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Ex-Mountie jailed for sex assault

City abuzz over park initiative

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An ex-Mountie was sentenced to two and a half years in jail on Thursday for raping a girl he came to know while investigating a sexual assault in which she was the victim.

Ambrose Gregory Wolfe, 60, of Yorkton, Sask., pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges in October 2014. He was charged in 2012 after the victim came to police detailing three years of abuse she experience while under the guardianship of Wolfe.

He was sentenced on Thursday by Justice Kirk Sisson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

In 1996, Wolfe — then an RCMP officer with a Central Alberta detachment — was called to a residence to investigate a reported sexual assault.

A 14-year-old girl was the victim.

Following the investigation, the 14-year-old was placed in Wolfe’s care.

From 1996 to 1999, Wolfe twice pressured the girl into having anal intercourse. She tried to stop and threatened to tell the police.

Wolfe was an RCMP officer from 1979 until his retirement in 1999. He later moved home to Saskatchewan, where he took a position with the Yorkton Tribal Council as a child protection investigator.

The victim’s impact statement was read on her behalf in court.

“I feel like a nobody,” it read. “I’m not a girl and I’m not a woman. I put on a fake smile to hide the tears.

“I never know what flashback I will see.”

In the statement, the victim said she has and continues to self harm. She has attempted suicide on several occasions, using pills and by hanging. She has been homeless and in and out of jail.

“I blame myself.”

Four proposed pollinator parks in Red Deer may soon create a buzz on the provincial and national fronts.

Last year, city council directed staff to look into incorporating dedicated pollinator parks in existing and future park infrastructure.

It also asked administration to explore the permanent banning of neonicotinoids and related pesticides.

Now the city’s Governance and Policy Committee is recommending that council dedicate City Hall Park, Snell Gardens, Bower Ponds and Maskepetoon Park as pollinator parks.

Council will debate the proposal on May 25.

Parks superintendent Trevor Poth said the No. 1 thing that people will notice in the parks are interpretive signage.

“What it really does for us is protect some of those lands and allows us to focus on pollinators when we do any planning,” said Poth. “We really want to do is share information with the public about the importance of protecting pollinators and what they can do in their private yards to enhance pollinator habitat and pollen sources.”

Some pesticides contain a chemical called neonicotinoid that is known to harm bees, moths and bats.

“As a city we do not use any products that contain this,” said Poth. “Unfortunately, private residents and agricultural businesses and farmers are still using it. We’re using this as an information tool to explain the impacts.”

Poth said the city is trying to set the example to show how successful and beautiful ecologically-friendly initiatives can be.

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Bannerman, AuBuchon honoured for leadership, commitment

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR

After a memorable 2013 leading Red Deer’s centennial celebrations, Sheila Bannerman will have an unforgettable 2015 as Red Deer Citizen of the Year.

2015 is also a special one for Stephanie AuBuchon who was named Red Deer Young Citizen of the Year.

Presented by the Rotary Clubs of Red Deer, the awards recognize leadership and commitment to the community and were given out at the Rotary Spring Gala on Thursday night at Sheraton Red Deer.

“I think the magnitude of it is just sinking now, what a distinguished honour it is to receive this award,” said Bannerman, 59.

“I really believe this is a community that just deserves to have the best of everything so I’m happy to volunteer in lots of different capacities.”

Bannerman, who has lived in Red Deer 33 years, started her community

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Red Deer’s Citizen of the Year Sheila Bannerman and Young and Citizen of the Year Stephanie AuBuchon were honoured at a gala at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer Thursday night.

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service volunteering at local schools before she went on to earn a Masters degree in history.

She was the first executive director of the Central Alberta Community Legal Aid Society, and continues to be a member of the Red Deer Public Library Board, the Red Deer & District Museum Society Board and Central Alberta Historical Society.

Through the historical society, Bannerman became chair the city’s Centennial Committee that planned and organized several events throughout 2013 incorporating Red Deer’s history, heritage and culture.

“We served over 18,000 pieces of cake during that year and when you serve cake you get to talk to people.

The love people have for the city is quite tremendous.”

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is among seven agencies across Alberta that will soon be able to provide the medication Naloxone to drug users to reverse opiate overdoses.

Executive director Jennifer Vanderschaeghe said the Overdose Prevention Program with take-home Naloxone kits is a one-year, $300,000 pilot project funded by Alberta Health in response to the increase in fentanyl overdoses.

“It’s pure health care prevention. It saves lives.

It saves money,” Vanderschaeghe said on Thursday, which coincidently was International Harm Reduction Day. She said fentanyl, a drug 100 times more potent than morphine, is becoming a bigger issue in Red Deer. In April, she was aware of six overdoses including one death.

Overdose deaths happen more often in Alberta and elsewhere than most people realize, she said.

“There are more overdose deaths every year than there are car accident deaths.”

She said Naloxone kits are a safe way to save lives because Naloxone does no harm.

“If you give Naloxone to someone who is not overdosing on an opiate, nothing bad will happen. There is no way to get high off these drugs.”

An opiate overdose causes breathing to slow down and eventually stop. Naloxone reverses the effects of the opiate to keep people breathing until paramedics arrive. “(Naloxone) actually gets in the way of the opiate and the receptors in your brain and it stops your body from processing the opiate for between 30 to 60 minutes.”

Naloxone is injected intramuscularly and a kit contains two doses of the medication and two needles (because sometimes people require two injections), latex gloves, a rescue breathing mask and two swabs. The injection can be given through clothes into a thigh or upper arm if necessary.

Vanderschaeghe said the program will fund 3,250 kits and agencies will likely have them available in June.

CAANS staff received Naloxone training this week. Nurses on staff will train clients to use the kits.

She said the Streetworks program in Edmonton has made Naloxone available to clients for 10 years and was the first in Canada to do so. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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ASSAULT: ‘I was an evil person at the time’ In 2012, the victim went to a Central Alberta RCMP detachment, telling them of the crimes. Wolfe was interviewed and while he denied it at first, he eventually confessed in full.

“I committed the evil because I was an evil person at the time,” said Wolfe.

A preliminary inquiry was held but Wolfe pleaded guilty before the trial was scheduled to start.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard told Sisson that the maximum sentence at the time of the offences was five years for sexual assault. He felt that sentence was not enough, citing the high position of trust and authority that Wolfe had as both the youth’s guardian and as an RCMP officer.

“There are scars, long-term damage,” said Collard. “Next to homicide, there is no offence more grave given who Wolfe was.”

Collard said if the offence had occurred after Par-

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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A zoo with a history of controversy has been closed for good.

Irene Gustafson said on Thursday that their zoo is closed permanently and her family is likely done with having any other type of public attraction on their farm near Three Hills.

The Gustafsons had long operated the controversial GuZoo, which attracted not only criticism from animal rights activists, but also saw government agencies such as Alberta Energy and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) take action.

Gustafson, daughter of GuZoo owner Lynn Gustafson, said that most of their zoo animals — liament raised the maximum sentence to 10 years, he would seek a six to seven year sentence.

Wolfe’s counsel Michael Sparks, of Edmonton, said Wolfe became a self-confessed monster at the time and that’s not who he was. In 1994, Wolfe lost his son in a car crash and the loss affected him deeply.

Wolfe, of Aboriginal ancestry, spent two years at a residential school as a child before being sent to a nearby public school. At the residential school, he was beaten for not speaking English. In his youth, Sparks said his client was abused by family members. After dropping out of school in Grade 8, he went to work. In 1979, he completed his high school equivalency and became an RCMP member.

A report developed for the sentencing hearing said Wolfe was a low to almost no risk of re-offending. Sparks said unlike other sexual assault convictions cited as providing precedence, this was not an ongoing repetitive offence. It happened twice in three years.

Sparks said the crime absolutely demands jail time, but he suggested the range of two to three years.

In his sentence, Sisson said Wolfe showed honest remorse. Sisson said Wolfe’s background, including direct systemic abuse, played a role in his decision.

Sisson ordered Wolfe be placed on the sex of-

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“We don’t mind being a demonstration project,” said Poth. “But when it comes down to it, the prime land users of the city are private residents. The more information we can get out to the private residents of what they can do in their backyards, the better off the whole community will be.”

Coun. Paul Harris and Coun. Lynne Mulder brought the motion to council last March.

“Other municipalities are looking at Red Deer, at what we have done,” said Harris. “News travels. We are being progressive in not using that chemical in our system and we are setting up protected parks.”

Harris, who has been the city’s representative on the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, said Red Deer will do doubt continue to influence other municipalities across the country. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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about 24 — went to a broker to be dispersed. A few were sold privately, such as wolves and a lynx, but all 12 deer were euthanized. The zoo had such animals as bears and lions, as well as farm animals.

They still have their farm animals.

She said that in order for the zoo meet all ESRD requirements before applying for this year’s zoo permit, they would have had to spend about $500,000.

ESRD information officer Jamie Hanlon said a final visual inspection by ESRD was done of the former zoo on Wednesday.

Last month, GuZoo owners advised ESRD that they were going to cease operations rather than apply for their annual zoo permit.

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Mason Leroux of Mountview School reacts as taekwondo instructor Dave Hargreaves of Dual Dragons TaeKwon-Do breaks free from Leroux’s grip during a martial arts session at the Grow Boys event in Red Deer on Thursday. Some 640 Grade 5 students from Red Deer Public and Red Deer Catholic school divisions took part in the fourth annual Knights In Training session Thursday. Through the day the students cycled through a variety of sessions that foster respect, responsibility, relationships and understanding. At the same time Grade 5 girls attended a Go Girl Session at the Collicutt Centre.

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U.S. takes notice of NDP victory

Notley ready to meet with caucus

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EDMONTON — Incoming premier Rachel Notley has taken the first step toward taking over power in Alberta by formally meeting with the lieutenantgovernor to seek approval to form government.

Notley said Thursday there’s no date yet for when she will be sworn in as the province’s 17th premier.

“Getting over the fact that people call me premier now is sort of fading,” she said outside Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell’s office.

“Now I’m starting to have some really amazing meetings about all the things that we have on our plate.”

She said she and her 52 caucus members are to meet Saturday and she admitted things are hectic in their current space.

“Four people on one desk fighting over the computer, trying to figure out where to plug in the phone.

We’re at that sort of level right now.”

Notley said she’s had calls to provide advice from leaders across the country. She has also said she is reaching out energy industry brass to reassure them about NDP plans to raise corporate taxes and review royalty rates.

One of those energy leaders shared his concerns about those ideas Thursday.

“Clearly, this is not good for the industry,” said Steve Laut, president of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ).

“That being said, we are heartened by her statement that they will be a good partner with the oil and gas industry.”

As it stands now, the fiscal terms in British Columbia and Saskatchewan are “about equivalent”, with Alberta perhaps a bit better in some regards, Laut told reporters.

The corporate tax rate is 11 per cent in B.C. and 12 per cent in Saskatchewan. Notley proposes taking Alberta’s to rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent.

“Let’s get the facts and see what happens,” Laut said. “That’s how we run the company — we get all the facts and understand what they mean and make the decisions.”

The NDP dismantled the 44-year-old Progressive Conservative dynasty on Tuesday by winning a majority in the provincial election.

The Wildrose party captured 21 seats to retain its role as official Opposition, while the Tories under Jim Prentice plunged to 10 seats from 70. He announced that night that he was quitting politics. The Liberals kept one seat and the Alberta Party will send its first elected member to the legislature.

Elections Alberta is to release the official results on May 15.

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CITIZENS: Important to help others Bannerman is currently a member of the organizing committee for the upcoming Walking With Our Sisters memorial installation that will be at the Red Deer museum in June.

The art installation incorporates hundreds of unfinished, beaded moccasins that represent missing and murdered aboriginal women.

“It’s very powerful. Instead of just knowing that this happens in Canada, and in our community too, you experience it. You see these moccasins as representing real people,” Bannerman said.

AuBuchon started volunteering when she was 12 years old when she joined the St. John Ambulance Youth Brigade.

Since then she has been involved in mentoring and school programs including co-chairing the first Hunting Hills High School Bike-a-Thon to raise money to promote positive mental wellness.

“They’ve used the money raised to implement programs like Breaking Down the Walls and Teen Leadership Breakthrough so it’s nice seeing what I’ve done make a difference in other people’s lives,” said AuBuchon, 19.

She’s been volunteering at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for seven years and is attending Red Deer College with plans to become a nurse.

AuBuchon said she hopes through her volunteer activities she can show people how important it is to help others.

“I’m volunteering in the cancer centre right now so the patients are getting chemotherapy. Sometimes they feel alone. Sometimes they’re feeling down, but I can be there for them and visit with them.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

WASHINGTON — One of the best-known antipipeline activists in the United States was busy refreshing her computer screen Tuesday night, enthusiastically seeking updates on a provincial election in Canada.

Americans don’t generally glue themselves to screens for Canadian provincial elections. The niche audience this time, however, was bigger, given that it produced a historic power-shift in the epicentre of Canada’s oil industry and source of the most-debated pipeline project in American history: Keystone XL. So that’s how Nebraska pipeline-fighter Jane Kleeb wound up seeking updates on the Alberta election. She and her allies celebrated the end of decades of conservative governance and the first-ever NDP win in Alberta history.

“I’m very excited,” Kleeb said Thursday. Her reason for optimism: the Obama administration might see these results and find political cover to reject Keystone XL. “Now we can say, look, people in Alberta, the home of where the carbon-intensive oil is, clearly have sent a message to their government. So what’s your message to us?”

Given the notoriety of Keystone XL, the results were inevitably seen in the U.S. through the prism of the pipeline fight.

The left-leaning MSNBC host Ed Schultz expressed hope it might stiffen the resolve of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to fight big oil: “It’s a political revolution that’s unfolding in Alberta, Canada.

This is absolutely horrible news for TransCanada, as it could put the Keystone XL pipeline totally at risk.”

Salon’s website ran the headline, “Alberta just elected a bunch of Keystone XL-hating socialists into office.” The New York Times compared it to Texas electing leftists.

The other side of the Keystone debate took note, too. The pro-business Wall Street Journal ran a piece speculating that the election could “pose significant new headB-winds” for an oil industry already struggling with slumping prices.

Alberta’s next premier has said she’s not actually anti-pipeline. On Keystone XL, Rachel Notley says she’d just rather have oil refined in Canada than sent to the U.S. As for the Northern Gateway project, she’s against it on environmental grounds and she says she could support other big projects like Energy East.

One thing she won’t do, she says, is head down to Washington on pipeline-promoting trips like her predecessors.

An adviser to businesses on both sides of the border says he’s been fielding questions from clients.

Paul Frazer says he’s telling them not to worry about sudden, drastic change. He says he’s explained that Notley will spend a few weeks preparing a cabinet, then signal her intentions with a throne speech and finally launch a consultation on royalty rates before making any moves.

“I have every impression that the premier is a very pragmatic individual,” said Frazer.

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Following this week’s visit, the GuZoo was provided notification that their permit had been cancelled, Hanlon said.

During the inspection, the GuZoo provided ESRD with a disposition list on the licensed and wildlife animals, how they were disposed of and where they went.

Gustafson said they had 42 conditions to meet within 30 days before the zoo permit would be extended and they could not have met them in that time frame.

She believes her family was treated unfairly by government and there was a “vendetta” to close them down.

She has contacted the provincial ombudsman by letter about her concerns but has not received any response. “I’m not done yet.”

“As for the zoo, even if they give us a zoo permit back, we won’t take it. ... We’re done. We’re through, until they change the regulations that protect us more.”

The Gustafsons now have to come up with some other source of income.

“We are farmers ... we are probably going to pursue farming in some avenue. We’re just not sure exactly what.”

Voices for Animals Humane Society and Zoocheck Canada had been working through the courts to have the GuZoo licence cancelled because they believed the zoo failed to meet minimum standards. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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No PC silver platter IT’S TIME FOR JIM PRENTICE TO TAKE A HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR If I were the leader of a dynastic political party that hasn’t had to actually fight an election in 40 years — in the face of the challenge mounted in Alberta by the NDP, and the voter anger I would have encountered at every stop on this election campaign — I’d probably monger all the fear I could.

The sky will fall, I’d say, all the drilling rigs GREG will be pulled NEIMAN out of Alberta into Saskatchewan, and they’ll horizontal drill 300 km west under the border and suck out all our oil. The NDP will tax you into poverty and then offer you a minimum wage job at $15 an hour.

Because I’d know that the first order of business for an NDP cabinet will be to get a thorough look at Alberta’s books. I suspect they’ll find stuff an outsider would never see under our so-called freedom-of-information laws.

And these people know from experience, parsing the bits that have come through their own FOI requests in the past, when red flags appear.

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est moments, I’d monger all the fear I could. But I would hope in the end that I had the strength of character to stand up and face the storm to come, if worse came to worst.

It came to the worst for placeholder Progressive Conservative premier Jim Prentice on Tuesday. And his character was not up to the challenge of losing.

Now if you think I’m kicking a man when he’s down, please think about this: Jim Prentice was handed the premiership of the longest-ruling, richest elected government in the British Commonwealth, on a platter.

He won his Calgary-Foothills riding in a byelection cakewalk last October. He asked for — and won again — the right to speak for the people of Calgary-Foothills in our legislature by almost 1,400 votes on Tuesday. His riding has been a Tory stronghold ever since the Tories started running there, back in 1971.

If you think a person in that position is down, I suggest you talk to some NDP, Liberal, Wildrose or Alberta Party operatives, on the subject of grit, and perseverance. Because Prentice showed neither in defeat Tuesday.

They were still counting ballots in some ridings on Tuesday night when Prentice told Albertans: “My contribution to public life is now at an end.”

What, was he contemplating something extreme, like a medieval Japanese samurai general who lost a criti-

cal battle? No, he’s likely going to take a vacation far, far from Alberta, and see if he still has any friends in the banking industry.

Just who did the Progressive Conservatives elect as a leader? Whose interests was he sworn to uphold?

Yours? Mine? The party’s?

His own?

A real fighter would have sworn to return to fight again. Especially a fighter who, at least until recently, had the backing of Alberta’s top-flight CEOs. Especially a fighter who believed in the cause.

Remember Bob Clark, the OldsDidsbury MLA who became the rather lonely leader of the Social Credit Party? He — like a few of the newlyminted NDP MLAs elected on Tuesday — was in his early 20s when he was first elected in 1960. He was education minister for a time under good old Ernest Manning.

When the roof fell in on the party, and it was down to four members, Clark stuck with it.

He took the leadership, and was there while the last crumbs of Socred support disappeared in the face of the Tory juggernaut. An unelected Werner Schmidt took over the leadership in 1973, but Clark stayed on as a regular MLA. Schmidt resigned in 1975, after a poor showing for the party in that election, and Clark — still elected, still representing Olds-Didsbury — stood

up once again. He was there, fighting, until 1981.

For that, he was made Alberta Ethics Commissioner, a post he’d hold for 11 years after leaving elected politics.

That’s what grit looks like.

Or talk to the Alberta NDP about perseverance. How long were they a joke in legislature hallways and Tory party fundraisers? How were these fuzzy-headed sandal-wearing noodniks treated during the Ralph Klein years and after?

But as for Prentice, if he couldn’t have it on a silver platter, he didn’t want it at all.

Which is an apt metaphor for what the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party has become.

You need to believe in something other than power itself to govern. The power of Prentice’s beliefs are rather much in question now. He called a hasty election solely for the purposes of retaining power, and hastily left the field when it didn’t go his way.

No doubt the party will be soulsearching in the next years, asking itself existential questions the opposition learned to deal with a long time ago.

But the one Albertan who needs a look in the mirror right now is Jim Prentice.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

Federal Conservatives now playing defence on two flanks This is a week when sizable potholes have surfaced on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s road to re-election.

The NDP’s majority victory in Alberta has reinforced the federal New Democrats’ claim that their party is ready for prime time nationally. At a minimum, the provincial election has exposed cracks in the walls of the country’s main Conservative fortress.

At the same time, Harper is suddenly at risk of losing the upper hand on the central battlefield of tax cuts to the CHANTAL Liberals.

HÉBERT The two developments are independent of each other, but what connects them is that they find the ruling Conservatives playing defence on two flanks that they believed to be bulletproof.

The 40 per cent of Albertans who ushered the NDP in government this week did not vote for Thomas Mulcair by proxy. And a slim majority of the province’s voters stuck with the right, either by supporting the Wildrose party or Jim Prentice’s Conservatives.

The good news for Harper is that those voters can be expected to unite behind his federal Conservatives next fall.

The bad news is that they are not spread evenly across the province.

On Tuesday, premier-designate Rachel Notley’s New Democrats won more than 20 ridings with a majority of the vote. Many of those seats were won with 60 per cent support or more. In another half a dozen ridings, the combined score of the NDP and the Liberals added up to more than 50 per cent.

Based on those results, a sizable contingent of Alberta voters does not come across as predisposed to support the federal Conservatives next fall.

Alberta’s 87 provincial ridings work out to 34 federal ones. The provincial results suggest that Harper’s Conservatives could be campaigning against a tide for change in more than a quarter of them, mostly in the Edmonton area.

Conventional wisdom has it that vote-splitting between the NDP and the Liberals will still pave the way for the re-election of most of Alberta’s Conservative incumbents and that may well be correct.

In the federal byelections that have taken place

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in the province since Justin Trudeau became leader, the Liberals scored immensely better than Mulcair’s New Democrats. If Notley’s success translates into a bump in support for her federal cousins, the result could be a more divided anti-Harper vote, not only in Alberta, but from coast to coast to coast.

Still, in the big picture, there comes a point when two strong opposition parties, instead of eating each other’s lunches, start taking sizable bites out of different sections of the incumbent’s pie.

That’s what happened to the Parti Québécois last year.

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At the same time, Trudeau is now challenging the Conservatives on their tax-cutting turf. Just days after he unveiled two platform planks — a tax-cut for middle-income earners and an enhanced child benefit retargeted to middle-class families — Conservative spin-doctors are still uncharacteristically struggling to come up with an effective response.

They have not managed to do better than try to bluster their way out of a trap that finds them standing up for the more affluent section of the electorate.

It does not help that the trap is largely of the government’s own making.

Harper’s re-election for a fourth mandate has always hinged on a divided opposition and postAlberta election, that remains a potentially winning condition for his party.

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In a news release issued Thursday, commissioner Jill Clayton says it is a criminal offence to “wilfully destroy records to evade access requests.”

Such a breach could lead to a fine of up to $10,000.

Clayton says she has the power to conduct an investigation if laws related to the destruction of records are not being followed.

A lot of incumbents, including several former ministers in the Tory government of Jim Prentice, are cleaning out their desks this week to make room for the new NDP majority government.

Clayton says that legislation requires government ministers to develop a records management program establishing rules for the retention, destruction or archiving of public records, and employees are required to

adhere to those rules.

“These rules apply and must be followed during the government’s transition period,” Clayton said in the release. “If there is evidence that the rules are not being followed, a complaint can be submitted to my office.”

However, she notes the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act does not apply to records of the office of the Speaker, records of the offices of an MLA, or personal or constituency records of a cabinet minister.

She also says personal information used to make a decision that directly affects an individual must be retained for at least one year after using it, so that the individual has a reasonable opportunity to obtain access.

Mountie says more enforcement needed of ATVs in backcountry ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Alta.

— A veteran Mountie says more enforcement of off-highway vehicles is needed in Alberta’s backcountry.

Cpl. Wayne Howse says police who patrol public lands along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains are dealing with more cases of people driving through stream beds causing environmental damage.

Howse says people are carrying loaded weapons on ATVs, some are driving impaired and others leave mounds of garbage in the wilderness.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 8, 2015 A5 poaching and people randomly shootols said.

He said the AWA supports the proing firearms. posal for stepped-up RCMP enforceHowse says the RCMP is considment in the backcountry. ering a proposal to form a unit that would focus on such illegal activity.

He says some Mounties are already taking ATV driver training as police brace for the coming season.

“I think this is something that is really needed given the amount of damMEDICINE HAT — A 55-year-old age that is being done in the backcoun- man is in custody after a police officer try,” Howse said Thursday. “We want was hit by a fleeing truck in southeastto protect the environment for others ern Alberta. to use.”

Police say they tried to stop a Ford Howse’s comments follow a ruling F-350 in Medicine Hat early Thursday. by a judge in Rocky Mountain House, They say the truck drove off, but who fined two off-highway vehicle later stopped and reversed, hitting a drivers $1,500 each for riding in the police officer. The truck then sped off Clearwater River. towards Highway 3.

The Alberta Wilderness Association Both Medicine Hat police and Redapplauded the fines. cliff RCMP pursued the truck toward Sean Nichols, an association Seven Persons, where two vehicles spokesman, said the AWA hopes the were damaged before a spike belt was fines send a message to the public. deployed.

“This precedent-setting decision The injured officer was in hospital sends a clear signal that the public with non life-threatening injuries. will not tolerate this kind of wanton Any witnesses have been asked to destruction of our headwaters,” Nichcontact police.

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Khadr wants a fresh start EDMONTON — After spending more than a decade in prison, Omar Khadr says he’ll show Canadians — and Prime Minister Stephen Harper — that he’s worthy of their trust.

Speaking publicly for the first time since his release on bail, the former Guantanamo Bay inmate thanked Canadians on Thursday for giving him a chance.

“I will prove to them that I’m more than what they thought of me, I’ll prove to them that I’m a good person,” he said, smiling, outside his lawyer’s home.

“Give me a chance, see who I am as a person not as a name, and then they can make their own judgment after that.”

As for the prime minister, whose government has consistently branded him an unrepentant terrorist, Khadr said: “I’m going to have to disappoint him, I’m better than the person he thinks I am.”

Khadr’s presence seemed well-received by his new neighbours, one of whom shouted “Welcome to the neigh-

bourhood!” Another dropped off flowers.

The 28-year-old had his first taste of freedom in almost 13 years earlier in the day after an Alberta judge rejected a last-ditch attempt by the federal government to block his release.

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pered, “We done it,” as he squeezed his fingers. Edney’s wife, Patricia sobbed uncontrollably for a few minutes, then hugged and kissed her husband.

Outside court, an emotional Edney said the day had been a long time coming as he talked about his client’s ordeal since the Americans captured him grievously wounded in Afghanistan in July 2002, when he was 15 years

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livered her decision.

The government, she said, had failed to prove his release would cause serious harm to Canadian interests or pose a risk to the public.

“Mr. Khadr, you’re free to go,” Bielby said.

Khadr’s longtime lawyer Dennis Edney walked over to his client and whis-

old.

The government, which said it would fight his release every step of the way, expressed disappointment at the latest turn of events. “(We) regret that a convicted terrorist has been allowed back into Canadian society without having served his full sentence,” Jeremy Laurin, a

Pardons backlog can be cleared, but no time frame given

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Parole Board of Canada has the funding to deal with a long-standing backlog of thousands of old pardon applications for serious offences, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said Thursday.

Blaney told a House of Commons committee that the board is meeting its objectives and is on time in handling the application backlog, which dates back as far as 2012 when the Conservative government overhauled the pardons system.

“A little more than 5,000 are left and Mr. (Harvey) Cenaiko (the chairman of

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That will be news to the roughly 5,800 applicants whose efforts to seal their old criminal records and move on with their lives have been in limbo for years.

The board said in March that, while it was on track to finally clear the backlog of old applications for less serious, summary convictions, it could not continue to devote the same resources to tackling some 5,800 more serious cases.

“Pardon applications for indictable offences in the backlog are being processed as resources permit,” the board’s website currently states.

“The PBC does not currently have a time frame for when the remaining backlog of applications for indictable offences will be cleared.”

The board did not respond to a request for an update Thursday.

Some professional pardon application services, which operate in a fashion similar to tax preparation services, are advising clients with old applications to give up, forfeit their original application fee and re-apply under the new $631 “record suspension” process.

in the federal budget. These days, they often reach well beyond that document — and Thursday’s was no different, touching on everything from revoking the passports of suspected terrorists to retirement-plan contributions of MPs to the now-defunct long-gun registry.

The document also includes more than two dozen pages of changes addressing security on Parliament Hill through the creation of the “Parliamentary Protective Service,” led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Critics say rolling numerous proposals like these into a single budget bill limits the amount of time parliamentarians have to study and debate the legislative changes, compared to if they were introduced individually.

The Conservative government has faced criticism in the past for stuffing

its budget bills with extras unrelated to budgetary finances.

Still, compared to previous efforts, Thursday’s bill appeared streamlined for quick passage — it weighed in at just 167 pages, compared with last year’s hefty 359-page document.

Budget implementation bills are crafted to make good on a number of budgetary measures.

spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, said in a statement.

As paperwork was prepared earlier Thursday for Khadr’s release, which comes with a list of restrictions including wearing a tracking bracelet and a curfew, an emotional Edney stepped outside to denounce a federal government under Harper for showing no mercy.

“Mr. Harper is a ”bigot,“ Edney said.

“We left a Canadian child in Guantanamo Bay to suffer torture (and) we Canada participated in this torture. So today’s a wonderful day for justice.”

Within two hours of Bielby’s decision, a grinning Edney who had received a crash course in tracking bracelets left the courthouse with Khadr for his first venture outside without guards in more than a decade.

Edney’s co-counsel, Nate Whitling, tweeted a picture of the two leaving.

Khadr pleaded guilty in October 2010 before a widely discredited military commission to five war crimes — including murder in the death of a U.S. special forces soldier. In exchange, the commission handed him a further eight-year sentence.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Philippine President Benigno Aquino is literally following in his mother’s footsteps during his first state visit to Canada.

He planted a tree today on the grounds of the Governor General’s official estate — just a few metres away from a tree planted by his mother, former president Corazon Aquino, during her state visit in 1989.

He even used the same silver spade his mother wielded 26 years ago.

Aquino’s tree, a red spruce that grows to more than 120 metres tall, will eventually tower over his mother’s sugar maple.

Aquino is on a three-day visit to Canada, which will take him to Toronto and Vancouver as well as Ottawa.

He and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are expected to discuss expanding trade and investment opportunities, as well as co-operation on a range of issues including threats to global security.

The two leaders are also slated to meet with member’s of Canada’s 800,000-strong Filipino community.

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“My faith in the honesty of the RCMP has forever been shaken,” said the mother’s letter read at the sentencing of RCMP Const. Kwesi Millington on Thursday.

Millington was convicted of perjury for lying under oath during a public inquiry into Robert Dziekanski’s death at Vancouver’s airport in October 2007.

His defence lawyer opposed allowing Cisowski to read her victim-impact statement into the record.

But B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke rejected the argument that Cisowski didn’t qualify as a victim because Millington’s crime was against the “administration of justice.”

“It is difficult to put into a few or any words how the perjury of Mr. Millington has impacted me,” Ehrcke read from Cisowski’s writing.

“When I came to Canada I saw the RCMP as the main symbol of Canada and what it stood for, a democracy where people could always trust the police,” she wrote.

Crown prosecutor Scott Fenton told the hearing that the disgraced Mountie convicted of lying about the high-profile death of Dziekanski should spend up to three years in prison.

Fenton said Millington’s punishment should take into account the seriousness of his offence, that his testimony was vital to the public inquiry and that his perjury was planned, deliberate and sustained.

B.C. health authority apologizes for ‘detaining’ woman for over two years VICTORIA — A British Columbia man’s claim that his wife was held hostage in a care facility has prompted a stinging report from the province’s ombudsperson and an apology from a health authority.

David and Nancy Varcoe’s bureaucratic odyssey began when she was ad-

mitted to the Penticton, B.C., hospital for emergency treatment. She was then transferred to a care facility in March 2011 and held there until May 2013 despite her wishes to be discharged.

“My wife was held like a hostage,” Varcoe said Thursday. “If this isn’t unlawful confinement, or leading to that, what else is?”

The Office of the Ombudsperson investigated the couple’s complaint and ordered Interior Health to formally apologize, refund more than $25,000 in residential care fees, develop guidelines and train staff on responsibilities under the Adult Guardianship Act. Nancy Varcoe, 60, a registered nurse, suffered a series of strokes over the years and is now partially paralysed. She also has several other health issues and is currently in hospital in Penticton after suffering a fall.

Her husband contacted the ombudsperson in 2012 with concerns that Interior Health refused to discharge her. She had been admitted to the care home as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act.

Conservative rule changes open federal byelection spending tap OTTAWA — Federal parties and their candidates will be eligible to spend millions of taxpayer-subsidized dollars to contest three federal byelections, thanks to rule changes enacted last year in the government’s controversial Fair Elections Act. And the governing Conservatives appear best positioned to reap the benefits of the unforeseen spendingroom bonanza, which comes courtesy of a little-debated provision in the election bill.

The rule change allows individual candidates — and national parties — to inflate their spending cap by a prorated amount whenever a campaign extends beyond the 37-day minimum.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that byelections have begun in three vacant Ontario ridings — but that voting day for the three isn’t until Oct. 19, the likely date of a full general election.

The resulting 169-day campaigns mean that byelection candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean, Peterborough and Sudbury collectively can spend into the millions. So can their respective national parties.

And those candidate expenses are eligible for a rebate of 60 per cent from Elections Canada.

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The measures were included in the Conservatives’ budget bill, which was introduced today.

Blaney and Alexander also said people who have their passports revoked or cancelled will have to wait 10 years before applying for another.

OTTAWA — Conservative senators The ministers added that the changoverrode the concerns of senior public es would allow Federal Court justices servants about lax expense rules in the who preside over passport proceedupper chamber, newly released docuings to protect information from being ments reveal. disclosed but to be able to use that inSome of those same senators later formation in reaching their decisions. worked in tandem with the Prime MinAlexander said the government is ister’s Office to make sure Mike Duffy sending a “very strong message.” was not publicly admonished for fail“We won’t allow the Canadian passing to grasp the rules around his own port to be used as a tool by terrorists to expenses. carry out unspeakable acts of violence, Transcripts of police interviews criminal acts, and Canada will not tolwith former Senate clerk Gary O’Brien erate this type of behaviour,” he told a and top Senate auditor Jill Anne Jonews conference at the airport. seph were filed in court this week, in conjunction with Duffy’s ongoing criminal trial.

They provide a new window into what was going on in the Senate backrooms at the height of the expense scandal.

Joseph was asked in early 2013 to HALIFAX — Police should have review whether senators had pieces of informed the public they knew a stockgovernment ID that proved they lived pile of chemicals that led to evacuain the province they represent in the tions in two cities lacked key bomb Senate. It had become a major issue ingredients, says a defence lawyer repin the news, with questions about how resenting the man who was arrested in much time Duffy spent in Prince Edthe high-profile case. ward Island.

Mike Taylor was referring Thursday “I did up my little report but they to one of several court exhibits redidn’t like it, because I argued that leased in the case of 42-year-old Christhere was a lack of clear criteria surtopher Phillips, who has been charged rounding residency and they said, no with uttering threats and possessing a no, no, it’s very clear. Primary resiweapon — the hazardous chemical osdence they’re supposed to live there,” mium tetroxide. she told the RCMP. Phillips and Taylor briefly apWhile the meaning of primary residence was perhaps clear, Joseph main- peared in Nova Scotia Supreme Court to confirm a judge-only trial is set for tained the rules around how to prove it for finance purposes were not. That June 1. was later borne out when the Senate An exhibit released to The Canafurther tightened its rules, she added. dian Press contains an analysis by forensics expert Melanie Brochu, who wrote that chemicals police found in Phillips’ cottage in Grand Desert, N.S., didn’t include the ingredients needed for homemade explosives.

“Although some chemicals could be used as reagents to make explosives, I did not see all the requisite precursors MONTREAL — Ottawa says it is typically required to actually make introducing passport measures to prehomemade explosives,” Brochu wrote vent people they call would-be terrorin a report entry dated Jan. 22 — the ists and sex offenders from travelling abroad. day after Phillips’ arrest.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU, Nepal — Thousands of Nepalese dressed in white offered prayers and flowers at home and in temples Thursday in a Hindu ritual marking the end of a 13-day mourning period for those killed in the country’s massive earthquake.

Families and friends also published condolence messages with photographs of victims in local newspapers.

Thousands of mourners gathered amid piles of stones, mud, bricks and wooden beams that once formed centuries-old temples, palaces and structures toppled in the April 25 quake, which killed more than 7,800 people and injured another 15,000.

The main ceremony was held in the ruins of Kastamandap, a temple for which the capital, Kathmandu, was named.

“There are so many people and so many buildings we have all lost in the earthquake. I am here to show my support for these families and to say that we are all here for you,” said Alok Shrestha, a banker holding a bouquet of marigolds.

Lawmakers in Nepal’s constituent assembly also stood for a minute of silence in memory of the dead.

During the customary mourning period, close family members stay at home, do not touch outsiders and refrain from eating salt. No entertainment is allowed.

About 500 people gathered at Kathmandu’s historic centre, Basantapur Durbar Square, where temples were reduced to rubble, to offer prayers.

In the evening, 2,000 mourners carrying candles gathered near Dharahara tower, which collapsed in the earthquake. With a 213-step spiral staircase, it once offered a panoramic view of the capital.

The central bank announced Thursday that people whose houses were damaged in the quake can obtain loans at a 2 per cent interest rate. The average commercial loan rate is about 10 per cent.

Nepal Rastra Bank official Min Bahadur Shrestha told state-run Radio Nepal that people in Kathmandu can receive loans of up to 2.5 million rupees ($25,000) and those outside the capital 1.5 million rupees ($15,000).

More than a thousand engineers are checking damaged houses in the capital and advising people about whether they are safe. It is still unclear how many houses were damaged and how many are repairable.

Bhimsen Das Shrestha, a lawmaker representing Kathmandu, said the government should introduce new rules to make buildings earthquake-resistant.

“When we rebuild the structures in Kathmandu, we need to consider new technologies in earthquakeprone areas,” he said.

Also Thursday, a UN health official said there have been no epidemics in areas hit by the earthquake or in camps where homeless people are sheltered.

Some cases of diarrhea have been reported, but that is normal for this time of year, said Poonam Singh, the World Health Organization’s deputy regional director for Southeast Asia. She cautioned, however, that there could be problems during the monsoon season which begins next month.

Flash floods, tornadoes destroy homes, injure 12

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY — Authorities are investigating the damage left behind by spring storms carrying more than a dozen suspected tornadoes that swept across the southern Plains, bringing floods, forcing the evacuation of an international airport and destroying homes near Oklahoma City.

At least 12 people were injured, but no deaths were immediately reported from the twisters that also hit rural parts of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska on Wednesday night.

The Oklahoma City area seemed to be the hardest hit. A twister destroyed homes in Grady County, southwest of the city, and it appeared another tornado touched down in the area later Wednesday evening when a second storm came through.

“We do strongly think there was a tornado on the south side of Oklahoma City,” meteorologist Michael Scotten said after the second storm that hit around 8:40 p.m.

The storm flipped vehicles on Interstate 35 and left power lines strewn across the roadway, Scotten said. Officials twice evacuated the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, sending passengers and staff into a tunnel outside the security zone.

Before sunrise Thursday in northeast Oklahoma City, fire department divers worked for hours to rescue a motorist who was trapped in a car by the high waters left in the wake of the storms. The female driver used her cellphone to call for help from inside the car, police Capt. Dee Patty said. A flash flood warning was in effect for the area through 9 a.m.

The National Weather Service said 5 to 8 inches

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Leonard Moon recovers items after a storm took off the roof Thursday in Bridge Creek, Okla. of rain fell in the area, said Forrest Mitchell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma. A measurement of 7.1 inches at the Oklahoma City airport set a new daily rainfall record, he said, topping the previous record of 2.61 inches.

Oklahoma City spokeswoman Kristy Yager said the rainfall prompted the city to issue a flash flood emergency for the first time in its history.

Lara O’Leary, a spokeswoman for Emergency Medical Services Authority, said ambulances responded to water rescues “all over” the Oklahoma City metro area. Two ambulance crews required also assistance after getting stuck in high water, she said.

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Staying alive CANADIENS AVOID ELIMINATION WITH WIN OVER LIGHTNING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 6 Lightning 2 TAMPA, Fla. — If there’s such thing as hockey amnesia, the Montreal Canadiens discovered it.

Less than 24 hours after losing with 1.1 seconds left to fall behind three games to none, the Canadiens skated the Tampa Bay Lightning out of Amalie Arena Thursday night with a 6-2 statement victory to stave off elimination.

“We forgot about last night, last night,” said Montreal forward Brandon Prust. “We did a good job of moving on.”

The series shifts back to Bell Centre for Game 5 Saturday night.

So much of the Habs’ struggles against the Lightning appeared mental after losing all five regular-season meetings and then the first three of their second-round playoff series. Compound that with the devastating buzzer beater from Tyler Johnson in Game 3 and a quick turnaround, the task was even more daunting.

Instead, Montreal came out flying to end the drought against Tampa Bay at eight games. The Habs avoided becoming the first team in NHL history to get swept by the same team they swept the season before.

Max Pacioretty led the way with a goal and two assists as the Habs chased Tampa Bay starter Ben Bishop, who allowed three on 14 shots. Carey Price shut the door at the other end to extend Michel Therrien’s streak of never being swept as an NHL coach.

“There was no difference,” Pacioretty said about Thursday’s effort. “We were desperate.”

Andrei Markov, David Desharnais, Jeff Petry, Brendan Gallagher and Prust also scored on a breakout night for Montreal, which scored a total of four goals through the first three games of the series.

Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat scored power-play goals for the Lightning, who couldn’t get their act together with the chance to advance to the Eastern Conference final. Steven Stamkos was held without a shot on goal for the second straight game.

The morning after a stunning, lastsecond victory to take a stranglehold on the series, Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper and his players almost sounded like they had lost. The Habs dominated Wednesday night, so much that the Lightning felt they stole one.

Maybe Montreal controlling the play propelled their confidence for Game 4.

Rebels get déjà vu with first pick

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Montreal Canadiens right wing P.A. Parenteau (15) and center Lars Eller celebrate a goal by right wing Brandon Prust, center, during third period of Game 4 NHL second round playoff action against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Thursday, in Tampa, Fla. The Canadiens defeated the Lightning 6-2.

Facing a deficit only four NHL teams have overcome, the Habs exuded a quiet confidence not about the big picture, but just about one night and what could happen if they could continue to create scoring chances.

Frustrated at times by the number and quality of opportunities they’d had in Game 3, Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau said he didn’t know what he and his teammates had to do differently to finish.

A couple of bounces early helped, and once the dam opened the score got lopsided.

Bishop was helpless on Markov’s

opening goal after dazzling moves and a perfect pass by P.K. Subban, and then again on Pacioretty’s short-handed goal. The hook came in the second after Desharnais’ shot went in off Bishop’s glove.

Even though Bishop made a few crucial saves to keep the Habs from running away with it earlier, coach Jon Cooper called on Andrei Vasilevskiy to make his NHL playoff debut. Vasilevskiy allowed goals on two of the first three shots he faced and a total of three goals on 25 shots.

“We’re alive,” said Subban. “We’re going back to Montreal.”

Hansen steps down as athletic director at Red Deer College

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Keith Hansen is leaving his post as Red Deer College athletic director confident the department is one of the best in the country.

In his seven years on the job, Hansen over saw a program that became synonymous with winning, earning five national championships, while instilling a legacy for creating leaders.

He is stepping down to focus fulltime on teaching at the college but says the move has been two years in the works — although the two most successful years of his tenure.

“I remember Al Ferchuk telling me right after we won our first national championship, he took me in his office and said ‘Congratulations,’ he shook my hand and then said ‘Excellence is measured overtime,’” said Hansen.

“That’s always stuck in my mind. What I’m most proud of when I look back at my time with the athletic department ... is that we kept excellence front and centre.”

He adds he appreciates the senior management at the college — from Linda Moore Martin, the Dean of the School of Health Sciences, in particular — for the support he has received over the years, and their understanding in his decision to step down now.

“Keith has done a phenomenal job of balancing strong academic values with success in competitive sport, while always ensuring a commitment to the welfare of our student athletes and our coaches,” said Moore Martin in a press release. “It was very tempting to not honor his desire to return to full-time teaching, but I have the utmost respect for his decision,” Keith’s involvement with RDC athletics stretches back more than 20 years. He first came to the program as an athlete, and played on the men’s volleyball team for two years.

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‘KEITH HAS DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB OF BALANCING STRONG ACADEMIC VALUES WITH SUCCESS IN COMPETITIVE SPORT, WHILE ALWAYS ENSURING A COMMITMENT TO THE WELFARE OF OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AND OUR COACHES.’ Keith Hansen them into a dynasty, winning nine national championships.

But the last seven as athletic director may be where he made his biggest impact, bringing in top level coaches for all teams, overseeing the return of Kings hockey to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference and the creation of a multi-million dollar athletics legacy fund that will continue to fuel the program for the foreseeable future.

He has received numerous awards for his efforts including being named Canadian Colleges Athletic Association Athletic Director of the year in 2011-12 and has been inducted into the Alberta Volleyball Hall of Fame.

But what he may be most proud of is the creation of the Captain’s Council in 2013-14 that brought together all current team captains as well as captains from the past. The idea being to create a group that bread leadership into the program, one that will affect them in their athletic pursuits and in their life away from the court or field or ice.

The program earned RDC the CCAA Innovation award.

“Lots of times people give great lip service to ‘We create great leaders’ but how much time do we actually spend arming our young leaders, and I think we did a really good thing with that Captain’s Council,” he said.

RDC president Joel Ward says Hansen’s impact will be felt for a long time.

“He has accomplished so much as athletic director ... he has such a stellar record it will be difficult (to re-

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place him),” said Ward.

There is a short time line to find Hansen’s replacement, hoping to have them in place by July 1, when he will officially step down.

For the first time the athletic director will also become a full-time position at the college, joining most of the other CCAA programs in the country in that regard. Ward says they will conduct a country-wide search to fill the void, but the job will also be quite different than the one Hansen is leaving, in particular regard to their involvement with the construction and operation of the new centre for health and wellness and sport “They will require a full-time effort not only to manage what we currently have but to prepare for the next generation, I almost consider it Athletic Director 2.0,” said Ward.

As for Hansen, he will be teaching a full slate of courses on sports psychology ... For the first time in his adult life he will not be directly involved in RDC sports, and that may be his biggest challenge.

“I’m not going to miss the 100-plus emails a day, but I am going to miss the interaction with the staff, the interaction with the coaches, that’s going to be extremely hard for me,” he said.

“What’s going to be my saving grace is that I’m still going to be at the college, I’m still going to be teaching within the kinesiology program, I’m still going to have contact with the people every day.”

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

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If Jacob Herauf develops into the type of former Red Deer Rebels defenceman Shaun Sutter compares him to, the club hit a home run in Thursday’s WHL bantam draft in Calgary.

Herauf, whom the Rebels nabbed with their first-round pick — 16th overall MORE ON THE — plays a game comparable to a certain WHL DRAFT B2 Minnesota Wild rookie rearguard, the Red Deer assistant GM/ director of player personnel said following the draft.

“He’s a guy who skates well, moves the puck well and plays a real assertive, energetic game. In some ways he’s similar to Mathew Dumba in that he plays on his toes and can make the big open-ice hits or run people over,” said Sutter. “He has that kind of physicality to his game.”

Herauf played for the major bantam Sherwood Park Flyers during the 201415 season, scoring six goals, collecting 23 points and racking up 22 points in penalties in 33 games. The Flyers were coached by Mike Pawlenchuk, the father of Rebels forward Grayson.

The five-foot-10, 170-pound blueliner also suited up for one game with the minor midget AAA Sherwood Park Squires and collected three assists.

One scouting service had Herauf ranked as a fourth-rounder and another had him ranked outside of the top 30. Sutter, who suggested earlier this week the Rebels might go somewhat ‘off the board’ with their first pick, said Herauf’s existing skills as well as his upside made him an easy choice.

“There was a group of guys in the late first and early second round who were similar. We just really liked the heaviness to his game and his skating,” said the Rebels chief talent evaluator.

“We think he’s going to grow and be a big kid. We just think there’s a lot there and we didn’t want to pass on him.”

Herauf, a Lethbridge native who two years ago played bantam hockey in Montreal before his family moved back to Alberta, expressed his delight with being selected by the Rebels.

“I’m excited, very happy,” he said from Toronto, where he’s competing in a tournament. The soon-to-be 15-yearold (May 16) described himself as a responsible, two-way rearguard.

“I see myself as a defenceman who makes sure everything is in the defensive zone before jumping up into the play,” he said. “I like to get into the rush and carry the puck. I don’t shy away from skating with the puck.”

Meanwhile, Shaun Sutter, Rebels GM/head coach, Brent Sutter and director of scouting and player development Randy Peterson decided to select five-foot-nine, 160-pound centre Eli Zummack of Kelowna with the team’s second pick, 36th overall. Zummack recorded 21 points (9g,12a) in 18 games with the Pursuit of Excellence Academy bantam prep team — along with two goals and four points in four playoff outings — and six points (2-4) in four games with the POE elite 15s squad.

The Rebels took another centre, Chase Lowry of Edmonton, with their third pick, 50th overall. The five-foot-10, 172-pound forward had 36 points, including 16 goals, in 21 games with the Edmonton Southside Lions.

“Eli is a skilled kid who can skate and make plays,” said Shaun Sutter.

“He thinks the game real well and he’s a real dedicated and focused kid off the ice. He’s a guy we obviously like.

He can play the half wall on the power play and he makes the other players around him better.”

As for Lowry . . .

“Chase is a guy who can score and make plays,” said Sutter. “He’s has some size to him and he’s from the Edmonton Southside Athletic Association, so he’ll stay in a good program next year.

“He was injured this year so I think he slipped a bit (in the draft) because of that. He’s just a good, all-around player who plays a 200-foot game.”

The Rebels snared another slick forward, Brendan Budy of Langley, B.C., with their fourth-round selection — 69th overall — and after taking defenceman Jacob Thomson of Brandon in the sixth round, scooped promising American blueliner Jace Foskey of Southlake, Tex., in the seventh round.

Foskey, selected 148th overall and already highly-regarded by various hockey people on both sides of the border, comes highly-recommended by Luke Reid, a Rebels scout based in Dallas.

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Rebels make pair of deals on draft day

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR What’s a day at the draft table without at least a couple of trades?

Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was involved in two transactions during the WHL bantam draft Thursday in Calgary, sending overage forward Connor Gay to the Saskatoon Blades for a third-round pick and acquiring Russian centre/winger Ivan Nikolishin from the Everett Silvertips for a third-rounder in Thursday’s draft and a conditional fourth-round selection in 2017.

Gay, a Saskatoon native, notched 20 goals and recorded 44 points in 39 games with the Regina Pats before being acquired by Red Deer in early January. That type of production wasn’t forthcoming with the Rebels, as the Saskatoon native managed just three goals and 17 points in 32 regular-season games with his new club.

“We expected more offence from Connor. It just didn’t work out for him in Red Deer,” said Sutter. “To be quite honest, this is a great opportunity for him. I wanted to do the right thing and the right thing was to give him a chance to finish his junior career at home.

“The Blades are excited about having Connor and hopefully he can go

Tarzwell first of four local players taken in WHL bantam draft

there and contribute offensively, because that’s what he is . . . he has to be a guy who puts pucks in the net.”

Sutter is expecting Nikolishin, a 19-year-old from Moscow who played two seasons with the Silvertips, to deliver where Gay came up short. The five-foot-nine, 170-pound forward has played in 144 WHL regular-season games, scoring 34 goals and adding 87 assists for 121 points, and has three goals and 10 points in 16 playoff games.

He is the son of former NHL defenceman Andrei Nikolishin, who played for Chicago in the 2002-03 season while Sutter’s brother, Brian, was coaching the Blackhawks.

“Ivan has some tremendous skill, he’s a very gifted player that way,” said Brent Sutter. “You never seem to have enough offence on your team and he’ll help in that respect. The great thing about him is he’s been in our league for two years now.

“He’s very excited about today’s trade and he’s looking forward to play-

Top two teams from regular season face off for WHL crown

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Lethbridge Hurricanes looked north for their second-round pick, 24th overall, in Thursday’s WHL bantam draft.

The ‘Canes selected centre Josh Tarzwell of Red Deer, who during the 2014-15 season scored 17 goals and added 16 assists in 32 games with the Rebels White, while recording 50 minutes in penalties.

The five-foot-11, 182-pound power forward was also selected as an all-star while skating with the Central team at the recent Alberta Cup that featured the top second-year bantams in the province.

Tarzwell was one of four Central Albertans taken in the 2015 bantam draft, the others being defencemen Luke and Gabe Bast of Red Deer and forward Josh McNeil of Sylvan Lake.

Luke Bast, a graduating member of the Rebels White, was selected in the sixth round by the Victoria Royals, while older brother Gabe, 18, went to Victoria in the 10th round.

Gabe Bast, who recently helped the junior A Penticton Vees win the Western Canada Cup at Fort McMurray and subsequently clinch a berth in the Royal Bank Cup — the national junior A championship tournament — May 9-17 at Portage la Prairie, Man., was previously the WHL property of the Medicine Hat Tigers, who dropped him when he signed with the Vees.

The Royals, seemingly, decided to take a flyer on the older Bast on the chance that he’s selected in this year’s NHL draft and at some point elects to leave the University of North Dakota, with whom he has secured a NCAA scholarship.

McNeil, who skated with the Rebels Black in 201415, was an eighth-round pick of the Tigers.

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DRAFT: A lot of trust “We think Jace is the best defenceman in the western United States,” said Shaun Sutter. “ Other teams might have been wary of (drafting) him based on his commitment level, but we have a lot of trust in Luke because of his relationship with Jace.

“He’s a player we can see wearing our jersey one day.”

Brent Sutter, in fact, likes his team’s chances of getting Foskey into a Rebels’ uniform.

“He’s pretty excited. I also talked to his parents and they’re very excited,” said Sutter. “We had him ranked as one of the top two defencemen in the U.S., so we’re pretty excited about getting him. Our scout in Dallas coached him and he knows the family really well.”

The six-foot-one, 168-pound Foskey

ing here.”

With the departure of Gay, the Rebels are left with four 20-year-olds for the 2015-16 Memorial Cup host season.

The remaining overagers are forwards Presten Kopeck, Scott Feser and Wyatt Johnson, and defenceman Kayle Doetzel.

The Rebels will have to decide which three they are keeping by the October cutdown date for overagers.

Meanwhile, the acquisition of Nikolishin means the Rebels won’t have to select twice in the late June CHL import draft as teams are allowed a maximum of two imports.

Slovakian defenceman Mario Grman, who played as a forward for most of the 2014-15 season, is still on the Red Deer roster but is in tough to stay with the team since Sutter plans to use his first-round pick in the import draft.

“I’ll go through it all with Mario . . . explain it all to him and go from there,” said Sutter. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

VANCOUVER — Josh Morrissey has excelled on the international stage for Canada during his fouryear Western Hockey League career, but until now he has never had the chance to play for a league title.

The Kelowna Rockets defenceman aims to make the most of it as his club faces the Wheat Kings in the final, starting Friday in Brandon, Man. This marks the first time since 2003 that the top two regular-season teams have reached the championship series.

“Knowing that this could very well be my last season in junior, I definitely want to end it off in the right way,” said Morrissey, a Winnipeg Jets prospect who is expected to play in the AHL or NHL next season.

The 19-year-old Calgary native helped Canada win this year’s world junior championship. He has also garnered gold medals at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and IIHF under-18 worlds. After beginning the season with the struggling Prince Albert Raiders, he is savouring the rare chance for a world junior crown, a WHL championship and a Memorial Cup title in one season.

“Regardless of your age or time in the league or anything like that, it’s so hard to win and so hard to get the chance to win,” he said.

“You might never have that opportunity (at any level) again. b& For our team, I think we really want to relish it now.”

The Rockets and Wheat Kings met only once in the regular season, with Kelowna winning at home in October, but they have waged a close battle on paper for months.

The Wheat Kings finished first overall with 114 points while the Rockets placed second with 112.

The Rockets had a plus-122 goals differential while the Wheat Kings were plus-121. In the playoffs, both clubs sport identical 12-3 records, while Brandon

suited up with the Dallas U16 team in 2014-15.

“I’m going to go down and visit with him,” said Sutter.

“It’s the same situation as with the (Austin) Pratt and (Grant) Mismash families from Minnesota,” added the Rebels bench boss, in reference to a pair of 2014 bantam draft picks. “He’s a top-end kid and we’re excited about him hopefully having the opportunity to play in Red Deer. We’ll see how it goes.”

In Zummack, Lowry and Budy, Shaun Sutter is confident the team has three top-six forwards for the coming years.

Budy, who checks in at five-footeight and 155 pounds and with a solid skill set, likely would have gone higher in the draft if not for his lack of size and the fact that his father, Tim, decided to follow the U.S. college route before turning pro.

“That might have been a factor in him slipping a bit,” said Shaun Sutter.

“In terms of skill, he’s a guy who has a very good chance to be a top-six for-

has outscored Kelowna 65-64.

“It’s been a long season where we were competing with them, especially in the second half, for homeice (advantage) when it came to the final — and got there,” said Brandon assistant coach David Anning.

Kelowna is seeking its fourth WHL title after winning on its previous final trips in 2003, 2005 and 2009.

“You don’t realize (how special a finals berth is) until you’re not there,” said Kelowna owner and general manager Bruce Hamilton.

Brandon is chasing its third league crown in seven tries, having won in 1996 and 1979. The Wheat Kings lost to the Rockets in their last finals visit in 2005.

This series could ultimately be a test of key trades both teams made to reach the finals. After obtaining Morrissey, Rockets GM Hamilton acquired Edmonton Oilers prospect Leon Draisaitl in another deal with Prince Albert.

“We’d never traded a first-round (bantam draft) pick in 24 years, and we traded one,” said Hamilton.

“We decided that there comes a time when you’ve got to roll the dice when you get an opportunity to add a person like (Draisaitl) to the mix.”

Draisaitl is the top active WHL playoff scorer with six goals and 15 assists in 15 games. Wheat Kings owner, GM and coach Kelly McCrimmon’s moves included the acquisition of Calgary Flames prospect Morgan Klimchuk from Regina.

Centre John Quenneville leads Brandon in playoff scoring with 10 goals and nine assists in 15 contests.

Since both teams are explosive offensively, they are stressing the need for tight defence.

“If you look at our group, we have the ability to have different guys step up and score a goal when we need it,” said Anning. “So we’re not concerned about scoring the goals.”

Notes — Kelowna winger Tyrell Goulbourne (leg laceration) is out for the rest of the playoffs. Highscoring centre Rourke Chartier will miss at least the first two games with an undisclosed injury....The complete series will be broadcast on Shaw TV.

ward by the time he’s 17.

“I think he’s a guy who could be a (Kootenay Ice forward) Luke Philp type of player. He plays with character, he can score and make plays. He’s another guy who can play the half wall on the power play.”

Budy recorded 11 goals and 23 points in 18 games at the Delta Hockey Academy. He also rung up 34 minutes in penalties.

“He’s small in stature but he’s going to be somewhere between a Philp and a Brandon Magee type player,” said Sutter, also referencing the Victoria Royals graduating player, a buzzsaw forward with offensive pop.

Overall, Sutter likes the crop of prospects the Rebels plucked Thursday.

“Up front, we got some real good players with vision and skill and we drafted a nice mix of players on the back end,” he said.

All of Red Deer’s selections are expected to attend the team’s spring prospects camp June 5-7 at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

The Rebels’ other 2015 bantam draft picks (with 2014-15 team, size, statistics and comments from Shaun Sutter): Sixth round (124th): D Jacob Thomson, Brandon Wheat Kings, six-foot-one, 176 lbs; stats unavailable.

“He’s a big, stay-at-home defenceman who moves pretty well. He just plays a real simple, steady game.”

Eighth round (170th): D Spencer McHardy, Calgary Edge School, fivefoot-10, 173; 22GP, 1-6-7.

“He’s a D-man who moves the puck real well. He’s kind of a mid-size guy but he’s a smart, steady player.”

Ninth round (192nd): Brandon Cutler, Spruce Grove Saints, five-foot-10, 165; 28-13-25-38.

“He skates well and has a good frame. He thinks the game well and has good potential.”

10th round (214th): Jake Mulder, Abbotsford AAA, six-foot, 160; 47-44-30-74.

“He put up some real good numbers this season. He’s a tall, lanky guy who has some upside because he has some skill and edge to his game.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The truth about injuries in the NHL is even more elusive in playoffs, where watching practice is often the only indicator of who might play the next game.

So the sight of Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano and rugged rightwinger Lance Bouma participating fully in Thursday’s practice at Scotiabank Saddledome created a bit of a buzz.

Giordano’s surgery on a torn bicep March 4 was considered season-ending.

The captain was not encouraging of the possibility he’ll play in this series, and coach Bob Hartley has thrown cold water on the notion when asked the question almost daily. “It’s still pretty early with this type of injury, so we’ve got to be smart about it,� Giordano said.

Bouma, however, looked closer to re-joining the lineup as he took line rushes with centre Matt Stajan and winger David Jones. The Flames company line is “day-to-day� and Bouma dutifully recited that. He also didn’t stop smiling the entire skate. “I feel like I’m ready, so we’ll see,�

Bouma said. “It’s really frustrating

when you’re skating on your own and you can’t help the team out. To be able to get out there with the guys, it was huge.�

The Flames trail the Anaheim Ducks two games to one in their bestof-seven conference semifinal. Game 4 is Friday at the Saddledome followed

by Sunday’s Game 5 in Anaheim, Calif.

Game 6, if necessary, is Tuesday back at the Saddledome.

The six-foot-one, 210-pound Bouma would give the fast, skilled, but undersized Flames a measure of muscle while contributing offensively with 16 goals and 18 assists in 78 regular-season games. Bouma also led all Flames forwards in blocked shots this season with 82.

The 25-year-old from Provost, has yet to play his first career NHL playoff game. He suffered what is believed to be a hand injury blocking a shot in Calgary’s last home game of the regular season.

Michael Ferland filled in admirably for Bouma in the first round of playoffs. Playing on Stajan’s wing, he was a 40-hit, human wrecking ball in six games against the Vancouver Canucks.

Ferland also had two goals and two assists in that series.

The burly winger hasn’t played in a game since he was squeezed like an accordion in a four-player pileup behind the Ducks net in the first period of Game 1 in Anaheim. Ferland has practised this week, however. The Flames need all the beef they can muster against the bigger, heavier Ducks. “They’re a good matchup for me,�

Bouma said. “Obviously I like playing against them. They’re a big team and it’s usually a good battle.�

Stajan’s line has shadowed Anaheim’s top trio of Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry and Patrick Maroon. Perry’s 14 points and Getzlaf’s 12 top the league in post-season scoring.

The Flames have felt the absence of deterrents like Bouma and Ferland.

The Ducks out-hit the Flames in a pair of wins to open the series at home before Calgary countered with 26 to Anaheim’s 21 in Game 3. “We did a good job of initiating and not being scared and playing our game,� Bouma said. “That’s something we’ve got to continue to do.�

Given Calgary’s woeful record in Anaheim’s Honda Center — no regular-season wins and just one playoff victory since 2004 — the Flames need

to continue their unbeaten post-season record at home Friday or face early elimination Sunday. “You try and win your games at home,� Jones said. “Obviously they have home-ice advantage, so you’ve got to win one there. Coming back 0-2, to get the win last game was a huge game. “It’s going to be equally important (Friday). We don’t want to go back to their building 3-1.�

Giordano weathered bumps from his teammates Thursday, but took few shots and none from long range. He bent over to catch his breath between drills and his was the sweatiest jersey in the group. “I was feeling it for sure,� Giordano said. “I’ve been given the green light to shoot a bit harder and try it out, so now it’s just confidence with myself. I’ve got to get my strength up, get my shot up and take some more contact.�

Notes: The Ducks practised a second day in Banff, Alta., on Thursday before returning to Calgary . . . Flames assistant general manager Craig Conroy interrupted Hartley’s post-practice news conference to present him with an ice cream cake. Hartley was named a finalist for the NHL’s coaching award the previous evening.

Blackhawks sweep Wild

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 4 Wild 3 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Corey Crawford made 34 saves, Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and the Chicago Blackhawks advanced to the Western Conference finals with a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night for a four-game sweep.

The Wild never led in the series.

Goals by Jared Spurgeon and Nino Niederreiter with 2:18 and 1:27 left gave them one last shot, with their net emptied. The final few whacks were either wide or turned aside by Crawford, who stopped 124 of 131 shots in the four games.

Brent Seabrook and Andrew Shaw scored for the Blackhawks, who were down to five defencemen after a serious injury to veteran Michal Roszival.

Marian Hossa had a long empty-netter, and Jonathan Toews and Bryan Bickell had two assists apiece.

Chicago eliminated Minnesota from the playoffs for the third straight year.

It won 12 of the 15 games.

It was the first sweep by the Blackhawks since the Western Conference finals in 2010 against San Jose. They improved to 30-0, including 5-0 in this post-season, when leading after two periods.

Devan Dubnyk made 21 saves for the Wild.

The Blackhawks have scored 12 times in the first period in 10 games this post-season, the key to keeping a firm grip on this series from start to finish. Their defence in the neutral zone has been as stingy as ever, able to force a turnover and spring their speedy attackers on the rush at just the right moments, and getting that first goal has given them more reason to hang back in protection of the lead and wait for mistakes they can pounce on.

The Blackhawks improved to 5-1 when scoring first in the playoffs this year.

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Minnesota Wild defenseman Marco Scandella and Chicago Blackhawks left wing Bryan Bickell chase the puck in front of Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane during Game 4 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Thursday, in St. Paul, Minn.

Belarus beats U.S. for first time at hockey worlds PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Belarus beat the United States for the first time 5-2 at the ice hockey world championship on Thursday.

The other favourites didn’t allow similar stumbles. Finland blanked Slovenia 4-0, Sweden topped Germany 4-3, and the host Czech Republic was a 5-1 winner against France.

Following five losses to the Americans, Belarus’ milestone win in Ostrava was its third in the group stage, and a major step to advance to the quarterfinals for the second straight year.

Belarus tops Group B after four games with 10 points, one ahead of the U.S., Russia and Finland. Slovenia is pointless.

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

quarterfinals.

Sweden is second in Group A with 11 points, one behind Canada. Switzerland is third with eight, and the Czechs are one point back. Germany has three.

After a scoreless first period between Belarus and the U.S., Artur Gavrus and Artyom Volkov scored 70 seconds apart in the second period, and Alexander Kitarov added a third for a commanding 3-0 lead.

It was too much for the Americans to overcome, especially with goaltender Kevin Lalande having a good game making 28 saves, including a big stop in the second to deny Jimmy Vesey on a breakaway.

Brock Nelson finally scored for the U.S. before the end of the second, but a pair in the third by captain Alexei Kalyuzhny, around his two-minute penalty for hooking, sealed Belarus’ historic day. “We had the momentum early and

they pushed back through work and discipline,� U.S. coach Todd Richards said. “They turned the tide and put us on our heels.�

Belarus coach Dave Lewis agreed: “We did not settle into the game until the second period.�

Finland got an early break against Slovenia with Leo Komarov and Petri Kontiola scoring in a span of 41 seconds in the first period. Aleksander Barkov and Joonas Kemppainen scored in the second for their third victory. Goalie Pekka Rinne stopped 13 shots for his third straight shutout at the worlds.

Oscar Moller netted two to lift Sweden to a hard-fought victory over Germany.

Defenceman John Klingberg scored in the third to restore the Swedish lead at 3-2, and Moller added his second goal before Matthias Plachta reduced the final margin to 4-3 with 5:21 to go.

Earlier, Germany tied the game on goals by Marcus Kink and Nicolas Krammer, after Moller and Joakim Lindstrom gave the Swedes a 2-0 lead. “We should be able to be smarter than we were today,� Sweden captain Staffan Kronwall said. “But we got three points and that’s all that matters.�

Czech defenceman Ondrej Nemec broke the scoreless deadlock in his game 1:10 into the second period, and added another goal and an assist against France. “The goals are an extra bonus for me,� Nemec said. “Our offence was good but there were some mistakes in the defence again, and a better opponent could punish us.�

Vladimir Sobotka, Jaromir Jagr, and Roman Cervenka had the other Czech goals.

Kevin Hecquefeuille scored the lone one for France.

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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 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

WHL Bantam Draft First Round #1 – Spokane Chiefs (from Saskatoon) Name: Ty Smith Position: Defence Hometown: Lloydminster, AB #2 – Lethbridge Hurricanes Name: Calen Addison Position: Defence Hometown: Brandon, MB #3 – Vancouver Giants Name: Tyler Popowich Position: Forward Hometown: Surrey, BC #4 – Moose Jaw Warriors (from Kamloops) Name: Jett Woo Position: Defence Hometown: Winnipeg, MB #5 – Prince Albert Raiders Name: Cole Fonstad Position: Forward Hometown: Estevan, SK #6 – Moose Jaw Warriors Name: Luka Burzan Position: Forward #7 – Tri-City Americans Name: Carson Focht Position: Forward Hometown: Regina, SK #8 – Prince George Cougars Name: Jackson Leppard Position: Forward Hometown: North Vancouver, BC #9 – Spokane Chiefs Name: Koby Morrisseau Position: Forward Hometown: Grandview, MB #10 – Swift Current Broncos Name: Riley Stotts Position: Forward Hometown: Winnipeg, MB #11 – Edmonton Oil Kings Name: Ethan Cap Position: Defence Hometown: North Vancouver, BC #12 – Saskatoon Blades (from Kootenay) Name: Jonathan Tychonick Position: Defence Hometown: Calgary, AB #13 – Victoria Royals Name: Eric Florchuk Position: Forward Hometown: Fort Saskatchewan, AB #14 – Regina Pats Name: Dawson Barteaux Position: Defence Hometown: Foxwarren, MB #15 – Seattle Thunderbirds Name: Elijah Brown Position: Forward Hometown: Edmonton, AB #16 – Red Deer Rebels Name: Jacob Herauf Position: Defence Hometown: Sherwood Park, AB #17 – Portland Winterhawks -No Selection#18 – Medicine Hat Tigers Name: Ryan Chyzowski Position: Forward Hometown: Kamloops, BC #19 – Saskatoon Blades (from Everett) Name: Chase Wouters Position: Forward Hometown: Lloydminster, AB #20 – Calgary Hitmen Name: Tristen Nielsen Position: Forward Hometown: Calgary, AB #21 – Prince Albert Raiders (from Kelowna) Name: Carson Miller Position: Forward Hometown: Yorkton, SK #22 – Brandon Wheat Kings Name: Caiden Daley Position: Forward Hometown: Winnipeg, MB 2015 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic

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

Petan, Por Tambellini, Cal Bjorkstrand, Por Draisaitl, Kel Baillie, Kel Merkley, Kel J.Quenneville, Bra De Leo, Por Hawryluk, Bra Sanheim, Cal McGauley, Bra P.Quenneville, Bra Bowey, Kel

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PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt 4 4 0 0 0 28 8 12

5 4 4 4 4 3 4

3 2 2 1 1 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 1 1

0 2 1 0 0 0 0

1 0 1 3 3 2 3

28 8 17 5 5 5 6

16 11 7 8 15 7 16 3 10 3 11 2 19 2

Group B GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Belarus 4 3 0 1 0 15 7 10 Finland 4 3 0 0 1 13 5 9 Russia 4 3 0 0 1 18 11 9 U.S. 4 3 0 0 1 13 9 9 Slovakia 4 1 2 0 1 11 8 7 Norway 4 1 0 0 3 6 15 3 Denmark 4 0 0 1 3 6 17 1 Slovenia 4 0 0 0 4 6 16 0 Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Wednesday’s results At Prague Canada 6 Sweden 4 Latvia 2 Switzerland 1 (OT) At Ostrava Norway 3 Slovakia 2 Russia 5 Denmark 2

Today

Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-0) Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Calgary wins series 4-2) SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 Thursday, April 30: Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Saturday, May 2: N.Y. Rangers 3, Washington 2 Monday, May 4: Washington 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Wednesday, May 6: Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Friday, May 8: Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. x-Sunday, May 10: N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 5 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 13: Washington at N.Y. Rangers, TBD Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1 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 6, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, May 9: Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 12: Montreal at Tampa Bay, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD

Thursday’s results At Prague Czech Republic 5 France 1 Sweden 4 Germany 3 At Ostrava Belarus 5 U.S. 2 Finland 4 Slovenia 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 4, Minnesota 0 Friday, May 1: Chicago 4, Minnesota 3 Sunday, May 3: Chicago 4, Minnesota 1 Tuesday, May 5: Chicago 1, Minnesota 0 Thursday, May 7: Chicago 4, Minnesota 3

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.

Thursday’s summaries

Sunday’s games At Prague Czech Republic vs. Germany, 8:15 a.m.

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

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

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

Scoring Leaders G 5 3 4 3 3 1 1 5 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1

A 3 5 3 4 4 6 6 1 3 4 4 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4

Pts 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal wins series 4-2) 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)

Canadiens 6, Lightning 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Markov 1 (Subban, Pacioretty) 2:44.

2. Montreal, Pacioretty 4 (Gilbert) 8:43 (sh).

Penalties — Markov Mtl (cross-checking) 7:54.

Second Period 3. Montreal, Desharnais 1 (Weise, Galchenyuk) 5:08.

4. Montreal, Petry 2 (Galchenyuk, Subban) 9:39 (pp).

5. Montreal, Gallagher 3 (Pacioretty, Plekanec) 9:54.

6. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 4 (Palat, Stralman) 12:26 (pp).

Penalties — Callahan TB (high-sticking) 8:01, Markov Mtl (tripping) 11:35, Weise Mtl (roughing) 19:39.

Third Period 7. Tampa Bay, Palat 2 (Johnson, Stamkos) :17 (pp).

8. Montreal, Prust 1 (Eller, Parenteau) 4:52.

Penalties — Sustr TB (slashing) 6:20, Carle TB (hooking) 12:41, Galchenyuk Mtl (roughing) 19:13, Namestnikov TB (roughing) 19:13.

Shots on goal Montreal 9 15 16 — 40 Tampa Bay 8 10 6 — 24 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 5-5-0); Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 7-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 1-3; Tampa Bay: 2-3.

Blackhawks 4, Wild 3 First Period 1. Chicago, Seabrook 3 (Bickell, Oduya) 10:23.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Chicago, Shaw 1 (Toews, Kane) 3:28 (pp).

3. Minnesota, Haula 1 (Cooke, Dumba) 6:42.

Penalties — Toews Chi (hooking) 0:18, Niederreiter Minn (hooking) 2:32.

Third Period 4. Chicago, Kane 7 (Bickell, Hjalmarsson) 13:20.

5. Chicago, Hossa 1 (Toews) 16:53 (en-sh).

6. Minnesota, Pominville 3 (Spurgeon, Koivu) 17:42 (pp).

7. Minnesota, Niederreiter 4 (Dumba, Suter) 18:33.

Penalties — Prosser Minn (hooking) 4:46, Bickell Chi (boarding) 16:02, Bench Chi (too many men) 19:45.

Shots on goal Chicago 8 10 7 — 25 Minnesota 8 18 11 — 37 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 5-1-0); Minnesota: Dubnyk (L, 4-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 1-2; Minnesota: 1-3.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct GB New York 18 11 .621 — Tampa Bay 15 14 .517 3 Toronto 14 15 .483 4 Boston 13 15 .464 4 Baltimore 12 14 .462 4 Central Division W L Pct GB Kansas City 18 10 .643 — Detroit 18 11 .621 1/2 Minnesota 16 13 .552 2 Chicago 10 15 .400 6 Cleveland 10 17 .370 7 West Division W L Pct GB Houston 18 10 .643 — Los Angeles 13 15 .464 5 Texas 12 16 .429 6 Oakland 12 18 .400 7 Seattle 11 17 .393 7

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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 Minnesota 6, Oakland 5 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 4 Detroit 4, Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, Baltimore 3 Texas 5, Tampa Bay 4 Houston at L.A. Angels, late Friday’s Games Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Miley 1-3) at Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 2-2), 5:07 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 2-2) at Detroit (Price 3-1), 5:08 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 2-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Gallardo 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Karns 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (R.Hernandez 1-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-4), 8:05 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 4-0) at Seattle (T.Walker 1-3), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 2:10 p.m.

Texas at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

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

GB — 4 4 5 8 GB — 6 7 8 12

15 14 12 11

14 14 14 15

.517 .500 .462 .423

3 4 5 6

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Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 14, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2 San Diego at Arizona, late Miami at San Francisco, late Friday’s Games Atlanta (Stults 1-2) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 5-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 4-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hammel 2-1) at Milwaukee (Nelson 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 1-1) at Colorado (E.Butler 2-2), 6:40 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 3-0) at Arizona (Hellickson 1-3), 7:40 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 1-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 2-2), 8:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Texas at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

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

Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 6:05 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct 18 10 .643 14 14 .500 14 15 .483 13 15 .464 10 19 .345 Central Division W L Pct 21 7 .750 14 13 .519 14 14 .500 13 15 .464 9 20 .310 West Division W L Pct 18 10 .643

San Diego San Francisco Arizona Colorado

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Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 2:05 p.m.

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

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

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

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

Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Swimming LASC Spring Challenge Lethbridge May 2-3, 2015 Top 3 finishes Emma Barschel – 100fr 3rd.

Emalee Broen – 50bk 1st, 200bk 2nd.

Elle Couture – 200 fr 3rd, 200br 2nd, 400fr 1st, 200bk 2nd, 50fly 2nd, 100fr 2nd, 200IM 1st.

Chloe Grant – 50br 2nd, 50bk 2nd, 200bk 3rd, 100bk 3rd, 200IM 3rd.

Kristin Irvine – 400fr 2nd.

Jeanette Kruger – 200fly 2nd.

Chayce Moon – 200bk 2nd.

Dalia Morales – 50bk 3rd, 100fly 1st.

Laina Powell – 50bk 2nd, 50fly 3rd, 100bk 2nd.

Ocean Roos – 200fr 3rd, 400fr 1st.

Skylar Sabasch – 200br 2nd.

Jack Barschel – 50br 2nd, 100br 3rd.

Jaden DeBruijn – 50br 2nd, 200IM 3rd.

Illia Ivanitskyi – 400fr 3rd.

Isaiah Janzen – 800fr 3rd.

River Roos – 200fr 1st, 50br 2nd, 400fr 1st, 50fly 1st, 100fr 2nd, 200IM 1st.

Jayden Vale – 50fly 3rd, 200IM 2nd.

Cooper Waddle – 50br 3rd, 100bk 2nd.

Long course qualifying standards

Elle Couture – 10 y.o A time in 200fr, 400fr, 50fly, 100fr, 200IM. Chloe Grant – 14 y.o MQT in 200IM. Tori Janzen – 10 y.o MQT in 200IM. Dalia Morales – 10 y.o MQT in 200IM. Laina Powell – 10 y.o MQT in 400fr.

Ocean Roos – 11 y.o A time in 200fr, 400fr, 100fly.

Skylar Sabasch – 13 y.o MQT in 400fr.

Brooklyn Wiens – 11 y.o MQT in 400fr, 200IM. Claire Xu – 12 y.o MQT in 400fr, 200IM. Jaden DeBruijn – 12 y.o MQT in 400fr, 200IM. Isaiah Janzen – 13 y.o MQT in 800fr.

Jayden Vale – 12 y.o MQT in 200IM. Cooper Waddle – 11 y.o MQT in 200IM.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed C Joe Pendenza to a one-year contract.

ECHL ECHL — Fined Utah RW Matt Pelech an undisclosed amount for his actions in a game on May 6.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Activated INF J.J. Hardy from the 15-day DL. Placed INF Everth Cabrera on the 15-day DL. BOSTON RED SOX — Fired Juan Nieves, pitching coach.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Announced LHP Chris Sale has dropped his appeal of a five-game suspension for his involvement in a bench-clearing brawl against Kansas City on April 23.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed OF George Springer on the 7-day concussion DL. Selected the contract of OF Preston Tucker from Fresno (PCL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced Major

● 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.

for violating league’s anti-flopping rules during a game on May 6.

Women’s National Basketball Association MINNESOTA LYNX — Signed F Maya Moore to a multiyear contract.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DL Jamaal Westerman.

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released WR Nathan Slaughter.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed S Ed Reed to a contract and announced his retirement.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed LB Shaq Thompson, OT Daryl Williams and LB David Mayo to four-year contracts.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed TE Randall Telfer and LB Nate Orchard.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed OT La’el Collins.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed WR Amari Cooper.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Announced the retirement of LB Kamerion Wimbley.

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.

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.

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

Golf PGA-Players Championship Thursday At TPC Sawgrass, The Players Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,215; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Hideki Matsuyama 34-33 — 67 David Hearn 34-33 — 67 Charley Hoffman 36-31 — 67 Kevin Na 33-34 — 67 Troy Merritt 33-35 — 68 Ben Martin 34-34 — 68 Billy Horschel 34-34 — 68 Brendon Todd 34-34 — 68 Charles Howell III 34-34 — 68 Derek Fathauer 33-35 — 68 Jeff Overton 35-34 — 69 Cameron Tringale 36-33 — 69 Marc Leishman 35-34 — 69 Webb Simpson 35-34 — 69 Rickie Fowler 37-32 — 69 Steve Stricker 34-35 — 69 Rory McIlroy 36-33 — 69 Jason Day 33-36 — 69 Ricky Barnes 36-33 — 69 Jason Kokrak 33-36 — 69 Alex Cejka 35-34 — 69 Brandt Snedeker 36-33 — 69 Sergio Garcia 36-33 — 69 Martin Kaymer 34-35 — 69 Freddie Jacobson 33-37 — 70 Rory Sabbatini 35-35 — 70 Chris Kirk 37-33 — 70 James Hahn 36-34 — 70 Bo Van Pelt 37-33 — 70 Spencer Levin 36-34 — 70 Chris Stroud 36-34 — 70 Jamie Donaldson 36-34 — 70 Louis Oosthuizen 32-38 — 70 J.B. Holmes 35-35 — 70 Robert Streb 33-37 — 70 Russell Henley 37-33 — 70 Jim Furyk 35-35 — 70 K.J. Choi 33-37 — 70 Robert Allenby 35-35 — 70

Scott Stallings Padraig Harrington Chesson Hadley Jimmy Walker Bubba Watson Ian Poulter Ben Crane Joost Luiten Jason Bohn Ryo Ishikawa Jerry Kelly Pat Perez Branden Grace Andrew Svoboda Justin Rose Zach Johnson Charl Schwartzel Vijay Singh Brian Harman Daniel Berger Bryce Molder Andres Romero Michael Putnam Nick Taylor Patrick Reed Scott Brown Russell Knox Scott Langley Sangmoon Bae Geoff Ogilvy Bill Haas Hunter Mahan Dustin Johnson Henrik Stenson Adam Scott Danny Willett Stephen Gallacher Justin Thomas Graeme McDowell Michael Thompson Scott Piercy Ernie Els Boo Weekley John Senden Matt Kuchar Seung-Yul Noh

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Ladies Fastball Red Deer Ladies Softball League GP W L T TNT Athletics 1 1 0 0 Topco Oilsite Panthers 1 1 0 0 Red Deer Rage 1 0 0 1 Stettler Heat 1 0 0 1 Snell & Oslund Badgers 1 0 1 0

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Results May 5 Athletics 10 Badgers 7 Panthers 9 Bandits 3 Rage 9 Heat 9

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T New England 9 5 2 2 D.C. 8 5 1 2 New York 8 3 1 4 Columbus 8 3 3 2 Toronto 7 3 4 0 Chicago 7 3 4 0 Orlando 8 2 4 2 New York City 9 1 5 3 Philadelphia 10 1 6 3 Montreal 4 0 2 2

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

Houston at Toronto, 3 p.m.

New York City at New York, 5 p.m.

GF 12 10 12 12 11 6 6 6 10 2

GA 8 6 8 8 11 8 10 10 18 6

Pt 17 17 13 11 9 9 8 6 6 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF 9 5 2 2 15 10 5 3 2 11 8 5 2 1 13 10 3 2 5 10 9 4 4 1 9 9 3 2 4 12 9 2 2 5 7 9 2 3 4 7 10 2 4 4 11 9 1 2 6 8

GA 12 9 6 9 10 12 10 8 13 8

Pt 17 17 16 14 13 13 11 10 10 9

Tuesday’s results Houston 0 San Jose 1

Wednesday, May 13 Orlando at D.C., 6 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF ch-Chelsea 35 25 8 2 69 Man. City 35 21 7 7 71 Arsenal 34 21 7 6 66 Man. United 35 19 8 8 59 Liverpool 35 18 7 10 49 Tottenham 35 17 7 11 55 Southampton 35 17 6 12 48 Swansea 35 15 8 12 43 West Ham 35 12 11 12 43 Stoke 35 13 8 14 39 Everton 35 11 11 13 46 Crystal Palace 35 11 9 15 42 West Brom 35 10 10 15 33 Aston Villa 35 9 8 18 29 Newcastle 35 9 8 18 36 Leicester City 35 9 7 19 39 Hull City 35 8 10 17 33 Sunderland 34 6 15 13 28 QPR 35 7 6 22 39 Burnley 35 5 11 19 26 ch-Clinched Championship

GA Pts 27 83 36 70 33 70 35 65 38 61 50 58 28 57 44 53 42 47 44 47 46 44 48 42 46 40 50 35 60 35 54 34 48 34 50 33 61 27 53 26

Saturday, May 9 Everton vs. Sunderland, 1145 GMT Aston Villa vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Hull City vs. Burnley, 1400 GMT Leicester City vs. Southampton, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Tottenham, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United, 1630 GMT

Wednesday’s results Salt Lake 0 Los Angeles 0 Friday’s games New England at Orlando, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Salt Lake at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Portland at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at D.C., 5 p.m.

Seattle at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10 Manchester City vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1230 GMT Chelsea vs. Liverpool, 1500 GMT Monday, May 11 Arsenal vs. Swansea, 1900 GMT

Sunday’s games

League Baseball has reduced the suspension of RHP Kelvin Herrera from two games to one for his part in a brawl with the Chicago White Sox on April 23.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Selected the contract of RHP Fernando Rodriguez from Nashville (PCL).

Designated RHP Chad Smith for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated RHP Luke Hochevar from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Brandon Finnegan to Northwest Arkansas (Texas). Acquired C Drew Butera from the L.A. Angels for INF Ryan Jackson. Transferred LHP Tim Collins from the 15- to the 60-day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with C Jarrod Saltalamacchia on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled OF Chris Heisey from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned RHP Joe Wieland to Oklahoma City.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Houston G/F Corey Brewer $5,000

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.

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Anaheim 2, Calgary 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 x-Tuesday, May 12: Anaheim at Calgary, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Calgary at Anaheim, TBD

Saturday’s games At Prague Canada vs. France, 4:15 a.m.

Latvia vs. Austria, 8:15 a.m.

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

At Ostrava Russia vs. Belarus, 4:15 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Finland, 8:15 a.m.

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

Hall, Cda Dadonov, Rus Moller, Swe Kemppainen, Fin Eriksson, Swe Kostitsyn, Blr Ekman-Larsson, Swe Forsberg, Swe Kalyuzhny, Blr Duchene, Cda Panarin, Rus Shipachyov, Rus Crosby, Cda Nelson, U.S. Jokinen, Fin Krug, U.S. Lindstrom, Swe Darzins, Lat Eberle, Cda Kovar, Cze

(Minnesota wins series 4-2)

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF y-Toronto 18 14 4 .778 230 x-Rochester 18 12 6 .667 205 x-Buffalo 18 11 7 .611 236 Minnesota 18 6 12 .333 185 New England 18 4 14 .222 186

GA GB 185 — 173 2 208 3 226 8 249 10

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Edmonton 18 13 5 .722 241 177 — x-Colorado 18 9 9 .500 212 218 4 x-Calgary 18 7 11 .389 212 217 6 Vancouver 18 5 13 .278 211 265 8 x — clinched playoff berth; y — clinched division.

PLAYOFFS Division Semifinals East Division Friday’s game Buffalo at Rochester, 5 p.m.

West Division Saturday’s game Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Division Finals East Division Rochester-Buffalo winner at Toronto, TBA West Division Colorado-Calgary winner at Edmonton, TBA NLL Championship Champions Cup Division winners, TBD

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 8, 2015 B5

Hearn one of leaders at Players

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The biggest star at The Players Championship was not Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth playing together in the morning.

And it wasn’t Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods in back-to-back groups in the afternoon.

It was the TPC Sawgrass all day long in another round of big numbers, curious shots and endless entertainment.

Charley Hoffman was among four players tied for the lead at 5-under 67. He was thrilled with his eight birdies, the most of anyone Thursday. What turned a great day into a very good one was that triple bogey out of nowhere right after he made the turn.

How does one make a 7 on the usually harmless first hole?

“Pardon my French,” Hoffman began, before using a familiar English word not fit for print to describe all seven of his bad shots. In fairness, the seventh shot was good. He made a 4-foot putt to keep it from being an 8.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Kevin Na also had 67. Each made only one bogey. It was boring, which never hurts around here.

McIlroy also had a boring round by his standards — two birdies, an eagle, one bogey for a 69. It’s a rare occasion when he’ll call that a good day.

“I think that’s what this course is all about,” McIlroy said. “It’s about staying patient. There’s a lot of pars on my card, but I was able to pick off a couple of birdies and a nice eagle on 16. I’m happy with the start, for sure.”

Spieth wasn’t so fortunate. He was 40 yards away from the green at the par-5 11th and used a wedge three times to get on the green. That doesn’t explain the horrible lie he had in the grass, followed by the lie in the sand just below the lip of the bunker. He shot a 75, matching his worst score of the year.

“Just a really, really poor day,” Spieth said.

Woods hit a tee shot on a par 3 that went into the water, which is not unusual. But it wasn’t on the island-green at the 17th. It was at No. 8, with a clunker that found a creek some 40 yards short of the green.

Woods didn’t even know there was water on that hole.

“I’ve never seen it,” he said after a 73.

At least one player made a 7 or worse on 10 of the holes on the Stadium Course. Brooks Koepka made a 7 on the 17th by putting two balls into the water. And then he made an 8 on the next hole by putting only one ball in the water. He played the other 16 holes in 1 under.

The Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass holds a certain mystique after more than three decades.

Even in reasonable conditions — warmth, sunshine and a little wind — no one fared better than a 67.

After 12 hours of theatre that Sawgrass so often provides, they return to repeat the process.

Raonic into quarter-finals at Madrid WILL FACE ANDY MURRAY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID — Past champions Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray cruised into the Madrid Open quarterfinals, both detained for little more than an hour each on Thursday.

Canada’s Milos Raonic also advanced and will face Murray in the next round.

On the women’s side, two-time champ Serena Williams and titleholder Maria Sharapova reached the semifinals, and remained on course to meet in the final.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., defeated Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 6-4, 6-3 to set up another date with Murray. Raonic holds a 3-2 record against the Scot, who won this tournament in 2008.

They split their meetings last year, with Raonic beating Murray at Indian Wells and Murray exacting revenge at the ATP World Tour Finals.

Raonic needed one hour 18 minutes to beat Mayer, breaking the Argentine twice and firing 11 aces to Mayer’s three.

Nadal, the two-time defending champion, eased past Simone Bolelli of Italy 6-2, 6-2. Serving for the match, Nadal hit some typically agile shots; he earned match point by racing forward to reach a drop shot, then hurrying back to hit a heavy top-spun lob over Bolelli to within inches of the corner of the court.

Nadal was giving this week’s tournament more importance than usual because he had yet to win a title on the European clay-court swing.

Murray, who finished off Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the previous round at 3 a.m. on Thursday, looked sharp as he dispatched Marcel Granollers of Spain 6-2, 6-0.

Tomas Berdych, who beat Nadal in the Australian Open quarter-finals, defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 6-2, and John Isner of the United States downed Nick Kyrgios of Australia, who ousted Roger Federer in a long, tense match in the previous round.

Those winners will meet on Friday, along with Kei Nishikori and David Ferrer, who beat Nishikori in February at Acapulco for his third title of the year. However, Nishikori beat Ferrer in last year’s semifinals.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jimmy Walker, second from left on the green, lines up his putt on the 17th green during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament Thursday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. There was more energy than usual for a Thursday morning, especially with Woods and Mickelson (73) playing in the afternoon. McIlroy is No. 1 in the world and coming off a win at the Match Play Championship, while Spieth became the de facto challenger with a dominant Masters win that moved him to No. 2 in the world.

They warmed up next to each other on the range.

And it was clear from the start this day would be a solid one for McIlroy, not so much for Spieth. Along for the ride was Jason Day, who isn’t exactly on the B-list of rising stars. Day, who jokingly described himself as the third wheel, had a 69 with a double bogey on the 18th.

“I’ve got to beat those guys, but I think the biggest thing is not beating myself,” Day said.

Big numbers can be found anywhere, though.

Hoffman didn’t see his coming.

“Obviously, you don’t ever want to take a triple, double, quad, whatever it is,” Hoffman said. “But at least I gave myself time to get them back. It’s better than doing it on the 72nd hole, I can guarantee you that.”

The 18th hole was no picnic after a long day.

Mickelson hit the wooden plank and went into the water for a double bogey. He shot 73 with five birdies. Adam Scott wasted a reasonable start by finding water for a double bogey on the 18th. Woods hit into the water and made double bogey.

Two dozen players broke 70, while 76 players in the 144-man field were at par or better.

Spieth, who also had a 75 when he missed the cut at Torrey Pines, felt something wrong with his alignment when he arrived Monday, and he still hasn’t sorted it out. He got behind quickly, and that didn’t help. Most telling of his day was No. 11.

His second shot was left of the green in a grass bunker, the ball sitting so far down in the grass that Spieth walked up to it and said, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” With a full, powerful swing, he advanced it some 50 feet — from a regular lie, that shot would have gone 110 yards — to just under the lip of a bunker. It was another bad lie, and he only advanced the next one 18 feet to the collar.

“It’s just one of those days where I started maybe looking into it a little too much rather than just accepting it and going forward,” he said. “Just going to have to find some answers.”

Ed Reed retires as a Baltimore Raven 2012. He did not play last season.

Now 36, Reed said goodbye to the NFL in a news conference at the Ravens training facility.

“I just knew it in my heart that it was time to come home,” he said. “It just felt right to do it ... and I’m trying to get my golf game together.”

It was important to Reed that he leaves as a member of the Ravens, the team he won a Super Bowl with after the 2012 season. Reed made dozens of lasting friendships with his coaches and teammates — many of whom were in attendance — and was also active in the Baltimore community.

“Home is here. Home has always been in Baltimore,” Reed said. “I love this city. I love this organization.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ed Reed came into the NFL as a member of the Baltimore Ravens, and now he’s leaving as one.

The nine-time Pro Bowl safety formally announced his retirement Thursday after signing one final contract with the team that drafted him 24th overall in the 2002 draft.

“This is where it started,” Reed said. “I knew this is where it was going to end, because I never intended to leave this organization once I came here.”

Reed played 11 seasons in Baltimore before splitting time with Houston and the New York Jets in

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The Chicago Bulls guard was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player on Thursday after making his first All-Star team and averaging a career high in scoring.

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015

PARKLAND MALL

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Side-by-side fitness clubs operated by the same company are planned at Parkland Mall next year.

Located in the former Sears site at the mall, a 63,000-square-foot GoodLife Fitness and a 12,000- square-foot Fit4Less by GoodLife are expected to open next spring.

The chain said the Red Deer operation will be the largest of its clubs in Alberta. It already has 27 clubs elsewhere in the province.

The company said it has more 350

clubs across Canada, 13,000 employees, more than one million members, and is the largest fitness company in Canada.

The Red Deer clubs are expected to employ over 50 people full time and 50 to 70 part time. Both clubs will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

GoodLife offers personal trainers and coaches, as well as things like group cycling classes and strength training. Fit4Less is a lower cost club, without change rooms for example.

GoodLife was founded in 1979 by David Patchell-Evans, who became interested in fitness after a motorcycle accident.

He opened the first outlet in Lon-

don, Ont., where the head office is located, using money from a snowplow business he ran while putting himself through university.

Patchell-Evans said on Thursday that the Red Deer business will have between 35 and 40 personal trainers, and it will also offer a child care component called Jump.

He said that Red Deer was an appealing market for the company because Alberta and Red Deer have a young population.

Dan Hachey, general manager of Parkland Mall, said they were thrilled with GoodLife’s decision to choose the mall for its location.

“It’s terrific, terrific news for us,” he said, and he is delighted that it will be the largest GoodLife facility in Alberta.

Since Sears left the mall in 2008, the retail space has been largely empty, with several temporary and seasonal retailers since then.

The GoodLife deal, which is longterm, will take up almost 80 per cent of the former Sears space, Hachey said.

The main access will be through the north side parking lot at the mall.

There will be a corridor access to the mall for members of GoodLife. Construction will start at the latest by the end of July.

Serious discussions with GoodLife began a year ago and the deal was finalized on Thursday, Hachey said.

About 20,000 square feet not yet leased is being promoted to larger box retailers who are now on the market looking for space, he said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Olds College Brewery joins Beer Canada The Olds College Brewery is now a member of Beer Canada, a national trade association that advocates on behalf of its members to ensure Canadian brewers are able to operate in a healthy regulatory environment.

A college press release also said that Beer Canada operates to ensure “that beer remains a celebrated part of Canada’s culture.”

The Olds College operation is a fully licensed teaching brewery with a retail store on the campus. The microbrewery began production in 2013 and allows students of the brewmaster and brewery operations management program to fully engage in the art and science of brewing.

“We foster relationships with a wide range of students and partners to create a unique brewing program in Alberta,” said Peter JohnstonBerresford, co-co-ordinator of the Olds College program. “Brewing is part of Canada’s heritage and the popularity of our program exemplifies the surging interest in beer today.”

In 2014, Beer Canada established an annual $1,000 award for the top second-year student in the program.

“The Olds College program cultivates interest and passion for beer and we are delighted they have become members,” said Luke Harford, president of Beer Canada.

Rogers Insurance purchases two local companies Rogers Insurance Ltd. announced on Thursday that it has acquired two local insurance companies under its Inowest Insurance Brokers Inc. brand.

Sylvan Agencies Ltd., which operates as Sylvan Agencies in Sylvan Lake, and Procom Insurance in Red Deer have joined the brand.

Rogers also purchased Mooney Insurance of Red Deer in 2010.

Bruce Rabik, Rogers Insurance chief operating officer, said the acquisitions will allow the company to provide its clients to access to more insurance companies and technology that improves the customer experience.

Partners in Sylvan Agencies Ltd. will remain independent and act in their leadership roles within the new ownership.

Rogers Insurance group of companies employs 330 people (67 are employee owners) and writes more than $250 million in premiums.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Work crews from Graham Construction and Engineering are making headway on the new parkade at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Here one of the many parking deck pieces is lifted into place. The five level structure is scheduled to be substantially completed in October 2015.

CNRL posts $252M loss

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) is once again cutting spending while awaiting a rebound in crude prices, the company said Thursday as it posted a $252-million first-quarter loss.

The oil-and-gas exploration company, one of the largest in the world, has already achieved significant savings, even slashing the pay of its senior managers. But it says it’s able to chop a further $300 million from its 2015 budget.

Crude prices have improved recently to around US$60 a barrel — after hovering around the US$50 market in the first quarter — but Canadian Natural president Steve Laut said the company wants to be cautious.

“At this point in time, we need to see some stability and we need to ensure that we’re not getting sort of a lift and fall back down in commodity prices,” Laut told analysts on a conference call.

“And as we get to that point, if we feel the pricing is solid, we’ll put capital back to work, but not before then.”

Canadian Natural’s loss in the first quarter ended March 31 was in stark contrast to the $622-million profit it had a year earlier.

Adjusted earnings that strip out a number of factors also fell to $21 million, down from $921 million a year earlier.

Despite the spending cuts, Canadian Natural’s production outlook for this year remains unchanged and is targeted to deliver 11 per cent higher output than in 2014.

The Calgary-based company has reduced its 2015 capital budget to $5.7 billion, down $300 million from its most recent forecast.

It had already cut the 2015 budget by $2.4-billion in January and $150 million in March, when it also announced a 10 per cent pay cut for senior managers.

One way in which Canadian Natural has improved its costs has been to lean on contractors and service providers, with that component making up 25 to 30 per cent of its overall cost savings.

Once crude prices rise and activity picks up again, those savings aren’t expected to stick around for long, said Laut.

However, the rest of the savings should be more sustainable as they will come from improvements to productivity and project execution.

SNC-Lavalin welcomes review of integrity framework

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The president and CEO of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has welcomed Ottawa’s decision to review the protocol used to award public contracts in light of the company’s current legal troubles.

The RCMP charged SNC (TSX:SNC) and two of its subsidiaries with one count of fraud and one of corruption last February over its dealings in Libya.

Billions worth of public and private contracts are at risk if the engineering firm is found guilty, CEO Robert Card said Thursday after the company’s annual meeting.

One is the contract recently awarded to a consortium, which includes SNC, to construct a new bridge over the St. Lawrence River linking Montreal and its populous south shore.

“We applaud the government’s review of the public integrity framework but we would note that only deals with project work for the government of Canada,” Card said.

Currently, firms convicted of certain criminal offences are prohibited from receiving federal contracts for 10 years.

Card said SNC will plead not guilty

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‘WE DO NOT ENDORSE THE ACTIONS THESE PEOPLE TOOK. WE WANT TO ACHIEVE A SOLUTION WHICH RECOGNIZES APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTABILITIES BUT LEAVES US AND OUR EMPLOYEES IN A POSITION TO BE PROTECTED AND CARRY ON .’

— ROBERT CARD SNC-LAVALIN CEO

to the charges, although it is willing to pay a fine to account for the alleged transgressions of former employees.

“We do not endorse the actions that these people took,” he said.

“We want to achieve a solution which recognizes appropriate accountabilities but leaves us and our employees in a position to be protected and carry on.”

The Crown alleges that between 2001 and 2011, the company gave more than $47 million in bribes to one or more members of the Libyan government and also allegedly committed fraud of more than $129 million in the country.

Card said the Crown hasn’t finished presenting its evidence and that company lawyers believe the court process could last up to five years.

“We don’t intend for that to go on that long,” he noted.

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“We hope to get this done in advance.”

It is still unclear when Canada will announce changes to its procurement rules or what they will be.

A spokesman for Public Works Minister Diane Finley said the review began in March.

“Two independent third party experts in the field of procurement ethics have been retained to participate in the consultations,” Marcel Poulin said in an email.

“Consultations are ongoing and all feedback will be taken into consideration before making a decision on a path forward.”

Card spoke after SNC announced it had $104.3 million of net income in the first quarter, a 10 per cent increase over the same period last year as it benefited from focusing on core business areas and a recent acquisition.

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The profit amounted to 68 cents per common share, compared with $94.6 million or 62 cents per share in the first quarter of 2014.

SNC’s revenue increased to $2.26 billion, from $1.72 billion, despite a decline in revenue from its investments in infrastructure.

The company has been selling some of its non-core assets such as the AltaLink power grid in Alberta in order to focus on its main business of engineering and construction services.

However, that was more than offset by higher revenue from its oil and gas segment, including from the acquisition of Kentz last August, as well as its power segment.

Despite the positive earnings as well as the announcement the company has overhauled its ethics and compliance structures, chairman Lawrence Stevenson said “recovery has taken longer than expected” given the criminal charges.

Stevenson believes the company’s image is rehabilitated with the people “who really count” such as clients and employees.

“Clearly there is still some (more work to do) on the broader perception (of the company) I would suspect,” he said.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 132.09 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.47 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.37 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.80 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.54 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.96 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.45 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 229.59 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.25 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.31 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.35 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.64 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.20 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.95 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.49 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.88 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.95 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.61 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 45.33 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.86 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.80 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.36 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 53.79 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.43 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.26 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.13 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.55 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Investors made a cautious return to the Toronto stock market Thursday after two volatile days that saw Canada’s main index lose more than 345 points.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 64.93 points at 15,088.82, making up at least some of the triple-digit losses of the last two days. The loonie was down 0.55 of a U.S. cent at 82.51 cents.

The TSX lost 150.05 points Wednesday, led by energy stocks, as investors weighed the potential impacts of the NDP’s majority win in the Alberta election. The party had campaigned on promises to raise corporate tax rates and review the province’s royalty regime.

Investors said they were concerned that Canada’s oilpatch, already struggling with low crude prices, could be forced to bear a higher tax burden.

Luciano Orengo, managing director and portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management, says the election results are still weighing on the Toronto stock market.

“I don’t think it’s a one-day effect,” Orengo said. “The brunt of it took place yesterday. There’s a bit of a spillover today. But then, added to that, you are getting some pressure because of the lower commodity prices.”

The June crude oil contract was down $1.99 at US$58.94 a barrel as traders worried about how much oil Iran could produce if sanctions are lifted.

The Iranian oil minister said the that if a deal is struck over its nuclear program, Iran could boost oil production to four million barrels a day in under a year, adding to the glut of global supply that has left crude prices under pressure.

The June gold contract fell $8.10 to US$1,182.20 an ounce.

Meanwhile, better-thanexpected weekly jobless claims data, which showed that layoffs remain at 15-year lows, helped New York markets also make up some of the ground lost over the previous two sessions.

At least some of the losses south of the border Wednesday were linked to remarks by Federal Reserve Board chairwoman Janet Yellen, who said U.S. valuations were generally “quite high.”

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 82.08 points to close at 17,924.06, the Nasdaq advanced 25.90 to 4,945.54 and the S&P 500 was ahead 7.85 points at 2,088.00.

Traders are looking forward

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.60 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.17 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.03 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.11 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.40 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.21 First Quantum Minerals . 18.50 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.01 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.79 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.96 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.82 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.66 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.05 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.02 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.13 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.51 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 66.10 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.46 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 35.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.19 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 12.27 Canyon Services Group. . 7.28 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.60 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.13 to Friday’s non-farm payrolls report, which could help the U.S. Federal Reserve determine when to start hiking interest rates.

Shares of Linamar Corp.

(TSX:LNR) surged more than 13 per cent to close at $83.21, after the Canadian auto parts maker reported sales and earnings hit record levels in the first quarter.

Magna International (TSX:MG) was up nearly five per cent to $66.78. The auto parts manufacturer reported quarterly results that surpassed analyst estimates, helped by strong demand from south of the border.

And shares of Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) surged 6.72 per cent to close at $2.54 after the company announced plans to set up its rail division as a separate, publicly traded company.

Bombardier will retain majority ownership.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,088.82, up 64.93 points Dow — 17,924.06, up 82.08 points S&P 500 — 2,088, up 7.85 points Nasdaq — 4,945.54, up 25.90 points Currencies: Cdn — 82.51 cents US, down 0.55 of a cent Pound — C$1.8498, up 1.34 cents Euro — C$1.3659, down 0.05 of a cent Euro — US$1.1270, down

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.60 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.35 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.20 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.03 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.72 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.61 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.28 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.39 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.67 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.76 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.84 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.35 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.39 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.91 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.06 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.02 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.89 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.70 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.91 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.50 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.83 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.96 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.27

0.79 of a cent Oil futures: US$58.94 per barrel, down $1.99 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,182.20 per oz., down $8.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.555 oz., down 12 cents $660.84 kg., down $3.86 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $1.30 higher $465.80; July ’15 $1.30 higher $456.70; Nov ’15 $1.00 higher $447.90; Jan. ’16 $1.00 higher $448.60; March ’16 $1.00 higher $448.50; May ’16 $1.00 higher $449.10; July ’16 $1.00 higher $449.10; Nov. ’16 $1.00 higher $443.90; Jan. ’17 $1.00 higher $444.60; March ’17 $1.00 higher $444.60; May ’17 $1.00 higher $444.60.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 308,740 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 308,740.

Rogers Media cutting 110 jobs MAINLY AT OMNI MULTICULTURAL TV STATIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Money-losing newscasts are getting the axe at Omni multicultural channels as Rogers Media Inc. tries to reduce its losses with a new slate of current affairs shows that use fewer resources.

The Toronto-based subsidiary of Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) said Thursday that 110 people will lose their jobs, mostly production staff and news reporters, as it pares Omni’s operations and merges some of the responsibilities with City stations.

The changes take effect Monday when the local news shows in Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin and Punjabi, are replaced with shows that spend more time discussing subjects in the news, but don’t generate actual news reports. Omni newscasts had production costs of about $9 million last year and brought in $3.9 million of advertising revenue, said Colette Watson, vicepresident of television and operations at Rogers.

“The math didn’t work,” she said.

“It’s the magic of every television executive. You need to find the show that will resonate with audiences, so this is what we’re doing.”

Last year, former Rogers Media head Keith Pelley highlighted the financial problems of the Omni stations in an application to renew their licences with the CRTC. He told the regulator that Rogers faced “a very serious financial situation” over certain content requirements, including that a specific percentage of prime time content fits within multicultural guidelines.

He argued the stipulations were “not essential to upholding the ethnic nature and orientation of the stations.”

At the time, Rogers also blamed the financial state of Omni on competition from Cantonese-language channel Fairchild Television, based in Richmond, B.C., and Rich-

mond Hill, Ont., and the Asian Television Network, based in Markham, Ont. Viewership has dramatically evolved since Rogers acquired the first Omni multicultural channel in 1986.

“For a lot of older immigrants, that was one of the channels we were watching when we first came to Canada years ago,” said Peter Chiu, program director at The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association, a service in Toronto that helps newcomers settle in Canada. “But a lot of immigrants are also getting their content online now.”

Under the new programming, Omni will launch interactive current affairs shows that broadcast in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi.

The Italian newscast is being scrapped entirely and replaced with popular novella “Raccontami,” an import from Italy.

The new current affairs shows will have a strong focus on community stories, rather than news from overseas, Watson said.

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Loblaw Companies Ltd. said Thursday it’s pulling its Joe Fresh line from J.C. Penney department stores in the United States next year.

Instead, it’s switching its focus on its standalone stores, e-commerce and to expanding overseas, said Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs.

The company has six stand-alone stores in the U.S., including a flagship location in New York’s ultra-hip SoHo neighbourhood.

Groh said the deal to sell Joe Fresh clothing at 200 J.C. Penney stores is set to expire on Jan. 30, 2016, and will not be renewed through mutual agreement. Mario Grauso, an American fashion industry veteran, took over from the low-cost clothing line’s founder, Joe Mimran, in March.

“What you’re seeing is the unfolding of the vision under Mario Grauso,” Groh said.

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CALGARY — Alberta-based energy services companies are showing sharp earnings drops for the first quarter, weighed down by lower demand and cost pressures from clients who have been hit hard by the oil price slump.

“In Canada the first quarter is typically the busiest quarter for the drilling industry, but this year the usual ramp-up activity in the new year didn’t happen,” Lyle Whitmarsh, the CEO of Trinidad Drilling, told analysts during a conference call on Thursday.

“And activity started to drop off much earlier than we would normally expect.”

For the first quarter, Trinidad saw a 53 per cent drop in earnings to $12.1 million or nine cents a share, compared with $25.8 million, or 19 cents a share, for the same period last year.

It’s a plight familiar to several other energy services companies that have reported earnings in recent days.

Earnings in the first quarter were down 52 per cent at Savanna Energy Services Corp., 74 per cent at Ensign Energy Services Inc., 59 per cent at Atika Drilling Ltd., and 76 per cent at Precision Drilling Corp. The reduced profits come as producers are extensively scaling back drilling. Last week, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada reduced its forecast for 2015 drilling by 47 per cent compared with what it expected in October 2014. The association now expects only 5,320 wells to be drilled across Canada this year, compared to 10,927 wells last year.

Whitmarsh said he doesn’t see any recovery happening in the traditionally slow second quarter.

“Since the end of the quarter, activity levels have continued to be lower and we expect the second quarter to be quite weak,” he said. “We expect the industry to remain challenged until commodity prices begin to improve.”

Mike Mazar, an energy services analyst at BMO Capital Markets, says companies are struggling to make forecasts on what the rest of the year will look like.

“They’re not really providing much in the way of what they think the second half holds, because they really don’t know. And when you don’t know, it’s usually a bad sign,” he said.

With business drying up, Mazar says companies have had no choice but to implement aggressive cost cutting.

“The only thing these services guys can do, and what they have been fairly effective in doing so far, is reducing costs,” he said.

In the first two months of 2015, Trinidad reduced its global workforce by 42 per cent, leaving the company with 1,764 employees.

The company also cut staff wages by seven per cent, executive pay by 10 per cent, and slashed its capital spending for the year in half to $175 million.

But Mazar says that with significant cuts already under way, it will be difficult for companies to cut further.

“They’ve cut to the bare bone to the extent that if you cut much further you’re going to make it very challenging to ramp back up when things recover,” he said.

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Employees of Finishing Touch Builders in Red Deer work to install one of two large digital signs on the marquee of the Red Deer College City Centre Stage Building on 49th Street this week.

RDC students launch poll on program cut

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College students are hoping to measure the community’s interest in reinstating French and Spanish courses with a new online poll.

Citing budget pressures and declining enrolment, RDC cut the two language courses earlier this month.

Two full-time staff positions and a handful of parttime jobs were cut. Information was not available on the number of students enrolled in the courses.

Since the poll went live on the Students Association of Red Deer College’s website on Wednesday, 95 per cent of the 226 votes were in favour of bringing back the courses.

Maryann McGrath, student association president, said the poll will stay up indefinitely in order to create conversations in the community and until it reaches a positive conclusion.

The poll is for students, faculty and members of the community. She said RDC is a publicly-funded institution and the community is heavily influenced by the decisions made at college.

“It’s important that the public is aware of what is happening at the college,” said McGrath.

The newly-elected NDP government pledged to restore cuts to post-secondary education.

McGrath said the difference now is students are not fighting an uphill battle when it comes to the government and rights of post-secondary students.

“Right now our focus is to make sure what was promised on the campaign trail happens in reality,” said McGrath.

In 2019, Red Deer will host the 2019 Canada Winter Games with athletes across Canada with diverse language and backgrounds. McGrath said it is important that the college represent the diverse language groups. She also noted the importance of taking the language courses in smaller classes.

To participate in the poll, go to www.sardc.ab.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Firearms inquiry ordered Five people accused of operating a stolen firearms ring will have a preliminary inquiry, once their lawyers figure out what the trial issues will be.

Represented by five counsel, the accused elected to be tried

by Court of Queen’s Bench judge alone with a preliminary inquiry. Inquiries are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Amanda Dawn Fox, 31, Stephanie Dawn Hughes, 31, Angie Faye Deneff, 33, Joseph Russell Sinclair, 26, and Joseph Daniel Swain, 30, all of Red Deer, entered their elections on Thursday in Red Deer provincial court before Judge Jim Hunter.

The five face a total of 230 charges relating to drugs and guns. The Red Deer ALERT laid the charges in relation to a search warrant of a downtown Red Deer

home. That warrant led to the arrest of the five and the seizure of 16 firearms, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, 28 grams of methamphetamine and a variety of stolen property.

Fox was recently arrested by Ponoka RCMP on 11 new stolen property, controlled substances and firearms charges. She appeared in court by closed circuit television from the Edmonton Remand Centre. She had previously been released from custody on the charges relating to the other four accused. Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald sought to have her bail revoked.

Hughes, Deneff and Swain all made elections previously. Thursday’s appearance was for the remaining two accused, who had not retained legal counsel to enter elections with their co-accused.

Sinclair will have legal coun-

sel appointed. Hunter entered the election on behalf of Sinclair.

A bail hearing for Fox is set for May 20 on the Ponoka charges.

Swain and Sinclair have been detained at the Red Deer Remand Centre. Sinclair will have a bail hearing on May 20 as well.

MacDonald estimated the preliminary inquiry would take four to five days. The Crown expects to call six to nine witnesses and thought the time estimate would be appropriate given the number of accused and legal counsel.

Will Willms, counsel for Swain, said it may be that after review and discussion with Crown, defence can narrow trial issues and reduce the length of the inquiry.

The accused will return to provincial court on May 21 to set a date for the preliminary inquiry.

In the interim, Hunter ordered them to have a focus hearing.

United way funds 60 local projects The United Way of Central Alberta celebrated another year of doing good at the Parkland Mall on Thursday.

Robert Mitchell, United Way CEO, said the 2014 campaign dollars were allocated to 60 programs and projects across Central Alberta. The organization raised $1.9 million in 2014, a 5.2 per cent increase over 2013. It did not set a fundraising goal in 2014.

“I think it made a little difference,” said Mitchell of not setting a goal. “We wanted people

to start talking about community impact and not about the money we raised. It didn’t harm the campaign in anyway but it may have helped in certain areas.”

Mitchell said going forward that will likely be the trend, because they want to focus on the impacts and the difference the United Way and the funded programs are making in the communities.

Five new programs were opened up in the wellness area with an emphasis on short-term intervention and counselling. Three

new agencies received funding this year including DRVIC — Domestic Relationship Violence Initiative Committee, a coalition of several local groups, Shalom Counselling and Family Services of Central Alberta Crisis Counselling program. Programs are funded for three years.

The 211 phone service is available in Red Deer and online service in the rest of Central Alberta at www.211.ab.ca and more information is available at www.caunitedway.ca.

Women of Excellence nominees announced The eighth annual Women of Excellence Awards Gala is Tuesday, June 9, at the Sheraton Red Deer starting at 5:30 p.m.

Award recipients will be announced that evening.

Tickets are now on sale for $100 each, or a reserved table of eight for $800. For ticket inquiries or orders, call 403-341-6911 starting on Monday, or email kristinebugayong@rddcf.ca for more details.

Here are the award categories, category sponsors and nominees: Agriculture (Dow Chemical Canada) Elna Edgar, Red Deer County Arts, Culture and Heritage (Scotia Bank) Ellen Elaine Corea, Lacombe Norma Hoppins, Innisfail

Athletics, Recreation and Fitness (The Consider It Done Team, Century 21 Advantage) Arlene Hjertaas, Red Deer Business and the Professions (Johnston Ming Manning LLP) Michelle Andrishak, Rocky Mountain House Inger Laing, Ponoka Community Building (ATCO Gas) Luci Henry, Clive Amber Mack, Red Deer Tanya Schur, Red Deer Judy-Ann Wybenga, Red Deer Education and Training (Red Deer College) Linda Moore Martin, Red Deer Sheila Mielke, Innisfail Shirley Tiong, Red Deer Entrepreneurship

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Twenty-five women from across Central Alberta have been nominated for the eighth annual 2015 Women of Excellence Awards.

The Red Deer and District Community Foundation says the awards celebrate innovation, leadership, achievement and talent in local women.

The women come from diverse backgrounds, sectors and age groups. Each has been nominated for their exceptional contribution in making Central Alberta a better place to live, work and play.

The awards honour contributions of women who serve as role models for women and girls.

A Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada, will be presented during the gala to an exemplary woman.

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BRIEFS Prescription drug drop-off Saturday at London Drugs Saturday is National Prescription Drug Drop-off Day and London Drugs encourages people to take their unused and expired prescription drugs and over-the-counter products at their local London Drugs pharmacy.

The event kicks off Crime Prevention Week and is held to bring awareness to prescription drug abuse among teens.

London Drugs accepts expired prescriptions and over-the-counter medication year round. It recommends disposing of medication that is a year old or older, medication that is not in its original container, and older duplicates of rarely used over-the-counter medication.

London Drugs ensures products are safely incinerated to prevent them from entering landfills, sewers and the environment.

If possible, people should remove drugs from packaging and place them in a clear plastic bag and remove personal identification before bringing medications to the pharmacy for disposal.

People can also bring medications in their original packaging if they prefer or if they can’t recycle prescription containers. Remember to remove personal information by taking off labels or using a marker to black out information.

Safari Jeff and his reptiles at Red Deer school today Safari Jeff will be bringing his reptile friends to Escuela Pines School today to raise money for Red Deer’s only Spanish bilingual school.

The show starts at 1:30 p.m. in the school gym. The public is invited.

Guests are encouraged to donate a minimum of $2 for admission.

Carnival games after the show will include an opportunity for children to get their photo taken with their favourite reptile. Photos are $5 each.

Escuela Pines School, a Red Deer Public School program, is located at 8 Page Ave. For more information, call the school at 403-342-4434.

Traffic tied up on Hwy 592 when driver strikes pole A driver who struck a telephone box and a power pole on Hwy 592 near Penhold late Wednesday afternoon suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Emergency crews were called to the scene, one km west of Hwy 2A, shortly after 4 p.m.

Penhold fire chief Jim Pendergast said the driver ended up in some trees and bushes in a yard and was taken by ambulance to hospital.

Traffic in both directions on Hwy 592 was down to one lane for about an hour. Lanes reopened at 5:40 p.m.

Innisfail RCMP are investigating.

The sixth annual Ladies Luncheon to raise awareness and support for The Lending Cupboard is set for May 21 at Black Knight Inn. The charity ensures Central Albertans can access medical equipment like wheelchairs, bath chairs, hospital beds and hydraulic lifts for as long as they need it at no cost.

Donations will be gratefully accepted at the luncheon that runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25 each and are available through Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre by calling 403-755-6626 or 1-800661-8793, or at www.bkticketcentre.ca.

For more information, call The Lending Cupboard at 403-356-1678.

Stettler town, county reach rec costs agreement The County and Town of Stettler have signed a new long-term agreement to share recreation costs.

In the pact ratified by both councils on Wednesday, the county has agreed to provide about $500,000 per year to the town. The money will go towards capital and operational expenses for recreation facilities.

The county will provide funding based on a set tax rate, so as county assessments rise so will contributions. In 2015, the county’s share is $513,451.

About $420,000 of that will go towards the $1.2-million annual operating deficit for the Stettler Recreation Centre.

County residents will continue to pay the same as town residents to use recreational facilities under the terms of the deal, which was reached with the help of an Alberta Municipal Affairs mediator.

It provides a funding formula that is expected to serve for the next 20 years without needing major changes. It replaces an expiring 10-year agreement.

There is also flexibility built into the agreement so the county can be asked to contribute money ahead of schedule if a need arises. The decision will be up to county council.

Town Mayor Dick Richards and county Reeve Wayne Nixon praised the partnership and the deal’s benefits to both municipalities.

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Tara Maloney couldn’t be more excited as she sits among more than 1,000 potted carnations for this year’s MS Carnation Campaign. Maloney, executive assistant with the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — Central Alberta Chapter, worked hard at pre-order sales and the remaining plants will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis in communities throughout Central Alberta.

The carnation is Canada’s most recognized symbol of hope in the quest to end multiple sclerosis. Many Canadians living with multiple sclerosis are mothers.

Others, either children or adults, have mothers affected by this disease because women are diagnosed with MS three times as often as men. That’s why every year the MS Carnation Campaign takes place over Mother’s Day weekend. Would you like some for Mother’s Day or for your garden? They are $5 each ... while they last. Today and Saturday, volunteers will be out in the community selling carnations on street corners, malls and other public spaces. and girls who went missing or were murdered across Canada in the last 20 years.

The display of more than 1,800 embroidered and beaded moccasin tops will present an opportunity to grieve these lives cut short, heal and “raise our voices for those who cannot — our mothers, sisters, aunties, daughters.”

Tickets are $20 per person or $30 per couple in advance from the museum, or at the door.

Walking With Our Sisters fundraising event Saturday

Attempted sex assault investigated in Sylvan

A stew and bannock cook-off will be among the fundraising events held Saturday evening at the Red Deer museum to benefit the Walking With Our Sisters memorial project.

Voting by public donation on best stew starts at 6 p.m. The evening will later include storytelling by Mari Jo Vanidour about the aboriginal experience and importance of the memorial project to the community.

Paintings created by two local artists during the fundraiser will be among the items auctioned off to help pay for the exhibit’s ceremonial supplies and travel costs.

The Walking With Our Sisters memorial will be set up at the museum from June 1 to 21. It will honour the more than 1,200 First Nations women

RCMP are looking for a man in an attempted sexual assault in Sylvan Lake early Saturday morning.

A woman was walking to work at 5:41 a.m. when she was grabbed from behind and carried to the back alley between 47th Street and 48th Street.

She was thrown to the ground but was released when she threatened to call police.

The suspect fled south down the al-

ley.

He is described as having a thin to medium build. He was about 1.8 metres tall (six feet), and had hair on his chin. He wore faded blue jeans, a black sweater or jacket pulled over his head. He smelled of alcohol.

Anyone who has information about this crime or video footage taken between 4:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday is asked to contact police.

Call Sylvan Lake RCMP at 403-8587200 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477.

Correction: Bike swap today at Collicutt Centre A brief in Thursday’s Advocate and an item in today’s Friday Forward had an incorrect date for the bike swap at the Collicutt Centre. The bike swap is today.

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HOME & GARDEN The many benefits of hiring a

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The rising use of lawn care services is indicative of homeowners’ appreciation of the convenience and craftsmanship professional services can provide. While the impact professional landscapers can have on a property’s aesthetic appeal is considerable, homeowners also benefit from working with professional landscapers in various other ways.

Time savings One of the biggest benefits of leaving lawn care to the professionals is the amount of time it will save for the average homeowner. Lawns generally need to be mowed once per week during the spring and summer seasons and, depending on the size of the property, that can take an hour or more. Add the time it takes to clean up clippings, mulch landscaping beds and edge the property, and homeowners can expect to devote a significant chunk of their weekends to caring for their lawns. Lawn services employ a few workers who make fast work of the job, leaving homeowners time to enjoy their weekends however they see fit.

Reduced risk for injury Maintaining a landscape is hard work, and those unaccustomed to this type of activity may find themselves winded or at risk of injury. Improper use of lawn equipment also is a safety hazard. Leaving the work to professionals can help homeowners avoid strained backs, lacerations, pulled muscles, sunburns, and any other dangers that can result when tackling landscaping projects.

Financial savings On the surface, hiring a landscaping service may seem like a costly venture.

However, after crunching some numbers, many homeowners realize that doing the work themselves may cost more in the long run than hiring a professional landscaping service. Homeowners who decide to go it alone must purchase expensive equipment, and

those lawn tools will require routine maintenance, which costs additional money. Inexperienced homeowners may incur extra fees to “fix” mistakes that occur during the learning process.

Each year, new seed, fertilizer, mulch, pesticides, and other supplies also must be purchased. But professional lawn care services typically charge a set fee per month, and that fee covers the maintenance of both your property and the equipment needed to keep that property looking great.

Know-how Many professional landscapers know how to address lawn care issues that may arise throughout the year.

They will know how to deal with dry patches of lawn or poorly draining areas, and they also can make recommendations on plants that will thrive under certain conditions.

One-stop shopping Certain landscaping services provide many different options for prospective customers. Basic lawn cuts may be one package, but there also may be services for seasonal seeding, weeding, leaf clean-up, and winterizing.

Consistent maintenance Homeowners who frequently travel or spend much of their summers away from home often find that lawn care companies are a wise investment.

Established weekly schedules ensure the landscape always will look its best whether homeowners are home or out of town.

Spring is a great time for homeowners to decide if hiring professional landscaping services is in their best interests. The time and money saved, as well as impact professional landscapers can have on a property, makes landscaping services a great investment for many homeowners. (MS)

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Treating the grub problem usually alleviates damage caused by animals. Mole crickets are another common lawn destroyer. These insects resemble crickets, but they burrow beneath the turf to feed on plant roots. The mole crickets can push up channels of turf as they burrow, exposing roots to the elements and causing the grass to die. Getting rid of the insects can revitalize the lawn.

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Bountiful, healthy trees can be beautiful to behold and important contributors to a thriving environment. A tree can absorb as much as 40 pounds of carbon dioxide per year and can sequester one ton of carbon dioxide by the time the tree reaches age 40.

Many homeowners are content to leave healthy trees alone. However, trees eventually must be pruned or removed if they become safety risks or pose other threats. Trees with roots that are damaging home foundations or those with limbs overhanging property limits or power lines can be troublesome. Although homeowners can handle relatively minor tree maintenance, for a variety of reasons, many tree projects are best left to the professionals.

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Landscaping is a rewarding hobby for many homeowners.

Men and women with green thumbs often take pride in their lush lawns and gardens, feeling a sense of accomplishment as their landscapes spend spring and summer returning to form and making yards more inviting spaces to spend relaxing summer nights.

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Despite other intentions, homeowners often turn their garages into storage centers for random, littleused items, leaving little to no room for the tools and even vehicles that actually belong in a garage. Such homeowners may turn to sheds to store their garage overflow and keep yard equipment at the ready, but storage sheds are not immune to clutter, and homeowners may find the very structure erected to keep them organized requires a bit of organization itself.

A well-organized shed can save homeowners time and energy, as it’s easy to abandon or delay a project if you can’t find that pair of work gloves you stashed.

The first step to any organizing project is to take everything out of the shed and determine just what needs to go back in. Items that do not belong in the shed should be moved to their rightful locations or tossed in the trash if they’re no longer needed. Make a pile of anything that will be kept, a separate one for donations and a third for garbage. Take inventory of what you have so you know whether you’re missing any items or you have something and do not need to purchase another.

Now that the entire shed is empty, you can assess just how much room you have. Utilizing vertical and overhead space effectively can free up areas on the floor for larger equipment.

Shelving, racks, pegboards and any other materials that enable you to hang or store items off the floor are good investments. Visit your nearby home improvement retailer to find items that can simplify your storage. You also may be able to put scrap wood to use to make your own storage shelves or a work bench. Extra kitchen cabinets can be installed in the shed to organize additional items.

In order to remember where items go, label or sort them accordingly. Some people like to take organization a step further by tracing the outline of tools hung on the wall so they can be placed back in the same spot after use. This also serves as a visual reminder of which tools are missing and which ones need to be purchased.

Don’t forget to utilize shed doors as additional storage space. Hang frequently used tools, such as rakes and shovels, on the inside of the doors so they will always be easily accessible.

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Grubs not only damage lawns on their own, but they serve as food sources for local wildlife as well, attracting wildlife, which can do its own damage to lawns.

Lawns can turn brown for a variety of reasons, and grubs are just one of many potential culprits behind the browning of once-luscious landscapes.

Grubs feed on roots, so homeowners who suspect their lawns have fallen victim to grub infestations can pull up the areas where grass has turned brown to see if there are any grubs, which look like worms.

Landscapes that have suddenly become popular among local wildlife that is digging up lawns may also be infested with grubs. Skunks and raccoons feed on grubs, and may dig up lawns where grubs are present.

Damage resulting from grub infestation is most visible from late summer to early fall.

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Preventing grub infestation typically requires homeowners to keep watchful eyes on their lawns.

Pay particular attention to areas that begin to brown, especially areas that are turning brown in spite of adequate watering. An early indicator of a grub infestation is small grubs around the roots of grass. In such instances, applying insecticide may be enough to prevent a small grub problem from spreading.

Insecticides also can be an effective preventative measure for homeowners looking to avoid grub infestations. Speak with a local landscaping professional for recommendations about which insecticide to apply and how best to apply it.

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The right tools can mean the difference between a job done correctly and one that results in disaster. Professional arborists and tree services have acquired the training, tools and techniques to perform the job safely. This includes using the right tools to tackle the job. Ropes, pulleys, cranes, stump grinders, and other heavy machinery are just a few of the tools tree services have at their disposal that the average homeowner does not.

Trimming or removing trees can be an unpredictable and potentially dangerous endeavor.

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A professional tree service will possess the correct liability and worker’s compensation insurance. This protects homeowners against litigation should someone be injured while tree work is being done.

Homeowners who damage neighboring properties when cutting down a tree may find that they are not covered by their homeowner’s insurance policies. This can be a costly mistake that’s easily avoided by simply hiring a fully insured tree removal service.

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What can I do about grub damage?

Attempting to treat grubs in the spring may be ineffective, as grubs are large and no longer feeding in spring. So homeowners dealing with grub infestations should address the situation before they retire their green thumbs for the winter. Remove debris from grub infestations with a rake before watering the affected areas. Watering can help some damaged roots recover, but areas that have been especially damaged may need to be reseeded.

Grub infestations can be a nuisance to homeowners who put lots of time and effort into their lawns.

But homeowners can take steps to treat such infestations and prevent them from returning the following summer.

signed for other areas of the home. For example, magnetic knife holders can be mounted to a shed wall to keep paintbrushes organized. These holders also can be used to keep many small metal tools tidy. Metal funnels can hold twine and string. Thread through the narrow end of the funnel for a handy dispenser.

Keep dangerous substances off the floor and out of reach. Gasoline, chemical fertilizers and other potentially dangerous substances should be stored high up to keep pets and children safe.

Make sure the shed floor is sturdy and level. This makes it easier to neatly store larger items. Roll in the lawnmower, wheelbarrow and any other cumbersome items. Now that more things are mounted vertically, you should find that you have more area to move around.

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One such problem many homeowners encounter is a grub infestation. Grubs are a type of pest that can cause considerable damage to lawns, and while many homeowners have no doubt heard of grubs, they might want to learn more about these pesky pests so they know what to do should grubs ever appear in their yards.

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Professional tree contractors recognize and understand the hazards associated with tree and limb removal. Many operate in accordance with national or local guidelines to maintain proper clearance of power lines and structures.

Trimming trees close to electrical lines puts a person at risk of being electrocuted. Professionals know how to protect themselves and prevent power outages, which can result when limbs come into contact with power lines.

Professional tree services will use machinery appropriate for the task. Cherrypickers and cranes may lift workers to the correct height to work on trees, while do-it-yourselfers who rely on climbing trees or using ladders are at risk of injury.

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LUANN May 8 1987 — Royal Canadian Mint unveils a onedollar coin to replace the paper dollar. Made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on its rear side.

1986 — Reporters are told that 84,000 people have been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.

1945 — The Second World War ends in Europe with the unconditional surrender of Ger-

man land, sea and air forces to the Soviets.

1933 — Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

1907 — Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Jack O’Brien in the 20th round, to win the world heavyweight championship.

1906 — Founding of the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

1886 — Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents what would be called “Coca-Cola.”

1871 — John A. Macdonald signs the Treaty of Washington. Both countries have freedom of navigation on the Great Lakes.

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Searching for more than the Loch Ness Monster At The Water’s Edge

By Sara Gruen On New Year’s Eve in 1944, Maddie, her husband Ellis and friend Hank make a drunken spectacle of themselves. At a upper-crust party in Philadelphia, they drink themselves silly while causing a distasteful ruckus.

The next day, while suffering from nauseating hangovers, the couple is confrontKIRSTEN ed by Ellis’s disapproving LOWE mother and father.

Tensions were already high in the Hyde household. Ellis’s father, Colonel Hyde, looks upon his son as a coward for not serving overseas. In fact, it was not Ellis’s choice not to serve — he tried to enlist twice and was rejected because he was legally colourblind. As well, Edith Hyde hold a complete and open distaste for Maddie. In her eyes, her beloved son could have married much better.

As the confrontation reaches a boiling point, Colonel Hyde throws the young couple out of the family home, along with their belongings.

Ellis and Hank decide to take a chance that, if it succeeds, will win everyone’s approval — especially Colonel Hyde. Their plan is to travel to the Scottish Highlands and capture proof of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster (something that the colonel had been obsessed with for years).

Of course, Maddie gets dragged along even though she points out that there is a war taking place overseas.

At their destination, the three are made to feel unwelcome by the operators of the little inn/bar/restaurant that they have booked.

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Lori Lansens on emotional journey writing The Mountain Story

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bestselling author Lori Lansens tears up when discussing the hopelessness felt by the suicidal teenage protagonist of her new novel, The Mountain Story.

“Sorry, it’s a little hard for me to talk about,” said the Chatham, Ont.-raised writer, getting choked up in a recent interview.

“I try not to do this in public when I’m reading because it’s very emotional.”

In The Mountain Story, teen Wolf Truly goes to the top of a mountain near Palm Springs, Calif., to kill himself on his 18th birthday.

During the tram ride up, he sees three women who eventually ask him for directions.

All four wind up lost on the mountain for five days, battling injury and the elements in a twistfilled page-turner. It marks a departure for Lansens, who had never written from a male perspective and with such suspense before.

Lansens said Wolf’s story is an emotional one for her because “there were a cluster of teenage suicides” near her current home in a small community in the Santa Monica Mountains.

It happened when she was in the final stages of writing her last novel, 2009’s The Wife’s Tale, which is in Lori Lansens development as a feature film.

“I only knew one of the children, only briefly, they’d briefly been our neighbour. But going back into my own sort of dark days and remembering just the pain of existence ...” she said, before stopping herself.

Lansens said the tragedies left her preoccupied with thoughts about the teens, and her 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.

“None of us are safe from mental illness,” she said. “None of us are safe from depression. And particularly, as we know, in high school, children are so susceptible and so vulnerable.”

In the case of Wolf, his hopelessness started in childhood.

Growing up in poverty in Michigan, his mother died in an accident when he was young and his father was an alcoholic. When his dad moves them to a trailer park community in a desert town in California, he meets more adversity, including the imprisonment of his father.

Wolf’s mindset changes when he meets the three women on the mountain. The eldest, Nola, says she’s marking the anniversary of her wedding to her recently deceased husband.

Ironically, Wolf finds himself trying to help Nola celebrate life while he plans to end his.

“That’s the other thing — that you can be turned on a dime,” said Lansens.

“I read something about someone saying they were walking in San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge to jump and they were playing this little game with themselves: ‘If someone smiles at me, I won’t jump.’ ... So these three women gave him a purpose and spoke to that really strong part of his character that said, ’What would mom say if I didn’t help these women find their way?”’

Lansens was a screenwriter before making a splash on the literary scene with 2002’s Rush Home Road and then 2005’s The Girls.

She moved to California with her husband and two children nine years ago.

To get to know Mount San Jacinto, the setting of the new book, Lansens visited it every couple of months. She was sometimes accompanied by Matt Jordan, a local guide and adviser.

“Accuracy and believability were the most important thing before I started,” said Lansens.

“When I sent the manuscript to Matt, I was more nervous than when I sent it to the publisher ... because the veracity was so important.”

And these three Americans who have lived a life of leisure see this place as horrid: no electricity, small rooms, freezing temperature and the lack of food due to wartime rationing. There is no mistaking the initial animosity between the innkeepers and Maddie, Ellis and Hank.

As the men spend their days at the loch, Maddie is left in her room, still ill from the voyage from America.

As the days pass, the relationship between her and the innkeepers (Meg, Anna and Angus) starts to shift. Being overseas, where war is present and disastrous, Maddie changes her mindset. She shows the innkeepers respect as she helps with the daily cleaning. In returned, respect and then friendship are given in return.

For Ellis and Hank, not so much. They return from

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days spent at the loch completely sloshed. They are whiny, rude, disrespectful and annoying brats.

Maddie begins to see that the real monster is the man she calls husband. Whenever Ellis becomes intoxicated, he verbally abuses Maddie, and it reaches the point that she needs to lock her door every night.

It doesn’t take long for Maddie and her new friends to learn Ellis’s new plans and to discover the danger that Maddie is in.

The first couple of chapters of this novel were annoying because it seemed that the three young characters were only going to whine and wallow in self-pity.

But once Maddie makes friends with the innkeepers, this story takes a dramatic turn for the better.

Kirsten Lowe is a Red Deer College student and freelance book reviewer.

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Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/G-2015 Bremner Avenue Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to include a Commercial Service Facility as a use in Direct Control District No. 1 – DC(1).

A Commercial Service Facility allows uses such as: • Services related to the care and appearance of the body, • Cleaning and repair of personal effects, • Care of small animals, or • Financial or insurance services outlet, real estate agency, travel agency, commercial school or day care.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, May 25, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

by Friday, May 15, 2015. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On May 5, 2015, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Garden Heights 1. Sunrooms & Awnings Ltd. – a 0.64 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a sunroom addition to an existing single family dwelling and attached garage, located at 54 Garrison Circle.

Londsdale 2. S. Ruchkall – a 1.5 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 59 Lawford Avenue.

3. Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – a 0.37 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 164 Long Close.

Vanier East 4. J. Riley – a 0.6 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to the steps on a proposed deck, to be located at 28 Viking Close.

Woodlea 5. M. LeBlanc – a 105.54m2 addition to an existing detached garage, located at 5120-44 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Downtown 6. United Pentacostal Spanish Church of Red Deer – a place of worship, to be located at 4910-52 Street.

Eastview 7. Red Deer Public School District #104 – a 14.9m2 sea can, to be used for storage of equipment, until May 5, 2025, to be located at 3929-40 Avenue.

Gaetz Avenue South 8. The Brick GP Ltd. – 6 temporary tent structures of 9.3m2, for 2 weeks semi-annually, to be located at 7 5111-22 Street.

Lancaster Green 9. Group 2 Architects – a 435m2 addition to the existing St. Francis of Assisi Middle School, located at 321 Lindsay Avenue.

West Park 10. Finishing Touch Builders Ltd. – storage of dangerous goods as it applies to an above ground used oil storage tank, to be located at the Red Deer College, 100 College Boulevard.

11. Red Deer Minor Softball Association – a 33.45m2 accessory structure, to be located at 375057 Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 22, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

2014 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT Copies of the 2014 Annual Financial Report for The City of Red Deer are now available at the Information Desk, Main Floor, City Hall.

The Annual Report can also be accessed on The City of Red Deer’s web site at: http://www.reddeer.ca Dean Krejci, CA Chief Financial Officer

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On April 29, 2015, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications: Permitted Use Approval: Eastview Gary Osterhoff - Site development for a semidetached dwelling building (two units) to be located at 3920 46 Street (Lots 10-11, Block 35, Plan 5555AF), zoned R1A. You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 22, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked Bridge Maintenance - 2015 May 29, 14:00:59, delivered or mailed to: The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk and received before 14:00:59 p.m. (Alberta Time) on May 29, 2015 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of: • Work Item 11.1 – Shot blast to remove polymer membrane and apply penetrating sealer to bridge sidewalk (502 m2); • Work Item 11.2 – Gravity feed epoxy cracks in sidewalk and deck overlay (350 m) • Work Item 11.3 – Install flashing at north and south abutment / slope protection interface (34 m); • Work Item 19.1 – Penetrating sealer to deck, sidewalk, curb and approach slab (2360 m2) • Work Item 21.1 – Repair southeast, northeast and southwest barrier coverplates; and, • Work Item 22.1 – Installation of City supplied overhead clearance signs (2 each).

Tender Documents may be obtained from LEX3 Engineering Inc. at 108-4818 50th Avenue in Red Deer on or after May 12, 2015 at 2 PM for a $50 non-refundable fee made payable to the City of Red Deer. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 nonrefundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

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You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always have to say yes Dear Annie: I am 17 years old. I have a job that requires I work only a few times a month, and the staff can trade shifts if they choose.

I have been at this job for two years and I enjoy it.

During my first year here, I was taken advantage of quite a lot.

People would constantly ask me to change shifts, but I would later find out they had nothing particular going on to require it.

I learned how to say no, because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really trust some of them.

I agree to change shifts with people who ask me in advance or tell me whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on, but have become wary of those who ask at the last minMITCHELL ute. & SUGAR The problem is my mother.

She always makes me feel as though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not behaving properly.

When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m asked to switch shifts for no good reason, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you say yes? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to say yes.â&#x20AC;?

I then get a lecture on how I need to be more

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responsible and more understanding when people have other things to do with their time.

I know that most peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions are good, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be taken advantage of.

Why doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my mother think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m good enough?

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drink, I go to church, I obey my parents, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the National Honor Society.

People say my mother is lucky to have a daughter like me, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel that from her.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean to sound conceited, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to get tired of always being good. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m scared I may just stop trying. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Not Good Enough Dear Not Good: Everyone needs to feel that their efforts are appreciated, and kids especially need to know that their parents believe them to be good people.

We think your mother knows this, but she worries.

She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want you to alienate the people you work with, but you are right to set boundaries for yourself (as long as you are polite about it).

It engenders respect.

But please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use your motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fretting as an excuse to go off the rails. Talk to her. Reassure her that you are not expected to say â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? to every request.

Let her know that she has done a great job raising you and now must allow you to make your own decisions and live with the consequences, so you can

learn to be the responsible adult she expects. Enlist her support and co-operation.

Ask for her advice. It will make her happy to know you still value it.

Dear Annie: This is in response to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;horror storiesâ&#x20AC;? that women tell pregnant mothers-to-be.

As an obstetrician (retired), with over 5,000 babies delivered, here is what I call Dr. Elfmontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rule of Pregnancy: Never listen to what people (your mother, grandmother, aunts, etc.) tell you about their pregnancies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too big or too small for your due date; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re carrying high (or low) and that means itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a boy (or a girl); youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gained too much or too little weight; they were in terrible labour for 197 hours, etc.

I told my patients that nobody in the history of human civilization had ever given birth to the particular baby they were carrying, that the odds were overwhelming for a normal labour and delivery, and if there were any problems, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be there to take care of them. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dr. John Elfmont in Redondo Beach, Calif.

Dear Dr. Elfmont: Well said. Thank you for the reassuring words.

Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HOROSCOPES Friday, May 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Enrique Iglesias, 40; David Keith, 61; Kam Heskin, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: When the Moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Capricorn it favours working hard and tying up loose ends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Outspoken and caring, you can also be very judgmental. 2015 is the year to be more creative at work, and more adventurous at home.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ambitious Aries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the stars look good for professional projects today, as you combine creativity with JOANNE a strong work ethic. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lookMADELEINE ing for a job, make sure you dress MOORE to impress.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you making the most of the Sun and Mars moving through your sign? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been a better time for buoyant Bulls to be creatively proactive about love, life, work and play.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Attached Twins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not sure where you partner is coming from? If you are patient â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and intuitive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know what to do next. Singles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are you ready for a serious commitment?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The focus is on personal relationships, as the Moon helps you hone in on your partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moods and feelings. Single Crabs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; look for love with a sexy Scorpio or a caring Capricorn.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Whether you work at home or away, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stars favour finishing paperwork plus nurturing relationships with colleagues. Full-time mums and dads â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make time to put your

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): All types of friendships are favoured, especially connections with international friends and colleagues. Make it a priority to spend some quality time with a worried child, teenager or friend.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Avoid being a lazy Libran today! If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pull your weight with domestic duties, then house mates will voice their displeasure. Money matters and real estate are favoured.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When communicating with others, aim to be both factual and creative. If you combine logic and imagination, then your words will be conveyed with real power and meaning.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Capricorn Moon helps stabilise your fiery emotions but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t jump to conclusions about a frazzled family member. The more patient you are, the better the outcome will be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fabulous day to power through professional projects, plus network with work colleagues and converse with friends. Plus take a look at whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in your local community.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are money matters on your mind Aquarius? You need a two-fold approach. First â&#x20AC;&#x201D; draw up a budget and stick to it. Second â&#x20AC;&#x201D; discover creative new ways to boost your cash flow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Group activities are highlighted as the Moon, Neptune and Pluto help you zero in on what others are thinking and feeling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a good time to cultivate your international contacts.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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‘Welcome to our living room’ COLIN JAMES SET THE MOOD FOR A RELAXED, HOMEY CONCERT IN RED DEER “Welcome to our living room,” Colin James told 600 Central Alberta fans, as he settled into a chair next to tatty lamp on Red Deer’s Memorial Centre stage.

T h e W a y n e ’ s World ambiance of that fringed lamp set the mood for a relaxed, homLANA ey concert MICHELIN on Wednesday night, REVIEW featuring the blues-rocker and accompanying guitarist Chris Caddell of Toronto.

With a career spanning nearly three decades, James took the crowd back to his salad days, when many of his performances were for change in front of a liquor store on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive.

“I was 18 years old and as broke as broke could be,” having just finished a tour, he recalled, when he ran into his first girlfriend. They had split up because he was focusing on music. “It was a time to keep rollin’ or a time to hang up your hat,” recalled James. “And that was a keep-rollin’ situation. ...”

The nostalgic song that came out of that chance encounter — Five Long Years — became one of the 50-year-old singer’s first radio hits.

James’s acoustic version of it, with fans singing the chorus of

“You know I still love you/ You knew I’d never change,” heightened the heart-tugging quality of the lyrics. And the old hit got a huge audience reaction.

The Regina native, whose raspy, blues-tinged voice is as strong as his famed guitar playing, pulled another story from early in his career: He was signed to Virgin Records in 1988, and flown to meet with a famous producer who recommended he record some tunes written by American songwriter Jerry Lynn Williams.

“I was a 20-, 21-year-old who wanted to follow my own ideas,” said James.

He never listened to the tape of Williams’ songs.

But he ended up hearing them, anyway,

a few months later — when they became hits for Eric Clapton.

“This is one of those songs that I didn’t do,” said a slightly sheepish James, who went on to sing Running On Faith, a stirring, looking-for-love tune.

While more stories would have been appreciated in that intimate setting, James and Caddell allowed their instruments do most of the talking.

The accomplished musicians jammed for the near full-house crowd on a revolving series of acoustic and electric guitars. And they seemed to push themselves and each other to pull off some thrilling feats of duet playing — with or without a harmonica.

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If you go, you’ll want to scream, too Hot Pursuit One-half star (out of four) Rated: PG-13

BY ANN HORNADAY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Hot Pursuit, starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, joins a long line of derivative, lazily written oneoffs looking to cash in on the success of the movies they brazenly rip off, in this case buddy comedies spanning Midnight Run to The Heat.

Derivation in and of itself isn’t a crime, especially in Hollywood, where the same 10 stories get recycled with the metronomic regularity of shrink appointments and Botox treatments.

But even when you’re phoning it in, at least don’t make it a robo-call.

Anne Fletcher, who made her bones working as a choreographer before directing Step Up, The Proposal and a clutch of forgettable rom-coms, makes a shockingly sloppy hash of Hot Pursuit, in which Witherspoon plays a tightly wound police officer and Vergara plays the voluptuous drug cartel associate the lady-cop is tasked with protecting.

There isn’t one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality in Hot Pursuit, which was written by David Feeney and John Quaintance (and, most likely, legions of the uncredited hacks who are habitually enlisted to “punch up” listless studio filler such as this enterprise). We’re supposed to accept lame cracks about Witherspoon’s height and her character’s sexlessness as genuine zingers, while Vergara’s role is to overcome horrible cinematography and try to breathe recognizable life into yet another brassy Latina spitfire whose accent (“Theese ees rachel profiling!”) is just hilarious.

Guess what? It’s not. Nor is anything else in Hot Pursuit, including the les-

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Sofia Vergara (left) and Reese Witherspoon can’t save the sloppy comedy Hot Pursuit. bian jokes, menstruation gags, Witherspoon’s cocaine shtick or ho-hum stunts involving a deer decoy costume (huh?), an errant senior-citizen tour bus and Witherspoon attending a quinceanera in drag. (“Ay, you look like Jose Bieber!”)

Witherspoon, who along with Vergara is credited (blamed?) as a producer, does most of the heavy lifting in Hot

Pursuit, in which she attempts to resurrect her Tracy Flick persona from Election in a Southern-fried incarnation.

But not even her prodigious work ethic can save a movie this misbegotten, especially with Fletcher at the helm: In what appears to be lackadaisical colour-timing in post-production, the image on screen often wavers into a pinky-purple blur, and for a brief

moment viewers can actually see the heavy black document clips enabling Vergara’s prison jumpsuit to cling to her famously generous curves.

If the director is this uninterested in her own movie, then why shouldn’t the audience follow her lead? Message received, duly noted, done.

Ann Hornaday is a Washington Post movie critic.

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JAMES: Caddell the perfect duo partner Tunes from James’s new album, Hearts on Fire, were performed, including the Bill Withers cover Heartbreak Road, the quiet Dreams Come and Go and Just A Little Love, with chugging, boogie-woogie guitars.

Caddell, who started the concert with a couple of solo numbers, My End and Come Back Down, was the perfect duo partner. He helped James create some interesting harmonies, vocally and instrumentally.

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Blues Hall of Fame museum to open an actual hall in Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For 34 years, blues musicians like the late Lightnin’ Hopkins have been honoured with induction into the Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis.

Just one problem: There was no actual hall — no museum packed with artifacts and memorabilia, no place where blues fans could visit and learn about their favourite performer. It was a “cryin’ shame,” to borrow one of Hopkins’ lyrics.

On Friday, the Blues Foundation will officially open the Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis. Foundation president Jay Sieleman says the foundation built the Blues Hall of Fame after raising nearly $3 million, finally providing a destination where blues legends can be properly honoured for their work in the uniquely American music genre.

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Amy Schumer’s 12 Angry Men parody questions whether she’s ‘hot enough’ for TV.

COMMENT town with a new rule for his players: no raping.

(Meanwhile, the players pepper him with questions: “What if the girl said yes, but then she changes her mind out of nowhere, like a crazy person?”)

Next was a shot at One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful, where the guys convince their lady that she’s prettier without cosmetics. In Schumer’s version, Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup? A boy band realizes the error of their ways when they see Schumer fresh-faced: “Hold up girl, we spoke too soon/with this whole ‘no makeup’ tune ...You’ll be the hottest girl in the nation/with just a touch of foundation.”

It all rings very similar to Oliver, who takes on the climate change skeptics by conducting a debate with Bill Nye the Science Guy (“You don’t need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or five?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?’”) Or, he just eviscerates someone or something that is bothering him, like the fact that the Miss America pageant claims to offer

$45 million in scholarships, which Oliver accurately debunked using some investigative reporting skills. (“That is an unbelievable amount of money. As in, I literally did not believe that.”)

While Schumer uses familiar pop culture references to make her point, Oliver makes subjects similarly relateable: “I know that cable companies will say they support net neutrality protection or they remain committed to the open Internet,” he said during his nowfamous net neutrality rant. “But let me remind you they also say they’ll be at your house between 2 and 6 tomorrow afternoon. And does any part of you really expect them to f---ing turn up?

Neither Oliver nor Schumer show any sign of slowing down: Last week, Oliver took on standardized testing, as volatile a topic as ever. And as long as they crank out their hits with their signature ways, the Internet will continue to pay attention.

Emily Yahr is a Washington Post columnist.

The two guitarists jammed on older material, including the soulful southern song National Steel, Man’s Gotta Be a Stone, and the hits On My Way Back to You and Why’d You Lie? James also sang some great blues covers, including Muddy Waters’ Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan’s Watch the River Flow, Sam Cooke’s clap-along Somebody Have Mercy, Taj Mahal’s She Caught the Katy, Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic, and perhaps most remarkably, a killer version of Stay. The six-time Juno Award-winner stated that he recorded the Rihanna song on his new album because “people didn’t expect it of me.”

After a 27-year career, it’s amazing that James still aims to surprise his fans.

That kind of effort deserves a standing ovation — and the musicians got one. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Three makes a trend, so it’s official: Amy Schumer is the new John Oliver.

For three weeks in a row, like clockwork, Schumer has had a sketch go viral the morning after it aired on her Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer. At this rate, we expect it to continue — the same thing happened every week for Oliver on his HBO latenight series Last Week Tonight, currently in its second season.

Everyone wants their video to blow up online, so what’s the secret? How did both Schumer and Oliver managed to crack the code to making the people of the Internet go crazy over their work?

Essentially, Oliver and Schumer brutally skewer various ridiculous and unfair ideas — and who doesn’t love a perfectly vicious rant? Their formulas are similar: take basic facts about issues that anger a lot of people; boil it down to its essence; and most importantly, make your takedown hilarious.

Oliver’s subjects tend to be political and newsy: Net neutrality is bad. The Miss America pageant scholarship claim is a sham. Climate change is a real and actual thing. Schumer’s comedy has a feminist bent, but the topics she tackles are universal and ongoing: Hollywood mercilessly objectifies women. Football and rape culture are dangerously intertwined. There’s an obvious double-standard about how men and women are considered attractive “enough.”

All of that combined with a willingness to be completely over-the-top and vulgar as necessary to make their point? That’s Internet gold.

The most recent Schumer viral sketch is Tuesday night’s 12 Angry Men, a parody of the 1957 Sidney Lumet movie of the same name. In Schumer’s version, she offers a blistering take on the absurd standards of the male-dominated entertainment industry, as 12 dudes (Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti and Kumail Nanjiani among them) debate whether she’s hot enough to be on television.

Sample dialogue: “It’s an undisputed fact that a woman’s value is mostly determined by her looks.”

“As it should be!”

“It’s true. Look at Susan Boyle right? Voice of an angel, but because she looks like an 18th century paper boy, we treat her like toilet shoes.”

The sketch, getting rave reviews from critics everywhere, followers Schumer’s previous successes in the last two weeks. The first was a parody of Friday Night Lights, in which Josh Charles plays the Coach Taylor role as he rolls into a small, football-obsessed

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Black Widow’s feminist heroism

BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Joss Whedon, the auteur who rose from indie television sensation Buffy the Vampire Slayer to stewardship of some of the most important movies in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, has seemed more than a little burned out lately. And Monday, he quit Twitter.

The reasons for his departure are as yet unknown, but some speculation has centered on criticism Whedon received for his handling of the character Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), a former assassin and the lone woman in the Avengers lineup.

Indeed, a feminist critique of Natasha crescendoed as Whedon’s latest film, Avengers: Age of Ultron arrived in theaters last weekend. I’m sympathetic to many of the larger complaints, but I find the criticisms of Natasha’s story lines baffling.

One of the great delights of Avengers: Age of Ultron is the way the movie pokes at our assumptions about what’s happening when a man and a woman appear close on-screen. It was clear that there was something more than mere camaraderie between Natasha and Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) in The Avengers. When she went to visit Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in an attempt to figure out what he’d done to the brainwashed Barton, the Asgardian trickster jumped to the logical conclusion: “Is this love, Agent Romanoff?”

“Love is for children,” Natasha told him coldly. “I owe him a debt.”

It was a response that left room for her to be in denial, but Avengers: Age of Ultron revealed something rather more subversive, at least by the standards of contemporary filmmaking: Natasha and Clint are what they say they are, not soulmates in denial but the best of friends. And Natasha’s close to Clint’s wife, Laura (Linda Cardellini), too: “How’s little Natasha?” she asks Laura when they arrive at Clint’s house. “Actually, he’s Nathaniel,” Laura confesses.

“Traitor,” Natasha whispers to the baby.

In a few efficient lines, Whedon’s sketched in a warmer side of Natasha’s personality. It’s not that it didn’t exist before; it’s just that, until the trip to the Bartons’ farm, she wasn’t around the people who deserved to see it.

Later, as she and Clint weave through the ruins of Sokovia, they diffuse their nerves by talking about Clint’s latest idea for a home renovation, a plan to turn his dining room into a workspace for Laura. “You guys always eat in the kitchen anyway,” Natasha tells him, cool as the world is falling away beneath them. There’s a subtle but profound intimacy to the exchange: It’s proof of how well they know each other, how much comfort they take from each other, how well Natasha is integrated into Clint and Laura’s lives.

The burgeoning relationship between Natasha and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) is spikier, not least because they’re the inverse of one of Whedon’s most famous romantic pairings: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Angel (David Boreanaz) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In Whedon’s still-radical television show, the titular vampire slayer and the reformed vampire slept together, only for the moment of perfect happiness that followed to strip Angel of his soul, turning him back into the monster he’d worked so hard to exorcise. Buffy and her friends work to contain Angelus by any means necessary.

Natasha, on the other hand, would rather bring out her lover’s dark side than contain it. “I adore you,” she tells Bruce, after they share their first kiss and shortly before she pushes him off a chunk of city that’s headed rapidly skyward. “But I need the other guy.”

She trusts the Hulk — at least around her — even if Bruce doesn’t. The moral monster in her is drawn to the literal monster in him. They don’t need to partition off those parts of themselves or destroy their most dangerous impulses and abilities: they can rechannel them.

They aren’t there yet, though, and there’s a frisson of danger to Bruce and Natasha’s interactions

throughout Age of Ultron. In the aftermath of the movie’s first battle, a choppy, cacophonous affair, the real tension builds when Natasha approaches the grumbling Hulk in a snowy glade.

The exchange that follows has the air of a magical rite that hasn’t quite gone through beta testing: an incantation, a touching of hands, Natasha’s fingers skimming lightly over the Hulk’s impregnable skin.

Beauty’s soothing of the Beast has never been quite so sensual, and it’s never required so much courage from Beauty.

But back at Stark Tower with a party under way, the equation is reversed. Natasha, equally at home mixing drinks behind a bar and firing off shots while charging up a staircase in heels, is the intimidating figure, while Bruce, shaggy in his professorial blazer and out of place among the revelry, is at a loss.

To a certain extent, that isolation is part of the point: the fewer people Bruce is close to, the fewer he can really hurt and betray. Natasha’s flirtation challenges the gulf between him and others that Bruce uses as a moat. What Steve identifies as a potential win for Bruce and Natasha feels like a terrible risk for Bruce.

And they find themselves on equal footing in Clint and Laura’s house, when they broach a deeper reason Bruce thinks they might be incompatible, beyond his tendency to turn green and smash-y.

The scene has sparked a certain amount of feminist ire. Sara Stewart wrote in Women and Hollywood.

“Haven’t we gotten to a point where the one lonely female superhero in our current landscape can just pursue the business of avenging without having to bemoan not being a mother?”

Marvel’s critics aren’t wrong that the franchise has been oddly slow to put women at the centre of its movies.

But this line of criticism, or Jen Yamato’s contention that the films have treated Black Widow like nothing more than a cheap temptress, seem to me to miss the mark.

Alyssa Rosenberg is a Washington Post commentator.

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DUBE Dorothy Louise Johnson Dorothy Louise (Johnson) Dube (nee Finnestad) passed away early Sunday morning, May 3, 2015 after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. A Celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Sylvan Lake Alliance Church, 4404 47 Ave, Sylvan Lake. Dorothy’s family wishes to express their gratitude to the Doctors and Nurses on Unit 32 at the Red Deer Hospital for the love and care shown to her in the last week of her life.

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FLEMING 1954 - 2015 Robert “Rob” Stuart Fleming of Red Deer, passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at the age of 61 years. A Celebration of Rob’s life will be held at Potter’s Hands, 5202 - 53 Street, Red Deer on Friday, May 15, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

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The Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission (MVRWSC) transmits water to six (6) member communities from lnnisfail to Crossfield.

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ROBERTS James William Born: March 12, 1920, Medicine Hat, Alberta Died: May 1, 2015, Red Deer, Alberta Reverend James Roberts passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, May 1, 2015 at the age of 95 years. Jim will be lovingly remembered by his daughter; Fran Lees; son, Jim Roberts (Bev), grandchildren, Linda (Mike); Audrey; Maureen (Lawrence), Ron (Brenda), Hollie (Dan) along with his great grandchildren Kodi, (Hannah), Tyler, Kassidy (Teah), Wayde, Shannon, Curtis, Scott, Dawson and Crosby.

Jim is also survived by his sister, Marion Terrilon as well as sisters-in-law, Mary (Alan) Winchester, Eve Roberts and his extended family. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Violet, his parents, Hilda and Richard Roberts, his brothers Dick (Brenda), Fred (Margaret) and Arnold as well as his son-in-law, Bill Lees. Jim played many roles in his life, Minister, vocalist, pianist, counsellor, but is best defined by who he was an encourager, lover of music and a man of faith.

His zest for life forged many lasting friendships with the communities and church families which he touched in his 60 year career as an ordained minister.

His memory will be held dear by his family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held at the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. A special thank you to the residents and staff at the Pines Lodge, the Nurses, Doctors and staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for your companionship and compassionate care given to Jim through-out his journey.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Gaetz Memorial United Church.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM,

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JJAM Management (1987) HERITAGE LANES Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s BOWLING Requires to work at these Red Deer’s most modern 5 Red Deer, AB locations: pin bowling center req’s 5111 22 St. permanent F/T & P/T front Pasquale Mancuso 37444 HWY 2 S counter staff for all shifts Construction 37543 HWY 2N (days, eves. and wknds).

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SHERWIN Ticketed & 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + WILLIAMS PAINTS benefits. Start ASAP. Non-Ticketed F/T Customer Service Job description Carpenters and employee req’d. www.timhortons.com Superintendents & Tasks: Keyholder Education and experience Early evening and weekForeman not req’d. end shifts avail. Must be Excellent rate of pay based Apply in person or fax reliable and trustworthy. on the oil and gas resume to: 403-314-1303 Send resumes to: Plant sectors. Benefit Start your career! sw8903@sherwin.com or package, transportation See Help Wanted in person at 3301 Gaetz provided. Please fax Ave. Red Deer. resume to (403) 342-1549 or email to apply@pmcl1964.ca Weed Sprayer required.

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HEAVY duty truck mechanic needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

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CRYSTAL GLASS needs a GLASS INSTALLER. Some exp. preferred, but training is provided. Benefits and company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

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LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party fared much better than expected in parliamentary elections Thursday, an exit poll projected, suggesting it is within touching distance of forming a new government.

The opposition Labour Party of Ed Miliband took a beating, according to the poll, much of it due to the rise of the separatist Scottish National Party.

The poll said the SNP would take all but one of the 59 seats in Scotland, most of them from Labour.

Cameron’s coalition partner, the Liberal Democrat Party, was expected to lose most of its seats.

The exit poll, based on interviews with 22,000 voters, differed strongly from opinion polls conducted during the month-long election campaign, which had put the Conservatives and Labour neck-and-neck with about a third of the vote share each.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, who is running for a seat in Parliament as a Conservative, said that if the poll was accurate “then obviously, it’s a very, very clear victory for the Conservatives and a very bad night for Labour.”

Political leaders warned against jumping to conclusions before the actual results are in, and some expressed skepticism about the poll.

“I have to say it just doesn’t feel right,” said longtime Labour adviser Alistair Campbell.

The survey was conducted by pollsters GfK and Ipsos MORI for Britain’s broadcasters and released as polling stations closed at 10 p.m. (2100 GMT).

Results began coming in within an hour of polls closing. The seat of Houghton and Sunderland South in northeast England was the first to complete the traditional election-night ritual: Votes in each of the 650 constituencies are counted by hand and the candidates — each wearing a bright rosette in the colour of their party — line up onstage as a returning officer reads

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — A suspended Roman Catholic priest dubbed Monsignor Meth apologized Thursday for running a methamphetamine distribution ring and letting down scores of friends and parishioners.

Moments later, Monsignor Kevin Wallin was sentenced to almost 5 ½ years in prison, less than the 10 years he faced but more than the four years he had sought.

“I have never from the day I was arrested denied my guilt,” Wallin, 63, said at the sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Hartford. “The day I was arrested was a very good day. It took me out of that situation.”

Prosecutors had said Wallin received meth in the mail from California suppliers and supplied a New York distributor. He also bought an adult

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out the results. It went to Labour, as expected.

The exit poll projected that the Conservatives would get 316 seats — up from 302 and far more than had been predicted — and Labour 239, down from 256. The Liberal Democrats would shrink from 56 seats to 10, while the Scottish nationalists would grow from six to 58, all but one of Scotland’s seats.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that supporters should “treat the exit poll with HUGE caution. I’m hoping for a good night but I think 58 seats is unlikely!”

Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown was equally skeptical of the poll: “I’ll bet you my hat, eaten on your program, that it is wrong,” he told the BBC. If the exit poll is accurate, the Conservative Party would be in a commanding position to form the next government by seeking partners from smaller parties.

There could be a re-run of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that has governed since 2010. The poll put the two parties’ total at 326 — just over half the 650 seats in the House of Commons.

Cameron could also seek support from the right-of-centre Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland, who had eight seats before the election, or the anti-European, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party.

The Conservatives and Labour have both watched voters turn elsewhere — chiefly to the Scottish nationalists, who will dominate north of the border, and UKIP. UKIP ran third in opinion polls, but the exit poll predicted it would win just two seats because its support isn’t concentrated in specific areas. The Greens were also forecast to get two seats.

Conservative politicians did not declare victory, and Labour did not concede defeat, as everyone waited to see whether the poll’s surprising predictions would be borne out. video and sex toy shop named Land of Oz & Dorothy’s Place, apparently to launder profits from the drug ring, they said.

Wallin, who pleaded guilty to a meth conspiracy charge in 2013, has been in jail for 28 months. With time served, he will be behind bars for about three more years.

U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello sentenced Wallin to 65 months and also imposed supervised release of five years. He told Wallin he could “not ignore your decision to infect your community” with meth.

“For you, sir, this is an unhappy day,” Covello told Wallin, who was nicknamed Monsignor Meth in media reports.

But he told Wallin that letters of support from friends and former parishioners surpassed “anything I have ever seen.”

“It’s a little like attending your own funeral, your own wake,” the judge said.

Wallin’s public defender, Kelly Barrett, said her client “put all his efforts in helping others” while neglecting himself. She called for leniency because Wallin has no criminal history and likely wouldn’t return to crime.

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Cross training a key part of a runner’s regimen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Elise Yanover’s body showed no signs of strain as she laced up the day before her 10-km run.

It was a far different story when she took part in the downhill race.

Already overtrained and exhausted from a gruelling fitness regimen, the 10 km quickly took its toll on the elite triathlete. Yanover sustained pelvic and hip stress fractures, which sidelined her from running for four months.

At her peak, she ran about 50 km per week, in addition to hours devoted to swimming and cycling.

The time away from training gave the Torontobased physiotherapist an opportunity to think about retooling her routine.

Yanover continues to cycle — albeit less frequently — and has reduced the number of days devoted to running, maxing out at about 30 km a week.

Swimming has been replaced by weight training.

She has also incorporated hot yoga into her routine, which has helped provide mental calm as well as a workout.

Whether it’s for leisure or competition, runners can often have a one-track mind in their approach to fitness. As they focus on building endurance or shaving seconds off their personal best time, their devotion to running — and only running — may result in neglecting other forms of exercise.

But cross training — taking part in additional activities beyond a primary sport of choice — is crucial for runners, especially as they get older, noted Reed Ferber, director of the Running Injury Clinic at the University of Calgary.

Ferber said after the age of 45, a process called sarcopenia — or muscle wasting — starts to take place.

“You naturally lose muscle and joints get a little stiffer ... and you change the way that you run as a consequence,” he said.

“We always say swim, bike, lift weights — anything to maintain your cardiovascular fitness in addition to running. But lifting weights is absolutely critical.

“Study after study has shown for the longest time that muscle strength is a key factor for injury prevention.”

Yanover said she feels much less exhausted with

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Elise Yanover trains in the basement of her Toronto home: staying fit but eliminating stress on the body. her new routine, and that her body recovers a lot better between workouts.

“I want to still be able to be active when I’m 60 and 70,” said Yanover, 46. “I don’t want to burn my body out so quickly. I realize that I don’t need to do as much to benefit from it in the same way that I did.

And I’m probably benefiting from it more (by) making it more about quality than quantity, and listening to when I feel tired and cutting back.”

P.E.I.-based photographer Heather Ogg continued training and running in both half and full marathons despite being injured. She’s been receiving physiotherapy treatments for more than a year.

As she scales back from running long distances, Ogg plans to make cross training a part of her regimen. In addition to incorporating cycling and swim-

ming, she also plans to play tennis and volleyball as a way to have fun and get fit simultaneously.

“I would rather be a phenomenal five-km runner than a crappy marathoner,” said Ogg, 48. “My goal now is I want to rebuild how I’m running and crosstrain and run properly. ... Run well, not run long.”

Based on research, Ferber said what’s most critical for runners is hip and core strengthening, and he suggested exercises that help with stabilizing or balance muscles.

Examples include calf raises and using a band to strengthen the hip abductors, muscles located on the upper and outer portions of the buttocks.

“Those tiny little muscles, balancing muscles, are what’s critical from an injury prevention standpoint.”

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On 2015 Forte and Sportage models only.§

Sportage SX Luxury shown ‡

Forte SX shown ‡

hwy / city 100kmÓ: 6.3L/8.8L

hwy / city 100kmÓ: 8.3L/11.4L

hwy / city 100km : 6.1L/8.8L Ó

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2015

2015

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6-SPEED AUTOMATIC

16” ALLOY WHEELS

HEATED FRONT SEATS

BONUS CASH ¤

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AIR CONDITIONING

Offer based on new 2015 Forte LX+ AT (FO743F) with a selling price of $21,752.¤

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HILL ASSIST CONTROL

Offer based on new 2015 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551F) with a selling price of $24,832.¤

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Rio4 SX with Navigation shown ‡

Offer(s) available on select new 2015 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from May 1 to June 1, 2015. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,715, $22 AMVIC, $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes taxes, licensing, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees (up to $699), fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. §“Don’t Pay for 90 days” on select models (90-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2015 Forte and Sportage on approved credit (OAC). No interest will accrue during the first 60 days of the finance contract. After this period, interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay the principal interest monthly over the term of the contract. Offer ends June 1, 2015. 'Representative Financing Example: Financing offer available on approved credit (OAC), on new 2015 Forte LX+ AT (FO743F)/2015 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551F) with a selling price of $21,752/$24,832 is based on weekly payments of $68/$63, and excludes delivery and destination fees of $1,535/$1,715, $22 AMVIC fee, and A/C charge ($100, where applicable) for 60/84 months at 0% with a $0 down payment/equivalent trade, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Offer also includes Bonus Cash of $4,000/$2,000. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Offer ends June 1, 2015. 'Representative Leasing Example: Lease offer available on approved credit (OAC), on new 2015 Rio LX MT (RO541F) with a selling price of $15,652 is based on monthly payments of $152 and includes delivery and destination fees of $1,535, $22 AMVIC fee, and A/C tax ($100, where applicable) for 60 months at 0% with a $0 down payment/equivalent trade, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Offer also includes a lease credit of $900. Total lease obligation is $9,117 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $5,627. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Offer ends June 1, 2015. ĭBonus Cash amounts are offered on select 2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price before taxes. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2015 Forte SX (FO748F)/2015 Rio4 SX with Navigation (RO749F)/2015 Sportage SX Luxury (SP759F) is $26,695/$22,395/$38,495. ÇHighway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2015 Rio LX+ ECO AT/2015 Forte 1.8L MPI 4-cyl AT/2015 Sportage 2.4L 4-cyl AT. These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods. Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.