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Plunging into the red LIBERALS’ MAIDEN ‘SUNNY WAYS’ BUDGET SHOWERS SPENDING, DEFICITS TO SPUR GROWTH

LOCAL REACTION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The new Liberal government delivered a sunny ways budget Tuesday brimming with optimism and billion-dollar spending increases spread across a wide spectrum of society.

B u t the bold FOR MORE ON effort to spur eco- TUESDAY’S n o m i c FEDERAL BUDGET, growth after almost SEE PAGES A2, A9 a decade of fiscal restraint will add more than $100 billion to the federal debt over the next five years as Finance Minister Bill Morneau plunges Ottawa back into the red.

And like March sunshine in the frozen national capital, there’s concern that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bright budget may not heat up the economy quite as much as the Liberals promised it would.

“We act for the years and decades to come,” Morneau said in his maiden budget speech in the House of Commons.

“We act for our children and our children’s children.”

There’s billions in new spending

“Well I have to say I am extremely disappointed. They had elected the Liberals to borrow on a $10 billion and it’s triple that. I think that’s one of the things that people should be concerned about. They certainly show no plan to bring it back to balance. I think these are issues that we will have to hold their feet to the fire on.”

— Earl Dreeshen, MP Red Deer-Mountain View “We were pleased to hear the announcement of infrastructure investment in areas such as transit, water and wastewater, affordable housing and environmental infrastructure. As we analyze the budget details, we will determine how the City of Red Deer can access capital dollars to meet many of the local infrastructure priorities here in Red Deer.”

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— Tara Veer, Mayor of Red Deer

Finance Minister Bill Morneau receives applause as he tables the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday. on infrastructure, Aboriginal Peoples, and transfers to middle and lower income Canadians in a budget blueprint framed by Morneau in terms of Canada’s great post-war expansion of the last century.

“Confidence inspired investment,”

Morneau said of those high-growth, post-war decades. “Investment inspired confidence.”

The Liberals claim their budget will create 100,000 jobs and boost national economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, by half a per-

centage point per year — a huge increase on a $2 trillion economy.

The promised sunny future comes with an immediate fiscal chill.

Please see BUDGET on Page A2

TERROR IN BELGIUM

Bloodied and dazed NATIONS MOURNS AFTER ISLAMIC STATE BOMBINGS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Islamic extremists struck Tuesday in the heart of Europe, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores of others in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway that again laid bare the continent’s vulnerability to suicide squads.

Bloodied and dazed travellers staggered from the airport after two explosions — at least one blamed on a suicide attacker and another apparently on a suitcase bomb — tore through crowds checking in for morning flights.

About 40 minutes later, another rush-hour blast ripped through a subway car in central Brussels as it left the Maelbeek station, in the heart of the European Union’s capital city.

Authorities released a photo taken from closed-circuit TV footage of three men pushing luggage carts in the airport.

Please see BELGIUM on Page A8

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People gather and light candles at the Place de la Bourse during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday. Security services are on high alert following two explosions in the departure hall of Zaventem Airport and one at Maelbeek Metro station in Brussels.

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Budget revamps tax benefits for families

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Ottawa is revamping tax benefits for families with young children by putting more money in the wallets of low- and middle-income families starting in July.

However, the changes announced Tuesday in the federal budget will see families earning more than $150,000 a year generally receive less under the new Canada Child Benefit program.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said nine out of 10 families will receive more than they do under the existing

programs.

“That is money in the pockets of Mom and Dad,” he said. “Money that can go directly to eating healthier food, paying the rent and buying new clothes for back to school.”

The new program will pay up to $6,400 per child under six and up to $5,400 per child for those aged six through 17. However, the benefits begin to phase out starting at $30,000 in net family income.

Under the current system, families with $30,000 in net income and one child under six would have received $4,852 in child benefits and $3,916 if

the child is six through 17.

The changes were a key plank in the Liberal campaign platform.

They replace the current Canada Child Tax Benefit, National Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit.

Ottawa is also eliminating income splitting for couples with children as well as phasing out the children’s fitness tax credit and the children’s arts tax credit.

The fitness and arts tax credits, worth up to $150 and $75 respectively for those who claim them, will be cut in half for 2016 and eliminated for 2017.

Those moves come as Ottawa also makes changes to some of the tax credits for students and increases the guaranteed income supplement for single seniors starting in July.

The government is eliminating the education and textbook tax credits effective next year because it said they were not targeted based on income.

The tuition tax credit will remain unchanged.

Education and textbook tax credits carried forward from years before 2017 will still be claimable in 2017 and subsequent years.

That measure will cost the treasury $405 million this year and $177 million next year.

Long-tenured workers in the 12 regions identified in the budget as suffering the sharpest jumps in joblessness will be eligible for an extra 20 weeks of benefits, to a maximum of 70 weeks.

Budget BRIEFS

Cost of Syrian refugee program will near $1 billion

Infrastructure program has lower than promised spending Copies of the federal budget are pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. public transit.

aimed at helping resource-dependent provinces such as Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Workers there, many of them likely at or near the end of their unemployment benefits, will get a short-term boost.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget adds five weeks to the regular 45 weeks of EI benefits those workers receive, effective in July but retroactive to January 2015.

Regions hit hard by plunge in commodity prices get sweetened EI pot in budget OTTAWA — The federal budget is changing the rules that govern employment insurance, measures

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OTTAWA — Some of what was said Tuesday about the federal budget tabled in the House of Commons by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:

“The government must focus on the projects that will benefit Canada’s economy the most: trade-enabling infrastructure, urban infrastructure and measures to support our resource and manufacturing sectors.” — Perrin Beatty, president, Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

“This budget is a nightmare scenario for taxpayers who will be forced to pick up the tab for today’s Liberal spending spree.” — Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose.

“In its platform, in a written letter to CFIB members and in campaign stops across the country, the new government promised to reduce the small business corporate tax rate to nine per cent by 2019. That promise was broken today as it announced the rate will remain at 10.5 per cent after 2016.” — Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

“This budget puts taxpayers on the hook for out-of-control Liberal spending that will lead to more waste and mismanagement.”— Ambrose.

“Families across Canada are worried about their jobs and struggling to make ends meet — but today’s budget told them they would have to wait longer for help.”

— NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

“We are pleased the government has taken a careful and measured approach to infrastructure spending. Spending will be staggered over ten years, with the lion’s share of spending back-ended to allow sufficient time for planning and consultation.” — Ian Russell, president and CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada.

“The government missed an opportunity today to really deliver change.” — Mulcair.

“We are disappointed that there were no changes made to the Automotive Investment Fund, beyond extending it another three years, and no mention of the vital aerospace industry beyond the space program.” — Jerry Dias, national president, Unifor.

“The increase of $256 million over two years to the international assistance envelope is a step in the right direction. The government must ensure that every dollar committed truly is spent.” — Gillian Barth, president and CEO, CARE Canada.

stakeholder reaction bullpen — typically a cauldron of grievances — was largely singing the Liberal gospel.

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But economist Craig Alexander of the C.D. Howe Institute sounded a note of caution.

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“I think budget 2016 runs the risk of over-reaching,” said Alexander. “The reality is the amount of money they have to make an impact is relatively limited.”

It’s the central paradox of the first Liberal budget: while plunging the country back into deficit, Liberal spending is constrained by a worse-than-anticipated economy that’s forcing the government to spread its election promises over a longer time frame.

Put another way, the federal deficit balloons by almost $25 billion in 2016-17, yet new budgetary measures are costed at only $11.57 billion. New spending the following year is forecast at $14.9 billion.

“The challenge the government has faced is how do you actually deliver on as many of your election promises as you can, but with a binding fiscal constraint?” said Alexander.

New Democrats, who campaigned five months ago on a balanced budget platform, accused the big-spending Liberals of being cheap.

“Families across Canada are worried about their jobs and struggling to make ends meet, but today’s budget told them they would have to wait longer for help,” said NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

Over the last three years, federal spending was held to an average 0.4 per cent increase per year, said Mary Webb, senior economist at Scotiabank.

The next three years show average increases of 6.3 per cent.

“How do you close this gap here?”

Webb wondered, short of tax increases or sharp cuts down the road.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

BUDGET: $113.2B shortfall in five years The Liberals are projecting a $29.4-billion deficit in 2016-17, followed by a $29-billion shortfall the following year and almost $23 billion in 2018-19. Over the next five years, Tuesday’s budget shows $113.2 billion in red ink, including a $14.3 billion shortfall for 2020-21 — after the next scheduled federal election.

During last year’s campaign, the Liberals promised “modest deficits” of no more than $10 billion over the course of their mandate and to balance the books by 2019-20.

Times, it seems, have changed: The word “deficit” appeared nowhere in Morneau’s budget speech, nor did “spending.” “Investment,” on the other hand, registered 22 times.

“Canadians gave them an inch and they’re taking miles,” Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose said in a release, while calling the Liberal budget a “nightmare scenario for taxpayers.”

The relatively slim, 269-page budget is packed with spending promises for all and sundry on every page. The final Conservative budget of April 2015, by contrast, weighed in at 518 pages while ratcheting down spending in a government-wide effort to show an election-year surplus.

On Parliament Hill, the post-budget

OTTAWA — The Liberal commitment to Syrian refugee resettlement could end up costing taxpayers close to $1 billion.

Today’s federal budget includes an additional $245 million over five years to bring in the remaining 10,000 people needed to meet the Liberal promise to resettle 25,000 government assisted Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.

That’s on top of $678 million over six years already set aside to resettle 25,000 Syrians in total by the end of last month.

As of March 20, 26,202 Syrians have arrived in Canada since the Liberals took power.

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During the October election campaign, the Liberals said they would add just over $5 billion in new infrastructure spending this year and a further $5 billion next year.

The federal budget tabled today, however, shows that the government will spend just $2.7 billion in the first year on green infrastructure like water treatment plants and social infrastructure like seniors homes and

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County approves development permit for grain terminal

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A proposed $25-million grain terminal cleared an important planning hurdle with Red Deer County.

The county’s municipal planning commission unanimously approved a development permit for the project just north of Bowden by Winnipeg-based Paterson GlobalFoods Inc. Paterson plans to build an export terminal with 55,000 tonnes of capacity and a high-speed unloading system that can fill 150 rail cars in seven hours using a loop rail system on the 247-acre site. Three large silos and eight smaller versions will be located there along with support buildings, weigh scale and seed cleaning units.

The terminal will accept all of the area’s key crops, including wheat, canola, barley and soybeans. Those products will be transported to Paterson’s Alliance Grain Terminal in the Port of Vancouver to customers world-

Local BRIEFS Preliminary hearing in gun case slated for Aug. 17 Evidence against a man accused of pointing a gun at a Red Deer RCMP officer police will be examined in provincial court in August.

Stephen Dwayne Gibbon, 37, is one of two suspects sought by police investigating complaints of a robbery in the city’s downtown area. Police allege that one of their suspects, tracked down at Central Middle School, pointed a gun at investigators and then fled on foot toward the Plaza Centre Co-op.

The suspect was found hiding in a dumpster and arrested with no further trouble. Charges against him include pointing a firearm and assaulting a police officer.

Represented by Red Deer counsel Andrew Phypers, Gibbon has asked that his case be heard in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court beforehand. Preliminary hearings are an option and may be held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Gibbon’s preliminary hearing has been set for Aug. 17.

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Randy Ditchburn lives just across the road from the proposed terminal site and told the planning commission the increase in truck and rail traffic will reduce the value of his home and will put a huge facility in his view.

“I’m going to be looking out my front window and (the terminal) is huge,” he told the commission.

Ditchburn said he’s not objecting to the terminal itself, which he believes will be good for area farmers, but wants to see the main structures moved further south on the site so it’s not so obvious from his home.

As part of its development permit application, Paterson Grain requested and was granted a height relaxation of just over 25 metres to allow for the 47-metre height of the tallest silos.

Shane Paterson, corporate development officer for Paterson GlobalFoods Inc., said about two to four trains will load at the terminal each month, a process that takes about eight hours.

By comparison, CP Rail runs 15 to

17 trains a day on the same main line.

It is expected 14 Super-B trucks (a semi pulling two trailers) will drive into the site each day.

To minimize, dust and traffic there will be room to park 36 Super-B trucks on site and the truck route will use Hwy 587. The company will have to screen the site with trees and undertake dust control on access roads as part of its permit approval.

Paterson said following the meeting that it was “full steam ahead” on the project. “We have a few small regulatory hurdles to clear, but it is good news today.”

The company will meet with neighbours to hear their concerns and how they might be addressed, he said.

Ditchburn said he hopes the company will agree to move the terminal and questions how much traffic nuisance will be created.

“They say they are going to address the traffic controls. I guess time will tell,” he said.

building birdhouses and feeders and operating the Kerry Wood Nature Centre’s bookstore. Children who would like to get in on some of his secrets are invited to join the workshop and build their own birdhouses. The fee is $7 for members of the Friends of Kerry Wood Nature Centre or $8 for non-members. Children must pre-register and they must bring an adult with them to help out. Please remember that, every weekend the Nature Centre offers free programs as well, including Nature Savvy Saturdays and Discovery Sundays, running from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Please call 403-346-2010 to learn more.

Incorrect information appeared in Tuesday’s Advocate.

More than 30 city departments and community agencies including Mayor Tara Veer and council will be on hand to talk about the city’s identity, its people and its future.

The event will run from 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Find out more about being green, being safe, being active and belonging in the city. Veer will be at the event from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“We want to hear about what’s most important to our citizens,” said Veer.

“This is a great chance to have an open, candid conversation about our city and the services and programs we offer as well as plans for our community’s future.”

There will be plenty of activities for the whole family. Stay in the loop with interactive roundabout education and make every toss count with a new recycling hoop game.

Bring your gently used books for the new Books on a Bus program.

“We will be showcasing a number of new initiatives including MyCity our new 24/7 online service, the new re-loadable MyRide transit cards and Red Deer’s identity narrative which tells the story of our community,” said Julia Harvie-Shemko, director of Communications and& Strategic Planning.

“Let’s Talk is all about bringing the city to you.”

Community agencies will also be set up including 211, Alberta Animal Services, the Red Deer & District SPCA, Tourism Red Deer, Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, the Red Deer Airport, the Red Deer Public Library, the Museum and Art Gallery and the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

Preliminary hearing ordered in second-degree murder case The suspect accused of abandoning a dying man at the Red Deer Regional Hospital last month has asked to be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Police allege that 47-year-old William Blaine Baker died in the hospital on Feb. 13, shortly after being dropped off by someone who then fled the scene in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, located about three days later.

Red Deer resident Shane Dion McPhee, 40, was later arrested and charged with second-degree murder, making his first court appearance on Feb. 22.

McPhee was returned to court on March 16, when he asked that his case be heard in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with a preliminary hearing to be held beforehand.

Preliminary hearings may be held in provincial court to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

McPhee’s preliminary hearing has been set for Sept. 19-20.

Habitat for Humanity looking for volunteers A first-time housing project in Lacombe is calling for volunteers to help four low-income families become home owners.

Habitat for Humanity Red Deer Region Society is building two new duplexes in the city’s MacKenzie Ranch subdivision, which will be completed in June.

The non-profit organization helps provide housing to families who might otherwise never be able to own their own home. The families must meet certain requirements.

The Lacombe project needs volunteers to help with shifts available from March until June.

Volunteers do not need construction experience to get involved, must be 18 and older, and shifts are available from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday. Individuals as well as groups can volunteer.

Those interested in helping can contact Megan Oshust at 403-309-6080 Ext. 2, or by email at megan.oshust@ habitatreddeer.ca.

Chat with council and city officials on April 9 Come have a chat with council and city officials at the Let’s Talk 2016 at Parkland Mall on April 9.

Correction The death of a 23-year-old Red Deer man who died last week while trying to stop thieves from stealing his truck has not been classified as a homicide.

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Mayor Jim Wood said area grain farmers are elated by Paterson’s plans, which come only weeks after GrainsConnect Canada announced its own giant grain-handling facility just outside Innisfail with a 35,000-tonne capacity.

“We’ve had two opportunities in the last short while to market our grain within this region and it shows we’re an agricultural county and have a lot of grain produced,” said Wood.

“No doubt, the grain companies have seen a need for this or they wouldn’t be coming in,” he said.

Having choice between two companies will be good for farmers. “With choice often comes good pricing,” he added.

Not all were happy with the location of the proposed facility. Several area landowners have expressed their concern to the county about increased rail and truck traffic and the visual and property value impact of such a large complex near their homes.

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National pride: soft, with ketchup on top GREG NEIMAN OPINION

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anadians have a funny way of expressing our national pride sometimes.

Of all things, French’s ketchup became a cause célebre across the country when it was revealed Loblaws was going to remove the brand from its grocery store shelves. Even more so, when it came to light later that the decision to do this was motivated by a desire to reduce choice and improve the sales of its President’s Choice store brand.

Because French’s ketchup is made from Canadian-grown tomatoes, you know.

Until then, ketchup nationalism was not so much of a thing. Even after mega-investor Berkshire Hathaway bought Heinz, and closed down its Ontario ketchup factory, consumer loyalties did not really move that much.

But a few tweets after the Loblaws decision (and then the reversal of that decision), you’d have to be a

Trump-kissing Yankee turncoat to buy anything but French’s.

Never mind that competing brands use tomato paste made in Ontario (albeit from imported produce). Economic nationalism, like globalism, can be a complicated thing.

It might make Canadian consumers feel better to teach the big guys a lesson from time-to-time, but if this is an example of Canadian pride as expressed in the marketplace, we still have a long way to go.

Another Canadian institution in which we take great pride is Bombardier. We must take a great deal of pride in the company, because we sure do give it a lot of our tax money.

In fact, we are told must give Bombardier a great deal more tax money, or it will not be able to compete against other very large aerospace manufacturers, who themselves receive great amounts of tax money in their countries.

Canadian jobs are at stake, we are told, and Bombardier is simply too important to our economy to be allowed to fail.

So, while our national pride is being tweaked for a giant subsidy, Bombardier says it plans to outsource ma-

ny of those very jobs to Mexico and China. If taxpayers complain about this incongruency (and they have), we are told the situation is … complicated.

But we’re still very proud of Bombardier, right?

We’re also very proud of our nation’s resource wealth. Not just for our energy, but forestry and mining. We’ve spent a lot of money protecting our softwood industry, and we may well be about to spend a great deal more — especially if a certain isolationist candidate wins the U.S. presidency.

But surely Canadian national pride is deeper than the coating on a hot dog.

If we can raise a furore over what brand of Canadian-grown ketchup we will buy, why can’t we get worked up about Canadian-developed energy?

Canadians have become indignant about selling a few billion-worth of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, for purposes outside our sworn standards of doing business.

So why don’t we question buying multi-billions-worth of Saudi oil to make fuel for our cars? This can’t be a human rights question, because Canada also imports oil from such human rights stars as Nigeria, Venezuela —

and likely soon, Iran.

We have more than enough of our own oil for all the myriad purposes oil is used. Why won’t the Canadian market support Canadian suppliers?

It can’t be a greenhouse gas thing, because gasoline is gasoline; it all burns the same, and we’re not going to use less of it anytime soon.

Besides, Canadian producers are already onside to reduce the carbon footprint of their production — and our competitors aren’t. The producing provinces are already onside in attempting to reduce their carbon footprint overall, by as many means as prove practical (and according to some, even not so practical).

So why do Canadians glow, while driving their Saudi-fueld cars to the grocery for a single bottle of Canadian-grown ketchup? Ketchup delivered by great big Saudi-fueld trucks?

Do we support Canadian tomato growers more than we support human rights abroad, or Canadian industry at home?

Economic nationalism must be like paying Bombardier to outsource Canadian jobs … complicated.

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Trudeau applies lipstick on the Senate pig WARREN KINSELLA OPINION

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he precise origins of the “lipstick on a pig” aphorism are unclear. Some say it arose first in a January 1980 edition of the much-read Quad-City Herald, in Brewster, Washington (pop., 2,730), where one wag observed therein that “you can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it’s [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig.” Indeed, its pigginess is inviolate.

No argument here.

Others insist that the actual phrase came shortly after, when The Washington Post famously quoted a San Francisco KNBR-AM radio host who — when commenting on a plan to fix up Candlestick Park for the Giants — decreed: “That would be like putting lipstick on a pig.”

A political cliché was born!

After that, political folks would end up saying it all the time. Barack Obama and John McCain both said it

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about each other, in 2008 presidential campaign. At least five political books were written with “lipstick on a pig” in the title. And, most ominously, Dick Cheney declared that it was his “favourite line.” (That’s almost as bad as being a Liberal, and enthusiastically welcoming warmonger Henry Kissinger to a state dinner for you, and … oh, never mind.)

I have elected to append the “lipstick on a pig” cliché — which I personally consider vulgar and impolite, but occasionally apt – to Justin Trudeau’s latest Friday afternoon special, the appointment of seven new Senators by a panel of people he appointed. The appointees’ appointees.

It was in all the papers, along with glowing descriptions of the esteemed Canadians who have the thankless task, or the taskless thanks, of napping in the Red Chamber until the ripe old age of 75. There, they will receive the minimum annual salary of $132,300; at least $161,200 to maintain an office; $22,000 a year if they live more than 100 kilometres from Ottawa, as Mike Duffy knows too well; some $11,100 on top of their regular pay, for sitting on a committee; and many thousands more if they are lucky enough to become

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the Senate Speaker, or a Senate house leader, or what have you.

Nice work if you can get it, etc. Each of those seven Canadians — including the head of Trudeau’s transition team, so we can probably count him as a Liberal — will now doubtlessly shuffle up to a microphone somewhere, and earnestly pledge to serve their fellow Canadians without regard to partisan affiliation, without fear or favour or grubby political considerations, blah blah blah. They will say all the usual stuff, which have heard a million times before. And, in some cases (because, admittedly, there are not a few current Senators who are respectable and decent folks, focused on the public good) they may well end up telling the truth.

But the Senate of Canada is still — after all of Justin Trudeau’s efforts to affix lipstick to it — a pig. It is a disgrace. It is an anti-democratic abomination, and it should be abolished, not maintained. Kill it, now.

All of us have heard the arguments for the Senate. That it is a chamber of sober second thought. That it improves legislation emanating in the House.

That its reports and resolutions are unsullied by politics.

But we don’t care. WE DON’T

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CARE. If the Senate of Canada were stuffed to its ermine walls with cloned replicas of Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Plato, Nelson Mandela, Mozart, Kahlil Gibran, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks – and, on civic holidays, apparitions of the Buddha, Moses, Mohamed and Christ — it would still be this: a body of unelected persons, however eminent, wielding real power.

It would therefore be illegitimate. It would be illicit. In a supposedly modern democracy, it would be unlawful, even.

Most of us, out here in the real world, don’t have expense allowances and living allowances and “travel points.” We aren’t guaranteed a job until age 75. We therefore don’t give a sweet damn about how impressive are the CVs of those who won the Mother of All Lotteries on Friday.

You can put lipstick on a pig, Prime Minister. But it is still — then, now and forever more — a pig.

Oink.

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Holistic school hoping to expand beyond kindergarten ‘IT’S YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT AND HOW IT ALL INTERMINGLES IN THE SCIENCE FRAMEWORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING.’

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Parents may soon have another education option in Red Deer.

Wonderflow School House has applied to Alberta Education to become a kindergarten to Grade 5 school. The existing holistic school at 5201-47 Ave. currently offers kindergarten.

Stacey Madden, school executive director, said the goal is for the school to grow along with the students by offering Grade 1 when the students graduate from kindergarten.

Madden said parents have been looking for this education option for children for many years. She said there is enough interest at this time to expand the school.

The new independent school will have certified Waldorf teachers, who will teach in the manner of Rudolf Steiner.

Classes emphasize the role of imagination in learning and integrating intellectual, practical and artistic development of students.

The kindergarten class is currently capped at 10 students because of school size.

Danielle Pyper, Central Alberta Society of Holistic Education (CASHE) president, said the board is in talks with the Knox Presbyterian Church

— DANIELLE PYPER PRESIDENT, CENTRAL ALBERTA SOCIETY OF HOLISTIC EDUCATION

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Genevieve Wiart, Wonderflow School House co-founder and director, is hoping to expand the pre-school daycare and registered kindergarten school in Red Deer to except children in Grades 1 to 5. as a potential temporary site for the school. The school currently uses the site for gym days.

Pyper said this is an alternative form of education and options are always good.

“There are always different types of kids that need a different focus,” said

Pyper, whose daughter attends Wonderflow. “I just really like it because it is a holistic style of education. It’s your mind, body and spirit and how it all intermingles in the science framework in the history of the world and everything.”

Pyper said the classes still meet Al-

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berta Education standards but it is different in the way it is taught and how the children are addressed and needs are met.

The Wonderflow School House was incorporated as a non-profit preschool/daycare in 2007. The school registered a kindergarten class with Alberta Education making it an Independent School in 2014.

The board will hold a fundraiser with live music, art and wine at the Snell Auditorium in the Red Deer Public Library on April 14 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets to the event cost $50 for a couple and $30 for a single person.

Proceeds will go to the new school.

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Toronto mayor Rob Ford reacts as he speaks to his supporters during his campaign launch in Toronto on April 17, 2014. Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose scandal-plagued time in office made him an international celebrity, has died.

Tributes pour in for ex-Toronto mayor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rob Ford, a man simultaneously adored by his fans and abhorred by his foes as his scandal-packed term as mayor of Canada’s largest city propelled him to international infamy, has died.

Ford, 46, succumbed to cancer Tuesday, 18 months after doctors discovered a softball-sized malignant tumour in his abdomen, his family announced in a statement.

“A dedicated man of the people, Councillor Ford spent his life serving the citizens of Toronto,” the statement said.

The diagnosis in September 2014 came less than a year after Ford confessed to smoking crack while in one of his “drunken stupors” and forced the mayor to withdraw from his bid for re-election in favour of running for councillor in his west-end ward.

He won in a landslide despite three years of headline-generating notoriety that included slurs against minorities and lewd, public innuendo about his marital sex life on top of his admission — after months of denials — of serious crack cocaine and alcohol abuse.

Those who knew Ford describe a man whose loyalty to family and friends was as unshakeable as the support he received from the “Ford Nation” segment of voters inspired by his rough-around-the-edges, ordinary-guy persona.

“I can’t imagine anybody who was loved by so many people and he didn’t really have to take all the abuse. The only reason he did what he did was because he loved helping people.”

“He’s very loyal to his friends. He has a big heart,” is the way former Liberal MP John Nunziata, a Ford family friend, put it. “He doesn’t throw his friends under the bus.”

The loyalty was reciprocated.

His family stood steadfastly by him through his scandals and, then, through the dark days of his illness.

A significant segment of the public also continued to breathe life into the “Ford Nation.”

Ford’s brother, Doug Ford, who picked up the mayoral candidacy torch after the cancer bombshell, placed a respectable second in the October 2014 municipal vote — a sign many said of his brother’s enduring popularity.

Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asked recently about the popularity of U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump, invoked the populist approach taken by Ford, whose anti-elitist rhetoric resonated with many people even as he staggered under the weight of the crack-cocaine scandal and derision from those opposed to his public vulgarity.

“There were a lot of people who didn’t get it,” Trudeau said of Ford.

TORONTO — The death of Toronto’s controversial former mayor Rob Ford sent shock waves throughout the city and beyond Tuesday, with supporters and detractors alike voicing their grief and sympathy at the loss of one of Canada’s most colourful and notorious public figures.

Politicians of all stripes praised the passion and fierce determination that made Ford a political powerhouse for years and endeared him to throngs of devoted followers despite the cloud of scandal that hung over him.

Ford’s successor, Mayor John Tory, said he was sad the man he described as “a profoundly human guy” would not return to city hall, adding Ford’s presence “will be missed.”

“The city is reeling with this news, and my thoughts are with his wife Renata and their two children, as well as Rob’s brothers Doug and Randy, his sister Kathy, his mother, Diane, and the rest of their tight-knit family,” Tory said.

He praised Ford as a man who “spoke his mind and who ran for office because of the deeply felt convictions that he had.”

“I remember this man who was, at one and the same time, very true to himself and true to his principles but also very gregarious,” Tory said in a news conference. “He was a person who loved the city, he loved people.”

All flags on official poles at Toronto civic centres, including city hall, were flown at half-mast in tribute to Ford, whose political career spanned more than a decade, the mayor said. A book of condolences was set up at city hall and mourners lined up throughout the afternoon to sign it.

Doug Ford sent a statement to Toronto television station CP24 late Tuesday, saying he is devastated by the loss of his beloved brother.

“My heart is ripped out. I loved Rob so much I took care of him and protected him from the day he was born,” the statement said. “I miss him so much.

He was my best friend.”

“But he tapped into a very real and legitimate sense that people had around who politicians were.”

Ford, who kept a photograph of his late father taped to his mayor’s office computer, revelled in his everyman persona. The self-described “ordinary guy” drove his own car to work every day — albeit a luxury SUV — and railed against “downtown elites” and a “gravy train” he said needed derailing at city hall.

He was, grudging admirers said, the consummate retail politician who had an uncanny knack of making people feel that he really cared about their plights.

Tories edge Wildrose in Calgary byelection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party managed to hang onto one of its handful of seats in the provincial legislature with a narrow victory over the Wildrose party in a byelection on Tuesday.

It was a nail-biter of a night, with the race at times too close to call.

But in the end, the Wildrose’s Devinder Toor, a local businessman, conceded defeat to Tory candidate Prab Gill, a real-estate appraiser, who won by a 335-vote margin.

The bad news for the ruling NDP government was that their candidate, Roop Rai, a former radio host and producer, ended the night in fourth place behind the Liberal, property developer Khalil Karbani.

Calgary Greenway became vacant last November when Conservative legislature member Manmeet Bhullar was killed in a highway crash after he stopped to help a stranded motorist.

Bhullar was one of only 10 PCs who

were left after Rachel Notley and the NDP won a majority in last May’s election and ended more than four straight decades of Conservative governments.

Bhullar had held the seat since first being elected in 2008.

Tuesday’s result won’t change the balance of power in the legislature.

Before the vote, the NDP had 54 of the 87 seats, the Wildrose party had 22 and the Tories had eight. The Liberals and the Alberta Party had one each.

Some political observers had been describing the byelection as a barometer of whether the Tories were still a force in Alberta politics.

“For the PCs it would be devastating if they didn’t hold on to something like this,” said Melanee Thomas, a political scientist with the University of Calgary.

“If they can’t hold seats that they have always held in Calgary, they’ve got some issues to work on.”

Since Notley’s sweep to power, the Tories have been trying to pick up the pieces.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer County did not go near far enough to protect vulnerable river areas from the gravel industry, say area environmentalists.

They were left dismayed on Tuesday afternoon when council unanimously approved a new Gravel Extraction Overlay District in the county’s Land Use Bylaw. The district is meant to create a better process for dealing with gravel pit applications, which have often generated fierce opposition from residents concerned about their impact on the environment, critical water supplies and fisheries.

Under the new process, gravel pit proponents will be required to submit an application to amend the county’s Land Use Bylaw to include the proposed site within the Gravel Overlay District. If approved by council, the developer could then go to the next stage and apply for a development permit, which would require environmental studies and other supporting work while meeting a long list of conditions.

Dale Christian, of the Red Deer River/Medicine River Flats Alluvial Aquifer and Flood Plain Committee, is upset that no appeal is possible once council has approved a site being included in the Gravel Overlay District.

Under the new process, that decision will be made before council has received adequate information, including the necessary environmental studies and other work to show how the project may affect flood plans and alluvial aquifers, a crucial part of the water system, Christian told council.

“People in Red Deer County don’t even know this is happening,” she said. “They have no appeal at any level,” said Christian, who has long championed the need to protect vital water resources.

Those who find that a gravel overlay district has been created near them will see their land values diminished and land will be “sterilized” from other uses for decades.

Approved setbacks from gravel operations, which could include a gravel crusher, asphalt and cement plants, “is totally, totally insufficient,” she said.

Others unsuccessfully urged council to ensure Environmentally Significant Areas, flood plains and other vulner-

able river-side areas important to the water supply could never be included in a Gravel Overlay District.

Under the approved policy, a gravel operator must present independent environmental studies to ensure there is no harmful impact.

“It’s certainly disappointing that they didn’t take into account any of the bylaw changes we offered today,” said Flood Plain Committee member Dean Sundquist. “They didn’t even consider them as part of the vote.”

The Flood Plain Committee also wanted a minimum 800-metre setback from a residence to the edge of a gravel pit property. Council opted for a 165-metre minimum setback, with various regulations on gravel pit operations depending on whether residences are more or less than 800 metres away.

The cumulative effects of multiple gravel operations have also not been addressed, say critics.

Mayor Jim Wood does not agree the county has fallen short on environmental protections in the new regulations.

Any proposal will still require development approval and meeting stringent conditions.

“I feel quite confident that we’ve done something that is of benefit to the community today,” he said. “I believe it will also give assurance to our gravel industry that once they have their permit in place they can, in fact, mine their gravel.”

Wood said environmentally sensitive areas and flood plains are protected under the county’s Municipal Development Plan, the chief planning document for municipalities. Alberta Environment and Parks approval and supporting studies by independent consultants will also be required before a gravel project can proceed. As well, county council and its planning staff will undertake their own reviews.

“There are lots of checks and balances that I believe we have in place.”

Dusty Howell, of Howell’s Excavating Inc., credited the county for fixing an approval process that was not working.

He was pleased to see a 90-day hauling limit was eliminated and said the industry will incorporate required studies to be good, responsible neighbours in the county.

Officials to evacuate Kashechewan First Nation kids due to rashes

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The children are expected to be transported out of the community by Tuesday.

Doctors are also expected to be sent into the community to conduct door-todoor visits and determine if other children are developing similar symptoms, a government official said Monday.

“What the physicians are doing is trying to do some supplementary follow-up work by visiting the homes with the community health workers to see if there’s other children they have missed or are there certain prevailing health conditions that might contribute to skin conditions,” said Keith Conn, an acting assistant deputy minister for regional operations in the Health Department’s First Nations and Inuit branch.

OTTAWA — Children covered in sores and rashes in an Ontario First Nation are the face of a much broader health crisis faced by aboriginal communities across the country, says Charlie Angus, the NDP indigenous affairs critic.

Angus joined ministerial officials and aboriginal leaders for a conference call Monday to discuss why some children in Kashechewan First Nation have developed unusual rashes and, in extreme causes, painful sores on their bodies.

The call came after images of the children were shared widely on social media over the weekend.

“The pictures of those children were so shocking and so heartbreaking that it woke Canadians up across the country,” Angus said.

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Outraged Trudeau condemns attacks

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BELGIUM: Warned IS preparing strike They said two of them apparently were suicide bombers and that the third — dressed in a light-colored coat, black hat and glasses — was at large. They urged the public to reach out to police if they recognized him. The two men believed to be the suicide attackers apparently were wearing dark gloves on their left hands, possibly to hide detonators.

In police raids Tuesday across Belgium, authorities later found a nail-filled bomb, chemical products and an Islamic State flag in a house in the Schaerbeek neighbourhood, the state prosecutors’ office said in a statement.

In its claim of responsibility, the Islamic State group said its members detonated suicide vests both at the airport and in the subway, where many passengers fled to safety down dark tunnels filled with hazy smoke from the explosion. A small child wailed, and commuters used cellphones to light their way out.

European security officials have been bracing for a major attack for weeks and warned that IS was actively preparing to strike. The arrest Friday of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, heightened those fears, as investigators said many more people were involved than originally thought and that some are still on the loose.

“In this time of tragedy, this black moment for our country, I appeal to everyone to remain calm but also to show solidarity,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, who announced three days of mourning in his country’s deadliest terror strike.

“Last year it was Paris. Today it is Brussels. It’s the same attacks,” said French President Francois Hollande.

Shockwaves from the attacks crossed Europe and the Atlantic, prompting heightened security at airports and other sites.

Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level,

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An RCMP officer puts his weapon in a police vehicle after patrolling the departures area at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday. Officials said security at the airport has been heightened after the attack on the Brussels airport in Belgium. and they pulled over as traffic snarled.

“We didn’t see any smoke, we didn’t see any panicked people, we just saw a lot of security cars and people everywhere,” said Stainforth.

“If we had been probably 10 minutes earlier we would have been exactly where the bombing was.

From that sense I fell pretty shaken up, but pretty lucky.”

Vancouver students visiting Belgium are OK after Brussels bombings Actress has close call during Brussels attacks: ‘It was very spectacular’ BRUSSELS — Quebec actress Salome Corbo was checking in at the Air Canada counter when the first blast rocked Brussels’ airport in Tuesday’s terror attacks that killed dozens in the Belgian capital.

In the ensuing chaos as she fled, Corbo says she came close to where the second explosion went off.

“It was very spectacular,” she told Cogeco Nouvelles. “I was right near the second blast. I heard the first one, quickly tried to get away and the second one was nearby, right near me. I’ve had this buzzing in my ear I can’t get rid of.”

Corbo, one of many Canadians caught up in the maelstrom, said she immediately realized it was a terrorist attack.

“We’re in Europe and it took a fraction of a second to come to terms with what had happened.

A first explosion, you move. A second, it’s obvious it’s that (an attack) and you hurry up.”

Ottawa native Thorfinn Stainforth said he was in a taxi approaching the terminal when his driver got a message from a dispatcher advising of a bomb alert at the airport. They kept going, but then emergency crews began arriving in droves

shut the airport through Wednesday and ordered a city-wide lockdown, deploying about 500 soldiers onto Brussels’ largely empty streets to bolster police checkpoints. France and Belgium both reinforced border security.

Justice ministers and interior ministers from across the 28-nation EU planned an emergency meeting, possibly Thursday morning, to assess the fallout. The subway blast hit beneath buildings that normally host EU meetings and house the union’s top leadership.

Medical officials treating the wounded said some victims lost limbs, while others suffered burns or deep gashes from shattered glass or suspected nails packed in with the explosives. Among the most seriously wounded were several children.

The bombings came barely four months after suicide attackers based in Brussels’ heavily Muslim Molenbeek district slaughtered 130 people at a Paris nightspots, and intelligence agencies had warned for months a follow-up strike was inevitable. Paris fugitive Abdeslam was arrested in Molenbeek.

A high-level Belgian judicial official said a connection by Abdeslam to Tuesday’s attacks is “a lead to pursue.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

Abdeslam has told investigators he was planning to “restart something” from Brussels, said Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders. He said Sunday that authorities took the claim seriously because “we found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels.”

While Belgian authorities knew that some kind of extremist act was being prepared in Europe, “we never could have imagined something of this scale,” Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said.

Officials at the airport in the Brussels suburb of Zaventem said police had discovered a Kalashnikov assault rifle and an explosives-packed vest abandoned at the facility, offering one potential lead for forensic evidence. Bomb disposal experts safely dismantled that explosive device.

A U.S. administration official said American intelligence officers were working with their European counterparts to try to identify the apparently skilled bomb-maker or makers involved in the Brussels attacks.

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VANCOUVER — A group of Grade 9 and 10 students from Vancouver, B.C., is safe in Belgium.

The 23 students from Sir Charles Tupper Secondary and their three chaperones were in Ghent, about 35 kilometres outside Brussels, when a series of bombings damaged the Belgian airport and a subway station in Brussels.

A news release from the Vancouver School Board says the group is travelling to Paris on a bus and will be flying home as soon as possible.

No Brussels trip for some Winnipeg high schools others looking at options WINNIPEG — Several Winnipeg high schools have cancelled European trips and others are considering their options after deadly attacks in Belgium.

Students from College Jeanne-Sauve in the Louis Riel School Division and from Oak Park in the Pembina Trails division were supposed to leave for trips Tuesday, but both were called off.

And all Europe-bound trips were halted for students in the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, which is working with its tour operator to ensure the safe return for students, staff and chaperones already overseas.

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OTTAWA — The terrorist attacks in Brussels became fodder Tuesday for politics as usual in Canada.

Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose and other Tory MPs took the opportunity to hammer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government for being soft on terrorism.

They criticized the government for withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from the bombing campaign against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.

They denounced Trudeau’s election promise to repeal some measures in the Tories’ anti-terrorism legislation, which gives security officials new powers to prevent and disrupt terrorist networks.

And they repeatedly pushed the government to explain why it refuses to declare that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is perpetrating “genocide” against religious minorities.

The Conservatives’ line of questioning prompted Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion to say: “Today is not the day to make politics about that.”

Conservative MP Jason Kenney, a former defence minister, asked if the government is prepared to declare, as French President Francois Hollande has done, that Canada is “at war” with ISIL, and why Canada has withdrawn from the aerial bombing mission.

Dion reiterated that the government has decided Canada can be more effective in the fight against ISIL by tripling efforts to train local forces, doubling intelligence efforts and boosting humanitarian aid.

“I hope the minister’s not suggesting that President Hollande is making politics,” Kenney retorted.

The raw politicking followed earlier expressions of grief, shock and solidarity with Belgium from politicians of all party stripes.

“I was outraged when I woke up to the news that so many innocent citizens had been killed and injured — shocked and profoundly saddened,” Trudeau said after a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill.

“This cannot and will not be tolerated.”

Ambrose said later that the new anti-terror tools the previous Conservative government gave security forces had been used successfully. She called on Trudeau to reverse his promises to scrap some provisions so that “security forces can keep Canadians safe from terrorism.”

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the government intends to follow through on its election campaign commitment to “do everything in our power to make sure that our security and police services were effective in keeping Canadians safe and, at the same time, that Canadian values and rights and freedoms were thoroughly and properly respected.”

“There is no contradiction between those positions,” he said.

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TAX RATE CUTS DEFERRED LIBERAL BUDGET SEEKS TO DELAY CUTS TO SMALL BUSINESS TAX RATE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A Liberal campaign promise to cut the small business income tax rate appears to have itself landed on the chopping block, blindsiding the group that represents hundreds of thousands of business owners across the country.

Rather than continuing the legislated decrease towards a 9 per cent rate in 2019, the Liberals are fixing the rate at its current 10.5 per cent on the first $500,000 of active business income. Additional cuts are being deferred indefinitely.

The move contradicts a Liberal campaign promise to stick to the existing schedule, set out in the previous Conservative government’s last budget.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who billed the budget as a good one for small businesses, did not directly answer a question on why the government decided to abandon the promise.

“We know that for small businesses the most important thing is to have an economy that’s working,” he told a news conference ahead of his budget speech.

“That’s what we want for Canada.”

Morneau said the Liberal budget’s focus on the middle class benefits small business because it will provide them with more customers, as it will give more people more money to spend.

But Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, said many of those small business owners are middle-class Canadians who will forfeit millions in earnings without those tax cuts.

“Cancelling that, I have to tell you, is puzzling and, from my perspective, alarming,” Kelly said.

It’s not the only slap, he added — the Liberals had also promised a employment-insurance holiday for businesses that hire students, but that was also a noshow.

“It is a very troubling budget, one of the worst budgets we’ve seen in the last decade or two.”

During the election, all three main parties were actively courting the support of small business by sticking to the Tories’ small business tax rate plan.

But then-Liberal leader Justin Trudeau created a minor controversy when he suggested small businesses set up as private corporations were a way for people to avoid paying taxes.

His political opponents pounced, with the NDP

Federal government to spend $500,000 to gather data on foreign homebuyers Ottawa is spending $500,000 to help understand the role of foreign homebuyers in the country’s housing market.

The cash in the federal budget is going to Statistics Canada to help develop methods for gathering data on home purchases by foreign buyers.

The government says comprehensive and reliable data on the number of homes sold to foreign buyers does not exist right now.

The plan may involve collaboration with the provinces, including British Columbia, which recently announced plans to have homebuyers disclose whether they are citizens or permanent residents of Canada or another country.

Many believe the Vancouver housing market has charged ahead in recent years due to an influx of wealthy foreign buyers.

The rapid rise in home prices has pushed the price of detached houses well over $1 million in Vancouver and raised questions about affordability and sustainability for the market.

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Minister of Finance Bill Morneau walks through the rotunda as he participates in TV interviews after tabling the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. calling on him to apologize and the Conservatives accusing him of saying all small businesses were nothing but “tax scams.”

The CFIB said there was no evidence to support Trudeau’s assertion, but Liberals countered that they were relying on studies by economists to back up their claim.

Despite that, they pledged to lower the rate, while ensuring its benefits would go to small businesses and not wealthy individuals.

Kelly said they appear to have done some of that

in the budget by tightening the rules on allowing investment income to qualify for the small business tax rate and removing the ability of partners in a business to individually claim that rate.

Kelly, as well as the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said they are also troubled by the reference in the budget to increasing the Canada Pension Plan.

“As businesses struggle, this added pressure could slow down job creation and investment,” the chamber said in a statement.

No change to stock options tax despite campaign promise

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government dropped a controversial campaign promise Tuesday to change the way stock options are taxed as they promised billions to help support innovation in the budget.

During the election, the Liberals suggested they would look to put a cap of $100,000 a year on how much could be claimed through the deduction that reduces the tax charged on stock option gains.

But Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday he has no plans to make any changes to the way stock options are taxed.

“As I was out on pre-budget consultations I heard from many small firms and innovators that they use stock options as a legitimate form of compensation for their employees, so we decided not to put that in the budget,” Morneau said.

Craig Alexander, vice-president of economic analysis at the C.D. Howe Institute, said the government initially was approaching stock options as a source of income for high-income Canadians, but that changed.

“It became clear that stock options are actually an important part of compensation for particular

sectors in the economy and often it isn’t the highest income individual that’s earning some money off of stock options,” he said.

“It was somewhat inconsistent for the government to say on one hand that we want to invest in the innovation, high-tech economy, and simultaneously say, ‘Oh, but we’re going to tax stock options significantly more.”’

The technology sector cheered the decision.

“We are thrilled that the government will engage in further consultations with industry and we look forward to being a part of that conversation,” Shopify chief executive Tobi Lutke said.

Before the budget, Lutke had suggested stock options, which can yield big windfalls, are a key incentive used by startup firms to entice staff to leave bigger companies and give up big salaries to join them.

“We look forward to working in collaboration with the government to design policies that help promising Canadian entrepreneurs commercialize their ideas globally,” said Jim Balsillie, chairman of the Council of Canadian Innovators and co-founder of BlackBerry.

Helping support innovation was a key theme in the budget as the federal government committed billions in spending for science and research.

Aequitas, upstart stock exchange, marks one year since launch

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Nearly a year ago, a new upstart stock exchange launched in Toronto with an ambitious goal: to create a stock market where ordinary investors wouldn’t fall prey to predatory trading strategies.

Statistics released by the Aequitas NEO Exchange, which provide a glimpse into trading activities on the new stock market, suggest the plan is working, according to president and CEO Jos Schmitt.

“On our market, over 50 per cent of all the trades are taking place between regular or natural investors — so a retail investor or an institutional investor trading with another retail investor or institutional investor,” says Schmitt.

“That is an incredible achievement. … It means that you are avoiding unnecessary intermediation, and unnecessary intermediation is typically the source of predatory trading.”

Predatory trading strategies are employed by some high-frequency traders, or HFTs, to make a virtually risk-free profit at the expense of investors.

In one such strategy, referred to as front running, an HFT that has discovered an investor’s intent to buy a particular stock will race ahead and purchase all of the outstanding shares of that stock on all of the various exchanges.

The HFT will then sell the shares to the investor at a slightly higher price and pocket the difference.

The Aequitas NEO Exchange, which celebrates the one-year anniversary of its launch on Sunday, has a “speed bump” in place to prevent high fre-

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So far, the exchange has captured four to six per cent of trade volume in Canada, says Schmitt. It aims to have 20 per cent market share by mid-2019.

In addition to trading securities that are listed on the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange, Aequitas has also launched a listing service that allows companies looking to issue stock to list on the NEO Exchange rather than the TSX. Growing that side of its business has been a challenge, says Schmitt.

“What we saw is a lot of interest,” says Schmitt.

“People loved our value proposition, but everyone was looking at it like, ‘We would love to be on your exchange but we would like to be the second one, not the first one. We want to make sure that it all works and that there’s not going to be any issues.”’

In January, the NEO exchange announced it had snagged its first application for a listing — the PowerShares DWA Global Momentum Index ETF, which is expected to start trading later this month.

While it continues to focus on growing its trading and listing businesses, Aequitas is also tackling another goal — to provide real-time market data at a competitive price.

Aequitas contends that market data is overpriced in Canada, particularly given the size of the Canadian marketplace relative to that of our U.S. neighbours.

In the U.S., investment advisers pay US$72 monthly for real-time data of all trading that occurs on any public exchange in the country.

In Canada, it costs investment advisers C$30 for TSX data and another C$25 for TSXV data, bringing the total to C$55 a month.

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Saputo closing three Canadian plants MONTREAL — Saputo says it will close three plants in Eastern Canada that employ some 230 workers in a move to cut costs and boost efficiency.

The Montreal-based dairy processor and cheese maker — which operates a plant in Red Deer — said its plant in Sydney, N.S., will close in June, followed by another in Princeville, Que., in August. A third facility in Ottawa will close in December 2017.

The Sydney operations were acquired in 2014 as part of the purchase of the fluid milk activities of Scotsburn Co-Operative Services.

Saputo bought the Quebec plant, which makes goat cheese, in 2005 as part of a deal for Woolwich Dairy. The Ottawa facility was part of the $465-million acquisition in 2008 of Nielsen Dairy from Weston Foods.

Saputo spokeswoman Sandy Vassiadis said the closures are part of the company’s constant drive to improve efficiency by moving production to facilities that aren’t fully used, have more modern equipment or can be expanded.

“We compare the facilities that do similar products and these ones…couldn’t raise the bar to attain efficiency levels like the other plants that do similar products,” she said in an interview.

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Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.55 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.93 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.43 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.94 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.57 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.03 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.17 Canyon Services Group. . 3.63 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.36 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.97 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.660 may be taking a breather from the volatility on stock markets and commodities prices since the start of the year.

“For scheduled news, it’s a pretty quiet week. It’s also a short (holiday) week, so a lot of markets are pausing to catch their breath after the big sell-off and big recovery we’ve seen in the last three months,” he said.

“People are just a little weary and taking a break here. Interestingly enough, when we look at the broad market, with what happened, today was a day where you could’ve seen the Dow easily down 100 points. …

There was every reason to have a correction, and if we didn’t get one, then that tells me we’re more likely to pause then to sell off.”

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,493.49, down 67.60 points Dow — 17,582.57, down 41.30 points S&P 500 — 2,049.80, down 1.80 points Nasdaq — 4,821.66, up 12.79 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.72 cents US, up 0.30 of a cent Pound — C$1.8520, down 2.84 cents Euro — C$1.4620, down 0.91 of a cent Euro — US$1.1216, down 0.27 of a cent Oil futures: US$41.45 per barrel, down seven cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,248.60 per oz., up $4.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.654 oz., up 6.5 cents $696.18 kg., up $2.09 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $3.60 higher $473.00 July ‘16 $3.50 higher $477.60 Nov. ‘16 $1.10 higher $480.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.80 higher $484.20 March ‘17 $0.70 higher $486.70 May ‘17 $0.50 higher $486.00 July ‘17 $0.10 lower $486.00 Nov. ‘17 $0.10 lower

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.66 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.40 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.19 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.18 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.43 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.14 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.67 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.46 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.79 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.69 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.23

CRTC waves upcoming TV licence renewals as enforcement tool

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The head of Canada’s broadcaster regulator says it’s too soon to tell if Canadian TV service providers are respecting the spirit of the CRTC’s new basic cable regulation, often referred to as skinny basic. However, JeanPierre Blais hints that the CRTC has a big stick to wave for those who don’t comply — television licence renewals.

“Most of the television services provider licences — their actual licences — are up for renewal in the short term,” Blais, the CRTC’s chairman and CEO, said in an interview following a speech Tuesday to the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto.

“I don’t even have to do enforce-

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Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 $2.00 lower $178.00 Oct. ‘16 $2.00 lower $178.00 Dec. ‘16 $2.00 lower $178.00 March ‘17 $2.00 lower $178.00 May ‘17 $2.00 lower $178.00 July ‘17 $2.00 lower $178.00 Oct. ‘17 $2.00 lower $178.00 Dec. ‘17 $2.00 lower $178.00 March ‘18 $2.00 lower $178.00 May ‘18 $2.00 lower $178.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 486,220 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 486,220.

ment action. Their licences are there in front of us.”

The CRTC has been on the lookout for anti-consumer practices since the March 1 deadline requiring all cable and satellite TV service providers to offer basic cable packages capped at $25 a month. Companies must also let consumers add on a la carte channels or pre-packaged bundles, and must offer both of these options by December.

After cable companies rolled out their new offerings, some consumers expressed discontent at the packages, with the CRTC having received 600 consumer calls on the issue since March 1. However, it’s too early to conclude that any of the companies are engaging in anti-consumer behaviour, he said.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets were looking for some direction Tuesday as investors moved to the safety of gold in the wake of deadly attacks in Belgium.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index fell 67.60 points to 13,493.49 after bombings at Brussels Airport and a subway station earlier in the day that killed at least 31 people and wounded nearly 190. Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level, while airports across Europe tightened security.

News of the initial attacks sent stock markets lower, but by the end of the day, most indexes had recovered somewhat from early weakness.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 41.30 points at 17,582.57, while the broader S&P 500 was barely changed, down just 1.8 points at 2,049.80. The Nasdaq composite moved up 12.79 points to 4,821.66.

“In the long term, it doesn’t have that big of a impact on the global economy or corporate earnings,” said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada. “For the broad economy and the broad industry, people go on.”

Similar attacks in the past have hit certain industries harder than others, and that was evident on the TSX where the industrials sector, which includes major airlines and railways, was the biggest percentage loser.

Shares in Air Canada (TSX:AC) and WestJet (TSX:WJA) fell more than two per cent each while Canadian National (TSX:CNR) lost 2.4 per cent and Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) was down 3.5 per cent.

But the loonie more than held its own, gaining 0.30 of a U.S. cent to 76.72 cents US. Investors put their money in bullion, as the price for April gold rose $4.40 to US$1,248.60 a troy ounce. Typically, gold is seen as a safe haven in turbulent times.

Meanwhile, the May contract for benchmark North American crude fell seven cents to US$41.45 a barrel, while April natural gas added four cents to US$1.86 per mmBtu. May copper was unchanged at US$2.29 a pound.

Cieszynski said investors

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CALGARY — Veresen Inc. has breathed new life into its proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project after reaching a deal to sell about 25 per cent of its output to Japanese utilities.

The Calgary-based company (TSX:VSN) says it has signed a preliminary agreement to sell at least 1.5 million tonnes a year of LNG from the project to JERA, a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power Co. “This agreement signals strong market support for the Jordan Cove LNG project from the world’s largest LNG buyer and represents a significant step forward in the project’s development,” said Versene chief executive Don Althoff.

The Jordan Cove project on Oregon’s coast at the port of Coos Bay has a proposed capacity of roughly six million tonnes per year.

The project hit a major roadblock March 11 when the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied Veresen’s application to build the LNG terminal and a pipeline from Canada to supply gas to the terminal.

FERC rejected the application in part because Veresen did not have sales contracts signed and so had not demonstrated a public benefit that would outweigh the potential for adverse impacts on landowners and communities. Veresen said at the time that it would continue discussions with potential customers and request a rehearing of the regulatory decision.

The 20-year deal with JERA is still subject to conditions, including reaching a detailed tolling agreement and the project getting regulatory approval. Veresen’s announcement comes as the many proposed west coast LNG projects face continued market uncertainty and regulatory delays.

In February, AltaGas halted development of the 500,000 tonne per year Douglas Channel LNG project in Kitimat, B.C., after failing to find buyers.

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Blue Jays bats break out in rout of Tigers

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Team Canada skip Chelsea Carey watches her shot during the 10th draw against Italy at the Women’s World Curling Championship in Swift Current, Sask., on Tuesday.

Pair of wins keeps Canada on top

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Canada’s greatest opponent is proving to be the ice it plays on.

Chelsea Carey won a tense game for a 5-4 victory over Italy’s Federica Apollonio on Tuesday afternoon in Draw 10 of the women’s curling world championship, hours after beating Germany’s Daniela Driendl.

Carey (6-1) said after the second game that dropping temperatures outside and the humidity from all the fans in the stands at the Credit Union iPlex made the ice difficult to play on.

“It’s just too heavy, it’s just so heavy and frosty,” said Carey of the ice. “In the mornings it’s great, like this morning was wonderful, the ice was fantastic.

It’s really conducive, it’s what you’d expect.

“It’s tough here. It must be the weather and the crowds. The crowds are fantastic but all those people in the building heats everything up and the frost just creeps in.”

Apollonio’s rink (0-6) offered handshakes in the 10th end after missing a takeout when their last stone slowed up. Canada had the hammer and was already sitting for a single when Italy conceded.

“It was a little bit of a struggle out there today,” said second Jocelyn Peterman. “But we pulled it off so we’re happy.

“The ice was just a little heavier than we’re used to. It was a struggle in all senses. There was a lot of sweeping.”

The heavy ice conditions made its presence felt almost immediately as Carey came up short on a draw attempt in the first end, but Canada was sitting single for an early 1-0 lead.

“I looked like a fool in the first end,” said Carey.

“I threw it exactly how we wanted me to and I looked like an idiot because I came up 10 feet short.

“That’s really hard to deal with mentally because I don’t miss draws by 10 feet in normal conditions.”

Italy replied with a single of its own in the second but the Canadians reclaimed the lead with a point in

the third. Apollonio hit for a single in the fourth to keep it 2-2, then Carey didn’t put enough weight behind her takeout in the fifth end for a 3-2 Italian lead at the break.

Carey blanked in the sixth end to keep the hammer, then drew in to score a deuce in the seventh to take a 4-3 lead. A blank by Italy in the eighth maintained the Canadian lead and with a single in the ninth Apollonio tied it 4-4.

Charlie Horse, the mascot of the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos, was in the stands for the afternoon draw, leading cheers as “director of fan morale” for the tournament.

Earlier in the day, Carey’s Calgary-based rink took advantage of steals in the seventh and eighth ends to pull away from Germany (3-3).

Canada opened with a single in the first end, but Driendl replied with an easy draw in the second to tie the game. The teams blanked the third end and Carey added a single in the fourth to take a 2-1 lead.

Driendl threw a takeout in the fifth end for three points but Carey replied with a deuce in the sixth to tie it 4-4.

Canada stole a point in the seventh when Germany missed on a takeout attempt.

Driendl’s woes continued in the eighth end when she hit a guard on her final rock, giving Canada another steal. Local school groups in the arena chanted “Let’s Go Canada!” as the German skip was visibly upset at her misplay.

The home-country support hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Canadian curlers.

“It’s fun to be here,” said third Amy Nixon. “Every time we walk out and the crowd cheers, whether it’s Tuesday morning in Swift Current or Sunday night, it give me tingles every time.

“The kids here today from the schools, they were awesome.”

Germany used a light tap to cut into Canada’s lead in the ninth end, but that handed Carey the hammer to close out the game. She made the most of her last throw with a tapout that gave Canada a single and the win.

LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers starter Daniel Norris exited because of tightness in his lower back after getting just one out and Toronto Blue Jays went on to beat Detroit 16-1 Tuesday.

Norris, competing for the final spot in the rotation, gave up three runs on three hits and two walks.

Norris was scratched from his previous start over the weekend because of a stiff back. He is considered day-to-day.

Troy Tulowitzki homered and drove in five runs. Darrell Ceciliani also homered for Toronto.

Josh Donaldson and Chris Colabello each had three hits for the Blue Jays.

Toronto starter Drew Hutchison gave up one run in four innings.

Hutchison doesn’t have any guarantees, but he gave himself a shot at the final spot in the rotation.

He was 13-5 with 28 starts for the Blue Jays last season, but also finished with a 5.57 ERA. “All I can focus on is what I am doing right now,” he said. “I feel comfortable and am just trying to doing what feels right for me.”

Toronto manager John Gibbons said that Hutchison has been impressive. As an incumbent in the Blue Jays rotation, Gibbons said he likes what he’s seen.

“It was another good outing despite the two walks,” Gibbons said. “He has to make some adjustments.”

As for Hutchison’s won-loss record last year, Gibbons said he wasn’t taking a long hard look at the numbers.

“He won 13 games and he keeps getting better and better. He can get even better and that’s what we are looking to find out,” he said.

HARD DAY AT THE OFFICE Mike Pelfrey started for the Tigers in a minor league game on the back fields at Joker Marchant Stadium after a rainout over the weekend backed up the rotation. He entered the game with 10 straight scoreless innings but got rocked, allowing nine runs in five innings. He laughed it off.

“I thought I was lights out,” Pelfrey said. “I’d throw a splitter and duck. I’d throw a slider and duck. I bulked up the bases all day. I’d throw a fastball and duck. I got my cardio in chasing them all over the bases. They hit everything I threw. I got in lots of work trying to keep it in the park. I threw a lot of sliders and got to work on it. They just all got hit,” he said.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: Aaron Sanchez will make his fifth start of the spring, facing off against Bartolo Colon of the New York Mets.

Tigers: After the team’s only off-day of the spring Wednesday, Matt Boyd will pitch on Thursday against the Blue Jays in Dunedin.

HEAVY WORKLOAD Tigers: Used a spring-high 10 pitchers. No one went more than 1 1/3 of an inning. The Tigers allowed 23 hits and walked seven.

Ekman-Larsson sparks Coyotes to another win over Oilers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coyotes 4 Oilers 2 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tobias Rieder scored the winning goal in the second period and Oliver Ekman-Larsson returned from injury to spark the Arizona Coyotes to a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

The Coyotes extended their point streak to 23 games (19-0-4) over their division rivals with the help of Mike Smith’s 27 saves on his 34th birthday.

Alex Tanguay and Martin Hanzal also scored, Max Domi added an empty-netter and Ekman-Larsson chipped in with an assist. He was on the ice for all four Arizona goals.

Jordan Eberle and Mark Letestu scored for the Oilers, and Connor McDavid had two assists to extend his point streak to five games. Cam Talbot stopped 27 shots in Edmonton’s second straight loss and 24th defeat in 29 meetings with Arizona.

The Coyotes snapped a two-game skid and finished 4-0-1 against the Oilers this season.

Ekman-Larsson (shoulder) returned from a six-game absence, and the Coyotes sure needed their talented Swede following consecutive shutout losses.

He delivered immediately.

Ekman-Larsson’s point shot produced a meaty rebound for Tanguay, who tapped the puck past Talbot at

5:38. It was Arizona’s first goal in seven periods, ending the longest drought (126:32) of the season. And it gave Ekman-Larsson his first 50-point season.

Eberle tied it less than 4 minutes later on the power play when he knocked in a loose puck in front of the net for his 23rd goal.

Ekman-Larsson was on the ice for Arizona’s two second-period goals. He took Eberle’s stick to the face for a penalty that led to Hanzal redirecting Michael Stone’s shot with the man advantage. Rieder cut to the net and collected Talbot’s poke check and pushed the puck in to make it 3-1.

Letestu’s one-timer at 17:56 of the second made it 3-2.

The Oilers couldn’t tie it, despite a power play midway through the third period, as Smith continued his dominance against Edmonton.

In his fourth game back from abdominal surgery, Smith improved to 13-1-1 against the Oilers in his career and spoiled McDavid’s first game in the desert.

The No. 1 pick, whom the Coyotes coveted but missed out on getting in last year’s draft lottery, has 28 assists and 42 points.

Ekman-Larsson couldn’t help Arizona in its third failed 5-on-3 sequence in three games later in the first. The Coyotes came up empty in 55 seconds and haven’t scored in 3:29 of two-man advantage time in the past week.

Murray Crawford, Sports Reporter, 403-314-4338 E-mail mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid (97) tries to get control of the puck as he gets shoved by Arizona Coyotes’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson, right, as Coyotes goalie Mike Smith watches during the first period of an NHL game Tuesday, in Glendale, Ariz.

The Coyotes won 4-2.

NOTES: Oilers LW Patrick Maroon (illness) was scratched. . Winnipeg’s 2-0 victory over Vancouver dropped the Oilers to last place in the Western

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Conference. . Coyotes captain Shane Doan played in his 1,458th game, passing Glen Wesley for 22nd on the NHL career list.

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Wednesday, March. 23 2016

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Spieth back at his old stomping grounds

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Dustin Johnson had driver in hand on the eighth hole when he said what has been a common refrain at the Dell Match Play.

“Where do I go?”

Golf’s most unpredictable tournament adds a new dimension this week by moving to Austin Country Club, which has never hosted the world’s best players. That excludes Jordan Spieth, though he was only 18 and a long way from being No. 1 in the world.

Spieth was a freshman at the University of Texas, and the team used to play this course to see who qualified to play in the next college tournament.

“It’s a place I’m very familiar with and feel I have an advantage at,” Spieth said Tuesday. “They made some changes, but for the most part it’s the same golf course, with newly sodded areas. They’ve done just a phenomenal job with it, and I think it’s going to be a fantastic match play course.”

Jason Day will have to take his word for it. Coming off his first victory of the year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two days ago, Day arrived Tuesday and planned to walk the course. He won’t play it for the first time until he squares off against Graeme McDowell on Wednesday.

“It is quite breezy out there, so I don’t want to create any bad habits with my swing,” Day said. “I’m going to go out and probably walk around and try to conserve as much energy as I can, because this week is a very long week and it can be very taxing — not only physically, but mentally, as well — on the body.”

That’s the hope, anyway.

Match Play changed last year to

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Defending champion Rory McIlroy hits from the sand on the seventh hole during practice for the Dell Match Play Championship golf tournament at Austin County Club, Tuesday, in Austin, Texas. a round-robin event instead of single-elimination, which keeps the sponsor and some of the players happy because they are assured of making it through Friday. One player from the 16 four-man groups advances to the weekend and the knockout stage.

Spieth is the top seed and opens up against Jamie Donaldson. Rory McIlroy, the defending champion, plays his first match against Thorbjorn Olesen.

At stake this week is No. 1 in the world.

Spieth won the first tournament of the year at Kapalua, and Day took

a big step toward catching up to him with his victory at Bay Hill.

The 28-year-old Australian is so close behind at No. 2 that all he has to do is reach the quarterfinals if Spieth doesn’t win his group.

That’s not what is driving Spieth, though is aware of it.

“The No. 1 gets protected if I do what we set out to do this week,” Spieth said.

There is additional pressure as being the local favourite. Spieth spent only three semesters at Texas, long enough for the Longhorns to win an

NFL approves seven rule changes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOCA RATON, Fla. — The chop block has been entirely outlawed from NFL games, and extra-point kicks snapped from the 15-yard line are now permanent.

NFL owners voted Tuesday to approve both those proposals by the competition committee. They also passed a resolution to expand what is a horse-collar tackle to cover the nameplate on the back of jerseys.

In all, seven rule proposals were approved. The others involved coach-to-player communications from the sideline as well as the press box adding a delay-of-game penalty to a team that calls a timeout when it has none remaining removing a 5-yard penalty for a receiver illegally touching a pass after being out of bounds and eliminating multiple spots of enforcement for a double foul after a change of possession.

The chop block, in which a player blocks an opponent low while the opponent is engaged high with another player, had become more limited in the league because of various rule changes. Now, all forms of it have been banned, with violators drawing a 15-yard penalty.

The competition committee felt it was a dangerous play. Some NFL coaches believe eliminating the chop block will affect the ground game.

“It definitely changes some things,” Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. “That definitely changes some of your teachings of your techniques. … The change would be in the box. We’ll see how it goes.”

The extra point snaps from the 15 were an experiment for 2015 that worked so well that making it permanent was a given. Efficiency on extra points from the 33-yard-line or so dropped from more than 99 per cent to just over 94 per cent.

Local BRIEFS RDC curling teams competing in nationals this weekend Both Red Deer College curling teams are in London, Ontario this weekend competing in nationals hosted by Fanshawe College.

The tournament starts Wednesday with each team playing three games each. The men will face University of Alberta—Augsustana, Humber College from Toronto and Sault College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The mens team consists of Ryan

“We made it a meaningful play,” said Rich McKay, president of the Atlanta Falcons and co-chairman of the competition committee.

Like the chop block, the horse-collar tackle can lead to serious injuries. This alteration makes the call easier for on-field officials.

“This play has really evolved, or this rule has evolved over the years,” said Dean Blandino, the NFL’s officiating director. “Your classic horse collar (is) where the defensive player gets inside the collar of either the jersey or the shoulder pad from behind or the side, and pulls the runner toward the ground.

We had several plays over the last couple of years, and you just watch this at full speed and it’s the same mechanic. …

“The grab, the pull back, the same potential for injury. The officials at full speed are calling this a foul, but when you look in slow motion, and you see he’s actually not inside the collar, he’s on the nameplate of the jersey. But again, the mechanics of the tackle are the same, the same potential for injury.”

With those items out of the way, the owners will turn their attention to proposals regarding ejecting players for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties allowing coaches and players on the sideline to use video on their tablets rather than just photos to review plays and increasing coaches challenges from two to three or enhancing what plays can be reviewed.

Patriots owners Robert Kraft said Monday he is comfortable with the level of safety in the NFL. “I think the game of football has never been safer than it is today,” Kraft said. “I played. My sons have played. I have three grandsons who play now. So we have three generations playing this game. We believe in it. … I think life lessons and what you get out of playing football is way beyond the risks of what happens.”

Dahmer, Ty Parcels, Jeff Ireland, Jordan Smith and Shayne Copeland.

The womens team plays Grant MacEwan, Niagara College from Niagara Falls, Ont. and Senece College from Toronto.

The womens team consists of Marla Sherrer, Julie Selvais, Sara McMann, Courtney Smith and Ashlyn Wozny.

A total of 16 teams, eight in each division, are competing. The teams come from Alberta, Ontario and P.E.I. The gold medal games are scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m.

Funk stay alive in playoffs with win over Storm With the finals on the horizons, the Funk’s win over the Storm, 44-41, means the Funk will have a chance at first place in Red Deer Women’s Bas-

NCAA title in 2012. Spieth contributed to that victory by beating Justin Thomas of Alabama, and those two longtime friends will play again on Friday.

At every tournament this year, Spieth has been getting more attention and larger crowds. He is the Masters and U.S. Open champion and No. 1 in the world. And now he is back on what amounts to home soil, and the expectations are as high as they have been all year.

Spieth can’t remember his lowest score at Austin Country Club. The strangest sensation about returning to Austin is staying downtown in a hotel.

“I used to come back here and stay on my buddies’ couches when I came back,” he said.

Spieth isn’t the only player with experience on the course. Adam Scott played Austin Country Club for a college tournament during his very brief stay at UNLV. He can’t remember much about the tournament. He didn’t recall much about the golf course.

“We played an event here, and it looked familiar somewhat coming in,” he said. “And it’s a good track. It’s going to be enjoyable this week no matter what happens out there. Hopefully, it’s a lot of fun.”

Scott has reason to lower his expectations. He hasn’t won a single match in this World Golf Championship event since he beat Angel Cabrera in 2010.

Even when it went to the round-robin format last year, Scott lost all three matches to Francesco Molinari, Paul Casey and Chris Kirk. Part of that can be traced to the move to Arizona. Scott was 12-5 when it was held at La Costa.

He was 2-7 when it moved to the high desert of Arizona.

“I just want to win a match,” he said with a laugh.

GYMNASTICS & TRAMPOLINE Gymnastics After a successful showing at zones over the weekend, several local gymnasts are heading to provincials in Fort McMurray next month.

Zones were held at the University of Calgary over the weekend and several Exelta Gymnastics Club athletes finished in the top three in various categories.

Casey Patsula finished third in bars, beams and all around in the Junior Olympic Level 8; Katelyn Loucks finished third in vault in the JO level 4; Presley Zinger finished first in vault, bars, beam, floor and all around in the JO level 4; Emma McGonigal finished first in beam in JO level 4; Karis Wygiera finished second in bars in JO level 6 and Kayla Holliday tied for third in bars in JO level 7.

Loucks, Zinger, McGonigal, Wygiera, Holliday, Ruby Butler, Casey Patsula, Keara Slimmon, Sydney Galenza, Paige Ziner, Ella Griffiths, Grace Hitchcock, Ailish Fowler, Mikayla Park and Jarret Hoffman will compete at provincials.

Trampoline It was a winning weekend for Thunder Country Trampoline Club athletes took home two gold, three silver and two bronzes from the Canada Cup Trampoline Championships in Kamloops.

Thunder County Trampoline Club’s Kalena Soehn had a silver in trampoline and a bronze in national junior women double mini trampoline; Zachary Blakely had a silver in national junior men double mini trampoline, Ashton Henefrey had a silver medal in national level 5 men in trampoline.

In team competition Kyle and Keegan Soehn won a gold medal in senior men’s synchronized trampoline. Zachary Blakely and Ashton Henfrey won gold in novice men synchronized trampoline and Karlena Soehn and Alexandra Potter won bronze in novice men synchronized trampoline.

ketball action.

Nicole Fischer led the Funk with 16 points and was named player of the game for her team. For the Storm player of the game Shannon Van Parys tied with Colleen Braithwaite and Simone Date with seven points each.

As a result, the Storm finish in fourth place. The Funk will play the Spartans on April 4 for third place.

The winner of that game will play in the final against Hoosier Daddy on April 11th.

In Pool B action, the Panthers defeated the Shooting Stars 68-56. Amy Archibald had 17 points, leading the Panthers, while 14-point scorer Becky Daly was named player of the game.

For the Shooting Stars, Cheryl Chase had 25 points and player of the game Maddie MacDonald had two points.

The Express beat Dynamo 61-52 with Tori named player of the game

from Dynamo while Maria Makkinga was player of the game for Express.

Bantam B female team won provincials in 4OT The results from the Bantam B Female hockey provincials that ran on Tuesday had some inaccurate information.

The Lacombe Lacoka won the provincials 3-2 over Lloydminster in quadruple overtime. Ivy Woolf had the game winner, her sixth of the tournament and tied for second on the team in goals.

Hailey Hoogkamp led Lacombe with six goals and nine assists, Woolf had six goals and seven assists and Rachel Wood had eight goals and three assists.

Jayme Klinger and Zoe Lorenz-Boser both had five goals for Lacombe.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF z-Brandon 72 48 18 4 2 319 x-Prince Albert 72 38 26 7 1 222 x-Moose Jaw 72 36 27 7 2 249 x-Regina 72 36 28 3 5 243 Swift Current 72 24 38 7 3 189 Saskatoon 72 26 42 4 0 219

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

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 72 46 24 1 1 72 45 24 1 2 72 42 26 2 2 72 30 37 3 2 72 29 36 6 1 72 12 53 6 1

GF 304 260 246 223 197 155

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF z-Victoria 72 50 16 3 3 281 x-Kelowna 72 48 20 4 0 269 x-Kamloops 72 38 25 5 4 237 x-Prince Geo. 72 36 31 3 2 240 Vancouver 72 23 40 5 4 199

GA Pt 197 102 223 84 239 81 253 80 249 58 318 56 GA 218 205 219 287 238 320

Pt 94 93 88 65 65 31

GA Pt 166 106 218 100 218 85 225 77 273 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt y-Seattle 72 45 23 4 0 228 186 94 x-Everett 72 38 26 5 3 182 172 84 x-Portland 72 34 31 6 1 228 227 75 x-Spokane 72 33 30 5 4 223 245 75 Tri-City 72 35 34 2 1 236 253 73 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division z — clinched conference Tuesday’s game Tiebreaker Edmonton 6 Medicine Hat 4 End of Regular Season WHL 2016 Playoffs First Round Division Semifinals (Best-of-7)

Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 27 Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 1 Red Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 2 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 4 Red Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.m Wednesday, Apr. 6 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2) Friday, Mar. 25 Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2) Thursday, Mar. 24 Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Mar. 25 Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1) Friday, Mar. 25 Prince George at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 73 42 26 5 202 73 40 24 9 207 73 39 26 8 216

GA Pts 173 89 181 89 197 86

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF x-Washington 72 52 15 5 231 NY Rangers 73 41 24 8 207 Pittsburgh 72 40 24 8 204

GA Pts 170 109 192 90 179 88

NY Islanders Philadelphia Detroit New Jersey Carolina Ottawa Montreal Buffalo Columbus Toronto

Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) Friday, Mar. 25 Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m.

x-Dallas St. Louis Chicago

WILD CARD W L OL 38 24 9 35 24 13 36 26 11 35 31 7 31 28 14 34 32 8 34 34 6 30 34 10 30 35 8 26 35 11

GF 197 188 186 166 177 213 196 176 191 174

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 74 44 21 9 242 73 42 22 9 194 74 42 25 7 205

GF 202 196 198 192 202 167 186 183

GA Pts 187 87 187 81 204 80 219 71 228 68 207 66 216 66 223 65

GA Pts 181 85 193 83 196 83 189 77 198 76 227 76 212 74 200 70 225 68 209 63

GA Pts 213 97 185 93 185 91

Today

Saturday

● Chinook Hockey League: Bentley Generals at Stony Plain Eagles, 8 p.m.

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Chinook Hockey League: Stoney Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 7:30 p.m., Lacombe arena

Friday ● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer

Sunday

Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, 4 p.m., Scotiabank Saddledome

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 48 21 .696 — Boston 41 30 .577 8 New York 28 43 .394 21 Brooklyn 19 51 .271 29 1/2 Philadelphia 9 62 .127 40

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

GP 71 72 73 73 73 74 74 74 73 72

WILD CARD GP W L OL Nashville 73 37 23 13 Minnesota 74 35 28 11 Colorado 73 38 31 4 Arizona 73 32 34 7 Calgary 73 31 36 6 Vancouver 72 27 33 12 Winnipeg 73 30 37 6 Edmonton 76 29 40 7 x — clinched playoff berth.

GA Pts 167 93 168 89 185 88

Tuesday’s results Columbus 3 Philadelphia 2 (SO) Buffalo 3 Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 6 Detroit 2 Washington 4 Ottawa 2 Montreal 4 Anaheim 3 Winnipeg 2 Vancouver 0 Dallas 6 Chicago 2 Minnesota 2 Los Angeles 1 Arizona 4 Edmonton 2 St. Louis at San Jose, late

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay Florida Boston

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF x-Los Angeles 73 44 24 5 199 Anaheim 72 40 23 9 185 San Jose 72 41 25 6 214

Thursday, March 24 Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Florida at Boston, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Coyotes 4, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Arizona, Tanguay 8 (Ekman-Larsson, Duclair) 5:38.

2. Edmonton, Eberle 23 (Korpikoski, McDavid) 9:04 (pp).

Penalties — Stone Ariz (holding) 7:24 Duclair Ariz (tripping) 9:20 McDavid Edm (hooking) 10:15 Lander Edm (tripping) 11:21.

Second Period 3. Arizona, Hanzal 11 (Stone) 12:22 (pp).

4. Arizona, Rieder 13 (Richardson) 17:02.

5. Edmonton, Letestu 10 (Sekera, McDavid) 17:56 (pp).

Penalties — Eberle Edm (high-sticking) 11:23 Doan Ariz (holding) 17:34.

Third Period 6. Arizona, Domi 18 (Hanzal, Sekac) 19:14 (en).

Penalties — Vermette Ariz (tripping) 8:13.

Shots on goal Edmonton 14 8 7 — 29 Arizona 13 11 7 — 31 Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (L, 19-25-4). Arizona: Smith (W, 13-10-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 2-4 Arizona: 1-3.

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando

Southeast Division W L Pct 41 29 .586 41 30 .577 41 30 .577 35 35 .500 29 41 .414

y-Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 50 20 .714 37 33 .529 36 33 .522 37 34 .521 30 41 .423

GB — 1/2 1/2 6 12 GB — 13 13 1/2 13 1/2 20 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct City 49 22 36 35 .507 34 36 .486 29 42 .408 22 48 .314

GB .690 — 13 14 1/2 20 26 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 63 7 .900 43 26 .623 27 43 .386 19 51 .271 14 55 .203

GB — 19 1/2 36 44 48 1/2

y-Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

Monday’s Games Cleveland 124, Denver 91 Indiana 91, Philadelphia 75 Charlotte 91, San Antonio 88 Boston 107, Orlando 96 Detroit 92, Milwaukee 91 Chicago 109, Sacramento 102 Golden State 109, Minnesota 104 Washington 117, Atlanta 102 Memphis 103, Phoenix 97 Tuesday’s Games Charlotte 105, Brooklyn 100 Miami 113, New Orleans 99 Oklahoma City 111, Houston 107 Memphis at L.A. Lakers, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 59 11 .843 — Memphis 41 30 .577 18 1/2 Dallas 35 35 .500 24 Houston 35 36 .493 24 1/2 New Orleans 26 44 .371 33

y-Oklahoma Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

y-clinched division

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

Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Utah at Houston, 6 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games New Orleans at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

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

Utah at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Scoring Leaders G Curry, GOL 67 Harden, HOU 70 Durant, OKC 63 Cousins, SAC 60 Lillard, POR 64 James, CLE 67 Davis, NOR 61 DeRozan, TOR 68

FG 682 588 609 556 547 638 560 538

FT 313 634 390 446 355 319 326 502

PTS 2016 2000 1766 1625 1650 1669 1481 1617

AVG 30.1 28.6 28.0 27.1 25.8 24.9 24.3 23.8

Curling 2016 World Women’s Curling Championship SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Standings following Draw 11 at the Women’s World Curling Championship held through Sunday at the Credit Union iPlex: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) Canada (Carey) Scotland (Muirhead) Switzerland (Feltscher) Japan (Fujisawa) Russia (Sidorova) Denmark (Nielsen) Germany (Driendl) United States (E.Brown) South Korea (Kim) Finland (Kauste) Sweden (Sigfridsson) Italy (Apollonio)

W 6 6 6 5 5 3 3 3 2 1 1 1

L 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 4 5 6 6 6

Tuesday’s results Ninth Draw Canada 7 Germany 5 Scotland 9 Denmark 3 Switzerland 6 Sweden 5 United States 10 South Korea 3 Draw 10 Canada 5 Italy 4 Denmark 6 Finland 4 Switzerland 7 Japan 4 United States 6 Russia 5 (extra end) Draw 11 Italy 6 Germany 2 Japan 8 Sweden 4 Russia 9 South Korea 1 Scotland 6 Finland 5 Monday’s results

Sweden, Finland vs. South Korea.

Draw 13, 2 p.m.

South Korea vs. Canada, Sweden vs. Denmark, Germany vs. United States, Scotland vs. Switzerland.

Draw 14, 7 p.m.

United States vs. Japan, Switzerland vs. Russia, Canada vs. Finland, Denmark vs. Italy.

Sixth Draw Russia 6 Canada 3 Denmark 11 Japan 4 Switzerland 9 Finland 6 United States 5 Italy 3 Seventh Draw Germany 9 Finland 6 Japan 6 South Korea 5 (extra end) Russia 10 Sweden 5 Scotland 8 Italy 7 Eighth Draw Canada 9 Sweden 4 Scotland 6 United States 5 South Korea 9 Denmark 3 Switzerland 9 Germany 2 Wednesday’s games Draw 12, 9 a.m.

Russia vs. Scotland, Japan vs. Germany, Italy vs.

Thursday’s games Draw 15, 9 a.m.

Finland vs. Sweden, Italy vs. South Korea, Japan vs. Scotland, Russia vs. Germany.

Draw 16, 2 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Italy, United States vs. Finland, Denmark vs. Russia, Canada vs. Japan, Draw 17, 7 p.m.

Germany vs. Denmark, Scotland vs. Canada, South Korea vs. Switzerland, Sweden vs. United States.

End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Tiebreakers (if required), 2 p.m.

Page Playoffs One vs. Two, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 Page Playoffs Three vs. Four, 2 p.m.

Semifinal One-Two Loser vs. Three-Four Winner, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 27 Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 12 noon Championship One-Two Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 5 p.m.

Baseball Transactions

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota (ss) 7, Philadelphia 5 Minnesota (ss) 5, Baltimore 1 Toronto 16, Detroit 1 Houston 8, Atlanta 7 Miami 3, Boston 0 Chicago Cubs 9, Cincinnati 6 Chicago White Sox 8, San Francisco (ss) 7 San Diego 17, Texas 5 Colorado 6, Milwaukee 5 L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 5 N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 3 L.A. Dodgers vs. Kansas City, late San Francisco (ss) vs. Arizona, late Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

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

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

N.Y. Mets vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Kansas City vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

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

N.Y. Yankees vs. Washington, 3:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Houston, 4:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned OF Slade Heathcott to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) and reassigned him to minor league camp.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHPs Archie Bradley and Tyler Wagner to Reno (PCL) and LHP Keith Hessler and OF Gabriel Guerrero to Mobile (SL).

Reassigned OF Zach Borenstein to minor league camp.

CINCINNATI REDS — Reassigned RHP A.J. Morris, RHP Layne Somsen, LHP Cody Reed and 1B Brandon Allen to their minor league camp.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned C Tomas Telis and RHPs Justin Nicolino, Kyle Barraclough and Brian Ellington to New Orleans (PCL). Reassigned RHPs Paul Clemens and Andre Rienzo, C Francisco Arcia and OFs Isaac Galloway and OF Destin Hood to minor league camp.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Colton Murray to Lehigh Valley (IL).

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed 1B Art Charles.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed LHP Will Mathis.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Ray McCallum to a second 10-day contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Announced the retirement of G Candice Wiggins.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Agreed to terms with RB Alfred Morris on a two-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ers — Signed G Zane Beadles to a three-year contract.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DE Jordan Stanton and DB Johnny Patrick. Released DT Bryant Turner and WR Clarence Denmark.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Casey Nelson to an entry-level contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed D Ben Thomas to a three-year contract.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Springfield C Laurent Dauphin one game.

ALBANY DEVILS — Signed F Gunnar Hughes to a professional tryout agreement.

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Switching allegiances led Arfield to Canada OFF-THE-CUFF REMARK LED SCOTTISH-BORN MIDFIELDER TO MEN’S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — It was a passing comment that caused David Edgar’s ears to perk up.

The Canadian soccer defender was playing with Burnley in England’s second-tier Championship division a couple seasons ago when Scottish-born teammate Scott Arfield shared a key piece of family history.

“We were out for dinner and he mentioned his dad was born in Toronto,” Edgar recalled. “That got loads of ideas in my head.”

The younger Arfield suited up internationally for Scotland at lower levels, but had never earned a cap for the senior team, making him eligible to play for Canada through his father’s connection.

Edgar quickly went into full sell mode.

“We got the ball rolling,” he said. “I told him about the program. We talked about it a lot.”

Arfield decided he would commit to Canada a year ago, but only got his citizenship papers last week. Along with FIFA signing off on a change of international allegiance, the midfielder is eligible for two crucial World Cup qualifiers against powerhouse Mexico, including Friday at B.C. Place Stadium. “(Edgar) was really the driving force in making this happen,” said Arfield.

Arfield, with his distinct Scottish accent, met the Canadian media for the first time after Monday’s late-afternoon training session. The 27-year-old was asked if he had ever set foot in the country he now represents.

“I should probably lie, but no,” Arfield said with a laugh, adding, “I’m just as Canadian as you.”

Born in Livingston, a town west of Edinburgh, Arfield played in the Scottish Premier League with Falkirk before heading to Huddersfield Town in England and then Burnley.

He’s used to big games after first suiting up against Rangers and Celtic at the age of 18, while Burnley was in the English Premier League last season. Arfield has seven goals in 38 appearances in 2015-16 for the club,

which is unbeaten in 14 and leading the Championship table.

“He’s a fantastic player and great guy in the dressing room,” said Edgar, now with Sheffield United. “We’re very lucky.”

Along with midfielder Junior Hoilett and defender Steven Vitoria, Arfield is the latest example of a player choosing Canada, bucking a trend that previously saw a number of others turn down calls from the national team.

“It just gives everyone a boost,” said Edgar.

“Now we’ve got players who want to come play. It’s massive for us.”

Arfield’s story is similar to that of English-born midfielder Marc Bircham, who burst on to the Canadian scene in 1999 when officials learned his grandfather was born in Winnipeg.

Bircham played 17 times for Canada, including a dream debut in 1999 that saw him score in a 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland in Belfast before ever setting foot in his adopted homeland.

“The more depth, the more quality you have in the team, the more options you have,” said Canadian midfielder Will Johnson.

“That’s why Mexico’s so good, that’s why the U.S. is so good, they have a deep talent pool.”

When it comes to Scotland’s national team, Arfield isn’t bitter things didn’t work.

“There was no ill feeling,” he said.

“I was getting on in my career and I just thought this was the best opportunity for me to play international football.”

Arfield is joining the Canadian setup at a critical time. The country hasn’t made a World Cup since its only appearance back in 1986, but is well-positioned to make a run at the 2018 tournament heading into Friday’s qualifier before a crowd that’s expected to number more than 50,000.

Head coach Benito Floro named a strong Canadian roster for the game on the artificial surface at B.C. Place and Tuesday’s return fixture at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

“Talking to a few of the boys, they’re saying that this is the best squad

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Tottenham’s Andros Townsend, left, fights for the ball against Burnley’s Scott Arfield during their English FA Cup soccer match in Burnley, England, in January.

Canada has called in Burnley midfielder Scott Arfield for its World Cup qualifying matches against Mexico.The 27-year-old Arfield was born in Scotland but qualifies to play for Canada through his Toronto-born father. they’ve ever been in,” said Arfield. “It stands you in good stead.”

Mexico, ranked 22nd by FIFA, leads Pool A in the penultimate round of CONCACAF qualifying with six points from two matches. No. 87 Canada sits second with four points, while El Salvador has one and Honduras has none.

The Canadians play in Honduras and host El Salvador in September, with the top two teams in the group advancing to the region’s final stage.

While it’s all business this week for Arfield and his teammates as they prepare to take on a formidable opponent, Edgar indicated the roster’s newest member might have to stretch his vocal chords and test his knowledge of “O Canada” in a friendly form of initiation.

“He’s a bit of a singer so we’re going to get him to sing it to us this week,” Edgar joked. “He’s got to know all the words.”

Melee erupts at P.E.I. rink after linesman taunts, attacks hockey player: coach

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A minor hockey coach in Halifax is accusing a game official of taunting his team and later attacking a player during a recent game in P.E.I. that went horribly awry, prompting an RCMP investigation.

Mark Whidden, head coach of the Midget C Chebucto Chill, says he and three of his teenaged players have since been suspended indefinitely, pending completion of the Mounties’ probe and a subsequent review

by Hockey Nova Scotia. Whidden says that process could take months if not years. That’s why he’s speaking out.

“These kids might never play hockey,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

“I think that under the circumstances that’s completely unfair.”

The RCMP in P.E.I. did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for Hockey Nova Scotia, Garreth MacDonald, said he was hopeful a resolution is not too far off.

A spokesman for Hockey P.E.I. said he could not comment on the situation because the allegations are being investigated by the RCMP. The Halifax team, which includes players from 15 to 17 years old, was competing in Cornwall, P.E.I., on Feb. 20 when the Chill received what Whid-

den describes as an inordinate number of penalties in the first period.

One of the two linesmen was standing next to the Halifax team’s bench when he made a series of sarcastic comments about the team’s play, the coach says.

“The linesman was sort of causing trouble with the kids on the bench,” he said, adding that the official appeared to be at least 25 years old.

“The linesman isn’t supposed to talk to the kids … It’s not very hard to egg on 16- and 17-year-old boys who are playing a hockey game and have their adrenaline up.”

When one player told the linesman to “shut up,” Whidden said he knew there would be trouble.

“I could see this linesman with rage in his eyes lunge across the barrier,” Whidden said, adding that the official pushed his helmet against the player’s face mask and swore.

When the player pushed back, the linesman attacked the player and was immediately struck by a second player and held in a headlock by a third, Whidden said.

“He punched my player in the head and started to throttle him,” the coach said.

After the team returned to Halifax, a parent of one of the players complained to the RCMP, Whidden said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — More than a month after the sexual assault trial of Jian Ghomeshi captured the country’s attention, the spotlight is set to fall once again on the disgraced broadcaster and his accusers as an Ontario judge delivers his decision this week.

Regardless of the outcome, a number of observers believe Ghomeshi’s case has already had an impact on the reporting of sexual assaults and the public’s understanding of how they are prosecuted.

“People were JIAN GHOMESHI talking about something quite serious that our society needs to learn more about,” said Constance Backhouse, a University of Ottawa law professor who researches sexual assault legislation. “It’s really important to have conversations to discuss issues of sexual assault, consent, the role of the criminal law in assessing this …

Here we brought all of these things to the fore.”

Ghomeshi — the once popular host of CBC Radio’s Q — pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.

He didn’t testify in his own defence, leaving the bulk of evidence at the trial to come from the three women whose allegations formed the bedrock of the case.

The first complainant testified that Ghomeshi suddenly yanked on her hair when they were kissing in his car in late 2002. A few days later, she said he abruptly pulled her hair while they were kissing in his home and started punching her in the head.

The second complainant, actress Lucy DeCoutere — the only woman who can be identified in the case — testified Ghomeshi suddenly pushed her against a wall, started choking her and slapped her face when they were kissing in his bedroom in the summer of 2003.

The third woman testified that while kissing Ghomeshi on a park bench in 2003, he suddenly bit her shoulder and started squeezing her neck.

TORONTO — It wasn’t long after My Big Fat Greek Wedding exploded at the box office that Hollywood began pestering its star Nia Vardalos for a sequel.

The Winnipeg-bred breakout declined, turning instead to other comedic followups including Connie and Carla, I Hate Valentine’s Day and My Life in Ruins.

But none had the impact of her surprising family-friendly smash, which centred on an unassuming Greek woman who falls in love with a non-Greek suitor, played by John Corbett.

Vardalos adds she was also focused on other matters, including efforts to become a mother that resulted in the adoption of a little girl — a sometimes painful process she detailed in the book Instant Motherhood.

Now older, wiser and inspired by her own new family adventures, Vardalos reprises her role as Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, while Corbett, Andrea Martin and the rest of the gang are back.

Vardalos chatted with The Canadian Press by phone from New York about motherhood, working in Hollywood and battling sexism onscreen.

The Canadian Press: What took so long for this movie?

Vardalos: It’s a really simple answer: I was waiting for motherhood.

CP: Yes, Toula and Ian now have a teenage daughter ready for college.

Vardalos: In order for me to do the sequel, of course I would have to show family life because of course the film is about a family.

I didn’t understand or know any of the emotions of motherhood so I just said a very quiet, “No,” continued to do other projects with (producers) Playtone and then luckily became a mom…. On my daughter’s first day of kindergarten I was wailing much louder than the other parents and I realized, “Ugh, I have morphed into my own Greek mother.”

CP: How hard was it to get everyone back together?

Vardolos: I only made three calls …

The first phone call I made was John Corbett, it was his birthday. And then the next calls I made were to Michael Constantine who plays the dad, and Lainie Kazan who plays the mom.

And then I never actually got to make any more phone calls after that because my phone started ringing! Everybody had called each other so everybody knew.

CP: Just like their characters.

Vardalos: Yep. We really, really are like a family — everybody knows everything.

We all stayed in the same hotel in

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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Nia Vardalos, left, and John Corbett in a scene from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.’

Toronto, there was constant knocking on each other’s doors, hanging out, just drinking wine, laughing, talking, it’s really wonderful.

These are people that if I wasn’t working with them, I wish I was related to them.

CP: Did you approach things any differently, knowing how big of a hit the first film was?

Vardalos: I mentor writers … and I’m always saying to them: Please don’t go look at what the marketplace is buying or what movie is successful, because a studio executive will come to you and say, “Can Kevin Hart be Red Riding Hood?”

So you must always push everything aside. I have a little writing office where I don’t even have Internet access, I just keep my head down and write what I want.

CP: Tell me about some of those other projects over the years that haven’t been able to take root.

Vardalos: I definitely lost control and then gained it and lost it. It is a process and getting a film made is difficult, period. Hollywood is still the most archaic place. It is the one place where a review can talk about a wom-

an’s looks and you can not get a job simply because you’re female. It’s outdated and we have to push through.

CP: Can you describe some of these scripts you’ve been asked to rework?

Vardalos: It will say about the female: “Late 20s. Beautiful but doesn’t know it. Kittenish, sexy.” (And then) it’ll say: “Guy, 40s. A sense of being that far exceeds his years.” You know, there’s no reference to being handsome … It’ll never say: “Chiselled jaw line, pecs to die for.” Can you imagine reading that in a screenplay? It wouldn’t be written and people would laugh out loud. But it’s certainly written about the women. And we just call them on it, we just laugh.

We’ve had symposiums at the Writers Guild with men and women there talking about how when it comes to a place where we have to incite peril for a woman during sweeps’ week the writers will pitch, ‘OK, so let’s get her raped’. And it’s rough. It’s really, really bad. We’re creating a rape culture.

And we’re trying to pull back from it and that’s what these meetings do where we have to call each other on what we’re doing wrong. And try to get things out there.

TV doc follows mother’s radicalization battle

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO —A Calgary mother who finds out from a reporter that her son had been killed fighting with an extremist group in Syria is both the subject and voice of a new TV documentary slated to air this week.

The documentary, A Jihadi in the Family, traces the painful transition Christianne Boudreau makes from oblivious mother of a troubled teen to international activist as she struggles to understand what happened to her child.

In the process, Boudreau discovers kindred spirits in the scores of other grief-stricken mothers slammed by the winds of religious extremism and brutal geopolitics against which they can barely sputter.

“The stories of our children are all the same,” Boudreau says. “And even though it’s a different country, we’re still going through the exact same challenges.”

Boudreau’s 22-year-old son, Damian Clairmont, a convert to Islam, died in early 2014. He had left Canada in November 2012 to fight in Syria. Unbeknownst to Boudreau, Canadian intelligence agents had been watching him for two years before he disappeared.

She thought he had gone to Egypt to study Arabic.

“Why didn’t I see the signs? Why didn’t I stop him?” she asks. “These questions haunt me every day of my life.”

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This undated family photo provided by Christianne Boudreau shows Boudreau, left, and her son, Damian Clairmont.

Boudreau’s quest for answers morphs into a personal then public crusade against the forces of extremism that have lured thousands of western youth to the bloodied battlegrounds of Iraq and Syria. Families of all faiths and backgrounds have fallen victim to the sinister charm of fighting and dying for what their loved ones believe is a God-sanctioned cause.

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At the same time, however, those seeking a better understanding of what drives young people to give up the relative comfort of their lives in Canada or Western Europe to go fight might be disappointed. Attempts at an explanation seem to end at a few passing references to disconnected or alienated youth.

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is that they are all everyday people,” Amarnath Amarasingam of the University of Waterloo says of the western jihadists. “We need to understand the broader cause or the broader drivers of these things.”

Regardless of what motivates their children, Boudreau and other like her find common cause in a group called Mothers for Life devoted to putting out a contra-message: that the sophisticated siren call of jihad is a sure-fire path to self-destruction.

In France, Boudreau seeks answers from Mourad Benchellali, 34, who was once duped into going to a jihadist training camp in Afghanistan and ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Now a high-profile anti-radicalization activist, Benchellali was inexplicably barred last fall from Canada, where he was set to deliver his message both publicly and privately to law enforcement. As German counter-radicalization expert Daniel Koehle tells Boudreau, efforts by security forces to crack down on Islamic terrorists often play straight into the hands of extremist recruiters.

Today, Mothers for Life exists in 10 countries. Fathers — otherwise conspicuous by their absence in the documentary — and siblings, also victims when loved ones sign on with extremist groups, are members. For Boudreau, however, the anti-jihadist cause has taken over much of her life.

“People say I’m the mother of a terrorist,” she says. “I wonder if I’ll ever lose that stigma.”

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Ken was an Alberta boy through and through, and a loyal team mate and friend to many. He had a great passion for teaching and football. A member of the 1967 Vanier Cup winning Golden Bears and a teacher and coach throughout his long career, Ken, who many simply referred to as “Coach” taught many lessons and touched many lives. Ken was the recipient of a kidney transplant more than 20 years ago and in lieu of flowers, he asked that we all consider signing our organ donation cards. Services will be private, but we welcome all to a Celebration of Ken’s Life to be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at Bo’s Bar & Grill, 2310 50 Avenue, Red Deer, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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CLARK It is with very deep sadness that the family of Judith Ann (Judi) Clark (Toivanen) announces her sudden passing on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Judi was born on November 9, 1955, a very beautiful and very lucky baby girl, with nine older siblings who adored her. She grew up on the family farm near Rosebud/Beynon, Alberta, and she learned work ethic and community values at an early age. Judi attended grades 1-6 at Churchill School, and then completed her education in Drumheller. Her career choice was to become a certified nursing aide, following in the footsteps of a long line of Clark nurses who she respected and admired.

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors MANLEY In loving memory of our dear daughter, Tricia Lynn, who went to Heaven 25 years ago To us you were so special What more is there to say Except to wish with all our hearts, that you were here today.

May you and Shannon always walk in sunshine ~Forever in our minds and in our hearts.

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Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Flooring

1180

NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Jon 403-848-0393

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 Handyman COUNTERTOP replacement. Services Kitchen reno’s.

Wes 403-302-1648 BOOK NOW! DALE’S Home Reno’s For help on your home Free estimates for all your projects such as bathroom, reno needs. 403-506-4301 main floor, and bsmt.

QUALITY taping, drywall renovations. Also painting and flooring. and reno’s. 403-350-6737 Call James 403-341-0617

1200

Eavestroughing

1130

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Electrical

1150

COSBY ELECTRIC LTD. All Electrical Services.

403-597-3288

Massage Therapy

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

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Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Plumbing & Heating

1330

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

Roofing D - HANDYMAN Painting, Reno’s Repairs & Junk Removal Call Derek 403-848-3266

1280

1370

Roofing

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

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

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For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. SPRINGBROOK VANIER

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Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Tired of Standing?

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Yard Care

1430

SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates.

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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. SPRING LAWN CLEANUP 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

Call Ken 403-304-0678 WCB covered, fully Something for Everyone Licensed & Insured.

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Misc. for Sale

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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.

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Electronics

1605

Travel Packages

WIRELESS 360 degree M6 mode speaker from Veho. Connect with any electronic device, 1800 ma, rechargeable battery, built-in microphone with auto music interrupt.

BRAND NEW Won in Lottery. $95. 403-352-8811

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

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rentals

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CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Houses/ Duplexes

1710

Household Appliances

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

Manufactured Homes

3040

WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl.

403-348-6594

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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

403-357-7817 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

Suites

3020

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

Apr. 1st. 403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

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

Avail. Apr. 1 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

3060

3190

Mobile Lot

LIMITED TIME OFFER: PADS $450/mo.

One free year of Telus Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., internet & cable AND 50% off first month’s rent! 2 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Bedroom suites available. Down payment $4000. Call Renovated suites in central at anytime. 403-588-8820 location. Cat friendly. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 784-9274 NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

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2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, extras, $12,500 obo 403-505-5789

Motorcycles

4000-4190

NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

$425. MO/D.D. incld’s everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30

Realtors & Services

5070

Vans Buses

5080

Motorcycles

5080

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC All the bells and whistles.

44,600 kms.

Excellent Condition Not laid down. $7600. o.b.o.

(403)318-4653.

Boats & Marine

WatersEdge Marina

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Tires, Parts Acces.

4010

5160

5180

2014 HYUNDAI Accent Weather Tech floormats, front and rear, $200 403-347-1992 2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, show room cond., 1,700 km, $2,000.

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2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new tires, exc. cond. $5500. 403-318-4725

WANTED 100 to 120 HP Corvair engine 780-963-9640 shlaww@xplornet.com

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Condos/ Townhouses

4040

NEED to Downsize?

Brand New Valley Crossing Condos in Blackfalds.

Main floor is 1,119 SQ FT 2 Bdrm/2Bath. Imm. Poss.

Start at $219,900.

Call 403-396-1688.

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1720

3110

MEDIUM dark wood rectangular table, $50, with 3 matching chairs, $10 each; and wicker patio chair, $50. 403-347-8697 Vintage (circa 1960’s) dresser. Solidly built. 45” tall x 32” wide x 19.25” deep. Five drawers, original pulls and “beehive” style legs. $125.

Call (403) 342-7908.

3030

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

3030

1 BDRM. N/S, no pets.

BLACKFALDS, $600, $700 rent/d.d. all inclusive. 403-358-1614 4 BDRM. house on 403-346-1458 Kingston Drive, $1400/mo.

MAIN floor in Grandview, Ron @ 403-304-2255 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult all utils. incl. shared bldg, free laundry, very kitchen & laundry. $695.

4 BDRMS, 21/2 baths, clean, quiet, Avail. now or 403-318-5416 single car garage, 5 appls, April 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

Commercial $1695/mo. in Red Deer.

S.E. House, 2 rms. avail.

403-304-5337 Property 403-782-7156 $475./mo. 403-396-5941 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets.

403-357-7465 $800. rent/d.d.

SYLVAN LAKE Start your career!

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Space Rent $900 S.D. $700.

NORMANDEAU Avail. immed. Near hospi30 x 50 heated shop 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 CLASSIFICATIONS Penhold $900/mo. fenced yard, rent $1275., 5000-5300 LARGE bsmt. suite, 403-886-5342 357-7817 S.D. $900; incld’s all utils. shared kitchen & laundry avail. Now or Apr. 1. facilities, Michener area.

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CLASSIFIEDS 403-596-2444 403-347-7545 cond. 403-352-6995

FRIDGE exc. cond, $100.

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Household Furnishings

Condos/ Townhouses

ORIOLE PARK

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Firewood

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

Tools

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EquipmentHeavy

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2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded. Clean.

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2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, extras $12,500 obo 403-505-5789

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2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new tires, exc. cond. $5500.

403-318-4725

2010 FORD FUSION SEL, 2.5L, IV engine, 6 spd., loaded.

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2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800cc. All the bells and whistles. 44,600 kms.

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2006 JEEP Commander full load, 4.7.

Best Offer ASAP 403-342-7798

2011 DODGE CALIBER, only 56,000 km, exc. cond., $8,900.

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2004 FREESTAR Limited Edition $5600.

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2006 CHRYSLER 300, LTD, low kms., sun roof, leather, new winter tires. $8000. obo

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HEALTH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016

Status of gene patents still unclear DESPITE HOSPITAL’S SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — One of the most contentious issues in genetics is whether researchers should be allowed to patent human genes found to cause disease and to commercialize diagnostic tests based on those mutated snippets of DNA. Courts in the U.S. and Australia, for example, have banned the practice, but in Canada no law prohibits scientists from taking out patents on bits of the human genome and their associated products for use in patients.

But an out-of-court settlement earlier this month between an Ottawa hospital and a global company that holds patents on genes and a related test for a potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder may have vastly altered the Canadian gene-patenting landscape.

In what could be characterized as a David and Goliath contest, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) launched a court challenge in late 2014 against U.S.-based Transgenomic Inc., which holds patents on five of the flawed genes underpinning long QT syndrome and the diagnostic test for the inherited disorder.

CHEO argued that human genes should not be subject to patents for commercial or any other purposes. In the case of Canadian patients suspected of having long QT syndrome, their DNA samples had to go to U.S. labs for testing at a cost of at least $4,500, more than double the price tag in Canada.

That patent-driven cost, argued CHEO, meant hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in excess costs to the country’s publicly funded health-care system.

“But the broader issue was that those kinds of single-gene patents on naturally occurring sequences or mutations would in theory prevent us from moving forward with the next generation of genetic testing, which is already starting to be used,” said Dr. Gail Graham, a clinical geneticist at CHEO. That testing — called whole-exome sequencing — examines key chapters of all of the roughly 23,000 genes in the human genome.

A consortium of Canadian researchers led by CHEO, called Care For Rare, has already identified 81 new gene anomalies related to extremely rare inherited diseases in children.

“So in theory, if we had a child who we thought had a very rare genetic condition … and we wanted to use whole-exome sequencing to find an extraordinarily rare disease gene in that child, the long QT patents might have prevented us from doing that,” Graham said.

“Because we weren’t supposed to be reading through those particular genes, which are part of the exome.”

That would have meant doctors couldn’t tell a child’s family about their findings — or their risks of having another child with the condition — without infringing on the patent.

“And we just found that unacceptable,” she said.

“If you’re the one in a million who has a newborn baby who dies in the first few months of life, it’s absolutely devastating. And you would do almost anything to prevent that from happening again.”

But on March 9, CHEO announced a settlement with Transgenomic, which agreed to allow it and all other public-sector Canadian hospitals and labs to use its long QT syndrome test on a not-for-profit basis.

While the agreement doesn’t set a precedent in law — no Canadian court has ruled on whether human genes can be patented — it does serve as a precedent for the operation of the Patent Act, said Richard Gold, a professor in law and medicine at McGill Univer-

sity who helped advise CHEO on its challenge.

“CHEO did achieve a precedent … that a private entity looking after its commercial interests recognizes that it shouldn’t be making money off of the public sector,” Gold said, adding that the agreement provides a template for publicly funded institutions challenging other gene-related patents in the future.

“So the next time someone comes into Canada with a gene patent and says we want to exercise it against a hospital or a lab, the answer is you should cite this agreement … there are mechanisms that exist within the Patent Act that force essentially the same (outcome).”

However, patent attorney Noel Courage isn’t convinced.

“I wouldn’t call it a precedent. I wouldn’t call it binding in any way in any other gene case, but it’s a really interesting angle to the case,” said Courage, a partner at Bereskin & Parr LLP in Toronto.

“To me, this doesn’t settle whether isolated genes are patentable it doesn’t settle anything about whether methods of diagnosis are patentable.

“There was no court decision on that, so that’s still an open issue.”

Courage wonders whether Transgenomic capitulated because it believed its legal position wasn’t strong or because the company decided it wasn’t worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to litigate the case in the comparatively small Canadian market.

“It doesn’t say much about what’s going to happen in any other case,” he said. “Someone else with a robust business in Canada may decide to fight for it.

“If somebody starts a new case, they’re starting from scratch.”

So what might this mean for Canadian researchers who make new discoveries about disease-causing genes and want to seek a patent?

“Fundamentally, I don’t think it will affect researchers at all,” said Samuel Abraham, former vice-president of research at the BC Cancer Agency, which took out “defensive” patents after leading the Canadian research team that first sequenced the SARS virus genome in 2003.

“We took out patents on that on the proviso that we were able to work with groups nationally and internationally to create a patent pool,” Abraham said from Vancouver. “And we did that so we never lost control of access to it ourselves.”

The purpose was to allow the global research community and pharmaceutical partners access to SARS’ genetic signature without ceding exclusive rights to any of them.

“At the end of the day, they would generate vaccine and other methodologies for detecting, inhibiting (the virus) if SARS ever came back. And perhaps even coming up with therapeutic vaccines,” he said.

“Those end products are what they got their patents around. The seminal or underlying information they never got to touch.”

While there is nothing stopping a researcher from seeking a gene patent, Gold said their legality in Canada, at least, is still up in the air.

“My opinion is that these patents related to isolated genes are invalid in Canada, but no one knows that for sure until a court decides,” he said.

“So if I’m a researcher, would I spend the money patenting it when I know that … even if a patent is issued to me, it’s quite likely invalid?

“And my answer would be no.”

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A computer model of a DNA strand is shown.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

How Long Should This Dental Crown Have Lasted?

Dear Dr. D: My husband had his teeth completely checked out just before retirement just 4 years ago, and had 5 crowns done in total. Now, 2 of them have broken and we're 3000 miles away from that dentist. I think they must have been faulty. How long are they supposed to last anyway?

A: I wish I could say X number of years and stand behind that.

The truth is that every mouth is different. The lifespan on dental work does vary, and from a maximum longevity point a dental crown does have the potential to last a lifetime. On the flip side, some crowns don't last 2 years. Firstly, what is the location of the crowns that have broken? Is it front or back of the mouth? Are they upper teeth, or lower teeth? Secondly, without examination it is impossible to say how much tooth structure was saved when the original dentist prepared the tooth. Some dentists save more root structure than others. Typically, the more root structure that was saved initially will have an effect on the lifetime expectancy of that crown. What type of bite force does your husband exert on his teeth? Is he a nighttime grinder? Anywhere up to 80% of crown failure can be attributed to bite issues. These forces can and will cause dental crowns to break. Does he clench his teeth? What was the composition of his broken crowns? Were they all porcelain, porcelain fused to a non- metal core, porcelain fused to a metal core? Some patients are surprised that the all-white porcelain crown they chose wasn't as strong as initially hoped. Are the remainder of his teeth worn down, and does his jaw click or 'pop' upon opening or closing his mouth? What is the state of his oral hygiene, including his periodontal health (gum issues)? How often does he brush and floss? Besides these 5 crowns, is he missing any of his other natural teeth?

A question few patients consider is what has changed in the remainder of his health over the past few years? If he is on regular medication now for conditions such as heart disease? Does he take blood thinners? Has any of that changed his saliva flow at all?

We see patients with dry mouth from meds building up plaque on their teeth at a rate never seen before – and this can change the cleaning cycle (hygiene visits) dramatically.

I'm not dodging the question here. He needs a complete examination, particularly around his jaw function to determine the cause of the problem and the best solution. It is premature to blame the original dentist at this point. Please have him see a dentist now before he experiences any further damage.

Alpen Dental 4 - 5025 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, AB 1-800-TOOTHACHE (1-800-866-8422) www.AlpenDental.com Services are provided by General Dentists

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ADVICE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016

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Wednesday March 23, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Perez Hilton, 37; Chaka Khan, 62; Luciana Carro, 35 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Lunar Eclipse heightens emotions and quickens responses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 2016 is the year to get the balance right between fantasizing about the future and living in the present. Sometimes it’s a good idea to think things through before you pounce!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams are mighty rambunctious, as the Lunar Eclipse stirs up your temperamental side. If you keep busy with interesting projects, you’ll feel less inclined to be disruptive and demanding.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bulls have you got any bad habits? The Lunar Eclipse energizes your wellbeing zone, and shines a spotlight on dietary or lifestyle choices that may be compromising your health and vitality.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Lunar Eclipse fires up your entertainment zone so it’s time to be a gregarious Gemini as you shop, see a movie, go to a concert, hit the clubs or party with friends. Group activities are also favoured.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re at your charming best - and disruptive worst — today Crabs, as the Lunar Eclipse stirs up your cantankerous side.

Strive to get the balance right between work commitments and family responsibilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When it comes to communication, education, social media or travel, expect the unex-

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cause I usually have the locker room to myself at that hour. Now I don’t know if I should go back. — Not an Exhibitionist Dear Not: These “group showers” are intended for multiple people to use simultaneously in order to save time and money.

However, no one should be peeking in just to see what’s going on, and you are right that an 8-year-old boy is too old to be checking out the women’s locker room. (We have no explanation for Grandma, other than perhaps responding to something her grandson said about the showers.)

You should register a complaint with the facility. There are likely rules

pected today Lions. If you are adaptable and go with the flow, then the disruptions won’t upset you too much.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Lunar Eclipse, Mercury and Uranus all shine a bright spotlight on money matters at the moment. So it’s time to concentrate on budgeting rather than borrowing — and saving rather than spending.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With the Lunar Eclipse lighting up your sign, your appreciation of beauty, art, fashion and music is heightened. So it’s a great time to catch a concert, an art exhibition, or something else that inspires you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you’re too set in your ways then you’re in for an unsettling time, as the Lunar Eclipse disrupts your usual routine. You’ll find the more flexible you are, the more smoothly the day will run.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’ll be some surprising disruptions today as your previous plans are thrown out the window, especially at work. Strive to get the balance right between being spontaneous and being prepared.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Prepare for some upheaval today Capricorn, as the Lunar Eclipse shakes things up at home and at work. If you’ve been stuck in a rut and feeling bored, then use it as an opportunity to move ahead.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Remember there is a fine line between reckless behaviour — resulting in long regrets; and spontaneous action - leading to success. Hopefully you’ll be able to walk that fine line today Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The focus is on lust and loot as the Lunar Eclipse brings up unresolved issues. An intimate relationship could soar or crash, depending on how committed you are, both emotionally and financially.

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I am thankful for all of my parents and grandparents, and blessed to be brought up in a loving family. Most people marvel at my parents’ ability to get along and even socialize not only with each other, but also with my father’s second wife, his current wife (married 30 years) and my stepdad (married 40 years).

We are all grown now, some of us with kids of our own, and we are all still part of one big messed up, crazy family. — Happy Child Dear Happy: How wonderful that your parents, stepparents and grandparents made sure that all of you felt loved. This is how to do it right.

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regarding the age of opposite-sex children using the locker rooms, and you should ask that they be enforced. If they do not have any restrictions, you should find a place to swim that affords you the privacy you require.

Dear Annie: Your response to “Sad Nana” was spot on.

She was upset that she couldn’t send gifts home with her granddaughter because her more-neglected stepsister would feel left out.

Having grown up in a crazy family with full siblings, stepsiblings and half siblings, things like this were a challenge.

My dad liked to spoil the three of us who were his biological kids, but my stepdad was more practical. He and my mother both tried hard to keep our household “equal,” so my full siblings and I left some of our stuff at my father’s. It was good for us, as it taught us to always be considerate of how others felt. My grandparents made all the siblings feel welcome in their homes.

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Dear Annie: This evening, I went to the local YMCA to swim. When I was through, I showered, as I always do, since I go back to work afterward.

Near the end of the shower, I removed my swimsuit and found a boy of about 8 looking through the curtain at me.

I yelled at him and he stopped, but a few seconds later, a woman (I think it was his grandmother) looked in, too. I told her I’d like just a few more minutes, and I’ll admit, my tone wasn’t that friendly. I got out of the shower and locker room as fast as I could.

Annie, that boy was too old to be in the women’s locker room. My question is, was I out of line for showering in the nude in a public locker room? This particular shower had four nozzles, so I assume other people would feel free to share the space, even if the curtain was closed. But both the boy and the older woman were not showering.

They were just peeking in. That strikes me as rude.

This has never come up before, be-