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THRONE SPEECH

EDMONTON — Alberta’s New Democrats launched the post-Tory period of provincial politics Monday with a throne speech announcing bills to ban corporate and union political donations and to increase taxes on large corporations and the wealthy.

The bills follow through on promises made in last month’s election campaign which ended with Rachel Notley and the NDP toppling a nearly 44-year-long Progressive Conservative dynasty.

NDP MUM ON ROYALTIES A2 “Our political system has been far, far too dependent on funds from a narrow range of donors with deep pockets, and far too removed from the interests of ordinary people,” Notley told reporters before the throne speech. “We will tilt the playing field back in Albertans’ favour, so that their interests come first.”

The speech, read in the chamber by new Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell, outlined the government’s goals and

Drunk driver may qualify for unescorted absences

intentions for a legislature sitting expected to last just a few weeks.

The flagship bill is titled An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta and proposes to ban corporate and union donations to political parties.

Corporate donations, including hefty cheques from oil companies and other businesses, have historically made up a substantial portion of fundraising for the Progressive Conservatives. The New Democrats have relied on union donations to fill their coffers.

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BLACKHAWKS SOAR

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Lacombe woman convicted in the death of two Red Deer teenagers may soon be eligible for unescorted temporary absences.

April Gail Beauclair, 33, is serving three-and-ahalf years in custody after pleading guilty to two counts of impaired driving causing death.

In the early morning hours of March 31, 2012, She drove her car at about 110 km/h into the back of a vehicle being pushed along Hwy 11A by three young Red Deer men near Range Road 28-2.

Colton Keeler, 19, died at the scene. Tyson Vanderzwaag, 18, died in hospital six days later. The car’s driver, who was pushing from the side of the car, suffered serious injuries.

The teens were trying to push start their disabled car.

A hearing before the Parole Board of Canada for Beauclair will be held for Aug. 6 or 7. The hearing will examine whether she will be allowed unescorted temporary absences and day parole.

In November 2013, Beauclair was denied full parole after receiving day parole. At the time, the parole board said Beauclair needed more time in a structured environment.

At that hearing, Beauclair said she had driven drunk more than 50 times before the morning of the deadly crash.

On Oct. 1, 2014, the parole board revoked Beauclair’s day parole due to a number of concerns about her behaviour.

In early 2014, she missed counselling and program sessions that were part of her release conditions, and then cancelled her programs without consulting her parole officer.

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Chicago Blackhawks’ Jonathan Toews hoists the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final series on Wednesday in Chicago. The Blackhawks defeated the Lightning 2-0 to win the series 4-2. See related story on page B1.

Apartment vacancy rates climb amidst downturn

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Signs of Alberta’s economic downturn are showing up in rental markets.

The average apartment vacancy in the province’s major centres was up to 3.4 per cent in April, compared with 1.8 per cent a year earlier, according to the latest Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report.

Red Deer has fared a little better with vacancies only climbing a modest 0.3 per cent to 2.4 per cent over the same period.

Sylvan Lake’s vacancy rate jumped to 8.3 per cent from 3.7 per cent a year earlier, according to the report. Lacombe went up to 2.8 per cent from 1.6 per cent.

In Wood Buffalo, which serves the oilsands, the vacancy rate soared to 22.3 per cent, compared with seven per cent in April 2014. CMHC attributes the increase to declining employment in the region.

Cold lake (22.8 per cent) had the highest vacancy

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“Alberta’s slowing economy has attracted fewer migrants as the demand for labour in the oil and gas industry has moderated,” says the CMHC. “Total net migration was down by more than 6,500 year-overyear in the fourth quarter of 2014.”

While employment was up 2.3 per cent, many of the jobs were part-time, says the report.

Also adding to higher vacancy rates was an increase in housing supply in the last couple of years.

Alberta-wide, 115,678 units were available in April, compared with 112,602 the previous year.

Average apartment rents have continued to climb.

Alberta-wide, the average of bachelor, one-, two- and three-bedroom-plus apartments increased to $1,138 from $1,089 for communities with more than 10,000 people. Overall, rents increased 5.3 per cent year-toyear for comparable units.

Red Deer’s average rent increased to $959 from $892, Lacombe $782 from $767, and Sylvan Lake $975 from $889.

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Work is continuing on the 2020 Apartment Homes complex along Timberstone Way in Red Deer. Built

by Laebon the first building is nearing completion while work is underway on the second building on the property just north of 11A at Timberstone Way.

Gluten-free bakery rising in Fairview The Maple Tree Bakery on 5 Fir Street will serve up everything from gluten-free breads to pizza crusts and quinoa bars.

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Groups to share funding to address elder abuse

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s Golden Circle and Sylvan Lake’s Family and Community Support Services are getting provincial funding to address elder abuse.

They are among 19 seniors groups, community organizations and municipalities across the province to share in the three-year, $3-million Elder Abuse Co-ordinated Community Response grant program.

About $1 million will be allocated each year.

Sylvan Lake FCSS will receive $50,376 this year to develop the town’s protocol regarding elder abuse and Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre gets $62,500 this year to co-ordinate the response to elder abuse in other Central Alberta communities.

Golden Circle already operates Red Deer’s 24-hour Helping Elder Abuse Reduction (HEAR) resource information line: 403-346-6076 or toll-free at 1-877-454-2580.

“We usually get an average of 50 calls a month on our line and a lot of them are from outside of Red Deer,” said Monica Morrison, Golden Circle executive director, on Monday.

“We don’t have the capacity to send someone, for example north of Rimbey. We only have four outreach workers. So we need to figure out how we’re going to manage this in Central Alberta with each geographical area. Who is going to take the lead in the area.”

She said nine out of 10 times, the abuse is perpetrated by a family member and financial abuse is most common.

Golden Circle is partnering with FCSS Rimbey, FCSS Red Deer, Piper Creek Foundation and Family Services of Central Alberta to improve community response.

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Bill and Irma Welikoklad, walk across 49 Street Monday to watch with others as the lights of the new marquee are turned on. The Welikoklad Event Centre which was previously the Uptown Theatre has been named for the Welikoklad’s to recognize their donation of $1 million to Red Deer College. The building has undergone numerous upgrades since it was purchased by Red Deer College in 2012. This includes the creation of an art gallery, technology and acoustic upgrades to the theatre and cinema, mechanical, electrical, security and fire protection upgrades to modernize the downtown facility.

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NDP mum on royalties, greenhouse gas rules

In 2014, the NDP brought in almost $777,000 in donations, about 11 per cent of which came from unions.

PC interim leader Ric McIver said banning corporate donations will “tilt the political scale” toward the NDP, while forcing businesses to find lesstransparent avenues to get their contributions to the parties.

“If corporations want to give money, they’ll have to find a legal way to encourage other people to do it,” said McIver, one of nine Tories still holding a seat in the legislature.

The second bill, An Act to Restore Fairness to Public Revenue, proposes a “modest” increase to corporate income taxes, said Notley.

She has previously promised to raise the rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent. The small-business rate would remain at its current level of three per cent.

The bill includes a plan to scrap Alberta’s 10 per cent flat income tax and introduce higher rates on the top 10 per cent of tax filers.

“We are returning to a more typical Canadian tax system,” said Notley, who noted that the province would still have the lowest overall tax burden.

Brian Jean, leader of the official Opposition Wildrose party, said he will support the ban on political donations, but not the tax hikes.

“No government should ever consider raising taxes until it has cut waste and introduced efficiencies on how government operates,” said Jean.

The NDP plan to introduce an interim supply bill to keep the money flowing while the caucus crafts a full budget to be introduced in the fall.

Notley also announced the creation of a 17-member, all-party committee to improve accountability and fairness in areas such as whistleblower protection, electioneering and conflicts of interest.

That report is to be done within a year.

As well, Notley said Liberal Leader David Swann and NDP backbencher Danielle Larivee will co-

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chair a review to improve mental-health services.

Recommendations are to be in place by year’s end.

BEAUCLAIR: Eligible for statutory release on Sept. 9 That summer, it was discovered she had not taken prescribed medication for several mental health issues. At that point her release was suspended.

According to the corrections and conditional release act, temporary absences may be approved for reasons including medical, administrative purposes,

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community service, family contact, personal development for rehabilitative purposes and compassionate reasons including parental responsibilities.

Day parole allows offenders to participate in community-based activities and transition to halfway house or a similar facility approved by the Correction Service of Canada. They are required to return to the facility as directed.

Beauclair is eligible for her statutory release on Sept. 9. Statutory release is mandated by law and not granted by the parole board.

Most offenders receive their statutory release after serving two-thirds of their sentence. After statutory release, the parole board’s role changes to imposing conditions of the offender’s release.

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CALGARY — Two of the biggest issues hanging over Alberta’s oilpatch got little ink in the new NDP government’s first throne speech.

There were no new details on the approach to royalties or greenhouse gas regulations in the speech, read by new Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell in the chamber on Monday.

However, a promise to increase corporate taxes to 12 per cent from 10 per cent did feature prominently.

“We need to review how the people of Alberta — including our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many years from now — will be rewarded for the development of their own energy resources,” was the sole reference in the speech to the NDP’s vow to examine Alberta’s oil and gas royalty take.

The speech also highlighted the need to “demonstrate real leadership on the environment and on climate change” and urged stronger partnership with other provinces through a Canadian Energy Strategy.

But just because the nitty gritty of royalties and

climate policy won’t be dealt with in this shortened legislative session doesn’t mean work isn’t being done on those files, Premier Rachel Notley told reporters earlier in the day.

She said it’s important to take the time to get the royalty review right, but “we also know that we can’t have it hanging over everyone’s head indefinitely.”

“You will hear from us by the end of the summer on the establishment of the panel, its mandate and its structure and how it’s going to move forward,” Notley said.

“We understand it’s an important issue. It’s an important issue to all Albertans. It’s an important issue to our partners in industry.”

Alberta’s $15-a-tonne carbon levy is up for renewal at the end of the month, but the speech made no mention of where that’s going.

That’s not to say greenhouse gas policy isn’t top of mind for Notley, especially with United Nations climate talks coming up later this year in Paris.

“It won’t be fun if nobody’s talking to me. I’d like it to be a different picture this time — that Alberta’s participation there is something that we can be proud of, not something that we’re running away from,” she told reporters.

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Crown to oppose bail in gas-and-dash death MATTER PUT OVER UNTIL JUNE 30 CALGARY — The Crown says it will oppose bail in the “unspeakable” hitand-run death of a Calgary worker who tried to stop a driver from leaving a gas station without paying.

Joshua Cody Mitchell, 20, appeared on closed-circuit television Monday and the matter was put over until June 30 to give him more time to get a lawyer.

Mitchell faces charges including criminal negligence causing death, hit and run causing death, dangerous driving causing death and possession of stolen property, along with one count of theft of $113 in gas.

Gas station attendant Maryam Rashidi, 35, was hit by a stolen pickup truck June 7 while trying to stop the driver from leaving without paying.

She was struck and carried along on the hood before she fell off and was

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ABUSE: Resource information available in the fall Brittney Wells, Sylvan Lake FCSS senior services co-ordinator, said work starts this summer in Sylvan Lake to put together elder abuse resource information that will be accessible in the fall. Presentations will be available to

run over. She died in hospital Tuesday.

“My heart goes out to the family of the victim, Ms. Rashidi, in this matter,” said Calgary chief Crown prosecutor Lloyd Robertson.

“Her family is coping with a terrible loss, a terrible tragedy, an unspeakable tragedy,” he added. “This is a serious matter and I think it’s fair to say it’s shocked our city.”

Rashidi and her husband, Ahmed Mourani Shallo, emigrated from Iran a year ago. Both got engineering jobs in Calgary, but when the Alberta economy started to decline, they were laid off.

Rashidi took the job at the Centex station and had only been working there for a couple of weeks.

Mitchell was out on bail on charges of dangerous driving, possession of stolen property and driving without a valid licence that were laid at the end of January.

No application for bail in the alagencies and workplaces to help identify elder abuse.

“Right now in Sylvan Lake, there is nothing. There is absolutely nothing in regards to elder abuse,” Wells said.

The Sylvan Lake FCSS office will also create an elder abuse support centre with information, books, videos, pamphlets and training opportunities.

June 15 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. “Everybody plays a role in elder abuse awareness and everyone should make it their business. It’s under reported. It happens more often then we want to admit,” Morrison said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

leged hit-and-run case has been made, but Robertson made it clear the Crown will not consent to it.

“The case is in its early stages but the charges are very serious, obviously, and the Crown is going to be opposing any release application that Mr. Mitchell may make.”

Robertson said the Crown has al-

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Finding personal justice I can connect with a part of what Amanda Lindhout is now facing, since RCMP told her that one of her terrorist kidnappers had come to Canada from Somalia, where he could be arrested, charged and tried.

It’s been almost six years since Lindhout had been freed from a 15-month hostage-taking in Somalia.

Her captivity was marked by depravity and torture, physical, sexual and GREG psychological NEIMAN abuse.

It’s been almost six years of hard work to move forward for her and her family.

Six years of reaching for “normal,” six years of not letting the feelings of helpless rage and hate for her captors consume and ruin them.

That’s the part that I relate to, if not for her, then for her family.

We lived through four years of that — the period of time between a vicious and violent attack on a family member

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and the news that the attackers had been caught.

You get your family member back, changed beyond return, and you begin what people call “moving forward.”

You reach for “normal” and achieve it in your own way.

You cannot do that and keep your own integrity unless you can put the senselessness, pain and anger behind you. Time helps in that regard. But then later, it’s not over because after all this time, you must confront the people who did these hateful things.

Ali Omar Ader was identified as part of the terrorist group that kidnapped Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan while they were working as journalists just outside Mogadishu, Somalia, in August 2008. They were released on Nov. 25, 2009. Ader is said to have acted as the group’s negotiator, demanding ransom, among other things.

How he came to arrive in Canada would make for a very interesting story — if it were to become public. What level of arrogance or stupidity would it take for a foreign terrorist to risk leaving his hiding place for a country where laws are actually followed and upheld?

Whoever convinced Ader that it would be safe for him to do so must be

one heck of a salesman.

Maybe he was told that five years minimum in a Canadian prison is a better deal than an equitable length of time in his home country. (Assuming, of course, that the courts find that he did indeed confine, forcibly seize or detain Lindhout, and threaten death or bodily harm, as per the Canadian Criminal Code.)

But here he is, arrested, charged and soon to face trial. At which time Lindhout and her family will be expected to give evidence and testimony.

And be expected to deal with it all, again.

If Lindhout’s recent public statement rings true, she’s in a place were she can survive this.

“In the end, Ali Omar Ader’s fate has nothing to do with mine,” was the final sentence of her written release.

That’s what moving forward means.

Whatever happens next is only between Ader and our justice system.

Years ago, when we were dealing with the trial around the events in our family, I rankled somewhat that we were so much left out of it. There was no chance to confront, to get something back. Well, there’s nothing to get back.

It’s over, the past is gone. You deal with your own life; you can’t deal with the life of the criminal who harmed

you. The consequences in our lives are all personal — and non-transferable.

Nobody can bring you justice, not the police, not the courts, not the prisons. Justice is something you find for yourself.

“Every day, I make the choice to move forward and to remember that true power is derived from kindness,” reads her second-last sentence. That is evidence that Lindhout knows she will never be the same as she was before, but that she will be OK from here on.

The kindness that Canada can do for Lindhout and her family is just to take it from here. Let the police, the laws and the courts deal with Ader. He will have to confront his own demons, in due time.

People asked if we found closure at the end of this process. There is no closure; there’s just life. You live with integrity or you don’t. That, I believe, is the justice you hold to, whether the world itself is just or not (hint: it isn’t).

From here, it looks like Lindhout understands this. I hope she can handle the pressures from within and without, that might lead her to let go of the strength that got her this far.

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Fraser Institute fails to provide balance in its reporting The recent articles by the Fraser Institute on “Tax Freedom Day 2015” provided their annual calculation on the overall tax burden faced by the average Canadian family.

This calculation details their interpretation of the amounts taken by all governments in taxes; it is displayed in their usual way as a “cost” to the citizen and society.

The Fraser Institute’s view on taxes, in this and in many of their publications, appears to be that they are a deprivation of individual property by government and an onerous burden that always needs to be diminished.

In Fraser Institute publications, there is no mention of what we as citizens and society receive as benefits from these taxes.

A more positive perspective sees taxes as a contribution to the common good, and an important part of citizenship and democratic representation.

A related perspective views taxes as dues paid in recognition of the common wealth each citizen benefits from, passed on by earlier generations.

Taxes can also represent a form of income redistribution over the course of an individual lifetime, as well as an efficient and effective way for individuals to procure services by doing so collectively.

By distributing “ready-made media content” (something always enjoyed by news editors struggling with slashed resources), the think tank consistently punches above its weight.

From the beginning, as a charity enjoying registration under the Canadian Revenue Agency Income Tax Act, the Fraser Institute has been less a researcher than a large business-supported marketing agency, working to sell ideas that suit client interests. It calls itself a non-profit educational organization with 100 per cent emphasis on research — but it is predictable in seeking to promote only information that reinforces its unchanging, narrow world view.

Surprisingly here has not been any mention by CRA about including the Fraser Institute in its current political involvement in charities audits.

All this leads me to challenge the Fraser Institute to abandon its narrow focus and provide a more balanced report on what we pay and receive for our taxes, thereby giving Canadian taxpayers greater value for money they pay in taxes.

Sam Denhaan Red Deer

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The end of the superpowers Thursday is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, and in the course of the day you are almost bound to hear or read somebody claiming that it “changed history.” It was a very big battle, after all, and it would be a century before Europe saw war on that scale again.

But did the events of 18 June 1815 “change history?” Probably not.

The really decisive battle was fought a year and a half before that near Leipzig in Germany: the Battle of the Nations. Three GWYNNE times more men DYER were involved in that battle than fought at Waterloo. There were many more battles before the Russian, Austrian and Prussian armies entered Paris and Napoleon finally abdicated as Emperor of the French in the spring of 1814, but he never won another battle.

Napoleon was given a mini-kingdom on the island of Elba, off the Italian coast, to keep himself busy. The victors began to put Europe back together after 20 years of almost unbroken war, around three million combat deaths, and a comparable number of civilian casualties. And after only 10 months, Napoleon escaped from Elba and went back to France for another try.

He moved fast, hoping to defeat the

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British army in what is now Belgium before the other allies arrived to reinforce it, and he almost succeeded. The British commander, the Duke of Wellington, said that the battle of Waterloo was “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.” In the end, late in the afternoon, the Prussian (German) army showed up and turned the tide.

But if Napoleon hadn’t lost at Waterloo, he would have been defeated a little later.

Britain had already overtaken France as Europe’s biggest economy (and in those days, that meant the world’s biggest economy). The industrial revolution in Britain was already into its second generation, while France had barely entered the first. Even in sheer numbers of people, a low birth rate meant that France would fall behind Russia, then behind Germany, and eventually even behind Britain in population.

So even if Napoleon could go on winning battles, he couldn’t win the war. In the end he couldn’t even win the battles.

He was running out of soldiers, and his enemies had spent a generation at war learning (very expensively) to fight battles just as well as he did. Waterloo only confirmed what everybody with eyes could see already: France was finished as Europe’s superpower.

Then Britain got a century at the top (and after 500 years of Anglo-French wars, it never had to fight France again).

The United States is now about 75 years into its term as the reigning superpower — and you are probably assuming that I am now going to speculate who gets the crown next. Wrong on two counts.

First of all, it’s a thorny crown, and

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nobody in their right mind would want it. The relevant statistic (which hides in plain sight) is that the more powerful a country is, the more wars it fights and the more people it loses. More power doesn’t give you greater security; it just gets you into more trouble.

Secondly, about half the time there is no undisputed top dog. That was the situation for the century 1600-1700, when Spain was in visible decline but France was not yet ready to assume the mantle of sole superpower. It was equally true in 1945-1990, when nuclear weapons (the great equalizer) meant that the United States and the Soviet Union were coequal superpowers even though the U.S. economy was far bigger than the Soviet one.

And now, with the American superpower allegedly in decline, there is obsessive speculation about when China will step in and take over the role — or might it turn out to be India instead? As though it were still the early 19th century, when France was going down and Britain was taking over. It isn’t.

Military power doesn’t deliver the goods any more. The United States has lost almost every war and mini-war it has fought in the past 50 years (except Grenada and Panama), even though it accounts for around half of the planet’s spending on defence.

In the present global strategic environment, decisive victories are about as rare as unicorns.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it is probably a good thing. Victory is a much overrated concept.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

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Case dismissed against woman charged in death of lobster fisherman PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A judge has dismissed the one criminal charge against the owner of a Cape Breton fishing boat at the centre of a string of court proceedings arising from what one lawyer has described as a case of “murder for lobster.”

Carla Samson of D’Ecousse, N.S., had been charged with being an accessory after the fact amid criminal allegations that surfaced following the disappearance of Phillip Boudreau. So far, those allegations have resulted in manslaughter convictions against two of the three lobster fishermen aboard the vessel Twin Maggies on June 1, 2013 — the last day Boudreau was seen alive.

Samson wasn’t aboard the fishing boat that day when it rammed Boudreau’s much smaller speedboat, tossing him into the water off southern Cape Breton. However, as the owner of the Twin Maggies and the wife of its captain, she was implicated in the crime.

Her trial was just getting started Monday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury when Crown attorney Steve Drake told judge Simon MacDonald there was no realistic prospect for a conviction.

Defence lawyer Nash Brogran immediately asked MacDonald to dismiss the case and the judge agreed.

Samson, who was standing with family and friends in the public gallery, turned and walked out of the courtroom without saying a word.

Outside the courtroom, Brogan said he wasn’t surprised by the collapse of the case.

“From Day 1 we’ve been saying that it was a crime that she was charged,” he said, suggesting the evidence against Samson was minimal.

“It was nothing more than anybody would say in a family situation when the police are coming. A mother would say to her children, ... ‘Everybody better have the same story.”’

Court filing alleges Conservative duplicity in handling gun registry data

come law until after the scheduled October election, a Harper cabinet minister acknowledged Monday.

The legislation was tabled to give Canadians an idea of what to expect from the Conservatives, should they return to power, Government House Leader Peter Van Loan said as the spring session of Parliament began winding through its final full week.

“We have introduced a number of bills, rather late in the session, that demonstrate what will be the core of an agenda for a Conservative government reelected when we return in the fall,” said Van Loan.

The minister made the comments at a news conference where he outlined the government’s accomplishments over the last few months and warned against the agendas put forward by the opposition New Democrats and Liberals.

The Harper government has stuffed the legislative pipeline with new legislation in the last two weeks, ranging from a new national marine conservation area for Lake Superior, to motor vehicle safety amendments, copyright changes and new mandatory minimum sentences for gun crime.

As late as Monday, a week before the Commons is expected to rise for the summer, Defence Minister Jason Kenney was set to table a bill aimed at protecting victims’ rights in the military justice system.

Van Loan said more legislation is likely to be introduced before the scheduled end of the session.

And he said it’s expected there won’t be a sitting in September before the writ is issued for a general election.

Winnipeg man suspected of terrorism must wear electronic bracelet WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man suspected of planning terrorist activities will have to wear an electronic monitoring device and stay off the Internet for the time being.

Aaron Driver, 23, is not facing any criminal charges. But federal authorities are seeking a peace bond to limit his activities on the suspicion that he may help a terrorist group or activity.

Driver has been released on bail — with 25 conditions — until the court decides whether to issue the peace bond.

Driver must be monitored electronically around the clock. He is forbidden from owning a computer, must observe a nightly curfew and surrender his passport and any weapons.

He is also banned from possessing any items with logos or symbols of Islamic State groups, and must undergo religious counselling.

The bail conditions drew criticism from the Manitoba Association of Rights and Liberties.

“This is a person — a Canadian citizen — who has not been charged with a crime ... and yet he’s going to be subject to 24/7 GPS monitoring,” association president Corey Shefman said Monday.

“This is Canada and a judge has just told this man that he must receive counselling from a religious leader. That, frankly, is outrageous.”

Published reports have said Driver posted messages on social media that praised terrorist activities, including the attack last October on Parliament Hill by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. Evidence presented at Driver’s bail hearing last Friday cannot be reported due to a court-ordered publication ban.

Crown attorney Ian Mahon said there have been nine other peace bonds sought against Canadians suspected of harbouring terrorist plans since 2001.

swered before the next election.

The Conservative government is appealing a Federal Court ruling which found that changes made to the health-care system for refugee claimants were unconstitutional.

The appeal is not scheduled to be heard until after the Oct. 19 vote, though in the meantime the government has been forced to reinstate some benefits in order to comply with the court ruling.

But doctors and refugee advocates protesting across the country today say the current system still doesn’t meet the requirements laid out by the Federal Court.

They say that’s partly because there is a great deal of confusion in the system over which procedures are covered.

The cuts were supposed to save the government $20 million a year and the Immigration Department has said reinstating some of the benefits is costing $4 million.

Siblings detained in Malaysia naked tourist case reportedly back home Two Canadians who were detained in Malaysia for posing naked with other hikers on the country’s highest peak have reportedly returned home.

Saskatchewan siblings Lindsey Petersen and Danielle Petersen had been sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behaviour in a public place.

They were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu on May 30.

A local official has said their behaviour was disrespectful to the mountain, which is believed to be sacred, and caused an earthquake on June 5 that killed 18 climbers.

Their Malaysian lawyer has said they pleaded guilty in a local court to a charge of public indecency.

Lawyer Ronny Cham confirmed the Petersens left the country on Saturday and media outlets in Regina said the pair were believed to have arrived back home Sunday.

Lindsey Petersen, an engineering graduate from the University of Regina, had detailed his travels throughout Asia over the last seven months on Facebook. When his sister joined him in Bali, Indonesia, in April, he referred to them as the “dynamic duo.”

The story of their detention in Malaysia made headlines around the world and sparked a discussion on respect for cultural beliefs.

OTTAWA — A Federal Court filing alleges the Conservative government was pushing for the speedy destruction of long-gun registry records even as it was promising the information commissioner that it would preserve the data.

OTTAWA — An aide to Senate Speaker Leo HouThe duplicity alleged in the affidavit by investigasakos says it was known around the corridors of the tor Neil O’Brien goes right up to the Prime Minister’s upper chamber that staff took shortcuts when they Office, and helps sets the stage for a constitutional filed travel claims for senators. challenge.

Loren Cicchini is the second veteran Senate staffAt issue are changes buried in the government’s er to tell Sen. Mike Duffy’s trial that senators would latest omnibus budget bill that retroactively rewrite regularly pre-sign travel claim forms before they the rules for dealing with registration records of were filled in and submitted to financial administranon-restricted firearms. tors.

The unprecedented legal changes will exempt Duffy has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges of and nullify not just gun registry data from the Acfraud, breach of trust and bribery, several of them in cess to Information Act, but all documents related connection to trips he took while claiming to be on to the registry’s destruction, as well as removing the Senate business. jurisdiction of federal information commissioner SuCicchini doesn’t submit such expense claims for zanne Legault, the police and the courts.

Housakos in her current role as parliamentary afLegault is fighting in court to preserve what’s left fairs adviser, but did so for former Conservative of the Quebec registry documents, and the legal filsenator JoAnne Buth for about a year and for retired ings show why she doesn’t trust the government to Progressive Conservative senator Michael Meighen honour its commitments. for more than 20.

The affidavit cites emails and memos that show OTTAWA — The question of whether the federal She said she never told Senate finance what she the public safety minister’s office, the Privy Council government is obliged to pay all health- care costs was doing.

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Blackhawks capture Cup FINISH OFF LIGHTNING TO WIN ONE OF CLOSEST FINALS IN HISTORY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blackhawks 2 Lightning 0 CHICAGO — The margin of error was minuscule, the difference between the teams even less.

After playing on a tightrope for two weeks, the dam finally broke and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 in Game 6 on Monday night to win one of the tightest Stanley Cup final series in NHL history and capture their third title in the past six years.

“It doesn’t feel real right now. It’s unbelievable,” captain Jonathan Toews said.

“Feels like a dream. Every time we do it, it gets better and better. It’s an amazing feeling.”

The Blackhawks lifted the Cup at United Center for the first time. They had to wait, however, as the trophy was delayed by weather and needed a police escort to the arena. Chicago had not won on home ice since 1938.

Fans didn’t leave for more than an hour after Toews lifted the Cup, many banging on the glass and cheering as music played.

“It’s amazing,” forward Brandon Saad said.

“Full building from when we had the Cup out here. It’s going to be a hell of a city to win it in. Looking forward to the parade.”

Conn Smythe trophy winner Duncan Keith scored the clincher on one of the best individual efforts of the playoffs, and Patrick Kane provided the exclamation point with a third-period goal.

They got help from goaltender Corey Crawford, who made 25 saves to pick up his first shutout of the final. In total he stopped 151 of the 161 shots he faced to outduel an injured Ben Bishop, who was struggling with a groin tear.

“That’s three Cups, six seasons. I’d say you have a dynasty,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman before presenting the trophy to Toews.

Bishop again started in net for the Lightning, fighting through a groin tear but he couldn’t be perfect enough.

With a banged-up team in front of him,

Fans cheer as Chicago Blackhawks’ Kris Versteeg skates around the ice with the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Monday, in Chicago. The Blackhawks defeated the Lightning 2-0 to win the series 4-2.

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Bishop made 30 saves as Tampa Bay couldn’t force a Game 7 back home Wednesday night.

“Think it easily could have been us on the ice celebrating,” Bishop said.

“It was such a close series.”

A Game 7 is the only thing that could have made this series more historic. Each of the first five games was decided by one goal for the first time since 1951.

In the end the difference was not the stars. Toews had just one goal, while Kane didn’t get on the board until the final minutes of Game 6.

Lightning captain Steven Stamkos was shut out.

As the series turned into a battle of wills, Tampa Bay put forth their final burst of desperation facing elimination. But with several players dealing with noticeable injuries, they didn’t have enough to push back against the playoff-tested and healthier Black-

hawks.

Veteran defenceman Kimmo Timonen went out on top, winning the Cup in his final season. He was the first to get the Cup from Toews.

“I’m relieved, I’m happy,” Timonen said. “I came back just to get one more chance. You can always dream about this, but you never know what can happen in hockey.”

With 22,424 screaming fans on their feet, the Blackhawks showed why they’re the team of the decade. Just like in 2010 and 2013, with the Cup on the line, they closed the deal like champions.

“At this point I think maybe it was just a little bit of the experience that kind of weighed over,” defenceman Johnny Oduya said. “Somehow when we play the right way, it’s tough to beat us in seven games.”

After an anthem so loud the crowd drowned out Jim Cornelison, fans

chanted, “We want the Cup” before the opening faceoff. Within the opening minutes they gasped as Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov got a breakaway and then again as Stamkos hit the crossbar.

Bishop thwarted the Blackhawks on a power play with a toe save on Teuvo Teravainen and then another on Brent Seabrook. His best came on a later power play when he stoned Toews on the doorstep.

After Chicago put 13 shots on net to Tampa Bay’s four in the first period, Stamkos got another golden opportunity a minute into the second. Sprung on a breakaway, Stamkos stopped and deked but couldn’t beat Crawford.

The Lightning got the first five shots of the period before Patrick Sharp ignited back-and-forth scoring chances around the midway mark.

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O’Connell let fists do talking in emotional fight

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF EDMONTON — Cam O’Connell’s come back fight was not supposed to be personal. It was supposed to be all business.

But that changed at the weigh-in on Thursday as his opponent Mario Perez (17-7-4) started running his mouth about the Red Deer boxer and his corner.

O’Connell (7-0-1), meanwhile, did all the talking with his fists in the ring, winning by unanimous decision in the main event of Adrenaline Rush, produced by KO Boxing, at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on Friday.

“When I got in the ring, I looked at him and I just wanted to kill him,” said O’Connell, 26. “As soon as I looked at him and he looked down, I knew it was all just a game to him, he wasn’t a fighter. He barked like a Chihuahua and he bit like a Chihuahua.”

The game for Perez started in the contract negotiations, demanding a 135-pound catch weight, far smaller than O’Connell, and an eight-round fight, longer than any fight O’Connell has ever been in.

At the weigh-in the games continued with the Mexican national now training our of Toronto, calling out O’Connell’s toughness on social media because he had done more time in jail than O’Connell—something O’Connell is embarrassed about rather than looking at it as a badge of honour. Perez then started calling out his friends during the weigh-in. O’Connell’s coaches had to calm him down and remind him

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Red Deer boxer Cam O’Connell trades blows with Mario Perez during O’Connell’s unanaimous decision win in the main event of Adrenaline Rush at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on June 12, 2015. he would get his opportunity the next night. After the weigh-in Perez chimed in once more saying ‘After I knock out Cam, I’m going to knock out Arash (Usmanee).”

And that really got O’Connell going.

During referee Len Koivisto’s instructions in the centre of the ring on Friday Perez refused to look at O’Connell and pushed out as soon as

he could.

In the end, he was all talk.

After a close opening four rounds, O’Connell took over in the second half of the fight, where he was supposed to struggle, and took apart Perez, winning by scores of 79-72, 78-73, 79-73 on the three judges’ score cards.

What mattered most to O’Connell was the win and going the distance,

though he worked hard for a late-round knock out and came close, sending Perez to the mat in the eighth round.

“I’m happy, I got a fight where I got to bang it out, I got to show people I’m in shape, I’m here to fight,” said O’Connell. “Nobody is going to stop me, I didn’t get hit with anything that really hurt me ...

“Maybe I don’t have a long life doing this because I got hit a lot doing it, but I just want to show people I am here to do what I love doing and tonight I did what I loved.”

In his corner was his head coach Doug Bolianatz, trainer Roman Rzepkowski and cut man Arash Usmanee.

After the fight Usmanee was beaming like a proud papa. The two fighters grew up together in Red Deer and have trained together for years. Usmanee’s own boxing career is in a bit of a hiatus, but he was there to train O’Connell and spar with him. As cut man he was constantly giving him in-ring advice and could be heard urging him on to go to his jab more.

“He’s my little brother, he’s grown up with me,” said Usmanee. “Getting closer to the fight, I didn’t tell anybody this, but I was a little bit nervous because of the experience of the guy and it was a big step up fight for Cam and this was the kind of fight he needed.”

Having Usmanee there was huge for O’Connell.

“My whole camp was perfect,” said O’Connell. “(Usmanee) was the piece of the pie that had he been missing, everything would have fallen apart, but every piece was in place. It was perfect.”

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Canada clinches first in group with tie against Netherlands

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 1 Netherlands 1 MONTREAL — It wasn’t what Canada hoped to deliver to the 45,420 roaring fans at Olympic Stadium, but a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands was enough.

Ashley Lawrence scored early, only to see Canada concede a goal to substitute Kirsten Van De Ven in the 87th minute as the teams closed out group stage play at the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Monday night.

Canada finished first in Group A with a win and two draws and will be-

gin single-game knock-out play Sunday in Vancouver against an opponent still to be determined. China was a second in the group while the Netherlands, with a win, a loss and a draw, was third.

“All in all, top of the group, five points, we’re off to the west coast, this was the plan,” said Canada coach John Herdman. “We’d love to have another three points in the bag but, job done, we’re happy.”

By finishing first, the Canadians will play all their remaining games in either Vancouver or Edmonton, greatly reducing the travel they may have faced by finishing second or third.

Canada, ranked eighth in the world, went for the win against the 12th-ranked Dutch by putting a mostly attack-oriented lineup on the field.

It produced Canada’s first goal from open play in three group stage games, but they also conceded their first goal of the tournament.

“Ultimately our goal was to win the group,” said Canada captain Christine Sinclair. “We did that and we’re proud of that, but you hope that, in the last 5-10 minutes of the game, up 1-0, you can close out the game.

“Maybe a little naive on our part.

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the game. We can learn from it.”

Herdman made four lineup changes, looking for offence from a Canadian team whose only goal in the opening two games was on a penalty.

They got the early pressure and Lawrence scored 10 minutes in on a play that started with a throw-in deep in Dutch territory. The ball deflected to Sophie Schmidt, who slipped it to Lawrence for a shot that went in off goalkeeper Loes Geurts’ knee.

Lawrence nearly added another a minute later but saw her low shot miss the left post.

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Jays’ streak snapped by Mets in extras

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 4 Mets 3 (11) NEW YORK — The Mets trailed early, blew a ninth-inning lead and fell behind again in extras — all against baseball’s hottest team.

Still, in the end, they remained perfect in New York against the Blue Jays.

Wilmer Flores singled to cap a twoout, two-run rally in the 11th inning and the Mets ended Toronto’s team record-tying 11-game winning streak, beating the Blue Jays 4-3 Monday night. The Mets improved to 10-0 at home against the Blue Jays with the comeback victory.

“It’s resiliency,” Michael Cuddyer said. “We know we’re always going to be in the game.”

The Blue Jays trailed 2-1 in the ninth before Jose Bautista tied it with his second home run of the game, connecting against Jeurys Familia.

Toronto took the lead in the 11th on Dioner Navarro’s sacrifice fly off Hansel Robles (1-1). The Mets then rallied for their fourth win in five games.

They trailed 8-3 Sunday before beating Atlanta.

With Ruben Tejada on first and one out, Cuddyer hit a potential gameending double-play grounder to second baseman Danny Valencia. Tejada smartly slowed up and Valencia tagged him, but too late to throw onto first.

“That piece of baserunning, that’s how you’re supposed to run the bases,” manager Terry Collins said.

Lucas Duda followed by slicing a shift-busting single to shallow left field and the 36-year-old Cuddyer hustled

all the way home.

Duda took second on the throw, Liam Hendricks relieved and Flores lined the first pitch up the middle, setting off a raucous celebration near second base.

“We’re not giving up,” Flores said.

“That’s what good teams do.”

The Mets were the only other team in the majors with an 11-game winning streak this season. New York’s perfect 10-0 record against Toronto is tied with Cleveland for third longest in interleague play. San Francisco has two 11-game runs, against Oakland and Texas, according to information provided by the Mets from the Elias Sports Bureau.

Familia was trying for a four-out save for the second straight day. He wound up with his second blown save this season, spoiling a dominant start

by Noah Syndergaard.

“It wasn’t a bad pitch. This guy is just one of the great home run hitters in baseball,” Collins said of Bautista’s homer off Familia.

Pitching on an extra day’s rest, the rookie right-hander nicknamed Thor struck out a career-high 11 and allowed two hits in six overpowering innings.

Syndergaard, traded by the Blue Jays to the Mets, left with a 2-1 lead against the team that racked up 88 runs in reeling off 11 consecutive wins.

“The kid tonight was great,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.

“They shut down a hot offence and that hasn’t been easy to do lately.”

Bautista hit a mammoth homer into the second deck in left field with two outs in the first, but Toronto’s relentless offence was stifled by Syndergaard

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Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, left, waits for the throw as New York Mets Lucas Duda slides in to score on Wilmer Flores’s 11th-inning, game-winning, walk-off single against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, Monday. and relievers Carlos Torres and Jack Leathersich through 7 2/3 innings.

Syndergaard was the starter a week ago when San Francisco’s Chris Heston pitched a no-hitter at Citi Field. This time against Mark Buehrle, the Mets went without a baserunner until Duda led off the fifth with a sharp grounder that hopped over the glove of first baseman Edwin Encarnacion, who went down to one knee to try to catch the ball.

New York broke through against

Buehrle in the sixth, taking advantage of former Mets star Jose Reyes’ throwing error from deep shortstop on Kevin Plawecki’s grounder to open the inning.

Juan Lagares and Tejada each had RBI doubles in the sixth.

Buehrle allowed four hits and two runs in seven innnigs. The Mets are the only team Buehrle hasn’t beaten in his 16-year career, all in the American League except for one season with Miami.

Blackhawks’ Keith a unanimous choice to win Conn Smythe Trophy CHICAGO — Duncan Keith played more minutes than anyone else in the Stanley Cup playoffs and had the biggest impact.

So it was a no-brainer that Keith would take the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP after leading the Chicago Blackhawks to their third Stanley Cup in six years. Keith was a unanimous choice.

Keith averaged 31 minutes six seconds a night during the Blackhawks’ 23-game journey and led all playoff

scorers with 18 assists. He also added the game-winning goal in Game 6 as Chicago shut out the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0.

“That guy was unbelievable,” goaltender Corey Crawford said. “I don’t think I’ve seen anyone play any better.

Whenever we needed a big goal or a big play it seemed like he made it.”

The 2010 and 2014 Norris Trophy winner as the NHL’s best defenceman was consistently the Blackhawks’ best player. He joined Bobby Orr, Larry Robinson, Brian Leetch and Nicklas Lidstrom as the only players to win the Norris twice and the Conn Smythe.

Keith beat out captain and 2010 Conn Smythe winner Jonathan Toews and Lightning defender Victor Hedman.

“No one more deserving,” said teammate Brad Richards. “Right from the first game against Nashville, I saw a different level of hockey that I’m not sure I’ve ever seen on my team. Just how he kept doing it and never showed any signs of fatigue.”

Keith, who finished with 21 points, played all situations and in the final played a big part in shutting down the Lightning’s Steven Stamkos and productive “Triplets” line.

“I seen him a couple of times, every time I saw (Perez) want to go all out I just saw bigger paycheques to help my family, I envisioned the ultra sound a couple of times during the fight,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s a boy or girl, but the ultra sound does have boxing gloves photoshopped into it.”

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HAWKS: Glory

BOXING: Answered The goal of the fight was to prove he could be more than just a knock out specialist, that he could stand in the ring against proven competition and go punch for punch in a 10-12 round match.

O’Connell had never been in a fight that lasted more than four rounds previously, and after spending nine months earlier this year at the Bowden Institution on a drug trafficking charge there was questions about ring rust and stamina.

He answered all of those critics by only getting stronger as the fight wore on, sending Perez to the ground

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Rzepkowski believes O’Connell should be in line for a North American or Canadian title shot of some kind in his next fight.

“What I would like next is that title he shot he never got last year,” he said. “He trains harder than most of the athletes I work with, he deserves it.

I believe that after something like this, they’re going to start looking at him a little bit differently.”

Helping O’Connell along was a strong contingent of friends and family who made the trip up from Red Deer, it gave him an extra boost in the ring.

“I’m thankful of everyone who came out, I love everyone,” he said. “I heard every individual voice, it was amazing for me.”

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It’s why this fight was so important, to prove he could be a complete fighter. But climbing that boxing ladder got a little more important to him, finding out in the days leading up to the fight that he will become a father for the first time with his wife Tiffany O’Connell due to deliver in January.

But it was after making substitutions in the second half, mostly to shore up the defence, that the Dutch caught the Canadian defence off guard and equalized.

The visitors missed a glittering chance on a quick counter in the 83rd when Manon Melis broke in alone on the left side, but Erin McLeod kept it out with her best save of the night.

Four minutes later, a turnover allowed Melis to slip the ball to Van De Ven, who was all alone at the edge of the area to score.

“The tough decision, if I could have it back, was the fullback,” Herdman said of his 81st minute substitution of midfielder Sophie Schmidt, who took a nasty knock along the sidelines, with Rhian Wilkinson. “With Wilkinson, we wanted to make sure we shored up that side and put (Josee) Belanger into the attack. We just got caught out in the transition.”

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A save by Bishop that sent the puck into the stands brought a whistle and more noise to the sold-out arena.

At the 13:13 mark, the place erupted when Keith put the puck on net, followed it for the rebound and fired it past Bishop. As “Chelsea Dagger” played, the Blackhawks moved one step closer to glory.

In the dying seconds of the period, they thought they had a second goal.

Instead, Brent Seabrook’s shot rang off the inside of the post to prevent the first-two goal lead of any kind in the series.

With no breathing room for six games, the Blackhawks put the Lightning on their heels in the third period.

The push-back brought out some nervous energy, but then Kane scored on a two-on-one rush with Richards with 5:14 left and the celebration began.

“Chelsea Dagger” again played over the loud speakers after the final buzzer, followed by “Sweet Home Chicago.”

“He’s the guy that plays basically every other shift all year long,” general manager Stan Bowman said. “It’s tough to do. Here we are in Game 6 of the final, and he did it again, so hats off to him.”

Keith is the first defenceman to win the Conn Smythe since Scott Niedermayer of the Anaheim Ducks in 2007.

It’s the 10th time a defenceman won the trophy since its inception in 1965.

Watching from his home in Sweden, Lidstrom was impressed with Keith’s playoffs. Lidstrom said Keith was “getting better and better with more ice time.”

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Players begin crash course of Chambers Bay U.S. OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Robert Streb walked off the third green at Chambers Bay, looked both directions and headed left down a dirt path toward Puget Sound.

Wrong way.

He walked back up the hill and stood in front of a large sign that showed a map of the course, arms crossed as he tried to figure out one of the many mysteries about this U.S. course. In this case, it was a simple question — where was No. 4?

Streb wasn’t alone. “It was early on in the course, I think around the third or fourth hole,�

Paul Casey said Monday. “My caddie walked the course the day before and knew the way. But I saw many caddies who were lost searching for the fourth tee.�

There are more pertinent questions about Chambers Bay, the newest course in 45 years to host a U.S. Open.

Never has a U.S. Open course featured so much elevation. One fairway is just over 100 yards wide. And it’s so difficult to determine where the fairway ends and the green starts that the USGA has marked each green with white dots about a yard apart to outline the putting surface.

Morgan Hoffmann, one of 11 players who competed at Chambers Bay in 2010 for the U.S. Amateur, described it with words that could take on any meaning.

Interesting. Different. About the only one he left out was exciting. “Oh, it will be exciting, absolutely,�

Hoffmann said. “There’s going to be shots you see on TV that they’re going to replay and you’re going to say, ’How did that happen?’ Because you can’t see anywhere near what the slopes are.�

Monday was busier than usual for a U.S. Open as the courtship of Chambers Bay got started with the first official day of practice.

Tiger Woods was among those who took a scouting trip within the past two weeks. He was first out on the back nine and plans to go nine holes a day.

Jordan Spieth played Chambers Bay for one round in the U.S. Amateur (he shot 83), played it again when his caddie got married and spent the weekend getting reacquainted.

The reviews are mixed, which is not

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Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 18th hole during a practice round for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Chambers Bay, Monday, in University Place, Wash. unusual for any U.S. Open.

Chambers Bay is not a links course.

It just dresses up like one, especially with the fescue grass that gives the course a blend of brown and green, mixed with yellow wisps of fescue framing the rugged and expansive bunkers. “There’s plenty of danger out there,� Paul Casey said. “Visually, it’s fairly generous off the tee with what I’ve grown up with on links, if you’re going to call this a links. You can have a lot of fear standing on the tee at links courses — Muirfield, Birkdale and the like. “You know if you don’t pipe, it you’re going to be looking for a ball for a long time. Here, it’s generous. The premium is put on the second shot and on the green. Where do you miss your second shot?�

Retief Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion, hit the front of the first green in front of the flag, which was the wrong spot. It took a slope to the left and rolled off the green. It rolled so far, in fact, that Goosen had to use a

laser to figure out how hard he had to get back toward the flag.

The greens have so much contour that they look like oversized potato chips. Bubba Watson posted a video of him with his back to the hole, putting some 40 feet away from the cup up a ridge and watching it roll back and into the hole.

Streb, once he found his way to the fourth tee, proved to be a quick study.

The flags on the green might as well been there for decoration. Streb stood in the fairway and gazed some 30 yards right of the green.

There were two TV towers on either side of a large grandstand. He settled on a USGA logo in the mesh bunting of the bleachers, the third one from the left, as his best line to get close to the hole. “I think it’s a fun golf course,� Jimmy Walker said. “You have to be really careful hitting into the greens — where to hit and where not to hit. ... My first go-around, you see the pin and look at the book and it was hard to tell. I’ve still got some studying to do.�

Lorie Kane gearing up for Pan Am Games, CP Women’s Open COQUITLAM, B.C. — Lorie Kane is primed for a busy summer on home soil.

The Charlottetown golfer will compete in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open at Vancouver Golf Club in August, but before that she will represent her country at next month’s Pan Am Games in Toronto. “I’ve been joking that I might be the oldest chick in the (athletes’) village,� said the 50-year-old Kane. “I get excited when the Olympics roll around, be it winter or summer. We as Canadians, that’s what we learn to watch. “Now to have an opportunity to be a part of that, it’s going to be really exciting.�

At the Pan Ams, Kane will team up with Brooke Henderson, the 17-yearold from Smiths Falls, Ont., who tied for fifth this past weekend at KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and has been making waves in the golf world. “We have one goal and that is to win as many medals as we possibly can first and foremost,� Kane said after Monday’s CP Canadian Women’s Open media event. “Brooke and I will do the best to represent the best we can.�

Kane has made just two starts this season, missing both cuts, but was encouraged by her performance at the Manulife LPGA Classic in Waterloo, Ont., earlier this month. “It may shock people if I say that (my game is) probably the best its been,� said Kane. “People judge by results and I do too, but I saw a lot of good things happen at Manulife. I just need

to get into some more tournaments.

Unfortunately my (ranking) isn’t great, but we will get some tournaments coming up here.�

Apart from the thrill of trying to win a medal for her country, Kane said that playing at the Pan Ams will hopefully get her in good form heading to the national championship at Vancouver Golf Club. “The Pan Ams will be great for me,� she said. “That will be four rounds that I can play and really test things and see how I’m doing. I’d like to be peaking in August. I really think I can still challenge to win and that’s my ultimate goal.�

Kane has earned nearly US$7 million in her career, but has not won an LPGA event since 2001. She has been amazed at the rise of players like Henderson and 18-year-old Lydia Ko, who won the Canadian title in 2012 as an amateur at Vancouver Golf Club and will return in 2015.

Ko also won the 2013 Canadian title at Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton. “You can’t hold them back,� said Kane. “They’re old beyond their days.

Ya they have no fear, but they’re very tactical in what they do and how they play the game. “The tour is so deep that any player can win on any given day.�

Notes: The tournament runs from Aug. 17 to 23. ... Among the other players committed to the $2.25-million CP Canadian Women’s Open are defending champion So Yeon Ryu, Brittany Lincicome, Michelle Wie and Suzann Pettersen. ... Canadian Pacific announced Monday it will remain as the event’s title sponsor through 2018.

BRIEFS

UFC to make debut in Saskatchewan in August with Fight Night card in Saskatoon TORONTO — The UFC will make its debut in Saskatchewan on Aug. 23 with a Fight Night card at the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon.

Fifth-ranked Max Holloway (13-3) will take on seventh-ranked Charles Oliveira (20-4, one no contest) in the main event, the UFC said Monday in a release. The five-round bout could determine the next title contender in the featherweight division.

Additional bouts will be announced in the coming weeks.

Saskatoon will become the eighth Canadian city to host a UFC event. The others are Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg and

Quebec City.

Padres fire manager Bud Black SAN DIEGO — Bud Black understood full well the expectations to win now with his remade, star-studded roster — and with a new front office, too.

In his ninth season, Black’s time is up after the Padres fired him Monday with San Diego sitting in third place in the loaded NL West at 32-33.

The Padres never reached the playoffs during Black’s tenure after he took over when Bruce Bochy departed to manage the San Francisco Giants in 2007.

The Padres said they would immediately begin a search for an interim manager for the remainder of the season. Former Padres outfielder and current bench coach Dave Roberts was set to manage San Diego as it hosted the Athletics for a two-game series at Petco Park starting Monday night before going to Oakland for two games.

Black inherited an entire new outfield during the club’s off-season overhaul, one Matt Kemp called the best outfield in baseball.

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It can be deceptive in so many ways.

Walker recalled one par 4 in which he thought he could clear all the bunkers down the right side. His caddie, Andy Sanders, was telling him to go much farther left away from the trouble. “Visually, I couldn’t do it. It didn’t look right,� Walker said. “I went ahead and did it my way. And it was bad.�

For the moment, Chambers Bay is so new and so different that it’s more intriguing than aggravating. Then again, scores don’t count until Thursday.

Walker said he played in a group that produced plenty of birdies and decent scores.

And one aspect of the U.S. Open has changed. “I don’t know exactly what the mission statement is to find a U.S. Open course and how to set it up,� two-time Open champion Lee Janzen said. “But I would imagine that it would be to provide a challenging test so that the best players in the world are challenged, and hopefully bring out the best players for that week.�

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Golf: Skins game at Red Deer Golf and Country Club at 5 p.m. ● Sunburst baseball: Confederation Park Cubs at Red Deer Riggers at Great Chief Park at 7:30 p.m. ● Parkland Baseball: Red Deer Razorbacks at Rocky Red Dogs at 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Play it Again Sports Athletics at North Star Sports at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m. ● Ladies fastball: Topco Oilsite Panthers at TnT Athletics at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Stettler at Snell & Oslund Badgers at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.; Collins Barrow Rage at N. Jensen Bandits at Great Chief 1 at 8:45 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Olds Mavericks at Olds Stingers at Innisfail at 8:30 p.m. ● Women’s lacrosse: Calgary Axemen at Red Deer Rage at Innisfail at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● Parkland Baseball: Lacombe Dodgers at Innisfail Indians at 7 p.m.

Thursday

● Bantam AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Red at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at Great Chief Park at 7 p.m.

Lacombe Stone and Granite at Canadian Brew House Rays at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at North Star Sports at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m. ● Ladies fastball: N. Jensen Bandits at TnT Athletics at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Snell & Oslund Badgers at Collins Barrow Rage at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.; Topco Oilsite Panthers at Stettler at 7 p.m.

Friday

● Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship 9 at Westerner Prairie Pavilion. ● Parkland baseball: Rocky Red Dogs at Red Deer Razorbacks at Great Chief at 7 p.m.

● Men’s Division 3 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Airdrie Highlanders at 8 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Calgary Axemen at Olds Stingers at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Men’s Division 2 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Lethbridge at 2 p.m. ● Major women’s soccer: Edmonton Scottish Angels at Red Deer Renegades at Edgar Athletic Park at 2 p.m. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at Spruce Grave White Sox at 1 and 4 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at St. Albert Cardinals at noon ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Red Deer TBS Renegades at Manitoba Blizzard in Winnipeg at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Medicine Hat Sun Devils at 4:30 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Olds Mavericks at Crowsnest Pass Ravens at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday

● Major women’s soccer: Calgary Cougars FC at Red Deer Renegades at Edgar Athletic Park at noon. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at Spruce Grave White Sox at 11 a.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at Fort McMurray Oil Giants at 10 a.m.; Red Deer Braves at South Jasper Place Jats at 1 p.m. ● Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Carstar Braves at Sherwood Park Athletics at noon and 3 p.m. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Red Deer TBS Renegades at Manitoba Blizzard in Winnipeg at 1 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Lethbridge Cudas at 1:30 p.m. ● Women’s lacrosse: Red Deer Rage at Sherwood Park Titans at 11 a.m. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail Indians at Lacombe Dodgers at 7 p.m.

Hockey NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FINAL Tampa Bay (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Wednesday, June 3 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Saturday, June 6 Tampa Bay 4 Chicago 3 Monday, June 8 Tampa Bay 3 Chicago 2 Wednesday, June 10 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Saturday, June 13 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Monday, June 15 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 0 x — if necessary.

Monday’s summary Blackhawks 2, Lightning 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Paquette TB (tripping) 8:35, Boyle TB (roughing) 13:53.

Second Period 1. Chicago, Keith 3 (Kane, Richards) 17:13.

Penalties — Palat TB (elbowing) 19:13.

Third Period 2. Chicago, Kane 11 (Richards, Saad) 14:46.

Penalties — Desjardins Chi (tripping) 16:21.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 4 7 14 — 25 Chicago 13 10 9 — 32 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 13-11-0); Chicago: Crawford (W, 13-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Tampa Bay: 0-1; Chicago: 0-3.

A 10 12 11 11 18 18 8 9 11 14 13 7 8 10 9 10 13

Pts 23 22 21 21 20 20 18 18 18 18 17 16 16 15 14 14 14

NHL Stanley Cup Champions x — Strike-shortened regular season. y — Series between Montreal and Seattle cancelled due to influenza epidemic.

2014-15 — Chicago Blackhawks

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

2013-14 — Los Angeles Kings 2012-13 — x-Chicago Blackhawks 2011-12 — Los Angeles Kings 2010-11 — Boston Bruins 2009-10 — Chicago Blackhawks 2008-09 — Pittsburgh Penguins 2007-08 — Detroit Red Wings 2006-07 — Anaheim Ducks 2005-06 — Carolina Hurricanes 2004-05 — No winner (lockout).

2003-04 — Tampa Bay Lightning 2002-03 — New Jersey Devils 2001-02 — Detroit Red Wings 2000-01 — Colorado Avalanche 1999-00 — New Jersey Devils 1998-99 — Dallas Stars 1997-98 — Detroit Red Wings 1996-97 — Detroit Red Wings 1995-96 — Colorado Avalanche 1994-95 — x-New Jersey Devils 1993-94 — New York Rangers 1992-93 — Montreal Canadiens 1991-92 — Pittsburgh Penguins 1990-91 — Pittsburgh Penguins 1989-90 — Edmonton Oilers 1988-89 — Calgary Flames 1987-88 — Edmonton Oilers 1986-87 — Edmonton Oilers 1985-86 — Montreal Canadiens 1984-85 — Edmonton Oilers 1983-84 — Edmonton Oilers 1982-83 — New York Islanders 1981-82 — New York Islanders 1980-81 — New York Islanders 1979-80 — New York Islanders 1978-79 — Montreal Canadiens 1977-78 — Montreal Canadiens 1976-77 — Montreal Canadiens 1975-76 — Montreal Canadiens 1975-76 — Montreal Canadiens

Golden State 3, Cleveland 2 Thursday, June 4: Golden State 108, Cleveland 100, OT Sunday, June 7: Cleveland 95, Golden State 93, OT Tuesday, June 9: Cleveland 96, Golden State 91 Thursday, June 11: Golden State 103, Cleveland 82 Sunday, June 14: Golden State 104, Cleveland 91 Tuesday, June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

FG 47 214 192 129 52 140 81 94 95 37

FT PTS 32 126 118 569 90 569 163 462 15 130 76 357 49 234 59 275 48 265 32 109

AVG 31.5 29.9 28.5 27.2 26.0 25.5 23.4 22.9 22.1 21.8

FG Percentage Jordan, LAC A. Johnson, TOR

FG 58 20

FGA 81 29

PCT .716 .690

19 54 25 53 24 105 15 21 G 17 14 14 5 7 12 19 5 4 19

29 86 41 90 41 182 27 38

.655 .628 .610 .589 .585 .577 .556 .553 AVG 14.0 13.4 12.7 11.2 11.1 11.0 10.9 10.8 10.8 10.7

Assists Wall, WAS Paul, LAC James, CLE Harden, HOU Barea, DAL Thomas, BOS Teague, ATL Rose, CHI Curry, GOL Griffin, LAC

GB — 1 2 3 9

GB — 2 1/2 4 8 11

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 35 30 .538 33 31 .516 31 33 .484 28 37 .431 22 43 .338

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St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 42 21 .667 36 27 .571 34 27 .557 28 35 .444 24 41 .369

GB — 6 7 14 19

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

West Division W L 37 27 34 30 32 33 30 32 28 35

Pct .578 .531 .492 .484 .444

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota (Gibson 4-4) at St. Louis (Wacha 8-2), 11:45 a.m.

Colorado (Rusin 2-1) at Houston (Velasquez 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Oakland (Kazmir 3-4) at San Diego (Cashner 2-8), 1:40 p.m.

Seattle (Happ 3-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-3), 1:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 4-2) at Boston (Miley 5-6), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 4-0), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (J.Williams 3-6) at Baltimore (Tillman 4-7), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lorenzen 1-2) at Detroit (K.Ryan 1-0), 5:08 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 5-1) at Miami (Phelps 3-3), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Copeland 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 6-4), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 2-2) at Tampa Bay (Colome 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 5-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 6-4), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 2-4) at Texas (Ch.Gonzalez 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 5-2) at Milwaukee (Garza 4-7), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (Hellickson 4-3) at L.A. Angels (Richards 6-4), 8:05 p.m.

GB — 2 1/2 3 7 8

Pct .569 .531 .508 .444 .400

Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Houston at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Diego at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

GB — 3 5 1/2 6 8 1/2

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 11, Chicago White Sox 0 Baltimore 4, Philadelphia 0 Detroit 6, Cincinnati 0 Atlanta 4, Boston 2 Miami 2, N.Y. Yankees 1

AST 83 105 160 128 37 28 107 78 125 86

AVG 11.9 8.8 8.4 7.5 7.4 7.0 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.1

SWIMMING The Red Deer Marlins dominated their home swim meet this past weekend, winning the team event with 1,112 points.

Innisfail was second with 488 points while Ponoka third with 180 points in the nine-team meet.

Individually, Red Deer swimmers more than held their own, racking up 17 aggregate medals.

Winning gold was Jack Walton (11&12 boys), Claire Halford (13&14 girls), Dylan MacDermaid (13&14 boys), Lauren Bettenson (11&12 girls), Mason Leroux (9&10 boys) and Hailey MacRae (6u girls).

Earning silver was Carson Schiller (15-17 boys), Julia Richards (15-17 girls), Cale Kooyman (13&14 boys), Madison Kohut (11&12 girls), Owen Halford (9&10), Brady Leroux (7&8 boys) and Hayden Bettenson (7&8 girls).

And swimming to aggregate bronze was Eric Svienson (13&14 boys), Chole Becher (9&10 girls), Saryn Jacques (7&8 girls) and Colby Orriss (6u girls).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 63 227 37 78 .344 Fielder Tex 63 249 31 85 .341 Kipnis Cle 61 248 41 83 .335 NCruz Sea 61 235 34 76 .323 Moustakas KC 57 219 33 70 .320 Pedroia Bos 64 259 31 81 .313 Cespedes Det 64 242 36 75 .310 Reddick Oak 58 213 29 66 .310 Donaldson Tor 65 259 52 80 .309 Paredes Bal 47 189 26 57 .302 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 18; Pujols, Los Angeles, 18; Teixeira, New York, 18; Trout, Los Angeles, 18; Donaldson, Toronto, 17; MiCabrera, Detroit, 14; Valbuena, Houston, 14.

Runs Batted In Teixeira, New York, 48; MiCabrera, Detroit, 47; Donaldson, Toronto, 45; Fielder, Texas, 45; KMorales, Kansas City, 41; Abreu, Chicago, 40; Bautista, Toronto, 40; NCruz, Seattle, 40; Vogt, Oakland, 40.

Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 9-3; Keuchel, Houston, 8-2; Gray, Oakland, 8-3; Carrasco, Cleveland, 8-5; Simon, Detroit, 7-3; Pineda, New York, 7-3; Archer, Tampa Bay, 7-4.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Goldschmidt Ari 62 223 48 80 .359 DGordon Mia 61 264 33 93 .352 Harper Was 62 208 48 70 .337 LeMahieu Col 61 225 29 75 .333 Aoki SF 61 240 31 78 .325 YEscobar Was 58 223 30 72 .323 Pollock Ari 61 238 42 76 .319 JhPeralta StL 62 234 30 74 .316 Panik SF 61 231 34 73 .316 AGonzalez LAD 63 231 37 71 .307 Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 23; Harper, Washington, 21; Frazier, Cincinnati, 18; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 17; Pederson, Los Angeles, 17; Arenado, Colorado, 16; Votto, Cincinnati, 14.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 59; Harper, Washington, 51; Arenado, Colorado, 50; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 50; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 45; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 43; Braun, Milwaukee, 41; Upton, San Diego, 41.

Pitching GCole, Pittsburgh, 10-2; BColon, New York, 9-4; Wacha, St. Louis, 8-2; Shields, San Diego, 7-0; CMartinez, St. Louis, 7-2; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 7-3; deGrom, New York, 7-4.

Soccer 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA x-Canada 3 1 0 2 2 1 x-China 3 1 1 1 3 3 Netherlands 3 1 1 1 2 2 New Zealand 3 0 1 2 2 3 x — advanced to second round.

Group C GP W L T x-Japan 2 2 0 0 Switzerland 2 1 1 0 Cameroon 2 1 1 0 Ecuador 2 0 2 0 x — advanced to second round.

OFF DEF TOT 62 176 238 49 138 187 38 140 178 21 35 56 19 59 78 45 87 132 34 174 208 27 27 54 9 34 43 84 119 203 G 7 12 19 17 5 4 16 12 20 14

West Division W L 37 28 34 30 32 31 28 35 26 39

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

N.Y. Mets 4, Toronto 3, 11 innings Tampa Bay 6, Washington 1 Texas 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Cleveland at Chicago, ppd., rain Houston 6, Colorado 3 Kansas City 8, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 3, Minnesota 2 Arizona at L.A. Angels, late Oakland at San Diego, late Seattle at San Francisco, late

Pt 5 4 4 2

Friday’s results At Vancouver Switzerland 10 Ecuador 1 Japan 2 Cameroon 1 Tuesday’s games At Winnipeg Ecuador vs. Japan, 3 p.m.

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

U.S. Australia Sweden Nigeria

GF 15 8 3 3

GA 1 2 10 16

Pt 7 7 3 0

GP 2 2 2 2

Group D W L 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1

T 1 0 2 1

GF 3 10 7 1

GA 1 2 2 16

Pt 6 3 3 0

Colombia England France Mexico

GF 3 3 3 3

GA 1 3 3 5

Pt 4 3 2 1

Friday’s results At Winnipeg Australia 2 Nigeria 0 U.S. 0 Sweden 0 Tuesday’s games At Vancouver Nigeria vs. U.S., 4 p.m.

At Edmonton Australia vs. Sweden, 4 p.m.

Group E GP W L T x-Brazil 2 2 0 0 Costa Rica 2 0 0 2 Spain 2 0 1 1 South Korea 2 0 1 1 x — advanced to second round.

Monday’s results At Winnipeg Germany 4 Thailand 0 At Moncton, N.B. Norway 3 Ivory Coast 1 Thursday’s results At Ottawa Germany 1 Norway 1 Thailand 3 Ivory Coast 2

Rebounds Howard, HOU Jordan, LAC Griffin, LAC Aldridge, POR Duncan, SAN Noah, CHI James, CLE Chandler, DAL Davis, NOR Thompson, CLE

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 35 25 .583 34 29 .540 34 30 .531 29 33 .468 28 34 .452

Group B GP W L T x-Germany 3 2 0 1 x-Norway 3 2 0 1 Thailand 3 1 2 0 Ivory Coast 3 0 3 0 x — advanced to second round.

Conn Smythe Trophy Winners Winners of the Conn Smythe Trophy, an annual award presented to the most valuable player for his team in the Stanley Cup playoffs since 1965, as chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association: (x—denotes member of losing team in final) 2015 — Duncan Keith, D, Chicago 2014 — Justin Williams, F, Los Angeles 2013 — Patrick Kane, F, Chicago 2012 — Jonathan Quick, G, Los Angeles 2011 — Tim Thomas, G, Boston 2010 — Jonathan Toews, F, Chicago 2009 — Evgeni Malkin, F, Pittsburgh 2008 — Henrik Zetterberg, D, Detroit 2007 — Scott Niedermayer, D, Anaheim 2006 — Cam Ward, G, Carolina 2005 — No winner (lockout).

2004 — Brad Richards, F, Tampa Bay 2003 — x-Jean-Sebastien Giguere, G, Anaheim 2002 — Nicklas Lidstrom, D, Detroit 2001 — Patrick Roy, G, Colorado 2000 — Scott Stevens, D, New Jersey 1999 — Joe Nieuwendyk, F, Dallas

Chandler, DAL Gortat, WAS Anderson, Bro Duncan, SAN Henson, MIL Howard, HOU Patterson, TOR Sullinger, BOS

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Tampa Bay 36 29 .554 New York 34 29 .540 Toronto 34 31 .523 Baltimore 32 31 .508 Boston 27 38 .415

Monday’s results At Montreal Canada 1 Netherlands 1 At Winnipeg China 2 New Zealand 2 Thursday’s results At Edmonton Canada 0 New Zealand 0 China 1 Netherlands 0

Basketball

NBA Playoff Leaders Scoring G Davis, NOR 4 James, CLE 19 Curry, GOL 20 Harden, HOU 17 Ellis, DAL 5 Griffin, LAC 14 Beal, WAS 10 Butler, CHI 12 Paul, LAC 12 Aldridge, POR 5

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NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders G Tyler Johnson, TB 13 Nikita Kucherov, TB 10 Patrick Kane, Chi 10 Jonathan Toews, Chi 10 Duncan Keith, Chi 2 Ryan Getzlaf, Ana 2 Corey Perry, Ana 10 Alex Killorn, TB 9 Steven Stamkos, TB 7 Jakob Silfverberg, Ana 4 Marian Hossa, Chi 4 Derick Brassard, NYR 9 Ondrej Palat, TB 8 Patrick Sharp, Chi 5 Rick Nash, NYR 5 Valtteri Filppula, TB 4 Victor Hedman, TB 1

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Saturday’s results At Montreal Brazil 1 Spain 0 South Korea 2 Costa Rica 2 Wednesday’s games At Moncton, N.B. Costa Rica vs. Brazil, 5 p.m.

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

GA 0 3 2 4

Pt 6 2 1 1

GP 2 2 2 2

Group F W L 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1

T 1 0 0 1

GF 3 2 1 2

GA 1 2 2 3

Pt 4 3 3 1

Saturday’s results At Moncton, N.B. Colombia 2 France 0 England 2 Mexico 1 Wednesday’s games 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.

MIDGET AAA BASEBALL

CATALINA SWIM CLUB

The Red Deer Midget AAA Carstar Braves split their four game set with the Edmonton Cardinals on the weekend.

The Braves won the first game on Saturday in Red Deer 5-4 with Ty Wagar throwing a complete game, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk with five strikeouts. Griffin Moline had a two-RBI double while Michael Ozga also had a double and Benett Kary and Kelsey Lalor adding singles.

The Braves routed the Cards in the late game on Saturday 14-3 with Lalor pitching a complete game, allowing three runs on nine hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

Zach Olson led the offence with a grand slam home run, two singles and a walk while Wagar had three singles and an RBI, and Brett Stockwood and Moline both had two singles.

In Edmonton on Sunday, the Cardinals took the first game 13-6, as Michael Ozga went 5 1/3 innings allowing eight runs on five hits and three walks with four strike outs and three hit batters.

Olson took over for him on the mound and did not fare any better, allowing five runs on two hits and three walks in 2/3s of an inning.

Andrew MacCuaig had a two-RBI double while Wagar added a triple and Moline two singles.

The Cardinals completed the weekend with a 5-1 win in Sunday’s late game.

Austin Sorokan pitched a complete game for the Braves, allowing five runs on eight hits, three walks, two strikeouts and one hit batter while Parker Booth had two singles and an RBI as Lalor, Ozga and Moline had one single each.

Ocean Roos, River Roos, Madisson Young and Logan Lopaschuk are the four lates Red Deer Catalina Swim Club Club swimmers to qualify for provincials, doing so at the Age Group Trials in Grande Prairie this weekend.

In addition, Jaleesa Zaparniuk achieved a new 13 year-old A time in the 200-metre freestyle.

The club sent 16 swimmers to the meet with many achieving personal bests and seven brought back medals.

River Roos was first in the 400 free, second in the 50 free, and third in the 200 free and 100 backstroke.

Young was first in the 400 free and 100 breast, second in the 200 free and 800 free, and third in the 100 free.

Lopaschuk was first in the 100 fly, second in the 400 free, 200 free, 100 free, 50 fly, and 200 fly, and third in the 50 free.

Zaparniuk was 2nd in the 200 IM, 200 free and 100 breast, and third in the 100 free.

Chloe Grant was first in the 100 back and second in the 200 back, Ocean Roos was first in the 800 freestyle, and Jaden DeBruijn was third in the 50 breast.

Up next is the Alberta Age Group and Senior Provincials in Edmonton July 2-5.

Razorbacks get first win but lose pair on weekend

BY ADVOCATE STAFF It was a rough weekend for the Red Deer Razorbacks in Parkland Baseball League play, positing a 1-2 record to fall to 1-5 on the season.

On Friday they fell 16-3 to the Lacombe Dodgers at Great Chief Park with errors once again the main culprit.

Travis Bachynski got the start and lasted five innings, giving up six runs but only three earned due to three errors. Craig Gans and Adam Hendrie combined to pitch the sixth inning but combined to give up six walks and five hits for another 10 runs.

Darcy Warawa, Aaron Tweet and Chris Grudeski each had an RBI for the Razorbacks, plating Warawa, Gans and Clinton Armitage.

On Sunday, they split their double header in Acme, losing the first game 7-5 to the Pirates.

Armitage started on the mound and lasted 4 1/3 innings and gave up six runs, four earned on four hits and four walks with three strikeouts.

Diego Colorado pitched the final inning and a

third and gave up one earned run on one walk and two hits.

Teagan Colonna was 3-for-4 with three singles and a run scored while Tweet launched a three-run home run in the first inning, and Armitage walked three times and scored twice.

The Razorbacks were unable to cash in on their big chances like in the fourth inning with the bases loaded and one out and then in the fifth inning with runners on first and second and none out.

Red Deer finally broke through in the late game on Sunday, crushing the Pirates 12-0.

Southpaw Brett McGinnis threw the five-inning complete game shut out, striking out five while walking one and allowing three hits.

Tweet, Gans and Grudeski all went yard while Tweet and Gans also had a double each.

Warawa, Armitage and Tweet all scored two runs each for Red Deer.

The Razorbacks are in Rocky Mountain House to play the Red Dogs on Tuesday at 7 p.m. and then hosts Rocky on Friday at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015

On a knife edge CANADIAN PACIFIC LEGAL CHALLENGE PLUNGES SETTLEMENT INTO QUESTION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

LAC-MEGANTIC DERAILMENT

SHERBROOKE, Que. — A lawyer for the defunct railroad at the centre of the Lac-Megantic train derailment said Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is acting deplorably and offensively by attempting to shut down proceedings to distribute over $430 million to victims and creditors of the 2013 tragedy.

Patrice Benoit told Quebec Superior Court Justice Gaetan Dumas on Monday if he accepts arguments by the railway, the settlement fund for victims of the train disaster “and everything else we did for two years would end in failure.”

More than 40 lawyers attended the hearing in a large courtroom in Sherbrooke, Que. Most of the roughly 25 companies accused of responsibility in the July 6, 2013, derailment in LacMegantic, Que. that killed 47 people, have agreed to pay money into a settlement fund.

The $431.5 million offer was accepted unanimous-

ly by creditors and victims on June 8.

Canadian Pacific is the only company accused in the tragedy that has refused to participate in the fund and argued Monday the current settlement process is illegitimate.

CP’s lawyer, Andre Durocher, told the court bankruptcy proceedings should not have been authorized in the first place because Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd., the rail company that owned the train that derailed, was under Federal Court jurisdiction. “(Bankruptcy laws) are black and white,” Durocher said. “The laws exclude banks and railroad companies” from provincial insolvency proceedings, he said.

Benoit argued that jurisprudence states generalcharter railroads — as MMA used to be — are under

the jurisdiction of provincial courts for bankruptcy proceedings.

MMA didn’t have enough insurance to pay damages to victims and creditors, so it filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and Canada. As part of the insolvency proceedings, MMA — as well as the other companies accused in the derailment — are offering money to victims in exchange for releases from liability.

The $431.5 million settlement fund is tied to the insolvency case currently before the Quebec Superior Court.

Benoit told the judge that Canadian Pacific has been involved in the bankruptcy proceedings in Quebec for almost two years and for the railway company to object now is “deplorable, offensive ... and an abuse of court process.”

“I can’t imagine a worse example of laying in the weeds for almost two years without saying anything,” Benoit said.

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Glutenfree bakery rising in Fairview

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s only gluten-free bakery and cafe will soon open its doors in Fairview.

The Maple Tree Bakery on 5 Fir Street will serve up everything from gluten-free breads, cinnamon buns, pies, English muffins, cheddar biscuits to pizza crusts and quinoa bars.

Vanessa Darling decided to open the cafe due to the overwhelming response to her homemade goods sold at local markets.

She sells her baked goods under Darling Sweets at the downtown Wednesday market.

“It’s been amazing,” said Darling. “People are coming out of the woodwork. I was sold out within an hour and a half at the first Wednesday market.”

Darling said she wants to create an atmosphere where people can stop in to have coffee or a light lunch. The final menu is still being developed.

“Our slogan is healthy, gluten-free and allergy free,” said Darling.

The bakery will likely be open seven days a week to start.

Her husband John will handle the business side while Vanessa will focus on recipe development and running the bakery.

About three years ago, Darling moved to a glutenfree diet after discovering she was gluten sensitive.

Her sister is also celiac.

She started experimenting in the kitchen to find recipes that were healthy and tasted good.

She headed to local markets to sell her baked goods. The goods were such a hit that her husband suggested Darling “go big or go home.”

The name comes from the Manitoba Maple Tree that sits on the Darlings’ farm near Pine Lake. The tree was planted by John Darling’s grandmother.

Renovations to the building will begin as soon as the development permit is issued. The bakery is at the former site for the Castle Cone Cafe.

Find The Maple Tree (Gluten Free restaurant) on Facebook for more information, including preorders, or at the downtown market on Wednesdays between 4 and 7 p.m. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

Vanessa Darling is gearing up to open The Maple Tree Bakery at 5 Fir Street in Fairview. The bakery and cafe is expected to open in August. In the meantime find Darling at the Wednesday downtown market.

Factory sales fall, hint at slower recovery from early-2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The country’s manufacturing sector churned out disappointment to start the second quarter, producing another hint the economy’s healing process will take longer than expected.

Statistics Canada released its latest piece of economic data Monday, showing that factory sales contracted 2.1 per cent in April to kick off the second quarter.

The result, about four times lower than consensus estimates, marked the third month out of the first four this year that manufacturing sales have tumbled.

The release of the manufacturing numbers followed the economy’s weaker than expected start to 2015, when Canada’s real gross domestic product shrank at an annualized rate of 0.6 per cent over the first three months.

That low GDP reading prompted economists to cut their outlooks for the second quarter and the rest of the 2015 election year — with the economy once again set to be a crucial ballot-box issue.

“I think that overall it was a pretty weak print,” TD senior economist Randall Bartlett said of Monday’s manufacturing data, which he also noted

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showed sales volumes had contracted by one per cent in constant dollar terms.

“We actually expected (sales volumes) to rebound a little bit on the month ... So, it’s a bit of a surprise, no question there.”

Several economists expect the Bank of Canada, which earlier projected 1.8 per cent growth in the second quarter, to downgrade that forecast next month when it releases its next monetary policy report.

The Statistics Canada report Monday said sales dropped in eight of 21 industries, which account for nearly two-thirds of the country’s overall manufacturing output.

The April sales retreat was in large part due to declines in food, aerospace and petroleum and coal products.

Food sales decreased 5.7 per cent in April — the biggest monthly drop since August 2013, when sales fell 6.7 per cent. The tumble followed a gain of 3.4 per cent in March.

Economists noted part of the April decline came in the typically volatile category of aerospace, an area that often swings from month to month.

Sales slid in every province — except Manitoba — and nearly two-thirds of the overall decline was in Quebec, where they fell 5.4 per cent.

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2,600 more oilpatch job losses coming: industry association report CALGARY — An industry group says low commodity prices and regulatory uncertainty will mean even greater job losses in the oilpatch this year than it previously predicted.

The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors has revised its January jobs forecast and now predicts nine per cent more job losses — equivalent to about 2,600 positions — because of an expected 13 per cent further drop in operating days.

The association is now forecasting there will be 25,110 fewer jobs this year than last year — a 50 per cent decline in overall jobs in the sector.

The job losses correspond to the expected number of operating days also dropping by half in 2015 to roughly 65,000 operating days.

The association calculates job losses by assuming 135 direct and indirect jobs are created by each active drill rig.

In May, only about 10 per cent of Canada’s drill rigs were active compared with almost 50 per cent in January.

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MARKETS

PIPELINE RUPTURE

COMPANIES

OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.30 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.97 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.20 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.95 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market held to a small gain Monday, bucking a trend that saw a big sell-off in New York following the collapse of debt talks with Greece on the weekend and weaker than expected manufacturing data.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 14.90 points at 14,756.05, while the Canadian dollar lost 0.04 of a U.S. cent to close at 81.19 cents.

In New York, markets were solidly lower for a second consecutive session following a big pullback Friday that had also been sparked by worries over a possible debt default by Greece and its affect on the euro and the world economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 107.67 points to 17,791.17, the Nasdaq was down 21.13 points at 5,029.97 and the S&P 500 declined 9.68 points to 2,084.43.

Optimism over the Greek debt crisis turned sour last Thursday after the International Monetary Fund walked away from the talks, citing lack of progress.

New talks were arranged for the weekend with hopes than the outline of a deal could emerge in time for a meeting of the 19 eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday. Those expectations are now fading.

The current bailout program runs out at the end of the month and Athens needs to pay some 1.6 billion euros to the IMF or risk a default. The talks centre on freeing up 7.2 billion euros in bailout money, but Athens and its creditors remain far apart on austerity measure Greece needs to impose to put its financial house in order.

Meanwhile, a U.S. manufacturing survey showed disappointing results. The index dropped to negative 2.0 in June.

A Canadian manufacturing survey was also weaker than expected. Statistics Canada said

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.60 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.54 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.93 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.73 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.15 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.60 First Quantum Minerals . 17.22 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.56 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.39 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.91 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.79 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.71 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.24 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.73 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.09 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.07 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.78 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.12 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 31.57 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.84 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.98 Canyon Services Group. . 6.29 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.92 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.61 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.16 factory sales contracted 2.1 per cent in April — a result about four times lower than economists had predicted and the third time in the first four months of the year that manufacturing sales fell.

Ian Nakamoto, director of research at MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, said many traders are awaiting news from the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday regarding the timing of an interest rate hike. That, combined with the uncertainty around Greece’s debt woes, has left the Toronto stock market trading within a narrow range, Nakamoto said.

“I think there’s enough confusion out there to get people to sit on the sidelines,” he said.

“It seems to me that we’re trading in a range here until there’s more clarity in terms of what the Federal Reserve is going to do, what’s going to happen with Greece. We’re sort of a sideshow, in a way.”

On the commodity markets, the August gold contract rose $6.60 to US$1,185.80 an ounce while the July crude contract was down 44 cents at US$59.52 a barrel.

Shares of Hudson’s Bay Company (TSX:HBC) gained more than seven per cent to close at $25.78 after announcing a $3.9-billion deal to purchase German department store chain Galeria Kaufhof.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,756.05, up 14.90 points Dow — 17,791.17, down 107.67 points S&P 500 — 2,084.43, down 9.68 points Nasdaq — 5,029.97, down 21.13 points Currencies:

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SETTLEMENT: Rights infringed He added that Dumas has ruled on roughly 40 motions since the start of the proceedings and Canadian Pacific only voiced its objection to the jurisdiction of the court recently.

Durocher countered the company is within its legal rights to call the competency of the court into question as it only recognized recently its rights would be infringed.

While Canadian Pacific doesn’t dispute that families of the victims deserve compensation, the company argues it is not one of the companies responsible for what happened when a runaway train owned by now-defunct MMA derailed and exploded in LacMegantic’s downtown.

The train carrying crude from the U.S. was handed off from CP to an

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.72 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.55 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.80 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 23.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 47.35 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.17 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.28 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.61 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.24 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.05 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.32 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 54.41 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.89 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.00 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.87 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.91 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 41.62 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 86.41 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.64 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.60 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.24 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.14 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.22 File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cdn — 81.19 cents US, down 0.04 of a cent Pound — C$1.9219, up 0.62 of a cent Euro — C$1.3900, up 0.45 of a cent Euro — US$1.1285, up 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.52 per barrel, down 44 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,185.80 per oz., up $6.60 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.854 oz., up 42.2 cents $670.46 kg., up $13.57 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $2.50 lower $482.70; Nov ’15 $3.30 lower $479.90; Jan. ’16 $3.30 lower $476.90; March ’16 $2.90 lower $474.40; May ’16 $2.50 lower $471.40; July ’16 $2.80 lower $467.30; Nov. ’16 $3.80 lower $452.30; Jan. ’17 $3.80 lower $452.30; March ’17 $3.80 lower $452.30; May ’17 $3.80 lower $452.30; July ’17 $3.80 lower $452.30.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $200.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $205.00; March ’16 unchanged $205.00; May ’16 unchanged $205.00; July ’16 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $205.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $205.00; March ’17 unchanged $205.00; May ’17 unchanged $205.00; July ’17 unchanged $205.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 400,140 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 400,140.

MMA-controlled rail network for its final journey to a New Brunswick refinery.

Court documents state CP had the contract to deliver the fuel, but subcontracted the final leg of the journey to the defunct railroad.

Before it arrived in the East Coast it derailed in the Quebec town of LacMegantic and destroyed part of its downtown.

The victims say CP should have known the crude was not labelled properly and that MMA was allegedly taking risks in its transportation of the highly volatile substance.

“I’m a little disappointed by the way CP has handled this proceeding,” said Jeff Orenstein, a lawyer with the Consumer Law Group, which launched a class-action lawsuit against the 25 companies. “(CP has) taken the position they aren’t going to enter into (the settlement fund) and to go further now they are contesting the plan. We aren’t necessarily pleased,” he said.

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ATHENS, Greece — Greece insisted Monday it is ready to return to bailout talks “at any moment” after a breakdown in negotiations with creditors pushed the country closer toward bankruptcy and jolted international markets.

As concern over Greece’s financial future swelled across financial markets and the two sides quarreled over who’s to blame for the current standoff, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called an emergency meeting with his team of bailout negotiators.

Without the release of the remaining money left in Greece’s bailout fund, the country faces the prospect of a debt default on June 30, putting up limits on money transfers and eventually dropping out of the euro.

Those fears dominated trading in financial markets on Monday. The Stoxx 50 index of leading European shares closed down 1.6 per cent while the main index in Athens ended 4.7 per cent lower. Greek borrowing costs rose, in a clear sign that investors are more worried about default, with the yield on two-year bonds up 2.7 percentage points at 28.5 per cent.

While remaining low, bond yields also rose in Italy, Spain and Portugal as investors worried those countries might be most affected by turmoil in Greece.

In recent days, hopes had emerged that the outlines of a deal could emerge at a meeting of the 19 eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, but those expectations are fading after the weekend breakdown.

The meeting had been billed as a decisive moment in the protracted talks as the Greek bailout program runs out at the end of the month and Athens needs to pay some 1.6 billion

euros to the IMF or risk a default. The negotiations centre on freeing up 7.2 billion euros ($8.1 billion) to make sure Athens can keep paying off loans.

European officials urged Greece to swiftly resume negotiations with international creditors, which include its partners in the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.

“Greece must not wait ... there’s not a moment to lose,” French President Francois Hollande said.

And European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi told EU lawmakers in Brussels that “the ball lies squarely in the camp” of the Greek government.

Draghi underlined the ECB’s role in supporting Greek banks, allowing up to 83 billion euros ($93 billion) in emergency credit, but cautioned that such lending could only continue so long as Greek banks remain solvent. The lenders have been allowed to purchase short-term government bills within limits, helping the government with its day-to-day struggle to raise cash.

Draghi said that limit could only be raised — a move that could help ease some of the government’s financing concerns — if there was a clear prospect of an agreement that will lead to the release of more bailout money.

Asked under what circumstances the ECB would end emergency support, Draghi said: “I don’t want to speculate” on what would happen if Greece misses its upcoming payments to its creditors. The ECB will review its support for Greek banks on Wednesday.

Most observers think the ECB is very unwilling to pull the plug on Greek banks and would only take such a drastic step once political leaders have completely given up on a deal.

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Jail for shooting roles ATTEMPTED MURDER, KIDNAPPING CHARGES DROPPED IN PLEA DEAL FOR TWO MEN

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Two men accused of attempted murder and kidnapping after police found a wounded man in a ditch near Benalto have pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Daniel Huddlestone, 36, and Cameron Monkman, 30, entered pleas in late May to several offences related the June 3, 2013, incident.

Police said a man was shot and robbed and then left at the side of the road.

Huddlestone pleaded guilty to several weapons offences, including possession of a prohibited weapon, pos-

session of a loaded firearm and possession of a restricted firearm, as well as intentionally causing bodily harm.

Monkman pleaded guilty to aggravated assault.

Charges of armed robbery, possession of a controlled substance and attempted murder were withdrawn after the pleas were entered.

Sylvan Lake RCMP found a man suffering gunshot wounds on the side of the road near Benalto on June 3, 2013.

He was taken to hospital and underwent surgery. He recovered.

The RCMP serious crimes branch, forensic identification section and police dog services joined the Sylvan Lake RCMP in locating the accused.

Police announced the arrests of Huddlestone and Monkman on June 14, 2013.

Police also alleged the two were tied to the Malicious Crew Motorcycle Club, which operates out of Sylvan Lake. Mounties believe the Malicious Crew has ties to the Hells Angels.

Janice Rea, a Crown prosecutor specializing in organized crime, was assigned to the case. Monkman was represented by Tony Dos Santos, of Calgary, while Darren Mahoney, of Calgary, represented Huddlestone.

The two were scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before a judge and jury starting on June 15.

Huddlestone has been in jail since his arrest. Monkman was granted release in June 2013 on $2,000 cash bail.

As a result, Huddlestone had significant pre-trial custody credit to use against his sentence, reducing his time left to serve. He was sentenced to seven years in custody, but was given three years credit. He has four years left to serve.

Monkman was sentenced to two-anda-half years on the aggravated assault charge.

Both were also issued varying weapons prohibitions, with Huddlestone’s being a lifetime ban. Monkman was given a 10-year weapons prohibition. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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A female red-winged blackbird catches a variety of different insects for food at Bower Ponds recently. Red-winged blackbirds feed primarily on plant materials, including seeds and weeds, but about a quarter of their diet consists of insects. They prefer dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and moths.

Two people killed in O’Chiese rollover Two people are dead following a single vehicle rollover on the O’Chiese First Nation on Sunday.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP say a vehicle with four occupants was travelling north near the grounds of the O’Chiese pow wow when the driver lost control of the vehicle around 3 p.m.

The vehicle rolled and three of the occupants were ejected from the vehicle.

None of the occupants was believed to be wearing seatbelts.

A 20-year-old female passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.

STARS Air Ambulance transported

a 27-year-old man, also a passenger, to the University of Alberta Hospital, where he later died.

Two other men, also in their 20s, were transported to local hospitals with undetermined injuries.

Police are not releasing the identities of the deceased pending notifica-

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Delburne artist crafts culinary trophy

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Teena Dickerson hails from New Brunswick, but nailed many Alberta motifs in her design for a culinary trophy.

From cattle to wheat, trout to wildfowl, the now Delburne-based artist tried to incorporate many images that reflect the tastes and traditions of the culinary arts of Alberta.

“I tried to pick things that are unique to this province,” said Dickerson, whose design was selected for an award sculpture that will be presented annually by the Canadian Culinary Federation’s Edmonton branch.

The trophy for “outstanding member” consists of a free-form silver chef’s knife rising out of a dark granite base.

The sterling-silver blade is carved on both sides by Dickerson.

tion of next of kin.

Speed and alcohol are believed to have been factors in the collision.

Police are expected to release an update when new information becomes available.

Charges are pending and the investigation continues.

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Teena Dickerson with the sculpture during the creative process.

On one side are feathers of domestic and wild fowl, fish scales, wild game fur, blades of wheat and leaves that represent agricultural produce of the province.

The other side features a bull’s head, as well as textures representing wild roses, Saskatoon berries and a rolling river. She also depicted Alberta clouds and swirling wind.

Red Deer’s Legacy Monuments helped create the granite base of the sculpture, which has a raw edge reminiscent of the Rocky Mountains.

Dickerson said her design was

inspired by the beauty of Alberta’s landscape and the “passion” shown by culinary artists in the province.

The artist, a 1995 graduate of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, moved to Alberta two years ago to marry a man she’s known since childhood. She usually designs jewelry and this is her first trophy.

It was presented this month to patisserie chef Norman Brownlee, a culinary arts instructor at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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A prolonged chase through one of the busiest stretches of road in Alberta and onto back roads has landed a Rocky Mountain House man in house arrest and facing community service.

Zachary Finch, 22, formerly of Saskatoon, led police on a wild chase on May 11, 2014. It started at a traffic stop at the Aspelund Road overpass on Hwy 2 and ended when his pickup truck was stuck in a swamp at the end of a dirt road west of Lacombe.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, failing to comply with an undertaking and driving while disqualified on April 22 in Red Deer provincial court.

On Monday, Finch appeared before Judge Jim Hunter to hear his sentence.

At the time of his arrest, Finch was awaiting trial for impaired driving.

Crown Prosecutor Katie Clarey said Finch had a history of driving-related offences and asked for a driving prohibition of two to three years on top of any sentence Hunter handed down.

Clarey and defence counsel Kevin Sproule jointly suggested an 18-month conditional sentence order.

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BRIEFS Preliminary inquiry starts for gang-style shooting death in Red Deer A preliminary inquiry started on Monday into the gang-style shooting death of a Red Deer man on New Year’s Day two years ago.

The accused, 17 at the time of the incident, can’t be named by the Canada Youth Justice Act. He appeared in Red Deer youth court on Monday to start the preliminary inquiry scheduled for four days.

Inquiries are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case against the accused before a judge can order a trial.

The youth, who is facing a firstdegree murder charge, appeared in court wearing a white and black shortsleeved polo shirt. He was given paper and a pen to take notes during the hearing.

Lloyd Robert Sarson, 25, was found dead in a car parked in the alley behind residences near 37th Avenue and Ross Street.

The youth was arrested in Vancouver on March 13, 2014. He has been held in custody since his arrest.

Despite being a youth at the time of the offence, the Crown is seeking an adult sentence if the youth is convicted. He is now 19-years-old.

Should the matter proceed to trial, the youth has elected to be tried by a judge and jury.

The preliminary inquiry is expected to continue until Thursday before Judge Gordon Yake.

Police seek Red Deer woman missing for two weeks A middle-aged woman missing for more than two weeks has police asking for the public’s assistance in tracking her down.

Red Deer RCMP issued a release asking for more information on the whereabouts of Shelley Opdendries, 44, of Red Deer.

She was last seen on June 1 in Red Deer. Police said she may have travelled to the Vancouver area Shelley but this has not Opdendries been confirmed.

Police describe Opdendries as Caucasian, about 1.75 metres (five foot nine) tall and weighs about 50 kg (100 pounds). She has brown hair, brown eyes and wears contacts.

Anyone with information on Opdendries whereabouts is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

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Ross on Friday.

Everyone is invited to the opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m.

The show runs until July 31.

The inaugural exhibit will feature local Aboriginal artists such as Bertha Poor, Rosena Winnie, Jesse Gouchey and Basil Bellegarde.

There is no admission but donations are welcomed.

Habitat for Humanity receives RBC donation A big donation from Royal Bank Canada will help two Habitat for Humanity projects in Central Alberta.

The $20,000 donation made on Friday by RBC regional vice-president Ron Sauve to the Red Deer and District Habitat for Humanity will go towards major projects in Delburne and Lacombe.

“We are very pleased to receive another contribution from RBC,” said Habitat executive director Brian Brake in a news release.

“This money will be used to assist with the building of a triplex in Delburne and three duplexes in Lacombe.”

Buffalo Lake issues discussed at open houses Open houses are being held next month to discuss Buffalo Lake issues.

Public meetings have been set for Rochon Sands Community Hall on July 18 at 10 a.m. to noon and the County Garage at Pelican Point from 2 to 4 p.m.

The meetings will be hosted by the Buffalo Lake Management Team, which is comprised of representatives from Stettler, Lacombe and Camrose Finch has already served the equivalent of 99 days in custody, which Clarey said was long enough and suggested time served to cover that part of Finch’s sentence.

A $400 fine for disqualified driving, 50 hours of community service and a DNA order were also issued by Hunter.

On May 11, 2014, Blackfalds RCMP were conducting a traffic stop at 1 a.m. on Hwy 2 south of Blackfalds when Finch’s pickup truck sped away from them. A lengthy chase ensued.

Police said the truck made several risky attempts to avoid capture, including smashing into police vehicles and

Counties and other lake-area communities.

Representatives will be available at the meetings from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Alberta Parks and Recreation, Cows and Fish, the Buffalo Naturalists Club and the Red Deer River Naturalists.

Updates will be available on monitoring by the Alberta Lake Management Society, as well as the latest information on invasive species, the health of the lake habitat and the Buffalo Lake Integrated Shoreline Management Plan.

For more information, go to www. blmt.ca.

Water restrictions lifted in Sylvan Lake Water restrictions have been lifted in Sylvan Lake.

The town said on Monday that reservoirs had refilled and a ban on lawn watering had been lifted.

Residents can now water again based on the town’s standard conservation policy.

That policy uses an odd/even system, allowing odd-numbered homes to water on odd days and vice versa on event days.

Outside watering is also prohibited between noon and 7 p.m. so as not to waste water through evaporation.

Hand watering is allowed any time and those with new sod can water daily for up to six weeks.

Penhold family escapes carbon monoxide threat A family of three escaped a potential deadly carbon monoxide situation crossing the median.

A police helicopter was called in to assist in tracking the truck. The arrest was made when the truck became stuck at the end of a dirt road in a swamp.

Hunter agreed with the sentencing suggestions from counsel, calling the

in Penhold on Sunday.

Penhold Fire Chief Jim Pendergast said crews responded to a house alarm at a single family home around 7:14 p.m.

The family was outside the home.

Crews found initial readings of 33 parts per million (ppm) of carbon monoxide in the home and more than 40 ppm in other areas.

Readings in excess of 25 ppm are considered a potentially dangerous situation and readings above 35 ppm are known to be toxic.

Crews had the readings down to 0 ppm by 8:30 p.m.

The cause was determined to be a blockage in the furnace exhaust.

The family left as soon as they heard the alarm and called 911.

Dreeshen to chair post-secondary caucus Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen has been named the new chair of the Parliamentary Post-Secondary Education Caucus.

Taking over from Winnipeg South MP Rod Bruinooge, who has served as chair for six years, Dreeshen said it was a tremendous honour to be elected to the post.

“Through the PSEC, numerous connections have been facilitated between parliamentarians and Canada’s post-secondary stakeholders,” said Dreeshen in a news release.

“I look forward to ensuring that the PSEC continues to serve our post-secondary community and that we build upon the hard work and leadership of Mr. Bruinooge.”

The PSEC builds relationships with and educations for education associations, universities and colleges across Canada. chase dangerous. He said it put police and members of the public at risk.

But Hunter accepted Finch’s expression of remorse and noted the changes he has made to his lifestyle since the incident. He agreed with the joint submission. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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They proposed that nine months of the conditional sentence would be served as house arrest and the remaining time with a strict curfew. A conditional sentence order is similar to probation but if there is a breach, the offender may go to jail.

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City of Red Deer workers clean off the walkway of the Taylor Drive Bridge recently. With the return of mild weather, city crews are busy throughout the community. Work includes major road construction, repairs and the usual spit and polish.

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“Every dog has his day.”

– Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright “Damn it, boy,” he exclaimed.

“You’re like a dog with bone!”

It was an expression my father used often when I was a kid – especially when I be-came fixated on one thought or idea, like the time I wanted a horse.

I nattered away at him unrelentingly about the benefits of owning a pony until at last he relented.

His comment always confused me, because I thought he meant I was being greedy. I got that impression from an old 45 I used to listen to called The Greedy Old Dog. I can’t recall the artist’s name anymore, but it told about an old dog with a bone crossing a bridge.

When he saw his own reflection in the water, he thought he saw another dog competing for his bone, so he bared his teeth to growl and dropped the bone in the wa-ter.

It was a good life lesson, but it wasn’t what my father was talking about. I discovered later that he meant I was showing dogged determination, just not letting go of an issue. It seemed to me that dogs had much to teach us about successful living.

Recently, I discovered a book by American best-selling author and motivator Peggy McColl, entitled Be a Dog with a Bone: always go for your dreams. I was intrigued by the title and, owing to my childhood reminiscences, more than a little curious.

According to McColl, the best method by which to train your “pooch” is to under-stand its individuality. That made sense to me. McColl goes on to say, “To bring out the best in yourself, you need to understand your [own] unique set of behaviours, habits, desires and needs.” I could see that more dog wisdom was about to be, um, unleashed.

McColl says there’s a difference between a short-lived want and a deep desire. Short-lived wants are seldom fulfilling. Deep desires are the bones worth latching onto. And even if you’ve buried that deep desire years ago, it’s never too late to dig it up and begin anew.

You may need to do a little sniffing

around, but you’ll find it again.

As I read, I began to realize that what had allowed me to move through many of the challenging times in my life and remain focused had been that damnable MURRAY dogged deterFUHRER mination. In my journey of self-esteem building, there have been many triumphs but also crushing moments of defeat where I wanted to retreat back into my house with my tail between my legs.

It was that deep desire to experience something better – to ulti-mately feel worthy and deserving – that prompted me to persist.

I think some of our greatest role models are those individuals who persisted in the pursuit of their dreams – the winners who held onto their “bones” despite all the chal-lenges and disappointments. As a writer, I have been inspired by the stories of authors who persisted in promoting and marketing their work until someone finally took notice.

Two examples immediately comes to mind. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was rejected so many times, Potter decided to self-publish 250 copies. It has now sold 45 million copies. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen collected 140 rejections for Chicken Soup for the Soul. The series has now sold 125 million copies.

According to McColl, being a dog with a bone “does not involve growling, biting, snapping, barking or mistreating any other human being.” Neither does it require you to become needy, jealous, boastful, envious or greedy.

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With each day that brings us closer take us? What to that magical occasion, summer holi- if we woke up days, I can’t help but feel a certain de- every morning gree of relief floating around in the pit and instead of of my stomach. calculating each The end of school means no more and every step scrambling at 8:17 a.m. to find lunch forward, we let supplies for the boy child so I can have the day fold out him out the door by 8:25 a.m. naturally?

The end of school means no more I want to pic8:30 p.m. battle of the wits to find new nic at the beach. and inventive ways to get the kids to go I want to spoto sleep in broad daylight. radically pull LINDSAY The end of school means road trips the car over to BROWN and not having to work around the pick a bouquet school time schedule. It means relax- of wildflowers ME PLUS THREE ing with our feet up. It means putting with Sophie. the brakes on for a couple of months.

Or does it?

Please see BROWN on Page C4 Perhaps once the pressing matter of school has ended, I will once again throw us into a plethora of extracurricular activities and other “must-do” engagements.

Maybe I will find myself scheduling every minute of the months of July and August and conceivably we will be just as busy, if not busier, than we were during the school year.

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Emotional affair should mean end of friendship KNOWING WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY DEPRESSION CAN BE QUITE A CHALLENGE FOR SAD AND FATIGUED MAN Q: Should we terminate our friendship with another couple after the man and I became involved in an emotional affair? It’s over now, and our spouses have taken a firm but conciliatory attitude toward the whole thing. We’ve suspended our normal get-togethers for the time being. At some point, though, do you think it would be OK to resume our friendship?

Jim: As much as it’s hard to hear, I would say “no.” From our perspective, there’s simply no way around it. When marital unfaithfulness has occurred, perhaps the most important element of the reconciliation process is a willingness on the part of the offending spouse to take responsibility for his or her actions and accept the consequences. In your case, we’d have to include the loss of this friendship among the casualties.

Imagine if the man was a co-worker. Would it be possible, once the affair was over, to go back to life as usual in the office? We don’t think so. Our advice would be to give two weeks’ notice and find a new job.

What if he were your next-door neighbor? This is admittedly a more difficult and complicated scenario. Nevertheless, circumstances permitting and all other things being equal, we’d still recommend that you pack the house and relocate.

Why do we say this? Because it’s unwise to place yourself in temptation’s path. You may think you’ve got your emotions under control, but the affair can and often does recur if you’re not careful. A wise man once wrote, “Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?” The answer, of course, is no. The best thing you can do is cut all ties with the other couple.

Q: How can I know if I need to seek professional help with my depression? I’ve felt sad and fatigued for a long time, but I’m hoping it’s just a phase.

Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: Because clinical or major depression is a serious problem, I’d encourage you to seek help right away.

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tions as well. Here’s a list of the most prominent characteristics: ● Persistent sadness and/ or irritability. This may include depressive emotional reactions that seem out of proportion to the circumstances; episodes of moping and crying; withdrawal and isolation; fatigue and loss of enthusiasm or interest in favorite activities; poor school performance; and outbursts of anger and JIM overt acting out.

DALY ● Painful thoughts that manifest themselves in relentless introspection, a negative self-concept, persistent anxiety and a sense of hopelessness. ● Physical symptoms such as insomnia, changes in appetite, headaches, dizziness, nausea, heart palpitations, abdominal cramps and episodes of shortness of breath. ● In rare cases, a severe case of depression may also involve delusional thinking, including visual and auditory hallucinations. This is not merely depression but a form of psychosis, a serious disorder of neurochemical functions in the brain.

While treatable, the causes of depression can be extremely complex, including a blend of genetic, biochemical, personal, family and spiritual factors.

That’s why I’d encourage to you get a physician’s evaluation and seek professional counseling without delay. Focus on the Family’s Counseling Department would be happy to speak with you and provide you with a list of qualified therapists in your area. You can contact them Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. MST at 855-771-HELP (4357) Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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on an acreage somewhere but that didn’t stop my brother and me from doing all of the awesome things that kids always have and forever should appreciate about summer break. We explored. We rode our bikes (a lot). We were private eyes. We built shoddy tree houses to hide in from the monsters that lurked in the wood. We snuck juice powder from the kitchen cupboards and hid out in the tree line while our finger tips were slowly dyed purple.

We had our imaginations, therefore we had it all.

I can’t recall my Mom ever planning out my summer for me, can you? It actually sounds quite preposterous when I think about my own childhood.

Summer was a time to exercise the imagination — so if you were an adult, the only way you were getting in on our play was if you had a pretty darn good idea for a make-believe scenario.

But now with Pinterest boards called, “Summer planning on a budget” and blog posts like, “100 ways to keep your kids moving this summer” it simply seems the norm to map out every moment of the your child’s two months of schooling freedom.

I read an article online a few weeks ago called, “10 Way to Give Your Child a 1970’s Kind of Summer” and I thought it was great. It was aimed to an older age group than my children so of course a few ideas must be tweaked (I probably won’t be dropping my four and six year old off at the movie theater for the day thank you kindly) but the essence of this article was bang on.

I want my children to experience the same stress free summers I did. No deadlines. No “Have to’s”.

No set in stone plans. No monotony. Just what summer holidays were intended to be — a split from the everyday. This summer, instead of jam packed, premeditated and Pinterested activities; I’m going to teach my kids how to create their own adventures.

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“Dogged determination means holding onto that which you most value, as well as working in a positive way to make your dreams come true.”

What is it that you most value? What is your bone?

Look back over past perceived failures and see if you can find a common denominator. Did you give up too soon? Did you fail to persist? Were you motivated by a deep desire or a short-lived want?

If your goal is to live a better life – to feel worthy and deserving of happiness and success – than you must set a clear intent. McColl is quick to point out that determina-tion is not attachment or obsession, both of which close us off to possibilities.

McColl notes that success in any goal-worthy endeavour must always include a clear intention, strong desire and an element of flexibility. Most paths to success are circui-tous rather than direct and require tweaks, changes and modification along the way.

Even if you’re not a dog person, you can learn something from our canine compan-ions. Says McColl, “Imagine what kind of world we would live in if we all shared the same high level of commitment, determination, playfulness, unconditional love and true loyalty that dogs do. Imagine if we all trusted and followed our instincts. Imagine if we all reveled in the simple pleasures of life: running freely in an open field; driving down the country road with our head stuck out the window and the wind blowing through our hair; accepting the warm invitation to take a walk with a friend or playing happily KOHLER® Toilets for hours, never showing We take great pride in the powerful, clean flush of our toilets. When signs of fatigue. We have a you purchase a KOHLER toilet from a KOHLER Registered Showroom lot to learn from our wise and it’s not performing to your satisfaction, we’ll provide a replacement four-legged friends.” of equal value along with a check to help cover the cost of installation.

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But what will that mean for doctors and clinics that specialize in counselling gender non-conforming kids and adolescents?

Conversion therapy, sometimes called reparative therapy, has been used by some practitioners — often religion-based — to encourage heterosexuality among gays, lesbians and bisexuals and to discourage those who identify as transgender from embracing their inner non-biological sex.

Ontario’s new Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act, which was unanimously passed last week, prohibits doctors from using this type of therapy on LGBT kids and teens under 18, while delisting it as a covered service for adults under the province’s health insurance plan.

“It sends an incredibly strong message to practitioners to stop doing it and to parents to be very careful when they’re looking for help for their children,” says Cheri DiNovo, the NDP MPP who sponsored the legislation.

Enforcement will be up to professional colleges that regulate doctors and other clinicians, based on a complaint being brought forward, she says.

Bill 77 was inspired by the December suicide of Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old Ohio transgender girl whose parents had taken her for corrective therapy.

A note she left behind begged: “Fix society.

Please.”

“So that’s essentially what we’re trying to do,” says DiNovo, who learned the practice of reparative therapy was more widespread than she initially thought.

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I want to bring all of my romanticized ideas of parenting to light this summer because it seems that so far in this parenting game, I’ve been too busy planning every upcoming second to do otherwise.

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BRIEF U2 lead singer Bono in Ottawa for meetings with leaders OTTAWA — U2 frontman Bono has arrived in Ottawa for meetings with Stephen Harper, as well as the prime minister’s Liberal and NDP rivals.

Fresh off a show in Montreal, Bono arrived at the National Arts Centre in the city’s downtown to discuss foreign aid with several non-governmental organizations.

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k.d. lang waves to the crowd after receiving a Juno for her Canadian Music Hall of Fame induction during the 2013 Juno Awards in Regina on Sunday, April 21, 2013. fictitious, lang sheepishly admits to flashes of awkward truth.

“There were moments where I’d be kind of squirming in my seat like, ‘Aww, ouch, I remember that,”’ she laughed.

The CBC documentary does delve more directly into some biographical details of lang’s life.

At one point in the film, she discusses growing up in the small town of Consort, where she says she endured less discrimination over her sexuality there than she did later in the city.

“In Consort, I went from Grade 1 to 12 with the same 24 people,” she recalled. “So when I came out in Grade 10, everyone was just like: ’Yeah, yeah.

We know you.’

“But then coming out in 1992 ... to the whole world, you’re just more susceptible because they don’t know you.

When someone knows somebody intimately, their view of something is so entirely different than when ignorance

is involved.”

Balletlujah marks a resurfacing of sorts for lang. It’s been more than four years since the 53-year-old released an album — the longest break between new music in her career.

And asked whether new music is still a priority, she’s characteristically candid.

“I’m really wrestling with whether it is or not,” she said.

“It’s such a part of who I am and it will always be a part of who I am, although my interest in the business is so dispersed at this time.

“Making music means that I have to go into the cycle of press and promotion and that world again — which has exhausted me at this point.

“But I am working on a couple things. And I actually just spent a couple months at the Banff Centre, painting and writing.

“So there’s stuff percolating. But I’m in no hurry.”

hand to greet the singer, says Bono’s star power will help to focus political attention on some overlooked issues.

Bono meets later today with Harper to talk about maternal and child health aid projects in Africa and elsewhere.

The Prime Minister’s Office says the Irish singer and humanitarian activist requested the meeting with Harper.

Bono will also meet with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, according to officials from both parties.

Harper has committed $3.5 billion toward the maternal and child health cause, his signature foreign-aid initiative.

It’s aimed at reducing the number of deaths of newborns and their mothers in the developing world.

Bono last met with former prime minister Paul Martin more than a decade ago, when the two discussed foreign aid priorities of that time, which

included efforts to combat the spread of HIV-AIDS in Africa.

Put on a pot of tea and curl up with The Love Object, the new collection of Edna O’Brien stories. If you’re lucky, it’ll be cold, damp and misty outside.

Many of the 31 stories published between 1968 and 2011 are set in the mossy green Ireland of O’Brien’s youth, a land of stunning physical beauty but also “strange sacrifi- Edna O’Brien cial women.”

So proclaims the narrator of A Scandalous Woman, looking back on the sad fate of her best friend from childhood — a beautiful girl named Eily who had “fair skin and eyes ... as big and as soft and as transparent as ripe gooseberries.”

Eily is ostracized by her family and eventually driven mad because she had the temerity to have sex before marriage and the bad luck to get pregnant.

In Send My Roots Rain, an aging librarian goes to meet a famous poet at a Dublin hotel and loses herself in a sexually charged reverie.

“And yes, she would have said yes,” she thinks about a stranger with whom she once exchanged glances, echoing Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy in Ulysses. But that tryst never happened, nor does her poet appear.

As suggested above, O’Brien writes about sex with great urgency, yet the details are neither gratuitous nor vulgar. Her women long for physical intimacy, but their yearning is part of a more generalized desire for meaning and connection.

In the heartbreaking story Paradise, the unnamed narrator whispers to her wealthy older boyfriend, “I want it now, now.”

He obliges her, but her visit to his seaside villa is a fiasco. At the end of the story, after she’s been spurned, she thinks about how “she always held people to her ear, the way her mother held eggs, shaking them to guess at their rottenness, but unlike her mother she chose the very ones that she would have been wise to throw away.”

Many of her women have backgrounds mirroring aspects of her own — O’Brien grew up in a small village in west Ireland, attended convent school and moved to London — but her range is broad. In Inner Cowboy, she channels the voice of a mentally disabled man.

In Black Flower, she imagines the violent end of an honourable IRA soldier just out of prison.

In a brief introduction, the Irish writer John Banville calls O’Brien “the poet of vulnerability,” and while it’s true that many of her characters are wounded, reading about them is often exhilarating because of her prodigious ability to capture both the beauty and the sorrows of the world.

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TORONTO — k.d. lang’s versatile career has spanned punky rockabilly, traditionalist country and elegant adult pop — and it’s safe to say she never foresaw any of it dressed in a tutu.

Certainly, she admits she knew next to nothing about ballet when Alberta Ballet artistic director Jean GrandMaitre initially approached her about putting together a production based on her catalogue.

At the time, the four-time Grammy winner felt “quite vulnerable” about surrendering her body of work to someone she didn’t know for a medium she didn’t really understand.

He won her over. But her unease temporarily reemerged as she first witnessed Grand-Maitre’s dance spectacle in action during a 2013 dress rehearsal.

“I started off nervous and prickly and a little bit critical — because I was fearful,” lang said recently in Toronto.

“And then I started melting. As I watched it, I started softening, melting and opening up, and by the time I saw the real production ... I was super humbled by the effort and the discipline and the work and the offering of the other artists.”

So impressed was lang that, two years after Balletlujah! premiered in Edmonton, the usually elusive singer has allowed a further peek into her life with a new documentary on the production airing Thursday on CBC-TV. The film probes lang’s Prairie upbringing, traces the creation of the ballet and features the flowing footwork that apparently so captivated Alberta audiences.

“It’s an artform from the castles of France that you’re bringing to the Canadian Prairies — it has to be relevant,” said Grand-Maitre.

“Balletlujah, more than any other ballet we’ve ever danced, really brought it home that this artform could touch (any) audience.”

It certainly cracked lang’s viewpoint open.

“Oh my lord, yes,” she enthused.

“Since, I’ve been going to watch the Alberta Ballet productions, from classical — Carmen — to the Sarah McLachlan ballet and Don Quixote.

“Their injuries, they’re just like pro athletes. It’s like watching these youngsters whose whole lives are spent preparing to dance for a certain number of years — and then they have to retire.

“It’s just shocking and beautiful to see the discipline and dedication they have to their bodies and their craft.”

The earliest conversations between lang and Grand-Maitre focused on the Prairies, and the way its open expanse was reflected in lang’s vocal landscapes.

That reverence for Canada’s core comes through in Balletlujah. And while the ballet’s plotline — about a love affair between two women — is

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BLUMENSCHEIN Charlene Louise It is with the greatest sadness and heaviest of hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our incredible Mom, Charlene Louise Blumenschein.

We were privileged to have been able to hold her hands and tell her how much we loved her as her time with us came to an end. She was an amazing woman who lived for her family, our lives will never be the same without her presence and we will miss her dearly each and every day.

Mom was born October 7th, 1936 in Edmonton to Martha and Raymond Harvey. She grew up there and then moved to Winnipeg where she worked as a secretary. In 1971, while raising her two sons Brian and Barry, she met the love of her life, Bob, who was raising his daughter Tina. Their two families joined on May 1st, 1971 and Lorianne completed their family. Mom is survived by her loving husband of 44 years, Bob, her children; Brian Blumenschein, Barry Blumenschein (Terrey), Tina Blumenschein (Gil Nunes), Lorianne Domoney (Doug), her ten fabulous grandchildren; Megan, Jamie, Josh, Raymond, Cassie, Jenny, Brandon, Cody, Kaylee, Lauren, two wonderful great-grandchildren; Lainey and Kasen and her brother Fran. Mom was predeceased by her mom and dad, Martha and Raymond, her brother Jerry, her mother and father-in-law; Lottie and Ivan and her granddaughter Caitlin.

Those of you who knew Mom well will always smile as you remember her quirkiness, stockpiles of toilet paper and tuna, her favorite TV show Mike and Molly and “OFF, OFF, OFF”.

A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, we ask instead for donations to be made to The Central Alberta Cancer Center, 3942-50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7, in memory of Charlene Blumenschein. Mom spent many hours with the incredible staff at the clinic and always spoke with such adoration for everyone who cared for her.

Goodbyes are not forever, Goodbyes are not the end, they simply mean we’ll miss you until we meet again.

Love you Mom, forever and always!

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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Companions KIAT Samuel Lacap Samuel Kiat was born March 28, 1968 and passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the age of 47 years. He is lovingly remembered by his wife, Joy; daughter, Samantha; son, Joshua; sister, Ruth (Geri); brother, Paul; nephew, Rhys; niece, Lauryn; and numerous relatives in the USA and the Philippines. A sincere thank you to Jose and Lee Kiat, Sam’s aunt and uncle, who we would want to thank for their support, kindness and love. A special thank you to the staff at the Red Deer Hospice for their compassion in caring for Sam. A Memorial Service will be held to honor Sam’s life at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 20 Kovac Street, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 3:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in Sam’s memory may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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BILLING CLERK REQD for the Rocky Medical Clinic.

Enter and submit physician fee-for-service billings to Alberta Health and WCB daily. Reconcile and correct rejected billings.

Read and code billings on Outpatient sheets.

Completed Grade 12 Matriculation, a Medical Terminology course and 2 years of experience in billing fee-for-service setting. Demonstrated skills in SOMB, billing rules, computer and data entry accuracy. High level of attention to detail and able to adhere to privacy and confidentiality. If you have questions, please contact James Orr at 403-845-1859. Applications must be submitted by e-mail no later than June 26, 2015 to jorr@ rockymedical.com

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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.

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CAREGIVER 24/7 needed in Sylvan Home, senior lady recovering from stroke 403-887-2993 LOOKING for a Live-in Caregiver w/exp. to care for 4 & 7 yr. old. Salary $1835/mo Criminal Record check is necessary.

Email resume to: jeannette.lobaton@ yahoo.ca

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We are a fast paced oral surgeon’s office looking for a registered dental assistant to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the potential to work into more days.

New registered dental assistant graduates welcome. Please fax your resume to 403-341-3599 or email it to ashley@camfc.ca

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CARDINAL 1980 - 2015 With heavy hearts, we announce that Bruce Albert Paul Cardinal passed away tragically on June 11, 2015 at the precious age of 35 years.

Taken too soon from his young family, he leaves behind his loving wife Jasmine (nee Gowalko); children Aryauna, Lorelei, Braydon and Jax; mother Cheryle (Duncan) Longacre; brother Robert Olsen; sister Trish Olsen (Brian McNaughton); grandmothers Marie Cardinal, Jean Gowalko; father-in-law Dan Gowalko; mother-in-law Selena (Duane) Pannell; brothers-in-law Cody (Collette) Gowalko, Aaron Gowalko, Nathan Pannell; sisters-inlaw Savannah Gowalko, Auriana Gowalko (Keith Runco) and numerous aunts, uncles cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. He joins in Heaven his Papa John Cardinal and Dido Steve Gowalko.

A celebration of Bruce’s life will be held at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, 5214 - 50th Ave, Lacombe, Alberta Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made at any branch of the Servus Credit Union to the “Jasmine Cardinal and Family” Trust Account.

Condolences to Bruce’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

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ALBERTA SPRINGS GOLF RESORT Req’s Full time Line, Broiler Cook. Banquet experience. Competitive wages and Gratuities.

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Please apply in person at Super 8 City Centre, 4217 50 Ave. R.D. JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

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PRIME Fasteners is seeking an individual for order desk/customer service.

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HEAVY duty truck mechanic needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

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CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-746-3490

Fluid Experts Ltd. Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

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Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

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F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

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F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

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Godfather is Kyle Birkland of Red Deer AB; the “fairy” godmother is Vanessa Graduations Hartum of Sylvan Lake, AB; Godparents are Amber Adair BRANDEE DOERKSEN (Triffo) Massage and John McKay of Victoria, She did it!

Contractors Therapy Accounting BC. Lyric was only with us for Brian & Paula Triffo a short while but she was announce with great pride Home Reno’s INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS DALE’S greatly loved by all of us. We that their daughter, Brandee, Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. Free estimates for all your miss her. In lieu of flowers reno needs.

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153 SAWYER Trucking, Skid Steer and Track Hoe service.

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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NES with three games, $140, and Wii fit board and game, $40. 403-782-3847

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SHOP HAND / BUS CLEANER Must be avail. to work eves./wknds. and have own transportation. Fax resume to 403-347-4999 email: frontbus@platinum.ca

PORTABLE dvd player, $40, and Kobo e-reader, $80. 403-782-3847

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TAILCREEK Mud & Music Festival, June 25, 8 pm.

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71/4” B & D circular saw, Qualifications required are $25. 403-885-5020 the following: • Class 5 Driver License (air endorsement and/or Class 3 Drivers License Firewood would be an asset) • Clean Drivers Abstract AFFORDABLE must be provided upon hiring • Mechanical Experience Homestead Firewood would be an asset Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split.

• Basic Construction avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Knowledge (Carpentry B.C. Birch, Aspen, - Forming Experience) Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

• Organizational Skills PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 • Tracking Equipment and Material FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, • Must be in good Can deliver physical health 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 • Involves Lifting and Hoisting LOGS • Will be responsible for Shipping and Receiving Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

• Forklift experience Price depends on location. would be an asset Lil Mule Logging • Must be able to maintain 403-318-4346 a clean, efficient and safe work environment Full time position (8am-5pm) with flexibility Garden for additional hours Supplies including weekends We Offer Competitive LAWN Mower, $25.

Wages and Benefits works well.

Immediate Position Available 403-347-0325 Please Submit you resume by: Fax: (403) 314-1183 E-mail: apply@pmcl1964.ca Household

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BOAT MOTORS, Electric Shakespeare, small size. $50. & $75. 403-887-5891

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CHESTERFIELD & chair, clean, exc. cond. $200.

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TOYS, books, puzzles, games. 2 boxes $20.

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SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

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100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 2 beige highback bar stools, $20/ea, 2 new swivel padded moving dollies 30” x 18”, $35 for both, 2 new plastic folding saw horses $12/ea, new small portable briquette BBQ $15, oxc-acet Victor small regulator set $40, new 5000 btu apt. size Diplomat air conditioner $55, new 30 pc. plastic wall mounted storage bins, new in box $35, 2 tin garbage cans w/lids, enclosed in metal stand on new wheels $20, 2 Washburn guitars and stands $75/ea., Stinger wet/dry vac $15 403-358-5568

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STORAGE shed, tent style, 8’ x 8’ x 7’, full front door roll-up, spare roof and wall cover, set up to view. $85. o.b.o. NEW was $149. 403-346-2192 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $50; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $35. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, beige, $95. 403-352-8811

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2 MATCHING 26” table AIR HOCKEY by Sportslamps w/shades $25, Fuji craft was $900 new, exc.

DL190 zoom camera cond, $200 403-352-8811 w/case $25, all like new 403-346-6303 HOME Gym, $50.

403-340-1347 5 SHELF leaning wall stand 6’x26” $45; plush childs rocking horse $30; Travel small glass top computer Packages desk $25; dogs playing cards wall tapestry TRAVEL ALBERTA $40 403-986-2108 Alberta offers SOMETHING ART supplies, high quality for everyone. paints, brushes, easels, Make your travel frames and much more. plans now. $150 for all will sell individually 403-886-2776

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U.S. targets al-Qaida leader THREE FOREIGNERS KILLED IN AIRSTRIKES: LIBYAN OFFICIALS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LIBYA

CAIRO — A Libyan military spokesman said Monday that three foreigners were among a number of militants killed in U.S. airstrikes in eastern Libya, but said it is too early to determine if the target, an Algerian al-Qaidalinked leader, was among them.

The U.S military said it launched weekend airstrikes in Libya targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a militant who once belonged to al-Qaida who is charged with leading a 2103 attack on a gas plant in Algeria that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said it was believed the strike was successful but “post-strike assessments” were still underway to determine whether the target was killed.

“Our initial assessment is that it was a successful strike but we’re not prepared to confirm that because we haven’t finalized our assessment,” he said. Libya’s internationally recognized government, based in the country’s east, said the strike was co-ordinated with the United States.

A Libyan Islamist with ties to Libyan militants, however, said the airstrikes missed Belmokhtar, instead killing four members of a Libyan extremist group, linked to al-Qaida, Ansar Shariah, in Ajdabiya, some 850 kilometres (530 miles) east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

If confirmed, Belmokhtar’s death would be a major get for the U.S. Belmokhtar was considered among the most wanted terrorists in the region.

There was no immediate proof provided for Belmokhtar’s death, which requires a DNA test or an announcement by his group that he was killed.

This isn’t the first time authorities have claimed to have killed

Libyan military spokesman Maj. Mohammed Hegazi told The Associated Press that it was too early to confirm if Belmokhtar was killed.

He said the government’s statement was “too hasty,” adding that tests are still under way.

Hegazi said the bodies are charred from the raid, that killed 17, including two foreign militant leaders and a Tunisian fighter.

“I don’t confirm or deny. We are waiting confirmation,” he told AP speaking by telephone.

Hegazi said the raid was based on solid intelligence that indicated that militants forced out of the eastern city of Benghazi by fighting there had taken refuge in Ajdabiya. He said that no civilians were killed in the raids. He said that after the Tunisian was fatally injured, the militants transported him to the local hospital in Ajdabiya, setting off clashes with local troops that left three soldiers dead.

Other officials gave conflicting numbers on the death toll, a sign of the confusion over the strike’s aftermath.

One government official in Libya said the strike hit a group of Ansar Shariah militants in Ajdabiuya, killing five and wounding more. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

That group was linked to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The Islamist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals in restive Libya, told AP early Monday that Belmokhtar wasn’t at the site of the airstrike. He said the strike killed four Ansar Shariah members in Ajdabiya.

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Algerian soldiers and officials stand in front of the gas plant in Ain Amenas, seen in background, during a visit organized by the Algerian authorities for news media on Jan. 31, 2013. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday targeting an al-Qaida leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on the gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans. The Libyan government and U.S. officials said warplanes targeted and likely killed Mokhtar BelMokhtar and several others.

Belmokhtar, a militant believed to be 43 who reportedly lost his eye in combat and fought in Afghanistan. He was one of a number of Islamist fighters who have battled Algeria’s government since the 1990s, later joining al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the group’s North Africa branch. He then formed his own group, accused in the gas plant attack. He later emerged in Libya, and is believed to have been located there since based in the western and south-

Tbilisi searchers look for missing people, dangerous zoo animals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TBILISI, Georgia — Workers and volunteers laboured Monday in a floodravaged area of the Georgian capital to help victims while nervously watching for traces of dangerous animals that may have escaped the city zoo when it was inundated by the surging waters.

Officials in the ex-Soviet republic said 14 people were confirmed dead.

Ten people were thought to be missing after an intense downpour and high winds on Sunday turned a stream that runs through a section of Tbilisi into a sweeping torrent that destroyed houses, tore up roads and tossed vehicles into heaps of uprooted trees and rubbish.

The devastated zoo was still trying to determine what had happened to four lions, three tigers and one jaguar whose enclosures were flooded, zoo spokeswoman Khatia Basilashvili said.

She said a number of other wild cats — four lions, three tigers and two jaguars — were killed either in the flood or while on the loose, when some were shot by police.

But it was unclear how many more animals would be found dead once the waters receded and the cleanup was completed at the zoo, or how many were still wandering the hills around Tbilisi.

The flooding also killed scores of homeless dogs at a private shelter near the zoo, shelter staff said. Volunteers were working at the shelter on Monday to care for the remaining dogs and repair the kennels. They said about 150 of the approximately 500 dogs at the shelter had been saved.

“We dragged them out of their cages, but they tried to go back into the cages because those are their homes,” said Nati Mzhavia, one of those who came to the shelter to help the frightened dogs.

The heavy rain that began shortly

before midnight Sunday caused a landslide that blocked what is normally a pleasant stream in the hilly city, but as the floodwaters grew in strength, the fierce torrent broke through. The homes of about 40 families were destroyed.

Up to 24 people were reported missing late Sunday. By Monday afternoon, all but 10 of them had been found, Georgian authorities said.

The government declared Monday a day off from work and school while the search for the missing and the cleanup work went ahead in Tbilisi, a city of 1.1 million people. The government has urged residents to avoid going near the zoo.

Prague Zoo, which suffered from the devastating flooding that hit the Czech capital in 2002 and again in 2013, was sending a team to Tbilisi on Monday.

“When we learned about the situation in Tbilisi Zoo, we started to work out how to help,” Prague Zoo director Miroslav Bobek said. “Based on our experience with the floods, we decided to create a team of curators to travel to Georgia’s zoo to help take care of the animals.”

None of the people who died were killed by the zoo animals that got loose, Tbilisi Zoo Director Zurab Gurielidze said. Three zoo employees were among those who drowned.

One of the potentially most dangerous animals to escape, a hippopotamus, was tranquilized and returned to the zoo on Sunday.

A young white lion named Shumba, one of the zoo’s most beloved attractions, was found shot in the head on zoo territory on Sunday, the zoo director said.

He demanded an investigation into the shootings of zoo animals.

“If a predator attacked a person, then it’s understandable, but there are cases that need looking into,” Gurielidze said.

ern part of Libya.

The Libyan government initially said Belmokhtar was killed and hailed the raid as a sign of international help it has sought against miitants who run rampant in much of the country. Libya is split between the international recognized government based in the east and another government in Tripoli, backed by Islamist militias.

But highlighting the uncertainty of operating in chaos-plagued country,

IN

BRIEF Manhunt for escaped killers enters Day 10 DANNEMORA, N.Y. — The intense manhunt for two escaped murderers in upstate New York hit its 10th day as a woman charged with helping the killers flee from prison appeared in court Monday.

Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who had befriended the inmates, had agreed to be the getaway driver but backed out because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

She waived a preliminary hearing during a brief court appearance. She wore a striped jumpsuit and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest.

Mitchell has been charged with helping Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian border on June 6.

“Basically, when it was ’go’ time and it was the actual day of the event, I do think she got cold feet and realized, ’What am I doing?”’ Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Sunday. “Reality struck.”

Wylie said there was no evidence the men had a “Plan B” once Mitchell

backed out, and no vehicles have been reported stolen in the area.

That has led searchers to believe the men are still near the maximumsecurity prison in Dannemora. At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned that for all anyone knows the convicts could be in Mexico, where one of the inmates had fled after killing his boss in the late 1990s.

Mitchell, 51, was charged Friday with supplying hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver. Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. She has been suspended without pay from her $57,000-a-year job overseeing inmates who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing machines at the prison.

Brian Barrett, a criminal defence lawyer not involved in the case, said Mitchell could face liability if Matt and Sweat commit new crimes and she’s found responsible for helping them escape.

“Certainly she would be civilly liable,” Barrett said.

Wylie said Sunday that the killers apparently cut their way out using tools stored by prison contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night’s work.

The convicts used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells, broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging outside the prison walls through a manhole, authorities said.

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1984 — John Napier Turner is chosen as Liberal Party leader on second ballot, with 1862 votes, to Jean Chretien’s 1,368, Don Johnston’s 192; defeats six others. He replaces

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1981 — President Ronald Reagan awards Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-80.

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Online dating attempt turns into bank fraud

ROCKIN’ OUT AT BONNAROO

RECENTLY SEPARATED WOMAN FEELING USED long list of her own complaints.

Everything she says, every story she tells, is turned around to make her look wonderful and important.

We recently had a family gathering, and I made a toast to my sistersMITCHELL in-law and & SUGAR our children because they all had made important advancements in their careers and education. Before the toast was over, my mom piped up and said, “What about me?” and proceeded to ramble on about herself.

I am writing not to get advice, but rather to give it. I don’t care how old you are; don’t hog the spotlight. Listen to your children and grandchildren and be interested in their lives.

Because of my mother’s narcissism, I have learned to be humble. Because of my mother’s self-centered attitude, I have learned to be sensitive to others. Because of my mother’s constant complaining, I have learned not to talk about my own aches and pains. I am sure that when she is gone, I will miss her. But the best thing she ever did for me was to teach me to be a better mother and grandmother by setting such a bad example. — The Good Daughter Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HOROSCOPES Tuesday, June 16 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Daniel Brühl, 37; Tupac Shakur, 44; Kelly Blatz, 28 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon is a magical time to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You’re focused on the future and are prepared to wait for success. November and December are the best months to fall in love, propose, get married or renew your wedding vows.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You relish your independence and freedom but don’t be a lone Ram! The New Moon encourages you to find fresh ways to connect with others both in your local neighbourhood and online.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The New Moon lights up your money zone, so take stock of your current financial situation and find novel ways to increase your cash flow. The more proactive you are Bulls, the better.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With the New Moon in Gemini, it’s the best time of the year to refresh your physical appearance; update your wardrobe; review your personal beliefs; launch a website or reboot a rickety relationship.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re keen to retreat into your cosy Crab cave as the New Moon moves through your contemplation zone. So enjoy solo

activities like yoga, meditation, reading, journal writing or listening to music.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions love talking about grandiose goals and spectacular schemes. Now’s JOANNE the time to walk MADELEINE your talk, as you MOORE put those plans into productive action. Don’t just dream about it get out there and do it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgos are clever and capable but are you confident enough for big time success? The New Moon’s charging up your career zone but you won’t get ahead if you waste time worrying about minor details.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The New Moon activates your travel zone so a heavenly holiday is likely sometime over the next nine months. Plus take a good long look at your aspirations for the future are they ambitious enough?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Lust and loot loom large, as you work through

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Two-year-old Nora Rivers from Jacksonville, Fla., plays in the water at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Friday in Manchester, Tenn. issues involving intimacy or joint finances. Saturn encourages you to accept your responsibilities with style and grace, rather than grumpiness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The New Moon stimulates up your relationship zone, so it’s time to add some red-hot sizzle to an increasingly stale partnership. Single Sagittarians love and foreign countries or cultures are linked.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t become so focused on the future that you lose sight of the present. Singles — the stars point to the potential for a long-term relationship, with someone who is well-educated and well-trav-

elled.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Seize the day Aquarius! It’s the perfect time to build bridges with a child or teenager, initiate a new friendship, start a challenging sport or take up a hobby you’ve always been interested in.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Mars and the New Moon highlight your domestic zone so it’s a fabulous time to entertain family and friends at home with an impromptu Piscean meal. Convivial conversation is a bonus.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate

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Dear Annie: My friend, “Josie,” recently joined a popular online dating site after her husband decided he’d rather be single. Josie met several interesting men on the site, and after chatting with them for a week or two, every single one of them asked her for money. She refused.

Finally, one asked her to cash a check for him. He spent about a month setting her up to be comfortable doing this favor and she fell for it. He and the bank took her money. The man said he would straighten it all out, but of course, he has failed to show up.

I want your help exposing this supposedly reputable online dating site.

It’s a very bad place for single women to find true love. It is really a site for unscrupulous male thieves to prey on vulnerable women. Something needs to be done to put a stop to this abuse and hold these larcenous Lotharios accountable for their misdeeds. What can we do? — Angry Ann Dear Angry: The problem with online dating sites, even reputable ones, is that they cannot guarantee the honesty of all users. Josie should send all of the personal information she has on these men to the managers of the website and register a complaint, letting them know that the reputation of their site is at risk and that they need to do a better job of vetting their clientele and keeping these scam artists out. Women need to report these men or the managers won’t know, and some women are too embarrassed to complain.

Of course, the bottom line is that people, male or female, must protect themselves by refusing to do any “favors” that involve money. Period.

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Vegan Smackdown Challenge WHY A CARNIVORE CHEF REINVENTS DISHES TO BE VEGAN

BY KRISTEN HARTKE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES To some chefs, “vegan” is a dirty word, representing an expletive-punctuated scramble in the kitchen to pull together a vegetable plate for a diner who eschews meat, eggs and dairy. Todd Gray, however, sees things a little differently.

As chef-owner of Equinox, just a stone’s throw from the White House, Gray — who is neither vegan nor vegetarian — has found the process of creating fine-dining vegan dishes (a rarity in Washington) to be a challenge and a delight. “There’s a tremendous world of great vegetables,” enthuses Gray. “I love my local soft-shell crabs, beef, pork and duck, but, once you get past those four items, there are actually 60 vegetables on our menu right now.”

As the vegan options at Equinox have grown over the past decade or more to include a brunch, originally served on Sundays at the now-defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art, and a tasting menu complete with wine pairings, Gray got itchy to play around with some other ideas, leading to this year’s Vegan Smackdown Challenge.

If you never thought you’d hear the word “smackdown” associated with a white-linen-tablecloth restaurant, then you probably also never thought you’d eat an edible “oyster” shell. “If anyone had told me 10 years ago that I’d be flirting with making dashi with local mushrooms,” says Gray, “I would’ve said, ‘You’re out of your freaking mind.’ But that’s the evolution, and it’s exciting for me.”

The concept of the smackdown is simple: Unlike most such challenges, it’s really an exhibition, not a competition. Gray asked several prominent chefs, including Jose Andrés, Todd English and Carla Hall, to give him a meat-based recipe of theirs that he could convert into a vegan version, featuring one on the Equinox menu each month.

The smackdown began in April with Spike Mendelsohn’s Prez Obama Burger, the most popular burger at his Good Stuff Eatery restaurants, which Mendelsohn says he thought would be a “fun challenge” for Gray. The original is laden with applewood bacon, Roquefort cheese and horseradish mayo, but Gray took on the challenge with gusto, using leek ash to simulate veining in a tofu-based “blue cheese” and creating a smoky “bacon” out of ovendried royal trumpet mushrooms for his quinoa-black bean patty, calling it, cheekily, the FLOTUS Burger.

Mendelsohn says he found the smackdown concept intriguing, particularly now that he’s cooking more vegan-friendly dishes for his vegetarian fiancee and exploring adding such plant-based options as a savory mushroom tartine to the menu at his meat-focused, Montreal-inspired bistro, Bearnaise.

“I’ve stumbled on some really delicious flavors,” Mendelsohn says. “Todd’s vegan challenge is definitely another push of creative inspiration.”

That kind of response from other chefs is exactly the point of the challenge for Gray’s wife and Equinox co-owner, Ellen Kassoff, who has been the driver of the vegan experimentation at their restaurant since they opened 16 years ago. “Chefs, being at the top of the food chain,” says Kassoff, “can effect change. Conscientious living provides a balance for mass consumption.”

Describing her current diet as 80 per cent vegan — “I like cream in my coffee, and I love oysters” — Kassoff became interested in plant-based cuisine after spending several years working as a sales rep for Sysco. She sold foie gras, ducks and geese to Washington-area restaurants, meeting the chef who would become her husband while on a sales call. However, one day, she says, “I had an eye-opener into the world of meat production, and the way things were raised really got to me. And I just said, ‘That’s it.’ “ Kassoff’s move toward part-time veganism was not a turnoff for Gray, trained in classical French and Italian cooking, where proteins are often considered more of a condiment than a centerpiece. And he was already well versed in seasonal cooking after working in his early career with chefs Roberto Donna and Jean-Louis Palladin. While Gray began seriously playing with vegan dishes as early as 2002, he and Kassoff had a sense that a plant-based diet was, as she puts it, “something for smelly hippies . . . and we did go to a lot of Grateful Dead concerts.”

When in 2011 they opened Todd Gray’s Muse at the Corcoran, Kassoff saw a chance to experiment: “I always wanted to have my own little hippy-dippy vegan cafe, so Todd agreed we could try it — once a month.” They decided to offer a completely vegan brunch, advertising only by word of mouth, and it filled up completely the first time. By the third month, there was a waiting list to get in, and demand was so high that they decided to have it every Sunday rather than once a month. “We had no proper kitchen,” remembers Gray, “just a panini press and two induction burners. It was like someone had opened the floodgates.”

For Kassoff, it was a chance to connect with other people who were “vegan-curious.”

“The stories of who these diners were was fascinating,” she says. “We spent a lot of time just talking to people and finding out why they were there. Some people were actually vegetarian or vegan, but others were their non-vegan spouses or people who were

RECIPE

FLOTUS Burgers MAKES: 5 servings This vegan version of chef Spike Mendelsohn’s burger homage to the White House is a testament to the flavor and texture that can be achieved with alternative ingredients. It has a triple shot of low-fat protein in quinoa, black beans and a tangy tofu-based “blue cheese” topping. The mixture can also be formed into 8 to 10 slider-size burgers.

PREPARATION: The vegan blue cheese mixture needs 3 hours to marinate in the refrigerator; it tastes even better after a day’s refrigeration. The burger mixture needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour. The horseradish mayonnaise can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

INGREDIENTS For the vegan blue cheese 7 ounces (1/2 block) firm tofu, drained 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 2 scallions, white and green parts, minced Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper For the horseradish mayonnaise 1 cup Vegenaise (may substitute your favorite dairy-free sandwich spread) Dash Tabasco sauce 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish (not red) 1/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper For the burgers 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 medium onion, minced 2 cloves garlic, minced 8 shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced (3 1/2 ounces total) 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon smoked Spanish paprika (pimenton) 1 cup cooked or canned no-salt-added black beans 1 cup cooked red quinoa 1/2 cup rolled oats (do not use instant) 2 cups plain panko Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons egg-replacer, such as Ener-G 1 cup water 5 multi-grain vegan buns, toasted, for serving Red Onion Marmalade, for serving Mushroom ‘Bacon,’ for serving STEPS For the vegan blue cheese: Press/gently crush the tofu between two sheets of paper towels, to extract excess moisture, for 5 minutes.

Transfer to a mixing bowl along with the onion and garlic powders, the vinegar and scallions; season lightly with salt and pepper, stirring to incorporate. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours and preferably up to 1 day.

For the horseradish mayonnaise: Whisk together the Vegenaise, Tabasco, horseradish and lemon juice in a medium bowl. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. (Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed before serving.)

For the burgers: Heat the oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Once the oil shimmers, stir in the onion and garlic. Cook for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent, then add the mushrooms; cook for 5 minutes, then add the chili, onion and garlic powders and the smoked paprika; cook for 2 minutes, stirring to distribute evenly.

Transfer the mixture to a food processor. Add the black beans, quinoa, oats and 1/2 cup of the panko; pulse to a coarse-paste consistency, then transfer to a mixing bowl. Season lightly with salt and pepper; stir to incorporate. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.

Whisk together the egg-replacer and water in a medium bowl.

When ready to cook, form the chilled burger mixture into 4 equal-size patties. Spread the remaining 1 1/2 cups of panko on a plate. Whisk together the egg-replacer and water in a medium bowl to form a smooth slurry.

Briefly dip each patty into the egg-replacer slurry so it’s coated on both sides, then gently press into the panko until evenly coated on all sides. (Discard any excess slurry and panko.)

Heat a medium cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Generously grease with cooking oil spray, then add the burgers.

Cook for about 5 minutes on each side, reducing the heat as needed to avoid scorching, until a nicely browned crust forms.

Use more cooking oil spray as needed — including on the burgers themselves — to keep the burgers from sticking or becoming too dry.

Spread the horseradish mayo on the top and bottom buns.

Place the burgers on the bottom buns. Top each burger with equal portions of the vegan blue cheese, the mushroom “bacon,” if using, and the onion marmalade.

health- or environmentally conscious and wanted to try it out.”

Through those conversations, Gray began to notice something. “The vegans were a little wistful for something of their own, and their friends and families wanted to be able to participate in their veganism,” he said. The smackdown has become Gray’s response, a search to create a series of signature dishes for vegans, and the vegan-curious, and have a little fun at the same time with original dishes from his peers.