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CHALLENGE FOR CABINET IS TO MANAGE EXPECTATIONS: ANALYSTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Political analysts say Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s first cabinet may be small but it will have to manage big expectations.

“They’ve got a lot of work to do identifying priorities,” said Duane Bratt, a political scientist with Mount Royal University in Calgary, said Monday.

“There are a lot of people who are expecting this magic wand in social services, in health, in education, just to happen — and we still have a $7-billion hole in the budget.”

Notley and her 11-member cabinet team were sworn in Sunday on the steps of the legislature, officially dethroning a Progressive Conservative dynasty that had run the province for almost 44 years.

Notley has promised to deliver reform on major issues, including a drastic hike to minimum wage, a review of oil royalties, money for thousands of new students and a balanced budget by 2018-19.

The cabinet includes the four NDP incumbents from the last legislature session plus eight newcomers.

Former premier Jim Prentice, by comparison, was one of 17 cabinet ministers plus three associate ministers.

Some of Notley’s cabinet team have dual portfolios, some with more responsibilities on top of that.

Political analyst Bob Murray said that runs the risk of bottlenecks and poor outcomes.

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Josh Keith, in the pink hair, looks on as grade nine student Zack Broughton lops off a long pig tail from the head of St. Thomas of Aquinas School grade eight teacher Blair Christensen during a head shave event at the school on Monday. With 10 teachers and nine students taking part in the fundraiser the school raised $5,552 which was presented to City of Red Deer Emergency Services personnel. The money raised will go to the Red Deer Fire Fighters Childrens Charity which helps fund the Reading Pals program at the Dawe Centre, the Women’s Outreach, the Boys and Girls Club, and the Red Deer Food Bank among other organizations.

Pollinator parks protection passes Provincewide RED DEER CITY COUNCIL

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Bumblebees, butterflies, moths, flies and other pollinators will now a safe landing in Red Deer.

City Hall Park, Snell Gardens, Bower Ponds and Maskepetoon Park were dedicated as pollinator parks on Monday.

The average onlooker will not notice too much of a difference at the sites save for a few interpretative signs.

But the payoff will be huge, says Trevor Poth, the city’s Parks superintendent.

“The most important thing about the pollinator parks is educating the public about the opportunities they have on their own properties,” said Poth.

“We can have huge benefits for pollinators (through) residents adopting our practices and incorporating them into their land base.”

The project price tag rings in at roughly $10,000 or $2,500 per site for the signs.

The city’s website will feature resources for those interested in transforming their yards into pollinator-friendly areas.

The four sites were selected based on the habitat, pollen sources, interpretive access and pesticide limitations.

Poth said the city is in a good position because many of the parks were designed as the perfect environment for pollinators.

“We will be focusing on these parks as areas we will further reduce pesticide use but also areas where we can do innovative things such as overseeding certain areas ... and different things with flowers,” said Poth.

Councillors Paul Harris and Lynne Mulder brought the motion to council calling for the protection of pollinators last March.

Harris said Red Deer is being looked at by other municipalities for the work done around the new pollinator parks.

“It’s great to see this resolution pass today,” said Harris.

“I think it will set the stage for other municipalities to take a leadership role in protecting pollinators.”

Harris said he was reminded by the “alarmist statement” by Albert Einstein where Einstein declared, “if we lose our bees and our pollinators, we will lose humanity, four years later.”

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said major pollinator numbers have declined between 30 to 40 per cent over the last 20 years due to lost of habitat and pesticide

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“When you think about that and you don’t do anything what’s going to happen in the next 10 to 20 years,” she said.

“This resolution … is so much more than what the city can do but what our citizens can do ... It’s what we can plant locally and the actions we do in our own backyards and our balcony that can make a difference.”

Council also pointed out the great work being done to protect pollinators in the community by groups at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre and the Ellis Bird Farm.

Coun. Ken Johnston said, “it’s a great day to be a pollinator. It’s a great day to be a Red Deerian.”

In other council news:

●More help is on the way for individuals living on the streets in Central Alberta.

Council endorsed the Community Housing Advisory Board (CHAB)’s recommendation to allocate $185,000 to the McMan Central for a new youth outreach and family reunification services project.

CHAB, on behalf of the city, oversees two grant programs that help individuals who are experiencing homelessness with the goal to getting them into stable housing. The new project will run from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. ●A Queen Anne influenced house in Red Deer may be protected under the Alberta Historical Resources Act. Council endorsed the issuance of the notice of intent for the Willson House (5011-43rd Ave.) to be named a municipal historic reserve. While municipalities have the authority to designate municipal historic resources, this will be the first time the city has considered the possibility. The owners of the 104-year-old home requested the designation. In as early as mid-August council will consider designating the site located in the Michener Hill neighbourhood through a land use bylaw. ●Jackpot Casino’s proposed parking lot cleared another hurdle.

Acting as the development authority, council approved a development permit for a temporary nineyear parking lot at 4637 and 4643-50th Street. There were some minor changes to the site plan including reducing the number of parking spaces to 41 from 42, widening a lane, sign location and pedestrian connection. Two trees will be planted to replace two that will be chopped down. The existing Larch tree will be preserved.

The approval comes after a large public hearing on March 30 when council approved a site exception for the Parkvale site. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

fire ban in effect

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Tinder-dry conditions across most of Alberta have triggered a provincewide fire ban.

As of noon on Monday, all open fires, including those in campgrounds, back country or random camping areas in the province’s forest protection areas, will not be allowed. Portable propane fire pits and gas or propane stoves and barbecues designed for cooking or heating are OK. All fire permits are suspended or cancelled and no new fire permits will be issued. “(The ban) is a combination of how WILDFIRE FORCES PEOPLE dry the province is, FROM HOMES A3 plus the resource capacity we have to fight these wildfires,” said Kristofer Heemeryck, wildfire prevention officer in the Rocky Wildfire Management Area.

“The natural-occurring ones are hard enough to fight. We don’t need those reckless or nuisance fires from campfires or from off-highway vehicles, the stuff that can be prevented.”

More than 1,300 wildland firefighters and 100 aircraft are battling the wildfires already underway.

Firefighters and other resources from Ontario and Quebec are arriving to help. Since April 1, Alberta has seen 629 wildfires that have burned 13,098 hectares (32,350 acres). Municipalities and provincial parks are not covered by the ban, but many have their own restrictions in place.

Clearwater County followed with its own open fire ban, which went into effect at 1 p.m. Fire advisories were in effect in all other Central Alberta rural municipalities as of Monday. For more information, go to www.albertafirebans.ca.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development rates the wildfire hazard as “very high” in the Rocky Wildfire Management Area, a huge swath of natural area west of Rocky Mountain House extending from Drayton Valley in the north to Sundre in the south and west to the Jasper and Banff National Parks.

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City to limit use of pesticides

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Using pesticides to curb nuisance weeds on cityowned and maintained public lands is slowly becoming a thing of the past.

On Monday, council adopted a new policy that limits the use of pesticides on city-owned and maintained public land.

Trevor Poth, Parks superintendent, said the new policy strikes the right balance by minimizing pesticide use while ensuring the beauty of the parks and health of the turf in Red Deer.

It places restrictions on where the city can spray including no closer than 30 metres from a play structure or school.

While it has been the city’s practice for 15 years not to spray sports fields that are on school sites, the new policy allows the opportunity to control sports fields that are in poor shape.

“It allows us go in and do some treatments as long as they remain 30 metres away from a school or playground,” said Poth.

The biggest change for residents may be in some neighbourhood closes with green areas that do not contain play structures. The city will no longer spray these sites.

The Environmental Master Plan (EMP) acts as a guiding document in the city’s play to reduce pesticide use.

Poth said the city has made great strides in reducing its usage even before the plan was adopted in 2011.

The parks department has reduced its use of pesticides per acre by 75 per cent over 25 years. The EMP calls for another 10 per cent reduction by 2035.

“The City of Red Deer in our parks use one eighth of the pesticides that the average resident would use on their same property,” said Poth.

The policy also addresses the need to continue to explore and test methods of weed control that do not rely on pesticides.

The city had considered a complete ban on cityoperated land but no alternatives proved effective.

Staff will continue to research and test alternative weed control methods.

“We found the best balance that we could given the products that are given today,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “I think the win in the future will be the commitment to continue to explore organics and nonchemical organics.”

On the dandelion front, Poth said the community is becoming more accepting of the ubiquitous weed within the parks.

“Unfortunately the only way we can treat them efficiently is using pesticides,” he said. “When we consider the trade off between pesticides and dandelions, the majority of the public is quite supportive of seeing dandelions if we’re not going to be spraying the parks.”

All pesticides used in the city are approved safe to use by Health Canada. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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CABINET: Decision-making process “With such a lean cabinet, what is going to be the decision-making process and what is the apparatus that the new government has put in place to ensure that decisions are streamlined and being made in an effective and timely manner?” asked Murray, vicepresident of research for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

Former NDP Leader Brian Mason, as an example, will handle both the sprawling Infrastructure and Transportation departments while also organizing the business of the assembly as government house leader.

Mason’s job will be to deliver new schools promised in 2012 but never delivered by the Tories to go with demands for more hospitals and new roads.

The cabinet has six members from Edmonton and three from Calgary. There is one each from northern,

Canada’s first TV debate was also a headache

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Tories walk away from the election debate negotiations, the Liberals make a set of demands to suit their leader, and the smaller parties balk at being shut out.

That was 1968.

Nearly a half-century after the first televised match-up between Canada’s federal party leaders, some of the same positioning and posturing is still part of the story before the debates get underway.

“The representatives of each party are fighting for every milligram of what they consider their due with the single-minded fervour of children dividing a chocolate bar,” Globe and Mail reporter Leslie Millin wrote that year.

Back then, Canadian political parties were well aware of the widely watched 1960 debate in the United States between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

When the 1962 election rolled around, Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson challenged Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to a televised showdown. The chief declined.

CTV, decided to put forward an offer for a 90-minute debate in 1968 — but it only wanted Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau and Progressive Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield to participate.

The NDP’s Tommy Douglas declared the offer “discrimination,” and the party vowed to mount a national protest. Trudeau demanded that all parties should be invited and that the debate be bilingual — central, and southern Alberta.

Notley has been criticized for short-changing Calgary at the expense of Edmonton, at the cabinet table.

But pollster and political analyst Janet Brown noted that while Calgary has fewer ministers, the ones it has wield big-stick authority.

“We’ve got three people with senior-level portfolios,” said Brown.

“In terms of the public large at large I don’t think this (Edmonton-Calgary disparity) is going to be a problem.”

Joe Ceci, the MLA for Calgary-Fort and a former longtime city councillor, is the new Finance minister.

Irfan Sabir, the MLA for Calgary-McCall, is now in charge of delivering social care in the Human Services portfolio.

Lawyer Kathleen Ganley, representing CalgaryBuffalo, is the new Justice minister and Solicitor General, and is in charge of Aboriginal Relations.

Brown said a tight cabinet featuring many people Notley has known and worked with is a prudent course as the NDP begins to shift policy.

“She’s trying to rein stuff in. She’s trying to sort of put the control in the hands of few trusted people,” said Brown.

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Heemeryck said conditions in the West Country remain hot and dry, with no rain falling in the last few days.

“It just continues to be a hot, dry spring for us.

And we don’t need any of the what I’ll call the reckless fires, the campfires that get away, the stuff that can be prevented,” he said.

As of Monday, there were 30 wildfires burning — five out of control — around the province. Four are burning but are under control in the West Country, which so far has gotten off lightly with only 110 acres burned from the 63 relatively minor fires reported so far this year.

“It only takes one bad one to change that. Yesterday we had about an 11.5-hectare (28-acre) fire and we were lucky to catch it,” he said, of the blaze that was south of the Drayton Valley area. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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something that would give him an advantage over the others.

“Mr. Trudeau does not have the courage to meet Mr. Stanfield in a face-to-face debate,” Progressive Conservative national chairman Eddie Goodman fumed, as talks appeared to falter.

Finally, CTV and CBC/Radio-Canada got together to put forward a proposal, one that would see Trudeau, Stanfield and Douglas debate for 80 minutes, with Creditiste Leader Real Caouette coming in for the last 40. There was to be simultaneous interpretation.

Social Credit Leader A.B. Patterson was not invited. Those were also the beginnings of the so-called television consortium and the unusual arrangement of the networks pooling their resources. The deal would sometimes rub other media outlets the wrong way — in 1968, journalists were barred from the Parliament Hill building where the debate was televised. Fast-forward to 2015, and some of the same tensions have cropped up.

The Liberals are insisting on including all the parties, and want an equal number of French and English debates. The Green Party and Bloc Quebecois are upset about being excluded from different offers. The newly formed party Forces et Democratie hasn’t been invited to any of the major debates.

But this time around there also appears to be a breaking away from the model set in 1968.

An estimated 14 million Canadians watched the debates in 1968, the same number as in 2011 even though the population has risen 12 million and there is one more national TV network.

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Progressive Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield, left, and Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau share a few words at the nationally televised debate held in Ottawa June 9, 1968.

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Wildfire forces about 2,000 people from homes ‘IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW WARM AND DRY IT IS OUT THERE.’

Wildfires have forced about 2,000 people from their homes in northern Alberta.

Cyndi Taron, director of emergency management with the Municipal District of Opportunity, said a state of emergency was put in place Sunday night for the area, 330 kilometres north of Edmonton.

About 1,000 residents of the hamlet of Wabasca and another 1,000 people from the surrounding Bigstone Cree Nation checked into reception centres in Calling Lake and Athabasca, she said. Others were staying with friends or gone elsewhere with campers and tents.

Mounties were going door-to-door in the communities and talked with some people who didn’t want to leave, she added.

“It’s mandatory but the RCMP do not have the authority to start drag-

ging people out of their homes at this point,” Taron said Monday.

The out-of-control blaze first prompted an order to leave on Saturday, but residents were allowed to return that evening after it was contained. They were forced out again Sunday afternoon when wind pushed the flames past a fireguard.

“It just goes to show you how warm and dry it is out there,” said wildfire information officer Geoffrey Driscoll.

He said the fire, about two square kilometres or the size of 100 Canadian football fields, was one of 29 fires burning in the province on Monday.

Another blaze near Cold Lake caused Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to pull about 2,000 workers and shut down their oilsands operations Saturday.

The closures have resulted in lost production of about 233,000 barrels of oil a day — roughly a 10 per cent loss of the province’s daily production of oilsands crude.

Wildrose criticizes Notley for taking direct role in picking next Speaker

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s new government under Premier Rachel Notley has yet to meet in the legislature, but there’s already heated debate over the impartiality of the next Speaker.

Bob Wanner, the incoming MLA for Medicine Hat, confirmed Monday that Notley took a direct role in getting him nominated to be, in effect, the next referee of the legislature.

“There was a caucus meeting (Sunday). The premier nominated me as a candidate,” Wanner said in an interview.

“It was voted on and endorsed by the New Democratic caucus, and I agreed to accept the nomination.”

He said he is reaching out to all parties in the coming days and would serve all without fear or favour.

“I would hope that in the vein that we’re all hoping for that we will have a process that all of the 87 MLAs have trust and confidence in the Speaker,” he said.

No other MLA has publicly announced a desire for the job. The current Speaker, Tory Gene Zwozdesky, was defeated in the May 5 election.

The Speaker will be chosen by a majority of MLAs in a secret ballot in the house on June 11.

The Speaker, while coming from one of the parties in the house, has a critical role as an impartial arbiter, deciding which questions can and can’t be asked and disciplining members as required.

It’s a role that parliamentary tradition demands be as free of partisanship as possible.

Wildrose house leader Nathan Cooper said Wanner’s impartiality is now in question given that as Speaker he may be asked at some point to rule against Notley, the person who effectively got him the job.

‘HOW CAN THIS GUY RULE AGAINST THE PREMIER WHEN HE’S THE PREMIER’S CHOICE.’ — NATHAN COOPER WILDROSE HOUSE LEADER

“How can this guy rule against the premier when he’s the premier’s choice?” said Cooper in an interview.

Cooper said Wanner did not help his impartiality pledge by boasting to a local newspaper that being Speaker gives him direct access to Notley and other cabinet ministers.

Cooper also noted that Notley and the NDP, while serving in opposition in February, criticized then-premier Jim Prentice for ordering an independent all-party of the legislature to meet and rescind a vote to give more money to the auditor general.

“This is a perfect example of that same sort of activity, the premier engaging or overruling a legislative process,” said Cooper.

Notley’s office, in an email, did not respond to questions about Notley’s role in selecting Wanner, but said that overall nothing untoward was done.

“This is not a nomination, this is an endorsement and the NDP caucus, like all caucuses, has the right to meet and decide who they would like to see serve as speaker,” wrote Notley’s spokesperson, Cheryl Oates.

“There will still be a secret ballot where every member of the legislature can openly vote for whomever they choose.”

The NDP has 53 members in the 87-seat legislature. The Wildrose has 21, PCs have nine, while leaders Greg Clark of the Alberta Party and David Swann of the Liberals also sit in the house. There is one vacancy and one Independent.

“Mom won’t remember this moment, but I will.”

A small airplane used for fire suppression crashed while fighting that fire on Friday, killing a civilian pilot.

Weather hampered efforts to get to the site and the body of 38-year-old William Alexander Garvie Hilts of Cranbrook, B.C. was recovered Monday.

The government also issued a provincewide fire ban Monday because of hot and dry weather conditions. Wildfire hazards were listed as high to extreme across most of the province.

The government said it’s the first full ban since 2011, when fire destroyed about one-third of the town of Slave Lake.

Some rural homes about 20 kilometres northeast of Slave Lake were evacuated later Monday but officials said the town was not in the path of the blaze.

And residents in a 30-kilometres ra-

dius around Mortonville in the Municipal District of Slave Lake were told to leave immediately on Monday.

Officials said they were to make their way to the MD office and hotel accommodations would be arranged.

“Our firefighters are starting to reach capacity,” said Driscoll. About 300 crew members are battling fires and an additional 1,000, including firefighters from Ontario, are ready to be called in to help.

Showers and thunderstorms were forecast in some areas for Monday night, and lightning could cause more fires, he said.

Firefighters were reporting good progress on fighting an out-of-control blaze northwest of Edson.

That fire was about six square kilometres in size.

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rural property north of Edmonton on Saturday to respond to a trespassing complaint.

ASIRT says a 47-year-old man was found in a field nearby and went down after he was shot during a confrontation.

An armed standoff followed and attempts to communicate with the man were unsuccessful.

Emergency response officers approached and found him dead.

ASIRT investigators found a loaded .22-calibre rifle at his side and a .30-.30 lever-action rifle in the field.

The carbine rifle fired by police was also seized.

The investigation continues.

BRIEF One cigarette caused destruction of 106-suite condo in Edmonton:fire chief EDMONTON — A massive condo fire in Edmonton that has left hundreds of people homeless and caused more than $16 million damage all started with one cigarette.

Fire chief Ken Block says investigators blame the fire on “improperly disposed smoking material.”

The fire destroyed most of the fourstorey condo complex in east Edmonton on Friday night.

Block says it’s “extremely fortunate” that nobody died.

He calls the fire “devastating” and “completely preventable.”

Residents are being allowed back into the condo complex starting today to look around and seize personal belongings.

Investigators say man shot

by RCMP north of Edmonton had two guns EDMONTON — Investigators say a man who was shot dead by RCMP on the weekend was in possession of two rifles.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says officers went to a

Hearing into murder of a Calgary couple and their grandson expected to end soon CALGARY - A preliminary inquiry for an Alberta man charged in the disappearance and murder of a Calgary couple and their grandson is expected to wrap up early.

The hearing for Douglas Garland, who is 55, is to determine if there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.

It was scheduled for two weeks but is now expected to wrap up Wednesday.

Garland is facing two counts of firstdegree and one of second-degree murder.

The charges relate to the disappearance of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien last June.

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A carbon tax for us all The stars seem to be aligning for an improved carbon tax in Alberta. Goodness knows, there’s plenty of room for improvement there.

Alberta, you will recall, was the first jurisdiction in North America to institute a tax penalty for greenhouse gas pollution, back in 2007. The tax was named by a committee that obviously stayed up way too late GREG coming to agreeNEIMAN ment: it’s called the Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.

The financial penalty under SGER has been pretty mild, the funds it raised have been poorly used and there is no indication anywhere that it served to reduce either intensity or total greenhouse gas emissions in the province.

The specified polluters pay $15 a tonne for that part of their carbon pollution that exceeds a baseline. The polluters only pay for a maximum of 12 per cent of their total emissions, and one document I found said it only costs the companies $1.80 a tonne to meet the targets.

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The money went into a tech fund that mostly paid for research to help energy companies improve their own oil and gas production. The tax improved the lives of zero Albertans — except for those who administered the program and accessed the money. Zero as well, for the environment.

Still, the philosophy behind the plan was sound.

Globally, about 80 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions are produced by consumers. We drive cars, we turn on our coffee makers in the morning, we heat our homes in the winter. Everything we do has a carbon footprint.

But the global numbers don’t apply in Alberta. Because of the energy intensity of Alberta’s heavy industry, our province produces a whopping 36 per cent of all the greenhouse gases produced in Canada. Our oilsands projects trump the influence of consumer emissions in our province, plus that of Ontario, or probably more.

That’s why Suncor CEO Steve Williams is on board with a new carbon tax for Alberta. That also influenced how Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently set a national goal for Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent in 15 years.

Canada simply can’t become a better global citizen until we solve the problem of how to get those 168 billion barrels of oil out of the oilsands, using less energy.

Williams agrees to a carbon tax, but he wants it to be universal. He wants the consumers to be involved. That serves his purposes, because the vast majority of his customers burn Suncor’s oil outside of Canada.

The federal government’s plan is to help Suncor and all the other oilsands conglomerates buy carbon credits on the international market. No cap-andtrade for Canadians, no sir, no way — but globally, the Harper government makes it the cornerstone of our emissions reduction program. Go figure.

In the past, Albertans derided a carbon tax as merely a cash transfer from Alberta to the feds. Harper wants to go that one better — by transferring the money right out of Canada.

I say we need a hybrid of the plans.

Williams is right: consumers do need to know that what they do has a pollution price. In British Columbia, that price (their carbon tax) replaces part of their income tax system. Ride a bike to work, reduce your taxes. Lower the thermostat a bit in the winter, reduce your taxes. Waste less, reduce your taxes.

But that can’t be the total answer in Alberta. We could be pushing our bikes through deep snow (I’ve done it and it’s hard), and shivering in our homes all winter, and still not make a significant dent in Alberta’s total emissions, because of the oilsands.

Nobody can reasonably suggest we leave the oilsands in the ground. No

country sitting on 168 billion barrels of crude would do that. None.

So if carbon credits need to be bought, why not buy them from me?

OK, and you.

We appear to have consensus here, so tax both consumers and the big producers. Use the money to both reduce the burden of other taxes and to encourage more non-fossil energy sources. I can adapt my behaviour to fit the program.

But more, make it easy for me to put a few solar panels on my house and garage. Pay me the full market rate for all the solar power that I don’t use. Let the big power producers have a carbon credit from that, which they can sell.

The technology is improving rapidly for at-home storage of solar power and industrial-grade storage of wind power. There’s a huge potential for both total greenhouse gas reduction and carbon credits to offset Alberta’s unique burden from oilsands production.

I could live with that, could you?

Isn’t that the philosophy behind what both Williams and Harper say they want? So if the consensus already exists for this, do it.

But let the consumers who want to become carbon conservers benefit — in cash, directly. That’s the only way the plan will actually work.

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

LETTER TO EDITOR

Beware: evolution theory is scientifically bankrupt Gerry Feehan’s travel article on the Galapagos (Advocate, May 16) was fascinating, and the photos were great.

But his Darwinist interpretation of the island’s spectacular life forms should have included a little more of what Charles Darwin, himself, had to say about his theory: “... by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them imbedded in the crust of the earth? Why is all nature not in confusion instead of being as we see them, well defined species? Geological research does not yield the infinitely many fine gradations between past and present species required by the theory; and this is the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued against it.”

What Darwin observed on the Galapagos were finches with various beaks. And yes, natural selection or “survival of the fittest,” is a good explanation of why this is so.

But this has nothing to do with evolution over millions of years.

It is simply variation within a kind, otherwise called speciation.

It did not take millions of years to breed our cattle, cats or corn to produce the characteristics we so enjoy today.

It took only a few decades, if that.

The point is, the kinds of birds, tortoises, and iguanas seen by Darwin, and Feehan, on the Galapagos, were the same kinds created by God on day five and six in the first week which He created the universe, just a few thousand years ago.

They may have adapted, within the limitations of the DNA which they contained, but they are still the birds, tortoises and iguanas as originally made by their Creator. If Feehan would warn us about reading his article “if you believe the world is only 6,000 years old,” I would caution him about swallowing a theory that, despite its popularity, is scientifically bankrupt.

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What the NDP can learn from its own mistakes We’ve been here before.

There was a time, in the not too distant past, when the NDP led the national polls, it appeared electoral revolution was at hand and the leader of the day, Ed Broadbent, was being spoken of as the next prime minister.

In 1988, as today, the country seemed headed for a historically close three-party race.

It never hapTIM pened.

HARPER Broadbent, of course, proved to be the country’s great polling parking lot, the vessel for pre-election discontent. A 44 per cent standing in the polls, stunning news that led national newscasts and newspapers, melted away in what became a historic two-party battle over an issue that comes along perhaps once in a generation. The NDP was marginalized and its design on government was nothing more than a mirage.

Voters dated Broadbent but married Brian Mulroney. Again.

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As the party prepared for broadcast a pre-election ad that essentially introduces their leader to Canadian voters and an NDP government was being sworn in in Alberta, there is reason to believe 1988 was just a historical anomaly with few lessons to be learned 27 years later. But there are also historical precedents that deserve the party’s attention.

At one point, riding high, Broadbent — perhaps fatally — mused about displacing the Liberals in a two-party system in Canada.

Mulcair, whose contempt for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is palpable, must resist such hubris. But the real problem for the NDP in the 1988 election was that they weren’t players in what became the defining issue, allowing John Turner and his Liberals to become the true opposition to Mulroney’s free-trade deal with the United States.

There appears to be no such defining issue on the horizon this autumn.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already declared he believes ballots will be cast on the economy and security.

The economy has traditionally been the New Democrats’ soft spot, but Mulcair has been a moderate on that front. He would cancel the Conservative incomesplitting plan and use that money for a national daycare plan.

He would raise corporate taxes, re-

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He would raise the minimum wage for federal workers to $15 per hour and would cancel Conservative plans to raise the Old Age Security eligibility to age 67 from 65.

Security and the party’s repudiation of the anti-terrorism bill is a strength.

Broadbent went to the polls in 1988 with a band of 30 incumbents. Mulcair heads to the polls as opposition leader with a caucus of 96 and the largest number of incumbents the party has ever had.

Broadbent teased without a single MP from Quebec. Mulcair counts his home province as his base and a poll published last week shows he is in little danger of losing that foundation.

Surveying the horizon, the one outstanding issue that is certain to erupt again is in the NDP’s sweet spot.

The revelations from the Mike Duffy trial are sure to become more damaging for Harper and an audit of Senate spending expected next month will merely heap more dirt on a discredited institution.

The Senate is a winner for the NDP, the only party seeking power that has never made a Senate appointment.

The NDP strength does appear, as pollster Frank Graves put it, the new normal, not ephemeral as Broadbent’s was.

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Ops centre lacked tech help, food PARLIAMENT HILL SHOOTING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — On the day of the Parliament Hill shooting, the federal Government Operations Centre did not have computer technicians on site, food was limited and senior emergency officials weren’t in the building.

Those are some of the details revealed in newly released documents on the government’s emergency response.

Officials at Public Safety Canada convened meetings soon after the Oct. 22 attack by gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, to see what they could learn.

The operations centre helps co-ordinate the emergency response for the entire federal government Senior executives who were part of the emergency response plan weren’t in the centre the day of the shooting, which “created inefficient and ineffective communication with the decisionmakers,” a preliminary observation report said.

No names were listed, but the deputy minister of Public Safety is the coordinating officer for the emergency response plan.

Meanwhile, some of those responsible for business continuity and emergency plans in the larger Public Safety Canada building wound up in the operations centre, leaving a leadership vacuum behind.

The heavily redacted documents were obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Another key finding was that technical help wasn’t available in the centre.

“The support was not available to the GOC. ... it was apparent that on-site support would have been useful to improve the efficiency and effectiveness

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BRIEF Three main federal parties launch pre-election television ad blitz OTTAWA — The three main federal political parties released new television advertisements Monday, each with different messages aimed at garnering support during this fall’s election.

The Conservatives: They released two ads.

Summary: In one, four people are supposedly perusing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s resume, commenting that “he’s like a celebrity who says things without thinking them through,” that “he has some growing up to do” but has “nice hair, though.”

The young woman in the group says: “I’m not saying no forever, but not now.”

Tag line: “Justin Trudeau, he’s just not ready.”

In the other ad, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seen working at his desk late at night. In a voice-over, he talks about how a prime minister has to make hard decisions, confront unexpected issues and “try to make the best decisions possible for Canada.”

Tag line: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper, proven leadership.”

The message: The ads are meant to contrast Trudeau’s inexperience with Harper’s steady, reliable hand at the tiller. However, the Conservatives have toned down their previous attacks on Trudeau, which largely backfired.

New Democratic Party: Summary: The ad shows NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in a coffee shop, talking about the challenges facing middle class Canadians.

“I was raised on middle-class values and I’ll work to strengthen the middle class,” Mulcair says.

The message: The ad is aimed at helping Canadians get to know Mulcair, who remains a blank slate for many outside of Quebec, where he served as a cabinet minister. It’s positioning Mulcair as the leader who best understands the middle class because he grew up in a middle class family, the second of 10 children.

The Liberals: Trudeau introduces viewers to Richard and Maria Rose, parents who sacrifice paying down debt in order to save for their three children’s education — the kind of unpalatable choice

of the response.”

Some employees who were in the locked-down building which houses the centre also apparently found themselves without food.

“Comments received indicated the food supply to sustain the GOC operational needs should be addressed,” the report said.

“Given the circumstances of the event (proximity to the event, building lockdown, critical service provided by the GOC), a food supply should be stocked accordingly.”

Another problem was that government employees were variously told to go into “lockdown” or “shelter-inplace,” during the crisis. The two terms are used for different situations. Shelter-in-place refers to incidents where there is a hazardous chemical in the air outside.

Minutes from a November meeting with various government departments indicated that the Treasury Board Secretariat was “looking at medical issues in the event of lock-down or shelterin-place,” but that “employees need to take some responsibility to have sufficient meds for such events.”

Public Safety Canada did not immediately respond Monday to questions about the findings.

Officials also identified things they believed went right on Oct. 22, including the fact employees helped each other by sharing food and that “employees were informed as soon as information became available.”

The commissioner of official languages said last month in a preliminary report that the operations centre should have been putting out information in both French and English during the incident.

Trudeau says more families face after 10 years of Harper government.

He then touts his proposed Canada child benefit, which he says will give the Roses $2,500 more per year, tax free, than they get now.

Tag line: “Fairness. It’s an idea that works for the whole country.”

The message: Trudeau has a plan to help the middle class, he’s got depth and substance and is not the emptyheaded pretty boy the Conservatives make him out to be.

Mohawk council must release all claim to disputed Quebec territory to get $239 million The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne says Ottawa is offering $239 million as compensation for roughly 8,100 hectares of disputed territory located along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. In a statement today, the council stated the offer is subject to a community referendum and that it must renounce all further claims to the land to receive payment.

Mohawk community members say the territory, called Tsikaristisere or “Dundee lands,” was never officially surrendered to Canada and negotiations over the land have been on and off since the 1980s. The disputed territory is called Township of Dundee and is located in the southwest corner of Quebec. The council says the offer also provides for roughly 7,400 hectares of land to be turned into reserve territory, subject to certain conditions.

Laid-back llama on the lam now up back from day of freedom in Armstrong, B.C. An animal auctioneer says a llama that made a run for freedom before it was to be auctioned off in Armstrong, B.C., could use a home with a high fence. Don Raffan of Valley Auction says the animal that he named Bert took off from the back of a pickup truck and spent a day on its own before being rounded up last week. Raffan says a silent auction for Bert will end Wednesday and proceeds will be donated to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Lorena Kloppenburg who’s also with Valley Auction says Bert is a laid-back character who was originally thought to be an alpaca, which are typically about half the size of llamas. She says the llama ran across a highway and strolled through a sawmill before taking refuge in a backyard during his day-long retreat.

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On the day of the Parliament Hill shooting, the federal Government Operations Centre did not have computer technicians on site, food was limited and senior emergency officials weren’t in the building. Those are some of the details revealed in newly released documents on the government’s emergency response. Michael Zehaf Bibeau is shown carrying a gun while running towards Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2014, in a still taken from video surveillance in this handout photo.

In another shooting-related development on Monday, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told a Senate committee that the remaining 18 seconds of the video which Zehaf-Bibeau recorded before his rampage will be released either this week or next.

Most of the video was made public March 6.

Paulson said at the time he had “reasonable and sound operational reasons” for not releasing 13 seconds at the start of the video and five seconds at the end.

Extent of sexual misconduct problem in military unknown: Whitecross

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — There is no consensus about the extent to which sexual misconduct and harassment are occurring among Canada’s soldiers, says the commander in charge of the military’s response to a scathing report on the problem.

Maj.-Gen. Christine Whitecross, who is spearheading the Canadian Forces effort to address the situation, said Monday there’s no agreement among leaders, despite the report’s harsh depiction of the military’s highly sexualized culture.

“While there is a collective will to move the organization forward, there is little consensus as to the gravity of the existing problem,” Whitecross told a House of Commons committee.

In a report released earlier this month, former Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps documented a sexualized culture so pervasive that soldiers eventually become desensitized, while victims encountered a chain of command that seemed to turn a blind eye to real problems within its ranks.

Whitecross has so far held 16 briefing sessions on half a dozen Canadian Forces bases and said she’s heard from soldiers all through the ranks, some coming forward with personal stories, others admitting that they’ve been responsible for creating the culture Deschamps slammed.

Commanders are committed to action, Whitecross said.

“They all want to be engaged in setting the conditions for a better trust in the chain of command ... that, fundamentally, is the biggest thing we’re hearing.”

The military had sought to defuse the bomb of Deschamps’s report by presenting its plan to address her 10

recommendations at the same time the study was released.

They only agreed with two of her recommendations outright, committing to the rest only in principle — including that there be an independent centre to handle sexual abuse and misconduct claims. Deschamps told the committee Monday that the centre is only one prong of the approach.

“The centre is one of the elements of the puzzle of the whole strategy to reinstate the confidence in the organization because the victims will know that if they seek support they will not suffer any negative consequences,” she said.

“But the change of the culture requires much more than the centre.”

The choice to only agree with the bulk of the recommendations in principle prompted criticism in the aftermath of the report that the military would just end up dismissing the Deschamps’ work.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney, however, has insisted in the House of Commons that all 10 of the report’s recommendations would be implemented.

He has also promised a victims’ bill of rights for the Canadian Forces which would, among other things, strengthen the procedural rights of victims of sexual aggression.

“There’s no one cookie cutter approach here,” Kenney said Monday, reiterating the military’s commitment to the principles of Deschamps’ recommendations.

“The principle is that victims of sexual misconduct should have an independent place outside of the command structure to make those allegations so they are not intimidated, so they don’t feel that they are somehow compromising future promotions or their relationship with their military colleagues if they make such complaints,” he said.

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Canada helps block UN plan to rid world of nukes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Israel has expressed its gratitude to Canada for helping to block a major international plan towards ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

Elsewhere, however, there was widespread international disappointment that Canada and Britain supported the United States in opposing the document at the United Nations review conference of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty.

The document called on the UN to hold a disarmament conference on the Middle East by 2016. Such a conference could have forced Israel to publicly acknowledge that it is a nuclear power, something the Jewish state has never done.

Adopting the document would have required a consensus, but since none was reached, that means nuclear disarmament efforts have been blocked until 2020.

In a weekend phone call, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Stephen Harper for what he called Canada’s principled stand,

Harper’s office in Ottawa said in a statement.

“Prime Minister Harper reaffirmed Canada’s commitment to disarmament and non-proliferation, including within the framework of the NPT,” the statement said.

“He also stressed Canada’s belief that a weapons-of-mass-destructionfree zone can only be truly effective if all countries in the Middle East participate freely and constructively in its establishment.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson said Canada’s decision “sends a strong message about Canada’s resolve not to compromise the integrity of a treaty to which we remain fully and deeply committed.”

But there was widespread opposition and disappointment expressed by several countries that addressed the conference, which wrapped Friday after four weeks of meetings.

Austria, which spoke on behalf of 49 countries, said the result spoke to the wide divide over what nuclear disarmament should mean.

“There is a realty gap, a credibility gap, a confidence gap and a moral gap.”

The delegate to South Africa added: “There is a sense in which the NPT has degenerated into minority rule similar to what we had in South Africa under apartheid — the will of the few will prevail regardless of whether it makes moral sense.”

It’s disappointing that Canada helped scuttle the four weeks of negotiations that led up to Friday’s result, said Beatrice Fihn, spokeswoman for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of 400 non-governmental organizations in 95 countries.

“Three countries take their cue from a non-state party — Israel isn’t even part of the treaty — and thereby have this final say,” Fihn said.

But former Liberal foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy supported the Conservative decision, saying that dragging the Middle East issue into the talks was a ploy by some countries to embarrass Israel.

“There was a distinct effort, whether it was by Egypt or others, to present a package that they knew certain countries — including our own — would not agree with,” Axworthy said in an interview.

“I wish there had been more countries saying so, with some of the NGOs so quick to condemn, because the reality is if you’re going to do diplomacy it has to be feasible and realistic.”

The United States accused Egypt and other countries of trying to “cynically manipulate” the review process.

Axworthy said the NPT conference missed a chance to deal with serious nuclear proliferation issues, including Iran’s alleged pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“The way in which the ongoing Middle East-Israeli-Palestinian issue was introduced into the package was clearly designed to be disruptive.”

But New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar accused the government of playing the role of international spoiler.

“When it comes to the Middle East, many have said this is the most dangerous place in the world to have nuclear weapons,” said Dewar.

“If we can get other countries to abide by nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, then that can advance the cause globally.”

Convicted pedophile Graham James faces more charges by the news of Graham James,” Fleury tweeted on social media as news spread of the charges.

“For all of you asking if I’m ok, I apSWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Convicted pedophile and former junior preciate it and it just gives me more hockey coach Graham James is facing conviction to keep fighting. I have a more sex-related charges just weeks great life epidemic.”

James served 3 ½ years in federal before his scheduled statutory release prison after he pleaded guilty in 1997 from prison.

Saskatchewan RCMP say James is to sex offences against former NHLer facing criminal charges of repeated Sheldon Kennedy and two others. Kensexual assault that is alleged to have nedy played for the Broncos at the time of the assaults. occurred when The Canadian he was coaching ‘BY THE TIME A PEDOFILE Hockey Associathe Swift Current Broncos of the GETS CAUGHT HE HAS OVER tion imposed a lifetime ban on Western Hockey League in the 120 VICTIMS, NOT SURPRISE James and he disppeared from early 1990s.

BY THE NEWS OF GRAHAM apublic view when The Mounties JAMES.’ his sentence exsaid in a release pired in 2000.

Monday that they — THEOREN FLEURY He quietly apbegan an invesFORMER NHLER plied for and retigation after the ceived a pardon detachment in Swift Current, Sask., received a com- from the National Parole Board in plaint from a former Broncos player in 2007, prompting national outrage and a tightening of the rules.

September 2013.

James came back to Canada from Police say a lawyer for James appeared Monday in Swift Current pro- Mexico in 2010 to face more charges vincial court where the case was put after Fleury came forward in his auover to June 19. The judge issued a tobiography with allegations that the publication ban on details that might coach had sexually abused him.

James pleaded guilty and was iniidentify the alleged victim.

Prosecutor Glen Herman said James tially sentenced to two years in 2012 for has waived a preliminary hearing sexually abusing Fleury and Holt in and has elected to be tried in Court of the 1980s. An Appeal Court increased the sentence to five years.

Queen’s Bench by judge alone.

Although James has been eligible None of the charges has been provfor full parole, he has never made an en in court.

James is serving out the final weeks application. He is scheduled for full of a sentence for sexually abusing re- release later this summer.

James was a rising star among jutired NHL star Theoren Fleury and Fleury’s younger cousin, Todd Holt, nior hockey coaches in the late 1980s when they played for him with the and early 1990s. He had been named man of the year by The Hockey News WHL Moose Jaw Warriors.

“By the time a pedophile gets caught in 1989 after coaching the Broncos to he has over 120 victims, not surprised a WHL championship and Memorial

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OTTAWA — Facebook Canada will start sending Amber Alerts to users near the location where a missing child is believed to have vanished.

The alerts will provide all available details of the missing child and can be easily shared, to help spread the word.

The social media network says it will work with police in major centres across the country to get the alerts out.

Facebook started a similar system in the United States in January.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney made the announcement today

Cup. He became general manager and coach of the Calgary Hitmen in 1994.

James’s sentencing hearing in 2012 was told his teenage players looked up to him because he was highly respected in the hockey world. They also believed — and were told by the coach — that he could make or break their careers.

Court heard both Fleury and Holt dreamed of making it big and their lives were almost destroyed as they

struggled with their demons before coming forward to police with their accusations.

At his sentencing hearing, James apologized to his victims and their families.

“I wanted the best for you, but I did not give you my best. My actions forfeited our friendship. It is sad irony that it is you being among the persons I liked the most, today like me the least,” he said.

“I am deeply sorry. I was wrong.”

at Ottawa police headquarters.

Blaney says the project will mobilize the online community in the event of an abduction.

He pointed out that Monday was National Missing Children’s Day. “There is no greater fear for a parent than the possibility of a missing child,” he said in a statement.

“Today is an important day to remember not only children who have gone missing, but also their loved ones.”

Jordan Banks, managing director of Facebook Canada, said speed is vital in dealing with an abduction.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ducks 5 Balckhawks 4 (OT) ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks stumbled back to their dressing room after regulation in disbelief. Jonathan Toews had just scored two improbable goals in 72 seconds, and Game 5 of the Western Conference finals was headed into an overtime where everything seemed tilted toward Chicago.

These Ducks were stunned, but not staggered. And they needed less than a minute of extra time to get to the brink of the Stanley Cup finals.

Matt Beleskey scored 45 seconds into overtime, and Anaheim weathered Toews’ heroics to beat the Blackhawks 5-4 on Monday night, taking a 3-2 series lead.

“It’s Ducks hockey,” said Ryan Kesler, who had a goal and an assist. “We don’t like to do anything easy.”

After Anaheim led Game 5 for about 52 straight minutes, Toews scored with 1:50 left and again with 37.2 seconds to play, forcing the sixth overtime period already in this series. His tying score on a long shot from a sharp angle was a brutally bad goal for Frederik Andersen, the Ducks’ normally reliable Danish goalie.

The Honda Center crowd fell eerily silent, but the Ducks regrouped, refocused and showed off the late-game poise that has characterized the entire season for a team that repeatedly dominated onegoal games.

Shortly after the opening faceoff, Beleskey barrelled into the crease and scored on a rebound of Kesler’s shot, flying through the air headfirst in celebration of a landmark goal in Ducks history.

“That’s the biggest goal I’ve ever scored,” Beleskey said. “It’s a great feeling anytime you do that, especially at home.”

Sami Vatanen also had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who need one more victory to earn their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals since 2007.

Game 6 is Wednesday in Chicago.

Corey Crawford made 23 saves before giving up the decisive rebound for the Blackhawks, who had won four overtime games already in this post-season, including two in this series.

They had all the momentum heading to OT after Toews silenced Honda Center — but the Ducks absorbed a pep talk from coach Bruce Boudreau and finished quickly with Beleskey’s seventh goal.

“They capitalized, but coming into overtime, Bruce said, ’Get your heads up, boys, we’re going to win this hockey game,”’ said Patrick Maroon, who scored with 5:15 left in regulation. “And everyone believed in here. We’ve been doing it all year, and that’s the great thing about our team, that never-giveup attitude.”

Cam Fowler and Kesler scored 32 seconds apart in a three-goal first period for the Ducks, who have

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Anaheim Ducks left wing Matt Beleskey right, celebrates the game winning goal past Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford during overtime in Game 5 of the Western Conference final of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs in Anaheim, Calif., on Monday. won the Western Conference title just twice in franchise history. Captain Ryan Getzlaf had two assists and set the franchise’s single-season playoff scoring record with his 19th point.

Teuvo Teravainen and Brent Seabrook scored in the second period for Chicago, which lost a Game 5 in a tied series for the first time in its last eight tries.

The Blackhawks must win two straight to reach their third Stanley Cup finals in six seasons.

“It was a great comeback,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. “A great second (period), a great third, amazing finish. Tough in the overtime. We didn’t start on time for the first time in the series.

(Anaheim) talked about being ready. Might have

been the differential. But great comeback.”

These teams combined for a six-goal third period in Game 4, and they put together another memorable finish in a high-level playoff series already featuring two multi-overtime games, both won by Chicago. After Anaheim nearly stole Game 4 with three goals in 37 seconds, the Blackhawks nearly swiped this one away from the Ducks.

Toews got both of his goals with Crawford pulled, tying it with an impossibly sharp-angled shot that somehow got through Andersen, who made 24 saves.

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Cougars advance to face Raiders in rugby final

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Cougars 34 Lightning 17 The Notre Dame Cougars will have their chance at redemption on Wednesday.

The Cougars boys defeated the Hunting Hills Lightning 34-17 in the Central Alberta High School Athletic Association tier I rugby semifinal on Monday at Titans Park.

The Cougars are coming off a 45-0 loss to Thurber last Wednesday, but they believe they have much more to show the defending zone champs.

“It was a big win today, a definite momentum booster, but all of us know the game on Wednesday is the one we want to win,” said Cougars star Jesse Kowalchuk, who had three tries and two converts on Monday. “The first time we played (Thurber) we didn’t show up very good, but I believe after the past couple of games we’ve played, we’re a new team and I expect a much closer match.”

Taylor Vida added two tries for Notre Dame while Beau Aubin had the other. Kevin Layton, Zech Pilgrim and Shaun Howse replied with one try each for Hunting Hills.

It was a back and forth series between the two schools all season. Hunting Hills won in exhibition, Notre Dame won during the season and this was the rubber match.

“It really could have gone anyway today,” said Cougars coach Dan Meikle. “Our position (was key), we went hard after the ball and got into the right areas. We had a strong kicking game today from Johannes Smith and Jesse Kowalchuk that put us in the right areas of the field. When you’re in the right areas of the field mistakes turn into points.”

For the Lightning, it is a tough loss, but they fought to the end, scoring two of their tries in the fi-

nal 10 minutes of the semifinal.

With a team full of Grade 11 players, it gives them something to build off of for next year when they should have a strong returning class.

“We can tell them to remember how it felt to loose and then get them to remember how it felt to win and ask them which one they liked better,” said Lightning head coach Aaron Sewards. “We like to win at home, and we like to win, unfortunately it wasn’t in the cards today, but we still fought through to the end.”

One of the big differences between the two teams this year, however, was that the Lightning had no answer for Kowalchuk who was also deadly in the Cougars regular season win over Hunting Hills with three tries and seven converts.

He also starred at defensive back and kick returner for the Cougars football team, but it appears rugby will be his sport going forward with a tryout lined up for the U19 Prairies Wolf Pack Rugby, coached by Meikle, in June and a fallback option to play for the Titans.

“I took Jesse out to one tryout after he had played three games of rugby and he impressed at that level, which is the highest level of junior rugby in the Prairies,” said Meikle. “His talent is pretty unbelievable, a natural talent.”

But he will be concentrating on that more once his high school career is over.

The Cougars have a big hill to climb in just a couple of days, but Meikle says they are up for it.

“It’s a mental challenge now, the guys have to want it,” said he said. “There’s nothing as a coaching staff we can do, it has to come from the 24 players in blue and yellow jerseys, if they want it , they have to go out and take it otherwise the result will be pretty much the same.”

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Hunting Hills Lightning Evan Hunter brings down Notre Dame Cougar Kyle Kryczka during first half high school rugby action at Titans Field on Monday.

The Cougars won the playoff game 34-17.

McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour ready to kick off 20th season

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF PONOKA — The McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour is set to tee off its 20th season, but the tour’s executive director Dunc Mills never envisioned this anniversary.

“I never thought when we got the tour started in the spring of 1996 that we’d be here two decades later, but here we are,” he said at the tour’s media day at Wolf Creek Golf Resort on Monday. “It’s a way to reflect back on where we’ve come from in the last 20 years and the thousands of kids from across the province that have played on the tour. I look forward to the next however many years we want to keep this going, but it’s a good chance to catch our breath and look back and look forward at the same time.”

The tour has served as a launching pad for a number of top junior golfers who have turned into professionals and others who have gone on to earn educations due to their golfing.

Due to the support of sponsors the tour has provided $72,000 in academic scholarships to the Alberta Golf Scholarship Foundation.

One of those players that have developed on the tour is Red Deer’s Clare McMahon, 16, who golfs out of the Balmoral Golf Club and is entering her fifth year on the McLennan Ross.

“Competitive golf is a lot different than just playing,” she said. “There There’s other girls who are right there and you want to beat them, it’s not just ‘I want to play well.’ This tour is really good because you get a mix of lots of different girls.

You get girls who are 2-hanicaps and girls that are 20-handicaps and they all come and play and compete at the same Clare McMahon level.”

Last year McMahon won six times on tour and captured the order of merit with 695 points.

She is just beginning the process of searching out a post-secondary school as she heads into Grade 12 next year. For most golfers her age, this is one of the biggest years of their career. She already had an offer last year from a school in Texas, not knowing her age just her high placement on tour, but of course was too early.

“I’ve been looking at lots of different schools, been sending lots of different emails, making lots of phone calls,” said McMahon. “I’m looking at NCAA Div. 2 schools, anywhere that has a good program that is going to help me grow as a player and get and education.”

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Mills says he is starting to see an upswing in numbers of junior players on tour after a period of five years where there was a bit of a decline.

He says this is likely due to parents who were caught up in golf’s explosion in the mid-to late 90s with Tiger-mania and the rise of Mike Weir are now getting their kids into the game.

“A lot of pros I talk to and junior coordinators tell me that their programs are on the rise and bursting at the seams, we’ve got a club down the road here in Crossfield with like 700 kids in it,” said Mills. “There are an awful lot of kids that are discovering the game and getting exposed to it by their parents who came up through junior golf 20-30 years ago.”

With an all-time high number of Canadians on the PGA Tour, if someone like a Graeme DeLaet breaks through into the upper echelon of golfers, there could be a similar rise in numbers as when Weir won the Masters 2003.

“There’s no question if we had a young man or woman from Alberta on the PGA or LPGA tour that they’d be a great role model for these young kids,” said Mills.

He points to potential up and coming young stars like Tyler Saunders, Jaclyn Lee, Jennifer Ha, Riley Fleming and Wilson Bateman who got their start on this tour and could break through soon on a top tour.

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Rockets blast off on Oceanic MEMORIAL CUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rockets 7 Oceanic 3 QUEBEC — Leon Draisatl was glad to see what he called the “real� Kelowna Rockets show up at the Mastercard Memorial Cup. Draisaitl, Nick Merkley and Gage Quinney each scored twice as the Western Hockey League champion Rockets downed the Rimouski Oceanic 7-3 on Monday night, erasing the bitter taste of a loss to the host Quebec Remparts in their opening game of the four-team tournament. “It’s nice to show the hockey world what we’re capable of,� said Draisaitl. “We played, in my opinion, one of the worst games we played all year against Quebec. “It’s nice to get everybody going, get a few guys on the scoresheet and show the world that we’re better than we were against the Remparts.�

Defenceman Madison Bowey, who had two assists, also scored as Kelowna chased starting goaltender Louis-Philip Guindon in favour of Philippe Desrosiers at 10:42 of the second period after scoring five times on 22 shots. Kelowna outshot Rimouski 36-31 overall.

The Rockets (1-1) end round-robin play against the Ontario Hockey League champion Oshawa Generals (2-0) on Tuesday night feeling much better about their game. “It was huge for us,� said Draisaitl, the Edmonton Oilers 2014 first-round pick. “It was a must win situation for both teams. “It was heated. It was physical, but I think we got back to playing our game.�

Chris Clapperton, Michael Joly and Frederik Gauthier scored for Rimouski (0-2), which has a must win game Wednesday night against the Remparts — the team it beat in the seven-game Quebec Major Junior Hockey League final. “We were so high with the final, but now we’re really down,� said Clapperton. “We didn’t see the real Oceanic. “It’s bad to play that type of hockey. We need to (settle down) or else it will be a short Memorial Cup.�

The draft-eligible Merkley boosted his stock with a three-point night that left him with the tournament scoring lead at five points — one more than Daisaitl and Oshawa’s Michael Dal Colle.

Draisaitl and Quinney, along with defenceman Josh Morrissey, all joined the Rockets from the Prince Albert Raiders this season.

Kelowna scored three times in the opening 15 minutes, but the Oceanic answered with two before

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Kelowna Rockets Nick Merkley, right, scores the fifth goal against Rimouski Oceanics goalie Louis-Philip Guindon during second period action Monday, at the Memorial Cup tournament in Quebec City. the end of the period.

Merkley took a feed from Draisaitl, split the defence and beat Guindon with a backhand only 52 seconds in.

Bowey saw his point shot go in off Jan Kostalek’s stick for an own goal at 6:16. And Merkley slipped the puck to Quinney out of a scramble to fire over a pileup in front of Guindon at 14:27.

Only 47 seconds later Clapperton score from the doorstep. Joly then went around the net, cut back in front and scored on a power play at 18:14 to make it 3-2 Rockets.

Quinney saw a shot sail over Guindon on a power play 1:52 into the second, while Merkley slipped the puck under the goalie on a drive to the net at 10:42 to restore the three-goal lead.

Desrosiers let in the first shot he faced when Draisaitl drove the net and fired in a Dillon Dube feed at 13:18.

Gauthier banked a puck in off a defender on a power play at 13:36 of the third only to see Draisaitl score shorthanded on and end-to-end rush at 14:16.

Merkley, who also had an assist, the undrafted 19-year-old Quinney and Draisaitl each have three goals in two games.

Rimouski coach Serge Beausoleil opted to go with Guindon after Dallas prospect Desrosier gave up a bad rebound on Hunter Smith’s game-winner in a 4-3 loss to Oshawa on Saturday.

The game drew the smallest crowd of the tournament thus far to the Pepsi Colisee, 6,981.

Lightning look to finish job at home against Rangers

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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos knows what it’s like to come close to getting to the Stanley Cup finals and wind up not playing on the NHL’s biggest stage.

It happened to the Tampa Bay Lightning four years ago, and the three-time All-Star is determined to not let another opportunity slip away.

After a slow start to the playoffs, the high-scoring team captain helped the speedy Lightning push the New York Rangers to the brink of elimination from the Eastern Conference finals.

Game 6 is Tuesday night at Amalie Arena. A Lightning victory will send Tampa Bay to the Cup finals for the second time in franchise history. And the Rangers are looking to extend the series to a seventh game, which would be played Friday night in New York. “You kind of have to realize where you are and kind of use that as a little bit of motivation,� Stamkos said. “The harsh reality is, some guys in this room may never get the chance to get this far again. Hopefully everybody does, but you never know in this sport.�

Stamkos knows first-hand. He and defenceman Victor Hedman are the only players remaining from the Tampa Bay team that came within one victory of playing in the Cup finals in 2011. The Lightning lost Game 7 to Bos-

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CUP: Emotions He had been mostly superb in the post-season until allowing two awful goals in Game 5, including that tying howler. “In the playoffs, it’s really tough to control your emotions, and you’ve got to be good at that,� Andersen said. “That’s what we did today, even though they came up and scored twice there.

We refocused (before) OT, so it was great.�

Chicago opened Game 5 with more than 16 minutes without a shot on goal while falling behind 3-0, but the Blackhawks responded by scoring early and late in a dominant second period to set the stage for another remarkable finish.

NOTES: Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau shuffled his forwards to start Game 5, scratching Emerson Etem and activating Tomas Fleischmann. Bou-

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ton 1-0 and didn’t win another playoff game until this year.

The two-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner was a young, rising star on that team. Now, he’s one of the league’s most prolific scorers, leading a club that’s flourished in the playoffs even when Stamkos has struggled to score.

After failing to find the back of the net in Tampa Bay’s first eight games this post-season, Stamkos has scored in seven of the past 10 to help the Lightning eliminate Montreal in the second round and take a 3-2 series lead over the Rangers.

New York overcame a 3-1 deficit to eliminate the Washington Capitals in the second round. They’ve been a resilient team in reaching the conference finals three of the past four years, and say they believe they’re capable of taking the series back to Madison Square Garden. “We’ve obviously been in a few of these situations in the past and are

very confident that our group is going to enjoy the opportunity and enjoy the challenge, get ready for it and come up with a good game,� Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. “We know the situation we’re in,�

New York centre Derek Stepan added. “We have to stay confident.�

Stamkos had a goal for the fourth straight game, added an assist on Sunday night, to key Tampa Bay’s 2-0 victory in Game 5.

The 25-year-old had 43 goals during the regular season and has been overshadowed for much of the playoff run by the Lightning’s young, high-scoring “Triplets� line of Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov, who’ve combined for 25 of 44 goals in 18 games.

But coach Jon Cooper and Stamkos’ teammates insist he’s played well throughout, making important contributions in areas other than scoring. “I think it’s funny how it works, be-

dreau changed three line combinations to start, putting Fleischmann on the second line with Kesler and Jakob Silfverberg. He changed the combinations again in the third period. ...

The Blackhawks allowed three goals in a period for the seventh time in this post-season. ... Actor Emilio Estevez tweeted his support to the Ducks before and during the game. Estevez played coach Gordon Bombay in the “Mighty Ducks� film series that originally gave the nickname to this expansion NHL franchise formerly owned by Disney.

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Hutch delivers clutch game for Jays

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 6 White Sox 0 Toronto right-hander Drew Hutchison was a little under the weather for his start against the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at his stats line.

Hutchison threw a four-hit shutout as the Blue Jays kicked off a threegame series with a 6-0 victory at Rogers Centre. He had eight strikeouts and went the distance for the first time this season.

“I don’t even know if he broke a sweat tonight,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “That was one of those games where it was nice to sit back and watch it because he was in total control.”

Justin Smoak and Josh Donaldson homered as Toronto (21-26) won for the fourth time in 13 games.

The Blue Jays scored four runs in the opening frame — capped by Smoak’s two-run blast off Chicago starter Hector Noesi — and Donaldson added a solo shot in the second inning.

Hutchison, who leads the Blue Jays with 51 strikeouts this season, didn’t walk a batter.

“I didn’t really feel great the first few innings,” he said. “I’d say maybe by the third or fourth, I really got it going. I was more worried about just (finding) the zone and being aggressive more than anything else.”

Neither Gibbons nor Hutchison offered details on his illness. Gibbons said it might have been something Hutchison ate earlier in the day.

The 24-year-old right-hander threw 70 of his 96 pitches for strikes.

“I did a good job of getting ahead,” Hutchison said. “I had a really good sinker tonight and got a lot of early-

swing ground balls and got double plays. That was the key to getting deep in the game and keeping the pitch count down.”

Jose Reyes returned to the lineup after a stint on the 15-day disabled list and hit a double in his first at-bat. Donaldson followed with a walk and both scored on a two-out single by Chris Colabello.

Smoak doubled the lead with his third homer of the season.

Donaldson’s blast was his 10th homer of the year. He scored three runs and had two of Toronto’s seven hits.

Hutchison (4-1) lowered his earnedrun average from 6.06 to 5.12. He needed just eight pitches to retire the side in the fifth inning and only seven pitches to get three outs in the sixth.

“He was really hitting on everything,” Gibbons said. “He had the good exploding fastball, some good breaking balls and mixed in some change-ups.

So he had ’em swinging. He was hitting the zone.”

Noesi (0-4) settled down after his rough start. He worked seven innings, allowing five hits, five earned runs and three walks while striking out four.

The Blue Jays tacked on an insurance run in the eighth off reliever Scott Carroll.

Toronto remains in the American League East division basement but is now just 3 ½ games behind first-place Tampa Bay after the Rays dropped a 4-1 decision to Seattle.

Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista took another day off after having a cortisone shot over the weekend. He has been limited to designated hitter duty since injuring his right shoulder in a game on April 21.

Bautista is expected to return to the lineup Tuesday and is hopeful that he’ll be ready to play the outfield next week.

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Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins, right, forces out Chicago White Sox second baseman Emilio Bonifacio, left, then turn the double play over to first base to out White Sox third baseman Gordon Beckham during sixth inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Monday.

The White Sox (19-23) have dropped six of their last seven games. They remained in a virtual tie with Cleveland for last place in the AL Central, eight games behind first-place Kansas City.

“We weren’t very good offensively, we weren’t good defensively,” said Chicago manager Robin Ventura. “If you’re not going to score it becomes very thin.”

Announced attendance was 15,168 and the game took two hours 10 minutes to play.

Notes: Former Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera received a smattering

of applause before his first at-bat in the opening inning. He hit into a fielder’s choice. Former Toronto infielder Emilio Bonifacio was also greeted by polite applause. ... Toronto improved to 13-11 at home this season. ... Both teams wore hats with camouflage on the brims. Monday was Memorial Day in the United States. ... Several Toronto pitchers participated in an early batting-practice session to work on their bunting technique. The Blue Jays will play a three-game interleague series at Washington next week.

Venus Williams ousted early from another French Open

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Houston Rockets guard James Harden shoots against Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut during the second half in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference finals Monday, in Houston.

Rockets avoid elimination with win over Warriors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rockets 128 Warriors 115 HOUSTON — James Harden scored a playoff career-high 45 points and the Houston Rockets led from start to finish to avoid elimination in the Western Conference finals with a 128-115 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 on Monday night.

The Rockets used a playoff recordtying, 45-point first quarter to build a big lead. They were up by 22 in the second quarter when Stephen Curry landed on his head in a nasty spill and missed about 12 minutes before returning.

His first field goal after returning came on a 3-pointer that got Golden State within six points with less than 8 ½ minutes remaining. But Harden, who had 17 points in the fourth quarter, scored the next seven points as part of 10 straight by Houston to push the lead to 114-98.

Klay Thompson had 24 points and Curry added 23 for Golden State, which moved a win away from its first trip to the NBA Finals since 1975 after routing Houston 115-80 on Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead in the series.

But the Warriors couldn’t put the Rockets away and will try again at home in Game 5 on Wednesday night.

Houston bounced back from a 3-1 deficit to the Clippers in the conference semifinals. But they face a much bigger challenge in this series, as no team in NBA history has won a playoff series after trailing 3-0.

Dwight Howard had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and received a flagrant 1 foul early in the third quarter after throwing an elbow at Andrew Bogut’s head. He would be suspended by accumulation of flagrant foul points if the NBA upgrades it to a flagrant 2 after review.

The Warriors made 20 3-pointers and Houston had 17 to set an NBA record for most 3-pointers combined in a playoff game.

The Warriors used the Hack-A-Shaq technique on Josh Smith and got two 3-pointers from Curry to go on a 10-2 run to get within 10 with 4 minutes remaining. A dunk by Andre Iguodala got them within eight with about 2 minutes left, but Harden answered with a 3-pointer to shut the door.

Four quick points by Thompson got Golden State within 55-36 when Curry was injured after he jumped in the air as Trevor Ariza was about to go up for a shot. Ariza saw him and stopped abruptly, causing Curry to be upended in midair when he crashed into Ariza’s shoulder. His head hit the court and he remained there for several minutes.

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TENNIS

PARIS — A loss by Venus Williams in the first round at a Grand Slam is no longer the rarity it once was.

And, as it happens, the woman who beat Williams at the French Open on Tuesday, Sloane Stephens, is making a concerted effort, at her coach’s behest, to focus less on who is on the other side of the net.

Still, it was hard not to see the 22-year-old Stephens’ 7-6 (5), 6-1 dismissal of seven-time major champion Williams, who at 34 was the oldest woman in the field, as a statement about the directions their respective careers are heading.

For the 15th-seeded Williams, it was her second opening defeat in three years at Roland Garros.

It also was the fifth time in the last 13 Grand Slam tournaments she’s entered that she exited in the first round.

Before that stretch, it happened once in 37 majors.

Williams didn’t show up for a news conference, meaning she could face a fine. Instead, she issued a five-sentence statement that read in part: “When you arrive at any tournament, you hope you will have a chance to work your way into the event, but I didn’t have that opportunity — she just played better than me today.”

That is true.

The 40th-ranked Stephens, who has reached the French Open’s fourth round the last three years, was consistently strong from the baseline, making only 14 unforced errors to Williams’ 30.

“I want her to play with a sense of joy ... and play everything as well as she can, relentlessly, and not be concerned with the result. Let the result take care of itself. And she did a good job of that today,” said Stephens’

coach, Nick Saviano.

“I have noticed that missing. ... For any athlete, in any sport, at any high level, they must have that passion and the joy to perform,” Saviano explained.

“Otherwise, it becomes onerous.

It becomes too much of a job, so to speak.”

The biggest victory of Stephens’ career came at the 2013 Australian Open, when she defeated Williams’ younger sister Serena en route to the semifinals.

This was the first time Stephens had faced Venus Williams, other than beating her in an exhibition as a teen.

“But,” Stephens said, “I don’t think that really counts.”

Now Stephens joins Lindsay Davenport as the only Americans to have beaten each Williams at a Grand Slam tournament.

Two other seeded women lost Monday: No. 14 Agnieszka Radwanska, who was the runner-up at Wimbledon in 2012, and No. 22 Barbora Strycova. Two seeded men exited, too, including No. 11 Feliciano Lopez, who now has 10 first-round exits in 15 appearances in Paris.

Winners included No. 3 Andy Murray, who played with his wedding ring tied to his shoe and improved to 11-0 since getting married, and defending women’s champion Maria Sharapova.

She was jeered off Court Philippe Chatrier for skipping the customary post-match interview, citing a cold.

Sharapova coughed repeatedly while getting past Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4, and when asked later about not talking to the fans, she said their reaction was “absolutely normal ... but I’ve got to do what I have to do.”

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● Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at Calgary Rockies at 6:30 p.m. ● Sunburst Baseball: Confederation Park Cubs at Red Deer Riggers at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park ● Senior men’s baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Lacombe Stone and Granite at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park 2 ● Ladies fastball: Snell & Oslund Badgers at N. Jensen Bandts at 7 p.m. at Great Chief 1; Stettler at TnT Athletics at 7 p.m. at Great Chief 2; Topco Oilsite Panthers at Collins Barrow Rage at 8:45 p.m. at Great Chief 1.

Wednesday

● Boys high school soccer: Lacombe at Innisfail at 4:15 p.m. ● Girls high school soccer: H.J. Cody at Hunting Hills at 4:15 p.m. at Collicutt West. ● Parkland baseball: Rocky Red Dogs at Lacombe Dodgers at 6:45 p.m.; Acme Pirates at Innisfail at 6:45 p.m. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at Okotoks Dawgs at 7 p.m.

Thursday

● High school boys soccer: Olds at Hunting Hills at 4:15 p.m. at Collicutt East; Lindsay Thurber at H.J. Cody at 4:15 p.m at H.J. Cody. ● Senior men’s baseball: Play it Again Sports at Canadian Brew House Rays at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park 1; Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks at Lacombe Stone and Granite at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park 2. ● Ladies fastball: N Jensen Bandits at Collins Barrow Rage at 7 p.m. at Great Chief 1; TnT Athletics at Topco Oilsite Panthers at 7 p.m. at Great Chief 2; Snell & Oslund Badgers at Stettler at 7 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 3, Atlanta 0 Wednesday, May 20: Cleveland 97, Atlanta 89 Friday, May 22: Cleveland 94, Atlanta 82 Sunday, May 24: Cleveland 114, Atlanta 111, OT Tuesday, May 26: Atlanta at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 28: Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 30: Atlanta at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Friday

● Boys high school soccer: Notre Dame at CACHS at 4:15 p.m. at Michner Park. ● Girls high school soccer: CACHS at Notre Dame at 4:15 p.m. at Collicutt East. ● Sunburst baseball: Red Deer Riggers at Parkland White Sox at 7 p.m. at Spruce Grove. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Red Deer Razorbacks at 6:45 p.m.

Saturday

● Midget AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer Braves at noon at Great Chief Park; Red Deer Braves at Edmonton Cardinals at 3 p.m. at Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at Sherwood Park Atheltics at 2 p.m.; Red Deer Braves at Sherwood Park Athletics at 5 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Spruce Grove White Sox at Red Deer Braves at 11 a.m. at Great Chief Park; Spruce Grove White Sox at Red Deer Braves at 2 p.m. at Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Red Deer Rampage at St. Albert Crude at 3:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Lethbridge Cudasat 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Blackfalds Silverbacks at Grande Prairie Thrashers at 7:30 p.m. ● Men’s second division rugby: Cochrane Grizzlies at Red Deer Titans at 1:45 p.m. at Titans Park. ● Men’s third division rugby: Barbarians at Red Deer Titans t noon at Titans Park. ● Women’s rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Saracens at noon. ● Alberta Major Women’s Soccer League: Red Deer Renegades at Calgary Cougars at 1 p.m.

MEMORIAL CUP GP W L GF 2 2 0 9 2 1 1 10 2 1 1 8 2 0 2 6

Oshawa (OHL) Kelowna (WHL) Quebec (HOST) Rimouski (QMJHL)

GA 7 7 8 11

Pt 4 2 2 0

Friday, May 22 Quebec (HOST) 4 Kelowna (WHL) 3 Saturday, May 23 Oshawa (OHL) 4 Rimouski (QMJHL) 3 Sunday, May 24 Oshawa (OHL) 5 Quebec (HOST) 4 (OT) Monday, May 25 Kelowna (WHL) 7 Rimouski (QMJHL) 3 Tuesday, May 26 Oshawa (OHL) vs. Kelowna (WHL), 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 27 Quebec (HOST) vs. Rimouski (QMJHL), 5:30 p.m.

End of round robin PLAYOFFS Thursday, May 28 Tiebreaker (if necessary), 5:30 p.m.

Friday, May 29 Semifinal Second place vs. Third place, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 31 Final First place vs. Semifinal winner, 10 a.m.

Monday’s summary Kelowna (WHL) 7, Rimouski (QMJHL) 3 First Period 1. Kelowna (WHL), Merkley 2 (Draisaitl, Morrissey) :52.

2. Kelowna (WHL), Bowey 1 (Linaker) 6:16.

3. Kelowna (WHL), Quinney 2 (Merkley, Bowey) 14:27.

4. Rimouski (QMJHL), Clapperton 1 (Loiseau, Kostalek) 15:14.

5. Rimouski (QMJHL), Joly 1 (Loiseau, Gauthier) 18:14 (pp).

Penalties — Morin Rimouski (QMJHL) (slashing) 7:04, Bowey Kelowna (WHL) (boarding) 17:51.

Second Period 6. Kelowna (WHL), Quinney 3 (Baillie, Kirkland) 1:52 (pp).

7. Kelowna (WHL), Merkley 3 (Bowey, Chartier) 10:42.

8. Kelowna (WHL), Draisaitl 2 (Dube, Martin) 13:18.

Penalties — Bourque Rimouski (QMJHL) (hooking) 1:01, Gatenby Kelowna (WHL) (kneeing) 11:33, Joly Rimouski (QMJHL) (interference) 11:55, Stadel Kelowna (WHL) (fighting) 16:11, Picco Rimouski (QMJHL) (fighting) 16:11, Deluca Rimouski (QMJHL) (cross-checking) 16:11, Merkley Kelowna (WHL) (slashing) 18:26, Couture Rimouski (QMJHL) (cross-checking) 18:26, Bowey Kelowna (WHL) (roughing) 19:54.

Third Period 9. Rimouski (QMJHL), Gauthier 1 (Joly) 13:36 (pp).

10. Kelowna (WHL), Draisaitl 3 (Chartier) 14:16 (short-handed-SH).

Penalties — Vachon Rimouski (QMJHL) (slashing)

6:19, Draisaitl Kelowna (WHL) (slashing) 10:12, Merkley Kelowna (WHL) (check from behind) 12:25, Southam Kelowna (WHL) (high-sticking) 13:36.

Rimouski (QMJHL) Kelowna (WHL) Shots on goal Rimouski (QMJHL)13 10 8 — 31 Kelowna (WHL) 14 15 7 — 36 Goal (shots-saves) — Rimouski (QMJHL): Guindon (L, 0-1-0)(22-17), Desrosiers (10:42 second, 14-12); Kelowna (WHL): Whistle (W, 1-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Rimouski (QMJHL): 2-6; Kelowna (WHL): 1-5.

Memorial Cup Scoring Leaders G Merkley, Kelowna (WHL) 3 Draisaitl, Kelowna (WHL) 3 Dal Colle, Oshawa (OHL) 2 Quinney, Kelowna (WHL) 3 Lindberg, Oshawa (OHL) 2 Desrocher, Oshawa (OHL) 2 Graves, Quebec (HOST) 2 McCarron, Oshawa (OHL) 1 Loiseau, Rimouski (QMJHL) 1 Gauthier, Rimouski (QMJHL) 1 Bowey, Kelowna (WHL) 1 Cassels, Oshawa (OHL) 0 Baillie, Kelowna (WHL) 0 Tkachev, Quebec (HOST) 0 Roy, Quebec (HOST) 0 Timashov, Quebec (HOST) 2 Kostalek, Rimouski (QMJHL) 1 Joly, Rimouski (QMJHL) 1 Clapperton, Rimouski (QMJHL)1 Erne, Quebec (HOST) 1

Tuesday, May 19 Chicago 3 Anaheim 2, 3OT Thursday, May 21 Anaheim 2 Chicago 1 Saturday, May 23 Chicago 5 Anaheim 4, 2OT Monday, May 25 Anaheim 5 Chicago 4, OT Wednesday, May 27 Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.

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

Monday’s summary

A 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 1 1 1 1

Pts 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference finals EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) (Tampa Bay leads series 3-2) Saturday, May 16 NY Rangers 2 Tampa Bay 1 Monday, May 18 Tampa Bay 6 NY Rangers 2 Wednesday, May 20 Tampa Bay 6 NY Rangers 5, OT Friday, May 22 NY Rangers 5 Tampa Bay 1 Sunday, May 24 Tampa Bay 2 NY Rangers 0 Tuesday, May 26 NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

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

Ducks 5, Blackhawks 4 (OT) First Period 1. Anaheim, Fowler 2 (Thompson, Cogliano) 5:10.

2. Anaheim, Kesler 6 (Silfverberg, Beauchemin) 5:42.

3. Anaheim, Vatanen 3 (Getzlaf) 14:37.

Penalties — Seabrook Chi (cross-checking) 10:18.

Second Period 4. Chicago, Teravainen 2 (Vermette, Sharp) 1:11.

5. Chicago, Seabrook 5 (Teravainen, Sharp) 19:35.

Penalties — Beauchemin Ana (tripping) 5:46, Bench Chi (too many men) 9:57.

Third Period 6. Anaheim, Maroon 6 (Vatanen, Getzlaf) 14:45.

7. Chicago, Toews 6 (Hossa, Keith) 18:10.

8. Chicago, Toews 7 (Shaw, Seabrook) 19:22.

Penalties — Stoner Ana (hooking) 1:43.

Overtime 9. Anaheim, Beleskey 7 (Kesler, Silfverberg) :45.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Chicago 3 13 12 0 — 28 Anaheim 11 5 8 4 — 28 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (LO, 7-4-0); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 11-3-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 0-2; Anaheim: 0-2.

NHL Scoring Leaders Tyler Johnson, TB Corey Perry, Ana Nikita Kucherov, TB Steven Stamkos, TB Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi Alex Killorn, TB Ondrej Palat, TB Jonathan Toews, Chi Jakob Silfverberg, Ana Derek Stepan, NYR Duncan Keith, Chi Derick Brassard, NYR Ryan Kesler, Ana Patrick Sharp, Chi Rick Nash, NYR Zach Parise, Minn Valtteri Filppula, TB Marian Hossa, Chi

WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim (1) vs. Chicago (3) (Anaheim leads series 3-2) Sunday, May 17 Anaheim 4 Chicago 1

G 12 9 7 7 2 9 6 6 5 4 5 2 6 5 4 4 4 3 2

A 6 8 10 10 15 6 9 8 9 10 7 10 5 5 6 6 6 7 8

Pts 18 17 17 17 17 15 15 14 14 14 12 12 11 10 10 10 10 10 10

Baseball x-Monday, June 1: Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 3, Houston 1 Tuesday, May 19: Golden State 110, Houston 106 Thursday, May 21: Golden State 99, Houston 98 Saturday, May 23: Golden State 115, Houston 80 Monday, May 25: Houston 128, Golden State 115 Wednesday, May 27: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 29: Golden State at Houston, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, May 31: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Tennis French Open PARIS (AP) — Results Monday from the French Open at Stade Roland Garros (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles First Round Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Facundo Arguello, Argentina, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.

Tomas Berdych (4), Czech Republic, def. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 6-0, 7-5, 6-3.

Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def. Feliciano Lopez (11), Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (9), 6-3.

Gilles Simon (12), France, def. Lucas Pouille, France, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

Gael Monfils (13), France, def. Edouard RogerVasselin, France, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-5.

David Goffin (17), Belgium, def. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-1.

Tommy Robredo (18), Spain, def. Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-3.

Pablo Cuevas (21), Uruguay, def. Sam Groth, Australia, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.

Bernard Tomic (27), Australia, def. Luca Vanni, Italy, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Fabio Fognini (28), Italy, def. Tatsuma Ito, Japan, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.

Nick Kyrgios (29), Australia, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Jurgen Melzer, Austria, def. Adrian Mannarino (30), France, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Viktor Troicki (31), Serbia, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-2, 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-1.

Fernando Verdasco (32), Spain, def. Taro Daniel, Japan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Benoit Paire, France, def. Gastao Elias, Portugal, 5-7, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, def. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Kyle Edmund, Britain, def. Stephane Robert, France, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.

Martin Klizan, Slovakia, def. Frances Tiafoe, United States, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.

Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.

Juan Monaco, Argentina, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 6-2.

Benjamin Becker, Germany, def. Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1.

Dominic Thiem, Austria, def. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3.

Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 7-6 (8), 6-3, 0-6, 6-3.

Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def. Andreas Haid-

TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Hockey

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

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er-Maurer, Austria, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, def. Donald Young, United States, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3.

Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Steve Darcis, Belgium, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s Singles Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, 6-2, 6-4.

Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-2, 6-2.

Angelique Kerber (11), Germany, def. Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-0, 6-1.

Karolina Pliskova (12), Czech Republic, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Annika Beck, Germany, def. Agnieszka Radwanska (14), Poland, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Venus Williams (15), United States, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Sara Errani (17), Italy, def. Alison Riske, United States, 7-6 (1), 2-6, 6-0.

Elina Svitolina (19), Ukraine, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-2, 6-2.

Sabine Lisicki (20), Germany, def. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-3, 6-2.

Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Barbora Strycova (22), Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Samantha Stosur (26), Australia, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 6-1, 6-3.

Victoria Azarenka (27), Belarus, def. Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, Spain, 6-2, 6-1.

Alize Cornet (29), France, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Irina-Camelia Begu (30), Romania, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Paula Kania, Poland, def. Mona Barthel, Germany, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

Virginie Razzano, France, def. Veronica Cepede Royg, Paraguay, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Ana Konjuh, Croatia, def. Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, 6-1, 6-4.

Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, def. Johanna Konta, Britain, 7-6 (17), 4-6, 6-2.

Amandine Hesse, France, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Andreea Mitu, Romania, def. Alize Lim, France, 6-3, 6-2.

Heather Watson, Britain, def. Mathilde Johansson, France, 6-4, 7-5.

Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, def. Nicole Gibbs, United States, 6-3, 6-1.

Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, def. Casey Dellacqua, Australia, 6-2, 6-2.

Vitalia Diatchenko, Russia, def. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

MAPLE LEAF JUNIOR GOLF TOUR BANFF — Red Deer’s Carter Graf shot a final round 71 to finish 1-over-145 and with a four shot win in the bantam boys division at the Maple Leaf Junior Tour Bow Valley CU Classic in Banff on the weekend.

Sylvan Lake’s Jordan Cooke finished 16th in the division with a two day score of 173 (88-85-173).

Ponoka twins Daria and Shaye Leidnius finished second and third, respectively, in the girls division. Daria shot 162 (81-81162) to beat Shaye (79-84-163) by one shot.

In junior boys, Red Deer’s Cole Morrison finished seventh with a 15-3 (77-79-153), while Eckville’s Braden Bystrom was 17th (81-82-163).

Red Deer’s Logan Graf finished sixth in peewee boys with 177 (89-88-177), and Rocky Mountain Houses Maxwell Brandon was 19th in juvenile boys with a 162 (73-83-162).

The next event on the tour schedule is the MJT Mountain View CU Classic at Olds Central Highlands Golf Club June 1314. That event is a qualifier for MJT Team Canada to the Srixon International Junior Classic in Australia this October.

TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING Thunder Country and Trampoline & Gymnastics Club proved once again it is the premier club in the province for producing trampoline athletes.

The club earned 27 individual medals (14 gold, eight silver, five bronze) and finished first as a team in both trampoline and double mini trampoline and third in the all around team event at the Alberta Provincial Championships in Calgary on the weekend.

In addition, Kyle, Keegan and Kalena Soehn, Zach Blakely, Alexandra Potter, Logan Chaput, Ebony Campbell and Ashton Henfrey were all named to Team Alberta and will compete at the national championships in Calgary July 22-26. ● The Exelta Gymnastics club also earned three medals, at the provincial championships as Paige Tiegs finished with silver in double mini-trampoline women’s Level 2 U12, Loame Rautenbach earned silver in tumbling women’s Level 2, and Micayla Murray got bronze in trampoline women’s Level 6.

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Tampa Bay 24 22 .522 New York 23 22 .511 Baltimore 20 22 .476 Boston 21 24 .467 Toronto 21 26 .447

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 28 16 .636 26 18 .591 26 20 .565 20 24 .455 19 23 .452

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 29 17 .630 23 22 .511 22 23 .489 21 23 .477 17 30 .362

GB — 1/2 2 2 1/2 3 1/2 GB — 2 3 8 8 GB — 5 1/2 6 1/2 7 12 1/2

Sunday’s Games Toronto 8, Seattle 2 Houston 10, Detroit 8 Miami 5, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2 Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 6, L.A. Angels 1 Minnesota 8, Chicago White Sox 1 St. Louis 6, Kansas City 1 Texas 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 14, Kansas City 1 Baltimore 4, Houston 3 Minnesota 7, Boston 2 Oakland 4, Detroit 0 Texas 10, Cleveland 8 Toronto 6, Chicago White Sox 0 Seattle 4, Tampa Bay 1 L.A. Angels 4, San Diego 3 Tuesday’s Games Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-5), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (J.Vargas 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 2-3), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 2-4) at Toronto (Dickey 2-5), 5:07 p.m.

Seattle (Happ 3-1) at Tampa Bay (Colome 3-1), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (W.Rodriguez 2-2) at Cleveland (Salazar 5-1), 5:10 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 2-5) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-1), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit(Price 3-1) at Oakland(Chavez 1-4), 8:05 p.m.

San Diego (Despaigne 2-3) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-4), 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Texas at Cleveland, 10:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 10:37 a.m.

Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

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

Detroit at Oakland, 1:35 p.m.

Houston at Baltimore, 2:35 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Fielder Tex 45 181 23 66 .365 MiCabrera Det 45 163 26 56 .344 NCruz Sea 44 170 29 58 .341 Kipnis Cle 44 181 32 61 .337 Paredes Bal 31 128 19 43 .336 Gose Det 35 135 19 45 .333 Moustakas KC 41 162 26 53 .327 AvGarcia CWS 39 147 20 48 .327 Ellsbury NYY 37 148 29 48 .324 AJones Bal 42 165 20 52 .315 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 17; Teixeira, New York, 13; Encarnacion, Toronto, 12; MiCabrera, Detroit, 11; Trout, Los Angeles, 11; Donaldson, Toronto, 10; HRamirez, Boston, 10; ARodriguez, New York, 10; Valbuena, Houston, 10; Vogt, Oakland, 10.

Runs Batted In KMorales, Kansas City, 37; NCruz, Seattle, 35;

Fielder, Texas, 35; Vogt, Oakland, 33; MiCabrera, Detroit, 32; Encarnacion, Toronto, 32; Teixeira, New York, 31.

Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 7-1; Keuchel, Houston, 6-1; Nolasco, Minnesota, 5-1; Salazar, Cleveland, 5-1; McHugh, Houston, 5-2; Simon, Detroit, 5-2; Pineda, New York, 5-2.

Washington New York Atlanta Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 27 18 .600 25 21 .543 22 22 .500 19 28 .404 18 28 .391

GB — 2 1/2 4 1/2 9 9 1/2

St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 29 16 .644 24 20 .545 22 22 .500 18 26 .409 16 30 .348

GB — 4 6 10 13

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

West Division W L Pct 27 17 .614 26 20 .565 21 23 .477 21 25 .457 18 25 .419

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

GB — 2 6 7 8 1/2

Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Kan. City 000 010 000 — 1 8 1 New York 830 010 20x — 14 14 0 Guthrie, Finnegan (2), F.Morales (5), G.Holland (7), Frasor (7) and Butera; Eovaldi, Lindgren (8) and B.McCann, J.Murphy. W—Eovaldi 4-1. L—Guthrie 4-3. HRs—New York, Headley (6), B.McCann (5), Gardner (4), Drew (5), Heathcott (1).

Houston 001 020 000 — 3 11 0 Baltimore 020 000 20x — 4 6 0 Keuchel and Conger; W.Chen, Brach (6), Drake (8), Britton (9) and Joseph. W—Brach 2-0. L—Keuchel 6-1. Sv—Britton (11). HRs—Houston, Springer (7).

Baltimore, Joseph (4), Pearce (5).

Boston 002 000 000 — 2 8 0 Minnesota 160 000 00x — 7 16 0 J.Kelly, M.Barnes (2), Breslow (6), Layne (7), Hembree (8) and Swihart; Nolasco, A.Thompson (8), Boyer (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Nolasco 5-1. L—J. Kelly 1-4. HRs—Minnesota, Plouffe (7).

Sunday’s Games Miami 5, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2 Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 1 Pittsburgh 9, N.Y. Mets 1 Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 6, Kansas City 1 Arizona 4, Chicago Cubs 3 San Diego 11, L.A. Dodgers 3 Colorado 11, San Francisco 2

Detroit 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Oakland 000 004 00x — 4 9 3 Greene, B.Hardy (6), A.Wilson (8) and J.McCann; Hahn and Vogt. W—Hahn 2-4. L—Greene 4-3.

Monday’s Games Colorado 5, Cincinnati 4 N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 3 San Francisco 8, Milwaukee 4 Washington 2, Chicago Cubs 1 St. Louis 3, Arizona 2, 10 innings Pittsburgh 4, Miami 2 L.A. Dodgers 6, Atlanta 3 L.A. Angels 4, San Diego 3

Texas 304 000 210 — 10 9 1 Cleveland 142 001 000 — 8 8 2 Klein, Claudio (3), Scheppers (6), S.Freeman (7), Sh.Tolleson (9) and Corporan; Marcum, R.Webb (3), Hagadone (5), B.Shaw (6), Rzepczynski (7), McAllister (7), Atchison (9) and R.Perez. W—Scheppers 1-0. L—Rzepczynski 1-2. Sv—Sh.Tolleson (4).

HRs—Texas, Fielder (9), Beltre (6), Andrus (2).

Cleveland, C.Santana (5), R.Perez (4).

Tuesday’s Games Miami (Urena 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 4-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 1-2) at Cincinnati (Lorenzen 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Williams 3-4) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-4), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 5-2) at Milwaukee (Garza 2-6), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (Bradley 2-1) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 0-1), 6:15 p.m.

San Diego (Despaigne 2-3) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-4), 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 4-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Colorado at Cincinnati, 10:35 a.m.

Miami at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m.

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

San Francisco at Milwaukee, 11:40 a.m.

Washington at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Arizona at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R DGordon Mia 43 185 26 AGonzalez LAD 43 157 30 Goldschmidt Ari 44 160 34 Harper Was 45 150 39 LeMahieu Col 41 141 16 MCarpenter StL 40 163 31 Wong StL 45 167 26 Holliday StL 41 145 17 Rizzo ChC 44 159 27

Galvis Phi 43 156 20 49 .314 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 16; Frazier, Cincinnati, 13; Stanton, Miami, 13; Braun, Milwaukee, 12; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 12; Pederson, Los Angeles, 12; Upton, San Diego, 12.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 42; Harper, Washington, 41; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 38; Braun, Milwaukee, 36; Upton, San Diego, 35; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 33; Zimmerman, Washington, 32.

Pitching Wacha, St. Louis, 7-0; BColon, New York, 7-3; Shields, San Diego, 6-0; GCole, Pittsburgh, 6-2; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-1; SMiller, Atlanta, 5-1; Harvey, New York, 5-2.

H 69 54 54 50 47 53 54 46 50

Pct. .373 .344 .338 .333 .333 .325 .323 .317 .314

Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Toronto 410 000 01x — 6 7 0 Noesi, Carroll (8) and Soto; Hutchison and Ru.Martin. W—Hutchison 4-1. L—Noesi 0-4. HRs— Toronto, Smoak (3), Donaldson (10).

Seattle 200 000 011 — 4 9 0 Tampa Bay 000 001 000 — 1 8 1 Elias, Lowe (7), Ca.Smith (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino; Odorizzi, Geltz (8), B.Gomes (9) and Rivera.

W—Elias 2-1. L—Odorizzi 3-5. Sv—Rodney (13).

HRs—Seattle, Zunino (6). Tampa Bay, Forsythe (5).

INTERLEAGUE San Diego 000 000 300 — 3 9 0 Los Ang. 010 110 001 — 4 12 0 T.Ross, Maurer (7), Benoit (8), Quackenbush (9), Kimbrel (9) and De.Norris; Weaver, J.Alvarez (7), Salas (7), J.Smith (8) and C.Perez. W—J.Smith 1-1.

L—Quackenbush 1-1.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Phila.

002 010 000 — 3 6 0 New York 101 103 00x — 6 8 1 S.Gonzalez, Araujo (5), De Fratus (6), J.Gomez (6), Diekman (8) and Ruiz; B.Colon, A.Torres (7), Robles (8), Familia (9) and Recker. W—B.Colon 7-3.

L—Araujo 1-1. Sv—Familia (14). HRs—New York, Duda (6), Cuddyer (4), Flores (7).

Colorado 120 100 001 — 5 11 0 Cincinnati 200 101 000 — 4 11 1 E.Butler, Friedrich (7), Betancourt (7), Axford (9) and Hundley; Marquis, Mattheus (6), Ju.Diaz (7), Cingrani (8), A.Chapman (9) and B.Pena. W— Betancourt 2-1. L—A.Chapman 2-3. Sv—Axford (7).

HRs—Colorado, Arenado (9). Cincinnati, Frazier (13), Byrd (10).

Gymnastics T&T Provincial Results 2015 May 23-24 in Calgary Exelta Gymnastics Club results DMT Womens Level 1 10U Finals 18. SMITH, Torri (2006) DMT Womens Level 1 11+ Finals 12. WIGGINS, Madison (2004) 13. LAUSCHER, Gracelyn (2003) 16. WEBSTER, Vanessa (2002) DMT Womens Level 2 12U Finals 2. TIEGS, Paige (2003) 14. ZIRK, Karys (2004) 17. RAUTENBACH, Loami (2004) DMT Womens Level 3 Prelims 26. CHANMINARAJ, Savanna (2002) DMT Womens Level 6 (Espoir) 17U Prelims 3. MURRAY, Mickayla (1998)

DMT Mens Level 1 Finals 8. WYGIERA, Liam (2005) DMT Mens Level 3 4. PISKO, Carter (2002) 9. BILSBORROW, Benn (2001) Synchro Womens Level 1 Prelims 5. LAUSCHER, Gracelyn (2003) / WEBSTER, Vanessa (2002) Synchro Womens Level 2 Prelims 12. TIEGS, Paige (2003) / ZIRK, Karys (2004) Trampoline Womens Level 1 10U Finals 12. SMITH, Torri (2006) Trampoline Womens Level 1 11+ Finals 13. WIGGINS, Madison (2004) 18. LAUSCHER, Gracelyn (2003) 21. WEBSTER, Vanessa (2002) Trampoline Womens Level 2 12U Finals 4. TIEGS, Paige (2003)

6. ZIRK, Karys (2004) 11. RAUTENBACH, Loami (2004) Trampoline Mens Level 3 4. PISKO, Carter (2002) 6. BILSBORROW, Benn (2001) Trampoline Womens Level 3 Prelims 22. CHANMINARAJ, Savanna (2002) Trampoline Womens Level 6 (Espoir) 3. MURRAY, Mickayla (1998) Trampoline Mens Level 1 Finals 12. WYGIERA, Liam (2005) Tumbling Womens Level 1 11U Finals 19. WIGGINS, Madison (2004) Tumbling Womens Level 1 12+ Finals 23. WEBSTER, Vanessa (2002) Tumbling Womens Level 2 Finals 2. RAUTENBACH, Loami (2004) 7. TIEGS, Paige (2003)

Preston Guilmet to Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Activated OF Josh Hamilton from the 15-day DL. Placed RHP Neftali Feliz has been placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to May 20.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated SS Jose Reyes from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Buffalo (IL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Placed C Devin Mesoraco on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 21. Activated LHP Manny Parra from the 15-day DL. COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP David Hlae to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent C Jeff Mathis to New Orleans (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Activated RHP Charlie Morton from the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Rad-

hames Liz for assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent RHP Jake Peavy to Sacramento (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed INF Michael Antonio. Released RHP Randy Henry.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed OF Nic Jackson.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Alex Gouin.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Acquired RHP Shawn Sanford from New Jersey in exchange for a player to be named.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Released DE Ray McDonald.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFICE — Suspended Baltimore LHP Brian Matusz eight games for having a foreign substance on his arm.

American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed LHP Danny Duffy on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 17.

Recalled LHP Brandon Finnegan from Omaha (PCL). Sent OF Alex Rios to Omaha for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated INF-OF Ben Zobrist from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Craig Gentry to Nashville.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed 1B James Loney on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Tim Beckham and INFOF Jake Elmore from Durham (IL). Optioned RHP

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New minister an unknown in the oilpatch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ENERGY

CALGARY — News that Marg McCuaig-Boyd would be Alberta’s new energy minister was greeted by the oilpatch with a collective, “Who?” The newly elected NDP politician from the province’s northwest touts education, administration and business consulting in her bio, but nothing related to oil and gas.

The name didn’t ring a bell for Martin Pelletier, portfolio manager at Calgary-based investment firm TriVest Wealth Counsel.

He said he was happy to see Premier Rachel Notley reach out to energy industry leaders immediately after the election, but he’s concerned about what signal the choice for energy minister sends.

“She appointed someone that probably wouldn’t be considered to be high up within her party. That’s sending a message of how important she views the energy portfolio, I think,” he said.

“Maybe it’s sending the wrong message to the energy industry.”

Giving the energy portfolio to someone more recognizable would have been a good move, said Pelletier.

That could have been Notley herself, or someone like legislature veteran Brian Mason, who is government house leader and minister of infrastructure and transportation.

Sonny Mottahed of Black Spruce Merchant Capital in Calgary said he’d liked to have seen oil and gas expertise on the energy minister’s resume.

“The oil business has so many moving parts. I tend to think you need to have some background in it to be able to fully understand and appreciate everything that’s involved in it,” he said.

McCuaig-Boyd, 62, did not return messages for comment. But she told radio station CKYL that a review of the province’s oil and gas royalties would be a priority.

She said she’s excited to take on the high-profile portfolio. And if Twitter mentions are any indication, she knows she’s already “under the microscope.”

“I think I’ll be a good representative for our industry for sure,” she told CKYL. McCuaig-Boyd and her husband have lived on a farm in the Fairview, Alta., area for 35 years.

Jeff Gaulin, vice-president of communications for

the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, noted the energy industry has a big presence in that region.

“She would know very well people who work in the industry — if not her friends, then neighbours or colleagues,” he said.

“She comes from a community that would very much experience the good times as well as the challenging times, so I think that she would have a level of familiarity with the industry.”

Chris Severson-Baker, with the Pembina Institute, an environmental think tank, said experience isn’t everything.

“I think it’s much more important that they are a critical thinker, somebody who’s able to reach out across a broad range of stakeholders and help create the relationships that the ministry needs to cultivate and is good at making decisions, good at asking the right questions,” he said.

McCuaig-Boyd and the new environment minister, Shannon Phillips, have their work cut out for them, said Severson-Baker.

“There’s a big backlog, especially on the climate change file,” he said.

The to-do list also includes matters related to oilsands tailings waste and renewable energy.

PETERS’ DRIVE-IN OPENS

SYLVAN LAKE

New tourism website launched

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Enjoying some of the first burgers from the new Peters’ Drive-In at Gasoline Alley Thayne Fitzpatrick, left, and Bob Salzsauler were all smiles as the restaurant opened on Monday. Peters’ Drive-In has been operating it’s only location on 16th Avenue in Calgary since 1962. This week only milk shakes will be free for the first 100 customers with ATB Financial picking up the tab for the promotion. One big difference from the Calgary store the Red Deer operation at 131 Leva Avenue features an indoor dining area.

Canada, U.S., Mexico agree to establish working group for climate change

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MERIDA, Mexico — Canada, the United States and Mexico have established a ministerial-level working group on climate change and energy issues.

Greg Rickford, Canada’s minister of natural resources, reached the deal — along with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Pedro Joaquin-Coldwell, Mexico’s energy secretary — during a meeting of North American energy ministers.

The working group will focus on a number of issues, including reliable and low-carbon electricity

grids, deployment of clean energy technologies including renewables, and energy efficiency for equipment, appliances, industries and buildings.

They will also look at carbon-capture, use and storage, climate change adaptation and resilience emissions from the oil and gas sector.

The Harper government has come under criticism for not developing climate-change regulations for the oil and gas industry. The latest ministerial agreement follows a December announcement of three-way co-operation on a number of other energy issues, including responsible development of unconventional oil and gas deposits.

Sylvan Lake has cast a tourist net online.

A new website (www.visitsylvanlake.ca) is up and running, offering prospective visitors an easyto-navigate guide to local restaurants, businesses, accommodations, facilities, parks and other amenities.

“The site is still a work in progress, with feature stories and events yet to be added,” says Vicki Kurz, the town’s economic development officer in a news release.

“We’ve also created an opportunity for local tourism-based businesses to provide business and contact information for an expanded business profile section.”

In coming weeks, feature stories and event information will be added to get visitors thinking about putting a Sylvan Lake stop on their calendars or travel itineraries.

The town developed the website with help from Travel Alberta.

As well, a partnership was formed with Tourism Red Deer to develop content and online infrastructure.

In February, town council approved redirecting $7,000 from the budget towards a project to market and develop the website for the town through the Tourism Red Deer site.

About $6,300 was spent on the website, with Travel Alberta matching that. Remaining funds will be used for advertising.

Economic development has been a key focus of council. In 2013, a Tourism Strategic Plan was developed and one of its key findings was the need for better online presence.

A clear evaluation of the dollars at stake came through a 2014 economic impact study that determined Sylvan Lake generated $75 million worth of economic impact, $27 million of which was spent in town.

In July and August alone, the town sees more than 760,000 visitors. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Air Canada carry-on clampdown begins in Toronto

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Air Canada began its promised crackdown on oversized carry-on baggage on Monday, beginning with passengers checking in for flights in Toronto in a program it plans to expand across the country in about two weeks.

Passengers leaving on early flights from Pearson International Airport faced short lineups to get carry-on bags checked for sized and weight.

Those whose carry-on items met the criteria received a red tag, which the airline says helps reduce wait times at security. Those with articles that exceeded the guidelines faced being stopped at security and sent back to check-in where “standard fees will apply.”

Renee Smith-Valade, Air Canada vice-president for customer experience, said extra staff were on hand at both check-in and security checkpoints and passengers moved quickly through the delay.

“Most European, international and U.S. carriers already have a system like this...so we’re just coming into line with what most other airlines are already doing,” she said in an interview.

The airline declined to say how many customers were turned back for having oversized carry-on luggage but that wait times were five minutes or less and by Monday afternoon not a single customer had missed a flight due the new process.

As the busy summer travel season is set to begin, Smith-Valade said the goal is to efficiently board planes so flights can leave on time. The airline says surveys have shown that on-time departures are the biggest driver of customer satisfaction.

Reaction to the crackdown was mixed on social media.

“It’s about time! So many people took advantage of taking too much space in the storage bins,” N. MacRae wrote on Twitter.

But someone else said the problem would be

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A man carries his luggage at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on December 20, 2013. With the busy summer travel season set to take flight, Air Canada is about to begin clamping down on carry-on baggage to ensure it meets regulations. solved if the airline raised the ticket price and allowed free checked bags. “Just raise the ticket price by $25 and check-in bags are free.....problem solved,” wrote ytzpilot.

Air Canada plans to begin checking and tagging carry-on bags at most other Canadian airports around June 8.

Airlines around the world have seen the number of carry-on bags rise as they implement checked baggage fees.

Air Canada (TSX:AC) began charging a $25 checked-bag fee last fall on its lowest-class domestic

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flights and on flights to and from the Caribbean and Mexico.

Air Canada has charged for a traveller’s first checked bag on U.S.-Canada transborder routes since 2011.

The fee applies to about 20 per cent of passengers.

“They don’t love it understandably,” Smith-Valade said of the checked bag fees.

“But they understand that we have a competitive industry, that other airlines are doing it, that our domestic competitor introduced it and in order to remain competitive we needed to introduce it as well.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 132.80 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.78 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.09 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.82 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.48 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.55 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.90 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 217.45 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.80 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.93 Cervus Equipment Corp 16.86 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.29 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 60.71 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.15 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.21 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.70 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.50 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.80 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.43 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.94 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.30 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.02 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 53.78 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.01 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.14 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.39 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.04 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Energy stocks weighed heavy on the Toronto Stock Exchange with U.S. markets closed Monday for the Memorial Day holiday.

The S&P/TSX composite index ended down 13.36 points at 15,187.40 as commodity prices moved slightly higher, but several major energy companies lost ground.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.08 of a U.S. cent at 81.21 cents.

In commodities, the July contract for benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose 10 cents to US$59.82 a barrel in electronic trading, while the TSX energy sector dropped 0.6 per cent.

June gold rose $2.50 to US$1,206.50 an ounce.

On the upside, the financials sector moved ahead 0.04 per cent ahead of the Canadian bank earnings season that begins on Wednesday. Banking executives are expected to give some insight into how the economy is affecting consumer lending.

TD Bank (TSX:TD) was the biggest gainer of the major banks, rising 21 cents to $56.39.

The main TSX index has gained just shy of four per cent since the start of the year, extending the steep climb made over the past five years. Those levels have put the stock market at a point where it will likely hold steady for the time being, said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at Ottawa-based First Avenue Advisory.

“It’s reasonable to expect it to go sideways here for the short term,” he said.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.37 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.94 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.86 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.44 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.12 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.04 First Quantum Minerals . 16.35 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.50 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.35 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.95 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.57 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.77 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 15.43 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.91 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.94 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 65.53 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.62 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 34.74 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.40 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.16 Canyon Services Group. . 6.86 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.95 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3400 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.29 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.12 “The reality of the future is we’re going to see more volatility than we’re used to and less in the way of returns.”

Overseas, China announced a 50 per cent cut in import duties on a number of consumer products in a move to spur consumer spending and revitalize its slowing economic growth. The tariff cuts, to take effect June 1, cover clothing, shoes, skin care products, baby food and supplies and kitchen utensils.

“Expanding domestic consumer demand is an important measure for steady growth and structural adjustment,” China’s Finance Department said.

In corporate news, Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) signed a deal to sell its Cowal mine in Australia to Evolution Mining for US$550 million.

Barrick, which has been looking to sell non-core assets as it streamlines its operations and cuts costs, says it will use the proceeds to pay down debt. Its stock was up one cent at $15.12.

Meanwhile, Air Canada (TSX:AC) began a crackdown on oversized carry-on luggage beginning with flights out of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in a program it plans to expand across the country in two weeks. Passengers whose carry-on luggage exceeds size and weight restrictions are sent back to check-in where standard fees apply. Its stock was up four cents at $12.62.

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

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Fires force Cenovus, Canadian Natural Resources to close oilsands sites CALGARY — Forest fires have forced Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources to shut down their oilsands operations near Cold Lake in eastern Alberta, accounting for close to a 10 per cent loss of the province’s daily production of oilsands crude.

Cenovus (TSX:CVE) pulled all 1,800 workers from its Foster Creek oilsands and Athabasca natural gas operations Saturday after the fire threatened to cut off the only access road to the facility.

“About 1,700 people were basically woken up really early on Saturday morning and a safe and orderly evacuation began,” Reg Curren, Cenovus’ senior media adviser, said Monday.

The company initially kept a skeleton crew of about 100 workers on site to try to keep operations running, but decided later to completely shut the facility and pull out the rest of the workers by helicopter. Curren said the fires don’t pose an immediate threat to the site.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.52 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.91 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.04 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.89 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.77 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.49 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.62 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.74 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.95 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.94 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.76 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 54.75 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2550 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.30 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.64 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.43 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.60 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.88 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.02 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.50 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.94 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 49.68 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.30 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.31 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.33 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.39

S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,187.40, down 13.36 points Dow, S&P, Nasdaq — closed for Memorial Day Currencies: Cdn — 81.21 cents US, down 0.08 of a cent Pound — C$1.9049, down 0.11 of a cent Euro — C$1.3520, down 0.22 of a cent Euro — US$1.0980, down 0.29 of a cent Oil, Gold, Silver futures: closed for Memorial Day ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $0.60 higher $463.80; Nov ’15 $0.80 lower $454.10; Jan. ’16 $1.20 lower $453.70; March ’16 $1.20 lower $452.70; May ’16 $1.20 lower $451.70; July ’16 $1.20 lower $451.60; Nov. ’16 $1.20 lower $446.30; Jan. ’17 $1.20 lower $447.00; March ’17 $1.20 lower $447.00; May ’17 $1.20 lower $447.00; July ’17 $1.20 lower $448.40.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $191.00; 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 unchanged $182.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 346,980 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 346,980.

The Foster Creek operation, which is jointly-owned with ConocoPhillips, normally produces 135,000 barrels a day.

Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) also evacuated all 250 workers on Saturday from its 80,000-barrel a day Primrose facility and reduced production at its Kirby South operations by 18,000 barrels a day to 12,000 barrels a day.

In all, the fires have resulted in lost production of about 233,000 barrels of oil a day.

The fires have doubled in size since Saturday, when they spanned about 4,000 hectares.

Housing starts to slow slightly this year and in 2016: CMHC Q2 outlook OTTAWA — Lower crude prices are expected to help contribute to a split in the Canadian housing market that will see oil-producing provinces slow but others gain ground, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday.

The federal agency predicted the overall pace of housing starts will slow slightly this year and next, but that there would be regional differences.

“A slowdown in housing starts and resale transactions in oil-producing provinces such as Alberta will be partly offset by increased housing market activity in other provinces, such as

Energy East pipeline could threaten Manitoba’s drinking water MANITOBA ENERGY JUSTICE COALITION REPORT “easily be as large or larger” than the train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic, Que., WINNIPEG — A new report says a almost two years ago, the report said.

“The smoke plume from such an expipeline that would carry one million barrels of oil daily from Alberta to the plosion and fire could necessitate the East Coast would threaten the drinking immediate evacuation of the entire water of more than 60 per cent of Mani- population of Winnipeg should it occur nearby.” toba residents.

Calgary-based TransCanada Corp.

The report by the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition said a rupture on the the company behind the $12-billion proposed Energy East pipeline would pipeline, said it would be safe. Spokesseep into any number of waterways man Tim Duboyce said the company which feed into Winnipeg’s water sup- already does a thorough inspection of ply. The pipeline transporting oil from the existing line with technology that Alberta and Saskatchewan to refin- can detect erosion as small as a peneries and port terminals on the East cil tip. Such defects are immediately repaired, Coast would he said. Enpartly run un‘THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ergy East derneath an would be aqueduct carREPLACEMENT FOR WATER IN onitored rying WinniSUSTAINING LIFE. ON THE OTHER m around the peg’s drinking w a t e r f r o m HAND, WE KNOW THERE ARE NEW c l o c k a n d ould be Shoal Lake TECHNOLOGIES THAT ACTUALLY w shut down near the OnWILL ALLOW US TO MEET OUR the minute tario boundany leak ary. Dennis ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT were detectLeNeveu, a RELYING ON THE PROBLEMS OF ed. retired bio“We’re physicist and FOSSIL FUELS’ proceedauthor of the report, said a — VICKI BURNS ing with the 40-year old reDIRECTOR OF THE SAVE LAKE WINNIPEG PROJECTS p r e p a r a tion of this purposed natproject with ural gas line would be used across Manitoba. Such safety at top of mind,” Duboyce said. pipelines can get corroded and have TransCanada has never had an oil ruptured four times in Manitoba in the pipeline leak because of a problem last 20 years, he said. The entire length with the “integrity” of the line, he said. of Winnipeg’s 100-year-old aqueduct Critics say even a small risk of contamwould be in danger of contamination inating Manitoba’s water is too great.

“There is absolutely no replacefrom the pipeline, which would run ment for water in sustaining life,” said parallel to it, LeNeveu said.

“Small, continuous, undetected Vicki Burns, director of the Save Lake leaks will occur and seep unseen into Winnipeg Project. “On the other hand, the ground causing ground and surface we know there are new technologies water contamination,” he said follow- that actually will allow us to meet our ing the release of the report Monday. energy needs without relying on the “One spill, one leak — it doesn’t have problems of fossil fuels.”

Alex Paterson with the energy justo be a big leak — almost anywhere along that line can be carried over our tice coalition called on the provincial government to oppose the proposal, aqueduct.”

There would also be “a significant even though it is federally regulated. risk of rupture and explosion” from a Paterson said the province still connearby natural gas line in Manitoba, trols building permits and conducts its LeNeveu said. Such an explosion could own environmental assessment.

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Ontario and British Columbia, which benefit from the positive impacts of declining energy prices, a lower Canadian dollar and continued low mortgage rates,” CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan said in a statement.

“Moreover, since the inventory of completed and unabsorbed units remains above the historical average, we expect the pace of new home construction to moderate over the next couple of years as builders focus on managing the existing inventory.”

CMHC’s second-quarter forecast calls for between 166,540 and 188,580 housing starts this year and between 162,840 and 190,930 in 2016.

That compared with a first-quarter outlook for housing starts to range between 154,000 and 201,000 units in 2015 and from 148,000 to 203,000 units the following year.

Regionally, Alberta is expected to see a 13.8 per cent drop in housing starts, while Saskatchewan is forecast to slip 21.3 per cent this year. Offsetting the decreases, Ontario is expected to gain 4.3 per cent.

Sales though the Multiple Listing Service are expected to range between 437,100 and 494,500 units in 2015, while the average MLS price is forecast to be between $402,139 and $439,589.

In 2016, MLS sales are expected to be between 424,500 to 491,300 units at an average price between $398,191 and $457,200.

Alberta is expected to be the big percentage loser with a drop in resales of 19.2 per cent this year, while Saskatchewan is expected to lose 9.8 per cent.

Ontario resales are forecast to gain 1.8 per cent, while B.C. is expected to add 6.5 per cent.

Barrick sells Cowal mine to Evolution Mining for US$550 million in cash TORONTO — Barrick Gold Corp.

(TSX:ABX) has signed a deal to sell its Cowal mine in Australia to Evolution Mining for US$550 million in cash.

The gold miner says it will use the money from the sale to pay down debt.

Barrick has been looking to sell non-core assets as it streamlines its operations and cuts costs.

The sale of Cowal is expected to help reduce general and administrative costs as it closes its office in Perth, Australia.

Evolution Mining is a mid-tier Australian gold miner with five gold and silver mines in Queensland and Western Australia.

The sale is expected to close in the third quarter.

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Case booted from court MISSING BOOT PART OF EVIDENCE; LAWYER ASKS FOR DELAY WHILE IT’S EXAMINED

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A missing boot has forced a delay in the trial for a Rocky Mountain House man accused of a crime spree throughout Central Alberta.

Tyler Joseph Shaw, 30, will wait in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre for about two months so his counsel Andrew Phypers can investigate some of the foundations for the allegations against his client.

In Red Deer provincial court on Monday, Phypers told Judge Gordon Deck that a boot print taken from the scene of a break and enter that Shaw is accused of committing was the main issue for a request for an adjournment.

Sylvan Lake RCMP seized a boot from Shaw to compare with the print taken from the scene.

Phypers told Deck he had not been able to examine the boot or the print and noted neither were brought to court on Monday.

Shaw was scheduled for a full-day provincial court trial on Monday on charges that included three counts of break and enter, four counts of theft, five weapons-related charges and one count of possession of stolen property.

Prosecutor Jordan Petty was not opposed to the adjournment, saying he had only learned of the boot issue late last week.

He said it was an issue of late disclosure and consented to the adjournment.

Phypers said he and Petty may be able to focus issues of the trial and reduce its length to a half day.

Shaw was arrested on Sept. 11, 2014, after what police called a day-long crime spree in the Sylvan Lake and

Blackfalds areas. At 7:15 a.m., Sylvan Lake RCMP were called to a reported vehicle theft from the Hewlett Park area of Sylvan Lake. A black car left running was reported stolen.

A couple of hours later, police were called to a rural residence west of Sylvan Lake. A homeowner found an unknown male in their basement and confronted the intruder. The unknown male became nervous and fled. The homeowner saw the male get in a black vehicle believed to be the same one stolen earlier.

The black car was found by police abandoned a short distance away. Police dog services tracked a suspect to a nearby farm. Police determined the suspect had stolen a truck.

That afternoon, Blackfalds RCMP were called to the Burnt Lake Stables near Hwy 596 and Range Road 10 to a report of a truck being left there.

A male was observed going through a parked vehicle and then ran down the highway on foot.

At 2:16 p.m., Blackfalds RCMP were called to a residential alarm where a neighbour advised he saw a male on a black quad with a rifle strapped to his back leave the rural residence near Range Road 283.

Blackfalds, Innisfail and Innisfail Freeway RCMP attempted to locate the quad and the male, but were unsuccessful.

At about 4:30 p.m., Blackfalds RCMP received reports of a quad driving west on Township Road 374 from Range Road 283.

After a conversation with a rural property owner, they were directed to the male on a quad with a firearm. He was arrested.

A new trial date has yet to be set. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Halle Smart comes to the aid of her classmate Reese Bowers at St. Martin de Porres Elementary School in Red Deer on Monday. All the grade five students at the school were learning basic first aid and this was a lesson in immobilizing an injured person.

EDGAR FARMS

Asparagus Festival cancelled to protect crop

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Two sleepless nights after finding out the asparagus wasn’t coming in like it usually does, the annual Asparagus Festival hosted by Edgar Farms was put on ice this year.

Pointing to devastating hail storms in July and August 2014, farm co-owner Elna Edgar said the mature plants were heavily damaged.

That resulted in the decision to cancel the annual festival, which was scheduled for May 31 and June 7 and 14.

“There’s not the asparagus to have a festival is the issue,” said Edgar. “Our

production has really dropped and it should be spiking now.”

Asparagus plants take years to mature and in Alberta it can be difficult to maintain the crop, especially in the circumstances that led to the decision to not hold the festival this year.

Two years of very wet conditions followed by a very dry spring this year have reduced the nutrient and carbohydrate reserves of Edgar Farms’ plants.

The crop had seemed to be coming along normally earlier this spring, even though they were worried. Edgar Farms carried on promoting the festival as it had in the past with early indications the asparagus was coming in like it does most years.

Advocate series loses to Globe package The Globe and Mail took five awards at the National Newspaper Awards, including in the Project of the Year category in which the Red Deer Advocate was nominated.

Six other organizations won two awards apiece: The Canadian Press, the Hamilton Spectator, the Moncton Times & Transcript, the Ottawa Citizen, the Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun. A Globe and Mail team won Project of the Year for chronicling the physical, mental and financial toll of thalidomide, a Canadian public-health disaster that has largely faded from the public’s memory.

The announcements were made at a gala award presentation in Toronto on Friday night.

The Red Deer Advocate’s series of stories on Michener Centre was also nominated for Project of the Year.

The National Newspaper Awards are the Pulitzer Prize of Canadian newspaper journalism.

Advocate reporters Susan Zielinski and Myles Fish earned the nomination for a package of 15 stories on Michener Centre published in March and April of 2014. The package, called Michener Centre: The Closing Doors, was illustrated by photographer Jeff Stokoe.

The series was conceived in response to a provincial government plan to shut down the home for the developmentally challenged.

Ultimately, after a firestorm of protest, court action and political infighting, the closure was cancelled, but only after five residents who had been moved out had died.

The entire package can be seen at http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/special_projects/michener/

“About Saturday it should have just taken off with the warm weather,” said Edgar. “Instead, our production crashed. We’re down to about a quarter of the production we should be seeing now.

“Cancelling our festival is our first step at saving our plants for the future.”

For producers, asparagus is a huge investment crop. A person plants the crop and then waits — it can’t be picked the year it is planted or the second year. By the third year, if the plants look good, it can be picked for two weeks. In the fourth year, it can be picked for four weeks, if it still looks healthy.

Edgar Farms has been growing as-

paragus since 1986. It started as a small part of the family’s personal garden, but they decided to give it a shot with one acre of their farm land.

Edgar is hopeful the festival will return next year.

“We’re feeling quite confident that with what we’re doing this year, we’ll be OK next year,” she said.

They stopped picking older asparagus plants, instead picking from some of the younger fields that are stronger and are doing OK. What the farm can produce will still be available at the Country Store, east of Hwy 2 on Township Road 352, and at the Innisfail Farmers Market. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

LACOMBE COUNTY

School children join tree planting effort to reclaim gravel pit Lacombe school children and other volunteers will gather to help restore a former rural gravel pit on Monday.

The second annual Project Plant will take place at a D&M Concrete Products Ltd. gravel pit in Lacombe County.

The pit was donated by the company to the municipality in 2012 and is being reclaimed to its natural state.

The pit is located about five km west of Lacombe and just north of Hwy 12.

Three Grade 5 classes and their teachers and parent helpers will got to

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

the site to plant more than 1,200 seedlings, learn about the environment and enjoy a barbecue.

Representatives for Red Deer’s Waskasoo Park, Red Deer River Watershed Alliance and Battle River Watershed Alliance will make presentations during the event.

D&M had already restored nine acres of the gravel pit to hay land, when the idea of turning the project into an educational opportunity arose last year.

Once complete, the area will be available as a community green space.

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BRIEFS Central Alberta students score well at skills event

Pick up your fresh and locally grown produce at the Downtown Market on Little Gaetz Avenue.

Starting on June 3, the market will be open every Wednesday until Oct. 7 from 4 to 7 p.m.

The market vendors span Little Gaetz from 48th Street (Alexander Way) to Ross Street.

It also features a Community Corner space for two not-for-profit groups at no charge. Interested organizations may contact Tyler Bowman, market manager, at 403-340-8696 or tyler@ downtownreddeer.com.

This is the seventh season for the mid-week market.

Human smuggling brings 60 days in jail A Red Deer man caught trying to sneak a woman across the Canada-U.S. border will spend 60 days in custody after his human trafficking conviction.

Mark Brian Abramenko, 51, was convicted in Fort Macleod provincial court of one count of human trafficking for an Oct. 26, 2013, incident.

Abramenko attempted to enter Canada at the Carway border crossing south of Cardston. Canada Border Services Agency officers found a female passenger concealed inside his vehicle. Officers said she was huddled on the floor under a blanket.

The woman had previously been refused entry into Canada due to criminality.

Abramenko received a 60-day jail sentence as well as a $5,000 fine for the incident.

Caroline liquor store door ripped off during theft Using a pickup truck to rip the front door off a Caroline liquor store, two suspects made off with about $100 of alcohol over the weekend.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP were called to the Caroline Beer and Liquor Store in the early morning hours of May 25 to a report of two suspects stealing liquor.

Police said the suspects, one male

and one female, used their pickup truck, with a licence plate believed to be stolen, to pull the front door right off of its hinges.

Store employees who live close by called 911.

One of the suspects was described as heavier set and observed wearing a puffy orange jacket.

The store’s door was found a few blocks away.

Two Rocky RCMP officers and a member from the Sundre detachment searched surrounding areas for the truck without success.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403-845-2882 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

First Thursday at Snell offers Godin ensemble The Claude Godin Groove Ensemble will play at First Thursdays on June 4 in Red Deer.

The free lunch time music runs from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at the Snell Auditorium in the downtown public library.

Admission is free but donations are accepted. Coffee and tea are provided

by Cafe Noir.

Different music performances occur on the first Thursday of each month at the location.

Water main flushing begins today in Red Deer City of Red Deer crews have begun the annual water main flushing and inspection of fire hydrants.

Each year from May to October, crews flush water mains in an effort to improve water quality, remove sediment and minerals from the walls of the pipes, identify valves that require repair, replace stagnant water with fresh water, and determine which areas require more frequent flushing.

Water is flushed through fire hydrants and drained onto the streets and back into the storm sewer system through catch basins.

Hydrants are flushed for up to 30 minutes and the water being flushed may appear red at first as it has remained stagnant at the bottom of the hydrant for more than a year.

This year, water mains in downtown, Anders, West Park and Highland Green will be flushed, with a total of 220 flushes planned.

All flushing will occur during the daytime with the exception of downtown, where flushing will occur overnight. That flushing started on Monday.

Residents may notice cloudy water while flushing of the water main in their block is underway.

Cloudy water is not a health concern and can be cleared easily by running cold water taps for 10 to 20 minutes.

Construction closes 30th Avenue north of 67th The City of Red Deer has closed a portion of 30th Avenue (Range Road 272), north of 67th Street.

The closure is necessary because of construction for the 67th Street/30th Avenue expansion project.

Crews are installing underground utilities and then will be paving the road.

The closure, which started on Monday, will remain in place until the end of the summer.

A detour route is in place along Township Road 384 and Range Road 271.

The project began in 2014, It is needed to allow for growth and development in Red Deer’s northeast.

This year’s work includes extending 30th Avenue two km north, extending 67th Street one km east and constructing a two-lane roundabout northeast of the current bend. Construction on the roundabout will begin in late summer.

To stay up to date on the latest city construction news, sign up for email alerts at www.reddeer.ca/alerts or visit the project page at www.reddeer.ca/ construction.

Beautify rural properties sought by Red Deer County Red Deer County is looking for some properties with pizzazz.

The 30-year-old Rural Beautification Tour is focusing this year on Division 3 (the area south of Red Deer and north of Innisfail, including Springbrook and surrounding Penhold).

Applications or nominations should be submitted to the county by June 12.

Properties can be nominated in four categories: working farm, small acreage/ subdivision lot/hamlet, ag. business/tourism, or small farm/acreage.

For more information, call Sylvia at Red Deer County 403-350-2150 or go to the county’s website at www.rdcounty. ca.

TransCanada Trail update planned for Thursday An update on the TransCanada Trail in Alberta will be provided at a Thursday meeting.

Ross Hayes, president of Alberta

TrailNet, will provide the latest on the ambitious trail project at the annual general meeting of Central Alberta Regional Trails Society.

The meeting takes place at the Abbey Centre, 4500 Womacks Road in Blackfalds, beginning at 7 p.m.

Drunk driving charges follow series of collisions Two months after three collisions on 67th Street in Red Deer led to one injury and several damaged cars, a Red Deer man faces impaired driving charges.

The 51-year-old man has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failing to remain at the scene, impaired operation of a motor vehicle and impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.

The charges were laid in relation to a March 29 incident. At about 4:50 p.m. that afternoon, Red Deer RCMP were called to several related collisions on 67th Street neat 65th Avenue.

Police said a man in a truck was struck from behind by a grey car while stopped at a red light.

When the truck driver exited the vehicle, the grey car backed up, striking the vehicle behind it, then drove around the truck grazing the victim.

According to police, the grey car then executed a U-turn and headed westbound on 67th Street, where it struck a third vehicle at 65th Avenue and was pinned there until RCMP arrived.

He will appear in Red Deer provincial court on June 3.

Preliminary inquiry set in major firearms case A four-day preliminary inquiry will hear the case against five individuals accused in a stolen firearms ring.

Red Deer’s Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team recovered 16 firearms believed to have been stolen on Jan. 23, 2015.

Joseph Daniel Swain, 30, Joseph Russell Sinclair, 26, Stephanie Dawn Hughes, 31, Angie Faye Deneff, 33, and Amanda Dawn Fox face a combined 230 charges relating to drugs and guns.

After several months of organizing counsel and consultation with clients and the Crown prosecutor’s office, a four-day preliminary inquiry has been set for early 2016.

A preliminary inquiry is held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial. The hearing will be held in Red Deer provincial court from Jan. 4 to 7, 2016.

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Mid-week market returns on Red Deer’s Little Gaetz

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With an explosion of spring dandelions one can begin to wonder what they are good for. Well for baby geese they appear to be a delicacy. A brood of Canada geese were making short work of the older blooms along 32nd Street near a wetland on the north west corner of the Red Deer College property on Monday.

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More than 25 local students aced the test at the provincial Skills Canada competition recently.

The provincial Skills Canada competition has students from all over the province competing in 45 trade and technical events.

Placing in the top three in the high school competition: Auto services — Tim Brown (second) and Dalin Haryett (third); both from Delburne Centralized School.

Electrical installation — Eric Koster (first) and Kieren O’Brien, (third); both from Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School.

IT software solutions for biz Level 2 — Taylor Fielder (first) and Coralee Martin (third); both of Hunting Hills High School.

Job skills demonstration — Kendall Siegle (third), Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School.

Robotics — Duncan Fleming, Levi Gudwar, Patrick Gerlack and Blake Core (all placed second); all from Lacombe Composite High School.

TV video production — Shae Paterson and Taylor Peters (second), Hunting Hills High School.

Welding — Jordan Yasinski (second), Delburne Centralized School.

Placing in the top three in the postsecondary competition: Cabinet making — Dustin Sejdl (first), Red Deer College.

Carpentry — Dennis Borren (first), Red Deer College.

Heavy equipment service — Brandon Ballantyne (second), Red Deer College.

Landscape gardening — Jeff Oostlander and Joshua Van Hierden (first), and Mitch Stevens and Paul Kerpel (second); all from Olds College.

Sprinkler and fire protection — Brandon McCulloch (first), Red Deer College.

Welding — Calum Harbidge (first), Red Deer College.

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Confrontation with hooligans turns nasty

Remember the fallen no matter the day

To the tweenage jerk who flipped teeny-boppers could jive with. me off today: “Um, excuse me fellas tipping those Believe me when I tell you that I cans over isn’t cool man,” were my wish I could have breezed on past and words to you, and yes in your defence, simply not taken notice of your ruffian perhaps they were said in a bit of a behaviour. I wish that I could have ne- distrustful tone. glected the fact that you were riding by Call me naïve but I really did think on your dumb, ridiculousthis would do the trick. I can ly undersized BMX bikes, remember back in my day kicking over full garbage when an adult confronted cans and laughing as all of me when doing something the trash flowed outwards I wasn’t supposed to and I to the streets. nearly pooped myself with Oh how I long that I was that foreboding fear of authe kind of person who is thority. too soft spoken or shy to However, apparently in call out to you and ask why this day in age, there is no you’d engage in such acts of such thing as fear of authorblatant disrespect. ity (or maybe it is just that I Alas, I am none of these do not evoke those types of things. reservations in your youngThere I was walking my er generation).

LINDSAY children home from school Now what happened next BROWN when I saw you a block is a bit of a blur because a away zipping along with ME PLUS THREE blinding rage set in shortly your little posse of pubesafter my sentence ended. cent patsies wreaking havoc You began to laugh and on my neighbourhood. point at me, whooping it up and yellAt first when I heard the sound of ing, “Yeah right, whatever!” the large garbage can smashing to the I was appalled. Outraged. And quite pavement, I couldn’t believe what I frankly, my feelings were hurt. was seeing. Surely there weren’t young So I did what any self-respecting humans committing acts of rebellion adult would do. I attempted to preright in front of me? Surely they would serve my influence as the grownup of be frightened of getting in trouble? the situation by shouting angrily back After all, these children couldn’t at you. I told you that you were no-good have been any older than 12 or 13 with little ingrates. And that if I was your their Justin Bieber haircuts and un- mother you’d be getting the walloping reasonably taut cuffed slacks. of your life for taking such a disreThese were the things that were rac- spectful tone with an elder. ing through my mind as I stopped and I was beginning to think that I may stared at the dire goings-on you were be getting through to those pubertal crafting before my disbelieving eyes. brains since you had slowed your roll Now don’t get me wrong, I’m hip and were now looking at me as I spoke. and with-it, so I attempted to approach you in a civilized manner in which you Please see BROWN on Page C4

Q: Sadly, our family has allowed Me- servicemen and women. ● Make an American-themed desmorial Day to become nothing more than a day to celebrate the onset of sert and host someone mourning the summer, play in the sunshine and eat loss of his or her loved one. ● Fly the colors. Take time to learn too much. What can we do to encourage a meaningful experience and to about the history of the flag and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” reclaim a sense of what the However you choose to day is truly about? honor those who’ve protectJim: I appreciate your ed our freedoms, may we question because there never take their sacrifices have been some years for granted. where I’ve been neglectful.

Q: How do we keep my diLet’s resolve to do better. vorced parents from spoilAlthough the establishing our wedding? I’m enment of Memorial Day as gaged, but as the wedding an official holiday came approaches, my fiance and later, I think Abraham LinI are beginning to fear that coln captured its purpose our big day may become an best when he penned these occasion for major family words to his Gettysburg AdJIM strife. dress: DALY Greg Smalley, Vice Presi“It is for us, the living ... dent, Family Ministries: to be dedicated here to the Sadly, you’re not the first unfinished work which they couple to face this difficult who fought here have thus situation. This does, howfar so nobly advanced. It ever, present you with an is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining opportunity to grow together as you before us -- that from these honored work through this challenge, and it can dead we take increased devotion to equip you in dealing with similar conthat cause for which they gave the last flicts your marriage may encounter in the future. full measure of devotion.”

My recommendation is to first find So what are some ways we can remember their sacrifice and honor the a good marriage therapist and set up a series of counseling sessions. (Call us work for which they gave their lives? ● Attend a Memorial Day ceremony at 855-771-4357 if you need a referral.) or place flowers on the gravesite of a Key to this process is to define and esfallen soldier. tablish your identity as a couple, which ● Write letters of gratitude and rewill place you in a better position to membrance to someone who has lost a set appropriate boundaries with your loved one in service to our country. parents. ● Participate in the National MoAt some point, of course, you’ll need ment of Remembrance (usba.com/re- to confront them. membermemorialday).

When you do, be honest about your ● Watch an age-appropriate movie fears and frustrations. or TV program that thoughtfully presents the struggles and sacrifices of our Please see DALY on Page C4

FOCUS ON FAMILY

Fear of failing and it’s impact on self-esteem when family obligations demanded greater stability.

At one point, a lack of apparent success began to weigh heavily upon me.

In fact, a depression overcame me and It was colour night for our local gym- I began to think of myself as a failure. khana club — a time to acknowledge Everyone had such high hopes for my effort and award prizes for achieve- glorious future (as did I) but nothing, ment. I’d been a member as a kid but to my way of thinking, had come of it. had dropped out a couple I think there are times years earlier when I’d finwhen we all feel like a failished high school. My budure. Life has a way of zapdy, Doug, who had been in ping the happiness right the club with me when we out of you. It’s easy to get were kids, invited me to down. The boss criticizes attend. It felt like my last you. The partner who once chance for nostalgia, bemade you swoon now seems cause I’d just accepted my dissatisfied and continufirst job in radio as a news ally harps on you. The bills reporter, and I was about keep piling up. And worst to become very busy with of all, you begin to realize my adult life, and maybe that most of your dreams even move away. will go forever unfulfilled.

Leonard, a local farmI remember thinking to er, was once again emcee myself, “This is not how it’s MURRAY for the evening. He always supposed to be!” did a great job combining Disappointment can FUHRER downhome humour with lead to depression and selfstats, facts and inspiring loathing and even those stories about each of the with the best self-esteem members. can find themselves think“That about wraps it up ing poorly of themselves. for the trophies,” he said.

In my self-esteem and hyp“But there’s one more person I’d like notherapy practice, I encounter more to make mention of — not for what he’s and more people who are suffering done this year but for what he’s about from anxiety and depression. It seems to do. that many people are medicated — “We’ve got a young fella in the com- trying to dull the pain of failure and munity who most of us know pretty defeat. well. You all know his folks. He’s a When we feel like a failure, we’ve real nice young man and he’s going to let our inner critic take charge. That be doing something — well — pretty little voice haunts us, telling us that different from what most of us have we’re not good enough, that we haven’t ever done. He’s going off to be a DJ in accomplished enough and that we the radio business.” should compare ourselves unfavorably Doug gave me a thumb’s up. I could to others to confirm how badly we lag feel my face turning red. behind.

“We all know he’s going to be a big The jabs are endless and devastatsuccess,” Leonard continued. Most ev- ing. You’re overweight; you’re a faileryone was now smiling at me now. ure. You got laid off from work; you’re “Someday we’ll look back and say, we a failure. Your relationship has ended; knew him when. Murray, would you you’re a failure. You’re old; you’re a stand up?” failure.

At the time, I thought I might actuI can tell you that if you stay in the ally be a success — another Wolfman negativity and let it define you, you’ll Jack or, at the very least, Lloyd Rob- find it harder and harder to break ertson. But despite my best efforts, I free. We can all find events or situacouldn’t seem to make it big on-air tions that we can define as failures so eventually moved into advertising but, in my experience, there are an

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sional pothole is unrealistic. In fact, believing so will actually set you up to fall harder when failure does occur.

Trying to avoid failure will prevent you from gaining the insights and resiliency you need to move through disheartening experience in the future. In a society obsessed with success, failure can seem like the worst possible fate.

In reality, failure is commonplace and so is overcoming it.

And even when failure cannot be salvaged, there’s always a lesson to be learned from it.

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker,” wrote American bestselling author, Denis Waitley. “Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

My new definition of success is to love, laugh and leave the world a better place for having been here. In that regard, I think I’ve finally succeeded and I’ll wager that you have too.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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equal number of experiences that we can define as successes.

The next time you find yourself thinking about failure, I want you to stop and remember that you are a good person, worthy of happiness and success. In fact, the next time your inner critic begins to chastise you, I want you to stop and listen to what it has to say.

Use it as a feedback mechanism. Your critic is simply feeding back a disempowering belief you’re holding about yourself. This can be insightful.

Stop to ponder the origin of the message. Did it originate in childhood? Is the voice that of a parent, sibling or someone in a position of authority?

Stop for the moment and imagine the opposite of what the critic claims is true. Look for reasons to support that alternate view. Stop the downward spiral before it takes you to a place of failure and defeat.

And before labeling yourself a failure, ask yourself how you define success. Is it making a million dollars? Is it owning a big house or being a celebrity? Look beyond societal definitions and you might discover that success is already there in countless small and surprising ways.

Failure is a given and expecting to cruise through life without the occa-

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Plaques or tangles?

SCANNING BRAINS OF HEALTHY SENIORS FOR CLUES ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Sticky plaque gets the most attention, but now healthy seniors at risk of Alzheimer’s are letting scientists peek into their brains to see if another culprit is lurking.

No one knows what actually causes Alzheimer’s, but the suspects are its two hallmarks — the gunky amyloid in those brain plaques or tangles of a protein named tau that clog dying brain cells. New imaging can spot those tangles in living brains, providing a chance to finally better understand what triggers dementia.

Now researchers are adding tau brain scans to an ambitious study that’s testing if an experimental drug might help healthy but at-risk people stave off Alzheimer’s. Whether that medication works or not, it’s the first drug study where scientists can track how both of Alzheimer’s signature markers begin building up in older adults before memory ever slips.

“The combination of amyloid and tau is really the toxic duo,” predicted Dr. Reisa Sperling of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who is leading the so-called A4 study. “To see it in life is really striking.”

The A4 study — it stands for Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s — aims to enrol 1,000 healthy seniors like Judith Chase Gilbert, 77, of Arlington, Virginia. The recently retired government worker is mentally sharp but learned through the study that her brain harbours amyloid buildup that might increase her risk. Last week, researchers slid Gilbert into a doughnut-shaped PET scanner as she became one of the first study participants to also have their brains scanned for tau.

“We know that tau starts entering the picture at some point, and we do not know when. We do not know how that interaction happens. We should know,” said chief science officer Maria Carrillo of the Alzheimer’s Association, which is pushing to add tau scans to other dementia research, too.

More than 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s or similar dementias, including about 5 million in the U.S. Those numbers are expected to rise rapidly as the baby boomers get older. There is no good treatment. Today’s medications only temporarily ease symptoms and attempts at new drugs, mostly targeted at sticky amyloid, have failed in recent years. Maybe that’s because treatment didn’t start early enough. Scientists now think Alzheimer’s begins quietly ravaging the brain more than a decade before symptoms appear, much like heart disease is triggered by gradual cholesterol buildup.

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Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer’s disease. increased risk.

Yet more recent research, including a large autopsy study from the Mayo Clinic, suggests that Alzheimer’s other bad actor — that tangle-forming tau protein — also plays a big role. The newest theory: Amyloid sparks a smouldering risk, but later spread of toxic tau speeds the brain destruction.

Normal tau acts sort of like railroad tracks to help nerve cells transport food and other molecules. But in Alzheimer’s, the protein’s strands collapse into tangles and eventually the cell dies. Most healthy people have a small amount of dysfunctional tau in one part of the brain by their 70s, Sperling said.

But amyloid plaques somehow encourage this bad tau to spread toward the brain’s memory centre, she explained. The A4 study, which is enrolling participants in the U.S., Australia and Canada, may give some clues.

The goal is to check up to 500 people for tau three times over the three-year study, as researchers tease out when and how it forms in those who are still healthy. They won’t be told the results — scientists don’t know enough yet about what the scans portend.

At the same time, study participants will receive either an experimental anti-amyloid drug — Eli Lilly & Co.’s solanezumab — or a placebo as researchers track their memory. The $140 million study is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Lilly and others; the Alzheimer’s Association helped fund the addition of the tau scans. The idea: If the drug proves to be helpful, it might be tamping down amyloid formation that in turn reins in toxic tau. In previous studies, solanezumab failed to help full-blown Alzheimer’s but appeared to slow mental decline in patients with mild disease, raising interest in testing the still healthy.

Seizure sniffing service dog gives kids more normal lives LOS ANGELES - When Alyssa Howes was 4, she lost her sight and started having seizures - up to 20 a day.

For years, her grandmother stayed in the girl’s room at night, watching for an attack. That ended three years ago when Alyssa got a rare gift for a young child: a service dog named Flint.

When the golden retriever moved in, life changed for Alyssa’s Los Angeles-area family. He gives the 11-yearold a more normal life by alerting her family to seizures, guiding her so she doesn’t fall and allowing her to have a bit more freedom.

“It gives her a companion to enjoy the moments when she is doing things she likes to do,” said her mother, Juliette Palomaki. “And if she is having a

bad day, she will call him and they will just be together.”

But not enough dogs are being trained for children with epilepsy, autism and other disabilities, said Karen Shirk, founder of 4 Paws for Ability, a non-profit that breeds and trains service dogs. Other agencies train dogs specifically to help people with seizures, but Ohio-based 4 Paws is one of just a few that does not exclude young children.

Most require a minor to be 16 so they can handle the dog alone in public. Because a younger child cannot do that, 4 Paws trains at least two adult caregivers, such as parents, teachers and babysitters. Service dogs allow children to feel comfortable at the park, school and restaurants. In Alyssa’s case, it means no one has to stand guard at night in case of seizures.

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seize - they just don’t agree how dogs do it, Shirk said. At her training centre, dogs learn to bark to signal a seizure so an adult can give the child medicine.

For Shirk, who has a service dog, Piper, to help her with her muscular dystrophy, getting that warning allows her to take medicine that keeps her breathing.

“Messages don’t get through from the brain to the muscles,” Shirk said of a seizure. “Without Piper, I barely have time to call 911 before everything shuts down.”

In Alyssa’s case, if Flint detects a seizure, he will lick her, become very attentive, lie on her and bark, the girl’s mother said.

“When we hear him bark, we know something is up because he doesn’t bark for any other reason,” Palomaki said.

If they are resistant, consider revisiting the conversation with the support of a trusted family member, pastor or counselor. If they’re still uncooperative, you may need to respectfully invite them not to participate in the wedding.

This can be especially difficult if they’re footing the bill, and it may dictate making some drastic changes in

your plans. Harsh as that sounds, it will be best in the long run if it helps you preserve your integrity as a couple.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Faith No More bassist Bill Gould likes to think of the band’s new record as an aging actress.

“Sure, her body’s getting a little older, but she’s not afraid to show it; she’s still sexy,” he said during a recent interview in New York City, where the band played two sold-out shows in support of Sol Invictus, its first in 18 years released last week.

“When you’re younger and you’re insecure, in a way you don’t have the mojo, the juice, you know,” he said.

The 52-year-old Gould and the rest of his bandmates — keyboardist Roddy Bottum, drummer Mike Bordin, guitarist Jon Hudson and singer Mike Patton — disbanded in 1998 and spent some time apart before regrouping in 2009 to play reunion shows. That hiatus, together with the musical legacy they built during the late 1980s and 1990s with albums like The Real Thing, Angel Dust, and Album of the Year, has given them the confidence and perspective to re-launch their collaboration on their own terms.

They briefly considered returning to a major label, but ultimately decided to forgo external deadlines and pressures and instead handle everything themselves. Sol Invictus was engineered and recorded by Gould in his studio space in Oakland in 2014 and 2015, and is being released on Reclamation Recordings, a subsidiary of Patton’s own Ipecac Recordings label.

“We’ve all kind of grown into parts where we can actually contribute now in our own capacity,” Gould said. “We all kind of got good at what we did in different ways and it all kind of helps the whole.”

For a band that once briefly flirted with the mainstream following the success of the catchy, rap-meets-metal mega-hit Epic, having the freedom to dictate whether they put out a record, tour or make an appearance at this point in their lives is a top priority.

“An old man only looks to the next day,” the 47-year-old Patton said.

“We’re old men.

“So what you do is, you look to the next day or the next plan, and, honestly, we don’t have a plan after this tour or this record.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Patton and Gould discussed the origins of the new album and the challenges of not being a normal band.

YOU’RE A WEIRD BAND Even at the height of their popularity, Gould said the band was always wary of overstaying their welcome at Slash/Warner Bros.

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Gould: We were always told, “Failure is just right around the corner.

You’re a weird band. You don’t make radio-friendly music and you’re not going to survive unless you keep working.”

Bordin: “You’re going to lose your house.”

Gould: I took that to heart. I totally was terrified back then.

Bordin: I wasn’t. But I took it as a threat. OK, someone’s coming after me.

You do what you do, and I think that this record is the best example of doing that. We’re just being us. There’s no pretentions.

REUNION: NATURAL, BUT SURPRISING Sol Invictus was spearheaded by Gould who, unbeknownst to the rest of the band, had been writing and recording new material in his studio.

Patton: I didn’t bring any songs or ideas to the record on an elemental level because I didn’t know we were going to make a record. There was one night when (Gould) took me over to his house and goes, “Hey, check out this (expletive) I’m working on.” But he didn’t say it was Faith No More, at least I don’t remember it that way. It wasn’t predetermined. It’s not like we all sat down and went, “Let’s make a new Faith No More record.” When I heard it, I said, “You got a great new band. Who’s going to sing?” He said, “No, I want you to sing.” I’m like, “OK, who’s playing on it?” It turns out it was a Faith No More record.

PATTON THE CRAFTSMAN One of the hallmarks of Faith No More’s records has always been Patton’s unmatched voice, and Sol Invictus is no exception. His ability to adeptly go from a Sinatra-esque croon to a death metal growl and every other vocal styling in between is in full display on songs like Rise of the Fall and Matador.

Patton: All I do is try and fit into whatever, and this could be Faith No More or any other thing that I’ve done.

“Hey, what’s needed?” I’m like a carpenter. I see my job as that. You need some spackle? You need some venetian plaster? Do you need some help with the roof? That’s really the only way I see it. I don’t think I did anything spectacular on this record. It was what was needed.

Gould: But what he did fit with everything else. We didn’t have to do a whole lot to it when we got it. He worked it out so that it all came together, like a craftsman. It wasn’t like, “Let’s get some ideas and fix them later and make them all fit in.” He gave us pretty close to a finished thing.

LOS ANGELES — Disney’s fantasy adventure Tomorrowland topped the slow Memorial Day weekend box office with an estimated $41.7 million debut from its first four days in theatres.

The Brad Bird-directed family film starring George Clooney cost a reported $180 million to produce and was expected to earn somewhere in the $50 million range over the holiday weekend, which is down significantly from last year, according to Rentrak estimates Monday. Tomorrowland just narrowly beat out last weekend’s champion, Universal’s Pitch Perfect 2, which brought in an estimated $38.5 million over the four-day weekend.

Meanwhile, Mad Max: Fury Road and Avengers: Age of Ultron took the thirdand fourth-place spots, while Fox’s Poltergeist remake debuted in fifth place, with an estimated $26.5 million.

Mindy Project staying on City despite being dropped

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The sitcom’s Canadian broadcaster says Mindy Kaling’s workplace comedy is returning to its prime-time schedule, despite being dropped by Fox in the

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Soon after the U.S. network announced it was cancelling the singlecamera show, the streaming service Hulu said it would give it a fourth season.

That raised questions about the show’s availability in Canada, where Hulu is not available.

City says nothing has changed up here — Canadian fans will be able to catch new episodes this fall.

Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago star Omar Sharif has Alzheimer’s disease LOS ANGELES — Legendary Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif is battling Alzheimer’s disease, his agent Steve Kenis confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday.

No additional details were provided about the 83-year-old or his care. His son, Tarek Sharif, revealed the diagnosis in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo on May 23.

The Egyptian-born Sharif rose to international stardom with his role in the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia— Sharif’s first English-language film.

He earned an Oscar nomination for his turn as Sherif Ali in David Lean’s iconic film opposite Peter O’Toole.

Sharif followed the breakthrough performance with the title role in Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, co-starring Julie Christie. He then played Fanny Brice’s husband, Nicky Arnstein, in Funny Girl alongside Barbara Streisand.

His last completed feature film credits were in 2013.

Ontario delaying some film tax credit cuts after complaints from industry Ontario is delaying tax credit cuts for some film producers after the industry complained the changes would hurt productions that are already underway. The budget, likely to be passed soon, contains cuts to the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit and the Ontario Computer Animation and Special Effects Tax Credit.

Members of the film industry told a legislative committee last week that they would lose money — one company estimated half a million dollars — if the cuts were not grandfathered in for existing productions.

The film producers said the immediate nature of the cuts would not only hurt Ontario’s reputation and competitiveness in the industry for foreign productions, but it would also harm domestic projects. Culture Minister Michael Coteau says in a statement today that the budget bill will be amended to provide a “transition period to ensure that producers who made a significant commitment to Ontario before the introduction of the budget would receive the tax credit rates they expected.”

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LAS VEGAS — Two B.B. King heirs who’ve been most outspoken about the blues legend’s final days are accusing King’s two closest aides of poisoning him.

Daughters Karen Williams and Patty King allege in documents provided by their lawyer to The Associated Press that King’s business manager, LaVerne Toney, and his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, killed their father.

Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Monday that an autopsy was performed Sunday on King’s embalmed body, and test results will take up to eight weeks. Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Steiber confirmed that homicide detectives are investigating. Toney and Johnson each declined to comment.

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F. quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

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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.

Farm Work

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CENTRAL Alberta feed lot looking for exp. hen checker/ feedlot employee. Class 1 or 3 would be an asset. feedlot mandatory. email resume: dthengs@hotmail. com. or fax 403-638-3908.

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Oilfield

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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

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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

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ACCOUNTING POSITION

Red Deer company requires three quarter to full time experienced accounting person that will learn company structure and daily duties including payroll, payables, bank reconciliations, lease managements and be able to complete monthly ¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants.

Professionals

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Sunterra -One of the Canada’s industry leaders in the Ag sector is looking for Management Trainees.

If you are interested in working in Agriculture that involves everything from Animal Management to Crops to Hog Processing to Retail please apply! The successful candidate should have a post secondary education. For more information call Trish at 403-442-4202, email resume to trish.hyshka@ sunterra.ca

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Restaurant/ Hotel

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $12/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible.

No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE SWISS Chalet -Red Deer HIRING FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS: $13.75 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and coordinate staff activities and customer service. Establish work schedule and train associates Interested parties can email swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1 866 928 5481 or deliver resume to unit #8, 5111 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1.

Restaurant/ Hotel

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

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Sales & Distributors

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StoreSmart Self-Storage is now hiring for a Part Time

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For job description and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs No phone calls please.

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Trades

Cruisin Auto Repair

5212-68 Street, Red Deer Looking for licensed: AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS. No Weekends.

Excellent Wages.

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LOCAL independent construction company looking to hire construction labourer on a P/T basis.

Own transportation req’d.

Experience in finishing trades an asset. Please email resume & ref’s to: admin@freshrenos.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

LOCAL independent construction company looking to hire for on-site residential renovation work. Demonstrated proficiency in finishing work (drywall, tile setting, finish carpentry, or similar) and reading plans is required. Will be expected to follow safety program and procedures specific to working in occupied spaces. Own transportation and basic tools required. Please email resume & ref’s to: admin@freshrenos.com

Trades

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SELF motivated journeyman sheet metal mechanic req’d for shop in Innisfail.

The successful applicant will have a truck and fuel supplied. Must possess good organizational skills and be able to work commercial projects without assistance. Will be trained on computer sheet metal layout. Must have clean drivers license. Competitive rates $34/hr. and benefit incld. Call 403-227-6554 or fax resume to 403-227-6478 SMALL RURAL MEAT SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. 8 - 4:30, no weekends. Knowledge of cutting hanging carcasses needed. Rental house avail. within walking distance of meat shop at a very reasonable rate with paid utils. Above industry wages avail. with skill & exp. 403-843-4383 jkcmeats@hotmail.ca Start your career!

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Truckers/ Drivers

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Misc.

Help

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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

Labourers & Flag Persons Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

Sentinel Storage is looking for a couple to live in & operate our storage facility.

Current openings:

Calgary & Edmonton Job Expectations Include: *Outstanding Salesmanship *Excellent Communication CENTRAL AB based Skills, both verbal and written trucking company requires *Knowledgeable in CONTRACT Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel; and adept DRIVERS in AB. Home the odd night. office admin experience *Managing, training & Weekends off. scheduling Assistants 403-586-4558 *Valid Class 5 Driver’s license Promax Transport is *Candidates must consent looking for a P/T Class 1A to a Credit & Criminal shunt driver to work Record Check weekend shifts. Please *Janitorial & maintenance send resumes to fax # keeping the physical site 403-227-2743 or call clean - inside and out 403-227-2712 for more Base and Commissions varies information per location, 2 bdrm. residence, benefits, free storage, corporate apparel, contests and prizes.

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No single applicants will be considered. Please Help email BOTH resumes to: Lisa - Lmcnamara@ F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk. sentinel.ca Apply in person Specify city in email w/resume: Highland Green subject line Value Drug Mart.

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Competitive wages and bene¿ts plan.

Hours Àexible.

Please submit cover letter, resume and references to: Peacock Inn/KFC #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Email mail@peacockgroup.ca

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DAVIDSON Lorraine Adella Born in Wadena, Saskatchewan on July 24, 1927, Lorraine passed from our world to be with her beloved husband, Gord, on Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Lorraine is survived by her son and his wife, Doug and Jan Davidson as well as her daughter and her husband, Bonny-Lynn and Lee Frederick. Also, left to celebrate her life are her two granddaughters (nee Frederick) and her four great-grandsons - Chantelle Lembicz and her sons, Thoren and Conlen, as well as Tracy St John, her husband Elton and their sons, Croston and Holden.

She leaves behind a special nephew and his wife, Don and Judy Ellis. Lorraine was predeceased by the love of her life, her husband Gordon (Gord) in August of 2012 and her beloved brother, Chester in October of 2005. She will also be missed by Chester’s wife Eunice and their children - Judy, Debbie and Ron and their respective families. To quote her nephew’s wife, Judy Ellis - “Lorraine was one of a kind - her sense of humour, her love of family (and friends) and her joy of life made her a very special person” is a very apt description of our wonderful Mom, Mama and Mama-Lou. Please join us for a celebration of her life at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Lorraine’s honor may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4 or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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STOLEN black Fossil wallet, Tues., May 19 in morning from G.H. DAWE swimming pool viewing area. If found, pls. call 403-505-8533.

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Handyman Services

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Landscaping

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GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

Massage Therapy

1280

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your Elite Retreat, Finest reno needs. 403-506-4301 in VIP Treatment.

RMD RENOVATIONS 10 - 2am Private back entry Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

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Twin Renovations

97 WEDDELL CRES., Fences, Decks, custom Tues. - Fri., May 26 - 29, built gazebos, Kitchens, 10 - 6, Sat., May 30, 10 -4, Bath, Bsmt. Exc. workmanship.

Lots of baby items. ChristJourneyman Carpenter. mas & Halloween items & more.

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Painters/ Decorators

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360 painting.com residential, interior and exterior, free est. 403-350-7384 JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

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Roofing

1370

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.

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Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL Window & Eavestrough Cleaning.

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1430

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Crazy weather continues to thrash Texas TWISTER KILLS 13 IN MEXICO BORDER CITY; 12 PEOPLE REPORTED MISSING IN FLASH FLOODING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico — A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.Mexico border Monday, destroying homes, flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from its mother’s arms. At least 13 people were killed, authorities said.

In Texas, 12 people were reported missing after the vacation home they were staying in was swept away by rushing floodwaters in a small town popular with tourists.

The baby was also missing after the twister that hit Ciudad Acuna, a city of 125,000 across from Del Rio, Texas, sent its infant carrier flying. Rescue workers began digging through the rubble of damaged homes in a race to find victims.

The twister hit a seven-block area, which Victor Zamora, interior secretary of the northern state of Coahuila, described as “devastated.”

Mayor Evaristo Perez Rivera said 300 people were being treated at local hospitals, and up to 200 homes had been completely destroyed. Three people were unaccounted for.

“There’s nothing standing, not walls, not roofs,” said Edgar Gonzalez, a spokesman for the city government, describing some of the destroyed homes in a 3-square kilometre (1 square mile) stretch.

By midday, 13 people were confirmed dead — 10 adults and three infants.

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Employment Training

Clothing

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EARLY LEARNING and LADIES Rieker, size 37 CHILDCARE TRAINING white sling leather upper PROGRAM Starts shoes, antistress, Dora style, worn once. Reg. $129, June 15, 2015!

Are you unemployed? asking $90. 403-227-2976 Underemployed?

SCRUBS, health care uniHave you always wanted form, size medium. approx. to work with children?

Have you always wanted pieces, $100. obo. to go back to school but haven’t been able to afford Equipmentthe tuition? McBride Career Group in Red Deer Heavy is now offering an EARLY TRAILERS for sale or rent LEARNING AND Job site, ofÀce, well site or CHILDCARE storage. Skidded or TRAINING PROGRAM. wheeled. Call 347-7721.

This program is 20 weeks long and is funded by Alberta Works. If you qualify there is NO COST for books or tuition. Tools You may also qualify for additional living expenses!

71/4” B & D circular saw, Apply Now! CALL $25. 403-885-5020 (403)346-8599

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Firewood

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Children's Items

1660

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B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

RUNNERS, Spiderman, Semi loads of pine, spruce, child’s size 3. Very good tamarack, poplar. cond. $10. 403-314-9603 Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Clothing

1590

BASKETBALL shoes, Adult Converse All Star, Hi-cut, size 12, new in box. $25. 403-314-9603 BOOTS, leather, Italian ladies chocolate, soft glove Àt over knee length, zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, $200. 403-227-2976

Health & Beauty

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LIZ ARDEN NY, NEW, 1 red croc., make-up bag, w/12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. This would make a great Mother’s Day gift, $195. value, Asking $50.

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Family members and neighbours gathered around a pickup truck where the bodies of a woman and two children were laid out in the truck’s bed, covered with sheets. Two relatives reached down to touch the bodies, covered their eyes and wept.

Photos from the scene showed cars with their hoods torn off, resting upended against single-story houses. One car’s frame was bent around the gate of a house. A bus was seen flipped and crumpled on a roadway.

The twister struck not long after daybreak, around the time buses were preparing to take children to school, Zamora said.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he planned to travel to Acuna later in the day with officials from government agencies.

In the U.S., a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Midwest, spawning tornadoes and causing major flooding that forced at least 2,000 Texans from their homes.

Witnesses reported seeing the swollen Blanco River push the vacation house off its foundation and smash it into a bridge. Only pieces of the home have been found, according to Hays County Judge Bert Cobb.

One person who was rescued from the home told workers that the other 12 inside were all connected to two families, Cobb said.

The house was in Wimberley Valley, an area known for its bed-and-breakfast inns and weekend rental cottages.

Dana Campbell, a retired engineer who lives on a bluff above the river, said the floodwaters left behind damage that resembled the path of a tornado “as far as the eye can see.”

The storms were blamed for three deaths Saturday and Sunday, including two in Oklahoma and one in Texas, where a man’s body was recovered

Household Appliances

1710

DRYER, Inglis HD, white ext. large capacity, Electric. $90.

403-341-9990 341-9990 WASHER & Dryer, Kenmore Super Capacity, front load, white. $425. pr.

403-596-1312

Household Furnishings

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KITCHEN table w/4 swivel chairs, $100.

Solid Oak table $50.

403-346-0674, 392-5657 MOVING - Must Sell Like New - glass tv stand, and wood hutch/desk, $75 obo for each item.

403-302-7336 MOVING - Must Sell Like New - table and chairs, and sectional couch, $75 obo for each item. 403-302-7336

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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GAME CUBE 2, 2 games. $50.; PS 2 with 5 games, $40.

X-Box with 6 games, $60.

PS1, with 6 games, $50.

403-782-3847 SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

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100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 PLANTER, ceramic herb, beautiful, beige & white, 7 cups for herbs. $25.

403-314-9603 SEARS deep fryer, used once, $25; 2 duffel bags, $7 each; nylon pup tent, $7; 7 hardcover craft books, $20. 403-343-1503

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

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Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Ibbotson Close Imbeau Close

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS Needed for Early Morning in LANCASTER area: Earn approximately: $464.00 per month Reliable vehicle required For more information, please call PRODIE @ (403) 314-4301

MORRISROE AREA Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive SUNNYBROOK AREA

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SOUTHBROOK AREA Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close VANIER AREA Vanier Dr.

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TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Misc. for Sale

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STORAGE shed, tent style, 8’ x 8’ x 7’, full front door roll-up, spare roof and wall cover, set up to view. $110. 403-346-2192 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $50; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $35. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, beige, $95. 403-352-8811

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Piano & Organs

Nichols Cres. & Nyberg Ave.

WESTPARK 55 & 56 Ave. also 39 St. also 41 & 42 St. ************************** For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

Condos/ Townhouses

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3 BDRM. 2 baths, 5 appls., n/s, no pets, avail June 1. $1200. 403-505-1740 LACOMBE 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, 5 appls., garage $1495/mo.

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AIR HOCKEY by SportsN/S, no utils. incl. craft was $900 new, exc.

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MOVING - Must Sell SOUTHWOOD PARK Like New - treadmill, $75 3110-47TH Avenue, obo. 403-302-7336 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, WANTED: Will pay cash generously sized, 1 1/2 for good used tread baths, fenced yards, climber. Prefer Bow Flex. full bsmts. 403-347-7473, 403-740-6592 Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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from a flooded area along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet in an hour and created huge piles of debris.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott flew over parts of the Blanco on Monday, a day after heavy rains pushed the river into surrounding neighbourhoods.

Abbott said the storms had “relentless tsunami-type power.” He urged communities downstream to monitor flood levels and take the threat seriously.

The governor added 24 counties to his disaster declaration, bringing the

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Hudson Doty, 18, left, and Grant Guzal, 17, right, walk along the bank of the Blanco River near the foundation and stilts of the Carey family home on Deer Crossing Lane, in Wimberley, Texas, on Monday. The Carey family and McComb family, from Corpus Christi, Texas, have been missing since after their home was swept away by the Blanco River early Sunday morning.

Houses/ Duplexes

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HOUSE FOR Rent in Red Deer,Kentwood. 4 bdrm.

3 bathrooms, double attached garage, new paint and fence, available July 1. $2000.00 /month plus all utilities call 403-391-9656

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3 BDRM., n/p, $1100 mo.

403-343-6609 LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

ORIOLE PARK 2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1075. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

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total to 37, most in the eastern half of the state.

Among the worst-affected communities were Wimberley and San Marcos, along the Blanco in the corridor between Austin and San Antonio.

About 1,000 homes were damaged throughout Hays County. Five police cars were washed away, and the firehouse was flooded, said Kristi Wyatt, a spokeswoman for San Marcos.

Rivers swelled so quickly that whole communities awoke Sunday surrounded by water.

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Suites

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ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 Red Deer New 4th Ár. corner suite, 1096 Sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreaGLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. tional amenities, extended apartments, avail. immed, care center attached, deck rent $875 403-596-6000 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. anytime. Pics avai. on kijji SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

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NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 ONE bdrm. apt. avail. imm. $850 plus power. Call Bob 403-872-3400

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Lots For Sale

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Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

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Motorcycles

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TO SUBLET, renovated 1 bdrm. apt. in Bower, $1149/mo, no d.d., heat & water incl., cats allowed.

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2013 HONDA PCX 150 scooter, 1,185 km, $2,700.

403-346-9274

1 BDRM. bsmt, prefer mature employed adult or mature student. 403-342-7789 FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent, $500/mth - $250 DD. Call 403-396-2468

Mobile Lot

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PADS $450/mo.

1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, utils. Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., incl., washer & dryer, $800 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. *** RENTED*** OLDER 1 bdrm. smaller Down payment $4000. Call house, large lot, Penhold. 2 & 3 BDRM. units avail. in at anytime. 403-588-8820 $875/mo. negotiable.

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ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE For VANIER Area With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

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Holiday Trailers

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

Motorhomes

5100

CORSAIR 28’ Motorhome 403-783-2330 or 704-9109

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For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

1997 HONDA Shadow Spirit 1100, windshield, leather bags, storage cover, $3800. 403-740-6592

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2010 OUTBACK Keystone Superlite 28’, 31’ w/hitch, 2 slideouts, good cond., $21,500 403-844-7970

Boats & Marine

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U.S. gives thanks to Iraq’s fight against IS BIDEN PHONES IRAQ’S PRIME MINISTER, REINFORCES SUPPORT AND THANKS IRAQI FORCES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Vice-President Joe Biden reassured Iraq’s government on Monday of U.S. support in the fight against the Islamic State group, telephoning Prime Minister Haider alAbadi with thanks for “the enormous sacrifice and bravery of Iraqi forces” one day after Defence Secretary Ash Carter questioned the Iraqi military commitment.

Biden’s call followed harsh criticism from Iraqi and Iranian quarters after Carter questioned Iraqi forces’ “will to fight” the surging Islamic State group.

A White House statement on Monday describing Biden’s call said the vice-president welcomed an Iraqi decision to mobilize additional troops and “prepare for counterattack operations.”

Biden also pledged full U.S. support to “these and other Iraqi efforts to liberate territory from ISIL,” the statement said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

In reaction to Carter’s remarks, which were aired Sunday in a TV interview, a spokesman for Iraq’s prime minister suggested the defence secretary had “incorrect information,” while Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds forces in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, offered his own critical assessment of U.S. forces.

The heated exchanges came after the loss of Ramadi and amid other gains by the IS in recent days. The statements laid bare fissures among countries that have become allies of convenience against the militants. The criticism from both Iraq and Iran began when Carter told CNN’s “State of the Union” that Iraqi forces “vastly outnumbered” the Islamic State group,

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In this May 23, 2015 photo, Shiite militiamen arrive to Khalidiya to support Sunni tribal fighters and local policemen as they defend their city against Islamic State group militants, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, Iraq. but still “showed no will to fight” and fled the IS advance on the capital of Anbar province.

On Monday, Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesman for al-Abadi, said his government was surprised by Carter’s comments.

“We should not judge the whole army based on one incident,” al-Hadithi told The Associated Press.

Al-Hadithi said the Iraqi government believes the fall of Ramadi was due to mismanagement and poor planning by some senior military commanders in charge. However, he did not elaborate, and no action has been taken against those commanders.

In Iran, the daily newspaper Javan, which is seen as close to the Revolutionary Guard, quoted Soleimani as saying the U.S. didn’t do a “damn thing” to stop the extremists’ advance on Ramadi.

“Does it mean anything else than being an accomplice in the plot?” he reportedly asked, later saying the U.S. showed “no will” in fighting the Islamic State group.

Soleimani said Iran and its allies are the only forces that can deal with the threat. “Today, there is nobody in confrontation with (the Islamic State group) except the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as nations who are next to

Iran or supported by Iran,” he said.

So far, the American approach to the conflict has been to launch airstrikes as part of an international coalition it leads, as well as equipping and training Iraqi forces. But U.S. officials also have become uneasy with Iran’s growing role in the conflict.

While Iraqi officials criticized Carter’s comments, his assessment was comparable to one that Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, made last week: “The ISF was not driven out of Ramadi. They drove out of Ramadi.”

Still, a senior Obama administration official, speaking before Biden’s call was announced, tried to soften Carter’s blunt words: “We know the Iraqi retreat followed an intense wave of suicide bombings. The reference to lack of will was in relation to this specific episode, which followed 18 months of fierce ISF attrition against ISIL in Ramadi, coupled with what the Iraqi government has acknowledged were breakdowns in military command, planning, and reinforcement.”

The official was not authorized to discussed the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Iran has offered advisers, including Soleimani, to direct Shiite militias fighting against the extremists.

Iran has said it does not have combat troops fighting in Iraq, though some Revolutionary Guard members have been killed there.

Baghdad has said military preparations are underway to launch a largescale counteroffensive in Anbar province, involving Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

However, that possibility has sparked fears of potential sectarian violence in the Sunni province, long the scene of protests and criticism against the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.

Venezuela spiraling into economic chaos

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — It’s still possible to buy a gleaming Ford truck in Venezuela, rent a chic apartment in Caracas, and snag an American Airlines flight to Miami. Just not in the country’s official currency.

As the South American nation spirals into economic chaos, an increasing number of products are not only figuratively out of the reach of average consumers, but literally cannot be purchased in Venezuelan bolivars, which fell into a tailspin on the black market last week.

Businesses and individuals are turning to dollars even as the anti-American rhetoric of the socialist administration grows more strident. It’s a shift that’s allowing parts of the economy to limp along despite a cash crunch and the world’s highest inflation. But it could put some goods further out of reach of the working class, whose wellbeing has been the focal point of the country’s 16-year-old socialist revolution.

The latest sign of an emerging dual-currency system came earlier this month when Ford Motor Co. union officials announced the company had reached a deal with officials to sell trucks and sports utility vehicles in dollars only.

A few weeks earlier, American Airlines said it had stopped accepting bolivars for any of its 19 weekly flights out of Venezuela. Customers must now use a foreign credit card to buy the tickets online. Virtually all other

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BRIEF Rest home fire in central China kills 38 and injures 6 BEIJING — A rest home fire in central China killed 38 people and injured six, Chinese state media reported Tuesday.

The official Xinhua News Agency said that the Monday night fire swept through an apartment building being used as a privately run rest home in the city of Pingdingshan in Henan province.

Xinhua said two of the injured were in serious condition, and a rescue operation was underway Tuesday morning. The cause of the fire was unclear.

With a rapidly aging population and under-resourced social security net, China faces increasing pressure to provide safe and affordable care for the elderly.

In 2013, a disgruntled resident set fire to a rest home, killing himself and 10 others, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.

Brazil prison riot leaves 8 dead; Nearly 50 hostages have been freed RIO DE JANEIRO — A prison riot in northeastern Brazil left eight inmates

foreign carriers have made the same switch with the government’s consent, according to the Venezuela Airlines Association.

Driving the shift is the crumbling value of the bolivar, which has lost more than half its value this year, plunging to 400 per dollar on the free market as Venezuelans scramble to convert their savings into a more stable currency. Desperate, people are selling bolivars for a rate 60 times weaker than the strongest of country’s three official exchange rates.

It’s a politically uncomfortable situation for President Nicolas Maduro, who regularly leads chants of “gringo go home” and says currency speculation is one of the main tools used by enemies to try to sow chaos and force him from power.

It’s not just businesses chasing greenbacks. Real estate contracts are still drafted in bolivars to satisfy a requirement imposed by late President Hugo Chavez, but in upscale neighbourhoods most owners operate outside the law and sell and rent in dollars only. A group of realtors in tony eastern Caracas has established a password-protected website for listings in dollar prices.

Analysts say the administration likely sees a limited dollarization as the only way to prevent multinationals from leaving the county altogether, as Clorox did last year, citing problems brought about by decade-old currency controls, supply shortages and inflation that hit 68 per cent last year, and economists believe is now well into the triple digits. dead after a fight between two gangs quickly escalated, prison officials said.

Nearly 50 people, mostly visiting family members, were held hostage for several hours, but were released unharmed Monday.

Five inmate were injured in the violence — four of them were treated and sent back to the prison, a fifth remains hospitalized in an unknown condition.

Prison officials in Bahia state, where the riot took place, said in an emailed statement that they negotiated an end to the standoff early Monday.

The riot began late Sunday in the Feira de Santana regional prison. It’s severely overcrowded — holding 1,467 prisoners in a space built for 644.

Galapagos Island volcano erupts after 33 years, threatening fragile ecosystem QUITO, Ecuador — A volcano atop one of the Galapagos Islands has erupted for the first time in 33 years, threatening a fragile ecosystem that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Ecuador’s Galapagos National Park administration said the mile-high (1.7 kilometre-high) Wolf volcano began spewing fire, smoke and lava before dawn Monday.

The volcano lies on the northern tip of Isabela Island, the archipelago’s largest. It’s far from the only population centre, Puerto Villamil, 70 miles (115 kilometres) to the south. Authorities said no tourist activity was affected.

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In this Jan. 8, 2015 photo, shoppers queue outside of a supermarket in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans continue to struggle to find basic goods including detergent and sugar. Most of the shortages in Venezuela are driven in part by the country’s tight currency controls, which make it hard to get dollars at a subsidized rate for imports while creating a thriving black market for currency.

Production at Ford has fallen by 90 per cent as the company struggles to gain access to dollars needed to import parts. Customers will now transfer

Ford dollars in advance to pay for the import of the parts needed to assemble the cars in Venezuela, according to union officials.

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1988 — Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins 6-3, completing a four game sweep to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years. MVP Wayne Gretzky has 31 assists, setting a play-

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1940 — Start of the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk.

1887 — Canadian Pacific Railway 4,700 km main line opens for public traffic, 18 months after the last spike at Craigellachie, B.C. Trains have been running across Canada for a year, but passengers can now ride directly to Vancouver.

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Couple grossed out by friend’s behaviour

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Dear Annie: My husband and I meet up with a group of family and close friends every week for lunch.

One couple in this group (a close family member and her spouse) constantly blow their noses during our gettogethers. They use cloth handkerchiefs, which are then reused multiple times, and her husband picks his nose, as well. It is nauseating to all of us, not to mention to other diners nearby.

A few of the couples have told us they will not attend any more lunches unless abMITCHELL solutely necessary. & SUGAR We do not want a family feud, but I think we need to do something before our social gatherings fall apart.

The one with the most appalling manners is a college graduate with an excellent job. You would think he would know better, but it’s difficult to tell him anything. How do we fix this without alienating them altogether? — Sickened and Frustrated Dear Sickened: People who believe they are entitled to nauseate others because they have sinus issues are not likely to listen to anyone. Some friends and family tolerate these unpleasant encounters because they value the person enough to put up with the constant nose blowing, no matter how unappetizing. Yet these tolerated friends do not seem to give the same value to their companions’ sensitivities.

(There is no excuse for picking one’s nose.)

While we understand and sympathize with folks who have terrible allergies and need to dab at their noses frequently, that is not the same as major nose and throat clearing where mucus exits the system.

For those moments, a trip to the restroom is called for, even if that means absenting yourself from the table more often than you’d like. The other alternative, of course, is to meet at a place where you will not be eating. It’s the combination of food and snot that makes this so unpleasant.

Dear Annie: This is for “Hopeless,” who likes a boy who asked for her phone number, and now she is waiting for him to call, which he hasn’t.

I could have written that letter. I, too, liked a guy, and after six months, he asked a mutual friend for my phone number. But he never called. Another six months went by while I waited. Finally, I asked him out.

It turns out, he was so shy he couldn’t make the call. Even after we began dating, it took him three years to ask me to marry him because he was so afraid I’d turn him down — even though we were only seeing each other and I loved him.

So, I’d like to tell her to hang in there. Her guy may be terribly shy and inexperienced, so be patient and take it slow. If he’s anything like my guy, he’ll be worth the wait. We’ve been married for 30 years now and are still going strong. — Been There Dear Been: A lot of young women don’t realize that guys can be shy, no matter how sure of themselves they may seem on the surface. It takes courage to ask a girl out, and rejection can be hard to take. Women have lived with this for centuries, but we don’t always consider that guys may have the same insecurities.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Panchito, a two-month-old, black-handed spider monkey, clings to its mother, at the National Zoo’s rescue centre, in Managua, Nicaragua. The mother, who has been housed at the centre for over a year, was rescued from animal traffickers.

Canadian researchers make amazing discovery HOW TO TURN BLOOD INTO NERVE CELLS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It could be called a “sensational” discovery: Canadian scientists have figured out how to turn a simple blood sample into a variety of nerve cells, including those that are responsible for pain, numbness and, yes, sensation.

The technology will allow researchers to test potential pain-killing drugs in the lab, using an individual’s own nerve cells, said Mick Bhatia, who led the team of scientists at McMaster University.

“Now we can take easy to obtain blood samples and make the main cell types of neurological systems - the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system - in a dish that is specialized for each patient,” said Bhatia, director of McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute.

“Nobody has ever done this with adult blood,” he said from Hamilton. The technique involves extracting stem cells from blood, which are then converted into neural stem cells using a patented technique.

These stem cells are then manipulated in the lab to give rise to several types of nerve cells, including those that make up the peripheral nervous system throughout the arms, legs and the rest of the body.

“So we take a cell whose identity — its name, address, what it does as a blood cell — we tell it to forget all of that, and we educate it to become a neural cell,” said Bhatia, likening the process to turning a lawyer into a surgeon.

“It’s literally a re-education process. We convert the cell completely to a different fate.”

By exposing the cells to different chemical agents in lab dishes and seeing how they react, the researchers hope to discover new pain drugs that take

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C A N C E R (June 21-July 22): Conscientious Crabs are in the mood to knuckle down and get things done. Don’t assume you know what a relative or neighbour is thinking though JOANNE - you may be MADELEINE way off the MOORE mark.

LEO (July 23Aug. 22): Neptune is meandering through your lust zone, so the best aphrodisiac at the moment is buckets of romance.

Single Cats — sparks could fly with an amorous Aquarian or a sexy Sagittarian.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Mercury retrograding through your career zone, don’t take anything for granted.

If you want to avoid problems Virgo, then you’ll have to check and double-

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check everything.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re in the mood for flirting, romantic candlelit dinners, creative partnerships and spiritual pursuits. But if you avoid facing important issues then disruption and confusion are likely.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Attached Scorpios — look to the future and set goals together. Singles don’t just dive into the dating pool. Research and planning are required, so that you give yourself the best possible chance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With Mercury retrograding through your relationship zone, it will be very easy to misinterpret what others say today Sagittarius. So think carefully before you react or over-react.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s time to tackle practical tasks today, as

the Moon moves through the earth sign of Virgo. But double-check everything, as communication confusion and business mix-ups are likely.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Attached Aquarians — does a romantic relationship seem to be going backwards at the moment? Time to inject exciting new activities into the mix.

Some singles will revisit an old romance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may temporarily lose your way today Pisces, as people perplex you and situations confuse you. If you follow your intuition, it will eventually lead you in the right direction.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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The drugs are not only addictive but have a number of unwanted side-effects.

“You don’t want to feel sleepy or unaware, you just want your pain to go away,” Bhatia said of analgesic medications.

“But up until now, no one’s had the ability and required technology to actually test different drugs to find something that targets the peripheral nervous system and not the central nervous system in a patient-specific or personalized manner.”

Pain is also personalized: some people tend to feel discomfort more acutely than others.

Examining neural cells derived from a patient’s own blood means they contain the same DNA, making it possible to determine whether there may be a genetic reason why someone might perceive excessive pain, then seeking a drug that’s tailored to fit their personal DNA profile.

“So we think that this conversion ability from blood to neural cells will now provide a means to start hunting for those types of drugs,” he said.

Dr. Akbar Panju, medical director of McMaster’s Institute for Pain Research and Care, said this research will have a major impact on managing neurological diseases, particularly neuropathic pain that often affects people with diabetes.

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The margarita chicken gets its kick from a zesty marinade of fresh lime juice, jalapeno, tequila and seasonings.

Take that extra step this summer introduce your favourite summer cocktails flavours to the barbecue!

Barbecuing and alcohol seem to go hand in hand during the summer months — or they seem to in my household. For my husband, lighting the barbecue is synonymous with opening a cold bottle of beer. It’s a tradition, it’s a ritual!

There is nothing wrong with this, because it did inspire me to write this article.

Watching him savour his beer, I began to see the beer as an ingredient in the barbecue.

Wine has been used for decades in cooking, so why not beer?

So I began the quest for marinades that featured beer in the recipes. I tried a few and found that the beer did MADHU break down tough fibres in BADONI meat, making it more tender and flavourful at the same time.

I discovered that longer you let the meat marinate in beer, the more tender the meat became. This was great for tougher cuts of meat.

Seafood and chicken required less for the flavours of the marinades to seep through.

In general, marinade made from beers burned off quickly once the meat hit the grill, leaving a faint beer aftertaste to the meat. Using stronger and darker brands of beer imparted a richer taste to the meat.

And if the beer was combined with citrus juices or vinegar, the tenderizing process advanced even faster than with just the beer alone.

And that’s all great if you are a beer connoisseur, which I am not.

But since I had great success with my husband’s barbecue drink, I decided to take it an extra step and infuse my favourite summer cocktails flavours — margarita and pina colada — into the marinades!

Although a couple of delicious recipes did make it to the dinner table, I did have a few mishaps with this concept.

There are a lot of variables to consider when adding liquor to marinades. While varieties of alcohol impart their own unique flavour to the meat, each type of liquor also has a different effect on meat.

Added to that, each meat also reacted differently to the alcohol. Large cuts of red meat needed more marinating time than seafood and smaller cuts.

Seafood and chicken strips only required about 30 minutes; chicken breast and thigh needed three to four hours for the flavours to infuse through the meat, while chicken legs and red meat did well with overnight marinating to get the desired flavour and tenderness.

When the alcohol-based marinades were combined with citrus juices and salt, it shortened the marinating time more — not a bad thing for meat that needs to hit the barbecue on a rushed weekday.

How is that any different from other marinades, you might ask?

Well, Alcohol is very mighty when you consider its tenderizing capabilities. Generally, the higher the alcohol content, the more tenderizing power it gave to the marinade.

If marinated for too long, then alcohol-based marinades seemed to chemically cook or denature the meat, giving the meat a doughy consistency instead of the characteristic fibre meat feel.

Wines are safer for a longer marinating time than hard liquors, such as vodka, rum or gin. Fruit-based alcohol tends to work well with poultry, pork and beef, while vodka, gin and tequila work well with seafood, fish and poultry.

The dangerous component of barbecuing with alcohol is the act of barbecuing itself; about a second after your alcohol-marinated foods hits the grill, the alcohol dripping from the meat combusts. This combustion can be excessive and sometimes dangerous.

This can be avoided if you let the alcohol-marinated foods drain for a few minutes before you put them on the grill. There will continue to be some flare-ups as the alcohol and any fat leaks out of the meat and hits the fire.

Here is the beer marinade and my favourite cocktail-infused marinade. They can all be used to tenderize and add flavour. The margarita chicken gets its kick from a zesty marinade of fresh lime juice, jalapeno, tequila and seasonings.

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Beer-Infused Chicken ½ cup olive oil 1 teaspoon sea salt

Simple beer marinade creates the most tender and flavourful chicken ever when cooked on the grill. ½ teaspoon ground black pepper ½ teaspoon paprika ½ teaspoon cumin ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 cloves garlic, chopped 3 tablespoons chopped onion ½ cup chopped fresh parsley 1½ cups beer Pour olive oil into a two-cup liquid measuring cup. Mix together salt, pepper, paprika, cumin, and cayenne pepper and add to olive oil. Add garlic, onions and parsley. Mix together well with a fork.

Slowly add beer as it will cause the mixture to foam and bubble slightly. Pour marinade over the chicken in the zip-top bag. Remove as much air as possible from the bag and seal. Turn the bag from side to side to make sure all chicken has been coated with the marinade.

Place the bag flat on a small, rimmed kitchen sheet pan and into the refrigerator. Allow to sit up to one hour or overnight for best results, turning the bag over every few hours to keep the chicken coated.

Grilled Margarita Chicken

for two minutes, reduce to simmer and cook until reduced by one-third. Serve over top of chicken for an extra flavor treat!

Pina Colada Chicken 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, or strips 1⁄3 cup light corn syrup 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained 2 teaspoons soy sauce ¼ cup light rum or ¼ cup dark rum ¼ cup shredded sweetened coconut ¼ teaspoon ground ginger ¼ teaspoon salt Place chicken in a shallow glass baking dish.

Place all other ingredients in a blender and blend thoroughly. Reserve a half cup of pina colada sauce, cover and refrigerate until ready to use for basting.

Pour remaining pina colada marinade over chicken, cover and refrigerate four one to three hours. Marinating time for chicken strips is one hour. I would not recommend leaving for overnight. Preheat the grill to medium-high heat. Grill chicken three to four minutes per side, basting with reserved pina colada sauce and turning over frequently, until no pink remains and the juices run clear.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

3-5 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast (washed and trimmed) Zest of 1 lime (about 1 tablespoon) Juice of 3 limes (about ½ cup) Juice of 1 orange (about ¼ cup) 1 jalapeño pepper, minced (seeded and deveined to reduce heat) 5 cloves garlic, minced or grated 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander seed 1 teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper 2 ounces tequila ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil Place chicken in a resalable gallonsize plastic bag. Set aside. Combine all ingredients, except chicken, in a small bowl or measuring cup. Whisk to combine. Pour the marinade over the chicken, seal and place in the refrigerator to marinate for three to four hours. Turn chicken occasionally. Preheat grill to medium-high. Place chicken on the counter to come to room temperature. Grill chicken about four to five minutes on each side. Serve and enjoy.

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