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MS Walk A new story at continues Sunnybrook to make a difference EVENT HAS BEEN HELD LOCALLY FOR 25 YEARS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF For 25 years Central Albertans have laced up their sneakers and opened their wallets in support of the annual Jayman Build MS Walk held on Sunday.

And what a difference community funding has made to improve the lives of those living with multiple sclerosis.

“Twenty five years ago when we started doing walks there was not even an injectable type of disease modification drug. Now there’s several and now there’s even two or three pill format so research has really come a long way to modify the disease,” said Lorraine Evans-Cross, regional director of the Central Alberta chapter of the MS Society of Canada.

The annual walk from Great Chief Park is the chapter’s signature event that raises money for research and local programs.

“This walk does really make an impact. Every step we take does make a difference.”

The goal on Sunday was to raise $170,000.

MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that can cause extreme fatigue, balance issues, weakness, tingling, impaired vision and other symptoms.

About 14,000 Albertans live with MS. “That is the highest prevalence in Canada and Canada has the highest prevalence in the world.”

Evans-Cross said the rate of MS is very high in Central Alberta with between 700 and 800 cases known to the local chapter.

“I don’t know if we’re having more MS being diagnosed. I believe our diagnostics abilities are getting better so we’re able to understand and pinpoint a diagnosis earlier. Having an earlier diagnosis, a lot of our clients are able to go onto disease modification drugs to modify the course of their disease.”

MS typically strikes people age 15 to 40, with more women affected.

Kelly Vanderzwan, 55, of Red Deer, was diagnosed with MS in January 2002 and did her first walk that year.

“Doing the walk or contributing to someone who is walking is empowering. It makes you feel like you’re doing something. When you feel like you’re doing something, you don’t feel as helpless or hopeless,” Vanderzwan said.

Since 2003 she has walked with a team that has raised just under $85,000 since 2003.

Their goal is to reach $100,000 by the 2016 walk.

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Sunnybrook Farm Museum volunteers Ken Sanborn, Howard Barker and Wayne Blenkhorn work on the interior of the new Mercantile Bank and General Store building at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum on Thursday.

COOPERATIVE MERCANTILE STORE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT FARM MUSEUM

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Commerce is coming to Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

Cooperative Mercantile Store is under construction at the 30th Street museum that tells the story of the local pioneer farming community.

Ian Warwick, museum executive director, said the building SPRING ON THE FARM C1 will be divided into a farm equipment shop and general store that will also include a bank desk which was typical in the early days.

“You could barter for eggs and milk. If they had extra butter, they would trade it,” Warwick said.

“Long term we’re hoping to get a little church in here, maybe a little elevator, a little train station as well. Places of social and economic activity of the farm community.”

The museum opened Roseneath Garage in 2013 with three automobiles including a 1911 MaLaughlin Buick.

Located on 10 acres donated by Norman and Iva Bower in 1988, the farm museum has 10 buildings, big and small, filled with farm artifacts, along with 35 tractors and other farming equipment.

Sunnybrook’s collection includes about 1,500 artifacts and 500 artifacts on loan from the Red Deer Museum.

“It’s an unique place right in the middle of Red Deer. It’s 10 acres that are going to be protected for all time.”

The mercantile, which will open in April 2016, will tell the story of the first farm cooperatives and the businesses they established.

The concrete foundation was poured last October with the bulk of construction starting in March by a core group of six volunteers.

“They have been working hard. An amazing group of fellows.”

Construction of the $250,000 building should be done in July then work will begin on developing the exhibits inside.

The museum’s first handicapped-accessible washrooms will operate at the back of the mercantile hopefully by July.

Hands-on school programs at Sunnybrook Farm Museum annually draw about 2,500 students, preschool to Grade 5, who learn how to make butter, cook bannock on a wood stove, and other farm chores.

Warwick said students will really appreciate the flush toilets. Currently they use the outhouses or portable toilets.

“They don’t like them,” he laughed.

The mercantile is part of the museum’s plan to enhance the property south of its steel barn.

The museum entrance will be relocated to the south side off Botterill Crescent by late 2016.

New water and sanitary lines and will be installed this year, along with a sidewalk.

Next year work will begin on Calder School, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1932 and moved to the museum in 2006. Catering services provided by the museum will be relocated to the basement of the school and museum offices will be added onto the structure. The Bower’s farmhouse will remain where it is and revert back to a traditional farmhouse.

An interpretive centre is also planned for the south side.

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Menthol tobacco ban announced

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government is joining provinces that are banning the sale of menthol tobacco.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says stores will be allowed to sell menthol flavoured tobacco until the end of September in order to clear their stock, but after that it will be illegal.

The move by the new NDP government removes an exemption that the previous Progressive Conservative government granted for menthol after it passed legislation in 2013 that banned flavoured tobacco.

“These changes will help make smoking less attractive to youth. Every Albertan should be able to enjoy a life free of tobacco-related disease,” Hoffman told a news conference in Edmonton on Sunday.

Hoffman said about one-third of all youth smokers in the province smoke menthol, compared to just four per cent of adult smokers.

New Brunswick announced Friday that it would be the latest province to ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products.

Nova Scotia has also passed legislation banning the sale of flavoured tobacco, including menthol,

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which took effect Sunday, and Ontario has proposed a similar ban. Imperial Tobacco Canada said Thursday it will challenge Nova Scotia’s legislation on the grounds the province exceeded its legal authority with the ban. It also contends there is a lack of evidence to demonstrate that tobacco products flavoured with menthol are attractive to youth.

Hoffman said she’s not concerned about the challenge.

“I’m not surprised that a tobacco company when there’s decisions being made around reducing their ability to sell products would be suing, but I’m not concerned about it moving forward and we know that it’s the right decision,” the minister said.

The Western Convenience Stores Association said in a news release Sunday that small business owners

were not consulted about the menthol ban, which it argues will lead to a black market.

“This decision is like putting a welcome mat out for biker gangs and criminal organizations at Alberta’s borders,” said the association’s president, Andrew Klukas, in the release.

But Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-tobacco group in Alberta, applauded the new government for resisting pressure from what it called “tobacco lobbyists.”

“We cannot allow tobacco companies to dictate public health and health policy in Alberta,” president Les Hagen said in a news release. “In other words, we must keep the fox out of the henhouse.”

A few exemptions to the flavoured tobacco ban in Alberta will remain. Pipe tobacco will be exempted, as well as cigars that cost $5 each and weigh five grams or more. Hoffman said a member of her staff spoke with a representative for retailers, and that she heard from a lot of other people on the issue since she was appointed to the health portfolio a week ago. She also dismissed concerns about a black market developing for menthol.

“I personally think Albertans in general follow the law. And if something is illegal for purchase, I think that they will probably respect that,” Hoffman said.

Australia wants more access for its wine After a big win by the EU, Australia is looking north to try and get more access for its wine.

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RCMP investigate weapons-related incident on Saturday morning Maskwacis RCMP are investigating an incident involving weapons that left three people injured on Louis Bull First Nation early Saturday morning.

Police could only confirm that firearms were not involved.

At about 5 a.m., RCMP responded to a complaint at a residence and found two males with serious injuries who were transported by STARS air ambulance and ground ambulance to Edmonton-area hospitals and remain in hospital care. Their injuries were not life threatening.

A third victim whose injuries weren’t as serious was taken to Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre and later released.

Two of the victims were 18 and one was a youth.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call Maskwacis RCMP at 780-585-4600. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

2 cyclists, 1 passenger dead in alleged impaired driving crash PEMBERTON, B.C. — Three people are dead after a man police who believe was impaired drove into a group of road cyclists out for a weekend ride northeast of Whistler, B.C. RCMP said they received a call from a witness about a driver crashing into three people cycling along Highway 99 around noon on Sunday, killing two of them, along with the vehicle’s sole passenger. R4eports that the driver was impaired at the time of the crash are based on observations from witnesses and police officers at the scene.

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Marjorie Cabagua, left, and Bianca Delacruz react to getting a little too close to the fountain at Bower Ponds while paddleboating on Saturday afternoon. While the weather was cooler and overcast for much of the day, it warmed up in the afternoon, reaching 19C.

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FARM: Kicked off the tourist season Warwick said it will take 10 or 15 years to complete all the projects.

On Saturday, the museum kicked off the tourist season with its annual event Spring on the Farm.

About 4,000 people annually come out to museum events.

“Our two primary markets are the very young and very old. The little kids love it because they’re learning about stuff. Seniors come here reminiscing about their parents driving tractors like that,” Warwick said pointing to the row of old-fashioned farm machinery.

He said children who have never visited a farm enjoy meeting the farm animals from local farms who live at Sunnybrook during the summer.

“Everyone at the time had a mixed farm.”

Two turkeys recently arrived to join a donkey, a miniature horse, two young pigs, a rabbit, goats, sheep, calves and chickens with one rooster.

“We’re the only ones in Red Deer to have a rooster. The bylaw doesn’t allow it,” said Warwick about the city’s rules regarding residential chickens.

Admission is by donation to the museum which makes the site more inviting to parents, he said.

“We like to be accessible. That’s why we don’t charge admission. That’s why we’re open seven days a week. That’s why we allow people, even the gates are closed, to come in at least until dark. They can walk on the site and enjoy it in the evenings too.”

For more information visit sunnybrookfarmmuseum.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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She said campaigning for donations and walking showed her how many families are affected by MS. “When I was diagnosed I didn’t know anyone or anything. The only thing I knew about it was that it was a devastating illness. You became crippled and then you died. They couldn’t do anything for you. So it was terrifying to get that diagnosis.

“I called MS my secret. My children didn’t know for three or four months. My parents didn’t know. It

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Mermaid tails banned in some cities

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Krista Visinski is determined to be a mermaid, even if she’s not allowed in the water right now.

The Edmonton mother has been preparing for more than a year to become a professional sea nymph and teach exercise classes, host children’s parties and appear at public events.

But her plan was recently put on hold when the city announced a ban on mermaid tails, a trendy swim accessory, in all its pools.

The 24-year-old delivered a petition to the city this week with nearly 600 names, some of them parents of children who dream of swimming like Ariel from the Disney movie The Little Mermaid.

Others, calling themselves mermaid advocates, say anyone should be able to swim with a tail.

“Other mermaids in Canada are afraid that a ripple effect is going to happen, more bans will happen,” Visinski says.

Mermaid tails have been on the market for a few years but recently started gaining popularity in Canada. Several companies make different versions, but most tails consist of a colourful fabric around the legs that stretches from the waist and over a neoprene monofin that holds both feet.

They can cost $100 or more.

A City of Edmonton spokesman says there is concern the tails promote holding one’s breath under water for long periods of time and can lead to blackouts and drowning.

Christopher Webster says the Edmonton has no plans to lift its ban, but may allow for an exception

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Krista Visinski wears her mermaid tail in Edmonton on Saturday. Visinski is determined to be a mermaid, even if she’s not allowed in the water right now.

The Edmonton mother has been preparing for more than a year to become a professional sea nymph and teach exercise classes, host children’s parties and appear at public events. so Visinski can continue her tail training.

Perry Fulop, a manager with the City of Surrey in British Columbia, says officials there have also banned tails during public swim times, because they

appear to be hazardous for inexperienced swimmers.

But if there is demand, pools may hold specific mermaid swim times, he says.

“I think we like the idea of children using mermaid tails. We’re just trying to figure out the best method of implementing it.”

Other communities require swimmers with tails to complete a swim test before they can flop around in their pools.

Eric Browning with Fin Fun Mermaid, a U.S. company that produces tails, says in a letter that his company has never heard of swimmers blacking out in its four years of operating.

“I guess if a person holds their breath long enough, they can black out even if they are not in a pool,” he says.

Visinski says she understands why there might be a safety concern with children. But if they’re properly supervised and taught how to swim with bound legs, there shouldn’t be a problem.

“If you’re playing hockey, you have skates strapped to your feet. If you’re going sledding, you’re sitting on a piece of plastic and going down the hill at crazy speeds ... There’s inherent risk with everything associated with kids.”

Some defenders have compared mermaid tails to snowboards, which were banned from some ski hills when they first hit the slopes.

Marielle Chartier Henault, founder of AquaMermaid Academy in Montreal, says she thinks tails will eventually gain acceptance.

Her company started teaching mermaid classes in February and plans to expand to Toronto and Ottawa this summer.

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OTTAWA — Some 3,500 Liberal volunteers knocked on more than 200,000 doors in 190 ridings across the country last weekend.

Good old-fashioned, boots-on-the-ground campaigning to identify potential supporters for this fall’s election, right?

Not quite.

Those volunteers are the vanguard of the modern style of campaigning that melds traditional personto-person contact with sophisticated, big data analytics to allow political parties to identify, target and mobilize likely supporters in ways not imagined just a decade ago. The Conservatives were the first to recognize the value of harnessing technology in 2004, adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to create a massive data base of voters known as the Constituent Information Management System. CIMS has given the ruling party a significant advantage ever since, both in fundraising and micro-targeting niches of potential voters.

In recent years, New Democrats and Liberals have been racing to catch up, hiring data analytics experts and overhauling what had been haphazard efforts to amass data bases.

The Liberal party agreed to give The Canadian Press a rare glimpse of how it gathers information on voters and what analysis of all that data enables it to do. Start with last weekend’s canvassing.

Gone are the days of volunteers standing on doorsteps with a clipboards and voters’ lists, ticking off likely supporters. The modern Liberal canvasser now carries a smart phone or tablet, loaded with the miniVAN app. It was developed by U.S.-based NPG VAN and used to great effect by Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. Each volunteer is trained to give a brief homily on why they support the party — the personal touch never gets old — and to then follow a script designed to elicit pertinent information, including party preference, willingness to take a lawn sign, issues of concern, email address and phone number. Responses, along with other information such as a voter’s preferred language, are punched into mini-VAN, which is linked to the party’s central data base, Liberalist, where party headquarters can monitor the canvassers in real time. (Fake data was

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Benefits of getting dirty We’re surrounded by life, but Earth’s most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are not only around us, they live on and in us. Although some cause maladies ranging from food poisoning to smallpox, there are many we couldn’t live without.

Beneficial microbes break down food and produce vitamins in our guts.

They coat our skin, protecting us from attacks by harmful microbes. Outside DAVID our bodies, they decompose orSUZUKI ganic waste, fix nitrogen and produce half the world’s oxygen.

Scientists refer to the microbial communities on and in our bodies as “microbiomes.” Every one of us hosts as many as 100 trillion microbes — our guts alone are home to 500 to 1,000 different bacteria species!

Just as human activity is harming the diversity of visible life, it’s also diminishing microbial diversity. As researchers learn more about the pro-

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found ways good microbes keep people healthy, they’re also seeing how our urbanized, indoor lifestyles have transformed our microbiomes, increasing the risk of disease.

Just as we pollute the environment outside us, we can also pollute and upset the “normal flora” of our bodies by what we eat and do. Effects range from indigestion to deadly disease.

One modern consequence of our lack of understanding about the necessity of healthy microbiomes is seen in our use of antibiotics. Despite their benefits, decades of overuse for personal sanitation, minor maladies and to promote growth in livestock has led to new illnesses and infections as sometimes-harmful bacteria evolve to resist antibiotics and our own microbial defences.

According to Alan Logan, author of Your Brain on Nature, diet and where we live and play have a tremendous influence on the microbial ecosystems on our skin and in our noses, mouths and intestines.

Logan and experts from a range of disciplines at the Natural Environments Initiative workshop at Harvard School of Public Health found people who live in areas with rich plant diversity have more diverse microbiomes.

The air we breathe, the soil we dig and the outdoor plants we come into contact with include a variety of microbes

that may be absent in indoor and built environments.

Researchers have even found digging in dirt, whether gardening or playing, can benefit our physical and mental health.

A microbe common to mud and wet soils, Mycobacterium vaccae, has been shown to influence brain neurotransmitters to reduce anxiety and improve cognitive functioning. Another microbe encountered in natural environments, Acinetobacter lwoffii, has been shown to benefit the human immune system, preventing asthma, hay fever and other ailments in children who have been exposed to it — although it can also cause infections and gastric problems for people with compromised immune systems.

Research by Ilkka Hanski and colleagues at the University of Helsinki found microbe diversity reduced the incidence of allergies. They compared adolescents living in houses surrounded by biodiverse natural areas to those living in landscapes of lawns and concrete. From skin swabs, they learned that higher native-plant diversity appears to be associated with greater and more diverse microbial composition on the participants’ skin, which led to lower risk of a range of allergies.

It’s likely that, as we learn more about the microbial world, we’ll find other beneficial microbes in nature.

The research also highlights the importance of overall biodiversity to human health. A good solution to protecting biodiversity, from the smallest microbe to the largest animal, and to keeping ourselves healthy, is for all of us to spend more time outside.

According to the American Public Health Association, “People of all ages and abilities enjoy higher levels of health and well-being when they have nature nearby in parks, gardens, greenways, naturalized schoolyards and playgrounds, and natural landscaping around homes and workplaces.

People responding to David Suzuki Foundation surveys after our annual 30X30 Nature Challenge report significant mood improvements, more vitality and energy, and increases in naturespecific emotions like awe, curiosity and fascination. Research has also shown people who develop deeper connections with nature are more likely to care for and protect it, a phenomenon renowned biologist E.O. Wilson called “biophilia.”

As this year’s 30X30 Nature Challenge wraps up, consider it an inspiration to get outside every day of the year. It’s good for your health, mood and microbiome — and nature!

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

LETTER TO EDITOR

Thanks for vote of confidence from Liberal leadership Now that the election is over, I wish to publicly thank Dr. David Swann and Michael Dawe for asking me to allow my name to stand as a Liberal candidate for the Sylvan Lake/Innisfail area.

Because of the premature calling of the election, the timing did not work for me.

These two fine, upstanding Albertans who have been working tirelessly for a positive change in government, will continue their efforts as their respective roles allow.

Raised as a Conservative, I am feeling a little confused about where I actually stand over the next few years.

I plan to sort it all out in my own mind and heart.

I have faith in Rachel Notley that her heart is in the right place. She is deserving of our support for the next four years.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Dr. David and Michael. God bless you both.

Brenda Stone RN BSCN Sylvan Lake

Are public appeals for a live organ donor fair?

BY JENNIFER CHANDLER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The public response to the appeal on behalf of Eugene Melnyk, owner of the Ottawa Senators hockey team, for a liver donor has been a heart-warming demonstration of the generosity of our community.

Fortunately, a donor was found and the transplant was performed in time to save his life.

But is it fair that he received a donation when many others are waiting, and dying, on the waitlist for a transplant? This is one of the common themes in the commentary over the news of the transplant.

It is entirely understandable for those in desperate need to give up on the waitlist for a deceased donor and to reach out to their friends and family, and, if they are able to do so, to the public to find a live donor.

There is perhaps an inescapable unfairness in all such appeals for live donors. Those with larger families and social circles may have a higher chance of locating a suitable donor.

As for appeals to the public, those with wealth, fame, charisma or a particularly compelling story are likely to do better than those without these attributes because they are more appealing to the public or because they have better access to the means of effective mass communication.

Although some are critical of public appeals for

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live organ donors, it is important to note that refraining from launching these appeals does nothing to help anyone. In fact, it may actually harm both people like Melnyk who hope to find a donor as well as others on the waitlist. There are several ways in which public appeals to help one specific individual might indirectly benefit others waiting for a transplant.

When the topic of organ donation and transplantation attracts the public’s attention, as it has done in this instance, more people tend to register their willingness to donate after death and to speak to their families about donation. This benefits everyone by increasing the availability of organs from deceased donors.

It is important to remember that wealth and fame do not play a role in the allocation of organs from deceased donors in Canada, even if these factors might offer a platform from which to launch more successful appeals for live donors.

Second, some of those who have come forward to help Melnyk may be willing to help one of the other unknown Canadians facing a similarly desperate plight. In other words, Melnyk’s public appeal may well save the lives of others who are less well-placed than he to command public attention.

According to the most recent annual statistics from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, 374 Canadians were awaiting a liver transplant in 2012. In the same time period, 111 in need of a liver

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It is hard not to notice that in only a couple of days, 2,000 people responded to the appeal on Melnyk’s behalf, and more than 500 sent in donor applications.

This level of support could go a long way toward meeting the need for liver transplants in Canada.

The ideal outcome in this case is a healthy recovery for Melnyk and for the person who donated to him, as well as — and as important — spillover benefits for the many others awaiting a transplant. This could be in the form of increased registration for deceased donation and perhaps live donation from some of the many people who stepped forward for Melnyk. In fact, 20 of the many potential donors who stepped forward are reported to have told surgeons they would like to donate to others in need.

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Female Mounties alleging discrimination seek class-action suit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — At age 22, Quebec native Joanne Mayer was greeted at her first RCMP posting in Gibsons, B.C., with a handshake and a blunt statement from the sergeant: “We don’t think women should be in the force, and especially not French-speaking ones.”

Mayer said that along with her regular duties, she spent over two years doing “sexist” chores including making coffee, ensuring there was an ample supply of cream and sugar, and cleaning police cruisers.

A quarter-century later, Mayer has joined hundreds of other former and current RCMP members hoping for justice over alleged gender discrimination, bullying and harassment with a potential class-action lawsuit.

A five-day hearing to determine certification of a class-action proceeding involving 362 women is set to begin Monday in B.C. Supreme Court.

“I didn’t tell my parents or any-

body what had happened to me. I went through this all on my own,” said Mayer, who plans to fly to Vancouver from Ottawa along with several other women expected to attend from across Canada.

Mayer was emboldened to come forward after Janet Merlo, a 19-year RCMP veteran from Nanaimo, B.C., went public with her own experience of ongoing discrimination before launching the suit in March 2012.

“I was like, ’Well, I went through that, too. Maybe it wasn’t my fault,”’ Mayer said. “I had blocked it out, to be honest. I didn’t realize what was happening to me at the time and I was too scared to speak out.”

In the three years it has taken to wind through the legal system, a law firm championing the case has canvassed more than 100 women with a detailed questionnaire, said lawyer David Klein.

“They share an unfortunate common bond,” he said. “They were subjected to systemic harassment, bullying and discrimination over a long period of time. The bond they share is the conse-

quence of that treatment.”

Klein said he will introduce the case and present key evidence from Merlo’s affidavit and an expert he calls the leading authority on gender harassment and discrimination.

He will also explain why it’s crucial to tackle the allegations en mass with a class action rather than require individual women to file hundreds of lawsuits on their own.

“Reality is, some of the claims are too small to warrant individual litigation,” he said.

“The only way many of these women will have access to the civil justice system is if it is done through a class action.”

None of the claims have been tested in court.

Klein said that while he believes the RCMP has begun taking steps to reduce harassment against women, people who have made allegations are still being challenged on every statement they make.

“It’s time for the government of Canada to step in and direct the RCMP to take these claims seriously.”

Residential school deaths need more study: commission

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The commission that has spent five years examining one of the darkest chapters in Canada’s history is winding up its work with a key question left unanswered — exactly how many aboriginal children died in residential schools?

Justice Murray Sinclair, who heads the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says the federal government stopped recording the deaths around 1920 after the chief medical officer at Indian Affairs suggested children were dying at an alarming rate.

“He was fired,” Sinclair says. “The government stopped recording deaths of children in residential schools, we think, probably because the rates were so high.”

Sinclair has guessed up to 6,000 children may have died at the schools but it’s impossible to say with certainty.

“We think this is a situation that needs further study,” he said.

More than 130 years after the first residential schools were established to “take the Indian out of the child,” the commission is to release a summary of its six-volume final report on Tuesday.

It will include testimony from survivors, as well as numerous recommendations to address the legacy of forced assimilation.

The commission didn’t originally

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION intend to examine how many children never came home, but it quickly emerged as an issue, Sinclair says.

Schools were often crowded, poorly ventilated and unsanitary. Children died from smallpox, measles, influenza and tuberculosis. Some were buried in unmarked graves in school cemeteries, while others were listed as “missing” or “discharged.” In some cases, parents never found out what happened.

Some provinces handed over death certificates to the commission, but Sinclair says the work is far from over.

“We have recommendations around that in the report. We’re going to tell you there are lots of records out there that are missing.”

About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were taken from their families and forced to attend government schools over much of the last century.

The $60-million commission was part of a landmark compensation deal between Ottawa, the Crown and residential school survivors. It visited hundreds of communities and heard testimony from 7,000 survivors, including graphic details of rampant sexual and physical abuse.

The legacy of the schools is evident today, Sinclair says. High poverty rates, a large number of aboriginal children

in foster care, a disproportionate number of aboriginals in jail and hundreds of missing and murdered aboriginal women can all be traced back to residential schools, he suggests.

National Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says part of reconciliation is ensuring that aboriginal children have the same quality of life as everyone else. If that doesn’t happen, he says, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s historic 2008 apology to residential school survivors will mean nothing.

“If we’re going to talk about reconciliation, there really has to be action attached to the apology.”

The churches that ran the majority of the schools have promised to work toward reconciliation. In a letter from the Ottawa archdiocese, released by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast calls on the faithful to repent for how the church treated aboriginal people.

“We face the past and sincerely ask for forgiveness,” the letter reads.

The Anglican Church of Canada apologized to students and their families in 1993.

“We’ve been trying to live into that apology ever since,” the church says on a website dedicated to reconciliation.

British royal succession law will be contested in Quebec

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The birth of Prince George before his sister Charlotte averted the need for a major change in British tradition.

But the recent law that changed the rules of royal succession will be challenged in Quebec court beginning Monday, and could have political consequences in Canada.

The challenge could even force Ottawa to undertake a round of constitutional negotiations, say the lawyers behind the suit.

In 2011 — while the world wondered if the firstborn of royal couple William and Kate would be a boy or a girl — the leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries agreed to change the succession rules to allow a girl, if she was the eldest, to take the throne.

Before the change, she would have been passed over in favour of her brother. The Harper government implemented the change by a simple federal law in 2013.

According to Patrick Taillon and Genevieve Motard, law professors at the University of Laval, this was a change to Canada’s constitution that should have required the consent of the provinces, which the prime minister never sought. Now, Taillon and Motard are aiming to have the law on royal succession declared unconstitutional. The professors have the support of Quebec’s Attorney General and — improbably — a monarchist league, the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust.

The government argues that the modification made by the British Parliament concerning the monarchy applies automatically under Canadian law — Ottawa had only to pass a law giving “assent,” with no need for a constitutional change.

Those who are contesting the law say the British Parliament lost its right to legislate for Canada with the repatriation of the Constitution in 1982. In an interview, Taillon said the intention of the suit is primarily “so that the Canadian Constitution is respected by the federal government.” If the law is invalidated by the court, the federal government will be faced with a choice: refuse to touch the Constitution and default on Canada’s obligations to the Commonwealth, or open the Pandora’s box of constitutional negotiations, where the provinces could bring their demands to the table.

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Generals repel Rockets for Mem Cup CIRELLI’S SECOND OF GAME IN OT LIFTS GENERALS TO MEMORIAL CUP WIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Generals 2 Rockets 1 (OT) QUEBEC — Anthony Cirelli’s time to shine for the Oshawa Generals was supposed to be next season, but the 17-year-old made a massive impact in the biggest game of the campaign.

Cirelli tied the game in the second period and then scored 1:28 into overtime on Sunday night to give Oshawa the Mastercard Memorial Cup. “Words can’t describe what I’m feeing now,” Cirelli said as the Generals celebrated their 2-1 victory over the Western Hockey League champion Kelowna Rockets. “Coming from midget hockey last year and making this team, then doing this..... we worked so hard all season and to win it is unbelievable.”

The Generals won the Cup for the first time since 1990 and became the first Ontario Hockey League team to win since the 2010 Windsor Spitfires.

Tomas Soustal scored in the first period for Kelowna, which had the edge in possession and play for most of the game but got only one past solid goaltender Ken Appleby.

The Rockets outshot the Generals 38-26.

In overtime, a favourable bounce sent Oshawa on an attack. Goalie Jackson Whistle

stopped the first shot from Chris Carlisle but Cirelli was on the doorstep to bang in the rebound.

“I was shocked when it when in. It was an unbelievable feeling,” said Cirelli.

Added Generals veteran defenceman Dakota Mermis: “You see Carlisle, an overager, get the puck to the net and Cirelli, a guy who was undrafted in the OHL, and he nails it right in and then it’s all just emotions. It’s so crazy.”

Oshawa also beat the Rockets 2-1 in the round-robin portion of the tournament, but Kelowna played a much better game this time, rarely allowing the Generals to get their cycle game going.

“Both teams battled hard and it could have gone either way,” said dejected Rockets captain Madison Bowey. “We played hard and you know what? Two great teams meet up and one team has to lose and tonight we were on the wrong side of things.”

An announced crowd of 10,391 turned out for the final hockey game at the Pepsi Colisee, which is to be demolished and replaced by the 18,000-seat Videotron Centre next door.

Perhaps rusty from five days off since finishing first in the round robin, the Generals were unable get sustained pressure in the Kelowna zone.

Cole Linaker won a draw from Michael McCarron and Bowey fired a puck off the end boards that Soustal, posted at the back door, put into an open side at 15:08.

The Generals found their legs during successive power plays in the second period and tied the game at 13:50 when

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Oshawa Generals captain Josh Brown holds the Memorial Cup trophy over his head after his team won the tournament 2-1 in overtime against the Kelowna Rockets Sunday, at the Memorial Cup final in Quebec City.

Cirelli broke down the left side and picked the top corner behind Whistle.

Oshawa nearly had the winner at 17:30 of the third, but video review showed Hunter Smith batted it in with a high stick.

The Generals had a veteran team that will lose most of its top players next season. Youngsters like Cirelli will be the team’s future. The

Woodbridge, Ont. native had 13 goals in 68 regular season games and added two in the OHL playoffs.

His two at the Memorial Cup were ones he won’t forget.

“I just kept working hard and thinking ’my time will come,”’ said Cirelli.

“I’m just thankful I got those two goals.”

Kelowna star Leon Draisaitl, who led the tournament

with seven points but was held off the scoresheet in both games against Oshawa, was named tournament MVP. Appleby was named top goaltender and Alexis Loiseau of the Rimouski Oceanic was named most sportsmanlike player.

Total attendance for nine games was 79,930, or 8,881 per game. Next year’s Memorial Cup will be in Red Deer.

Toews leads Hawks back to Stanley Cup final

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 5 Ducks 3 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jonathan Toews and the Chicago Blackhawks dealt with Game 7 pressure in the same way they’ve handled just about everything during their incredible seven-year playoff run.

Like champions. And after ending a remarkable Western Conference finals with a blowout victory, the Blackhawks get another chance to raise the Stanley Cup. Toews scored two goals in the opening minutes, Corey Crawford made 35 saves and Chicago roared into the Stanley Cup Finals with a 5-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.

Brandon Saad, Marian Hossa and Brent Seabrook also scored for the Blackhawks, who will play for their third NHL championship in six seasons when they face the Tampa Bay Lightning beginning Wednesday night in Florida.

After six games of tense hockey in an extraordinary series, Game 7 was an incongruous rout. Toews was re-

sponsible for it, burnishing his reputation for big-game brilliance with a rebound goal just 2:23 in and another powerplay score before 12 minutes elapsed.

“There was no easy games,” Toews said. “There was nothing given to us. There was no moments in this series were there any lulls, where we felt Anaheim maybe didn’t play their best hockey and we got away with it. We felt like we had to earn everything against that team. That was an incredible test for both teams.”

Anaheim lost a Game 7 at home for the third straight season. The Ducks blew a 3-2 series lead each time, compounding the heartbreak for a talented team that hasn’t developed the post-season poise possessed by Chicago and other champions.

“We took another step this year, going a round farther, but ultimately that Game 7 we’ve got to be able to finish,” Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. “They played better than us tonight. I’m not telling you they are a better team than us.

We didn’t do enough to win.”

The Blackhawks led 4-0 be-

fore Ryan Kesler scored late in the second period for the Ducks. Corey Perry scored for Anaheim with 8:24 to play, but Seabrook scored on a power play shortly afterward.

Patrick Kane had three assists for Chicago, which won three of the series’ final four games to seize another Western Conference title — although the Blackhawks refused to touch the Campbell Bowl during an awkward postgame ceremony punctuated by fans throwing orange towels on the ice.

The Blackhawks have defied conventional NHL parity to reach three Stanley Cup Finals and five conference finals in a seven-year stretch under coach Joel Quenneville.

That’s because their stars are unmatched: From Toews and Kane to Seabrook and Duncan Keith, nobody knows how to win like Chicago.

They bounced back this season after their Game 7 loss to the Kings in last spring’s conference finals. Chicago outlasted Nashville and swept Minnesota before outlasting Anaheim in the franchises’ first playoff meeting.

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Chicago Blackhawk Jonathan Toews, left, and Anaheim Duck Patrick Maroon battle for the puck during Game 7 of the Western Conference final in Anaheim, Calif., Saturday.

Blackhawks-Lightning Stanley Cup final gives hockey hope It’s a copycat league, they say. Big tainly watching their series against team wins, teams get bigger. Trapping the Rangers, they have a lot of options teams win, teams keep trapping. with their skill, how dangerous they Win with Wayne Gretzky can be with putting pucks and a cast of Hall of Famers in the net.” . . . well, fine. Some things Tampa led the league can’t be duplicated. in scoring, and they are But as the 2015 Stanley the new Blackhawks, the Cup final begins this week, it new thing. Chicago is the is a hopeful sight. The Chicaold Blackhawks, and durgo Blackhawks and the Taming a we’ll-get-there-don’tpa Bay Lightning are built bother-speeding season along similar lines, though they managed to score they are at different points of fewer goals than 16 other their evolution. They aren’t teams, including the Winbig, aren’t bruisers, aren’t denipeg Jets and the Columfined by the grind. They are bus Blue Jackets, and two BRUCE both elite puck-possession more than their temporarARTHUR teams — Chicago was second ily banished rivals, the Los in shot attempts percentage, Angeles Kings. or Corsi, at 5-on-5 this seaBut Chicago has also son, Tampa fifth — but not reached the final while alwith Kings-like muscle. Their core is lowing nearly three goals per game in fast, skilled, dangerous, bold. They’re the playoffs, which in the East would invested, for the most part, in the bet- have been a death sentence. ter angels of the game. They’re fun.

“We don’t need to go on a long “I think the thing that stands out to stretch of wins, win the Presidents’ me is their team speed and their skill Trophy, have the regular season of our level up front,” said Blackhawks de- lives, to have the confidence that we fenceman Duncan Keith in Anaheim can go the distance in the playoffs,” after Chicago cooked the Ducks 5-3 Sat- said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, urday night. “They’ve got a lot of speed after adding to his legend against the up front. They’ve got big defencemen Ducks. “We know we’ve just got to get that can move the puck and skate, and there. Regardless of who we play in a big goalie who can stop the puck, too. the first round nowadays, it’s going I think we’re confident in our team, but to be a tough test. We believe in ourat the same time looking at their team, selves . . . I think we have that feeling, you know, I think those are the things we come into a playoff series against a that stick out to me.” tough team, we have that idea of ‘Why “It’s a team you can talk about a cou- not us?’ We find ways to win.” ple lines, this, that,” Chicago coach JoThat’s exactly how the Lightning el Quenneville said after Game 7. “Cer- describe themselves now, after sum-

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miting Detroit, Montreal and the New York Rangers in the first three rounds.

Both teams are top-heavy, with two dangerous forward lines — StamkosFilppula-Killorn, Johnson-PalatKucherov, some combination of ToewsKane-Saad-Hossa-Sharp — a stud defenceman and a second one (Victor Hedman, Anton Stralman, Keith, Brent Seabrook), and goalies that can veer from good to very good to whoops.

Both teams have small stars — Tyler Johnson, meet Patrick Kane — and in a league and a game where the notion of dragging down, devouring, and negating skill is the mission, they have risen from the muck.

And while they believe in trying to defend — Tampa’s work in Games 5 and 7 against the Rangers, and Game 6 against Montreal, was a new level of discipline — they’re not scared of scoring, of a little risk. As Tampa veteran Brenden Morrow said the other day, “When I played on Ken Hitchcock teams, he was just trying to bore the other team to death, and take advantage of opportunities. Here, we have structure, this is how we’re going to play defensively, but we have the freedom to be creative, to do things on the other side of the puck.”

Well, during the conference finals, Hitchcock — whose St. Louis Blues have been eliminated by the Blackhawks once, the Kings twice, and the Minnesota Wild in the past four years, all but once in the first round — said the Blues, whose heft and structure was their trademark, was going to change.

“We’ve got to go back to reckless,”

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Hitchcock said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “(Our style is) too conservative, it’s too careful, it’s too much skill ahead of work. We’ve got to get back to reckless. We’ve got more skill than we’ve ever had since I’ve been here. But skilled, careful hockey doesn’t win. You’ve got to play reckless. We need to get back to the reckless play we had before. That’s what (Blues general manager) Doug (Armstrong) and I talked about. You can do it and still be responsible.

“But we’ve got to get back to reckless play. We’ve got to ask more people to be involved offensively and defensively. The four fastest teams in the league are playing right now. They’re the four fastest in October and November and they’re still playing. We’ve got to get that pace, and we can do that.

“Embrace your skill, trust your work.”

If Hitchcock can change, kids, so can you. Imagine that as a league-wide credo: embrace your skill, trust your work. Scoring in these playoffs is only 2.56 goals per game, down from 2.8 last season, but these final two teams aren’t the culprit. Duplicating Chicago and Tampa isn’t quite duplicating Gretzky, but it’s a long way from easy, and it’s probably a dream. It’s more likely that coaches go to the drawing board and find new ways to mangle beauty, and suffocate skill. Hockey is about constantly trying to blot out the stars.

But more teams trying, and succeeding — more teams embracing skill and a little recklessness — would make the league a hell of a lot more fun.

Chicago in 7.

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Mitchell brothers connect in Calgary STAMPEDERS TRAINING CAMP

Calgary Stampeder quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell has a familiar target at training camp. Older brother Cory is among the receivers invited to try out for the defending Grey Cup champions.

Between their back yard in Katy, Texas, and a season as teammates at Eastern Washington, the Mitchell brothers guess Bo Levi has thrown the football to Cory about a thousand times in their lives.

They didn’t add to that estimate in the first session of main camp Sunday as the siblings were working in different groups. Cory hopes their familiarity with each other helps launch his pro career.

“I think knowing his little tendencies and the way the ball comes out of his hand . . . with new quarterbacks, you’re not sure how the ball comes out,” the slotback said. “With him, it’s natural.”

The 27-year-old completed his college career in December shortly after Bo Levi quarterbacked the Stampeders to a Grey Cup victory. Cory participated in an April free-agent camp in Florida and earned an invite to Calgary’s camp.

“He can run all day long,” Stampeder head coach John Hufnagel said.

“Great hands. A very intelligent young man.

“I think he’ll be a guy, that if he did survive cuts, that would be able to plug and play, meaning that if we needed an ’x’ receiver, he’d know the assignments. If we need a ’z’ receiver, he knows those assignments.”

Bo Levi and Cory combined on 19 passes for 310 yards and a pair of touchdowns in 2011 in their one season as Eagles teammates. Bo Levi joined the Stampeders the following season.

Cory had 70 receptions for 1,041 yards and five touchdowns at Eastern Washington. He played eight games in 2014 because of a collarbone injury.

The brothers are almost identical in stature — both six foot two and about 195 pounds. Bo Levi, 25, wants his brother to make the team, but also doesn’t want to be accused of familial favouritism.

“It is tough only because I’m still his brother, I still love the guy and I want him to succeed,” the quarterback said.

“On the field, I’m a quarterback and he’s my receiver.

“I’ve told him I haven’t promised him anything. I told him ’you’re not going to get any help just because I’m the quarterback. It’s not going to help you make the team. You’re another guy here trying to be a professional, trying to make a football team.’ It’s going to be tough because we have a very deep receiving corps.”’

The Mitchells are one of the storylines at Stampeder camp this year.

While Calgary has men at almost every position who played in the Grey Cup game, there are personnel issues to be addressed, particularly on the offensive line.

Pierre Lavertu, the first overall pick in last year’s college draft, has big cleats to fill at centre with the departure of Brett Jones for the NFL’s New York Giants. Jones was the CFL’s offensive player of the year in 2014.

Stanley Bryant signing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers forced shuffling along the offensive line. The oftinjured Edwin Harrison is slated to start at tackle with the versatile Spencer Wilson expected to fill in when needed.

“The problem with Edwin has been to stay healthy, but I know he’s chomping at the bit to take advantage of getting back on the field as a full-time

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Calgary Stampeders Corey Mitchell, brother of quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, catches a ball during the first day of training camp in Calgary, Sunday. starter,” Hufnagel said. “We won a lot of games with Edwin, both as our left tackle and as a guard when it was needed.

“One thing about our offensive line, I believe the majority of them are versatile and can play numerous positions.”

Calgary’s sack-leader Shawn Lemon signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers left a vacancy at defensive end. Newcomer Brandon Boudreaux is expected to compete with Freddie Bishop and Frank Beltre for a starting job.

Durant physically ready for Roughriders season

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — Darian Durant has declared his surgically repaired right elbow 100 per cent healthy.

Mentally, however, Saskatchewan’s star quarterback has some catching up to do as the Roughriders opened training camp Sunday at Griffiths Stadium with Durant front and centre in the team’s offensive drills.

“I feel good,” Durant told the media after the morning workout. “Nothing has really changed since Florida (in April, where the team conducted a mini-camp). If anything, I feel as if I have gotten stronger.”

If only he felt that way in his mind.

Durant admitted he won’t know where he is physically or how his throwing arm will react after he takes a hit in game action. And that won’t happen until at least the first pre-season game scheduled for June 13 in Fort McMurray, Alta., against the Edmonton Eskimos.

“That’s the hurdle I have to get over,” he said. “You won’t be able to get over that until you take a hit and I know that won’t come until the preseason games. Right now I’m just focusing on my throwsb& Once you get in the heat of battle you can’t really worry about it. You just have to turn it loose.”

Durant suffered a season-ending injury to his right (throwing) elbow during Week 11 of the 2014 regular season in Winnipeg. The Riders scrambled to find a suitable replacement for their star signal caller and started three different quarterbacks — Tino Sunseri, Seth Doege and Kerry Joseph — in the

remaining eight regular-season games.

Post-surgery, Durant practised lightly with the team for a few weeks in October as the Roughriders prepared for their West semifinal tilt with Edmonton. Durant did not play in that game, and it wasn’t until the team’s mini-camp in Bradenton, Fla., in April when Durant worked out of the field with his teammates.

Not having the feel for live game action since September, Durant isn’t sure how much he’ll want to push himself in training camp and in Saskatchewan’s two pre-season games. Starters generally see limited reps in camp, however, with new offensive co-ordinator Jacques Chapdelaine running things, Durant may need to put in some extra work before he feels comfortable with a new playbook and with his recovery from injury.

“If it’s a play I need to rep or if it’s a throw I need to make over and over then so be it,” he said.

“Coach (Corey) Chamblin will do a good job in making sure that the vets get the proper rest. At the end of the day it’s about the regular season and the playoffs. It’s not about camp. Camp gets you ready for that, but you don’t want to run guys into the ground. You want to make sure guys are ready to go in Week 1 and being ready for 18 weeks.”

Saskatchewan is better equipped this season if its starter goes down with an injury.

The Roughriders addressed their depth, or lack thereof, at the position in the off-season. Tino Sunseri, who started four games in 2014 was the only other quarterback on the Riders’ roster with CFL experience.

The Stampeders also hope defensive end Charleston Hughes regains his form of 2013 when he was the CFL’s West Division finalist for defensive player of the year. Hughes was limited to one half of the division final after he injured his foot Sept. 13.

Calgary’s pre-season games are June 12 at home against the B.C. Lions and June 19 on the road versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The first regular-season game June 26 at McMahon Stadium is a Grey Cup rematch against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

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Renegades going in right direction

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Callies 4 Renegades 0 Red Deer Renegades captain Hayley Carlson is well aware what it is like to be a complete underdog.

She went from playing on a perennial powerhouse in the Pacific Western Athletic Association to playing on a team that was just trying to survive in its first year in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s Canada West Conference.

This was the challenge for her University of British Columbia — Okanagan Heat, and they managed to finish fifth out of seven teams in the Pacific Division, including earning a 1-1 tie with the UBC Thunderbirds.

The situation is not completely different this summer with the Renegades (0-2-1) in the Alberta Women’s Major Soccer League. They may not be new to the league, but they are decided underdogs with a young roster trying to make in roads.

On Sunday, they dropped their home opener 4-0 to the Calgary Callies (3-1-1) at Edgar Athletic Park. “(Jumping to CIS) it was so much faster, so much stronger, everyone was technically sound and it was a big shock, but I think it made me a stronger player than I’ve ever been,” said Carlson, 21, who spent four years in Kelowna with the Heat and hasn’t played in Red Deer since she was 15.

“I gained tons of experience. You know you’re not going to win every game — we might lose every game, I don’t care —as long as everyone improves and we work together and get stronger as a team, that’s all I care about.”

The Callies controlled play for the first half, allowing only one scoring chance against, though they led just 1-0 on a goal by Lauren Vernon at the 30-minute mark. The Renegades came out a lot stronger in the second half, until a defensive break down at the 55-minute mark crushed them, as Jor-

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Red Deer Renegades defender Kelsie Caine, right battles for possession of the ball with Calgary Callies FC striker Jordan Vernon in AMSL Women’s action at Edgar Athletic Park in Red Deer on Sunday. Calgary won 4-0. dan Smith scored her first of the game.

Ranee Prenji made it 3-0 at the 66-minute mark as the collapse continued and Smith iced it with her second at 88 minutes.

“We have a hard time practicing together so it’s really hard when we come together as a team to click right away, it kind of takes half an hour, 40 minutes sometimes to settle in and get to know where everyone is,” said Carlson, who is graduating with a nursing degree from UBC-O. The bright side is they were coming off a 1-1 tie on Saturday in Calgary against the Cougars FC, with Paula Dadensky scoring the lone goal for Red

Deer.

It may not sound like much, but the fact they already have scored a goal is a big deal considering it took half the season last year for the Renegades to get on the board. They were actually leading the game late until Calgary tied it up.

It’s a big step in the right direction for the club.

“We actually deserved to win that game ... it shows what it could be. It’s nice to tie and be disappointed,” said Renegades head coach Paul Morigeau, noting they were short three of their top players on Sunday with Bianca Ribi at still at Dartmouth University and

Robyn MacDonald and Caillin Testroete out for health reasons.

After last year’s debacle, the Red Deer City Soccer Association entered a women’s team in the Calgary indoor league. The goal was to get a group of girls playing together year-round, like the big city teams, as opposed to just coming together a few weeks before the start of the season and hoping there are enough pieces there to have a fighting chance.

They are starting to see the positive affects of that program with five players making the jump from indoor to the AWMSL team.

“Without (those players) we would not be here today,” said Morigeau, noting those five also recruited a couple of their friends to join the club as well.

Scoring is still going to be a struggle for the Renegades, as it always has, though there is some skill up from in the likes of Dadensky, Cassie Bratton and Lauren Walker. Ribi will help bolster that unit when she returns.

The strength of the team, however, should be their backfield. They are stout defensively, led by Carlson and Edmonton goalie Annie Ulliac, who has a scholarship with Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. “She drives all the way from North Edmonton to come train with us and she hasn’t missed anything, we’re very happy to have her,” said Morigeau.

The most important part is the potential that exists on the roster. They may not be world beaters just yet, but Morigeau believes they should be stepping out of the basement this year.

“There’s a hierarchy in our league, there’s three or four teams that are just lights out, you go through their rosters and they’re stocked with NCAA players,” said Morigeau. “Then there’s five or six of the rest of us. I’d like to be fifth out of eight teams, and I think we can do that.”

The task does not get much easier for the Renegades on Sunday when they host Edmonton Victoria (2-1-0) at 2 p.m. at Edgar Athletic Park. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Home is where the heart is for RBC Cup winner Swier

MIDGET AAA BRAVES

Portage finished with a 533-4 record, the best in the entire Canadian Junior Hockey League.

In the MJHL playoffs he added five points (2-35) in 11 games as the Terriers won the league title in the minimum 12 games, including a 4-0 sweep of the Steinbach Pistons in the final.

Ryan Swier The championship punched their ticket to the Western Canada Cup in Fort McMurray.

For the first time all season they saw just how much they were going to have to raise their level of play for the RBC Cup, and they lost their opening game 3-1 to the host Oil Barons — their first lost since a 2-1 defeat to the Pistons on Feb. 20, a streak of 15 games.

They rallied to finish second at the Western Canada Cup, losing to the Penticton Vees in the final and beating the Melfort Mustangs in the play-in game to earn their way to the RBC Cup. “Out west there’s some really good teams from the AJHL and BCHL and it was a huge waking up experience for myself and the team to see the competition out there and to see what it would be like at nationals,” said Swier.

At the RBC Cup, Portage rolled through the round robin tied with the best mark at 3-1-0 with the Vees to land in one of two semifinals. They beat the Melfort Mustangs 6-1 to advance to the championship game and then whipped the Carleton Place Canadians 5-2 to win the national junior A hockey championship on home ice. It was the first time since the Weyburn Red Wings in 2005 that the host team won the RBC Cup.

The Red Deer Midget AAA Carstar Braves salvaged their weekend series with the Edmonton Cardinals with an 11-7 win on Sunday at Great Chief Park.

The Cardinals swept the Saturday double-header portion of the set with a 17-1 win in the first game and a 3-1 win in the second.

Braves starting pitcher Michael Ozga found himself in trouble in the first game, lasting just two-thirds of an inning and surrendering 11 runs on six hits with one walk and four hit batters. He was replaced by Austin Hammond who went 3 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on eight hits and a walk and a hit batter with two strikeouts. Brad Pope closed out the pitching effort with one run on one hit and one walk with two strikeouts in one inning.

Zach Olson scored the Braves’ lone run.

The second game was much closer with Kelsey Lalor throwing six innings, allowing three runs on nine hits and a walk and a hit batter. Olson, meanwhile, had a triple and later scored on a Parker Booth ground out.

Braves bats finally woke up on Sunday with Olson once again leading the charge with two hits, two RBI’s and three runs scored; Jordan Muirhead had a double and an RBI triple; Ozga had a double, an RBI and scored twice; and Darin Fodor had a two-RBI single.

Ty Wagar pitched a complete game, allowing seven runs on 11 hits, two walks and a hit batter with one strikeout.

The Braves are in Calgary on Wednesday to play the Calgary Dinos’ junior team.

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF As Ryan Swier raised the RBC Cup above his head, his thoughts were at home with his family.

The Lacombe native went through a season most hockey players can only dream about, however, with his father Roger’s health worsening — he’s battling Multiple Sclerosis — it was difficult for him to be more than 1,200 kilometres away in Portage la Prairie.

“Family is a huge thing and not many things beat out hockey in my life and in my decisions but family is one of them,” said Swier. “Moving forward I want to be close to home and be with them.”

Swier played all of his minor hockey in Central Alberta, including the 2010-11 season with the Red Deer Bantam AAA Rebels Black and the next year with the Red Deer Northstars 15-year-old midget team.

This season started out ominously enough for the five-foot-11, 180-pound winger. He was entering his second year in the Alberta Junior Hockey League with the Lloydminster Bobcats but one game in was informed he was going to be traded. He was presented with several options, but chose the opportunity to play for a national championship.

On Sept. 9 he was dealt to the Portage Terriers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for future considerations.

“With Portage hosting the RBC, I couldn’t say no to it and getting lots of exposure, and they obviously were going to have a good team,” said Swier. “It was just a numbers game, and they knew I would have potential to go other places to and be an impact player on other teams.”

Swier spent most of the season on Portage’s third line with Jaryd Wiebe and Taylor Friesen. In 53 games with the Terriers he scored 22 points (10 goals, 12 assists) and added 62 penalty minutes.

“It was amazing, for everyone of our players it was a life long goal that we’ve had and hard work has finally paid off, your weak with excitement and all sorts of emotions running through your body,” said Swier.

However, Swier took almost more pride in the work he did off the ice as he did in scoring goals. At the team’s year end awards banquet he was named Outstanding team player and given the team’s community spirit award. He spent a lot of time this year involved in the Terriers’ in-school reading program and working with kids in the community.

He understands the impact that as an athlete he can have on younger people.

“Hockey is a big sport, but it’s more about growing into a person and adding life experience,” said Swier. “I’m going to use a lot of situations where I’ve learned in hockey and trade it in during my daily life. It’s really relieving that all the hard work is paying off not just in hockey but in life as well.”

Swier has two years of junior eligibility left but is unsure of where he will be playing next year. He is still trying to earn an NCAA scholarship, adding he has made contact with a few schools. He was sent to the OCN Blizzard of the MJHL after the Terriers finished their RBC Cup run to complete a trade deadline move on Jan. 9 to acquire Grant Valiquette.

But he says he wants to be closer to home and for good reason.

“My dad’s health is declining pretty fast, so I am weighing out my options right now and then we’ll decide from there,” said Swier.

Until he reports he will be training and getting ready for the season while also catching up with friends and family after a long season.

“During the season I don’t get to see my friends and family much and I want to really make a lasting relationship with them and prepare for next season as well.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Local Sports 1. Chicago, Toews 8 (Hjalmarsson, Kane) 2:23.

2. Chicago, Toews 9 (Richards, Keith) 11:55 (pp).

Penalties — Silfverberg Ana (hooking) 11:08.

Second Period 3. Chicago, Saad 6 (Kane, Oduya) 1:18.

4. Chicago, Hossa 4 (Richards) 13:45.

5. Anaheim, Kesler 7 (Silfverberg, Beauchemin) 18:51.

Penalties — Kruger Chi (tripping) 17:55, Vatanen Ana (hooking) 18:38, Kesler Ana (slashing) 19:41.

Third Period 6. Anaheim, Perry 10 (Maroon, Getzlaf) 11:36.

7. Chicago, Seabrook 6 (Kane, Keith) 13:23 (pp).

8. Anaheim, Beleskey 8 (Fowler, Lindholm) 19:18 (pp).

Penalties — Fowler Ana (hooking) 12:49, Oduya Chi (delay of game) 18:58.

Shots on goal Chicago 6 10 10 — 26 Anaheim 8 18 12 — 38 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W, 9-4-0); Anaheim: Andersen (L, 11-5-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 2-4; Anaheim: 1-2.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference finals EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-3) 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 7 Tampa Bay 3 Friday, May 29 Tampa Bay 2 NY Rangers 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim (1) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-3) Sunday, May 17 Anaheim 4 Chicago 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 Chicago 5 Anaheim 2 Saturday, May 30 Chicago 5 Anaheim 3

NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders GP G Tyler Johnson, TB 20 12 Patrick Kane, Chi 17 10 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 16 2 Nikita Kucherov, TB 20 9 Corey Perry, Anh 16 10 Jonathan Toews, Chi 17 9 Jakob Silfverberg, Anh 16 4 Duncan Keith, Chi 17 2 Steven Stamkos, TB 20 7 Derick Brassard, NYR 19 9 Alex Killorn, TB 20 7 Ondrej Palat, TB 20 7 Rick Nash, NYR 19 5 MEMORIAL CUP GP W L Oshawa (OHL) 3 3 0 Quebec (HOST) 5 2 3 Kelowna (WHL) 4 2 2 Rimouski (QMJHL) 4 1 3

STANLEY CUP FINAL Wednesday, June 3 Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Saturday, June 6 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5:15 p.m.

Monday, June 8 x-Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10 x-Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 15 x-Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. x — if necessary.

A 9 10 18 10 8 9 14 16 10 7 9 8 9 GF 11 16 20 12

PTS 21 20 20 19 18 18 18 18 17 16 16 15 14

GA 8 23 12 16

Pts 6 4 4 2

PLAYOFFS Thursday, May 28 Tiebreaker (if required) Quebec (HOST) 5 Rimouski (QMJHL) 2 Friday, May 29 Semifinal Kelowna (WHL) 9 Quebec (HOST) 3 Sunday, May 31 Final Oshawa (OHL) 2 Kelowna (WHL) 1 (OT) Sunday’s summary Oshawa (OHL) 2, Kelowna (WHL) 1 (OT) First Period

Saturday’s Summary Blackhawks 5, Ducks 3 First Period

1. Kelowna (WHL), Soustal 1 (Bowey, Linaker) 15:08.

Penalties — McCarron Oshawa (OHL) (crosschecking) 19:31.

Second Period 2. Oshawa (OHL), Cirelli 1 (Mermis, Brown) 13:50.

Penalties — Gatenby Kelowna (WHL) (slashing) 8:35, Merkley Kelowna (WHL) (high-sticking) 11:11.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Overtime 3. Oshawa (OHL), Cirelli 2 (Carlisle, Lindberg) 1:28.

Penalties — None.

Kelowna (WHL) Oshawa (OHL) Shots on goal Kelowna (WHL) 9 14 15 0 — 38 Oshawa (OHL) 4 12 8 2 — 26 Goal — Kelowna (WHL): Whistle (LS, 2-2-1); Oshawa (OHL): Appleby (W, 4-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Kelowna (WHL): 0-1; Oshawa (OHL): 0-2.

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Today

● Sunburst baseball: Red Deer Riggers at Confederation Park Cubs in Edmonton at 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Canadian Brew House Rays at Printing Place Padres at Great Chief 1; Breakaway Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Great Chief 2 at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday

● High school girls soccer: Notre Dame at Lacombe at Me Global Park in Lacombe at 4:15 p.m.; Hunting HIlls at CACHS at Michener Park at 4:15 p.m. ● High school tennis: Central Alberta High School Tennis Tournament at Red Deer Tennis Club from 9-4 p.m. ● Sunburst baseball: St. Albert Tigers at Red Deer Riggers at Great Chief at 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA baseball: Strathmore Reds at Red Deer Carstar Braves at 7 p.m. at Great Chief. ● Ladies fastball: Stettler at Topco Oilsite Panthers at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Collins Barrow Rage at Snell & Oslund Badgers at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m; TnT Athletics at N. Jensen Bandits at Great Chief 1 at 8:45 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports at Lacombe Stone and Granite at Great Chief 2 at 6:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Rocky Red Dogs at 7 p.m. ● Junior B Tier III lacrosse: Olds Mavericks at Innisfail Stingers at 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● Grade 9 Track and Field Championships at Lindsay Thurber at 9 a.m.

Thursday

Baseball Red Deer Senior Men’s Baseball League Results Friday Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks 6 Granite Orioles 2 Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 26 25 .510 Tampa Bay 26 25 .510 Baltimore 23 26 .469 Toronto 23 29 .442 Boston 22 29 .431

GB — — 2 3 1/2 4

Minnesota Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 30 19 .612 29 19 .604 28 24 .538 24 26 .480 23 26 .469

GB — 1/2 3 1/2 6 1/2 7

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 31 20 .608 27 24 .529 26 25 .510 24 26 .480 20 33 .377

GB — 4 5 6 1/2 12

Saturday’s Games Minnesota 3, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 0 Houston 3, Chicago White Sox 0 Texas 8, Boston 0 Kansas City at Chicago, ppd., rain L.A. Angels 8, Detroit 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, Oakland 3 Cleveland 4, Seattle 3 Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay 9, Baltimore 5 Chicago White Sox 6, Houston 0 Minnesota 6, Toronto 5 Chicago Cubs 2, Kansas City 1, 11 innings Texas 4, Boston 3 Oakland 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Cleveland 6, Seattle 3, 12 innings L.A. Angels 4, Detroit 2 Monday’s Games Toronto (Dickey 2-5) at Washington (Zimmermann 4-2), 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 4-1) at Boston (Buchholz 2-6), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 3-3) at Houston (Oberholtzer 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Colome 3-1) at L.A. Angels (Richards 4-3), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 6-2) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh 5, San Diego 2

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Fielder Tex 51 206 25 74 .359 Kipnis Cle 50 206 37 70 .340 NCruz Sea 50 194 32 65 .335 MiCabrera Det 51 183 28 61 .333 Ellsbury NYY 37 148 29 48 .324 AvGarcia CWS 41 155 20 50 .323 Vogt Oak 49 149 25 48 .322 Moustakas KC 45 175 28 56 .320 Paredes Bal 38 156 22 49 .314 Gose Det 41 156 21 49 .314 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 18; Donaldson, Toronto, 15; Teixeira, New York, 14; CDavis, Baltimore, 12; Encarnacion, Toronto, 12; HRamirez, Boston, 12; Trout, Los Angeles, 12.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 39; NCruz, Seattle, 38; Fielder, Texas, 38; Vogt, Oakland, 38; KMorales, Kansas City, 37; Teixeira, New York, 35; MiCabrera, Detroit, 34.

Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 8-1; Keuchel, Houston, 7-1; Gray, Oakland, 6-2; Pineda, New York, 6-2; Buehrle, Toronto, 6-4; Carrasco, Cleveland, 6-4; Nolasco, Minnesota, 5-1.

Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 28 22 .560 28 23 .549 25 25 .500 20 31 .392 19 33 .365

GB — 1/2 3 8 1/2 10

St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 33 17 .660 26 22 .542 26 24 .520 22 27 .449 17 34 .333

GB — 6 7 10 1/2 16 1/2

West Division W L Pct 29 20 .592 30 22 .577 25 27 .481 23 26 .469 22 26 .458

GB — 1/2 5 1/2 6 6 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Saturday’s Games Colorado 5, Philadelphia 2 Arizona 7, Milwaukee 3 Miami 9, N.Y. Mets 5 Cincinnati 8, Washington 5 L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 1 Kansas City at Chicago, ppd., rain Atlanta 8, San Francisco 0

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 3 Cincinnati 8, Washington 2 Colorado 4, Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 7, Arizona 6, 17 innings St. Louis 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Chicago Cubs 2, Kansas City 1, 11 innings Atlanta 7, San Francisco 5 San Diego 7, Pittsburgh 1 Monday’s Games Toronto (Dickey 2-5) at Washington (Zimmermann 4-2), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hammel 3-2) at Miami (Urena 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Fiers 1-5) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 3-3) at Colorado (K.Kendrick 2-6), 6:40 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 3-2) at Arizona (Bradley 2-2), 7:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-4) at San Diego (Cashner 2-7), 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (G.Cole 7-2) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-2), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 1:10 p.m., 1st game Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:40 p.m., 2nd game Atlanta at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DGordon Mia 48 207 29 78 .377 Goldschmidt Ari 49 181 39 64 .354 LeMahieu Col 46 161 19 54 .335 Harper Was 49 163 42 53 .325 AGonzalez LAD 48 176 33 57 .324 MCarpenter StL 45 179 34 57 .318 Holliday StL 44 154 18 49 .318 Rizzo ChC 48 173 27 55 .318 Pollock Ari 48 185 34 58 .314 YEscobar Was 46 179 27 56 .313 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 18; Frazier, Cincinnati, 16; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; Stanton, Miami, 15; Pederson, Los Angeles, 13; Arenado, Colorado, 12; Braun, Milwaukee, 12; Upton, San Diego, 12.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 44; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 43; Harper, Washington, 43; Braun, Milwaukee, 38; Upton, San Diego, 37; Arenado, Colorado, 35; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 35.

Pitching BColon, New York, 8-3; Wacha, St. Louis, 7-1; GCole, Pittsburgh, 7-2; Shields, San Diego, 6-0; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 6-2; Scherzer, Washington, 6-3; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-1.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Tyler Wilson to Norfolk (IL). Assigned C Ryan Lavarnway outright to Norfolk. Agreed to terms with RHP Mikey O’Brien on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Chris Beck to Charlotte (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent RHP Samuel Deduno to Fresno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated OF Alex Rios from the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Geovanny Acosta and Cesar Melendez on minor league contracts. Optioned RHP Vinnie Pestano to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled INF Efren Navarro from Salt Lake.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed OF Slade Heathcott on the 15-day, retroactive to Friday. Recalled OF Ramon Flores from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed LHP Sean Doolittle on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday.

Recalled RHP Angel Castro from Nashville (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed LHP Joe Beimel on the restricted list. Recalled LHP Lucas Luetge from Tacoma (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned RHP Todd Redmond outright to Buffalo (IL). Sent 2B Devon Travis to Buffalo for a rehab assignment.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF Joey Terdoslavich to Carolina (Carolina) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Miguel Estevez, Julian Aybar and Luis Aquino on minor league contracts.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed 1B Justin Morneau on the 15-day DL. Sent 3B Charlie Culberson to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned OF Chris Heisey to Oklahoma City (PCL). Reinstated C Yasmani Grandal from the 7-day DL. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Brandon Kintzler on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday.

Reinstated SS Jean Segura from the 15-day DL. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent 1B Yonder Alonso to El Paso (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed RHP Stephen Strasburg on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Taylor Hill from Syracuse (IL). Sent 3B Anthony Rendon to Harrisburg (EL) for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Named Alvin Gentry coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed G Chris Chester.

Released LB Derrick Malone Jr. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Christian Tupou and WR Josh Lenz.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed coach Chris Jones to a contract extension through the 2016 season.

TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Signed DL Dontay Moch, WR Aaron Kelly and DBs Brandon Underwood and Matt McGarva. Placed DL Cleyon Laing and OL Branndon Braxton on the suspended list.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed LS/WR Chad Rempel and WR Mike Willie.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Jeff Bianchi on a one-year contract. Optioned LHP Robbie Ross to Pawtucket (IL). Sent RHP Justin Masterson to Pawtucket for a rehab assignment.

JUNIOR B LACROSSE The Red Deer TBS Rampage are undefeated through the first eight games of their Rockey Mountain Lacrosse League Junior B Tier I season.

The Rampage improved to 7-0-1 with two road wins this weekend, 7-6 over the St. Albert Crude (3-6-0) on Saturday and 8-6 over the Edmonton Warriors (6-2-0) on Sunday.

On Saturday, the Rampage built a 6-3 lead through two periods, but were forced to hold on for the one-goal victory. Levi Whitney lead the Rampage with two goals while Nate Bellanger, Mack Hawthorne, Dawson Reykdal, Devin Sheridan and Brandyn Blaine all scored once. Brandon Machan stopped 30 shots for the win.

Owen Feist, Brody Tod, Ben Holowaty, Cam Elingson, Jacob Dion and Simon Hansen re-

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated OF Jerry Sands for assignment. Reinstated 1B Carlos Santana from paternity leave.

DETROIT TIGERS — Sent RHP Justin Verlander to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned OF Paulo Orlando to Omaha (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Chris Martin to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Sent SS Brendan Ryan to Tampa (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent LHP Eric O’Flaherty to Stockton (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Reinstated LHP Joe Beimel from the restricted list. Optioned LHP Lucas Luetge to Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Sent LHP Ross Detwiler to Frisco (TL) for a rehab assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed 2B Steve Tolleson on the 15-day DL. Recalled 2B Munenori Kawasaki from Buffalo (IL). Agreed to terms with LHP Phil Coke on a minor league contract.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with C Ryan Lavarnway on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed LHP Paco Rodriguez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled RHP Matt West from Oklahoma City (PCL). Assigned LHP Eric Stults outright to Tulsa (TL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed OF Khris Davis on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Tyler Wagner from Biloxi (SL) and returned him to Biloxi.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed WR/KR Denarius Appling, DE D.J. Bryant, WR Skye Dawson, OL David Griffin, LB Dawud Lane and DBs Deion Belue and Harold Mutobola. Announced the retirement of OL Steve Myddelton.

sponded for the Crude.

Whitney and Ryan Beatson scored twice each to pace the Rampage on Sunday while Blaine, Hawthorne, Logan Elliot and Jayce Grebinski scored once each. Darrin Banack was solid in net for the win.

The Rampage host two home games this weekend with the Sherwood Park Titans (1-50) in town on Friday at 9 p.m. and the Calgary Shamrocks (3-4-1) on Saturday at 8 p.m., both games at the Kinex Arena. ● The Red Deer Renegades (3-5-1) split their junior B tier II games, losing 15-7 in Lethbridge to the Cudas on Saturday but beating the Lacoka Locos 16-6 at the Kinex Arena on Sunday.

Stats were not available at press time.

The Renegades host the Strathmore Venom on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and the Okotoks Ice (07-0) on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Kinex.

The Locos (1-8-0) also lost 8-5 to the Strathmore Venom (2-5-1) in Ponoka on Saturday.

● Bantam AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs black at Red Deer Braves at Great Chief Park at 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place Padres at Lacombe Stone and Granite at Great Chief 1; North Star Sports at Canadian Brew House Rays at great Chief s at 6:30 p.m. ● Ladies fastball: TnT Athletics at Collins Barrow Rage at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Topco Oilsite Panthers at Snell & Oslund Badgers at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m; N. Jensen Bandts at Stettler at 7 p.m.; TnT Athletics at Collins Barrow Rage at Great Chief 1 at 8:45 p.m. ● High School boys soccer: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills at Collicutt East at 4:15 p.m.

● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Acme Pirates at 7 p.m.

Friday

● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High School Boys Soccer: H.J. Cody at Notre Dame at Collicutt West at 4:15 p.m.; Innisfail at Olds at 4:15 p.m. at Olds. ● High School girls soccer: Lindsay Thurber at HJ Cody at HJ Cody at 4:15 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Acme Pirates at Red Deer Razorbacks at Great Chief at 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Sherwood Park Titans at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 9 p.m.

Saturday

● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Women’s Rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at noon. ● Men’s Division 2 rugby: Calgary Irish at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s Division 3 rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 1:45 p.m. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Calgary Shamrocks at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 8 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Strathmore Venom at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 5:30 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Lethbridge Cudas at Olds Mavericks at 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 8:30 p.m. ● Senior ladies lacrosse: St. Albert Drillers at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena 3 p.m.

Sunday

● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Alberta Major Women’s Soccer League: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer Renegades at Edgar Industrial Park at 2 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Okotoks Ice at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 2:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier III lacrosse: Innisfail Stingers at Crowsnest Pass Ravens at 1:30 p.m.; High River Heat at Olds Mavericks at 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 1:30 p.m. ● Senior ladies lacrosse: Edmonton Bandits at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena at 5 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, 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: Cleveland 118, Atlanta 88 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, 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: Golden State 104, Houston 90

Golden State vs. Cleveland Thursday, June 4: Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 7: Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 9: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 11: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, June 14: Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Golf PGA-AT&T Byron Nelson Sunday At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $7.1 million Yardage: 6,864; Par 69 (a-amateur) Final Steven Bowditch, $1,278,000 62-68-65-64 Charley Hoffman, $530,133 69-65-64-65 Scott Pinckney, $530,133 69-64-64-66 Jimmy Walker, $530,133 64-66-67-66 Zach Johnson, $284,000 69-64-68-63 Jon Curran, $246,725 67-63-67-68 Brandt Snedeker, $246,725 71-66-64-64 Jason Dufner, $213,000 71-65-64-66 Dustin Johnson, $213,000 67-68-62-69 Daniel Berger, $157,383 72-65-64-66 Nick Watney, $157,383 67-65-70-65 Tony Finau, $157,383 67-64-68-68 Colt Knost, $157,383 68-65-66-68 Ryan Palmer, $157,383 65-66-67-69 Cameron Percy, $157,383 67-64-68-68 Zac Blair, $102,950 69-64-66-69 G. Fdez-Castano, $102,950 70-68-67-63 Brooks Koepka, $102,950 69-68-64-67 John Merrick, $102,950 66-67-69-66 Kenny Perry, $102,950 69-68-64-67 Nic. Thompson, $102,950 70-67-66-65 Keegan Bradley, $62,303 66-70-67-66 Brendon de Jonge, $62,303 70-66-63-70 Graham DeLaet, $62,303 69-66-67-67 Russell Henley, $62,303 70-65-69-65 Spencer Levin, $62,303 71-67-65-66 Rod Pampling, $62,303 69-66-69-65 Will Wilcox, $62,303 68-67-67-67 Jonas Blixt, $45,085 67-69-67-67 Jerry Kelly, $45,085 68-64-68-70 Rory Sabbatini, $45,085 69-64-69-68 Jordan Spieth, $45,085 69-64-68-69

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LPGA Tour-ShopRite Classic Sunday At Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club Galloway Township, N.J. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,177; Par 71 Final Anna Nordqvist, $225,000 67-69-69 Christel Boeljon, $135,995 68-70-68 Kelly W Shon, $87,486 70-68-70 Morgan Pressel, $87,486 66-69-73 Austin Ernst, $44,748 72-73-64 Karrie Webb, $44,748 70-73-66 Inbee Park, $44,748 71-70-68 Mirim Lee, $44,748 70-70-69 Gerina Piller, $44,748 68-70-71 Mo Martin, $25,513 69-75-66 Maria McBride, $25,513 70-73-67 Hee Young Park, $25,513 68-74-68 Shanshan Feng, $25,513 70-70-70 Moriya Jutanugarn, $25,513 69-71-70 Kim Kaufman, $25,513 69-70-71 Pornanong Phatlum, $17,933 71-74-66 Sarah Kemp, $17,933 72-72-67 Mariajo Uribe, $17,933 70-71-70 Paula Creamer, $17,933 72-68-71 Brooke M. Henderson, $12,970 68-77-67 Angela Stanford, $12,970 72-72-68

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Web.com Tour-Rex Hospital Open At TPC Wakefield Plantation Raleigh, N.C. (x-on on 2nd playoff hole) x-Kyle Thompson, $112,50063-68-69-67 — MA Carballo, $55,000 70-68-65-64 — Patton Kizzire, $55,000 69-64-68-66 — Scott Parel, $27,500 70-68-65-65 — Drew Scott, $27,500 67-65-68-68 — Harold Varner III, $21,71970-66-62-71 — Chase Wright, $21,719 68-67-65-69 —

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Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T D.C. 14 7 3 4 New England 14 5 3 6 New York 12 4 3 5 Toronto 11 5 5 1 Columbus 12 4 4 4 d-Chicago 11 4 5 2 Orlando 13 3 5 5 Philadelphia 14 3 8 3 d-Montreal 8 2 4 2 New York City 13 1 7 5

GF 16 20 15 17 19 14 16 14 9 10

GA 12 18 13 15 16 14 17 23 13 17

Pt 25 21 17 16 16 14 14 12 8 8

Western Conference GP W L T 13 8 3 2 14 7 5 2 13 6 4 3 13 5 2 6 15 5 4 6 14 5 5 4 13 5 5 3 14 4 5 5 14 4 5 5 13 2 4 7

GF 20 16 18 21 15 13 14 17 13 11

GA 10 13 19 15 17 14 15 17 18 12

Pt 26 23 21 21 21 19 18 17 17 13

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

Saturday’s results Toronto 3 San Jose 1 Vancouver 2 Salt Lake 1

New York City 1 Houston 1 D.C. 2 Philadelphia 1 Orlando 2 Columbus 2 Chicago 3 Montreal 0 Colorado 1 Portland 2 Sunday’s results Seattle 2 New York 1 New England 2 Los Angeles 2 Wednesday’s games Chicago at D.C., 5 p.m.

Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Friday, June 5 New York at Houston, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 6 Toronto at D.C., 5 p.m.

New York City at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

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

New England at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 7 Colorado at Salt Lake, 3 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Lacrosse NLL Playoffs FINAL ROUND Champion’s Cup (Best-of-3) Toronto (E1) vs. Edmonton (W1) (Edmonton leads series 1-0)

Saturday’s result Edmonton 15 Toronto 9 Friday, June 5 Toronto at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 x-Edmonton at Toronto, 5 p.m. x — if necessary

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Mistakes cost Blue Jays in loss to Twins

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being competitive, and you know we’re going to go out there and hopefully start winning more games.�

Ryan Pressly (3-1) got two outs for the win, and the Twins overcame an early injury to starter Ricky Nolasco to win two of three in the series. A sore right ankle ended Nolasco’s bid for a sixth straight victory in the second inning, forcing him to leave after throwing just 28 pitches.

Glen Perkins pitched the ninth for his major league-leading 19th save in 19 chances.

Minnesota moved into first place in the AL Central and finished May with a 20-7 record, securing its first 20-win month since going 22-6 in June 1991.

The Twins (30-19) have their most wins

Bowditch rolls to win at familiar Byron Nelson

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holes — the par-4 14th — into a pitchand-putt par 3 of barely 100 yards for the final three rounds.

While birdies were the norm after easy wedge shots from what might normally be a drop area in front of a greenside pond, Bowditch had to save par from about 12 feet to keep a threeshot lead, pumping his right fist after the ball dropped in.

IRVING, Texas — Steven Bowditch already had wedding photos from the 18th green at the home of the AT&T Byron Nelson.

Now there are plenty of images of the Australian holding a big trophy after winning in his adopted home.

Bowditch rode his best birdie binge on the PGA Tour to a 5-under 64 and a four-shot victory Sunday in the Nelson, making him two-for-Texas in career titles after winning the Texas Open in San Antonio last year.

A Dallas-area resident for 10 years, Bowditch had 27 birdies while becoming the seventh player to lead all four rounds of the event. Playing next to the resort hotel where he got married four years ago, the 31-year-old Bowditch finished at 18-under 259 on the rain-altered TPC Four Seasons layout. “You know, taking photos on the green today was probably — wasn’t probably, it’s definitely the second best time I’ve had on that green — since we got married,� Bowditch said in the interview room while wife Amanda watched from the back.

Charley Hoffman (65), Texan Jimmy Walker (66) and Scott Pinckney (66) tied for second at 14 under. Zach Johnson shot a 63 to finish alone in fifth at 13 under. Hometown favourite and Masters champion Jordan Spieth stayed at 7 under after an evenpar 69.

Graham DeLaet was the top Canadian with a 2-under 67 on Sunday to finish tied for 22nd. The Weyburn, Sask. native shot a 8-under 269 for the tournament.

Playing with Bowditch in the final group, Dustin Johnson briefly overtook him early in the round before making an 8 at the par-4 sixth. He finished at 11 under with a 69.

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through 49 games since starting 33-16 in 2001. “I’m not thinking about the rest of the season, I’m just thinking about tomorrow,� Hunter said. “We’ve got Boston tomorrow, we think about that game.�

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: The team placed INF Steve Tolleson on the disabled list with a strained groin and recalled INF Munenori Kawasaki from Triple-A Buffalo. Tolleson was batting .268 with three RBIs in 41 at-bats. Kawasaki had only five at-bats this season before being optioned to the minors last Monday.

Twins: GM Terry Ryan said RHP Ervin Santana faced batters and threw

VOLLEYBALL

Bulgaria hands Canada first loss at FIVB World League pool play BOTEVGRAD, Bulgaria — Vladimir Nikolov and Todor Aleksiev each scored 25 points as Bulgaria rallied to beat Canada 3-2 on Sunday in FIVB World League pool play.

Bulgaria lost the first two sets before taking the next three (21-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-14, 15-9).

Former RDC King Gavin Schmitt

about 70 pitches Saturday at the team’s training facility in Florida. Santana is serving an 80-game suspension for the use of a performance-enhancing substance. ...The Twins said Nolasco would have an MRI and results were expected in the next day or so.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: Toronto begins a threegame series at Washington on Monday.

R.A. Dickey (2-5) tries for his first road win of the season opposite Jordan Zimmermann (4-2).

Twins: Minnesota opens a four-game set at Boston on Monday when Mike Pelfrey (4-1) pitches against Clay Buchholz (2-6). The Twins swept three games from the Red Sox last week at Target Field. had 17 points for the Canadians while Gord Perrin added 15.

The loss ends Canada’s winning streak which they’ve carried the last two weeks including a win on Saturday against the Bulgarians. The Canadians still lead Pool C of Group 2 in World League with 10 points.

Canada beat Bulgaria 3-1 on Saturday. The Canadians took the match 25-20, 25-19, 22-25, 25-21. Canada got off to a strong start with Perrin’s blocking and Schmitt’s hitting to take the first set. The second set was a similar story as Schmitt hit aces while Bulgaria’s Nikolov was plagued by service errors.

Schmitt was the match top scorer with 26 points, the highest in world league so far this season.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Drew Hutchison tried giving the Toronto Blue Jays the start they needed in order to get back on track. Through five innings, he did just that.

Things fell apart for the Blue Jays after that as fielding errors and baserunning miscues helped the Minnesota Twins rally for a 6-5 victory to had Toronto its 12th loss in 18 games.

The Blue Jays are also 2-10 during that stretch in games decided by two runs or fewer. “We got exposed today,� Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “It’s been happening a little bit lately.�

Toronto led 4-1 in the sixth thanks to Jose Reyes’ two-run single in the second, a sacrifice fly by Ryan Goins in the fourth and an RBI single by Russell Martin in the fifth.

After Joe Mauer’s RBI single and Trevor Plouffe’s two-run homer in the sixth tied the score, the Blue Jays retook the lead in the seventh on Josh Donaldson’s 15th homer — his fifth in his last six games. One batter earlier, Reyes was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double on a bloop single to centre. “I just try to be aggressive on the basepaths,� Reyes said. “That’s the way I’ve been throughout my career, and why I have to slow down now?

They threw me out. That’s part of the game.�

Reyes’ throwing error in the bottom of the seventh allowed Aaron Hicks to reach safely in the bottom half against Roberta Osuna (1-2). Brian Dozier then singled and Torii Hunter launched a two-run double over Chris Colabello’s head in left field. “At the end of the day, a loss is a loss, whether it’s by one run or 10 runs,� Donaldson said. “I feel like right now we’re doing a pretty good job of

Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki, right, slides into the tag by Minnesota Twins shortstop Danny Santana and is out while attempting to steal second base during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Minneapolis, Sunday.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, June 1, 2015

Johnson takes Dover for tenth time NASCAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOVER, Del. — Jimmie Johnson took the congratulatory call from his boss, then flipped the phone for a selfie.

The six-time series champ and crew chief Chad Knaus sandwiched the 60-pound trophy and smiled for a familiar photo. “You’ve only got 10 of ’em,� a fan yelled at the victory lane celebration.

Johnson said: “We’ll keep them coming!�

Johnson had already mastered the Monster Mile like no other driver. His latest win earned him a slice of NASCAR history that etched his name in the same class as five Hall of Fame drivers.

With his No. 48 Chevrolet on cold tires, Johnson got hot down the stretch Sunday to win at Dover International Speedway and become the fifth driver with 10 or more Sprint Cup victories at a single track. “It was cool to have a track that I enjoyed so much turn into a track I could win at,� Johnson said. “We’ve been able to keep that feeling going for a lot of years.�

Unlike his other nine Dover wins when he led at least 175 laps in each race, Johnson led only 23 laps for this perfect 10. Johnson has 10 wins in 27 career starts on the concrete mile track. He needed five extra laps beyond the scheduled 400 because a late accident brought out the caution.

He has four wins this season, 74 in his career and has won at least four times in a season 11 times.

On deck, Johnson could catch Earnhardt for seventh on the career wins list with 76. “It’s right there in front of me, so I look at it and think, wow, this is incredible,� Johnson said. “Yes, it’s a priority for me and something I want to do. But I’m almost in shock that we’re there. Seventy-four race wins, 10 here, you can’t dream that big.�

Johnson drank a beer in victory lane and took a quick call from team owner Rick Hendrick. “I know what I’m capable of and felt just fine doing it,� Johnson said. “And, I’ve got a great rhythm.

I’ve got great support at home.�

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Jimmie Johnson takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race, Sunday, at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. No active driver owns a track like Johnson does Dover.

Johnson joined NASCAR Hall of Famers Richard Petty (Martinsville-15, North Wilkesboro-15, Richmond-13, Rockingham-11, Daytona-10), Darrell Waltrip (Bristol-12, Martinsville-11, North Wilkesboro-10), Earnhardt (Talladega-10) and David Pearson (Darlington-10) as drivers to win 10 races at a single track.

The Hendrick Motorsports driver swept Dover in 2002 and 2009 and also won races in 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Kevin Harvick was second, followed by Kyle Lar-

son, Kasey Kahne and Aric Almirola. “I figured it would be tough to have a shot at Jimmie,� Larson said.

Harvick held a comfortable lead until the field was bunched on a late caution. Kyle Busch, who was in the top five, connected with Brian Scott to end the race for each driver. Busch, who poked his head inside Scott’s window for a chat, was unhurt in his second points race since he suffered leg and ankle injuries at Daytona.

Busch needs a win and to hit the top 30 in the points standings to become eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Nordqvist wins ShopRite Bourdais wins at Belle Isle for first victory LPGA Classic for fifth INDYCAR career tour title

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Anna Nordqvist birdied the 16th and 17th holes to break out of the pack and win the ShopRite LPGA Classic by a stroke Sunday.

With her mother visiting from Sweden, the 27-yearold Nordqvist closed with a 2-under 69 in windy conditions to finish at 8-under 205 at Stockton Seaview’s Bay Course.

The former Arizona State player has five career LPGA Tour titles, winning twice each in 2009 and 2014.

A stroke behind leader Morgan Pressel entering the round, Nordqvist made her move on the closing three holes — a stretch she played in 5 under the first two days.

She sank a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-4 16th to break a tie with France’s Christel Boeljon and get to 8 under. Nordqvist hit her tee shot on the short par-3 17th to 8 feet to the left of the hole and drained that putt as well to move to two strokes in front.

With Boeljon, winless in five years on the LPGA Tour, missing an 18-inch birdie putt at the 18th while playing in the group ahead, Nordqvist was not hurt by a bogey at the last. She finished her round, played in steady afternoon wind, with five birdies and three bogeys.

Boeljon, who played for Purdue and was the second in the 2007 NCAA tournament, was a career-best second after a 68. Pressel, who fell out of the lead following a bogey-double bogey stretch on the front nine, tied for third at 5 under after a 73.

Rookie Kelly Shon got within one stroke of the lead, but a tough finish dropped her to a 70 and a tie with Pressel.

Nordqvist picked up her first birdie of the day at the par-4 fourth with a 5-foot putt. She moved into a tie for first after Pressel bogeyed the sixth hole and lost the lead to Boeljon after she missed the eighth green and made bogey.

Canada’s Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., shot a 4-under 67 to finish the tournament at 1-under par and tied for 23rd.

DETROIT — The first caution period began about midway through the race.

It was followed by another. And then another. Yellow flags all the way until the final laps.

It made for tedious viewing for fans — but the constant cycle of starting and then slowing down was exactly what Sebastien Bourdais needed. “At one point, we had to make the call whether we were going to stay out and gamble that all the yellows were going to keep going,� Bourdais said. “It sure looked like it was going to be that way.�

On a wet day at Belle Isle, Bourdais had enough fuel to make it to the end in first place for his first IndyCar victory of the year. There were eight caution periods Sunday, shortening the race from 70 laps to 68 because of a two-hour time limit. That made all the difference for the French driver. “Had it not been a timed race, we would have not made it,� he said.

Bourdais held on in his No. 11 Chevrolet, finishing 1.8 seconds ahead of Takuma Sato. Graham Rahal finished third. Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya was awarded the pole based on entry points when

qualifying Sunday morning was halted by bad weather. Montoya finished 10th and remained atop the season standings. Carlos Munoz, who won Saturday’s rain-shortened race, finished last Sunday.

Penske teammates Will Power and Helio Castroneves crashed late in the race, leading to a red flag with 5:33 remaining. Bourdais was leading at that point, but he was concerned with the stoppage because he’d been hoping a yellow period would help run more time off the clock.

After the red flag, there was another caution period before the restart. “I kind of dragged my feet a little bit on the last caution lap,� Bourdais said.

There wasn’t time for 70 laps, and Bourdais held on after the final restart. “I think Sebastien’s restart was, to be honest, a bit tricky,� Sato said. “He decelerates, so we all had to brake, which is not really what we talk about at the briefing.�

Sato had passed Montoya on a previous restart, and Bourdais said he was trying to avoid that scenario. “Seeing what he did to Juan, yeah, I became pretty creative at the restart, for sure,� Bourdais said. “I wasn’t going to give it up. Obviously, I think there’s going to be a lot of talks on what happened at these restarts — guys pulling out of the lane way before the green flag, which you’re not supposed to.�

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Honey the pig hams it up for the camera, sticking her snout through the fence of her pen. Honey, and her companion, Garlic, will spend the summer at the farm.

Jack Hook reaches over the fence to give Ollie the donkey a hug

PHOTOS BY ASHLI BARRETT/ ADVOCATE STAFF Nothing says “Spring on the Farm“ like baby animals, and there were plenty to see this past weekend at Red Deer’s favourite farm within city limits.

Sunnybrook Farm Museum hosted its annual celebration on Saturday, inviting Red Deerians to meet the new animals, and take part in a fun-filled day of games, activities and food.

Things kicked off early with a country pancake breakfast, before people of all ages toured the animal exhibition. Daisy the goat, three new ewes, and a donkey were amongst the more popular animals with children, followed by turkeys, pigs, calves, chickens, as well as a miniature horse and rabbit.

Children wanting to take a break from the animals could take a ride on the barrel-train, have their faces painted and burn off some energy with a sack race and bouncy castle.

For the older visitors, a garage sale and antique toy display were set up. Tractors dating back to the early 1900’s could be seen, and farming equipment- some of which has become obsolete with improving technology- were scattered throughout the farm.

A home-made pie sale and cookie walk ran throughout the day.

Sunnybrook Farm Museum, which is located in the Bower subdivision, is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. seven days a week until August 31.

Xavier Hartman, Devin Bealle and Wyatt Rue (left to right) compete in a sack race during the Spring at the Farm event Saturday at Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

ABOVE LEFT: Mason Hunter, 4, and his grandma, Cathy Hunter, pick out cookies to take home from the Cookie Walk.

ABOVE RIGHT: Jasmin Haeusler cruises around Sunnybrook Farm on a mini tractor.

Charm, one of three new ewes at Sunnybrook Farm, takes a break from grazing and meeting young children during the Spring at the Farm events on Saturday at Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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Australia looking for greater wine access

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Australia is pressuring a reluctant Canada to lower trade barriers on its wine industry, pushing for similar concessions that were won by the European Union, The Canadian Press has learned.

An internal memo from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development says Australia is pushing for greater market access for its wine in Canada as part of the ongoing negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Australia is citing gains made by the EU in its comprehensive agreement in principle with Canada — known by the acronym CETA — which was announced in late 2013, but is still being finalized.

Canada is pushing back because it doesn’t appear to want a repeat of the concessions it offered Europe under CETA in the TPP talks, which includes 12 countries from Asia, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Australia.

The April memo is significant because it sheds light on the opaque nature of the TPP talks, which have faced heavy criticism for being unaccountable to the public.

It also demonstrates something that many analysts have seized on: that the wins and losses in CETA would have implications in other major trade deals.

That includes not only the TPP, but Europe’s ongoing free trade talks with the United States.

CETA removed several non-tariff irritants and add-on service fees imposed on European wine and spirits exports. It also eliminated a federal requirement that all imported foreign spirits be blended with Canadian spirits.

“Government of Canada officials have advised B.C. trade officials that certain TPP parties, most notably Australia, are seeking market access treatment on par with the treatment obtained by the EU in CETA,” says the April 17 briefing note, stamped “secret,” which was prepared for a meeting of senior federal trade officials in Ottawa and their provincial counterparts in British Columbia.

“Canada is actively trying to move TPP parties away from a CETA-like outcome, but continue to face pressure.”

Trade officials in Ottawa have asked the provinces if they might be willing to grant some concessions, the memo says.

This includes granting some TPP countries mostfavoured-nation status on “elements of the CETA wine and spirits outcome,” it says.

“To date, B.C. has indicated that it would likely have no issue in principle with offering TPP parties those commitments made in CETA that are relevant in the CPP context.”

The memo gives no additional details on the positions of the other provinces.

The memo also does not refer to any other TPP countries by name, however Chile and New Zealand,

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Australian wine corks are shown in this photo. Australia is pressuring a reluctant Canada to lower trade barriers on its wine industry, pushing for similar concessions that were won by the European Union. two countries in the group, are known to have robust wine industries.

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development declined comment on memo’s contents.

Toronto lawyer Lawrence Herman, a trade expert with Herman and Associates, said each trade deal creates a benchmark that has ramifications for subsequent negotiations.

“Progress in these subsequent and ongoing negotiations, like the TPP, to a large degree are measured against what has been concluded previously, i.e. the Canada-EU trade agreement,” Herman said Sunday.

A separate leaked memo, obtained by The Canadi-

Old property tax methods of cities not fair: businesses

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Matina Aucoin says she can’t understand why she has to send $3,800 a year in property tax to her city government for a parking lot that requires no service.

“I know it costs the city zero,” she says in an interview at the Zephyr furniture shop on Halifax’s Quinpool Road.

It’s the kind of tax complaint that is causing some main street entrepreneurs across the country to argue municipal property tax assessments — a crucial source of funds for Canadian cities — are urgently in need of reform, especially in an era of real estate price volatility.

Zephyr is located amidst an assortment of mostly locally-owned organic grocers, restaurants and clothing boutiques that resembles other downtown or suburban main streets.

As the selling price for local buildings rose rapidly in recent years, assessments for Aucoin’s building and 450-square metre parking followed suit. Until a recent appeal, she was paying $5,000 a year for pavement based on its potential resale value.

“We are in a precarious position because someone can come in and pay too much for a property, which they did next to me and down the street ... and our taxes shoot up,” says the 48-year-old entrepreneur, who estimates her overall annual bill went from $10,000 in 2007 to $22,000 this year.

Andrew Murphy, a chartered accountant in Halifax’s north end, has been spending his spare time comparing assessments of big box areas and residential taxes against those charged on various downtown streets.

“Essentially the nature of the problem is you get great big areas in business parks being taxed way less than really compact areas of the city,” he said in an interview.

Glenn Castanheira, a former director of the busi-

an Press in 2013, showed that European negotiators believed they were able to get more concessions out of Canada than they expected. It also said they might have settled for less had Ottawa bargained harder.

The Europeans cited wines and spirits as one of the sectors where they did particularly well, along with gains in cheese exports and bidding on government contracts.

Jan Westcott, president of Spirits Canada, said the EU trade pact was a win for Canada’s liquor exporters as well as Canadian consumers.

And he also predicted TPP countries will want the same tariff reductions for their wines and spirits that European countries gained under CETA.

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Activists protest Shell oil drilling ship’s movement through Inside Passage ‘WE ARE IN A PRECARIOUS POSITION

BECAUSE SOMEONE CAN COME IN AND PAY TOO MUCH FOR A PROPERTY, WHICH THEY DID NEXT TO ME AND DOWN THE STREET ... AND OUR TAXES SHOOT UP.’ — MATINA AUCOIN ZEPHYR FURNITURE, HALIFAX

ness association for Montreal’s Boulevard Saint-Laurent, says his parent’s Portugese rotisserie Coco-Rico has seen its annual taxes rise from $5,300 annually to $11,800 over the past decade due to speculation in 2006-2007 as city streets were improved.

“In many cases we had taxes that doubled and tripled,” he said. “Mom and Pop shops like my parents ran couldn’t start up today.”

Castanheira, who works as an economic advisor to the opposition councillors in the City of Montreal, says taxing business income might be a way to lessen dependence on commercial property taxes.

“Being so dependent on property taxes mean we’re choking our businesses,” he said.

Bruce Fisher, manager of fiscal and tax policy for Halifax Regional Municipality, said property taxes were created to be a wealth tax, and building owners may eventually be able to sell their properties at a profit. He says arguing small businesses in urban areas are unfairly taxed compared to malls and big box areas may fail to take into account the different kinds of buildings in each area.

“Can we conclusively say one area is paying more than an another and that’s it unfair? It’s pretty hard to be that concise on it. We’re seeing a very varied pattern (in tax assessments),” he said.

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VANCOUVER — A group of environmentalists and B.C. First Nations opposed to Arctic oil exploration are protesting a multinational oil and gas company’s movements through the West Coast’s Inside Passage. International environmental organization Greenpeace says Royal Dutch Shell is transporting its oil-spill-containment vessel, the Arctic Challenger, up B.C.’s coastline to the Aleutian Peninsula in Alaska. Chief Calvin Craigan of the Sechelt First Nation says increased tanker traffic in the region could be disastrous and that Shell should be banned from the area. The company’s controversial ambitions to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean have drawn widespread criticism. Last week a pair of activists locked themselves to the Arctic Challenger’s anchor chain in Washington state to delay the vessel’s departure.

Earlier in the month hundreds of kayak activists swarmed a bay in Seattle, Wash., to protest Shell’s plans.

Greek prime minister talks bailout deal in new conference call Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has had a conference call with the leaders of France and Germany to discuss progress in the talks between Athens and its lenders, officials say. The Sunday evening call with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the second in three days, lasted 35 minutes, “went very well” and it was agreed that a deal must be completed very soon, the officials said. The German government described the conversation as constructive but gave no further details. Similar optimistic statements emanating from Greek officials in the past few days about “technical talks” in Brussels hadn’t been echoed by other parties.

Inadequate saving affecting retirement plans Whether we like it or not, the reality is that most people today have to save money to supplement their government, employer and/or private pension plans to help fund their retirement.

Canadians are blessed to have numerous ways to save for their retirement through Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), retirement income portfolio products, existing and/or planned provincial pension plans, non-registered savings and, for business owners, Individual Pension Plans (IPPs) and self-payment strategies.

TALBOT In spite of all these options, BOGGS Canadians still are not saving enough for their retirement, although their savings habits do seem to be getting better.

A recent survey by BMO Financial Group found that Canadians are making saving a habit by using fixed savings plans that includes making monthly contributions.

Thirty one per cent had a fixed savings plan in

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place heading into this year, a 19-per-cent increase over the previous year.

Still, 19 per cent said they hadn’t saved anything in 2014 and 40 per cent did not feel they saved enough to meet their goals for the coming year, with many of them (31 per cent) citing lack of a financial plan as a barrier to their saving.

Figures from Statistics Canada show that Canada’s household savings rate hit a five-year low of 3.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2014 and over the last 10 years the household savings rate dropped to four per cent from 7.9 per cent during the 1990s.

“Achieving any goal – financial or otherwise – means putting a realistic plan in place while establishing a routine or behavioural habit to ensure you can meet and exceed what you set out to accomplish,” says Ernie Johannson, head of North American retail payments and personal banking Canada with BMO Financial.

Many Canadians are or expect to continue to work in their retirement years meaning many couples may not be able to retire together.

Another BMO survey found that for couples who plan to retire together the main reasons for doing so are to enjoy quality time together, travel together and because it would be easier to adjust to retired life at the same time.

However, almost half expect they will have to retire either before or after their partner because of the age gap between them, so one partner can continue earning income and because one partner would like to continue working.

Twenty five per cent anticipate that the time gap between their retirements could be as much as five years. Although many Canadians expect to retire at a different time than their partner, only 28 per cent have discussed in detail how it would affect their retirement financial plans and 22 per cent have not discussed it at all.

“While discussing your retirement plans may not be the most romantic topic it is essential that you and your partner are on the same page regarding personal and household finances should one person retire before the other,” says Chris Buttigieg, senior manager of wealth planning strategy with BMO. “By establishing a financial plan which outlines your goals together you have a greater chance of attaining your financial ‘happily ever after’ when you both reach retirement.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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NDP brings motion to ban pay-to-pay fees

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— ANDREW CASH NDP CONSUMER PROTECTION CRITIC

OTTAWA — Flush from its success in getting rid of the tax on feminine hygiene products, the NDP wants the House of Commons to abolish socalled “pay-to-pay” fees charged by big banks.

The official Opposition will introduce a motion on Monday calling for an end to such practices as charging for paper bills and for the adoption of a financial code of conduct to protect consumers.

Andrew Cash, the NDP’s consumer protection critic, is tabling the motion as part of his ongoing efforts to get rid of banking user fees.

It comes after a separate NDP motion was unanimously approved by the Commons last week to exempt feminine hygiene products from the GST. That motion passed after women in the Conservative caucus threatened to boycott the vote if their party didn’t approve.

The so-called tampon tax was seen as discriminatory towards women, but Cash says the fees charged by banks for paper bills are bad for all Canadians.

“These are just patently unfair

fees,” said Cash.

“We don’t want hardworking Canadians to get their pockets picked on a regular basis by the banks.”

Last year, the government blocked telecommunication and cable companies from charging fees for paper bills last year, but excluded banks from a similar ban.

Cash said he doesn’t yet know whether Conservative or Liberal MPs will be supportive of his motion, which he said is to be debated on an opposition day in the Commons on Monday.

He said he believes grassroots Conservative supporters are as “ticked off” by the fees as any other group of Canadians.

In recent months, Canada’s large banks have all moved to raise some of the fees they charge customers.

The Royal Bank has attracted the most attention with changes that are to take effect on Monday.

They include a new charge for preauthorized and non-scheduled credit card, loan and mortgage payments under certain circumstances.

The new fee applies to several different account types when customers exceed their allotted number of free debit transactions.

Five things to watch for in business

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: Power talk: A national energy roundtable will be held in Toronto on Tuesday featuring some big movers and shakers, including Energy East president Francoise Poirier, TransAlta CEO Dawn Farrell and Quebec Energy Minister Pierre Arcand.

Shop talk: The Retail Council of Canada hosts the two-day Store 2015 conference in Toronto beginning Tuesday. Executives from Hudson’s Bay, Canadian Tire and IKEA are expected to talk about trends in the world of retail.

Microsoft money: Kevin Turner, the worldwide chief operating officer for Microsoft, is in Toronto on Tuesday to make an announcement about an in-

vestment in Canada. He will be joined by deputy premier Deb Matthews and Toronto Mayor John Tory.

Lululemon stretches its legs: Lululemon hosts its annual general meeting in Vancouver on Wednesday. The Vancouver-based yoga wear retailer has big expansion plans, aiming to have 20 stores in Europe and another 20 in Asia by the end of 2017.

Jobs report: Investors and economists will be looking carefully at Statistics Canada’s jobs report for May on Friday following a disappointing reading on economic growth last week.

Economists expect the report to show the economy created 10,000 jobs in May with the unemployment rate holding steady at 6.8 per cent.

Any signs of weakness could be bad news for the economy in the second quarter, which many are hoping to show a turnaround from the retreat in the first three months of the year.

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A Swiss pilot of a solar plane has embarked on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. Andre Borschberg took off from Nanjing, China, at 2:39 a.m. Sunday (1839 GMT Saturday) in the Solar Impulse 2 for a five-day-five-

night flight to Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean. The journey started in March in Abu Dhabi, and the solar plane has stopped in Oman, India, Myanmar and China. The leg between Nanjing and Hawaii is the longest and most dangerous. Borschberg and another Swiss pilot, Bertrand Piccard, are taking turns flying the single-seater Swiss plane during a five-month journey to promote renewable energy use.

The 8,175-kilometre (5,079-mile) flight from Nanjing to Hawaii is the seventh of 12 flights.

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Montreal’s fashion sector is trying to regain some of its lost glory as designers, manufacturers and other players in the apparel industry unite in a bid to expand the city’s sartorial footprint.

They have established “mmode,” an industrial cluster that aims to reassert Montreal’s place in the world of fashion.

The move comes seven years after the industry began consultations and 12 entrepreneurs wrote a report calling for the sector to work together.

“The competition has become so strong that there’s no way anymore that our industry can work individually,” designer Philippe Dubuc said.

“We must get all together to make our industry stronger.”

At its peak in the 1970s, Montreal’s apparel industry employed more than 70,000 people and was the home to many top brands.

These days, Quebec’s fashion sector is less than half that size but still accounts for more than 45 per cent of all employment in the Canadian industry.

The Montreal region, which is home to 70 per cent of the province’s apparel companies, is North America’s thirdlargest clothing manufacturing city after New York and Los Angeles.

Dubuc said the cluster will allow different interests within the fashion world to speak with one voice to push its interests with all levels of government and boost public awareness of its economic benefits.

The group also aims to establish more high-end factories in the city’s garment district, bring together designers and manufacturers to create new products and reach out to U.S. retailers to sell their clothing.

It is Montreal’s ninth industrial cluster, joining aerospace, audio visual, life sciences and financial services, among others.

Eric Wazana, co-founder of Second Clothing said Montreal should strive to be “the Silicon Valley of fashion.”

“It’s going to help us all work together and really create our own identity and be able to help us export and become a player in the world,” he said in a video discussing the cluster launch last week.

The video included some of the city’s top designers interspersed with black and white photos from the apparel industry’s heady days, before jobs were lost to cheaper production in Asia and other developing countries.

Quebec is home to large fashion companies — Aldo, Gildan, Logistik Unicorp and Peerless — recognized designers and growing online sellers like SSENSE, Beyond the Rack and Frank & Oak. With the importance of e-commerce growing, Montreal needs to look more globally, said Frank & Oak CEO Ethan Song.

“But to do so we have first to connect internally and then maybe create brands and great products that we can then bring outward.”

Jacques Daoust, Quebec’s economy, innovation and exports minister, said the mmode cluster will support the industry’s growth and competitiveness.

The province and municipality are providing a total of $200,000 in startup funding.

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TAXES: Consider issues Halifax city council voted in April for staff to examine possible changes to the commercial tax structure that consider issues like the ones Aucoin and Murphy are raising, and staff are expected to report back this fall.

Fisher says one possibility is to create a two-tier system such as Toronto’s, where an initial portion of the building’s value receives a lower tax rate.

John Kiru, executive director of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas, says retail streets in his city banded together to push for a lower tax rate on the first $1 million of assessed property.

But he says the wider issue of a bias against small, locally owned downtown retailers remains.

“As developers buy up those last couple of parcels of land for their TH

assembly they have a tendency to overpay and it’s that overpayment that adds pressure on land in the downtown which pulls everyone else’s assessment up,” he said.

Peter Tomlinson, a consultant who teaches a course in urban economics at the University of Toronto, said the simplest solution is to lower commercial property tax rates in general, bringing them more in line with residential rates.

“In the City of Toronto, they are gradually shifting it to residential, given it’s still three times higher for business than residential,” he said.

Fisher said the result of that approach would likely be a hike in residential rates or a cut to services, but he adds that cities are going to have to consider various options in light of complaints like the one Aucoin are bringing forward.

“These are fair questions they are raising,” he said.

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BRIEFS Randi Boulton to play at Ross Street Patio opening Friday Ross Street Patio will mark its official opening of the season on Friday with free live music performances by local musicians.

Singer-songwriter Randi Boulton performs from noon to 1 p.m.

Local band St. Groove will perform its mix of jazz, funk and blues from 4 to 6 p.m.

It is the fourth straight year that some parking spots have been removed on Ross Street, creating an outdoor patio in the heart of downtown Red Deer.

Visitors of all ages are invited to bring their lawn chairs or sit at one of the shaded patio tables.

“We’re looking forward to welcoming summer back to Red Deer, and the Ross Street Patio is a clear sign of its arrival in our community,” says Peter McGee, special events programmer for the City of Red Deer.

“We have some awesome entertainment planned for the patio and are excited to kick it all off on June 5.”

Ross Street Patio entertainment is a partnership between the City of Red Deer and the Downtown Business Association.

The city will offer entertainment from noon to 1 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. on the first Friday of each of the summer months, while the downtown association will focus on Tuesday and Thursday lunch hours and Wednesday evenings during the Downtown Market.

Events are free and open to the public.

For more information on Ross Street Patio entertainment, visit www. reddeer.ca/rossstreetpatio.

Freshly back from Australia, The Dirrty Show duo is all set to regale Central Albertans with more ribald stories and X-rated songs.

A homecoming show is slated on Friday, June 5, at Leah’s Bar & Grill.

The Dirrty Show’s Kayla Williams and Melody Stang went down under for a five-month tour that culminated with an appearance at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The girrls unleashed their “full repertoire of R-rated musical comedy songs” about everything from masturbation to less common sexual practises.

And the Australians were agog.

The duo were commended for their talent for “guiding minds straight into the gutter one soaring harmony at a time.” Critics commented on their “poetic vulgarity and whole-hearted embrace of all things filthy.”

Williams and Stang will perform some of the brand-new songs that came out of their 70-comedy-room tour through the southern hemisphere in Red Deer.

For more information about their 9 p.m. show at 6315 Horn St., call 403-9869005.

Flowers, Calligraphy and more at First Friday openings Calligraphy, flower art and creations by young people can be seen at Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings for June.

Flower Talk — Where Blooms Begin is a new exhibit of paintings by Jeri Lynn Ing at the white gallery from June 5 to Aug. 31. The space can be accessed from the main floor of Sunworks on Ross St. The gallery will be open on Friday to 7: 30 p.m.

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An assistant director stands by as a stunt car drives down Yonge Street, during the shooting of the movie Suicide Squad, in Toronto on Tuesday.

He quickly saw his Instagram followers nearly triple to more than 1,000 and was encouraged to go out the following night to get more video.

“Now I feel kind of obligated to do it,” says Yip. “Now I have (hundreds) more people that are interested in seeing what I have to post.”

Former police officer and security expert Matthew Romanick says Warner Bros. almost certainly expected this

kind of mania, noting it’s impossible to keep a massive shoot like this quiet.

“Even before shooting begins, to shut down a major street you’re looking at permits through the city, you’re looking at police officers and police agencies being contacted for pay duties to have them work and shut everything down,” says Romanick, who runs the security firm Star Quality Enterprises with Fekete-Romanick.

First Friday reception will be held from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. (Ten per cent of sales will be donated to the Sylvan Lake Pet Serenity Shelter.)

Lights is the title of calligraphy, watercolour and mixed-media art done by members of the Red Deer Lettering Arts Guild. The show runs from June 1 to July 31 in the Corridor Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre. It’s open to 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Hang-ups and Insights: The Seventh-Annual IB and AP Art Show by students at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School is on at the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library to June 20.

The gallery operated by the Red Deer Arts Council will have an opening reception on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

munity outreach programs. The group also regularly contributes to children’s hospitals and advocates for pride and anti-bullying campaigns.

Without Mercy’s third studio album Reborn is available from Bandcamp with songs such as Worthless, Burn and Morphine.

Take the Throne also has a new album, Guardian, available from Bandcamp, and a new plot-driven video for the song Artificial Heart.

The quintet has been compared to August Burns Red and Born of Osiris, and promises to “get the mosh pit going like a super-charged blender.”

For more information about the show, call 403-307-3528.

Metal bands perform at Slumland Thrash-metal band Without Mercy will be shaking the Slumland Theatre this week, along with metalcore band Take the Throne.

The metalheads, who respectively hail from Abbotsford, B.C., and Niagara Falls, Ont., are slated to perform on Thursday in Red Deer.

While Without Mercy sounds plenty menacing on stage, off-stage band members care about youth, helping promote aboriginal culture and com-

Summer Sensation festival tickets on sale Tickets are on sale now for the Summer Sensation Beach Music festival in Sylvan Lake on July 10 and 11.

The two-day festival will bring a high-profile lineup of pop/rock acts to Centennial Park on the lakefront, including Hedley, Our Lady Peace, Matthew Good, Dragonette and Dear Rouge and others, yet to be announced.

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Passersby clogged sidewalks for blocks — sometimes in the dead of night — to marvel at the tail of a downed plane, a crashed helicopter and other wreckage.

And the whole world took notice late last week when video emerged of a spectacular car chase that ripped through the city’s streets. A greenhaired maniac was spotted blazing down Yonge in a hot pink sports car while being pursued by a caped crusader. The secretive film shoot for the star-studded supervillain movie Suicide Squad had brazenly moved out into the open and was practically begging Toronto’s notoriously film-obsessed populace to go out and witness it.

It appears that thousands have, with many of the most enthusiastic flooding social media with images and videos from the set, which have been picked up by entertainment outlets around the world.

Film fan Leonardo Dell’anno, who lives near the various film shoots, says there’s been an exciting energy in the area.

“People are going out, there are little kids out really late at night,” says Dell’anno. “I talked to a few people

who were there all day long. They are taking days off to see a glimpse of a star or glimpse of what’s going on because it’s kind of crazy that it’s been so accessible. You would think they would try to keep more secrets.”

You can’t buy this kind of publicity, PR and security expert Adrianne Fekete-Romanick says of the online leaks that have resulted.

“Any type of free press is welcome,” says Fekete-Romanick of the flood of content that’s come out of the film shoots, even if some might consider them spoilers.

“It adds to the hype ... and it draws a lot more eyeballs.”

Warner Bros. may disagree — requests for comment were not answered — but there’s no doubt the studio’s DC Comics-based outing has set much of the city buzzing. Not that it needed much help. The sprawling cast includes Will Smith, Ben Affleck, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis and Joel Kinnaman. It centres on a group of supervillains tasked with completing top secret government missions in exchange for reduced prison sentences.

Terence Yip didn’t even have to leave his home to capture video of the scene that had the web buzzing: the Batmobile in hot pursuit of the Joker. Yip shot footage of the high-octane chase from his condo balcony and believes his uploaded photos and video were among the first to hit the web and confirm to the world that Batman would feature in “Suicide Squad.”

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Worried about remarried mother-in-law Dear Annie: My father-in-law died four years ago. He had struggled with some health issues for a while and then went into the hospital for what was supposed to be a simple procedure and never made it out. It broke my heart. And it was the first time I ever saw my husband cry. Both of his parents were like the parents I wish I’d had. I adored his father.

Here’s the problem. A few months ago, my mother-in-law started dating a nice guy from her church. He’s a widower, and she and my father-in-law were friends with him and his late wife. Last night, my mother-in-law arrived home from her date and announced that they were engaged! We were floored. My husband congratulated her, and he seems genuinely happy for both of them.

But not me. I feel upset. I feel like my own mother is remarrying after my father died, and I don’t like it. I am happy that my mother-in-law has found love again when we are lucky to even find it once, but I feel sad and hurt at

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I know this is totally crazy, so how do I move past these feelings? — Daughter-in-Law Dear Daughter-in-Law: Your letter is actually very sweet.

You love your in-laws, and you recognize that MITCHELL your reaction & SUGAR is unwarranted and want to change it. Good for you. First, we are glad that no one is taking advantage of Mom. She has been friends with this man for years. Second, like many children, you fear a new marriage will diminish Dad’s position in the family. But rest assured, this won’t happen.

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or the wonderful memories all of you have. This is an entirely different relationship. But it allows Mom to have a companion and be less lonely. In years to come, you will be grateful. Try to fake being happy for her until you discover that you truly are.

Dear Annie: Recently, I attended a three-hour cooking class for seniors.

While waiting for the class to start, I chatted with the person next to me, who was the only other person there.

A few minutes later, a third class member walked in, came right up into my face and loudly exclaimed, “I hope you are not going to be obnoxious!” I looked at her and said kindly, “What did I do to make you say that?” She turned away, ignored me and walked to her seat. Even the instructor was taken aback.

At the end of the class, I approached this woman and asked, “I’m curious.

Why did you make the comment that you hoped I was not going to be obnoxious?” She replied, “Oh, I do that all the time! Sometimes I’ll go to a movie

and say, ‘I hope you aren’t going to laugh at lot.’” She told me she does it “for fun” and suggested I try it. My reply was a firm, “I would never say anything like that to anyone.”

Annie, I was shocked by this woman’s behavior, especially in a class for seniors. (The class was fabulous, but I left shaking my head.) — Shocked Senior Dear Shocked: This is a woman whose ego demands that she be the center of attention. She believes her outrageous behavior makes her important, but it’s simply obnoxious. Toddlers and teenagers do things to shock others because they can be very selffocused. Most people outgrow it. You gave her the response she wanted, but she deserved to be completely ignored.

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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A University of Saskatchewan professor says he’s debunked claims that modern varieties of wheat are causing gluten intolerance because of how their protein content has been manipulated.

“The science doesn’t support what people have been saying,” said Ravi Chibbar, whose paper was published Thursday in the journal Cereal Chemistry.

“There’s no such thing as Frankenwheat.”

Chibbar’s research involved studying wheat varieties that have been planted in North America since the

19th century. The were grown and analyzed in test plots that have been maintained since 1989. The original intent was to catalogue improvements made in yield and time to harvest since the 1860s when homesteaders planted Ontario-originated Red Fife on their newly broken land.

But the focus shifted when Chibbar began to notice claims from health advisers that new wheat varieties contained high protein levels and different kinds of starch that were contributing to gluten intolerance.

“A lot of questions started to arise that the modern wheat is very different.”

Chibbar decided to find out if protein levels really have increased.

The answer was yes. Protein levels

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have increased by about 0.01 per cent a year.

“That’s one per cent in a 100 years,” said Chibbar. “The whole thing about protein levels having significantly increased, and that’s why we’re seeing the negative effects of wheat, that did not stand out.”

Gluten is a collection of proteins unique to wheat. Gluten proteins enable wheat flour to capture the gases released when yeast ferments, which allows dough to rise. Chibbar said the mix of the individual proteins in the gluten may have changed slightly.

“Maybe to make a better quality wheat bread, some of the sub-units have gone up or down,” he said. “But it will not give you the kind of changes where (the effects) will become bad.”

He believes the overall balance of protein and starch in a grain of wheat hasn’t changed since the days when crops were harvested by threshing crews. Even the starch component of wheat — a complex amalgam of many carbohydrates — is about the same level it has always been.

“I would say to people, enjoy your wheat-based products. Things over the years haven’t changed.”

What has changed is the yield that producers get from new varieties, as well as the time those varieties take to grow, ripen and mature.

By 1995, improvements were resulting in increased yields of 23 kilograms per hectare each year. Modern varieties pour into the bin a full week ahead of Red Fife.

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PETRY Verna (Cox) Dec 18, 1919 - May 28, 2015 A mother holds her children’s hands for a while and their hearts forever...

Verna passed away peacefully in Lacombe at the age of 95. She is survived by all of her seven children, 14 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and 2 great, great grandchildren, and her sister Dora Jean Mack along with multiple family members and friends. She will linger in our loving memory until we meet again. Please join us for her memorial service which will be on Tuesday, June 2nd at 1:00 pm at Bentley Community Church 4633 - 53 Ave.

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PREFONTAINE M. Madeleine Prefontaine of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, May 28, 2015 at the age of 92 years.

Madeleine will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her son, Laurent (Joan) Prefontaine of Bluffton; and her daughter, Lucille (Norman) Lowe of Buck Lake; as well as seven grandchildren; and nineteen great grandchildren. She will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her sister, Jacqueline (Bill) Price of Black Diamond, Alberta; in addition to numerous nieces and nephews. Madeleine was predeceased by her beloved husband, Wilfrid in 1981; three brothers: Raymond, Jack, and Robert; and her sister, Harriet. A Public Funeral Service in Celebration of Madeleine’s Life will be held at the Buck Lake Community Hall, Buck Lake, Alberta on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. with the Reverend Tony Abbott officiating.

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Boko Harem suspected in Nigerian attacks MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A bomb wounded four people Sunday in a market in Maiduguri, a day after 30 people were killed in the northeastern Nigerian city by a suicide bomber and attackers firing rocket-propelled grenades.

The Boko Haram militant group is suspected in the attacks which followed Friday’s inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who said he is moving the headquarters for the Nigerian military’s fight against the extremists to Maiduguri from the capital of Abuja. Sunday’s blast came from explosives concealed in bags of charcoal at the Gamboru market, said trader Jafar Aminu.

“The explosion did not kill anyone but injured four persons, including one whose arm was completely ripped off by the blast,” Aminu said.

The market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, has been hit by several attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past three years.

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13,000 people in a campaign of bombings, hit-and-run attacks and abductions.

A multinational offensive this year forced the insurgents from towns where they had declared an Islamic caliphate.

Nigeria’s military says Boko Haram’s main fighting force is trapped in the northeastern Sambisa Forest.

But the insurgents keep attacking Maiduguri, which is 200 kilometres (125 miles) away.

Maiduguri’s population of 2 million has swelled with hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been forced from their homes.

Thirteen people were killed Saturday in Maiduguri when Boko Haram fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades on the western outskirts — a new tactic that destroyed several homes, according to witnesses.

Later Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Maiduguri mosque, killing 16.

Also Sunday, the insurgents attacked the town of Fika in the neighbouring state of Yobe. No one was killed, but several government offices were burned down and shops were looted, said local merchant Modu Fika.

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Surveillance extension deadline looms U.S. SENATE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OVERCOME FOES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Hours from a midnight deadline for contested antiterror surveillance measures to expire, no solution was in sight as the Senate convened an extraordinary Sunday session to hash out a way forward. Intelligence officials warned that failure to act would amount to a win for terrorists.

Senators had only one option to keep the counterterror measures alive past midnight: agree to a House-passed bill remaking a disputed bulk phone records collection program, and send it to President Barack Obama for his signature. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes the House bill but seemed likely to agree to it in the absence of other options, perhaps with amendments.

But Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul announced he planned to stand in the way of a final vote Sunday, and under Senate rules giving great power to individual lawmakers, his colleagues were powerless to stop him.

Even though Paul could do no more than delay final passage of the bill for a handful of days, it would be enough to force a shutdown, at least temporarily, over the once-secret phone bulk phone records collections program made public by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid was unsparing in his criticism of McConnell as the Senate gaveled into session Sunday, blaming him for the Senate’s failure to resolve the issue well ahead of the deadline.

“The majority leader should have seen this coming. Everyone else did,” Reid said on the floor. “The job of the leader is to have a plan. In this case, it is clear that the majority leader simply didn’t have a plan.”

For his part, McConnell devoted his opening remarks on the floor to the

passing of Vice-President Joe Biden’s son Beau. Senate Republicans prepared to meet behind closed doors after which McConnell was expected to detail his preferred way forward.

Minutes before the Senate began its session, House Speaker John Boehner issued a brief but strong statement warning of the impact if the surveillance parts of the Patriot Act expire.

“Al-Qaida, ISIL and other terrorists around the globe continue to plot attacks on America and our allies. Anyone who is satisfied with letting this critical intelligence capability go dark isn’t taking the terrorist threat seriously,” said Boehner, who urged the Senate to pass the House bill, which would phase out the bulk collection program over six months and give phone companies the job of maintaining records the government could search for terror connections.

In addition to the bulk phone collections provision, two lesser-known Patriot Act provisions also lapse at midnight: one, so far unused, helps track “lone wolf” terrorism suspects unconnected to a foreign power; the second allows the government to conduct “roving” wiretaps to eavesdrop on suspects who continually discard their cellphones.

CIA Director John Brennan was among those warning that letting the authority to conduct the surveillance programs lapse will make Americans less safe.

Terrorists “are looking for the seams to operate within,” Brennan said. “This is something that we can’t afford to do right now.” He bemoaned “too much political grandstanding and crusading for ideological causes that have skewed the debate on this issue” and said the terrorism-fighting tools are important to American lives.

For Paul, the issue represents a political opportunity, and his presidential campaign has been sending out numerous fundraising appeals focused on it. A super political action commit-

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the Senate Chamber to begin a special session to extend surveillance programs, in Washington, Sunday. tee supporting him even produced an over-the-top video casting the dispute as a professional wrestling-style “Brawl for Liberty” between Paul and Obama — even though Paul’s main opponent on the issue is McConnell, his fellow Kentucky senator.

The NSA already has begun winding down the phone collection program in anticipation that it will not be renewed. To ensure the program has

ceased by the time authority for it expires at midnight, the agency planned to begin shutting down the servers that carry it out at 3:59 p.m. Sunday. That step would be reversible for four hours — by which time it should be evident whether there’s any hope of a last-minute deal on Capitol Hill. After that, rebooting would take about a day.

Brennan spoke on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Violence ramped up after Morsi ouster in Egypt STATE RIGHTS AGENCY SAYS 2,600 PEOPLE KILLED IN 18 MONTHS AFTER 2013 OUSTER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — At least 2,600 people were killed in violence in the 18 months after the military overthrew Egypt’s president in 2013, nearly half of them supporters of the Islamist leader, the head of a state-sanctioned rights body said Sunday.

Mohammed Fayeq, head of the National Council for Human Rights, told reporters that the 2,600 included 700 policemen and 550 civilians who were killed in the period between June 30, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2014.

The council is a nominally independent group sanctioned by the government. It has no judicial or law enforcement powers.

The military overthrew Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, on July 3, 2013, amid massive protests demanding his resignation.

In the following months, his supporters held regular demonstrations that set off deadly clashes with police and rival protesters.

The violence culminated on Aug. 14, 2013, when police violently dispersed two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo, killing at least 600 of his supporters. Islamic militants retaliated by attacking police stations and churches.

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In this Aug. 14, 2013 photo, a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits next to a woman lying down on the floor amid smoke as Egyptian security forces clear their sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo’s Giza district. At least 2,600 people were killed in violence in the 18 months after the military overthrew Morsi in 2013, nearly half of them supporters of the Islamist leader, the head of a state-sanctioned rights body said Sunday. tests. Those jailed include some of the leading secular and left-wing activists behind the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

An appeals court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Sunday sentenced prominent activist and rights lawyer Mahienour el-Masry to

15 months in jail for her part in a demonstration by lawyers against police brutality three months before Morsi’s ouster. Two other Alexandria activists were convicted and received a similar prison term.

On hearing the verdict, el-Masry chanted “Down, down with military

more than 40 years.

Police say two men were fatally shot in the head about 1 a.m. About 11 a.m., a man was fatally shot in the back.

With 43 homicides, May is the deadliest month since the early 1970s, when 44 people were killed in December 1971 and 45 people in August 1972, according to the Baltimore Sun. There have been 116 homicides in Baltimore in 2015. By this time last year, homicides hadn’t hit triple digits.

As homicides rose in May, the number of arrests plummeted. Some at-

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Fayeq criticized the practice of detaining suspects for extended periods pending the filing of formal charges and trial, saying it amounts to “punishment for crimes not committed.” He said holding cells at police stations are filled to 400 per cent capacity and prisons to 160 per cent.

Fayeq said that while the Interior Ministry, which controls the country’s police, announced the deaths of 36 people in detention, various human rights groups put the figure at between 80 and 98.

“The phenomenon of death in detention had disappeared after the 2011 uprising, but has since made a comeback. There is no proof that they died as a result of torture, but there is also nothing to prove otherwise,” he said.

Another human rights group, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, issued a critical report on Sunday saying authorities were selectively using lengthy detentions to jail activists.

Prominent Mubarak-era officials, as well as police officers accused of killing protesters, have been mostly spared such lengthy detentions, even though they are well-positioned to leave the country, intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence.

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The female worker was taken from the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to a hospital after the 12:30 p.m. incident.

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RCMP officers criticize roll out of carbines a year after three officers killed and that the RCMP didn’t “in general” ensure health and safety of its members.

The matter will be heard in court for the first time on July 9.

The latest call for a faster roll-out of the carbines came in a review from retired assistant commissioner Alphonse MacNeil after Bourque fatally shot three RCMP officers and wounded two others with an assault rifle that overpowered the members’ pistols and shotguns.

MacNeil released 64 recommendations aimed at improving training, equipment, communications and planning during critical incidents, all of which were found to be deficient in the police response to the shootings.

In particular, MacNeil said the RCMP has been slow in getting carbines, adding that none of the officers who responded to the chaotic scene in Moncton had one because all six were away at a training exercise.

“The time it took to roll out the carbine project, including the training and delivery of the weapons to members of the RCMP, has taken far too long,” he said in the 180-page report.

“In October, 2014, there are frontline members of the RCMP who still do not have the training and access to the carbine.”

He recommended “the RCMP take immediate action to expedite deployment of patrol carbines across the force.”

The RCMP accepted the recommendations, but didn’t set a clear deadline for when or how many officers would get the guns. Still, members say the force has no excuse for the slow delivery of guns that were recommended in 2010 in a RCMP-commissioned report and again in 2011 following the deaths of four officers in Alberta in 2005. The

force began researching carbines in 2006 as it developed a policy on required equipment.

One New Brunswick officer who rushed to the suburban neighbourhood in pursuit of Bourque insists that having a carbine would have given police a chance to stop him.

“We knew we were going to a person that was shooting police officers with a high-powered rifle and we show up there with pellet guns basically,” said the officer, who is bound by a regulation to not criticize the force.

“Carbines on June 4 was without a doubt a key factor in the outcome. ... You clearly would have had some members that had a shot at Bourque as opposed to somebody who had a handgun who says, ’I won’t be able to hit him or my bullet won’t go that far.’ ” Grumbling over the carbine has persisted since James Roszko used a semi-automatic rifle to gun down four RCMP officers in 2005 in Mayerthorpe.

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A 2011 report into the shootings found the Mounties were severely outgunned and recommended they be equipped with carbines.

The Moncton slayings stoked the anger among RCMP members over both the lack of carbines and an explanation on why it’s taken so long to get them. That prompted Commissioner Bob Paulson to write an internal email to members last summer that was obtained by MacLean’s magazine.

In it, he reportedly says swift calls for the carbine merely “disrespect” fallen constables Dave Ross, Doug Larche and Fabrice Gevaudan and amount to “sensational” second-guessing.

He insisted the force was trying to get carbines well before the Mayerthorpe inquiry recommendations, adding that the RCMP commissioned a report in 2010 to look at the weapon but that it didn’t provide the proper analysis.

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Emergency response officers enter a residence in Moncton, N.B. on Thursday, June 5, 2014. RCMP officers who raced to a New Brunswick neighbourhood under siege by Justin Bourque say the force has failed to supply them with recommended guns and training, months after a report urged the organization to do just that.

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by Justin Bourque say the force has failed to supply them with recommended guns and training, months after a report urged the organization to do just that.

Some frontline officers who spoke to The Canadian Press on the condition that they remain anonymous because they are not allowed to speak publicly say they fear for their safety because most members still do not have carbine rifles or training on how to use them.

One RCMP officer who witnessed Bourque gun down a colleague last June 4 in Moncton says the organization has moved too slowly in rolling out the carbines and training.

Another member says officers feel they are outgunned and are increasingly bitter that repeated calls for better weaponry over the last decade haven’t prompted a swift response from RCMP headquarters.

“A lot of the members are disappointed ... but they’ve got to the point of saying, ’Well you know what, that’s the RCMP. They don’t give a s---t,”’ said one long-serving member involved in the hunt for Bourque.

“I don’t expect to see much more change. ... When it comes to the carbine being put in the vehicles, they say it’s going to happen but do I expect it?

No, not for a few years.”

He says only four people in his detachment of about 80 members have been trained on the Colt C8 carbine, a semi-automatic weapon that is highly regarded for its accuracy and long range, and has been used for years by Canadian municipal police forces.

The RCMP moved the first carbines out in 2013, with 2,200 now available for 12,000 members. Carbine training has stepped SPECIAL up since last year, but the force won’t reveal how many officers have been trained.

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