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Sporting women’s stilettos and kilts employees from Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub in Red Deer were all smiles after completing a one mile walk/run in Red Deer Thursday afternoon. From the left, Dylan Eastcott, Tim Phillips, Chris Caddy and Pat Nephin along with about 200 other men took part in the annual Walk A Mile in Her Shoes, Men’s march against domestic violence. About $46,000 was raised Thursday in Red Deer that will go towards funding projects at the Women’s Outreach in Red Deer.

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Aboriginal leaders doubtful Ottawa will act on report

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Remembering the Children Society members are not impressed with the federal government’s lack of commitment to the 94 recommendations in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report related to residential schools.

After six emotional years of hearings and testimony from survivors of the church-run and government-funded institutions, the exhaustive report was tabled on Tuesday.

In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper

suggested that his government has already moved on from addressing aboriginal concerns after the government of Canada issued a historic apology in 2008.

Remembering the Children Society president Charles Wood, of Saddle Cree Nation, said judging by the government’s immediate reaction, he feels more pessimistic than optimistic that there will be action.

Wood said the government does not have a great track record dealing with First Nations issues.

He pointed to the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples’ recommendations that were never fully implemented.

“All those recommendations and the money spent and where did it end up?” said Wood. “I am hoping such will not be the case this time around.”

At least 6,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools over 120 years. An estimated 150,000 children went through the residential school system in Canada, of which there are some 80,000 survivors.

About 350 children attended the Red Deer Industrial School across the river from Fort Normandeau between 1893 and 1919. It was one of 130 schools operated over the years. The last school closed in 1996.

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A Red Deer couple who allegedly exploited temporary foreign workers at a Gasoline Alley hotel are facing more charges.

Corporate directors and married couple Varinder Sidhu, 49, and Ravinder Sidhu, 46, are charged with violations under Alberta’s Employment Standards.

Three businesses — Econo Lodge Inn and Suites, Holiday Liquor Store and Winks — have also been charged.

The charges follow a lengthy joint investigation by the RCMP and the province, beginning in June 2014, into the abuse complaints from seven temporary foreign workers who worked at the Econo Lodge Inn and Suites.

An Alberta Employment Standards news release says the provincial government agency determined that more than $83,000 in earnings was owed to the employees.

The employer subsequently paid the outstanding earnings plus more than $8,000 in Order of Officer fees, says the release. The employees have since found other work.

The maximum penalty for the offences is $100,000 for a corporation or $50,000 for an individual.

The employment standards charges include failure to comply with a notice to provide employment records, obstructing an officer in the exercise of their duty by advising employees not to co-operate and/or give false statements, falsifying employment records and giving false/misleading information to an investigating officer, and failure to keep employment records as required.

The Red Deer couple will next appear in Red Deer provincial court on June 30 to face three human trafficking charges each under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

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City installing monitors to gauge trail usage

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Six counters will soon be tallying the people enjoying Red Deer’s trail system and hockey rinks.

Trevor Poth, parks superintendent, said the small, moveable counters will be placed at various locations to gauge usage on the trails.

The sites have not been determined yet.

The last time the city measured usage was in 2005, when it was preparing a trails master plan.

Parks staff conducted surveys and manually counted people as they walked by for a couple hours over two days.

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At that time, an estimated 1,500 people used the trail per hour at a certain sections during peak periods.

“Park use has probably grown at the same rate as municipal growth,” said Poth. “That’s one of the reasons why we bought these tracks — to say for sure how the trends are actually working out.”

The data collected will be used in maintenance planning, upgrades and basic evaluations.

“We continually hear from residents that parks and trails are the greatest contributor to a high quality of life in Red Deer,” said Poth. “We just want to see what that breaks down to in actual metrics.”

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Two cyclists make their way over the CP Rail bridge over the Red Deer River Thursday. The city is planning to install monitoring devices on trails in the Waskasoo Park system to count users.

Mounties mark Moncton anniversary The wives of three fallen Mounties say the outpouring of public support has helped them in the year since their husbands died.

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TRC: Minister’s behaviour ‘just another insult’ Lyle Keewatin Richards, a Red Deer social advocate and founding member of the Remembering the Children Society, echoed Wood’s sentiments on the government.

Keewatin Richards said he was not happy to see Bernard Valcourt, minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, sit during a standing ovation of the commission’s presentation on Tuesday.

“That’s just another insult,” he said. “It just makes a mockery of the apology. The prime minister wasn’t there for the presentation and his minister wouldn’t do anything to acknowledge the standing ovation. I am not very optimistic either that this government will follow through on many or any of the recommendations.”

The recommendations range include: reducing the number of aboriginal children in foster care, improving child and social welfare, launching an inquiry into the missing and murdered women, and restrictions on the use of conditional and mandatory minimum sentences for aboriginals in court.

“Learning about the true history of this country and not colour because we owe that to all the young people, not just the indigenous people,” said Wood about the commission’s conclusions. “We owe them that. It is our responsibility to teach them the truth.”

Wood reiterated that reconciliation is a Canadian

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B.C. student’s grad dress made from old homework auctioned for girls’ education Forget silk or sequins: paper was the material of choice for Erinne Paisley who transformed old homework into a statement-making grad dress.

The Victoria student had planned to buy a normal dress for her recent high school graduation. But as the event drew near, her thoughts turned to girls who didn’t have access to education and what she could problem, not simply an aboriginal problem.

“No longer should it be acceptable that one segment of the society decide what is good for another segment of society,” he said. “It has to be done in partnership.”

Keewatin Richards said more action is needed.

He said the recommendation to improve education funding for aboriginals is good news but he hopes the proposal is put into action.

“Now we need to put it on the ground,” he said.

“That’s making sure aboriginal students have supports in their schools to help them be successful. It has to happen on the local level to make it real.”

The City of Red Deer proclaimed June 11, 2014, Remembering the Children Day. Another commemorative event will be held at the Alternate School Centre on June 9 and a children-focused event will take place at Fort Normandeau on June 11. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

CHARGES: 10-month investigation Those charges include organizing the coming to Canada of one or more persons by means of abduction, fraud, deception or use or threat of force or coercion; employing a foreign national in a capacity in which the foreign national is not authorized to; and counselling, inducing, aiding or abetting or attempting to counsel, aid or abet any person — directly or indirectly — misrepresent or withhold material facts relating to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error in the administration of the Immi-

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gration and Refugee Protection Act. The Sidhus were charged following a 10-month investigation by Calgary Federal Serious Organized Crime officers.

This is the second case since 2009 in which Employment Standards has pursued charges under the Employment Standards Code.

In November 2014, an employer was charged for alleged offences involving a 14-year-old worker.

That case is currently before the courts. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

MONITORS: Also used at ice rinks In the winter, the city will put the trackers on board entrances of various ice rinks in neighbourhoods throughout Red Deer.

Poth said this will allow the city to determine when the rinks are used or not used and to establish community needs.

“If we find rinks that aren’t being used at all, (maybe there) are places where we can relocate the rinks to better serve the community as a whole,” said Poth.

The city is also interested in determining the number of cross-country skiers in the winter.

The six counters came with a $4,500 price tag.

Poth hopes to have them in place for July 1. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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“I thought it would be a great time to try to redirect the energy and attention of graduation back to an organization and a movement that’s trying to provide the same opportunity to girls,” Paisley, 18, said in a phone interview.

Using old math notes and plenty of tape, Paisley worked with her friend, Emily Faris, for more than seven hours straight assembling the final product, which also included straps fashioned from black satin.

“I thought using my homework would be a very visual and real representation of everything I’ve had the opportunity to put into my education, and everything I’ve received from it, and how valuable and how powerful an education really can be,” said Paisley, who will be studying international relations at the University of Toronto this fall on a full fouryear scholarship.

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PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. — A British Columbia mother who has said her teenage daughter took her own life after enduring online sexual exploitation is shocked that someone appears to have stolen a memorial plaque from her garden.

Carol Todd said a stone reading “A beautiful soul is never forgotten” was placed in front of her Port Coquitlam home after the death of 15-year-old Amanda, in 2012.

Todd said she and a friend who was visiting noticed the plaque was missing.

“It got me a little sad and a little upset, so then I posted it on Facebook ... that I was shocked how someone could remove it from my garden and from there it went viral.”

She said the stone, while inexpensive, was like a piece of her daughter and she’s sad that it’s no longer there for her to look at.

Todd said she believes that the person who took the plaque may have been aware of its sentimental value because her address is still listed in the phone directory and there has been some anger directed toward her in the past.

“So I wasn’t quite prepared for some of the negative (response), that it would actually come across in real life,” she said. “I’ve gotten some backlash and horrible stuff through social media but in real life it was kind of surprising.”

The high-profile case of Amanda’s alleged exploitation garnered international attention when a YouTube video surfaced after her death. It showed the teen holding up handwritten signs detailing how she’d been blackmailed by an online predator after exposing her breasts on a web cam.

The video has been viewed millions of times.

Aydin Coban was arrested in the Netherlands last year and is facing charges in Canada of extortion, criminal harassment, Internet luring and two counts related to child pornography.

Coban denied earlier this year that he was “the so-called tormentor” of Todd, yet said he has been branded by the worldwide media as the monster behind the case.

In a four-page letter released by his lawyer in January, Coban said he wanted to mark his first year in prison by addressing the many blatant “lies” that were swirling about the case.

Dutch police said when Coban was arrested in April last year that they had identified between 30 and 40 potential victims.

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Digging out fossil took years DINOSAUR FIND SUGGESTS HORNS FOR DISPLAY, NOT DEFENCE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS They called it Hellboy, and not just for the two horns sticking out over its eyes.

The skull from the new species of dinosaur did have cranial similarities to the famous comic book and movie character. But it was where it was found that really earned it the nickname.

“The Hellboy nickname is because of all the problems with the excavation,” said Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, whose paper on the new dinosaur and its bizarre armour-plating was published Thursday.

The 1.6-metre skull was found only about a metre above the water along southern Alberta’s Oldman River, a waterline that fluctuates widely over the seasons. It was on a steep cliff, prone to dangerous rockfalls.

The rock that housed the dinosaur was very hard. To top it off, that section of the river is crucial habitat for Alberta’s provincial fish, the bull trout.

No sediment or debris was allowed to fall in the water.

Digging out the 68-million-year-old fossil took years.

“It was a hellish quarry to work in,” Brown laughs.

But it was worth it. Not only is Hellboy — or Regaliceratops peterhewsi, to be formal — a completely new species.

It is spectacular. Part of a family that includes the iconic Triceratops, Hellboy has the longest nose horn of any of those three-horned monsters — up to 28 centimetres long.

And while Brown calls the horns over Hellboy’s eyes “almost comically short,” the dinosaur did sport a massive, bony shield protecting its neck and shoulders. That shield featured a row of large, triangular bony plates along its edge, giving it the appearance of a crown.

“This is a pretty bizarre-looking one.”

It’s one more variation in a family of dinosaurs that sports a panoply

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An artistic life reconstruction of the new horned dinosaur Regaliceratops peterhewsi in the palaeoenvironment of the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. of variation in horns and shields, or frills. The number of known horneddinosaur species has tripled over the last 15 years or so, and that variety is what finally gave scientists a clue as to their purpose.

“When the first horned dinosaurs were found — this was Triceratops — we thought these were probably used for defence,” Brown said. “You have these iconic images of Triceratops doing battle with Tyrannosaurus rex. “(But) the more horned dinosaurs that we find, the less the explanation of defence makes sense. There are a number of species where their horns

would be pretty much useless in defence.

“What we’re thinking now is that these were used for display. These were to impress members of the same or opposite sex and communicate with other species. That plate at the back of his skull is pretty much a billboard advertising for that individual.”

Brown says Hellboy also shows how evolution can sometimes come up with similar answers to similar situations.

Horned dinosaurs come in two families: chasmosaurs and centrosaurs.

Chasmosaurs, such as Triceratops, had small nose horns, big eye horns

and scallops frills. Centrosaurs, which became extinct shortly before Hellboy appeared on the scene, had big nose horns and small eye horns.

Although Hellboy was a chasmosaur, he looked like a centrosaur.

Brown said that’s an example of how one species can move into an empty niche, sometimes by adopting some of the features of the previous tenant.

And Brown is convinced that there are more like Hellboy out there.

“If there’s this thing out there, there must be other things that are related to this thing as well. We still have a lot to learn.”

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The latest charges against Austin Vielle are not related to the murder case.

Vielle appeared in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday on closed-circuit television.

He is accused of second-degree murder in the April stabbing deaths of Kyle Devine, Clarissa English and her brother Dakota.

Police allege the accused was known to all three victims and had been in their company prior to their deaths.

Vielle’s next court appearance is set for July 8.

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Such programs include energy retrofits to public buildings and the installation of solar panels on community halls.

Including the new money, the centre has received $6 million since 2009.

Alberta adds $2M to fund for green initiatives EDMONTON — The Alberta government is investing another $2 million to help cities go green.

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End of the oil economy WE MUST CHANGE THE ASSUMPTIONS UNDERPINNING ALBERTA’S VITALITY

BY ROBERT MCGARVEY AND MARK ANIELSKI SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Alberta is changing. It has a new NDP government, a scary new fiscal ‘reality’ with $60 oil and a millennial generation coming of age with a new lease on life.

But Alberta is also linked to the past and a very particular set of economic assumptions. Alberta’s economic strategy remains solidly industrial, predicated on oil and gas. Most Albertans expect oil prices will recover and that demand for oil will remain solid for decades. Albertans of all political stripes are united in the belief that the royalties we receive from this commodity are necessary to support our fiscal future.

Unfortunately, these assumptions could be completely wrong.

The future of energy is changing and — regrettably — the past is not a reliable guide to the future. The past was oil’s golden age. Oil has been a vital commodity for more than a century, tied to the industrial world’s dependence on the internal combustion engine. But it’s also clear that we’re in the final stages of the industrial econ-

omy.

Over the past 30 years, a silent revolution has overtaken western developed economies. Today, factories and machines do not drive our economy but new ideas, network applications, software and other forms of creative assets.

Value and productivity are defined much differently in the modern economy. Value is more ethereal; it’s found in intellectual property, in the collected ‘data’ mined from the everyday activities of millions of people, in (ghost like) digital phenomena such as software or in networks of collaborating individuals who have never met in person.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts, “We will have the requisite hardware to emulate human intelligence with supercomputers by the end of the decade, with software models of human intelligence by the mid-2020s.”

Older style machines are dying today, being replaced by super-intelligent automation, whose creative destruction is devastating industry after industry.

There are sweeping implications for Alberta. How long do you think it will take this technological wizardry to solve the energy storage problem?

Once that is solved, it will end the age of oil and gas.

Technological advances in solar and wind power are accelerating exponentially and will soon create viable electrical generation capacities for renewable — green — power.

The technical hitch that prevents a green revolution from happening is reliability of supply. Both solar and wind power are intermittent in their generation. If the wind is blowing there’s wind power; if the sun is shining there’s solar power. But what happens on a cloudy, windless day?

Now imagine a world in the not-toodistant future when we’ve developed super-efficient energy storage devices.

Imagine a world where every household has its own localized green energy system. Electricity is generated in the home from recycled household waste, tiny but super-efficient rooftop wind turbines and solar collectors.

Although the generation of electrical power will still be sporadic, depending on the availability of sunshine or wind, the energy will be stored in household storage systems. They will consistently light and heat the house, fuel the greenhouses we use to grow most of our food (year round) and charge our electric cars.

Once the capital cost is paid off, electrical power is basically free.

When all this happens, power will be locally generated, green, cheap and plentiful — as it should be.

We won’t need gasoline-powered internal combustion engines. There won’t be a need for large-scale coal or natural gas powered electrical generation plants. We won’t need a vast network of high-powered transmission lines creating havoc up and down the grid.

Although there will always be a market for oil and gas, oil’s dominance of the economy will be a thing of the past. This energy revolution will not happen overnight, but it will certainly happen in the lifetime of Albertans alive today. Preparing for the end of oil is not something that can be ignored.

For good or ill, it is the strategic future for Alberta.

Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and national build communities of wellbeing. Mark Anielski is a partner and co-founder of Genuine Wealth Inc. and the Genuine Wealth Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Can the NDP government live up to its promise?

My dad once told the story of a German shepherd dog that lived down the block. It used to wait for a particular Volkswagen beetle to pass by and always gave chase. This went on for quite a while until one day the driver of the Volkswagen stopped his car and let the dog catch up. He told the dog “now that you’ve got it, what are you going to do with it?” The dog looked puzzled, then turned, and went back to his yard. I cannot recall if we asked whether the dog ever chased that particular car again.

This story kind of illustrates the situation our newly elected NDP government is now faced with.

The optimistic view would be that those elected to the governing side of the legislature would develop some maturity quickly and rise to the challenge. The other view is that they will drive off a bridge and four years into the future the peasants will return rule back to the ousted tyrants.

Make no mistake about it: our provincial election was a peasant revolt. We can also call it democracy in action if, and only if, the new leadership remains true to the principle of serving the people of this province. Most revolts end badly as the new leaders are ill prepared to assume the role of leadership and soon become as corrupt as those who were overthrown.

So what will be the test that proves the value of our new government? Restoring funding to health care and education looks like a step in the right direction only if the funds go directly to front-line services instead of to the bureaucracy as is typical to a socialist-based government. I suspect that this funding is simply funds that were already budgeted by the previous government. In the future, a new source of funding will need to be found — probably in the form of taxes — and cuts will need to happen. Will administration be downsized or will the NDs have to remain true to their longtime support base?

My belief is that the real proof will come in how the new government will handle our primary income generator in this province — oil. What has happened to our provincial economy is almost entirely outside the control of our provincial government, or even the federal government for that matter. Our prime minister looks like a beaver getting swept away as his dam was just dynamited. If what I have read in articles in this newspaper is true, Saudi Arabia has in essence declared war upon its competitors — namely the shale oil and tarsands producers, by tanking prices of conventionally-produced oil to take heavily subsidized competitors out of the market. In our neck of the woods, the industry has slowed to a crawl compared to what it was a short time ago. If indeed the shale oil and gas play down in the States is as heavily subsidized as is rumoured, a withdrawal by the government would send the U.S. economy into a worse tailspin than the recent banking and mortgage crisis. Such an event would have far-reaching consequences.

There are several things that I do not understand about the oil business. For example, why exploration and drilling for conventional oil has almost completely halted? If what we are now faced with is a short term issue, and it takes months to bring a well to a state of production, why are we not drilling for more oil if prices will eventually return to profitable levels? No doubt it is in the best interest of the big oil companies to obtain their oil where they get the best price. That is how you operate in a democratic free market. The other side of the coin is that these same companies have also said to hell with the people who are their boots on the ground, those who

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provide a stable environment in which to do business, and those who actually own the resources in this province.

So how do we, with the help of the government, take back what is ours? We the people have the answers to the problems we together face — if somebody is listening. An example is the price of gasoline at the pumps. Many of us wonder why the price of a barrel of oil is somewhere around $60 and we are now paying $1.09 per litre for gasoline. Safe bet that the price of a litre of gasoline in Nevada is a lot less than what we are paying here, even factoring in our 80-cent dollar. This means that we cannot blame the NAFTA for our prices. We get hosed every time we pull up to the pumps. For years we have been told that gasoline and now diesel is a luxury good. The real proof of this thinking would be this: what would happen if for one day we did nothing that involved the use of these two fuels? Life as we know it would quickly grind to a halt.

Since production costs are known and external factors are adjusted for, it would not be impossible to regulate the price of motor fuels to provide a reasonable profit for producers, and a fair price for consumers. Small businesses of all kinds would benefit as would the provincial economy as a whole. This time of year, the tourism industry would flourish as Albertans would have some extra money in their pockets as well as American tourists taking advantage of the currency exchange and lower fuel prices, perhaps adding hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity.

Premier Rachel Notley herself put forward the idea of refining our bitumen in Alberta instead of exporting jobs and added value to Texas refiners.

This makes sense. Rather than hold inquiries to the

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‘Your light guides us’ MEMORIAL DESIGN, MUSICAL RIDE MARK ANNIVERSARY OF MOUNTIE SHOOTINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONCTON, N.B. — The wives of three fallen Mounties say the outpouring of public support has helped them and their families in the year since their husbands were gunned down in Moncton, N.B. “To everyone near and far who has been there for us, thank you,” Angela Gevaudan said. “Your light guides us as we rebuild our lives and move forward.”

Gevaudan, Nadine Larche and Rachael Ross stood before hundreds of people gathered at a ceremony in the city Thursday to unveil the winning design for a memorial to the RCMP officers who were killed by Justin Bourque last June 4.

Constables Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Doug Larche died and constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were wounded by Bourque.

Bourque was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 75 years after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

On Thursday, Angela Gevaudan said the wives wanted to show their gratitude for a community that has embraced them and their families since the officers rushed to a neighbourhood in the city’s north end to try and apprehend Bourque.

Rachael Ross said the last year has been one of challenges and there are still challenges ahead.

“We keep putting one foot ahead of the other and try to keep our focus on

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A concept for a memorial is seen at a ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting deaths of Constables David Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Doug Larche, in Moncton, N.B. on Thursday. what we have to be thankful for,” Ross said.

The women also thanked the government and the artist who designed a memorial statue that features the three RCMP officers.

They received a standing ovation from the crowd in attendance for the ceremony in front of Moncton City

Hall, including representatives of all three levels of government.

The federal budget tabled in April allocated up to $1 million for the memorial, which will be placed in a waterfront park.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the shootings deeply affected the entire country and that memories of

the fallen officers will endure.

“This violent incident was a vivid reminder of the dangers that our courageous men and women in uniform face every day as they protect communities across our nation,” Harper said in a statement.

The message was repeated in Moncton by Steven Blaney, the federal minister of public safety.

“We are here to support the resources of the RCMP, support their policy, but also tell them thank you,” he said.

The force has been criticized for not properly equipping its officers with adequate training and resources, such as patrol carbines.

Still, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown said the force in Moncton is better equipped than it was a year ago.

“I think we’re much better positioned, but we can’t just say we’re there,” he said. “If we say that we’re there, then I think we will fail the membership and we’ll fail the public because then we will become complacent.”

Brown said there will be an opportunity to speak in more detail about the resources for the force, but Thursday was not the day for that.

Moncton saw an outpouring of emotion in the days and weeks following the shootings. People often lined up to hug police officers, shake their hands or just thank them for their duty.

The RCMP Musical Ride paid tribute to the fallen officers with a free performance at the Magnetic Hill concert site in Moncton Thursday evening.

The practice of Bissell and Holman soon became Bissell, Holman and Murray. During this time John designed the Dickson Church. The design received a Plywood World Award for its inventive use of plywood sandwich panels. Not long after that the architectural practice became simply known as John Murray Architects. is pleased to congratulate John Murray on receiving the Lifetime Membership Award from the Alberta Association of Architects.

Cronquist House Restored In 1994 John saw another old building in Red Deer that needed saving and he made it his goal to purchase the old CPR Station and turn it into his architectural of¿ce.

Dickson Church - 1972 “Congratulations on this fantastic achievement John! At Bruin’s Plumbing and Heating we were happy to hear the exciting news of your “Lifetime Membership” in the Alberta Association of Architects. It is an incredibly prestigious honour and recognition and no doubt joins many well deserved and impressive accomplishments.” - Herman Bruin & Marty Bruin, Bruin’s Plumbing and Heating

South Tynside College – 1956 “Triple A Electric has had the pleasure of being involved with John Murray on projects since 1969. We have appreciated John’s abilities and leadership on many projects over the years.”

- Allan Hough President of Triple A Electric

John later worked for Wimpey Construction, a company founded in 1880. It wasn’t long after starting work for Wimpey Construction that he was offered the position of District Regional Architect. If he accepted the position he would have been the youngest District Regional Architect at Wimpey’s, but John had other plans. By this time he had married his wife Mary and they had two children; Stephen and Clifford. John saw his future and his family’s future not in England but in Canada. John turned down the job offer from Wimpey’s and along with Mary and his two sons sailed to Canada in 1966. Eastern Canada was not the vision John had for his future. In less than a year he was once again packing up his family and moving to Red Deer to start his career with the architectural ¿rm Bissell and Holman. One of the ¿rst projects he worked on was Camille School. The inspiration of the monastic arches can be seen throughout the design. (shown below)

“Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools would like to congratulate John Murray on receiving his Lifetime membership award from the Alberta Association of Architects.

It has been a pleasure working with John and JMAA in designing our Catholic Schools for over 50 years.” - Ken Jaeger

Michener Bend – Administration Alberta Health Services Central Regions - 2010

Northern Life Museum – 1972 There are numerous examples of John’s architecture; The Northern Life Museum, Parkland Square, Sunchild School, Bigstone School. John being awarded a Life Time Membership to the Alberta Association of Architects was based on his work within the community of Red Deer and particularly the preservation of historic buildings.

Sunchild School – 1995 “Congratulations John on this well deserved award.” - Dirk Wunsch Timcon Construction

In 1976 John took a personal interest in saving the Cronquist House. The house was originally located on the side of the Red Deer river known as Westpark. It was scheduled for demolition to allow for a new housing development. John and the entire community of Red Deer got behind the project not only raising money to move the building but were also involved in the removal of the plaster and bricks to lighten the building so that it could cross the river. The Cronquist house is now restored and is a focal point of the Bower Ponds. The Cronquist House was not the only building John restored. He turned the Bawtinheimer house into his of¿ce, and the La France house into his home.

“Sincere congratulations to John Murray on his receipt of a Lifetime Membership in the Alberta Association of Architects. A welldeserved honour.” - Michael Dawe

Camille School - 1968

“Congratulations John on the occasion of your Lifetime Membership Award for the Alberta Association of Architects. I honestly cannot think of a more deserving recipient. The Michener Building was all but written off after the ¿re and it’s years exposed to the elements but you seized the opportunity to lead a team focused on restoring the building to its original grandeur while incorporating a modern of¿ce building within its interior.” - Lou Davidson Vice President Alberta Health Services Capital Planning (Retired)

It was John’s love for old buildings that drew the attention of the Alberta Association of Architects but the ¿nal deciding factor was the work John has done in the community. The original Kin City Ice Centre was spear headed by John and Ben Janko. John Murray Architects provided not only the Architectural plans but also some of the labour as his staff were some of the many volunteers who completed the building of the arena. John worked on the 1974 City of Red Deer Bid for the Canada Winter Games, and he worked on the development of the folk festival village that he envisioned enhancing the Bower Ponds. He also developed a plan for the revitalization for Red Deer’s downtown. All of this was done with no consideration for ¿nancial reward but for the love of the community. His tireless work could not be overlooked and the team at JMAA architecture congratulate him on the award of being a Life Time Member of the Alberta Association of Architects.

Other Awards: Heritage Recognition Award, Certi¿cate of Commendation Red Deer Heritage Preservation Committee, Certi¿cate of Commendation Normandeau Cultural & Natural History Society, Alberta Historical Resource Foundation, Heritage Recognition Award Normandeau Cultural & Natural History Society, Heritage Recognition Award Red Deer Heritage Preservation Committee, Plywood World Award, Canadian Steel Institute Award for innovative use of Steel 52982F5

John Lewis Murray was born in England on March 7, 1936, the youngest child of Tom and Connie Murray.

John was educated at Durham University and started his career at the age of 16 with the Kent County Of¿ces.

Johns illustrious career is not limited to Alberta. In the 70’s John opened the ¿rst architectural of¿ce in the North West Territories. He worked throughout the Territories on housing projects, museums, community centres and arenas. John still has lasting relationships in the Territories.

If you visit the of¿ce you will see an Inuit carving proudly displayed as it was presented to John from the Mayor of Fort Smith.

CPR Station - JMAA Of¿ces John was not done with preserving Red Deer’s heritage.

When the Michener Building was struck by lightning the David Thompson Health Region could only think of one person and ¿rm to complete the restoration and convert the almost destroyed building into their new administration of¿ces.

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GUN REGISTRY RECORDS

Info czar files order

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Gun owners may never know if their registration records have been secreted away by the RCMP once the Conservative government creates what the federal information commissioner is calling a legislative “black hole.”

The explosive allegation from Suzanne Legault came as she pleaded with parliamentarians to strip retroactive gun registry changes from an omnibus budget bill in order to avoid setting a “dangerous precedent” for Canadian democracy.

And in a signal of non-confidence in both the RCMP and the Harper government, Legault filed a preservation order Wednesday in Federal Court to prevent the government from destroying more contested gun registry records.

Amendments buried in the latest omnibus budget bill go far beyond the original 2012 law to simply end the long-gun registry and delete the records, Legault told the Senate finance committee.

“It will effectively erase history,” said Legault while disputing government claims the changes merely close a “bureaucratic loophole.”

“Rather,” she said, “it is an attempt to create a black hole.”

At issue are legal changes — backdated to the day in 2011 that the bill to end the gun registry was first introduced rather than when it actually passed — that will exempt and nullify not just registry data from the Access to Information Act, but all documents related to the registry’s destruction.

The unprecedented rewrite of the law also nullifies any jurisdiction over the documents for Legault and even the Federal Court.

“This probably means that no one will be able to request information about whether the RCMP has really deleted his or her information from the registry, or about how much the destruction of the registry cost Canadian taxpayers,” she said.

For some hardcore gun enthusiasts who remain convinced the RCMP used old registry records to target gun owners’ homes in High River during devastating floods in 2013, Legault’s comments come as grim confirmation.

“That’s what I’ve been saying all along,” Dennis Young, a former Reform party staffer on Parliament Hill who is an honorary life member of the country’s two biggest gun organizations, said in an email.

“Nice to have the expert confirm it.”

Legault said she has no evidence the RCMP continues to hold secret copies of the registry outside Quebec.

But she also expressed zero confidence in the national police force telling the truth about the records.

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Guards say they know change is needed in wake of report OTTAWA — The guards who have long patrolled the interior of the Parliament Buildings say they know things need to change in the wake of the Oct. 22 shootout last year.

But the House of Commons Protective Services union says they’re also satisfied that a report released Wednesday into what happened that day suggests they did their jobs properly.

The Ontario Provincial Police report concluded that the RCMP could have stopped Michael Zehaf Bibeau from making it into Centre Block, but for a series of miscues.

The report determined that Zehaf Bibeau was caught in a hail of gunfire within seconds of bursting through the front doors and died after being hit by 31 bullets.

The report makes 66 recommendations, including better weapons for the RCMP and identifies ongoing security issues, such as easy public access to the lawn of Parliament Hill.

The guards’ union says they know there are structural and institutional elements that need improvement, but they’ll continue to devote their lives to protecting what they call one of Canada’s most fundamental institutions — the House of Commons.

Auditor picking nits over contract expenses, says Senate Speaker

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Three of the Senate’s most influential members have been found by the auditor general to have made ineligible expense claims, but one of the trio, Speaker Leo Housakos, says Michael Ferguson is being “nit-picky.”

Housakos and James Cowan, the Liberal leader in the Senate, confirmed Thursday that they’re among the 21 senators deemed by Ferguson to have made questionable claims.

Claude Carignan, government leader in the Senate, also made the list, sources familiar with the contents of the audit told The Canadian Press.

Cowan said his case involves just over $10,000 worth of travel claims, over which he said he’s having a “respectful disagreement” with Ferguson.

Housakos told CP he also disagrees with some of Ferguson’s findings, although he’s already repaid $1,600 in disputed travel expenses that a staffer claimed for mileage between Ottawa and Montreal.

The staff member was helping with a fundraising event for a non-profit organization in Montreal, said Housakos, who reimbursed the Senate for the expenses after auditors pointed out such expenses weren’t eligible under Senate rules.

Housakos said the auditor general is also challenging him on about $6,000 worth of contracts he issued rather than hire a full-time policy adviser.

Ferguson had taken exception to the wording of the contracts, but Housakos said he plans to appeal the decision, saying there was no deliberate attempt to mislead the Senate.

“I think the auditor is being, in my particular case, nit-picky,” Housakos said, arguing that his contracting arrangements actually saved the Senate money.

“I’ve done nothing but be transparent. These were two errors discovered by the auditor general that had no malintent.”

The Senate received Ferguson’s report, which is about 120 pages, Thursday afternoon.

Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said Carignan wound up on the list of 21 in relation to a $3,000 travel bill from one of his aides who filled out a Senate expense form improperly.

The staffer paid the money back in March.

In addition to the 21, Ferguson has deemed spending by another nine — two current and seven former

Senator leaves Tory caucus over RCMP probe.

OTTAWA — Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu is leaving the Conservative caucus and will sit as an independent.

He released a statement Thursday evening saying he made the decision voluntarily after learning he will be the subject of an RCMP investigation.

He adds that he’ll provide a more detailed explanation in the coming days.

Boisvenu’s statement Pierre-Hugues comes amid the pending release of a report from Boisvenu the auditor general on Senate expenses, which was given to the Senate Thursday afternoon. senators — to have been egregious enough to warrant RCMP investigation. The Senate will have to decide how to deal with all those named in the report.

Housakos said he would push the Senate to suspend without pay any senator caught with a pattern of problematic claims: “We will have no tolerance for that.”

Retired senators who choose not to repay disputed claims will have to face the Senate in court.

Like Housakos, Cowan said he’ll likely appeal Ferguson’s finding to Ian Binnie, a former Supreme Court justice chosen to act as a special independent arbitrator. Housakos, Cowan and Carignan were instrumental in setting up the appeal process — raising questions about potential conflict of interest.

Cowan insisted the trio acted “responsibly” in setting up a process that would be fair and equitable for all senators.

“I think it is a fair report and I think that the process that we have set in place to deal with these issues, like mine, is fair,” he said outside the Senate chamber. “I and others will abide by the result.”

Anti-terrorism efforts get funding boost

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Prime Minister Stephen Harper played up his tough-on-terrorism credentials Thursday, announcing a trifecta of measures aimed at beefing up the country’s ability to thwart violent jihad.

The measures, some previously announced in the budget, include more money for Canada’s spy agency and more scrutiny of foreign visitors.

“Jihadi terrorists have threatened Canada and Canadians by name and with a clarity that leaves no room for doubt,” Harper told a room filled with hand-picked observers.

“We are increasing our capacity to detect terrorists and terrorist plots, to choke off the financing that supports them, and to secure our borders against known and suspected terrorists who wish to enter.”

Among those on hand for the pre-election announcement at a north-end hotel were victims of terrorism, including Cindy Barkway, whose husband Dave died in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.

“I truly hope that Canadians will be safer from these combined efforts,” Barkway said to applause.

During his speech, Harper repeated a familiar refrain: that his Conservatives are the only party that can be counted on to protect the security interests of Canadians.

“There’s a lot of talk about the terrorist threat,” Harper said. “Our Conservative government chooses to do something about it.”

Under the new measures, the federal government will commit $137 million more over five years to Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service, along with $41 million more a year afterward. The additional funding, Harper said, would allow CSIS to beef up its frontline capacity to counter terrorist threats and activities.

Some experts, however, have argued the earmarked money simply isn’t much given the current threat environment, especially with legislation giving the agency more power to stop Canadians from joining terror groups abroad, disrupt bank transactions, and secretly interfere with radical websites.

Recognizing that terrorists “need cash,” Harper also announced that Canada’s tax authorities will put more emphasis on uncovering terror-related financing and the charities and organizations behind the money flow.

The Canada Revenue Agency would get $10 million over five years to help it identify and shut down charities that finance terrorist activities.

The government also plans to expand biometric screening to all foreign citizens coming to Canada — Americans are exempt — including visitors who need visas, work or study permits and immigrants.

The procedure is already required for travellers from about two dozen countries.

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Rescuers prepare to right capsized Chinese ship

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Death toll doubles in blast, flooding

MORE THAN 360 STILL MISSING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JIANLI, China — Disaster teams that have recovered 77 bodies from a capsized cruise ship in the Yangtze River finished righting the previously overturned vessel on Friday to quicken the search for more than 360 other victims still missing.

The operation started late Thursday to right the Eastern Star and shifted the focus from finding survivors from Monday night’s sudden capsizing in a severe storm to retrieving bodies. State broadcaster CCTV announced Friday morning that the boat had been righted, and that teams would still try to lift the vessel even though the water inside it was weighing it down.

Transport Ministry spokesman Xu Chengguang said earlier that the operation would involve divers putting steel bars underneath the ship, which would then be lifted by two 500-ton cranes. A huge net was placed near the cranes and another one a few meters (yards) downstream to catch any bodies.

Two smaller cranes were also on site and boats were stopped from entering the area.

Authorities say 14 people survived the disaster, some by jumping from the ship during the early moments and swimming or drifting ashore. Three of them were pulled by divers from air pockets inside the overturned hull Tuesday after rescuers heard yells for help coming from inside.

Xu told a news conference that no further signs of life had been found and the chance of finding anyone else alive was “very slim.”

On Thursday, rescuers had cut three holes into the overturned hull in unsuccessful attempts to find more survivors.

More than 200 divers have worked underwater in three shifts to search the ship’s cabins one by one, state broadcaster CCTV said. Rescuers pulled out dozens of bodies Thursday which were taken to Jianli’s Rongcheng Crematorium, in Hubei province, where relatives tried to identify them.

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Marine boats patrol as a capsized ship is righted by cranes on the Yangtze River in Jianli county of southern China’s Hubei province, as seen from across the river from Huarong county of southern China’s Hunan province, Friday.

Many of the more than 450 people on board the multi-decked, 251-foot (77-meter) -long Eastern Star were reported to be retirees taking in the scenic vistas of the Yangtze on a cruise from Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing.

“I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been for them,” said farmer Wang Xun, who was among the crowd observing developments outside the crematorium. “Old people should be with their families and go peacefully, not like this.”

The capsize of the Eastern Star will likely become the country’s deadliest boat disaster in seven decades, and Chinese authorities have launched a high-profile response that has included sending Premier Li Keqiang to the accident site.

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ACCRA, Ghana — The death toll from a huge gas station explosion and flooding in Ghana’s capital has more than doubled to 150 people, the president said Thursday night.

Dozens of people had sought shelter at the gas station and in nearby shops in central Accra to escape the torrential rains at the time of Wednesday night’s blast. Flooding swept fuel being stored at the station into a nearby fire, triggering the explosion that also set ablaze neighbouring buildings, officials said.

The West African nation will observe three days of mourning with flags flying at half-staff, and the government will allocate about $12 million for relief operations and to repair damaged infrastructure, President John Dramani Mahama told journalists before heading into an emergency meeting.

Before Mahama’s announcement, the death toll stood at 73.

TV footage earlier Thursday showed corpses being piled into the back of a pickup truck and other charred bodies trapped amid the debris. Floodwaters around the site hampered rescue and recovery efforts.

Officials at the nearby 37 Military Hospital said its morgue had reached capacity.

Mahama visited the blast site during the day, calling the death toll “catastrophic” and offering condolences to families of the victims.

“Steps will be taken to ensure that disastrous floods and their attendant deaths do not occur again,” he said.

Michael Plange, who lives a few blocks away, said many people had taken shelter under a shed at the station from the rain and were hit by the explosion.

The flooding “caused the diesel and petrol to flow away from the gas station and a fire from a nearby house led to the explosion,” said Billy Anaglate, spokesman for Ghana’s national fire service.

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Kenya police charge five suspects for university attack NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police Thursday charged five men with participating in an attack by militant group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya in which 148 people were killed.

The five men pleaded not guilty to 152 counts of committing acts of terrorism in a Magistrates Court.

Four al-Shabab gunmen stormed the Garissa University College at dawn on April 2. The attack went on for hours before it was finally ended by a specialized police unit and the four gunmen were killed.

The prosecution alleges that the five suspects colluded to carry out the attack but have not said what their roles were.

Prosecutor Daniel Karuri urged the court to deny the suspects bail. Magistrate Daniel Ochenja directed that they be detained until June 11, when the court will determine whether they will be granted bail.

The five suspects complained they were tortured for 10 consecutive days as the anti-terrorism police tried to force confessions from them.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants have reduced the amount of water flowing to governmentheld areas in Iraq’s western Anbar province, an official said Thursday, the latest in the vicious war as Iraqi forces struggle to claw back ground held by the extremists in the Sunni heartland.

It’s not the first time that water has been used as a weapon of war in Mideast conflicts and in Iraq in particular. Earlier this year, the Islamic State group reduced the flow through another lock outside the militant-held town of Fallujah, also in Anbar province. But the extremists soon reopened it after criticism from residents.

The IS captured Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, last month, marking its most significant victory since a U.S.-led coalition began an air campaign against the extremists last August. Earlier last year, the Islamic State had blitzed across much of western and northern Iraq, capturing key Anbar cities and also Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city that lies to the north of Baghdad.

Also Thursday, UN officials urgently called for almost $498 million in donations to provide shelter, food, water and other life-saving services for the next six months to Iraqis displaced or affected by the fighting between government forces and the Islamic State group.

The reduced flow of water through the militantheld dam on the Euphrates River will threaten irrigation systems and water treatment plants in nearby areas controlled by troops and tribes opposed to the extremist group, provincial council member Taha Abdul-Ghani told The Associated Press.

Abdul-Ghani said there would be no immediate effect on Shiite areas in central and southern Iraq,

Suicide car bomber in Nigeria kills eight soldiers at checkpoint MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A suicide bomber exploded a car at a checkpoint outside a military barracks and killed eight soldiers on Thursday, witnesses said of the latest of daily attacks blamed on Boko Haram in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri.

More than 60 people have been killed by bombings and rocket-propelled grenades since Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari announced at his inauguration May 29 that the command centre for the war on the Islamic extremists is moving from Abuja, the capital in central Nigeria, to the group’s birthplace in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state at the heart of the war zone.

Later, a second bomb exploded near the main market in Yola, the first such attack to hit the capital of neighbouring Adamawa state, police and witnesses said. At least two people were killed, police Deputy Supt.

Othman Abubakar said.

Hospital workers said they were treating 30 injured.

“I can see blood splattered everywhere, including my car, but I can’t give any detail because we are all running,” said bread seller Ayuba Dan Mallam.

saying water is being diverted to those areas from the Tigris River.

The United Nations had said on Wednesday that it was looking into reports that IS had reduced the flow of water through the al-Warar dam.

“The use of water as a tool of war is to be condemned in no uncertain terms,” the spokesman for the UN secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters. “These kinds of reports are disturbing, to say the least.”

He said the UN and humanitarian partners will try to “fill in the gaps” to meet water needs for the affected population.

In Brussels, UN officials said Thursday that the needs of Iraqis affected by the fighting are huge and growing, with more than 8 million people requiring immediate support, and potentially 10 million by the end of 2015.

Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq, said the aid operation, which she called one of the most complex and volatile in the world, was hanging by a thread.

“Humanitarian partners have been doing everything they can to help. But more than 50 per cent of the operation will be shut down or cut back if money is not received immediately,” Grande told members of the European Parliament, according to a UN news release.

The consequences of such a reduction in aid, Grande said, would be “catastrophic.”

“While we search for solutions to end the violence, we must do everything in our power to help,” said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-Wha Kang, also in Brussels.

“The people of Iraq need our help, now.”

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Megachurch moving forward with campaign to buy private jet ATLANTA — An Atlanta megachurch’s board of directors said Wednesday that it is moving forward in a campaign to buy a private jet.

The board of directors for World Changers Church International and Creflo Dollar ministries said the Gulfstream G650 Dollar wants is necessary to continue international ministry and aid work. The jet is valued at more than $65 million.

An initial recorded appeal for donations didn’t adequately explain that Dollar was looking for donations from like-minded people and not the public at large, board members said. The board says a revamped video will be released soon. Numerous online reports quoted the initial request on the ministry’s website as saying: “We are believing for 200,000 people to give contributions of 300 US dollars or more to turn this dream into a reality.”

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Underscoring anxieties in the Ukrainian capital, President Petro Poroshenko warned of a possible large-scale offensive by separatist forces following the violence on the western fringe of the rebel citadel, Donetsk.

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A glimpse into the future TOP REBEL PROSPECTS GATHER FOR WEEKEND CAMP

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF As the Red Deer Rebels build towards hosting the Memorial Cup next May, this weekend they will get a glimpse of the future.

The club’s top 24 recent draft picks and signings will be at the Penhold Regional Multiplex for the next three days for the Rebels’ annual prospects camp.

“It’s real nice for our coaching staff to get to know these players and to see them because obviously their focus is on the present club during the winter,” said Rebels assistant general manager and director of player personnel Shaun Sutter. “It’s a chance for them to get to know some of the players and to forge some relationships with them. Also for (owner, general manager and head coach) Brent (Sutter) ... it’s an opportunity for him to see some of these prospects and how they’ve improved from last year to this year or even the recently drafted kids what they look like.”

The camp will include eight of this year’s nine bantam draft picks who will be getting their first taste of the WHL life and 16 other players from the previous two draft years who will be looking to make inroads into the club this year.

Headlining that second group is Lakeville, Minne., forward Austin Pratt who spent the last two years with the famed Shattuck St. Mary’s hockey program.

The six-foot-two, 205-pound forward was a fourth round pick in 2014 by the Rebels, sliding in the draft due to teams being unsure about Americans willingness to sign or go the NCAA route. After inking his commitment with the Rebels in April, he’s likely the best bet to make the big club as a 16-year-old this fall.

His emergence made it easier to part with 2014 first round draft pick Jake Leschyshyn in their January trade for Regina Pats forward Connor Gay. “We’re excited to see where he’s at and we expect him to be here in the fall and play a role on our team that fans can be excited about,” said Sutter.

However, there’s a number of players from that category who will be doing what they can to impress, including a trio of blue-liners Ethan Sakowich, Carson Sass and Boo Grist.

Meanwhile in net, Red Deer goalie Dawson Weatherill could be pushing for a roster spot as a back up this year behind either Rylan Toth or Taz Burman.

However, forward Akash Bains out of Delta, B.C., the Rebels’ ninth round pick a year ago, could offer the most intrigue out of the returning group.

“He had a real good season last year playing midget at the Okanagan Hockey Academy,” said Sutter.

This will also be the first opportunity for the coaching staff to see most their 2015 picks together, including first round pick, defenceman Jacob Herauf. Other picks include forwards Eli Zummack, Chase Lowry, Brendan Budy, Brandon Cutler and Jake Mulder. On the blue line will be Jacob Thomson and Spencer McHardy.

Austin Pratt of Lakeville, MN. skates during last year’s Red Deer Rebels rookie camp at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. Pratt is back along with all of the Rebels top prospects for this year’s camp this weekend.

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“We drafted a couple of players that aren’t maybe big in stature, but are highly skilled players that play big,” said Sutter.

None of these players will be eligible to play with the Rebels as 15 year olds, but this weekend is about building them into the Rebels culture.

“It’s a process and you have to be patient and at the same time you have to see progress from the players and they have to be committed to being a player,” said Sutter. “For a lot of the kids it’s a good opportunity coming here just to know what is expected of them and what it’s going to take.”

The one player missing from camp that the Rebels would have liked to have seen is 2015 seventh round draft pick Jace Foskey. The Texas blue-liner could not make it work with his exam schedule to get up to Red Deer in time.

However, Sutter believes he is solid prospect for the organization, that he slipped to the seventh round for many of the same reasons Pratt did the previous year.

“He’s a player that has the ability of a top-two round player if he was a Canadian player,” said Sut-

ter, adding Foskey will be at the team’s main camp in August. “You have to build a relationship with them and then they make a decision as things progress as to what they want to do.”

As a whole, Sutter likes what the organization has as a group of young players to build around. This also means that some may never suit up for the club and become potential trading chips as they load up for the Memorial Cup, though Sutter says their first priority is developing these prospects as future Red Deer mainstays.

“I think it’s a pretty balanced class,” said Sutter.

“It’s not so much about something shiny right now, they’re going to continue to improve and get better and we want to work with all of the players.”

The camp gets under way today at 3 p.m and will run to 5 p.m., on Saturday camp runs from 3:45-5:45 p.m. and it will wrap up on Sunday with a 9-11 a.m. session. The two-hour time slots will be split in two with the first hour spent on drills and the second hour on more 3-on-3 and 4-on-4 scrimmaging.

Camp is open to the public to watch. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Warriors hold off LeBron, Grizzlys deal win NBA Finals opener in OT Gerrie for defensive help

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Warriors 108 Cavaliers 100 OAKLAND, Calif. — After an eight-day break, the NBA’s top teams and biggest stars put on quite a show.

Only one kept it up for 53 minutes.

And only one survived without a serious injury.

Stephen Curry had 26 points and eight assists, and the Golden State Warriors held off LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for a thrilling 108-100 overtime victory in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night.

“It was just a classic five minutes that we needed to get that win,” Curry said of the overtime.

In the finals for the first time in 40 years, the Warriors gave their long-suffering fans quite a treat. They rallied from an early 14-point deficit, absorbed a finalsbest 44 points from James and shut down Cleveland in overtime.

James shot 18 of 38 from the field and had eight rebounds and six assists in 46 minutes. But the four-time MVP missed a long jumper at the end of regulation, and Cleveland missed its first eight shots of overtime — and 12 straight going back to the fourth quarter.

“We got to do more around him,” Cavs coach David Blatt said.

Adding to the Cavs’ frustration, point guard Kyrie Irving limped to the locker room after aggravating his troublesome left knee in overtime. He did not return.

With Kevin Love already out, the Cavs obviously need Irving. He missed two games in the Eastern Conference finals because of knee and foot injuries and sounded unsure of his status for Game 2 on Sunday in Oakland.

“Obviously you can see in the tone of my voice I’m a little worried,” Irving said.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he hopes Irving is able to play the remainder of the series.

“I mean that,” Kerr said. “You probably don’t believe me, but I mean that.”

There were 13 lead changes

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

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Golden State Warriors forward Marreese Speights shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers forward James Jones during the second half of Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., Thursday. and 11 ties in a game tightly contested across the board. There was little edge in shooting (Warriors 44.3 per cent, Cavaliers 41.5 per cent), rebounding (Warriors 48, Cavaliers 45) or assists (Warriors 24, Cavaliers 19).

The biggest difference might have been the benches. The Warriors’ reserves outscored the Cavs’ 34-9, with J.R. Smith the only Cleveland reserve to score — and he was 3 of 13 from the field.

In the end, it came down to the biggest stars making plays — or not.

James and Curry carried their clubs through the fourth quarter, trading scores and assists in a back-and-forth duel in front of a sellout crowd of 19,596 — most wearing those blinding, golden yellow shirts. Both also had a chance to win the game in regulation.

Curry, the current MVP, beat Irving off the dribble and moved in for the go-ahead layup. Instead, Irving blocked Curry from behind, Smith came up with the rebound and the Cavs called a timeout with

24.1 seconds left.

James, trying to end Cleveland’s 51-year championship drought, dribbled down the clock and missed a contested jumper over Andre Iguodala just inside the left arc, and Iman Shumpert’s desperation shot nearly rimmed in at the buzzer, sending a collective sigh through the crowd.

The Cavs never came so close again.

Curry drew two deep shooting fouls at the start of overtime and made all four free throws, and Harrison Barnes hit a corner 3 just in front of the Cavs bench to give Golden State a 105-98 lead with 2:02 to play and send the crowd screaming at full throat.

Irving, who finished with 23 points, seven rebounds and six assists, limped to the bench trying to shake off his troublesome left leg after the play. He was replaced by Matthew Dellavedova.

The Warriors went ahead 10898 on free throws with 1:16 to play.

James’ layup with 8.9 seconds left accounted for Cleveland’s only points in overtime.

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

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In an effort to rebuild from the back end, the Olds Grizzlys have traded their top offensive player.

On Tuesday the Grizz sent former Canadian Junior Hockey League rookie of the year and Red Deer native Chris Gerrie to the Chris Gerrie Penticton Vees of the B.C. Hockey League for defenceman Jarod Hilderman.

The Grizzlys back end was a mess all 2014-15, allowing an Alberta Junior Hockey League South Division worst 235 goals against. Only the rebuilding Grande Prairie Storm were worse with 245 goals against in the North.

The problem was, the Grizzlys were not rebuilding, they were hoping to make a push into contendership.

Because of their offence, the Grizzlys still managed to finish fifth in the division but were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Drumheller Dragons, getting outscored 18-4 in the process.

The performance ultimately cost head coach and director of hockey operations Brett Hopfe his job.

The hope is Hilderman can kickstart a culture shift in the Grizzlys dressing room, buoyed by his run to the RBC Cup with the Vees this past season.

“He’s only an 18 year-old and the fact he’s already committed says a lot about him and his character and that’s what we wanted to bring into our dressing room,” said new head coach and director of hockey operations Dana Lattery. “It definitely doesn’t replace Chris Gerrie’s points and goals, but we felt that leadership was definitely lacking last year and our depth on defence was lacking. To bring in a guy like that is going to put us in a better position than we were last year.”

Hilderman, 18, is expected to be a top pairing defenceman for the Grizzlys after getting lost to some degree on one of the deepest blue lines in the country in Penticton.

The six-foot-two, 210-pound Hilderman is a product of the Notre Dame hockey program in Wilcox, Sask., and has already committed to play for NCAA Div. 1 hockey power Minnesota-Duluth for the 201617 season.

Though the Kamsack, Sask., native is not a big offensive threat — he had six assists in 49 games last year with the Vees — Lattery believes he has more upside than what he has shown.

He likens him a lot to 2014 NHL draft pick Nick Kolberstein.

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STANLEY CUP FINAL

Teravainen’s talent is undeniable BUT YOUNG FINN IS OFTEN INCONSISTENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Kaitlyn Swartz, of Bentley, blazes a record setting pace at the Legion Track Wednesday during the grade 9 track meet in Red Deer. Swartz was untouchable in the 800 metre event where she shattered a record that has stood since 1998 while in the 1500 metre race she also set a new record crossing the finish line in 5:00:62 second place in the 1500 m went to Rebecca Smith of Lindsay Thurber with a time of 5:25:72 and third went to Emma Holmes also of Lindsay Thurber in at 5:35:94

Oilers relieve assistant coaches Acton, Ramsay

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan has some room on his bench for new assistant coaches.

The Oilers announced on Thursday that associate coach Keith Acton and assistant coach Craig Ramsay were let go and will not return for the 2015-16 season.

Acton spent two seasons with Edmonton while Ramsay was originally hired at the beginning of the 2014-15 season. Both were brought in under former head coach Dallas Eakins and stayed on with interim head coach Todd Nelson after Eakins was fired in December. Nelson’s future with the organization has yet to be made clear.

Acton, 57, has spent 18 seasons in various coaching roles split between five NHL clubs — starting as an assistant with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1994. His longest tenure with one organization came with the Toronto Maple Leafs between 2001 and 2011.

Ramsay, 64, has 22 years of NHL coaching experience including headcoaching roles with the Buffalo Sabres, Flyers and Atlanta Thrashers.

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GERRIE: Flourish “Our scouts ... have keyed in on him as being a guy who with the right opportunity would flourish and become an extremely good D man,” said Lattery. “I think Hilderman kind of got put on the back burner last year because they were so deep, so to get him out here and give him the opportunity to play, he’ll play lots before he goes down to the NCAA next year, it will be important for him.”

Gerrie, 19, led the Grizzlys in scoring with 61 points (25 goals, 36 assists) in 59 games last season. In 2013-14 he was second on the team in scoring with 54 points (18-35-54) in 60 games and was named CJHL rookie of the year. The five-foot-10, 170-pound forward is also committed for the 2016-17 season to NCAA Div. 1 program Michigan Tech University. He grew up playing in Red

TAMPA, Fla. — Teuvo Teravainen is a cold-blooded scorer in the eyes of Marian Hossa.

“He doesn’t seem to have a heartbeat,” Hossa said. “He’s so calm. He’s Finnish cold.”

With ice chips in his veins as the intensity has risen, Teravainen has heated up as the playoffs have gone on.

Leading the Blackhawks past the Tampa Bay Lightning with two points in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final served as something of a national coming-out party for the 20-year-old rookie.

Teravainen is one of the best prospects in hockey. But veteran Kimmo Timonen believes his fellow Finn has a lot of work to do before he can reach NHL stardom.

“He’s got a long way to go,” Timonen said. “He’s a skinny guy, so he’s got to start lifting weights and doing that. ...

I told him, ’This summer, you’ve got to make sure you work out.

“Golf is not a workout.”’

Teravainen, like so many young, talented players can make it look easy.

The world junior star oozes skill and has magic hands, a product of playing floor ball while growing up.

His talent is undeniable but his game is often inconsistent. After Teravainen spent the first half of the season in the minors, coach Joel Quenneville at times made him a healthy scratch, including five times in these playoffs.

Quenneville likes Teravainen’s “upside” and his respect for veterans. He hopes Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane rub off on him.

“I think watching these guys on a

regular basis could help him grow, help him learn what it takes to be a great player, top player, game in, game out,” Quenneville said.

Timonen said this was the “perfect team” for Teravainen to break into the league with because there are so many hard-working, highly skilled players around to observe and learn from. The 40-year-old defenceman who Teravainen called his “second dad” thinks his new protege can be as good as Kane but only with the necessary work.

“He can be a superstar in this league,” Timonen said Wednesday.

“But it’s still in the process that he’s got to realize, ’OK, I’ve got to make sure summer I work out every day, and I’ve got to watch these guys how they prepare for the games like Toews and Kane and (Duncan) Keith and these guys.”’

Timonen has seen hockey evolve significantly since his first junior season in Finland — years before Teravainen was born — and sees the game getting faster in the next five to 10 years. With that, he looks at the five-foot-eleven, 178-pound forward and sees a need to get stronger.

“He’s a pretty good skater, but think about when you get 10 pounds of muscle around him,” Timonen said. “He’s going to be even stronger in the corners and you can hang onto the puck.”

For all his tough love, Timonen said Teravainen is doing a great job in these playoffs, in part because he doesn’t have to handle the spotlight on a team with so many accomplished winners. Playing without pressure is serving him well now, but Timonen said Teravainen should put the pressure on himself in the coming months.

Lightning used to falling behind in series NOT WORRIED ABOUT BOUNCING BACK McLellan, who is Edmonton’s sixth head coach since 2009, was hired by the Oilers in May after spending seven seasons coaching the San Jose Sharks.

He took the Sharks to the playoffs six times and made the Western Conference final on two occasions.

Edmonton has missed the playoffs the last nine seasons, but will have the first-overall pick at this summer’s NHL Draft for the fourth time in six years.

The club is expected to take junior phenom Connor McDavid.

Deer, including helping the Optimist Chiefs to the 2012-13 Telus Cup, where he scored nine points in seven games.

In Penticton, he will be joining former Optimist Chiefs teammate Gabe Bast, who had a stand out year on the Vees blue line and has committed to the University of North Dakota for 2016-17.

The Vees are also coming off a BCHL championship and a Western Canada Cup title which earned them a birth in the RBC Cup, where they lost out to the Carleton Place Canadians in the semifinal.

It is a level Lattery is striving to get the Grizzlys back to, promising a busy offseason ahead.

“We’ve got lots of work to do,” he said.

“We were far from winning a national championship last year and we were actually pretty far from winning a game in the playoffs. We’re not happy with where we are, we’re happy with the way we’re going and the way things are shaping up.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — Blowing a lead to lose Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final didn’t put Tampa Bay Lightning centre Brian Boyle in the best of moods.

“You wake up in the morning today, you should be a little angry, a little pissed off that we had a chance to take Game 1,” Boyle said Thursday. “We shouldn’t have any regrets in the morning when you wake up.”

The Lightning may regret sitting back too much against the Chicago Blackhawks, tendencies that led to two third-period goals by the two-time Cup champions. But being down in a series is nothing new to Tampa Bay, which won twice from that spot already in these playoffs.

Because they were able to come back from series deficits against the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers, the Lightning are confident they can rebound for Game 2 of the Cup final Saturday.

“Definitely not something that we’ve had any issues with; we’ve bounced back after a tough game,” captain Steven Stamkos said. “This group has bounced back all season, so I don’t expect anything to change at this time of the year.”

The Lightning should lament not being aggressive enough with a one-goal lead Wednesday. So skilled at dictating the pace, they let the Blackhawks push and then bent and broke.

But their start was strong, and coach Jon Cooper was satisfied with how his team limited chances against for much of the night. One Chicago goal went in

through multiple screens and another came off a turnover.

“We’re excited about the fact that we did a lot of positive things,” Stamkos said. “That’s something to build on.

This is the two best teams in the league for a reason.”

Tampa Bay managed to shut down Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, specifically by using the top defensive pair of Victor Hedman and Anton Stralman and forwards Ryan Callahan and Cedric Paquette. Chicago’s goals came from third-liners.

The Blackhawks didn’t have too many Grade-A scoring chances, at least until the Lightning started sitting back.

I think we did a good job of keeping them to the outside, clogging the neutral zone,“ defenceman Matt Carle said. ”You know they’re going to get probably three or four shifts a game where they’re going to get a buzz in the offensive zone. I don’t think we really panicked when they did that.

“We kept them to the outside, let them do their cycle game, force them into mistakes, tried to get the puck out of our zone as much as possible.”

The Lightning have been in this spot before, but not against a team with as much skill as the Blackhawks. That’s why Stamkos said this will be a “different test” than anything before.

All post-season, the Lightning have been passing tests with no problem.

“As these playoffs have gone on, it’s just another learning experience after another learning experience,” Cooper said. “We’re confident in our defensive abilities. We’ve shown it in the playoffs. This team got the better of us last night. We just got to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

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Herdman a source of inspiration MAKES CANADIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM BETTER PLAYERS AND BETTER PEOPLE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Canadian women call John Herdman the “Black Flash” when their coach joins in on their soccer practices. It’s a name he gave himself, they note.

Herdman, who played for his university as well as semi-pro teams back home in England, has a sense of humour. He also likes his party tricks on the ball.

“He does have some moves,” said veteran midfielder Diana Matheson.

“The Black Flash’s downfall is that he maybe uses too many moves and he gets himself into trouble and maybe causes a few goals against his team that way.”

But most of all, Herdman is a master motivator and source of inspiration, his players say. No one works harder or longer.

They say Herdman has made them better players and better people.

Those skills will be put to the ultimate soccer test starting this weekend — the Women’s World Cup. Canada, ranked eighth in the world, opens Saturday against No. 16 China at Commonwealth Stadium.

Herdman’s journey with the Canadian women started when he took over from Carolina Morace in the wake of a disastrous 2011 World Cup that saw Canada finish last.

Ask the players what state they were in after the tournament in Germany, almost every one uses the same word.

Broken.

When Herdman coached the New Zealand women, his team was bound together by the Maori heritage. The Football Ferns had a Maori spiritual leader.

One of his mentors told Herdman he needed to find a way to get the Canadian team reconnected after the “trauma” of the 2011 World Cup. In doing his homework, Herdman was struck by Canada’s patriotism.

“My first piece was like ’Who are you as Canadians?’ That was my first question. Tell us,” said Herdman.

“And we went 30 minutes in a meeting.

They’d never been asked that before by a Norwegian or an Italian coach.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Team Canada’s head coach John Herdman prepares for practice in Edmonton on Thursday. Canada takes on China in their first World Cup match on Saturday.

“They had never been asked anything about why they do what they do.

What do you do it for. Ever. Can you believe that? In your career you’ve never been asked why you do it, and you wonder why they failed. Because they’ve just been putting that jersey on. And once they’d earned it, after a while it just become normality. ’Put this on. Why do we do this. Well, represent Canada.”’

In Canada’s final warmup game last week, every member of the match-day squad took the field for the anthems before facing England in Hamilton.

They put their arms over their neighbours’ shoulder and sang “O Canada” together. Only the English starters were on the field.

Herdman and his management team

leave no stone unturned. They have everything from game formations for every situation to driving times from the team hotel to stadium down pat.

The 39-year-old Herdman is a stylish, compact package. In a black tracksuit, he can look like an Italian movie star slumming.

He loves family, music — something is always playing in the background when he meets with the team — and his beloved vintage VW Bug. And his energy and enthusiasm seems boundless.

A former university lecturer in England, he is cerebral but able to connect. In many ways, he’s a Geordie Tony Robbins, pushing his charges to improve and connect on and off the field.

Williams rallies to reach French Open final against Safarova

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — At changeovers in her French Open semifinal, an ill Serena Williams walked ever so slowly to the sideline, where even lowering herself to sit seemed difficult.

With the temperature nearing 85 degrees (30 Celsius), she pressed white towels filled with ice against her forehead and neck and guzzled water.

Early on, her play was as poor as her health. She failed to chase balls she normally would. As telling as anything: On those occasions when she did win points, Williams mostly refrained from her familiar fist pumps and yells of “Come on!”

Never can count her out, though, no matter the circumstances. Down a set and a break Thursday, and clearly not herself, Williams summoned the resolve to reach the final by beating 23rd-seeded Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 4-6, 6-3, 6-0.

After getting broken to fall behind 3-2 in the second set, Williams claimed the final 10 games. She had a 12-2 edge in winners in the final set.

“Stunning,” said Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou. “This is the difference between champions and everyone else. There is no logical explanation.”

Mouratoglou said the No. 1-ranked Williams has been dealing for several days with the flu, including a fever and difficulty breathing.

Williams skipped her news conference — something sister Venus did after losing last week, drawing a $3,000 fine — and issued a statement reading: “I have been feeling unwell for a few days, and ... I need-

In one sense, he has already succeeded. This Canadian women’s team is about as interesting a group of athletes as you can meet.

Unlike their male counterparts, there is no sweetheart contract waiting for them.

And so while full-time athletes, they have expanded their horizons. Chiropractor, fitness DVD guru, artist, Zumba instructor, food truck owner and documentary video-shooter are just some of their off-field pursuits.

Herdman has challenged his players to become true leaders, a subject they have literally studied off the field through books and lectures. He has had them strip away defence mechanisms to share their emotions with their teammates, further strengthening team ties.

Ask his players what it like working under Herdman and they say it’s an honour and a privilege. “(He’s) somebody that knows absolutely how to get the best out of people,” said veteran defender Carmelina Moscato. “He’s a high-performing guy.

He’s created the environment for that.

And you talk about squeezing blood from a rock, I mean he’s really done it with a lot of us — reinventing us.

“I’m 31 years old and he continues to call me a modern centre back. So I’ll take it. It’s pretty awesome.”

“It’s incredible what he’s able to get out of people, not just his players but even the staff,” said 17-year-old midfielder Jessie Fleming.

“John has affected all of us in huge ways and only a tiny piece of that is soccer-related,” said 33-year-old fullback Rhian Wilkinson. “It sound ridiculous but he’s changed me probably as a person and I only met him when I was 29.”

“An incredible man and an incredible coach,” she added. “We’re very very lucky to have him but also to be able to listen to him day-in and dayout.”

“He’s a great leader, very motivational,” said midfielder Sophie Schmidt. “And he has an inspiring way of bringing out the best in us and wanting us to be the best.”

“The best coach I’ve ever had,” said forward Jonelle Foligno.

Coach’s challenge close to coming to NHL with recent approval

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Serena Williams returns in her semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament against Timea Bacsinszky at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Thursday. ed to see the tournament doctor.”

Now one victory from her third French Open championship and 20th major title in all, Williams faces 13th-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic on Saturday.

“I tried everything. I thought if I lose, I will lose with a fight,” Williams told crowd in French. “I tried, I tried. I found the energy. I don’t know where, but I found it. And I won. I hope that on Saturday, I hope ...”

Cutting herself off, she stepped away from the microphone, bent over and began coughing. She offered a quick wave, collected her things and left. Off the court, she

got a hug from Mouratoglou, who helped her down stairs toward the locker room.

“I was worried,” said Williams’ mother, Oracene Price. “But I knew if she could get through the second set, somehow maybe the adrenaline and God would help her get through the match.”

Next comes Williams’ 24th Grand Slam final, and Safarova’s first. In her statement, Williams called herself “determined to be 100 per cent ready.” The left-handed Safarova eliminated defending champion Maria Sharapova in the fourth round and 2008 champion Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 7-5 on Thursday.

NEW YORK — A coach’s challenge system is one step closer to being a reality in the NHL. The joint NHL/NHL Players’ Association competition committee on Thursday recommended coach’s challenges for goals involving goaltender interference and offside plays.

If approved by the NHLPA executive board and NHL board of governors, goaltender interference challenges would be handled by referees at ice level. Offside reviews would be handled by on-ice officials with consultation from the situation room in Toronto.

A coach must have his timeout in order to challenge.

One of the original ideas was to make pucks shot over the glass subject to a coach’s challenge, but that did not get through the competition committee.

Six weeks after general managers finally agreed on some aspect of three-on-three overtime to reduce shootouts, the competition committee failed to reach a consensus on what to do. The league and players will continue to discuss the issue in the coming weeks.

GMs were split on the American Hockey League’s format of four-on-four for the first three minutes of overtime and then three-onthree from the next whistle up to seven minutes and just doing three-on-three for all five minutes.

The competition committee, which included four players, one owner and four GMs, could not agree, either.

In an effort to generate more offence, the competition committee approved the general managers’ recommendation to make the defensive player put his stick down first, instead of the visiting player. Faceoffs at centre ice will remain the same, requiring that the visiting team player put his stick down first.

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Local Sports Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Nikita Kucherov, TB Duncan Keith, Chi Corey Perry, Anh Jonathan Toews, Chi Jakob Silfverberg, Anh Alex Killorn, TB Steven Stamkos, TB Derick Brassard, NYR Ondrej Palat, TB Rick Nash, NYR

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FINAL Tampa Bay (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago leads series 1-0) Wednesday, June 3 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 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.

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

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

NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders GP Tyler Johnson, TB 21 Patrick Kane, Chi 18

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Penhold Multiplex June 5-7 Rosters Team Burgundy Goalie Dawson Weatherill (99), Red Deer Defence 2. Jacob Herauf (00), Sherwood Park, 3. Boedy Donald (98), Star City, Sask.

4. Carson Sass (99, Melville, Sask.

5. Tanner Hickey (99), Leduc 6. Jacob Thomson (00), Brandon, MB

Forwards 7. Chance Adrian (99), Dalmeny, Sask.

8. Tanner Sidaway (99), Victoria, B.C. 9. Jack Langenhahn (99), St. Albert 10. Akash Bains (99), Delta, B.C. 11. Brendan Budy (00), Langley, B.C. 12. Brandon Cutler (00), Stony Plain Team Grey Goalie Solomon Burk (99), Castlegar, B.C. Defence 2. Ethan Sakowich (99), Abbotsford, B.C. 3. Holden Parsons (99), Sherwood Park 4. Matthew Kasowski (99), St. Albert 5. Boo Grist (99), North Saanich, B.C. 6. Spencer McHardy (00), Calgary Forwards 7. Jake Mulder (00), Abbotsford, B.C. 8. Eli Zummack (00), Kelowna, B.C. 9. Austin Pratt (99), Lakeville, MN 10. Chase Stevenson (99), West Kelowna, B.C. 11. Chase Lowry (00), Edmonton 12. Brayden Labant (99), St. Paul

Baseball Thursday result Northstar Sports 5 Canadian Brewhouse Ray’s 0

Central Division W L Pct 32 21 .604 30 21 .588 28 27 .509 26 27 .491 24 28 .462

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 34 21 .618 28 26 .519 28 26 .519 24 30 .444 23 33 .411

Colorado 7, L.A. Dodgers 6 San Diego 7, N.Y. Mets 3

Baltimore at Cleveland, 2:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 5:15 p.m.

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

Tuesday results Northstar Baseball 9 Lacombe Orioles 1

Minnesota Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago

● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 3 p.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High School Boys Soccer: H.J. Cody at Notre Dame at Collicutt West at 4:15 p.m.; Innisfail at Olds at 4:15 p.m. at Olds. ● High School girls soccer: Lindsay Thurber at HJ Cody at HJ Cody at 4:15 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Acme Pirates at Red Deer Razorbacks at Great Chief at 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Sherwood Park Titans at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 9 p.m. ● Rodeo: Rocky Mountain House Pro Rodeo, North Saskatchewan River Park, 6:30 p.m.

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Senior Mens Baseball

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 29 25 .537 Tampa Bay 29 26 .527 Toronto 25 30 .455 Baltimore 24 29 .453 Boston 24 31 .436

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Wednesday’s Games Boston 6, Minnesota 3, 1st game N.Y. Yankees 3, Seattle 1 Toronto 8, Washington 0 Oakland 6, Detroit 1 Minnesota 2, Boston 0, 2nd game Chicago White Sox 9, Texas 2 Houston 3, Baltimore 1 Kansas City 4, Cleveland 2 Tampa Bay 6, L.A. Angels 5, 10 innings Thursday’s Games Oakland 7, Detroit 5 Baltimore 3, Houston 2 Minnesota 8, Boston 4 Texas 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 11 innings Cleveland 6, Kansas City 2, 8 innings Tampa Bay 2, Seattle 1 Friday’s Games L.A. Angels (Weaver 4-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 4-1), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (R.Hernandez 2-4) at Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 4-4), 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 2-7) at Cleveland (Marcum 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Kazmir 2-3) at Boston (Miley 4-5), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Ryan 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-6), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 3-6) at Minnesota (Gibson 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Ch.Gonzalez 1-0) at Kansas City (Volquez 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 4-5) at Seattle (Happ 3-1), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Houston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Oakland at Boston, 2:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs 2, Washington 1 Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Mets at Arizona, late St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, late

Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Houston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Oakland at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

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

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Fielder Tex 53 215 26 77 .358 MiCabrera Det 54 195 29 65 .333 Kipnis Cle 53 218 39 72 .330 Ellsbury NYY 37 148 29 48 .324 NCruz Sea 54 210 32 67 .319 Moustakas KC 48 186 29 59 .317 Donaldson Tor 55 215 45 67 .312 Vogt Oak 52 159 27 49 .308 AJones Bal 51 199 26 61 .307 Paredes Bal 41 164 23 50 .305 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 18; Teixeira, New York, 16; Donaldson, Toronto, 15; Pujols, Los Angeles, 14; Trout, Los Angeles, 14; CDavis, Baltimore, 12; Encarnacion, Toronto, 12; Gattis, Houston, 12; HRamirez, Boston, 12; Valbuena, Houston, 12.

Runs Batted In Teixeira, New York, 41; Fielder, Texas, 40; NCruz, Seattle, 39; Donaldson, Toronto, 39; Vogt, Oakland, 39; KMorales, Kansas City, 38; MiCabrera, Detroit, 36; Gattis, Houston, 36.

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

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 29 25 .537 29 25 .537 26 27 .491 22 32 .407 21 34 .382

GB — — 2 7 8

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 35 18 .660 29 24 .547 28 24 .538 23 29 .442 18 36 .333

GB — 6 6 11 17

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West Division W L Pct 31 22 .585 30 25 .545 27 28 .491 25 27 .481 24 28 .462

GB — 2 5 5 6

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Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Wada 0-0) at Washington (Roark 1-2), 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 5-3) at Philadelphia (Williams 3-5), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 2-5) at Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 2-0) at Atlanta (W.Perez 1-0), 5:35 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 3-6) at Minnesota (Gibson 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 3-3) at Colorado (E.Butler 3-5), 6:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-5) at Arizona (Hellickson 3-3), 7:40 p.m.

St. Louis (C.Martinez 5-2) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Washington, 10:05 a.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

Miami at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games San Diego at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Washington, 2:05 p.m.

Miami at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DGordon Mia 51 220 30 81 .368 Goldschmidt Ari 52 189 40 66 .349 LeMahieu Col 50 177 23 60 .339 AGonzalez LAD 52 192 36 64 .333 Harper Was 53 177 43 58 .328 Rizzo ChC 52 187 29 60 .321 Pollock Ari 51 198 37 63 .318 YEscobar Was 50 190 28 60 .316 Aoki SF 53 207 24 65 .314 MCarpenter StL 48 188 35 59 .314 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 18; Pederson, Los Angeles, 17; Stanton, Miami, 17; Frazier, Cincinnati, 16; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; Arenado, Colorado, 13; Braun, Milwaukee, 12; Upton, San Diego, 12.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 46; Harper, Washington, 45; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 44; Arenado, Colorado, 39; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 39; Braun, Milwaukee, 38; BCrawford, San Francisco, 37; Upton, San Diego, 37.

Pitching GCole, Pittsburgh, 8-2; BColon, New York, 8-3; Shields, San Diego, 7-0; Wacha, St. Louis, 7-1; Burnett, Pittsburgh, 6-1; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 6-2; Haren, Miami, 6-2.

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Wednesday’s Games St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 4 Arizona 9, Atlanta 8 Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 5, Cincinnati 4, 11 innings Toronto 8, Washington 0 Miami 7, Chicago Cubs 3

Ladies Fastball Red Deer Ladies Softball League GP W L T TNT Athletics 9 6 1 2 Topco Oilsite Panthers 9 5 4 0 Collins Barrow Rage 8 4 3 1 Snell & Oslund Badgers 9 4 4 1 Stettler Heat 9 2 6 1

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June 2 Panthers 15 Heat 0 Bandits 12 Athletics 12 Badgers 10 Rage 2 June 4 Panthers 6 Badgers 2

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Texas 2B Travis Demeritte (Hickory-SAL) 80 games without pay for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Transferred RHP Brandon Workman to the 60-day DL. Designated OF Carlos Peguero for assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Daniel Fields to Tacoma (IL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Ricky Nolasco on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Returned RHP Michael Tonkin to Rochester (IL). Recalled LHP Tommy Milone from Rochester.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Designated OF Justin Ruggiano for assignment. Recalled C Jesus Sucre from Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed OF Josh Hamilton on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Assigned

NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Atlanta 0 Wednesday, May 20: Cleveland 97, Atlanta 89 Friday, May 22: Cleveland 94, Atlanta 82 Sunday, May 24: Cleveland 114, Atlanta 111, OT Tuesday, May 26: Cleveland 118, Atlanta 88 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, Houston 1 Tuesday, May 19: Golden State 110, Houston 106 Thursday, May 21: Golden State 99, Houston 98 Saturday, May 23: Golden State 115, Houston 80 Monday, May 25: Houston 128, Golden State 115 Wednesday, May 27: Golden State 104, Houston 90

Cardona.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed WR Kris Durham and LB Chase Williams.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Released WR Bud Sasser.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Promoted Scott Fitterer and Trent Kirchner to co-directors of player personnel, Ed Dodds to senior personnel executive, Dan Morgan to director of pro personnel and Matt Berry to director of college scouting.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DB Kacy Rodgers.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Vernon Kearney.

HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Announced associate coach Keith Acton and assistant coach Craig Ramsay will not return for the 2015-16 season.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed F Andreas Johnson to a three-year, entry-level contract. Resigned D T.J. Brennan to a one-year contract.

BANTAM AAA BASEBALL

UFC

The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Bantam AAA Braves (7-6) got back into the win column with a 3-2 win over the Okotoks Dawgs Black on Wednesday night at Great Chief Park.

Branden Woods was terrific in the start for Red Deer, giving up two runs on five hits and zero walks with five strikeouts for the win.

He settled down after giving up two runs in the first inning and was nearly untouchable the rest of the way.

The Braves tied the game in the bottom of the third inning with back-to-back RBI singles from Ty Moline and Cooper Jones to plate Matt Kohle and Ben LeBlanc.

Red Deer took the lead in their final at-bat in the seventh inning, as Aiden Scafer took home after an attempted pickoff attempt by the catcher at third base went into left field.

Hunter Leslie also had two singles for the Braves.

The Braves are off until next weekend when they host the St. Albert Cardinals in a threegame set at Great Chief Park.

UFC sets 2 title fight matchups

GYMNASTICS The Central Alberta Rhythmic Gymnastics Club returned from the Elena’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Invitational in Edmonton on the weekend with 47 medals.

Included in these results from the 21 gymnasts were seven gold, 22 silver and 18 bronze medals.

Elena Dupalo led the way for CARGO with a high mark of 94 in the Interclub stream event while also receiving a trophy for Most Expres-

LAS VEGAS — The UFC has set two highprofile matchups for upcoming title fights.

Light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier is expected to make his first title defence against Alexander Gustafsson, while middleweight champion Chris Weidman’s next fight is against Luke Rockhold. UFC President Dana White announced the matchups on Fox Sports, the UFC’s broadcast partner. He didn’t name specific dates or locations.

Cormier (16-1) stopped Anthony “Rumble” Johnson on May 23 to win the belt vacated by Jon Jones. Gustafsson (16-3) lost to Jones in 2013 and was stopped by Johnson in January, but will get the next title shot instead of contender Ryan Bader, White says.

Weidman (13-0) defended his title for the third time on May 23 with a first-round stoppage of Vitor Belfort. Rockhold (14-2) has won four straight fights. sive Performance Interclub Gymnast.

The highest mark for provincial stream competitors, a 91, went to a CARGO gymnast, Jude Danyau, who also teammed with Mary Danyau and Emma Ostrikoff for the highest group score with an 86.

Senior club members Madison Martin, Sienna Trautman, Mary Danyau, Jude Danyau and Ostrikoff all advanced to the Alberta Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Edmonton, June 5-7. Other members of the club will be performing June 6 at Central Alberta Children’s Festival in Red Deer.

Golden State vs. Cleveland Thursday, June 4: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 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.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 15 8 3 4 19 New England 14 5 3 6 20 New York 12 4 3 5 15 Toronto 11 5 5 1 17 Columbus 13 4 5 4 19 Philadelphia 15 4 8 3 17 Chicago 12 4 6 2 15 Orlando 13 3 5 5 16 d-Montreal 9 3 4 2 11 New York City 13 1 7 5 10 Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 13 8 3 2 20 Vancouver 15 7 6 2 17 Dallas 13 6 4 3 18 Kansas City 13 5 2 6 21 Los Angeles 15 5 4 6 15 Portland 14 5 5 4 13 d-San Jose 13 5 5 3 14 Houston 14 4 5 5 17 Salt Lake 14 4 5 5 13 Colorado 13 2 4 7 11

U.S. GA 13 18 13 15 19 23 17 17 14 17

Pt 28 21 17 16 16 15 14 14 11 8

GA 10 15 19 15 17 14 15 17 18 12

Pt 26 23 21 21 21 19 18 17 17 13

Friday’s games New York at Houston, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games Toronto at D.C., 5 p.m.

New York City at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 China 0 0 0 0 0 0 Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Saturday’s games At Edmonton Canada vs. China, 4 p.m.

New Zealand vs. Netherlands, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 11 At Edmonton China vs. Netherlands, 4 p.m.

Canada vs. New Zealand, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 15 At Montreal Canada vs. Netherlands, 5:30 p.m.

At Winnipeg China vs. New Zealand, 5:30 p.m.

Germany Ivory Coast Norway Thailand

GP 0 0 0 0

Group B W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Sunday’s games At Ottawa Norway vs. Thailand, 11 a.m.

Germany vs. Ivory Coast, 2 p.m.

Thursday, June 11 At Ottawa Germany vs. Norway, 2 p.m.

Ivory Coast vs. Thailand, 5 p.m.

Monday, June 15 At Winnipeg Thailand vs. Germany, 2 p.m.

At Moncton, N.B. Ivory Coast vs. Norway, 2 p.m.

Cameroon Ecuador Japan Switzerland

GP 0 0 0 0

Group C W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Monday, June 8 At Vancouver Cameroon vs. Ecuador, 5 p.m.

Japan vs. Switzerland, 8 p.m.

Friday, June 12 At Vancouver Switzerland vs. Ecuador, 5 p.m.

Japan vs. Cameroon, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, June 16 At Winnipeg Ecuador vs. Japan, 3 p.m.

At Edmonton Switzerland vs. Cameroon, 3 p.m.

Australia Nigeria Sweden

GP 0 0 0

Group D W L 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0

0

0

0

Brazil Costa Rica South Korea Spain

GP 0 0 0 0

Group E W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Toronto (E1) vs. Edmonton (W1) (Edmonton leads series 1-0)

0

0

0

T 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Tuesday, June 9 At Montreal Spain vs. Costa Rica, 2 p.m.

Brazil vs. South Korea, 5 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 At Montreal Brazil vs. Spain, 2 p.m.

South Korea vs. Costa Rica, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 At Moncton, N.B. Costa Rica vs. Brazil, 5 p.m.

At Ottawa South Korea vs. Spain, 5 p.m.

GP 0 0 0 0

Group F W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

Tuesday, June 9 At Moncton, N.B. France vs. England, 11 a.m.

Colombia vs. Mexico, 2 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 At Moncton, N.B. France vs. Colombia, 11 a.m.

England vs. Mexico, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 At Ottawa Mexico vs. France, 2 p.m.

At Montreal England vs. Colombia, 2 p.m.

End of preliminary round SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 20 At Ottawa Group B winner vs. Group A, C or D third place, 2 p.m.

At Edmonton Group A second place vs. Group C second place, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 21 At Moncton, N.B. Group E winner vs. Group D second place, 11 a.m.

At Montreal Group F winner vs. Group E second place, 2 p.m.

At Vancouver Group A winner vs. Group C, D or E third place, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, June 22 At Ottawa Group B second place vs. Group F second place, 3 p.m.

At Edmonton Group D winner vs. Group B, E or F third place, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 23 At Vancouver Group C winner vs. Group A, B or F third place, 8 p.m.

QUARTER-FINALS Friday, June 26 At Montreal Ottawa June 20 winner vs. Montreal winner, 2 p.m.

At Ottawa Edmonton June 20 winner vs. Edmonton June 22 winner, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 27 At Edmonton Moncton winner vs. Vancouver June 23 winner, 2 p.m.

At Vancouver Ottawa June 22 winner vs. Vancouver June 21 winner, 5:30 p.m.

SEMIFINALS Tuesday, June 30 At Montreal Ottawa winner vs. Montreal winner, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1 At Edmonton Edmonton winner vs. Vancouver winner, 5 p.m.

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 4 At Edmonton, Semifinal losers, noon

GF 0 0 0

GA 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 5 At Vancouver, Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

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Monday, June 8 At Winnipeg Sweden vs. Nigeria, 2 p.m.

U.S. vs. Australia, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, June 12 At Winnipeg Australia vs. Nigeria, 3 p.m.

U.S. vs. Sweden, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 16 At Vancouver Nigeria vs. U.S., 6 p.m.

At Edmonton Australia vs. Sweden, 6 p.m.

Colombia England France Mexico

Sunday’s games Colorado at Salt Lake, 3 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 5 p.m.

INF Tommy Field outright to Round Rock (PCL).

Reinstated LHP Ross Detwiler from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with SS Beamer Weems on a minor league contract. Sent OF Ryan Rua to Round Rock for a rehab assignment.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed RHP Archie Bradley on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Robbie Ray from Reno (PCL). Traded OF Mark Trumbo and LHP Vidal Nuno to Seattle for C Welington Castillo, RHP Dominic Leone, OF Gabby Guerrero and SS Jack Reinheimer.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned RHP Radhames Liz outright to Indianapolis (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Taylor Jordan to Syracuse (IL) and INF Wilmer Difo to Harrisburg (EL). Reinstated INF Anthony Rendon from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP A.J. Cole from Syracuse.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LS Joe

Sunday ● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 9 a.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Alberta Major Women’s Soccer League: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer Renegades at Edgar Industrial Park at 2 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Okotoks Ice at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 2:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier III lacrosse: Innisfail Stingers at Crowsnest Pass Ravens at 1:30 p.m.; High River Heat at Olds Mavericks at 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 1:30 p.m. ● Senior ladies lacrosse: Edmonton Bandits at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena at 5 p.m. ● Rodeo: Rocky Mountain House Pro Rodeo, North Saskatchewan River Park, 1:30 p.m.

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Wednesday’s results D.C. 3 Chicago 1 Philadelphia 3 Columbus 0 Montreal 2 Vancouver 1 N. Jensen Bandits

Pts. 14 10 9 9 5

● Red Deer Rebels: Prospects camp, 3:45 p.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Women’s Rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at noon.

Men’s Division 2 rugby: Calgary Irish at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s Division 3 rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer Titans at Titans Park at 1:45 p.m. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Calgary Shamrocks at Red Deer Rampage at Kinex Arena at 8 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Strathmore Venom at Red Deer Renegades at Kinex Arena at 5:30 p.m.

● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Lethbridge Cudas at Olds Mavericks at 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Vermilion Rage at Blackfalds Silverbacks at 8:30 p.m. ● Senior ladies lacrosse: St. Albert Drillers at Red Deer Rage at Kinex Arena 3 p.m. ● 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. ● Rodeo: Rocky Mountain House Pro Rodeo, North Saskatchewan River Park, 1:30 p.m.

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

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

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Trio tie course record at Manulife LPGA Classic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Cristie Kerr, K.P. Kongkraphan and rookie Cheyenne Woods were on fire at Whistle Bear Golf Club on Thursday, tying the course record of 9-under par 63 to share a one-shot lead after the first round at the Manulife LPGA Classic.

The trio ate up the 6,613-yard course, taking advantage of the lack of wind to top the 150-player field. They matched the score of Jon Mills and Matt Bettencourt, who both shot 63 at the Cambridge course during the Nationwide Tour’s Canadian PGA Championship in 2005.

Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, had eight birdies — five of those in the final nine holes — with an eagle and one bogey. It was quite the turnaround for Woods, who missed the last five cuts at tournaments.

“I played really solid all day,” said Woods.

It’s just the second time this season that Woods has shot under 70, and bettered her LPGA careerbest round of 65.

“I had one bogey, which was a stupid three putt, but overall I played solid,” said Woods. “And I think the biggest thing, we were just having fun out there, Jaye Marie (Green) and I were talking the whole day and it was very relaxed atmosphere while we were playing. That’s sometimes when I play my best and I guess it worked out.”

Kerr started off her day 7-under par after nine holes, but cooled off after making the turn, with three birdies and a bogey. She credited her round to seeing her swing coach on Monday.

“You’re not going to birdie every hole,” said Kerr.

“I mean, if I did the same thing I did on the front, I would have shot in the 50s. That would have been huge, but they’re very rare so you’ve just got to try to do the best that you can.”

Thailand’s Kongkraphan made a late charge to hop into a share of the lead, shooting birdies on the final three holes. That capped off a day with 10 birdies and one bogey, which she said gave her momentum heading into the second round.

“I hit the ball very solid today. My tee shot is working very well and I tried to work on my wedges and worked very good today,” said Kongkraphan.

Israel’s Laetitia Beck and Sandra Gal, of Germany, sit one back of the leaders at 8-under par 64.

Beck, who is ranked 119th in the world, bettered her career-best round by six shots.

“The course is in great shape, so if you hit your shots to the green the way you want to, it pretty much does whatever you know, it just stops,” said Beck.

Beck, in unfamiliar territory, is also feeling the heat from Sei Young Kim, former Manulife champion Brittany Lang, Julieta Granada, Mariajo Uribe

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Brooke Henderson watches her tee shot during the first round of the 2015 Manulife LPGA Classic in Cambridge, Ont. on Thursday. and Anna Nordqvist at 7-under par 65. Nordqvist put together a round of seven birdies, an eagle and two bogeys to put herself in early contention less than a week after winning the Shoprite LPGA Classic in New Jersey.

“Obviously the last week gave me a lot of confidence and I played so well today, hit the ball really well, gave myself a lot of opportunities and that’s what you have to do at this course,” said Nordqvist.

Nine players are tied at 6 under to round out the top 20.

The top Canadian on the day was Alena Sharp, who carded a 5-under par 67. The Hamilton, Ont. native started off slow, admitting she was nervous playing less than an hour from home, but managed to reel off five straight birdies to put her at 6-under par at the time. The damage of double bogey on the 17th

hole was lessened when she finished with a birdie.

“I kind of got into a coast zone where I was hitting fairways and greens,” said Sharp. “I really got target focused and I kind of just got this momentum flow going on and I birdied five in a row. It was amazing. I haven’t done that all year.”

Following Sharp were Natalie Gleadall of Stratford, Ont., who was one of two players that advanced to the Manulife Classic from the Monday qualifier, at 4 under, and Toronto’s Sue Kim at 3 under.

Brooke Henderson of Smith Falls, Ont., Quebec’s Sara-Maude Juneau and Toronto’s Rebecca LeeBentham are tied at 1 under, while Brittany Henderson, Jennifer Kirby, from Paris, Ont. and Lorie Kane of Prince Edward Island, shot even par 72. Augusta James, who also qualified for the tournament on Monday, finished at 4 over.

A pleasant turnaround for Matsuyama at Muirfield

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ohio — Hideki Matsuyama was bracing for a rough day at the Memorial and wound up with a share of the lead Thursday.

Tiger Woods still doesn’t know what to expect.

Matsuyama made a bold start in his bid to join Woods as the only repeat winners at Muirfield Village by running off four straight birdies on the back nine and one strong par save on his way to an 8-under 64 that tied the Japanese star with Bo Van Pelt.

“To be honest with you, up until yesterday I was not hitting the ball very well, I was not chipping very well, I was not putting very well,” Matsuyama said through a translator. “And I don’t know what happened overnight. We just caught magic.”

It was a dream start for Van Pelt for other reasons. He grew up across the state line in Indiana and used to play hooky from school to attend the Memorial from the time he was 10 until he got out of high school. Muirfield Village is where he first dreamed about playing the PGA Tour. In calm conditions under an overcast sky, Van Pelt made a career-best 10 birdies for his best score in 41 rounds at the course Jack Nicklaus built.

“Other than the Masters, this tournament means more to me than any one I’ve ever played,” Van Pelt said. “So it’s always good to play well around a place that means a lot to you.”

Woods, a five-time winner of the Memorial, wasn’t sure what he was going to get. He hooked his tee shot and started with a bogey for the eighth time in his last nine starts on the PGA Tour. He went so far right off the tee at the 18th that it went out-of-bounds (the next tee shot wasn’t much better) and made double bogey to go out in 40. He hooked his 3-wood on the first hole. It was looking like another big number.

Instead, Woods battled to save pars and convert birdies, and he salvaged a 73 that left him nine shots behind.

“Physically, I feel good. Mentally, I feel beat up,” Woods said. “To turn that round around like I did today ... that was hard.”

He was determined to stick with the changes he is making to his swing under a fourth coach as a pro, no matter how long it takes. Considering he hasn’t had a top 10 in his last 13 events dating to the end of 2013, this could take time.

“I was just trying to stay committed to what we’re working on, to what we’re doing,” he said. “I hit it

SPEEDSKATING

Olympic champion Christine Nesbitt announces retirement

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — It was never about the medals for Christine Nesbitt, although she won a lot of them during her speedskating career.

She chased the perfect race, which is why Nesbitt’s celebrations seemed muted after her many achievements.

“It’s great to win, but I never found true satisfaction,” the Olympic gold medallist said Thursday after announcing her retirement.

“I’m a bad celebrator. Mine is this internal warm, nervous hug on myself. The way I’ve always improved has been hyper-critical of myself, which has hurt me, but it also allowed me to excel really quickly in the sport.”

The 30-year-old from London, Ont., won 124 international medals during her 12-year career, including Olympic gold in the 1,000 metres in 2010. Nesbitt broke a six-year-old world record in the distance in 2012 and also won a world title in it three times. Nesbitt, Kristina Groves and Cindy Klassen still hold the world record in the women’s team pursuit. Nesbitt earned an Olympic silver medal in 2006 in the event.

Nesbitt was an interesting combination of a lioness “wanting to destroy my competition fiercely” when the start gun went off and a shy woman uncomfortable with attention when she crossed the finish line.

awful, yeah. So what? I was going to go through this phase and stick with it, keep sticking with it. And some of the shots I hit were really, really good. But then I also had some really bad shots, too. And we need to work on that.”

Matsuyama won the Memorial last year in a playoff. It was his first win in America and validated him as one of the many rising stars in golf.

He said every course on the PGA Tour feels difficult to him, and even when he made a pair of 15-foot birdie putts on his way to a 32 on the front nine while playing with Phil Mickelson (72) and Rickie Fowler (72), he wasn’t comfortable.

“I was just trying to hang on,” he said.

So was Jason Dufner, the former PGA champion, whose tied for eighth last week at the AT&T Byron Nelson ended a stretch of 17 events on American soil without a top 10. He was tied for the lead after making a 60-foot eagle putt on the 15th hole and was still poised to join Matsuyama and Van Pelt at 64 until he pulled his tee shot into the water on the 18th and

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closed with a double bogey.

That put him at 66, along with Russell Knox, who fed his putts off the ridges beautifully in making seven birdies.

Harris English and Kevin Kisner were among those at 67. Masters champion Jordan Spieth, who saved the start of his round with a world-class short game, was cruising along until one mistake turned a birdie into a bogey on the par-5 seventh late in his round. He had to settle for a 68.

English (No. 70 in the world) and Kisner (No. 61) each have a chance to do well enough at the Memorial to avoid U.S. Open qualifying next week. Another important start belonged to Patrick Rodgers, who has his last chance to gain special temporary membership on the PGA Tour.

Woods grabbed the most attention for two reasons.

He’s Tiger Woods, still enough to attract the biggest gallery. And there remains a mystery about the game of a 79-time PGA Tour winner who has plunged to No. 172 in the world.

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Canada rugby squad named for women’s Super Series in Alberta

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Coach Francois Ratier has named 12 veterans of the 2014 World Cup to his squad for the Women’s Super Series in Alberta.

The tournament feature Canada, England, New Zealand and the U.S. with doubleheaders scheduled for Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton on June 27, July 1 and July 5, respectively.

“We are two years away from the next World Cup,” Ratier said in a statement Thursday. “It is time for young or new players to have their chance and for the returning players to take the lead. I am expecting a strong chemistry during this Super Series.

“Team culture is the key and the team will always be more important than individuals.”

Tyson Beukeboom, Latoya Blackwood, Andrea Burk, Olivia DeMerchant, Mary-Jane Kirby, Barbara Mervin, Jacey Murphy, Laura Russell, Maria Samson, Amanda Thornborough, Brittany Waters and Julianne Zussman are the returning World Cup players.

It’s the first outing for the Canadian women since the World Cup, where Canada finished runner-up to England.

The game Red Deer stop will feature a doubleheader with New Zealand facing England starting at 4 p.m. at Titans Park and will be followed by Canada taking on the U.S. at 6:30 p.m. on JUly 1.

Ratier will announce his captain at a later date.

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Hamilton wants to forget Monaco, focus on Canadian Grand Prix

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Lewis Hamilton doesn’t want to talk about Monaco any more.

The reigning Formula One driving champion said he has put the team mistake that cost him almost certain victory at the Monaco Grand Prix two weeks ago behind him.

He wants to concentrate fully on the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

“I don’t look back, I’m looking forward,” Hamilton said Thursday. “I haven’t thought about the last race for a long time.

“I’m just thinking about the next race. I put my mind to other things, training and trying to come back strong this weekend. So it’s really irrelevant what happened in the past. There’s nothing you can do about it, so there’s no point in dwelling on it.”

Racing starts Friday with two practice sessions followed by qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday afternoon.

The Mercedes AMG team took the blame for calling Hamilton in for a tire change with the safety car on the track. The move left him third and handed the win to teammate Nico Rosberg, cutting Hamilton’s lead over the German in the drivers standings to only 10 points.

Hamilton was visibly upset after losing F1’s most famous race, but said the issue has been settled and he still has confidence in team management.

“Things are good with the team. I decided to move on,” he said.

The Canadian Grand Prix finds Mercedes AMG on top of the F1 world again, but looking to rebound from a disaster last year in Montreal when both cars had a mechanical failure early on that cost them their power advantage.

Hamilton retired on Lap 48 of the 70-lap event, while Rosberg did all he could to stay in front until the next to last lap, when

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, left, of Great Britain, and Williams driver Felipe Massa, right, of Brazil, speak to the media during the drivers press conference at the Canadian Grand Prix, Thursday, in Montreal. he was passed by Daniel Riccardi’s Red Bull as the Australian cruised in for his first F1 victory. The race ended behind a safety car following a late collision between Sergio Perez and Felipe Massa.

The Red Bulls, still seeking to rediscover the magic that saw them take four straight titles with driver Sebastian Vettel from 2009 to 2013, have slipped to fourth this season. Ferrari, with Vettel and veteran Kimi Raikkonen, is now Mercedes AMG’s new rival, with Williams drivers Massa and Valtteri Bottas just behind.

Ferrari has improvements to its package this week and hopes to post its second win of the campaign after the Malaysian Grand Prix on March 29.

Ricciardi has no illusions about defending his title in a car that has not kept pace,

but hopes to finish in the points and perhaps even get into the top three.

“It’s very cool to be back here,” said Ricciardi. “This year it will take even more of an effort than last year to get that same success, but Montreal’s always had a lot of style. The race never disappoints.”

The 4,361-kilometre Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is hard on brakes and engines, and the tight turns after fast straights have caused their share of mishaps. Most years, the safety car is out on the track at least once.

It will be a test for 17-year-old Toro Rossi rookie Max Verstappen, who will be penalized five grid positions after he was found responsible for the crash with Romain Grosjean’s Lotus that brought out the safety car in Monaco.

Gillian Allen, Kirin, Saskatoon; Tyson Beukeboom, Aurora Barbarians, Uxbridge, Ont.; Layota Blackwood, St. Anne de Bellevue, Montreal; Andrea Burk, Capilano RFC, North Vancouver; Olivia DeMerchant, Woodstock Wildmen, Mapledale, N.B.; Julia Folk, Regina Rogues, Regina; Lisa Gauthier, St-Anne de Bellevue, St-Bernardino, Ont.; Chelsea Guthrie, Stratchona Druids, Edmonton; Lori Josephson, Aurora Barbarians, Beaverton, Ont.; Mary-Jane Kirby, Highland RFC, Brampton, Ont.; Carolyn McEwan, Burnaby Lake Rugby Club, Vancouver; Katie McNally, Velox Valkries, Guelph, Ont.; DaLeaka Menin, Hornets, Vulcan, Alta.; Barbara Mervin, Velox RFC, Peterborough, Ont.; Jacey Murphy, Aurora Barbarians, Alliston, Ont.; Jess Neilson, Meraloma, Vancouver; Cindy Nelles, Belleville Bulldogs, Belleville, Ont.; Tiffany Picketts, UVic Vikes and Abbotsford Rugby Club, Abbotsford, B.C.; Camile Provencal-Aube, Abenakis et CRQ, Sherbrooke, Que.; Laura Russell, Toronto Nomads, Bolton, Ont.; Maria Samson, Calgary Hornets, Calgary; Natasha Smith, Barrhaven Scottish, Ottawa; Emma Taylor, St F-X, Scotsburn, N.S.; Alex Tessier, Montreal Barbarians, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton, Que.; Amanda Thornborough, Brandon Barbarians RFC, Brandon, Man.; Brittany Waters, Meraloma Athletic Club, Vancouver; Julianne Zussman, Town of Mount Royal RFC, Montreal.

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CFL Former Stampeders linebacker Wayne Harris dies at 77

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Wayne Harris, the former University of Arkansas and Calgary Stampeders linebacker known as “Thumper” for his hard hits, has died.

He was 77.

Harris played his entire CFL career with Calgary from 1961-72.

The Hampton, Arkansas, native was the MVP in Calgary’s 1971 Grey Cup victory over Toronto.

The CFL’s top lineman a record four times an all-league selection eight times, Harris was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1976. His No. 55 jersey was retired in 1973, and he was voted ninth among the CFL’s Top 50 players in a TSN poll in 2006.

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simple title; a poacher killed his father years earlier and the murderer was never caught.

One day when he is scouting the forest, Jorgen discovers an arrow whose feathers The classic tale of Robin Hood takes a and design are not that of Lord Thornbeck’s. twist in Melanie Dickerson’s To add fuel to fire, this arrow’s design The Huntress of Thornbeck Forwith white feathers is the same as the est. arrow that killed his father.

The year is 1363, and the At the Midsummer Eve Festival, story is set in northeast GerJorgen spots the stunning Odette man reaches of the Holy Rodancing with an old rival, Mathis man Empire — the MargraPapendrop. Mathis is obsessed with vate of Thornbeck.

Odette and has been pursuing her Odette Menkels is a beautiand Rutger, asking for Odette’s hand ful maiden, who is thankful to in marriage. have uncle/guardian Rutger But when the fair maiden lays eyes Menkels, who has not forced on Jorgen, it is truly love at first sight Odette away or pushed her for the both of them — they dance to marry a man she does not all night and instantly their personKIRSTEN love. alities connect. But all the exciteLOWE Her community is still ment comes to an abrupt halt when shocked that Odette, one of Odette discovers that Jorgen is the the most beautiful women in margrave’s forester. He is the one the village, who is also kind, person who could bring her feeding generous and educated, is still unwed. Many of the poor to a stop. worthy men, wanting her hand in marriage, Although Odette and Rutger know it is have approached her but Odette has always important to avoid Jorgen at all costs, Odette turned them down. cannot help but be drawn to the young forYet there is another reason that Odette is ester. hesitant to marry — during the night (with She also cannot help that, together, she the support of her uncle), the fair maiden and Jorgen make a great team helping those turns into the huntress of the forest. She in need — especially when they meet a young poaches deer and stags in order to feed the girl name Kathryn who has given her virtue poor, famine-stricken children and their to the notorious Red House in order to save families. It’s a dangerous task — if anyone is her two younger brothers. caught poaching in the margrave’s forest, the But how long can Odette continue like this penalty could range from amputation of the before the truth surfaces? hands to spending the rest of your life in the Will Odette continue to help the poor, or dungeons, all the way to the death penalty. will she give it all up to marry the man of her Jorgen Hartman, who also possesses a soft dreams? spot in heart for assisting the poor, has beThis is a perfect medieval fairytale for come Margrave Reinhart’s (Lord Thornbeck) adults! new forester. His job is to stop any illegal poaching happening in the lord’s forest.

Kirsten Lowe is a freelance book reviewer But for Jorgen, this is much more than a and Red Deer College student.

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2015 Off-Site Levy Bylaw 3549/2015 Red Deer City Council proposes to pass Bylaw 3549/2015, The 2015 Off-Site Levy Bylaw which provides for a uniform levy of off-site costs in respect of previously undeveloped land. The City charges off-site levies on new development lands within the City to cover the cost of extending the trunk water, sanitary, and storm mains, and major thoroughfares, and associated facilities to serve these areas.

The public may inspect the proposed bylaw at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours.

City Council will consider second and third reading of this bylaw at the Monday, June 22, 2015 Council Meeting in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall.

If you want your comments included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, June 15, 2015 otherwise, you may submit your comments at the Council meeting.

Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak say they are indeed writing a book together.

The two were on a panel at BookCon recently at the Javits Center in New York.

It was organized around Novak interviewing Kaling about her upcoming second book entitled Why Not Me? due out in September.

The 35-year-olds, who worked together on NBC’s comedy The Office, both as writers, producers and supporting cast members, say they just started working on the book project and it won’t be out for a while.

“It’s very early in the creative process,” Novak said.

Kaling was more enthusiastic.

“It’s going to be awesome,” she said. “We just started working on it. I love working with him ... and the ideas that we’ve had so far have been super exciting.”

The book will be published

by Penguin Random House, and the deal is worth at least $7 million, according to two publishing officials with knowledge of the negotiations.

The officials were not authorized to discuss the contract terms and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

On The Office, their characters

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Notice is hereby given that the Council of The City of Red Deer intends to pass a bylaw, at a time at least 60 days following the date of serving the Notice, to designate the following property as a Municipal Historic Resource under the Historical Resources Act, Section 26, R.S.A., 2000, Ch. H-9, as amended from time to time. The property to be designated as a Municipal Historic Resource is the: Willson House Located Municipally at: 5011 – 43 Avenue Red Deer, AB and legally described as: Lot 8, Block 6, Plan 5470HW Members of the public who require additional information are encouraged to contact Randa Wheaton, Senior Planner, City of Red Deer Planning department, at 403-406-8702 or by email at: randa.wheaton@reddeer.ca

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Road Closure Announcement Downtown Cruise Night

City Property Assessors Conducting Annual Inspections

The following road will be closed Tuesday, June 9th to accommodate the Downtown Cruise Night hosted by the Downtown Business Association.

City of Red Deer property assessors are out doing property inspections for information required to complete the 2015 annual assessment. Assessors may knock on your door for any of the following reasons: - To assess new construction, newly renovated homes, or building permit inquiry; - To re-inspect property that has sold; or - To do a general re-assessment of a neighbourhood or property type.

If residents are not home and more information is required, the assessor will leave a callback card so you can call the assessor to set up a mutually agreed upon appointment. If you should have questions about your property assessment, please call 403-342-8126 for more information.

Alexander Way (48 Street) from 47 A Avenue to 52 Ave. THIS WILL AFFECT THE EASTBOUND LANE ONLY.THE WESTBOUND LANE WILL REMAIN OPEN TO TRAFFIC AS WELL AS THE NORTH/SOUTH INTERSECTIONS AND TRAFFIC WILL REMAIN OPEN. The road closure will be in effect from 4:00-10:00pm.

Please watch for detour signs and use alternative routes as indicated. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238.

Thank you for your cooperation.

North of 11A Major Area Structure Plan (MASP) Open House Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Time: 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Drop in and/or view a presentation at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Where: Quality Inn North Hill - 7150 - 50 Avenue Please join us for an Open House designed to share the draft MASP for the 1,300 hectare area north of Highway 11A annexed by The City in 2009. View the plan, ask questions and provide your feedback. Once adopted by City Council, the MASP will serve as a long-term land use tool to guide future development.

For more information, visit: www.reddeer.ca/north11A or call 403-309-8545

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had an on-again off-again dysfunctional relationship and Kaling has publicly said the two have also dated in real life. She now calls Novak her best friend and the two alluded to their romantic history more than once Saturday, to the squeals and laughter of audience members.

Kaling said her first book of essays, 2011’s bestselling Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me (And Other Concerns) was more to “introduce the world to me.”

She wrote it while she was still working on The Office. Her second book focuses on her life since her first book. She describes it as “incredibly honest and vulnerable.”

Kaling is also the executive producer and star of The Mindy Project, a comedy that was just cancelled by Fox after three seasons but picked up by Hulu for 26 episodes.

“I’m so excited,” said Kaling, adding that the writer’s room for that show resumes work on Monday.

Novak is also a bestselling author. He released a book of short stories and a children’s book last year.

BookCon a two-day, literary version of Comic-Con, is designed to drum up excitement from fans about books and reading. Other well-known authors who took part included John Green and Judy Blume.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On May 27, 2015, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Permitted Use Approvals: Waskasoo Donald Stirling - site redevelopment for a single family dwelling with an attached garage, with a 7.29 metre rear yard, a 0.21 m (2.85%) relaxation, to be located at 5830 45 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Approvals: Downtown National Neon Displays Limited - discretionary use for a dynamic sign, with a maximum area of 19.14m2, a 0.64m2, (a 3.5%) relaxation, and a 0m distance of a free standing sign to grade, a 3.6m (100%) relaxation, to be located at 4311 49 Avenue (Red Deer Lodge).

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on June 19, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On June 2, 2015, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Downtown 1. Carnival Cinemas Corp. – site redevelopment and elevation upgrades, with 640.0 m2 of exterior amenity area, to the existing cinemas/commercial entertainment facility, located at 5402 47 Street.

Inglewood West 2. B. & D. Garrett – a two bedroom secondary suite within an existing single-family dwelling, to be located at 92 Iverson Crescent.

Oriole Park 3. G. Elworthy – a 22.1 m2 addition to an existing single-family dwelling, to be located at 11 Orillia Park Road.

Oriole Park West 4. R. McDougall – a 0.5 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard, and a 0.39 metre relaxation to the maximum lot width coverage, for a proposed detached garage, to be located at 19 Oswald Close.

Discretionary Use Clearview Ridge 5. Deco Windshield Repair Inc. – an approval of use for a temporary outdoor windshield repair service, to be located at 7 Clearview Market Way. Laredo 6. Falcon Homes Ltd. – a two bedroom secondary suite within a proposed single-family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 118 Lundberg Crescent.

Mountview 7. C. Holt & J. McCarthy – a two bedroom secondary suite within an existing single-family dwelling, to be located at 3605 41 Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on June 19, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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Daughter’s abusive boyfriend not welcome Dear Annie: My daughter, “Chloe,” who is not quite 18, dated “Ted” for two years.

Things started out fine.

Even though neither her father nor I approved of the relationship, we never told Chloe.

After two years, she adMITCHELL mitted to me & SUGAR that Ted was emotionally abusive, calling her names, pointing out every flaw she had.

She was never good enough. If she was happy, she was too happy. If she was sad, she was told not to cry. Chloe had a couple of panic attacks and lost more than 20 pounds.

Meanwhile, almost everyone who knew Ted suspected he was gay but un-

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willing to admit it.

Near the end of the relationship, Chloe told me that Ted had been pinching her and lightly slapping her face.

A friend who had been in an abusive relationship warned Chloe that these are the signs of an abuser “testing the waters to see what he can get away with.”

I was beside myself with worry. I tried to get Chloe to talk to a therapist, but she refused.

Six weeks ago, Chloe finally decided to break things off.

But last week, she told me she made a mistake and wants to take him back.

I told her Ted is not welcome in our home because of how he has treated her.

I cannot condone this relationship, and now Chloe lies to us in order to see him.

Am I wrong to keep this man out of our house? — Beside Myself Dear Beside: No, but it would be counterproductive. Chloe understands that this relationship is not healthy, but she wants a boyfriend, and Ted has

HOROSCOPES Friday, June 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Mark Wahlberg, 44; Amanda Crew, 29; Liza Weil, 38 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Disruptions aren’t necessarily a bad thing, as they offer the opportunity to shake up your routine.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are so quickwitted that you often leave others behind!

November and December are marvellous months for love, romance, friendships and special social functions ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to break free from rules and restrictions but strive to get the balance right between independence and togetherness. Pooling individual ideas could lead to an exciting joint venture TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t get too set in your ways Taurus — the only certainty at the moment is change! The more flexible

you are mentally, the easier it will be to adapt to the constantly changing landscape.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A superficial and scattered approach is definitely not the way to approach things today Twins.

The more thorJOANNE ough and focused MADELEINE you are, the better MOORE the long-term outcomes will be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): With Saturn moving slowly through your wellbeing zone, make sure you nurture your body with

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convinced her that he loves her. It’s not love.

It’s control. But if you prohibit him from entering your home, Chloe will simply sneak around.

That means you won’t know what’s going on. It allows Ted to isolate her from her family and prevent you from helping.

Please tell Chloe that you love her and want her to be safe. Let her bring Ted to your house so he knows you are keeping an eye on him.

Be civil to him so she doesn’t spring to his defense. But also give her the number of the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE, and tell her she can come to you no matter what.

Dear Annie: We are a married senior citizen couple who don’t understand why “No One To Share This With” is so upset that her husband watches pornography. Maybe he is just watching the wrong kind of pornography.

My wife and I often watch X-rated videos that we make ourselves. We start by jointly writing a script, and then we get into costume, set up a

video camera on a tripod, and act out our roles until we are exhausted from great sex. Our hobby is a lot of fun. It spices up our married life and gives us our own homemade “pornographic” DVDs for our memories.

Maybe “No One” could solve her problem by sharing our kind of hobby with her husband. — Anonymous Happy Couple Dear Happy: Somehow we think that wouldn’t appeal to her. A lot of spouses justifiably find pornography (of any kind) to be disrespectful, although that doesn’t really apply to filming yourselves, rather than watching someone else. We know that many couples role-play in the bedroom, and some of them record the results. As long as both spouses are in agreement and no one is hurt, we say it’s entirely their business.

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.

healthy food and regular exercise. Discipline and hard work now will pay off in the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions are mighty impatient! But it’s not the ideal time to pursue goals, launch a group project or unveil a social media campaign. Wait until after June 11, when Mercury moves forwards again.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t be afraid to spread your wings and sample new endeavours Virgo. Fresh ideas will broaden your horizons, and innovative changes will also shake up your professional life in positive ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re balancing twin desires but that’s nothing new. If you have to choose between two options, go for the one that is fresh and exciting — especially if it involves family and relationships.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have the courage to follow your gut instincts — and then communicate your thoughts and feelings clearly and confidently to those around you.

There’s no room for sulking or sarcasm today Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagit-

tarians certainly don’t do things by halves.

You’re keen to help others in generous and unexpected ways. You’re full of energy and enthusiasm but don’t promise more than you can deliver.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Strive to get the ratio right between initiating necessary changes and maintaining the status quo.

Keep what’s working — and change what isn’t. The trick is knowing which is which!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to friendships, hobbies or sporting activities, stop talking about what you want and start doing. They’ll be some delays but don’t let that daunt you. Keep your eyes on the prize.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With Mercury reversing through your domestic zone, it’s time to tackle projects and challenging jobs you’ve been putting off around the home.

Roll up your sleeves — DIY Pisceans to the rescue!

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pearing about a decade ago and now cover sites across the French capital.

The Pont des Arts bridge will soon have padlock-proof plexiglass panels instead, while the city explores other ways for Paris visitors to express their “amour,” including street art on the subject.

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Paris takes down ’love locks’ hung by tourists on famed Michigan announces ban city bridge on bird exhibitions to guard PARIS — Lovers in Paris, beware: against spread of avian flu City authorities are taking down thousands of padlocks affixed to the famed Pont des Arts bridge.

The city says the locks, usually hung by couples to express eternal love, are causing long-term damage to Paris heritage sites. Last summer a chunk of fencing fell off under their weight.

Authorities began dismantling the metal grills along the sides of the bridge Monday and plan to remove 45 tons of padlocks in all.

Some residents had campaigned against the locks, which started ap-

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan has banned poultry and waterfowl shows at fairs and elsewhere to fight the spread of bird flu.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the decision Monday. The department calls it a difficult move but says avian flu is a spreading danger that has appeared in more than a dozen states.

So far, there aren’t any reported cases in Michigan.

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You never know what might show up at your kitchen window while you are doing the dishes in the Pines neighbourhood in Red Deer. This moose stopped by for a visit on May 20.

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MAKING FASHION WAVES

Thousands of dollars pour in for Nepal support

Photos courtesy of JENNIFER GEORGE PHOTOGRAPHY

A Red Deer photographer was thrilled to have five of her fashion photographs published in Obscurae, a U.S. high fashion magazine that focuses on the unusual. Jennifer George photographed model Isabel Klapwyk dressed in a Victorian gown at Heritage Square in Red Deer. It was a modern interpretation of a steampunk/Victorian scene. The photos appear in the May issue of the magazine. George likes to take unusual approaches to photographing fashion and other subjects. For other George photographs, see www. jennifergeorgephotography.ca.

Local fundraising to help the people of Nepal recover from earthquake destruction continues in Red Deer.

The Alberta Institute of Massage (AIM) is offering one-hour massages today by students for a minimum of $25, or more if one chooses.

All proceeds will go to either to the House for Har or the Rotary Shelter Box. Local businesswoman Beverley Williams was in Nepal on April 25 when the deadly 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, killing and injuring thousands of people, and leaving many more in need of shelter and food.

Her guide, Har, safely guided her out of the disaster area so she could return home. But he lost his home in the earthquake. She is now involved in fundraising to help Har get a new home.

The Rotary Shelter box provides emergency shelter and vital supplies to support communities around the world that face disaster.

Williams was once a student at AIM, which teaches massage. Anyone wanting a massage for the Nepal fundraising should call 403-346-1018 to book an appointment.

Meanwhile, Williams has already raised $2,066 for Har. She gave a talk about her Nepal experience recently, partnering with the Red Deer Museum and the Canadian Red Cross. She will also continue to accept donations throughout the summer at the Red Deer Market on Saturdays at her Woolen Wonders booth.

Another fundraiser intended to help people in Nepal raised $9,600 in just five hours.

A multi-family garage sale was held last weekend in the Sunnybrook neighbourhood, where Red Deer physician Maureen McCall and her family live.

McCall and her husband, Pliny Hayes, have an adopted daughter from Nepal.

As well, their foster son’s family lives in the remote village of Lho in the Himalaya mountains. All the homes were destroyed or damaged by the earthquake.

Urgen Dorje Lama, 20, is attending university in Canada and lives with McCall and her family. He said on Thursday that the garage sale was very successful and he felt very grateful. He hadn’t been able to communicate with his family recently but believes they are OK. A lot of the people either donated to the garage sale or made cash donations, he said.

The money raised will help the village of Lho, as well as the residential school, Shree Mangal Dvip, in Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu, where Urgen attended as a child.

The overall death toll from the main earthquake and another one that occurred shortly after is about 8,600, and almost 18,000 people have been injured.

Local artists, Shop owner jumps to aid of festival builder teaming up CENTREFEST FUNDRAISING EFFORT

thousands of people to the area.

“You put your sandwich board up and there’s all these eyes seeing it.”

He can’t think of any other annual event that draws as many potential customers.

Brown challenges other local business owners to raise as much money as they can to keep the festival alive.

“Every little bit helps,” said Centrefest director Janet Shimek, who is grateful for his generosity and commitment “to keeping Red Deer full of art and soul.”

For more information about the festival, which needs to raise about $15,000 to go ahead next month, call 403-505-6094.

Donations can also be made to gofund.me/centrefest.

Giant waterslide coming to Sylvan Sylvan Lake’s main drag is going to be turned into a giant waterslide one day this summer.

Slide the City is bringing its 300-metre-long slide to the hill on Centennial Street (50th Street) on July 25.

The slide has made its appearance at numerous cities around North America since the business started in 2014 and boomed thanks to YouTube. It’s

a padded dual-track waterslide that riders splash down on inner tubes.

Registration opens on Monday at www.slidethecity.com/events/ Participants can purchase a three-slide pass or an all-day pass. An early bird registration costs $30 for three slides or $45 on the day of the event. All-day passes are $50 and $65.

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

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Unique, original art from local artists is being displayed in two Red Deer show homes by Avalon Homes.

In a partnership between the Red Deer home builder and the Red Deer Arts Council, seven local artists are getting exposure, while their work enhances two townhouses in Red Deer’s new Laredo neighbourhood, next to Vanier Woods.

The pop-up gallery in the Savana in Laredo townhouse complex at 1203 339 Viscount Drive can be viewed from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, June 12. Refreshments will be served.

Original art creates distinctive, attractive and engaging environments. It has “energy and appeal that reproductions and mass-produced decorative items simply don’t have,” states a release from the partners.

Art in a home complements or even inspires décor, and “is an expression of personal taste and style” — whether it’s painting, drawings, ceramics or metalwork.

The featured artists are Susan Barker, Susan Delaney, Darcy Gusse Edinga, Jeri Lynn Ing, Ruth Moore, Betty Schnell and Susan Woolgar.

For more information, call the Red Deer Arts Council at 403-348-2787.

A local tattoo shop owner is challenging all other Red Deer businesses to support Centrefest.

Dylan Brown, owner of Art and Soul Tattoo, is personally putting $250 towards the costs of mounting a 2015 street performer’s festival in downtown Red Deer. He’s also auctioning off three $100 gift cards, with the goal of raising more money through the auction.

Brown said he’s doing it “just ’cause I enjoy the event every year. It helped me out when I started my enterprise on Ross Street. Now I’ve moved to Alexander Way, but I still enjoy seeing it, and my kids enjoy it ... I can’t see why we can’t keep it going so we can all enjoy it every year.”

Besides bringing some quirky cultural fun to the city, Brown feels Centrefest’s international street performers assist downtown businesses by bringing

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BRIEFS Woman admits to robberies, sentencing delayed Guilty pleas have been entered by a woman accused of several robberies in Red Deer, including a candy store.

Jennifer Maychak, 34, of Red Deer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery in Red Deer provincial court before Judge John Holmes.

Maychak was arrested on April 28 by Red Deer RCMP. Police allege she was part of three robberies in Red Deer in April, including a Mac’s Convenience store and the downtown 7-Eleven on April 28, and the Candy Bag Sweet Shop on April 18.

In court on Wednesday, Maychak said it was a lot to take in when asked for her pleas to the charges and if she understood that by pleading guilty she was giving up her right to a trial.

The facts of the robberies were not read into the record. Instead Maychak signed a copy of the facts. A pre-sentence report was requested by defence counsel Michael Scrase before Maychak is sentenced on the matter.

Maychak was released from custody with the Crown’s consent before sentencing. One of the provisions of her bail is she is not allowed to be in Red Deer except with written permission by her bail supervisor, for a court appearance or to meet with legal counsel.

Sentencing has been tentatively scheduled for September in Red Deer provincial court.

RDC convocation ceremony to draw hundreds today Hundreds of Red Deer College students will attend today’s 51st convocation ceremonies.

In total, 1,950 students are eligible to graduate this year. There will be 550 students actually attending the two ceremonies at the Parkland and Prairie Pavilions at Westerner Park.

In order to hold convocation for all students attending, there are two ceremonies — one at 9:30 a.m. and one at 2 p.m.

Of this year’s graduands, 735 studied in the apprenticeship, trades and manufacturing technologies programs. The remainder are completing programming in science, health, sport and education, the arts, career development, and the Donald School of Business.

This year, aboriginal students will have the opportunity to participate in an Eagle Feather Ceremony as part of their convocation. Receiving an eagle feather, or sash for Metis students, is considered by many to be the highest honour that can be awarded within the aboriginal culture.

The college will also be naming its honourary degree recipient, an award that was started last year.

Former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling was the first recipient.

City back lanes inspected as part of grading project A Red Deer city bylaw officer will issue notices to homeowners with items on city property while inspecting back lanes this summer.

Crews are grading 235 km of gravel back lanes to ensure the condition and elevation remains at design standards.

Residents are asked to remove any personal structures that are encroaching on city property.

Common violations may include sheds, garbage enclosures, fences, garages and paved driveways that extend onto city property and sod, dirt or gravel dumped in back alleys. It also includes overgrown trees or shrubs that overhang into the back lane less than 13.5 feet high.

The lanes are access points for underground utility lines, emergency access, garbage pickup and provide access to residential lots.

The notice will include a deadline to correct the violation. Non-compliance could result in a fine.

Re-grading back lanes is necessary to maintain adequate drainage to prevent potholes and allows crews to identify any spots in need of repair.

Greg Sikora, city Public Works Department manager, said anything dumped or extending in the back lane makes it difficult or impossible for equipment to drive. As well, he said, it can cause water pooling, impede drainage, cause potholes and ultimately decreases the functionality of the lane.

Landowners who are not sure where their property line ends should contact a licensed land surveyor for a real property report.

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Mirka Bennett waits on her electric quad as she lets her classmates cross a street at Safety City in Red Deer this week. Kindergarten students from Kaylee Webb’s class at Gateway Christian School spent some time at Safety City learning how to stay safe. Safety City offers programs that include bike safety, fire and home safety, and acreage and farm safety. The organization also offers birthday parties and safety summer camps.

For more information about lane grading and restoration, visit www.reddeer.ca/city-services/roads/ back-lanes/.

Muscular dystrophy walk set for Saturday in Red Deer Local supporters implore people to make their muscles move in support of a cause on Saturday.

Ray and Cathy Tessier are ambassadors for the Red Deer Safeway Walk for Muscular Dystrophy.

The couple are active members of the Central Alberta chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Canada, where Ray is president.

The walk is Saturday at McKenzie Trails Recreation Area. Registration is 1 p.m. and the walk begins at 2. People can walk, run or roll in support of the fundraising cause.

Proceeds go to equipment, emotional support, advocacy and education for muscular dystrophy.

Muscular dystrophy is a group of progressive muscle disorders that weaken the muscles that control body movement. Over time, many people lose the ability to walk, speak or breathe. For some, the disease is fatal.

For more details check www.walkformusculardystrophy.ca.

Join archeological digs at historic Rocky fort site If you want to follow in Indiana Jones’s footsteps —without the booby traps and hair-raising escapes, of course — the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site can deliver.

Archeological digs are once again being offered for those not afraid to get their hands dirty learning

about history.

Professional Parks Canada archeologists are overseeing the digs at the site of a Hudson’s Bay Company fort that sat just outside present-day Rocky Mountain House from 1835 until 1861, when it mysteriously burned to the ground.

The fort was one of five built on the site beginning in 1799. The last was abandoned in 1875.

Half-day sessions will be offered in the morning and afternoon on July 1 and July 12 during the Legends and Legacies event at the fort sites, and on Aug. 15 or Aug. 16 as part of the Bastions and Bones event.

Those people looking for a more involved experience can sign up for a three-day dig starting on Aug. 11.

Half-day digs cost $50 per person and the threeday event costs $250, with lunch provided. Participants must be at least 16 years old and register ahead of time at www.confluencehs.org the site of the Confluence Heritage Society.

Pickup headed wrong way on Hwy 2, Olds man charged, police report A Olds man faces charges of impaired and dangerous driving following a collision on Hwy 2 near Bowden between a pickup truck and a semi tractor trailer early Thursday morning.

At 3 a.m., RCMP were called to the collision that occurred just south of Bowden.

Police said the pickup, northbound on Hwy 2A, entered the southbound lanes of Hwy 2 at exit 353.

The semi driver took evasive action to avoid a headon collision, however the pickup ended up sideswiping the trailer of the semi.

No injuries were reported.

A 34-year-old man was released from police custody and is scheduled to appear in Didsbury provincial court in mid July.

The answer for today – Peace of mind for tomorrow At Symphony Senior Living, you can leave the chores of home maintenance behind and enjoy what you really like to do.

We also recognize that life keeps changing. We offer Assisted Living and Memory Care services, which means you can be certain that your changing needs will always be met.

It’s the answer for today and peace of mind for tomorrow.

2 FOR 1 PROMOTION

Central Alberta Designs is accepting applications for a part time (4 days/week) position for Graphic Artist based in Red Deer.

Independent Living Two Bedroom Suites: We will waive second person charge for one year if move in is before June 30th 2015.

Applies to all Aspen Ridge 2 bedroom units and Inglewood One bedroom plus den (2 units). Call today for your personal tour.

Working in a high volume, fast paced environment, the successful candidate will be responsible for ad building, designing and processing ads, as well as the design and layout of special sections and trade papers. They must possess a positive attitude, strong work ethic, keen eye for detail and be able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Jessica Crandall

CA Designs

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Regional Production Manager Email: jcrandall@cadesigns.ca

Symphony Aspen Ridge Symphony Inglewood 3100-22nd Street, Red Deer 10 Inglewood Drive, Red Deer (403) 346-1134 (403) 341-5522 www.SymphonySeniorLiving.com

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Mac-based Adobe InDesign and Adobe Creative Suite are definite assets. Forward resumes stating Graphic Artist by Friday, June 5 to:

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LUANN June 5 1989 — Toronto Blue Jays lose 5-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers in their first game in the SkyDome. The first pitch by Jimmy Key to Paul Molitor a curve-ball strike.

1967 — The NHL awards three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.

1967 — Royal Canadian Mint is ordered to

start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible, to head off silver speculators and hoarding.

1961 — John A. Macdonald’s home Earnscliffe is declared a National Historic Site.

1895 — Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote. It is soundly defeated.

1876 — Supreme Court of Canada holds its first sitting.

1752 — Benjamin Franklin flies a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning is a form of electricity.

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403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Office/Phone Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri Fax: 403-341-4772

CLASSIFIEDS

2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300 DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

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Obituaries

Funeral Directors & Services

WHAT’S HAPPENING

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Coming Events

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HOHN Heather Heather Hohn passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at the age of 69 years. Heather was born May 13, 1946 in Regina, Saskatchewan to Jean and the late Roy Edwards. The family moved to Kelowna in 1960 where she graduated and met the love of her life/graduation blind date Ed Hohn. Heather married the late Ed Hohn in 1967, had one daughter and made their home in Red Deer. Heather worked at CIBC for almost 40 years then moved on to be an acupuncture receptionist until her illness. Heather enjoyed golfing, travel, baking, collecting owls and Santas but most of all her grandchildren. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mum, gramma and friend.

She touched the hearts of many with a smile that would light up a room and was a true blessing to all who knew her. Heather leaves to cherish her loving memory her daughter, Laura and Jason Sansom, her two grandchildren and pride and joy: Sydney and John, her mother, one sister, one brother, and numerous other family and friends.

A celebration of life will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718 Ross Street, Red Deer, on Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with interment to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, 101-6751 52 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4K8.

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

METZ Peter Paul June 29, 1921 - June 1, 2015 Peter leaves to mourn is his loving wife of 68 years Elizabeth (Betty), son Allan (Rose Marie) Metz of Calgary, daughter Marcie (Ted) Sherback of Sylvan Lake. Grandchildren Mindy Metz, Lee and Mark Sherback.

Great grandchildren Jordyn, Kaitlyn and Austin Sherback.

Brothers Felix (Audrey), Carl (Joan), and Rudy (Selsey), sisters Josephine and Pauline, Peter was predeceased by his parents Joseph and Rose, brothers Dave and Frank, sister Emma and granddaughter Crystal Metz.

The family would like to thank the staff at Symphony Inglewood and RDRH for their care and support. A celebration of life luncheon will be held at Symphony Inglewood, #10 Inglewood Dr., Red Deer, AB, Saturday June 20 @ 2:00.

Classified Memorials: helping to remember

JOHNSON Ken Sidney Ken Sidney Johnson of Delburne, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at the age of 71 years. Ken will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his son, Keith (Tracy) Johnson of Delburne, their children Mackenzie and Kole, his daughter Stacey (Ted) Sim of Tees, and their children Drew and Avery. He is also survived by his sister, Marion McLeod of Red Deer. Ken was predeceased by his devoted and loving wife, Jeanette in 2010, his precious granddaughter, Kennedy in 2015, and brother, Howard Johnson of Sylvan Lake. A private family service will be held at the Great Bend Cemetery on Monday, June 8 at 1:00 with an Open house to follow from 2:00-4:00 at the Delburne Hall. If friends desire, in lieu of flowers memorial tributes in Ken’s memory can be made directly to Camp He Ho Ha Box 182, Seba Beach, Alberta T0E 2B0 or online at their website www.camphehoha.com 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

JOHNSON Vivian Anne Vivian Anne Johnson of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Monday, June 1, 2015.

Vivian is survived by her daughter Cassandra (Josh) Stegman of Edmonton; parents Beatrice Merkowsky and Wayne Lynch as well as numerous other family members.

An extended obituary with additional family information and service details will follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave., Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Vivian’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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

SAMUEL KLAUDT 1933 - 2015 Samuel Klaudt was the youngest child born to William and Mary Klaudt in the Woolchester district near Medicine Hat, Alberta. He is survived by his wife Georgina, 5 children: Cheryl (George), Kim, Darcy (Nicki), Jason (Robin), Nadine (Kevin) and grandchildren: Megan, Braydon (Jessica), Chalace, Kristen, Amber, Wes, Melissa, Mara and great-grandson Vaeden, and a large, extended family.

Special mention goes to Sam’s coffee buddies.

Funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Red Deer on Tuesday, June 9 at 1:30 p.m. Officiated

by Rev. Fr. Les Drewicki. In lieu of flowers, donations gratefully accepted to the charity of your choice.

YORK Elizabeth (Betty) Betty York of Red Deer passed away peacefully with family by her side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Sunday, May 24, 2015 at the age of 78 years. It is with heavy hearts we say good bye to our deeply devoted and loving Mother and NaNa. Betty was born December 4, 1936 in Opal, Alberta. She was the youngest of eight children, three brothers and four sisters. At an early age of 3, there was a tragedy which her father and brother were killed and her mother left with brain damage. She was raised in orphanages and then a convent until she went to live with her oldest sister (Mary), where she became a second Mom, helping to raise fifteen of Mary’s children. As she grew older, she went her own way.

At the age of 22, she met her loving husband (Gordon) and raised a family of their own.

Mom always enjoyed the outdoors, especially gardening and the farmers markets, where she became well known for her homemade perogies, baked goods, and antipasto. Betty will be lovingly remembered by her two sons; Mike (Cynthia) of Red Deer and Greg (Denise ) of Red Deer, one daughter, Sharon (Allen) of Red Deer and one step-daughter, Debbie (Clarence) of British Columbia. She will also be lovingly missed and never forgotten by her eleven grandchildren, six greatgrandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews, and her brother, Harry (Evelyn) Andruski.

Betty was predeceased by her parents; Steve and Julia Andruski, brothers; Peter and Paul, sisters; Ann, Mary, Vicky, and Katherine and her husband, Gordon.

A Memorial Tea will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

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

EAST 40th PUB

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Lost

REWARD!!

BRACELET, black Pandora leather, 6 - 7 charms. Very sentimental value. Lost June 3, around 48 Ave. & 48 St. If found please call 403-505-3590 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 RIDE Needed to the States

by June 29. I need to be in Texas before July 2, 2015.

Call between 1 pm to 8 pm.

403-782-6218

Anniversaries

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

Wonderful Things

710

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F. quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

OPEN HOUSE BOB & ALENA SKARRA’S 50th Anniversary Sunday June 14, 1:30 - 4:30 Light Lunch Bower Kin Community Hall 85 Boyce St. Red Deer In lieu of gifts, please bring photos and memories.

Engagements

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Farm Work

755

CENTRAL Alberta feed lot looking for exp. hen checker/ feedlot employee. Class 1 or 3 would be an asset. feedlot mandatory. email resume: dthengs@hotmail. com. or fax 403-638-3908.

Hair Stylists

760

URBAN ROOTZ HAIR STUDIO is looking for a Full or P/T hair stylist.

Please contact Alicia for more information.

403-559-8490 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Oilfield

Say more with an Announcement

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Personals

FOLKMAN - ERHARDT Rock and Charlene Folkman are delighted to announce the engagement of their son, Ben, to Brianna Erhardt, daughter of Noel and Crystal Erhardt. Their wedding will take place on Aug.16, 2015, in Kelowna, BC.

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Professionals

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Come in Small Packages

Celebrations

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know he’s arrived...

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for: - TECHNOLOGIST (Party Chief) -TECHNOLOGIST (Rodman) -

309-3300

In the Red Deer and surrounding area

Say Thank You...

Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

A Classified Announcement in our

“Card of Thanks”

Can deliver your message.

309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

65 Years Together Mary & Jake Warkentin Are celebrating 65 years with family and friends at 2300 Danielle Dr. DAVENPORT PLACE June 7th, 2-5 pm.

Coffee, tea, desert.

Drop in and say hello

Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca 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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 5, 2015 C5

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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.

Trades

850

DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Experience an asset.

403-341-7619 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

SKID STEER operator and sorter req’d for afternoon / evening shift. A recycling facility in Red Deer.

Please email resume to: canpak@xplornet.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Truckers/ Drivers

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

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Misc.

Help

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Misc.

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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

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

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

PROFESSIONAL Red Deer’s most modern 5 ALBERTA SPRINGS Truck Driver Position pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front Available GOLF RESORT

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Misc.

Help

Operators Busy road construction company looking for operators. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license.

Fax resume to 403-309-0489

Duties include:

- Service Writing - Service Scheduling - Warranty Administration - Maintaining Paper Flow

Attributes:

- Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined

Mustang Acres Trailer Park ALSO Gunn St. & and Goodacre Cl. ALSO 59 Ave. & Gray Dr.

562628F5-11

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Glendale 165 GREIG DR. June 5 & 6 Fri. 2 - 7 & Sat. 9 - 1 Bassinet, trike, ladder, household misc.

7004 GRAY DR. June 5 & 6 Fri. 1 -7 & Sat. 8 - 5 Items range from toddler through to antiques.

MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE, 64 Gehrke Close Deer Park June 6, 9-4:30. Monitor, 110 DUNCAN CRESCENT furniture, books, record MULTI Family - June 5 & 6 player, dishes, much more Fri. 1 - 7 & Sat. 9 - 2 Household items, electric tools, lawn mowers, snow- Inglewood blower, smoker, kids stuff..

95 INKSTER CLOSE MULTI FAMILY Auto, BACK ALLEY camping, household and Fri. June 5, 4 pm to 7 pm other awesome stuff. 98 Sat. June 6, 8 am to 4 pm.

Donnelly Cres. Fri. June 5, Household items, oak table 4-8 Sat. June 6, 9-3 and chairs, yard care tools.

Fairview - Upper 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 MULTI-FAMILY, 28 Fir Street, back alley, Thurs.

June 4, 9-8, Fri. June 5, 9-5 & Sat. June 6, 9-3, new bistro set, bar fridge, furniture & much more.

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

CARSWELL’S 8th Calgary

ANTIQUE

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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Antiques & Art

Show & Sale

June 6 & 7 Sat. 10-5:30 & Sun. 10-4 Garrison Curling Rink 2288 - 47 Ave. S.W. Carswell’s 403-343-1614

Advocate Opportunities

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Sylvan Storage Container Auction June 14, 2015 Sylvan Lake, AB Time: 1:00 p.m.

Selling Approx 10 Containers Plus a Holiday Trailer & Boat - As Seen on TV For More Info: Allen B. Olson Auction Service Ltd. (403) 843-2747

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alford Ave. Archer Dr./Austin Dr. Allsop Ave. Allison Cres.

1530

POLICE BIKES Liquidation Auction Sunday June 7 10 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only 2013 Thor Ace, 29 Foot Motor Home, 2,104 Miles, Tons of Options – 2010 Dodge Nitro, 32,155 km, Loaded – 2006 Pontiac G6 GTP Convertible 99,632 km, Loaded – New Party Tents – Driveway Gates – Shop Tools – 100’s of Bikes – Hand & Power Tools – Gold Coins – Collector Coins - 1982 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz – Antiques – Furniture – Misc. – AND MUCH MORE Complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

EquipmentHeavy

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Advocate Opportunities

BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive Bannerman Close

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

MORRISROE AREA

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

Metcalf Ave.

1 day a week in:

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Sherwood Cres.

SOUTHBROOK AREA

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

For VANIER Area VANIER AREA

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

Viscount Ave. Voisin Close

For LANCASTER Area With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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GROW WITH US Excellent Salary with Benefits CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays.

We’re looking for someone with: • A commitment to excellence • Good communication skills • Good physical fitness • Mechanical aptitude • Good hand/eye coordination

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in restorative cleaning!

KENTWOOD

Fcall Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

32 DOWLER ST. DEVONSHIRE VILLAS MULTI FAMILY June 6, Sat. 10 - 4 Something For Everyone!

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

BUD HAYNES & WARDS Firearms Auction Sat. June 13 @ 10 AM 11802-145 St. Edmonton Featuring Estate Denny Harding from Sask. & John Dyck Red Deer Store Dispersal, various Firearms. Over 200 new Firearms, ammo; reloading equip. etc. Catalogues and pics online. Preview Fri. June 12, 3 pm. - 8 pm.

Red Deer Head Office: 403-347-5855 Linda Baggaley 403-597-1095 Brad Ward 780-940-8378 www.budhaynesauctions.com www.WardsAuctions.com

Auctions

Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

- Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Devonshire

1500-1990

403.341.4544

is now hiring energetic, punctual, hard working food enthusiasts for the following departments:

Kilburn & Krause Cres. also Kirkland & Kidd Close

95 Anquetel Street Fri, June 5, 4-8pm Sat, June 6, 9am-4pm hockey equip, toys, household, girls clothes MULTI family garage sale, household items, sporting goods, furniture 37 & 41 ASHMORE CLOSE. June 4, 5 & 6 Thur 4-8, Fri 1-8 and Sat 10-2

CLASSIFICATIONS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

SOBEYS VILLAGE MALL

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Anders Park

OILFIELD TICKETS

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

GLENDALE

SERVICE WRITER

TRAINING CENTRE

CARRIERS NEEDED

FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

Red Deers Busiest RV Store

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Industries #1 Choice!

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SAFETY

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

counter staff for all shifts www.ads-pipe.com (days, eves. and wknds).

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BOWLING currently accepting Forward resumes to: applications for a certified Red Deer’s most modern 5 Rob.Gustafson@ JJAM Management (1987) pin bowling center req’s a Class 1 Driver, with a sobeys.com Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s SPECIAL EVENTS minimum of two (2) years fax: (403)347-4588 Requires to work at these CO-ORDINATOR experience.

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Req’d permanent shift Let Classifieds ADS Drivers are required Phone 1-403-742-1427 weekend day and evening help you sell it. to be drug free and or fax 403-742-1429 both full and part time. maintain legal transporta16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + tion paperwork and driving Advocate benefits. Start ASAP. practices. This position Job description requires a valid Class 1 Opportunities www.timhortons.com License; with previous off Education and experience road forklift and shipping not req’d. /receiving experience a CARRIERS REQUIRED Apply in person or fax definite asset. We offer resume to: 403-314-1303 quarterly safety bonuses To deliver the as well as a comprehensive SWISS Chalet -Red Deer CENTRAL AB LIFE medical plan.

HIRING FOOD SERVICE Benefits include: 1 day a week in: SUPERVISORS: $13.75 - * Company provided $ 14.50 and 40 hours per Canadian Benefits Package week. Supervise and co- * Voluntary Dental Plan INNISFAIL ordinate staff activities and * Life Insurance Option Plan Penhold customer service. Estab- * Short-term/Long-term Olds lish work schedule and Disability Policy Sylvan Lake train associates Interested * Retirement Savings Plan parties can email (RSP) and Deferred Profit swiss1702@cara.com, fax Please call Debbie for details Sharing Plan (DPSP) 1 866 928 5481 or deliver * Paid Vacation 403-314-4307 resume to unit #8, 5111 - * Quarterly Safety Bonus 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1.

All applicants are subject to a pre-employment NEWSPAPER CARRIERS physical and MVR check.

Needed for Interested Applicants may Early Morning submit a resume, along in LANCASTER area: with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage Earn approximately: Systems Of Canada Inc. $464.00 4316 Gerdts Ave. THE OPEN RANGE per month Blindman Ind. Park SALOON in Sylvan Lake Red Deer County, AB. Reliable vehicle required req’s Front Line Cook. Full T4S-2A8 or Part time with Food Fax: (403) 346-5806 Safety. Competitive For more information, E-mail ken.mccutcheon wages. Please apply in please call @ads-pipe.com person or email resume to: Position closing date: PRODIE @ (403) 314-4301 tnpjep@shaw.ca June 12th, 2015 403-887-3033 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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Employment Training

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Johnstone Park 90 JACKSON CLOSE June 6, Sat. 9 - 4 Baby equip., tools, barbecue, misc. household DOWNSIZING

Lancaster Meadows 38 & 43 LORD CLOSE June 4, 5 & 6 : Thurs. 5-8, Fri. 1-8, Sat. 10-2 Children’s toys, lawn furn., household misc.

Michener Hill

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Canadian sent to jail in sex tourism case MAN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 10 YEARS IN PRISON IN FLORIDA A Quebec man who admitted to travelling to Florida to have sex with someone he believed was an underage boy, was sentenced to just over 10 years in a U.S. prison on Thursday.

A Miami judge also ordered that Rene Roberge of Sherbrooke, Que., be placed on probation for life after his release from prison.

Roberge had pleaded guilty to four federal sex offences — two counts of enticing a minor into sexual activity, one count of entering the U.S. to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and one count of transporting child pornography.

Authorities said he flew to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after making online contact with undercover investigators posing as a 14-year-old boy and his father to arrange a sexual encounter.

Officials said Roberge also planned to travel to San Antonio, Texas, to have sex with a teenage boy.

The judge sentencing Roberge recommended he be placed in a prison

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Officer says no specific threat in emails by man accused in chemicals case HALIFAX — The third day in the trial of a man accused of stockpiling chemicals in Nova Scotia concluded with a police officer testifying that he perceived no specific threats in emails written by Christopher Phillips.

Sgt. David Boon of the Halifax Regional Police testified at Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Thursday that he investigated a shed on Phillips’s property in January, finding a variety of chemicals and what he perceived to be a pipe bomb.

But under questioning from defence lawyer Mike Taylor, Boon confirmed that when he reviewed emails shared with police by Phillips’s wife, he found them to be rambling and lacking a specific plan to harm anyone.

Phillips has pleaded not guilty to threatening police officers and possessing a weapon - osmium tetroxide - for a dangerous purpose.

Earlier in the day, Gosia Phillips testified that her husband had never

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close to Quebec, as was requested by members of his family who submitted a letter to court.

“We agree and so does Rene that he made a big mistake,” the translated letter originally written in French by Roberge’s mother, two brothers and a sister-in-law said.

“Rene has lots of regrets, he is not a criminal. An error was made on his path....He has a nice personality, not at all violent.”

Roberge’s family tried to offer an explanation for the 48-year-old’s behaviour, saying he had been very sick — “between life and death” — before his arrest.

“He woke up paralysed from the waist to the feet. Is it a great emotion like this one that caused this unsettlement? We do not know,” the letter said, noting that Roberge had five nephews and “never tried to approach them to do anything.”

In a criminal complaint filed in Roberge’s case, an American special agent had said Roberge had cited a near-death experience for wanting to live out his “perv” fantasy of having

sex with a boy.

A complaint filed by Vanessa Blanco, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said American authorities began a sting on a social networking site, with an undercover agent posing as a man named Remy, the 55-year-old father of a teen named Donnie.

Roberge, who belonged to an online chat group called “how sick and twisted are you,” indicated he was looking for a dad willing to share a young boy, Blanco stated.

“Roberge further states that because of his near-death experience, he has ’decided to live all (his) fantasies and go ahead to realize (his) perv dreams’,” Blanco writes of an email Roberge allegedly sent.

In a series of emails, Roberge also apparently told Remy they didn’t have to worry about condoms because he was a “clean, clean man, no disease” who always smelled good and said he had a “serious medical problem” two years ago and still walked with a cane, according to Blanco.

Roberge, who told the “father” he

had made hotel reservations in Pompano Beach, Fla., was arrested at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood airport in November after a flight from Montreal.

Agents reported finding child pornography on Roberge’s tablet computer after his arrest.

An adoptive mother of some victims depicted in the child pornography submitted a victim impact statement to the court. In it, the mother said the children were sexually assaulted by a foster parent, who then shared photos of the abuse online.

“Every time a deranged pervert posts and reposts these graphic images of our sons, our nightmare occurs again and again. For I know that someone is deriving sick sexual pleasure from viewing pictures of my sons being raped,” the woman wrote.

“With people such as this defendant actively seeking, purchasing, collecting, trading and gratifying themselves with these horrific depictions of child rape, memories of these events are kept alive and nourished by this vile sickness of human spirit. A victimless crime? Hardly.”

spoken of using osmium tetroxide as a weapon or expressed a desire to harm police.

She said her husband kept a variety of chemicals on hand for research and was particularly interested in his supply of osmium tetroxide.

“Chris talked a lot about chemicals.

This is his hobby,” she said.

Phillips said she asked her husband to keep the substance off their property because she was afraid her children would come in contact with it.

“I said ’get rid of it right away. I don’t want it around here,”’ she said.

Phillips told the court that her husband assured her in an email that he had incinerated the substance.

“It was painful for me to watch that much osmium tetroxide go up in smoke,” he said in an email to his wife presented in court.

But she says she went to police on Jan. 19 when a contractor doing renovations for the family said he found the substance in an unlocked shed after her husband had left town.

“I wanted it removed. I was hoping the police could help do that,” she said.

The complaint prompted evacuations in two Halifax-area communities where chemicals were found, and a search for Christopher Phillips that ended with his arrest in an Ottawa hotel on Jan. 21.

When asked about the state of her husband’s mental health, Gosia Phil-

lips said she was concerned about it and had arranged for him to see a psychiatrist.

“I had talked about separating and he didn’t take that very well,” she said.

“He asked me to just be calm while he gets through this tough period.”

Outside the court, crown prosecutor Karen Quigley told reporters that mental health issues add complexity to criminal cases.

“It’s complex not only within the family but in the community, and the law itself in the way you interpret it has an additional layer of complexity,” she said.

The trial continues Friday.

facilities — where people can inject drugs without fear of arrest — regardless of what Ottawa says about it.

Coderre said the project has been approved by city council and the provincial government. Montreal police have also been consulted.

The federal government must grant an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in order for a safe injection site to operate.

Quebec officially asked for the exemption at the beginning of May, but Ottawa has been publicly and strongly opposed to granting licences for facilities where people can inject drugs legally.

The only supervised injection facility in Canada is in Vancouver.

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that denying citizens access to safe injection sites was unconstitutional because it deprived people of potentially life-saving medical care.

In response to the court decision the Conservative government drafted a law — currently before the Senate — that imposes strict rules on the granting of licences to operate such sites.

MacKay said his government wants to ensure the communities located around proposed injection sites are consulted and “it’s clear our intent is to uphold the law.”

Coderre said Montreal will respect the Supreme Court decision and all other legal requirements for the facilities.

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MONTREAL — The federal justice minister says his government will uphold the country’s drug laws in response to Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s commitment to proceeding with safe injection sites with or without Ottawa’s blessing.

The Conservative government is focused on treating drug addicts as opposed to making “more available access to often illegal drugs,” Peter MacKay told reporters Thursday.

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Ècole Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School (LCHS) invites tenders for the supply and installation of a commercial dishwasher (Hobart C44 conveyor dishwasher or equivalent), a water booster (70 degree rise) and a built in waste disposer.

Installation is required to take place in the month of July 2015.

Deadline for submission of tenders is June 12, 2015.

LCHS reserves the right to reject any tender.

Submit Tenders to Attn: Kevin Frank Email: kevin.frank@wolfcreek.ab.ca Fax: 403-782-4266

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Entourage looks good and has liberal amounts of flash but it’s little more than an expanded episode from the series that celebrates excess and male privilege in a sexist way.

Entourage 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 18A

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Four years ago, band-of-bros in Hollywood series Entourage wrapped up after eight seasons on HBO. That should have been enough for anyone,

yet they’re back for a movie — older, richer, yet with knuckles still dragging on the Rodeo Drive pavement.

Entourage the movie is little more than an expanded episode from the series, loosely inspired by the experiences of actor Mark Wahlberg, about rising star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his childhood friends and family from the old Queens neighbourhood who come to L.A. to look after their boy.

To distract from the underperforming plot, Entourage is liberally padded

with celebrity cameos: Pharrell Williams! Jessica Alba! Warren Buffett?

These have all the storytelling relevance of clowns pouring out of a wee car at a circus.

Yes, I watched Entourage the series, enjoying seeing Hollywood excess skewered and hanging in for a couple of seasons until the repetition started to wear. For those who missed the show, catching up is easy thanks to Piers Morgan, who helpfully tells the back story off the top of Entourage the movie.

There are also women, lots of them, often in various stages of undress, appearing as enthusiastic bedmates or just as set dressing when they’re not scheming to ruin your day.

I can hear the chorus of “Lighten up, dude, it’s supposed to be a fantasy.” It’s all swimming pools and movie stars. Sort of like The Beverly Hillbillies, minus Granny, because she’s old and not hot.

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Stakes are high in gritty drama RED DEER PLAYERS’ PRODUCTION TAKES AUDIENCE BEHIND CLOSED DOOR OF JURY ROOM

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From stockades in the town square to modern-day courts of public opinion, incidents of crime and punishment are endlessly fascinating to the public.

If the crime is murder and the punishment is possible execution, then voyeuristic interest is extra high. And those are the stakes in the gritty drama Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose.

The next Red Deer Players production, starting on Thursday, June 11, at the Scott Block theatre, takes the audience where few people ever go — behind the closed door of a jury deliberation room.

The play is about the homicide trial of a youth accused of killing his father, and the jurors who decide his fate.

It can be considered the opposite of O.J. Simpson’s salacious celebrity saga, as the accused is a poor Hispanic who’s discounted by some more affluent members of mainstream society.

Most of the Florida jury is ready to convict him, based on circumstantial evidence alone. But one juror thinks otherwise. And that juror, played by Henry Fonda in the 1957 film version of the story, has to try to convince others to see things from his perspective.

The abstract concept of ‘guilt beyond a reasonable doubt’ isn’t easy to get across, however — especially when some fellow jurors don’t want to be sequestered for any longer than they absolutely have to.

One man even announces that he wants to get home in time to attend a sporting event that evening.

Rose, who wrote the play after serv-

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The cast of Twelve Angry Men rehearse at the Scott Block. ing on a real-life jury, created some very realistic, fallible characters, said the play’s director Lori Lane, who loves the true-to-life moments.

“The jury of 12 people represents all walks of society and all types of individuals. You can even identify with some of them, personally, or see someone you know in their attitudes,” added Lane.

While the characters must agree on an important decision, they all bring their own circumstances, beliefs and

hang-ups to the table. In some cases, this incudes a bias against poor people or minorities.

Although Twelve Angry Men was written in the 1950s, Lane believes the language and themes remain current, so the action was moved to the present day. “The attitudes of the people, their perceptions and prejudices, they aren’t a lot different than they are now.”

Her biggest challenge was coming up with enough talented and committed community actors.

Lane admitted some people doubted she could get a dozen strong male actors to audition. But the script was so good, she said, there really wasn’t a big problem. “I had some people in mind that I knew ... but these are such tough, substantial, meaty roles” that a dozen actors were found — ranging from novices to community theatre veterans.

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REVIEW: Stagnant characters When we last saw Vincent and pals Eric (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and wannabe movie star halfbrother, the aptly named Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), in 2011 things were looking pretty good. Same for perpetually furious agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven, whose overacting often verges on hysteria).

Picking up a few days after the happily-ever-after series wrap, newly single Vincent announces he wants to direct as well as star in Hyde, a clubland spin on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even a part in it for bombastic boor Drama.

Typical in the world of Entourage, Ari says consider it done and hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $100 million.

Meanwhile, Vincentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best pal and agent Eric (E to his buddies) is going to be a dad when his ex Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui) has their baby. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still very much apart, as E sets out to prove in a story line thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s larded with surprisingly dull sex.

Former pudge Turtle is now a tequila kingpin (thanks Mark Cuban, please accept your cameo). Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also slim, a joke that hardly improves with repeated telling. Turtle is awkwardly romancing UFC superstar and Olympian Ronda Rousey, who may not be a terrific actress but is enthusiastic in the attempt.

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UnREAL chronicles the process of making a reality show that looks an awful lot like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. watches him on the monitors. When Rachel goes to rope Adam back into the shoot when he gets jitters, she essentially makes the argument that he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t warned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What was so offensive to your fine sensibility that you needed to flee?â&#x20AC;? Rachel asks Adam.

Lest I depict the show as unrelentingly unpleasant, there are complexities here, most significantly Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in Rachel, which is both pred-

atory and protective; if Rachel stays on the show, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get charges related to her meltdown dropped. Watching Rachel ponder Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offer while also acting as a saboteur poses an old question in a new format: Can you use reality televisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tropes to tear down the Bachelor mansionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illusions?

Part of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delightful about UnREAL is the way it confirms our worst suspicions about shows such as The

Bachelor and The Bachelorette, even while indicting us: Quinn and Rachel are just giving us what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve indicated over and over again that we want.

Whether seeing the process in all of its manipulative unnaturalness is a turn-off or an inducement is an open question.

universe prove to be the most interesting, Billy Bob Thornton as the Texas financier backing Hyde and scene-stealer Haley Joel Osment as his son Travis, an awkward cowboy in Tinseltown who would like some of that Vincent Chasestyle action for himself.

Meanwhile, Drama sweats his scenes will be cut from Hyde, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another bit of entertainment he has to be more concerned about, which makes an appearance in an awkward audition scene with Richard Schiff and a quite funny Judy Greer.

The stagnant characters have neither evolved nor changed, unlike the other HBO high-life series it is often compared to, Sex and the City, which ended its TV run the year Entourage launched.

SATC writers acknowledged the march of time when that show hit the big screen four years after going off the air. The four women were facing new, different and more mature challenges. Entourage writer-director Doug Ellin is going for the opposite.

To Ellinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit, Entourage looks good and has liberal amounts of flash.

But it is a fly trapped in amber, celebrating excess and male privilege in a sexist way that feels very old and decidedly out of step with the 2015 world.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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The director, who last helmed local productions of Evita and Jesus Christ

Superstar, believes Twelve Angry Men provides a fascinating, fly-on-the wall view of the kind of discussions that go on behind the scenes in a murder trial.

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The summer television season is young, but one promising entry, UnREAL, arrived on Lifetime Tuesday night with a tartness to rival even fresh-squeezed and under-sweetened lemonade.

The show from Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro chronicles the process of making a reality show that looks an awful lot like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, which is airing its 11th season on ABC this summer. UnReal centres on the dynamic between Quinn (the always excellent Constance Zimmer), the executive producer of the show in question, and Rachel (Shiri Appleby), a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies major and one of Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former employees.

Rachel had a breakdown in the last season of the show, crashing the proposal ceremony to decry the evils of her job. But Quinn has lured her back because Rachelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to connect with the women on the series, rather than holding them in simple contempt, gets far better results than any machinations the rest of the staff can muster.

UnREAL tackles all the hot topics that have made The Bachelor and The Bachelorette such dishy grist for the entertainment press with all the relish of a linebacker who just wants to hit somebody. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your girl? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one you said had wife potential?â&#x20AC;?

Quinn snaps at one of her recruiters in an early scene when she gets a look at a contestant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black.â&#x20AC;?

An on-set psychiatrist advises the staff on the contestantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; psychological weak points so that they can go out and hit those sore spots while pushing champagne and shots. Quinn offers â&#x20AC;&#x153;cash bonuses for nudity, 911 calls and catfights.â&#x20AC;? The selection process is gamed to maximize drama.

Even the bachelor, an heir to a hotel fortune named Adam (Freddie Stroma), is supposed to follow orders: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, just be a good meat puppet and do as I say,â&#x20AC;? Quinn mutters as she

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jects that other writers fiercely avoid — menstrual periods; sex, all sorts of sex; religion. (Readers remember Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. for dealing with menstruation, but it’s also about mixed marriages, religious bigotry and lack of faith.) Her books have been frequently banned by school libraries, which only seems to make them sell more and to further endear Blume to her fans for going there, writing in a style that is direct, familiar, conversational and never sensational. What readers tell her so often in the 1,000 letters she receives each month is, “I felt like you were talking directly to me.”

Blume helped transform this publishing crowd, here for her first signing of the novel before she launches her promotional tour, into lifelong readers. Around Blume, there’s none of that Manhattan ennui: They’re visibly elated. One young woman exclaims, “I’ve loved your books since I was a kid,” clutching Blume’s latest volume like a newborn.

“I don’t take this for granted. Ever,” says Blume, a wren of a woman who inked her looping signature 18,000 times in advance of the book tour, which she absolutely, positively swears will be her last.

“I’m never doing another book tour. I really feel this is it,” says Blume during an interview after the signing. The month of June is devoured by events, many with younger writers who remain ardent fans, including Meg Wolitzer, Jennifer Weiner and Curtis Sittenfeld. “It’s hard. There’s so much attention being paid. It’s embarrassing.”

Aloha director Cameron Crowe has issued an apology for casting Emma Stone, who is white, to play a character who is part Native Hawaiian and part Chinese.

Crowe was slammed by many for the casting choice. In a Daily Beast review entitled The Unbearable Whiteness of Cameron Crowe’s Aloha: A Hawaii-Set Film Starring Asian Emma Stone, critic Jen Yamato wrote, “Crowe might’ve even gotten away with it if he’d cast any of his supporting characters with minorities, more accurately repping the ethnic makeup of the islands. Instead, his ‘love letter’ to Hawaii feels about as authentic as a mainlander’s #TBT to that one exotic Oahu vacay years ago, sipping Mai Tais on the beach at sunset while watching the hula show.”

So, was this simply a case of “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission”? Well, no. In the apology Crowe posted on his website Tuesday night, it appears that Stone was a deliberate choice: “Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng. I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice. As far back as 2007, Captain Allison Ng was written to be a super-proud ¼ Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one. A halfChinese father was meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii. Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets.

The character was based on a real-life, red-headed local who did just that.

“Whether that story point felt hurtful or humorous has been, of course, the topic of much discussion.

However I am so proud that in the same movie, we employed many Asian-American, Native-Hawaiian and Pacific-Islanders, both before and behind the camera… including Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele, and his village, and many other locals who worked closely in our crew and with our script to help ensure authenticity.”

Yamato wasn’t willing to let Crowe off the hook, even after factoring in Kanahele’s involvement in the film. Kanahele is a prominent Hawaiian nationalist. Wrote Yamato: “Unfortunately, the plot thread involving Kanahele and the Native Hawaiian cause dissipates like the mythological Menehune into the misty Hawaiian night. Aloha’s minority characters take the backseat, left to look for signs in the sky as Cooper’s flawed hero saves them from a fate of his own making, transformed by the island’s mana, and by love.

More tellingly, Kanahele relents on his moral high ground and trades his people’s blessing for two mountains and better cellphone reception. Welcome to Cameron Crowe’s Hawaii.”

got to see him escorted out of the mansion by security, a jarring reminder that in an inherently combustible situation, ABC is prepared for the possibility that any hurt might extend beyond the participants’ feelings.

The two subsequent episodes began and ended with Bristowe eliminating Kupah James, one of the few contestants of colour in her remaining pool of suitors. Rather than going quietly, James had a meltdown outside the mansion, confronting show staff and venting his considerable frustration with the process. The Bachelor and The Bachelorette were hit with a racial discrimination lawsuit in 2012; the case

was thrown out on First Amendment grounds. And while the excerpts of James’s comments that made it to air didn’t explicitly address race, it was clear he felt profoundly out of place and alienated by the process.

UnREAL isn’t the first show to take a critical look at the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchise: The Web series Burning Love provided three seasons of incisive satire on the subject. But watching UnREAL and The Bachelorette simultaneously suggests just how powerful and persistent the format has become.

Exposing the mechanics behind it only creates new opportunities for ABC to gin up drama.

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Judy Blume’s latest novel, In the Unlikely Event, is based on three plane crashes in the 1950s in her hometown of Elizabeth, N.J.

Blume unveils fourth novel for adults

BY KAREN HELLER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK — The women, and even a few men, of so many ages, line the hallway of her publisher’s offices, waiting to hold her hand, to claim an autograph, to envelop themselves in her latest work. To them, she is Margaret, absolutely, but also Sally J. Freedman and Rachel Robinson (though not Fudge, never Fudge), but always, inimitably, Judy Blume, beloved author of 29 books, with an astonishing 86 million copies in print.

In the Unlikely Event, published Tuesday, is Blume’s fourth novel for adults, her first in 17 years, since Summer Sisters. Many of her grown-up readers were once her YA readers, and before that her young readers, but always and forever hers.

As Blume is prone to saying, “I am their childhoods,” partly because she has constantly mined her own. She is simultaneously a creature of her youth (the 1950s, though she had not written specifically of that period until this book) and that of her readers (the ’70s, ’80s and every decade since). That’s in part because she can so easily access her childhood.

“I used to think I lived at age 12,” she says. She has never forgotten how awkward and important that time can be.

Blume writes books for young readers about sub-

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For now, I’m betting on a turn-on, given the way this season of The Bachelorette is proceeding.

The big hook for this latest installment of the franchise was a format change. Instead of a single Bachelorette sorting through a roster of candidates, The Bachelorette brought on two contestants from the last season of The Bachelor, Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson. This design injected a note of competition into what is normally an opportunity for a woman to be in charge, and it also created some roiled emotions for the men who showed up to compete for their hearts.

Maybe it’s fame that is the primary lure for people who audition for The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, but the contestants had auditioned with either Nilsson or Bristowe as their secondary targets. When Nilsson was eliminated, some of the men who were left had to decide whether they wanted to try to date a woman they weren’t particularly interested in or attracted to.

One man’s reckoning produced an eminently repackage-able story line: Brady Toops, a songwriter, quit the show after Bristowe became the sole Bachelorette because he wanted to pursue a relationship with Nilsson. ABC is now following their courtship as a subplot.

But the most interesting parts of The Bachelorette this season have been rawer moments that reveal the seams between what we’re seeing onscreen and the process that went into making the show. These choices to lift the curtain feel like an anticipation of UnREAL, which yanks up a curtain that has been coyly creeping upward almost since the franchise’s inception.

In the first episode, Ryan McDill became heavily intoxicated and made a nasty rape joke on-air. But the audience

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D5 Another step toward trade war

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015

CANADA SEEKS $3 BILLION IN TARIFFS ON U.S. PRODUCTS MEAT LABELLING DISPUTE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Canada has filed a request to impose more than $3 billion a year in tariffs on the United States unless a simmering trade dispute gets resolved quickly.

The Canadian government has asked the World Trade Organization to authorize punitive measures against dozens of American products including meat, wine and chocolate.

The tariffs will be imposed by late summer — unless the U.S. Congress addresses Canadian and Mexican concerns, Canada’s Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz warned Thursday.

Congress is currently re-examining the law at the centre of the dispute: a requirement that meat sold in American grocery stores carry a sticker identifying where the livestock was born, raised and slaughtered.

And if the law’s not gone within a few weeks there could be retaliatory tariffs on up to 38 U.S. products that amount to $8 billion in annual exports to Canada, with the tariffs potentially totalling nearly half that figure.

“Let me restate that a full repeal is the United States’ only option to avoid retaliation,” Ritz said during a Washington visit.

“Hopefully the Americans will see the light and realize that they need to rescind COOL (country-of-origin-label-

ling).”

Backers of the labelling rules say consumers have a right to know where their food comes from and resent foreign countries and an international trade body ripping up U.S. law.

But industry groups, Canada and Mexico call it a thinly disguised protectionist measure that complicates the supply process and drives up the cost of exporting to the U.S. They also argued that it was illegal under international trade law — and they won.

The WTO has repeatedly sided with Canada and Mexico in the dispute and the last appeal decision set the stage for possible retaliatory tariffs.

In a race to avoid such tariffs, the U.S. Congress has begun studying a bill that would repeal the labelling rules. It’s likely to gain easy passage in the House of Representatives, but then face a tougher fight in the Senate.

Ritz said the U.S. is out of options, and out of time.

He warned the Senate not to try watering down the law with some other labelling requirement, which he said would be unsatisfactory to Canada and Mexico who want full repeal.

He brushed aside the question of whether the WTO might agree that such severe retaliation was deserved.

While Canada has blamed the labelling rules for damaging meat exports, and they did indeed suffer for several

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Packaged meat is seen at a grocery store Tuesday, May 19, 2015 in Montreal.

Canada has filed a request to impose more than $3 billion a year in tariffs on the United States in the latest move in an ongoing trade dispute. The Canadian government has asked the World Trade Organization to authorize the punitive measures on a range of American goods. years, exports actually shot up significantly in 2014 despite the labelling.

Exports of Canadian meat to the U.S. surged in a year when the loonie dropped — rising to US$4.99 billion in 2014, from US$3.86 billion a year earlier.

Ritz said the retaliation request was carefully worked out and scrutinized

by Daniel Sumner, an agriculture economist at the University of California: “He’s adjudicated this number.

We didn’t make it up.”

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Tempest in a Timbit

Competition Bureau will allow Parkland acquisition

ENBRIDGE ADS YANKED FROM SCREENS IN TIM HORTONS LOCATIONS

BRIEF Red Deer-based Parkland Fuel Corp. will proceed with its acquisition of the assets of Pioneer Energy after a federal Competition Bureau decision.

In April, the bureau had halted the transaction of gasoline retailers in 14 Manitoba and Ontario communities pending Competition Tribunal review to ensure it did not limit competition in those markets.

The interim order permits Parkland to complete the acquisition, subject to requiring Parkland to hold separate Pioneer’s assets in six of the 14 local communities for which the commissioner sought an interim order, said a news release from Parkland Fuels.

The acquisition of Pioneer involves 393 properties in Manitoba and Ontario in almost as many communities.

Bob Espey, president and CEO of Parkland said: “We intend to comply fully with the spirit and the letter of the tribunal’s decision, and to pursue active discussions with the Competition Bureau as requested by the tribunal.

“We are pleased that this decision permits us to proceed with the acquisition of Pioneer, a critical growth opportunity for Parkland and an acquisition that will benefit consumers in the markets in which we operate,” Espey said.

Parkland proposes to acquire from Pioneer 181 corporate stations and 212 supply agreements in Ontario and Manitoba.

Mergers in Canada are subject to review by the Competition Bureau to ensure they do not result in a substantial lessening or prevention of competition.

In Canada, Parkland operates or supplies close to 700 retail gas stations in Canada under the Fas Gas Plus, Race Trac Gas and Esso brands.

Pioneer operates under the Pioneer, Esso and Top Valu brands.

Kinder Morgan says $100 million investment will protect against oil spills BURNABY, B.C. — Kinder Morgan is pledging to safeguard against any possibility of oil spills caused by its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Senior director of marine development Michael Davies says Western Canada Marine Response Corp., the agency responsible for spill cleanup, will invest $100-million in new equipment. Davies says the agency — which is 50 per cent owned by Kinder Morgan — will acquire five new bases along the pipeline route and add 100 new jobs if the National Energy Board approves the expansion.

Kinder Morgan hopes to triple the bitumen-carrying capacity of its existing Trans Mountain line by laying almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipe between Edmonton and Burnaby.

The City of Vancouver and a North Vancouver First Nation submitted critical expert evidence to the energy board last week that concluded the project would significantly raise the risk of spills.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Tim Hortons has brewed up controversy for its decision to yank ads by pipeline giant Enbridge from its in-store screens.

On Thursday morning, the coffeeand-doughnut purveyor responded to complaints about the ads on Twitter, telling individual users: “We value your feedback and the Enbridge advertisements are no longer airing on ’Tims TV.”’ But the tempest in a Timbit only grew as oil industry supporters lashed out against the move.

The top-trending Twitter hashtag on Thursday afternoon in Canada was BoycottTims.

Calgary Conservative MPs Jason Kenney, Michelle Rempel and Joan Crockatt took the chain to task on Twitter.

“I’m proud to represent thousands of constituents who work for @Enbridge & other CDN energy companies,” Kenney, the defence minister, tweeted.

Tim Hortons declined to comment.

Enbridge is the dominant shipper of oilsands crude and plans to build the contentious Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast.

“We have enjoyed working with them and respect their decision,” said Enbridge spokesman Graham White in an email.

SumOfUs, a global group that targets well-known brands, started an online petition on Wednesday afternoon pressing Tim Hortons to stop “shilling” for the oilsands industry.

By the time senior SumOfUs campaigner Emma Pullman woke up Thursday morning, the ad was taken down. Some 28,000 people had signed the petition as of Thursday afternoon.

“Tim Hortons, though it’s not a Canadian company anymore, has built itself a really strong place in the hearts and minds of Canadians,” said Pullman.

The Enbridge brand does not enjoy the same support, she added.

“The kind of overwhelming re-

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cups of coffee sit on a counter in a Tim Hortons outlet in Oakville, Ont. on Monday Sept. 16, 2013. Ads for pipeline giant Enbridge will no longer be seen

by Canadians waiting in line for double-doubles and Timbits. The spots had been airing for close to three weeks on screens at more than 1,500 Tim Hortons locations between British Columbia and Ontario. sponse to the campaign shows that they couldn’t pull it off, it didn’t work,” she said.

“I think that what it shows is that Enbridge has to do a lot more than make some fancy commercials to win the hearts and minds of Canadians.”

Tim Hortons was recently taken over by 3G Capital, a Brazilian investment firm that merged the operations with Burger King and now owns roughly 70 per cent of the combined company.

The spots had been airing for close to three weeks on Tims TV at more than 1,500 locations between British Columbia and Ontario. The campaign was to have lasted four weeks.

A May 18 blog post on Enbridge’s website touts the campaign.

“We didn’t roast the coffee beans.

We didn’t stir the soup. We didn’t box up a baker’s dozen. But we did help produce that perfect Tim’s percolation.

When your energy meets ours, java joy

happens,” it says.

The post has links to Enbridge ads showing kids taking a bus to a school field trip and families on beach vacations, with the tag line “Life Takes Energy.”

Allison Johnson, a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University in London, Ont., said it was a “tone deaf” move for Tim Hortons to run the Enbridge ads in the first place. Johnson, who has researched how consumers react when a brand they’re attached to does something to anger them, said Tims did the right thing by puling the ad and the controversy is likely to blow over quickly. Since the ads have a captive audience among customers in line, Tim Hortons would have done well to run ads from a more “bland” company, not one that’s in such a divisive industry.

“Having put these ads on in their stores, they were implicitly endorsing Enbridge.”

Canadian LNG export prospects have “darkened” INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY REPORT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The outlook for Canada’s liquefied natural gas industry over the next five years has “darkened,” said a report released Thursday that casts clouds over British Columbia’s LNG ambitions.

The report by the International Energy Agency predicts Canada won’t have any LNG export projects online by 2020, which would go against B.C.’s goal of having three LNG plants in operation by that time.

The B.C. government has been betting big on LNG for economic growth. It has said it expects more than $100 bil-

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lion in tax revenue and a trillion dollars could be added to the province’s GDP over the next 30 years if five projects go ahead. The province has based its LNG export plan on strong demand from Asia, but that demand has slowed, the IEA report said.

“One of the key — and largely unexpected — developments of 2014 was weak Asian demand,” IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement. “Indeed, the belief that Asia will take whatever quantity of gas at whatever price is no longer a given.”

The IEA report says there will also be a significant increase in supply over the next few years, with LNG capacity increasing by 40 per cent by 2020. That

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is expected to put further pressure on already low natural gas prices.

Much of that supply is coming from the United States, where projects are being built on existing gas infrastructure, which reduces capital costs.

LNG projects in B.C. face higher costs because of many of the projects would have to be built from scratch in remote locations, with long distances between the proposed terminals and gas fields.

Alex Munton, an energy analyst at Wood Mackenzie, said the combination of strong competition and low natural gas prices have hit Canada particularly hard.

“Canada has been squeezed and projects haven’t had the success that was hoped for when many of these proposals were put forward.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 129.96 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.57 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.21 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.20 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.52 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.30 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.91 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 209.79 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.32 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.68 Cervus Equipment Corp 16.81 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.05 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 59.19 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.91 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.99 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.54 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.23 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.63 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.33 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.95 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.61 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.14 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.77 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.27 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.61 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.25 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.89 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The TSX posted a triple-digit decline Thursday as a fall in the price of oil and fears of European volatility dragged down markets worldwide.

The Toronto stock market’s S&P/TSX composite index was down 135.29 points to 15,019.39, with falls in every subsector of the market.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 170.69 points at 17,905.58, the Nasdaq index fell 40.11 points to 5,059.12, and the S&P 500 declined 18.23 points to 2,095.84.

Luciano Orengo, portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management, said news stories from Europe signalling volatility and the continuing efforts of the OPEC oil cartel to keep prices low are affecting both Canada and the rest of the world.

“The headlines are not positive,” he said.

“The market is really like a hot air balloon. You really need to keep pumping it to keep it going up. Now the air that’s coming into the balloon is cooling down.”

On the commodity markets, the July crude contract was down $1.64 at US$58.00 a barrel and the August gold contract fell $9.70 to US$1,175.20 an ounce.

The biggest losers on the TSX were the utilities subsector, which fell 2.67 per cent, followed by the energy subsector, which fell 2.14 per cent.

The loonie was also down, dropping 0.33 of a U.S. cent to 79.97 cents.

Orengo said the performance of the Canadian dollar is closely tied to oil prices because of the importance of the country’s commodity exports.

He said the market’s expectations for Friday’s OPEC meeting were that the group, which accounts for about one-third of global oil production, would keep production high in order to main-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.77 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Loblaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.89 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.15 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.97 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.63 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.26 First Quantum Minerals . 17.33 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.02 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.66 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.07 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.99 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.50 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.41 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.58 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.14 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.08 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.64 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.27 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 33.27 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.72 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.50 Canyon Services Group. . 6.65 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.25 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.32 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.14 tain lower prices.

“When oil’s down, it’s negative for the Canadian dollar,” he said. “Whatever comes out of that meeting tomorrow, it won’t bode well for oil prices because the status quo is most likely to prevail.”

The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday that Greece has exercised its option to bundle together four payments it has to make in June into one at the end of the month, avoiding a Friday deadline for the first of the payments.

Orengo said the decision added more uncertainty to the European stock markets, which in turn added to instability in North American equities.

On Wednesday, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said investors should be prepared for increased volatility in the euro zone, which Orengo said was a signal central banks are less interested in shoring up asset values.

“Overall the news isn’t supportive of a continuing upwards trajectory for the markets,” Orengo said.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,019.39, down 135.29 points Dow — 17,905.58, down 170.69 points S&P 500 — 2,095.84, down 18.23 points Nasdaq — 5,059.12, down 40.11 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.97 cents US, down 0.33 of a cent Pound — C$1.9211, up 1.18 cents Euro — C$1.4051, up 0.13 of a cent Euro — US$1.1237, down

Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.09 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.22 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 44.71 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 23.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.24 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.16 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.40 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.39 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.13 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.51 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 51.82 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.24 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.62 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.33 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.03 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.27 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.70 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 42.28 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.10 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.55 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.95 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.00 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.77 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.43

0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$58 per barrel, down $1.64 (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,175.20 per oz., down $9.70 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.055 oz., down 55.3 cents $676.92 kg., down $17.78 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $7.30 higher $497.70; Nov ’15 $6.10 higher $494.70; Jan. ’16 $6.40 higher $492.10; March ’16 $6.00 higher $489.20; May ’16 $6.00 higher $486.10; July ’16 $6.00 higher $483.10; Nov. ’16 $6.00 higher $471.10; Jan. ’17 $6.00 higher $471.10; March ’17 $6.00 higher $471.20; May ’17 $6.00 higher $471.20; July ’17 $6.00 higher $472.60.

Barley (Western): July ’15 $6.00 higher $197.00; Oct. ’15 $6.00 higher $187.00; Dec. ’15 $6.00 higher $192.00; March ’16 $6.00 higher $192.00; May ’16 $6.00 higher $192.00; July ’16 $6.00 higher $192.00; Oct. ’16 $6.00 higher $192.00; Dec. ’16 $6.00 higher $192.00; March ’17 $6.00 higher $192.00; May ’17 $6.00 higher $192.00; July ’17 $6.00 higher $192.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 770,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 770,060.

Plan ahead if you want to pass your cottage to your children

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Sitting by the lake and watching the grandchildren cannonball off the dock might be the dream of many cottage-owning baby boomers.

But handing down the cottage to those grandkids so that they might one day do the same can trigger big tax bills that could force the sale of the property.

A lakefront cottage purchased for a few thousand dollars decades ago may now be worth hundreds of thousands, perhaps even more.

And while you can’t avoid the tax bill, there are ways to make it more manageable.

Mike Laughton, a financial planner at Royal Bank, says one option is to sell or gift the property to your children today.

While that triggers a tax bill now, it puts any future capital gains in the childrens’ hands.

“The sooner you can get it into the beneficiaries’ names, the less future tax liability you’re going to incur upon yourself,” Laughton says.

You can even structure the sale so that you loan the money to your children to buy the property from you.

By holding the mortgage, you will be able to spread the capital gains and the associated tax bill over five years and you can forgive the debt in your will if you’re feeling generous.

Other options can also include adding your child as a joint owner or transferring it to a trust that could help avoid probate fees when the property is passed through an estate.

To help minimize your tax bill, you’ll also want to be sure that you’ve included all the eligible costs when determining your capital gain.

In addition to the purchase price, real estate commissions, legal fees and other costs related to the purchase of the property can be added.

Ongoing maintenance costs cannot be included, but building improvements such as new rooms or expanding the deck may also be added when calculating the adjusted cost of the property.

Jamie Golombek, managing director for tax and estate planning at CIBC, said you might also want to consider declaring the cottage your principal residence to shelter the capital gains from tax.

“However, most people have a home in the city and they also have a cottage and that’s where the issue comes,” he said.

If you decide to use the primary residence exemption for your cottage, it

‘THE SOONER YOU CAN GET IT INTO THE BENEFICIARIES’ NAMES, THE LESS FUTURE TAX LIABILITY YOU’RE GOING TO INCUR UPON YOURSELF.’ — MIKE LAUGHTON FINANCIAL PLANNER, ROYAL BANK

will mean that you would be unable to use it for the sale of your home in the city for the overlapping years.

Golombek noted the decision to use that exemption will depend on a number of factors, including the average annual gain on each property, the potential for future increases in the value of the unsold property and the anticipated holding period of the unsold property.

If you don’t like the idea of giving up ownership of the cottage while you still live and breathe, you can pass it down as part of your estate.

But when you die, it will trigger a tax bill as if you’ve sold the property.

If there won’t be money in your estate to pay the tax bill, you might want to consider taking out a life insurance policy that can be used to pay the tax bill.

You could even have the children who will inherit the cottage pay the insurance bill.

However, such a life insurance policy may be prohibitively expensive depending on your age and how much coverage you’re seeking.

Selling your cottage to your children for a nominal amount that would not otherwise incur a capital gain won’t avoid the tax.

The Canada Revenue Agency will calculate a capital gain based on the fair market value even if you sell the property to your children for just $1.

And if or when your children eventually sell the property, the tax man will use the nominal price they paid you to calculate the tax bill when they sell.

Laughton added that while the financial aspects are important, you also need to consider the “soft” issues when it comes to a cottage.

If you have more than one child, splitting ownership can be a source of conflict between siblings, so Laughton says you need to talk to everyone involved to ensure a plan that works on all fronts.

“It is not just the tax liability, it is also making sure that the family’s happy and that ultimately your goals get accomplished,” he said.

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TORONTO — The chief executive of Via Rail says it’s a good time to expand passenger rail service in Canada by building dedicated tracks and increasing the frequency of its trains.

“There is a renaissance and an emergence of a train culture in Canada,” Yves Desjardins-Siciliano said at a luncheon held in Toronto by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.

Demographic factors such as the pro-environment values of millennials, the growing number of seniors with mobility issues and an influx of immigrants from countries where train culture is prevalent make it a good time to boost passenger service, DesjardinsSiciliano said Thursday.

“Young Canadians — millennials — have a green heart,” he said.

Via Rail hopes to raise $3 billion from private investors in order to build dedicated passenger tracks between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

The company says the long-standing practice of sharing infrastructure with freight trains has hurt its ridership, which has been eroding in recent years.

The number of Via Rail passengers declined to 3.8 million last year from 4.1 million in 2010, according to the company’s financial statements that included a $317.1-million operating loss last year.

Desjardins-Siciliano says that by doubling the frequency of service along that route, Via could triple its ridership.

“If you add frequency, you add availability and convenience — and you automatically add ridership,” Desjardins-Siciliano said. “But if we don’t own the tracks we can’t add frequency as we wish.”

Higher ridership would boost the line’s profitability and could help subsidize other, less profitable routes, ultimately reducing the extent to which taxpayers foot the railway’s bills, he said.

But Desjardins-Siciliano said he doesn’t foresee the company going private.

“I think Via Rail will always be a public service company, because we’re servicing Canada, and you’ll always have routes that can’t sustain themselves,” he said during an interview following his speech.

Desjardins-Siciliano also brushed off the notion of Via Rail implementing high-speed rail lines, such as those in Europe and Japan, calling the development of such lines uneconomical.