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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Incoming NDP Alberta premier Rachel Notley, in her first full day on the job, extended an olive branch to the energy industry and promised there will be no special treatment for unions.

Notley said she will work with oil and gas and other business leaders to assure them her government will be a partner in building the province.

“I’m going to be making phone calls today to leaders within the energy industry to begin those conversations,” Notley said Wednesday. “They can count on us to work collaboratively with them.

“I’m hopeful that over the course of the next two weeks they will come to realize that things are going to be just A-OK over here in Alberta.”

Asked about the close relationship the NDP tradi-

tionally has with unions, Notley said there will be no fear or favour shown.

“My job is to represent all Albertans, and job creation is a good part of that,” she said. “There’s no question that there’s common cause on many issues with union leaders, but there’s also common cause on many issues with business leaders.

“That’s the kind of approach I’m going to take with governance.”

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EDUCATION

College, school districts anxious to work with NDP

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Things seem a little brighter on the education front in Central Alberta with an NDP government in the wings.

The party, about ‘I’M VERY MUCH to form the next majority government in ENTHUSIASTIC Alberta under the ABOUT WHAT I’VE leadership of Rachel Notley, placed eduHEARD FROM THE cation funding as a NDP AND WHAT priority during the election campaign.

THEIR PASSIONS Joel Ward, Red ARE ABOUT Deer College president, said on WednesEDUCATION, AND day that he was very WE AT RED DEER pleased that the New COLLEGE ARE Democratic Party had promised to reWILLING AND ABLE store post-secondary AND ANXIOUS TO funding that had been cut.

SIT DOWN WITH As well, while the THEM.’ former Progressive Conservative govern— JOEL WARD ment had suggested PRESIDENT, RED DEER COLLEGE they might remove tuition caps in 201617, the NDP talked about a freeze on tuition and fees.

“That is of great interest to us and to our students.”

However the PCs’ freeze on salaries is a different approach than the NDPs when it comes to collective agreements, and this will affect the college financially, he said.

But Ward suspects the PC plan to cut funding up to 2.7 per cent next year is going to change. “The NDP has said they are interested in providing predictable, stable funding and that’s important for us as we do our long-term plan.

“For post-secondary education, I’m very much enthusiastic about what I’ve heard from the NDP and what their passions are about education, and we at Red Deer College are willing and able and anxious to sit down with them,” Ward said.

“We believe there have been cuts that have really impaired our ability to serve our learners over the last number of years and this is a fresh government looking at new ideas and we’re very much interested in ... finding ways to work together and to make their promises a reality.”

For the 2015-15 school year, the college has prepared a balanced budget based on a 1.4 per cent reduction in funding.

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Six-time Juno award winner Colin James performed in Red Deer at the Memorial Centre with Chris Caddell Wednesday. James performed songs from his latest album and other songs from his storied career in music. Look to the Red Deer Advocate on Friday for a review of the show by Advocate arts and entertainment reporter Lana Michelin.

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Municipalities see opportunities, challenges with rookie MLAs

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta municipal officials are taking the change in government in stride.

Six rookie MLAs — two NDP and four Wildrose — took seats in Central Alberta during the provincial election on Tuesday. Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman was re-elected in Drumheller-Stettler and is the only holdover in the seven regional ridings.

Red Deer city manager Craig Curtis said there are new opportunities and challenges with every change in government.

Curtis said he sees promising items in premierelect Rachel Notley’s platform. It includes increased funding to Family and Community Support Services, transit, climate change, stable municipal funding and affordable housing.

“All those items are high priorities in their platform,” said Curtis. “And all those areas are high priorities in our advocacy. I think we build on some areas that we see can make progress with the new government.”

Red Deer voters elected NDP Kim Schreiner in North and NDP Barb Miller in South. As in most of Alberta, this is the first time the ridings will be represented by a party other than the Progressive Conservatives in decades.

Mayor Tara Veer said the city will work actively with the government to ensure Red Deer’s priorities become provincial priorities.

Veer said the first order of business will be to establish relationships between the city and the newlyelected officials.

“Our positions will be on record with the various portfolios but we need to ground our advocacy efforts in relationships,” she said.

The city will be keeping a close eye on the NDP’s first budget to determine the impacts on the municipality.

Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie said change is not always bad. He said it is a waiting game to see what the budget and the new cabinet will look like.

“There are some definite projects that we are working,” said Christie. “On the bright side, we have a whole new audience to speak to and present to. We will be very well briefed on our projects.”

One of the major projects in the municipality is a planned regional wastewater line. Christie said the line is essential to growth in Lacombe and Blackfalds.

“It was hugely supported by the past ministers,” he said. “Hopefully we can get the NDP to find us some money to build that sooner than later.”

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EDUCATION: PCs didn’t understand perspective “Our current premier-elect is thoughtful and articulate and bright. She will take her time. She will get the best advice and she will make the right decisions as she sees fit, but I don’t believe they have the capacity to make the change that will affect Red Deer College by tomorrow,” said Ward.

Bev Manning, chairperson for Red Deer Public School District, said she thinks the new government will be a positive thing.

“We need to maintain our local autonomy and the ability of boards to make those decisions locally. We understand that there’s some difficult financial decisions to be made both provincially and locally.

“All we were asking for all along was to not tie our hands to be able to respond to the decrease in funding. We felt the budget that the (Progressive Conservatives) were bringing forward just really put us in a straitjackets as far as what we could do.

“If the purse strings are opened a little bit, that’s great. I think my message currently is we’re going to

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The company went before the city’s municipal planning commission on Wednesday seeking a parking relaxation for a proposed 106,720-square-foot store with an adjoining 15,469-square-foot garden centre. It would be built on undeveloped land just west of Wal-Mart and Home Depot near Taylor Drive and 19th Street.

Commission member and city Coun. Lawrence Lee said the requested relaxation was approved along with a development permit subject to a number of other conditions.

However, that doesn’t mean the project is a sure thing yet.

Rona had eyed the site four years ago and was given approval to build a 44,000-square-foot store and a garden centre on the same site. But the deal with Qualico Developments West Ltd. fell through six months later.

Lee did not want to speculate on Lowe’s intentions, but said in general terms any time a large national brand is considered locating in your community it’s good for economic development.

They represent a significant investment in the community in wages and other expenditures while boosting Red Deer’s position as a regional commercial centre.

Red Deer city standards require 469 parking spaces but Lowe’s was allowed to go with 373. The company says parking studies done a few years ago at both U.S. and Canadian stores show 3.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of store space — or 374 stalls in this case — are sufficient.

Representatives for the developer or Lowe’s could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

North Carolina-based Lowe’s is a giant in the home improvement industry and recently opened its 38th Canadian store in Lethbridge and another is coming soon in Saskatoon. Overall, the company has about 1,840 stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and employs about 265,000 people.

stay the course. We’re going to see what the next few weeks and months bring, and we’re going to work not only with the government but also with our community to make the best possible decisions in a time of restraint.

“I felt that under the PC government we’ve really struggled to be able to maintain the power to make the decisions that our local electorates asked us to make. We are the people in our community who understand what Red Deer people want ... the PC government was very good at changing the rules in the middle of the game and being very reactionary to certain situations and I would rather be proactive, make the plans, stick with the plans. Yeah, you may have to adjust the plans, but don’t change the rules on us.

“Hopefully, the NDP government will come forth with a good plan and we’ll be able to stick to it,” said Manning.

One of the concerns school boards across the province had with the PC budget, introduced just before the election was called, was there would be no new funding for teachers and other resources needed to deal with 12,000 new students expected next year.

Chinook’s Edge School Division board chairperson Colleen Butler said the NDP promise to correct this makes her optimistic.

As well, the PCs planned a three per cent reduction in the non-teaching aspect of schools’ budgets

and that would have affected things like facilities maintenance, teacher aides, transportation and inclusion.

“All of those things were going to be very hard hit,” Butler said.

Chinook is expecting about 128 new students next year, which should have meant at least $800,000 in new grant funding from the province. But the PC budget had no funding for new school enrolment.

“What do you do with them? You can’t put teachers in front of them. You can’t put them in a classroom because there’s no teacher because you can’t fund them.

“So then your class sizes go up and you can’t afford the support as in the teacher aides, the inclusion portions, all of that, all of that was in jeopardy.

“We just felt that this (PC) government really didn’t understand the rural perspective that we deal with,” Butler said.

The school district is hoping the NDP will fund education in a sustainable and predictable way.

“As school boards we have been asking for this for years ... so we know what’s coming and can plan around it. ... You can’t just throw out 12,000 kids and say ‘Well here you go but we’re not going to fund them. You figure it out.’ ” “We’re very optimistic that we will be able to work well with this new government,” Butler said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Green groups expect much of NDP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Green groups expect much from the New Democrats who painted Alberta orange in the provincial election Tuesday. “There’s been a commitment for Alberta to be a leader in protecting our environment and we’re very much looking forward to follow-through,� said Carolyn Campbell of the Alberta Wilderness Association.

Premier-designate Rachel Notley spoke often on environmental issues when she was in opposition and environmentalists say they’ll hold her to those positions.

In her first news conference Wednesday, Notley said climate change will be among the first issues to come up. “I’m going to be meeting with public servants and getting briefed on the critical issues the government has before it. I suspect that will be one of them,� she said. “I will be giving more information with respect to our plans in the coming days.�

That’s good news, said Ed Whittingham of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think-tank. “I think their first move is a credible plan to tackle climate change. The current approach that Alberta’s been taking has been far too weak.�

The previous Tory government had promised a plan this June. Whittingham said Notley should at least keep to that timetable.

That strategy should also include a new, higher price on carbon and a plan to phase out coal-fired power generation, said Whittingham.

Alberta currently requires large industrial emitters to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions per unit of output by 12 per cent a year and charges $15 a tonne on emissions above that level. The Pembina Institute works that out to as little as $1.80 per tonne on overall emissions.

The new government also needs to live up to its promises to promote renewable power, said Mike Hudema of Greenpeace. “We expect that they will move to support the growth of renewable energy in the province and that they will

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REACTION: Change Lacombe-Ponoka chose Wildrose candidate Ron Orr, a Baptist minister from Clive. Christie will meet with Orr this week. The city had an Opposition MLA in Rod Fox, before he crossed the

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NOTLEY: Plans to implement platform Notley and her team began their transition to power Wednesday after four decades of Progressive Conservative rule.

She must name a cabinet out of her 53-member caucus, many of whom are new to politics. She must also craft a new budget, and the legislature must vote in a new speaker to replace defeated Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky.

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Alberta premier-elect Rachel Notley speaks to the media during a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday. also look at ways to tackle the rampant emissions from the tar sands as well.�

Campbell said Notley must keep her promise to strike a better balance between habitat protection and industrial development. “We look forward to caribou ranges that meet federal requirements ... and much stronger and smarter energy footprint management.�

Some looked forward to a better overall relationship with the provincial government. “Under the PC leadership, the oil industry had an open door with government,� said Hudema. “When it came to civil society groups, when it came to

environmental groups, often times that door was closed. We expect that access will be much more diverse.�

The desire for a new relationship includes some aboriginal bands. Allan Adam, chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, said he welcomed Notley’s remarks Tuesday night in her victory speech about revisiting oilsands regulation. “We will assist in regard to some of our concerns and some of our recommendations,� said Adam, whose band in the middle of the oilsands area has long had environmental concerns about the extent of development. “Hopefully, we will find a path for-

ward.�

Whittingham was optimistic about Notley’s environmental agenda. “I think the premier-elect has all the right credentials and the experience and the values,� he said. “She’s been given a great mandate for change and she’s going to act on that mandate.�

Environmentalists are willing to be patient — to a point, he added. “Every new government has a honeymoon phase and this will be especially the case with this government because it’s so new. I expect the government will recognize where it’s got a lot of experience and where it could use some advice.�

floor to the PCs last year. He lost the PC nomination to Peter DeWit. “For the last three years, we’ve had an Opposition MLA,� said Christie. “And we’re in that same boat again.

That’s not new.�

Christie said the city will have to bring Orr up to speed on the issues, like most municipalities with a new MLA. Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre said he was surprised at the result but

he looks forward to working with the new Wildrose MLA Don MacIntyre, who defeated PC Kerry Towle.

The case of an urgent care centre in Sylvan Lake will continue to be the town’s top priority and concern, said McIntyre. “It was announced that Sylvan Lake would receive an urgent care centre but that was announcement made by the old ... government,� he said. “That will be something we need to follow

up with the new ... government as soon as they take their seats in the legislature.�

Mountain View County Reeve Bruce Beattie said he looks forward to working with the new government in a positive manner and with Wildrose’s Nathan Cooper in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and Wildrose’s Jason Nixon in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

come clearer in the coming days as she works with her transition team and advisers, which includes former Saskatchewan NDP premier Roy Romanow. “You know, I haven’t actually been asked by the lieutenant-governor yet to be the premier,� said Notley. “So there are actually some things that have to occur before you start mapping out calendars.�

The NDP had four legislature members and the PCs had 70 when former premier Jim Prentice dropped the writ last month on what proved for him to be a disastrous campaign that left his party in third place with 10 seats.

Prentice took the stage to quit public life before the final polls in his Calgary-Foothills riding were counted.

He won, so there’s now a need for a byelection.

In the closing days of the campaign Prentice tried to sow fear amongst voters over what he termed a job-killing, anti-business NDP platform.

Notley has promised to hike income taxes for the wealthy and increase Alberta’s corporate income tax rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent — the lowest in Canada.

She has also promised to review whether Albertans are getting value for money on oil royalties, and to set up a panel to determine if more oil refining jobs can be created within the province.

Notley has also said she would take a less hands-on role in stumping for certain pipeline proposals — unlike past Progressive Conservative premiers who actively promoted such projects as Keystone XL and Northern Gateway.

Energy stocks were hurting on Wednesday. Major oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) was down six per cent, while Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) were down about three per cent.

But Notley said the platform she ran on will be the one she implements. “It’s absolutely not my intention on E-plus-one to suddenly start rewriting the very principles that I presented to Albertans.�

Asked about her relationship with federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, she said she has great respect for him and other political leaders. But she added, “My job will be to work collaboratively with all of them, but always with the focus on doing the best that I can for Albertans.�

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Notley’s winning formula OK, everybody, sit down and take a few deep breaths. You’re going to be all right. The sun will rise tomorrow.

If you haven’t already lost your job in the oil price crash, you’re not going to lose it now. Your taxes won’t go up tomorrow. No energy companies have imminent plans to move out of the province.

DOUG A few short FIRBY weeks ago, when the incumbent Alberta Progressive Conservative government called this election, no one could have imagined that the Tories would lose its 44-year death-grip on power. The notion that the third-place NDP would form government? Inconceivable.

Hysterical about the sweeping orange wave, the PC and Wildrose parties launched full-scale attacks on the NDP in the past week. They reminded voters of what happened in Ontario when the (then) NDP’s Bob Rae surprised everyone with an upset major-

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ity government more than two decades ago.

They didn’t, of course, draw comparisons to the practical Prairie NDP governments that ran largely sensible governments in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. They don’t talk about years of balanced budgets, and fiscal policies that in some cases were more conservative than the sometimes-left, sometimes-right bipolar PCs. The unexpected triumph of Rachel Notley’s NDP has two dimensions: the first is the persuasive power of quality leadership. Notley, daughter of the former Alberta NDP leader and late Grant Notley, has had politics in her blood all her life. Like Justin Trudeau — but arguably with more substance — she is a second-generation leader whose poise and professional demeanour sent a non-verbal message that she is fit to be premier of this province.

Compare that to the uncomfortable Jim Prentice, who started out so strong as premier, but over time allowed cracks to form in his once-pristine image.

The second dimension is the PCs’ catastrophic fumbling of a seemingly can’t-lose scenario. When the obituaries are written on the once-invincible juggernaut known as the Alberta PCs, one moment will stand out as the fatal

turning point.

The decision to call an unnecessary, costly and unwanted election.

Prentice — just eight months into his leadership — had started so strongly with a series of sensible populist decisions that did seem to affirm his claim of being “new management:” selling off the province’s unpopular airline fleet and reversing a decision to close the Michener Centre for the mentally challenged in Red Deer.

But then, just as his popularity soared, a series of ill-conceived — maybe cocky? — decisions quickly eroded his hold on the hearts of Albertans.

The first moment was his decision to accept Danielle Smith, then-Wildrose leader, and her co-conspirators into the PC fold. It smelled of old-style backroom politics and Albertans didn’t like it. Then, Prentice’s seemingly off-handed comment that Albertans should “look in the mirror” to see who was to blame for the province’s fiscal blues offended many working Albertans who didn’t share his view.

The fatal decision, though, was to ignore what his intuition surely must have been telling him and go ahead and call a provincial election. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but Prentice couldn’t fool them on this. It was painfully obvious that the PCs were trying to cash in on the

disarray in opposition parties and polling that, at the time, seemed to assure yet another Tory majority.

Another factor that many have predicting would take hold soon may have finally manifested itself. That was the demographic shift and greater diversity in political views triggered by the inmigration of people from other parts of Canada and around the world. Perhaps the election of Calgary’s progressive mayor, Naheed Nenshi, should have been a clear bellwether.

There are a lot of people excited about this historical political sea change. Others are pretty upset at the election of an NDP government in what has been long known as the most conservative province in Canada.

This shocking outcome has shown that there is a limit to Albertans’ tolerance for cynical political manipulation. A lot of people were ready to give Prentice one chance, but when he betrayed them with an indefensible election call, that patience ran out.

Now Notley faces the challenge of showing a small-c conservative province that a left-leaning party will do a better job as stewards of the public trust than the tired old crew it is replacing.

Doug Firby is editor-in-chief of Troy Media and national affairs columnist.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

History has been made in Red Deer As a life-long historian, it is always fascinating to observe and be part of the making of history in Red Deer and Alberta. A generation of one-party government (i.e. 44 years) in Alberta has now come to an end. Red Deer has elected not one but two New Democrat MLAs for the first time. We live in very interesting times — events about which much will be written in the coming weeks, months and years.

I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Kim Schreiner and Barb Miller on their victories in Red Deer North and South. They have some fascinating, if somewhat challenging, times ahead of them as they serve our community.

I would also like to congratulate Norm Wiebe, Ben Dubois, Deborah Checkel, Darcy Mykytyshyn, Buck Buchanan, Christine Moore, Krystal Kromm, Serge Gingras, William Berry and Patti Argent on their campaigns. It takes a lot to put your name forward for public office and spend 28 gruelling days on the campaign trail. For that, we all owe you a debt of sincere gratitude.

Thank you very much to everyone, candidates, campaign workers, and those who went out to vote.

In particular, I would like to especially thank the many people and volunteers who supported me in my campaign. I deeply appreciated your dedication and support.

In conclusion, the voters have spoken and we all respect that decision. To do otherwise is to undermine one of the very basic tenets of democracy. Red Deer is our home and I know we will all continue to work hard and do our best to make sure our community is an even better place in the future.

Michael Dawe Liberal Party, Red Deer North

The art of toppling a political dynasty Voters in Alberta made history Tuesday night — and they sealed it with an exclamation point.

Rachel Notley and her New Democrats secured a majority victory in an election that was supposed to be a stroll in the park for a powerful Progressive Conservative dynasty that had all but swallowed up its opposition in the province.

Instead, Jim Prentice rolled the dice on an early election and has found his own place in Canadian political lore.

Albertans gave the middle finger to 44 years of unbroken TIM rule and Prentice resigned, both as party leader and MLA, HARPER riding sadly into the prairie night.

The former Stephen Harper cabinet minister who was once thought to be a potential Harper successor, is the man who squandered a dynasty with staying power never before seen in this country.

Ultimately, it sputtered and died, succumbing to the twin diseases of entitlement and hubris.

The party sat in third place behind Wildrose, its future very much a question mark.

The scope and depth of this change — one that will be felt across the country and shake expectations in this autumn’s federal election — is difficult to digest.

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On a personal level, Notley’s stunning victory carries with it a special poignancy.

She has completed the journey of her father, Grant, who spent years building this party before he was killed in a plane crash more than three decades ago when she was 20.

Grant Notley brought the Alberta NDP to its high water mark of 16 seats — only to have it washed away in futility seven years later when the party was wiped off the map.

Change? Consider, Alberta had elected only two governments in 80 years.

Consider, the majority of the province had never lived under anything but a PC government.

Consider, Notley was speaking to crowds that could be counted on the fingers of both hands just a few years ago, in ridings that she won on Tuesday.

Consider, she almost didn’t enter the NDP leadership race. With two children still at home, she was considering the time away from them to guide a party that was sitting in single digits in polling.

Peter Lougheed began the long reign of 12 PC majorities in 1971 with a caucus of six.

Notley led a caucus of four into battle with a goal of growing her party, then forming a robust Opposition, then, in the campaign’s final week, trying to cobble together a cabinet in her head.

Canada’s political landscape in recent years has featured so-called political “waves.” They can wash both ways, but they don’t always lead to government.

Ultimately, the question in Alberta came down to change during uncertain times, something Canadian voters have repeatedly rejected, from British Colum-

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Like Jack Layton, she was selling optimism, what she liked to call “hope-mongering.”

She looked authentic, she looked real, she looked like a shot of energy, but most of all she looked like a fresh face, a warm Chinook on a winter day on the Prairie.

She vowed to raise Alberta’s corporate tax rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent, but that would merely move Alberta into the middle of the Canadian pack of the country’s corporate tax regimes, moving it in line with Ontario and Quebec.

She said she would not waste her time pushing the giant Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast and she said the Keystone XL pipeline had become a strictly U.S. domestic issue.

She promised a review of energy royalties, something that burned former PC premier Ed Stelmach, who all but reversed increases after it became apparent that a backlash had dried up PC donations and helped give rise to the Wildrose party on his right.

In sum, Prentice said the three measures meant vanishing investment, an exodus of jobs and damage to the free enterprise system which fueled Canada’s economic engine.

Notley, in essence, said Albertans knew better and she dismissed the self-serving shots across the bow from the province’s well-heeled and coddled business community.

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Tories take stock of defeat ‘THIS ISN’T A MASSIVE SHIFT TO THE LEFT . . .

THE NDP IN ALBERTA IS A VERY CENTRIST PARTY, VERY MODERATE, VERY PRO-BUSINESS. (NOTLEY’S) TO THE RIGHT OF PETER LOUGHEED. SHE’S NOT OUT OF STEP WITH THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE.’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Progressive Conservatives and pundits were left to take stock Wednesday of what led to the demise of a 44-year dynasty.

Lori Williams from Mount Royal University said there were several missteps by PC Leader Jim Prentice, who she said had a “tin ear politically.”

Prentice, who resigned after the defeat, was criticized harshly in the leadup to the campaign for suggesting Albertans needed to look in the mirror when placing blame for province’s financial woes.

Williams said Prentice also misread the potential of voter backlash when he called the election a year earlier than required by law.

But she suggested the real reason for the loss was the campaign of NDP Leader Rachel Notley, whom Williams sees as having the ability to connect with voters the same way former premier Ralph Klein did.

Notley was able to sell her message that the election was not about ideology, but about a vote for grassroots democracy and populism.

“This isn’t a massive shift to the left,” Williams said. “A lot of people who voted Wildrose last time voted NDP this time, and that’s because it’s a vote against elitism and entitlement.

“The NDP in Alberta is a very centrist party, very moderate, very probusiness. She’s to the right of Peter Lougheed. She’s not out of step with the history of the province.”

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2012 after a campaign in which interim leader David Swann asked people to vote for anybody but a Conservative.

Swann was the only Liberal to retain his seat.

Former PC leadership candidate Ric McIver was one of just 10 PC MLAs to secure re-election.

“I’m just Citizen McIver now,” said the former cabinet minister.

He said “mistakes were made,” but he wasn’t willing to discuss what they were until he’d had a few days to mull — and pick up his election signs.

“There’s obviously some decisions made that the public was unhappy about ... and we need to learn from that.

“We need to learn from a number of things and move forward with those learnings in mind. There’s a lot of mistakes I can think of, but I think I’m going to reflect for a couple of days.”

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Alberta PC Party leader Jim Prentice enters his headquarters to speak to party faithful in Calgary, Tuesday. Prentice has resigned as leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives. gressive Conservative party said he needs a few days to determine what went wrong.

“I don’t know if it’s (mistakes) or if Albertans simply thought it was time for a change and were willing to take a gamble on fairly radical change,” said Kelley Charlebois.

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don Dirks noted that the PCs and the Wildrose together took more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, He suggested it may be time to reunite conservatives in Alberta.

The NDP were also probably helped by collapse in Liberal support. The party’s popular vote fell to four per cent from just under 10 per cent in

New kids on the block: NDP government a diverse bunch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Several post-secondary students, a former school principal, a nurse and a yoga teacher.

Alberta’s new NDP government caucus is a mixed bag of professions and ages. Almost half are women and three are believed to be the first openly gay members of the Alberta legislature.

Ricardo Miranda, 38, immigrated to Canada from Nicaragua as a child with his family. He took a leave from his job as a flight attendant with Air Canada to work as a researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees before taking the plunge into politics.

While battling Calgary’s former police chief Rick Hanson in the riding of Calgary Cross, Miranda said being gay didn’t come up as a campaign issue.

And he never thought winning his seat Tuesday night would make it monumental.

“It never even crossed my mind that it could be a first. Because now, from what I understand, there are three,” Miranda said Wednesday.

“It speaks to the character of Alber-

Recount in southern Alberta riding after Wildrose beats PC by just 12 votes LETHBRIDGE — Election officials will be recounting votes in a southern

NDP win sends shock waves across Canada

tans and what they believe in.”

Kris Wells, with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta, said he thinks the three are the first openly LGBTQ members of the legislature, and that’s “good news.”

During her first news conference, premier-designate Rachel Notley told reporters that many of her 53 caucus members may be new to politics, but they all have skills she will draw on when she forms her first cabinet. She said what’s historic to her is the number of women.

“I’m so proud that they reflect the diversity of the province ... We have people from all walks of life.

“Albertans will look at our government and see themselves.”

A campaign biography for Deborah Drever, the winner in Calgary Bow, says she is a sociology student at Mount Royal University who lives with her grandmother. Debbie Jabbour in Peace River is a grandmother and psychologist.

Bruce Hinkley, the new representative for Wetaskiwin-Camrose, is a former school principal.

Danielle Larivee, a public health nurse, will be done with giving needles and visiting new moms at home after winning her seat in Lesser Slave Lake.

The 40-year-old concedes that many new NDP politicians have a “steep learning curve” ahead but will do their very best.

Shaye Anderson in Leduc-Beaumont is a Telus technician and union steward who plays rugby. He also has a long, bushy Duck Dynasty style beard that has been getting some plucky tugs on Twitter.

Brandy Payne said it’s funny how her job showing people how to do downward dog became a focus of her campaign in Calgary Acadia. The 36-year-old mother said she’s “much more than just a bendy yoga teacher.”

She studied journalism and was an active student political organizer.

“We do have a lot of fresh faces in the government,” Payne said.

“We’re all aware we’re new as MLAs. And everyone’s prepared to get into Edmonton and work really hard to prove to the folks of Alberta that they made the right choice.”

Alberta rural riding.

Wildrose candidate Dave Schneider beat incumbent Progressive Conservative Ian Donovan by just 12 votes in the riding of Little Bow on Tuesday night.

Little Bow returning officer Virginia Wauters says it’ll be a while before a definitive winner is declared.

She says the returning officer and

the election clerk will count the more

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — The historic election win by Alberta’s New Democrats has left British Columbia’s Opposition leader gushing and Premier Christy Clark searching for common ground.

Rachel Notley’s defeat of the morethan-40-year-long Alberta Conservative dynasty sent shock waves across Canada on Wednesday and a jolt of seismic proportions west of the Rockies.

“Albertans chose her,” said Clark.

“They made the choice and I think everybody around the country is going to respect that. She has every indication she wants to work with the rest of the premiers, whatever political stripe.”

Clark said she sees common ground on energy issues with Notley who favours the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline project but opposes plans for the Northern Gateway pipeline.

Clark said she and Notley believe pipelines, which would move oil products between the two provinces, must have vast community and government support before proceeding.

“What I’ve heard her say is she believes Alberta’s resources, if they come through B.C. from other places, need to acquire social license,” said Clark.

B.C.’s Opposition NDP Leader John Horgan said he was ecstatic over Notley’s win and he donned orange socks and an orange tie to celebrate.

Horgan, who is colour blind, said his wife helped him choose the orange NDP colours.

than 13,000 votes again.

After that, a candidate can also request a judicial recount.

Schneider had 4,803 votes and Ian Donovan with 4,791.

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The information — a rare insight into Khadr’s views in his own words — is contained in an extensive interview he did recently with a prison psychologist in support of his successful bid to be reclassified as a minimum security inmate.

“You shouldn’t distort things to appease others or to suit your own agenda. I don’t believe in al-Qaida killing innocents to further their belief,” Khadr says.

“I hope there won’t be this terrorism nonsense — I’m not going to get involved.”

Khadr’s critics, including the federal government, have long branded him as an unrepentant terrorist, arguing he has failed to categorically distance himself from violent jihad.

His ideology hasn’t changed, he says. Rather it has developed.

American soldiers captured Khadr, then 15, in the bombed-out ruins of a compound in Afghanistan following a brutal four-hour battle in July 2002. He had gaping wounds in his back, shrapnel in his eyes.

Khadr says he’s still not sure exactly what went down in the firefight that left U.S. special forces soldier Sgt. Chris Speer dead and Sgt. Layne Morris blinded in one eye.

“I heard Americans. I heard shooting. I was scared. I had a hand grenade. I threw it over my back and it exploded. I wanted to scare them away. I wasn’t thinking about the consequences. After that, I was shot,” he says.

“I have nightmares of the firefight. Sometimes I can’t run away in the dreams.”

Following his capture, the Toronto-born Khadr was taken to Bagram and then shipped to Guantanamo Bay, where he remained for a decade.

In 2010, he pleaded guilty to five war crimes before a discredited U.S. military commission, including murder for Speer’s death and spying. Even so, he says, he clings to the hope it wasn’t him that killed Speer.

“I still take responsibility,” he says. “If I did kill (Speer), that would be a very sad thing.”

The documents, filed in the Alberta Court of Appeal, are part of Khadr’s bid for bail while he appeals his war crimes conviction in the United States.

The court will rule Thursday whether to grant the federal government’s request to stay an earlier ruling that he should be allowed out. A ruling in his favour could see him leave prison for the first time in almost 13 years under several restrictions that include wearing a tracking device.

If he could do things over, Khadr says, he would have tried to challenge his father — an associate of the late terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden — who sent him as a 15-year-old to stay with the alQaida fighters in Afghanistan, initially to act as a translator for them.

Conservatives pass controversial anti-terror bill with help of Liberals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons.

The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third reading by a margin of 183 to 96, thanks to the Conservative government’s majority and the promised support of the third-party Liberals.

The legislation gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more power to thwart suspected terrorist plots — not just gather information about them.

It also increases the exchange of federal security information, broadens no-fly list powers and creates

a new criminal offence of encouraging someone to carry out a terrorist attack.

In addition, the bill makes it easier for the RCMP to obtain a peace bond to restrict the movements of suspects and extend the amount of time they can be kept in preventative detention.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has said the legislation is required to keep Canadians safe from jihadi-inspired attacks like those that claimed the lives of two soldiers in attacks just days apart last October.

Opponents of the bill have denounced the idea of allowing CSIS to go beyond gathering information to actively derailing suspected schemes.

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BRIEF Police investigate suspicious packages mailed to courts in Atlantic Canada ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Some court buildings in two Atlantic provinces dealt with suspicious packages on Wednesday, the latest in a series of similar incidents that have now touched three provinces.

Police in Newfoundland say a total of five suspicious packages were reviewed without incident.

In Nova Scotia, the RCMP said court buildings in Sydney, Yarmouth, Digby, Port Hawkesbury and Truro either had suspicious packages delivered or were intercepted before delivery on Wednesday.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Boyd Merrill says the packages in Newfoundland were reported in Grand Falls-Windsor, Gander, Stephenville, Clarenville and Grand Bank.

The RCMP say none of the packages have so far posed a risk to the public.

In Nova Scotia, the Mounties have assigned their major crimes unit to the case.

“At this time we do not believe these packages put the public at any risk, however we must remain vigilant and take all necessary precautions,” Insp. Larry Wilson of the major crimes said in a statement. “We will work closely with each affected police agency, partners and the Nova Scotia Department of Justice to advance this investigation.”

Woman convicted of committing indecent act on plane HALIFAX — A woman charged with committing an indecent act on a plane was found guilty Wednesday after a judge dismissed her claim that she was so drunk she had no recollection of what happened.

Judge Timothy Gabriel said he didn’t believe Alicia Elizabeth Lander’s testimony explaining her actions on the flight from Toronto to Halifax on Jan. 24, 2014.

Gabriel said Lander could clearly recall that she had 14 shots of whisky at the Toronto airport and on the flight, but did not recall pulling her underwear down on the plane, speaking to flight attendants or being taken away by police in Halifax.

“Her actions appear to have been deliberate,” Gabriel told the court. “There was no indication that she was in any type of diminished capacity. She was intoxicated.

“She simply chose to behave in a disgraceful manner.”

Gabriel also found her guilty of assaulting a police officer, committing an act of mischief and causing a disturbance that damaged property at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

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Ontario child porn investigation triggers international operation TORONTO — Dozens of suspects, including some as young as 12, have been arrested in connection with a child pornography investigation that began in southern Ontario and spanned many countries.

Details of the investigation — known as Project Hydra — were revealed by York Regional Police on Wednesday.

“Our project began with one child victim in York Region and through investigation has grown into a significant international project with thousands of potential victims,” said Insp. Tim Kelly. “The investigation is ongoing and continues to grow with every stone that is overturned.”

Police said 41 suspects have been arrested and 110 charges have been laid in North America. The charges include possession, distribution and accessing of child pornography. Seventeen of the suspects were arrested in Canada.

The investigation began in April last year after the Ottawa-based National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre told York Regional Police about images of child pornography that were uploaded from a residence in York Region.

After executing a search warrant at the residence, investigators learned that a young person had allegedly uploaded the images.

“The young person advised investigators that they had been chatting, sending and receiving child pornography with unknown people throughout the world via popular social networking websites and private chat rooms,” said Kelly.

“Investigators learned that the young person had been a victim of child exploitation and had been coerced into providing self exploited images to the unknown people online.”

That finding opened the door to a much larger operation.

Police contacted owners of the website used by the young person and identified suspects around the world who were exchanging child pornography through the use of cloud storage.

OTTAWA — An allegation made by the Crown in the earliest hours of Sen. Mike Duffy’s trial appears to be on shaky ground following the testimony of a pair of the prosecution’s own witnesses.

Crown attorney Mark Holmes said in his opening statement last month that Duffy and his wife had travelled on the public purse in July 2010 to meet with then-MP Dean Del Mastro and go to a dog show in Peterborough, Ont. “They arrange to acquire a puppy and drive home.

That is portrayed as public business,” Holmes said on April 7.

“It’s in effect a shopping trip.”

That particular travel claim earned Duffy a breach of trust and fraud charge — two of the 31 charges to which the suspended senator has pleaded not guilty.

But two of the witnesses subpoenaed by the Crown to talk about the Peterborough travel did not directly corroborate the “shopping trip” part of the allegation.

First, dog show organizer Louise Lang said that she had exchanged niceties with Duffy and his wife Heather at the dog show, but beyond that did not know what they had been up to.

On Wednesday, the court heard from former dog breeder Barbara Thompson, on the phone from New Brunswick. Thompson said that the Duffys had purchased a kerry blue terrier from her in January 2011, after coming to see the puppy the previous November.

“Heather and Mike Duffy never, ever got a dog from you at the Peterborough dog show?” asked defence lawyer Donald Bayne.

“No they didn’t,” responded Thompson.

“And you never, ever met them at Peterborough dog show?”

“No I did not,” she replied.

Canada funds Myanmar religious tolerance projects OTTAWA — Canada’s religious freedom ambassador is announcing $580,000 to help Myanmar take action against religious persecution.

Ambassador Andrew Bennett says the money will fund two projects, and it was announced on a lengthy

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A statement from Bennett’s office says they delivered a joint message on the need to improve religious freedom in order to advance Myanmar’s security, stability and democracy.

The contribution, while small, represents a large portion of Bennett’s annual $5-million budget, and comes as Canada is trying to re-engage with the resource-rich country that continues to emerge from half a century of totalitarian rule.

Myanmar has faced widespread criticism for its persecution of Rohingya Muslims.

Human Rights Watch has said that discriminatory policies have displaced 130,000 Rohingya Muslims, forcing them into closed camps.

“These projects will promote religious freedom through education and will help build Burma’s capacity to respond to violations of religious freedom,” the Canadian statement reads.

Burying nuclear waste near Lake Huron safest option, panel concludes TORONTO — A Canadian environmental assessment concludes burying hazardous nuclear material near the shore of Lake Huron in a deep underground bunker is the best way to deal with the waste.

The report on the proposed deep geological repository or DGR — released late Wednesday — finds little risk to the lake as multiple critics have argued.

The 430-page report concludes “the relative position of the proposed project within the spectrum of risks to the Great Lakes is a minor one, albeit one that demands strict attention and regulation.”

And it says the project “is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.”

The proposal by Ontario Power Generation calls for hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of socalled low and intermediate level nuclear waste to be buried 680 metres underground the bedrock at the Bruce nuclear plant near Kincardine, Ont. Proponents argue the rock is geologically stable and would provide a hermetic seal to prevent any radioactivity reaching the lake about 1.2 kilometres away for tens of thousands of years.

While more than 152 communities have condemned the plan, the panel rejected one big concern: that the repository could also become home to the most dangerous high-level waste: the spent nuclear fuel that powers the reactors.

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Late strike lifts Lightning over Habs JOHNSON’S GOAL WITH 1.1 SECONDS LEFT PUTS CANADIENS ON BRINK OF ELIMINATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lightning 2 Canadiens 1 TAMPA, Fla. — On the ice the Montreal Canadiens were out of sorts as the clock ticked away. After the puck went in the net, they stood still and stared at the video screens with blank stares of disbelief.

Tyler Johnson’s goal with 1.1 seconds left stunned the Canadiens, giving the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory in Game 3 Wednesday night and a three games to none lead in the second-round playoff series. After dominating play most of the night, Montreal faces elimination Thursday back at Amalie Arena.

“We played a hell of a game, had a lot of chances, put so many pucks at the net, hit some posts again,” centre Tomas Plekanec said. “It’s a bad way to lose.”

It was just about the worst way for the Habs to lose with their season essentially on the line. They outshot the Lightning 31-19, controlled the play and the puck, and were a mere moment from overtime and some time to regroup.

Instead, missed assignments by the defensive pair of Andrei Markov and P.K. Subban allowed Victor Hedman to find Johnson all alone in front for his eighth goal of these playoffs.

“It seemed like they had seven guys on the ice, to be honest with you,” Subban said. “Just looking around there were guys everywhere. But that’s the playoffs. It comes down to one bounce and all you need is one second to win a hockey game.”

It took just over a second for Montreal to lose its eighth straight game to Tampa Bay this season, a streak that has shown it’s very possible for one

team to have another’s number. But Wednesday night the Habs were the aggressors, giving off the desperation the Lightning expected given the situation.

After Alex Killorn scored 12 minutes in to give the Lightning the lead, the Habs put the pressure on goaltender Ben Bishop (30 saves), hit the post three times and had countless other chances to tie it. The Lightning endured a shot drought of 18 minutes 41 seconds, and in the third period Brendan Gallagher scored to make it 1-1.

Then the Lightning turned it on, and breakdowns led to one final chance. At that point the previous 59 minutes or so of Montreal domination didn’t matter much when Johnson’s shot got past goaltender Carey Price.

“I thought we deserved to win a hockey game,” Price said. “I didn’t come up with the save at the end of the game, so we got what we got now.”

Johnson was upset his goal even got reviewed because he didn’t think it was up against the buzzer.

“I knew when I jumped on the ice this would probably be the last shift of the period, but I didn’t realize when I was standing in front it was that close,” Johnson said. “It’s pretty cool that it was 1.1 (seconds left).”

Habs coach Michel Therrien said he did not want to point fingers on the game-winner but rather wanted to praise his players’ work ethic throughout.

“The commitment that they showed again tonight,” Therrien said, “I can’t ask for more.”

All the Habs would have liked was a chance in overtime, like they did before losing Game 1. After a 6-2 loss in Game 2, Wednesday night’s heartbreaker followed to leave players wondering what else they must do.

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Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens left wing Jacob De La Rose battle over the puck during third period of Game 3 NHL second round playoff action, Wednesday, in Tampa, Fla. The Lightning defeated the Canadiens 2-1.

“Right now we’re finding ways to lose games,” Gallagher said. “We’re playing good hockey, we’re doing everything we ask. We’re just coming out on the wrong side of things.”

That wrong side means facing elimination with a short turnaround in Game 4 Thursday. Subban said he and his teammates can’t dwell on the bounces that didn’t go their way or the ending.

“The good thing is we don’t have much time to think about it, so we’ve got to come back ready to keep our season alive,” Subban said.

Notes — David Desharnais returned to the Habs’ lineup after missing Game 2 with an illness. He replaced Brian Flynn. ... Injured Lightning forward Cedric Paquette (undisclosed) did not play in Game 3. Jonathan Drouin made his series debut on the fourth line.

Bjorkstrand named WHL player of the year PORTLAND WINTERHAWK IS SECOND EUROPEAN PLAYER TO WIN AWARD

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A penalty shot by New York Rangers left wing Carl Hagelin is caught by Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby during Game 4 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Wednesday, in Washington. The Capitals won 2-1.

Capitals take command of series with win over Rangers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals 2 Rangers 1 WASHINGTON — Back when he was 7, Andre Burakovsky tagged along to watch his father play in a professional hockey game in Sweden. The opposing goalie was none other than Henrik Lundqvist.

Burakovsky, now barely 20 and an NHL rookie with the Capitals, Burakovsky found himself facing Lundqvist, now the goalie for the Rangers, and the kid came through in a big way Wednesday night. Burakovsky scored his first two post-season goals and Braden Holtby saved a penalty shot, giving Washington a 2-1 victory over New York for a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The Capitals can close out the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers in the best-of-seven series and advance to the conference finals for the first time in Alex Ovechkin’s career by taking Game 5 in New York on Friday night.

“There’s no shock. It’s disappointment,” said Lundqvist, who led the Rangers to the Stanley Cup finals last season.

“They’re nothing really to figure out.

We just need to score.”

Burakovsky tied Game 4 in the second period, then put Washington ahead to stay 24 seconds into the third.

“He’s been a favourite goalie of (mine) since I grew up,” Burakovsky said about his countryman Lundqvist.

“I’ve been watching him my whole life.

It’s a pretty special moment.”

Not bad for a guy who scored only nine goals in the regular season — and none since Feb. 15 — and was limited to 53 games with Washington, either because he was scratched or banished to the minors.

Coach Barry Trotz said he told Burakovsky: “I’m not putting you back in the lineup ’til you crack a smile again. If I see you moping around the dressing room, moping around because you’re not playing, I will not put you in the lineup.”

Then, delivering the punch line, Trotz added: “And he’s always got a smile on his face now.”

Sure did Wednesday, particularly when Burakovsky was asked whether this was the highlight of his nascent career.

“I would say it’s up there, for sure,” he replied.

Might not have been had the Capitals not had Holtby protecting the net, finishing with 28 saves and lowering his goals-against average to 1.48 in these playoffs.

With 12 minutes left in regulation, Holtby flicked his glove to catch Carl Hagelin’s penalty shot and preserve the lead and help the Capitals win a fifth consecutive home game in the same post-season for the first time, according to STATS.

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CALGARY — Oliver Bjorkstrand missed out on one of the biggest days of his junior career, but he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to represent his country.

Bjorkstrand was awarded the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as the Western Hockey League player of the year on Wednesday in addition to winning the Bob Clarke Trophy as the league’s leading scorer in the regular season.

But when his name was called out at the WHL awards banquet, Bjorkstrand was in the Czech Republic representing Denmark at the world hoickey championship.

“I’m sorry I can’t be there today to accept these awards,” Oliver said Bjorkstrand in Bjorkstrand a video acceptance speech. “It means a lot to me. When I came into the league the first year, one of my goals was to be one of the top players in my second or third year, so the fact that I achieved the (Four) Broncos award means really a lot to me. It feels good that some of your hard work pays off.

“I’ve got to thank a lot of my teammates, especially Nic Petan and Paul Bittner, who I played a lot with this year. I really couldn’t have done it without them.”

The Columbus Blue Jackets prospect scored 63 goals and had 55 assists in 58 games for Portland in the regular season. He added 13 goals and 12 assists in 17 post-season games before the Winterhawks were eliminated by the Kelowna Rockets in the Eastern Conference final.

“You knew every time that Oliver was on the ice that something special was going to happen,” said Portland coach and general manager Jamie Kompon, who accepted both awards on Bjorkstrand’s behalf. “He’s got elite skill. He’s got an uncanny ability to always be around the puck. Only being the third Portland Winterhawk to win the award, it comes with a great honour.”

The other two Portland players to

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win the award were Perry Turnbull in 1979 and Steve Konowalchuk in 1992.

Bjorkstrand also became just the second European player to win the award after Sergei Varlamov accomplished the feat with the Swift Current Broncos in 1998.

Although Bjorkstrand didn’t play on Wednesday during Denmark’s 5-2 loss to Russia, he could still see action for the Danes when they play the United States on Friday, Norway on Saturday and Slovakia on Monday.

“He wants to prove to everyone that he can compete against men and compete against the next level in the NHL,” Kompon said. “He’s such a proud person and so proud of where he comes from. He didn’t want to miss this opportunity to represent his country.”

Brandon Wheat Kings forward Tim McGauley, who recorded 42 goals and 63 assists in 72 games in the regular season, was also up for the award.

While McGauley went home empty handed, his teammate Nolan Patrick won the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as the WHL rookie of the year.

Patrick finished with 30 goals and 26 assists in 55 games in his rookie season with the Wheat Kings, who will face the Rockets in the best-of-seven WHL final.

“It’s a huge honour,” Patrick said. “I can’t take all the credit. I played with some of the top players in the league this year. All those top guys, they all meant a lot throughout the year and I just tried to listen to them as much as I could and take as much advice from them and use it to my advantage.”

A pair of Seattle Thunderbirds also won awards as Shea Theodore was chosen as defenceman of the year, while Taran Kozun earned accolades as goaltender of the year.

Other awards were: Kelly McCrimmon, Wheat Kings (executive of the year); John Paddock, Regina Pats (coach of the year); Rourke Chartier, Kelowna Rockets (most sportsmanlike player); Taylor Vickerman, Tri-City Americans (humanitarian of the year); and Nick McBride, Prince Albert Raiders (scholastic player of the year).

The Kamloops Blazers were named the scholastic team of the year, the Rockets won the WHL marketing/business award, while Reagan Vetter was chosen as the top official of the year.

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Flames finding their scoring depth

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NHL PLAYOFFS

CALGARY — Secondary scoring helped the Calgary Flames inch back into their playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.

More of it is needed for the Flames to extend and win it.

Calgary’s top line of Sean Monahan, Jiri Hudler and Johnny Gaudreau have yet to score even-strength in their Western Conference semifinal, due in large part to Anaheim’s suffocating forward unit of Ryan Kesler, Matt Belesky and Jacob Silfverberg.

Gaudreau’s electrifying power-play goal with 19 seconds to go in Game 3 was the buzz Wednesday as it doused fires on several fronts for the Flames.

The Calder Trophy candidate’s wrist shot on a twoman advantage deadlocked the game and opened the door for Mikael Backlund to score the 4-3 overtime winner. Calgary avoided falling behind three games to none in the series.

Gaudreau’s goal also diffused fans’ resentment over a disallowed Sam Bennett equalizer earlier in the third period, which would have been debated for days in Calgary had the Flames lost.

But overlooked was Joe Colborne and Backlund scoring their first goals and fourth-liner Brandon Bollig collecting his second of this post-season.

“It’s up to us to step up and take some of the pressure off our top line,” Colborne said. “You can’t win a Stanley Cup with just one line going.”

The Flames trail two games to one in the best-ofseven conference semifinal. The Kesler line isn’t likely to let up on Monahan’s unit in Friday’s Game 4, as the Ducks will be hungry to steal a win at the

Scotiabank Saddledome and close it out Sunday at the Honda Centre.

Calgary’s top trio mustered a combined three shots on net in Game 3.

“Definitely need to try to outwork them a little bit more,” Gaudreau said of the Ducks’ line shadowing his.

“They’re really skilled defensively and do a great job in their own zone in blocking shots. We’ve got to make sure we’re getting pucks to the point and trying to get in front of the net, try to screen and get some dirty goals there.”

Calgary spent more time in the offensive zone in Game 3 than in the first two in Anaheim. The Flames got more shots away, but not necessarily through as Anaheim blocked 18 to Calgary’s nine.

Monahan, 20, and Hudler each scored 31 goals to lead the Flames this season, while 21-year-old Gaudreau piled up 64 points. Gaudreau’s power-play goal is their lone tally against Anaheim.

Flames coach Bob Hartley retains last line change as the home team Friday and can use it to separate his top line from Kesler’s. But Hartley also wants his firepower on the ice.

“They’re using Kesler basically every faceoff in the defensive zone,” the coach explained. “What do I do? Keep my best offensive unit on the bench because I don’t want them to play against Kesler?

We’re not going to do this.

“Best players want to be on the ice. Even though we have two very young players on our most productive unit, I’m not going to shy away from this.”

The bigger, stronger and more rested Ducks are favoured to advance from this series, but the Flames are a stubborn lot. Tuesday’s victory was their 13th of the season when trailing after two periods.

“I don’t think we were anywhere where we wanted to be after Game 2 or 1,” forward Mason Raymond said. “We’ve got a whole new sense of life and Calgary Flames hockey. We want to carry that into Game 4.”

Gaudreau knows enough Flames history to understand Calgary is hypersensitive to disallowed goals.

Bennett’s was reminder of one that still rankles today.

Current Flames assistant coach Martin Gelinas looked like he’d scored a possible game-winner for Calgary in Game 6 of the 2004 Stanley Cup final against Tampa Bay. The puck deflected off his skate onto the pad of goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin, and television angles suggested Khabibulin’s pad was behind the goal-line.

The game wasn’t stopped to review the play and the Lightning went on to win in double overtime, as well as Game 7 to claim the Cup. There are still red Flames jerseys out there with “It Was In” emblazoned on the back.

“I hear about it,” Gaudreau said.

“That would have been a big topic today. Thankfully we tied the game and found a way to win it in overtime.”

Notes: Anaheim practised Wednesday in Banff, Alta., in the mountains west of Calgary . . . Hartley’s response to the daily question of how close Flames captain Mark Giordano (torn bicep) is to returning for this playoffs series was “long term.”

Buehrle, Blue Jays beat Yankees in rubber match

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New York Yankees’ Jose Pirela slides into second for a double as Blue Jays’ Devon Travis can’t make the out during third inning American League baseball action in Toronto, Wednesday. has gone deep in each of his last four starts and now has seven homers on the season.

“Right now I’m getting good counts and getting good pitches to hit,” Martin said. “I know how hard this game is and right now I feel good up there.”

Yankees starter CC Sabathia (0-5) was pulled with one out in the seventh inning. He allowed four earned runs, nine hits and two walks while striking out four.

The fifth straight loss matched the longest singleseason losing skid of his career (2005).

“I’m just good enough to lose right now,” Sabathia said.

The Blue Jays tacked on an insurance run in the

eighth inning when Colabello scored on a two-out triple by Ryan Goins. Toronto outhit New York 12-7.

Notes: Announced attendance was 21,312 with the roof open at Rogers Centre. The game took two hours 30 minutes to play. ... The Blue Jays will get a day off Thursday before welcoming the Boston Red Sox to town for a three-game series. Right-hander Aaron Sanchez (2-2, 4.62 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday’s opener against Boston southpaw Wade Miley (1-3, 7.15). ... Before the game, the Yankees put infielder Gregorio Petit on the 15-day disabled list because of a bruised right hand and activated utility man Jose Pirela from the DL. Petit was hit by a pitch on Tuesday night.

STORY FROM PAGE B1 Canada rallies from three-goal deficit to down Sweden at worlds NHL: Going to score

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 6 Sweden 4 PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Tyler Ennis and his Canadian teammates have time to savour their comeback victory over Sweden at the world hockey championship.

Ennis’s power-play goal at 13:31 of the third period proved to be the winner as Canada defeated Sweden 6-4 on Wednesday, rallying from a 3-0 firstperiod deficit. The Canadians don’t play again until Saturday when they face off against France.

“We talked in between periods and knew we could do a lot better,” the Buffalo Sabres forward. “It wasn’t the start we were looking for.

“They took it to us but in the second we started playing the body a lot more.”

Ennis said the two-day break is a welcome one.

“Yeah, it comes at a good time,” Ennis said. “It gives us time to clean up a few things.”

Patrick Wiercioch and Tyler Seguin also had third-period goals for Canada (4-0-0), which remains atop the Group A standings four points ahead of Sweden (2-1-1) and Switzerland (2-0-2). The Swiss dropped a 2-1 overtime decision to Latvia on Wednesday.

Seguin had the insurance marker at 18:10 after Wiercioch made it 4-4 at 10:24 as Canada outshot Sweden 39-32.

“We had a pretty much big wakeup call in the first,” Seguin said. “A lot

of guys were talking . . . and we put it all together and came away with three points.”

Swedish forward Filip Forsberg said the Canadians outplayed his team after the first.

“Obviously our first period was really good, but after that, Canada turned it up and we sat back a little too much and let them come attack us,” said Forsberg. “That’s not going to cut it against this good of a team.

“That was the biggest thing. They’re a good team, but so are we. It was a good game.”

Sean Courturier, Tyler Hall and Aaron Ekblad also scored for Canada, which had 11 players register points in the game. Hall is tied with Forsberg for the tournament lead in goals (five) and Russian Yevgeni Dadnov for the overall scoring lead (eight points).

Canadian team captain Sidney Crosby (four goals, three assists) is just one point behind Hall and Dadnov.

Forsberg, Victor Rask, Anton Lander and Oscar Moller scored for Sweden, which faces Germany on Thursday.

Lander opened the scoring at 5:06 of the first before Rask made it 2-0 at 17:21. Forsberg then scored just 28 seconds later as Sweden outshot Canada 14-5 in the period.

Ekblad scored Canada’s first goal of the game at 6:43 of the second. Hall made it a one-goal contest at 11:27 before Courturier tied it at 14:23.

Moller put Sweden back ahead 4-3 at 15:19.

GIRL’S RUGBY LACOMBE — The Notre Dame Cougars senior girls crushed Lacombe 49-7 during Central Alberta High School Rugby action in Lacombe on Wednesday.

Sarah Geisbrecht and Kate Jensen both scored two tries for Notre Dame while Erika Lefley, Alyssa Reid and

Leah Brunner scored one try each.

CJ Stephens and Kim Mickelson both scored a try and added a convert.

Notre Dame hosts the Cougars Classic this weekend, playing Sturgeon in the first game at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Collicutt West Field.

Hagelin broke in alone and Capitals defenceman Mike Green, chasing from behind, first poked at the left wing with his stick, then brought him down. When Holtby snatched the penalty shot, fans responded with earsplitting yells of “Holt-bee! Holt-bee!” and Green skated over from the bench area to give his goalie an appreciative tap with his stick.

“You go in there,” Hagelin said, “thinking you’re going to score.”

As for whether Holtby knew how Hagelin would try to get the puck past him, Holtby said: “Not really. I was just trying to be patient. ... Try not to think too much. Just react.”

The only goal allowed by Holtby over the past two games was scored

by Derick Brassard a little more than six minutes into the second period Wednesday, making it 1-0 with assists from Martin St. Louis and Rick Nash, neither of whom has a goal in this series. But New York’s lead didn’t last very long, thanks to Burakovsky, a firstround draft pick in 2013, who joined Evgeny Kuznetsov as a Capitals rookie making his mark on these playoffs.

Kuznetsov has four goals, including the go-ahead score in Game 7 against the New York Islanders in the first round.

“We’re pretty fortunate,” Trotz said.

“We’ve got two young guys that have a lot of ability. They have a lot of confidence in their ability.”

This was the Rangers’ 11th consecutive playoff game decided by one goal, extending an NHL record that dates to last season.

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Blue Jays 5 Yankees 1 Toronto pitcher Mark Buehrle reached a personal milestone last month with his 200th career victory.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was just as excited for him after his latest win on Wednesday night.

Buehrle picked up his first win over the New York Yankees since 2004 — a stretch of 12 straight losing decisions — in Toronto’s 5-1 victory at Rogers Centre.

“He got the monkey off his back tonight,” Gibbons said.

Buehrle (4-2) worked five innings and allowed six hits, one earned run and a walk while striking out three. Roberto Osuna, Aaron Loup and Brett Cecil provided scoreless relief the rest of the way as Toronto improved to 14-15.

After the game, Buehrle was asked if the victory was meaningful.

“It is because I finally beat them,” he said. “I guess friends and family (can) quit wearing me out, and media. But other than that, it’s another win. It’s frustrating I haven’t been able to beat them more, especially now being in their division. We play them a lot of times so that’s frustrating.

“But it’s another win and now I’ll get ready for my next start.”

Russell Martin homered for Toronto and Chris Colabello had his first career four-hit game as the Blue Jays took the rubber game of the three-game series.

The Yankees, who lead the American League East division standings, fell to 17-11.

Buehrle has been incredibly consistent over his long career. He has thrown at least 200 innings in each of the last 14 seasons and has made 466 starts without a stint on the disabled list.

He entered the game having lost 14-of-15 career decisions to the Yankees for a .067 winning percentage, the worst for any active pitcher against another club.

“He was just mixing it up very well,” Martin said of Buehrle’s effort. “When he’s unpredictable, that’s when he’s good.”

New York scored its lone run in the first inning.

Alex Rodriguez doubled to move Chris Young to third base and Mark Teixeira drove him in with a grounder to the right side of the infield.

Ezequiel Carrera had a two-run single in the second inning and Martin, a Toronto native who grew up in Chelsea, Que., hit a solo shot in the sixth. He

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Two hundred and forty-three pages can’t take the air out of Deflategate (A phone rings. Tom Brady rolls over lazily in his custom hammock, hand-woven from snow leopard hair, on the beach at The Secret Island For Rich People. He recognizes the custom ringtone: It is the theme from The Pink Panther. He picks up.

“They got us, Tommy. They figured out we did it.”

“You’re kidding. They did?”

“Well, they found that it was more probable than not. Oh, and I should probably apologize for some text messages.”

Tom Brady hangs up, adjusts his fedora and sunglasses, rolls over, and goes back to sleep to the lullaby of the soft, gentle wash of the waves.)

Finally, we probably know what happened.

Finally, the mystery BRUCE has probably been ARTHUR solved. Ted Wells spent four months working his independent investigation of Deflategate, and it’s a doozy — 243 pages, exhaustively detailed, filled with evidence and timelines and texts of Patriots employees insulting Tom Brady. The employees were not very good at insulting Tom Brady.

Patriots locker room attendant Jim McNally: Tom sucks...im going make that next ball a f----- balloon Patriots equipment assistant John Jastremski: Talked to him last night.

He actually brought you up and said you must have a lot of stress trying to get them done ...

McNally: F--- tom ... make sure the pump is attached to the needle ... f----watermelons coming Jastremski: So angry McNally: The only thing deflating sun ... is his passing rating McNally seems to be bargaining for cash and new shoes in exchange for deflating footballs, since as Jastremski puts it, “figured u should something since he gives u nothing.” McNally called himself “the deflator,” which as secret nicknames go could be improved upon. He says “im not going to espn........yet.”

These are definitely the kind of disciplined, sophisticated operators that you want to probably cheat with, as part of a high-stakes sports franchise worth billions and under scrutiny. McNally called himself the deflator before the season started, by the way.

Anyway, the Wells Report interviewed everyone, and found some ... discrepancies. Like, discrepancies you could drive a Vince Wilfork through.

The Patriots used underinflated footballs during the AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts, and once a linebacker for the Colts noticed, the investigations began. The Wells Report found that New England’s explanation that air pressure did it was not true, and coach Bill Belichick’s explanation that the balls might have been overinflated due to “vigorous rubbing” didn’t float, either.

McNally was interviewed after the game by NFL Security, and again by the investigation. It was not airtight.

INSIDER

“With respect to his decision to use the bathroom, McNally claimed that he has used the bathroom near the field entrance while in possession of the game balls many times. He said that on the day of the AFC Championship Game, he entered the bathroom, dropped the ball bags to his left, and used the urinal to his right. That bathroom, however, does not contain a urinal.”

Smooth, Jimmy.

The Wells Report didn’t believe McNally when he said he often takes the balls without the officials being OK with it, and that he often took the balls into that bathroom. (Gross, Jim.) Investigators didn’t believe McNally and Jastremski’s claim that the text messages were only jokes, and referred to nothing in the real world. They didn’t believe that Brady’s frequent phone conversations with Jastremski, which increased after the Deflategate broke, were a coincidence. They didn’t believe it when Brady claimed not to know McNally’s name, especially since Jastremski and McNally mentioned that Brady knew McNally.

Oh, and the investigation said the Patriots weren’t fully co-operative, amid a pile of other probable lies. It mentions that Belichick asked Brady point blank whether he knew anything about tampering with footballs, and Brady told him, “Absolutely not.” And Belichick believed him.

If you read this report and are not an unreasonable person, you would conclude that based on the evidence, Tom Brady cheated, Tom Brady lied, the guys Tom Brady cheated with lied, and they didn’t tell the coach. The organization has tried to cover it up, and won the Super Bowl not because they cheated in this particular way but because the Seattle Seahawks threw on first-and-goal to a guy who caught 11 balls last season.

They didn’t need to cheat like this, but they did, because it was worth it to them. It wasn’t exactly a crack operation, but it got a job done.

When asked about Deflategate by Julie Loncich of WBZ in Boston, Rob Gronkowski apparently just flexed, over and over. He’ll be president, one day.

And the result: Brady maybe gets suspended a game, the doofuses get suspended or fired, there are fines.

None of it changes anything, in the big picture, except that a new form of cheating will have to be devised. Maybe magnets or something.

But if these doofuses could pull off cheating for over a year, get caught in obvious lies, leave text message evidence, impede NFL investigators, and come out of it with a report that cannot definitively say they cheated, then it raises some questions.

First: Why wouldn’t you cheat, any way you could?

Second: Who else is cheating, with their doofuses, trying to gain an angle in this merciless league? Third: Imagine if the NFL spent this much time and effort investigating how it handles concussions, and tried for the truth.

What a world that would be.

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Rory McIlroy gets ready for his tee shot on the first hole during a practice round for The Players Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Stage set for McIlroy, Spieth rivalry at Sawgrass

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy remembers a 19-year-old Texan who was polished for his age and didn’t appear to have a glaring weakness in his game. That was the Texas Open two years ago, the first time he played with Jordan Spieth.

They are together again in The Players Championship under different circumstances.

There is talk of a new rivalry in golf between McIlroy and Spieth, partly because of age, mainly because of recent results.

McIlroy is No. 1 in the world on the strength of winning two of the last three majors and a pair of World Golf Championships. He already has two wins this year. Spieth won that other major — a wire-to-wire victory in the Masters — and moved up to No. 2. He also has two victories this year.

The PGA Tour didn’t let the opportunity pass to put them together for two rounds in its premier championship, which starts Thursday at the TPC Sawgrass. Even if it’s a budding rivalry, it’s one-sided. Spieth would be the first to concede that.

“He is as far ahead of me as I am with the next eight guys,” Spieth said, referring to the gap between No. 1 and No. 2 in the world ranking. “So with that being said, it’s kind of anybody’s game to get up and make it interesting with him. I just happen to be the one that occupies No. 2 right now.”

McIlroy responded to all the hype over Spieth and his green jacket by winning the Match Play Championship last week in San Francisco. He provided another answer to the chatter about a rivalry by practically yawning.

“Last year it was Rickie (Fowler).

This year it’s Jordan, might be someone else, could have been Tiger,” McIlroy said. “There’s been four or five rivalries over the past year. So it doesn’t really do anything for me.”

He then borrowed a line that Jack Nicklaus once told Tiger Woods. Both had a revolving door of rivals over the years.

“As long as I’m one of them, the other can be whoever it is,” McIlroy said.

“I don’t mind.”

He would appear to be the one to chase for years, though McIlroy is prone to go into mini-slumps. Think back to one year ago at The Players Championship, when Woods was still No. 1 in the world. Now he’s at No. 125 from not playing well and not playing much because of injuries.

Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar were next in line, and all of them had a mathematical chance to be No. 1 at The Players.

McIlroy was No. 11. Two weeks later, he won the BMW PGA Championship and was on his way.

But if there is an advantage this week, it might go to Spieth. He was tied for the lead going into the final round in his Players Championship debut and watched Martin Kaymer put on a clinic — and make an unlikely par putt on the island green at No. 17 — to win at Sawgrass.

McIlroy didn’t make a cut at The Players until his fourth try. He tied for sixth last year after closing with a 66, though he was never in contention.

“I heard something that it sort of tests everyone and favours no one,” McIlroy said of the Pete Dye design.

He has adopted a conservative style the past two years and is making progress with a pair of top-10 finishes.

“It’s always hard for me when I can’t get driver in my hand, because I feel like when I get driver in my hand I can give myself an advantage over the rest of the field,” McIlroy said.

Spieth had a share of the 54-hole lead in back-to-back big events last year — the Masters and The Players — and didn’t convert either. The Masters didn’t bother him nearly as much as Sawgrass because he felt Bubba Watson beat him in Augusta, and equipped with the experience, he failed to use it at The Players.

In both cases, Spieth doesn’t see it as a chance to atone for losses. What carried him at the Masters this year was the memory of recent form — a victory at Innisbrook, a runner-up in San Antonio and a playoff loss in Houston.

And if he gets in position at Sawgrass?

“I think I’ll be looking back at this year’s Masters to try and draw confidence from,” he said, “than I will trying to get anything back at this point from last year.”

Sinclair keeps her focus on the job as World Cup looms

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Not a lot rattles Christine Sinclair.

Not even the eyes of a nation.

Sinclair is doubling as striker and as ambassador for Canada when her native country hosts the Women’s World Cup starting in June. No doubt there’s mounting pressure, but so far Sinclair isn’t letting it get to her.

“I really haven’t spent too much time thinking about the actual World Cup; everything that I’m focused on is the preparation for it,” she said. “I’m sure as the tournament gets closer and closer the hype and the excitement will build, but it’s all about preparation right now.”

The response is typical of the softspoken and unassuming 31-year-old, who would rather let her play on the pitch speak for her.

Sinclair is probably America’s bestknown non-American women’s soccer player. She was on the University of Portland’s two NCAA championship teams and now plays for the Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League.

But in Canada she’s a celebrity — albeit a shy one. She ranks behind only Abby Wambach among active players for international goals with 153 (Wambach has the record with 178), and needs five more to match Mia Hamm for second on the all-time list.

“I think her biggest asset, what everyone relates to, is just how humble she is. Regardless of how much stardom she could have, she just wants to play football, and keep it simple and be with her team,” Canada coach John Herdman says. “She’s not interested in going out and doing the glitzy sort-of celebrity things.”

Sinclair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, and from the start it seemed natural that she would wind up in Portland: uncles Bruce and Brian Grant

both played for the NASL’s Portland Timbers. Her family rented a home from Clive Charles, who also played for the Timbers and later became the well-respected coach of both the men’s and women’s teams at Portland.

Her first year with the Pilots in 2001 she led all Division I freshman with 23 goals. As a sophomore she tallied 26 goals and led Portland to the NCAA national championship, scoring twice in the 2-1 double-overtime victory over Santa Clara.

Her senior year she scored NCAA record 39 goals, including a pair in a 4-0 victory over UCLA for a second national title.

Charles, who died of cancer in 2003, remains an influence.

“One thing he taught me is to respect the game. He used to say, every time I’d go out, ’You better earn your right to play, because other players are fighting for the exact same thing that you are,”’ she said. “That’s something I’ll never forget.”

Sinclair has been a standout on the Canadian national team since 2000, when she led it with three goals in the annual Algarve Cup tournament in Portugal. She a veteran of three World Cups and two Olympics.

Canada surpassed expectations with a bronze medal at the 2012 London Games. Sinclair set a record with six goals in the tournament, including three goals in a heartbreaking 4-3 semifinal loss to eventual gold medallist United States, to win the tournament’s Golden Boot.

“What she brings on and off the pitch is very similar. She’s just a quiet achiever, a consistent performer,” said Herdman said. “She ticks all the boxes, on the physical side and the mental side every single day. She’s a high achiever and wants to consistently find ways to improve and stay at the top of the game.”

About the only time Sinclair has

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

In this April 27, 2015 photo, Canadian national women’s soccer team goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc, left, and captain Christine Sinclair joke around after the roster for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup was announced in Vancouver. Sinclair is doubling as both striker and ambassador for Canada when her native country hosts the Women’s World Cup starting in June. No doubt there’s mounting pressure, but so far Sinclair isn’t letting it get to her. made a demonstrative fuss was in that semifinal match against the Americans at Old Trafford. She was fined and suspended four games by soccer’s international governing body for “displaying unsporting behaviour toward match officials.”

“We feel like we didn’t lose, we feel like it was taken from us,” Sinclair said moments after the final whistle.

“It’s a shame in a game like that that was so important, the ref decided the result before it started.”

Canada’s surprising London finish — as well as the home-field advantage — is fueling Sinclair and her teammates going into the World Cup.

“I think that the London experience gave us a taste of winning, and you don’t want to let that go,” she said.

Canada is ranked No. 8 in the world as the World Cup looms. The home team is in Group A, along with China, New Zealand and the Netherlands, and will open the tournament against China in Edmonton, Alberta on June 6.

The final is set for July 5 in Vancouver, Columbia.

Sinclair will have a starring role, and she’s OK with that. Canada Post recently unveiled a postage stamp commemorating the event that includes Sinclair and teammate Kadeisha Buchanan.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports

B4

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015

Hockey

Today

● 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 rugby: Notre Dame Cougar Classic tournament at Notre Dame and Collicutt West, girls and boys games starting at 10 a.m. ● 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

● High school rugby: Notre Dame Cougar Classic tournament at Notre Dame and Collicutt West; girls and boys games starting at 9 a.m., bronze- and goal-medal games at 10:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. ● 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 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, 6 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Atlanta at Washington, TBD x-Monday, May 18: Washington at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 4, Brooklyn 2 Cleveland 4, Boston 0 Chicago 4, Milwaukee 2 Washington 4, Toronto 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 1, Houston 1 Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 Wednesday, May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 Friday, May 8: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Houston at L.A. Clippers, TBD x-Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBD

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, New Orleans 0 Houston 4, Dallas 1 L.A. Clippers 4, San Antonio 3 Memphis 4, Portland 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 1, Cleveland 1 Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 Wednesday, May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 Friday, May 8: Cleveland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 10: Cleveland at Chicago, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: Chicago at Cleveland, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD x-Sunday, May 17: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD Washington 1, Atlanta 1

Golden State 1, Memphis 1 Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Tuesday, May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90 Saturday, May 9: Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Golden State at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Memphis at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, TBD x-Sunday, May 17: Memphis at Golden State, TBD

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Activated RHP Javy Guerra from the 15-day DL and designated him for assignment. Announced RHP Jeff Samardzija has dropped his appeal of a five-game suspension for his involvement in a bench-clearing brawl against Kansas City on April 23.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated RHP Greg Holland from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Yohan Pino to Omaha (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Activated INF Jose Pirela from the 15-day DL. Placed INF Gregorio Petit on the 15-day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Activated OF Coco Crisp from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Craig Gentry to Nashville.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Michael Kohn to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Williams Perez from Gwinnett.

CHICAGO CUBS — Activated RHP Justin Grimm from the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Matt Szczur from Iowa (PCL). Optioned OF Junior Lake to Iowa. Designated RHP Anthony Varvaro for assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Added LHP Chris Rusin to the active roster as the 26th man for the second game of their doubleheader against Arizona.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Joe Wieland from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned LHP Daniel Coulombe to Oklahoma City.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Selected the contract of INF/OF Steve Lombardozzi from Indianapolis (IL).

Placed OF Andrew Lambo on the 15-day D.L. American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed C Carlos Ramirez.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed OF Jordan Hurtt.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association

ATLANTA DREAM — Re-signed G Matee Ajavon.

Signed C Martha Alwal to a training camp contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Claimed CB Alfonzo Dennard off waivers from New England.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms with LBs Derek Akunne and Derrick Malone, DT Chris Brown, WRs Marquez Clark, Shane Wynn and Joshua Stangby, OL Cody Clay, Ss Terell Floyd, Robenson Therezie and Damian Parms, TE Beau Gardner, DTs Warren Herring and Joey Mbu, CBs Mike Lee, Kevin White and Jordan Ozerities, T Eric Lefeld, C Valerian Ume-Ezeoke and RB Terron Ward.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with WR Kevin White and DL Eddie Goldman on four-year contracts.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with S Clayton Geathers, DT David Parry, RB Josh Robinson, LB Amarlo Herrera and OL Denzelle Good.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed OL Jarvis Harrison.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with DBs Eric Rowe and Randall Evans and DE Brian Mihalik on four-year contracts.

HOCKEY American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed C Dominic Turgeon to an amateur tryout contract.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Toledo LW A.J. Jenks for one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a game on May 5.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined New England MF Jermaine Jones an undisclosed amount for violating the policy regarding hands to the head/face/neck of an opponent and for instigating/escalating an incident and New York F Anatole Abang for escalating an incident and New England goalkeepers coach Remi Roy for his involvement in the incident in a game on May 2.

Hartley, Vigneault, Laviolette finalists for Jack Adams Award NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Bob Hartley isn’t taking any credit for his Jack Adams nomination.

The Calgary Flames coach, Nashville’s Peter Laviolette and Alain Vigneault of the New York Rangers were named finalists on Wednesday for the award given to the NHL head coach who has “contributed the most to his team’s success.”

Hartley led the Flames to a 20-point gain in standings points over 2013-14 — the highest jump among Western Conference teams and third-highest in the League overall — in capturing their first playoff berth since 2009.

“I’m working with a great bunch of partners — I’m working for great owners, great managers. I have a great team,” said Hartley.

“I’m having fun. I love this city. I’ve said it before, I really hope this is my last stop. It’s not a trophy that’s going to change my mindset or change my personality or my approach to the game.”

Calgary was among the NHL’s best late-game teams, tying for first place in overtime wins (nine), ranking second in third-period goal differential (+31), third in wins when trailing after two periods (10) and fifth in points percentage when leading after 40 minutes (.923, 24-1-1).

The Flames also topped the league in blocked shots with 1,557.

Hartley is a first-time Jack Adams Award finalist.

“Coach of the year, or just being a nominee, it’s a true reflection of our team,” Hartley said.

“A coach, you can stand on the ice with your whistle or you can stand behind the bench and you can have the nicest suit, but if you don’t have any players, you’re not going to get anything accomplished.

“Everything that we’ve done as a team this year, the credit goes to our players.”

The three finalists were chosen by members of the NHL Broadcasters’ Association. The winner will be revealed June 24 during the league’s award ceremony in Las Vegas.

Laviolette is a Jack Adams Award finalist for the second time. He led the Predators to 47 wins, nine more than last season, and a playoff berth for the first time since 2012.

Vigneault guided the Rangers to the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top regular-season club, establishing franchise records for wins and points.

The Rangers also led the NHL and set club records for road wins (28) and points (58) — only the 2005-06 Red Wings have won more games as visitors in a season.

Vigneault is a Jack Adams Award finalist for the fourth time, tying St. Louis’ Ken Hitchcock for the most among active head coaches. He won the trophy in 2006-07 with Vancouver and finished runner-up with Montreal in 1999-2000 and Vancouver in 2010-11.

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

Scoring Leaders 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

G 10 13 13 6 9 2 10 7 10 5 6 7 7

A 18 13 12 15 11 18 9 12 8 13 11 9 9

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

2015 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL Canada 4 4 0 0 Sweden 4 2 1 0 Switzerland 4 2 0 2 Czech Rep. 3 1 0 1 France 3 1 0 0 Germany 3 1 0 0 Austria 3 0 1 0 Latvia 4 0 1 0

L GF GA Pt 0 28 8 12 1 24 13 8 0 8 7 8 1 12 14 4 2 4 5 3 2 2 12 3 2 5 11 2 3 6 19 2

3. Sweden, Fi.Forsberg 1 (Ekman-Larsson, Klingberg) 17:49 Penalty — Savard Cda (hooking) 2:23.

Second Period 4. Canada, Ekblad 2 (Burns, O’Reilly) 6:43 5. Canada, Hall 3, 11:27 (penalty shot) 6. Canada, Couturier 2 (Ekblad) 14:23 7. Sweden, Moller 1 (Sjogren, Ekman-Larsson) 15:19 Penalties — Kronwall Swe, MacKinnon Cda (roughing) 16:09, Klingberg Swe (hooking - penalty shot) 11:27.

Third Period 8. Canada, Wiercioch 1 (Eberle, Crosby) 10:24 9. Canada, Ennis 1 (Hall, Spezza) 13:31 (pp) 10. Canada, Seguin 1, 18:19 (en) Penalty — Granburg Swe (hooking) 12:04.

Shots on goal Canada 5 19 15 — 39 Sweden 14 9 9 — 32 Goal — Canada: M.Smith (W, 3-0-0); Sweden: A.Nilsson (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Canada: 1-1; Sweden: 0-1.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals

GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt U.S. 3 3 0 0 0 11 4 9 Russia 4 3 0 0 1 18 11 9 Belarus 3 2 0 1 0 10 5 7 Slovakia 4 1 2 0 1 11 8 7 Finland 3 2 0 0 1 9 5 6 Norway 4 1 0 0 3 6 15 3 Denmark 4 0 0 1 3 6 17 1 Slovenia 3 0 0 0 3 6 12 0 Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Tuesday’s results At Prague France 2 Austria 0 Switzerland 1 Germany 0 At Ostrava Belarus 5 Denmark 1 Slovakia 3 Slovenia 1 Wednesday’s results At Prague Canada 6 Sweden 4 Latvia 2 Switzerland 1 (OT) At Ostrava Norway 3 Slovakia 2 Russia 5 Denmark 2

Lightning 2, Canadiens 1 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Killorn 3 (Stamkos) 12:00.

Penalties — Plekanec Mtl (tripping) 7:24, Emelin Mtl (interference) 15:50, Filppula TB (holding) 18:56.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 2. Montreal, Gallagher 2 (Gilbert, Pateryn) 10:03.

3. Tampa Bay, Johnson 8 (Hedman, Palat) 19:58.

Penalties — Stamkos TB (tripping) 4:22, Pacioretty Mtl (tripping) 7:24.

Shots on goal Montreal 8 8 15 — 31 Tampa Bay 6 3 10 — 19 Goal — Montreal: Price (L, 4-5-0); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 7-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 0-2; Tampa Bay: 0-3.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-3) N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (NY Rangers wins series 4-1) Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) (Washington wins series 4-3) WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Minnesota wins series 4-2)

Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-0)

Capitals 2, Rangers 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Alzner Wash (tripping) 1:36, Brouwer Wash (roughing) 12:42, Sheppard NYR (roughing) 12:42.

Second Period 1. NY Rangers, Brassard 5 (St. Louis, Nash) 6:12.

2. Washington, Burakovsky 1 (Beagle, Gleason) 16:29.

Penalties — Moore NYR (goaltender interference) 9:52.

Third Period 3. Washington, Burakovsky 2 (unassisted) :24.

Penalties — Gleason Wash (fighting) 2:44, Glass NYR (fighting) 2:44, Sheppard NYR (roughing) 2:44, Green Wash (roughing) 2:44, Wilson Wash (misconduct) 2:44, Orpik Wash (holding) 4:33, Brassard NYR (slashing) 4:33.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 13 7 9 — 29 Washington 8 14 8 — 30 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 5-4-0); Washington: Holtby (W, 6-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)NY Rangers: 0-1; Washington: 0-1.

Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Calgary wins series 4-2) SECOND ROUND Division Finals EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) (Tampa Bay leads series 3-0) Friday, May 1 Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 1, 2OT Sunday, May 3 Tampa Bay 6 Montreal 2 Wednesday, May 6 Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 1 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 3-1) 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 Washington 2 NY Rangers 1 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

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.

Friday’s games At Prague Austria vs. Czech Republic, 8:15 a.m.

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

At Ostrava Norway vs. Slovenia, 8:15 a.m.

Denmark vs. U.S., 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s summary Canada 6, Sweden 4 First Period 1. Sweden, A.Lander 1 (L.Eriksson, Granburg) 5:06 2. Sweden, V.Rask 1 (Klefbom, El.Lindholm) 17:21

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 summaries

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal wins series 4-2)

Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2)

Group B

Chicago 4 Minnesota 1 Tuesday, May 5 Chicago 1 Minnesota 0 Thursday, May 7 Chicago at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

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

NHL Scoring Leaders Corey Perry, Ana Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi Tyler Johnson, TB Duncan Keith, Chi Zach Parise, Minn Patrick Sharp, Chi Jonathan Toews, Chi Alex Ovechkin, Wash Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Nikita Kucherov, TB Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Ryan Kesler, Ana Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Jakob Silfverberg, Ana Sami Vatanen, Ana Marian Hossa, Chi Filip Forsberg, Nash

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Chicago leads series 3-0) Friday, May 1 Chicago 4 Minnesota 3 Sunday, May 3

G 6 2 6 7 2 4 4 4 4 0 6 3 3 3 3 2 2 0 4

A 8 10 5 3 8 5 5 5 4 8 1 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 2

Pts 14 12 11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 17 11 .607 Tampa Bay 15 13 .536 Toronto 14 15 .483 Baltimore 12 13 .480 Boston 13 15 .464

GB — 2 3 1/2 3 1/2 4

Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 17 10 .630 17 11 .607 15 13 .536 10 14 .417 10 16 .385

GB — 1/2 2 1/2 5 1/2 6 1/2

Houston Los Angeles Oakland Texas Seattle

West Division W L Pct 18 10 .643 13 15 .464 12 17 .414 11 16 .407 11 17 .393

GB — 5 6 1/2 6 1/2 7

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Baltimore 1 Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3 Cleveland 10, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 6 Minnesota 13, Oakland 0 Texas 11, Houston 3 L.A. Angels 4, Seattle 3 Thursday’s Games Oakland (Pomeranz 1-2) at Minnesota (Nolasco 1-1), 11:10 a.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 0-4) at Kansas City (Volquez 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

Detroit (Lobstein 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 1-2), 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 2-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 2-0), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 3-3), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-0) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

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

Oakland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

New York Atlanta Washington Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 18 10 .643 14 14 .500 14 15 .483 13 15 .464 10 19 .345

GB — 4 4 1/2 5 8 1/2

St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 20 7 .741 14 12 .538 14 13 .519 12 15 .444 9 19 .321

GB — 5 1/2 6 8 11 1/2

West Division W L Pct 17 10 .630

15 14 12 11

14 14 14 15

.517 .500 .462 .423

3 3 1/2 4 1/2 5 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 Wednesday’s Games Washington 7, Miami 5 Arizona 13, Colorado 7, 1st game San Diego 9, San Francisco 1 Arizona 5, Colorado 1, 2nd game Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Baltimore 1 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 5 Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis 5 Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Frias 2-0) at Milwaukee (Fiers 1-3), 11:40 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 3-2) at St. Louis (Lackey 1-1), 11:45 a.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-2) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (Despaigne 2-0) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 2-2), 7:40 p.m.

Miami (Haren 3-1) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 1-2), 8:15 p.m.

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

Los Angeles

San Diego San Francisco Arizona Colorado

GB —

Friday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

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

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

Oakland 000 000 000 — 0 6 1 Minnesota 004 002 43x — 13 12 0 Kazmir, Ch.Smith (7), Abad (7), R.Alvarez (8) and Vogt, Phegley; Gibson, Pressly (7), Graham (8) and Herrmann. W—Gibson 3-2. L—Kazmir 2-1.

HRs—Minnesota, E.Rosario (1), Edu.Escobar (2), K.Vargas (3).

Seattle 000 200 001 — 3 9 0 Los Ang. 003 000 001 — 4 7 1 Elias, Beimel (8), Lowe (8), Ca.Smith (9) and Zunino; C.Wilson, J.Smith (8), Street (9) and C.Perez.

W—Street 2-0. L—Ca.Smith 0-2. HRs—Seattle, Seager (3). Los Angeles, Trout (7).

INTERLEAGUE Baltimore 000 010 000 — 1 9 0 NY Mets 011 102 00x — 5 7 0 U.Jimenez, Brach (5), Gausman (7), Jas.Garcia (8) and Joseph; deGrom, C.Torres (8), A.Torres (9), Familia (9) and Plawecki. W—deGrom 3-3. L—U. Jimenez 2-2. HRs—New York, Granderson (2), D.Herrera (1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 020 000 030 — 5 13 1 Wash.

013 010 20x — 7 12 0 Koehler, S.Dyson (7), Morris (8) and Realmuto; Scherzer, Roark (8), Storen (9) and W.Ramos.

W—Scherzer 2-3. L—Koehler 2-3. Sv—Storen (8).

HRs—Miami, Stanton (7). Washington, Harper 3 (8).

First Game Arizona 031 502 011 — 13 18 0 Colorado 000 020 131 — 7 12 1 Collmenter, Burgos (8), O.Perez (9), Ziegler (9) and Pacheco; Matzek, Bergman (3), Roberts (6), Friedrich (7), Axford (9), Logan (9), Oberg (9) and Hundley. W—Collmenter 3-3. L—Matzek 2-1. HRs— Arizona, Trumbo (3), Hill (2). Colorado, Morneau (3), Hundley (2), Stubbs (2).

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores

San Diego 005 000 130 — 9 16 0 San Fran. 001 000 000 — 1 6 0 Kennedy, Maurer (8), Garces (9) and Hedges; Heston, Kontos (6), Lopez (7), Machi (8), Affeldt (8), Y.Petit (9) and Susac. W—Kennedy 2-1. L— Heston 2-3.

AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 100 000 000 — 1 7 0 Toronto 020 101 01x — 5 12 0 Sabathia, E.Rogers (7), Shreve (8) and B.McCann; Buehrle, Osuna (6), Loup (8), Cecil (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Buehrle 4-2. L—Sabathia 0-5. HRs— Toronto, Ru.Martin (7).

Second Game Arizona 000 130 010 — 5 12 0 Colorado 000 100 000 — 1 5 0 Ray, Chafin (7), Reed (9) and Gosewisch; Lyles, Betancourt (8), Logan (9), Oberg (9) and McKenry.

W—Ray 1-0. L—Lyles 2-3. HRs—Arizona, Goldschmidt (7).

Tampa Bay 001 120 001 — 5 9 2 Boston 002 000 010 — 3 7 0 Colome, Cedeno (6), Geltz (6), Jepsen (8), Boxberger (9) and Rivera; Masterson, Mujica (5), Layne (6), Tazawa (7), Ross Jr. (8), Ogando (9) and Swihart.

W—Colome 2-0. L—Masterson 2-1. Sv—Boxberger (7). HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria 2 (3). Boston, Betts (5).

Cincinnati 000 210 000 — 3 10 2 Pittsburgh 000 000 000 — 0 7 0 Leake, A.Chapman (9) and Barnhart; G.Cole, Scahill (6), Caminero (8), Watson (9) and Cervelli. W— Leake 2-1. L—G.Cole 4-1. Sv—A.Chapman (6).

HRs—Cincinnati, Byrd (5).

Texas 042 040 100 — 11 13 0 Houston 000 000 012 — 3 7 0 Lewis, Patton (9) and Chirinos; Deduno, Thatcher (5), W.Harris (7), Sipp (9) and J.Castro. W—Lewis 2-2. L—Deduno 0-1. HRs—Texas, Peguero 2 (3), Choo (3). Houston, Carter (4).

Phila.

001 003 001 — 5 12 0 Atlanta 100 141 00x — 7 12 0 Williams, Diekman (5), J.Gomez (6), Araujo (7), L.Garcia (8) and Rupp; Foltynewicz, Co.Martin (6), Avilan (6), Ji.Johnson (8), Grilli (9) and Bethancourt.

W—Foltynewicz 2-0. L—Williams 2-2. Sv—Grilli (9).

HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (5). Atlanta, A.Simmons (2).

Cleveland 130 100 401 — 10 13 1 Kan. City 000 201 000 — 3 5 0 Carrasco, Rzepczynski (8), McAllister (9) and Hayes; D.Duffy, Finnegan (2), C.Young (4), F.Morales (7), K.Herrera (8), Frasor (9) and S.Perez, F.Pena.

W—Carrasco 4-2. L—D.Duffy 2-1. HRs—Cleveland, Moss (5). Kansas City, K.Morales (4).

Los Ang. 000 110 010 — 3 8 0 Milwaukee 500 010 00x — 6 7 1 Wieland, Santos (5), P.Rodriguez (6), Nicasio (7), Howell (8) and Ellis; W.Peralta, F.Rodriguez (9) and Maldonado. W—W.Peralta 1-4. L—Wieland 0-1.

Sv—F.Rodriguez (6). HRs—Los Angeles, Pederson 2 (9). Milwaukee, Gennett (1), Lind (5).

Detroit 102 011 010 — 6 11 0 Chicago 011 100 04x — 7 13 0 Simon, Alburquerque (6), Gorzelanny (6), Nesbitt (7), Chamberlain (8), B.Hardy (8) and J.McCann; Sale, Petricka (6), Putnam (8), Robertson (9) and Flowers. W—Putnam 1-1. L—Chamberlain 0-1.

Sv—Robertson (5). HRs—Detroit, V.Martinez (1).

Chicago, Gillaspie (1), Me.Cabrera (1).

Chicago 201 020 010 — 6 10 2 St. Louis 010 102 010 — 5 9 0 Lester, Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and D.Ross; Lynn, Choate (7), Belisle (8), Villanueva (9) and Molina, T.Cruz. W—Lester 2-2. L—Lynn 1-3. Sv—H. Rondon (6). HRs—Chicago, Rizzo (5). St. Louis, Jh.Peralta (3).

MANNY PACQUIAO Manny Pacquiao underwent surgery on his injured right shoulder Wednesday following his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in boxing’s richest fight ever.

Pacquiao spokesman Fred Sternburg quoted the fighter’s surgeon, Dr. Neal ElAttrache of the Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic clinic in Los Angeles, as saying he could not be “more pleased

with the results” and fully expects Pacquiao to make a full recovery.

The surgery came four days after Pacquiao fought Mayweather at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, dropping a unanimous 12-round decision. Pacquiao asked for a pain killing shot before the fight for his shoulder, but was denied by Nevada boxing officials because they weren’t aware previously of the injury. He said he thought he could fight after suffering an injury to the shoulder three weeks ago in training.

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LeBron leads Cavaliers past Bulls Cavaliers 106 Bulls 91 CLEVELAND — The headband returned. The aggressiveness, dunks and dazzling plays all came back, too.

LeBron James wasn’t going to have a second sub-par game.

James attacked from the start and scored 33 points, Kyrie Irving added 21 and the Cleveland Cavaliers evened their semifinal series with Chicago, beating the Bulls 106-91 in Game 2 on Wednesday night.

Donning the signature headband he ditched in March, James played like a man possessed. He powered to the basket, leaving Bulls defenders in his wake and keeping the Cavs, missing two starters, from falling into a 2-0 hole. He added eight rebounds and five assists for Cleveland, which led by 25 in the third quarter and withstood a third-quarter charge by the Bulls.

James said the choice to wear the headband was spur of the moment.

“It was in my locker and I decided to give it a go,” he said. “It was time for it to make a comeback.”

The Cavs made one, too.

For the second straight game, they were without forward Kevin Love (shoulder surgery) and J.R. Smith (twogame suspension), but they had James and he was more like himself after an “off” opener.

“We’re a little banged up, we’re short-handed, so I have to be aggressive,” James said.

“Even more aggressive than my usual self, and I was happy I was able to make a couple of plays to help our team win tonight.”

Jimmy Butler scored 18 and Derrick Rose had 14 points and 10 assists for the Bulls, who host Game 3 on Friday night. Pau Gasol added 11 points — 10 fewer than Game 1, when he destroyed the Cavs on uncontested jumpers.

Iman Shumpert added 15 points, James Jones made five 3-pointers and Tristan Thompson added 12 rebounds for Cleveland. Thompson started at power forward in Love’s spot, allowing James to move back to small forward.

On the perimeter is where James is most dangerous and he made it clear from the outset that he wasn’t going to stand around and wait for the game to come to him.

At Irving’s urging, James was “ultraaggressive.”

“There wasn’t one possession where he wasn’t dominant,” Irving said.

“When he has that mindset, he’s the greatest player playing our game right now.”

The Cavs burst to a 13-2 lead, led by 22 in the first quarter and never looked back.

“They smashed us,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.

James arrived at Quicken Loans Arena at around 4 p.m., three hours before tip-off. As if there needed to be another sign of the game’s importance to Cleveland this was it, as the superstar typically gets to the arena for a home game around 90 minutes before the start.

“Maybe he wanted to beat the traffic,” quipped Cavs coach David Blatt.

“Knowing him, it was something else.”

It sure was.

Along with his old look, James seemed all-business from the time he took the floor for warmups. He scored 14 in the first quarter and got to the free-throw line five times, three more than in Monday’s loss. James, who went just 9 of 22 from the field in Game 1, set the tone and his teammates followed.

“For the leader of the team, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” Rose said. “Everybody on the team followed right behind him.”

Love visited his teammates in the locker room before the game, and he joined them on the bench in the second quarter. Moments after Love, wearing a sling on his left arm, waved to the crowd, James delivered one of those plays only he can make. He burst down the left side of the lane and delivered a right-handed dunk over Butler, who did a marvelous job defending the four-time league MVP in Game 1.

But this wasn’t the same James or the same Cavs.

“Our back was against the wall,” James said. “We couldn’t go down 2-0.”

TIP-INS Bulls: Not everyone was thrilled with James’ fashion choice. “I don’t care about no headband,” Butler said.

“He’s a great player, headband or not.” ... The Bulls are now 21-8 this season with their “A” lineup: Rose, Gasol, Butler, Joakim Noah and Mike Dunleavy.

Cavaliers: Reserve G Matthew Dellavedova added nine points and nine assists. ... Smith will return for Game 3, but the way Shumpert is playing, there’s no guarantee he’ll have his starting job back. ... James (1,059) moved into a tie with Tony Parker on the career post-season assists list. He’s two away from catching Steve Nash (1,061).

SHUMPERT’S INJURY Shumpert left in the third quarter with a strained left groin that could be serious. After riding a stationary bike, he returned to the floor but Blatt indicated the injury could limit him.

CFL partners with U.S. digital network to broaden its appeal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Newly minted CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge says once younger Canadians are exposed to his league, they’ll be hooked. And he’s looking to a U.S.-based company that brands itself as the “millennial voice and destination for sports” to help lure the next generation of fans.

On Wednesday, the CFL announced a partnership with Whistle Sports, a multi-channel digital network with millions of subscribers on various platforms including YouTube and Facebook.

“The idea is just to continue to expose it to as many people as possible . . . younger audiences have many entertainment choices out there right now but we feel very confident the CFL, once exposed to it, is an entertainment choice they’re going to make over and over again,” said Orridge, who took over the commissioner’s office less than two weeks ago.

Since being appointed head of the league in March, Orridge has said that attracting younger fans is a top priority.

“I think that’s hugely important,” Orridge said in an interview.

“Generations and generations in this country have grown up with the CFL and we want to continue that trend.”

According to the CFL, Whistle Sports has “extensive reach across all major platforms among millennials ... including 31 million likes on Facebook, 16 million subscribers, 11 million followers on Instagram, six million on Twitter and four million on Vine.”

“Partnering with them gives us the access to their audiences,” said Orridge.

To mark the partnership, a video of Hamilton Tiger-Cats slotback Andy Fantuz breaking the world record for most one-handed catches in one minute was released. The video, which can be seen on YouTube, shows Fantuz

MLB Commissioner says shortening regular season a popular topic lately

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says shortening the regular season is becoming a popular topic as players and owners prepare to negotiate a new labour deal.

In his first year on the job, Manfred was at Minute Maid Park before Wednesday night’s game between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros as part of an effort to meet with players from all 30 teams. He also spoke with reporters about several issues, including Pete Rose, pace of play, domestic

making 50 one-handed grabs of passes from Calgary’s Bo Levi Mitchell and Saskatchewan’s Darian Durant.

The previous mark was 41 set in January by Iowa State receiver Tevaun Smith.

“Once again we’re able to showcase the incredible athleticism of exceptional players,” Orridge said. “I think sometimes their abilities are often either under-estimated or overlooked because they’re so accessible or because they’re such proud stellar members of our community.”

Brian Selander, the executive vicepresident of Whistle Sports, said the CFL deal offers his company something unique.

“Our rapidly growing global audience doesn’t really recognize borders when they think about sports content,” he said in an email. “Is it fun? Is it interesting? Is it positive and can I like, share and comment on it?

“When those questions are met, the views and fans follow. The CFL presented a really interesting opportunity to bring a new set of players and teams to the table.”

Selander said additional videos featuring CFL players are coming.

“We’ve already done videos with 10 of the CFL’s top players that will be rolling out as we get closer to the start of the season,” he said. “The Andy Fantuz record-breaking video has already been seen by Whistle Sports fans in several countries.

“I think fans around the world will be looking forward to learning more about the CFL’s players. Each of our pro league partners have a passionate fan base but being able to grab the attention of a fan early and giving them a way to share and engage only makes their connection to their teams stronger.”

And Orridge said the CFL will be unveiling other programs aimed at attracting and keeping younger fans.

“This is just one of many initiatives to come,” he said. “You’ll be seeing more of this type of activity.” violence, blacks in baseball and the designated hitter.

Manfred said reducing the number of games in a season would have economic and competitive ramifications, but the idea of giving players more off days is receiving more attention than ever.

“One hundred and sixty-two games in 183 days, and a lot of those 21 days consumed by travel, is a pretty demanding schedule,” he said. “By reputation I work pretty hard, and I don’t think I work 162 days out of 183. It’s a tough schedule.”

The American League transitioned from a 154-game season to 162 in 1961.

The National League followed suit the next year.

The current labour agreement between owners and players expires after the 2016 season.

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James goes up for a shot against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah during the second half of Game 2 in a second-round NBA playoff series Wednesday, in Cleveland. The Cavaliers won 106-91.

“Time for one of those miracle-48hour recoveries,” Blatt said. “That’s what we’re hoping for.”

ROSE’S DROUGHT Rose has not attempted a free throw in three straight playoff games, dating to Game 6 against Milwaukee. He didn’t have any excuses.

“If they’re not calling it, they’re not

calling it,” he said. “I can’t worry about that.”

Thibodeau was careful not to criticize the officiating when asked what Rose needs to do to get to the line.

“I guess he’s got to go harder, I don’t know,” he said. “It looked like there was a lot of contact to me. Others didn’t see it that way.”

Rockets rain down on Clippers to even series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NBA PLAYOFFS

Rockets 115 Clippers 109 HOUSTON — James Harden scored 16 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter to lift the Houston Rockets a 115-109 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night that evened their Western Conference semifinal at one game apiece.

Dwight Howard had 24 points and 16 rebounds for the Rockets, who bounced back from a 117-101 loss in the opener. Game 3 is Friday night in Los Angeles.

Trevor Ariza added 15 points and 13 rebounds for Houston, which made 42 of its 64 free throws.

Blake Griffin led Los Angeles with 34 points, but had just eight after halftime as Houston keyed on him with All-Star point guard Chris Paul out with a hamstring injury.

Coach Doc Rivers said before the game that Paul is getting better but still isn’t “moving well.” Rivers isn’t sure if Paul will be ready for Game 3 but expects him to play at some point in this series.

The Rockets were down by three early in the fourth before scoring the next eight points, with 3-pointers by Ariza and Harden, to take a 93-88 lead.

Nine straight points by Los Angeles, capped by a 3 from Matt Barnes, cut the lead to four with 1:27 left, but Harden made a layup to extend the lead to 111-105. Howard and Harden each made two free throws to secure

the victory.

Harden made all 15 free throws.

Howard was 8 for 21.

Houston was 2 of 17 on 3-pointers before Ariza made one early in the fourth. Harden made another 3 about a minute after his first one in the period to make it 98-89 and flashed three fingers at the Clippers’ bench.

There was a delay of several minutes with 11:54 remaining because the shot clock on one of the baskets went out. They finally gave up on getting it fixed and put one on the floor at both ends of the court and the public address announcer counted down when it reached 10.

Houston trailed by seven when Harden re-entered the game after spending most of the third quarter on the bench after picking up a fourth foul. He came in aggressive, driving the lane on the next two possessions, and getting fouled both times. He made three free throws and Ariza added a fourth one to get the Rockets within 8583 entering the fourth.

A layup by Griffin soon after Harden left the game pushed the lead to 13 before a 14-4 run by Houston, powered by six points from Terrence Jones got Houston within 73-70 midway through the third.

DeAndre Jordan’s one-handed slam about a minute later made it 77-73, but he went to the bench with his fifth foul soon after that.

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The plight of CWD Chronic wasting disease continues its death march across Alberta, west from Saskatchewan, from whence it came to who knows where, eventually.

CWD is an always-fatal disease of deer, elk and moose caused by virtually indestructible particles of abnormally folded protein called prions.

It is similar to mad cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) or Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, but has not yet jumped to humans as mad cow has.

Alberta Fish and Game Association president Wayne Lowry commented recently on the results of the mandatory testing program of deer, moose and elk heads taken by BOB hunters in Alberta’s infected SCAMMELL areas in 2014: “CWD continues to be a major concern of AFGA as it increases both in numbers and geographic scope.

“There have been positives found in Wildlife Management Units 144 and 142 for the first time as this disease spreads further west from CFB Suffield towards the Brooks area,” Lowery said. “In Alberta, known CWD cases now number 297 and stretch from Lloydminster in the north to very close to the U.S. border in the south, and have now stretched west past Hwy 36 around the Hanna area in WMU 160. Debate continues as to how this is going to be managed, and AFGA will continue to press for more than just the current surveillance program.”

Dr. Margo Pybus, provincial wildlife disease specialist, reports on the head-testing program: “We have completed all of the 2014 fall CWD surveillance samples received to date. In 2014, we tested 4,163 heads and detected 86 cases of CWD (2.1 per cent).

CWD was confirmed in 74 mule deer (59 males, 15 females; 72 adults, two yearlings) and 12 white-tails (all males; 10 adults, two yearlings).”

The current annual report eerily echoes every one since they started in 2005: that mule deer are much more susceptible to CWD than white-tails, and mule deer bucks are more at risk than does.

I loved to hunt mule deer, got know them fairly well and suspected that their social habits and … ahem … sexual behaviours might be the cause of their higher risk of CWD infection than white tailed deer.

In the absence of answers anywhere else, I finally went to the top, to Valerius Geist, professor emeritus of environmental design at the University of Calgary, now retired to Vancouver Island. Geist is one of the world’s foremost animal behaviourists and has become an authority on CWD. Among his many books

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Elk dying of chronic wasting disease: the death march continues across Alberta in deer, elk and moose. are Mule Deer Country and Whitetail Tracks.

“CWD is transmitted via body fluids,” Geist told me. Mule deer form home-range groups of related females, he explained, which lick and groom each other, as well as lick each other’s tarsal glands on the lower rear legs — the “passport” of each deer.

These glands are saturated with urine. Therefore, within the home-range group of mule deer females, each member comes in contact with the saliva of others, as well as the urine in the tarsal gland. Consequently, CWD infections follow home-range groups.”

Geist told me that white-tailed deer are much less likely to form close-knit social groups and there is consequently less chance of passing body fluids between individuals. In fact, white-tailed does can be virtually territorial so that an infected doe passes CWD at best to her offspring.

Then we got to a mule deer buck behaviour I observed often when I was staking out herds of mule deer does during the rut, watching for a huge buck I always called “Horseshoes” suddenly to appear from somewhere and commence nose-goosing (or so I thought) this doe or that.

Val Geist gave the straight, if unsavoury story on what is really happening here.

“Comes the rutting season. Mule deer bucks court does and this includes — repeatedly — taking the urine of each doe into their mouth to test it via the Jacobson’s organ in the front of the upper palate to determine if the doe is ready for breeding. That’s the ‘flehmen’ response, or ‘lip curl behaviour.’ Mule deer bucks move between home-range groups of does, before they settle down to stay more or less with one group. As you can see, by going between groups, bucks are more likely to take into their mouth the urine of infected does, while mule deer does are restricted pretty well to the group they live with.”

So there we have, just as I suspected, the reasons why mule deer, particularly bucks, are highly susceptible to ingesting the CWD-causing prions. Unfortunately this information is unlikely to be of much use in the coming big battle to combat CWD. There will be no “Practice Safe Sex” program for mule deer, and its social and sexual habits can be added to other evolutionary behaviours that Geist believes doom the species to eventual certain extinction.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Global warming is no hoax or conspiracy “Global cooling ... must be expected within the next few millennia or even centuries.”

— George Kukla and Robert Matthews A quick look at my bookshelf will show that I have an inordinate fondness for history. And so, when Murray Snyder wrote (Letters to the Advocate, March 30) about the global cooling scare of the 1960s and 1970s, I must admit that I put the subject near the top of my list for a future column.

Yes, there was indeed such a scare. However, the thought of advancing glaciers was worrisome even as far back as the 1920s, when the NationEVAN al Geographic Society sent BEDFORD Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan to the Arctic in order to look for evidence of an immanent deep freeze. Apparently, he found a lot of ice, but not nearly enough of it to warrant a run on parkas in Hawaii.

The scientific search started in earnest, though, in the 1960s, when it was noted that the surface of the globe really had been getting colder. In fact, if you look at any graph of temperatures over the 20th century, there is an obvious lull in the overall warming, starting at about the time of the Second World War, and continuing until about the mid-1970s.

And the culprit? It was conventional air pollution.

More particularly, it was the extremely tiny particles known as sulphate aerosols that a booming post-war

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world was lofting into the air via the burning of coal and oil.

Scientists knew this back in the 1960s. And they also knew about carbon dioxide, and the effects that it had on climate. So they were quite aware that sulphate aerosols reflected heat back into space (thereby cooling the planet) and carbon dioxide molecules reflected heat back down towards the ground (thereby warming the planet). Thus started the grand debate on which process would win out in the end.

And thus we have statements such as the one above, made by Kukla and Matthews in 1972.

What followed was a minor media frenzy which tossed out titles such as Another Ice Age? (from Time Magazine in 1974) and The Cooling World (from Newsweek in 1975).

But that was it. Because at about the same time, the industrialized countries started seriously dealing with air pollution. They started telling industry to do things like cut out the worst additives in gasoline, and put scrubbers on coal-powered generating stations. And that greatly reduced the amount of aerosols that got lofted up into the air.

However — as we now know — it’s a lot more difficult to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced when fossil fuels are burnt. So, from about the 1980s until the start of the 21st century, aerosol cooling was reduced, while CO2 warming kept right on rising.

Then along came China and it started a frenzy of building coal-fired power plants, which were very efficient at putting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere. So whenever you hear about the cooling which occurred over the last 17 years, at least some of it is due to China’s rapid industrialization, and a somewhat cavalier attitude toward using scrubbers.

So where does that leave us? Well, it still leaves

2014 as being the warmest year since widespread weather data started being recorded.

And it still leaves the question that Snyder originally raised. After all, if scientists weren’t sure what was happening to the climate 50 years ago, how can we trust them now? Perhaps we should be taking a closer look at what those scheming nerds are doing with their clipboards and slide-rules and hornrimmed glasses.

Take a look at electro-magnetic theory, for example. It runs our entire society. Practically every gadget we handle on a day-to-day basis relies on those complex looking little green circuit boards. Maybe we should delve into the history behind them.

And sure enough, if you look back at Benjamin Franklin, and see how he nearly fried himself with a kite during a lightning storm, you will find that he was completely blind to the fact that electricity and magnetism were linked.

In other words, just like the climate scientists in the 1960s, Franklin was an idiot.

That is ample proof, therefore, that electromagnetism is a vast fraud visited upon us by a corporate conspiracy, trying to take dollars out of our wallets.

And complete vindication for me, since my computer crashed just last week, and I stubbed my toe on the annoying lump, as I drop-kicked it into the nearest garbage can.

Who’s next? Well, there’s Ptolemy and Copernicus, and all of that nonsense about the earth orbiting around the sun. Now there’s a conspiracy if ever I saw one!

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net.

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Make the most of your choices at garden centres The first of May marks the opening of seasonal greenhouses and garden centres. For the year-round operations, it is the start of the busy spring selling season.

Businesses that sell bedding-out-plants can be divided into three groups. They grow their own, bring everything in from other growers or they are a hybrid of the two.

Establishments that grow all their own plants are often small to mid-sized and manned by a few knowledgeable people. The variety of plants sold depends on if they purchased cuttings or seed.

Plants started by cuttings will be similar to what others sell. Places that start some or all of their plants from seed are more likely to carry some LINDA unique varieties that are not TOMLINSON mainstream. Shop early or they will be gone.

Temporary garden centres bring all their plants in. The plants are bought in bulk by the head office and shipped out according to the contract. The person who runs the greenhouse for the season may have training or may be the person who is in charge of all the seasonal items — back to school, Thanksgiving, etc. Plants arrive straight from a heated greenhouse and are placed in the facilities available, which may

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or may not be heated. In the case of a heavy frost or late snow storm, the plants are covered as best they can or moved indoors if there is room.

Most of these establishments do their best to water the plants, but that can be a problem if the area is cramped and full of customers. Do not purchase plants, regardless of the price, if they look like they need to be watered.

As local people do not order the plants, often trees and shrubs that arrive are for a warmer climate. They will do well during the summer months but will rarely survive the winters. A replacement guarantee until the end of the season is of little help when the plants winterkill. A year guarantee is useful if they will replace it with a hardier variety, but time and a year’s growth has been lost. Boxwood is not hardy in Alberta.

When in doubt, google the plant before making the purchase.

Large greenhouses grow the majority of their material but room is limited, which means they too will bring in annuals from local wholesalers.

Some of the perennials will be grown on site, with others brought in from warmer climates. The buyers are trained and all material that is brought in should be hardy.

But it pays to read the labels.

Trees and shrub will be a mixture of locally grown and imported. Early in the season, it is easy to distinguish between the two as the ones brought in are more advanced than local material. Always read the labels to see what growing conditions plants need, as well as the suggested zones.

Large establishments need to have a large number of staff to keep everything watered, restocked and help customers. Not all of them will have knowledge about the plants but they will direct you to a person who does.

Before purchasing a tree or shrub, ask about the guarantee.

When purchasing annuals from any establishment, look at the size of plant, size of roots and price.

To purchase a healthy plant that will start growing once it is set out, look for plants that have top growth that matches the root growth. This means that if each plant is in a large container, the plant can be large and even flowering. If the container is small, the plant also needs to be small.

Plants that have grown too large for their pot will be root bound, which means the roots will be growing in circles within the pot.

When transplanted, the roots will need to be torn apart or the roots will continue to grow in that one spot.

They will not venture out in surrounding soil and will die if they do not receive a daily supply of moisture and fertilizer. The plants will not flourish. If the plants are root bound, they may be inexpensive but they are not a good deal.

Spring is a very busy time for all greenhouses.

To avoid the crowds, choose to shop at less popular times: early in the morning, during the supper hour, on a rainy day or late at night.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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CRUISE NIGHT

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Cruising into a parking spot Tom Leech of Red Deer maneuvers his 1957 Metropolitan convertible at the Parkland Mall during a cruise night last year.

Cruise Night is once again going full throttle in the east parking lot of Parkland Mall in Red Deer Cruise Night in Red Deer goes each Thursday from 6-9 p.m. May to October attracting hundreds of classic and late model car enthusiasts.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Hard of Hearing Support Group meets the second Friday of each month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. at abc Country Restaurant.

Discuss the highs and lows and laughs of living with hearing loss on May 8. No charge, but please RSVP to speakupcentralalberta@ gmail.com, 403-356-1598. ● Friday Family Dance will be held on May 8, 7 p.m. at Festival Hall. Based on community dances of days gone by, the event features live music by JukeBox Rock, two dance lessons, games and fun for the whole family. Bring mom out to start off Mother’s Day weekend dancing with mom. Tickets available at the door or online at www.countrypridedanceclub.ca. Co-sponsors are Country Pride Dance Club, Red Deer Arts Council, Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, City of Red Deer Culture Services, and Peavey Mart.

Hot dogs, pie and ice cream available for purchase in support of Cultural Heritage Society. ● Danish Canadian National Museum opens for the season on May 8, continuing to Sept. 7, Thursday to Monday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Located at RR 31, 700 m south of fourway stop at Dickson. A Mother’s Day Brunch will be held on May 10 at their Saga Cafe.

Reservations are recommended. Phone 403728-0019. ● Lunch and Learn at Red Deer Public Library on May 8, noon to 1 p.m. at Downtown Branch. Join Anomi Beardon, PhD, from the psychology department at Red Deer College lead a discussion and give information on the benefits of mindfulness and movement on mental health and more in support of Canadian Mental Health Association Mental Health Week. ● Red Deer Legion presents Romeo/DJ on May 8 and Dew Carver on May 15 and 16 from 8 p.m. to midnight for their weekend dances. Phone 403-342-0035. Legion members are required to show their valid membership card. Non-members cover charge is $5.

Saturday ● Mother’s Day Event fundraiser for Education of Somali Girls and Boys and GrammaLink-Africa takes place on May 9, 1 to 4 p.m. at The Hub on Ross. Free admission and entertainment by international singers and dancers. Silent auction, refreshments and baking, Somali samosas, massage, henna tattoos, jewelry and more. Donations for the silent auction, baking, and goodies welcome. Contact Zainab at Zainab.mohamoud@gmail.com, 403-550-4067. ● Bower Community Association Annual Fun Tree Planting Bee will take place on May 9 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Participants are asked to meet at Bower Hall at 9:15 am. and help plant from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Contact Larry at 403-347-6994. ● Central Alberta Singles Club is sponsoring a dance on May 9 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Flashback Freddie Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Non-singles and everyone welcome.

For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440. ● Only Women’s Fun Run in support of

Women’s Outreach will be featured at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area on May 9 with a 9 a.m. start. Choose from 10, five, three or one km walk or run, 500m Little Ladies Race, 100m Diaper Dash, and activities for Little Men. Enjoy brunch at the clubhouse, wellness and gift trade fair, SUBWAY school challenge encouraging schools to get the most girls out to run to win prizes, and more.

To register and for information see www.womensoutreach, or www.onlywomensrd.ca. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on May 14; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on May 15; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on May 25; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. A Roast Pork Supper will be held on May 22 at 5:30 p.m. for $15. A Jam Session will be held on May 9 at 1:30 p.m. for $2.50. Phone 403-346-4043. ● Walking with Our Sisters event will be held at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on May 9. Stew and Bannock Cook-Off will be featured at 6 p.m. with voting by donation followed by story telling from 7 to 9 p.m. and silent auction throughout the evening.

Tickets are $20 each or two for $30 from the museum. Honouring Our Sisters Session will be May 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. Limited space.

Preregistration required for a maximum of 75 youth. Free. Phone 403-309-8405. Watch for the exhibit coming June 1 to 21. ● Paddington Party for all ages will be held on May 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Celebrate with crafts, activities, a real British Teddy Bear tea party. Children are encouraged to bring a favourite stuffed toy. Children under eight years must be accompanied by an adult. ● Lego City Build at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library goes May 9, 1 to 3 p.m. Build a city. Lego provided. Experiment with fun technology toys and more. Contact 403-309-3488, lsheardown@rdpl.org. ● CIBC Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run for a Cure fundraiser — Barbecue for a Cure will be offered at Real Canadian Superstore on May 9 and 23, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. hosted by Yo Sista’s Team. Phone 403-340-2663. ● Meet the Critter on May 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. This is a family oriented drop in program with activities and a meet and greet with a live salamander. Drop in admission is $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010 for more information. ● Royal Canadian Air Force Association members meet at noon on the second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Next meeting is May 9. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca.

Sunday ● Mother’s Day Brunch at Elks Hall will be offered on May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in support of Red Deer Food Bank. Monetary and non-perishable food item donations will be collected. Phone 403-877-9429. ● Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre presents Brent Butt on May 10, 2 p.m. at Red Deer Memorial Centre. Meet and greet to follow. Tickets cost $50 plus fees from www.bkticketcentre.ca, or 403-755-6626 or in person at Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre. ● Trail Tails Grand Opening will be celebrated on May 10 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 2 p.m. Bring Mom and the whole family, walk the loop, and read a story together along the way. Presented by Red Deer Public Library and Waskasoo Environmental Education Services. After May 10, a self-directed hike is available during Nature Centre hours. ● Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society Mother’s Day Tea will celebrate mothers at Cronquist House on May 10. There will be sittings at 1 and 2:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 10 years of age. Enjoy rolled sandwiches, scones and more. To reserve a spot, call 403-346-0055. ● Olds Evergreen Jams are held on the second and fourth Sunday of every month at the Olds Evergreen Centre from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $2. Snacks included. Call Bonnie at 403-556-7844 for more information.

Jams are held May 10 and 24.

Monday ● Cover 2 Cover Book Club will meet on May 11 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. The theme will be epistolary novels. Visit www.rdpl.org/programs/book-clubs/cover2cover. New members always welcome. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Wii Gaming Afternoon at the mezz, Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be offered to teens on May 11, 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. All levels of gamers welcome. ● Meet Mystery Author Gail Bowen on May 11, 7 p.m. at Snell Auditorium at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Canadian author Gail Bowen will speak about her life and works, and the 25 anniversary of her signature Joanne Kilbourn mystery books. Free. ● The Parkland Handweavers and Spinners Guild meets the second Monday of each month at Sunnybrook Farm Museum at 7 p.m., next May 11. New and experienced weavers welcome. For more information contact Red Deer Weavers at reddeerweavers@ gmail.com or Darlene at 403-749-3054, Amy at 403-309-4026 or Margaret at 403-3468289.

Tuesday ● NERDcraft 101: Shadow Art Photography — a teen program — will be featured on May 12, 4 to 5 p.m. in Snell Auditorium, Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch.

Use flashlights and show and learn skills to create unique shadow photography shots. ● Sunrise Toastmasters is held Tuesday mornings at 7:15 to 8:30 a.m. at 40 Holmes Street. Toastmasters improves both communication and leadership skills. Everyone welcome. Phone 403-343-0091 or see www. toastmasters.org ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 offers karaoke at Molly B’s Pub on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and wing night on Thursdays from 5 to 10 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● The Tony Connelly Singers choral

group invites singers to join them on Tuesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Downtown House. The group shares the gift of music and friendship at various seniors’ functions from Sept. to June. Call Shirley at 403-342-5904, or Betty at 403-346-7316 for more information. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley, next May 12. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $20 for new members and $15 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit centralalbertamopar.com.

Wednesday ● Inspirational Ladies Fun and Fellowship meets the second Wednesday of the following months from 9:30 to 11:15 a.m. at Innisfail Legion Hall: Oct. Dec. Feb. April. On the second Wednesday in May (May 13), the group meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for a wind up meeting. Cost is $5 per person including refreshments. The group hosts speakers and special guests each time. Contact Elsie Lee at 403-227-3508. ● Play-a-Story will be offered at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on May 13 and 27 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Children ages seven and up are invited to create characters from their favourite stories and have fun bringing them to life. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. The documentary film Cave of Forgotten Dreams will be shown on May 13, followed by a library staff facilitated discussion.

Learn about Werner Herzog who follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France with artwork over 30,000 years old. Free. Those planning to bring groups, or for more information, phone Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. For more information, call 403-749-3361. Dates are May 13, and 27. ● CrossRoads Church Seniors are organizing a bus trip to Rosebud Theatre to see the play The Miracle Worker on May 13. Cost is $85 per person, lunch included. For tickets and information, phone 403-347-6425. ● Penhold and District Museum Society Meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month at the museum. Next meeting is May 13. People seeking more information on volunteering or museum events, see penholdmuseum@gmail.com. Some events to watch for are Plant Sale and Opening of the Ice Cream Shack on May 23, Father’s Day Pancakes and Horseshoes on June 21, Christmas Market and Cookie Walk at Penhold Multiplex on Nov. 28. ● Florence Nightingale Tea and Bake Sale will be celebrated on May 13 at Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre. Bake sale begins at 2 p.m. and the tea begins at 2:30 p.m. All proceeds to the hospital. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Silver and Gold is on May 13 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

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Burial a highlight of VE Day celebrations close to being forgotten, a whole 30 years’ worth of a life a distant memory for my dad and hardly known for my brother and I.” The current commander of the Canadian Army paid tribute.

“Today Pte Laubenstein is laid to rest with his comrades, with the dignity and respect he so greatly deserves,” Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse said in a statement. “In remembering his courage, we recall and honour the sacrifices made by the brave men and women who have served their country.”

Laubenstein, who was born in Saskatoon, died at age 30. He was serving in the Lincoln and Welland Regiment and was one of 50 fatalities suffered by the regiment during the battle of Kapelsche Veer.

The offensive by the Canadians took place along a barren stretch of low, flat ground where the Maas River branched into two channels, creating an island.

Some of the attacking troops paddled canoes along the dikes and in a stream, but had to haul them over ice to reach the island near their objective.

The Germans spotted them and one assault force of 60 men was quickly reduced to 15.

Laubenstein joined the Canadian Army in 1940 and had also served with the 102nd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Artillery, the 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment and the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps.

His burial was one of the highlights of a week of remembrance and celebrations to mark Canada’s part in the liberation of the Netherlands.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended a number of the events and recalled those who liberated the Netherlands as heroes who understood that some things are worth fighting for.

PTE. ALBERT LAUBENSTEIN LAID TO REST 70 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, Netherlands — Canadian Pte. Albert Laubenstein found his final resting place on Wednesday, 70 years after he was killed during the Allied advance through the Netherlands in the closing months of Second World War. His remains — identified through a combination of dental records, historical context and artifacts — were found only last year and his burial was one of the highlights of a week of remembrances and celebrations to mark Canada’s part in the liberation of the Netherlands.

Laubenstein was buried with military honours on Wednesday at the Canadian War Cemetery, about 70 kilometres from where he fought and died.

“Private Albert Laubenstein, at the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember you,” said military chaplain Murray Bateman during a ceremony attended by hundreds of onlookers in both brilliant sunshine and high winds and driving rain.

Laubenstein appeared all but lost for decades. He was killed in action during the Battle of Kapelsche Veer in the winter of 1945 and was given a battlefield grave that was soon forgotten in the chaos of war.

It took a hobbyist with a metal detector scanning

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A man salutes near the grave of Canadian Private Albert Laubenstein after a ceremony at the Canadian War Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom, south-west Netherlands, Wednesday. the southern banks of the Maas River last June to pick up a suspicious signal of old cartridges and a silver ring among human remains. A check of dental records, historical documents and artifacts led to the identification of Laubenstein.

That discovery brought memories of the soldier back to life for his family.

“Because of all this, we have learned so much.

So many things about his personality and his life and his service,” said grandniece Sarah Penton, a 39-year-old from Winnipeg. “He went from being this

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS will be held on May 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. Snacks and refreshments available. Presented by Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network and Shining Mountains Living Community Services. To find out more, call 403-346-9794. ● Central Alberta Gliding Club is hosting 2015 Canadian National Soaring Contest June 8 to 19 at Olds/Netook Airfield.

Sponsors, volunteers, and community groups are sought to provide prizes, for logistics such as showering and camping amenities, hotel accommodations and lodging, golf carts, porta-potties, hosting pancake breakfasts, banquets, and barbecues. A public viewing area with concessions will be available during the event. The gliders will take off around noon and return around 4 p.m. See Facebook for more details. Contact teebear@telusplanet.net or call 403-341-9125 to get involved. ● Canadian Fiddle Champion Scott Woods and his band in concert on May 21 at 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. This performance features fiddling styles from Cape Breton, Scottish, Acadian, Irish, French Canadian, and Metis.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children 12 to six years, and children five years and under are free. Contact 403-347-6073 or office@sunnybrookunited.org. Proceeds will support Sunnybrook United Church programs, and Camp Kasota. ● Jazz at the Lake Concert Series features several musical events. On May 26, Portland jazz guitarist John Stowell and his trio Scene, will perform an intimate house concert in Sylvan Lake, and on Aug. 15, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra will present Evening of Jazz on the Lake in Sylvan Lake. Tickets and information are available online at www.jazzatthelake. com ● Stettler Old Tyme Dance is held on the third Thursday of every month, next May 21 with Old Tyme Aires, at The Hub upstairs at Stettler Recreation Centre. Live bands each time.

Dance from 5 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Hot supper from 6 to 7 p.m. Tickets at the door cost $20 per person, $10 for dance only, $14 for supper only. Phone 403-742-5640. All ages welcome. ● German Canadian Club of Red Deer meets in the new German Club Hall, on Highway 280 towards Fort Normandeau. German school for adults is being offered along with German card games and lessons on Mondays. Call 403-3912735 for more information.

be held on May 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A Talk with a Pharmacist upcoming workshop will be held on May 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with Kevin Bredo, B. Sc. Pharm. of the Medicine Shoppe.

Both events are at the association office, 4811 48 Street.

Epilepsy Association offers used books and videos for sale at The Hub on Ross. All items are $2 each. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations. Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epilepsycalgary.com. ● Reel Movie Mondays presents X + Y on May 25, 7 p.m. at Carnival Cinemas. See more details at www.reelmoviemondays.ca. Memberships and tickets can be purchased in advance from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery by calling 403-309-8405. ● Red Deer and District Garden Club Perennial Plant Exchange and Sale takes place on May 24 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from noon to 3 p.m. Bring labelled potted plants between 11 a.m. and noon to receive coupons to use for the plant exchange. Go to www.reddeergardenclub.ca under contacts for more information. ● Tree House Youth Theatre summer camps now accepting registrations. Ages 9 to 11 meet July 20 to 26 and ages 12 to 17 meet from July 27 to Aug. 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with performances on Fridays. Cost is $290; financial assistance may be available. For information or register, contact treehousetheatre@gmail.com or call 403-986-0631. ● Sylvan Lake Municipal Library Youth Write Summer 2015 is now accepting applications from youth ages 14 to 19 years to participate in this summer camp for the arts in all forms. See http:// youthwrite.com/peak-2015. All entries must be delivered or emailed to Corrie no later thank May 15. Selection will be made at the end of May. Contact 403-887-2130 or corrie.brown@prl.ab.ca. ● Central Alberta Historical Society presents Lacombe Historical Bus Tour on May 21 including a tour of Flatirion Museum and Interpretive Centre, Blacksmith Shop Museum, Lacombe Research Centre, lunch included at Morrison House Cafe (tea house). Meet at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery at 9:30 a.m. The cost is $20 for historical society members and $25 for non-members. Tickets must be purchased

by May 12. Contact Faye at 403-343-1881. ● Hepatits C Awareness, Education and Prevention

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE B7 ● Parkland Airshed Management Zone (PAMZ) meeting on air quality issues will be held May 13, 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Jubilee Hall Annex in Big Valley. PAMZ is seeking public input on air quality issues it should be addressing in its regional monitoring program. Snacks and refreshments served. Free of charge. For more information, Kevin Warren, executive director, 403-862-7046, or see www.pamz.org.

Thursday ● Story Fun at Parkland Mall presents Itsy Bitsy Spider on May 14 from 10 to 11 a.m. Enjoy free snacks, stories, puppet shows and songs for toddlers and children up five years of age with their adults. Presented by Red Deer Public Library. ● Blackfalds Farmers’ Market runs Thursdays from 4 to 7:30 p.m. indoors and outdoors at Blackfalds Community Hall, May 14 to Oct. 1. New vendors are always welcome. Contact Shera-Lee at 403-396-4984 or visit Facebook. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre Hawaiian Dance, Thursday, May 14, 7 to 10 p.m. at the seniors’ centre.

Dance to the music of Black Velvet Band. Admission is $7.

Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403-346-3896. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on May 14 at the Golden Circle west side parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for an eight km hike at Kerry Wood Nature Centre/McKenzie Loop. Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable. Bring lunch.

Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

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● Rockin’ Resumes and Incredible Interviews will be held on May 25, 3:45 to 5:15 in Waskasoo/Kiwanis Meeting Room at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Teens are invited to get expert advice on resume writing, interview skills and more, and get feedback. ● Purina Walk for Guide Dogs will be sponsored by Spruce View and District Lions Club on May 31 at Double Tree Village. Registration at 10:30 a.m. with the walk at 11:30 a.m. A free lunch at noon will follow. Pledge forms are available from all Lions Club members, from Innisfail Vet Clinic, Spruce View Co-op, Olds Vet Clinic or by phoning 403-7280008 or 403-728-0138. ● Camp Kuriakos 20th Final Bike Walk Run will be held on June 6. Participants, volunteers, sponsors, welcome.

Choose 100 km ride, 13 km walk, or 15 km run. Funds raised will subsidize camper fees. See www.kuriakos.ab.ca, or contact Paul at 403-746-2702 or paul@kuriakos.ab.ca. ● Eckankar Canada in Alberta will offer a free discussion on May 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Free Spiritual Experiences Guidebook for all guests. See www.spiritualexperience.org, or contact 403346-9238. ● Red Deer Chamber Singers Annual Spring Concert — When I Sing — takes place on May 29, 7:30 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. Enjoy a variety of contemporary popular, classic and stage music. Tickets available at the door for $10. ● Operation Joshua is accepting donations of Canadian Tire money to purchase supplies to assist a group of Red Deer people who are going to Greece as missionaries this summer. The money will be collected until June 1. See www. operationjoshua.org. To donate, drop off at front counter of Red Deer Advocate, or contact cstickel@reddeeradvocate. com. ● Camp Out and Jam at Ponoka Moose Hall located two km south on Hwy. 2A will be held on June 12 to 14. Tickets available for catered suppers. Concession open all day.

Bring your musical instruments and dancing shoes. Contact Lloyd at 403-887-577 or Gary at 403-746-0057. ● Festival of Music and Dance hosted by the Town and Country Dance Club, takes place at Spruce View Community Hall on June 6. Doors open at noon, dancing from 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Dinner and entertainment from 5 to 7 p.m.

Event features two alternating bands, The Reflections and The Diamonds. Refreshments served. No alcohol. Tickets, $40, are available by calling Doug or Doris at 403-728-3333, or Cliff and Joan at 403-342-4317. Free RV parking at the hall. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre Concert with Dave Gilmore and Kelly Giebelhaus goes May 23. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert at 7 p.m. Advance tickets at Golden Circle for $15 each. Phone 403-343-6074. ● Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Central Alberta Chapter presents Exhibit B — The Art of Craft Beer Event on May 21 from 5 to 8 p.m. at WestLake Grill at Heritage Ranch. Tickets available at www.bkticketcentre.ca. Enjoy and find out about craft beers, brew masters, exquisite food and more. ● Annual Lending Cupboard Ladies Luncheon will be held at Black Knight Inn on May 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and they are available from www. bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, 1-800-661-8793. For information call 403-356-1678. ● Parkinson Alberta 2015 Regional Hope Conference will be featured at CrossRoads Church on May 23 starting with the Annual General Meeting from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. and the conference from 9:45 a.m. to 3;45 p.m. Live streamed presentation by Dr. Becky Farley, PT, MS, PhD and in person plenary speakers Dr. Wayne Martin, neurologist, and Karen Hunka, RN. Fees are $50 for Parkinson Society members and $85 for non-members. See www.parkinsonalberta.ca/2015regional-hope-conference or call 403-346-4463. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta offers two special events in May. Face to Face Adult Support Group will

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MARCHING TO THEIR OWN BEAT Photos by LANA MICHELI /Advocate staff

Red Deer Royals band director Michael Mann conducts from the stands as six marching bands (top), made up of more than 700 young musicians from across Alberta, strike up a stirring rendition of O Canada at the close of the recent Marching Showband Classic at the Red Deer Centrium. The 20th-annual public event and fundraiser kickstarts the new marching season for the Royals.

The Royals also revealed their newest field show (below), titled Industry: Breaking Free, to music from George Gershwin.

The event attracted six bands from Calgary and Edmonton — including the Calgary Stampede Show Band and Bishop Grandin Marching Ghosts.

Riverlands Major city road construction projects set to get underway in June district moving forward at rapid pace

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Bright orange construction signs will soon be popping up at various roadways in Red Deer.

The City of Red Deer rolled out details on Wednesday on three major road projects that will get underway in June. All three projects are carryovers from last season.

Motorists can expect road closures and detours as the city moves closer to building its first roundabout in northeast Red Deer. Citizens should also expect work done to finish up the improvements on 55th Street and adding a new intersection on Taylor Drive.

In order to make the ride less bumpy, the city unveiled a new construction website letting motorists know where the crews are working, the timelines, the detours and the closures. Look for the page at www.reddeer.ca/construction.

Topping the list of major projects is the $45-million estimated road extension project that includes a roundabout in northeast Red Deer, one of the most congested areas of the city.

The work in this areas began last year with utilities servicing on the north end of Range Road 272, leading to River Bend Golf Course and Recreation Area.

Underground servicing in the south portion of Range Road 272 will be wrapped up this year. Plans also include constructing the two-lane roundabout at the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection, and extending 30th Street by two km north and 67th Street by one km east.

Vehicles may begin driving on the roundabout as early as 2016. As the city gets closer to opening the new traffic feature, a public education campaign will be launched.

More sanitary and water systems upgrading on 55th Street will continue throughout the summer. This $12-million estimated project includes rebuilding sidewalks, building multi-use pathways and widening the road to 3.5 metres from 3.2 metres.

Tom Marstaller, the Environmental Planning superintendent, said the work will begin at the end of June and is expected to be completed by Sep-

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City’s water superintendent Alex Monkman (left) and Environmental Planning superintendent Tom Marstaller show old and new water pipes at the Civic Yards site on Tuesday. The city is replacing the old pipes on 55th Street with newer, long-lasting pipes. tember.

Road closures will occur on 55th Street from 42nd Street to 48th for two months. The intersection of 55th Street and 48th Avenue will remain open for the duration of construction. There will also be temporary closures on 40th Avenue.

Elaine Vincent, director of Development Services, said phase 1 of the Taylor Drive improvement project was completed last year with the new realigned intersection. In total, the project was estimated last year to cost $20 million.

Work is already underway along Taylor Drive, at the intersection at Alexander Way and paving on 53rd Avenue.

The intersection is to be completed

by the end of the year.

“This project is about transforming the way people move in and out of our downtown,” said Vincent. “It will improve connections for pedestrians and vehicles, and ensure when you come to our city, the downtown is a destination, not just a thoroughfare.”

The city will spend the money allocated in the 2013 and 2014 capital budgets.

The city will also undergo the usual roadway maintenance programs, including crown paving, frost boil and pothole repairs, roadway and intersection improvements and water main replacements. The crown paving accounts for roughly 70.3 lane km per year. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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

The transformation of the former civic yards site into the bustling Riverlands district is taking shape.

In the coming months, the City of Red Deer will launch a public consultation process on the designs of the planned riverwalk.

“This is really going to be an urban neighbourhood unlike we have seen before,” said Charity Dyke, Riverlands project manager, “We’re going to see an area where there’s lots of things to do and places to live. It’s going to connect to the Waskasoo trail system as well as the river.”

Last year, the former civic yards buildings were demolished to make way for development.

Dyke said the city wants to ensure that Riverlands is a sustainable neighbourhood. As part of its contract, the demolition contractor was required to recycle as much material as possible.

“We recycled over 90 per cent of the materials that came out of the demolition,” said Dyke. “That’s a huge success for us that we diverted (17,000 tonnes of concrete and metal) from the landfill.”

The city owns roughly 23 acres of land that will be for sale in the future.

Planning is underway on many of the key features of the new district, including the riverwalk and gathering areas. The burial of the transmission lines is scheduled to begin after the May long weekend.

For more information on Riverlands, visit www.reddeer.ca/riverlands. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS United Way fund recipients to be announced today United Way of Central Alberta will announce today which community programs will receive money raised during its 2014 fundraising campaign.

In January, the local United Way announced it had raised a recordbreaking $2,304,062. It was the first campaign the organization purposely did not set a specific dollar amount as its goal.

Money will be distributed to community programs that focus on education, income and wellness.

The United Way supported 48 programs throughout the region as a result of its 2013 campaign.

United Way officials will be at Parkland Mall near the food court, from 1 to 3 p.m. today to make the announcement.

Donate a Ride helps provide more than 2,000 bus rides Red Deer Action Group’s 2015 Donate A Ride program will provide over 2,000 bus rides in its second year of operation.

In November, Red Deer Kinsmen announced it would donate $5,000 towards Donate A Ride to pay for 2,325 bus rides.

Through the program, tickets are provided to community agencies for distribution to people requiring transportation for education or employment, or to get to medical or social services appointments to help improve their lives.

Agencies to receive tickets this year are Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, Salvation Army, Loaves and Fishes, Canadian Mental Health Association, and Employment Placement Support Services.

Last year, $2,400 was raised for Donate A Ride.

For more information, call 403-3431198 or visit www.rdactiongroup.ca.

Help build a Lego city at the Dawe library branch A local teen Lego collector has loaned the Red Deer Public Library his copious collection of the building blocks for a fun two-hour event — building a Lego city.

On Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m., everyone is invited to come to the Dawe branch of the library, at 56 Holt St., to pitch in and build the city. The idea is to work as a community to build a Lego community.

Lego City kits will be provided for everybody and there will also be a Lego robot.

There will also be draws for Lego prizes, including a large kit.

For more information, call 403-3093488 or email lsheardown@rdpl.org.

Meet local wildlife at Kerry Wood on Saturday Get up close and personal with a salamander while you learn about local wildlife at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Saturday.

Meet the critter runs from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Red Deer facility at 6300 45th Ave. Admission is by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family.

Call 403-346-2010 for more information.

Injury collisions rise, damage decreases: stats Red Deer has been fatal-collision free since June 2014, but injury collisions increased 50 per cent in March, according to recently released statistics.

The most recent Red Deer Road Users Challenge news release shows 15 injury collisions in Red Deer in March, up from 10 in February.

However, property damage collisions fell from 257 to 227 in March.

Organized by Doug Taylor, a retired engineer, the Red Deer Road Users challenge tracks collision statistics.

The stats are compiled into six-month rolling averages.

Twice a year, Taylor donates up to $12,000 of his own money to four Red Deer groups: high school students, college students, seniors and adults.

Money is paid based on targets against the six-month statistics.

Craft beer, culinary treats raise funds for MS Society A unique showcase of craft beers, brew masters and culinary delights is set for later this month and tickets are still available.

On May 21 at the Westlake Grill at Heritage Ranch, at 6300 Cronquist Dr. in Red Deer, the event will entertain the curious connoisseur of craft beers with a sampling of unique brews as well as a variety of appetizers prepared by Chef Michael Ubbing of the Westlake Grill.

The event goes from 5 to 8 p.m.

Tickets cost $85 per person and can be purchased online at www.bkticketcentre.ca. The proceeds go towards the MS Society of Canada, Central Alberta Chapter.

RDC students raise funds for Women’s Outreach

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Hepatitis C awareness session set for May 19 Learn about your Hepatitis C risks and learn about prevention at an information session at the Sheraton Hotel on May 19.

The Canadian Aboriginal AIDS network and Shining Mountains Living Community Services is hosting the workshop between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Snacks and refreshments will be available.

For more information, call 403-3469794.

Annual plant exchange set for May 24 in Red Deer The Red Deer and District Garden Club will hold its annual plant exchange and sale for the green thumb in everyone.

On May 24 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer, people can find a plant or exchange one they have for something different.

Bring your own potted and labeled plants. For every two plants brought in, you receive one coupon.

For more information, visit www. reddeergardenclub.ca.

Bike swap on Saturday at the Collicutt Centre The annual bike swap, which brings hundreds of cyclists together to sell, buy or donate a bike, is on Saturday at the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer.

The one-day event will involve sellers being charged a 12 per cent consignment fee. Half the profit is donated to the community while the other half funds the next bike swap event.

Bikes that are donated are then given to groups in the community.

The bike intake is from 4 to 7 p.m. with the sale going from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m.

For more information, go to albertabikeswap.ca.

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Students from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in Red Deer ply the waters of Bower Ponds, dialing in the different strokes needed to manoeuvre a canoe on flat water. design of more than 20 real schools, spoken at over 20 events taking place across North America, advised five ministers of education and the Alberta Infrastructure team.

He sits on an advisory board to the Alberta minister of education, and is working to found a non-profit organization, run by students, focusing on empowering students to build continuous change in the education system.

Learn about beavers at Ellis Bird Farm workshop

Learn about beavers in our landscape at a free workshop at the Ellis Bird Farm on May 25.

The workshop is for resource managers, municipalities, landowners and anyone else who is interested in beavers.

The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Topics will range from beaver basics, beaver challenges, beaver banter and much more.

Pre-registration is required before May 20 by emailing info@ellisbirdfarm. ca.

Register now to see historic Lacombe on bus tour A bus tour that looks at historical aspects of Lacombe is scheduled for May 21.

The Lacombe historical bus tour will visit the Flat Iron Museum, Michener House, Blacksmith Shop and Lacombe Research Station.

The tour is presented by the Central Alberta Historical Society. Cost is $20 for members or $25 for non-members.

Lunch at the Morrison Tea House is included. The bus departs from the Red Deer Museum at 9:30 a.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the Red Deer Museum and are limited. The cutoff for tickets is May 12.

For further information, contact Faye at 403-343-1881.

Provincial band festival runs from May 11 to 22 Mark your calendars for the 2015 Alberta Band Association Provincial Festival of Bands.

It runs from May 11 to 22 at Red Deer College.

For more information, visit www. albertabandassociation.com or contact Joyce Howdle at 403-342-3526 or joyce. howdle@rdc.ab.ca

Unlocking potential discussed by young speaker The Red Deer and Museum and Art Gallery annual general meeting is May 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Guest speaker will be Cole Webber, whose talk is titled “Tapping into passion, unlocking potential.”

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RDC students enrolled in the Unit Clerk program have raised money for the Women’s Outreach Tools for Schools program.

The fundraising was part of Care 4 A Cause, an initiative developed by RDC instructor Brenda Stevenett, who was looking to provide a well-rounded learning experience in her curriculum.

Over $3,000 was raised through various fundraising initiatives, all organized by the students, who worked together as a team.

With the money raised, Women’s Outreach will be able to purchase enough backpacks and school supplies to provide 350 children with the tools they require for school.

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Oilpatch waiting to pass judgement ENERGY INDUSTRY, BAY STREET TAKE STOCK OF NDP ELECTION VICTORY IN ALBERTA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The new reality of an orange-tinged Alberta was beginning to sink in across the oilpatch and Bay Street on Wednesday and, though there were some jitters, many are awaiting more details before they pass judgment.

The NDP’s landslide election victory in a province that’s been a Progressive Conservative bastion for 44 years stunned Sonny Mottahed, president and CEO of Black Spruce Merchant Capital in Calgary.

“I’m pretty shocked, quite shocked,” he said.

“There’s been quite a bit of chatter this morning about capital already looking at a way to invest outside of Alberta just across borders into B.C. and Saskatchewan.”

The NDP has said it would raise corporate taxes to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and examine whether Albertans are getting their fair share of royalties.

The last time Alberta increased royalties, under former premier Ed Stelmach in 2007, there was an uproar from the industry and the changes were rolled back months later. At the time, the global economic downturn was just taking hold and producers were concerned the royalty increase would only compound their woes.

Mottahed said raising taxes and royalties in the current economic environment — with crude prices just beginning to bounce back from six-year lows — would be similarly “catastrophic.”

“I think people are now going to be sitting in boardrooms and devising plans and thinking what to do.”

Energy stocks were hurting on Wednesday. The group as a whole was off about 2.75 per cent. Major oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) was down six per cent, while Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) were down about three per cent.

“It’s a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, in my opinion, but at the end of the day what the NDP has brought in is a level of uncertainty, especially on the royalty structure side,” said Glenn Paradis, portfolio manager at Canoe Financial.

That means it’s going to be harder for Alberta energy companies to make spending decisions, said Paradis.

On Wednesday, incoming premier Rachel Notley said her government would “work collaboratively” with industry leaders and that decisions wouldn’t be made without their input.

Jeff Gaulin, vice-president of communications at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the group is “very confident that we will be able

to work with the new Alberta government.”

CAPP has made contact with Notley’s team and is expecting to meet with her in the coming weeks.

“The oil and gas industry works with governments of all political stripes across the country, at the federal level, at the provincial level and at the municipal level,” he said.

During the campaign, Notley also said she would take a less hands-on role in stumping for certain pipeline proposals — unlike past Progressive Conservative premiers who actively promoted projects like Keystone XL and Northern Gateway.

The CEO of Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB), the company aiming to build the contentious Northern Gateway oil pipeline to the West Coast, said he’s not worried.

“Energy is such a critical issue to Alberta. I’m really not that concerned that it’s not going to get the right attention or the right support from the new government,” Al Monaco said.

Asim Ghosh, CEO of Husky Energy Inc. (TSX:HSE), said it’s “business as usual” for its oil and gas operations in Alberta.

“I just remind you we’ve been around as a company for 75 years,” he said.

“You can’t change the wind but you can adjust your sails — that’s our approach. We don’t change our business approach because of political changes.”

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BRIEF Husky Energy Inc profits plunge 71% on low oil and gas prices CALGARY — Husky Energy Inc. (TSX:HSE) has reported a 71 per cent drop in first-quarter earnings as it struggled with low oil and gas prices.

The company earned $191 million or 17 cents a share in the quarter, compared with $662 million or 66 cents a share in the first quarter of last year.

Earnings included a $203-million deferred tax recovery.

Husky’s average realized price for its upstream production in the quarter was $40.84 a barrel, compared with $72.21 last year.

Production rose 9.2 per cent to 356,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day for the quarter compared with 326,000 barrels in the same quarter last year.

Operating costs per barrel dropped 13 per cent to $14.87 a barrel from $17.21 in the first quarter of 2014.

The company attributes the cost savings to lower cost production coming on stream and lower energy input costs.

The company had $3.2 billion in undrawn credit facilities at the end of the quarter.

Canadian Tire to buy 12 former Target Canada locations to fill out store network Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. says it has a deal to buy 12 real estate leases through the courtsupervised windup of Target Canada.

Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC.A) says it will pay $17.7 million for the leases once the deal is approved.

The stores are in five provinces in a variety of small and large communities.

Four of the locations are in British Columbia in Courtney, Cranbrook, Vernon and Victoria.

Three are in Quebec, with two in Montreal and one in Rimouski.

Two are in Ontario (Aurora and Sudbury) while the other three are in Halifax, Moncton, N.B., and Winnipeg.

Canadian Tire chief executive Michael Medline says the purchase will allow the company to accelerate its growth, improve its retail network and provide its customers with more convenient locations and larger stores.

McDonald’s employees, left to right, Jake Batara, Vilma Aspuria, Jhoana Rosete, Chloe Loria, Maria Adapo put on some cartoon smiles in the Red Deer South store. McDonald’s restaurants along with their customers celebrated McHappy Day Wednesday with $1 from the sale of every Big Mac, Happy Meal, McCafe beverage and egg McMuffin going to support the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta.

First Nation says No to more than $1B in first stage of LNG vote MORE THAN 180 VOTERS OPPOSE PLAN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BRITISH COLUMBIA

PORT SIMPSON, B.C. — The first of three votes on a natural gas benefit offer worth over $1 billion has been unanimously rejected by a First Nation on British Columbia’s northwest coast.

All of the more than 180 eligible voters at a meeting in Port Simpson stood up to oppose the plan to build a liquefied-natural-gas pipeline and terminal in their territory, said Lax Kw’alaams band member Malcolm Sampson.

Pacific NorthWest LNG, which is mostly owned

by Malaysia-based oil and gas giant Petronas, has applied to build an export terminal on Lelu Island, just south of Prince Rupert at the head of the Skeena River.

Residents have raised concerns over the project’s environmental impact, citing the site’s problematic location and the threat it poses to the watershed.

“Why would you build an LNG plant right at the mouth of the Skeena River?” said Sampson, who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting.

“There of all places.”

Sampson said the $1.15-billion offer in benefits over 40 years was not discussed at all during the meeting, which took place in a school gym so packed that some band members had to stand outside.

“Too much was at stake to wipe out a whole river,” said the father of eight and grandfather of 20.

He described the atmosphere at the meeting, where both proponents and the band council made presentations, as “very tense.”

Luanne Roth of the T. Buck Suzuki Foundation said an estimated 60 per cent of the Skeena estuary’s eel grass is located immediately off Lelu Island, which she described as critical salmon habitat.

“It’s in the worst place they could have chosen in the whole north coast,” she said of the proposed LNG site.

Information posted on the band’s website notes the proposal would provide an initial $27.8 million.

Annual payments would then begin at nearly $13 million and finish up with $50.5 million in the 40th year.

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The deal would provide 2,200 hectares of land in the Prince Rupert harbour area, worth about $108 million, and would promise jobs for qualified Tsimshian workers.

Further information on the site says that in exchange, Lelu Island and its traditional plants and medicines would be off limits to Lax Kw’alaams members.

As many as 431 culturally modified trees could be destroyed if the deal goes ahead, it adds.

About 120 kilometres of the pipeline would rest on the seabed, which, the document says, could negatively impact fish and their habitat, alter access to traditional fishing grounds and contaminate seafood through dredging.

The remaining members of the 3,700-strong band will have an opportunity to vote following two information sessions in Prince Rupert and Vancouver over the coming week.

Lax Kw’alaams Mayor Garry Reece said the band council would not comment on the outcome of the initial vote until members living outside of Port Simpson have had an opportunity to cast their ballots.

Pacific NorthWest LNG president Michael Culbert declined comment but thanked the Lax Kw’alaams council for the invitation to present to the community.

“Out of respect to the ongoing process overseen by mayor and council, it is premature and improper to comment further,” Culbert said an email.

Port Simpson resident Donnie Wesley, who voted no on Tuesday, said his people wanted to send a clear message to the provincial and federal governments that his community takes environmental issues seriously.

“It was a proud moment for our people,” said the lifelong fisherman.

“We stood our ground.”

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Canada Post gives online shoppers more options for shipping their order with new feature Canada Post is launching a new feature that gives online shoppers greater control over their parcels.

The postal service said Wednesday that FlexDelivery will allow customers to decide exactly which post office receives the delivery of their online order.

That means a pair of shoes once mailed to your home while you were still at work can now be routed to an outlet near your office or elsewhere.

Canada Post said consumers will need to register for a unique identification code on their website before selecting which post offices they want to go to pick up their items.

Users will then receive a unique FlexDelivery address which substitutes for their traditional mailing address.

When the online order arrives at the post office of choice, the user will receive an email notification.

FlexDelivery is launching as Canada Post looks for ways to stay competitive with retailers who are launching an array of new shopping choices, such as parcel lockers inside their stores.

The new option could also help the postal service contain its costs.

About a third of households have nobody home when Canada Post tries to deliver a parcel, which results in the package being further routed to the nearest post office, it said.

Canada Post says about 6,000 post offices across the country will participate in the FlexDelivery option.

On Wednesday, Best Buy announced a new online marketplace that allows small retailers to list their products on the electronics retailer’s website bestbuy.ca.

Shoppers will then be able to pick up their merchandise at one of the company’s 192 Canadian stores.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 126.93 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.18 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.09 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.71 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Energy stocks led the Toronto stock market to a triple-digit drop Wednesday as investors weighed the potential impacts of the election of a majority NDP government in Alberta.

Experts say investors are reacting to the uncertainty over how an inexperienced government will balance the budget and whether policies affecting the energy sector will change.

“Sometimes it’s better to have the devil you know than the devil you don’t,” said Glenn Paradis, portfolio manager at Canoe Financial.

The NDP campaigned on a number of promises including corporate tax hikes and a review of the province’s royalty regime.

Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada, said the oilpatch could be forced to take on a higher tax burden.

“All kinds of things could potentially change,” Cieszynski said. “It’s introduced an element of uncertainty after 44 years of Conservative rule where people had a pretty good idea of where they stood.”

But Craig Jerusalim, portfolio manager at CIBC Asset Management, said some of the NDP’s “harshest rhetoric” surrounding tax rates and oil and gas royalties came at a time when oil prices were around US$80 a barrel.

“The NDP government will likely refrain from kicking the industry when it’s down, and perhaps focus more on preserving jobs, at least in the short term,” he said.

Experts said it’s too soon to know the real impact of the leadership change, and trigger-happy investors are merely overreacting to the worst-case scenario.

“Investors tend to shoot first and ask questions later,” Paradis said.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 150.05 points at 15,023.89. The market’s energy sector was the lead decliner,

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.88 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.01 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.65 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.91 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.21 First Quantum Minerals . 18.21 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.81 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.89 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.87 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.13 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.70 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.04 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.32 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.44 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.65 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 67.23 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.51 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 36.90 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.48 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 12.62 Canyon Services Group. . 7.64 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.88 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3150 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.60 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.13 losing nearly three per cent, even as crude oil climbed higher.

The election results are likely to hang over the TSX for a couple of days, Cieszynski said.

“Usually with politics it’s fairly short-lived,” Cieszynski said.

“The biggest hit will probably come through over say the next day or two, and then it should work its way through — until you actually see them come into power and enact policies. So the expectations get built in, and then things should stabilize after that and it will probably go back to trading off the oil price again.”

In New York, markets were down after U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen called stock prices “quite high” and data from payrolls processor ADP showed the pace of private-sector hiring slowed in April.

The Dow Jones average lost 86.22 points to 17,841.98, the Nasdaq fell 19.69 points to 4,919.64 and the S&P500 was off 9.31 points at 2,080.15.

The loonie was up 0.22 of a U.S. cent at 83.06 cents, underperforming compared to the currencies of other oil-producing nations.

“The Canadian dollar is lagging behind some of the other oil currencies, on a day when oil is up pretty good,” Cieszynski said.

The June crude oil contract was up 53 cents at US$60.93 a barrel and the June gold contract was down $2.90 at US$1,190.30 an ounce.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,023.89, down 150.05 points Dow — 17,841.98, down 86.22 points S&P 500 — 2,080.15, down 9.31 points Nasdaq — 4,919.64, down 19.69 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.19 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 47.67 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.25 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.86 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.11 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.83 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.76 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.75 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.03 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.61 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.99 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.21 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 56.22 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.40 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.90 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.97 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.29 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.02 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.55 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.85 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.51 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.54 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.09 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.09 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.24

Cdn — 83.06 cents US, up 0.22 of a cent Pound — C$1.8364, up 0.49 of a cent Euro — C$1.3664, up 1.54 cents Euro — US$1.1349, up 1.58 cents Oil futures: US$60.93 per barrel, up 53 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,190.30 per oz., down $2.90 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.675 oz., down 21.5 cents $664.70 kg., down $6.91 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $7.80 lower $464.50; July ’15 $3.40 lower $455.40; Nov ’15 $3.50 lower $446.90; Jan. ’16 $3.60 lower $447.60; March ’16 $3.50 lower $447.50; May ’16 $3.40 lower $448.10; July ’16 $3.40 lower $448.10; Nov. ’16 $3.40 lower $442.90; Jan. ’17 $3.40 lower $443.60; March ’17 $3.40 lower $443.60; May ’17 $3.40 lower $443.60.

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.

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Enbridge posts lower Q2 adjusted earnings Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) is reporting a $383 million net loss in the first quarter, mostly as a result of currency fluctations, and lower adjusted earnings that came in below analyst estimates. The adjusted earnings excluding currency hedges were $468 million, or 56 cents per common share.

Analysts had estimated 58 cents per share of adjusted earnings, according to Thomson Reuters, down from $492 million or 60 cents per share in last year’s first quarter.

Enbridge said a variety of factors pushed down the adjusted earnings for its liquids pipelines business and gas distribution arm but that it’s still on track to achieve between $2.05 and $2.35 per share of adjusted earnings for the full year.

Loblaw Q1 profit soars Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L) is reporting a big jump in first quarter profit as it benefits from major strategic moves, including the purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart. Loblaw says its net income was up 21.7 per cent from the same time last year, rising to $146 million and its adjusted net income was up 96.7 per cent to $301 million.

Loblaw’s overall revenue for the quarter ended March 22 was $10.05 billion, up $2.76 billion or 37.8 per cent from the same time last year.

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People load in to a Daimler Freightliner Inspiration self-driving truck for a demonstration Wednesday in Las Vegas. Although much attention has been paid to autonomous vehicles being developed by Google and traditional car companies, Daimler believes that automated tractor-trailers will be rolling along highways before self-driving cars are cruising around the suburbs.

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LAS VEGAS — Although much attention has been paid to autonomous vehicles being developed by Google and traditional car companies, one truck maker believes that automated tractor-trailers will be rolling along highways before self-driving cars are cruising around the suburbs.

On freeways, there are no intersections, no red lights, no pedestrians, making it a far less complex trip, said Wolfgang Bernhard, a management board member of Daimler AG, at a Tuesday event in Las Vegas.

Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving big rig on the road atop Hoover Dam Tuesday night.

But the company says the autonomous truck needs more testing before it is ready to hit the highway.

There are many advantages to autonomous big rigs, which use a combination of features that already are available on high-end passenger cars.

A computer-controlled truck never gets drowsy.

And eventually a fully autonomous rig could cut expensive driver costs for companies.

Still, there likely will always be a human behind the wheel, more as a logistics manager and to take over in an emergency.

Legal and philosophical questions stand in the way, as does perfecting the technology that links radar sensors and cameras to computers that can brake and accelerate the truck and handle any freeway situation.

Legal issues are among the biggest obstacles. Daimler Trucks North

America LLC CEO Martin Daum said society might forgive a number of deaths caused by tired truck drivers at the wheel but they would never forgive a single fatal crash blamed on a fully automated big rig.

For now four states, including Nevada, and the District of Columbia, certify testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads as long as a human driver is behind the wheel, and a few others are keen on allowing the tests.

Bernhard said more states need to allow testing of autonomous driving before fleets of self-driving semi-trucks fill U.S. freeways and interstates anytime soon.

“Then it starts to make sense for our customers,” Bernhard said, when states that allow it are linked together.

“That will be the point when the tipping point is reached.”

Bernhard said the company is still far from taking customer orders for the trucks. “We’re just getting people inspired,” he said.

The truck shown off Tuesday night is called “Inspiration,” and Daum said it was a first step, much like landing on the moon.

Taking a line from astronaut Neil Armstrong, Bernhard told the crowd bused to the site from Las Vegas for the news conference that it was about to witness “a short drive for man and a long haul for mankind.”

On Wednesday, the company planned test-drives with invited members of the media to show off the automated technology.

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Food fight: Fight fatigue – get your stress new diet guidelines levels in check Fatigue, sweet cravings and mental fog ‌ three of the most common symptoms I observe when patients have overused their stress response system in their body, otherwise known as the adrenal glands.

The majority of us living in North America are being exposed to more stressors than ever on a daily basis.

Living in a fastpaced world with growing societal demands has, in my opinion, started to take its toll on our bodies, significantly impacting our personal well-being and health.

Stress is unavoidable, even SHANE desirable in JOHNSON some situations.

Our bodies NATUROPATHIC coping stratMEDICINE egy is using an organ system call the adrenal glands to produce a hormone called cortisol.

It is excessive, prolonged stress that ages us prematurely, both mentally and physically and can lead to an increased susceptibility to conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

These stressors are both external, such as the demands of our workplace and family, as well as internal stressors, such as the diet we consume.

Mounted stress from juggling too many hats can have detrimental effects on your body.

However, there is a simple, highly accurate test that can be done to confirm whether the adrenal glands are the culprit to your lack of energy and inability to function competently.

Once and if this is confirmed, many nutritional and herbal options exist to appropriately treat them so you can start living more peacefully.

It is important to understand the different stages of stress that your body goes through when encountering a stressful situation.

There are three stages of stress: � First is the Alarm Stage: A burst of the cortisol hormone is released due to a stressor, resulting in the “fight or flight� response. � Second is the Resistance Stage:

The body uses high cortisol levels to help resist the stressor. This allows you to “push through� the stressor. Examples of this include a death in the family, high-stress time of work, newborn children, etc. Prolonged time in this stage leads to stress-related diseases (tired and wired, insomnia, anxiety). � The third and last stage is the Exhaustion Stage: This is a reaction to prolonged negative effects of high cortisol levels from stress.

This often results in morning fatigue, susceptibility to infection, decreased recovery from exercise, low blood sugar, feeling burned out, depression and low sex drive.

So, how do you accurately know if your adrenal glands are causing you symptoms such as fatigue, irritability, cravings for salt and/or sweets and poor memory?

In my practice, we use a saliva cortisol test that is sent off to a laboratory for analysis.

This test is widely accepted in the research community and is becoming the preferred method of choice for measuring cortisol levels.

If lab testing confirms poor adrenal function, the good news is that it is treatable through nutrition, supplementation of specific herbs and nutrients, lifestyle changes and stress management.

My clinic also provides a treatment called intravenous (IV) nutrient therapy that has a great rate of success with patients who need adrenal support. IV nutrient therapy has many advantages in comparison to taking oral supplements.

Poor adrenal function is rarely looked at in conventional medicine and therefore leads to many individuals suffering from fatigue needlessly. If you or a loved one have not found the answers to your fatigue, the easy first step is to get tested.

Get your stress levels in check and start moving forward with life again.

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

Is coffee a health food? Are cholesterol-packed eggs OK? Could eating less red meat help the environment and your health?

A top science panel’s recent suggestions for North America’s ideal diet are sparking food fights and some wacky headlines (like Coffee Addiction Not Bad for You). The advisory panel’s recommendations shape the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines — the official U.S. healthy-diet blueprint that informs everything from school lunch menus to the dietary advice doctors provide.

Food-industry critics have already slammed the panel’s ideas, with the North MIKE ROIZEN American Meat Institute denouncing them as “flawed� and “nonsensical,� and the American Beverage Association saying the group “went beyond its ... authority� by suggesting a tax on sweetened drinks and foods. We think there’s plenty to cheer about in the panel’s suggestions, though we disagree on a few points.

Here’s our take on some recommendations in this important report. � Our food choices affect the health of the planet. The advisory committee’s guidelines suggest that an estimation of a food’s quality include its sustainability — the idea that what we eat affects the environment.

The panel recommends eating less red meat, not just because doing so lowers your risk for heart disease, colon cancer, diabetes and memory dysfunction, but also because producing most beef and other meats is not environmentally friendly. We don’t think the recommendations go far enough.

If you eat red meat, make sure it’s raised without added hormones or antibiotics, and keep it to under four ounces of beef or six ounces of pork per week. � Cut back on sugar. North Americans consume, on average, 22 to 30 teaspoons of added sugars daily mostly from soda and other sweet drinks.

The panel recommends cutting way back on sugar-sweetened drinks and consuming only 10 teaspoons of added sugar per day; we think that’s nine teaspoons too many. The advisory committee also favors a new food-labeling rule that would call for clearly listing added sugars, something food industry groups have fought against. They don’t

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missioned by the Canadian Women’s Foundation suggests most Canadians are lacking knowledge about the definition of sexual consent.

According to Canadian law, consent is the voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity, which can be withdrawn at any time.

While 96 per cent of Canadians agreed that sex should always be consensual, 67 per cent of those surveyed didn’t fully understand what that means. Only a third of the respondents identified that consent can be revoked

at any time during a sexual encounter.

Pollsters also found about one in 10 Canadians believed consent is not required, or they didn’t know if it’s required, between spouses or long-term partners. The online poll of 1,500 Canadians was conducted by Angus Reid Forum on April 8 and 9.

The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily rep-

Majority of Canadians lack full understanding of sexual consent, poll finds TORONTO — An online poll com-

resentative of the whole population.

The Canadian Women’s Foundation released the poll findings to coincide with the launch of its annual Campaign to End Violence, which runs throughout May. “Most sexual assaults in Canada are committed by someone the victim knows and trusts,� said director of violence prevention Anuradha Dugal in a release. “It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been together — sexual consent is always required.�

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want you to know about added sugars and syrups that pack on pounds, boost your risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, cancer, memory loss and more, but we do. � Bring on the fruit, grains and veggies! The panel noted that most North Americans are not getting enough of eight important nutrients: Vitamins A, C, D and E, plus folate, calcium, magnesium and fibre. Why? We don’t eat enough fruit, veggies or 100 per cent whole grains. Try reserving half of your plate for produce, and one-quarter for a whole grain. � Worry less about eggs. The panel says you don’t have to count milli& MEHMET OZ grams of cholesterol in food or worry about high-cholesterol foods like eggs.

We disagree. It’s true that for most people cholesterol from food doesn’t really affect blood cholesterol levels. But egg yolks contain lecithin, which boosts blood levels of compounds, such as trimethylamine; those compounds are linked to plaque buildup in arteries and lead to kidney failure more predictably than diabetes. Egg whites are OK; limit intake to one egg yolk weekly. � Don’t feel guilty about coffee.

We agree, although for some of you, caffeine causes sleep problems, which can raise your risk for diabetes, heart disease and weight gain.

However, around 88 per cent of North Americans are fast metabolizers of caffeine, which means coffee doesn’t cause migraine, an abnormal heartbeat, anxiety or gastric upset after a cup. Then, five cups a day won’t hurt you and may lower your risk for Type 2 diabetes, depression, heart disease, Parkinson’s and memory problems. � Cut back on salt. The panel says most people should get no more than 2,500 mg of sodium daily.

Most of us consume closer to 3,500 mg, often from processed food, fast food and restaurant meals. They recommend that you cut back by eating more fresh food. We agree, although most of you won’t be hurt by eating more than 2,500 mg. Those are delicious options everyone agrees on!

The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen of Cleveland Clinic, are authors of YOU: Losing Weight. For more information, go to www.RealAge.com.

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Boyfriend puts his daughters first Dear Annie: I have been in a relationship with “Ted” for the past eight years.

We each have adult children from previous marriages. Ted has always put his daughters ahead of me and our relationship.

When they were younger, I completely underMITCHELL stood, but they & SUGAR are adults now, and he still does it.

Ted has to get their permission to spend any time with me. Vacations are completely out of the question. I see him, at best, four times a month, and the girls call and text constantly the entire time we’re together, always about nothing. He has broken our

dates and left in the middle of dinner to help them find an earring or a pair of shoes. The oldest recently married, and she and her husband are living in Ted’s basement.

Annie, he put these girls through college. They have degrees and good jobs, and yet they refuse to leave the nest. Ted says he doesn’t know how to fix it. We fight about this often, and he always takes their side. I am frustrated. When we first began dating, Ted asked me to wait until the kids were out of high school and said then we’d get married. Then he asked me to wait until they were finished with college.

Now it’s when both are married and on their own. I don’t see them ever letting that happen.

Ted bought me a ring, which I am not allowed to wear around the girls because it upsets them. He can’t have pictures of us in his house because they wouldn’t like it.

I once posted pictures of us on my Facebook page, and Ted totally lost it because he was afraid his daughters

would see.

I suggested we attend counseling, but he refused.

He is stressed and unhappy, and being around him is difficult because he takes it out on me.

I know this relationship is toxic and I should move on, but it is hard to do when you love someone.

We get along great when they leave us alone, but that rarely happens, and I am constantly depressed about it.

What should I do? —Lost and Alone in Kentucky Dear Lost: Please understand that Ted is never going to put you first. He is not going to marry you unless his daughters give their permission, and they aren’t going to do it. So what are you willing to put up with in order to remain with him?

If you are OK playing third fiddle to those girls and will take marriage off the table permanently, you could have a nice, limited, semi-frustrating relationship with Ted. But if that’s not good enough, leave before you waste

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sional progress you’ll make.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your ruler Mercury is in your career zone, so step up to the professional plate and showcase your Virgo versatility.

Thursday, May 7 But avoid being too black-and-white about a comCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Alex- plicated situation. ander Ludwig, 23; Ivan Sergei, 44; Breckin Meyer, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Loved ones will 41 behave in unpredictable ways that you can’t anTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s a ticipate. It’s time to broaden your great day for communication, social mental horizons through nifty netmedia and business. working and sharing ideas with likeHAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are minded friends. a very devoted partner and friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 2015 is the year to travel or move Your imagination and intuition will house, be more creative at work, take you far today Scorpio — if you plus more disciplined with your daily let them. Pay attention to the symdiet and fitness routine. bolism in your dreams — plus stay ARIES (March 21-April 19): tuned for a distinctly deja-vu moCommunicating with loved ones ment. should be fun today, as you enjoy SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. convivial conversation and discuss 21): If you are attached, it’s time to joint ventures. patch up partnership problems as JOANNE For some single Rams, love is you take a deep breath and talk waiting in your local neighbourhood.

MADELEINE things through. Singles — look for TAURUS (April 20-May 20): love with someone who is smart, MOORE With the Sun and Mars moving sexy and spontaneous. through your sign, it’s time to be CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. bold and brave. Draw inspiration 19): Work, school or volunteer dufrom birthday great Eva Peron, who ties should go well, as relations with declared “I have more strength than I appear to colleagues improve and you’re in the mood to have.” enjoy your job. Joint ventures and group activities GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re at your are also favoured. gregarious Gemini best today, as you entertain AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your stars others with your funny stories and witty repartee. highlight friendship, hobbies, sporting activities, Social events, joint ventures and social media are travel, adventure and creative projects. So make also favoured. sure you put aside time to do something special CANCER (June 21-July 22): The more gen- that makes your heart sing. erous — and forgiving — you are towards loved PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work projects ones, the better the day will be. Your fertile Can- and business ventures look positive, as you accer imagination is firing, so put it to good use via a cept the learned advice of a colleague or mentor. creative project.

Don’t try to re-invent the wheel — follow in the LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Sun and footsteps of successful predecessors.

Mars in your career zone, it’s time to be pasJoanne Madeline Moore is an internationally sionately proactive and creative at work. Plus the syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column more you network with others, the more profes- appears daily in the Advocate.

BRIEF Arizona officials find fake skeletons in lawn chairs while searching for bodies CIENEGA SPRINGS, Ariz. — A man snorkeling in the Colorado River near the Arizona and California border was terrified — and later embarrassed — when he came across two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs about 40 feet underwater.

The man reported the skeletons to the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, launching a hunt for what authorities believed could be real bodies.

It turned out the skeletons were fake and had been strategically placed to appear as if they were sitting together, their lawn chairs bound to large rocks. A diver from the Buckskin Fire Department captured the scene on a video camera attached to his head.

The sheriff’s office called the scene a tea party.

The skeletons are wearing sunglasses, and one is holding a sign that includes the words “Bernie” and “dream in the river,” although the entire sign is not legible. The sign also has the date of Aug. 16, 2014, which is possibly when the skeletons were placed there.

“I don’t think they were trying to set up anything to scare anyone. I think they were gonna try to be funny,” Lt. Curtis Bagby said.

The sign could be a reference to the movie Weekend at Bernie’s, in which the two main characters lug around their dead boss for days, losing and recovering his body several times, Bagby said. At one point in the film, Bernie’s corpse falls off a boat and into water.

The sheriff’s office won’t launch an investigation into who left the skeletons there, Bagby said.

“Things happen. We go all the time to false alarms. That’s just a firstresponder’s life. We’re trying not to be overly concerned about it, not make too big a deal out of it,” Bagby said.

Instead, the sheriff’s office wants to have a little fun with the situation.

Bagby said divers will recover the skeletons sometime this week and that he is considering placing them outside the sheriff’s office as a joke.

“We like to show some things that

Giant aerial sculpture installed between high-rises in Boston’s Financial District BOSTON — A giant aerial sculpture is floating over a park in Boston’s Financial District, bringing a shimmer of spring where snowplow piles towered just weeks ago.

Early Sunday, dozens of workers closed nearby streets and set to work installing the 600-foot work by artist Janet Echelman, using a battery of cranes and scissor lifts.

The orange and magenta netting made of polyethylene rope weighs a ton, and is designed to respond fluidly to wind and weather. It will remain suspended in the Rose Kennedy Greenway between two high-rise buildings across the Greenway through October.

Echelman is based in suburban Brookline. Her sculpture — which includes more than 100 miles of twine — is inspired by ancient fishing nets. She has installed similar works in Seattle; Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; and other cities.

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CTV announced Tuesday that casting is open for home cooks who think they have what it takes to win the competition show, which is being renewed for a third season.

Canadian judges Michael Bonacini (O&B restaurant empire), Alvin Leung (Bo Innovation in Hong Kong and R&D in Toronto) and Claudio Aprile (Origin Restaurants) are set to return to challenge everyday Canadians to elevate their cooking and presentation to a professional level.

The winner takes home $100,000.

Home cooks can apply at http://www. ctv.ca/MasterChefCanada until July 19.

Production is set to begin this fall in Toronto on the 15-episode season from Proper Television.

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

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2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300

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Coming Events

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.

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.

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

ROSIE Ron Ronald James Rosie was born in Orkney, SK on February 26, 1934 and departed this world peacefully into the loving and awaiting arms of his wife LaVerne on May 5, 2015 at the Red Deer Hospice House. Ron spent most of his working life in the oil patch operating as a tool push until his retirement.

Upon retirement he started a small ceiling cleaning business which he and LaVerne operated for a few years. Once this business proved too much for them he settled into odd jobs helping on the Muth farm and of course he went into full tinkering mode where he continued his many hobbies including collecting old model cars, clocks and trinkets. He kept his fingers and mind working until recently making necklaces and earrings out of special Canadian quarters which he insisted every female he met should wear.

A strong and passionate man who knew the value of hard work, dad was quite a perfectionist and if he was given a task you could be sure it would be done better than required. He was a prankster and a stinker. He enjoyed the spotlight and it kept his spirits up to know he was the centre of attention.

He was an avid sportsman playing baseball in his younger days, followed by golf and curling with LaVerne. One of his greatest memories is an 8 ender his team scored. Left behind to cherish his memory are his children Jody (Lloyd Muth), Rhonda, Kelley and Darcy (Kimberley) Rosie, seven grandchildren Kenzel (Flint Kehler) and Chad Muth, Krysten and Linden Klein, Gage, Kayla and Kadey Rosie and two greatgrandchildren Alyla Rosie and Peyton Kehler. He is survived by his sister Eileen (Bridle) and younger brother Ken and pre-deceased by his wife LaVerne and his mother Leila and father James and older sister Alarine (Kress).

Ron also wanted to thank the staff at the Sylvan Lake Lodge and Sylvan Lake Bethany facility for taking such good care of him over the last few years as well as heartfelt well-wishes to his special friends he met there.

Our family welcomes friends, relatives and acquaintances to a celebration of Grandpa Rosie’s life at the Sylvan Lake Legion on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 1:00 P.M. and for a time of fellowship.

Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations in Ron’s name may be made to the Red Deer Hospice House where Ron was so lovingly cared for in his final days.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

403-845-2626

Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know he’s arrived...

309-3300

IRWIN Rev. Lawrence (Lorne) H. Feb. 24, 1925 - May 5, 2015 Lorne was released into the arms of His Savior and Lord Jesus Christ on May 5, 2015.

He was born in LaVerne, California, February 24, 1925 to Lawrence and Lydia Irwin and grew up on a farm in the Arrowwood District. Lorne attended the Calgary Prophetic Institute which later became Berean Bible College. He later taught there for several years. While attending Bible College he met and married Kathleen I. Whiteside.They were blessed with children Lynda, Ronald, Janet, Philip and Rebecca.

As a family they pastored in Rosebud, Red Deer, Clearbrook BC, High River, Moose Jaw SK, First Baptist Calgary, and Blackie. Lorne also served as an interim pastor in Calgary, Olds, and Lethbridge. Serving His Lord was his passion wherever he had opportunity. Lorne is survived by his loving wife Kathleen of 67 years, as well as children Lynda (Chuck), Ron (Esther), Janet (Bob), Phil (Jacquie), Rebecca (Grant), 14 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

He also leaves his sister Mildred of California and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, 8 siblings, grandson Stephen and granddaughter Bobbi Joelle. A Graveside Service for family will be held at the Mountain View Memorial Gardens.

The Memorial Service Celebrating Lorne’s Life will be held at First Baptist Church, 1311 4th Street SW, Calgary on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. A donation to the First Baptist Church Foundation or Gideon’s International would be appreciated in lieu of flowers. Special appreciation to Dr’s Loewen, Smart and Saeed and the staff of Trinity Lodge and Rocky Ridge Retirement Community for their wonderful care and assistance.

To express condolences, please visit: www.mountainviewmemorial.ca

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”

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 NOW PLAYING VLT’S AT

EAST 40TH PUB

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Lost

April 23 near Burnt Lake Trail, small black and tan female dog, about 15 lbs., named “Molly”. Pls. call 403-309-6903 EARRING, GOLD HORSESHOE style, with diamonds. Lost Sat. April 25 at Imaging Centre or Tony Romas, or State & Main Restaurant.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE. If found please call 403-342-0444

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Found

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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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Funeral Directors & Services

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

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

720

Clerical

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.

SMALL, but quickly growing office in need of experienced OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR/ BOOKKEEPER. - Proficient in MS Office, Excel, Word and Simply Accounting - A/R, A/P, data entry, Invoicing, general ledger, payroll. Taking sales orders for product and entering information. - Provide administrative support to management. (book meetings, document preparation and editing, etc.) - Data Entry, filing, etc. - Proficient in computer knowledge. Highly organized, have good work ethic and professionalism. Selfstarter. - Minimum 2 years’ experience. - Exhibits team leadership abilities and strong communication skills. - Must have a RCMP background check completed before employment can start. Applicant must have the ability to take initiative, multi task and be highly motivated willing to give her/his recommendation and option with new ideas and thoughts. Needs to be a team player.

Please send resume with salary expectation to: hmorelli@xplornet.com

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

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Coming Events

CLASSIFIEDS VICTORIA DAY Hours & Deadlines Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY MAY 18, 2015 Red Deer Advocate Publication Dates: SATURDAY MAY 16 TUESDAY MAY 19 Deadline is: FRIDAY MAY 15 @ 5 p.m.

Central Alberta Life Publication Date: THURSDAY MAY 21 Deadline is: THURSDAY MAY 14@ 5 P.M. CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Births TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Card Of Thanks ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

Welcome Wagon

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

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.

In Memoriam

In loving memory of Pearl Lucille Nelson, who passed away on May 9, 1985.

Softly the leaves of memory fall, Gently we gather and treasure them all, Unseen, unheard, you are always near, Still loved, still missed, so very dear.

No length of time can take away, Our thoughts of you from day to day, Whatever else we fail to do, We never fail to think of you.

Lovingly remembered, your husband Roger, sister Deloris, and nieces, Lorraine, Jo-Anne, Carmen, Heather, and Jennifer

Anders Park 12 ASKIN CLOSE May 7, 8 & 9 Thurs. & Fri. 4 - 8, Sat. 9-2 China cabinets, curios, table, chairs household misc

Morrisroe

Vanier Woods 27 VICTOR CLOSE May 9 & 10, 12-4 Crafts from recycled and other items.

West Park 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 Multi family sale.

19 Munro Cres.

Thurs. May 7, 12-7 pm.

Fri. May 8, 12-7 pm.

Rosedale

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

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL: 347 Ramage Close May 8, Friday, 4 - 8 May 9, Saturday, 10 - 4 Various items including camping goods, costume jewelry, brass headboard & rails.

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, May 7, 2015

790

P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Office Assistant. Friendly, energetic, and ability to work independently. Fax resume to 403-340-3349 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Oilfield

800

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

Professionals

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

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 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

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

CONSTRUCTION

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

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.

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

1660

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

A must see to believe.

Actual size tiger head a beautiful pillow $150 403-347-7405

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

2 NEEDLES for an LP stereo player, older model Zenith, 5/8 long, 3/8 wide $8 403-346-2192

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Wanted To Buy

1930

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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

Jewellery

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

1710

For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am.

Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

1 day a week in:

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

3060

MORRISROE MANOR

3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

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

$229.00/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA Timberstone Way, Thompson Cres., Thomas Place, Talson Place, Talisman Close, Trump Close, etc...

JOHNSTONE PARK

$207.20/mo.

ALSO Timothy Dr. Towers Close, Turner Cres. and Tobin Gate $107.36/mo. ********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Jackson & Jarvis Close WWwWWES********************* For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

Handyman Services

1200

Misc.

Services

1290

BEAT THE RUSH! Book DUMP RUNS, clean ups now for your home projects. and more. 403-550-2502 Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

NOW is the time to get Call James 403-341-0617 your yard in shape.

Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625 Massage

Therapy

1280

VANIER AREA

CONCRETE???

10 - 2am Private back entry

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close Vincent Close

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

403-341-4445

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

Advocate Opportunities

55 & 56 Ave. also 39 St. also 41 & 42 St.

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

CLEARVIEW bi-level 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1125 avail. June 1 N/S, no pets.

Call 403-391-1780

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area.

WESTPARK

Sherwood Cres.

SOUTHBROOK AREA

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or June 1. 403-304-5337

MICHENER AREA 44 & 45 AVE.

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

3050

Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr.

WOODLEA

CARRIERS NEEDED

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

DEER PARK AREA

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

INGLEWOOD AREA

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

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

For LANCASTER Area

Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

3030

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

ROUTES IN:

Condos/ Townhouses

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, w/dble. att. Suites heated garage, Lacombe, June 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious 403-782-2007 suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

FOR LEASE, Executive Mike 403-350-1620 style 1/2 duplex in 403-986-6889 Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble.

DOWNTOWN area, June garage, no pets, N/S. 1, large 2 bdrm. w/balco403-588-2740 ny, quiet bldg, no pets, $895. 403-309-2368 WESTPARK Main floor, 4 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, 3 appls, GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. shared laundry, heated apartments, avail. immed, dbl. garage, no pets, n/s, rent $875 403-596-6000 rent & DD $1750 + power LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. & gas. 403-391-2292 SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

For VANIER Area

Ibbotson Close Imbeau Close

541189D29-E12

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

WANTED apartment size upright freezer, approx. 20” wide x 21”deep.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/re403-346-5360 tamarack, poplar. mote, used little $75, also Price depends on location. black glass tv stand, Lil Mule Logging bought at Sims 403-318-4346 $125 403-352-8811

INGLEWOOD AREA

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

1900

1860

Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Travel Packages

1830

BOWER AREA

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

T-BAR back row/pull exercise equipment $200 obo 403-346-4263

1720

ANDERS AREA

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

1860

3030

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off.

403-586-4558

Now Hiring

1730

1590

3 days per week, no weekends

820

TWO 6’ mahogany 5 shelf wall units, like new $50/ea., 2 beige highback bar stools, $20/ea, 2 black bar stools $10/ea, dbl. stainless steel sink $5, 2 new swivel padded moving dollies 30” x 18”, $35 for both, 2 new plastic folding saw horses $12/ea, size 10 mens steel toed work boots, $30 403-358-5568

Sporting Goods

FREE standing metal ironing board $25, 5L electric crock pot $15, London Fog dress coat size 12, slate OVER 50 years old, Tiger Household blue, dry cleaned $50, Claw necklace in beautiful Appliances antique magazine rack, Start your career! casing $200 403-347-7405 dark wood $20, two 14” See Help Wanted BEAUMARK microwave, hanging wire baskets reg. size w/turntable $30 w/new coco liners, ea. $8 Looking for a new pet?

403-346-5360 or 2/$12 403-227-2653 Check out Classifieds to Clothing KENMORE fridge, white, find the purrfect pet.

VINTAGE Royal Doulton 18 c.f., Roper stove, white, Beswick horses, brown BOOTS, leather, Italian self-clean, $150 for both or Weed Sprayer required. shetland colt, foal and po- Condos/ ladies chocolate, soft will sell separate.

No experience necessary. ny, 3 1/2” high $40; Royal Townhouses glove fit over knee length, 403-746-5123 Must have valid Class 5 Dux Bohemian cat, porcezippered back, 2 3/4” heel, Drivers License. Fax lain, mint cond, $35; DC $200. 403-227-2976 2 BDRM. Sylvan Lake Resume to 403-227-5099, Household SHOES cap size 7 3/8, like across from beach, n/s, no Classifieds...costs so little email to cdsprung@ new $18; Merrell Ortholite pets, $1075/mo., utils.

Furnishings Saves you so much! telus.net shoes, air cushioned, size incld. 403-350-4230 COUCH & chair with flower 6 1/2, like new $40 MORRISROE Advocate pattern, $125.; 3 large 403-352-8811 3 bdrm. townhouse, living room chairs with Opportunities across from park, 1.5 bath, flower pattern, $25. each. fenced yard, 5 appls., rent 403-342-1934 Cats $1350, SD. $800. Avail.

CARRIERS REQUIRED June 1 Call 403-304-5337 MOVING out sale.

403-343-2165 LOVING M. Cat, needs a SEIBEL PROPERTY To deliver the good home, acreage or OAK pedestal table w/4 www.seibelprperty.com CENTRAL AB LIFE chairs and 1 leaf, good farm preferred. TO GIVE Ph: 403-304-7576 AWAY. 403-886-8688 cond. $150 fi rm 1 day a week in: or 403-347-7545 403-746-5123 318-5420 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights RECLINER chair, pink Sporting INNISFAIL ~ Riverfront Estates $25; Swivel chair, pink, Goods Penhold $25. 403-342-1934 ~ Westpark Olds AIR HOCKEY by Sports- ~ Kitson Close WANTED Sylvan Lake craft was $900 new, exc. ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

Antiques, furniture and ~ Holmes St. cond, $200 403-352-8811 estates. 342-2514 S.D. $1000 Please call Debbie for details Rent $1195 to $1395 403-314-4307 Advocate 3 bdrm. townhouses, Opportunities 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

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Oil train derails, catches fire in central North Dakota

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BISMARCK, N.D. — An oil train derailed and caught fire early Wednesday in a rural area of central North Dakota, prompting the evacuation of a nearby town where about 20 people live.

No injuries were reported in the accident about 7:30 a.m. near Heimdal, about 115 miles northeast of Bismarck.

Ten tanker cars on the BNSF Railway train caught fire, creating thick black smoke, state Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong said.

Firefighters from four area communities responded, and regional hazardous materials teams from Grand Forks and Devils Lake went to the scene, Fong said. Ten investigators from the Federal Railroad Administration were travelling to the area, said spokesman Kevin Thompson. The National Transportation Safety Board also was sending a team.

The Environmental Protection Agency was sending someone to gauge any contamination to waterways in the vicinity, spokesman Rich Mylott said. The rail line through Heimdal runs next to an intermittent waterway known as the Big Slough, which drains into the James River about 15 miles downstream near Bremen, North Dakota.

There were preliminary indications that some oil from the derailed cars got into Big Slough, but it will be difficult to verify until the fire dies down and officials can get closer to the scene, State Environmental Health Chief Dave Glatt said. In a similar incident outside Casselton in December 2013, almost all of the spilled oil was consumed in the fire, he said.

The Health Department was monitoring air quality and advising people not to breathe in the smoke. The danger from the smoke is mainly the particles it contains such as ash, not toxic chemicals, Glatt said.

The train had 109 cars, 107 with crude oil and two buffer cars between the tankers and engine that were loaded with sand, BNSF said. It was unclear how many derailed. There was

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no immediate word on the cause or on the source of the oil the train was carrying. A statement from BNSF did not cite the source, and officials did not immediately return calls.

Curt Benson, a 68-year-old retired sheriff, said he was getting ready for the day when the explosion outside town rattled his house. With the large number of oil trains that come through the community each day, he figured that was the cause.

“I got in my car, still in my underwear, had shaving cream on my face, and drove down there,” he said.

After seeing about half a dozen derailed cars on fire he alerted authorities, who he said took about half an hour to get to the rural area. Rainfall likely stopped the fire from spreading to nearby grassland in the meantime,

he said.

“It could have been a lot more devastating had it been dry,” he said.

The rain might have also helped wash some of the particles out of the smoke, though it might keep the plume closer to the ground and more likely to be encountered by people, Glatt said.

Since 2006, the U.S. and Canada have seen at least 24 oil train accidents involving a fire, derailment or significant amount of fuel spilled, according to federal accident records reviewed by The Associated Press. The derailment Wednesday was the fifth this year and comes less than a week after the Department of Transportation announced a rule to toughen construction standards for tens of thousands of tank cars that haul oil and other flammable liquids.

Investigators say Germanwings co-pilot practiced plane descents just hours before deadly crash

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have practiced sending the jetliner into a deadly descent on another flight, just two hours before he intentionally crashed it into the French Alps, investigators said Wednesday.

The revelation appeared to support the theory that the Germanwings crash was not only deliberate but premeditated. It came in a 30-page interim report from the French accident investigation agency BEA. Authorities are still puzzling over why Andreas Lubitz, who had suffered from suicidal tendencies and depression in the past, locked the captain out of the cockpit on March 24 and sent the Airbus A320 hurtling into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board.

Lubitz seemed to be toying with the airplane’s settings on the earlier flight from Duesseldorf to Barcelona, programming it for a sharp descent multiple times in a 4 ½-minute period while the pilot was out of the cockpit before resetting the controls, the report said.

Unlike the later flight, he did not lock the pilot out of the cockpit.

The plane’s “selected altitude” changed repeatedly and several times was set as low as 100 feet (30 metres) above sea level. The report says Lubitz also put the engines on idle, which gives the plane the ability to quickly descend.

On the doomed flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, Lubitz also set a 100-foot altitude before the plane crashed into the Alps.

Aviation experts say it would be highly unusual for a pilot to repeatedly set a plane for such a low altitude for no apparent reason. The report said Lubitz did so while air traffic controllers were asking him to bring the airplane down gradually from 35,000 feet to 21,000 feet for its descent to Barcelona.

A BEA chart showed the plane didn’t actually descend sharply while Lubitz was repeatedly adjusting the settings, so the passengers and crew might not have noticed any change.

“The captain didn’t realize at all, because the co-pilot’s tests during the outgoing flight took place during a normal, preprogrammed descent and it never had an impact on the plane’s trajectory,” said Remi Jouty, the director of BEA. Aviation experts said the BEA findings were clearly unusual.

Lubitz changed the setting in the “altitude select” window, although the airplane didn’t move in response to the inputs, said aviation safety expert John Cox, president of Safety Operating Systems.

“It’s clear that it’s a very unusual act,” Cox said.

“I’ve never seen it done, and it is the same methodology he used to fly the airplane into the ground. Was he practicing? I think that certainly is a possibility.”

“He was practicing to see how the airplane behaved,” said John Goglia, an aviation safety expert and former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

Markus Wahl, spokesman of the German pilots’ association, said Lubitz

could only have done this when the other pilot was out of the cockpit.

“If there had been a pilot sitting next to him, of course he would have noticed that. Modern aircraft are built to be flown by two pilots, and one of the reasons for that is that one can watch the other,” Wahl said.

Airlines typically download information from planes’ flight data recorders for routine maintenance checks when the planes arrive at an airport where they plan to stay overnight.

But that data isn’t monitored constantly, Goglia said. Even if Germanwings had done so, it probably would have taken a while to notice a problem — or such odd readings might have been dismissed as an anomaly, he said. Many airlines have flight data monitoring programs to look for safety trends.

“They don’t analyze every recorder every day for every minute it recorded,” Goglia said.

“The lag time is about 30 days to analyze it,” he said.

“There is no urgency to this. The data goes into a data collection point and at some point somebody says, ’Let’s look at the approaches into Barcelona.”’

A BEA official said information from flight recorders is often erased, and is only systematically drawn upon in cases of air incidents or disasters.

“We’re not going to verify whether he had tried to select 100 feet (altitudes) in other flights,” BEA spokeswoman Martine del Bono told the AP. With the Barcelona-bound Germanwings flight data, “we have here the previous proof.”

Three arrested in Southern California accused of operating fictitious police department

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo provided by Curt Benson shows smoke and fire coming from an oil train that derailed, Wednesday, in Heimdal, N.D. Officials say ten tanker cars on the BNSF caught fire prompting the evacuation of Heimdal where about three dozen people live. No injuries were reported.

LOS ANGELES — Three people, including one who works for California Attorney General Kamala Harris, were charged after claiming to operate a police department with jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico and that traces its roots back 3,000 years, authorities said Wednesday.

Brandon Kiel, David Henry and Tonette Hayes were taken into custody last week on suspicion of impersonating officers as members of the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.

Detectives believe other people may be involved in the operation, sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.

Deputies found ID cards, uniforms and law enforcement-like vehicles along with other official police equipment during their search of a home and office linked to the group, she said.

However, Nishida said there were no indications the group was stopping the public or conducting other law enforcement activities.

State records show Hayes is licensed as a security guard and has a firearm permit. She previously owned

Masonic Security Service, and she and Henry run the Beverly Hills-based MIB Investigative Agency, though its state license is suspended.

Henry is a licensed security guard and also has a firearm permit.

Kiel, 31, worked as deputy director of community affairs at the California Department of Justice since July 2013. He has been on paid administrative leave from his $67,416-a-year civil service job since Thursday. The Los Angeles Times first reported that Kiel worked for Harris.

Department spokesman David Beltran said the agency can’t comment on an ongoing personnel matter or criminal investigation.

He said Kiel “worked with members of the public basically on issues and questions regarding the work of the department.”

Kiel, Henry, 46, and Hayes, 59, were arrested April 30 and released later that day, according to jail records.

Telephone calls and text messages seeking comment were not immediately returned.

All three were charged on April 28 with multiple counts of impersonating an officer and other misdemeanours, said Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.

Henry has been charged with com-

mitting perjury under oath for declaring the Masonic Fraternal Police Department is a state agency. Kiel is charged with misusing his government identification.

Hayes is a pastor and moderated a debate between sheriff’s candidates in the most recent election, Nishida said.

Henry won an Emmy in 2002 for his work as a producer on a Fox11 story, according to Variety.com.

He also co-produced a documentary with Hayes several years later about a longtime civil rights leader, the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper reported in 2007.

The investigation started after various police chiefs in California received a letter in late January that announced new leadership for the Masonic Fraternal Police Department.

The Jan. 20 letter obtained by The Associated Press was copied to Harris.

It was written by Kiel, identified as its chief board of director, and Hayes, the grand chief director, and includes a badge emblem with Henry’s name below.

In the letter, the group claims it is registered with the state and is informing the chief it will be working with “Grandmasters, as well as fraternities and sororities throughout Sovereign Jurisdictions around the country.”

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The passion of Joss DIRECTOR, STUDIO CLASHED OVER THE BEST SCENES FROM ‘AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON’

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Chris Evans, left, as Captain America/Steve Rogers, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor, in a scene of ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron.’

COMMENT for another Avengers installment. Even though Ultron had one of the biggest opening weekends of all time, Whedon seems to second-guess a lot of what’s in the movie. He tends to come across as self-critical anyway, but he seems to be kicking himself more than ever with this sequel.

Whedon hasn’t yet revealed what he plans to do for his next project, but we can all hope he returns to his roots, which is what he did after filming the first Avengers movie. (And his recent leave of Twitter also suggests he may be turning away from the masses.)

During his break between filming and editing, Whedon gathered some of his closest friends — who also happen to be tremendous actors — and made a beautiful, black-and-white version of Much Ado About Nothing.

The movie was the antithesis of what Whedon had dealt with on Avengers. It was all self-financed and shot at his home in just 12 days.

“We kept very civilized hours, because our lighting package went behind the hills around 6:30,” he joked at the time.

Whedon didn’t even know how the movie would find distribution,

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LONDON — Errol Brown, the lead singer of the band Hot Chocolate, has died in the Bahamas, his manager said Wednesday. He was 71.

Manager Phil Dale said the singer, best known for hits You Sexy Thing and It Started With A Kiss, died earlier Wednesday of liver cancer. Dale said Brown’s death had come as a surprise. “(Brown) had been poorly over the past few months but he never discussed it,” Dale said.

“He’d be sadly missed by his friends and family. He was an extremely good personal friend.”

Brown moved to Britain from Jamaica with his mother at age 12. In 2003, he was honoured

by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to pop music and made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Hot Chocolate released their first record Love is Life in 1970, and enjoyed numerous chart hits in the 1970s. In 1981, they played at a prewedding party for Prince Charles and Lady Diana in Buckingham Palace.

Brown is survived by his wife, Ginette, and two daughters.

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but it ultimately landed on the festival circuit where it was picked up by Roadside Attractions and went on to make more than $4 million. That’s a pittance compared to Ultron, but also impressive for a nobudget Shakespearean home movie.

Whedon’s filmography is made up of passion projects, and Avengers is no exception. He was a huge fan of the comic books before signing onto the first film.

But, at this point, there are many directors that can take the helm of a superhero movie. Even with the humanizing touches that Whedon fought the studio so hard to keep, Ultron ended up being formulaic. It was entertaining, but hardly a revelation.

And that’s why it’s exciting that Whedon is passing the baton. Here is a talented writer-director that, left to his own devices, can create an entire universe from his own wild and wonderful thoughts. He doesn’t need Marvel’s imagination, or its rules.

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Interviews with director Joss Whedon are delightful, because, unlike most high-profile Hollywood types, he gives thoughtful and frank answers. Staying “on message” doesn’t appear to be part of his plan.

Marvel executives might not be quite as excited about the honesty policy though, especially after Whedon’s Spoiler Podcast interview with Empire Magazine.

During the 30-minute chat, Whedon broke down just a few of the disagreements he had with Marvel over what scenes to use, including one moment that got “very unpleasant.” It probably shouldn’t come as a Joss Whedon surprise, but the things Whedon wanted to keep and Marvel wanted to scrap were also the things that made the movie memorable and Whedon-esque. (Spoilers ahead.)

A scene in which the crew gathers at a farmhouse and a set of dream sequences where the audience is able to see inside the heads of the Avengers caused the most distress. “These were things I fought to keep,” he said. And you can see why. Both give context and human dimension to the movie. The farmhouse scene informs viewers for the first time that Clint/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) has a wife (Linda Cardellini) and kids, and it’s also a point when various characters share serious and deep conversations.

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) shows up to give some words of wisdom, and Natasha/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce/Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) have a heart-to-heart about how neither can have kids.

The dream sequences, meanwhile, give us both a back story and a better understanding of what’s at stake for these characters. We see all Captain America (Chris Evans) gave up — the love of his life — to save the world, and Black Widow revisits the guilt and grief she feels over losing her childhood to become a trained killer. Without these scenes — plus one very funny hammer-lifting competition at a cocktail party — the movie would be, basically, just destruction and one-liners.

But if Marvel didn’t want heart, why bother hiring Whedon at all? The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. knows a thing or two about action, but his characters are made up of more than muscles and quips. These are intensely human stories about people with superhuman abilities.

What’s even more telling is what Marvel wanted to keep in, which was essentially a non sequitur during which Thor (Chris Hemsworth) ditches the team to meditate in a cave with Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård). The scene does more to lay the groundwork for the next Thor installment than it adds to this Avengers, but executives were adamant that the scene remain.

“With the cave, it turned into, they pointed a gun at the farm’s head and said give us the cave or we’ll take out the farm,” Whedon said. “In a civilized way — I respect these guys, they’re artists, but that’s where it got really unpleasant.”

It’s no wonder that Whedon doesn’t want to return

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LOS ANGELES — The Simpsons will keep the satire coming for at least two more seasons.

EVENING Fox said Monday it has renewed the animated series for its 27th and 28th seasons, which will carry it to a total of 625 episodes.

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WASHINGTON — Bob Schieffer’s last Sunday as host of CBS’ Face the Nation will be on May 31.

The veteran newsman, who announced his retirement last month, had said only that he would be leaving this summer. But summer’s coming early for Schieffer, who wants to relax for the warm weather months while CBS gives his successor, John Dickerson, the chance to settle in before the presidential campaign begins in earnest.

Schieffer, who is 78, hasn’t said what he will be doing after leaving as the network’s chief Washington correspondent. But if he does appear on television again, one thing’s for sure. He said, “I’ll never work any place other than CBS.”

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