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CARNIVAL TREAT RCMP SHOOTING

Suspect charged, held in custody

BY PAUL COWLEY AND SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A 21-year-old Red Deer man is accused of shooting up the downtown RCMP detachment with a replica firearm and allegedly threatening to torch the building.

Shots were fired from a passing vehicle at the RCMP station at 4602 51st Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday.

T w o second-sto- CORY PICARD rey windows at the detachment were pebbled by the rounds’ impacts but did not shatter due to a protective coating.

RCMP said the trouble began with a 3:15 p.m. report that the occupants of a maroon truck were taking potshots at street signs in the Normandeau area. A second call around 3:30 p.m. pegged the location of the truck near the downtown detachment when the two windows were hit.

When the damage was discovered, police evacuated the public from the building, and the large windows were checked to make sure they wouldn’t shatter.

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Grade 2 student Andrianna Lewis, left, and Grade 1 student Payton Stratichuk sample a sweet treat of maple syrup off the snow during a Carnival d’hiver celebration at École Our Lady of the Rosary Elementary School in Sylvan Lake. The students, staff and parent volunteers took part in a number of winter carnival-themed events including street hockey, dancing, crafts, and other games.

String of armed robberies nets woman six years in jail

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An armed robber who hit four businesses in less than two weeks last spring was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday.

Jennifer Maychak, 35, of Brooks, had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of armed robbery and one count of attempted robbery during a span from April 18-28, 2015.

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Maychak admitted to robbing the Candy Bag Sweet Shop, a Mac’s Convenience Store and an Express 24 Food Mart. She also admitted to an attempted, but failed, robbery of a Fas Gas. During the robberies she was either armed with a screwdriver or a can of bear spray.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald asked Red Deer provincial court Judge Gordon Yake for a sentence of six to eight years, pointing out the robberies

were premeditated and Maychak had weapons and disguised herself.

While no one was injured during the robberies, she was targeting vulnerable workers at night, she said.

Defence lawyer Paul Morigeau said his client has struggled with drugs most of her life and was high on crystal meth and had barely slept during the time of the robberies.

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Taking out the trash: council to weigh in on cut to bag limit

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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A trash collection truck leaves the Red Deer Waste Management Site after dropping its load Tuesday afternoon. At an upcoming city council meeting, council will hear a recommendation from the The Governance and Policy Committee to reduce the residential garbage bag limit from five bags to three.

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Residents may soon be taking less trash to the curb.

The Governance and Policy Committee will recommend reducing the maximum residential garbage bag limit to three bags from five bags at an upcoming council meeting.

The committee supported administration’s recommendation from the Waste Management Master Plan (WMMP) on Tuesday.

Mayor Tara Veer said the city had delayed making the change until the

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blue-box recycling program was expanded.

She said reducing the residential bag limit potentially could have been cost prohibitive for some households without providing the additional diversion opportunities.

The city expanded its blue box program to include the addition of Number 1 to 7 plastics in December 2015.

All of those diversions actually make the bag limit reduction more feasible for households, said Veer.

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Auto theft training for RCMP debuts in Red Deer

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF About 35 Red Deer RCMP members gathered with officers from around Alberta and British Columbia for a twoday training session on investigating auto theft in Red Deer on Tuesday.

Hosted by the Insurance Bureau of Canada, it’s the first time Provincial Auto Theft Network (PATNET) training has been available outside the Atlantic region where it began in 2010.

Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod said PATNET will give his officers a chance to network, share strategies and create a more co-ordinated approach to investigating property crime like vehicle theft which has increased significantly over the last three or four years in the city.

Tod said that not only are vehicle owners being victimized, but the vehicles are being used to commit other crimes and has raised public safety concerns on the roads.

“When they steal these motor vehicles, if we come across them they start to drive erratically. We do our best to ensure public safety and limit any exposure to people being injured through our pursuit policies, but the fact remains once they steal these vehicles, they drive differently. The public’s at risk. They ram police cars so police are at risk,” Tod said on Tuesday.

Dan Service, director of investigative services Western and Pacific, for Insurance Bureau of Canada, said even in Central Alberta, auto crime can have an international connection.

“We have vehicles that have been stolen that have not been recovered.

The clear suggestion of that would be an organized group, or groups, are operating within Alberta and stealing and moving them out of the country,” said Service at Red Deer Sheraton where PATNET training is being held.

He said in 2015 the Insurance Bureau of Canada repatriated vehicles from Ghana, Belgium, China, Jamaica and Spain.

And the complexity of the crime is increasing, he said.

“One of the files we investigated involved six different vehicles all put together to form a Chrysler 300. We identified that vehicle right down to the seatbelts as to which cars they came from,” Service said.

Guy Ouellette, auto theft investigator with Insurance Bureau of Canada from Nova Scotia, said people can help make it more difficult for vehicles to disappear by locking their vehicles, not leaving keys in the ignition, and not hiding any spare keys.

He said new vehicles are also harder to steal.

But he said the thieves work quick.

“If they are stolen for the international market, within a day they are already away from Canada.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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After getting away from its owner this wayward kite flies over the Red Deer Waste Management Site Tuesday afternoon. The man flying the kite lost his grip on it at the off-leash dog park on 40th Avenue. He chased the rogue flyer and found it caught up on a power-line just south of the main entrance to the waste management site where it was flying nicely in a steady breeze.

Hospital still cancelling surgeries due to flood Surgeries continue to be cancelled at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre where flooding closed five out of nine operating rooms on March 1.

Alberta Health Services Central Zone said as of Monday, 136 surgical procedures have been rescheduled since a construction-related flood on the second floor poured down into the

Local BRIEFS Aquatic centres hosting Earth Hour swims Residents are encouraged to turn the lights off at home and head to the Dawe or Collicutt pools for the annual Earth Hour Swim on March 19.

Both the Collicutt Centre and G.H. Dawe aquatic centres will flick off just enough lights to create a fun atmosphere and conserve energy while ensuring a safe recreation environment. For only $2 per person, individuals and families are encouraged to drop in between 8 and 10 p.m. and join the movement that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances for one hour worldwide.

Matthew Chambers, a city Environmental Program Specialist, said not only is it a symbol of doing

main floor operating rooms.

Only urgent and emergency surgeries continue at the hospital.

Operating rooms still in use are three theatres used for general surgery and a smaller operating room that has always and will continue to be used only for urology surgery.

Normally, an average of 48 surgeries per day are performed at the hospital.

AHS said restoration work is run-

ning 24 hours a day, seven days a week until completion.

Remediation work on three of the operating rooms will take about four weeks to complete. Work on two of the rooms will take two more weeks.

Flooding sprang from construction underway to build two operating rooms for scheduled cesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures.

our part to reduce energy and emissions, but now more than ever it’s an important concept to take just 60 minutes to turn off the TV, the tablet and even the cell phone and simply enjoy the moment.

In addition to the pools at the Dawe and Collicutt, the city will turn off nonessential power on Saturday night in an effort to build on the success of past Earth Hours.

Last year Red Deer saw a 6.77 per cent decrease in power during Earth Hour compared to the same time the previous week.

For more information on Earth Hour, visit reddeer.ca/environment or earthhour.org.

verbal when police arrived. The victim did not co-operate with police and did not provide any details on the suspect.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Man stabbed in Riverside Meadows A 24-year-old man is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after he was stabbed in Riverside Meadows on Tuesday afternoon.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the area near 60th Street and 58th Avenue after Red Deer Emergency Services were called to help the victim.

He was taken to hospital for treatment for what police believe are non-life-threatening injuries.

The victim was conscious and

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Property assessment appeals due March 21 Property owners must submit their property assessment appeal no later than March 21.

If property owners believe there is an error on their assessment notice, they should contact Revenue & Assessment Services at 403-342-8126 and arrange an appointment to speak with an assessor.

If concerns cannot be resolved following a conversation with an assessor, a formal appeal must be submitted to the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board.

Revenue & Assessment Services is located on the fourth floor of City Hall at 4914 48 Avenue. The Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board is located on the second floor of City Hall (4914 48 Avenue). Mail should be addressed to Box 5008, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3T4.

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Notley signals small business tax cut coming

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is signalling that a tax break for small business owners may be coming in the budget.

Notley made the comment Tuesday when asked by reporters about a proposal by the opposition Wildrose party to lower the small business tax from three per cent to two per cent to help out an economy reeling from the plunge in oil prices.

The premier declined to rule out a tax cut.

“On the issue of the small business tax, I would suggest that we simply all stay tuned for the budget.”

The 2016-17 budget will be presented by Finance Minister Joe Ceci on April 14.

Ceci and Notley have already said it will have new measures to create jobs and diversify and economy, which has seen more than 80,000 job losses due to the collapse in oil prices.

Ceci has already said the budget is expected to include a $10.4-billion deficit.

The province has already announced close to $2 billion in loan and investment incentives to help new ventures take off and small and medium-sized businesses grow and diversify.

Earlier Tuesday, Wildrose Leader Brian released his team’s 12-point plan to create jobs.

He pointed out that at three per cent, Alberta’s small business tax rate is the highest among the four western provinces.

British Columbia is at 2.5 per cent, Saskatchewan is at two per cent and Manitoba is zero.

The Wildrose estimates that a one-percentage-point drop in the small business tax rate would return a highend estimate of $150 million to businesses and the economy.

The party said the tax break could replace the NDP’s job creation plan that was announced last year but is now on hold.

That plan would have spent $178 million over two years to fund a portion of salaries for new private sector hires up to $5,000 per person.

The NDP had promised the program

would start in 2016 and create 27,000 jobs.

The Wildrose also pitched drawing down more than $1 billion from the Workers’ Compensation Board treasury to give employers a temporary break on WCB premiums during the downturn.

The Wildrose said the WCB has about $10.2 billion in its funds against $7.5 billion in liabilities.

Jean said drawing down $1 billion or so would still leave the WCB within its mandated savings zone.

The plan would be to cut premiums in half for the first 100 workers in a company and have no premiums for new employees.

“They will be hired to encourage new employees,” said Jean.

“We feel there’s about 3 ½ year’s worth of surplus funds that are available to lower the tax burden on small businesses.”

Notley mocked the plan, saying while the Wildrose didn’t want the NDP to give $5,000 to hire new employees, it’s OK with giving employers an equivalent amount of WCB money, if not more, with no strings attached.

Son recalls last supper with missing seniors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — When Bret McCann last saw his parents nearly six years ago, they had their motorhome packed and parked in the driveway and seemed excited to be leaving the next day on a camping trip to British Columbia.

McCann testified Tuesday that he played some pool with his father in the basement of their home in St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton, on July 2, 2010. His wife and mother, after checking out some garage sales, came home with a bucket of fried chicken for supper.

McCann said his parents, in their late 70s, had been avid campers for decades but had recently stopped their winter trips to the United States because of increasing health insurance costs. They were eager to get back out on the road, he said.

They were going to meet other family and deliver a present to one of their great-grandchildren in Vancouver.

“They were looking forward to their trip,” McCann told the judge hearing the first-degree murder trial of Travis Vader.

“I think they were kind of pumped … quite positive.”

Lyle and Marie McCann were last seen on surveillance video the next morning getting groceries and fuelling up their motorhome at a Superstore in St. Albert. Three days later, their RV was found on fire about 200 kilometres away near Minnow Lake west of Edmonton. An SUV they had been towing was found on a nearby rural property about a week later.

Their bodies have never been found.

Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of the couple.

The Crown is arguing that Vader, once an oilpatch worker who supported a wife and seven children, had become a crystal meth user who was living in makeshift camps and was wanted by police on warrants.

The defence has told the judge that evidence will point to other suspects and there’s not enough proof the McCanns are really dead.

Legal experts say that there’s often a slow piecing together of evidence in murder cases with no bodies to prove a criminal death and rule out other possibilities. Those could include the alleged victims wanting to start a new life somewhere or committing suicide.

Bret McCann, the oldest of the couple’s three children, testified that his parents were active and healthy. His father, a retired long-haul trucker, had some heart and vision problems. His mother’s fingers had become twisted with arthritis and her memory “was starting to slip a bit.”

McCann recalled his dad playing card games such as Rummoli with his mom to try to keep her mind sharp. He also said his dad was in great shape and had recently scrambled up on his roof to cut a tree branch.

His parents did own some guns, he said. His father had four rifles and shotguns, used years earlier for hunting ducks and gophers, and his mother kept a small Derringer pistol by her bedside after she caught a man looking in their window.

The couple never took the guns on camping trips, McCann said, and they were all found in his parents’ home after they vanished.

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NDP move to expand right to strike

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta has introduced legislation to expand the right to strike for about 150,000 public-sector employees.

Labour Minister Christina Gray said Tuesday the legislation would bring Alberta into compliance with a Supreme Court ruling last year.

“It is intended to balance the interests of employers and employees while protecting public health and safety,” Gray told reporters after Bill 4 was introduced in the legislature.

“At the end of the day we want to ensure labour disputes are resolved in a timely manner with as little impact on the public as possible.”

Alberta traditionally has banned strikes and lockouts involving public-sector workers, but the Supreme Court ruled that the right to strike is a fundamental right for unionized employees.

The bill sets out parameters for strikes while keeping essential services going in areas such as health and police services.

It supports the right to strike for all employees of government, Alberta Health Services, agencies, boards, commissions and non-academic staff at post-secondary institutions.

Nurses, paramedics, and correctional officers would be allowed to strike, but police and firefighters would not.

Police and firefighters will continue to use binding arbitration to resolve impasses in bargaining.

Teachers already have the right to strike.

Under the bill, workers who can strike must first negotiate an agreement with the government on the conditions of any job action so that essential services could be maintained and public health and safety not threatened.

The government would bring in third-party “umpires” to help if both sides can’t reach such an agreement.

Those umpires would also rule on any disputes once the deal is reached.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Why Can’t I Just Grow New Teeth?

Dear Dr. D: My parents are always ragging on me to brush my teeth. My uncle collects sharks' teeth in the ocean. They just grow replacements when they lose them. Why can't people do the same as animals? That would be less hassle.

A: Animal teeth and people teeth are both white (usually) and they exist in the mouth. Other than that, there are many differences. In the animal kingdom, losing teeth meant death. If they couldn't hunt and tear food apart, they starved. People have evolved. Teeth are now a badge of success, and are the ultimate social media statement. They determine whether you get hired, promoted, or even marry - in addition to the original food chewing function. You get two sets of teeth – your 'starter' set of 20 baby teeth, and a total of 32 teeth (including 4 wisdom teeth) in your adult 'set'. Each class of tooth (canines, premolars, molars, and incisors) has a different function, and once they're gone – you're done.

Dogs also have 2 sets, with the baby teeth numbering 28 and the adult teeth numbering 42. This pet, similar to you, can experience tooth decay and other problems. Funny you should mention sharks. One of the biggest fears people have is being on the business end of a shark bite. These creatures continually shed and grow new teeth. One shark can grow well in excess of 30,000 teeth throughout his life span. There are multiple rows, in cases as many as 40. If you're swimming you want to bump into one with dull flat teeth used to crushing crabs, instead of one with sharp fine teeth who prefers fish or perhaps a central Alberta teenager.

Yes, taking care of your teeth is a hassle. Parents drag teenagers to the dentists who actually don't even brush their teeth period. I hear they sleep until 3:00 PM too. Just ignore your teeth and eventually you won't have to put up with that hassle. There is a rare disorder that I wrote about some time ago – a lad in India had a molar in his mouth which in turn spawned the growth of an extra 232 small teeth. The medical term was a 'complex composite odontoma' where a single gum forms multiple teeth. In theory, it's not unlike the shark teeth your uncle collects, but they don't grow to full size. It took 7 hours to extract them. Consider brushing and flossing your teeth as a small price to pay for what will be good oral health (providing you listen to your parents)! Your teeth are closer to your heart than you think. Oral health is 100% connected to your entire body's health. It is 'worth the hassle'.

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Our passion for sports unifies us JOHN STEWART OPINION

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n the lineup of great human endeavours, sport often muscles in where it doesn’t seem to belong.

How does winning a national volleyball title (as the Red Deer College Kings have just done), hosting a Memorial Cup in Red Deer in May or even being awarded the Canada Winter Games measure up against life-changing medical discoveries, remarkable works of art, extraordinary engineering feats, or heroic acts of compassion and selflessness?

Sport is a beacon to a healthier lifestyle, and certainly provides inspiring examples of the strength of individual spirit.

Sporting achievements and the effort to host events increasingly draw our attention. We are intent on diverting public money and human resources toward events and venues for sports, large and small.

Red Deer will host the Canada Win-

ter Games in February-March 2019, and a great deal of work is underway to make the event a success. The first steps, to win hosting rights, were taken by volunteers and community leaders. The next steps will be taken by a professional team, with yet more help from volunteers, while planners and tradespeople build or renovate the necessary venues.

Millions of dollars will be spent.

Principal among the new venues is a health and wellness centre at Red Deer College that will cost about $88 million. That money is coming from several sources, including government, corporate and private donors, and the college’s students association.

This is a long-overdue teaching facility for an institution aggressively trying to gain degree-granting status.

But first, it will be the site of events for the Canada Winter Games. Why do people care that much?

When you are cheering for your favourite team (even the perennially pathetic Edmonton Oilers, say), little else seems to matter. We are heart-broken when an athlete stumbles. We are euphoric when an athlete excels despite long odds. When the Brazil Olympic Games roll around in August, we will commit to memory the names and

feats of athletes we hadn’t heard of two weeks before.

We will celebrate the fact that, increasingly, sports in general and the Olympic movement in particular have knocked down the barriers to sexual and cultural inequality.

And we will be unabashedly unapologetic about our obsession with all things sporting.

When the World Cup of Hockey takes centre stage in September in Toronto, we will be patriotic to a fault.

Like the Olympic Games, a simple hockey tournament will become the gauge by which many nations, not the least of which is Canada, measure national well-being.

We go about our lives looking for inspiration and distraction, purpose and contentment, health and vigour.

And part of that is to be reminded, as often as possible, what the committed human can do, what the healthy body can achieve, and what the collective spirit can imagine.

We want to find lessons we can apply to the most mundane of lives, to give us direction, structure and reason.

At the very least, we need a little jolt once in a while that takes us to the completion of a task.

We want to see our favourite ath-

letes redouble their efforts in the face of adversity and succeed. We want them to exert their superiority when it’s obvious, or thrive against all odds.

Because that’s how we want to see ourselves.

That’s how we want to see our communities and our province and our nation: exceptional in any circumstances.

That’s what we see as the best in the human condition, Canadian style: the ability to shrug off disappointment and push on.

On the local level, having the RDC Kings win a national title helps to illuminate the institution’s quest for excellence, in academics and sports.

Earning the right to host the Canada Winter Games gives Red Deer an immediate tourism and economic boost, and will provide it with a legacy of public facilities — and the opportunity to come together as a community with a common goal.

If all of that helps a community or a nation to flex its muscles, and individuals to be healthy and engaged, then sport has served our endeavours well.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.

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President Trump no longer far-fetched idea

BY MICHAEL TAUBE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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anadians have watched the wild, crazy and circus-like political atmosphere in the U.S. with great amusement.

Many of us are floored at the prospect of businessman Donald Trump becoming the Republican Party nominee over well-established politicians like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. We’re also surprised that former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having so much trouble winning the Democratic Party nomination over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old “democratic socialist.”

Yet in the midst of this amusement over the turmoil in one of the world’s great democracies, we’re missing the big picture. Our nation should be spending far less time laughing and a great deal more time thinking about the future of Canada-U.S. trade relations.

Barring any unforeseen mishaps, Trump and Clinton will most likely be the presidential nominees of their respective parties. Who would be the

best choice to manage the U.S. economy? Although Trump often pays lip service to the glory of capitalism, many observers believe Clinton would be the safer choice.

Here’s one example.

Barron’s executive editor John Kimelman wrote on March 7 that, “Clinton is the more investor-friendly of the two.” He notes that “[w]e are not endorsing Hillary Clinton for president of the United States,” and “[n] or are we saying that she would be the best president for investors from among the current crop of candidates.”

Regardless, this free market oriented publication believes, “Clinton’s moderate political instincts and left-center policy goals suggest a president who wouldn’t stand in the way of the financial markets.”

As for Trump, Kimelman acknowledges that his “tax-cutting initiatives could potentially help both the economy and markets.” At the same time, the controversial businessman’s “tax cuts coupled with his adamant refusal to address ballooning entitlement costs, such as medicare and social security, would expand the national debt to the breaking point.”

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Trump’s call for “heavy tariffs against China,” wrote Kimelman, “could cause a trade war that would devastate the world economy.” As he mentions, Barron’s wrote last fall that “Trump’s tariff plans were reminiscent of the protectionist policies of the 1920s and early 1930s that plunged us into the Great Depression.”

This should worry Canadians, at least on the surface.

Trump has been more solidly in the camp of fair trade over free trade for many years. (He went as far to use the unusual term “free and fair trade” in his 2011 book, Time to Get Tough.) He said, “I think NAFTA has been a disaster. I think our current deals are a disaster” on CNN in June 2015. He also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership a “… horrible deal … that is going to lead to nothing but trouble” during last November’s Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate.

The U.S. has long been a major trading partner for Canada. The success of these trade agreements and proposals directly involve and affect our country’s economy, too.

Trump’s positions on the campaign hustings aren’t conducive to maintain-

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ing healthy Canada-U.S. trade relations. In contrast, Clinton’s opposition to big business and capitalism has been, at this stage, more rhetorical than harmful.

Now, could Trump change some or all of his positions before the presidential election? Of course. He’s flipflopped on so many political and economic policies in the past it would only make sense that he keeps following this pattern.

Then again, maybe he won’t.

This sort of energetic nationalist fervor against international trade and the loss of American jobs appeals to Trump’s broad base of supporters, including right-leaning isolationists as well as traditional working class Democrats. For those of us who believe in the free market economy, trade liberalization and private enterprise, this type of backward economic thinking is extremely troubling.

Just some food for thought for Canadians who can’t stop laughing at America’s political landscape.

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DRUGS, PHYSICAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND FAMILY STRIFE PUSH PEOPLE INTO HOMELESSNESS — AND, IN MANY CASES, ARE WHAT KEEPS THEM THERE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Two of Bessie Strang’s friends sit on a concrete barrier in a Thunder Bay parking lot, the three of them sharing a bottle of yellow Listerine.

“I’m not going so good,” sighs the 42-year-old Strang. “Anyways … I’m just giving up on life.”

The first detailed profile of homeless people across the country shows that stories like Strang’s are common on Canadian streets: Addiction, physical health, mental health and family strife push people into poverty and homelessness — and, in many cases, are what keeps them there.

Thunder Bay is ground zero, a place where all the elements of homelessness come together in a frightening storm that led to 17 deaths on the street last year alone.

New numbers, part of a federally organized “point-in-time” census of homeless people, show the problem is at its worst in Thunder Bay, and that addiction is the No. 1 cause, followed by mental health issues and family strife.

Addiction pops up in other cities, including three in New Brunswick: In Saint John, 15 per cent of those surveyed in the federally organized point-in-time count said addiction was the reason they were homeless, sitting third behind family conflict or domestic abuse (32 per cent) and having spent time in jail (17 per cent).

In Moncton, addiction was again the third most common cause cited at 19 per cent, with family conflict at 45 per cent. Fredericton was the exception: There, family conflict came in at 36 per cent, job loss at 15 per cent and illness at 12 per cent.

In other words, the broken beer bottles along Thunder Bay’s waterfront park are more a sign of the norm, rather than the exception.

And when they can’t get — or can’t afford — alcohol, they turn to alternatives.

“I’m not going to lie to you. I drank mouthwash, hand sanitizer, hair spray, sometimes straight out of the bottle, too,” says Clayton Mawakeesick, who is now part of what’s known as a harm-reduction program in Thunder Bay. Instead of drinking non-beverage alcohol — or “babash juice,” as it’s known in Ojibway slang in Thunder Bay — Mawakeesick consumes six ounces of wine every 90 minutes as part of the program in order to manage his addiction and keep him healthier than he was before.

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Bessie Strang pauses as she tells her story while sitting with other homeless friends, Friday, March 4, 2016 in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Comfort of a warm meal helps to ease the sting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS THUNDER BAY, Ont. — The smash of a plate breaks up Brandon Meredith’s train of thought.

The 19-year-old looks over at the source of the sound, just like the dozens of others in the cafeteria of Thunder Bay’s largest homeless shelter. Shelter House can feed up to 200 people at lunch and then again at dinner daily — Meredith is usually here for both.

The meals at the shelter, Meredith says, ensure he can spend less on groceries “until you’re fully capable of it and you can just live off of here.

It’s free, it’s open for anybody.”

Meredith and his companion Clairissa Cole, 16 — Cole will only say she ran away from home because of “personal parenting problems” — don’t know where they see themselves in five or 10 years. Meredith talks about getting enough welfare money to pay rent and eventually save up enough to get out of Thunder Bay.

The raucous benches give a glimpse into how many people in this city cannot afford to feed themselves easily. Some come in through the back door with empty margarine tubs, taking food to go. They walk into the cold night air without gloves or a warm hat, but a warm meal in hand.

Donations of food are always needed — not Kraft Dinner, there’s more than enough of that in the pantry — because it’s not just Thunder Bay’s homeless who need a meal.

Ron Rogalski from the city’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints says he has relatives who are seasonal workers who sometimes depend on the soup kitchen for food.

Will there ever be a day when he and other church members won’t have to volunteer their time to prepare meals for homeless people? Rogalski doubts it.

“Some of them, I get the feeling that might be the only meal that they’re going to have for the day,” he says.

“We’re happy to do the work. It gives us a lot of joy, so whatever the circumstances are, you know, we just roll with everything here.”

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Stabbing suspect cited Allah: police

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man who allegedly said Allah instructed him to kill was charged Tuesday with stabbing and wounding two uniformed soldiers at a north Toronto military recruitment centre a day earlier.

While investigators were probing possible terror links, the city’s police chief said there didn’t appear to be any connection to terrorist groups, although it seemed the man had deliberately targeted military personnel.

“To date, there is nothing to indicate the accused is working with anyone or in concert with any organization,” Chief Mark Saunders said. “It will take some time to have a complete picture.”

The incident occurred mid-after-

noon Monday, when a man walked into the government building that houses a Canadian Armed Forces recruitment centre on the ground floor.

He walked into the office with a “large knife” in hand and began striking a uniformed master corporal, who fell to the ground, Saunders said. The soldier was able to get to his feet, at which point the suspect slashed his right arm.

As military personnel moved civilians to safety, investigators said the man tried and failed to slash a female soldier before other soldiers were able to subdue him and hold him for police. Another military member was injured as the suspect was apprehended.

Court documents identified the victims of the attack as Ryan Kong, Jesus Castillo and Tracy Ann Gerhardt.

“While at the scene, the accused stated that ‘Allah told me to do this Allah told me to come here and kill people,”’ Saunders said.

Following the arrest, the accused became “non-responsive,” Saunders said, meaning he refused to answer any po- AYANLE HASSAN ALI lice questions.

Two soldiers needed treatment for minor injuries.

Police named the suspect as Montreal-born Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27, who

moved to Toronto in 2011. At one point, they also spelled his first name as Ayanie, but offered no explanation for the mistake.

Ali was charged with a total of nine counts, according to court documents: three attempted murder, two aggravated assault, three assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.

The accused hung his head and looked down at the floor for most of a brief court appearance Tuesday, saying his name quietly when asked to do so. He was remanded until Friday.

“He just seems very scared right now and of course very, very unhappy to be in the position he finds himself in today,” his lawyer, David Burke, said outside court. “It’s a very, very difficult situation.”

Trudeau faces tough campaign Canada Opposition call for crack down seeking UN Security Council seat

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government faces a longer, tougher election campaign, this one worldwide, if it wants to win a UN Security Council seat, say the people who helped Canada win its last bid.

It’s not enough for Canada to be “back,” the government needs a platform outlining what it wants to accomplish on the world stage and it has to make up for a decade of UN neglect under the previous Conservative government, they say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce Wednesday in New York

that Canada plans to seek a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Trudeau will be meeting Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, whom he hosted last month in Ottawa. That’s when Trudeau first mentioned the plan to seek a council seat. Canada lost its last bid for a seat in 2010 after a string of six terms on the council dating back to the late 1940s.

It is not clear when Canada could seek a new term, because the slate of candidates in the UN’s Western and European and Others Group, to which Canada belongs, is full until at least 2020.

But campaigns for the council typi-

cally take years and involve much diplomatic horse-trading, something the previous Harper government considered to be a compromise.

“It’s important to have an agenda, so you’re giving people a reason to elect you,” said Paul Heinbecker, Canada’s ambassador to the UN during its last stint on the council in 19992000. “It’s not enough to say we’re Canada and we’re nice and we’re back and therefore elect us.”

Trudeau doesn’t have to do that Wednesday in New York, Heinbecker said, but his government has to soon “create a platform, because it is an election.”

Government looks at improving review of border agency

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government says it is looking for ways to improve scrutiny of Canada’s border agency amid mounting calls to create an independent watchdog for the organization.

The office of Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday the government “is examining how best to provide the Canada Border Services

Agency with appropriate review mechanisms.”

The statement came as civil rights groups and refugee lawyers decried the second death of someone in the border agency’s custody in less than a week.

The agency holds people who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public and those whose identities cannot be confirmed.

In 2013-14, it detained 10,088 immigrants — almost one-fifth of them ref-

ugee claimants — in a variety of facilities, including federal holding centres and provincial and municipal jails.

On March 7, the border services agency was notified by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services that an individual in immigration detention at the Toronto East Detention Centre had died.

On Sunday, the border agency was advised by the Ontario ministry that a person detained at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex had died.

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OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are calling on the Trudeau government to make a serious effort to recover up to $72 million in overpayments to contractors, many of them in the defence industry.

Procurement critic Steven Blaney says the Liberals owe it to taxpayers to recover the money and to diligently reform the system along the lines of an independent report that was originally commissioned by the Harper government.

“On cost recovery, we started this process and we expect the government to get serious and recover money owing to taxpayers,” Blaney said Tuesday.

A series of internal audits have found that Ottawa is routinely overcharged by its contractors — to the tune of tens of millions of dollars — in a practice that has been going on for decades.

NDP defence critic Randall Garrison set his sights on both the Liberals and the Conservatives, saying the system has been mismanaged.

“It’s the responsibility of the government to ensure that Canadians get value for money on procurement,” Garrison said in an email Tuesday.

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ADDICTION: Health issues The success of the program over the past four years, and similar programs in places like Ottawa, have led local officials to look into opening a supervised injection site similar to Insite in Vancouver that could replace the bags of clean syringes, filters, alcohol swabs, and cookers — used for smoking crack cocaine — the city’s largest shelter hands out regularly.

The preferred drug of the moment is a cycle not unlike a ferris wheel: one rises to the top, and then another takes its place, says Dr. Stephen Hwang, one of the country’s top researchers on homeless health from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

Fentanyl is on everyone’s minds, the cause of a high number of deaths with lawmakers scrambling to get it under control. Before that it was Oxycontin, a prescription painkiller that led to break-ins at pharmacies.

Other common street drugs in use include morphine, its synthetic equivalent, Dilaudid, and other prescription painkillers.

North America is one of the biggest prescribers of painkillers, with Ontario one of the highest on the continent and Thunder Bay highest in Ontario, says Dr. Ella Goodman from the city’s NorWest Community Health Centre.

“Unfortunately, there’s always some diversion of medications as well too, meaning that the people that are supposed to be taking the medications in the way it’s prescribed — it’s not happening.”

Research into the homeless population has shown they frequent emergency rooms for help, have worse health outcomes than the general population and can have multiple health issues at one time like the 54 per cent of homeless people in Vancouver who reported so last year.

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Hazel Cripps, an Ojibway from Eagle Lake First Nation in Ontario, consoles homeless friend Evelyn at the Shelter House, Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Thunder Bay, Ont. In Toronto, a street survey from 2013 found “homeless people are frequent users of health and treatment services,” including emergency room visits. In Hamilton, the point-in-time count showed 38 per cent of homeless people reported a chronic health condition, double the number in the overall Canadian population.

While the health problems may seem self-evident, the new research shows that they are also intractable.

Hwang says there hasn’t been a dramatic change in the health of the homeless population over the past five to 10 years even though they have more access to health care.

In some cases, people like Strang avoid hospitals and doctors entirely.

Strang, who says she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, says she’ll go to the hospital when she wants to.

There’s an additional layer to Strang’s case that is common across the country: she is aboriginal, a group various studies say makes up one-third

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or more of that national homeless population. In Thunder Bay it is it 73 per cent, according to the most recent homeless survey, the first of its kind in the city’s history.

They may carry with them the trauma of residential school experiences, or carry “inter-generational trauma” by virtue of being the children of survivors, becoming cut off from services and ending up homeless, says Brad King, the operations manager at Thunder Bay’s largest shelter, known as Shelter House.

Strang says she went to the Poplar Hill residential school in northern Ontario. She stops at the recounting of a memory and breathes heavily. She removes her glasses and wipes tears from her eyes. She says she thinks some days about hanging herself or overdosing.

Those who leave their reserves to be closer to schools, hospitals and potential jobs head to cities like Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Edmonton and

OTTAWA — Key figures on shelter usage and homelessness from Canadian communities: 33: Percentage of shelter users in Kelowna in 2014 who were aboriginal 12.3: Percentage of shelter users in Peel Region who are immigrants 18.6: Percentage of women experiencing episodic homelessness in Prince George, a higher percentage than men — an anomaly in most communities outside the North 17: Number of homeless deaths in Thunder Bay in 2015 3,016: Number of homeless people in Montreal, based on a 2015 count of the homeless population 77: Percentage of homeless people in Hamilton who said they didn’t have enough money to pay for housing 45: Percentage of people in Moncton, N.B., who said they were homeless because of family conflict or domestic abuse.

Source: National Homelessness Information System, Lakehead Social Planning Council, City of Montreal, City of Hamilton, Saint John Human Development Council Vancouver, hoping for a better life.

Once in the city, they are cut off from the supports they have back home. A 2014 review of research into aboriginal homelessness in Canada found some homeless aboriginals use reserves as an economic safety net, returning when they run into financial hardships in the city.

And some see no reason to leave the city, even if they are living on the street.

Some people go back home, then end up back in Thunder Bay and get “stuck again” and wind up back at the shelter, says Hazel Cripps, an Ojibway from Eagle Lake First Nation in Ontario.

“I would never move back to my reserve,” Cripps says. “There’s nothing there for me.”

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Trump wins Florida, loses Ohio

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Donald Trump scored victories Tuesday in three states, including the big-prize Florida, but lost Ohio to the state’s governor, John Kasich, as the billionaire continued to move ahead in his stunning campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton won at least three states, dealing a severe blow to Bernie Sanders’ bid to slow her march toward the Democratic nomination.

Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who staked his once-promising campaign on winning in his home state, dropped out of the presidential race shortly after the polls closed. That leaves Kasich as the last true establishment candidate running against Trump and arch-conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Trump, the brash and controversial reality TV star, has upended Republican politics by winning most of the state-by-state competitions for delegates who will choose the party’s nominee. He has seized on Americans’ anger with Washington politicians, discomfort with immigration and fears of terrorism, attracting voters with his blunt talk and simply worded promise to make America great again.

Tuesday’s votes in five states had been viewed as a pivotal moment in the Republican presidential campaign. For the first time, two states — Ohio and Florida — had winner-takeall contests. A Trump sweep could have given him an insurmountable lead in the delegate count.

Trump won the biggest prize — all 99 Florida delegates — as well as winning North Carolina and Illinois, and

Canada BRIEFS Manitoba court grants wish for doctor’s aid in death WINNIPEG — Manitoba has become the latest province to have a court grant a patient the right to die with the help of a doctor.

Chief Justice Glenn Joyal made the ruling after a hearing Tuesday during which the patient’s application was unopposed. Joyal also granted a request not to identify the patient or any health-care professionals involved.

“The applicant has satisfied the court that the applicant is competent to request physician-assisted death,” Joyal said. “The applicant clearly consents to the termination of life … and has a grievous, irremediable medical condition that causes the applicant enduring suffering that is

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SUSPECT: Mother is legal guardian The truck’s driver was soon identified and with help from the public police tracked the vehicle to the Bower subdivision. Two men and two women were taken into custody after a “highrisk arrest” near Boyce Street and Beatty Crescent about 4 p.m.

Police took all four into custody and recovered a BB pistol believed to have been used to fire the shots.

Cory Daniel Picard has been charged with using an imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, mischief damage to property over $5,000, and uttering threats.

RCMP said he was alone in the back seat of the truck. The driver and two other passengers were released without charges but the investigation continues.

Picard made his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday morning. Dressed in blue prison coveralls, the messy-haired man listened attentively as the charges were read.

After the court clerk read the last charge, for uttering threats in connection with an accusation that he told a police officer he wanted to burn down the detachment, Picard was asked if he understood.

“Yes, can I say something about it?” he started before Judge Gordon Yake cut him off and told him to listen to the proceedings.

Duty counsel Amna Qureshi told the judge that Picard is under the legal adult guardianship of his mother.

Guardians are given legal authority to make decisions on behalf of someone who may not be capable themselves.

While Picard’s mother was not present on Tuesday, she will be involved in all future legal decisions involving her son.

The case was adjourned until March 22 when a hearing may be held to determine if Picard will be released on conditions.

Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod called the shooting a dangerous and serious event even though it turned out that the weapon was allegedly a BB pistol.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday. was locked in a tight race with Cruz in Missouri. He told a victory rally in Florida, “This was an amazing night.”

But Kasich’s win, capturing all of Ohio’s 66 delegates, was crucial to keeping alive the hopes of mainstream Republicans trying to stop Trump.

While Trump had amassed the most delegates going into Tuesday, he’s won

fewer than 50 per cent of them. If that pace continues, he would fall short of the majority that he would need to assure him the nomination at the party’s convention in July. The result could be a contested convention, creating an unpredictable outcome.

This was the first victory for Kasich, whose upbeat message and long re-

intolerable.”

The Supreme Court last year struck down a law that prohibited medical aid in dying. In January, it gave the federal government more time to craft new legislation, but said anyone who wants an assisted death sooner can apply to a judge.

Neither the patient nor any of the patient’s family was in court. The patient issued a written statement following the ruling indicating peace with the decision to die.

One was a Feb. 23 fundraiser at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton.

The main ticket cost $250 and was advertised on the party’s website.

But some donors were phoned or emailed and invited to a smaller pre-fundraising event that promised one-on-one access to Notley and her ministers for an extra $750. The addon never went ahead after Trussler launched her investigation.

The ethics commissioner said the structure of the fundraiser was OK, but both events should have been advertised on the NDP website.

“The perception that only a chosen few are being invited is best avoided,” Trussler wrote in her report.

Notley promises changes to remove secrecy around future NDP fundraisers EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her party is making changes to avoid the appearance of secrecy around future fundraisers.

Notley said Tuesday she will act on recommendations made by ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler and ensure future events are well advertised and made known to the public.

Trussler has cleared Notley and the NDP of allegations they violated conflict-of-interest rules at two events last month.

“We’re seeing a lot of these replica weapons used in offences. The disturbing thing is that they resemble a real firearm and it’s very hard for officers to make that call whether it’s a replica or not. We don’t have the luxury to make that analysis when faced with it,” Tod said.

He said the shooting was still a threat to the community.

“It’s a threat to the police office and the public that’s in the police office.

Thankfully the glass didn’t shatter and didn’t drop on anybody. I’m just very proud of my members, how quickly we apprehended them,” Tod said.

As an isolated incident, residents shouldn’t be too concerned, he said.

ROBBERY: Crimes unsophisticated Morigeau pointed out that she had no prior criminal record and took responsibility for the robberies after she was caught by police.

Standing a little over five-feet-tall (1.5 m), Maychak is hardly imposing and made no effort to use the screwdriver or bear spray during the robberies, said Morigeau.

She only made a few hundred dollars from the crimes, some of which was shared with an accomplice in at least one case.

“These were very unsophisticated crimes,” said Morigeau, who sought a sentence in the two- to four-year range.

Maychak expressed her remorse for her crimes.

“I’m not a career criminal,” she told the judge. “What I did was really wrong. I’m living the repercussions.

“I’m not a big threat to anybody but myself.”

Yake sentenced Maychak to three years in prison on each of the armed robbery charges, one of which is to be served concurrently. The attempted robbery charge netted a one-year concurrent sentence.

She was given 51 days credit for previous jail time, leaving her with a five-years and 314 days to serve. She must provide a sample of her DNA to a national database and faces weapons prohibitions when she gets out of prison.

Alberta MLA first denies, then admits to flipping bird in house at opposition EDMONTON — A backbench NDP member has apologized to the Alberta legislature for making an obscene gesture at an opposition member and then for misleading the house when he was caught.

“I made an inappropriate gesture to members opposite, which I regret and for which I apologize,” Michael

TRASH: Average is 1.8 bags weekly Janet Whitesell, the city’s waste management superintendent, said the average household sets out 1.8 bags of waste per week.

She said some households may have more garbage at certain times of year.

The change is about encouraging the use of its diversion programs and moving towards the waste reduction targets, she said.

“It’s achievable with our diversion programs and what we observe what our residents are doing at the moment, ” she said. “The five bag limit was never intended to always stay at five. It was always something that was in our plans and discussions.”

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cord of government service has had little resonance as his rivals seized on voters’ anxiety and disdain for Washington. While he could benefit from Rubio dropping out, he remains an extreme longshot for the nomination, though he could help keep Trump below the 50 per cent threshold.

Cruz said at a Houston rally that the battle for the Republican presidential nomination battle was a “two-person race” between himself and Trump. He did not mention Kasich by name.

Trump now has 619 delegates. Cruz has 394, Kasich 136 and Rubio left the race with 167. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

In the Democratic race, Clinton’s victories in Florida and North Carolina were expected, but Sanders, a Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, had hoped to take the industrial state of Ohio, which Clinton won. He has criticized the former secretary of state for her past support for trade deals. Sanders is unlikely to overtake Clinton in the delegate count, but his victory last week in Michigan underscored the unease that many party voters have about her candidacy.

Clinton narrowly led in Illinois, while Sanders was slightly ahead in Missouri.

With her wins Tuesday, Clinton put herself in a commanding position to become the first woman in U.S. history to win a major party nomination.

Overall, Clinton has at least 1,488 total delegates including superdelegates, who are elected officials and party leaders free to support the candidate of their choice. Sanders has at least 704 delegates when the count includes superdelegates. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

Connolly, the member for Calgary Hawkwood, said Tuesday morning in the chamber.

“My actions were not befitting of this chamber and the dignity herein.”

It was last Thursday during heated debate over the government’s jobs policy that the Wildrose Opposition said Connolly “flipped the bird” in their direction.

Connolly initially denied it at the time, saying he was just waving his hand.

But he admitted to it Tuesday after a table officer in the house later reported he saw Connolly make the gesture.

“When this matter was raised at the time I sought to minimize the matter instead of taking full responsibility,” Connolly told the house Tuesday.

“To be clear, my actions were not acceptable, and my apology and explanation were not good enough.”

Outside the house, Connolly told reporters he made the gesture out of frustration because he felt the Wildrose was refusing to answer questions on social policy.

“I leaned back and I threw up a gesture out of frustration and immediately regretted it because I had realized what I had done,” he said. three-bag limit; 23 per cent support a two-bag limit and 20 per cent support a four-bag limit.

Findings from the 2013 WMMP public consultation suggests 77 per cent of residents were in support of lowering the bag limit when linked to increasing the types of plastics accepted in the blue box program.

The bag reduction is part of the city’s overall strategy to reduce Red Deer’s per capita disposal rate to 500 kg per capita by 2023.

Nearly 75,000 tonnes of waste from Red Deer was disposed at the Red Deer Waste Management Facility in 2011, the most current data. That translates to 812 kg per capita. By comparison, the Canadian average is 777 kg per capita, and the Alberta average is 1,122 kg per capita.

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Minister takes shine to cleanup pitch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A proposal to use federal infrastructure funds to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta — with the aim of spurring employment in the ailing industry — has the thumbsup of the province’s energy minister.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada announced Monday that it made the $500-million pitch to Ottawa earlier this month. The sum would cover a small fraction of the work needed to decommission the 75,000 wells across the province that are no longer producing.

“Good on them,” Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said of PSAC’s move.

“That is one way to get Albertans back to work in the interim and it isn’t unprecedented,” she told reporters after speaking at an energy conference in Calgary on Tuesday.

McCuaig-Boyd referred to the Alberta government’s $30-million contribution to the province’s orphan well fund during the last downturn in 2009.

While Alberta does have a polluter-pay policy that makes companies responsible for well decommissioning, McCuaig-Boyd says the province also has big economic problems.

“I think we could put a lot of folks to work in a fairly quick time (with the federal money) because the skills MARG MCCUAIG-BOYD are out there right now and it is an issue that needs to be dealt with,” she said.

“It will provide some jobs.

No solution is going to provide jobs for everybody, but we need to look at how we can get as many Albertans back to work as we can.”

The Saskatchewan government made a similar federal pitch last month.

That province’s proposal would cost Ottawa $156 million and would generate an estimated 1,200 jobs over the next two years.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he’s not heard back from Ottawa yet on his proposal, but that he’ll be watching next week’s federal budget “very, very closely.”

“We’re hopeful (the PSAC ask) helps … provide some momentum to our request and that the federal government would indeed go with our request,” Wall said in a phone interview during an election campaign stop in Saskatoon.

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Housing market defies outlook GREATER VANCOUVER, TORONTO HELP DRIVE HOME PRICES UP FROM YEAR AGO Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Association raised its outlook for home sales this year as the Vancouver and Toronto markets continued to charge ahead of expectations in contrast to other cities.

CREA said Tuesday it had expected the market to cool this year with smaller price gains in B.C. and Ontario.

“However, many of the defining themes among Canadian housing markets last year have persisted, and in some cases intensified, in early 2016,” it said in its updated forecast.

CREA said it now expects sales this year to grow by 1.0 per cent compared with earlier expectations of a 1.1 per cent contraction.

“Canadian resale housing market trends this year are expected to resemble those apparent in 2015, with very tight supply leading to strong price gains in British Columbia and Ontario — particularly in the Lower Mainland and in and around the Greater Toronto Area,” the forecast said. “Price gains in these regions are expected to continue to stand in sharp contrast to moderate price declines among housing markets whose prospects are closely tied to oil and other natural resource prices.”

B.C. and Ontario are expected to drive the national average price up eight per cent to $478,100 in 2016, according to the forecast.

The revised outlook came as CREA reported home sales in February were up 18.7 per cent from a year ago, driven by sales in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Vancouver and Toronto also helped pump up the national average price for a home sold in February to $503,057. Excluding those two markets, the average price was $355,235, up 8.7 per cent.

BMO chief economist Doug Porter said the national figures don’t mean much given the big differences between cities.

“Talking about averages in Canada’s housing market is like saying the weighted average temperature between the fire on my gas stove and the ice in my freezer is a mildly warm 22 degrees — it’s meaningless,” Porter said. “The Canadian housing market remains a tale of three solitudes — the uber-strength in Vancouver and Toronto (and surrounding cities in both regions), ice-cold conditions in markets exposed to oil prices, and the just-right middle markets in almost every other region.”

A trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays the Valeant Pharmaceuticals logo, Tuesday. Valeant Pharmaceuticals cut its estimates for 2016 and said it could default on some of its debt if it does not complete required financial statements by late April.

Drug giant watches stock value dissolve in trading

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals, once one of Canada’s most valuable companies, saw its stock plunge to its lowest level in more than three years on Tuesday after reporting fourth-quarter earnings below expectations and lowering its outlook for 2016.

Shares in the Quebec-based drug giant lost more than 47 per cent of their value after three hours of trading, hovering at C$48.30 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At its peak last August, Valeant stock was worth nearly C$350.

“Our business is not operating on all cylinders,” CEO Michael Pearson said in a conference call. “But we and I are committed to get it back on track.”

The company said it had a net loss of US$336.4 million in the final quarter of 2015 — rather than a net profit of US$462.6 million as analysts had expected — largely due to costs associated with restructuring and acquisitions.

After adjustments, Valeant says it earned US$875.7 million or $2.50 per share. Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings of US$942.8 million, or $2.61 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Valeant’s revenue for the fourth quarter was just under US$2.8 billion, which was in line with analyst estimates, but the company reduced its previous sales and adjusted earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2016.

“In a sense, we’ve botched a quarter,” Pearson said.

There could be more bad news on the horizon.

The drugmaker has delayed filing its 2015 annual report with regulators while it investigates its former relationship with Philidor. Questions arose last October after a report revealed Valeant’s previously undisclosed relationship with the Pennsylvania mail-order pharmacy. Valeant has since launched an internal investigation into the matter.

The company risks defaulting on its debt if the 2015 annual report is not filed by April 29. Pearson said he hopes to file the report next month.

Also last month, Valeant announced that it had to restate its financial results for 2014 and 2015 after finding that about US$58 million of sales to Philidor were recognized at the wrong time.

Its efforts to regain confidence may have taken a hit Tuesday when it overstated its forecast of adjusted pre-tax operating earnings EBITDA over the next four quarters. Valeant later issued a corrected news release.

Pearson said he accepts responsibility for Valeant’s poor performance and miscommunication about its strategy.

“We have to earn back the credibility,” he said.

“It’s a bit of a starting-over point at this point for me and the company and clearly if we don’t deliver, then that’s on me.”

Valeant is facing allegations of drug-price gouging, accusations it has denied. It is also under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney’s offices in Massachusetts and New York, as well as Congress, as part of their probes into price hikes for certain drugs.

U.S. bars Atlantic drilling as Obama builds environmental legacy

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, declaring that the administration’s next five-year offshore drilling plan “protects the Atlantic for future generations.”

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WASHINGTON — In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling off America’s Atlantic Coast, a move cheered by environmentalists and consistent with the president’s aggressive steps to combat climate change.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said the decision “protects the Atlantic for future generations.” She said the administration had listened to thousands of people in coastal communities from Florida to New England who said, “Now is not the time to start leasing off the Atlantic Coast.”

However, business groups and most Republicans criticized it as another example of what they call executive overreach.

Despite a surge in oil and natural gas production in the past seven years that has helped push gasoline prices below $2 a gallon, Republicans and industry groups have criticized Obama for imposing what they say are unnecessary regulations on drilling, es-

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pecially on federal lands. Most of the drilling boom has occurred on state and private lands and in the Gulf of Mexico, long the centre of U.S. offshore oil production.

The decision reverses a proposal made last year in which the administration floated a plan that would have opened up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling. That January 2015 proposal would have opened up sites more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia to oil drilling no earlier than 2021.

President Barack Obama, in his final year in office, is working to build an environmental legacy that includes a global agreement to curb climate change and a plan to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. Obama also has imposed limits on smog-causing pollution linked to asthma and has rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The proposal on Atlantic drilling is likely to become an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Both Democratic candidates oppose it, while Republicans vow to expand drilling.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.24 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.30 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.53 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.51 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.140 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.36 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.83 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 169.88 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.16 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.05 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.66 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.19 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.19 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.16 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.14 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.05 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.32 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.69 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.63 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.25 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.16 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.01 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.44 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 135.64 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.08 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.58 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.22 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Falling prices for oil and other commodities pushed the Toronto stock market into the red for a second consecutive session Tuesday while also driving the Canadian dollar more than half a cent lower.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 77.23 at 13,400.31 after starting the week with a 44-point decline on Monday.

Base metals miners, industrials and energy companies were among the day’s losers, although the relatively small health-care sector suffered by far the biggest sector decline.

It fell 11.69 per cent after shares in Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) plunged $46.44 or almost 51 per cent to $45.14 in response to a severely disappointing earnings report and outlook. Volume was four million shares, more than five times the issue’s daily average.

The commodity-sensitive loonie lost 0.53 of a U.S. cent to 74.84 cents US. In commodities, the April contract for benchmark North American crude oil sank 84 cents to US$36.34 a barrel after losing $1.32 on Monday.

This week’s downturn in oil prices has come in the wake of weekend comments by Iran’s oil minister dismissing the idea of a production cap suggested by major producers Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar.

The idea is to reduce output in hopes of boosting global crude prices if other major producers can agree. But Iran has been unwilling to go along, saying it wants to greatly ramp up output after years of sanctions imposed over its nuclear program that greatly hampered production.

Allan Small, a senior adviser at Holliswealth, says the oversupply on the production side

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.78 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.64 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.09 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.94

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.82 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.99 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.36 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.43 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.85 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.270 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.270 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.74 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.76 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.560 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.72 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.54 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.98 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.60 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.65 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.43 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.46 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.96 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.39 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.45 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.940 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.34

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.54 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.36 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.51 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 35.41 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.92 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.41 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.18 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.64 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.90 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.60 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.42 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.39

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.76 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.84 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.82 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.53 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.42 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.99 Canyon Services Group. . 3.78 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.50 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.28 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680 does not bode well for a big increase in prices in the near term.

“Keep in mind, there is so much oil out there that if the price of oil does run up, people will start turning back on the taps and start producing more again,” Small said.

“I think that’s why the price of oil will be depressed for some time because it’s going to be manipulated, people turning on and off the taps whenever they see fit.”

Elsewhere in commodities, April natural gas added three cents to US$1.85 per mmBtu, while April gold fell $14.10 to US$1,231.00 a troy ounce and May copper shed a penny to US$2.23 a pound.

In New York, indexes were narrowly mixed in advance of Wednesday’s policy-rate statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones industrial average rebound from a small loss to post a modest advance of 22.40 points to 17,251.53. The broader S&P 500 declined 3.71 points to 2,015.93 and the Nasdaq composite index was down 21.61 points at 4,728.67.

While few expect the U.S. central bank to raise rates at the conclusion of its meeting, investors will be closely watching it views on both the U.S. and world economies.

The Fed raised rates in December for the first time in almost a decade, but left them unchanged in January.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,400.31, down 77.23 points Dow — 17,251.53, up 22.40 points S&P 500 — 2,015.93 down

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3.71 points Nasdaq — 4,728.67, down 21.61 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.84 cents US, down 0.53 of a cent Pound — C$1.8907, down 0.57 of a cent Euro — C$1.4841, up 1.17 cents Euro — US$1.1107, up 0.09 of a cent Oil futures: US$36.34 per barrel, down 84 cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,231 per oz., down $14.10 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.338 oz., down five cents $686.02 kg., down $1.60 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $0.90 higher $467.30 July ‘16 $1.60 higher $468.90 Nov. ‘16 $2.50 higher $470.70 Jan. ‘17 $2.50 higher $474.20 March ‘17 $2.40 higher $476.70 May ‘17 $2.40 higher $476.00 July ‘17 $2.90 higher $476.00 Nov. ‘17 $2.90 higher $469.60 Jan. ‘18 $2.90 higher $469.60 March ‘18 $2.90 higher $469.60.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 March ‘17 unchanged $180.00 May ‘17 unchanged $180.00 July ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 March ‘18 unchanged $180.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 409,140 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 409,140.

mental challenges. He says, in return, his country will take advantage of Alberta’s regulatory and performance standards in areas such as shale gas development. Neither McCuaig-Boyd nor Drake could specify what kinds of jobs could grow out of the agreement.

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Oil absorbent booms are set up near cargo ship Istra Ace, where oil sheen was visible in the Wilmington Marina in the East Basin of the Cerritos Channel in Los Angeles Harbor on Monday. Cleanup efforts are under way after a large cargo ship leaked an unknown amount of oil in the harbor.

Ketchup kerfuffle LOBLAW TO RESTOCK STORES WITH FRENCH’S KETCHUP AFTER UPROAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s a kerfuffle Loblaw didn’t relish.

The grocery chain announced Tuesday it was reversing its decision to pull French’s ketchup from store shelves following a social media uproar.

“We’ve heard our Loblaws customers,” Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, said in a statement.

The company said French’s ketchup never disappeared from its shelves entirely and it will restock the product as soon as possible.

Earlier, Loblaw said it decided to stop carrying French’s regular ketchup due to low sales over the past year.

But it continued to sell French’s two flavoured varieties, Buffalo ketchup and garlic ketchup. The popularity of French’s ketchup soared after a man’s Facebook post lauding the U.S.-based company for its commitment to buy tomatoes from Canadian farmers.

Brian Fernandez posted a photo of a French’s ketchup bottle in late February and said his family would no longer buy Heinz ketchup since the company closed its Leamington, Ont., plant and cost the community about 750 jobs.

French’s regular and flavoured ketchup use 100 per cent Canadian-grown tomatoes, according to its website. French’s did not respond to request for comment.

Fernandez’s post was shared more than 132,000 times and prompted a member of the Ontario legislature to ask for the Queen’s Park dining room and cafeteria to switch to French’s ketchup.

Demand for French’s increased following the publicity. Fernandez later posted that a Zehrs in Orillia, Ont., sold out of 10 cases of the condiment on the same day it received them. Others weighed in with similar stories from their local grocers. Groh said he hopes the enthusiasm shown for the product on social media and in the news will translate to in-store sales.

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Alberta hopes to grow lowcarbon economy with U.K. agreement: energy minister

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CALGARY — The Alberta government has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom that focuses on creating jobs and working together on low-carbon technology.

Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd says the two governments plan to bring together industry, innovators and other stakeholders.

The aim is to increase renewable energies, promote energy efficiency and reduce harmful emissions.

Howard Drake, British high commissioner to Canada, says the U.K. wants to help Alberta meet its environ-

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says its Circle K brand will be in place at hundreds of additional U.S. stores by this spring as the Quebec-based company moves to adopt a global identity for its convenience stores and gas stations. Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) says it’s on track to put the new image on more than 400 stores in the southeastern United States by the end of its financial year, which concludes in April. In total, it expects to rebrand more than 1,000 stores in the region as it integrates the Pantry chain into its network of stores and filling stations.

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Rebels come up short against Hitmen

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Hitmen 4 Rebels 2 If this was a preview of the Red Deer Rebels first round playoff series, it won’t be a very long series.

Two days after routing the Lethbridge Hurricanes and get within striking distance of top spot in the Central Division, the Rebels came up short against the visiting Calgary Hitmen, losing 4-2.

“Maybe the group was satisfied to finish second and they want Calgary in the first round,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“I wasn’t pleased with our game, the coaching staff wasn’t pleased with our game.

“We had guys tonight whose game, in 48 hours, dropped off significantly. The toughest thing about tonight’s game was you had to push to get something out of the group. It shouldn’t have been that way.”

Sutter said he expected the group to throw everything they could at the next few games and maybe catch Lethbridge.

“I thought some of our top players tonight weren’t very good. Probably our most consistent line throughout the night was the (Jeff) de Witt (with Braden Putrill and Austin Pratt). The other lines were very sporadic in their play.”

The Hitmen got on the board less than 30 seconds into the game after a point shot from Radel Fazleev was redirected past Trevor Martin by Jackson Houck. Houck finished the night with a goal and an assist.

For the Rebels, Luke Philp set up both goals while Adam Helewka scored his 40th goal of the year.

“Our specialty teams tonight hurt us more than they helped us,” said Sutter.

“We gave a power play goal and a short handed goal.

“I didn’t like our game that much.”

A power play in the first proved to be less than beneficial for the Rebels.

A three-on-two odd man rush the other way, after Adam Helewka fanned on a point shot, led to the Hitmen’s second goal, a short handed marker. Then in a nasty collision, Michael Spacek sustained an injury and was writhing in

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Red Deer Rebel Adam Musil checks Calgary Hitmen Tyler Mrkonjic during second period action at the Centrium on Tuesday.

The Rebels lost to the Hitmen 4-2. pain on the ice. He left the bench, but was back on the bench before the period was out.

A tripping minor to Brandon Hagel set up a Hitman power play, which led to their third goal. Jakob Stukel chipped in Houck’s pass through the crease into an empty cage.

After going down 3-0, the Rebels responded four minutes into the second frame. With Helewka streaking down into the slot and took a feed from Luke Philp from behind the net. Helewa’s wrist shot got past Hitman goalie Cody

Porter.

Grayson Pawlenchuk got the Rebels closer after he tipped Nelson Nogier’s shot to cut the deficit to 3-2. The comeback would be cut off from that point forward.

Beck Malenstyn sealed the winwith an empty netter with 10 seconds to go in the game.

The Rebels close out the season with a home-and-home series with the Edmonton Oil Kings. That starts Thursday night in Edmonton at 7 p.m. before coming back to Red Deer on Saturday.

Notes: Two new Rebels appeared on the injury report this week. Forward Evan Polei has an upper body injury and is out week-to-week and forward Taden Rattie has a day-to-day upper body injury. Forward Reese Johnson, defence Josh Mahura and goalie Rylan Toth remain on the injury report …

Porter left the game after taking a shot on goal that hit him in the shoulder.

Nik Amundrud was brought in to replace Porter. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Carey looks to lead Canada to world title

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Chelsea Carey is about to live out her ultimate dream but understands it won’t be easy.

Carey will skip Canada’s rink at the women’s curling world championship that begins this weekend in Swift Current, Sask. The daughter of former Brier champion Dan Carey says it’s been a lifelong aspiration to don the Maple Leaf and represent her country in competition, but this tournament will be a challenge.

“It’s been my dream since I was seven years old, I don’t know how to phrase it any better than that,” said Carey, who won her first Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and the right to represent Canada at the worlds, on Feb. 28. “My first dream was to represent my province and I didn’t achieve that until I was 29.

“To then turn around two years later and wear the Maple Leaf, which was always the ultimate dream, is beyond words. I still don’t think it’s fully sunk in, but every day I wake up and it hits me a little bit more.”

Carey was born and raised in Winnipeg and represented Manitoba in national competition until the 201415 season when she moved to Edmonton. In the spring of 2015 she moved south to Calgary, taking over as skip for two-time Canadian women’s champion Heather Nedohin’s rink. With Carey at the helm that team won the Alberta playdowns and went on to win a national title at the Tournament of Hearts.

That run of success is what has led

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Team Alberta, left to right, Laine Peters, Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman, Amy Nixon and Chelsea Carey pose after winning the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian Womens Curling Championships, Grande Prairie. Carey is looking to lead her team to a world championship title this week in Swift Current, Sask.

Carey, third Amy Nixon, second Jocelyn Peterman, lead Laine Peters and alternate Susan O’Connor to Swift Current and a shot at a world championship.

But Carey cautions fans the competition will be tough. Canada has not

won gold in the event since Jennifer Jones’s rink was crowned in 2008 and former world champions Eve Muirhead of Scotland and Binia Feltscher of Switzerland are both in this year’s field, among other tough opponents.

“I think curling in Canada is no dif-

ferent than hockey … everybody still expects Canada to win the gold, that expectation never went away despite the fact that the parity is there,” said Carey in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “I definitely think that’s the level of expectation.

“But certainly the world has come on very strong and you can see that from the bit of a drought we have from gold medals. We usually medal and do well but the lack of winning the past few years would certainly show how the rest of the world has become a powerhouse.”

Coach Charley Thomas also emphasizes the competition will be steep at the worlds.

“I think all the teams that have had this international experience and experience playing on Grand Slam conditions (are top competition),” said Thomas. “Team like Muirhead from Scotland, (Anna) Sidorova from Russia, (Maria) Prytz from Sweden.

“Luckily for the girls they’ve played a lot of those teams and had good success against them.”

Carey also believes home ice will give her team an advantage, with packed houses expected at the event in Swift Current’s Credit Union i-Plex from Saturday to the final on Sunday, March 27.

“I couldn’t have dreamed of a better place to play,” said Carey. “Everybody keeps saying ‘Don’t you wish you were going somewhere like Switzerland?’

I would much rather not. I’m really happy.

“I couldn’t ask for more in my first worlds to be Team Canada in Canada, small-town Saskatchewan.”

Lowry scores 25 points to lead Raptors past Bucks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 107 Bucks 89 MILWAUKEE — Even though leading scorer DeMar DeRozan was given the night off, Kyle Lowry and some of the lesser-known Toronto Raptors made sure they had little trouble with Milwaukee.

Lowry had 25 points and 11 assists, and rookie Norman Powell scored a season-high 17 in a 107-89 victory over the Bucks on Tuesday.

“It just shows how much depth we have on the bench, when your star player can have a rest game and we still have a dominating game like that,” said Powell, who played 34 minutes after averaging just 7 per game coming in.

Bismack Biyombo, starting for injured centre Jonas Valanciunas, had 12 points, 13 rebounds and two big

blocks in the decisive third quarter, when Milwaukee missed 16 of 22 shots.

Toronto led 81-66 after three, allowing coach Dwane Casey to rest Lowry in the fourth.

“It was just our activity (on defence),” Lowry said. “Biz got two big blocks and that just sparked us. When he protects the rim we need to make sure we do something on the other end and reward him. It was a complete team effort.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists in 35 minutes for Milwaukee, just missing a triple-double.

DeRozan, who averages 23.8 points per game, was in uniform but didn’t play after starting each of the team’s first 65 games and playing 39 minutes in a loss to Chicago on Monday night.

Valanciunas was held out as a precaution after bruising his left hand against the Bulls.

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Toronto took control by scoring the first eight points of the second half to open a 62-49 lead. The Raptors then scored seven consecutive points midway through the third quarter to make it 71-55 on Lowry’s 3-pointer with 6:07 left.

Milwaukee never got within single digits again.

“The ball didn’t move,” Bucks coach Jason Kidd said of his team’s third-quarter woes.

“I think we got a little frustrated.

We have to do a better job shooting outside the paint.”

Lowry made five of nine shots from the field and 11 of 13 free throws as Toronto won for the fourth time in five games.

The effort came one night after he had 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in the loss to the Bulls.

Casey said before the game his team could start resting players in antici-

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pation of the playoffs. Toronto is secure in the second spot in the Eastern Conference, and the game against the Bucks was the Raptors’ third in four days.

Antetokounmpo had four triple-doubles in his last 11 games before Tuesday night. Kidd pulled him with 2:47 left, one assist short of another triple-double.

Jabari Parker also scored 18 points for the Bucks.

Lowry had 20 points in the first half and Toronto led 52-49 at halftime.

D-LEAGUE DEVELOPMENT Casey said Powell’s time in the D-League helped his development immensely. Powell averaged nearly 25 points in eight games before being recalled on March 4.

“He went down and got in rhythm, having a feel for the game, understanding time-score situations,” Casey said.

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● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 2 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 7 p.m. (The Drive)

Friday ● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 10 a.m. Semifinals at 6 and 8 p.m. ● Men’s AAA senior hockey: Stony Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 8 p.m.,

Saturday ● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 9 a.m. Finals at 5 and 7:30 p.m. ● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday ● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 45 21 .682 — Boston 39 28 .582 6 1/2 New York 28 40 .412 18 Brooklyn 19 48 .284 26 1/2 Philadelphia 9 58 .134 36 1/2

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 39 28 .582 38 29 .567 37 29 .561 31 35 .470 29 37 .439

GB — 1 1 1/2 7 1/2 9 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 47 19 .712 36 31 .537 33 32 .508 34 33 .507 29 39 .426

GB — 11 1/2 13 1/2 13 1/2 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 57 10 .851 — Memphis 39 28 .582 18 Houston 34 33 .507 23 Dallas 34 33 .507 23 New Orleans 24 42 .364 32 1/2

Oklahoma Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

Northwest Division W L Pct City 45 22 35 33 .515 32 35 .478 28 40 .412 21 46 .313

Pacific Division W L Pct y-Golden State 60 6 .909 L.A. Clippers 42 24 .636 Sacramento 25 40 .385 Phoenix 18 49 .269 L.A. Lakers 14 53 .209 y-clinched division

GB .672 — 10 1/2 13 17 1/2 24 GB — 18 34 1/2 42 1/2 46 1/2

Monday’s Games Dallas 107, Charlotte 96 Chicago 109, Toronto 107 Miami 124, Denver 119 Houston 130, Memphis 81 Oklahoma City 128, Portland 94 Washington 124, Detroit 81

Tuesday’s Games Indiana 103, Boston 98 Orlando 116, Denver 110 Brooklyn 131, Philadelphia 114 Toronto 107, Milwaukee 89 San Antonio 108, L.A. Clippers 87 Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, late

G 67 63 56 58 55

PTS 1918 1913 1679 1509 1568 1592 1435 1606 1549 1540 1111 1407 1448 1335 1389

AVG 30.4 28.6 28.0 27.4 25.7 24.9 24.3 24.0 23.8 23.3 22.2 22.0 21.9 21.9 21.7

OFF DEF TOT 330 673 1003 226 658 884 200 478 678 189 492 681 138 492 630

AVG 15.0 14.0 12.1 11.7 11.5

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Toronto 10 2 .833 Houston 9 4 .692 Texas 9 4 .692 Detroit 9 6 .600 Chicago 7 6 .538 Los Angeles 7 6 .538 Minnesota 7 6 .538 Oakland 6 6 .500 Seattle 7 8 .467 Cleveland 6 8 .429 Tampa Bay 6 9 .400 Kansas City 6 10 .375 Boston 5 9 .357 New York 4 8 .333 Baltimore 2 11 .154

L.A. Angels 10, Cincinnati 2 Colorado 6, Seattle (ss) 4 Arizona 8, Seattle (ss) 3 Oakland 10, San Francisco 3

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Arizona 11 3 .786 Los Angeles 9 3 .750 Washington 9 3 .750 Philadelphia 11 4 .733 St. Louis 7 5 .583 Colorado 8 6 .571 Milwaukee 6 6 .500 New York 6 6 .500 Cincinnati 7 8 .467 Miami 5 7 .417 San Francisco 6 9 .400 Pittsburgh 5 8 .385 Chicago 4 10 .286 San Diego 4 10 .286 Atlanta 4 11 .267 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

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

Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.

Washington vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees, 4:35 p.m.

Boston vs. Minnesota, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Monday’s results Atlanta 5, Tampa Bay 0 Pittsburgh 3, Boston 1 Minnesota 5, St. Louis 3 Washington 1, Houston 1, tie Detroit 9, N.Y. Mets 2 Baltimore 8, Philadelphia 7 Cleveland 4, Texas 2 San Diego 10, Chicago Cubs 2 Kansas City 9, Chicago White Sox 3 L.A. Dodgers 6, Milwaukee 2

Tuesday’s results Washington 6, Houston 4 Detroit 10, Atlanta 6 Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Mets 8, Miami 6 Toronto 6, Baltimore 6, tie Chicago White Sox 8 L.A. Dodgers 6 Texas 5 Cleveland 4 Cincinnati 4 Kansas City 2 Seattle 4 L.A. Angels 4 Colorado 6 Oakland 2 Chicago Cubs 11 San Diego 1 N.Y. Yankees 6 Boston 3

Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Houston (ss) vs. Atlanta (ss), 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore (ss) vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

Toronto vs. Houston (ss), 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta (ss) vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore (ss), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Texas, 7:05 p.m.

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

Local BRIEFS TSN host Duthie keynote speaker for RDC scholarship breakfast A familiar face to many sports fans, James Duthie highlights the 13th annual Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast this month.

The award-winning TSN host has broadcast many memorable Canadian sports moments including Olympics, World Junior Hockey Championships and the NHL on TSN. He has also authored two books: The Day I (Almost) Killed Two Gretzkys and The Guy on the Left.

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Saturday, Mar. 19 Regina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 Pp.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 20 Kootenay at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.

End of Regular Season Tuesday’s summary Hitmen 4, Rebels 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Houck 20 (Fazleev, Bean) 0:22.

2. Calgary, Ta.Sanheim 6 (Tr.Sanheim, Twarynski) 15:07 (sh).

Penalties — Helewka RD (unsportsmanlike conduct) 6:40 Tr.Sanheim Cgy, Helewka RD (roughing) 11:07 Harmsworth Cgy (high-sticking) 14:02.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Stukel 33 (Houck, Bean) 2:07 (pp).

4. Red Deer, Helewka 40 (Philp) 3:19.

5. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 22 (Nogier, Philp) 7:20.

Penalties — Hagel RD (tripping) 1:49 Houck Cgy (check to the head), Kanzig Cgy, Doetzel RD (fighting) 4:22.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Malenstyn 8, 19:49 (en).

Penalties — Houck Cgy, Fleury RD (roughing) 5:34 Martin Cgy (hooking) 15:16.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 13 11 — 33 Red Deer 11 11 7 — 29 Goal (shots-saves) — Calgary: Porter (W, 25-11-11)(21-19), Amundrud (10:33 second 8-8) Red Deer: Martin (L, 16-8-1-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-2 Red Deer: 0-3.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 70 39 22 9 87 Boston 70 39 23 8 86 Tampa Bay 70 40 25 5 85 Detroit 70 34 25 11 79 Ottawa 71 33 30 8 74 Montreal 70 32 32 6 70 Buffalo 70 28 33 9 65 Toronto 69 24 34 11 59

GF 198 213 191 176 205 188 167 164

GA 171 188 167 186 220 198 190 202

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts x-Washington 69 50 14 5 105 N.Y. Islanders 68 38 21 9 85 N.Y. Rangers 69 39 23 7 85 Pittsburgh 69 37 24 8 82 Philadelphia 68 33 23 12 78 Carolina 70 31 26 13 75 New Jersey 70 33 30 7 73 Columbus 69 28 33 8 64

GF 221 194 197 190 178 171 154 180

GA 161 170 181 174 183 188 178 215

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Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned OF Bryce Brentz, INF Sean Coyle, LHP Edwin Escobar and RHP Pat Light to Pawtucket (IL), and LHP Williams Jerez to Portland (EL). Reassigned 3B Chris Dominguez and C Ali Solis to their minor league camp.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX —Announced the retirement of 1B-DH Adam LaRoche.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the contract of RHP Dillon Gee from Omaha (PCL). Placed LHP Mike Minor on the 60-day DL. National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned OF Manny Margot to El Paso (PCL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Re-signed S Charles Godfrey. Signed S Damian Parms, WR Aldrick Robinson and CB DeMarcus Van Dyke.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed WR Mike Wallace to a two-year contract.

BUFFALO BILLS — Named John Blake defensive line coach.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DT Paul Soliai to a two-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed CB Adam Jones.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LB Rolando McClain.

DENVER BRONCOS — Matched Miami’s four-year contract offer to RB C.J. Anderson.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with RB Robert Turbin.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Agreed to terms with QB Matt Moore.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Re-signed TE Rhett Ellison and CB Marcus Sherels.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Traded DE-LB Chandler Jones to Arizona Cardinals for G Jonathan Cooper and a 2016 second-round draft pick. Resigned DB Nate Ebner.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed WR Andre Holmes.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with CB Nolan Carroll on a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed OT Ryan Harris to a two-year contract.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Agreed to terms with OL J’Marcus Webb on a two-year contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Re-signed CB Will Blackmon to a two-year contract. Signed S David Bruton.

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NHL GM MEETINGS NHL general managers say a rule designed to curtail hits to the head is working as intended. ,The NHL implemented rule 48, which penalized illegal checks to the head, nearly five years ago. It was added to curtail a then-rising tide of dangerous hits, particularly from the blind side, amid a sporting climate that has become increasingly sensitive to concussions.

Gathering this week in Boca Raton, Florida, the league’s general managers sought to address Tuesday morning whether the rule was working effectively or needed tweaks. They ultimately deemed it an effective addition to the game.

“The consensus for our group was we’re comfortable with the way the rule is and not looking to make any changes,” Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said.

General managers watched video of various incidents of the rule’s enforcement and were

Lundall leads Funk to playoff win over Big Ballers A busy playoffs for Red Deer Women’s basketball saw Funk, Storm, Hoosier Daddy and the Shooting Stars emerge victorious.

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 69 42 22 5 89 190 156 Anaheim 68 38 21 9 85 174 160 San Jose 68 38 24 6 82 203 179 Arizona 69 30 32 7 67 185 211 Vancouver 68 27 29 12 66 166 197 Calgary 69 29 35 5 63 189 217 Edmonton 72 27 38 7 61 171 212 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, Florida 2 Los Angeles 5, Chicago 0 Calgary 7, St. Louis 4 Nashville 3, Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 5, Vancouver 2 Anaheim 7, New Jersey 1 Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Washington 2, Carolina 1, OT Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 4, Montreal 1 Ottawa 3, Minnesota 2, OT Los Angeles 5, Dallas 2 Boston at San Jose, late Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Minnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Florida at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Through March 14 Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Sidney Crosby, Pit Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was Joe Pavelski, SJ Joe Thornton, SJ Nicklas Backstrom,Was Alex Ovechkin, Was Brent Burns, SJ Artemi Panarin, Chi

GP 70 70 70 70 67 68 68 68 68 65 66 68 68

G 38 34 33 12 29 26 20 32 16 18 41 25 25

A 51 43 39 58 40 43 49 34 50 45 21 37 37

PTS 89 77 72 70 69 69 69 66 66 63 62 62 62

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Tevin Reese.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Columbus D Dalton Prout one game for punching an unsuspecting opponent, Tampa Bay F Nikita Kucherov, during a March 13 game.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Trevor Carrick from Charlotte (AHL).

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Signed F Hunter Fejes to an amateur tryout contract. Released G Josh Robinson from a professional tryout contract.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Allen’s Spencer Asuchak four additional games for an unpenalized slew foot and Missouri’s C.J. Ludwig three additional games after being assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for clipping during a March 9 game.

READING ROYALS — Announced F Justin Crandall was returned to the team from Chicago (AHL).

Released D Rich Botting from is amateur tryout agreement.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived M Chris Thorsheim.

satisfied with the manner in which it was being called. They also addressed the effectiveness of the boarding penalty.

“The one hit you don’t see a lot of anymore and it is a good thing, is the players coming across the blue line and releasing a shot and being exposed and getting hit,” said Yzerman.

“Those hits are really devastating hits so that check for the most part seems to be eliminated and for the general health of the player that’s a big thing.”

GMs were split into three groups for much of Tuesday’s session with one group studying rule 48 and boarding and another discussing ideas to increase scoring. A third group explored more random topics such as situational occurrences in a game like the net being pushed off its moorings.

One idea that bounced around to increase scoring would see short-handed teams no longer able to ice the puck, which would seemingly give power-plays a greater advantage to score. Another idea would see teams get a full two-minute power-play regardless of how many goals were scored.

the Funk with 22 points and Jessica Siegrist was named player of the game.

Gib Gallers got eight points from Morgan Richardson and Jamie Vandenberg was their player of the game.

The Storm topped the Rampage 46-38 with top scorer and player of the game Colleen Braithwaite leading the way with 13 points. Rampage’s top scorer was Marlene Flatla with eight points while player of the game Kesley Wilson had seven points.

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On March 24, he will be the keynote speaker at the scholarship breakfast that creates a way for student athletes to pursue their dreams of sports and education.

Since the first scholarship breakfast, the event has raised more than $280,000 for athletic scholarships.

The event, held at the RDC Arts Centre 100 College Blvd., starts at 6:30 a.m. with registration, from 7 to 8 a.m. is the breakfast and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. is the presentation.

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Thursday’s game Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Rebounds Drummond, DET Jordan, LAC Howard, HOU Whiteside, MIA Cousins, SAC

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF x-Victoria 69 47 16 3 3 266 x-Kelowna 69 46 19 4 0 250 x-Kamloops 70 36 25 5 4 231 x-Prince 70 36 29 3 2 239 George Vancouver 70 23 38 5 4 195

GA 211 202 212 227 276 309

Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

NBA Leaders Scoring FT 300 616 371 412 331 305 317 399 477 373 321 168 369 298 334

GF 293 249 235 194 216 148

Monday’s results No Games Scheduled.

Thursday’s Games Toronto at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Denver at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Portland at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m.

FG 648 559 578 516 523 607 542 563 517 494 368 515 473 479 440

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 70 45 23 1 1 70 43 24 1 2 70 40 26 2 2 70 29 34 6 1 70 29 36 3 2 70 12 52 6 0

Pt 98 82 77 76 57 54

Tuesday’s results Brandon 6 Swift Current 2 Calgary 4 Red Deer 2 Kootenay 2 Edmonton 0 Spokane at Seattle

Wednesday’s Games Dallas at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

New York at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

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GA 195 212 231 243 241 305

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Seattle 68 42 23 3 0 215 179 87 x-Everett 69 38 24 4 3 177 161 83 Portland 69 34 30 5 0 220 214 73 Spokane 68 31 28 5 4 211 230 71 Tri-City 70 33 34 2 1 229 249 69 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.

Phoenix 107, Minnesota 104 Golden State 125, New Orleans 107 Utah 94, Cleveland 85

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EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF y-Brandon 70 46 18 4 2 310 x-Prince Albert 69 37 24 7 1 213 x-Moose Jaw 69 34 26 7 2 240 x-Regina 69 34 27 3 5 233 Swift Current 70 24 37 6 3 184 Saskatoon 69 25 40 4 0 209

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

The Lindsay Thurber girl’s basketball team is heading into the biggest weekend of their season as the top-ranked local team for the 4A provincial tournament.

Red Deer is welcoming teams from across the province as hosts for this year’s version of Alberta’s March Madness and all the action will start on Thursday. There is a triumvirate of host venues that includes Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Some games will also be played at Camille J. LeRouge School.

It’s been a busy week for Terence McMullen, tournament chair, who said all the schools are working on different elements of the tournament. Hunting Hills is designing the banners and draw boards and opening ceremonies, Lindsay Thurber is getting the programs and webcasting together and Notre Dame is getting the banquet together.

The 12th-ranked Lindsay Thurber girls hit the hardwood at 2 p.m. on Thursday, taking on fifthranked Spruce Grove at Lindsay Thurber. Hunting Hills, ranked 14th, takes on the third-ranked Western Canada at 2 p.m. at Hunting Hills also on Thurs-

day.

On the boys side, 13th-ranked Notre Dame squares off with fourth-ranked Lethbridge Collegiate Institute at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Notre Dame while 14th-ranked Lindsay Thurber faces third-ranked Raymond on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber.

In other boys action on Thursday: #1 Archbishop O’Leary of Edmonton faces #16 Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie at 4 p.m. at Hunting Hills #2 Harry Ainlay of Edmonton faces #15 Lloydminster at 8 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber #5 Bishop McNally of Calgary faces #12 Foothills Composite of Okotoks at 8 p.m. at Hunting Hills #6 Lester B. Pearson of Calgary faces # 11 M.E. Lazerte of Edmonton at 8 p.m. at Notre Dame #7 Cardston faces #10 St. Francis of Calgary at 8 p.m. at Hunting Hills #8 Notre Dame of Calgary faces #9 Holy Trinity of Edmonton at 4 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber In girls action on Thursday: #1 St. Francis of Calgary faces #16 Lloydminster at

4 p.m. at Notre Dame #2 Jasper Place of Edmonton faces #15 Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie at 6 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber #4 Catholic Central of Lethbridge faces #13 Foothills Composite of Okotoks at 6 p.m. at Hunting Hills #6 Lethbridge Composite Institute faces #11 Paul Kane of St. Albert at 6 p.m. at Notre Dame #7 St. Albert Catholic faces #10 St. Mary’s of Calgary at 6 p.m. at Hunting Hills #8 Bishop Grandin of Calgary faces #9 Cardston at 2 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber Semi-finals are scheduled for Friday at 6 and 8 p.m. at Notre Dame for the girls and at Lindsay Thurber for the boys with the finals set for 5 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Lindsay Thurber.

In 3A basketball provincials action, to be held in Olds this weekend, Central Alberta is represented by the hosts and Wetaskiwin on the girls side, who play each other to start the tournament. On the boys side, Olds plays St. Peter the Apostle from Spruce Grove, to start.

Lacombe’s Central Alberta Christian High School’s girls basketball team competes at 2A provincials in Picture Butte. They start against Glenmary. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Smaller goalie equipment set to take effect next season

Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins, left, forces out Baltimore Orioles’ Ryan Flaherty at second base and relays the throw to first to turn a double play on Jonathan Schoop during the fifth inning of a spring training baseball game Tuesday, in Dunedin, Fla.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BOCA RATON, Fla. — NHL goaltenders may look a lot smaller beginning next season.

Goalies across the league will be required to wear equipment better suited to their body size when the 2016-17 season begins or face suspension. A presentation of the new initiative, led by the NHL’s Kay Whitmore, was delivered Tuesday at the annual GM meetings.

Reductions will be made to the pants and upper body of the equipment, thus cutting down on unnecessary “fat” which didn’t serve to protect goaltenders, only help some gain an unfair advantage.

“If it takes a little more skill to play the position so be it,” Whitmore said. “Does this make scoring go up? I don’t know. That’s to be seen and that’s not the reason why we did it. This was (done) because we felt there was inequities within the goalies themselves and the best goalies have come out and said that. And that’s what’s driving the bus here.”

Some of the league’s top goaltenders pushed for the change, including the Devils’ Cory Schneider and Capitals’ Braden Holtby. They, among others, would like the goaltending position to be more about skill and less about the puck simply caroming off enormous equipment.

“The best goalies in the league don’t want big stuff,” Whitmore said. “They actually want to put this

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to bed forever and say ‘We’re great no matter what we wear.”’

Goalies will face a two-game suspension for DUNEDIN, Fla. — Chris Tillman allowed two non-compliance, a rule that’s already in effect, but runs and didn’t make it out of the second inning in one that will be enforced more rigidly next season. Tuesday’s shaky spring debut for the Baltimore OriColin Campbell, the NHL’s executive vice president oles, who tied the Toronto Blue Jays 6-6. and director of hockey operations, said there was too The former All-Star served up four hits in the much grey area previously to enforce the rule effec- first, including a second-pitch leadoff double to Kevtively. in Pillar and RBI singles to Jose Bautista and Chris Informed of the changes, which are subject to Colabello. final approval from the league’s board of governors The right-hander then yielded a double to prosand the competition committee, general managers pect Darrell Ceciliani to open the second and conwanted confirmation that offenders would indeed secutive two-out walks to AL MVP Josh Donaldson be punished to which Campbell replied, “When your and Bautista before being lifted with the bases loadgoaltender gets suspended don’t fight it’.” ed.

“If you cheat, you pay the price,” Montreal gen“I would have like to have made some better eral manager Marc Bergervin said. “If we all agree pitches,” Tillman said. now, all 30 of us, and it happens in October none of “I made a lot of good pitches with my fastball and us should be crying about it … if you live by the rules could have stuck with that a bit more. But I wanted you should be fine.” to get that feel for the breaking ball, which they It will be Whitmore’s duty to enforce that reduc- made contact with.” tions in equipment are maintained, a process he said Tillman, who missed two weeks recovering from a has yet to be fully scoped out. He said officiating strained flexor muscle in his right hip, gave up five crews might be involved in enforcement. hits, walked three and struck out one.

Goaltending equipment has mostly grown over “It felt good to be back out there, get the butterthe past two decades, from a point when goaltenders flies going and the adrenaline,” he said. “That makes looked like thin rails between the pipes to now, it a lot of fun. It’s hard to do that on the back fields, where they almost resemble football linebackers. but you know, there’s nothing like getting those butIn recent years the league demanded shorter terflies going in-game and having your guys behind leg pads, but those reductions are likely to pale in you.” comparison to the new changes, especially in the Pedro Alvarez drove in a run for the Orioles with reduction of upper body equipment. More padding a single off Toronto starter Jesse Chavez in the first. saw some goaltenders lean less on skill and more on And Baltimore’s Alfredo Marte hit a two-run homer simply blocking the puck. in the eighth as part of a four-run inning.

“It’s something that’s been going on for a long Dalton Pompey tied it on a solo shot in the ninth time and it’s not an easy topic because the goaltend- for the Blue Jays. ing equipment is so vague in every area,” Campbell STARTING TIME said.

Blue Jays: Chavez, a candidate for the fifth spot Co-operation between the league and NHL Play- in the rotation, gave up two earned runs on five hits ers’ Association helped spur the changes, as did the in three innings. The righty, who was acquired in a support and involvement of equipment manufactur- November trade from Oakland, also walked one and ers. Whitmore said the manufacturers previously struck out one. didn’t make enough sizes to fit the ranging height “I felt good, I felt normal - just a little bit off and I and weight of goaltenders. could tell by the contact,” he said. “One hard hit off Whether the changes lead to more scoring re- the wall, but other than that, I look at the swings and mains to be seen. Scoring has been declining for I look at the contact, then that will tell me if I’m proyears as the league searches for answers. Among gressing or not the way I want to.” the ideas bounced around Tuesday was a potential FLASHING THE LEATHER (though unlikely) rule that would see short-handed teams unable to ice the puck.

While uncertain of the effect the changes would have on scoring and goaltenders, Whitmore said the changes were driven by their involvement.

Schneider, Holtby and the Wild’s Devan Dubnyk, among others, wanted a more level playing field within their ranks.

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An inning later, Ceciliani took away a hit from Alvarez with a head-first diving grab in shallow right.

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Blue Jays: 1B/DH Edwin Encarnacion will be shut down at least a week with a “minor oblique problem,” manager John Gibbons said. The two-time All-Star has missed more than two weeks recovering from an abscessed tooth that was pulled Feb. 28. …

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Can heart rates predict illness?

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Researchers at Calgary’s Rockyview General Hospital believe the human heart provides valuable data when it comes to predicting oncoming illness and the information could help reduce the frequency of post-surgery complications.

Dr. David Liepert, the hospital’s director of perioperative medicine, says a lack of variability in a heart rate is an indicator of medical stress.

“When you’re healthy, your heart rate is always going up and down all the time in response to your life, in response to your body, in response to what you’re doing at the time,” says Liepert, the lead investigator of the

study.

“The sicker you get, the less your heart rate varies because it becomes rigid, it becomes fixed, it becomes focused on dealing with the sickness.”

Liepert says a racing heart rate or a relatively slow heart rate do not necessarily indicate impending issues, it’s the lack of fluctuation in time between beats, no matter the measure beats per minute, that bring cause for concern.

The idea of utilizing heart rate variability (HRV) data as a predictor of illness came to Liepert following the floods that ravaged Calgary and other parts of southern Alberta in 2013.

While assisting with flood relief, Liepert says he contracted a cardiac virus which damaged his heart. Prior to the diagnosis, he had detected a

change in his heart rate.

“I knew something was going on because I have always had a very variable heart rate,” he says. “It goes up when I breathe in and it goes down when I breathe out and that’s normal.”

Acting on his hunch, Liepert approached Biotricity, a medical technology firm, and the organization developed a monitor that samples a heart rate 1,000 times in a second.

“From beat to beat, the distance between the beats gives you a different heart rate for every single heartbeat. Heart rate variability is monitoring those miniscule differences in the length of time between individual beats to actually give you, what we call, the instantaneous heart rate.

“If you’re not resolving on the mil-

lisecond level, you’re not going to be able to pick up the same resolution of data.”

Liepert says his research team intends to develop a perioperative wellness monitor that will follow a patient from pre-surgery, through the procedure, and throughout the recovery process.

“The important thing is the 30 days after surgery,” says Liepert. “ Monitoring your return to full wellness, getting back to normal activity, and getting back to normal life.”

The research team believes the monitor could result in a reduction of post-surgery complications including wound infections and blood clots.

Getting a head start to develop a Zika vaccine

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Scientists are racing to create a Zika vaccine, and while they’re starting from scratch against a poorly understood disease, copying shots for similar viruses offers a head start.

A variety of potential candidates are being pursued: Simple DNA vaccines, made with only a few genes from the virus some made from killed or inactivated virus, much like a standard flu shot others made with live but weakened virus.

“We believe we can get a vaccine,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health, said.

He’s optimistic that the first small safety tests of at least one kind could begin by early fall.

But that doesn’t mean a vaccine could come in time to help with the outbreak now rapidly spreading through Latin America.

Here are some questions and answers about Zika vaccine research: Q: Why the optimism?

A: It’s technologically feasible, since vaccines against other viruses in the same family as Zika, including yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue, already exist. Also, the NIH created an experimental vaccine for West Nile virus that showed promise during safety testing.

Q: Why is the Zika research only now getting underway?

A: Zika hadn’t been considered enough of a problem to warrant a vaccine until Brazil reported an apparent link to babies born with unusually small heads, which can signal underlying brain damage.

Q: What vaccines are first in line?

A: It’s too early to know. But a DNA vaccine could be the fastest to develop, said Dr. Barney Graham, of the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is leading work to do just that by essentially swap-

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An Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Scientists are looking at all their options in developing a Zika virus vaccine. ping Zika into the NIH’s experimental West Nile vaccine.

For that approach, researchers insert viral genes into a “plasmid,” a ring of DNA that, when injected, can prompt a cell to produce what looks like the virus’ outer shell.

That puts the immune system on guard without any risk of infection.

DNA vaccines are being studied for a variety of illnesses, some promising and others that haven’t triggered a strong enough immune response, but Graham said the technique is safe enough that potential candidates for Zika could be tested quickly.

Q: What about longer-term pros-

pects?

A: Because birth defects appear to be Zika’s biggest threat, the ultimate goal is a vaccine given in childhood that’s strong enough to persist through the childbearing years, Graham said.

After all, scientists fought rubella’s devastating birth defects by creating a childhood vaccine made of live but weakened virus that triggers a long-lasting immune response — one option being researched for Zika.

But multiple options are needed, because live vaccines aren’t recommended for pregnant women, Graham noted.

Q: Who’s doing the research?

A: The World Health Organization estimates that more than a dozen research institutes and companies are doing some initial work.

The biggest company is vaccine giant Sanofi Pasteur, which is exploring whether its live attenuated dengue vaccine that recently won approval in Brazil offers a good model for Zika, as well as other options.

At Brazil’s Butantan Institute, director Jorge Kalil says researchers are prioritizing an inactivated vaccine, a kind pregnant women could use.

Q: How would scientists know if an experimental vaccine works?

A: Fauci’s goal of an initial safety test starting in the fall is only one step. An early clue to a candidate’s effectiveness may come from a human challenge study, which the NIH is planning with Johns Hopkins University.

A small number of volunteers would agree to be given a dose of the virus after vaccination, while hospitalized in case of problems, to see whether they’re protected.

Ultimately, learning whether any candidate shot really protects requires large studies, and how fast those could be done depends in part on whether Zika still is spreading widely in 2017.

After all, the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa had begun to ebb by the time major studies of potential vaccines got underway, making it difficult to tell whether those shots worked.

Q: Can vaccine development ever get ahead of the next infectious threat?

A: The NIH has paused research into other needed vaccines to focus on Zika, the latest in a series of emerging infections in recent years.

While there’s no way to tell what bug will strike next, better investment in vaccine technologies “could allow us to be more prepared so that it’s not quite such a big scramble when these kinds of things happen,” Graham said.

Welcome to the gene-editing revolution It sounds like science fiction: Snip out a bad gene, insert a good one and stop cancer in its tracks. But this fall, a British baby named Layla Richards made history when doctors used genetic engineering technology to knock out the cancer that threatened her young life.

Layla had a severe and unusual form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Diagnosed at 14 weeks, the baby girl received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. But her cancer was aggressive and resisted treatment.

Layla’s parents asked doctors to try anything — and physicians at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital turned to a technique never before used against cancer in humans: gene editing.

The gene-editing technology, so new that it had been studied only in mice, removed a gene from the spreading cancer cells that protected them against destruction by Layla’s immune system, and it beefed up cancer-fighting immune cells in her system so that they could seek out and destroy the now-vulnerable cancer cells.

The beefed-up immune cells also had genes edited into them that were able to protect them from the drugs Layla

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For three months, the enhanced immune cells roamed her body, wiping out her cancerous cells. Layla then had a successful bone marrow transplant. Doctors announced in November that she is cancer-free, calling it “almost a miracle.”

Gene editing is a fast-moving field that holds promise for improving health in many ways. A few weeks before Layla’s story made headlines, the Cleveland Clinic, where Dr. Mike is Chief Wellness Officer, named a gene-editing technique to the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2016. The list is usually reserved for breakthroughs that doctors and patients can currently use. But gene editing has such amazing potential to change clinical care in 2016 that the Clinic’s physicians voted it a top-10 spot.

Someday soon, gene editing could

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help wipe out illnesses that are caused by a single, inherited gene — diseases like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia or breast cancers triggered by one of the BRCA genes. And it may help to edit out problem genes that develop later in life, called somatic mutations. It’s also exciting because the ability to edit genes lets researchers learn more than ever about problems made worse by multiple genes, such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

Scientists have several gene-editing tools at their disposal. Layla’s treatment used one called TALENs; another has the catchy name “zinc fingers.” We think the future is very bright for one called CRISPR. It uses a protein that knows how to locate specific genes, then edit or snip them out. It’s cheap (as little as $30), fast and precise. That’s important, because the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human genome contain 30,000 genes.

That is some of the good work that’s already underway. Here’s a short list of some other exciting projects: Obesity gene: Researchers at Harvard University are looking at whether CRISPR can be used to snip out an “obesity gene” that governs the metabolism of fat cells.

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Pancreatic cancer: Stanford University researchers are using CRISPR to study how this quick-spreading, hardto-treat cancer develops.

High blood pressure: Lifestyle choices play a big role in blood-pressure problems, but your genes are involved, too. University of Iowa scientists are zeroing in on specific genes in hopes of learning how to edit out those that promote high blood pressure.

Heart disease: The Montreal Heart Institute is leading an international effort to pinpoint culprits and how they work. They can edit one gene-or a family of genes-to see if that helps to eliminate heart disease.

Alzheimer’s disease: Some genes boost risk for early Alzheimer’s, while another — a variant of the APOE4 gene carried by one in five of us — doubles the risk for this dementia later in life.

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are looking to gene editing to replace that APOE4 gene and find other ways to treat this form of dementia.

The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen of Cleveland Clinic, are authors of YOU: Losing Weight. For more information, go to www.RealAge.com.

RED DEER AND DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB POTLUCK AND ELECTIONS The Red Deer and District Garden Club will be holding elections for positions on their executive on Thursday at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 6:30 p.m. As part of the evening they will also be holding a potluck dinner, encouraging interested parties to bring their favourite dishes along with serving utensils and your own plates and cutlery.

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Actor relishes chance to revive Vegas a Breaking Bad villain for prequel challenging

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEW YORK — Indiana Jones is swinging back into theatres with Harrison Ford reprising the iconic role and Steven Spielberg directing.

The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that the fifth film in the action adventure series will open July 19, 2019. The last Indiana Jones movie was 2008’s poorly received Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which costarred Shia LaBeouf as Indiana’s son. It followed a nearly 20-year gap in the franchise after 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Tio Salamanca, played by Mark Margolis, in a wheelchair, with Daniel Moncada as Marco Salamanca, standing left, and Luis Moncada as Marco Salamanca in a scene from the third season of ‘Breaking Bad.’ other 129 were not heavies. But that’s the way everybody seems to see me.

CP: You make an impact.

Margolis: Yeah, but I don’t want to be known as a heavy, I never thought of myself that way. Like, there are people who also think I only play Mafia guys and in my whole life I’ve only done five of those. But I guess I’m stuck with what I’m stuck with…. I just want to be known as pert and perky and sweet.

CP: On Better Call Saul we get to hear Tio Salamanca speak English for the first time, albeit with a thick Mexican accent.

Margolis: The first episode (of Breaking Bad) I was ever in they thought I was kind of catatonic or brain dead sitting in front of a TV with a novela playing, and Jesse and Walt were conspiring to poison my nephew.

Granted, a lot of what’s going on I can see visually but they were also speaking about what they wanted to do. So you could make an assumption that I do understand some of what they’re saying as well.

CP: It must be nice to know your character is guaranteed to survive this series.

Margolis: But at any moment (Vince)

can have me fall over and be completely without the ability to speak and I’m sure he has that in mind somewhere.

With Vince it can happen at any moment … I could be struck by a bullet, I could be hit by a car, I could have a sudden stroke, a seizure, lightning might come down and strike me from heaven.

CP: Tell me about learning Tio would be killed.

Margolis: I had contacted (Vince) months and months before about a way in which I thought he could kill me off…. I had some idea for Giancarlo Esposito’s character to take me out into the hills and crucify me…. I mentioned it to Vince and then, it must have been about eight months later, I got this call. And I think I immediately said, “You’re calling because you’re going to kill me.” And he said, “Yeah, but wait until I tell you how we’re going to do it!”

CP: And it was pretty spectacular.

One of the great TV deaths.

Margolis: People always talk to me about killing myself. And I say, I wasn’t really killing myself, I was killing Gus and I happened to be collateral damage. But it was worth it.

Another Indiana Jones film has long been rumoured, occasionally with whispers of different actors taking over the role from the 73-year-old Ford. But Spielberg has repeatedly insisted Ford would never be replaced.

The actor’s return as his famous fedora-wearing archaeologist comes shortly after reprising his equally iconic Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” said Alan Horn, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. “It’s rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and

role, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.”

The film, not yet titled, will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Matthew Perry to portray Ted Kennedy in miniseries NEW YORK — Former Friends star Matthew Perry will play Ted Kennedy in the forthcoming miniseries The Kennedys — After Camelot.

Reelz cable channel on Tuesday announced his casting for the four-hour project, a follow-up to the miniseries

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LAS VEGAS — For decades, Las Vegas has loved Elvis Presley tender — and loved him true — but the King’s presence in modern day Sin City has lately been diminishing, one impersonator at a time.

“Vegas really is, ironically, a challenging market for Elvis,” said Jack Soden, CEO of Elvis Presley Enterprises, which runs the Graceland attraction in Memphis, Tennessee, and manages many of the official business deals on behalf of the estate.

The group had loaned hundreds of artifacts to a much-hyped, months-old Elvis attraction at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. Graceland Presents Elvis closed in February after failing to draw in many visitors to the museum exhibit, wedding chapel and theatre.

The off-Strip property is now holding the valuables against the will of the estate, as Westgate battles with the attraction’s third-party operator over a leasing dispute. The estate has since filed a lawsuit to get those items back.

The fallout at Westgate is not the first Elvis-related spectacle in Las Vegas to leave the building too soon.

Low attendance numbers were also to blame when the Viva Elvis Cirque du Soleil show at the Aria casino-hotel was cancelled in 2012 after a two-year run. That’s a much shorter shelf life than most of its sister shows. The longest-running one, Myste’re, started on the Strip more than two decades ago.

It’s left the Strip’s largest casino operator, MGM Resorts International, without any Elvis-themed shows, attractions or weddings. Rival Caesars Entertainment Corporation still hosts tribute acts and weddings, but a spokeswoman said few of those getting hitched ever choose the official Elvis packages.

It’s a stark turn for a city that has for so long thrived in its association with “The King.” The rise of Elvis coincided with the rise of Las Vegas as an entertainment capital, said Cory Cooper, an Elvis historian.

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Perry portrays Ted Kennedy in the years following the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby as he tries to continue the Kennedy legacy.

Katie Holmes will reprise her role as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from The Kennedys, which aired on Reelz in 2011.

Perry, who starred for a decade in the comedy Friends, is currently appearing on the London stage in his playwriting debut, The End of Longing.

His CBS sitcom, The Odd Couple, begins its second season in April.

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TORONTO — There was precious little to glean from Breaking Bad about one of its greatest villains, Hector (Tio) Salamanca.

But with just one appearance on Better Call Saul, we’ve already got a taste of a rich backstory that adds some shading to later storylines.

Warning: read no further to avoid spoilers for either AMC series.

Actor Mark Margolis was surprised when he heard his cartel character was being revived for the Breaking Bad prequel, which focuses on the origins of Bob Odenkirk’s slippery lawyer character Saul Goodman.

But he relished the chance to return to New Mexico and reteam with creator Vince Gilligan, who killed Tio off with a spectacular TV death that also took out vengeful drug boss Gus Fring, played by Giancarlo Esposito.

Wheelchair bound, mute, and possibly brain damaged, Tio Salamanca commanded his murderously loyal nephews with just the tap of a bell.

On Monday’s episode of Better Call Saul — which takes place roughly six years before the events of Breaking Bad — he turned up able-bodied, English-speaking and sharp as a tack. He strongly encouraged former dirty cop Mike Ehrmantraut (played by Jonathan Banks) to help spare his nephew Tuco some jail time.

Margolis, whose other dark roles have included an assassin on Scarface and a prison-bound Italian mob boss on HBO’s Oz, chatted recently by phone about revisiting his “monstrous” character.

Mark Margolis: Where are you in Canada?

The Canadian Press: I’m in Toronto.

Margolis: In the summer I was there for a month working on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.

CP: Yes, I was going to ask you about that.

Margolis: They are the same cast from the original movie. I’m an addition who comes over from Greece…. I don’t even know if I should reveal that much. I’m in the last third of the movie, but I have a very important part. A Greek character named Panos who’s a brother of one of the main characters.

CP: And for once are you not playing a heavy?

Margolis: See, people always say that to me. If I sat down with you and we had like an hour I would show you that in my whole life I probably have 150 things, played 21 heavies and the

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WE ARE LOOKING FOR FIELD STAFF IN THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FIELD. Must: have a reliable vehicle, Be a People Person, Be Self-Motivated And be looking for a new challenge.

If you are interested you can submit your resume to info@hpman.ca Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

All Visits are Free.

No Obligation.

Compliments of Local Businesses.

CASAVANT Leo Feb 16, 1950 - Mar 7, 2016 Please see Leo’s memorial page at: http://tinyurl.com/hlxtzcc A celebration of his life will be held on March 19, 2016 at: The Enjoy Centre 101 Riel Drive St. Albert, Alberta The Park Room will be open to Leo’s family and friends from 1 to 4 p.m.

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

In the hearts of those who loved you, You will always be there.

Your sense of humor lives on in those left behind.

Call or visit us online!

1-844-299-2466 welcomewagon.ca

Love the families of Doug, Hal, Lyle, Darren and Patti

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

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CLASSIFICATIONS Antiques & Art

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Dawnine (DJ) JACKSON June 14, 1967 - March 16, 2011

Five years - like yesterday Treasured memories here to stay.

Diane and family ************** When dawn arrives and the colors spread across the sky, We think of you.

When the sunflowers grow and the lady bugs fly, We think of you.

When we get to see the smiles and hear the laughter of your beautiful daughter, We think of you.

When the family gathers and we share our stories, We think of you.

When the sun sets and we say goodbye to the day, We think of you.

Love Your “Cuz” Jeanine and Hal

Caregivers/ Aides

710

LIVE-IN caregiver willing to do split shifts,days and nights. High school graduate 1-2 years exp. in caring for person with high medical needs. 48hrs/week at 11.20/hr. 403-8962723 Nanny needed for 2 children in Red Deer.FT, $11.50/hr,44 hrs/wk,split shifts,days & nights rotation. HS grad, 1-2 years exp. in child care, will train if needed.apply at frh1951@outlook.com NANNY req’d, email yettepasion@yahoo.ca

Farm Work

755

FEEDLOT in Central Alberta seeking F/T employee for feed truck operator and machinery maintenance. Send resume to fax: ~POSITION FILLED~

Janitorial

770

LOOKING for responsible shut-down cleaners for trailers for the Dow Prentiss Plant, about 20 min. outside of Red Deer. Two people needed for day shifts, and two people needed for night shifts.

Wage $17 per hr/day, and $18 per hr./night, weekends incl. Fax resume with 3 ref. to 403-885-7006

Adam David Larratt 1978 - 2006 Sadness still comes over us, Tears in silence often flow, Memory keeps you ever near to us, though you died ten years ago.

Held near by Dad (Larry) and Valerie Larratt, Mom (Marian) and Max Makarewich, sisters Tara, Janna, Courtney, Brandi-Lee, Deana, Tanya and their families.

800

EXPERIENCED Pigging Personnel required.

Minimum 3 years’ experience required.

Class 1 would be an asset.

Position requires you to work away from home.

Looking for mature, reliable personnel. Please email resume to decoking1@ icloud.com with current drivers abstract, and current tickets. Drug testing will be required.

Only those qualified will be contacted.

Truckers/ Drivers

1520

BRASS bell with leather strap. Has the word “ Canadian” in raised lettering on two sides. $40 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

Vintage (circa 1950’s) HUDSON’S BAY fur shrug/wrap. Red fox fur.

Mint condition. $60 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

Children's Items

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HAPPY HOLLISTER (8) Richard Scarry’s (1) $5. each 403-885-5720

EquipmentHeavy

Oilfield

Come in Small Packages

60

Personals

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

Wonderful Things

stuff 1500-1990

Jack Young Dec. 23, 1921 - Mar. 16, 2006

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

1710

FRIGIDAIRE fridge in exc. shape, $195.

403-346-9274

Household Furnishings

1720

CHAIR, recliner, very good cond. medium brown. $60.

CARD Table, folding, $10.

403-347-5846

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 WICKER TUB CHAIR, w/cushion, $50; fabric lounge chair, Ideal for living or bedroom. $75.

403-347-8697

Misc. for Sale

Misc. for Sale

1760

BLOW OUT SALE, die cast models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons.

Two stores to serve you better, Man Cave and Gold Eagle, entrance 2, Parkland Mall.

BRAND new C2C zinc plated, 6-3/4” x 9-3/8” turn buckles, hook and eye, 50 avail., $2 each.

Call 403-728-3485 HIDE-A-BED, $100; Baldwin piano organ, $100; and recumbent exercise bike, $50. 403-346-9274

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SANDERS (nee ROY) PARFENIUK Denise Mathilde Sanders of Jeanette (Jean) Innisfail, Alberta passed June 21, 1927 - Mar. 11, 2016 away on March 11, 2016 on Jean passed away with her her 71st Birthday. She was daughter, Karen, by her side born in Ottawa, Ontario on on Friday, March 11, 2016 at March 11, 1945. She received the age of 88 years. Jean is her invaluable education lovingly remembered by her from life’s experiences and daughter, Karen Tiffin, (Steve); her belief in the word of God. four grandchildren, Shane Denise had 5 children and (Nicole), Kerry (Kevin), Myka, moved from Ottawa to and Travis; and six greatWetaskiwin, Alberta in 1979 grandchildren, Noah, Jonah, and settled in Innisfail, AB in Sola, Mikayla, Jake, and 1990 when she married Cliff. Mackenzie. A celebration of Mom loved gardening, Jean’s life will be held at City reading, and spending time Chapel, 5850 Kerrywood with her family and friends. Drive, Red Deer, AB on Thank you to her wonderful Thursday, March 17, 2016 at family in the Living Church of 11:00 a.m. Light lunch to God. She will be lovingly follow. remembered by her husband Clifford Sanders, her sister Claudette Roy, her children; Cheryl (Allen) Berry, Jimmy In Memoriam (Kathy) Albert, Yvonne (Brian) Peebles, John (Tania) Albert, Ricky (Miyuki) Albert, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and family in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

Denise was predeceased by her parents Hector Sr. and Yvonne Roy, her siblings; Hector Jr., Jean Louis, Suzanne, and Richard, step-daughter Tara, granddaughter Vanessa, and great grandson Jonathan. A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm. at the Baptist Church of Innisfail at 5204 Woodland Road, Innisfail.

Funeral arrangements are Brett Kendall Buit being handled by Heartland May 1981 - March 2013 Funeral Services Ltd. Please Partings come and send condolences to hearts are broken, www.heartlandfuneralservices.com Loved ones go with words unspoken, Deep in our hearts there’s a memory kept, For a son, brother and uncle we will never forget.

Love and miss you forever and always, Mom and Dad, Brandi and Joe, Shantel and Cory, Shannon and Ward, nieces and nephews.

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100 VHS movies, $75.

For All 403-885-5020 2 electric lamps $20 403-885-5020 ELECTRIC heater, $15.

403-885-5020

Sporting Goods

1860

CADDY Ease” golf pull cart with optional/removable seat. Sturdy/solid. Mint condition. $35 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

DOUBLETRACK bike rack, asking $150.

403-505-0819 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Collectors' Items

1870

GAMING System, Intellevision with key board, joy sticks, guide book, 28 games & music synthesizer, $50. for all.

403-347-5846 GARFIELD collectible phone, 10”h x 8”w, speaks phrases when it rings, uses regular phone jack, $40. 403-347-5846

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

WANTED Laminate wood (Golden Select), honey oak, one package (23 sq. ft.) new or used. Phone Rene 403-346-5132

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

4 BDRM. house on Kingston Drive, $1400/mo.

Ron @ 403-304-2255 4 BDRMS, 21/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. in Red Deer.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 SYLVAN: 2 fully furn. rentals, incld’s all utils., $550 - $1300. 403-880-0210

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

860

CLASS 1 or 3 driver training, $50/hr. in your truck at your location.

403-346-2859

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Tammy at 403-314-4306

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. SPRINGBROOK VANIER Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

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Condos/ Townhouses

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

2 BDRM. Sylvan Lake Shore Dr. balcony, fireplace, n/s, no pets, $1000/mo., 403-350-4230

3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $750 w/laundry connection.

403-357-7817

3 BDRM. townhouse in Lacombe, 11/2 baths, single car garage, $1495/mo., 403-782-7156 / 403-357-7465

3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609

NORMANDEAU 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., fenced yard, rent $1275., S.D. $900; incld’s all utils. avail. Now or Apr. 1.

403-304-5337

SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Apr. 1. 403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

Apr. 1st. 403-304-5337 SYLVAN LAKE, 3 bdrm.

4-plex, 4 appl., no pets, n/s, $975/mo. inclds. utils.

403-350-4230 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. Apr. 1 403-304-5337

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3060

Suites

1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $700 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

3060

Suites

Suites

3060

Suites

3060

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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets.

LIMITED TIME OFFER: $800. rent/d.d.

One free year of Telus 403-346-1458 internet & cable AND 50% off first month’s rent! 2 Rental incentives avail.

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious CLASSIFICATIONS 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, suites 3 appls., heat/water Bedroom suites available.

Renovated suites in central N/S, No pets. incld., ADULT ONLY 4000-4190 location.

Cat friendly.

403-596-2444 BLDG, no pets, Oriole leasing@rentmidwest.com Park. 403-986-6889 1(888) 784-9274 Realtors Rooms ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 For Rent & Services incld., ADULT ONLY bdrm. apartments, rent BLDG, no pets, Oriole $750, last month of lease TWO fully furn. rooms, all Park. 403-986-6889 free, immed. occupancy. util. incl., Deer Park, AND 403-596-6000 Rosedale, 403-877-1294 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult Looking for a place building, near downtown Warehouse to live?

Co-Op, no pets, Take a tour through the Space 403-348-7445 CLASSIFIEDS CITY VIEW APTS. 30 x 50 heated shop 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, Penhold $900/mo. newly reno’d adult building.

403-886-5342 357-7817 Rent $900 S.D. $700.

HERE TO HELP Something for Everyone Avail. immed. Near hospi& HERE TO SERVE Everyday in Classifieds tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 Call GORD ING at NOW RENTING LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. RE/MAX real estate SUITES. 25+, adults only SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. Mobile central alberta 403-341-9995 starting at $795/mo. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 th 2936 50 AVE. Red Deer Lot Newer bldg. secure entry Tired of Standing?

PADS $450/mo. w/onsite manager, Find something to sit on Brand new park in Lacombe.

3 appls., incl. heat & hot in Classifieds Rental incentives avail.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., water, washer/dryer 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. hookup, infloor heating, a/c., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. only, N/S, No pets.

Down payment $4000. Call car plug ins & balconies.

403-596-2444 at anytime. 403-588-8820 Condos/ Call 403-343-7955

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RANCH FOR SALE: 17 deeded quarters of ranch land in Sask, some with aggregate. Will consider acreage, small business, commercial property as partial payment. Call 306-531-8720 for details

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Accounting

1010

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Contractors

1130

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Electrical

1150

COSBY ELECTRIC LTD. All Electrical Services.

403-597-3288

1100

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

1160

Entertainment

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1330

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

1290

Property clean up 505-4777 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

1180

D - HANDYMAN Painting, Reno’s Repairs & Junk Removal Call Derek 403-848-3266

NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Jon 403-848-0393

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Flooring

1280

Plumbing & Heating

Seniors’ Services

1372

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Yard Care

1430

SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates.

Now booking 403-302-7778

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

Motorhomes

5000-5300

SUV's

5040

2011 DODGE Caliber, only 56,000 km, exc. con., $8,900. 403-406-7600

Trucks

Motorcycles

4310

OPEN HOUSE SERGE’S HOMES

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Free Est. 403-872-8888 Call Ken 403-304-0678

Mar. 17 & 18, 2 - 5 Mar. 19 , 1 - 5 6325 61 AVE RED DEER

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NOTICE OF SALE

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$17,950

5080

2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, show room cond., 1,700 km, $2,000.

403-346-9274

5100

28’ C Class Corsair XL, island bed, generator power plant, full load, Call Harold 403-350-6800

5050

Directory

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

5080

2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new tires, exc. cond. $5500. 403-318-4725

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

COUNTERTOP replacement.

Kitchen reno’s.

Wes 403-302-1648

Massage Therapy

4070

Motorcycles

OLDER MOBILE home, 4 appls., clean, brand new flooring, drapery, immed. possession. $18,500.

403-304-4748

2006 FORD 350 Lariet NEED to Downsize?

4x4, diesel, crew cab, topBrand New Valley Crossing per, 403-887-4670 Condos in Blackfalds.

1997 FORD F-150 in exc.

Main floor is 1,119 SQ FT cond. 403-352-6995 2 Bdrm/2Bath. Imm. Poss.

Start at $219,900.

Call 403-396-1688.

Farms/ Land

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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4090

Manufactured Homes

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

by public online auction

by StoreSmart Self-Storage at www.

StorageTreasures.com starting 11:00 am on March 14, 2016 and ending 11:00 am on March 28, 2016 of goods contained in a self-storage unit to satisfy outstanding charges incurred for selfstorage unit rental by: Jaron Calvin, Beverly Cardinal, Brandy Desjarlais, Nathan Gaumond, Shelby, Golden, Estate of Sharel Holm, Alex Kish, Tanya Koyama, John Medeiros, Haley Plato, Kevin Roveredo, Mark Sichewski, Christopher Tokaryk

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Sol DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 LEXUS RX330, 155,000 mi., exc. cond. $7500.

2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded. Clean.

Priced to Buy Call 340-318 3040

2010 FORD FUSION SEL, 2.5L, IV engine, 6 spd., loaded.

81,000 kms. $11,800. 403-350-1608

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new tires, exc. cond. $5500.

403-318-4725

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN. Priced to buy Call 403-318 3040

2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, topper, security bar, $12,500.

403-505-5789

2011 DODGE CALIBER, only 56,000 km, exc. cond., $8,900.

403-406-7600

2006 JEEP Commander full load, 4.7.

Best Offer ASAP 403-342-7798

WE Will Take Payments!!

2012 Dodge Gr. Caravan White, 93,000 Kms. Full Inspection $13,450.

Harvey @ Reward Lease 403-358-1698

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2004 FREESTAR Limited Edition $5600.

587-377-3547

2006 CHRYSLER 300, LTD, low kms., sun roof, leather, new winter tires. $8000. obo

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

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2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, 1,700 km, $2,000.

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2013 HYUNDAI Tucson 35700 Kms. 2.0 L engine A/C, PW, PL, AM, FM, MP3, CD & more. 14,900.

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2002 DURANGO, RT, AWD, Hi + low range 4x4. 7 pass.

124,000 kms.. $5000. obo 780-916-0221

ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday, March. 16 2016

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Spies like us WHAT’S REAL AND FAKE IN ‘THE AMERICANS,’ ACCORDING TO REAL-LIFE INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

BY KATHERINE BRODSKY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Although the FX series The Americans has been praised for its nuance, it creates a cloak-and-dagger world where tools never fail, master plans almost always work out and the best spies always win.

Real spies know that world is make-believe. Still, when they’re done lurking in shadows — or typing away in their cubicles, more likely — they often come home and turn on the show about Soviet sleeper spies (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) posing as a married couple, which returns for a fourth season on Wednesday. Spies recognize that the show exaggerates, but they also mostly praise the ways in which it rings true — and even the ways it doesn’t.

“It’s kind of an open secret that many people in the intelligence community are some of the most avid readers of spy novels and most avid watchers of spy shows and movies,” says Doug Patteson, a former CIA officer with extensive overseas experience, now living in New Hampshire. “It gives you this idealized view of the intelligence world that’s very different from the practical aspects of day-to-day life.

The truth is that often, real-world intelligence can be a bore, a drudgery.”

Emily Brandwin is a former CIA officer in Los Angeles. She appreciates escapism as much as the next person, but when it comes to espionage, she watches with a critical eye. Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer? He’s escaped death way more than real spies, who mostly never see action. Homeland gets a lot right, although Carrie would have never been hired due to her multitude of emotional issues.

Then there’s Alias, filled with outrageous, campy costumes. “I go: ‘Why can’t I look like Sydney Bristow?’ You see her and she’s scaling down a building in a black catsuit and a hot wig and she looks amazing,” Brandwin says.

“And here I am with a bad wig and a pregnancy belly and I look horrible.”

But The Americans has won Brandwin over. “There are such nuggets of authenticity that you don’t see in other shows. Everything from gadgets to surveillance is done with great care and authenticity, and you can feel that it’s not over the top, it’s really core to the characters,” she says.

After all, the series’ creator and co-showrunner Joe Weisberg has firsthand experience. Lured in by the spy world of John le Carré novels, Weisberg spent 3 ½ years working for the CIA. The series is often praised for using

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Soviet sleeper spies (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) poses as a married couple in the critically acclaimed show, ‘The Americans,’ which returns for a fourth season on Wednesday. authentic tradecraft. That was the relatively easy part.

“The thing (that interested me) about espionage wasn’t so much about stealing secrets or operations per se,” he explains. “It was about the lives of officers and how they felt.”

Weisberg was fascinated by the idea that intelligence officers lie to their kids about what they do and one day might have to confront them with the truth. That human side, to him, made it the drama special. “Can you take the spy out of it, and still make it work?” he says.

Leading a dual life can have a real tension on relationships. “The reality of espionage is that, yes, some of it can be exciting, but it can also be a very dark, very lonely job,” says Brandwin, who had to maintain a cover identity for her friends and dated fellow CIA officers. “When you’re trained to be a professional liar and you’re dating other trained liars, it is a very bizarre thing.”

Before becoming a field officer, Brandwin began her career in the CIA as a disguises officer. (Yes, that’s an actual position.) “What I really appreciate is that the disguises are never a joke, it’s really a part of how the characters pull off their operations, so it’s essential,” she explains about the series. “It’s not just about someone slapping on a wig, but the care and details of crafting a persona every day.”

In one scene, Martha, an FBI secretary that Rhys’s character’s alter ego, Clark, seduces to glean information, observes that he is wearing a toupee.

Clark thinks his cover may be blown, but he soon realizes that Martha attributes the hairpiece to vanity and hair loss, not a faux identity. She doesn’t question Clark’s authenticity, because the rest of his disguise is so complete, such as his nerdy, slightly nervous manner of speaking.

But the show doesn’t get everything right. “The murder and mayhem on the show is probably more the Hollywood

Jane the Virgin showing signs of wear in Season 2

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BY STACIA L. BROWN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES At a moment when a lot of American television seems to want to make us feel as grim as possible, Jane the Virgin, the CW show about a young woman (Gina Rodriguez) whose life is turned upside down when she is accidentally artificially inseminated, feels like an optimistic pop of colour and good intentions in a grim landscape.

Rather than following the conventions of anti-hero dramas or crime procedurals, Jane the Virgin, is an American riff on the telenovela, a genre with a long history everywhere else in the TV-watching world but that’s made almost incremental progress here. In its second season Jane the Virgin is a great example of why telenovelas are a welcome addition to the TV landscape — but also of how easily they can fall apart.

When ABC adapted Ugly Betty for an American audience in 2006, the American telenovela was still fairly new to network TV. The series, based on the Colombian telenovela, Yo Soy Betty, la fea, was also the first bonafide hit of the fledgling subgenre. It borrowed the absurd plots of its source material — kidnappings, sneaky paternity schemes, nefarious business dealings — but it also managed a gravitas and sensitivity that seemed distinct from other American soap operas.

Ugly Betty functioned more like a

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ELVIS: Business slowed dramatically Elvis played here more than anywhere else, selling out hundreds of shows, year after year.

Cementing his ties to Sin City were his hits, the Viva Las Vegas song that gave the town its anthem, and the movie by the same name that showcased its glitzy persona.

There was a time when Elvis fans across the country made the pilgrimage to Las Vegas to see his concerts, and following his death in 1977, to indulge in the many tribute shows,

part of it,” Brandwin says.

“Violence leaves forensic information and can be seen by witnesses, increasing the risk of detection,” Patteson says. “It’s great for the storyline but would never happen so frequently to such valuable assets as these two illegals. In the real world, if you get involved in a violent incident, you are likely on the first plane home.”

Illegals, a term used for Russian sleeper agents, would also not be likely to be used so much in real life given that they are expensive to train and run. “The more you use them, the higher the risk of exposure — the more you risk your investment,” says Patteson.

Accuracy aside, pop culture depictions of espionage have long helped recruit new spies. “Lots of people who joined would say that the thing that got them intrigued with the intelligence community was James Bond or Jason Bourne or a good novel or a good show,” Patteson says.

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Gina Rodriguez as Jane and guest star Britney Spears on The CW’s ‘Jane the Virgin.’ nighttime drama than a daytime soap, even when factoring in its sillier material — and that seemed to set a precedent for how American telenovelas would be handled in the future: they wouldn’t be melodramatic, just dramatic. They’d endeavor to strike some balance between serious acting and zany narrative twists.

In its first season, Ugly Betty showed remarkable promise. It became an unlikely critical darling and its star, America Ferrera, who’d long toiled in supporting roles, finally seemed poised for stardom.

But something began to break down in season 2: the show started to go big-

ger and wilder with its soapy plots.

Celebrity guest appearances took precedence over strong storylines. And though the show still had spunk and heart, that began to be overshadowed by an upped-ante of wackiness.

Fast forward to nearly a decade after Ugly Betty’s debut to The CW’s unveiling of Jane the Virgin in 2014.

The new American telenovela was immediately reminiscent of Ugly Betty, with an actress — Gina Rodriguez — as capable of balancing zaniness and emotional resonance as Ferrera was and first-season plots that someone managed to toe the line between absolute absurdity and breathtaking vul-

impersonators and nostalgic memories from his heyday.

It also became a staple of Las Vegas kitsch to see Elvis impersonators — though they prefer to be known as “tribute artists” — on the many tourist-friendly corners of town and at the quickie wedding ceremonies Vegas was known for.

Elvis impersonator Ted Payne, 54 said business has slowed dramatically since he started taking photos with tourists for tips just six years ago.

“When I first started out, I wouldn’t get out of a bed unless I (could) make at least $150,” he said. “Now, these days, $50 is a great day.”

These days, Elvis registers only briefly in the consciousness of Melanie Casas, 22, of Phoenix. On her first trip to Las Vegas recently, she identified him as the singer of Hound Dog who was also featured as a character in the Forrest Gump movie.

“I know of him but I don’t know anything about him,” Casas said, shrugging.

This generational divide could be blamed for the apparent lull in interest in the iconic performer. Others say the market was oversaturated by Elvis impersonators for so long that the appeal burned itself out here, even as Elvis’ reach grows internationally.

The Elvis brand is one of the most active and successful entertainment estates. Forbes magazine, in its annual list of earnings by dead entertainers, said Presley’s estate earned $55 million for the year ending October 2014 — second to Michael Jackson.

Soden said Graceland mansion, where Elvis lived, sees a growing number of visitors and is expanding with a new Elvis-themed hotel nearby.

Elvis fans are not aging out, he said, because nearly 40 per cent of Graceland visitors were born after

nerability.

The first season of Jane the Virgin felt near-flawless to me when I binge-watched it last summer, but as I neared the finale, I worried over the show’s ability to maintain its momentum. I’d been through this before, after all, and when early promos for the second season boasted a big song and dance number with Britney Spears and a guest appearance by Kesha, I grew even warier.

As it turned out, I didn’t have to fret too much about celebrity stunt casting in Jane the Virgin’s second season; the show hasn’t overdone it. But its premise and plotting are showing other signs of wear this year.

Between the prolonged love triangle with Michael (Brett Dier) and Rafael (Justin Baldoni), the strange choice to add to more babies to the cast via Petra’s (Yael Grobglas) insemination and delivery of twins, the ongoing underworld storyline with the Solano family, a stalking storyline with Rogelio, and the increasing improbability that Jane would still be so resistant to sex after childbirth, given how much physical intimacy she’s desired and welcomed, it’s tough to know how the show will be able to maintain the thoughtfulness and heart of its first year.

Jane the Virgin has just been renewed for a third season — and that’s fantastic news. Season two has set the show up with narrative arcs that could be satisfyingly resolved in a third year.

It might be best for Jane the Virgin if the show goes out at a high point, and if it teaches American audiences that too much of a good thing can turn it bad.

Elvis’ death. Soden also said the estate has been successful in many of its business deals, particularly in the Middle East, U.K., Asia and Australia.

He in large part blamed the Westgate closure on Vegas’ lack of interest in exhibits overall. “Vegas hasn’t seen the last of Elvis. Giving it a rest is not all that bad,” Soden said of a future comeback.

Meanwhile, Vegas tourism only continues to reinvent itself. Once focused as an entertainment capital, it veered momentarily in an attempt to be a family-friendly destination before settling on its latest persona: the overindulgent playground of the young and wealthy.

“I think the problem with Vegas is Las Vegas is trying to escape from itself, either rewrite history or make new history,” Cooper, the historian, said. “All these properties that started Las Vegas, nothing’s there anymore.”

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Son won’t forgive mother for affair Dear Annie: Many years ago, I was separated from my husband for several years. At the tail end of our separation, I discovered he had been cheating on me.

About a week after I learned this, I was approached by the husband of a woman I knew who was quite ill. He said she had given permission for the two of us to sleep together. Because my husband’s affair was fresh in my mind, I agreed to this, although now I can see it was misguided. I assumed my husband and I would be getting a divorce, and I was hoping this new relationship would lead somewhere.

After a while, I realized I was being used and ended it. My husband found out and he forgave me. In fact, we reconciled and are still together.

Here’s the problem: Although my daughters have forgiven me, my son continues to make disrespectful remarks about me on social media. I have tried talking to him about it. To my face, he acts as though everything is fine, but his online comments can be

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seen by all our family and friends.

Obviously, he has never gotten over my affair, but he lives across the country, so it’s not as though we can go to counseling together. I’m not sure how to handle this and I’ve had enough. My heart is hardening toward him. — Hurt Mom Dear Mom: Apparently, your son holds you to a higher standard than he does his father.

His nasty comments on social media are childish.

He is trying to punish you. If you have not yet sincerely apologized to your son for causing him pain, please do so. It costs you nothing and it might be what he needs to settle down.

You also can ask his father or sis-

ters to intercede and make him see that this is counterproductive and could damage the relationship permanently. Otherwise, we strongly urge you to stop reading his posts. Such vitriol only hurts you repeatedly. Ignore what you can, and get counseling for yourself if you need help letting go.

Dear Annie: I, too, was “Married to a Kvetch,” and have some suggestions on how to handle the irritation.

My husband wasn’t sick, but he enjoyed broadcasting his health ailments.

His favorite hobby was going to the doctor.

Telling him to get a thorough checkup would not change anything. We had good health insurance, so I indulged him. I listened, made suggestions and worked on keeping him distracted with activities and hobbies.

I knew he wouldn’t suddenly stop complaining.

He was simply a hypochondriac. He was a middle child, and I think this is how he always managed to get atten-

tion from his family. In spite of his constant complaints and “poor health,” he lived to age 94.

“Married to a Kvetch” says her husband is otherwise a good guy.

I would tell her to love him, and to try to understand the reason for his behavior.

It makes all the difference in tolerating it. — Understanding Widow Dear Widow: Some people enjoy their maladies and like the attention (even negative attention) that complaining brings.

But in case it is a genuine undiagnosed medical problem, it should always be checked out.

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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BRIEF Toys “R” Us Canada names 12-year-old as new ‘chief play officer’ MONTREAL — Emile Burbidge loves to jump and a pogo stick is his favourite toy.

So it’s not surprising it was the first thing the 12-year-old boy from St-Bruno, Que., tried after being selected as “chief play officer” for Toys “R” Us Canada.

Burbidge was plucked from hundreds of potential Canadian candidates, with the field narrowed to 11 finalists before he was chosen.

So what did he do upon hearing of his good fortune? Jumped for joy of course.

“It’s really cool,” Burbidge said in a lunchtime interview from his house.

“It’s like being (elected) the president of good fortune.”

Burbidge’s job is to try out products — sometimes even being the first to do so — make recommendations and take part in media appearances and events.

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Venus visiting your career/volunteering zone until April 5, it’s the perfect time to consult closely with colleagues or beautify your office space.

Love and work are also linked in lucky ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to reach out and help others, both within your circle of family and friends and within your local neighbourhood.

The community connections you foster now will prove beneficial in the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re in the mood to socialize and pamper yourself today, as you enjoy compatible conversation and life’s little luxuries.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When it comes to a family matter, avoid quick fixes. Success will come if you are patient and do all the homework or research that’s required. Look for facts that are hidden deep beneath the surface.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Group activities and social networking are highlighted today, as you expand your contacts to include an international new crowd.

Travel and study opportunities are also shining on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Jupiter/Pluto trine is fabulous for work, study, business, travel and financial matters. Lady Luck is definitely on your side as you make

positive changes and accept exciting new challenges.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With Venus now visiting your neighbourhood zone, there is much to do — and much satisfaction to be gained — through contributing to causes within your local community. Capricorn to the rescue!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Financial luck is waiting in the wings via a new job, a bonus or a gift. Don’t be bashful though.

Use your networking skills to drum up work, and don’t be afraid to ask others for assistance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): All types of partnerships are given a welcome boost today, as Jupiter and Pluto increase optimism and help you rescue and reform a rickety relationship that’s been experiencing some problems.

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2016 is the year to worry a lot less and dream much more.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be given the opportunity to lead and/or influence others in some way today so don’t waste it.

Others are looking for you to come up with the goods so get cracking Rams and don’t disappoint!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Lady Luck is on your side today and friendships are also favoured, as you link up with pals from home and far away.

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