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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Charges have been laid after a crime spree through western Alberta that included a burned pickup truck, rammed police cars, thefts, drugs and firearms.

Zane Curtis Bronson, 28, of no fixed address and Andrew William Rogers, 34, of Penhold face a combined 43 charges from the spree.

Bronson has court dates scheduled in provincial courts in Breton, Rimbey, Hinton, Mayerthorpe and Edmonton.

He will be in Breton provincial court today on charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, two counts of assault with a weapon, three counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000, possession of break-in instruments, driving while prohibited, resisting arrest, mischief and firearm related offences.

Bronson will be in Rimbey provincial court on Sept. 4 on two counts each of break and enter, possession of break-in instruments, having his face masked, mischief under $5,000 and one count each of theft of a motor vehicle, arson to a vehicle, mischief over $5,000, possession of a firearm while committing a dangerous offence and possession of a firearm dangerous to the public peace.

He will also be in Hinton provincial court on Aug. 19 on charges of administering a noxious thing, assault with a weapon, break and enter, theft of a motor vehicle and theft over $5,000.

Bronson will also appear in Mayerthorpe provincial court on Thursday and Edmonton provincial court on Aug. 17 on other outstanding warrants.

Rogers has only one upcoming court date, today in Breton provincial court on three counts of both firearm related offences and possession of stolen property under $5,000 and one count each of possession of break-in instruments and possession of stolen property over $5,000.

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Tom Cilli follows his son Devin through a turn at the Northlands Recreation Park in Red Deer, Tuesday. During the two races, Cilli Senior could just keep up to his son but spent very little time out front. He was the loser on both races, which he attributed to his cart having to carry more weight than his sons. Northlands Recreation Park, just west of Gaetz Avenue on Hwy 11A, features a golf driving range and the cart track. It is open for business 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, weather permitting.

Plains Midstream satisfying regulatory critics

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Nearly a year after being taken to task by the National Energy Board, the company responsible for a major oil spill on the Red Deer River appears to be satisfying its regulatory critics.

Plains Midstream Canada was criticized by the regulator last year for failing to adequately implement a corrective action plan ordered following a pair of high-profile spills, including the release of about 3,500 barrels of oil into the Red Deer River on June 7, 2012.

Another spill the previous April saw 28,000 spew from its Rainbow Pipeline northeast of Peace River.

A letter sent to Plains Midstream Canada president David Duckett posted on the NEB’s website last summer noted the “board is concerned with

Plains’ commitment and approach to compliance given the ongoing nature of the non-compliance.”

An order was issued last Jan. 13 requiring the company to conduct an independent third-party expert audit of its management system, environmental protection and integrity management programs.

NEB spokeswoman Katherine Murphy said in an emailed update recently that Plains “has met all of the filing deadlines as prescribed in the Conditions of the Order.”

The company was to have the name of the independent expert and the scope of the project submitted by Feb. 28.

By Nov. 30, the expert is required to submit its final report on the audit of Plains Midstream’s management system and environmental protection programs to the company and NEB. Plains must file a response to that report by

the end of the year.

The company also had to file its quality assurance program for board approval by the end of last April.

Another expert must be hired by the end of next February to audit the company’s Integrity Management Program.

A final report must be done by the end of November and a company response filed by the end of next year.

In the meantime, company officials are required to meet quarterly with NEB staff until the conditions of the order have been met.

Plains has also been satisfying the Alberta Energy Regulator, which had also pinpointed numerous shortcomings in company operations.

An Alberta Energy Regulator-ordered audit of Plains Midstream Canada found the company failed to fully meet 18 of 55 legislated requirements.

See PLAINS MIDSTREAM on Page A2

‘Boom-town theatre’ in Bashaw celebrating 100th anniversary

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF She’s not exactly a grand old dame, but Bashaw’s Majestic Theatre is almost certainly one of a kind.

The plain-Jane clapboard building, restored a decade ago, is turning 100 years old and has gained new life as a community hub for local theatre, music and dance.

The Majestic Theatre is believed to be the last remaining theatre of its kind in Western Canada. While many “grand” theatres with eye-catching artistic embellishments have been saved by communities across the country, Bashaw historian Diane Carl said she could find no other example of a humble, century-old “boom-town theatre” that was preserved for posterity.

It almost didn’t happen in Bashaw.

Although dignitaries, including Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell, will pay tribute to the building’s past at a 100th birthday celebration on Saturday, Aug. 22, the abandoned theatre was considered an eyesore not

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Dignitaries, including Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell, will pay tribute to the building’s past at a 100th birthday celebration on Saturday, Aug. 22. long ago.

With a crumbling stucco facade that had been applied sometime in the 1940s, the theatre renamed the Dixy, was set to be demolished in the 1990s — until a few local residents began calling for its preservation.

“The building wasn’t remarkable looking at all. People said, ‘Why would

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you want to preserve it? It’s ugly,’” recalled Diane Carl.

But she, along with fellow resident Mary Kinsella and others saw value in preserving what was once a big part of the community’s cultural life. “Women couldn’t go into bars at one time, but they could always go to the theatre. Everyone was welcome, women, children,

everyone,” said Carl.

In 1998, the Majestic Theatre Society purchased the building for a dollar from the municipality, and began fundraising. Restoration dollars were also sought from federal and provincial government. In the end, some $110,000 was raised for the project — which required a lot of work.

Not only did the wooden siding on the flat front wall of the structure have to be replaced because of deterioration behind the stucco, the whole building had to be moved six feet back from the sidewalk to comply with a new municipal setback bylaw.

Kinsella recalled it was “quite the thing” to transport the two-storey building back onto a new foundation.

“We had to do that while supporting the original floor and ... sides.”

Her brother, local commercial artist Ed McFadden, painted a large mural depicting the history of the town and the theatre, and it was affixed to the ceiling.

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Wright takes centre stage at Duffy trial The moment has arrived for Nigel Wright to fill in the blanks on his controversial dealings with Sen. Mike Duffy.

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Fire truck comes in over budget

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Wendy Fearon and her son, J.J., play with some blocks on the Alberta Prairie Classroom on Wheels, or C.O.W. Bus, in Sylvan Lake on Tuesday. The C.O.W. Bus with the Centre for Family Literacy is funded by Innovation and Advanced Education and tours the province visiting 100 communities annually. C.O.W. teamed up with the Lakeview Parent Link Centre in Sylvan Lake Tuesday and provided Parent Link with 50 books for the library in Sylvan Lake. ‘We had a parent workshop this morning‚‘ said Megan Petasky, Alberta Prairie C.O.W. co-ordinator. ‘The bus is set up as a drop-in classroom learning space for parents and caregivers to come with their children ages zero to six, and they are here to get new ideas and encouragement to go home and continue interacting with their kids.’

Blue-green algae health advisory issued for Pine Lake Alberta Health Services has issued a blue-green algae health advisory for Pine Lake.

The algae, which can cause a variety of health problems, has been identified in areas of the lake.

People who live near the shores of the lake or who are visiting it are advised to take precautions.

Avoid all contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms. If contact occurs, wash with tap water as soon as possible.

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CRIME: Loaded shotgun seized They were arrested on Aug. 6 near Breton, after a chase that started 35 km north of Rocky Mountain House.

The spree started early Aug. 6 morning in Rimbey when two men attempted to break into an ATM outside of the downtown Servus Credit Union at 4:20 a.m.

Rimbey RCMP were alerted of a break and enter at an Esso Gas station that was closed at 4:40 a.m.

Cash and cigarettes were stolen.

Just outside of Rimbey, police were told of a pickup truck on fire at 5 a.m. That truck was reported stolen earlier than evening and was believed to have been involved in the downtown incidents.

Just north of Rocky Mountain House at about 11:30 a.m., RCMP officers attempted to pull a vehicle over but the driver put his vehicle in reverse and rammed the police car.

One of the officers exited the police car and the suspect vehicle appeared to attempt to run the officer over. The officer was unharmed, and the suspect vehicle took off.

A pursuit lasted about 30 minutes. The two occupants of the suspect vehicle fled on foot but were arrested by the pursuing officers.

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Canada’s limping dollar will cost Sylvan Lake some big bucks.

Town council had to do some budget shuffling after the price of a new fire truck came in much higher than expected.

Council had budgeted $1.3 million for a new aerial truck this year, but the actual cost is expected to be closer to $1.7 million.

The cost of the truck was so high largely because both suitable manufacturers are U.S.-based and the exchange rate — 77 cents Canadian — is not favourable. In U.S. dollars, the aerial truck is expected to cost around $1.25 million, a price guaranteed until the end of the year.

To make up the shortfall, council will use some of the money made by selling its old fire hall. Council approved the sale of the station for $699,000 — the asking price — on Monday night.

Town communications officer Joanne Gaudet said staff considered deferring the purchase to next year in hope the exchange rate improves. However, the cost of fire trucks typically increases about 3.5 per cent a year, which made delaying risky.

“So we’re just going to continue to go forward, and we happened to have that facility for sale,” said Gaudet.

Council approved a motion to increase the capital budget to $1.7 million to cover the cost of the fire truck. The amount proposed to be borrowed was increased by $400,000, to $1.4 million, and $300,000 will come from reserves.

Given the 12-to-16-month build time, the new truck is expected to arrive in early 2017. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Do not swim or wade (or allow your pets to swim or wade) in any areas where blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) is visible.

Do not feed whole fish or fish trimmings from this lake to your pets.

Consider limiting human consumption of whole fish and fish trimmings from this lake, as it is known that fish may store toxins in their liver. People can safely consume fish fillets from the lake.

Areas of Pine Lake in which the blue-green algae bloom is not visible can still be used for recreational purposes, even while the advisory is in place.

Blue-green algae is naturally occurring and often become visible when weather conditions are calm.

It looks like scum, grass clippings, fuzz or globs on the surface of water. It can be blue-green, greenishbrown, brown, and/or pinkish-red. It often smells musty or grassy.

Symptoms of contact usually appear within one to three hours and can include skin irritation, rash, sore throat, sore red eyes, swollen lips, fever, nausea and vomiting and/or diarrhea.

Anyone who suspects a problem related to bluegreen algae or requires further information on health concerns and blue-green algae, is asked to call Health Link at 811. Additional information is also available online, at www.albertahealthservices. ca/bga.asp.

Police found a loaded long-barrelled shotgun, stolen property, more than $2,000 in cash, cartons of cigarettes and stolen identification documents including licence plates. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

cal theatre group, various plays, dinner theatre performances, dances and Christmas pageants.

What a wonderful way to make an early cultural landmark still relevant to the community, said Carl.

An open house celebration for the community will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 22, including historic presentations, a slide show, guest speakers and a cake cutting. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

MAJESTIC: Home to local theatre group Kinsella recalled some original decorative architectural elements, such as a Greek key design, were uncovered. And a stage was installed, since the Majestic Theatre was built in 1915 for live performances.

Vaudeville-style artists were initially hosted at the clapboard theatre, as well as magic lantern shows that projected moving images from slides.

(Magic lanterns were a precursor to film projectors.)

Soon it was screening silent movies and early talkies for enraptured audiences. The first known film to run there was More Deadly Than the Male (1919), starring Ethel Clayton, accompanied by a Mack Sennett comedy. The next week, The Last of the Mohicans was shown.

Although the building, which now has a historic designation, was converted to a more “modern” movie theatre in the 1940s and renamed the Dixy, it became a Catholic church at some point. The local joke is that this didn’t work out too well because it was too close to the bar.

Since the building’s restoration was completed in 2004, the Majestic Theatre has become home to a lo-

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PLAINS MIDSTREAM: Meeting obligations As well, the company only fully complied with 22 of 58 criteria based on benchmark practices or criteria developed through interpretation of regulations in the oil and gas industry, says the audit report released last September.

Despite that less-than-stellar record, AER auditors expressed confidence that the company was improving its operations.

Since then, the AER has been conducting semi-annual status checks with the company through direct meetings with officials, says regulator spokesman Riley Bender in a recent email.

“Plains staff have been co-operative and the company is meeting its obligations to update the AER,” says Bender.

“The AER is not planning an external report at this time, but plans to conduct a more formal followup review in late 2015.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Wildlife mitigation plan in the works SYNCRUDE FACES PROTECTION ORDER AFTER HERON DEATHS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — Oilsands giant Syncrude is facing an environmental protection order following the deaths of 30 great blue herons at one of its sites.

“It’s guidance to the company,” Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Bob Curran said Tuesday.

“We’re specifying what our expectations are, what information we expect the company to deliver and in what time frame.”

Syncrude revealed on the weekend that 29 carcasses from the large shorebirds were discovered last Friday near a pump house at an abandoned sump pond at the Mildred Lake mine site north of Fort McMurray. One additional bird was euthanized on the order of Alberta Fish and Wildlife.

Although bird deterrents were working elsewhere on the mine site, Syncrude spokesman Will Gibson acknowledged Tuesday that no such equipment was in operation at the sump.

“We didn’t have any deterrents in the area at the time,” he said. “We typically put deterrents around our tailings facility.”

Since the discovery, Syncrude has installed fencing, sound cannons and bird-scaring statues, in-

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Three parties have candidates for byelection in former premier’s riding CALGARY — Three parties have chosen their candidate to run in the provincial riding of Calgary Foothills.

The Alberta Party chose Mark Taylor, an oil and gas drilling engineer.

Businessman Blair Houston is running for the Progressive Conservatives.

Premier Rachel Notley called the byelection for Sept. 3 in the riding that was held by former premier Jim Prentice.

Prentice won his seat in the May 5 provincial election, but resigned when Notley’s NDP won a huge majority.

Former Calgary councillor and MLA Bob Hawkesworth has already been given the nod for the NDP. The Wildrose is picking its candidate Tuesday night.

Mounties discover body after report of shooting CONKLIN — A man is dead after a shooting at a home in northern Alberta.

Wood Buffalo RCMP say officers found the man’s body around 2:00 a.m. today when they responded to a call about gunfire at a home in Conklin.

An autopsy is pending, and Mounties have brought in their major crimes unit to investigate.

No one has been arrested and the man’s name has not been released.

Conklin is about 350 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

Underground explosion cuts power to parts of Edmonton EDMONTON — An underground explosion has left parts of downtown Edmonton without power.

Animal centre investigating after dog with casts on legs found abandoned on road CALGARY — An animal rescue centre is hoping to find answers after a dog with two casts on its front legs was left with a bag of food by the side of the road in southern Alberta.

Rory O’Neill, a behaviourist with Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue, says she’s worked for the rescue centre for 15 years, but has never seen such a case.

She says the dog, which had no identification, was found by a man from Morley, Alta., on Sunday.

O’Neill thinks the dog is about 18 months old and may be at least part poodle.

She says the casts looked like the work of a professional vet, and is hoping whoever worked on the dog may come forward with more information.

She says people at the rescue centre suspect the dog may have been abandoned by a backyard breeder “because they don’t make any money off of dogs that have been injured to this degree.”

The dog has been dubbed “Afro Man” because of his long, curly black hair and is currently at a foster home near Canmore, Alta.

O’Neill says he has an x-ray appointment in Calgary on Tuesday, and then he’ll be neutered and given up-to-date shots before being put up for adoption.

“He’s super sweet, affectionate, he wants to be with people,” she says.

Alberta man sentenced to 40 years in Puerto Rico for production of child porn SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Canadian man has been sentenced in Puerto Rico to 40 years in prison for possession and production of child pornography.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Denis Victor Courchesne of Fort McMurray, Alta., was sentenced Tuesday in the U.S. Caribbean territory.

He was arrested last year at the island’s main airport when U.S. customs officers found images of child pornography on his laptop computer and an external hard drive.

The 46-year-old Canadian had just arrived on a flight from Panama.

In an affidavit, U.S. agents alleged Courchesne told them he was sexually attracted to prepubescent girls.

Investigators said he downloaded hundreds of child pornography images

as a paid subscriber to an online group and also produced unlawful images with his cellular phone.

Heat, low water levels result in fishing ban CALGARY — A lazy afternoon of angling along Calgary’s rivers could mean a fine.

Hot weather and low water levels have prompted a fishing ban on a number of southern Alberta rivers and streams.

The ban includes the Elbow River from the Glenmore Reservoir to the Bow River confluence.

Lisa Glover with Alberta Environment, says the ban is in place to protect the fish population.

All research licences issued in the affected waterways have also been temporarily suspended.

Glover says when the watertemperature rises, there’s less oxygen available for the fish, which increases stress and the risk of mortality.

The other rivers closed to fishing until further notice are:

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Holly Budd of Edmonton Fire and Rescue says there was work being done underground earlier in the evening when an explosion occurred and some gas was released on Monday night about 7:40 p.m.

She says a hazardous materials team was dispatched to monitor air quality and no problems were found.

There were also social media reports of man-hole covers having been blown off.

Tim LeRiche of Epcor, the cityowned power utility, says fire crews have cleared the underground vaults and Epcor crews are working on repairs.

LeRiche says the power outage affected nearly 1,000 customers in the downtown area.

cluding a robotic falcon. Human observers are also stationed at the site around the clock.

Gibson was unable to say if similar measures have been installed at any of Syncrude’s other sumps.

“We want to find out what attracted (the birds) there. I don’t want to speculate about whether we have a similar set of circumstances at other sumps in our operation.”

Curran said an investigation is to determine if Syncrude was following all rules regarding wildlife.

“We need to determine the cause of death of those birds, because we don’t know what it is.”

Meanwhile, the company is obliged to collect samples from the site for analysis, develop a plan to clean it up and publish daily reports on its progress.

Some of that work has already begun, Curran said.

“They would be collecting the water and soil samples. They’ve already begun work on the wildlife mitigation plan. They’ve put some measures in place to ensure that other animals don’t come in contact with the place where the heron deaths occurred.”

Gibson said Syncrude is still trying to find out what was in that particular sump.

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Ignoring a simple solution IN A FENTANYL CRISIS, HARM REDUCTION NEEDS TO BECOME AN ELECTION ISSUE There’s no such thing as a “normal” day in Vancouver’s drug scene, but last Sunday must have broken all records for abnormality. In that one day, there were 16 potentially lethal overdoses — at least those that made it into the official record. In one hour alone, there were six.

The drug involved? It was a pink concoction of heroin, mixed with fentanyl.

Fentanyl is deadly — it’s a painkiller hunGREG dreds of times NEIMAN more powerful than heroin and 80 times more powerful than Oxycontin, which is sold on the streets in fake form as green pills that contain fentanyl.

You can buy them in Red Deer, if you know the right (wrong) people. And we know that at least six people in Red Deer have been killed by fentanyl — or their drug dealer, depending on how you look at things.

The line between getting high on fentanyl and being dead on fentanyl is extremely narrow. But it is cheap for drug cartels to buy in bulk overseas, easy to mix with other substances, and to press into pills and distribute.

An overdose is easy to spot and easy

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to treat, if someone calls for help in time. A drug called Naloxone, sold as Narcan, can be injected and within minutes it binds to the gateway cells in the brain than take in opiates, blocking opiates from having any effect.

In the case of a fentanyl overdose, blocking the effect means the drug user continues to breathe and continues to have a heartbeat. Pretty simple.

The federal government continues to oppose at every opportunity community efforts to reduce the harm of drug addiction and to save the lives of people who have overdosed. Right up to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously that Vancouver’s safe injection program, Insite, must be afforded exemption from drug enforcement laws in order to operate.

As a result, although people do overdose on their illegal drugs at Insite, thus far, none of them has died from it. That’s a pretty amazing accomplishment.

Canada, it seems, is one of the top countries in the world for opiate abuse. And with the arrival of fentanyl in bulk on our shores over the past couple of years, B.C. has experienced overdose deaths at a rate of about two deaths every three days. In Alberta, the overdose rate in 2014 was reported at roughly one every three days.

An overdose from fentanyl is easily treated with Narcan at a harm reduction site.

Many would think these deaths are among street-level addicts. As if that makes it easy for us to look the other way. The experts who follow this are

quick to point out that this is not the real picture.

Regular middle class teens, well rounded kids with a great future, go to a party and are given a green pill they believe is Oxycontin. Jack Bodie, 17, died from that mistake.

Amelia and Hardy Leighton, caring parents of a two-year-old, thought they’d inhale a recreational drug one evening. Not a good couple activity; it was fentanyl, and they died.

Some 11,600 tabs of fentanyl were reported seized in a police raid in Calgary earlier this year. You can safely bet a portion of them were bound for sale in Red Deer. Forty tabs were seized in Lacombe not too long ago.

Each one could be a potential death.

The staff at Insite in Vancouver describe it this way. Fentanyl is bought as a bulk powder by drug gangs, and mixed down with other stuff in a bathtub and the appropriate green or red dye is added. It is then pressed into pills and sold.

Each pill is like a chocolate chip cookie. Some cookies have lots of chocolate (fentanyl) chips in them, some have just a few. Pick the wrong cookie and you die.

Jennifer Vanderschaege, executive director of the AIDS network in Red Deer, said in an interview earlier this year that a big barrier to people reporting a friend’s overdose is fear of exposure, and fear of legal reprisal. This is highly illegal activity we’re talking about here, after all.

She’d like to see a law in the books like a Good Samaritan law, where peo-

ple could call authorities and save a friend’s life without having to fear exposure or reprisal.

Adrienne Smith of Pivot Legal Services in Vancouver would like to see the complete repeal of Bill C-2, the federal Respect for Communities Act. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that Insite saves lives and should therefore get its legal exemption to operate.

The feds came out with Bill C-2 and said, basically: Sure, we’ll give you your exemption, but you have to reapply for it every year, and every year anyone in the community and in law enforcement can come out and speak against it during a rigorous review process.

Insite still operates precariously under Bill C-2, but the review process bar is so high, it’s highly unlikely any other city could get a life-saving site like Insite. This, during a poisonous fentanyl crisis that kills people across the country every day.

Even in the unlikely event the Conservatives are defeated in the Oct. 19 election, a new federal health minister cannot issue another licence for a safe injection site, until Bill C-2 is repealed. The legal process just prohibits doing that.

Probably, some time or other in this long election campaign, someone will bring this to greater public attention.

Saving lives should matter, during an election.

Neiman is a retired Advocate editor.

See his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot. ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fair Elections Act an affront to our democracy “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the last century, how many Canadians have fought, were injured or were killed, defending democracy and our right to vote for a democraticallyelected government?

In the last few years, how many people around the world have suffered, were tortured, and faced death so they can vote for a democratically-elected government?

How many dictatorships were installed by the free will of the people? Dictatorships do not happen overnight, it takes time and incremental steps and often a military coup helps, to suppress the rights of the people.

It has been said it arises when good people do nothing when bad people do evil. Will the good people stand idly by while their rights under the constitution are eroded by politicians in their quest for power or continuance in power?

The recent Fair Elections Act is a subterfuge of an act. It uses the pretense of good to do extreme bad, to help ensure the re-election of a government.

If you cannot grow support among the people, you try to ensure that those who are most likely to oppose cannot vote. Profiling at its worse.

Some good people are not standing idly by while this evil is being imposed, but it will take more good people to help the upcoming victims.

Ontario Superior Court Justice David Stinson refused recently to suspend new voting rules for the October election means some Canadians will be turned away at the polls. Voters will have to abide by stricter rules to prove their identification, and some will find that difficult to do. The Superior Court judge stated that some voters will suffer “Irreparable harm.” The decision by Stinson not to suspend the new ID rules for the coming election means the federal government has a lot of work to do to make voters aware it’ll be harder to vote, so that they make sure they carry the right documents to the polls with them.

The new act denies Canadians of the ability to use as ID the voter-identification card Elections Canada sends out. And voters who have a tougher time proving their address — for example, First Nations people or students — will not be able to ask another voter to simply vouch for them. About 400,000 voters in the 2011 election used vouching. Though potential voters can attest to their address by signing an oath, and if they can get a valid voter to do the same, they’ll be given a ballot.

Making voting complicated to fix a problem that many people including chief electoral officers, say never existed is the Canadian government attempt at voter suppression. Voter turnout is decreasing, and many people do not see the importance of voting.

That’s why the Council of Canadians, students and others are challenging the constitutionality of many elements of the Fair Elections Act. That case is slowly making its way through the justice system, but in the meantime, they asked the Ontario court to suspend the ID rules for the October election.

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Indeed, the biggest voting scandal was the use of robocalls — automated calling services political parties use to contact voters. The 2011 election became famous for “Robocalls” that told voters to go to the wrong poll. It was reported in many ridings but charges were laid only in one. Michael Sona, a former Conservative staffer convicted in the 2011 robocalls scandal, was sentenced to nine months behind bars and one year’s probation for what Justice Gary Hearn called “an affront to the electoral process.”

Interfering with a citizen’s right to vote merits real jail time, an Ontario judge declared when he made Sona the first person to spend time behind bars for violating the Canada Elections Act. The robocall affair made the case for some necessary changes to the Elections Act — the rules around automated calling of voters mean parties will have to keep better records when they use such services — but this government went too far.

It has been shown repeatedly that investigations into complaints and allegations of tampering were hampered because the commissioner of elections cannot compel people to answer questions in those investigations. The robocall matter was a prime example of this, as it dragged on, unnecessarily, because many in the federal Conservative party refused to co-operate.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused to give the commissioner these powers, despite the fact the provincial counterparts have them at their disposal.

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Billy McNeely has said that he went to the health centre in Fort Good Hope in 2010 after an arm-wrestling contest

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NDP leader Tom Mulcair cuts wood during an election campaign stop at a prefabricated home factory in Mascouche, Que., Tuesday. come addicted,” and there is a decline in health outcomes, Harper said.

“We just think that’s the wrong direction for society and I don’t think that’s the way most Canadians want to deal with this particular problem.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, however, was more interested in Harper’s travel itinerary, in particular the fact he was getting as geographically far away from at a house party led to a fight with another man. McNeely was stabbed five times. Staff stitched him up and sent him home, he said, but he returned to the health centre and later visited the Yellowknife hospital with pain.

Nothing was found.

“I always had back pains. There was always a burning feeling with it,” said McNeely, who added that he also mysteriously set off metal detectors.

In 2013, after he woke up in bed to find something poking out of his back, doctors dug out a blade measuring seven centimetres long.

The lawsuit, filed in April 2014, names the Sahtu Health and Social Services Authority, the Stanton Territorial Health Authority, four doctors and two unknown nurses.

Ottawa as possible.

“I do find it interesting that Mr. Harper has decided to try to hide out in the North Pole during the Mike Duffy trial this week,” Mulcair said.

“On a whole series of subjects, Mr. Harper has said one thing and its opposite in the Mike Duffy affair. You can’t say one thing and then its opposite and have them both be true. A lot

of that is going to be catching up with Mr. Harper this week. He can run but he can’t hide.”

Mulcair later confirmed he would participate in a bilingual Munk Debate on foreign affairs, after having said he would only be there if Harper was and if there would be an equal number of debates in both official languages.

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The Liberal leader vowed to clean up the prime minister’s “mess,” accusing Harper of leading the “most secretive, divisive and hyper-partisan government in Canada’s history.”

That mess, of course, is the Senate, and in particular Duffy’s trial, which was scheduled to enter its most explosive phase Wednesday with none other than Nigel Wright, Harper’s former chief of staff, as the first witness.

Wright, Harper’s former chief of staff, is the man who provided Duffy with $90,000 of his own money to repay his disallowed housing and travel expenses. The former Conservative senator has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges including fraud, bribery and breach of trust.

Trudeau, determined to keep the Conservative scandal top of mind for Canadians, spoke Tuesday of transparency, saying it would be a fundamental principle in a Liberal government.

He also promised to bring in a merit-based appointment process to the Senate.

Harper, meanwhile, tried to avoid being drawn back into the Duffy fray with yet another policy announcement — his fifth with the 11-week campaign still in its infancy — before travelling to B.C. and later northern Canada.

Harper promised a 20-per-cent increase in funding — to almost $27 million a year — to help the RCMP target marijuana grow-ops and meth labs and another $500,000 a year over four years on a national toll-free hotline for parents to get information about drug use among the country’s youth.

And he took the opportunity to score some points on Trudeau, who has already pledged his support for legalizing marijuana.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The moment has arrived for Nigel Wright to fill in the blanks on his controversial dealings with Sen. Mike Duffy, but the prime minister’s former chief of staff won’t be the only one with fresh details this week.

With Wright beginning his testimony Wednesday at Duffy’s fraud, breach of trust and bribery trial, the defence team is expected to soon release hundreds of internal emails exchanged with Stephen Harper’s key people.

Back on the first day of the trial in April, defence lawyer Donald Bayne threw that thick binder of evidence down on a courtroom table with a loud thump — a teaser of things to come.

The full transcript of Wright’s 2013 interview with police has also yet to be seen publicly.

Wright arrived Saturday in Ottawa from London, where he is a managing director with Onex Corp. A source close to Wright said the former chief of staff is ready for a full airing of the circumstances around his secret $90,000 payment of Duffy’s improper living and travel expenses in 2013.

Wright takes his duty to the trial process seriously, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.

Wright’s mere presence at the trial, combined with the new exhibits, will breathe new life into a scandal that embroiled a number of people close to Harper — as well as some of his top Senate appointees — smack in the middle of an election campaign.

Harper has maintained he knew nothing about Wright’s payment before it emerged in the media. But the scandal has also revolved around the political culture inside Harper’s office and the efforts of his staff to make Duffy’s expense controversy go away.

The Conservatives can at least count on the fact that Wright’s previous statements to police suggest his main frustrations, even anger, were with Duffy.

And Wright is still embraced inside Conservative circles — he was the guest of honour at a dinner held at the residence of the Commons Speaker a year ago that included the current campaign chairman, Guy Giorno.

When police declared in April 2014 that Wright would not face charges, he continued to insist — as he always has — that he was acting out of the best of

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Nigel Wright, right, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, begins his testimony today at Mike Duffy’s fraud, breach of trust and bribery trial. intentions.

“I believed that my actions were always in the public interest and lawful,” he said in a statement at the time.

“The outcome of the RCMP’s detailed and thorough investigation has now upheld my position.”

Wright told police during an interview two years ago that he was incensed that Duffy “was getting paid for meals he ate in his own house in Ottawa,” according to the RCMP account.

“Because of his personal beliefs and financial ability, he took the personal decision at the time to pay back the $90,000,” reads the police account.

“He did not view it as something out of the norm for him to do, and was part of being a good person.”

Wright added that he also repaid because he felt Duffy “may have a technical argument as to whether he could claim living expenses.”

That argument is central to Duffy’s case on several other charges. Duffy filed for expenses on the basis that he was travelling and living away from his “principal” residence in Prince Edward Island, even though he lived most of the time in Ottawa. He maintains he operated within the Senate rules — and balked at Wright’s attempts in early 2013 to have him repay expenses.

The Crown has made the case that it was Duffy who was an “equal partner”

F-35 falling short of expectations: analysis than 650 jets will be flying worldwide.”

While the defence giant may see the project in a different light, Orne’s email didn’t address the specific issue of the comparison between the F-35 and legacy jets.

The Harper government put its purchase of 65 F-35s on hold after being accused by the auditor general of fudging the price tag and not doing sufficient research. It plans to extend the life of the CF-18s to 2025.

The planned RCAF purchase, which would have cost taxpayers an estimated $44 billion over its four-decade lifetime, was a prominent feature of the last election campaign in 2011, but since the auditor general’s report it has slipped off the public radar as the bureaucracy has buried it in studies, analyses and process.

Some defence observers and commentators have suggested the plan to refurbish the 1980s-era CF-18s has effectively neutralized the politically damaging issue, at least until the Oct. 19 vote.

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or “instigator” of a scheme that would see someone else repay the money, while he told the world he had.

Duffy’s defence is that it was the other way around — Duffy was coerced into admitting that he had improperly collected expenses, even though he firmly believed he had done nothing wrong. Bayne has called it the “mistake-repay scenario.”

Ironically, both Wright and Duffy might be looking forward to having more details on the table — to date, the media have only been able to see the information the RCMP chose to edit and release when building their case.

Wright’s 2010 testimony to a parliamentary committee might offer some clues as to how he’ll approach his testimony.

At the time, Wright had just been named Harper’s new chief of staff, and he was putting his lucrative work at Onex on hold. Opposition MPs grilled him on how he would be able to maintain an “ethical wall” between his corporate work and the decisions he would be dealing with inside the PMO. Wright declared the meeting a “good conversation,” and answered even the most accusatory questions calmly. He said his first loyalty was to the “law of the land,” and he noted how important his reputation was to him.

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OTTAWA — A U.S. defence and HALIFAX — A judge has adjourned foreign affairs think-tank released a a hearing until Wednesday for three comprehensive report Tuesday sugof four British sailors who are seeking gesting the oft-maligned F-35 jet might a change in their bail conditions after not meet the performance standards being charged with sexually assaulting of existing fighter planes, including a woman in Halifax.

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The men want to return to the UnitThe National Security Network, a ed Kingdom pending a preliminary non-profit foreign policy group based inquiry scheduled for five days next in Washington, D.C., is the latest orgaApril in Halifax provincial court. nization to raise questions about the Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow, stealth fighter program, which is over Craig Stoner and Darren Smalley were budget and behind schedule in the in Nova Scotia to play in a hockey U.S. tournament with local Armed Forces Other organizations, including the personnel when they were arrested in Rand Corp., have studied the troubled April. program, but much of the analysis has But Crown attorney Scott Morrison revolved around the enormous cost said outside court he has concerns and some of the technical snags, such about allowing the men to leave Canas software, that have held up develada. opment. There have also been simulaThe Crown alleges the members tions that have compared the F-35 to of the Royal Navy participated in a potential competitors. “group sexual assault” on April 10 inOne of the key features of the latside a barracks at CFB Shearwater, a est report is its comparison of F-35 operational capabilities with the jets it is intended to replace, including the F-16, F-18 and A-10. In each case, the stealth fighter comes up short.

The group urges the Obama administration to do a “serious” reassessment of the program and determine whether there are alternatives available.

“Whether this opportunity to seriously reassess DOD’s commitment to the F-35 will be seized remains to be seen,” the report said. “But, by staying fully committed to the F-35 program, the United States is investing unprecedented resources in the wrong aircraft, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.”

A spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin, the plane’s U.S. manufacWhether you’re saving for a down payment on a home or for your retirement, turer, defended the project, saying the Pentagon’s advice from Scotiabank can help you achieve your financial goals. head of the program has stated there are no “show Receive a customized plan or get a second opinion on an existing financial plan. stopper” technical issues that prevent the warplane from being fielded.

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OTTAWA — Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff and the man who provided Mike Duffy with $90,000 to repay his disallowed expenses, takes the witness stand Wednesday at the embattled senator’s trial. Here are five things to keep in mind going in: 1. The three charges Duffy faces related to the famous $90,000 payment. Duffy faces three charges related to the $90,000 payment: fraud on the government, bribery and breach of trust. Peter Sankoff, a law professor at the University of Alberta, says those three charges in particular are going to be very difficult for the Crown to substantiate. Sankoff says the three charges also depend on legal factors that have nothing to do with Stephen Harper, which is why the prime minister has not been called to testify.

2. How the trial will play on the campaign trail. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is expected to be in northern Canada this week as his former chief of staff takes the stand.

His critics, in particular NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, have accused him of trying to escape the media scrutiny that will come with the trial — difficult, to say the least, considering the fact he has journalists travelling with him, all of them with Internet access. Wright’s testimony also provides the NDP and Liberals with an opportunity to raise additional questions about what was happening inside the Prime Minister’s Office under Harper’s watch.

3. Wright was never charged by the RCMP. In 2013, court documents filed during the RCMP investigation, investigators lumped Wright and Duffy together in their allegations of “bribery, frauds on the government and breach of trust.” In April 2014, however, police said they had no evidence to support charges against Wright. “My intention was to secure the repayment of taxpayer funds,” the former chief of staff said in a statement at the time. “I believed that my actions were always in the public interest and lawful. The outcome of the RCMP’s detailed and thorough investigation has now upheld my position.”

Halifax military base.

All but Smalley have applied for changes to their bail conditions to allow them to return to the U.K. None of the allegations against the four men has been proven in court.

Lindhout helps girl who survived brutal attack WINNIPEG — A freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Somalia has joined the growing list of Canadians stepping forward to help out a Manitoba girl who survived a vicious attack of her own.

Amanda Lindhout issued a plea on Facebook recently asking for donations of Air Miles to help Rinelle Harper and her mother get to St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia to meet with officials about the possibility of a scholarship.

The teenager was left to die beside a river in Winnipeg after a brutal assault last year, but survived and continues to recover, occasionally speaking out publicly about her ordeal.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — The return of an armed militia group patrolling the streets of Ferguson drew criticism Tuesday from both protesters and the county police chief overseeing security amid ongoing demonstrations marking the anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown’s shooting death.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the overnight presence of the Oath Keepers, wearing camouflage bulletproof vests and openly carrying rifles and pistols on West Florissant Avenue, the hub of marches and protests for the past several days, was “both unnecessary and inflammatory.”

The St. Louis suburb was the focus of months of massive protests and sometimes violent unrest last summer after the killing of Brown by a white Ferguson police officer, which sparked a nationwide protest movement and a fierce debate over how police treat minorities.

Belmar plans to ask county prosecutor Bob McCulloch about the legality of armed patrols by the far-right anti-government activist group, which largely comprises past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers. But Missouri law allows anyone with a concealed carry permit to openly display a firearm anywhere in the state.

John Karriman, a representative of the group who has taught at the Missouri Southern State University police academy and ran unsuccessfully as a Libertarian Party candidate for county sheriff in southwest Missouri, did not immediately respond to a cellphone message seeking comment. The group’s membership co-ordinator referred an inquiry to founder Stewart Rhodes, who studied constitutional law at Yale University.

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Heavily armed civilians with a group known as the Oath Keepers arrive in Ferguson, Mo., early Tuesday.

FERGUSON Oath Keepers previously showed up in Ferguson in November after a grand jury declined to indict former Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s death, saying they stationed

The sultan of slurs DONALD TRUMP EXPLAINS HIS PASSION FOR PUTDOWNS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Anyone now professing shock over the symphony of personal slurs from Donald Trump clearly wasn’t listening to him before he became a presidential candidate.

For more than a quarter-century, he’s chronicled in exhaustive detail his passion for put-downs. He’s written, granted interviews, and tweeted repeatedly about the value of vengeance.

That value system doesn’t abide turning the other cheek. Rather, it responds to every ounce of criticism with a multi-tonne, Mack truck of ad-hominem degradation.

He even titled an entire book chapter, Revenge.

His current political targets, John McCain, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Carly Fiorina, and Fox News personality Megyn Kelly, will recognize the modus operandi spelled out in that old book chapter. ”I tell people, ‘Get even!’ This is not your typical advice, get even, but this is real-life advice,” he wrote in Think BIG And Kick Ass In Business And Life. ”If you don’t get even, you are just a schmuck!”

He starts the chapter by describing his well-documented feud with actress Rosie O’Donnell, and how he silenced her criticism with insults — crude ones referring to her weight and physical appearance and with a cruel suggestion for how she might treat her depression: stop looking in the mirror.

Some of those insults resurfaced last week in the Republican debate, when Fox moderators read them out.

That prompted Trump to attack the moderators, and he made an apparent menstruation joke about Kelly.

The outrage was instantaneous.

Trump was disinvited from an event — he responded, of course, by insulting the event host, calling him a ”loser” in a press release. Rival candidates said he’d finally gone too far — so he countered by declaring that one of them, Fiorina, the race’s only woman, could induce a headache with the sound of her voice.

Once again, pundits began writing his political obituary, just as they did when he attacked McCain’s war record

themselves along several downtown rooftops to protect businesses from rioting and looters.

County police ordered them to leave then, but group members intermittently returned. About a half-dozen Oath Keepers, all of whom appeared to be white, interacted freely with police late Monday and early Tuesday but

endured catcalls and jeers from demonstrators.

Protest organizer Nabeehah Azeez called the presence of the armed men “a contradiction in how things work.”

“The rules don’t apply to everyone,” she said. “If those were black men walking around with rifles, they probably wouldn’t be living today.”

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The Fukushima disaster displaced more than 100,000 people due to radioactive contamination and spurred a national debate over this resourcescarce country’s reliance on nuclear power.

A majority of Japanese oppose the return to nuclear energy. Dozens of protesters, including ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who was in office at the time of the disaster and has become an outspoken critic of nuclear power, were gathered outside the plant as police stood guard.

“Accidents are unpredictable, that’s why they happen. And certainly not all the necessary precautions for such accidents have been taken here,” Kan shouted to the crowd of about 300 people.

BRIEF Japan restarts reactor after break from nuclear power TOKYO — A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster.

Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it had restarted the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant as planned. The restart marks Japan’s return to nuclear energy four-and-halfyears after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan following an earthquake and tsunami.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responds to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s closing remarks during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 in Cleveland. and then when he publicly released Graham’s cellphone number.

One fumed that politics is the art of adding support, not of antagonizing everybody in sight: ”I think that reaction will be quite widespread, and will be quite damaging,” Fox’s Brit Hume predicted after the attack on McCain.

He’s been wrong so far.

Trump’s still in first place in the Republican field. But Hume might ultimately be proven right, since poll numbers suggest the growth potential of Trump’s campaign is limited by the even larger number of voters who dislike him.

In the meantime, don’t expect him to change.

His aversion to forgiveness is deeply ingrained. His words in a 25-year-old interview with Playboy magazine are a near-verbatim replica of what he’s told political talk shows in recent days. ”When somebody tries to suckerpunch me, when they’re after (me), I push back a hell of a lot harder than I was pushed in the first place,” he told the magazine 25 years ago.

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‘We need your business in Sylvan Lake’ RETAIL GAP ANALYSIS SHOWS ROOM TO GROW FOR BUSINESSES THAT CATER TO LOCALS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A retail gap analysis suggests Sylvan Lake should lure more restaurants, family entertainment and personal services businesses.

Town council got its first look at the first phase of the analysis by consultants MXD Development Strategists on Monday.

It’s take on Sylvan Lake is that it has a healthy retail mix but there is room to grow, particularly in areas that cater to local residents such as groceries and personal services, which covers everything from banks, specialty grocers, dry cleaners, shoe repair and cellphone dealers, to hair salons.

There is also room for clothing, home furnishings and accessories.

Vicki Kurz, the town’s economic development officer, said the gap analysis provides important support when she attends events such as the International Council of Shopping Centres annual meeting, scheduled for Whistler, B.C., in January.

The event draws the whole gamut of retailers, franchises and hotel chains, as well as developers and economic development officials.

“What this (analysis) does is provide me with the tools to go to that event and say, ‘Look, we need your business in Sylvan Lake,’” said Kurz.

Site selectors for retailers and other businesses are regularly scouting Sylvan Lake and the analysis is useful information for them.

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Residential construction continues on the south east side of Sylvan Lake with the ongoing development of The Vista at Ryders Ridge. A recent retail gap analysis suggests Sylvan Lake is in need of more restaurants, family entertainment and personal services businesses.

While Sylvan Lake’s proximity to Red Deer imposes some limitations on retail prospects, as does the community’s size, there are plenty of regional and national retailers that could be attracted. Among those suggested are

popular fast food restaurants such as Wendy’s, family dining spots such as Montana’s Cookhouse or East Side Mario’s, and grocers such as Loblaws or Save On Foods. Shaw, Rogers, Hakim Optical are others suggested as exam-

ples of potential targets.

Kurz said the analysis will be used to develop the next phase of the project, a strategy to specifically target certain retail segments that are underserved.

“In order to keep the shopping here and local, and convenient for the residents, those places need to be located here.

“It’s about meeting the immediate needs of residents and reducing that leakage.”

According to the town’s recent census, 75 per cent of residents shop in town.

Consultants recommend the town promote more retail development at its west end, where plenty of residential growth is happening.

The town is also encouraged to move away from big box retail power centres towards small neighbourhood retail “villages.”

Short- and long-term strategies should be developed for town’s popular waterfront district to turn it into a year-round destination and boost its appeal to potential retailers.

Consultants identified several prime sites for future retail. Community retail sites are suggested at Hwy 20 and Memorial Trail, highway commercial along Hwy 11 east of 60th Street and a big box retail site could go east of Hwy 20 north of the existing Wal-Mart and Canadian Tire stores. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

United Church to drop fossil fuels from investments

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A wind turbine is framed by a sun dog, an atmospheric phenomenon, on Dalhousie Mountain, N.S., on Friday, April 23, 2010. From megawatts to the size of rotors, everything about wind turbines has been getting bigger.

Wind turbines reach new heights

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — From megawatts to the size of rotors, everything about wind turbines has been getting bigger.

But even proponents of wind power say they may be reaching a limit as logistics and a lack of social acceptance over their size start to hinder growth.

San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group Inc recently announced it will be installing 61 GE turbines at its Meikle wind project in British Columbia capable of generating between 2.75 and 3.2 megawatts of power. At 180 megawatts, Meikle will be the largest wind project in the province.

The 2.75-megawatt turbine rots will be nearly 60 metres long, while the tower to hold the rotors will stand at 110 metres. That means the tip of the blades will reach 170 metres high, or a little taller than the tower on Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. GE says they’re the biggest publicly planned wind turbines in the country.

These latest turbines dwarf those of 30 years ago, when the average turbine had a diameter of 15 metres and pumped out all of 50 kilowatts.

Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said this evolution in size has been critical for the industry’s growth because it allows for more energy to be captured more efficiently.

“Generally, the further off the ground you get, the better the quality of the wind resource. It’s more consistent, it’s often stronger, which means there’s more energy to capture out of the wind.”

He said because wind turbines have become more productive, they can also

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“We’re now able to build productive wind turbines in areas where 10 to 15 years ago you never would have been able to do because you never would have been able to capture enough energy to make it worthwhile.”

While the sheer size of the newest turbines are the most noticeable advancement, Hornung said every aspect of the technology has been improving, including rotor shape, the use of carbon fibre for lighter blades, and the ability to rotate the blades automatically to capture as much wind as possible. That kind of progress has helped make wind the most installed form of energy in Canada in the past five years and driven the cost of constructing wind turbines down by 50 to 60 per cent, said Hornung.

Ward Marshall, director of business development at Pattern Energy, said equipment and computer modelling to optimize the use of that equipment have led to dramatic improvements in performance.

“You have the ability to get all the oink out of the pig,” said Marshall.

But while the latest turbines will allow Pattern to capture more energy, Marshall thinks they may be reaching a limit.

“There’s always this issue of how big is too big.”

The logistics of actually getting massive turbines to site are getting more complicated, especially in hillier areas of B.C. and Quebec, said Marshall.

Some turbines are being designed to be built more on site, but that adds to costs, said Marshall. There’s also the problem of social acceptability and public resistance to large towers on the landscape, said Hornung.

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CORNER BROOK, N.L. — The general council of one of Canada’s largest churches has voted to drop fossil fuels from its investment portfolios, with advocates for the motion saying the decision is based on the Christian duty to care for the earth.

Commissioners attending the United Church of Canada’s general council in Corner Brook, N.L., voted 67 per cent in favour Tuesday to divest the industry from its treasury assets and to shift the $5.9 million from the portfolio into green renewable energy ventures.

The motion also says the commissioners “encourage” the United Church of Canada Foundation to drop its fossil fuel shares and the church’s pension board is asked to determine if its holdings “align with the Christian imperative of seeking justice, resisting evil, and living with respect in Creation.”

The motion applies to the top 200 fossil fuel firms in the world. Christine Boyle, a church member from Vancouver who supported the motion, said the church’s outreach programs work with people in countries like the Philippines where human-induced climate change may be contributing to poverty.

If the church had continued investing in oil companies it would be working against its own goals of promoting global social justice, she said.

“The impacts of climate change are being felt most strongly right now by marginalized communities and many are communities we are working with to create more just systems,” she said.

Boyle also said there is a strong moral argument against holding the fossil fuel shares, based on biblical references in Genesis that humans are entrusted to guard God’s creation.

However, Rev. Dave Pollard of Air-

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BRIEF Scotia Capital fined $500K after self-reporting failings by client advisers TORONTO — The wholesale banking division of Scotiabank has been fined $500,000 and faces other penalties under a settlement agreement with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada.

The agreement follows an admission by the division, formerly known as Scotia Capital, of regulatory failings

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drie, said he opposed the motion because it doesn’t allow for recognizing fossil fuel companies that are doing their best to improve technology and are more environmentally responsible.

“To make a blanket statement we’re going to divest may perhaps be punitive to those companies that are working hard ... doing their level best to make themselves somewhat sustainable,” he said.

He said he is also concerned about the reaction he will get from oil industry workers when he returns to his congregation north of Calgary.

“They have families and they have feelings and they have concerns about their livelihoods, especially now,” he said.

The meeting in Corner Brook is the triennial council of the church, and the motion was originally brought forward

by Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto, which pioneered fossil fuel divestment in the Canadian church.

There are 400 people attending the meeting in Corner Brook, and a subgroup of about 150 members voted on the divestment motion.

Erik Mathiesen, the United Church’s chief financial officer, said its investment committee was working on a framework for divesting before the motion.

by DWM Securities Inc., which was subsequently amalgamated under the HollisWealth brand.

IIROC says Scotiabank investigated and self-identified the problems after the amalgamation.

According to a statement issued Tuesday, DWM failed to establish and maintain a system of controls and supervision that was adequate to ensure that certain clients were qualified to purchase investment funds offered pursuant to prospectus exemptions, contrary to IIROC rules.

In addition to the fine, Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) is required to report on the execution of the remediation plan by Oct. 30 and is to impose internal fines on individual client advisers ranging from $2,500 to $30,000.

The proceeds, totalling some $440,000, are to be donated to charity.

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Training for success I frequently have conversations with business owners and their employees about the value a training/education culture can have on business.

Most owner/ managers have the opinion that training is important, but have issues justifying the added expense.

Both business owners and their employees express frustration about how the training exJOHN perience fell MACKENZIE short and failed to produce the BUSINESS desired outcomes.

BASICS In the beginning, expectations are that training and development will influence behaviour which, in turn, will bring new knowledge/ skills and ultimately impact the desired results.

Individuals are usually eager to learn and have high expectations that information will be relevant and applicable.

Most times trainers/facilitators are knowledgeable and the material wellpresented.

Even though participants often give positive feedback, research shows it’s

rare that training translates back to the job.

It’s not long before old habits return.

So why does training not live up to expectations?

Company culture – expectations, accountability and reward systems – can shape behaviours.

It’s rare that training actually influences broad behavioural change. Personal values and core beliefs trump a shift in attitude.

I have witnessed working environments that push their team to go the extra mile while doing little to support a learning culture in the company. I have even encountered managers that have requested that I “fix people” but have little commitment to engage at the same level Statistics indicate that training and development are considerations in employee recruitment and retention, and huge factors for managing change and expansion in organizations. Businesses that build a training program around annual strategic objectives are on the right track.

Begin by prioritizing your areas of need. Identify where upgraded skills would bring a higher return.

Look for the key leverage positions. If your company is sales or service driven, customer services or sales training may be beneficial.

If your company is manufacturingdriven, look at the roles that directly affect productivity, quality and process

improvement.

Focus on quality training that creates tangible results in your business.

Training must be relevant and applicable so that students/participants put training into practice.

A plan that doesn’t include a process that integrates accountability measures will not succeed.

Determine what you want to achieve before considering design, cost, or vendor.

Clearly define what results you want to see and what behaviours you believe will produce these changes. Evaluate and invest in proposals that include specific objectives and measureable outcomes.

Don’t be “sold” on a program instead of analyzing a course of action designed to meet your specific needs.

Think return on investment (ROI) first, rather than budget. Selecting something it is the least expensive will usually result in wasted time, money and a low return.

It makes financial sense to fully integrate one team upgrade rather than to expose them to training that wont’ be implemented.

Whether working with an in-house trainer or outside vendor, always include a follow-up plan in any training contract.

Setting expectations ahead of time is critical.

The plan should include ways to build in accountability and strategies to monitor progress.

In summary, although training is often a critical piece, it is never the only piece.

Provide access to the learning resources on an ongoing basis.

A commitment to employee learning/training is a critical factor to retaining your team. People do quality work when they are empowered to make the decisions at the level of their work View training as a continual process, one where assessment, training and application are basic functions.

Assess workforce skills to determine if/where a skills gap exists.

Customize training and development so that the right job skills are addressed.

Always work with trainers to deliver follow up and on site support to affect change.

In-house training must be consistent and made available to assist those moving through the company structure.

To ensure ultimate utilization, best results are achieved when followedup with some form of accountability coaching.

A program that integrates all these components will make your investment in training pay off.

John MacKenzie is a certified business coach and authorized partner/facilitator for Everything DiSC and Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team, Wiley Brands. He can be reached at john@thebusinesstraininghub.com.

Rona sees clouds in Alberta

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AFTER BEST QUARTERLY RESULTS IN MORE THAN THREE YEARS

Spin Master profits more than triple on popularity of rescue pups, robot dogs

Q2 RESULTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Home renovations retailer Rona Inc. enjoyed its best quarterly results in more than three years in the second quarter but is starting to see dark clouds in Alberta.

The Quebec-based company said Tuesday that net profit attributable to shareholders was $49.9 million or 46 cents per share for the three months ended June 28.

That’s up from $42 million or 35 cents per share a year earlier.

Rona also announced it will boost the company’s annual dividend 14 per cent to 16 cents per share while also moving to a quarterly payout of four cents starting Sept. 25. Previously, it paid an annual dividend of 14 cents, dividend distributed twice a year.

Revenues in Rona’s busiest quarter of the year increased 5.9 per cent to $1.26 billion from $1.19 billion a year ago.

Rona (TSX:RON) had been expected to earn 45 cents per share on $1.25 billion of revenues, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

File Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS The company said retail sales grew A man drives a forklift in front of a Rona home improvement store in St. 6.7 per cent due to merchandising strategies and the repositioning of the Eustache, Que., just outside Montreal, on Thursday, July 16, 2015. Home Reno-Depot banner in Quebec, while renovations retailer Rona Inc. enjoyed its best quarterly results in more than distribution sales rose 3.7 per cent.

Same store sales — those at stores three years in the second quarter open at least a year and a key metric in Led by Ontario, Canadian home reretail — grew 5.4 per cent, well above lenging outlook for the Canadian housing market and the modest expected sales grew 7.6 per cent. analyst expectations. consumer Sawyer said Quebec’s economy conExcept s p e n d i n g tinues to be weak and, after a strong for the fourth ‘WE ARE GETTING INTO growth,” he spring, sales have begun to wane in quarter of TURBULENCE IN ALBERTA said during Alberta — a smaller market for Rona 2014, it was a conference than Quebec and Ontario. the highest ESPECIALLY. GOING FORWARD call.

“We are getting into turbulence in quarterly IT WILL BE LESS SAME STORE C a n a d i - Alberta especially. Going forward, it sales growth SALES POSITIVE THAN WE USED an housing will be less same store sales positive from existing t a r t s c o n - than we used to experience over the operations TO EXPERIENCE OVER THE LAST stracted eight last quarter,” he told analysts. since the first per cent in He said the weaker Canadian dollar QUARTER.’ quarter of the quarter, will also likely force the company to 2010. increase prices.

— CEO ROBERT SAWYER including a CEO Rob17 per cent Rona’s revenues in the second quarert Sawyer r e d u c t i o n ter were the highest since the same said the company marked a fourth consecutive quarter of growth despite in Western Canada as Alberta starts period in 2012.

Almost $97 million in adjusted prethe ongoing decline in housing starts fell 25 per cent, though British Coacross the country and a stagnant econ- lumbia was up 11.8 per cent. Quebec tax operating profits (earnings before decreased 15.1 per cent and Atlantic interest, taxes, depreciation and amoromy.

“We remain cautious with a chal- Canada fell 29.5 per cent while Ontario tization) were the highest since the grew 9.6 per cent. third quarter of 2011.

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TORONTO — Toymaker Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) more than tripled its profits in the second quarter as the success of a kids’ TV series about puppy public servants helped boost overall results. The company behind the “Paw Patrol” franchise, which includes a Nickelodeon show and various branded products, said profits jumped to US$7.6 million in the three months ended June 30, compared with $2.1 million in the same period a year earlier. It did not provide earnings per share figures for either quarter and did not immediately respond to a request for further details.

Spin Master, which manufactures a range of toys and board games, made its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange last month.

During the quarter, revenue grew 19.9 per cent to US$127.7 million from US$106.5 million in the same period last year when it was still a private company. In its outlook, Spin Master said the second half of the year typically represents about 70 to 75 per cent of the company’s annual gross sales, largely driven by families buying more toys during the holiday season.

Oil price slides to lowest level since 2009 amid demand worries The price of U.S. crude oil has tumbled to its lowest level in more than six years. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.88, or 4 per cent, to settle at $43.08 a barrel in New York on Tuesday, its lowest close since March of 2009.

The latest slide came as OPEC said its production rose to a three-year high.

China also devalued its currency, suggesting economic growth there was softer and could cause lower crude demand. U.S. crude has been declining since reaching a high this year of $61.43 on June 10. Crude is under pressure on several fronts. Big increases in production in the U.S. and Canada, along with sizable gains in Iraq and elsewhere, have helped increase supplies. Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations kept pumping crude at high levels and Iranian oil could soon return to the market after being kept off by sanctions.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 135.22 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.30 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.61 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.91 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.51 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.98 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.05 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 209.24 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.16 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.37 Cervus Equipment Corp 14.90 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 45.29 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 56.11 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.93 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.17 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.83 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.06 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.15 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.11 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.46 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.80 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 7.25 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.23 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.17 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.54 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.30 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 71.82 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — A surprise move by China to devaluate its currency sent North American markets into a tailspin on Tuesday, with both Toronto and New York ending the session lower.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index closed down 51.72 points at 14,414.67, making a recovery from a steeper plunge of more than 200 points earlier in the session.

A final-hour surge in the TSX gold sector helped buoy what was otherwise a mostly weak market. The December gold contract advanced $3.60 to US$1,107.70 an ounce.

The Canadian dollar, like other commodity-based currencies, was also a casualty of the overnight announcement by China’s central bank. The loonie tumbled 0.61 of a U.S. cent to 76.31 cents.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 212.33 points to 17,402.84, the Nasdaq dropped 65.01 points to 5,036.79 and the S&P 500 fell 20.11 points to 2,084.07.

Worries about oversupply sent crude oil prices to their lowest point in more than six years, as OPEC reported that production soared to a three-year high.

The 12-country cartel has been trying to curtail output in recent months, but new questions about the health of China’s economy has added pressure to prices and the outlook for future demand.

The September crude contract lost $1.88 to US$43.08 a barrel.

Ben Jang, a portfolio manager at Nicola Wealth in Vancouver, said a lack of transparency from China about its economy has only compounded the effects on stock markets.

“Their economy has been slowing and they had a string of policy easing steps by the government,” he said.

“Now the concern is how bad is the economy weakening.”

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.36 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.09 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.93 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.69 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 10.05 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.02 First Quantum Minerals . . 9.76 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.99 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.83 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.73 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.10 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 34.61 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.23 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.40 Energy Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.72 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.54 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.44 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 23.83 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.92 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.15 Canyon Services Group. . 4.88 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.68 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.50 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.860 In other key commodities, September natural gas increased slightly to US$2.84 per thousand cubic feet and September copper fell 6.9 cents to US$2.33 a pound.

In the U.S., Google was a major gainer after it announced a new structure that includes separating its lucrative Internet business from some of its more speculative research projects. The technology giant also created a new holding company named Alphabet. Shares of Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) rose $27.05 or 4.27 per cent to US$660.78.

Home renovation retailer Rona Inc. (TSX:RON) reported its best quarterly results in more than three years on Tuesday as it raised its dividend 14 per cent.

The Quebec-based company said net profit attributable to shareholders was $49.9 million or 46 cents per share, up from $42 million or 35 cents per share a year earlier. Its stock rose nine cents to C$15.09.

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) has been fined $500,000 and faces other penalties under a settlement agreement with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada.

The agreement comes after an admission by the bank of regulatory failings by DWM Securities Inc., which subsequently amalgamated with Scotia Capital under the HollisWealth brand and now is an independent wealth advisory unit of the bank.

Scotiabank shares dropped 70 cents to $62.30.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,414.67, down 51.72 points Dow — 17,402.84, down 212.33 points S&P 500 — 2,084.07, down 20.11 points Nasdaq — 5,036.79, down 65.01 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 77.49 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.95 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.69 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.08 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 49.28 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.70 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.48 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.91 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.75 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.56 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 3.30 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.58 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.39 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.30 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.93 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.56 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.71 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.59 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.33 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.15 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.60 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.30 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.61 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 45.28 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.96

Currencies: Cdn — 76.31 cents US, down 0.61 of a cent Pound — C$2.0417, up 1.50 cents Euro — C$1.4473, up 1.50 cents Euro — US$1.1045, up 0.28 of a cent

Premier Kathleen Wynne says Stephen Harper is standing in the way of an Ontario pension plan, while the prime minister says he’s happy to block what he calls “an enormous tax hike.”

“I am delighted to see, quite frankly, that our refusal to co-operate with the imposition of this tax is making it more difficult for the Ontario government to proceed,” Harper said at a campaign stop in Markham. “We’re going to continue to fight it.”

Harper went out of his way to attack the Liberal government’s pension plan Tuesday after reporters failed to ask him about it, returning to the microphone to say the mandatory contributions from employers and workers would kill jobs.

“It’s not a good idea for the middle class and it’s obviously a bad thing as well for jobs and it’s a bad thing for our economy,” he said. Wynne, mean-

Pace of new home construction slows in July

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Harper, Wynne lock horns again over new Ontario pension plan

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A pint of beer is poured at the Great British Beer Festival, at Olympia in London, Tuesday, The five day event is organized by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), with over 900 real ales, ciders, perries and international beers on offer.

while, was unveiling details of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan during a news conference in downtown Toronto, where she said workers are not saving enough for retirement and Harper refuses to enhance the Canada Pension Plan.

“Disappearing workplace pension plans, shrinking personal savings ... and an average yearly CPP payment of less than $7,000 all adds up to a wholly inadequate retirement savings system,” she said.

Wynne vowed to proceed with a provincial pension even without any help from the federal government or the Canada Revenue Agency, but she couldn’t say how much more it would cost Ontario to go on its own or contract out to a third party.

“We don’t know what those costs would be at this point,” she said. “We do know that it would be easier, (and) it certainly would be less complicated if we had the federal government working with us.”

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New home construction slowed in July for the first time in three months, mostly as a result of fewer multi-unit projects started in urban areas — particularly Calgary, said the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Tuesday.

Actual housing starts for Calgary were down 43 per cent in July from the same month last year, falling to 770 units from 1,354. For the year so far, housing starts are down 31 per cent for the city.

Calgary’s economy has been hit by the protracted plunge in oil prices and it’s showing in the real estate market, said Richard Cho, CMHC’s principal of market analysis for Calgary.

“We’re seeing slower growth in employment, fewer people migrating to the region as well,” Cho said. “There’s also some more uncertainty in the market and I think with that, perspective buyers are taking more time and being more cautious.”

But Cho said it’s important to keep in mind that Calgary saw record levels of home construction last year.

“It’s not surprising to see the pace of activity to come down,” he said.

For Canada as a whole, CMHC said last month’s the seasonally adjusted annual rate was 193,032 units, down from 202,338 units in June.

The Ottawa-based federal agency had anticipated a slowdown but July’s seasonally adjusted pace — which is a projection of what would happen over a full year, after accounting for typical variations related to the season — was below an estimate of 195,000 units from economists, according to Thomson Reuters.

The seasonally adjusted annual rate in Calgary plunged to 8,716 units in July from 19,146 the previous month due largely to a significant drop in apartment starts.

But Cho said month-to-month comparisons can be misleading, because all the units of an apartment are counted when construction begins on a building, meaning apartment starts come in waves.

Edmonton saw its seasonally adjusted annual rate jump to 19,922 units in July from 15,349 in June, while its six-month trend was down along with those in Calgary and Saskatoon.

Nationally, the six-month trend inched up, climbing to 185,586 units last month from 184,035 in June.

CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan said gains in multiple starts have offset declines in single starts over the last three months, largely due to more rental apartments, many of which are seniors’ homes.

In British Columbia, the July seasonally adjusted annual rate for urban areas was 36,501 units, up from 34,870 in June. CMHC says B.C.’s new home construction has been keeping pace with demand, keeping supplies of unsold homes in check.

In Ontario, the rate fell to 49,047 units from 56,824 in June — although there was an increase in parts of the province outside of the Toronto area.

More information on the strength of Canada’s real estate industry will come Friday, when the Canadian Real Estate Association publishes its July 2015 resale housing statistics.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Mortgage brokers calling for tighter regulations in wake of alleged fraud Mortgage brokers are advocating for tighter industry rules in the wake of allegations that dozens of brokers working with Home Capital Group Inc. falsified client income information. Home Capital (TSX:HCG) announced late last month that it had suspended 45 brokers for allegedly committing fraud on mortgage applications, leaving the industry in damage control mode. Walid Hammami, a Montreal-based broker with Dominion Lending Centres, says the incident illustrates a larger systemic problem with mortgage fraud. There

are likely more transgressors than the 45 identified by Home Capital, he says.

“These guys not only give us bad press, but they are also unfair competition,” Hammami said, noting that brokers who play dirty by falsifying income data are stealing business from those who follow the rules.

Rather than taking the appropriate steps to qualify for a mortgage, a process that could take some time, a client could simply find a broker willing to forge the documents and get approved immediately, Hammami said.

“It’s like people using steroids in sports,” Hammami said.

Experts say that as lending rules have tightened and competition from the country’s major banks has increased, brokers are fighting for a slice of a shrinking pie.

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Jays bounce A’s in series opener IMPROVE WINNING STREAK TO NINE GAMES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 4 Athletics 2 TORONTO — Drew Hutchison is learning that harder isn’t necessarily always better.

The 24-year-old right-hander was locked in Tuesday night, giving up just two earned runs on four hits through seven-plus innings to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to their ninth straight victory, 4-2 over the Oakland Athletics.

Hutchison, who came into the game with a 5.42 earned-run average despite a 10-2 record, notched his 11th win of the season by taking command of his fastball instead of worrying about the radar gun.

“You get into situations sometimes and you tend to try to do a little too much instead of just taking the foot off the gas a little bit and executing pitches,” Hutchison said. “I think I did a good job of that.”

Tuesday’s outing was a far cry from Hutchison’s last three starts, in which he gave up 17 runs on 21 hits over 14 innings.

He hadn’t pitched past the seventh inning since May 25, a complete game shutout against the Chicago White Sox. “It’s been frustrating, definitely,” Hutchison said of his recent struggles.

“I try to just move on. If you worry about your past it’s going to affect your future. Just go out there and make one pitch at a time, that’s really what it comes down to.”

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said the solid outing was exactly what Hutchison needed.

“I’ll tell you what, he was really, really good,” Gibbons said. “He’s been kind of the whipping boy around here lately. For him to step up like that, it’s

big.”

Jose Bautista hit his 27th home run of the season to back Hutchison and Ryan Goins and Justin Smoak had runs batted in for the Blue Jays (62-52), who improved to 17-6 since the all-star break.

Chris Colabello had three hits, including two doubles, Aaron Sanchez pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Roberto Osuna worked around a oneout double for his 11th save.

Kendall Graveman (6-8), who was traded from the Blue Jays along with Canadian Brett Lawrie for Josh Donaldson, gave up four runs — two earned — on five hits and one walk through 4 2/3 innings. The 24-year-old righthander also struck out five batters in his return to Toronto.

Billy Burns and former Blue Jay Danny Valencia had RBIs for the Athletics (51-63). Lawrie, in his first appearance at Rogers Centre since the off-season trade, was 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.

The Blue Jays had an inning-ending double play overturned in the first that cost them a run when the next batter, Valencia, ripped a double past a diving Kevin Pillar in centre field to score Josh Reddick from first base.

But the A’s lead was short lived as Toronto put up three runs in the bottom of the second thanks to sloppy Oakland defence.

Colabello hit a lead-off double and came in to score when a throwing error on shortstop Marcus Semien allowed Russell Martin to reach first base. Smoak then added to the lead, scoring Martin from first on an RBI double to left field, and crossed the plate himself on a Goins ground out.

“For as much as we’re notorious for hitting homers and doubles we have a

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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin congratulates pitcher Roberto Osuna on the save at the end of the ninth inning of their AL baseball game against the Oakland Athletics in Toronto on Tuesday. The Blue Jays defeated the Athletics 4-2. lot of professional hitters, a lot of guys that grind out at-bats,” Colabello said of the Blue Jays’ versatility. “At any point in time, (batters) 1 through 9, we have guys that understand the situation and what they’re trying to accomplish. ... I think that gets overlooked.”

A’s manager Bob Melvin was less than pleased with his team’s performance in the second inning.

“That might be the worst inning we’ve played this year,” he said. “All the way around, we basically gave

them the whole inning. It should have been a different game if we played any kind of defence that inning.”

Bautista’s solo shot off Graveman in the fifth inning extended Toronto’s lead to 4-1.

Hutchison left the game to a loud ovation from the 39,381 in attendance after giving up a single to Semien in the eighth. It was the first hit he allowed since the third inning.

Semien scored on Burns’ RBI single off Sanchez to make it 4-2.

Bouchard suffers another early exit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian Eugenie Bouchard lost her opening match at the Rogers Cup for the second straight year, though she called this defeat a “step in the right direction.”

Bouchard lost to Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 Tuesday night on centre court at Aviva Centre.

Nevertheless, she was pleased with her performance battling back from an early deficit.

The 21-year-old from Westmount, Que., has now lost her first match in eight of her past 10 WTA tournaments.

Bouchard has also dropped 13 of her past 15 matches overall.

“It’s easy to let yourself get negative when you lose a couple of matches in a row or you know your body’s not feeling great,” Bouchard said. “It’s definitely been a tough road. And I feel like I’m at least not going downwards anymore. I’m trying to go on the right path.

“I feel like I can be close to performing well on the court, and it’s just been a long, patient kind of battle, and I feel like I’m close to turning it around.”

As the partisan crowd cheered Bouchard’s every move, it looked like she had nothing in the tank when she was blanked in the first set. She fought off match point in the second set and roared back to win it.

“I was able to raise my game, and I think it was pretty competitive out there after that first set,” Bouchard said. “I was fighting on every single point up until the end, and at the end of the day that’s all I can ask for.”

Bencic moves on to face fourth-seed-

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Eugenie Bouchard returns to Belinda Bencic, of Switzerland, during tennis action at Rogers Cup in Toronto on Tuesday. ed Caroline Wozniacki in the second round. The 20th-ranked player in the world praised Bouchard for how she responded in the second set.

“It was a really big fight,” Bencic said. “It’s not like I really choked or something. She really played well that moment.”

Bouchard’s struggles began a year ago when the Rogers Cup was in Montreal and she lost to qualifier Shelby Rogers when ranked fifth. While that

was a stunning defeat on the heels of her finals appearance at Wimbledon, this loss followed a year-long trend.

“I think the losses are completely different,” Bouchard said. “I was in a completely different situation last year compared to this year. I feel like I handled myself really well tonight, and you know, better than I did last year coming into that Montreal tournament.

So I’m proud of that.”

Amid her struggles, Bouchard has

fired two coaches — Nick Saviano in November and Sam Sumyk last week.

Bouchard said she was working with Marko Dragic on a short-term basis for the Rogers Cup. Bouchard on Tuesday night said there were “big problems” between her and Sumyk, who split after she was eliminated from Wimbledon.

“It definitely wasn’t working,” Bouchard said. “I just felt like I had to make a change. I think that was necessary for me.”

She said Dragic will continue coaching her for the time being but added that wasn’t a permanent arrangement.

On the same night Milos Raonic lost to Ivo Karlovic on the men’s side in Montreal, Bouchard’s exit meant there are no Canadians left in women’s singles play.

Francoise Abanda of Montreal lost to 16th-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany 3-6, 6-4-6-2, and Carol Zhao of Richmond Hill, Ont., lost 6-1, 6-1 to American Madison Brengle.

Earlier Tuesday, world No. 1 Serena Williams survived an early scare to beat Italy’s Flavia Pennetta 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. Williams was frustrated with how she was playing and then got too angry to focus.

“I said, ’Serena, you’re going to have to be positive and be good to yourself out here,”’ Williams said. “Once I started being more positive, I started actually playing better, too.”

Williams is the only player back for this Rogers Cup who played in 2001, when she won the tournament for the first time. Asked how that made her feel, Williams said: “Like a nice vintage wine. A good vintage red wine, I’d say, getting better with age, I hope.”

Raonic ousted, Pospisil advances easily at Rogers Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — There will be no repeat of the 2013 men’s Rogers Cup when Canadians Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil delighted the Uniprix Stadium crowd by both reaching the semifinals.

Pospisil did his part, beating qualifier Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4, 6-3 in a first-round match at the $US4.1 million event on Tuesday.

But Raonic, in his first action in a month since returning from a pinched nerve in a foot, came out on the wrong end of a 7-6 (1), 7-6 (1) decision against Ivo Karlovic in a battle of towering sluggers.

Vernon, B.C., native Pospisil will try to keep his Rogers Cup going in the second round against American John Isner, the 16th seed who survived a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 encounter with Benjamin Becker.

Isner was playing only two days after losing in the final of an event in Washington, D.C. to Kei Nighikori. He beat Pospisil in two sets in the round of 16 of that event, although the Canadian holds a 3-2 edge in their career head to head meetings.

“I played him enough times to know what to expect,” said Pospisil. “He can

say the same thing, I guess. So definitely that’s a pretty open one.”

Pospisil had his breakthrough moment the last time the men’s event was held in Montreal in 2013. He upset Isner in his first match, then beat Radek Stepanek and sixth-ranked Tomas Berdych. He got to the semifinals when Nikolay Davydenko retired with an illness.

It ended with a loss for Roanic, but the performance put Pospisil into the world’s top 40 for the first time. Raonic, of Thornhill, Ont., lost in the final to Rafael Nadal.

Pospisil is on the way back from wrist trouble following a strong performance at Wimbledon, where he reached the quarter-finals.

“After winning (on Tuesday), I had a couple of flashbacks to 2013,” said Pospisil, currently ranked 45th. “It was such a special week for me. But that’s good. I can just take positive things from that. A deep run is definitely something that I want to achieve this week. That’s kind of the goal.”

The six-foot-five Raonic and sixfoot-11 Karlovic hammered serves at each other, with the Croatian winning the ace battle 22 to 12. Karlovic passed the 1,000 career aces mark. He is second all time to Goran Ivanisevic (10,183).

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Milos Raonic returns to Ivo Karlovic from Croatia during second round of play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Tuesday, in Montreal.

Top-seeded Novak Djokovic took his second round match 6-3, 7-6 (4) over Thomasz Bellucci for his 250th career win a Masters 1000-level event. And defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, seeded 10th, got through the first round 6-4, 6-4 over Borna Coric.

Nick Kyrgios outlasted veteran Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 with his fellow Australian Lleyton Hewitt look-

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ing on. There are rumours that Hewitt is now coaching the 20-year-old, but Kyrgios said: “He’s definitely not my coach, let’s clear that up now. But he’s definitely helped me out, which is really good.”

He advanced to a second round meeting with third seeded Stan Wawrinka, who beat him earlier this year on a grass court.

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From Somalia to stardom DINI HAS COME FROM A WAR-TORN HOME TO LEAD CANADA’S WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team breaks from a huddle, the players touch arms in their version of hands-in.

The reigning Paralympic gold medallists will tell you they are as close as any family, their teammates like brothers. And for Abdi Dini, that means just a little bit more.

The 34-year-old hasn’t seen his parents since he was 12, when his dad Mahamoud and mom Anab sought better health care and a brighter future for their son, putting him on a plane from Somalia to live with an uncle in Toronto.

Almost two years earlier, in a country embroiled in civil war, Dini was struck by a stray bullet during school recess and became a paraplegic.

“First with his disability, that’s tough enough,” said Canada’s coach Steve Bialowas, who has coached Dini since he was 16. “He has his uncle, but it’s tough especially as a teenager, he hasn’t seen his parents since. I think his club team and now with Team Canada, you become his family.”

Canada has a strong tradition in wheelchair basketball and will be looking to defend gold at the next summer’s Paralympics in Rio. The men are 3-0 in the eight-team Parapan Am tournament, which is a qualifier for Rio. They opened with a 102-27 rout of Venezuela before cruising to a 74-55 victory over Mexico. They had their most difficult challenge on Tuesday night, but came away with a 68-62 victory against previously undefeated Argentina.

Canada’s women’s team improved to 3 -0 record on Tuesday afternoon with an 82-51 win over Brazil.

Dini grew up a fan of the game. He lists Kobe Bryant as the person he’d “most like to have lunch with” on his Canadian team bio. He admires the

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Abdi Dini has become Canada’s ‘quiet leader’ on a dominant wheelchair basketball team after growing up in a war-torn Somalia. The 34-year-old couldn’t have imagined the hard road from Somalia would lead him to where he is now: the star of a commercial, a Paralympic gold medallist and a key member of the Canadian team playing in front of noisy, packed crowds at the Parapan American Games.

Los Angeles Lakers star’s “competitive nature,” he said.

But Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, he said, is his all-time favourite player and the person he’d want to model his game after.

Dini was helping out with his high school team when a teacher suggested he look into the wheelchair program at Variety Village in Toronto’s east end.

Longtime Canadian teammate Adam Lancia likes to tell the story of arriving at the gym that first day to see Dini, sitting in a chair that was several sizes too big for him, nonchalantly draining shots from beyond the free-throw line.

“He just had a natural sense for this game,” Lancia said.

Dini was featured in a Sportchek “My North” commercial. His friends would tell him they’d seen it on the Jumbotron during Toronto Raptors games. His parents have watched it online and “think it’s pretty cool.”

He couldn’t have imagined the hard road from Somalia would lead him to where he is now: the star of a commercial, a Paralympic gold medallist and a key member of the Canadian team playing in front of noisy, packed crowds at the Parapan American Games.

“You never really think this might happen,” Dini said. “But you do think about your dreams, things you want to accomplish in life.”

Wheelchair basketball features a point system from one to 4.5, based on a player’s functional ability. The lower the number, the more severe a player’s disability is.

Dini is a one-point player, meaning he has less functional ability than virtually every one of his teammates.

But you’d never know it by the fluidity with which he moves and the ease with which he can knock down shots.

And for anything he lacks in physical strength, he makes up for in pure game sense.

“It’s more mental than physical,” Dini said. “I already had a grasp of the sport, so things came naturally for me.”

Bialowas called Dini a “quiet leader.”

“He’s very passionate, a man of very few words but he’s very passionate, and the guys love him,” the coach said.

He’s also the last person they’ll hear complain.

“If you ask him what he thinks about having his disability, the first thing he says is ’There are people who have it so much worse than I do,”’ Lancia said.

“You just think about it. . . ’So when they don’t have the fresh lettuce in the grocery, and I’m upset about that, what you just said kind of puts that in perspective.’

“He’s just that kind of guy.”

Wheelchair basketball was originally developed by Second World War veterans in the U.S. The rules are nearly identical to the able-bodied version with the dimensions of the court and the height of the hoop the same.

The clang of metal on metal replaces the squeal of sneakers and hard, chair-tipping hits are routine.

Travelling is called when a player fails to pass or dribble after taking two pushes of the wheel.

Decorated Paralympians Stilwell Canadian women’s basketball and Huot race to Parapan Am gold squad downs Dominican Republic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Veteran Canadian Paralympians Michelle Stilwell and Benoit Huot added Parapan Am gold to their already glittering medal collections on Tuesday.

Wheelchair racer Stilwell won the 100-metre T52 race while star swimmer Hout led a Canadian sweep in the men’s 400-metre freestyle S10 class.

The two are among Canada’s most decorated para-athletes.

At the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Stilwell was part of Canada’s goldmedal winning wheelchair basketball team. Eight years later in Beijing, she won gold in both the 100- and 200-metre wheelchair races. She defended her 200 gold medal in London in 2012 but settled for silver in the 100. She’s also a three-time world champion.

Huot has nine Paralympic gold medals along with five silver and five bronze. The native of Longueuil, Que., who has a club foot, edged teammates Isaac Bouckley of Oshawa, Ont., and Alexander Elliot of Waterloo, Ont., on Tuesday. The gold could be the first of several medals for Huot, who won six at the 2007 Parapans in Brazil.

“I was excited to race,” he said.

“The first three days were beginning to feel like a long wait.”

Fellow Canadian swimmers Katarina Roxon of Kippens, N.L. (women’s 100 breaststroke SB8) and Aurelie Rivard, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., (women’s 400 freestyle S10) also captured gold to continue Canada’s medal haul in the pool.

“I could hear the crowd cheering the last 25 metres,” said Roxon. “I just wanted to get to the wall quicker and do it for Canada.”

Jonathan Dieleman, the former rodeo rider who broke his back in a dirt-

bike accident, earned a silver medal competing in his first major international competition. He was left frustrated by his time of 55.68 seconds in the S3 50 breaststroke.

“I was way faster this morning,” said the Vancouver resident, who swam a Parapan record time of 54.57 seconds during the morning heats. “About three quarters of the way down the pool I screwed up on one of my strokes and swallowed a bunch of water. I just couldn’t catch up.”

Montreal’s Jean-Michelle Lavalliere had some anxious moments in the S7 200-m individual medley. He finished second in 2:49.12 but it was announced he was disqualified for a non-simultaneous touch. That was later overruled and he was awarded his second silver of the meet.

“I was really happy, then a bit down, then happy again,” said the 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy.

Canada picked up a silver and bronze in the S7-8 200 individual medley. Tess Routliffe, of Caledon, Ont., was second in 3:07.23 while Camille Berube, of Gatineau, Que., was third in 3:07.36 Zach Zona, of Waterford, Ont., was third in the S8 200 individual medley in 2:44.76 and Nicolas Turbide, of Quebec City, earned his third medal of the Games when he finished second in the S13 50 freestyle.

Stilwell, a cabinet minister in B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s Liberal government, raced to gold in the 100-metre T52 event in 19.58 seconds, edging Americans Kerry Morgan and Cassie Mitchell. Saskatoon’s Becky Richter was fourth.

In other results at the track, Kyle Whitehouse of St. Catharines, Ont., took silver in the men’s 100 metres T38 for athletes with cerebral palsy while Rennee Foessel of Mississauga, Ont., won bronze in women’s F37/38 javelin.

FIBA AMERICAS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It was the final calm before the storm for Canada’s women’s basketball team.

Miranda Ayim led the way with 15 points as Canada improved to 3-0 in round robin play at the FIBA Americas women’s basketball championship with a dominating 111-36 victory over the Dominican Republic on Tuesday.

Nirra Fields also chipped in with 13 points and Natalie Achonwa with 12 as Canada continued its quest to secure a berth in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“We have a lot of offensive weapons and that was showcased tonight,” said Canadian coach Lisa Thomaidis. “We talked a lot about taking high-quality shots and a big part of what we have tried to focus on this year is trying to push the pace and play faster.”

Coming off their impressive goldmedal win over the United States at the recent Pan American Games in Toronto, the Canadian women previously toppled Puerto Rico 94-57 on Sunday and remained undefeated with a 93-36 victory over Chile on Monday.

Canada, which entered the 10-team tournament ranked third in the Americas and 10th in the world, continued its round-robin domination against the Dominican Republic as it came flying out to a 23-7 lead after the first quarter and kept on steaming to a 58-19 advantage at the half.

The host Canadians then parlayed

that to an 85-27 lead heading into the final frame.

Genesis Evangelista led the way with 15 points for the Dominican Republic, ranked 11th in the Americas and 37th in the world. The Dominican Republic is now 0-3 in pool play, having lost 88-56 to Chile and 83-44 to Cuba.

Canada will have the day off on Wednesday before their toughest test to date, when they face the 2-0 defending FIBA Americas champion Cuban team to close out the round robin portion of the tournament on Thursday.

Thomaidis said this is when things get real for her team, which defeated Cuba 71-68 at the Pan-Ams. “It’s the match-up we’ve been anticipating and waiting for,” she said.

“There is not much to choose from between the two teams. I think both teams have improved since the PanAm Games and we anticipate a real battle. We know what is ahead of us from here on in the tournament and the potential matchups we could have.

There is a sense of urgency and seriousness about what is going to take place in the next few days.”

Canada’s Kia Nurse said this is the exciting time of tournaments, as well.

“We all know the importance of this part of the tournament and are ready and amped up for it,” she said. “This is what we have been waiting for. You will see the fist pumps going crazy.”

The winning team of the tournament will advance through to the Rio Olympics, unless Brazil emerges at the top of the tables, then the second place squad will advance as Brazil is the host nation and has an automatic berth.

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‘Sucker-punch’ has Jets looking for new QB LOCKER ROOM DUST UP PUTS GENO SMITH ON DL FOR 6-10 WEEKS AFTER BEING PUNCHED BY TEAMMATE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Geno Smith’s hopes for a breakout season with the New York Jets took a major blow — to the jaw.

The quarterback will be sidelined at least 6-10 weeks with a broken jaw after being punched by teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali in the locker room Tuesday morning. Smith, entering his third season, required surgery to repair the injuries.

Coach Todd Bowles made the stunning announcement in an impromptu news conference before training camp practice was scheduled to start.

Enemkpali (EN-um-PAL-ee), an outside linebacker in his second season, was immediately released by the Jets.

Bowles said Smith and Enemkpali got into an “altercation” in the Jets’ locker room Tuesday morning.

“It had nothing to do with football,” Bowles said. “It was something very childish, and he got cold-cocked, sucker-punched — whatever you want to call it — in the jaw.”

Bowles wouldn’t go into detail about the nature of the altercation, except to say: “It was something very childish, that sixth-graders could have talked about. It had no reason for happening.”

Smith, who was having a good training camp, will be sidelined for the rest of the summer and likely for the first few games of the season. The season opener at home against Cleveland on Sept. 13 is five weeks away.

“Depending on how surgery goes, we’ll see where we go from there,” Bowles said.

Smith took to Instagram and posted a picture of himself sitting in a car — mouth closed and looking stern — and a simple message: “ILL BE BACK.” In a statement issued to The Associated Press by his agent, Enemkpali apologized to the team and fans.

“Geno and I let our frustration get

the best of us, but I should have just walked away from the situation,” Enemkpali said. “I deeply regret and apologize for my actions. It was never my intention to harm anyone. I appreciate the opportunity I had with the Jets.”

Bowles said the Jets could add another quarterback, but it appears veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick will assume the starting job. Bryce Petty, a fourthround pick this year out of Baylor, and undrafted free agent Jake Heaps out of Miami are the Jets’ other remaining quarterbacks.

It was a jaw-dropping announcement by Bowles, who earlier in camp had to deal with the news that star defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson was suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league’s substance abuse policy and then was arrested after a high-speed road race in Missouri 12 days later. Richardson could face additional discipline by the league for violation of the personal conduct policy once the legal process plays out.

Bowles, in his first season as coach, spoke for about 2 minutes before heading to a meeting and then practice, but was clearly angered by the situation.

“The team knows this is something we don’t tolerate, something we can’t stand,” Bowles said. “You don’t walk up to another man and punch him in the face.”

While the players were not immediately available because they had practice, wide receiver Brandon Marshall sent out a simple “cryface” emoji on his Twitter page. Marshall and Smith have been developing solid chemistry this off-season, with the two spending time together on and off the field.

It was unclear as to whether there had been previous bad blood brewing between Smith and Enemkpali.

“If you have a team and you have a bunch of side issues, you can’t tolerate that,” Bowles said. “This is something that happened in the locker room and we’re dealing with it internally and

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New York Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) takes a snap at the NFL team’s training camp in Florham Park, N.J., Tuesday. Geno Smith’s hopes for a breakout season with the Jets took a major blow - to the jaw. The quarterback will be sidelined at least 6-10 weeks with a broken jaw after being punched by teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali in the locker room Tuesday morning. Bowles said the Jets could add another quarterback, but it appears veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick will assume the starting job. that’s where we are right now.”

Smith has had a rough two-plus seasons in the NFL, starting with his slip to the second round of the 2013 draft.

He got the starting job as a rookie after Mark Sanchez was sidelined for the year after hurting his shoulder in a preseason game, and mostly struggled.

Last year, he had a few flashes of solid play, but again had issues with turnovers and consistency and was benched a few times in favour of Michael Vick. Smith has 34 interceptions and 41 total turnovers in his first two seasons, but new offensive co-ordinator Chan Gailey was impressed with his progress this summer.

Smith threw the first two intercep-

Seahawks’ Okung setting out on his own in future contract talks

CFL

BRIEFS Ticats’ Davis, Lions’ Harris, Redblacks’ Shologan top performers of the week

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Jan. 27, 2015 photo, Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Okung speaks to the media during the NFL Super Bowl Media Day in Phoenix. Okung is often asked to go at it alone as a left tackle, so it should be no surprise that when it comes to negotiating his next contract he’s doing it without an agent. tial members of the business community who have become mentors.

Matt McIlwain, managing director of Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, remembers meeting Okung for the first time and being impressed that the big offensive lineman had taken time to learn about the company and the venture capital process. That led to additional meetings and Okung taking the lead in planning an event connecting Seahawks players with technology entrepreneurs in the Seattle area.

“Russell has impressed me with his leadership skills, his curiosity for learning in new areas and his analytical and thoughtful perspective on a variety of business topics,” McIlwain wrote in an email.

Okung wrote in his piece that an athlete has morphed into being a businessman who “understands the market and his own personal value, but has the self-assurance and financial know-how to do so.”

He said the interest in business started in college and he sees himself as a corporation just as much as a football player.

“We get a chance to get so many stages, to really influence. A lot

of guys tend to see it from a community standpoint, but if I’m really thinking about my legacy and longevity, I’ve really got to understand the markets, really got to understand where I’m investing my money, the people that are handling my money. That’s just part of it. Growing my business acumen, that is part of it.”

Richard Sherman, the Seahawks’ union representative with the NFLPA, said the players association will be involved from afar in making sure Okung is getting a fair deal when his next contract is negotiated and will provide whatever resources Okung needs.

For his part, Okung knows his decision and being public regarding his choice is not sitting well with agents.

“A lot of guys really want to understand it. They don’t understand that they have the resources at hand to understand the numbers of their situation. I don’t know why,” Okung said. “If it has to take me putting an article out there for guys to understand what I’m doing, I’m all down for it. A lot of guys are reaching out just to understand my process. I’m eager to see how it goes.”

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The team says he has a tibial plateau fracture in his right knee as well as a partial ligament tear.

Coach Mike O’Shea said on Tuesday that Willy will not require surgery. The Bombers say the recovery time is six to eight weeks, although O’Shea acknowledged that the timeline could be longer or shorter.

Willy was hurt late in Sunday’s third quarter after taking a hit from Hamilton linebacker Erik Harris.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive back Emanuel Davis, B.C. Lions running back Andrew Harris and Ottawa Redblacks defensive lineman Keith Shologan were named the CFL top performers of the week on Tuesday.

Davis had four tackles, two interceptions that he returned for touchdowns and a pass knockdown in the Ticats’ 38-8 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday. Hamilton has now won three straight.

He is the first player to return two interceptions for TDs in the same game since Byron Parker did in September 2004, and the first Ticats player to ever do so in one game.

Meanwhile, Harris collected 175 total yards and scored a pair of touchdowns in the Lions’ 26-23 comeback victory over the Edmonton Eskimos on Thursday. He rushed the ball 20 times for a season-high 118 yards and one touchdown, his second-straight 100-yard game. Harris added four receptions for 57 yards, including the pivotal touchdown to cap the comeback with 1:11 left on the clock.

Shologan had five tackles, including a career-high three sacks, in the Redblacks’ late 26-23 win over the Montreal Alouettes on Friday. The trio of sacks accumulated a total loss of 27 yards. It was his third career multi-sack game.

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RENTON, Wash. — Russell Okung is often asked to go it alone.

It’s the nature of his position as the Seattle Seahawks’ left tackle.

So perhaps it should be no surprise that Okung is venturing out on his own when it comes to handling the details of his football future.

Okung, the first draft pick made

by Pete Carroll and John Schneider in 2010, is entering the final season of his rookie contract.

And instead of relying on an agent to handle any future contract negotiations, whether with the Seahawks or another franchise, Okung is going to handle the proceedings himself.

“I wasn’t necessarily the first guy to do it and I hope I’m not the last either. I do want this to be memorable,” Okung said. “If you remember anything, remember Seattle won a Super Bowl and remember I did this. That I wanted to take the reins of my life and make the decisions as well.”

Okung first wrote about his decision in The Players’ Tribune before the start of training camp.

And while he’s trying to keep it from being a lingering topic, it’s a reality Okung is facing.

“It’s been kind of a year and a half in the making and I’ve been thinking about it and really trying to learn more about the decision and try and get educated from every standpoint I possibly could,” Okung said. “I want to know each perspective whether I’m open, that side or this side, or even from the front offices perspective, too.

Once I had all that information I made my decision and sometimes the general assumption is I won’t have any counsel at all. I have plenty counsel that are backing me and people that have a background in negotiation.”

The decision to handle his own negotiations falls in line with Okung’s general interest in business outside of football. He’s been an active participant in NFLsponsored business seminars during the off-season. This past offseason, Okung began working on an executive MBA from the University of Miami. He’s also been forthright in meeting with influen-

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is expecting to play for the Green Bay Packers in their first preseason game this week.

The Packers held their final open practice Tuesday before they visit the New England Patriots on Thursday night.

Rodgers said after practice he expects the starters will play for a short time.

tions of camp on Monday, an impressive stretch that had the quarterback and coaches thinking positively about his prospects for the upcoming season.

“He took time that month when we were away (before training camp),” Gailey said of Smith shortly before the news broke. “He looked at it and studied it and talked about it and thought about it. When he came back, he really had a grasp of it.”

Enemkpali had three sacks in six games last season after being taken in the sixth round out of Louisiana Tech.

To replace Enemkpali on the roster, the Jets signed cornerback Javier Arenas, who has played five NFL seasons with Kansas City, Arizona and Atlanta.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Saturday

● Sunburst Baseball League: League final, Red Deer Riggers vs. Sherwood Park Athletics, Game 3 at Sherwood Park, 7:30 p.m.

● Alberta Football League: Central Alberta Buccaneers at Airdrie Irish, 3 p.m. ● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central Alberta Cricket Association, also featuring teams from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Opening ceremonies start at at 9:30 a.m. at G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

Thursday

● Sunburst Baseball League: League final, Red Deer Riggers vs. Sherwood Park Athletics, Game 4 at Sherwood Park, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday

Friday

● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central Alberta Cricket Association, also featuring teams from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray at G.H. Dawe Community Centre

● Sunburst Baseball League: League final, Red Deer Riggers vs. Sherwood Park Athletics, Game 5 at Great Chief Park, 7:30 p.m.; if needed

Football Jacksonville Tennessee

Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

CFL East Division GP W L T 6 4 2 0 6 4 2 0 6 4 2 0 6 2 4 0

PF 191 166 131 130

PA 114 163 150 120

Pt 8 8 8 4

Edmonton Calgary B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

West Division GP W L T 6 4 2 0 6 4 2 0 6 3 3 0 7 3 4 0 7 0 7 0

PF 165 137 144 140 174

PA 89 148 159 210 225

Pt 8 8 6 6 0

WEEK EIGHT Bye: Saskatchewan Thursday, Aug. 13 Edmonton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 14 Toronto at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15 B.C. at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S Pt J.Medlock, Ham 0 18 15 4 67 G.Shaw, Edm 0 13 15 3 61 B.Bede, Mtl 0 9 14 5 56 R.Leone, BC 0 10 13 5 54 P.McCallum, Sask 0 9 14 1 52 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 9 10 5 44 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 9 10 1 40 D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37 A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 6 9 3 36 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 5 2 0 0 32 x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 0 0 26 x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 0 0 26 T.Gurley, Tor 4 0 0 0 24 K.Lawrence, Edm 4 0 0 0 24 E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 0 0 24 K.Stafford, Edm 4 0 0 0 24 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 3 4 0 0 22 x-J.Cornish, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20 x-K.Elliott, Tor 3 2 0 0 20 x-M.McDaniel, Cgy 2 8 0 0 20 A.Bowman, Edm 3 0 0 0 18 E.Davis, Ham 3 0 0 0 18 V.Hazleton, Tor 3 0 0 0 18 B.Smith, Sask 3 0 0 0 18 T.Sutton, Mtl 3 0 0 0 18 T.Toliver, Ham 3 0 0 0 18

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W 0 0 0 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

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PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14

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PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 Washington 0 0 0 .000 South W L T Pct Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 Carolina 0 0 0 .000 New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000 North W L T Pct Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 Chicago 0 0 0 .000 Detroit 0 0 0 .000 Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 West W L T Pct Arizona 0 0 0 .000 San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 Seattle 0 0 0 .000 St. Louis 0 0 0 .000

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PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PF PA 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sunday’s Game Minnesota 14, Pittsburgh 3 Thursday, Aug. 13 New Orleans at Baltimore, 5:30 p.m.

Green Bay at New England, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 8 p.m.

Vancouver Los Angeles Dallas Kansas City

Western Conference GP W L T GF 24 13 8 3 34 25 11 7 7 42 22 11 6 5 32 21 10 4 7 33

GA 26 25 39 38 36 31 37 36 40 31 GA 22 30 27 22

Pt 44 36 34 31 31 28 28 24 23 22

Sunday, Aug. 16 Indianapolis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Pt 42 40 38 37

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10 10 8 7 7 5

8 12 8 9 10 8

6 2 7 8 5 9

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Chicago Cleveland Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

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BRECLAV, Czech Republic — Dylan Wells stopped all 21 shots he faced as Canada shut out Sweden 2-0 on Tuesday at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament.

Michael McLeod and William Bitten scored as Canada

GB — 12 14 1/2 14 1/2 16 GB — 1 1/2 5 9 10 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Toronto 4, Oakland 2 Tampa Bay 2, Atlanta 0 Miami 5, Boston 4, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City 6, Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox 3, L.A. Angels 0 Minnesota 3, Texas 2 Baltimore at Seattle, late Houston at San Francisco, late Wednesday’s Games Baltimore (Gausman 2-3) at Seattle (Iwakuma 3-2), 1:40 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 4-5) at San Francisco (Heston 11-6), 1:45 p.m.

Boston (E.Rodriguez 6-4) at Miami (Conley 1-0), 2:10 p.m.

Oakland (Brooks 1-0) at Toronto (Buehrle 12-5), 5:07 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 5-2) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-8) at Cleveland (Salazar 9-6), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2) at Kansas City (Volquez 116), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Heaney 5-1) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 6-9), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 7-6) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-7), 6:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Oakland at Toronto, 10:37 a.m.

Texas at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 61 52 .540 58 53 .523 51 62 .451 45 68 .398 45 68 .398

GB — 2 10 16 16

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 72 40 .643 65 45 .591 63 48 .568 49 61 .445 48 66 .421

GB — 6 8 1/2 22 25

West Division W L Pct 62 50 .554 59 52 .532 55 56 .495 53 60 .469 47 64 .423

GB — 2 1/2 6 1/2 9 1/2 14 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Colorado 2 Arizona 13, Philadelphia 3 San Diego 2, Cincinnati 1 Washington 8, L.A. Dodgers 3 Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay 2, Atlanta 0 Miami 5, Boston 4, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 4, Colorado 0 Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia at Arizona, late Cincinnati at San Diego, late Washington at L.A. Dodgers, late Houston at San Francisco, late Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 2-4) at San Diego (Shields 8-4), 1:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 2-1) at Arizona (Ch.Anderson 5-4), 1:40 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 4-5) at San Francisco (Heston 11-6), 1:45 p.m.

Boston (E.Rodriguez 6-4) at Miami (Conley 1-0), 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 5-2) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 10-6), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 6-12) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 6-5), 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (G.Cole 14-5) at St. Louis (Wacha 13-4), 6:15 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 8-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-6), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

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

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

Tennis Rogers Cup Results MONTREAL (AP) — Results Tuesday from the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles Second Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Andy Murray (2), Britain, is tied with Tommy Robredo, Spain, 4-4, Suspended.

Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Milos Raonic (8), Canada, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (1).

First Round Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, def. Borna Coric, Croatia, 6-4, 6-4.

Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Kevin Anderson (12), South Africa, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4).

David Goffin (13), Belgium, def. Steve Johnson, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Grigor Dimitrov (14), Bulgaria, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, 6-4, 7-5.

John Isner (16), United States, def. Benjamin Becker, Germany, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3.

Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, def. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.

Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 6-3, 7-5.

Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. Lu Yen-Hsun, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-3.

Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-1.

28 27 28 37 29 24

36 32 31 29 26 24

Thursday’s games D.C. at New York City, 5 p.m.

Friday’s games Colorado at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Saturday, August 15 Toronto at New York, 5 p.m.

Houston at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Kansas City, 7 p.m.

Portland at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

improved to 2-0 at the annual under-18 international hockey tournament.

McLeod scored at the 11:37 mark of the first period before Bitten added some insurance with an empty-net goal with 20 seconds left in the game.

Wells’s shutout is the first by a Canadian goaltender at the tournament since Julio Billia blanked the United States in the 2013 gold medal game.

Filip Gustavsson took the loss in net for Sweden (1-1).

Canada will play Switzerland on Wednesday.

Total 135 84 79 60 51 37 22 21 9 2 4 2 2 1 1

What Canada Did at the Parapan Am Games TORONTO — What Canada Did on Tuesday at the Parapan American Games (distances in metres unless specified): ATHLETICS Women’s 100 (T52) — Michelle Stilwell, Nanoose Bay, B.C. , won the gold medal in 19.58 seconds; Becky Richter, Saskatoon, placed fourth (31.66).

Women’s Javelin (F37-38) — Renee Foessel, Mississauga, Ont., won the bronze medal with am american record throw of 25.36 metres.

Men’s 100 (T38) — Kyle Whitehouse, St Catherine’s, Ont., won the silver medal in 11.41 seconds.

Men’s 100 (T44) — Cody Solomons, Strathroy, Ont., placed fourth in the final with a personal-best time of 12.63.

Men’s 800 (T53) — Jean-Philippe Maranda, SteAurelie, Que. (1:59.57); Brent Lakatos, Dorval, Que. (2:01.49); Wes Vick, Seaforth, Ont. (2:01.56) all qualified for Wednesday’s medal race.

Women’s Discus Throw (F51/52) — Becky Richter,

Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Frank Dancevic, Canada, 6-2, 6-4.

Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Nicolas Mahut, France, 6-1, 7-5.

Nick Kyrgios, Australia, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

Jack Sock, United States, def. Adrian Mannarino, France, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (5).

Rogers Cup Results TORONTO (AP) — Results Tuesday from the Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles Second Round Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.

First Round Alize Cornet, France, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (9), Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-4.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Karolina Pliskova (10), Czech Republic, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Ekaterina Makarova (11), Russia, def. Anna Tatishvili, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Alison Riske, United States, def. Timea Bacsinszky (12), Switzerland, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).

Angelique Kerber (13), Germany, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-0, 6-1.

Sara Errani (15), Italy, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 5-7, 6-1, 6-0.

Andrea Petkovic (16), Germany, def. Francoise Abanda, Canada, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

Carina Witthoeft, Germany, def. Coco Vandeweghe, United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Mariana DuqueMarino, Colombia, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Heather Watson, Britain, def. Irina Falconi, United States, 6-1, 6-2.

Madison Brengle, United States, def. Carol Zhao, Canada, 6-1, 6-1.

Julia Goerges, Germany, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 2-6, 6-1, 7-5.

Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 6-2, 6-4.

Daria Gavrilova, Russia, def. Samantha Stosur, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.

Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Roberta Vinci, Italy, def. Karin Knapp, Italy, 6-0, 6-0.

Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, def. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-4.

Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def. Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2.

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def. Sloane Stephens, United States, 6-3, 6-4.

Saskatoon, won the bronze medal with a throw of 6.26.

Men’s 400m (T20)— Holden Gill, Nanaimo, B.C., finished sixth in the final with a time of 53.62.

Men’s Shot Put (F46)— Kenneth Trudgeon, London, Ont., won the bronze medal with a 13.08 throw.

Men’s 400m (T11)— Dustin Walsh, Coquitlam, B.C., and guide Dylan Williamson, Fort Langley, B.C., won the silver medal with a time of 54.72.

Women’s 400m (T54)— Diane Roy, Sherbrooke, Que., won the bronze medal with a time of 1:02.00.

CYCLING Women’s Individual Pursuit C1-5- Nicole Clermont, Sherbrooke, Que. finished fifth in qualifying with a time of 4:11.797. Marie-Claude Molnar, St-Hubert, Que., finished seventh in qualifying with a time of 4:16.051. Neither advanced to the final.

Men’s Individual Pursuit C1-3- Michael Sametz, Calgary won the silver after being overlapped in the final. Ross Wilson, Edmonton, did not start the qualifying race.

Mixed Time Trial B- Daniel Chalifour, Mont-Laurier, Que. and guide Alexandre Cloutier, St-Antoine-deTilly, Que. won gold with a time of 1:06.139 in the final. Shawna Ryan, Saskatoon and guide Joanie Caron, Rimouski, Que. finished fourth with a time of 1:08.939 in the final. Robbi Weldon, Thunder Bay, Ont. and guide Audrey Lemieux, Montreal, finsihed fifth with a time of 1:09.487 in the final.

GOALBALL Women- Team Canada beat El Salvador 10-0 in group play to move their record to 3-1.

Men- Team Canada beat Puerto Rico 11-1 in group play to move their record to 4-0.

SITTING VOLLEYBALL Men- Team Canada beat Mexico in straight sets (25-14, 25-16, 25-17) in group play to move their record to 2-2.

Women- Team Canada beat Cuba in straight sets

(25-16, 25-16, 25-20) in group play to move their record to 1-2.

SWIMMING Women’s 100 Breaststroke (SB8) — Katarina Roxon, Kippens, N.L., won the gold medal in a Parapan Am record 1:22.18; Abi Tripp, Kingston, Ont., finished fourth (1:42.59).

Women’s 100 Breaststroke (SB6) — Nydia Langill, Mississauga, Ont., placed fifth in the final (1:53.93).

Women’s 400 Freestyle (S10) — Aurelie Rivard, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the gold medal (4:33.40 — an Americas record); Samantha Ryan, Saskatoon, finished fourth (5:07.32).

Men’s 50 Freestyle (S13) — Nicolas Turbide, Quebec City, won the silver medal (25.98); Tyler Mrak, Aldergrove, B.C., placed fifth (27.99).

Men’s 400 Freestyle (S10) — Canada swept the podium as Benoit Huot, Longueuil, Que., won the gold medal in a Parapan record (4:10.04); and Isaac Bouckley, Oshawa, Ont. (4:18.75); and Alexander Elliot, Waterloo, Ont. (4:27.61), took the silver and bronze.

Women’s 50m Breaststroke SB3 (SB1-3)— Tammy Cunnington, Red Deer, finished fourth with a time of 1:22.85.

Men’s 200m IM SM6 (SM5-6)— Scott Patterson, Vancouver, finished fifth with a time of 3:39.20.

Daniel Murphy, Bedford, N.S., finished seventh with a time of 4:15.05.

Men’s 200m IM (SM7)— Jean-Michel Lavalliere, Quebec City, won the silver medal with a time of 2:49.12.

Men’s 200m IM (SM8)— Zach Zona, Waterford, Ont., won the bronze medal with a time of 2:44.76.

Women’s 200m SM8 (SM7-8)— Tess Routliffe, Caledon, Ont. won the sliver medal with a time of 3:07.23. Camille Berube, Gatineau, Que., won the bronze medal with a time of 3:07.36. Abi Tripp, Kingston, Ont., finished fourth with a time of 3:07.93.

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OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys have traded defenceman Kodi Schwarz to the Surrey Eagles of the BCHL. The 19-year-old native of Aldergrove, B.C., accumulated 38 points in 56 games during his rookie season and was runner up for rookie of the year in the AJHL. He was also mentioned on the all-rookie team in the South.

The Grizzlys have acquired 19-year-old forward Cole Plotnikoff and future considerations from the Eagles. Plotnikoff, a native of Surrey, B.C., had 11 goals and seven assists in 41 games last season. He was the 28th overall pick by the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the 2012 WHL draft.

The Red Deer Renegades U14 girls squad couldn’t be cooled down during a tournament in Kelowna on the weekend.

The Renegades won all four of their games en route to the gold medal at the Kelowna Summer Heat soccer tournament.

Leading the way for the team was the great goaltending of Hannah Wirtanen who had two shutouts. During roundrobin play the Renegades won their first game, 2-1, over a team from the Okangan with goals from Anne-Marie Purdy and Avery Lajeunesse. Game two features a lopsided 4-0 win over Kelowna with goals from Anne-Marie Purdy, Hannah Purdy, Rachel Vandervlis and Kaya Brezovan. In their third game the girls won 2-0 over Sherwood Park led by goals from Hannah Purdy and Ann-Marie Purdy.

The Renegades faced Williams Lake in the gold medal game and were able to edge out the 4-3 win. Anne-Marie Purdy scored a pair of goals while Tatum Adair and Lajeunesse each added a goal.

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2015 Parapan Am Medal Standings Nation G S B Brazil 55 37 43 Canada 25 31 28 United States 24 30 25 Mexico 20 20 20 Colombia 16 19 16 Argentina 11 12 14 Cuba 8 9 5 Venezuela 4 7 10 Chile 3 2 4 Jamaica 1 1 0 Ecuador 1 0 3 Costa Rica 0 0 2 Nicaragua 0 0 2 Puerto Rico 0 0 1 Dominican Republic 0 0 1

Saturday, Aug. 15 Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 6 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 7 p.m.

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Tennessee at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Seattle, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Oakland, 8 p.m.

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Hearn hopes for breakthrough LOOKING FOR SUCCESS AT PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER STRONG CANADIAN OPEN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian David Hearn knows that he can break through on the PGA Tour as long as he keeps trying.

Hearn is having the best season of his pro career and has become a popular dark-horse selection to win the PGA Championship, the final major of the season.

A third-place finish at the RBC Canadian Open three weeks ago helped Hearn pass the US$1.7 million mark in earnings this season. More importantly, it’s given him momentum headed in to the PGA Championship.

“My confidence is definitely very high right now,” said Hearn on Thursday. “To be in contention and to play the golf I did at the Canadian Open felt amazing. I just need to keep giving myself these chances, because I’m definitely playing with confidence.”

The 36-year-old Hearn’s best finish at the PGA Championship came in 2013 (T47). Despite the way Whistling Straits is designed — it’s more links-style than a traditional PGA Championship layout — Hearn says he knows what it will take to contend.

“The reasons that major champions are the best in the game is because they’re able to keep golf at it’s most simple,” said the native of Brantford, Ont. “It really boils down to making good shots and good putts when you need to, regardless of what the golf course looks like.”

Whistling Straits was also the site of the 2004 and 2010 PGA Championships where Fiji’s Vijay Singh and Germany’s Martin Kaymer were the respective champions. Both would go on to

become No. 1 in the world.

“We don’t see courses like this (Whistling Straits) very often, which makes them so unique. I think that’s why major championships like to go to these courses, because it tests a different area of our game,” said Hearn.

Hearn says he will try to play Whistling Straits in a way that makes him comfortable.

“As extreme as the golf course looks, if I can make it play like a North American-style golf course — and focus on hitting fairways and greens and giving myself birdie opportunities — I like my chances here,” said Hearn.

Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., and Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., were scheduled to be the other Canadians at the PGA Championship, but DeLaet pulled out on Monday as he continues to struggle with an injured left thumb — the same injury that forced the 33-year-old to pull out of the RBC Canadian Open three weeks ago.

Although disappointed to withdraw from the Canadian Open — and announce that he was also withdrawing from the PGA Championship — DeLaet said Friday he was inspired by seeing his friend Hearn have a chance to win Canada’s national open.

“He played well and it was so much fun to watch,” DeLaet said of Hearn’s final round at Glen Abbey.

Hearn and DeLaet are also fighting for a spot on the International Team at the biennial Presidents Cup competition.

The top 10 point-getters on both the International and American sides automatically make the team and there are two captain’s picks made to fill out the rest of the squad.

DeLaet, who earned a 3-1-1 record

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David Hearn holds the trophy for Top Canadian at the Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., on July 26, 2015. Hearn heads into the PGA Championship with big expectations after a strong run of late. in 2013, currently sits 18th. Hearn is 23rd.

“Every event I have leading up to the Presidents Cup cutoff is a big event for me,” said Hearn. “I’m really looking forward to continuing my good play, and giving captain (Nick) Price a little notice of how I’m playing. But, I’m going to have to earn my way onto that team like Graham did two years ago.”

Although not in the Presidents Cup conversation, Taylor is in the PGA Championship thanks to his maiden

Tour victory in November — something both Hearn and DeLaet are still shooting for.

The 27-year-old will be playing in his first major as a professional — he finished as low amateur at the 2009 U.S. Open — and admits he’s looking forward to the opportunity.

“I’m very excited,” Taylor said. “I don’t have any specific expectations for the week, but I’m going to focus on my preparation and make sure I’m in the best position I can be once the first round begins Thursday.”

Expectations low for Woods going into final major

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Tiger Woods knows the concept of going through a transition, just not the numbers associated with this one.

His world ranking is No. 278. Throw out some of the past champions and the 20 club pros at the PGA Championship, and his ranking is the worst of all but two players at Whistling Straits — Nick Taylor and Darren Clarke.

He has not won a tournament in two years, and he has only one top 10 on the PGA Tour since.

And while his winless streak in the majors is at 23 dating to the 2008 U.S. Open, only once in the last six years has he gone into the final round within three shots or fewer of the lead. That was at Muirfield two years ago, and he closed with a 74 to finish five shots behind.

This is the new world of Woods at the majors. Expectations are lower than ever.

There wasn’t a lot of talk about Woods winning the PGA Championship. His main theme was taking baby steps.

“I’m just trying to get better,” Woods said after playing nine holes with Davis Love III. “I’m just trying to get up there where I can win tournaments, get my game organized so I can be consistent on a tournament basis where I’m going to give myself a chance to win each and every event I play in. That’s what I have done over most of my career. And I’d like to get to that point again where I could do it.”

Even if expectations are low, he is still Tiger Woods.

He had one of the largest galleries for a morning practice round at Whistling Straits, and he stopped to sign autographs heading to the next tee, which is unusual for him. Hundreds of fans stood below the steps of the media centre when they saw Woods walk in, all of them holding flags for him to sign.

Woods, who turns 40 at the end of the year, made it clear at the Memorial (where he shot a career-high 85) that he was in this for the long haul. Different from past swing changes is that he is coping with what he keeps calling a “perfect storm” because the switch followed back surgery and recovery that

cost him half the 2014 season.

Steve Stricker played with him two days at The Greenbrier Classic, where Woods tied for 32nd while posting his lowest 72-hole score (273) since his last win.

“He’s going through some down times,” Stricker said.

“It looks like he’s getting things pushed back into shape and he’s getting stronger and healthier. I’ve talked to him. He’s feeling better. And it’s just about getting that confidence level back, him settling on what he wants to do with his swing and going from there, and then that confidence level will come back. ... I expect him to get it back and get it going again.”

Still, it’s odd for Woods to be at a major and attract so little attention.

The majors this year have been about Jordan Spieth, the Masters and U.S. Open champion who missed by one shot a chance at the third leg of the Grand Slam at St. Andrews. Still in play at Whistling Straits is a chance to sweep the U.S. majors, which has never been done.

Rory McIlroy, the world’s No. 1 player, returns from an ankle injury that has kept him out since the U.S.

The best to never win the PGA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

shot 68 the final round and missed the playoff by one shot.

ARNOLD PALMER Palmer created the modern version of the Grand Slam, so he is linked more than Watson as the player missing only the PGA. He won all seven of his professional majors from 1958 to 1964, and Palmer never had many chances at the PGA. He finished three shots behind Bobby Nichols in 1964, and one shot behind Julius Boros in 1968.

TOM WATSON Watson led wire-to-wire at Oakmont in 1978 and had a five-shot lead with nine holes to go. He made double bogey on No. 10 and shot 73 to give way to the greatest comeback in PGA history. John Mahaffey shot 66 to make up a seven-shot deficit, and he beat Watson and Jerry Pate on the second playoff hole. Watson bounced back a year later with a 66 in the opening round at Oakland Hills, only to fade.

And he never really got another chance.

The last opportunity was in 1996 at Valhalla when he pulled within a shot of the lead through 12 holes on Sunday. That loop (Nos. 10-12) were close to the clubhouse, and the media centre emptied to see if a 46-year-old Watson could finally get it done. He hit into the water on the 13th, and the press headed back in.

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Open. Dustin Johnson has had at least a share of the lead in four rounds at the majors this year and comes back to the course where a two-shot penalty on the final hole cost him a spot in the playoff.

Zach Johnson goes for back-to-back majors. Jason Day is trying to win his first after being in contention in the last two.

It’s a long list.

And at the moment, that list doesn’t include Woods. The greatest player of his generation, at the moment, is an afterthought.

Woods was going through swing changes during his two previous trips to Whistling Straits — with Hank Haney in 2004 (tie for 24th) and he was just starting to work with Sean Foley in 2010 (tie for 28th). So it’s not as if he has positive memories from this course.

“Tiger’s game has been flat-lined for the last couple years, and we’re starting to see a sign here or there that he might be able to orchestrate something at Whistling Straits,” longtime friend Notah Begay III said. “But it’s not a golf course that particularly suits his eye or his game.”

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RIVER REWARDS Photos by JEFF STOKOE Advocate staff

As the heat waves continues through the region, Central Albertans are finding ways to stay cool and have fun — and that usually involves water. A group makes a relaxing evening float along the Red Deer River (right). The river is very shallow and the flow is slow, making it a leisurely ride. Wading into the river seeking fish has rarely been this peaceful, even if the fish aren’t biting.

Harris takes leave from council RED DEER COUNCILLOR SEEKS NDP NOMINATION IN RED DEER-MOUNTAIN VIEW

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer city council has granted unpaid leave to Coun. Paul Harris to seek the NDP nomination in federal riding of Red Deer-Mountain View.

Harris is excused from his municipal duties until party members vote on Aug. 24 to determine who will represent the New Democratic Party in the Oct. 19 federal election: Evan Bedford, Dianne Macaulay or Harris.

If he is successful in the nomination bid, Harris’s leave will be extended until the election.

Macaulay, who is a Red Deer Pub-

lic School Board trustee, will ask for leave from her office if she secures the nomination.

Harris said he is not required to take leave but it just felt like the right thing to do.

“It feels really appropriate to me not to be doing two things at once,” said Harris. “It would be difficult to separate council business from federal work.”

Council has two meetings next week, including the mid-year budget review on Tuesday.

Harris said he is disappointed to miss a few upcoming council items, including his motion to advocate for Red Deer College to become a polytechnic

university and his joint motion with Coun. Ken Johnston on payday loan businesses.

Harris has been approached three times to run federally but turned down the offer for personal reasons. He said the timing feels right this time.

He also said he believes his experience in municipal and federal policy and politics stacks higher than his opponents. Harris is a third-term councillor and has sat on the Federation of Canadian Municipalities board and committees.

The new riding covers the south side of the City of Red Deer. Other parties have already secured their candidates: Earl Dreeshen for the Conserva-

tives, Mason Sisson for the Green Party and James Walper for the Libertarian.

There is no Liberal candidate at this point.

NDPers will choose either Doug Hart or Katherine Swampy on Aug. 24 for the Red Deer-Lacombe riding (north Red Deer). Blaine Calkins is running for the Conservatives and Jeff Rock has the Liberal nod.

Electoral boundaries in Alberta have been redrawn, dissolving the former federal ridings of Red Deer and Wetaskiwin.

The former Red Deer riding was split into Red Deer-Lacombe and Red Deer-Mountain View. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Rig Street pilot steers off-highway users to safe zones

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A pilot project that aims to direct off-highway vehicle users and random campers safely away from oil and gas infrastructure has its work cut out.

Cal Rakach, the project manager for the Clearwater Trails Initiative Rig Street project, said on Tuesday that work is underway putting in two OHV bridges, signage, preparing staging areas and on some trails. But the largest part of the work so far has been the planning, engineering, trail inventory work and obtaining provincial and industry approvals.

“Putting trail on the ground is the easy part, believe it or not,” Rakach said.

The Rig Street region, as it’s known, covers an area west of Caroline, about 13 km by 23 km. It is popular with many off-roaders to take their quads and other vehicles, large camping rigs, and families, for outdoor activities like trail riding, especially on long weekends.

The inventory of space that has been

carved out in the area shows about 190 km of trail and 63 random campsites, of which 25 have been on active well sites.

Signage has started going up that identifies safe and unsafe places to camp. But people are still camping on these sites and even stealing the signs, which feature a friendly Sasquatch caricature.

Despite this, Rakach said he’s found that most of the people camping on live well sites actually work in the oil and gas field.

“They go to work and they put on their Nomex (fireproof clothing) and their hard hats. They know all about this place being dangerous but as soon as they take all of that off, it’s a great place to bring the family and camp.”

A discussion with the project’s oil and gas partners is needed so that the issue is raised during safety meetings, Rakach said.

“How do we change attitudes?”

People like to camp on the well sites, whether they are live or abandoned, because they are grassy, hard flat areas, Rakach said.

The trails initiative is part of a syn-

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A Rig Street sign warning off-highway campers not to set up camp on a well site in the Clearwater Trails area. ergy group that includes, among others, Clearwater County, Sundre Forest Products, Bighorn Heritage ATV Society, several oilpatch companies, Alberta Environment, the Alberta Energy Regulator, and the National Trails Coalition.

What’s unique about this synergy group is that instead of being focused on how industry impacts the community, it is about how the public and community impact industry, Rakach said.

The concerns are about people driving over pipelines routes, causing erosion and other problems, damaging sensitive areas, and camping where it’s not safe in an area that is considered a working forest.

“We are unique in the province trying to address this. That’s why we call ourselves a pilot project,” Rakach said.

Every May long weekend, there is a lot of negative media attention resulting from the large influx into Alberta’s back-country areas. Rakach said they are trying to change this.

“The OHV and random camping community is constantly demonized.

We’re just regular Joes trying to go out here and we’re trying to do the right thing but it’s not set up for us to do the right thing. It’s set up for us to fail. We end up camping on live well sites.

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Rocky wildfire hazard climbing again Another spell of hot weather has seen the fire hazard in the Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area climb back up to high or extreme for some areas in the forest.

Richard Horne, wildfire information officer with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, said on Tuesday that there were six new wildfires in Alberta in the past 24 hours.

Four of them were in the Rocky area, and one each in the Edson and High Level forests.

All four wildfires in the Rocky forest were extinguished. One was caused by lightning and the others are under investigation.

In the previous 24 hours, there were three lightning-caused wildfires in the Rocky area and two were extinguished.

There are now two fires burning, both classified as under control.

Warm, dry weather has pushed the wildfire hazard in the Rocky Wildfire Management Area to high for most of the region and extreme in the western

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sections of David Thompson country.

The Rocky forest has had 115 wildfires this season but only about 165 acres lost.

This is the smallest amount burned of any of Alberta’s 10 wildfire management areas. The highest loss is in the High Level Wildfire Management Area, where 610,000 acres have burned from 303 fires.

Residents and visitors to the Rocky forest area are being urged to take caution as wildfires can start easily

and spread quickly in the current conditions.

As of Tuesday, Alberta had 48 wildfires, none of which are out of control.

Since April 1, 2015, Alberta has recorded 1,589 wildfires that have burned a total of 1.2 million acres.

The forecast high for Rocky Mountain House on Tuesday was 28C, 29C for today and Thursday, and periods of rain by Saturday, with a high of 20C. Wildfires can be reported by calling 310-FIRE (3473).

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MAKING PROGRESS

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Construction crews continue to work on 55th Street in Red Deer. Sections of the roadway are scheduled to be closed to traffic through August while construction is underway. Work this construction season will include lane widening, rebuilding sidewalks, new multi-use pathways, replacement of water lines, replacement of sanitary sewer lines and asphalt overlay to create a smooth roadway from work done in 2014 and 2015.

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BRIEFS Punching fellow prisoner adds to man’s sentence Sitting across from a prisoner he had a history with, Anthony Kardelis walked over and started punching him in the face.

The assault left the other prisoner cut and bloodied.

Kardelis, 34, was being held at the Red Deer Remand Centre on June 2 when he saw the other prisoner on a bench nearby.

That landed him back in court on Tuesday.

Represented by defence counsel Andrew Phypers on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court, Kardelis pleaded guilty to one count of assault before Judge Darrell Riemer.

Kardelis is being held in protective custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre and appeared in court by closed circuit television.

He is serving a six-month sentence for the charges that put him in custody at the time of the assault.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald and Phypers agreed on adding another 30 days to his sentence.

Phypers also requested that Riemer add a recommendation that Kardelis serve his sentence at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre, so he

can be closer to his family.

Downtown group rewarded for Clean Team program Red Deer’s Downtown Business Association is cleaning up in international circles.

The International Downtown Association recently awarded the group a 2015 Downtown Merit Award for its Community Clean Team program.

The DBA program aims to keep the downtown streets litter-free with a team of staff and members from A Gathering Place, a clubhouse for adults with mental illness.

Four members are contracted by the DBA to work with staff to pick up garbage.

Emmanuel Anigbogu, clubhouse manager, said his members are “on cloud nine” about playing a part in securing the award.

“Apart from keeping our community clean, most of our members do not do well in a regular workplace,” said Anigbogu. “Because of their illness, there are lots of discrimination in their workplace. What we are trying to do is devise a work program that will suit their conditions.”

Anigbogu said they do not try to push their members. They are out on the streets for about two hours at a time.

He said it can be a challenge for people living with mental illness to find employment, especially if they are low-functioning.

“By contracting out to Gathering

Place, not only can we provide meaningful daily activity, one of the key ingredients for the success of those suffering from mental illness, we are working with a vulnerable population who many blame as one the reasons they do not frequent downtown, out of fear of being harassed or pan-handled at,” said Amanda Gould, DBA executive director, in a news release.

“In addition to keeping the streets clean, we are building pride in the community and improving the perception of safety.”

The DBA’s program received the award for delivering excellence in downtown management.

Every year the IDA, a Washington, D.C.-based organization, hands out awards in various categories to its 500 member organizations.

Logan Raymond’s death still unsolved five years later Five years after Logan Raymond’s death, RCMP continue to probe the incident.

Raymond, 17, was found on the side of Hwy 2A about 500 metres south of Red Deer on Aug. 12, 2010, at about 1:30 a.m. The site is near the Word of Life Church.

Police and EMS believe Raymond died some time between 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 11 and 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 12.

Police have said in the past that Raymond left a party he attended earlier in the evening and was walking back, alone, to the Penhold area prior to being found dead at the side of the road.

Police continue to look for a ve-

hicle that may have been in the area at or near the time of this incident. It is described as a small dark grey or blue truck with a matching topper (no windows on the topper). It may be an older Ford Ranger with prominently lettered ‘Ford’ on the tailgate.

Police do not know if the vehicle had any direct involvement with this incident.

The investigation continues and anyone with information about this is encouraged to contact the Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Police cracking down on impaired drivers Impaired driving enforcement will be a focus for Red Deer law enforcement this month.

Despite an increased focus by the Red Deer RCMP on impaired driving year-round, police say they have seen the highest numbers of casualty collisions involving impaired drivers during the summer months.

According to police, most impaired collision occur on weekends, and there tends to be an increase to those around long weekends.

“Throughout August, Red Deer RCMP and community peace officers will be actively patrolling and conducting CheckStops to identify and charge those people who continue to make the dangerous choice to drive impaired,” said Sgt. Al Nickolson of Red Deer RCMP traffic services.

“Drivers who choose to drive impaired risk killing or maiming themselves, their friends or someone else.”

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“We don’t have a designated trail system.”

The project has received $390,000 in matching funding so far, which must be spent this year.

Besides the paperwork that’s being done, bridges for two creek crossings will hopefully be completed this month — one across the Raven River and the other across the Little Stoney Creek that runs into the west side of Burnstick Lake. They are in wide riparian low-lying areas. The crossings will cost between $30,000 and $40,000 each, and will be able to handle OHV

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One staging area in a old gravel pit, near the Boundary Store west of Ricinus, has been prepared by leveling it and opening up an approach road. It will have a kiosk with a map that will direct people onto trails. Another staging area in the Burnstick Lake area is planned.

Right now people are parking to unload their OHVs wherever they can find an open spot, Rakach said.

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Tips for a healthy school year Students are most likely to get sick when school starts because being at school put children’s immune systems to the test, offers The Mayo Clinic. Young children who are in close proximity to others in large groups tend to spread organisms like bacteria and viruses that cause illness. Breaking the cycle can take some work, but it’s possible to make this a healthy school year.

Encourage handwashing Frequent handwashing is a great way to prevent illness.

Handwashing habits are essential for school-aged children and should be taught as soon as possible. Children should wash their hands after

they use the bathroom and before they eat. If they’ve been playing outside or have interacted with children who are sick, handwashing can help remove some of the germs lingering on their hands.

Antibacterial wipes are another option, but they may not be as effective as washing hands with warm, soapy water.

Stop (some) sharing Sharing develops good manners and can foster new friendships.

But children should be discouraged from sharing food, drinks and other personal items.

Once the item has been placed in a child’s mouth, it should not be shared.

Take a sick day Rare is the student who will never come down with an illness. When kids get sick, keep them at home. Schools may have guidelines indicating when it is acceptable for children to return to school, and it’s important that parents adhere to those guidelines so illnesses cannot spread around the school.

adjusting sleep schedules during the latter part of summer vacation so that children can readjust to their regular sleep schedules.

Parents also should feed kids nutritious diets consisting of a variety of foods. Avoid highcalorie junk foods, reserving such items only as special treats every so often.

Promote adequate sleep Donate cleaning supplies Some schools may be and nutrition underfunded and may not have While adults may need between seven and nine hours of sleep a night, children often require more. The National Sleep Foundation recommends eight to 13 hours of sleep a night for school-aged children. Begin

enough supplies to keep all of the classrooms and surfaces clean. Parents can help by donating cleaning wipes and sprays so that students and teachers can thrive in clean, healthy environments.

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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School Grade 6 - 9 321 Lindsay Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3M1 Phone: 403-314-1449 Fax: 403-314-3210 www.stfrancisschool.ca

Holy Family School Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 5 Before & After School Program 69 Douglas Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 2L3 Phone: 403-341-3777 Fax: 403-346-1699 www. holyfamilyschool.ca

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St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School Grade 6 - 9 St. Elizabeth Seton School 3821 - 39 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 0Y6 Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 5 Phone: 403-346-8951 Fax: 403-346-2125 35 Addinell Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1V5 www.staschool.ca Phone: 403-343-6017 Fax: 403-343-6035 École Secondaire Notre Dame High www.stelizabethsetonschool.ca School

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1928 — The close of IX Olympiad in Amsterdam. Canada comes away with four gold medals: Percy Williams in the 100-metre dash and 200-metre dash; Ethel Catherwood in the

high jump, and the women’s four-by-100metre relay team.

1914 — Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; Canada is automatically involved.

1892 — The first electric streetcars start operating in Toronto. They are converted from horse-drawn vehicles.

1882 — Grand Trunk and Great Western railroads amalgamate into Grand Trunk Railway.

1877 — Thomas Edison invents the phonograph and makes the first sound recording.

1768 — An Imperial order-in-council confirms border between Canada and New York.

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Characters are key MINDY KALING AND THE REVITALIZATION OF THE ROMANTIC COMEDY

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Beth Grant, Zoe Jarman, Ike Barinholtz, Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks and Chris Messina in ‘The Mindy Project.‘

COMMENT The movie reaches its dramatic climax not over the question of whether Amy and Aaron will get together, but whether they can stay together despite their different styles and life experiences. Seeing these two characters we’ve come to care for and the relationship we have invested in reach a point of danger is a great way for romantic comedy to increase the stakes of storytelling without resorting to leaving bodies on the floor.

The same is true of FX’s outstanding romantic comedy You’re The Worst, which followed a similar arc to Trainwreck in its first season: Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) hooked up at a wedding, only to find

that they wanted their encounter to be something other than a one-night stand. Both of them have personality characteristics that make relationships difficult. Jimmy has a tendency towards cruelty that he defends as a sort of radical honesty, while Gretchen is a habitual liar to the point that her core personality is rather undeveloped.

But it’s possible to root for these ostensibly terrible people because of how hard they’re working on themselves and for each other. You’re the Worst” is simultaneously emotionally risky and tremendously gratifying.

And Amazon’s Catastrophe jumps even further and faster ahead than any of the stories I’ve mentioned here: American Rob (Rob Delaney) gets Sharon (Sharon Hogan) pregnant during a weekend trip to the U.K., and they try to make a go of it, all from the first epi-

sode. It’s a blunt and charming rejection of the canard that marriages and babies bog down sitcoms.

Television is leading movies in any number of areas right now: with increasingly great roles for women and people of colour; ambitious cinematography; and rich, complex storytelling about topics ranging from the prison experience to the survival of Israel.

And while the revitalization of the romantic comedy may not be as pressing an issue as the diversification of a woefully monochrome media or telling urgent stories to new audiences, it’s a delight to see television making an assertive, mature statement that building a relationship is the real adventure.

Alyssa Rosenberg writes The Post’s Act Four blog, at http://www.washingtonpost. com/news/act-four/.

Colbert eager to crack wise about Trump

BY HANK STUEVER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — No one is more eager for CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert to start next month than Colbert himself. He prays every night for GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to stay healthy “until I can get on the air.”

“I want to do Donald Trump so badly. I’m dry-Trumping,” Colbert told a roomful of journalists Monday afternoon at the Television Critics Association’s press tour. (Then, tickled at his own joke, he took a minute to tweet that out, turning “dryTrumping” into a hashtag.)

“Can’t wait to get on the air Sept 8th.

Until then: #dryTrumping” “I’m anxious to get on the air,” said Colbert, whose old show on Comedy Central signed off in December.

“I don’t like comedy in theory. That’s just theology, I want to get to the religion.” The only nervousness he has is an “anxiety about the eagerness to get on stage.”

Earlier in the day, CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler said she has the highest hopes for the new show.

“What you will find is someone who is very of-the-moment,” she said. “We are coming into an election year. Who are you going to want to hear from? Who

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The kilt wearing trashtalker who headlined the first WrestleMania died of cardiac arrest on July 31 at his California home. He was 61.

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are you going to want to watch? It’s going to be Stephen.” Tassler said she expects that Late Show viewers will, in addition to laughing a lot, see “interviews of substance.”

Other news about Late Show, which premieres Tuesday, Sept. 8: ● George Clooney is booked for the first show (“I hope someone has let [Clooney] know; it’s going to be very awkward if he doesn’t show up,” Colbert said); Kendrick Lamar is the show’s first musical guest. The show has already booked several weeks’ worth of guests, well into the fall season. ● Moving in: The staff — many of whom came with Colbert from Comedy Central — recently moved into offices at the Ed Sullivan Theater, the Late Show’s home since 1993. The theater has undergone a complete makeover, taking it back to its origins as a Broadway-style theater. “I find it a very intimate space now,” Colbert said.

Advancements in sound and lighting technology, he said, require less equipment on and around the stage. ● Paradigm shift: The desk is moving to the other side. Colbert said he had a long afternoon meeting with his predecessor, David Letterman, during which he asked Letterman if there was anything he’d wished he’d done differently. “I wish I’d tried moving the desk to the other side,” was Letterman’s

reply. ● Format? When asked if Late Show With Stephen Colbert will subvert the usual format (monologue, desk bits, guest, another guest, followed by musical guest) Colbert suggested that it won’t be too radical, but “CBS has asked nothing of me other than I fill an hour every night Monday through Friday.” He said he feels free to set whatever tone and invite whatever guests suit him. ● Trump jokes aside, he’s most looking forward to interviewing guests. Interviews were his favourite part of The Colbert Report, and now, he said, “I feel more freed up,” when it comes to engaging guests. On the old show, “Everything had to go through an occipital CPU up here,” he said, pointing to his noggin, in order for the old “Stephen Colbert” character (an ill-informed conservative blowhard) to converse with them. Now the real Colbert can take over. ● So who is the real Stephen Colbert? It’s the question that simply will not go away. Colbert said that if you go on YouTube and look for supercuts culled from The Colbert Report where he starts laughing and breaks character, “that’s the real me. I don’t think anybody would have watched (The Colbert Report) if they didn’t know I was playing a character — that guy was a real tool.”

in the Portland, Oregon, area, where he maintained a home. They ask fans around the world to join them in a moment of silence at 10:30 a.m. PDT. Born Roderick Toombs, Piper rose to fame in the 1980s as he battled Hulk Hogan. Though Canadian, he often ap-

peared in a kilt and came to the ring blowing bagpipes in a nod to his Scottish heritage.

Another private memorial for Piper is scheduled for Monday at the Comedy Store in Hollywood.

Festival ads documentaries about Franklin, Arcade Fire

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Documentaries about Aretha Franklin and Arcade Fire and a tense drama with James Franco and Rachel McAdams have been added to the lineup at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Festival organizers have announced a slew of music-themed documentaries including Amazing Grace,na look at Franklin’s recording of her bestselling album. Footage was captured by the late Sydney Pollack in Los Angeles in 1972.

Meanwhile, The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble profiles the legendary cellist; The Reflektor Tapes looks at the making of the Arcade Fire album Reflektor; Janis: Little Girl Blue delves into the life of late rock legend Janis Joplin; and Miss Sharon Jones! from Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple follows the R&B queen during her battle with cancer.

The Masters program includes Wim Wenders’s drama Every Thing Will Be Fine, starring Franco and McAdams in a story about a writer who accidentally kills a boy in a road accident.

The 40th Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 10 to 20.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Hulu, which snagged The Mindy Project after Fox canceled it earlier this year, brought the show to the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. And I took the opportunity to ask series creator and showrunner Mindy Kaling a question that’s been on my mind for a while, and that’s particularly pressing in a television context, where a story doesn’t wrap up in 90 minutes: What happens to a romantic comedy after the main characters get together, decide to stay together and even have a baby?

“I’ll say that the best romantic comedies are the ones with characters.

And if the characters aren’t good when the characters get together, it’s not going to be interesting, because all you’re following is plot,” she argued.

“And what I have noticed in, I guess, spoiler, like my character (Dr. Mindy Lahiri) had to give birth with (Chris Messina’s Danny Castellano) there, and their approaches to even that is that if they’re good enough and you can have characters grow old together, have grandchildren, do so many things, get married, get divorced and it will be interesting. And so I love romantic comedies. But I like good characters better.”

It was a good answer, and it’s also an excellent diagnosis for what went wrong with romantic comedies after 2005, when the genre embraced increasingly ludicrous premises to explain why its characters wouldn’t get together until the final moments of a film. And Kaling’s response also explains how romantic comedies are finding their way back on screens big and small by emphasizing not the challenge of finding a perfect mate, but all the drama that follows once you’ve found someone terrific and have to do all the hard work of finding out how to build a life together.

This was one of the great gifts of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck. In that film, Amy (Schumer) and Aaron (Bill Hader) meet relatively early, go to bed relatively early and become a couple fairly naturally and quickly. The comedy that follows is rooted in the compromises — Aaron craves commitment, while Amy shares her father’s (Colin Quinn) skepticism of monogamy — the couple reach as they try to make their relationship work.

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The Red Deer Advocate is publishing our annual special feature

BACK TO SCHOOL

in the Wednesday, August 12 edition

Readers will find insightful features on what parents, guardians, teachers and students need to know for preparing for school. Important information on when the school year begins for public and private schools will highlight this section.

To book space in this special section, on n, se enta ati tive ve. please contact your Advocate sales representative.

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Obituaries

COUPER Donna Arlene Couper of Edmonton, Alberta passed away on July 31, 2015 at Edmonton. She was blessed with 57 years of life. She was born in Red Deer, Alberta on April 14, 1958. She is survived by her brother Dan Couper (Debbie), and family, sister Debbie Eckenswiller and family, sister Helen McIntyre and family, and Greg Couper and family.

Also, a very special aunt, Beulah Lind and several cousins. She was predeceased by her father William Couper, her mother Viola Couper, and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. A memorial service will be held at the Beverley Group Home at 3641-112 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta from 12-3 on August 13, 2015.

Donations can be made to a charity of your choice or a tree can be planted in her honor.

DVORNEK Kathleen “June” Kathleen “June’’ Dvornek (nee Adams) passed away peacefully on August 7, 2015 at the age of 87 years. She was born in Calgary on September 15, 1927, the oldest of seven children. She married the love of her life, Mike Dvornek on January 8, 1949. They homesteaded and raised their family in High Prairie and lived there until he passed away in 1981.

She moved to Markerville in 1982, then to Penhold in 1995. June loved life on the farm, was passionate about animals; horses in particular. She was predeceased by her parents Victor and Flora Adams and her loving husband Mike.

She will be sadly missed by her children Kathy (Guy) L’Heureux of Joussard, Lyla Shelton (Norm) of Kelowna, Lorne Dvornek (Sherry) of Valleyview, David (Joyce) Dvornek of High Prairie and Helen (Ralph) Frank of Penhold. As well as 10 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren, 6 siblings and numerous nieces and nephews.

A Memorial Service for June will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, August 14, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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Trades

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JJAM Management (1987) GOODMEN SPARTEK Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s ROOFING LTD. SYSTEMS INC Requires to work at these Requires In Sylvan Lake, AB WHAT’S HAPPENING Red Deer, AB locations: is seeking qualified 5111 22 St. CLASSIFICATIONS SLOPED ROOFERS MECHANICAL 37444 HWY 2 S LABOURERS 50-70 ENGINEERS 37543 HWY 2N & FLAT ROOFERS and 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Coming MECHANICAL Valid Driver’s Licence Permanent P/T, F/T shift. preferred. Fax or email DRAFTSPERSON Events Wknd, day, night & eves. info@goodmenroofing.ca Please refer to our website Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. at www.sparteksystems. or (403)341-6722 40 hrs/week, + benefits , NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! com for company informa8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., tion. Applicants please criminal record check req’d. forward resume to: CELEBRATIONS Req’d education some keri.lee@sparteksystems.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY secondary. Apply in com or fax to 403-887-4050 IN CLASSIFIEDS person or fax resume to: Please state which position 403-314-1303 For full job you are applying for in your Looking for a place All Visits are Free. description visit www. cover letter. to live? timhortons.com No Obligation.

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Take a tour through the Compliments of See Help Wanted CLASSIFIEDS JJAM Management (1987) Local Businesses.

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these HVAC SERVICE Truckers/ Red Deer, AB locations: TECH REQUIRED Drivers Are you new to the 5111 22 St. Experience in neighbourhood?

37444 HWY 2 S troubleshooting and repair Expecting a Baby?

37543 HWY 2N BUSY Central Alberta of furnaces, air condition700 3020 22 St. Grain Trucking Company Planning a ers and commercial Food Service Supervisor looking for Class 1 Drivers Wedding? rooftop units. Must have Req’d permanent shift and/or Lease Operators. proficiency in customer weekend day and evening service and work in a team We offer lots of home time, Call or visit us online! both full and part time. benefits and a bonus environment. For interview, 1-844-299-2466 4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + program. Grain and super contact Brad Johnson welcomewagon.ca medical, dental, life and viB exp. an asset but not Brad@ sion benefits. Start ASAP. necessary. If you have a ComfortecHeating.com Job description clean commercial drivers 403-588-8399 www.timhortons.com abstract and would like to Lost Experience 1 yr. to less start making good money.

TOO MUCH STUFF? than 2 yrs. fax or email resume and Let Classifieds Apply in person or fax comm. abstract to LOST HUAWAI cell phone help you sell it.

403-337-3758 or in brown holder some- resume to: 403-314-1303 dtl@telus.net where in North Red Deer 403-347-0844

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OTTLEY Rachel Alma Rachel Alma Ottley of Penhold, Alberta formerly of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, passed away peacefully at Innisfail, Alberta, on August 7, 2015 at the age of 91. Rachel was born December 1, 1923 at Grand Forks, British Columbia.

She was predeceased by her siblings Lee Baldry and Grace Kvale and in March 2005, her husband Albert. She leaves to mourn her son Cameron (Janet) of Mission, B.C.; daughter Cherry Peterson of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta; five grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Special thanks to the doctor and staff at the Innsifail Hospital, Monica and Milt Leyman and family as well as numerous neighborhood friends for the many kindnesses and generosities over the years.

Words cannot express the family’s appreciation for all the love given in our absence. A celebration of Rachel’s life will be held at the Ridgewood Hall, west of Penhold, Alberta by way of a memorial luncheon on August 14, 2015 from 2 pm to 4 pm.

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GENT looking for a lady in her 60’s to go out or travel.

Please leave phone number. Reply to Box 1110, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

60 YR Old lady with MS seeking F/T live-in nurse maid in country. Drivers licence would be an asset.

Wages $15.75/hr. per 44 hr. week. 403-722-2182 or email: wayneleorasmith@gmail.com

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COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

Classifieds 309-3300 Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • • •

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca Snubbing supervisors, operators and Roughnecks for project work in camp.

Redline Well Control offers full benefit package for you and your family. Daily job bonuses. Top wages.

Priority to Clean Class 1 license holders. info@ redlinewell.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca ROOFING LABOURER REQ’D. 403-314-9516 Please leave a message or call 403-350-1520.

1 Blk. of Davison Dr., Dietz Cl. and Durie Cl.

NORTH HILL (6889 50 AVE) LOCATION

GRANDVIEW AREA 40A Ave between 39 St. & 46 St. and 41 Ave. Area $58./mo.

FULL TIME

SUPERVISORS • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

EASTVIEW AREA Elder St. and Ebert Ave. $49.00/mo MICHENER AREA 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40th Ave and 43 Ave Michener Dr and 50A St. between 40 Ave. and 42 Ave. $122.00/mo.

MOUNTAINVIEW AREA Spruce Dr. to 41 Ave, between 32 and 35 St. $187.00/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Rosedale

Announcements the informative choice!

ACADEMIC Express

DEER PARK AREA

SYLVAN LAKE BARBER req’s P/T Stylist/Barber, Drop resume off or contact Sherry at 403-887-4022

Oilfield

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

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Companions

Hair Stylists

Bill and Beryl Burkin 95th Birthday and 75th year Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, August 15 from 1 to 6 p.m. at 10 Inglewood Drive, Red Deer. Please come on out and help us CELEBRATE this CRAZY LOVE FOR THEM.

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Advocate Opportunities

NEW sunglasses found near Barrett Dr. Call 403-342-4225 to describe

JASON CHRISTOPHER (LACOMBE) MONTGOMERY July 2, 1972 - August 10, 1990

Celebrations

Restaurant/ Hotel

860

F/T TOW TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract.

Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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In Memoriam

The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began, now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet, until it joins some longer way, where many paths and errands meet. And whither then - I cannot say. Until we meet again. Miss your beautiful smile and the big hugs.

Mom

Truckers/ Drivers

44 ROOT CLOSE, Thurs.

Aug. 13, 4-8:30 Moving, must sell: dressers, wrought iron headboard, wood filing cabinet, many household goods.

Misc.

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Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Ramage Cres. area, Ralston Cres, Root Close & 3 blocks of Reichley St. $200.00/mo. *************************************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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GROW WITH US Excellent Salary with Benefits CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays.

We’re looking for someone with: • A commitment to excellence • Good communication skills • Good physical fitness • Mechanical aptitude • Good hand/eye coordination

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in restorative cleaning!

Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to MancusoCleaning #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2 www.mancusocleaning.com

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Antiques & Art

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

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Advocate Opportunities ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. IN

Inglewood Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. in

Riverside Meadows Flyer carriers needed for afternoon delivery 2 days/week Wed. & Fri. on 61 & 60A St.

Children's Items

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CHILDS golf clubs w/5 clubs and bag, $40; battery operated cash register w/play money, works as calculator $30; pizza set by Melissa and Doug, complete like new cond, $15 403-314-9603

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PLAYPEN, Grayco, in good condition. $20.

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To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Innisfail Penhold Lacombe Sylvan Lake Olds Blackfalds Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Children's Items

1580

WAGONS, (3) child’s. $30. each. 403-755-0785 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Clothing

1590

MOTORCYLCE Jacket, men’s 2XL, Open Road.

Worn twice, $75. FIRM. 403-304-0554 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Computers

1600

2 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

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1640

Tools

VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. 403-885-5020

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

KENTWOOD

1710

GE 30” black top, smooth electric self cleaning stove, 4 burners, good cond., $300 obo 403-782-4292

Household Furnishings

1720

HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50.

403-340-1347

INGLEWOOD

call: 403-314-4394 or email: carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Household Appliances

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

EquipmentHeavy

COMPUTER chair, barely B.C. Birch, Aspen, used. $40. 403-986-2108 Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

CARRIERS NEEDED

Red Deer Ponoka Sylvan Lake Lacombe

CARRIERS REQUIRED

1580

CHILD’S wooden storage bench, $40. 403-986-2108

Routes Available in Your Neighborhood

Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

1520

1906 TREDDLE sewing machine, oak cabinet, very good cond. $199.

403-877-0825

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WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

BATHROOM MIRROR, 3’x4’, $35. 403-347-0293

SUNNYBROOK

COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

403-885-5020

SOUTHBROOKE

OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

WEST LAKE WEST PARK

POT belly stove w/chimney’s pail shovel and poker, used in garage, exc. cond. $200 SOLD!

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WEDGE FOAM piece, 8” high. $20. 403-986-2108

Call RICK @ 403- 314-4303 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Cats

1830

2 Siamese, 2 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649

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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

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

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’,

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

5th whl., large slide, exc. cond.

403-227-6794, 505-4193

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN.. Priced to buy Call 403-318 3040

2006 CHEVY Silverado, well-maintained, 200,000 km, $7,800 obo 403-352-3160

2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded.

Clean.. Priced to Buy Call 340-318 3040

2008 HONDA CIVIC LX, 139,400 km., exc. con., carproof, $7,900 obo 1-403-396-9369

2009 VENZA AWD, fully loaded, 39,000 kms. $18,999.

403-347-4830

2012 ZINGER trailer, Thor built, 27’ , hard wall, large slide, air, elec. awning, $17,900 obo 403-896-8860

2008 LINCOLN Navigator 4x4 exc. shape, tan

2010 BUICK Enclave CXL 124,000 kms, absolutely like new, Gold Mist $24,000 403-845-3292

2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, loaded w/saddle bags, windshield,

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2015 TOYOTA 4Runner Limited, remote start, lots of extras, 490 km, $53,000 obo.

403-392-5446

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Amnesty International is accusing U.N. peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic, the latest in a series of sexual and other allegations against peacekeepers there.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “personally dismayed and disappointed,” his spokesman said Tuesday. “We would like to emphasize once more that no misconduct of this nature will be tolerated,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

The UN, however, has no powers of criminal investigation or prosecution, leaving it up to peacekeepers’ home countries — which U.N. officials often don’t name publicly.

Amnesty International said the two incidents on Aug. 2 and 3 occurred as the peacekeepers from Rwanda and Cameroon were carrying out an operation in the capital, Bangui. UN peacekeepers have been in the country since September to try to calm unprecedented, deadly violence between Christians and Muslims.

The girl was hiding in a bathroom when a man wearing a UN peacekeeping helmet and vest “took her outside and raped her behind a truck,” a statement from the human rights group said. It said a nurse who examined the girl “found medical evidence consistent with sexual assault.”

The next day, after armed clashes with residents had killed a soldier from Cameroon and wounded several others, peacekeepers went to the area and “began shooting indiscriminately in the street where the killings had taken place,” the group said.

Amnesty International said resident Balla Hadji, 61, and his son Souleimane Hadji, 16, were shot and killed outside their home. The group said it interviewed 15 witnesses immediately after both incidents, plus the 12-year-old girl and her family.

“An independent civilian investigation must be urgently launched, and those implicated must be suspended immediately and for the duration of the investigation,” the organization’s senior crisis response adviser, Joanne Mariner, said.

But one week after the UN was first informed of the allegations, it was not clear just how the peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic was looking into them. The UN peacekeeping office in New York wasn’t informed until Monday, despite its recent order to all peacekeeping missions to immediately tell it about any such allegations.

The mission’s spokesperson, Hamadoun Toure, told The Associated Press that “personally, I don’t think” the rape occurred. He said the peacekeepers had been trying to execute an arrest warrant for local judicial authorities when they were attacked, and that the girl was the sister of the suspect they were trying to arrest.

“I don’t know how we can reach out to this girl.

They won’t accept any contact,” said Toure, interviewed by telephone from Central African Republic.

He said the mission doesn’t have the names or details of the accused peacekeepers.

In an email from Bangui, the Amnesty International researcher in Central African Republic, Jonathan Pedneault, said the peacekeeping mission’s human rights division has “sadly, due to their own security constraints” not yet been able to investigate at the scene.

“In the rape case, the operation took place in the dead of night in a frantic atmosphere,” lit only by the peacekeepers’ flashlights amid a local power cut, he said.

He said an international medical organization has been following the girl but that UNICEF has not yet been able to visit her family. The UN has been under international scrutiny over its handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic last year, and an independent panel is now looking into that case.

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Echoing Kerry’s case, 36 retired generals and admirals released an open letter on Tuesday urging Congress to back the deal.

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10 killed, 5 injured in southern China coal mine accident, rescue work underway BEIJING — Authorities in southern China say 10 people have been killed and five injured in a coal mining accident.

The Pu’an county government in Guizhou province said on its website that 56 of those in the mine had safely reached the surface and rescue work was continuing. It wasn’t clear whether any miners remained unaccounted for.

The notice didn’t give a cause for Tuesday night’s accident, although the official Xinhua News Agency says it appeared to have been a gas explosion.

China’s mining industry has seen a dramatic improvement in safety, with deaths falling to under 1,000 last year from more than 6,000 per year a decade ago.

At the same time, demand for coal has plateaued as China’s economy decelerates from the headlong rush of the last decade.

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A “get well soon” balloon floats in the contaminated waters of the Animas River flowing through Durango, Colo., Monday.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Townspeople watching millions of gallons of orange-colored mine waste flow through their communities demanded clarity Tuesday about possible long-term threats to their water supply.

Colorado and New Mexico made disaster declarations for stretches of the Animas and San Juan rivers and the Navajo Nation declared an emergency as the toxic waste spread downstream toward Lake Powell in Utah.

EPA workers accidentally unleashed an estimated 3 million gallons (11.36 million litres) of mine waste, including high concentrations of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, as they inspected the long-abandoned Gold King mine near Silverton, Colorado, on Aug. 5.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., that she takes full responsibility for the spill, which she said “pains me to no end.”

She said the agency is working around the clock to assess the environmental impact.

EPA officials said the shocking orange plume has already dissipated and that the leading edge of the contamination cannot be seen in the downstream stretches of the San Juan River or Lake Powell.

So far, the Bureau of Reclamation has no plans to slow flows on the lower Colorado River, below Lake Powell, where the water is a vital resource for parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

Chris Watt, a bureau spokesman in Salt Lake City, said his agency is testing the water at the request of the EPA, and can’t discuss the impact without learning the results.

None of this has eased concerns or quelled anger among people in the arid Southwest who depend on this water for their survival.

The Navajos, whose sovereign nation covers parts of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, shut down water intake systems and stopped diverting water from the San Juan River. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye told The Associated Press that regional EPA officials told him the cleanup could take decades.

“Decades. That is totally, completely unsettling,” Begaye said.

“This is a huge issue. This river, the San Juan, is our lifeline, not only in a spiritual sense but also it’s an economic base that sustains the people that live along the river. You’re taking away the livelihood and maybe taking it away from them for decades. ...

That is just, to me, a disaster of a huge proportion.

And we have yet to hear from the Obama administration.”

The Attorneys General of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado have been co-ordinating a response to protect their citizens and ensure “whatever remediation is necessary occurs as quickly as possible,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a statement.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert expressed disappointment with the EPA’s initial handling of the spill, but said the state has no plans for legal action. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, however, said she would not take anything off the table and that the EPA should be held to the same standards as industry.

“Right now we have people preparing for a lawsuit if that is what we need to do,” she said in a Tuesday television interview.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, himself a former geologist, visited a contaminated stretch of river Tuesday and said he hopes a “silver lining” to the disaster will be a more aggressive state and federal effort to deal with mining’s “legacy of pollution” across the West.

The EPA has said the current flows too fast for the contaminants to pose an immediate health threat, and that the heavy metals will likely be diluted over time so that they don’t pose a longer-term threat, either.

Still, as a precautionary measure, the agency said stretches of the rivers would be closed for drinking water, recreation and other uses at least through Aug. 17.

Dissolved iron is what turned the waste plume an alarming orange-yellow, a colour familiar to old-time miners who call it “yellow boy.”

“The water appears worse esthetically than it actually is, in terms of health,” said Ron Cohen, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the Colorado School of Mines.

Turkish warplanes strike 17 PKK targets

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish rebel targets in a series of raids in southeast Turkey, the military said Tuesday, a day after heavy violence in the country left at least nine dead.

The Turkish military said jets hit 17 targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, around the Buzul mountain and the Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq, and later also targeted two anti-aircraft guns in the neighbouring province of Sirnak, along the Iraqi border.

In further violence Tuesday, Kurdish rebels attacked an infantry brigade command post in Sirnak, seriously wounding a soldier who later died in a hospital.

On Monday, nine people, including five police officers, were killed in separate attacks in Istanbul and in the southeastern Sirnak province which were blamed on the PKK. The group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for bombing the police station and

a subsequent attack on police officers inspecting the scene, according to the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency, which is close to the rebels. It said the attack was carried out in honour of a PKK fighter killed in a Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq.

Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and Kurdish rebels in recent weeks.

More than 50 people, mostly police and soldiers, have died during the renewed violence that has wrecked an already fragile peace process with the Kurds.

Turkish warplanes have raided PKK targets in Iraq and in southeast Turkey in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria since late July. The main focus of the raids however, has been the PKK. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey’s battle against the PKK would continue until the group disarms.

Bomb blamed on Boko Haram kills 24 in Nigeria MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A bomb blast killed at least 24 people in northeastern Nigeria and hundreds of fighters invaded a town across the border in Cameroon in attacks Tuesday that witnesses and officials blame on Boko Haram Islamic extremists.

These are the latest in a string of bombings and village raids that have killed hundreds in recent weeks as officials promise the deployment of a regional army to halt the Nigerian-born Islamic uprising that has killed some 20,000 in six years and spilled across the West African nation’s borders.

In Cameroon, troops repelled an attack on Ashigashia, killing 10 and forcing the insurgents to retreat, said military spokesman Col. Jaco Kodji. Two soldiers were wounded but no civilians were reported injured, he said.

In the northeastern Nigerian village of Sabon Gari, civilian defence volunteers collected bodies and body parts of 24 people who died in an explosion around midday, said the group’s spokesman Abbas Gava. Almost all victims are believed to be traders at the market, Gava said.

A nurse at Biu hospital 25 miles (40 kilometres) away said they received more than 20 bodies burned beyond recognition and are treating 41 survivors.

A regional army of 8,750 troops from five nations was supposed to be deployed in November but has been delayed. Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari, who was inaugurated at the end of May, had pledged the force would be active by the end of July.

Delays have been blamed on funding and uneasy relations between Nigeria and its neighbours.

The U.S. “strongly condemns” the attack on the market and believes “the eople of northern Nigeria deserve to live free from violence and from terror,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.

Kirby said the U.S. would continue to provide a range of counter-terrorism assistance to help Nigeria and its regional partners fight against Boko Haram.

Vandals spray paint pre-Hispanic petroglyphs in central Mexican state MEXICO CITY — Mexico attorney general’s office says it has opened an investigation into the spraypainting of pre-Hispanic stone carvings in a cave in central Mexico.

The office says unknown vandals defaced ceremonial carvings of a celestial sky inside a site known as the Devil’s Cave in Tlaxcala state.

The site is believed to have been used by shamans for agricultural rituals and is surrounded by hallucinogenic plants used in the ceremonies, said anthropologist J. Guadalupe Perez, director of social communication for San Juan Totolac, the town where the damaged petroglyphs were found.

The attorney general said in a statement Tuesday that red spray paint was found on the carvings, violating a federal law protecting monuments and archeological sites.

Tlaxcala is the same state where residents recently tore down an 18th century chapel.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAM TOK, Thailand — Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of the Second World War’s iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a railway that cost the lives of more than 100,000 Allied prisoners and Asians enslaved by Japan’s Imperial Army.

As the 70th anniversary of the war’s end approaches and its veterans dwindle by the day, the aging Australian still slogs along the 415-km length of “Death Railway.” With his own money, he maps its vanishing course, uncovers POW relics and with his vast database helps brings closure to relatives of the dead — not only those who perished building the railway, but also those who went to their graves never having shared their traumas.

Beattie acknowledges to being a man obsessed.

“The life I have given isn’t just for them but for their descendants,” he says.

“Their children are now at an age where they have retired. They’ve got time to ask questions — ‘Where was my father? What happened to him?”’

And many, bringing along their own children and even grandchildren, are making what Beattie calls pilgrimages to the railway to seek answers, find peace and shed tears.

One daughter he escorted was able to learn for the first time exactly where her father, Pvt. Jack McCarthy, died on July 21, 1943, of what diseases and where he was initially buried.

Then Beattie took her to his final resting place, beneath a headstone brightened by a single poppy.

Another daughter recently came fixated on whether wild bananas contained black seeds the POWs would suck for sustenance. It was something her father often recounted. When they found some, it seemed to authenticate and illuminate all that her father told her about his ordeal.

“It made her very happy,” Beattie said.

Arguably the world’s authority on this drama of inhumanity and courage in a green hell, this one-man band has also busted myths and plain inaccuracies that have accumulated around the railway. Some are drawn from a still-ongoing parade of memoirs, novels and films, from the classic 1957 movie classic The Bridge on the River Kwai to The Railway Man in 2013 and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a novel that won Britain’s top literary prize last year.

He’s driven, he says, “for history’s sake. To give people a true version of the story. After I leave or pass away, who would otherwise know where the railway was?”

Beattie, 67, clambers down a steep slope where the track has been replaced by a rolling field of tapioca. Within 15 minutes, aided by a metal detector and pickax, he uncovered 11 relics under the reddish soil, including railway staples and bolts. He also gathered clues to the location of a labour camp, Tampii South, that he has yet to pinpoint.

Tampii South was among a string of POW camps along the railway, which the Japanese regarded as a strategic supply line from Japanese-controlled Thailand to their forces in Myanmar as Allied warships made the sea route around the Malay Peninsula increasingly hazardous. Completed in 15 months, the railway was an incredible feat of engineering and

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Rod Beattie uses a metal detector in a tapioca field as he looks for artifacts of the Death Railway, built during the Second World War, in Nam Tok, Kanchanaburi province, Thailand. As the 70th anniversary of the war’s end approaches and its veterans dwindle by the day, Beattie, an Australian, still slogs along the 415km length of Death Railway where more than 100,000 Allied prisoners and Asians were enslaved by Japan’s Imperial Army to build the line along the Thailand-Myanmar border. With his own money, he maps its vanishing course, uncovers POW relics and with his vast database helps brings closure to relatives of those who perished and survivors who went to their graves never having shared their traumas. human toil.

More than 12,000 Australian, British, Dutch and American prisoners died along with an estimated 90,000 Asians, including Tamils from Malaysia, Burmese and Indonesians — some 250 corpses for every kilometre of track. Working with primitive tools and their bare hands, the prisoners succumbed to cholera, beriberi, starvation, executions and despair.

A civil engineer in Australia, Beattie arrived in Thailand in 1990 to work as a consultant in the gems industry. He settled in the western Thailand town of Kanchanaburi, a key railway terminus and site of the infamous bridge on the River Kwai. His passion was kindled by the history around him and his own background: two of his uncles had been killed and his father twice wounded in World War II. Beattie himself served in the Australian military for six years.

In the mid-1990s, with machetes and chain saws, he and his Vietnamese wife, Thuy, eight months pregnant, cleared 4.5 kilometres (2 miles) of rail bed at a rock cutting known as Hellfire Pass, paving the way for a memorial and museum there. In 2003, he opened the Thailand-Burma Railway Center in Kanchanaburi, both a research facility and a superb museum incorporating some of the thousands of artifacts he had uncovered.

Although Japanese atrocities are graphically depicted, it is not a mere museum of horrors. Japanese soldiers also suffered hardships and savage commanders, and not all are portrayed as brutes. The exhibits include rare photographs provided by a

Japanese engineer on the railway.

Beattie has corrected misconceptions about the railway that had made it into a number of history books, including some that flatly state that Japanese guards killed 68 Australian POWs at Hellfire Pass.

He proved that the guards killed no Australians there by going through a database of 105,000 records of nearly every prisoner in Southeast Asia.

Beattie found that Allied POW records were so sketchy that some relatives even had false information about where their fathers died. He said the index cards that Japan’s Imperial Army kept on every POW sometimes have proved more helpful than Australian officialdom. He also dug into archives around the world including hospital and burial records, cemetery maps, regimental documents and diaries to reconstruct the tortured odysseys of thousands.

He offers them to any who want to know, and has received decorations from Australia, the Netherlands and Great Britain for his work.

Beattie’s ongoing work includes a detailed GPS mapping of the entire rail line that in Thailand is 60 per cent completed. Earlier, logging more than 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) on foot, he plotted the Thai end and some of the Myanmar stretch on a 1:50,000 map.

“Probably when I die,” he says when asked when he’ll halt his self-imposed mission.

Beattie’s labours seem a race against the clock: The railway is vanishing along with those who built it.

Testing a self-sustaining future of farming VENARIA REALE, Italy — Luca Remmert’s dream of running a self-sustainable farm is within sight. He produces energy from corn and grain near the northern Italian city of Turin and hopes in the not too distant future to run all of his eight tractors on methane generated at the farm.

Remmert’s 450-hectare (1,100-acre) La Bellotta farm has been testing a second-generation prototype of what will be the first tractor to run on methane, the T6 by New Holland Agriculture.

Methane would be 30 per cent cheaper than diesel. And for farms that produce their own bio-methane, the costs of fuel would drop to nothing. Biomethane is a type of gas that is produced by the processing of organic waste — something farms have a lot of.

The technology will likely be attractive to farmers in many developed economies, particularly those that are turning to the production of biofuel due to a squeeze on profits on food products.

“When the machinery is ready, I will be among the first customers,” Remmert said recently at the farm, where New Holland was showing off the technology, scooping fermented biomass into the plant.

The methane-run T6 would hit production in about five years, according to New Holland, which is a subsidiary of CNH Industrial NV, a company spun off from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Beyond cost savings, the new technology would be more environmentally friendly. The prototype produces 80 per cent less pollution than a standard diesel tractor and would help fulfil future EU greenhouse gas targets, which are expected to require a 20 per cent reduction across Europe by 2020.

Carlo Lambro, the brand chief at New Holland Agriculture, said the methane tractor, launched at the Milan Expo 2015 world’s fair focused on food security, requires little industrial investment to convert the normal diesel engine.

He noted that methane also fits the strategy of the wider corporate group, which includes Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. The Fiat 500 and Fiat Panda, for example, also have methane-powered versions.

There are, however, a few hurdles to bringing the new tractor to market.

For a farm to get the most savings out of it, it would have to be able to produce bio-methane, which has significant up-front equipment costs. So its success will depend on financial incentives, with northern European governments, particularly Germany, being most supportive to date. Such investments make more sense for larger farms than small, family-run farms that characterize agriculture in some countries, like Italy.

In addition, the drive toward biofuels is being slowed by the sharp drop in the cost of fossil fuel over the last year, energy analysts say, as well as environmental concerns about the transformation of farmland into energy production.

Remmert says that in his case, he literally would have lost the 50-year-old farm if he hadn’t converted to biofuel production from beef cattle five years ago.

He estimates that in Italy, about 3,000 square kilometres (about 1,150 square miles) of farmland are lost

every year as producers give up their activities due to financial difficulties.

The biogas his farm produces runs an engine that supplies enough electricity into the grid to power 10,000 households a year.

The by-product of the fermentation to produce the biogas is used to fertilize the fields, which Remmert

says saves him about 300,000 euros ($335,000) a year in chemical fertilizers.

The carbon emissions saved from fossil fuels amount to 4,000 tons a year, according to farm statistics.

“If this isn’t paying attention to the environment, I don’t know what is,” Remmert said.

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Seeing biological dad is son’s decision Dear Annie: I was divorced in 1972 and was given custody of our 2-year-old son. As much as I didn’t want the divorce, my husband was an alcoholic who refused help. I finally realized it was the only way to protect my son. My ex did not use his visitation rights and never paid child support.

I remarried when my son MITCHELL was 4. My new & SUGAR husband wanted to adopt him, but my ex at first refused to relinquish his rights. When my son was 6, my ex called early in the morning (drunk) and said adoption was OK. When our son turned 10, my ex called wanting to see him. I refused, saying it

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would be too disruptive to his life.

When my son was 18, I asked whether he wanted to know anything about his biological father, but he declined. I asked him again at 21, saying that people can change and that he should be prepared for the day when his bio dad shows up on his doorstep. He didn’t care.

Our son is now 45, and my ex recently called wanting to have our son’s contact information. Instead, I gave our son his biological father’s contact information. He had no interest and tossed it away. He considers my husband to be his father.

To appease my ex (and hopefully stop him from trying to track our son down), I told him I would send him general information about our son’s life, along with a few pictures. But now I’m having second thoughts, because I know neither my husband nor our son would approve. I have done nothing so far and am stressed about the situation. I would appreciate your opinion.

— Second Thoughts

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Dear Second: If your ex wanted to track down your son, he could probably do so without any appeasement from you, but we understand why you are willing to indulge him with photos and information. Nonetheless, you should not have made such a promise without consulting your son. It is his decision, so talk to him. Explain that you don’t expect him to want a relationship with his biological father, nor does he owe him any information. But it would be a kindness to give the man some peace of mind after all these years. Whatever decision your son makes, please abide by it.

Dear Annie: I’m in a similar situation to “Not Jealous, Just Hurt,” whose husband’s ex-wife turned up at all the family funerals.

I’ve been married for 25 years and my husband’s mother and daughter think it’s perfectly OK for his ex-wife to be included in family gatherings.

His mother visits with his ex-wife now and then, and the woman is also welcome in her home. None of them, in-

cluding my husband, seems to care how I feel about the situation. I don’t feel welcome. I’m ready to call it quits.

—Hurt as Well Dear Hurt: Your husband has a daughter with his ex-wife. That means his daughter will want her mother at all family gatherings. It means your mother-in-law will invite the ex because her granddaughter wants her there. It means your husband will tolerate this for his daughter’s sake. You don’t have to like this situation, but after 25 years, we are surprised you haven’t found a way to deal with it.

Unless your husband is actively interested in his ex, this situation should not be so threatening. Please talk to an unbiased third party and figure out what you can live with.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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They walk in. And breathe. Deeply.

“I think the last time I did something like this was where we accidentally spilled lots of vodka into the sauna,” said Tom Foreman, 28, who works in marketing.

Sam Bompas, one of the project’s designers, says the alcohol “goes straight into the blood stream, bypassing the liver.” Patrons are limited to one hour in the Cloud so they don’t get too inebriated.

Medical experts don’t share his excitement. Dr. William Shanahan, a consultant psychiatrist at Nightingale Hospital, which specializes in addictions and mental disorders, called the method “a gimmick.”

“The alcohol avoids first pass metabolism in the liver and goes directly to the brain, which makes it much more intoxicating and the intoxication is very rapid,” he said. “ This has the potential to cause serious side effects as well as brain damage in the developing young brain.”

Dr. Niall Campbell, an alcohol addiction specialist at the Priory Hospital in Roehampton, was even more blunt.

“The last thing this country needs is another way of ingesting alcohol.”

BRIEF London drinkers buzz over cloud of breathable alcohol LONDON — Britons are buzzing over a temporary entry in the capital’s already saturated drinking scene: breathable booze.

The pop-up bar, Alcoholic Architecture, uses a humidifier to pump a gin and tonic vapour into an enclosed space.

Patrons absorb their alcohol from the “Cloud” by breathing in the vapours and by soaking it in through the skin and eyes.

The concept isn’t new. Douglass Miller, a beverage expert at the Culinary Institute of America, recalls seeing the idea in action back in 1998.

Descending into a basement on the south bank of the Thames, customers are handed plastic ponchos to prevent the smell from permeating their hair and clothes, then are led into a corner of the bar sheathed in plastic strips.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

WiFi Toothbrushes? Teeth Police?

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Aug. 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Cara Delevingne, 22; Mark Knopfler, 65; George Hamilton, 75 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: With Jupiter now in Virgo, good fortune comes from being of service to others.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Don’t spend so much time on career concerns JOANNE or volunteer work MADELEINE that you neglect MOORE family and fun.

SUN SIGNS Strive to get the balance right.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jupiter is now in your wellbeing zone, which is good news for your physical and emotional health over the coming year.

Be disciplined; if you overindulge, it could lead to weight problems.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Over the next 13 months, many Bulls will take up a new sport or hobby; start a hot romance; go on holiday; or welcome a new addition to the family. Creative projects are also favoured.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Jupiter expands your domestic horizons.

So over the next 13 months you could buy real estate, move house, get a new house mate, or renovate so you extend your present living space.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your social media profile could really explode over the coming year, as Jupiter blesses all activities connected with communication.

It’s also a fabulous time to study, teach or travel.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you been worrying about money matters?

Jupiter is jumping through your $$$ zone for the next 13 months, so make the

most of the lucky financial opportunities that come your way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Jupiter now moving through your sign until September 2016, it’s time to be the creative and vibrant Virgo you were born to be. Confidence is the rocket fuel that will take you places.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Hey Libra - the coming year is the time to slot some regular relaxation into your busy schedule so you have space to recuperate and regenerate. Strive to balance being social with being solo!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Friendships are favoured over the coming year.

And your peer group is set to expand dramatically as you become involved with a group, club or organization involving like-minded souls.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s time to take your career to the next level, as prosperity planet Jupiter jumps through your work zone.

Influential people are waiting to assist you, so don’t hesitate to ask for help.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t get stuck in your comfort zone Capricorn! Jupiter is now journeying through your travel zone, so foreign shores beckon over the coming year.

Start planning your itinerary now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Over the next 13 months, some lucky Aquarians will benefit from an inheritance, loan, freebie, financial partnership, divorce settlement, superannuation pay-out or bumper tax return.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Attached Pisceans — make sure you plan an exciting holiday with your partner during the next 13 months.

Singles — it’s the best time in 12 years to start a positive new romantic relationship.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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This blue jay is singing and having a splash in a bird bath in the Eastview area of Red Deer.

Dear Dr. D: My cousin in Ohio just told me that her employer was signing on with a company for dental insurance that is going to provide them with WIFI toothbrushes, toothpaste, and floss.

Apparently each family member gets their own toothbrush, and it logs onto the internet to report when and for how long everyone brushes. They will be offering, via some app, advice on how the user can in fact do a better job. They were told that for employees who brush properly for the specified time daily – they will get a discount on their dental insurance. So, when can we expect that in central Alberta?

A: This is a multi-faceted situation which we are well aware of. A start-up technology company came up with this plan, and raised investor money with a stock offering. Apparently, based on their business model, they raised $5 million immediately. They do have their own WIFI brush which does indeed send data (how long did you brush, and what pressure did you brush with) through the sensors via an Apple device or an Android phone. One of the big problems is that patients mislead their dentists about how long they brush. If you have one of the Sonicare toothbrushes they come with a timer, you'll find it is amazing how long it is between 'beeping' intervals. Most people don't brush long enough, and the flossing is often neglected. The toothbrushes are not expensive – in fact I'm told they are $49 USD each. The technology company that is breaking into the dental insurance market has some serious investors behind them. They are looking far behind the actual toothbrush and the dental insurance premium. The app will occasionally ask you if you have sensitive teeth, and they will perhaps change the toothpaste they supply you in that case. You can count on the manufacturer working with certain local dentists, whom you can expect you would be referred to when you answer questions on the app about your daily dental regimen. In Canada we have our Privacy Laws, and although strict – they pale in comparison to the HIPPA privacy laws stateside. Apparently the manufacturer has overcome those legal hurdles and is able to transmit electronic data concerning a patient's brushing habits to a centralized computer system legally. How all that would stand up in Canada is anyone's guess. Here, if you come to our clinic with some dental insurance plans – we are prohibited from even speaking to your insurance plan even if you give them permission to speak to us! With this plan, if you skip your brushing after that late night concert the Teeth Police would get an email telling on you!

Interesting stuff indeed. Don't hold your breath!