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Red Deer Advocate WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015

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W

e all know — or should know — the date of Confederation, the number of provinces in our fine land, and the name of our first prime minister.

But how deep is your national knowledge?

Does it drill down to Central Alberta and its place in the nation?

Citizenship should be about belonging. And how better to feel you belong on Canada Day than to have a firm grasp on the history and facts related to your province and community?

Whether you’re an old-timer or a newcomer, this quiz is intended to test — and inform — your knowledge about local and Alberta history and facts.

You might be surprised about some of the facts related to our area.

Get all the questions right and you win bragging

File photos by ADVOCATE staff

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: St. Mary’s Church; the Cenotaph in Veterans Park; The North American Harvard 370 aircraft sits atop a pedestal near the Red Deer Regional Airport’s terminal entrance the Ghost sculpture of Francis Galbraith outside Red Deer City Hall.

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rights as the smartest person in Central Alberta on Canada Day. But it would be up to you to brag.

The quiz was compiled by Advocate staff past and present, city historian Michael Dawe and former mayor Morris Flewwelling.

Please see the answers on Page A6.

Happy Canada Day, everyone.

1) What is the official motto of the City of Red Deer?

2) On the official Red Deer crest there are two dates — 1901 and 1913. What do those dates represent?

3) Red Deer had the first direct distance dialing telephone system in Western Canada. In what year was that service started?

4) What is the official name of the large green water tower in Red Deer?

5) How did the Garden Heights subdivision get its name?

6) In what year was Red Deer declared to be the fastest growing city in Canada?

7) What was the name of Red Deer’s first TV station?

8) Which major figure in Red Deer’s history was one of the featured speakers at the Halifax, N.S., celebrations of the creation of Canada on July 1, 1867?

9) What was Red Deer’s population in 1963 when it celebrated its Golden (50th) Anniversary of incorporation as a city?

10) While we know that Red Deer reached the 100,000 population mark this year (100,807, to be precise), how many years ago was it that the city reached 50,000 in population?

11) The first mayor of the City of Red Deer was Francis Wright Galbraith (1913).

What was his occupation?

12) Who is the longest serving mayor in Red Deer’s history?

13) Red Deer used to be made up of two separate incorporated municipalities. What was the name of the other municipality?

14) The Red Deer College Kings went on an historic run of eight straight Canadian Colleges Athletic Association men’s volleyball championships.

When did it begin and end?

15) The old Red Deer Rustlers won Centennial

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON PAGE A6 Cup (now the Royal Bank Cup) to become national junior A hockey champions twice in their history. What years did they win, and who was the star player on the 1980 team?

16): Which dessert treat was developed at the Russell Candy Co. in Red Deer?

17) Who was the Red Deer man appointed Chancellor of the University of Alberta in the 1970s?

18) Which Governor General of Canada was born in Lacombe and grew up in Red Deer?

19) Who was Alberta’s first premier, and when did we become a province?

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Local economy predicted to shrink Red Deer’s economy will shrink this year because of slumping oil prices, predicts the Conference Board of Canada.

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Two killed in house fire near Olds

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Two people are dead following a fire that destroyed a home on an acreage southwest of Olds on Monday.

Fire investigators confirmed two deceased persons were recovered from the fire scene on Tuesday.

Police have an idea of the identity of the adults but are not releasing names.

Investigators are working with the Medical Examiner’s Office to establish identity. The bodies have been transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office and an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Joe Sangster said the Olds fire department was called to a fire at the home just south of Hwy 27 near Range Road 25 around 4 a.m. on Monday.

Motorists in the area driving by noticed the smoke and called the fire department.

Sangster said the home was “to the ground” when crews arrived. There were no other buildings or structures at risk.

They are not releasing the address of the home to keep people away from the scene.

Sangster said a couple lived in the home. At this time the fire is not being treated as suspicious, he added.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Looking north from Bow Summit along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park the setting sun paints smoke from forest fires in B.C. and Alberta in a late evening glow earlier this week.

Smoke from wildfires prompts air quality advisory

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Central Albertans woke up early Tuesday in an unhealthy haze, largely comprised of “second-hand” wildfire smoke.

Later in the morning, an Air Quality Advisory was issued for the Red Deer area by Alberta Health Services.

“In these current conditions, even healthy individuals may experience temporary irritation of eyes and throat, and possibly shortness of breath,” the advisory stated.

The health risk due to the poor air quality in Red Deer rose significantly overnight from low to high on Tuesday morning.

The Air Quality Index, which gauges health risk, fluctuated throughout the day. At 8 a.m., the reading was nine. But by 1 p.m., it had dropped to six. It was forecast to reach a high of 10, six overnight Tuesday and then four today, Canada Day.

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QUIZ: Test your knowledge 20) Which Red Deer politician was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta?

21) What CFL hall of famer played for both of Alberta’s professional football teams and was later appointed the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta?

22) Which family in Blackfalds collected fleas for the Rothschild family of London?

23) Who was the amateur paleontologist from Red Deer who discovered several animal fossils near Joffre Bridge?

24) Which Central Albertan was instrumental in development of the Canadarm?

25) Who was the first woman who settled in Red Deer?

26) Who was the Red Deer woman who designed the provincial crest of Alberta?

27) What year was Red Deer College founded?

28) Who was the first president of Red Deer College?

29) What was the name of the pig that escaped from the abattoir, and subsequently had a Ghost statue created to depict his tale?

30) Who is the outstanding Canadian architect

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The index ranges from one to 10 (low to high health risk). Anything above 10 is considered very high risk. Readings are reported hourly. Air quality varies with weather conditions and prevailing winds.

Bill McMurtry, meteorologist for Environment Canada, said three sources of smoke are combining into one big mass.

Wildfires in Northern Alberta, the southern portions of the Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest Territories, and Northern Saskatchewan, are all contributing, he said.

Upper level winds in Alberta from the northwest are pushing the smoke in a southeasterly direction towards Saskatchewan. The closer one goes toward to the Saskatchewan border, the heavier the smoke.

But then as the smoke moves southerly and into Saskatchewan, surface winds are pushing it back into Alberta in a westerly direction, McMurtry said.

“It can happen but it’s not common. A lot of times the smoke will come right from Northern Alberta from Red Deer who designed St. Mary’s Catholic Church?

31) What Red Deer building is the first computerassisted design in the world?

32) Who was the last person to be given a death sentence in the Red Deer Court House?

33) Which Central Albertan woman was a member of the Famous Five?

34) Name a Red Deer Olympian.

35) On what treaty lands is Red Deer located?

36) What year was the Red Deer Cenotaph unveiled?

37) What Drumheller native and Alberta Sports Hall of Famer spent parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Redlegs and Philadelphia Phillies in the 1950s? He also holds the record for longest throw of a baseball at 135.89 metres.

38) Who was the first Red Deer born player to play in the NHL? 39) What is the claim to fame of the Mintlaw Bridge south of Red Deer, when was it completed and when did the last train cross it?

40) Which prime minister drove the first spike in 1910 near present-day Taylor Drive for now-defunct Alberta Central Railway?

41) What year did the airport near Penhold open as part of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?

42) What kind of plane is mounted outside the present-day Red Deer Airport to commemorate the

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43) Which three towns in the region have a lamp museum, a truck museum and a massive collection of taxidermed African and North American animals?

44) What are the hometowns of the following Central Alberta celebrities: singer k.d. lang, model/actor Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), actor Shaun Johnston (Heartland), and singer/actor Michael Lomenda (Jersey Boys).

45) Which Red Deer-raised contemporary artist is becoming internationally known for his graffiti-inspired paintings that sometimes feature Oriole Park streetscapes? (His re-imagined landscapes were exhibited at Canada’s leading Group of Seven gallery, The McMichael Gallery in Ontario.)

46) Which two alt-rock bands with Red Deer connections each won just over $100,000 in prize money through the Peak Performance Project competition?

47) According to the most recent Alberta study, how many grizzly bears are there in Alberta? And how many fatal bear attacks were there in Alberta in 2014?

48) Where and when are you most likely to be struck by lightning in Canada? And how many lightning deaths are there per year in Canada?

49) What is Red Deer’s official flower?

50) What is Alberta’s official bird? What is Alberta’s official tree? What is Alberta’s official stone?

What is Alberta’s official animal? What is Alberta’s official fish?

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across southern and central portions of Alberta,” he said.

“Medicine Hat was down to less than three-quarters of a mile visibility and Drumheller maybe a couple of miles or so (on Tuesday).”

“We saw below normal precipitation for such a significant portion of the Prairies and Northwest Territories this spring and we’re starting to see the effects of that,” McMurtry said.

While numerous communities saw hot weather records fall in Alberta last week, Red Deer was not among them. On Sunday, Red Deer hit 29.4C but the record is 37.2C. In the short term, there’s not going to be much relief from the smoke.

Winds are either forecast to be light easterly or stagnant, so there’s nothing to push the smoke off. By Thursday and Friday, a westerly wind may develop, although it is not a dominant wind, McMurtry said.

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NDP inherits surplus EDMONTON — Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government is taking over Alberta’s finances with more than $1 billion in surplus cash, according to figures released Tuesday.

But Finance Minister Joe Ceci said challenges lie ahead as the current fiscal year will be the first full reporting period with oil at drastically reduced prices.

“The oil (price per) barrel is under $60 on average every day,” Ceci said Tuesday.

“That has to be taken into consideration about the impact on our revenues and ability to project where we’re going to be at the end of the year.”

The final numbers from the 2014-15 budget year, which ended March 31, show Alberta recorded a $1.1-billion surplus, up from the $514 million projected when the Progressive Conservative government tabled its spending document in the spring of 2014.

West Texas Intermediate oil, Alberta’s benchmark for crude, has dropped to below US$60 a barrel from US$107 a barrel one year ago.

The 2014-15 budget is the first surplus in six years.

The extra revenue came from diverse sources, including more tax money and higher-than-expected invest-

ment income.

Total revenue for the year was $49.5 billion, while total spending was $48.4 billion.

Total debt for capital spending was $11.9 billion, while the rainy-day savings contingency account is $8.2 billion.

The long-term Heritage Savings Trust Fund is valued at $18 billion.

Alberta is currently between bud-

‘THE OIL (PRICE PER) BARREL IS UNDER $60 ON AVERAGE EVERY DAY. THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION ABOUT THE IMPACT ON OUR REVENUES AND ABILITY TO PROJECT WHERE WE’RE GOING TO BE AT THE END OF THE YEAR.’ Joe Ceci gets.

The Tories introduced a budget March 26, but lost to the NDP in the May 5 election before it passed. Ceci is to introduce a budget in October to reflect savings promises and priorities from the NDP campaign.

The Notley government has passed a bill to keep $18.5 billion in government money flowing. It has also announced $624 million in new spending

Man facing impaired-driving related charges denied bail

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Bail has been denied for a Kelowna man facing his third set of impaired driving-related charges in seven months, the most recent one involving the death of a Springbrook father.

Kevin Lee Pearson, 44, was killed on May 20 in a collision at the intersection of 19th Street and 30th Avenue. RCMP said at the time that a pickup truck hit a motorcycle, killing the motorcycle rider.

Chad Ryan Connatty, 30, faces charges of impaired driving causing death and over 0.08 causing death.

Family of Pearson, who took up a front row of the courtroom for the bail hearing in Red Deer on Tuesday, remember him as a great person who loved his family and his friends.

“He loved life,” said Angie Cowell, Pearson’s common-law wife. “He was into the outdoors and a great person.

“There were not many people who didn’t like Kevin.”

Cowell said Pearson’s family and friends have planned a special camping trip, one of Pearson’s beloved activities, to Corkscrew Mountain on his birthday, July 11.

For Father’s Day, Cowell said the family including Pearson’s three sons wrote letters to Pearson and put them into balloons, releasing “them to heaven.”

Connatty appeared from the Red Deer Remand Centre by closed-circuit television before Judge John Holmes Monday in Red Deer provincial court.

He had neck length dark hair and wore a leather-strapped crucifix necklace.

Holmes found several grounds for which Connatty could be held in cus-

Canadians urged to donate blood this Canada Day Canadian Blood Services wants Canadians to help out their fellow citizens on Canada Day and consider donating blood.

And there’s no time to donate like the present.

“A lot of people aren’t realizing we’re open on Canada Day,” said Judy Jones, associate director of donor relations for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories.

“On a regular basis we’re open on stat holidays because the need for blood does not go away on holidays.”

Canadian Blood Services in Red Deer is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. On Thursday, the office is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Office hours on Friday and Saturday are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Jones said the office has about 65 appointments open this week for donors, including about 20 on Canada Day. With Canada Day falling mid-week, fewer appointments are being booked with many regular donors taking the

tody until the completion of his court proceedings on the charges.

At the forefront was the fact this was the third time in seven months that Connatty has been charged with impaired driving offences.

In November 2014, he was charged in Fort McMurray on two counts of impaired driving and driving over 0.08. In April 2015, he was charged in Red Deer with the same two offences. These charges are also before the courts.

Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre said Connatty’s detention was warranted on numerous grounds, including the strength of the Crown’s case, the repetition of the alleged offences and the accused’s planned living arrangements.

When Ayre outlined the seriousness of the charges, including the maximum penalty of life in prison, Pearson’s supporters clapped.

Defence counsel Jordan Stuffco said his client was willing to accede to very strict bail conditions, living under practical house arrest in the care of his parents. Connatty’s parents were willing to post a cash bail of $10,000.

However, Ayre took issue with Connatty’s plan to live with his parents in their home in Kelowna, far removed from the Red Deer jurisdiction.

Throughout the bail hearing, Connatty cried as the Crown laid out its reasons for his detention. Stuffco said the cries were indicative of Connatty’s remorse.

Connatty will return to Red Deer provincial court on July 29. Stuffco said it was likely the next step would be a preliminary inquiry, but reserved his election to the next court appearance. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com week off.

“As we approach the holiday and looking ahead to the coming weeks, we are concerned about the high number of appointments that are still available and would really love to encourage people to come into donate,” Jones said on Tuesday.

Donors of all blood types are encouraged to participate and particularly those with Rh negative blood, which is more likely to be given to patients in urgent need when there is not enough time for compatibility testing.

Only 15 per cent of the population has Rh negative blood.

The inventory of A negative blood is also on the decline.

The highest demand is for O negative blood, the only blood type that’s compatible with all other blood types so in emergencies it becomes the default for transfusions.

Jones said less than four per cent of eligible donors donate blood each year. Blood is needed not only for emergencies but for ongoing medical treatment, like cancer care.

To book an appointment to donate blood, download the GiveBlood app, go online at blood.ca or call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888-236-6283).

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ADVISORY: More smoke possible There are indications more smoke might move in but at the same time there may be some showers or thunder showers and cooler temperatures, which would help reduce the smoke.

to cover higher class size enrolment and more money for health care and social programs.

Ceci declined to comment on statements from Notley that she expects the October budget will include the $5.4-billion deficit projected by the NDP during the election.

He also suggested the $8.2-billion contingency fund would not automatically be used to cover any shortfall.

Rain falling in an air mass that’s full of smoke can clean that air mass out quite quickly. “But if the point source is allowing more smoke to move in behind, then it fills in (with smoke) quite a bit.”

To view the latest Air Quality Index readings, go online to http://maps.srd. alberta.ca/AQHI/ or call toll free 1-877247-7333. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

“Philosophically, I think contingencies are there to smooth things out.

They’re not there to totally drain the bank account.”

Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt said the final numbers are symptomatic of a larger problem, noting Alberta’s net financial assets have dropped $20 billion over eight consecutive years.

“When you collect record revenues

Public schools superintendent resigns to take job in Victoria The superintendent for Red Deer Public Schools has called it quits after 26 years with the district.

Piet Langstraat, who was the superintendent for five years, announced his resignation on Tuesday after taking the superintendent and CEO position at the Greater Victoria School District in Victoria.

His last day will be on Aug. 14.

Bev Manning, school board chair, said Langstraat has been an outstanding educational leader for the district.

She said he was focused on the success of all students.

“He supported the board in developing a district education plan focused on key priorities of literacy, equity and completion, which has resulted in continued improvement,” said Manning. “He’s highly respected by staff, parent and students in the district, throughout our community and among

and still have to take out billions in debt, the real problem is overspending,” said Fildebrandt in a news release.

“The NDP plan of raising spending faster than they can raise taxes just isn’t sustainable.”

Fildebrandt was referring to moves the New Democrats have already made to change the course of Alberta’s finances.

In the spring sitting of the legislature, the government passed a bill to increase taxes on large corporations to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and raise personal income taxes on those making more than $125,000 a year.

Tuesday’s reporting of numbers reflected changes in accounting.

The government moved to a consolidated system in March that included, among other categories, pension liabilities as well as revenues and expenses from such Crown-controlled organizations as schools and health organizations.

Under the old system, Alberta forecast and reported a $1.1-billion surplus when the budget was tabled. Under those accounting rules, the final number would have been $1.4 billion.

Ceci said the government has not decided if it will stay with consolidated budgeting, but noted the auditor general recommends doing so.

his colleagues across Alberta. Piet has had a significant and profound impact on Red Deer Public Schools which will endure for many years.”

Langstraat was a classroom teacher and had a four-year term as assistant superintendent at the Chinook’s Edge School Division.

“I have had a wonderful career in Red Deer Public Schools and am so very proud of our outstanding staff that makes a difference in the lives of children each and every day,” commented Langstraat. “I want to extend my sincere thanks to the board of trustees for their passion and commitment to public school education, our dedicated staff, our partners in the community and the wonderful students and parents we serve. Together we have achieved much success.”

An interim appointment to the position of superintendent of schools will be announced as soon as possible.

The board of trustees is also developing a plan to conduct a comprehensive search for a suitable candidate.

More details are expected later this summer.

TIPS FOR REDUCING EXPOSURE TO SMOKE The air quality advisory issued on Tuesday by Alberta Health Services for Red Deer and area offers a number of ways to reduce exposure to the smoke that’s in the air now.

Reduce presence of smoke in indoor environments: ● Close and lock all outside windows and doors, including attached garage doors. ● Turn down furnace thermostats and furnace fans to the minimum setting. Do not attempt to extinguish the pilot light. ● If you have an air-conditioner, keep the fresh-air intake closed and the filter clean to prevent outdoor smoke from getting inside. ● Avoid running fans, such as “whole-house fans” or “fresh air ventilation systems,” that bring more smoky outdoor air inside. ● Switch all floor registers to closed position. ● Close fireplace dampers on wood-burning fireplaces. ● Do not use wood-burning fireplaces, wood stoves or other smokeproducing appliances or features, including candles.

If you must drive to another

location, keep windows and vents closed. Run your car fans on recirculate mode to avoid drawing in outdoor air.

Reduce levels of physical activity, as necessary, to decrease the inhalation of airborne pollutants.

Do not smoke tobacco — smoking puts added stress on your lungs and those around you.

Individuals with respiratory conditions (such as COPD and asthma), and individuals with existing cardiovascular conditions (such as angina, previous heart attack and congestive heart failure), may notice a worsening of symptoms, due to the current air conditions.

These individuals should monitor for worsening of symptoms and take the precautions routinely recommended by their physicians if a worsening of symptoms occurs. Children and elderly are also at higher risk of smoke-related illness.

Individuals experiencing symptoms can also call Health Link at 811 to speak to a registered nurse.

Since the air quality is expected to be variable, the advisory is in effect until further notice.

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WE HAVE BECOME A WORLD LEADER IN SURRENDERING OUR SOVEREIGNTY

BY GUS VAN HARTEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE What do the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress have in common?

They both have done more to protect Canada’s sovereignty than our House of Commons.

Since winning a majority in 2011, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been giving away Canadian sovereignty as if it was candy on Halloween.

The first handout was the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China The FIPA was finalized in 2014 and is now locked in for decades.

Because of the FIPA, a decision of Canada’s Parliament or Supreme Court that displeases a Chinese investor is no longer final until the investor runs out of time to bring a FIPA claim against Canada.

Under the FIPA, that cutoff is three years.

If the FIPA claim is successful, Canadian taxpayers will typically have to

compensate the Chinese investor for Canada’s law or court judgment — potentially for billions of dollars.

Canada’s legislatures and courts are no longer supreme over the country’s public budgets, and the new supreme decision-makers are not courts.

The second concession — not finalized thanks to European opposition — is the Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

The CETA was hurriedly announced at a dummy ceremony in Ottawa last summer. Yet, it has not been signed, let alone ratified.

Many Europeans have objected to the CETA’s proposed shift of power from European institutions to foreign companies and private lawyers.

Most of all, the CETA — in advance of another proposed deal between Europe and the U.S. — would expand a system of pseudo-courts for foreign companies that has raised widespread concerns in the European Parliament and Austria, France, and Germany, in particular. Euphemistically, the pseudo-courts are called “investor-state dispute settlement.”

The third giveaway of Canadian sovereignty would come in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The TPP has been led by the U.S. government and followed by 11 relatively compliant Pacific Rim countries.

Canada joined the march after Harper won his majority.

Like the FIPA and CETA, the TPP would shift power over public budgets from national institutions to the pseudo courts of private lawyers. Like the CETA, Canada’s sovereignty got more protection from elected officials in other parts of the world.

The high point of Canada’s sovereignty was from 1982 until 1994. In 1982, the Constitution was repatriated. For the first time, a decision of Canada’s Parliament was supreme, subject to Canada’s Constitution as interpreted by our courts. Canada ticked the boxes of formal independence.

In 1994, NAFTA took effect. For U.S.-owned parts of our economy, Canada’s laws and courts became subject to another (extraordinarily powerful) level of international review in investor-state dispute settlement.

Canada was, and has remained, the

only Western developed country to have conceded its sovereignty to the U.S. in this way.

But NAFTA was limited to U.S. companies in Canada. In the FIPA, the pseudo-courts were extended to Chinese companies.

In the CETA and TPP, they would be extended again, most notably to Western European and Japanese companies.

The attempts to expand the pseudocourts for foreign companies — with scant evidence of any benefit to the public to match the obvious costs and risks — have caused a great deal of opposition and debate in Europe and the United States.

Why not Canada?

And, why is our nation a world leader in conceding our sovereignty this way?

Gus Van Harten is a professor and investment law specialist at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is the author of Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada’s Lopsided Investment Deal With China. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www. troymedia.com).

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More massacres, but we’re not the target On Friday, in France, an Islamist named Yahya Salhi killed his employer, Herve Cornara. He attached the victim’s severed head to the fence around a chemical plant, together with a cloth saying “There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet” — and then rammed his vehicle into a warehouse full of chemicals hoping (but failing) to cause a massive explosion.

In Kuwait two hours later, Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba’a, a Saudi citizen, entered a Shia mosque and GWYNNE detonated a bomb that killed DYER at least 25 people. He was presumably a Sunni fanatic sent

by Islamic State to kill Shias, who they believe are heretics who should be killed.

In Tunisia one hour later, 38 European tourists, most of them British, were massacred by a 23-yearold man with a Kalashnikov on a beach in Sousse.

The perpetrator, Seifeddine Rezgui, was studying engineering at a university in Kairouan, an hour’s drive west of Sousse.

Islamic State, which has carved out a territory in Iraq and Syria that has more people and a bigger army than half the members of the United Nations, immediately claimed responsibility for all three attacks. Yahya Salhi may have been a lone-wolf head case, but in the other two cases the claim was almost certainly true.

But there was another attack that you probably didn’t hear about. Kobani, the Kurdish town in north-

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ern Syria that withstood a four-month siege by Islamic State troops last year, came under attack again on Thursday. About a hundred young Islamists in Humvees and pickup trucks drove into town and shot 220 people dead in the streets and in their houses.

So 64 murders that you heard a lot about, and 220 others you heard little or nothing about. There are hundreds of innocent people being murdered by Islamist fanatics in Syria every week, so it’s no longer news. Besides, the motive there is obvious: it’s just Islamic State trying to expand its territory in Syria.

But as for the others. ...

Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, responded to the deaths of 30 British citizens in Tunisia by trotting out the same shopworn drivel that Western leaders have been peddling for the past 14 years. The fight against Islamic State is “the struggle of our generation,” Cameron declared. Indeed, IS poses “an existential threat” to the West.

Maybe Cameron doesn’t know what the word “existential” means. Could somebody please explain to him that he is saying that Islamic State poses a threat to the continued existence of the West? Does he really think that is the case?

Forgive me for making a cold-blooded calculation, but sometimes it is necessary. The population of the West (not counting the countries of Latin America, which don’t play in this league) is about 900 million.

Thirty-nine “Westerners” have been killed in attacks

by Islamist terrorists this month. At this rate, the West will have ceased to exist in 1.9 million years. If this is an existential threat, it’s not a very urgent one.

In fact, it’s not really about the West at all. The European victims on the beach in Sousse were killed in order to destroy the tourism that provides almost 15 per cent of Tunisia’s national income, and thereby destabilize the only fully democratic country in the

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The bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait was intended to increase tensions between the Sunni majority and the large Shia minority in that country, with the ultimate goal of unleashing a Sunni-Shia civil war in which Islamist extremists could take over the Sunni side as they have already done in Syria and Iraq.

Only the lone-wolf attack in France could be conceivably be seen as directed at the “West” — although that might also have been just a personal grievance wrapped up in an Islamist justification.

The rest of the killing was about who controls the Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, as it has been from the start. Even 9/11 was about that, designed not to “bring America to its knees” but to lure it into an invasion of Afghanistan that Osama bin Laden believed would stimulate Islamist revolutions in Muslim countries. The Islamists do “hate Western values” but they have bigger fish to fry at home.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

FLIGHT WS422

WINNIPEG — Manitoba RCMP are investigating after someone threatened a Westjet flight, forcing an emergency evacuation in Winnipeg which injured six passengers.

Sgt. Bert Paquet said the call involved Flight WS422 en route from Edmonton to Toronto Monday evening. He wouldn’t specify the nature of the threat. “(The threat) came from outside the plane or the flight itself and we are looking to establish the origin of the call and the person responsible for it,” he said Tuesday.

The plane, passengers and baggage were searched by explosive experts and an RCMP canine unit, Paquet said. Nothing suspicious was found.

It’s the third threat involving a flight in the last week. RCMP were working with other police agencies to determine if the incidents are related, Paquet said.

WestJet said the six passengers who were hurt sustained minor injuries. The company said all 54 passengers and five crew on the flight were evacuated from the plane shortly after landing.

‘(THE THREAT) CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PLANE OR THE FLIGHT ITSELF AND WE ARE LOOKING TO ESTABLISH THE ORIGIN OF THE CALL AND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.’

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— SGT. BERT PAQUET RCMP

“The flight crew, in conjunction with our Operations Control Centre, made the decision to divert the aircraft to Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport,” Robert Palmer, a spokesman for the company, said in an emailed statement.

“In order to evacuate the aircraft as quickly as possible, the crew made the decision to deploy the emergency evacuation slides.

“A number were taken to hospital for further treatment accompanied by members of WestJet’s Special Assistance Team.”

The company said passengers were put up in hotels for the night and took flights to Toronto Tuesday morning.

WestJet would not provide details of the threat.

“We will not address anything that will be part of the police investigation,” said Palmer.

A WestJet flight from Edmonton to Halifax landed in Saskatoon after a threat Saturday morning.

Police said a call had been made claiming an explosive device was on board, but the report turned out to be false.

Last Thursday, St. John’s International Airport was temporarily closed because of a bomb threat on an Air Canada flight.

The airport authority said it took the action after Air Canada Flight 143 departing from St. John’s to Ottawa was notified about a possible bomb on board as the aircraft was pulling back from the gate.

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary spokesman Steve Curnew told reporters early Friday that the flight was about to leave when a note identified as a possible bomb threat was found in one of the plane’s washrooms.

Nothing suspicious was found in a search of the plane.

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Other municipalities eyeing Vancouver’s pot bylaws: councillor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Saskatchewan burns through firefighting budget

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the province has spent its firefighting budget for the year.

But Wall says he’s not worried about money right now and the government’s priority is to keep fighting wildfires in the north.

The premier is in Prince Albert visiting some of the 3,000 evacuees from communities near La Ronge and La Loche.

Wall was to fly into La Ronge, but the trip was cancelled due to smoke.

Fires and smoke have been threatening about a dozen communities since late last week.

There are currently 108 fires burning in the province.

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Darren Smalley, one of four British sailors charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm, attends provincial court in Dartmouth, N.S. on Tuesday. Smalley, Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow and Craig Stoner were in Nova Scotia to play in a hockey tournament with local Armed Forces personnel when they were arrested in April. The Crown alleges the members of the Royal Navy participated in a ‘group sexual assault’ on April 10 inside a barracks at CFB Shearwater, a military base in Halifax. The men have not entered pleas in the case. None of the allegations has been proven in court. A preliminary inquiry for the sailors has been scheduled for five days next April in provincial court.

Crowdfunding campaign launched to pay Ottawa’s portion of road for reserve

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A crowdfunding campaign is underway to pay Ottawa’s portion of an all-weather road for a reserve under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada.

The fundraising campaign, on Fundrazr.com, began Monday and quickly took off on social media, garnering support from author Margaret Atwood and others. In less than 24 hours it had raised more than $13,000.

Organizer Rick Harp hopes to raise $10 million in 60 days to pay the federal government’s share of a permanent road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

“People want to have an immediate way to make their voice heard,” said Harp, who lives in Winnipeg.

“They want this to happen.”

The reserve, which straddles the Ontario-Manitoba boundary, was cut off from the mainland a century ago to build an aqueduct which supplies Winnipeg with fresh water. The community has lived under a boil-water advisory for 17 years due to a dam which funnels tainted water away from the aqueduct and towards the reserve.

Without a permanent road, residents rely on an aging barge in the summer and a treacherous ice road in the winter. Every year, people fall through the ice trying to make it to their front door.

Residents were left in tears last week when Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford, who is also

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A boy from the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sits on a bridge over a channel on Thursday, June 25, 2015. the local MP, visited the reserve, but refused to commit to seeing a road built.

Both Manitoba and Winnipeg have said they will pay for one-third each of the road’s construction if Ottawa kicks in its share of the estimated $30 million.

Harp said the fundraiser is a way for people to show their support for the First Nation and let the federal government know how they feel.

“There could not be a better opportunity for Winnipeggers to reconcile with the people of Shoal Lake by helping them to do this,” he said.

“It’s literally and figuratively a way for Winnipeggers to honour a debt 100 years in the making.”

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OTTAWA — The Conservative government’s “ideological” changes to federal medicinal marijuana rules will prompt other cities to follow Vancouver’s lead and regulate pot shops on their own, a local councillor says.

Kerry Jang said he has heard from other municipalities, including Victoria, that are eyeing Vancouver’s new bylaws to manage a recent spike in medicinal pot businesses.

Last week, Vancouver became the first Canadian municipality to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, requiring operators to pay a $30,000 licensing fee and locate at least 300 metres away from community centres, schools, and each other.

Jang said the city was forced to respond due to the federal government’s failures, which have fuelled the growth of dispensaries.

“It is the total mishandling of the medical marijuana issue that has created the vacuum that has allowed all of these shops to open up across the country,” Jang said in a phone interview.

“It is very clear when you have our chief medical officer for the City of Vancouver coming out and saying, ‘Guess what, the federal regulations caused this problem, so we’ve got to fix it.”’

Shortly after the decision was announced last week, Health Minister Rona Ambrose said she was “deeply disappointed” to learn a municipality would take regulating medical marijuana storefronts into its own hands.

The disappointment is mutual, Jang said.

“All the federal minister can do is say how outraged she is with the Supreme Court... and that she’s gravely disappointed with the City of Vancouver,” Jang said.

“Well, quite frankly, we are gravely disappointed with the federal government and this health minister for not coming to the table and working with us.”

Ambrose was not available for an interview on Tuesday, but she offered a statement through a spokesman.

“Storefronts selling marijuana are illegal and under our government will remain illegal,” said press secretary Michael Bolkenius. “We expect the police to enforce the law.”

Jang said the bylaws give the city more power to target “bad actors.”

“Those pot shops where there was clear evidence of organized crime, we shut them down,” he said.

“We’ve gotten warrants, we’ve raided them. We’ve done that. Those that are selling to kids, we stopped them.”

Victoria MP and NDP health critic Murray Rankin accused the Conservatives of botching the medical marijuana file.

“The mayor of Vancouver is doing what a responsible municipality should do in the face of the chaos that the ... federal government’s simple-minded approach has created,” Rankin said.

“He’s looking after the interests of his community using the powers of zoning and land-use that are available to the municipality of Vancouver.”

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Defence pleads for leniency TWO MEN CONVICTED OF PONZI SCHEME MAY DIE IN JAIL: LAWYERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The lawyer of one of two men convicted in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Canadian history says his client could end up dying in jail.

Shamsher Kothari, who represents Milowe Brost, said his client has already suffered a stroke, a heart attack and diabetes.

Even if the sentence is less than the 14 years the Crown wants, there is a chance he will die in prison, he told court Tuesday.

“To say the least, he’s a man of poor health,” Kothari said. “There’s a strong possibility he will die in jail during his sentence.”

Both Kothari and the lawyer for Gary Sorenson are seeking sentences of between eight to 10 years.

Sorenson, 71, and Brost, who is 61, were found guilty of fraud and theft in February for an elaborate scheme in which investors were promised unrealistic returns. Brost was also found guilty of money

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Shielding federal sites from cyberattacks would cost money: expert OTTAWA — The federal government could stop cyber-meddlers from taking down its websites — but that would cost money, a computer-security expert says.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service site was the latest federal webpage to succumb to a denial-of-service attack and go offline.

Two weeks ago the online Anonymous collective claimed responsibility for a digital assault that temporarily shut down several federal sites and wreaked havoc with email.

It’s relatively easy to bombard a web address with virtual traffic and paralyze it, said David Skillicorn, a professor of computing at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. “Denial-of-service attacks are not particularly serious in the grand scale of things. It’s more or less akin to having a bunch of your friends hang around the door of a 7-11 and stop people going in.”

Webmasters can defend against such attacks but it means investing in means of diverting traffic that would otherwise cripple the site, Skillicorn said Tuesday in an interview.

“It’s a matter of priorities and cost-effectiveness of the defence,” he said.

Suspect wounded by police after fatal stabbing at work camp FOX CREEK — Two people are dead following an early morning stabbing at a work camp in northern Alberta.

RCMP say Mounties shot and wounded a suspect near Fox Creek, 260 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

Officers found two men dead at the scene. The

laundering.

More than 2,400 investors from around the world lost between $100 million to $400 million in the scheme. Many people lost their life savings.

The court received 600 victim impact statements prior to the sentencing hearing.

Ponzi schemes involve taking funds from new investors and using them to pay old ones.

“This wasn’t a pure greed case,” said Kothari.

“There were some misrepresentations, but this was an actual business.”

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Robert Hall questioned Kothari on his assertion.

“If you set up a business for the purpose of fleecing people it’s not a legitimate business,” said Hall.

“It’s a scam.”

Stephen Bitzer, Sorenson’s lawyer, told the hearing Monday that he is worried about his client’s longterm prognosis if he is sentenced to a lengthy prison term.

“Ten years is a lengthy sentence for a first-time

offender,” Bitzer said. “At age 71, it is, in a sense, potentially a life sentence.”

One set of fraud and theft offences took place between 1999 and 2008. They involved companies named Syndicated Gold Depository SA, Base Metals Corporation LLC, Bahama Resource Alliance Ltd. and Merendon Mining Corporation Ltd. More wrongdoing took place between 2004 and 2005 with a company called Strategic Metals Corp.

Investors were promised a 34 per cent annual return on an investment of $99,000, which was supposed to grow to just more than $1 million within eight years.

They were told that the business involved selling gold for refining and that it was “low risk.”

The court will still deal with requests for restitution from some of the victims. The Crown said it had received requests from 850 individuals so far.

It is expected Justice Hall will reserve his decision to a later date.

28-year-old suspect was transported to an Edmonton hospital in serious condition.

“At this time, investigators believe the man acted alone and are not looking for any other suspects,” RCMP Cpl. Carol McKinley said Tuesday in a release.

The stabbings occurred at an oil industry work camp known as Berland Open Lodge operated by Canada North Group Inc. Canada North issued a statement on behalf of one of its companies called DJ Catering Ltd., expressing condolences.

It said the company is deeply saddened by what happened.

“Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s families at this time,” reads the statement.

RCMP have not released the identities of the victims or the suspect.

Autopsies are scheduled for next week.

Union finance bill passes, two others left to die as Senate wraps up business

Lawyer asks jury to send a message to brother of serial killer Robert Pickton VANCOUVER — A woman who was sexually assaulted by the brother of serial killer Robert Pickton deserves compensation for lost job opportunities, mental breakdowns and post-traumatic stress disorder, her lawyer says.

Jason Gratl delivered closing arguments Tuesday in a civil lawsuit his client filed against David Pickton, who was convicted of sexual assault in 1992.

The woman is also suing Pickton for unproven threats of rape and murder.

“Show him right from wrong,” Gratl urged the jury. “Show him what he deserves.” “(My client) can never be given back her life, but she can be compensated for her losses. Put her back in the place she would have been if not for David Pickton’s sexual assaults and threats.”

The eight-member jury will now decide whether to award the woman a financial sum for lost income and psychological trauma related to the 1991 assault.

Pickton’s lawyer, Ian Donaldson, said the woman could be awarded a small amount of money for the sexual assault but asked the jury to dismiss the rest of her claim, adding that wouldn’t be “doing David Pickton a favour.”

OTTAWA — Three bills passed by the House of Commons had their fates decided by the Senate on the eve of Canada Day — one was pushed through by the Conservative majority, while the other two died without a word being spoken.

A third didn’t even get a mention, failing to come as far in the legislative process as it did two years ago.

Combined, they were the last acts of the Senate as it trudged into the summer after two years of scandal or questionable spending by 34 senators, and ethical questions surrounding one additional member of the upper chamber.

The Senate’s final vote before its summer break was a 35-22 result that passed Bill C-377 two years after senators originally gutted the legislation — an act of defiance by 16 Conservatives against their own government.

On Tuesday, only three Conservative senators voted against the legislation — John Wallace, Nancy Ruth and Diane Bellemare — while a fourth, Doug Black, abstained.

Winnipeg man suspected of planning terrorism says charter rights violated WINNIPEG — The lawyer for a Winnipeg man who faces no criminal charges but is suspected of planning terrorist activities has launched a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Leonard Tailleur said the attempt by federal authorities to obtain a peace bond requiring Aaron Driver to wear an electronic-monitoring bracelet and submit to other restrictions goes too far.

“A (monitoring) device is usually used for known criminals, individuals who have long criminal records, individuals that have been part of the criminal justice system. He has no criminal record,” Tailleur said outside court Tuesday.

Driver, 23, has not been accused of any crime, but federal authorities want to limit his activities on the suspicion that he might help or engage in terrorist activities.

CANADA DAY QUIZ ANSWERS 43) Donalda lamp museum, Rimbey truck museum and Sundre’s Chester Mjolsness World of Wildlife Exhibit.

44) lang was raised in Consort, Helfer in Donalda, Johnston in Ponoka, and Lomenda in Stettler.

45) Kim Dorland 46) Edmonton-based The Wet Secrets (with Red Deer drummer Trevor Anderson) won in 2012, and Vancouver-based Dear Rouge (cofounded by singer Danielle McTaggart and named for her hometown of Red Deer) in 2014.

47) There are about 760 grizzly bears in Alberta,

according to the study. There were three fatal bear attacks in Alberta in 2014, one each for a grizzly, brown and black bear.

48) You are most likely to be struck by lightning at 7 p.m. in Alberta. About 10 people are killed by lightning each year in Canada.

49) Crimson star columbine is Red Deer’s official flower.

50) Alberta’s official bird is the great horned owl.

The official tree is the lodgepole pine. The official stone is petrified wood. The official animal is the bighorn sheep. The official fish is the bull trout.

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Her series on Michener Centre helped keep aging, disadvantaged people in their homes.

With a few keystrokes you can sample thousands of opinions, aľoat in a sea of information.

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Gathering and sorting the facts, weighing and interpreting events, and following the story from beginning to end is more important than ever.

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1) Education, Industry, Progress.

2) The dates of incorporation of Red Deer first as a town and then as a city.

3) 1961 4) The Horton Spheroid.

5) The city’s community gardens used to be located on the site.

6) 1958. The population jumped 21 per cent in one year.

7) CHCA. The station had reverted to that same name when it finally closed.

8) Rev. Leonard Gaetz 9) 23,104 10) Some 32 years ago — the city’s population went from 48,562 in 1982 to 50,257 in 1983. The only year that the city saw an actual decrease in population was in 1970, when the number of citizens went from 26,924 to 26,907, a drop of 0.06 per cent.

11) He was editor of the Advocate, which he had owned since 1906. If you want to say hello to him, visit his “ghost,” located in the northeast corner of City Hall Park.

12) It’s a tie — Bob McGhee (1980-1992) and Gail Surkan (1992-2004), both at 12 years (four terms).

13) The Village of North Red Deer.

14) The RDC Kings were national volleyball champions from the spring of 2000 through the spring of 2007.

15) The Rustlers were national champions in 1971 and 1980. Brent Sutter, now coach and general manager of the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League, was the Rustlers’ captain in 1979-80. He went on to enjoy a 19-year career in the National Hockey League.

16) Puffed Wheat Squares 17) Philip Galbraith 18) Roland Michener 19) Alexander Rutherford was Alberta’s first premier. Alberta became a province on Sept. 1, 1905.

20) Gordon Towers 21) The Alberta Clipper, Norman Kwong.

22) Greggson Brothers 23) Betty Speirs 24) Garry Lindberg 25) Mrs. Daniel Dobler 26) Barbara George 27) 1964 28) Dr. Peter Raffa 29) Francis 30) Douglas Cardinal 31) St. Mary’s Catholic Church 32) Robert Raymond Cook 33) Irene Parlby 34) Jamie Salé, Jeremy and Danielle Wotherspoon, Dedra Dionne, Ryan Smyth, Marcia Parsons, Kevin Sirois, Zina Kocher, Regan Lauscher, Drew Goldsack, Pat Bawtinheimer, Steven Elm, Marcia Parsons, David McComb, Tom Pollock, Matthew Rowley, Kristy-Lee Sargeant.

35) Treaty No. 7 36) 1922 37) Glen Gorbous 38) Oscar “Ossie” Asmundson played 111 games in six seasons with the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Eagles, New York Americans and Montreal Canadiens from 1932-38. He was born on Nov. 17, 1908, and died Nov. 2, 1964.

39) At 2,112 feet, it is the second longest CPR rail bridge in Alberta (after Lethbridge). It was completed in 1912 and the last train crossed it in 1981.

40) Sir Wilfred Laurier.

41) 1941 42) Harvard

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Local economy predicted to slump

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

CONFERENCE BOARD OF CANADA MID SIZED CITY OUTLOOK

ment to 6.7 per cent. In Medicine Hat, growth is exRed Deer’s economy will shrink this year be- pected to edge by a slim 0.4 per cent. Lethbridge will cause of slumping oil prices, predicts the Conference do a little better at 1.1 per cent growth.

Board of Canada.

“The dramatic drop in oil prices has hit Alberta However, city and Red Deer Chamber of Com- hard, and Red Deer and Medicine Hat are no excepmerce representatives are more bullish on the local tion,” says Alan Arcand, associate director for the economy. conference board’s Centre for Municipal Studies.

Mayor Tara Veer said “However, economic in a statement on Tuesday growth should pick up it’s not surprising that the ‘THE DRAMATIC DROP IN OIL PRICES next year as oil prices oil and gas industry’s chalHAS HIT ALBERTA HARD, AND RED begin to recover.” lenges are having a local Medicine Hat and DEER AND MEDICINE HAT ARE NO Lethbridge impact. However, she finds will fare a much room for optimism. little better than Red EXCEPTION.’ “A strong year ahead, Deer this year, largely including new regional —ALAN ARCAND buoyed by strength in schools being built, pubASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CONFERENCE BOARD OF CANADA’S their agriculture seclic infrastructure being CENTRE FOR MUNICIPAL STUDIES tors, says the report. planned and events with Construction is exstrong economic spinoff pected to be among the coming to our community, will no doubt give our hardest hit segments of the Red Deer economy, with economy a healthy boost.” a 13 per cent drop predicted this year, followed by a The conference board released its Mid Sized Cit- 3.2 per cent contraction next year. ies Outlook 2015 on Tuesday and it predicts this Manufacturing will see only a razor-thin 0.1 boost city’s economy will contract by 1.2 per cent, cutting this year, say conference board number crunchers. employment by 3.6 per cent and raising unemploy-

In 2016, Red Deer is forecast for 1.5 per cent growth and 0.6 per cent job growth.

Red Deer Chamber of Commerce executive director Tim Creedon said he can’t speak to the specific numbers in the conference board report, but the evidence is clear that the oil and gas industry — and the many local service companies that serve it — are feeling the pinch.

“I wouldn’t argue with what I read in that report about our natural resource sector. It’s facing some challenges at the moment.

“We have a very strong service sector in the natural resource part of the economy. So when oil prices are where they are, we can expect some degree of correction.”

Among the signs all is not well is the increased number — and the frequency of oil and gas backgrounds — of applicants for open jobs.

“There’s no question there’s some contraction going on there.”

Creedon is less convinced by the construction forecasts.

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Greece’s bailout expires

GDP falls in April RECESSION CONCERNS GROW

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally organized by supporters of the YES vote to the upcoming referendum in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens, Tuesday. Greece’s European creditors were assessing a last-minute proposal Athens made for a new two-year rescue deal, submitted just hours before the country’s international bailout program expires and it loses access to billions of euros in funds.

COUNTRY BECOMES FIRST DEVELOPED NATION TO DEFAULT ON IMF PAYMENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, Greece — Greece slipped deeper into its financial abyss after the bailout program it has relied on for five years expired at midnight Tuesday and the country failed to repay a loan due to the International Monetary Fund, deepening fears over whether it will be able to remain in the eurozone.

With its failure to repay the roughly 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to the IMF, Greece became the first developed country to fall into arrears on payments to the fund. The last country to do so was Zimbabwe in 2001.

After Greece made a last-ditch effort to extend its bailout, eurozone finance ministers decided in a teleconference late Tuesday night that there was no way they could reach a deal before the deadline.

“It would be crazy to extend the program,” said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the eurozone finance ministers’ body known as the eurogroup. “So that cannot happen and will not happen.”

“The program expires tonight,” Dijsselbloem said.

The brinkmanship that has characterized Greece’s bailout negotiations with its European creditors and the IMF rose several notches over the weekend, when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced he would put a deal proposal by creditors to a referendum on Sunday and urged a “No” vote.

The move increased fears the country could soon fall out of the euro currency bloc and Greeks rushed to pull money out of ATMs, leading the government to shutter its banks Monday and impose restrictions on banking transactions for at least a week. Greeks are now limited to ATM withdrawals of 60 euros ($67) a day and cannot send money abroad or make international payments without special permission.

But in a surprise move late Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis hinted that the government might be open to calling off the popular vote, saying it was a political decision.

The government decided on the referendum, he said on state television, “and it can make a decision on something else.” It was unclear, however, how that would be possible as Parliament has already voted for it to go ahead.

With its economy teetering on the brink, Greece suffered its second sovereign downgrade in as many days when the Fitch ratings agency lowered it further into junk status, to just one notch above the level where it considers default inevitable.

The agency said the breakdown of negotiations “has significantly increased the risk that Greece will not be able to honour its debt obligations in the coming months, including bonds held by the private sector.”

Fitch said it now considered a default on privately-held debt “probable.”

Hopes for an 11th-hour deal were raised when

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the Greek side announced it had submitted a new proposal Tuesday afternoon, and the eurozone’s 19 finance ministers held a teleconference to discuss it.

But those hopes were quickly dashed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she ruled out further negotiations with Greece before Sunday’s popular vote on whether to accept creditors’ demands for budget reforms.

“Before the planned referendum is carried out, we will not negotiate over anything new,” the dpa news agency quoted Merkel as saying.

Greece’s latest offer involved a proposal to tap Europe’s bailout fund — the so-called European Stability Mechanism, a pot of money set up after Greece’s rescue programs to help countries in need.

Tsipras’ office said the proposal was “for the full coverage of (Greece’s) financing needs with the simultaneous restructuring of the debt.” It did not provide details.

Dijsselbloem said the finance ministers would “study that request as we should” and that they would hold another conference call Wednesday.

Dragasakis, the Greek deputy prime minister, said the country’s new proposal “narrows the differences further.”

“We are making an additional effort,” he said.

“There are six points where this effort can be made.

I don’t want to get into specifics. But it includes pensions and labour issues.”

European officials and Greek opposition parties have been adamant that a “No” vote on Sunday will mean Greece will leave the euro and possibly even the EU. The government says this is scaremongering, and that a rejection of creditor demands will mean the country is in a better negotiating position.

In Athens, more than 10,000 “Yes” vote supporters gathered outside parliament despite a thunderstorm, chanting “Europe! Europe!”

Most huddled under umbrellas, including Athens resident Sofia Matthaiou.

“I don’t know if we’ll get a deal. But we have to press them to see reason,” she said, referring to the government. “The creditors need to water down their positions too.”

The protest came a day after thousands of government supporters advocating a “No” vote held a similar demonstration.

On Monday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made a new offer to Greece.

Under that proposal, Tsipras would need to accept the creditors’ proposal that was on the table last weekend. He would also have to change his position on Sunday’s referendum.

Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said the offer would also involve unspecified discussions on Athens’s massive debt load of over 300 billion euros, or around 180 per cent of GDP. The Greek side has long called for debt relief, saying its mountainous debt is unsustainable.

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OTTAWA — Concerns about a possible recession are growing after Statistics Canada said Tuesday that the economy contracted in April, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline.

Statistics Canada said Tuesday that the country’s real gross domestic product, hurt by weakness in the mining and energy sectors, edged down 0.1 per cent for the month.

Economists had expected the country’s real gross domestic product to gain 0.1 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

“The surprise contraction in April GDP leaves open the probability that the second quarter as a whole could be negative, which would technically put the economy in recession,” CIBC senior economist Andrew Grantham wrote.

“Although the Bank of Canada was already very cautious regarding its expectations for growth during the first half of the year in its April monetary policy report, the actual numbers are clearly coming in even worse and could spark concern that the hit from oil isn’t as ’front-loaded’ as previously assumed.”

In its April monetary policy report, the Bank of Canada predicted the economy to grow at an annual rate of 1.8 per cent in the second quarter.

However, economists expect that figure to be revised lower when the central bank updates its forecast on July 15 and some suggest the disappointing result for April raises the chances it will cut its key interest rate later this year.

The Bank of Canada unexpectedly cut its target for the overnight rate in January as insurance against the impact of falling oil prices on the economy.

“The oil shock continues to reverberate through the Canadian economy, in all its various forms,” Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter wrote in a report Tuesday.

“This latest growth disappointment — along with the rumbling uncertainty surrounding Greece — has simply cranked up the odds of another Bank of Canada rate cut at some point this year, and heaped renewed downward pressure on the Canadian dollar.”

Statistics Canada said the decline came as a 0.8 per cent decrease in the output of goods-producing industries outweighed a 0.3 per cent increase by the service sector in April.

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction contracted 2.6 per cent in April. The utilities, construction, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, retail sales and finance and insurance sectors also lost ground.

Meanwhile, agriculture and forestry, wholesale trade and the public sector made gains.

IN

BRIEF Canadian government approves Cirque du Soleil sale OTTAWA — The Canadian government has approved the sale of Cirque du Soleil to a group headed by a U.S. private equity firm and its Chinese partners. Industry Minister James Moore said Tuesday the application to acquire the famed circus troupe was deemed an overall economic benefit for Canada.

The buyers have committed to maintain the Cirque’s strategic decision-making and creative and artistic development at its Montreal headquarters.

It is known for its cutting-edge shows that feature aerialists, acrobats and contortionists. Founder Guy Laliberte announced in April that he was selling a majority stake for an undisclosed price.

TPG is acquiring a 60 per cent stake, Chinese investment firm Fosun will own a 20 per cent stake and Quebec pension fund manager the Caisse de depot another 10 per cent.

Laliberte maintains 10 per cent.

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Industrial Heartland welcomes interest in processing

OIL AND GAS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s NDP government has made it clear it would prefer to see less of Alberta’s resources ripped and shipped, and more processed into higher value products at home.

But much remains unknown about how, precisely, the NDP may opt to encourage more value-added activity.

And many question whether it’s even government’s place to get involved.

The prospect of more in-province processing is good news for the cluster of oilsands upgraders, refineries and petrochemical plants near Edmonton, said Neil Shelly, executive director of the Industrial Heartland Association.

“The former government, its main mantra was not to get involved in business, just to sit back, keep taxes low and let business decide what’s best for Alberta,” Shelly said of the Progressive Conservatives’ nearly 44-year reign.

“The position we’re seeing from the new government generally has been that maybe government needs to get involved, sort of steer the direction of business to ensure that it’s heading in the direction that provides the maximum benefits for Alberta.”

That’s not to say that the PCs kept their hands out of the energy business.

Alberta’s first PC government, led by Peter Lougheed, played a major role in squeezing more value out of the province’s natural gas back in the 1970s.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Sturgeon Refinery is shown under construction in Sturgeon County (just outside Edmonton) in this handout photo.

More recently, the PCs under Ed Stelmach got involved in bitumen processing with a program to collect royalties in crude, rather than cash. The government then provides the crude it collects to processors in the province.

Enter the Sturgeon Refinery, currently under construction in the Industrial Heartland and on track to start up in late 2017. It’s a joint-venture between North West Upgrading and oilsands giant Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ).

Despite North West Upgrading’s name — which boss Ian MacGregor wryly says he regrets choosing a decade ago — the project is a refinery, not an upgrader.

An upgrader processes oilsands bitumen into easier-to-refine synthetic crude oil.

But Sturgeon will process royalty and CNRL bitumen straight into diesel and other end products.

The Sturgeon Refinery is often held up as a cautionary tale when it comes

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SLUMP: Slowing in fall and winter Local home builders have had a good spring, are expecting it to continue through the summer before slowing in the fall and winter.

Some sectors in commercial — hotels and strip malls — are still very busy.

“It’s a very mixed picture depending on what type of market you’re in.”

City of Red Deer Land and Economic Development Department manager

John Sennema is also a little surprised by the conference board’s predictions of a reversing economy and hard-hit construction industry.

“Everything anecdotally I’m hearing isn’t saying that to me,” he said. “That’s why I’m a bit surprised.

“Certainly we anticipated a little bit of a slowdown (and) we’ve seen that.”

Sennema said local firms are painting the current climate in terms of an “adjustment” rather than a full-on contraction.

Commercial building permits are up, construction is going full speed in Clearview and in Timberlands. While home building and industrial devel-

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Cenovus sells oil and gas royalty business to Ontario Teachers’ for $3.3B CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc (TSX:CVE) has agreed to sell its royalty portfolio to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in a $3.3-billion deal in a move to strengthen its balance sheet and secure a better valuation for its assets.

The Calgary-based oil producer said Tuesday that it will transfer ownership of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Heritage Royalty Limited Partnership, to the pension fund in a deal expected to close by the end of July.

Heritage holds 1.9 million hectares of oil and gas royalties and fee lands in Western Canada.

Amir Arif, an analyst at Cormark Securities Inc., said that while Cenovus already had a fairly good balance sheet after raising $1.5 billion in an equity sale in February, the extra cash will give the company the option of going ahead with some projects it has put on hold.

“It positions the company to start outspending cash flow again . . . once we get some clarity on the royalty review,” said Arif.

Cenovus Energy had already confirmed on June 19 that it was in talks to sell its royalty lands but had provided no details.

The final deal included some extra royalties on Cenovus production that analysts weren’t expecting, but Arif said the company secured a great price for the assets.

to government and business mixing. Its price tag has ballooned to $8.5 billion from $5.7 billion.

In an April paper, the project was called a “multibillion-dollar boondoggle with high risks for Alberta taxpayers” by Ted Morton, a former provincial finance and energy minister and now a professor at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

MacGregor takes issue with that assessment.

“I don’t know who’s saying that this isn’t economic. But they need to check their numbers.”

Refinery margins are double that of upgraders, MacGregor said.

Even with oil at the dismal US$47 a barrel price it fetched earlier this year, he figures the government would have made $150 million on an annualized basis.

As an added benefit, MacGregor sees greater public acceptance of eventual diesel shipments through B.C. for export versus diluted bitumen — as the backlash to projects like the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline illustrates.

Though oilsands processing often comes to mind when one thinks of value-added, Shelly sees “lower hanging fruit” in the form of turning natural gas into petrochemicals.

Oklahoma-based Williams Cos has a petrochemcial project planned for the Industrial Heartland that’s “shovel ready” and just waiting for an official go-ahead decision, said David Chappell, who heads the company’s Canadian operations.

The plant will convert a gassy oilsands byproduct into a higher value substance others can use to make plastic items like auto parts and food packaging.

“The NDP platform is about adding value to our raw resources here and helping the environment. And this does all that,” said Chappell, who has discussed the project with Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd.

Janice Plumstead, senior economist at the Canada West Foundation, cautions that when project economics and politics mingle, things can get tricky.

“When you get into a situation where you’re overcommitted, it’s difficult to back down from a decision that might not pay off in the end.”

United Steelworkers Union says a decision can’t come soon enough so nearby residents can get back to work.

Disaster struck Mount Polley last August when the mine’s tailings pond collapsed, which sent 24-million cubic metres of silt and water into nearby streams and lakes.

Mine operator Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX:III) filed an application in March to restart operations.

Questions hover over Air Canada subsidiary Rouge on second anniversary

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — British Columbia’s energy minister says a gold and copper mine that shut down last year after its tailings pond collapsed could be back up and running in a matter of days.

Bill Bennett says that a decision on reopening Mount Polley mine in central B.C. would be released by the end of the month or early July.

He says he wants to see the mine operating again as soon as possible for nearby communities who depend on it for employment.

The local representative for the

MONTREAL — In its short life, Rouge has been credited with giving Air Canada a financial boost and shaking up the country’s airline industry, but at least one analyst says the parent company may be digging itself into a hole with its expansion strategy.

By stuffing its planes with more seats and paying lower wages, the airline subsidiary has dramatically cut costs and provided a travel alternative for consumers who don’t mind sacrificing space for cheaper prices.

Analyst David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity says Rouge appears to be a financial success even though the company doesn’t segment the subsidiary’s results.

“I think the proof of that would be that they’ve rolled it out so aggressively,” he said.

From an initial start with four planes, Rouge celebrates its second anniversary on Canada Day with 33 narrow-body and larger aircraft that mainly serve southern sun destinations and Europe.

Flights have also been added to Osaka, Japan, Lima, Peru, and six U.S. vacation spots. Domestically, Rouge recently began connecting Toronto to Abbotsford, B.C., and Sydney, N.S. Next year it will add London Gatwick.

Some of the destinations are new, others are destinations previously covered by the mainline carrier. Since 2009, Air Canada (TSX:AC) has increased its international capacity by 50 per cent, partly due to Rouge.

That has put extra pressure on rivals such as Transat AT (TSX:TRZ.B), Sunwing, WestJet (TSX:WJA) and Signature Vacations to keep prices low.

“Everybody complained about pricing to the sun destinations last winter.

Rouge was part of the problem,” Tyerman said.

The extra competition is good for consumers, especially those willing to put up with less legroom, he said.

Rouge has tinkered with the airplanes by adding some business class seating to appeal to passengers willing to pay a little more for extra space.

opment in the Queens Business Park have slowed a little, there is still plenty of activity.

“You know what — it’s a forecast,” he said of the conference board numbers. “I’ll be surprised if it is that dramatic.”

While Alberta has been hardest hit by the oil prices tumble, the rest of Canada is feeling the pinch as well.

The country’s real gross domestic product declined for the fourth consecutive month in April, dropping by 0.1 per cent, said Statistics Canada in numbers released on Tuesday.

Goods production fell by 0.8 per cent, a symptom of contraction in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction.

“The oil shock continues to rever-

berate through the Canadian economy, in all its various forms,” says Doug Porter, chief economist with BMO Capital Markets.

Also declining were retail trade, and the finance and insurance sectors.

Showing better fortunes were the public sector, accommodation, food services and professional services sectors.

The conference board report provides economic forecasts for seven cities that contributed financially to the research: Lethbridge, Red Deer, Medicine, Brandon, Timmins, Ont., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Rimouski, Que. Historical and employment data is included from 32 other mid-sized cities. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Decision on Mount Polley mine reopening is imminent, says B.C. mines minister

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

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 133.58 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.95 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.89 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.08 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Buyers returned to North American stock markets Tuesday after frantic selling the previous session sparked by the Greek debt crisis drove most major indexes into the red for the year to date.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up a solid 63.18 points at 14,553.33, but still finished the first six months of the year with a slight loss courtesy of an almost 318-point plunge on Monday.

The loonie was down sharply, off 0.64 of a U.S. cent at 80.06 cents amid speculation of a possible rate cut by the Bank of Canada after Statistics Canada reported gross domestic product contracted for a fourth consecutive month in April.

Gareth Watson, director, investment management and research, Richardson GMP, described the GDP numbers as “disappointing,” noting economists had been expecting a 0.1 per cent gain versus the 0.1 per cent loss the economy actually delivered.

“It will get some people talking about potentially a technical recession if Q2 ends up being in negative territory,” Watson said.

“But, more broadly speaking, the concern here is that the Bank of Canada might look at the data and feel that perhaps another interest rate cut is necessary ... and, of course, the Canadian dollar will always fall on those expectations that rates are going to go lower.”

In New York, indexes were also higher after big drops Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average advancing 23.16 points to 17,619.51 following a 350-point drop Monday, its biggest of the year.

The Nasdaq bounced back 28.40 points to 4,986.87 and the S&P 500 added 5.47 points to 2,063.11 and was marginally in

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In commodities, the August oil contract rose $1.14 to US$59.47 a barrel, while the August gold fell $7.20 to US$1,171.80 an ounce.

Canadian markets will be closed Wednesday for the Canada Day holiday. New York markets will remain open but close Friday in advance of the July 4th Independence Day holiday on Saturday.

Despite the recovery on markets Tuesday, Greece’s debt woes appear likely to drive volatility for some time to come.

Currently, talks are at a standstill and the Greek people face a referendum on Sunday called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to accept or reject austerity terms demanded by creditors. As a result, Athens seemed certain to miss a midnight deadline Tuesday to make a 1.6-billion-euro repayment to the International Monetary Fund.

“It’s been said that the IMF will give them a month’s grace period before taking any type of action,” Watson said, adding that the next big date is July 20 “when it owes, I believe, the (European Central Bank) some money.”

So expect ongoing volatility between now and July 20 “no matter what the outcome (of the referendum) and definitely if the answer is ’No,”’ he added.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,553.33, up 63.18 points Dow — 17,619.51, up 23.16 points S&P 500 — 2,063.11, up 5.47 points Nasdaq — 4,986.87, up 28.40 points

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.01 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.47 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.07 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.77 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.36 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.78 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 86.79 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.71 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.92 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.45 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.38 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.70 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.04

Currencies: Cdn — 80.06 cents US, down 0.64 of a cent Pound — C$1.9626, up 1.32 cents Euro — C$1.3926, down 0.08 of a cent Euro — US$1.1150, down 0.94 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.47 per barrel, up $1.14 (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,171.80 per oz., down $7.20 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver: Handy and Harman’s Canadian office is closed until July 6th.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $19.60 higher $542.60; Nov ’15 $15.50 higher $536.10; Jan. ’16 $15.40 higher $533.90; March ’16 $14.70 higher $530.70; May ’16 $14.30 higher $526.80; July ’16 $14.00 higher $521.70; Nov. ’16 $14.50 higher $479.00; Jan. ’17 $14.50 higher $480.10; March ’17 $14.50 higher $481.80; May ’17 $14.50 higher $481.80; July ’17 $14.50 higher $481.80.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $208.40; Oct. ’15 unchanged $203.40; Dec. ’15 unchanged $208.40; March ’16 unchanged $208.40; May ’16 unchanged $208.40; July ’16 unchanged $208.40; Oct. ’16 unchanged $208.40; Dec. ’16 unchanged $208.40; March ’17 unchanged $208.40; May ’17 unchanged $208.40; July ’17 unchanged $208.40.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 411,700 tonnes of canola; 500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 412,200.

Banks and insurers increasingly shy away from former grow ops: brokers REAL ESTATE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — At first glance, the mid-century, three-level Winnipeg home was everything that Sarah Fehr and her fiancee had been looking for.

It was located in the right neighbourhood, had a double garage and the backyard was spacious enough for the couple’s two pugs to frolic in.

Perhaps most importantly, it was reasonably priced.

However, a quick Google search revealed the home’s shadowy past: it had been busted several years earlier for housing a marijuana grow operation.

While former grow ops may seem like a good deal to some buyers, experts caution that banks and insurers are increasingly shying away from these properties — even after all of the necessary remediation has been done.

“It’s always been strict, but it was a lot looser four or five years ago,” says Jeff Mark, co-founder of broker Spin Mortgage, adding that only credit unions and subprime lenders are willing to finance these homes, often at higher rates than those offered by the banks.

Running a grow-op in a residential home can cause extensive damage that may be pricey to remedy.

High levels of moisture can cause mould to grow in the walls. Pesticides and other chemicals can seep into carpets and walls and contaminate the air. Even the home’s structural integrity and electrical wiring may be compromised.

Before a lender will agree to mortgage a former grow op, a battery of costly tests must be performed to ensure it is inhabitable.

Fortunately in Fehr’s case, the seller had already performed most of those tests, and the local credit union was willing to provide a mortgage. But finding insurance proved to be a headache, says Fehr.

“There were insurers who flat out

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said, ’No, we will not touch a grow-op,”’ says Fehr.

Eventually, after jumping through all of the regulatory hoops, the couple managed to close the deal and take possession of the home late last year.

But brokers say the process can be so arduous that many buyers throw in the towel, adding that in an increasing number of cases, even a single marijuana plant is enough to stigmatize a home.

“The problem is that everything gets painted with the same brush,” says Scott Dawson, a British Columbia-based mortgage broker with Verico Paragon Elite Lending. “Whether there’s one plant or a number of plants, it’s all kind of lumped in together as a grow-op.”

Mark of Spin Mortgage recalls one loan application that went up in smoke because the disclosure statement said a single marijuana plant had been found in the closet. The house had not undergone any grow-op related modifications, he says.

“At the end of the day it comes down to the bank’s discretion,” says Mark.

“It can be unfair in certain circumstances.”

Brokers say the banks are concerned that stigma surrounding the home’s criminal past will reduce its resale value, making it difficult for the bank to recoup its investment if the borrower defaults on the loan.

“If it’s more difficult for them to liquidate, they just don’t want that on their books,” says Dawson.

Such strict policies can have some inadvertent side effects, says Mark.

For example, even though most provinces require sellers to disclose if a property was formerly a grow-op, some may not disclose that, he says.

“I’m sure there are many deals that go undetected because of people withholding that information,” says Mark.

“There are probably people out there living in a former grow-op that don’t even know it.”

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To celebrate his graduation from grade one all Lincoln Strong, 7, wanted was to go to Food Truck Friday in Red Deer and get an Ice Pop from Pursuit Adventures. His sister Gracie also came along and had an ice pop which are also described as a smoothie on a stick.

During the summer months the Coolbeans bus on Ross Street at 48 Avenue in Red Deer shares its space with other food trucks, on Friday Cheddaheads, The Stach, and Dawg’N It joined in on the action.

TransCanada: Alberta’s tougher CO2 rules bolster case for Keystone XL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransCanada wants the U.S. State Department to include recent Canadian climate change announcements in its review of the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing those developments bolster the case for the long-delayed project.

The Calgary-based pipeline builder outlined its rationale in a letter sent Monday to Secretary of State John Kerry and other U.S. officials as the U.S. regulatory process nears its seventh anniversary.

“We are asking the U.S. State Department to consider these recent developments that add to the abundance of evidence already collected through seven years and 17,000 pages of review that Keystone XL will not ’significantly exacerbate’ greenhouse gas emissions,” Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada’s president of development, said in a statement Tuesday.

In the “supplemental filing,” TransCanada points to recent climate policy announcements by both the Alberta and federal governments.

U.S. President Barack Obama has said Keystone XL would only be in the U.S. national interest if it didn’t “significantly exacerbate” climate change.

Last week, Alberta’s new NDP government said it would ratchet up emission reduction targets for large industrial emitters and double its carbon price for those that exceed their allotment.

“If Alberta wants better access to world markets, then we’re going to need to do our part to address one of the world’s biggest problems, which is climate change,” Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said at the time.

“Nobody knows this better than the people who work in our energy industry.”

In May, Ottawa announced it aims to cut Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, though no mention was made of the oilsands crude that Keystone XL would ship.

The federal government has also

‘IF ALBERTA WANTS BETTER ACCESS TO WORLD MARKETS, THEN WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO DO OUR PART TO ADDRESS ONE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PROBLEMS, WHICH IS CLIMATE CHANGE.’ —SHANNON PHILIPS ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

backed a G7 agreement to “decarbonize” the economy by 2100.

TransCanada’s letter also notes the CEOs of some of the biggest oilsands players have come out in favour of tougher carbon pricing, including Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) and Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE), along with large European firms with Canadian operations, like Royal Dutch Shell and Total.

TransCanada (TSX:TRP) also reiterated its view that the oilsands — derided in many quarters for their big carbon footprint — are likely to be developed regardless of Keystone XL, meaning the pipeline alone should not enable higher emissions.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has said she wouldn’t stump for Keystone XL south of the border like her Progressive Conservative predecessors frequently did. She has said she’d rather see the oilsands bitumen upgraded in Alberta instead of being shipped raw to Texas.

She’s also said she won’t advocate for Enbridge’s (TSX:ENB) proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline to the West Coast.

But Notley has taken a warmer tone when it comes to TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline to the East Coast and Kinder Morgan’s expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to the Vancouver area.

The State Department is responsible for weighing Keystone XL because it crosses the Canada-U.S. border. It then makes a recommendation to Obama, who has the final say.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015

Rebels take risk at import draft BUT COULD BE BIG REWARD IF MICHAEL SPACEK SUITS UP FOR TEAM

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter landed a probable impact forward in Tuesday’s CHL import draft, but Michael Spacek may never leave his mark with the Western Hockey League club.

Spacek is still under contract to his Czech Extraliga team — HC Dynamo Pardubice — for the 201516 season, but Sutter decided the risk was worth the potential reward when he took Spacek with his first-round pick, 47th overall.

“We were in a position where we had a list of guys and he was certainly near or at the top of that Michael Spacek list,” Sutter said Tuesday. “But he’s under contract over there and we have to wait and see how his agency (Newport Sports) works that out with his team so we can get him over here to play.”

The Rebels boss wasn’t interested in drafting a ‘Blevel’ player. With his club hosting the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament, he was looking for a dynamic, top-six forward.

“With our pick we wanted to get a top-end player.

We swung for the fence and we’ll see what happens,” he said.

After scoring five goals and adding seven assists in 12 games as a 17-year-old with HC Dynamo last season, Spacek, a five-foot-11, 187-pound winger, was selected by the Winnipeg Jets in Saturday’s fourth round of the NHL entry draft. Spacek, who turned 18 in April, has also represented his country in the world junior championship and world under-18 championship.

“He’s a good player. Any reports we got on him is he’s that obviously a grade-A player,” said Sutter.

“We said all along that we wanted to get a player like that, but we were taking a chance that he might not come, too. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.”

The Czech Extraliga is ranked as the third-highest league in Europe. HC Dynamo’s 2014-15 roster included former Washington Capitals forward Petr Sykora, who led Pardubice in goals with 26.

Sutter admitted he has no idea if the odds of Spacek attending training camp are in the Rebels’ favour.

“His agency didn’t indicate to me if they’re hopeful of getting something done. They didn’t tip their hand one way or the other,” he said. “They would like to see the kid play over here but they have to work it out with his club team.

“They have all summer to work on it and obviously they’ll keep me updated. He’s a very good player.

If we get him, he’ll fit in very nicely among our top six (forwards). We’ll see how it goes.”

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Boston Red Sox David Ortiz, right, celebrates following his solo home-run against the Toronto Blue Jays as Jays catcher Dioner Navarro looks on during third inning American League baseball action in Toronto on Tuesday.

Blue Jays can’t get anything going against Red Sox in rubber match

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Red Sox 4 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO — Good or bad, Marco Estrada does his best to forget every start.

Estrada pitched only 2 1/3 innings on Tuesday, giving up four runs — two unearned — on three hits and four walks as the Blue Jays fell to the Boston Red Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night for Toronto’s second straight loss.

“By the time I get home I’ll forget about this game,” said Estrada, whose record dropped to 5-4.

“I don’t like to ever think about them, good or bad, to be honest with you. By the next day it’s a whole new clean slate, new page. You have to forget about it.”

Jose Reyes had two hits, including a two-run homer, as Toronto (41-38) pulled to within a run of the Red Sox in the seventh inning. The Blue Jays have lost back-to-back games against Boston. Relievers Todd Redmond, Bo Schultz and Steve Delabar combined to shut out the Red Sox the rest of the way.

“They gave us a shot. They held the game in check,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons of his bullpen.

“It’s one of those games where, the way it started, it could get out of hand quick. We just weren’t able to really get anything going.

“We got the home run from Reyes, felt good, kinda perked everyone up a little bit. But that was it.”

David Ortiz and Jackie Bradley Jr. both hit home runs for Boston (36-43), which has won three in a row.

Mookie Betts had a pair of hits and also reached base on an error.

Eduardo Rodrgiuez (4-2) struck out four, giving up an earned run over six innings. Tommy Layne and Alexi Ogando pitched in relief. Koji Uehara earned

his 18th save of the season in the ninth.

Estrada struggled with control in the first, giving up four walks after Betts reached first on an error by second baseman Devon Travis to lead off the inning.

Walks to Mike Napoli and Alejandro De Aza cashed in two runs for a 2-0 Boston lead.

“I went out, threw the bullpen, thought I made some good pitches there and I was feeling pretty good,” said Estrada. “Went out and as soon as the game started I just wasn’t making pitches.

“I know these things are going to happen but I still got to battle through it.”

Estrada’s problems continued in the second when he gave up a home run to Bradley to start the inning.

The Boston outfielder wasted no time rounding the bases, hustling to home plate.

“With me, I barely get them over the fence,” said Bradley, who had his first home run in 248 at-bats. “I don’t really have time to sit there and look at it.”

Estrada then retired the next three hitters to keep the Red Sox’s lead to 3-0.

Ortiz continued Estrada’s troubles with a home run to deep right to lead off the third inning.

Redmond came in to relieve Estrada two hitters later after Pablo Sandoval popped out and Napoli hit a single to centre field. Redmond got Toronto out of the inning without allowing any more runs.

Chris Colabello got the Blue Jays on the board in the fourth, driving in Edwin Encarnacion on a oneout hit to centre field to make it 4-1. Encarnacion scored from second and Colabello made it to second on the throw from the outfield. Although Colabello advanced to third on a ground out by Danny Valencia, Toronto couldn’t add any more runs.

Reyes pulled the Blue Jays to within a run in the seventh inning, putting a two-out pitch over the leftfield wall to bring home Kevin Pillar.

Milan fights off injury to make Ponoka Rodeo finals Nobody ever said rodeo was easy. While every been touched or chased down. It’s a lot different pro cowboy looks forward to the hectic summer when you’re running fresh cattle,” commented Mirun when they have a shot at a lot of cash in a short lan, who came to Ponoka after winning a big $5575 amount of time, getting around to all the events and cheque at Reno. staying healthy are two major challenges.

Milan, whose brothers Straws and Baillie also The Ponoka Stampede is a must do on every list, compete, credits the family horse Smoke, purchased as one of the top ten paying rodeos in the world. So this winter, for their recent successes.

Canadian champion steer wrestler Tanner Milan “It’s been a great year, and I’m just on cloud 9, ridknew it was an important opportunity for his plans of ing it out right now,” he grinned. Recent paydays at making it back to the Canadian Finals, and qualify- Wainwright and Sundre have pushed him to the top ing for his first National Finals Rodeo. of the heap in the Canadian standings, and he’s also When the Cochrane cowboy took 11.9 seconds to now sitting tenth in the world. throw his first steer Tuesday at the Ponoka Stam“I darn sure want to go for another Canadian pede, he knew he had some ground to make up. championship and be at Edmonton again. But one Problem was he could hardly walk after of my main goals this year is to make the that run.

NFR. I want to be there so bad. I just hope “The ground was a lot wetter this I can get that done and be in Vegas in Demorning,” explained Milan, about the cember.” post Monday night rain conditions. “I Milan has already earned $2124 at Ponocaught up really quick but my feet just ka, and has a shot at a whole lot more if he stuck, and they figured I hyper-extended can get two more fast runs under his belt. my knee and stretched out my MCL a Joining he and Weisgerber in the Finals little bit.” will also be Rowdy Hays from Rocky, who’s “It’s a little tender but with a few days collected $2317 in the first two rounds. of icing and taking care of it, it should be Heading into the Finals with the fastpretty good.” est total on two runs in tie-down roping is While that’s the kind of injury most Hunter Herrin, who added a smooth 8.5 likely to sideline your typical soccer second run to his morning’s 7.7 time, for a DIANNE player, Milan simply regrouped and sad16.2 second total.

FINSTAD dled up for his next one, with a little bit “Ponoka’s been one of my favorites,” deof help. clared the Oklahoma cowboy. “I think the “Lots of ice and Sports Medicine first year I came here was maybe 2007, and (Team help), some massaging, and lots of I set the arena record at 6.6, and I just try pain pills,” he winced. to come every year. I’d hate to miss it.”

To the cheers of his fellow bulldoggers, Milan got Herrin also claimed the Ponoka roping title in a picture perfect start and flipped over his second 2009, the first year of the Showdown. With this year’s steer in just four seconds flat. bump up in the Showdown prize money, he’d love to “I got my knee brace cinched down a lot tighter do it again. and the ground was a lot better this afternoon. I had “I know right now I’ve got probably one of the best a really good steer, and got a lot better go.” horses to ride here, and he played a big factor today.

Milan’s total time of 15.9 seconds was well back Last year Rambo was the horse of the year in the of Hunter Cure’s leading time of 9.9 seconds, but it PRCA in calf roping, and he’s pretty good,” grinned was among the qualifying top 12 times, earning him Herrin. a third steer in today’s Ponoka Stampede Finals. It’s He’s one of the cowboys whose good fortune meant an unusual year, with Craig Weisgerber of Ponoka he had to juggle his July first road plans, with his managing to nail down the last spot in the steer wres- travelling partners not making the Ponoka Finals tling Finals with a long 17.4. and heading off to Cody, WY, and he joining them “The steers this year are fresh, so they’ve never in St. Paul, OR, before returning to Canada for the

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Calgary Stampede, which starts Friday. Now they just have to figure out horse plans and how to shave hours off driving routes.

“I’m going to have to pick and choose. I’ve got to tie another one down and make the Final Four, but if I do that, it will be decision time. I hope I have to worry about it,” he grinned.

Rimbey’s Dean Edge and Cody Brett of Silver Valley are the only two Canadians to make Ponoka’s roping Finals.

Wade Sundell rode his way to the saddle bronc Finals by making an 84.5 point ride on Double Vision Tuesday.

“That’s a young horse of Outlaw Buckers. They said it’s been really good, and darn sure he lived up to what they said,” stated Sundell, who’s happy to be staying in Ponoka overnight. “What a jam-up good horse. You couldn’t ask for anything better than that.”

“I’ve been planning my week, and I was banking on coming back, and that would make my week go out perfect, so everything’s working good. So long as we can come out on top tomorrow, that’d be awesome.”

Meanwhile Layton Green of Meeting Creek became the only Canadian to qualify for the bronc riding finals, with his 83.25 on Card Shark. Brad Harter had the top mark of the ‘long go’, with his 84.75 earning him $4932 for first.

Cadogan’s Clint Laye collected $3478 for his 87.25 point bareback ride early in the long round. Locals making the cut include Jake Vold and Bowden’s Ky Marshall. Both Ty Pozzobon of B.C. (81.50) and young Lonnie West of Cadogan (81.25) had strong enough bull rides Tuesday to qualify for today’s Finals, with Scott Schiffner earning $3849 for his early 88.25 point ride at the top of the heap. World Champion Sherry Cervi was the only barrel racer fast enough Tuesday to make the top 12 cut, with her 17.569 putting her in third place. Texan Mary Walker won $4404 for being best in the long round, at 17.473. In the team roping, Ponoka’s Brett Buss and Klay Whyte of Airdrie are the leaders going into the Finals with their 12.7 second total. Other locals to join them include Justin and Brett McCarroll of Camrose; Logan and Keely Bonnett of Ponoka; and Tel Flewelling of Lacombe with his partner Kurt Fletcher of Wainwright.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015

Local Sports

Canadian Hockey League’s 2015 import draft Selections made on Tuesday at the Canadian Hockey League’s 2015 Import Draft (event was held online with the order of selection rotating through each of the three leagues using an inverse order of final 2014-15 regular-season standings): First Round 1. Acadie-Bathurst, Vladimir Kuznetsov, LW, Yekaterinburg Avto; 2. Saskatoon, Libor Hajek, D, Brno; 3. Sudbury, Dmitry Sokolov, LW, Omsk Yastreby; 4. Drummondville, Kristian Afanasyev, F, Honeybaked; 5. Lethbridge, Egor Babenko, F, Togliatti Ladya; 6. Windsor, Mikhail Sergachev, D, Kazan Irbis; 7. Victoriaville, Mario Huber, RW, Innsbruck; 8.

Vancouver, Radovan Bondra, RW, Kosice; 9. Flint, Vili Saarijarvi, D, Green Bay; 10. Chicoutimi, Dmitry Zhukenov, C, Omsk, Russia 5.11.25 169 Omsk Yastreby 1997-03-24 11. Kamloops, Ondrej Vala, D, Pardubice; 12.

Mississauga, Alexander Nylander, LW, AIK; 13.

Gatineau, Vitalii Abramov, LW, Chelyabinsk; 14.

Tri-City, Juuso Valimaki, D, Ilves; 15. Peterborough, Jonne Tammela, C, Kuopio; 16. Cape Breton, Pass; 17. Prince Albert, Vojtech Budik, D, Pardubice; 18.

Saginaw, Markus Niemelainen, D, PK Hameenlinna; 19. Halifax, Otto Somppi, C, Jokerit; 20. Prince George, Bartek Bison, LW, Mannheim.

21. Hamilton, Ondrej Kachyna, D, Budejovice Jr.B; 22. Rouyn-Noranda, Martins Dzierkals, C, Riga; 23. Moose Jaw, Nikita A. Popugaev, LW, CSKA Moscow; 24. Sarnia, Patrik Laine, LW, Tappara, 25.

Saint John, Oliver Felixson, D, HIFK Helsinki; 26.

Spokane, Niklas Andersen, C, Esbjerg; 27. Kingston, Konstantin Chernyuk, D, Wichita; 28. Charlottetown, Pass; 29. Swift Current, Artyom Minulin, D, Magnitogorsk Stalnye Lisy; 30. Kitchener, Pass.

31. Sherbrooke, Jan Dufek, C, Brno; 32. Edmonton, Anatolii Elizarov, D, St. Petersburg Dynamo; 33. Niagara, David Kase, C, Chomutov Pirati; 34.

Baie-Comeau, Igor Kabanov, RW, Krylya Sovetov; 35. Kootenay, Roman Dymacek, LW, Brno; 36.

Owen Sound, Pass; 37. Val-d’Or, Pass; 38. Victoria, Vladimir Bobylyov, LW, Lipetsk, Russia; 39.

Guelph, Timo Haussener, C, Rapperswill/Jona; 40. Shawinigan, Alexander Dergachev, RW, St. Petersburg SKA. 41. Regina, Nikolay Knyzhov, D, Phoenix. Jr. Coyotess; 42. Ottawa, Stepan Falkovsky, D, Minsk Junost; 43. Quebec, Auguste Impose, RW, 180 Geneve; 44. Seattle, Gustav Olhaver, C, Rogle; 45. London, Olli Juolevi, D, Jokerit; 46. BlainvilleBoisbriand, Kristian Pospisil, RW, Salzburg; 47. Red Deer, Michael Spacek, RW, Pardubice; 48. North Bay, Max Kislinger, LW, Salzburg; 49. Moncton, Manuel Wiederer, C, Straubing, 50. Portland, Rodrigo Abols, C, Riga.

51. Barrie, Julius Nattinen, C, JYP Jyvaskyla; 52.

Rimouski, Matous Belohorsky, LW, Liberec; 53.

Medicine Hat, Alexei Platonov, D, Spartak; 54.

Erie, Erik Cernak, D, Kosice; 55. Everett, Alexandr Scherbakov, D, CSKA; 56. Oshawa, Lukas Lofquist, RW, Djurgarden; 57. Calgary, Pass; 58. Sault Ste. Marie, Makar Tokarev, F, Magnitogorsk; 59. Kelowna, Calvin Thurkauf, LW, Zug; 60. Brandon, Oliver Kylington, D, Farjestad.

Second Round 61. Acadie-Bathurst, Pass; 62. Saskatoon, Pass; 63. Sudbury, Pass; 64. Drummondville, Pass; 65.

Lethbridge, Igor Merezhko, D, Salzburg; 66. Windsor, Christof Kromp, C, Trjoa-Ljunby; 67. Victoriaville, Pass; 68. Vancouver, Pass; 69. Flint, Matyas Kantner, LW, Plzen; 70. Chicoutimi, Artem Maltsev, D, St. Petersburg.

71. Kamloops, Pass; 72. Mississauga, Daniel Muzito-Bagenda, LW, Modo; 73. Gatineau, Pass; 74.

Tri-City, Pass; 75. Peterborough, Pass; 76. Cape Breton, Pass; 77. Prince Albert, Pass; 78. Saginaw, Pass; 79. Halifax, Joakim Blichfeld, C, Malmo; 80.

Prince George, Luka Zorko, D, Spartak.

81. Hamilton, Christian Mieritz, D, Rodovre; 82.

Rouyn-Noranda, Karlis Cukste, D, Riga; 83. Moose Jaw, Pass; 84. Sarnia, Louis Latta, F, Kolner; 85.

Saint John Frantisek Hrdinka, D, Frolunda; 86. Spokane, Pass; 87. Kingston, Pass; 88. Charlottetown, Pass; 89. Swift Current, Pass; 90. Kitchener, Pass.

91. Sherbrooke, Pass; 92. Edmonton Dario Meyer, RW, Bern; 93. Niagara, Pass; 94. Baie-Comeau, Pass; 95. Kootenay, Mario Grman, D, Topolcany; 96. Owen Sound, Pass; 97. Val-d’Or, Pass; 98.

Victoria, Pass; 99. Guelph, Vladislav Barulin, RW, Cherepovets Almaz; 100. Shawinigan, Pass.

101. Regina, Pass; 102. Ottawa, Pass; 103. Quebec, Pass; 104. Seattle, Pass; 105. London, Daniel Bernhardt, RW, Djurgarden; 106. Blainville-Boisbriand, Christian Blomqvist, LW, Djurgarden; 107. Red Deer, Pass; 108. North Bay, Robin Kovacs, RW, AIK; 109. Moncton, Maximilian Glassl, D, Salzburg; 110. Portland, Carl Ericson, C, Leksand.

111. Barrie, Pass; 112. Rimouski, Nicolas Werbik, RW, Zlin; 113. Medicine Hat, Pass; 114. Erie, Jakob Mayenschein, C, Landshut 115. Everett, Ian Khomenko, LW, Dynamo; 116. Oshawa, Mischa Moor, D, Ambri; 117. Calgary, Pass; 118. Sault Ste. Marie, Pass; 119. Kelowna, Pass; 120. Brandon, Dario Winkler, C, Salzburg.

2015 CHL Import Draft Summary Draft Picks by Position 1. Forwards, 50; 2. Defence, 28.

Draft Picks by Country 1. Russia, 21; 2. Czech Republic, 12; 3. (tie), Finland and Sweden, 9; 5. (tie), Germany and Switzerland, 5; 7. Slovakia, 4; 8. (tie), Austria, Denmark and Latvia, 3; 11. (tie), Belarus, Netherlands, Slovenia and Ukraine, 1.

Today

● Women’s Rugby Super Series: New Zealand vs. England at 4 p.m.; Canada vs.

USA at 6:30 p.m., Titans Rugby Park ● Midget AAA baseball: Calgary Dinos at Red Deer Carstar Braves at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park. ● Ponoka Rodeo: Pro rodeo finals at 1 p.m.; Ponoka Stampede Showdown, Pony Chuckwagons, World Professional Chuckwagons, Pro Rodeo Stampede Showdown.

Thursday

● Ladies fastball: TNT Athletics at Topco Oilsite Panthers at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; N. Jensen Bandits at Collins Barrow Rage at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.; Snell & Oslund Badgers at Stettler at 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Play it Again Sports Athletics at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks at North Star Sports at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.

Friday

● Pro rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 6 p.m.; Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe Dodgers at Red Deer Razorbacks, 7 p.m., Great

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 41 36 .532 New York 41 36 .532 Tampa Bay 42 37 .532 Toronto 41 38 .519 Boston 36 43 .456

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Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 44 30 .595 40 36 .526 39 36 .520 35 41 .461 33 42 .440

GB — 5 5 1/2 10 11 1/2

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 46 34 .575 40 37 .519 40 38 .513 34 42 .447 35 44 .443

GB — 4 1/2 5 10 10 1/2

Monday’s Games Texas 8, Baltimore 1 Boston 3, Toronto 1 Cleveland 7, Tampa Bay 1 Cincinnati 11, Minnesota 7 Houston 6, Kansas City 1 Oakland 7, Colorado 1 L.A. Angels 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Tuesday’s Games Texas 8, Baltimore 6 Boston 4, Toronto 3 Pittsburgh at Detroit, late Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Houston 4, Kansas City 0 Chicago White Sox 2, St. Louis 1, 11 innings Colorado at Oakland, late N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, late Seattle at San Diego, late Wednesday’s Games Minnesota (May 4-6) at Cincinnati (Cueto 4-5), 10:35 a.m.

Boston (Porcello 4-8) at Toronto (Buehrle 8-4), 11:07 a.m.

Colorado (Bettis 4-2) at Oakland (Hahn 5-6), 1:35 p.m.

Seattle (T.Walker 6-6) at San Diego (Shields 7-2), 1:40 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 7-2) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-6), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 5-4) at Baltimore (W.Chen 3-4), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Burnett 6-3) at Detroit (Simon 7-4), 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 9-6) at Tampa Bay (Colome 3-3), 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 8-4) at Houston (Velasquez 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 3-7) at St. Louis (Lackey 6-4), 6:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 10:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Texas at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

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

Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 43 34 .558 40 38 .513 36 41 .468 32 46 .410 27 52 .342

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 51 25 .671 42 33 .560 40 35 .533 35 40 .467 31 48 .392

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego

West Division W L Pct 43 35 .551 42 36 .538 37 39 .487 37 41 .474

GB — 3 1/2 7 11 1/2 17 GB — 8 1/2 10 1/2 15 1/2 21 1/2 GB — 1 5 6

Colorado

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Monday’s Games Milwaukee 7, Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati 11, Minnesota 7 Arizona 10, L.A. Dodgers 6 Oakland 7, Colorado 1 Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh at Detroit, late Chicago Cubs 1, N.Y. Mets 0 Miami 5, San Francisco 3 Washington 6, Atlanta 1 Minnesota at Cincinnati,late Chicago White Sox 2, St. Louis 1, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, late Colorado at Oakland, late Seattle at San Diego, late Wednesday’s Games Minnesota (May 4-6) at Cincinnati (Cueto 4-5), 10:35 a.m.

Colorado (Bettis 4-2) at Oakland (Hahn 5-6), 1:35 p.m.

Seattle (T.Walker 6-6) at San Diego (Shields 7-2), 1:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 4-9) at Philadelphia (Harang 4-10), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Burnett 6-3) at Detroit (Simon 7-4), 5:08 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 4-6) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 9-6), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Heston 8-5) at Miami (Haren 6-5), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 3-3) at Atlanta (Wisler 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 3-7) at St. Louis (Lackey 6-4), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 4-4) at Arizona (Ray 2-3), 7:40 p.m.

Thursday’s Games San Francisco at Miami, 10:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 4:35 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Buccaneers defence shuts down Edmonton Stallions

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Buccaneers 20 Stallions 14 EDMONTON — The Central Alberta Buccaneers defence showed up in a big way on Saturday in their 20-14 win over the Edmonton Stallions.

The Bucs D eliminated the Stalloons passing game and limited their ground attack as they gave an undermanned Bucs side a chance to improve to 3-1 on the Alberta Football League season.

“We went up there pretty banged up,” said Bucs head coach Devon Hand. “On the road with a short bench, you’ve got to be ready for a version of a street fight and that’s exactly what it was. It was a pretty physical game, they had us out manned, but we managed to hang on.”

Nick Leonidakis led the way for the Bucs defensively with 6.5 tackles and a sac while Brandt Kolybaba had 5.5 tackles and a sack.

Tylor Johannesson and Mark Fay both had interceptions.

The showing would have been even more lopsided but the Bucs had two defensive touchdowns called back on what Hand called ques-

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REBELS: Moved down the pecking order Due to the May acquisition of Russian forward Ivan Nikolishin from the Everett Silvertips, the Rebels didn’t make a second-round selection in the import draft. ● One day after being released by the Rebels, Slovakian defenceman Mario Grman was selected by the Kootenay Ice in the second round — 95th overall — of the import draft Tuesday.

Grman skated in 35 games with the Rebels last season, contributing three assists.

“I really liked Mario, I watched him in the Tri-City tournament last year when Red Deer was there,” Ice GM Jeff Chynoweth told Taylor Rocca of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman. “I thought he played well. Unfortunately in his situation, Red Deer went out and got Nelson Nogier and Colton Bobyk. He just got moved down the pecking order.

“He battled through it…He competes hard.

He skates well. He shows willingness to stick up for his teammates. I know he’s very excited.

He was very well liked in the Red Deer Rebel dressing room.” ● The Acadie-Bathurst Titan made Russian forward Vladimir Kuznetsov the first overall pick in the import draft.

The Saskatoon Blades chose Czech defenceman Libor Hajek second overall. The Sudbury Wolves made Russian forward Dmitry Sokolov the No. 3 pick in the draft. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

tionable roughing the passer calls This performance was critical as the offence continues to struggle.

The Bucs got a touchdown from Tanner Green on a short run while Matt Merkley returned a 65-yard punt for a score and Johannesson booted two field goals.

Green’s touchdown in the third quarter put the Bucs up 20-7 and the Stallions scored late to close the gap, they even got the onside kick, but the Central Alberta defence held up.

Running back Junior Rivera led the attack on the ground with 81 yards on 17 carries while quarterback Pascal Plante had 74 yards on five carries — the problem is he ran for almost as many yards as he passed for.

Green had two carries for 26 yards and Merkley added another 47 yards on the ground off a fake punt. Receiver Curtis Pryce was key in the blocking game with a couple of huge blocks.

The AFL is on a league-wide bye week this weekend and will return to action with the Bucs hosting the rebuilding Lloydminster Vandals, who are coming off a 28-14 win over the Calgary Wolfpack on the weekend. Game goes July 11 at Lacombe’s ME Global Athletic Park at 6 p.m.

RODEO: Tensions high As the novice events concluded, it was Lane Cust of Bluffton claiming the novice saddle bronc riding with his 73.75 point ride Tuesday for $1412; Wyatt Gleeson of Sundre in novice bareback collecting $1361 for his 77.5; and Irricana’s Luke Ferber splitting first in steer riding with Grady Smeltzer of Claresholm with 78.5 scores, both earning $1670.

Tension ran high as eight drivers running two heats were trying to survive the semi-final round and looking for a spot in Wednesday’s final in the chuckwagons.

When it all played out, Evan Salmond, Jason Glass, Kurt Bensmiller and Kirk Sutherland survived the semi-final round and will comprise the $50,000.00 Tommy Dorchester WinnerTake-All Championship final heat. Jordie Fike ended up in the crying hole and missed the winner-take-all final. Obrey Motowylo would have qualified for Monday’s final, but penalties proved costly and eliminated the the former Ponoka champion.

On the day, it was Evan Salmond who not only qualified for Monday’s final, but did it in style by winning his second day money of the week with a penalty free run of 1:18.26. From barrel number four in the eighth heat, Salmond, driving the Phoenix Rentals outfit was the fast man on the day by just 8 one-hundreds of a second over Jason Glass who ran in the same heat number eight. Third and fourth belonged to two other drivers in the semi finals as Kurt Bensmiller nosed out Kirk Sutherland for third place, with Rick Fraser filling out the top five on the night.

The Ponoka Stampede Finals start at 1:00 pm today, with the best four in each event advancing to the Showdown Round with its $7500 bonus. The evening action, which includes the Tommy Dorchester Dash for Cash, starts at 6:30 pm.

Chief Park; Innisfail Indians at Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs, 7 p.m. ● Premier men’s soccer: Edmonton FC at Red Deer Renegades, 7:30 p.m., Edgar Athletic Park.

Saturday ● Pro rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 1 p.m.; Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m. ● Bantam AAA baseball: East Central Bulls at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves, 1 and 4 p.m., Edgar Athletic Park. ● Major women’s soccer: Edmonton Northwest United at Red Deer Renegades, 2 p.m., Edgar Athletic Park. ● Premier men’s soccer: Edmonton FC at Red Deer Renegades, 2 p.m., Edgar Athletic Park.

Sunday ● Bantam AAA baseball: East Central Bulls at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves, 11 a.m., Edgar Athletic Park. ● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 1 p.m. ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Medicine Hat Sun Devils at Red Deer Renegades, 2:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Rockyview Silvertips at Red Deer TBS Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex.

Football CFL East Division GP W L T 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

PF 26 20 23 16

PA 11 16 24 20

Pt 2 2 0 0

West Division GP W L T Winnipeg 1 1 0 0 Calgary 1 1 0 0 B.C. 0 0 0 0 Saskatchewan 1 0 1 0 Edmonton 1 0 1 0

PF 30 24 0 26 11

PA 26 23 0 30 26

Pt 2 2 0 0 0

Toronto Ottawa Hamilton Montreal

WEEK TWO Bye: Edmonton

Thursday’s game Hamilton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Calgary at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Toronto at Saskatchewan, 1:30 p.m.

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

WEEK THREE Bye: Hamilton Thursday, July 9 Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, July 10 Montreal at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 8 p.m.

Monday, July 13 Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Soccer New York City Chicago

2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup SEMIFINALS Tuesday’s result At Montreal United States 2 Germany 0 Wednesday’s game At Edmonton Japan vs. England, 5 p.m.

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

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 4 At Edmonton Germany vs. Japan/England loser, 2 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 5 At Vancouver United States vs, Japan/England winner, 5 p.m.

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 20 10 5 5 23 New England 19 6 7 6 25 Toronto 15 7 6 2 22 New York 16 6 5 5 22 Orlando 17 6 6 5 22 Columbus 17 5 6 6 25 Philadelphia 19 5 10 4 22 Montreal 14 5 6 3 19

GA 17 26 19 20 21 25 32 23

17 15

4 4

8 9

5 2

18 17

22 23

17 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF 18 10 6 2 22 18 9 7 2 24 18 8 6 4 21 20 7 6 7 27 16 7 3 6 25 17 7 5 5 21 16 7 5 4 19 18 5 6 7 17 17 5 7 5 21 17 2 6 9 12

GA 17 18 20 23 17 23 16 22 23 17

Pt 32 29 28 28 27 26 25 22 20 15

Friday’s games Chicago at Houston, 7 p.m.

D.C. at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Pt 35 24 23 23 23 21 19 18

Saturday, July 4 New York at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

New York City at Montreal, 6 p.m.

New England at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday, July 5 San Jose at Portland, 3 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned LHP T.J. McFarland to Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with OFs Andrew Benintendi and Tyler Spoon , Cs Aistom Reo and Andrew Noviello and LHP Bobby Poyner.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Toru Murata to Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with SS Alberto Gonzalez on a minor league contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent RHP Kris Medlen to Omaha (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned 3B Kyle Kubitza to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled 1B C.J. Cron from Salt Lake. Agreed to terms with RHP Aaron Rhodes on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent OF Jacoby Ellsbury to Tampa (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP Chris Bassitt from Nashville (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Signed OF Garrett Whitley to a minor league contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Reinstated OF Josh Hamilton from the 15-day DL. Optioned 3B-OF Joey Gallo to Round Rock (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with SS Angel Perez on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO CUBS — Sent OF Jorge Soler to Iowa (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned OF Chris Dominguez to Louisville (IL).

NEW YORK METS — Activated INF Daniel Murphy from the 15-day DL. Optioned 2B Dilson Herrera to Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Severino Gonzalez to Lehigh Valley (IL). Assigned RHP Ethan Martin outright to Reading (EL). Added Jorge Velandia to the coaching staff.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with LHP Daniel Zamora on a minor league contract and assigned him to West Virginia (NYP).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled INF Jedd Gyorko from El Paso (PCL). Placed INF Cory Spangenberg on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 28.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated INF Casey McGehee for assignment. Purchased the contract of INF Ehire Adrianza from Sacramento (PCL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed RHP Matt Belisle on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 28.

Purchased the contract of RHP Marcus Hatley from Memphis (PCL). Transferred RHP Jordan Walden from the 15- to the 60-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned INF Wilmer Difo to Harrisburg (EL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Promoted Mike Budenholzer to president of basketball operations in addition to his duties as coach and Wes Wilcox to general manager. F-C Pero Antic signed a two-year contract with Fenerbahce (Euroleague).

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Announced F Mike Miller exercised his player option for the 2015-16 season.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Traded G Luke Ridnour and cash to Toronto Raptors for a trade exception and the rights to F Tomislav Zubcic.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Hamilton’s Jonathan Langa an undisclosed amount for an unnecessary hit on an opponent during a June 26 game against Calgary.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Acquired D Kevin Bieksa from Vancouver for a 2016 second-round draft pick.

Named Paul MacLean assistant hockey coach.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Acquired C Boyd Gordon from Edmonton for F Lauri Korpikoski.

CALGARY FLAMES — Signed D Dougie Hamilton to a six-year contract. Named Domenic Pittis assistant coach for Stockton (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Placed F Alexander Semin on unconditional waivers.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with G Michael Leighton on a one-year contract extension. Acquired Fs Artem Anisimov, Marko Dano, Jeremy Morin and Corey Tropp and a 2016 fourthround draft pick from Columbus for Fs Alex Broadhurst and Brandon Saad and D Michael Paliotta.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Re-signed D Brendan Smith to a two-year contract.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Agreed to terms with F Brian Flynn on a two-year contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Named Scott Clemmensen goaltending development coach.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with F Anders Lee on a four-year contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Acquired G Martin Jones from Boston for a 2016 first-round pick and F Sean Kuraly.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed F Mike Angelidis to a one-year contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Signed RW Drew Stafford to a two-year contract. Named Zach Peters communications co-ordinator.

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed LW Kyle Hagel.

ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with D Jake Rutt.

READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Jordan Heywood.

TRIATHLON The Tri-Umph Red Deer Triathlon Club won the club award for most overall points in the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Ironman during the weekend.

“Racing on this beautiful Ironman course is no small feat and it took an unbelievable extra effort to beat the heat out there,” said Tri-Umph coach and racer Teresa Richer.

“Our team trained very hard over the past year and it really showed in the performances of our athletes, especially in the face of those scorching temperatures. We had a very fun team dynamic that included both veteran repeat Ironman athletes and first-time Ironman finishers. This is a great personal accomplishment that so few in the world can claim successfully.

Our team spirit definitely helped push each and every one of us towards the finish line” Richer finished 11th in her division and 290th overall with a time of 12:10.23.

Other Tri-Umph times: Sheldon Timms, 9:55.59; Craig Schmitt, 9:59.11; Kevin Hill, 11:20.54; Keith Weber, 11:41.29; Brent van Nieuwerkerk, 13:56.25; Natalie Burge, 14:46.48; Wendy Collicutt, 15:29:28; Brad Johnson, 16:11.26; Carmen Wiancko, 16:24.25; Naomi Crowe, 16:30.21; JoAnne VanMaarion, 16:30.23; Angela Campbell, 16:31.53; Kelly Sampson, 16:55.10.

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Flames ink newly acquired Hamilton

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bruins general manager Don Sweeney didn’t think Dougie Hamilton would have been “comfortable” signing-long term in Boston. The defenceman was more than comfortable to make that commitment in Calgary.

Hamilton signed a US$34.5-million, six-year deal Tuesday with the Flames that adds him to one of the NHL’s best blue lines. He’ll carry a cap hit of $5.75 million, which could be an unbelievable value as he develops in the NHL. “I think there’s still tremendous upside. He’s just scratching the surface of where he can go,” Flames GM Brad Treliving said on a conference call. “I’m real happy that we’ve got him under contract for six years and part of our core moving forward.”

The Flames sent the 15th, 42nd and 57th picks in this NHL draft this past weekend to the Bruins on Friday for Hamilton’s restricted-free-agent rights.

That looked like a major coup for a 22-year-old defenceman Calgary knew it wouldn’t have been able to get with its first-round pick. Hamilton is coming off career highs in goals (10), assists (32) and points (42).

Sweeney seemed to indicate at the draft that Hamilton didn’t want to sign with the Bruins. The Toronto native brushed that off and any criticism of his character that came out of Boston since the trade.

“I’m just going to keep on saying how excited I am to be a Flame and looking forward to the future and everything,” Hamilton said. “What’s in the past is in the past, and I think I’m just looking forward to being a Flame to moving to Calgary and seeing the city and the fans.”

Treliving blasted the “crap” written about Hamilton as a person and added that his character is not a concern.

“There has not been an ounce of or a calorie wasted in terms of worrying about the player,” Treliving said. “Everybody we’ve talked to, he’s an excellent teammate, he’s a bright young man and he is going to be a model citizen for our organization.”

Hamilton joins a defence corps that includes captain Mark Giordano, T.J. Brodie, Kris Russell, Dennis

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Boston Bruins’ Dougie Hamilton skates towards Loui Eriksson to congratulate him on his goal during NHL action in Ottawa on March 10, 2015. The Calgary Flames have signed Hamilton to a six-year contract. His deal is reportedly worth US$34.5 million.

Wideman, Deryk Engelland and Ladislav Smid. Treliving said he’ll defer to Jack Adams Award-winning coach Bob Hartley to figure out where he fits.

“I haven’t been able to wipe a smile off Bob’s face since Friday,” Treliving said.

Hamilton’s $5.75-million cap hit is now highest on the Flames but shouldn’t be for long. Treliving said the club is working on an extension with Giordano that should keep the 31-year-old captain around for a while.

Hamilton already looks up to Giordano.

“Getting older I want to be more of a leader, but that’s something that will come in time, and

Oilers’ makeover continues by getting Korpikoski from Coyotes for Gordon

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The makeover of the Edmonton Oilers is happening one move at a time, as they acquired winger Lauri Korpikoski on the eve of free agency in a deal with the Arizona Coyotes.

Edmonton sent centre Boyd Gordon to Arizona for Korpikoski, who has two years left on his contract at a cap hit of US$2.5 million.

“I really felt Lauri needed change of scenery,” Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said on a conference call Tuesday night. “I think he had gotten a little stale, and I think he’ll be a good player in Edmonton.”

Korpikoski had six goals and 15 assists in 69 games this past season and 68 goals and 91 assists in 469 career NHL games.

The 28-year-old Finn had Edmonton on his list of teams he’d approve a trade to since November, according to agent Petteri Lehto. The organization’s improvements made it an easy decision.

“He’s seeing what’s happening in Edmonton, so it wasn’t any problem, actually,” Lehto said in a phone interview. “He was quite pleased to make that trade.”

Lehto said Korpikoski played through a high-ankle sprain this past season and that his play has been hampered by injuries. He said Korpikoski is “training like he’s an animal” in

Turku, Finland, and will be healthy for the start of Oilers training camp.

The 31-year-old Gordon had six goals and seven assists in 68 games with the Oilers last season. He also led Edmonton and ranked 11th in the league with 55.9 per cent success rate on faceoffs.

Gordon had 12 goals and 25 assists through 123 games with the Coyotes from 2011-2013.

“I don’t think much has changed in his game at all, I think he’s still that hard-working competitive guy,” Maloney said. “He’s competitive, defensive-minded, excellent in the faceoff (circle) — all the little details of the game that (coach) Dave Tippett likes and appreciates.”

Gordon said being with the Oilers through some down years was just a case of bad timing and wishes his former teammates the best.

“They’re definitely on the upswing,” Gordon said on a conference call. “Getting Connor McDavid is huge for the team, and they’ve made a lot of changes. I think they have great potential to be a good team.

“Sometimes things don’t work out how you think they were going to work out when you came there. It’s just the way it is.”

Gordon has one year left on his contract at a cap hit of $3 million. Maloney said no salary was retained by either team in the trade.

I’m learning from certain players,” Hamilton said.

“Looking at Calgary there’s someone like Giordano will be a great role model for me. I’ll be able to watch him play and watch him off the ice and learn from him.”

Hamilton, a Toronto native, was the ninth pick in 2011, which the Bruins got from the Maple Leafs in the Phil Kessel trade. That deal was made by Brian Burke, who’s now president of the Flames.

Note — The Flames extended the contracts of assistant general manager Craig Conroy, associate coach Jacques Cloutier and assistant coaches Martin Gelinas and Jamie Pringle.

Bouchard has another early exit with loss at Wimbledon

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — A year ago at Wimbledon, Eugenie Bouchard and Simona Halep met in a semifinal showcasing two of tennis’ up-and-coming stars.

Bouchard was only 20, Halep 22.

Bouchard won that matchup to reach a Grand Slam final in the sixth major tournament of the Canadian’s career, a month after Halep was the runner-up at the French Open.

Back at the All England Club on Tuesday, both women lost in the first round to opponents ranked outside the top 100. For Bouchard, also a semifinalist at the Australian Open and French Open in 2014, it was the latest setback in a season full of them, including 12 losses in her past 14 matches.

“It’s been a huge learning process to have great results and then have, you know, so much attention, then have bad results. Just learning about the ups and downs of life and tennis, how things won’t always go perfectly, like I expect them to,” said Bouchard, who said a torn abdominal muscle limited her practice time leading into the match.

“I’m always trying to keep the belief and stay true to myself and do what I need to do to become as good as I know I can be. So it’s really just been kind of eye-opening, a learning expe-

rience,” she added, resting her chin on her right hand, then added with a laugh: “But I’m good for the learning experience to be over now.”

The Westmount, Que., native 7-6 (3), 6-4 exit against 117th-ranked qualifier Duan Ying-Ying of China made the 12th-seeded Bouchard the first Wimbledon finalist to lose her opening match at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament the following year since Steffi Graf in 1994.

The No. 3-seeded Halep was treated by a trainer for a lost toenail late in the first set of what would become a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 defeat against 106th-ranked Jana Cepelova of Slovakia.

“I knew it would be a difficult tournament for me,” Halep said, explaining that her confidence was low because of poor recent results.

“But I didn’t expect to lose in (the) first round.”

Highly seeded players rarely do anticipate that sort of quick departure, of course, and four past Wimbledon champions in action Tuesday all won in straight sets as the sun, unobstructed by clouds, brought the temperature to about 85 degrees (30 Celsius).

Petra Kvitova, who beat Bouchard for the 2014 title, won 28 of 29 points on her serve — a double-fault in the final game was the lone blemish — in a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Kiki Bertens that required all of 35 minutes.

NHL teams more cautious about free agency given weak crop

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The salary cap killed the free-agency star.

Now a decade into the salary-cap era, NHL free agency isn’t what it used to be, and the 2015 unrestricted crop is one of the weakest in recent history.

“It’s not a great group,” Philadelphia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said recently. “Your options are minimal.”

Options are out there, like centre Antoine Vermette, wingers Matt Beleskey and Justin Williams, defencemen Mike Green and Christian Ehrhoff and goaltender Karri Ramo. But this isn’t a star-studded class.

Money will still get thrown around like every July 1, but GMs are conscious of what this time of year actually means in the grand scheme of things.

“You can’t grab four or five guys every year and try to be successful,” Hextall said.

“I just don’t believe in it. It’s a small tool that can help. You can fill that last box you have to make yourself a top contender, but you can’t build like that.”

It’s almost the perfect time to fill holes. The Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks signed centre

Brad Richards to a one-year in free last summer, and the Eastern Conference-champion Tampa Bay Lightning got centre Brian Boyle and defenceman Anton Stralman to complement a young core.

Like Valtteri Filppula in 2014, Stralman was a big hit with a US$22.5million, five-year contract with the Lightning. He went on to play on the top pairing with Victor Hedman and should be the modern poster boy for smart signings.

“We had a huge, glaring hole in our lineup,” general manager Steve Yzerman said at the Cup final. “We needed a right-hand shot defenceman. We have a pretty competitive team. A player like that can make a real difference, and he has in the first year.”

Green, the only defenceman in the cap era to score 30 goals, and Williams, who has become known as “Mr. Game 7” for his playoff exploits, could fit the bill this time. For teams looking for depth, winger Michael Frolik and defencemen Cody Franson and Johnny Oduya are available.

Alexander Semin, Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Cody Hodgson and Viktor Stalberg are also unrestricted possibilities thanks to buyouts.

“Top to bottom, (the free-agent pool) might not have the complete depth, but

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Most teams are trying to keep their own players. The Dallas Stars made sure Jason Spezza got a contract extension, the Ottawa Senators locked up Bobby Ryan, the New York Islanders gave Johnny Boychuk a long-term deal and the Rangers prevented Mats Zuccarello from hitting the open market.

“The free-agency period is slowly starting to change,” Stars GM Jim Nill said on a conference call Monday.

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Story and photos by Jeff Stokoe/ Advocate staff Just a short drive from Red Deer, one of the hidden gems of Central Alberta is nestled in a picturesque spot.

Just south of Spruce View in the hamlet of Dickson, the Danish Canadian National Museum offers visitors the opportunity to get a feel for the historical Danish presence in Central Alberta. The museum is open May through and August, with the summer hours beginning on July 1.

You can visit Sunday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The site is located west of Innisfail and south of Spruce View off Hwy 54.

Through the summer, a number

of activities are planned at the museum, including Jam Day on July 12, when visitors can enjoy Danish pancake dumplings topped with Saskatoon jam and sprinkles of icing sugar.

Jam day will also feature a musicians doing a jam of their own and artisans will be on the site with their crafts.

Viking Days will showcase Viking history on Aug. 15 and 16.

Expect displays, hands-on demonstrations and re-enactments of how Vikings lived, prepared their food and made their crafts 1,000 years ago. On Viking weekend, an authentic Danish meal will be served and will feature some Viking foods as well.

Except for special event days, the museum is admission by donation and the staff rely on the generous contributions of visitors to keep the Danish experience in Central Alberta going. For more information, call 403728-0019 or visit www.danishcanadians.com.

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The Mermaid statue in the lake is based on the famous statue found in Copenhagen harbour. In Danish, the statue is called Den Lille Havfrue and is one of the major tourist attractions in Copenhagen. The Dagmar Pioneer Church is constructed in the same style as many Danish Lutheran churches.

Inside the church, a ship hangs from the ceiling facing towards the altar. These ships are common in Danish churches as a way of keeping those at sea in the grace of God.

ABOVE: A Viking ship built from one piece of oak sits inside the Viking Ship Shelter. This boat, built in the Netherlands, is in the same style as those built 1,000 years ago.

RIGHT: A boardwalk leads to the Viking Ship Shelter.

BELOW: A bust of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen looks out from the gardens near the trail.

ABOVE: Danish Canadian National Museum and Gardens employee Joy Newsham keeps the flowers on the patio looking good.

BELOW: A Stendysse, or Viking burial site is situated above the lake and grounds. This Stendysse is a replica of original structures found in Denmark and other parts of northwestern Europe. The burial chambers date back to the Neolithic Age, between 4,500 BC and 1,700 BC.

With a picture-perfect view of the grounds, Kayla Godkin prepares some carrot cake in the kitchen of the restaurant and tea and coffee house.

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

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Equine program for disabled still seeks permanent home An equine program that works with disabled people is still in search of a new home.

Karen Quilliams and her husband have operated HorseSense Horsemanship, just west of Red Deer, for the past 13 years.

The business, which also works with youth at risk, has had to move because the property they were leasing has been sold.

Karen said this week, in the midst of moving off the property, that they have found another location near Red Deer, on the C&E Trail. But they will only be there for July and maybe August, and still need a permanent location.

They may be able to offer some of their programs in their temporary location.

For more information on the program and to contact them, go to www. horsesensedk.com.

Urban homesteads tour planned for July 15 in city A tour of Red Deer’s three urban homesteads features some of Red Deer’s newest edible forest gardens.

On July 15 from 6 to 9 p.m., a tour through the Michalak, Parsons and Scholz urban homesteads offers participants the chance to learn about the practice of producing and harvesting part of their food, water and electricity.

The tour starts at 23 Oxbow St., moves to 4616 46th St. at 7 p.m. and finishes at 3333 44A Ave. at 8 p.m.

Urban homesteading can include edible landscaping, food preservation, raising small animals including chickens, reducing resource use through alternative energy sources and rainwater collection, and soil building through composting and vermicomposting.

Tour hosts include Rene Michalak, Kathy Parsons and Martin Scholz.

For more information and to RSVP, email rene@urbanpermaculture.ca.

Self-sustainability workshop at Kerry Wood Centre

shop costs $15 plus GST and participants must register by 7:30 p.m. on July 9.

Most materials are provided but people need to bring one or two old towels and wear clothes that can get dirty.

Call 403-346-2010 ext 111 for more info or visit www.waskasoopark.ca to register.

MicroSociety program to benefit from golf event Teaching students all about society in a scaled-down local setting has earned recognition from Red Deer’s Mayor and now the program is a charity of choice for the upcoming Shaw Charity Classic golf tournament in Calgary.

The Champions Tour event runs from Aug. 5 to 9 at the Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club. In 2014, the Shaw Charity Classic contributed $2.4 million to children and youth charities in the Calgary area.

This year, they have added the Aspen Heights Elementary School MicroSociety program. The program at the school has won much recognition, including being named a four-star model school, a top international MicroSociety school and an award for an environmental school in 2014.

The MicroSociety program teaches students how a society is run by featuring student-run banks, businesses, an elected government, police, a postal service, newspaper and non-governmental organizations.

Each student applies for a job, goes through an interview process and has a work performance assessment completed by a manager. Students earn wages in the school’s micro currency, make deposits in the bank and pay taxes.

As a result of the program being named a charity of choice for the golf event, Shaw will match 50 per cent of every donation made.

Donations are made by either a onetime flat donation or a pledge for each birdie made by a Champions Tour player during the tournament. In 2013, there were 1,000 birdies made.

For more information, visit www. shawcharityclassic.com.

Sidewalk chalk art festival Sept. 26 downtown Professional and amateur artists are invited to take their art to the streets during Alberta Culture Days on Sept. 26 in downtown Red Deer.

The deadline for entries for the Sidewalk Chalk Art festival is on Aug. 21.

Twelve artists will be selected to create their work in chalk along Little Gaetz and the Ross Street Patio area.

Two of the 12 artists will be selected as feature artists and be allotted a larger space and a preferred location in which to create their art.

All participating artists will receive an honourarium for their work.

Peter McGee, the city’s special events programmer, said the sidewalks in downtown Red Deer will be transformed into a gallery of creative art.

“This event is a combination festival, exhibition space, learning experience and catalyst for support and participation in the arts community,”

said McGee. Artists are encouraged to apply by submitting their concepts for a sixfoot-by-six-foot sidewalk drawing.

Submissions should relate to Canadian, Albertan or Red Deerian culture and should be able to be completed in a single day.

For more information and artist submission requirements, visit the Alberta Culture Days page on www.reddeer.ca, or like the Red Deer Culture Days Facebook page at fb/reddeerculturedays.

Witness who helped police in April sought again Red Deer RCMP are looking for a male witness who helped police in locating a suspect on April 29.

The suspect ran from police, jumped a fence and hid in a dumpster in downtown Red Deer on the evening of April 29.

The witness provided valuable assistance to police at the time.

Now, RCMP hope he will come forward for a follow-up interview.

At about 10 p.m. that evening, RCMP were called to downtown Red Deer to a report of an attempted robbery.

The victim was able to get away from his two male assailants without injury, and police located one suspect near Central Middle School.

The suspect pointed a firearm at the police officer before fleeing on foot towards the alley that runs behind Coop Plaza.

Police contained the area and were quickly approached by the witness, who directed police to the dumpster area in the alley. The suspect was found in a dumpster and taken into custody without further incident.

The witness was walking northbound in the alley behind Co-op Plaza shortly after 10 p.m. when he encountered the suspect and then approached police. He is described as wearing a black leather jacket and black jeans, approximately 1.77 metres (five foot 10 inches) tall and in his late 40s.

The witness is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Inmate found dead in cell at Bowden Institution A 34-year-old inmate serving a three-year sentence at Bowden Institution was found dead in his cell on Tuesday.

Few details were released.

Correctional Service Canada said Juan Wiens was found unresponsive in a living unit.

Staff members immediately began performing CPR and emergency services were called. He could not be

resuscitated.

At the time of his death, had a year and a half remaining on his threeyear sentence. He was jailed for three counts of operating a motor vehicle while disqualified; three counts of driving with an alcohol concentration level more 80 mg; and failure to provide a breath sample.

Wiens began serving his sentence on Nov. 28, 2013.

The inmate’s next of kin have been notified of his death.

The police and the coroner have been notified.

Correctional Service Canada will review the circumstances of the incident.

Bowden Institution is a medium security prison.

Lacombe youngsters can help stage play July 24 Join some young Lacombe performers put on the Three Billy Goats Gruff during Lacombe days this summer.

On July 24, two performances of the show by the Against the Wall Theatre group will take up a small part of the afternoon performing the tale of goats trying to cross a bridge and convincing a troll to not eat them.

From 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, at 5214 50th Ave., children aged two to five years will perform and all parents or guardians are required to attend. From 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., a lunch for everyone involved will be served.

Then from 1 to 2 p.m., the performers aged six years and up will put on their version of the play, and this time parents and guardians are welcome to attend.

The performances is a donation of a dollar or two to the Family and Child Social Services PASS program.

All things rhubarb at fort information session Everything has a history — including rhubarb, always one of the first harvestable plants that comes up in the spring and early summer.

To that end, the history of the plant, and one of its best uses, rhubarb jam, will be explored on July 7 at Historic Fort Normandeau from 6 to 8 p.m.

Participants will actually make the jam to sample and take home.

All materials are provided for Rhubarb Renaissance.

Preregistration is required, $10 plus GST for members of the Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, or $12 plus GST for non-members.

Call 403-346-2010 ext 111 for more information or visit www.waskasoopark. ca to register.

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Utility work along 55th Street in Red Deer is in full swing with a full closure of the roadway. According to the City of Red Deer, traffic disruptions in the area will be ongoing until work is completed Sept. 1.

All cash donations will provide necessities for Red Deer’s vulnerable population

Great entertainment, good food – at outdoor gym park, close to parade route

Move a little closer to self-sustainability with a workshop being offered at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Participants can learn how to make their own soap from scratch on July 11 from 6 to 9 p.m.

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A pair of ruddy ducks ply their way through a thick layer of green algae on a pond west of Penhold. The wetlands known as Pennington Lake, located about 2.5 km west of Penhold, is a great place to observe waterfowl.

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Three people have been recognized for their successes after graduating from Olds College, with two joining the Hall of Fame and one joining the Hall of Merit.

Lynn McDonald and Murray Bates will be inducted to the Olds College Alumni Association Hall of Fame.

Grant Cantin will be inducted in the Olds College Hall of Merit.

The Hall of Fame gives recognition for alumni or former college staff over the age of 40 who have distinguished themselves through contributions to Olds College, the community, society or their chosen vocation.

The Hall of Merit gives recognition of the same contributions but for alumni or staff aged 40 years and younger.

McDonald graduated from the agricultural mechanics program at Olds College in 1970. He spent his entire professional career as an instructor and mentor at the college.

Bates graduated from the agriculture and animal science program in 1970 and has gone on to a career as an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer, publishing five books related to his profession.

Cantin graduated from the ornamental horticultural program in 2000.

Since then, he has plied his trade all over the world. Most recently, he is employed as the deputy head groundsman at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club, home of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

Their induction will take place at a special awards reception on July 19 at 11 a.m. at the Olds College Alumni Centre, at 4500 50th St. in Olds.

For more information visit www. oldscollege.ca/alumni.

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Antibiotics overuse putting elderly at risk STUDY SHOWS HEAVY USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN NURSING HOMES EQUALS RISK FOR RESIDENTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new study suggests antibiotics are likely being overused in some nursing homes in Ontario — and that misuse is putting all residents of these facilities at risk.

With most drugs, inappropriate use only threatens the health of the person who takes the medication. But with misuse of antibiotics, the problems that arise — drug-resistant bacteria, C. difficile infections — are not restricted to the people who have been taking the drugs. “(Nursing) homes with higher use put patients at higher risk,” said Dr. Nick Daneman, first author of the study.

“Unlike other medication classes which can harm the individual recipient of that medication, antibiotics have the capacity to do harm even beyond the individual that gets the medication.”

Daneman is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and an internal medicine physician at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The study was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association.

It has been known for some time that long-term care facilities use a lot of antibiotics. Earlier studies have suggested there is a significant amount of overuse in this sector of the healthcare system, with potentially between one-third and half of all use being inappropriate or unnecessary.

Residents of these facilities are typically frail elderly people with a variety of ongoing health concerns. They are at the point in life where their immune systems cannot fight off invaders easily.

These people often live in close quarters and are cared for by staff who move from resident to resident.

It’s a situation that makes for efficient spread of bacteria and other pathogens that cause infections.

For this study, Daneman and his co-authors looked at antibiotic use in 110,656 residents of 607 nursing homes in Ontario in 2010 and 2011. The nursing homes studied were divided into low, medium and high antibiotic-use categories.

The differences were stark: antibiotic prescribing in high-use facilities

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A new study looks at how high antibiotics use affects the health of nursing home residents. C. difficile bacteria in a petri dish is shown in an undated photo. was 10 times that of low-use homes.

If high-use homes had residents who were significantly sicker and more frail, that might explain their heavy reliance on antibiotics. But the authors also did a comparison of the residents of the various facilities and found there were not major health differences among them.

That suggests the increased use of antibiotics in the high-use homes likely is due to the doctors who are prescribing at those facilities, said infectious diseases expert Dr. Andrew Simor, who was not involved in this study. Simor is head of microbiology at Sunnybrook.

He suggested this information could help change prescribing behaviours; facilities where antibiotic use is higher than the norm could be targeted with

programs aimed at minimizing misuse of these critical drugs.

The article, which Simor praised, also drew a line between high antibiotic use and higher rates of negative consequences of antibiotic use.

Those side-effects were things like allergic reactions to antibiotics, developing antibiotic-related diarrhea, contracting C. difficile infection, or becoming infected with a drug-resistant bacteria.

Daneman said the adverse events were generally serious enough to send these people to hospital.

“If you live in a high antibiotic-use home versus a low antibiotic-use home, you had 25 per cent increased risk of one of these serious antibiotic-related adverse events,” he said.

Because of the way the study was

designed the authors could not tell if the antibiotics used were needed in each setting. So they cannot say that the low-use homes had hit the sweet spot for antibiotic use — not too much, but enough.

Still, Simor noted that when hospitals started to develop programs to cut back on unneeded use of antibiotics — it’s called antibiotic stewardship — concerns were raised that some people who needed the drugs might not get them. That hasn’t proven to be the case, he said.

“So if you feel comfortable translating those findings into a nursing home setting, I think you’ll find the same situation is true — that stewardship will not place patients at increased risk for not getting an antibiotic when they need it.”

Specialists call tamper-resistant opioids a ‘gimmick’

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OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. A medical journal commentary suggests that the newer tamper-resistant opioid formulations do not address the problems of over-prescribing and addiction. ment’s earlier decision to allow generic versions of OxyContin to be sold in Canada.

Benedikt Fischer, a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, said the use of the word “gimmick” to describe tamperresistant opioid formulations is appropriate and a “neat little punch line.”

“It’s refreshingly strong language, but I think it points to an important point,” said Fischer, commenting on the authors’ conclusions.

“The majority of opioid misuse does not involve tampering,” he said. “Even if you have tamper-resistant opioids, what happens is some people ... use other opioids that are not tamper-resistant.

“We’re seeing that on a grand scale in Canada since the new OxyNeo came in. We’ve had a decline in the oxycodone prescribing, for sure, but we’ve had increases in other potent opioid formulations ... That’s why we’ve also seen spikes in deaths using fentanyl and hydromorphone.”

Fischer said the advent of tamperresistant formulations is a bonus for the government because it makes it look as if it is taking some kind of action.

“So politically, the symbolism is strong.”

For the pharmaceutical industry, manufacturers typically get to sell the updated drugs at a higher price — and with new patent protection that pro-

hibits cheaper generic versions from taking their market share.

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TORONTO — Tamper-resistant opioid formulations that are meant to discourage illicit use of the powerful painkillers are a “gimmick” and don’t address the problems of over-prescribing, addiction and overdose deaths, says a commentary published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Among the tamper-resistant opioids is OxyNeo, a re-formulation of OxyContin approved in Canada in 2011 and designed to make it difficult for nonmedicinal users to crush the pill so it could be snorted or prepared for injection to achieve a quicker and more potent high.

But the new formulation doesn’t prevent illicit users from simply ingesting OxyNeo, which like other opioids carries a risk of addiction and overdose when taken in excessive amounts.

“When you use a tamper-resistant opioid, you’re still getting the full effect of the opioid and you don’t necessarily have to tamper with the medication to have harm,” said Dr. Pamela Leece, a resident in the University of Toronto’s public health and preventive medicine program, who co-authored the CMAJ commentary.

“The main issue is that all opioids are unsafe,” she said. “There’s definitely a role for them in chronic pain and cancer pain, but they’re among the most dangerous drugs that we prescribe.

“So even though these new formulations can have some tamper-resistant features to them, they should not be considered safe.”

Canada and the U.S. are the highest per-capita users of narcotics in the world. Oxycodone prescriptions in Ontario rose 850 per cent between 1991 and 2007.

A study published last July found the annual rate of opioid-related overdose deaths in Ontario alone jumped to 550 in 2010 from 127 in 1991.

While some research suggests that tamper-resistant formulations of oxycodone may have reduced illicit use of the medication, there is growing evidence that the overall number of opioid deaths has not decreased.

That’s because those who are addicted to the potent narcotics will simply favour other types of opioids — such as fentanyl patches or hydromorphone — or switch to heroin, all of which can cause fatal overdoses.

“So to focus on a strategy that just addresses tampering is a minor portion of the problem,” said Leece.

On Friday, Health Canada announced it is seeking “stakeholder feedback” on plans to require all oxycodone products to be tamper-resistant, reversing the federal govern-

and it never gets questioned whether these drugs should be prescribed in the first place or in the amount that they’re being prescribed,” he said.

“In other words, it relegitimizes the practice.”

Opioids are often given for shortterm control of acute pain — for instance, following surgery or injury — but many doctors also prescribe them for chronic pain, which is a difficult condition to treat, in part because each patient’s level of suffering is different and also subjective.

There’s no clear-cut way to decide on how ongoing pain should best be treated, Leece said, especially for busy primary-care doctors who may not have ready access to a pain specialist or allied practitioners like physio and occupational therapists.

“It’s easy to write a prescription,” despite knowing the potential dangers, she said.

Leece said a broader strategy is needed that encourages physicians to be more careful about prescribing opioids; provides access to comprehensive pain management therapies for patients; and includes a system-wide monitoring of opioids and their subsequent harms, including up-to-date fatal overdose figures.

“So the real action will not be just with switching to a different formulation. It will be from having real leadership and a comprehensive plan to resolve the problem.”

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1967 — Queen Elizabeth II attends Centennial celebrations on Parliament Hill.

1960 — Treaty and registered aboriginal

Canadians are given the right to vote.

1958 — CBC starts nationwide TV broadcasts as new Trans-Canada microwave relay system goes into operation.

1867 — John Alexander Macdonald is sworn in as Canada’s first prime minister, until Nov. 5, 1873. The new Dominion starts life with just 30 civil servants.

1858 — First Canadian coins are minted, in denominations of one cent, five cents, 10 cents and 20 cent pieces; no regular issue of bills until 1870.

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What a country!

TOUR MATES DEAN BRODY, PAUL BRANDT LIST FAVOURITE PLACES IN CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dean Brody was his own guide during his first tour of Canada.

It was back in 2009 and the earnest country troubadour was opening for Terri Clark. Raised in Jaffray, B.C., Brody had at the time taken up residence in Nashville and it was his first time back on familiar soil in a couple of years.

He decided to rent a rugged SUV and ferry himself from venue to venue, city to city.

“It was almost a vacation for me,” recalled the Juno winner recently.

“Things had been such a rat race and such a crazy chaotic time with my first record coming out and (being in) the U.S. market.

“Going across Canada and having that time to think and seeing grain elevators and landmarks in Canada — I remember actually at one point taking a side road and getting a little emotional because I hadn’t been on a dirt road in over a year.

“I found a lot of perspective on that drive across Canada.”

On Sept. 24, Brody and seven-time Juno winner Paul Brandt will together set off on the cross-Canada Road Trip tour.

Ahead of Canada Day, the two stars of country listed some of their favourite places in the country.

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HALIFAX If you dine at the Five Fishermen in this well-loved Nova Scotia city, tell them Paul Brandt sent you.

“I’m a sucker for the mussel bar there,” he said, chuckling.

“I know that’s not high cuisine or anything like that, but I make jokes with the band guys all the time: the next time I go there I’m going to wear parachute pants with deep pockets to smuggle mussels out.”

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Dean Brody rented a rugged SUV and ferried himself from venue to venue, city to city, during his first tour of Canada in 2009. Brody and Paul Brandt won’t be touring Canada for the first time when they team up for a September headlining trek. Ahead of Canada Day, the two country artists shared some of their favourite places in the country.

He also loves jogging around Citadel Hill and “getting a feel for the history of the city and, really, our nation.”

Brody, who lives an hour’s drive from Halifax in Chester, of course agrees about the abundant charm of the city — and it’s where their tour will end, on Oct. 24.

“Halifax in the summertime is amazing,” he raved. “The waterfront is great. Lots of artists on the boardwalk, great restaurants and 200-yearold pubs.”

ONTARIO Brandt cherishes jogging along Ot-

Royal Opera says show will go on after rape scene draws boos

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LONDON — Britain’s Royal Opera says it’s sorry for causing distress but the show will go on after a rape scene in Guillaume Tell sparked boos and walkouts.

Director Damiano Michieletto’s production of the 1829 Gioachino Rossini opera about Swiss apple-skewerer William Tell includes a scene in which soldiers strip a woman naked and assault her.

The sequence prompted loud boos at Monday’s opening-night performance.

The Guardian’s Tim Ashley found the scene “protracted and pruriently voyeuristic,” while critic Richard Morrison in The Times called it “inexcusably nasty.”

The company’s director of opera, Kasper Holten, said the scene “puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during wartime.”

He said it was meant to be uncomfortable to watch, but “we are sorry if some people have found this distressing.”

Some audience members and critics were more appreciative. In the London Evening Standard, Barry Millington called it a flawed but powerful production, and said the rape scene was “sickening, but not, in the context, gratuitous.”

Audiences are warned in advance that the production “features nudity and scenes of sexual violence.” It is due to run until July 17 and will be broadcast to cinemas on Sunday.

Brash pioneer of early TV dies at 93

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Jack Carter, whose brash, caustic comedy made him a star in early television and helped him sustain a career of more than a half-century in TV, nightclubs, movies and on stage, died of respiratory failure at his Beverly Hills, California, home, a family spokesman said.

Carter turned 93 just four days before he died Sunday, Jeff Sanderson said.

In 1948, when network television was beginning, Carter starred in a series of variety shows on ABC. In 1950, Pat Weaver, the visionary NBC programmer who fostered the Today and Tonight shows and other innovations, scheduled two hours of programming called Saturday Night Revue.

The Jack Carter Show, broadcast from Chicago, filled the first hour, and the comedian opened it with a standup routine that poked fun at the day’s news, a device late-night comics still

use. From there, the show moved on to music and comedy skits.

The second hour was taken up by Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Their sophisticated comedy became a sensation, and after Saturday Night Revue’s first season, The Jack Carter Show was cancelled. Although he would remain a popular guest star in television, Carter would never again headline his own network series.

“Maybe I come on too strong,” he mused in 1963. “Directors and producers fear you when you come on strong.

They’re afraid they may not be able to control you.”

The comedian, who had begun his career as a dramatic stage actor, also returned to the theatre from time to time. He also performed regularly in nightclubs and appeared in films.

He made nearly three dozen movies, including Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas, in which Carter played himself; The Horizontal Lieutenant; The Extraordinary Seaman; and The Funny Farm.

tawa’s picturesque Rideau Canal and absorbing a horizon of historic sites.

“Maybe once or twice I’ve stopped in Byward Market and got a pastry or two along the way,” he confided.

Brody, meanwhile, didn’t visit Toronto for the first time until coming to town to shoot the video for “Brothers” in 2009.

He ranks Toronto among his four favourite cities, along with New York, London and Auckland, New Zealand.

“There’s so much diversity and Yonge-Dundas, that big square? I love that, man,” he said.

“I love that area. I’ve stayed there a few times at the Pantages Hotel and that square is one of my favourite spots

in the world to hang out. It’s a really cool vibe.”

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The exhibit Art Out There! by Brandon Fancie goes until July 31 at The Olive lounge.

The abstract oil paintings, Flower Talk — Where the Blooms Begin, by Jeri Lynn Ing, continues to Aug. 21 in the white gallery, which is accessed through the main floor of Sunworks.

Calligraphy, watercolour and mixed media works are showing in Lights, by members of the Red Deer Lettering Arts Guild. The exhibit is on until July 31 in the Corridor Gallery, downstairs in the Red Deer Recreation Centre.

An artistic Celebration of Aboriginal Peoples is on until July 31 in the Hub on Ross.

And four city artists — Erin Boake, Robin Lambert, Darren Petersen, and Shirley Rimer — are showing new works in two and three dimensions at the Viewpoint Gallery in the City of Red Deer’s Cultural Services Centre to Aug. 31.

BRIEFS Watercolour exhibit will have First Friday reception There’s plenty of art to see in Red Deer in July, but only one First Friday reception.

Only Susan Barker’s watercolour exhibit, Goin’ to California: My Motorcycle Diaries will have a First Friday reception, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kiwanis Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library. The exhibit runs to Aug. 23 in the gallery operated by the Red Deer Arts Council.

Otherwise, there are several other gallery showings without receptions in

NUNAVUT Brandt distinguishes Iqaluit as his favourite place he’s ever travelled.

Performing at the opening ceremony of 2002’s Arctic Winter Games, Brandt was simply awed by what he found.

“It was one of the richest cultural experiences I’ve had in all my world travels,” he said.

“To see the resiliency, the passion of the people who live there — it was very eye-opening and an experience I’ll never forget.”

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Brandt ran his first marathon in Kelowna, B.C., and his second in Vancouver, where he savoured trotting along the “amazing” seawall.

“It’s one of the most beautiful parts of the world,” he said enthusiastically.

And Brody recommends flying into Calgary and driving down Highway 22 before cruising into B.C. from the southeast.

“It’s this really dramatic change in landscape,” he said, noting that “Legends of the Fall” was shot in the area.

“It’s just really beautiful.”

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REAUME Mary Elizabeth Memorial Service for Mary Elizabeth Reaume of Sylvan Lake will be held on July 4, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lions Hall, 5119 50 A Ave., Sylvan Lake AB T4S 1E1.

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WADE Noble & Partners LLP requires a Chartered Accountant with at least 5 GOODMEN years experience to join our team in Rocky ROOFING LTD. Mountain House.

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Children's Items

1580

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Electronics

1605

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EquipmentHeavy

1630

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Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 AFFORDABLE

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1680

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1370

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JJAM Management (1987) Corporate Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Commercial Requires to work at these Legal Assistant Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. Minimum three(3) years 37444 HWY 2 S experience.

37543 HWY 2N Firm is prepared to train 700 3020 22 St. a candidate who has Manager/Food Services experience in some but not Permanent P/T, F/T shift. all aspects of the position.

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Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

Please submit your 40 hrs/week, + benefits , resume by email or fax to: 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

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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 *working knowledge of ms office & simply accounting (2013) program is essential *able to work with minimal supervision *must have an accounting designation *min of 3+ years accounting related experience Preference will be given to candidates who are highly organized, able to multi task, complete tasks in a timely fashion & are team players Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax resume to: 1-403-729-2396 *no phone call inquiries please

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WALLET with contents lost at garage sale at Dale Close or Duston Street on Sat., June 27. If found, please call 403-343-2853.

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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

UNUSED office desk, can sit 6 people $180 403-347-0939 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; 403-887-3649

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Sporting Goods

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

1830

Cats

WANTED

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1800

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AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200 403-352-8811

Travel Packages

1760

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PAINTINGS pencil (2) framed Male and Female Elk, plus Cougar. $40.

403-986-2108

CLASSIFICATIONS

PICINIC table, 39” round with 4 heavy chairs and pads, umbrella (never used). $135. 403-309-5494 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

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740

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Houses/ Duplexes

House for Rent 4 bdrm 3 bath 5 appl 4 level split near park in Eastview Estate (RD). hardwood flr n/s no pets. $1750 + util. Avail.

Aug 1st 780-742-9399 INGLEWOOD - nicely finished, higher end 2 bdrm., lower unit bi-level duplex at Unit B, 187 Isherwood Close. 5 appls., 2 car cement parking pad, N/S, no pets, prefer quiet tenant. Avail. immed. $1200. rent/dd, + util. ** RENTED**

Condos/ Townhouses

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2 bdrm. townhouse w/garage in Parkvale 4603-44 St. no pets, must be 50+, avail. July 15. eves. 403-309-7707 days 403-506-0265 PARKVALE, 55+ condo, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, garage, $1250. + utils. Avail. Sept.

1, min. one year lease.

403-347-5387

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection 403-357-7817 ACROSS from park, Oriole Park, 3 bdrm.

4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls.

Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or Aug. 1.

403-304-5337

CLEARVIEW 3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Aug. 1. 403-304-5337 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1100, N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780

GLENDALE 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or Aug.1 403-304-5337 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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Suites

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031 Newer 2 bdrm. bsmt suite.

Mature responsible, clean, working only. All utils incl.

Separate entrance & offstreet parking, avail. Aug. 1 403-348-1304

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~ Westpark

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. $825 plus power.

Call Bob 403-872-3400

2 BDRMS., no pets. $900./mo. 5805-56 Ave 403-343-6609

3190

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

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SUV's

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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 2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., clean, REDUCED 403-352-6995

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Avail. July 1, 2 bdrm bsmt. ~ Kitson Close suite, 4 appls, private entry, ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. n/s, n/p, rent $750 rent/dd. ~ Holmes St. + utils. 403-845-2926 S.D. $1000 3 bdrm. townhouses, Celebrate your life GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, with a Classified apartments, avail. immed, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

ANNOUNCEMENT rent $875 403-596-6000 N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. or July 1 I bdrm,balcony,free launReferences required. dry, heat and water on 3rd Rooms floor for quiet over 35 yr SOUTHWOOD PARK old working tenant for $850 For Rent 3110-47TH Avenue, rent/D.D. 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, COZY Furnished room, 2 bdrm,one with balcony generously sized, 1 1/2 n/s, $575. 403-466-7979 one without, free launbaths, fenced yards, dry,heat and water to over ROOM TO RENT very full bsmts. 403-347-7473, 35 working tenants for large $450. 403-350-4712 Sorry no pets. $1150/rent/D.D. www.greatapartments.ca Start your career!

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Condos/ Townhouses

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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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Cars

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2002 CHEV Cavalier, 2 dr., 96,000 kms. 403-318-3040

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 5th whl. large slide,exc. cond.

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Boats & Marine

5160

2001 BMW Z3 Convertible 5 spd, 120,000 miles, $11,000 obo 403-200-1307 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

SUV's

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2008 DODGE Nitro, 4x4 V6, auto., very clean, RECUCED 403-318-3040

5180

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403-740-6592

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2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., clean, REDUCED 403-352-6995

2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, loaded w/saddle bags, windshield,

cruise, running lights, back rest, 44,500 kms. Mint Cond. $7990. o.b.o.

403-318-4653

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2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 5th whl., large slide, exc. cond.

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2008 DODGE Nitro, 4x4 V6, auto., very clean, REDUCED 403-318-3040

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2012 CANAM Outlander 800 R XT, power steering, winch, 2 quad boxes. 900 kms. $9000.

403-347-6344

1995 34’ Winnebago diesel pusher $19,900. o.b.o.

403-872-3010

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good,cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner stove/oven, micro., queen bed, x-long couch, $7000.

403-347-1997

2001 VOLVO S60.

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182,000 km. $3500 obo.

403-343-2058

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1957 FORD SKYLINER Retractable Hardtop $42,500.

403-742-9417

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$2900.

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2008 HONDA CIVIC LX, 139,400 km., exc. con., carproof, $7,900 obo 1-403-396-9369

2008 LINCOLN Navigator 4x4 exc. shape, tan

leather, 403-871-2441 or cell 928-503-5344

2010 BUICK Enclave CXL 124,000 kms, absolutely like new, Gold Mist $24,000 403-845-3292

2010 OUTBACK Keystone Superlite 28’, 31’ w/hitch, 2 slideouts, good cond., $21,500 403-844-7970

2012 ZINGER trailer, Thor built, 27’ , hard wall, large slide, air, elec. awning, $17,900 obo 403-896-8860

2013 HONDA PCX 150 scooter, 1,185 km, $2,700.

403-346-9274

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Tunisia attackers trained together TUNISIA BEACH GUNMAN TRAINED IN LIBYA WITH MUSEUM ATTACKERS, OFFICIAL SAYS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS, Tunisia — The student who massacred tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort trained in a jihadi camp in Libya at the same time as the two men who attacked a leading museum in March, a top security official said Tuesday, enforcing the notion of a link between the two assaults and raising fears of more attacks from an underground world clawing at this North African nation’s budding democracy.

Investigators were searching nationwide for accomplices in the attack that killed 38 tourists and questioning a handful recently detained.

“It has been confirmed that the attacker trained in Libya with weapons at the same period as the Bardo attackers,” said Rafik Chelli, the secretary of state for the Interior Ministry. “He crossed the borders secretly.”

Chelli said Seifeddine Rezgui, a 24-year-old who obtained a Master degree in electrical engineering, left his studies at Kairouan University and sneaked into the western Libyan town of Sabratha in January — when the two young men who carried out the museum attack in Tunis were there.

Sabratha, the site of Roman ruins, is one of several places in chaotic Libya where radical groups have training camps. The Islamic State, which has a strong Libyan presence, claimed responsibility for the beach resort attack.

There has been no previous indication that Rezgui had left Tunisia.

Rezgui has been portrayed as a good student. He received his one-year Masters degree, at one point liked break dancing and even getting a certificate, and practicing Kung Fu, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified.

A fellow student in Kairouan, Saidi Fedi, 25, described him as a model of magnanimity — but a member of the student branch of Ansar al Sharia, an Islamist group, “Seif participated in the meetings ... on a lower level. He was not one of the leaders,” Feidi said in an interview, referring to the university’s Islamic Youth group.

“He was the least radical of the group in which he was active. He was

one who took part in the debates, and he accepted different views. He didn’t argue aggressively,” Feidi said. “He didn’t answer with anger” when debating with students who supported the Syrian government. “He didn’t do anything that could give us a clue.”

The head of post-graduate Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, attended by the attacker expressed equal shock.

“We informed the police so they could be sure of his identity and personal data,” said Karim Ben Elgharat.

“We didn’t see anything strange about him. He was a good and assiduous student.”

The invisibility of the attacker, like those who carried out the Bardo attack, is for Tunisia and elsewhere, the biggest challenge in preventing terrorism.

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Mohamed Ali Aroui, said it was not immediately clear whether Rezgui trained in the same group as the Bardo attackers or whether they were linked to the Islamic State organization.

But the presence of radical groups in Libya increases the threat level to its Tunisian neighbour, as does the approaching end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and its “night of destiny,” which falls in mid-July this year.

It is a night that holds risks, said the person with knowledge of the investigation.

The “night of destiny” is considered a propitious time for good actions, which for jihadis means killings, said Mathieu Guidere, an Islamic scholar at the University of Toulouse.

Tunisia has struggled since its 2011 revolution to maintain the fragile democracy it has managed to put in place — the only one to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings. At the same time, it is has seen the highest number of its citizens, some 3,000, head to Syria and Iraq to fight with radical jihadi groups, including the Islamic State group.

They usually travel via Libya, getting training on the way. Increasingly, they have trained there before returning to carry out attacks in Tunisia. Tunisia’s most well-known Islamic radical Seifallah Ben Hassine, fled to Libya in 2013 taking many supporters with him into exile.

Guidere, who tracks Islamist groups, cited the Soldiers of the Caliphate of

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A hooded Tunisian police officer stands guard ahead of the visit of top security officials of Britain, France, Germany and Belgium at the scene of Friday’s shooting attack in front of the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the Mediterranean resort of Sousse, Tunisa, Monday. The top security officials of Britain, France, Germany and Belgium are paying homage to the people killed in the terrorist attack on Friday.

Tunisia, a recent group linked to the Islamic State group, as the most likely suspect behind the Sousse attack. It claimed responsibility for the Bardo Museum attack. The small group, he said, is made up of some of the 400 to 500 returnees from Syria and Iraq.

There has been criticism of the government’s handling of security, especially since tourists had clearly become a target after the museum attackers killed 22 people in March.

President Beji Caid Essebsi revealed Tuesday morning that heightened security measures had been scheduled to be put in place just days after the beach attack.

“It is not a perfect system — it is true we were surprised by this affair,” he told France’s Europe 1 radio. “They took measures for the month of Ramadan but they never thought the attack would be on the beaches against tourists and the system of protection was

set to start July 1.”

Armed tourist police are to be stationed at hotels and army reservists called up in a bid to staunch damage to the vital tourism industry — a lifeline for the Sousse region.

At least 25 of the victims were British in the approximately half-hour rampage from the beach through the hotel, according to the latest figures from Tunisia’s Ministry of Health. The ministry said 33 of the 38 victims have now been identified, also including 3 Irish, 2 Germans, a Belgian, a Portuguese and a Russian.

The fury of the attack was evident days later. A trail of blood from escaping tourists ran along the sidewalk to the gate of a hotel down the road. The caked pool of blood where the attacker was gunned down near a bend in the road was intact and the white walls lining the street were pocked with bullets.

U.S., Cuba to announce plan to open embassies MAJOR STEP IN RE-ESTABLISHING TIES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce Wednesday that the U.S. and Cuba have finalized an agreement to reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, a major step in ending hostilities between the Cold War foes, a senior administration official said.

The U.S. and Cuba have been negotiating the reestablishment of embassies following the historic December announcement that they would move to restore ties after a half-century of animosity. The U.S. embassy in Havana is expected to open in July.

For Obama, ending the U.S. freeze with Cuba is central to his foreign policy legacy as he nears the end of his presidency. Obama has long touted the value of direct engagement with global foes and has argued that the U.S. embargo on the communist island just 90 miles south of Florida was ineffective.

The official insisted on anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter ahead of the president.

The White House said Obama will deliver a statement on Cuba from the Rose Garden on Wednesday morning.

Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in Vienna for nuclear negotiations with Iran, is also expected to speak about the embassy openings.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Jan. 19, 2015 photo, a Cuban and American flag wave from the balcony of the Hotel Saratoga in Havana. President Barack Obama will announce July 1 that the U.S. and Cuba have reached an agreement to open embassies in Havana and Washington, a senior administration official said.

Kerry has said previously that he would travel to Cuba for an embassy opening.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday evening that it would meet with U.S. Interests Section chief Jeffrey DeLaurentis on Wednesday morning to receive a message from President Obama about reopening embassies.

The U.S. cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 after Fidel Castro’s revolution. The U.S. spent decades try-

ing to either actively overthrow the Cuban government or isolate the island, including toughening the economic embargo first imposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Since the late 1970s, the United States and Cuba have operated diplomatic missions called interests sections in each other’s capitals. The missions are technically under the protection of Switzerland, and do not enjoy the same status as full embassies.

While the opening of embassies marks a major milestone in the thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, significant issues remain as the countries look to normalize relations. Among them: talks on human rights; demands for compensation for confiscated American properties in Havana and damages to Cuba from the embargo; and possible co-operation on law enforcement, including the touchy topic of U.S. fugitives sheltering in Havana.

Obama also wants Congress to repeal the economic embargo on Cuba, though he faces resistance from Republicans and some Democrats. Those opposed to normalizing relations with Cuba say Obama is prematurely rewarding a regime that engages in serious human rights abuses.

The president also will face strong opposition in Congress to spending any taxpayer dollars on building or refurbishing an embassy in Havana. Congress would have to approve any administration request to spend money on an embassy.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said in a statement that opening a U.S. embassy in Cuba “will do nothing to help the Cuban people and is just another trivial attempt for President Obama to go legacy shopping.”

Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the opening of embassies was part of the administration’s “common sense approach to Cuba.” However, he called for Cuba to recognize that it is out of step with the international community on human rights.

Judge issues gag order in Liberia quarantines an area Texas biker shooting case where new Ebola case found

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH, Texas — A sweeping gag order was issued Tuesday in a lawsuit arising from a May brawl at a roadside restaurant in Waco, Texas, in which nine bikers were killed and 177 people arrested.

The ruling in the lawsuit filed by Matthew Clendennen, a biker who says he was wrongfully arrested, prevents attorneys, witnesses and law enforcement officers involved in the case from discussing it with the media.

McLennan County District Court Judge Matt Johnson also ruled that Clendennen’s attorney, Clint Broden, can view surveillance video from the Twin Peaks franchisee in Waco, but barred it from public release.

Video footage shared earlier with The Associated Press shows that when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of the restaurant, most of the motorcycle riders who were watching the May 17 confrontation from the patio or inside immediately ran away from the shooting. A few tried to direct people to safety, while others were seen crawling for cover. Waco police were

on scene, and some fired their weapons. It remains unclear whose bullets struck the nine who died; the results of autopsies and ballistic analyses have not been made public.

Broden obtained a subpoena for the video last week, but the city filed a motion to quash it, saying it would interfere with its ongoing investigation into the shootout. Johnson said in the gag order that he acted to prevent pretrial publicity from influencing potential jurors. Johnson declined the AP’s request for comment.

Las Vegas attorney Stephen Stubbs, who was retained by the Bandidos, one of the motorcycle clubs involved in the melee, called the gag order unconstitutional.

“Tying the hands of these people who have been accused of crimes and not allowing them to defend themselves in the media is just wrong,” Stubbs told the AP. The shooting began after an apparent confrontation between the Bandidos, the predominant motorcycle club in Texas, and the Cossacks, according to investigators. Hundreds of weapons — including 151 firearms — were recovered.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola, sparking fears the West African country could face another outbreak of the disease nearly two months after being declared Ebola-free.

“Liberia has got a re-infection of Ebola,” Tolbert Nyenswah, deputy health minister and head of Liberia’s Ebola response team, told The Associated Press.

The boy died at his home and was buried safely to avoid spread of the disease, Nyenswah said. The Nedowein area where he died is close to Liberia’s international airport, about 30 miles (48 kilometres) south of the capital, Monrovia.

Teams are investigating how the boy became infected, Nyenswah said.

The area is not near Liberia’s borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea, neighbouring countries that still have Ebola cases.

The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free on May 9, after it went 42 days without a new

case. Liberia had been hardest hit with more than 4,800 deaths from this outbreak’s total of more than 11,100 fatalities.

A single case of Ebola means a country has Ebola, said Dr. Margaret Harris, spokeswoman for WHO in Geneva.

Following the 42-day end of transmission period, there’s a 90-day period of heightened alert with a surveillance system in place, Harris said.

“It does show that the system Liberia put into place is functioning well,” she said, adding that it must be determined if this new Liberian case is isolated.

Ebola lingers in the body for a long time, said Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading in the U.K. “The main concern here is: Did this man infect anybody else before he died?” Neuman said.

This is the only known case in Liberia for now, according to Liberia Ebola response chief Nyenswah.

The boy died on June 28 and was buried that day, said Liberian official Nyenswah, correcting his earlier statement that he died on June 24.

Food is being sent to the quarantined homes, he said.

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IN

BRIEF Egypt’s president vows to amend laws to ensure ‘swift justice’

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photograph made with an ultra-wide angle lens shows the site where an Indonesian air force cargo plane crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country’s third-largest city Medan.

No hope of survivors in cargo plane crash

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDONESIA

MEDAN, Indonesia — Rescuers with heavy machinery searched a shattered residential neighbourhood Tuesday for any survivors from an Indonesian air force transport plane that crashed shortly after takeoff and killed more than 70 people.

The C-130 Hercules, carrying military personnel and their families, went down in Indonesia’s thirdlargest city of Medan, striking a building. Witness accounts suggested the plane suffered an engine fire before crashing.

Air force spokesman Rear Marshal Dwi Badarmanto said 74 bodies were recovered. About 30 of the dead were identified and included air force personnel and relatives, he added.

Air force officials said more than 100 people may have been on the C-130, but there was little hope of finding survivors. It is unclear how many people on the ground were killed.

The crash of the transport plane, which had been in service since 1964, occurred only two minutes after it took off from Soewondo air force base around midday.

The pilot told the control tower that he needed to turn back because of engine trouble, said air force chief Air Marshal Agus Supriatna.

“The plane crashed while it was turning right to return to the airport,” he said.

Many passengers were relatives of military personnel. Hitching rides on military planes to reach remote destinations is common in Indonesia, a sprawl-

ing archipelago that spans three time zones.

Indonesia has a patchy civil aviation safety record and its cash-strapped air force has also suffered a series of accidents. Between 2007 and 2009, the European Union barred Indonesian airlines from flying to Europe because of safety concerns.

The country’s most recent civilian airline disaster was in December, when an AirAsia jet with 162 people on board crashed into the Java Sea en route from Surabaya to Singapore. There have been five fatal crashes involving air force planes since 2008, according to the Aviation Safety Network, which tracks aviation disasters.

Fahmi Sembiring of Medan said he saw the grey Hercules flying very low as he was driving.

“Flames and black smoke were coming from the plane in the air,” he said.

Sembiring said he stopped not far from the crash site and saw several people rescued by police, security guards and bystanders.

Another man, Janson Halomoan Sinagam, said several of his relatives were on the plane.

“We just want to know their fate,” he told MetroTV, weeping. “But we have not yet received any information from the hospital.”

The plane’s manifest showed there were 50 people on the flight from Medan in Sumatra to the remote Natuna island chain, according to North Sumatra Police Chief Eko Hadi Sutedjo, but the actual number was higher.

Prison chief, 11 others placed on leave in aftermath of escape

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. — The superintendent at the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief and 10 other staff members amid a widening internal investigation into how the inmates pulled off the daring escape, a state official said Tuesday.

The 12-member group is in addition to the guard and the prison tailor shop instructor who were suspended earlier and face criminal charges they helped the escapees.

The latest action was announced two days after the last of the convicts, David Sweat, was wounded and captured following more than three weeks on the run. His accomplice, Richard Matt, was shot and killed last week.

The state official said Steven Racette, superintendent of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, was removed along with Stephen Brown, deputy superintendent in charge of security. The official was briefed on the matter but wasn’t authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Corrections Department said only that three executives and nine other staff members were placed on leave as part of a review of the June 6 escape. It did not identify them. The department said it is bringing in new leadership.

Sweat’s condition, meanwhile, was upgraded from serious to fair at the Albany hospital where he was

taken after being shot twice by a state trooper on Sunday.

Matt and Sweat cut holes in their cells and a steam pipe and made their way under the walls of the maximum-security prison to a manhole outside in a breakout that embarrassed the Corrections Department, exposed a host of possible security lapses and set off a manhunt involving more than 1,000 law enforcement officers.

On Tuesday, District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Sweat told investigators from his hospital bed that he started cutting through steel cellblock walls in January with only a hacksaw blade and used no power tools in the escape, contrary to what authorities have been saying all along.

Soon after the breakout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the state’s inspector general to investigate factors that may have led to the escape.

The inspector general’s inquiry is separate from the criminal investigation. The inspector general can subpoena witnesses and question them under oath.

Any evidence of criminal activity will be turned over to prosecutors.

Prosecutors have said tailor shop instructor Joyce Mitchell got close to the men, supplied them with hacksaw blades and other tools, and agreed to be their getaway driver but backed out at the last moment. She has pleaded not guilty.

Guard Gene Palmer was also arrested, telling investigators he gave the convicts such things as tools, art supplies and access to a catwalk electrical box in exchange for paintings by Matt. But he said he never knew of their escape plans.

IS fighters stage surprise attack on Syrian border town

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Islamic State fighters on Tuesday launched a surprise attack on a Syrian border town recently seized by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, taking positions in the eastern part of the town and waging fierce gun battles with its defenders, activists said.

The attack on Tal Abyad resembled another surprise assault by the IS group last week on the border town of Kobani, where Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes had driven out the extremists in January. The two attacks brutally displayed the extremists’ resilience and signalled a possible change in tactics following a string of defeats at the hands of

Kurdish forces.

Kurdish activist Mustafa Bali said Tuesday that IS fighters killed 233 people in Kobani, including 100 children, saying most of those killed were shot in cold blood, some inside their homes. He said 35 Kurdish fighters were killed following the June 25 attack.

Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a U.K.-based monitoring group with a network of activists inside Syria, said 223 civilians were killed in Kobani, including “scores” of women and children, as well as 37 Kurdish fighters. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the slightly different tolls.

CAIRO — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi vowed Tuesday to accelerate a crackdown on extremists and bring “swift justice” after the assassination of Egypt’s chief prosecutor, raising the prospect of carrying out executions of senior Muslim Brotherhood figures, including the former president.

Pounding his fist as he spoke at the funeral of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, who oversaw the cases against thousands of Islamists, el-Sissi’s comments seemed to signal an even tougher campaign on the Brotherhood and other government opponents.

Despite an international outcry against legal abuses and lack of due process, Egypt has waged a 2-year-old crackdown that has led to thousands of arrests, mass convictions and death sentences. Ousted President Mohammed Morsi is among those condemned to die.

El-Sissi said the government was ready to brush those criticisms aside and free the judiciary’s hand for a “battle” the country is prepared to wage.

“The judiciary is restricted by laws, and swift justice is also restricted by laws. We will not wait for that,” el-Sissi said.

Action will be taken within days “to enable us to execute the law, and bring justice as soon as possible,” he said.

“We will stand in the face of the whole world, and fight the whole world,” el-Sissi added.

Iran nuclear talks extended VIENNA — Pushing past a Tuesday deadline, world powers and Iran extended negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement by a week as the UN nuclear agency prepared to announce Tehran had met a key condition — significantly reducing its stocks of enriched uranium.

Iran’s failure to comply would have severely undermined the negotiations, which are aimed at curbing the Iranians’ nuclear program for a decade in exchange for tens of billions of dollars in relief from international economic sanctions The State Department announced the extra days of talks only hours before the expiration of the target date for their completion. Thoughts of meeting the deadline had been long-abandoned, but the extension has added significance as it holds in place nuclear restrictions that Iran agreed to some 20 months ago as well as slightly eased conditions for Iranian business with the world.

Chris Christie warns of blunt campaign in 2016 even if it makes people ‘cringe’ LIVINGSTON, N.J. — A tough-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie launched his 2016 campaign for president Tuesday with a promise to tell voters the truth even if it makes them cringe.

The Republican governor, a one-time GOP favourite who faded and now tries to climb back, lashed out at “bickering leaders” from both political parties in a kickoff rally in the gymnasium of his old high school. And in his trademark blunt style, he told voters — and warned Republican rivals — that he’s ready to be aggressive in the 2016 contest.

“You’re going to get what I think whether you like it or not, or whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not,” Christie declared. He added: “I am now ready to fight for the people of the United States of America.”

Christie enters a Republican presidential field that already has more than a dozen GOP candidates.

Not all draw as much attention as Christie, who will compete for the same slice of the electorate as pragmatic-minded White House hopefuls such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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SCIENCE

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Another failure for resupply mission SPACEX ROCKET BREAKS APART ON WAY TO SPACE STATION; THIRD FAILURE IN 8 MONTHS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, the third cargo mission to fail in eight months.

The accident happened about 2 ½ minutes into the flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A billowing white cloud emerged in the sky, growing bigger and bigger, then fiery plumes shot out. Pieces of the rocket could be seen falling into the Atlantic Ocean like a fireworks display gone wrong.

More than 5,200 pounds (2,360 kilograms) of space station cargo were on board, including the first docking port designed for future commercial crew capsules, a new spacesuit and a water filtration system.

NASA officials said they have enough supplies for the three-person crew on board the station to last until October and still plan to send three more crewmembers up in a late July launch. Normally, NASA likes to have a six-month cushion of food and water, but it is now down to four months.

“We’re good from a food and water standpoint,” NASA’s top spaceflight official, William Gerstenmaier said at a press conference.

This puts added pressure on another resupply launch scheduled for Friday by Russia, it’s first attempt since losing a supply capsule in April.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket shattered while travelling at 2,900 mph (4,670 kph), about 27 miles (43 kilometres) up.

Everything seemed to be going well until the rocket went supersonic.

“We appear to have had a launch vehicle failure,” announced NASA commentator George Diller. Data stopped flowing from the Falcon 9 rocket around 2 minutes and 19 seconds after liftoff, he said.

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk later said that the pressure got too high in the liquid-oxygen tank of the rocket’s upper stage.

“That’s all we can say with confidence right now,” Musk said via Twitter.

The private company is in charge of the accident investigation, with oversight from the Federal Aviation Administration, which licensed the flight.

The Dragon capsule, which is designed to eventually carry people, still sent signals to the ground after the rocket broke apart, said SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell. Had astronauts been on board, a still-being tested abort system, would have whisked them away to safety in such a mishap, she said.

SpaceX hopes to launch astronauts from U.S. soil again aboard the Falcon-Dragon combination in December 2017. They still can make that target, Shotwell said. Now NASA buys seats from Russia to get astronauts to the orbiting lab.

Shotwell assured reporters that the California-based company will fix the problem — “and get back to flight.”

Losing this shipment — which included replacements for items lost in the two earlier failed supply flights — was a huge setback for NASA, the U.S. space agency.

“This is a blow to us,” Gerstenmaier said, citing the docking port, a spacesuit and considerable scientific research that had been on board. He said there was nothing common among the three accidents, “other than it’s space and it’s difficult to go fly.”

In April, a Russian cargo ship spun out of control and burned up upon reentry. And last October, an Orbital Sciences Corp. capsule was destroyed in

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday. The rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart shortly after liftoff.

Three high school students were going to get the science lesson of a lifetime by flying their experiment in space.

Instead they got a life lesson about loss, but more importantly about determination, as they watched their experiment get wiped out for the second straight time by a rocket failure on Sunday.

The students from North Charleston, South Carolina, had come up with an intricate electronics circuitry experiment. It was supposed to fly last October to the International Space Station on an Antares rocket out of Wallops Island, Virginia.

But it blew up as they watched from only 1.7 miles away. Joe Garvey was knocked over by the blast coming

off the launch pad. Rachel Lindbergh felt the heat on her face.

Eight months passed. Every other student team got to fly their experiments again, but finally Sunday was the turn for Joe, Rachel and Gabe Voigt, and their teacher, Gabe’s mother, Kellye.

They drove down to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and joked about their luck. But Rachel, the eldest of the three students and a physics major headed to the University of Chicago, doesn’t talk about luck. She talks about independent events and variables.

Then the SpaceX rocket launched Sunday carrying their experiment. It soared into the sky. High fives were exchanged. They started heading back for lunch.

Then their phones started buzzing with text messages, condolences. Rachel’s was from her grandmother.

The rocket broke apart. Their experiment was lost again.

This one didn’t hit as hard or hurt as much, maybe because they really

didn’t see it, Joe said. That’s rocket science. Failure happens, Rachel said.

“There’s a lot of life lessons to take from this too,” Gabe said. “If something happens, that doesn’t mean it’s the end of that.”

After their first launch, the students improved the experiment to include circuitry from the space shuttle Endeavour, which was better than what they tried at first. Next time, they’ll do even better, the three students vowed.

Joe said all he wants to do is get this done before he graduates in two years — he and Gabe will be juniors in the fall.

Within 10 minutes, teacher Voigt got a call from their mentors at NASA’s Goddard Space Center.

They’re going to get more space shuttle circuitry to fly again.

Rachel and Joe will be at a space conference next week in Boston to talk about their experiment.

“Disappointing, sure,” Rachel said.

“You can’t let things stop you.”

a launch accident in Virginia. Orbital Sciences and SpaceX have NASA contracts to ship cargo.

“Three failures on three different vehicles is unusual, but it would be even more worrisome if we had only one means of access,” former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

In addition to Friday’s scheduled Russian launch, Orbital Sciences may be able to launch their supply ship at the end of this year, using another company’s rocket. And a Japanese resupply ship is scheduled for August, Gerstenmaier said.

The seven previous SpaceX supply runs, dating back to 2012, had gone exceedingly well.

The three space station residents were watching the launch live from or-

bit, including astronaut Scott Kelly.

“Sadly failed,” Kelly said via Twitter. “Space is hard.”

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other officials stressed that the space station crew is in no immediate trouble. NASA space station program manager Mike Suffredini said the water filtration system is nearing the point where it can’t function much longer, but there is still enough stored water to make it to October or so.

Gerstenmaier said the loss shouldn’t postpone plans to send three more men to join the crew on July 22, a flight already delayed two months.

Along with SpaceX, Boeing is also developing crew capsules for NASA. Boeing designed the new docking system that was lost on the SpaceX flight, but a second version is still available

to send up, officials said.

Shotwell said the first stage of the rocket seemed to work well. The company had planned to try to land the discarded booster on an ocean platform.

Kelly’s identical twin, Mark, a former space shuttle commander who is taking part in medical studies on the ground, pointed out that SpaceX, until now, had “a great record” with its Falcon 9 rockets.

“These things happen,” he said in a tweet. “They will figure this out.”

The Air Force warned people along the Florida coast not to handle any debris washing ashore.

Sunday was Musk’s 44th birthday.

The SpaceX founder also runs his electric car company, Tesla.

“Yeah, not the best birthday,” Musk tweeted.

Rocket science lesson for U.S. student turns out to be more about determination, loss

Stay safe online by prioritizing accounts, reduce reliance on passwords

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Mix upper and lower case letters in your password? Substitute the numeral 1 for the letter l? Throw in an exclamation point and other special characters? Who can remember all that for dozens of websites and services?

No wonder it’s tempting to turn to apps and services that promise to keep track of your passwords, either on your device or online. All you need to remember is your master password.

But these password managers are like treasure chests for hackers. If your master password is compromised, all your accounts potentially go with it.

Services that store password data online are particularly troublesome because they are easier for hackers to break.

Don’t do it, I’ve been saying for years. Now, I hate to say, “I told you so.”

LastPass, which offers a service that stores multiple passwords in encrypted form, says it has detected “suspicious activity.” Although it says it found no evidence that individual passwords or user accounts were breached, it’s advising users to change their LastPass master password.

I advise users to come up with a better system instead, one that relies less on just passwords.

Here are some tips: ALL ACCOUNTS AREN’T EQUAL Instead of having to remember dozens of complex passwords, maybe you need to remember only a halfdozen. Focus on accounts that are really important: Bank accounts, of course. Shopping services with your credit card information stored. And don’t forget email. Who would want your mundane chatter? Well, email accounts are important because they are gate-

ways for resetting passwords for other services, such as your Amazon account to go on a shopping spree.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER ACCOUNTS? Maybe you don’t need to worry about a password for a discussion forum or a news site. Yes, there’s the embarrassment of someone posting on your behalf, but it’s not the same as stealing thousands of dollars.

Yet if it’s a discussion forum you value, and you’ve established a reputation under that identity, you might want to prioritize that, too. That thinking applies to social-media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter.

For the rest of your accounts, it’s not as bad to turn to a password manager, but it might not be necessary. Web browsers from Apple and Google have built-in mechanisms for storing frequently used passwords. You even have options to sync those online if you use multiple devices. Google’s new Smart Lock feature extends that to Android apps, too, so you’re not limited to Web browsing.

PHONES AND FINGERPRINTS If you haven’t protected your phone with a passcode, tsk tsk! Someone can easily swipe your phone and get to your email account to unlock all sorts of other accounts. Fortunately, the latest iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones have fingerprint IDs that make it easier to unlock phones. Instead of typing in the four-digit passcode each time, you can tap your finger on the home button.

DOUBLE SECURITY Major services including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox offer a second layer of authentication, typically in the form of a numeric code sent as a text message. After you enter your regular password, you type in the code you receive on your phone to verify that it’s really you. A hacker wouldn’t have access to your phone.

You need to go into the account settings to turn it on this feature, which goes by such names as twofactor authentication or two-step verification.

It’s a hassle, but it keeps your accounts safer. Just

assume that your password will get compromised at some point. This extra layer will keep the hacker from doing anything with it.

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LIFESTYLE

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Enabling siblings could become problem later Dear Annie: My father passed away financial enabling is a huge liability. many years ago and my mother remar- But a good work ethic and accountabilried and moved to a vacation home. ity need to be instilled when young.

However, she still owns the house we Your mother may consider these grew up in and two of my two children to be incapable siblings now live there for of working, and that her supfree. My sister is 60, and port is all that keeps them off my brother is 46. Neither the streets. She does it out of has worked for years. compassion and guilt.

I talk to my mother She isn’t asking us for adabout it all the time, tellvice, nor is she likely to take ing her she is not doing it, even if we point out the them any favors by allowproblems this will create ing this to go on. when she is no longer in the Can you tell her what picture. a horrible thing it is to Your mother should have enable two perfectly caa legal will to minimize dispable grown adults this putes about her property and MITCHELL way? money. & SUGAR My mother is 82. What It’s her decision, whether will they do when she is or not you agree. Your focus gone? I have two other should be on forgiving all of siblings and the three of them for what they are not, us don’t take advantage of our mother and then doing what you need to do this way. — Not Right in order to be sure that these siblings Dear Not: We agree that this type of don’t become too great a financial bur-

ANNIE ANNIE

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you been overworking and burning the midnight oil? Today’s stars favour taking time out to recharge your run-down batteries, as you Wednesday, July 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: contemplate your life and where you’re goDan Aykroyd, 63; Pamela Anderson, 48; ing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Being bored Alan Ruck, 59 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars is a big no-no, as you search for more adventure and meaning in your life. Others are lucky for love and money.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Avoid isolating will sit up and take notice of your views, so make sure you are saying someyourself from others. The thing worthwhile. next 12 months is the time SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): to contribute to making the Are you stuck in a stifling rut? world a better place. As you The focus is on your career today reach out to help others, your Scorpio and you’ll find a creative personal life will improve. and adventurous approach will ARIES (March 21-April get professional matters moving 19): Expect some interestin a positive new direction. ing insights today, especially SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. involving a relationship with 21): You’re in the mood for fun, a child, teenager or friend. adventure and excitement today It’s also a fabulous day to JOANNE Sagittarius, so do all you can stretch your creative wings in MADELEINE to shake up your usual routine. expansive new directions.

MOORE Study, reading, research and outTAURUS (April 20-May activities are also favoured.

20): Bulls are blessed today, SUN SIGNS doorCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. as Venus — your ruler — 19): Can you keep a secret Capand Jupiter hook up in your domestic zone. So it’s a fabulous time so- ricorn? You’re usually very discreet, but cialize with family members, or buy some- someone may try to persuade you to divulge information that’s best kept private. thing beautiful for your home.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Original Resist the urge to spill the beans with a thoughts and creative ideas could strike at smile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With any time so have your phone, tablet, laptop, pen and paper, or paint brushes within Venus and Jupiter joining up in your parteasy reach. No one does creative commu- nership zone, do all you can to bring more harmony into your close relationships. Sinnication better than you!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Give neg- gles — look for love with a lusty Libran or a ativity the flick today Crabs! Instead, tune sexy Sagittarian.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re into all the people and places that make you feel good about yourself. It’s also a keen to help others but don’t let them take fortuitous time to improve your financial advantage of your kind nature. Make sure it’s a two-way street. The stars also favour literacy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a deep socializing with work mates or professional breath and talk up your talents, as you contacts.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internapromote your accomplishments with confidence and plenty of chutzpah. If you don’t tionally syndicated astrologer and columbelieve in yourself; why should anyone nist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. else?

den on the rest of you.

Dear Annie: I would like to respond to “Pat,” who spends up to 12 hours a day helping her elderly mother at the nursing home and gets frustrated because other residents don’t receive as many visits from their family members.

My 82-year-old mother is in an assisted living residence in Florida. I am a young, widowed working mother, living 700 miles away.

I am also an only child. I do what I can for my mom, calling several times a week, sending cards, packages and flowers, and following up with the staff and her medical providers to ensure that she is well taken care of.

I visit when I can, but it is an expensive flight or a 13-hour drive. Of course I wish I could visit more, but that is not possible.

Suggesting that absent family members “don’t care” simplifies the reality for many of us. Not everyone has the luxury of time and proximity that Pat does, and she should consider herself

fortunate for her arrangement. — Sandwich Generation Dear Sandwich: You are obviously a caring child.

We don’t think “Pat” meant to castigate those relatives who cannot come more often, only those who could do so easily, but make no effort. And it’s not only children.

Anyone can visit a person in a nursing home or assisted living facility.

And parents who choose to retire and move far away from their family members should consider what’s down the road.

Happy Canada Day to all of our readers north of the border.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook. com/AskAnnies.

PAIR OF PELICANS

HOROSCOPES

Photo by RICK TALLAS/Freelance

American white pelicans feed from the water’s surface, dipping their beaks into the water to catch fish and other aquatic organisms. They often upend, like a very large dabbling duck, in this process. They do not plunge-dive the way brown pelicans do. They are superb soarers (they are among the heaviest flying birds in the world) and often travel long distances in large flocks by soaring. When flapping, their wingbeats are slow and methodical. These two were on the Red Deer River.

The mystery surrounding women with Alzheimer’s

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are women, and now some scientists are questioning the long-held assumption that it’s just because they tend to live longer than men.

What else may put woman at extra risk? Could it be genetics? Biological differences in how women age? Maybe even lifestyle factors?

Finding out might affect treatments or preventive care.

One worrisome hint is that research shows a notorious Alzheimer’s-related gene has a bigger impact on women than men.

“There are enough biological questions pointing to increased risk in women that we need to delve into that and find out why,” said Maria Carrillo, chief science officer for the Alzheimer’s Association.

Last month, the association brought 15 leading scientists together to ask what’s known about women’s risk. Later this summer, Carrillo said it plans to begin funding research to address some of the gaps.

“There is a lot that is not understood and not known. It’s time we did something about it,” she added.

A recent Alzheimer’s Association report estimates that at age 65, women have about a 1 in 6 chance of developing Alzheimer’s during the rest of their lives, compared with a 1 in 11 chance for men.

The tricky part is determining how much of the disparity is due to women’s longevity or other factors.

“It is true that age is the greatest risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease,” said University of Southern California professor Roberta Diaz Brinton, who presented data on gender differences at a meeting of the National Institutes of Health this year.

Amy Shives waters her flowers at her house, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Spokane, Wash. Shives was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2011 and has since been involved with the Alzheimer’s Association.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are women, and now some scientists are questioning the long-held assumption that it’s just because women tend to live longer than men.

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But, she said, “on average, women live four or five years longer than men, and we know that Alzheimer’s is a disease that starts 20 years before the diagnosis.”

That’s how early cellular damage can quietly begin.

Brinton researches if menopause can be a tipping point that leaves certain women vulnerable.

However it starts brewing, there’s some evidence that once Alzheimer’s is diagnosed, women may worsen faster; scans show more rapid shrinkage of certain brain areas.

But gene research offers the most startling evidence of a sex difference.

Stanford University researchers analyzed records of more than 8,000 people for a form of a gene named ApoE-4, long known to increase Alzheimer’s risk.

Women who carry a copy of that gene variant were about twice as likely to eventually develop Alzheimer’s as women without the gene, while men’s risk was only slightly increased, Stanford’s Dr. Michael Greicius reported last year.

It’s not clear why. It may be in how the gene interacts with estrogen, Brinton said.

Amy Shives, 57, of Spokane, Washington, recalls when her mother began showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s. But it wasn’t until after her own diagnosis

a few years ago that Shives looked up the gender statistics.

“That was alarming,” said Shives, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, which struck at a younger-thanusual age and forced her retirement as a college counsellor. “The impact on our lives and that of our families is extraordinary.”

She points to another disproportionate burden: About 60 per cent of caregivers for Alzheimer’s patients are women.

“My daughters are in their 20s and

I’m already ill,” Shives worries. “It’s very stressful for them to think about when their mother’s going to need their help.”

What drives the difference in Alzheimer’s cases isn’t clear, said Dr. Susan Resnick of the National Institutes of Health, pointing to conflicting research.

“We really have had a tough time understanding whether or not women really are more affected by the disease, or it’s just that they live longer,” Resnick said.

Data from the long-running Framingham, Massachusetts, health study suggests that because more men die from heart disease in middle age, those who survive past 65 may have healthier hearts that in turn provide some brain protection. Many of the same factors — obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes — that damage arteries also are Alzheimer’s risks.

What about hormones? That’s been hard to pin down. Years ago, a major study found that estrogen therapy after 65 might increase risk of dementia, although later research showed hormone replacement around the onset of menopause wasn’t a problem.

Brinton studies how menopause changes the brain. Estrogen helps regulate the brain’s metabolism, how it produces the energy for proper cognitive function, and it must switch to a less efficient backup method as estrogen plummets, she explained.

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SCIENTISTS QUESTION WHETHER LIFESPAN EXPLAINS WHY MORE WOMEN HAVE ALZHEIMER’S