150,000; 13 per cent on income between $150,000 to $200,000; 14 per cent between $200,000 and $300,000 and 15 per cent over $300,000. The NDP also plans to roll back the Tory health levy. ● The creation of 2,000 longterm care spaces over four years. ● A ban on both corporate and union donations to political parties.

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April 24: Pollsters and pundits say Notley was the clear debate winner, while Jean came off as too wooden. Prentice acknowledges that Notley is a skilled debater, but questions how her party could afford its election promises.

April 27: Prentice attacks Notley for her promise to take a hands-off approach on two pipeline projects, Northern Gateway and Keystone XL, that would move Alberta oil to coastal waters for export.

April 28: Notley says Prentice is fearmongering when he accuses her of turning her back on the oil industry. Notley has said that if she wins the election, she would hold a review of the province’s royalty structure to ensure that Albertans get a fair return for its non-renewable resources.

April 29: The CEO of Cenovus Energy, Brian Ferguson, says it would be a bad idea to review Alberta’s royalty structure at a time when crude prices are down by half.

April 30: Notley, facing criticism that her candidates are inexperienced, says they reflect the diversity of Alberta’s population.

April 30: Calgary Mayor Nenshi says he thinks the PCs will win; he later adds he thinks a minority government is possible.

April 30: Prentice ratchets up warnings of an NDP-governed Alberta, bringing federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair into the fray and saying the party has a “fundamental distrust of business.”

May 5: The New Democrats under Notley win a majority in the Alberta election.

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April 23: In a flinty televised debate, Prentice trades barbs with Notley and literally turns his back on Jean. The highlight comes when Prentice incorrectly says the NDP want to raise Alberta’s 10 per cent corporate tax rate to 20 per cent instead of the 12 per cent outlined in the NDP budget plan. He mock commiserates with Notley that “math is difficult” as she tries to set the record straight.

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April 21: Prentice rolls back on part of his proposed budget, cancelling his government’s plan to reduce the charitable donation tax credit. “Today I need to admit that we’ve gotten one very important thing wrong in our budget proposal.”

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April 19: Notley takes a page from former Tory premier Peter Lougheed as she unveils her party’s election campaign platform in Edmonton. Notley says corporations that did well during the boom should be expected to shoulder more of the burden during lean times. The platform includes a plan to hike corporate taxes and review royalties. It later turns out that the party miscalculated and would take a year longer than announced to balance the budget.

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Prentice called the election on a budget to reform the way Alberta taxes, spends and saves.

“Albertans needed to make those choices, those decisions, and they have now done so and chosen our collective future,” he said.

“And while I’m personally saddened by the decision, the voters are always right in our democracy.

“I congratulate Rachel Notley and the NDP party on their success this evening. Rachel obviously ran an excellent campaign and clearly has the confidence of Albertans.”

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, Liberal Leader David Swann and the Alberta Party’s Greg Clark were also elected.

The NDP win is a tectonic shift in Alberta politics, which has seen government change hands only four times since the Liberals won the first election when Alberta became a province in 1905.

Notley had momentum since the leaders debate that most pundits said she won and the victory is a vindication of the pioneering efforts of her father, Grant Notley. He helped found Alberta’s NDP and kept the movement alive as the sole NDP member of the legislature in the 1970s.

He died in a plane crash in northern Alberta in 1984, two years before his party made its first big breakthrough in 1986 and became official Opposition.

The NDP had never come close to power in Alberta. Its previous highwater mark was 16 seats and almost 30 per cent of the popular vote in 1986.

It’s the second defeat for Prentice at the hands of the NDP. He lost to the party in Calgary Mountain View when he ran for the PCs under premier Don Getty in 1986 before going on to a federal career. He would serve as a cabinet minister in several portfolios under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Prentice, the fifth Tory premier since the popular Ralph Klein retired in 2006, is the latest version of Harry Strom, who was premier when the Tories under Peter Lougheed ousted the Social Credit in 1971. The party had held power for 36 years.

The Tories were gunning for a 13th consecutive majority when Prentice dropped the writ on April 7. The election came a year earlier than necessary under Alberta law, but Prentice said it was necessary to gain a mandate to implement his tough budget that proposed sweeping increases in taxes and user fees and cuts in government spending.

He said his goal was to stop Alberta’s heavy reliance on fluctuating oil prices for its revenue.

The campaign was supposed to be a victory lap for Prentice, whose party held 70 of 87 seats at dissolution.

The Wildrose and the Liberals were both coming off leadership changes and Notley had only held her job since October.

The campaign didn’t work out that way.

The Opposition Wildrose criticized Prentice for not going far enough with spending cuts and said it would not raise any taxes.

Notley criticized Prentice for going too far with cuts, while sparing corporations from tax increases. Notley said she could balance the books by 2018 through increased taxes on corporations and the wealthy, while still spending more on health and education.

While Prentice urged Albertans to be resilient to weather the storm of low oil prices and job layoffs, Notley

EDMONTON — A look at some of the twists and turns during the Alberta election campaign:

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Khadr bail in limbo EDMONTON — Any hopes Omar Khadr had of tasting freedom for the first time in almost 13 years were dashed Tuesday when an Alberta justice said she wanted more time to consider whether he should be released on bail.

Court of Appeal Justice Myra Bielby said she would decide Thursday whether to grant the federal government’s request to keep him behind bars despite a lower court order that he be freed.

Khadr, who had watched the proceedings intently, showed little emotion as he was led from court following arguments, but one of his lawyers, Dennis Edney, was clearly disappointed with the decision.

“Well, of course, I’d like to grab him, throw him in the car, take him home,” Edney said outside court.

“When I listen to the argument from the government going on, it’s all smoke and mirrors.”

At issue is an April 24 order from Court of Queen’s Bench Justice June Ross that Khadr, 28, should be given bail pending his appeal of his war crimes conviction in the United States.

He was due for release as early as Tuesday under Ross’s order and Edney had arrived with a bag of clothes his wife Patricia had bought fully prepared to take Khadr home for supper.

“We’ve been in every court in the land and back again,” Edney said. “So we have a lot of patience.”

The federal government sought the last-ditch stay, arguing that Ross’s or-

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Omar Khadr watches the proceedings in court in Edmonton, Tuesday. An Alberta judge says she needs more time to make a decision on whether former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should be released on bail. der threatens the international treaty under which Khadr was brought back to Canada from Guantanamo Bay in 2012.

As such, Crown prosecutor Bruce Hughson said, bail for Khadr would cause “irreparable harm” to other Canadian prisoners seeking to return to Canada and damage the country’s international standing.

Hughson leaned heavily on an af-

fidavit from Lee Redpath, a senior Correctional Service of Canada official, who said, “A foreign government would no longer have faith in what it is that we are doing.”

The lawyer also said releasing Khadr “abruptly” on bail — given his long incarceration — would pose a risk.

Khadr’s other lawyer, Nate Whitling, called the government’s position

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OTTAWA — From stultifying case law to grey-coated canines. It was that kind of day at the trial of Senator Mike Duffy.

The Crown and defence lawyers wrapped up a lengthy procedural detour on Tuesday, during which they made their best arguments for why a particular Senate committee report should or should not be entered into evidence.

Justice Charles Vaillancourt heard about cases that went as far back at

the 18th century, and one involving an Ontario miner who used to be in the Finnish army. In a nutshell, the defence would like the Senate report, which is based on internal audits by the firm Ernst & Young, considered as fact by the judge.

The Crown disagrees, arguing it’s just opinion or hearsay.

Vaillancourt says he’ll make a decision and get back to the court on that front in June.

From there, the trial swung into absurd territory, as dog show organizer Louise Lang testified via telephone from Toronto.

purely speculative. Under normal circumstances, prisoner transfers never happen if there is an appeal pending, he noted.

Khadr “slipped through the cracks” in that no one realized, until after he was back in Canada, that an appeal waiver he had signed after his war crimes conviction before a discredited U.S. military commission was invalid, the lawyer said.

“Nobody realized, except his clever defence lawyers, that he had this right of appeal,” Whitling said.

As such, court heard, it was a “virtual certainty” that no harm would occur to anyone if Khadr did get bail.

“No floodgates will open?” Bielby said.

“No floodgates will open,” Whitling responded.

Whitling said Khadr is a model prisoner and pointed out he could be released on parole in June, something the U.S. has always known could happen.

Bielby refused the lawyer’s request to allow Khadr to go home with Edney pending her decision Thursday.

In Court of Queen’s Bench later Thursday, Ross listened as the two sides hammered out bail conditions, should Bielby refuse a stay.

Among conditions she imposed were that Khadr wear a tracking bracelet, live with the Edneys, observe a curfew between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., and have only supervised access to the Internet.

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A4 COMMENT The new Alberta

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OURVIEW JOHN STEWART Rachel Notley did what Danielle Smith and countless other pretenders to Alberta’s throne could not do over the years: she got average Albertans to see something frightening looming behind them in the mirror.

What Albertans apparently saw was the spectre of another four years of Progressive Conservative mismanagement, arrogance and entitlement.

And so the glacier that is Alberta politics has shifted at last.

Two months ago, then-premier Jim Prentice told Albertans to “look in the mirror” — we were all to blame for the province’s financial malaise, he said.

Apparently Albertans decided if they were to blame, then they would do something about it. On Tuesday, they elected the first NDP government in the history of the province (and a majority at that), and they dismissed the Conservatives after what has seemed like a lifetime in majority control of the legislature.

This is extraordinary, but it did not come without hints, the most obvious being the electorate’s flirting with the Wildrose and Smith three years ago.

Albertans have been dissatisfied with the quality of government for a long time, and it may only have been “lake of fire” nuttiness that kept Smith from becoming premier in 2012, plus an inclination by many left-leaning or centrist Albertans to vote Tory simply to prevent a Wildrose government. This time, Albertans found a party and a leader that stayed true to a message that resonated; there was no straying from the NDP script, and no reason to opt for the Tories by default.

Certainly Prentice does not carry the blame alone. Alison Redford’s disastrous leadership is part of the rot, as is the dithering of Ed Stelmach, the balanced-budget-at-any-cost posturing of Ralph Klein (and the cost was very high) and the cronyism and meandering of Don Getty.

First Prentice’s Conservative government offered a budget this spring that gouged average Albertans through a bevy of levies while ignoring corporate Alberta and dismissing oil royalty changes. Then the last Tory premier in a 44-year dynasty started by Peter Lougheed called a costly election a year ahead of schedule, apparently to give himself the mandate to rule in peace for another four years. And in four short weeks of campaigning, all that Tory bluster could not gather the voters back into the fold.

Notley and the NDP had other ideas.

Hers was the only party prepared and willing to fight the Tories in every riding.

Hers was the only party that had a clearly delineated platform, and the tenacity to challenge the Tories with detail at every policy utterance. Hers was the only party that made sense to an increasingly concerned electorate.

So after years of grumbling, discontent and — ultimately — disgust, Albertans have turned on the Conservatives.

That they turned to the New Democrats shows just how disaffected Albertans have become, and just how much Alberta — particularly urban Alberta — has changed in a generation.

This is a province that for decades has made a great show of its independent, stubborn and forceful nature, and its almost-American belief in free enterprise, as driven by the energy industry.

But at this moment, there are more important things: schools, roads, health care, social services, the environment.

That should be the first message Notley and the NDP take to heart, as delivered by Alberta voters. We need more

services and infrastructure, and we need it yesterday.

The next message sent at the polling stations on Tuesday is that responsibility for paying for more services and infrastructure should be shared more broadly. Notley talked about higher corporate taxes and a review of oil royalties. Albertans will expect her to act on both fronts.

Albertans also delivered a message that incompetence, entitlement and arrogance have no place in government.

We should also assume that the results are a repudiation of the backroom hand-holding of the Tories and their crossover Wildrose pals: many ex-Wildrose MLAs, including Smith, lost nominations as Conservatives; others survived the nomination process only to lose to new Wildrose candidates in rural ridings.

Prentice went into this premature election looking for a mandate for his promise of change — never mind that the rhetoric of a 10-year plan was al-

most devoid of substance.

And Albertans have decided they do want change. They made a huge leap of faith to kickstart that change, even if they were given a hearty push by a Conservative dynasty that, at the end, was a long way from the focused, compassionate and visionary leadership of Lougheed.

Prentice inherited a province beset by economic uncertainty and sullied by political incompetence. His few months on the job failed to soothe the angst; he regularly seemed persuasive and assured, but could lapse into befuddled, belittling behaviour.

Now he knows how unhappy Albertans are.

Notley’s success is certainly a product of that unhappiness. But it is also a product of the NDP’s promise of a new Alberta.

In the future, Albertans don’t want to be afraid to look into the mirror.

John Stewart is the Advocate’s managing editor.

Compassion vs. government spending THE ASSUMPTION THAT GOVERNMENT IS BEST PLACED TO CARE FOR US OVERLOOKS A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In a recent column in the Edmonton Journal, a local historian mused that modern governments have become too enamoured with “the unfettered market of purely economic conservatism.” He then equated higher taxes and more government spending with compassion.

Let’s dispel a myth. Few actually believe in completely “unfettered markets” — that is, the absence of government. Almost everyone thinks government should do some things; the debate is over what those “things” are and how effective government is at doing them.

As the Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell has written, it’s easy to talk about how “society” or government should do this or that, while ignoring the useful analysis of whom or what is best placed to “do” the “doing.”

For example, one can say that society should ensure children are well-fed. But that’s too general.

The first people who should safeguard that desirable end are parents. In circumstances where children are neglected, someone indeed should intervene — other family or, if that doesn’t work, government child services.

So if one sees a problem, it matters to be crystal clear about who is best placed to remedy it, and in what order.

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specifics, to measure compassion primarily through what governments do ignores how, after a certain point, more tax dollars spent won’t necessarily produce better social outcomes.

Economist and professor Livio Di Matteo recently reviewed the best work on the subject; studies that measured the effect of the size of government in 34 OECD countries on social outcomes such as life expectancy, infant mortality, homicide rates, educational attainment, and student reading proficiency — in other words, the stuff that matters beyond economic growth (though that also matters, if one cares about creating jobs).

The best results took place when total government spending hovered around 30 per cent of a country’s economy. Beyond that, governments are likely pushing on a string, attempting too much with ever-higher taxes, distortionary spending, and over-regulation with little gain to show for it.

Where is Canada at here?

Total government spending is now at 41 per cent of the economy, down from about 53 per cent in 1992 but still higher than what is optimal. (In contrast, Switzerland’s government spending-to-GDP ratio is 33.5 per cent, and no one could seriously argue the Swiss are less compassionate or less civilized than Canadians.)

Why are governments often inefficient with the money we give them? Consider Alberta. On average, government and public-sector employees are paid 6.9 per cent higher than their private-sector counterparts (after age, length of time in the workforce, and

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There is no secret as to why: private-sector wages are ultimately linked to competitive pressures. A business can’t pay salaries without regard to profits, otherwise it won’t stay in business. (On the flipside, it also can’t pay below-market wages because then no one will work for that company.)

Of course, no such natural pressure on wages (down or up) exists in the government sector. Governments — see Alberta — pay above market wages and then raise taxes to pay for such political generosity.

That matters, both because the inertia that plagues government diverts cash from the priorities a family might have for their own money; it also matters because higher-than-market government wages also divert from other possible uses-the building of new schools or hospitals, for example.

That’s evidence of how governments misspend the taxes all of us pay. It’s why the notion that everhigher government spending somehow equals compassion misses some hard empirical realities.

But critically, the assumption that government is best placed to care for us also overlooks a fundamental truth.

Most people already care about people beyond their immediate circle. They express that care through kindness, volunteering, support for charities and in a thousand other ways. That’s a more accurate and holistic understanding of compassion.

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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — A series of videos distributed by the Prime Minister’s Office, some of which showed the faces of the country’s special forces soldiers, were abruptly pulled offline early Tuesday in an embarrassing security breach.

The videos, on Stephen Harper’s official 24-Seven feed, were taken during his recent whirlwind trip to Iraq and Kuwait, where the travelling media were lectured and asked to sign undertakings that they would not publish images of the elite JTF2 troops who provided security and conduct a myriad of secret operations around the world.

The request, made of out fear of reprisal

by Islamic State terrorists, was honoured by journalists and photographers, but it appears one of Harper’s videographers filmed some soldiers in the background during an interview involving Defence Minister Jason Kenney.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WAGENINGEN, Netherlands — It was 70 years ago Tuesday that the guns fell nearly silent along the Canadian and British lines in Holland.

The war in northwestern Europe was almost over and Pte. Frank Graham, who’d fought with the Canadian 1st Division all through Sicily, Italy and Holland, found himself thunderstruck.

“When I heard they’d given up, I thought, no they don’t,” said Graham, 92. “I didn’t believe it to start with.”

The BBC had announced the ceasefire the night before, on May 4, 1945, yet Graham said he’d been disappointed by rumours before.

Seven decades on, Graham was part of a sentimental parade of veterans who rolled past a reviewing stand in vintage army vehicles outside of the hotel where the capitulation was made official.

As was evident on their faces, it was a bittersweet moment for the old soldiers in this tranquil, leafy town as they mingled with actors dressed in the uniforms they used to wear and rode in trucks and jeeps they had once driven.

“Brings back a lot of memories,” said former corporal Al Stapleton, looking at an armoured reconnaissance car. He also served with the 1st Division, but as a signaller.

Scattered, heavy thunder showers threatened Tuesday’s parade and even cancelled a photo opportunity Prime Minister Stephen Harper had planned with the veterans, who had to scramble for cover.

It was far cry from the breezy, cold day in 1945 when Col.-Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz, commander of all German forces in the

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Second World War veterans take part in a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands in Wageningen, Netherlands on Tuesday.

Netherlands and Denmark, showed up at the wrecked Hotel de Wereld.

Canadian Lt.-Gen. Charles Foulkes accepted the surrender in a simple signing ceremony, which was to be followed two days later by the more formal unconditional surrender of all German forces accepted

by Allied supreme commander U.S. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower at Reims, France.

“I watched the tired, old Blaskowitz sitting across the dusty table from Gen. Foulkes and blinking like an owl as he agreed to every surrender term,” Canadian Press war correspondent Ross Munro wrote in his post-war book, Gauntlet to Overlord.

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Sapers has been given a temporary contract of up to a year while the government searches for “suitable replacement candidates” to take over the role of prison service watchdog, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said Tuesday.

Sapers said he was not told why he’s being terminated.

Sapers said he went to the government a year ago and expressed an interest in continuing in the job when his appointment was up for renewal. He also asked that he be given six months’ notice if the government intended to replace him.

“It’s a very small office and so a change of leadership has a lot of impact. I wanted to make sure there would be a good transition if a transition was going to take place,” said Sapers.

He was not given notice and his temporary Order in Council reappointment wasn’t signed until March 31, the last day of his term.

Public Safety provided no rationale for Sapers’ dismissal other than the fact that he had been in the job for more than 10 years.

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City tries orange on for size RED DEER NORTH, SOUTH ELECT FIRST NDP CANDIDATES

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF On a night of Alberta firsts, Red Deer North voters rode the orange wave to elect an MLA under the NDP banner.

Chants of “NDP, NDP” rang out when Kim Schreiner was declared the winner at the NDP camp at One Eleven Grill on Tuesday.

“It’s excellent news,” said Schreiner, who received 4,973 votes. “It’s news that Albertans have been waiting for.

It’s just wonderful news.”

Schreiner, who is in her 50s, is a health-care provider who works with seniors. She has lived in Red Deer for about 30 years. She is married and has two children.

Schreiner said the government has not put people or family first for a very long time. She said she looks forward to working for Red Deerians.

Wildrose candidate Buck Buchanan came in second with 4,167 votes, followed by Progressive Conservative Christine Moore with 3,833 votes. Liberal Party’s Michael Dawe had 3,265 votes and Alberta Party’s Krystal Kromm had 679 votes.

Buchanan said it was obviously not in the cards for him and he looks forward to getting back to work as a Red Deer city councillor.

“I’ll be back in a chair that I am fairly comfortable in,” said Buchanan.

“I love what I am doing. This to me was an extension of that and obviously it did not come to fruition. It’s a learning experience.”

Buchanan said he does not see his

BARB MILLER FENDS OFF LARYNGITIS, MYKYTYSHYN TO CLAIM RED DEER RIDING FOR NDP

RED DEER NORTH

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer North PC candidate Christine Moore gives former Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski a hug as Moore’s husband David and son Alex stand by her side after election results showed Moore had lost her bid for the Red Deer North seat Tuesday night. NDP candidate Kim Schreiner won the seat. defeat as a loss and he looks forward to working with the two new MLAs to advance the interests of the city.

At the PC camp in Red Deer North, a disappointed Moore congratulated Schreiner and thanked her volunteers.

“Democracy spoke and there was

a movement in the province that we have to respect,” said Moore. “I think the people spoke tonight. I think it was a movement against the Progressive Conservatives Party.”

But Moore said she is worried about the future of Alberta. She said the PCs

‘IT MEANS I CAN SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE NOW. I CAN BE THE VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF RED DEER SOUTH.’

RED DEER SOUTH

— BARB MILLER

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF “It means I can speak for the people now. I can be the voice for the people of Red Deer South,” a delighted Barb Miller, NDP MLA-elect for Red Deer South, said late Tuesday evening.

As several dozen very happy supporters gathered earlier at the One Eleven Grill restaurant, cheering ecstatically as provincial election results were reported, Miller chose to stay home until later so she could tuck her grandchild into bed.

Miller, 56, had been fighting laryngitis for the past few weeks but on Tuesday her voice was strong and clear on a night when Albertans decided it was finally time for a change, and the “orange crush” as her party’s campaign became known, won a majority government.

Red Deer, historically a Progressive Conservative stronghold, saw both constituencies go to the NDP, with Kim Schreiner taking Red Deer North.

“The more and more I door-knocked, the more and more I expected it, that I was going to get in, but it didn’t really sink in. And I didn’t think it would be by this margin,” said Miller.

With all 82 polling stations report-

had a great plan that meant jobs and economic stability.

Her concerns were shared by former Red Deer North MLA Mary Ann Jablonski, who was clearly stunned by the provincial results. Jablonski had represented Red Deer North since 2000, when she was elected in a byelection to replace Stockwell Day, who left to seek the leadership of the federal Canadian Alliance Party. Jablonski did not seek a sixth term.

“I find this hard to believe,” said Jablonski. “I feel horrible for province.

If you try to tell other people what happened to other provinces when the NDP took over, they accused you of fear mongering and myth making. I think they are going to see proof in the next four years that nobody was fear mongering or myth making.”

Jablonski said she thinks the PCs are being punished for some of the things that have happened in the past.

“People just voted NDP or Wildrose without even knowing the candidates or the party policies,” said Jablonski.

“I totally fear for the future of Alberta.”

Dawe, who ran as an Liberal candidate endorsed by the Green Party, called Tuesday a historic night in Alberta. While the results were not what he was hoping for, Dawe said he made gains in areas of the city that he did not penetrate in 2012.

“I have lived in Alberta all my life and I didn’t think this was possible,” he said. “We finished with a majority NDP government. Red Deer set history tonight too in what was supposed to be hard-core conservative country.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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LEFT: Red Deer South PC candidate Darcy Mykytyshyn speaks with supporter Peter Gregg at the Black Knight Inn after Mykytyshyn lost to NDP candidate Barb Miller RIGHT: Red Deer South MLA elect Barb Miller, centre celebrates with Kandice Miller, no relation, at the One Eleven Grill in Red Deer Tuesday night. ing, unofficial results show Miller had 7,023 votes. PC candidate Darcy Mykytyshyn was second with 5,413 and Wildrose candidate Norman Wiebe was third with 4,814 votes.

Miller, a Safeway cashier, union shop steward and president of the Red Deer and District Labour Council, said matter-of-factly that nothing is going to change in her life this week.

“I’m still going to work on Thursday like I’m supposed to (at Safeway),” she said.

“After that, everything changes.”

As for the overall election results, Miller said, “I think it’s amazing. People wanted change and they got change,”

adding she was thrilled with the large number of women NDP candidates who won.

Mykytyshyn thanked a much quieter group of about 100 supporters, saying “at the end of the day it looks like our victory wasn’t meant to be.”

The PC candidate took the torch from former MLA Cal Dallas, who decided not to seek a third term.

Mykytyshyn will return to his job as dean of the Donald School of Business at Red Deer College.

“The results are showing that the NDP sweep of Alberta is going to hit Red Deer as well.

“I think the NDP wave has come

through and we got caught by it. I don’t think it has anything to do with our campaign. I’m proud of our campaign.”

Mykytyshyn, 44, said based on indications from door-knocking, he did not anticipate the results. He said what he heard the most was that people were undecided throughout the campaign “and so when they walked into the polling stations today they made their decision.”

Wiebe, 50, said he was disappointed.

“We’re all hoping we’re going to win, right?”

“I was really hoping for a minority government regardless of whoever was going to form the government. I was hoping it would be Wildrose of course but Wildrose will be official Opposition it would seem.

“I think that’s a good thing and hopefully Wildrose is as effective holding this government to account as they were with the last one,” said Wiebe.

“When I was knocking on doors, probably about 80 per cent of the doors I hit, people were so angry they said ‘Anything but PC.’ There was no way to know where that vote was going to go.”

“There was a lot of animosity toward the PCs,” he said.

The results for the other candidates in Red Deer South (82 of 82 polls) are: Patti Argent (Ind) with 232 votes; William Berry, (Ind) 60; Deborah Checkel (Lib) 738; Ben Dubois (Green) 274; Serge Gingras (Alberta Party) 1,035.

There were 35,912 eligible voters in the Red Deer South constituency and a total of 19,589 votes cast, which represents a 54-per-cent voter turnout. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Orr to take indefinite leave of absence to represent riding

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Lacombe-Ponoka riding joined a sea of Wildrose green across rural Central Alberta on Tuesday night.

Winning Wildrose candidate Ron Orr will take an indefinite leave of absence from being the pastor of the Clive Baptist church now that he’s an MLA. “I plan to give constituents 100 per cent of my attention. ...

“I’m excited. Ron Orr I’ve thought about this for 20 years,” said the married father of three, who was celebrating with his family and other supporters at the Lacombe Memorial Centre.

While Orr was thrilled to win, he wasn’t overly surprised by the election results. He heard during his doorknocking campaign that Albertans were finally ready to make a change after more than four decades of Progressive Conservative rule.

The most discontent was expressed

LACOMBE-PONOKA ‘I PLAN TO GIVE CONSTITUENTS 100 PER CENT OF MY ATTENTION . . . I’M EXCITED. I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR 20 YEARS.’ — RON ORR

about PC Leader Jim Prentice’s early election call and unpopular budget — which Orr said would have stuck ordinary Albertans with higher taxes.

“People felt there was a complete mismanagement and waste of funds,” added Orr, whose party promised to cut spending and not raise any more taxes.

Although Albertans in urban centres embraced change by electing the NDP, he believes the right-wing Wildrose party prevailed in rural parts of the province because farmers and those working in the oil industry are more comfortable with conservative values and fiscal policy.

Regarding his party’s relationship with Rachel Notley’s new NDP majority government, Orr said Wildrose has become adept at being an effective Alberta opposition party and that will continue. “Some of the issues might change,” he said, “but we’re still dedicated to fiscally healthy,” cost-effective governance.

New Democrat Doug Hart placed second in the riding that effectively had no incumbent.

He was very pleased with his party’s sweep across the province — even though it didn’t mean a seat for him.

Thankfully, Albertans didn’t fall for PC “fear-mongering,” said Hart, a nurse at Red Deer hospital.

He added “the NDP isn’t going to do anything radical. We’ll follow through with a small corporate tax increase.

This is not going to affect jobs ...

Notley promised to dump the health-care premiums that were in Prentice’s budget, as well as new taxes for mid-income wage earners. Instead she promised to balance the books by 2018 by increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, while spending more on healthy and education.”

Hart feels the NDP’s ground-shifting win was due to a growing “distrust” in the departing Tory government.

The PCs had described themselves as

“business people,” yet somehow managed to accrue a $6-billion deficit just because oil prices fell to $50 a barrel, he added. “There was no confidence.

They sold out our royalty rates.”

Lacombe businessman and PC candidate Peter DeWit came in third in the riding. He received a rough ride when he first started door-knocking, but thought the public’s reception had improved as he went along. Obviously, voters decided it was time for a change, he said.

DeWit believes his party wasn’t given enough credit for doing a good job for many years. And he feels “big implications” will come from electing an NDP majority government, since lot of new NDP MLAs are pretty green.

“It’s great to see young people getting involved,” said DeWit, but he feels there’s something to be said for balancing youth and enthusiasm with experience. “There will be adjustments.”

Alberta party candidate Tony Jeglum also ran in the election.

The Lacombe-Ponoka riding’s previous MLA was Rod Fox, a Wildrose Party member who crossed the floor to the PCs in December with former leader Danielle Smith and seven other Wildrose members. Fox paid the price for the unpopular move by later losing the PC nomination to DeWit. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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MacIntyre trounces Towle

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

INNISFAIL-SYLVAN LAKE

INNISFAIL — Voters in InnisfailSylvan Lake riding supported the Wildrose Party in 2012 and they did it again on Tuesday, electing candidate Don MacIntyre.

MacIntyre ousted PC incumbent Kerry Towle, who was elected under the Wildrose banner in 2012 but crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in November.

MacIntyre won with 7,827 of ballots cast, or 42.6 per cent of votes.

Towle received 5,138 votes, NDP candidate Patricia Norman pulled in 4,250 votes and Alberta Party candidate Danielle Klooster had 1,134.

With 29,496 eligible voters in the riding, 62 per cent of voters cast ballots.

MacIntyre said voters in InnisfailSylvan Lake wanted to bring back integrity.

“These people voted in 2012 for change. They voted for Wildrose and Kerry Towle betrayed that trust and they’re voting for Wildrose again. They didn’t change. She changed,” said MacIntyre, 59, who celebrated his win with supporters at his Innisfail campaign office.

Towle defeated longtime Tory Luke Ouellette in the 2012 provincial election when she ran for the Wil‘MR. MACINYRE drose.

DIDN’T WIN. She was also one of 11 Wildrose HE WON BY MLAs to defect to DEFAULT FOR (THE the PCs late last year.

PROGRESSIVE Towle agreed CONSERVATIVE’S) that people voted MISTAKES. I GET against her for crossing the floor.

THAT. I OWN THAT.’ “The reality of it is that people — KERRY TOWLE aren’t voting for Mr. MacIntyre,” said Towle, who was hit hard by the loss.

“Mr. MacIntyre is benefiting from all of my hard work, and my dedication to this riding and the policies I brought forward, and good on him. I left the Wildrose Party for good reasons.

I don’t regret that decision at all.

I hope he can do “(Prentice) has demonstrated a lack half the work I did. I wish him the best of ethics from the very beginning and and all I want is what’s best for this Albertans are letting him know what riding.” they think of that,” MacIntyre said.

MacIntyre said the rejection of the Towle said her party did break some Tories by voters was also a comment promises and the PC brand was damon PC Leader Jim Prentice’s lack of aged. leadership and his early election call.

“There’s a clear message from Al-

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Don MacIntyre of the Wildrose Party, an new MLA of the InnisfailSylvan Lake riding, is congratulated by supporters in Innisfail on Tuesday evening. INSET: Kerry Towle of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party reacts as poll results come in.

bertans. They don’t want the entitlements. They don’t want the corruption from any party and they want health care fixed and they want certain issues dealt with.

“Mr. MacIntyre didn’t win. He won by default for our mistakes. I get that. I own that,” Towle said.

With a NDP government in power, MacIntyre only predicted provincial disaster.

“Albertans are going to wake up having an NDP government the same way the other provinces got a wakeup call having an NDP government. They drove their perspective provinces into the ground and that’s what we can expect from this government too.”

He promised the Wildrose would tenaciously fight any effort by the NDP to push through higher taxes.

Norman said it wasn’t the outcome she was hoping for in her riding, but the NDP majority was way more than she expected.

“I’m overwhelmed, but so incredibly happy. This just proves Alberta really was ready for change. We’re tired of government that isn’t going to listen.

We’re not going to be bullied and we’re going to stand up for what matters,” the NDP candidate said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Jubilant Nixon excited about Wildrose resurrection BESTS COTE, ANGLIN TO CLAIM SEAT IN LEGISLATURE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE-SUNDRE

Voters in the West Country stuck to their guns by choosing Wildrose again, dumping the incumbent who left the party late last year.

Jason Nixon will join 20 other Wildrose members in forming the official Opposition to the NDP majority provincial Jason Nixon government that was elected on Tuesday night.

With all 83 polls reporting in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Nixon had an unofficial count 6,670

votes, or 40.12 per cent. Progressive Conservative candidate Tammy Cote was the closest competitor with 5,296 votes, or 31.85 per cent. Hannah Schlamp, NDP, finished third with 2,789 votes, or 16.77 per cent, and incumbent Joe Anglin was a distant fourth with 1,871 votes, or 11.25 per cent.

A jubilant Nixon said he is most excited about the resurrection of the Wildrose, which almost ceased to exist.

“It was only a few months ago we were sitting in a motel room thinking our party was dead,” said Nixon. “Most pundits thought it was gone.

“I’m proud of my colleagues who were able to rally and find a new leader in time. Now we’re going to be able to form the official Opposition again and hold an NDP government to account.”

He had a tough nomination battle,

going toe-to-toe with Anglin. At the time, Anglin was the Wildrose MLA for the riding.

“It feels good, we’re pretty excited,” said Nixon. “I think our general campaign was run well considering we didn’t have much notice.

“My biggest excitement for the night is we were able to save the Wildrose Party.”

Cote, a branch manager for Alberta Treasury Branch in Rocky Mountain House for 30 years, said she found the provincial results distressing.

“I’m shocked,” said Cote. “I am concerned, very concerned. I don’t think this is in our best interest at all. I’m concerned about small business and business in general. I’m concerned this is going to mean a lot of jobs lost.”

She said the race in her riding was about what she had anticipated, calling it a conservative stronghold.

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Cooper wins Olds-DidsburyThree Hills for Wildrose The riding of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills rode a wave of rural green on Tuesday as the Wildrose candidate Nathan Cooper took the riding handily.

With no incumbent in the provincial riding, Cooper won 53.34 per cent of the vote, 10,687 total votes with 79 of 79 polls reporting. He beat out both Progressive Conservative and New Democratic Party challengers.

Conservative Wade Bearchell was second to Cooper with 5,290 or 26.40 per cent of the vote.

Glenn Norman of the NDP was in third with 3,373 or 16.84 per cent of the vote.

Jim Adamchick, the Alberta Party candidate, received 685 votes totaling 3.42 per cent.

Bruce Rowe was elected in 2012 as a Wildrose member, but he was one of the nine party members who crossed the floor in November to join the PCs. He chose not to seek re-election.

The riding had a voter turnout of about 66 per cent, with 20,035 votes cast out of 31,043 electors.

One of the few Wildrose MLAs to stay put during the mass legislature floor crossing late last year was returned to office, as voters in DrumhellerStettler reelected Rick Strankman on Tuesday during the provincial election.

Strankman had a strong challenge from Progressive Rick Strankman Conservatives candidate Jack Hayden, who finished about 2,100 votes behind the incumbent.

With 79 of 79 polls reporting, Strankman took 47.6 per cent of the vote, 7,563 ballots, while Hayden received 5,399 votes, or 33.98 per cent of the vote.

NDP candidate Emily Shannon finished in third in the three-way race with 2,928 votes, or 18.43 per cent.

Strankman was first elected in 2012, defeating PC Hayden.

With a turnout of about 63 per cent, a total of 15,890 votes were cast out of 24,897 electors.

Schreiner, Kim — New Democrat: 4,973 Buchanan, Buck — Wildrose: 4,167 Dawe, Michael — Liberal, Green: 3,265: Moore, Christine — Progressive Conservative: 3,833 Kromm, Krystal — Alberta: 679

Red Deer South Miller, Barbara — New Democrat: 7,023 Mykytyshyn, Darcy — Progressive Conservative: 5,413 Wiebe, Norman — Wildrose: 4,814 Gingras, Serge — Alberta : 1,035 Checkel, Deborah — Liberal: 738 Dubois, Ben — Green: 274 Argent, Patti — Independent: 232 Berry, William — Independent: 60

Drumheller-Stettler Strankman, Rick — Wildrose*: 7,563 Hayden, Jack — Progressive Conservative: 5,399 Shannon, Emily — New Democrat: 2,928

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MacIntyre, Donald — Wildrose:

“We ran a very clean race and worked really hard,” said Cote. “Of course I’m disappointed for my team, but I don’t think we have anything to hang our heads about, not in the least.

We did exactly what we wanted to do.”

Turnout was about 52 per cent as 16,626 votes were cast. There are a total of 31,993 registered voters in the riding.

In 2012 Anglin, then a Wildrose candidate, won the riding by 1,502 votes, beating out PC Ty Lund, who had been an MLA since 1989.

Anglin quit the Wildrose on Nov. 2, 2014, and sat as an independent before the election was called.

Nixon won the Wildrose nominated in a hotly-contested battle with Anglin in June and July 2014, while Anglin was still the Wildrose MLA for the riding. In-fighting prefaced Anglin’s decision to leave the party.

Schlamp and Anglin did not respond to phone calls by deadline. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com 7,827 Towle, Kerry — Progressive Conservative*: 5,138 Norman, Patricia — New Democrat: 4,250 Klooster, Danielle — Alberta: 1,134

Lacombe-Ponoka Orr, Ron — Wildrose: 6,502 Hart, Doug — New Democrat: 5,481 DeWit, Peter — Progressive Conservative: 5,020 Jeglum, Tony — Alberta: 1,205

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Cooper, Nathan — Wildrose: 10,687 Bearchell, Wade — Progressive Conservative: 5,290 Norman, Glenn — New Democrat: 3,373 Adamchick, James — Alberta: 685

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Nixon, Jason — Wildrose: 6,670 Cote, Tammy — Progressive Conservative: 5,296 Schlamp, Hannah — New Democrat: 2,789 Anglin, Joe — Independent*: 1,871 * denotes incumbent

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015

OVERTIME GOAL PUTS CALGARY BACK IN SERIES WITH ANAHEIM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Ducks 3 CALGARY — Mikael Backlund scored in overtime for the Calgary Flames, who worked their way back into their playoff series with the Anaheim Ducks with a 4-3 win on Tuesday.

The Flames stayed unbeaten at home this NHL post-season and trail the Ducks two games to one in their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final series.

“It was an amazing feeling. It’s hard to describe,” said Backlund. “I didn’t believe it went in at first but when I saw all the reaction and all the fans going crazy and my teammates going crazy, it’s just an unbelievable feeling.”

Friday’s Game 4 at the Scotiabank Saddledome will be followed by Game 5 back in Anaheim, Calif., on Sunday.

On a delayed Ducks penalty and with Flames goaltender Karri Ramo on the bench for an extra attacker, Backlund’s shot from the blue-line through traffic beat Anaheim goaltender Frederik Andersen at 4:24 of overtime.

Johnny Gaudreau’s goal in the dying second of the third period forced extra time for Calgary. Joe Colborne, with a short-handed goal in the second period, and Brandon Bollig also scored for the Flames in front of a sellout at the Saddledome. Ramo made 18 saves for the win.

“We’re still fighting an uphill battle,” said Colborne. “The way we’ve been playing at home, the way we have the support of our fans right now, we’re feeling confident we can take care of business here and go try and figure things out in Anaheim. It’ll be a hungry hockey team here in a couple days.

“We need to kind of plant this behind us just like we did after Games 1 and 2 and make sure we come out and we’re ready for Game 4.”

Patrick Maroon, Corey Perry and Matt Beleskey countered for the Ducks, who led 2-1 after the first period and 3-2 after the second.

Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf contributed a pair of two assists and Andersen made stopped 17 shots in the loss.

Controversy brewed in the third when officials waived off a potential Sam Bennett equalizer for Calgary.

The rookie’s shot from close-range at 13:38 appeared from certain angles to slide under Andersen’s right pad and behind the goal-line.

The NHL’s situation room ruled “no conclusive evidence” of a goal, much to the Saddledome’s dismay when that decision was announced.

But Gaudreau deflected attention away from the fuss by scoring the tying goal and his first of this series with 19 seconds left in regulation.

“That’s an all-world shot,” said Colborne. “There was probably three

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Calgary Flame Mikael Backlund, left, celebrates his winning overtime goal against the Anaheim Ducks with Kris Russell, middle, and Joe Colborne during NHL playoff action in Calgary on Tuesday. or four inches there and Johnny just picked it.”

With Ramo pulled for a two-man advantage on a Flames power play in the final minute, the Calder Trophy finalist’s wrist shot beat Andersen glove side. It was Calgary’s first power-play goal of the series after going 0 for 11.

The Flames went 3-0 at home in their first-round win over the Vancouver Canucks in six games. Calgary lost both games in Anaheim to open their second-round series.

The Ducks’ Beleskey scored his third in as many games in this series for a go-ahead goal in the second period. He wristed a drop pass from Ryan Kesler past Ramo at 8:20 to give the

visitors a 3-2 lead.

Colborne’s first goal of the post-season was short-handed at 4:17 to tie the game 2-2. Anaheim defenceman Hampus Lindholm lost his footing and Colborne went in alone beating Andersen going backhand to forehand.

Getzlaf’s face adorns a banner hanging from the Saddledome rafters because he was a major junior star with the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen.

The captain was the difference for the Ducks in the first period as it was him muscling the puck away from Flames defenceman T.J. Brodie that led to Perry’s goal.

Perry tucked the puck bottom cor-

Rebels are ready for bantam draft

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer Rebels assistant GM/ director of player personnel Shaun Sutter won’t be harbouring any partiality during the opening round of Thursday’s Western Hockey League bantam draft at Calgary.

“Where we are picking, at 16, we have to take the best player available or the player who projects the best,” Sutter said Tuesday. “There are some guys in the draft who are real good players now but may not have a lot of upside.”

In other words, he and Rebels director of scouting and player development Randy Peterson will not be targeting any particular position. In fact, they may even go off the board to nab who they feel is the premier prospect with their first-round selection, whether that player is a forward or a defenceman.

“From our perspective, we have to see what falls to us,” said Sutter. “You never know what can happen prior to your (first) pick, but at the same time we have our eyes on some guys who other teams may think we’re reaching on, but we believe in their skill set.”

Sutter said he and Peterson had their list pretty much set Tuesday.

“We’re almost done, we’re just doing some micromanaging at this point,” he said. “There are players in the middle to late rounds who are similar so we have to decide who we’ll take if two or more players like that are available when we pick.”

The Rebels will select a player in each round except the fifth, barring a trade or trades prior to the draft.

Sutter sees defencemen Ty Smith of Lloydminster, who this season played at the Delta, B.C., Hockey Academy, and Calen Addison of Brandon as the top two players in the draft.

“I think, at this point, those are going to be the top two kids taken,” he said.

Other top-end players of note include rearguards Jett Woo of Winnipeg, Ethan Cap of the North Shore Winter Club in Vancouver and Jonathyn Tychonik of Calgary, and forwards Riley Stotts, Luca Burzan and Jackson Leppard of the North Shore Winter Club, Carson Focht of Notre Dame and Tyler Popowich, a six-foot-four centre from the Okanagan Hockey Acad-

emy.

“There’s a consensus top group of 10 to 12 guys, then after that there’s a second tier,” said Sutter. “A large chunk of the high-end guys are from B.C. Manitoba is also strong this year, Alberta has good depth and Saskatchewan is weak.”

Regarding Central Alberta prospects, Sutter sees draft potential for at least three players.

“The first Red Deer boy taken will be Josh Tarzwell,” he said. “He’s a big (five-foot-11, 186 pounds) powerful guy who skates well and shoots the puck.

He’s a real power forward.”

Sutter also likes defenceman Luke Bast of Red Deer and forward Joshua McNeil of Sylvan Lake.

“Bast is a bit of a wild card because I think a lot of teams are going to assume he’s going to do the same thing as his brother,” said Sutter, in reference to defenceman Gabe Bast who is with the junior A Penticton Vees and has secured a NCAA scholarship to North Dakota. “But he has a real good skill set.”

As for McNeil . . .

“He’s a kid who can really skate and he plays hard. He has some skill,” said Sutter.

The Rebels head talent evaluator doesn’t expect many puck-stoppers will be picked in the first two to three rounds.

“It’s not a great year for goalies,” he said. “Even the best ones will be drafted way higher than they should. Right now the goalies available look more like back-ups than starters.”

That being said, Donovan Buskey of the North Shore Winter Club is considered the best of the bunch and could be a first-round selection. ● The Portland Winterhawks’ first-round selection in the 2017 bantam draft has been reinstated by the league.

The selection was part of the sanctions imposed by the WHL in November of 2012 due to recruitment violations.

“It was important to the league that Portland demonstrate full compliance with WHL regulations and, as a result of their compliance, the 2017 first-round draft choice has been reinstated,” WHL commissioner Ron Robison said in a press release.

“I am not only satisfied the Winterhawks have been fully compliant but they are also committed to continue serving as good partners in the WHL.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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ner on Ramo’s stick side to give the visitors at 2-1 lead at 14:10 of the first period.

With his 70th career playoff point for Anaheim, Perry moved clear of Teemu Selanne into second all-time behind Getzlaf with 86.

Getzlaf also set the table for Maroon’s goal at 10:01 with a finesse pass from beyond the faceoff circle to Maroon for the re-direct.

The Flames opened the scoring for the first time in the series with Bollig’s goal at 2:07.

With Anaheim pinching along the boards, Bollig headed for open ice and scored top corner off an odd-man rush with Mason Raymond.

Blackhawks in control after shutout

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 1 Wild 0 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Patrick Kane has been playing like he never left. Corey Crawford has resolutely rebounded from being benched.

The Chicago Blackhawks have only begun to rev up their game, and the Minnesota Wild have lost their touch at the wrong time.

Kane scored on a power play in the first period, and Crawford and the Blackhawks made the superstar’s goal stand up for a 1-0 win over the Wild on Tuesday to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.

“Obviously we’d be very happy if you told us we’d be in this position before the series,” said Kane, who has six goals and five assists in nine playoff games to bounce back from the broken collarbone that kept him of the last quarter of the regular season. “We have to keep it going. We know the hardest game is the one to close it out.”

Game 4 is in Minnesota again on Thursday.

“Two things: character and belief,” Wild coach Mike Yeo said. “There will be no feeling sorry for ourselves. Obviously we’re disappointed to be in this spot, but we’ve got to find a way.”

Crawford made 30 saves, giving him 90 on 94 shots in the three games.

“As much confidence as he has, we have in him,” Kane said.

Stifled time after time on chance after chance in their return home, the Wild have scored just once over their last 150-plus minutes on the ice. They were at a loss, trying to explain how to crack the wall that Crawford has become. “Shoot where he isn’t, and maybe they’ll go in,” said left wing Zach Parise.

The Blackhawks last led a playoff series 3-0 in the Western Conference finals against San Jose in 2010, when they went on to win the Stanley Cup. Crawford, who was pulled for Scott Darling in the first round against Nashville, returned to his post at the end of that series and has solidified it with this stellar performance against the Wild.

“He’s a star against us. He’s Brodeur. He’s Roy. He’s everybody against us, so we’ve got to find a way to solve that,” Yeo said.

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Pineda leads Yankees past Blue Jays

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Yankees 6 Blue Jays 3 Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marco Estrada’s relief work has been excellent so far this year.

He was unable to carry that form into his first start of the season.

Estrada gave up four earned runs and didn’t make it out of the fifth inning as the New York Yankees held on for a 6-3 victory over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre. Mark Teixeira’s two-run homer knocked the right-hander out of the game as Toronto’s four-game home winning streak came to an end.

“Unfortunately I made a mistake to Teixeira and he hit it. But other than that, I felt pretty good,” Estrada said.

“I can’t wait for my pitch count to go up so I can give the guys (more) innings. I wanted that inning, that inning was mine and unfortunately it got away from me.”

Michael Pineda (4-0) threw eight shutout innings for the American League East division leaders. David Carpenter gave up a solo homer to Canadian Russell Martin in the Blue Jays’ three-run ninth inning.

Closer Andrew Miller came on with two outs in the frame. He walked pinch-hitter Jose Bautista to bring the tying run to the plate before getting Devon Travis to fly out for his 11th save.

Alex Rodriguez drove in two runs and Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits and scored twice for the Yankees (1710). Pineda allowed five hits, a walk, and had six strikeouts.

The Blue Jays fell to 13-15 with the loss.

Estrada entered the game with a sparkling 0.84 earned-run average after six relief appearances. He gave up back-to-back hits to start the game

as Ellsbury led off with a single and moved to third when Brett Gardiner doubled on the 11th pitch of his at-bat.

Rodriguez drove both runners in with a double but was later caught in a rundown. Estrada (1-1) settled down to get the next two outs.

“There’s nothing you can do about it,” Estrada said. “You just tip your hat and just forget about it and try to limit the damage that inning. I thought I did but I’ve got to get a little better.”

The Blue Jays put runners in scoring position in the third when Martin, a Toronto native who grew up in Chelsea, Que., hit a two-out double that moved Travis to third base. Edwin Encarnacion flew out to deep left field to leave them stranded.

In the fifth, Teixeira belted a firstpitch fastball over the wall for his 10th homer of the season. Estrada allowed eight hits over 4 2/3 innings and had three strikeouts.

Estrada didn’t have a firm pitch count in place but his 79-pitch total was nearing the maximum for his first start out of the bullpen. He threw 56 pitches for strikes.

“He accomplished what he needed to. I think he’ll just get better his next go-around,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “They have some guys at the top (of the order) that are pesky and they made him work pretty good.

We made a run late and they had to bring their closer in the game and we brought the tying run to the plate, so I’m happy with that. But it doesn’t surprise me — our guys battle regardless of the score.

“But you spot Pineda too many (runs), he’s too good. He’s not going to give up a lot.”

The Yankees have won four of their last five games overall and seven of their last eight on the road. Pineda matched a career high with his eightinning effort.

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Michael Pineda throws against the Toronto Blue Jays during first inning American League baseball action in Toronto on Tuesday.

“He was great tonight,” Teixeira said. “Gave us exactly what we wanted and can’t say anything more. He was perfect.”

Relievers Jeff Francis of North Delta, B.C., and Steve Delabar kept the Yankees off the board until Chad Jen-

kins gave up an insurance run in the eighth inning. Didi Gregorius hit a twoout single that brought home Brian McCann, who had reached on a walk.

Martin’s homer was his sixth of the season. Announced attendance at Rogers Centre was 21,519.

Canadiens confident knowing Slovakia wins third game at world hockey championship they have Price in net NHL PLAYOFFS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — P.K. Subban and the Montreal Canadiens can see the light despite the 2-0 series hole they’ve dug themselves into against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

“Whenever you come to Florida and you get a little bit of sunshine, everyone seems to smile a little bit more,” Subban said Tuesday. “We’re optimistic at this point.

“We’re not pessimistic, I’ll tell you that right now. We’re one win away from being back in the series.”

The Canadiens’ confidence comes from their five-on-five play in the series, knowing if they can stay out of the penalty box they’re bound to have more success than they did in Game 2. But their biggest reason to believe they can get back in this second-round series is goaltender Carey Price, who so many times this season has carried the Habs on his shoulders.

The good news for Montreal is Price sounded almost as upbeat as Subban ahead of Game 3 on Wednesday night.

“I feel great,” Price said.

“I’m doing what I’ve been doing my whole life.”

Struggles against the Lightning aside — a 3.47 goals-against average and .906 save percentage in the regular season and eight goals on 59 shots so far in the playoffs — Price has shown often this season the ability to singlehandedly will Montreal to victories.

The Vezina and Hart Trophy finalist shook off a 6-2 loss Sunday and insisted his focus in on Game 3 alone.

“It’s all in your mindset,” Price said.

“For me it’s pretty simple.

“Regardless of good performances or bad performances, for me it’s a pretty simple equation. It’s been working all season, so I don’t see a reason to change it now.”

Price is 12-4-4 with two days between games this season. That’s the situation he’s facing again with the pressure at its highest point.

“It just lets you physically recover a little bit,” Price said. “Obviously the playoffs are a grind, you’re playing every second day.

“Mentally it’s taxing so being able to step away from the rink for a day and having a practice day to kind of fine-tune a few things is definitely beneficial.”

Price may have some adjustments to make given that Tampa Bay has had the most sustained success against him this year.

Lightning centre Tyler Johnson, who has a league-best seven goals in the playoffs, said they’ve taken advantage of second and third opportunities and made Price go east-west in his crease often.

Others didn’t want to give away the secret or jinx how well they’ve done against Price.

“You try not to look too much into it, I guess, and think about it,” winger Ryan Callahan said. “He’s an unbelievable goaltender.

“He’s obviously one of the best in the league. I can’t put a finger on one thing one way or the other, but we just got to keep shooting, keep getting guys there. He’s not an easy goalie to beat if he sees that shot.”

Cutting down on second and third chances against Price is what Montreal must do better in front of its all-world goaltender.

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SWITZERLAND, BELARUS EARN SECOND WINS, FRANCE GETS FIRST VICTORY PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Slovakia struck late to overcome Slovenia 3-1 for its third victory at the ice hockey world championship and France ended a two-game losing streak with a 2-0 win over Austria on Tuesday.

Earlier, Switzerland edged Germany 1-0 and Belarus beat Denmark 5-1 for their second victories at the tournament.

Los Angeles Kings forward Marian Gaborik scored on a power play with 5:44 remaining and added his second into an empty net with one second to go to lead Slovakia to victory.

“It wasn’t our best game,” Gaborik said. “But we showed we know what to do when we’re losing.”

Buffalo Sabres defenceman Andrej Meszaros had tied it in the final period after Jan Urbas gave Slovenia a 1-0 lead in the first period.

Damien Fleury scored on a power play 6:13 into the final period and Laurent Meunier added the second into an empty net with 58 seconds left for France’s first win at the tournament.

“That’s a big win for us,” Dallas Stars forward Antoine Roussel said.

“We deserved the three points but that was a hard battle for both teams.”

Earlier, the defeat by Switzerland was another blow for Germany’s campaign after a humiliating 10-0 loss to Canada in its previous game on Sunday.

Denis Hollenstein ended the deadlock with a backhand shot in the final period with 7:44 remaining.

“It was an important game for us all,” Nashville Predators forward Kevin Fiala said. “We just have to keep going like that. ”Nobody’s bad in this sport any more. Every game is gonna be tough.“ Swiss goaltender Leonardo Genoni made 18 saves for his shutout.

Switzerland is third in Group A in Prague with seven points from three games, while Germany and France have three points and Austria is on two.

Germany’s Arizona Coyotes forward Tobias Rieder saw some positive signs in his team’s play.

“We played a way better than against Canada,” he said. “We did a lot of good things in this game so we probably take that to the next game and try to do better next time.”

The top four teams in each of the two groups of eight will advance to the quarterfinals.

In Ostrava, Artur Gavrus, Evgeni Kovyrshin and Ilya Shinkevich rallied Belarus to victory with second period goals.

Kovyrshin scored again in the final period and defenceman Ivan Usenko added the fifth to move to their team to second place in Group B together with Slovakia with seven points from three games. The United States leads with nine points.

“I thought the last two periods we played really strong,” Belarus goalie Kevin Lalande said.

“We have to play 60 minutes against teams like Finland, USA and Russia. If we take one minute off, it’s gonna hurt us.”

Benn and Price are each seeking their first Ted Lindsay Award, while Ovechkin could be honoured by his fellow players for the fourth time in his career.

The winner will be announced on June 24th during the 2015 NHL Awards in Las Vegas.

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The Award honours Ted Lindsay, an all-star forward who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks and was known for his skill, tenacity, leadership, and for his role in establishing the original Players’ Association.

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HIRING OF SHERO AS GM SIGNALS MAJOR CHANGE FOR DEVILS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS For almost 30 years, Lou Lamoriello was the Frank Sinatra of NHL general managers. He did it his way.

The New Jersey Devils followed Lamoriello’s way to the Stanley Cup in 1995, 2000 and 2003, with all the trappings of defensive, shut-it-down hockey. Off the ice, the organization has been the league’s tightest-lipped.

That was no different leading up to the hiring of Ray Shero as GM on Monday, a move that signals the end of an era and a shift of philosophy in New Jersey. Lamoriello is still team president but this is Shero’s club now.

Shero will hire the next coach, make personnel moves and change the Devils’ direction.

“I would assume we would have some type of changes,” Lamoriello said during a conference call Monday. “Ray might do things just a little different than maybe I do, and so be it. That’s progression.”

As hockey progresses more toward speed and away from the methodical structure that has been New Jersey’s hallmark, Shero could be the man to push the Devils that way. Shero wants to keep the defensive discipline and add more offence.

It helps there’s a foundation already in place, beginning with goaltender Cory Schneider, who started the thirdmost games in the league during the regular season and had a 2.26 goalsagainst average and .925 save percentage. The Devils scored the third-fewest goals overall 2.15 and that must change.

“To rely on the goaltending and defence, there’s little room for error in that,” Shero said. “Up front is certainly an area in terms of looking to score more goals, create more offence without abandoning a defensive structure and accountability that’s been in place for years.”

Shero didn’t say how long that would take but reloading the forward ranks could be a long-term process.

No Devils player had more than 43 points and while leading scorer Adam Henrique is just 25 years old, there’s a

lack of young offence in the pipeline.

New Jersey’s top forward prospects are 2011 fourth-rounder Reid Boucher and 2012 first-rounder Stefan Matteau, and while they could be NHL mainstays neither is expected to be a gamebreaker.

Part of creating more offence comes from the coach Shero will be in charge of hiring. Lamoriello spent the remainder of the season behind the bench with Scott Stevens and Adam Oates after firing Peter DeBoer, so any new coach will be a change.

Shero said the Devils can take their time in finding a coach. With plenty of options available even beyond the big names — think someone like Kirk Muller, Kevin Dineen — it’s a good time to be looking.

After Lamoriello made those decisions for the past 28 years, the coaching search is a whole new ballgame.

Everything with the Devils is, something Shero made clear when speaking with Lamoriello and owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer.

“I’m different than Lou,” Shero said.

“No one’s like Lou and no one’s like me.

“The things, my personality might be a little bit different, but the trend is still the same from the ownership to how Lou has set up that (and the organization) is committed to winning and becoming a playoff team again.”

The Devils have missed the playoffs the past three years, something Lamoriello takes responsibility for.

“They have not been good years, I don’t feel good about it, and it’s just working to get back there,” Lamoriello said. “The focus is getting back to where we should be and belong and what’s expected.”

The Pittsburgh Penguins made it all eight seasons Shero was in charge, but failing to win another championship after 2009 and some early playoff exits led to his firing last year. Building the Devils up is a new challenge for the 52-year-old.

“Certainly the goal is to build the team back to a playoff team and get there, and once we get there to stay there and hopefully compete for the Stanley Cup again,” Shero said.

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Leanne Engel of the Red Deer TNT Athletics throws a pitch during the opening inning of a Tuesday evening game against the Snell and Oslund Honey Badgers at Great Chief Park.

TENNIS

Milos Raonic off to third round of Madrid Open MADRID — Canadian Milos Raonic is off to the third round of the Madrid Open tennis tournament.

The fifth-seeded native of Thornhill, Ont., advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentina’s Juan Monaco. Raonic registered nine aces and twice broke Monaco.

Raonic is looking to reach the quarter-finals or better of an ATP Masters 1000 event for the 10th time in his last

13 events.

Elsewhere, Maria Sharapova advanced to the third round of the women’s event by downing Mariana DuqueMarino of Colombia 6-1, 6-2.

The third-seeded Russian broke Duque-Marino’s serve four times while saving three break points on her own serve.

Fourth-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic also advanced, beating American Coco Vandeweghe 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

Also, Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic beat Varvara Lepchenko of the U.S. 6-4, 6-2, and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated Ajla Tomljanocic of Croatia 6-3, 6-3.

Woods’ heart heavy going into Players Championship withdrawn twice and has finished out of the top 20 on six other occasions.

He has never been a big fan of this Pete Dye design, though he has shown over his career that he can win anywhere if he’s playing well.

“I’m telling you, when you’re on, this golf course doesn’t seem that hard,” Woods said. “You can really go low.

You feel like every round you shoot 67 or lower. And then you get days where, ’God, I feel like I can’t break 75 here.’

It’s one of those places. It’s very polarizing. You either have it or you don’t.”

Woods will have three weeks off after The Players and then plans a regular summer schedule. He will play every other week starting with the Memorial through the PGA Championship. He was at Sawgrass with swing consultant Chris Como. As he has said before, it is a work in progress.

“It’s certainly coming,” he said. “I’ve made some huge, huge strides since what I was at Torrey and what I was at

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Woods hasn’t won since the Bridgestone Invitational in August 2013. He hasn’t played much since because of back problems that led to surgery, after which he released another swing coach. He is No. 125 in the world. He is No. 196 in the FedEx Cup, two spots below John Daly.

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, is not expected to arrive until Wednesday. He has taken over in golf by winning four of the last 16 majors, and he is coming off another World Golf Championship title at the Match Play.

Spieth was playing an 18-hole match with best buddy Justin Thomas, another 21-year-old in Daniel Berger and Jimmy Walker.

Woods played nine holes, spoke to the media and then retreated to the practice area. There is still work to do.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods felt rusty and tired Tuesday at The Players Championship — rust because he has played one tournament in three months, fatigue because of his personal life.

He said only part of that was breaking up with Lindsey Vonn.

Woods and the Olympic ski champion jointly announced on Sunday they were splitting up after more than two years because of their hectic schedules as athletes.

“Obviously, it does affect me,” Woods said after a nine-hole practice round at TPC Sawgrass. “It’s tough.

There’s no doubt. I’m not going to lie about that. And on top of that, this time of the year is really, really hard on me.”

Sunday was the anniversary of his father’s death. Tuesday was nine years to the day that a memorial service for Earl Woods was held at the Tiger Woods Learning Center.

“I haven’t slept,” he said. “These three days, May 3rd and through the 5th, today, is just brutal on me. And then with obviously what happened on Sunday, it just adds to it.”

His time on the golf course hasn’t been terribly easy, though Woods believes he is making progress.

Woods turned in a remarkable performance at the Masters — not so much

by previous standards, but by his recent play.

His chipping was shockingly bad when he shot 82 in the Phoenix Open to miss the cut by 12 shots, and at Torrey Pines when he withdrew after 11 holes on a cool day because of tightness in his back. Woods stepped away until he could fix his game.

At Augusta National, it was as if that was never an issue. He never had a chance to win — not many did the way Jordan Spieth played — and tied for 17th.

Woods did not qualify for the Match Play Championship last week because he has dropped out of the top 100 in the world for the first time since he first came on tour in 1996. And he didn’t sound entirely optimistic about carrying any momentum from the Masters onto a course that has been feast or famine for him through the years.

“I’d like to say yes,” he said. “I’ve had some pretty good practice sessions. My short game still feels really good. We made a couple little swing tweaks since then to keep improving, to keep working on it, to keep getting it better, so that part is still a little bit fresh. I’m going to start playing a little bit more now.”

Woods won The Players the last time he played in 2013. He missed last year while recovering from back surgery. It was his second victory on the TPC Sawgrass. He was a runner-up to Hal Sutton in 2000. But he also has

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015

Local Sports

Brandon (E1) vs. Kelowna (BC1) Friday, May. 8 Kelowna at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May. 9 Kelowna at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May. 11 Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, May. 13 Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, May. 15 x-Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

Anaheim (1) vs. Calgary (3) (Anaheim leads series 2-1) Thursday, April 30 Anaheim 6 Calgary 1 Sunday, May 3 Anaheim 3 Calgary 0 Tuesday, May 5 Calgary 4 Anaheim 3, OT Friday, May 8 Anaheim at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10 Calgary at Anaheim, TBD Tuesday, May 12 x-Anaheim at Calgary, TBD Thursday, May 14 x-Calgary at Anaheim, TBD x — if necessary.

Wednesday’s games At Prague Latvia vs. Switzerland, 8:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Sweden, 12:15 p.m.

At Ostrava Denmark vs. Russia, 8:15 a.m.

Norway vs. Slovakia, 12:15 p.m.

Scoring Leaders G 10 13 13 6 9 2 10 7 10 5 6 7 7 9 5 2 9 4

Saturday, May 9 x-Minnesota at Chicago, TBD Monday, May 11 x-Chicago at Minnesota, TBD Wednesday, May 13 x-Minnesota at Chicago, TBD

Tuesday’s results At Prague France 2 Austria 0 Switzerland 1 Germany 0 At Ostrava Belarus 5 Denmark 1 Slovakia 3 Slovenia 1

WHL PLAYOFFS FINAL ROUND WHL Championship (Best-of-7)

Petan, Por Tambellini, Cal Bjorkstrand, Por Draisaitl, Kel Baillie, Kel Merkley, Kel J.Quenneville, Bra De Leo, Por Hawryluk, Bra Sanheim, Cal McGauley, Bra P.Quenneville, Bra Bowey, Kel Magee, Vic Henry, Por Bukarts, Bra Rankin, Cal Fazleev, Cal

B4

A 18 13 12 15 11 18 9 12 8 13 11 9 9 6 10 13 5 10

Pts 28 26 25 21 20 20 19 19 18 18 17 16 16 15 15 15 14 14

2015 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Canada 3 3 0 0 0 22 4 9 Sweden 3 2 1 0 0 20 7 8 Switzerland 3 2 0 1 0 7 5 7 Czech Rep. 3 1 0 1 1 12 14 4 France 3 1 0 0 2 4 5 3 Germany 3 1 0 0 2 2 12 3 Austria 3 0 1 0 2 5 11 2 Latvia 3 0 0 0 3 4 18 0 Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt U.S. 3 3 0 0 0 11 4 9 Belarus 3 2 0 1 0 10 5 7 Slovakia 3 1 2 0 0 9 5 7 Russia 3 2 0 0 1 13 9 6 Finland 3 2 0 0 1 9 5 6 Denmark 3 0 0 1 2 4 12 1 Slovenia 3 0 0 0 3 6 14 0 Norway 3 0 0 0 3 3 13 0 Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Monday’s results At Prague Canada 6 Czech Republic 3 Sweden 8 Latvia 1 At Ostrava U.S. 4 Russia 2 Finland 5 Norway 0

Thursday’s games At Prague France vs. Czech Republic, 8:15 a.m.

Germany vs. Sweden, 12:15 p.m.

At Ostrava Belarus vs. U.S., 8:15 a.m.

Slovenia vs. Finland, 12:15 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs SECOND ROUND Division Finals

Tuesday’s summaries Flames 4, Ducks 3 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Bollig 2 (Raymond, Granlund) 2:07.

2. Anaheim, Maroon 3 (Getzlaf, Vatanen) 6:57.

3. Anaheim, Perry 6 (Despres, Getzlaf) 14:10.

Penalties — Stoner Ana (interference) 8:17, Kesler Ana (holding) 10:11, Gaudreau Cgy (slashing) 10:49.

Second Period 4. Calgary, Colborne 1 (unassisted) 4:17 (sh).

5. Anaheim, Beleskey 3 (Kesler, Despres) 8:20.

Penalties — Getzlaf Ana (tripping) 0:50, Stajan Cgy (tripping) 3:07.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Gaudreau 3 (Russell) 19:40 (pp).

Penalties — Perry Ana (high-sticking) 1:25, Thompson Ana (holding) 7:55, Stajan Cgy (goaltender interference) 17:46, Despres Ana (roughing) 17:46, Vatanen Ana (delay of game) 18:28.

Overtime 7. Calgary, Backlund 1 (Wideman, Brodie) 4:24.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Anaheim 8 8 3 2 — 21 Calgary 5 4 11 1 — 21 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (LO, 6-1-0); Calgary: Ramo (W, 2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Anaheim: 0-2; Calgary: 1-6.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) (Tampa Bay leads series 2-0) Friday, May 1 Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 1, 2OT Sunday, May 3 Tampa Bay 6 Montreal 2 Wednesday, May 6 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 7 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 9 x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD Tuesday, May 12 x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, TBD Thursday, May 14 x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Washington (2) (Washington leads series 2-1) Thursday, April 30 Washington 2 NY Rangers 1 Saturday, May 2 NY Rangers 3 Washington 2 Monday, May 4 Washington 1 NY Rangers 0 Wednesday, May 6 NY Rangers at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, May 8 Washington at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 10 x-NY Rangers at Washington, TBD Wednesday, May 13 x-Washington at NY Rangers, TBD

Blackhawks 1, Wild 0 First Period 1. Chicago, Kane 6 (Shaw, Sharp) 14:06 (pp).

Penalties — Vermette Chi (tripping) 7:42, Spurgeon Minn (tripping) 13:09.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Bickell Chi (interference) 12:00.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Bench Chi (too many men) 9:52.

Shots on goal Chicago 9 9 4 — 22 Minnesota 8 12 10 — 30 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 4-1-0); Minnesota: Dubnyk (L, 4-5-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 1-1; Minnesota: 0-3.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Chicago leads series 3-0) Friday, May 1 Chicago 4 Minnesota 3 Sunday, May 3 Chicago 4 Minnesota 1 Tuesday, May 5 Chicago 1 Minnesota 0 Thursday, May 7 Chicago at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Baseball Pittsburgh Milwaukee

12 8

14 19

.462 .296

8 12 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Colorado Arizona

West Division W L Pct 17 9 .654 14 13 .519 14 14 .500 11 13 .458 10 14 .417

GB — 3 1/2 4 5 6

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 17 10 .630 Tampa Bay 14 13 .519 Baltimore 12 12 .500 Boston 13 14 .481 Toronto 13 15 .464

GB — 3 3 1/2 4 4 1/2

Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 17 9 .654 17 10 .630 14 13 .519 9 14 .391 9 16 .360

GB — 1/2 3 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2

Monday’s Games Washington 6, Miami 4 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 2 Milwaukee 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 St. Louis 10, Chicago Cubs 9 Arizona at Colorado, ppd., rain San Francisco 2, San Diego 0

Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Texas

West Division W L Pct 18 9 .667 12 15 .444 12 16 .429 11 16 .407 10 16 .385

GB — 6 6 1/2 7 7 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 1 Miami 2, Washington 1 N.Y. Mets 3, Baltimore 2 Atlanta 9, Philadelphia 0 L.A. Dodgers 8, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 7, Chicago Cubs 4 Arizona at Colorado, ppd., rain San Francisco 6, San Diego 0

Monday’s Games Toronto 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Tampa Bay 5, Boston 1 Minnesota 8, Oakland 7 Texas 2, Houston 1 Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 2 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Baltimore 2 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 5, Cleveland 3 Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 2 Oakland 2, Minnesota 1 Texas 7, Houston 1 L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 4 Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-4) at Toronto (Buehrle 3-2), 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-3), 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Colome 1-0) at Boston (Masterson 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 3-2) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Simon 4-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Kazmir 2-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 2-2), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 1-2) at Houston (Deduno 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 0-1) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-2), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Oakland at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

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

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

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

New York Atlanta Miami Washington Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 17 10 .630 13 14 .481 13 14 .481 13 15 .464 10 18 .357

GB — 4 4 4 1/2 7 1/2

St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 20 6 .769 13 12 .520 13 13 .500

GB — 6 1/2 7

Seattle 010 000 030 — 4 9 0 Los Ang. 200 000 021 — 5 8 0 Paxton, Farquhar (8), Leone (9) and Zunino; Richards, J.Smith (8), Salas (8), Street (9) and C.Perez.

W—Street 1-0. L—Leone 0-3. HRs—Los Angeles, Pujols (5), C.Perez (1).

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 11:40 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 210 020 010 — 6 11 0 Toronto 000 000 003 — 3 8 1 Pineda, D.Carpenter (9), A.Miller (9) and B.McCann; Estrada, Francis (5), Delabar (7), Jenkins (8) and Ru.Martin. W—Pineda 4-0. L—Estrada 1-1. Sv—A. Miller (11). HRs—New York, Teixeira (10). Toronto, Ru.Martin (6).

Tampa Bay 000 000 000 — 0 8 1 Boston 000 001 01x — 2 5 1 Smyly, Cedeno (7), Frieri (8) and B.Wilson; Porcello, Ogando (8), Uehara (9) and Swihart. W—Porcello 3-2. L—Smyly 0-1. Sv—Uehara (5). HRs—Boston, Betts 2 (4).

Oakland 100 001 000 — 2 9 1 Minnesota 000 000 010 — 1 5 0 Chavez, Scribner (8), Clippard (8) and Vogt; May, Duensing (6), Tonkin (7), A.Thompson (8), Pressly (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Chavez 1-2. L—May 2-2.

Sv—Clippard (3).

VOLLEYBALL Both Central Alberta Volleyball Club U15 teams returned from provincials on the weekend with medals in Calgary.

The Extreme won the girl’s Division 2 gold, beating the Calgary F.O.G Legends 2-0 (25-18, 25-12) in the final and Edyn Aasman and Sydney Rix were named tournament all-stars.

The U15 Kings earned a silver medal, falling 2-0 (25-2, 25-22) to Edmonton NAVC Gold in the provincial championship.

The Kings beat the Calgary Canucks Red and St. Paul Rage in the round robin in straight sets, but lost 2-0 to NAVC Gold. In the playoffs, the Kings beat NAVC Green, Grande Prairie Wolves Black and Canucks Black to set up a rematch with NAVC Gold in the final.

Jonathan Graham and Liam Krause were selected as tournament all stars for the Kings who now head into the national championships in Calgary over the May Long Weekend.

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Cleveland 200 000 010 — 3 4 0 Kan. City 300 010 01x — 5 6 0 Salazar, Hagadone (8), Shaw (8) and R.Perez, Hayes; J.Vargas, Madson (7), K.Herrera (8), W.Davis (9) and S.Perez. W—J.Vargas 3-1. L— Salazar 3-1. Sv—W.Davis (6). HRs—Cleveland, Brantley (2), Chisenhall (2). Kansas City, Hosmer (4).

Detroit 110 000 000 — 2 7 0 Chicago 104 000 00x — 5 6 3 Greene, A.Wilson (3), B.Hardy (7), Nesbitt (8) and Avila; Samardzija, Duke (8), Robertson (9) and Soto. W—Samardzija 2-2. L—Greene 3-2. Sv— Robertson (4). HRs—Detroit, Avila (2).

Wednesday’s Games Miami (Koehler 2-2) at Washington (Scherzer 1-3), 11:05 a.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 2-3) at Colorado (Matzek 2-0), 1:10 p.m., 1st game San Diego (Kennedy 1-1) at San Francisco (Heston 2-2), 1:45 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 0-0) at Colorado (Lyles 2-2), 4:40 p.m., 2nd game Cincinnati (Leake 1-1) at Pittsburgh (G.Cole 4-0), 5:05 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-3), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Williams 2-1) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Frias 2-0) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-4), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 1-2) at St. Louis (Lynn 1-2), 6:15 p.m.

Texas Houston

W.Rodriguez, Sh.Tolleson (9) and Corporan; Feldman, K.Chapman (4), Fields (7), Thatcher (9) and J.Castro. W—W.Rodriguez 1-1. L—Feldman 2-3.

HRs—Texas, Peguero (1), Blanks (3). Houston, Valbuena (7).

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INTERLEAGUE Baltimore 000 000 011 — 2 7 0 NY Mets 000 300 00x — 3 7 0 B.Norris, Matusz (8) and Joseph; B.Colon, C.Torres (8), Familia (9) and Plawecki. W—B.Colon 5-1.

L—B.Norris 1-3. Sv—Familia (11). HRs—Baltimore, Machado (5), C.Davis (6).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 022 000 003 — 7 12 0 Pittsburgh 010 000 000 — 1 3 0 Lorenzen, Ju.Diaz (7), Cingrani (8), A.Chapman (9) and Pena; Locke, J.Hughes (8), Bastardo (9) and Cervelli. W—Lorenzen 1-1. L—Locke 2-2. HRs— Cincinnati, Frazier (9), Byrd (4). Pittsburgh, Marte (7).

Miami 020 000 000 — 2 6 1 Wash.

010 000 000 — 1 3 1 Latos, Masset (7), Dunn (8), A.Ramos (8), Cishek (9) and Realmuto; Strasburg, Solis (4), Treinen (7), Thornton (8), Barrett (9) and W.Ramos. W—Latos 1-3. L—Strasburg 2-3. Sv—Cishek (3).

Phila.

000 000 000 — 0 3 1 Atlanta 200 400 30x — 9 12 1 Billingsley, Araujo (6), McGowan (7), De Fratus (7) and Ruiz; S.Miller and Pierzynski. W—S.Miller 4-1. L—Billingsley 0-1. HRs—Atlanta, Freeman (5), K.Johnson (6).

Los Ang. 000 003 401 — 8 9 1 Milwaukee 010 000 001 — 2 3 0 Greinke, Baez (8), Coulombe (9) and Grandal; Garza, Wooten (7), Cotts (7), Jeffress (8), Blazek (9), W.Smith (9) and Maldonado. W—Greinke 5-0.

L—Garza 2-4. HRs—Los Angeles, Ju.Turner (4), Rollins (3), A.Gonzalez (9).

Chicago 001 030 000 — 4 10 1 St. Louis 010 032 10x — 7 12 1 Hendricks, E.Jackson (6), J.Russell (6), Coke (8) and Castillo; Lyons, Maness (5), M.Harris (6), Siegrist (7), Socolovich (8), Rosenthal (9) and Molina. W—M.Harris 1-0. L—E.Jackson 1-1. Sv— Rosenthal (9). HRs—St. Louis, M.Carpenter (5).

San Diego 000 000 000 — 0 4 2 San Fran. 023 010 00x — 6 10 0 Cashner, Quackenbush (7), Vincent (8) and De.Norris; Vogelsong, Kontos (8), Y.Petit (9) and Posey. W—Vogelsong 1-2. L—Cashner 1-5. HRs— San Francisco, Panik (2).

Today

● High school girls rugby: Notre Dame at Lacombe, Lindsay Thurber at Olds, Hunting Hills at Rimbey, all at 4:30 p.m.; Wetaskiwin at Rocky Mountain House, 5:30 p.m., Titans Park 1. ● High school boys rugby: Notre Dame at Rocky Mountain House, 4:30 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Wetaskiwin, 5 p.m. ● High school boys soccer: Lacombe at Olds, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday

● High school girls soccer: Hunting Hills at Lacombe, 4:15 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● High school boys soccer: Hunting Hills at Sylvan Lake, 4:15 p.m. ● Women’s fastball: Badgers vs. Bandits, Panthers vs. Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Athletics at Stettler, 7 p.m.

Friday

● High school girls soccer: Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt East; Sylvan Lake at Central Alberta Christian, 4:15 p.m., Michener

Park. ● High school boys soccer: Central Alberta at Innisfail, Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, both at 4:15 p.m. ● High school girls rugby: Lacombe at Hunting Hills, 4:30 p.m., Titans Park 1; Olds at Rocky Mountain House, 4:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Calgary Axemen at Olds Stingers, 7:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Sherwood Park Titans at Red Deer Rampage, 9 p.m., Kinex.

Saturday ● Midget AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Braves, doubleheader at 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Sunday ● Midget AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Braves, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lethbridge Barracudas at Red Deer Renegades, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Calgary Axemen at Lacoka Locos, 3:30 p.m., Ponoka.

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 1, Cleveland 0 Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 Wednesday, May 6: Chicago at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Friday, May 8: Cleveland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 10: Cleveland at Chicago, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 12: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD x-Sunday, May 17: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD Washington 1, Atlanta 1 Sunday, May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98 Tuesday, May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90 Saturday, May 9: Atlanta at Washington, 3 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Washington at Atlanta, TBD x-Friday, May 15: Atlanta at Washington, TBD x-Monday, May 18: Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 1, Houston 0 Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 Wednesday, May 6: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 8: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 12: L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Houston at L.A. Clippers, TBD x-Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBD Golden State 1, Memphis 0 Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Tuesday, May 5: Memphis at Golden State, late Saturday, May 9: Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Golden State at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 13: Memphis at Golden State, TBD x-Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, TBD

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Activated OF Nick Swisher from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Tyler Holt to Columbus (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled INF Jose Pirela from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Announced OF Cody Ross cleared waivers and was released.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed LHP Mike Kickham off waivers from Seattle and optioned him to Round Rock (PCL). Transferred OF Ryan Rua from the 15to the 60-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled INF/OF Chris Colabello from Buffalo (IL). Optioned INF Jonathan Diaz. Designated LHP Jayson Aquino for assignment.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated LHP Donnie Veal for assignment. Recalled RHP Brandon Cunniff from Gwinnett (IL).

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Chris Denorfia on the 15-day DL. Selected RHP James Russell from Iowa (PCL). Recalled RHP Anthony Varvaro from Iowa.

MIAMI MARLINS — Released C Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

NEW YORK METS — Selected the contract of C Johnny Monell from Las Vegas (PCL). Sent INF Eric Campbell to Las Vegas. Transferred OF Cesar Puello to the 60-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled LHP Tyler Lyons from Memphis (PCL). Optioned RHP Sam Tuivailala to Memphis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled LHP Frank Garces from El Paso (PCL). Placed RHP Brandon Morrow on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 3.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Acquired OF Darin Mastroianni from Philadelphia for cash considerations.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed LHP Brodie Liebrandt and Efraim Nieves.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed C Jack Cleary.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed 2B Frank DeSico. Released C Stefan Jordan, OF Seth Neely, and 1B Greg Toliver.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed OF Sako Chapjain, RHP Steve Hagen, RHP Pete Perez, RHP Shane Street and C Jared Welch.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed OF Jay Austin to a contract extension.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed OF David Popkins. Released RHP Willie Ethington, 1B Tyler

Peterson, and OF Casey Roche.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Named Isiah Thomas president.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Announced the retirement of TE John Carlson. Agreed to terms with CB Cariel Brooks, OT Rob Crisp, LB Alani Fua, WR Trevor Harman, LB Edwin Jackson, LB Andrae Kirk, RB Paul Lasike, LB Gabe Martin, WR Damond Powell, CB C.J. Roberts, WR Jaxon Shipley, TE Gannon Sinclair, LB Zack Wagenmann and NT Xavier W+illiams. Released RB Zach Bauman and CB Roc Carmichael.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Announced special teams co-ordinator Bruce DeHaven took a leave of absence to deal with health concerns.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with S Adrian Amos and RB Jeremy Langford to four-year contracts.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived JoJo Dickson, LS Jorgen Hus, WR Corbin Louks and QB Terrell Pryor.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed CB Justin Coleman, WR DaVaris Daniels, C Tom Farniok, S Anthony Harris, QB Taylor Heinicke, WR Jordan Leslie, WR Gavin Lutman, FB Blake Renaud, G Jesse Somsel and G Bobby Vardaro.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released CB Alfonzo Dennard, LS Tyler Ott and LB Deontae Skinner.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Claimed TE Kyle Miller off waivers from Atlanta. Waived DT Damik Scafe.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed WRs Dres Anderson, Issac Blakeney, DiAndre Campbell, DeAndrew White and Darius Davis; OL Patrick Miller; DL Marcus Rush, QB Dylan Thompson and S Jermaine Whitehead.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released G Justin Renfrow, DE Julius Warmsley, C Jared Wheeler and FB Mike Zimmer. Waived LB Mike Taylor.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Acquired DB Ryan Mouton from Calgary for OL Zebrie Sanders.

HOCKEY National Hockey League WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Nate Schmidt to Hershey (AHL).

ECHL ECHL — Florida’s Mitch Wahl has been suspended indefinitely and fined an undisclosed amount as a result of his actions in ECHL Playoff Game against South Carolina at Florida, on May 2

LOCAL JUNIOR GOLF Three Central Alberta golfers finished in the top five of the junior boys category in a Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour event at Lethbridge Paradise Canyon during the weekend.

Jared Nicols of Ponoka checked in with a 36-hole total of 145 (74-71) and finished tied for second with Jaxon Lynn of Sylvan Lake, a single stroke behind winner Michael Martin of Calgary.

First-round leader Lynn turned in scores of 74-71.

Meanwhile, Grant Numrich (75-74—149) of Red Deer finished in a tie for fifth.

Also competing in the junior boys division were Red Deer golfers Cole Morrison (73-78—151, tied for ninth), Logan Hill (7678—154, tied for 16th) and Logan Crawford (100-95—195, 38th).

Hill was also one of six Mr. Lube long drive competition winners. ● Cole Bergheim of Red Deer placed ninth in the peewee boys category with a 27-hole total of 143 that included rounds of 55-88.

Rico Abreu headlines NASCAR’s newest ‘Next’ class

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rico Abreu, the reigning USAC national champion and winner of this year’s Chili Bowl, was among the 12 drivers named to NASCAR’s latest “Next” class on Tuesday.

The Next program, which is designed to spotlight NASCAR’s emerging stars, has included in its previous four classes 2014 Sprint Cup rookie of the year Kyle Larson and reigning Xfinity Series champion Chase Elliott. The class also includes for a second year Cole Custer, who became NASCAR’s youngest national winner last season at age 16 with his Truck Series victory at New Hampshire.

Of the 28 drivers who have previously been part of the Next program, 21 have competed in one of NASCAR’s three national series and 11 are currently fulltime NASCAR drivers. The class is selected through an evaluation process that includes input from industry executives and veteran racers.

Drivers must be between the ages of 15 and 25 and have demonstrated potential and desire to reach the Sprint Cup Series. They must also be actively com-

peting in a NASCAR touring or weekly series.

Joining Abreu in the class this year: — Nicole Behar, a 17-year-old from Washington who tied the series record for highest finish by a female driver in the K&N West Series with a secondplace mark at Irwindale Event Center.

— Kyle Benjamin, a 17-year-old from South Carolina who is a development driver for Roush Fenway Racing. He won his first K&N Pro Series race at Bristol and is the youngest race winner in ARCA history.

— James Bickford, a 17-year-old from California who was the K&N West rookie of the year last season.

— William Byron, a 17-year-old from Charlotte who leads the K&N Pro East season championship standings.

— Custer, a 17-year-old from California who holds the records for youngest pole award and race winner in both the Truck Series and NASCAR’s touring series.

— Ruben Garcia Jr., a 19-year-old from Mexico City who was the runner-up in last season’s NASCAR Mexico Series season championship.

— Austin Hill, a 21-year-old from

Georgia who won three consecutive K&N East races and led every lap in the opener this year at New Smyrna Speedway.

— Jesse Little, an 18-year-old from North Carolina who won the pole at Bristol in his 2015 K&N East debut.

— Dylan Lupton, a 21-year-old from California who as the 2014 K&N West championship runner-up. Made his Xfinity Series debut at Phoenix in March.

— John Hunter Nemechek, a 17-yearold from North Carolina who earned six top-10 finishes in 10 Truck Series starts last year. Won the prestigious Snowball Derby Late Model race at Five Flags Speedway in December.

— Dalton Sargeant, a 17-year-old from Florida who has four top-five finishes in five combined East and West races.

Abreu, meanwhile, this year signed a development deal to drive stock cars in the K&N East Series for HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks. The deal was announced days after his January win in the Chili Bowl, one of the most prestigious midget races in the country.

Although many of his 2015 plans had been in the works before the Chili Bowl victory, he said that win has helped his name recognition grow.

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Hawks soar past Wizards to even series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Atlanta Hawks centre Al Horford (15) dunks as Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) looks on in the first half of Game 2 of the second-round NBA playoff series game on Tuesday in Atlanta.

Hawks 106 Wizards 90 ATLANTA — Shortly before tipoff, the Atlanta Hawks learned that John Wall wouldn’t be playing for the Washington Wizards in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

That should have made things a lot easier for topseeded Atlanta, right?

Hardly.

Taken to the limit again, the Hawks finally pulled away for a 106-90 victory over the Wizards on Tuesday night that was much closer than the score indicated and evened the series at one game apiece.

DeMarre Carroll scored 22 points, Kyle Korver bounced back from a miserable first half, and Al Horford made some huge plays when the Hawks needed them most.

“We knew this was a game we had to win,” Carroll said. “It was kind of a funky game.”

Having already been stunned at home in Game 1, Atlanta seemingly caught a huge break when the Wizards announced just before the game that Wall wouldn’t play because of an injured left hand. Actually, though, it seemed to work in Washington’s favour. The road team again played with plenty of confidence. The Hawks, it seemed, relaxed just a bit.

“It’s dangerous, man,” Atlanta’s Kent Bazemore said. “Oh, their best player is not playing, so they don’t have a chance. ... But they still have a very dangerous team.”

Ramon Sessions did an admirable job filling in for Wall, leading the Wizards with 21 points.

It wasn’t enough to prevent Washington’s first loss of these playoffs.

“Just try to push the team, just like John does,” Sessions said. “It wasn’t just me. Everybody tried to step up.”

After Washington closed to 84-81, Horford dropped in a layup, knocked down a 19-foot jumper and came up with a steal. Then there was Korver, who went 1-for-7 from behind the 3-point line in the first half but kept firing away. He made three 3s after the break, including one from the corner with just under 3 minutes remaining that gave the Hawks a 98-88 lead, stifling Washington’s last spurt — a 3-pointer from Paul Pierce, followed Bradley Beal’s long jumper with his foot on the stripe.

Atlanta closed the game on an 11-2 run.

“Man, I had some good looks in the first half,” Korver said. “You’ve just got to stay with it. You can’t stop shooting.”

Washington won its first five playoff games, sweeping Toronto before shocking the Hawks 104-98 to start the second round.

Now the series shifts to Washington, but the teams are off for three days before Game 3 on Saturday.

For Carroll, it was his sixth straight game with at least 20 points, giving Atlanta another much-needed offensive lift from its defensive stopper. Horford and Paul Millsap had 18 points apiece, with Millsap also grabbing 11 rebounds. Korver finished with 12 points — all from beyond the arc — and Bazemore added 10.

Beal, playing on a sprained right ankle, had 20 points and seven assists. Pierce and Otto Porter both chipped in with 15 points.

Following the pattern of Game 1, the Hawks built an early 10-point lead but couldn’t put away the Wizards. Washington was down 53-46 at halftime, briefly tied the game in the third period, and trailed 80-75 going to the final quarter. Wall cheered on every basket from the bench, hoping the Wizards could pull off an improbable victory without their dynamic star.

They couldn’t quite finish the job, but the next two games are at home.

Tip-ins Wizards: The five-game playoff winning streak was the longest in franchise history. ... With Wall out, Garrett Temple moved into the rotation. He played about 13 minutes and had two points. ... Nene had another dismal game. After going scoreless in the opener, he had only two points and four rebounds. ... Marcin Gortat fouled out with 4:26 left. He had 10 points and nine rebounds. ... While Sessions exceeded Wall’s usual scoring output, the replacement point guard had only four assists — nine less than Wall in Game 1. Beal led the Wizards with seven assists and Porter had five.

Hawks: Atlanta has had a double-digit lead in seven of its eight games this post-season. The Hawks are 5-2 in those contests. ... Atlanta made only 10 of 29 from 3-point range but again did a good job on the boards, outrebounding the Wizards 44-40. ...

Point guard Jeff Teague, with nine points, was the only starter who didn’t reach double figures. But he made a big contribution with eight assists and seven rebounds.

Wizards ruse While Wall didn’t do any work at practice Monday, there was no indication he wouldn’t play in Game 2.

During his pregame availability, just 90 minutes tipoff, coach Randy Wittman said everyone was available and he had not considered sitting out Wall.

Then, the inactive list came out — and Wall was on it.

“The swelling was too much for him to handle,” Wittman conceded after the game.

Wall is listed as day to day, which apparently means nothing until the active roster comes out for Game 3.

Edmonton Eskimos From way up high, figure skating were a big success champ Patrick Chan finds his footing on and off the field last season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The 2014 CFL season was a successful one, on and off the field, for the Edmonton Eskimos.

The community-owned CFL club announced Tuesday at its annual general meeting it recorded a profit of just under $3.6 million in 2014. After finishing last in the West Division with a 4-14 record in 2013, the Eskimos were second in the conference last year with a 12-6 record under first-year coach Chris Jones.

The Eskimos beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 18-10 in the division semifinal at Commonwealth Stadium before dropping a 43-18 decision to the eventual Grey Cup-champion Calgary Stampeders in the conference final.

According to treasurer John Moquin’s report, the club’s operating revenue was $24.3 million, an increase of $5.7 (or 30.5 per cent) over 2013. The Eskimos also registered increases in gate receipts ($821,000), game-day revenues ($610,000) and merchandise sales ($428,000) over last year.

Edmonton’s total operating expenses were $21 million, an increase of $3.8 million (or 21.9 per cent) over 2013.

The Eskimos’ regular-season attendance increased 4.3 per cent as they averaged a CFL-high 32,733 fans per game. Three times Edmonton attracted over 40,000 spectators to a game.

Moquin now becomes board chairman while Brad Sparrow assumes the role of treasurer. Chris Bruce will remain as secretary. The board of directors include: Rob Herron; Ian Murray; Marshall Sadd; Janice Agrios; Douglas Cox; and Murray Scambler.

Chairman Bruce Bentley and director Terry O’Flynn both concluded their terms.

TORONTO — Falling to earth from 13,000 feet helped Patrick Chan put life in perspective.

“You pull the chute and, oh my gosh, the view is amazing,” Chan said. “It just makes you realize how small I am and how small the figure skating world is.”

The 24-year-old from Toronto was scheduled to go sky diving again Tuesday in Montreal with fellow Canadian figure skaters Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, Eric Radford, Jeffrey Buttle and Joannie Rochette — who introduced Chan to the extreme sport while in Florida recently.

The three-time world champion confirmed last week he was returning to competition after an adventurous year off that included sky diving, surfing, and back-country skiing. He even has his own ice wine label, set for release in June.

“I think that (the fun times) will help with my return to skating, to just remind myself that ’Hey, look at how great of a life I have, and skating and the place I finish doesn’t affect at all who I am and what I can do with it.’ ” Chan didn’t dare tell coach Kathy Johnson about sky diving until after he was back on safe ground.

“So that I wouldn’t deal with her wrath,” Chan said, laughing.

He drew parallels between leaping from a plane and stepping on to the ice.

“Very very frightening,” Chan said on a conference call. “The anticipation was very very similar.”

Chan stepped away from competition after his silver medal performance at last year’s Sochi Olym-

pics. He believes, even had he won gold in Sochi, he would’ve resumed skating.

The seven-time Canadian champion was a keen spectator of the ice dancing competition this past season — Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who won world bronze, are good friends and train at the same arena in Detroit. He admitted he “skimmed through” the men’s programs a couple of days after the world championships, fast forwarding to the big jumps.

Post-Olympic seasons usually are lacking and Chan wasn’t super impressed by what he saw.

“Nothing too special — no offence,” he said. “It was a very exciting competition, of course technically everyone did all the quads (quadruple jumps), but we’ve had two, three seasons of these quads coming back into the men’s field, so that’s to be expected now. At this point, especially myself, I look to a skater who is pushing the boundaries program-wise.”

Chan hopes to do just that.

“I want to skate a program that I can get off the ice and say ’I’m proud of what I just did,’ ” he said.

“I hope it’s something people will look back in years to come, or coaches can play a program to skaters to say ’This is what it takes to be a champion, and this is what skating is all about.’

“That’s what I’m looking to do, that’s really my goal, not necessarily winning a medal. I think I’m beyond that in my career.”

With that, Chan turned his attention to his afternoon of sky diving.

“The world is very very big and there are many people who are doing many different things,” Chan said, on his view from up high. “I want to give the best I can and have that rush, live for that rush of figure skating.”

CANADIAN SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP

Whitecaps’ depth to be tested against Edmonton FC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson likes to trumpet the talent and depth of his squad.

Many of the players who have been waiting patiently on the sidelines this season will get their opportunity on Wednesday night.

The Whitecaps visit FC Edmonton in the first leg of their Amway Canadian Championship semifinal and Robinson made it clear this week he will give most of his starters in Major League Soccer a rest.

“The boys are ready, they’re very sharp — the ones that haven’t played the majority of minutes — and they want a chance,” said Robinson. “They get a chance in a competitive match.”

The Welshman is usually coy with his starting 11, but dropped a few names, including those of midfielder Cristian Techera and goalkeeper Paolo Tornaghi, who will both make their first-team debuts.

Vancouver will be playing the second of five games in 15 days, with an MLS home tilt against the Philadelphia Union set for Saturday before the return leg against Edmonton at B.C. Place Stadium on May 13.

Robinson said the team he fields on Wednesday will be expected to play at the same level as the sides that have helped Vancouver to a tie atop the MLS standings with 17 points.

“They get their opportunity to play and show that they should be getting MLS minutes when the time is right,” said the Welshman. “I think six or seven of them are ready now to play and unfortunately I’ve been leaving them out of the team in MLS because the guys who have been in those places have been doing very well.”

Edmonton competes in the second-tier NASL and beat the Ottawa Fury to advance to the semifinals.

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B6 Taking a break from the game

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015

RED DEER’S MITCH EVANECZ HAS STEPPED AWAY FROM PROFESSIONAL GOLF BUT HASN’T RULED OUT A RETURN and downs. The game of golf is fickle that way.”

Evanecz hasn’t ruled out returning to the pro ranks.

“I wouldn’t mind playing again, but at the same time I’m turning 29 this year,” he said. “Age takes its toll on the body when you’re not doing any repetitions, but we’ll see, I guess.

“I’ve only played three times this year and the game didn’t seem to be too bad. I’m kind of playing when I can.”

For now, his new job is keeping him occupied.

“I’m actually really busy with the company I’m working for and I’ve had an offer to come on board as a partner in the next year,” he said.

“I was going to come back to Alberta and find some work, but these guys offered me a position to move forward with the company. It’s new and it’s growing. We’ve only been canning for a year now.

“It’s exciting and it’s fun. We go to different breweries around the city and the province and we’re looking at moving into Alberta in the next couple of years. We’ve done ciders in the Okanagan and we’re looking at getting into coffee and maybe wine. It’s a small business that’s growing and we’re learning more about it every day.”

Evanecz enjoyed a stellar amateur career before turning pro in 2011. He excelled with the University of Victoria golf team and won the prestigious Glencoe Invitational in Calgary in 2009 and 2010, as well as the Alberta amateur championship in ’09.

Evanecz was also the low amateur in the Alberta Open in 2008, ’09 and ’11, and is a former member of the Canadian national team.

He made five cuts while playing on the PGA Canada Tour in 2012 and later in the year earned 2013 Web.com Tour status by advancing through all stages of the PGA Qualifying School. But he struggled on the Web.com Tour and last year his game abandoned him almost completely.

But Evanecz is not bitter. Far from it, in fact.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Golf and Country Club Skins Game was a profitable event for Mitch Evanecz last June.

The Red Deer golfer snared a cheque for $5,000 in the annual affair.

Good thing, because he didn’t earn a nickel on the PGA Canada Tour last year.

Evanecz competed in five events on the Tour, including three following the Skins Game, and missed the cut five times. As a result, he realized it was time to step away from the game, at least temporarily.

“It just ended up being one of this situations where I was in a search for more funding to see if I could continue, and it just never worked out. I decided to move on,” said Evanecz, who is now based in Vancouver and works for a mobile canning company.

“I’ve been doing this since last fall.

I moved out here full time once the golf season was over,” he added. “We go around to micro breweries and can craft beer and craft ciders.”

Evanecz is enjoying life on the West Coast. He’s resided on and off in either Victoria or Vancouver for several years, with the exception of 2013 when he basically lived out of a suitcase while playing on the Web.com Tour.

He wasn’t savouring the golf experience in 2014. He admitted in June that he was struggling with his approach shots and the problem never corrected itself.

“It just got to the point where I never made a cut after (the RDG&CC Skins Game) or even before that,” he said. “I never made a cut last year, so it was definitely one of those things where the game just wasn’t good enough anyway.

“Not that time or practice wouldn’t have fixed that, but it was just kind of a collaboration of things towards the end of the year. I could have got more exemptions, but my game wasn’t good enough and the funding wasn’t immediately there. It just didn’t make sense at the time (to continue playing competitively). There are always ups

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Mitch Evanecz plays an approach shot during a round in the 2010 Central Alberta Amateur tournament. Evanecz has decided to step away from competitive golf after a tough year on the professional circuit. Since turning pro in 2011, he has been unable to repeat the success he had as an amateur. But he also has not ruled out a return to the professional ranks.

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B7 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, May 6, 2015

River Bend’s new man in charge

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF River Bend Golf and Recreation Area did not have to look far for their new head man.

Dave Tomlinson, 41, spent the last 17 years running one of the gems on the local golf circuit, the Carstairs Community Golf Club, but now is tasked with a brand new challenge as general manager at River Bend.

For him, it’s not so much about reinventing the wheel as keeping the ship on course.

“I think the city, the previous GM Andrew Gilchrist, the board all had the vision — it’s a family facility for city residents where we provide great golf at a reasonable price and have amazing amenities,” said Tomlinson.

“I just want to keep the ship moving forward and improve our service levels in some areas.”

As the general manager at River Bend, he is in charge of so much more than just 18 holes of well-manicured golf course. He is overlooking mini links, Discovery Canyon and the club’s partnership with the city, including working on a new licensing agreement.

It amounts to being in charge of a seven-person team that overlooks a staff that is expected to hit 125 during the peak of summer.

“It’s definitely a 12-month facility,” said Tomlinson, noting it is always open for banquets and other events, and this winter the clubhouse was open for those taking advantage of the park’s many activities.

But he is up to the task.

Tomlinson is a PGA of Canada club professional, graduating from Lethbridge College

it’s just a good golf course.”

Tomlinson brings with him to Red Deer his wife Jackie and their three children: Ethan, 11, Sabastien six, and Chloe, five.

With his experience and track record, he’s had opportunities to work at other courses in nicer climes, but it was important for him to stay in Central Alberta, within driving distance of family and friends.

“I’ve grown up in Alberta, I love the province,” he said.

“My mentors in the golf community as well as those I mentor are all in Alberta, so it’s helpful to stick around and be local.”

After a lifetime in the game, growing up playing Cottonwood Golf and Country Club just south of Calgary, he’s still passionate about the sport.

“The best part about golf is the people, I love the people, you get to share stories and experiences, you get to travel the world and every single golf course you play is completely different,” said Tomlinson.

“It’s the draw to be better, and every time you play you think ‘This is the day,’ and maybe it is and maybe it’s not, but no two rounds are the same.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

Evanecz doesn’t see himself following MacPherson into the instruction game.

“I never found myself to be a really great teacher,” he said.

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here and there that are kind of obvious, but I never really worked on my craft as a teacher. I don’t see myself becoming a teacher of golf. I always like to work with juniors, the new

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“I’m the type of person who doesn’t look back or dwell on things,” he said.

“It was kind of one of those things where I needed to go forward. Golf has given me enough in life.”

Evanecz, who will be in Calgary this weekend to compete — by invitation — in the golf tournament that’s part of the Henry Burris All-Star charity event, is confident that he will at some point kickstart his pro career.

“I’m going to get back into it, it’s just a matter of time,” he said.

If Evanecz needs some inspiration, he need look no further than his roommate, Clark MacPherson.

“He played the Canadian Tour the last couple of years,” said Evanecz. “He just got an assistant pro job. He has a recurring back issue that keeps him from playing, but he’s going to try and continue to play pro. He’s playing the

assistant pro events and some Vancouver golf events.

“He didn’t start playing until he was 18 or 19 and he just feels he still owes it to himself to keeping going because his injuries kind of cheated him of a little time. So good on him.”

construction or course alterations, with Tomlinson crediting superintendent Cameron Kusiek.

“It came through winter in amazing condition,” he said.

Tomlinson was familiar with what he was getting himself into at River Bend before taking on the challenges of the job.

He has golfed River Bend several times in recent years and became enamoured with the course.

“I love the golf course, I love the parkland setting,” said Tomlinson. “The conditions were always fabulous, the people were friendly and

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Dale Tomlinson is the new general manager at River Bend Golf Course, joining the club in February after 17 years at the Carstairs Golf Club.

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and the Golf Management Institute of Canada while continuing his education with seminars and professional development courses.

The Calgary native started out at Banff Springs and then went on to Rivershore Golf Links in Kamloops, B.C., before settling in at Carstairs, where he rose through the ranks of club pro all of the way general manager, a post he held for the last 10 years.

“I basically did all I could do at Carstairs ... and I wanted a new challenge,” he said.

“I’ve done everything from semi-private to a destination course in Banff to a completely different facility here.”

He was hired in February and since then it has been a whirlwind, including an early opening day of April 10, but he says he is finally out of catchup mode.

“It was a crazy two months, but at least now I feel like our feet are finally on the ground and we are running and in operation mode as opposed to planning mode,” said Tomlinson.

There will be one other noticeable change for local golfers who haven’t picked up the clubs since last season, and that’s chef Samath Rajapakas, who joined the club in the fall.

Rajapakas brings a wealth of experience to the club, having worked in everything from fine dinning restaurants to chains like Boston Pizza. The menu at River Bend is somewhere in between but still quite approachable and casual.

“He combines the two worlds to make it work for our needs,” said Tomlinson. “It’s good food with a twist. ... I’m eating well.”

The course, meanwhile, is in excellent shape coming out of the winter with no new

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Players who don’t learn Chambers Bay won’t win U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — United States Golf Association executive director Mike Davis laid down a challenge to the best players in the world as they get ready for the U.S. Open to make its debut at Chambers Bay. Get to know every rolling fairway, undulating green and unique bounces of the young golf course on the shores of Puget Sound.

“I would contend that there is no way a player will have success here at Chambers Bay unless he really studies the golf course and learns it,” Davis said Monday during media day for the U.S. Open. “The idea of coming in and playing two practice rounds and just walking it and using your yardage book, that person is done. Will not win the U.S. Open.”

After years of anticipation, the first U.S. Open to come to the Pacific Northwest is now seven weeks away and with it comes the risk associated with the USGA awarding the championship to Chambers Bay. No golf course has been rewarded with the national championship at such an early age since Hazeltine. No golf course that is made up of all fine fescue grass has ever hosted the U.S. Open.

Despite the unknowns, Davis and USGA officials were raving about the course conditions, noting a milder winter was a huge benefit to getting the course prepared. Davis said last fall there were concerns regarding the grass growth in some areas, but the warm winter promoted growth and put preparations ahead of where they were hoping coming into the spring.

The unknowns prompted Davis to issue his warning. And he understands there will be players walking away from their experience at Chambers Bay less than thrilled with the challenges presented.

“This is a one-of-a-kind site for us at a U.S. Open,” Davis said. “There is going to be some players that just love this ground game and love the imagination and embrace it. And then there are other players who just want predictability. They want something right in front of them. They don’t want to have to guess what is going to happen after the ball lands. It’s just a different mindset.”

The course will play to a par 70, just like previous U.S. Open courses. Davis plans on alternating holes 1 and 18 as par 4s and 5s during the tournament and some of the teeing grounds used could have slightly elevated or downward lies.

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Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash. The golf course will host the 2015 U.S. Open golf tournament in June. play between 7,200 and 7,600 yards.

“This is a bold site. This is a big site.

I’ve heard people say it’s a ’wow’ site,” Davis said. “It’s obviously expansive.

We don’t have anything we play the U.S. Open on that is remotely similar to this.”

Defending champion Martin Kaymer said he met briefly with course designer Robert Trent Jones Jr. while

at the Masters to talk about the design of the course and some of the challenges players will face. He’s been told the course is similar to Whistling Straits where Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship.

“It depends on the golf course, but I’m not too much into that stuff of learning the golf course before I get there,” Kaymer said.

Golf is a game for everyone CN Future Links Pacific Championship to open 2015 season

taining. It has the ability to fill days with great laughter and decades with cherished memories.

How can we grow this great game?

All Golf Canada members can play a part in ensuring golf reaches everyone. Share the fun and enjoyment of golf and encourage others to join us. The benefits of this great sport reach beyond age and stage in life – from children to adults; from young professionals and those just “starting out” to seasoned veterans and retirees. Life can move pretty quickly and leave us with little time for recreation. With so much for so many, golf is the perfect activity to bring everyone together.

Beyond us, the golf industry plays an active role in supporting this country and its people. As a significant employer, taxpayer and contributor to charity, the golf industry affects more than golfers and fans of the game. Let’s help the industry grow the game and our country.

We want more players to play more rounds. We want kids new to the game and people who have played it for decades to share the same smile over a great shot.

I suggest that one way for us to grow golf in Canada is to work together to promote the fun in golf.

Let’s all take part in sharing the game and its many great qualities.

We have great passion for golf.

Let’s grow our game together.

Let the good times roll as we embark on another great season.

Christine Dengel is a PGA of Canada golf professional with more than 30 years of experience in multiple facets of the golf industry, and a lifelong passion for and commitment to the game of golf.

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the girls and boys divisions. Former Development Squad member Valérie Tanguay of St-Hyacinthe, Que. prevailed in a playoff when West Vancouver’s Alix Kong narrowly missed a par putt on the first extra hole. Alex Francois ended the tournament with a steady round and managed to hold on for the Junior Boys title, despite a valiant charge from runner-up Jordan Lu, who carded a 2-under 69 to match the low round of the day.

The CN Future Links Championships, conducted by Golf Canada in partnership with CN, demonstrate the National Sport Federation’s dedication to the growth and development of the sport at the grassroots and junior levels.

Five additional CN Future Links Championships will cross the country this summer: May 21-24 – CN Future Links Ontario – Pine Knot G & CC, Dorchester, Ont. June 11-14 – CN Future Links Prairie – Cooke Municipal Golf Course, Prince Albert, Sask.

July 2-5 – CN Future Links Quebec – Domaine Château-Bromont, Bromont, Que. July 6-9 – CN Future Links Western – Goose Hummock Golf Course, Gibbons, Alta.

July 13-16 – CN Future Links Atlantic – Gowan Brae G& CC, Bathurst, N.B. The winners of the Junior Boys divisions in each of the six CN Future Links Championships will gain exemptions into the 2015 Canadian Junior Boys Championship, to be played August 2-6 at Summerlea Golf and Country Club in VaudreuilDorion, Que. Their six counterparts in the Junior Girls divisions of each of the CN Future Links Championships will earn entry into this year’s Canadian Junior Girls Championship, hosted by Deer Park Municipal Golf Course in Yorkton, Sask., from August 3-7.

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“Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just the talented few.”

Golf Canada’s 2015 competitive season will begin with the Pacific edition of the This is a wonderful quote from a CN Future Links Championships. Hosted wonderful contributor to the game, at Pheasant Glen Golf Resort in Qualicum Harvey Penick.

Beach, B.C., the competition featuring a More than 300,000 Golf Canada field of the nation’s top junior-aged golfmembers across the nation would ers will be held May 7-10. agree…including a few of those talThe CN Future Links Pacific Champiented individuals that Penick reonship is the first in a series of six junior fers to. competitions presented in partnership Within those gifted ranks, but with CN. The 54-hole stroke play tournanot limited to them, we find Team ment will begin on Friday, May 8 followCanada. What fun they had in 2014. ing the previous day’s practice round. Set From a competitive perspective, amongst expansive meadows, lush wood2014 was the most successful year lands and the snowy peaks of Mount Arin the history of Canadian golf, datrowsmith, Pheasant Glen showcases the ing back more than a century. natural beauty and prestige of Vancouver Golfers in Canada and the sport’s Island. many fans from coast to coast “Golf Canada is pleased to open this should be very proud of our nayear’s championship season at Pheasant tional and provincial development Glen. The CN Future Links Championprograms. Grassroots initiatives ships are great platforms for Canada’s like CN Future Links and Golf in juniors to demonstrate their skills,” said Schools are not only about fun, but Mary Beth McKenna, who will serve as also the development of Canadian the competition’s tournament director.

Golf’s future heroes.

“The Pacific Championship has always To our talented competitive playbeen an entertaining and exciting event ers, thank you for providing us with and we look forward to seeing this strong great opportunities to see Canadian field on display. golfers wave the flag. Thank you “With several past CN Future Links all for giving us the chance to feel champions and Team Canada members a swell of pride as we shared in in the field of competition, this year’s Payour excitement and cheered you cific Championship will allow newcomers on throughout 2014. to measure their abilities against many of To every golfer across the counlast year’s finest while established comtry, thank you for your participation petitors will be able to gauge their proin this fantastic game. Golf is truly gression and growth.” a game for everyone. It is time well Alex Francois of Burnaby, B.C., – the spent with family and friends. It 2014 champion of this event – will be onhand to defend his title. Team Canada’s gives us opportunities to be social Development Squad will be well-reprewhile promoting physical fitness. sented at the event with 10 of the 11 memIt is challenging, yet fun and enterbers in the field of play, split evenly between the junior girls and boys divisions.

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A Swainson’s hawk jumps off its perch on a line of trees bordering a farmer’s field west of Penhold. Twice a year, these raptors makes the longest migration of any Alberta raptor. They winter as far south as the southern tip of South America.

Missing man case takes twist MEN CHARGED WITH INTERFERENCE IN CASE OF RED DEER MAN MISSING IN TERRACE, B.C.

TERRACE, B.C. — Two men who were with a Red Deer man who has been missing since the truck they were all in floated down the Skeena River late last fall have been charged with interfering in the police investigation.

Nathan Joseph Heit and Jesse Fehr each face charges of obstructing a peace officer, attempting to obstruct justice, and making false and misleading statements to police (public mischief).

Dustin Steele, 23, was last seen on Nov. 1, 2014, at about 9 p.m. in the Copper Flats area, when a truck he and two friends were in was driven into the river and became caught in the current, Terrace RCMP reported on Nov. 3, 2014.

Two of the men made it to shore and Steele was last seen in the back of the floating truck heading downstream on the Skeena River.

Search and rescue volunteers and individuals went out for days afterward looking for Steele.

Although the incident occurred on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 1, it was

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Penhold women charged after drugs seized Two Penhold women have been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after police seized $50,000 worth of prescription drugs.

Innisfail and Blackfalds RCMP executed a search warrant on a Penhold residence, where they said they discovered the drugs and $4,000 in Canadian cash on Sunday.

Susan Alton, 59, of Penhold have been charged with possession for the purposes of trafficking. Jessica Alton, 32, has been charged with trafficking a controlled substance and possession of proceeds of crime.

Three Mile Bend off-leash park closed after 9:30 p.m. tonight Three Mile Bend recreation area and off-leash dog park will be closed for maintenance again tonight.

The park will close at 9:30 p.m. tonight, as it was Tuesday night, and reopen the following mornings at 7 a.m.

The closure will allow the City of Red Deer and contractors to perform maintenance. “Three Mile Bend Recreation Area is one of our busiest parks in the city,” said Trevor Poth, parks superintendant.

The city wants to ensure the maintenance occurs while the park is closed for the safety of off-leash dogs, Poth said. During the maintenance period, commissionaires will be at the park entrance to redirect users.

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not reported to RCMP until the following day.

One of the men, a 25-year-old “who was with Dustin at the truck was arrested for obstruction on Nov. 3 and released the same day on conditions,” confirmed Terrace RCMP. Terrace RCMP continued to investigate the reasons why Steele and the two others were by the river and how the truck ended up in the river.

Searchers found the truck submerged in the river on Nov. 4.

However, bad weather and the river’s current prevented its successful recovery until the morning of Nov. 7.

a leash when it nears 9 p.m. and be aware of any equipment that might be moving into the area. The park reopens for normal use on Thursday 7 a.m.

Striking man in face with glass results in 30 days in jail A man who struck a fellow house guest in the face with a glass of rye and coke was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Chance McClellan-Hughes, 22, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court last November to assault causing bodily harm in the April 18, 2012, scrap at a social gathering at a Red Deer home. He was sentenced on Monday.

McClellan-Hughes hit another guest following a heated argument about pit bulls, during which the victim apparently insulted a female guest.

The victim had been ordered out of the house for his behaviour when he was hit in the face, requiring stitches.

McClellan-Hughes will be allowed to serve his sentence on weekends. He will be on probation for a year after his jail sentence is completed.

Woody Nook Road closing for two days for rail repairs CP Rail has notified Lacombe County that the railway will close a portion of Woody Nook Road for two days.

The road will be closed just south of Hwy 12 starting at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning. It is expected to remain closed until about 4 p.m. on Monday. Traffic will be detoured along local roads during the closure. Motorists should watch for detour signs.

A judge said he didn’t have enough information to recommend a psychiatric assessment for a man accused of trying to abduct a 13-year-old girl near G.H. Dawe School.

Defence lawyer Michael Scrase told Red Deer provincial court Judge Bart Rosborough on Tuesday that Alexander Beaulieu, 29, wants to be assessed on whether he could be considered criminally responsible for the alleged crimes.

Scrase said he had contacted a forensic psychologist, who had treated Beaulieu in the past.

The doctor suggested it was possible that previously diagnosed illnesses could have a bearing on whether he could be held criminally responsible for the alleged offences.

Rosborough said without more information, he wasn’t prepared to order a psychiatric assessment. However, he said that if the defence could provide more background, an application for an assessment would be considered.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard opposed the application, saying the grounds for an assessment had not been established.

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A similar request was made by the defence in March, when Judge Gordon Yake also declined to order an assessment because of the lack of information to show that it was worthwhile.

Beaulieu allegedly stopped his truck near the school around 1 p.m. on Dec. 22 and asked a teen if he could use her cellphone.

It is alleged that he tried to pull her into his vehicle, hitting and choking her, but she fought back and he let her go. A passerby came to her aid and the girl was treated in hospital for non-critical injuries.

Her attacker stole her cellphone and drove off. A suspect was arrested a few hours later in north Red Deer.

Beaulieu is charged with attempted kidnapping, choking with intent, aggravated assault, robbery, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, possession of stolen property under $5,000 and theft under $5,000.

He elected to be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench justice without a jury.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 17 in Red Deer.

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In December, searchers returned to look on the shoreline and shallow water areas and found a child seat and boot believed to have come from the truck, said search and rescue officials at that time.

Late last month, searchers checked out a log jam down river from where the vehicle went into the water but did not find Steele’s body.

The two men make their first appearance in Terrace provincial court on June 2.

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BRIEFS Sylvan woman injured in head-on collision A Sylvan Lake woman is in stable condition in an Edmonton hospital after a head-on collision near early Tuesday morning.

The 55-year-old woman was airlifted by STARS to U of A Hospital in Edmonton following the 7:15 a.m. collision.

Police say an eastbound car crossed the centre line and struck a cement truck on the Aspelund Road just east of Hwy 20. The driver of the cement truck was uninjured, but the female driver of the car had to be extricated from her vehicle by the Bentley fire department.

Aspelund Road was blocked for three hours with traffic being rerouted. Sylvan Lake RCMP, Bentley Fire Department and a collision analyst from Red Deer responded to the crash.

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About 15,000 Alberta volunteers were out along Hwy 2 and other roadways on Saturday, cleaning up a winter’s worth of discarded items. Typically, volunteers gather about 53,000 bags of trash along 11,000 km of Alberta roadways each year.

Volunteers in the region this year included Central Alberta Christian High School students (left to right) David Verhoef, Kyle Niewland and William Van de Brake. The annual cleanup is a fundraiser for non-profit and community organizations.

Police seek suspect who tried to steal equipment Red Deer RCMP are looking for public assistance to identify a man who was caught on camera stealing a small front-end loader and trailer on Saturday.

Owners of a business called police at 11:30 p.m. when they noticed a man driving away from Queen’s Industrial Park with a trailer and bobcat that the owners recognized as their property.

The business owners blocked the vehicle’s exit and demanded their property be returned to the compound it had been stolen from.

The suspect attempted to talk his way out of the situation by providing false contact information. The business owners took photographs of the suspect and his vehicle and called police. The suspect returned the items to the compound but fled the scene before police arrived.

The suspect is Caucasian, in his 30s, and spoke with a Newfoundland accent. He was described as scruffy-looking, with a beard. He wore sunglasses and a baseball cap.

Nancy Verdin named woman of the year A longtime Red Deer resident and occupational therapist has been named Woman of the Year by Beta Sigma Phi.

Nancy Verdin works at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and also volunteers as a caring clown. Verdin is a certified laughing therapist who takes her program to senior care facilities and organizations. She clowns, teaches and mentors other clowns.

She has played in the Adult Advanced Band, served on the Red Deer Symphony and Synchronized Swim boards.

Verdin co-founded the Travelling Dialysis RV Association. She also volunteers for Festival of Trees and the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Beta Sigma Phi is a women’s social and cultural club for women of all ages. Each year, the club chooses an unsung hero in the community to be named Woman of the Year.

Sundre theft suspect linked to other crimes Sundre RCMP are asking for public help to identify a suspect believed responsible for numerous ongoing thefts from businesses.

A video from surveillance camera taken April 23 at about 3:30 p.m. shows a man entering the office area of Bargain Browzer Store in Sundre while staff are busy with other Sundre suspect. customers.

The suspect broke into a secured drawer and stole a large amount of cash. He left the store before staff became aware of the theft.

Police are looking for a man in his mid to late 20s. He is described as 1.7 metres tall (five feet seven inches), muscular build, clean appearance with light brown hair.

The same man is believed to be linked to numerous thefts in Sundre and other Alberta communities.

Anyone with information about this or any other crime is asked to contact Sundre RCMP at 403-638-3675 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Red Deer Cruise Night returns on Thursday Thursday is the grand opening of Red Deer Cruise Night, where automobiles from across the province drive into Red Deer to one of the biggest

show and shine events of the week.

Organizer Dave Burden says more than 400 vehicles are expected to descend on the northeast parking lot of Parkland Mall on Thursday.

The local rock band ’57 Chevy will entertain the crowd. Food trucks will provide the grub. Cruise night runs from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays until autumn.

There is a prize for the driver and ride who have travelled the longest distance to get to cruise night. Drivers are asked to register at the gate.

Vehicles don’t have to be vintage to participate. Anyone who has pride in their ride is welcome. Spectators are welcome.

The event is free but any donations go to local charities. For details on Cruise Night, check www.reddeercruisenight.ca/

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An emotion-packed evening of theatre GRIPPING PLAY BY LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS GETS AWFULLY PREACHY NEAR THE END Prisoner-of-conscience Micah shouts into the darkness: “Hello! Is anyone still out there?”

This question, weighted with loneliness and despair, echoes through local playwright Andrew Kooman’s drama We Are the Body, which premiered on Tuesday night at the Scott Block in downtown Red LANA Deer.

MICHELIN Kooman’s gripping play, staged by Calgary’s Burnt Thicket Theatre, follows the gruelling plight of three prisoners who are locked in separate cells for their Christian beliefs in Soviet-era Romania.

The lyrical, intense script delivered an emotion-packed evening of theatre during Monday’s dress rehearsal — especially in the first act. We audience members became uncomfortable voyeurs, watching Elsie (Heather Pattengale), Richard (Tim Bratton) and Micah (John McIver) suffer daily beatings and tortures that were both implied and acted out on stage.

As the prisoners re-examined their beliefs while communicating in Morse code tapping, a friendship grew between the three.

At first this helped sustain them through their ordeal. Then two of the prisoners get moved into sensory deprivation cells further underground, where they see only blackness and hear silence, week after week, month after month.

Not only does this psychological torture break one of them — this particular plot point, about halfway through the second act, also marks the moment Kooman’s overlong play loses focus and bogs down in religious rhetoric.

There are allusions to the prodigal son, Christ’s sacrifice and even Judaslike betrayal. Suddenly the plot that managed to reflect universal themes of overcoming inhumanity through human connection devolves into sermonizing and dogma.

It didn’t have to. Kooman is a talented playwright, whose sparse, visceral dialogue can make viewers think and also hit them in the gut, as shown in his 2012 play about sex trafficking, She Has a Name.

He is also a Christian. And while it’s possible to appeal to both Christian

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and secular audiences with humanist messages, these need to transcend religious partisanship and become more universal in scope.

The last scenes of We Are the Body get awfully preachy, which might not bother churchgoers, but hold less appeal for wider audiences. The irony is that the oppression that Kooman describes is happening across the globe to people from all walks of life — those persecuted for politics, religion, sexual orientation, or because of racial or tribal prejudices.

Despite its dogma, We Are the Body is generally a more cohesive and wellwritten play than She Has a Name, which largely filtered a female sexworker’s story through a male human rights worker. There are no filters here. The three prisoners deliver stark dialogue directly to the audience, mak-

ing for some powerful moments.

Kooman intelligently and empathetically portrays the mental and physical sufferings of those deprived of basic human rights.

And the play contains tremendous performances by the three-actor cast: Pattengale, as a young woman whose memories of her fiancé Ionel helps her survive imprisonment, but also torment her; Bratton, as a Jewish Christian convert and pastor who tries to keep up the spirits of his fellow prisoners; and McIver in the dual roles of a prisoner who wavers in his faith and a sadistic prison guard.

Director Stephen Waldschmidt shows these characters fading in and out of memories and dreams, through innovative staging tricks.

At one point, the three prisoners feel so closely connected, while tap-

ping out a conversation, that they are shown as if talking around the same table — even though we know each is still inhabiting an individual cell.

In another scene, a delusional Elsie is seemingly caught between a kindly priest — surely a figment of her imagination — and a devilish tormentor.

Kooman hoped We Are the Body would spur conversations about people who are unjustly imprisoned around the world.

Many theatregoers will undoubtedly leave this play thinking about Amnesty International and questioning how they would react in similar circumstances — are there convictions worth suffering or dying for?

The play continues to Saturday.

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Their fourth album, Under One Sky, was issued this week with production help from such Canadian heavyweights as David Foster and Bob Ezrin. The Tenors co-wrote eight of the album’s 13 tracks, with at least one attention-grabbing foray into pop (Drowning in Love).

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The media giant says Apple TV users will have easy access to CraveTV’s entire library.

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EVERGREEN GREENHOUSES

Is holding it’s Annual OPEN HOUSE, Sat. Only May 9, from 8 am - 4 pm

CELEBRATING 36 YEARS

A great selection of plants!

We look forward to seeing everyone out again this year. 2 miles east on 39th Street from 30th Ave. R.D.

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Caregivers/ Aides

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April 23 near Burnt Lake Trail, small black and tan female dog, about 15 lbs., named “Molly”. Pls. call 403-309-6903 EARING, GOLD HORSESHOE style, with diamonds. Lost Sat. April 25 at Imaging Centre or Tony Romas, or State & Main Restaurant.

CENTIMENTAL VALUE. If found please call 403-342-0444

Professionals

710

FT caregiver needed 40 hrs/wk, Red Deer, $10.20/hr. to aid special needs adult, male, permanent position, light housekeeping, 12 mo. exp., high school diploma, must speak english. Contact eurocan5@telus.net

Clerical

720

PROVINCIAL Sleep Group in Red Deer is an allied health clinic and has an immediate opening for a .5 FTE admin/receptionist.

Email resume to Karen Gain at kareng@psgi.ca Posting closes 5/8/2015.

NOW OPEN

Mond. - Fri. 9 am - 8 pm Sat. & Sun 9 am -6 pm 1-403-309-7700 Hwy. 11 A 1/4 kms W. of Hwy. 2

Farm Work

755

EXP. preferred to work on ranch/farm. Duties include working with livestock, machinery and other farm related jobs. Wages according to experience.

403-350-4089

Medical

790

P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Office Assistant. Friendly, energetic, and ability to work independently. Fax resume to 403-340-3349

West Park

Morrisroe

3210-57 AVENUE, Thurs., May 7, 4-8, Fri., May 8, 10-8, Sat., May 9, 9-1.

Household items, books, some electrical supplies.

EXTREMELY LARGE

810

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $12/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible.

No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Restaurant/ Hotel

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Innisfail ESTATE SALE, furniture, housewares, home decor, collectibles, Xmas stuff, misc., Sat. and Sun., May 9 and 10, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 4705 - 48 Ave., Innisfail

820

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time.

Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for the manager on duty.

THE OPEN RANGE SALOON in Sylvan Lake req’s Front Line Cook. Full or Part time with Food Safety. Competitive wages. Please apply in person or email resume to: tnpjep@shaw.ca 403-887-3033 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Trades

850

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! HEAVY duty truck mechanic needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca LOOKING for well exp’d or journeyman glassworker capable of doing shower doors, commercial storefronts & residential glass with no supervision. We are a small, rapidly expanding, full service glass shop in Sylvan Lake, offering top wages, benefits & possibility of SHARES & or PROFIT SHARING for the right person!

Call Roy @ 403 350-4901, email: glassman14@outlook.com or fax 403 887-0194

Pasquale Mancuso Construction (51 YEARS OF SERVICE) Seeks individuals for civil concrete work in the construction of oil and gas facilities

Ticketed & Non-Ticketed Carpenters and Superintendents & Foreman

Excellent rate of pay based on the oil and gas Plant sectors. Benefit package, transportation provided. Please fax resume to (403) 342-1549 or email to apply@pmcl1964.ca

JJAM Management (1987) Truckers/ Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Drivers Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. BUSY rig moving company 37444 HWY 2 S looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. hands, and picker operators.

FOOD ATTENDANT Oilfield ticket an asset.

Req’d permanent shift Must be able to pass a weekend day and evening drug test. Pls call both full and part time.

1-306-463-6674.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS

Card Of Thanks MALO On behalf of Gerry and his family, sincere thank you to friends, family and community for the love and support you have extended during this time of our loss of Toni Malo.

Remember their special celebrations

First steps, first words, first birthday.

CELEBRATIONS everyday

Love, Mom & Dad

Call or visit us online!

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Multi family sale.

19 Munro Cres.

Thurs. May 7, 12-7 pm.

Fri. May 8, 12-7 pm.

A baby’s Smile can warm your heart...

Happy 1st Birthday!

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Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

EXPERIENCED LABOURERS and HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS REQ’D. for pipeline construction.

Must have all safety tickets. and valid drivers license.

Competitive wages.

Call 403-502-1091 LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

Employment Training

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off.

403-586-4558 CLASS 1 Driver in Central AB. Min 3yrs off road BJ/Pup experience. Oilfield tickets required. Email: haulingcrude@live.ca

900

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ROBERTS James William Born: March 12, 1920, Medicine Hat, Alberta Died: May 1, 2015, Red Deer, Alberta Reverend James Roberts passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, May 1, 2015 at the age of 95 years. Jim will be lovingly remembered by his daughter; Fran Lees; son, Jim Roberts (Bev), grandchildren, Linda (Mike); Audrey; Maureen (Lawrence), Ron (Brenda), Hollie (Dan) along with his great grandchildren Kodi, (Hannah), Tyler, Kassidy (Teah), Wayde, Shannon, Curtis, Scott, Dawson and Crosby.

Jim is also survived by his sister, Marion Terrilon as well as sisters-in-law, Mary (Alan) Winchester, Eve Roberts and his extended family. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Violet, his parents, Hilda and Richard Roberts, his brothers Dick (Brenda), Fred (Margaret) and Arnold as well as his son-in-law, Bill Lees. Jim played many roles in his life, Minister, vocalist, pianist, counsellor, but is best defined by who he was an encourager, lover of music and a man of faith.

His zest for life forged many lasting friendships with the communities and church families which he touched in his 60 year career as an ordained minister.

His memory will be held dear by his family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held at the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. A special thank you to the residents and staff at the Pines Lodge, the Nurses, Doctors and staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for your companionship and compassionate care given to Jim through-out his journey.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Gaetz Memorial United Church.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.

WHITEHEAD Beatrice (Bea) It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Beatrice (Bea) Whitehead on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 86 years. Bea was born in Banff, AB, on August 23, 1928 where she lived until moving to Red Deer in 1952 in order for her husband, Spud, to play hockey. Bea will be dearly missed by her son, Brad (Marilyn) Whitehead of Nanaimo, BC, her daughter, Linda (Les) Colquhoun of Calgary, AB, grandchildren; Eoin (Kerri) Colquhoun, Craig (Karli) Whitehead, Lisa (Chris) Witherley, Brett (Sinead) Whitehead, and seven greatgrandchildren. She is also lovingly remembered by her sisters-in-law; Dorts Stafford and Marie Bredo, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Bea was predeceased by her beloved husband, Spud, brother, Ted Stafford, parents; Lewis and Rose Stafford, and stepmother, Irene Stafford. Bea was a devoted and generous mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.She loved her family with all her heart.

She was an avid curler, golfer, Mahjong and bridge player. She enjoyed a good game of bridge right up until her passing. Bea loved going to the casino and enjoyed many trips to Reno with her friends and her daughter. At Bea’s request, there will be no funeral service. A private family memorial will be held at a later date. A special thanks goes out to Dr. Raymond Hulyk and the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for making Bea’s last days comfortable. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes in Bea’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 6, 5015 48 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1S9 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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Oilfield

SET of keys found at bus stop across the street from Caps on Kerry Wood Drive. To identify, call 403-347-6938.

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KLESSENS “AL” Alwin Ronald 1954 - 2015 It is with great sadness that the family of Al Klessens announce his passing on April 30, 2015 in Lacombe, Alberta. Al is survived by his parents; Tony and Mary Klessens, and siblings; Margaret (John) Velthuis Kroeze, Lou (Andre) Klessens, Tony (Kelly) Klessens and Kathy Bayley, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Al was a kind and caring man who will be truly missed by all his family and many friends. A funeral service will be held on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, Alberta. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Canadian Mental Health Association 5017 - 50th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4B2.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person Ponoka stucco company looking for laborers. Must have transportation and a valid drivers license.

Phone 403-782-7494 or email resume to finishingtouchstucco@ xplornet.com

SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS

F/T Customer Service employee req’d.

Tasks: Keyholder Early evening and weekend shifts avail. Must be reliable and trustworthy.

Send resumes to: sw8903@sherwin.com or in person at 3301 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer.

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Help

880

Weed Sprayer required.

No experience necessary.

Must have valid Class 5 Drivers License. Fax Resume to 403-227-5099, email to cdsprung@ telus.net

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AN EXCELLENT CHOICE WHERE YOUR AD REACHES RURAL READERS

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS WHATEVER YOU’RE SELLING...

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Advocate Opportunities

900

Employment Training

EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE TRAINING PROGRAM!!

FEW SPOTS LEFT! STARTS JUNE 15th

20 week long program funded by Alberta Works.

You will receive: Child Development Assistant LEVEL 1 Certification.

380 Hours toward Child Development Worker LEVEL 2 Certification 5 week work experience Job Search Assistance.

If you are a resident of Alberta, out of High School for more than one year, Interested in being employed in the Childhood Field, please contact us at: rdmcg @mcbridecareergroup.com 403-346-8599

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ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am.

Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306 CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

CARRIERS REQUIRED

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1520

Antiques & Art

A MUST for collectors. T. Eaton 1901 catalogue 114 yrs. old in 100% top shape $200 403-347-7405 A must see to believe.

Actual size tiger head a beautiful pillow $150 403-347-7405 OVER 50 years old, Tiger Claw necklace in beautiful casing $200 403-347-7405

1590

Clothing

BOOTS, leather, Italian ladies chocolate, soft glove fit over knee length, zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, $200. 403-227-2976

EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE For VANIER Area With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

For LANCASTER Area With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

WOODLEA 44 & 45 AVE. WESTPARK 55 & 56 Ave. also 39 St. also 41 & 42 St. JOHNSTONE PARK Jackson & Jarvis Close WWwWWES********************* For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 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 DEER PARK AREA

1630 1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

1680

Garden Supplies

LAWN mower, rear bagger, tuned up, ready to go, $80.

403-347-5873 403-350-1077

1700

Health & Beauty

LIZ ARDEN NY, NEW, 1 red croc., make-up bag, w/12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. This would make a great Mother’s Day gift, $195. value, Asking $50.

403-227-2976

Household Appliances

1710

Household Appliances

DRYER, Inglis HD, white ext. large capacity, Electric. $100.

403-341-9990 341-9990 KENMORE fridge, white, 18 c.f., Roper stove, white, self-clean, $150 for both or will sell separate.

403-746-5123

Household Furnishings

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1750

EARRINGS, pierced, Sterling Silver, Made in Israel, never worn, w/case, 1 1/2” drop, appraised $135. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

Misc. for Sale

1760

BROIL KING GAS BBQ, hardly used $130 obo SOLD FREE standing metal ironing board $25, 5L electric crock pot $15, London Fog dress coat size 12, slate blue, dry cleaned $50, antique magazine rack, dark wood $20, two 14” hanging wire baskets w/new coco liners, ea. $8 or 2/$12 403-227-2653 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horses, brown shetland colt, foal and pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Royal Dux Bohemian cat, porcelain, mint cond, $35; DC SHOES cap size 7 3/8, like new $18; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $40 403-352-8811 WINE Making equipment, numerous equipment to get started. 403-348-0122

Cats

1830

LOVING M. Cat, needs a good home, acreage or farm preferred. TO GIVE AWAY. 403-886-8688

Sporting Goods

1860

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc.

BEAUMARK microwave, cond, $200 403-352-8811 reg. size w/turntable $30 HOME Gym, $50.

403-346-5360 403-340-1347

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

BOWER AREA

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

WANTED apartment size upright freezer, approx. 20” wide x 21”deep.

403-346-5360

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

MORRISROE MANOR

3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

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1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, w/dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, June 1st, n/s, $1350/mo.

403-782-2007 FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740 WESTPARK Main floor, 4 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, 3 appls, shared laundry, heated dbl. garage, no pets, n/s, rent & DD $1750 + power & gas. 403-391-2292

MORRISROE

3 bdrm. townhouse, across from park, 1.5 bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., rent $1350, SD. $800. Avail.

June 1 Call 403-304-5337

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL 2 bdrms, balcony, no pets $875 403-346-5885

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

WEST PARK

May 1, 2 bdrm bsmt. suite, 4 appls, private entry, n/s, n/p, rent $750 + utils. $750 DD 403-845-2926

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Rooms For Rent

1957 FORD SKYLINER Retractable Hardtop $42,500. 403-742-9417

~ 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. or June 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

2004 SILVERADO, diesel, exc. con.

403-342-0813

Motorcycles

CLEARVIEW

bi-level 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1125 avail. June 1 N/S, no pets.

Call 403-391-1780 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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Suites

5080

Avail Immed: 1 fully furn bdrm for rent - $250 dd $500/mth. 403-396-2468 LARGE room NEW for rent 403-350-4712 ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712

3190

Mobile Lot

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 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, loaded with saddle bags, windshield, cruise (manual), running lights, back rest, 44,500 kms.

Excellent Condition! $8200. o.b.o.

403-318-4653

Fifth Wheels

5110

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 1 large slide, well maint., ready to go 403-227-6794

Holiday Trailers

5120

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

4020

Houses For Sale

2012 CANAM Outlander 800 R XT, power steering, winch, 2 quad boxes. 900 kms. $9000. 403-347-6344 Start your career!

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Chaotic moments captured on video MIGRANTS SCRAMBLE TO LEAVE STRICKEN DINGHY, 5 CRUSHED TO DEATH OFF LIBYA COAST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CATANIA, Italy — Young men piled over each other, some shimmying up ropes dangling from the towering rescue ship and others falling into the churning sea. Women and children were the last off the stricken dinghy during a chaotic Mediterranean rescue in which at least five migrants were crushed to death and more were feared drowned.

Dramatic footage shot by a seaman aboard the Maltese freighter showed the weekend rescue of more than 100 West Africans aboard the flimsy boat off the coast of Libya. Survivors were brought Tuesday to the Sicilian port of Catania.

The video, obtained by The Associated Press, highlights the danger of marine rescue, where safety and tragedy too often lie just moments apart.

With tens of thousands trying to cross the sea on small boats launched by human traffickers from Libya — and hundreds dying in the attempt — the question of how best to save migrants from drowning has taken centre stage in Europe.

Crew members interviewed by the AP said everyone aboard the cargo ship Zeran had undergone rescue training. But while a previous rescue several weeks ago happened calmly without any loss of life, on Sunday elation at the prospect of being saved quickly turned to panic.

Unaware that they would be thrown a ladder, frantic migrants trampled over one another to reach the ropes that were meant to hold it in place, with some dangling precariously as they clambered along the lines to reach the tall freighter.

Some jumped or fell overboard to catch lifesavers tossed into the water by crew members.

Others emptied jerry cans of gasoline to use as floats, as the dinghy — already deflated at the front — began

taking in water.

“Easy! Easy!” implored a crew member from Zeran’s deck.

“There was the big ship there and they threw down ropes,” Astou Fall Dia, a 24 year-old migrant from Senegal, told the AP after disembarking from the cargo ship.

“Someone grabbed onto the rope.

All the other people started pushing to try to save themselves but the people started falling in the water.”

Dia said she survived because she stayed close to the dinghy, and because she knew how to swim — unlike most of the migrants who come from poor African countries.

Five bodies were recovered from inside the dinghy, floating amid garbage and water that had seeped in.

A crew member said they died in the final rush to be rescued and the Catania prosecutor’s office said late Tuesday that a preliminary investigation showed they were crushed to death.

At least another five to nine people fell into the water and drowned, said the seaman who shot the video, though one man floating away with the current and clinging to a lifesaver was rescued by crew on a Zeran lifeboat.

The seaman and other crew members spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Save the Children, which interviewed the survivors upon their arrival, said the migrants reported “dozens” of people died in the rescue 25 miles off the Libyan coast.

The weekend saw a dramatic increase in rescues as smugglers in Libya took advantage of calm seas and warm weather to send thousands of would-be refugees out into the Mediterranean in overloaded rubber boats and fishing vessels.

The coast guard reported that nearly 7,000 people were rescued in the three days ending Sunday.

On Tuesday, the Italian Mission to the United Nations tweeted that coast

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo provided by the Italian Navy’s Press Office May 4, 2015 shows members of an Italian Navy unit, on the dinghy at right, as they rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, May 3, 2015. In a three-day period ending Sunday, 6,771 survivors were rescued at sea north of Libya from overcrowded rubber dinghies and unseaworthy fishing boats used by smugglers. guard just rescued 300 migrants in the Mediterranean, 80 miles (130 kilometres) off the Italian coast.

The latest deaths come on top of the estimated 800 migrants who are believed to have drowned last month when their boat capsized off Libya with hundreds of passengers locked in the hold by smugglers. A few days earlier, some 400 people were feared drowned in another capsizing.

After those deaths, the European Union held an emergency summit and agreed to contribute more boats and patrol aircraft to Mediterranean rescue efforts.

Even with the increased EU response, commercial cargo ships are increasingly being called on by Italy’s coast guard to respond to migrants in need, as required by the law of the sea.

Catania prosecutor Giovanni Salvi complained last month that the commercial crews sometimes aren’t

trained or equipped to conduct rescues and that lives can be lost when migrants suddenly rush to one side of their unseaworthy boats as they try to get off.

Salvi later backtracked and praised the work and commitment of the commercial vessels.

But when the coast guard rescues migrant boats, it usually sends out inflatable speedboats and crews use loudspeakers to implore the passengers in various languages to stay calm and in their place.

It was clear from the footage obtained by the AP that either there was a language barrier, or the migrants couldn’t hear the crew’s instructions from high up on the deck — or both — in Sunday’s rescue.

A second dinghy, picked up by the Italian navy the same day, suffered no casualties. Those migrants were later transferred to the Zeran.

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LOCAL BREWERIES SERVE UP SOME SPECIAL SUDS AT CALGARY INTERNATIONAL BEERFEST

BY TREVOR HOWLETT ADVOCATE STAFF It’s amber, it’s zesty and it’s a mouthful to say: it’s the newest beer from Olds College Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program, Irish Wristwatch.

Irish Wristwatch is a ginger beer produced in collaboration with Alberta Beer Festivals. The name and style of the beer were the result of a social media campaign. The new easydrinking ale had plenty of interest at last weekend’s Calgary International Beerfest at the BMO Centre.

“It’s actually based on an American blonde ale backbone,” said Jordan Ramey, instructor in the Olds College Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program. “So we’re thinking patio, little zip of ginger gets you in the mood for summer. We’re coming into May, the clouds are breaking and everyone wants to get outside, so it’s the perfect beer for that kind of weather.”

The Calgary International Beerfest is the biggest of its kind in Western Canada, with more than 500 beers available for patrons to sample. Olds College had one of three Central Albertan booths at the festival, with Something Brewing and Red Deer Brewers also serving up brews.

There were many Olds College students working at the festival, as well as graduates of the program working at both new and established breweries.

Among the students working at Olds College’s booth on Saturday was Tyler Rose, who along with fellow brewmaster student Peter Schill created Alberta Craft Malting — this year’s winners of the RED Challenge innovative business competition and the TEC VenturePrize Student Business Plan Competition.

Ramey said as craft beer continues to become more popular, entry into the Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program gets more competitive.

“Right now we essentially have more students apply for the program every year than we know what to do with,” said Ramey. “So we have a competitive application process. We are really looking for students with a passion for the industry and something that shows that they’ll do well in the industry.

“That can be bartending experience, that can be homebrewing experience, that can be chemistry experience, that can really be anything that says you can come into the program, you love beer and you want to make this a livelihood for you.”

For those who didn’t get to taste Irish Wristwatch last weekend in Calgary, the beer is available at Olds College, and it’s on tap at Beer Revolution (Edmonton) and CRAFT Beer Market (Calgary).

You can also try it out at the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival next month.

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BRIEF Harvard Broadcasting to buy Kraze FM Harvard Broadcasting Inc. has purchased a Red Deer radio station.

Harvard has entered into an agreement to purchase 101.3 Kraze FM from L.A. Radio Group, subject to approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The acquisition means Harvard now owns two Red Deer stations, including Cruz FM. Troy Schaab president and CEO of L.A. Radio Group, said he and his wife Sonia were happy with the sale of their station to a company that shares their vision, values and strong passion for great radio.

Harvard is a Western Canada-based, independent regional broadcaster.

Over the past nine years, Harvard has expanded its operations to include six radio stations in Saskatchewan and six stations in Alberta.

BoC proposes tweaks to shield system from future financial crises The Bank of Canada wants to turn lessons it learned from the global financial crisis into a series of tweaks it says would help shore up the country’s own system during periods of stress.

The central bank announced several proposed changes Tuesday that it believes would help inject liquidity into the markets amid any turmoil down the road. Senior deputy governor Car-

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Photos by TREVOR HOWLETT/Advocate staff

ABOVE: Olds College Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management professor Jordan Ramey (left) and brewmaster student Tyler Rose (right) from Lacombe pose for a photo at Olds College’s booth at the Calgary International Beerfest on Saturday.

RIGHT: Tyler Rose pours a sample glass of Olds College’s Irish Wristwatch ginger beer

Something Brewing Drummond Brewing’s craft arm Something Brewing was also on hand last weekend in Calgary, serving up their three selections: Gimmee That Nutt Brown Ale, Hopbomb IPA and Dark Side Schwarzbier. Co-owner and brewer Kevin Wood said Something Brewing will have some new options available soon, including a Belgian white style called White Wit that should be available “in about five weeks.”

“It took us a while to get craft beer out in Red Deer and it’s just starting to grow,” said Wood. “ We’ve rolled out these three and we’ve got a Belgian Wit coming out right away and a lot more on the craft beer side of things.”

Those three beers are available in cans at three liquor stores in Red olyn Wilkins described the updates as a sharpening of the bank’s tools during a stretch of relative calm.

“And, should another major bout of liquidity turmoil arise, we will be ready,” Wilkins said.

Liquidity is a measure of the ease and speed at which individuals or organizations can buy and sell assets or benefit from reliable access to business financing at a reasonable rate.

Wilkins noted that all Canadians are affected by liquidity, whether they realize it or not.

Trade deficit increased to record $3 billion in March OTTAWA — Canada’s trade deficit grew to a record $3 billion for March as the drop in oil prices weighed on exports, Statistics Canada said Tuesday, but economists suggested things may pick up.

“Canada’s trade deficit widened to a record in the first quarter, as the weaker Canadian dollar doesn’t appear to have had a meaningful positive impact yet and the U.S. economy struggled in the period,” Bank of Montreal senior Benjamin Reitzes wrote in a note.

“However, with our neighbour to the south expected to bounce back in the second quarter, the loonie staying relatively weak (even if it rebounded in recent weeks), and oil prices staging a modest comeback, Canada’s trade profile is expected to improve in the months ahead.”

The deficit was far bigger than the $850 million that economists had expected, according to Thomson Reuters, as imports rose faster than exports.

Statistics Canada said the March deficit grew compared with February as imports increased 2.2 per cent to $45.5 billion, while exports edged up 0.4 per cent to $42.5 billion.

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Deer, about 180 provincewide and the Drummond brewery at 6610 71th St. in Red Deer. And Wood said they’ll have growlers available at the brewery in roughly two months.

Wood said Something Brewing will also have an Oktoberfest beer available in the fall.

Red Deer Brewers Just a few steps away from Olds College’s booth were the Red Deer Brewers, who were sponsored by the soonopening Red Deer microbrewery Troubled Monk.

The homebrewing club were serving up an extra special bitter, which is an English-style pale ale made by Tool Shed Brewing Company out of Calgary.

Doug Ellertson with Red Deer Brewers said that the group has been grow-

ing steadily on Facebook and they now have more than 50 members on their page.

“We want to promote homebrewing, get to more of a scale where we can have our competition in Red Deer and just get more members,” said Ellertson.

“We’re just here to promote homebrewing and beer in general.”

Anyone interested in the group can look up Red Deer Brewers on facebook.

CRTC puts new limits on roaming rates

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GATINEAU, Que. — Canada’s telecom regulator is rejigging the regime for wholesale wireless roaming rates in the hopes that the changes will eventually lead to lower charges for consumers.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released a decision Tuesday that limits the roaming rates that the three biggest wireless carriers charge smaller carriers to piggyback on their networks, based on cost, for five years.

In its decision, the CRTC also asked the Conservative government to repeal legislation that currently limits what small carriers can charge the big players to use their wireless networks.

The decision unravels provisions imposed by the federal government last year, but the intention of the new framework is the same: to give smaller players the ability to expand into new markets and create more competition.

The CRTC decision could eventually result in lower retail roaming costs for customers of the smaller service providers when they leave their home network areas, officials said.

“The measures that we are putting in place today in the wireless market will ensure that Canadians continue to have more choice as well as innovative high-quality services,” CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said in a statement.

Industry Minister James Moore praised the ruling.

“Today’s decision will create great-

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er competition in the wireless sector, and that is why our government has continuously advocated for these changes,” he said in a statement.

“We know that more competition means more choice, lower prices and better services for Canadian consumers.”

Nonetheless, it was unclear whether removing the roaming cap on local and regional carriers — and allowing market forces to take over — will benefit customers of Bell, Rogers and Telus when they travel with their smartphones or other wireless devices into areas controlled by the smaller firms.

Regional carriers, including Saskatchewan’s SaskTel and MTS in Manitoba, had argued that the blanket regulations imposed by the federal government meant that they were being forced to let Telus, Rogers and Bell use their networks at a discount.

An industry observer was critical of the CRTC decision, saying it will have negative implications for the long-term growth of Canada’s small telecommunications players.

“Essentially it’s not sustainable competition, it’s phony competition based on regulatory privileges,” Martin Masse, a senior editor at the Montreal Economic Institute, an industry think-tank, said in an interview.

Masse said he expects smaller carriers to rely on their larger competitors for network coverage, which will discourage them from spending to build their own operations.

“It stifles innovation,” he said. “We get less investment because it’s cheaper to depend on mandated access.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 125.05 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.33 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.31 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.99 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.41 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.29 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.62 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 228.27 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.52 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.50 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.35 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 62.74 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.50 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .38.89 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.01 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.90 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.70 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.07 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.36 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.86 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.75 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.34 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.96 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.36 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.71 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American markets closed sharply lower Tuesday amid news of widening trade deficits both north and south of the border.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index plunged 193.53 points to 15,173.94 despite higher commodity prices that saw oil break through the US$60-a-barrel mark.

The loonie was up 0.14 of a U.S. cent at 82.84 cents.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrials dropped 142.20 points to 17,928.20, the Nasdaq plummeted 77.60 points to 4,939.33 and the S&P 500 declined 25.03 points to 2,089.46.

All sectors on the TSX were down, including the gold sector, off a little under one per cent even as the June gold contract rose $6.40 to US$1,193.20 an ounce.

“The metal has rallied but the stocks are being left behind,” said Roland Chalupka, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust Canada, the wealth management arm of Franklin Templeton Investments Corp.

“It’s a little bit unusual. Typically in the metals and mining area, you’ve got a pretty direct relationship between the underlying commodity and the actual stocks.”

Chalupka said gold stocks could be facing downward pressure despite rising commodity prices because investors are worried that the cost of financing will climb when the U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates.

The June crude contract was up $1.47 at US$60.40 a barrel.

In economic news, trade deficits in both Canada and the U.S. grew in March, with the Canadian gap hitting a record $3 billion as the drop in oil prices weighed heavily on exports.

In the U.S. the trade deficit rose to $51.4 billion, the most

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.60 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.94 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.13 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.24 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.81 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.33 First Quantum Minerals . 18.35 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.36 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.94 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.99 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.67 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.98 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.71 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.19 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.98 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 67.66 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.09 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 38.45 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 39.63 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 13.48 Canyon Services Group. . 8.30 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.22 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.97 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.18 since October 2008 as a small increase in exports was overwhelmed by a big increase in imports.

“The trade deficit story is important, and probably driving most of what’s happening today,” Chalupka said. “Canadians continue to import, and they show no signs of spending slowing down, but we’re not exporting as much, so our deficit widened out.”

North American markets have performed rather poorly since the start of the second quarter in April, Chalupka said.

Economic activity has been generally soft on both sides of the border, corporate earnings have been lacklustre and Europe has been unable to shake concerns over the Greek debt crisis.

“Europe, which is seen as somewhat of a leading light in that they started their quantitative easing program in January on high hopes and high expectations, they’re starting to bump into more political risk with this Greece situation that doesn’t seem to want to go away,” Chalupka said.

Meanwhile, shares of WestJet were down more than three per cent to $27.24. The Calgarybased airline reported its net income grew 58 per cent in the first quarter as fuel prices, one of the company’s biggest expenses, declined.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,173.94, down 193.53 points Dow — 17,928.20, down 142.20 points S&P 500 — 2,089.46, down 25.03 points Nasdaq — 4,939.33, down 77.60 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.61 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.25 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.61 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.93 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.82 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.12 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 38.33 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.63 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.11 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.30 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 56.37 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2450 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.09 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.48 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.82 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.08 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.09 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.10 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 9250 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.53 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.67 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.91 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.62 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.43 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.64

Currencies: Cdn — 82.84 cents US, up 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$1.8315, up 0.25 of a cent Euro — C$1.3510, up 0.24 of a cent Euro — US$1.1191, up 0.38 of a cent Oil futures: US$60.40 per barrel, up $1.47 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,193.20 per oz., up $6.40 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.89 oz., down 8.3 cents $671.61 kg., down $2.67 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $1.50 higher $472.30; July ’15 $1.50 higher $458.80; Nov ’15 $1.50 higher $450.40; Jan. ’16 $1.00 higher $451.20; March ’16 $0.90 higher $451.00; May ’16 $0.90 higher $451.50; July ’16 $0.90 higher $451.50; Nov. ’16 $0.70 higher $446.30; Jan. ’17 $0.70 higher $447.00; March ’17 $0.70 higher $447.00; May ’17 $0.70 higher $447.00.

Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $200.00; July ’15 unchanged $202.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $187.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $192.00; March ’16 unchanged $192.00; May ’16 unchanged $192.00; July ’16 unchanged $192.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $192.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $192.00; March ’17 unchanged $192.00; May ’17 unchanged $192.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 225,460 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 225,460.

RioCan says it’s negotiating with potential tenants for 15 stores

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TARGET CANADA

TORONTO — RioCan (TSX:REI.UN) says it has begun negotiations with retailers that could potentially use some of the space in 15 former Target Canada stores that have been returned to the real estate investment trust.

“We’ve got lots of interest,” said RioCan CEO Edward Sonshine, adding that some of the stores will be broken up into smaller units.

RioCan says the space at the 15 former Target Canada stores represented about $8.6 million of annual revenue.

In total, RioCan’s 26 former Target Canada stores make up 1.9 per cent of its total annual rental revenue.

If RioCan is able to backfill the stores, that will reduce how much money it will seek from Target for lost rental revenue under the terms of a guarantee from the U.S. company, which closed all 133 Canadian Target stores during the first quarter.

An additional 11 former Target Canada locations in RioCan’s property portfolio remain part of the retailer’s court-supervised windup.

An auction of the dozens of Target Canada leases is scheduled to be held this week in Toronto.

Canadian retailers have been strug-

gling lately, as more shoppers flock to online outlets such as Amazon and eBay. Electronics stores have been hit particularly hard, with Best Buy announcing in March it is closing 66 Future Shop stores, while Sony has shut down all 14 of its Canadian locations.

A number of mid-level fashion retailers, including Jacob and Mexx, have also recently shut down.

RioCan has been left with 18 empty Mexx stores and five vacant Future Shop locations.

During a conference call with investors Tuesday, Sonshine recalled how, roughly five years ago, a number of retailers south of the border — including Circuit City and Linens ’n Things — vacated their stores within a short time span.

“They created over 150 million square feet of vacant retail space,” Sonshine said.

“Yet, within a short few years, this massive overhang of space was absorbed and retail space was achieving valuations and occupancy rates higher than the pre-crisis levels seen in 2007.”

Sonshine expects a similar result in Canada.

IN BRIEF

Martinrea posts record profit of $30.4M in Q1 TORONTO — Martinrea International Inc. (TSX:MRE) says net profits soared to a record $30.4 million in the first quarter amid strong sales by the auto parts maker in North America and Europe . Toronto-based Martinrea says net profits attributable to equity holders of the company in the three months ended March 31 were $30.4 million or 36 cents per diluted share, up from

$16.7 million or 20 cents in the same year-earlier period.

Consolidated sales increased by $53 million or 6.1% to $917.5 million from $864.5 million in the first quarter of 2014.

The overall increase in sales was driven by increases in North America and Europe operating segments, partially offset by a slight year-overyear decrease in sales in the Rest of the World segment.

Chief financial officer Fred Di Tosto said net earnings per share were above quarterly guidance as a result of stronger than expected performance in March and some foreign exchange gains in the quarter.

WestJet latest airline to post big profits

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS After enduring years of weak results and bankruptcies, airlines are making big profits as they pile on more fees and pocket most of the benefit from lower fuel prices.

WestJet Airlines is just the latest North American carrier to post a quarterly record.

The Calgary-based airline’s net income surged 58 per cent to $140.7 million in the first three months of the year as fuel prices plummeted and it collected higher fees from checked luggage and other charges.

Still, WestJet CEO Gregg Saretsky insisted that the cost of travel has decreased as some of the fuel savings were passed along to the airline’s customers.

“There are bargains today that are better than they were a year ago and that’s a function of the lower fuel environment, so we are effectively passing that along to our guests,” he said during a conference call Tuesday.

WestJet (TSX:WJA) is following a global trend that has seen airlines boost profits by charging passengers for services.

In the United States, airline industry bag fees rose five per cent to US$3.5 billion last year while the fees for changing reservations were up six per cent to US$3 billion.

The charges have left some passengers angry, accusing carriers of nickeland-diming them relentlessly while at the same time removing the comfort of extra legroom and free onboard food.

Industry observers said airlines needed to change a broken economic model that saw too many carriers go out of business.

In exchange for keeping base fares as low as possible, airlines are charging passengers for the things they value. That includes checking luggage, preferred seating and, soon, Wi-Fi. “The messaging that they’re getting

from customers over and over is: ’We want the lowest fares and we’re ready to put up with a lot to get them,”’ said David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity.

He said so-called unbundling is a philosophical change from the all-inclusive flights of the past.

Tyerman added the industry has done a poor job of showing that base airfares, adjusted for inflation, are much lower than they were 20 or 30 years ago. However, they haven’t dropped as fast as the latest sharp decrease in fuel prices.

Even though airlines are making stronger profits, the money being made by carriers still pales in comparison to car-makers and rail companies that post much higher returns on invested capital.

“In the past, we were very lucky because the industry was badly run and they didn’t charge nearly enough for their product,” he said, referring to the free extras like meals and checked baggage. “Now they’re charging a more representative price and we don’t like that.”

Robert Kokonis, president of airline consulting firm AirTrav Inc., said airlines are making more money now but adds their financial outlook is uncertain, dependent upon fuel prices and the strength of the global economy.

While fees may have swung too far in one direction, they could easily swing back the other way to attract customers in the years to come.

WestJet said it resisted pressure to raise fares in the first quarter, but added higher ticket prices could loom on the horizon if fuel prices increase.

The airline said Tuesday its new Plus seating section will offer a window or aisle seat with no middle seating on narrow-body planes, or wider seats on the new Boeing 767s.

The new configuration, aimed mainly at business travellers, will be priced as much as 75 per cent lower than business class fares operated by Air Canada.

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A photo of former Canadian prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier is shown after being processed through the website “How Old Do I Look.” People who upload photos of their faces to the new How Old Do I Look website are giving Microsoft the right to use the pictures for nearly any purpose, despite the company’s promise not to retain them, privacy experts say.

All rights reserved HOW OLD DO I LOOK WEBSITE RAISES PRIVACY CONCERNS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — People who upload photos of their faces to the new How Old Do I Look website are giving Microsoft the right to use the pictures for nearly any purpose, despite the company’s promise not to retain them, privacy experts say.

The age-guessing site was unveiled at the Microsoft Build conference last Thursday, and within four days it had already received 240 million pictures from 33 million different users, according to a tweet from Microsoft vice-president Joseph Sirosh.

Microsoft says on the site it will not keep the photos. But the terms of use for the website, which is covered under Microsoft’s general cloud-services agreement, say the company and its affiliates can copy, edit and distribute any uploaded pictures for use with their Internet services.

David Fraser, a Halifax-based privacy lawyer, said the terms of service appear to give Microsoft the right to use the photos for advertising or other purposes, but he said he doubts the company would purposefully deceive its users.

The contradiction between Microsoft’s general policy and the website’s promise not to keep the photos is a classic example of the problem with companies using generic legal language to cover all of their websites rather than tailoring agreements to individual services, Fraser said.

But he added that it is common among large Internet companies such

as Microsoft, Facebook and Google.

“People should be mindful of what is in the terms of use of the service that they are using,” Fraser said.

“At the same time, corporations like Microsoft should be as clear as possible about what it is that they’re purporting to do.”

Microsoft reiterated that the How Old Do I Look website, which uses a face-detection algorithm and machine learning to detect the age of those who upload photos, does not store pictures or personal information and was originally intended as a demonstration of the ease of developing on Microsoft’s cloud services.

“We planned to take it down right after the keynote but it seems folks really enjoy playing with the service, so for now we are leaving it up,” said Leanne Bull of Veritas Communications, which provided a statement of behalf of Microsoft.

Avner Levin, director of Ryerson University’s Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute, said almost no one, including himself, reads the terms of use for most online services. What were originally developed as meaningful agreements of users’ rights have now become policies designed to give companies as much control as possible, he said.

Howard Deane, director of the Consumers’ Council of Canada, said it was reassuring that Microsoft volunteered that it would not keep the photos.

Adding a new privacy policy for every new service adds complexity for companies and makes it more confusing for users, he said, and doesn’t solve the underlying problem.

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Life is more than just getting gifts Dear Annie: You’ve printed several and there is little chance that we will letters about bridal showers and baby ever encounter this woman. showers and other occasions where So my wife will never find out. gifts are given.

Do I owe it to her to tell her?

Let me ask these young women who I believe that to do so could cause expect their family members to give serious harm to our marriage. — Anongifts for every one of these events: Do ymous and Conflicted you ever give your grandparents a Dear Anonymous: Society is much birthday present? more sensitive these days (and rightly Do you ever send the so) to instances of sex withgreat-aunts a Christmas out consent, e.g., when the card? woman is drunk or when When your uncle is ill, do someone in a position of auyou send flowers or a getthority takes advantage of a well card? subordinate.

Life is not about how We are glad that this has many gifts you can get. been bothering you for 30 These young men and years. women should count the It shows that you have renumber of gifts they have morse. received from their grandIdeally, you would tell parents, aunts, uncles and your wife and have her supother close friends and famport when you voluntarily MITCHELL ily members since their high go to the police, but you & SUGAR school graduations and then don’t seem likely to do that. consider what they have givYou can discuss this with en in return. —Tired of the your clergyperson or a therGimme Generation apist, although depending Dear Tired: Amen. on the particulars of the date rape and Too often the recipients of largesse the state in which it happened, there think the gravy train only runs in one may be mandatory reporting laws, as direction and they don’t need to show well as no statute of limitations on the similar consideration to an older gen- crime. (For information on these laws, eration. But what relative wouldn’t contact RAINN at rainn.org, or see a be thrilled to get a birthday card from lawyer.) a great-niece or a holiday card from a A therapist also could help you degrandchild without prompting? cide how to broach the subject with If you have older relatives or friends your wife. Is there a way to apologize and have never thought about sending to the victim? This can be more healthem a card or a gift or making a phone ing than you know, for both of you. call on their special days, please reYou might also contribute to an ormember all of the considerate things ganization for rape victims. they have done for you over the years, These things don’t at all make up for and ask yourself how you could ex- what you did, but they are a step in the press similar kindness. right direction and better than doing Dear Annie: My wife and I have been nothing. married for 30 years.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Before we met, I coerced a woman Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediinto having sex. I did not use physical tors of the Ann Landers column. Please force, but she did not give consent. By email your questions to anniesmailbox@ today’s standards, this was, I think, a creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, clear case of date rape. c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, I have never told anyone about this, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ROBOTICS CLASS

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Abby Miller, 11, and her sister Jillian, nine, work on a Lego robotics project along with some other students in a Sylvan Robotics Learning class at the Collicutt Centre recently. The two girls joined their brother Isaac and Nana Joy Osmond for the class taught by Ken Coulton. The free session introduced the science, technology and engineering behind building a robot with a motor and sensor.

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