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FLU IMMUNIZATION

Alberta failed to meet goals SETS NEW TARGETS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta failed to meet its flu immunization goals last season and is setting new targets for its upcoming campaign.

Alberta Health Services says about 30 per cent of people rolled up their sleeves for a free flu shot between last September and April 30. The target was 45 per cent.

A report shows the plan to have 80 per cent of health-care workers inoculated also wasn’t achieved. It says 64 per cent of Alberta Health Services workers got a flu shot, while the rate for health-care workers overall was about 60 per cent.

“Health-care workers are at an increased risk of both being infected and infecting others,” reads the report posted on a government website.

“A better understanding of influenza coverage among staff at AHS will help increase the immunization rates.”

Alberta government officials said Monday the immunization goal for health workers for the coming flu season will again be 80 per cent. The goal for the general public will be reduced to 40 per cent.

The campaign is to begin Oct. 20.

Dr. Ada Bennett, acting chief medical health officer, said the lower vaccination numbers show there is a need to better educate why getting a flu shot is a good idea.

Bennett said there will be a change in promotion to get people to think about what happens if they make other people ill with flu — especially very young children or people with fragile immune systems.

“If you have very young people living with them or older people — guess who ends up in intensive care when they get influenza?” she said.

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Don Sutherland has a good laugh as Michael Donlevey, Red Deer College vice-president of Community Relations, cranks up the theme music from the movie ‘Back to the Future.’ At auction Donlevy had the winning bid of $1,500 for the opportunity of using the custom Back to the Future DeLorean time machine golf cart during the 30th annual Red Deer College Golf Classic at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club on Monday. Built

by Dual Divisions Custom Automotives, the cart came complete with a Mister Fusion power supply and a sound system programmed with movie dialog and music. Over the past 30 years the annual tournament has raised more than $1 million in support of scholarships and bursaries for Red Deer College students. Funds raised at the 2015 tournament will go towards funding the Athletic Leadership Fund.

Drug trial hinges on legality of police search

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A decision is expected today on whether the discovery by police of 78 kilograms of marijuana in a pickup will be allowed as evidence in an unusual trafficking trial.

If Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Wayne Renke rules the initial search that led to the marijuana seizure in November 2013 was illegal the case will collapse against Michael

Jackson, 53, who has been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Crown prosecutor John Lee and Calgary defence lawyer Hersh Wolch made their arguments in court on Monday as to whether to allow the critical marijuana evidence. The marijuana was found vacuum-sealed in plastic bags inside eight doubled garbage bags in the back of Jackson’s pickup, which was being held in the Rocky Mountain House RCMP detachment garage at the time.

The truck had been seized by police for examination because it was involved in a fatal accident on Hwy 11 west of Rocky Mountain House a day earlier. Jackson was the driver but was not charged in connection with that incident.

A 14-year-old pedestrian from Eden Valley was hit while she was standing or walking near an SUV that was parked by the side of the highway about 40 km west of Rocky.

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Safe Harbour nails down temporary site for homeless warming centre

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s vulnerable residents will have a safe place to go this winter in Railyards.

Safe Harbour Society will operate a temporary daytime warming centre between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the northwest corner of its site on 5256-53rd Avenue.

Council approved on Monday a development permit that allows the addition of a modular unit between November and April for the next two years.

Colleen Fisher, Safe Harbour Society board chair, said this was not the society’s first choice but she is pleased a temporary site for Red Deer’s vulnerable has been solidified as they work on a long-term solution to help the city’s street populations.

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‘WINTER IS NOT A POP-UP EVENT. WE KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE HERE. WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE WILL BE READY TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT ARE NEEDED.’ COLLEEN FISHER SAFE HARBOUR SOCIETY BOARD CHAIR “Winter is not a pop-up event,” she said. “We know it’s going to be here.

We want to be sure that we will be ready to be able to address the issues that are needed.”

The society felt the old Parks building in Riverlands would be a better location because everything was already there including washrooms, showers and lockers. But council nixed the

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recommendation after some backlash from the neighbouring businesses.

Councillors Frank Wong and Lynne Mulder unsuccessfully tried to sway council to reconsider the first recommendation after hearing from Fisher and Kath Hoffman, Safe Harbour’s executive director.

Council reasoned there was not enough new information to bring the first recommendation back to the table.

Mayor Tara Veer said an interim solution is needed until the city can accomplish the broad community objectives in its plan to end homelessness and there is enough affordable housing.

Veer said shelter space falls under the provincial government’s mandate not under the municipal government.

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Safe Harbour Society Crystal has story—- The Safe Harbour Society is looking to add three modular buildings on their property in Red Deer to be used as a warming centre.

A terrible loss for community An off-duty police officer whose body was found near the foot of a bridge was remembered Monday as ‘sweet and strong.’

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Engineer association has data breach 75K records given to unknown party EDMONTON — An association that regulates engineers and geoscientists in Alberta is warning its members of a data breach.

Mark Flint, a professional engineer and CEO of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, says 75,000 member records were inadvertently given to an unknown party.

The records contain the names, member ID, and email addresses of members.

Flint says he is personally apologizing to members for the MARK FLINT release of information.

He is warning members not respond to any emails that appear to be from the group, and also not to confirm or provide any information in such an email.

Flint says the group is also temporarily suspending access to its member self-service centre on its website.

“Somebody could say, ‘It looks like you overreacted by contacting all your members and let them know, but I thought it was more important to protect the interest of the member than to protect our interest as an organization.”

Flint says the group is looking at how to prevent it from recurring.

“It’s not like a financial account or anything of that nature. I don’t think the level of risk is that grave to the individual, but I think we do have to look at what the implications of that are and what we might do about it going forward so there is no risk, primarily to the public but also to the members.”

FLU: 101 people died of flu-related causes The same message will be directed at health-care workers, Bennett added, because if they don’t get the shot they could make other people ill.

“People who end up needing health care — they are beaten up already and their immune system is not as strong.”

The Alberta Health Services report notes that 101 people died in the province last year of flu-related causes, including 86 in hospitals.

The federal advisory committee on immunization says health workers and others who are in a position to transmit the flu to people who are at high risk of complications or of being hospitalized should get a flu shot every year.

“Immunization of care providers decreases their own risk of illness, as well as the risk of death and other serious outcomes among the patients for whom they provide care.”

Last fall, Dr. Gerry Predy, senior medical health officer, said if vaccination targets weren’t met, Alberta would consider following the B.C. government’s policy of requiring health workers to either get a flu shot or wear a mask on the job.

Bennett declined to comment on whether Alberta is considering such a policy and deferred questions to the Health Department.

Department officials were not immediately available for comment.

SEARCH: Obtained warrant after discovery When Jackson got out to help he was attacked by the occupants of the SUV, one of whom smashed his windows. He drove off and the SUV occupants put the girl in the back and drove towards Rocky, where their vehicle hit the ditch.

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The girl was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jackson was pulled over further down the road and he was taken to hospital for treatment.

A pair of police officers testified the marijuana was found as they searched the garage for the source of a “faint” marijuana smell. They thought it might have been from an exhibit improperly stored in the area.

After failing to find anything amiss, they looked inside the canopy of the pickup truck and saw garbage bags. They opened two closed garbage bags, one inside the other, and discovered marijuana buds sealed in plastic.

At that point, realizing the implications of the discovery they stopped and obtained a search warrant to search the truck. After uncovering the rest of the marijuana, Jackson was charged.

Wolch argued, however, the police had no right to search the truck without a warrant.

Jackson, who had not been charged with any crime, had the right to expect that his property would not be searched without due cause, Wolch said.

“He has that right and it was flagrantly ignored.”

Wolch pointed to testimony that one of the officers involved in the search didn’t consider it an official search, and the other didn’t know under what authority he was searching.

“It’s simply not good enough to say I wasn’t searching, or I didn’t know what my authority was.”

The Crown prosecutor said Jackson’s expectation of privacy was limited considering his vehicle was in police custody and was to be thoroughly examined within a day or two.

Lee said while the search likely went “one step too far” it was a mistake that happened unexpectedly as they searched for the source of the marijuana smell.

When the officers checked inside the garbage bag it wasn’t in the context of a drug investigation, and as soon as they realized what they had found they stopped further searching until they had a warrant, he said.

As well, based on a faint smell of marijuana in a police garage, it’s unlikely a search warrant application would have been approved or held up in court.

Justice Renke said his decision will amount to deciding who gets the “advantage of the error” by police, the state or Jackson. His ruling is expected on Tuesday morning.

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“It is very clear we have an ethical responsibility,” she said. “We need to make it very clear as Alberta’s third largest city, our provincial government has financial responsibilities for this provision that we have navigated through. I would like to thank our … city staff and the community who are rallying behind this. I think that Edmonton and Calgary … have all received direct funds from the provincial government for accommodations of their shelter space.”

The city will ask the province to reimburse the municipality $628,200 for both the operating and capital costs and a reimbursement in the city manger’s capital fund and the city’s housing solutions fund.

Council approved new capital funding to purchase and install the units to the tune of $158,000 and another $79,100 in operating costs for each of the two years.

City Manager Craig Curtis echoed the mayor’s sentiments about this being an interim solution and looking to the future.

“We have two years to find a longer-term solution, one that accompanies 24-hour service (and) one that really deals with the problem,” he said. “We have to say the past provincial governments, in my view, have abdicated their responsibility to this necessary step in the housing spectrum.”

The three-interconnected modulars, expected to arrive in six-to-eight weeks, will have enough room to serve about 80 people. In 2014-15, roughly 455 individuals used the warming centre in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Safe Harbour expects 20 to 40 people to use the warming centre everyday. Food services will not be provided on site but there will be free coffee, tea, water, energy bars and juice.

The modulars will be situated so staff can have clear sight lines to oversee the entire property. Access will be from 53rd Avenue. Three employees will be working at the warming centre throughout the day.

The proposed use is temporary and the building will remain on the site year round. The temporary use will expire in April 2017.

Berachah Place closed last year after nine years which left the city and the community scrambling to find a temporary warm place for homeless people to go in the winter. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Paper questions water use A new study says rules governing how much water oilsands plants can take from the Athabasca River aren’t based on enough information and don’t account for how low flows can get in the crucial waterway.

It’s the second recent paper that questions assumptions about water use in the region and comes after withdrawal permits from the river were suspended due to low levels.

“There’s much more variability than what we’ve experienced, or than what we’ve measured,” said David Sauchyn of the University of Regina, whose paper was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sauchyn said allocations from the Athabasca have been based on flow data from monitoring stations set up in the river. He points out that data only goes back a few decades and that good,

consistent information doesn’t exist before the 1950s.

Official statistics don’t even include the drought of the 1930s, one of the driest periods in the historical record.

Sauchyn and his colleagues used a scientifically well-established method of using tree rings to estimate water flows going back 900 years. They found the river level has fluctuated much more widely than the last 62 years of records suggest.

Although the Athabasca’s flow rate has never had a yearly average of less than 200 cubic metres per second during the recorded period, Sauchyn found it has dropped below that level 36 times since about 1100 AD. The 200-level translates into a winter flow of about 46 cubic metres per second. Over the next decade, the Alberta government estimates oilsands demand will grow to 16 metres per second, meaning industry could be removing more than a third of the river’s entire winter flow.

OILSANDS Sauchyn also found that low-flow periods sometimes lasted more than a decade.

“We’ve been able to withstand single-year droughts pretty well,” he said.

“But if it gets to three, five, 10, 20, like we saw in the past, that is a much more challenging scenario.”

The study also exposed the role of long-term, large-scale climate cycles in the Athabasca’s flow.

North America is currently in the wet phase of a 60-year cycle. When the dry phase returns, it will do so with the Athabasca already experiencing declining average flows.

“It’ll compound the problem. It’s a double whammy.”

Sauchyn’s paper follows one in August that concluded climate change will further decrease flows in the Athabasca by reducing the amount

Gunmen abduct four from island TWO CANADIANS AMONG VICTIMS

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MANILA, Philippines — Unidentified gunmen have abducted two Canadians, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman from a southern Philippine island, the military and police said Tuesday.

Police have identified the Canadians as John Ridsel and Robert Hall, and the Norwegian as Kjartan Sekkingstad. The unidentified Filipino woman is the wife of one of the Canadians, said regional military spokesman Capt. Alberto Caber.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said the federal government is aware of reports that Canadians were kidnapped in the Philippines and is “pursuing all appropriate channels to seek further information.”

Caber said two Japanese resort guests unsuccessfully tried to intervene before the gunmen escaped with

their hostages aboard a motorized outrigger from Samal Island off Davao City.

He also said the gunmen appeared to have specifically targeted the victims when they entered the Holiday Oceanview Samal Resort before midnight Monday on the northern tip of the island, about 975 kilometres southeast of Manila.

A naval blockade was set up around the island to stop the kidnappers from reaching Basilan Island farther to the southwest where the militants have strongholds where they keep hostages while negotiating ransoms, added Caber.

Senior Supt. Samuel Gandingan, chief of the Davao del Norte provincial police, told government radio station DXRP in Davao City that three men

armed with rifles entered the resort before midnight Monday.

In 2001, Abu Sayyaf militants tried to seize hostages from the Pearl Farm Beach Resort south of Oceanview during a ransom-kidnapping spree in the early 2000s in the southern Philippines.

They seized dozens of Filipino hostages on Basilan and 21 people, mostly European tourists, from the Malaysian resort of Sipadan in 2000, and abducted three Americans and 17 Filipinos in 2001 from the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan province, southwest of Manila.

The Abu Sayyaf, which has about 400 gunmen, was recently declared a terrorist group by a Philippine court and is also on Washington’s list of terror organizations.

The militants are still holding other hostages, including two Malaysians, a Dutch bird watcher kidnapped nearly three years ago, and a town mayor.

RCMP officers bring chips, salsa, warnings to frosh party

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — RCMP officers turned out to be the life of the party in a small Saskatchewan community.

After learning of plans for a high school frosh gathering in the Lumsden area, officers posted on Facebook that they would be showing up with chips and salsa, but possibly also with charges for underage drinking, open liquor and providing alcohol to minors.

In the end, no fines or charges were laid. But several people at the party

posted photos to Facebook showing them enjoying their snack.

Sgt. John Armstrong of the Lumsden RCMP detachment said it had to be done. “(It) sort of took on a life of its own and if we didn’t bring the chips and salsa, I think we would have had more consequences … if we didn’t show up, with all the press,” said Armstrong.

Mounties mingled with the party-goers and made sure everyone knew they could be more strict if things started getting out of control.

But Armstrong said in the end, the

young people were very well-behaved.

They took selfies with the chips and group photos with the officers and shared them on social media. Mounties patrolled the road outside the party and pulled over numerous vehicles, but found no impaired drivers.

“It was well received and they sort of all swarmed to us and we handed out the chips and salsa and they loved it,” Armstrong said. “They couldn’t believe that we had came through on our promise.”

Pop star spends weekend meeting with wolf experts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Miley Cyrus didn’t see any wolves, but her visit to British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest convinced her that killing wolves to save endangered caribou is wrong, says the conservation group that hosted the music superstar.

Cyrus and her brother Braison spent the weekend around Klemtu, about 600 kilometres north of Vancouver, meeting with wolf experts and local First Nations.

“She had a MILEY CYRUS dozen grizzly bears wandering the estuary around her as they were feeding on salmon,” Pacific Wild director Ian McAllister said Monday. “She got to see humpback whales breaching 20 feet from the boat. It was really a supernatural experience for her in the wilds of B.C.” But the closest Cyrus got to a wolf was seeing tracks, he said.

Cyrus recently asked her 28.8 million Instagram followers to sign a Pacific Wild petition to stop the wolf cull in B.C. The petition has since grown to almost 200,000 signatures.

Premier Christy Clark reacted sharply to Cyrus’s call to end the wolf kill earlier this month, saying the singer didn’t know enough about B.C.’s environmental plan to be jumping into the debate.

Clark then quipped that if the province needed help on its twerking policy, it may contact Cyrus about her dance moves.

“I think it was the fact the premier was so rude to her that she really started to dig deeper into this issue,” McAllister said.

Cyrus was not available for comment Monday, but Pacific Wild released video of her visit to B.C. She said in the video that she saw grizzly bears and was truly amazed seeing spawning salmon.

“The reason why I’m here is I want to see the wolf cull ended,” said Cyrus, who admitted to using her celebrity status for the cause and called her voice a megaphone.

“What I do is really unimportant,”

‘AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN THESE HERDS ARE HANGING BY A THREAD, THEY ARE SHIFTING THE ENTIRE BLAME ON THESE WOLVES.’ IAN MCALLISTER DIRECTOR, PACIFIC WILD Cyrus said. “I’m not a biologist. I’m a pop star. That’s ridiculous. But that’s given me such a platform.”

McAllister said Cyrus was taken to the central coast, and not to the areas of province where two proposed wolf culls will take place, because Pacific Wild was able to introduce her to wolf scientists and First Nations who also oppose the province’s grizzly hunt.

The B.C. government plans to increase the number of wolves it kills this winter in the second year of its five-year strategy to save endangered caribou.

Its goal was to shoot about 200 wolves last winter, but a low snow pack and bad weather made the hunt difficult. Sharpshooters in helicopters killed 84 wolves in the northeast and southeast regions.

The South Selkirk caribou herd had just 18 animals in March 2014, down from 46 in 2009, the government said.

There are about 950 caribou in seven herds in the northeast, with wolves responsible for 40 per cent of deaths in four of those herds.

Tom Ethier, an assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, which oversees the cull, said the government is faced with deciding between killing wolves in an attempt to save a species or do nothing.

He said science suggests culling wolves gives caribou a fighting chance, but there are no guarantees.

Since 2007, the province’s mountain caribou recovery program has protected millions of hectares of habitat in the South Selkirk and the South Peace regions.

McAllister said the government moved too late to protect caribou habitat and has now made wolves the scapegoat.

“At the end of the day when these herds are hanging by a thread, they are shifting the entire blame on these wolves,” he said.

“It’s going to lead to international embarrassment, the mismanagement of habitat in B.C.”

of water stored as snow in the river’s headwaters.

That paper in the publication Climate Change suggested that by mid-century — well within the expected lifespan of most oilsands developments — low water levels leading to withdrawal disruptions could increase by up to 40 per cent.

That study was released the same week Alberta’s energy regulator cancelled 72 industrial temporary water withdrawal permits for the Athabasca.

The regulator cited water levels that were 43 per cent below normal.

Industry is taking steps to reduce its dependence on the Athabasca. Oilsands producers have committed to cut water use by 30 per cent by 2022. Some facilities store water on site for use when flows are low.

Sauchyn said his research applies to allocations of water from other rivers as well.

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Encana reports natural gas well blowout FOX CREEK — The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is responding to a natural gas well blowout in the province’s north.

The AER says in a news release it had been notified by Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) of the blowout 18 kilometres west of Fox Creek, Alta., on Monday.

The well is licensed for hydrogen sulfide, a poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs.

Peter Murchland of the AER says portable air monitoring units and roadblocks have been set up at each side of the site and the access road.

He says so far, there are no reports of impact to the public, waterways or wildlife.

AER staff have been dispatched to site to assess the situation “and work with Encana to ensure all safety and environmental requirements are met during the response to the incident.”

Preliminary hearing set for Edmonton military officer charged with sex offences EDMONTON — A high-ranking military officer accused of sex offences has chosen to have a jury trial.

Lt.-Col. Mason Stalker, commander of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton, was arrested in July on 10 charges.

The charges, including sexual assault, relate to alleged incidents involving a military cadet in Edmonton between 1998 and 2007.

A justice official says a preliminary hearing for Stalker is to begin Aug. 2.

No trial date has been set.

Stalker has been suspended from his post pending the outcome of the court case.

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Trudeau betting on message of change If the quest for change drives the fended his intention to incur repeat vote on Oct. 19 then Justin Trudeau deficits to spend more on Canada’s sohad a good debate on Thursday. cial and physical infrastructures with The Liberal leader fought hard — the passion of the newly converted. some would say over-aggressively — He seemed even more comfortto cast himself as the real able with his plan to hit agent of change on the podithe country’s high-income um. And if that was his main earners with a tax hike, the objective, he achieved it. better to redistribute the Trudeau came to the demoney to middle- and lowbate on the economy deterer-income Canadians. mined to rock the boat and Neither of those commithe brought with him platments is universally popuform oars designed to do lar — far from it — but they just that. do distinguish the Liberal Of the three leaders vyeconomic vision from that ing to serve as prime minisof Trudeau’s two main riter after Oct. 19, he alone is vals and they do amount to challenging the mantra of a departure from the fiscal CHANTEL balanced federal budgets. doctrine of the past decade.

HÉBERT As NDP Leader Thomas By choice but also by neOPINION Mulcair pointed out Thurscessity, Harper’s campaign day, that is a recent develis all about fighting change. opment.

Absent the luxury of As recently as two months ago, a fresh leader or, for that matter, a Trudeau was ruling out the possibility refreshed team to present voters, the that a Liberal government would not Conservatives have little choice but to balance its budgets. Since then, he has cast staying the course as the only rereversed himself to embrace the no- sponsible way to go. Mulcair is striving tion of running deficits for the bulk of to make more voters comfortable with a first majority mandate. his party’s economic credentials even After Thursday’s debate, no one if that involves — as it did on Thursshould doubt that he is comfortable day — giving up ground on the change with his latest position. Trudeau de- front to Trudeau.

Whether that will serve the Liberals well between now and voting day is a different question. In the election deck, change is ultimately a wild card.

Some of that was in evidence in the post-debate assessments of the leaders’ performances.

There was a consensus that Harper and Mulcair had executed their respective strategies with competence but also questions as to whether that would be enough for either of them to break the current deadlock in voting intentions in their favour.

By comparison, political observers were all over the map on Trudeau’s performance. Some hated it. Others liked it. Many more were uncertain as to how it would play out.

Interestingly, the Quebec reviews were, on balance, more positive for Trudeau than in the other official language.

The province is home to some of the Liberal leader’s harshest media critics and his party ranks a distant third in Quebecers’ voting intentions.

On Thursday, Trudeau may have benefited from lower-than-average expectations. One way or another though, the Liberals are not about to look a timely gift horse in the mouth.

If there is one region where the debate post-mortems probably mattered

more than the event itself it is Quebec, where the audience for Thursday’s English-only debate was bound to be more limited than the national average.

If you found it hard to watch as the leaders talked over each other in English, imagine what it must have been like in simultaneous translation.

There has been little movement in voting intentions in Quebec since the election was called.

Poll after poll has found that a weak Bloc Québécois is strengthening the hand of the NDP at the expense of the Liberals and, at the rear of the pack, the Conservatives.

But the Quebec cement will not harden until after the first French-language debate of the campaign. It is set for Thursday on Radio-Canada.

It will be Gilles Duceppe’s first appearance on a debate podium in this campaign and his last best chance to talk voters into giving the Bloc Québécois another look.

If only because so many Quebecers did not expect the Liberal leader to still be standing seven weeks in the campaign, Trudeau, too, will have an opportunity to re-introduce himself to his home province.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

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New facility will help launch RDC into the future Announcing the winning bid to design and build facilities to support our citizens in areas of physioour Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport, (the Cen- therapy, dialysis, and recovery programs for heart tre) and the City of Red Deer’s unanimous support of attack and stroke patients. our proposal to government for PolytechOur ability to provide student practice nic University (PolyU) status, are two imin health care programming is critical portant developments in the growth and to attracting and keeping talent in our evolution of Red Deer College (RDC). region and is an important aspect of this Partnering with the City of Red Deer facility. and the 2019 Canada Winter Games Host This new building is a symbol that repSociety Red Deer (Host Society) to be a resents the future potential of RDC. That part of the Canada Winter Games (CWG) future includes better access to degrees enables RDC to realize and build a facilin Central Alberta. ity which had been in the planning stages As part of our vision to become a Polyfor many years. technic University, facilities are an imThe Centre enables RDC to support portant part of our application. The Cenand expand programming in Health Scitre ensures our facilities support that JOEL ences, Wellness and Athletics. The new aspiration. centre will also allow us to host nationGreat programs, well delivered in WARD al-level tournaments, conferences, and modern facilities, strengthens our case RDC events. An iconic design, the Centre will for Polytechnic University status. Achievnot only enhance an already beautiful ing this status means we will be able to campus but will be seen by the thousands offer all we currently do with the added who drive the QE2 each day. benefit of granting our own degrees. Improving acWhen not in use by RDC, the Centre will be avail- cess and affordability for students, is critical for our able for public use and enables us to partner with regions’ economic, social and cultural growth. Polyother Central Alberta community organizations. This technic University status is the path to that pressing is more than just a building, it is about partnerships need in our region. and potential. As an example, we are talking with We were delighted that our Mayor and City Counour hospital to explore how we might leverage our cil supported our case for degree granting status.

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A terrible loss for community SLAIN OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICER REMEMBERED AS ADVENTUROUS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS STELLARTON, N.S. — An off-duty police officer whose body was found near the foot of a bridge in Halifax was remembered Monday as “sweet and strong” in a funeral service that saw police officers and firefighters line a street in Stellarton, N.S., in her honour.

Hundreds of people attended the service at the First Presbyterian church in Catherine Campbell’s hometown and heard her aunt, Mandy Wong, describe her niece as an adventurous person who also had a gentle touch with children. She remembered how Campbell would often bend down on her knee to speak to children to ensure they weren’t afraid of police officers.

“She never would have imagined the effect she would have,” she said. “Catherine was brave and beautiful and sweet and strong.”

Eddie Stewart, a retired volunteer firefighter, placed a firefighter’s helmet in a hearse after the service.

He described Campbell, who was 36, as a vivacious woman who one minute would grab a tool belt and help someone build their deck, and the next be wearing a party dress and “be looking great.”

Mike O’Sullivan, who served with Campbell during her 10 years as a volunteer firefighter in Stellarton, said the family is known in the community for its devotion to community service.

“Catherine’s been here at the station since she could walk, and it’s a terrible loss for our community,” he said.

Members of the Truro police service lined the entrance to the church and saluted as Campbell’s parents and family arrived.

Campbell’s father Dwight, the chief of Stellarton’s volunteer fire department, and her mother Susan walked into the church beneath the outstretched cranes of fire trucks from Stellarton and Truro.

Campbell was reported missing on Sept. 14 when she failed to show up for work with the police service in Truro. Halifax police recovered her body last

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Members of the Halifax Regional Police Service salute the hearse as it approaches First Presbyterian Church prior to the funeral of slain Truro Police Officer Catherine Campbell in Stellarton, N.S. on Monday.

Wednesday below an underpass leading to the Macdonald Bridge that crosses Halifax harbour.

Christopher Calvin Garnier, 27, is charged with second-degree murder in Campbell’s death. He is also charged with indecently interfering with a dead body.

O’Sullivan said Campbell’s death is incomprehensible.

“She had everything going for her … for this to happen it’s just senseless to begin with,” he added.

“You think it’s going to happen elsewhere. It hits home and it’s tough.”

Campbell’s family has said she held a variety of jobs in the community before deciding to train as a police officer, finding a job in Truro as soon as she graduated six years ago.

Fisherman ‘saw red’ during crew’s attack on rival off Cape Breton

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — The captain of a Cape Breton lobster boat who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for his role in a violent death at sea should receive a much lighter sentence than one of his co-accused because of his fragile mental state at the time, his lawyer told a sentencing hearing Monday.

Lawyer Nash Brogan said Dwayne Matthew Samson of D’Escousse, N.S., should be sentenced to between six and eight years in prison because he has openly admitted he was steering the Twin Maggies on June 1, 2013, when it struck Phillip Boudreau’s boat off Petit-de-Grat, tossing him into the water.

Boudreau’s damaged, overturned skiff was found shortly after he disappeared. The 43-year-old’s body has yet to be found.

An agreed statement of facts, read into the court record Monday, says Samson and one of his deckhands, Joseph James Landry of Little Anse, believed Boudreau was tampering with the lobster traps they were hauling up that morning at 5 a.m. at the southern tip of Cape Breton.

The statement, presented in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury, says that soon after the three-man crew spotted Boudreau’s four-metre boat, Samson asked another deckhand to load a rifle, which was then handed to Landry.

Landry, who is Samson’s father-in-law, used a rifle to shoot at Boudreau’s boat four times, hitting him once in the leg, the document says. When Landry fired the second shot, Boudreau tried to get away but his propeller got tangled in rope, causing his boat to sit idle.

The statement says Landry then told Samson to turn the Twin Maggies around so he could tie a rope to Boudreau’s boat and tow it out to sea.

With Samson at the wheel, the Twin Maggies rammed Boudreau’s boat three times, knocking him into the water. The document says Landry hooked Boudreau with a gaff and Samson sailed the Twin Maggies out to sea, where Boudreau’s body was

dumped in about 20 metres of water.

Landry was sentenced earlier this year to a 14-year prison term after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter in Boudreau’s death, although he is appealing his sentence.

The other deckhand, Craig Landry, was sentenced to 28 days in jail for being an accessory after the fact.

In his closing submission, Crown attorney Shane Russell said Samson should be sentenced to 12 years in prison. He said Samson was an active participant in a crime that could not have happened without his help.

Russell said it was Samson who called for the rifle to be loaded, and it was Samson who steered the Twin Maggies into Boudreau’s boat and later out to sea.

“He was not an innocent bystander,” Russell told the court, adding that Samson used multiple weapons, including his boat. “He was not merely the driver of the getaway boat.”

Earlier in the day, Brogan presented a psychiatric assessment to the court that concluded Samson had suffered a panic attack shortly after the first shot was fired.

The report, prepared by forensic psychiatrist Scott Theriault more than two years after Boudreau’s death, quotes Samson as saying he “was in a state of panic” and “saw red” at the time of the shooting.

Theriault’s report goes on to quote Samson saying he felt “like I was above and looking down” at the violent scene unfolding around the two boats. Samson also said there was “no time to think,” amid a “whirlwind of events” that left his heart pounding, his mouth dry and his clothes soaked with sweat.

The Halifax-based psychiatrist told the hearing the symptoms were consistent with a typical panic attack and a disassociative disorder.

When Crown attorney Steve Drake asked Theriault if someone could find a list of those symptoms by using Google, Theriault said that was possible but he said Samson did not appear to be psychologically sophisticated.

OTTAWA — The politics of military procurement preoccupied the federal leaders Monday as they fired rhetorical missiles at each other over the future of Canada’s ill-fated attempt to buy new fighter jets.

Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair both blasted Justin Trudeau for announcing a day earlier he would scrap the multibillion-dollar purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighters to replace the current aging fleet of CF-18s, and reinvest the savings into the navy.

The Conservative and NDP leaders both said it showed a lack of judgment by the Liberal leader.

The heightened rhetoric was reflective of the high stakes at play with military procurement: it is a political hot potato because it usually represents the government’s biggest capital expenditure of taxpayers’ money.

Asked Monday about what they thought of the Liberal leader’s plan to scrap the F-35, Harper questioned “what planet” Trudeau was living on, while Mulcair said Trudeau was prejudging the public tendering process.

Experts say the F-35 purchase would cost taxpayers about $44 billion over the four-decade lifespan of the Lockheed Martin jets.

Trudeau, however, stood his ground, saying there are other, less expensive, proven options already flying that would meet the requirements to replace the CF-18s.

One of Trudeau’s foreign policy advisers, the retired Lt-Gen. Andrew Leslie who is running as a Liberal candidate in an Ottawa riding, said any of the other aircraft options would cost 15 to 30 per cent Police had asked for the public’s help in locatBY THE CANADIAN PRESS less than the F-35. ing McMahon, who is 35, and her 12-year-old son, The savings, he said, would be spent on upgrades Tristan, who had last been seen on Saturday mornfor the navy, which he characterized as being in a WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg woman who was the ing in Winnipeg. state of “crisis.”

They were located on Sunday in Manigotagan, Leslie is one of the Liberals’ star candidates, and subject of a Canada-wide warrant for the alleged abduction of her 12-year-old son has been charged.

Man. the party activated him Monday as the campaign Police say Charlotte McMahon faces one count of McMahon has been remanded in custody. trail debate focused on military procurement. abduction where no custody order.

Police did not issue an Amber Alert in the case.

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BRIEF Family withdraws Muslim boy from Texas school that suspended him DALLAS — The family of a 14-year-old Muslim boy who got in trouble over a homemade clock mistaken for a possible bomb has withdrawn the boy from his suburban Dallas high school.

Ahmed Mohamed’s father, Mohamed El-Hassan Mohamed, told The Dallas Morning News that he has withdrawn all of his children from schools in the Irving Independent School District. Mohamed says the family is still deciding where to send the children to school.

Ahmed has said he brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving to show a teacher. Officials say he was arrested after another teacher saw it and became concerned. Ahmed wasn’t charged, but he was suspended from school for three days.

News of the arrest sparked an outpouring of support for Ahmed, including from President Barack Obama.

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Hundreds of migrants rest as they wait to march down a highway towards Turkey’s western border with Greece and Bulgaria, in Edirne, Turkey, Monday. The migrants were stopped Friday by Turkish law enforcement on a highway near the city of Edirne, causing a massive traffic jam.

Balkans officials bicker over handling of migrant crisis BELGRADE, Serbia — The war of words over Europe’s migrant crisis is turning vicious, with officials in the bickering Balkans trading blame and accusations of lying, while also disparaging each other’s actions as “pathetic” and a “disgrace.”

The plight over how to deal with thousands of asylum seekers is reviving old differences among Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia dating back to the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia. It’s also creating some new tensions.

While the 28-nation European Union remains deeply divided over how to share the burden of relocating the refugees and is convening a series of meetings this week to seek a resolution, the finger-pointing turned especially nasty in the Balkans.

Hungary’s decision Sept. 15 to close its border with Serbia has diverted the waves of people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia to Croatia.

At first, Croatia welcomed them, thinking they would simply go to Slovenia and continue on to Austria and Germany. But Slovenia shut its border, and Croatia quickly found itself overwhelmed with about 30,000 people in a matter of days.

Croatia then started putting the asylum seekers on trains and buses, even as their furious leaders argued that they had been let down by their neighbours.

Even though Croatia set up a migrant reception centre Monday in the eastern village of Opatovac to try to bring order to the unrelenting chaos and misery, it could hardly undo the damage.

And the high-level griping has strained relations.

— Serbia denounced Hungary for using tear gas against the migrants on the border, with canisters landing on Serbian territory. It also protested Croatia’s closing of most of its border crossings, threatening legal action over the blocking of truck traffic.

— Hungary blamed Serbia for failing to stop the migrants from throwing stones at its border police and accused Croatia of jeopardizing its sovereignty by sending thousands of migrants to Hungary. It also blamed Greece for failing to stop the influx.

— Slovenia expressed anger that Croatia is busing people to its frontier.

This led to undiplomatic exchanges among the European Union neighbours.

When Croatia said it and Hungary had agreed to create a corridor for the migrants, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry called that a “pack of lies.” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called the

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Croatian prime minister’s handing of the crisis “pathetic.”

Croatian, Serbian and Romanian officials compared Hungary’s tough policies, including its new razor-coil fence, to the practices of Budapest’s Nazi-backed World War II regime.

“Hungary’s attitude is not European and is a disgrace for Europe,” Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said. “To build fences between two European Union members, Hungary and Romania, is an unheard-of thing and has nothing to do with the European spirit.”

Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Constantinos Koutras responded to Hungary’s criticism with a sharp rejoinder to Budapest.

“The use of violence, the patrols with automatic weapons and the inciting of innocent war victims into Balkan minefields do not constitute behaviour appropriate for a member-state of the European Union,” Koutras said.

Szijjarto then shot back: “It would be good if the Greek government didn’t treat European people as if they were idiots and instead took meaningful steps to protect its border and register migrants.”

Wisconsin’s Scott Walker exits 2016 race with harsh words for Trump MADISON, Wis. — Warning the Republican presidential race has become too nasty, Scott Walker suspended his 2016 campaign on Monday and called on some of his Republican rivals to do the same, citing an urgent need to “clear the field” to help defeat front-runner Donald Trump.

The announcement marked a dramatic fall for Walker, who was struggling to generate fundraising and enthusiasm after surging into the race’s top tier earlier in the year. He will return to his job in Wisconsin as governor, where his term runs through 2018.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS QUITO, Ecuador — Colombia and Venezuela agreed Monday to redeploy ambassadors who were withdrawn in a month-old dispute that has paralyzed trade and movement along their border.

The announcement came after the presidents of the two neighbours met in Ecuador’s capital for five hours discussing Venezuela’s decision to close its border with Colombia and begin deporting Colombian migrants.

The leaders did not announce a reopening of border checkpoints, as some people on the frontier had hoped. They said only that their governments would work toward a gradual normalization of the situation on the border, without explaining what that might look like.

The crisis began when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro deported 1,500 Colombians migrants he blamed for smuggling that his government contends has helped empty supermarket shelves in the country. An additional 16,000 Colombians, some of whom had lived in Venezuela for years, left voluntarily, fearing reprisals from troops who were seen bulldozing homes and forcing people to flee across a border river with belongings slung on their backs.

Although the deportations and mass exodus of Colombians have stopped, Maduro and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos had been sharpening criticisms of each other, while communities on both sides of the border suffered from the closure of all land crossings along a border five times the length of the one separating France and Germany.

Maduro accused Santos of being complicit in what he has alleged was a plot hatched by right-wing elements in Colombia and the U.S. to overthrow his socialist government. But he struck a conciliatory tone in his remarks after Monday’s meeting, saying common sense and a spirit of mutual co-operation had prevailed.

NEW YORK — Ex-tennis pro James Blake has met with New York’s mayor and police commissioner to discuss how he was tackled by a policeman during a mistaken arrest.

Blake described Monday’s meeting as productive. He says he has confidence Mayor Bill de Blasio (BLAH’-zee-oh) is making changes that will have a lasting impact.

Surveillance video of Blake’s Sept. 9 arrest outside a Manhattan hotel shows the officer charging at him, grabbing him by the arm and roughly taking him to the ground. The officer has been placed on desk duty.

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Blue Jays 4 Yankees 2 TORONTO — Brett Cecil called them the three biggest outs of his bigleague career.

Manager John Gibbons said if the season goes the way the Blue Jays hope it does, the eighth inning that Cecil salvaged Monday night may be the frame they look back on as being paramount.

Cecil came up with three huge strikeouts to help preserve David Price’s strong start as Toronto kicked off a big three-game series against New York with a 4-2 victory at Rogers Centre.

“He’s one of the better relievers in baseball,” said Gibbons. “He was an all-star two years ago. There’s a reason.”

Price was in top form over seven shutout innings of a series opener that had a distinct playoff atmosphere. He allowed just two hits and retired the final 14 batters he faced.

With the left-hander’s pitch count running high, Gibbons turned to reliever Aaron Sanchez to start the eighth inning but a walk and a single made his night a short one.

Cecil came on and allowed an RBI single to Jacoby Ellsbury before fanning the meat of the Yankees’ order — Brett Gardner, Alex Rodriguez and Brian McCann — as the sellout crowd of 47,648 roared its approval.

“That was very cool,” Price said.

“He did a great job. Those are some of the biggest outs he’s recorded since he’s been in the big leagues. That was good for him.”

The victory padded Toronto’s lead on New York in the American League East race to 3 ½ games. The Blue Jays also moved within 1 ½ games of the idle Kansas City Royals in the race for the top seed in the American League.

Price was staked to an early threerun lead and was only really tested in the third inning when the Yankees loaded the bases with one out. He responded by fanning Rodriguez and get-

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ting McCann to fly out.

He threw 114 pitches on the night, 87 of them for strikes.

“Definitely frustrating,” said McCann. “(Price) made his pitches when he had to. He was good tonight. He was working both sides of the plate, cutting it and sinking it to both sides and keeping guys off balance.”

Price improved to 17-5 on the season and is 8-1 since the Blue Jays acquired him in a mid-season trade with the Detroit Tigers.

“What can you say really?” said Gibbons. “That was the whole idea behind getting him. Trades don’t always work out right. This one has worked out right.”

Roberto Osuna gave up a solo homer to Greg Bird in the ninth before picking up his 17th save. Toronto has a sparkling 36-14 record since July 27.

“We had our chance in the eighth,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi.

“We weren’t able to get it done.”

New York starter Adam Warren (67) struggled through a 35-pitch first inning. Ben Revere singled, Josh Donaldson was grazed by a pitch and Jose Bautista found a hole up the middle to bring Revere home with the game’s first run.

A wild pitch moved Donaldson and Bautista into scoring position and an Edwin Encarnacion grounder was enough to score Donaldson. Bautista came across after Justin Smoak lashed a double over the head of Yankees right-fielder Carlos Beltran.

The Blue Jays added an insurance run in the seventh inning when Toronto native Russell Martin brought Donaldson home with a sacrifice fly.

Price left the game earlier in the frame to a standing ovation. He acknowledged the crowd with a clap of his own before being congratulated by his teammates in the dugout.

“That’s a very good team, we all know that,” Price said of the Yankees.

“That’s the most storied franchise in all of sports. So beating those guys is always fun. It’s always tough … they always put together quality at-bats, they never give at-bats away.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ starting pitcher David Price works against the New York Yankees’ during first inning AL MLB action in Toronto on Monday. Price shut down the Yankees in a 4-2 win for the Blue Jays.

Oilers double up the wins against Flames in preseason openers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 4 Flames 2 Oilers 3 Flames 1 EDMONTON — The Connor McDavid era has begun — unofficially.

McDavid recorded a pair of assists in his NHL preseason debut as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Monday in a preseason split-squad game.

Andrew Miller, Leon Draisaitl, Anton Lander and Nail Yakupov scored for the Oilers.

McDavid, the first overall draft pick this summer, was named the game’s first star, logging 20:59 in game time.

“There was obviously nerves and a lot of excitement going into the game and it takes a little bit to settle down,” McDavid said.

“I thought I was a little nervous in the first period and wasn’t patient with the puck and wasn’t playing my game. I guess that’s to be expected, there was so much hype about playing your first NHL game, although it’s not really, it’s still kind of your first taste.”

Oilers new head coach Todd McLellan was suitably impressed with the play of McDavid, labelled by many as a potential future superstar.

“I thought he looked dangerous and played well on both sides of the puck,” he said. “He had a couple of good scoring chances. It was about what we expected for game one.”

Oliver Kylington and Markus Granlund replied for the Flames.

The game also marked the successful debut of Kylington, a 2015 second-round pick for the Flames.

“I was a bit nervous at the beginning, but I was pretty calm when the game started,” he said.

“It was fun to play out there. I’ve dreamed about this kind of environment for a while. It was fun to play in front of a crowd like this and to play against top players. I think I did pretty good. Hopefully it will just get better and better.”

At the same time the game in Edmonton was taking place, another split-squad game between the two Alberta rivals was played in Calgary, with the Oilers winning that game 3-1.

Cam Talbot, who came to the Oilers in an off-season trade with the New York Rangers, got the start in net in Edmonton, while Karri Ramo was in goal for the Flames.

The Oilers broke the deadlock with five-and-a-half minutes to play in the opening frame as Miller snuck a shot under Ramo.

Calgary responded less than a minute later as defenceman Kylington carried the puck up ice and beat Talbot with a knuckler to

Goons gone from NHL FOURTH-LINERS NOW HAVE MORE SKILL THAN EVER WITH SCORING A PRIORITY

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Calgary Flames’ Dennis Wideman, left, and Edmonton Oilers’ Teddy Purcell battle for the puck during second period NHL preseason action in Edmonton, on Monday. make it 1-1 after 20 minutes.

The Oilers changed goalies midway through the second, with Laurent Brossoit coming in and allowing a goal on the first shot he faced as Andrej Sekera coughed up the puck on the power play and Granlund blasted a shot to the top corner for the short-handed score.

Mason McDonald came into the Calgary net to start the third.

Edmonton tied the game up with 6:25 left in the third as McDavid chipped a backhand pass in front to Draisaitl who showed good hand scoring from in tight.

The Oilers then took a 3-2 lead with 5:19 remaining as Lander battled to get loose shorthanded and made the most of it, beating McDonald with a high wrist shot.

Edmonton put the game away with an empty-netter as McDavid fed Yakupov for a goal.

In the game at Calgary, Benoit Pouliot scored the game-winning goal at 17:08 of the third period to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday night in a split-squad pre-season game.

Mark Letestu and Justin Schultz, into an empty net, also scored for the Oilers, while goalie Anders Nilsson stopped all 17 shots he faced — including a penalty shot by Calgary forward Michael Frolik in the second period — to record the win. Ben Scrivens played the first half of the game in

net for the Oilers and allowed one goal on 13 shots.

Frolik scored the lone goal of the game for the Flames. Jonas Hiller started in net for Calgary and allowed one goal on 16 shots, while Joni Ortio stopped 12 of 13 shots he faced in the second half of the game.

Shortly after Edmonton forward Greg Chase took a boarding penalty at 1:58 of the first period, the Flames appeared to open the scoring on the power play.

Parked at the right side of the net, Jiri Hudler sent a pass into the slot to Mark Giordano, who was driving hard to the net from the point. Giordano tried to kick the pass up to his stick, but it went into the net behind Scrivens instead prompting the referee to immediately disallow the goal.

On a man advantage of their own, the Oilers had a good chance to get on the board, but Hiller stuck out his left pad to make a toe save on a shot by Jordan Eberle. A short time later, Hiller made back-to-back saves to turn aside scoring attempts by Anton Slepyshev and Greg Chase.

The Flames finally opened up the scoring with a power-play goal at 6:07 of the second period when Frolik drove to the net and took a pass in stride from Johnny Gaudreau before snapping a quick shot to the top corner, glove side behind Scrivens.

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Goons are pretty much gone in the NHL. More and more teams are rolling four lines of forwards who can skate — and score. The days of having seldom-used tough guys on the fourth line just to throw punches or protect stars are over.

“One-dimensional players are almost extinct,” Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said.

“The game is faster than ever. Teams that used to want a physical and intimidation factor on the fourth line now are more interested in having four lines that can contribute offensively and play with discipline to stay out of the penalty box.”

Fights are down, and playing time is up for more players.

There were 0.63 fighting majors per game last season, the seventh straight year in which there was a decline, according to STATS. And, the number of forwards who play 10-plus minutes has been trending up for years.

“Because of the competitiveness of our league, teams are more focused on having skilled players to make a difference,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said.

Instead of sending a message with a fight, teams would rather do it by scoring. The average goals in a game has hovered around 5.3 the past four seasons as goaltenders have gotten more skilled, so coaches and GMs are looking for contributions from everyone.

New York Rangers forward Tanner Glass, though, hopes the trend doesn’t make it tougher for him to keep his job. He also doesn’t want it lead to players using their sticks instead of fists to do damage. Glass had more fights (nine) than goals last year, ranking among league leaders. He has scored 19 times over eight seasons, but five teams have wanted his physical presence on their rosters over the years.

Is he concerned teams are devaluing fighting?

“I think there’s still a spot for that, and there always will be a spot for that,” Glass said. “I know it won’t be as prominent as it is and as it has been, but I think if you talk to guys around the league, no one wants a league with no toughness and no accountability.”

In other words, he said, slashing majors might become more common if fighting goes away.

“Guys kind of play a different way when there’s no accountability,” Glass said.

Holland and Red Wings senior vice-president Jim Devellano both credit Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman with leading the charge to change the way fourth lines are used a couple decades ago.

While he did put notorious tough guy Darren McCarty on a fourth unit in Detroit that was known as the “Grind Line,” McCarty could light the lamp as well. McCarty’s linemates, Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby, could skate and hit hard while contributing offensively, at least occasionally.

The Red Wings won Stanley Cups with that style of play from the fourth line and the reigning champions are without a doubt the latest example of the trend paying dividends: Chicago’s fourth line of Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger and Andrew Desjardins played a pivotal role last season, especially them toward the end of the Stanley Cup finals when the Blackhawks outlasted Tampa Bay to win their third title in six years.

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Riders record not keeping Chick down SAYS HE IS LIVING PROOF DIABETICS CAN SUCCEED ON AND OFF FOOTBALL FIELD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The 2015 season has been one huge struggle for John Chick and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The optimism that surrounded the team at the start of the campaign has been overpowered by the bitter disappointment of mounting defeats. A close 30-27 home loss to the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday night further anchored the Riders (league-worst 1-11 record) at the bottom of the West Division standings less than two years after hoisting the Grey Cup before their rabid fans at Mosaic Stadium.

And although Chick said the Riders haven’t given up on making the CFL playoffs, their uphill battle will be a test of the players’ character.

“It’s easy to be a front-runner and work hard because winning is fun,” said Chick, in Toronto on Monday to kick off the third annual Sun Life Financial Inc. Kick Diabetes program with the CFL. “I think you’ll see in the weeks to come what guys are made of, what drives them because when you’re as low as we are right now it’s about being your best self.

“Each week you still have to put the work in.”

Chick admits the Riders’ disappointment actually began last year when, after storming out to an 8-2 record, they lost starter Darian Durant to a season-ending elbow injury. The Riders then dropped seven of their next nine games without their offensive leader, including an 18-10 decision to Edmonton in the West Division semifinal.

Durant’s healthy return and the off-season acquisition of veteran Kevin Glenn helped buoy Saskatchewan’s confidence heading into the season.

But Durant suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in the opener before Glenn (torn pectoral) was hurt, leaving unproven rookie Brett Smith and sophomore Tino Sunseri under centre.

At 0-9, the Riders fired head coach Corey Chamblin — the CFL’s coach of the year in 2013 — and GM Brendan Taman. Special-teams co-ordinator Bob Dyce and assistant GM Jeremy O’Day were both promoted on an interim basis and Saskatchewan responded by beating Winnipeg 37-19 on Sept. 6 but has dropped two straight since.

What’s more, seven of Saskatchewan’s 11 losses have been by four points or less.

“That ability to finish, that’s tough,” Chick said.

“You can do a lot of great things during a game but at each individual position it’s always about that finish and collectively we haven’t been able to get it consistently yet.

“We’re still working towards it and the guys in the locker-room haven’t given up. Everyone knows their vitality is on the line and you know they’re giving their best.”

Defensively, Saskatchewan is allowing a 30.4 points per game but the sixfoot-four, 250-pound Chick has been a bright spot. He has a team-high eight sacks, one behind league-leaders Jamaal Westerman of Winnipeg and Calgary’s Charleston Hughes.

Last year, Chick had a CFL-best 15 sacks but regrets how the Riders’ struggles have negatively impacted Saskatchewan’s rabid fans.

“It’s not only wearing on the players, coaches and staff but you see it affecting fans,” he said. “That’s who we don’t want to let down … the people who support us.”

The Kick Diabetes program is near to Chick’s heart. He was diagnosed

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jets 20 Colts 7 INDIANAPOLIS — The New York Jets’ suddenly opportunistic defence did it again Monday night.

Calvin Pryor intercepted one pass to set up a touchdown, Darrelle Revis snuffed out a scoring chance by recovering a Colts fumble in his own end zone as New York Jets confounded Andrew Luck most of the night and held on for a 20-7 victory at Indianapolis.

New York, 2-0 for the first time since 2011, already has 10 takeaways this season and has turned them into 31 points — a stark contrast from 2014 when New York scored 20 points off turnovers the entire season.

Indianapolis matched last season’s 0-2 start by losing back-to-back games for only the second time in Luck’s fouryear career.

“It wasn’t a pretty win, but we’ll take it,” receiver Brandon Marshall said. “We’ve got a long way to go.”

Against an offence that was considered one of the league’s best into the season, Revis and the Jets made sure it was no contest.

Revis continued his mastery of the Colts by recovering two fumbles and grabbing one of Luck’s three interceptions, and between the Jets’ suffocat-

ing defence and a steady stream of costly penalties, the Colts never could really get in sync.

Ryan Fitzpatrick finished 22 of 34 for 244 yards with two touchdown passes and one interception — getting his first career win at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Fitzpatrick became the first player since 1950 to start five consecutive road games against one team while playing for five different teams. He was 0-4 in the previous starts.

Eric Decker had eight receptions for 97 yards before leaving with a knee injury, and Brandon Marshall caught seven passes for 101 yards and one touchdown.

How strange was this for the Colts?

They were shut out in the first half in consecutive weeks for the first time since 1997 and Adam Vinatieri missed his first field goal inside 30 yards since 2007. And Luck was 21 of 37 for 250 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions.

“It’s hard to win games in this league, even more so when we have five turnovers, 11 penalties, are 0 for 5 on third downs in the first half and can’t get off the field,” Colts coach Chuck Pagano said.

But the Jets still struggled to put this one away. Pryor ended Indy’s first series with a 29-yard interception return that put the ball at Indy’s 9-yard line. Four plays later, Fitzpatrick found Decker for a 6-yard TD pass to make it 7-0. Nick Folk’s 35-yard field goal late in the first half made it 10-0.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Zach Collaros is sacked by Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive end John Chick, left, and defensive end Ricky Foley during the second half of CFL action in Regina, Sask., June 29, 2014. The 2015 season has been one huge struggle for Chick and the Roughriders but the lineman hasn’t let it affect his work ethic on and off the field. with Type 1 diabetes at age 14 and wears an insulin pump.

Chick, a two-time Grey Cup champion with Saskatchewan who does charity work with several diabetes-related associations, said he’s living proof dia-

betics can live active lives with education and treatment.

“As healthy as I am and like to think I am unbreakable sometimes … to say I’ve got it whooped, no,” he said. “It still takes 24-7 effort but it’s possible.”

Collaros to miss remainder of season with knee injury

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON — Zach Collaros’s brilliant 2015 season is over.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats confirmed Monday their star quarterback will miss the remainder of the campaign with a torn ACL in his right knee. Collaros suffered the injury in the second quarter of a 25-18 home loss to the Edmonton Eskimos on Saturday afternoon.

Collaros underwent an MRI on Monday. The Ticats said no date for surgery has been determined.

“I would like to thank the great players, coaches and fans around the league who have extended their support this week,” Collaros said on his Twitter account Monday. “I will work my hardest for my teammates and our organization to come back stronger.

“Until then, I believe in our team and believe we will bring the 2015 Grey Cup to Hamilton. Thank you.”

Support poured in from across the league.

“You make playing qb look easy,” Toronto starter Trevor Harris tweeted.

“Get well well brother..Hall of fame career has only just begun.”

Argos kicker Swayze Waters echoed those sentiments on Twitter. “@ZCollaros7 love you brother!”

Added the B.C. Lions: “Sending positive thoughts to one of the best, @ZCollaros7, for a speedy recovery!@Ticats .CFL .BCLions.”

The loss of Collaros is huge for Hamilton (8-4). The 27-year-old native of Steubenville, Ohio, leads the CFL in passing yards (3,376), touchdowns (25) and passer rating (113.7) and also sported an impressive 70.2 completion percentage.

The six-foot, 216-pound Collaros is in his fourth CFL season and second with Hamilton. He began his career in Canada with the Toronto Argonauts before signing with the Ticats as a free agent prior to the 2014 campaign.

Collaros was the overwhelming favourite to be the East Division’s nominee for the CFL’s outstanding player award. His injury opens up the East Division race with the Ottawa Redblacks (7-4) and Argos (6-5) both within striking distance.

The Montreal Alouettes (5-6), who have beaten Hamilton twice this year, also remain in playoff contention.

Collaros left Saturday’s game after completing 7-of-10 passes for 90 yards and a TD. Rookie backup Jeff Matthews completed 12-of-20 passes for 157 yards but also threw three interceptions, two of which Edmonton returned for touchdowns.

Third-stringer Jacory Harris also saw action, completing six-of-12 passes for 59 yards but also lost a crucial fumble that set up Kendial Lawrence’s game-winning four-yard TD run.

The Ticats don’t play again until Oct. 2 when they host the Calgary Stampeders.

Islanders win preseason debut in Brooklyn but lose to Flyers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS John Tavares and Anders Lee each had a goal and an assist to help a New York Islanders split squad win its first preseason game in Brooklyn, 3-2 over a Philadelphia Flyers split squad Monday night.

Kirill Petrov also scored for New York, which will be playing its inaugural season at the Barclay’s Center after 43 years on Long Island. Jaroslav Halak made 12 saves in two periods before giving way to Stephon Williams, who stopped 10 of 11 shots he faced in the third.

Taylor Leier and Brayden Schenn scored for Philadelphia.

Jason LaBarbera allowed two goals on 20 shots in 30:24, while reserve Anthony Stolarz made five saves on six shots in 17:34.

In Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jakub Voracek and Michael Del Zotto recorded two points apiece as a Flyers’ other split squad beat the Islanders’ other split squad 5-3.

Michael Raffl, Tavis Konecny, Vinny Lecavalier and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare scored for Philadelphia, and Michal Neuvirth made 12 saves.

Alan Quine, Justin Vaive and James Wright scored for New York. Thomas Greiss allowed three goals on 15 shots and Christopher Gibson stopped seven of the eight shots he faced.

Kreider, Stalberg score late in second period for Rangers In New York, Chris Kreider and Viktor Stalberg scored 35 seconds apart late in the second period to lead the New York Rangers to a 6-3 win over the New Jersey Devils.

Jayson Megna scored twice, and Brian Gibbons and Oscar Lindberg each

added a goal for New York in its preseason opener. Anntti Raanta made 11 saves in 32:29, while Magnus Hellberg turned away 12 shots in 27:25.

Jordin Tootoo, Mike Sislo and Adam Larsson scored on the power play for New Jersey, which is 0-2 in the preseason. Cory Schneider allowed two goals on 12 shots. His replacement, Yann Danis gave up four goals in 26:17.

Holtby, Ellis combine to shut out Carolina In Washington, Braden Holtby stopped 14 shots and Dan Ellis had 12 saves to lead the Washington Capitals to a 2-0 win over Carolina Hurricanes.

Tom Wilson’s goal 3:31 into the third period snapped a scoreless tie. Derek Roy also scored for Washington.

Carolina backup Drew MacIntyre allowed both Capitals goals after starter Eddie Lack stopped all 22 shots he faced.

Babcock wins Leafs debut In Toronto, P.A Parenteau scored twice and Nick Spaling had a goal to help a Maple Leafs split squad give Mike Babcock a win in his preseason debut as coach, beating an Ottawa Senators split squad 4-1.

Stuart Percy added a late goal for the Leafs, and goaltender Jonathan Bernier stopped 28 shots.

Ottawa goalies Andrew Hammonds and Chris Driedger gave up two scores each, Mike Hoffman had the Senators’ goal.

In Ottawa, Joffrey Lupul scored twice including the game-winner 55 seconds into overtime as Toronto’s other split-squad won 4-3.

Dion Phaneuf and TJ Brennan also scored for the Maple Leafs and James

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New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (50) looks on as Islanders goalie Stephon Williams (35) makes a save against a shot by Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturier (14) during the third period of an NHL preseason hockey game at the Barclays Center in New York, Monday.

Reimer stopped 24 of 27 shots he faced in the first two periods. Garret Sparks stopped all eight shots he faced in the third.

Shane Price, Bobby Ryan and Erik Karlsson scored for Ottawa. Craig Anderson stopped 18 shots and Matt O’Connor stopped 15 of the 17 shots he faced.

Eichel gets goal in NHL debut In St. Paul, Minnesota, No. 2 overall pick Jack Eichel’s short-handed goal 5:44 into the third period gave the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.

Nicolas Deslauriers and Matt Moulson also scored for the Sabres. Eichel assisted on Moulson’s tying goal 1:36

into the third. Chad Johnson made 15 saves in 40 minutes for Buffalo, while Nathan Lieuwen stopped all three shots he faced in the third.

Jared Spurgeon and Mikael Granlund scored for Minnesota. Darcy Kuemper allowed all three of Buffalo’s goals in 58 minutes.

Zatkoff, Jarry blank Blue Jackets In Columbus, Ohio, Jeff Zatkovv and Tristan Jarry combined for 30 saves in regulation and overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat Blue Jackets 1-0 in a shootout.

Beau Bennett scored the only goal of the tiebreaker round.

Joonas Korpisalo made 39 saves for the Blue Jackets.

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How the Ironman saved Lionel Sanders from himself

him on the bike at Oceanside — Frodeno, the German who pipped Whitfield at the 2008 Olympics, and Oceanside is where the picture on the computer monitor comes from — but he also went to Galveston this year and didn’t properly hydrate, and by the end of the run he had lost almost 10% of his body weight and his feet were blue. How does a pro not know how to hydrate?

His swimming stroke is still a work in progress, but the lifeguard at his training pool says that when he started swimming there three months ago, “He was a slapper. He slapped the water a lot. He still did a complete circle with his arms. He’s gotten a lot better.”

“Running works like try harder, you go faster,” says Sanders. “And swimming is try harder, for me, go slower. My best swims I’ve ever done have been the easiest swims, like I don’t even feel like I’m doing anything. I go to the pool and there are 12-year-old girls who can annihilate me at swimming.”

He only figured out that he should train in the heat a few months ago, like everyone else, so he started sweating in the bright yellow room. He only noticed he was overtraining when he got the flu two weeks before a race, and had two easy weeks before racing and feeling great. He doesn’t know race strategy — he just goes, and sometimes blows up. Shepley advises him, but Sanders is determined to figure out this stuff on his own. Process.

The mistakes have led to a down year compared to 2014, when he won race after race. Still, he’s one of the 55 pros at Kona. It doesn’t seem real, does it? Can he really be the natural?

Sanders laughs and says, “This year I think I’ve kind of helped my cause by not doing very well. Obviously, I’m anti-drugs, completely. So if you think I’m doing this because of cheating, then you’re free to think that. I don’t care.”

Shepley says: ”The beauty is that it’s there. When he couldn’t afford a 16 kilogram bag of Corn Flakes — he would eat one for weeks — he was putting out 300 watts on the bike. If I had to put my house up on the line that this kid is 100% clean, I wouldn’t even blink.”

His mother Becky smoked for 20 years, was diagnosed with emphysema, and took up running. She completed an age group Ironman at Mont Tremblant this year. Good genes.

“She is built for distance,” says Sanders. “The longer it goes, the better she gets.”

She could have been an athlete. Her son is.

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The why … that’s more complicated. Just as Sanders doesn’t know why drugs pulled a happy but purposeless boy into the dark, he’s not sure what fuels him, not really. Peter Reid, Canada’s greatest Ironman, was told by his parents to get a real job, and he has told people that the day his father apologized his motivation slacked. Sanders says that’s not what his furnace burns. But he doesn’t know what’s down there.

“I don’t know if I am trying to find anything anymore,” he says. “I know I’ll never go back to the place, because I don’t want to. It’s so bad. It’s not who I am anymore.” He still drinks a beer now and again, and there are some

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And he needs this now. He took three days off last week and got jittery.

But he says he’s not running and riding and swimming away, anymore.

“I want to grow,” says Sanders. “I don’t want to have that negative attachment. A lot of people assume I have that negative attachment.”

Instead, he says, he’s trying to find something else. Limits. Something beyond those limits. You have to love this to punish your body for hours, every day, and he says it’s made him a better person. He doesn’t get as angry anymore — there was that time in Hamilton when he and Erin were trying to put down peel-and-stick tile in the kitchen, and it wasn’t working, and he went up like a volcano. That’s mostly gone.

“I want to feel it all,” he says. “I used to want to become a monk. Like that was my thing, towards the end. I wanted to leave here, when I was starting to come back towards regular life, I guess you would say. And my mom said to me, you don’t think that’s a cop-out?

Like to live in a monastery or something? And now I do think that internal peace — you want to achieve internal peace in the most hustle-bustle place. But all the distractions, and all that stuff. You want to achieve internal peace and centeredness. It’s true.

“From a philosophical standpoint, though, I think what I’m trying to do — I’m just trying to be content with movement, and stuff like that. And this. What’s happening. Just peace. Internal peace.”

He was a happy kid. He loved his parents. He loves his little sister, Asia.

He is happy. But there is something buried in him. Not long ago he was training with the door open a crack, and Erin filmed it on her phone, and on the tape, he roars. He lets out a geyser of anger, and then after a few seconds another one. That’s not unusual. Anyone can roar, in the currents of exertion.

And then he begins to weep, great wracking sobs, even as the pedals keep spinning. It hadn’t happened before, and hasn’t since.

“I didn’t feel bad, I didn’t feel good,” he says. “It was pure emotion.

There’s no way to describe it. It was overwhelming. And the only way I knew how to dispel it in my body was cry.

“There is something deep, deep inside, that I don’t know if the word is bothers, but drives. Like very deep that I can only access — it certainly comes out of races and that sort of thing. I can’t describe it. There’s something there, though. Like, it made me cry.”

He remains a mystery, even to him.

In two weeks Lionel Sanders will stand in front of Kailua-Kona Bay with the other best 54 triathletes on Earth.

He will take a deep breath, and will think of the path he has taken to that place, to the jungle heat. And he will leap into the water, and do far more than try not to sink.

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8 a.m., when he found himself standSanders’s coach-slash-advisor, Bar- ing alone on an Adirondack chair in a rie Shepley — who is from the same garage with the belt around his neck, tiny town of Harrow, Ont., which still drunk, stoned, hating himself, hating doesn’t have a swimming pool — says: what he had done.

“What he is is a monster engine with “And then the idea of my mom a humongous heart in terms of desire, popped into my head, because she and there are still seven letters in the would always say, ‘I’m so sorry, whatalphabet that he doesn’t even know ex- ever it is I did that caused all of the ist. There’s a ton of upside. His engine stuff for you,’” Lionel says, his cadence is in the top three in the world that I’ve slowing down. “Because she always seen in the last 35 years.” blamed herself. And that’s kind of This modest rented bungalow is when I realize that if I did this, if I did kept neat, and the bookshelf is divid- this right now, my mom’s never going ed into sections: Performance, Sports to be able to live a normal life again.”

Stories, Fiction, Spiritual, Self-help, He stepped off the chair. He tried Philosophy and Poetry. That’s the work solitude, silence, being alone. He of Erin MacDonald, his fiancee, a den- stayed inside for almost all of six tal hygienist. “The only room he cares straight months, clean. And one day in about is that one,” she says, pointing to 2009 he decided, I’m going to train for the bright yellow room. an Ironman. It was a strange light bulb When Sanders was a kid he would moment — he had to Google Ironman. run, and he was good at it until it He still doesn’t know where it came started to feel like a job. He started from. Shepley told him in high school smoking pot in high school — that, he he should try triathlon, but whatever. thought, was fun. He’d smoke up beHe found a race in Louisville. Sandfore cross-country practice, and walk ers remembers telling his mom, “I once he was out of sight of the coach. think if I devote myself to training for He could suffer when he ran, though. this race it will change me, make me In university he trained with the a better person, give me discipline, cross-country team but wasn’t on it, make me feel better about myself.” partied, tried to do it all. He made the She gave him her credit card for the honour roll in first year. He felt aim- entry fee. less, and purposeless.

He started working out in the midHe got into cocaine in second year, dle of the night, so he didn’t have to because it was there. And he started see anyone but the all-night gym clerk. down the slide.

He’d bike there, run and bike and “I wasn’t doing drugs because swim for four hours, go to bed at 6 am.

I wanted to escape, or anything,” he He recorded every workout in a log says, cheerful, through his bristly book, with notes. He worked hard for beard. “Then it got into, I was not hap- a month at ELance and saved up for a py with my life, and the reality, and I bike, for $1,000. He found an all-night was doing those things to either feel, grocery store, and would shop there or to escape the feelings I was having. at midnight and drag the cart home You eventually have to start saying, behind his bike, attached by the bike well how can I get high? I don’t have chain. He started to feel better. enough money to do that. I need to Still, it wasn’t a straight line. The get high, though. And that’s when you day after the first relapse he went to started to get pathetic, as I started to live with his dad, out of the city. “He get.” tried to teach me how to be a real per“He likes to do everything very son,” Lionel says, and he papered his well,” says his father Doug, in the room with a plan for every day until weathered voice of a survivor. “He Louisville. The day after the second wanted to be the best at partying too. relapse, the night of the pocket dial, “The most difficult part is realiz- New Year’s Eve 2011, he told his dad ing we were powerless. He’s come a he wasn’t going to do cocaine again. million miles in a very short period of He just knew it, he says. It sounds untime.” believable, you say. It sounds like a Sanders and his fiancee left Friday movie. for Hawaii, where on Oct. 10 he will Sanders agrees, 100%. He doesn’t race in the Ironman world champion- understand it, either. But he’s trying ships in Kona for the first time. It will to. be a big moment, but not the biggest one. The biggest ones have already • • • happened.

“This sport saved my life,” Sanders The funny thing is, Sanders doesn’t says, his eyes clear. really know what he’s doing. Every“We got extremely lucky,” says his thing is an experiment. He finished dad. “We know that.”

52nd in Louisville with his bargain The room keeps sweating, even af- bike and a swim stroke that looked ter Lionel leaves to get something to like drowning, and Shepley noticed. eat.

He won little triathlons, though, ran running races, duathlons, whatever.

• • • He trained so hard, and his body could take it, and craved it. Sanders wonIn Lionel’s version his father was dered if he could really do this, but he yelling, don’t do it. His father says he kept trying. heard a commotion over the phone and He got his first race paycheque in heard people yelling that same thing, 2011. Big day. and that his own heart was trying to “$1,250,” he says. “And I remember claw its way out of its chest in the mid- because Erin and I had our first date dle of the night, and he was scrambling not long after, and I needed that cash. to get dressed when the line went dead I bought an outfit with it, I took her to and his phone rang again. He heard the casino, I was living the life lavish, Lionel’s voice say, Dad, it’s OK. I’m not and The Keg. The Keg! Are you kidgoing to do anything bad. It’s OK. ding me? I’ve never eaten at The Keg “I’m begging these guys to sell me in my life.” cocaine. Because they’re my friends, He outran Andreas Raelert, the and they didn’t want to, because they word record holder for the Ironman, knew I had a problem,” says Sanders. at Muskoka in 2013, and figured wait, “And at that exact moment, I pocket hold on. He won half-Ironmans, or dialed my dad. I had no freaking idea. 70.3s, with ease, despite emerging from I never pocket dial people, never.” the water at the back of the pack. He The road to that moment had been came out of the water last at the 2014 a dark one. Sanders quit university, 70.3 world championships, was 11th and plummeted. His self-esteem fell. after the bike, and finished fourth, beAnxiety took hold. He worked at a call hind giants Jan Frodeno, Javier Gocentre for a month but couldn’t han- mez, and Tim Don. Had he swam as dle talking to people; he started doing fast as the slowest of those three, he projects for ELance, an online free- would have finished second, and not lance site. He taught himself to type by much. so he could do transcription, and felt “I crossed the line and I’m like this his mind blissfully empty as he tapped little kid in a candy shop,” Sanders away. says. “Like, hi guys, how are you guys Every addict has stories; Lionel doing?” does, too, and tells them with disarmBut he still makes mistakes, all the ing honesty. The time a guy asked him time. Sure, he ran with the great Frofor a light on a street corner and he deno for five kilometres after catching

SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Blackfalds Wranglers, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday ● High school football: Sylvan Lake Lakers at Rocky Mountain House Rebels, 4:30 p.m.; Lacombe Rams at Hunting Hills Lightning, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Hunting Hills Lightning, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; Kings vs. Kings Alumni, 8:30 p.m.

Friday ● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; games at 11 a.m., 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 6 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● College men’s hockey: Edmonton Concordia Thunder at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● College women’s preseason hockey: St. Francis Xavier Academy of Edmonton at Olds College, 7 p.m., Sportsplex. ● High school football: Notre Dame Cougars at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Camrose Trojans at Stettler Wildcats, 7:30 p.m.; Drayton Valley Warriors at Wetaskiwin Sabres, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday ● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; games at 10 a.m., noon, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Peewee football: Drumheller Terrapins

at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● High school cross-country running: Hunting Hills meet, 11 a.m. start at River Bend Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat Hounds at Red Deer Parkland Chiefs, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A. ● Bantam football: Ponoka Broncs at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Steel Kings at West Central Tigers, 5:15 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills Thrashers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview Colts at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m. ● College women’s preseason hockey: SAIT Trojans at RDC Queens, 9:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

GP 12 11 11 11

Calgary Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Sask.

GP 12 12 11 12 12

West Division W L T 9 3 0 8 4 0 4 7 0 4 8 0 1 11 0

Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta Selects, 10:15 a.m., Lacombe; Western Central Tigers at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m. ● Midget AAA preseason hockey: Fort Saskatchewan Rangers at Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3:15 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie Thunder at Blackfalds Wranglers, 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 4 p.m., Rexall Place.

Red Deer Rebels Preseason Stats Final GP G A Pts 4 3 5 8 5 3 3 6 5 3 3 6 4 1 5 6 5 4 1 5 4 1 4 5 5 1 4 5 5 2 0 2 5 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 5 0 1 1 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0

New Jersey PIM 2 8 0 0 0 12 0 2 2 0 0 4 2 2 9 8 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

+/3 -2 1 1 2 4 1 -2 2 1 0 -1 0 0 0 -2 1 0 0 -1 0 -1 — -2 0 1 — — 0

Goaltenders MP 120 120 59

GA 6 8 4

SO 0 0 0

GAA 3.00 4.00 4.07

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Toronto 2 2 0 0 4 Boston 1 1 0 0 2 Buffalo 1 1 0 0 2 Florida 2 1 1 0 2 Ottawa 2 0 1 1 1 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 Washington 1 1 0 0 2 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 0 2 Philadelphia 2 1 1 0 2 N.Y. Islanders 2 1 1 0 2 Columbus 1 0 0 1 1 Carolina 1 0 1 0 0

Sv% .906 .879 .879

GF GA 8 4 2 0 3 2 5 7 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 GF GA 6 3 2 0 1 0 7 6 6 7 0 1 0 2

2

0

2

0

0

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 2 1 0 1 3 Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 1 0 1 0 0

3

8

GF GA 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 2 2 0 0 4 7 3 Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 2 0 2 0 0 3 7 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Nashville (ss) 5, Florida (ss) 2 Boston 2, New Jersey 0 Florida (ss) 3, Nashville (ss) 2, OT Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 1, Columbus 0, SO N.Y. Islanders (ss) 3, Philadelphia (ss) 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, New Jersey 3 Washington 2, Carolina 0 Philadelphia (ss) 5, N.Y. Islanders (ss) 3 Toronto (ss) 4, Ottawa (ss) 3, OT Toronto (ss) 4, Ottawa (ss) 1 Buffalo 3, Minnesota 2 Edmonton (ss) 3, Calgary (ss) 1 Edmonton (ss) 4, Calgary (ss) 2 Los Angeles vs. Arizona at Bakersfield, CA, late San Jose vs. Vancouver at Victoria, British Columbia, late Tuesday’s Games Washington at Boston, 5 p.m.

St. Louis (ss) at Columbus (ss), 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus (ss) at St. Louis (ss), 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Oilers 3, Flames 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Chase Edm (boarding) 1:58, Hamilton Cgy (high-sticking) 5:52, Ferland Cgy (hooking) 11:42, Pouliot Edm (interference) 15:28, Eberle Edm (tripping) 19:24.

Second Period 1. Calgary, Frolik 1 (Gaudreau, Hiller) 6:07 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Letestu 1 (Korpikoski, Hendricks) 6:55.

Penalties — McRae Edm (high-sticking) 5:22, Nurse Edm (fighting) 12:14, Smith Cgy (fighting) 12:14, Giordano Cgy (slashing) 16:40, Ferland Cgy (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 3. Edmonton, Pouliot 1 (Eberle) 17:08.

4. Edmonton, Schultz 1 (Nugent-Hopkins, Hendricks) 19:52 (en).

Penalties — Reinhart Edm (hooking) 3:21.

Shots on goal Edmonton 10 13 7 — 30 Calgary 9 14 7 — 30 Goal — Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 1-0-0) Calgary: Hiller (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-5 Calgary: 1-5.

Oilers 4, Flames 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Miller 1 (Hamilton, Oesterle) 14:33.

2. Calgary, Kylington 1 (unassisted) 15:14.

Penalties — Miller Edm (slashing) 2:45, Davidson Edm (hooking) 11:35, Kylington Cgy (hooking) 17:02.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Granlund 1 (unassisted) 13:28 (sh).

Penalties — Elson Cgy (hooking) 11:36, Nikitin Edm (interference) 14:54, Jones Cgy (holding) 16:03, Engelland Cgy (elbowing) 19:07.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Draisaitl 1 (McDavid, Yakupov) 13:35 (pp).

5. Edmonton, Lander 1 (unassisted) 14:36 (sh).

6. Edmonton, Yakupov 1 (McDavid, Sekera) 18:59 (en).

Penalties — Wideman Cgy (cross-checking) 4:00, Elson Cgy (hooking) 9:25, Hathaway Cgy (roughing) 13:22, Ference Edm (hooking) 14:20.

Shots on goal Calgary 7 10 5 — 22 Edmonton 9 12 8 — 29 Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-4 Edmonton: 1-8.

Baseball PF 410 254 277 242

PA 246 286 322 210

Pt 16 14 12 10

PF 322 297 245 223 289

PA 247 215 316 352 365

Pt 18 16 8 8 2

WEEK 13 Bye: Toronto Sunday’s result Montreal 35 Winnipeg 14 Saturday’s results Edmonton 25 Hamilton 18 Ottawa 30 Saskatchewan 27 Friday’s result Calgary 35 B.C. 23 WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Friday, Sept. 25 Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26 B.C. at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27 Montreal at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto Thursday, Oct. 1 Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2 Calgary at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

2015 CFL scoring leaders (x—scored two-point convert): TD C J.Medlock, Ham 0 40 B.Bede, Mtl 0 15 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 16 G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 P.McCallum, Sask 0 15 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 12 R.Leone, BC 0 17 C.Milo, Ott 0 17 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 8 2 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 4 T.Gurley, Tor 7 0 x-A.Collie, BC 6 2 x-A.Harris, BC 6 2 x-K.Lawrence, Edm 6 2 D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 K.Stafford, Edm 6 0 T.Toliver, Ham 6 0 x-R.Bagg, Sask 5 4 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 5 4 x-K.Elliott, Tor 5 2 B.Banks, Ham 5 0 A.Bowman, Edm 5 0 V.Hazleton, Tor 5 0 J.Mathews, Ham 5 0 x-B.Brohm, Wpg 4 2 x-H.Burris, Ott 4 2 x-J.Cornish, Cgy 4 2 x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 x-T.Harrison, Cgy 4 2 E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 T.Sinkfield, Ham 4 0 L.Tasker, Ham 4 0 B.Whitaker, Tor 4 0 S.Waters, Tor 0 7 x-W.Dressler, Sask 3 2 x-G.Ellingson, Ott 3 2 x-J.Fuller, Cgy 3 2 x-B.Smith, Sask 3 2 x-T.Sutton, Mtl 3 2 x-M.McDaniel, Cgy 2 8 S.Whyte, Edm 0 3 E.Arceneaux, BC 3 0 E.Davis, Ham 3 0 S.Giguere, Mtl 3 0 S.Green, Mtl 3 0 J.Lynch, Edm 3 0 R.Smith, Sask 3 0 x-J.Veltung, Wpg 2 2 D.Adams, Wpg 2 0 A.Allen, Sask 2 0 P.Cotton, Wpg 2 0 Holley, Ham 2 0 A.Jefferson, Tor 2 0 A.Leonard, BC 2 0 N.Lewis, Mtl 2 0 S.Logan, Mtl 2 0 T.Marsh, Mtl 2 0 B.Mitchell, Cgy 2 0

Kopeck Mahura Pawlenchuk Nikolishin Pratt Bobyk de Wit R.Johnson Strand Musil Bains McClelland Sidaway Herauf Doetzel Pouliot Sakowich Chalifoux Jerome Pederson Polei Sass Weatherill Zummack Gladu Hagel Martin Toth Shmoorkoff

Toth Martin Weatherill

Football Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 2015

Hockey

Today

CFL East Division W L T 8 4 0 7 4 0 6 5 0 5 6 0

B4

B.Moniz, Cgy E.Norwood, Ham C.Rainey, BC N.Roosevelt, Sask D.Spencer, Tor B.Stewart, Ham T.Underwood, Ham C.Watson, Edm C.Williams, Ott

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 2 0 0 1.000 68 N.Y. Jets 2 0 0 1.000 51 Miami 1 1 0 .500 37 Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 59

S 4 8 4 8 3 8 7 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 131 110 101 90 90 83 81 54 50 49 46 42 38 38 38 37 36 36 34 34 32 30 30 30 30 26 26 26 26 26 26 24 24 24 24 21 20 20 20 20 20 20 19 18 18 18 18 18 18 14 12 12 12R. 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

PA 53 17 33 54

BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Dan Straily from Fresno (PCL).

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Named David Stearns general manager.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Selected the contract of OF Keon Broxton from Indianapolis (IL). Placed INF Jung Ho Kang on the 60-day DL. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Acquired CB Will Davis from Miami for a 2016 seventh-round draft pick.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed RB/FB Paul Lasike to the practice squad. Terminated the practice squad contract of RB Bronson Hill.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed LB Joe Thomas.

Placed DT Josh Boyd on injured reserve.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Activated CB Jabari Price from the suspended list.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DE Frank Kearse. Waived CB David Amerson.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Acquired WR Skye Dawson from Edmonton for conditional 2017 draft picks. Signed OL Derek Dennis to the practice roster.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Bruce Johnson to a contract extension through 2018.

HOCKEY

Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

GB — 11 12 1/2 15 1/2 18 1/2

Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 80 69 .537 80 71 .530 76 74 .507 73 77 .487 64 86 .427

GB — 1 4 1/2 7 1/2 16 1/2

Wild Card W L Pct WCGB 82 67 .550 — 80 71 .530 — 76 73 .510 3 76 74 .507 3 1/2 74 74 .500 4 1/2 73 76 .490 6

Jacksonville Tennessee Indianapolis Houston

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

PF 32 56 21 37

PA 40 42 47 51

Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh Baltimore

W 2 1 1 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000

PF 57 38 64 46

PA 32 45 46 56

New York Houston Minnesota Los Angeles Cleveland Baltimore

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 2 1 1 1

West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .500

PF 50 50 52 51

PA 37 66 52 51

PF 47 34 46 34

PA 36 27 51 46

Sunday’s Games Boston 4, Toronto 3 Kansas City 10, Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 6 Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 8, L.A. Angels 1 Houston 5, Oakland 1 Seattle 9, Texas 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2

Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 2 2 1 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0

Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago

W 2 1 0 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000

PF 58 29 44 46

PA 40 36 59 79

Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle

W 2 1 1 0

West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000

PF 79 44 38 48

PA 42 55 46 61

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000

PF 50 44 40 38

PA 44 26 61 57

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay 26, New Orleans 19 Minnesota 26, Detroit 16 Arizona 48, Chicago 23 Carolina 24, Houston 17 Pittsburgh 43, San Francisco 18 New England 40, Buffalo 32 Cincinnati 24, San Diego 19 Cleveland 28, Tennessee 14 Atlanta 24, N.Y. Giants 20 Washington 24, St. Louis 10 Oakland 37, Baltimore 33 Jacksonville 23, Miami 20 Dallas 20, Philadelphia 10 Green Bay 27, Seattle 17 Monday’s Game N.Y. Jets 20, Indianapolis 7 Thursday, Sep. 24 Washington at N.Y. Giants, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 27 Atlanta at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Minnesota, 11 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at New England, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

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

Chicago at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 28 Kansas City at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with G John Gibson on a three-year contract extension.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned LW Troy Bourke, LW Trevor Cheek, D Cody Corbett, D Justin Hamonic, C Samuel Henley, D Hubert Labrie, D Daniel Maggio, G Spencer Martin, C Garrett Meurs, C Reid Petryk and LW Michael Schumacher to San Antonio (AHL). Assigned C J.C. Beaudin to Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL), D Sergei Boikov to Drummondville (QMJHL), D Raphael Maheux to Quebec (QMJHL), RW Nick Magyar to Kitchener (OHL), D Nicolas Meloche to Baie-Comeau (QMJHL), C Gustav Olhaver to Seattle (WHL), C-LW Julien Nantel to Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL), LW Alexis Pepin to Val-d’Or (QMJHL) and G Maximilian Pajpach to Tappara (Finland).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F Adam Marsh to St. John (QMJHL), F Dominic Turgeon to Portland (WHL), D Joe Hicketts to Victoria (WHL) and D Vili Saarijarvi to Green Bay (USHL). Released RW Nick Betz, LW Triston Grant, C Conor McGlynn, LW Evan Polei, RW Jerome Verrier, D Jalen Chatfield, D Justin Lemcke, D Jarett Meyer, D Ty Stanton, G Connor Ingram and G Matt Mancina from their tryout agreements.

SOCCER North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA — Fired general manager Dario Sala, coach Guillermo Hoyos and assistant coaches Edison Ibarra, Rafael Perez Nino and Sebastian Fabres.

GB — 3 1/2 12 1/2 13 1/2 14

Central Division W L Pct 87 62 .584 76 73 .510 74 74 .500 72 78 .480 69 81 .460

South L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 86 64 .573 New York 82 67 .550 Baltimore 73 76 .490 Boston 72 77 .483 Tampa Bay 72 78 .480

W 1 1 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 2 0 0 1.000 Washington 1 1 0 .500 N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000 FG 29 29 27 21 24 21 19 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit 0, 1st game Baltimore at Washington, ppd., rain Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 2, 2nd game Boston 8, Tampa Bay 7 Houston 6, L.A. Angels 3 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 11-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-7), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (L.Severino 4-3) at Toronto (Estrada 13-8), 5:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-10) at Detroit (Da. Norris 2-2), 5:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-4) at Boston (Owens 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 13-8) at Minnesota (E.Santana 5-4), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 8-9) at Houston (McCullers 5-6), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 8-4) at Kansas City (Guthrie 8-7), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 3-5) at Oakland (Nolin 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco 5, Arizona 1 Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 10, Colorado 4 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2

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

L.A. Angels at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

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

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

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

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

Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 112 406 61 137 .337 Bogaerts Bos 143 564 76 182 .323 Brantley Cle 134 521 68 164 .315 Altuve Hou 143 589 75 185 .314 NCruz Sea 141 545 85 169 .310 Fielder Tex 145 560 72 172 .307 LCain KC 131 513 95 156 .304 Kipnis Cle 130 522 80 158 .303 Hosmer KC 146 553 91 167 .302 Kinsler Det 146 591 91 178 .301 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 43 NCruz, Seattle, 42 Donaldson, Toronto, 39 Trout, Los Angeles, 39 JMartinez, Detroit, 37 Bautista, Toronto, 36 Ortiz, Boston, 35 Pujols, Los Angeles, 35.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 120 CDavis, Baltimore, 109 Bautista, Toronto, 105 KMorales, Kansas City, 105 Encarnacion, Toronto, 104 Ortiz, Boston, 99 Abreu, Chicago, 96 JMartinez, Detroit, 96.

Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 18-8 FHernandez, Seattle, 18-9 Price, Toronto, 17-5 McHugh, Houston, 17-7 Lewis, Texas, 16-8 Eovaldi, New York, 14-3 Buehrle, Toronto, 14-7.

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 85 65 .567 78 71 .523 64 86 .427 60 91 .397 56 94 .373

GB — 6 1/2 21 25 1/2 29

z-St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 94 56 .627 90 60 .600 88 62 .587 63 86 .423 63 87 .420

GB — 4 6 30 1/2 31

West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 85 63 .574 San Francisco 78 71 .523 Arizona 71 78 .477 San Diego 70 80 .467 Colorado 63 87 .420 z-clinched playoff berth

Pittsburgh Chicago San Francisco Washington

GB — 7 1/2 14 1/2 16 23

Wild Card W L Pct WCGB 90 60 .600 — 88 62 .587 — 78 71 .523 9 1/2 78 71 .523 9 1/2

Sunday’s Games Washington 13, Miami 3

Wednesday’s Games

Monday’s Games Baltimore at Washington, ppd., rain N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 0 Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 3 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 11-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-7), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 5-8) at N.Y. Mets (Verrett 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Harang 5-15) at Miami (Koehler 1013), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Cravy 0-7) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 19-6), 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Sampson 2-5) at St. Louis (Lackey 129), 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Happ 5-2) at Colorado (Rusin 5-8), 6:40 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 4-12) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 1110), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Heston 11-10) at San Diego (T.Ross 10-10), 8:10 p.m.

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

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

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

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Harper Was 142 484 116 166 .343 DGordon Mia 133 564 78 187 .332 Posey SF 140 514 71 168 .327 YEscobar Was 130 503 73 163 .324 Pollock Ari 144 558 101 178 .319 Goldschmidt Ari 146 524 91 165 .315 Votto Cin 146 501 92 157 .313 DPeralta Ari 139 438 58 136 .311 LeMahieu Col 141 528 80 161 .305 MDuffy SF 136 518 71 156 .301 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 41 Arenado, Colorado, 39 CaGonzalez, Colorado, 37 Frazier, Cincinnati, 35 Rizzo, Chicago, 30 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 28 Votto, Cincinnati, 28.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 114 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 100 Kemp, San Diego, 98 Bryant, Chicago, 95 Harper, Washington, 95 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 95 Rizzo, Chicago, 95.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 19-6 Greinke, Los Angeles, 18-3 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-8 GCole, Pittsburgh, 17-8 Wacha, St. Louis, 16-6 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 14-7 CMartinez, St. Louis, 14-7.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Golfer Kate Griffiths and Kings soccer player Luke Owen are the RDC Boston Pizza female and male athletes of the week.

Griffiths placed first in the individual competition with a pair of 85s and helped the RDC squad finish third in the women’s team category of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association northern regional tournament at Camrose. She is in her first year at RDC after attending NCAA school Jackson State University last year.

Owen, meanwhile, made numerous saves — especially in the first half — during Saturday’s 3-2 home-field win

over the Lakeland Rustlers.

His performance helped the Kings improve to 2-1-0 on the season. ● The host RDC Kings will kick off the ACAC South volleyball tournament Thursday at 8:30 p.m. with a match against the Kings alumni team.

The tournament, also featuring SAIT, Camrose Augustana, Medicine Hat, Vancouver Island University, Briercrest and College of the Rockies from Cranbrook, B.C., will resume Friday at 11 a.m. and conclude with Saturday’s final match — RDC vs. Camrose — at 8 p.m.

● The Kings men’s hockey team will open their regular season Friday at 7 p.m. versus the Edmonton Concordia Thunder at the Penhold Regional Multiplex, then will visit Concordia Saturday. ● In women’s hockey, the Queens will be in Calgary Friday for an exhibition game versus the SAIT Trojans, and will host the Trojans in another preseason contest Saturday at 9:15 p.m. at the Collicutt Centre. ● The RDC men’s and women’s teams will compete in a north regional tournament at the Innisfail Golf Club Saturday and Sunday.

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dium until experiencing mechanical problems during the second day and finishing 10th.

“Going into Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and the finale of the Mazda road to the Indy USF2000 Championship, we had a ton of pressure on ourselves,” said Thompson. “We knew that we needed to beat a few competitors in particular to secure fifth overall in the championship.

“I was proud of how JDC Motorsports and I came through in the end when under the most pressure. There’s no denying it, we didn’t have the best of qualifying sessions, but as a team we really pulled off a huge result in Race One. The team gave me a solid car and I did the job I needed to do. Nothing feels better when it all comes together.”

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Red Deer’s Thompson snags pair of top-five finishes in USF2000 series Red Deer native Parker Thompson helped the JDC Motorsports team finish fifth in the USF2000 Championship standings for the year, turning in a stellar performance in last week’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca at Monterey, Calif.

Thompson, a first-year driver on the USF2000 race car series, had two top-five placings and was setting himself up for a potential place on the po-

Tortorella to coach U.S. World Cup team John Tortorella is prepared to make a comeback at coaching hockey — on a temporary basis, at least.

A person familiar with the decision confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that Tortorella has been selected to coach the United States national team competing in the World Cup of Hockey tournament next year. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because USA Hockey is scheduled to make the announcement following ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast.

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B5 Economy is diversified: Poloz

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The governor of the Bank of Canada is rejecting the notion that the country is excessively dependent on its natural resources sector, arguing that the economy remains highly diversified.

Stephen Poloz made the remarks Monday during a question-and-answer period that followed his speech in Calgary — in a province where the energy sector has been hit hard by the plunge in oil prices.

“You gotta believe it’s better to have some of this stuff than not to have that stuff,” Poloz said of commodities in response to a question from the audience at the event hosted by Calgary Economic Development, a non-profit group that promotes growth in the city.

Poloz described natural resources as Canada’s “backbone” because they represent about 20 per cent of the economy, adding that other sectors remain, in some ways, dependent on it to perform well.

Meanwhile, Poloz said he doesn’t “fret about it.”

“We’re a highly diversified economy and we should be thankful that we’ve got resources as part of our diversification, whereas lots of other countries don’t have that,” he added.

Poloz’s speech came amid a difficult period for the Canadian economy, which contracted over the first two quarters of 2015 and pushed the country into a technical recession.

The steep fall in the price of crude oil, which closed just below US$47 a barrel Monday after falling from a high of US$107 last year, has been

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Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz speaks at a Calgary Economic Development forum in Calgary on Monday. slapped with much of the blame for the shrinking economy.

The economy has also been hindered by slower than predicted rebounds in other sectors.

As a result, experts, including the Bank of Canada, have downgraded growth projections for the country.

Forecasters, however, have predicted the economy will improve in the last half of the year.

The gloomier economic conditions to kick off 2015 quickly became a focal point for much political debate in the current federal election campaign.

Both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have accused Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of putting all his eggs in one basket when it came to the oil sector.

Poloz said when the commodity cycle dips, a resource-dependent economy such as Canada’s should be prepared to make adjustments.

In his speech, he said the resource sector should remain undeterred from making long-term investments despite recent price drops.

Poloz reminded his audience how the economy benefited significantly

in recent years from rising commodity prices. As an example, he highlighted how the price of copper had tripled while oil and nickel more than doubled between 2008 and 2010.

“We shouldn’t ignore the resources that we have been blessed with,” Poloz said.

“Without those investments (years ago), we would never have been able to capitalize on the higher prices, which boosted Canada’s aggregate income.”

Business leaders in the oil industry told the central bank earlier this year they would be cutting investments by about 40 per cent because of the steep price drop, which has not recovered as quickly as anticipated, Poloz said.

He added that in recent weeks these companies were still revising their longer-term forecasts for the price of oil.

The resource sector, he said, is still adjusting to the tougher conditions — a process he believes will take “considerable time.”

None of the volatility, however, should deter Canadians from continuing to seek benefits from the country’s resources, Poloz said.

“It’s true that an abundance of raw materials may complicate the management of companies and complicate the conduct of economic policy,” Poloz said in the speech delivered in a province where, he noted, resources make up more than a quarter of economy. “(But) even when prices are falling, as they have been recently, our endowment represents a store of value and a source of future riches.”

Apple security breach could impact Volkswagen Canadians with iPads and iPhones EMISSIONS SCANDAL

Canada halts some sales

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Volkswagen Canada has told dealers to stop selling diesel-powered vehicles involved in an emissions-testing scandal that has drawn the ire of American regulators.

Spokesman Thomas Tetzlaff said in an email that the voluntary move comes as the Canadian division of the automaker is working with its American counterpart and parent company in Germany to resolve the issue.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn apologized on Sunday following revelations last week that the company had rigged U.S. emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.

Tetzlaff said nearly all of the company’s Volkswagen-branded diesel cars are included in the stop sale order in Canada, including the Jetta, the Golf and the Beetle.

No mention was made of what is to happen with cars already on the road.

On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Volkswagen used a device programmed to detect when the cars are undergoing official emissions testing.

The software device then turns off the emissions controls during normal driving situations, allowing the cars to emit more than the legal limit of pollutants.

Volkswagen marketed the diesel-powered cars as being better for the environment.

The affected models are the diesel versions of the 2009 through 2015 Jetta, the 2010 through 2015 Golf, the 2013 through 2015 Beetle, the 2012 through 2015 Passat, and the 2009 through 2015 Golf Wagon. Those models account for four-fifths of the Volkswagen brand’s sales in Canada, although the company does not disclose how many of its sales are for diesel-powered cars.

VW has already halted sales of some vehicles in the U.S. and pledged to co-operate with regulators in an investigation that could, in theory, see the company fined up to $18 billion.

Environment Canada said its air pollution standards are in line with those of the EPA and that it collaborates with the American agency on emissions testing.

However, it did not say whether the company would face any sanctions in this country when asked in an email.

“The department is in discussions with its U.S. EPA counterparts to further examine this issue and assess potential implications for Canada,” spokesman Mark Johnson said.

Meanwhile, the Merchant Law Group LLP announced it was filing a national class action over the issue.

“VW had marketed its diesel-powered cars as being better for the environment,” the law firm said in a statement. “The EPA indicates the VW cars under investigation seemed to pass emissions tests but in the real world were actually emitting up to 40 times the national standard for nitrogen oxide, which is linked to asthma and lung illnesses.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Apple announced a rare security breach over the weekend that means some Canadians may have unwittingly infected their iPhones and iPads with malware that could expose their iCloud passwords and other personal data.

Apple Inc. has removed some applications from its app store after developers in China were tricked into using software tools that added malicious code to their work.

Apple hasn’t provided details about which companies’ apps were affected.

But Tencent Ltd. said its popular WeChat app was hit the company released a new version after spotting the offending code. Chinese news reports said others affected included banks, an airline and a popular music service.

Many of the affected apps were only available on the App Store in China, yet some that were reportedly infected by the malware — including WeChat, business card rolodex CamCard and file extractor WinZip — are available in Canada.

Users are advised to uninstall the affected apps or update to the latest version released after the malware was discovered, and to change their iCloud passwords.

The malicious code spread through a counterfeit version of Apple’s Xcode tools used to create apps for its iPhones and iPads, according to the company. It said the counterfeit tools spread when developers obtained them from “untrusted sources” rather than directly from the company.

The malicious software collects information from infected devices and uploads it to outside servers, according to Palo Alto Networks, a U.S.-based security firm. The company said the breach could result in fake password

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A man stands near the Apple logo at the company’s store in Grand Central Terminal, in New York. Apple announced a rare security breach over the weekend that means some Canadians may have unwittingly infected their iPhones and iPads with malware that could expose their iCloud passwords and other personal data. prompts aimed at harvesting iCloud details or other logins.

It was first publicized last week by security researchers at Alibaba Group, the Asian e-commerce giant, who dubbed it XcodeGhost.

The creators of the malware took advantage of public frustration with Beijing’s Internet filters, which hamper access to Apple and other foreign websites. That prompts some people to use copies of foreign software or documents that are posted on websites within China to speed up access.

“Sometimes network speeds are very slow when downloading large files from Apple’s servers,” wrote

Claud Xiao, a Palo Alto Networks researcher, on its website. Due to the large size of the Xcode file, “some Chinese developers choose to download the package from other sources or get copies from colleagues.”

Companies with apps that were affected include taxi-hailing service Didi Kuaidi, Citic Industrial Bank, China Southern Airlines and the music service of NetEase, a popular Web portal, according to the newspaper Yangcheng Evening News. The incident is the only the sixth time malicious software is known to have made it through Apple’s screening process for products on its App Store, according to Xiao.

Wholesale sales unchanged in July at $55.4B

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

STATSCAN REPORT

OTTAWA — Canadian wholesale sales fell short of expectations in July as they held steady for the month at $55.4 billion, a hiccup among signs the economy is improving after a weak start to the year.

Economists had expected a gain of 0.7 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

Statistics Canada said three subsectors posted gains, led by the machinery, equipment and supplies group, to offset losses in other sectors.

In volume terms, wholesale sales fell 0.4 per cent.

“Still, despite the slight disappointment in today’s wholesaling data, the strong gain in manufacturing volumes reported last week, in addition to the healthy readings we expect from retailing to be released on Wednesday, still augur for a decent July GDP advance,” CIBC economist Nick Exarhos wrote in a brief note.

“That, in addition to the strong hand-off from the end of the second quarter, supports our view for a 2.7 per

cent growth pace in the third quarter.” omy this year to growth of 1.2 per cent The machinfrom its June ery, equipment forecast of 1.6 per “EXPORTS ARE A KEY and supplies subcent.

UNDERPINNING TO THIS sector gained 1.0 “Next year will per cent to $11.3 see a return to FIRMER ECONOMIC BACKDROP, growth of about billion, its second consecutive intwo per cent, still HIGHLIGHTING CANADA’S crease, helped by 0.3 percentINCREASING DEPENDENCE ON about the computer and age points lower communications FACTORS OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS than our June equipment and call,” TD said in a TO PROPEL GROWTH” supplies industry. report.

Wholesale “Exports are a TD CANADA REPORT key underpinning sales in the motor vehicle and parts to this firmer ecosubsector rose 0.2 nomic backdrop, per cent to $10.3 billion in July, while highlighting Canada’s increasing dethe miscellaneous subsector rose 0.3 pendence on factors outside our borper cent to $7.0 billion. ders to propel growth.”

The food, beverage and tobacco subTD predicted the Bank of Canada sector had the largest decrease in dol- would keep its key interest rate at 0.5 lar terms as it slipped 0.5 per cent to per cent until 2017. $10.7 billion.

In its latest monetary policy reThe weaker than expected whole- port, the Bank of Canada has forecast sale sales results came as TD Bank growth of 1.1 per cent this year and 2.3 downgraded its outlook for the econ- per cent in 2016.

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

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 123.82 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.21 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.70 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.15 DOLLAR MARKETS TORONTO — North American stock markets regained some composure Monday as traders reconsidered whether a big pullback late last week was overblown.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX index closed up 132.54 points at 13,779.44, although well off its highs of earlier in the day.

The shift followed a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve last Thursday to stand pat on its trend-setting interest rate, while its comments about global growth left traders feeling especially jittery about the strength of the recovery.

Some of that sentiment had worn off by Monday, partially driven by the heavily weighted financials and energy sectors.

The loonie fell 0.16 of a U.S. cent to 75.50 cents US. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 125.61 points at 16,510.19, also well off its triple-digit high of the day, while the broader S&P 500 advanced 8.94 points to 1,966.97 and the Nasdaq gained 1.72 points to 4,828.95.

On commodity markets, the December gold contract fell $5 to US$1,132.80 an ounce, while natural gas was down 3.2 cents at US$2.57 per thousand cubic feet for October.

The November contract for U.S. benchmark crude oil was up $1.94 at US$46.96 a barrel.

Part of the rise in oil prices could be linked to a new report from OPEC which predicts oil prices could hit $80 a barrel by 2020, said Andrew Pyle, a portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont. “The outlook, in my opinion, is very conservative,” he said.

“Getting back to $80 is not a massive accomplishment in the grand scheme of things. When you get firms starting to curtail

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.91 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.07 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.72 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.23 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.72 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.32 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.30 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.59 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.30 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.02 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 31.37 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.890 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.71 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 19.01 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 20.61 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 54.73 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.92 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 23.20 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.29 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.81 Canyon Services Group. . 5.16 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.65 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1850 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.53 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.770 production, and more importantly actually pulling back on capital expenditures … that eats into production over the near and medium term.”

In Calgary, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz told an audience that the resource sector ought not to be deterred from making long-term investments despite recent weakness in commodities prices, noting that such investments in the past have paid dividends when prices rise.

In corporate news, shares of German carmaker Volkswagen tumbled 17.1 per cent in Frankfurt following allegations that the German carmaker rigged U.S. emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that company had skirted clean air rules and could faces fines of more than $18 billion.

There was no indication that the company would face any penalties in Canada, although the automaker said it had halted sales of the models in question in this country too.

Shares of Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) moved higher after the company announced it would take an additional ownership stake of 10 per cent in the Fort Hills oilsands project for $310 million. Once the transaction closes, Suncor will own 50.8 per cent of the $15-billion project.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,779.44, up 132.54 points Dow — 16,510.19, up 125.61 points S&P 500 — 1,966.97, up 8.94 points Nasdaq — 4,828.95, up 1.72 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 73.39 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.45 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.70 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.37 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.03 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.40 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.720 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.13 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.80 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.32 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.84 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.94 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2250 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 71.33 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.14 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.41 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.90 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.47 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.29 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.55 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.08 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.57 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.47 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.36 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.60 Currencies: Cdn — 75.50 cents US, down 0.16 of a cent Pound — C$2.0534, up 0.15 of a cent Euro — C$1.4827, down 0.84 of a cent Euro — US$1.1194, down 0.88 of a cent Oil futures: US$46.96 per barrel, up $1.94 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,132.80 per oz., down five dollars (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.973 oz., up 36.2 cents $674.28 kg., up $11.64 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $3.20 higher $468.00 Jan. ‘16 $3.30 higher $473.40 March ‘16 $2.90 higher $475.70 May ‘16 $2.90 higher $476.10 July ‘16 $3.20 higher $476.50 Nov. ‘16 $1.40 higher $459.40 Jan. ‘17 $1.40 higher $460.60 March ‘17 $1.40 higher $462.30 May ‘17 $1.40 higher $462.30 July ‘17 $1.40 higher $462.30 Nov. ‘17 $1.40 higher $462.30.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 Dec. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 March ‘16 unchanged $186.00 May ‘16 unchanged $187.00 July ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 March ‘17 unchanged $187.00 May ‘17 unchanged $187.00 July ‘17 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $187.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 180,980 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 180,980.

Suncor taking 10 per cent Fort Hills stake off Total’s hands for $310M

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) is tightening its grip on the Fort Hills oilsands project by paying $310 million to take an additional 10 per cent stake off one of its partners hands.

The seller is Total E&P Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Paris-based Total SA, which will retain a 29.2 per cent interest — remaining the second-largest partner after Suncor.

Once the transaction closes, Suncor will own 50.8 per cent of the $15-billion project and 20 per cent will be owned

by Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B), which has waived its right to increase its share proportionately.

The deal comes as U.S. crude prices hover at around US$46 a barrel — around half of where they were a year ago — with no end to the doldrums in sight.

In a release, Total said it had weighed how its global assets stack up in the context of low oil prices and decided to reduce exposure to Canada’s oilsands.

Despite the gloomy outlook, Suncor CEO Steve Williams said the purchase makes sense in the long term.

“This opportunity to acquire an additional interest at a discounted price underscores Suncor’s confidence in its position within the oilsands,” he said in a release.

“We consider this project to be one of the best opportunities for long-term sustainable growth in the industry to-

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day, thanks to the exceptional quality of the resource and our disciplined project execution.”

Suncor said the transaction can be undertaken within its current 2015 capital budget of between $5.8 billion and $6.4 billion.

Engineering is over 90 per cent complete and construction is more than 40 per cent complete.

The mine, north of Fort McMurray, Alta., is expected to start producing oil in late 2017, eventually ramping up to 180,000 barrels a day.

Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Justin Bouchard said there’s a strategic element to the deal, as Suncor now has majority control of Fort Hills.

“We believe this reduces the operational risk of the project,” he wrote in a research note. “For items that require majority approval, Suncor now has the ability to move ahead without its partners (if needed).”

In all, Suncor’s capital spending increase at Fort Hills is estimated at just over $1 billion, when both the acquisition and $700 million in future spending is taken into account.

In a research note, CIBC analyst Arthur Grayfer said Suncor is getting a good deal for the price — the increased stake means an additional 18,000 barrels of day of production that won’t decline for 50 years.

Assuming prices improve, Grayfer said Fort Hills will be the “free cash flow engine for all growth initiatives for the next decade.”

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An activist waves a placard calling for the ban of fracking during a news conference outside the Colorado Convention Center in Denver as the Oil and Gas Task Force meets inside the facility to put the final touches on recommendations for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to consider in the settlement of disputes over oil and gas drilling. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday, to decide whether cities can ban hydraulic fracturing, stepping into a high-stakes battle to determine if local governments can impose tougher oil and gas rules than the state.

Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether cities can ban fracking

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether cities can ban hydraulic fracturing, stepping into a high-stakes battle over whether local governments can impose tougher oil and gas rules than the state.

The court will hear cases from Longmont, where voters banned hydraulic fracturing in 2012, and Fort Collins, where voters approved a 5-year moratorium in 2013.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association sued the two cities, and lower courts overturned the local restrictions, saying regulation is the state’s prerogative. The cities and several environmental groups appealed.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, injects a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals underground to crack open formations and make it easier to recover oil and gas. It’s a widespread practice that led to an energy boom in Colorado, the nation’s No. 7 energy-producing state, and elsewhere.

The state Supreme Court’s decision could settle a long-simmering battle fought on multiple fronts in Colorado, including public health, the environment and property rights.

“I would say this is pretty huge,” said Tanya Heikkila, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver who studies fracking policy debates.

The state has generally taken the position that only it has the power to regulate the oil and gas industry, and that local governments can participate in decisions about how drilling

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and fracking occur but not whether it should be allowed.

“Local governments obviously still want some say in the ‘whether,”’ Heikkila said. “The Supreme Court decision will clarify that issue.”

Critics say fracking endangers public health and underground water supplies. The industry maintains it is safe.

Fracking has also intensified battles over property rights in Colorado. Landowners — sometimes called surface owners — often don’t own the rights to the minerals underneath their property, setting up disputes over where and how the mineral owners can drill.

Noise, lights and health worries generate complaints when drilling rigs set up near homes or schools.

New York state has banned fracking, citing environmental and public health risks. Energy-rich Texas and Oklahoma enacted laws in May that prevent local governments from banning fracking.

One of the proponents of the Longmont ban, a group called Our Longmont, welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to weigh in.

“This is an issue with profound consequences for our community and its residents,” Our Longmont President Kaye Fissinger said.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association also welcomed the court’s intervention and predicted the local restrictions wouldn’t survive. Spokesman Doug Flanders said the group has been working on finding workable solutions to the disputes.

Longmont Assistant City Manager Sandy Seader said the city is ready to defend its ban. A Fort Collins official didn’t immediately return a call. watts.

The three properties — the 330 MW Tracy facility, the 97 MW Hanford facility and the 96 MW Henrietta facility — are being acquired by its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, AltaGas Power Holdings (U.S.) Inc., in a deal with Highstar Capital IV, L.P. and certain of its affiliates.

The purchase is expected to close late in the fourth quarter of this year.

AltaGas said it will pay for the acquisition through a combination of equity and debt, including a planned bought-deal offering, was well as future debt and preferred share financings and potential dispositions of noncore assets.

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Volunteers spruce up Red Deer MORE THAN 400 KILOGRAMS OF TRASH PULLED OUT OF LOCAL RIVER BANKS AND TRAILS DURING GREAT CANADIAN SHORELINE CLEAN UP

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer has some tidy river banks and trails thanks to 68 volunteers during the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup despite cooler, wet weather on Sunday.

Suzanne Jubb, city community and program facilitator, said trash from collected in river areas near Kerry Wood Nature Centre, Rotary Park, BMX bike areas, 67th Street, and more, filled 70 garbage bags and four bags of recyclables.

It all added up to an estimated 438 kilograms (975 pounds) of garbage.

“We don’t find as much garbage as they did years ago, but enough that it warrants that we go out there to do a fall cleanup,” Jubb said on Monday.

“It’s definitely something that needs to be done.”

Volunteers collected litter along 13 routes and a couple experienced canoeists and kayakers also lent a hand.

A total of 15 bags of garbage were collected in the area south of Three Mile Bend.

“If you’re in an area with homeless camps there can be a fair amount of garbage.”

She said at least five bikes were also found which is more than the usual one or two.

Jubb a garbage report will be done, but mostly it was typical trash — food wrappers, syringes, clothing, takeout containers, cups, batteries and bottles, cans.

“Everything from personal hygiene items, trash, packaging, to fishing gear to foam, glass, plastic.”

She said carelessly discarded cigarette butts definitely remain a big problem.

“That’s a real issue for sure. It’s discouraging people are still doing that.

“A lot of the items can leach chemicals into our waterways as well, everything from cigarette butts to certain containers, that really aren’t good for our environment. If we can keep them off the shoreline, then hopefully they aren’t going to blow into our rivers.”

She said residents could also lend a hand in their own neighbourhoods by keeping their garbage in bins with lids or not putting out their garbage bags until their trash collection day so birds are less likely to scatter garbage.

Unfortunately people continue to drop coffee cups and wrappers on the ground around the city, as well as tossing cigarette butts out of vehicle windows, she said.

“Try to be mindful and put the garbage where it needs to go.”

Jubb said even a little bit of trash likely means a lot more can be found nearby.

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a national event and is part of the Green Deer program. The City of Red Deer partnered with NOVA Chemicals, Trout Unlimited Canada and Tim Hortons for the event.

Another shoreline cleanup is also held each spring in Red Deer. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by Brad Barnes/Freelance

Two of the 68 volunteers that signed up for this year’s Great Canadian Shoreline pickup fill a bag with garbage from the river valley on Sunday.

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Lacombe holding Trash to Treasure Week The City of Lacombe is attempting a new initiative to keep useable goods out of the landfill.

The City is holding its first annual Trash to Treasure Week from Oct. 4 to 11. During this week residents will be encouraged to take unwanted but reusable items on the curb in front of their house and to mark them with the word ‘FREE’ using masking tape or stickers to let passersby know it is free for the taking.

“Lacombians are increasingly aware of the many negative impacts of a throw-away consumer culture,” said Utilities Manager Chris Huston in a press release. “The City’s Trash to Treasure Week program provides residents with an opportunity to extend the life of their gently-used possessions, so that unwanted but reusable items don’t end up in the landfill. There is also the feel-good factor when you pass on an item that will be treasured by someone else or the excitement of finding a secondhand gem.”

The City stresses to participants to only take items that have been marked and to respect people’s property. When the week is complete, homeowners are asked to remove anything you want to keep and only leave out items that are to be collected during the Fall Community Clean-up Campaign, which begins on Oct. 13.

Drinking establishments pass PSCT inspection night The Red Deer Public Safety Compliance Team found no major ticketable offences in their latest inspection night.

The PSCT was out in full force on Friday, visiting 14 Red Deer drinking establishments, checking for violations — everything from over-serving alcohol to serving underage patrons and fire code guidelines. Though there were a few minor fire code and health code violations in a few businesses which will require a follow up, the team did not issue a single ticket.

This is a significant improvement for the local restaurant and bar business community, according to PSCT. The group was formed in 2013 to address concerns related to drinking establishments in Red Deer. It is a partnership between Red Deer RCMP, Red Deer Emergency Services, Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission Red Deer Branch, City of Red Deer Inspections and Licensing and Alberta Health Services. PSCT focuses on prevention and enforcement, with the goals of improving the safety of staff and patrons, decreasing violence, and reducing the negative impact drinking establishments have on the community.

PSCT conducts unannounced inspections on a regular basis.

RCMP enforcing several photo radar sites in Red Deer

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The family members of the late Jean Nichols release balloons into the air in her memory following the dedication of the Jean Nichols Wildflower Garden at Kerry Wood Nature Centre Saturday morning. More than 30 people were in attendance to honour the much-loved member of the community who passed away last year.

The Red Deer RCMP will be out at several locations throughout the city enforcing photo radar through the end of September.

They will be set up in school zones on 48 Avenue, 60 Street, 40 Avenue, Pamely Avenue, 42 A Avenue, 49 Avenue; play ground zones on 55 Avenue, Holmes Street, Oleander Drive, Oak Drive, McLean Street, Roland Street; and on major corridors Burnt Park Drive, Taylor Drive, 22 Street, 40 Avenue, 30 Avenue, 49 Street, 49 Avenue, and 50 Avenue.

The RCMP reserves the option of changes without notice.

Red Deer preparing to Dress for Success Dress for Success Central Alberta is holding its annual fall inventory reduction sale on Oct. 2 and 3.

Dress for Success opened in 2008 in Red Deer and is part of an international not-for-profit organization that offers the necessities to help referred female clients look and feel their best for a job interview.

All proceeds from inventory sale go towards the continued operation of Dress for Success Central Alberta.

It’s a cash only sale, with toonie grab bags available while they last.

The sale runs on Oct. 2 from 4 to 7 p.m. and Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dress for Success is located at 4917 48th St., lower level of the Kaylor Building.

Citizens aid in recovery of ATV, tracking suspect Citizens took to the air in a helicopter and a plane on Saturday to help Sylvan Lake RCMP track down

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a suspect driving a stolen all-terrain vehicle.

Sylvan Lake RCMP said they received a complaint on Saturday from someone who believed they spotted a Yamaha Razor that was reported stolen from Rocky Mountain House on Friday.

The ATV was seen being driven down a gravel road in the Gimlet area, northwest of Eckville.

Several people followed the suspect while updating police. The suspect allegedly ditched the ATV in trees near a well site and fled on foot.

Police, along with several members of the local community, contained the suspect in the area while waiting for the Police Dog Service from Red Deer.

RCMP said they also received some assistance from two citizens who proactively patrolled by air — one was in a plane and the other in a helicopter.

The suspect was located about an hour-and-a-half later and taken into custody. He was charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, dangerous driving, mischief under $5,000 and driving while suspended.

Cancer Society set for Jail-N-Bail fundraiser Canadian Cancer Society wants Central Albertans to start thinking about co-workers they would like rounded up for the annual Jail-N-Bail fundraiser in Red Deer on Oct. 22.

To help people choose a ‘jailbird’, an unofficial survey commissioned

by Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta/ NWT Division, showed Albertans were most annoyed by colleagues who pass the blame instead of admitting to wrongdoings. Running late and talking

too loudly round out the top three.

Those who hold meetings that always run long or scheduling unnecessary meetings, and sneaking the last of the coffee without making a fresh pot are also leading irritations.

Other annoyances include leaving mouldy food in the fridge, humming, being unreliable or messy, and wasting time by chatting too much and then complaining about his or her workload.

During Jail-N-Bail, jailbirds are arrested by volunteers, taken to a makeshift jail and must use their connections to raise money to go towards cancer fundraising.

To learn more and ‘snitch’ on a colleague visit cancer.ca/ab/jailnbail.

Wetaskiwin man dies in weekend rollover A 50-year-old Wetaskiwin man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Hwy 2 on Sunday afternoon.

RCMP said a driver heading south in a pickup went into the centre median, then over-corrected veering across Hwy 2 into the west ditch, where the truck rolled.

The collision happened about 4:15 p.m. just north of the Hwy 597 overpass west of Blackfalds.

Emergency medical services responders pronounced the driver and sole occupant dead at the scene. A dog which was in the truck was taken to an area veterinarian by a passerby to be treated for minor injuries.

The family of the man has been notified but his name has not been released. Police are still investigating the collision. RCMP and sheriffs from Red Deer, Ponoka and Blackfalds, the Blackfalds fire department and Red Deer EMS responded to the collision.

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Pope presses Cubans to embrace change

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTIAGO, Cuba — Pope Francis marked the anniversary Monday of the day he decided as a teenager to become a priest by pressing a subtle message to Cubans at a delicate point in their own history: Overcome ideological preconceptions and be willing to change.

Francis travelled to Cuba’s fourth-largest city, Holguin, and celebrated a Mass where Cuban rhythms mixed with church hymns under a scorching tropical sun.

Later in the day, he flew to Santiago for an evening visit to the shrine of Cuba’s patron saint, and on Tuesday he will arrive in Washington for the U.S. leg of his first visit to the two former Cold War enemies.

Singing children and a small crowd waving Cuban and Vatican flags greeted Francis on his arrival, some crying out, “Francis! Holguin is with you!”

Holguin’s Plaza of the Revolution was packed with an estimated 150,000 people for the Mass, many dressed in white to protect them from the sun.

Security agents didn’t appear to be letting members of the crowd get too close to him. On Sunday, an apparent dissident hung on to the popemobile in Havana and seemed to be appealing to the pontiff before the man was dragged away.

In his homily in Holguin, a city of about 300,000, Francis pressed some of the subtle themes he has developed during this balancing act of a Cuban visit. He told the crowd of how Jesus picked a lowly and despised tax collector, Matthew, and instructed him without casting judgment to follow him.

That act of mercy changed Matthew forever.

Francis told the Cubans that they, too, should allow themselves “to slowly overcome our preconceptions and our reluctance to think that others, much less ourselves, can change.”

“Do you believe it is possible that a tax collector can be a servant?” he asked on Day 3 of his visit to the island. “Do you believe it is possible that a traitor can become a friend?”

It was a theme Francis sketched out Sunday night in an off-the-cuff encounter with young people. He encouraged them to dream big about what their

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Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as travels to the Plaza of the Revolution to celebrate Mass in Holguin, Cuba, Monday. Francis is the first pope to visit Holguin, Cuba’s third-largest city. Francis is the first pope to visit Holguin, Cuba’s third-largest city. life could be like, and not be “boxed in” by ideologies or preconceptions about others.

“If you are different than me, why don’t we talk?” Francis asked the crowd.

“Why do we always throw rocks at that which separates us?”

The message comes at a delicate moment of change on the island. Cuba and the U.S. re-established diplomatic relations this year in a move Francis helped broker, and the communist country is undertaking modest free-market reforms that have opened some sectors of the economy to private enterprise.

Detente with the United States has raised hopes on both sides of the Florida Straits that the millions of families divided by the 1959 Cuban revolution will be reunited.

As a result, Francis has emphasized themes of reconciliation and looking beyond prejudice and ideologies.

“Francis is looking for peace among peoples and countries,” said Yordani Monteagudo, a 24-year-old government worker who recorded Francis’ encounter with young people Sunday night and was still talking about it a day later. “In his message he called on young people to not be afraid to dream. This makes you want to live, and build up this country.”

Francis’ homily also reflected a very personal story of his own faith and willingness to embrace change.

On Sept. 21, 1953 — 62 years ago Monday — a 17-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio went to confession at his parish church in Buenos Aires. During the confession, he later wrote, he “realized God was waiting for me,” and

knew he was going to become a priest.

Bergoglio wouldn’t enter the seminary for several more years, but Sept.

21 — the feast of St. Matthew — has remained a crucial reference point for the pope. His episcopal motto — Miserando atque eligendo (Having had mercy, he called him) — is inspired by the feast day and the story of Matthew, a sinner who was looked upon with mercy by Jesus and was changed forever.

“This Gospel of St. Matthew, this experience of Jesus who looks him in the eye and calls him to conversion to follow him, is something that is absolutely fundamental to the spirituality and life of the pope,” said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

“It is something that is at the root of Bergoglio’s religious vocation.”

Unprecedented abstention on UN Burkina Faso vote condemning Cuba embargo? coup leader US WEIGHS OPTIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration may allow the U.N. to condemn America’s economic embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned, an unprecedented step that could increase pressure on Congress to end the 54-year-old restrictions.

As it does every year, the U.N. General Assembly will vote as early as next month to demand the embargo’s end. But this time, U.S. officials told the AP that the United States could abstain instead of voting against the resolution as it normally does.

It is unheard of for a U.N. member state not to oppose resolutions critical of its own laws. And by not actively opposing the resolution, the administration would be effectively siding with the world body against the Republican-led House and Senate, which have refused to repeal the embargo despite calls from President Barack Obama to do so.

The U.S. and Cuba restored diplomatic relations this year, and leaders of the two countries want to improve commercial ties. But the embargo remains.

“Obviously, we have to obey the law,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday. “It doesn’t mean you can’t take a position that you want the law changed.”

No final decision on how to vote has yet been made, said four administration officials who weren’t authorized to speak publicly on sensitive internal deliberations and demanded anonymity. White House spokesman Josh Ear-

nest also declined to weigh in because he said the proposed resolution wasn’t final. He noted, however, that U.S. policy has changed since the last time the world body assessed the embargo.

The very idea of an abstention prompted immediate Republican criticism.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American senator from Florida, said that by abstaining, Obama would be “putting international popularity ahead of the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.” The embargo, he said, denies money to a dictatorship that can be used to further oppression.

General Assembly resolutions are unenforceable. But the annual exercise has given Cuba a stage to demonstrate America’s isolation on the embargo, and it has underscored the sense internationally that the U.S. restrictions are illegitimate.

The United States has lost the votes by increasingly overwhelming and embarrassing margins. Last year’s tally was 188-2 with only Israel siding with the U.S. Israel would be expected to vote whichever way the U.S. decides.

The American officials said that the U.S. is still more likely to vote against the resolution than abstain. However, they said the U.S. will consider abstaining if the wording of the resolution significantly differs from previous years. The administration is open to discussing revisions with the Cubans and others, they added, something American diplomats have never done before.

The latest U.S. easing of sanctions occurred Friday and was followed by a rare phone call between Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro. Pope Francis, who has played a key role in the rapprochement between Havana

and Washington, arrived in Havana a day later. He travels to the U.S. on Tuesday.

Obama and Castro discussed “steps that the United States and Cuba can take, together and individually, to advance bilateral co-operation,” the White House said. The Cuban government said Castro “emphasized the need to expand their scope and abrogate, once and for all, the blockade policy for the benefit of both peoples.”

Neither statement mentioned the U.N. vote. Yet as it has for the past 23 years, Cuba will introduce a resolution at the upcoming General Assembly criticizing the embargo and demanding its end. Cuba’s government wouldn’t comment Monday on the new U.S. consideration.

The U.S. officials, however, said the administration believes an abstention could send a powerful signal to Congress and the world of Obama’s commitment to end the embargo. Obama says the policy failed over more than five decades to spur democratic change and left the U.S. isolated among its Latin American neighbours.

It’s unclear what changes would be necessary to prompt a U.S. abstention.

Last year’s resolution cited the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo” and took aim at the Helms-Burton Act. That 1996 law made foreign firms subject to the same restrictions U.S. companies face for investing in Cuba, and authorized penalties for non-U.S. companies operating and dealing with property once owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated after Fidel Castro’s revolution.

A report issued by Cuba last week in support of this year’s resolution doesn’t suggest Havana is toning down its approach.

apologizes to nation

SAYS HE WILL HAND OVER POWER TO CIVILIAN GOV’T

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The Burkina Faso general who seized power in a coup last week apologized to the nation Monday and said he would hand over control to a civilian transitional government after the military warned that its forces would converge on the capital and forcibly disarm soldiers behind the power grab.

Gen. Gilbert Diendere said his presidential guard unit “confirms our commitment to giving power back to civilian authorities,” in a communique issued to journalists. That was one of the key conditions of a draft agreement that resulted from weekend negotiations with regional mediators, but it had been unclear until his announcement whether the junta would abide by those terms.

Diendere, who led the presidential guard under longtime leader Blaise Compaore until he was forced from power in a popular uprising last year, said the compromises were necessary to avoid further bloodshed. The risk of clashes could lead to “chaos, civil war and massive human rights violations,” he said.

Earlier Monday, the heads of the National Armed Forces warned that troops would disarm the presidential guard.

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Take a deep breath children when I haven’t been able to fall asleep on command. I tried to clear my head.

Now, if you are a responsible adult human being you will understand my next predicament. I found it nearly impossible to remove all of the comings and goings in my mind. I had what-if’s and have-to-do’s floating around like they owned the place. I had to-do lists and appointments and DO NOT FORGETS crammed so tightly in there that I wondered if I’d ever be able to rid them. Not to mention the hopes and dreams and wishes and memories, we can’t forget those. There was no clearing anything. Not a chance.

But if the free meditation app on my phone has taught me anything it is that these conscious thoughts can be a huge stress factor in our day-today lives and it is best to remove them even for just a few minutes so one can fall asleep at night.

I got up and tip-toed out of the bedroom. I knew I had to turn my brain off and tossing and turning in bed wasn’t doing the trick so I decided to make a cup of warm milk. I’m not much of a warm milk drinker but that seems to be what people do when they can’t sleep so I was willing to give it a shot.

I didn’t want to think about to-do lists or the following day’s schedule. I didn’t want to think about the worries I have for the future or stress over all of the tiny things that tend to drain a person on a daily basis. I didn’t even feel like daydreaming.

I knew what I needed. I needed sleep. I breathed. I accepted the moment for what it was; a moment of nothingness. Anytime a dastardly worry or thought crept into the back of my mind I pushed it gently away. I told it to vamoose. I continued on like this for a long time, long enough to forget to care about time and how much I wanted to fall asleep. Instead I merely appreciated the tranquility.

Sometimes in our busy lives we need to be selfish for even a moment and remove all of the junk cluttering up our minds. We need to take these instants and create clarity by simply breathing. When I finally retreated back to my bedroom and laid my head on the pillow, I feel asleep fast and soundly. The next morning I woke up ready and equipped for another busy day.

I guess its true; a bit of calm in this hectic life can truly do a world of good.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

of me making satisfying connections.

In a way, my fear became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Feeling unworthy and unlovable, I built relationships with people who confirmed my negative self-appraisal.

In the past, I wasn’t being authentic or true to myself. I was afraid to be vulnerable. I was trying to be what I thought others wanted me to be. My relationships were built upon lies and, despite my efforts, I could not sustain the deception. As my self-esteem improved, my relationships improved.

The more comfortable I became with myself, the more comfortable I became with others. Today, I try to be open, authentic and, most importantly, honest.

Take a look at the friends you have now. D o they make you happy? Do you feel comfortable in their company? Do you enjoy stimulating conversations?

Do you laugh?

Remember, good friends will not require you to act against your own values, to always agree with them, or to disregard your needs.

Even the best friendships get strained occasionally but if there’s more negative than positive, it’s time to reassess.

Your friendships will reflect the state of your self-esteem.

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It’s healthy for couples to spend time with friends Q: Do you think it’s a good idea for you say? What are your expectations husbands and wives to have regular for the relationship? activities apart Are those expectations being fulfrom each other filled or not? with their friends Give some honest thought to the of the same sex? quality of your relationship.

My husband When it is just the two of you, do feels a deep need you enjoy each other’s company, or to get togethdo you find it difficult to be together with his guy er? How would your spouse answer friends a couple of that question? times each month, Bottom line: If you’re connecting, but I’d rather enjoying the time you spend togethspend most of my er, and striking a healthy balance betime with him. tween friend time and couple time, I get out with we don’t think you have anything to JIM some girlfriends worry about.

DALY a couple times A secure wife who cares about a year, and this FOCUS ON THE FAMILY her husband’s enrichment is usually seems to be more happy to see him forming healthy than sufficient for bonds with other men of solid charme. acter.

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If, however, your husband is delibJim: Assuming that the two of you erately cutting you out of his life or tryaren’t short-changing your time togeth- ing to “escape” the relationship, er as a couple, we’d suggest that it’s alI’d encourage you to give the situamost always a good idea for a husband tion some attention — preferably with and wife to enjoy a reasonable amount the assistance of a trained marriage of activity with their respective same- counselor. sex friends.

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The grey sky of dusk peaks through an open slat in my window blind. I lay in bed envisioning what the rest of the sky must look like at this precise moment in time. I wonder if anyone else is seeing what I’m seeing. I ponder the idea of unity in the human condition and if there is something more for us in this great big mystifying universe.

And then I ask myself why the hell am I still awake?!

It’s 9:30 p.m. and the children have been sleeping for a little over 45 LINDSAY minutes. This BROWN is just short ME PLUS THREE of miraculous because ever since summer holidays our bedtime schedule has flown straight out the proverbial window. Why they decided to choose this night to fall fast into dreamland is beyond me. Usually I find them making blanket forts in their bunk bed, engaging in riotous farting contests or trying to fish out the candy they had stashed deep in the toy box earlier that day.

Believe me it’s all fun and games at the Brown household after 8:30 p.m.

Not tonight however. Tonight I tucked Sophie into her bottom bunk and Lars his top and they both gave me a sweet smile, told me they loved me and almost instantaneously fell asleep.

I literally watched their little eyes droop shut after a few unsuspecting winks and voila! Nighty-night for little Lars and Soph.

Oh the things I could do in these next few hours I thought … Tidy the house, mend all of the various stuffed animals that have missing eye-buttons or ripped armpits. I could catch up on a few episodes of my beloved Doctor Who or perhaps even work on that abandoned novel.

As inviting as all of those prospects sounded I couldn’t help but notice how my own lids were beginning to droop.

Maybe this was no coincidence, maybe I could use an early night as well.

So I crawled into bed and shut my eyes. I waited. And then I waited a little longer. I was beginning to think that I may be falling asleep but then thinking about falling asleep woke me up entirely. What was happening? I can’t remember a time since having

genarian – she talked about how her dear friends have helped her through the loss of loved ones, illness, disability and isolation. Staying engaged with friends as we age helps us to remain positive, active, happy and hopeful.

Healthy friendships provide a boost to our self-esteem. The give-and-take nature of friendships helps build our sense of value and self-worth. Being there for another person helps us to feel needed and adds purpose to our lives. However, it’s tough to build lasting friendships when you don’t feel good about yourself. It’s especially intimidating if you have trust issues – if you’ve been betrayed, traumatized or rejected in the past.

Despite the importance of close friendships, they don’t just happen.

I know many people who have great difficulty developing and sustaining healthy connections with others. I have many wonderful friendships today but that wasn’t always the case.

Even though I was willing to put forth the time and effort, I couldn’t seem to make lasting connections. I was tremendously shy and in my early years established some unhealthy relationships with individuals who took advantage of my kind nature and inordinate need to be wanted and appreciated by others.

At the time, my greatest fear was rejection and this fear got in the way

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I laughed. It wasn’t the first time he’d helped us move, or we him. I joked that it was the promise of warm drinks and cold pizza afterward, but I knew it was really the desire of one friend to help The other day a young acanother in a time of need. quaintance ask me how maTrue and abiding friendny friends I had. I pondered ships are a blessing. The the question for a few moquality of our friendships ments and then responded have a tremendous impact by saying that I had about a upon our overall happiness dozen close friends and two and the enjoyment of our best friends. She laughed lives. Good friends provide and told me that she had comfort and joy, encourover 400 friends and the agement and support and – number was growing. I rewhen needed – someone to alized she was referring MURRAY shoulder the burden. to on-line friends. It’s true FUHRER That burden can be emothat with the click of a buttional or physical: a shoulton, we can add a friend or EXTREME ESTEEM der to lean on when times make a new connection but are tough or a strong set of those relationships are not the same as real, face-to-face friend- shoulders to help heave that chest of drawers into the back of the moving ships.

The question got me thinking about van.

Good friends add spice to life. They friends l’d lost over the years. One of the best was Lorne. I could always celebrate with us during the good count on Lorne to be there when I times and help us to overcome the tough times. needed him.

They help reduce our stress and deWith the goal of advancing my career, my wife and I had decided to pression.

They keep us on track when it move our family to a larger city.

I was telling Lorne about our de- comes to achieving our goals. They cision. Before I could even get to the hold us accountable to putting forth point of asking for his help with the our best effort. In a recent conversamove, he had offered to lend a hand. tion with my mother – now an octo“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”

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Making baby food sets up lifetime of healthy eating

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It may be tempting to buy jars of prepared baby food, but you might not be doing your child any favours nutritionally, says holistic nutritionist Jill Hillhouse.

In The Best Baby Food: 125 Healthy & Delicious Recipes for Babies & Toddlers (Robert Rose), co-author Hillhouse offers tips on introducing babies to real food and tempting toddlers with a variety of flavours and colours.

She says some commercial baby foods may have additives like tapioca starch or potatoes.

“Not to say that potatoes don’t have value. (But) if it is a meat product or a broccoli product, then shouldn’t we want to get all those nutrients? You’re diluting it,” says Hillhouse.

She cites a 2013 study from the department of human nutrition at the University of Glasgow that found commercial baby foods designed to be “first foods” had more calories than formula milk and fewer nutrients than homemade foods.

In other words, she says, babies would need more food to get the same amount of nutrients that they were getting from formula. This can set up a lifetime habit of eating large amounts of nutrient-poor processed food.

Chef Jordan Wagman and Hillhouse seek to banish the mindset that kids should eat bland food.

“It’s kind of incredible when you think about infants around the world.

They’re eating spices and herbs pretty much everywhere else except in North America,” says Hillhouse.

“I don’t know why we need to feed them just plain rice and that kind of stuff, and from a nutritional perspective it certainly doesn’t make any sense.”

Included are recipes for first foods such as pureed vegetables and integrating meats and fruits for those aged six to nine months. Fennel, eggplant, quinoa, hummus and bok choy are suggestions for when babies near their first birthday, and recipes for toddlers include oven-roasted artichokes, salmon cakes and jasmine rice with butternut squash and saffron.

“It’s important to open the palate, expose little people to all sorts of tastes so they get used to it,” says Hill-

“IT’S KIND OF INCREDIBLE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT INFANTS AROUND THE WORLD. THEY’RE EATING SPICES AND HERBS PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE ELSE EXCEPT IN NORTH AMERICA.” JILL HILLHOUSE, NUTRIONIST house.

The authors also advise introducing foods in a wide range of colours. “We know that the deeper-coloured fruits and vegetables and their skins have so many great properties to them so it’s wonderful to include them, not just visually.”

Hillhouse suggests trying to carve out an hour or two every so often to prep some pureed foods.

Once a baby graduates to food, he or she eats only a few tablespoons at a time, the equivalent of a couple of thawed chunks frozen in ice-cube trays.

“Do up a whole bunch of ice-cube trays and you’ve got a ton of food,” she says. “You get the time back over the next four weeks while using up those foods.”

A huge challenge for many parents is satisfying picky eaters.

Be careful not to reveal your own dislikes, Hillhouse says. Children notice when a food appears on their plate but not on a parent’s dish.

Hillhouse also recommends organic produce when possible for youngsters.

“Pesticides have a much stronger effect on small bodies and it’s well documented that they’re more detrimental to small children than they are to the rest of us.”

Included in the book is a list generated by the Environmental Working Group in the U.S., which has identified 20 fruits and vegetables containing the most pesticide residue unless organically grown, and 15 of the least contaminated fruits and vegetables.

“The key message with organics, I still believe, is it matters more that you actually eat fruits and vegetables, whether or not they’re organic,” says Hillhouse.

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Smoothies are a great way to incorporate a variety of fruits and vegetables into a glass for a snack or drink with a meal. The items can be frozen or fresh. To make this smoothie more nutritious, substitute an equal quantity of frozen fruit, such as berries, for the ice. The recipe can be found in “The Best Baby Food: 125 Healthy & Delicious Recipes for Babies & Toddlers” by Jordan Wagman and Jill Hillhouse.

A lovely visit with my brother It was grand. We sat under a huge expanse of summer blue sky that was interrupted only slightly by a sphere of pure gold. The grass was green and soft beneath our feet.

It was good. Life was good.

I mentally congratulated myself on perfectly executing my plan.

But, my congratulations to self were short lived.

I felt my brother’s gaze upon me, his eyes, like twin chips of blue steel, boring a hole into my very soul.

“I want to buy a lotto ticket,” he said.

His was the voice of authority, no doubt, honed by years of military training.

And even though he didn’t say the words, he didn’t have to. I knew them by heart.

“I am a Korean vet. I served overseas in Germany and in the Belgium Congo.

And, now I may be old and in a wheelchair and I may have suffered several strokes, but I know what I want.

“I want a lotto ticket”.

I looked at my sister and she looked at me and, silently, we agreed.

“Let’s go by him a lotto ticket.”

And so we forgot about the golden sphere in the summer blue sky and the soft green grass and we wheeled him back inside to white walls and institutional meals served on trays. We went directly to the lotto ticket booth.

We let him pick his ticket and painstakingly pencil in his numbers.

And then we let him throw that ticket in the garbage because those weren’t, in fact, the numbers he wanted.

And we let him do it all again.

My sister, who is generous to a fault, but somewhat naïve, paid for the tickets.

“That will be $25,” the girl at the gift store said.

My sister never blinked an eye, even though inside I’m sure she was quaking. She, who had never so much as bought a quick-pick in her entire life, had just unknowingly bought two lotto tickets.

I smiled. “When did you start gambling?” I chided gently.

“Shut up,” she said, but not unkindly.

I smiled again and together we

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ship to evolve naturally. Look for common interests.

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead,” wrote Albert Camus, French Nobel Prize-winning author, journalist and philosopher. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Cherish your friendships and hold them dear.

True and abiding friendships are a blessing. Building lasting relationships takes time and effort but, if you’re willing to put yourself out there, you’ll find there are many people who are looking for the same thing: a good friend.

ESTEEM: Be a good friend If you can be a good friend to yourself, you’ll find that you can also be a good friend to others.

Keep in mind that making a friend is only the beginning. It takes time for friendships to evolve and deepen. You can improve your friendships by being a better friend. Be the type of friend you would like to have. Be dependable, respectful and honest. Be a good listener. Don’t be needy and overly demanding of your friends’ time. Give them space. Remember that it’s not all about you. Allow time for your friend-

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

wheeled our brother back to Unit 35 and his supper.

And all three of us were actually quite happy and pleased with ourselves!

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It was another quiet day on unit 35 of the city hospital.

The man in the wheelchair sat quietly waiting.

I was hurrying, breathing a sigh of relief when I found a parking spot and nearly running across the parking lot and through the front doors. My footsteps down the hallway were hastened by thoughts of the lateness of the hour and by the time I arrived at unit 35, I practically skidded to a stop in front of the man in TREENA the wheelchair MIELKE wrapped in FAMILY the cobalt blue shawl who was waiting.

I kissed his neck and adjusted the shawl around his frail shoulders doing a quick calculation in my mind as to the number of minutes left before supper was served.

With the time allotted, I figured my sister and I could take our brother out of unit 35, wheel him into the sunshine and still have enough time for him to be in his accustomed place at the table when his food tray was delivered.

I wanted to take him out of unit 35.

It is, after all, a hospital ward, and even though the nurses, the heartbeat and lifeline of all the units, are wonderful, it can be a dark and dreary place with white walls and ominous machines that disturb the silence with mysterious beeping sounds.

And, for just a sweet little moment in time, I wanted to take my brother away from all that.

I wanted him to feel the warmth of the sun on his face and I wanted his eyes to be assaulted by the blaze of colours that zigzag with reckless abandon through the trees on days such as this.

I wanted him to hear the sounds of laughter, of children, of car engines.

Mostly, I just wanted him to hear the heartbeat of life that exists outside of hospital walls.

And so, according to plan, my sister and I wheeled him outside.

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Room wins top prize

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A seemingly cloudy Oscar race became a little clearer on Sunday as the Toronto International Film Festival awarded the harrowing drama Room the People’s Choice prize, an honour that is often a predictor of Academy Award success.

The Canadian-Irish film stars Brie Larson and eight-year-old Jacob Tremblay of Vancouver as a mother and son who live in a shed that he thinks is the entire world.

Ireland’s Lenny Abrahamson directed the suspenseful yet touching tale that’s based on Canadian author Emma Donoghue’s celebrated novel.

It won the $15,000 Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the end of an 11-day festival in which there appeared to be no clear front-runner.

“We shot this film in Toronto and it’s incredible that this happened,” said Room producer David Gross.

“I know it’s rare … that a Canadian film actually wins this award.”

Festival director Piers Handling said the balloting on the prize was “very, very close.”

“Room kind of ignited audiences,” he said. “I think it’s a very serious film but it’s a very emotional film.”

The film even had Scottish star Gerard Butler “bawling” when he saw it at the fest, said the distributor, noting they urged the actor-producer to view it after hearing he was looking to cast a 10-year-old boy in his next film.

“When you get the toughest guy in Hollywood bawling in one of the screenings, you think you’ve got something special,” said Noah Segal, co-president of Toronto-based Elevation Pictures.

Last year’s People’s Choice winner was The Imitation Game, which went on to get eight Oscar nominations, nabbing one golden statuette for best adapted screenplay.

Several previous People’s Choice winners have also gone one to nab best picture at the Oscars, including 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire.

Another Canadian film won a major prize at Sunday’s event — the inaugural Platform award.

Veteran Canadian documentary maker Alan Zweig’s Hurt, a portrait of disgraced runner Steve Fonyo, beat out 11 other titles to win the $25,000 award that was chosen by an international jury.

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‘Room,’ a Canadian-Irish film, stars Brie Larson and eight-year-old Jacob Tremblay of Vancouver as a mother and son who live in a shed that he thinks is the entire world.

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‘‘ROOM’ KIND OF IGNITED AUDIENCES. I THINK IT’S A VERY SERIOUS FILM BUT IT’S A VERY EMOTIONAL FILM.’ PIERS HANDLING FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Room beat out first runner-up Angry Indian Goddesses and second runner-up Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s star-studded journalism thriller that was one of several festival films that received strong reviews.

Other top titles with critics at the fest included Ridley Scott’s outerspace tale The Martian starring Matt Damon, Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and Scott Cooper’s gangster thriller Black Mass starring Johnny Depp.

“Overall I would say it wasn’t necessarily the best TIFF as in recent years,” said Jake Coyle, film writer for the Associated Press.

“A number of the stronger films at the festival had played at other festivals, like Venice or Telluride or Cannes.”

Handling conceded there wasn’t “one breakout film” at the fest this year, but he still felt it “was a really, really strong year.”

“Sometimes when you have a breakout film, it’s nice, you know, a buzz film like 12 Years a Slave or The King’s Speech or Slumdog Millionaire, and everyone coalesces around that,” he said.

“But I think that puts some of the other really good films into the shadows. This year I think it was just a strong year for that type of … artisti-

Springer celebrates 25 years on the crazy train

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BRIEF Fox’s Emmycast hits new audience low as just 11.9 million viewers tune in NEW YORK — And the winner wasn’t the Emmys — at least, when it came to the viewership.

Nielsen says Sunday’s three-hour special on Fox averaged just 11.9 million viewers, making it the leastwatched Emmycast in history.

Last year, when it aired on a Monday in late August on NBC, it logged 15.6 million viewers. In 2013, 17.8 million viewers tuned in for CBS’ broadcast, teamed with an NFL game as a powerful lead-in.

This year’s Emmy show likewise had football as a lead-in. But the Emmys faced football as direct competition, too, thanks to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which doubtless dragged down the Emmy audience.

The program, airing from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, was hosted by Andy Samberg.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STAMFORD, Conn. — As his talk show celebrates its silver anniversary on Monday, Jerry Springer knows better than to wheel a cake onstage with him. No sense tempting fate.

He didn’t anticipate he’d be fighting back tears as he addressed his audience.

“Know this,” said Springer, who wore a tuxedo for the show’s taping.

“There’s never been a moment in the 25 years of doing our show that I ever thought that I was better than the people who appear on our stage. I’m not better. Only luckier.”

Don’t mistake that for a valedictory.

Springer, 71, is all aboard for another year on the crazy train, and plans to stay as long as he’s healthy. Upcoming episodes include “Spontaneous Sex Mistakes,” “Big Girls Bring It!” “Sorry Sis, Your Man is Fair Game,” “I Sexed Your Ex” and “Lesbian Stepsister Hook-Up.” It’s been a long time since “The Jerry Springer Show” was a sensation, and a threat to Civilization As We Know It. Now it’s a dependable daytime comedy, seen regularly by about two million people each day and rarely noticed by others.

The days of Springer being shunned or scolded by people at cocktail parties are over, too.

“We don’t hear it anymore,” he said, “because I’m not part of the pop culture. It’s not shocking anymore … You

cally driven commercial cinema.”

Other award winners on Sunday included Andrew Cividino’s Sleeping Giant, which took the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.

Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster won the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film.

Film critic Anne Thompson praised this year’s fest for the amount of awards contenders it had, noting it’s also a “buyers’ festival” where many films get the most amount of notice.

Room, for instance, premiered at the Tellurude Film Festival before going to Toronto — but TIFF is where it really took off.

“It needed to do this, it needed to go to Toronto and really hit with everyone there and it did,” said Thompson, founder and editor-in-chief of daily entertainment industry blog Thompson on Hollywood at Indiewire.

“And now Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are very strong actor contenders in the Oscar derby.”

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This Aug. 24, 2015 photo provided by NBC shows host Jerry Springer, center, during taping of the 25th anniversary episode of ‘The Jerry Springer Show,’in Stamford, Conn. can’t be a grown-up and say, ‘oh my gosh, they’re talking about a gay person.’ The world has changed.”

Springer has theories about why his show has endured. Since the dawn of civilization, people have been fascinated by the behaviour of others.

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No character is safe on Shondaland series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When you work on a show called How To Get Away With Murder, you pretty much have to prepare for the worst.

So says co-star Charlie Weber, whose shady character Frank Delfino revealed himself last season to be more than capable of tying up loose ends — permanently.

The legal thriller returns Thursday with Weber resuming his role as loyal bulldog to hard-bitten lawyer/professor Annalise Keating, played by recent Emmy winner Viola Davis.

The first season ended with the surprise murder of Rebecca Sutter, played by Canadian actress Katie Findlay, and Weber said fans won’t have to wait long to find out what happened.

“We are going to address the Rebecca thing fairly quickly, I think, and we’ll need to — a dead girl is under the stairs,” he said during a visit to Toron-

to in June.

“And we’ll see how quickly things pick up and where.”

A teaser for the second season opener promises the killer will be revealed.

Meanwhile, Annalise takes on the case of a brother and sister who are accused of killing their parents and an old friend surprises Annalise at home and teaches her a valuable lesson.

The episode also introduces Famke Janssen as a new character.

Weber said no character is safe on the Shondaland series — just one of several addictive Shonda Rhimes productions that include Scandal, which saw the near-fatal stabbing of Scott Foley’s Jake Ballard last season, and Grey’s Anatomy, which last season killed off popular hunk Derek Shepherd, played by Patrick Dempsey.

Weber said Findlay got little notice about her character’s fate.

“It’s quick. (Creator Pete Nowalk) told Katie Findlay, who plays Rebecca, that in fact she was going to be dead in

the finale, but not long before that was finished. So he let her process that, but it can happen at a moment’s notice, on any one of those shows. For us, literally any moment because it’s a show about murder and we killed two series regulars in the first season.”

Weber said he’s eager to learn more about Frank’s dark past, noting that he only learned of his role in killing college student Lila Stangard as the series unfolded.

“A lot of decisions were made throughout the course of the season sort of leading down that path,” said Weber.

“I think it was actually quite validating, that moment of Frank killing Lila, for the way that I’d played Frank from the beginning. He was definitely someone capable of that and (she was) definitely not the first person he’d killed. But now we need to find out why.”

How to Get Away with Murder returns Thursday on ABC and CTV.

Levi on playing ‘dark, complicated’ for Heroes Reborn

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Zachary Levi switches gears from playing the goofy star of Chuck to something much darker in his new thriller, Heroes Reborn.

The gregarious actor admits the role is a bit of a left turn for those familiar with the hero of his defunct beloved spy dramedy.

“The tone of these two shows is very different. In Chuck there was a lot of lightheartedness, there was a charm, there was a heart,” Levi said during a stop in Toronto.

“And Heroes is a dark and complicated world and I play a dark and complicated guy.”

Since his cult NBC series left the see is what I am. I don’t mean the subject matter but, I don’t have a different personality onstage.”

Springer’s show is taped in the same theatre 48 kilometres northeast of New York City that Maury Povich and Steve Wilkos use. Talking to the audience before the 25th anniversary episode began, he tells some of the same corny jokes they’ve probably heard from their grandfathers.

Taking a hands-off approach, he does little preparation before a taping, often knowing only that day’s general theme. Knowing too much would turn him into an actor. That’s why when he invited one guest’s “wife” onstage and turned his back to walk into the audience, the loud roar surprised him he didn’t know the man said he’d married his horse.

“If there’s a wedding cake, there’s no way that the wedding cake is not going to be thrown,” he said. “We’ve never ended a show with a wedding cake still in one piece. There’s just stuff that you know. I’m not dense. But do I learn the specifics? No. It’s much better that way.”

The improbability of making it in this world — few things in television are more lucrative than a successful syndicated talk show — fueled his unexpected emotion onstage.

“This is show business and there are so many talented people, and I don’t have any particular talent,” he said later. “Where is the fairness? It

Television is dominated by upper middle-class white people and his show regularly features others. It also appeared at the beginning of an era marked by people looking to themselves for entertainment, and not always celebrities.

And, of course, it’s a freak show that is hard to take your eyes off.

“I can’t sit here and tell you I know why I’ve lasted 25 years,” he said. “I don’t know. There’s a niche. If I’d been hosting another show, I wouldn’t have lasted 25 years. And I mean it. People aren’t watching the show because they want to see me.”

He’s prone to joking that anyone can do his job if they learn three phrases: “You did what?” “Come on out!” and “We’ll be right back.”

Truth is, Springer’s air of benign bemusement, his light hand on the tiller, is one of the show’s secrets. He passes no judgments. Everyone knows he’s in on the joke.

“Any show that has a zany supporting cast, you have to have one person who’s the calm in the middle of the storm,” said Marc Berman, an analyst for TV Media Insights. “And that’s him.”

Springer is a lawyer SPECIAL and former news anchor who got into politics and became mayor of Cincinnati. He’s still a proud liberal. Being a grown-up Breaded Alaskan Pollock before he got into televiserved on a grilled Ciabatta bun sion gives him a different with your choice of side. perspective, he said.

“Can anyone do it?” he said. “No. Can most people do it? I can take most people on television, give them my show and probably in five or six months, they’d be comfortable.

Maybe why it works with me is because what you

air in 2012, Levi has tackled material on big and small screens including the stop-motion comedy Robot Chicken and the super-hero spectacle Thor: The Dark World, in which he played the warrior Fandral.

But Heroes Reborn arguably resets his career with his darkest role yet — his character Luke is a vigilante bent on exacting vengeance for the death of his son.

The show continues Tim Kring’s saga of ordinary people suddenly bestowed with superhuman abilities, introduced in the four-season Heroes.

Levi said the new story picks up five years later, with a war brewing between those with abilities and those without.

Jack Coleman reprises his role as

HRG, a.k.a. Noah Bennet, while other returning characters include Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman and Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura.

New characters include the awkward teen Tommy, played by Robbie Kay, who learns of a new ability that terrifies him and Tokyo’s quiet Miko, played by Kiki Sukezane, who is searching for her missing father while hiding an extraordinary secret.

Without detailing his own character’s arc, Levi noted this is a world where many regular humans are shaken by the fact their neighbours possess what could be dangerous powers.

“Lots of bad things are happening.

Some people with powers abuse them and some people without abilities are afraid of them and fighting back.”

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But she welcomes the company.

“I always wanted the mainstream to move closer to me instead of me trying to move closer to the mainstream, and actually that’s what happened,” the Toronto native said. “It’s an incredible feelPEACHES ing.”

And yet, in a pop landscape where even former Disney stars seem to be borrowing from Peaches’ deep stock of shock tactics and marginalized groups are wresting more sympathy and attention, she faces a new question.

“People are like: ‘Well, Peaches, what are you going to shock people with now?”’ she explained with a laugh. “Gay marriage is legal in the States, gender issues are being seriously taken into consideration, and bullying is a whole movement now, and blah, blah, blah, blah.

“Well, I’m going to celebrate it.

I’m also going to keep my eye out and make sure it’s not some sort of sensationalist shock trend for everybody else and that it’s actually moving forward.

“So celebrating with one eye still looking out.”

That jubilation manifests in Rub, the album Peaches refers to with considerable affection as her “post-gender or post-ageist celebration.”

That said, Rub — her first record in more than six years — is hardly some compromise to convention.

It’s recklessly funny, features several unprintable song titles — one, called Dumb (Expletive), which she considers her Purple Rain — and sonics jagged enough to trip Run the Jewels.

“The point was to make it even more raw, with all the great sounds that you can use now — just not polish it up at all,” she explained. “Just make it really raw, and aggressive, but sonically warm.”

Fans who worry about Peaches’ ongoing capacity to shock, meanwhile, should listen to the record’s blackest dirge: Free Drink Ticket.

With her vocals pitched down and a rumbling buzzsaw of a beat, she seethes against a “spineless coward” ex-lover whose “personality turned to white powder.”

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RESTA July 26, 1934 - Sept. 20, 2015 Silvio James Angelo Resta of Red Deer, Alberta, formerly of Rimbey, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Villa Marie Covenant Care Centre, Red Deer on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the age of 81 years. He was predeceased by the love of his life of 56 years, Rilda Resta (nee Dewalt) on September 27, 2014. Silvio was born and raised in Rimbey where he attended the Fuller District School to Grade 8. He lived and worked on the family farm, which was eight miles northwest of Rimbey, until he went to work around the Edson area in the oil patch for several years. This is where he met Rilda DeWalt, and together they came home to the family farm where they started their life-long career farming and raising their children. Silvio loved to farm as he loved the land. He worked many winters truck hauling for Jordan’s Equipment in Rimbey to help supplement the farm income as well. Silvio also loved the outdoors; where one could always find him working the land, tending the animals, seeding the crops, fencing, or fixing machinery. He worked hard, but always had time to help his children and grandchildren with their math (Dad was great at math), teach them how to play crib, and he always helped his neighbours. In the winters, Silvio would clear the snow off the dugouts so family and friends could skate and play ice hockey; and in the summers, he would help his children learn how to swim in the dugouts.

Silvio believed that a man’s handshake was as good as his word. He was extremely neat and took a lot of pride in everything he did. Silvio also cherished the tractor rides he gave his grandchildren…complete with vanilla ice cream treats to follow which was Dad’s favorite!

“Our family gives thanks that Dad has gone home to live with his Heavenly Father.”

Silvio will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his children: JoAnne (Wilfred) Curtis of Red Deer; Silvio Jr. (Laurie) Resta of Red Deer; Jordan (Mary) Resta of Red Deer; Judy (John) Ring of Hinton; Jacquie Sullivan of Red Deer; and Karen (Ed) Yetter of Blackfalds; as well as 14 grandchildren, and 15 great grandchildren. He will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his sister, Gloria Valette of Edmonton; and his two brothers, Adrian (Thelma) Resta of Rimbey; and Bruno (Phyllis) Resta of Carstairs; in addition to numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends. Silvio was also predeceased by his parents, Felix and Silvia Resta. A Celebration of Silvio’s Life will be held at the Zion Lutheran Church, Rimbey on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Don Hennig and Pastor Peter Van Katwyk officiating.

Interment will follow in the West Haven Cemetery, Rimbey.

If friends desire, memorial tributes in Silvio’s Memory may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4C4 (www.heartandstroke.ab.ca); or to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences to the Resta Family may also be expressed by email to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Service and Burial Arrangements for the Late Silvio James Angelo Resta entrusted to the care of OBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD.

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McCAULEY John Leach John Leach McCauley died peacefully in the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at the age of 76 years, and is now in the arms of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. John is survived by his wife Edna, to whom he was married for 55 fun-filled years.

John is also survived by their four children: Tim (Judy), Terry (Catherine), Maureen (Jesse) and Janet; his grandchildren: Tyler (Kristen) and their two sons Jayce and Garen; Matthew (Mily) and their son Isaac; Justin, JJ (Shanna) and his three children Ayla, Paisley and Joey; Paul (Anna); Afton (Dan) and Dan’s children Dylan and Brooke; and Michael. John additionally is survived by his sister Sharon (Dave) Bourassa and her children Christopher, Suzanne, Jo-Anne (Wade) and their daughter Elliot; and John’s brother Bill’s wife Aldia and their children Shaunna (Trevor) and her daughter Collette; Lance (Kathie) and his children Brent, Tyson and Sidney; Scott (Pat) and his children Chase, Quinton and Cooper; and Jason (Karen) and their children Riley and Reed. He also considered Jamie (Turnbull) Kuryvial his granddaughter - if not in blood, in love, and by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. John is predeceased by his parents Jim and Freda (Britcher) McCauley, and his brother William (Bill). John was born on August 25, 1939 in Port Arthur, Ontario. After high school, he pursued his love of cars by attending NAIT and becoming a licensed auto mechanic, mostly with GM dealerships in BC and Alberta. John met his sweetheart, Edna Gascon, on a blind date set up by his cousin Faye (McCauley) Smith, who, at the time, was Edna’s roommate.

John and Edna were married in Barrhead, Alberta on May 27th, 1960. He was a proud father to all four of his children and loved to roughhouse and play games with them. John loved his children very much, and his grandchildren had a very special place in his heart. He was Grandpa and Papa to them, and if mischief was being carried out, we always knew to look for him to blame first. No occasion was too solemn for a good laugh! Music was an important part of John’s life, and he bought his first guitar - a Gibson J45 - in his early 20s, and his favourite artist was Johnny Cash. He loved to play his guitar, and though he greatly slowed down in his later years, he played right up to a few months before he passed away.

When the kids were younger, the family was very active square dancers and enjoyed going every weekend to Demmit, Alberta to square dance with the Ray Lake Dancers. John and Edna were active in the Fort St. John and Taber Evangelical Free Churches over the years and loved being involved in musical groups, ministries, and playing country gospel along with the Sonshine Gospel Singers. They also were active members of Taber Citizens on Patrol while they lived there. They also attended the Lethbridge Evangelical Free Church during the eight years they lived in Lethbridge.

During that time, they lived at the Sierras Condo and greatly enjoyed their time with friends and residents there. His laughter and good humour will be sorely missed by all who came in contact with him over the years. He often spoke fondly of how blessed he was to have such a wonderful family, and many friends. The family would like to thank Dr. Lee, Dr. Jim and the caring nurses at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, Unit #31, as well as the staff at the dialysis unit where dad spent twelve hours a week of his life. Dad loved to joke with all of them, and they loved to help him in return. A Funeral Service will be held at the CrossRoads Community Church, 38105 R.R.275, Red Deer County, Alberta on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Ken Lehman officiating. Interment will be held with family at Alto Reste Cemetery, Highway 11 East, Red Deer County, at 11:00 a.m. Those wishing to attend can muster at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, at 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Southern Alberta Bible Camp, Box 99, Lomond, Alberta, T0L 1G0 or Compassion Canada - Child Survival Program, Box 5591, London, Ontario, N6A 5G8. 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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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

40 hrs/week, + benefits , 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

8 YR. old Tabby lost in JJAM Management (1987) Morrisroe, Aug. 20, light Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s grey w/white on neck/belly, Requires to work at these declawed, name is Red Deer, AB locations: Smokey. $100 reward. Call 5111 22 St. Alice 403-309-9373 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N You can sell your guitar 700 3020 22 St. for a song...

FOOD ATTENDANT or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Req’d permanent shift and we’ll sell it for you! weekend day and evening both full and part time.

My dog Maddy has been missing since August 11th. 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. She is a small dog, Job description papillon about 10 lbs long www.timhortons.com hair. Her body is all white Education and experience with two brown spots on not req’d. her left side and back her Apply in person or fax head and ears are all black resume to: 403-314-1303 and brown with a small white ring around her JJAM Management (1987) nose. When she went Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s missing she was wearing Requires to work at these a green and black bark Red Deer, AB locations: control collar. Last seen in 5111 22 St. 61ave crossing horn street 37444 HWY 2 S with a woman. Any info 37543 HWY 2N please call 587 372 8320 700 3020 22 St. or email Food Service Supervisor breanna_mclaughlin15@h Req’d permanent shift otmail.com thank you weekend day and evening both full and part time.

4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and viFound sion benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com BIKE FOUND, CCM 6061 Experience 1 yr. to less white & black with green than 2 yrs. markings found Apply in person or fax SE Red Deer. resume to: 403-314-1303 CLAIMED

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CHILD caregiver needed for 2 children in Red Deer.$11/hr. willing to do split shifts,days and nights rotation 44 hrs/wk. high school graduate,1-2 yrs exp. in child care. apply at frh1951@outlook.com Buying or Selling your home?

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Clerical BRYANT (Steegstra) Marie (Madeline) Mar. 10, 1933 - Sept.13, 2015 Marie passed away peacefully at the Innisfail Hospital with family by her side. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Cremation to follow.

Interment of the urn will be held in Portage La Prairie, MB, on Friday, October 16, 2015. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm. abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net 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.

NOW HIRING TRUCK DRIVER $25/HR Full Time , 44hrs/wk min 2 years experience req Please email resume tankmasterrd@gmail.com or drop off at Tankmaster Rentals (2012) LTD 117 Poplar St Red Deer

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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NOV. START • Community Support Worker Program

Is now accepting applications for the following full time position: ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN RECEIVABLES in our Rocky Mountain House location Accounting Technician Responsibilities & Qualifications: Duties include but not limited to: Process and maintain A/R Sap Business One experience mandatory Working knowledge of MS Office & Simply Accounting (2013) program is essential Able to work with minimal supervision Must have an accounting designation Min of 3+ years accounting related experience Preference will be given to candidates who are highly organized, able to multi task, complete tasks in a timely fashion & are team players Please email resumes and a minimum of 3 references to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com or fax resume to: 1-403-729-2396 *NO PHONE CALL INQUIRIES PLEASE

Farm Work

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GREENHOUSE WORKERS wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold. 31 Full Time Seasonal Positions. No Exp, training provided.Starting Feb 2016.$11.20/hr,44hrs,5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252.

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403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca 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

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Clothing

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NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $5 each. (approx. 30) good shape.

403-347-2526

Electronics

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ATARI with 20 games. $160. 403-782-3847 X-BOX with games, $70.

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EquipmentHeavy

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is speeding up work on a project that could lead to the California tech giant building its own electric car, according to a new report.

The maker of iPhones and iPads is tripling the number of engineers on the project, code-named Titan, and has set a “ship date” of 2019, the Wall Street Journal said Monday. The newspaper said that could just be a target for engineers to sign off on the design, not necessarily when a car would be available for sale.

Apple declined comment Monday on the Journal report, which cited unidentified sources.

While Apple has never officially confirmed it’s planning to build a car, there are strong indications it’s at least interested in automotive technology. In recent months, Apple has hired a number of engineers with backgrounds in automotive and battery design.

Apple representatives also met in May with officials at an automotive testing facility located east of San Francisco. Site officials later confirmed to The

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Stereos TO ORDER Tools TV's, VCRs HOME SKILL SAW, $20.

ENSIGNA tv 2 yrs. old, 20” DELIVERY OF TABLE SAW, Master Craft. Áat screen w/remote and $140. 403-782-3847 manual, very good cond., THE $75 403-986-6321 VARIETY of miscellaneous ADVOCATE tools, $20. 403-885-5020 SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, CALL OUR also black glass tv stand, 42”w, 24”h, 18”d, bought CIRCULATION Farmers' at Sims $125.

403-352-8811 DEPARTMENT Market ANYONE with free 403-314-4300 produce to give away, Misc. for

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Firewood

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Rhonda at 403-314-4306

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

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100 VHS movies, $75.

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COFFEE table set, fake black marble $65, 4 drawer wicker stand $25, snake AFFORDABLE $20, fern Homestead Firewood plant Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split. $20 403-347-5912 Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

B.C. Birch, Aspen, 403-885-5020 Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 LAST call for FREE crab apples. You pick.

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, 403-346-3086 Can deliver VINTAGE Royal Doulton 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Beswick horse, brown FREE Àrewood. Bring your shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high own chainsaw $40; Merrell Ortholite 403-346-4307 shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25.

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JAZZY power wheel chair, medical scooter offers 403-588-7120

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Household Furnishings

CHESTERFIELD, loveseat & swivel rocker recliner.

Dining table w/leaf & 6 chairs. $200.

403-346-2192

WINE CARBOYS, glass with stoppers 1 - 19L, 3 - 23L $125 Firm. 403-749-3960

Cats

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2 Siamese, 1 Balinese, 1 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

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DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, exc. shape. AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on cond, $195. 403-352-8811 chairs. $150 403-346-4155 WORK OUT EQUIPMENT For sale - 403-342-0813 DOUBLE/queen size heavy duty steel bed frame 72”L, adjust to 54-60-78” Travel wide, 6 casters (2 locks) Packages $40 403-346-6539

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SOLID dark walnut chiffonier $200 403-346-4155

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

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2 BDRM. main Ár. Close to RDC & Hospital. $1100/mo./DD. utils. incl.

N/S, no pets. Avail. Oct. 1.

403-341-0156 885-2287 3 BDRM. laundry, blinds, large deck, fenced yard.

Good cond. 403-347-6081 or 403-396-8239 3 BDRM. main level house, Johnstone Park. $1350 + d.d., 70% utils., avail. now, no pets.

403-667-5527, 923-1119

For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD ORIOLE PARK ANDERS Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 TILE Installation Ceramic, Glass,Porcelain and Travertine Showers, Fireplaces, Kitchen backsplashes, Flooring and Walls. I have references and pictures if requested Call for an Estimate Jamie 403-506-8484

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Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

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BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, Áooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

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FANTASY SPA

GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1075. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Oct. 1 403-304-5337

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BRIGHT 2 bdrm. 2 bath townhouse in Springbrook $1250 rent & DD, n/s, small dog ok 902-322-7175

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Services

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Roofing

Moving & Storage

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MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Industrial

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YOU need a shop bay to rent?18 Schenk Industrial Rd.,Sylvan Lake 16’ x 50’ bay, 12 x 16 elec. doors, wash bay, one large ofÀce, restrooms, coffee room, lots of yard space, 2 watch dogs, room for car/truck hoist. Don’s cell 493-350-5199, OfÀce 403-887-5210

Warehouse Space

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FOR LEASE RIVERSIDE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777 OFFICE 2372 sq ft. plus 4381 sq. ft. warehouse Burnt Lake Industrial Park 403-588-7120

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RISER HOMES 1 ONLY! Must See! Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see. This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades.

This weekend only $399,000. GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Farms/ Land

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*** Farm Land 4 Sale! *** 3 Km North of hwy 53. On QE 2 freeway. 140 acres Cultivated #1 soil. phone 1-403-358-2289 $4,000.

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Vans Buses

RISER HOMES FALL SPECIAL(1)BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open Áoor plan, Àreplace $339,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

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We Will Take Payments!!

2012 Dodge Gr. Caravan White, 93,000 Kms. Full Inspection $13,450. Call Harvey @ Reward Lease 403-358-1698

Holiday Trailers

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SERGE’S HOMES Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 NEW 4th Ár. corner suite, 1096 Sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreational amenities, extended care center attached, deck 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 anytime. Pics avail. on kijji

Acreages

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FOUR acres, 10 min. from Red Deer, 1,450 sq. ft. home with 3 car garage, 40’ x 60’ heated shop, exc. water, very well kept yard.

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2007 JAYCO Eagle, 32’, sleeps 6, assumable, 3 1/2 yr. warr. 2 slides, fridge, stove, oven, $13,900.

403-348-9746

Tires, Parts Acces.

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NEW Carlisle tire 23 x 10.5 - 12”, 4 ply turf savers $35.00; new Carlisle tire 20 x 8.5 - 8” -2 ply - $25.00 call 403-728-3485

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

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ROBUST CLEANING SERVICES - Windows, eavestroughs, vinyl siding.

Pckg. pricing, free quotes.

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PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s RooÀng. Re-rooÀng specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Property clean up 505-4777

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Munster said he believes there’s a “50-60 per cent probability” of an Apple car becoming a reality.

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Near hospital. No pets.

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DEER Park 1053 sq. ft. condo, main level, 1 bdrm. DELUXE Innisfail 2 bdrm. w/large den, 6 appls, laun- n/p, balcony, inclds. water dry room, 1 indoor and 1 $860 + utils, outdoor parking stalls, 403-348-6594 $1375/mo. all utils. incld.

HERE TO HELP avail. now 403-347-3079 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. & HERE TO SERVE apartments, avail. immed, or cell 403-872-0329 rent $875 403-596-6000 Call GORD ING at TOO MUCH STUFF? RE/MAX real estate LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. central alberta 403-341-9995 Let Classifieds SUITES. 25+, adults only gord.ing@remax.net help you sell it. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or 403-304-7576

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NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1050. No pets, N/S BRAND NEW EXECUTIVE Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 1/2 duplex in Garden Heights, 3 bdrms, 4 baths, beautiful back yard, garage, close to all amenities Suites $2500/mo. + utils, n/s, no pets, RENTED 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d.

FOR LEASE, Executive 403-346-1458 style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. suites 3 appls., heat/water garage, no pets, N/S. incld., ADULT ONLY 403-588-2740 BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 GULL LAKE HOUSE WITH LAKE VIEW AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 3 bdrm., 2 bth., fully furn. bdrm. in clean quiet adult with dbl. att. garage and building, near downtown games room, hot tub, n/s, Co-Op, no pets, no pets, ref. req., 403-348-7445 $2,800/mo. plus util.

CAMBRIDGE APART780-514-0129 MENTS now renting to quiet adults only 1 & 2 bdrms, no pets, no parties, Condos/ southhill, 403-340-1222 Townhouses

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WE BELIEVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITY FOR APPLE, BUT WE ALSO EXPECT APPLE TO BE DELIBERATE AS ALWAYS IN ITS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

Associated Press that Apple requested information about using their facility.

And last month, an Apple attorney met with officials at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to discuss the state’s regulations for self-driving cars.

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Romancing the tomato

BY ADRIAN HIGGINS SPECIAL TO ADVOCATE In the day when the mass production of food trumped everything else, plant breeders developed the “perfect” supermarket tomato. Thickskinned and with a shelf life for the ages, it was a boon for growers, shippers and retailers.

But even non-foodie consumers realized that they were getting the short end of the stick. Those reddish orbs looked like the real thing but tasted like damp cardboard, and the supermarket tomato became a standing joke.

It also spurred the rediscovery and celebration of the heirloom tomato, the antique, vernacular fruit that managed to capture not only the folksy history of a regional variety but also the warmth and memory of summer itself.

The poster child was the brassy beefsteak Brandywine, but thousands of tomato varieties have survived thanks in large part to this renaissance.

As home gardeners across the land have discovered — especially in this year’s June monsoon — heirlooms often fall down in key areas: They are sickly, they take forever to fruit, and the yield is low.

“Bacterial and fungal diseases can take down a home garden the quickest, especially if you don’t have a vigorous spraying program,” said Chelsey Fields, vegetable and herbs product manager at W. Atlee Burpee & Co. “They can wreak havoc on heirlooms.”

If one generation of scientists could produce a cannonball tomato, a new generation of scientists is asking, “Where did the flavor go, and how can we get it back?” These questions have spawned leading-edge breeding programs whose aim is to create varieties that have all the flavor and nutritional advantages of the heirlooms but the vigor and bounty of the modern hybrid.

Hybridizers at the University of Florida have introduced two varieties designed to do just that. Garden Gem produces oodles of small oval fruits, perfect for eating whole off the vine, for throwing in salads or for marinara. One of its parents is Maglia Rosa, not strictly an heirloom but bred as a stable cross from gourmet cherry tomatoes.

Garden Treasure is a larger, slicing tomato derived from an heirloom named German Queen. German Queen is an impressive beefsteak, but once picked it gets soft quickly. “The hybrid tastes better than the heirloom [parent] because it’s a little firmer,” said Harry Klee, who heads the university’s tomato breeding program. “It produces five times as much fruit and has a shelf life of a couple of weeks.”

Taste itself is inherently subjective; some palates prefer something sweeter, others more tart, and that balance can change as we age. But it turns out that much of the flavor experience in a tomato can be quantified and chemically identified and thus manipulated in breeding new varieties.

We’ve long known that a tomato tango occurs between sugars (fructose and glucose) and acids (mostly citric but also malic and glutamic), but as Klee has written, these are just the foundation.

A third element involves the more complex dance between our olfactory receptors and as many as 20 volatile organic compounds at work in tomatoes. They can be detected in the lab through gas chromatography. These aromatics have names only an organic chemistry buff would love, but they

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Madame Marmande, a new Burpee variety available for 2016. have a direct bearing on our lives with tomatoes. Hexanal conveys a green, grassy characteristic; 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one is both fruity and floral. You want nutty and fruity? Reach for the 2-phenylethanol.

After 10 years of intensive work, “we know how much of all these compounds we want in the ideal tomato,” Klee said. “The challenge now is how do you make them?” That is, assemble them deliberately in new tomato varieties. This will take another 10 years, he predicts.

Scientific advances are working in his favor: Since the first tomato genome was sequenced three years ago, Klee’s team has worked with a scientist in Beijing to map the genomes of 250 heirloom varieties. This will help them assemble desired traits through genetic profiling (but not engineering).

Another boon has been the taste-testing data amassed by Klee’s team over the past four years. In Gainesville, the summer is too hot for tomato cultivation, but the climate allows two harvests a year— in June and November. During those months, the project assembles 100 tasters drawn from the university’s student body, faculty and staff to evaluate approximately 25 varieties over four weeks.

This is a huge undertaking because it requires growing hundreds of plants from seed to maturity, but the scientists now have flavor ratings on 150 varieties since 2012.

As subjective as it might be, taste testing by engaged volunteers is important because science alone can’t crack this nut. If you look at the lab analysis of an heirloom named Marmande, “the chemistry tells us that people should really like it, but they actually hate it because it’s too soft, too mushy,” Klee said.

Beyond texture, a cherished tomato must have something even more amorphous: nostalgia.

This is the magic driving another tomato breeding program in New Jersey, a state where the tomato is a cultural icon. At Rutgers University’s agricul-

Beauty brands using technology developed by U of T prof

tural research farm in Pittstown, hybridizer Tom Orton has been trying to capture the lost flavor of a famous old variety named, simply, Rutgers.

It was introduced in the 1930s as a general-purpose globe tomato that could be used by the state’s then-thriving canning industry but also for market farmers and home gardeners looking for a flavorful and reliable tomato. It was so versatile that it could be used for slicing, juicing or canning.

Commercial tomato varieties today are much more narrowly designed for their utility.

You can still find the Rutgers in seed catalogues, except it is not the original; genetic drift over the generations has brought a variety that is undoubtedly different from the first hybrid, now lost to time.

But Orton has taken the parents of Rutgers, a variety named Marglobe and a proprietary variety held by Campbell Soup, and crossed them to produce a new offspring aimed at capturing the now more imagined than remembered flavor of the original.

But each seedling is different and must be evaluated. In the past five years, Orton has taken his selections and crossed them across five generations to produce genetically stable plants that will grow true from seed.

He’s down to three finalists that have had to jump through all the hoops of acceptance, from disease resistance to the host of physical qualities that a tomato must have beyond flavor. These include color, shape, aversion to cracking and scorching, and the interior architecture of walls and the gel cavities.

I recently met his colleague Jack Rabin at the Snyder farm in Pittstown to taste the shortlisted finalists. We abbreviated their actual identification numbers to No. 1, No. 3 and No. 6.

We agreed that No. 3 had the edge in terms of its flavor concoction, which I ranked as 6 on a scale of 7 for acid, sweetness, texture and flavor. These are great tomatoes, and I look forward to growing the one that is finally introduced. Rabin agreed with me that the

flavors would have been more intense had all three not been suffering from what appeared to be a surfeit of irrigation before harvest; they were grown at another farm for an annual taste-testing festival at the Snyder farm. The ones on the farm weren’t ready on that day.

Incidentally, after tasting dozens of tomato varieties that day, I can say that any diced tomato that sits on a plate becomes soft and difficult to like after a couple of hours, and that the palate can only handle about half a dozen before the taste nuances are lost.

Meanwhile, Burpee is getting ready to introduce a better version of the soft Marmande, named Madame Marmande. “It resists cracking in the garden and you get a nice yield,” Fields said. Burpee’s most famous improved heirloom is Brandy Boy, around since 2003.

Flavor is linked to dietary goodies such as minerals, antioxidants and vitamins, and Klee’s ultimate goal is to produce commercial varieties that consumers will want to eat, to improve public diet and nutrition. The key is to create a superior tomato that can be mass-produced so that it is cheap enough for everyone to buy. But the path to a better supermarket tomato is through the garden.

Gardeners will put up with traits that large commercial growers see as flaws, which is why the breeders are happy to offer their seeds to home and market gardeners. “It’s an easier target to hit than is the commercial tomato,” Klee said.

The reason so many folks grow tomatoes at home —other than the bragging rights — is that as frustrating as the enterprise can be, this is the only true way to get the tastiest tomatoes, freshly picked and vine-ripened. But it starts with superior varieties, and thanks to plant breeders such as Orton and Klee, some great new tomatoes combining the best of old and new are just around the corner.

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LIP-READING TECHNOLOGY About a year ago demand for ModiFace began to surge.

At the time, he said, there were TORONTO — Canadian technology about 20 brands using the software. originally developed years ago to enNow, he said, 52 brands have lihance speech recognition is now being censed his technology that appears used by some of the world’s biggest in more than 200 apps, with a total of beauty brands. more than 60 million downloads.

University of Toronto engineering “I don’t know what the catalyst was, professor Parham Aarabi designed but everyone is rushing to have auglip-reading software more than a de- mented reality as part of their apps, cade ago that initially garnered inter- websites and retail solutions,” Aarabi est from the military community. said.

“The goal was to read lips and He expects that total to double in combine that with audio to do better the coming year. speech recogniIt turns out his tion,” Aarabi said. lip-reading software “ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHAL“The idea was solved a long-standthat in certain LENGES IN THE BEAUTY INDUS- ing problem. environments “One of the big— noisy environ- TRY IS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T gest challenges in ments or very far KNOW WHAT PRODUCT IS BEST the beauty industry away from the is that most people FOR THEM,” person you’re don’t know what trying to listen to product is best for PARHAM AARABI — audio doesn’t them,” he said.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ENGINEERING PROFESSOR work, so you have “The way the to use computer beauty industry has worked for a cenvision to read someone’s lips to guess tury is you’re shown what a model what they might be saying.”

The technology worked about half looks like and because it looks good on a model — or because the skin care the time, he said.

“You could eavesdrop on someone makes the model look perfect by some from very far away and based on the definition of perfection — therefore image zoomed in on their face guess as this product must be the right product for you,” he said. to what they were saying.”

“What we found is that if we can But the algorithms he built to track contours of lips proved adept in the show the product in a very realistic and truthful way to the consumer on beauty industry.

That’s when his company, Modi- their own image … it is substantially more effective as a marketing and eduFace, was born.

The company grew slowly since cational tool than if you show an image of a model.” launching in 2007.

In the next year or two Aarabi says Aarabi says the technology is now used by cosmetics companies from his technology will allow customers L’Oreal to Unilever and Yves Rocher to walk into a store, glance at a mirfor different applications, such as add- ror and have different shades of liping different shades of lipstick to an stick on their reflection looking back at them. image of a face uploaded by a user.

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1976 — Premier Peter Lougheed opened the new Glenbow Centre, housing the Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library, and Archives.

1972 — USSR beats Team Canada 5-4 in Game 5 of the super series.

1939 — Government sets up censorship bureau under War Measures Act, to examine all political speeches.

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1851 — Province of Canada capital moves in rotation to Quebec City from Toronto.

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Balsamic chicken with watercress and nectarine salad. A simple plating switch-up gives the meal a flair that makes it immediately more interesting and compelling, more like one you might find at an upscale bistro rather than a roadside diner.

Overturn convention APPROACHING A DISH FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE MAKES IT IMMEDIATELY MORE INTERESTING

BY ELLIE KRIEGER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Salad topped with chicken is a healthful staple so commonplace, it is more likely to elicit yawns than excitement. But approached from a different angle, it is transformed into an enticing entree that’s anything but ordinary. Here that angle is 180 degrees different: The dish is turned upside down, with the salad piled on top of the chicken. That simple plating switch-up gives the meal a flair that makes it immediately more interesting and compelling, more like one you might find at an upscale bistro rather than a roadside diner.

The chicken is pounded thin in the French paillard style, making it an ample-size bed for the salad. There are a few options for achieving that appealing thinness. You can buy regular boneless, skinless chicken breast halves and use a mallet to pound them; ask your butcher to do it for you; or buy grocery-store packages of chicken breast labeled “thin cut,” which, depending on how thin they are, might need just a bit of pounding to get to the desired thickness. After brushing the chicken with a simple balsamic vinaigrette, just grill it up, which takes less

than five minutes.

The salad, a mix of peppery watercress, sweet, juicy nectarine and thinly sliced red onion, is a welcome change from the usual lettuce-and-tomato combo. Plus, it provides a delightful way to make the most of late-summer fruit and the leafy green that tops the list of powerhouse produce (per a study at William Paterson University).

That said, you could easily substitute a different leafy green, like baby kale or arugula, or another stone fruit, such as peach or plum.

Like the chicken, the salad gets the sweet-tangy balsamic vinaigrette treatment, which serves to mellow the greens, highlight the fruit and link the salad and poultry, flavorwise. The result is an extraordinary meal that just might become your new regular.

Balsamic Chicken with Watercress and Nectarine Salad MAKES: 4 servings Feel free to substitute another leafy green, such as baby kale or arugula, or a different stone fruit, such as peaches or plums.

INGREDIENTS 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (1 ¼ pounds total), tenderloins and visible fat removed 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar ½ teaspoon kosher salt ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 3 to 3 ½ ounces (1 bunch) fresh watercress, tough stems removed, coarsely chopped (about 2 ½ cups lightly packed) 1 medium ripe nectarine, pitted and sliced into thin wedges ½ small red onion, sliced into thin half-moons STEPS Prepare the grill for direct heat: If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (400 degrees) with the lid closed. If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or wood briquettes; when the briquettes are ready, distribute them evenly over the cooking area. For a medium-hot fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for 4 to 6 seconds. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames. Brush the grill grate.

Place the chicken breast halves between two sheets of plastic wrap, then

pound each one to a thickness of about ¼ inch. (You can also ask the butcher to do that.)

Whisk together the oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper in a liquid measuring cup to form an emulsified dressing. Transfer 2 tablespoons of the dressing to a bowl; use it to brush the chicken all over. (Reserve the rest of the dressing for the salad; discard any dressing left over from brushing the chicken.)

Place the chicken on the grill. Cook (uncovered) for about 1 minute per side or until just cooked through, with light char marks. Transfer to a plate.

Toss the watercress, nectarines and onion with the reserved dressing in a large bowl. Divide the chicken evenly among individual plates. Top each portion with one-quarter of the salad, and serve right away.

Nutrition | Per serving: 280 calories, 33 g protein, 5 g carbohydrates, 14 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 105 mg cholesterol, 210 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar Recipe tested by Helen Horton; e-mail questions to food@washpost.com Ellie Krieger’s most recent cookbook is “Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less.” She blogs and offers a weekly newsletter at www. elliekrieger.com.

Making a lunchbox snack can teach important lessons about food

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Let the kids help whip up this lunchbox treat Having your kids being a part of the process of making a lunchbox snack can teach a child important lessons about food and the ingredients that go into making it.

Lunchbox zucchini bars continue the proud tradition of stealthily adding zucchini to sweet treats. The bars get added texture from the shredded coconut and raisins, while the wheat bran cereal adds some roughage. Don’t be daunted by the long list of ingredients. Many items on the list are common pantry staples. The bars should be eaten within a few days, or you can individually wrap and freeze them for a quick grab-and-go snack. Make sure they thaw before you eat them, though.

This recipe is peanut-free, which makes it great for school.

¼ tsp (1 mL) nutmeg 2 ½ cups (625 mL) shredded zucchini 1 cup (250 mL) raisins 1 cup (250 mL) shredded coconut

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LUNCHBOX ZUCCHINI BARS INGREDIENTS ½ cup (125 mL) butter, melted ½ cup (125 mL) oil

Lunchbox zucchini bars are peanut-free, which makes them great for school.

1 ½ cups (375 mL) brown sugar 2 eggs 2 tbsp (25 mL) water 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla 1 ½ cups (375 mL) wheat bran cereal

1 ½ cups (375 mL) flour ½ cup (125 mL) whole wheat flour 1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda ½ tsp (2 mL) salt ½ tsp (2 mL) cinnamon

STEPS Whisk together first 6 ingredients (butter through vanilla) in a bowl until blended. Stir in bran; let stand 5 minutes. Meanwhile, combine next 6 ingredients (flour through nutmeg). Stir zucchini into bran mixture. Add zucchini mixture to flour mixture and stir just until blended. Stir in raisins and coconut. Spoon batter into a greased 9X13 inch (23X33 cm) pan. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 45 minutes or until bars test done. Cool on a rack.

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Mom wants adult daughter to move out Dear Annie: My 31-year-old daughter, her boyfriend and my 13-year-old granddaughter have lived with my husband and me for the past 10 years. I never thought they would stay this long.

My daughter, “Tina,” asked whether her KATHY MITCHELL boyfriend could AND MARCY SUGAR live with us for two weeks unANNIE’S MAILBOX til his car was fixed after a hit-and-run accident. We said OK. Big mistake.

When the car was repaired, we heard all kinds of excuses why he couldn’t leave.

We didn’t make a big effort to push him out because he was polite and he

loved Tina and her child (by someone else who was not in the child’s life). He became a surrogate father.

Everything worked well until Tina started to pick on me and point out my faults.

Slowly our relationship began to erode.

Tina doesn’t have a job, so she stays at home to care for her child. I have leukemia and cannot work. So we are both at home all day.

I think Tina is jealous of my relationship with my granddaughter, so she put some distance between us. No matter my efforts, things just get worse.

They have succeeded in turning my granddaughter against me. Now my patience is gone, and I feel like a stranger in my home.

My husband tells me to give her time and she’ll come around. This doesn’t seem likely.

I’m hurt and depressed. The boyfriend doesn’t make enough money to support them in a place of their own, and Tina refuses to look for a job.

They have no responsibility here, so why would they leave?

I’m seeing a therapist, but it seems like a bandage for my problem at my home. Do you have any suggestions? — Can’t See the Forest for the Trees Dear Forest: We are reluctant to interfere when you are already receiving therapy.

We can tell you, however, that it is often difficult to have grown children living with you when there are no clear-cut boundaries and rules in place. It fosters resentment and misunderstandings. Please discuss with your therapist whether a heart-to-heart with your daughter and her boyfriend would be beneficial, or whether your daughter might attend a session with you.

Dear Annie: I totally disagree with your advice to “Big Sister,” whose younger sister hijacked her plans for a family reunion. Why does the person who is wronged have to be nice to an inconsiderate relative? I have done this all my life to keep the peace in the

family.

The first time I defended myself, they got angry and stopped talking to me. Well, too bad for them. Life is too short not to be happy.

If I am always giving in to them, then I don’t feel good about myself.

At age 54, I can live without them.

— Happier Without Them in My Life Dear Happier: Our advice is geared to help those who wish to maintain a relationship with their family members.

Those who prefer not to don’t need our suggestions on how to cut people out of their lives. They already know how, as you did.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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This forlorn looking male American Goldfinch, is going through a fall change of colors. After he has finished his eclipse, he and all other goldfinches will be brownish in color through the winter.

Canada Soccer disappointed at college players being dropped from game The Canadian Soccer Association says it is disappointed by an NCAA stance that has resulted in six of its women’s internationals being dropped from the new “FIFA 16” video game.

EA Sports, which makes the soccer game in suburban Vancouver, said it had been informed by the NCAA that the six Canadian — and seven other — college players would be risking their eligibility by being in the game.

“Protecting the interests of our players in the long run is of paramount importance for us and while we are disappointed by the NCAA ruling and its impact on six

FIFA 2016 of our athletes, Canada Soccer is supportive of EA Sports’s resulting action to not include them in this year’s game,” Peter Montopoli, general secretary of the Canadian Soccer Association, said in a statement Friday.

“We are extremely proud and excited to see both our men’s national team and women’s national team represented in a world-renown franchise such as EA Sports FIFA 16 and look forward to providing Canadian fans with another way to experience our brand of international soccer.”

HOROSCOPES Tuesday, Sept. 22 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Joan Jett, 56; Nick Cave, 57; Billie Piper, 32 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect some intense emotional connections today.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: You are a natural detective, as you uncover hidden information that others miss.

The next 12 months is the time to be more adventurous in love.

ARIES (March JOANNE MADELIN 21-April 19): A MOORE loved one or work colleague may critSUN SIGNS icize your performance — or your habits — but try not to be offended. Your motto for the day? Maintain your Ram equilibrium, keep calm and carry on!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Be emotionally honest with yourself.

Feeling guilty about something you did in the past won’t help the current situation. Let bygones be bygones, learn from your mistakes and move on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s up to talkative Twins to jolly up proceedings, as many people will be intense and unpredictable.

Don’t trample over sensitive feelings though.

Take the time to really listen to others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Close relationships wont be smooth-sailing today Crabs, as Pluto stirs up your intense emo-

tions and sense of dissatisfaction. The Moon encourages you to cool down and compromise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Expect some intense encounters with others today Cats. Be patient and don’t jump to half-baked conclusions.

If you pass on gratuitous gossip, you could find yourself out in the cold.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There may be complications with an unpredictable child, teenager or friend as they take something you say the wrong way.

Strive to be unusually diplomatic, and choose your words wisely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t depend too much on the help of others today — they may let you down.

Learn to be a more self-reliant Libran! It’s the perfect time to spruce up your home office or domestic space.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Resist the urge to take yourself too seriously Scorpio.

Others may reject your ideas but try not to take it personally.

They have their own problems to deal with so stop brooding and get over it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Jupiter is jumping through your career house, as you explore professional possibilities and head into exciting uncharted territory.

Lady Luck is on your side so make the most of it!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you incredibly focused on a personal project — or just plain obsessed?

By all means work hard on a current interest Capricorn, but don’t neglect your nearest and dearest in the process.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll be

An NCAA spokesman declined comment Friday.

The players involved are Canada’s Kadeisha Buchanan, Jessie Fleming, Ashley Lawrence, Janine Beckie, Rebecca Quinn and Sura Yekka, Mexico’s Tanya Samarzich, Greta Espinoza, Christina Murillo, Amanda Perez, Emily Alvarado, and Maria Sanchez, and Spain’s Celia Jimenez.

Women are included in the game for the first time, with Canada and 11 other national teams represented.

Buchanan, a junior at West Virginia, was delighted when news of the women’s inclusion was initially at your restless, unpredictable best — and worst — today Aquarius.

Boredom is a big no-no, so immerse yourself in exciting activities that keep you busy and out of trouble.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re in the mood to talk and share, but is anybody listening?

announced in late May. “This is super-sick. Never would have thought in my life this would happen. Love it,” she tweeted.

There was less reaction this time, with several of the Canadian women simply retweeting the EA statement on the roster changes.

EA says the collegiate players will be replaced in the game by women who have played for the national teams in question.

The Canadian men’s team is also featured in the new game after being absent in recent editions.

“FIFA 16” comes out Sept. 22 on PC, Xbox One and 360, and PlayStation 3 and 4.

Those around you aren’t so keen to communicate, so concentrate on individual projects that pique your Piscean curiosity.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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