Red Deer Advocate, June 27, 2015

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THE ROYAL TREATMENT IN JUNE 1990, QUEEN ELIZABETH II OPENED RED DEER REGIONAL HOSPITAL CENTRE’S CUTTINGEDGE PEDIATRIC UNIT. ADVOCATE REPORTER SUSAN ZIELINSKI LOOKS BACK AT THE MONUMENTAL EVENT.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Brightly-coloured walls and a play area a gr greet young patients in Red Deer Region nal Hospital Centre’s pediatric unit, jusst liike it did when Queen Elizabeth II offiicially opened the ward 25 years ago.

Three-dimensional sttore fronts in the cor- CHANNEL SWIM riidors still resemble RAISED $33,000 a miniature village FOR UNIT A4 of local businesses to h elp alleviate anxiety.

But what has changed is the equipmen nt and technology that has advanced mediical care through the years for infants to o adolescents.

Carolyn Roy, assistant head nurse, said d the day the Queen toured the unit, some e y ung patients had their fractured femurrs yo su uspended in traction that would have e kept them in hospital beds for weeks.

“What used to be a stay of four to six x weeks is now a week maybe, maximum m.

They put a plate in or they put a naiil through the femur to hold it, then they y put a cast on to hold it and they go home,” said Roy, who was on duty on June 28 8, 1990, for the Royal visit.

Please see PEDIATRICS on Page A4

Photos by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

ABOVE: Assistant head nurse Carolyn Roy in the Red Deer Regional Hospital pediatrics unit recently. Roy was on duty 25 years ago when Queen Elizabeth visited the then newly opened pediatrics unit in 1990.

LEFT: Queen Elizabeth arrives at the Red Deer Airport June of 1990.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A heat advisory has been issued for Central Alberta by Alberta Health Services.

AHS said it was issuing the advisory for the region due to elevated temperatures forecast over the next few days. The advisory went into effect at noon on Friday and extends for 72 hours.

Environment Canada’s forecast for the next few days included a high of 28C on Friday, 31 on Saturday, 33 on Sunday and 29 on Monday.

Residents and visitors to the region are advised to take the following precautions to protect themselves from the potentially harmful effects of the sun (including burns, heat-related exhaustion and heat stroke): ● Consider rescheduling outdoor activities to cooler hours of the day. ● Take frequent breaks from heat, spending time indoors at cooled public buildings (including malls or indoor pools). ● Drink plenty of water and other non-alcoholic, non-caffeinated beverages to stay hydrated. ● Do not leave any person or pet inside a closed vehicle. ● Apply a sunscreen of at least sun protection factor (SPF) 30, at least 20 minutes before heading outdoors. Be sure the SPF 30 screens out both UVA and UVB rays, and reapply frequently (as directed on product label). ● Wear a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses (with a UVA/UVB CSA certified seal). ● Wear light-coloured long-sleeved shirts and pants that cover skin.

Residents and visitors should also monitor for symptoms of heat stroke, including high body temperature, lack of sweat, disorientation, fainting, and unconsciousness.

“Normal activity that may be safe on a cool day might be dangerous in current weather conditions.

If you start to feel overheated, stop your activity immediately, seek shade and drink fluids,” advises

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Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, medical officer of health for the Central Zone.

“Seek medical attention immediately for any individual feeling faint. While awaiting medical attention, move the individual to a shaded area, and remove his or her outer clothing and shoes. You should also wrap the person in a wet towel until medical care is being provided.”

Particular vigilance is urged for vulnerable individuals, including children, seniors, individuals with pre-existing respiratory or cardiovascular conditions, outdoor workers, as well as those who are socially isolated.

“Excessive heat can aggravate underlying medical illness such as congestive heart failure, and can also be of heightened danger to children and seniors. Individuals who are socially isolated may not know when or how to seek help, or be able to monitor their own symptoms,” says Achebe.

For more information and advice, including as specific to seniors, children, individuals with pre-existing respiratory or cardiovascular conditions, and outdoor workers, visit: http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/heat.asp. Albertans can also contact Health Link at 811, for general heat-related health advice and information.

Meanwhile, the wildfire hazard in the Rocky Forest Management Area has risen to high as a result of the persistent heat and dryness.

And Kris Heemeryck, wildfire prevention officer with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, expects things to heat up over the weekend with forecasted temperatures in the West Country in the high 20s to low 30s Celcius.

Other than a fire burning in the O’Chiese First Nation dump, there were no other fires in the management area.

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EDMONTON — Alberta’s NDP government has taken a first step toward fulfilling its promise to determine whether taxpayers are getting a fair portion of profits from development of their oil and gas resources.

Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd announced Friday that Dave Mowat, the head of Alberta’s Crown-owned bank ATB Financial, will lead a panel review of oil and gas royalties. Preliminary findings are to be filed by the end of the year.

Mowat said the goal is to find a royalty environment where “the province is successful, the companies are Marg McCuaig-Boyd successful, and ultimately the communities of Alberta are successful.”

McCuaig-Boyd said the findings will be made public.

“We’ve said (all) along with industry and to Albertans that we’re going to be clear in this process and transparent,” she said.

The terms of reference for the panel have not been decided. That prompted reporters to ask Mowat why he would accept a job without knowing exactly what he can explore.

“We’re finalizing the terms of reference. We’ve talked about the outcomes we’re trying to get,” he replied.

Mowat said he will work on the panel while continuing duties at ATB. The review is one of a number of business-related initiatives the NDP has introduced since taking office.

On Thursday, it announced stricter rules on carbon emissions for large industrial producers, along with a doubling of the carbon levy on those who exceed the limits.

The government has also hiked taxes on corporations to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and is contemplating splitting up Alberta’s energy regulator, saying it has a conflicting role as both watchdog and promoter of energy development.

Opposition Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said Friday’s announcement, with its paucity of detail, adds another layer of uncertainty to an energy industry already struggling with low oil prices.

“We were at least hoping today’s announcement would provide clarity,” said Jean.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, went further, calling on McCuaig-Boyd to be replaced.

“The chaos caused by a half-baked review will drive even more investment capital out of Alberta, which means even more job losses for Albertans,” Clark said.

But Martin Pelletier, portfolio manager with TriVest Wealth Counsel in Calgary, said ATB Financial is a big lender to the energy industry, meaning Mowat has a solid understanding about the impacts of royalty changes.

“I think that’s a great selection and certainly a positive message is being sent toward the industry,” he said.

Gary Leach, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, added that Mowat is a well-respected business leader. “EPAC believes his appointment lends credibility to the royalty review process.”

It will be the second royalty review in less than a decade.

In 2007, former premier Ed Stelmach commissioned a review that recommended a 20 per cent hike in royalties to bring in an estimated $2 billion more a year to the treasury. However, oil companies disputed the data and analysis, and the changes were eventually rejected or watered down considerably.

Non-renewable resource revenues were forecast to bring in almost $9 billion in the fiscal year that ended this past March, to help pay for government spending that is approaching $50 billion a year.

The 2015-16 budget projected those revenues will plunge to less than $3 billion due to the worldwide oil glut.

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Lacombe County looks to improve water quality

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

SYLVAN LAKE

Lacombe County is drawing up a list of actions it will undertake to ensure Sylvan Lake remains healthy.

A major initiative was launched in 2011 to undertake a detailed review of the lake to determine its health, the cumulative impact of development and recreation, what steps have been taken to improve water quality and what should be done in the future.

The second phase of the Cumulative Effects Management Plan outlines what steps should be taken to improve the lake.

Water quality is the primary focus and a number of initiatives have been suggested, such as creating an intermunicipal development plan for the lake, including the two counties, Town

of Sylvan Lake and five summer villages.

Requiring new developments to undertake cumulative effects and water runoff studies is also suggested, as is mapping environmentally significant areas, and creating agriculture and rural residential education and incentive programs to help protect the lake.

At least one county councillor expressed concern that hiring the necessary staff and consultants to undertake all of the proposed work could prove costly.

Included in the report is a number of cost estimates, which could run into the hundreds of thousands if all proposals were adopted.

“I’m alarmed that this would be in a report,” said Coun. Rod McDermand,

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Arson suspected in apartment fire Arson is suspected in an apartment fire in downtown Red Deer early Friday morning.

About 30 residents were evacuated from the apartment building at 5518 44th Ave. about 3:30 a.m. when the fire was discovered.

A tenant managed to put out the small blaze with a portable fire extinguisher. Firefighters removed burnt items and ventilated the apartment, as well as conducting a search of the building.

One person was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Fire damage was minimal and RCMP continue to investigate.

One injured as explosion levels house in Canmore CANMORE — One person was taken to hospital and several senior citizens were shaken up when a house next to the Bow River Seniors Lodge in Canmore, Alta., was levelled in an explosion Friday afternoon.

EMS spokesman Adam Loria described the adult male’s injuries as “quite minor” and said the hospitaliza-

tion was “more precautionary at this point.”

A witness named Chris told radio station CHQR that he saw the blast as he was driving down the highway.

He said he went to go see it but when he got there RCMP turned him back, saying there was the possibility of another explosion because of a gas leak.

Photos of the explosion that have been posted to social media show what appears to be construction going on at the house.

Witnesses said the blast could be felt for several blocks, debris was sent hundreds of feet into the air and a giant plume of smoke towered over the town.

A restaurant called Communitea Cafe tweeted it had been impacted by the blast.

“Likely gas explosion,” read the tweet. “Seemed like it is near pond.

Blew our doors open here!”

Loria said the seniors’ home had been briefly evacuated and EMS staff were on hand to check out the residents and make sure they were fine, which led to early reports of multiple injuries.

“That was the initial report when it first happened and we were responding — we were thinking multiple injuries,” he said. “But at this point, there’s just one person transported.”

RCMP said the house where the explosion originated was empty at the time, and numerous other houses in the area sustained damage.

“because reports eventually create bottom lines.”

Coun. Keith Stephenson, who is the county’s representative on the Sylvan Lake Management Committee, said the cumulative effects plan is a document aimed at the long term.

“How we progress will be up to the councils,” he said.

Coun. Brenda Knight noted the county had just completed its own Environmental Plan and wanted assurance that what is proposed in the study fits with the county’s own vision.

County commissioner Terry Hager said a measured approach will be taken with the recommendations.

Council voted on Thursday to direct staff to review the cumulative effects study and come back to council with initiatives that could be pursued. McDermand was opposed. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Inquiry judge makes recommendations after prisoner dies of head injury MEDICINE HAT — A fatality inquiry report says a young man held in a Medicine Hat police cell wasn’t properly assessed by paramedics before he died of a head injury.

Provincial court Judge Gordon Krinke made eight recommendations in his report, including better medical examinations for prisoners.

Court heard Morbe Buluk showed up acting out of sorts at his parents’ house in February 2010, and they figured he was drunk or high on drugs.

They called police and, after the 18-year-old spit on one officer, he was taken to a cell.

Paramedics examined Buluk there but failed to look at his pupils or conduct a common test for brain injuries.

No one was aware that a couple hours earlier, Buluk had been punched in a parking lot and struck his head on the pavement.

Cell staff later noticed Buluk lying on the floor of his cell. His body was making jerking movements and white foam was coming from his mouth. He was rushed to hospital, where doctors determined he had an irreversible head injury.

He died later that day.

“A key piece of Buluk’s history was missing. This was, of course, the fact that Buluk had been struck and fell unconscious to the ground, striking his head,” Krinke wrote in the report.

Reason for water pipe burst remains unclear

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer officials are still trying to figure out what caused an 85-cm gash in an underground water pipe.

About 10 million litres of chlorinated water gushed out of the pipe near the city’s water treatment plant on the Red Deer River early Thursday morning.

The pipe has been repaired but work continues on erosion damage around the pedestrian rail bridge and trails.

Why the pipe burst remains unclear.

It was discovered when a high-flow alarm was triggered at the water treatment plant.

“We are conducting a full analysis on the underground pipe to determine what factors led to this failure, which is something we haven’t seen in the past,” said Tom Marstaller, environmental planning superintendent on Friday in an update.

The city maintains more than 500 km of water pipes, some of which are quite old. After taking a closer look, the city will determine if more repairs are needed.

The leak occurred 114 metres from the river and some chlorinated water — which is considered harmful to fish — reached the river. City crews were able to dechlorinate some of the water before it reached the river.

A silt fence has since been put in place to keep eroded soil out of the river.

Environment Canada and Alberta Environment were notified of the leak as soon as it was discovered and, as is usual in such cases, the city is under formal investigation from the federal department.

“We are working very closely with both Environment Canada and Alberta Environment to investigate this incident and ensure all necessary procedures are followed in order to mitigate risks and repair damage,” said Elaine Vincent, the city’s director of development services.

There is no risk to the city’s drinking water.

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HarperPAC closure applauded

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s former chief electoral officer applauded the abrupt end of a controversial Conservative political action committee Friday and called on similar third-party groups to shut their doors as well.

Jean-Pierre Kingsley said he was “very happy” to learn the group known as HarperPAC had shut down, and said he believes others — including the left-leaning Engage Canada — ought to follow suit.

The website for HarperPAC, the brainchild of several longtime Conservative supporters, disappeared late Thursday after a party spokesman publicly criticized the group — particularly its choice of name.

“I think they should all shut down,” Kingsley said.

“Don’t set up shop, wait for the writ to be dropped and then register as a third party as you’re supposed to. And follow the rules.”

Kingsley said he is particularly concerned that third-party political organizations are cropping up to take advantage of a lack of regulation in the months before this fall’s Oct. 19 vote — a consequence of a fixed election date.

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PEDIATRICS: Business as usual the day the Queen arrived She said computers on the unit operated with just a few side buttons instead of a keyboard and were basically used to order tests. Now computer technology instantly connects staff to vast amounts of healthcare information.

At 1,356 square metres, the new 25-bed pediatric unit was double the size of the unit in the old Red Deer Hospital.

Pediatric patient rooms have since been reduced to single occupancy for a total of 10 beds due to shorter stays. The ability exists to add capacity if necessary.

The community raised more than $570,000 for the $1.6-million, cutting-edge pediatric unit.

A multitude of local fundraising efforts included Red Deer firefighter John Cormier raising more than $33,000 by swimming the English Channel in 1988.

Fifty-one corporate sponsors and service clubs paid upwards of $30,000 each to be part of the village motif.

Roy said it was business as usual the day the Queen arrived, if you didn’t count the dignitaries she’d only see on television who toured the unit, the media horde, security and a swarm of Royal watchers outside the hospital.

“It was quite an affair.”

Nine staff still work on the unit who remember that monumental 40-minute tour.

The Queen came into the room where Roy was tending to patients.

Roy said Her Majesty was exceptionally gracious.

“I was quite impressed. She talked to all the patients and parents that were there, and actually made a point of stopping and talking to everyone.”

The new unit was decked out with play therapy rooms, a burn unit, a teen lounge, treatment and counselling areas, and a suite for parents to sleep.

“Family-centred care is really important on our unit so we try and keep the families together and get them back together at home as quick as we can.

(Children) just want to be at home with their families, and their dogs and cats.”

And play is very therapeutic, she said.

“That’s why we encourage them to play. That’s why the playroom is the first thing you see when you come onto the unit. As you walk around the unit, there’s interactive stations they can play at. Play is very important for them. It expedites the healing process, when they can get up and play,” Roy said.

Red Deer’s mayor at that time, Bob McGhee, was in receiving lines that day to greet the Queen and shake her hand.

“You let her shake your hand. She does the first move,” recalled McGhee.

When her plane landed at the Red Deer Industrial Airport and after she met dignitaries, he said the Queen decided to speak to some war brides who had gathered to greet her.

“She walked over and chatted with them, which was wasn’t part of the itinerary. So that was unique.”

McGhee sat between then-premier Don Getty and the Queen during the luncheon held in her honour at the Capri Centre, where McGhee had an opportunity to talk to her about the Red Deer area.

He said it was an unexpected pleasure to meet the Queen.

“Most people in Red Deer never expected the Queen to visit, I don’t think,” McGhee said.

Michael Dawe, who at the time was a member of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre board, said the Queen’s visit created genuine excitement in the community.

She drew crowds at the airport, the hospital and hotel estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 people in total.

“We never had a reigning monarch of Britain and Canada come to visit Red Deer before. We had members of the Royal Family. Her sister (Princess Margaret) came in 1980,” said Dawe, who can still clearly picture the events of the day the Queen came to the city.

“I remember the suit a wore. It was blue one. It was brand new. It was a real honour to be there.”

He was impressed by her dignity and expertise in dealing with the public.

“I remember she did a walkabout out in the area in front of the hospital. Some people presented her with flowers, which she accepted very graciously.”

Dawe executed a formal bow before the Queen and had the chance to shake her hand, but didn’t get to exchange words with Her Majesty. The opportunity almost presented itself while he was near the hospital’s official guest book.

“The Queen asked about three times where they wanted her to sign and everyone was too busy to actually give her a clear answer. Everyone was all agog. Finally she just signed where she thought was appropriate,” he said with a laugh.

He thought about answering but wasn’t sure it was proper protocol.

Another less-known incident involved Health Minister Nancy Betkowski’s young son after the Queen’s hospital tour.

The boy was ill so he took a nap in an administrator’s office during the tour.

“He didn’t look very good so they actually took him in to have a pediatrician look at him. He was diagnosed as being in the early stages of meningitis.

Because they caught it very early, it was easily dealt with.”

He said if the boy had not been at the hospital with his mother for the ceremony, the potentially serious childhood illness could have taken longer to diagnose.

Dawe said the new child and family-focused pediatrics unit garnered a lot of interest from hospitals

He has expressed fear that Canada has been going down a path similar to the U.S., where so-called political action committees — known as PACs — raise and spend huge sums of money to influence political outcomes.

“We have no idea who they are, we have no idea who is contributing, we have no idea how much they are contributing,” Kingsley said. “Return the contributions and let us have an election in accordance with the law.”

HarperPAC has promised to return donations to contributors.

Engage Canada, another group launched earlier this month by former NDP and Liberal strategists, claims to be non-partisan. On Friday, it launched a new television ad targeting the Conservative approach to health care.

The group did not respond to a request for an interview on Friday but it issued a statement instead.

“Engage Canada is operating with the current legislative framework,” spokesperson Jessica Hume said in an email.

Third-party groups can accept money in the prewrit period without having to disclose dollar figures or where donations come from.

In an statement released on Twitter, HarperPAC spokesman Stephen Taylor credited the recent debate about the group, its name and its objectives for bringing the issue of third-party advertising in Canada out of the shadows.

Taylor has said HarperPAC was formed in response to others on the left, such as Engage Canada, that are funded by union dollars.

“We have contributed to a new discussion about political financing in a fixed election era that is critical to our democracy,” he said.

Taylor did not respond to interview requests Friday.

The decision to shutter HarperPAC came after Conservative spokesman Kory Teneycke spoke out publicly against the organization in a report in the Toronto Star.

The party does not “need proxies or other organizations” to speak on its behalf, Teneycke said Friday.

“We are more than capable of doing it ourselves,” he said. “I’m sure the motives of these people were well-intentioned, but their efforts were ill-conceived and unhelpful, ultimately.”

Channel swim raised $33,000 for unit

BY JACK WILSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Bumping into a friend at a downtown coffee shop recently triggered a flood of experiences we shared on a strikingly warm day in the English Channel more than 25 years ago.

Joe Towers, a huge and likable fellow, was sipping coffee and our conversation eventually turned to the channel swim by former Red Deer firefighter John Cormier.

On that glorious Aug. 8, 1988, afternoon, we helped encourage, guide and cheer Cormier to dodge stinging jellyfish and the flotsam and jetsam of the unforgiving channel. Throw in the occasional container ship and you get the picture.

Cormier, then 29, fought the odds of making the 34-km swim from Dover to the French coast. He had trained in Sylvan Lake, taking long swims to be prepared for the chilly channel.

It takes a strong and determined person to swim the channel. But it also requires science: when to leave Dover is an art that only experienced ocean bass fishers know. The ebb and flow, and the nuances of the channel are the fisher’s stock and trade.

Twenty-seven years ago, Cormier was one of only 340 people and the 10th Canadian to complete the swim — out of almost 4,000 people worldwide who had tried to that point.

And he was out to conquer the channel to raise about $25,000 to help fund the new pediatrics unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

The conditions were ideal. The channel was mostly calm and the air temperature was 26C. The water was 15C. The guide captain had picked the perfect day to cross. Tides and sea conditions must be just right or you may encounter problems.

Cormier was plastered head to foot by Towers, his trainer and friend, with grease and zinc paste, to help ward off the cold and glaring sun.

I was along to record the event for Advocate readers, but I was also selected as the observer for the Channel Swimming Association. I was essentially the only neutral person on board that day, so I was selected. Secretly, though, I was probably John’s biggest fan.

Journalists are expected to take a neutral position when covering an event but how could you not cheer for a guy you know from your own city who is plunging into the channel for a charity benefiting children?

I was paid a princely sum of 25 English pounds for the honour of recording hourly stroke rates, feeding times and ensuring no one on board touched John or else he could be disqualified.

Departing Dover’s Shakespeare Beach in the early morning, the thrill of the day was compounded by the thought that little boats like the Swim Ranger left Dover and other ports all across England to bring home 300,000 Allied soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1941.

I also recalled that my dad had sailed from Dover a few weeks after D-Day with the Canadian army in June 1944.

There was a tear in my eye when we shoved off in Dover, remembering all those soldiers who gave their lives in pursuit of freedom.

Bass fisherman Richard Armstrong’s boat, aptly named the Swim Ranger, was like a sheep dog guiding Cormier.

The hours rolled by but each one on board took turns shouting encouragement to John, feeding him at intervals using poles with hooks to give him granola bars, Coca Cola, hot chocolate and bananas.

When Cormier finally hit the beach at Wissant, France, to be greeted by more than 200 sunbathers, a tear came to his eye. He had crossed the channel in 11 hours and 44 minutes.

The reception on the French beach was unparalleled at the time, Armstrong said then.

He had never seen so many people crowd around a swimmer in his many years of guiding.

Summer is the low season for bass fishers and guiding swimmers helps pay the way for their families.

Scores of people, who realized a channel attempt was about to end in success, waded into across Canada. “(The Queen’s visit) was a nice kudo to the pediatric ward and the people who worked very hard at developing, what at that time, was some very good and somewhat unique ideas.”

As a community gift to the Queen, an annual $1,000 Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship for pediatrics or neonatology student from the Red Deer area was established to commemorate the official opening of the hospital unit and Her Majesty’s visit.

Morris Flewwelling, who helped organize the scholarship program and attended the luncheon, said a lot of was done in Red Deer to spiff up for the Queen’s visit and to co-ordinate during the actual events.

“You didn’t have the advantage of cellphones so everyone was always kind of on the lookout for everything,” Flewwelling said.

Flewwelling and his wife, Hazel, also attended the concert held that night at Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, organized by Prime Minister Brian

File photo by JACK WILSON

Former Red Deer firefighter John Cormier. the water to greet John. Little children had made wreaths of daisies to drape around the neck of the powerful Canadian, who was utterly spent and simply sat in the shallow surf revelling in his moment of success.

Exhaustion gripped his body as he barely had the strength left to support himself as tourists and locals surrounded him.

I remember trying to hold onto the camera in one hand to snap pictures and swigging champagne with the other while standing in about a metre of turbulent ocean. The bubbly got a little salty, but who cared.

By the time it was over, the only one left dry was Cormier, because he was bundled up in blankets for the return trip.

Cormier and Towers were honoured that evening after our return to Dover by firefighters from the Dover Fire Department who had befriended them.

Meanwhile, I was in my bed and breakfast room banging out the story to send home. I may have missed the party but I didn’t miss the deadline.

In those days, it had to be read word for word over the telephone to our newsroom assistant in Red Deer. Email and cellphones didn’t exist.

I also remember hustling early the next morning into London on the train to get my negatives to the Canadian Press office so they could be transmitted to Canada.

On their return to Canada, Cormier and Towers were given a hearty welcome. They rode in a convertible through the city, accompanied by the City of Red Deer Fire Department vehicles and RCMP. Cormier left the city fire department in 2009 after 26 years and is now a health and safety coordinator with PCL Construction in London, Ont. That clear August day was one of the most cherished moments in my three-decade journalistic career.

Two years later, Queen Elizabeth 11 officially opened the pediatric unit that John Cormier had so remarkably contributed to.

Jack Wilson is a retired Red Deer Advocate reporter.

Mulroney.

Flewwelling said the concert was put together quickly with no time for formal invitations to be sent out.

He said Hazel was notified of their invitation while she was at work as a teacher at the Red Deer Remand Centre.

“A call came through the central switchboard and they put the call up to Hazel’s room. She was busy doing something and she said, ‘Just tell them I’ll call them back.’ The switchboard operator said, ‘I don’t think we can. It’s the prime minister’s office calling.’

“You can imagine the buzz at the remand centre with the teacher getting a call from the prime minister’s office. Everyone was on high alert,” he laughed.

Red Deer, Calgary and Ottawa were the only communities the Queen visited during her five-day Canadian tour in 1990. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Harper’s ex-parliamentary assistant out on bail PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former parliamentary secretary Dean Del Mastro was granted bail Friday after spending one night in jail as a convicted electoral fraudster.

A grim-faced Del Mastro refused to comment as he left court and was driven away by his mother.

Del Mastro, 44, was released on $5,000 bail pending an appeal of his conviction related to his re-election campaign in 2008 for which he was given a one-month jail term.

Prosecutor Nick Devlin did not oppose bail for the first-time offender, agreeing with the defence that Del Mastro’s appeal was not frivolous and that he posed no danger to the community.

Following the brief hearing, Ontario Superior Court Justice Drew Gunsolus accepted the submissions and signed the bail order, saying it would not be in the public interest to keep him in jail.

A short while later, Del Mastro brushed past reporters waiting in the blazing sunshine, and left wordlessly.

Del Mastro was convicted last fall of three electoral offences: overspending, failing to report a contribution he made to his own campaign, and knowingly filing a false report.

After spending the night in jail following sentencing on Thursday, he arrived for the bail hearing Friday handcuffed in a police cruiser.

“It’s a great day to be in Peterborough,” he said.

Conservatives force final vote on labour bill OTTAWA — Conservatives in the Senate have used their majority to overrule their own Speaker and force a final vote on a controversial labour bill.

Claude Carignan, the Conservative leader in the upper chamber, was backed by all but six of his own senators in shooting down a ruling

by Speaker Leo Housakos that would have prevented the government from ending debate on Bill C-377.

The bill would require unions and labour organizations to publicly disclose the details of their spending, including how much they spend on political activities.

Allowing the government to shut down debate on private member’s

bills like C-377 would violate the basic principles of how the Senate operates, Housakos said in his ruling Friday.

He cited one of his predecessors, Noel Kinsella, who ruled two years ago that the government couldn’t shut down debate on a motion to suspend senators Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin.

Allowing such an act would be an overreach of the governing side’s power and would have a “profound effect” on the Senate’s operations, Kinsella said at the time.

Seconds after Housakos delivered his ruling, Carignan announced he wanted to appeal to the Senate as a whole, which can overrule a Speaker’s decision. Carignan won by a vote of 32-17.

Housakos and Sen. Diane Bellemare were the only Conservatives to vote in favour of the ruling, with Bellemare receiving a round of applause from Liberals when she cast her vote.

Five more Conservatives abstained from Friday’s vote: Raynell Andreychuk, deputy Speaker Nicole Eaton, John Wallace, Linda Frum and Vern White.

The Opposition Liberals had worried the Conservatives would use their majority in the Senate to force a final vote on C-377 and pass it despite opposition, including from seven provinces who feel the bill is unconstitutional.

Police officer charged with dangerous driving in death LONGUEUIL, Que. — A Quebec provincial police officer has formally been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a child near Montreal.

Patrick Ouellet was not in attendance in court on Friday and was represented by his lawyer who accepted evidence during a brief hearing in Longueuil.

The Crown announced one month ago that Ouellet faced the single charge in the death of five-year-old Nicholas Thorne-Belance, a passenger in his father’s car when they were struck by Ouellet’s unmarked police cruiser in February 2014.

The police vehicle was going at 120 km-/h in a 50 km/h zone.

Thorne-Belance died a few days later.

Ouellet has been suspended pending the outcome of the legal proceedings.

Members of the young boy’s family attended Friday’s court hearing.

Mountie charged with stealing guns DAUPHIN, Man. — A Manitoba Mountie is facing several criminal charges, including theft of guns from a

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 27, 2015 A5 detachment. a Shiite mosque in Kuwait and a man RCMP allege Cpl. Jason Prettie of with links to Islamic radicals rammed Dauphin was working in Minnedosa a vehicle into a gas factory in southwhen two weapons were stolen in 2009. eastern France.

A spokeswoman says the rifle and Two people were injured in an shotgun were not police-issue and had explosion at the factory and the sevbeen in RCMP custody. ered head of the suspected attacker’s The guns were found this year in a employer was left hanging at the enprivate residence connected to Prettie. trance.

The officer has suspended with pay Prime Minister Stephen Harper pending the outcome of his court case. said he was “saddened and angered” Prettie is also charged with obto learn of the attacks. structing justice and possession of a “On behalf of all Canadians, Lauweapon obtained by crime. reen and I offer our deepest condoHe is to appear Tuesday in Dauphin lences to the family and friends of provincial court. those lost today and a speedy recovery to those injured,” Harper said in a statement.

Canadian agencies have offered French authorities Canada’s full support, he added.

“We mourn today with France and TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — Another stand behind our close friend on this Quebec teen has pleaded guilty to dark day,” the statement said. first-degree murder charges stemming from a triple slaying in a town midway “Canada also strongly condemns between Montreal and Quebec City. the unfolding terrorist attacks in KuThe accused pleaded guilty Friday wait and Tunisia that have killed and to three charges of premeditated murinjured many. Our hearts and prayers der and three of conspiracy to commit are with the families and friends of all murder in Trois-Rivieres in February victims.”

2014.

He’d originally opted for trial before judge and jury, but entered the guilty pleas before a ycuth court judge.

His co-accused, also a minor at the time of the crimes, pleaded guilty to similar charges last June.

The victims were sisters aged 22 and TORONTO — A project manager 17 as well as a 17-year-old boyfriend. who oversaw a construction crew Neither the victims nor the accused involved in a fatal scaffolding colcan be identified due to a provision in lapse in 2009 was convicted Friday in the Youth Criminal Justice Act. the deaths of four workers under his Trois-Rivieres police arrested the charge. two accused just moments after they’d An Ontario Superior Court judge emerged from a residence. found Vadim Kazenelson guilty of four Authorities said at the time that counts of criminal negligence causing jealousy was considered the likely modeath and one count of criminal neglitive in the killings. gence causing bodily harm.

A sentencing hearing for the acKazenelson was aware that fall procused who pleaded guilty in 2014 betections were not in place, but he nevgins Monday. ertheless allowed his workers to board the swing stage, the judge said.

“In his failure to act, he showed wanton and reckless disregard,” Judge Ian MacDonnell said.

Kazenelson sat quietly as his judgment was delivered. Family members of the victims gave each other sombre OTTAWA — The Foreign Affairs high-fives and pats on the back as they department says its officials in Tunileft the courtroom Friday. sia are trying to determine whether The crew was 13 storeys up when any Canadians are among the dozens the stage split in two on Christmas killed in a fearsome terrorist attack.

Eve in 2009. Kazenelson managed to A gunman fired on sunbathers at a hold onto a 13th-floor balcony but five beach near two hotels in the coastal men plummeted to the ground. Four resort city of Sousse. The department died and one suffered serious injuries, says 826 Canadians were known to be while another worker — the only one in Tunisia. properly secured to a safety lifeline — However, that number is only an was left suspended in mid-air. estimate, since registration is volunThat worker, Shohruh Tojiddinov, tary and the figure is typically not fully testified Kazenelson didn’t insist crew representative of the actual number members be attached to lifelines. residing or visiting an area.

He also said Kazenelson asked him The attack came the same day a suicide bomber killed worshippers at to lie about the incident afterward.

Second Quebec youth pleads guilty in 2014 triple slaying

Project manager guilty of five criminal charges in scaffolding collapse deaths

Canada checking whether citizens among dead in Tunisian terror massacre

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Moving on from the past The passion on her face grew in intensity as our discussion continued to evolve around the subject of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report. This young grandmother had stopped at the kitchen on a Monday morning for a coffee and because we had seen her successfully change her life around in the last few years, there is always something to begin a good discussion.

I admire this woman because she has overcome a lifetime of abuse, beginning with residential school.

CHRIS She doesn’t say a lot about the SALOMONS physical abuses that she experienced (of which there were many) both in school and afterwards, but what she feels the strongest about is the lack of family association and upbringing.

Having been torn away from her birth family to go to the residential school, any sense of family was stripped from her. Although she knew she had a mother and father, she had no direct contact with them until later, nor the normal upbringing she should have had. Her mother was no real example at any rate, because she also had gone through the same ‘education.’

In all the years working at the kitchen, I have always tried to understand the reason why it seemed like this group of people lived without a sense of conscience. To me I always felt like there were no standards for them to follow. There were some to be sure but in my limited observation, the large majority seemed to live this way.

Now I began to realize that not only this group but most of the folks on the street had the same basic lack of training in life skills that normally come with a family upbringing; either they received none or they rejected what they were taught for a variety of reasons.

In many of my articles, I have stressed that there is no replacement for the training a child receives in the care of a loving family; usually 15 to 20 years’ worth of training.

The TRC commissioner in his final report stated that all the behaviour problems that are now experienced by native people had their roots in the residential schools. At first I shook my head at that statement, but I now begin to understand how this is not only possible, but is very likely true for many who came through this system. What I

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thought unreasonable was the implication that every male teacher, priest or other male was a pedophile and that every nun or other woman was a cantankerous, vindictive witch out to destroy these kids.

At the same time, I have spoken with many who were in a residential school and have gone on to lead very normal lives. Although they also were deprived of the family life skills training every child needs, they made a choice to leave that portion behind; not forget it, just leave it behind and build a more positive future.

In our discussion with this young grandmother, I kept getting the feeling that she was using the history more as an excuse to feel hurt rather than make every effort to leave behind history that cannot be rewritten. Her one statement that she repeated several times was that she wanted us to feel her pain.

Although we can sympathize with her and also feel that the whole episode of residential schools was all wrong and for the wrong reasons, we

cannot and are not able to feel their pain; we did not experience that trauma. Besides, many are the people who did go through that system that will tell you that if not for those schools, they would not be alive today.

When I proposed that in order to reconcile, both sides had to be willing to leave the past behind (not forget, just leave behind), and start on a level playing field, I was met with a stubborn refusal. I found that this young grandmother was trying desperately to use the past as a bargaining chip to substantiate and promote her hurts.

One other lady at the table apologized several times for past sins of the government and churches, but was met with a resistive attitude. She then stated that if this young grandmother would not receive an apology from the current generation who had nothing to do with the past, then any effort at reconciliation would be severely hampered, if not impossible.

What I have found is that although many were the wrongs done by the Caucasian population in the past, and

many that are still happening today, if every effort at reconciliation is met with refusals to let go of the past then nothing will change.

I, for one, would like nothing better than to accept as equals people of all races, but if all of my efforts to do so are constantly being met by the wall currently being built on the basis of the TRC report, I also could become discouraged.

I hope and pray sincerely that never happens.

If Rwanda can have success in this area, there is no reason that we can’t as well.

The people of Rwanda saw not only their families torn apart, but in some cases hacked to death with dull machetes. They also experienced extreme pain, but because of their faith, were able to drop the past and work toward reconciliation. Forgiveness would come with time.

That in my mind is truth and reconciliation.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Red Deer is playing in the big sand box now We finally broke the century mark.

The 100 K. The big one. The big one with five zeros after it. For better or for worse, our fair city is well and truly in the big leagues now. Right up there with other cities with a population count of over 100,000 but under 110,000. Move over Langley, B.C., St. John’s, N.L., Ajax, Ont., and Terrebonne, Que.!

As of 2015, Red Deer is playing in the big sand box with the big kids.

HARLEY Historically HAY speaking, we haven’t always had sand in our shorts. Take 1898, for instance. The official population tipped the scales at 125 brave and possibly fool-hardy souls. And they were probably all related, and likely on their way to settle in Kelowna, B.C., but their horses got tired and they just stayed. This is also the year local wellknown historian Michael Dawe was born and started keeping track of Central Alberta, historically speaking.

Then, if my figures are correct, and they are on account of I got them from the interweb, little Red Deer cracked

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the thousand people plateau around 1906, on account of the Windsor Hotel opened a beverage room and a lot of the biker gangs used to like to hang at the good old Windsor. In fact, many people from the turn of the century may remember there was a sign on the Windsor beverage room door that said: “Check your knives and helmets at the bar.”

By the end of the Second World War, which started a mere 20 years after the “war to end all wars,” our central city marked a leap to 4,042 citizens, which was almost double the population of the year before. There are many obvious war-related reasons for this, however, history shows that many of those new arrivals came to play hockey with highly successful and very popular Red Deer Rustlers team in the old arena, which was then known as the new arena. Much revered local historian Michael Dawe was the captain of the 1946 Rustlers, and scored a goal against the Lacombe Rockets that fateful year.

Eventually the 1950s came around and “Dead Rear” topped off the decade with 18,000 people, mostly babies called “boomers” who, when they could talk, thought it was hilarious to call their city “Dead Rear” without even knowing that they had just invented a famous grammatical play on words called a “spoonerism.”

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Adams but also happened to be the last year of the groovy, far out, whacked out 1960s, darn near 27,000 people lived in Red Deer. Most of them jammed themselves into the Memorial Centre gymnasium several times a year for Comp dances featuring what pre-21st century folks used to call “live bands.”

It took most of the ’70s and ’80s to double the census on account of someone finally invented computers so that city officials didn’t have to count the population on their fingers. And on one fateful day in 1996, a hand-cranked Commodore 64, after 35 days of 24/7 computing, managed to calculate that 60,075 people called Red Deer home, and that many of them actually lived here.

This was also the year that beloved local historian Michael Dawe published his 17th book, each one called A History of Red Deer.

The year 1999 came and went, and then the world almost ended in 2000 because of a deadly virus called Y2K, which caused the Red Deer Rustlers to become the Red Deer Rebels and Red Deer College to decide to become a “technical institute” instead of a university like everyone preferred. I believe it was proposed that it would sound really good for Alberta to have a NAIT, SAIT and a CAIT. Also, the early years of the new millennium saw other great changes in the city of Purple Moose. For one thing, some baby boomers (at least one

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Then, if you skip a decade or so, it brings us smack dab into today — 100,807 people in good old Red Deer!

Third largest city in the province.

Voted by the very popular Friends of Michael Dawe Society as “the best place this side of Drumheller.” A vibrant, evolving community of diversity, growth and eight million flowers in City Hall Park. A city with both a Horton spheroid and an Alpha smokestack. An energetic municipality with a steam-punked piano plunked on Ross Street downtown and a giant movie theatre on a parking lot 17 km from the nearest house.

All of this and so much more, and so much less.

But what’s next for the city? An Ikea? Olive Garden? A much larger remand centre?

I certainly don’t know. But next time you see him, ask Michael Dawe.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

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Investing in the future Where are the big ideas in the coming election campaign? All we seem to be getting is incrementalism.

Both the NDP and Liberals are adhering to the underlying Conservative belief in the virtue of a balanced budget even when the economy is underperforming and the future potential growth rate is too low to sustain health care and other valued public programs in the future.

Rather than offering major new economic policies for growth, innovation, productivity and good jobs, the NDP and Liberals are tinkering at the edges of Conservative polDAVID icies while talking endlessly CRANE about saving the middle class.

Yet the biggest threat to the middle class is our poor economic performance and dismal prospects, the consequence of existing policies.

What we need is stronger economic growth, which means more public and private investment, more demand-led innovation from investment in infrastructure and low-carbon energy systems, sector strategies to boost manufacturing, a digital economy strategy to build Canadian capabilities in the Internet of Things, and a recognition that, at the end of the day, only through innovation-driven productivity growth can we create the prosperity both for a strong middle class but also a ladder so that Canadians on the bottom rungs have the chance to climb into the middle class.

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But if the main goal of fiscal policy is to balance the budget now and never deviate except in times of crisis, then we are embracing a world of diminished expectations and missed opportunity. We are also creating a world where many young Canadians are not getting the start in employment that will put on them on a trajectory for career growth while the country is losing the potential of their education.

None of our political parties, though, is a delivering a credible message of opportunity and hope for the future.

In a recent speech, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair was at pains to demonstrate his party was committed to a balanced budget. In outlining plans for a middle class tax cut, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also stressed his party’s commitment to a balanced budget.

But putting a balanced budget above other priorities is not necessarily good fiscal policy. It depends on economic circumstances and how borrowed funds will be used.

This is not just a Canadian debate. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, the world’s biggest manufacturing company, recently contended that strengthening economic growth was the key challenge for the U.S. “Almost all of our problems can be solved with stronger economic growth; we will create jobs and reduce the deficit,” Immelt said. “However,” he warned, “none of the country’s problems will be solved with the two per cent GDP growth that we see today; we will not create middle class jobs; we will not reduce the deficit; we will not restore our economic standing in the world.”

In Canada, our economy may grow as little as 1.5 per cent this year, and our potential growth rate over

the next few years looks to remain below two per cent.

The conventional thinking on balancing the budget as the top priority implies that we cannot afford to make the real investments we need for a better future. But how are we going to have a better future is we don’t make those investments? It will be the investments in infrastructure, in the digital world, in sector strategies, in the transition to a low-carbon economy and in the skills of Canadians that will build a stronger economy and more prosperous future.

What we need is a budget to spur investment, showing government borrowing for investment is different from government borrowing for consumption.

In Canada we lump the two together which helps explain the confusion over government debt and balanced budgets.

When a family buys a house, it doesn’t pay for it out of that year’s income. It gets a mortgage to pay for the house over an extended period of time. There’s no reason why government should be different. If a new infrastructure project, such as a highway or new water system, has a long-term benefit, why should it be 100 per cent financed in the year of actual expenditure?

Yet all of our political parties seem locked into the same orthodoxy at a time when Canada needs bold solutions for a better future. Without fresh thinking and some big ideas, both of which Canada urgently needs, it may not matter who wins the next election.

We will still be on a slow-growth path.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Cartoons of Muhammad again Would it be all right if I called Geert Wilders a piece of human waste? No? Damn.

Well, then, can I call him a deeply cynical politician who is willing to get people killed to advance his political career? OK, thanks.

Geert Wilders is a deeply cynical Dutch politician who is willing to get people killed to advance his political career. Sometimes they are Muslims, sometimes they are people of Christian heritage — that doesn’t really matter, so long as he reaps the publicGWYNNE ity. And now he has come up DYER with a clever new way to outrage foolish young Muslims and get them to murder people for him.

Wilders realized that a little-known Dutch law obliges the television networks to show anything that a politician wishes to include in a party political broadcast. No censorship is allowed on grounds of truth, of taste, or even of safety. So the far-right politician, whose whole political career has been based on attacking Islam, decided to air some truly nasty cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad.

One shows a man labelled “Muhammad” with snakes in his beard. Another shows a rather loonylooking young man who is clearly labelled “The Prophet Muhammad.” A third shows somebody who is probably meant to be Muhammad on a unicycle, juggling five chopped-off heads with letters attached that spell ISLAM. Not funny, not clever, not really even topical. Just nasty.

Most Muslims are uncomfortable with images of

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Muhammad, and many believe that they are blasphemous. That doesn’t mean that democratic, pluralist societies like those of the West should ban such images. Freedom of speech means that any group, including any religious group, should accept that it may be criticized, even mocked in public. You cannot demand special treatment just because your feelings will be hurt.

But you can and should expect not to be singled out for hatred simply because of your particular religious beliefs. You have the right to be protected from rhetoric that deliberately confounds innocent believers with terrorists (as Wilders regularly does).

And you certainly have right to be protected from incitements to violence.

There is a world of difference between Geert Wilders and the dozen people who were murdered

by Islamist extremists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last January. They were equal-opportunity cartoonists who targeted everybody with equal irreverence and a fine absence of discrimination; Wilders is a monomaniac who wants to ban the Koran in the Netherlands because it is “like (Adolf Hitler’s) Mein Kampf.”

But he is a devious monomaniac, because the people he is really trying to incite to violence are Muslims. If he can trick ignorant Muslims into killing people by portraying the Prophet Muhammad in ugly and insulting cartoons, he wins.

The cartoons Wilders has insisted be broadcast on Dutch television were originally shown at an event in Texas last month which awarded a $10,000 prize for the best (i.e. worst) cartoon about Muhammad. The organizers were trying to provoke a reaction, so they invited Wilders to give the event a higher profile. It worked wonderfully: two simplistic young fanatics tried to attack the conference, and were shot dead in the car park.

So Wilders brought copies of the cartoons home with him, and announced that he would broadcast them on Dutch television as a defence of free speech.

The broadcast was supposed to go out in the Netherlands on Saturday, but somebody at the NPO1 television network managed to mislay the tape Wilders had given them.

He was furiously indignant about that, of course, and insisted that his right as a party leader to put anything he wants on the party political broadcasts must be respected.

Wilders knows perfectly well that this will happen, and is content that it should.

He and his anti-Muslim allies on the far right of Dutch politics are what Marxists used to call the “objective allies” of the bearded Muslim extremists screaming for blood in the streets and the more calculating Muslim leaders who urge those fanatics to go out and commit violence in the name of “defending” Islam.

Both parties, however much they hate each other, have a common interest in keeping the outrage level among their followers high, and they tacitly cooperate to keep the pot boiling. \The poor old media know they are being manipulated and exploited by people with truly reprehensible agendas, but they cannot simply refuse to report the news, even if it is manufactured news (as is so often the case).

And so, in a world where most people of any religion or none simply want to get on with their neighbours and lead a quiet life, we are fed a constant diet of lies that shows us a world full of blood-thirsty, hate-filled extremists.

Oh, and by the way: Geert Wilders is a piece of human waste.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

How you become a white supremacist AND HOW YOU RISE ABOVE IT

BY ARNO MICHAELIS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of being a warrior. I learned to read early and would sit in the library pouring over books of Greek and Norse myths, gravitating to the parts about monsters and violence.

In middle school, I played Dungeons & Dragons, fancying myself as an unstoppable fighter who made his own rules. Art was equally as fascinating as violence, and the two combined in my drawings of battle scenes from ancient Vikings cracking skulls to spaceships blowing each other to bits.

I grew up in an alcoholic family and developed an adrenaline habit that drove me to lash out at the world in increasingly drastic ways. By the time I turned 16, I was an alcoholic and very comfortable with hate and violence. I hated the town I lived in. I hated my school and most of the teachers and other kids. I hated the police. I discovered racist skinhead music through the punk scene and learned that the swastika is an effective way of angering others — the hostility I radiated was reflected by the people around me, validating the paranoid ideology that had become my identity. Eventually I became a founding member of the Northern Hammerskins, which went on to become part of Hammerskin Nation.

I spent seven years as a leader of hate groups, perpetrating wanton violence against innocent people and twisting the minds of other hurt white kids to do even worse. We would comb the city, looking for the “anti-racist skinheads” and beating up whoever we could find. Though we did attack people because of skin colour or suspected sexual orientation, we most often attacked random white people, claiming after the fact that they were race-traitors. Aside from trips to Chicago and Minneapolis to brawl with their anti-racists, the bulk of the violence we committed was relatively spontaneous. We had a tendency to start assaulting each other if we didn’t go on a manhunt.

At our most organized point, the

group had weekly meetings at which the many threats we faced were lamented and our dedication to eliminating our enemies was sworn. By enemies, I mean everyone except violent, racist white people. Jews were seen as the masterminds of an ongoing genocide against the white race.

“Non-white” people were seen as lazy, stupid savages that the Jews kept integrating into white society to destroy it.

White people who weren’t violent racists were seen as the greatest enemies of all: race-traitors complicit in our destruction.

This sick mindset was constantly reinforced with racist music and literature. Any sort of media that didn’t support white supremacist ideology was forbidden. The resulting intellectual and spiritual isolation made fertile ground for hate and violence.

We recruited other angry white people by littering areas of racial tension with fliers bearing swastikas and slogans telling black people, in the crudest slur possible, to “beware,” along with our post office box. Luckily for us, Milwaukee was a hotbed of racial strife during the late 1980s, thanks to a severely depressed inner city and a black alderman who let his righteous anger drive him to threaten violence against whites.

You could pretty much throw a rock and find a disgruntled white person.

We also recruited through word of mouth with white co-workers, family and friends. Though nine out of 10 people would be repulsed by what we had to say, there were always those who liked to hear it.

When everything is going wrong in your life, it’s much easier to blame Jews/Muslims/blacks/Mexicans/gays/ anyone-but-yourself than it is to face your flaws and begin the hard work to account for them.

The teenage outcast kid is told that it’s the Jews’ fault he doesn’t have a girlfriend — the media they control tells white girls to be attracted to black boys. The middle-aged guy who lost his job has “illegal” immigrants to blame, and take a wild guess who the racist narrative says brings them into our country.

The recruitment process is sophis-

ticated beyond the understanding of the recruiters. There are very complex human frailties that are preyed upon and manipulated without either the prospect or recruiter really understanding the psychological dynamics.

Recruiters fail to understand the spiritual mechanics behind a person’s need for love, but they know well enough to look for people who are hurting.

Simply put, it feels good for a person to feel a sense of belonging, purpose and value, especially if they lack love in their lives.

There are all sorts of healthy ways to meet these needs, the Serve 2 Unite program I work with today being one of them. But if such needs are not answered with love and humanity, they can very easily be answered with fear, ignorance and hate.

People like Dylann Roof, the suspect in last week’s church shooting in Charleston, S.C., typically seek some means of solace when things in life seem to go wrong. In this age of ubiquitous media and information access, a quick Google search in a direction guided by pain can lead to someone to blame. Once a culprit is identified, a

host of propaganda emerges.

I’ve been beat up as often as I’ve beaten others, and in no case did being on the receiving end of violence make me any less violent.

It was actually the kindness of brave people who refused to lower themselves to my level that changed the course of my life, to put me in a position to follow their example and promote the practice of loving-kindness myself. We cannot hate violent extremism out of existence.

Love is the most effective means to draw people from hate. Kumbayas aside, there are dynamics as sound as any law of physics to back this up. Hate and violence are cyclical things.

More of either can only fuel the cycle. This is not a problem that we can punish our way out of.

As righteous as the anger we feel may be when facing horror like the murder of nine wonderful people in their place of worship, it can never bring us toward a more peaceful world if we let it poison our hearts.

Michaelis is the author of My Life After Hate. This column was supplied by the Washington Post.

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Dozens killed in Tunisia beach rampage SOUSSE, Tunisia — A young man pulled a Kalashnikov from a beach umbrella and sprayed gunfire at European sunbathers at a Tunisian resort, killing at least 38 people — one of three deadly attacks Friday from Europe to North Africa to the Middle East that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists.

The shootings in the Tunisian resort of Sousse happened at about the same time as a bombing at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait and an attack on a U.S.owned factory in France that included a beheading. It was unclear if the violence was linked but it came days after the IS militants urged their followers “to make Ramadan a month of calamities for the nonbelievers.� In all, the assailants killed at least 65 people.

The SITE Intelligence Group reported later that the IS claimed credit for the Tunisia attack on its Twitter account and identified the gunman as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani.

The attack in Tunisia, the country’s worst ever, comes just months after the March 18 massacre at the national Bardo museum in Tunis that killed 22 people, again mostly tourists, and has called into question the newly elected government’s ability to protect the country. “Once again, cowardly and traitorous hands have struck Tunisia, targeting its security and that of its children and visitors,� President Beji Caid Essebsi told reporters at the RIU Imperial Marhaba hotel, near the beach rampage site.

Essebsi promised “painful but necessary� measures, adding: “No country is safe from terrorism, and we need a global strategy of all democratic countries.�

MALONE, N.Y. — One of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison three weeks ago was shot and killed Friday in a gunbattle with law enforcement officers in a wooded area about 30 miles from the prison, and the other is on the run.

Sen. Charles Schumer, who was briefed by the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Marshals Service, said Richard Matt was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent. Officers are trucking in floodlights to where David Sweat is believed to be hiding, not far from where Matt was killed.

Schumer said searchers closed in on the pair after receiving a call from a woman who heard someone knock on her door early Friday in Malone, which is about 30 miles (50 kilometres) west of the Clinton Correctional Facility. “She didn’t answer the door, but she called the police,� he said. “They brought the dogs, and they got a scent.

They followed that scent and put out a lot of troops around the cabin. They came upon him and found him and killed him.�

Schumer said at least one of the prisoners was armed. The pair escaped early June 6 from the prison in Dannemora, near the Canadian border.

Supreme Court declares gay couples have right to marry WASHINGTON — Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden. “No longer may this liberty be denied,� said Justice Anthony Kennedy.

The vote was narrow — 5-4 — but Kennedy’s majority opinion was clear and firm: “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry.�

The ruling will put an end to samesex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them, and provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years. As recently as last October, just over one-third of the states permitted gay marriages.

Kennedy’s reading of the ruling

Obama eulogizes nine slain churchgoers CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Barack Obama used his eulogy for a slain pastor to deliver an unvarnished lecture on America’s racial history Friday, and then boldly sang “Amazing Grace,� a spiritual meant to summon hope in the darkest of times.

Obama also called for gun control and efforts to eliminate poverty and job discrimination, and said the Confederate battle flag — long a symbol of Southern pride — must be removed from places of honour. “For many — black and white — that flag was a reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation. We see that now,� he said.

The president came to eulogize the Rev. Clemente Pinckney, a state senator whose church was founded by the leader of a failed slave revolt and burned to the ground by angry whites in 1822. After the Civil War, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church led efforts to expand equal rights in the South, hosting Martin Luther King Jr. during campaigns in South Carolina.

Pinckney himself came from a long line of preachers and protesters, and the eight people slain beside him drew no distinctions between their work in church and their efforts to improve society, Obama said. “We do not know whether the killer of Rev. Pinckney knew all of this history,� the president said. “But he surely sensed the meaning of his violent act.

It was an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arsons and shots fired at these churches; not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress.� “It was an act that he imagined would incite fear, and incrimination, violence and suspicion. An act he presumed would deepen divisions that trace back to our nation’s original sin,�

Obama continued, his voice rising in the cadence of the preachers who preceded him. “Oh, but God works in mysterious ways!� Obama said, and the crowd rose to give him a standing ovation. “God has different ideas!�

Obama spoke plainly about the ugliness of America’s racial history — from slavery to the many ways minorities have been deprived of equal rights in more recent times. Taking down the Confederate flag is a righteous step, “but God doesn’t want us to stop there,� he said.

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In praise of the decision, President Barack Obama called it “justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.�

Four of the court’s justices weren’t cheering. The dissenters accused their colleagues of usurping power that belongs to the states and to voters, and short-circuiting a national debate about same-sex marriage. “This court is not a legislature.

Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us,�

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in dissent. Roberts read a summary of his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in nearly 10 years as chief justice. “If you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who favour expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision,� Roberts said. “But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.�

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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: After a long day in the city core, a peasant woman packs her wares — and bambino — for the long bus ride back to her village.

The Madonna looks down on the Old Town from high atop El Panecillo hill. Kichwa women sell hand-woven scarves in front of the Hotel Plaza Grande.

Photos GERRY FEEHAN/ Freelance

QUITO ADVENTURES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH

GERRY FEEHAN

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Photo on right by FLORENCE FEEHAN/Freelance

ABOVE: With its wonderfully preserved colonial architecture, Quito is a UNESCO world heritage site. Quito is renowned for petty street crime but the Feehans had no problemo.

RIGHT: Cuy is an Ecuadorian delicacy.

BELOW: Quito is laid out in a series of valleys high in the Andes Mountains.

W

hen the plane hit the tarmac in Quito, I exhaled a sigh of relief.

My queasy week at sea in the Galapagos Islands was over. I could finally regain my land legs. But Ecuador’s capital is located 2800 metres above sea level, where altitude sickness reigns.

So was

it out of the frying pan and into the fire?

The Plaza Grande on Independence Square in the historic heart of Old Town Quito is a splendid old hotel. Hervé the affable doorman greeted us with a broad smile. The sight — and scent — of 10 dozen red roses filled the lobby.

Ecuador is the rose capital of the world, the largest exporter of cut flowers on the planet. Quito’s perpetual springtime climate, rich volca-

nic soil and cheap labour are why a dozen long-stemmed roses cost less than $20 in Red Deer in January. In Ecuador, 20 bucks will get you a dozen dozen roses (should you ever have need of that many apologies while on vacation in South America).

Quito means “middle of the earth,” after the indigenous Quitu people who settled in this fertile valley 1,500 years ago. The Incas captured Quito in 1487 but ruled for only a few decades before the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in 1534, decimating the indigenous population

but leaving a legacy of beautiful colonial buildings. With its wonderfully preserved architecture, Quito is now a UNESCO world heritage site.

We had arrived late and ventured out to stretch our legs. Quito is renowned as a dangerous city, a place where petty street crime is rife. Tourists are particularly vulnerable, often relieved of wallets and cameras in broad daylight.

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Quito lies smack dab on the equator.

QUITO: Guinea pig tastes like gamy chicken Despite multiple warnings to avoid the streets at night, we wandered aimlessly, exploring the narrow lanes, mingling with the locals, buskers and roadside vendors, enjoying the cacophonous street life. Nobody pulled a knife on us.

We eventually wandered safely back to the Plaza Grande and fell peacefully into bed.

Altitude sickness struck just after midnight. I awoke gasping, dreaming I was being spun in a circle and water-boarded. Florence rang the front desk. The clerk was accustomed to these late night complaints and promptly delivered coca-leaf tea to our door. (Yes, the same stuff from which cocaine is made.) I slurped down the hot tonic and slept like a baby until our tour guide aroused us at 8 a.m. for a city tour.

After a wonderful Ecuadorian breakfast of ceviche, plantain and remarkable fresh fruit from the highlands, we drove slowly through the Old Town, past the Palacio Presidential and La Compania church. We then climbed steeply up El Panecillo hill to one of Quito’s famous landmarks, a statue of the Madonna. From her pedestal high atop Panecillo, Mary has a spectacular view of the city.

Quito lies high in the Andes Mountains. This metropolis of 2.6 million souls is home to a fifth of Ecuador’s population. I pride myself on knowing my way around strange places, how to read a map and — most importantly — how to get back to the hotel in time for dinner. Florence calls this the carto-gene.

But Quito is laid out in a series of confusingly interconnected valleys. Long tunnels separate one serpentine neighbourhood from another. After we left Panecillo, I hadn’t a clue where we were.

The guide told us we were driving to Mitad del Mundo (the Middle of the Earth) to visit the equator.

No need to consult my malfunctioning internal compass — we were headed toward latitude 0°00’00’’.

Shortly before noon, under the ashen gaze of Pichincha Volcano, we arrived at the Monument on the Equator.

Frankly, the place was a little cheesy, with a bunch of “equator” gimmicks. Apparently there are a number of peculiarities associated with being situated at zero degrees latitude: an egg will balance on a nail head and a blindfolded human is incapable of walking in a straight line. It was demonstrated that, a couple of metres north of the meridian, a tub of water drains counterclockwise, whereas south of the equator the water goes down clockwise (or is it the other way round?), And, amazingly, directly on the equator, water flushes straight down, spinning neither right nor left. This is known as the Coriolis effect — but despite paying $8 to witness the proof, I’m still not convinced there wasn’t some sleight-ofhand going on.

On just two days each year — the spring and fall equinox — the sun is directly overhead at noon on the equator. No shadow is cast. I checked my watch.

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I am a firm believer in the “when in Rome” travel philosophy. Experiencing local culture and cuisine is fundamental to a fulfilling travel experience. After visiting the Otavalo market (and picking up an alpaca-wool sweater cheap, cheap) I was starving for some local grub. Our young tour guide Katarina suggested we sample a local delicacy known as cuy (at the urging of her father Alberto, who doubled as driver).

And that is how I ended up staring down at a plate of whole, deep-fried guinea pig (don’t tell my mother).

In Ecuador, cuy is a delicacy. But it was disconcerting to see the diminutive rodent splayed out on a bed of rice. I tentatively tasted the legs and ribs of the cute little fellow but balked at the head and feet. Alberto was overjoyed when I offered him these scrumptious remainders. Katarina shied away from the cuy, content with a smoothie. Florence ordered a steak — and averted her eyes throughout the meal.

Alberto’s non-English was equivalent to my nonSpanish. So our dinner interaction consisted mainly of polite nodding — and watching each other pick small pet bones from our teeth.

What does cuy taste like? Kind of like gamy chicken — but not duck. And totally different from Korean dog — but that’s another story.

I was ill for a month after we arrived home. I picked up a parasite somewhere in our South American travels — a nasty thing aptly named blastocystis.

Not sure if it was the Panamanian street food, squid in the Galapagos or perhaps unfermented chicha broth in the Amazon. Or maybe it was Quito cuy karma.

Gerry Feehan, QC, is a retired lawyer, avid traveller and photographer. He lives in Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan. blogspot.com.

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Seeing without sharing

BY CAROL PATTERSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Philosopher George Berkeley asked, “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” What if you went to a tourist attraction that allowed no photos? Could you still enjoy it without a selfie or photographic proof for your Facebook feed?

I faced that dilemma at Petroglyphs Provincial Park, 55 km northeast of Peterborough, Ont. Six to 11 centuries ago — an era when the Vikings were first arriving in North America — aboriginal people were carving images for ceremonial or spiritual reasons into white marble rock of the Canadian Shield. These 900 rock carvings are now known as Kinomaage waapkong or ‘the rocks that teach’ and the largest known single concentration of Aboriginal rock art in Canada.

They lay undiscovered until 1954, when three prospectors stumbled onto the carvings of people, snakes, turtles and other creatures, and told a newspaper.

By 1967, there were the same number of annual visitors as today — approximately 12,000 — but no protection. Some tourists wanted to share the glory and carved their initials into the stones; experts feared even the best behaved visitors would wear away carvings with their footsteps.

In 1976, a provincial park was created and in 1984, a glass-sided building was erected over the petroglyphs. Now a visitor enters via the Learning Place (visitor centre) before walking 300 metres to the ‘glyphs’ while putting their cameras away.

First Nations “believe drawings are a spiritual being and taking a picture diminishes its spirituality,” explained park superintendent Andy Nicholson.

Park warden P.J. Fife is Mississauga Ojibway and has worked at the park for eight summers.

Curve Lake First Nations is clos-

est to Petroglyphs Provincial Park and shares management of the site. “These carvings aren’t just a place to see, it’s a spiritual place, sort of like a church,” said Fife, in a rapid-fire explanation, pointing to an interpretive sign in English, French and Ojibway. “Ojibway is not traditionally a written language but that’s changed in the last 50 years.”

So could I change? My first instinct at seeing a special place was to whip out my smartphone for an Instagram photo. The Algonquin speakers who carved here had an oral tradition, sharing knowledge through storytelling. I belong to a somewhat narcissistic culture, sharing fleeting impressions through selfies and Facebook posts.

Without a picture how could I convey this special place? Would anyone know I’d been here?

“You should take your pictures in here,” suggested Ojibway Russell Dokis as he greeted me at the Learning Place, pointing to his head. “If we see people enter the building with a large camera,” Nicolson explains, “we can ask them not to take pictures. There can be some tension there.”

Added Fife, “We stress the spiritual aspect and get people to reflect on that. There are some First Nations people who don’t think we should have the site as a tourist attraction, so people are lucky to see them.”

I had to agree. Pointing to a carving with a small person linked to a bigger person by a snake, Fife suggested it could depict a young man becoming an old man. “The large triangle over the larger man’s head could be a hat or it could depict the knowledge gained.”

Perhaps I too was gaining knowledge. Stripped of my social media lifeline, I was relying on my senses to capture this experience, but I was pretty sure that even without a camera, I would not forget my time here.

Carol Patterson inspires everyday explorers with words and video. When she isn’t travelling for work, Carol is travelling for fun. More of her adventures can be found at www.carolpatterson.ca.

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CLOCKWISE TOP LEFT: The Learning Place provides insight through text, photos and artifacts.

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The Next One OILERS MAKE IT OFFICIAL, DRAFT CONNOR MCDAVID WITH FIRST PICK OF NHL DRAFT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SUNRISE, Fla. — The time between the NHL draft lottery and Friday added up to the longest 69 days of Connor McDavid’s life. Waiting the final few minutes before getting drafted felt like an eternity, too.

“They had to introduce everyone and all the teams and the roll call, it just felt like it was going by so slowly,” McDavid said. “All I wanted to do was just have that pick called.”

At 7:18 p.m. Edmonton Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli made the announcement that was more than two months in the making. Like any other pick, Chiarelli selected Connor McDavid of the Erie Otters.

But this wasn’t any other pick. McDavid is considered hockey’s “Next One” in the lineage of Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby, and now he begins the Oilers chapter of his career.

“It’s an exciting time to be an Oiler and I know the fans are excited, and they should be,” McDavid said. “Now that it’s finally happened and I’m an Edmonton Oiler, I couldn’t be more proud.”

The Newmarket, Ont., native called the experience of being selected better than he expected. Anxiety more than nerves marked the night.

During the day, McDavid was at ease with a nice breakfast with his parents and even some jet-skiing.

When it was finally his time to get up from his seat, the 18-year-old finally felt a sense of relief. Wearing a baby blue tie, McDavid took off his suit jacket, strode onto the stage and first shook commissioner Gary Bettman’s hand as fans cheered and thanked Chiarelli for taking him.

“That was an easy one,” Chiarelli said.

McDavid put on the Oilers’ brand-

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Connor McDavid, right, prepares to put on an Edmonton Oilers sweater after being chosen first overall by the Oilers during the first round of the NHL hockey draft, Friday, in Sunrise, Fla. new WHA-inspired orange jersey with his trademark No. 97 on the back and shoulders. Blue and orange has been on the shelves in Erie already, and it’s about to be in fashion again.

“It means a lot for them to do that,” McDavid said. “To see 97 when I flipped that jersey around was special.”

After an incredible junior career that included 285 points in 166 games, McDavid can now shift his focus to professional hockey.

While acknowledging that it’s a big jump from the Ontario Hockey League to playing against men, the humble superstar added the caveat that he has to work to make the team. That won’t be

an issue, as McDavid joins the core of Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

“Welcome to Edmonton, Connor,” Hall tweeted. “Don’t mess up everything we’ve built the last 5 years! FutureIsBright”

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Late field goal lifts Stampeders over Tiger-Cats

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Calgary Stampeders Eric Rogers, left, celebrates his touchdown catch with teammate Joe West during first half CFL football action against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Calgary, Friday.

Calgary 24 Hamilton 23 CALGARY — Rene Paredes kicked a 50-yard field goal with no time left on the clock to lead the Calgary Stampeders to a thrilling 24-23 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night.

Paredes also booted a 43-yard field goal at 12:25 of the fourth quarter to pull the Stamps within a point before Justin Medlock kicked his third single of the game to put the Ticats up by a pair. That set up the thrilling finish and Parades didn’t disappoint the 28,487 in attendance.

Nursing a four-point lead with 5:03 left in the fourth quarter, the Ticats stood their ground to stop backup Calgary quarterback Drew Tate from rushing the ball into the end zone on a third-and-one situation. But the Stamps kept their composure and rallied to win by a single point.

Veteran Calgary defensive back Keon Raymond had a 97-yard interception return in the third quarter, and running back Jon Cornish added a twopoint convert when he ran in the ball from three yards out. Eric Rogers also

caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Calgary starting quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell.

Mitchell had a rough game for the Stamps as he completed 22-of-35 passes for 263 yards to go with one touchdown pass and three interceptions.

The Stamps recorded a two-point safety when Medlock kicked the ball out of the back of his own end zone in the second quarter after Aaron Crawford inadvertently snapped the ball over his head.

Johnny Sears Jr. had a pair of interceptions, including one for a touchdown, for the Ticats. Sears picked off an errant pass by Mitchell on Calgary’s opening drive of the game and ran it back 75 yards into the end zone. The veteran defensive back, who spent the past five seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers before signing with Hamilton in the off-season, also intercepted Mitchell at mid-field in the fourth quarter.

Brandon Banks ran back a punt for a touchdown, while Medlock kicked a pair of field goals and three singles.

Hamilton quarterback Zach Collaros completed 27-of-38 passes for 281 yards.

Flames acquire defenceman Dougie Hamilton from Bruins

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — While the Calgary Flames are proud of their “C of Red” crowd, it’s their blue-line that’s now deeper than ever.

The Flames acquired defenceman Dougie Hamilton from the Boston Bruins on Friday for a first-round pick and two second-rounders. The 22-year-old bolsters a defence corps that already includes Mark Giordano, Kris Russell, T.J. Brodie, Dennis Wideman, Ladislav Smid and Deryk Engelland.

“I like that defence and I think it’s critical to build your team from the defence out,” general manager Brad Treliving said. “This is a player who

fits where we’re going in Calgary.

“This is not a deviation in terms of the young players that we’re building around. To me he adds to it.”

The 15th, 42nd and 57th picks in this NHL draft seemed a small price to pay for a strong puck-moving defenceman who hasn’t yet reached his prime.

Hamilton can now grow up alongside forwards Sam Bennett, Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau.

The Toronto native is a restricted free agent who will likely command a salary north of US$5 million on a longterm deal. Bruins GM Don Sweeney said he made a “significant offer” to sign Hamilton, but a trade or offer sheet was likely to happen.

“I don’t believe that Dougie

would’ve been comfortable in Boston going forward for long-term,” Sweeney said.

While the Bruins unloaded Hamilton and then left-winger Milan Lucic in another trade with the Los Angeles Kings, the Flames got stronger without giving up a player from their playoff roster.

Calgary has cashed in on enough prospects that giving up three draft picks still fit in with their long-term plan.

“We’ve got picks,” Treliving said “We still got a second round pick.

“We’ve got six picks overall. Our cupboard is not bare.”

Hamilton got an immediate welcome to the Flames in the form of a

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phone call from Giordano almost immediately after the trade.

“I’m excited to get to Calgary and meet the guys and start playing and enjoy playing in front of the fans,” Hamilton said on a conference call. “It’s going to be real exciting.”

Treliving was excited to get Hamilton, although there’s still work to be done. As of Friday night, he already had reached out to agent J.P. Barry and planned to speak with him later about a contract.

Without the salary-cap problems that plague the Bruins, the Flames should have no problem getting Hamilton signed. That’s the easy part after coming away with such a young defenceman with sky-high potential.

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Jays bats bombard Rangers ENCARNACION’S FIRST INNING GRAND SLAM HIGHLIGHTS 12-RUN ONSLAUGHT

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion is greeted by teammate Jose Bautista at home plate after Encarnacion hit a grand slam in the first inning of their AL baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Toronto Friday. we’ve seen him in the past,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “I think he will. He went on an incredible roll last year in May and then hurt his leg and things like that. He keeps battling.

“Every time he steps in the box, he’s got a chance to go deep and that’s not a good feeling on the other side.”

Kevin Pillar added to Toronto’s lead in the second, leading off with a double and later scoring on a ground out

by Jose Reyes. Travis gave Toronto a

6-2 lead after scoring on a bloop single

by Josh Donaldson.

Russell Martin, of Montreal, hit his 11th home run of the season in the third, which gave Toronto a 7-2 lead.

Danny Valencia also homered for the Jays.

Chris Colabello’s double scored Bautista giving Toronto an 8-2 lead in the fifth. Colabello would later score on a sac fly from Martin.

Prince Fielder got Texas on the

Djokovic gets tough first round WIMBLEDON

LONDON — Defending champion Novak Djokovic avoided his three biggest traditional rivals in the Wimbledon draw on Friday as the other members of tennis’ “Big Four” were all placed on the opposite side.

Serena Williams had no such luck in the women’s draw, where she may have to get past a trio of former No. 1s — sister Venus, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova — just to get to the final.

The draw at the All England Club set up a number of intriguing possibilities for the upcoming two weeks, especially with former champions Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal all grouped together in the bottom half of the men’s draw. Murray and Nadal could face each other in the quarterfinals, with Federer possible awaiting the winner in the semis. The bottom half also includes former finalist Tomas Berdych and former semifinalist JoWilfried Tsonga, leaving Djokovic facing a possible semifinal against Stan Wawrinka, the man who beat him in the French Open final.

Seventh-seeded Milos Ranonic of Thornhill, Ont., will open against No. 62-ranked Daniel GimenoTraver of Spain while Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil, ranked 54th, will face Vincent Millot in the first round. No. 12 seed Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., a finalist last year, opens against Ying-Ying Duan of China. Djokovic does face a potentially tricky start of the tournament, though, as he’ll open play on Centre Court on Monday against German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber and could face Australian former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt in the second round. Hewitt, the 2002 champion, is playing Wimbledon for the final time and has always enjoyed huge

crowd support at the All England Club.

Another Australian, Bernard Tomic, could then await Djokovic in the third round, while Kei Nishikori of Japan is a potential quarterfinal opponent.

Two-time champion Nadal is seeded only No. 10 this year after a disappointing season that saw him lose at the French Open for only the second time in his career. He could face fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the fourth round. Murray was given one of the toughest possible draws as he tries to win the tournament for a second time, with the home favourite potentially facing Tsonga in the fourth round, Nadal in the quarters, Federer in the semis and Djokovic in the final.

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DRAFT: Oilers GM sees bright future The Oilers haven’t made the playoffs since 2006 but do have a bright future with McDavid. Chiarelli said Friday morning he has continually reminded himself since April that he needed to temper expectations for the phenom.

“He’s such a good player, so you’re going to hear me temper expectations for a long time,” Chiarelli said. “He’s going to have his ups and downs. He’s a terrific player, he’s going to really help our franchise when he gets up and running.”

McDavid knows the pressure and what to expect.

But rather than temper expectations, he wants to raise them.

“I think my expectations of myself exceed any of those that are put on me,” he said. “if I’m meeting my expectations, chances are I’ll meet your guys.”’

The reality is McDavid immediately became the face of the Oilers’ franchise.

The second pick, Jack Eichel, just as instantly became the poster boy for the new-look Buffalo Sabres, who also acquired goaltender Robin Lehner and forward Ryan O’Reilly at the draft. This is a unique year because Eichel is also considered a generational talent.

Eichel takes his talents to Buffalo after being the top college player in the United States at Boston University.

“Just looking back on the entire year, it’s been the best year of my life,” Eichel said. “This just really caps it off. You hear a lot about the draft and everything that goes on here, but until you hear your name called and you go on stage and put a jersey on, there’s nothing like it.”

After weeks of listening to offers, Arizona Coyotes general manager Don Maloney kept the No. 3 pick and took McDavid’s good friend and Otters teammate Dylan Strome, the dynamic centre who led the OHL in scoring.

The Toronto Maple Leafs took London Knights forward Mitch Marner fourth, and the Carolina Hurricanes selected Boston College defenceman Noah Hanifin to round out the top five.

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Blue Jays 12 Rangers 2 TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have been on a roll of late, and Edwin Encarnacion did his part to continue that trend on Friday night.

Encarnacion hit two home runs — including a grand slam — as the Blue Jays routed the Texas Rangers 12-2.

“The one thing I like is we play like a team, everybody playing together,” said Encarnacion. “We play like we used to play, like we’re supposed to play right now and play like a team.

Everybody is doing their part — with pitching, with hitting, with defence — everything together.

“That’s why we’re winning games” Encarnacion got a hold of a Nick Martinez pitch and sent it over the centre field wall in the bottom of the first inning to give Toronto a 4-1 lead.

He then added his 16th homer of the season in the seventh for his 20th multi-home run game of his career.

Toronto (40-35) has now won nine of 11 against Texas (37-37) and three of four overall.

Mark Buehrle (9-4) tossed seven innings allowing two earned runs on five hits while striking out five in the win.

“When you get ten runs scored for you, 10-plus runs, it makes it a lot easier,” said Buehrle. “You can go out there and you know if you make a mistake, and they hit it out of the park or get on base, it’s not the end of the world so it definitely makes it easier to pitch.”

Martinez (5-5) went six innings allowing eight earned runs on nine hits while striking out two and walking four.

After Martinez walked Jose Bautista to load the bases, Encarnacion knocked his seventh career slam. Encarnacion joins Devon Travis as the second Blue Jay to hit a grand slam this season.

“He’s having a good, solid season but he hasn’t really caught fire like

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Sens trade Lehner for Sabres first round pick CROWDED CREASE IN OTTAWA SOLVED, SEND LEGWAND ALONG AS WELL

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In this Nov. 28, 2014, file photo, Boston Bruins’ Milan Lucic pauses during his team’s NHL hockey game against the Winnipeg Jets in Boston. The Bruins traded Lucic to the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, for defenceman Colin Miller, goalie Martin Jones and the 13th pick in the NHL draft.

Bruins send Lucic to Kings for players, picks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Milan Lucic thought the Los Angeles Kings were going to draft him in 2006. A year later, he scored his first NHL goal at Staples Center for the Boston Bruins.

When Lucic joined the Kings in a trade Friday, he thought back to all of his prior connections with Southern California — and the fact that he had just been at Disneyland with his daughter earlier in the week before this deal sent him back to the Happiest Place on Earth.

“I guess I’ve got to get an annual pass now, she loves it so much,” Lucic said.

The Bruins traded their top-line left wing to the Kings for backup goalie Martin Jones, defenceman prospect Colin Miller and the 13th pick in the draft, which Boston used on defenceman Jakub Zboril. Lucic had been with the Bruins for his entire eight-season NHL career, getting 139 goals and 203

assists in 566 regular-season games.

He won the Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011, and he’s joining a team with two championships in the past four years.

“The most exciting thing about moving on from Boston is I get to move on to a team that already knows how to win,” Lucic said. “They’re not a team that’s learning how to win, or trying to make that step to win a Stanley Cup. They already know how to do that, and with the possibilities of playing with two really great players with (Anze) Kopitar and (Marian) Gaborik, it’s definitely a real exciting feeling.”

Lucic is a tough-nosed power forward from Vancouver who had 18 goals and 26 assists in 81 games last season — somewhat disappointing totals for a three-time 20-goal scorer. That didn’t help his bid to get a new contract with the Bruins, and he carries a $6 million salary cap hit this season in the final year of his deal. Although Lucic will be an unrestricted free agent in a year, he should add some much-needed toughness and scoring ability.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - By trading Robin Lehner to the Buffalo Sabres, the Ottawa Senators solved their crowded-crease problem, shed a contract and picked up another firstround pick in the NHL draft.

The Senators got the 21st pick Friday night for Lehner and centre David Legwand in the first big deal of the weekend. General manager Bryan Murray held out for the first-rounder and could be satisfied about the return for the sought-after 23-year-old goaltender.

“We think Robin’s going to be a good goaltender in the league,” Murray said Friday afternoon. “Surely the preference would’ve been to send him elsewhere other than in our own division, we know that.

“But that was the best deal, and it was a deal that I ended up making as a result.”

Dealing Lehner or Craig Anderson became a necessity after Andrew Hammond’s unbelievable second-half success. Once the “Hamburglar” had a new contract, Murray knew he had to deal one of his other goalies, and Lehner ultimately attracted more interest than Anderson.

Murray said several teams wanted Lehner, one of a handful of goalies available, but no one until nephew Tim Murray of the Sabres was willing to part with a first-round pick. Tim Murray scouted and drafted Lehner when he worked for Ottawa, and that made the difference.

Buffalo, which is getting Jack Eichel second overall, didn’t mind parting with the 21st pick even after sending what turned out to be the 25th selection to the Winnipeg Jets in the Evander Kane trade. Tim Murray felt like he won the draft before it even started.

“If you had’ve told me that the last day we had the three (picks) before the Kane trade that on this day we were getting Eichel, Kane and Lehner, I would have said, ‘You’re on mushrooms,’” he said. “I would have said,

Watson shoots 67 to maintain two-stroke lead

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PGA TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP

CROMWELL, Conn. — Bubba Wat- the front. But after making par on the son was forced to think a bit more Fri- 10th, he reeled off six straight birdies day at the Travelers Championship, to finish with a 67. He was 8 under, where the wind was a little stronger, tied for fifth place with Jason Gore and the greens a bit firmer and the pin Chris Stroud, who is still looking for placements more challenging. his first tour win after losing here in a The long-hitting lefty shot a 3-under playoff to Ken Duke in 2013.

67 to maintain the two-stroke lead he “The back nine always plays a bit took with an opening 62. easier here anyway, so I knew there “(Thursday) I added it up after I left were going to be some opportunities the media centre, I had three holes I out there,” Brown said. “So I just kind didn’t have a wedge into,” he said. “To- of hung in there. When my caddie said, day was different, because the wind ’Let’s go get them on the back nine,’ conditions were different. They were that’s what we did.” faster and it was coming from a difNick Watney had the round of the ferent direction, so it made the golf day, shooting a bogey-free 64, with course a little bit tougher.” three birdies on each side of the The two-time Masters champion is course. Watney was at 7 under in a trying to become the first wire-to-wire group that included New England nawinner at TPC River Highlands since Peter Jacobsen in 2003.

Watson won his first PGA Tour title at the 2010 event and has finished in the top 20 five times in eight previous starts. He tied for sixth in 2008, tied for second in 2012, and finished fourth in 2013.

He was delayed in talking to the media Friday after being pulled for a random drug test, something he saw as a positive sign.

“I hope I passed it,” he joked. “It’s usually when you’re at the top of the leaderboard they want to drug test you, especially me.”

Brian Harman birdied two of his final three holes during an afternoon round of 65 to join Brian Stuard and Carl Pettersson at 9 under.

Stuard, who followed an opening 64 with a 67, pulled within a shot of Watson after back-toback birdies on 15 and 16. But he bogeyed the 17th after hitting his second shot over the green and missing an 8-foot par putt. He then saved par on the 18th with a 19-foot putt.

“That was kind of a nice momentum-keeper going into the weekend,” he said.

Pettersson, started on the back nine at shot a 31 on those holes, before finishing with a 66.

The back nine was less affected by the wind than the front, where a headwind had several holes playing longer than their yardage.

Scott Brown had a GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN double bogey on his first hole and posted a 38 on

tive Keegan Bradley.

Thirty-three players were within six shots of the lead.

Ernie Els, who shot a 66 in the opening round, bogeyed the first five holes and missed the cut after shooting a 76 to finished 2-over after 36 holes.

Els, making his first appearance here since 2002, threw his club into the air in frustration after bogeying the 12th hole and hitting his tee shot on the 13th left and into the water guarding the green.

Others notable names who failed to make the cut include Stewart Cink (139), who has won this tournament twice; defending champion Kevin Streelman; and four-time major champion Padraig Harrington (141).

‘There’s no way that’s going to happen.’”

In Lehner, the Sabres get a player Ottawa assistant GM Pierre Dorion said “has the upside to be one of the top five goalies in the league.”

Lehner went 9-12-3 with a 3.02 goalsagainst average and .905 save percentage last season before suffering a concussion. In 86 career NHL games, the Swede has a 2.88 GAA and .914 save percentage.

The Senators will go with the tandem of Anderson and Hammond, and should now have room in the budget to sign restricted free agents Alex Chiasson and Mike Hoffman with Legwand’s US$3.5-million salary off the books.

Murray said trading a contract had to be part of the deal, and he’ll still look to move forward Colin Greening this off-season.

Dealing Lehner was a good start for the Senators, who have playoff aspirations again after this past season’s improbable run.

“The result probably won’t be known for a few years, both with Robin’s performance and what we acquired in the draft,” Murray said.

“We need an opportunity to draft a good prospect now. This allows us to do that.”

This trade was expected to have a ripple effect on the rest of goalie trade market.

The Vancouver Canucks are looking to move either Eddie Lack or Jacob Markstrom, the New York Rangers could trade Cam Talbot and the Los Angeles Kings may deal Martin Jones.

New York is reportedly targeting two second-round picks for Talbot.

“These other goaltenders I’m sure at least a couple of them will get traded at some point in time and everybody will end up happy hopefully after the trades,” Murray said.

Lehner was the Sabres’ target all along because Tim Murray knew him so well.

“He was the No. 1 goalie available from our estimation,” Murray said. “I think he’s a very talented, big strong, man that is just scratching the surface.”

Maggert, Fowler share US Senior Open lead SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jeff Maggert and Peter Fowler shared the lead midway through the second round of the U.S. Senior Open.

Maggert shot a 5-under 65, and Fowler finished at 66 to move to 5 under Friday at Del Paso Country Club, where the temperature was expected to rise above 100 degrees for the second straight day.

Defending champion Colin Montgomerie shot another 68 and was among those one stroke back. Champions Tour stalwart Bernhard Langer had a 66 to move to 3 under. Montgomerie and Langer have combined to win six of the last seven senior majors.

Tom Watson, who had an opening 66, was teeing off in the afternoon heat. The 65-year-old became the oldest first-round leader in U.S. Senior Open history.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports â—? Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Carstar Braves at Okotoks Dawgs White at Okotoks at noon and 3 p.m. â—? Bantam AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at Great Chief Park at 3 and 6 p.m. â—? Peewee AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves at Sherwood Park Athletics at 1 and 4 p.m. â—? Alberta Football League: Central Alberta Buccaneers at Edmonton Stallions at 7 p.m. â—? Junior B tier II lacrosse: Lacoka Locos at Strathmore Venom at 6 p.m.

Sunday

â—? Bantam AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at Great Chief Park at 10 a.m. â—? Peewee AAA baseball: Spruce Grove White Sox at Red Deer Braves at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. â—? Junior B tier I lacrosse: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer TBS Rampage at Kinex at 5 p.m.

Soccer 2015 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SECOND ROUND Round-of-16 Tuesday’s result At Vancouver Japan 2 Netherlands 1 Monday’s results At Ottawa England 2 Norway 1 At Edmonton U.S. 2 Colombia 0 Sunday’s results At Vancouver Canada 1 Switzerland 0 At Moncton, N.B. Australia 1 Brazil 0 At Montreal France 3 South Korea 0 Saturday’s results At Ottawa Germany 4 Sweden 1 At Edmonton China 1 Cameroon 0

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 4 At Edmonton Semifinal losers, 2 p.m.

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

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

GB — 4 5.5 9.5 11 GB — 5 5 8 8.5

Friday’s Games Baltimore 4, Cleveland 3 Toronto 12, Texas 2 Detroit 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3, 10 innings Milwaukee 10, Minnesota 4 N.Y. Yankees 3, Houston 2 Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 1 Kansas City at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Texas (Gallardo 6-6) at Toronto (Boyd 0-0), 11:07 a.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 4-6) at Milwaukee (Garza 4-9), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 6-3) at Oakland (Kazmir 4-4), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 3-8) at Detroit (K.Ryan 1-1), 2:08 p.m.

Boston (Miley 7-6) at Tampa Bay (Andriese 2-2), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 4-3) at Houston (Oberholtzer 2-1), 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Co.Anderson 0-0) at Baltimore (Tillman 5-7), 5:15 p.m.

Seattle (Happ 3-4) at L.A. Angels (Richards 7-5), 5:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Texas at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

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

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Texas at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

a-denotes amateur Bubba Watson Brian Harman Brian Stuard Carl Pettersson Scott Brown Jason Gore Chris Stroud Nicholas Thompson Scott Langley Danny Lee Nick Watney Keegan Bradley Seung-Yul Noh Graham DeLaet Francesco Molinari Aaron Baddeley Will MacKenzie

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NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 41 33 .554 New York 38 37 .507 Atlanta 35 39 .473 Miami 30 45 .400 Philadelphia 26 49 .347 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 49 24 .671 Pittsburgh 41 32 .562 Chicago 39 33 .542 Cincinnati 34 38 .472 Milwaukee 28 47 .373 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 42 33 .560 San Francisco 40 34 .541 Arizona 35 37 .486 San Diego 35 40 .467 Colorado 32 40 .444

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1. Edmonton, Connor McDavid, C, Erie (OHL).

2. Buffalo, Jack Eichel, C, Boston U. 3. Arizona, Dylan Strome, C, Erie (OHL).

4. Toronto, Mitch Marner, C, London (OHL).

5. Carolina, Noah Hanifin, D, Boston College.

6. New Jersey, Pavel Zacha, C, Sarnia (OHL).

7. Philadelphia, Ivan Provorov, D, Brandon Wheat (WHL).

8. Columbus, Jack Werenski, D, Michigan.

9. San Jose, Timo Meier, RW, Halifax (QMJHL).

10. Colorado, Mikko Rantanen, RW, TPS

GB — 8 9.5 14.5 22 GB — 1.5 5.5 7 8.5

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 2, 10 innings Washington 5, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 2, Cincinnati 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Miami 1 Milwaukee 10, Minnesota 4 St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 2, 8 innings Arizona at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Minnesota (Gibson 4-6) at Milwaukee (Garza 4-9), 12:10 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 5-4) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-0), 1:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 5-3) at Pittsburgh (Morton 5-1), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Rusin 3-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 7-4), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-2) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 7-5), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-5) at Miami (Koehler 5-4), 2:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Roach 0-0) at St. Louis (Wacha 9-3), 5:15 p.m.

Arizona (Hellickson 5-4) at San Diego (Cashner 2-9), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

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

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Monday’s Games

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Kluber, Rzepczynski (8), B.Shaw (8) and Y.Gomes; W.Chen, Brach (7), O’Day (8), Britton (9) and Joseph. W—O’Day 5-0. L—Rzepczynski 1-3. Sv— Britton (22). HRs—Cleveland, Moss (12), Raburn (4), C.Santana (9). Baltimore, J.Hardy (3).

Texas Toronto

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N.Martinez, Detwiler (7), Rosales (8) and Chirinos; Buehrle, Hendriks (8), Rasmussen (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Buehrle 8-4. L—N.Martinez 5-4.

HRs—Texas, Fielder (12). Toronto, Encarnacion 2 (16), Ru.Martin (11), Valencia (4).

Chicago Detroit

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Quintana, Petricka (7), Duke (8), D.Webb (8) and Flowers; An.Sanchez, B.Rondon (8), Soria (9) and Holaday. W—B.Rondon 1-0. L—Duke 3-3. Sv— Soria (17). HRs—Chicago, Eaton (5), Abreu (13), Flowers (5). Detroit, R.Davis (2), J.Martinez (19).

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(10 innings) Porcello, Layne (7), Tazawa (7), Breslow (9), Ogando (9), Uehara (10) and Swihart; Colome, Jepsen (7), McGee (8), Boxberger (9), Geltz (10), Cedeno (10), Yates (10) and Casali. W—Ogando 2-0. L— Geltz 1-3. Sv—Uehara (15).

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Eovaldi, Shreve (7), Ju.Wilson (8), Betances (8) and B.McCann; Velasquez, W.Harris (7), Sipp (7), Thatcher (8), R.Hernandez (8) and Conger. W— Eovaldi 7-2. L—W.Harris 4-1. Sv—Betances (5).

HRs—New York, C.Young (9).

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T.Walker, Furbush (8), Ca.Smith (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino; Shoemaker, C.Ramos (7), Salas (7), J.Alvarez (9) and Iannetta. W—T.Walker 6-6. L— Shoemaker 4-6. Sv—Rodney (15). HRs—Seattle, Cano (4). Los Angeles, Trout (19).

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May, Meyer (1), Duensing (3), A.Thompson (6), Graham (7) and K.Suzuki; Lohse, Cotts (7), Broxton (9) and Lucroy, Maldonado. W—Lohse 4-9. L—May 4-6. HRs—Minnesota, Dozier (15), Plouffe (10).

Milwaukee, G.Parra (5), Ar.Ramirez (9), Gennett (4).

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Scherzer, Storen (9) and W.Ramos; Harang, J.Gomez (7), Araujo (9) and Rupp. W—Scherzer 9-5. L—Harang 4-10. Sv—Storen (22). HRs—Washington, den Dekker (1). Philadelphia, Revere (1).

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(10 innings) W.Perez, Avilan (5), Masset (7), Ji.Johnson (8), Grilli (10) and Lavarnway; Liriano, J.Hughes (8), Melancon (10) and Stewart. W—Melancon 1-1. L— Grilli 2-3. HRs—Atlanta, Uribe (4).

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B.Anderson, Liberatore (8), Baez (9) and Ellis; Nicolino, Cosart (5), S.Dyson (9) and Realmuto.

W—B.Anderson 4-4. L—Nicolino 1-1. HRs—Los Angeles, Van Slyke (4).

Cincinnati 010 New York 100

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Cueto, M.Parra (7), Adcock (8) and B.Pena; Syndergaard, Familia (9) and Plawecki. W—Syndergaard 3-4. L—Cueto 4-5. Sv—Familia (21). HRs—New York, Granderson (12).

Chicago St. Louis

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(10 innings) Arrieta, Strop (8), Motte (8), J.Russell (8), H.Rondon (9), Grimm (10) and M.Montero, D.Ross; Lackey, Siegrist (8), Rosenthal (9), Choate (10), Maness (10) and Molina. W—Maness 2-0. L—Grimm 1-2.

HRs—St. Louis, G.Garcia (1).

Arizona 002 San Diego 101

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2 8

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Ray, Burgos (7), D.Hernandez (8) and W.Castillo; T.Ross, Maurer (7), Benoit (8), Kimbrel (9) and De.Norris. W—T.Ross 5-7. L—Ray 2-3. Sv—Kimbrel (19).

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NW ARKANSAS CHAMPIONSHIP A Pinnacle Country Club Rogers, Ark. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,374; Par 71 (36-35) Partial First Round a-denotes amateur Brittany Lincicome Azahara Munoz Anna Nordqvist Ryann O’Toole Jacqui Concolino Paula Creamer Katherine Kirk Brooke Pancake Morgan Pressel Sandra Changkija Joanna Klatten Minjee Lee Maria McBride Jenny Shin Kelly W Shon Ashleigh Simon Angela Stanford

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(Finland).

11. Florida, Lawson Crouse, LW, Kingston (OHL).

12. Dallas, Denis Gurianov, RW, Togliatti 2 (Russia-Jr.).

13. Boston (from Los Angeles), Jakub Zboril, D, Saint John (QMJHL).

14. Boston, Jake DeBrusk, LW, Swift Current (WHL).

15. Boston (from Calgary), Zach Senyshyn, RW, Sault Ste. Marie (OHL).

16. N.Y. Islanders (from Pittsburgh through Edmonton), Mathew Barzal, C, Seattle (WHL).

17. Winnipeg, Kyle Connor, LW, Youngstown

(USHL).

18. Ottawa, Thomas Chabot, D, Saint John (QMJHL).

19. Detroit, Evgeny Svechnikov, LW, Cape Breton (QMJHL).

20. Minnesota, Joel Eriksson Ek, C, Farjestad BK (Sweden).

21. Ottawa (from N.Y. Islanders through Buffalo), Colin White, C, USA U-18 (USHL).

22. Washington, Ilya Samsonov, G, Magnitogorsk 2 (Russia-Jr.).

23. Vancouver, Brock Boeser, RW, Waterloo (USHL).

24. Philadelphia (from Nashville through To-

ronto), Travis Konecny, C, Ottawa (OHL).

25. Winnipeg (from St. Louis through Buffalo), Jack Roslovic, C, USA U-18 (USHL).

26. Montreal, Noah Juulsen, D, Everett (WHL).

27. Anaheim, Jacob Larsson, D, Frolunda Jr. (Sweden Jr.).

28. N.Y. Islanders (from N.Y. Rangers through Tampa Bay), Anthony Beauvillier, LW, Shawinigan (QMJHL).

29. Columbus (from Tampa Bay through Philadelphia and Toronto), Gabriel Carlsson, D, Linkoping Jr. (Sweden-Jr.) 30. Arizona (from Chicago), Nicholas Merkley, RW, Kelowna (WHL).

(IL). Placed INF Anthony Rendon on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 25. Transferred OF Reed Johnson to the 60-day DL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Announced C Brook Lopez opted out of the final year of his contract and will become a free agent.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Traded D Dougie Hamilton to Calgary for a 2015 first- (No. 15) and two 2015 second-round (No. 45 and 52) draft picks. Traded LW Milan Lucic to Los Angeles for a 2015 first-round (No. 13) draft pick, G Martin Jones and D Colin Miller.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Acquired D Nikita Zadorov, F Mikhail Grigorenko, F J.T. Compher and a 2015 second-round (No. 31) draft pick from Buffalo for Fs Jamie McGinn and Ryan O’Reilly.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Re-signed C Joakim Andersson to a one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed F Tyler Toffoli to a twoyear contract through 2016-17.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed C Mike Fisher to a twoyear contract through 2016-17.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Traded D Griffin Reinhart to Edmonton for a 2015 first- (No. 16) and second-round (No. 33) draft picks.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Traded G Robin Lehner and F David Legwand to Buffalo for a 2015 first-round (No. 21) draft pick.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Traded their 2015 first-round (No. 28) draft pick to the New York Islanders for their 2015 second- (No. 33) and thirdround (No. 72) draft picks.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Traded their 2015 first-round (No. 24) draft pick to Philadelphia for their

2015 first- (No. 29) and second-round (No. 61) draft picks. Traded their 2015 first-round (No. 29) draft pick to Columbus for their 2015 second- (No. 34) and third-round (No. 68) draft picks.

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHICAGO FIRE — Acquired D Ty Harden from San Jose for F Quincy Amarikwa.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived C Andrew Jean-Baptiste.

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WEEK ONE Bye: B.C. Friday’s result Calgary 24 Hamilton 23 Thursday’s result Ottawa 20 Montreal 16 Today’s games Edmonton vs. Toronto (at Fort McMurray, Alta.), 3 p.m.

Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 6 p.m.

WEEK TWO Bye: Edmonton Thursday, July 2 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 3 Calgary at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 4 Toronto at Saskatchewan, 1:30 p.m.

B.C. at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARY Stampeders 24, Tiger-Cats 23 First Quarter Ham— TD Sears 76 interception return (Medlock convert) 5:04 Cgy — TD E.Rogers pass 30 from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 9:34 Ham — TD Banks 67 punt return (Medlock convert) 14:05 Ham — Single Medlock 85 14:25 Second Quarter Cgy — Safety Medlock tackled in zone 4:25 Cgy — Single Maver 83 8:03 Ham— FG Medlock 20 13:51 Third Quarter Cgy — TD Raymond 98 interception return (twopoint convert: Cornish 5 run) 8:09 Ham — FG Medlock 30 15:00 Fourth Quarter Ham — Single Medlock 50 4:47 Cgy — FG Paredes 43 12:25 Cgy — FG Paredes 50 15:00 Hamilton 15 3 3 1 — 22 Calgary 7 3 8 6 — 24

BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Baltimore minor league RHP Dennis Torres (Bowie-EL) 50 games after a second positive for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled LHP WeiYin Chen from Frederick (Carolina). Optioned LHP T.J. McFarland to Norfolk (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Chad Qualls on the 15-day DL. Recalled 1B Jon Singleton from Fresno (PCL). Signed RHP Riley Ferrell to a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Byron Buxton on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 25.

Recalled INF Danny Santana and RHP Alex Meyer from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned LHP Jose De Paula outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated 2B Devon Travis from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Buffalo (IL).

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Activated RHP Rafael Betancourt from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Justin Miller to Albuquerque (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated Pedro Baez from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Ian Thomas to Oklahoma City (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Announced the resignation of manager Ryne Sandberg. Named Pete Mackanin interim manager.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Selected the contract of RHP Deolis Guerra from Indianapolis (IL).

Placed RHP Rob Scahill on the 15-day DL. Transferred OF Andrew Lambo to the 60-day DL. Signed RHP Shane Kemp to a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed LHP Jeremy Affeldt on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Mike Broadway from Sacramento (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Selected the contract of INF Emmanuel Burriss from Syracuse

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

Colorado at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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

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Purse: $6.4 million Yardage: 6,841; Par 70 Second Round

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

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

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At Vancouver Canada vs. England, 5:30 p.m.

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Argos prep for ‘home-opener’ in Fort McMurray PAN AM GAMES AND WOMEN’S WORLD CUP BOOT BOTH TEAMS OUT OF HOME STADIUMS FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Toronto Argonauts kicker Swayze Waters and long-snapper Jake Reinhart set their hotel-room alarm for 2 a.m. their first night in Fort McMurray, Alta.

At the appointed time, they pulled the curtain open, only to be disappointed by the absence of aurora borealis.

“We were going to try and get a look at the northern lights,” Waters said Friday. “It’s on my bucket list.

“We decided to give it a shot. It didn’t work out for me though.”

But the first trip to the 56th parallel for many Argos has been an eye-opener, literally, as a northern Alberta day in late June offers 17 hours of daylight.

“I was laying there last night about 10:30 and we had to close the blinds because it was light outside,” rookie linebacker Brian Rolle said. “It’s sort of weird.”

The combination of scheduling issues at Rogers Centre and the Pan American Games being held in Toronto this summer have made the club a nomad for its first five games of the CFL campaign. But having to play the season opener here Saturday is unusual because the Argos will be the home team some 2,600 kilometres away from home in a venue they’ve never played in before.

The “visiting” Edmonton Eskimos have already experienced the new, 15,000-seat SMS Equipment Stadium, beating the Saskatchewan Roughriders 31-24 there in a June 13 pre-season game.

The Esks will have the bulk of fan support in a city 435 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

“I expect it to be a pro-Edmonton

crowd, obviously,” Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said. “Just feels like a road game for us.

“I don’t know that any of our players are treating it like a home game.”

The “Northern Kickoff” is billed as the most northerly regular-season game ever played in the CFL. Fort McMurray, with a population around 80,000, is the centre of the oil sands industry.

The temperature is expected to be close to 30 C by Saturday’s kickoff at 3 p.m. local time.

Toronto, which doesn’t play at home until Aug. 8, will open the season with backup Trevor Harris under centre. Incumbent Ricky Ray is on the six-game injured list recovering from off-season shoulder surgery.

Harris appeared in five games last year and started the regular-season finale against Ottawa. The six-foot-three, 235-pound Harris completed 26-of-36 passes for 281 yards with two touchdowns and an interception in a 23-5 win.

“He has gotten playing time. He’s not like a normal backup that comes in very green,” Milanovich said. “Trevor is highly intelligent. Phenomenal the way he prepares himself even when he’s not the starter.

“The fact this is his team right now, I don’t think that weighs too heavily on him. I think he embraces that.”

The Argos missed the playoffs last season with an 8-10 record. The Eskimos finished second in the West Division at 12-6 before losing to eventual Grey Cup-champion Calgary in the conference final.

The Eskimos have also been displaced from Commonwealth Stadium to start this season by the Women’s World Cup soccer event. However,

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Jamel Richardson’s football resume is an impressive one.

A two-time Grey Cup champion — and the title game’s MVP in 2010 — Richardson registered five straight 1,000-yard seasons, all accomplishments registered with the Montreal Alouettes from 2008-’13.

But now the 33-yearold not only finds himself back with the Saskatchewan Roughriders — the team Richardson began his CFL career with in ’03 — but on the comeback trail. When Richardson steps on to the field Saturday for the Riders’ season opener against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, it will be his first game since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in his left knee midway through the 2013 campaign.

“Football is a funny business sometimes,” said Riders offensive coordinator Jacques Chapdelaine. “You always have something to prove.

“You have to prove it to yourself, you have to prove it to teammates, to the opponents. The day that you stop living with that mindset you start getting complacent, and that’s not a good position to be in in this business.”

Montreal released Richardson during training camp in 2014 and he didn’t play the entire season. Richardson signed with Saskatchewan as a free agent last December and said he wasn’t ready to call it quits just yet.

“There was no doubt in my mind I’d be back on the field,” he said.

“There’s too much inside of me.

“When I’m done with football it’s going to be on my terms.”

But Richardson admitted his comeback wasn’t easy.

“It was definitely a long process to get back to where I am now and I had to be patient with it that process,” he said.

“Now I’m healthy.

“My biggest test was finishing training camp and trying not to miss any days but still taking it steady. Everything worked out for me that way so I’m ready to go, ready to take the next step. My legs have come back to life and I’m feeling great.”

That’s great news for Saskatchewan, which will be without speedy slotback Weston Dressler on Saturday. Dressler’s unspecified injury isn’t considered serious and while sophomore American Ryan Smith will take Dressler’s spot Richardson is expected to carry a solid workload.

Chapdelaine, in his first season with the Riders, raves of the versatility of his receiving corps. The six-foot-five Richardson certainly has a role within the gameplan.

“I can see some of the things he can do well and I can see some of things that maybe other guys can do a little bit better than him,” Chapdelaine said. “That’s the beauty of this team, we have a number of guys who can do so many different things.

“There is only one ball to go around, but there is enough diversity within our system to be able to not just rely on one guy. We have many guys here who can give us solutions on how to beat a defence.”

Richardson is no stranger to making life difficult for opposing defences. In 2011, he recorded a league-record 12 100-yard games and finished with 112 catches for 1,777 yards (both league highs) and 11 TDs. Three years earlier,

Richardson had a CFLleading 16 touchdown grabs.

“We’re going to be explosive and we’re going to put up a lot of points this year,” Richardson said. “There’s a lot of playmakers on this team and when you have more than just two or three guys that can make plays, it makes it that much harder on the defence.

“They don’t know who to key on. It could be anyone who makes that catch, score that touchdown.”

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Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Alex Pierzchalski scores a touchdown as Edmonton Eskimos’ Ryan Hinds defends during first half pre-season CFL action in Fort McMurray on Saturday June 13, 2015. they’ll be back in their home building by mid-July.

The Argos arrived Thursday evening following a four-hour non-stop charter flight from Toronto. The Eskimos held their walkthrough in Edmonton on Friday morning before a quick flight north.

“The crowd was pretty full when we were here last time and it was a fun place to play a football game in,” Eski-

mos quarterback Mike Reilly said. “It’s in Alberta, so we’re excited we should have a pretty good turnout from out fan base.

“We did have the opportunity to go and play a couple of weeks ago here, but once the ball is kicked, football is football. Nobody really cares where you’re playing. Once that ball is kicked off, you’ve got one thing to do and that’s win.”

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Sandberg quit Friday with a 119-159 career record over parts of three seasons leading Philadelphia. His only full season was in 2014, when the Phillies finished with a 73-89 record.

Third base coach Pete Mackanin will take over as interim manager.

The Phillies have a 26-48 record going into a game Friday against first-place Washington. Philadelphia trails Washington by 14 ½ games in the NL East.

The 55-year-old is a Hall of Fame second baseman, having played 15 seasons with the Cubs and one with the Phillies. Philadelphia was his first management job.

Philadelphia had low expectations this season.

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he seventh annual Joyce deHaan Memorial Mad Hatter Tea was held recently at the Black Knight Inn. The event was established to support the donation of wigs, hats and head-coverings for patients going through cancer treatments. All proceeds are directed to this cause and earmarked for Red Deer and Central Alberta.

Over 350 people came out to enjoy the afternoon of fun.

This popular event sells out each year.

Annually, an individual who has suffered from cancer or passed from the disease is honoured.

Funds are raised through the sale of 50/50 tickets, raffle tickets, and a silent auction.

Entertainment and lots of visiting truly make this event one that people return to each year.

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Celebration to be capped with a big bang

BY MARY-ANN BARR RED DEER ADVOCATE This year’s Canada Day fireworks in Red Deer will once again bedazzle spectators.

Delores Coghill, manager of the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, said that about $30,000 in fireworks will light up the evening sky at Bower Ponds on July 1.

Prior to last year, the budget for the fireworks had been about $9,000, or $1,000 a minute, she said.

But last year the fireworks sponsors put in a lot more money, to bring it to a more intense $30,000 show that went on for 15 minutes. It will be the same this year, making for the second largest Canada Day fireworks show in Western Canada, Coghill said.

Red Deer’s most popular one-day celebration, Canada Day draws thousands to Bower Ponds.

From the time the ethnic food courts open until the fireworks light up the evening, this year’s version will offer a full multicultural day from 11:30 a.m. until midnight during the nation’s 148th birthday.

The event, which always attracts thousands of people, will bring together various community groups who provide entertainment, international food, and activities such as bouncy castles and story telling. Arts and crafts vendors will be set up around Cronquist House. This year, the Native Friendship Centre is back with a teepee.

The day begins with the International Food Court opening at 11 a.m.

The food for purchase will range from French Canadian to Filipino to Scandinavian.

The opening ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. O’Canada will be sung by Nevada Banks, who is from Delburne, and a graduate of Red Deer College’s Theatre Studies program.

Almost every half hour, starting at 11:30 a.m., different entertainment will be provided.

This includes dancing and singing, and performances varying from hula hooping to belly dancers to a performer playing a guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument. The dancing ranges from groups such as the Country Pride Club to the Philippine Dancers to the KVITKA Dancers (Ukrainian).

At 6 p.m., Pascal Lecours et les Mau-

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Big Bang Fireworks will cap off the Bower Ponds Canada Day celebration with a $30,000 display at 11 p.m. vais Caracteres performs, followed by The Vintage at 7 p.m., Bill Bourne with Ganges Delta at 8:15 p.m., then the Nick Gilder/Sweeney Todd Group rocks everyone through to the fireworks finale,

by Big Bang Fireworks, at 11 p.m.

Admission is free but food donations will be accepted for the Red Deer Food Bank.

To get to Bower Ponds, people can walk or cycle (there will be a bike corral) or use the Park n’ Ride, which will run from the Memorial Centre parking lot starting at 10:45 a.m. and going every 15 minutes. The cost (exact change is required) for the Park n’ Ride is $1 for 18 and over, 50¢ for seniors and youth ages six to 17, and those age five and under are free.

Bower Ponds is located at 4707 Fountain Drive.

The Canada Day celebrations are the 46th annual to be hosted by the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society.

So far, the weather forecast for Wednesday is showing a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 26C so bring the sunscreen — and maybe an umbrella too, just in case. And check the forecast again on Canada Day. Anyone who wants to be a sponsor or volunteer can contact Coghill at 403346-0055 or email her at rdchs@telus. net.

For more information and details about the Canada Day celebrations go to www.rdchs.com. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada Day events planned throughout region Night skies across Central Alberta will be full of colour on Canada Day. Besides the celebration in Red Deer at Bower Ponds, many other communities will be celebrating the holiday with an assortment of fun activities, and ending with fireworks in the evening. ● First up will be Innisfail. The community traditionally does its Canada Day celebration fireworks the day before. The show starts at 10:30 p.m., or dusk, at the Innisfail Twin arenas on June 30. On July 1, the Legion will hosting an open house. The clubroom opens at 3 p.m. with food served at 4 and entertainment from The HubCaps at 5 p.m. There will be prizes for best red and white costumes. Everyone is welcome and entry is free. ● Sylvan Lake will see family activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the south end of the pier and the Rotary Club will host a children’s play space with large bouncy toys. There will activities like be face painting, and temporary tattoos. The flag ceremony is at 1:30 p.m. at Lion’s Park. Everyone can join in the March of the Canadians at 2 p.m., led by the Royal Canadian Legion colour party and the Innisfail Pipe and Drum band. There’s cake at 2:30 p.m. at the pier. One of the other fun events includes the Great Duck Race at 4 p.m. Summer tourism staff will be at the visitor information booth between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. offering a free craft activity for supervised children under the age of 12. The fireworks over the lake and boat parade are at

11 p.m. ● Lacombe’s Canada Day starts with a free pancake breakfast hosted by the Wolf Creek Business Group from 8 to 11 a.m. A colour march goes from 11:30 a.m. to noon starting at the Memorial Centre and ending at the Legion with a flag-raising at noon, followed by birthday cake. There will be an elk and bison burger barbecue hosted by the Legion from 12:45 to 2 p.m., $5 for burger, chips and pop. The Lacombe Blacksmith Shop Museum will hold live blacksmithing demonstrations.

Fireworks over Cranna Lake will occur at dusk. Woodland Drive will be closed during the fireworks and parking will be available at the Sports and Leisure Complex and Ecole Lacombe Junior High. ● Blackfalds fun starts at 1 p.m. at the Tayles Water Spray Park. There will cupcakes, giveaways and glitter tattoos. The best Canada Day outfit will have a chance to win a one-month pass to the Abbey Centre. From 3 to 5 p.m. there will be activities at the Aquatic Centre and prizes for kids.

Fireworks are at 11 p.m. at All-Star Park. ● For something different, at Rocky Mountain House there will be a Legobuilding contest (enter before end of June), based on the theme of Alberta.

Canada Day celebrations will take place at the National Historic Site with pancakes from 8 to 11 a.m., traditional aboriginal activities from 2 to 8 p.m., a hands-on archeological demon-

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BRIEF Speeder hits power pole, arrested in Deer Park Red Deer RCMP arrested a 24-yearold Red Deer man after he crashed his vehicle into a power pole in the Deer Park neighbourhood on Thursday night while attempting to avoid a speeding ticket.

At about 9 p.m., the RCMP traffic unit in the area of 39th Street and 30th Avenue clocked a car driving 110 km/h.

When the officer tried to stop the car, it fled at high speed into Deer Park.

RCMP followed at a safe speed, a helpful citizen pointed the officer in the direction of the car, and police found it moments later crashed into a power pole on Dowler Avenue.

The man driving the car was not injured.

An RCMP collision analyst investigated. RCMP expect to lay charges.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575.

Lacombe collision witnesses sought Lacombe Police Services are looking for anyone who may have witnessed a collision on Monday at the intersection of 50th Avenue and 58th Street.

The collision involved a Jeep Cherokee northbound on 58th Street and a Ford Focus eastbound on 50th Avenue.

stration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., helicopter rides for $60 (cash only), car show with prizes ($10 registration) and various activities such as a dunk tank and tractor rides. Ceremonies are at 3 p.m. with cake at 3:30 p.m. followed by an outdoor concert from 4 to 11 p.m. and fireworks at dusk. The event is hosted by the Confluence Heritage Society. ● At the Alix Lake beach, children’s activities by Alix Recreation and a free history rally on the nature trail, sponsored by Alix Lake Nature Trail Society and Alix Wagon Wheel Museum. Bingo-like cards will allow participants to mark stations around the lake with prizes and a free draw. It’s open to all ages at 1 p.m. ● Spruce View fun starts with a pancake breakfast, 8 to 10:30 a.m. Cost is $4. The parade goes at 11 a.m. After the parade, the Spruce View grad class of 2016 will host a concession at the Fire Hall. Fireworks are at dusk. ● Ponoka will see citizens gather at Klaglahachie Square downtown for a “Living Flag” photo. Everyone is invited to come out in a red or white shirt at noon to stand in a designated area for the photo. The first 200 children to register at noon will receive free T-shirts. They are hoping to have 500 people participate. It will be the final day of the Ponoka Stampede. ● The Ellis Bird Farm will celebrate Canada Day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a special feature on Canada’s national symbol, beavers. Presentations are at 2, 5 and 7 p.m. and beaver

viewing and tours will go throughout the day and evening. ● The Red Deer Legion Canteen will be open from noon to 6 p.m. There will be hot dogs, popcorn, cake and family activities including game and carnival events. ● There’s a Show and Shine at Parkland Mall in Red Deer. Gates open at 9 a.m. in the former Safeway parking lot.

The parade and opening ceremonies are at 11 a.m. The ceremony will bring awareness to the soldiers who have lost their battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Vendors, live entertainments and raffles are part of it.

Gates close at 3 p.m. The event is organized by Riders and Cruisers Alberta who raise funds for the homeless and veterans. Donations this year will go to Can Praxis, which uses horses to help soldiers recover from PTSD. Wear your red and white and bring your Canada flag. ● Ol’ Boots and Hoots will give a free performance at The Hub on Ross from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. ● Britt AM will perform at The Olive at 4828 C Ross St. between 8 and 11 p.m. For more information about the artist and to hear some of her music, go to http://brittam.com. ● Women’s Rugby Super Series will have a double header at Red Deer Titans Park. The first game is New Zealand versus England at 4 p.m. Then it’s Canada versus United States at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for youth at www.rugbycanada.ca.

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Drug, weapons charges withdrawn against woman Charges have been withdrawn against a Red Deer woman arrested as part of a drug bust in the Grandview neighbourhood of Red Deer.

Sharon Elizabeth Smith, 38, was arrested on Sept. 25, 2014, with Paul Edmund Fisch, 47, and Ryan William Litwyn, 28, as part of a Red Deer Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team drug raid.

Federal Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis told Judge Gordon Deck Thursday in Red Deer provincial court that it was his intention to withdraw the numerous drug and weapons charges she faced. Deck and defence counsel Andrew Phypers agreed to the motion.

Fisch faces a preliminary inquiry starting on July 22 in Red Deer provincial court on drugs and weapons charges. Litwyn pleaded guilty to his part in the bust and received 30 days in jail.

West Nile protection urged by health officials Alberta Health Services is reminding Albertans to take precautions necessary to protect themselves against West Nile virus infection this summer.

“With exposure to mosquitoes comes risk of West Nile virus,” says Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, medical officer of health for the Central Zone. “Because some mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, it’s important to avoid being bitten at all.”

Whether gardening, golfing, fishing,

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Raad Al-Sammarraie speaks with Rebekah McDermott, left, and Julia Grymalyuk at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library on Thursday.

Al-Sammarraie was one of eight people from various backgrounds taking part in the Human Library. Hosted by the Central Alberta Refugee Effort, the Human Library aims to break stereotypes by challenging prejudices in a positive manner.

Al-Sammarraie shared his experience of fleeing a wartorn Iraq through Egypt and Syria, and finally ending up in Canada. travelling or even just relaxing outdoors, all Albertans should take these simple steps to prevent bites and protect themselves from West Nile virus: ● Wear a long-sleeved, lightcoloured shirt, pants and a hat. ● Use insect repellent with DEET. ● Consider staying indoors at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are most active.

“These steps can make it harder for mosquitoes to find you, and remember: if mosquitoes can’t find you, they can’t bite you,” says Achebe.

After being bitten by a mosquito carrying West Nile virus, humans can develop West Nile Non-Neurological Syndrome (formerly known as West Nile fever) or the more serious West

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Nile Neurological Syndrome.

Symptoms of Non-Neurological Syndrome can be uncomfortable, including fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, skin rash, swollen glands and headache. For those individuals who do develop Neurological Syndrome, symptoms can be much more severe, including tremors, drowsiness, confusion, swallowing problems, high fever, unconsciousness, paralysis and even death. From 2003 to 2014, 680 cases of West Nile virus were confirmed in Alberta, 622 of which were acquired here in the province.

Albertans are encouraged to learn more about West Nile virus and the precautions necessary at www.fightthebite.info or by calling 811.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace remembers telling interviewers early in his music career “this is all great, but talk to me in four years” — if he’s still around making records.

“Now I have to eat my words because we’ve made it,” said the singer of Clumsy and other cryptic, poetic altrock songs.

After a hugely successful 23-year music career, Our Lady Peace musicians are showing their appreciation by giving some of their music away to fans — even though it hurts them to do it.

Maida admitted it was wince-inducing to let some under-cooked versions of the band’s tunes, B-sides, and previously unreleased videos out into the world. These are regularly emailed for free to anyone who signs up for the Transparent Humans/The Vault project on the OLP website.

“I’ve got to say, I was not always comfortable to release them. ... It was a hugely difficult decision for us,” said the singer, who headlines with Our Lady Peace on Friday, July 10, at the Summer Sensations Beach Music Festival in Sylvan Lake.

But just as Maida, bassist Duncan Coutts and lead guitarist Steve Mazur pondered whether a certain “rarity” should see the light of day, they’d also think about how they would love the chance to hear earlier versions of some songs recorded by their favourite bands.

“As a music fan, myself, I would think it’s kind of cool to hear the process and see where the music comes from,” said Maida, so the musicians put their egos aside and let the music out, for good or bad.

Fortunately, feedback has been pretty great. “People really love it,” said Maida. “You don’t often see the inside of the process, the changes made to songs, or which ones didn’t make a record. ...”

This kind of campaign is possible now that the band no longer has to answer to a record label. With more than 20 years in the business, the musicians only deal with labels at the distribution end of things. “Our time with labels is done,” said Maida, who enjoys “exercising the right” to make independent creative decisions.

One of them was reaching out to longtime collaborator Arnold Lanni, who produced the diamond-certified Clumsy. A photo of Lanni and the band was posted on Instagram to announce the producer will help make the next Our Lady Peace album, and “our fans

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Raine Maida of the band Our Lady Peace is seen here performing at the RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest in Ottawa in July 2012.

Our Lady Peace will be in Central Alberta on Friday, July 10, at the Summer Sensations Beach Music Festival in Sylvan Lake. all lost their s---,” said Maida. “The reaction was overwhelming.”

Although the recording project is still in the early stages, he describes the new sound as being “more stripped down and raw” — just like the band’s earlier material from the 1990s. “We’ve definitely come full circle.”

Our Lady Peace, formed in Toronto in 1992, has sold millions of albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards, and 10 MuchMusic Video Awards (the most MMVAs ever awarded to any artist or group). With hits such as Starseed and Somewhere Out There, the band’s unique sound is as popular across the border in the U.S. as it is in Canada.

Maida admitted he feels very lucky to have achieved such longevity in a career that doesn’t promise anyone more than 15 minutes of fame. “We feel so fortunate for our fan base and their loyalty, that we can still go out and play shows. ... It’s pretty amazing.”

Although drummer Jeremy Taggart left the band in 2014, and hasn’t yet been officially replaced Maida, Ma-

zur and Coutts “are all on the same page with our career and our families.

We’ve grown as individuals and all done other things,” said Maida, “but it’s never stagnated.”

The thing that keeps everything fresh is the music. “Arnold (Lanni) reminded me of something I had forgotten,” added Maida. “He said, ‘Regardless of the arrangements and lyrics, does the song move you?’ If it doesn’t move you, then usually you’re forcing something. If you’re not feeling it, then it doesn’t matter what your lyrics are or how clever your chord progressions are, it’s not working.”’

Maida still loves “when the music channels through you. ... It’s a very private experience. A very pure feeling.”

The singer looks forward to playing outdoors at Sylvan Lake, where the band might even test some new songs out on the Central Alberta audience.

He remembers the crowd roaring its approval whenever Clumsy was played at festivals before the song was recorded.

Audience reaction can be a good test of what new tune has the potential to become a hit, he said —“as long as we play it well.”

Although Maida has resided with his wife, singer Chantal Kreviazak, and their three sons in Los Angeles for the past 15 years, the family regularly returns to get reacquainted with Canada.

“This summer, we’re taking the kids up to Algonquin Park in Ontario, a beautiful spot for camping,” he said.

“Our kids have grown up in California and they need to get some Canadian wilderness inside them.”

Stars, The Dudes and The Wet Secrets will join Our Lady Peace and Matthew Good in Friday’s lineup. Hedley, Dragonette, Dear Rouge and others will perform at the festival on Saturday.

Gates will open at 3 p.m. Festival tickets, ranging from $80 for a singleday pass to $180 for a weekend VIP pass, can be purchased from www.summersensationfest.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Max is no War Horse At the Max Rated: PG One and a half stars (out of four)

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE America loves its movie war heroes, four-footed ones included.

Enter Max, a family drama about a traumatized military dog who returns stateside to face challenges in civilian life, leaning heavily on stars-andstripes schmaltz before settling into an uninspired boy-and-his-dog adventure.

Dogged by plot holes and one-dimensional characters, there will doubtless be audiences that will lap up Max anyway.

Like American Sniper’s Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), who returned from Iraq with a host of emotional problems, Max comes home with a grieving heart and a bad case of posttraumatic stress.

First seen clad in a protective vest, handsome Belgian Malinois Max is a paws-on-the ground arms-sniffing member of a Marine unit in Afghanistan, working with handler and best friend Kyle Wincott (Toronto’s Robbie Amell of The Duff).

Back home in Texas, Kyle’s mom (Lauren Graham of TV’s Parenthood) and Iraq War “he-ro” dad (a scowling Thomas Haden Church of Sideways) are proud of their son and his canine support. Not so younger brother Justin (Hellion’s Josh Wiggins), who clutches his video game controller and makes cynical asides.

When Kyle is killed in action, Max ends up back in the Wincotts’ hometown.

Cue the waterworks at Kyle’s funer-

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Robbie Amell as Kyle Wincott, left, and Max in Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ family drama Max. al as the whimpering pooch lunges for his buddy’s flag-draped casket. It’s the only authentic heartstrings moment in Max, which misses multiple chances to be a more genuinely rendered drama.

Made unpredictable by trauma, the dog can’t work with a new handler and Max’s failings seem to have him headed for the kennel in the sky. Since this is Texas, that may not include a trip to the vet.

Yet Max seems to calm around Justin, instantly bonding with the teen,

who rebuffs him until his best friend Chuy’s (Dejon LaQuake) pretty, dogwhisperer cousin Carmen (Mia Xitlali) shows up.

Max is no War Horse. And director Boaz Yakin isn’t able to replicate the huge heart of a previous film he helmed, Denzel Washington starrer Remember the Titans.

There’s a decent chase scene involving Max, bikes and charging, slobbering Rottweilers but kids may find the ensuing dogfight scenes unsettling.

Worse, the silly story involving an exMarine from Kyle’s unit (Luke Kleintank) and a cartel of Mexican gun dealers is ridiculous.

However, the dogs that play Max are completely engaging, free of the howlingly bad dialogue from Boaz and exMarine Sheldon Lettich (Rambo III).

If only Max had played fetch with a better and less manipulative story.

Linda Barnard is a Toronto Star movie writer and film critic

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related disputes. At home, he’s frustrated by his wife’s reliance on a flawless synthetic physical therapist.

Hurt says the scenarios are not hard to imagine actually happening, noting that technology already infiltrates so much of our day-to-day lives.

“It won’t be long before these things are subcutaneously installed,” says Hurt, who also played a robot expert in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 drama A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.

“It scares me and it thrills me. It scares me if we use it wrong, if it backfires on us.”

The 65-year-old Hurt says he’s fairly comfortable with technology, but only because he studied computer science at Columbia University two years ago.

He encourages any senior confounded by the digital world to do the same.

“I think some people are giving up and I think they should not do that.

Don’t give up,” says Hurt, nevertheless noting that society hasn’t made it easy for older tech users to thrive.

“Go for it, because you’re not too old.”

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Vassanji wins $50K prize from Canada Council for the Arts OTTAWA — Renowned Toronto writer M.G. Vassanji has won a $50,000 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. The two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner is one of two recipients of this year’s prize, which is awarded annually to one person in the arts and one in the social sciences and humanities.

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They were among several winners of summer prizes from the Council announced on Thursday.

The $15,000 Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Award went to seven mid-career artists, including writer Herve Desbois, dance artist Ame Henderson and musician John Korsrud.

The other winners of that award were multidisciplinary artist Mathieu Latulippe, Old Trout Puppet Workshop co-founder Judd Palmer, writer M. NourbeSe Philip, and videographer Myriam Yates.

Taylor Swift will allow Apple Music to stream 1989 album NEW YORK — Taylor Swift is letting Apple Music stream her 1989 album — the only streaming service allowed to do so.

The singer tweeted Thursday that after Apple decided it would pay artists royalties during Apple Music’s free trial, Swift “decided to put 1989 on Apple Music... and happily so.”

Swift’s representative

confirmed the tweets.

Swift wrote a critical Tumblr post Sunday about Apple’s initial decision to not pay artists during the trial, which begins Tuesday. Apple later changed its decision. Swift has pulled 1989 from other streaming services. She wrote on Twitter: “This is simply the first time it’s felt right in my gut to stream my album.”

She added that “in case you’re wondering if this is some exclusive deal like you’ve seen Apple do with other artists, it’s not.”

MacFarlane blames media for exaggerating political correctness in comedy NEW YORK — Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane dismisses the notion that comedy has become more politically correct these days.

Instead, he blames some members of the press for exaggerating the situation.

“They are screaming that everyone else is angry when they’re not,” MacFarlane said. “I don’t buy it. I don’t think it’s real.”

“This is the only thing I agree with my Republican friends on,” he added.

MacFarlane feels there’s a disconnect from the perception that the media creates and the way people actually think.

The writer-actor has covered edgy topics for years and has amassed a large fan base for “Family Guy” and his film comedies.

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TORONTO — The Walking Dead has zombie school and AMC’s new sci-fi robot drama Humans has synth school.

British actress Gemma Chan says a special acting workshop was set up for those tackling robot roles on the London-shot show.

Just as zombie school taught extras on The Walking Dead to shamble and snarl, synth school revolved around establishing and learning a universal physical language for actors playing synthetic characters.

“The writers and directors very much didn’t want anything overtly robotic but they did want something that was other than human,” Chan explained in a recent phone interview from New York.

“These things are ultimately machines so every movement has to have an economy and an efficiency for it.

It was a question of literally learning how to walk again and how to stand up, sit down, turn around, do all kinds of different tasks. I had to learn to be a bit more ambidextrous so I could do things equally with both hands, which is hard because I’m very right-handed.

All kinds of stuff.

“And once we’d established a kind of general set of rules we did individual work with a choreographer to make the movement unique to our characters, because obviously you have different models of synths and some are more advanced than others and some are kind of older models.”

And some seem very human, such as Chan’s domestic worker Anita.

The beautiful Anita is purchased by the busy Hawkins family to help

around their London home. But working mom Laura, played by Katherine Parkinson, is not entirely comfortable with the idea and becomes increasingly suspicious of whether Anita is as compliant and docile as she appears to be.

Meanwhile, other synth owners like William Hurt’s aging George Millican seem more than willing to ascribe human qualities to their household helpers.

In his case, he treats a young-looking but out-of-date companion named Odi more like a son than a machine.

George was once a mechanical engineer on the original synth project but retreated from the world when his wife Mary died.

When Odi begins to malfunction, government officials force George to accept a new, stern synthetic caregiver named Vera.

Hurt says his character is driven by thoroughly human impulses.

“In my mind, what George did was he made a decision to (commit to) his relationship to his wife and to vulnerability and to mortality,” Hurt says in a separate phone interview from New York.

“I think it’s his visionary concept of the most a human being can be. And also that suffering is of value. Which is the issue about sentience, you know — when you make sentience are you going to make it capable of suffering?

That’s a big question.”

Other storylines revolve around Leo, played by Colin Morgan, and his synth, Max, played by Ivanno Jeremiah, who are desperate to find someone from Leo’s past. Then there’s police officer Peter Drummond, played by Neil Maskell, who specializes in synth-

actual offences,” he said.

Gawker wins lawsuit against FBI in advance of Hulk Hogan sex video case TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge has ordered the FBI to turn over evidence related to professional wrestler Hulk Hogan’s sex tape.

Gawker sued the FBI after it refused a Freedom of Information Act request for the evidence, which could find its way into Hogan’s invasion of privacy suit against the gossip site. Hogan sued Gawker after it published parts of the sex tape in 2012.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015

Four biblical truths that respond to hatred

BY DAVID D. IRELAND SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE How do we pick up the pieces after a senseless tragedy? The racist hatred of one man — Dylann Roof — resulted in the shooting death of Pastor and State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney and eight members of his church. Neither the historic Emanuel AME Church nor our national community will ever be the same again.

As lead pastor of a church with more than 60 nationalities represented, and as diversity consultant to the National Basketball Association, I cannot turn away from Jesus’ call to love my neighbor as myself.

To do so would be contrary to the core message of the gospel.

Plus, there’s too much at stake.

With that in mind, here are four things I try to keep in mind during times like this: 1. Justice is medicinal.

Thankfully, within 24 hours of the massacre the alleged shooter, Dylann Roof, was caught. The justice system now stands front and center. The nation — and the African American community in particular — now holds its collective breath because healing springs when justice is meted out.

Justice is the working of God in our fallen society. That is why David sang in Psalm 103:6, “The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

When society acts justly toward victims, particularly in the instance of “hate crimes,” it buoys their self-esteem and value.

Justice injects medicine into the soul of the oppressed because it says, “You matter. You are valuable. You’re worth fighting for.”

Without justice the oppressed languish in pain and despair, which over time morphs into anger, hatred, and deep-seated prejudice.

2. Prejudice is a cancer.

In his book The Nature of Prejudice, renowned Harvard sociologist Gordon Allport defines prejudice as “prejudgment with emotions.” Someone who is prejudiced actually harbors deep-seated negative emotions that are inseparable from his prejudgment.

If left untreated, like cancer it can spread to the point of violent rage — as was the case with Roof’s actions.

Allport identified the mushrooming effect of prejudice as moving like this: (1) talking about it with friends, (2) avoiding a certain group, (3) excluding all members of the group from social privileges, employment opportunity, residential housing, and so on, (4) physically attacking members of the group, and (5) exterminating the group (massacres, lynching, ethnic cleansings).

Imagine what our world would look like if we applied our faith to this biblical promise: “Where sin increased, grace [God’s empowering presence] increased all the more” (Romans 5:20). Our love toward members of other races would graduate like this: (1) from merely talking about making cross-race connections with our same-race friends; (2) to including all groups into our circle of friends; (3) to including all members of other groups in social privileges, employment opportunity, and residential housing; (4) to demonstrating tangible acts of love to members of other groups; and finally, (5) to practicing social justice, ensuring equity and equal rights, and protecting ethnic survivability in order to build up groups who’ve experienced large-scale ethnic abuses.

3. Forgiveness is non-negotiable.

Having myself been a victim of hate crime, I know firsthand the non-negotiable role of forgiveness.

When I was 10 years old, my house was fire-bombed when five white teenage boys threw a Molotov of cocktail into the rear bedroom window of my home in Rosedale, Queens.

By no means am I equating the crime against my family to what occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. No one in my family was hurt; just the house was damaged.

But the boys were caught and released without any jail time or punishment. Healing had to come from a higher source — God. At 20 years old — the age I became born again — I forgave the teenagers for their crime against me.

Forgiveness was not for them. It was a gift I gave myself. At times, forgiveness occurs instantaneously.

Other times, it is a process (or the result of a process) that involves a change in emotion and attitude toward the offender.

Regardless of the time it takes you to unshackle yourself from your victimizer, forgiveness is nonnegotiable if you want to experience freedom and healing.

4. Public compassion quiets public rage.

How do you quell the brewing rage and unrest of the African-American community in the aftermath of a barrage of deadly hate crimes?

The answer is found in compassion.

This word — compassion — is medicinal to even

the pain caused by social trauma. Compassion means to suffer together with.

Regardless of the murderer’s mental state , which remains to be discovered, nine black people were killed while tending to the welfare of their souls.

Roof’s alleged statement that he was there “to shoot black people” must awaken vocal statements of compassion by people of other races, especially whites, since Dylann is white.

If compassion is only heard from the voices of black leaders and social activists, anger from within the black community will reach a piercing cry.

Thankfully this has not been the case.

The white community has been quite vocal with its compassion.

As this action becomes more widespread we will see a reduction in hate crimes.

We’ve learned that silent compassion from the white, Asian, and Latino communities only perpetuates the anger and feelings of injustice among African Americans. Shouts of compassion from all sides must be heard amidst the cry for justice if healing is to occur.

The redemptive power of public compassion is what caused Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to say, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” King wasn’t alone in this sentiment. Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, wrote, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Public rage must be met head on by public compassion. According to Jesus, reconciliation is everyone’s responsibility. That is another way of saying: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27).

David D. Ireland is the senior pastor of Christ Church, a multisite church in northern New Jersey with a membership of approximately 8,000. He is a diversity consultant to the NBA and author of some 20 books including “The Weapon of Prayer.”

Sunday Retirement Celebration at Gaetz Memorial United Church for Rev. Liz Richards and office manager Linda Masters will be held on June 28 following the worship service at 10:30 a.m.

There will special music by the Sanctuary Choir and Golden Gaetz Ringers Handbells during the service. A potluck lunch ad short program will follow in Pioneer Hall downstairs. Contact Leanne at 403-347-2834.

Upcoming events Lacombe Free Reformed Church is offering Miracles of Jesus Vacation Bible School on July 13 to 17 form 9:30 to 11;30 a.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre. Children ages four to 12 years invited. Contact lfrcvbs@gmail.com or Andrea at 587-876-1110 to register by July 6. See www.lfrc. webs.com Vacation Bible School — Take the Plunge — will be offered at First Christian Reformed Church, June 6 to 10 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for children ages four to those entering Grade 6. Enjoy Bible stories, games, crafts, singing, puppet plays. Preregister at http://firstcrcreddeer.org/ or call 403-346-5659 for more information.

United Kids Camp 2015 — Call, Care, Share — will run Aug. 10 to 14, 9 a.m. to noon for children ages five to 11 years at Sunnybrook United Church which will co-sponsor the camp with Gaetz Memorial United Church. Participants are asked to arrive by 8:50 a.m. to sign in, and wear suitable clothing and footwear for indoor and outdoor activities. Parent and youth volunteers welcome. Call 403-347-2244, or 403-347-6073, see Facebook.

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LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER

Rev. Judy Andersen

Sunday, June 28

Sunday, June 28

www.cslreddeer.org #3 - 6315 Horn Street

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

Everyone’s welcome here!

Sunday, June 28 “River”

9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm CrossRoads Kids (for infant to grade 6)

32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County 403-347-6425

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GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

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Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m.

Holy Communion 10:00 am Holy Eucharist

Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship Holy Communion at all Services Everyone Welcome

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MOUNT CALVARY

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Sunday, June 28

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

KNOX 4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Established 1898

Minister: Rev. Wayne Reid Worship Service 10:30 am

“I Believe that He Rose Again”

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church

“Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244

www.mclcrd.org

www.knoxreddeer.ca

Living Faith

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Rev. Bert deBruijn

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Everyone Welcome

Children’s Programs weekly

Sunnybrook United Church Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service “Crossing Barriers”

Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Club www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Divine Service 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 7:00 p.m. Divine Service Vacation Bible School July 20-24 Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship with Holy Communion 10:00 am

Pastor Johnathan Aicken Bethany CollegeSide, 99 College Circle RDC

Everyone Welcome www.livingfaithlcrd.org

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. 2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings noon Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

4907 GAETZ AVE. 403-346-0811 For more information on Christian Science visit christianscience.com

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BRIEF Episcopalians examine alcohol use after fatal drunken driving case involving bishop The top legislative body of the Episcopal Church is reviewing its policies on alcohol and addiction as part of the churchwide soul-searching over an assistant bishop charged with drunken driving while texting and killing a bicyclist. Leaders of the Episcopal General Convention, meeting in Salt Lake City, put the topic on the agenda after the criminal case against Heather Cook drew widespread attention.

The Diocese of Maryland acknowledged they knew of an earlier drunken driving charge against Cook when she was being considered for the position of second-ranked local bishop, but did not disclose the information to local church members before they voted to elect her.Cook, who has been defrocked, has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter, drunken driving and other charges.

LOCAL EVENTS

Bahá’í Faith

Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

“Today, every wise, vigilant and foresighted person is awakened, and to him are unveiled the mysteries of the future which show that nothing save the power of the Covenant is able to stir and move the heart of humanity, just as the New and Old Testaments propounded throughout all regions the Cause of Christ and were the pulsating power in the body of the human world.” Abdu’lBaha, The Bahá’i Holy Day commemorating the Martyrdom of the Bab, the for-runner to Baha’u’llah, will be held on July 10 at noon. Call Mavis 343-0091 for information or check www.ca.bahai.org for information on the Bahá’i Faith.

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LUANN June 27 1995 — Royal Canadian Mounted Police grants an exclusive marketing licence to its likeness and image to the Walt Disney Company, who will pay the force royalties and control copyright infringement.

1990 — Queen Elizabeth II makes a five-day solo visit, stopping in Red Deer, Calgary and Ottawa for Canada Day. 1972 — Bobby Hull signs 10-year contract for

$2.5 million to coach and play for the Winnipeg Jets of the fledgling World Hockey Association, becomes hockey’s first millionaire.

1950 — The United Nations Security Council asks for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from North Korea.

1893 — The New York stock market crashes.

By the end of the year, 600 banks and 74 railroads are out of business.

1854 — New Brunswick chemist Abraham Gesner is awarded a patent for distilling kerosene from petroleum, which would replace whale oil in lamps within a few years.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015

New venture aims to boost biofuel demand BULLFROG POWER WANTS TO CONVERT COOKING OIL TO BIODIESEL FOR COMPANIES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - It hasn’t been an easy road for biofuels in Canada, but green energy producer Bullfrog Power is hoping to get some mileage out of a new program announced Friday.

Bullfrog is offering to arrange for used cooking oil to be converted into biodiesel for companies that want to offset their carbon emissions, and later extend the program to retail customers.

A key issue is that the company is promoting the use of advanced biofuels fashioned from waste materials rather than food crops, one of the ongoing criticisms of the biofuel industry.

Company CEO Ron Seftel said that he’s pushing for more uptake of advanced biodiesel because it’s less controversial, and it can reduce vehicle emissions by 90 per cent compared with conventional diesel.

“It’s a pretty significant reduction in GHGs on a litre per litre basis,” said Seftel.

Donald Smith, CEO of research group BioFuelNet Canada, said hopes for greater use of crop-based fuel in cars have suffered amid criticism over using food for fuel, questions about how much it actually reduc-

es emissions and lately the plunge in gasoline prices.

Then there is the problem of modest government targets for biofuel use, Smith said in an interview.

“On the Canadian side of things policy has not been strong,” he said. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of enthusiasm.”

Progress on advanced biofuels is further along in the United States, according to Smith, with several plants producing hundreds of millions of litres of ethanol by processing corn cobs, leaves, husk and stalks.

In Canada there are some developments on the advanced biofuel side, such as clean tech company Enerkem opening a plant in Edmonton last year that will convert the city’s garbage into 38 million litres of ethanol and methanol a year.

But more conventional biofuels still dominates the market.

On Thursday, Atlantic Biodiesel opened a plant in southern Ontario that will convert canola and soybean oil into 170 million litres of biodiesel a year.

Company COO Michael Paszti said a significant portion of the oil used in the plant comes as a waste byproduct, and the process helps both farmers and the environment.

He said Canada’s current mandate that biodiesel

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It’s a pretty significant reduction in GHGs on a litre per litre basis.

— Ron Seftel Bullfrog Power CEO make up at least two per cent of diesel fuel creates a sizable 500 million litres of biodiesel demand, but the industry is pushing for the mandate to be increased to five per cent.

“You live and die on government mandates,” said Paszti. “Government environmental policy in Canada and the U.S. is what drives renewable fuels takeup.”

ARCTIC OIL

Imperial Oil, partners defer exploration drilling plans

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bartesian, a Keurig-like machine for cocktails. Created by entrepreneurs from the Kitchener-Waterloo area, the device launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign with a goal of $100,000 to get the idea off the ground.

Canadian created Keurig-style machine serves up cocktails

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Making the perfect martini could get a lot easier with a Canadian invention that’s like a Keurig for cocktails.

The Bartesian operates almost exactly like the popular coffee machine, using premixed flavour capsules to craft a variety of different alcoholic drinks.

Users supply their own alcohol in reservoirs on each side of the machine, which can store four base liquors.

To make a drink, they just pop one of six different cocktail capsules into the machine, adjust the flavour strength on a digital screen and press a button to start the process.

Each capsule contains non-alcoholic ingredients, like juices, bitters and liqueurs.

“We didn’t do anything fake - no high fructose corn syrup, nothing weird like that,” said co-founder Bryan Fedorak.

Among the six flavours are many standards, like Cosmopolitan, Margarita and Sex on the Beach.

Bartesian was dreamed up by two entrepreneurs from the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario last year. Television personality Dee Brun, a frequent cocktail consultant on CBC talk show “Steven and Chris,” helped pick the flavours.

Earlier this month, the creators launched the Bartesian on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in hopes of raising $100,000 to begin production.

As of Friday morning, the campaign had generated about $67,000 of that goal with an end date set for July 16.

Pre-sales for the Bartesian are priced at $299.

Eventually, Fedorak wants to sell the machine online and through select retailers.

“Our vision is to have hundreds of different flavours,” he said.

Fedorak hopes the capsule selection will eventually grow to a size where they can be sold in themed packages, like Girls’ Night Out or a variety inspired

by TV series “Mad Men.” Bartesian capsules are also recyclable, Fedorak said, which helps avoid a frequent complaint about the waste Keurig’s plastic K-Pods create.

CALGARY - Imperial Oil and its partners are deferring plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort Sea because they need more time to study how to safely drill in harsh Arctic waters.

Imperial, its U.S. parent ExxonMobil and BP are asking the federal government for a seven-year extension to their licence, which expires in 2020.

“For us, it’s all about giving us the time to do the work we believe necessary so that we can deliver the most technically sound and environmentally responsible program we can,” said Imperial spokesman Pius Rolheiser.

In a letter Friday informing the National Energy Board of their decision, Imperial said it’s suspending regulatory work and planned submissions, including a plan to meet the same-season relief well requirement.

The energy board requires companies to show they can kill a ruptured oil well in the Arctic offshore with a relief well in the same season it’s drilled - a difficult and costly proposition in a region that’s covered in ice for much of the year.

Under a best-case scenario, Imperial had initially looked to begin drilling as early as 2020, said Rolheiser.

In its letter, Imperial stressed it’s not giving up on the Beaufort and will maintain an office in Inuvik, N.W.T., to collect ice data and find business, employment and training opportunities for local communities.

“Imperial remains committed to the Arctic as an important future source of energy,” wrote exploration operations manager Lee Willis.

In December, Chevron Canada put its Beaufort plans on hold indefinitely, citing “economic uncertainty.”

Separately, Imperial is in discussions with the energy board about potentially extending its permit for the long-stalled Mackenzie Gas Pipeline, which expires at the end of the year if work doesn’t begin.

Consultant Doug Matthews said it’s looking to be a slow time for the North’s energy sector. Exploration activity in the Canol shale in the Central Mackenzie Valley has “slammed shut” and Imperial’s mature Norman Wells field probably won’t be pumping oil much longer.

It’s costly to explore for oil in the North, so it doesn’t make much economic sense when oil prices are low, he said. Plus, enormous volumes of oil and gas are flowing from shale formations closer to market.

“From a parochial point of view, I’m disappointed in their decision,” Matthews said of the Beaufort deferral.

“But from a larger perspective, I can see maybe some of the thinking behind it.”

Check insurance policy before renting out your home

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadians looking to make a few extra dollars this summer by renting out their home or cottage when they aren’t using them should call their insurance broker first or face the risk a claim may be denied if trouble arises.

“Traditional personal coverage wasn’t necessarily designed for commercial activity and people need to be aware of that and what their insurance coverage requires,” says Steve Kee, a spokesman for the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

“Each company may have its own practices and insurance claims. If something were to happen you may be denied if you say you use your home for just your home and then all of a sudden they find out it is on an Airbnb or something like that.”

Owners of a house in Calgary made headlines last month after their home was trashed by renters who used it for a massive party that resulted in more than $100,000 in damages.

In that case, Airbnb stepped up to pay for the

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damages that left the owners unable to live in their home while it was being cleaned and repaired.

However, like insurance policies, not all rental services are the same and if you’re thinking about listing your home you need to read the fine print of the service you use to understand what may and may not be protected.

Jamie Martyn, president of Kennedy Insurance Brokers in North Bay, Ont., says coverage under your homeowner’s policy isn’t automatic and you need to check with your agent or broker.

If you’re renting your cottage, your policy may already allow that, but it might be a different story for your home, especially if you’re renting out your entire house and not just the spare bedroom.

“Some companies may not be comfortable with it and they may choose not to continue insuring you if you do that,” Martyn said. “Some may add an endorsement to the policy that says, ’Yes, you can do this and we will charge an extra $200 a year,’ or whatever the premium is for that.”

For its part, Airbnb recommends on its website that you check with your insurance company to understand your coverage.

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In the U.S., the company has its Host Protection Insurance, but the program doesn’t extend to Canada. Here, the company offers what it calls its Host Guarantee. Under the program the company promises reimbursement of up to C$1 million for damage, subject to certain limitations, but it is not an insurance policy.

Airbnb also suggests homeowners consider independent insurance to cover things like jewellery, art and other collectibles that are subject to limited protection under the host guarantee. You can also require a security deposit.

Kee says growth of what has been called the “shared economy” has exposed some gaps for the insurance industry, noting that similar concerns would apply to your auto insurance if you are using your car to drive people using ride-hailing apps.

But, he said, insurers are working to adjust their policies to accommodate the new demands from policyholders.

“I think this is just the beginning,” Kee said. “Industries always adapt. When you have a competitive marketplace people are always looking for ways to do that.”

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 128.44 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.67 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.22 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.53 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.41 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.26 Cdn. National Railway . . 72.66 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 198.95 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.02 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.14 Cervus Equipment Corp 15.70 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.67 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 59.23 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.81 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.55 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.38 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.39 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.27 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 36.47 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.05 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.04 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 52.01 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.86 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.90 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.79 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.77 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Friday as oil prices weakened and concerns intensified over the Greek debt crisis ahead of a key meeting this weekend.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 89.41 points to 14,808.09 while the loonie rose 0.05 of a U.S. cent to 81.20 cents.

Markets everywhere anticipated developments over the weekend in the negotiations between Greece and its creditors.

An emergency meeting of the eurozone’s 19 finance ministers was scheduled for Saturday amid reports of further concessions by Athens in hopes of getting emergency bailout loans.

Failure to secure a deal will likely mean a default by Greece on a 1.6-billion-euro payment owned to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday. A default could force Greece to leave the euro, the so-called Grexit, and possibly the European Union as well.

“If Greece really comes off the rails and doesn’t get an agreement, then volatility will creep back in,” said Michael Greenberg, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions.

“We’re a bit worried that contagion of sentiment will reach our shores.”

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average began reversing two days of losses that saw the widely watched index fall more than 250 points as traders reacted to Greek debt woes and possible interest rate increases later this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Dow finished ahead 56.32 points at 17,946.68.

However, the tech-heavy Nasdaq continued its three-day slide since hitting an all-time record high close of 5,160.09 on Tuesday, falling 31.68 points to 5,080.51. The S&P 500 dipped

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.88 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.25 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.36 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.43 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.94 First Quantum Minerals . 17.10 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.32 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.62 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.87 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.26 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.61 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.00 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 21.66 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.14 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 61.90 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.20 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 32.10 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.70 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . 10.250 Canyon Services Group. . 5.77 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.77 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2850 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.84 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.15 0.82 of a point to 2,101.49.

In commodities, the August crude contract eased off seven cents to US$59.63 a barrel, not far off last Friday’s settlement price. August gold rose $1.40 to US$1,173.20 an ounce, but that was well below the $1,201.90 an ounce where it started the week.

In economic news, the University of Michigan said its consumer sentiment index rose to 96.1 in June from 90.7 in May, its highest reading since the index hit 98.1 in January and up from 82.5 a year ago.

The latest reading shows that in the first six months of the year U.S. consumer optimism has improved at the fastest pace since 2004.

Next week will be a shortened week for markets on both sides of the border, with the Toronto Stock Exchange closed Wednesday for Canada Day. U.S. markets will not trade on Friday in advance of the July 4th Independence Day holiday, which falls on Saturday this year.

Major economic news next week includes economic growth figures for April from Statistics Canada on Tuesday as well auto sales figures for June from Canadian automakers on Thursday.

In the United States, auto sales figures will be released Wednesday, while on Thursday traders will also look to U.S. employment numbers and jobless claims and a report on factory orders.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,808.09, down 89.41 points Dow — 17,946.68, up 56.32 points S&P 500 — 2,101.49, down 0.82 of a point Nasdaq — 5,080.51, down 31.68 points

Make or break for struggling Sears Canada TORONTO — Time is running out for struggling department store chain Sears Canada to improve its financial results and the chances of survival are slim, says one retail analyst.

Keith Howlett of Desjardins published a report Friday saying it’s “now or never” for the money-losing company to make headway on a turnaround that has dragged on for several years with little progress.

“The next seven quarters are ‘make it or break it’ for Sears Canada,” he

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.86 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.12 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.34 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.30 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.05 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.18 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.29 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.37 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.03 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 54.92 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.79 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.64 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.66 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.58 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.25 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 40.92 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.85 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.88 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.15 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.09 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.26 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.97 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.34

Currencies: Cdn — 81.20 cents US, up 0.05 of a cent Pound — C$1.9386, down 0.07 of a cent Euro — C$1.3756, down 0.53 of a cent Euro — US$1.1170, down 0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.63 per barrel, down seven cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,173.20 per oz., up $1.40 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver: Handy and Harman’s Canadian office is closed until July 6th.

ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $4.40 lower $511.80; Nov ’15 $2.00 lower $523.60; Jan. ’16 $1.80 lower $521.70; March ’16 $1.00 lower $519.10; May ’16 $0.60 lower $515.40; July ’16 $0.40 lower $510.70; Nov. ’16 $0.40 lower $467.50; Jan. ’17 $0.40 lower $468.60; March ’17 $0.40 lower $470.30; May ’17 $0.40 lower $470.30; July ’17 $0.40 lower $470.30.

Barley (Western): July ’15 $1.40 higher $204.40; Oct. ’15 $1.40 higher $199.40; Dec. ’15 $1.40 higher $204.40; March ’16 $1.40 higher $204.40; May ’16 $1.40 higher $204.40; July ’16 $1.40 higher $204.40; Oct. ’16 $1.40 higher $204.40; Dec. ’16 $1.40 higher $204.40; March ’17 $1.40 higher $204.40; May ’17 $1.40 higher $204.40; July ’17 $1.40 higher $204.40.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 386,700 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 386,700.

wrote. “Our current view is that an operating turnaround is improbable.”

Howlett’s prediction suggests the fate of the company will be determined some time around the 2016 holiday shopping season.

The company declined to comment on the analyst report. The stark outlook comes after Sears Canada made dramatic reductions to its operations, laying off 2,200 employees last year — with the brunt of the cuts at outsourcing call centres — while thousands more were eliminated in 2013. Widespread cost-cutting was rolled out as Sears dealt with the arrival of Target Canada as a new competitor.

Solar module makers want duties on Chinese imports

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A band of small Canadian solar panel manufacturers is banking on an upcoming trade decision in hopes of surviving an onslaught of low-priced Chinese imports.

The four Ontario companies say they hope a decision next week by Canada’s International Trade Tribunal will uphold duties on imports they say are priced below the Chinese companies’ actual cost of production.

“The best outcome for Ontario, for the entire solar community, is that there’s a level playing field - whatever that is,” says Geoff Atkins, who’s in charge of business development for Silfab Solar in Mississauga.

“Obviously, if there are tariffs imposed that balance that playing field, that’s certainly going to strengthen our position.”

The counter argument: anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese imports would keep Canadian prices higher and could make it more difficult to eliminate the gap between the cost of producing solar power and the price of buying electricity off the power grid.

But Atkins and others in Canada’s young solar manufacturing sector say Canada should follow the lead of the European Union and United States, which have already imposed tariffs on Chinese imports that allegedly violate international trading rules.

Most of the Canadian makers of photovoltaic modules, which are used in solar panels that convert the sun’s rays into electricity, were created in On-

tario within the last few years. They arrived as Ontario’s provincial government was working to stimulate the adoption of wind and solar power by paying above-market prices for electricity created from those sources.

In the third phase of Ontario’s feed-in-tariff program, or FIT 3.0, the domestic-content requirements were eliminated - removing one of the incentives for buying from Canadian producers and opening the market to imports from China.

“When you have a country like China with three times more capacity than the domestic market, . . . the risk of being absolutely eaten up is very, very high,” says Martin Pochtaruk, president of Heliene Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., which employs more than 50 people.

Still, Pochtaruk says Heliene can survive if Canadian solar module prices are on par with those in the United States - as they have been since Canada imposed temporary duties on Chinese imports in March following a complaint filed in late 2014 in defence of Silfab, Heliene, Solgate and Eclipsall, which was acquired earlier this year by Strathcona Energy Group.

An investigation by Canada Border Services Agency alleged in early June that about half a dozen Chinese companies, and a China-based subsidiary of Canadian Solar International, were benefiting to varying degrees from government subsidies - in contravention of World Trade Organization agreements.

“We’re obviously pleased with their findings,” says Silfab’s Atkins. “We believe it mimics what we experienced in the marketplace.”

SNC-Lavalin consortium preferred bidder for Atomic Energy subsidiary

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Ottawa says it has completed a multi-year restructuring of Canada’s nuclear operations with the selection of a preferred bidder to operate a nuclear laboratory in eastern Ontario that is one of the world’s largest producers of medical isotopes.

Canadian National Energy Alliance was chosen Friday over three other engineering groups to manage and operate Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), a subsidiary of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. The consortium includes SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC), CH2M HILL Canada Ltd., Fluor Government Group Canada Inc., EnergySolutions Canada Group Ltd. and Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear Canada Ltd. “Today’s announcement marks the conclusion of a six-year process enhancing the efficiency and prosperity of the Canadian nuclear industry,” Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a statement.

The government and CNEA are expected to finalize a contract in two months followed by a six-month transition. Department spokeswoman Jacinthe Perras said the selection process included the use of third-party nuclear, financial and legal advisers

and an independent fairness monitor.

All bidders also had to comply with the government’s integrity framework.

The winning consortium said it will bring “private sector rigour and efficiency” to Canada Nuclear Laboratories while reducing risks and containing costs for taxpayers.

“There is a real interest to improve the facilities at the site, to expand our mission areas, to increase the capabilities here and polish the jewel that we have here of the Canadian nuclear laboratories,” CEO Mark Lesinski said in an interview.

CNL employs about 3,300 people, mostly at the Chalk River Laboratories whose nuclear reactor, which has been in operation since 1957, is slated to be decommissioned in 2018.

However, the government said the site has “an enduring science and technology mission.”

Lesinski said there are no current plans for job cuts.

“There is growth and we’ll probably need resources down the road at some point, but I’m not sure when that will be,” he added.

CNL will focus on managing radioactive waste and decommissioning, performing science and technology activities and supporting Canada’s nuclear industry through access to science, technology facilities and expertise.

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ABOVE LEFT: In his 143-square-foot home in the District of Columbia, Jay Austin opted for more counter space over closet storage and added a skylight above the bed in the loft.

ABOVE RIGHT: A refurbished love seat in Kevin Riedel’shome in Richmond, Virginia

Tiny house, big benefits

BY NINA PATEL SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE North America is having a big love affair with tiny houses. There are television shows: “Tiny House Nation” and “Tiny House Hunters.” There are movies: “Tiny: A Story About Living Small” and “Small Is Beautiful: A Tiny House Documentary.” Pinterest has more than 900 boards devoted to tiny houses, and design website Houzz showcases thousands of tinyhouse photos.

“Many Houzz readers have been fascinated by the idea of a portable home they can pay off quickly and personalize down to the smallest detail,” says editor Sheila Schmitz. And you know a concept has arrived when Portlandia skewers it: Check out the “Microhouse” episode.

Why are Americans, whose homes average about 2,200 square feet, so obsessed with tiny homes? Perhaps they are responding to the benefits tiny-house owners cite: financial and emotional freedom, a greener lifestyle, the satisfaction of building one’s own refuge.

The phrase “’tiny house’ put a name to the movement that was already there,” says Thom Stanton, a tiny-home builder in West Virginia.

Stanton says two groups are fueling the movement: millennials, because their college loans have put traditional houses out of reach, and retiring baby boomers looking for affordable homes with minimal maintenance. Meanwhile, traditional homeowners are contributing to the trend by building tiny houses on their properties to shelter guests, family members or caregivers, or putting them on vacation land.

But there’s one big drawback: Many municipalities haven’t made room literally or legislatively for tiny residences. It’s a challenge to find a place to park a tiny house if you don’t own land. And they often fall into a legal limbo.

“Tiny houses exist in sort of a legal gray area, neither explicitly allowed nor expressly forbidden,” says tiny-home owner Jay Austin of Washington.

Though the District of Columbia recently banned “camping” in tiny-house-like structures, Austin says he has been told the provision is unenforceable.

The retirement cottage on wheels Pasadena, Maryland, residents Greg and Renee Cantori have had a tiny house parked to the side of

their 1,400-square-foot 1970s ranch home for three years, awaiting their retirement. The Cantoris, who believe in collecting life experiences rather than material things, have had long careers in the nonprofit sector. They added green features such as a composting toilet, gray-water garden, programmable thermostat and LED bulbs to their main residence.

And Greg, 55, has been bike commuting on and off for 30 years, currently cycling 50 miles round trip for his job in Baltimore. Greg and Renee, 53, even opted against installing a dishwasher in their kitchen because they appreciated the family time the task provided as their two daughters were growing up. “Conveniences create isolation,” Greg Cantori says.

So it’s not surprising that the couple has chosen a post-career tiny-house lifestyle. “We will be doing things that we enjoy and spending time together doing it,” he says.

A tiny house “becomes your launchpad,” says Raleigh, North Carolina, architect Sarah Susanka, author of the “Not So Big House”series who promotes building homes that are small but higher quality.

“It’s a lot easier to live in a tiny house when you’re in a beautiful place,” she says. “A version of this is the micro units in cities where the city itself becomes your living room and dining room.”

The Cantoris’ 238-square-foot tiny home sits a few hundred yards from their 39-foot sailboat, which is docked on a creek that feeds into the Chesapeake Bay. After they retire, they plan to sell the main house and spend time on the boat and in the tiny house — a lifestyle Greg Cantori dubbed “surf ‘n’ turf.”

Many retirees travel the country in RVs, he says, but a tiny house “feels like a real house.” The cottage-like blue house with white trim is a light-filled space with dormers and beadboard ceilings and walls. It has a large loft that fits a queen-size bed and a smaller loft for a twin; Cantori split a stepladder in half to create rungs for each loft. On the main level, the house has a sitting area, kitchen and bathroom.

The house has a shower/composting toilet on the far end. The original builder fitted it with a combo washer-dryer, but the Cantoris plan to remove it; they’ll hand wash clothes or use a small manual washer. They also want to buy solar panels and a rain collection system.

The Cantoris bought the $19,500 house three years ago in preparation for the retirement plan, but also

because they needed a guesthouse and office. Greg and his brother towed the house from Ohio to Maryland, once parking in an Ace Hardware parking lot and returning to find a line of people waiting for a tour. The couple’s land in West Virginia, where they will base the house, is within biking distance of a town for access to supplies, groceries and entertainment. If they move it, they’ll tow it with a U-Haul truck.

A Spartan calling, and residence Kevin Riedel of Richmond, Virginia, was inspired by the idea of living in “gospel poverty” and focusing on his spirituality when he built his 130-square-foot house four years ago.

The then-23-year-old also wanted “to have my own house but wanted flexibility in terms of where it could be, and I wanted something that was more affordable than getting a standard mortgage,” he says.

Though his grandfather had helped his dad build a house, the thought of constructing a large house was daunting. A tiny home on wheels was a great solution. His idea was to keep the tiny house on someone’s property, but when he couldn’t find a place, he bought the land where the house now sits. Instead of the freedom he sought, he now has some degree of responsibility as a property owner. As the only one of his friends who owns a place, he often hosts cookouts and gatherings around his fire pit.

His cabin-like house has a gable metal roof and is clad in western red cedar. The door opens to a spacious living area filled with a refurbished love seat.

The other end has an L-shaped kitchen and bathroom tucked under the loft. Including the trailer, it cost about $20,000. His parents insisted that he include a flushing toilet rather than a composting one because they feared he’d never be able to find a girlfriend otherwise. (Since then, Riedel has decided to become a priest; he will attend seminary at Catholic University this fall.)

“Building a tiny house definitely isn’t a fairy tale,” he says, noting that some tiny-house bloggers romanticize it. The first winter, his hot-water heater froze and broke. This past winter, the water supply pipe to the toilet froze and flooded the home, so he replaced the pine floor milled by a craftsman in his home town of Little Washington, Virginia, with vinyl tiles that resemble wood. “You have to have some degree of determination to push through the upsetting, disappointing moments,” Riedel says.

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When it’s time for indoor pursuits, tight quarters can pose a challenge. Books, puzzles, building games, and miniature collections work well. Concentrate on what interests your son has and don’t clutter with an excess of toys. Store in containers that stack and

fit inside a cubby, and secure so that they don’t roll around when you are on the move. Ask your son to help you edit out any toys and books that he has outgrown. Invite him to help think up ways to keep his precious belongings in order so you can all share equally. Children are fair-minded and will come up with clever alternatives we might not think about, such as keeping his favourite books under his pillow.

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I’ve never seen any- larity. But besides the one learn to be a great world’s freshest eggs, gardener quickly. In my chickens can make flowexperience, getting good er and vegetable gardens with soil, plants and sun- better, too. We’ve kept shine is something that chickens since 2002, but takes decades. That said, it wasn’t until recently you can shave that we let years off your them freelearning curve range in our if you keep gardens in your eyes open, a controlled keep your heart way. We’ve teachable and definitely your mind alert noticed an to worthwhile improveideas. Here are ment in three gardenflower and ing refinements vegetable unfolding on beds when our Manitoulin chickens Island homeare allowed stead right now. to scratch STEVE Perhaps you’ll around in MAXWELL find them usethem at the ful at your own beginning of place. the season.

Insect pressure is lower, especially slugs. That’s probably because chickens love to eat bugs and bug eggs.

They must be getting The soil in our pe- lots as they kicked and rennial flower gardens scratched and pecked hasn’t seen the light of in the mulch this spring. day since we began covEven though this growering them with cedar ing season has been the bark mulch in the early wettest in memory, slugs 1990s. Slowly but surely, aren’t an issue. earth worm populations As useful as free have risen sky-high, so range chickens are, they we’re trying the same apwill get into mischief, proach on our vegetable they’ll forage where they garden. I call it the lowshouldn’t and they’ll till vegetable plan. leave behind evidence of After cleaning up the their travels. That’s why soil with multiple rounds every backyard chicken of the rototiller, the garflock needs a nice place den itself will be permato be cooped up into. nently mulched using a We use several portable thick layer of shredded chicken tractors. cedar bark to eliminate weeds and hold moisture. I tried a small plot last year and it worked beautifully. In future years, I’ll rake back the We built our home mulch in a row that’s just wide enough for a tiny and gardens in an old rototiller, plant seeds or hay field that had crops transplants, then rake taken off for many dethe mulch back over cades. No surprise that the growing vegetables soil fertility wasn’t great. as they get bigger. If all That’s one reason our works as I think it will, flower gardens used to we’ll combine the abil- fade towards the midity to plant annual veg- dle of August, and this etables from seed or prompted us to start ustransplants, along with ing water soluble plant the benefits of perma- foods. We noticed a huge nent mulching normally improvement the first reserved for perennial year we got intentional about feeding our flower gardens.

We’re trying a similar gardens regularly, and thing with old hay and there was an even bigpotatoes. Lay a 12-inch ger improvement when thick layer of old hay we started using water on the soil, then put soluble plant food every seed potatoes under the two weeks on a schedule. mulch without digging. It’s surprising just how Potatoes grow under the labour-saving it is to use hay, but the covering is a water soluble fertilizer too thick to allow weeds that hooks up to a garden hose. We’ve tried lots of to grow. brands over the years, and nothing works as well as Miracle-Gro. Our refinement this year is to extend water soluble feeding across more of Slowly but surely, our gardens. A little goes keeping backyard chick- a long way, and we’ve ens is gaining in popu- noticed that background

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\The handsome bay window should be notable in the room and with a quirky angled arrangement, the room will have style and a new personality.

A new personality for the room Question: After more than 15 years We will buy new furniture and with the same layout, I have become would like to include: a queen size bed bored with my master bedroom and with an upholstered headboard; an the predictable furniture ararmoire, a dresser with a mirDAVID rangement. ror; and two night stands.

FERGUSON Ours is a tract home and I am prepared to move pretty much identical to at some of the furniture to anleast a quarter of the homes other room if you think it in the neighbourhood. would be inappropriate or Because the home and, too crowded. subsequently, the room, was designed I am looking forward to your comlong and narrow, I am having trouble ments and suggestions. figuring out a unique and practical arAnswer: A master bedroom is the rangement that takes advantage of the most personal space in a house, and beautiful bay window. in many families, it is often the only

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While I have seen bedrooms designed to excite the senses, most of the time we just want the opposite.

We want that particular room to feel cosy, and to wrap around and comfort us.

There are several ways to visually manipulate the space to achieve that goal.

The main objective is to break up the largest expanses of floor and walls.

Everything in the space needs to appear to come closer.

You can “stop the eye” from perceiving a long, narrow space by using a patterned carpet or by using area rugs.

You can define space by strategically placing wall hangings, or by using furniture groupings.

The colours you use will visually manipulate the space, and darker tones will seem to draw the walls in closer.

To some extent, pattern used in a large area will also make a room seem smaller.

Generally, horizontal patterns will visually widen a space while vertical patterns will appear to heighten.

To help the arrangement in your room feel cosier, I have shown the space with two distinctive areas: ● a sleeping area closer to the bay window and as far out of the way of foot traffic as humanly possible; ● and a dressing area in the “upper” portion of the space.

Each of these “spaces” has its own specific function.

The trouble with long, narrow spaces is that they usually only allow you to place furniture in one direction, which is laterally and along the longest wall.

In your room like yours, this arrangement has worked for years.

But frankly, the layout such as this become dull and really doesn’t capitalize on the bay window nor its view.

The eye should be drawn to the bay window as the handsome architectural feature it is.

As quirky as it may appear, placing the furniture on a slight angle will give the overall look that bit of “zing” you’re looking for.

Because your bay window takes up the entire wall, it runs the risk of appearing unbalanced in the overall space.

When window walls are left naked or underdressed, they can appear so light that they often visually disappear.

If they are overdressed, they may make the room appear unbalanced and too heavy against the other side of the room.

I would suggest a two-point approach to decorating your bay window here: First, a blind — of your choosing— that will provide both light control and privacy for your room.

And second, over the blinds, I could see a simple box valance with side drapes that will dress up the window and help to contribute to a uniform feeling

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BORODEY Paul Jan.12, 1938 - June 23, 2015 It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Paul Borodey at the age of 77 years. Paul is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Marilyn; children: Brenda Munsters (companion John), Dana (Al) Friestadt, Wanda Borodey, and Darren (Gail) Borodey; five grandchildren: Bobby-Joe, Nicole (Kirby), Brandon, Ajay, and Jared; and nephew, Nick (Hazel) Borodey. He was predeceased by his parents and four brothers. Paul was employed with the Red Deer Advocate as a pressman for over 40 years. His happiest times were spent fishing, camping, golfing, and vacations with his family. At Paul’s request, there will be no service. Rest in Peace. Forever loved and cherished. Gone but not forgotten. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by v i s i t i n g www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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HERTER Nicole and Dustin, big sister Cady and big brother Layton welcome son/brother Theoren Albert, June 19, 2015 at Medicine Hat. Grandparents Tom and Arlene Vis and Colin and Sheila Herter.

HANDFORD (nee Ball)(Oxtoby) Mildred Anna (Midge) 1925 - 2015 Midge Handford passed away Thursday, June 11, 2015 at the Innisfail Hospital at the age of 89 years. Midge was born on August 30, 1925 in Stettler, Alberta. She leaves to mourn; sons Stan Oxtoby and Allen (Gail) Oxtoby, and granddaughters Julie and Karin, sister Vivian Bateman, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and friends.

Midge was pre-deceased by her parents Anna and Dewey Ball, brothers Ray, Don and Dewey, sisters Jean Davidson, Joyce Gleave, Carol Wood and son Leonard Oxtoby. A celebration of life will be planned for later, when it is more convenient for family to get together.

Thanks to all the kind staff at the Innisfail Hospital and Sunset Manor in ensuring that Mom received the best of care. In lieu of flowers, if desired, Memorial Donations in Midge’s honor may be made to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind at www.cnib.ca or the Heart and Stroke Foundation heartandstroke.ab.ca, Donations in Memorial or the Osteoporosis Society osteoporosis.ca, Make a Difference, Donations in Memorial.

HOLOBOFF 1972 - 2015 Sharon Marie Holoboff, who resided in Mozambique, Africa but always considered Innisfail, Alberta her home, passed away at the Foothill Medical Centre on June 25, 2015 at the age of 42 years.

Sharon will be lovingly remembered by her mother Hazel Holoboff; siblings Barb (Don) Tarnowski, Bev (Don) Engen, Janet (Kirk Malmberg) Goodwin, Joyce (Rick Burega) Holoboff, Tom Holoboff and Lisa Fogen. Also to cherish Sharon’s memory are her nieces and nephews Nevin Tarnowski, David Engen, Brianne (Max) Latte, Levi (Carlynn) Goodwin, Dorian Goodwin, Jerrica Goodwin, Bradley Burega, Kimberly Burega, Katrina Holoboff, Whitney Holoboff and BFF Sandra Paetkau as well as numerous other family members and many friends.

A Celebration of Sharon’s life will be held at the Innisfail United Church, 4720 - 48 Avenue, Innisfail Alberta Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to Tools For Schools Africa at www.tfsafrica.org. Condolences to Sharon’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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Obituaries CALDER, Jim (J.C.) June 21, 1938 - June 19, 2015 It is with profound sadness that we announce that Jim (J.C.) Calder passed away on June 19, 2015, after a very brief but courageous battle with brain cancer. Jim was born on June 21, 1938, on the family farm near Rocanville, SK, to Alexander and Edith Calder. He was the seventh of eight children. Jim grew up on the farm and left home at 16 years of age. He worked various rig and driving jobs but was proud to have been on the crew that bored the pilot hole on “K1” for the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan near Esterhazy. Jim was living in Regina when he met his best friend and the love of his life, Marion Vennard. They were married on August 19, 1961, and in 1962, they moved to Calgary. It was in Calgary that Jim took his Machinist Apprenticeship and received his Machinist Journeyman Certificate with Red Seal in 1968.

One year later he received his Millwright Journeyman Certificate. By this time, Jim and Marion had 3 daughtersValerie, Mitzi, and Shelley. His girls were the centre of his universe and he loved showing them how to fish, how to properly use machining and carpentry tools, target shoot, and the family went camping whenever they could. The family moved to Terrace, BC, in 1972 and were able to pursue even more of the outdoor activities that they all enjoyed.

While in Terrace, Jim also received his Welding Journeyman Certificate. Jim, Marion, and the girls moved back to Alberta in 1977, living in Eckville for a number of years. As emptynesters, Jim and Marion moved to Red Deer in 1989, where Jim continued to work as a machinist. He was very well known for his machining expertise and loved to “talk shop” whenever he could. Jim retired in 2005, and he and Marion moved to Whitewood, SK, to enjoy their retirement. They moved back to Alberta in 2009 as all 3 daughters and their families still lived in Alberta and as Marion told everyone, “Jim misses his family too much and had to move back.”

They settled in Daysland and lived there up until Jim’s passing. Jim is survived by his loving wife and best friend of 54 years, Marion; his daughters, Valerie (Nolan) Matthews, Mitzi (Fred) Anderson, and Shelley (Trent) Bureyko; his grandsons, Brady, Dacen, and Jayden. He is also survived by 2 sisters and 3 brothers; numerous nieces and nephews; and many, many friends. Jim was predeceased by his parents and 2 sisters. Jim was a man of integrity and honesty- he had a quiet strength about him. As his grandson Jayden said, “Papa was the type of man that more men should strive to be.” His sense of humor was always at the forefront-right up until the end, he loved to make his family laugh. His 3 grandsons were very special to him. He enjoyed every stage of them growing up but especially when they got older and he could engage them in wide ranging conversation topics such as politics, talking shop, world events, and Monty Python’s Holy Grail. A Celebration of Jim’s Life will be held on July 4, 2015, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the Daysland Community Hall located at the corner of 46 Street and 51 Avenue in Daysland. Come and share a story about Jim with everyone-casual dress. Memorial donations can be made to the Cross Cancer Institute, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2 or the Daysland Hospital, 5920 - 51 Avenue, Daysland, AB T0B 1A0. To send a condolence to the family, please visit www.burgarfuneralhome.com.

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O’Coin Albert Charles Nov. 10, 1933 - June 23, 2015 Albert Charles O’Coin of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the age of 81 years. Albert will be lovingly remembered by his loving wife, Georgina, four sons; Kevin (Debbie), Dwayne (Connie), Gary (Rina), and Allan (Rhonda), fifteen grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren, and numerous extended family and friends.

He was predeceased by his parents; David Charles and Elizabeth (nee Campbell), sisters; Adeline Taylor and Emily Mabbott, and nephew, David Mabbott. A Funeral Service will be held at the First Church of the Nazarene, 2 McVicar Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. For those who wish to pay their final respects to Albert, visitations will be held prior to the service starting at 1:00 p.m. Interment will take place at the Caroline Cemetery on Monday, June 29, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. A Remembrance Tea will follow at the Nazarene Church, 4803 50 Street, Caroline, Alberta, at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Food Bank Society, 12-7429 49 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 1N2.

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Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS

1 day a week in:

F/T Customer Service employee req’d.

Tasks: Keyholder Early evening and weekend shifts avail. Must be reliable and trustworthy.

Send resumes to: sw8903@sherwin.com or in person at 3301 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer.

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

2 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

SOBEYS VILLAGE MALL

ANDERS AREA

is now hiring energetic, punctual, hard working food enthusiasts for the following departments:

Abel Close Addington Drive Allan Close Andrewes Close Archibald Cres.

PT/FT Meat Clerks PT/FT Bakers PT/FT Cake Decorators

INGLEWOOD

Previous experience is an asset.

Forward resumes to: Rob.Gustafson@ sobeys.com fax: (403)347-4588

Employment Training

All Areas SUNNYBROOK AREA

900

Sherwood Cres.

Stanhope Ave. Scott St.

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE

SOUTHBROOK AREA

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

403.341.4544

Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

“Low Cost” Quality Training 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Announcements the informative choice!

Classifieds 309-3300

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REWARDING WORK OPPORTUNITY!!!!

Would you like to positively impact the lives of youth?

Are you looking for a rewarding way to share your positive outlook with others, lead by example and promote a healthy lifestyle?

If so, we are currently looking for Host Families to provide a supportive and nurturing home environment for teens.

Our goal is to support teens to get back on track personally and academically, establish better relationships and rediscover their capabilities. We help teens to face life’s challenges and guide them in pursuing new and positive directions.

Our encouraging, compassionate and caring Host Parents work with and are supported by our therapeutic, multidisciplinary team.

If you possess basic computer skills, have a valid AB driver’s license and a vehicle, a clean background check (Criminal Record, Drivers Abstracts etc) and live in Alberta’s Central Region. This position is ideal for those who have flexible work schedules (stay at home parent, home based business) and families looking for a second income.

If this is something that you feel would be a great fit for you and your family please email: abva.recruitment@gmail.com for more information

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

1060

SUMMER CARE for children ages one to six in my home. 403-350-0726

Cleaning

1070

CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Avail. to start cleaning houses on July 2. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 leave msg

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

Now Hiring In-Home Caregiver $11/hr 40 hrs/wk Care of a 7 yr. boy. Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is not a condition of employment.

Email resume: delmundot4r@gmail.com

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Caregivers

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Sylvan Lake

F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

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

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

1200

Handyman Services

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617 HANDYMAN Available.

Call Derek 403-848-3266

Landscaping

1240

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

PH. 403 391-6430 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

DUMP RUNS, metal, battery p/u. 403-550-2502

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Moving & Storage

1300

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Moving & Storage

1300

Elite Retreat, Finest

in VIP Treatment.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your 10 - 2am Private back entry reno needs. 403-506-4301 403-341-4445 SIDING, soffit, fascia, decks, insulation 403-588-2740

565120G3

Sylvan Lake

TWO FAMILY SALE, Fri, June 26, 4-8, Sat. June 27, 10-8 & Sun. June 28, 10-6, straight north on Gaetz, one mile past Hwy 11 and turn left; across from Evraz Pipe.

552216E16-I19

939 RAMAGE CRES. Unit 35.

June 26 & 27, 9-6.

Large collection of fabric $2/meter.

6.2 KMS. South on HWY 781 from Hwy 11, Sylvan Lake.

June 26, Fri. 2 - 7 June 27, Sat. 8 - 7

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Accounting

Oriole Park

Rosedale

PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position

JM & APP SCAFFOLDER Needed for 3 - 4 month job in Portal, Sask. Must have H2S, First Aid, CSTS, WHIMIS, Fall Arrest Apply by resume to info@ dynamicprojects.ca

820

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS NEEDED

810

EXP’D PIPELAYERS & OPERATORS req’d for Water/Sewer Line Utility Installation.

A.I.C. Construction Ltd. Exc. wages/benefits.

Fax: 403-207-4055 or email: r.nolet@aicconstruction.ca

880

Misc.

Help

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

850

Waskasoo

5823-57 Ave. Lots of jewelry, Princess Diana memorabilia, clothes, books, etc. Fri. June 26, noon-8, Sat. 9-5.

F/T TOW TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract.

Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

710

Deer Park

Riverside Meadows

860

Truckers/ Drivers

780

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

SAT. JUNE 27, 10-4.

Women & Kids clothing, antiques, new 1955-57 Chev car parts, household items. 48 Lougheed Cl.

JOURNEYMAN H.D. MECHANIC req’d immed. in Innisfail. Wage dependent on exp.

Preference will be given to those with previous exp. with Genie and JLG products. Fax resume to 403-227-5701 or email: bouvier9@telus.net

830

jobs

The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) is looking for an

Lancaster Meadows

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. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

40 hrs/week, + benefits , 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

850

Trades

Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and we are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years experience.

ADS Drivers are required You can sell your guitar to safely operate company Sales & for a song... equipment and provide a or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Distributors high level of customer and we’ll sell it for you! service, delivering our FIREPLACE products within Alberta.

SALES PERSON ADS Drivers are required CLASSIFICATIONS Top salary, commission to be drug free and 700-920 Legal & benefits. Call or email maintain legal transportaJohn, 1-780-993-2040 tion paperwork and driving firegall@telusplanet.net practices. This position Corporate Caregivers/ requires a valid Class 1 Classifieds...costs so little Commercial Aides License; with previous off Saves you so much!

Legal Assistant road forklift and shipping /receiving experience a LIVE-IN Caregiver req’d for Minimum three(3) years definite asset. We offer 1 child. Some college experience. quarterly safety bonuses exp’d needed, $10.65/hr.

Trades Firm is prepared to train as well as a comprehensive 40 hrs./wk. some overtime a candidate who has medical plan. req’d. Apply by email to: experience in some but not CABINET MAKER & Benefits include: buccatb@yahoo.ca all aspects of the position. * Company provided HELPER WANTED CELEBRATIONS Canadian Benefits Package 2nd to 4th year apprentice HAPPEN EVERY DAY Please submit your would be an asset. *Both * Voluntary Dental Plan IN CLASSIFIEDS resume by email or fax to: positions are immediate* * Life Insurance Option Plan * Short-term/Long-term will consider resumes, Classifieds Gerig Hamilton Neeland Disability Policy applications are necesary Your place to SELL LLP * Retirement Savings Plan for both posititon.

Your place to BUY ATTN: Ian D. Milne (RSP) and Deferred Profit Can apply by email.

FAX 403.343.6522 Sharing Plan (DPSP) Tired of Standing?

Must be willing to work Email: info@ghnlawyers.ca * Paid Vacation with ladies. Helper’s Find something to sit on * Quarterly Safety Bonus position suitable for single Something for Everyone in Classifieds parent. Specialization in a Everyday in Classifieds All applicants are subject specific particular area LOOKING for live out to a pre-employment would benefit yourself.

CELEBRATIONS nanny for Mon, Tues. Fri. physical and MVR check. starting wage $15. if no days for 4 children.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY Interested Applicants may experience. Wages Spruceview area.

IN CLASSIFIEDS submit a resume, along negotiable dependant on Transportation required. with a current drivers experience. If selected for 403-728-8240 abstract to: interview remuneration for Advanced Drainage travel will be considered.

Professionals Systems Of Canada Inc. Setting in a smaller family 4316 Gerdts Ave. town. Applications must be Blindman Ind. Park HIGH PAYING Real Estate in by June 29, 5 pm.

Red Deer County, AB. Career opportunity.

Contact Chris 306-733-0001 T4S-2A8 Training provided. Flexible Connoisseur Woodcrafts Fax: (403) 346-5806 hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Inc. Welwyn, Sask.

E-mail ken.mccutcheon Deer. Call Dave at @ads-pipe.com DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. 403-350-1271 or email Position closing date: Experience an asset. resumes to Dave July 3, 2015 403-341-7619 @homesreddeer.com Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Eastview Estates

820

In our Rocky Mountain House Location Accounting Technician responsibilities & qualifications: duties include but not limited to: *process and maintain a/r *sap business one experience mandatory Personals *working knowledge of ms office & simply accounting JJAM Management (1987) ALCOHOLICS (2013) program is essential Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 *able to work with minimal Requires to work at these supervision Red Deer, AB locations: You can sell your guitar *must have an accounting 5111 22 St. for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS designation 37444 HWY 2 S *min of 3+ years accounting and we’ll sell it for you!

37543 HWY 2N related experience 700 3020 22 St. COCAINE ANONYMOUS Preference will be given to FOOD ATTENDANT 403-396-8298 candidates who are highly Req’d permanent shift organized, able to multi weekend day and evening Classifieds task, complete tasks in a both full and part time.

Your place to SELL timely fashion & are team 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Your place to BUY players benefits. Start ASAP. Job description Central Alberta’s Largest Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references www.timhortons.com Car Lot in Classifieds to: resumes@ Education and experience newcartcontracting.com not req’d. or fax resume to: Apply in person or fax 1-403-729-2396 resume to: 403-314-1303 *no phone call inquiries please

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FEATURING well-known singer DEAN RAY every Monday, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Come join us!

Restaurant/ Hotel

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Eavestroughing Come in and see GUTTERS CLEANED & why we are the talk of the town.

REPAIRED. 403-391-2169

1130

552217E16-I19

WHAT’S HAPPENING

NORCO bike. Call to identify 403-346-0733 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Clerical

278950A5

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Found

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 27, 2015 D7

Firewood

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AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Children's Items

1580

BENCH/SEAT CHILD’S toy storage, wood with back. $40. 403-986-2108 EARLY set of LEGO by Samsonite 717 $50 403-347-3849

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

1660

CRAFTSMAN 3” belt sander $20; Craftsman 5/8 reversible electric drill $20; Stanley mitre box saw $15.

403-346-6539

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 CHOPPED POPLAR - free, you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Garden Supplies

1680

RIMBEY TREES SPECIAL: 3’ - 4’ Potted White Spruce $8/ft, min. 20 trees. Wide variety of basketed trees.

Planting avail. Call Walter 403-748-3611 or leave msg

Household Furnishings

1720

Household Furnishings

1720

CURIO CABINET, walnut wood, $150., 3 pce. floor and table lamp set, cream fabric shades, $50.

403-755-7570 FLOOR LAMP, antique, dark wood with dome shade; $75; Occasional chair & matching ottoman, cream microfibre & ebony Tilt/rotate; $75.

403-755-7570 LARGE oval maple western style coffee table, w/bronze glass accents $75.; table lamps, (2) brass with dome shades, $50 403-755-7570 LAZY BOY 3 seater, recliners on each end, $200 obo. 403-348-5544 or 403-990-9223

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

1760

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

ATENTION FARMERS: Looking for scrap wheel moves and irrigation pipe.

403-330-7357

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

LOVESEAT, willow for out doors. $60. 403-309-5494 NEW apartment size Danby 5000 btu air conditioner $50 403-358-5568

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

NEW apartment size electric fireplace $150 403-358-5568 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

PAINTINGS pencil (2) framed Male and Female Elk, plus Cougar. $40.

403-986-2108

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

PICINIC table, 39” round with 4 heavy chairs and pads, umbrella (never used). $135. 403-309-5494 STORAGE shed, tent style, 6’ x 4’ x 6’, full front door roll-up, spare roof and wall cover, set up to view. $55. o.b.o. NEW was $109. 403-346-2192

DEER PARK AREA

Davenport Place (Corner of Ross St. & Donlevy Ave.) $123.04/mo.

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

ALSO Dixon Cres, Ave, Close and Dunlop St. $111.52/mo

Office Supplies

DOWNTOWN / WOODLEA

1800

UNUSED office desk, can sit 6 people $180 403-347-0939

55 St. and 47A Ave. area $95.84/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Cats

1830

1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; 403-887-3649

FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

Sporting Goods

1860

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200 403-352-8811

ORIOLE PARK

3050

Rooms For Rent

3090

2 BDRMS., no pets.

COZY Furnished room, $900./mo. 5805-56 Ave n/s, $575. 403-466-7979 403-343-6609 ROOM TO RENT very 3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, large $450. 403-350-4712 heat included, $795 w/laundry connection 403-357-7817 To SHARE 2 bdrm. apt. in Timberstone, $640 3 BDRM., no pets, inclusive. 403-348-1809 $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 ACROSS from park, Oriole Park, 3 bdrm.

Mobile 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls.

Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650. Lot Avail. now or July 1.

PADS $450/mo.

403-304-5337 Brand new park in Lacombe.

CLEARVIEW MEADOWS Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. baths, $1100 avail. July 1 Down payment $4000. Call N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780 at anytime. 403-588-8820

3190

ORIOLE PARK

Suites

3060

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4020

3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelproperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 Starting at $1195 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. or July 1 References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Cars

5030

FREE…LIST OF HOMES 2001 BMW Z3 Convertible with owners phone 5 spd, 120,000 miles, numbers, addresses and $11,000 obo 403-200-1307 prices. Call Help-U-Sell of Red Deer at 403-342-7355

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 Red Deer New 4th flr. corner suite, 1096 Sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreational amenities, extended care center attached, deck 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 anytime. Pics avail. on kijji

Lots For Sale

4160

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

4010

1 BDRM. lower level legal suite, all utils, Opik tv, wifi incld, off street parking $1150/mo. + DD 403-392-4535 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious HERE TO HELP suites 3 appls., heat/water & HERE TO SERVE incld., Oriole Park.

Call GORD ING at 403-986-6889 RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. gord.ing@remax.net apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 I bdrm,balcony,free laundry, heat and water on 3rd Houses INGLEWOOD - nicely For Sale floor for quiet over 35 yr finished, higher end 2 old working tenant for $850 bdrm., lower unit bi-level rent/D.D. duplex at Unit B, 187 2 bdrm,one with balcony Isherwood Close. 5 appls., one without, free laun2 car cement parking pad, dry,heat and water to over N/S, no pets, prefer quiet 35 working tenants for tenant. Avail. immed. $1150/rent/D.D. $1200. rent/dd, + util.

No pets and good referCall Don 403-742-9615 ences. 5910-55 Ave. , 12 suiter. Ph: 403-341-4627.

“COMING SOON” BY Condos/ LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SERGE’S HOMES Townhouses SUITES. 25+, adults only Duplex in Red Deer Close n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 to Schools and Recreation 2 bdrm. townhouse w/garCenter. For More Info LIMITED TIME OFFER: age in Parkvale 4603-44 Call Bob 403-505-8050 First Month’s Rent FREE! St. no pets, must be 50+, 1 & 2 bedroom suites avail. July 15. available in central locaeves. 403-309-7707 days tion. Heat & water 403-506-0265 included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer PARKVALE, 55+ condo, leasing@rentmidwest.com 2 bdrm., 1 bath, garage, 1(888)679-8031 $1250. + utils. Avail. Sept.

1, min. one year lease.

403-347-5387 PARKVALE, 55+ condo, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, garage, $1450. + utils. Avail. Aug. 1, min. one year lease.

RENTED

4020

Houses For Sale

Trucks

5050

2002 DODGE RAM, good shape, $3,300.

403-598-4131

Motorhomes

5100

GLENDALE

2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

July 1. 403-304-5337 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

2 BDRM Duplex overlooking 2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1075.

Kin Canyon, 5 appls. 1.5 bath, rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

NO PETS. $1150 incl. now or July 1. 403-304-5337 water, garbage & sewer, d.d. $1000. avail. Aug.1.

403-346-3179

BLONDE veneer wall unit Misc. for VARIETY of miscellaneous with glass doors, approxi- Sale 3 BDRM. house in Anders tools, $20. 403-885-5020 mately 32” wide x 72” high. w/garage, 3 appls, no pets $100 obo, and blonde 60” 100 VHS movies, $75. or smokers, $1600/mo. + long dresser with mirror 403-885-5020 utils. avail. July 16, and one matching night403-342-5249 Firewood stand, $75 obo.

4 CEMENT blocks 18 x 18” 403-348-5544 or $2/ea. 403-346-5423 FOR LEASE, Executive 403-990-9223 AFFORDABLE style 1/2 duplex in BROWN CHINA cabinet Homestead Firewood Lacombe on large lot.

WANTED $50; apartment size kitchSpruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble.

Antiques, furniture and en oak table w/2 chairs 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 garage, no pets, N/S. estates. 342-2514 $50; electric Toro gas trim403-588-2740 mer $25; ox-acet Victor Advocate regulator set $45 House for Rent 4 bdrm 3 403-358-5568 Opportunities bath 5 appl 4 level split near park in Eastview EsLAMPS, (2) small 15”, blue tate (RD). hardwood flr n/s shade, marble type base, no pets. $1750 + util. Avail.

CARRIERS REQUIRED $20; 403-986-2108 Aug 1st 780-742-9399

1660

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

Money To Loan

1995 34’ Winnebago diesel pusher $19,900 obo 403-872-3010

Holiday Trailers

WINEGARD portable satellite dish, 18”W x 18”D x 12”H. Finds the satellite by itself. Good for RVs, campers or south facing apartments and condos.

Paid $960 in Jan. Now $500. For Shaw only.

403-252-2054 or 403-701-2054.

Boats & Marine

4430

CONSOLIDATE All loans with rates from 2.1% business or personal loan bankruptcy or bad credit ok. Call 778-654-1408

5120

5160

WatersEdge Marina

wheels

Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

CLASSIFICATIONS

CATAMARAN Hobie, 13’ Wave, c/w jib, no trailer, $3800. obo. 403-389-6161

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Cars

5030

2006 VW JETTA, gas, 2.0 turbo, leather, sunroof, 189,000 km, $7,900.

403-318-1010

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444 Newer 2 bdrm. bsmt suite.

Mature responsible, clean, working only. All utils incl.

Separate entrance & offstreet parking, avail. Aug. 1 403-348-1304

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 ONE bdrm. apt. avail. immed. $850 plus power.

Call Bob 403-872-3400

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

TONNEAU Cover for Dodge Ram, fits 2004 2009 S/B fiberglass. $300.

403-309-9233, 350-6759

Reached a Milestone?

309-3300

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Overdown Drive ALSO Owens and Osmond Close JOHNSTONE PARK Springfield Crossing WESTPARK Webster Drive and Wyndman Cres.

ALSO 41 Street and Westpark Cres.

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Medical marijuana unproven to help many illnesses AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE FUTURE Colorado, one of a few states where recreational marijuana use is legal, has pledged more than $8 million in state funds for several studies on the drug’s potential medical benefits, including whether it can reduce veterans’ symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. That study may begin recruiting participants later this year, said Vandrey, one of that

CHICAGO — Medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for, according to the first comprehensive analysis of research on its potential benefits.

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Evidence was weak for many other conditions, including anxiety, sleep disorders, and Tourette’s syndrome and the authors recommend more research.

The analysis is among St. Mary's Hospital, Camrose is looking for: several medical mariUnit Manager juana articles published Tuesday in the Journal WHEN APPLYING: Please submit your résumé by 2400 of the American Medical hours on the closing date, quoting the Competition Number Association. They include a small study suggesting that many brand labels for Competition Number: CP-50286-CM edible marijuana products Position Type: Full-Time list inaccurate amounts of We proudly serve Date Closed: July 16, 2015 active ingredients. More a 150-year legacy than half of brands tested Salary Range: As per our Out Of Scope terms and of quality care. had much lower amounts agreement than labeled, meaning users might get no effect.

Highlights from the View this job opportunity @ CovenantHealth.ca/careers journal: Apply at careers@CovenantHealth.ca Human Resources Toll Free: 1.877.450.7555 THE ANALYSIS The researchers pooled results from studies that tested marijuana against placebos, usual care or no treatment. That’s the most rigorous kind of research but many studies found no conclusive evidence of any benefit. Side effects were common and included dizziness, dry mouth and sleepiness. A less extensive research review in the journal found similar results.

It’s possible medical marijuana could have widespread benefits, but strong evidence from highquality studies is lacking, authors of both articles say.

“It’s not a wonder drug but it certainly has some potential,” said Dr. Robert Wolff, a co-author and researcher with Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd. EDIBLE PRODUCTS Researchers evaluated 47 brands of medical marijuana products, including candy, baked goods and drinks, bought at dispensaries in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

Independent laboratory testing for THC, marijuana’s leading active ingredient, found accurate amounts listed on labels for just 13 of 75 products.

Almost 1 in 4 had higher amounts than labeled, which could cause ill effects. Most had lower-thanlisted amounts. There were similar findings for another active ingredient.

Products were not identified by name.

The Bethany Group is hiring the following position: Johns Hopkins University researcher Ryan Vandrey, the lead author, said he was surprised so Full-time FTE 1.0 many labels were inaccurate. The researchers The Bethany Group is a not-for-profit organization providing health and note, however, that the re- housing services to seniors and low income Albertans. Our corporate offices sults may not be the same are in Camrose, a vibrant community of 18,000 located an hour southeast of in other locations.

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Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C. have The Bethany Group is seeking a highly motivated and positive individual to laws permitting medical lead the Financial Services team. Working in our Camrose office, you will marijuana use. Approved be responsible for the efficient delivery of financial services for the entire conditions vary but in- organization which encompasses many sites throughout Central Alberta. Key clude Alzheimer’s dis- duties will include preparation of audited financial statements, budgeting and ease, epilepsy, glaucoma, forecasting, and reporting to management, Board and external stakeholders. kidney disease, lupus and QUALIFICATIONS: Parkinson’s disease.

An editorial in the jour- Professional accounting designation (CA, CGA, CMA, CPA) nal says approval in many Senior-level accounting and management experience states has been based on Experience with payroll and benefits preferred poor quality studies, pa- Proficiency with Excel, accounting applications, other business software tients’ testimonials or oth- Experience in developing enhancements to information systems an asset er nonscientific evidence.

Marijuana is illegal un- SKILLS AND ABILITIES: der federal law and some Thrives in an office setting that is busy and demanding scientists say research has Self-directed and able to make decisions independently been stymied by govern- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills ment hurdles including Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines a declaration that mariStrong leadership and team-building skills juana is a controlled substance with no accepted Commitment to ongoing development of professional skills COMPENSATION: medical use.

But in a notice pub- The Bethany Group offers a competitive salary combined with a generous lished Tuesday in the benefits plan including pension, medical and dental coverage with a flexible Federal Register, the De- spending component. partment of Health and Human Services made it Closing Date: 13 July 2015 a little easier for private- Please submit applications to: ly funded medical mariHuman Resources, The Bethany Group juana research to get ap4612 – 53 Street proved. The department Camrose, AB T4V 1Y6 said that a federal Public Fax: (780) 679-2001 Health Service review of Email: hr@bethanygrp.ca research proposals is no longer necessary because For further details go to: www.thebethanygroup.ca Careers Section it duplicates a required A current Police Information Check is a pre-employment requirement for new employees to The Bethany Group. review by the Food and We sincerely thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Vandrey said there’s a feeling of optimism in the research community that “we’ll start to get a good science base” for the potential medical uses of marijuana.

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Rules for helping when tragedy strikes Dear Annie: I used to be one of those that need fixing with a power drill and people who, when I heard that some- I’m not good at it and don’t have the one was ill or injured, would say, “If time to devote to practicing.

I can do anything to help, Right now, I’m buildplease call me.” ing a sidewalk to our patio.

I meant it with all of my It would be great if someheart, but of course, no one one called to say, “I have ever called, so I wrongfultwo free hours. What do ly assumed they were OK. you need help with?” One Then disaster struck our neighbor came by to remove home. our storm doors when it ocMy husband fell down curred to him that I couldn’t some steps and suddenly do that myself. I could have was a quadriplegic. Not kissed him. only did it forever change ● Call to say you are comour lives, it also made me ing over to visit. We both realize that even though I feel so isolated. I would MITCHELL needed help, I was hesitant love for people to stop by & SUGAR to reach out. So here is my so I have someone to talk to advice to those who really and he could have a friend want to be of assistance but watch a baseball game with don’t know how: him. People come when we ● If it’s the season to do specifically invite them, but something around your house (mow they never call to suggest coming over. the grass or clean the gutters), your I get it. Before, I didn’t know what we’d friend will need to do the same thing. talk about. But the truth is, I wouldn’t If your snow needs shoveling, so does care if we talked about the weather. I hers. If your leaves need raking, so do want to hear how “real” people live, hers. Don’t ask. Call and say, “I have not just rehash what our life has bean extra hour. I’m going to run over come. — Exhausted After 10 Months and rake your leaves,” and don’t take Dear Exhausted: Your suggestions no for an answer. are excellent. Most people want to ● Don’t make promises you don’t help, but they don’t know how to do intend to keep. We had a neighbor who it. And they don’t want to impose by told us on four separate occasions that insisting on cutting the grass, dropping he would come by to fix a broken door off a meal or asking to stop by for a visbut didn’t show up. it. We hope they will take your words ● Cook something. We can no longer to heart. afford to go out to dinner, nor can we Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy justify the expense of the special van Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edineeded to transport my husband to a tors of the Ann Landers column. Please restaurant. email your questions to anniesmailbox@ I am so tired of eating nothing but creators.com. my own cooking. If you make an extra amount The Red Deer Advocate has an opening for a of anything, your friend would probably appreciate your sharing. ● If your friend isn’t “tool educated” or “comThe ideal candidate will have a passion for all puter literate” and you aspects of multimedia journalism including are, you could be a huge help. newspaper, on-line publications and social media I have several things channels.

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That’s life when you’re a Gemini!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Loved ones could overwhelm you today — if you let them.

With mighty Mars marching through your Saturday, June 27 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: sign, it’s time for clever Crabs to be bold and show others who’s the boss.

Isabelle Adjani, 60; Tobey LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There Maguire, 40; Khloe Karcould be a few fireworks with a dashian, 31 stressed family member. You’re THOUGHT OF THE DAY: emotionally excited and easily conThe Moon’s in Scorpio which fused, but you’ve also got lots of favours research and making energy so make sure you use it deep emotional connections. positively and productively.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: When VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You you set yourself on a particular have a strong need to communicourse, it’s almost impossible cate about how you’re feeling. Try to stop you. Just make sure to be diplomatic — especially with you are heading down the loved ones — as you may be seeroad that is right for you! ing things too subjectively. Pace JOANNE ARIES (March 21-April yourself.

MADELEINE 19): You’re keen to take the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): MOORE initiative today and show othDon’t be too hard on yourself — ers how to do things. Resist your perfectionist side needs a the urge to be bossy and domrest. Approach the day with confiineering though, and rememdence, and don’t worry about how ber that a true leader guides by example.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Listen care- you look or the impression you’re making on fully when you are communicating with others others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios today Taurus. If you don’t, then you are likely to jump to conclusions and make hasty as- don’t do things by halves. The Moon’s in your sign, which highlights your strengths — and sumptions that just confuse you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid making your weaknesses. So aim to be sexy and important decisions. You’re keen to express sensitive; rather than stubborn and sarcastic! yourself, but don’t be surprised if your feelings change many times throughout the day. Please see SIGNS on Page D10

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A red-necked grebe mother guides her two chicks during a swim at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area. The red-necked grebe is a nondescript duskygrey bird in winter. During the breeding season, it acquires the distinctive red neck plumage, black cap and contrasting pale grey face from which its name was derived. It also has an elaborate courtship display and a variety of loud mating calls. Once paired, it builds a nest from water plants on top of floating vegetation in a shallow lake or bog.

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SIGNS: Sagittarius SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians are juggling projects and rushing through everything at the moment. But make sure you have time to eat well and get sufficient sleep, otherwise you’ll be no use to anyone!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When it comes to a potential romantic relationship, are you being too cautious Capricorn? Mighty Mars is encouraging you to make a major move — sooner rather than later.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to power ahead professionally but don’t be in too much of a rush Aquarius! Give work colleagues the chance to catch up, and make sure you include them in your current plans.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today’s stars stimulate the artistic, idealistic, humanitarian and spiritual sides of your Piscean personality. So it’s a great time to create, contemplate or meditate, plus help someone in need.

Sunday, June 28 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: John Cusack, 49 Kathy Bates, 67; Alessandro Nivola, 43 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Cool compromise is the key to a stress-free day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You’re restless for change but be careful what you wish for — your dreams may come true. Over the next 12 months, strive to be more disciplined and less self-absorbed.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your quicksilver mind is firing on all cylinders and you’re keen to communicate study and learn. But conflict is on the cards today, unless you can slow down and calm volatile emotions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your aspirations for the future may be at odds with what your intuition is telling you. Time for some new dreams? Bulls are in the mood to socialize but avoid being jealous and possessive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today’s stars favour communication, conversation, social media and community connections. But leave

making important decisions about money until you’re feeling less extravagant.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to foster friendships, and make sure you are carrying your weight in relationships. Communicating with loved ones will be intense, but a pinch of patience will get you through.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Sun — your ruling planet — in your mystery zone, you’re keen to uncover a secret or two.

Money is tight for many Lions at the moment, so keep your urge to splurge under control.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If there are problems in your primary relationship, slow down and take the time to sort them out.

Don’t assume you know what your partner is thinking. Ask questions — and then listen closely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It may be challenging to balance personal projects and family matters, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. When it comes to finances, your emotions are close to the surface for all to see.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When communicating with others today, try to stick to the facts. If you get too emotionally involved, then things could get very intense — and you could lose your Scorpio cool!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Spontaneous Sagittarians can be careless with cash and credit. With Mars moving through your joint finances zone, impulse buys are a danger. So be cautious when shopping — in person and online.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Close relationships are highlighted. But connecting with loved ones will be tricky today, as other issues draw your attention away from family matters. Clear communication is the key.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Attached Aquarians — it’s important to share mutually enjoyable activities with your partner. Singles — between now and August 11, expect a plethora of potential partners to beat a path to your door.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ve got noble intentions, and are very keen to step in and help someone who’s in need. But don’t promise more time, money or resources than you can realistically provide.

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Health Canada says the recall includes tops under various names, including Carry and Go Hoodie, Cool Down Jacket, Course-ette Jacket, Cozy Up Jacket, Dance Studio Jacket, Dance Sweat Shirt, Don’t Hurry Be Happy Pullover, Gratitude Wrap, Necessity Jacket and Proactive Jacket.

Other jackets in the recall: Refresh Snap Up, Run Sun Blocker Pullover, Run Track N Field Jacket, Run With It Jacket, Sanctuary Jacket, Savasana Tunic, Sing, Floss, Travel Jacket, Stow’N Go Jacket, Stride Jacket, Summertime Tunic, Varsity Hoodie, Victory Jacket and Wear With All Jacket.

Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL) pulled some of its Luon yoga pants off the market in 2013 after customers complained that the pants were too sheer, making them see-through at times.

Other wearers reported problems including pilling, holes, and seams coming apart.

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