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STARS feeling effects of economic downturn TICKETS FOR ANNUAL LOTTERY STILL AVAILABLE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Instead of announcing a sell out, STARS Lottery officials were calling on Albertans to buy tickets on Monday.

This year about 30 per cent of tickets for the annual lottery were still available as of the end of February.

“Everyone is feeling the effects of the economic downturn and we at STARS are too,” said Jeffery Quick, chief financial officer and executive vice president of STARS Foundation.

“The whole province is experiencing it. We’re no different than any other organization in this province.”

A total of 1,132,950 tickets were printed for the 2016 STARS Lottery that went on sale in January.

“We’re just over 70 per cent sold out right now. In prior years, we have sold out as of this time. We are behind and look to Albertans to help us out this year,” said Quick at a press conference at Red Deer Airport on Monday about ticket sales.

Four furnished grand prize homes, including one in Sylvan Lake worth over $945,000, will be given away in the lottery that raises money for the non-profit air ambulance service. A total of 3,200 prizes valued at more than $5.6 million will be awarded.

“For the first time in over two decades, STARS Lottery is in danger of not selling out. The lottery has a 23-year history in the province and is the only charitable home lottery in Canada to set records by selling out every year since it began.”

Last year the lottery netted about $11 million, or one third of STARS’ operating budget.

STARS operates bases in Alberta in Calgary, Edmonton and Grande Prairie to provide specialized emergency medical care and helicopter transportation for critically ill and injured patients.

In 2014-15, STARS flew 1,839 missions in Alberta, including 68 missions in and out of Red Deer.

Quick said as a result of ticket sales, STARS has already looked at cutting back non-essential capital

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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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STARS patients Rebecca Fillinger and her son, Rowan, of Rocky Mountain House, want to remind Albertans to support the air ambulance service by buying tickets for the 2016 STARS Lottery. expenses, like renovations to the Calgary base. But air ambulance services will be maintained.

“We continue to operate. We’re here for the patients. We’re an essential service. We, as a not for profit, always

run our business prudently so we’re always watching our revenues and expenses so we’ll be fine.”

The Alberta RCMP says a breathalyzer maintenance record problem that derailed a number of drunk driving cases has been resolved with a “simple fix.”

Last week, the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) began withdrawing some .08 charges. This is only happening on cases that have reached the trial stage and only in RCMP jurisdictions.

As of Friday, 17 of the .08 charges have been withdrawn, Peter Teasdale, acting Assistant Deputy Minister for ACPS, said in a statement provided to the Advocate on Monday.

In two of these cases, impaired charges continue to be prosecuted.

None of the 17 cases are in Red Deer area.

“In most cases of alleged drunk driving, individuals are charged with both driving over .08 and impaired driving. Impaired driving charges will continue to be prosecuted as long as a reasonable likelihood of conviction remains. These charge withdrawals are only in areas of RCMP jurisdiction — due to disclosure issues regarding the maintenance records of the devices,” Teasdale said.

The problem originated when a drunk driving case was tossed after an appeal because maintenance records of the breathalyzer weren’t provided to the defence. Historically they hadn’t been. Such records simply show the service history of the instrument.

RCMP Inspec. Gibson Glavin, officer in charge of strategic communications for the RCMP in Alberta, said Monday the RCMP has always disclosed operational information on the devices, which are tested before and after they are used on a subject.

“That’s not what’s at issue.”

“What we’re looking at is the disclosure of documents that we’ve never disclosed in the past, because it was believed they (the maintenance records) weren’t required,” Glavin said.

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Insurance for ride-booking companies coming by July

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government has approved insurance for ride-booking companies like Uber, but it’s not available yet.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason said Monday that the insurance likely won’t be ready until June, or by July 1 at the latest.

“What we’ve done is taken the time to do due diligence and ensure that there’s no loopholes,” Mason said.

“That in fact, if a passenger is injured in an accident involving an Uber vehicle, the insurance company is not going to be able to say, ‘you’re not covered.”’

California-based Uber is an appbased business that allows people to request rides over their phones and

sets them up with drivers in their personal vehicles. Getting an Uber ride is typically cheaper than taking a taxi.

Cities across the country have been debating how to handle Uber.

In January, Edmonton became the first jurisdiction to legalize the new industry, and a bylaw is to come into effect Tuesday, with conditions including provincially approved insurance, vehicle inspections and fees. Calgary

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Ramit Kar, general manager for Uber in Alberta, said at a rally of supporters on the weekend that the company would stop operating in Alberta unless the government quickly made insurance available.

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Karen Jackman of the Red Deer branch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation puts up hearts along the handrail on the Gaetz Avenue North Bridge in Red Deer on Monday. As part of a campaign to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation on the last day of Heart Month, the local chapter was selling paper hearts to donors. For $5, donors could buy a heart and have it posted on the bridge on their behalf. The foundation had a goal of selling 455 hearts to stretch across the bridge.

Wolf Creek looking to update, enhance outreach programs

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Wolf Creek Public Schools is reviewing its outreach and small high schools to see how they can support students effectively and efficiently.

Jayson Lovell, acting superintendent, said the reviews will not assess the viability of the programs, but rather look at ways to update and enhance the programs.

Lovell said outreach programs in Lacombe, Ponoka and Rimbey will continue to operate.

“They provide programming supports and different kinds of services for our students that are quite frankly essential for our school division,” said Lovell on Monday.

“It’s just an opportunity for us to take a look inside how things are operating and then make recommendations for potential for changes and modifications.”

He said the review comes at a time when there is more flexibility in traditional schools due to a recent high school redesign by the provincial government.

There may be some opportunity for outreach and

traditional schools to create partnerships.

Enrollment has remained steady with 260 to 270 students at Lacombe Outreach School, about 250 students at Ponoka Outreach School, and 70 to 80 at West Country Outreach School in Rimbey.

Division administration has been meeting with officials at outreach schools and other schools in communities where they are located. The next meeting is on Wednesday when recommendations will be presented for feedback.

The process should be complete by the end of March to move forward with recommendations in September.

Lovell said Wolf Creek is also in the process of reviewing its small high schools — Alix-MAC School, Bentley School and Eckville Junior/Senior High School — to ensure the best programming is offered.

“We have certainly very committed and very strong small high schools. But we also recognize the uncertainly around our budget and some of those fiscal realities we see coming in the next little while.”

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Jury trial begins for Alberta couple charged after child dies of meningitis

BRIEFS Bowden prisoner convicted of child porn A prisoner at the Bowden Institution has another 18 months tacked onto his sentence for child porn.

Ronald Everett Ross, 55, pleaded guilty to a charge of making, printing or publishing child porn.

Everett entered the plea last Thursday in Red Deer provincial court.

Ross was sentenced by judge Jim Hunter to 18 months in prison and also fined Ross $200.

The charge was laid by Innisfail RCMP, who said the offence occurred on May 4, 2015.CRIME-Child-

LETHBRIDGE — Jury selection is to begin in southern Alberta for a man and woman on trial in the death of their toddler.

David Stephan, 32, and his wife Collet Stephan, 35, have pleaded not guilty to failing to provide the necessities of life for 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died in March 2012.

RCMP said at the time that the boy had been ill for a couple of weeks but his parents only called for an ambulance when he stopped breathing.

He was airlifted to a hospital in Calgary and, after five days, doctors took him off life support machines.

Doctors told the boy’s parents he died of meningitis.

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Defence challenges psychiatrist’s claims

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Crown’s key expert witness’ conclusion is Mark Damien Lindsay should be held criminally responsible for the murder of an Edmonton mother of three went under the microscope.

Dr. Peter Todd’s conclusion came under heavy scrutiny by defence counsel Kent Tesky. After two days of Crown Prosecutor Bina Border questioning Rodd, Teskey got his crack at cross examination.

Lindsay, 29, is accused of murdering Dana Turner, 31, days after being released from jail for an assault he committed on her. Lindsay stabbed her in the face and served 50 days in custody.

Teskey questioned why Rodd only interviewed Lindsay once. Rodd said he was asked for his opinion by another psychiatrist who was examining Lindsay. The second psychiatrist, Dr. Vijay Singh, was not called to testify. However, his and Rodd’s conclusions aligned with each other.

Similar to how Border approached her cross examination of defence expert witnesses, Teskey questioned Rodd and what value and weight he gave certain reports of Lindsay’s behaviour. Teskey pointed to Lindsay’s parents testimony during the trial and early psychiatric reports that identified some of the paranoid symptoms Lindsay presented.

Rodd said in his his examination of Lindsay he tried to not restrict himself to reaching his conclusion by picking from isolated data points, but instead looked towards context and over-arching themes.

Lindsay is accused of killing Turner in August 2011. He has admitted to stabbing her in the eyes with a pencil, strangling her and then running over her with a car.

Lindsay said he believed Turner was a member of a group of serial killers called Healers. The group had sent Turner to kill him specifically.

Lindsay’s criminal responsibility is the main trial issue.

Defence expert testimony has said Lindsay’s schizophrenia enabled the psychosis that led to Lindsay killing Turner.

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Mom cleared in girl’s death

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A mother once branded a baby killer left Ontario’s top court Monday free of the manslaughter conviction that has haunted her for the past 25 years.

Moments after the court acquitted her, Maria Shepherd said she forgave Dr. Charles Smith, the disgraced forensic pathologist whose evidence prompted her to plead guilty to killing her three-year-old stepdaughter in 1991.

“I’m not sure what was going on in Mr. Smith’s head. There must be something extremely troubling for somebody not to do it once or twice — we’re talking at least a dozen people that he has done this to,” Shepherd said as her husband and children looked on.

“I forgive Charles Smith, because it’s going to be less of a weight, and my family and I can carry on.”

The Appeal Court exonerated Shepherd, 46, of Brampton, Ont., after a short hearing at the urging of both Crown and defence.

Speaking for the court, Justice David Watt said Smith’s evidence had been the “linchpin” for the Crown’s case against her.

The justice system, he said, held out a “powerful inducement” for her to plead guilty given that she faced a possible lengthy prison sentence had she been convicted after a trial, Watt said.

“The appeal is allowed,” Watt said.

“The plea of guilty and conviction is set aside and an acquittal entered.”

Shepherd pleaded guilty in 1992 to manslaughter in the death of Kasandra Shepherd based on evidence from Smith, who was then considered an unassailable forensics expert, and sentenced to two years less a day. She gave birth to her fourth child in prison.

Defence lawyer James Lockyer, with the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, told the justices

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Maria Shepherd, left, hugs her father Ramon Crespo on the steps of a Toronto court after it quashed her conviction of manslaughter on Monday. Ontario’s top court has formally acquitted a woman who pleaded guilty 25 years ago to killing her three-year-old stepdaughter. that other experts have now concluded Smith’s opinion was seriously flawed.

Crown lawyer Howard Leibovich agreed, and urged Shepherd’s conviction be quashed in favour of an acquittal.

“This is a tragic case,” Leibovich said. “Kasandra deserved better. Her family deserved better. (Shepherd) deserved better.”

Smith’s autopsy on the girl was one of many suspicious child deaths he

Canada marks ‘significant milestone’ of 25,000th Syrian refugee

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The legacy of Canada’s efforts to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees will eclipse any delays or hiccups in rolling out the program, the federal immigration minister said Monday in marking the 25,000th arrival.

“I think what people will really remember some years from now is that we helped these 25,000 people come to our country and now they are productive, hardworking Canadians,” Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister John McCallum told a news conference at Toronto’s Pearson airport.

“Many countries around the world today are making it more difficult for refugees to come in, they’re setting up more barriers, and we’re among the few countries saying, ‘No, come on in, we want to welcome 25,000 quickly.”’

McCallum was at the airport as the last two government-arranged refugee flights were arriving as part of the Liberals’ $678-million settlement plan.

Two special terminals set up in Toronto and Montreal will be shut down and any other Syrian refugees coming to Canada will arrive on commercial flights.

The refugee resettlement program was launched in November after the Liberals came to power, but it soon became apparent they would be unable to meet a promise to bring in 25,000 government-sponsored refugees by the end of the year.

Instead, the deadline was pushed to the end of February and the 25,000 Syrians that have already arrived are a mix of more than 14,300 refugees assisted by the government and about 8,500 sponsored privately.

McCallum called it a “significant milestone” but said the work continues to integrate the Syrians into the community.

More than half of those who have arrived have been resettled, he said.

And while backlogs remain in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto, new communities are being earmarked to welcome the newcomers and ease the bottleneck, the minister said.

Some settlement agencies have said housing remains the biggest challenge.

Charities providing furniture to the

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TRIAL: Calculated actions His paranoid delusions around Turner and the Healers are evidence of that.

Crown expert testimony said Lindsay’s actions after the murder were calculated, which showed an awareness of the wrongfulness of the act.

Lindsay bought a shovel and other items in an attempt to hide Turner’s body — he ended up leaving her body in a ditch on an oil lease road west of Innisfail. Lindsay also got his resume and welding book before leaving Edmonton for an extended period of time.

Rodd believes Lindsay appreciated

had handled. A review of his work and subsequent public inquiry uncovered numerous examples where he made serious mistakes, several leading to wrongful convictions. He was stripped of his medical licence in 2011.

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Maryam Monsef, centre, Member of the Cabinet Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Minister of Democratic institutions, centre, helps out as Syrian refugees seven-year-old Husam, left, helps his two-year-old sister Minisa try on jackets at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Monday. refugees, meanwhile, have said they struggle to keep up with demand.

McCallum said dealing with such an influx always takes time. He rejected the suggestion that the transition would have been smoother if the refugees had arrived more gradually.

“Urgency was a priority,” he said.

“The sooner we could get them over here and out of the extremely difficult lives they were living, the better they would be off and the better it would be for Canada.”

An estimated 4.7 million Syrians have registered as refugees since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, but the UN refugee agency is not seeking permanent new homes for that many.

Syrian refugees have gone to communities where there are settlement supports in place, with consideration given to whether they have family

the consequences of his actions and can be held criminally responsible.

Trial now takes a short adjournment to Thursday when closing argumenta will be held. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

members in Canada, as well as the availability of schools, and housing, McCallum said.

“Canadians from coast to coast to coast will have a hand in welcoming, integrating and contributing to the success of our newest community members,” he said.

The UN has reached out to countries to absorb about 10 per cent and only Germany has made more official spaces formally available than Canada.

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Information from both reviews will be brought back to Wolf Creek school board for consideration prior to 201617 budget deliberations. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada is dropping behind its major trading partners in renewable energy investment, according to a study from a clean energy advocacy group.

Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada suggests government-set targets and goals for wind and solar power in regional energy grids is the best way to spur that investment and keep Canada in the game.

“Clean energy is taking off around the world and in the countries that we consider our markets,” she said. “This is really a wake-up call for Canada.”

Clean Energy Canada, in a report released Monday, found 2015 was a record-breaking year for investment in clean energy.

Using figures from international agencies and business databases, the group found a total of $497 billion was invested in 2015. That’s a seven per cent increase from the previous year despite competition from low-priced fossil fuels.

The largest chunk of that money — $226 billion — was spent in developing countries, the study found.

About $218 billion went toward solar energy and about $150 billion was spent on wind power, the two largest types of investment.

The list of countries and regions that increased spending on renewable energy is long.

U.S. spending was up seven per cent. In the U.K. and India, it went up 23 per cent. China spent 17 per cent more on renewables and Mexico increased its investments by 114 per cent.

Meanwhile, spending in Canada actually declined by about half, even though the country remains ranked eighth in the world in terms of absolute dollars.

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A bright shiny object amid Tory rethink TIM HARPER OPINION

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e are still 15 months from the introduction of a new Conservative leader in this country, but amidst many sober, sage calls for a party to open up new policy avenues and find a way to speak to voters who do not hear them, the lure of the bright shiny object beckons.

Kevin O’Leary is that bright shiny object. His appearance on the Friday afternoon of the Manning Centre conference of conservatives was a counterpoint to most of the strategizing by party activists grappling with their future.

For every call to engage on the environment, for every discussion that marked the need for Conservatives to reach urban women or young voters, for every call to rewrite the Conservative story for Canadians, there was someone in the hall talking about the TV star and businessman and his preening mix of showmanship and bombast.

Former Reform leader Preston Manning, the patriarch of the centre that bears his name, presided over the

first of these conferences with the party in opposition in a decade. He reminded delegates Conservatives are now also opposition in eight of 10 provinces and are in a minority among big city mayors.

He told his flock they have to regain the trust of electors because without that trust voters will not believe anything Conservatives say on values, issues or policies. Manning gave the floor to five prospective leadership candidates, four former ministers and The Kevin, but it was the machinations of three who did not speak here which have become a party preoccupation.

Brad Wall is running for re-election as Saskatchewan premier. Peter MacKay is practicing law in Toronto. Jason Kenney was here, but did not grab the podium. It is possible that all three will sit this one out (but keep an eye on MacKay) and if they do, this race becomes wide open.

Ontario MP Michael Chong told delegates the Conservatives must tell their story of perseverance and hard work, the story of his immigrant parents. He also called for a debate on carbon pricing and conservation of the environment.

Tony Clement said the conservative movement must protect its basic tenets but expand its sphere to include environmental policies, poverty reduction, security without endangering privacy

and ending subsidies to the CBC. Conservatives have to first win the attention of city dwellers, millennials and new arrivals before they can try to gain their votes, he says.

Lisa Raitt reminded delegates that Trudeau’s father nearly frittered away a majority four years after his 1968 sweep and her party can win in 2019.

“Justin is no Pierre,” she said.

Maxime Bernier said Conservatives should outlaw all government subsidies to business, including Bombardier, and he mocked O’Leary’s lack of French.

All bring strengths to the table.

None are celebrities and O’Leary played his celebrity card to the hilt.

But he’s no Canadian Donald Trump, and he knows that. Like Trump’s ambivalent political leanings, it is not even certain O’Leary is a Conservative.

He is given to bombast, yes, but even when he called Alberta Premier Rachel Notley “an incompetent” he felt compelled to apologize in the next breath for being so harsh.

He says he told Bill Morneau he was going to be his worst nightmare, but there are no reports the federal finance minister has lost any sleep.

He has few views - at least that he is prepared to share - beyond economic issues, the waste of carbon pricing, the scourge of deficit financing, the

plight of young Canadians who graduate from our universities and head south to work, turning their back on “dollar-ettes” and high taxes.

A few hours after Manning warned delegates that regional tensions are being needlessly inflamed by the Trudeau government — listening to Bombardier in Quebec but ignoring unemployed oil workers in Alberta — O’Leary strode on stage and said pipelines should be decided by referendums in this country, 50 per cent plus one will do just fine.

He didn’t say what he thought it might do to unity if western voters tried to push an unpopular pipeline through Quebec or why voters in Toronto should pronounce on a pipeline headed through Burnaby or how a referendum would override First Nations concerns.

He is playing to anger that is not there. There isn’t the bottled up hostility that Trump has uncorked south of the border. There wasn’t even any anger in the room here when he spoke.

And that’s a good thing for a Conservative party that appears set to make a leadership decision based not on anger or shiny objects, but as part of a fundamental rethink of where it is going.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Chance for ‘peace and stability’ in Syria GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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o far the Russian plan for a ceasefire in Syria is working remarkably well. The truce that came into effect on Saturday had been observed with only minor violations on all the relevant fronts, and the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Syria, Yacoub el-Hillo, called it “the best opportunity that the Syrian people have had over the last five years for lasting peace and stability.”

Notice the choice of words there: not Syria’s best chance for democracy or reunification, just for “peace and stability.” In fact, the truce is a big step towards the partition of the country. But the old Syria cannot be revived, and at least this way the killing will stop for most people — if the truce can be converted into a permanent ceasefire, which is far from certain.

When the Russian military intervention in Syria began only five months ago (Sept. 30, 2015), even this unsatisfactory outcome seemed to be out of reach.

Indeed, the likeliest futures for Syria were a collapse of the Assad regime and the rapid conquest of the whole country by extreme Islamist forces, or years more of a civil war that had already killed 300,000 Syrians and driven half the country’s citizens

from their homes.

The immediate effect of the Russian intervention was to foreclose the “collapse” option. Whatever else happened, Russian air power would be able to prevent the Islamist forces from winning a decisive victory over the government army that would bring them to the borders of Lebanon and Jordan (and possibly right across them).

But the Russian planners had no wish to be comitted to an endless and expensive military campaign in a stalemated war. They needed an “exit strategy”, and they had one. The Russian political strategy was to secure the Assad regime’s hold on the more populous parts of Syria, cut the flow of arms and volunteers across the Turkish border to the rebel forces, and then split the alliance between the Islamist and non-Islamist rebels.

This was a direct challenge to the strategy of the American-led “coalition” that has been bombing the Islamists who rule the so-called Islamic State (but not the other Islamists in Syria) for the past two years. The U.S. strategy envisaged destroying both the Assad regime and Islamic State, and accomplishing both these objectives without the help of any ground troops except the Syrian Kurds.

It was more a fantasy than a strategy, and many people in the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon were aware that its practical result would probably be to hand Syria over to the Islamists. Those people were secretly grateful when Russia intervened to save the Syrian government, and they managed to limit the American reaction to general statements of “concern” that the Russians were bombing the

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“Wrong targets” or not, unstinting Russian air support for Assad’s army won it time to regain its balance, and then to push the rebel troops away from Syria’s key cities. In the past month the Syrian army, in de facto alliance with the Syrian Kurds, has cut the main rebel supply line from Turkey.

Only the last part of the Russian strategy remains to be accomplished: split the alliance between the Islamist rebels and the non-Islamists. And that is best done by politics: negotiate a ceasefire between the regime and the non-Islamist rebels that excludes the Islamists. That game is now afoot, and the people whom the U.S. government calls “moderate” rebels are clearly willing to play.

If this temporary truce can be converted into a permanent ceasefire, then the only remaining fighting in Syria will be around the borders of Islamic State in the north and east, and around the territory controlled by the Nusra Front and its ally Ahrar al-Sham in the northwest. (There will also be continued “coalition” bombing within the borders of Islamic State, and Russian bombing in both sectors.)

If the U.S. can swallow the bitter reality that this truce leaves the Assad regime in charge of the territory it now controls (and around two-thirds of the Syrian population), then the Syrian civil war could eventually be shrunk to a war of everybody else against the Islamists. And along the way it would give the U.S. and Russia a chance to rebuild a more cooperative relationship.

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Award-winning political scientist analyzed effects of globalization

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Renowned Canadian political scientist Stephen Clarkson, a leading historian and academic authority on North American relations, has died.

The University of Toronto’s political sciencedepartment, where Clarkson taught for several decades, confirmed he died on Sunday in hospital in Freiburg, Germany.

STEPHEN CLARKSON Clarkson had contracted an influenza virus in Portugal that developed into pneumonia and then an incurable sepsis,

the school said. He was in Portugal on a research trip with students.

He was 78.

Clarkson’s work focused on areas including the North American Free Trade Agreement and how Canada has been affected by globalization.

In 1990, he and then-wife Christina McCall won the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction for Trudeau and Our Times.� The second volume of that book won the J.W. Dafoe prize.

In 2011, Clarkson was named a member of the Order of Canada. “Stephen was a pillar of the department for many decades,� said a Facebook post from U of T’s political science department. “He was a great friend, a most dedicated teacher, and an indefatigable scholar. Our condolences go to Stephen’s wife Nora, his daughters, grandchildren and extended family.�

Clarkson did his graduate studies at the University of Oxford and the Par-

is-Sorbonne University. In 1969, he ran for mayor of Toronto.

His other books included The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics, Canada and the Reagan Challenge, and Uncle Sam and Us. Clarkson’s other honours included an election to the Royal Society of Canada.

He was once married to former governor general Adrienne Clarkson. “Stephen was devoted to his students, and he saw his teaching as the most important part of his academic life,� Louis Pauly, chairman of U of T’s department of political science, said in a statement. “He closely advised generations of undergraduate and graduate students.

He held his students to high standards, and they reciprocated with much energy and enthusiasm.�

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion is being urged to challenge the membership of rights abusers such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela on the controversial United Nations Human Rights Council.

Dion is in Geneva on Monday as the council convenes to mark its 10th anniversary, a milestone that some critics say is shrouded in ignominy.

The 47-member council has several members that have poor human rights records — a list that also includes China, Russia, Vietnam, Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Panama.

The non-governmental organization UN Watch urged Dion to get tough on the council, noting Canada could specifically target Venezuela in particular for condemnation because it is not as influential as China or Russia.

Dion recently announced a $15-million contribution to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and said Canada wants to re-engage with it as part of the Liberal government’s broader embrace of the UN.

Canada BRIEFS Albertans asked to give input on doctor-assisted death EDMONTON — The Alberta government wants to hear what residents think about doctor-assisted death.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the government is seeking input to help the government develop policies to protect the interests of patients, health-care workers and vulnerable individuals.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled a year ago that individuals with unbearable suffering from a grievous and irremediable condition could seek

Leap Manifesto gains traction within NDP

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UN Watch director Hillel Neuer said he hopes Dion continues the tough stand of the previous Conservative government against the council. “The bottom line is if Canada holds the abusers to account and engages in a meaningful way and tries to lead, that will be a good thing,� Neuer said in an interview.

He noted that the previous Liberal government of Paul Martin voted against Libya’s election in 2003 as the president of the council’s predecessor, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, because of the shoddy rights record of its president, Moammar Gadhafi. “That’s moral leadership. It’s not a Conservative issue or a Liberal issue,� said Neuer.

Canada recognizes the shortcomings of the council, but also believes the only way to improve it is by engaging it directly, said Joseph Pickerill, a spokesman for Dion. “The idea that, ‘If it’s not what we want or isn’t perfect, we pull out,’ has been a mistake and hasn’t advanced Canada’s foreign policy interests,�

Pickerill said. “Our role is to raise the level of de-

bate, defend our values, protect our friends and allies and chart a better course for human rights everywhere.

You can’t do that from the outside.�

The previous Conservative government was highly critical of the council because it provided a forum for dictatorial regimes to criticize Canada and also allowed Arab countries to pursue anti-Israeli resolutions.

Conservative foreign affairs critic Tony Clement said the government should be engaging with countries that have poor human rights records, but Dion should be cautious not to confer any sense of legitimacy on them.

The council “has had controversy in the past because the people that tend to head its committees have some of worst human rights records on the planet,� Clement said.

Neuer said that although it is not a member of the council, Canada could still try to put forth a motion as an observer state, and he suggested targeting Venezuela because, “we know how powerful the Chinese and Russians are,� while the government of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas is struggling.

OTTAWA — The Leap Manifesto, which is being embraced by more than a dozen NDP riding associations ahead of the party’s April convention, should serve as a reference point for future policy discussions, says former MP Craig Scott.

The manifesto is a good idea, but it would be unwise for the NDP to adopt it as policy without further debate, Scott said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “The bottom line is, the Leap Manifesto is hugely welcome, but plopping it into our policy book in one big vote with no serious advance discussion and debate within the party ‌ I don’t think is a recipe for renewal,â€? he said. “The democratic reform critic in me, as I was for three years, tells me that the process matters and that having much more ownership amongst the membership of a major ‌ policy renewal is as important as what the policy itself is.â€?

The Leap Manifesto — which has a wide range of supporters, including actors, labour unions and environmentalists — offers a number of recommendations, including a proposal to wean the country off fossil fuels to address climate change.

As the NDP approaches its April convention in Edmonton the party’s federal council plans to prioritize hundreds of resolutions submitted by party riding associations and commissions.

Scott said he plans to promote a resolution that was adopted by his Toronto-Danforth riding association as the best path forward. “Ours says ‘let’s take the Leap Manifesto as a really productive starting point and work it through in serious policy discussions with the grassroots for the next two years so it comes back for the 2018 convention more fully worked through with more party ownership, as in more ownership from the members’,� Scott said.

The NDP riding association in Vancouver East has proposed a similar vision backed by former MP Libby Davies.

At the time of the manifesto’s release last September, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair did not endorse it, but he said he welcomed new ideas and understood it reflected a desire for change.

a doctor’s help to die.

Ottawa has until June 6 to pass new legislation reflecting the court’s landmark decision.

The province is looking for input on how old someone must be to make that decision, where such a death should take place, and whether all publicly funded institutions or workers should be forced to provide life-ending services.

Brandy Payne, who is associate minister of health, along with MLA Dr. David Swann and Dr. Bob Turner, make up the advisory committee on physician-assisted death.

All Albertans are encouraged to share their views via an online survey

by March 31. “We need input not just from legal and medical experts, but also from patients, families and caregivers,�

Payne said in a news release Monday.

cleaner has been given house arrest for using a toxic substance in his business.

Environment Canada says it’s the first time a dry cleaner has been given jail time for violating the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Ali Khair-Eldin, owner of First Class Cleaners and Todd Cleaners, pleaded guilty to unlawfully importing and using tetracholorethylene, also known as perc.

The synthetic chemical, used as a dry-cleaning and metal-cleaning solvent, is listed as a toxic substance by the government and is no longer produced in Canada.

Health Canada says long-term ex-

posure can cause neurological, liver, kidney and reproductive damage and has been linked in studies to cancer in animals.

A judge gave Khair-Eldin, who is 69, a four-month conditional sentence to be served under house arrest for the first 75 days, followed by a curfew.

He must also complete 60 hours of community service and write an article in a dry-cleaning industry magazine about his crime.

Environment Canada says Eldin had two previous convictions for dry-cleaning-related offences. There have been six other convictions against dry cleaners in Canada in the past two years.

Dion urged to challenge countries with poor rights records on UN panel

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Time running out to stop Trump RACIAL FEUD ERUPTS AS REPUBLICANS FIGHT ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ CANDIDATE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEESBURG, Va. — Donald Trump’s refusal to denounce an implicit endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan white supremacist leader David Duke has dominated the narrative just before Republican voters across 11 states head to the polls on Super Tuesday.

Trump’s rivals are scrambling to stop the billionaire businessman from becoming an “unstoppable” force in the 2016 presidential contest. And even Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, fresh from a strong win in South Carolina, has started turning her focus on him.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio continued to criticize Trump’s character and lack of policy specifics in a series of attacks Sunday while courting voters across the South, whose states dominate Tuesday’s voting.

Rubio and Cruz acknowledge that time is running out to prevent the former reality television host from becoming the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, as the race to collect delegates for the party’s nominating convention this summer continues.

Trump has won three of four early voting states, and Republicans are divided over the prospect of the brash billionaire becoming their nominee.

“There is no doubt that if Donald steam rolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable,” Cruz said Sunday on CBS. Trump was asked Sunday on CNN whether he re-

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally at Radford University in Radford, Va., Monday. jected support from the former KKK Grand Dragon and other white supremacists after Duke told his radio followers this week that a vote against Trump was equivalent to “treason to your heritage.”

“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK?” Trump said. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

Trump later said he did not hear or understand the CNN question.

Cruz soon responded on Twitter, telling Trump: “You’re better than this. We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.”

Rubio went further. “We cannot be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan,” Rubio told a Virginia rally. “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable. How are we going to grow the party if we nominate someone who doesn’t repudiate the Ku Klux Klan?”

and they should be able to prove the machine works.

These are criminal charges. People go to jail over it. You get a criminal record, you have problems going to the U.S. You can’t get jobs. These fun kind of things.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

In addition, the province is requiring ride-hailing drivers to get criminal record checks and have at least a Class 4 driver’s licence, which is a commercial licence.

Uber had fought the licence requirement, which is part of Calgary’s bylaw, and argued its drivers should just have a regular Class 5 licence. A Class 4 licence requires more training and knowledge in areas such as defensive driving, driver fatigue and dealing with disabled passengers, Mason said.

“Whether it’s full or part time, commercial drivers have a responsibility for their passengers which requires the appropriate level of skill and road knowledge,” he added.

“My top priority is to ensure that passengers as well as drivers are safe.”

Edmonton company TappCar, set to launch in the city in March, is hiring a mix of former Uber and taxi drivers and other professional drivers laid off from the oilpatch.

Spokesman Pascal Ryffel said the government regulations won’t delay the company. Its drivers will all have at least Class 4 licences and full commercial insurance similar to that for taxi drivers, he said.

“We always went under the assumption that these are the rules.”

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STARS patient Rebecca Fillinger asked Albertans to please support STARS because they never know who STARS will assist in their next mission, maybe their loved one.

Both Fillinger and her son Rowan, 6, of Rocky Mountain House, have needed STARS. In 2009 when Fillinger was 29 weeks pregnant with Rowan, she went into septic shock from an unknown infection that threatened both their lives.

STARS flew her to Foothills Hospital in Calgary from the hospital in Rocky.

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IMPAIRED: More than 90% of records recovered Those maintenance records were previously kept by a company called Davtech that maintains the machines for the RCMP. About a month ago, the RCMP started taking possession of the breathalyzer maintenance records.

“It wasn’t a complicated fix once we knew what the issue was.

“They (Davtech) were at no fault or issue in this matter at all.”

The RCMP has been able to recover more than 90 per cent of the records wanted for disclosure and held by Davtech, Glavin said.

They are either still trying to locate the remainder or they were unable to find them, he said.

It is up to the Crown to decide whether to proceed on cases where maintenance records are not available, he said, “We’re not in control of staying charges or even if something proceeds to trial.

“We view anything that might affect a fair trial and accused to mount an appropriate defence as being critically important. I can’t think of many things that are more important than that,” Glavin said.

Red Deer lawyer Kevin Sproule said the past few months the Crown has stayed some .08 charges he has been working on without being explicit that there was a problem with producing maintenance records.

“I’ve got a couple set for trial right now.” He was looking forward to hearing from the Crown about whether the cases would proceed.

Lawyer Alan Pearse said there are three main charges considered when it comes to drunk driving.

One is impaired driving, one is .08 and the other is refusal to blow into a breathalyzer.

The maintenance records issue only affects the .08 charge where it is the main evidence being used.

“Someone who is very, very intoxicated and looks very, very intoxicated, this won’t affect them.”

Pearse does nothing but drunk driving cases and said he has a substantial case load in Red Deer.

He has had some cases involving .08 charges withdrawn but does not know why the Crown did so.

None of them involved fatalities.

“In Red Deer, the Crown prosecutor has been very ethical on this. They haven’t been litigating bad cases if it isn’t there. In many cases they will simply do the legally correct thing,” Pearse said.

“They’re convicting a guy based on a machine

Kar released a statement Monday saying Edmonton’s mayor and city council could delay the bylaw until the insurance is available “and support thousands of local families who rely on ride-sharing as a way to earn or travel affordably.”

Mayor Don Iveson said there would be no delay in the bylaw and Uber will have to shut down.

“If they operate without insurance, they’re going to be in a lot of trouble tomorrow,” Iveson said.

Mason said it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the insurance is coming later.

“We’ve always been working along the basis that the insurance product wouldn’t be ready until June or July. I believe Uber and the city have been aware of that.”

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Rebels rope up win in Regina

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 2 Pats 1 REGINA — If the Red Deer Rebels indeed hit rock bottom in Saturday’s dreadful 6-2 loss to the visiting Victoria Royals, they at least started climbing out of the chasm Monday.

“It was certainly a step in the right direction, certainly a different game than we played against Victoria,” said Rebels GM/head coach, Brent Sutter following a 2-1 Western Hockey League win over the Regina Pats.

“Our team game was much better, our work ethic was at a level that was much better and our overall game — playing the proper way — was much better. We were a better hockey team through and through today.”

The game — a ‘school day’ promotion that drew a gathering of 6,484 to the Brandt Centre — started at 11:30 a.m., which was 10:30 a.m. MST for the Rebels. Regardless, the early puck drop didn’t bother the visitors who scored twice in the opening frame and outshot their hosts 25-12 through the first 40 minutes.

“We didn’t give them much the first two periods,” said Sutter. “We did a lot of good things.

With this group it’s about gaining the confidence to play the game the way it needs to play and trusting that.

“Our defence and forwards were much better, our shift management was much better and the players were recognizing what their assignments were.”

Evan Polei opened the scoring 11:30 into the contest and Jake DeBrusk potted the eventual winner five minutes later.

The Pats outshot their guests 16-9 in the third period and foiled Trevor Martin’s shutout bid when Sam Steel connected with one second remaining in the contest.

Martin finished with 27 saves and was named second star of the game, right behind Pats netminder Tyler Brown, who kicked out 32 shots. Spacek was selected as the third star.

“He was solid, he made the saves,” said Sutter of his goaltender. “I was very happy with his game.”

The Rebels boss was particularly tickled with the manner in which his squad rebounded from Saturday’s dismal outing that included a third-period meltdown that resulted in four unanswered Victoria goals.

“Our attention to detail was better today,” he said. “We blocked more shots and took pride in that, which is all part of it.

“If you want to be a good team there are sacrifices you have to make within a game and blocking shots is one of them. Chipping pucks is another and taking a hit to make a play is yet another. Those are all sacrifices you have to make and that’s stuff we hadn’t been doing well.

“Today the kids responded the right way after not a very good game Saturday.”

The Rebels close out their two-game trip tonight against the Swift Current Broncos. The Rebels host the Calgary Hitmen on Friday.

• Rebels forward Conner Bleackley, currently out with an injury, was involved in a NHL trade deadline deal Monday when his rights were acquired by the Arizona Coyotes from the Colorado Avalanche. The Coyotes picked up Bleackley, veteran forward Alex Tanguay and junior defenceman Kyle Wood in return for forward Mikkel Boedker … In another deal, former Rebels captain Brett Sutter was obtained by the Los Angeles Kings from the Minnesota Wild. Sutter, the son of Kings head coach Darryl Sutter, scored four goals and collected 14 points in 57 games with the Iowa Stars of the AHL this season. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Philadelphia Flyers’ Brayden Schenn reacts after scoring during the second period of an NHL game against the Calgary Flames on Monday, in Philadelphia. The Flyers beat the Flames 5-3.

Schenn hat trick leads Flyers over Flames

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flyers 5 Flames 3 PHILADELPHIA — Brayden Schenn had his first career hat trick, scoring all three goals in the first two periods and leading the Philadelphia Flyers past the Calgary Flames 5-3 Monday night.

Claude Giroux had four assists and Wayne Simmonds scored twice for the Flyers. The Flyers have won three straight and four of five as they remain in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Flyers held on after nearly wasting a 4-1 lead and remained three points behind Pittsburgh for the final wild-card spot in the East.

Sean Monahan, Micheal Ferland and Michael Frolik scored for Calgary.

Michael Neuvirth stopped 26 shots and won his 16th game of the season.

“We’ve got a steep hill for us to climb in order to push back into the playoffs,” Flyers rookie coach Dave Hakstol said.

At least they’re not rolling backward.

Schenn keyed the latest win with a career game.

He had his apparent first goal ruled no good on video review, then beat Jonas Hiller glove side just minutes later in the first to make it 1-all.

“I thought it was in. It sure looked like it went in,” Schenn said. “It’s one of those tough ones where there was no white ice under the puck. It was hard to tell. The puck was kind of caught in his jersey or glove, but it’s nice to get rewarded on the same shift with a goal.”

Schenn added two more in the second, his career-high 21st goal enough to make it 4-1 and let fans hurl hats toward the ice in celebration.

Not all the cheers inside the Wells Fargo Center were for the Flyers. Calgary forward Johnny Gaudreau heard his share when his name was announced for the assist on Monahan’s goal. Gaudreau, out of nearby Carneys Point, New Jersey, grew up a huge Flyers fan and even played in the youth hockey games at the arena staged during Flyers intermission — when he wasn’t rooting on the orange-andblack from the stands.

“First time I saw him, he was bringing people out

of their seats at 15, 16,” Hakstol said. “Here he is a few years later, continuing to do it at the NHL level.”

The Flames made the playoffs last season for the first time in six years, losing to Anaheim in the second round. But Calgary is well out of contention this season, even with Gaudreau among the league leaders in points.

So the Flames made a pair of deals before the deadline, sending defenceman Kris Russell to the Dallas Stars for defenceman Jyrki Jokipakka, forward prospect Brett Pollock and a conditional 2016 second-round pick. The Flames also acquired goalie Niklas Backstrom and a sixth-round pick in the 2016 draft in exchange for forward David Jones.

“Nobody laid it on the line as much as Kris Russell did for us,” Flames general manager Brad Treliving said.

The Flyers decided to stand pat, even with forward Jake Voracek sidelined two more weeks with a lower-body injury. While the Flyers did not reveal the nature of the injury, Voracek has a walking boot on his left foot. He will not need surgery.

Under Hakstol, the rebuilding Flyers have remained in the hunt for a playoff spot. The Flyers did not make a deadline deal for the first time since 2010.

“We’re looking if we can make ourselves better today and not hurt our future, we’re all for it. Nothing came today that made sense,” general manager Ron Hextall said. “If we wanted to start unloading picks and prospects today, we could have done that and become a better team. Were we going to start letting bodies fly out? No.” NOTES: The Flyers inducted five-time All-Star defenceman Jim Watson into their Hall of Fame.

Watson joined his brother, Joe, inducted in 1996, in the Hall. Watson said he had an emotional phone call with Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider, who has been battling health issues. “I know you’re a fighter, Eddie. You’re going to get there,” Watson told the crowd. Watson exchanged his blazer for the traditional orange Hall of Fame jacket, and his name was printed on a banner that was raised to the rafters. The Flyers wore No. 20 patches. He became the 25th member of the team’s Hall of Fame.

Canadian teams drive deadline day deals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

TORONTO — Canadian teams were the driving force behind an NHL trade deadline that buzzed with late activity.

Only a handful of significant transactions were made ahead of Monday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline, the most notable of which saw 26-year-old Mikkel Boedker sent to Colorado and Calgary defenceman Kris Russell dealt to Dallas.

Nineteen trades, involving 37 players, were ultimately made, many coming through in the hours after the deadline officially passed.

Most of the major dealing was done in the days before the deadline, highlighted by a class of Canadian teams likely to miss the post-season collectively for the first time since 1970.

Nearly every Canadian club dealt expiring contracts for future assets.

A predictable seller coming into the season, the rebuilding Maple Leafs started the dealing process in the first week of February, sending captain Dion Phaneuf to Ottawa in a nine-player blockbuster.

They continued to jettison veteran roster pieces, moving Shawn Matthias, Nick Spaling, Roman Polak,

James Reimer and Daniel Winnik in various deals that netted the club six draft picks and a pair of prospects.

While Toronto planned to sell after signing a number of free agents to short-term contracts last summer, it’s fair to suggest that none of the remaining Canadian sellers expected to be in such a position.

Three of the five clubs made the playoffs last season (Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal) and were expected to get back again this year.

Buoyed by an ever-promising group of emerging talent, which included 2015 first-overall pick Connor McDavid, the Oilers were hopeful to contend for their first playoff spot since 2006.

They proved a disappointment, though, stuck as the worst team in the Western Conference on deadline day.

Edmonton dealt Teddy Purcell and his expiring contract as well as young goaltender Anders Nilsson and 25-year-old defenceman Justin Schultz, who struggled to find his fit over three-plus seasons in Edmonton.

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“At this point of the year we’re not a contending team,” Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli said after moving Purcell.

“And part of management’s job is managing assets so we felt we should trade (Purcell) for an asset and that’s what we did.”

A surprise playoff team last season, Calgary fell out of the playoff mix this year and also sold ahead of the deadline. Jiri Hudler was dealt to Florida over the weekend in a deal that netted the Flames future picks in the second and fourth rounds. On Monday, Calgary sent Russell to Dallas for a relatively rich return of 24-year-old defenceman Jyrki Jokipakka, a prospect and a conditional second-round pick in 2016.

The pick moves to the first round if the Stars reach the Western Conference final and Russell plays in 50 per cent of playoff games in the first two rounds.

“We’re going to cheer like crazy for the Dallas Stars,” said Flames general manager Brad Treliving.

“Having that one potentially turn into a first-round pick — that gives us some bullets.”

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More seasoned Canadian team ready for women’s worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada will be less green at this year’s women’s world hockey championships.

The return of Hayley Wickenheiser, Meghan Agosta and Meaghan Mikkelson to the lineup, plus several players who made their world championship debut a year ago make for a seasoned lineup.

Hockey Canada announced the host country’s 23-player roster Monday for the tournament from March 28 to April 4 in Kamloops, B.C. Seventeen played last year in Malmo, Sweden, where Canada lost 7-5 to the Americans in the final.

Of the 10 who made their world championship debut for Canada there, seven have been named to this year’s squad.

“We wanted to build a team that had a lot of world’s experience, a lot of leadership and that had speed, strength and talent,” head coach Laura Schuler said Monday on a conference call from Kamloops.

“Ninety-five per cent of our players now, after introducing some new players at our last year’s, have a world’s under their belts.”

The Canadian roster includes 13 players who beat the U.S. in overtime for Olympic gold in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Canada opens the preliminary round at the Sandman Centre against the defending champion U.S., which has won six of the last eight world titles. Canada’s last world championship win came in 2012.

This year’s team was chosen by general manager Melody Davidson, Schuler and her assistant coaches.

“We wanted to make sure we were building a team that was capable of playing fast hockey, quick transition, quick on loose pucks, quick thinking on the ice — a team also willing to go to the tough areas of the ice and battle -head coach and compete,” Schuler Laura Schuler said.

Wickenheiser, from Shaunavon, Sask., will play in her 13th world championship. Canada’s all-time leading scorer didn’t participate in Malmo because of season-ending foot surgery.

“It’s obviously been a pretty long road for me to come back from what was a major surgery,” Wickenheiser said. “I’m pretty happy with my progress. The road I’ve taken to this point has not been an easy one.”

Forward Meghan Agosta of Ruthven, Ont., returns to the national team after a year away for police training. Defender Meaghan Mikkelson of St. Alberta, Alta., is also back on the squad after having a baby.

Defenders Jocelyne Larocque of St. Anne, Man., Lauriane Rougeau of Beaconsfield, Que., Laura Fortino of Hamilton, Ont., and Tara Watchorn, as well as goaltender Charline Labonte are among the 2014 Olympians playing in this year’s world championship.

Marie-Philip Poulin of Beauceville, Que., Rebecca Johnston of Sudbury, Ont., Jennifer Wakefield of Pickering, Ont., Toronto’s Natalie Spooner and Brianne Jenner of Oakville, Ont., are the forwards returning from the Sochi side.

Poulin was captain of last year’s team and Canada’s heroine in Sochi, scoring the equalizer and overtime winner for gold.

“Every team that Canada puts together always has a chance to win a world championship and be competitive,” Wickenheiser said. “This one is no different. The focus is on speed of play and puck movement and puck possession. Those are the types of qualities we have to have to win the big games when they matter the most.”

Eighteen play in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Ontario led all selections with nine players, Manitoba had four and Quebec three. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia were each represented by two players and Newfoundland one. There were no players selected from the host province.

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Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender Laurent Brossoit (1) adjusts his mask during an NHL game. The Oilers signed Brossoit and defenceman Brandon Davidson to two-year contract extensions Monday. and five assists in 44 games with the Canucks this year.

Pardy, 31, has one assist in 14 games with the Jets.

The Oilers play are on the road to play the Sabres Tuesday night, and McLellan said Cracknell and Pardy have spots waiting for them.

“I’m guessing they’re going to join our team in Buffalo and be ready to play,” he said.

Chiarelli has been on the hunt for an elite defenceman to anchor the back end and give some space for future keystone players like Darnell Nurse and Oscar Klefbom to emerge.

The defence remains Edmonton’s Achilles heel and a key reason the team is on track to miss the playoffs for a 10th consecutive season.

While centre Connor McDavid is considered untouchable, Chiarelli acknowledged Saturday even first-liners like Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Taylor Hall could be in play if the right deal is there.

Chiarelli began making his

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Canada without star Raonic, doubles ace Nestor for David Cup vs France

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada will be without top singles player Milos Raonic and doubles ace Daniel Nestor for a Davis Cup tie this week against France.

Tennis Canada says Raonic, ranked 13th in the world in singles, is still recovering from a adductor tear suffered in the semifinals of the Australian Open. Nestor, the world’s No. 12 doubles player, will miss due to an undisclosed family matter.

“I am deeply saddened to not be able to join my team for the Davis Cup tie in Guadeloupe,” Raonic said in a release. “Davis Cup has always been and

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DEADLINE: Both seller and buyer Calgary also managed to land a sixth-round pick from Minnesota for winger David Jones, whose deal expires after the season.

The Jones deal was one of many to be announced after the deadline officially passed.

Unable to sign Andrew Ladd to a long-term deal, Winnipeg joined the Leafs in trading their captain. In perhaps the most noticeable transaction outside of New York’s acquisition of long-time Hurricanes captain Eric Staal, the Jets dealt Ladd to Chicago last week for a package that netted the Jets a future first-round pick as well as prospect Marko Dano.

Montreal’s season unwound after an early-season injury to reigning Hart Trophy winner Carey Price and they also opted to sell, sending depth forwards Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann to Chicago. In return the Canadiens got back promising young centre and former first-round pick Phillip Danault. The club also swapped young forwards with New Jersey, landing former first-round pick Stefan Matteau from the Devils in exchange for Devante Smith-Pelly. Matteau bounced between the NHL and AHL over four

major draft-day moves Saturday, trading away Nilsson, defenceman Justin Schultz and forward Teddy Purcell. The Oilers now have 10 picks for the upcoming draft.

Schultz, 25, was dealt to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a thirdround pick. It ended a four-year experiment that began with visions of a Norris Trophy and ended with Oilers fans booing him out of the rink.

Schultz never lived up to expectations, failing to ignite the offence and proving to be a grave liability in his own end. He looked lost, often failing to take the body and swinging his stick wildly while forwards parked themselves in front of the net to tip in pucks.

Purcell, the durable veteran winger, was dispatched to the Florida Panthers for a thirdround pick. The 30-year-old benefited from playing on a line with Hall and Leon Draisaitl, accumulating 11 goals and 32 points in 61 games with Edmonton.

will continue to be a priority in my schedule.

“My body at this moment does not allow me to compete as the muscular tear I sustained in Australia has not completely healed.”

Raonic was forced to withdraw from tournaments in Delray Beach, Fla., and Acapulco because of the injury, which inhibits his ability to move side-to-side. He is expected to be out for another 10 to 12 days. Nestor will miss a Davis Cup tie for only the second time in 15 years.

“The last few years we’ve come a long way and we’ve had some good opportunities to do well at Davis Cup and it’s definitely frustrating that we haven’t been able to field our top team and maximize our potential due to some of the injuries and unforeseen circumstances that have arisen,” said Nestor.

Captain Martin Laurendeau has yet to announce replacements. Already on the squad are Vasek Pospisil and Philip Bester, both of Vancouver, Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., and Adil Shamasdin of Toronto.

seasons with the Devils.

“We were both seller and buyer,” Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin said, noting the acquisition of Danault.

Ottawa, too, proved both seller and buyer. The Senators acquired Phaneuf to solidify their defence earlier this month, while also dealing 23-year-old forward Shane Prince and its own seventh-round pick this June for a thirdround selection, also in 2016.

The Canucks were the only Canadian team that did nothing of consequence to its NHL roster before the deadline. Vancouver had two intriguing trade candidates in winger Radim Vrbata and defenceman Dan Hamhuis, but traded neither.

“It wasn’t from a lack of trying,” Canucks GM Jim Benning said. “The market this year, there wasn’t a lot of buyers in the marketplace. The teams that were buying weren’t really paying a lot to get those players.”

Treliving seemed to expect activity of that kind.

In the days before the deadline he described the trade market as “tight”, labelling it a “grind” shortly afterward. “The question is why,” said Treliving. “I think it’s a financial reality.

Those picks and prospects have got greater value now with the financial reality of our league.”

Chiarelli thought a flat cap might have something do with it while Leafs G.M. Lou Lamoriello believed increasing separation in the standings left fewer teams buying assets like Leafs impending unrestricted free agent P.A.

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“Where I think if you would’ve seen the standings a little tighter than they really are — there has been a separa-

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EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers took care of some in-house business, signing their “Cinderella” player to a contract extension while grabbing two players off the waiver wire prior to Monday’s 3 p.m. ET trade deadline.

Edmonton signed defenceman Brandon Davidson and goaltender Laurent Brossoit to two-year contract extensions.

Davidson, 24, a 2010 sixthround pick, has emerged this year as one of Edmonton’s steadiest defencemen.

The six-foot-two, 210-pound Davidson had a goal and an assist Sunday against the New York Islanders for his first multi-point game while leading the team with over 22 minutes of ice time.

Davidson’s career was almost derailed before it began when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2012.

There was surgery and chemotherapy, loss of weight, loss of strength, followed by a three-year apprenticeship in the minors.

The native of Lethbridge, Alta., said it was difficult but necessary.

“I was a little bit of a late developer for sure. I needed the time, I needed the amount of minutes and the heavy workload,” he said. “This is the goal, to get locked in for a few years especially (to) a place where I want to be and a place that has treated me so well.”

Oilers head coach Todd McLellan said Davidson’s play has been head-turning.

“He’s a fighter,” said McLellan.

“Right now perhaps he’s our Cinderella story, which in turn will put a little more pressure on him this time next year. Expectations will go up.”

Brossoit, 22, of Surrey, B.C., has been solid this season with the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors.

He has compiled a 15-9-3 record, 2.69 goals-against average and .919 save percentage with three shutouts.

He has played in two career games with the Oilers, registering a 1.45 GAA and .964 save percentage.

Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli has said Brossoit’s play made it possible for the team to sent backup goaltender Anders Nilsson to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday for minor-league goalie Niklas Lundstrom and a 2016 fifth-round pick.

“I’m nothing but excited,” said Brossoit. “They’ve reiterated the fact that they have a lot of faith in me. That goes a long way for my confidence.”

The Oilers also claimed forward Adam Cracknell from Vancouver and defenceman Adam Pardy from Winnipeg on waivers.

Cracknell, 30, has five goals

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Stroman ready to lead Jays’ rotation throughout the rehabilitation process.

He worked with trainers during the summer at Duke University, where he was drafted 22nd overall by Toronto as a junior in 2012, and completed coursework to finish his degree in sociology.

“My body is in the best position that it’s ever been,” Stroman said. “I’m excited, man. It’s going to be hard for this next month, because I’m kind of itching to get at the bit, being that I didn’t play all last year.”

Manager John Gibbons believes his young pitcher is equipped with the necessary tools to be atop the rotation for the foreseeable future. Stroman is scheduled to start Toronto’s exhibition opener on Wednesday against Philadelphia.

It all starts with his arm, Gibbons said.

“That (motivation and his confidence) definitely helps make him good, but he’s not going out there naked, either,” he quipped. “He really has a dynamite arm. . He’s an energizer. And he’s off to a pretty good start in a young career, at this point.”

If his name is penciled in to start Toronto’s opener April 3 at Tampa Bay, Stroman hopes it will be just the beginning of something special.

“Everyone here is motivated,” he said. “Everyone knows what we’re capable of. It’s just a matter of going out there and doing it, but we have a tight camaraderie in the clubhouse here.

It’s more like a family than it is a team.

We’re excited and we’re ready, man.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman is feeling better than ever.

With the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee fully healed for nearly a year, the hard-throwing righty has set high expectations for himself going into the new season.

Stroman doesn’t want to merely be a part of a rotation helping Toronto defend its first AL East title in 22 years — he’s determined to lead it.

“I want to be that guy,” he said.

“That’s why I put in all that work in the off-season. Everything I did was to be the ace and, hopefully, I have that opportunity to be the ace and I can kind of run with it.”

With former ace and 2012 AL Cy Young winner David Price’s off-season departure to the Red Sox, the chances are good for Stroman to fill the void.

Despite missing the first five months last season after injuring his knee in a freak accident during fielding practice in March, Stroman returned for four starts in September, going 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA. Stroman also started Toronto’s memorable come-from-behind triumph over Texas in the deciding Game 5 of the AL Division Series, then earned the win in Game 3 against Kansas City in the AL Championship Series.

Even when Stroman wasn’t able to walk, the 24-year-old said he still maintained a consistent throwing schedule

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman fields a ground ball at spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on last week.

Off-season bonding helped Tulowitzki feel like a Blue Jay

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Troy Tulowitzki finally feels like himself when he puts on a Toronto Blue Jays jersey.

All it took was a playoff run and some off-season bonding with his teammates.

The all-star shortstop, who came to Toronto in a trade deadline deal with the Colorado Rockies last July, is participating in his first spring training with the team.

While it took Tulowitzki time to adjust to life outside Colorado — he spent his entire career with the Rockies before the trade — there’s no doubt in his mind that he belongs with the defending American League East champion Blue Jays now.

“You can’t go to the playoffs with a team and not feel like you’re a part of it, but for it to actually all sink in and digest, and for me to really be OK with it, that wasn’t until this off-season,” Tulowitzki said at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium on Sunday morning.

“When I see the Blue Jays logo I’m not like ‘what is that?’ anymore. I know that this is where I belong and I’m looking forward to this year.”

Tulowitzki and seven of his teammates, including second baseman Ryan Goins, third baseman Josh Donaldson, and right-hander Marcus Stroman, met up in Las Vegas in December to watch UFC 194 headlined by Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo.

The fight itself didn’t last long — McGregor knocked Aldo out 13 seconds into the first round — but the experience went a long way in cement-

TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club athletes captured eight gold medals in the Alberta Second Cup Championships at Okotoks during the weekend.

Zach Blakely mined gold in the junior men’s individual trampoline and double mini trampoline (DMT) events, Kalena Soehn was golden in the junior women’s individual trampoline, Alexander Potter took gold in the level 6 women’s DMT and Brenyn Chapman was the top competitor in the level 2 women’s individual trampoline.

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Local BRIEFS Exelta athletes give solid performance at Alberta Second Cup Liam Wygeria and Jack Johnston of the Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club won a silver medal in level 1 synchronized trampoline during the Alberta Second Cup competition at Okotoks.

Artur Troyan, Carter Pisko and Benn Bilsborrow earned bronze medals in levels 4 and 5 synchronized trampoline.

Other top 10 Exelta results: Fourth — Troyan (level 5 double mini trampoline), Pisko (level 4 DMT), Wygeria (trampoline), Fifth — Pisko (trampoline),

ing Tulowitzki’s bond with the others.

“I felt like we became closer this off-season, and that made the transition a lot easier,” Tulowitzki said.

Goins felt the same way.

“Planning a trip like that in the off-season, that’s something that I don’t think a lot of teams do, honestly,” the second baseman said. “But it was fun to bond with the guys. We said ‘hey, why not meet in the middle of the off-season?’ because we love being around each other.

“You start to miss your teammates, honestly. I can feel like everyone in here missed each other. We get back and it’s like we never missed a beat.”

Tulowitzki had a lot to adjust to when he first came over to the Blue Jays — new teammates, new country, new league, new playing surface — and a new spot in the batting order.

Manager John Gibbons had Tulowitzki batting leadoff for 26 games, where he hit .227 with a .325 on-base percentage before getting bumped back down to his more traditional No. 5 spot in August.

Gibbons said earlier this week he’d rather not use Tulowitzki in the leadoff spot again this year. Tulowitzki said he doesn’t mind one way or the other.

“Hey, he’s the manager, whatever the lineup is, I’m good with that.”

One thing Tulowitzki never worried much about was his new middle-infield partner.

Goins, who appeared in 128 games for Toronto last year in his first full season in the big leagues, figures to be a lock for the team at second base this season, at least until Devon Travis comes back from shoulder surgery.

Blue Jays’ blue team tops grey 7-1 in intrasquad spring training game DUNEDIN, Fla. — Chris Colabello hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs as the blue team topped the grey 7-1 in the Toronto Blue Jays’ intrasquad game Monday.

Colabello drove in the game’s first two runs with a double off grey starter J.A. Happ in the first inning. He pitcher Pat McCoy deep in the third.

Justin Smoak, Junior Lake and Ryan Goins also drove in runs for the blue team.

“I don’t take anything specifically out of it,” manager John Gibbons said of the game’s result. “It’s a new year for everybody. They’ve been off all winter, they’ve been training … now they get out there and see a little live action.

“It’s against their own guys so it’s a totally different feel. We want to get them a game-type situation. Of course we’ll start that off Tuesday).

While Goins doesn’t have much experience at the major league level, Tulowitzki says the 28-year-old’s strong defensive skills helped put him at ease from Day 1.

“In my career I’ve changed a lot of second basemen,” Tulowitzki said.

“I’ve had almost a different second baseman every year and all of them have been pretty good defensively.

But with (Goins), I was really impressed with how great he was.”

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poline gold were the national level 5 women’s duo of Soehn and Potter, Kayden Levis and Taelum Henfrey in level 2 men’s, and Melissande Perron and Kaeleigh Boston in level 2 women’s.

The synchronized duos of Ashton Henfrey and Blakely (national level 5 men’s), Eoin Wolfe and Kevin Missikewitz (level 3 men’s), Gabi Clarke and Sophie Nossack (level 3 women’s) and Madison Ruff and Nadine Rajotte (level 2 women’s) won silver medals.

The Thunder Country bronze medallists were Potter (DMT), Ebony Campbell (level 5 women’s tumbling) and Jesse Starchuk (level 4 men’s DMT).

Other top-10 placings: Fourth — Campbell (DMT), Wolfe (individual trampoline, level 2 men’s tumbling), Chapman

and Viven Hawryscko (level 2 women’s synch trampoline; Sixth — Ashton Henfry (individual trampoline), Lauren Howse (level 4 women’s individual trampoline), Taelum Henfrey (DMT); Seventh — Howse (DMT), Madison Ruff (level 2 women’s individual trampoline); Eighth — Campbell (individual trampoline), Starchuk (individual trampoline), Ruff (DMT), Adelaide Clarke (level 1 women’s individual trampoline, DMT), Boston (level 1 tumbling), Taelum Henfrey (level 1 tumbling); Ninth — Laura Arnusch (level 4 women’s individual trampoline), Wolfe (DMT); Sophie Nossack (level 3 women’s individual trampoline), Taelum Henfrey (individual trampoline); 10th — Arnusch (SMT), Clarke and Stesha Missikewitz (level 1 women’s sync trampoline).

Bilsborrow (DMT), Loami Rautenbach (level 3 tumbling), Johnston (trampoline), Sixth — Gracelyn Lauscher (level 2 synchronized trampoline), Madison Wiggins (level 2 synchronized trampoline), Johnston (DMT), Isiah Capicio (level 1 trampoline), Seventh — Savanna Chanminaraj (level 4 trampoline), Bilsborrow (trampoline); Eighth — Paige Tiegs (level 3 tumbling), Wygeria (DMT), Troyan (level 4 tumbling); Ninth — Wiggins (DMT), Capicio (DMT), Julie Fehr (level 1 tumbling).

win over the Edmonton Nooks.

U14 Kings take second in Calgary volleyball tournament The Central Alberta Volleyball Kings were runners-up in the 14-and-under division of a Premier tournament at Calgary during the weekend.

The Kings defeated LUC 2-0, took out FOG 2-1 in a semifinal and lost 2-1 to the NAUC Griffins Black in the championship final.

Meanwhile, the U13 Kings earned a bronze medal with a 2-1

McComish and Ellis combine for 55 pooints in win over Monstars David McComish netted 33 points and Eddie Ellis scored 22 to lead Wells Furniture to a 7957 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball League win over the Monstars Sunday.

Adam Glover drained 17 points in a losing cause, while Ryan Wachter added 10.

In another contest, Joel Longard hooped 25 points and Rusty Gilchrist poured in 23 as the Rusty Chuckers dumped the Alken Basin Drillers 71-39.

Dustin Currie had 10 points for the Drillers, who got an additional nine from Nick Duske.

Meanwhile, Carstar piled up the points in a 101-92 defeat of the Washed Up Warriors. Jacob Cusumano led the way with 27 and Darryl Hemstreet scored 24.

Rob Pierce scored 35 points for the Warriors and teammate Henry Bankazo added 22.

They all want to start competing again.”

The Blue Jays begin their spring-training schedule Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies in nearby Clearwater, Fla. Ezequiel Carrera drove in the lone run for the grey team with a groundout in the bottom of the first off blue starter Brad Penny.

Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte faced five blue team batters in the second, switching from his right to left arm for each. He gave up a two-out walk and a single before striking out Andy Burns to end the inning.

“He did a nice job,” Gibbons said of his switch-pitcher. “You’re not going to find many guys who can do it, that’s for sure. He always seems to be a strike-thrower. He’s down a little bit in his arm angle from both sides and that’s never an easy thing.

“We’ll see what happens. I don’t think he gets tired out.”

Despite the colour difference in team names, both sides wore blue uniform tops with white bottoms. alongside the veteran Tulowitzki has helped him, too.

“You watch a guy while you’re growing up and you try to take parts of their game and make it your own, and then all of a sudden you’re playing with that guy,” Goins said.

“He’s the best in the game, I would say. There aren’t many guys better than him playing on that level like where he’s at.

“It’s special to go out there and compete with a guy like that.”

FREESTYLE SKIING Bryce Woodrow of the host Central Alberta Freestyle Ski Club garnered two gold medals in a weekend meet at Canyon Ski Hill.

Woodrow was golden in the 18-year-old male big air and moguls competitions. Jory Neish, meanwhile, won gold in the 14 male big air and bronze in the moguls, while Sydney Sikora earned a silver medal in each of the 14 female moguls and big air events and Matthew Cunningham snared a silver in the 18 male big air and a bronze in moguls. Winning bronze medals were Taye Neish in 16 male moguls, Shannara Hofer in 14 female big air and Readman Hilker in 10 male big air. A total of 140 athletes from throughout Alberta participated in the meet.

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Local Sports Today ● Senior high girls basketball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at Hunting Hills, first games of best-ofthree 4A zone semifinals, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m. (The Drive). ● Midget AAA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five AMHL South Division semifinal, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Senior high boys basketball: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, first games of best-of-three 4A zone semifinals, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday ● Senior high girls basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, Hunting Hills at Lacombe, second games of best-ofthree 4A zone semifinals, 6 p.m. ● Senior high boys basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Lacombe, Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, second games of best-ofthree 4A zone semifinals, 7:45 p.m.

Friday ● Senior high girls basketball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at

Hockey Hunting Hills, third games of best-ofthree 4A zone semifinals, if necessary, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, first game of best-of-three ACAC quarter-final, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Senior high boys basketball: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, third games of best-of-three 4A zone semifinals, if necessary, 6 or 7:45 p.m.

Saturday ● Senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, sixth game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday ● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, seventh game best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, if necessary, 7:15 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Golden State 53 5 .914 — San Antonio 50 9 .847 3 1/2 Oklahoma City 42 18 .700 12 L.A. Clippers 38 20 .655 15 Memphis 35 24 .593 18 1/2 Dallas 32 28 .533 22 Portland 32 28 .533 22 Houston 29 31 .483 25 Utah 28 31 .475 25 1/2 Sacramento 24 34 .414 29 New Orleans 23 35 .397 30 Denver 23 37 .383 31 Minnesota 19 41 .317 35 Phoenix 15 44 .254 38 1/2 L.A. Lakers 11 49 .183 43 d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot

Sunday’s Games Washington 113, Cleveland 99 Atlanta 87, Charlotte 76 Portland 111, Indiana 102 Detroit 114, Toronto 101 Orlando 130, Philadelphia 116 Dallas 128, Minnesota 101 Miami 98, New York 81 Monday’s Games Cleveland 100, Indiana 96 Washington 116, Philadelphia 108 Boston 100, Utah 95 Milwaukee 128, Houston 121 Memphis 103, Denver 96 Oklahoma City 131, Sacramento 116 Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Phoenix at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Utah at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Texas 1B Trever Adams (Frisco-Texas), Toronto RHP Andrew Case (Vancouver-NWL), Cleveland RHP Jordan Dunatov (Arizona League Indians) and free agent RHP Dan Urbina 50 games each for violations of baseball’s minor league drug program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with OF David Murphy on a minor league contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Ian Desmond on a one-year contract. Placed RHP Tanner Scheppers on the 60-day DL, retroactive to Feb. 18. Named Steve Mintz manager of Hickory (SAL), Brian Shouse pitching coach for Frisco (Texas) and Joey Seaver pitching coach for Spokane (NWL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Andruw Jones special assistant to baseball operations.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Recalled F Jarell Martin from Iowa (NBADL).

MIAMI HEAT — Waived G Beno Udrih.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Waived G Ray McCallum. Signed G Andre Miller.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Placed the franchise tag on WR Alshon Jeffery.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DL Cleyon Laing.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Agreed to terms with QB Tom Brady on a two-year contract extension.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Released WR Marques Colston.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed P Marquette King to a long-term contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Acquired F Jamie McGinn from Buffalo for a conditional third-round draft pick.

Acquired F Brandon Pirri from Florida for a 2016 sixth-round draft pick. Traded LW Patrick Maroon to Edmonton for a 2016 fourth-round pick and D Martin Gernat.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Acquired F Sergei Plotnikov from Pittsburgh for F Matthias Plachta and a conditional 2017 seventh-round draft pick. Acquired F Alex Tanguay, F Conner Bleackley and D Kyle Wood from Colorado for F Mikkel Boedker. Acquired F Matia Marcantuoni from Pittsburgh for F Dustin Jeffrey, F Dan O’Donoghue and D James Melindy.

Recalled F Craig Cunningham from Springfield (AHL). Assigned F Tyler Gaudet to Springfield.

CALGARY FLAMES — Traded RW David Jones to Minnesota for G Niklas Backstrom and a 2016 sixthround draft pick.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Acquired F Anthony Camara, a 2016 third-round draft pick and a 2017 fifth-round draft pick from Boston for D John-Michael Liles. Recalled D Ryan Murphy and Fs Brock McGinn and Derek Ryan from Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Acquired G Drew

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 63 41 20 1 1 63 38 22 1 2 63 36 23 2 2 64 27 30 6 1 63 24 34 3 2 62 10 46 6 0

GA 183 194 199 222 259 211

Pt 84 76 74 67 52 50

GF 259 222 209 179 188 132

GA 191 182 195 206 254 274

Pt 84 79 76 61 53 26

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Victoria 65 43 16 3 3 244 x-Kelowna 63 44 16 3 0 230 Prince George 63 33 26 3 1 219 Kamloops 63 29 25 5 4 205 Vancouver 64 23 34 5 2 183

GA 150 188 197 205 232

Pt 92 91 70 67 53

x-Lethbridge x-Red Deer x-Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 63 36 21 4 2 166 145 78 Seattle 62 36 23 3 0 196 173 75 Portland 63 32 27 4 0 203 198 68 Spokane 62 29 24 5 4 198 209 67 Tri-City 62 30 29 2 1 206 213 63 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

Sunday’s results Everett 3 Tri-City 2 Moose Jaw 4 Saskatoon 1 Seattle 4 Kamloops 3 Monday’s results Red Deer 2 Regina 1 Victoria 6 Edmonton 1

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Cleveland 42 17 .712 — Toronto 39 19 .672 2 1/2 Boston 36 25 .590 7 Miami 33 26 .559 9 Atlanta 33 27 .550 9 1/2 Charlotte 30 28 .517 11 1/2 Chicago 30 28 .517 11 1/2 Indiana 31 29 .517 11 1/2 Detroit 31 29 .517 11 1/2 Washington 29 30 .492 13 Orlando 26 32 .448 15 1/2 Milwaukee 25 35 .417 17 1/2 New York 25 36 .410 18 Brooklyn 17 42 .288 25 Philadelphia 8 52 .133 34 1/2

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Brandon 63 39 18 4 2 258 x-Prince Albert 63 34 21 7 1 195 x-Moose Jaw 63 33 22 7 1 223 Regina 63 30 26 3 4 210 Saskatoon 62 24 34 4 0 194 Swift Current 62 21 33 5 3 161

MacIntyre from Carolina for D Dennis Robertson and assigned MacIntyre to Rockford (AHL). Acquired F Tim Jackman and 2017 seventh-round draft pick from Anaheim for F Corey Tropp and reassigned Jackman to San Diego (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned G Reto Berra to San Antonio. Acquired F Taylor Beck from the New York Islanders for C Marc-Andre Cliche.

DALLAS STARS — Acquired D Kris Russell from Calgary for D Jyrki Jokipakka, F Brett Pollock and a conditional 2016 second-round draft pick.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Jared Coreau from Grand Rapids (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Claimed F Adam Cracknell off waivers from Vancouver and D Adam Pardy off waivers from Winnipeg. Re-signed D Brandon Davidson and G Laurent Brossoit to two-year contract extensions.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Traded RW Scott Sabourin to Minnesota for C Brett Sutter.

MINNESOTA WILD — Traded LW Michael Keranen to Ottawa for D Conor Allen. Activated D Jonas Brodin from injured reserve. Assigned D Christian Folin Iowa (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Claimed RW Mike Brown off waivers from San Jose.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Acquired D Corey Potter from Arizona for future considerations and assigned him to Norfolk (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Traded D Eric Gelinas to Colorado for a 2017 third-round draft pick. Recalled F Stefan Matteau from Albany (AHL) and traded him to Montreal for F Devante Smith-Pelly.

Acquired a 2016 fourth-round draft pick and a 2017 second-round draft pick from Boston for RW Lee Stempniak. Recalled F Joseph Blandisi, F Reid Boucher and D Damon Severson from Albany (AHL). Claimed D David Warsofsky off waivers from Pittsburgh.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Acquired Shane Prince and a 2016 seventh-round draft pick from Ottawa for a 2016 third-round draft pick.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned D Matt Taormina to Syracuse (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Recalled C William Nylander, RW Kasperi Kapanen and F Nikita Soshinkov from Toronto (AHL). Loaned Fs Mark Arcobello, Brendan Leipsic and Josh Leivo to Toronto.

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Acquired G John Muse from Texas for future considerations.

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed D Jimmy Oligny to a two-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

SOCCER U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION — Elected Carlos Cordeiro vice-president. Reconfirmed Donna Shalala as an independent director.

Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Signed G Ryan Herman and M Timo Pitter.

LA GALAXY — Waived D Dan Gargan and F Ignacio Maganto.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived M Mael Corboz.

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed D-M Gabriel Farfan.

Day and Kings volleyball team named RDC athletes of the week Curler Brett Day and the Kings volleyball team have been selected as the RDC Boston Pizza female and male athletes of the week.

Day skipped the RDC mixed team to a bronze medal in the ACAC championships during the weekend. The team was 2-1 in round-robin play before losing in a semifinal and defeating NAIT in the third-place game.

Day was also the recipient of the prestigious Charles Morter Award, which is given to the ACAC curler who demonstrates Brett Day a commitment to curling through volunteerism and sportsmanship. She is heavily involved with the Special Olympics curling in Red Deer.

Meanwhile, the Kings volleyball squad captured a 16th ACAC championship at NAIT, defeating the hosts and the University of Alberta Augustana by 3-0 scores before downing Fort McMurray Keyano 3-1 in the final. Luke Brisbane was named tournament MVP while Nic Dubinsky and Tom Lyons were on the all-star team.

• The women’s hockey Queens host the NAIT Ooks in Game 1 of the best-of-five ACAC final Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena.

• The men’s hockey Kings are home to the SAIT Trojans in the opening game of a best-of-three ACAC quarter-final Friday.

The puck drops at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex, which will host a third game — if necessary— Sunday at 7 p.m.

• The Kings basketball team is in Olds for the ACAC championship starting Thursday. RDC will face the host team at 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Regina, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Kootenay at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Monday’s summary Rebels 2, Pats 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Polei 15 (Musil, Nikolishin) 11:30 2. Red Deer, DeBrusk 18 (Spacek, Hagel) 16:33 Penalties — Zablocki Reg (high-sticking) 4:56 Nogier RD (holding) 7:51 Doetzel RD, Macklin Reg (roughing, unsportsmanlike conduct), Pratt RD, Rattie RD, Smith Reg (roughing), Schioler Reg (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:56 Nogier RD (roughing) 18:21.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Cole Reg (high-sticking) 1:44 Philp RD (hooking) 2:10 DeBrusk RD (high-sticking), Hilsendager Reg (embellishment) 4:08 Berg Reg (delay of game) 6:51 Spacek RD, Zborovskiy Reg (slashing) 16:49.

Third Period 3. Regina, Steel 22 (Brooks, Sanford) 19:59 (pp).

Penalties — Sanford Reg (tripping) 8:57 Nogier RD (delay of game) 18:55.

Shots on goal Red Deer 12 13 9 — 34 Regina 6 6 16 — 28 Goal — Red Deer: Martin (W, 12-6-1-1) Regina: Brown (L, 18-17-1-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 0-4 Regina: 1-4.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP G A Pts PIM +/Nikolishin 63 31 45 76 16 16 Helewka 44 34 26 60 47 32 DeBrusk 52 18 35 53 32 9 Spacek 52 16 31 47 18 4 Bleackley 47 13 28 41 37 12 Hagel 63 9 30 39 35 18 Musil 57 18 20 38 40 9 Philp 31 18 18 36 32 -8 Bobyk 63 15 21 36 86 12 Fleury 48 10 25 35 41 14 Pawlenchuk 62 20 11 31 12 11 Polei 54 15 13 28 66 12 de Wit 62 6 14 20 25 4 Nogier 60 3 15 18 65 20 Doetzel 49 0 12 12 65 20 Strand 62 2 9 11 47 6 Pratt 49 6 3 9 11 2 Johnson 36 3 3 6 31 -2 Purtill 30 1 3 4 8 6 Shmoorkoff 59 0 3 3 16 1 Mahura 2 0 1 1 0 1 Weatherill 1 0 0 0 0 — Sakowich 2 0 0 0 0 0 Rattie 21 0 0 0 37 -2 Martin 30 0 0 0 0 — Toth 44 0 0 0 0 — Goaltenders GP MP GA SO GAA Sv% Weatherill 1 60 2 0 2.00 .933 Toth 44 2385 106 5 2.67 .912 Martin 29 1338 63 0 2.83 .904

WHL Scoring Leaders Adam Brooks, Reg Dryden Hunt, MJ Brayden Burke, Leth Tyson Baillie, Kel Parker Bowles, TC Reid Gardiner, PA Nolan Patrick, Bdn Tyler Wong, Leth Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Brayden Point, MJ Alex Forsberg, Vic Mathew Barzal, Sea Ivan Nikolishin, RD Jesse Gabrielle, PG Tyler Soy, Vic Matthew Phillips, Vic Collin Shirley, Kam Chase Witala, PG Jack Walker, Vic Brett Pollock, Edm Jon Martin, SC

G 34 50 23 37 37 37 37 37 30 31 23 22 31 38 38 34 33 36 29 25 36

A 70 52 75 49 48 45 45 42 49 46 53 55 44 33 32 36 37 32 39 42 30

PTS 104 102 98 86 85 82 82 79 79 77 77 77 75 71 70 70 70 68 68 67 66

Florida Tampa Bay Detroit

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 62 35 19 8 171 63 37 22 4 175 63 32 20 11 161

GA Pts 146 78 151 78 163 75

Washington NY Rangers NY Islanders

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF 61 45 12 4 202 63 37 20 6 180 60 33 20 7 171

GA Pts 142 94 159 80 149 73

Boston Pittsburgh Philadelphia New Jersey Ottawa Carolina Montreal Columbus Buffalo Toronto

GP 63 61 62 63 63 64 62 64 63 61

WILD CARD W L OL 34 23 6 32 21 8 29 22 11 30 26 7 30 27 6 28 26 10 30 27 5 26 30 8 25 31 7 21 30 10

GF 195 165 157 139 185 155 171 167 147 147

GA Pts 175 74 157 72 168 69 153 67 196 66 173 66 169 65 196 60 170 57 182 52

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF

GA Pts

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

64 64 65

39 38 36

20 19 20

5 7 9

180 206 162

Los Angeles Anaheim San Jose

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF 62 37 21 4 165 61 34 19 8 153 61 33 22 6 182

Nashville Colorado Minnesota Vancouver Arizona Winnipeg Calgary Edmonton

GP 63 64 63 61 63 61 62 64

WILD CARD W L OL 31 21 11 32 28 4 28 25 10 24 25 12 27 30 6 26 31 4 26 32 4 23 34 7

GF 167 172 164 148 168 159 169 156

153 184 159

83 83 81

GA Pts 143 78 144 76 165 72 GA Pts 158 73 181 68 159 66 175 60 198 60 183 56 195 56 193 53

Monday’s results Pittsburgh 6 Arizona 0 NY Rangers 2 Columbus 1 Philadelphia 5 Calgary 3 Tampa Bay 2 Toronto 1 Detroit 3 Dallas 2 (OT) Montreal at San Jose, late Sunday’s results Chicago 3 Washington 2 Minnesota 3 Florida 1 St. Louis 5 Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 4 Boston 1 San Jose 4 Vancouver 1 Anaheim 4 Los Angeles 2 Edmonton 3 NY Islanders 1 Tuesday, March 1 Carolina at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Boston, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Florida at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m.

NY Islanders at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 2 Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 3 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

NY Islanders at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Florida at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Monday’s summary Flyers 5, Flames 3 First Period 1. Calgary, Monahan 20 (Gaudreau, Brodie) 6:07 (pp).

2. Philadelphia, Schenn 19 (Giroux, Gudas) 12:25.

Penalties — Raffl Pha (hooking) 4:41.

Second Period 3. Philadelphia, Simmonds 22 (Giroux, Gostisbehere) 4:47 (pp).

4. Philadelphia, Schenn 20 (MacDonald, Giroux) 15:27.

5. Philadelphia, Schenn 21 (Streit, Giroux) 18:31 (pp).

Penalties — Bellemare Pha (interference) 1:37 Hamilton Cgy (holding) 2:57 Medvedev Pha (hooking) 5:25 Bouma Cgy (roughing) 12:04 Couturier Pha (cross-checking) 12:04 Engelland Cgy (boarding) 16:55.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Ferland 4 (Bennett, Giordano) 10:17.

7. Calgary, Frolik 11 (Colborne, Hamilton) 11:07.

8. Philadelphia, Simmonds 23 (Raffl, Schultz) 19:23 (en).

Penalties — Bennett Cgy (roughing) 2:00 Simmonds Pha (cross-checking) 2:41.

Shots on goal Calgary 6 13 13 — 32 Philadelphia 9 13 7 — 29 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 9-9-1). Philadelphia: Neuvirth (W, 16-7-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-4 Philadelphia: 2-3.

Former Pan Am and Vancouver Olympic exec Vansen named Rugby Canada CEO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Allen Vansen, who helped organize the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and 2015 Toronto Pan American Games, can look forward to a warm welcome as CEO of Rugby Canada.

The immediate landscape looks full of promise, although larger challenges for the sport loom on the home horizon.

On the plus side, Vancouver will make its debut as a stop on the HSBC World Sevens Series before a sellout crowd of 56,000 spread over March 12-13. Women’s sevens returns to Langford, B.C., in April with the Canadian women primed to contend for a medal later this summer as rugby sevens, an action-packed fan-friendly version of the sport, is featured at the Rio Olympics for the first time.

But rugby, stuck in the shadow of major North American sports, still has a long way to go to make its mark in Canada. For example, TSN recently obtained the rights to Super Rugby, the Southern Hemisphere circuit that’s arguably the best club rugby on offer.

The network is streaming games live, a schedule that works only for insomniacs and vampires.

Vansen, a 43-year-old native of Corner Brook, N.L., who now calls Toronto home,

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Cousins is one of the more high-profile players whose contracts have expired, and quarterbacks carry the biggest tag numbers.

The franchise designation is worth the average of the top five salaries at a player’s position or 120 per cent of the value of his 2015 salary, whichever is higher. Teams secure the rights to continue negotiations with that player even as

brings undeniable organizational skills to Canada’s top rugby job.

He was executive vice-president of operations, sport & venue management of the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. He was also vice-president of workforce operations & integration for the Vancouver Organizing Committee at the 2010 Olympics.

“Incredibly excited I don’t think is a strong enough term for how enthusiastic and pumped I am to be joining such a strong organization at a pretty historic time for the sport around the world and certainly for this sport in Canada,” Vansen told reporters on a conference call Monday.

Rugby Canada has been without a CEO since Graham Brown, who took over as COO in 2002 and CEO in 2003, stepped down after last fall’s World Cup to run Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Vansen inherits a women’s 15s team that ranks fifth in the world and was runner-up to England in the 2014 Rugby World Cup. The women’s sevens squad secured Olympic qualification by finishing second behind New Zealand on the world circuit last season. Canada stands third this season.

The men are more problematic.

The sevens squad, ninth overall last season, currently stands 12th and must win

an Olympic repechage tournament in June to make it to Rio. The 15s team is ranked 19th globally and failed to win a game at the 2015 World Cup. Canada lacks a professional league so its top 15s players have had to go overseas to play at the highest level, facing competition from around the globe. Rugby Canada has pledged to join the North American Pro Rugby circuit in 2017 but will sit out the inaugural 2016 six-team season.

Vansen acknowledges he has plenty to learn about the sport but believes rugby is “really well positioned” in Canada and will get a huge boost from the Olympics.

“I think Rio is going to be a pretty defining moment for rugby.” he said.

With the sevens version of the game now drawing support from the likes of Own The Podium, Rugby Canada has been forced to up the ante in fundraising for the non-Olympic 15s programs.

Vansen, who calls himself a “hugely passionate Canadian sports fan,” said he’ll be looking to put money where it’s needed.

“I’m very much about leading an organization and putting resources where we can best achieve success for our athletes,” he said.

Raising money to complete the organization’s $8-million Centre for Excellence in Langford will be high on the list.

the league’s free agency period begins, which this year is March 9.

Teams have until Tuesday to use the franchise or transition tag on a scheduled free agent. The salary cap for next season is $155.27 million, an increase of about $12 million per team from 2015.

The next most expensive position for a franchise tag is defensive end at $15.7 million, according to numbers made official Monday. Wide receivers would cost just under $14.6 million, followed by linebackers ($14.1 million), cornerbacks (just under $14 million) and offensive linemen ($13.7 million).

Defensive tackles ($13.6 million), running backs ($11.78 million), safeties ($10.8 million), tight ends ($9.1 million) and punters/kickers ($4.57 million) follow.

The Jets will be placing the franchise tag on DE Muham-

mad Wilkerson, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Monday. Baltimore is planning to tag kicker Justin Tucker.

Among the top players whose contracts are up and could get franchise tags is linebacker Von Miller, the Super Bowl MVP for Denver.

Transition tag numbers call for quarterbacks to receive $17.696 million, followed by defensive ends at $12.734 million.

A transition tag allows the player to negotiate with other teams, but his current club has the right of first refusal to match any offer.

Other transition tags: wide receiver, $12,268 million linebacker, $11.925 million cornerback, $11.913 million offensive linemen, $11.902 million defensive tackle, $10.875 million running back, $9.647 million safety,$9.116 million and tight end, $7.713 million.

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Legal review complete to modifications including changes that strengthen the right of governments to regulate, including in ar-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CANADA-EU FREE TRADE DEAL

OTTAWA — The federal government says the legal review of Canada’s free trade deal with the European Union has been completed — and the door is open for the pact to come into force next year.

An agreement in principle was reached on the comprehensive deal, known as CETA, in October 2013. Negotiations between Canada and the 28-member EU began in 2009.

The agreement was negotiated under the former Conservative government, but International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday that the Liberals supported CETA while in opposition.

“This is really a gold-plated trade deal,” said Freeland, who added that CETA’s entry into force will give Canada access to a market of 500 million people.

“It is going to bring tremendous benefit to Canadians and to Europeans. We are going to feel it all in a real increase in prosperity and I’m confident this is going to become the landmark trade agreement.”

In making the announcement, Freeland pointed

eas such as labour anCAonment.

“In the 21st century, it is right and appropriate to make clear in trade agreements the power, and indeed the democratic responsibility, of governments to regulate,” she said.

Modifications, she added, have also been made to allow for a permanent dispute-settlement tribunal and an appeal system.

“The core notion of having a dispute-resolution process is not to supersede that right to regulate — it is to ensure that governments don’t discriminate against foreign investors,” Freeland said. “That is the core idea behind trade deals.”

Earlier this month, Canada’s chief negotiator Steve Verhuel told a parliamentary committee that Ottawa was working with the EU to revise controversial investor protection provisions in CETA. Verhuel said Ottawa was exploring whether improvements could make the dispute-resolution mechanism more favourable to Canada.

The Europeans first raised the matter after political opposition surfaced in Europe in 2014 over the chapter that deals with settling disputes between companies and governments, known as ISDS. Some European politicians and anti-trade activists have expressed concerns that the investor-state dispute settlement chapter would give big companies the power to sue governments for creating regulations that affect their profits.

They have warned it could undermine the ability of countries to regulate environmental and health policies, among other things.

European officials, including the EU ambassador to Canada, have said they didn’t see ISDS as an impediment to the pact’s implementation.

Freeland, who expects to sign the deal later this year, said she didn’t hear any opposition to CETA during consultations she held on it across the country.

She said there’s still time before next year’s ratification to look closely at the agreement to determine potential side effects for some sectors and how Ottawa can react to them.

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Pick-and-pay model could mean less choice: critic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian TV subscribers may be rejoicing as they prepare for Tuesday’s launch of new, regulator-mandated basic cable and satellite packages.

But a group that advocates for Canada’s broadcasters says consumers will ultimately see fewer channel choices.

And Friends of Canadian Broadcasting says the vast majority of TV viewers will likely see their monthly bills increase under the so-called pick-andpay system.

Effective March 1, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is requiring TV service providers to offer customers a basic lineup of channels for no more than $25 per month.

Customers can then top up their channels one at a time, or in small theme packs.

Come Dec. 1, TV companies must offer both options.

The so-called “skinny basic” packages must include at least 10 local or regional channels, as well as educational programming. But even that requirement will disappear once the full pick-and-pay regulation takes effect.

Initially, some consumers who don’t watch a lot of TV will benefit, says Friends of Canadian Broadcasting spokesman Ian Morrison.

But eventually, there will be less consumer choice because some channels that are no longer supported through prescription fees will go under, Morrison predicts.

“The end result is that there will be fewer Canadian choices,” said Morrison.

“You’re starting with choice in the sense of saving a few bucks on your cable/satellite bill, and ending up with fewer Canadian choices.”

The bigger TV service providers — Bell, Rogers and Telus — were waiting until March 1 to officially unveil the channels included in their trimmed-down basic packages.

But Shaw Cable, which dominates the TV market in Western Canada, and Quebec’s Videotron are already advertising their $25 basic packs on their websites.

Shaw’s package, which it calls “Limited TV,” features 40 channels, including programming from U.S. networks, ABC, NBC, Fox and PBS. Videotron’s basic cable doesn’t offer the American channels.

Market research conducted in late 2015 by media analysis consulting firm Nordicity found that only a small percentage of Canadian TV viewers would switch to a smaller basic service over the next few years, once given that choice, broadcast lawyer and consultant Peter Miller said in a recent interview.

“Most Canadians will stick with their current packages because most Canadians do look at multiples of channels,” said Miller.

“We estimate that by 2020, 15 per cent of Canadians would pick one of those smaller sets of (TV) packages with the small basic.”

Nordicity also estimated that the average consumer would be willing to pay an additional $20 for discretionary channels — either individually or through add-on bundles — on top of the $25 maximum that can be charged for the smaller basic service.

The CRTC said the move toward full pick-and-pay is focused on consumer choice, not on cost of service.

“In a pick-and-pay environment, some channels may be more expensive on an individual basis because they will no longer be cross-subsidized with others in large packages,” the regulator said in a statement Monday. “So prices for certain channels may be higher than expected.”

Cross-subsidization happens when service providers offset the costs of carrying more expensive channels with the lower costs of their less-expensive channels by offering them together as a bundle.

Still, the regulator will be monitoring the new pricing models introduced by service providers to ensure consumers aren’t being gouged, CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais suggested in a speech last week to a Toronto business audience.

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Market-oriented group wants to speed ‘once-in-lifetime’ clean economy transition SMART PROSPERITY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A new cross-sectoral group that includes business leaders, labour, non-governmental organizations, government and academics says it’s time to seriously accelerate the transition to a high-efficiency, low carbon economy and make Canada a global environmental brand.

Smart Prosperity officially launches Tuesday in Vancouver with a boost from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberal government’s climate agenda appears to dovetail with the economic transformation envisioned by the new market-oriented group.

Twenty-six individuals have signed on to the initiative, including an eclectic mix of top representatives from banks and insurance companies, aluminium smelters, the United Steel Workers union, a grocery chain, investment firms and the World Wildlife Federation.

They’re looking to identify and promote policies that spur innovation, generate jobs and boost the economy while improving the environment and conserving Canada’s natural heritage.

“I’m a big believer in government not playing the leadership role,” Annette Verschuren, one of three Smart Prosperity co-chairs and the former president of Home Depot Canada, said in an interview.

“But government is critical to developing the right policy, the right triggers, the right environment. What’s really more important is that private capital gets attracted to this industry — spurred on by policies that make sense for our country.”

Smart Prosperity’s launch coincides with four days of climate-focused networking, marketing, trade shows, policy discussion and federal-provincial arm-twisting, with Trudeau on hand to meet indigenous leaders and his provincial and territorial counterparts cheek-by-jowl with Vancouver’s massive, biennial Globe conference on clean tech.

The key pillars of Smart Prosperity’s opening research paper point to innovation, incentives, infrastructure and investment.

“The number one action point is to accelerate clean innovation — to create the conditions for celebrating clean innovation across all sectors of our economy,” said co-chair Lorraine Mitchelmore, the Calgary-based former president of Shell Canada.

“This is truly about market economy, not market distortion.”

Energy efficiency and resource efficiency is another top priority.

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So if you’re not keen on carbon pricing — the dreaded “job-killing tax on everything,” in the parlance of politics — this market-oriented group won’t be for you.

As Mitchelmore says, there’s already an incentive for industry to become more efficient. “Let’s incent it even more: You need a price signal to actually give that incentive.”

And this is not a group that is disinterested in the overall health of the Canadian economy.

Galen Weston of Loblaws will be rubbing shoulders with former Dragon’s Den investor Arlene Dickinson, Shell Canada president Michael Crothers, Telus CEO Darren Entwhistle, Royal Bank special adviser Phil Fontaine and Dominic Barton, the global managing director of consulting giant McKinsey and Company.

“You don’t see this kind of powerful, diverse group of Canadian leaders come together around issues very often,” said co-chair Stewart Elgie, an environmental law professor at the University of Ottawa and a founding member.

“In many ways this is sort of a once-in-a-generation opportunity.”

Elgie, Mitchelmore and Verschuren have been developing Smart Prosperity for two years and see Tuesday’s launch is the start of a much wider conversation with all Canadians about where the country wants to be in 10 years. That future needs to start with government policy-making now, building on what Mitchelmore calls “pockets of success all over the place.”

There’s actually much agreement among business, labour, environmental groups and global organizations such as the World Bank about how the economy and environment can and should be linked for the good of both. But the various sectoral “silos” haven’t been talking to each other, or pushing governments with one voice, says Smart Prosperity.

Elgie likens the global energy and environmental transformation that’s just emerging to Canada’s free trade transformation of the 1980s, which tossed off a century of trade protectionism.

“We’re at that same kind of moment now, there’s a fundamental structural shift happening in the global economy,” said Elgie, who questions whether political leaders will be far-sighted enough to recognize it.

“That is the nature of the moment and it’s why this group of people have come together. This is the issue of our time.”

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 131.54 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.20 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.80 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.73 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market started the week with a moderate gain Monday, buoyed by a rise in climbing gold and energy prices.

The S&P/TSX index jumped 62.56 points at 12,860.35, as stocks in companies that deal in gold, metals and oil led advancers on the commodity-heavy weighted exchange.

It was a contrast to Wall Street where all major indexes were down. The Dow Jones industrial fell 123.47 points at 16,516.50. The Nasdaq composite dipped 32.52 points at 4,557.95 while the broader S&P 500 composite index lost 15.82 points to 1,932.23.

Andrew Pyle, a senior wealth adviser at Scotia Wealth Management, says investors fled to bullion because there was little momentum in the U.S. markets and an overall faltering confidence that the U.S. dollar will gain very much in value.

“Because of that, gold seems like an attractive play, an attractive investment,” he said.

The TSX gold sector was the biggest gainer, adding three per cent.

The April contract for bullion climbed $14 at US$1,234.40 an ounce, a price Pyle called a “bit overvalued” in the near term.

“Gold seems to have run into a ceiling after crossing through $1,200 and so near term, gold might look overvalued,” he said.

“Over the medium term, assuming the U.S. dollar does cool off, then I think gold could continue to move higher — whether we get up to $1,400, that remains to be seen. (But) there is definitely room for gold to move higher.”

Bullion prices have climbed more than 10 per cent this month.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.81 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.58 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.34 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 17.85 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.80 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.38 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 19.44 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.99 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.96 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.06 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.93 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.760 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.83 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 17.95 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.55 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.87 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.19 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 28.28 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.26 Canyon Services Group. . 4.03 Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 15.48 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1150 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 5.85 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.600 There was also a pop in energy stocks, which gained two per cent on the TSX. The April contract for benchmark crude oil climbed 97 cents to US$33.75 a barrel.

In corporate news, shares in Valeant Pharmaceuticals pushed the healthcare sector to be the biggest loser on the TSX, pulling back nearly four per cent. The Laval, Que.-based drugmaker is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a previously undisclosed probe.

On Monday, it announced it was delaying its financial results upon the return of its CEO Michael Pearson, who was away for nine weeks recovering from pneumonia and unspecified complications. Its shares tanked to $94.49 at the close, down nearly 14 per cent or $15.34.

Meanwhile, the loonie declined 0.10 of a U.S. cent to 73.90 cents US. Pyle said the lack of positive movement from the Canadian dollar could be seen as a warning sign to investors.

“Maybe we’re in for some near-term correction in the value of the Canadian dollar,” he said.

In other commodities, April natural gas was down eight cents at US$1.71 per mmBtu, while May copper was unchanged at US$2.13 per pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,860.35, up 62.56 points Dow — 16,516.50 down 123.47 points S&P 500 — 1,932.23, down 15.82 points Nasdaq — 4,557.95, down 32.52 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 80.15 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.28 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.97 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.19 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.010 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.280 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.34 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.08 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.49 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.80 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1050 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.65 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 54.76 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.95 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 19.91 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.00 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.91 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 84.25 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.11 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 36.86 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.250 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.07 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.34 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.43 Currencies: Cdn — 73.90 cents US, down 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.8834, up 0.98 of a cent Euro — C$1.4721, down 0.63 of a cent Euro — US$1.0879, down 0.61 of a cent Oil futures: US$33.75 per barrel, up 97 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,234.40 per oz., up $14.00 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.943 oz., up 14.8 cents $673.32 kg., up $4.76 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $1.00 lower $446.00 May ‘16 $3.10 lower $449.70 July ‘16 $4.30 lower $454.50 Nov. ‘16 $3.90 lower $461.50 Jan. ‘17 $3.90 lower $466.10 March ‘17 $3.80 lower $468.80 May ‘17 $3.80 lower $467.50 July ‘17 $3.80 lower $467.00 Nov. ‘17 $3.80 lower $460.60 Jan. ‘18 $3.80 lower $460.60 March ‘18 $3.80 lower $460.60.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 $1.00 higher $183.00 May ‘16 $0.90 higher $185.00 July ‘16 $2.00 higher $187.00 Oct. ‘16 $2.00 higher $187.00 Dec. ‘16 $2.00 higher $187.00 March ‘17 $2.00 higher $187.00 May ‘17 $2.00 higher $187.00 July ‘17 $2.00 higher $187.00 Oct. ‘17 $2.00 higher $187.00 Dec. ‘17 $2.00 higher $187.00 March ‘18 $2.00 higher $187.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 256,780 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 256,780.

B.C. LNG industry could bring billions in taxes: CBOC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The study, which is based on a model of three hypothetical projects, comes out days after the AltaGas-led group behind the Douglas Channel LNG project stopped development, citing low prices and an oversupplied market. The Douglas Channel project, with a proposed capacity of 550,000 tonnes of LNG per year, is the smallest of the 21 proposed LNG projects in B.C. But it’s not the only LNG development to have been sidelined.

Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell delayed its final investment decision on a proposed multibillion-dollar export terminal near Kitimat until the end of this year. Both projects have been pushed back as the global LNG industry is reeling from a plunge in prices brought on by oversupply of both oil and natural gas.

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Corus Entertainment’s headquarters is shown in Toronto.

Catalyst Capital calls for changes to Corus-Shaw deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Catalyst Capital Group Inc. is calling on Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B) to renegotiate its $2.65-billion deal for Shaw Media Inc., arguing that it is overpaying for the assets.

The private equity firm, a minority shareholder in Corus, wants a March 9 vote on the deal to be postponed to allow more time for a review.

To reduce the price being paid, Catalyst suggested issuing fewer shares or paying a special dividend to existing shareholders.

Catalyst is also calling changes to the financing arrangement related to the sale and an evaluation of a potential sale of Corus itself.

Corus signed an agreement in January to buy the media division of Shaw Communications, which would add the Global Television network and 19 specialty channels to its portfolio.

In a statement in response to Catalyst issued after markets closed, Corus said among other things that the purchase price was at “the midpoint of the fair market value range” as determined by Barclays Capital Canada.

It also rejected the Catalyst argument that it was overpaying for Shaw

Business BRIEFS WhatsApp to end support for most BlackBerry devices by end of this year

VANCOUVER — A new study says Canada would get a big economic boost from a liquefied natural gas industry, especially British Columbia, TORONTO — WhatsApp including tens of thousands of jobs and says its messenger service billions of dollars in economic activity. will not work on most The Conference Board of Canada’s BlackBerry platforms by report was issued Monday as the futhe end of this year. The ture of Canada’s LNG industry is comcompany says it will end plicated by low global energy prices support for BlackBerry, inthat have delayed at least two B.C. cluding BlackBerry 10, as projects. well as Nokia S40, Nokia The board found that if the industry Symbian S60, Android produces 30 million tonnes per year of 2.1 and 2.2, and Windows LNG, Canada’s economy would grow Phone 7.1. by $7.4 billion a year over 30 years.

It says it wants to focus The report, titled “A Changing its efforts on mobile platTide,” says the main beneficiary would forms most used by conbe British Columbia, which would see sumers, which it says are 46,800 jobs created and $5.3 billion a year of economic growth over that 30-year period.

Premier Christy Clark has long been a proponent of LNG, saying the industry would bring 100,000 new jobs and more than $100 billion in revenue over 30 years.

The picture painted by the Conference Board of Canada is not quite as • Powerful 9.0-amp, 1.1 max HP motor: rosy, but still projects that Maneuvers easily and conveniently LNG would add $3 billion and $3.2 billion in reve• Lightweight design: Only 26.5 pounds, with a nues to the provincial and comfortable carrying handle federal coffers respectively between 2016 and 2045.

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Media because the multiple is higher than what it received when Corus exited the Pay TV business in a deal with Bell Media, saying they were not comparable transactions for a number of reasons, including the fact that it was not the sale of an ongoing business concern.

As well, it noted that Bell Media did not acquire any subscribers or affiliation agreements from Corus, or the programming on Movie Central or Encore Avenue or any other leases, contracts or any other assets relating to the two.

As well, HBO’s agreement with Bell Media was expected to result in a significant decline in the future profitability of Corus’ Pay TV service, it said.

The purchase of Shaw Media requires approval by a majority of Corus shareholders, excluding the Shaw family.

Proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Share Services have recommended shareholders vote in favour of the deal, Corus has said previously.

Shaw Communications will become a large shareholder in Corus as a result of the deal, which involves both cash and shares. Both Corus, which was spun off from Shaw in 1999, and Shaw Communications, are controlled by the Shaw family.

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A blow against honour killing PAKISTANI-CANADIAN SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY WINS DOCUMENTARY SHORT OSCAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LOS ANGELES — A searing look at honour killings in Pakistan earned Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy an Academy Award on Sunday night.

The 37-year-old director claimed her second career Oscar, this time winning for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness in the best short documentary category.

The film examines the case of an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a brutal attack by her father and uncle bent on an “honour killing.”

“This is what happens when determined women get together,” a triumphant Obaid-Chinoy declared to cheers from the celeb-studded crowd.

“This week the Pakistani prime minister has said that he will change the law on honour killing after watching this film. That is the power of film.”

It was the sole Canadian win among a broad swath of homegrown nominees, including not one but two contenders in the best picture race: the Canada-Ireland co-production Room and the Canada-U.K.-Ireland co-production Brooklyn.

Those films lost to Spotlight, a muck-raking drama about sex abuse in the Catholic Church which emerged victorious over leading nominee The Revenant.

The movie was largely shot in Toronto and Hamilton with Canadian actors including Rachel McAdams, who was nominated but lost for her supporting role as a Boston Globe reporter, and Len Cariou as a cardinal. Producers included Toronto-bred Michael Bederman.

Other Canadian hopefuls who went home empty-handed included writer Emma Donoghue who was nominated for best adapted screenplay for Room, and chart-topper the Weeknd, who was up for best song for Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey.

Room did earn a statue by way of

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won Best Documentary Short Subject for her film, ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,’ at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. best actress winner Brie Larson, a U.S. starlet on the rise for her turn as a resilient mother determined to give her son a happy childhood after years living in captivity.

Obaid-Chinoy adds Sunday’s trophy to one she claimed in 2012 for the documentary short Saving Face, about acid attacks.

A Girl in the River is the latest in a series of socially charged investigative films from her Karachi-based film company SOC Film.

Rights groups estimate that about 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year for “bringing shame” to their families.

The brutal tradition allows murderers to avoid punishment if they are forgiven by the family of their victims.

The Pakistani premiere was attended by senior cabinet members and diplomats. After the screening, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to change laws that allow families to murder their daughters in the name of “honour.”

Obaid-Chinoy’s other accolades include a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, a Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum and a state honour from the Pakistani government.

In the weeks leading up to the Os-

cars, Obaid-Chinoy said she was grateful to see her nomination spark discussion around religiously motivated murders.

“I think that that’s a win in itself because it’s such a difficult topic and people shy away from it, normally,” said Obaid-Chinoy, a dual citizen who lived in Toronto from 2004 to 2015.

Her competition Sunday included Toronto-based journalist Adam Benzine, who was up for his short film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah.

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is set to air on HBO Canada on March 7.

Oliver slams Trump for 22 brutal minutes

BY JUSTIN WM. MOYER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Since Donald Trump declared he would run for president eight months ago, many have tried to take him down and failed. Rival Republicans, the Republican National Committee and the Huffington Post are just a few examples of those who have swung and missed, trying their best to derail a man who looks more and more like a frontrunner with every passing primary. And HBO’s John Oliver, who called the candidate a “litigious serial liar, a “bull— artist” and a “baby with evil, smaller fingers” on Last Week Tonight on Sunday, may have swung and missed as well. But no one can say Oliver didn’t give it a very extended try.

In 22 very long minutes, Oliver revived many popular criticisms of Trump. Trump has no clear policy positions and overstates his net worth, Oliver alleged; he uses his wealth to promote himself as a credible candidate, though wealth does not equal political greatness; his campaign is not self-funded, despite his claims; he is racist. Yet, Oliver said, Trump can no longer be dismissed.

“Donald Trump is America’s back mole,” Oliver said. “It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now

that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it’s gotten hard to ignore it.”

refer to the candidate by “Drumpf,”

what one biographer said the Trump COMMENT

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Jon Oliver offered a novel strategy for those who wish to battle Donald Trump: refer to the candidate by “Drumpf,” what one biographer said the Trump family name was before it “evolved over the centuries.”

Then Oliver offered a novel strategy for those who wish to battle Trump:

family name was before it “evolved over the centuries.” Indeed, Gwen-

da Blair, the author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire (2000), thought it was “fortunate” that “Drumpf” had become “Trump.” “‘Trump’ is a wonderful word, a marvelous name,” she wrote. “A name Dickens would surely have given to a prominent character if only he had thought of it, ‘Trump’ evokes trump card, trump hand, trump suit — all terms associated with winning. Whether Donald Trump could have had the same success with any other name is an intriguing question.”

This is the very question Oliver now wishes to explore.

“The very name Trump is the cornerstone of his brand,” Oliver said. “If only there were a way to uncouple that magical word from the man he really is.”

Oliver then proposed to do this — with “Drumpf” hats sold at cost at the website DonaldJDrumpf.com, the hashtag #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain, and an app that replaces “Trump” with “Drumpf” in web browsers.

“We cannot keep being blinded by the magic of his name,” Oliver said. Of “Drumpf,” he added: “It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy.”

“Mr. Drumpf, I await your lawsuit in the morning,” Oliver said.

Bankers in movies and TV have gotten more realistic

BY JIM TANKERSLEY ADVOCATE STAFF It’s a weird time for bad guys in America. Our scariest villains aren’t on screen anymore. They’re all being conjured up by candidates on the campaign trail.

Voldemort is dead. Kylo Ren is moody. The latest James Bond nemesis, in Spectre, is a wannabe Snowden with daddy issues.

Meanwhile, the presidential contenders rail against malevolent geniuses who torment hardworking Americans. While Republicans offer the Mexicans, the Chinese and ISIS, Bernie Sanders gives us bankers — buying lawmakers, crushing the middle class and driving recklessly with the economy just a few years after they crashed it.

Sanders makes bankers out to be total bad guys, and wants to break up the banks to stop them. But Hollywood today paints a more nuanced picture.

The scarier bankers have grown in our politics, the gentler they’re looking on screen.

And in this case, Hollywood is getting it right.

“When did it become a crime to suc-

ceed in this country?” Bobby Axelrod, the billionaire hedge fund manager played by Damian Lewis, asks in Billions, Showtime’s new Wall Street drama. “America used to salute the guy in the limousine. They wanted to be the guy in the limousine. They still want to. But now they throw eggs at it.”

Axelrod is bad but not threatening.

He bribes his way to insider trading info and sets up his friends to try to

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tormented him in high school. Basically, he spends the first few episodes torn between limo riding and throwing eggs himself.

This is a villain conflicted about his place in the economic order. You can’t get away with a black-and-white bad guy on premium cable these days.

Your audience craves anti-heroes.

Billions is a departure from how Hollywood, and classic literature be-

Billions is a departure from how Hollywood, and classic literature before that, has long caricatured the banker villain.”

divert federal prosecutors from investigating him. He buys a $60 million beach house as a “come at me” gesture to a U.S. attorney.

Still, he gives college tuition checks to the children of his former business partners who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He puts up the cash to keep his favorite childhood pizza joint from closing. But he also drops $100 million just to humiliate a rich kid who

fore that, has long caricatured the banker villain. Shakespeare’s Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, demands an actual pound of his borrower’s flesh as vengeance for failure to make payment. Ebenezer Scrooge despises charity and Christmas.

Movies traditionally followed the same tropes. In It’s a Wonderful Life, lender and shantytown lord Mr. Potter steals money in the hope of driving

the virtuous Bailey Building and Loan out of business. In Trading Places, two owners of a commodities firm frame one of their employees and drive him to attempt suicide, just for sport.

Greatest of all is Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street, who schemes to strip down a company, raid its pension plan and lay off its workers. His monologues are about how “greed is good” and how he rigs the system and gets away with it.

His self-awareness makes him likable — but, at the end, in fairy-tale fashion, he’s on his way to prison.

“The richest 1 per cent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, 5 trillion dollars,” he tells his protégé in a climactic scene. “One-third of that comes from hard work, two-thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. … Now you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it.”

Gekko’s rant is, basically, an exhortation of everything Sanders decries in his stump speech.

That scheming, that power, that near-total lack of remorse makes for great film drama. But it’s a poor standin for real life.

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FAMILY TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016

Journey through days of week not easy I’m not sure what is the worst day of the week.

They always talk about blue Mondays like they are a bad thing, but then we get around to Friday and it’s like everyone is thinking TGIF (thank goodness it’s Friday).

That’s how I felt last Friday.

On that day, it seemed like my brain could only absorb that one thought!

TGIF. I dragged my sorry little self home and gracefully retired to my bed even before I could fall asleep on the couch while the opening credits of some Netflix movie flashed on and off the screen.

I managed to rouse myself Saturday with some semblance of my usual get up and go, simply because I am the grandma of a future NHL star and I had to make it to the arena by 9 a.m. to encourage him to keep skating really hard for about another 10 years and not to let that little girl in a pink helmet who is also seven and on his team keep hogging the puck.

Anyway, my get up and go got up and went as soon as the three 20 min-

TREENA MIELKE LIFE ute periods ended and my future NHL star and his mom and his brothers all went to Tim Horton’s to be treated to those really delicious donuts with icing and sprinkles.

Not me, of course. I sipped my black coffee mournfully mentally calculating how many calories such a donut would carry inside its sinfully decorated self.

I figured it out, but still my eyes were glued to the eye candy and I finally snuck a small bite of the baby’s donut. (what kind of grandma does that?)

By Sunday, I felt much better, so much better, so much more alive. I decided to go the gym.

I arrived early. It was only about 6:30 a.m. and here I was off to the gym just like the self-disciplined type person whom I know lives inside me somewhere. Wow! This is awesome, I think,

momentarily forgetting I was also the type of person who would steal part of a candy-coated donut from a baby.

I notice there is no one else at the gym and I feel good.

Pumped. I will have the whole gym to myself, I think gleefully. I like it when that happens.

I bound up the steps and get my access card ready to swipe. It was then I looked in the glass door.

There was nothing there. The entire gym was gone. Apparently, it had moved.

What? I refuse to feel elated, instead choosing to feel mad. What kind of gym is this? Moving on me, when I’m all ready to pump some iron.

My mad feeling stays with me for about two and a half seconds.

Actually, I’m elated.

I don’t have to work out! Yeah!

Someone moved the gym.

I can go home and drink coffee or, better yet, go back to bed.

I can hardly believe my luck.

As it so happened, the gym moved to a new location over the weekend and it is now back in full service, thank you

very much.

I was there this morning, grudgingly back to the old routine. Treadmill, weights, blah, blah, blah! Welcome to Monday.

I force myself to stay on the treadmill until I have burned 100 calories which seems to take until Tuesday. Today, however, as I was treading along on the treadmill, some dear, sweet lady came along and said, “ma’am, did you know your shoelaces are untied? I don’t want you to trip.”

I mustered up some dignity and said, “of course, I know, but I can’t quit running or I will lose my calorie count and have to start over.”

She looked at me in sympathy and shook her head and walked away and I reluctantly pressed ‘stop.’

Mondays! What a way to start the week!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is the editor of the Rimbey Review.

She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

The fresh hell of putting the kids to bed There is this pivotal moment in all of our lives when we must sit back, stifle the urge to scream out in exasperation and simply give in to the methodical twitching that has currently taken over our left eye socket.

It is the bedtime routine…No let me rephrase: It is in the aftermath of the bedtime routine and I am moments away from finding the closest underpass, befriending the patrons perusing the space and brown bagging a bottle of cabernet sauvignon with them simply to escape the lunacy that is Motherhood.

“It is an hour after your bedtime Sophie, you need to go to sleep.” This is what I say to my daughter who has been slumping around the living room for the last half hour. I think she thinks I don’t notice her.

The girl slinks closer to me as though apologizing in advance for the fresh hell she is about to radiate. She then places her lips about a quarter inch from my earlobe and says in a half whisper half scream, “I’m so hungry.”

What in the…I won’t finish that sentence as it is in no way appropriate for newspaper reading. I think you get the point though.

“You ate your dinner and you had desert there is no possible way you can be hungry.” I pause and look directly into her eyes which are unwavering in her quest for a midnight snack.

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The eye twich is coming back, but I will it away by shutting my eyes tightly for 10 consecutive seconds.”

“HUNGRY.” She replies in that guttural, Paleolithic sort of way.

The eye twitch is coming back but I will it away by shutting my eyes tightly for ten consecutive seconds.

“What are you doing, you look weird.” I am attempting to ward off the insanity, I want to tell her.

I shove a piece of bread with butter into her tiny hands and tell her that will do for tonight. She looks greedily at it and moves back downstairs to her fortress of teddy bears and sparkly lip gloss. After a few minutes quiet erupts in the house and a cool shiver creeps every so steadily up my spine.

Now, you’d think that after all of my troubles with trying to get her to sleep, quiet would be a welcome change. But

LINDSAY BROWN ME PLUS THREE you see, you’d be wrong. At least not in a mothers psyche. Suddenly thoughts of my baby girl somehow forgetting how to chew and swallow food correctly flood my good sense. I imagine her choking on the bread and how she, at this very minute, could be coughing and sputtering and completely helpless down there.

All because I carelessly gave her bread to shut her up and got her back into bed. It’s the ole ‘Bread in the Bed’ predicament.

So I make my way towards the girl child’s bedroom.

All seems quiet upon first inspection.

I can hear the soft snoring of Lars coming from his room which sort of makes my heart swell because at least I have one child who slumbers deeply throughout the entire night.

I pop my head into Sophie Anne’s Room. She is not on her bed—substituted for my daughter is a pile of ragged and torn looking bread pieces laying delicately atop her pillow.

I spot the top of the kid’s head behind her nightstand.

She is crumpled on the floor and by the slump of her shoulders and the angled look of her head I can tell something is amiss.

Before I can ask her what the problem is her head shoots up and there staring me in the eye is what looks like a war-torn Sophie. She wears crinkles of fret across her forehead and her cheeks are lined with a thick layer of tear streaked dejectedness. “SLEEPY BEAR IS MISSING!” She yells out in anguish. “HE IS GONE! GONE TOTALLY GONE!” I look to my left and see the grimy leg of a bear wearing a familiar pink polka dotted jumper. He lays half under a pile of dirty clothes. I pick the thing up assuring not to hold it to close to my face because as much as my daughter seems to adore the ripe tang of the squalid plaything I prefer to keep my distance.

“You found him! Thank you!” She says as though he had been missing for years. I am about to tell her that if her room was cleaner Sleepy wouldn’t go missing, but instead I just smile.

At this point, after the night we’ve had, sometimes we parents need to recognize when to pick our battles.

Now, would somebody please buy me a bottle of wine and direct me to the closest underpass?

Lindsay Brown is a mother of two and a freelance writer from Alberta.

Recognizing olds negative patterns and learning from them “You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life.’”

– Wayne Dyer, American philosopher, author and speaker “Now, here’s where it gets really interesting,” I said. “The job of your unconscious mind is to keep you safe based upon (pause for emphasis) what you unconsciously perceive as a threat.”

I was explaining the functional differences — in layman’s terms — between the conscious and unconscious minds to a client looking to mitigate her self-sabotaging patterns of behaviour.

“Some people might consider abundance a threat while others would regard a successful relationship a threat.

In either respect, your unconscious mind will work tirelessly to ensure that you’re safe by avoiding threats or removing you promptly from threatening situations.”

“But how did I learn these patterns?” she asked. “Where did they come from?”

“Many of these patterns are founded on beliefs formed in childhood,” I explained, “and reinforced over time through repetition until they crystalized into set patterns of reaction.”

Have you ever tried to overcome a particular habit yet found the habit becoming more and more ingrained?

Ever wondered why — despite your best efforts — you keep reacting the same way to a particular person, place or event and end up with the same regrettable results?

It’s because many of us have deeply entrenched belief systems that sabotage our best efforts.

Self-sabotage results from a conflict between what we consciously desire and what we unconsciously hold as

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true or possible for ourselves.

Those unconscious beliefs and subsequent actions hold us back from attaining what we consciously desire.

For example, if you unconsciously believe falling in love will end in betrayal, heartbreak and abandonment, you will derail a relationship the moment it begins to gain momentum.

As odd as it sounds, this unconscious safety mechanism is working to protect you against disappointment.

Put another way, your subconscious mind is shielding you from getting hurt by pulling you out of what it sees as a potentially dangerous situation.

Of course, this is an oversimplification of a complex mental process but the fact remains, much of what we do, say, feel and experience is the result of deeply rooted systems of belief functioning below the level of conscious awareness. In my experience, self-sabotage persists because of a lack of awareness and poor self-esteem.

The better your self-esteem, the more willing you become to live a life that is purposeful, conscious and ever-evolving.

The first step toward shifting and ultimately eliminating these unhealthy patterns is awareness. You must identify the thoughts, feelings and subsequent actions that lead you down the path to self-sabotage.

If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about the beliefs you formed as a child – beliefs that over time can begin to control you.

check your

The more intense the emotion at the time of inception, the deeper the belief.

Initially, sabotaging reactions may only happen with situations similar to the original triggering event.

Over time, however, assumptions are layered over the initial belief and situations only vaguely familiar to the original event trigger the same reaction. Think of our love example.

Perhaps in a previous relationship, a callous and uncaring partner lied to you and broke your heart. In a subsequent relationship, a misunderstanding might be interpreted as a lie resulting in a loss of trust and the conclusion that a broken heart is inevitable.

The least painful option is to end the relationship. It’s easy to see how generalizations are formed and how the pattern will play out.

Buddhists have a word for this unconscious playing out of self-destructive patterns — shenpa. Shenpa is a Tibetan word meaning attachment.

Shenpa is often referred to as the urge or hook that triggers habitual tendencies. Once hooked, the pattern plays itself out, and only when the pattern concludes is there any awareness that something undesirable has occurred.

Call it what you will, there are methods to interrupt the pattern and initiate change.

Know your triggers.

The trigger is what causes the pattern to commence. It can be anything from a criticism, loud voice, a grumpy boss, a sleepless night — you name it.

You can begin to recognize the trigger by recognizing the familiar feelings of unease that arise just before the pattern begins. This unease is typically accompanied by the sense of being out of control.

Know what you tend to do once trig-

gered.

The more aware you become of the habitual behaviours you engage in, the more able you’ll become to stop them.

Each pattern has a beginning, a middle and an end. The next time you feel the urge arising, identify the behaviour as your hook response. Allow the pattern to mentally unfold with awareness so that you may come to understand the thoughts, feelings and usual behaviours associated with the pattern.

Refrain from reacting. Once you recognize an unhealthy pattern and know how it typically unfolds, you’ll be in a better position to resist allowing the unfolding to occur. Of course, this is easier said than done and will take persistence and likely a little help from friends or a counsellor. Recognizing the pattern as unhealthy is a big step toward shifting it permanently.

Allow the storm to pass. With practice, you’ll be able to recognize the hook and avoid it. If you become hooked — and this is not uncommon in the beginning – sit quietly and allow each of the thoughts and physical sensations to come and go.

Study each the way a scientist might study a fascinating experiment in the lab. The pattern will eventually pass and when it does, you’ll likely find a number of valuable insights rising to the surface of your awareness.

“Habit is habit,” wrote Mark Twain, the American author and humorist, “and not to be flung out the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”

None of us chooses self-sabotage.

We acquired and mastered these habits in our past. Fortunately, we can build a better future by building and maintaining our self-esteem today.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator.

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No vaccines or car seats lead to worried grandparent Dear Annie: I have eight grandchildren and I love them all. I make sure to spend equal amounts of time and care with each one of them.

The problem is my son’s 3-year-old child. My son and his wife live with his mother-in-law in another state. I have been unable to see this grandson, because the wife and her mother are so afraid of colds that they will leave the grocery if someone so much as sneezes.

When I first flew down to meet the new baby, my son called me in the rental car to say that I was not allowed to come because I had a cold three weeks earlier. I was able to negotiate meeting them at a nearby restaurant, but I was not allowed to hold the baby. The mother-in-law came and took the child home before the meal was served.

Yet, my daughter-in-law refuses to vaccinate the boy against more serious diseases. She also lets him

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climb out of his car seat because he fusses in it, which exposes him to the risk of death from a minor car accident.

When I send Christmas presents, she opens them early and hands them to the child, never saying they are from me. I have sent him clothes, but have never seen a picture of him in anything but a T-shirt and diaper. At the age of 3, he is still drinking formula from a bottle and eating very little real food.

I am worried about the mental and physical health of this child, not to mention my own sadness that we can’t

have a relationship. Is there anything I can do? — Perplexed Grandmother Dear Perplexed: Is your son not involved in these decisions? It doesn’t bother him that his son isn’t belted into a car seat? Or that he is still getting most of his nutrition from infant formula? And we won’t get into the anti-vaxx movement, which, although well-intentioned, we disagree with.

Please gently suggest to your son that he speak about these things with the child’s pediatrician, to be certain he is caring for his son in the best possible way. If he disagrees with his wife’s child-rearing methods, he should not be a coward about it. Even so, there are limits to what you can do about your relationship with your grandson other than continue to keep in touch, visit whenever possible and maintain the most compassionate communication you can with the boy’s mother.

Dear Annie: “Out of the Loop” says her grown daughters send wish lists for holidays and birthdays that include e-books. If she wants to send something they can open on the actual day, she ought to look into gift cards. Plenty of places offer them for e-books.

These days, gift cards for many businesses, online and not, are available at grocery stores, drug stores, big-box stores, etc. It’s one-stop shopping for you and the kids can buy whatever they want. — Roanoke, Virginia Dear Virginia: Thank you for mentioning a gift card for an e-book, or more generally, for an online store that carries e-books.

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

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MADERA, Calif. — The calls coming into a California Highway Patrol office were alarming: a tiny unicorn was running down a road.

KSEE-TV reports more than three hours later the suspect was taken into custody.

A not-so-mythical white pony named Juliette who wears a fake horn for photo sessions was illuminated by a CHP helicopter Wednesday in an orchard and Madera Ranchos resident Renee Pardy used another horse to lead it out.

The ersatz unicorn’s owner, 5-year-old Tatum Boos (Bohs), says Juliette was given a timeout for being a bad pony.

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Party goers fill the sand behind Club La Vela and Spinnaker Beach Club during the fourth week of spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla. Panama City Beach is trying to tamp down trouble this year by banning drinking on the beach during March and limiting club hours.

ers over, the thing that will impress people is hard work. So put your head down and get on with it!

HOROSCOPES Tuesday March 1, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Javier Bardem, 46; Justin Bieber, 21; Ron Howard, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Many people will feel emotionally reserved today, so respond accordingly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Resist the urge to escape into a permanent fantasy world. Saturn urges you to focus on professional projects with passion and purpose.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you rush into a situation without some forward planning, then you could end up with a real mess on your hands. Time for Rams to slow down and do the research that’s required.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many Bulls aspire to a luxurious lifestyle.

But, with penny-pinching Saturn still stirring up your income zone, make sure you have the cold hard cash to finance your super-sized dreams.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Venus and Saturn activate your romance zone, so it’s time to plan something special with your partner. Single Twins — love is likely with someone who is older and wiser than you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Avoid being overly dramatic or emotionally needy today Crabs. If you are sensible and measured, then relationships with loved ones and work colleagues will be surprisingly satisfying.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The more patient you are with a child, teenager or close friend, the better the day will be.

Attached Cats ñ do something practical for your partner that will help lighten their work load.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t waste time worrying about things you can’t change. Saturn is asking you to be

NAPLES, Fla. — It takes about 22 hours to reach Florida by car for a person travelling from Wisconsin.

But if you’re a cat, the 1,484-mile journey likely takes closer to two months. At least that’s how long it took Nadia, the Russian blue, to trek from her home on a snowy December day to sunny Naples this week where animal officials helped find her owners.

The Naples Daily News reports Cheri Stocker adopted the cat nine months ago in Wisconsin. On Christmas Eve, the cat escaped.

A Naples woman found the kitty in North Naples.

Workers at an animal shelter found the cat’s microchip and, through a pet relocation service, got hold of Stocker’s sister, who had been listed as an emergency contact.

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES methodical and measured. If you are mentally disciplined, you’ll get things done in half the usual time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re at your exacting, perfectionist best — and worst — today. Aim to be positive and encouraging, rather than negative and critical. It’s also time to re-examine your goals for the future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today’s stars could see you stressing about things not being perfect. Remember perfection is a goal - not a destination.

By all means do things well, but don’t forget to enjoy the journey.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When it comes to a personal project or your social media profile, you need to put in some long hours today. You can achieve success, but it won’t come without hard work on your part.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When Venus links up with sombre Saturn, you can feel a bit disconnected from others. That can be a positive thing!

Solitude is soul food for you at the moment so make the most of it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Attached Aquarians — enjoy participating in a social event or group activity with your partner. Singles — true love is waiting online, but expect a few false starts before you find them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work continues to be challenging. Energy and enthusiasm alone won’t win oth-

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• Get a workout buddy. Another way to make exercise more enjoyable is to enlist a friend to workout with you.

Friends can supply motivation on those days when you don’t feel like working out while also making workouts more enjoyable by sharing a few laughs as you lift weights, walk around the neighborhood or engage in whatever physical activity you do together.

• Set specific goals. Exercise also becomes more enjoyable when you establish specific goals that give you something tangible to work toward. You are more likely to enjoy what you’re doing if you reach your goals along the way than if you don’t set any goals and simply go through the motions. You also can reward yourself for reaching certain goals, which will undoubtedly

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• Involve other interests in your exercise routine. If exercise truly bores you, find ways to incorporate your other interests into your workout routine. Rather than spending 30 to 60 minutes simply running on a treadmill, take your tablet along with you and stream your favorite television shows. If possible, catch up on reading while you ride the exercise bike. Combining your workout routine with other passions can make your exercise routines more enjoyable, making you more likely to commit to them on a regular basis.

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HITCHCOCK Harry - 1932 - 2016 Harry passed away peacefully with family by his side on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 at the age of 83 years. Born in Abbey Saskatchewan on December 10, 1932 to Myrtle and Fred (Buster) Hitchcock, Harry thrived as a child growing up in a rural setting. His early childhood was spent on a farm near Gunworth, Saskatchewan, where Harry developed a love of animals, particularly dogs and horses. In 1940, his family moved to Bassano, Alberta, where, once again, he lived in a farming community. He loved all sports and put his small physical stature to good use in horse racing as a jockey, that is until his appetite got the best of him. In 1949, at the age of 17, Harry moved with his family to Red Deer, Alberta. At 18, Harry started a career as a geophysical surveyor that eventually took him to various parts of the world including Libya, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the US and the Canadian Far North. In the mid 1970’s, Harry wanted to spend more time with his family and went to work at Midwest Mobile Homes where he used his skills as a handyman to do repair and maintenance work until his retirement in the mid 1990’s. The most important things in Harry’s life were his family and friends (including those of the four-legged variety). He was a gentle soul who was always willing to help family, neighbours, friends, and even strangers, when they were in need. Harry is survived by four children; Guy (Barbara), Hal (Marian), Debbie Leier (Rob), and Brett (Tish), sister, Shirley Olynuk, brother, Tom, special friend, Ruth Gear, seven grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild. He is predeceased by his wife of 41 years, Joan, as well as his parents; Myrtle and Buster. A Memorial Service will take place at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, March 4, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

Harry’s family would like to extend their sincere thanks to the caregivers of both the Royal Oak Village and Lacombe Hospital for the incredible care he received during the final days and months of his journey here on earth. In lieu of flowers, those wishing can make a donation in Harry’s memory to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta, Unit 1, 5550 45 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1L1 or the Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4P 2J1.

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NELSON Glen Roscoe, 1931 - 2016 Glen was born in Bentley, Alberta on April 20th 1931, the son of Frank and Doris Nelson.

He died on February 26, 2016 in Red Deer Regional Hospital. He grew up on his parents’ farm in the Rainy Creek district, enjoying a happy childhood surrounded by his parents, four sisters, one brother, and a large extended family. He attended school at Rainy Creek and Red Deer. He played hockey all his young life and was chosen to play Junior A for the Bellevue Lions for two seasons. Glen was the first player from Bentley to play major junior hockey.

He then played with the Red Deer Monarchs and Bentley Senior team for a number of years and ended up playing Old Timer hockey on a team from Bentley and Rimbey appropriately named the “Bent Rims”. He married his high school sweetheart, Pearl Swainson in 1954. Glen, his dad, his brother Jim and later his son Brad operated a mixed farm in the Rainy Creek District. He and Pearl enjoyed raising their four children on their farm. The Bentley United Church and the community of Bentley were an integral part of Glen’s life. He was instrumental in the formation of the Gull Lake Gas Co-op and the building of the Bentley Arena. He was a delegate to the Alberta Wheat Pool for many years, served on the Lacombe Hospital Board and was a Lacombe County Councillor for nine years. Glen was honoured to accept the Golden Furrow Award on behalf of the Nelson Family in 2012. Glen was keenly interested in world affairs and Canadian politics. Fishing, hunting, enjoying nature, welding and building were some of his favourite pastimes. He was still building hopper bottom bins and delivering them using his homemade crane at the age of 75. Glen is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Pearl, his son Brad and his daughters Jane Moore, Holly (Lorne) Kostiuk and Beverley (Rod) Martin. Also treasuring his memory are seven grandchildren: Ross (Maureen) Moore, Jill Steenbergen (Ken Dennis), Stephanie Kostiuk, Ryan Kostiuk, Rebecca Kostiuk, Blair (Emily) Martin and Dane Martin. He enjoyed his eight great-grandchildren. Glen will be fondly remembered by his siblings, Lois Eaton, Beryl Abbott, Marina (Gordon) Becker, Donna (Bill) Richards and Jim (Pat) Nelson. He was a great uncle to his many nieces and nephews. Glen enjoyed his relationships with his many Swainson relatives and numerous friends. The family would like to thank all the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, as well as the Heart and Renal Function Clinics for their kind and compassionate care. A Celebration of Glen’s Life will be held from Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross St., Red Deer, AB. on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 1:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Box 767, Winnipeg, MB, R3C 2L4, or online at foodgrainsbank.ca. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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TOMALTY Verna 1916 - 2016 On Sunday, February 28, 2016, surrounded by family, Mrs. Verna Evelyn Tomalty (nee Edwards) entered into the presence of her Lord at the age of 99 years. Verna was born on June 16, 1916 at Admiral, Saskatchewan, to Louisa and Samuel Edwards.

The family moved to Alberta in the spring of 1918 and she lived most of her life in the Waskasoo District of Red Deer. She met her husband, Ross in 1937 and they married in 1945. Verna had a servant heart and served many years as a member of Balmoral Bible Chapel. She was gifted in hospitality and made people feel welcome in her home, church and community. She faithfully played the organ at the Red Deer Nursing Home. The last fifteen years, she lived at Victoria Park and after her husband passed away in 2002, she took the Victoria Park Bus to the Hospital once a week to visit residents who might be in there and anyone else she knew. Verna did this until she was over 95 years old. She was a great example to her family and friends in the way she cared for other people and put their needs and desires above her own. Well done - good and faithful servant! Verna will be greatly missed by her children; Lawrence (Vickie), Ron (Joyce), Phyllis, Shirley (Ken), Rosemarie (Doug), Cathy (Don), ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren whom she loved dearly. She will also be sadly missed by her brothers; Ivan Edwards, Allan (Marion), Lewis (Eunice), Murray (Marbie), sisters-in-law; Beth Edwards and Ruth Edwards. Verna was predeceased by her husband, Ross in 2002, three brothers; Bill, Jack and Arnold, two sisters-inlaw, Dorothy Edwards and Norma Edwards, and a son-in-law, Mike Keoughan.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.

Psalm 116:15 A Celebration of Verna’s Life will be held at the CrossRoads Church, Queen Elizabeth Highway II and 32 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, March 4, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Thanks to Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and a very special thank you to the Red Deer Hospice for the exceptional way they cared for Verna and our whole family these last three weeks of her life. If desired, Memorial Donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6 or at www.reddeerhospice.com; or to Every Home for Christ International, P.O. Box 3636, Guelph, Ontario, N1H 7S2.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

BEACH Darlene 1939 - 2016 Darlene was born in Lacombe the 8th child of Owen and Clara Pierson on July 6 1939. She took her schooling in Morningside. On May 17th 1956 she married Raymond Beach and they lived in the Morningside area their entire lives. Darlene loved going for long country tours, playing cards, doing crossword puzzles and picking berries with her daughters and granddaughters. Darlene is survived by her children Sharon (Harry), Danny (Edith), Johnny (Shelly), Brenda (Greg), Bonnie (Steve), grandchildren Cecil (Jennifer), Les (Candace), Pamela (Alden), Clayton, Melissa, Natasha, James, Josie, Jonathon, Emily, Jessica, Evan, Christel (Earl) and Justin, great grandchildren Jack, Olivia, Jasey, Nickoli, Gunner and August. She was predeceased by husband Raymond Beach and her son Cecil Beach. Funeral Services will be held from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, AB. on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM. Interment will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe, AB. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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BURUMA Sye (Syd) May 22, 1927 - Feb 16, 2016 One day a small plant grew in a pond in a farmer’s field, the next day there were two plants. On the third day there were four; on the fourth day there were eight. Each day the number of plants doubled, 16, 32, 64, 128 and so it went until on the 30th day the pond was full. Not even one more plant would fit. What day was the pond half full? “You quickly voiced your answer with certainty.

Did you think about the question or did you want to be the first with the wrong answer?* Born in Blija, Friesland, Holland, he spent his teenage years during the war in occupied Holland.

Then a few years in Indonesia fighting for his country? Hogan’s Hero’s was not allowed on the TV if he was in the room; “they make fun of war and there is nothing fun about it”. At 26 he immigrated to Canada with his wife to be Reimke (Pam); first to PEI for a year and then to Red Deer, Alta … “you have to go where the opportunity is, it isn’t likely to come to you”. Initially as a carpenter, then a successful contractor and businessman, he retired to Victoria, B.C. in 1980 at age 53. Retirement included travel and cruising but above all an opportunity to devote more time to investing in the stock market.

“Find the best broker you can get, write down everything he tells you and do the opposite; 80% of the time you will make money”. He wasn’t perfect. He had his demons but he loved his wife and son until he died. He was a man, just a man, my father and the best teacher I ever had.

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PUDWELL Beverley 1940 - 2016 It is with great sadness, that we announce Beverley Ann ‘Bev’ (Craig) Pudwell, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Friday, February 26, 2016 at the age of 75 years. Bev was born on July 10, 1940 at Haileybury, Ontario; and raised in the Haileybury Area. She graduated from the Ontario Hospital as a Certified Nurse’s Aide in 1959; and then headed west, landing in Grande Prairie, Alberta. There, she met and married Will Craig, the father of her children. Eventually settling in Red Deer, Bev worked at Sproule’s Mountview I.D.A. Drugs, and then spent many years working for Dr. Bannister and prior Optometrists. When an opportunity came to work at the Red Deer Public School Board, Bev began working as a secretary. However, eventually her passion for children inspired her to take the position of Teacher’s Aide.

Bev was especially skilled and loved working with special needs children. She retired from the Red Deer Public School Board in 2006.

“A life that touches others, goes on forever.” Bev is survived by her husband, Ron Pudwell, her daughter, Amie (Kim) Starchuk of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, her son, Jim (Aurea) Craig of Red Deer, Alberta, and two grandchildren who meant the absolute moon to her, Tiffany (Wolf) and Jake, who miss her greatly. She will be remembered by Ron’s children, Memory Roth and her children, Graham, Braden and Christina of Edmonton, Alberta, and Dean (Sharon) and their son, Nate of Calgary, Alberta; best friends, Lois and Gary Gaalaas of Red Deer and a special friend, Shelly Beck. Bev was a kind soul who touched many lives. The countless people she held as special are too numerous to mention.

Bev was predeceased by her parents, Bruce and Margaret Baker, a sister, Sandra, two brothers, Brian and Ronnie, and the father of her children, Will Craig. A Funeral Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. If desired, Memorial Donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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In loving memory of Jamie Morales (nee Foerderer) April 23, 1982 - March 1, 2012 Four years ago today When you passed away Your two little boys Lost a mommy’s love And though we believe You’re in heaven above We would give anything For just one more smile And to hear that laugh Or sit and talk awhile But we will meet again In a place free from pain So even though you’re gone Your memory still lives on All our love, Mom and Dad, sister Kelly, Cruz, Diego and Christian

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$1000 REWARD DOG LOST in Mountview area. Blue Healer X, Molly, black, grey & light brown, no collar, is micro chipped.

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REWARD OFFERED Men’s Large under Armor Snow Pants with a wallet. LOST on Sat. Feb. 20 between 3 & 5 pm at Canyon Ski Hill Please call 403-350-9871 If found.

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School shooting stuns Ohio community

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAMILTON, Ohio — A 14-year-old boy pulled out a gun in a school cafeteria Monday and opened fire, hitting two students, and then ran from the school, threw the weapon down and was apprehended nearby with the help of a police dog, authorities said.

Two other Madison Local Schools students also were injured, possibly from shrapnel or while running away.

None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, said Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones.

Jones said the 14-year-old was a student and there was a motive to the shooting which he did not identify. The boy was charged preliminarily with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, inducing panic and making terrorist threats, Jones said.

Students were eating in the cafeteria when the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m., Jones said. Afterward, classmates described a chaotic scene where they weren’t sure what was happening at first. Some students fled outside.

One student mistook the first shot for a potato chip bag being popped.

Thirteen-year-old Shelby Kinnin said she heard “a couple of bangs” and realized she was near the shooter.

“I didn’t really know it was gunshots until I looked over and a kid was grabbing his leg and falling over,” she said.

Many people ran from the scene,

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A child is comforted Monday, in Madison Township in Butler County, Ohio after a school shooting at Madison Local Schools. An Ohio sheriff says a 14-year-old suspect in the school shooting that wounded multiple classmates is in custody. and the shooter went out a door, she said. She recognized him as a boy who was in a class with her last year, though she wasn’t sure of his name.

Her stepmother, Stephanie Kinnin, said it was unnerving to see emergency responders swarm the school.

“There is no feeling like that in the

world,” she said. “But my eyes found the children walking out looking for parents, and that was heartbreaking.

Their eyes just told the story.”

The students who were shot — ages 14 and 15 — were taken to a hospital where they were in stable condition, investigators said. A 14-year-old boy

and 14-year-old girl were also injured, though it was unclear how, Jones said.

“We don’t know if it was from the shooting or from exiting the school or because of the shrapnel from the bullets hitting into that small of an area,” Jones said.

One student who’d been injured hid and was later found by authorities looking for students, Jones said.

A sheriff’s deputy stationed in the school had just been in the cafeteria, Jones said.

The suspect apparently stood up, moved toward the door and then began shooting, said Chief Anthony Dwyer of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.

All other students were safe, according to the school website. The school, which had practiced for such an event, immediately went into lockdown, said district spokeswoman A.J. Huff.

School was cancelled Tuesday along with extracurricular events, although staff was expected to report to plan a response once students returned.

The campus is near Middletown, roughly 30 miles north of Cincinnati.

State records show enrolment of about 250 junior high and 500 high school students.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican running for president, said on a campaign stop in Vermont he’d been briefed but didn’t give details.

“Obviously it was a tragedy, but thank God that no life was lost,” Kasich said.

Europe’s crisis worsens: NY judge says U.S. cannot make Migrants face razor wire, tear gas Apple provide iPhone data IDOMENI, Greece — Pressed against coils of razor wire and shouting “Help us!,” refugees stranded at Greece’s northern border were pushed back Monday by Macedonian police using tear gas and stun grenades, as the European Union scrambled to ease the escalating number of stranded migrants in Greece.

In a chaotic scene, Syrian and Iraqi refugees forced their way through part of a Macedonian border fence, some clutching infants or struggling to free duffel bags caught in the razor-wire fence. They were met by Macedonian riot police, bolstered by dozens of special forces officers flown in by helicopter to quell a refugee protest.

Amnesty International condemned European government for failing to adequately help stranded migrants.

“Tragically, there seems to be more willingness among European countries to co-ordinate blocking borders than to provide refugees and asylum-seekers with protection and basic services,” said Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Amnesty’s director in Greece.

Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily.

The border pileup began ten days ago, when Austria and four ex-Yugoslav countries on the Balkan migrant route north into Western Europe decided to slow border access for migrants to a trickle — and stopped letting Afghan migrants travel through their territory.

A U.N. official says those nations never did explain who made the decision on Afghan migrants, or why.

Donald Tusk, the European Council President,

begins of tour of those countries Tuesday, starting in Vienna, which has been strongly criticized by other EU nations for its caps on asylum-seekers, and ending Thursday in Athens. Tusk is aiming to prepare for a meeting of leaders from the EU and Turkey on March 7, where the key topic will be trying to halt the flow of migrants from Turkey to Greece.

The number of migrants stranded in Greece topped 22,000 over the weekend, according to government estimates. Thousands have been sleeping outside in parks and along northbound highways, as refugee shelters quickly overflowed.

“Very many people were forced to sleep in the open, without tents, wrapped in blankets,” said 45-yearold Syrian refugee Nidal Jojack, who has been camped out with her family at Idomeni for three days. “It was very cold. The borders are effectively closed, it’s a huge problem. To get food, we have to wait in very long queues.”

Despite receiving the bulk of the refugees seeking the safety of Europe, Germany has opposed unilateral border restrictions and continued to back an EU-wide solution for the migrant crisis.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Justice Department cannot use a 227-year-old law to force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data, dealing a blow to the government in its battle with the company over privacy and public safety.

The ruling, by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein, applied narrowly to one Brooklyn drug case, but it gives support to the company’s position in its fight against a California judge’s order that it create specialized software to help the FBI hack into an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terrorism investigation.

Orenstein belittled some government arguments, saying attorneys were stretching an old law “to produce impermissibly absurd results.”

He rejected government claims Apple was only concerned with public relations. He said he found no limit on how far the government would go to require a person or company to violate the most deeply-rooted values.

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ican company “reflects poorly on a government that exists in part to safeguard the freedom of its citizens.”

Both cases hinge partly on whether a law written long before the computer age, the 1789 All Writs Act, could be used to compel Apple to co-operate with efforts to retrieve data from encrypted phones.

“Ultimately, the question to be answered in this matter, and in others like it across the country, is not whether the government should be able to force Apple to help it unlock a specific device it is instead whether the All Writs Act resolves that issue and many others like it yet to come,” Orenstein wrote. “I conclude that it does not.”

Apple’s opposition to the government’s tactics has evoked a national debate over digital privacy rights and national security. On Thursday, the Cupertino, California-based company formally objected to the California order, accusing the federal government of seeking “dangerous power” through the courts and of trampling on the company’s constitutional rights.

The separate California case involves an iPhone owned by San Bernardino County and used by Syed Farook, a health inspector. He and his wife killed 14 people during an attack.

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