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Quality of life sinks: report

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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City of Red Deer Emergency Services personnel work through the smoking remains of a fire Tuesday afternoon.

Fire crews were dispatched at about 4:46 p.m. to a reported structure fire at 5228-52 Avenue in Red Deer. On arrival a travel trailer and a motor home parked in the back yard were fully involved with heavy smoke and flames, said City of Red Deer platoon chief Pat Mulrooney. There were no injuries in the blaze. Mulrooney said the fire was suspicious as there was no power to the units. Fire investigators and RCMP are investigating. The home on the property burned in a previous fire and remains unoccupied.

Dirty air prompts plan

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Higher-than-acceptable levels of airborne particulate matter in the Red Deer Region triggered a response plan to fix the problem.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development is required under provincial law to come up with a way to reduce levels after a 2009-2011 assessment showed fine particulate levels above the “exceedance trigger” of the Clean Air Strategic Alliance and the Ozone Management Framework.

One of the first jobs will be to determine where the particulates are com-

ing from and why they exceeded limits.

Fine particulate matter can be liquid or solid microscopic particles suspended in the atmosphere and measured in micrometres per square metre.

It is typically visible as a haze hanging over urban areas.

When levels are too high, particulates can aggravate existing heart or respiratory conditions, and allow toxic compounds to make their way into bloodstreams.

Typical sources are industry and vehicle emissions, or natural events, such as forest fires.

Monitoring stations in Red Deer’s Riverside and Lancaster areas recorded levels above allowable limits many times between 2009 and 2011.

For instance, in January 2010, limits

were exceeded 25 times — the highest number recorded from 2007 to 2014.

March 2011 was another bad month with 23 days over the limit based on an average taken throughout the day.

The situation seems to be improving. By comparison, in 2014 the worst month was February, with limits exceeded four times.

The biggest spikes were blamed on vehicle and industry pollution exacerbated by calm conditions and temperature inversions that kept particulates at ground level. Improved monitoring equipment added in 2009 was also a factor in the higher number of incidents logged.

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Red Deer, Lacombe and Sylvan Lake all took a tumble among cities ranked in Canada’s Best Places to Live 2015, released this week by MoneySense magazine.

Lacombe experienced one of the biggest drops in Alberta, and across Canada, in the list of 209 communities both small and large.

Ranked 17th in 2014, Lacombe plummeted 78 spots to land in 95th place this year. That put the city in fifth place nationally for the biggest nosedive.

Guy Lapointe, Lacombe’s community economic development manager, said like the rest of Alberta, Lacombe is not immune to the impact of the downturn in the economy.

He said it’s also difficult to get an accurate reflection through the community snapshot done by MoneySense, which didn’t seem to acknowledge the new regional transit system connecting Lacombe and Blackfalds to Red Deer.

“You have to take it for what it’s worth. It’s a snapshot and you move forward,” Lapointe said on Tuesday.

It’s the fourth time that Lacombe has made the list. It was ranked eighth in 2013.

“At 95, we’re still better than half,” Lapointe said.

Red Deer was the highest-ranked community in the region, even though it fell 42 spots to 75th place from 33rd in 2014.

Red Deer was ranked 9th in 2012.

Mayor Tara Veer said while communities with strong ties to oil and gas have dropped, Red Deer performed better or about the same in 2015 as in the 2014 ranking.

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Residential schools a ‘cultural genocide’ COMMISSION MAKES 94 BROAD RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HEALING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A moment of shared emotional catharsis bound survivors of Canada’s residential schools Tuesday as their collective ordeal was officially branded a “cultural genocide” that tore apart their families and left them to contend with lifelong scars of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.

The massive report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes 94 broad recommendations — everything from greater police independence and reducing the number of aboriginal children in foster care to restrictions on the use of conditional and mandatory minimum sentences.

But with the extent of the abuse endured by survivors now fully documented, with plans for a permanent centre at the University of Manitoba to open later this year, the political road to reconciliation remains far from smooth.

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The report summary — the full sixvolume collection isn’t due out until later this year — is the culmination of six emotional years of extensive study into the church-run, government-funded institutions, which operated for more than 120 years.

“Our spirit cannot be broken,” commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild, himself a survivor of residential school, told a packed meeting room at a downtown Ottawa hotel.

“We have listened very carefully to many courageous individuals in our search for truth ... through pain, tears, joy and sometimes anger, you shared with us what happened.

“There are still many, many survivors who have not healed enough to come forward with their story, or that are too angry to tell their story — or worse, there are those who have given up hope.”

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Commission chairman Justice Murray Sinclair (centre) and fellow commissioners Marie Wilson (right) and Wilton Littlechild discuss the commission’s report on Canada’s residential school system at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Ottawa on Tuesday.

B.C. couple guilty for terror plot A British Columbia couple has been found guilty by a jury of plotting to set off handmade pressure-cooker bombs.

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Education minister says he is ready to listen

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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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ECONOMY: City still an attractive option “Red Deer still remains a great place to live when you look at almost all of the categories,” Veer said.

“Overall, Red Deer was in the top 25th percentile for high incomes and affordable housing. It ultimately means our city remains an attractive option for people to choose to live here. Earners can make a good living and achieve home ownership,” Veer said.

She said Red Deer showed marked improvement in all four crime indicators, including crime rate and crime severity index, and achieved an percentage point increase in those who travel to work by public transit. She noted that the city has prioritized community safety and transportation.

Red Deer also saw a slightly lower unemployment rate, she said.

Sylvan Lake dropped 10 spots to 169 from the 159 in 2014.

Both Sylvan Lake and Lacombe were recognized for high incomes.

St. Albert did the best in the province, ranked fourth. The city came in first in 2014 but was pushed out of the top spot by Boucherville, Que., in the latest rankings.

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Members of the Red Deer Royals dance together during the official sod turning of the new St. Joseph Catholic High School and home of the Kinsmen Fieldhouse in Red Deer on Tuesday. City officials and the Catholic School Board were also in attendance as construction officially got underway east of Clearview Market Square. The fieldhouse will be home to the Red Deer Royals.

‘Shallow’ earthquake shakes Rocky

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House area residents felt a little rumble as an earthquake struck on Tuesday morning.

It is the second earthquake in the area in a year.

Calling it a very shallow earthquake, Honn Kao, a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, said they received a number of reports of shaking from people in the area, but no reports of damage. ties and give a detailed picture of quality of life.

The magazine looked at details like population growth, unemployment, median household income, housing, weather, transit, sales and property tax, crime, the number of doctor offices, amenities and culture.

MoneySense reports and rankings editor Mark Brown said in his report on Canada’s Best Places to Live that the drop that many Alberta cities experienced was in some ways due to their recent success.

“The heady days the province has enjoyed in recent years have attracted people to the province at an incredible rate. Between 2010 and 2014, the population grew by 15.4 per cent — nearly twice the national average over that time. While population growth is healthy, growing too quickly leads to problems. And as Canadians flocked to the province in pursuit of high-paying jobs, it took a toll on services like health care and drove up home prices,” Brown said in his report.

Red Deer saw an estimated 13.2 per cent increase in population between 2010 and 2015. Lacombe’s population increased 13.3 per cent and Sylvan Lake grew by 19.6 per cent.

Lapointe agreed that extreme growth comes with challenges.

Veer said Red Deer does need to be competitive in attracting new residents from among the many people who move to Alberta, and to attract business growth.

“Some communities unfortunately grow at the expense of the quality of life in the community. That certainly isn’t the case in Red Deer,” Veer said.

Lethbridge was dropped to 77th by MoneySense.

Numbers are unofficial.

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Please see EARTHQUAKE on Page A3 Calgary fell to 19th and Edmonton sank to 33rd.

Five communities in Alberta climbed to a higher spot in the 2015 ranking — Canmore came in 22nd, Medicine Hat was 55th, Brooks was 64th, High River was 89th and Spruce Grove was new to the list and came in 95th.

To view the list, visit www.moneysense.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

AIR: County council supports plan Red Deer County council agreed on Tuesday to support the Red Deer Region Particulate Matter Response Plan by remaining active on an advisory committee comprised of industry, provincial, monitoring and municipal representatives.

Coun. Jean Bota was among several councillors who said the work being done is important and the county should be involved in the committee that meets monthly.

Mayor Jim Wood agreed. “We want to make sure the health of all residents is as best as it can be.”

Andrew Treu, county environmental services manager, said Red Deer Region is the second to undertake a mandatory response plan to deal with particulate levels above allowable limits.

The Capital Region around Edmonton released its plan last year. Red Deer Region’s draft plan is expected to be released in September for public input. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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The earthquake registered a 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. It was centered about six km northwest of Rocky Mountain House.

“It appears to be a very shallow earthquake, we think the depth is about one km but it could be anywhere between one and 10 km because we do not have the resolution at that point,” said Kao. The earthquake occurred at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Kao said they do not expect any damage to occur.

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Alberta’s new minister of Education wants to end the antagonism between school boards and the province.

David Eggen, speaking to elected representatives from 60 school boards at their spring general meeting in Red Deer on Tuesday, met a receptive audience.

Eggen, who is also minister of Culture and Tourism for the new NDP government under Premier Rachel Notley, admitted to the Alberta Association of School Boards that he has a lot to learn but that he is prepared to listen.

“I come here today reaching out to you in the most earnest way possible for you to help me to make sure that education here in the province of Alberta is successful, and that we have long-term stable funding in place to ensure that people know where the money is coming from and how much is to come to you as well.

“Restoring education funding is our first step toward strengthening our school system overall. We know that there’s a lot of work ahead of us, but by restoring funding to school boards our government has shown that it is willing to make investment necessary to ensure that our students are successful,” he said.

He noted that as well as the additional Alberta Education funding announced last week, he also saw to it that the autonomy of local school boards to make decisions about teacher and support staffing levels was being restored.

“I strongly believe that a democratic model must honour the people who are elected to deliver and to administer education across the province of Alberta.

You were elected by your communities to make the decisions that are best for your communities, and so by allowing you the responsibility to which you are entrusted ... I know we will have a reciprocal arrangement,” Eggen said.

“Now is the time for us to take down the antagonism that I know has existed over the last number of years and start to really work together as partners in public education.”

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Autopsy performed on man found dead in burned house An autopsy was performed on Tuesday on the man found dead in the debris of a partially burned house on Samson Cree Nation early Friday morning.

RCMP said the results of the autopsy will be determined pending further testing.

The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation.

At about 4:40 a.m. on Friday, Maskwacis RCMP and the Maskwacis Fire Department were dispatched to the house fire.

The fire was extinguished and firefighters found the man at about 6:30 a.m.

Anyone with any information about this matter is asked to contact the Maskwacis RCMP at 780-585-4600. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or online at www.tipsubmit.com. Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward.

Dialysis patient treated with contaminated water dies EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says one of four dialysis patients mistakenly treated with contaminated water in an Edmonton hospital last week has died.

It’s not yet known if the patient’s death on Sunday was connected to the water problem two days earlier at Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Another patient remains in hospital, one has been moved off the acute-care unit and another has been discharged.

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EDUCATION: Restore hope of optimism Eggen is in his third term as an MLA. He was a teacher in the public system for over 20 years, and at one time was executive director of Friends of Medicare.

He said that part of the New Democratic Party’s election platform was to restore funding to education and they are doing that.

As well, they ran to improve the quality of education in the classroom, “and you know that we will do so as well.

“And we ran first and foremost, I believe, to restore a sense of hope and optimism for the future for the public services to which we are entrusted and to the future communities that we are building for our children.”

During a question and answer session, he was asked about time lines regarding any changes to the Education Act and provincial bargaining.

Eggen said that two subcommittees

Health services president Vickie Kaminski told reporters Tuesday that the contamination was due to “human error.”

A wrong valve was opened during regular system cleaning and a chemical was released into the water used for dialysis.

“Instead of having it come out into the discharge bin, it went back into the line that was circulating through the dialysis equipment,” she said.

She said the chemical was a combination of peracetic acid and hydrogen peroxide, which would cause “a sunburn-like reaction inside the body.”

The mistake was discovered within a few minutes, she said, and the dialysis water supply was immediately turned off. The four patients were notified and portable dialysis was used while the water was flushed and cleaned.

Exposure was limited and the four patients did not feel any immediate effects, Kaminski said.

She didn’t know what pre-existing health problems the patients were suffering from that required the dialysis.

The agency is conducting a review to ensure the mistake doesn’t happen again.

Workers are installing extra lockouts on valves, improving valve indicators and posting better signage to ensure the water supply is protected from contamination.

“We apologize to all of our patients that this happened. We don’t want it to cause any lack of trust in the healthcare system,” Kaminski said.

“We want people to be reassured that no one is at risk, that we have in fact resolved this issue and that there is no residual problem for our dialysis patients.”

School board says it shouldn’t have asked for bus driver to be fired EDMONTON — A video showing have been struck but he is also looking for ASBA input as they move forward with negotiations with teachers.

He said the previous government had become very centralized on many issues, including with negotiations.

“Quite frankly, I’ve taken offence to that over the years on how much decisions were being pushed into Edmonton when they should be empowering ... democratically-elected trustees.”

But at the same time, the province wants to make sure there is equity across the province in contract negotiations, Eggen said.

Regarding his priorities over the next 100 days, Eggen named a budget with long-term stable funding, addressing class sizes and inequities in the education system.

On a question about whether he would review public funds going to private education, Eggen said he has inherited an extensive structure that includes home schooling, charter and private schools, as well as public schools, and for the sake of security and stability, at this point he has no plans to change that.

“We know that we didn’t get a very large majority government here in the province of Alberta without a very strong education plank in our platform, and so we have a fundamental

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 03, 2015 A03 how badly students were behaving has removed from driving the division’s prompted a school board to apologize routes. to a bus driver who kicked one of them off the bus.

Edmonton Catholic Schools had initially recommended its bus contractor fire the unnamed driver for ordering the 13-year-old boy off at an unschedDRAYTON VALLEY — RCMP say uled stop about 10 blocks from his they’re worried for the well-being of home last week. a criminal who jumped into a river to A student at the back of the bus evade police. shot a video showing the driver tossing While conducting a search on the boy’s backpack out the door and Crown land just south of Drayton Valangrily ordering him to get off. It was ley, officers located a variety of stolen broadcast on Global News over the items valued at thousands of dollars, weekend. including a jet boat, vehicles and trailOn Monday, Cunningham Transport ers.

Ltd. released a second video recorded As RCMP officers approached one by the driver, who had set up a camholiday trailer, two men ran out and era at the front of the bus because he fled toward a nearby river. was having problems with some pasBoth men jumped into the North sengers. It shows the boy kicking and Saskatchewan River — one made it punching a student sitting across from across and took off, while the other him, then arguing with the driver. was swept down the river.

It also shows another boy swing Mounties later arrested one man a large hockey bag into the driver’s near Drayton Valley but say they’re head. not exactly sure which of the two “In light of the second video showthey’ve got in custody. ing an assault on the driver, we realize we should not have requested the driver’s termination and have apologized to his employer ... and will be apologizing to the driver as soon as we can reach him,” said school district spokeswoman Lori Nagy.

EDMONTON — Cool, wet weather is However, she added that the driver helping crews in Alberta get more of a still didn’t follow the rules. He is only grip on wildfires. allowed to drop students off at desigThe improving situation has nated stops for safety reasons. prompted the government to remove She said the division also doesn’t the fire ban in central and western condone the behaviour of the two parts of the province. boys, who are both 13. They have been The fire ban in northern forested suspended from riding the bus for one areas outside of communities has been week while the division reviews its use downgraded to a “fire restriction” of video surveillance and safety protobecause the wildfire hazard remains cols. high.

Laura Doroshenko with the school Provincial officials say there are bus company said the driver’s video about three dozen fires burning across didn’t record audio but it’s alleged the the province, including four that are out of control. boy kicked off the bus had also threatMain efforts are being focused on ened violence against the driver.

She said there has been a lot of pub- an out-of-control fire that continues to rage on the air weapons range at Canalic support for the man and he won’t dian Forces Base Cold Lake. be losing his job, although he has been

Criminals jump into river, one nabbed and one missing

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responsibility to deliver on those campaign promises.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

EARTHQUAKE: Last quake happened in August 2014 Comparing the earthquake’s relatively shallow depth, Kao pointed to a recent earthquake off the Ogasawara islands of Japan that had a depth of 590 km below the surface. A 7.8 magnitude quake was recorded there on Saturday and 12 people were injured.

Kao said aftershocks could still be possible, but would likely be at least 1.0 lower in magnitude, making the vibrations comparable to a passing train.

“For an earthquake of this size, even if you have aftershocks they’re going to be very small,” said Kao. “We’re talking about 2.5 or even less. That kind of earthquake is unlikely to be felt by residents and even if it was felt, it’s going to be a very light shaking.”

The last time an earthquake was reported in the Rocky Mountain House area was on Aug. 8, 2014, when a 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck about 31 km southwest of Rocky. Power was temporarily knocked out as a result of that quake in Clearwater County.

This is the second recorded earthquake in Alberta this year, the other occurring 38 km west of Fox Creek. It measured 3.8 and happened on Jan. 14.

No damage was reported.

National Resources Canada recorded three earthquakes in Alberta in 2014 and none between 2013 and 2009. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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The rent control trap RACHEL NOTLEY NEEDS TO AVOID THIS POLICY DISASTER IN ALBERTA

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Rent control has been a disaster wherever it’s been tried. But this never stops politicians from suggesting it.

Last November, the leader of the then-fourth place party in the Alberta legislature, now newly-minted Premier Rachel Notley, argued that Alberta needed rent control.

Bad idea. To understand why, consider a simple example.

Let’s suppose a hard-working couple, Bob and Tammy, both aged 35, are thinking ahead about retirement. Suppose they have no personal defined benefit pension plan because they are self-employed.

Bob and Tammy purchase a condominium as a rental property with a 25-year amortization.

Once the condo is paid off at age 60, they hope it will help fund their retirement.

According to the local real estate board, the average price of a Calgary condominium in April was $301,000.

If the couple put down 25 per cent, the monthly mortgage payments on the remaining $225,750 (at a 2.7 per cent

interest rate) will be $1,034.

However, condos also require condo fees. Assume a modest $300 per month.

Then add monthly property taxes of $200.

In total, the couple will need, under the best-case scenario, to bring in $1,534 a month in rent to cover their costs. They must also hope their unit never sits empty for a month or more.

As the CMHC reports, the average apartment rent in Calgary is $1,219, i.e., the market rent, which means Bob and Tammy will likely already pay $315 per month extra ($3,780 per year) above their rental income to make the various payments.

In the above example, just to keep it simple, I’m not including the opportunity cost of their initial $75,250 down payment.

I’m also not including any legal costs, or federal and provincial income taxes paid on rental income, or an increase in property taxes.

I’m also not accounting for the possibility of a cash call on the condominium complex.

I do assume conservative estimates on condo fees (they are often higher) and that all utilities are paid by the tenants.

Now, Bob and Tammy might be fine with all that, reckoning that the value of the property increases will offset or more than match their annual subsidy.

Or they might own a unit in a nicer building where they can charge more than the CMHC average.

But in a rent-controlled universe, the investment becomes increasingly difficult to justify.

An absence of rent control alone does not guarantee more rental units will be built. Investments in rental units depend on whether other investments offer a better return and less hassle.

But add rent control to the risk mix, which restricts what the owners can charge, and folks like Bob and Tammy might not bother to invest in an existing rental property.

And potential large-scale investors might forego building any new rentals at all — that’s where decreased supply comes in.

Lastly, on the effect of rent control, insofar as any owners, small or large, already own rentals, they will have every incentive to minimize additional spending on the property by foregoing standard maintenance if they can’t charge market rents. And that produc-

es slums.

Given all that, investors might instead put their money somewhere else rather than face existing economic risks for rentals (higher property taxes, interest rates, cash calls, etc.), which are supplemented by political risk (rent control).

The addition of political risk to existing economic risk is why Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal, active and instrumental in left-wing political parties in Sweden in the 20th century, pointed out that rent control was counter-productive policy.

Myrdal did so because rent control was (and is) lousy policy because of its predictable effects once imposed: artificially induced housing shortages, an incentive not to fix up existing rental properties, under-maintenance and a smaller tax base as fewer than optimal rental properties equals less property tax revenue.

This is why another economist, Walter Block, once succinctly summarized the view among most economists.

“There is no case for rent control.”

Mark Milke is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Pedestrians must be aware: point your way before you cross I am a motorist and a pedestrian as well.

I like to walk, unfortunately I have to cross the high-volume area near the hospital and condos to get across Taylor Drive. This is a risky undertaking and I have had several near misses.

I feel like I am wearing a bull’s-eye facing the challenges I do. I have taken to walking with my camera and pointing it at vehicles that approach me. It does slow some down — others, not so much. I also go as early as possible to avoid the traffic rush.

On May 29 while returning from my walk, I was at the crosswalk by the hospital standing to get across.

A black SUV drove by and did not stop. Further down trying to cross by the Medican, the same thing happened — a black car did not stop as I stood there at the marked crosswalk. By this time, twice in one day, I’d had enough. I got pictures of both vehicles and tag numbers.

That afternoon, I went to the RCMP to report these drivers and show proof. This is what I was told: Because I had not raised my arm to indicate to the drivers that I was going to cross, they did not have to yield to me. Twice I was told that this was provincial law.

Basically I was told that since I had not indicated to the driver by pointing my way to safety like they teach the children that the driver had no indication of what I was going to do, so therefore they did not have to stop. This gentleman had 20 years of traffic experience so he knew.

Unless you point your way to safety the “driver is confused and has no indication of what you’re going to do.”

This my interpretation: if I am in at light and the walk light is on or flashing, unless I am pointing my way I am in an illegal situation. Same thing at marked crosswalks: the motorist has the right of way.

The lights now have approximately five seconds of solid walk and about 30 seconds of flashing orange walk signals. You have to hustle to get across. I have seen parents with strollers and children not having enough time. Seniors will not attempt to cross Taylor.

This is my understanding of the law: that motorist must yield to pedestrians at all marked crossings, and from curb to curb. The fine for failing to yield to a pedestrian is $500.

I will admit I was wrong, provincial law is that the motorist has the right of way. So when there is a pedestrian fatality at crosswalks, it is the pedestrian’s fault for not pointing their way to safety. This is good to know.

Hopefully the NDP will change this ridiculous law.

Also I would like to say thank you to Mary Anne Jablonski for her many years of dedicated service to her constituents. She was a wise, intelligent woman and worked hard to serve. She will be missed. Good luck to you in your new ventures.

Lucille Gaumond Red Deer

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — It was when Paul Voudrach began to cry that they started passing out Kleenex by the box.

Up until that point, volunteers with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had been discreetly moving through the densely packed hotel ballroom, offering a tissue here, a tissue there, as Justice Murray Sinclair sketched out the broad, ugly strokes of Canada’s residential-school past and its barely unspoken policy of “cultural genocide.”

“Removed from their families and home communities, seven generations of aboriginal children were denied their identity,” Sinclair said in his even, from-the-bench baritone.

The children of residential schools, said Sinclair, became unable to answer simple questions: “Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? And who am I?” Videos of testimony from some of the 6,750-plus school survivors who gave statements to the commission over its six-year course played on two giant screens during breaks between each of the live addresses Tuesday.

The first gut-wallop came after Sinclair’s opening speech.

Children shivering under a single thin blanket, girls forced to eat their own vomit, beatings, rapes — the unvarnished horror of their experiences reeled out on the giant screens interspersed with vintage, black-and-white photos of moon-faced, unsmiling children.

But it was Voudrach who broke the

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REPORT: Permanent historical archive The personal stories documented by the commission included a heartwrenching account of sexual abuse from Josephine Sutherland, who attended the Fort Albany residential school in Ontario.

“I couldn’t call for help, I couldn’t,” Sutherland told the commission.

“And he did awful things to me, and I was just a little girl ... I was so stunned, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t.”

Justice Murray Sinclair, the commission’s chairman, said the experiences of 6,750 survivors who spoke to the commission will be housed at the University of Manitoba as a “permanent historical archive, never to be forgotten or ignored.”

“The residential school experience is clearly one of the darkest most troubling chapters in our collective history,” Sinclair told the hundreds who gathered to mark the release of the commission’s findings.

“The survivors showed great courage, great conviction and trust to us in sharing their stories,” he said. “These were heart-breaking, tragic and shocking accounts of discrimination, de-

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS BY THE NUMBERS OTTAWA — A by-the-numbers look at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has spent six years examining Canada’s residential school system: 6 — Number of volumes in the final report, to be released later this year.

150,000 — The number of children estimated to have gone through the residential school system.

80,000 — Estimated number of living residential school survivors.

3,200 — The number of cases in the National Residential School Student Death Register, although the estimated number of deaths is believed to be in excess of 6,000.

150 — The number of years the system lasted.

130 — The number of residential schools operated over the years.

1996 — The year the last school closed.

WHO SAID WHAT OTTAWA — Some quotes about the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on native residential schools: “The residential school experience is one of the darkest, most troubling chapters in our collective history.” — Justice Murray Sinclair, the commission chairman, in his final remarks on the report

6,750 — The number of survivors’ statements submitted to the commission.

6 — The number of national events held by the commission during its six years of operation.

238 — The number of days of public hearings.

77 — The number of communities where hearings were held.

11,539 — Peak enrolment in residential schools in 1956-57.

37,951 — Number of claims for injuries resulting from physical and sexual abuse at residential schools filed with the Independent Assessment Process , established under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement as of Jan. 31, 2015.

30,939 — Number of those claims resolved by the end of 2014. $2.69 million — Amount paid in compensation for those claims.

“The survivors showed great courage, conviction and trust in sharing their stories. These were heartbreaking, tragic and shocking accounts of discrimination, of deprivation and all manners of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse.” — Sinclair “We have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top. We call upon you to do the climbing.” — Sinclair “We must be mindful that a process that will be as long and complicated as the reconciliation of seven generations of inequity will require stewardship, study and ongoing attention.” — commissioner Marie Wilson

dam.

“I used to look at the stars and I used to think my Mom and Dad are seeing the same stars I’m looking at,” said the sobbing, grey-templed man, sounding every bit the terrified little boy of his youth.

“I really, really was alone. Lonely.

Scared.”

By the time Marie Wilson, the second of three commissioners delivering Tuesday’s report, stepped up to

the lectern, even the press corps was clearing its throat.

Amid the 94 report recommendations, the political recriminations, charges of colonialism, House of Commons debates and questions over who does what next for whom, one unavoidable reality emerged from the commission’s historic summary report.

“Let us not forget we are talking about children,” Wilson, with just a hint of anger, told the crowd.

privation and all manner of physical, sexual, emotional and mental abuse.”

Sinclair also stressed the need for Canadians to know the horrific history of residential schools. The federal government estimates around 150,000 students attended the institutions. The last school, located outside of Regina, closed in 1996.

“The survivors need to know before they leave this earth that people understand what happened and what the schools did to them,” he said.

“The survivors need to know that having been heard and understood that we will act to ensure the repair of damages is done.”

The recommendations of the commission, borne out of the largest classaction settlement in Canadian history, touch on a host of problems plaguing Aboriginal Peoples, including child welfare, education, justice and health.

They include a call for a national public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, a request for the Pope to apologize for the Roman Catholic’s role in the residential school system and for Canada to full adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

During a question period dominated by the commission’s findings, NDP leader Tom Mulcair asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper if he would accept the recommendation on the UN declaration.

Harper was non-committal, es-

pecially when Mulcair asked him to acknowledge the commission’s use of the term “cultural genocide.” Harper steadfastly avoided repeating the words.

“The government accepted the UN declaration as an aspirational document,” Harper said.

“We have taken specific actions, Mr. Speaker, to enhance the rights of aboriginal people, particularly women living on reserves, and generally all aboriginal people under the Canadian Human Rights Act.” Harper said his government would review the recommendations, but did not commit to specific action. Both the Liberals and the NDP said they would act on the recommendations.

Sinclair and Harper also met privately Tuesday to discuss the commission’s findings, which included an estimate that more than 6,000 children died during their time at residential school.

The two shared a “frank and open dialogue,” Sinclair said in a statement.

“He was open to listening to some of our concerns and inquired about some of our recommendations. I remain concerned with the government’s resistance to the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”

Sinclair said the commission has offered to meet with the prime minister again after he has reviewed the findings. “We look forward to continuing the conversation.”

“To my fellow survivors here in the room, those watching elsewhere, and those who could not join us today, I cannot give enough thanks to you.

Thank you for your courage and bravery throughout this whole journey.” — commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild “So, there was a lot of tears. That train I want to call that train of tears.”

— survivor Larry Beardy, quoted in the report, telling of a rail journey from his home in Churchill, Man., to an Anglican residential school in Dauphin, Man. “Rid yourselves of those racist attitudes, the discriminatory attitudes, those images of indigenous peoples as being substandard and pagan and savage. Rid yourself of those racial stereotypes of Indians and indigenous people being dumb and lazy and drunk and on welfare. Rid yourself of those things so new things can come in ... respect for our languages, our customs and our traditions, that we are equally as important as human beings.” — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde, urging Canadians to “make space” in their hearts for Aboriginal Peoples as a step on the road towards reconciliation “I just remember feeling really sad and I was in this truck full of other kids who were crying, and so I cried with them.” — From the testimony of Alma Scott, who was taken to a school in Fort Alexander, Man., at the age of five “I just remember, recalling the very first memories was just the beatings we’d get and the lickings and just for speaking our language and just for doing things that were against the rules.”

— From the testimony of Geraldine Shingoose, who attended a school in Lestock, Sask.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A British Columbia couple has been found guilty by a jury of plotting to set off handmade pressure-cooker bombs at the provincial legislature two years ago.

The panel convicted John Nuttall and Amanda Korody of conspiracy to commit murder and possession of an explosive substance on behalf of a terrorist group.

In an unusual twist, the conviction won’t be entered until next week, after the defence has a chance to argue that police entrapped the couple into the plot during an elaborate sting operation.

As the verdict was read out, Nuttall made a heart shape with his fingers directed at Korody.

The jury began deliberating behind closed doors on Sunday morning after hearing more than four months of testimony.

The couple was arrested on July 1, 2013, the day they were there accused of planted three pressurecooker bombs on the grounds of the legislature. The police had ensured the bombs were inert.

Covert recordings were taken of Nuttall and Korody at home, during meetings in various hotel rooms and while driving around with undercover officers.

One video appeared to depict the two hiding their faces with scarves and filming a jihadist video they planned to release after their attack.

The Crown alleged the couple used what they believed were authentic al-Qaida connections to secure several kilograms of what RCMP officers have testified were fake explosives to arm a trio of pressurecooker bombs brimming with deadly metal shrapnel.

The court watched covert video footage showing Nuttall and Korody planting the bombs beneath decorative bushes flanking the B.C. legislature early Canada Day morning.

Recordings played in court showed the pair saying they believed killing women and children was acceptable so long as they weren’t explicitly targeted in the attack but rather died as collateral damage.

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At numerous points in the surveillance recordings Nuttall could be heard describing the Boston Marathon bombing as inspirational but also amateurish, and that he hoped his attack would kill hundreds.

In its cross-examination of the Crown’s witnesses, the defence offered an alternative interpretation of events, highlighting what they characterized as the heavy-handed role played by the police in guiding Nuttall and Korody throughout the undercover investigation.

“On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen & I extend our deepest condolences to the family & friends of former premier Jacques Parizeau,” Harper wrote.

Parizeau was finance minister for eight years under Rene Levesque before leaving the PQ in 1984 over his boss’s decision to shelve the sovereignty option.

Parizeau returned as PQ leader in 1988 before becoming premier in the 1994 election and paving the way for the independence referendum that eventually led to his political resignation following the Yes side’s narrow defeat.

The man he faced off against in 1995, then-prime minister Jean Chretien, said they had a cordial relationship dating back to 1965 when both worked at the federal Finance Department. That said, they were on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

“He made some positive contributions (to Quebec), there’s no doubt about it and he should be complimented for that,” Chretien said. “But at the same, being a federalist who was on the other side of the debate all the time, it was a civilized relation I would say, despite our disagreement.”

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pound, some of them requiring the addition of a common household item like milk or cotton balls.

Taylor said Brochu’s finding meant that over 90 per cent of the chemicals in Phillips’s possession could not be used for such a purpose. And he stressed that virtually all of the 42 named chemicals had other uses, including as household products.

BRIEF Footage from inside Centre Block won’t be released amid security concerns OTTAWA — A video showing Michael Zehaf Bibeau’s first moments inside the Centre Block is being kept secret even as reports are to be made public Wednesday detailing the security response on the day of the shooting on Parliament Hill.

Cameras near the front door of the Centre Block captured Zehaf Bibeau wrestling with a House of Commons security guard and shooting at other guards before sprinting down the Hall of Honour, according to two sources with knowledge of the video.

There are no cameras in the hall itself, which runs between the Conservative and NDP caucus rooms.

Zehaf Bibeau was killed in a shootout with security forces at the end of the hall.

The Ontario Provincial Police had access to the video as part of its multi-pronged investigation into the actions of security forces on the day of the shooting.

Heather Bradley, a spokeswoman for House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer, said the security footage won’t be made public for security reasons.

Accused in chemicals case had enough materials to make homemade explosives: RCMP HALIFAX — The lawyer for a Halifax man at the centre of a chemical scare that led to evacuations in two cities says his client may have had enough chemicals to make 11 different types of explosives, but there’s no evidence that he was interested in doing that.

Mike Taylor told Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Tuesday that his client, Christopher Phillips, is a chemist whose large collection of chemicals would be standard fare in any given laboratory.

Taylor made the comment while questioning Melanie Brochu, an RCMP forensic scientist who testified Phillips had about 500 chemicals to draw from, though she said the accused did not appear to be making any bombs when she examined hundreds of bottles and jars stored near a cottage east of Halifax.

Brochu told the court that 42 of the chemicals she examined could be used to make an explosive com-

Woman suing police says restraint device worst pain she has ever felt VANCOUVER — Bobbi O’Shea’s voice rose as she accused a defence lawyer of lying on Tuesday, denying his claims that jail guards were forced to restrain her because she spat on a camera and kicked a cell door.

The 44-year-old First Nations woman is suing the City of Vancouver and four police officers for allegedly binding her feet with a strap and yanking it hard under a cell door for an hour, causing her excruciating pain.

Iain Dixon, lawyer for the city and police, said officers’ notes show she was restrained after she obscured security cameras.

“Those are lies,” O’Shea said in B.C. provincial court. “I was being tortured and no one helped me.”

O’Shea is seeking $25,000 in damages for alleged physical injuries and emotional trauma caused during the March 2008 incident. She alleges she suffered a panic attack after smoking a $5 hit of crack cocaine and was taken to a Vancouver jail, where she was placed in a restraining device.

Her lawyer, Doug King of Pivot Legal Society, entered the device as an exhibit. Called a modified restraint system or “hobble,” it’s a black nylon strap that can be tightened around the ankles and tethered to an object.

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Parti Quebecois Leader Jacques Parizeau delivers his victory speech while Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard looks on after Parizeau won the provincial election in Quebec on Sept.12, 1994.

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MONTREAL — Former premier Jacques Parizeau will have a state funeral and the province will rename the Caisse de depot’s headquarters after “one of Quebec’s great builders,” Premier Philippe Couillard said Tuesday.

Funeral details will be announced later, but Couillard indicated Parizeau left behind very detailed instructions for his last rites.

Parizeau’s longtime wife, Lisette Lapointe, announced the death on her Facebook page Monday night, saying the sovereigntist icon had passed away after a “titanic fight” with an undisclosed illness.

Couillard paid tribute to Parizeau, calling him a “very sincere and honest man, deeply convinced of his own ideas.”

The depiction of Parizeau, 84, as the man who nearly engineered Quebec’s departure from Canada with the 1995 sovereignty referendum was not what he should only be remembered for, the premier said.

He added his voice to those calling Parizeau one of the “great builders of the Quiet Revolution” who helped establish institutions like the Caisse de depot, the province’s pension-fund manager, which benefits all Quebecers.

“Today, we have to rise above that level, all of us, and remember him for what he gave: the part of his life he gave to Quebec and Quebecers,” Couillard said. “I don’t think he himself would like celebrations or memories that are going to be told today to be coloured by partisanship. This is not the day for that.”

People of all political stripes weighed in with glowing tributes.

Current Parti Quebecois Leader Pierre Karl Peladeau said the entire province is in mourning following the death of the man who held that same job between 1988 and 1996.

“He was a man of passion,” Peladeau said. “He really believed in what he considered the best way for Quebec to enrich itself — and that was Quebec independence.

“He was a nice mix, and a very effective one, of passion and rationality.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was among several federal and provincial politicians who posted tweets to express their sympathy.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015 NIGERIA

‘We are under siege’ SUICIDE BOMBER REPORTEDLY KILLS 20 IN NORTHEASTERN CITY

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Rescuers help lift a survivor pulled from the capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River in Jianli in central China’s Hubei province Tuesday. Divers on Tuesday pulled survivors from inside the overturned cruise ship, state media said, giving some small hope to an apparently massive tragedy with well over 400 people still missing on the river.

More than 400 still missing from capsized cruise ship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JIANLI, China — As the Eastern Star cruise ship listed heavily amid pounding rain on the Yangtze River, tour guide Zhang Hui told a colleague, “Looks like we are in trouble.”

The vessel capsized in the storm Monday night with 458 people aboard, touching off a frantic rescue effort. At least 15 people were brought to safety, including three pulled from the overturned hull Tuesday, and five people were confirmed dead, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The vessel was carrying mostly elderly tourists from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing when it overturned in China’s Hubei Province.

Divers rescued a 65-year-old woman and, later, two men who had been trapped, state broadcaster CCTV reported. It said more people had been found and were being rescued, but did not say whether they were still inside the overturned hull.

CCTV video showed rescuers in orange life vests climbing on the hull, with one of them lying down tapping a hammer and listening for a response, then gesturing downward.

“We will do everything we can to rescue everyone trapped in there, no matter they’re still alive or not, and we will treat them as our own families,” Hubei military region commander Chen Shoumin said at a news conference shown live on CCTV. The survivors included the ship’s captain and chief engineer, both of whom were taken into police custody, CCTV said. Relatives who gathered in Shanghai, where many of the tourists started their journey by bus, questioned whether the captain did enough to ensure the passengers’ safety and demanded answers from local officials in unruly scenes that drew a heavy police response.

Xinhua quoted the captain and the chief engineer

as saying the four-level Eastern Star sank quickly after being caught in what they described as a cyclone.

The Communist Party-run People’s Daily said the ship sank within two minutes.

Zhang, the tour guide, said in an interview with Xinhua from his hospital bed that he grabbed a life jacket with seconds to spare as the ship listed in the storm, sending bottles rolling off tables and suddenly turned all the way over.

The 43-year-old Zhang said he drifted in the Yangtze all night despite not being able to swim, reaching shore as dawn approached.

“The raindrops hitting my face felt like hailstones,” he said. “’Just hang in there a little longer,’ I told myself,” he added.

Some survivors swam ashore, but others were rescued after search teams climbed on the upside-down hull and heard people yelling for help from within more than 12 hours after the ship overturned.

Thirteen navy divers were on the scene and 170 more were joining them, Chen said.

The 65-year-old woman was rescued by divers who took an extra breathing apparatus up into the bowels of the ship and spent about five minutes teaching her how to use it before bringing her out to safety, Chen said.

“That old woman had a very strong will and learned very fast, and after 20 minutes she surfaced to the water and was rescued,” he added.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang travelled to the accident site about 180 kilometres (110 miles) west of the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan.

At a late-night meeting, Li demanded an “overnight battle,” urging divers to keep combing ship compartments for more miracles, Xinhua reported.

The overturned ship had drifted about 3 kilometres (almost 2 miles) downstream before coming to rest close to shore, where fast currents made the rescue difficult.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Boko Haram once again attacked the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, waking residents with deafening explosions in the early hours of the morning and then a suicide bombing that witnesses said killed as many as 20 people.

The extremist group which seeks to impose Islamic law across northern Nigeria has repeatedly attacked Maiduguri, the largest city in the northeast, since the newly elected president has designated it as the new headquarters in the war to curb the Islamic uprising.

“We are under siege,” Sumaila Ayuba, her voice shaking, told The Associated Press by telephone just after midnight from her home on the city’s western flank after her sleep was shattered by the explosions. “The shooting is quite deafening. Please, we need prayers.”

Hours later, a man blew himself up at Gamboru cattle market, the site of previous bombings, officials said. One witness said he counted at least 20 bodies.

The National Emergency Management Agency said 10 people were killed and many others injured. The witness spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

Some onlookers began stoning the agency’s rescue workers, for unknown reasons. Soldiers fired into the air to disperse the crowd.

Over the weekend, more than 30 people died in another Boko Haram assault involving another suicide bombing and rocket-propelled grenades.

Also Tuesday, Boko Haram released a new video that allegedly shows militants shooting wounded Nigerian soldiers in the head and beheading a man in civilian clothes as well as charred parts claimed to be the remnants of a downed Nigerian jet fighter.

The video, the first released since it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, has no sign of longtime leader Abubakar Shekau, previously a mainstay of the group’s videos.

There was no explanation for his absence. Nigeria’s military has claimed many times to have killed Shekau — only to have him later resurface.

In Tuesday’s video, an armed fighter said Boko Haram still holds several northeastern towns and has thousands of fighters — claims impossible to substantiate.

The video gloats over alleged disunity in the multinational force that in March announced it had driven Boko Haram from all towns and villages.

Nigerian neighbours Chad and Niger have said the fight against Boko Haram would be long over if they had better co-operation from Nigeria.

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Controversy continues over who shot down the plane last summer over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. Ukraine and the West suspect it was destroyed by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by Russian soldiers or Russia-backed separatist rebels fighting in the area. Russia denies that.

Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the director general of the missile maker, state-controlled AlmazAntei consortium, said Tuesday that its analysis was based on photographs of the wreckage available to the public. He said the holes in the plane’s parts were consistent with a specific type of Buk missile and its warhead. Each of the Buk subtypes has its warhead rigged with shrapnel of a specific shape.

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Green roof earns Gold Certification BERRY ARCHITECTURE AND ASSOCIATES AND DOWNEY ROTH HRYWKIW LLP RENO EARNS LEED RATING LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A downtown business has earned the gold standard when it comes to environmentally conscious construction, after a lot of effort went in to making it as green as possible.

And the starring role in their Gold Certification under LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standards is a green roof, featuring a stream, plants and a vegetable garden.

Berry Architecture and Associates and Downey Roth Hrywkiw LLP completed the renovation of their building, the former Red Deer Bowladrome, three years ago.

And on May 9, they earned the gold certification, second only to platinum on the stringent rating system looking at eco-conscious construction.

“We felt as architects we had to put out there what we preach to people,” said George Berry, CEO for Berry Architecture. “We didn’t feel it was right to be telling people how to be environmentally responsible, without doing it ourselves.

“We just said, let’s do it.

There are enough people out there talking and we wanted to do.”

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the building in 2011 and finished work on it in 2012. Berry said rather than seek out the LEED rating immediately, they ran a full year of heating and cooling to see how much energy they were able to save.

After that year-long cycle, they sought their LEED certification.

The renovations were done to improve energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, modern comfort and functionality.

“It’s been great to show leadership in the environmental design and re-design of buildings,” said Jerome Roth, a partner at Downey Roth Hrywkiw, in a news release. “This building has been very economical and a great opportunity for us to provide a very healthy environment for staff and clients.”

Berry said he was most proud of the green roof, which also doubles as a space for employees to use.

“We literally put a new roof overtop of the existing roof, because the structure couldn’t handle it,” said Berry, calling it a key priority for him and his business partner Susanne Widdecke.

“Our garden has already been planted there, we grow a lot of our own vegetables that we’ll eat over the summer. On beautiful days, we’ll have the

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The crown jewel on Berry Architecutre and Downey Roth Hrywkiw, a green roof featuring a vegetable garden, stream and many different plants also offers employees an oasis above their workplace. barbecue going on there. We don’t discourage our staff from

grabbing their laptop and going up on the roof.”

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Royalty review redux: advice for the NDP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Call it royalty review redux.

It’s been about eight years since the Alberta government last decided to tackle the thorny subject of oil and gas royalties.

Now, the new NDP government is getting an earful of advice — much of it contradictory — as it prepares to reopen that can of worms.

Evan Chrapko was on the 2007 panel that penned the report, Our Fair Share, which recommended the province increase its take. Industry players were livid, with many threatening to take their money elsewhere.

In the aftermath, Chrapko recalls being inundated with irate calls and having nasty under-the-breath remarks lobbed at him at business events.

His advice to Premier Rachel Notley: “Don’t blink and wear a flak jacket.”

Some in the oilpatch are spooked that royalties have been put back on the table, arguing it adds another level of uncertainty while oil prices are low. Notley has sought to reassure industry leaders they’ll be included in the process and won’t be taken by surprise.

Chrapko, an entrepreneur whose father once ran for Alberta’s NDP, said he understands companies have a duty to get the best return for their shareholders, but called recent warnings “horsesh-t.”

“They will never, ever, ever tell you it’s a good time to raise royalties, ever. Prices could be US$200 a barrel and their song and dance will be, ’Don’t touch the brakes. We’ll

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Managing director Sam Sebastian says only half of small and medium businesses in Canada have their own web-

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‘THEY WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER TELL YOU IT’S A GOOD TIME TO RAISE ROYALTIES, EVER. PRICES COULD BE US$200 A BARREL AND THEIR SONG AND DANCE WILL BE, ‘DON’T TOUCH THE BRAKES. WE’LL LEAVE THE PROVINCE.’” —EVAN CHRAPKO AUTHOR OF 2007 REPORT ‘OUR FAIR SHARE’

leave the province.”’

The government of former premier Ed Stelmach accepted the Our Fair Share recommendations in part, but the compromise still angered industry.

After the Great Recession hit full force and crude prices cratered in 2009, the government launched a “competitiveness review” and many of the royalty changes were essentially undone.

Chrapko said he’d like to see the province examine its oil and gas royalties on an annual basis and make those findings public.

Sam Spanglet, another Our Fair Share panel member, said to offset any negative impact from higher royalties, Notley should “put her political weight” behind pipeline proposals that would enable Alberta crude to be sold in lucrative markets.

Notley has taken a more lukewarm view of pipelines than her predecessors, saying she supports some, but won’t be promoting others.

A royalty incentive that would encourage more bitumen processing within the province would also be welcome, said Spanglet, who once led Shell’s Albian Sands oilsands project and calls the Scotford upgrading and refining complex near Edmonton his “baby.”

Spanglet said he wants to

see a royalty review that’s “fast and smart.”

“Do it as quickly as possible. Get it over with.”

For Judith Dwarkin, another 2007 panel member and chief energy economist at ITG Investment Research, it’s important to “take the time to do it properly.”

The panel must work with the best available data and a lot of that is likely going to come from the energy sector itself, she said.

“It shouldn’t be discounted because it’s coming from the industry,” said Dwarkin.

“They do have good insight on what the lay of the land is.”

Ted Morton, who was Alberta’s minister of finance and energy after the last royalty ruckus, said a review isn’t in and of itself a bad idea.

But right now, oil prices are already a drag and the last experience with royalty tinkering continues to cast a shadow.

“The government cannot afford to make Alberta uncompetitive,” said Morton, who is now at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

“I think Premier Notley aspires to be more than a onehit wonder and I think she’ll tend to be pragmatic and it’s in her political self-interest to work with, not against, the oil and gas sector if she wants to win a second mandate in four years.”

site, while fewer than one in three use cloud computing.

“Does not compute. I don’t get that. We have to fix that,” he said Tuesday in a keynote speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Sebastian, who spent eight years with Google in Chicago, told the group there’s resistance to change north of the border.

He urged Canadians to embrace virtual office infrastructure that has diminished substantially in cost over the last two decades to about $5,000 for a startup from $5 million on average.

Digital leaders outperform their competitors in every industry, he said.

“They have higher revenues, productivity, better

market valuations. They just do better,” he said. “Canadian businesses need to be embracing these tools.”

He noted a divide between Canadians using the Internet for their own interests versus for business, giving the example of how the general public employs YouTube, which Google owns.

Every month, Canadians upload more content to the online video-sharing portal than all of the country’s major national television networks and broadcasters did over the last 10 years combined.

Canadians are the thirdlargest exporter of content on YouTube in the world, he said.

Some 90 per cent of views of Canadian content are coming from outside our borders.

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It’s been about eight years since the Alberta government last decided to tackle the thorny subject of oil and gas royalties.

Now, the new NDP government is getting an earful of advice — much of it contradictory — as it prepares to reopen that can of worms. A service rig crew performs maintenance and repair work on an oilfield pumpjack and well head site near Halkirk, Alta.

Auto sales hit record high TORONTO — Canadians bought a record number of new vehicles in May as auto sales climbed 1.1 per cent from the same month last year, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.

The industry is on pace for a record year as luxury brands including Porsche, MercedesBenz, Audi, BMW and Lexus posted double-digit growth in sales.

Consumers bought 197,937 cars and trucks last month to bring year-to-date sales up three per cent compared to May 2014. Fiat Chrysler took over the top spot with 31,617 vehicles sold, up 0.4 per cent

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from a year earlier to what the company said was a record high. The company recently completed a retooling at one of its plants in Windsor, Ont., which had cramped its supply of minivans.

“Posting an all-time record sales month while dealing with temporary constraints on some of our highest selling products proves just how diversified and strong our product portfolio has become,” chief operating officer Dave Buckingham said in a statement.

Nissan Group also said it also posted record sales, moving 11,980 vehicles, up 21.8 per cent from last year. Ford Canada came in second place, selling 29,043 vehicles, down 8.5 per cent.

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The importance of stock market index Derek, can you tell me what a stock market index is and why it is important to investors?

My industry is full of terminology that can seem like a second language at times. Simply put, a stock market index is what is used to help measure the value of all the companies in a certain grouping. If the index is higher, it means that collectively the companies in the group were also higher, and the opposite if it’s lower. Understanding how an index is structured helps make sense why it’s important for investors.

In Canada, many investors focus on the performance of DEREK the S&P/TSX Composite InFUCHS dex (or TSX for short). S&P stands for Standards and Poors which is an American based company that provides research and analysis on the investment markets. S&P introduced their first stock index in 1923.

The TSX is an index representing the largest companies in Canada that trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is measured by market capitalization which means that bigger companies have a bigger weighting on the number. It was launched originally in 1977 and covers around 95% of the stocks which trade in Toronto. As of the writing of this article

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there were 247 constituents in the index.

When the market opens, each company within this index begins trading. Buyers and sellers emerge and they move the price according to whatever financial news is relevant that day, whether it’s specific to that company or to the global economy as a whole. The number on the TSX index will change based on how all these companies are trading that day to give you a bigger picture of how things did overall.

The TSX is somewhat skewed. Out of the ten possible sectors, three of them make up the majority of the index (over 65%). Specifically, the Financial sector (our Canadian banks and insurers), the Energy sector, and the Materials sector (mining companies) are the behemoths in our index. The problem is that the TSX may not be a fair representation of what it happening in the global economy since it is very concentrated. In fact, three of out of the top five largest companies in the TSX index are banks.

There are a number of indices in Canada, each providing some insight into how a given group is performing. Each sector has their unique index such as the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index or the S&P/TSX Capped Financials Index. There is also the S&P/TSX 60, which tracks the changes in value of the 60 largest companies in Canada.

In the United States there are many indices which track all sorts of groups and sectors. One of the more popular is the S&P 500 which tracks the 500 largest companies in the New York Stock Exchange. There is also the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or the Dow for short. The Dow has been calculated since the late 1800s. The Dow combines 30 of the largest companies

based in the United States, with many of them being household names. There is also the NASDAQ Composite, “pronounced as Naz-Dack”. The NASDAQ is another stock exchange that is the home to such companies as Apple Inc., Google, and Netflix.

The purpose of an index to an investor is to provide a gauge for how your individual investments are doing. If you only invest in Canadian stocks you may want to see your performance in relation to the TSX as a whole.

The goal therefore is to achieve higher returns than the index.

Investors should watch the index (or multiple indices) that best matches their portfolio. While it doesn’t need to be followed on a day-to-day basis it’s a good idea to check in once in a while. The change in the index will likely give you an indication of how your investments are performing (or how well you should be doing) and give you some insight into how you may wish to change your investment strategy.

For those who can’t be bothered watching the red and green numbers, a diversified approach that is being well-managed will relieve you from worrying about the index. Said another way, long-term investors don’t need to worry about short-term market changes. In either case, it’s always best to discuss your personal portfolio with a professional.

Happy Investing!

Derek Fuchs is a wealth adviser with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer, and a certified financial planner, financial management adviser and a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. He can be contacted at derek.fuchs@ scotiamcleod.com.

Hudson’s Bay wants personal relationships on mobile

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Greek Deputy Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Giorgos Katrougalos speaks on his office phone during an interview with the Associated Press in Athens on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Katrougalos said he expects Greece to reach an agreement by the end of the week and that the country intends to honor all its debt obligations.

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ATHENS, Greece — Greece submitted a proposal for an agreement with its bailout lenders, the country’s prime minister said Tuesday, in the hope of getting desperately needed rescue money — but its creditors were quick to respond that much work remained to be done.

Alexis Tsipras said his government had made compromises in the negotiations, and that it was now up to the leaders of Europe, who are Greece’s main creditors, to accept a deal or risk potentially disastrous consequences for the region.

Without the rescue loans, Greece could default on its debts this month and eventually even drop out of Europe’s currency bloc, a step that would push Europe and the global economy into uncharted territory.

“It is now clear that the decision for whether they want to adapt to realism and emerge from the crisis without the division of Europe ... belongs to the political leadership of Europe,” said Tsipras.

Greece and its creditors have been in a standoff for four months over what — and how deep — the country’s reforms should be.

Once they agree, creditors will unlock the 7.2 billion euros worth of loans remaining in its current bailout program.

The bailout was due to have ended earlier this year but was extended until the end of June.

If there is no deal by the end of the month and the bailout expires, those funds will no longer be available for Greece.

Tsipras said the proposal, for which he gave no specifics, was submitted Monday night to the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission, the EU’s executive.

That same night, the leaders of Germany, France, the IMF, ECB and EC held an emergency meeting about Greece in Berlin.

But the country’s creditors appeared underwhelmed by the latest proposal.

“We are nowhere near far enough,” said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the eurozone finance ministers’ meetings known as the eurogroup and who had been kept up to date on Monday’s Berlin meeting.

“Time is pressing,” Dijsselbloem told Dutch network RTL. “But, to be honest, we’ve been saying that for three months. So far, Greece has been able to make its repayments; that is getting harder.”

Greece must repay a total of about 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to the IMF this month, with the first installment of just over 300 million euros due Friday.

It is unclear whether the country can find the cash to make Friday’s payment, though it says it intends to.

Dijsselbloem said it was almost impossible to reach a deal that would unlock the 7.2 billion

euros in time for Friday.

“That is practically already ruled out,” he said, noting that any agreement would have to be approved by eurozone finance ministers and Athens would need to start implementing the measures before money can be disbursed.

Greece has survived without rescue loans since last summer.

As cash ran out in recent weeks, it managed to repay its debts by scraping together reserves from state enterprises, including embassies abroad, hospitals and schools.

There have been suggestions Greece could seek to bundle all repayments due to the IMF this month into one payment on June 30 — an option permitted under IMF rules but rarely used.

Taking that route could buy more time to secure a deal with creditors, although Athens has not publicly indicated it is considering it.

Greece’s administrative reform minister, Giorgos Katrougalos, said the government intended to honour its debt commitments, and that he expected Greece and its creditors to reach an agreement soon.

“I think that we can have an agreement by the end of the week,” Katrougalos told the AP in an interview.

He said Greece’s creditors were preparing a counterproposal to Greece’s 47-page plan.

Regarding the IMF payment due Friday, Katrougalos said there was “no question of our not meeting our obligations, because it is our political decision to do so.”

Tsipras’ radical left Syriza party won elections in January on promises of repealing the deeply resented budget austerity measures that accompanied its bailout, although it has already had to roll back on some of its initial pledges.

Tsipras said Greece had made concessions in its latest proposal but Dijsselbloem countered that this wasn’t a case of give and take.

While it was possible to discuss what types of reforms Greece makes, he said, their net impact on public finances was non-negotiable.

“It is a misunderstanding that we have to meet one another half way. That is not our intention,” he said.

Some hardliners within Syriza have suggested Greece not repay debts if the country’s creditors don’t back down from the issues the government considers its red lines — namely cuts to salaries and pensions.

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TORONTO — Personal sellers were once a tool exclusive to the rich and famous, but the chief executive of Hudson’s Bay says there’s room for his company to build stronger one-on-one relationships with more of its customers through technology.

Gerry Storch, who became head of the department store chain last December, says personal selling is “one of the most important applications” in the pocket of Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue as it navigates an evolving market where customers expect personalization.

“Increasingly, consumers don’t think about stores as physical locations. They think about stores as brands they interact with,” he said after delivering a keynote speech on the future of retail at the Store 2015 retail conference, held by the Retail Council of Canada.

For years, high-end retailers like Holt Renfrew and Saks have used personal relationships between its clerks and shoppers to drive sales with customers who have lots to spend. The objective is to create loyalty that extends beyond a handshake and exchange of money at the register.

Store employees will often text and email their best customers to let them know about exclusive events or new products.

Storch said he wants to bring a variation of that practice to Canadians who won’t drop thousands of dollars every time they shop, but still want to feel valued.

“The opportunity is to start customizing that on a mass scale so you simulate the personal selling experience on a mobile device,” he said.

“I believe that’s a big opportunity down the line.”

But when it comes to the personal touch, average consumers will likely get a stripped down version of the posh treatment.

Beacon technology is already being tested by Hudson’s Bay and many other retailers as a way to mimic the personal touch for everyone without bringing in heaps of extra staff.

The technology links mobile phones to sensors within retail stores which fire out information or discount promotions to consumers when they stroll by certain products on the shelves.

While it’s not exactly a personal assistant, early incarnations of beacon technology have been on the market for several years, but Canadian retailers have only just started to experiment with its possibilities. Their hope is that young shoppers, already glued to their phones, will respond to its interactive features. Hudson’s Bay (TSX:HBC) has been developing its reputation with an emphasis on brand names that appeal to the growing aspirational upper middle class in Canada.

“We’re convinced there is an underserved market for high-end luxury in Canada,” Storch said. “We certainly believe that’s true for Saks Fifth Avenue.”

The focus on high-priced fashion has left a void in the Hudson’s Bay portfolio, which once also catered to customers on a budget through its Zellers brand, which the company decided to wind down in 2011.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 130.28 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.51 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.51 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.07 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday as oil settled at its highest point this year, pushing energy stocks up with it.

The S&P/TSX composite index recovered from an early morning dip to close at 15,104.74, up 30.61 points, while the loonie gained 0.81 of a U.S. cent to 80.59 cents US. In New York, stock markets closed lower as record-high auto sales figures for May suggested that the U.S. Federal Reserve may soon hike interest rates.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 28.43 points to 18,011.94, the Nasdaq index fell 6.41 points to 5,076.52, and the S&P 500 declined 2.13 points to 2,109.60.

On the commodity markets, the July crude contract was up $1.06 at US$61.26 a barrel and the August gold contract rose $5.70 to US$1,194.40 an ounce.

The energy sector of the TSX advanced roughly one per cent, while the metals and mining sector advanced 3.4 per cent.

Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer at Sun Life Global Investments, says despite the recent rally in oil prices, he expects crude to decline to around the $50 a barrel mark over the next few months, before it climbs back up to $60 or $70.

“People thought that supply has come down more than it has, because you’ve seen rig counts come down,” Adatia said.

“But the truth is, supply really hasn’t diminished a whole lot. Later this month OPEC will come out and highlight that they haven’t cut supply either, and when people see that disappointing news I think you’ll see some pressure on oil prices.”

Uncertainty over the fate of debt-ridden Greece has caused volatility on the stock markets lately.

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“They’re nowhere closer to getting it resolved and Greece is still going to have an issue coming up with its debt payments, but at least they are working together,” Adatia said.

In economic news, U.S. factory orders data slipped 0.4 per cent in April, falling shy of expectations. That marks the eighth time in nine months that orders for goods produced in U.S. factories has declined.

Americans snapped up 17.79 million vehicles in May, up from 16.5 million the previous month.

For many investors, good economic news in the U.S. is an indication that an interest rate increase from the Fed could be imminent.

Traders are looking forward to U.S. labour market data from payroll company ADP on Wednesday and the jobs report on Friday.

“I think it’s going to be a good news story,” Adatia said.

“If you think about the job picture in Canada that’ll probably be a little different. I think you’ll start to see negativity coming through, as you continue to see the fallthrough of low oil prices.”

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,104.74, up 30.61 points Dow — 18,011.94, down 28.43 points S&P 500 — 2,109.60, down 2.13 points Nasdaq — 5,076.52, down 6.41 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 85.14 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.92 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.97 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.43 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.31 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.62 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.65 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.14 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.97 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.74 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.85 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2600 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.18 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.17 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.94 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.22 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.39 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 42.77 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.92 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.01 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 49.07 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.25 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.13 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.92 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.36

Cdn — 80.59 cents US, up 0.81 of a cent Pound — C$1.9032, down 0.15 of a cent Euro — C$1.3828, up 1.38 cents Euro — US$1.1144, up 2.23 cents Oil futures: US$61.26 per barrel, up $1.06 (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,194.40 per oz., up $5.70 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.828 oz., down 15.5 cents $701.77 kg., down $4.98 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $2.50 lower $482.60; Nov ’15 $1.70 lower $479.60; Jan. ’16 $3.00 lower $476.40; March ’16 $3.00 lower $474.30; May ’16 $3.50 lower $471.30; July ’16 $3.70 lower $468.80; Nov. ’16 $3.80 lower $459.30; Jan. ’17 $4.80 lower $459.30; March ’17 $5.00 lower $459.40; May ’17 $5.00 lower $459.40; July ’17 $5.00 lower $460.80.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $191.00; Oct. ’15 $4.00 higher $181.00; Dec. ’15 $4.00 higher $186.00; March ’16 $4.00 higher $186.00; May ’16 $4.00 higher $186.00; July ’16 $4.00 higher $186.00; Oct. ’16 $4.00 higher $186.00; Dec. ’16 $4.00 higher $186.00; March ’17 $4.00 higher $186.00; May ’17 $4.00 higher $186.00; July ’17 $4.00 higher $186.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 1,145,640 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 1,145,640.

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Ivanhoe Energy declares bankruptcy

Air Canada: turnaround is accelerating, costs going down more than expected

CALGARY — Ivanhoe Energy Inc. says it is bankrupt after restructuring talks with creditors proved unsuccessful.

The company had been working with Ernst & Young to reach a viable restructuring proposal and had already extended the deadline for filing a proposal by a month.

The Vancouver-based heavy oil company has projects in Ecuador and Mongolia and was working to develop a proprietary upgrading process for heavy oil.

The Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ delisted the company’s shares in February.

Ivanhoe Energy is one of several companies backed by Robert Friedland, a mining promoter who has

MONTREAL — Air Canada says its financial turnaround will accelerate by 2018 with lower costs and a higher profit margin than it forecast two years ago.

“We’re again raising the bar with new, more ambitious targets that are significantly higher than those we set in 2013,” CEO Calin Rovinescu said Tuesday during an investor day in Toronto.

The country’s largest airline said it expects its pre-tax operating margin will reach 15 to 18 per cent in three years, up from 12.6 per cent achieved in 2014 and the 15 per cent target set in 2013.

Air Canada’s shares (TSX:AC), which have been among the country’s best performers in the past couple of

‘THE REALTOR’S VALUE IS INTERPRETING THE DATA. THOUGH YOU CAN LOOK AT A SNAPSHOT OF WHAT THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR SOLD FOR, YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHAT’S IN THAT HOUSE’ — PAULINE AUNGER PRESIDENT THE CANADIAN REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The internet and social media have made it easier than ever to shop for and sell a home, forcing real estate agents to offer more services in order to stay relevant.

Realtors once served as gatekeepers of data, providing customers with access to exclusive information that helped them price their homes or determine the true value of the properties they were eyeing.

But with reams of data now online and virtual tours available at the click of a mouse, the role of real estate agents has started to evolve, with more agents expanding their repertoires to include services like staging and professional photography.

Pauline Aunger, president of the Canadian Real Estate Association, defends agents, saying they possess detailed knowledge of local markets.

“The realtor’s value is interpreting the data,” says Aunger, who’s also a realtor based in Smiths Falls, Ont. “Though you can look at a snapshot of what the house next door sold for, you may not know what’s in that house.”

Agents can also ensure that all of the necessary inspections have been conducted and regulations have been met.

“You can almost equate it to doing your taxes on your own versus doing them with a professional,” says Toronto real estate agent Derek Ladouceur.

“Yes, you save money doing it on your own, but there’s a good chance you might be audited because you skipped something.”

Ladouceur says clients can also benefit from agents’ expansive networks of contacts — from stagers and contractors who can help you years, hit its highest level since 2007 in Tuesday trading.

A number of analysts have raised their target price for the stock. Cowen and Company, for instance, sees room for a further increase to $18 per share, which would be 25 per cent above the $14.38 price set in Tuesday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange after reaching an intraday high of $15.09.

Air Canada said it plans to exceed a cost-reduction target set last year.

Instead of cutting costs by 15 per cent, excluding the impact of foreign exchange and fuel prices, it now says they will drop by 21 per cent between 2012 and the end of 2018.

Rovinescu told analysts that the Montreal-based airline is permanently reducing its cost structure while growing its business, especially international route.

Last week, Air Canada said it is opting out of federal pension regulations — a move that will free up about $1.1 billion in deficit funding contributions over the next six years.

The company said it also continues to evaluate its operations at Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport.

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polish up your home before it hits the market to other agents who will bring their clients in to have a look.

Nonetheless, some homeowners are finding the costs of using an agent are simply too high as house prices in several Canadian cities soar higher — and so too do the commissions earned by realtors.

Sellers typically pay six per cent of the sale price, with half going to their agent and the other half to the buyer’s agent. For a $1 million home — now the average price for a detached house in Toronto and Vancouver — that translates to $60,000 in fees.

“I don’t think people need to pay that kind of money,” says Paul Rouillard, a realtor and the owner of discount brokerage Flatprice.ca.

Although homeowners can’t list their properties themselves on the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, a slew of discount brokerages can prepare the listing for a fraction of the cost charged by a full-service agent.

At Flatprice.ca, realtors help home sellers list their properties on MLS for only $99.

But others still prefer the convenience of using an agent.

Pam Campbell and her husband recently sold their home and bought a new one, both in Acton, Ont., with the help of an agent.

Between working full-time as an accountant, taking courses to upgrade her credentials and raising a six-yearold boy, Campbell says there’s “no way” she could have found the time to sell her home.

“We would have had too much on our plate to try to do it,” she said.

“I think it’s worth the commission that you pay.” of passenger services, said it wants significantly lower terminal rates and more slots so it can start service to Ottawa, New York and other short-haul markets.

Strong sales of Ford Edge shortens summer break for plant in Oakville, Ont. DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford’s Oakville assembly plant in Ontario will be operating an extra week this summer in response to soaring demand for the Edge.

The Detroit-based automaker says the factory and five assembly plants in the United States will shut down for one week starting June 29 instead of the usual two-week break.

The company says the Ford Edge — a mid-sized sport utility vehicle built in Oakville — had record U.S. sales last month.

Canadian sales of the Edge were also strong in May after hitting a record in April. Ford expects to make an additional 40,000 vehicles in total as a result of the extra week of work.

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Blatter bows out as FIFA president RESIGNS FOUR DAYS AFTER WINNING RE-ELECTION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ZURICH — The end for Sepp Blatter came suddenly, just days after he had seemingly solidified his hold on FIFA. The 79-year-old leader of the world’s most popular sport defied global animosity last week to win four more years in office. But his re-election only increased the pressure from colleagues, sponsors, athletes and fans for Blatter to step down as FIFA’s president.

At a hastily arranged news conference Tuesday, Blatter announced he would leave office within months and called for a fresh election to appoint a successor.

“I cherish FIFA more than anything and I want to do only what is best for FIFA and for football,” said Blatter, who could still be a target of U.S. investigators delving into decades of corruption and bribery accusations against FIFA officials.

After generations under Blatter and his mentor, Joao Havelange, the announcement left FIFA without a leader and without a clear course forward.

It sets off a global power struggle for control of the organization as a criminal investigation intensifies.

A strained and serious Blatter read a six-minute statement in French before exiting without taking questions.

Blatter had been defiant and feisty in the same room on Saturday, fending off questions about FIFA’s battered reputation and the chance he could be arrested.

His mood had changed in the 24 hours before his announcement, Blatter aide Walter Gagg told The Associated Press.

A federal indictment last week detailed apparent bribes from a FIFA account totalling $10 million to senior officials for voting South Africa as the 2010 World Cup host. Late Monday, re-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this June 23, 2009 photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter gestures as he speaks at the inaugural ‘Football for Hope Forum’, during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament, at a hotel in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Blatter says he will resign from his position amid corruption scandal and is promising to call for fresh elections to choose a successor. ports laid a clearer trail of complicity to the door of FIFA headquarters, if not Blatter himself.

“We know that the in the last 48 hours he was thinking of the future and perhaps what happened in the last hours, this gave him the conviction,” Gagg, a long-time confidante of Blatter, told the AP in a telephone interview.

“We had lunch with him yesterday (Monday). He was relaxed he was fine,”

Gagg said. “I had a very good meeting with him early in the morning (today).

Then came the different information from the U.S. with this and that.”

The South African angle threatens to tarnish memories of a bid campaign that brought Nelson Mandela to Zurich for the winning vote in 2004. At risk also is the legacy of a World Cup that was an organizational triumph for FIFA and South Africa, and bolstered

Blatter’s reputation as a friend of Africa whose loyalty stood firm in Friday’s election.

Even before the election, Blatter’s ability to travel to the U.S., or other countries where a Swiss national risked arrest and extradition, had become a distracting story.

Blatter’s vigour in acclaiming his election victory — a 133-73 win over Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan — was gone by Tuesday.

“This mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football,” Blatter said. “I will continue to exercise my function (until the new election).”

Elections are expected to take place sometime between December and March.

Prince Ali declined to say if he’d run again.

“I am at the disposal of all the national associations who want a change, including all of those who were afraid to make a change,” Prince Ali said in an interview with CNN. Michel Platini, the president of European body UEFA, had called for Blatter’s resignation last week before the vote. On Tuesday, he praised Blatter’s decision to go.

“It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision,” said Platini, a former protege who planned a strategy meeting of UEFA members to discuss anti-Blatter tactics in Berlin later this week.

Platini opted out of taking on Blatter head-to-head in last week’s election, preferring to support the prince. But the former star midfielder for France and Juventus is a likely candidate for the next vote.

The next few months will likely also see further arrests in the corruption case.

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted 14 men last Wednesday, including the seven arrested in dawn raids on a luxury hotel in Switzerland.

Riggers down Tigers, return to win column

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 3 Tigers 2 After losing for the first time in 23 months on Monday, the Red Deer Riggers made sure they did not make it two losses in two days on Tuesday in Sunburst Baseball League action.

The Riggers edged the St. Albert Tigers 3-2 at Great Chief Park, leaning on a terrific relief performance from Wyle Cunningham and timely hitting from Jaret Chatwood en rout to victory.

“We weren’t panicked by any means, but we were maybe a little too laid back tonight at times, but we got the hits when we needed to an strung a few things together,” said Riggers player manager Curtis Bailey.

Cunningham was almost untouchable, striking out seven and allowing just one walk in 4 ½ innings for the win. He came in after the veteran Davin Gulbransen gave up two runs on three hits and four walks with one strikeout through 4 2/3 innings.

The southpaw Cunningham has been red hot for the Riggers of late, coming off a nine strikeouts in five innings performance in a 6-4 win over the Parkland White Sox in Spruce Grove on Friday.

“He’s got good command of his pitches, good location,” said Bailey.

“He works quick, he works fast, he’s

real efficient, he’s thrown real well for us this year.”

Chatwood had three hits for the Riggers, including a two-out triple that opened the scoring in the third inning, cashing in Mark Fay from third. Chatwood scored on the next at-bat as Josh Edwards’ hit was bobbled by the Tigers second baseman.

Chatwood came through again in the bottom of the seventh with two out and runners on first and second, he blooped a fly into shallow centre, but with Fay running on contact, he scored easily from second base.

Craig Thomas was solid for the Tigers, going seven innings and allowing three runs, two earned on nine hits and one walk while striking out three.

Thomas was picked up last year by the Riggers for the national championship tournament.

The Riggers 6-5 loss to the Confederation Park Cubs on Monday in Edmonton marked the first time the Riggers had put a mark in L category during the regular season was July 9, 2013, a 5-4 loss to the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics.

But Bailey was confident his team would find a way to get a win on Tuesday.

“We looked at it as ‘we lost the game, let’s move on, what do we have to change it,’” he said.

“It starts with before the game preparations. During the game, what are

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer Rigger pitcher Davin Gulbransen pitches in the fourth inning against the St. Albert Tigers at Great Chief Park on Tuesday. we doing to make sure we are making good plays. We were a little better tonight at being more focused than we were last night.

“As long as we’re moving forward,

we’ll be a better team for it.”

The Riggers are now off until June 16 when they host the Cubs at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Stanley Cup final should be an offensive showcase

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — Hockey fans will get very familiar with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks goal songs “Fluxland” and “Chelsea Dagger” during the Stanley Cup final.

Two of the highest-scoring teams in the playoffs are set to play a back-andforth, high-paced, goal-happy series.

Defence may win championships, but this one will be decided by Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Steven Stamkos and Tyler Johnson, stars who can fill the net in bunches.

“You look up and down their lineup, just about everybody can put the puck in the net. You look up and down ours, about the same,” Tampa Bay goaltender Ben Bishop said. “Their defence, they move quick, too. I don’t know how fast you can get but this will probably be as fast as it goes.”

The Blackhawks and Lightning share a need for speed. Each likes to create off the rush and turn an opponent’s mistakes into scoring chances.

Chicago has averaged 3.29 goals a game in the playoffs compared to 2.75 for Tampa Bay. But the Lightning boasts the “Triplets” line of leading scorer Johnson, Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov that looks like it can’t be stopped.

“On both sides there’s high scorers,” Chicago winger Marian Hossa said.

“Definitely both teams got a lot of offensive power. Both teams like to play a puck-control game.”

Bishop and counterpart Corey Crawford expect to be on the defensive beginning with Game 1 on Wednesday night at Amalie Arena.

Bishop said the Blackhawks remind him of the Lightning with their style of play, which has been a hallmark of their regular-season and post-season success.

The Cup final always has talent, but this kind of offensive star power is rare.

“You don’t advance this far without having game-breakers,” Lightning

coach Jon Cooper said. “Both teams are fortunate enough to have those guys.”

The Lightning used their high-end talent to get past the defensive-minded Detroit Red Wings, Carey Price and the Montreal Canadiens and the defending Eastern Conference-champion New York Rangers.

But several players pointed to a 2-0 Game 7 victory against New York as an effort they want to duplicate in the final.

“I think when you play a team like that, you have to be careful because we like to play that sort of game, too, a run-and-gun game,” winger Alex Killorn said. “You look at our Game 7 against New York, we tried to shut it down and kind of not force anything and realize the chances were going to come.

“I don’t think we want to play run-and-gun with the Chicago Blackhawks.”

In the Cup final as a group for the first time against the Blackhawks, who are there for the third time in six years, Tampa Bay feels confident it can play different styles of hockey. The high-powered Lightning’s focus right now appears to be defence first.

“We have to have a 1-0 mentality,” defenceman Jason Garrison said. “It’s no surprise our team can score goals, but you’re not going to score as many goals each and every night.”

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The Blackhawks might be able to score plenty of goals every night, thanks not only to Kane and Toews but stronger offensive depth than the Lightning. Scoring is what Chicago does best.

“It’s so much fun out there,” rookie forward Teuvo Teravainen said. “It’s two great teams playing each other, a lot of skill, a lot of pace.”

But Teravainen and his teammates are still coached by Joel Quenneville and were quick to emphasize checking and defence.

Kane wants the Blackhawks to be patient and defensively stingy like they were during a sweep of the Minnesota Wild.

“The more patient we were, the better we were and the more chances we got offensively,” Kane said. “You realize sometimes good defence can lead to more offence.”

More offence may be “ulcer-building” to Cooper and Quenneville, but it’s good for the entertainment value.

It’s easy for the NHL to sell its brand with this final.

“It’s great for the game that the two teams in the final are this much focused on being offensive, have this amount of skill, have this amount of high-quality offensive players,” Kane said.

“It’s good for the game and makes the game more exciting when you see teams like this win.”

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Wednesday, June 17 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. x â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if necessary.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Chicago (3) Wednesday, June 3 Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Washington 2, Toronto 0, 1st game Toronto 7, Washington 3, 2nd game Oakland 5, Detroit 3 Boston 1, Minnesota 0 Texas 15, Chicago White Sox 2 Houston 6, Baltimore 4 Cleveland 2, Kansas City 1 Tampa Bay 6, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, late Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Minnesota (P.Hughes 4-4) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 1-0), 11:35 a.m., 1st game N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 2-1) at Seattle (T.Walker 2-5), 1:40 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 6-4) at Washington (Jordan 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 6-2) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-6), 5:08 p.m.

Minnesota (May 3-3) at Boston (Porcello 4-4), 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Chicago White Sox (Sale 4-2) at Texas (N.Martinez 4-1), 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 5-3) at Houston (McCullers 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 3-5) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 3-2), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Karns 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 4-3), 8:05 p.m.

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Baltimore at Houston,1 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 2:05 p.m.

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

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

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Milwaukee (Nelson 2-5) at St. Louis (Lackey 3-3), 11:45 a.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 3-2) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 4-2), 1:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 2-4) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 3-4), 1:45 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 2-4) at Philadelphia (Hamels 5-4), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 6-4) at Washington (Jordan 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 4-3) at Miami (Haren 5-2), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 3-1) at Colorado (Bettis 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-2) at San Diego (Shields 6-0), 7:10 p.m.

Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Chicago Cubs at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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â&#x2014;? Grade 9 Track and Field Championships at Lindsay Thurber at 9 a.m. â&#x2014;? Bantam AAA baseball: Servus Credit Union Braves vs. Okotoks Dawgs Black at Great Chief Park 2, 7 p.m.

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â&#x2014;? Senior menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Park at 6:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? 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. â&#x2014;? High School boys soccer: Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills at Collicutt East at 4:15 p.m. â&#x2014;? Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Acme Pirates at 7 p.m.

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â&#x2014;? Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 3 p.m. Penhold Regional Multiplex.

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â&#x2014;? 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. â&#x2014;? High School girls soccer: Lindsay Thurber at HJ Cody at HJ Cody at 4:15 p.m. â&#x2014;? Parkland baseball: Acme Pirates at Red Deer Razorbacks at Great Chief at 7 p.m. â&#x2014;? Junior B tier I lacrosse: Sherwood Park Titans at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 9 p.m.

Saturday â&#x2014;? Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 3:45 p.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. â&#x2014;? Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at noon. â&#x2014;? Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Division 2 rugby: Calgary Irish at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 3:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Division 3 rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 1:45 p.m. â&#x2014;? Junior B tier I lacrosse: Calgary Shamrocks at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 8 p.m. â&#x2014;? Junior B tier II lacrosse: Strathmore Venom at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 5:30 p.m.

â&#x2014;? Junior B lacrosse tier III: Lethbridge Cudas at Olds Mavericks at 2:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 8:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? Senior ladies lacrosse: St. Albert Drillers at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena 3 p.m. â&#x2014;? Bantam AAA baseball: double header, Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves vs.

St. Albert Cardinals at Great Chief Park 2, 3 and 6 p.m.

Sunday â&#x2014;? Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 9 a.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. â&#x2014;? Alberta Major Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer League: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer Renegades at Edgar Industrial Park at 2 p.m. â&#x2014;? Junior B tier II lacrosse: Okotoks Ice at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 2:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? 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. â&#x2014;? Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 1:30 p.m. â&#x2014;? Senior ladies lacrosse: Edmonton Bandits at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena at 5 p.m.

Competition nothing new for Riders teammates Watman, Clark CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Friendly competition is nothing new to Cory Watman and Dan Clark.

Rarely has there been a day the past few years where the Saskatchewan Roughriders teammates and close friends havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t engaged in some sort of light-hearted battle.

But with training camp underway, Watman and Clark are immersed in a more serious encounter. Two vacancies on the offensive line, created by the departures of centre Dominic Picard and right tackle Ben Heenan, has stoked yet another competition between the two. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We talk a lot, we study together, we room together, we work out together,â&#x20AC;? Watman said of his friendship with Clark. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a long season and either one of us is going to play regardless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More than anything, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to help each other get that job.â&#x20AC;?

The Riders have 14 offensive linemen â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10 Americans and four Canadians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in camp.

Only a handful, including Watman and Clark and first-year Rider Gord Hinse, have CFL experience with the three appearing to be the frontrunners at centre.

Watman appeared in 14 regular-season games in 2014 and started twice at guard. Clark made 10 starts last year, splitting time at both centre and guard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I prepare every season the same way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fighting for a starting spot,â&#x20AC;? said Clark, a Regina native. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the last couple of years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a great opportunity to show what I have to offer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my seventh training camp and maybe the stakes are a little higher for some people, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the same opportunity as every other year. Maybe we do have an edge over some of the new guys because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here longer, but that gets evened out with the new

coaching staff. There are new things being taught and there are things I need to learn just like everyone else.â&#x20AC;?

Picard was released after three seasons with Saskatchewan and signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Riders let Heenan, a twoyear starter, go so he could explore NFL opportunities and he ultimately signed with the Indianapolis Colts.

Saskatchewan still has veteran experience up front but stability questions exist.

Brendon LaBatte, a three-time CFL all-star and the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top lineman in 2013, is a lock at left guard. Fellow guard Chris Best is solid but has missed over 30 games with injuries the last three seasons. Injuries also forced left tackle Xavier Fulton to miss five contests in 2014.

Levy Adcock started five games last year as a CFL rookie and is expected to get a good look at one of the tackle spots.

Watman admits the allure of a starting job has him grinding harder this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You want to say that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, but obviously thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little more push in you,â&#x20AC;? said Watman, a native of Queensville, Ont. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that opportunity there to start, to be out there every game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we all came here to do from the start.â&#x20AC;?

The Ridersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offensive line will have to get used to a new coaching staff as offensive coordinator Jacques Chapdelaine and offensive line coach Dan Dorazio are both in the their first year with the club. That means having to learn a new playbook and new terminology, which has Clark and Watman spending even more time together off the field.

As they adapt to the changes, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also pushing each other to be successful with them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We talk a lot about it and we want to be perfect for the team,â&#x20AC;? Clark said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a personal thing between us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bigger than that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve told each other whatever happens with this job weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still going to be friends no matter what.â&#x20AC;?

Canadiens agree to six-year deal with defenceman Jeff Petry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Since last summer, Jeff Petry figured heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be testing the free-agent market. Getting traded to the Montreal Canadiens changed all that.

Petry enjoyed playing at Bell Centre, the Canadiensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; playoff run and his role on the team so much he wanted to return. On Tuesday the defenceman agreed to terms on a US$33-million, six-year contract to stick around for a long time.

General manager Marc Bergevin said Petry â&#x20AC;&#x153;showed a tremendous will to commit to the Canadiens and stay in Montreal.â&#x20AC;? The 27-year-old undoubtedly took less money than he could have gotten in free agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once I started negotiating with the

Canadiens, my wife and I made a decision we really strongly wanted to come back,â&#x20AC;? Petry said on a conference call from West Bloomfield, Mich. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything from the day I got there to the playoff run, the environment at the Bell Centre, the players in the locker-room, the organization just being first-class â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that all played into it and played a big part in ultimately signing the deal.â&#x20AC;?

Petry will count $5.5 million against the salary cap through 2020-21. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same annual value as the Winnipeg Jetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tyler Myers, Tampa Bay Lightningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Carle, Arizona Coyotesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Oliver Ekman-Larsson and New York Rangersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dan Girardi.

During his time with the Edmonton Oilers, Petryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game showed some flaws. But as a right-handed-shooting,

puck-moving defenceman he could have likely earned upwards of $6 million on July 1.

Instead, Petry proved so valuable to the Habs that he became one of Bergevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top off-season priorities. After three goals and four assists in 19 regular-season games, he had two goals and an assist in the playoffs and was excellent in his 22 minutes a game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a solid defenceman with speed and size who acquired valuable playoff experience this year,â&#x20AC;? Bergevin said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jeff is a very good fit within our group of defencemen, and his presence gives us a lot of depth at this position.â&#x20AC;?

Petry said he fit in so well in Montreal because of the style of play and what the organization and coaching staff expects from players.

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Blue Jays earn split in doubleheader against Nationals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Hunting Hills High School player Joao Gabriel Lessa Rios returns a shot by his teammate Migel Oliveira during the gold medal match at the Red Deer and area high school tennis tournament at the Red Deer Tennis Club on Tuesday. Lessa Rios went on to win the match 8-3.

High school tennis titles handed out during zone tournament

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF When Joao Gabriel Lessa Rios heads back to Brazil at the end of the month, he will be taking the Central Alberta High School Athletic Association boy’s singles tennis title with him.

Rios beat fellow Brazilian Miguel Oliveira — fittingly both representing Hunting Hills High School — 8-3 in the final.

“I thought it would be pretty hard and it was,” said Rios. “I just stayed calm and played how I know how to play and how I practice.

“We’re from Brazil, but we didn’t meet until we were in Canada, but we played each other in practice a lot and know each other’s games.”

In the bronze medal game, Joel Patterson of Camrose beat Erik Brezovan of Notre Dame 8-6.

Rios, 17, is graduating from Hunting Hills at the end of the month and plans on returning to Sao Palo to attend university and become a civil engineer.

He has been in Red Deer for the past nine months and managed to survive the cold of the winter.

However, he found familiarity to his homeland at the Red Deer Tennis Club, despite playing on clay at home and a hard court in Alberta.

For Rios, it’s all about the mental aspect of the sport.

“It’s just you and the court and you have to think a lot some times and you have to be very fast in your thinking and be calm,” he said.

The girls final was an all Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School showdown with Alysha Halsey beating Kelsey Lalor 8-2.

“It was fun, it was a challenge, I had good competition from Kelsey Lalor out there all day, all of the games were pretty close, we took a lot of them to advantage and deuce,” said Halsey.

Henrietta Kovacs of Notre Dame beat out Halley Adams of Forestburg in the bronze medal game 8-6.

Halsey, 16, also plays at the tennis club and has played the sport for the past five years.

“I like the intensity of it and the competition, I’m a really competitive person, so it’s fun,” she said.

This was the 35th anniversary of the tournament and it included a record field with 126 players and seven different schools from the zone.

Barbra Young has played an integral role in the tournament since it’s first year and continues on as its director despite now being retired from teaching at LTCHS. “In Central Alberta we’ve got tennis courts in surrounding communities and it’s a life-time sport, you can play up into your 80s and I really like to see kids come out and play,” said Young.

“We didn’t turn anybody away this year, but if it keeps getting this popular we may need to get some schools to playoff to send kids.” ● In boy’s doubles, Alistair Mahood and Jarrett Zilinski of Lindsay Thurber beat Alex Brezovan and Chris Huddleston of Notre Dame 8-7 ... Kallie Loewen and Jayda Aasman of Lindsay Thurber beat Paige Williams and Carmen Dubland of Wetaskiwin 8-3 in the girl’s doubles final ... Bretton Bowd and Justin Van Tetering of Lindsay Thurber topped Payton Burzak and Brandt Burzak of Hunting Hills 8-0 in the mixed doubles final. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com the 60-metre dash (11.58 seconds).

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Renegades split weekend games

BRIEFS Gramlick leads Titans track club to solid showing at St. Albert Challenge

The Red Deer Junior B Tier II Renegades split their weekend Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League action, falling 15-8 in Lethbridge to the Cudas on Saturday, but bounced back to beat the Lacoka Locos 16-6 at the Kinex Arena on Sunday.

Tyler Schumacher lead the Renegades with four points (two goals, two assists) on Saturday while Kane Weik and Nicholas Scott also scored twice.

Curtis Hallman and Derrick McGill scored once each.

In Sunday’s win, Cody Rush lead the charge with three goals and three assists while Weik had three goals and an assist. Carson Stuve and Marshall Smyth scored twice each while Rhett

Dacia Gramlick led a strong showing by the Red Deer Titans Track and Field Club at the St. Albert Challenge track meet over the weekend.

Competing in the open division, Gramlick earned gold in the high jump (1.55 metres) and long jump (5.12 metres) while getting silver in the shot put (9.11 metres) and javelin (23.76 metres).

For good measure, she finished fourth in the 200 metre dash (27.33).

Emily Lucas aced both of her open events, finishing first in both the 1,500-metre (four minutes, 51.04 seconds) and 3,000-metre runs (10:34.60).

Brayden Posyluzny had a busy weekend, earning gold in the open high jump (1.64 metres) and javelin (41.77 metres), silver in the long jump (5.63 metres), third in the discus (31.53 metres), fourth in the shot put (11.63 ) and 10th in the 100-metre dash (11.93 seconds).

In the midget division, Chloe Lucas was first in the 2,000-metre run (7:40.48) and fifth in the 1,200 (4:16.53), while Beth Bergeron was ninth in the long jump (3.59 metres).

In the peewee division, Kennedy van Arragon was 22nd in the 600-metres GREAT (2:31.41), 27th in long jump (2.73 metres) and 29th in

WASHINGTON — Kevin Pillar hit two home runs off Max Scherzer, and the Toronto Blue Jays snapped a four-game skid with a 7-3 win over the Washington Nationals in the second game of a day-night doubleheader.

The Nationals won the opener 2-0.

Scherzer (6-4) had won each of his previous five starts. That streak ended as he allowed four runs on six hits over six innings.

Pillar hit a solo shot in the second and, after Washington scored two in the fourth and one in the fifth, he put Toronto back in the lead with a threerun homer down the left-field line.

The centre fielder also singled against Scherzer.

Marco Estrada (2-3) pitched six innings, allowing three runs — two earned — and six hits.

Tyler Moore drove in two runs for the Nationals.

In the early game Jordan Zimmermann allowed six hits in eight innings,

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John Hynes takes over as New Jersey Devils coach

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — John Hynes was hired Tuesday as coach of the New Jersey Devils, becoming the youngest coach in the NHL at 40 years old.

General manager Ray Shero said under Hynes, the Devils will be a fast, attacking team that knows how to play defence.

Nobody but Hynes was offered the job, Shero said. Financial terms of the multi-year contract were not disclosed.

In conducting his month-long search, Shero said he wanted a coach who could teach, inspire and have discipline. He never had a big list of candidates and when he decided on Hynes, it felt right.

“I think John embodies all of that stuff and he has a presence,” said Shero, who was the Penguins general man-

Bryce Harper singled home the aheadrun off R.A. Dickey and the Washington Nationals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0 Tuesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.

A day after rain postponed the first meeting of the teams since 2012, Zimmermann (5-2) struck out four and walked one to win for the third time in four starts. After Toronto loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, he got Russell Martin to ground into a double play.

Drew Storen pitched a perfect ninth, earning his 17th save in 18 chances for the NL East leaders.

Harper’s fifth-inning single gave him 29 RBIs in his last 27 games. Ryan Zimmerman added a sacrifice fly later in the inning.

In a game that began with only a few dozen fans in the stands, Dickey (2-6) gave up eight hits, struck out six and walked one.

Toronto had been the only major league team that had not been shut out. The Blue Jays have lost eight of their last nine road games. ager when Hynes was hired to coach at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL, the Penguins’ top farm team.

“I have seen him in development camps. He has a presence and he is a leader,” Shero said. Hynes coached Wilkes-Barre/Scranton for five seasons.

When asked about Hynes’ lack of NHL head coaching experience, Shero reminded everyone that Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper has the Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final against the Chicago Blackhawks only two seasons after being hired away from his AHL job.

“I think whether you are 60, 40 or 32, I really believe it is about every coach, no matter what age, it’s about earning the respect of the players,” Shero said.

“That means being a leader, a communicator and a teacher.”

Hynes said his first goal will be to get to know his players, what they need and what they should expect from him and his vision for the club.

“There’s differences (coaching in the NHL), but when it comes down to dealing with players, coaching the game, coaching the team, interacting

BANTAM AAA BASEBALL The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Bantam AAA Braves had an up and down weekend, finishing their threegame series with the Sherwood Park Athletics with a 1-2 record at Great Chief Park.

The Braves took the first game on Saturday 11-1 in five innings, includding putting up seven runs in the second inning.

Riley Seward went the distance on the mound, allowing one run while strioking out three.

Matt Kohle led the wan at the plate with a double and a single while Ty Moline and Branded Woods both had two singles. Cooper Jones added a triple.

The momentum shifted for the weekend in the first inning of the second game as they gave up five runs on four hits and two errors, as Sherwood Park won 16-10. Cooper Jones took the loss on the mound as the Braves totalled

six errors in the sloppy game.

Woods had a double and a triple for the Bravbes while Jones had a double and a single, in attempt to help his own cause. Seward reached base four times with a singlem, two walks and was hit by a pitch. Kohle added two more singles.

Pitching and improved defence led the way on Sunday for a much closer game, but Red Deer was still on the wrong end of a 4-1 score.

Kohle allowed four runs on five hits and three walks while striking out five in five innings of work. Brett Porter pitched a scoreless sixth inning of relief while strking out one.

Moline had a double while Hunter Leslie, Jones, Hayley Lalor, Zach Baker, Adam Junck and Seward had one single each. The most telling stat was the eight Braves left on base.

The Braves host Okotoks Black today at 7 p,m, at Great Chief Park.

Ritter, Colton Levie, Richard Watt, Jeff Sebastian, Aiden Wilson and Hallman tallied once each.

James Wood had three goals for Lacoka while Dustin Bell had two and Trevor Anderson one.

The Renegades have two home games this weekend, hosting the Strathmore Venom on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and then the Okotoks Ice on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

the team can earn a spot in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. To get to Rio they must finish in the top two spots in Toronto, despite being the defending Paralympic champions from 2012 in London.

“It’s a rare and special privilege to compete in front of family and friends in a big international competition with so much at stake. We are prepared and excited to have all of Canada cheering for us when we get on court and look forward to showcasing all of the elite skill and determination that make our sport and our athletes great,” said Steve Bialowas, interim head coach of Canada’s men’s team in a press release.

Won was one of 12 players named to the men’s team. The team is currently training in Toronto until June 6 and will head to Europe for the World Team Cup July 10-12. The Parapan American Games Aug. 7-15.

Black falds’ Won selected to national wheelchair basketball team Blackfalds’ Peter Won has his next two summers booked.

On Monday, Won was selected to the Canadian national wheelchair basketball team for the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, through which

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The evolution of the rules of golf ADAM HELMER GOLF CANADA Since the first known set of rules, “Articles and Laws in Playing at Golf,” written in 1744 for a tournament at Leith Links, a lot has changed, but a few key principles are still part of this great game.

The language in these original 13 rules relate to order of play, outside interference, and the stroke and distance penalty for the loss of a ball; they still have some similar elements with today’s official rules.

To illustrate, here are a few of the original 13 rules, copied verbatim: If you should lose your ball, by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the spot, where you struck last, and drop another ball, and allow your adversary a stroke for the misfortune.

If a ball be stopp’d by any person, Horse, Dog, or anything else, the ball so stop’d must be play’d where it lyes.

He whose ball lyes farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.

Aside from these similarities, the rules have transformed and evolved over the last few centuries, just like the equipment and the courses. See below for some of the most dramatic rule changes.

Teeing ground In the beginning, the player had to tee their ball within a club-length

of the hole. With all the attention on pace of play these days, imagine how slow the game would be if groups had to wait until the group ahead teed off on the next hole? This one club-length stipulation soon turned into two and four club-lengths respectively, until it finally became a separate area away from the hole on the putting green in 1875.

Current wording in today’s Rules of Golf: The “teeing ground” is the starting place for the hole to be played. It is a rectangular area two club lengths in depth, the front and the sides of which are defined by the outside limits of two tee-markers. A ball is outside the teeing ground when all of it lies outside the teeing ground.

The course and putting green For a long time, the term green meant the entire course. Putting green wasn’t even contemplated in the rules until 1812, and not truly defined until 1815, which stated that it was the area within 15 yards of the hole. The area around the hole was sometimes called hole green or table-land by many with reference to the area we now call a putting green.

This area wasn’t even specially prepared for putting and was not distinct from the rest of the course until a separate teeing ground came into use.

Current wording in today’s Rules of Golf: The course is now defined as the

“whole area within any boundaries established by the Committee.”

The putting green is now defined as “all ground of the hole being played that is specially prepared for putting or otherwise defined as such by the Committee.”

The stymie The stymie was finally eliminated in 1952. Previously, in singles match play, you were essentially playing defence against your opponent if your ball was on the green and directly in an opponent’s path – hence the term stymied!

Before it was abolished, there were variations that contemplated provisions that a ball could be lifted if it was within six inches of each other.

After that, the wording changed to say the owner may lift the ball if they felt it may be of advantage to the other player, or ‘throughout the green’ a player could have any ball lifted that might interfere with his stroke. You won’t be stymied anymore, but there is a trace of this rule in match play stating that there is no penalty on the putting green if a player’s ball strikes an opponent’s ball.

In stroke play, the player incurs a two-stroke penalty if both balls lay on the putting green and your ball strikes your fellow-competitor’s ball.

Dropping the ball We’ve not only seen the method of

dropping the ball incorrectly by the world’s best golfers, some of them also get confused on where to drop.

The first procedure for dropping a ball came in 1754.

If a player’s ball entered a hazard, you were at liberty to throw it at least six yards behind the hazard.

Many years later, a principle that originated in 1858 and which still exists today, allowed a player to drop on a line from the hole behind the hazard.

One of the most iconic dropping procedures was introduced in 1908, which stated that the player “shall face the hole, stand erect, and drop the ball behind him over his shoulder.”

This method of dropping it over the shoulder lasted until 1984, when the present method of dropping was introduced.

Current wording in today’s Rules of Golf: A ball to be dropped under the Rules must be dropped by the player himself. He must stand erect, hold the ball at shoulder height and arm’s length and drop it.

Looking ahead, the rules of golf will continue to evolve to preserve the spirit and integrity of the game. Golf’s governing bodies constantly review and analyze all conditions under which the game is played.

The most recent four-year cycle culminates at the end of 2015 with the new rules code coming into effect January 1, 2016.

Adam Helmer is the Director of Rules, Competitions and Amateur Status at Golf Canada

Canadian Open going back to Glen Abbey in 2016

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OAKVILLE, Ont. — Brent McLaughlin will make his debut as tournament director of the RBC Canadian Open next month in very familiar surroundings.

Glen Abbey, the well-known course hosting the only Canadian stop on the PGA Tour, is also the site of Golf Canada’s offices. That takes some pressure off McLaughlin, a longtime staff member who takes over as tournament director from Bill Paul, who served in that capacity for 23 years.

Familiarity with the venue is something McLaughlin won’t have to concern himself with in organizing the July 20-26 event.

“This is a home game for us . . . the venue sets up perfect for us,” McLaughlin said.

“When you do the day-to-day stuff closer to home it’s nicer from a personal standpoint.

“From a spectator standpoint this golf course is unbelievable, it sets up perfectly. When you come out here as a fan you can see every putting green, it’s easy to walk, there’s always a great spot, there’s always tree cover to get in the shade.

“It’s a great venue for the Canadian Open.”

McLaughlin received more good news Monday when Scott Simmons, the chief executive officer of Golf Canada, announced the event will return to Glen Abbey in 2016.

Glen Abbey last staged the Canadian Open in 2013, but that marked its first appearance there since consecutive tournaments were played in 2008 and ’09. Twenty-four events have been played over the 7,273-yard, par-72 course designed by legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus since its establishment

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Scott Simmons, CEO of Golf Canada, speaks at Glen Abbey Golf Course in Oakville, Ont., Monday. Simmons announced the RBC Canadian Open will be held at the course for a second consecutive year in 2016.

‘FROM A SPECTATOR STANDPOINT THIS GOLF COURSE IS UNBELIEVABLE, IT SETS UP PERFECTLY. WHEN YOU COME OUT HERE AS A FAN YOU CAN SEE EVERY PUTTING GREEN, IT’S EASY TO WALK, THERE’S ALWAYS A GREAT SPOT, THERE’S ALWAYS TREE COVER TO GET IN THE SHADE. IT’S A GREAT VENUE FOR THE CANADIAN OPEN.’ — BRENT MCLAUGHLIN TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR FOR THE RBC CANADIAN OPEN

in 1976.

The 2014 Canadian Open was played at The Royal Montreal Golf Club.

Simmons said holding the event

at the same venue for multiple years presents many benefits for tournament organizers.

“It almost allows you to pre-sell the

event,” Simmons said.

“In fact we’re working on some plans now where we’re going to be able to possibly close some sales during this year’s event so from that perspective it’s great.

“Simply from a logistics standpoint we know what we’re doing here and there are things you can do, cost savings, when you’re going back to back.

There’s continuity on some of our spectator services, our catering . . . there’s a lot of benefits being at the same venue back to back.”

McLaughlin admits he has big shoes to fill in replacing Paul. But he has definite ideas about how to make the Canadian Open more fan friendly with outdoor patios, food trucks and viewing areas.

“You turn it into a festival,” he said.

“We really embrace community, we embrace what’s not on the golf course and not inside the ropes.

“As much as we do need to focus on the players and inside the ropes and the product, we need to be really community related and let’s make this the biggest party, the can’t-miss party . . . this has to be the place to be.”

For many years, Glen Abbey was the longtime home of the Canadian Open but recently the tournament has been held at various venues across Canada.

Simmons said Golf Canada is looking at the logistics of possibly finding a semi-permanent home for the event.

“Yes, I would like to look at the possibility of going back, if you will, to a permanent facility, a permanent home for the Open,” he said. “But I don’t think that would ever preclude the Open moving as well . . . we’re looking at both.

“I would love to see this event move around the country, I’d also like to embrace the benefits of the continuity of being in one place as well.”

Canadian golf team named for 2015 Pan Am Games TORONTO — On Sunday, The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Golf Canada announced the four athletes who have been nominated to represent Canada at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games from July 10 to 26.

The Canadian athletes nominated

by Golf Canada for the Pan Am golf competition — which runs July 16-19 at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, Ont. — were determined based on selection criteria and world ranking as of May 15, 2015.

On the women’s side, 17-year-old former world number one amateur Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont. has accepted selection to the Pan Am golf team and will be joined by four-time LPGA Tour winner Lorie Kane of Charlottetown, PEI. “It’s really exciting to have been selected to represent Canada in the first ever Pan Am games golf competition,” said Henderson. “I’ve had so many great experiences being a part of Golf Canada’s national team program since I was 14, and now in my first year as a pro, it’s a great honour to play for my country at the Pan Am Games.”

The men’s team will be comprised of 18-year-old Austin Connelly who resides in, Irving Texas, currently the 10th ranked player on the World Amateur Golf Rankings along with reigning Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur champion Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont. “It’s an honour to be selected to rep-

resent Canada at the Pan Am Games.

In a short time with the national team program I’ve been able to take advantage of great opportunities and I’m sure the Pan Am Games will be a special golf experience,” said Connelly.

Golf Canada’s National Women’s Team Head Coach Tristan Mullally of Straffan, Ireland along with National Men’s Team Head Coach Derek Ingram of Winnipeg, Man will serve as coaches for the 2015 Pan Am Golf Team.

Selection criteria among those considered for the Canadian Pan Am Golf Team was based on competitive standing inside the top-500 on the World Golf Ranking for professional golfers as well as competitive standing inside the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of May 15, 2015. Players that met the selection criteria had until April 28, 2015 to notify Golf Canada of their interest in being considered for the team.

“We are very excited about the composition of our team for the Pan Am Games and feel confident that they will be very competitive with the field in this event. Lorie and Brooke representing Canada provide a great combination of both youth and experience while Garrett and Austin are two of the top amateurs in the world and will give Canada a great chance over the four days of competition,” said Jeff Thompson, Golf Canada Chief Sport Officer The field for the 2015 Pan Am Golf Competition will include 32 women and 32 men competing in a women’s individual, men’s individual and mixed team competition.

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Dear Annie: My friend “Nancy” has become one of those stepmothers who negatively influences her husband’s relationship with his adult children.

When things began to turn sour between Nancy and her husband’s daughter, who lived nearby, the daughter retaliated by distancing herself from her father, refusing to see him and avoiding his calls. Nancy persuaded her husband MITCHELL to move across the country. & SUGAR She blames the move on the daughter, who “drove them away,” but I’m sure his daughter sees it as Nancy making sure Dad is totally alienated from his family.

Now, when Nancy’s husband speaks of visiting his daughter and her family, Nancy actively tries to discourage him, reminding him that he wasn’t treated properly. Family members have suggested to Nancy that she allow her husband to handle his relationship with his daughter on his own, but she’s unwilling to do that.

I hope Nancy’s husband reads this and sees himself. Perhaps other men with controlling wives will, too. He should remember that his relationship with his children predates his marriage to Nancy and that he needs to honor that relationship and quit being so passive around his wife. — On the Sidelines, but Been There Dear Sidelines: Many men would rather abandon their children than fight with their wives. They also figure the kids don’t need them that much.

But truthfully, kids always need their parents’ love and support, and once a husband takes a firm stand on the issue, the arguments tend to be shorter, and the wife often backs off. But it takes some initial effort. And by the way, this dynamic works with either spouse. There are husbands who push their wives to move away from their kids, and the wives allow it. Sometimes it borders on an abusive, isolating relationship.

You can’t force someone to grow a spine. You’ve expressed your opinion to Nancy, and she has chosen to ignore you. We hope her husband finds a way to reconcile with his daughter before the estrangement is permanent.

Dear Annie: Last night, my husband finally came home after being away for three weeks. He was exhausted, mentally and physically. He is still tense, and I know it will take him at least a week to recover.

My husband is a trial lawyer. When he takes a case, he applies all of his training and skill, as well as his physical and mental energy toward helping his client. He wears himself out worrying about the case.

He works as hard as he can on his client’s behalf until the case is finished. It takes a toll, but I am proud of him.

I wish the people who make jokes about lawyers could see how much my husband cares for his clients and how hard he works for them. — Married To a Lawyer Dear Married: What a sweet and supportive letter. Lawyers generally have a terrible reputation (“sharks” comes to mind), but most attorneys are dedicated and extremely hardworking professionals.

Their job is to represent the client. They are obligated to do their best, but others often blame the attorney if the client is unpopular or the lawyer is aggressive in the client’s defense. But everyone is entitled to legal representation, and no one would want an attorney who makes a half-hearted effort. And many lawyers work pro bono (unpaid) cases in what little spare time they have. Thanks for the testimonial.

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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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If a romantic relationship isn’t (1950; Imogen Poots 1989 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour socializing, going well, it’s up to you to take steps to improve it — or be brave enough to walk away. Single Librans — if study, sport and travel. you’re looking for love, you’ll have to be proactive.

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Lexi Simmons holds the camera phone as she and her friends Lenae Peterson, Ivy Hiltz and Hayley Gedlaman get in on the picture as the girls swim in the outdoor pool at the Recreation Centre in Red Deer. The outdoor pool opened for the summer season on Monday, as did the Central Spray and Play spray park just north of the Recreation Centre.

County has trail concerns WHO WILL USE RED DEER-TO-SPRINGBROOK TRAIL, WHO WILL PAY, COUNCILLORS ASK

A group championing a Red Deer-toSpringbrook trail left Red Deer County council without the strong show of support they wanted.

“I was disappointed,” said Central Alberta Trails Society president Paul Pettypiece on Tuesday after the council meeting.

It was hoped that council would agree to help fund a consultation process to measure stakeholder and public interest in the link. That is the next

stage as outlined in the Springbrook to Red Deer Trails Concept Plan.

However, council didn’t close the door on the trail initiative.

“They didn’t actually say no,” said Pettypiece. “I think there’s a few people on council that certainly see the value of trails.”

Who will use the trails and who should pay for them remains a sticking point with some councillors.

Usership will be an important consideration, suggested Coun. Don Church. It remains questionable whether county residents not living near the proposed trail route would

Airport memorial gets county funding

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Jim Thoreson was the search coordinator on the night his friend and fellow pilot Herluf Nielsen went down in bad weather in 2008.

On Tuesday, the Red Deer pilot left Red Deer County council with the final $1,500 needed to cover the cost of a monument at Red Deer Airport honouring Nielsen, a veteran volunteer pilot with the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA).

On the same memorial will be etched the names of another 43 airmen, who lost their lives in training accidents at what was then Canadian Forces Base Penhold during the Second World War and later when it was a NATO flying training base.

“I’m really amazed,” said Thoreson, who wasn’t expecting council to provide the outstanding cost of the $7,000 three-sided memorial that will be unveiled on Oct. 3 where the Harvard trainer sits on its plinth outside the airport terminal.

Nielsen, who lived and farmed in the Spruce View area, had 47 years of flying experience. He was well known

in Central Alberta aviation circles and was a founding member of the Innisfail Flying Club.

When he went down on a November night in 2008, he had just completed a night training exercise for the air search and rescue association, whose volunteers help find downed or missing aircraft and their occupants.

It was hoped to add Nielsen’s name to a monument in Winnipeg honouring search and rescue members lost on their mission but he didn’t qualify because it was a training accident.

Undeterred, friends and supporters began planning for a local monument.

On finding no formal recognition existed for other pilots lost over the years in training operations, they changed the scope of the project.

There was no shortage of support, with the Harvard Historical Aviation Society, Red Deer Flying Club, CASARA and local RCAF association all working together.

Now that the monument is paid for, fundraising will continue for a special ceremony.

For more information, call Thoreson at 403-346-6731 or email jimthoreson@shaw.ca. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Coun. Christine Moore said a key factor in making a decision will be what sort of support and partnerships are available. “The devil is in the details,” she said.

Four separate trail routes and cost estimates were provided to council.

They include eight-km to 16-km trails depending on route, with price tags between $2.4 million and $8.3 million.

Council voted to receive the staff report for information and to discuss the project with Red Deer city council at an already-planned council-to-council session late this month.

Pettypiece said the group believes the city supports the trail concept and he would like to see the idea taken to the public for feedback and to gauge support.

There is some urgency in getting the project rolling. As part of a nationwide initiative to complete the Trans Canada Trail in time for the country’s 150th birthday in 2017, funding is available covering up to half of the cost of trail construction. For the trail society, it is an opportunity not to be missed and likely a critical component of the project going ahead. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Short films screened

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Films about warring angels and crime-fighters in parallel dimensions are among 20 made-in-Red Deer shorts to be screened this weekend in downtown Red Deer.

Red Deer College’s Motion Picture Arts Films of the Year Festival runs from Friday to Sunday at the Welikoklad Event Centre.

It will include some notable student efforts, including AN.X.O, which was chosen as a finalist in the Prairie-wide Storyhive contest. The film by graduating RDC student Vincent Joachim, is about angels who use humans as pawns in their cosmic battle. The 10-minute effort is one of the most challenging an RDC student has ever attempted, because of all the special effects involved, said Motion Picture Arts instructor James Wilson.

Another recognized short is sci-fi film Refraction, by student Peter Kominek. It involves time travellers who defeat criminals in parallel dimensions, and was nominated (but didn’t win) in the best student short category for a 2015 Alberta Film and Television

Award.

Themes of other student films are more true-to-life than fantasy — including Truth, a short comedy by Tessa Simpson, who received a Prairie Dog Film and Television Screenwriting Award for another script she’d written.

“Most of the films are quite simple and down-to-earth,” noted Wilson, who mentioned Mending With Gold, a poetic film about motivating yourself to experience all life has to offer, by student Cassy Johnston.

He believes festival audiences will find good stories in this collection — as well as many recognizable settings.

“Most of the films have been shot in Red Deer and area, so you’ll see Bower Ponds and the hospital. ... Although they’ve been dressed for other uses, you’ll be able to recognize some popular locations.”

Wilson believes that attending the festival is a good way to celebrate student achievements and support upand-coming filmmakers.

Screenings will run two hours each night, with the same lineup of films shown each evening.

Tickets to the 7 p.m. festival are $10 at the door. Cash only. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Children’s festival features fun for family Children will be entertained, engaged and enthralled at the ninth annual Central Alberta Children’s Festival this weekend.

The festival runs on Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Rotary Recreation Park south of the Red Deer Recreation Centre.

Entertainment includes Flyin’ Bob, Professor Klunk, a traditional Aboriginal dance group, and a Red Deer marching band. Tap dancers, jazzercise, science experiments, and taekwondo will be part of the fun. There will also be games and other activities.

Tickets are $6 each, or $20 for a family of four. Children one and under get in free. Tickets are available from the gate or by pre-ordering at 403-343-6400.

Festival goers are reminded to bring their water bottles. There will be water filling stations.

For more details, go to www. centralalbertacildren’sfestival.ca.

Local students earn honours at Skills Canada finals Eight local students did Central Alberta proud recently, earning medals at the National Skills Canada competition in Saskatoon.

Red Deer College students picked up two gold medals, in welding and cabinetmaking; a silver medal in carpentry; and a bronze medal in sprinkler and fire protection.

Olds College earned two gold medals for landscape gardening.

Two Red Deer high school students earned medals: a gold for electrical installation and a bronze for IT solutions for business.

Post-secondary awards: ● Calum Harbidge, RDC, gold, welding. ● Dustin Sejdl, RDC, gold, cabinetmaking. ● Dennis Borren, RDC, silver, carpentry. ● Brandon McCullock, RDC, bronze, sprinkler and fire safety. ● Jeff Oostlander, Olds College, gold, landscape gardening. ● Joshua Van Hierden, Olds College, gold, landscape gardening.

High school awards: ● Eric Koster, Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School, gold, electrical installation. ● Taylor Fielder, Hunting Hills High School, bronze, IT Software solutions for business.

Skills Canada pits trades and technical students from across Canada in regional, provincial and then national competitions.

Photo radar locations until June 15 from RCMP Red Deer RCMP will train cameras on motorists at 19 school, playground and traffic corridors until June 15.

School zones: Nolan Street, 55th Avenue, Oleander Drive, 48th Avenue, and 43rd Avenue.

Playground zones: Lancaster Drive, Allan Street, Jewell Street, Boyce Street, Oak Street, 57th Avenue and Inglewood Drive.

Traffic corridors: 40th Avenue, 32nd Street, Barrett Drive, Taylor Drive, 50th Avenue, 50th Street, and 77th Street.

RCMP reserve the option to change locations without notice.

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A group of hungry goslings chase after and wrestle with their siblings over pieces of bread at Bower Ponds. A large group of recently hatched geese can be seen frolicking around the ponds. Visitors to the area are encouraged not to feed the wildlife. named Miss Teenage Lacombe County.

She is one of 17 Alberta finalists who will compete in Toronto from Aug. 2 to 10.

Henry is raising money for Free the Children, an international charity that works in Canada and overseas. She has also raised $3,400 for Cardiac Kids, with the support of Lucienne Henry will her friends and host a fundraising family.

Henry is rais- event in Clive on ing money at a June 20. street dance on June 20 at 7 p.m. in Clive. Tickets are $10 and include six opportunities to win draw prizes.

Thirty per cent of the proceeds of the event will go to Free the Children.

The rest will support her entry fee.

Entrants for Miss Teenage Canada pay $2,500 plus taxes to enter the competition. They also pay for their own transportation, ball gown and attire.

For more details, go to www.facebook.com/Luciennemissteenagelacombecounty2015.

To see other Miss Teenage Canada competitors, go to www.missteenagecanada.com.

According to a Tuesday police release, an Aboriginal man and woman left the store with a large number of electronics, failing to pay for them.

It is reported the woman went to the store’s electronics department saying she had a purchase order. The clerk gave her iPads, tablets and computers.

A total of 79 items were stolen, valued at $3,700.

Anyone with information about this incident or the identities of the suspects is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Next donation decision on Monday for 100 Men 100 Men Red Deer will be giving away its second donation of the year on Monday.

The group will meet at Fionn MacCool’s Red Deer to determine who should receive the donation.

100 Men is a local group of more than 100 men who have committed to donate $100, four times a year, to a charitable organization. Members nominate a charity and then hear from the nominees before casting their votes.

The first agency to receive funds was the Red Deer Food Bank, which received $10,800, earlier this year.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7 p.m.

Spruce View ball diamonds to get some county funds

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Computers, tablets stolen from Wal-Mart

Clive girl in the running for Miss Teenage Canada

Computers, iPads and tablets totaling $3,700 were stolen from a Red Deer Wal-Mart in a brazen act of shoplifting.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the Parkland Mall Wal-Mart on May 15 to a reported theft.

A Clive resident is the latest local girl to vie for Miss Teenage Canada.

Lucienne Henry was recently

Red Deer County is going to pitch some money the way of Spruce View Community Association.

The county recently agreed to lease the local ball diamonds to the association, which is taking over maintenance and scheduling duties.

However, the diamonds produce little revenue and the association is facing maintenance costs.

Council agreed to amend its policy that provides funding help for community halls, cemeteries, playgrounds and multi-use facilities to add funding for facilities such as ball diamonds as well. Up to $5,000 will be available in 2016.

County cemetery funding to be examined by council Red Deer County plans to take a look at its cemetery funding.

The municipality provides up to $5,000 every three years to help pay for capital projects in rural cemeteries.

But there is nothing similar to help fund urban cemetery projects, although operational funding is available.

The problems with this policy came to light with a request from the Bowden Cemetery Association for $9,000 to install block markers to make it easier to find specific grave sites. A new entrance signed is also planned as part of the project that will total $11,000, which includes a $2,000 Town of Bowden contribution.

Council agreed to provide the $9,000, noting that many of the county’s early residents were buried in the town cemetery.

The county will also review its funding policy for urban cemeteries.

Local Wildrose MLA take shadow cabinet duties The five newly-elected Central Alberta Wildrose MLAs have been assigned shadow cabinet positions.

Don MacIntyre, representing Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, is responsible for electricity and renewables.

Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Ron Orr will follow Culture and Tourism.

Nathan Cooper, Olds-DidsburyThree Hills MLA, is house leader for Wildrose and also will shadow property rights.

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain HouseSundre MLA Jason Nixon is party whip and will look after democracy and accountability.

Rick Strankman, MLA for Drumheller-Stettler, will shadow agriculture, forestry and rural development.

All except for Strankman, who is in his second term, are first-terms MLAs. In all, Wildrose has a 21-person shadow cabinet — nearly twice the size of the NDP’s 12-member executive.

“Our team will advocate for more efficient government that focuses on people served, not dollars spent,” said Wildrose Leader Brian Jean.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015 will mark the 8th Annual Red Deer & District Community Foundation Women of Excellence Awards.

Each year we will recognize contributions and achievements of the women nominated in the Women of Excellence awards categories.

The Red Deer & District Community Foundation extends its warmest thanks to all of our sponsors, nominators and nominees for taking the time to participate in our efforts to celebrate the remarkable women of our community!

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Dorothy Dickson Dorothy Dickson has long been an admirer and staunch advocate for the natural world.

She has been involved with recycling programs and used pesticide container collections. She has worked with school curriculums to get more natural history into the schools, as well as teaching classes in elementary schools and helping teachers with projects. She has contributed to Red Deer Vision 2020 and other City planning documents. She has worked long and hard protecting our National and Provincial Parks as well as Natural Areas.

Perhaps the best way to sum up Dorothy’s work for the environment is what was written about her when she received the prestigious Douglas H. Pimlott Award and Honorary Lifetime Membership with the Canadian Nature Federation: “Dorothy is a tireless worker, deeply admired and respected by naturalists and environmentalists throughout Canada. Her decades-long efforts have educated and inspired teachers, youth, naturalists and Canadians to learn about nature and work towards its protection”. .

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Kaitlin is a community builder, volunteer and gem in the community of Lacombe. Kaitlin graduated from Burman University (formerly known as Canadian University College), with a degree in Business Administration in April of 2015. During her time in school, she helped organize Serve Lacombe, with over 200 faculty, staff and students volunteering their time for 22 different community projects in Lacombe and area. She volunteers as a swimmer with Special Olympians, a writer/reporter and volunteer for A Better World, nonprofit organization improving the lives of people in 3rd world countries, a 4-H Public Speaking Judge, Founder/Director of Change for Change, and a grade 3 teacher in the Marshall Islands. She is a positive influence and role model in our community for volunteerism, embracing diversity, and creating cross-cultural opportunities.

Lucienne grew up in a village called Clive.

She loves her community and is very involved whether it be participation in community events or helping organize, and run them.

Lucienne is currently in Grade 12 at Lacombe Composite High School. Even though she has been in this school for three years, she has had so many amazing opportunities including going to Ottawa for a political thinking class, organizing a reception for a past soldier who attended the school, Byron Greff and being on the grad committee.

One of the most important things in Lucienne’s life is the 4-H organization.

She loves what the organization stands for head, heart, hands, and health.

She is currently her club’s president and is currently District President for three consecutive years, a key member for two consecutive years and hopes to be chosen as an ambassador for Alberta 4-H in the East Central Region. She also has a passion for public speaking; it is her hope to progress to the provincial 4-H competition this year. She is also competing in the provincial skills competition for public speaking and hopes to progress to the national speaking competition and be representative for team Alberta.

Arts, Culture and Heritage WE demonstrate outstanding achievement in the expression, development, preservation, patronage and/or promotion of the performing, visual, literary or multi-media arts and/or cultural heritage

Elna Edgar

Elna is a passionate farmer, who has always been involved in agriculture in the Innisfail area. She was a 10 year 4-H member, who won efficiency & club week awards. After graduating from Olds College, Elna and her husband Doug worked the family farm, Edgar Farms, while raising two daughters. She spearheaded the diversification of the once-traditional farm, creating the largest patch of delicious asparagus in Alberta, as well as 30 acres of other vegetables, all hand-picked and marketed direct to consumers at Farmers Markets & her farm store. To offer an “on farm experience” for customers, Elna created a hugely popular annual Asparagus Festival. She also increased productivity of the cow herd through selection, herd health, record keeping & breeding and markets all natural beef. Elna believes in the value of co-operative marketing; helping create and manage Innisfail Growers’ Coop and Country Drive. She volunteers extensively for Little Red Deer Dorcas Women’s Institute, Little Red Deer Hall Board, Innisfail Agricultural Society and Innisfail United Church. Elna has won many awards, as part of Edgar Farms, including Farm Family of the Year, Farm Direct Marketer of the Year and Innovation in Agriculture.

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Ellen grew up in Calgary and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and Media Research from the Alberta College of Art in 1977. She also attended the University of Calgary, Emily Carr Fine Arts College and the Ontario College of Art. Ellen is a loving wife and the mother of two adult children and a proud grandmother.

Despite having a full and busy family life Ellen continues to dedicate her time professionally and through her volunteerism to developing and promoting the arts. Her vision, creativity and enthusiasm are contagious.

She is also an accomplished artist and painter. Currently, Ellen sits on several boards and committees including the Lacombe Arts Endowment Fund, serves as Treasurer for the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre Foundation and the Cranna Community Cultural Centre (C4) Initiative. Ellen is also involved with the Lacombe Historical Society and the Lacombe Heritage Steering Committee. Ellen is the Regional Archive Coordinator, Tourism Coordinator and Bookkeeper with the Lacombe and District Historical Society, and is also the Bookkeeper for the Lacombe Chamber of Commerce.

After completing her education at the University of Alberta and teaching in Stettler and Edmonton, Norma came to the Innisfail community in 1972. After many successful years teaching in early childhood education, elementary and special education, Norma became a junior high language arts teacher and the Innisfail High School drama teacher.

Through her love of teaching and the dramatic arts, she has inspired many students to appreciate drama some of whom have become professional actors and drama teachers. She has provided drama workshops to drama teachers throughout the province and adjudicated plays. She was a founding member of the Innisfail Town Theatre in which she has acted, directed and produced plays. She has been a strong role model for volunteerism with her contribution to community organizations such as Brownies and Guides, the Innisfail Christmas Bureau and the Innisfail Foreign Workers Support Program. In 1991, she was awarded the Lescarbot National Award for Cultural Contribution to Canada. In 2006, she was awarded the Innisfail Community Builders Award and was named the Innisfail Citizen of the Year in 2009. Norma has been married for forty six years, has two children and six grandchildren.

Athletics, Recreation and Fitness Business and the Professions WE participate, coach and mentor, serving as an inspiration to others through our WE are acknowledged in their field for leadership and consistent commitment to excellence. WE leverage their achievements and example and accomplishments, thereby enhancing the physical well-being of the management skills to facilitate change and create opportunities in either the for-profit and non-for-profit sectors. WE demonstrate a Sponsored by Johnston Ming Manning LLP residents of Red Deer and Central Alberta. Sponsored by The Consider it Done Team, Century 21 respect for and engagement with her community, clients/stakeholders and colleagues.

Michelle Andrishak

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Michelle is the Small Business Advisor at the Rural Alberta Business Centre in Rocky Mountain House. She is dedicated to the success of all businesses in Rocky Mountain House and surrounding communities.

Her vision and enthusiasm have brought recognition to our communities through her work on the Central Alberta Business Innovation Conference, the Small Business Incubator model, high school business programs and community networks. From one-on-one business coaching to community showcases, Michelle is the driving force behind the success of small rural business and has renewed an excitement in the business communities of Central Alberta.

CONGRATULATIONS

Inger has a very successful business career.

Her initial professional banking experience and organizational skills proved very valuable when she owned and operated a flower shop, became part owner of a mixed farming operation, part owner of the Don Laing Parts Ranch, and is now sole proprietor of Don Laing Trailers situated just outside of Ponoka on the Queen Elizabeth Highway. Inger is very involved in the business community in Ponoka as well as community organizations such as being a board member on the Ponoka Agricultural Society, Ponoka Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Council, and the Festival of Trees to mention a few organizations to which she has made a difference. Inger is organized, thoughtful, thorough, disciplined, hard-working and can be completely counted on to do what she says she is going to do. Inger is very customer focused in doing business and is always pleasant, friendly, and a great source of encouragement to all who know her.

Inger is one of the best business women in Central Alberta.

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Arlene lives by her belief that exercise is fundamental to good health. She also believes the best exercise is the one you’ll do! Soon after being introduced to Jazzercise in 1988, she obtained instructor certification and opened the first Jazzercise class in Red Deer. Her goal has always been to consistently teach safe, effective, motivating classes to help her customer’s live healthier, happier lives through fitness. Her skills and knowledge as a Registered Nurse have been a very beneficial part of the journey. Arlene works as the Senior Advisor for Occupational Health Nursing for Alberta Health Services in the Employee Health & Wellness Department. She is married to her husband Randy for 35 years and is a mom of 2 daughters, Erin and Aubree. Arlene has been a resident of Red Deer since 1987.

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Luci Henry

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Luci Henry and her husband Garth are the proud parents of 2 daughters, ages 17 and 15.

Luci and her daughters have a passion for horses and rural life. Her days are full with her various Council responsibilities, her volunteer work, after school sports/homework and extracurricular activities supporting her daughters. Luci has always believed that women who express an interest in having a voice within their community are able to articulate their unique perspectives, values, experiences and visions. This was coupled with a desire to play a positive role in her community while expanding her own knowledge base just as those before her that she saw as great examples of this. The focus for the future centered around providing educational opportunities for everyone from young girls & boys to mothers & fathers to help them recognize the value of their input, build self-esteem and to inspire an interest in participating. She also saw a need to develop a mentorship program for youth and families. Luci became involved in her community to help foster change and growth in an ever-changing world.

A natural leader and dedicated community builder, Amber Mack credits her passion for volunteering to being a cancer survivor.

Believing that survivorship is a chance to be a source of inspiration and motivator for change in her community, she feels that those who stand in a place of privilege have a duty to give back. Amber has spent the last 12 years being an advocate for change while inspiring and motivating other to become more involved in their community. Never one to sit idly by, she volunteers her time and talents to a number of organizations in the city but is most proud of her recent appointment to the Board of Directors for the Red Deer & District SPCA.

Linda Moore Martin Linda graduated from the Queen’s University Nursing Program with a BScN in 1979. She worked as an educator at Red Deer Regional Hospital for a year before embarking on her career as an educator in the nursing program at Red Deer College. Linda taught nursing for many years before becoming the Chair of the Nursing Department. Linda completed her Master of Nursing degree from the University of Calgary with a focus on Women’s Health. For the past six years, Linda was the Dean of the Division of Health, Science, Sport and Education, and this past year has been the Dean of the restructured RDC School of Health Sciences. Linda has maintained her registration and is proud to be a registered nurse.

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Tanya Schur Tanya is a Blackfoot-Metis mother of two grown children. She holds a MA in Leadership Studies from the Royal Roads University, Victoria. Her focus of research was “creating harmony in diverse work groups”.

Tanya is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre; she follows the traditional teachings of the medicine wheel and is committed to Aboriginal community development and the empowerment of Aboriginal people. Tanya has worked tirelessly in the Aboriginal community to build a governance model that the community would endorse and be able to utilize to work on issues affecting the Aboriginal community. This initiative has now grown into the Red Deer Aboriginal Voices Society. Tanya is leading the Assoahum Centre Project, which is the affordable housing and cultural centre project envisioned by the Aboriginal community.

Judy-Ann grew up in Florenceville, NB where community involvement has long been a tradition: one in which her parents were exemplary models. Since beginning her career with Alberta Health Services in 1984, she has supported church fundraisers, sports events, educational meetings and the Festival of Trees.

In all her leadership roles, her commitment to building a vibrant organization has been clear.

Judy-Ann’s dedication (using WOOing and ACTIVATOR strengths) continue to inspire others to commit to volunteering. Her every endeavour is brightened by her constant good humor and zest for life. She believes her husband Johan and children Hannah and Erik have been important teachers of life’s lessons. Her favorite motto is “getting without giving is to miss the best part of living.”

Shirley Tiong Shirley is an educational leader whose dedication and commitment to teaching excellence has earned her the respect of her colleagues and the appreciation and gratitude of her students. She has 25 years of teaching experience in teaching children from Kindergarten to Grade 3, primarily in the French Immersion Program and is currently teaching Grade 2 French Immersion students at Ecole S. McCormick School in Lacombe.

Shirley is committed to the success of each one of her students and truly believes that all children can and must learn. Students not only learn about reading, writing and math, they learn life lessons about self-respect, respect for others and how to be a responsible citizen. Shirley’s gift is her ability to make children feel valued and that they matter and to recognize the strength in their uniqueness.

This alone empowers them to strive to exceed their personal best.

Entrepreneurship WE have a solid vision of the future, and possess creativity and ingenuity that separates us from our peers. WE have taken an innovative approach to solving a problem, filling a need or breaking into a new market. WE have made sacrifices and risked a great deal to successfully manage, launch or Sponsored by MNP revive a business, product service or community organization.

Shazma Charania Shazma was born and resides in Red Deer with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys skiing and travelling. She made the decision to join the family business after turning down job opportunities. Passionate about leading her team to levels of high achievements, she steered the growth of her family business from two to seven hotels. Her vision is “To be the industry leader in selected emerging markets in Western Canada” and maintains a corporate culture.

Shazma takes pride in giving back and understands the value of creating opportunities. Serving on different boards, she has helped with many firsts.

Shazma has won awards at municipal and industry levels and all hotels rank in top positions based on consumer and industry reports.

Brenda Kolasa Brenda’s entrepreneur career began in 1994, when she started her company, Visual Resolve Graphics. Over time she recognized that entrepreneurs faced similar issues – specifically a platform that offered businesses a reliable resource network. Her passion realized this unique concept in 2013, when she introduced Success4Business. This online Consortium and Annual Business Expo offers a range of resources: expert/mentor consultations, a diverse business directory, plus quality speakers, seminars and workshops.

Acting as Producer and Facilitator, Brenda helps other businesses to grow and succeed. Brenda is actively involved in several organizations including Rotary Club East, Red Deer Leads Executive Association, Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce, Red Deer Business Networking Group Meet-up, and the Professional Women’s Network. Brenda received the Rotarian of the Year Award, from the Rotary Club East, two years in a row (2010 and 2011). Born and raised a Saskatchewan prairie girl, she became a proud Albertan in 1984. Brenda is married and a busy mother of two energetic teenagers.

Sheila Mielke Sheila is the owner/administrator and principle teacher of Discoveries Playschool. Her business operates two campuses in Innisfail to serve the families of the town and surrounding area.

She employs and mentors 5 women from the community. Her play-based programming and child centered philosophy has been meeting the educational needs of 3 - 5 year olds for twenty-one years. Her program is outstanding in its efforts to meet the needs of 120 children every school year. A mother of three and a grandmother, Sheila volunteers at the Innisfail United Church, with the local Brownie troop and the local theatre group, The Innisfail Town Theatre- which recently earned her the Cultural Citizen of the Year for the Town of Innisfail. Her community has long benefitted from her dedication, organizational skills, talents, passion and graciousness.

Lifetime Achievement Honours a woman, who for many years of her life, has been a role model, mentor and/or advocate for positive change. The recipient has been a Woman of Excellence who is dedicated to improving the lives of other throughout their lives – in their work, their homes, and their community activities. She has made a profound difference in the lives of those around her.

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Crystal Lynch Crystal is an inspiring, caring and courageous woman who has dedicated her life to helping others. Although challenged with chronic health conditions, she reaches out as a volunteer to help those who face similar challenges and to healthcare students/ caregivers to assist them with caring for those with MS. Crystal met her Irish husband Sam in May 1993 and two weeks into their relationship she disclosed she had MS. He indicated “whatever happens, we will do this together” and they were married 9 months later on Valentine’s Day. Crystal has a passion for helping people and contributing to her community through volunteering with a variety of organizations such as the MS Society, Red Deer Ostomy Association, Salvation Army Christmas Campaign and the Red Deer Christmas Bureau. In addition to volunteering, Crystal creates hand-crafted jewelry and floral wreaths and arrangements and won seven years of firsts at the Westerner Fair.

Halina Jarvis Halina is a passionate humanitarian. She is the current Executive Director at Loaves and Fishes Benevolent Society. She has held this position for the last seven years. Prior to this, she served as Vice-for President for thirty years of a company associated with the oilfield sector.

These skills have proved invaluable in her present position with Loaves and Fishes. Along with her oilfield work Halina was involved with translating for people new to Canada. She donated her time and energy for five years in Immigration Hearings and various agencies pertinent to immigrants working towards permanent status in Canada.

As president of her hometown community club, Halina organized fundraisers as well as community functions. The experience gained in fundraising for the community has also proved a valuable tool in her present capacity as Director of Loaves and Fishes. Halina has experience working in an extended care facility as well as caring for seniors while employed by a homecare company. She has also given her heart, time and energy as principal caregiver to terminally ill friends and family. These experiences have molded Halina’s compassion for those who are suffering. Halina is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of three grandchildren.

Brenda Rebman Brenda is currently the President and CEO of Futures Resources Partners Inc., a human resources consulting company. She is a visionary, solutions focused strategist with 30 years of multi-faceted experience in operations, strategy development, leadership, change management and high-profile relationship management in multiple Provinces in Canada.

A resourceful, passionate, high-energy leader and mentor with infectious enthusiasm and persuasive presentation and communications skills. She is adept at building high performance teams that leverage existing strengths and embrace continuous innovation to create customer focused value-add services for clients. Brenda’s background includes twenty-five years in public sector health care and education, primarily focusing on providing leadership and direction for building sustainable organizations. She is a leader in the development of many tools for planning, managing and evaluating people practices in organizations. She holds a B. Admin, MBA and Certified Human Resources Professional Designation, along with many certifications in the fields of health care, facilitation and human resources consulting. Brenda has served on provincial and national committees, authored articles on sustainable workplaces, and attended as guest speaker and panelist at many public sector events focusing on the state of our workforce and innovative strategies for attraction, engagement, retention and succession planning.

Brenda Sargeant Brenda is an entrepreneur, mom, wife and volunteer. Born and raised on a farm outside of Munson, Brenda believes that participation in events, causes, and activities is what builds strong communities. Brenda co-founded a group called The Real Housewives of Red Deer in 2012 which has become a community of over 200 friends and strangers joining together to cook meals for the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House of Central Alberta.

Brenda is also a member of the Social Media Breakfast Red Deer Steering Committee, and her company, Unlimited BS – Small Business Web Design, donates services to various local non–profits. She also volunteers for Veteran Voices of Canada, United Planet, Red Cross Blood Donor Clinics and the Ponoka Hospital Brain Injury Unit.

Michele Kercher Michele started volunteering for the Crisis Centre over 10 years ago. She began volunteering for the crisis line and taking over administrative duties at the front desk when the administrative assistant was away. After six years of volunteering, Michele began to do the volunteer crisis line and sexual assault response team (SART) scheduling and became more involved with training process. Over the past few years, she had obtained a great deal of knowledge through not only continuing to volunteer for the afterhours services the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre provides, but learning from each of her coworkers as well as the SART members and volunteers. She does not allow her own personal challenges deter her from helping other and her inner strength is just astounding. Michele enjoys playing a very proactive role in the agency and community for the survivors of sexual assault.

Ethel Suarez Ethel has been a board member and volunteer for Central Alberta Refugee Effort (C.A.R.E.) for 34 years. Ethel and her family came to Red Deer in 1977 as political refugees. Since then, she has always been a champion, an inspiration and role model for immigrants and refugees in our community. As someone who had to flee her native country of Uruguay, she knows the challenges of adapting to a new country. Her mission has always been to help immigrants to adapt and integrate in Central Alberta. Ethel did that by volunteering for Amnesty International and as a volunteer translator for the RCMP, the courts, the hospital and other institutions. Her efforts have contributed to help building a stronger multicultural community. She was a recipient of the Mayor’s Recognition Award in 2012 and the Stars of Alberta Volunteer Award in 2011.

Marilyn Watters Marilyn moved to Red Deer in 1992 following her husband’s retirement from the military.

Since then, she has been actively involved with many groups around Red Deer including: Sexual Assault Center, United Way, Red Deer Kinette Club and Line of Hope. Marilyn joined the Red Deer Kinette Club in 2009. She has chaired many events that have brought thousands of dollars to various charities around Central Alberta. While employed by Tigertel, she won many awards including: President’s Award, Make It Real – Yellow Pages Business Award and many certificates of recognition for her outstanding sales. Since her retirement from Tigertel, she has also become actively involved with Line of Hope. Every spare minute is given to helping the community. She brings true meaning to Kin Canada’s motto “Serving the Community’s Greatest Need.”

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Obituaries THOMPSON Olive Madeline Thompson went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on May 28, 2015 at the age of 95. Olive was born in Scollard, Alberta on November 16, 1919 to Rufus and Laura Thomas. She had three brothers and two sisters and is survived by her brother, Bud Thomas. Olive married Jim Thompson on October 30, 1940 and from that day their lives were inseparable. They initially farmed in the Rumsey area before moving to Pincher Creek where Jim worked for Alberta Gas Trunkline.

Golfing, tennis and an active lifestyle were always important to them. Olive enjoyed crafts, cooking and playing cards. Above all, family was always the focus of their lives. Jim and Olive enjoyed their retirement years in Victoria Park, as well as their winters in Arizona.

Olive will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 74 years, Jim Thompson, their four children and their families - Cliff (Agnes) Thompson, Doug (Beth) Thompson, Linda (George) Capton, Stan (Nancy) Thompson. Olive was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother whose heart was for her family. She leaves a legacy of love and commitment and will be deeply missed by all who knew her.

GRAHAM Richard ‘Dick’ Keith Dec. 25, 1937 - May 30, 2015 Dick Graham passed away peacefully at Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, May 30, 2015 where Dick’s family and friends were surrounded by staff and volunteers who provided compassionate care with all the ‘comforts’ of home. He leaves his loving wife of 51 years, Rhea (Malcomnson) Graham; daughter, Marsha Graham; son Tom and wife Karen Graham and his cherished grandsons, Hugh Graham, Charlie Graham. Dick was the eldest son of the Graham clan and is survived by siblings; Mervyn/Mary Dale Graham, Peggy/Ed Stewart, Gordon/ Joyce Graham, Sharon Graham and their families.

Dick was predeceased by his mother Gertrude (Doig) Graham and stepfather James Forest Graham. After graduating from Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1959 Dick’s career/ work life took him to Brockville and Sarnia in Ontario, then in 1977 moved his family to Calgary, Alberta.

Dick and Rhea relocated to Central Alberta in 2000 where they enjoyed recreational activities at both Bergen Springs Estates and Sierras Michener Hill. As snowbirds for over 10 years Dick and Rhea enjoyed living at Desert Paradise RV Resort and Sundance RV Resort in Yuma Arizona. His lifelong love of ‘nature’ and hiking gave Dick the opportunity to manage Bluebird Trails to assist with the study, conservation and restoration of the natural range of the Mountain Bluebird in Southern Alberta.

At Dick’s request, in lieu of flowers, memorial tributes in Dick’s honor maybe made directly to The Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6 or to the Ellis Bird Farm, Lacombe, AB. T0C 0Y0.

There will be a celebration of Dick’s life to be held at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Obituaries ARMSTRONG Mary Lou The family of Mary Lou Armstrong, who passed away on May 13th, 2015, would like to invite all of their friends and family to a Memorial Tea on Saturday, June 13th, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the Harvest Center at Westerner Park, 4847A-19th Street, Red Deer, Alberta.

Please come and share in a time of remembrance for Mary Lou. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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SCHROEDER Gunther Dec. 23, 1945 - May 30, 2015 It is with great sadness that the family of Gunther Kurt Schroeder announce that he was escorted by angels into the loving arms of his Heavenly Father on May 30, 2015. Gunther was born in Gehren, Germany on December 23, 1945 and as a young child he immigrated to Canada with his family. In 1968 he married Debbie, the love of his life. They and their two children lived in Calgary for 11 years before moving to Lacombe where they have resided for 35 years. Gunther is survived by his son Kurt (Lyn) Schroeder and his grandsons Evan and Noah.

He was predeceased by his daughter Christy on June 2, 2014 and is survived by her children - Nick, Luke, Katarina, Angelica, and Alexa Andreeff.

Gunther also leaves to mourn his passing his stepmother Erika Schroeder, his mother-in-law Helene Zeliznik; his sister Inge (Ken) Kluk; sisters-in-law Valerie (Barry) Garding and Robin (Glen) Bird. He will be missed by his many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews and by the many good friends he made throughout his life. Gunther was also predeceased by his mother and father, Klara and Harry Schroeder, and his father-in-law Bill Zeliznik. As a retired steam fitter, he was a lifetime member of Local 488. Gunther loved to travel in his motorhome and all his grandchildren have memories of the trips they took with him. He was a rock hound and enjoyed spending time in the Arizona desert. He loved to work in his yard and enjoyed entertaining family and friends in his garden oasis. Although our hearts are broken today, we are comforted by the assurance and our unfailing hope that he is now in heaven with his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and that we, as believers, will be reunited with him for eternity. At Gunther’s request there will be no funeral service. A private internment ceremony for family members will take place on June 3, 2015.

Friends are invited to gather for a time of fellowship with the family at the Schroeder residence, 5 - 43 Avenue Close, Lacombe, AB at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca and donations can be made to the Canadian Red Cross in Gunther’s memory.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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Leo Joseph Falardeau Dec. 12, 1931 - June 3, 2013 Dear friend, Loving Companion

BOMHOF Jo-Ann With deep sadness mingled with thanksgiving we announce the passing of Jo-Ann. She was a supportive wife to Gary for over 38 years, a loving mother to Jeremy (Cathy) of Winnipeg, Teresa, of Winnipeg; David (Vicky) of Penhold and Alesha (Brad) of Kitchener, and a doting grandmother to Lucas, Arie, Suzanne, Brendan, Rya, Bennett and Jacob.

Jo-Ann is predeceased by her mother Theresa in 2011. She will be sadly missed by her father, Jan, brothers Art (Liz) and Jack, all of B.C., numerous relatives and many friends located in the various places she has lived - Burnaby, B.C., Mt. Brydges, and Drayton, ON, Winnipeg, MB, Lethbridge and Red Deer, AB. Our sadness comes from losing a kind, caring, humorous individual who was always concerned more about another person’s welfare much before her own. She leaves a gaping hole in our hearts. Jo-Ann fought a valiant, 6 year battle against scleroderma and succumbed to complications following lung transplant surgery.

We rejoice in knowing that her pain and suffering are over and she has entered through the heavenly portals by way of her unwavering faith in Her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Visitation will take place at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar St, Red Deer, AB on Thursday, June 4 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The interment will take place at Alto Reste Cemetery on Friday, June 5 at 10:30 a.m. with a memorial service to follow at 1:00 p.m. at First Christian Reformed Church of Red Deer. “…. And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever” Psalm 23: 6 Donations may be made to the Scleroderma Society of Canada, 41 King William Street, Suite 206, Hamilton, ON, L8R 1A2 or to Noah’s Ark, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 0M1.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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MacBETH Sheila Margaret 1926 - 2015 Sheila passed away peacefully on May 26, 2015 at the age of 88 in Edmonton, where she lived with her daughter Isabel and family. Sheila blessed them with her loving heart and gracious nature for the past 3 1/2 years. She is now with her Lord and Savior in heaven. Sheila is predeceased by her husband Archibald, her son, Donald and grandsons, Frances Archibald, Donald Kyle and Rhys Michael. She will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her children, Sheila (Dan), Margaret, Neil (Heather), Douglas, Catherine (Darryl) and Isabel (Lachlan); and many wonderful grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718 Ross Street, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday June 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Sheila’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta , #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

ROSE Garry Francis Garry passed away suddenly in Red Deer on May 31, 2015 at the age of 60 years. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Sharon; daughter, Tina; and by his grandchildren.

Garry is predeceased by his daughter, Heather. For those who wish to pay their respects, viewing will be held on Friday, June 5, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

A funeral service will follow at 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com .

Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

Gone are the days we used to share, But in my heart you are always there.

Never more than a thought away Loved and remembered everyday.

Carol

In loving memory of JUNE ANN QUINTILIO Apr. 29, 1947 - June 3, 2014 Beautiful memories silently kept, of one that we loved, and will never forget.

Love from your family.

NESBITT Shirley Carol (Watson) Shirley was born in Innisfail, Alberta on October 18, 1934 and passed away peacefully Sunday May 24, 2015 in Sidney, BC. where she lived with her husband Charles (Chuck) Nesbitt. Shirley and Chuck were happily married for 59 years until Shirley’s passing. Shirley grew up in Pine Lake, and attended school at Pine Lake, Belgrove, Willowdale, Arthurville and Red Deer Composite High School. Her husband Chuck was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and during his career he and Shirley lived in and visited many places in Canada and the United States, with a two year stopover in Europe.

They later retired from the service to Sidney, British Columbia.

Shirley was predeceased by her parents, Joyce and Harold Watson.

She is lovingly remembered by her husband Chuck and their three children; Ken (Suzanne) Nesbitt, Gayle (Darryl) Cartier, and Robert (Wendy) Nesbitt and her four grandchildren; Alena, Michael, Colton and Kelsey. Shirley is also survived by her three brothers; Ken (Elma) Watson of Lacombe, Alan Watson of Red Deer, and Eugene (Marguerite) Watson of Red Deer, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Condolences may be sent to Chuck Nesbitt and family at chasenesbitt@shaw.ca

Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages

TENSEN Winnifred (Wijntje) KATHY SANGRET 1923 - 2015 Thinking of you Always!

Your Family Winnie passed away to be with the Lord at the Red Deer MOM Regional Hospital on Every day that I wake up I Thursday, May 28, 2015 at start thinking of you and I the age of 92 years. Winnie realize how lonely the world was born April 15, 1923 in and I are without you in it! the City of Zwolle, the Missing you every day!

Netherlands. She immigrated to Canada in 1958 and Kim settled in Red Deer, where she had several brothers and sisters living. She worked till her retirement at Michener Graduations Centre.

Winnie was predeceased by her parents; Willem Tensen and Pietertje Prins, six brothers and one sister. She is survived by three sisters; Tos In’tVeld, Gretha Roseboom, Willy Tensen, two brothers; John (Frances) Tensen and Pete (Betty) Tensen, three sistersin-law; Grace Tensen, Bep Wymenga, Gay Tensen and numerous nieces, nephews, her church family and all her friends at Parkvale Estates.

Interment will take place at Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 11 East, Red Deer County, on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. A Celebration of MICHELLE PANIAGUA Winnie’s life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, Congrats on graduating with 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, your Bachelor of Science in on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at Nursing degree from U of A! 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Jack We are proud of you Hielema officiating. Family and your hard work! and Friends are invited to come. Condolences may be Love your family forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Celebrations EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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To THE best Dad ever.

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With love from Shauna, Sandy, Greg and family.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 3, 2015

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Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Buying or Selling your home?

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710

Caregivers/ Aides

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F. quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

755

Farm Work

THE ALZHEIMER Society of Alberta and NWT has an opening for a First Link Coordinator located in the Red Deer office. This position is a contract position for a maternity leave. Degree in social services, health services or education and one year of experience in related field is preferred. Diploma and relevant experience may be considered.

Responsibilities include: receiving and acknowledging referrals, conducting interviews, data entry and assisting with program delivery. Please send resumes and related documents to: cprysunka@ alzheimer.ab.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Restaurant/ Hotel

ALBERTA SPRINGS GOLF RESORT Req’s Full time Line, Broiler Cook. Banquet experience. Competitive wages and Gratuities.

Fax resume to 403-342-5995 John@ albertaspringsgolf.com

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810

HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Fairview - Upper

South Hill

HUGE GARAGE SALES Fairways on the Ridge. 22, 21, 3, & 4, 4901 FARRELL AVE June 3, 4 & 5, noon 8, June 6 & 7, 9-5

3310 49 AVE. (Back Yard) June 4, 5 & 6. 10-5. Lawn furniture, tools, antique baby buggy, toy vehicles (boxed), NHL hockey cards, memorabilia, etc.

SKID STEER operator and sorter req’d for afternoon / evening shift. A recycling facility in Red Deer.

Please email resume to: canpak@xplornet.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

126 OAKLANDS CRES. June 4 & 5, 3-6. Kitchen wares, tools, Green Power juicer, Nuwwave infared oven, misc. items.

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s Valid Driver’s Licence permanent F/T & P/T front preferred. Fax or email counter staff for all shifts info@goodmenroofing.ca (days, eves. and wknds). or (403)341-6722 Please send resume to: NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

860

Truckers/ Drivers

880

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CEA AIR A respected leader in the pneumatics industry is looking for:

An Office Person for our Red Deer Branch A mechanical aptitude and /or knowledge in pneumatics is an asset, but will train the right candidate.

Includes health plan.

We look forward to hearing from you; please submit resumes to: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

820

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person Immediate Opportunity in the Dairy Industry:

Parts TechnicianShipper Parts TechnicianWarehouse Clean class 5 req.

Mon-Fri, comp. wage, benefits. Email resume to: lindsay@prolineinc.ca

Operators Busy road construction company looking for operators. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license.

Fax resume to 403-309-0489 SHRUMS MEATS Stettler, F/T BUTCHER $20 - $30/hr.

Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

FULL TIME

SUPERVISORS

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1640

1/4

7 ” B & D circular saw, $25. 403-885-5020 DRILL, cordless, 3/8” Plus saw. $40. 403-314-0804 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 FREE FIREWOOD!!

FRESH CUT POPLAR. 12” - 15” lengths.

403-347-1997 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Landscaping

1240

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

DALE’S Home Reno’s MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Free estimates for all your WALK-INS WELCOME reno needs. 403-506-4301 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Advocate Opportunities

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS Needed for Early Morning in LANCASTER area: Earn approximately: $464.00 per month Reliable vehicle required For more information, please call PRODIE @ (403) 314-4301

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

1370

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE For VANIER Area With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

For LANCASTER Area

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

SOUTHBROOK AREA Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

Vanier Dr.

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

TRUE 450 treadmill $200 SOLD

SUNNYBROOK AREA

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1300

RECUMBENT exercise bike, good cond. $50.

403-347-8697

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Storage

GOLF Clubs, with bag, $20. 403-314-0804

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

VANIER AREA

BEAT THE RUSH! Book 5* JUNK REMOVAL now for your home projects. Property clean up 505-4777 Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, DUMP RUNS, clean ups and more. 403-550-2502 landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617 Moving &

1860

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

MORRISROE AREA

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 PILLOWS, decorative (3) white & silver/grey; $20. for all 3; queen quilt, light green, $5; Hoover upright vacuum, $25.

403-347-1637

Goods

Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive,

Ibbotson Close Imbeau Close

1000-1430

Roofing

1760

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

INGLEWOOD AREA

- Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

1290

Sale

ANDERS AREA

Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive

CLASSIFICATIONS

1200

1830

BOWER AREA

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SINGER sewing machine with cabinet $150 403-347-1992

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Sherwood Cres.

Accounting

1730

MATTRESS, double pillow top, $100; coffee and end tables, $125.

Can be viewed May 39 & COUCH tan asking $75.

30, Fri. 8 - 1 and Sat. 12-8 call (403)986-2849 at 101, 40 McLean St. or Matching chesterfield, love call 403-347-5911, seat, chair and ottoman, office desk, credenza, filing MICROWAVE Stand, $10; cabinet, deep freeze and 5 CD shelf, $10.; 7 drawer desk, $45; Ikea 2 drawer more 403-755-3782 desk, $25; 2 kitchen ROCKER/RECLINER, chairs, $15 for both; blue. Asking $150. double bed frame, $15. call (403)986-2849 Can be viewed May 39 & 30, Fri. 8 - 1 and Sat. 12-8 WANTED at 101, 40 McLean St. or Antiques, furniture and call 403-347-5911, estates. 342-2514 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 Stereos

CARRIERS REQUIRED

CARRIERS NEEDED

- Service Writing - Service Scheduling - Warranty Administration - Maintaining Paper Flow

Misc.

Services

TV's, VCRs

DRESSER & night stand, $75; Entertainment centre, $50; eggplant chair, $75.

Can be viewed May 39 & 30, Fri. 8 - 1 and Sat. 12-8 at 101, 40 McLean St. or call 403-347-5911,

1660

Advocate Opportunities

Duties include:

Handyman Services

1720

1760

SEARS portable stereo with AM/FM 8 track, cassett, turn table, cabinet 2 speakers, 100+ 8 track Cats tapes $150 403-347-1992 STEREO $125 obo KITTENS (3) born April 10.

403-347-0293 Firewood 2 - 6 toed males b/w each TOSHIBA DVD & VCR, front feet 1, normal cute $25; Sony Trinitron TV, 32” little grey female runt .

AFFORDABLE w/remote control & stand, FREE. 403-304-0126 Homestead Firewood $40; Lloyds stereo radio Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. and record player with 2 Central Alberta’s Largest avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 speakers, $75. ALL like Car Lot in Classifieds new. 403-346-6303 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

Misc. for PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 Sporting

3 days per week, no weekends

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Household Furnishings

Misc. for Sale

SKILL SAW, Craftsman 7.25 850, $50; 403-314-0804

2965 Bremner Avenue

SERVICE WRITER

POPLAR Ridge MULTI FAMILY west on Hyw 11, north @Alberta Springs Golf Course. June 5 & 6, 9-4. kids clothes, perennials, bikes, meat smoker, books, misc. household.

Watch for signs

1500-1990

Call (403) 347-6676

Red Deers Busiest RV Store

- Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined

CLASSIFICATIONS

BE CAREER READY IN 10 TO 12 MONTHS

880

Attributes:

RIMBEY TREES TREES SALE 2’ - 4’ White Spruce $10./ea. Minimum 20 tree purchase. Call Walter 403-748-3611 or leave msg

Y COMMUNOITRKER SERVICEaW nd Y COMMUENAITND SERVIC IONS ADDICT ER WORK

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

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NEW PROGRAMS

Now Hiring

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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EquipmentHeavy

1680

Garden Supplies

900

Employment Training

Out of Town

Oriole Park

850

Trades

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Requires

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling automated & roll off trucks. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca THE OPEN RANGE SALOON in Sylvan Lake req’s Front Line Cook. Full or Part time with Food Safety. Competitive wages. Please apply in person or email resume to: tnpjep@shaw.ca 403-887-3033 The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

880

Misc.

Help

FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male.

Paid daily. Resume & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

820

CENTRAL Alberta feed lot looking for exp. hen checker/ feedlot employee. Class 1 or 3 would be an asset. feedlot mandatory. email resume: dthengs@hotmail. JJAM Management (1987) com. or fax 403-638-3908.

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these You can sell your guitar Red Deer, AB locations: for a song...

5111 22 St. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 37444 HWY 2 S and we’ll sell it for you!

37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift Oilfield weekend day and evening both full and part time.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. benefits. Start ASAP. VACUUM TRUCK Job description OPERATOR www.timhortons.com Must have Class 3 licence Education and experience w/air & all oilfield tickets. not req’d.

Fax resume w/drivers Apply in person or fax abstract to 403-886-4475 resume to: 403-314-1303 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Professionals

SWISS Chalet -Red Deer HIRING FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS: $13.75 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and coordinate staff activities and customer service. Establish work schedule and train associates Interested parties can email swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1 866 928 5481 or deliver resume to unit #8, 5111 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

850

Trades

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Coming Events

Boundary Technical Group Inc.

820

553721E28-F3

50-70

Restaurant/ Hotel

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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Help

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in DEER PARK AREA 2 Blks. of Dempsey St, Dumas Cres. and Duffy Close also 1 Blk. of Davison Dr., Dietz Cl. and Durie Cl. $110.08/mo. ********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

880

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

1430

ALL yard & bobcat services, junk/tree/hedges.

403-358-1614 GARDENS ROTOTILLED 304-7250 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

HIRING ALL POSITIONS Wages starting at $13.00 per hour Health Benefits 554259F3-26

810

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Professionals

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main floor of house, w/dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, July 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds. all utils. 782-2007

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1100 avail. July 1 N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780 LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

Suites

3060

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

WESTPARK Main floor, 4 apartments, avail. immed, bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, 3 appls, rent $875 403-596-6000 shared laundry, heated LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. dbl. garage, no pets, n/s, rent & DD $1685 + power SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 & gas. 403-391-2292

Condos/ Townhouses

6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. or July 1 References required.

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Novel 16 years in the making

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Edmonton author Marina Endicott’s latest novel, ‘Close to Hugh,’ began as an exercise for a writing class 16 years ago.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Some 16 years ago, acclaimed Edmonton author Marina Endicott was teaching a writing class and asked her students to pen a tale about intentions.

She also participated in the exercise, in which one character had to be doing something and not wanting to let the other character know.

“I wrote this little scene about a man following an older woman into a thrift store and trying to do her a little bit of good without letting her know,” said the author of 2008’s Good to a Fault, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank

Giller Prize and won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

“I just put it away. I didn’t think about it for a long time but it just sat there in the back of my head, and I just knew those people really well, instantly.”

Over the years, other stories attached the original one and eventually formed her new novel, Close to Hugh.

The eponymous protagonist is a 50-something art gallery owner who falls off a ladder as he’s dealing with his dying mother and the crises of his friends during one fall week in Peterborough, Ont. “Maybe what made it more urgent to write it was that my own kids were growing up and about to leave and I was thinking about

being on the cusp of entering the world and being on the cusp of leaving the world, like Hugh’s mother is,” said Endicott.

“Maybe I couldn’t have really written it until I watched my kids growing up and growing out.”

Indeed, Close to Hugh is a multigenerational tale: as Hugh and his friends grapple with mid-life and end-of-life issues, a younger generation enters adulthood.

Characters include Ruth, a neighbour who helped raise Hugh and his childhood friends Della and Newell.

Della is a visual artist and Newell is an actor dating Hugh’s foe, Burton, who is directing a master class theatre project for teens.

The narrative shifts from Hugh’s perspective to stream of consciousness from other characters and includes various puns on the protagonist’s name.

Endicott said the puns came to mind as she “was thinking about duty and obligation and what we owe to other people.”

“The Hugh-you duality kept coming back to my mind and creeping into the writing. At first I was careful about it, because I know that some people have a problem with puns, they find them upsetting. I think they work way better on the page than if you say them out loud,” she said.

“But I came to realize that the pun was woven really deeply into what I was trying to do with the book — that I was trying to look at likeness, at how this is like this and these people are the same.

“At the same time, what’s built into a pun is they’re the same but there’s something interestingly and intriguingly different about them.”

A former actress and playwright, Endicott knew well the performing arts world she was writing about. (She even worked

‘I’M REALLY LOOKING AT HOW LIKENESSES BETWEEN PEOPLE, SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND PARENTS, BUT ALSO BETWEEN YOUTH AND AGE. THAT THOSE THINGS THAT ARE THE SAME AGAIN ARE THE THINGS THAT ALLOW US TO HAVE EMPATHY FOR OTHER PEOPLE.’ — MARINA ENDICOTT AUTHOR

in a theatre in Peterborough for 18 months when she first started acting.)

But when it came to writing about the visual arts, she was “approaching it as an outsider” and looking at it concretely, she said.

Close to Hugh also touches on the pervasiveness of technology, with characters using various devices and social media.

Ultimately, the book is about relationships between generations and how they’re similar in certain ways.

“I’m really looking at how likenesses between people, sons and daughters and parents, but also between youth and age,” said Endicott, whose 2011 novel The Little Shadows was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award.

“That those things that are the same again are the things that allow us to have empathy for other people.”

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