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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s spring legislature session will focus on diversifying the province’s battered oil-based economy, laying the groundwork for a carbon tax and cracking down on payday loan operators.

Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday there will also be $340 million in tax benefits for needy families and legislation to streamline and reduce a sprawling network of 301 boards, agencies and commissions.

The tax benefits are expected to help 380,000 children. A low-income single parent with two children would receive just over $3,000 a year.

“Today’s speech from the throne outlines an ambitious agenda of support for families, our economy, our energy and our environmental future,” Notley told reporters before the throne speech.

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The Bentley District Fire Department, along with a few members from the Lacombe Fire Department and Rimbey Fire and Rescue put on a water rescue course at Sandy Point on Gull Lake on Sunday. Participants in the course will also take a written exam.

More fathers speaking out against violence against women: survey

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter executive director Ian Wheeliker in the living room of the shelter in Red Deer.

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More men in Alberta recognize that fathers play a pivotal educational role in ending domestic violence according to a new survey commissioned by Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters.

The 2nd Alberta Men’s Attitudes about Violence Against Women Survey showed slightly more men than in the 2012 survey identified fathers as the major source for educating not only their sons about healthy, equal relationships and respecting women, but also educating their daughters about their right to healthy, equal relationships.

The majority of men surveyed recognize the role of fathers in speaking out against violence against women.

“For me, that’s a pretty significant positive. That’s good news,” said Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, on Tuesday.

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But he said more has to be done to support men in having conversations within the family and community. Discussion has begin with other community agencies like Central Alberta Sexual Assault Centre, Central Alberta Women’s Outreach and Family Services of Central Alberta, on combining forces to do more in the areas of prevention, education and awareness.

Survey results also showed abuse against women is a concern to 97 per cent of men and they are more likely to recognize that violence against women and girls impacts the women they care about.

“We’ve done some work in terms of engaging men and boys in the complex community issue of domestic violence and I’m happy to see that men are taking the issue very seriously four years down the road after the first survey, that we haven’t lost any ground, and that we are trending upwards.

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Father, daughter take home pharmacy awards

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Sylvan Lake pharmacist and his pharmacist daughter both went home with awards from APEX Awards held March 3 in Edmonton.

Val Langevin, former owner of Sylvan Lake Value Drug Mart, was awarded the M.J. Huston Pharmacist of Distinction and Ashten Langevin, a clinical pharmacist at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, received a Future of Pharmacy Award.

APEX awards, presented by the Alberta College of VAL LANGEVIN Pharmacists and the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association, recognize excellence in pharmacy practice in Alberta.

The distinction award is given to pharmacists who

demonstrated leadership and advanced the pharmacist profession through a long-time commitment to innovation, continual professional development, and quality patient care.

Val owned Sylvan Lake Value Drug Mart for over 30 years and sold the business to Shoppers Drug Mart in 2015 where he remains on staff as a part-time pharmacist.

Val helped create innovative clinical programs within his pharmacy. He established pharmacy services that provided residents with pharmaceutical care plans when Bethany Sylvan Lake opened, along with quarterly medication reviews, and a pharma- ASHTEN LANGEVIN cist to attend interdisciplinary rounds and family conferences.

He was an early adopter of pharmacist injection services; developed a community-based Anticoagula-

tion Management Service in collaboration with local physicians; and participated in EPICORE’s Rural RxAction study, a randomized trial using pharmacists with additional prescribing authority to manage hypertension.

The Future of Pharmacy Award, presented to Ashten, is awarded to pharmacists who exude a passion for pharmacy and offer extraordinary promise to the profession. Recipients exhibit strong leadership skills and the initiative to become one of the profession’s role models.

Ashten works at the Internal Medicine Medical Teaching Unit at Foothills Medical Centre. The unit’s team — consisting of one doctor, six to 10 trainees, and one clinical pharmacist — work collaboratively to care for about 20 complex, and often very sick patients.

Ashten contributes to the profession as a preceptor for pharmacy students, having taken on at least one student each year since starting at the teaching unit more than three years ago.

She is also actively involved with the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and is chair of the education committee.

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Local BRIEFS Rocky man fined for three counts of possessing stolen property A Rocky Mountain House man was fined and given a conditional sentence order after pleading guilty to possessing stolen property.

Hector Dansereau, 73, admitted to three counts of possessing stolen property and was fined $200 on each charge. The judge also gave him a six-month conditional sentence order in Rocky provincial court recently.

He was also fined $200 along with a six-month conditional sentence order on a charge of trafficking in property or proceeds obtained by crime.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP executed a search warrant on a property south of Stauffer on Aug. 1, acting on information that there was a stolen John Deere tractor on the property. The tractor was found and identified as a tractor stolen out of Innisfail on Oct. 22, 2014.

While executing the search warrant, police also found a John Deere skid steer that was reported stolen on Jan. 29, 2013 and a John Deere bulldozer stolen out of the Rocky Mountain House area on July 20, 2015.

Child porn sentencing delayed until May Sentencing has been delayed until the end of May for a Red Deer man who coerced a 13-year-old into sending illicit photos of herself.

Justin Andrew Peck, 22, was to have been sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday but the court heard that requested psychiatric assessments have not been done.

Peck pleaded guilty last October to one count of luring a child with the intent of making child porn.

Between March 24 and July 23 of 2013, Peck coerced the victim into sending photos of herself through Facebook. The victim’s name is protected through a publication ban.

Special Crown prosecutor Jennifer Rees had previously asked that a pre-sentence report on Peck be done before sentencing. The judge had also ordered a psychiatric evaluation and an assessment to determine the likelihood he will re-offend.

Those reports were not ready for Tuesday’s sentencing hearing. It has now been set for May 31.

The victim and her parents were in court and were not pleased with yet another delay.

“My biggest concern is my daughter needs closure on this matter,” the mother told Judge John Holmes.

The majority of the victim’s teenage years have been spent without a resolution, she pointed out.

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Rimbey firefighters were called to a truck fire on Hwy 53 on Monday around 5:30 p.m. Firefighters had the fire under control in no time. The cause of the fire is unknown. There were no injuries.

Red Deer man charged with theft of jewelery from Innisfail store Innisfail RCMP have charged a Red Deer man accused of stealing $5,000 worth of gold chains from a jewelry store last year.

Police say a suspect robbed Ingham’s Jewelery in Innisfail in October 2015.

Robert Handy, 25, is charged with theft and will appear in Red Deer provincial court later this month.

RCMP hunting for suspect in hit-andrun collision involving a firearm Blackfalds RCMP are looking for suspects in a hitand-run collision in which a firearm was pointed at a man in the County of Red Deer on March 2.

Police say a vehicle was on a section of land on

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The vehicle then drove into the complainants vehicle and fled the scene. The complainant followed the suspect vehicle until the passenger leaned out the window and pointed, what was believed to be, a rifle at the complainant.

The vehicle is described as a white Dodge Ram pickup with an extended cab and grey slip tank.

The driver is described as a Caucasian man about 20 years old, tall lean with a scruffy beard and dark hair. The passenger is described as a Caucasian man, about 16 years old, with a scruffy beard, dark hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a T-shirt and jeans.

The suspects also had a pit bull or boxer type dog with them, which was white and tan in colour.

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Crown lays out its case against Vader

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

2010 July 3: Lyle and Marie McCann are last seen fuelling up their motorhome in their hometown of St. Albert, north of Edmonton, for a trip to Abbotsford, B.C. July 5: The couple’s burned-out motorhome is discovered in the bush near Edson, about 200 kilometres west of St. Albert.

Mounties phone the couple’s home and knock on their door. Officers later explain that they weren’t alarmed because vehicles are often found burning in the bush and it’s not unusual for people to be away from home during the summer.

July 10: Trudy Holder calls RCMP when her parents fail to show up in Abbotsford.

Mounties start searching for the couple.

July 13: Two people go to the RCMP detachment in Prince George, B.C. and report having spotted a green Hyundai Tucson like the one the McCanns were towing behind their motorhome. But they are rebuffed.

Mounties later issue a public plea for the tipsters to return.

July 16: RCMP announce that the SUV the couple was towing has been found off a bush trail near Edson officers also name Travis Vader as person of interest in the

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The burning motorhome belonging to Lyle and Marie McCann, inset, is shown in an evidence photo released at the Travis Vader trial in Edmonton, Tuesday. A trial has begun for an Alberta man charged in the deaths of two Edmonton-area seniors who disappeared nearly six years ago. er who was able to support a wife and nine children, had “squandered it all away” with his drug habit and was living in makeshift camps in the summer of 2010, said Stewart. He was also wanted on warrants and police were actively looking for him.

The McCanns, great-grandparents in their late 70s, were last seen fuelling up their motorhome and buying groceries at a Superstore in their

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July 19: Vader is arrested on outstanding warrants on unrelated charges.

2011 July 20: A judge declares the McCanns dead so their wills and estates can be processed.

Dec. 22: Vader is sentenced to 33 months in prison for arsons and break-ins in the Whitecourt, Mayerthorpe and Barrhead areas in 2009. He gets credit for time served but is kept in custody on other charges.

2012 April 18: Vader is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of the McCanns.

May 1: Vader is convicted of drug trafficking, theft and weapons charges that occurred in the Barrhead area in June 2010.

Oct. 19: Before he can be sentenced for those offences, a judge declares a mistrial because evidence was not properly disclosed to the defence. Justice June Ross cites the RCMP as “negligent” and orders a

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2014 Feb. 7: Vader files a lawsuit against the RCMP and justice officials, claiming they kept him behind bars on trumped-up charges until he could be charged with murdering the McCanns. He had faced charges related to passing off a forged employment letter in court, but they were dropped.

March 19: Crown prosecutor Michelle Doyle issues a stay on the murder charges, days before the murder trial is to begin, after discovering Mounties failed to disclose all evidence in the case to lawyers. The RCMP later make changes to the way disclosure is handled in major investigations.

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Oct. 8: Vader is found not guilty of the previous drug, theft and weapons charges after a second trial. He pleads guilty to failing to comply with a 2010 court order and is sentenced to one day of time already served. He is released from custody for the first time in four years and tells reporters his treatment by the justice system has been a “witch hunt.”

Dec. 19: RCMP arrest Vader and charge him again with murder in the deaths of the McCanns.

2016 Jan. 26: Justice Denny Thomas denies an application by defence lawyers to drop the case over alleged abuse of process and an unreasonable delay in getting the case to trial.

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hometown of St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton, on July 3 of that year. They were heading out to meet family in British Columbia.

Stewart said the seniors didn’t make it far and were murdered the day they left home.

Two days later, their motorhome was found burning in the bush west of Edmonton. The Hyundai Tucson they had been towing would later be found

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EDMONTON — The Crown believes a crystal meth user hiding from police and desperate for money killed two Alberta seniors, but the suspect’s lawyer is questioning whether the couple is really dead.

The first-degree murder trial for Travis Vader, 44, began Tuesday with opening statements by lawyers.

Crown prosecutor Jim Stewart told a judge that DNA ties Vader to Lyle and Marie Mc- TRAVIS VADER Cann’s abandoned SUV. Steward said a witness saw Vader driving the vehicle hours after the couple was last seen nearly six years ago.

Evidence will also show Vader called and sent text messages to a former girlfriend from the couple’s cellphone, said Stewart.

Vader’s lawyer, Brian Beresh, told the trial that there’s no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the McCanns are dead because their bodies have never been found and to say what happened to them is “speculation.”

But if they were killed, he added, police were under pressure to solve the case and focused solely on his client instead of others.

“The names of those suspects will be revealed at this trial,” Beresh said.

“Authorities picked the wrong villain.”

Vader, once a well-off oilfield work-

hidden in some trees on a nearby rural property.

Stewart said a witness will testify that he saw Vader twice on July 3 in the hamlet of Peers. “On the first occasion, Vader was driving a stolen pickup truck and had no money. A few hours later, in the afternoon, Vader was driving a green Hyundai Tucson SUV and had money.”

The pickup was later found by RCMP. Someone had attempted to set it on fire and the keys to the couple’s SUV were found in the bed of the truck, said Stewart.

Inside the SUV, experts found Marie McCann’s blood on cans of beans left on the floor, court heard. Lyle McCann’s blood was also discovered on a cap he had been wearing.

Stewart said Vader’s DNA, blood and a fingerprint were found in several spots in the vehicle, including on a can of Boxer beer left in a cup holder.

Beresh said there are problems with the forensic evidence that leave doubt as to whether Vader’s DNA was actually anywhere in the SUV. He said other items in the vehicle, as well as cigarette butts found near the motorhome, cannot be matched to his client.

He said he hopes the trial will reveal “negligence and inept investigation” by RCMP. Vader has filed malicious prosecution lawsuits against prosecutors and the Mounties. He was originally to go to trial in 2014. But the Crown stayed the murder charges just before it was to begin, announcing it had discovered officers didn’t disclose all evidence to lawyers. The charges were relaid nine months later.

Beresh said he plans to show during the trial that one of the first officers to arrive at the motorhome failed to secure valuable evidence and was eventually fired from the force.

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Energy East delays unconscionable GWYN MORGAN OPINION

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hat is the relationship between these events?

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion announces the federal government won’t stop the controversial $15-billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia despite what he terms the kingdom’s “terrible” human rights record because “very surely … the equipment would be sold to Saudi Arabia by another country and this would not change one iota … human rights in Saudi Arabia.”

In 2015, Eastern Canadian refiners imported hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of crude oil from Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Angola; countries whose Human Rights Watch ranking is very poor.

The federal government announces a nine-month extension to the 18-month Energy East regulatory process to study whether the pipeline would increase greenhouse gas emissions, and to allow for additional consultation with Aboriginal and other interest groups.

Dion is correct that stopping the arms sale to the Saudis would simply

mean they would buy the arms elsewhere. But the Saudis’ ability to purchase those arms is enabled by the cash that Canada and other oil importing countries send them, as do oil purchases from Algeria, Angola and the other oil producing states that make up the Middle East/North African conflict hotbed.

Non-oil producing countries have little choice but to send those enabling funds. But Canada has a choice. The proposed Energy East pipeline would eliminate those imports and open an export corridor for Canadian oil to world markets, ending the payment of billions of dollars to those corrupt countries while adding even more billions to our country’s economy.

Just as stopping the Canada/Saudi deal would simply mean the arms are produced elsewhere, any emissions reduction from stopping Energy East would be offset by emissions generated from production and transportation of the oil we import. So why are we microscopically scrutinizing the environmental impact of our own oil production, while giving imported oil a free ride?

And shouldn’t we also consider their deplorable treatment of women, persecution of dissidents, repression of journalists and discrimination against minorities in comparison with the freedom and social justice record under which our oil is produced?

How do we factor in the human cost of enabling the purchase of arms by the fighting factions in what is a perpetual war zone?

Finally, why would Canada choose to be dependent on foreign oil when we don’t have to?

These reasons alone are enough to make the Energy East project a national priority. Even more compelling are the economic implications. Canada produces 3.8 million barrels of oil per day. World prices have fallen by some 70 per cent over the past year.

That’s bad enough, but few Canadians know our oil is sold far below the world price due to lack of pipeline access to world markets. This discount amounts to about $10 barrel, meaning we forfeit $38 million every day that Energy East is deferred. That means the $250-million injection from the federal stabilization fund promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his recent visit to Alberta wouldn’t even offset one week of market access losses. It also means the cost of his government’s nine-month regulatory deferral is a staggering $2.7 billion. And since 90 per cent of Canada’s production is exported to the U.S., that amounts to a $2.4 billion subsidy to U.S. consumers.

But that still doesn’t reflect the full impact of this completely unnecessary regulatory delay. In the days following the Energy East deferral, oil and gas companies announced thousands

more layoffs and further cutbacks to 2016 capital investment, bringing the total to $15 billion, more than 20 times the $700 million infrastructure funding Trudeau announced in Alberta. And let’s not forget the huge tax revenue that $38 million per day and $15-billion annual capital investment could have created. Instead, we have the prime minister’s spending promises that taxpayers will have to repay.

Albertans are generally positive, resilient people. But they are fast losing hope. In place of action, they see unnecessary delays and the possible demise of a critical project. And they see a national government expressing more concern for the minuscule 0.12 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions from oilsands than the tens of thousands of workers without jobs.

Now comes a court injunction against Energy East by Quebec, the very province that would benefit most from replacing foreign imports with Canadian oil.

When bad things happen, the first priority is to identify those we can do something about. We can’t control world oil prices, but we can ensure we’re getting that world price, rather than giving our oil to the Americans for half price.

Troy Media columnist Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.

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Another Chairman Mao in the works in China?

GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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pening the National People’s Congress in Beijing last Saturday, Prime Minister Li Keqiang set China’s growth target for the coming year at 6.5-7 per cent, the lowest in decades. Only two years ago, he said that 7 per cent was the lowest acceptable growth rate, but he has had to eat his words. He really isn’t in charge of very much any more.

The man who is taking charge of everything, President Xi Jinping, is now turning into the first one-man regime since Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. The “collective leadership” of recent decades has become a fiction, and Xi’s personality cult is being vigorously promoted in the state-controlled media.

Xi has also broken the truce between the two major factions in the Chinese Communist Party, who might be called the “princelings” and the “populists.” Xi, as the son of a Communist Party revolutionary hero who ended up as vice-premier, is princeling to the core. His centralizing, authoritarian style is typical of this privileged breed.

The populists, like Li Keqiang, are generally people who grew up poor, usually in the interior, not in the prosperous coastal cities. They rose to prominence more by merit than by their connections, and they are more alert to the needs of vulnerable social

groups like farmers, migrant workers and the urban poor. Most of them have come up through the Communist Youth League, and are known in Chinese as tuanpai (“the League faction”).

Frightened by the non-violent demonstrations that challenged the Communist Party’s monopoly of power in 1989, for almost three decades these two factions have carefully shared power and never attacked each other in public. Xi has now broken that non-aggression pact, authorizing open attacks on the “mentality” of the Communist Youth League in the media.

The friction between the factions has grown so great mainly because the Chinese economy is stumbling towards a crisis. Neither faction has a convincing strategy for avoiding the crisis, but each has come to believe that the other’s political style — authoritarian for the princelings, populist for the tuanpai — will make matters worse.

The Communist Party’s dictatorship is founded on an unspoken contract with the population: we will provide constantly rising living standards, and in return you will not question our authority. But no economy can grow at 10 per cent a year forever, or even at the currently advertised rate of 6.5-7 per cent.

In fact, China’s growth rate actually collapsed about seven years ago, but it has so far been hidden by a binge of debt-fuelled investment. When most of the world went into a deep recession after the financial crisis of 2008, the Chinese regime artificially kept the country’s growth rate up by raising the proportion of GDP devoted to investment in infrastructure to an incredible 50 per cent.

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All of this investment has been counted in the GDP figures, but up to half of it, or maybe even more, is bad debts that will eventually have to be written off. If only half of it is bad debts, then China’s GDP growth in the past five years has really been around 2 per cent, not 7-8 per cent.

The crisis can be disguised for a while longer by printing more money, which the regime is doing.

But that is putting downward pressure on China’s currency, the yuan, which is currently over-valued by around 15-20 per cent. Devaluation would give a temporary boost to China’s exports, but it could also trigger an international trade war that would drag everybody’s economy down.

So at the moment China is spending $90 billion in foreign exchange each month to keep the value of the yuan up, but even with its immense foreign exchange reserves that is an unsustainable long-term policy. Sooner or later there is going to be a “hard landing,” and the regime’s very survival may be at risk.

There is no evidence that President Xi Jinping has a better strategy for mastering this crisis than the rival faction, but the storm is obviously approaching and he is battening down the hatches.

In his view, that means taking absolute power and building a personality cult of a sort that has not been seen in China since the demise of Mao Tse-tung. He is certainly not a vicious megalomaniac like Mao, but he clearly believes that he will need total control to get through the storm without a shipwreck.

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Trudeau, Obama priorities align ahead of state visit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The White House says a special relationship is developing with Canada’s new prime minister, amid plans for a variety of new agreements when Justin Trudeau visits Washington for the first prime ministerial state dinner in nearly two decades.

Mark Feierstein, a White House official, says there’s a unique alignment of priorities for President Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau, whose three-day visit to the U.S. capital begins Wednesday.

“I think there is a developing special relationship between this president and prime minister,” Feierstein said during a briefing Tuesday.

“They’re both young leaders with similar visions, both have a progressive vision of governing, both very much committed to appropriate use of multilateral tools, both committed to diversity.

“I think there’s a coincidence, very much, in terms of the agendas that both administrations have. I think we’re seeing that reflected, for example, on the issues of climate change and refugees.”

Another official said there was instant spike in Canadian effort on the climate file after Trudeau was elected, something that was apparent at the recent Paris summit.

The leaders are expected to announce a wide-ranging agreement on climate change, new border-security measures and an effort to avoid an impasse in the softwood-lumber dispute.

“The climate relationship with Canada really just ramped up dramatically, quickly,” said White House climate envoy Todd Stern.

“Canadians in Paris were extraordinarily effective…. They made a very positive splash.”

Stern said the shift began with Environment Minister Catherine McKenna’s appearance at a pre-summit meeting. Then he said Canada joined a new

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, takes part in a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the APEC Summit in Manila, Philippines.

The White House says a special relationship is developing with Canada’s new prime minister, amid plans for a variety of new agreements when Trudeau visits Washington for the first prime ministerial state dinner in nearly two decades. agreement of high-ambition countries that had eluded parties for years, and he credited her with helping facilitate it.

Trudeau will be attending the first U.S. state dinner for a Canadian leader in 19 years, as well as speaking to progressive think-tanks, laying

a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and chatting with university students in Washington.

Maple Leaf flags are already dotting the public spaces around the White House, including down Pennsylvania Avenue which leads past the Canadian embassy to the U.S. Capitol.

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The leaders should start pressing their bureaucracies toward deals for enhanced co-operation in the Arctic, starting with environmental protection: “There’s a lot of potential. But it needs to be prodded from the top, or it won’t happen,” he said. Trudeau should be careful not to make commitments on climate change that the U.S. can’t keep.

Good relations with a U.S. president are an indispensable asset — and he says Trudeau is off to a good start with Obama.

But he’s skeptical of anything too substantial happening now, as U.S. politics is already in election mode. He says the media will pressure Trudeau to say things about the election and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump: “My strong advice to him would be to stay away from it.”

the final hour (of Obama). Start thinking about after. … We have to live with the Americans, whoever’s in power.” He also offers a warning, based on his own experience. In 2000, he says, some media interpreted his non-verbal communication as suggesting a preference for Al Gore over George W. Bush. All he was doing, he says, was delivering a talk to Canadian federal officials and listing a few basic observations about either candidate. His advice now: “Don’t get involved in American politics.

Don’t take sides in your words, don’t take sides in your moves, don’t takes sides with your smile. Don’t take sides — period… My

advice would be to be very careful — it’s not just words, but everything. The whole demeanor.”

Michael Kergin Recalls how some media made hay of relatively innocuous comments by his predecessor, comparing Bush and Gore. Says there’s a safe way to avoid a repeat: “Stay well out of any election comments. (Just say), ‘Canada respects the decision of the American electorate and will get along with whomever they choose to occupy the White

Deal to curb methane on deck when Trudeau meets Obama this week OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears poised to reap the benefits of some climate groundwork laid by the previous Conservative government when he travels to Washington on a state visit this week.

Bilateral agreements on reducing methane and black carbon are among those in the works when Trudeau meets with President Barack Obama, the White House special envoy on climate suggested Tuesday.

The Americans have taken over the chair of the Arctic Council — a post held by Canada for the last two years — and say they will continue to press for reductions in “short-lived” pollutants including methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and black carbon that can pack far more climate warming punch than carbon dioxide.

Black carbon, created by burning dirty fossil fuels such as diesel, was identified as a climate priority in the Arctic under the previous Conservative watch due to the soot’s warming properties on snow cover.

“There are a number of areas of potential co-operation,” White House envoy Todd Stern told a briefing in Washington.

“One would involve a commitment to reduce methane emissions 40 to 45 per cent below 2012 levels by 2025 in the oil and gas sector.”

Stern said there’s also a move afoot this year to amend the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which dealt with ozone-depleting substances, to “phase down” hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, by as much as 90 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2050.

Climate measures to be announced this week could include “enhanced bilateral co-operation” in the oil and gas sector on heavy duty vehicles and power infrastructure, said Stern. The two countries are also discussing plans by the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization to bring in market-based measures designed to hold global civil aviation emissions “neutral” starting in 2020.

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There are many other irritants and closer border initiatives that can be dealt with as well.”

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Municipalities tout Energy East SEEK SUPPORT ACROSS CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Stung by criticism in Quebec of the proposed Energy East pipeline, Alberta municipalities are hailing the project’s promise of jobs and economic growth.

The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association has written a letter to its sister organizations across Canada seeking their support for Energy East.

“The letter cites estimates by the Conference Board of Canada that this project will support over 14,000 jobs annually during a nine-year development and construction stage,” reads an association briefing note about the letter.

“The pipeline will also provide $10 billion in tax revenues to the provinces.”

The letter also touts how the pipeline would enable access to markets in Europe and Asia, reduce Canada’s dependence on foreign oil and create 3,300 permanent jobs once it was complete.

Association president Lisa Holmes said Alberta communities don’t want to allow naysayers to grab the spotlight on a project that would help the province as it struggles with an economic

crisis brought on by slumping oil prices.

“We see the impact of our current economic situation on everyone in our communities — our friends, our neighbours, business owners. We need to be a voice for them,” Holmes said Tuesday.

Holmes said the association’s main

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support us in our rallying cry, which is ‘Go East,”’ she said.

“Make sure that this project happens and stand up to some of the criticism that is being put forward.”

Calgary-based TransCanada Corp.’s (TSX:TRP) pipeline would carry 1.1 million barrels a day of crude from Alberta and Saskatchewan as far east as

We see the impact of our current economic situation on everyone in our communities — our friends, our neighbours, business owners. We need to be a voice for them.”

-— Lisa Holmes, Alberta Urban Municipalities Association

message is that Energy East is so important to Canada’s economic future that municipal groups across the country should speak out.

“We are stepping up and saying this is a national project and it needs help.

We are hoping that the other provincial associations will see that and will

Saint John, N.B., to serve domestic refineries and international customers.

The proposal has run into flak in Quebec where the mayors of Montreal and surrounding municipalities are arguing that environmental risks outweigh the economic rewards.

On Monday night protesters de-

nounced the pipeline at Quebec environmental hearings on the project.

Holmes said the association is to meet with federal cabinet ministers in Ottawa next month to follow up its lobbying efforts.

The president of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association said it supports Alberta’s call for communities to speak out in favour of Energy East.

Debra Button is also the mayor of Weyburn, a community in the heart of Saskatchewan’s struggling oilpatch.

“I support Alberta’s letter. I have received it. We are certainly feeling the downturn in the economy right now in the southeast corner of the province,” she said.

“Maybe we have stepped outside the box for what is a municipal issue, but this is too important to not step outside that box — to work toward the greater well-being.”

Last month, the Saskatchewan association passed a resolution that calls Energy East “integral to the economic prosperity of Western Canada and the entire country” and sent it to the federal government.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Refugee resettlement is driving a shift in Canada’s immigration plan for 2016 as the Liberal government seeks to admit record numbers of new permanent residents while backing away from a previous focus on skilled labour.

The Liberals are nearly doubling the number of humanitarian admissions, including tripling the number of spots for private sponsors, compared to the previous Conservative government, while also increasing available spaces in the family program compared to past years.

Increases in the two streams are driving the government’s maximum target for new permanent residents this year to 305,000, the highest in decades despite their planned decrease in economic immigration.

A maximum of 162,400 will be accepted, down about 24,000 people from last year’s high target, though it’s in line with the years before that.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said the plan is grounded in Canada’s tradition of being a welcoming and generous country.

“It outlines a significant shift in immigration policy towards reuniting more families, building our economy and upholding Canada’s humanitarian traditions to resettle refugees and offer protection to those in need,” McCallum told a news conference in Brampton, Ont. The head of the sponsorship agreement holders association, which oversees the privately sponsored refugees program, said the overall increase in refugee intake is good news. Private sponsors will now have up to 18,000 spots, compared to 6,500 under the Tories.

A total of 46,000 resettled refugees will be accepted overall.

Brian Dyck said he hopes it means the government is preparing to work though a backlog in private applications to sponsor refugees from Africa while also accepting applications for Syrians.

Private groups are also concerned about the caps the government is placing on where it will accept applications from. In previous years, there was no maximum for Syrians or Iraqis but it appears a cut-off will be set this year.

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The Exterior renovation to the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery is nearly complete. Executive director Lorna Johnson toured the exterior of the building Tuesday with architect John Hull, Corey Ellis of Phoenix construction and City of Red Deer representatives Keely Ennis and Rich Roberts. The new design elements on the building have replaced wooden features and will be adorned with graphic elements.

Canada BRIEFS Defence spending expected to fall despite Liberal promise to keep up with Tories OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget is not expected to commit to a broad increase in military spending, say several defence sources.

In fact, newly tabled fiscal planning documents suggest overall spending on the military could to shrink by almost $400 million in the coming year.

During the election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to maintain the former Conservative government’s defence spending levels and increase funding in 2017, as laid out in last year’s federal budget.

His government has been under pressure from allies to hike what it spends on defence, with both the United States and Britain asking Canada to aim for the NATO spending benchmark of two per cent of GDP. The demands have become particularly strident in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks last November, which killed 130 people.

Preliminary budget estimates for the coming year show the military is expected to end the year with a budget of just over $19 billion, but planned spending for fiscal 2016-17 amounts to $18.64 billion.

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National Defence routinely goes back and tops up its budget later in the year, but the amounts vary depending on what is going on in the world.

MPs vote to approve retooled mission against militants OTTAWA — The House of Commons formally took Canada out of the combat mission against the Islamic State in a vote on Tuesday, but it comes as senior U.S. military commanders warn that the planned campaign to free Iraq’s second-largest city will likely require more western military help, not less.

Thanks to the Liberal majority in the House, a motion in support of the reconfigured mission was passed by a margin of 178-147.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper, who presided over the launch of the original mission against ISIL, was on hand to vote against the motion.

The CF-18 fighter jets deployed to the Middle East in 2014 ended their bombing runs last month after the Liberals opted to focus instead on training local security forces and helping to rebuild the region.

The new mission increases the complement of military personnel to 830 people, up from 650, to provide planning, targeting and intelligence expertise.

The “train, advise and assist” mission also triples in size, including additional medical personnel and equipment including small arms, ammunition and optics to assist in training Iraqi security forces, mostly in the Kurdish north.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted from the outset that the mission does not constitute combat, although military officials have

acknowledged Canadian trainers will likely face “engagements” with enemy combatants.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said the rules laid down for trainers will give them the right to shoot first at extremists in a limited set of circumstances that fall under the umbrella of self defence.

Canadian bank note will feature a woman, Trudeau declares OTTAWA — When the next series of Canadian bank notes rolls off the presses in 2018, one of them will, for the first time ever, bear the portrait of a woman other than the Queen — and nominations are open now.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau marked International Women’s Day on Tuesday by launching the search for a new face for the currency.

“I am pleased to announce today, right here, that a Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the next series of bills expected in 2018,” Trudeau told a news conference marking the occasion.

Hazel McCallion, the firebrand political legend who served for 36 years as mayor of Mississauga, Ont., was on hand for the announcement.

“Finally, the Bank of Canada and the government has recognized it is time for a woman to be on,” McCallion said. “I’ve been helping the organization to do it.”

The bank is asking the public to nominate women deserving of the recognition, provided they meet the criteria. Submissions can be made on the bank’s website between now and April 15.

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UN, rights groups criticize draft plan on migrants

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — The United Nations and human rights groups voiced deep concerns Tuesday about the legality of the European Union’s plans to send thousands of migrants back to Turkey amid fears the country cannot properly provide for them.

EU and Turkish leaders agreed to the broad outlines of a deal that would essentially outsource Europe’s refugee emergency. People arriving in Greece having fled war or poverty would be sent back to Turkey unless they apply for asylum.

For every migrant sent back, the EU would take in one Syrian refugee, thus trying to prevent the need for people to set out on dangerous sea journeys, often arranged by unscrupulous smugglers.

Turkey stands to gain billions of dollars in refugee aid, faster EU membership talks and visa-free travel for its citizens within four months under the plan, whose details are to be worked out at a March 17 EU summit.

In another development, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said that as of midnight Tuesday, Slovenia will demand valid EU visas at its borders, effectively closing the main Balkans migration route to western Europe for thousands who have continued to cross from Turkey to Greece.

Under the outlines of the proposed deal reached in Brussels, migrants who enter Europe illegally will be sent back and have to join the end of the queue to enter Europe, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

But the UN and rights groups are not convinced that Turkey is a safe destination. More than 2.7 million refugees, many from Syria, are in Turkey.

Most are housed by Turkish families or live out in the open, and few have government-funded shelters.

“I am deeply concerned about any arrangement that would involve the blanket return of anyone from one country to another without spelling out the refugee protection safeguards,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told EU lawmakers.

LANSING, Mich. — Donald Trump swept to victory in the Mississippi and Michigan presidential primaries Tuesday, deepening his grip on the Republican nominating contest. Democrat Hillary Clinton easily carried Mississippi but was locked in a close race with rival Bernie Sanders in Michigan.

The primaries offered Trump and Clinton a chance to pad their leads and start turning toward the general election. But Sanders, a Vermont senator, was hoping to prevent a Clinton coronation with a strong showing in

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SPEECH: Job creation a priority The speech, which highlights government goals and priorities, was read in the legislature chamber by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell to officially open a new session of the legislature.

The sitting is expected to run until early June and will include the 2016-17 budget, which Finance Minister Joe Ceci announced will be delivered on April 14.

Ceci has already said the projected deficit could be $10 billion — double the amount of earlier forecasts.

Notley’s NDP government has resisted calls to cut public-sector jobs and services to reduce the red ink in lean times.

Instead, it has increased spending for health, education and social services and ramped up capital spending to boost the economy and build schools, roads and hospitals.

“I would reject the notion that we simply cover our ears, cover our eyes, cross our fingers and sit in a corner hoping that the economy recovers,” said Notley.

To that end, the government put forward as Bill 1, a plan to expand job creation and diversification.

The government now plans to work with its $23-billion credit-union system to encourage more such investment.

A climate change plan, introduced last year, is to be given regulatory teeth with legislation that will include a new broad-based carbon tax to begin Jan. 1.

Notley said Albertans will learn in the budget the cost details of the carbon levy.

The carbon tax, which is estimated to bring in $3 billion a year, is to be on everything from gas at the pumps to home heating and electricity bills.

The government estimates 60 per cent of Albertans will receive some level of rebate.

Opposition Wildrose Leader Bran Jean says the carbon tax is a misguided plan that builds on poor decisions made last year by Notley to hike corporate taxes and some personal income

Syria peace talks to begin soon

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Macedonian policemen closed a gate after a train passed near the refugee camp of Idomeni, at the Greek border with Macedonia, in Gevgelia, Macedonia, on Tuesday. Thousands of people remained stranded in the refugee camp at Idomeni hours after the European Union and Turkey failed to reach agreement on resolving the migration crisis. Around 1,000 people are expected to disembark on Tuesday in the Athens’ port of Piraeus and to continue north, toward Idomeni.

In Geneva, UNHCR Europe bureau director Vincent Cochetel told reporters that collective expulsion of foreigners is prohibited under international law.

Amnesty International also warned

that the plan, whose details are to be worked out at a March 17 summit in Brussels, is legally flawed. Europe’s attempt to have Turkey designated as a safe country is “alarmingly shortsighted and inhumane,” the group said.

Trump, Clinton continue to dominate primaries

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Michigan, the night’s biggest prize and the first Midwestern industrial state to vote in the 2016 race.

With votes in Michigan still being counted, Clinton glossed over her contest with Sanders and jabbed at the Republicans and their chaotic nomination fight.

“Every time you think it can’t get any uglier, they find a way,” she said.

“As the rhetoric keeps sinking lower, the stakes in this election keep rising.”

Trump, too, turned an eye toward the Democrats and the November election, emphasizing the importance of helping Republican senators and House members get elected. Having

Budget will be delivered April 14 EDMONTON — Finance Minister Joe Ceci says Alberta’s budget will come down on April 14.

Ceci made the announcement on the first day of the legislature session.

He has already signalled it will not be a good news day.

taxes.

“The NDP government outlined in today’s speech that they are doubling down on their ideological approach to the economy,” said Jean.

PC Leader Ric McIver said the diversification initiatives, outlined in the government’s flagship Bill 1 legislation, are too vague.

“All it does is enable the (Economic Development) minister to do some stuff later without deciding what the stuff is,” said McIver.

Greg Clark of the Alberta Party said the throne speech delivered nothing on how the government will get spending under control.

“They’ve given up any pretense to try to balance the budget,” said Clark.

Rules are also planned to stop payday loan outfits from charging what the government terms unfairly punitive interest rates.

entered Tuesday’s contests facing a barrage of criticism from rival candidates and outside groups, he reveled in overcoming the attacks.

“Every single person who has attacked me has gone down,” Trump said at one of his Florida resorts. In his typically unorthodox style, the billionaire real estate mogul was flanked by tables packed with his retail products.

While a handful of recent losses to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have raised questions about Trump’s durability, Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals to slow his momentum.

The deficit for 2016-17 was originally forecast to be about $5.4 billion, but Ceci now says it could be double that, to $10 billion.

He says the rebound in oil prices has not happened as forecast, forcing his department to make some difficult decisions.

The government, in the throne speech, promises renewed initiatives this spring to grow and diversify the economy and get it off what people have called the oil-price roller coaster. sign,” Wheeliker said about the survey results released on Monday.

However since last fall, the Red Deer emergency shelter has been consistently busy and more women are accessing outreach programs and services, he said.

“Definitely we’ve talked to a lot of families that are experiencing crisis for the first time in a long time, or the

first time ever.”

Unfortunately, survey results also showed the rape culture is still a concern.

“There’s still a lot of men, in the 40 per cent range, who think women make false allegations about rape and the research doesn’t really support that.

Around three per cent of rapes get reported and go to trial,” Wheeliker said.

Yelling is also a common way that couples fight and it’s not a healthy relationship practice, he said.

“It’s a milder form of abuse, but it still can have an abusive impact and a detrimental impact on the development of children.”

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SURVEY: Positive trends “I think what this says is that there is space and there is a place in community for men to take even more action and to become full participants, shoulder-to-shoulder with women in terms of tackling gender equality and domestic violence.”

He said the telephone survey of 1,478 men including 200 in Central Alberta, was conducted between Jan. 29 and Feb. 14 so it also provided a snapshot during the current economic crisis.

“Even during really tough times for Albertans, we still saw some really positive trends in terms of gender equality and recognition and action on domestic violence, so that is a good

GENEVA — The U.N. envoy for Syria will begin holding “substantive” peace talks with both Syrian government officials and opposition representatives no later than next Monday even as preparations toward the discussions get underway this week in Geneva, a spokeswoman for the envoy said Tuesday.

The resumption of Syria peace talks has been expected ever since a U.S.-Russia-engineered cease-fire, which has sharply reduced bloodshed in the five-year war, took effect on Feb. 27. The truce — though limited and tentative — has mostly held, even as sporadic violence has continued.

Staffan de Mistura was still planning for the talks to officially start Wednesday, but logistics and other issues have meant that delegations are likely to arrive in Geneva over several days, spokeswoman Jessy Chahine said. Meanwhile, the U.N. envoy is to convene Wednesday two separate panels aimed at monitoring the truce and pushing for humanitarian aid shipments.

The three-track diplomatic push has become the most promising, if distant, hope in years to end a war that has cost over 250,000 lives, driven 11 million people from their homes, and given an opening to radical groups like the Islamic State and Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, to seize land.

Those groups have been excluded from the diplomatic efforts.

Opposition leaders have set conditions before they agree to rejoin the peace talks, and it is not yet certain whether they would indeed attend. However, some members of the High Negotiations Committee, a Saudi-backed group of opposition movements, were set to attend the “cessation of hostilities” task force meeting on Wednesday.

De Mistura “will start substantive meetings with those who are in Geneva,” by March 14 at the latest, Chahine told reporters. She said the peace talks would resume “in a staggered and proximity system,” meaning that they are to take place in various phases and not face-to-face, at least initially.

While the cease-fire has significantly reduced the violence, reports of sporadic fighting continued.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said fighting killed more civilians in the past two days than in the previous eight days combined. It said 80 civilians died in fighting in ceasefire areas since the truce took effect 10 days ago — more than half of them in the past two days.

The official Syrian news agency SANA said government forces repelled an assault on a strategic position south of the contested city of Aleppo. The Observatory said Nusra Front fighters led the assault on Al-Eis hill on Monday night, but did not capture it.

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“We’re lagging behind other countries” RESOURCE ECONOMY PARTLY TO BLAME FOR POOR GENDER DIVERSITY ON BOARDS: CIBC CEO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The CEO of CIBC says Canada’s resource-centric economy is partly to blame for the country falling behind others when it comes to increasing the number of women who sit on corporate boards.

“We’ve made progress, but I think we’re lagging behind other countries, and that’s probably the greatest concern that I have,” Victor Dodig said Tuesday during a panel discussion about women in business at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Ratings and research firm GMI Rating ranks Canada 15th out of 23 industrialized economies in terms of gender diversity on corporate boards, according to a report from the Canadian Board Diversity Council issued late last year.

That’s a steep decline from 2009, when Canada was in sixth place.

Dodig said one of the reasons why Canada has fallen behind is because the country’s economy is “heavily tilted” towards the mining, energy and real estate sectors.

“We haven’t attracted women to those industries, particularly mining and energy — particularly in the engineering fields, the science fields — like we have in some of the other sectors that represent the country,” Dodig said.

Women occupy only 12.2 per cent of board seats at Canada’s biggest mining, oil and gas companies, according to a report released late last year by the Canadian Board Diversity Council. That’s compared to an average of 19.5 per cent across all industries.

Attracting top talent — including female talent — will become critical as Canada’s economy continues to shift more towards the service sector, Dodig said.

“The service sector economy is highly, highly dependent on human capital input,” Dodig said. “If we’re going to be successful as a country, we need to make this happen.”

Dodig was joined by two other panelists — Alex Johnston, the former head of women’s advocacy group Catalyst Canada, and Howard Wetston, the former chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission — at the event, which was held on International Women’s Day. Johnston, the incoming vice-president of strategy and public affairs at CBC, said that while board diversity is important, it’s only one piece of the puzzle.

“At the end of the day, the conversation is not about whether we get 25, 30 or 35 per cent of women on boards,” Johnston said. “That’s a proxy for how we’re doing.”

Several female business leaders present at Tuesday’s event noted the importance of engaging men in conversations about gender diversity.

“This is not a women’s issue, it is about getting the best talent, and that should be a priority for every leader,” said Jennifer Reynolds, the president and CEO of advocacy group Women in Capital Markets.

Biofuels industry facing increasing headwinds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Canada’s biofuels industry is facing significant headwinds even as interest grows in ways to reduce carbon emissions.

A combination of low oil prices, the end of a biofuels incentive program, continued competition from U.S. imports, lack of infrastructure, and stricter fuel efficiency regulations are all expected to be barriers to growth in the industry.

Production could even go down, with the International Energy Agency predicting in its latest five-year outlook that Canada’s ethanol production will plunge 38 per cent, from about 1.68 billion litres a year in 2015 to around 1.04 billion litres by 2020 because of those headwinds.

Andrea Kent, president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, said in an email that she disagrees with that outlook.

“Canada continues to be well positioned to be a leader in renewable fuels,” said Kent.

She said biofuels are well placed to help governments achieve carbon reductions, and is pushing to increase the required amounts of biodiesel in gasoline from two per cent to five.

“This presents an ideal opportunity to leverage the successful biofuels mandates to help governments reach those ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets,” said Kent.

But Environment and Climate Change Canada spokeswoman Natalie Huneault said the department “has no plans to make changes to the federal Renewable Fuels Regulations at this time.”

The government has also confirmed that the ecoENERGY biofuels program, which paid producers

an extra per-litre rate to encourage more domestic production, will expire as planned in 2017.

Despite the program, Canada has never produced enough ethanol to meet the five per cent federal blending mandate, and imports hundreds of millions of litres a year from the U.S. to help supply the 2.2 billion litres of ethanol needed.

And some question how effective increasing production would actually be on reducing carbon emissions.

“I would argue it’s a short-term solution to a long-term problem, and isn’t really where we need to go,” said David Layzell, director of the Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research Initiative at the University of Calgary.

He’s looked at the life cycle impact of ethanol on carbon emissions and said it doesn’t offer significant overall savings.

Estimates of actual carbon reductions vary, but the U.S. Energy Department says corn-based ethanol reduces carbon emissions 19 per cent on average compared with gasoline, and can be as much as 52 per cent.

How much that carbon reduction costs is also up for debate, with Layzell saying in some cases it could cost as much as $800 per tonne of carbon reduction.

“I would argue that may not be worth it,” said Layzell.

Biodiesel is more effective at reducing emissions, but it suffers from poor economies of scale and the IEA is forecasting largely flat production in Canada of 348 million litres a year for the next five years.

Ian Thomson, president of the Western Canada Biodiesel Association, said the fuel would be able to compete without incentives if governments put a real price on carbon, one that is multiples above the $30 a

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I would argue it’s a short-term solution to a long-term problem, and isn’t really where we need to go.”

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tonne being proposed.

“If you had a real cost of carbon you wouldn’t need any quote unquote subsidies for biofuels, because you’d have a level playing field,” said Thomson.

He said biofuels are important because they offer a proven and immediate solution to carbon emissions.

“Biofuels can deliver really significant reductions right now. And there’s room for more of them,” said Thomson.

Natural Resources Canada spokeswoman Tania Carreira-Pereira said in an email that the government may yet consider new policies for biofuels, as discussions continue on Canada’s framework to address climate change.

“Consideration of the transportation sector, including the role of that alternative fuels can play to meet these commitments, will be part of these ongoing discussions,” she said.

Plenty to consider when planning for retirement DEREK FUCHS WEALTH WATCH “Derek, I’m getting ready to retire, what should I keep in mind?”

In this ever changing market, it is best to do some serious thinking before retiring. Your investment portfolio is only one factor and it is important to consider other aspects you may not have thought of. I’ve helped transition many hardworking Albertans to retirement and I can say that every client situation is as unique as the client themselves. It all depends on your interests and how you envision your retirement.

I have heard numerous stories from clients who have worked for 30 years or more and once retire suddenly realize that their weekly routine is completely changed. In short, they eventually miss going to work every day and the social aspect of being around co-workers and clients.

What we know is that retirement is changing. Canadians are now lead-

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ing longer, healthier, and more active lives. Many can expect to live two or three decades during their retired years. The average Canadian now lives past age 80, and if you and your partner are age 65 today, there is a 63% chance that one of you will live to age 90. So you need to ask yourself, what am I going to do with all that time?

Most of us expect to spend those two or three decades pursuing some kind of fulfilling activity. Increasingly, many seniors choose to stay active in the workforce. By staying active, they continue to feel productive and enjoy contributing to society – sometimes the most valuable aspect of continuing to work is socializing with others.

Recent studies have even indicated that retirees who have remained in the workforce to some degree maintain cognitive abilities and have better physical dexterity than their fully retired counterparts.

Of course, money has a lot to do with the decision to keep working as well. The recent market decline has some people postponing retirement, or perhaps they have suddenly found themselves without a job and wondering if they can retire. You should spend some time with a qualified ad-

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visor understanding what you actually need for income in retirement and ensure that money won’t be a concern. In addition, some people are feeling the squeeze of being the “sandwich generation” whereby they are supporting their children and their parents. You may want to consider your family situation before cashing your final paycheque.

My best advice is to know that retirement is an open book. You need to ask yourself some very important questions – how do you want to spend your time? Where do you want to live?

What’s most important to you?

One option is to continue to work, but with more flexibility. For example, you might stay on with your current employer, but work part-time, or from home. I know a number of clients who have even stayed on as a consultant which allows them to schedule their own work days and create their own hours – all while maintaining the relationships and paycheque. This decision should not just be about money, consider the social aspect of your job as well.

Perhaps you could start a new business or a new career. Retirement can provide you the flexibility to pursue

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what you’ve always really wanted to do. Some of my clients have chosen to work at a golf course, others restore (and sell) vintage automobiles, I even know one gentlemen who spends his time working at a ski hill so he gets free lift tickets. The possibilities here are endless.

Many retirees choose to give back to our community by volunteering their time. We all have valuable experience that we can share with various groups.

Consider joining a committee, board, or a charitable group that matches your interests. Whatever it is, ensure it keeps you involved and engaged.

Whatever your vision of retirement, the financial foundation is required to make it all possible. When you’re ready, take some time to review your assets and work with an advisor to create a plan – the next two to three decades of your life will thank you.

Happy investing!

Derek Fuchs is a Senior Wealth Advisor with Scotia Wealth Management in Red Deer and holds the designations of Chartered Investment Manager, Certified Financial Planner, Financial Management Advisor, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.

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BUSINESS MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets tumbled at the close Tuesday amid lower energy and metal prices and fresh concerns over the growth of China’s economy.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index snapped an eight-day winning streak by ending the day 72.55 points lower at 13,311.05, weighed down by metals and mining, energy and gold stocks.

Metals stocks were the biggest decliner, falling by 7.32 per cent, with shares in miner First Quantum being biggest loser. Its stock was down 16 per cent, or $1.17, at $6.12 per share.

Overnight, China reported that its exports plunged 25 per cent last month from a year earlier. The world’s second biggest economy blamed the weakness on falling global demand and the shutdown during the Lunar New Year holiday for the lower sales. Analysts were expecting poor trade data because of the holiday, but the figure is a bigger miss than they had anticipated.

The data pulled down copper prices, as the May contract declined six cents to US$2.22 a pound. The Canadian dollar lost more than two-thirds of a cent, down 0.78 at 74.54 cents US. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 109.85 points at 16,964.10, while the broader S&P 500 index dropped 22.50 points to 1,979.26. The Nasdaq composite gave up 59.43 points at 4,648.82.

John Wilson, chief executive at Sprott Asset Management, said the declines do not come as a surprise because markets

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have enjoyed a good run in recent weeks and were inevitably going to pull back sometime.

The Bank of Canada is expected to deliver its latest interest rate decision on Wednesday.

It’s widely anticipated that the central bank will hold its overnight rate at 0.5 per cent, amid positive yet still tepid signs of economic growth.

All eyes will also be on the latest policy meeting of the European Central Bank. Investors are expecting ECB President Mario Draghi to confirm that inflation across the 19-country eurozone has fallen back below zero, and that there will be further stimulus from the central bank.

The losses on Bay and Wall Streets came as commodities pulled back. The April crude oil contract fell US$1.40 to US$36.50 a barrel, while the April gold contract dipped $1.10 at US$1,262.90 a troy ounce.

The price of April natural gas gained two cents at US$1.71 per mmBtu. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,311.05, down 72.55 points Dow — 16,964.10, down 109.85 points S&P 500 — 1,979.26, down 22.50 points Nasdaq — 4,648.82, down 59.43 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.54 cents US, down 0.78 of a cent Pound — C$1.9066, up 1.26

Business BRIEFS Financial Consumer Agency of Canada raises concerns about longer car loans OTTAWA — The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada is raising concerns about the growth in longterm car loans which may have lower monthly payments, but cost more in interest. In a report Tuesday, the agency said loans to buy new trucks and cars with terms of more than six years have become a growing trend, posing risks for buyers.

“Consumers must carefully examine their needs and their financial situation to ensure they can repay their car loans without undue strain, and with a full appreciation of the total interest charges and value of the car throughout the loan period,” agency commissioner Lucie Tedesco said in a statement. Making car payments over six or seven years instead of five years reduces the monthly payment because it spreads the repayment of the loan over a longer period. However, the loans end up being more expensive for borrowers because they pay interest for a longer period of time.

Long-term loans are especially expensive for borrowers with low credit scores, who may pay higher interest rates.

The agency said it was working to ensure consumers receive the information they need before agreeing to a car loan and developing new online material to help borrowers.

Its report follows a record year of auto sales in Canada. Drivers bought nearly 1.9 million new cars and trucks last year.The agency said that due in part to the allure of lower monthly payments, the country’s long-term auto finance market has nearly doubled in the last eight years.

It also noted the average new car loan last year had a term longer than

cents Euro — C$1.4764, up 1.43 cents Euro — US$1.1005, down 0.08 of a cent Oil futures: US$36.50 per barrel, down $1.40 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,262.90 per oz., down $1.10 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.459 oz., down 34.7 cents $689.91 kg., down $11.15 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $0.60 higher $455.80 May ‘16 $0.60 higher $457.80 July ‘16 $0.10 lower $462.30 Nov. ‘16 $0.70 lower $469.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.70 lower $474.30 March ‘17 $0.70 lower $476.80 May ‘17 $0.70 lower $476.10 July ‘17 $0.70 lower $475.60 Nov. ‘17 $0.70 lower $469.20 Jan. ‘18 $0.70 lower $469.20 March ‘18 $0.70 lower $469.20.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $174.00 May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 unchanged $176.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $176.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $176.00 March ‘17 unchanged $176.00 May ‘17 unchanged $176.00 July ‘17 unchanged $176.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $176.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $176.00 March ‘18 unchanged $176.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 242,460 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 242,460.

72 months, up from approximately 65 months in 2010.

Despite the longer loans, many consumers are still changing their vehicles every four years or so, while still owing on their previous vehicle, the agency said, adding that the outstanding balance on the previous loan is typically rolled into the loan for the new vehicle.

Imperial Oil to sell Esso stations to five fuel distributors for $2.8 billion CALGARY — Imperial Oil says it has reached deals to sell its remaining 497 Esso retail stations in Canada to five fuel distributors for a total of $2.8 billion.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is set to buy 279 stations in Ontario and Quebec for nearly $1.69 billion.

Meanwhile, 7-Eleven Canada Inc. is buying 148 stations in Alberta and British Columbia, Harnois Groupe petrolier buying 36 in Quebec and Wilson Fuel Co. Ltd. buying 17 in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Parkland Fuel Corp. says it will buy 17 Esso stations, and is also buying Imperial’s On the Run/Marche Express convenience store franchise system.

Imperial (TSX:IMO), majority owned

by U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp., said it would continue to supply fuel to the stations and that the distributors would be better placed to increase sales.

“We believe these agreements represent the best way for Imperial to grow in the highly competitive Canadian fuels marketing business,” said Imperial CEO Rich Kruger.

Roughly two-thirds of the 1,700 Esso stations across Canada have been operated by wholesalers for about 15 years, with the remainder of the Esso stations now set to follow the same model. Imperial said Esso’s marketing and loyalty programs will continue unchanged and the sales are expected to close by the end of 2016.

A spokeswoman for Imperial said the company will use the cash to fund its dividend and growth projects, as well as return cash to shareholders through share buy backs.

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Eliminating the ‘I know’ mentality JOHN MACKENZIE BUSINESS BASICS

The past eighteen months have presented challenges for all business. The global economic conditions, plus the energy sector free-fall, have created very specific issues. New federal and provincial governments have been slow to react to these issues. So far there are few concrete initiatives, and only vague outlines of long-term planning.

There is no denying that we face uncertain times right now, in some sectors more than others. And, there are some business owners that have lost business directly because of the current economic conditions. However, there are many businesses in Central Alberta that are actually growing.

In many cases, the big picture issues consume our attention and takes energy away from the regular, day-today practises that directly impact our business. Are we focusing and making decisions based on a broad base of reliable facts, or through personal opinions presented by pundits and so-called experts?

For those of you that have raised kids (or you can recall your own formative years), there is a certain stage in a teenager’s life when they think they KNOW everything. It usually takes a few more years, and a few life lessons along the way, until we understand we really don’t know everything.

Many small business owners, particularly entrepreneurs, have achieved success based on ingenuity and many years of hard work. Several have mentored with either a family member or another individual who “taught them everything they know” about business.

It’s normal for me to listen to people that are frustrated (and afraid) that they no longer are able to control results. One of the most challenging attitudes I encounter as a coach is the “I know” mentality. They can’t get past that what used to work isn’t working now.

Part of my role as a coach is to get

business owners to set aside their “I know” attitude and look at things differently. It’s a process that not all people are willing to go through. But it’s imperative to analyze the current realities and then come to terms that their attitude may need to change. Many know their trade, but they struggle with key business operations.

It’s hard to accept that your attitude may be standing in the way of progress. The “I know” mindset cripples productive thinking. It limits beliefs and the ability to think in new and creative ways, which in turn can sabotage business.

This economy has taught me that what brought me business in the past won’t bring me business now. Business is different. However, people are still buying products and services. Sitting back and waiting for customers to show up isn’t realistic.

Now is the time for business owners to recognize they just might not know everything. It’s time to commit to finding new ways to increase their knowledge, develop new skill sets, and commit 100 per cent to developing new strategies for their business to achieve success.

A sure way to fail in both your personal and professional life is to state that you know all there is to know.

It’s the right time to redirect time and attention to situations within your control. Be proactive, not reactive. It’s time to differentiate your product or service from that of your competition and explore new opportunities. You might need to learn new things, implement new ideas. It may be wise to invest in sales and customer service training. It’s the perfect time to renew focus and get back to quarterly planning and reach new goals.

Basically, many businesses are faced with a new, uncharted landscape. This economy is for creative, open-minded enthusiastic business owners that can admit that they may not know for certain, but are determined to make their business successful regardless of what challenges they must overcome.

John MacKenzie is a certified business coach and authorized partner/facilitator. He can be reached at john@thebusinesstraininghub.com.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Our Nanny Has 3rd World Breath Dear Dr. D: We recently hired a nanny from overseas. She is polite, cute, and works well with our children. Although she seems to always be popping some kind of breath mint, her breath is nothing but horrid. Even my 2 year said it is 'stinky'. I know she brushes her teeth (the 'mom' trick of checking for wet toothbrushes). Whatever could be the problem here?

A: We see most bad breath originating in the mouth – probably 90% of all cases. If she regularly brushes, flosses, cleans her tongue, and has professional cleaning it will likely help with the problem. If that fails to solve it, there is a good chance she has gum disease. It is very common, and typically begins as inflammation but may deteriorate to infection of the gums and occasionally reaches the bone underneath. If the bone becomes infected, it may deteriorate and there is a chance she will lose teeth.

Numerous factors all come into play. Inconsistent oral hygiene is the usual culprit, although genetics can play a role. Alcohol or tobacco use can compound her difficulty. Symptoms may be bleeding gums. Some minor bleeding is common when flossing your teeth. Sometimes patients who are using a brush with abnormally hard bristles can aggravate their situation and we usually send them home with a softer brush. If bleeding persists, the gums may be inflamed from some bacteria buildup. Gingivitis is a mild form of gum disease experienced by many people. If left unchecked, it may develop into more serious forms of gum disease and I would recommend getting her in to see a dentist.

Depending on which culture she originates from, there are some strange ideas out there regarding oral health. Some believe that losing teeth is perfectly normal and problems can really run rampant if left unchecked. It's a crying shame because it is usually completely preventable. The breath mint option can do more harm than good. Some contain sugar which compounds the problems.

They make your mouth taste better (rather than smell better). This is a billion dollar industry in the USA alone. TV advertising showing young couples falling in love – all because someone quaffed a breath mint – sell a boatload of that product. The sugar provides food for bacteria, and gives off noxious sulphides as their byproduct of digestion which leave your mouth smelling like a sewer. Sugar free mints are more of a masking agent, no substitute for a toothbrush either. It does sound like her problem is more serious than what brushing alone will correct. After all, her toothbrush is wet – correct Detective Mom? Do all of you a favour, especially her - take her in to see your dentist.

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Helewka leads Rebels over Raiders

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 6 Raiders 2 Based on the first five minutes of the game, it wasn’t looking like the Red Deer Rebels’ night.

But, a seven minute penalty kill, a sprawling glove save to stop a breakaway — preserving what was then a one goal lead — and four goals in six minutes to close out the second period turned the night around.

After working out some kinks early, the Rebels took hold of the game and cruised to a 6-2 win over the visiting Prince Albert Raiders.

Leading the way was Adam Helewka with two goals and an assist. His goals, included the tying and go-ahead goal, which came within three minutes of each other in the second period.

“We faced a bit of adversity there going down two, but we bounced back really well and took over the game,” said Helewka.

Helewka found the net twice starting with the tying goal at 13:40 of the second period with a wrap around goal that caught Raiders goalie Ian Scott out of position.

It wasn’t long before Helewka scored his second goal of the night after a giveaway at the Raiders blue line. With no one in front of him and a clear path to the goalie, he had time to get the puck to his backhand and put it over Scott’s shoulder and into the net. The goal put the Rebels ahead for the first time in the game.

Two minutes later Rebels goalie Trevor Martin kept his team on top. He stopped a break away with a quick glove hand, holding it in front of the goal-line as he was pushed back into the net.

“He made some big saves,” said Rebels head coach/GM Brent Sutter. “In the second period he stopped a breakaway, at the time the score was 3-2, and we capitalized right after.”

Before Helewka could put them ahead, the team had to rally and kill seven minutes of penalties.

Hayden Fleury was given a five minute major and an early exit from the game after a check from behind at 4:51 of the second. After shattering his stick at the point on a power play, Jordan Tkatch had a clear path to the Rebels net from the Raiders side of the red line. With Fleury in pursuit, he knocked Tkatch from behind, sending the Raiders forward headlong into Martin. Martin stayed in the game, but Tkatch was done for the night.

“We take a two minute minor near the end of it (five minute penalty) and all of a sudden we’re down on a five-on-three,” said Sutter. “We made a big kill right after that. It was a turning point in the game.”

Just seconds away from killing off the five minute major, Colton Bobyk drew a high sticking minor. The Rebels special teams stood tall and killed the entire

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Prince Albert Raider Simon Stransky gives chase as Red Deer Rebel Adam Helewka breaks in on the Raiders end during first period action at the Centrium, Tuesday night. extended Raiders powerplay.

With less than 50 seconds to go in the second period three Rebels bunched up at the blue line walked into the zone with Michael Spacek carrying the puck.

He had a clear path into the slot and fired a wrist shot over Scott’s blocker.

Then, 25 seconds later, Brandon Hagel knocked a pass in, putting the Rebels up 5-2.

Scott was done for the night after a rough third period, surrendering five goals on 11 shots.

The Rebels got on the board early in the second period with a powerplay squeaker. Fleury’s point shot hit the post, bounced off the back of Scott and trickled across the line. After a quick review it was ruled a goal and the Rebels got back into the game.

The hole the Rebels dug for themselves started in the opening five minutes, giving up two goals early.

Tkatch opened up the scoring for the Raiders 1:28

into the first period when he deflected Loch Morrison’s point shot. It squirted through Martin’s and into the back of the net.

Luke Coleman’s wrister from the slot beat Martin glove side to jump out to an early 2-0 lead, less than five minutes into the first period.

Rebels sixth goal of the night was a defelcted pass

by Grayson Pawlenchuk off of Budik’s skate and past Parenteau. That goal came with less than two minutes to play in the third period.

The Rebels now have a few days off before a crucial home and home series against the division leading Lethbridge Hurricanes. The Hurricanes trounced the Kootenay Ice 7-2, Tuesday night. The Rebels are on the road in Lethbridge on Friday night before returning home on Saturday night for a 7 p.m. faceoff at the Enmax Centrium. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Reimer leads Sharks to shutout win over Oilers

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San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer makes the save against the Edmonton Oilers during third period NHL action in Edmonton, on Tuesday.

Sharks 3 Oilers 0 EDMONTON — The San Jose Sharks continue to show why they’re the NHL’s top road team.

Former Red Deer Rebel James Reimer made 31 saves to record his first shutout of the season and Logan Couture had a pair of goals as San Jose blanked the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 on Tuesday night to improve its road record to an impressive 25-9-3.

“I thought we played a real solid road game,” said Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer. “We got great goaltending from Rimes when we needed it and it was a tidy game from my perspective.”

It was Reimer’s first shutout since Oct. 29, 2013, also against the Oilers.

“I semi-remember it, but it might have been a while ago,” said Reimer, who was acquired by the Sharks in a deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs shortly before the NHL trade deadline. “It’s nice to get another one.”

Joe Pavelski also scored for San Jose (37-23-6), which won its second in a row. The Sharks have now won five of their last six games and have gone 19-5-4 since Jan. 9.

Cam Talbot kicked out 19-of-22 shots for Edmonton (26-36-7), which had won four of its previous five games. “(James) Reimer made some good saves, but we missed the net on some really good chances and I think that’s a reflection on our game,” said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan. “We didn’t have a lot of polish, we couldn’t put two passes together. On

three-on-ones we were falling down, the first goal on Cam, he usually handles that. To a man we weren’t really polished. We couldn’t find a combination of five players who were sharp at any given point.”

The Sharks started the scoring just 1:33 into the game as a puck bounced around before landing between the legs of Talbot, who spun around in vain trying to find it before Couture swatted it into the net.

San Jose went up 2-0 with a power-play goal at 15:50 of the first as Couture picked the top corner with a wrist shot from the face-off dot for his 10th of the season. Pavelski, the Sharks captain, gave his team a three-goal lead with six minutes left in the second period, tipping a Paul Martin shot past Talbot for his 31st of the season.

Edmonton had some chances in the final period, but couldn’t get a puck past Reimer.

San Jose wasn’t impressed with a play late in the game where Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse jumped Roman Polak. Nurse was trying to get even for an earlier play where Polak hit Edmonton’s Matt Hendricks heavily into the boards.

“He was trying to change and Nurse has the puck, shoots it at him, then drops his gloves and jumps him,” said Couture. “Roman didn’t even have his gloves off. Our guy was already on the ice, because Roman was coming off and then Nurse starts punching him. Roman couldn’t even defend himself. It’s clearly an instigator, and I’m sure he’ll be suspended.”

Both teams are back at it on Thursday, as the Oilers make a one-game trip to Minnesota and the Sharks return home to host New Jersey.

Northern Ontario rink leads facial hair charge - and standings too TIM HORTONS BRIER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — If the bulging biceps don’t do it, the mountain man beards might do the trick.

The glowing resumes of Brad Jacobs and his Northern Ontario crew are intimidating enough.

Tack on some top-flight facial hair to go with their imposing physiques and the visual battle is over before the first rock is thrown.

Fear the Beard is a buzz term at the Tim Hortons Brier and with good reason. Jacobs is sporting a thick beard and teammates Ryan Fry and Ryan Harnden aren’t far behind for the unbeaten rink.

“The hairline is not getting any better so I figure if I can’t grow it on top, maybe I’ll grow it on my face,” Jacobs said Tuesday after picking up his fifth round-robin win.

He had never grown a full beard until giving it a try last year. Jacobs got past the “itchy stage” over the holiday season and admits he likes it now.

“It was pretty big before we came here — as big as I’ve ever had it,” Jacobs said. “I had to trim it because it was getting on my nerves a little bit.”

Second E.J. Harnden is the only clean-shaven one of the bunch. Brother Ryan handles lead duties while Fry throws third stones for the reigning Olym-

pic champions.

They all look like they’ve come to TD Place straight from the gym. Jacobs sets the tone with a fierce steely gaze on the ice and it’s usually matched by his teammates.

The addition of a thick ginger-coloured beard on the skip’s face offers a fresh wrinkle to a team loaded with intensity.

“He’s definitely an A-type personality and he goes full into it,” Fry said. “You’ve got to give the guy credit. He wanted to grow a playoff beard for the Brier and he did it. He doesn’t do anything half-assed.

“When he says he’s growing a beard, he’s growing a frigging beard.”

The fans have been showing them love this week.

Moose calls rang out through the 8,200-seat venue when they completed a 6-2 win over Prince Edward Island’s Adam Casey 6-2 on Tuesday morning.

The 2013 Brier champs improved to 6-0 later in the day with an 8-3 rout of Alberta’s Kevin Koe. “We’re making sure that every time that we step on the ice — from the first rock to the last rock — we’re giving it everything we have and trying to leave it all on the ice,” Jacobs said. “That’s what we’re doing.”

Their camaraderie is evident on and off the ice and they’re quick to joke around when they get the chance.

Fry seemed to thoroughly enjoy talking about the beard hype. He said he essentially let his stubble grow out for a week longer than normal to give Ja-

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cobs some facial hair company.

“I was trying to take a little bit of the heat off of Brad because he looks so horrible,” Fry said with a laugh. “That’s what best friends do. When your buddy is in the trenches, the good buddies jump on that grenade for him.

“I just wanted to make sure to take some of the onus off of him so that he wasn’t too embarrassed, so that’s what I did.”

In afternoon play Tuesday, Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock held off Casey 8-5, Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador topped Koe 4-3 and Team Canada’s Pat Simmons doubled B.C.’s Jim Cotter 8-4.

Koe’s brother Jamie and his Northwest Territories teammates recorded their first win with an 8-5 victory over Ontario’s Glenn Howard.

In the evening, Manitoba’s Mike McEwen beat Simmons 6-4, New Brunswick’s Mike Kennedy edged Laycock 7-6 and Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard defeated Howard 9-5.

Jacobs led the standings at 6-0 after 10 draws and Gushue was in second place at 5-1. McEwen was alone in third place at 4-2.

Simmons and Kevin Koe were next at 4-3. They were followed by Menard at 3-3 and Howard and Laycock at 3-4.

Round-robin play continues through Friday and the medal games are scheduled for Sunday. The Brier champion will represent Canada at the world men’s curling championship next month in Basel, Switzerland.

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SPORTS

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

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Focus shifts from one Eagles to another BENTLEY GENERALS PLAYS STONY PLAIN AFTER EMOTIONAL SERIES WIN OVER INNISFAIL

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF In the jubilation of a game seven overtime winning goal, Bentley Generals coach Ryan Tobler nearly suplexed assistant captain Kyle Bailey onto the ice.

“He made such a big difference for our team coming back and playing the way he did,” said Tobler. “He’s not the only guy who did, there were some big efforts and guys stepping up at crucial times.”

Tobler grabbed hold of Bailey, the closest guy to him and almost lifted him over his head. The feeling of exuberance ran throughout the bench and onto the ice after Colton Hayes buried the goal less than three minutes into

SPRING TRAINING

Floyd makes another strong start in Jays win over Twins

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Gavin Floyd pitched three strong innings and prospect Darrell Ceciliani hit a long grand slam, leading the Toronto Blue Jays past a Minnesota Twins split squad 9-3 on Tuesday.

Floyd, in the mix for the fifth spot in Toronto’s rotation, allowed one hit, a solo shot by Korean slugger Byung Ho Park in the second. He also struck out two.

Floyd said he felt his mechanics were much better than his first start when he allowed a run in two innings against the Pirates. He has been limited to just 21 games since 2013 because of elbow issues.

“My focus was to take what I did the first time and work on throwing strikes,” he said. “The key to this game is to try and get outs as quick as possible and pound the zone, and I want to take that approach into this game and attack. That’s how I pitch.”

Ceciliani connected in the first off Tyler Duffey after the Minnesota starter allowed singles to Troy Tulowitzki, AL MVP Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak to load the bases.

David Adams homered and Smoak added an RBI double for the Blue Jays in the fifth.

Minnesota’s Miguel Sano hit a tworun homer in the seventh.

After being roughed up for five runs in the first, Duffey finished strong, retiring six straight to cap his three innings of work. The right-hander walked two and struck out one.

Floyd said his injury troubles the last three years have given him a new outlook on the game. The 33-year-old had elbow ligament-replacement surgery while with the White Sox in 2013, then sustained a stress fracture in his elbow twice in as many seasons.

“When you’re able to pitch again, it’s like you’re a kid again,” he said.

“You definitely have an appreciation for being out there. I’m very fortunate to be able to throw.”

Edwin Encarnacion, out since after having an abscessed tooth pulled on Feb. 28, participated in drills Monday and could make his exhibition debut by the start of next week.

PGA Tour golfer Jason Dufner stopped by as a special guest of Donaldson and participated in batting practice. Dressed in a Blue Jays uniform and wearing No. 69, the 38-yearold took some swings before the game.

He also shagged flyballs in the outfield with Donaldson, a good friend and fellow Auburn University alumnus, who played with Dufner in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am last month.

overtime.

Bailey, for his part, scored two goals for the Generals, en route to a 5-4 overtime win over the visiting Innisfail Eagles.

The Bentley Generals were down three games to two heading into last weekend. It had been a series where the Generals had to dig deep. Especially after an 8-1 loss in game three.

“It was such an emotional series and we maintained you have to win four games,” said Tobler. “Even after game three, it was one game. Regardless of the score, its the first team to four that wins the series.”

After winning Saturday 4-1, it set up a winner-take-all game seven. The two teams traded goals in the first and second period, but it was Kyle Sheen’s

third period marker with 9:30 to play that put the Generals in the driver seat.

With just 11 seconds left on the clock, Eagle’s Chad Ziegler put one past Generals’ netminder Dustin Butler, sending the game to overtime.

Now the focus shifts to their next opponent, the Stony Plain Eagles. The Eagles swept the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs and have been waiting patiently for the winner of the Bentley-Innisfail series.

“After an emotional high like that there’s always a tendency (for a let down),” said Tobler. “It’s my job to make sure we carry the momentum and emotion over. You have to.”

With a few days between the series, the Generals are back on the ice prac-

ticing this week.

“You have to use the emotion like that as fuel in practice and preparation,” said Tobler.

The series starts on Friday night at 8 p.m. in Lacombe.

Tobler said there are a few guys they haven’t seen play for Stony Plain yet, including former Edmonton Oiler Ryan Smyth. The Generals won the regular season series, losing only once to Stony Plain in six games.

“They played us tough all year,” said Tobler. “They have a ton of skill up front, they have some scorers.

There’s a new energy to them this year.

“You get a player of Ryan Smyth’s calibre, it’s going to give everybody a lift.” mcrawford@redderadvocate.com

Derozan, Lowry lift Raptors over Nets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 104 Nets 99 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors were lagging in the first half of Tuesday night’s game, showing the malaise that can creep in during the dog days of a long season.

So Dwane Casey reminded them, in a halftime speech sprinkled with “explicit words” according to Kyle Lowry, of just what they’re playing for.

Message received. DeMar DeRozan scored 25 points while Lowry added 23 plus nine assists to lift Toronto to a 104-99 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.

“You’ve got to be excited about playing the game, play with passion,” Casey said.

“We’re playing for something. This organization? We may not be here again, there’s no guarantee that we’re going to be here again so let’s play with passion and some excitement and get that look in our eye.”

Terrence Ross and Patrick Patterson were solid off the bench, scoring 11 points apiece, while Bismack Biyombo had a team-high 10 rebounds for Toronto (42-20).

Brook Lopez scored 35 points to top the struggling Nets (18-46).

The Raptors were coming off a 113107 loss to Houston, coughing up an 18-point lead down the stretch in their first defeat at home in more than two months. And for the first half Tuesday, the Nets looked poised to send Toronto fans home unhappy again.

“It shouldn’t take me going in at halftime jumping up and down and challenging them: ‘Who do you want to be?”’ Casey said.

“This is a fun game. I told the guys a while ago, you’d probably be somewhere in a gym playing basketball in a rec league somewhere if you weren’t an NBA player, you love the game.

So why not play that way here… Let’s have fun, have a smile on our face and play with some excitement. We’re play-

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry (7) drives pass as Brooklyn Nets’ Thaddeus Young (30) during second half NBA action in Toronto on Tuesday. ing like we’ve got a two-by-four on our back.”

The Nets — second last in the Eastern Conference — led by as many as 16 points before the Raptors clawed their way back into the game late in the third. They’d cut Brooklyn’s lead to 80-78 going into the fourth quarter.

The Raptors lit it up with four three-pointers to open the fourth, and a Patterson basket capped a 24-2 run that gave Toronto a 12-point lead. Biyombo had the Air Canada Centre roaring when he stole the ball off Lopez and then took a pass from Cory Joseph to finish with a massive dunk for a 14-point lead with 6:51 to play.

The Nets answered with a run of their own, cutting Toronto’s lead to just three points with 3:14 to play. Low-

ry finally put the game away for good with a floating jumper with 38 seconds to play.

Biyombo was strong on the defensive end on Brooklyn’s final possession — earning a hand slap from the team’s global ambassador Drake — to seal the victory.

DeRozan called Casey’s message “a good one.”

“It was one we definitely needed, and the way we came out in the second half spoke volumes for how he came in and really got on us, and we responded like we were supposed to,” he said. “Just go out there and not think so much, go out there and have fun, compete at the highest level but at the same time have fun doing it, and that’s what we did.”

Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame names 2016 inductees Two players, two builders and an entire hockey team will take their place among Alberta’s hockey greats this summer.

The Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame has announced its 2016 induction class, headlined by the 1965-66 Edmonton Oil Kings.

Other inductees include John Bucyk, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Boston Bruins; Mike Rogers, the former captain of the Hartford Whalers who registered 519 points in 484 games while in the NHL and 367 points in 396 games in the WHA. Bucyk, who was born in Edmonton, played 1540 games in the NHL and scored 556 goals, totaling 1369 points in his 23-season career. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981.

The Calgary-born Rogers started his professional hockey career with the

Edmonton Oilers in the WHA during the 1974-75 season and would finish it back with the Oilers for the 198586 NHL season. In the time between he played for the New England and Hartford Whalers and the New York Rangers.

Leading the builder inductees is George Kingston, who coached in the NHL, at the University of Calgary, Canada’s Olympic and national team programs and five other international programs including Germany, Norway, Mexico, Austria and Lithuania.

Also inducted under the builder

category is Terry Ledingham, a longtime Hockey Alberta and Hockey Canada Volunteer. Ledingham has served as the president of Hockey Alberta and a vice chair at large for Hockey Canada.

Larry Kowng, the first player of Asian decent to play in the NHL, will be recognized with the Founders Award for outstanding dedication and commitment to the sport of hockey in Alberta.

The inductees will be recognized at the AHHF Awards Gala on July 23 at the Coast Hotel in Canmore.

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Local Sports

Hockey

● Senior high basketball: 4A Central zone finals — Girls: Hunting Hills Lightning at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 6 p.m.; Boys: Notre Dame Cougars at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 7:45 p.m. ● College women’s hockey: NAIT Ooks at RDC Queens, third game of best-of-five ACAC final, 7 p.m., Arena. ● College men’s basketball: RDC Kings at Canadian championship at New Westminster, B.C.

Friday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Lethbridge Hurricanes, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● College men’s basketball: RDC Kings at Canadian championship at New Westminster, B.C.

Saturday

● College women’s hockey: NAIT Ooks at RDC Queens, fifth game of best-of-five ACAC final, if necessary, 2:30 p.m., Arena ● Major midget girls hockey: Spruce Grove Saints at Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College men’s basketball: RDC Kings at Canadian championship at New Westminster, B.C. ● WHL: Lethbridge Hurricanes at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday

● Major midget girls hockey: Spruce Grove Saints at Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Curling 2016 Tim Hortons Brier OTTAWA — Results Tuesday following Draw 10 at the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier, to be held through Sunday in TD Place at Lansdowne Park: ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) W Northern Ontario (Jacobs) 6 Newfoundland & Labrador (Gushue) 5 Manitoba (McEwen) 4 Alberta (K.Koe) 4 Canada (Simmons) 4 Quebec (JM Menard) 3 Ontario (Howard) 3 Saskatchewan (Laycock) 3 British Columbia (Cotter) 2 New Brunswick (Kennedy) 2 P.E.I. (Casey) 1 Northwest Territories (J.Koe) 1

L 0 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5

Tuesday’s results Eighth Draw Manitoba 5. Northwest Territories 4 (extra end) Newfoundland & Labrador 7 New Brunswick 4 Northern Ontario 6 P.E.I. 2 Quebec 6 B.C. 5 Ninth Draw Canada 8 B.C. 4 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Alberta 3 Northwest Territories 8 Ontario 5 Saskatchewan 8 P.E.I. 5 Draw 10 Manitoba 6 Canada 4 New Brunswick 7 Saskatchewan 6 Northern Ontario 8 Alberta 3 Quebec 9 Ontario 5

Sixth Draw Alberta 8 Northwest Territories 7 (extra end) B.C. 9 Ontario 5 Newfoundland & Labrador 7 Saskatchewan 5 P.E.I. 6 Canada 4 Seventh Draw Alberta 9 Manitoba 4 Northern Ontario 10 Canada 6 Ontario 9 New Brunswick 6 Saskatchewan 7 Quebec 3 Wednesday’s games Draw 11, 7:30 a.m.

B.C. vs. Alberta, Ontario vs. P.E.I., Northwest Territories vs. Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Canada.

Draw 12, 12:30 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. Canada, Saskatchewan vs.

Manitoba, Alberta vs. Quebec, Ontario vs. Northern Ontario.

Draw 13, 5:30 p.m.

Northwest Territories vs. Northern Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Quebec, New Brunswick vs. P.E.I., Manitoba vs. B.C. Thursday’s games Draw 14, 7:30 a.m.

Ontario vs. Saskatchewan, Canada vs. Alberta, B.C. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, P.E.I. vs. Northwest Territories.

Draw 15, 12:30 p.m.

P.E.I. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, B.C. vs. Northwest Territories, Northern Ontario vs. Manitoba, New Brunswick vs. Quebec.

Draw 16, 5:30 p.m.

Manitoba vs. Quebec, Northern Ontario vs. New Brunswick, Canada vs. Ontario, Saskatchewan vs.

Alberta.

Monday’s results

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Golden State 56 6 .903 — x-San Antonio 54 10 .844 3 Oklahoma City 43 20 .683 13 1/2 L.A. Clippers 41 21 .661 15 Memphis 38 25 .603 18 1/2 Dallas 33 31 .516 24 Portland 33 31 .516 24 Houston 31 32 .492 25 1/2 Utah 29 34 .460 27 1/2 Denver 26 38 .406 31 Sacramento 25 37 .403 31 New Orleans 24 38 .387 32 Minnesota 20 45 .308 37 1/2 Phoenix 17 46 .270 39 1/2 L.A. Lakers 13 51 .203 44

Grizzlys finish season with top two scorers in AJHL To say the Olds Grizzlys didn’t finish the season how they’d like would be an understatement.

But their top two scorers have something to brag about as they head into the playoffs. Wyatt Noskey and Chad Olsen finished first and second in AJHL scoring.

The Grizzlys have lost 18 straight games and are now matched up against the Camrose Kodiaks starting on March 10 in Camrose.

Noskey lead all scor-

GA 191 203 221 236 292 227

Pt 92 80 76 70 54 54

GF 283 240 219 188 199 139

GA 200 191 204 213 263 300

Pt 90 87 78 63 57 26

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Victoria 67 45 16 3 3 256 x-Kelowna 65 44 18 3 0 234 Prince George 67 36 27 3 1 232 Kamloops 66 32 25 5 4 216 Vancouver 68 23 37 5 3 192

GA 154 194 206 209 251

Pt 96 91 76 73 54

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 67 44 21 1 1 67 42 22 1 2 66 37 25 2 2 66 28 31 6 1 66 26 35 3 2 67 10 51 6 0

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

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Seattle 66 40 23 3 0 211 177 83 Everett 65 36 22 4 3 170 152 79 Portland 65 33 28 4 0 209 203 70 Spokane 65 30 26 5 4 202 220 69 Tri-City 66 31 32 2 1 216 232 65 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.

Winnipeg

Tuesday’s summary Rebels 6, Raiders 2 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Tkatch 24 (Morrison, Gardiner) 1:28. .25 2. Prince Albert, Coleman 12 (Vanstone) 4:18.

Penalties — Montgomery PA (tripping) 16:20 Olynek PA (roughing) 19:31.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Fleury 11 (Helewka, Nikolishin) 1:09 (pp).

4. Red Deer, Helewka 37 (Pawlenchuk, Philp) 13:40.

5. Red Deer, Helewka 38, 16:33.

6. Red Deer, Spacek 17 (Nikolishin, Philp) 19:10.

7. Red Deer, Hagel 12 (Musil, DeBrusk) 19:36.

Penalties — Lees PA (slashing) 3:09 Fleury RD (checking from behind major, game misconduct) 4:51 Bobyk RD (high-sticking) 9:37 Warkentine PA, Bleackley RD (fighting) 13:22 Warner PA (tripping), 17:09.

Third Period 8. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 21 (DeBrusk, Strand) 18:50.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Prince Albert 9 7 6 — 22 Red Deer 8 11 14 — 33 Goal (shots-saves) — Prince Albert: Scott (L, 12-72-0)(19-14), Parenteau (start third, 14-13) Red Deer, Martin (W, 15-6-1-1)(20-18) Weatherill (2-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Prince Albert: 0-2 Red Deer: 1-4.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Tampa Bay 67 39 23 5 83 Boston 68 38 23 7 83 Florida 66 36 21 9 81 Detroit 66 32 23 11 75 Ottawa 68 31 29 8 70 Montreal 67 31 30 6 68 Buffalo 68 27 32 9 63 Toronto 65 21 33 11 53

GF 185 208 181 167 196 183 162 155

GA 160 184 161 177 212 188 185 194

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 66 49 13 4 102 N.Y. Rangers 67 39 22 6 84 N.Y. Islanders 64 37 20 7 81 Pittsburgh 66 34 24 8 76 Philadelphia 65 31 23 11 73 Carolina 67 30 26 11 71 New Jersey 67 31 29 7 69 Columbus 67 28 31 8 64

GF 214 192 186 180 167 165 148 178

GA 151 173 159 168 174 181 170 208

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

Moose Jaw at Regina, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 68 40 20 8 88 Chicago 67 41 21 5 87 St. Louis 67 38 20 9 85 Nashville 67 34 21 12 80 Minnesota 67 31 26 10 72 Colorado 68 34 30 4 72

GF 218 191 170 185 177 183

GA 196 160 164 170 169 195

Tuesday’s results Calgary 5 Saskatoon 2 Lethbridge 7 Kootenay 2 Red Deer 6 Prince Albert 2 Portland at Everett Kamloops at Tri-City Monday’s results Edmonton 5 Saskatoon 2 Moose Jaw 6 Swift Current 4 Wednesday’s games Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Major League Baseball Spring Training

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Cleveland 44 18 .710 — Toronto 42 20 .677 2 Boston 38 26 .594 7 Miami 37 26 .587 7 1/2 Atlanta 36 28 .563 9 Charlotte 34 28 .548 10 Indiana 34 30 .531 11 Chicago 32 30 .516 12 Detroit 32 31 .508 12 1/2 Washington 30 32 .484 14 Orlando 27 35 .435 17 Milwaukee 26 38 .406 19 New York 26 39 .400 19 1/2 Brooklyn 18 46 .281 27 Philadelphia 8 55 .127 36 1/2

BRIEFS

EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Brandon 67 43 18 4 2 291 x-Prince Albert 66 36 22 7 1 207 x-Moose Jaw 67 34 25 7 1 235 x-Regina 66 31 27 3 5 218 Saskatoon 67 25 38 4 0 207 Swift Current 66 23 35 5 3 175

66

27

34

5

59 171 198

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 65 37 19 9 83 165 151 Los Angeles 65 39 22 4 82 175 149 San Jose 66 37 23 6 80 198 174 Vancouver 65 25 28 12 62 157 188 Arizona 66 28 32 6 62 175 207 Calgary 66 27 34 5 59 178 207 Edmonton 69 26 36 7 59 167 204 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Buffalo 4, Toronto 3, SO Washington 2, Anaheim 1, SO Philadelphia 4, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 5, Florida 4, OT Colorado 3, Arizona 1 San Jose 2, Calgary 1, OT Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 1 Tuesday’s Games Carolina 4, Ottawa 3, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Buffalo 2 Columbus 5, Detroit 3 N.Y. Islanders 2, Pittsburgh 1 Montreal 4, Dallas 3, OT Boston 1, Tampa Bay 0, OT Nashville 4, Winnipeg 2 San Jose 3, Edmonton 0 Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Carolina at Boston, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Sharks 3, Oilers 0 First Period 1. San Jose, Couture 9 (Nieto, Donskoi) 1:33.

2. San Jose, Couture 10 (Burns, Pavelski) 15:50 (pp).

Penalties — Eberle Edm (tripping) 15:40.

Second Period 3. San Jose, Pavelski 31 (Martin, Thornton) 14:03.

Penalties — Vlasic SJ (cross-checking) 2:00.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Polak SJ (interference) 16:11 Nurse Edm (roughing, served by Eberle) 18:20 Polak SJ, Nurse Edm (fighting) 18:20 San Jose bench (abuse of officials, served by Spaling) 19:05.

Shots on goal San Jose 9 7 6 — 22 Edmonton 12 7 12 — 31 Goal — San Jose: Reimer (W, 12-13-7). Edmonton: Talbot (L, 16-23-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 1-2 Edmonton: 0-2.

Baseball

Basketball

Local

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

WHL

Thursday

d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Toronto Texas Chicago Houston Boston Minnesota Detroit Oakland Seattle Tampa Bay Kansas City Los Angeles Cleveland New York Baltimore

Monday’s Games Memphis 106, Cleveland 103 Indiana 99, San Antonio 91 Charlotte 108, Minnesota 103 Chicago 100, Milwaukee 90 New Orleans 115, Sacramento 112 L.A. Clippers 109, Dallas 90 Golden State 119, Orlando 113 Tuesday’s Games Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99 San Antonio 116, Minnesota 91 Atlanta 91, Utah 84 Denver 110, New York 94 Washington at Portland, late Orlando at L.A. Lakers, late Wednesday’s Games Memphis at Boston, 5 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

ers with 29 goals, 53 assists and 83 points in 60 games. He wins the Ernie Love Trophy as the league’s top scorere.

Nipping at his heals was teammate Chase Olsen who had 32 goals, 49 assists for 81 points.

Noskey, who is in his third season in the AJHL, finished the season on a seven game point streak. He had 24 multi-point games and averaged 1.4 points per game.

The last time a Grizzly won the scoring title was Spencer Dorowicz with 75 points during the 201314 season.

Lundall leads Funk to playoff win over Rampage The Funk, Storm and Pink Panthers all emerged victorious Monday, winning their playoff games in the Red Deer Women’s Basket-

AMERICAN LEAGUE W 6 5 4 5 4 4 5 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 0

L 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 3 4 4 5 5 4 5 8

Pct .857 .833 .800 .714 .571 .571 .556 .500 .429 .429 .375 .375 .333 .286 .000

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Washington 6 1 .857 Los Angeles 4 1 .800 Cincinnati 4 2 .667 Milwaukee 4 2 .667 St. Louis 4 2 .667 Philadelphia 5 3 .625 Arizona 4 3 .571 Colorado 4 3 .571 New York 3 3 .500 San Francisco 3 4 .429 Miami 2 4 .333 Atlanta 2 5 .286 Pittsburgh 2 5 .286 San Diego 2 5 .286 Chicago 1 6 .143 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings

ball League.

In Pool A action, Funk defeated Rampage 4740 with Carmen Lundall leading the Funk with 12 points. Lindsay Grimbly was named Funk player of the game. On the other side of the court, Shyanna Beyans was the Rampage player of the game, leading the team with 12 points.

The Storm beat the Big Ballers, 45-32 with Shannon Van Parys leading the team with 10 points. Storm player of the game with Rebecca Girvan who registered two points. Big Ballers high scorer and player of the game was Jamie Vandenberg with nine points.

In Pool B, the Pink Panthers scored 64 points to top the Dynamo and their 41 points.

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Monday’s Games St. Louis 9, N.Y. Mets (ss) 4 Houston 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 3, Baltimore 0 Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2, 10 innings Washington 7, Miami 4 Toronto 3, Atlanta 1 N.Y. Mets (ss) 7, Detroit 3 Texas 6, San Francisco 5 Kansas City (ss) 3, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2 Cleveland 8, L.A. Dodgers 5 Oakland 6, Kansas City (ss) 4 Cincinnati 8, L.A. Angels (ss) 5 San Diego 8, Milwaukee 2 Chicago White Sox 9, L.A. Angels (ss) 4 Colorado 4, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2 Arizona 10, Seattle 8 Tuesday’s Games Miami 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Washington 4, Houston 2 Detroit 6, Tampa Bay 5 Boston 5, Baltimore 1 Atlanta 5, N.Y. Mets 4 St. Louis 5, Minnesota (ss) 3 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 Toronto 9, Minnesota (ss) 3 Texas 10, Oakland 3 L.A. Dodgers 7, Chicago Cubs 3 Cleveland 4, Seattle 3 Chicago White Sox 10, Milwaukee 6 Kansas City 3, Colorado 2 San Diego 8, Arizona (ss) 8, tie L.A. Angels 5, Arizona (ss) 3 Cincinnati vs. San Francisco, late

player of the game.

Drillers down Maple Jordans in men’s basketball action Jayden Andersen dropped in 24 points and Wyatt Saari 15 as the Alkin Basin Drillers downed the B Town Maple Jordans 76-54 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play.

Dean Sanders had 21 points and TJ Carter 15 for the Jordans.

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m.

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Texas vs. Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m.

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Kansas City (ss) vs. Seattle, 1:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Minnesota vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

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Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with QB Drew Stanton on a twoyear contract.

BUFFALO BILLS — Agreed to terms with G Richie Incognito on a three-year contract.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR Alshon Jeffery.

DENVER BRONCOS — Released TE Owen Daniels, G Louis Vasquez and LS Aaron Brewer.

DETROIT LIONS — WR Calvin Johnson announced his retirement.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived LB Bjoern Werner. Signed LS Forrest Hill.

Agreed to terms with K Adam Vinatieri.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Re-signed LB Audie Cole. Released WR Mike Wallace.

Waived OL Austin Wentworth.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with CB Leodis McKelvin on a twoyear contract.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed CB William Gay to a three-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed LB

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TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Resigned S Keith Tandy. Released LB Bruce Carter.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Marcus Kruger on a threeyear contract extension through 2018-19.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled F Mike Sislo and D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL) on emergency recall.

Agreed to terms with F Nick Lappin on a two-year contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled D Luke Witkowski from Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Hershey RW Garrett Mitchell and San Antonio RW Daniel Maggio three games.

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed F Andrew Poturalski to a tryout contract.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Signed F Garry Nunn.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Loaned F Mike Pereira to Utica (AHL).

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New guidelines suggest adults aged 55 to 74 who are at high risk of lung cancer due to a history of smoking should be screened annually over three consecutive years using low-dose CT scans.

New guidelines back CT scans for lung cancer screening in longtime smokers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — For the first time, national guidelines are recommending that high-risk adults be screened for Canada’s deadliest cancer, and the tool of choice is a technology known as low-dose computed tomography, or CT scanning.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care says adults aged 55 to 74 with a history of significant tobacco use should be tested for signs of lung cancer annually over three consecutive years using the sensitive radiological imaging device.

The guideline applies to current smokers and those who have quit within the past 15 years, who have at least a so-called 30 pack-year history of smoking — defined as smoking one pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years.

“Screening for lung cancer aims to detect disease at an earlier stage, when it may respond better to treatment and be less likely to cause serious illness or death,” said Dr. Gabriela Lewin, chairwoman of the task force’s working group on lung cancer screening.

The guideline is based on recent studies, primarily a U.S. clinical trial that assessed patients after seven years of followup and found a 15 per cent reduction in lung cancer deaths among participants screened via CT scans for three years in a row, compared to those tested with chest X-rays.

Lung cancer is Canada’s most common malignancy and the No. 1 cancer killer. In 2015, about 26,600 Canadians were diagnosed with lung cancer, and almost 21,000 died from the disease.

“Most lung cancers are not symptomatic until they have advanced to late stages of the disease and are incurable,” Dr. Natasha Leighl, president of Lung Cancer Canada, said in a statement.

“That’s why it’s encouraging to see these guidelines, which recommend a screening test that could lower mortality — representing a chance to save lives.”

The recommendations do not apply to people with a family history of lung cancer or those with symptoms suggestive of lung cancer, which include persistent cough, coughing up blood or rust-coloured phlegm, shortness of breath, and chest pain that worsens with deep breathing, coughing, or laughing.

For people with other risk factors, such as exposure to radon gas or second-hand smoke, or previous chest radiation, it’s not known whether there is any benefit to screening with low-dose CT, say the authors, whose guidelines were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Lewin said studies on those populations have not yet been done.

“So for all other adults, regardless of age and smoking history or any other risk factors, we recommend not to screen for lung cancer with lowdose CT,” she said from Kemptville, Ont., where she practises family medicine.

Among the reasons for limiting screening to those 55 to 74 with a lengthy history of smoking is that CTs can produce a proportion of false positives, meaning the scan picks up what appears to be a nodule in the lungs, but it isn’t actually malignant.

That can lead to such further testing as additional CT scans and/or a bronchoscopy — a procedure in which a flexible tube with a lens is inserted to look inside the lungs’ airways — and a lung biopsy, said Lewin, adding that such invasive testing can cause bleeding, a collapsed lung, hospitalization or even death, “all for trying to find

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the cancer earlier.”

In some cases, CT scans can lead to “overdiagnosis” by detecting cancers that would never cause symptoms in the person’s lifetime, meaning that the patient would have died with the cancer, not because of the cancer, she said.

Heather Bryant, vice-president of cancer control at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, said the guidelines represent the first time new advice can be offered for lung cancer screening on the weight of scientific evidence.

“It’s especially helpful in lung cancer,” said Bryant, noting that the disease kills more Canadians than breast, colorectal and prostate cancers combined. “And yet, we haven’t made a lot of progress in survival for this disease,” she said. The average five-year survival rate for those diagnosed with lung cancer is 17 per cent, based on 2006-2008 estimates by the Canadian Cancer Society.

No provinces or territories have formal CT screening programs for lung cancer, although Alberta has a pilot project in the works and “we know that people will be working on developing guidelines,” Bryant said.

“However, we also know that with other screening (programs), if you don’t plan before it gets out into practice, it can be very difficult to deliver it with the care and quality that is needed,” she said.

Questions include how often screening should be performed, how to handle positive scans, and whether screening can benefit those with other lung cancer risk factors — questions that can only be answered by carefully assessing the results as screening proceeds, she said.

“This is why we’re saying that regardless of what we do, we need to make sure this is done in places that not only have high-quality and welltrained individuals, but that we have agreement on the kind of information that we’ll need to collect to evaluate this as we go forward.”

Screening must be paired with smoking-cessation programs to support people who are still using tobacco, added Bryant, who also heads the Pan-Canadian Lung Cancer Screening Network, which has developed a framework to help provinces implement CT-scan programs aimed at early detection of lung cancer.

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TORONTO — One of the most contentious issues sparked by Canada’s upcoming right-to-die legislation is whether people with mental illness should be eligible to seek a doctor’s help to end their lives, along with those suffering from a “grievous and irremediable” physical disease like terminal cancer.

Last week, a parliamentary committee recommended that Canadians with psychiatric disorders that cause intolerable suffering should be included in any regulations governing physician-assisted death, which becomes legal June 6 under the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark ruling a year ago.

The court made no specific pronouncement about medically assisted dying for those with a psychiatric illness, and that has left mental health experts wondering how its decision might be interpreted — and what that could mean for such a vulnerable segment of the population.

“We know that society would not accept that people should be treated differently just because they have a different illness,” said Dr. Sonu Gaind, president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

“But the issue that we’re really concerned about … is to make sure that there is full understanding of how in any assisted-dying framework, key processes that can be affected by mental illness are properly assessed,” he said, adding that it should be psychiatrists conducting the required evaluation.

“They’re complex issues and we really want to make sure there are proper safeguards and expert assessment when mental illness is present.”

Of major concern is how to tease apart whether a request for aid in dying arises from a person’s mental state related to their illness — severe depression, for instance, can lead to suicidality — or sound reasoning based on a desire to escape prolonged suffering.

“Although both lead to the same outcome … the connotations are very different between suicide as we’ve traditionally talked about it and medically assisted dying,” said Gaind.

When people are suicidal, they often can’t articulate why they are depressed or want to die, he said, explaining that an inability to take pleasure even in positive aspects of their lives, a sense of worthlessness, and lack of hope for the future are all hallmarks of depression.

Whether a person has the capacity to make such a life-and-death decision — a requirement to be eligible for aid in dying — also needs to be evaluated, given that mental illness can distort thinking and impair the ability to process relevant information and to appreciate consequences of a decision.

“This isn’t to suggest just because someone has a mental illness that they lack capacity,” said Gaind.

“There are many times where people can still have full capacity to make all sorts of decisions, even when they have mental illness.”

But that’s not always the case: “You can have capacity to make one decision and lack capacity to make a decision about something else,” he said.

Lucy Waters, whose 57-year-old son Gary has struggled on and off with schizophrenia affective disorder for the last 30 years, believes most people with mental illness are not capable of making a reasoned decision about assisted death and she’s horrified by the prospect they may be included under pending legislation.

“It’s scary, really scary … It is just so wrong to even consider it with mental illness,” Waters said from Vancouver.

“Early intervention is so important. If people are let go, they become extremely ill and then I suppose would qualify for help to commit suicide. But there’s no need of it because if you treat someone quickly, as in any disease, it’s very helpful.”

However, people with mental illness can’t always access treatment, said Ana Novakovic, policy and government relations co-ordinator for the B.C. Schizophrenia Society.

Indeed, a 2012 report by the Mental Health Commission of Canada found that only one in three adults and one in four children and teens were able to get needed treatment and psychosocial support.

In any given year, one in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem, with a cost to the economy of more than $50 billion, the report states.

Of the 4,000 Canadians who die each year from suicide, most have a psychiatric disorder of some kind.

“So part of the concern here is that people might be looking to assisted dying, not because they have an illness that can’t be treated or supported, but because they can’t access those treatments and support,” Novakovic said from Vancouver.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court said anyone seeking assisted death must be assessed by two independent doctors. For those with mental illness, the Schizophrenia Society wants those two physicians to be psychiatrists trained in the complexities of mental disorders.

Novakovic said the patient’s request should be in writing and a panel of witnesses — ideally family members or intimate friends with a long-standing, in-depth knowledge of the person — should provide testimony about the day-to-day effects of their illness.

Doctors making the decision must be familiar with all the nuances of the person’s illness and their full treatment history, so they can determine whether it’s severe depression or psychosis driving them to seek assisted suicide, she said.

“Or is it that they haven’t had adequate treatment and support and they feel like they have no other option?”

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Comic brings drag to APTN sitcom

Arnett takes on darker role for Netflix dramedy

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dressing in drag is just another day at the office for comic Howie Miller, who plays the female half of a couple on the new APTN comedy Delmer & Marta.

The characters are actually a decade old, says the 43-year-old Miller, who would often refer to a woman named Marta in his stand-up routines, while co-star Sheldon Elter based Delmer on a relative.

Miller didn’t want to play his leading lady role too over the top, noting he hoped the audience wouldn’t be consumed with seeing a man in a dress.

“I just want them to see this couple exists and there’s no question about it, there’s no tongue-in-cheek jokes about it,” he says from Edmonton, where they shoot the series.

His vision for playing Marta was subtle enough that co-star Kevin McDonald didn’t even realize the character would be played by a man until he showed up for the first table-read of the sitcom.

“I had no idea,” admits the Kids in the Hall star, who has donned a few dresses in his day for laughs.

“I was surprised when Howie walked in that he was playing Marta.

I assumed a real woman was going to play Marta.”

Miller and Elter first brought the couple to the screen for their APTN sketch comedy series Caution: May Contain Nuts.

Miller says he saw big potential on the first day of filming.

“After I had my big blond wig on and my bra on and everything, I leaned in and before they said ‘action’ I said

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Sheldon Elter, left, and Howie Miller, right, first brought the couple Delmer and Marta to the screen for their APTN sketch comedy series ‘Caution: May Contain Nuts.’

BRIEFS Title and release date announced for Amy Schumer’s book

(to Elter), ‘You know, this is the one that’s going to get leg room. This is the one we’re going to be showing up at parades for. They’re going to make a movie out of this.’… And 10 years later we’re on the set of our own sitcom.”

Delmer & Marta picks up with the duo moving to the town of Morningside, where Marta is hired as a TV morning show personality. Her fun-loving partner Delmer helps out the morning show team as much as he can.

McDonald plays Marta’s boss Creston, “kind of a blowhard kind of guy,” he says from his home in Winnipeg.

The comic says he’s busier than ever with a resurgence in TV cameos and writing projects. That includes a romantic comedy about “a minor celebrity comedian who moves from Hollywood to Winnipeg when he falls in

love with a dancer.”

“Which is my story,” says McDonald, adding that he’s lined up funding and hopes to direct.

“It’s sort of like Woody Allen’s Manhattan, only it’s Winnipeg.”

Miller gushes over having McDonald on set to draw advice and inspiration from, not to mention the pull to bring in a cameo from fellow Kids member Dave Foley, who appears later in the season as Creston’s boss.

And just as Miller is eager for viewers to see past the drag, he’s keen to position Delmer & Marta as more than just an aboriginal sitcom.

“I want to be generic and general enough to get out there for the masses,” he says.

Delmer & Marta premieres Wednesday on APTN.

uled to be released on Aug. 16.

As the title might suggest, the essay collection will “feature personal and observational stories from Schumer that range from the raunchy to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing,” according to Gallery.

Schumer’s deal with Gallery was announced last September, following a run of success that included her hit movie Trainwreck and an Emmy for her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer.

Johnson’s possible hearing loss.

The band says in a statement that doctors have advised the “Back in Black” singer to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss.

The group’s shows beginning Tuesday in Atlanta through April 4 in New York are being rescheduled for later in the year — likely with a guest vocalist.

AC/DC opened the most recent U.S. leg of its “Rock or Bust” tour Feb. 2 in Tacoma, Washington.

The band is scheduled to begin a European leg May 7 in Lisbon, Portugal.

AC/DC postpones tour due to singer’s possible hearing loss

NEW YORK — Amy Schumer’s upcoming book has an indelible title.

Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Tuesday that Schumer is calling the book The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo. It’s sched-

LOS ANGELES — AC/DC are postponing the remaining dates of their U.S. tour because of lead singer Brian

Peaches to appear on Orphan Black season 4

TORONTO — Will Arnett says playing a character struggling with sobriety has been “cathartic.”

The Arrested Development star took on a more sombre role with his latest venture, Flaked, a halfhour Netflix series that he admits turned out much darker than he initially envisioned.

Arnett drew on his own ex- WILL ARNETT periences with alcoholism for the streaming serial, which he sums up as “neither comedy nor drama in the sense that the world isn’t like that. We are all things at all times.”

“It’s a very personal story,” says Arnett, who co-created and co-wrote the project with Mark Chappell, and stars as Chip.

“Part of it is Chip’s relationship with his sobriety, and really that’s about his relationship with his true self — with who he is and is he being honest with himself?”

That’s not to say there aren’t laughs, says Arnett.

When Chip is not trying to inspire fellow addicts at Alcoholics Anonymous, he’s trading barbs with a neurotic best friend (played by David Sullivan) and a kooky neighbourhood pal (played by George Basil).

It’s a delicate mix of tone that Arnett says was not easy to master.

TORONTO — Peachy news for “Orphan Black” fans.

Space says provocative Canadian electronic music star Peaches will be featured in an episode of the hit sci-fi series’ upcoming fourth season.

The Toronto native will be guest performing as herself.

Space says the episode will air in the back half of the season, which begins April 14 on Space.

Orphan Black stars Regina native Tatiana Maslany as multiple clones who have vastly different looks and personalities and are caught in a dangerous corporate web.

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THEBEAU 1956 - 2015 Allen Charles Thebeau of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the age of 59 years. Allen will be greatly missed by his wife, Sharon; sons Robin (Amanda), Nick (Roxi), Devon (Ashley), Dylan (Brittany) and Dustin (Shellbee); daughter Chasity; eleven precious grandkids he love unconditionally, Dakota, Destiney, Savannah, Austin, Harmony, Hailey, Olivia, Kyla, Kasey, Brody and Damian. Also to cherish Allen’s memory are his mother Joyce; brothers Vernon, Dwayne, Roger and sisters Tammy and Candace as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other family members and many friends.

Allen was predeceased by his father Leonard and sister Linda. A Memorial Service to celebrate Allen’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, March 11, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Allen’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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Lions lose Johnson to retirement STAR WIDE RECEIVER DECIDES TO WALK AWAY AFTER NINE SEASONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Calvin Johnson, one the most spectacular receivers in NFL history, retired from the Detroit Lions on Tuesday and rekindled memories of the way superstar running back Barry Sanders quietly stepped away from football.

The 30-year-old Johnson called it a career after nine seasons filled with highlight-reel catches, dozens of touchdowns and nearly 12,000 yards receiving.

The 6-foot-5 receiver was known as Megatron, a sign of respect for his imposing skills and unusual mixture of speed, power and gracefulness.

“Let me assure you that this was not an easy or hasty decision,” Johnson said. “I, along with those closest to me, have put a lot of time, deliberation and prayer into this decision and I truly am at peace with it.”

Shortly after Detroit finished last season with a 7-9 mark — their seventh losing season in nine years — Johnson announced he was evaluating his future.

He had reportedly told some teammates entering last season that it would be his last and told coach Jim Caldwell afterward that he was retiring.

Johnson piled up 731 career receptions for 11,619 yards, a league-record 86.1 yards receiving per game, and 83 touchdowns against defences often geared to stop him. He reached 10,000 yards (115 games) and 11,000 yards (127 games) yards quicker than anyone in NFL history. Including the post-season, he has another league mark with six 200-yard receiving games.

Johnson broke one of Hall of Famer Jerry Rice’s records with 1,964 yards receiving in 2012. He ranked among league leaders last season with 88 receptions for 1,214 yards and nine TDs, playing through lingering injuries as he often did.

“Not only is he as good as any player I’ve ever seen, but I am convinced that God has not put a finer person on this earth than Calvin Johnson,” Caldwell said.

The three-time All Pro and six-time Pro Bowl receiver leaves Detroit much as Sanders did. The Hall of Famer slipped away from the Lions shortly before the 1999 season after he had 1,491 yards rushing as a 30-year-old running back the previous year, faxing the announcement to a friend at his hometown newspaper.

Like Sanders, the quiet and humble Johnson avoided the spotlight and released a statement of his own.

“While I truly respect the significance of this, those who know me best will understand and not be surprised that I choose not to have a press conference,” Johnson said. “After much prayer, thought and discussion with loved ones, I have made the difficult decision to retire from the Lions and pro football. I have played my last game of football.”

Detroit drafted Johnson out of Georgia Tech with the No. 2 pick in 2007 and gave him a six-year deal worth up to $64 million. Former teammate Roy Wil-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (81), defended by Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Eric Rowe (32), catches a pass for a touchdown during an NFL game, in Detroit. Calvin Johnson has retired. The 30-year-old receiver, known as Megatron, announced his decision Tuesday, to walk away from the NFL after nine mostly spectacular seasons with the Detroit Lions. liam gave him his nickname and Johnson gave fans in the Motor City a reason to watch their scuffling team. Like Sanders, his jaw-dropping plays made the Lions bearable.

“He was an amazing and rare talent both on and off the field, and I feel lucky to have been able to see him play,” Sanders said on his website.

Unlike Sanders, Johnson had to endure the NFL’s first 0-16 season in 2008 and he never won a playoff game.

The Lions have now had one of the best running backs and receivers in league history and only one playoff victory to show for it. Sanders helped Detroit beat Dallas in the playoffs on Jan. 5, 1992, the franchise’s only successful day in the post-season since winning the 1957 NFL title.

Johnson, though, refused to ever rant about how the team failed to surround him with enough good players and coaches to win when it mattered most.

He declined last season to say if he would restructure his contract, which called for him to count $24 million against the salary cap next season. In 2012,

he signed an eight-year contract through 2019 that could’ve potentially paid him $132 million. The Lions said Tuesday only that “matters were settled to the satisfaction of the parties” one day before free agency opened across the league.

“He was the epitome of dignity, class, humility and excellence,” Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford said.

Johnson faced constant double teams, sometimes drawing two defensive backs pressing him close to the line as if he was lined up wide for a punt team. There were times, though, Johnson couldn’t be stopped. He was fast enough to zip past defensive backs, running a 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, and was athletic enough to rise over them with his 45-inch vertical leap.

“We haven’t seen a wide receiver with Calvin’s measurables,” Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter once said. “The only thing that will stop him from being one of the all-time greats is not staying healthy.”

In the end, health concerns seem to be what shortened his career.

What to look for as NFL free agency begins

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lorie Kane headlines this year’s inductee class of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

Kane, from Charlottetown, is still active on the LPGA Tour and has won eight pro tours in her career.

Kane headlines new class named to Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lorie Kane’s career is far from over, but she can’t help but look back to where it all began.

Kane was named one of this year’s inductees to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame on Tuesday morning along with famed amateur Warren Sye and reporter Bob Weeks, who enters in the builder category.

“This sits right beside my first win,” said Kane, who won her first professional tournament in 2000 at the Michelob Light Classic outside St. Louis.

“It took me a long time to get my first win and if I look at my career, if this is my 20th year, I’ve been truly blessed. I still see lots of future in front of me, as far as my life in golf is concerned.

“I hope it doesn’t mean the circle is complete because I still want to keep going around, if that’s where I’m at. I would definitely put this next to my first win in St. Louis.”

Kane, from Charlottetown, is still active on the LPGA Tour and has won eight pro tours in her career. She has also won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award in 1997 and 2000 as the Canadian female athlete of the year and was named to the Order of Canada in 2006.

She becomes the first native of Prince Edward Island to be inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

“There’ll be a big party,” said Kane on a conference call with reporters.

“We don’t need very big reasons to party in the Maritimes.

“I’m quite honoured to be the first Islander inducted. It is a true honour and I don’t know what else to say other than thanks.”

Sye, from Toronto, was this year’s

amateur inductee for his considerable achievements on the golf course. He has captured the Ontario Amateur Championship five times — 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1996 — and also claimed the Ontario Champion of Champions title in 1983 and again in 1991.

His success nationally includes a pair of victories at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship (1990 and 1994). He also won the Ontario Senior Championship in 2012.

Sye was always confident in his play but never saw himself as a sure thing to make the Canadian Hall of Fame.

“It had crossed my mind but it wasn’t worrisome for me,” said Sye, who, like Weeks, is based at Toronto’s Weston Golf and Country Club. “I always thought that there was maybe a chance. There’s other great players in there with great records, better records.

“I had an idea but not until I got that phone call.”

Weeks is one of Canada’s leading golf reporters and is already a member of the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame and a winner of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada’s Dick Grimm Award.

In 2015, Weeks was presented with a Distinguished Service Award by Golf Canada for outstanding contributions to the game.

He noted that he might add another distinction to his career.

“For as long as this Hall of Fame is open and going I will probably be the worst golfer ever inducted into it,” said Weeks. “That’s the one thing that kind of scared me, to be honest. Seriously, I’m very thrilled.”

Weeks also covers curling and will be inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

With another major spike in the NFL’s salary cap, up about $12 million to $155.27 million, the spending spree that is free agency begins Wednesday.

Some teams that open up their vaults have prospered recently, most notably the Broncos. Denver won its third Super Bowl thanks to massive boosts from DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib, Emmanuel Sanders and Owen Daniels. Oh, and that quarterback, Peyton Manning.

All were acquired through free agency.

Of course, the Broncos spent wisely.

Other teams have travelled down the road to ruin for giving the big bucks to the wrong players. Such 2015 big-time free agents Ndamukong Suh, DeMarco Murray and Julius Thomas hardly made a positive impact on their new clubs.

Some things to look for in this version of March Madness: WHERE DO THE ALL-PROS LAND? How about where they started?

Three of the four 2016 All-Pros got franchise tags: Denver linebacker Von Miller, the Super Bowl MVP Carolina cornerback Josh Norman and Kansas City safety Eric Berry.

The one All-Pro seemingly headed for the marketplace is Buccaneers running back Doug Martin, who has sandwiched two injury-shortened seasons with a sensational rookie year and a 1,400-yard, six-touchdown performance in 2015.

Running backs present a dilemma to teams when their contracts run out.

No position is marred by sharper and earlier fall-offs, and any RB with an injury history is extra worrisome. Still, Martin is only 27, dynamic and a good fit with quarterback Jameis Winston.

“I know he wants to be a Buc and I know that we want him to be a Buc,” Tampa Bay GM Jason Licht said at the scouting combine. “I’m sure there will be some obstacles — there always are in negotiations — but we’ll prepare for either way. I’m optimistic and we’ll continue talking with him.”

In other words, the money talks.

WHO ARE THE BIG SPENDERS? Speaking of money talking, by carrying over huge amounts of salary cap space from last year — not to mention flopping on the field in 2015 — the Jaguars ($32.77 million), Titans ($20.78 million) and Browns ($20.73 million) can outspend pretty much anyone. That’s in addition to the bump in the cap number, and other contracts moves they’ve made.

Other teams with millions upon millions to hand out in free agency include: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tampa Bay, Oakland, Cleveland and Tennessee.

Remember, though, that having a vault full of cap space doesn’t mean splurging for the likes of safety Eric

Weddle.

“We’re pretty healthy with our cap situation right now,” Giants general manager Jerry Reese says. New York has about $60 million in cap space.

“We have to wait and see who’s going to hit the market. We’ll definitely look in the market and see if there’s players available for us to recruit. Hopefully we will be able to land some guys if some guys are available.”

MANNING THE TRENCHES If NFL teams learned anything from the playoffs, it’s that mediocre or worse pass protection is a prescription for failure. And one of the most difficult chores with rookie nowadays is teaching them to pass block in a prostyle offence when so many colleges are running the spread and variations of it.

So veteran behemoths on the offensive line become a prized commodity. The most coveted might be tackles Russell Okung, Mitchell Schwartz, Cordy Glenn, Kelvin Beachum and Jermon Bushrod guards Jahri Evans, and Alex Boone and centre Ben Jones.

Oakland already has nabbed Baltimore guard/tackle Kelechi Osemele, who can sign his deal Wednesday.

WHERE ARE THE BARGAINS? They are everywhere. The trick is finding them, as Denver did with Daniels, Darian Stewart and Antonio Smith, all contributors to a championship.

Carolina got plenty of mileage out of Ted Ginn Jr., and Kurt Coleman. Anyone think Dion Lewis wasn’t a terrific signing for New England? Or Terence Newman for Minnesota?

This year, guys who might not make many headlines when they sign, but who could make key contributions next season range from a few of the offensive linemen above to cornerback Casey Hayward, safety Rodney McLeod, DE Cedric Thornton, linebacker Mike Neal, running back Bilal Powell and receiver Marvin Jones.

ANYONE INTERESTED? Every year, there are blue chippers carrying red flags. This season, the marketplace has Greg Hardy, Aldon Smith, Adam Jones, Andre Smith, Nick Fairley, Percy Harvin and Junior Galette. Lots of talent there, but plenty of locker room and off-field concerns, too.

“We all go through adversity,” Eagles vice-president Howie Roseman says. “It’s how you react to those things and how you handle those things.

You’ve got to be careful about taking guys off your board because they went through something when they were young, and kind of not giving them the chance to show how they’ve changed their lives.

“At the same time, there are deal breakers for your organization, and you’ve got to sit down as an organization and discuss those things and come up with a criteria that’s probably more objective than subjective.”

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NSAIDS can be hard on the kidneys Dear Annie: I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease five years ago during an annual physical at the age of 79.

I did not have hypertension, diabetes or a family history of kidney disease — the distinctive risk factors for kidney disease — although my age should have been a red flag.

Looking back on my medical history, it turns out my kidney numbers were abnormal for some time.

I was told that the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may have caused my kidney damage.

It was a surprise to me that such a common drug did more harm than good.

Since then, I’ve stopped the use of NSAIDs, but I feel many other people might be in the same boat I was in. I hope you can spread the word to help others keep their kidneys healthy. — Better Now Dear Better: Thank you for the information. NSAIDs (such as aspirin, Ad-

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vil, Motrin, Aleve, Celebrex and other commonly used pain relievers) don’t generally pose a problem for most people who use them in small doses on occasion.

But there can be side effects, especially if you use the drugs for weeks at a time.

They can cause bleeding ulcers, fluid retention, rashes, and kidney and heart problems. If you are taking any anti-inflammatory, over-the-counter drugs, please let your doctor know.

Kidney disease often goes undetected, because symptoms may not appear until the kidneys are close to failure.

The good news is that early detection and proper treatment can slow the

HOROSCOPES Wednesday March 9, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Juliette Binoche, 51; Linda Fiorentino, 58; Brittany Snow, 30 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars encourage you to take a calculated risk.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You strive to make your mark in the world but don’t forget to relax and smell the roses along the way.

Home is where the heart is in June, as you take a break and de-stress.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ve got enormous dreams and ambitious schemes but don’t get too far ahead of yourself Rams. If you promise too much — and then fail to deliver — then everyone will end up disappointed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Catching up with close friends or family members adds to an already frantic day for busy Bulls.

There are plenty of things to discuss, as you update each other on your various plans for the future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mercury — your ruling planet — is in Pisces, which brings out the romantic poet hiding behind the gregarious Gemini exterior. So the next two weeks is the perfect time to write, paint, perform or play music.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to travel, education or your aspirations for the future, there are plenty of people with ideas about what you should be doing. So listen closely and avoid blowing things out of proportion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today’s stars activate your adventurous side, so jump out of your usual routine and do something different today Lions. But resist the urge to tell tall tales or be bossy and demanding with others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mercury is moving through your relationship zone, until March 22. So it’s time to sit down with loved ones and talk through issues that have been bothering you. Clear communication is the

progression of kidney disease.

If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, a family history of kidney failure or are over the age of 60, you should get your kidneys checked.

March is National Kidney Month and March 10 is World Kidney Day. The National Kidney Foundation urges readers to be proactive with their health. To learn more, visit www.kidney.org.

Dear Annie: Your response to “Sick of Men Complaining” was right on. She said no matter what meal she prepares for her husband, he always finds something to criticize about it.

Aside from pointing out that she seems to have a predilection for picking out men she cannot possibly please, you told her to inform him that he can cook his own meals if hers are not to his liking.

If my wife prepared an elegant meal for me and I complained about it like that, you can be sure she would tell me where to go.

She also would inform me that from now on, I would be cooking my own food.

And she would have followed through on that.

Her straightforward confidence makes me appreciate the wonderful wife and mother that she is. — Pretty Darn Happy in New Mexico Dear New Mexico: We are delighted to hear from someone who appreciates his spouse and the efforts she puts into their meals, and more important, thinks her direct and honest attitude is something to be admired. We trust she returns the same level of respect.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There are many pressing tasks and responsibilities for you to handle today Libra. But you’ll be no good to anyone if you are worn-out. So put aside some special ‘me-time’ where you can relax and recharge.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Beware thinking you have all the answers today Scorpio. If you are too judgmental about something, then others will quickly bring you back down to earth with a thud. Cool compromise is the key.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians relish extremes.

And you’re walking a fine line at the moment as you balance being expansive and exuberant at work, with being kind, caring and compassionate at home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Relationships and connections within your local community look enjoyable, and activities like cooking, gardening and entertaining are also favoured. Strive to be extra patient with family members.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to your Aquarian aspirations for the future, it’s time to be proactive. Travel and education are particularly favoured, as you expand your mind to include adventurous new activities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Mercury is moving through your sign — until March 22 — so it’s the perfect time to express yourself in increasingly creative ways.

And, if you’ve got something to say, then make sure you speak your mind!

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Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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