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RED DEER’S BRIAN ROBINSON WAS KNOCKED OFF HIS FEET WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE ROCKED NEPAL IN APRIL. HE FEARED THE WORST FOR FRIENDS THERE WHEN A SECOND QUAKE STRUCK EARLIER THIS WEEK. SEE STORY — PAGE A2

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ABOVE: Nepalese child Subha Laxini, 3, who was injured in this past Tuesday’s earthquake is carried by father Lak Bahadur on their way to a camp for the displaced in Chautara, Nepal, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.

TOP LEFT: A Mexican rescue worker stands at the site of a building that collapsed in an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday.

TOP RIGHT: A Nepalese woman brushes her teeth next to quake damaged houses in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Thursday. The past three weeks have been misery for Nepal. On April 25, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake killed thousands of people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Then, just as the country was beginning to rebuild, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake battered it again.

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Official recount ends tie vote in favour of NDP Make that 54 NDP ridings. The party has added another seat to its already comfortable majority after a recount.

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Double disaster hits home CANADIANS URGED TO DONATE TO THE RED CROSS TO HELP THE DESPERATE NATION

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer oilpatch worker Brian Robinson feared the worst when Nepal was shaken by a second powerful earthquake earlier this week.

It hit much closer to where a Nepalese sherpa he met named Nima and his family lived, including his mountain guiding brother.

Nima had already lost his home in the first earthquake two weeks ago and Robinson was afraid the news might be even worse after the latest aftershock.

“I was wondering if they were alive or not. You just don’t know what’s going to happen up there.

“I was pretty scared his brother may have been killed. I really didn’t know. I knew Nima was sleeping in a tent so he would probably be OK, but I didn’t know.”

He finally got an email confirming the second magnitude-7.3 earthquake and, happily, Nima made no mention that the family had been injured or worse.

The first quake, on April 25, killed an estimated 8,000 people and left many thousands injured. Tuesday’s quake killed almost 50 and injured 1,000.

Robinson, 44, was in Thailand when the second quake hit. He was relieved to hear Nima and his family were safe. The Red Deer man is now hoping the Nepalese family can use the $800 he raised so far to try to rebuild their home in a small village called Chavrikhara.

There are tens of thousands of others who have been left homeless, many even struggling to find enough food, said Robinson. He contacted the Advocate to appeal to Canadians to donate to the Red Cross to help the desperate mountain nation.

Robinson was in Nepal five days into a month-long trekking expedition in what is known as the Three Pass Route when the first magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocked the country about noon.

At the time, Robinson was in a place called Namche Bazar, which was far from the quake’s epicentre, but he still felt its power.

“It knocked me over,” he said. “I was just hiking down towards Namche Bazar. It basically felt like I was passing out. I can’t really describe it.

“Once I dropped down I could hear the roar and feel everything shaking. Then, of course, I realized it was an earthquake.”

Robinson works as a downhole drill technician for Rangeview Oilfield Services and has been climbing in the Rocky Mountains for 23 years. He has also climbed extensively in South America and had gone to Nepal for a high-altitude trek.

Even well over 100 km from the quake’s epicentre, the damage was terrible.

“It seemed like the higher you went the worse the damage got,” he said.

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The first night he slept in a shed and the second night he slept under a tarp with another traveller, from Toronto.

Most locals were sleeping outdoors, but few had any idea what was happening to the worst-hit areas to the west.

“We had no idea. There was no official word. It was quite chaotic.”

The Nepalese are known for their friendliness and generosity, but also for the low standard of living. The earthquake has left people who had so little with almost nothing.

“You have to see it to believe it. It’s pretty bad there,” he said.

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“They’re extremely nice people. Nepalese people are great. It was pretty hard to see.”

After losing his home, Nima didn’t even have enough for a tent. Robinson was able to give him enough to rent one for his family.

“I’m trying to get some money to him right now.”

He eventually made his way to Lukla, where he waited for six days with dozens of other hikers and climbers before catching a flight to Delhi, and then on to Thailand.

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Brian Robinson, a Red Deer oilpatch worker, was five days into a month-long trekking expedition on what is known as the Three Pass Route when the first magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocked the country about noon.

A chaotic week followed as Robinson and his fellow hikers attempted to leave Nepal, unaware of the devastation in the worst-hit areas to the west.

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Official recount ends tie vote in favour of NDP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Make that 54 NDP ridings in Alberta.

The party has added another seat to its already comfortable majority after an Elections Alberta official recount which shows the party won CalgaryGlenmore.

On election night, Progressive Conservative incumbent Linda Johnson and NDP challenger Anam Kazim each ended up with 7,015 votes.

The official results released Friday show Kazim had 7,018 votes, six more than Johnson.

Kazim, who has a master’s degree in chemical and environmental engineering, said she is holding off celebrating.

“Based on the results of today I am the winner for now,” Kazim said.

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“But at the same time the other party has the chance to appeal the results and request a judicial review. They have the next eight business days to consider that decision.”

Outgoing Premier Jim Prentice was still listed as the official winner in Calgary-Foothills, even though he immediately resigned on May 5 after the PC party’s devastating loss.

Elections Alberta said Prentice has not yet submitted written notice of his intention to step down in the riding.

Once that happens, incoming premier Rachel Notley must call a byelection within six months.

Kazim’s victory gives the NDP 15 seats in Calgary and raises the number of women in the party caucus to 26.

The official results show the Wildrose won 21 seats. The PC’s have 10 seats, and the Alberta Party and Alberta Liberals one each.

Progressive Conservatives downsizing after election loss

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The once mighty Alberta Progressive Conservative party plans to close its offices in Edmonton and Calgary and cut all but one staff member.

Bill Smith, past president of the party, said Friday that the moves are being made to save money.

“We have got to look at the longterm interests of the party and the carrying costs of the infrastructure that we have is just too high,” he said.

The PCs were reduced to 10 seats in the legislature from 70 in the May 5 NDP election victory that ended 44

years of Tory rule in the province.

Smith said the office closures and staff cuts were a difficult but necessary decision as the party takes the first steps toward rebuilding.

“We are definitely not finished in Alberta. The number of people who have reached out to myself and to members of our executive has been overwhelming,” he said.

“So many people were disappointed in the result and have offered to help.”

Twelve people are losing their jobs.

Earlier this week Ric McIver was named interim PC party leader to replace Premier Jim Prentice, who resigned on election night.

Woman gets conditional sentence for trying to bribe juror in husband’s trial

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Festival of Trees scraps Winter Solstice Tough economic times has forced the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation to reduce its Festival of Trees line up this year.

The Festival’s Winter Solstice has been scratched while the Festival Lights the Night will be taken over by the City of Red Deer and the Downtown Business Association.

Senior Appreciation and Volunteer Sneak a Peek will be combined into one event.

There will be some venue changes at Westerner Park.

The Festival of Trees event has invested more than $11.8 million into the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre over 21 years.

This year the fundraising efforts will enhance client care and services in the Medical Specialty Clinics at the hospital.

The City of Red Deer issued a statement on Friday recognizing the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation and the Festival Lights the Night Committee for its hard work and delivery of the Festival Lights the Night celebration over the past 11 years.

Community groups and volunteers who would like to get involved with the downtown event are asked to contact the city’s Culture Services section at 403-309-4091.

CALGARY — A Calgary woman has been handed an 18-month conditional sentence for trying to bribe a juror in her husband’s sex assault trial.

Erica Levin, who is 71, cried as the judge also ordered her to perform 180 hours of community service.

The senior was convicted last year on a charge of obstruction of justice.

A juror testified that she was offered $1,000 to find Dr. Aubrey Levin not guilty during his trial in 2013.

The psychiatrist was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault against male patients.

He was sentenced to five years in prison.

Jurors at Erica Levin’s trial were shown surveillance video of her approaching the juror at a light-rail transit platform near the courthouse and giving her a note.

Levin told court the note did not contain money, but a suicide note. She testified she had gone to the station to throw herself in front of a train, but decided not to kill herself when she realized she needed to take care of her cat.

The Crown accused her of lying and pointed out that she had other opportunities to kill herself if she had wanted to.

Allegations against her husband surfaced in 2010 after a patient stepped forward with secret videos.

Aubrey Levin, who immigrated to Canada from South Africa, was frequently used by the courts to assess people and provide expert opinions at hearings.

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Paul Nichols, left, rode into Red Deer this week on his cross Canada ride on horse back. Along the way Nichols is giving Canadian veterans the opportunity to share in the journey. During the ride in from Penhold on Friday, Rob Stratton, right, of Rimbey, and Chris Upsdell of Red Deer, not shown here, finished their ride in the City of Red Deer at Veterans Park on Ross Street. The trio turned a lot of heads as they rode through the downtown core. Nichols, who will ride the entire way from Victoria to St. Johns, Nfld., this summer and into the fall will have veterans joining him along the way. So far 250 Canadian veterans have signed up to participate, and Nichols and his crew hope to involve over 700 veterans along the way. The mission of the project is to raise awareness for contemporary veterans, said Cathleen McMahon. Each veteran who participates in the project will be featured on the Communities for Veterans Foundation website at communitiesforveterans.com, she said.

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Work is progressing on the modernization of the Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School in Red Deer.

The entire school has undergone a total gutting but is scheduled to reopen for the 2015-16 school year in September. Shunda Consulting and Construction Management Ltd. in Red Deer is the general contractor on the project.

Exhaustive quarterly reports cast doubt on Tory spending claims

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OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Eric O’Toole has a simple explanation for a controversial $1.13 billion spending lapse and the subsequent return of the cash to the federal treasury: it’s hard to predict spending when so many elderly vets are dying.

But an opposition critic says there is much more certainty in the numbers than O’Toole is admitting, pointing to the department’s statistical research branch and the detailed, quarterly forecasts it produces.

The issue of unspent cash between 2006 and 2014 caused the Conservatives a major political headache last fall as they tried to rebuild bridges with the angry and frustrated community of ex-soldiers.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper — and now O’Toole — have said the government simply set aside more than it ended up needing in order to ensure there was enough money to cover program costs and the service needs of veterans.

O’Toole told the all-party veterans committee this week that when it comes to planned program spending, the government doesn’t “know what actually goes out the door until the public accounts come in” the following year.

Elderly Second World War and Korean veterans who die during the year create a major variable — one that the department can’t predict, he said.

“I’ll give you an example of how challenging this is ... the estimate does not anticipate veterans passing away over the course of the cycle. That will go into the estimate for the following year,” O’Toole told the committee.

“You try and learn from the public accounts where you did not spend ... but in terms of lapsed funds, this is why.”

O’Toole made the remarks even though the department produces an exhaustive report every three

months that tracks the ranks of Canadian veterans in exceptional detail.

It includes not only the number of veterans, but also their disabilities by category; how many are expected to pass away; their age, gender, and ailments; and what is spent on individual programs and services.

The report, known as the VAC Client and Expenditure Forecast, gives the department exceptional forecasting power, Veterans Affairs sources say it was a public document until 2008 when the Harper government decided to make it for internal use only.

New Democrat veterans critic Peter Stoffer said O’Toole either wasn’t telling the truth before the committee or he wasn’t aware of the regular publication.

“This is information he should have had at his fingertips,” Stoffer said. “He’s been there almost six months. This shows he either doesn’t know his department, or he deliberately misled us.”

A spokesman for O’Toole, Martin Magnan, acknowledged the department “carries out a comprehensive client and expenditure forecast,” but the said the data is limited by the fact the department does not have a day-to-day list of all living veterans.

He said Veterans Affairs must therefore rely on survey information from Statistics Canada.

“We are further pleased that this government has never budgeted less than this department requires to meet the needs of Canadian veterans,” Magnan said in an email.

The government took a political hammering last fall over the issue of lapsed funds.

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WINNIPEG — Canada has set a new greenhouse gas emission reduction target as it prepares for international talks later this year, but critics say the goal is the weakest among G-7 countries.

Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Friday that Canada proposes to cut emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a target she called “fair and ambitious.”

Speaking in Winnipeg, Aglukkaq promised to introduce new regulations on methane emissions produced by the oil and gas industry. There will also be new rules for natural gas-fired power generation and for the chemical and nitrogen fertilizer industries.

“This target is ... an ambitious commitment based on our national circumstances, which include a growing population, a diversified, growing economy and Canada’s position as a world leader in clean electricity generation.”

The target is slightly weaker than that of the United States, which has pledged to cut its greenhouse emissions by up to 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2025.

Canada, the U.S. and other countries are taking their targets to a United Nations conference later this year in Paris, where a new international emissions regime is to be negotiated.

Environmental groups said Canada’s target is anything but ambitious.

“The European Union, already with per-capita emissions well below Canada’s, has a 40 per cent reduction target for 2030 — more than five times greater than Canada’s,” the group Environmental Defence said in a statement.

“To keep our people, communities and economy safe requires that Canada join the global community in making deep cuts to carbon pollution by shifting away from burning coal, oil and gas,” read a statement from the Climate Action Network.

The federal environment critic for the NDP, Megan Leslie, said the plan to regulate methane emissions in the energy sector does not go far enough.

“If we’re going to see a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we need a hard cap on emissions in the oil and gas sector,” she said in Ottawa.

Canada might also buy international credits to meet its targets — something that would be a change from long-standing policy. That system would see Canada get deductions from its counted emissions by investing in environmentally friendly projects in other countries.

The documents submitted by the federal government to the UN say “Canada may use international mechanisms to achieve its 2030 target”. Aglukkaq refused to clarify the matter.

“Thank you for coming. Today’s announcement is about the 30 per cent reduction,” she said in declining to answer a reporter’s question on the issue.

Whether Canada will even be able to meet its new targets is an open question.

Despite a previous promise to cut emissions 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, Environment Canada reported last month that national greenhouse gas emissions rose between 2012 and 2013 to 726 megatonnes, the fourth consecutive annual increase.

Even if the target is met, it might not be enough.

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Poilievre won’t apologize for ‘vanity videos’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre won’t apologize for using taxpayer dollars to produce YouTube videos of himself promoting the universal child care benefit.

Poilievre insisted Friday that he’s simply using innovative ways to inform Canadians about the newly enriched and expanded child benefit.

But opposition MPs denounced the “vanity videos” as a new low for a government that has a penchant for producing partisan advertising on the public dime.

And the Canadian Taxpayers Federation agreed.

“The bottom line is that tax- Pierre Poilievre payers should not be forced to pay for partisan advertising masquerading as information-based government advertising,” said Aaron Wudrick, the federation’s federal director.

The latest examples “highlight the need for an independent third party” to vet all government advertising, he added.

One of the videos shows Poilievre explaining the child benefit to shoppers at a children’s consignment clothing sale in his Ottawa riding. It was filmed on a Sunday by two members of the Employment department’s in-house creative production team, which has an annual operating budget of about $50,000.

A departmental spokesman said the Sunday shoot took two hours, which was paid overtime for the two

videographers involved. Editing was done in-house during regular work hours.

A second video shows Poilievre, in rolled-up shirt sleeves, talking about the enhanced child benefit as he points to digital graphics explaining the changes.

Poilievre isn’t the only minister appearing in taxpayer-financed YouTube videos. Candice Bergen, minister of state for social development, stars in another video in which she explains what the recent changes to the universal child benefit will mean to various fictional families.

In Wudrick’s view, Bergen’s video is strictly nonpartisan dissemination of factual information. But Poilievre’s videos “reference values and anecdotes that go beyond the factual changes in government policy” and amount to partisan spin.

“We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That’s why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006,” Poilievre says in one video, praising the prime minister for “putting money back in the pockets of hard-working Canadian families.”

“A one-size-fits-all, government-knows-best approach doesn’t work for families,” he says in the other video, echoing an accusation Conservatives like to level against opposition parties.

Government communications policy requires departments to use “all means of communication,” including new technologies, to inform Canadians about government policy, Poilievre’s department noted.

And it’s the role of ministers to explain government policies to the public.

But even if the YouTube videos were strictly informational, Wudrick questioned their cost effectiveness, given that there have been fewer than 350 views for either of Poilievre’s videos and just 35 for Bergen’s

Charges over RCMP response to fatal shootings could lead to better safety: group

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An advocacy group for RCMP members said Friday that a decision to take the rare step of charging the force with violations under the Canada Labour Code could lead to safety improvements members have been demanding for years.

Rob Creasser of the Mounted Police Professional Association said he had mixed emotions about the four charges, which are linked to the shooting deaths of three RCMP officers on June 4, 2014, in Moncton, N.B. He said RCMP members have persistently asked for training and equipment after recommendations from inquiries into police fatalities.

“I’m saddened that it’s come to this, but I’m elated that maybe there will finally be some accountability at the top end of the organization for members’ safety,” he said from Kamloops, B.C. “We’ve seen recommendation after recommendation after fatality inquiry that have all basically said the same thing — that the RCMP are not properly

trained and equipped to be effective in their work.

Now another government agency has recognized that.”

He also called for the resignation of Commissioner Bob Paulson, saying he had failed to fight for his employees.

“I think he’s a lame duck already and I think they should expedite his departure,” he said.

Employment and Social Development Canada said in an email it is alleging the police force violated labour code provisions by failing to provide appropriate weapons and equipment to deal with “active shooter” incidents.

It also says the force didn’t provide officers or supervisors with the necessary training and information needed to respond properly to incidents such as Justin Bourque’s shooting rampage.

The final charge is that the RCMP failed “in general” to ensure the health and safety of its members.

A spokeswoman for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said the matter will be heard in a Moncton court on July 9.

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CityNews says man has apologized to reporter Shauna Hunt for vulgarities Toronto television station CityNews says the man fired over hurling sexually explicit remarks at reporter Shauna Hunt last weekend has apologized for his actions.

Hunt confronted several men about their apparent plans to use vulgarities as she did fan interviews at a Toronto FC soccer game on Sunday.

One of the men used offensive language during their exchange and was fired by Hydro One after CityNews aired the video, provoking a storm of anger on social media.

CityNews says the man sent Hunt a written apology on Friday.

The station quotes Hunt as saying she appreciated him reaching out with what she felt was a “very genuine apology” and was “happy to accept it.”

CityNews reports the man told Hunt he intended the apology to be a personal note to her and she won’t release exactly what was said.

RCMP investigating death of girl, 11, on Manitoba reserve as a homicide WINNIPEG — An 11-year-old girl on a northern Manitoba reserve appears to have been killed by someone, and not a bear as some people believed, RCMP said Friday.

The death of Teresa Robinson, whose remains were found on the Garden Hill First Nation Monday, is now considered a homicide.

“Her remains were disturbed by animals, but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that animals played a role in her death,” RCMP spokesperson Tara Seel said.

Seel said an autopsy was ongoing, the cause of death was not being released and RCMP would not confirm the timeline suggested by some residents of the fly-in community 500 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.

Robinson was last seen leaving a birthday party on May 5, six days before she was reported missing to the RCMP.

Toronto police start pilot project to test body cameras for officers Toronto police launched a pilot project to test body-worn cameras for its officers on Friday, joining a growing number of forces trying out the technology, which has been greeted with a mix of optimism and caution.

The year-long project in Canada’s most populous city will see 100 officers wear the cameras as three different models are tested. A report on the exercise will be completed by June 2016.

“I think that this project has the potential to strengthen the policing profession, and I think it has the potential to strengthen our relationship with the community and enhance public trust,” Staff. Supt.

Tom Russell said as the project was launched.

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Don’t count out India The picture of the two Asian giants that most people carry around in their heads shows China racing ahead economically while India bumbles along, falling ever further behind. People even talk about the 21st century as China’s Century, just as they called the 20th century the American Century.

But it may turn out to be only China’s Quarter-Century.

The headline economic news this year is that India’s economy is growing faster than China’s. Not much faster yet, according to the official figures — a 7.5 per cent annual rate for India vs. 7.4 per cent for China — but there is good reason to GWYNNE suspect that the real Chinese DYER growth rate is considerably lower than that.

Anybody who goes to both countries can see that India has a huge amount of catching up to do. The contrast in infrastructure is especially striking: China has 100,000 km of expressways (freeways, motorways); India has only 1,000 km.

But the differences in income and productivity are also very big: gross domestic product per capita in China is between three and five times higher than in India, depending on how you calculate it.

But that is a snapshot of now. It was very different35 years ago, when per capita income in India was still higher than it was in China.

It was then-leader Deng Xiaoping’s decision in 1978 to open up the Chinese economy that unleashed the spectacular economic growth rates of the recent past, and an economy growing at 10 per cent a year doubles in size every seven years.

That means (allowing for a little slippage) that the Chinese economy has grown more than twentyfold since 1978. That’s why it is so far ahead now.

India’s growth rate was a quite respectable three or four per cent for most of that period, but that gave the Indian economy a doubling time of around 20 years, so it has only grown around threefold during the whole period. India is not chronically poorer than China. It just missed that particular bus.

The next bus has now arrived: India actually could catch up with China if its economic growth rate is now really surging ahead of China’s. There is good reason to believe that it is, because China’s declared growth rate for this year is pure fiction.

China avoided the global recession after the 2008 crash by opening the credit taps to full and embarking on the largest spending spree on infra-

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structure (roads, housing, railways and airports) that the world has ever seen.

But capitalist economies cannot avoid recessions forever.

The country is now full of empty apartment buildings, the private debt load has doubled in five years — and the recession is coming.

More than that, China’s period of high-speed growth was probably always going to be limited. Japan enjoyed a quarter-century of 10 per cent annual growth in 1955-80 and became, for a while, the world’s second-biggest economy. But once its per capita income reached developed-world levels, the growth rate dropped down to developed-world levels too: between two and four per cent. (Now it’s almost nothing.)

In fact, all the East Asian economies (except North Korea, of course) have followed the same pattern: a lengthy

burst of ultra-high-speed growth, followed by a fall to the developed-state norm once a certain level of prosperity has been achieved. South Korea and Taiwan both did it — and then subsided to a growth rate not very different from that of the United States.

China has also had its quarter-century of 10 per cent growth, and it is probably over.

The official figure for economic growth last year was still over seven per cent, but the less easily manipulated numbers for rail freight, electricity production and bank lending suggest that the real growth rate was only around three per cent.

That is to say, less than half of India’s.

The other thing that will hold China back in future is a steady fall in the population of working age. India’s birth rate is still 2.7 children per wom-

an (although it’s falling fast). China’s is at most 1.7, and the one-child policy means that it may even be lower than that.

So fewer and fewer young Chinese are entering the workforce, whereas there will be no shortage of young Indians.

India’s total population will overtake China’s in less than five years (they are both around 1.3 billion), and after that the gap will steadily widen.

While China’s population shrinks and its economic growth slows, India is only now entering the golden quarter-century of high-speed economic growth.

In 25 years, India may be back in the position it occupied for most of the past 2,000 years: the biggest economy in Asia.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

Residents’ aging forces cities to rethink everything

BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

“Seniors’ issues” usually means health are and housing, and how much to spend on them. That needs to change, as a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development illustrates: The pressure of demographics will turn plenty of more mundane things into seniors’ issues.

Philadelphia, for example is being squeezed by an aging population, poverty and housing costs. One in seven Philadelphians are already 65 and older, a number that is projected to grow 24 per cent by 2020. Most want to stay in their own homes. Many are poor.

And as in many cities, money for social services is tight: Philadelphia’s budget fell 12 per cent from 2013 to 2014 alone.

So in 2011, the city council adopted zoning changes that make it easier to build “accessory dwelling units” — such as garage, basement or backyard apartments — designed for the elderly to move into while they rent out their homes to make money or their families move in as caregivers.

Putting Granny in the garage might not seem like loving elder care, but the

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OECD’s report shows that cities need to try new policies, and fast. From 2001 to 2011, the number of people 65 or older living in developed-country cities jumped 24 per cent — three times the speed of growth for those cities as a whole. By 2050, one in four people will be 65 or older, with the fastest growth among those 80 and up.

That means more than just finding new places for seniors to live. The report looks at cities in North America, Europe and Japan that have already started grappling with the needs of their aging populations: ● Cologne, Germany, started a program that lets students move in with seniors for free, in return for acting as caregivers. The city is also encouraging small shops to relocate to residential areas, to make shopping easier for seniors who can’t use cars. ● In Helsinki, an emphasis on keeping people in their homes for as long as possible, combined with an expected shortage of trained home-care staff, led to the development of floor-sensor systems that let nurses monitor seniors remotely. The city is also trying to get more elderly residents comfortable using computers for their everyday needs. ● In Lisbon, an explosion in the share of seniors, from nine per cent in

1960 to 24 per cent in 2011, has turned the city’s picturesque network of narrow and uneven sidewalks into a trap.

So Lisbon set a minimum width of five feet for its sidewalks, and is trying a public-awareness campaign to get drivers and other pedestrians to watch out for seniors on foot. ● In Calgary, the tight job market driven by the oil boom has pushed the city to look for ways to keep more seniors employed, by retaining retired workers on short-term projects. And the share of those 65 and over is projected to double by 2042, so the city is also trying to rein in sprawl and increase the availability of transit, with an eye to making it easier for the elderly to reach social services. ● In Brno, Czech Republic, where 19 per cent of residents are 65 or older, a wave of crime directed at seniors has led city police to train some as “crime prevention assistants.” The goal is community policing for seniors, by seniors. It’s also encouraging the elderly to move into shared apartments, with separate bedrooms but common kitchens or bathrooms. ● In Manchester, England, an aging population has been made worse by high rates of chronic disease, which usually starts before somebody hits 65.

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The OECD report shows that most developed cities face a variation of the same basic challenges: increasing the supply of affordable and accessible housing, making it easier for the elderly to get around safely and stay active, and finding ways to provide social services and other care for less money.

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Stop using our money for Conservative ads Surely, five months before election day, it’s time to pull the plug.

And then, after the vote, it is time to put a permanent end to the mind-numbing narcotic of gauzy good news from your government, the never-ending riff on our national anthem on your television screen, the omnipresent billboards that cast a shadow over every shovel and hole in the ground in this country, the partisan pro-government ads that pop up if you check Environment Canada’s website for TIM a weather forecast.

HARPER The Conservatives have provided a national background Muzak of sloganeering and propaganda that aims to lull Canadians into a false sense that everything will be okay if you just vote for them.

They’re using your money to buy your vote.

This week, former chief electoral officer JeanPierre Kingsley told iPolitics that the partisan government ads should be stopped now because we are in a fixed election date period and “ads that say ‘Here’s what I’m doing with your money’ don’t cut it.’’

A private member’s bill by Liberal David McGuinty would establish an independent federal advertising commissioner reporting to the auditor general to weed out partisan government ads.

It goes to second reading shortly after MPs return from next week’s break.

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It will die, of course, when this session ends next month, but it is part of Liberal policy and it should be a vote-winner, even if Liberals used your money, just as the Conservatives do, for years when they were in government.

“That was then and this is now,’’ says McGuinty, channelling his best Jean Chrétien.

The Liberal plan is modelled after the acknowledged gold standard of non-partisan government advertising, the Ontario law established by McGuinty’s older brother, former premier Dalton McGuinty, in Ontario in 2004.

That a federal Liberal government, the heirs of the sponsorship scandal, would keep its hands away from the honey pot and not promote themselves engenders skepticism. New Democrats made documents public last month showing Liberals spent $953.6 million on government ads between 1998 and 2006. But if we take them at their word, there is a larger question. Why are their provincial cousins undermining them?

Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk believes amendments to the Government Advertising Act proposed by Kathleen Wynne open the door to partisan ads in Ontario.

In other words, while most Canadians are reaching their breaking point and are drowning in Tory propaganda, Wynne is headed the other way.

Trudeau and McGuinty like to use words like “fine-tuning” and “modernizing” in characterizing the Wynne amendments.

Lysyk uses another word: “gutting.” So major are the amendments, Lysyk imagines a television commercial with an actor proclaiming, “This government cares about me and my family . . . new tax cuts, new

pension plan, new policies to protect the environment. These things are important to me, and this government gets it . . . not like those other guys.”

Right now, Ontario government ads can inform the public of current or proposed government policies, programs or services, inform the public of its rights or responsibilities under a law, encourage or discourage social behaviour only if it is in the public interest and promotes the province.

The federal government should have the same rights in the areas of public health, public safety or time-sensitive programs that offer benefits. But this government has spent $750 million blanketing you in Tory blue. It has advertised programs before they existed. It has appropriated “Strong. Proud. Free” as an advertising slogan, but its genesis is considered a state secret and cannot be revealed for 20 years because Conservatives have deemed the matter one of cabinet confidence.

It is spending $13.5 million to advertise its budget — not to inform, but to promote.

David McGuinty says there are 9,800 Economic Action Plan billboards in this country, costing $29 million. “At its core, this kind of advertising undermines the rules of fair play in our democratic system,’’ he says. “Canadians believe the government thinks they’re stupid.’’

We are in a campaign period. The Tories have lots of money, having raised $6.3 million from 41,000 donors in the first three months of this year, more than the Liberals and New Democrats combined.

If they want to spend party money to sell their agenda, go ahead. They shouldn’t be allowed to use taxpayers’ money to do it as well.

Harper is a Toronto Star national affairs writer.

What do you need on a long weekend?

There’s something special about a long weekend.

I think perhaps it’s because it’s a little longer than a regular ordinary weekend. Or it could be something else. Especially this particular long weekend.

Back in the Mesozoic Age when I was growing up (unsuccessfully) we used to call it the “May 24th Weekend” — even if it happened to fall in June or April or happened to be on the 18th or the 33rd, we’d still called it “May 24th.”

Nowadays, which are admittedly much more modern days, people call it “May Long.” As in: “Hey there neighbour or family member, are you also going camping in the snow and rain this May Long?”

And just to confuse things even further, some people who may be of British extraction or just very old, still refer to the May 24th/ May Long weekend as the “Victoria Day HARLEY Weekend.” Nobody really HAY knows why they would do such a thing.

The point is, if there is one, is that no matter what you call this special long weekend, a tried and true bonafide tradition has emerged in order to celebrate the first long weekend after 10 months of winter. This tradition is called camping.

A week or so before May Long, you start to see them appearing on our streets and driveways — materializing mysteriously overnight like the landing of large alien spacecraft — humongous luxury condominiums on wheels. Motorhomes the size of office buildings, trailers that are bigger than the house you grew up in. Massive black trucks packed with many large toys — toys such as expensive off-road vehicles like quads and motorcycles and brand new Ford Mustangs to roar around the campground when it rains or snows (beginning about Saturday afternoon).

Some people call this “glamping,” which is a clever mashup of “glamorous camping,” and which is pretty much diametrically opposed to what we used to do on May 24th. When we were younger and had more energy, less common sense and even less coinage, we would throw an old sleeping bag, possibly a moth-eaten canvas tent, one package of baloney, three bags of potato chips and seven cases of beverages onto the back of our motorcycles or into the one friend’s car that ran well enough to get us to Sylvan Lake, and off we would go. Camping.

Twelve or 15 or so of us, a random male/female mix of genders, packed into a rattle trap vehicle or onto several motorcycles or both. Not a single one of us knowing a single thing about camping: i.e. Do you need, like, “wood” to have a campfire, you guys? Or: Does this tent look upside down to you? And: Where do get this so-called wood?

But it didn’t matter, you see, because, for one thing, we had Varsity Hall. This is where we really camped. For younger readers a hall was a dance hall where actual live bands played and people got groovy to actual live songs from the hit parade and laughed and partied and danced and met their future spousal units. I know I did. And Varsity Hall, across the street from the beach at Sylvan Lake, on the corner of Music Street and Magical Avenue, was

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“How long before the warm glow of nostalgia makes this a good ole days memory?” the best hall of them all.

And when we weren’t camped in Varsity Hall on Friday nights and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon free concerts and Sunday night Midnight Frolics where, on account of the law that you couldn’t have music or movies on a Sunday, bands would start at 12:01 a.m. and play until 3:30 a.m. Monday morning — when we weren’t rockin’ to far out bands like Gaetz Ave. Dance Band or The Privilege or Happy Feelin’ or Great Canadian River Race — we were camping out at The Centre.

The Centre, just half a block down from Varsity Hall, was the place to be when you weren’t at the best hall of them all.

So when the May 24th rule of the universe that it must snow or rain most of the entire long weekend kicked in about Saturday afternoon and Varsity Hall wasn’t yet open for festivities (and the band members were still sleeping off the gig from the night before), we campers would head for the safe haven shangri-la called The Centre. The log building restaurant/café/ hangout was not only cozy and cooking with a buzz of activity and good-looking females, it happened to be the home of the best homemade french fries this side of France.

Nowadays, glampers don’t go to Varsity Halls and centers. Instead, they park their luxury behemoths

two metres apart along rows and rows of other luxury behemoths, forming mini-subdivisions that look just like the cities they came from.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Who am I to cast aspersions on those who like to camp with a satellite dish, 60-inch flat screen TV, microwave and convection ovens, king size beds with electric blankets, three small dogs (shih tzu cross), and a fully stocked, portable cocktail bar under an electronically controlled awning. With an outdoor space heater.

Good for them.

Besides, these poor modern folks don’t have a choice anymore. Somebody tore down Varsity Hall in 1979, and The Centre was bulldozed a summer or so ago. And for us reprobates all those years ago, out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere near Sylvan Lake, sleeping bags on the ground around a sputtering fire made from cardboard beverage cases and potato chip bags? Upside down tents and pouring rain and snow in the middle of the night?

We were just fine. Better than fine. We had the hall, the music, the fries and the friends. And what more do you need on May 24th?

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Action needed to avoid catastrophic climate change As things stand, the economic outlook over the next several years is for only modest economic growth, with little room for gains in incomes.

Yet there is a pathway to better growth that is staring us in the face.

This is to make Canada a nation leading the way to a truly low-carbon economy that can deliver good jobs and productivity-boosting income gains.

In its most recent report on the world’s energy future, the International Energy Agency makes two points: First, we have to act. If the DAVID world is to avoid catastrophic CRANE climate change, “the energy intensity of GDP and the carbon intensity of primary energy both have to be reduced by around 60 per cent by 2050 compared with today.”

The longer we wait, the more it will cost.

Second, we can do it. “It is realistic and economically sensible to pursue a clean energy agenda,” it says, adding that “tools and mechanisms exist to support innovative and transformative changes that lead to an affordable, secure and environmentally sustainable energy future.”

There are signs of progress, the latest being Telsa’s announcement of a battery that can store, in the home, electricity generated by solar roof panels. Batteries for electric cars are improving, as are fuel cell vehicles. However, the IEA says, we “need to accelerate energy technology innovation.”

Canada has promising companies that have po-

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tential in delivering a low-carbon economy. Many, though, are still in early stages, developing their technologies.

They need capital for growth but at least as important, they need markets with customers. Carbon pricing and regulation would help build markets while research subsidies would accelerate development.

That’s what a low-carbon strategy would look like.

One of the most successful clean-energy companies is Canadian Solar, based in Guelph, Ont. Founded in 2001 by Shawn Qu, who holds a PhD in material sciences, the company last year had revenues of US$3 billion, profit of US$240 million, more than 8,000 employees worldwide, production facilities in Canada and China and sales in 18 countries.

But many of our low-carbon technology companies are still developing their technologies and would clearly benefit from a low-carbon strategy.

One example is Inventys Thermal Technologies Inc. of Vancouver, which was founded by four chemical engineers in 2007, to develop technologies for carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery. Its directors include Steven Chu, formerly Barack Obama’s secretary of energy and a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Another is Terrestial Energy, founded in 2013 and based in Mississauga, Ont. It was recently featured in Fortune magazine for its work on a molten-salt nuclear reactor, which could make nuclear power safer and cheaper.

A third example is Electrovaya, an emerging energy battery storage developer in Mississauga, cofounded by Sankar Das Gupta, a PhD in electrochemistry, and James Jacobs, a PhD in solid-state physics.

It recently acquired a major lithium-ion battery enterprise in Germany.

Canada has provided some support for low-carbon

technologies. For example, the federal government provided a $240-million subsidy to SaskPower to develop a $1.4-billion commercial-stage carbon capture and storage system that is removing 90 per cent of the carbon dioxide from a coal-burning power plant.

But most low-carbon funding stops too soon. Sustainable Technology Development Canada supports the development of low-carbon technologies, but only to the point of pre-commercial demonstration.

In the 2011 budget, the Harper government committed $268 million, over five years, in its ecoEnergy Initiative for research, development and demonstration of clean energy technologies, including low-carbon energy systems, but only to that stage.

However, the big challenge for low-carbon technology companies is not simply to prove up their technology but for growth, to scale up and achieve long-term potential. That depends not only on having the right technologies but also having customers and attracting capital to survive and grow.

Without a system of effective carbon pricing, ideally a carbon tax, as well as the use of regulatory powers, such as mandating fuel efficiency standards in vehicles, we won’t create the markets necessary to stimulate innovation and growth in low-carbon technologies.

At a time when there is both a need to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and the opportunity to realize economic growth and good jobs out of this need, our political parties should be making this a priority.

We need a fairer economy but we also need a growing economy that can generate jobs and raise incomes through innovation-led productivity.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 16, 2015

Death sentence for Tsarnaev

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a “kid� who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.

Tsarnaev, 21, stood with his hands folded, his head slightly bowed, upon learning his fate, sealed after 14 hours of deliberations over three days. It was the most closely watched terrorism trial in the U.S. since the Oklahoma City bombing case two decades ago.

The decision sets the stage for what could be the nation’s first execution of a terrorist in the post-9-11 era, though Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the case is likely to go through years of appeals. The execution would be carried out by lethal injection. “Now he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice. In his own words, ‘an eye for an eye,�’ said bombing victim Sydney Corcoran, who nearly bled to death and whose mother lost both legs.

Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded when Tsarnaev and his brother set off two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs near the

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Burundi’s president thanks security forces for crushing coup BUJUMBURA, Burundi — President Pierre Nkurunziza thanked his security forces Friday for crushing a military coup that tried to topple him, and he urged an immediate halt to the protests that have erupted in Burundi in recent weeks since he decided to seek a third term.

Nkurunziza’s motorcade rolled into the capital earlier in the day and he returned to the presidential palace, said his spokesman, Gervais Abayeho.

The president did not appear in public.

His jubilant supporters cheered his return and the failure of the coup. Maj. Gen. Godefroid Niyombare, a former intelligence chief, had announced Wednesday while Nkurunziza was in Tanzania that he had relieved the president of his duties.

That triggered fierce fighting in the capital between his forces and those loyal to Nkurunziza. The city was calm but tense Friday, with many businesses closed. Some residents who don’t support the government emerged from their homes to resume protests.

Three army generals accused of trying to topple Nkurunziza were arrested when they were found

finish line of the race on April 15, 2013. The Tsarnaevs also shot an MIT police officer to death during their getaway.

The 12-member federal jury had to be unanimous for Tsarnaev to get the death penalty. Otherwise, the former college student would have automatically received a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.

In weighing the arguments for and against death, the jurors decided, among other things, that Tsarnaev showed a lack of remorse. And they emphatically rejected the defence’s central argument — that he was led down the path of terrorism by his big brother. “Today the jury has spoken. Dzhokhar Tsrnaev will pay for his crimes with his life,� said U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

Tsarnaev’s father, Anzor Tsarnaev, reached by phone by the Associated Press in the Russian region of Dagestan, let out a deep moan upon hearing the news and hung up.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers had no comment as they left the courtroom.

The attack and the ensuing manhunt paralyzed the city for days and cast a pall over the marathon — normally one of Boston’s proudest, most exciting moments — that has yet to be lifted.

With Friday’s decision, community leaders and others talked of closure, of resilience, of the city’s Boston Strong spirit. “Today, more than ever, we know that Boston is a city of hope, strength and resilience that can over-

come any challenge,� said Mayor Marty Walsh.

Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 charges against him, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those charges carried the possibility of a death sentence.

Tsarnaev’s chief lawyer, death penalty specialist Judy Clarke, admitted at the very start of the trial that he participated in the bombings, bluntly telling the jury: “It was him.�

But the defence argued that Dzhokhar was an impressionable 19-year-old who was led astray by his volatile and domineering 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who was portrayed as the mastermind of the plot to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries.

Tamerlan died days after the bombing when he was shot by police and run over by Dzhokhar during a chaotic getaway attempt.

Prosecutors depicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner in the attack, saying he was so coldhearted he planted a bomb on the pavement behind a group of children, killing an 8-year-old boy.

To drive home their point, prosecutors cited the message he scrawled in the dry-docked boat where he was captured: “Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.� And they opened their case in the penalty phase with a startling photo of him giving the finger to a security camera in his jail cell months after his arrest. “This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged,� prosecutor Nadine Pellegrin said.

hiding in a house, while another senior security official was caught at the border while trying to flee to Tanzania, Abayeho said. He added that Niyombare remained at large and a manhunt was underway.

UN officials urged authorities to ensure that a campaign of reprisals do not take place against the supporters of the coup and other government opponents in the impoverished Central African country.

mand, the military headquarters for the province, al-Kubaisi said.

IS militants seize government compound in Anbar province BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants seized the main government headquarters in Ramadi, raising their black flag over the compound and setting it ablaze hours after a series of suicide car bombings heralded the start of a major new offensive by the extremists on the strategic city.

The advance marked a significant setback for the Iraqi government in its long fight to defend Ramadi, the capital of western Anbar province, where Iraqi forces have made little progress against the extremist group despite months of U.S.-led airstrikes.

The capture of the compound — which houses a police headquarters as well as provincial and municipal offices — followed a co-ordinated attack in which three near-simultaneous suicide car bombs killed at least 10 police officers and wounded dozens more, Ramadi’s Mayor Dalaf al-Kubaisi said. He said two Humvees previously seized from the Iraqi army were used in the attack.

Islamic State fighters also seized other parts of the city and attacked the Anbar Operation Com-

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. This message is brought to you courtesy of Sea Spray Radio.

Welcome to the Galapagos Islands. Welcome to paradise.

It’s a miracle ... take a picture.

Photos by GERRY FEEHAN/Freelance

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Galapagos animals, like these nazca boobies, have few land predators and are unfazed by human presence. Iguanas have adapted hue to match island flora. Park naturalist Harry Jimenez talks about life — and death — in the harsh environment of the Galapagos. Tourists are not permitted to step on land without a guide. Giant land tortoises have adapted to unique conditions that exist in each island of the Galapagos. A face only a mother iguana could love.

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he animals of the Galapagos can only be described as … stupid.

During our eight-day circumnavigation of the islands, we were constantly stepping over, through and around colonies of iguanas, sea lions, blue-footed boobies and a myriad of other odd creatures.

They paid not the least attention to our superior human existence.

Silly creatures.

But their lack of concern has an evolutionary foundation. In the Galapagos, fear of large terrestrial predators was not a prerequisite to survival. There are few enemies on land. Endurance in this remote archipelago is dependent upon mining the nutrients of the sea and avoiding underwater perils. Land is safe haven.

So over millennia, some birds have given up flying and taken to fishing. And, oddly, iguanas have learned to swim.

(Warning: if you believe the world is only 6,000 years old, read no GERRY further.)

FEEHAN Flying into the Galapagos, 1,000 km west of the South American mainland, one’s first impression is of a barren and uninhabitable environment: ancient lava floes running toward the sea, a few scrubby bushes and the odd patch of cacti. Not the sort of place to expect a proliferation of life.

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teristics of some animals differed from island to island. The beaks of finches changed, depending on the nuts available in a particular locale. Iguanas on Isabella were coloured differently from those on San Christobal. The flora was predominantly yellow on one island and red on the other.

The luckier iguanas adapted hue and survived.

On Floreana, food grows higher from the ground, so the giant land tortoises there grew longer necks.

These observations were the germ for Darwin’s eureka moment: natural selection favours creatures that evolve to survive in the unique, changing conditions presented by their environment.

“Lonesome George,” an iconic emblem of the Galapagos, is a sad example of evolution’s ambivalent attitude toward success or failure, life or death.

George’s native island, Pinta, was decimated by man’s introduction of feral goats a century ago. The last tortoise of his species, George was brought to a breeding centre in Santa Cruz in the hope he would mate with a related subspecies. Alas, he died in 2012, unable to pass on a thousand generations of evolutionary success. In a few decades, clever mankind managed to destroy a unique habitat that nature had taken a million years to fashion.

As for the Sea Spray: Our stateroom was large and luxurious. Our chef Juan Carlos prepared three remarkable feasts a day. (Based on his jolly demeanor — and girth — I surmise he happily enjoyed the leftover fruits of his own labour.)

Photographic evidence of our aboard-ship decadence would be nice but I can offer none — I was busy concentrating on keeping down Juan Carlos’s cookies and took no indoor pictures.

While my fellow guests cheerfully clinked wineglasses at dinner, happily recounting the day’s remarkable sightings, I gloomily stared out a porthole, careful not to release my gaze from the gurgling ho-

rizon, lest I bring up one of Juan Carlos’s incredible seafood dishes. We all know that regurgitation is for the birds.

Our itinerary included snorkeling. I love the water. (Ironically, when I jump into the sea my queasiness abates.) So I was overjoyed to learn that both land and water tours were offered at every mooring.

Situated smack dab on the equator, it seems improbable the Galapagos should be rich with Antarctic nutrients — a place where penguins frolic. The westerly islands of the Galapagos are — geologically speaking — the newest, less than a million years old.

They face the deep, cold upwelling of the Humboldt Current, which brings nutrient-rich waters from Antarctica. So even with a full wetsuit, my extremities numbed after a half hour of wide-eyed exploration.

Later in the trip as we circled eastward, the waters grew warmer — a clear turquoise.

Harry was our constant, patient guide. He pointed our untrained eyes at the indiscernible. On shore, obscure birds flitting amongst trees, nazcas nesting in nooks and perky boobies tucked in crevasses.

Underwater, he showed us tiny sea horses anchored in swaying sea grasses, stingrays camouflaged in the sandy seafloor and remarkable inflating puffer fish.

It is unfair to compare what we saw on land with what the subsurface offered, but for me the underwater Galapagos experience was truly remarkable — alone worth the price of admission.

On our final day in the Caribbean-like warmth of Española’s waters, an insulating wetsuit was unnecessary. I was able to swim comfortably for three hours clad only in — dare I say it — a speedo.

Surrounded by gentle sea turtles, schools of colourful fish and curious sea lions, I felt at home, naturally selected for this place.

Gerry Feehan is a retired lawyer, avid traveller and photographer. He lives in Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan.blogspot. com.

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After passing quarantine — and being relieved of the prohibited fruit products we inadvertently brought to the islands — we were whisked to the Ocean Spray, the luxurious catamaran that was to be our floating home for eight days.

The boat has eight staterooms and houses 16 guests — a perfect size to accommodate intimate service but still foster camaraderie with one’s fellow flightless birds.

Harry Jimenez, our onboard naturalist, was a riot.

Each morning at 7 a.m., he’d announce in a baritone disc-jockey voice over the airwaves of the ship’s PA system: “Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. This message is brought to you courtesy of Sea Spray radio. Welcome to the Galapagos Islands. Welcome to paradise.

It’s a miracle … take a picture.”

And pictures did we take; by the hundreds. Of land, sky, water, terrestrial critters, sea critters, all day every day. And at night we’d download, view, edit — and delete. (An aside. The most difficult but crucial task in photography is to rid one’s memory card of defective, still-borne lovedones. Call it “survival of the focused.”)

I expected the Galapagos would consist of a few tiny islets separated by narrow ocean channels. But we sailed for eight full days just to visit five of the larger islands; three full days alone were dedicated to exploring the coast of Isabela.

Each evening, we’d anchor in a remote pristine bay. In the morning, we’d tender to shore by zodiac, hop onto land — and immediately be immersed in the ignorant island fauna.

At our feet, creatures squawked, quarrelling over territory and protecting nest sites while their young called incessantly, demanding a salty meal. The Galapagos air harbours a constant ripeness, the overpowering smell of nostril-burning ammonia. Slippery whitewash is everywhere. One must tread cautiously or risk the embarrassment of a guano-clad derriere.

The entire archipelago is a national park and the Ecuadorian people take conservation seriously.

We were not permitted to set foot on land without Harry’s presence. We didn’t venture far inland on our walking tours. No need. Most of Galapagos’ life clings close to the sea.

I am an expert on seasickness — and perhaps the most motion-challenged person to have survived long enough to reproduce. Aboard the catamaran, I rocked for all eight days, despite overdosing on the world’s most advanced medications (including Dicky Jewell’s New Zealand “bomb.”)

My most nauseous moments occurred while sailing between islands. I stood, hour after hour, eyes glued to the floating horizon. It was small consolaTRAVEL WITH tion that Charles Darwin, who turned the scientific tide against creationism, “because we care” also felt ill during his sojourn in the Galapagos.

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CORREGIDOR ISLANDS IN THE PHILIPPINES

A stroll through wartime history

BY YUKO MUKAI SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Corregidor Island lies at the mouth of the bay surrounding the Philippine capital of Manila. Amid the dense forest of tropical trees on the enclave — the scene of a fierce battle between Japan and the United States during the Second World War — are the sites of ruins and discarded cannons. Today, the rich natural environment is under government protection, as the island has been designated a national park.

Japan went to war against the United States on Dec. 8, 1941, and its troops raided the Philippines, a strategic territory. Its military planes bombed the U.S. air base there, destroying most of the bombers while the bulk of Japan’s forces landed on Luzon. The move left Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, faced with a predicament. He evacuated all his troops onto the Bataan Peninsula, west of Manila, and shifted his headquarters to Corregidor Island.

Stationing himself inside a section of the Malinta tunnel, built by the Army Corp of Engineers and used as a bomb shelter and armory, MacArthur braced for a fight to the death. But without reinforcements, food or medical aid, the U.S. forces were quickly losing ground. In his memoir “Reminiscences,” MacArthur recalled that his men’s “clothes hung on them like tattered rags. Their long bedraggled hair framed gaunt bloodless faces . . . they saw my battered . . . cap. They would grin.”

The Imperial Japanese Army urged him to surrender, and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered him to leave. But MacArthur refused to listen, saying he and his men would fight to the end.

On March 11, 1942, MacArthur escaped on a torpedo boat. The 2 ½-month-long battle on the besieged island was reported in all U.S. newspapers, and MacArthur became a hero.

His pledge to come back to the island — “I shall return” — also became famous.

The remaining U.S. troops surrendered in May. Among them was the late Walter Kwiecinski. According to his family, Kwiecinski described MacArthur as a “coward.” Though he did not tell them exactly why, only 17 people

besides MacArthur’s family were able to escape along with the commander.

As the Japanese continued their ferocious assault, those who were left behind on the island must have experienced mixed feelings.

MacArthur relocated to Australia, where he awaited an opportunity to launch a counterattack. On the supplies and leaflets that were secretly transported to the Philippines, he wrote, “I shall return.”

The message was clear: The U.S. forces would return to the Philippines and liberate the people. It served as the perfect propaganda. The U.S. military went on the offensive and MacArthur landed on Leyte Island on Oct. 20, 1944.

Determined to recapture Corregidor Island, MacArthur announced, “I have returned.” On March 2, 1945, after capturing Corregidor Island, he took his subordinates to a square on the island. There he hoisted the U.S. flag and made a speech, declaring, “We must never let our enemies haul down our flag.”

“MacArthur defeated the Japanese troops and returned — just as he’d promised,” explained military historian Jose Antonio A. Custodio. “He was enormously popular among the Filipinos back then, attaining a godlike stature.”

Out of the nearly 6,000 Japanese soldiers who fought against the U.S. troops there, only about 20 survived.

Some hid in caves and were unaware that the war had ended. They were captured after the war, and their photos are displayed at the Pacific War Museum.

Tour guide Edward Fernandez said one such former soldier continued to visit Corregidor until the latter half of the 2000s to console the souls of the war dead, saying, “I wish I could have died here with my brothers in arms.”

After taking control of the Philippines again, MacArthur approached the politicians who had cooperated with Japan with an attitude of forgiveness and asked them to work together with the United States. The rights of large landowners were preserved, and the gap between the rich and poor remained after the country’s independence on July 4, 1946.

Some have pointed out that MacArthur tried to maintain vested interests dating back to the colonial era.

“Though 70 years have already passed since the war’s end, he’s still fa-

Canada makes it into world’s 10 most tourism-friendly countries

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES For the first time, Spain ranks as the world’s most tourism-friendly country in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, according to rankings recently released in a biennial report. Spain’s leading status is “thanks to its cultural resources, infrastructure and adaptation to digital consumption habits,” the report said.

Traditionally strong contenders including France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy were also ranked in the index’s top 10. The report ranks 141 countries across 14 dimensions “revealing how well countries could deliver sustainable economic and societal benefits through their travel and tourism sector.”

Here’s a look at the top 10 countries, according to the report: 1. Spain With approximately 60.6 million annual arrivals from international tourists, Spain tops the list for the first time. The country, rich in cultural resources and entertainment, ranked high in natural and cultural resources.

It also scored high in infrastructure, travel and tourism policy and conditions, and business travel.

2. France France’s natural and cultural resources continue to attract the most tourists of any county with more than 84 million annual arrivals by international tourists. The country also ranks high in infrastructure and overall tourism-enabling environment.

3. Germany Germany ranked high in the categories of infrastructure, natural and cultural resources, business environment, health and hygiene, and international openness. The country ranked very low on price competitiveness.

4. United States With a record 74 million international visitors in 2014, the United States was the highest ranked county in the Americas. The U.S. earned high marks in natural and cultural resources and air transportation infrastructure. It also has a competitive business environment. However, restrictive visa requirements earned low marks for travel facilitation.

5. United Kingdom The United Kingdom did well in the categories of business environment, international openness, infrastructure, human resources/labor market, and information communications technology readiness. It scored second to last, however, on price competitiveness.

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7. Australia Australia’s natural resources and leisure and entertainment attractions helped earn the country a spot on the top 10 list.

8. Italy Italy is the fifth most visited country in the world, according to the report. It also ranks first in World Heritage sites.

The country ranked high in the category of natural and cultural resources.

9. Japan Japan had more than 10 million foreign tourist in 2013, according to the report. The country ranked high in the category of cultural resources and business travel.

10. Canada Canada fared well in the infrastructure category and earned the top mark for air transportation infrastructure.

The country also scored well in the categories of natural resources and cultural resources, and human resources/ labor market.

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ABOVE: The Malinta Tunnel, built by the Army Corp of Engineers and finished in 1932. Gen. MacArthur used a wing of the tunnel as his headquarters during the Second World War. BELOW: Cannons left on Corregidor Island in the Philippines; defence of the Philippines became more important as Japan-U.S. relations worsened in the 1930s, and the United States quickly built up arms by placing cannons on high ground on the island.

Chief of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, and then served as the Commander in Chief of the U.N. Command following the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950.

After a conflict with U.S. President Harry Truman, he was relieved of his duties in 1951.

Mukai is a correspondent in Taipei.

mous in the Philippines for the quote, ‘I shall return,’ “ Custodio added. “But nowadays, more and more people don’t know his achievements, and memories of him are fading.”

After the war, MacArthur was in charge of the occupation of Japan as the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.

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Darius Ramrattan of Innisfail competes at the 2013 Nationals on the Kananaskis River, Alta. Ramrattan finished 71st overall at the 2015 ICF World Championships in Foz Do Iguasso, Brazil last month. This season is setting up to be a big one for the 17-year-old Notre Dame student.

Paddling for the podium DARIUS RAMRATTAN HAS HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS YEAR’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Darius Ramrattan did not get the results he wanted out of his first trip to worlds but he did learn some valuable lessons.

The Innisfail kayker finished 71st overall at the 2015 ICF World Championships in Foz Do Iguasso, Brazil last month.

It was his first taste of international competition but it will not be his last.

“After Brazil, I reset my goal for next year’s worlds in Kraków, Poland,” said Ramrattan. “I want to make semifinals.”

This season is setting up to be a big one for the 17-year-old Notre Dame student.

He made the junior national team

this summer as one of the top three male kayakers under 18 in the country.

However he has yet to medal at nationals at the junior level after dominating the cadet age group (14 and under) for three years.

The junior age group is expansive, covering 15-18 year olds and the difference in those ages are huge. Now that he’s one of the older kayakers in the junior division, he has high expectations for this year’s national championship in Chilliwack, B.C. in July.

“I’m aiming for podium at nationals ... there’s definitely some fast people that didn’t make the junior national team, but I think it’s definitely an achievable goal,” said Ramrattan.

His experience in Brazil will play a big role in his development this year.

In kayaking, competitors travel in a one-man craft through a slalom style

course on a river. They must weave around gates, collecting penalties for every gate they hit.

The 400-metre, 23-gate course on the Itaigo Canal — a 10-hour drive inland from Sao Paulo, Brazil — was not overly difficult, but he got caught up in the atmosphere and being surrounded by some of the best in his sport. His goal was to finish in the top 40 to advance to the semifinals, but he finished well back with a best time of 117.30 seconds, which included 10 seconds in penalties.

“It was definitely an off day, I needed to work a little bit more on the mental aspect and being more prepared for the pressure,” said Ramrattan. “Just sitting the start gate, thinking, ‘Wow, this is worlds, 10 seconds until I go ...’ it’s a crazy surreal experience.”

To help deal with the mental side

of the equation he works with a sports psychiatrist set up through the Alberta Sports Development Centre.

“We were making process, but I was not quite ready for worlds,” said Ramrattan.

“My biggest challenge is executing my race plan. I can make a great plan on how to do it ... but I need to work on how to apply my skills to that and make a plan that I can execute.”

The trip to Brazil also allowed him to get as close to his father’s native home in Guyana as he has ever been.

The three-week trip served as a wider life experience and an opportunity to see a part of the world most of his peers never will and he may never see again.

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Canada needs to stop Jagr’s heroics

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Czech Republic’s Jaromir Jagr, right, celebrates with Michal Jordan, left, during the Hockey World Championships quarterfinal match in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday.

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The passion of the Czech Republic’s hockey-mad fans can be infectious. Even Canada forward Tyler Seguin was caught up in the fervour when Czech legend Jaromir Jagr scored the winning goal to lead the host nation to a 5-3 quarter-final win over Finland at the world hockey championship.

“I was watching the game and the whole place where I was eating dinner was chanting Jagr’s name,” Seguin told reporters after Canada’s practice on Friday.

“I started chanting too and I took a video of it. Jar-o-mir Jagr!”

Seguin won’t be chanting Jagr’s name on Saturday, when Canada meets the Czechs in a semifinal which is sure to draw a vocal partisan crowd to Prague’s O2 Arena.

Already a national hero for his two Stanley Cups, two world championship gold medals and his gold with the Czech Olympic team at the 1998 Nagano Games, the 43-year-old Jagr announced his retirement from international competition after the Czechs finished fourth at the 2014 world championship.

He reversed his decision after a

strong finish to the 2014-15 NHL season, when he had 18 points in 20 games after a trade-deadline move to the Florida Panthers.

Canada defenceman Aaron Ekblad had just turned two years old when Jagr and the Czechs ousted Canada in a shootout in the Nagano semifinals.

Ekblad admitted that he was “a little starstruck at first,” when Jagr arrived in Florida in March, “but seeing how nice of a guy he is, how patient he is and how good of a teacher he is with all the young guys including myself in Florida, he’s definitely an asset for any team.”

“He’s a strong guy,” added Seguin, who played with Jagr on the Boston Bruins during the late stages of the 2012-13 NHL season. “Not only on their power play but a lot of their plays, their system goes through Jagr or (Philadelphia forward Jakub) Voracek. We’ve got to know where they are on the ice and make sure we key on them.”

Canada held Jagr to a single assist during a 6-3 win over the Czechs in the preliminary round.

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St. Louis, Callahan in spotlight for Lightning-Rangers series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENBURGH, N.Y. — There was no bigger deal at the NHL trading deadline in 2014 than Martin St. Louis going from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the New York Rangers for Ryan Callahan and draft picks.

Captain for captain. The face of the Lightning franchise — unhappy as he was at the time — for a homegrown, hard-working blue collar guy the Rangers were not going to be able to re-sign.

For the Rangers, it was the last piece of the puzzle in getting them to the Stanley Cup Finals. St. Louis prob-

ably provided more of an emotional lift than a scoring one with his ability to rally after his mother’s death in the second round.

A year later, St. Louis and Callahan are again focal points, this time as the Rangers and Lightning meet in Game 1 of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden.

Coming in, both carry question marks. Callahan has yet to score a goal in the post-season and had an appendectomy earlier this week. St. Louis not only hasn’t scored in the playoffs, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault benched him in the third period of

Game 7 against Washington on Wednesday.

“Of course coaches make decisions at key times in the game for whatever reason,” St. Louis said Friday after practice . “I’ve never liked being left on the bench at certain times, but that’s just reality. If I liked it, I don’t think I would be here today. Nobody likes that.

“But right now I’m focusing on Game 1 and helping my team win. I’m not too worried about what happened toward the end of that game. I trust AV’s judgment.”

St. Louis has had chances, but has been unable to bury the puck. It’s won’t

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

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get any easier against the Lightning and goaltender Ben Bishop, who has not lost to the Rangers in eight games.

Bishop has a 1.81 goals-against average in 13 playoff games.

That St. Louis is struggling going into a series when people will focus on him adds more pressure.

“Like I said, I’ve got a lot of close friends, but this is playoff hockey,” said St. Louis, who will turn 40 next month. “We’ve got the rest of our lives to be friends. This is right now a team that’s in our way of getting where we want to be.”

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports

Sunday

● Marathon: Woody’s RV World Marathon; 10k starts at 7:45 p.m., half marathon and marathon at 8 a.m., 55th St. and 42 Ave. ● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

Monday

● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended New York Mets minor league RHP Ricky Jacquez (Kingsport-Appalachian) 50 games after a second positive for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Chase Whitley on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jose Ramirez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Acquired SS Ronald Torreyes from Houston Astros for cash considerations or a player to be named. Announced SS Jonathan Diaz cleared outright waivers.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Activated RHP Kenley Jansen from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Daniel Coulombe to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Recalled INF Luis Sardinas from Colorado Springs (PCL).

PITTBURGH PIRATES — Activated LHP Antonio Bastardo from the paternity list. Optioned LHP Bobby LaFromboise to Indianapolis (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP A.J. Cole from Syracuse (IL). Placed RHP Doug Fister on the 15-day DL. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Tyler Herron.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Signed RHP TJ Bozeman and RHP Jason Jarvis.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed RHP John Brebbia.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released C Isaac Wenrich.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Keith Bilodeau.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed 1B Andrew Davis.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association WNBA — Suspended Phoenix C Brittney Griner and Tulsa F Glory Johnson, seven games each, because of their domestic violence arrest on April 22.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Named Joe Douglas director of college scouting, Anthony Kelly director of pro scouting and Christopher Prescott as an area scout.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Danny Shelton and OL Cameron Erving.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived G Daniel Quave. Signed OT Laurence Gibson and G Reshod Fortenberry.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed CB Marcus Peters, WR Chris Conley, CB Steven Nelson and DT Charles Tuaau. Waived TE Brandon Barden and DT Hebron Fangupo.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed OL Jon Feliciano and DE Max Valles to four-year contracts.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WR Sammie Coates.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Waived-injured DE Tory Slater. Signed DT T.Y. McGill.

Canadian Football League TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Announced the resignation of defensive co-ordinator Tim Burke.

Named Casey Creehan defensive co-ordinator.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released WR Tyrone Goard and DE Marvin Booker.

HOCKEY National Hockey League WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned Andre Burakovsky to Hershey (AHL).

COLLEGE NEBRASKA — Named Rashon Burno men’s assistant basketball coach.

Track and Field CALGARY SPRING CHALLENGE AND COMBINED EVENTS MEET Foothills Athletic Park May 9-10 Red Deer Titans Track and Field Club results Midget Female 800m - 10th Bergeron, Beth 2:51.73 Long jump - 9th Bergeron, Beth 4.11m 1200m - 8th Lucas, Chloe 4:23.17 Peewee Female 60m - 9th Frey, Alyssa 9.86sec 600m - 7th Frey, Alyssa 2:11.80 Long jump - 9th Frey, Alyssa 3.21m Discus - 9th Frey, Alyssa 9.39m 60m - 34th van Arragon, Kennedy 11.18sec 600m - 21st van Arragon, Kennedy 2:41.84 Peewee male 60m - 15th Morgan, Brook 10.43 600 - 10th Morgan, Brook 2:19.29 Long jump- 5th Morgan, Brook 3.29m Discus - 9th Morgan, Brook 10.17m Junior male Decathlon 2nd overall - Posyluzny, Brayden 100m - 11.37, long jump 6.59m, 400m - 52.30, 1500m - 5:08.06, 110m hurdles - 16.40, high jump - 1.79m, pole vault - 2.8m, shot put - 11.85m, discus - 32.48m, Javelin 42.29m, total - 5,925 points 200m - 17th Boomer, Nick 24.06 100m - 15th Boomer, Nick 11.70 Senior Women 400m - 7th Oscar, Jessica 1:07.28 800m - 7th Oscar, Jessica 2:30.83 1500m - 5th Lucas, Emily 4:54.17

Soccer FRIDAY’S GAMES Chicago 2 New York City 2 New York 0 Dallas 0 TODAY’S GAMES Salt Lake at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Toronto at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Columbus at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015

Hockey Brandon (E1) vs. Kelowna (BC1) (Kelowna wins series 4-0) Friday, May 8 Kelowna 4 Brandon 3 Saturday, May 9 Kelowna 5 Brandon 3 Monday, May 11 Kelowna 5 Brandon 3 Wednesday, May 13 Kelowna 3 Brandon 0 x — if necessary.

Scoring Leaders G 10 10 5 13 13 10 13 10 10 10 8 7 7 5 4 9 8 5 3

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

A 18 18 22 13 12 14 7 10 9 9 11 12 12 13 14 6 7 10 12

Pts 28 28 27 26 25 24 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 18 18 15 15 15 15

EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) Saturday, May 16 Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 11 a.m.

Monday, May 18 Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 20 NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 22 NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 24 x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 26 x-NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 29 x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games Semifinals At Prague Canada vs. Czech Republic, 7:15 a.m.

Russia vs. U.S., 11:15 a.m.

——— Sunday’s games At Prague Bronze Medal Game Semifinal Losers, 8:15 a.m.

Gold Medal Game Semifinal Winners, 12:45 p.m.

Scoring Leaders Spezza, Cda Ekman-Larsson, Swe Hall, Cda Eberle, Cda Dadonov, Rus Duchene, Cda Jokinen, Fin Burns, Cda Kalyuzhny, Blr Panarin, Rus Eriksson, Swe Darzins, Lat Voracek, Cze O’Reilly, Cda

G 5 2 6 5 4 4 3 2 5 5 4 3 3 2

A 8 10 5 6 7 7 8 9 5 5 6 7 7 8

Pts 13 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs THIRD ROUND

2015 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic PLAYOFFS

Tyler Johnson, TB Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Nikita Kucherov, TB Jonathan Toews, Chi Jakob Silfverberg, Anh Zach Parise, Min Steven Stamkos, TB Duncan Keith, Chi 6 tied with 9 pts.

Conference finals

Thursday’s results Quarter-finals At Prague Canada 9 Belarus 0 Czech Replubic 5 Finland 3 At Ostrava Russia 5 Sweden 3 U.S. 3 Switzerland 1

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

Today

● Karate: Western Canada Championships at Hunting Hills, 10 a.m. start. ● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

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2015 RBC Cup Standings Canadian Jr. A Hockey Championship ROUND ROBIN GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt x-Penticton (BCHL) 4 3 0 0 1 15 8 9 x-Portage (MJHL) 4 3 0 0 1 13 9 9 x-Carleton (CCHL) 4 2 0 1 1 13 8 7 x-Melfort (SJHL) 4 1 1 0 2 11 13 5 Soo (NOJHL) 4 0 0 0 4 7 21 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim (1) vs. Chicago (3) Sunday, May 17 Chicago at Anaheim, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, May 19 Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 21 Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 23 Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 25 x-Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 27 x-Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 30 x-Chicago at Anaheim, 6 p.m. x — if necessary.

Thursday’s results Penticton 5 Soo 2 Portage 3 Melfort 2 Wednesday’s result Melfort 4 Carleton Place 3 (OT) End of round robin

Scoring Leaders PLAYOFFS / Through May 13 GP Corey Perry, Anh 9 Patrick Kane, Chi 10

G 7 7

A 8 6

PTS 15 13

PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Semifinals First place vs. Fourth place, 1 or 6 p.m.

Second place vs. Third place, 1 or 6 p.m.

Sunday’s game Championship Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

Baseball RED DEER SENIOR MEN’S BASEBALL LEAGUE

N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Toronto at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Boston at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Detroit at St. Louis, 6:05 p.m.

Results Thursday Northstar Baseball 6 Play it Again Sports Athletics 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W 21 20 17 17 15

Pct .568 .541 .486 .459 .455

GB — 1 3 4 4

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

Central Division W L Pct 23 13 .639 22 14 .611 20 16 .556 14 17 .452 13 21 .382

GB — 1 3 6.5 9

St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee

GB — 4.5 7 8 10

Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Arizona Colorado

New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

L 16 17 18 20 18

West Division W L 23 13 18 17 15 19 15 21 13 23

Houston Los Angeles Seattle Texas Oakland

Pct .639 .514 .441 .417 .361

Friday’s Games L.A. Angels 3, Baltimore 1 Cleveland 8, Texas 3 Kansas City 12, N.Y. Yankees 1 Minnesota 3, Tampa Bay 2 Houston 8, Toronto 4 Detroit 10, St. Louis 4 Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Boston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Tampa Bay (Colome 2-1) at Minnesota (May 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

Detroit (Price 3-1) at St. Louis (Lyons 0-0), 2:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-3) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-5) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Estrada 1-2) at Houston (Feldman 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 4-1) at Texas (Lewis 3-2), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 1-3) at Oakland (Chavez 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 3-2) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 6-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

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

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

Detroit at St. Louis, 6:05 p.m.

Detroit St. Louis

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 20 16 .556 19 17 .528 16 19 .457 16 20 .444 14 23 .378

GB — 1 3.5 4 6.5

L.A.A. 110 Baltimore 000

Central Division W L Pct 24 11 .686 20 15 .571 18 18 .500 17 19 .472 13 23 .361

GB — 4 6.5 7.5 11.5

Cleveland 200 Texas 300

West Division W L Pct GB 22 12 .647 — 19 17 .528 4 18 18 .500 5 15 19 .441 7 12 19 .387 8.5 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 11, Pittsburgh 10, 12 innings Philadelphia 4, Arizona 3 Atlanta 5, Miami 3 Milwaukee 7, N.Y. Mets 0 San Francisco 10, Cincinnati 2 Detroit 10, St. Louis 4 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Atlanta (A.Wood 1-2) at Miami (Latos 1-3), 11:05 a.m.

Detroit (Price 3-1) at St. Louis (Lyons 0-0), 12:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (G.Cole 5-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 3-2), 2:05 p.m.

Arizona (Bradley 2-0) at Philadelphia (Williams 2-3), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 2-4) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-2) at Cincinnati (Leake 2-1), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 3-3) at San Diego (Cashner 1-6), 6:40 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 0-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

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Greene, B.Hardy (6), Nesbitt (7), Gorzelanny (8), Chamberlain (8), Alburquerque (9) and J.McCann; C.Martinez, Belisle (6), M.Harris (7), Socolovich (8), Maness (9) and Molina. W—Greene 4-2. L—C.Martinez 3-2. HRs—Detroit, Cespedes (5), Mi.Cabrera (9), J.Martinez (8). St. Louis, Jh.Peralta (5), Heyward (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Weaver, J.Smith (8), Street (9) and C.Perez; W.Chen, Tom.Hunter (8) and Joseph. W—Weaver 2-4. L—W.Chen 1-2. Sv—Street (12). HRs—Los Angeles, Pujols (6). Baltimore, J.Hardy (2).

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HRs—Cleveland, Hayes (3). Texas, Fielder (5), Beltre (5).

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Pineda, D.Carpenter (6), J.Wilson (6), Jo.Ramirez (6), Pinder (7) and B.McCann, J.Murphy; C.Young, F.Morales (6), Brooks (9) and S.Perez, Butera.

W—C.Young 3-0. L—Pineda 5-1.

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Dickey, Tepera (6), Hendriks (8) and Ru.Martin; Keuchel, W.Harris (7), Qualls (8), Fields (9) and J.Castro. W—Keuchel 5-0. L—Dickey 1-5. HRs— Houston, Springer (6), Altuve (5), Valbuena (9).

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Odorizzi, Jepsen (7), B.Gomes (8) and Rivera, B.Wilson; P.Hughes, Boyer (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki. W—P.Hughes 3-4. L—Odorizzi 3-3. Sv— Perkins (12). HRs—Tampa Bay, DeJesus (3). Minnesota, Dozier (5).

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Buchholz, Layne (9), Tazawa (9) and S.Leon; Happ, Wilhelmsen (8) and Zunino. W—Wilhelmsen 1-0.

L—Layne 0-1. HRs—Seattle, S.Smith (3).

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(12 innings) Locke, Bastardo (4), Scahill (5), Caminero (5), J.Hughes (6), Watson (8), Melancon (10), Liz (12) and Cervelli; Hendricks, Grimm (6), Rosscup (6), Motte (8), Strop (8), H.Rondon (9), J.Russell (10), E.Jackson (12) and Castillo, M.Montero. W—E.Jackson 2-1. L—Liz 1-3. HRs—Pittsburgh, P.Alvarez (6), J.Harrison (4), McCutchen (4). Chicago, Bryant (4), Rizzo (8).

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C.Anderson, Chafin (6), D.Hudson (7), O.Perez (7), Burgos (7) and Gosewisch; Billingsley, De Fratus (7), Araujo (7), L.Garcia (8) and Ruiz. W—Araujo 1-0. L—O.Perez 1-1. Sv—L.Garcia (1).

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Lohse, Blazek (9) and Maldonado; B.Colon, A.Torres (6), C.Torres (8), Gilmartin (9) and Monell.

W—Lohse 3-4. L—B.Colon 6-2. HRs—Milwaukee, Braun 2 (8), G.Parra (2).

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Bumgarner, Y.Petit (8) and Posey, H.Sanchez; Marquis, Badenhop (4), Lorenzen (6), Mattheus (8), Hoover (9) and B.Pena, Barnhart. W—Bumgarner 4-2. L—Marquis 3-3. HRs—San Francisco, Belt (1), Posey (6). Cincinnati, Cozart (6), B.Hamilton (3).

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Teheran, Avilan (6), Cunniff (6), Co.Martin (7), Ji.Johnson (8), Grilli (9) and Bethancourt; Phelps, S.Dyson (7), Dunn (8), Morris (8), Hand (9) and Realmuto. W—Co.Martin 2-2. L—Dunn 0-2. Sv— Grilli (10). HRs—Miami, Stanton 2 (10).

INTERLEAGUE

Basketball NBA Playoff CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Chicago 2 Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 Wednesday, May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 Friday, May 8: Chicago 99, Cleveland 96 Sunday, May 10: Cleveland 86, Chicago 84 Tuesday, May 12: Cleveland 106, Chicago 101

Thursday, May 14: Cleveland 94, Chicago 73 Atlanta 4, Washington 2 Sunday, May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98 Tuesday, May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90 Saturday, May 9: Washington 103, Atlanta 101 Monday, May 11: Atlanta 106, Washington 101 Wednesday, May 13: Atlanta 82, Washington 81 Friday, May 15: Atlanta 94, Washington 91 WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 3, Houston 3 Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101

Wednesday, May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 Friday, May 8: L.A. Clippers 124, Houston 99 Sunday, May 10: L.A. Clippers 128, Houston 95 Tuesday, May 12: Houston 124, L.A. Clippers 103 Thursday, May 14: Houston 119, L.A. Clippers 107 Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

Golden State 4, Memphis 2

Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Tuesday, May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90 Saturday, May 9: Memphis 99, Golden State 89 Monday, May 11: Golden State 101, Memphis 84 Wednesday, May 13: Golden State 98, Memphis 78 Friday, May 15: Golden State 108, Memphis 95

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JAGR: Noise will be dialed up “That was a pretty tough game,” Ekblad said. “I’m expecting something similar to that.

“I’m not talking the outcome — I’m talking how hard they work. They’re a great team and they had a lot of opportunities to score against us so we’re going to try to limit that.”

Though Canada leads the tournament with an average of 7.25 goals scored per game, head coach Todd McLellan says his group continues to emphasize defence.

“We’ve been fortunate that way, that when we get ourselves in trouble we can score our way out of it,” said McLellan. “But I think as the competition narrows starting tomorrow, that’s going to be a lot harder to do.

“We can’t just think we’re going to score our way to wins. We’ve got to check our way to wins.”

And of course the crowd noise at the O2 Arena will be dialled up for the semifinal. Edmonton Oilers forward Jordan Eberle said he is looking forward to the game experience.

“When the crowd’s going and they’re whistling and they’re jumping and all that — we enjoy playing in front of it too,” Eberle said. “Even walking around the square — people love hockey. They’re passionate about it, much like Canada. When you get a matchup like this, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

The Czechs may have the crowd support, but Canada remains the team to beat with a perfect record through the first eight games of the tournament.

When asked if that creates added pressure on his team, McLellan said: “When you are from Canada and you put the jersey on, it comes with the territory.

“Yeah, there’s pressure. But there’s

a lot of those players that have played either in this type of event, Olympics, Stanley Cup finals - you name it, they’ve been involved with it. The pressure exists the minute you accept the responsibility of putting the jersey on. It’s nothing that anybody hasn’t dealt with.”

NHL: Vigneault coy on lineup Vigneault rarely talks about his lineups, and he refused to discuss his plans for St. Louis, who skated on the top line with Rick Nash and Derick Brassard in the last series.

“He is working real hard,” Vigneault said. “That line has had some good looks. Defensively, they have been very responsible. Obviously, when you are talking about Marty St. Louis, Rick Nash and Derick Brassard, you are thinking of three strong offensive players. Can we get a little more out of them? I think we need a little more out of our whole group.

“It’s a race to four and we need everybody stepping up their game. Marty is no different.”

Callahan practiced without limitations Friday; his status is listed as day to day.

“I was told the recovery period is pretty quick, so ... each day seems to be getting better and better,” Callahan said. “I’m going in the right direction.”

Lightning coach Jon Cooper said whether Callahan plays may depend on his tolerance for pain.

“Those things are painful (according to) anyone who’s ever had one,” Cooper said. “But he’s a pretty tough kid. So I would suspect he would come back.”

Some things to watch in this series: MAC and G: The Rangers shut down Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in the first round, and limited Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom in the second. The job of stopping the top lines has fallen

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Hunting Hills High School Lightning Keeley Deering brings down Notre Dame Cougar Marquise Plouffe during high school rugby action on Friday. Notre Dame won the game 34-0

Lightning fall silent to Cougar’s roar

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Cougars 34 Lightning 0 The Notre Dame Cougars blanked their Red Deer rivals the Hunting Hills Lightning 34-0 in Central Alberta High School girls rugby on Friday at the Collicutt West Field.

Kate Jensen led the Cougars with two tries while CJ Stephens had a single try and was 1-for-1 on penalty kicks to defencemen Dan Girardi and Ryan McDonagh.

Will they will go against the kid line of Tyler Johnson centring Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov, or face up against Steven Stamkos, Alex Killorn and Callahan, if he’s in the lineup?

Johnson (8), Kucherov (5) and Palat (3) have combined for 16 goals in the postseason.

DIFFERENT TEAM: The Lightning are in the conference finals for the first time since 2011. Just two players, Stamkos and defenceman Victor Hedman, remain on the roster from then.

Tampa Bay also made it in 2004 en route to winning the franchise’s only Stanley Cup championship.

GOALTENDERS: Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers has a 1.60 goals-against average and a .944 save percentage in 12 playoff games. Bishop has a 1.81 GAA and .937 save percentage in 13 playoffs games. Don’t expect many goals.

REGULAR SEASON: The Lightning won all three regular-season games against the Rangers by a combined 15-7 margin. Here’s the catch: The last game was played on Dec. 1. The Rangers got in gear a week later, winning 13 of 14, and posted the best record in the league.

“I think we played them three times in 15 days,” Cooper said. “And we were kind of rolling at the time. Those are three more wins that got us to the playoffs. It’s much like the five wins against Montreal. We needed those wins to get into the playoffs. When you get to the playoffs, it’s a whole different beast.”

and 3-for-5 on conversions. Alyssa Reid and Kendra Tieken Maerz both added one try each.

“We started a lot of our brand new girls in the first half, so it was great just to see them get some experience and to get some confidence playing,” said Cougars head coach Ian Rattan.

Up next for Notre Dame is a road game in Olds on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. while the Lightning host Wetaskiwin at Titans Park at 5 p.m.

RAMRATTAN: Training hard “The coach for the first week was really relaxed and let us go sight-seeing,” said Ramrattan, who was born in Peace River and has lived in Innisfail since he was in Grade 3. “He was big into us experiencing the Brazilian culture ... he wanted us to soak up as much as we could.”

He trains hard for the sport, out at a friend’s pond a couple of times during the week and then makes trips to a training centre in Kananaskis where he works with his coaches Mike Holroyd and Paul Manning-Hunter. This summer he plans to spend most of his time off from school in Kananaskis while preparing for the junior nationals in Chilliwack in July.

When he’s not in the water the sixfoot-three, 185-pounder can be found playing soccer or competing in track and field.

He is also focused on a career outside of kayaking, hoping to get into medicine at some level. The lessons he is learning on a river will help him in that pursuit.

“It’s really good to be able to apply the dedication and discipline from my training sessions to school and studying,” said Ramrattan. “I’m hoping that will be a clean transition, replacing school with sport.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady’s lawyers demanded that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recuse himself from the Super Bowl MVP’s “Deflategate” appeal and threatened to go to court unless the four-game suspension is overturned.

Laying out the grounds for dismissing the penalty and setting the stage for a potential federal court battle, the NFL Players Association said in a letter released Friday that Goodell can’t hear the appeal because he will be called as a witness.

“The NFLPA believes that neither Commissioner Goodell nor anyone with close ties to the NFL can serve as arbitrator in Mr. Brady’s appeal,” the letter said.

“If the Commissioner does not appoint such a neutral arbitrator, the NFLPA and Mr. Brady will seek recusal and pursue all available relief to obtain an arbitrator who is not evidently partial.”

Brady was suspended for four games and the New England Patriots were fined $1 million and docked a pair of draft picks after league investigator Ted Wells found that the Super Bowl champions used illegally inflated footballs in the AFC title game.

The team has denied doing anything wrong and published a 20,000-word rebuttal online. Neither the Patriots nor Donald Yee, the agent for their threetime Super Bowl MVP quarterback, responded to requests for comment on Friday.

In their letter, Brady’s lawyers give three arguments for dropping the suspension: — The evidence collected in the Wells report doesn’t prove Brady violated any NFL rules.

— The punishment is more harsh than for previous, similar violations.

“Indeed,” the union wrote, “no player in the history of the NFL has ever received anything approaching this level of discipline for similar behav-

iour — a change in sanctions squarely forbidden by the CBA and the law of the shop.”

— Under the league’s collective bargaining agreement, only Goodell can punish a player for conduct detrimental to the league. The “Deflategate” penalties were meted out by NFL executive vice-president Troy Vincent.

“You have no authority to impose discipline on Mr. Brady under the CBA, and such discipline must therefore be set aside,” the letter said, then adding in a footnote a reference to the Adrian Peterson case: “We also note that one arbitrator has previously found that you, in particular, are unfamiliar with proper NFL discipline procedures and have no role in imposing discipline.”

Brady appealed the suspension Thursday. Late Thursday night, Goodell announced he would hear the appeal personally. Although the collective bargaining agreement gives him the right to do that, the appeal letter claimed Goodell cannot remain impartial because he will called as a witness.

Writing to Vincent, the union said it intends “to call both you and Commissioner Goodell as essential witnesses in the proceeding.”

And it told Vincent “your personal involvement in the game-day events surrounding this matter render you inherently biased in any disciplinary determination.”

The team has not said if it will appeal its penalties, which include losing a first-round draft pick next year and a fourth-rounder in 2017. The deadline to appeal is May 21.

Wells concluded that Brady was “at least generally aware” of plans by two team employees to prepare balls to his liking, below the league-mandated minimum. The NFL requires a range of 12.5-13.5 pounds per square inch; Brady has expressed a preference for footballs with less pressure, which can be easier to grip and catch and some quarterbacks prefer those with less air.

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Ottawa Senators team President Cyril Leeder leaves a news conference in Ottawa, Thursday, May 14, 2015.

Senators owner Eugene Melnyk urgently needs a liver transplant and the NHL club has put out a call for a potential “live donor.”

Donors lining up for Melnyk SENATORS OWNER IN DESPERATE NEED OF A LIVER TRANSPLANT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - More than 400 people had offered to give part of their liver to Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk by late Friday, a day after his family and the NHL team made an urgent public appeal for living donors.

Melnyk, 55, who has been battling health issues for months, was admitted to hospital three weeks ago due to the onset of liver-related complications. His condition is considered critical.

Dr. Gary Levy, director of the living donor liver transplant program at Toronto’s University Health Network, said Friday the response has been so overwhelming the transplant team hopes to have a donor match for Melnyk within 72 to 96 hours.

Melnyk had been reluctant to make a public appeal, but loved ones convinced him to reach out for a potential donor after members of his family were found not to be suitable. A living donor transplant is Melnyk’s best option because he has rare AB blood; a live donor doesn’t need to have a matching blood type, whereas an organ from a deceased donor must be a perfect match.

The UHN transplant team will be reviewing and screening applications throughout the weekend.

“We’re now working our way through over 400 applications,” said Levy. “There are a lot of very generous people out there ... They don’t want to see people suffer. They’re just a very, very brave, kind group of people.”

Brave may be the operative word.

Potential donors, who go through a lengthy bat-

tery of physical and psychological testing, are told they could face a major surgery that removes 70 to 75 per cent of their liver for transplant. Their own liver will regenerate in eight to 10 weeks.

But the operation will leave a scar that either runs from the “breast bone to the belly button” or a hockey-stick shaped scar that runs under the ribs, said Levy, adding that the donor would be off work for six to eight weeks recovering.

Then there are the risks.

The chance of dying is one in 250 to one in 300, though UHN has had no donor deaths after performing more than 700 live liver transplants, 74 of those in the last year.

Would-be donors, who must be aged 18 to 55 and in good physical health, are warned they could develop infection, bleeding, pneumonia or blood clots as a result of the surgery, said Levy.

“And obviously there’s the psychological trauma.

They’re going through a life-threatening event. So we put them through a very careful psychological evaluation,” he said.

“If the recipient were to die, that could have a lot of trauma on the donor. That’s something we always talk to them about in detail.”

In the face of those risks, let alone going through a painful, debilitating surgery, why would someone volunteer to help a stranger, albeit one with a high public profile?

Levy said there are a number of reasons, beyond a generosity of spirit. “Sometimes it’s because of something that’s happened in their past - a parent may have died, a child may have died, and they feel an obligation to help.”

BROSSARD, Que. — Montreal Canadiens fans who dream of Mike Babcock as the next coach had better think again: Michel Therrien isn’t going anywhere.

General manager Marc Bergevin launched an emphatic defence of his third-year head coach at a news conference on Friday to wrap up the Canadiens season.

The Canadiens finished second overall in the NHL with 110 points this season, but some feel the numbers were misleading and that Therrien leaned on star goalie Carey Price to bail out a squad that struggled to score goals and was brutal on the power play.

Bergevin responded with numbers: The Canadiens played five rounds of playoffs in the last two seasons, behind only Chicago and the New York Rangers, and Therrien’s squad was among the leaders with 29 playoff games played and 16 wins over that span.

“Michel Therrien has done exceptional work,” said Bergevin. “Just the idea that Michel Therrien isn’t an established coach, a winner, a quality coach, is disappointing to hear.

“It doesn’t make me angry, it makes me disappointed that anyone could think that. I have no reason to make a change.”

Bergevin said he expects Therrien’s full staff, including Jean-Jacques Daigneault, Clement Jodoin, Dan Lacroix and goalie coach Stephane Waite to be back, despite its failure to fix a power play than ranked 23rd in the regular season and scored only twice on 36 chances in the playoffs.

The GM addressed a broad range of topics including the captaincy, whether 20-year-old Alex Galchenyuk should move from left wing to centre and whether the team will try to keep impending freeagent defenceman Jeff Petry.

When Brian Gionta was let go at the end of the 2013-14 campaign, the Canadiens did not name a new captain, instead naming Andrei Markov, Tomas Plekanec, P.K. Subban and Max Pacioretty as alternates.

Bergevin said he would meet with management staff to decide whether to name one for next season.

“Based on last season, I think it worked well, but we’ll sit down and decide what direction we’ll take next year,” he said.

He also acknowledged that gritty winger Brendan Gallagher will likely, at some unspecified point in the future, be considered for a letter on his jersey.

There were many questions on the need to add size to the centre position, where the top two, David Desharnais and Plekanec, are smaller than average.

Bergevin responded with his joke of the day, that he made a deal for a big centre on his PlayStation but when he called that team’s general manager the next day, he got hung up on. His point was that a team that has a big, talented centre isn’t likely to trade him.

The only realistic hope is to draft and develop one. Montreal thought it had that when it took Galchenyuk third overall in 2012, but he has played almost exclusively on left wing in three NHL seasons.

Hockey in the U.S. south gets more than a cold shoulder GROWTH OF SPORT HAS BEEN BUILDING FOR SOME TIME

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKLIN, Tenn. — About the time a new champion hoists the Stanley Cup, players from Canada, Latvia and Hungary will gather in Tennessee for four days to showcase their hockey talent for college coaches and junior league teams.

Yes, Tennessee — one of the many places in the South where the sport is alive and doing well.

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s matchup against the New York Rangers in the NHL’s Eastern Conference finals is another reminder that hockey is doing more than just surviving below the Mason-Dixon line.

“It’s just a great shot in the arm to an area that’s already doing really well,” said Brandon Walker, hockey operations manager for the Nashville Predators.

The region often labours in the shadows of the Bostons, Chicagos and, of course, Canada.

But its success has been building for some time.

The Washington Capitals celebrated their 40th season in the nation’s capital this year, although it all came to a disappointing end after a Game 7 loss to the Rangers in the semifinals.

But the Capitals and Lightning, along with the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes all have played in the Stanley Cup Finals — with Tampa Bay winning in 2004 and Carolina in 2006. The Nashville Predators have played in two conference semifinals, and even the newest of the Southern franchises are nearing their 20th anniversaries, milestones already marked by Florida and Tampa Bay. Nashville will host the NHL All-Star Game in January.

One of the lone blemishes on the resumes of the southern franchises was the demise of the Atlanta Thrashers, who packed their bags and headed North to Winnipeg in 2011.

That setback is overshadowed by the overall success of franchises in the South.

Walker also is program director for the Elite Edge Hockey Showcase, an indication of the sport’s growth in the region.

The program started with 60 players drawn from Nashville and Atlanta 10 years ago. It now includes players from 29 states seeking the chance to play in front of coaches from Division I colleges like Yale and Colgate to Division III schools and teams from the North American Hockey League, a junior league.

Walker no longer has to beg coaches to take his call.

Now they call Walker.

“They’re not coming just to listen to country music for a couple days,” Walker said. “They’re coming because these kids are good, and there’s someone here for them to see. There’s a lot of places that Division I hockey coaches can come and watch players throughout the course of the summer. They’re going to come here because the players are good, and they choose to come here because they’re having success recruiting here.”

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said late last month that the value of NHL franchises is going up with new TV contracts. USA Hockey’s registration totals and the number of Division I college programs have never been higher.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t problems, most notably attendance.

The Capitals, Lightning and Predators do well in that area.

Washington set the standard both for longevity and success as the oldest team in the region. Game 6 of the Capitals series against the Rangers was their 269th consecutive home sellout with 18,506 fans.

The Lightning, in their third conference final, also has had solid support for years.

Tampa Bay averaged 18,823 per game this season to rank ninth in attendance and sold out its first seven playoff games. The Predators filled their building to 98.5 per cent of capacity this season with a franchise-record 30 sellouts and have reached the playoffs eight of the past 11 seasons.

On the other side of the ledger are Carolina and Florida, which had the NHL’s worst attendance this season.

The Hurricanes have the longest active playoff drought in the East at six straight seasons and have earned only one post-season berth since winning the Stanley Cup. But the Hurricanes are the one team fans split among the state’s Atlantic Coast Conference schools can agree on, and the organization is rebuilding after bringing in Ron Francis as general manager and Bill Peters as coach last year.

The Panthers averaged a league-worst 11,271, with too many photos of empty seats.

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McIlory, Mickelson lurking behind leaders WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Webb Simpson has plenty of hometown knowledge when it comes to playing Quail Hollow Club.

He might need every bit of it if he hopes to hold off Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson this weekend.

Simpson chipped in twice for birdie and shot a 5-under 67 for a share of the second-round lead with Robert Streb in the Wells Fargo Championship. Streb had a 69 to match Simpson at 10-under 134.

“Playing here quite often, I know where the best places are to miss (the green),” said Simpson, who lives in Charlotte and has played the course countless times.

Simpson knows it will take a lot more big shots over the weekend to win with some of golf’s top names lurking behind him.

McIlroy and Mickelson were three shots back. Mickelson had a 66, and McIlroy matched Simpson’s 67.

Martin Flores and Patrick Rodgers were tied for third at 8 under.

“I know I have to make birdies,”

Simpson said.

Mickelson made seven Friday.

One day after joking that he “turned a 66 into a 71” in the opening round with some missed opportunities, Mickelson got his 66.

“Right now nobody is turning 66s into 71s better than me,” Mickelson joked, so it’s nice to finally shoot that 66 and get the score that reflects the way I feel I’m playing.“ Mickelson thought he didn’t play all that bad last week, but still missed the cut at The Players Championship. He appears to be back in a big way.

McIlroy was on his game, too.

The world’s top-ranked player said his focus Friday was on eliminating mistakes after an up-and-down 70 the day before. He did just that, posting five birdies and no bogeys. He was never in any real danger of making bogey in what he called a “stress-free round.”

“Anytime you can play a round of golf with no bogeys you’re doing something right,” said McIlroy, who won the 2010 event for his first PGA Tour victory.

McIlroy rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the first hole to gain some early

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Phil Mickelson hits from a sand trap to the fifth green during the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Friday. momentum. He went on to hit 14 of 18 greens in regulation with 29 putts.

With four top-10 finishes in six events this year, McIlroy’s confidence keeps growing. He said his biggest strength now is his patience, understanding that he doesn’t have to go for every birdie opportunity.

Astros bats assault Jays pitching

Lineman apologizes for Holocaust denial tweets

DICKEY GIVES UP TWO HOME RUNS IN FIFTH LOSS OF SEASON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Houston Astros starter Dallas Keuchel thinks his luck might be running out.

It didn’t affect his winning ways on Friday night.

Keuchel remained unbeaten as the Houston Astros backed him with plenty of home run support in an 8-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

“I can’t keep having self-inflicted wounds,” Keuchel said. “I can’t keep putting myself in those situations and keep expecting to get out of them.

That’s not the way this game is meant to go. I think the law of averages is catching up to me, and I’ve got to do a better job of keeping my foot on the gas.”

Keuchel (5-0), April’s AL Pitcher of the Month, allowed four or more runs in consecutive starts for the first time since last July.

“His first six starts, he dominated,” Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. “It’s hard to keep that pace up.

I think it speaks more about the domination that he had at the beginning of the season and less about the struggles or anything like that.”

Keuchel also received plenty of run support.

Jose Altuve hit a three-run homer and George Springer and Luis Valbuena also connected as the Astros won their third in a row.

Keuchel won his seventh straight decision overall.

He gave up eight hits and struck out five in six innings.

Altuve and Springer homered off R.A. Dickey (1-5) as Houston built a 7-1 lead after four innings. After recently losing six of eight, the Astros have gotten back to the outpouring of offence that put them into

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Braves, Red trade road wins The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Bantam AAA Braves split their home-and-home series with Okotoks Red this week.

On Tuesday they thumped Red 15-4 in Okotoks, scoring early and often, posting multiple run inning in all but the third.

Starting pitcher Hayley Lalor went three innings, giving up all four runs with two strikeouts for the win, and Riley Seward closed out the game with three scoreless innings.

Ben Leblanc finished a home run shy of hitting for the cycle while Zach Baker was 3-for-3 with two doubles and Hunter Leslie was 2-for-3 with a double.

Okotoks got their revenge on Wednesday with a 9-8 win at Great Chief Park.

Okotoks put a five-spot up on the board in the first inning, but the Braves chipped away until finally tying the game at 8-8 in the fifth inning. However Okotoks took advantage of an error in the sixth inning to manufacture the winning run.

Cooper Jones was 2-for-2 at the plate for Red Deer while Leblanc and Seward both doubled.

Relief pitcher Branden Woods took the loss.

the AL West lead.

Houston’s eight runs marked its highest output since May 2 in an 11-4 win over Seattle.

The Astros scored three times in the second on a sacrifice fly by Chris Carter and RBI singles from Marwin Gonzalez and Jake Marisnick.

Altuve launched a home run 422 feet to deep leftcentre field in the fourth.

“Every time the team hits two or three homers, with the pitching staff we have, we’re going to have a good chance to win the game,” Altuve said.

Altuve hit his fifth homer nearly three months earlier than his fifth homer came in 2014 where he totalled seven.

“He’s certainly hunting for the opportunities to do damage,” Hinch said. “There’s a powerful swing in there. He’s going to some big parts of the ballpark.

That’s big-man territory when he hits the ball on the barrel.”

The Blue Jays closed to 7-4 in the sixth. Danny Valencia hit a two-run double and Chris Colabello followed with an RBI single.

Valbuena hit his ninth homer of the season, tagging Ryan Tepera in the seventh.

One start removed from a masterful eight-inning, one-run outing against the Yankees on May 4, Dickey gave up seven runs and 10 hits in five innings.

Toronto has now lost three straight and five of six.

“They’ve got a good club,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “They outplayed us again tonight.

That’s all it was.”

Josh Donaldson extended his streak of reaching base safely against the Astros to 33 straight games, the longest streak against one team in the majors.

Lee takes lead WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Alison Lee shot a 4-under 67 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the LPGA Tour’s Kingsmill Championship.

The 20-year-old Lee, still a student at UCLA after turning pro in December, had a 9-under 133 total on Kingsmill Resort’s River Course. She tied for fourth in the Kia Classic in March in California and has three top-25 finishes in her rookie season.

Australia’s Minjee Lee and France’s Perrine Delacour were tied for second. The 18-year-old Minjee Lee had a 67, and Delacour shot 68. Minjee Lee turned pro in September.

So Yeon Ryu was 6 under after a 69, and Suzann Pettersen, Christina Kim, Jing Yan and Catriona Matthew were another stroke back. Pettersen shot a 65 for the best round of the day, Kim had a 68, and Yan and Matthew shot 67.

Sutherland, Maggert share lead BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Kevin Sutherland and Jeff Maggert both eagled the par-5 11th hole Friday and shared the second-round lead in the Regions Tradition at 10 under.

Sutherland shot a 6-under 66 at Shoal Creek to catch up to Maggert, the opening-round leader in the first of the Champions Tour’s five majors. Maggert birdied the final two holes for his second straight 67.

Michael Allen was three strokes back after a 67, and defending champion Kenny Perry had a 69 to

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal Alouettes defensive lineman Khalif Mitchell apologized Friday for inappropriate posts on Twitter, including a link to a Holocaust denial video.

The apology was made in a joint statement by the CFL Players’ Association and B’nai Brith Canada.

“I wholeheartedly apologize to all those who I know I let down by posting those videos, especially those who look up to me as a professional athlete,” Mitchell said. “I fell into a trap by watching that video and I hope others can learn from my very public mistake.

“This is a learning moment for me.”

Mitchell agreed to work with B’nai Brith, a Jewish human rights organization, to “educate myself about this and other human rights matters.”

The Virginia Beach, Va., native had talks with B’nai Brith chief executive officer Michael Mostyn as well as with the CFL, the CFLPA and the Alouettes after news broke Thursday of a series of posts on Twitter dealing with Israel, including one with a link to a video called “The Greatest Lie Ever Told, the Holocaust.”

“I have come to see that he is a very genuine individual who truly did not comprehend the deceptive nature of this vile video,” said Mostyn.

CFLPA president Scott Flory added: “We hope that people will accept his apology and we support him on his journey to become a positive force.”

Mitchell was fined an undisclosed amount.

join Bernhard Langer and Fred Funk at 5 under.

Langer shot 66, and Funk 69.

Sutherland is seeking his first Champions Tour

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Raiders win on home turf Osvaldo Aguilar, Ayub Hamud and Miguel de La Madrid Viveros scored as the Lindsay Thurber Raiders defeated Innisfail 3-1 on Thursday night in Central Alberta High School soccer action at Lindsay Thurber.

Simon Bigger replied for Innisfail.

Up next for the Raiders is a road game in Olds on Friday at 4:15 p.m.

“Just knowing from experience what a good score is and (that) sometimes, if it’s just not happening, you’re not losing any ground,” McIlroy said. “I felt like I could have shot 63 or 64, but realizing that 67 is still a good score and puts me in position going into the weekend.”

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Grammalink-Africa Fabulous Fabric Sale

BY FAYE HUGHES SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The fourth Fabulous Fabric Sale, presented by GrammaLink-Africa, was held on April 18 at Gaetz United Church.

Thirty-some volunteers have been working since February to prepare for the sale: picking up donations, sorting, measuring and pricing fabric, cutting quilt squares, sorting wool, categorizing notions, craft supplies, patterns and Christmas material.

We also received 30 rolls of drapery fabric from a person who had closed her business.

All merchandise was displayed and we opened our doors to a long line of shoppers, eager for variety and bargain prices.

This year we were able to take Visa and MasterCard payments, which was appreciated by our customers. Many shoppers said “Keep the change” and we were grateful for their generosity.

In total, we raised $ 7,752, which will be sent to the Stephen Lewis Foundation, Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign in support of their orphaned grandchildren.

Many of our shoppers were home sewers, sewing for their families, and others were making items to sell at farmers markets and craft sales.

One lady was making Barbie Doll clothes, another making Halloween costumes for her grandchildren and one shopper bought a big roll of white fur to trim Santa Claus suits.

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sign class with a plan for fashionable clothing, and home schoolers needed fabric for their projects.

An unusual project was “pillowcase dresses” that a lady was sewing for orphanages in Russia and the Ukraine.

A young mother with three children bought our mannequin and was delighted to enhance her home sewing plans.

Teachers were there to buy colourful fabric to decorate bulletin boards and to buy craft supplies for school projects.

Many shoppers had charity in mind for their purchases: book bags for A Better World, kids’ blankets for Ronald McDonald House, mitts for Safe Harbour, dishcloths for the SPCA garage sale, blankets for the Linus project that provides security

through blankets for ill or traumatized children, prayer shawls, Victoria quilts for people undergoing chemotherapy, chemo caps for hair loss from cancer treatments, sanitary supplies for Days for Girls.

We also gave white material to the Red Deer Museum to make tobacco pouches, which will be part of the exhibit Walking with our Sisters.

One notable grandmother knits mitts and toques for the mitten tree at her church and had knit 100 pair of mitts so far this year.

All of our leftovers are being donated to a group in Olds who are raising money for a school project in Roatan.

Thank you to all our volunteers, donors and shoppers for helping us to make a difference in our community and for the grandmothers in Africa.

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Late-night quad rider killed POLICE REMIND OPERATORS TO WEAR HELMETS, ABSTAIN FROM ALCOHOL The May long weekend has just started in the West Country but already an off-road vehicle fatality has occurred.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP said on Friday that at about 11:20 p.m. on Thursday, they received a report of a quad rollover southwest of Chambers Creek campground, which is about 30 km west of Rocky.

A group of men were quadding on a trail near their camp when one of the men failed to negotiate a trail and fell about five to six metres. The 33-yearold man’s quad rolled on top of him, causing severe injuries. He was not wearing a helmet.

Upon arrival, his friends attempted CPR until emergency services arrived.

The man was pronounced dead by

emergency medical services personnel.

His identity is not being released and Rocky and District Victim Services is providing assistance to his family and friends.

RCMP said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the incident.

Clearwater Fire Services and Rocky Search and Rescue also attended the

scene.

Rocky RCMP, along with the Calgary Medical Examiner’s office, will continue to investigate.

Police remind everyone to wear approved safety equipment while operating off-road vehicles, and operating any type of vehicle while under the influence of drugs and alcohol is a criminal offence.

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Dan Lalonde of Pro Form Concrete Services in Red Deer uses a concrete saw to isolate a broken piece of sidewalk along 43rd Avenue at 32nd Street this week.

Lalonde and his crew are working to remove broken sidewalk and driveway pieces and repair with new concrete.

Don’t put your useful but unwanted items in the garbage. Give them away during Kick it to the Curb on June 6 and 7.

“We like to give people the heads up to give them more time to clean out their garages and basements,” said Lauren Maris, Environmental Program specialist.

“Residents enjoy the thrill of the hunt when it comes to searching neighbourhoods for used goods.”

Maris said they understand the value of keeping useful items out of the waste stream and repurposing them.

Items to be set out could include everything from books and DVDs to furniture and construction items.

For a list of prohibited items, such as child car seats, visit www.reddeer.ca/ kickit.

were called to investigate a break-andenter at a local industrial park business. During the break-in, a Ford F-350 truck was stolen.

The following day, a tipster called police to say they had seen the truck, identified by a Facebook photo, at a rural property near Benalto.

Police say the truck was in the process of being dismantled.

When RCMP arrived on the scene, a suspect fled in the stolen truck. For public safety reasons, police decided not to chase it.

Police later returned to the property and arrested two men.

A 29-year-old Red Deer County resident was charged with possession of stolen property over $5,000, flight from police and failing to comply with previous release conditions. He was released on $3,000 cash bail and is due in court on June 3.

A 39-year-old Penhold resident, who was wanted on several outstanding warrants, was also arrested.

Police continue to investigate.

Anyone with information in connection with these incidents is asked to call Sylvan Lake RCMP at 403-358-7200.

Tips can be made anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Learn how to quilt at Dawe library session

Hotel confinement, assault suspect granted bail

Learning how to quilt is as easy as visiting the Dawe branch of the Red Deer Public Library to attend Introduction to Quilting 101 for Adults on May 23.

Local artist and quilter Millie Watson will lead the three-hour class that runs from 1 to 4 p.m.

Watson will provide an overview of the quilter supply list for beginners and will demonstrate rotary cutting and safety, different quilting techniques by machine and now to quilt the ‘quilt sandwich’ (backing, batting, and quilt top).

Admission is free. The Dawe branch is located at 56 Holt St. The quilting program is part of Super Fun Saturdays.

A Black Knight hotel guest who was charged with forcible confinement and aggravated assault was granted bail in Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

At 9 a.m. on April 28, Red Deer RCMP responded to a call about an extremely intoxicated man who allegedly hit one hotel staff member with a metal pipe and forced another employee down the laundry chute from the second floor.

Joel Pierre Doctor, 30, of Edmonton was granted bail with conditions that included staying away from the hotel.

He returns to court in Red Deer on June 10.

The Ponoka Foodgrains Project will be seeding 170 acres of barley next week to help raise funds for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Spokesman Peter Doornenbal said the Ponoka project raised about $40,000 last year, which amounts to a final tally of $160,000 because the federal government matches the amount raised up to a four-to-one basis.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a national partnership of 15 church and church-based agencies.

It provides food in the developing world and helps people in those countries grow more food, and it offers nutritional support to malnourished people.

This year’s project is located on land south of Ponoka, Doornenbal said.

The Ponoka group lost a key volunteer when longtime volunteer Larry Henderson passed away in March. The group is looking for more volunteers, said Doornenbal, who can be reached at 403-783-2947.

Red Cross helping victims of two Red Deer house fires

Lacombe County council cuts tax hike to two per cent

The Canadian Red Cross has stepped forward to provide shelter and support services for the families affected by two fires on Thursday.

Red Deer Emergency Services crews extinguished a two-bedroom apartment fire at Clayton Park Apart-

Lacombe County taxpayers will be getting a tax break.

Council approved a municipal property tax of 2.75 per cent earlier this year, but that has now been reduced to two per cent.

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Stolen truck recovered, two men face charges A Facebook post helped police recover a stolen truck and arrest two men.

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ments on 3039 49th Ave. around 4 p.m.

The fire was confined to the suite.

A mother and her adult daughter were taken to hospital for observation.

The apartment is no longer livable.

The three-storey building was evacuated for several hours while crews cleared the building.

Just four hours later, Emergency Services personnel were busy again dousing a house fire at 34 Osborne St. The family was evacuated before crews arrived. No injuries were reported.

The fire was quickly knocked down and it was confined to just one room in the home.

The damage was extensive enough that the residents were not allowed to go back inside their home.

Both fires continue to be under investigation.

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for school taxes and the Lacombe Foundation, the total tax rate will actually go down by 0.36 per cent on a typical bill.

County commissioner Terry Hager said that small reduction assumes someone’s home assessment hasn’t increased over the past year.

“As the assessment for residential properties is based on the market value and that market value of homes generally increase from year to year, there may be a slight increase in the actual tax bill,” says Hager in an email.

Higher-than-predicted property assessments and savings, such as fuel costs, helped to improve the financial picture.

Also, unspent funds from uncompleted 2014 projects were transferred to this year.

Lacombe County’s operating budget is $58.6 million and its capital budget is $27.7 million.

College community awards to honour four recipients Red Deer College will celebrate four community award recipients during a dinner on Tuesday evening.

The G.H. Dawe Memorial Award goes to a community member who best exemplifies the values of George Harold Dawe, who was a strong college supporter and a dedicated educator.

The Alumni Legacy Award is a posthumous recognition of the significant contributions of a celebrated alumni.

The Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award is given to one of the college’s distinguished alumni.

The Community Partner Award goes to a valued RDC partner in recognition of genuine collaboration for the benefits of the overall community.

The awards, once presented during college convocation in June, are now being presented during a stand-alone event to better showcase the award recipients.

Used book sale May 23 to help Christmas Bureau Red Deer Tennis Club is hosting a book sale May 23 to raise funds for the Christmas Bureau.

Hundreds of gently used books will be up for sale at the tennis clubhouse.

The clubhouse is located between the outdoor tennis courts and the downtown Recreation Centre.

The sale runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Bull Skit offers up its best

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF If more people are staying home for their entertainment, the trend doesn’t seem to be affecting Red Deer’s improvisation and sketch comedy troupe, Bull Skit.

Live audiences for the home-grown comedy shows have steadily increased over the past seven seasons — despite the couch-potato trend of some people watching endless rounds of episodic television.

You could say Bull Skit is binge-proof.

“I feel like this show’s found a place in Red Deer,” said co-founder Jenna Goldade, artistic director of Against the Wall Theatre. “When you say Bull Skit, people now know who we are.”

Although Goldade admits to watching her share of TV, she feels there’s a time to switch off Netflix and enjoy a night on the town — and she believes others are discovering this, too. “I think more people are wanting to get out, see some comedy and have a drink in a social environment. ...”

On the strength of sellout monthly shows, Bull Skit has been diversifying to offer various theme nights three weekends of every month in Red Deer.

Downton Abbey fans have gotten down with the Bull Skit spoof Shabby Abbey. Pugnacious theatresports lovers have cheered on their favourite teams during Thespian Fight Club nights. And others have opted to Get White Trashed, or taken their kids to afternoon Calf Skit shows for irreverent takes on wellloved fairy tales.

As well, regular Veal Skit and Bull Prov shows give up-and-coming troupe members an audience and allow more seasoned Bull Skit members to test out new material.

Of course, mid-month Bull Skit shows continue to be the main event.

The regular Bull Skit season winds down next week at the Scott Block in downtown Red Deer.

Best-of performances will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 21 to 23, offering a smorgasbord of favourite sketches from the past season — different ones each night — as well as a variety of musical guests.

Ol’ Boots and the Hoots will perform old-time country music on Thursday, Discmen will play ’90s tribute tunes on Friday and The Dirrty Show duo are back from a successful Australian tour to entertain on Saturday.

Goldade describes this three-day finale as an exciting cap to a busy season.

She plans to appear as bun-headed Princess Leia in a Star Wars spoof — joined by Luke Skywalker (Riley Deschambault) and Leroy the in-bred Jedi (Daniel Vasquez), running amok with his light sabre.

Young wizards Harry, Ron and Hermione, will marvel over such mundane Muggle technologies as cellphones and iPads in a Harry Potter spoof.

Three slasher movie villains will perform a bloody version of the wedding-standard love song Amazed

by Lonestar, while other parodies are done of Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and be-

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A scene from Bullskit’s Get White Trashed. The regular Bull Skit season winds down next week at the Scott Block in downtown Red Deer. Best-of performances will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 21-23. loved songs from Frozen.

As well, audiences will get reacquainted with reoccurring Bull Skit characters, including Hot Cop and the woman who lusts after him, the naive (read dim-witted) college students Alice and Sarah, as well as their “Russian ripoff” equivalents, Alexei and Sergei, and ghetto gals, Ashley and Stephanie.

And, yes, there will be a 50 Shades of Grey parody — pairing the titillating novel with Oscar Wilde’s soul-selling anti-hero, Dorian Grey.

Thinking back to 2008, Goldade said it’s funny that Bull Skit was only started to finance more serious Against the Wall Theatre productions. The Red Deer College Theatre Studies graduate, who cofounded the company with Amy Erlandson, added the idea of doing dramas was soon dropped because Bull Skit became so much fun to do — and went over so well with audiences.

Over the years, the troupe has spoofed everything from Sesame Street puppets to terrorists and local celebrities.

While there’s been a regular turnaround in cast members, requiring the recruitment and training of newbies, Goldade believes the shows continue to showcase some very talented Central Albertan performers.

Nine are in the troupe currently — from theatre graduates to moonlighting government workers and

people in a variety of other professions.

Has anything else changed?

“I think we’re funnier,” said Goldade, whose group has become seasoned by turning out 20 to 30 original sketches monthly.

Tickets for the Best of Bull Skit 8 p.m. shows are $23 nightly, or a $40 festival pass for all three nights is available from www.BullSkitComedy.com. (There is a cash bar and mature language and themes).

Other upcoming dates: ● Calf Skit puts on a family-friendly Cinderella at 2 p.m. on May 23. Veal Skit performs at 7:30 p.m. on June 12 and 13, and an annual Bull Skit fundraiser will be held on July 4 (an all-day event). These are all at the Scott Block Theatre. ● A Calf Skit performance will also take place at the Red Deer Children’s Festival on June 6 and at Lacombe Days on July 24 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. ● Thespian Fight Night will be held on June 9, July 14, and Aug. 11 at Fratters Speakeasy. (Watch for summer dates for Shabby Abbey and Bull Prov at www.BullSkitComedy.com). ● Bull Skit’s Season 8 starts on Sept. 24 at the Scott Block with Sketchfest, featuring members of 10 Alberta sketch comedy troupes. ● The new season of Bull Prov and regular monthly Bull Skit shows will start in October. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Gilmore and Giebelhaus to play Golden Circle

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From making guitars to playing them in front of an audience, Dave Gilmore is going the whole nine yards.

The duo of Gilmore and Kelly Giebelhaus will entertain on Saturday, May 23, as part of the In Concert at the Golden Circle series.

The Red Deer musicians are both former radio personalities who have been jamming together for some time and playing gigs at local bars.

“I come by this guitar thing honestly,” said Gilmore, who worked for 30 years as announcer and marketer at Z-99 and CKGY before opening his Gilmore Guitars shop.

His sales and repairs business hosts regular con-

certs by renowned Canadian guitarists. Gilmore also provides his services as a custom guitar maker, since he’s been a certified luthier since 1995.

“I’ve had a guitar in my hand since before I could walk, so the guitar thing has always been there,” said Gilmore, who even performed in a rock band, called Rough Edge, when he was about 22 years old.

Giebelhaus was a radio announcer for Radio 7 before it became Big 105 FM. Although he doesn’t have professional performing experience, he’s also been playing guitar his whole life — even trying his hand at songwriting and performing for family and friends.

Giebelhaus built himself a couple of guitars and got to know Gilmore better through their common interest in luthiery work.

The two started jamming together for fun. Gilmore soon discovered that Giebelhaus has a terrific bari-

tone voice, which he feels takes the pressure off his own less seasoned singing chops.

“He’s a really, really great singer ... I only sing songs by Neil Young because Neil Young can’t sing either!” said Gilmore, who plays lead guitar and sings background vocals. Giebelhaus sings lead and harmonizes on the guitar.

They plan to perform lots of favourites from the 1970s and ’80s at the Golden Circle, including songs

by Steve Earl, James Taylor, Cat Stevens and John Mellencamp. “We’ll be doing songs like Fire and Rain, Where Do the Children Play, and Pink Houses. ...”

Gilmore hopes the fun that transpires on stage will spill over to the audience.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $15 and are available from the Golden Circle. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The Gay Nineties set to shake things up at Bo’s

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Gay Nineties refers to the 1890s, with its decadent and ground-breaking art, witty plays, society scandals and the beginning of the suffragette movement.

Gay Nineties is also the name of an alternative/glam rock quartet from Vancouver that aspires to shake things up, musically and lyrically.

“Our manifesto is ‘Be free,’” said the group singer and bassist Parker Bossley. “We believe in being free to do anything you want to do, as long as you’re not hurting anyone else. It’s conducive to a healthy world. ...”

Given that Alberta’s political landscape was recently upended after 44 years of Conservative rule by the election of a New Democrat government, Bossley is hugely excited about this change. “And they said it couldn’t be done!

“Alberta is like a brand-new province,” the 25-year-old exclaimed. “I’m so proud of you!”

Gay Nineties is coming for a fifth time to Red Deer on Sunday, May 24, when the band plays with Zerbin at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

Bossley, along with guitarist Daniel Knowlton IV, keyboardist Bruce Ledingham, and drummer Malcolm Holt, plan to play tunes from their new Liberal Guilt EP. While Bossley doesn’t like forcing messages on anyone, he said the eighttrack release gets about as political as the band’s ever been.

He believes listeners will hear stirrings of discontent on songs such as Hold Your Fire. “I feel like, for the first time in Canada, people are starting to get squashed. It’s like they don’t have a

choice,” said Bossley, referring to antiterrorism Bill C-51. The legislation, which grants the Canadian Security Intelligence Service unprecedented access to personal information on Canadians, raises concerns about personal liberty, privacy and freedom of expression.

His songwriting for Gay Nineties attempts to “tap into what it means to human ... I’m trying to live a life based on love,” he said.

But the singer, who also plays with Hawksley Workman in the band Mounties and was formerly in Hot Hot Heat and Fake Shark Real Zombie, sees this as a challenge, given the state of things.

Bossley is also upset that members of the Canadian military now act as soldiers instead of peacekeepers. “It’s all a little terrifying.”

The tune Dangerous Minds questions conventional thinking, while the bestknown single, Letterman, is about a long-distance relationship Bossley was in. “I was so excited about it,” but it soon fizzled.

He remembers coming up with the lyrics to Letterman while “living on Main and 12th, in a beautiful, tiny room. Every morning I would hear a children’s choir singing from the church across the street. ...” The “angelic” sounds made him unaccountably nostalgic for his childhood home in the “burbs” of Abbotsford.

Bossley was a gymnast from his preschool years to age 15. The singer, who was influenced by David Bowie and Prince, didn’t take up the guitar until about age 14, due to an unfortunate childhood incident.

He was given a new guitar at the age of five or six — right after he’d watched Garth Brooks smashing his instrument on TV. “I wanted to do that

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Alternative/glam rock quartet The Gay Nineties perform at Bo’s Bar and Grill on Sunday, May 24. too, so I smashed my guitar as soon as I got it.”

It was many, many years, Bossley recalled, before anyone would trust him with another one.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $10 in advance or $15 at the door (plus fees) from the venue or Ticketfly. For more information, please call 403-309-2200. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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B.B. King remembered fondly by Canadians TORONTO — Whenever Randy Bachman thinks of B.B. King, he can’t help but wince.

“I first played a show with B.B. in the mid-’60s,” says Bachman in an emailed statement to The Canadian Press on Friday.

“He told me I ‘played pretty good for a white boy,’ but needed to ‘make a few faces’ to show that I ‘felt the notes and strings I was bending.’

“To this day, there are many pictures of me playing my B.B. King string-bending notes and my face looks like someone is stepping on my foot.

“Every time I do that on stage, I think of him.”

King died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday night in his Las Vegas home. He was 89.

Unsurprisingly, the death of the evocative guitarist — who stood as the symbolic personification of blues for many music fans — has inspired dedications from musicians around the world, including many prominent Canadians.

Bryan Adams tweeted a memorial to “one of the best blues guitarists ever, maybe the best,” someone who “could do more on one note than anyone.”

Dan Aykroyd also paid his respects, having acted

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alongside King in 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000 (King played the owner of a used car lot who moves to New Orleans to try his hand at blues). “Thank you BB for your graceful presence and power,” Aykroyd wrote.

Regina-reared blues guitarist Colin James remembered the formative influence carried by King’s inimitable playing. When he was 10, James become a religious devotee of an instructional record/songbook that King had endorsed. “(I) played it over and over again,” wrote the sixtime Juno winner via email, noting how fortunate he felt to have seen King live.

“It feels like the end of an era in a way. These guys wrote the book. He had so much passion in his vibrato when he played guitar and such fantastic economy in his playing and singing.”

Added Bachman: “He was amazing, like Hendrix in a way, and a tour de force of blues and rock.”

Like James, Juno-winning blues guitarist Steve Hill was fascinated by King at an early age.

The Montreal native recalls appreciating King even before he started to learn guitar — and then snatching up his records with enthusiastic abandon once he did, at age 14. It must have felt like a dream, then, when Hill actually got to open for his hero in his hometown at the then-Molson Centre in 2001.

“He was the nicest guy you could think of,” said Hill, who won four awards at this year’s Maple Blues Awards. “I’ve done shows with a lot of ... big names, and B.B. King was the nicest guy.”

Hill recalls chatting with King about music, but also receiving some level-headed personal advice.

“He had diabetes back then already, so we talked about that,” Hill remembered. “(He said), ‘You gotta take care of your body, son. That’s all you got.’ ” King signed Hill’s Fender Telecaster, which instantly became a prized possession.

“I’ve retired that guitar,” he said. “I haven’t played it since he signed it. It just stays at home.”

Bachman similarly possesses a cherished King artifact — beyond the concentrated grimace that graces his face when he solos, that is.

“Years ago for my birthday, I received a ‘Lucille’ guitar signed by B.B.,” Bachman wrote.

“It will be treasured forever. Long live the King.”

His attorney, Brent Bryson, said that King died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. He said funeral arrangements were underway.

Although he had continued to perform well into his 80s, the 15-time Grammy winner suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health during the past year.

A meet-the-artists opening reception will be held on Friday, May 22, from 5 to 9 p.m. with live musical entertainment. Everyone is invited to come to see new paintings, pottery, stained glass and much more.

For information, call the gallery 403-782-3402.

for sincere songwriting on the 2013 EP Touch and the single New Earth, which has been used for film and TV soundtracks. The duo is on a cross-Canada tour.

For more information about the show, call 403309-2200.

Dora the Explorer at the Centrium on May 30

Pernell Reichert Band play The Hideout on Thursday

Dora the Explorer is coming to Red Deer in Search for the City of Lost Toys on May 30 at 1 p.m. at the Centrium.

The 70-minute theatrical production follows Dora who is on the search for her lost teddy bear and the audience is invited to sing and play along with her on her journey.

Based on the hit television show, the adventurous explorer is a favourite among pre-school viewers.

For tickets, call 1-855-985-5000 or visit www.ticketmaster.ca.

An alt-folk/country band from Vancouver will entertain next week with some finger-picking, danceable guitar-driven sounds.

The Pernell Reichert Band plays on Thursday, May 21, at The Hideout, in Gasoline Alley, south of Red Deer.

Reichert is a singer, songwriter and fast fingerpicking instrumentalist whose songs reflect his experiences on the road of life and the highways of the world.

Reichert, a former tree planter, hobo, roughneck and solo artist, has a style of guitar and banjo playing that’s been described as high energy. He will be joined by bass player Ross Fairbairn, drummer Tom Tischer, and lead guitarist Cory Hawthorne.

Since 2004, the Pernell Reichert Band has been showcasing folksy country songs with electric slide guitar or foot stomping banjo.

The group released a self-titled debut album in 2008, followed by a tour of Western Canada and a 10day tour of South Africa that resulted in some live recording that was later included on their 2011 EP, Highway of Tears.

The band has since played The Edge of the World Festival in Haida Gwaii, Calgary’s Lilac Festival, and Vancouver’s Khatsahlano Music + Arts Fest and many other events.

For more information about the show, call the venue at 403-348-5309.

Hiphop artist SonReal in Red Deer on Wednesday Vancouver hip-hop artist and YouTube star SonReal performs next week in Red Deer.

The artist is on a 10-date Canadian tour, and will stop on Wednesday to entertain at the International Beer Haus and Stage. SonReal’s first successes came in 2011 and 2012, when his music videos and mixtapes got hundreds of thousands of YouTube views.

He went on to collaborate with rap artist and producer Rich Kidd on the Juno Award-nominated album The Closers in 2013, and took home a 2014 MuchFace video award for his viral hit Everywhere We Go, which received over 1.7 million views.

SonReal’s second EP, For the Town, was released last month, along with videos for the title track and the single Preach.

For more information about the show, call 403986-5008.

Pop-roots singer Potvin at The Olive on May 23 Juno-nominated pop-roots singer Rozanne Potvin will perform new tunes on a spring tour that stops next week in Red Deer.

The Montreal artist performs on Saturday, May 23, at The Olive.

The bilingual Potvin is compiling songs that are intimate “snapshots of life among friends and lovers” for what will be her fifth album. Fans will be able to hear some of this new material on her solo tour of B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

A homemade EP called Morning Songs was also recorded especially for the tour and will be available wherever Potvin plays. Her discography is diverse, ranging from atmospheric folk and garage rock to blues, R&B, pop and soul.

Potvin’s Colin Linden-produced album The Way it Feels was nominated for a Juno Award. The singer also has seven Maple Blues awards nominations.

For more information about the show, call 403340-8288.

Zerbin duo in Red Deer on May 24 Some “anthemic, symphonic, and addictive” music by Zerbin will be performed in Red Deer on May 24. The duo made up of Jason Zerbin and Peter Mol will perform songs from a new album at Bo’s Bar and Grill. The Darling release was produced by the band and mixed by Dave Pensado, who’s worked with Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, and Elton John and Tom Dobrzanski (Hey Ocean, Said the Whale).

It was recorded over six weeks in a century-old house on Vancouver Island, and the atmospherics seeped into the album, which is described as being full of sweeping, catchy tunes. Zerbin is best known

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Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

ARMSTRONG Mary Lou Mary Lou Armstrong of Red Deer died peacefully at her home on May 13, 2015 at the age of 85 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Allan, and her sister, Betty (Ranney). She is survived by her sons David, Brock and Donald, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Mary Lou was born and raised in Edmonton. She and Allan met while attending the University of Alberta, where they were active in many groups including the University Mixed Chorus.

After moving to Red Deer to raise their children, they became involved in a variety of local organizations and built a cottage at Sylvan Lake where they spent many happy summers. Mary Lou began working at Red Deer College in 1968 and eventually became Chairperson of the library. She was a founding member and past president of Central Alberta Theatre and produced, directed and acted in dozens of productions. In 1993 she received the Mayor’s Recognition Award for continuous voluntary service.

In retirement, Mary Lou continued to be involved with local theatre groups, and enjoyed travelling and doing her crosswords.

A celebration of her life will be announced at a later date.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

COTTER James James Cotter of Red Deer passed away on Tuesday, May 13, 2015 at the age of 91 years. James was born in Viking AB, on November 22, 1923. James spent his working life on the oil fields and was proud to say he knew his way around the old wooden rigs. After his retirement James enjoyed playing cards with friends and the freedom to do whatever he pleased. James will be lovingly remembered by son; Danny (Tracy) Cotter and their children, Erin, Tom and Jonathan; his daughter Patricia Cotter (Murphy Daniels) and her children, Erin, Jason and Ivan. As well as his great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He will also be remembered by his caretaker and friend; Robin Reid.

James was predeceased by his loving wife Inez, his daughter Susan, 2 sisters and 2 brothers. At James’s request private family internment will be held at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

HAWLEY, Michael Oct. 30, 1984 - May 19, 2001 Close in our hearts you will always stay.

Loved and remembered every day.

We miss you and love you with all our hearts, Mom, Dad, Jaimie, Ryan and families

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Lost

FERRET, brown with black mask, lost near Corner Store, close to Lindsay Thurber High School.

Reward offered. Call 403-350-6815

JOHNSON JUSTUS Dec. 7, 1926 - May 16, 1987 There is a face That is always with us.

There is a voice We would love to hear.

There is a smile we Will always remember Of the one we loved so dear.

Love forever always, Janice, Svea and Perry

STOLEN from Penhold area farm 2005 W900 Kenworth VIN 1XKWD49XX5J978033 License plate# 09-L010 2004 53 ft. Wilson Road Brute tri-axle steel alum. combination Step Deck Trailer VIN 4WWFGPOTX4N607722 License plate # 7310-86 REWARD Please call RCMP

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

MORRIS POOR Apr. 16, 1956 - May 16, 2007 Always on our minds GUY Georgia Jean Guy July 24, 1943 - May 10, 2015 Georgia lived a joyous life and died peacefully at Lions Gate Hospital with her family-her partner Robyn Young, her daughter Cheryl Lee and sonin-law Kevin, and her grandchildren Emma and Tommy-at her side. Born in Red Deer, Alberta, Georgia was the daughter of Jack and Myrtle Sinclair and sister to Connie (Mont), Jim (Nancy), and Mildred (Jim).

After receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Alberta, Georgia moved to Vancouver with her husband Peter Linley and their daughter Cheryl. In her late 20’s, Georgia completed her Master of Arts in English Language and Literature at Simon Fraser University. This began a life of teaching English, both to young people and, later, to new immigrant women. Georgia remarried and moved with her husband Lionel Guy to Squamish. During her years in Squamish Georgia renewed her childhood interest in Guiding by assuming leadership roles within the organization. She was always involved in community activities whether related to her role as a parent or her own love of literature. Georgia then moved to Toronto and became the Executive Director for Girl Guides of Canada, Ontario Council. She later went on to work in management roles at Girl Guides of Canada, National Council. While in Toronto she met her life partner, Robyn, and together they explored their city and the world.

Whether it was a weekend getaway with the esky or a holiday in Mexico, Australia or Tunisia, Georgia and Robyn took every opportunity for adventure. Seeking out new places to enjoy coffee and tea, film festivals, and cultural celebrations, they embraced all Toronto had to offer.

Georgia’s bright open-mindedness, curiosity, quick wit and intelligence were recognized and appreciated by all who knew her. Georgia relished her roles as “Gram” and Auntie Georgia. Together with Robyn she always chose to visit and make special time for their grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She enjoyed many wonderful visits to be with them and celebrate special events. In 2008 Georgia was diagnosed with lung cancer and moved to North Vancouver with Robyn. Though living with cancer, she chose to appreciate every moment with the people she loved. Georgia and Robyn married in 2008, and continued to enjoy travel, local markets, fun food, reading and most of all, visits with family and friends. A celebration of Georgia’s life will be held at the Pinnacle at the Pier Hotel in North Vancouver at 2 pm on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation in Georgia’s memory. All donations will be directed to lung cancer research. http://donate.bccancerfoundation. com/goto/georgia_guy To write a condolence for the family please visit www.mckenziefuneralservices.com

Learn how past lives, dreams and Soul Travel can help you understand these. Free workshop.

Saturday, May 23, 1 to 3 p.m. Red Deer Library 4818 - 49th St. Free ECKANKAR’s Spiritual Experiences Guidebook for all guests.

For more information call 403-346-9238 or visit www.spiritualexperience. org for your free book.

Presented by ECKANKAR CANADA in Alberta.

Love Judy, Jen, Steph, Mike, Rhonda, Joe, Ben and Lilly MORRIS POOR Apr. 16, 1956 - May 16, 2007 WESTMAN William Jacob Norman William Westman of Red Deer passed away suddenly on May 6, 2015 at the age of 31. He is sadly missed by his parents Louise and Doug Westman, his sister Nicole, and a world of friends. A Celebration of William’s life will be held at the CrossRoads Church, Red Deer on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11:00 a.m.

Cremation will follow at the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

403-887-2151

Funeral Directors & Services

His charming ways and smiling face Are a pleasure to recall; He had a kindly word for each And died beloved by all.

Love Mom & Brother Evert

Caregivers/ Aides

710

FT caregiver needed 40 hrs/wk, Red Deer, $10.20/hr. to aid special needs adult, male, permanent position, light housekeeping, 12 mo. exp., high school diploma, must speak english. Contact eurocan5@telus.net Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Looking for : In-Home Caregiver/Nanny for 2 children (12 years old and 6 years old with special need -Autism).Full-Time ($10.50 -40/44hrs/week) Must be reliable. Experience is not required but willing to train. Located In Red Deer, Alberta. Email: limpinnoel@yahoo.ca

Dental

740

BAHREY Dental opening for RDA II full/part time ortho module. Resumes accepted in person only.

WATERS Richard K. “Dick” Aug. 22, 1929 - May 15, 2014 God saw you were struggling and heard your earnest plea.

He took you in His arms and said, “Come, be at peace with Me.” Always loved and always missed by all of us: Ev, Diane (Dennis), Darlene, Dustin, Dave (Debbie), Brendan (Dana w/Ava & Karson), Derek (Katrine), Brett, extended family and friends.

Winters, Cecil A. May 17, 2011 As time unfolds another year Silent memories keep you near.

No longer in our lives to share but in our hearts you are always there.

Remembered with love, Rose & family

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Oilfield

800

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Professionals

810

HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 16, 2015 C7

810

Wade Noble & Partners LLP requires a Chartered Accountant with at least 5 years’ experience to join our team in Rocky Mountain House. The successful candidate will find themselves working in an assurance based environment as well as high level notice to reader engagements. You will be working alongside of six chartered accountants and thirteen technicians. Our office is very busy with ample opportunity to develop your corporate tax skills we offer competitive wages and benefits and firm supplied professional training.

Please submit resume to: Cree.Thompson@ wadenoble.ca

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

70

Happy Ads

820

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

Trades

850

880

Misc.

Help

BUSY Retreat centre JJAM Management (1987) Blue Water Wash has GOODMEN Looking for a weekend Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s openings for Wash Bay ROOFING LTD. cook, specializing in home Requires to work at these Attendants at our new Requires made food, from scratch, a Red Deer, AB locations: location in Red Deer! cabin is available during 5111 22 St. Wash bay attendants are SLOPED ROOFERS your weekend stay, if you 37444 HWY 2 S responsible for washing LABOURERS think you have the qualifi37543 HWY 2N the exterior of tractors and & FLAT ROOFERS cations we are looking for, 700 3020 22 St. trailers ensuring the highplease call or text FOOD ATTENDANT est level of bio-security Valid Driver’s Licence Req’d permanent shift 780-878-4019, Thank You standards. We offer fullpreferred. Fax or email weekend day and evening time positions, opportuinfo@goodmenroofing.ca both full and part time. nities for advancement, CALKINS CONSULTING or (403)341-6722 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! and health and dental o/a Tim Hortons benefits. Start ASAP. benefits. Please apply to: 15 vacancies at each Job description Blue Water Wash Red location for FOOD SELF motivated journeywww.timhortons.com Deer, Alberta, Email: COUNTER ATTENDANTS man req’d for sheet metal Education and experience HR@slt.ca for 3 locations $12/hr. + shop in Innisfail. The sucnot req’d. benefits. F/T & P/T cessful applicant will have Apply in person or fax positions. Permanent shift CRYSTAL GLASS a truck and fuel supplied. resume to: 403-314-1303 work, weekends, days, needs a GLASS Must possess good nights, evenings. Start INSTALLER. Some exp. organizational skills and date as soon as possible. preferred, but training is be able to work commerNo experience or provided. Benefits and cial projects without education req’d. Job company uniforms after 3 assistance. Will be trained description avail. at months. Drop off resume on computer sheet metal www.timhortons.com at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax layout. Must have clean Apply in person to 6620 346-5390 or email: drivers license. CompetiOrr Drive. Red Deer, branch208@crystalglass.ca tive rates $34/hr. and 6017 Parkwood Road, benefit incld. Call Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. 403-227-6554 or fax HERITAGE LANES LUCKY’S LOUNGE Lacombe. or resume to 403-227-6478 located in Jackpot Casino, BOWLING Call 403-848-2356 requires Full & Part Time Red Deer’s most modern 5 SHOP HELP AND/OR Waitress’s.

Please apply in pin bowling center req’s The Tap House Pub & Grill APPRENTICE MECHANIC person at 4950 47 Ave. permanent F/T & P/T front req’s full and part time REQ’D IMMED. NO PHONE CALLS counter staff for all shifts COOKS AND Truck exp. preferred.

PLEASE (days, eves. and wknds).

DISHWASHERS. 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of BlackPlease send resume to: Apply with resume at falds. Steady f/t year SWISS Chalet -Red Deer htglanes@ 1927 Gaetz Avenue round employment HIRING FOOD SERVICE telus.net or apply in person between 2-5 pm. w/benefits. Fax: SUPERVISORS: $13.75 403-784-2330 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per Looking for a new pet?

Phone: 403-784-3811 HERITAGE LANES week. Supervise and coCheck out Classifieds to ordinate staff activities and BOWLING customer service.

Estabfind the purrfect pet.

Red Deer’s most modern 5 Truckers/ lish work schedule and pin bowling center req’s a train associates Interested Drivers SPECIAL EVENTS parties can email CO-ORDINATOR swiss1702@cara.com, fax BUSY rig moving company Please send resume to: 1 866 928 5481 or deliver looking for exp. bed truck htglanes@ resume to unit #8, 5111 operators, winch tractor telus.net or apply in person 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1. hands, and picker operators.

Oilfield ticket an asset.

LAWN CARE Must be able to pass a Req’d in Markerville drug test.

Pls call A person for lawn Trades 1-306-463-6674. maintenance on acreage.

403-346-5885 You can sell your guitar DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. for a song...

Experience an asset. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 403-341-7619 Advocate and we’ll sell it for you!

Opportunities LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816

860

552220E16-I19

850

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

880

stuff

71/4” B & D circular saw, $25. 403-885-5020

CLASSIFICATIONS

TABLE SAW, asking $200.403-342-1934

1500-1990

Labourers & Flag Persons

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1540

Bicycles

Busy road construction BYCICLE, Schwinn, mens company looking for Labourers AND flag per- $60. 403-342-0813 sons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to Children's 403-309-0489 Items

SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS

F/T Customer Service employee req’d.

Tasks: Keyholder Early evening and weekend shifts avail. Must be reliable and trustworthy.

Send resumes to: sw8903@sherwin.com or in person at 3301 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer.

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1580

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

BABY Safety 1st exersaucer, $25. 403-342-1934

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

BRAND new breast pump, $5. 403-885-5020

1590

Clothing

JACKET, leather, sz. 12. $25.; 403-342-7460

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

TRAINING CENTRE

1640

Tools

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LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Household Furnishings

1720

HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50.

403-340-1347

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Morning Delivery 6 days/week by 6:30 am

880

Misc.

Help

Misc.

Help

278950A5

Professionals

Restaurant/ Hotel

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ORIOLE PARK

/MAVERICK

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS

Supply

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off.

403-586-4558

Inside Sales Person Required for Rimbey Oilfield Supply Store

Promax Transport is looking for a P/T Class 1A shunt driver to work weekend shifts. Please send resumes to fax # 403-227-2743 or call 403-227-2712 for more information

Duties to include: Inside Sales Inventory Control Clerical Duties Operating Forklift

Customer Service Heavy Lifting involved Deliveries Shipping & Receiving Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey (Behind the A&W)

550605E9,16

Please Send Resume to: Email: rick.davies@wolseley.com

Misc.

Help

880

ANDERS AREA For More Information Call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

INGLEWOOD AREA

For VANIER Area

Ibbotson Close Imbeau Close

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

INGLEWOOD AREA

For LANCASTER Area

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in 550706E8-29

Above average industry wages Health Benefits

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SOUTHBROOK AREA Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

VANIER AREA

DEER PARK AREA

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close Vincent Close

Dobson Cl. and Duffield Ave also Douglas Ave $71.20/mo.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

1240

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

1280

PAINTING Residential.

Color consulting. Clean guaranteed. 403-358-8384

Massage Therapy

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its INSTALL your operators & BEST! doors. Repairs. 391-4144 403-986-6686 RMD RENOVATIONS Come in and see Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. why we are the talk Call Roger 403-348-1060 of the town.

Twin Renovations

Handyman Services

1200

1310

J & J ENTERPRISES Landscaping, garbage removal, bldg. maint., weed control. Cert. tradesman. Free Quotes 403-848-4401, 877-8717

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Fences, Decks, custom built gazebos, Kitchens, Bath, Bsmt. Exc. workmanship.

Journeyman Carpenter.

Call Brian 403-597-6624

Painters/ Decorators

Misc.

Services

1290

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Moving & Storage 5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

1370

1300

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL Window & Eavestrough Cleaning.

Free Est.. 403-506-4822 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Anders Park

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Yard Care

1430

ALL yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/hedges.

403-358-1614 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

75 ANQUETEL ST .

Thurs. Fri. Sat. & Sun. May 14-17, 10-6 Multi family.

Lots of everything!

Davenport BABY/toddler items, comforters like new, misc. items in good cond, priced to sell May 17, Sun. 10 - 4 33 Durand Cres.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

ROTOTILLING, reas. rates. 403-392-5657 THE ROTOTILLER GUY Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Moving & Storage

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

1300

Glendale MOVING SALE, furn., household goods, books, lawn mowers, etc. in garage in back alley. 18 George Cres., Sat., May 16, 9-6, Sun., May 17, 10-3.

Rain or shine.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Rosedale NEIGHBORHOOD sale.

14 Rogers Cres. & 17 Randall St. May 16 & 17, Sat. 9-4 Sun. 1-4. Baby items/furniture, toys, household and furniture.

2:00:00 p.m., May 28, 2015 At:

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

HALF MOON BAY Huge multi family. 58 Warbler Close, Half Moon Bay, Fri. May 15, 12 - 8; Sat. May 16, 9 - 5; Sun. May 17, 9 - 3.

For the following work: x x

Sylvan Lake

Sylvan Lake

x

Supply and installation of 714 meters of C-900 PVC DR 18 watermain directional drilled, including bends, tees and associated fittings Supply and installation of six (6) fire hydrants and associated fittings Supply and installation of eleven (11) gate valves and associated fittings

A pre-tender meeting will be held at the project site on May 20, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

WSP Re: Evraz North America Attention: Dean Reid 7710 Edgar Industrial Court Red Deer, AB T4P 4E2

Sylvan Lake

If further information is required, please contact Mr. Dean Reid, WSP at 403-342-7650.

552216E16-I19

1240

$50.00 payable to WSP, (Non-Refundable)

Tenders must be accompanied by a certified cheque or bid bond along with the Consent of Surety in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total sum tendered. Lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

552217E16-I19

Landscaping

Plans may be obtained from the office of the Engineer, WSP at 7710 Edgar Industrial Court, Red Deer on or after 1:00:00 p.m., May 14, 2015.

Tenders will be received by the undersigned until:

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

DUMP RUNS, clean ups BEAT THE RUSH! Book and more. 403-550-2502 now for your home projects.

NOW is the time to get Reno’s, flooring, painting, your yard in shape. small concrete/rock work, Aerations & power rakes landscaping, small tree 403-318-7625 cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

Moving & Storage

INVITATION TO BID EVRAZ NORTH AMERICA Phase 1 – Interior Yard, New Water Lines Tender No. 131-24734-00

West Lake 63 WYNDHAM CRES. May 14, 15 & 16 Thurs./ Fri. 10-7, Sat. 10-4 Huge Moving Sale EVERYTHING MUST GO!!

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

552222E16

Accounting

Landscaping

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 16, 2015 y,

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

y

3050

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/reACROSS from park, mote, used little $75, also 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, black glass tv stand, 4 appls. Rent $1075/mo. bought at Sims d.d. $650. Avail. now or $125 403-352-8811 June 1. 403-304-5337 LIMITED TIME OFFER: Misc. for First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites Sale available in central location. Heat & water 70 Western LP records, included. Cat friendly. 86 45’s & 78’s, $1. ea.

Bell Street, Red Deer Electric typewriter, $35. leasing@rentmidwest.com 403-342-7460 1(888)679-8031 BIRD houses $15, $3, $45; NORMANDEAU bird feeder $20, bat house $10, 6’ high wishing well 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 $70, 100 covered coat appls. $1100. No pets, N/S hangers .25 cents ea. Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 403-346-5745 ENTERTAINMENT stand, Suites $40. 403-342-0813 STAR CHOICE, dish, stand & receive $100.

1 BDRM. suite across from 403-342-0813 hospital. Own washer & dryer, OVER 100 LP records, (45 N/S. No pets. Avail immed.

403-392-8197 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 SPIDER Plants (4), $4. ea. ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious 2 mature spider plants, $8. suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park. ea. 403-342-7460 Mike 403-350-1620 TWO window mount air 403-986-6889 conditioners, 19”w, 17”d, DOWNTOWN AREA, 12” h, one forced air, 8,000 June 1, large 2 bdrm. btu, Kenmore 5,200 btu. w/balcony, quiet bldg, no $75. each. 403-886-2542 pets, $895. 403-309-2368 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horses, brown GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. shetland colt, foal and po- apartments, avail. immed, ny, 3 1/2” high $40; DC rent $875 403-596-6000 SHOES cap size 7 3/8, like LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. new $18; Merrell Ortholite SUITES. 25+, adults only shoes, air cushioned, size n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 6 1/2, like new $35 403-352-8811

1760

3060

Sporting Goods

1860

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200 403-352-8811 ELECTRONIC Caddy, $100.

403-342-0813 HOME Gym, $50.

403-340-1347 REMINGTON Classic 700, 338 Win Mag. 6x24, custom muzzle break, $1000. obo. 403-348-9606

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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MORRISROE MANOR

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Oilpatch slow down hurts house sales SALES INCREASE ACROSS CANADA, POWERED BY TORONTO AND MONTREAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Buyers in Toronto and Montreal pushed home sales higher last month as Canadians continued to take advantage of low interest rates.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday home sales in April through its MLS system were up 2.3 per cent compared with the previous month.

The increase was the third consecutive monthover-month climb, but the gain was down from the 4.1 per cent increase in March.

“As expected, low mortgage interest rates and the onset of spring ushered many homebuyers off the sidelines, particularly in regions where winter was long and bitter,” CREA president Pauline Aunger said in a statement.

Sales were up on a month-over-month basis in two-thirds of the markets tracked, led by a 4.4 per cent gain in Montreal and a 2.9 per cent increase in Toronto.

Compared with a year ago, sales across the country were up 10 per cent, boosted by the big gains in the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley regions as

well as Toronto.

However, compared with a year ago, sales in Edmonton, Calgary and Regina were sharply lower as a slowdown in the oilpatch took its bite out of those markets.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said Toronto and Vancouver remain the hot markets but the April sales showed more strength than just those two cities.

“Only four of the top 26 cities reported notably weak sales last month, and they are clustered tightly in the two biggest oil-producing provinces,” Porter said.

“Calgary, Edmonton and Regina were the only cities to post double-digit yearly declines in sales last month, and Saskatoon was nearby.

“But even among these laggards, there are signs that things are stabilizing, with seasonally adjusted sales nearly flat from the prior month’s level among these four cities.”

The gains nationally have come as Canada’s big banks have competed fiercely for homebuyers during the spring real estate season this year with ultralow rate offers.

However, the bond market has suffered in recent days, driving yields higher and raising the prospect of higher mortgage rates that could dampen the real estate market.

“The Vancouver and Toronto markets should cool slightly once mortgage rates move back up,” said TD Bank economist Dina Ignjatovic.

“However, given the tightness in these markets, prices should remain relatively strong. Further weakness in oil-rich regions will only partially offset strength elsewhere, with overall price growth likely to average around six per cent this year.”

The national average price for a home sold in April was $448,862, up 9.5 per cent from April 2014.

However, excluding Vancouver and Toronto, the average price was $339,893, up 3.4 per cent from a year ago.

The aggregate composite MLS home price index was up 4.97 per cent on a year-over-year basis in April.

CREA said the number of newly listed homes in April was up 0.1 per cent compared with March with the supply increasing in nearly two thirds of all markets.

PAVING THE WAY FOR PETERS’

WESTERNER PARK

Search begins for new CEO

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Max Deutscher of House of Signs in Red Deer works to install a full wrap-around LED sign mounted on the new Peters’ Drive-in located on Leva Avenue in Gasoline Alley South of the City of Red Deer on Wednesday. The sister-restaurant to the popular fast-food outlet in Calgary is now hiring and is expected to open soon.

A new Westerner Park CEO may be in place by the fall.

Earlier this week, the Westerner Exposition Association announced that Darrell Komick would no longer be at the helm.

Graham Heron, association president and board chair, said a probationary period is fairly standard, especially for strategic guidance and leadership roles.

“We just felt that the fit wasn’t as good as we needed it to be moving forward,” said Heron.

Komick was hired in March.

John Harms, the former CEO who served close to two decades at the helm, stepped down in May 2014.

The search for his replacement took about 10 months.

Heron does not expect such a lengthy process this time around and a CEO could be named in a few months.

“A number of months was spent defining the role of the CEO and coming up with some criteria for what an ideal CEO would have,” said Heron. “That work still holds true for this next process.”

Heron said he does not think there will be a shortage of candidates, especially in light of the current economic situation.

Jim White will serve as interim CEO while the search is on.

Oil spill in Vancouver BUSINESS BRIEFS waters would stain beaches 50 TO 90% OF SPILLED OIL COULD SPREAD TO SHORES WITHIN 24 HOURS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Oil pipeline opponents have developed computer-animated models illustrating how rapidly Vancouver’s inlets and beaches could become coated in crude under a worstcase oil tanker spill scenario.

The analysis, which claims between 50 per cent and 90 per cent of spilled oil could spread to shorelines within 24 hours, will be submitted in a bid to block the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.

The City of Vancouver, City of Burnaby and Tsleil-Waututh Nation commissioned the analysis based on their view that the pipeline infrastructure firm has failed to adequately study potential consequences of a spill.

The National Energy Board will consider evidence that will determine the project’s future.

“We hope that (the models) will help both the NEB and all the residents of the region better understand the risks of oil spills,” said John Konovsky, a technical advisor with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. “Our position is that we oppose the expansion.”

One animation, posted online, shows a cluster of black dots spewing out from a theoretical ground zero, surging into open water and then dispersing into flecks that settle into dark outlines along the land.

The ebb and flow projected by the 72-hour time-lapse, driven mainly by tidal currents and winds, looks like a swarm of blackflies spreading across Vancouver’s English Bay and harbour.

That model puts the spill epicentre below the Lions Gate Bridge, at the First Narrows in Burrard Inlet, considered one of the most difficult and dangerous regions for outgoing ships to navigate.

“Watching it, it’s hard not to feel

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concerned,” said Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer, who drew a link between the animation to a much smaller spill in Vancouver’s harbour.

The MV Marathassa leaked about 2,700 litres of bunker fuel into the waters of the city last month. The coast guard has estimated at least 90 per cent of the spill was recovered.

The city has said a clean up response by federal agencies was insufficient.

“When you look at the time delay (in this model), this oil, up to 90 per cent could be on shorelines within hours?

The response wasn’t even in place within hours,” Reimer said.

It took more than four hours for an emergency response team, directed by the Canadian Coast Guard, to arrive after the fuel leak was first reported on the evening of April 8. A boom fully encircled the vessel by 6 a.m. the next day.

Beaches were closed for ten days, while two in Vancouver and several in West Vancouver remained under health advisories.

A single black dot in the animation represents slightly less than the volume of fuel spilled by the Marathassa. The model, conducted by Genwest Systems, predicts a worst-case spill of 16 million litres, which is about onefifth the quantity of oil on an average tanker.

The oil movement in the animation does not factor in the impact of cleanup.

A proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline would triple the output currently leaving the harbour and is projected to increase tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet to 34 vessels each month.

Ali Hounsell, spokeswoman for the expansion project, said the firm has in fact submitted detailed risk assessments of potential spills to the NEB.

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Manufacturing sales on the rise OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 2.9 per cent to $51.0 billion in March, the second increase in six months.

The federal agency says the increase was helped by the production of aerospace products and parts and gains in the motor vehicle industry.

Sales of fabricated metal products fell.

Economists had expected an increase of 1.2 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

Statistics Canada says sales rose in 10 of 21 industries, representing approximately 60 per cent of all manufacturing.

In constant dollars, sales rose 2.9 per cent.

The result for February was also revised with updated information to show a drop of 2.2 per cent compared with an earlier reading of a decrease of 1.7 per cent.

Godfrey plans to stay as Postmedia CEO until 2018 TORONTO — Canadian businessman and veteran media head Paul Godfrey plans to lead Postmedia Network Canada Corp. for three more years.

The company says the 76-year-old president and CEO has renewed his contract with the multimedia news outlet until December 2018.

Godfrey has held the top position at Postmedia since it was founded in July 2010 from the newspaper assets of the former CanWest Global Communications Corp.

The publisher of the National Post, as well as other newspapers and digital content, has been trying to turn around its money-losing operations as more advertisers shift away from traditional print publications to social media sites and search engines.

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Throughout his career, Godfrey has worked in various media arenas, including as the former head of the Toronto Blue Jays and leader of the Sun Media newspapers in the 1990s, which were recently acquired by Postmedia.

He also served as the chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. and is a well-known Progressive Conservative supporter.

Postmedia chairman Rod Philips said the extension of Godfrey’s contract “provides important continuity for the vision and leadership of the company.”

Easier redemptions key to Aeroplan success MONTREAL — The company that runs the Aeroplan loyalty-points program says it’s working to make redemptions easier for consumers.

The chief executive of Montrealbased Aimia Inc. told analysts Friday that the company has already introduced some changes and will be upgrading the technology platform used for redemptions.

“Our data tells us that a successful redemption motivates people to find even more ways to earn and earn faster,” Aimia CEO Rupert Duchesne said on a conference call.

Among Aimia’s partners are Air Canada (TSX:AC) - its chief airline partner - and Visa credit card issuers TD Bank (TSX:TD) and CIBC (TSX:CM).

Duchesne said that he sees 2015 as the year when things “settle” after a number of initiatives, including a shift of about half of CIBC’s Aeroplan Visa customers to TD Bank last year under new 10-year agreements with Aimia.

Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM) reported a $21.5-million profit or 10 cents per common share for the first quarter, which compared with a $17.3-million loss or 13 cents per share in early 2014.

Revenue from Aimia’s various customer-loyalty programs, which include Aeroplan in Canada and Nectar in the United Kingdom and Italy, was up was up 8.4 per cent to $660.1 million.

Revenue growth was boosted by changes in the value of the dollar and would have been up only 7.3 per cent on a constant-currency basis, the company said.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 129.45 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.81 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.53 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.43 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.92 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.96 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 215.75 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.98 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.09 Cervus Equipment Corp 17.09 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.51 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.84 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.67 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.88 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.91 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.56 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.43 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.97 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 35.78 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.56 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.14 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.59 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 133.55 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.25 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.25 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.02 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market held onto its gains to finish the session higher on Friday ahead of the Victoria Day holiday weekend.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 80 points at 15,108.12, with growth spread across most major sectors, though the TSX declined about 0.4 per cent for the week.

The advance came after Statistics Canada reported that manufacturing sales jumped 2.9 per cent in March, a stronger rise than expected and the second increase in six months.

The federal agency noted the increase was driven by production of aerospace products and parts and gains in the motor vehicle industry.

The loonie fell 0.16 of a U.S. cent to 83.18 cents.

South of the border movement was tighter even though Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed to its second consecutive record close.

The S&P 500 inched up 1.63 points to 2,122.73, while the Nasdaq fell 2.51 points to 5,048.29.

The Dow lifted 20.32 points to 18,272.56.

“The market is a little fatigued,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson & Co. Capital Management.

“We’ve had a good run, at least in the U.S., for a little while.”

On the TSX, financials were the biggest weight in advance of the Canadian bank earnings season which begins later this month. Analysts widely expect the Canadian banks to show tepid growth in the coming months as home sales demonstrate little growth in many parts of the country and energy companies cut back on borrowing.

Energy stocks moved higher, rising 0.7 per cent, even as the June crude oil contract declined for a third day, falling 19 cents

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.26 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.41 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.24 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.14 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.80 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.70 First Quantum Minerals . 18.64 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.32 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 12.09 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.06 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.88 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.63 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.73 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.61 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.06 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.37 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 65.85 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.91 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 35.34 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.98 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.41 Canyon Services Group. . 6.87 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.79 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.330 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.39 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.12 to US$59.69 a barrel. Earlier in the week it had closed above US$60.

June gold made a small gain late in the session, rising 10 cents to US$1,225.30 an ounce, capping an increase of just over three per cent on the week.

“When you look across the commodities, broadly speaking, it’s kind of a mixed bag,” Stephenson said.

Power Corp. (TSX:POW) boosted its quarterly dividend to 31.13 cents per share from 29 cents, as the Montreal-based holding company reported its first-quarter financial results Friday.

Net earnings attributable to shareholders increased to $354 million or 77 cents per share in the first quarter from 242 million or 53 cents in same year-earlier period. Shares of the company climbed 20 cents to $32.65.

Canadian stock markets will be closed on Monday for the Victoria Day holiday, though New York markets will operate in a regular session.

Next week, traders will be closely watching comments from Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz who will speak in Charlottetown on Tuesday.

He could offer an update on the possibility the central bank could boost its inflation target. The latest inflation figures for April are scheduled for release on Friday.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,108.12, up 80 points Dow — 18,272.56, up 20.32 points S&P 500 — 2,122.73, up 1.63 points (record high) Nasdaq — 5,048.29, down 2.51 points

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Ontario Loblaws workers vote to strike TORONTO — The United Food and Commercial Workers union says its members working at Loblaw Companies Ltd. in Ontario have voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action.

The strike votes at locals 175 and

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Currencies: Cdn — 83.18 cents US, down 0.16 of a cent Pound — C$1.8916, down 0.09 of a cent Euro — C$1.3763, up 0.73 of a cent Euro — US$1.1448, up 0.39 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.69 per barrel, down 19 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,225.30 per oz., up 10 cents (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.04 oz., up 34.3 cents $708.59 kg., up $11.03 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $0.90 lower $455.30; Nov ’15 $1.00 lower $449.20; Jan. ’16 $1.90 lower $450.00; March ’16 $1.40 lower $449.80; May ’16 $1.40 lower $450.30; July ’16 $1.40 lower $450.30; Nov. ’16 $1.40 lower $445.10; Jan. ’17 $1.40 lower $445.80; March ’17 $1.40 lower $445.80; May ’17 $1.40 lower $445.00; July ’17 $447.20.

Barley (Western): July ’15 $2.00 lower $192.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $177.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $182.00; March ’16 unchanged $182.00; May ’16 unchanged $182.00; July ’16 unchanged $182.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $182.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $182.00; March ’17 unchanged $182.00; May ’17 unchanged $182.00; July ’17 $182.00 Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 392,660 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 392,660.

633 took place after the union broke off talks on May 5.

The two UFCW locals represent 28,000 grocery workers employed at Loblaws Great Food and Superstore, Zehrs, Zehrs Great Food and Superstore, and Fortinos.

The locals say the main issues are wages, work schedules, benefits and they’re seeking improvements and limits on third party providers. Local 175 president Shawn Haggerty says with the strong strike vote, the workers are sending a clear message they support their negotiating committee.

Negotiations are scheduled to resume on May 26.

Court sides with huge fruit farm in fight with union LAWS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRESNO, Calif. — A California appeals court sided with one of the largest fruit farms in the nation, ruling that a law allowing the state to order unions and farming companies to reach binding contracts was unconstitutional.

Labour activists say the mandatory mediation and conciliation law is a key to helping farm workers improve working conditions.

However, the 5th District Court of Appeal said Thursday it does not clearly state the standards that the contracts are supposed to achieve.

The ruling came in a fight between Gerawan Farming and the United Farm Workers, the union launched by Cesar Chavez. The union won the right to represent Gerawan workers in 1992, but the two sides did not agree to a contract.

At the union’s request, the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board in 2013 ordered Gerawan and the UFW to enter into binding mediation. The two sides couldn’t come to an agreement so a deal was crafted by the mediator and adopted by the labour relations board, the appeals court said. Gerawan objected to the terms.

“This goes beyond Gerawan,” said company attorney David Schwarz.

“This sends a signal loud and clear that the entire scheme has serious constitutional defects.”

In its ruling, the appeals court said the law does not clearly spell out goals such as raising workers’ wages or improving working conditions that the mediator’s labour contract is supposed to achieve.

The law also fails to establish any safeguards to ensure the mediator does not favour either side, according to the court.

“The Legislature has delegated broad legislative authority to the mediator and the board under the MMC process, but has not provided adequate standards to guide and direct the use

of that delegated authority or prevent its misuse,” Associate Justice Stephen Kane wrote in the 3-0 ruling.

Supporters of the law say it was intended to help workers who had voted in elections but weren’t enjoying the benefits of union contracts because their employers refused to agree to terms.

United Farm Workers National Vice-President Armando Elenes said another appeals court upheld the law in 2006. The union plans to appeal Thursday’s decision to the state Supreme Court, which often resolves differences between appellate courts.

“In the meantime, Gerawan farm workers will continue their fight for a fair union contract,” he said.

The appeals court also said the labour relations board should have given Gerawan a chance to argue that the union had abandoned company workers before the board ordered the parties into mediation. Gerawan said the union disappeared for nearly two decades after starting contract talks and only returning to the bargaining table in 2012. The union has disputed that claim.

The appeals court also reversed the board’s mediation order.

“This is a huge victory for our employees,” said Dan Gerawan, who runs the family business in Central California.

The company hires thousands of workers annually to tend and harvest nectarines, peaches and plums, and has said it pays the highest wages in the industry.

Dan Gerawan said mediation was a misnomer and the mediator was really trying to force a contract.

Complicating the fight between Gerawan and the UFW is a vote Gerawan workers took in 2013 to decide if they would continue to be represented by the United Farm Workers.

The ballots were impounded by the state labour relations board over allegations of election misconduct and have not yet been counted.

Coal mines and climate change

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Beset by power plant closures, growing regulatory scrutiny and proposed changes in how they pay royalties, coal mines are facing a new obstacle — a review of how coal extracted and burned will impact the air and global warming.

Under a series of rulings by U.S. judges in Denver over the last year, federal agencies that approve mining projects have been told to take into account coal’s indirect environmental impact along with traditional concerns about mine dust and equipment emissions.

The immediate effects of the rulings appear limited to a single mine in northwestern Colorado that could lose its permit if a new environmental review isn’t completed within four months. But industry representatives fear the rulings, if allowed to stand, could set an example for other judges to follow and eventually threaten the mines that make up the backbone of an industry already facing uncertainty.

Two of the rulings involving Colo-

rado mines, from U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson, say greenhouse gas emissions need to be considered in environmental reviews. A similar case threatens to block production at another mine, in the coal-rich Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. Another federal judge also recently ruled that a mine on the Navajo Nation must consider the effects of burning coal before expanding.

The agency at issue in the two most recent cases, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, is part of the Interior Department and regulates the environmental effects of mining across the country. Office spokesman Chris Holmes said the agency is still reviewing the rulings and hasn’t decided what do to next.

But fighting them would put the Obama administration in an awkward position because of its efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas.

The cases focused on coal from federal leases, which account for about 40 per cent of U.S. production, but could open the door to similar legal challenges across the industry.

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Leaks are always a possiOne is the need for probility with an old tank, and pane deliveries. modern water heaters have If these don’t happen bemuch better insulation than cause of weather or a snowyours. blocked cottage driveway, You’ll save in energy then your cottage could costs, but you’ll probably freeze if you’re not there. still might have that sulAlso, furnaces are more STEVE phur smell with the new complicated than elecMAXWELL tank. tric baseboard heaters, so Odours like this are most there’s more to go wrong. often caused by harmless Is the cottage comfortable sulphur compounds in the water as it when you’re there and burning wood? comes out of the ground. If your water If it is, then the furnace would just tests fine for bacteria, then you can be functioning as a backup. If that’s either live with the odour or install a the case, then baseboard heaters have system to remove it. an advantage.

I know from experience that a hyI wouldn’t install a furnace if it were drogen peroxide injection system my place. along with a whole-house carbon filter The only real benefit is saving mondoes an excellent job removing sul- ey, but it wouldn’t be huge money. phur compounds.

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Question: The living room of our new home is very small and we have no idea what we can do with this space and its angled opening that carves a chunk out the usable space.

It is the only room in our home that can be used for watching television, and it is the main area for greeting our guests.

We have a grey leather sofa with a matching chair, as well as a black wall unit that seems to dominate this space.

The sofa is currently placed in front of one window and the wall unit is against the longest wall since this is the only arrangement that we can think of.

We have painted the walls in a light peach tone in an effort to make it seem larger and we are pleased with the DAVID results.

FERGUSON But we remain unsatisfied with the arrangement and hope that you can provide new ideas as to how to bring the chair and couch close enough for socializing but so that they don’t look forced.

We will buy tables, lamps and other accessories, whatever it takes, to make the room more comfortable.

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The layout for the dining area (not shown on my plan) is fairly straight forward.

The table can be centred in the allotted dining space, with the chairs placed parallel to its length, allowing for more space between the dining suite and the patio doors.

On my plan, I have shown a demi-sofa, a little more than five feet in length, that will give comfortable seating for two people.

The angular arrangement mimics the opening creating a nice sense of entry into the room.

In addition, two occasional chairs snugly fit into one corner without effort.

A large ottoman can provide you with a comfortable foot rest and a soft coffee table.

While not an ideal scenario, the television can sit comfortably in front of the window in a small, low cabinet so as not to obstruct the view.

If privacy is not a concern, consider leaving the living room windows bare, or only with a minimum treatment, such as a window blind that will allow you to control light .

Lighting and details can go far in relieving the sense of a small space.

Try to avoid lighting that will “wash” the walls in favour of general illumination.

Using pale colours to create the illusion of space is a good idea, but light colours can also appear bland.

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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015

Vatican officially recognizes state of Palestine in new treaty

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In this June 8, 2014, photo Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embrace as Israel President Shimon Peres, left, looks on during an evening of peace prayers in the Vatican gardens. The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized this week, immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects. The treaty, which concerns the activities of the Catholic Church in Palestinian territory, makes clear that the Holy See has switched its diplomatic recognition from the Palestine Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine.

ISRAEL ‘DISAPPOINTED’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday, immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.

The treaty, which concerns the activities of the Catholic Church in Palestinian territory, is both deeply symbolic and makes explicit that the Holy See has switched its diplomatic recognition from the Palestine Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine.

The Vatican had welcomed the decision by the U.N. General Assembly in 2012 to recognize a Palestinian state and had referred to the Palestine state since. But the treaty is the first legal document negotiated between the Holy See and the Palestinian state, giving the Vatican’s former signs of recognition an unambiguous confirmation in a formal, bilateral treaty. “Yes, it’s a recognition that the state exists,” said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was “disappointed.” “This move does not promote the peace process and distances the Palestinian leadership from returning to direct and bilateral negotiations,” the ministry said in a text message.

The United States and Israel oppose recognition, arguing that it undermines U.S.-led efforts to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian deal on the terms of Palestinian statehood. Most countries in Western Europe have held off on recognition, but some have hinted that their position could change if peace efforts remain deadlocked.

The treaty was finalized days before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits Pope Francis at the Vatican. “This is a very important recognition as the Vatican has a very important political status that stems from its spiritual status,” said Abbas’ senior aide, Nabil Shaath. “We expect more EU countries to follow.” The Vatican has been referring unofficially to the state of Palestine since 2012.

During Pope Francis’ 2014 visit to the Holy Land, the Vatican’s official program referred to Abbas as the president of the “state of Palestine.”

The Vatican’s foreign minister, Monsignor Antoine Camilleri, acknowledged the change in status, but said the shift was simply in line with the Holy See’s position. The Holy See clearly tried to underplay the development, suggesting that its 2012 press statement welcoming the U.N. vote constituted its first official recognition. Nowhere in that statement does the Vatican say it recognizes the state of Palestine, and the Holy See couldn’t vote for the U.N. resolution because it doesn’t have voting rights at the General Assembly.

Father of liberation theology praises ‘new climate’ focusing on poor at Vatican under Francis VATICAN CITY — The father of liberation theology, once criticized by the Vatican for its Marxist undercurrents, praised the “new climate” at the Vatican under Pope Francis that focused the church’s attention on social justice and serving the poor.

Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez made his first appearance at an official Vatican press conference Tuesday. It was a historic moment given that the Vatican spent much of the past few decades cracking down on the Marxist excesses of liberation theology, a Latin American-inspired theology advocating for the poor, and disciplining some of its most vocal supporters. Gutierrez, who himself was never disciplined, said the upcoming beatification of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a hero to the movement, signalled that “the wall has fallen.”

Some versions of liberation theology are at variance with church teachings because they view Christ as a mere social liberator. The Vatican objected to liberation theology’s basis in Marxist analysis of society — particularly the idea of class struggle in the promotion of social, political and economic justice for the poor.

In remarks to journalists, Gutierrez stressed that the liberation theology as a whole was never condemned. But he acknowledged that the Holy See had engaged in “very critical dialogue” with its proponents and that there were “difficult moments.”

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1970 — Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who; will found Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

1943 — British and Canadian Lancaster pilots of the Dambusters Squadron succeed

in breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany’s industrial Ruhr basin using a bouncing bomb dropped at low level.

1929 — The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood. Wings wins best picture.

1871 — Imperial Order-in-Council lets British Columbia join the Dominion as Canada’s sixth province.

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HOROSCOPES Saturday, May 16 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Megan Fox, 29; Pierce Brosnan, 62; David Boreanaz, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Love definitely makes the world go around today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are creative and expressive but don’t allow yourself to be too easily influenced by others. Saturn encourages you to find your moral compass and stick to it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You want things done your way and you want them done now! Slow down and be more patient and astute in your appraisal of people and situations. This will save time in the long run.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Single Bulls — don’t accept second best.

Have the confidence to wait for your JOANNE soul mate. Attached Taureans — it’s MADELEINE time to be much more romantic and atMOORE tentive towards your partner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t jump to hasty conclusions and assume you know what loved ones are thinking — you may be way off the mark. For some single Geminis love, romance and work are all linked.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Routine responsibilities may be getting you down, and leave you daydreaming about a heavenly holiday. If you cooperate with others, you’ll get essential tasks completed in half the usual time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Venus connects with Neptune, so it’s a good time to pursue creative projects or spiritual endeavours. Plus show extra compassion towards a family member who may need your help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to review your goals for the future — are they creative enough Virgo? Don’t be too safe and sensible. Neptune urges you to be as imaginative and inspirational as possible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Love is in the air as Venus and Neptune increase romantic vibes. If you are attached, then do something special for your partner. Singles — love and money are linked in mysterious ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Romantic, family and business relationships are favoured today, so make the most of the positive vibes. Socializing with loved ones puts a spring in your step and a smile on your dial.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll feel extra restless today Sagittarius. Don’t be too hasty though! Venus and Neptune encourage you to help a friend or family member who needs some support and direction.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There’s much to be done — and great satisfaction to be gained — from working within your local community Capricorn. State what you can and can’t do, and don’t be afraid to say no.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A business idea that started as a vague dream has definite potential. But it’s not the time to be an independent Aquarian — you will need the cooperation of other people to make it happen.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are at your romantic, creative and compassionate best, as you inspire and help those around you.

Singles — it’s a wonderful day to be swept off your feet by someone special.

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Sunday May 17, 2015 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dennis Hopper, 79; Bill Paxton, 60; Leven Rambin, 25 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to turn abstract ideas into concrete projects.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If someone wants something done — prop-

He’s concerned that these people will say, “We are good neighbours.

“Why do they need to put up a fence?” and that it will reflect poorly on us.

My idea of being a neighbour is saying hello with a wave and then going about my business.

We now have to open the door and look around before going anywhere.

We end up spending the majority of our outdoor time in the side yard opposite these neighbors so they can’t see us.

We are considering moving.

Should I say something to this neighbour? I’m pretty sure the outcome won’t be helpful if I do.

How do I deal with this situation? — Trapped By Nosy Nellie Dear Trapped: By all means, put up a fence.

You are entitled to your privacy, and if your neighbour doesn’t like it, too bad.

She is holding you prisoner because you allow it.

Stop worrying about what she will think.

Always be polite to her, but do what you need to do in order to enjoy your home.

Dear Annie: I’m responding to “Played for a Fool” and others who have loaned money. I’ve learned the hard way about the need to document financial transactions.

If I loan money to a friend or family member, or

sell something requiring payment, I type up a simple loan agreement, date it and state the amount borrowed and the repayment terms.

All parties must sign it.

I keep the original and make a copy for the borrower.

When a payment is made, I write a receipt for the borrower and keep the copy for my records.

If anyone refuses to sign a loan agreement, I won’t loan them money.

It may seem hardhearted to family members, but people tend to “forget” a loan and regard it as a gift.

One of my sons lives with me and pays rent.

For every payment he makes, he gets a receipt.

I do this so that his siblings cannot say he is taking advantage of me.

It is such a simple thing to do, and documentation avoids stress and hard feelings.

Also, if a large amount of money is involved, and you need to go to court, you have evidence to present to the judge. — Spokane, Wash.

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erly and on time then you’re the one to call.

But watch your stress levels don’t get too high. Regular relaxation is a must.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams — when it comes to making important financial, professional or personal decisions, don’t disregard your gut feelings. Intellect and intuition are a powerful double act.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you been bustling around like a busy Bull on steroids? As the Moon moves through your sign today, it’s time to slow down and smell the roses along the way.

Enjoy!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you feeling stressed because you have to make an important decision?

Don’t just listen to your logical side. If you pay attention to your intuition, it will lead you in the right direction.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Close relationships are highlighted. Don’t let your emotions run your life but don’t repress them either. Balance is the key. It’s time to get deep and meaningful with someone special.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions don’t like sharing the spotlight, but the more you support loved ones, the better your day will be.

Creative communication is favoured, as you tap into the talent that is all around.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your obsessive side swings into gear today but that doesn’t have to be a problem. Use it to your advantage as you research a project, or tackle tasks that need to be completed ASAP. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Professional projects and group activities are favoured today, as you soak up the talent and enthusiasm around you. Nurturing the creativity of others will bring many personal rewards.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you nurture your finances, the more they will flourish. Don’t expect instant results though.

Managing cash and credit carefully now will lead to financial security in the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The more you nurture your finances, the more they will flourish. Don’t expect instant results though. Managing cash and credit carefully now will lead to financial security in the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Relationships with family and friends will take up much of your emotional energy but avoid aggravating partnership problems. Venus encourages you to be more diplomatic than usual.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Its the perfect day to investigate your ancestry, or dig up the solution to a domestic problem. Don’t skim the surface — get in touch with your deepest feelings, especially involving family members.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Communicating with loved ones is favoured, so plan something special. Perhaps a romantic lunch; a cosy family dinner; or just a long chat on the phone? Don’t procrastinate Pisces!

ing emotions today Crabs. Your life is messy at the moment but if you tune into a quiet, still place within, you’ll feel more calm, steady and secure.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The air is electric with career opportunities for hungry Lions. The question is are you hungry enough? With the New Moon lighting up your professional zone, now is the time to pounce!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Long-distance travel is likely over the next 12 months, as the New Moon activates your adventure zone. If you nurture your international connections, then the possibilities are endless LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans are creative creatures, but sometimes you are side-tracked on the road to success. The New Moon encourages you to be more practical, as you turn your dreams into reality.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The New Moon helps you look at relationships from a fresh perspective. Are there bad habits you can banish or old beliefs you can surrender? Quit being a stubborn Scorpio and let go!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The New Moon increases your enthusiasm for a new sport or exercise routine that you can share with your friends. Perhaps its time for Sagittarians to sky-dive, belly-dance or zumba?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Aim to get the balance right between work and leisure, and don’t let self-doubts hold you back.

You could also initiate a relationship renaissance with a lover, child, teenager or friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may start to see a family member in a fascinating new light. Perhaps its time to let go of old grudges Aquarius, as you build bridges with loved ones and let bygones be bygones?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Its time for friendly Fish to find fresh ways to connect with those around you, whether at home or within your local community. Expect some frustrations at school or work though.

Monday May 18, 2015 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Tina Fey, 45; Yun-Fat Chow, 60; Karel Roden, 53 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon provides the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are dependable and responsible. 2015 is the year to re-imagine your goals for the future but don’t forget to relax and have some fun along the way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you a spendthrift? With the New Moon stimulating your cash zone, you’re in the mood for a spontaneous spending spree. Just remember Rams — slow and steady wins the money race.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Its the perfect time to rejuvenate your appearance, plus revise your personal plans for the future.

With the New Moon giving you a confidence boost, Bulls are ready for anything!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Conjure up novel ways to be creative at home and work, as you indulge in some delightful daydreaming. Your intuition is firing so make sure you capitalise on your creativity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect some stress and fluctuat-

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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to be around. That’s exactly where this is headed — unless you can talk about it before you commit to living together.

Should you decide to talk to her, make the problem about you.

Make it about your fear of becoming the nagging roommate if things aren’t clean enough.

Explain that you’re worried you’ll be too hard to live with. She might tell you that she is worried, too, but wants to figure out how to make it work.

If you can talk about it, plan for it and manage possible problems before there are actual problems, it might actually work (but it’s not likely). Tell the truth and follow your gut.

Maybe you’ll decide to get studio apartments in the same building. This way, she can come over when she wants to leave her big, messy apartment.

Dear Harlan: My son is going to college next year. He’ll be on a large campus where he doesn’t know a lot of people. He wants to live in a single room. We don’t think it’s a good idea.

Do you think a single dorm room is a good idea for a shy student, or is it better to encourage a roommate?— Shy Parents Dear Shy Parents: Living alone is an awful, terrible, bad idea.

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The bigger issue isn’t living with someone, but how he’ll find a life outside of his room. Shy students can struggle. They hate new situations.

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Shy people need a plan of attack.

They have to identify places where they can connect before arriving on campus. They need people in their corner who can support, guide and lead them.

Suggest clubs and organizations that are more welcoming than others (spiritual, campus activity boards, academic clubs). Encourage him to get a parttime job, live in a “living and learning” community (students living with peers who have similar majors), participating in an honors or leadership program, doing something athletic, being in the band or joining spiritual organizations that accept everyone.

Living with a roommate might force him to leave his room, but only he can force himself to create a life on campus.

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Dear Harlan: I’m going to be taking a girl out for the first time. I’m not experienced in this department. What is some good first-date advice?

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No one wants to meet your family tree on a first date (unless you’re dating a cousin).

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