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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Sharp-witted and plain-speaking James Duthie had the audience groaning and chuckling at his anecdotes from his career in journalism and broadcasting.

Duthie was the keynote speaker at the 13th annual Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast at the Red Deer Arts Centre on Thursday.

W h e t h e r it was his got o s t o r i e s o f JAMES DUTHIE nearly killing two Gretzkys or making uncomfortable small talk next to Tiger Woods at a urinal, the four-time Gemini award-winner did not disappoint in satisfying the sports-loving crowd.

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About a dozen RCMP members from Calgary Major Crimes Unit spent much of the day Thursday combing the wooded area east of Horizon Village Estates south of 32nd Street in Red Deer where a body was found Tuesday evening. Preliminary autopsy results on a 34-year-old man found dead on walking trails east of Bower Place mall failed to reveal a cause or manner of death, said police. RCMP and the Calgary Medical Examiner’s Office continue to investigate. The man was identified by police and next of kin were contacted. His name was not being released at the request of family, as other family members were out of province and had not been told.

Calgary RCMP Major Crimes Unit is investigating the sudden death with assistance from the local specialized police units. Police have disclosed few details about the circumstances of the death. A person walking on the trails came across the body and called police. Trails near the site were reopened to public use Thursday afternoon.

Red Deer man charged with historic homicides

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man is facing first-degree murder charges in connection to the deaths of two Indigenous women nearly a decade ago.

Gordon Alfred Rogers, 59, has been charged with two counts of first degree murders in the deaths of Violet Marie Heathen, 49, and Jeanette Jean Chef, 48, from the Onion Lake Cree Nation Police made the announcement about the historical homicides at a

special news conference on Thursday.

Given that these cases are now before the courts, the RCMP will not release any further details.

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Ghomeshi acquitted on all charges of sexual assault, choking

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted Thursday on all charges of sexual assault and choking following a trial that sparked an emotional nationwide debate on how the justice system treats abuse complainants and courthouse protests over the verdict.

Justice William Horkins said he was unable to rely on the testimony from the three Ghomeshi complainants, describing their memories of

alleged abuse at the hands of the former CBC broadcaster as “shifting” and suggesting their evidence at times strayed into full-fledged lies. All he had to go on, not unusual in sexual-assault cases, was the com-

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Horkins stressed the presumption of innocence in criminal cases is “not a favour or charity” and conviction requires proof “beyond reasonable doubt.”

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plainants’ credibility, which Horkins denounced without mincing words.

“The evidence of each complainant suffered not just from inconsistencies and questionable behaviour, but was tainted by outright deception,” Horkins said.

“The harsh reality is that once a witness has been shown to be deceptive and manipulative in giving their

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CHILLIN’ WITH THE EASTER BUNNY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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From the left, Tyler Juell, Luke Wiebe Trysten Pringle and Dion Wiebe hang out with the Easter Bunny at Bower Place shopping centre Thursday. The Easter Bunny is posing for pictures with Bower Place customers again today and Saturday during business hours.

County urges province to speed up approvals under wetlands policy

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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The snail’s pace of provincial bureaucracy is hamstringing municipalities’ efforts to undertake road and ditch repairs in a timely fashion, says Lacombe County.

It took five months to line up approval under the Water Act to repair a pair of collapsing culverts that were causing the nearby road to erode, said Phil Lodermeier, the county’s manager of operations, in a report to council on Thursday.

From the time the problem was identified and fixed ended up taking a year despite it being “about as simple a repair job as you could get.”

And it could have been worse. If the province had ordered a wetland review, the five-month approval lag could have been dragged out many more months.

Lodermeier told council the approval delays are not just annoying, in the case of the eroded road it created a safety risk. Had the county known how long it was going to be before it could tackle the repair on a township road near Buffalo Lake, the route probably would have been closed as a precaution.

“It’s compromising public safety and service to our ratepayers,” said Lodermeier. “I just don’t think that’s necessary.”

A municipal construction project can come within range of nine separate provincial and federal acts and policies.

One of the newest regulatory wrinkles was added last year when a provincial wetland policy was implemented. Meeting wetlands regulations has added to timelines and consulting costs and confusion over what Alberta Environment requires.

Alberta Environment spokesman Jamie Hanlon said simple culvert crossings fall under the Water

Act Code of Practice for Watercourse Crossings, which requires the department be notified 14 days prior to construction.

Projects that could disturb water bodies or wetlands require a Water Act approval, which means a technical review and public notice period.

“The timeline for an application process can be affected by the level and extent of technical information provided by the applicant as well as by the level of public concern with the project.”

The county doesn’t take issue with the wetlands policy, which it considers useful legislation to provide additional environmental protection to natural areas. The problem has been its application.

At a recent meeting of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC) there were rumblings that some rural municipalities would ignore the new regulations if they held up needed infrastructure repairs.

Lodermeier doesn’t want to go that route.

“It’s a bit risky and probably, not in my mind, the right approach.”

County commissioner Terry Hager conceded while the policy is new and provincial staff levels tight, a solution needs to be found.

“We can’t grind things to a halt. We have to have a happy median,” said Hager.

Council voted unanimously to support a recommendation to prepare a resolution for the Central Zone of the AAMDC. It supported there it would go to the next convention for a vote by all rural municipalities.

The county also plans to send letters to the Ministers of Environment and Parks, Transportation and area MLAs.

Lacombe County helping summer village build outdoor gym Lacombe County flexed its financial muscle to help the Summer Village of Gull Lake build an outdoor gym.

Council unanimously approved a $6,000 donation to the Gull Lake Community League for a proposed $33,000 gym in its Centennial Park to give teens to seniors another way to keep in shape.

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Gull Lake is a growing community and a popular stopping point for cyclists, walkers and runners using the trail through nearby Aspen Beach Provincial Park.

The summer village is committing $7,700 in cash and in-kind help and the community league is hoping for a $14,000 grant from the Alberta Lottery Fund.

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Health Canada’s decision to allow Naloxone to be accessible without a prescription for emergencies outside of hospital is a step in the right direction, says the executive director of Turning Point.

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“It will make it CAN GIVE IT TO more accessible for ANYBODY AT ANY people in the future, TIME.’ but the dispensing still has to be do— JENNIFER VANDERSCHAEGHE ne by a pharmacist, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TURNING POINT nurse or physician.

That piece of paper for sure is a barrier to accessing Naloxone services, but if you don’t change who dispenses it, you haven’t changed anything.”

She said more pharmacists will be able to provide Naloxone, but Turning Point outreach workers who teach overdose prevention will not be able to provide Naloxone.

The provincial government must also change its legislation before Naloxone’s prescription status will change in Alberta, she said.

A notice posted earlier this week by Health Canada said it received overwhelming support from social services and community health groups, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, patient and parent organizations affected by opiod overdose deaths, as well as citizens across the country, to remove Naloxone from prescription status when used outside hospital settings.

Since last July, Turning Point, formerly known as Central Alberta AIDS Network, has been one of eight agencies across Alberta giving out take-home Naloxone kits as part of the province’s response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Nurses have been writing prescriptions, dispensing the drug and training clients to use the kit at Turning Point.

Earlier this year, Alberta Health Services announced 29 walk-in clinics around the province could also prescribe and supply Naloxone, including Red Deer Primary Care Network’s Street Clinic, at 160-5017 49th St., and Maskwacis Health Services.

Naloxone is injected intramuscularly and can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose to give people time to seek medical treatment.

Vanderschaeghe said Naloxone only does one thing — reverse opioid overdose — and there are no drug interactions. Hives at the injection site due to allergies is the only possible side effect which can be addressed by using an antihistamine.

“You can’t get high off of it. You can’t become addicted to it. The only thing it does is this. There are no contraindications. You can give it to pregnant women. You can give it to women who are breastfeeding. You can give it to anybody at any time.”

Since July, Turning Point has given out 306 Naloxone kits and 76 lives have been saved, including one life this week.

Turning Point has also made Naloxone available in Drumheller, Rocky Mountain House and Caroline.

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Top court rules on infanticide MOM WHO LEFT BABIES IN TRASH NOT GUILTY OF MURDER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has waded for the first time into one of humanity’s darkest corners, offering its legal definition of what constitutes the disturbed mind of mother who kills her newborn.

The court ruled by a 7-0 margin Thursday that an Alberta woman who tossed two of her newborns into the garbage is not guilty of second-degree murder.

The decision upheld the earlier findings of an Alberta trial judge and the province’s appeal court and agreed with the proposition put forth by lawyers for Meredith Borowiec of Calgary, who argued that she was guilty of the lesser offence of infanticide.

The court was ruling for the first time on the infanticide provision of the Criminal Code, which turns on the definition of what constitutes a disturbed mind for a new mother.

Justice Thomas Cromwell, writing for the court, said the legal test for a disturbed mind is lower than the legal test for insanity.

“The word ‘disturbed’ is not a legal or medical term of art, but should be applied in its grammatical and ordinary sense,” Cromwell ruled.

“The disturbance must be ‘by reason of’ the fact that the accused was not fully recovered from the effects of giving birth or from the effect of lactation consequent on the birth of a child.”

Borowiec was originally charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of two of her children in 2008 and 2009.

In 2014, she was convicted of infanticide and sentenced to an additional 18 months in jail on top of the 18 months she had already spent in custody.

Alberta’s Court of Appeal upheld the infanticide verdicts, but it was a split decision, meaning the matter automatically moved to the Supreme Court.

At trial, the prosecution and defence called competing experts to testify on Borowiec’s state of mind.

The judge ruled that the definition of a disturbed mind “did not require an actual diagnosis of mental disorder and sets a very low threshold.”

Borowiec’s expert said she was “detached and not thinking” and was “dreaming but not there” and was having an “out-of-body experience.”

The trial judge concluded that Borowiec’s mind was “‘disturbed’ as a result of not yet having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth.

Lower courts have heard evidence that Borowiec told police that she heard the babies cry before she put them in trash bags and dropped them into garbage bins. She said she didn’t do anything to hurt them before she disposed of them.

Cromwell’s 19-page ruling traces the origins of the infanticide law, to 1920s Britain, when “it was thought to be a crime mostly committed by ‘illegitimate mothers’ trying to hide their shame, a motive which the general opinion thought lessened the heinousness of the crime.”

Infanticide made its way into Canada’s Criminal Code in 1948.

The ruling makes clear there is little case law on infanticide.

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Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci gives a thirdquarter fiscal update in Edmonton. and electricity bills, is to take effect in 2017.

Ceci also announced last week that 25 of Alberta’s 301 agencies, boards and commissions will be eliminated or amalgamated to save an estimated $35 million over three years. Details are to appear in the budget.

On Thursday, the province announced a salary freeze for management and non-union workers in those organizations.

The Opposition Wildrose party said Notley’s government has made a bad economic situation worse by increasing corporate taxes and income taxes for high-income earners, and by boosting the minimum wage.

The government increased the minimum wage by $1 an hour to $11.20 and has promised it will be at $15 an hour by 2018.

Labour Minister Christina Gray said Thursday the NDP is still consulting with stakeholders on the roll out, but business owners will get at least three months of notice before any wage increases.

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Avalanche Canada has issued a special warning for Banff, Yoho, Kootenay, and Jasper national parks, Kananaskis Country in Alberta, the Purcells near Golden, B.C., and the North Rockies east of Prince George.

There’s concern a deeply buried weak layer of the snowpack has recently produced large human-triggered and natural avalanches.

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EDMONTON — Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci says while he still doesn’t have a new target date for balancing the books, the next three budgets will have smaller and smaller deficits.

“We’re committed to achieving balance, for sure, and with budget 2016 you will see a three-year fiscal plan where the deficits are getting smaller each year,” Ceci said in Grande Prairie on Thursday after a pre-budget consultation. “(But) the dramatic drop in (oil) commodity prices makes this significantly more difficult.”

He also promised to rein in spending.

“We’ll spend smaller amounts in terms of the growth and we’ll get there, but it is difficult to identify an exact date (to balance the budget).”

Ceci is to present the 2016-17 budget April 14.

He and Premier Rachel Notley have already signalled the numbers will be worse than predicted in last year’s budget, which projected a $5.4-billion deficit in 2016-17, but also indicated a return to balance by 2020.

But last month, Ceci announced that with oil prices remaining in the doldrums, the revised deficit for 2016-17 would be $10.4 billion. He also said the 2020 date would not be met.

Notley and Ceci have already suggested that some program spending that was set to begin this year — such as payments to reduce school fees — has been deferred.

The budget is expected to have new economic incentives to encourage job growth and Notley has signalled there will be a reduction in the three per cent small business tax.

Notley and Ceci have said there will be no new taxes or tax increases in the budget.

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EDMONTON — The Alberta government is launching a $2.3-million review of the Workers’ Compensation Board to see if there are ways to improve it.

Labour Minister Christina Gray said the review is overdue, given that it has been 15 years since the last one.

Gray said she has heard concerns about red tape and coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder, but says the three-member review panel has a broad mandate.

“It’s very important to me that everyone who relies on the WCB is heard through this process,” Gray told a legislature news conference Thursday.

Gray said the panel will deliver a provisional report in the fall and a final review in the spring.

She said the review will also hear from agriculture operators given that paid farm workers are now covered under WCB. The government is concurrently working with farm groups to tailor safety regulations so that farm operations are not hindered.

Gray said the WCB panel will work with the government to ensure there is no overlap.

Guy Smith, head of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, said his members welcome the review to clear up unnecessary hurdles in coverage and extend presumptive coverage of PTSD beyond just police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians.

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Dental patients need to be more informed JIM SUTHERLAND OPINION

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he Advocate recently ran a story about a local dentist and his involvement in a legal bloodbath between a group of dentists and their governing body, the Alberta Dental Association and College (ADAC). At issue is a dispute about the manner by which Alberta dentists can advertise their services on their websites and in their advertising.

The battle also includes a Calgary dentist (among others in Alberta) who was taken to task by the ADAC because a complaint about the content on his website was made by another dentist who was also under investigation for his website content.

The result of the complaints was a lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of Alberta dentists who believe the ADAC has placed too many restrictions on

their ability to advertise their services and credentials. Many of the dentists have chosen to remain anonymous because they fear retribution by the ADAC. I side up with the dentists on this issue for one simple reason: I am a consumer and want to make an informed choice about any goods or services I purchase and, like every other human being, dental care is part of my world of goods and service requirements.

The dentists would like to showcase their particular skills and level of expertise in a competitive real world where not all dentists are equal in terms of training or experience. Most dentists are labelled as general practitioners and expand from that generic label as they accrue specialized training in areas like cosmetic dentistry and can subsequently offer that skill to their patients.

The problem is a dentist cannot showcase his or her upgraded skills beyond general acknowledgement of their existence on his or her website.

Any information that goes beyond an incredibly bland description of their

talents is potentially unacceptable to the ADAC. This puzzling restriction is not acceptable to me as a consumer because I want to know as much as I can about the medical professional who will be responsible for my dental care. I want to know what makes the dentist’s professional credentials a better fit for my dental needs than other dentists in my community.

We live in an era where most of our information about consumer choices is made via the internet, so a website should be able to help us make an informed decision about products and services. A dentist should be able to showcase his or her credentials because he or she has earned them-and we as consumers have the right to know what makes them a good choice for us.

One of the more contentious points in this issue is before-and-after photos of patients’ teeth. Alberta dentists are not allowed to showcase their abilities with photos of their work because the ADAC believes there may be a level of doubt about the authenticity of the

work.

A logical solution is to make the dentists use only their own patients as before-and-after examples for their websites and most dentists would be happy to showcase their own work.

Alberta dentists are forced to comply with very stringent rules about how they advertise their particular training in their field but Alberta denturists are not bound by the same restrictions, even though they offer some of the same services as dentists.

The playing field is not even close to level for dentists compared to denturists when it comes to showcasing their overlapping services. This situation is grossly unfair to dentists and consumers.

As a customer, my message for the ADAC is pretty simple: Give us better access to information about their credentials and level of experience so we can make well-informed choices about our dentists. My advice is to let the ADAC know how you as a customer feel about their restrictions.

Jim Sutherland is a local freelance writer.

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Media frenzy feeds into terrorist goals GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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elgium may be a boring country, but it still seems extreme for a Belgian politician to say that the country is now living through its darkest days since the end of the Second World War. Can any country really be so lucky that the worst thing that has happened to it in the past 70 years is a couple of bombs that killed 34 people?

That may sound a bit uncharitable, but respect for the innocent people killed by terrorists does not require us to take leave of our senses. What is happening now is the media feeding frenzy that has become almost a statutory requirement after every terrorist attack in the West.

And people do let themelves get wound up by the media-generated panic. Last night at dinner a young man, staying with us overnight in London before taking a morning flight to the United States, openly debated with himself about whether he should cancel his (non-refundable) ticket or not.

It was a ticket from London to Chicago that went nowhere near mainland Europe at all.

The airlines are just as prone to

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panic, cancelling flights into Belgium as if the country had suddenly become a seriously dangerous place. This story will dominate the Belgian media for weeks, and the rest of the Western media for the remainder of this week.

Even non-Western media will play it for a day or two. Almost nothing new or useful will be said, and then the frenzy will die down — until next time.

This is a very stupid way of behaving, but you will notice that I am a part of it. No matter what I say about the bombs in Brussels, the fact that I am writing at length about them in a column that appears all over the world contributes to the delusion that they are not only a nasty event but also an important one.

It is the sheer volume of coverage that determines an event’s perceived importance, not what is actually said about it. But if we in the media are compelled to write about an event like the Belgian bombs anyway, what can we truthfully say about it that will not feed the panic?

The first thing, after every terrorist attack, is to stress that the media coverage of the attack is its primary purpose — indeed, almost its only purpose. It’s obvious and it’s trite, but if you don’t actually say it people forget it. Like the health warning on cigarette packets, it should be part of every story on terrorism.

Secondly, we have to put the alleged “threat” of such terrorist attacks into

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perspective. People rarely do this for themselves, because once events are beyond the range of their daily experience most people cannot distinguish between what is truly dangerous and what is only dramatic and frightening.

It really does help to remind people that terrorism is a statistically insignificant risk — that they are in much greater danger of dying from a fall in the bath than of dying in a terrorist attack — even if that approach conflicts with the journalists’ natural urge to emphasise the importance of whatever they are writing about.

And finally, a little dispassionate analysis quickly deflates the notion that terrorism is “an existential threat” (as British prime minister David Cameron once said). For example, the recent terrorist attacks in Europe have been largely confined to French-speaking countries.

Muslim immigrants in France and Belgium mostly come from Arab countries, and especially from North Africa, where French is the second n. Radical Islamism is much weaker in the rest of the Muslim world, so Germany (whose Muslims are mostly Turkish) and Britain (where they are mostly of South Asian origin) generate fewer Islamist extremists than the francophone countries, and face fewer terrorist attacks.

France’s and Belgium’s Muslim citizens are also less integrated into the wider community. French housing pol-

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icy has dumped most of the immigrants in high-rise, low-income developments at the edge of the cities, often beyond the end of the metro lines. Unemployed, poorly educated and culturally isolated, their young men are more easily recruited into extremist groups.

The point of this sort of analysis is to cut the problem down to size. There is no terrorist army in Belgium, just a bunch of young men making it up as they go along. For example, the Brussells attacks happened four days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the gang who carried out the attacks on the Bataclan arena and the Stade de France in Paris last November.

Back in Brussels after failing to use his suicide vest in the Paris attack, Abdeslam was a psychological wreck, and his Islamist colleagues undoubtedly expected that once in police custody he would sing like a canary. So they decided to launch another attack and go to glory before the police kicked in their doors.

Prime Minister Charles Michel issued the usual ritual incantation about Belgians being “determined to defend our freedom,” but Belgium’s freedom is not at risk. Terrorists are not an existential threat. They are a lethal nuisance, but no more than a nuisance.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The ruling formally acquitting Jian Ghomeshi on several counts of sexual assault starkly illuminates the various flaws in a legal system that rarely dispenses justice to victims, lawyers and women’s groups said Thursday.

Most agreed that Justice William Horkins had little choice but to find the former CBC star not guilty on all charges given the evidence before him.

Horkins, citing devastating cross-examination that exposed sometimes stark inconsistencies in witness accounts and memories, said the shifting recollections of Ghomeshi’s three accusers left him with reasonable doubt as to whether the assaults took place.

University of Toronto law professor Brenda Cossman acknowledged that the witness testimony in the case was highly damaging, describing defence lawyer Marie Henein as “decimating” the stories each woman told on the stand.

But Cossman said the trial also highlighted the enormous pressure victims are under to live up to pre-conceived notions of how the ideal witness thinks and behaves, adding the approach summed up “everything that’s wrong” about the way in which sex assault laws are applied in the courtroom.

“The outcome isn’t surprising, but I think that the message being sent is pretty clear to potential future sexual assault complainants,” Cossman said.

“If there’s anything less than perfect in your behaviour before, during and after the sexual assault, don’t bother coming forward because your credibility will be decimated.”

Janine Benedet, co-director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies in Vancouver, said misleading statements in the courtroom were concerning, but mused on whether or not complete honesty would have made a difference in the trial outcome.

“There are two things here. There’s the information that was withheld or was lied about, then there is, was that information really relevant to whether we believe they’ve been sexually assaulted or not,” she said.

“It’s that second part that I think is concerning. There’s a reason why they were afraid for all that to come out, and part of it is because we judge women very harshly.”

Tamar Witelson, legal director of Metrac Action on Violence, is as concerned about the treatment potential victims face on the stand as they do on the street. The Ghomeshi trial, she said, vividly illustrated the humiliating process that awaits women who do decide to press ahead with charges.

“The complainants went through what appeared to be a pretty horrific experience,” Witelson said.

OTTAWA — The federal government will not appeal a Federal Court decision which struck down a ban on medicinal marijuana patients growing their own pot, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Thursday.

Speaking outside the Commons, Philpott said the government respects the February decision.

The ruling followed a constitutional challenge from four B.C. residents against a law passed by the Harper government, which they argued violated their charter rights.

In his decision to strike down the ban, Judge Michael Phelan suspended the ruling for six months to allow Ottawa to rewrite the law.

Philpott said Thursday the government will move to address medicinal marijuana regulations in response to the concerns of the court.

QUOTES “While many people have analyzed this trial and the events leading up to it in symbolic terms, what we want to say today is deeply personal. We are not speaking as, for or against women, but as members of a close family. It has been extremely painful for those of us who love him. Jian has, however, remained the person we know and love.

We hope that Jian and our family will be given the privacy and dignity to heal from a process that has been extremely difficult.” — Jila Ghomeshi, sister of Jian Ghomeshi, outside the courthouse

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“The question of violence against women, you know, is very, very important to me and I think there will be a lot of discussions and thoughtful proposals as we move forward on how we continue to demonstrate that violence against women in any type is unacceptable.” — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on CP24 “The charges that were before the court in this trial and the judge’s ruling are unrelated to our decision to end Jian Ghomeshi’s employment with CBC. Based on the evidence that came to our attention, Mr. Ghomeshi’s actions were not in line with the values of the public broadcaster nor with our employee code of conduct.” — Chuck Thompson, head of public affairs at CBC “Ghomeshi never denied choking + punching the survivors. Yet the women were put on trial.” — Toronto city Coun.

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A topless protester gets taken down by police outside of court in Toronto after she interrupted the Crown prosecutor regarding the verdict on former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi on Thursday. Ghomeshi was acquitted of all charges.

“So much gratitude to all the women who came forward to share their painful truths about .Ghomeshi. To the court, to the press, to each other.”

— Activist and author Naomi Klein on Twitter

TIMELINE Oct. 24, 2014: The CBC says Ghomeshi is taking an undetermined amount of time away from the network “to deal with some personal issues.”

Ghomeshi tweets: “Thanks for all the well wishes, you guys. I’m OK.” He says he is taking some “much needed personal time” away from the CBC. Oct. 26, 2014: The CBC announces it has cut ties with Ghomeshi, the host of the radio program “Q”, after receiving “information” about him. On the same day Ghomeshi issues a lengthy Facebook post saying he has engaged in rough sex, but says it was always consensual. He says he was fired from CBC because of the risk that his sex life would become public “as a result of a campaign of false allegations.”

Oct. 27, 2014: The Toronto Star publishes a report detailing allegations from three women who say Ghomeshi was physically violent to them without their consent before or during sexual encounters. Ghomeshi — through his lawyer — responds that he “does not engage in non-consensual role play or sex and any suggestion of the contrary is defamatory.”

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“At this point, I am not going to speculate as to what kind of regulations will be put in place or how the current regulations will be amended, but certainly we will take into respect every recommendation of the court decision,” Philpott said.

The government will ensure that those who require marijuana for medical purposes have appropriate access, she added. “Until such time as the amendments are put in place, the marijuana for medical purposes regulations will remain in effect,” she said.

“If people have an injunction that allows them to be able to grow for medical purposes, then those with an injunction will continue to be able to use that. Otherwise the licensed producers are the only organizations that are allowed to produce medical marijuana under these regulations.”

“Today, 1 in 4 women experience sexual assault or harassment and yet only 10 per cent report it. It’s the fear of not being believed that stops women from coming forward. I believe survivors…” — Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, in a statement issued moments before the verdict

and defamation and seeking $55 million plus special damages.

Nov. 25, 2014: The CBC says Ghomeshi has reached an agreement with the network to withdraw his $55-million lawsuit against the public broadcaster.

Nov. 26, 2014: Ghomeshi is charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of what is called “overcome resistance — choking.” He is granted bail. His lawyer, Marie Henein, says he will plead not guilty.

May 12, 2015: Crown prosecutor Michael Callaghan says two sexual assault charges are dropped against Ghomeshi because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

Oct. 1, 2015: Ghomeshi pleads not guilty to five charges, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcome resistance by choking.

Feb. 1, 2016: Ghomeshi’s judge-alone trial gets underway in Toronto.

March 24, 2016: Ghomeshi is acquitted on all charges of sexual assault and choking. Judge Horkins says he could not rely on the three complainants given their changing and shifting memories and evidence.

“This is why we don’t come forward.” — Sarah Dunsworth, actress on Trailer Park Boys and a friend of complainant, Lucy DeCoutere “Today I mourn for every single person who has been a victim of sexual abuse and been too afraid to come forward.” — Corner Gas actress Tara Spencer-Nairn “We know Justice Horkins, we have a great deal of respect for him, he’s an experienced jurist, but we just received the judgment. We’re going to have a chance over the long weekend to take a look at it, consider our position, but that’s all we have to say today.” — Crown attorney Michael Callaghan

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This came after the images of the children were circulated widely on social media.

Thirteen other children were expected to be flown out for assessment and possible treatment, but physicians were able to assist them on the reserve.

Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for the area, said he is pleased by the response, but there is remaining frustration in the community about deplorable living conditions.

“The community is flooded out year after year, the houses are substandard because of the damage they’ve suffered,” Angus said.

“This is what Third World poverty looks like when it is inflicted on children.”

The children being treated now may very well be sitting in an evacuation centre far from their home in mere weeks, Angus added.

“The problem we have is that this happens year after year,” he said.

In a statement Thursday, Health Minister Jane Philpott said she has been very concerned about the health of Kashechewan children.

She said she has been in frequent contact with Health Canada officials who have been working closely with community leaders.

Canada BRIEFS Daughter runs down and kills mother in Toronto parking lot, police allege TORONTO — Police allege that a 43-year-old woman ran down and killed her mother in a parking lot in north Toronto.

Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, police received a report for a woman who had been struck by a car outside a Leon’s Furniture store.

When they arrived, according to Const. Victor Kwong, 65-yearold Eleanor Campbell was on the ground and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Kwong said Campbell had been eating lunch in the car with the driver.

She then got out of the car and slowly walked across the parking lot with her walker when the vehicle accelerated and ran her down.

He said police have security video of the incident and aren’t looking for any suspects.

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Thomas Martens and Destiny Turner shown in this still image taken from video, make a brief appearance outside their home near Austin, Manitoba on Thursday. The distraught parents of a missing toddler in rural Manitoba have made a tearful plea to anyone with information to come forward.

Sponsorship program changes create confusion

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Hundreds of Canadians who’ve come together to sponsor Syrian refugees are being told it could be next year before their new charges arrive, after a series of changes to the Liberals’ resettlement program.

The original goal of bringing in 25,000 refugees has been met, but the next step is unclear.

Caps on applications this year, a decrease in staff handling those and the return of a controversial travel-loan program are all prompting questions about what is going on with a program

that once was priority one for the Liberal government.

“I think everybody assumed that the government was really interested in doing something serious about Syrian refugees and the 25,000 was just the start of it,” said former Toronto mayor John Sewell, who is part of a network of private sponsors which plans to hold an emergency meeting next week on the situation.

“It’s as though the government has just said, oh well, there’s the promise, it’s all over.”

The changes essentially reverse much of what the previous Conservative government and then the Liberals

did to respond to a surge in demand last fall for Canada to bring in more Syrians.

Staffing increases in the central processing office in Winnipeg and at missions overseas was the first step taken by the Tories and increased further when the Liberals took office, but they have now been cut back.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed on the issue Thursday but wouldn’t directly address the cuts.

“We continue to be engaged with the issue of Syrian refugees, making it a priority to continue to show that Canada is a strong and welcoming country,” he said.

who knew about the relationship between the mother and daughter and what that was like before the incident,” Kwong said.

Michelle Campbell was arrested Tuesday night and charged with second-degree murder.

Suspect in military stabbing case remanded in custody until next week TORONTO — A man charged in a double stabbing at an armed forces recruiting centre in Toronto was remanded in custody until next Wednesday.

Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27, appeared briefly in court Thursday dressed in a white T-shirt and grey pants.

His lawyer requested Ali receive medical attention as a precaution while in custody.

As Ali left the court, a crying woman pointed at him and said her son needed to eat. She declined to elaborate on her comments outside court.

Ali faces nine charges, including three counts of attempted murder, related to last week’s incident.

Two soldiers were slightly injured when a man with a knife attacked them. Police said the man said afterward that Allah told him to do it.

Ali was born in Montreal and moved to Toronto five years ago.

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Police tackled her to the ground, handcuffed her and took her back inside the courthouse. She was later released without charge.

Ghomeshi’s lawyer Marie Henein issued a statement late Thursday saying the verdict was just.

“Notwithstanding the unprecedented scrutiny and pressure, the case was determined on the evidence heard in a court of law, ” Henein’s statement said.

“In our system of justice, that is what must happen in every case regardless of who is accused or what crime is alleged. That is precisely what occurred in this case.”

The one-time host of the CBC radio show “Q,” who did not testify, had pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking involving three women. All three testified they were in a romantic encounter with him when he briefly turned violent in incidents dating back to 2002 and 2003.

In his ruling, Horkins took pains to stress the acquittal was not the same as saying definitively the events never happened. As is common in such cases, he said, there was “no smoking gun” and all he had to go on was the testimony of the three complainants.

However, he concluded, they lied, had been manipulative and hid pertinent information about the flirtatious and at times intimate contact they had with him following the alleged assaults. While he did not fault them for their “imperfect” memories,

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DUTHIE: Talk turned to NHL playoffs But the skilled storyteller did not waste the opportunity to give platitudes to the planned Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport.

Duthie, a Carleton University grad, talked about his time at the Ottawa university and how over the years it transformed into a contender from its rep as the “Last Chance U.” He said while the 2019 Canada Winter Games will not be on the same scale as the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, he said the sporting competitions and the legacy left behind will have a profound impact on the community.

“I’ve seen what a sports facility and or an event like the Canada Winter Games can do to a school, a community and a country,” said Duthie. “Not only for the athletes and sports fans … I really believe when you get a beautiful facility like that right on the highway where everybody can see it, it really becomes the heartbeat of a community.”

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he stressed their “suppression” of evidence and “deceptions” under oath made it difficult to trust them.

“The act of suppression of the truth will be as damaging to their credibility as a direct lie under oath,” Horkins said.

In addition, he said, the case showed the need for vigilance about the false assumption that sex-assault complainants are “always truthful.”

Lawyer Jacob Jesin, who spoke for one of the complainants, read a statement on behalf of his client in which she thanked her supporters. The trial, she said, allowed her to face Ghomeshi and tell her story publicly for the first time.

“I always understood that a conviction would be difficult,” she said in the statement. “The story may not have passed the high legal test for proof (but) it remains my position that the evidence of the substantive issues is truthful.”

Actress Lucy DeCoutere, the only complainant who can be named, and another complainant spoke Thursday evening at a second rally outside the courthouse. They expressed gratitude for the support they have received during what they called a difficult time.

Deb Singh, who works at a Toronto rape-crisis centre, called the acquittal disappointing but not surprising.

“This is not the first time the judge has used rape myths to get perpetrators off,” Singh said outside court.

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Dozens of women chanting, “We believe survivors!” gathered outside the courthouse in frigid conditions, condemning the verdict and what they called the unfair treatment of sexual assault victims by the justice system.

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TAKING IT ONE SERIES AT A TIME REBELS GM/HEAD COACH BRENT SUTTER DOESN’T WANT TO FOCUS BEYOND FIRST ROUND OPPONENT

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Though a long playoff run to the Memorial Cup would be nice, Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said they’re taking it one game and one series at a time.

“We’re focused on this first round, you can’t get caught up in all the stuff down the road and that’s been our mindset all year,” said Sutter. “We haven’t talked about May. Now that playoffs are here, we’re focused on our first opponent.

“You always want to be a winner in the league, but it’s no different than any other year. Your goal is still winning.”

To open the Western Hockey League Playoffs, the Rebels square off against the Calgary Hitmen. The Hitmen finished the season with a 42-26-2-2 record with 88 points, in third place in the Central Division.

They were five points back of the second place Rebels, 45-24-1-2 with 93 points.

During the regular season the Rebels and Hitmen met seven times, with Calgary winning four of the games.

The 7-2 win to close out the season was a nice way to end the season, said Sutter. He also pointed to the

two dominating wins over the Edmonton Oil Kings in the final home-and-home series.

“We were happy to get the two wins, unfortunately we didn’t get the job done before that series,” said Sutter.

“We had an opportunity to beat Calgary in our own building and when you look back now it was a blown chance to Brent Sutter maybe finish first in our division. Can’t do anything about that now. We know who our playoff opponent is and we focus in on that now, the regular season is over and playoffs are a whole different animal.”

That third last game of the year against the Calgary Hitmen wasn’t as close as the 4-2 score would suggest. Coming into the game the Rebels had a chance to move to within one point of the Lethbridge Hurricanes with a win.

The Rebels finished the season one point back of the Hurricanes, 46-24-1-1 and 94 points. The Hurricanes face the Regina Pats in their first round.

With the loss to the Hitmen on March 15, the Rebels assured themselves a first round meeting with the Hitmen. Sutter said there are really no surprises

left between the two teams.

“We know what they’re about, they know what we’re about,” said Sutter. “The games are competitive and it’s going to be a long, tough series. It’s going to be a lot of hard hockey.”

In a scheduling twist, the series will feature at least one game, and possibly two, at the Stampede Corral. The Saddledome schedule is filled with other events, necessitating the move to Calgary’s older rink. The teams will play game 3 at the Saddledome, while games 4 and 6 are scheduled for the nearby Corral.

Regardless of the outcome of the WHL post-season, the Rebels have a berth in the Memorial Cup as the host team.

“We know there’s a long road to get there and we have to focus in on game 1 of the playoffs and worry about game 2 when it gets here and worry about game three when it gets here and focus in on our first opponent,” said Sutter.

Game 1 starts at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Centrium.

Game 2 is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, also at the Centrium. The series then switches to Calgary on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Saddledome for game 3 and game 4 is scheduled for April 1 at the Stampede Corral at 7 p.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Martin ready to make first postseason start

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF To say the Red Deer Rebels and Calgary Hitmen are familiar with one another is an understatement.

After six regular season games, the two divisional rivals will take to the ice again in a best-of-seven series starting this Friday at the Centrium.

Making his first start in the post-season in the WHL, goalie Trevor Martin is preparing the way he always does.

“You have to approach it the same way,” said Martin. “It’s the same old game, the same rink and the same old puck.”

Rylan Toth has been sidelined with a lower body injury since, leaving Martin to handle backstopping duties. Dawson Weatherill, a callup from the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, has served as backup.

The 20-year-old Martin finished the season with an 18-8-1-1 record with a 2.63 Goals Against Average and a 0.911 Save Percentage.

“It’s what you want to be is the number 1 guy,” said Martin. “As a team we’ve all been playing really well and I think we’re ready to get the ball rolling in playoffs.

“Any time you get in the net you gain more confidence and that’s a big thing. Especially in practice you want to make sure you’re dialed in and ready to go.”

Martin credited Derek Robinson, a mental performance consultant for the team and a psychologist, with helping on the mental side of the game and shrugging off the bad or early goals.

He also lauded the defensive corps in front of him, who he called one of the best in the league.

Martin’s familiarity with the Hitmen has grown over the past month with three games against the rivals to the south.

“They have guys like (Jake) Bean and (Travis) Sanheim on the back end,” said Martin. “We’ve seen them quite a bit in the last little bit so I think we know what they do. They have (Keegan) Kanzig and (Colby) Hemsworth who shoot the puck with bodies in front and they’re blocking shots.

“Personally I have to fight through the traffic and manage with the bodies in front.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Rebel goaltender Trevor Martin dives on a rebound during second period action against the Calgary Hitmen at the Centrium on March 15. Martin was on the losing end that evening but is looking to lead the Rebels to four wins over the Hitmen in his first taste of WHL playoff action starting tonight.

Rebels vs. Calgary Hitmen Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Hitmen finished just five points back of the Rebels in the Central Division with a 42-26-2-2 record. They finished their season with a three game win streak, which included a 6-5 overtime win over the Kootenay Ice, preceded by a 5-2 win over the Ice and a 4-2 win over Red Deer … The Hitmen have relied on offence from their defence with Travis Sanheim (15 goals and 53 assists) and Jake Bean (24 goals and 40 assists) being second and third in team scoring.

From their forward corps centre Radel Fazleev leads the team (19 goals and 52 assists) and left winger Jakob Stukel leads the team in goals (36 goals and 24 assists) … Cody Porter is the Hitmen’s primary backstop, starting 41 games for them and finishing with a 0.885 save percentage and a 2.98 goals against average in his time with the Hitmen.

Injuries — Calgary: D Matt Dorsey (lower body, indefinite) and F Pavel Karnaukhoc (upper body, day-to-day); Red Deer: C Conner Bleackley (upper body, indefinite), F Reese Johnson (upper body, indefinite), D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite), F Evan Polei (upper body, week-to-week), F Taden Rattie (upper body, day-to-day) and G Rylan Toth (lower body, 1-3 weeks).

Special Teams — Calgary: Power play 23.1 per cent, fifth; penalty kill 81 per cent, sixth; Red Deer: Power play 22.5 per cent, seventh; penalty kill 77 per cent, 18th.

SCOUTING REPORT

EXPERT PREDICTIONS Predictions for the Red Deer Rebels vs.

Calgary Hitmen first round playoff series in the Western Hockey League

WHL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2) Friday’s game Spokane at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday’s game Spokane at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Victoria at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Victoria at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2) Thursday’s game Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Mar. 31 Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) Friday’s game Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Monday, Mar. 28 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 29 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1) Friday’s game Prince George at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday’s game Prince George at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.

Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) Friday’s game Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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

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

Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) Friday’s game Portland at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday’s game Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.

Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) Friday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game

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Greg Meachem, Red Deer Rebels website writer and retired Red Deer Advocate sports editor: Red Deer Rebels in seven games.

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Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m.

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

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Friday, March. 25, 2016

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A look at the rest of the Eastern Conference

BY THE WHL The 2016 WHL Playoffs opened last night in Brandon, MB as 16 WHL Clubs begin the quest to become the 50th WHL Champions and earn a spot in the 2016 MasterCard Memorial Cup in Red Deer.

In the WHL’s Eastern Conference, the Brandon Wheat Kings finished first and scored the most goals amongst all WHL Clubs. Can the defending Eastern Conference Champions return to the WHL Championship Series? Will the MasterCard Memorial Cup host Red Deer Rebels be able to get in through the front door in the face of injuries? Can the resurgent Lethbridge Hurricanes continue their strong play into late May? Or, will another Eastern Conference club make their statement in the post-season.

Here’s a look at the WHL’s Eastern Conference Round 1 match-ups:

BRANDON WHEAT KINGS vs. EDMONTON OIL KINGS 2015-16 regular season record Brandon: 48-18-4-2, 102pts (L10: 9-01-0) Edmonton: 29-36-6-1, 65pts (L10: 2-80-0) 2015-16 head-to-head record Brandon: 1-1-1-1, 6pts Edmonton: 3-1-0-0, 6pts 2015-16 head-to-head top scorers Brandon: Jayce Hawryluk — 3gp-1g-5a-6pts Tyler Coulter — 4gp-2g-3a-5pts Edmonton: Brett Pollock — 4gp-3g-5a-8pts Lane Bauer — 4gp-3g-2a-5pts

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The 2014 WHL and MasterCard Memorial Cup Champion Edmonton Oil Kings battled their way into the playoffs and earned the second Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference after defeating the Medicine Hat Tigers in a tiebreaker game by a score of 6-4.

Veteran forward Brett Pollock led the Club in scoring with 78 points (30g-48a) to go along with a plus-21 rating and four short-handed goals. The Oil Kings owned the ninth-best power play in the WHL with a success rate of 22.4%. Oil Kings defenceman Dyson Mayo and Aaron Irving were productive from an offensive stand point as they ranked third and fourth in Club scoring. Mayo collected 43 points (6g-37a) while Irving notched 40 points (9g-31a) and combined for nine power play goals.

Former Vancouver Giants Payton Lee will get the nod for Edmonton as starting goaltender Patrick Dea recovers from injury.

Lastly, Edmonton will be seeking vengeance as it was Brandon who eliminated the Oil Kings in Round 1 of the 2015 WHL Playoffs in five games.

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Defenceman Kayle Doetzel of the Red Deer Rebels attempts to steal the puck from centreman Jayce Hawryluk of the Brandon Wheat Kings during WHL action at the Centrium on February 2. The Wheat Kings enter the playoffs as the top seed in the Eastern Conference and the defending champions from the East are looking for a return trip to the WHL Championship.

PRINCE ALBERT RAIDERS vs. MOOSE JAW WARRIORS 2015-16 regular season record Prince Albert: 38-26-5-6, 84pts (L10: 4-6-0-0) Moose Jaw: 36-27-7-2, 81pts (L10: 4-50-1) 2015-16 head-to-head record Prince Albert: 2-5-1-0, 5pts Moose Jaw: 6-2-0-0, 12pts 2015-16 head-to-head top scorers Prince Albert: Jordan Tkatch: 8gp-2g-5a-7pts Moose Jaw: Dryden Hunt — 8gp-9g-6a-15pts Brayden Point — 7gp-7g-8a-15pts

Raiders

The Prince Albert Raiders head into the WHL Playoffs as the second seed in the East Division and finished with 84 points. In addition, Prince Albert collected the second most wins on home-ice with 23.

Led by Reid Gardiners’ 43 goals, the Raiders boasted four players who gathered at least 58 points. Gardiner finished eighth overall amongst all WHL skaters with 92 points (43g-49a) while defenceman Jesse Lees scored the second-most goals by defenceman with 23.

The Raiders own a 22-1-2-1 record when leading after two periods of play this season.

Veteran goaltender Rylan Parenteau and rookie netminder Ian Scott were solid for the Raiders this season as they combined to post 38 victories. Parenteau posted 25 wins and a 2.82 goals against average while Scott earned 13 victories and .892 save percentage.

Hunt had a consistent campaign as he recorded 58 goals along with 58 assists for 116 points. Hunt’s performance has earned him a nomination for the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as WHL Player of the Year.

Tampa Bay Lightning prospect and Warriors captain Brayden Point had a solid season on both ends of the ice as he registered 88 points (35g-53a) to go along with a plus-24 rating in only 48 games.

The Moose Jaw Warriors are productive on special teams as their power play ranked eighth in the League while their penalty killing finished seventh overall.

Expect Marc McNulty to play a significant role on the Warriors blue line.

Goaltender Zach Sawchenko posted 28 wins this season and the three-year veteran will get his first taste of playoff hockey.

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2015-16 regular season record Lethbridge: 46-24-1-1, 94pts (L10: 6-40-0) Regina: 36-28-3-5, 80pts (L10: 6-3-0-1) 2015-16 head-to-head record Lethbridge: 1-2-0-1, 3pts Regina: 3-1-0-0, 6pts 2015-16 head-to-head top scorers Lethbridge: Brayden Burke — 4gp-2g-11a-13pts Tyler Wong — 4gp-6g-5a-11pts Regina: Adam Brooks — 4gp-3g-7a-10pts Cole Sanford — 6gp-4g-4a-8pts

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The Moose Jaw Warriors return to the WHL Playoffs after an absence last season.

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The Hurricanes ended a six-year absence from the playoffs and their offence played a major role in their success. Brayden Burke led the Hurricanes in scoring this year with 109 points (27g-82a), which placed him third overall in WHL scoring. Featuring seven players with 20 or more goals and eight players with at least 50 points, Lethbridge is a potent offensive group.

The Hurricanes scored the second-most goals in the Eastern Conference with 304 while allowing the third-fewest goals against amongst all Eastern Conference clubs.

The Hurricanes enjoyed success on special teams this year, including a strong power play unit that was the WHL’s best with 86 goals scored and a 28.9% success rate. Andrew Nielsen ranked third amongst all WHL defenceman in scoring as he tallied 18 goals and 52 assists for 70 points.

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Jayce Hawryluk and Nolan Patrick head up an attack that ranked first in the WHL in regular season scoring and boasted seven players with 20 or more goals this season. Hawryluk finished fourth overall in WHL scoring with 106 points (47g-59a) while playing in just 58 games. Patrick was not too far behind as he placed fifth overall in WHL scoring with 102 points (41g-61a) in 72 games played. Not bad for a player that isn’t draft-eligible until 2017.

Philadelphia Flyers prospect Ivan Provorov was solid on the blue-line all season long as the native of Yaroslavl, Russia finished first in scoring amongst defencemen with 73 points (21g-52a) and also posted a league-best plus-64 rating.

The Wheat Kings ranked second in the Eastern Conference and fourth overall in power play efficiency, executing on 23.4% of their chances. The Wheat Kings also posted a record of 43-11-3-2 when they outshot their opponent this season.

Goaltender Jordan Papirny has been steady all season long for the Wheat Kings as he posted a record of 31-17-4-2 to go along with a 2.61 goals against average, a .910 save percentage and six shutouts.

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KAMLOOPS HOSTING THE IIHF WOMEN’S WORLDS FORCED THE BLAZERS TO FIND A NEW VENUE FOR THEIR GAMES AGAINST THE ROCKETS

BY GREGG DRINNAN THECOACHESSITE.COM A lot has been said and written about the fact that the Kamloops Blazers are going to play a hockey game in Memorial Arena next week.

At the same time, the Blazers can’t lose track of their having to play two games before Game 3 of their first-round WHL playoff series gets Kamloops.

The Blazers, who finished third in the B.C. Division, and the second-place Kelowna Rockets are scheduled to open a best-of-seven series at Prospera Place in the Little Apple on Friday night. Game 2 is scheduled for Saturday night.

The series then shifts to Kamloops, with Game 3 to be played in Memorial Arena, which opened for business in 1948.

With the IIHF World Women’s Championship opening in the Blazers’ home arena, the Sandman Centre, on Monday, Kamloops was forced to find a different venue for its first home playoff date since the spring of 2013.

The Blazers last played in Memorial Arena on May 5, 1992. Zac Boyer scored three goals and added two assists, while Scott Niedermayer scored once and drew three assists, in an 8-0 victory over the Saskatoon Blades in front of 2,951 fans. Goaltender Corey Hirsch stopped 22 shots for the shutout. It was Game 7 of the WHL’s best-of-seven championship series.

The Blazers went on to win the Memorial Cup, their first of three in a magnificent four-year run.

Lorne Molleken, who spent the first 70 games of this WHL season as the head coach of the Vancouver Giants, was the Blades’ head coach in 1991-92. He remembers playing four games in Memorial Arena against the Tom Renney-coached Blazers.

“I don’t think the Blazers carried the puck into our zone once in four games,” Molleken said. “It was get it over the centre line, dump it in and then get on our defence.”

According to the City, the Memorial Arena ice surface is 80 feet wide and 190 feet long, while it is 85x200 at the Sandman Centre. Most of the difference in length is in the neutral zone.

Today’s Blazers aren’t strangers to Memorial Arena, as they have practised there on occasion. They also spent the first three days of this week there.

Until recently, the Blazers hadn’t had a whole lot of regular-season success against the Rockets.

The Blazers won each of the last three meetings this season, to finish 3-4-1 against Kelowna. Each team won once in OT, so the Rockets were 5-2-1.

The last time it was a true rivalry was in 2012-13 when the Blazers won the series, 6-4-0, and then swept the Rockets from a second-round playoff series. The Blazers won the first two games at home, both being decided in OT, then went into Kelowna and won, 5-1 and 4-2.

This will be the sixth postseason meeting between these franchises and, if history is any indication, the series may not last long — four of the first five ended in sweeps. The Blazers swept the Rockets in 1992 (they were the Tacoma Rockets then), took out Kelowna in six games in 1999, and pulled off a sweep in 2013. Kelowna swept Kamloops in 2002 and 2009.

Some people are casting the Blazers as favourites for a few reasons.

The Blazers are 22-10-5 since Jan. 1, while the Rockets are 21-11-2; Kamloops won each of the last three games between these teams; and the Rockets are missing starting goaltender Jackson Whistle (hip) and forward Nick Merkley (knee), their leading scorer. Both have undergone surgery and won’t play again this season.

But let’s not forget that the Rockets are the defending champions. The last time a WHL team won back-to-back championships? The Blazers did it in 1994 and 1995.

If the Rockets are to repeat, then, they will have to get past the Blazers.

Gregg Drinnan is a former sports editor of the Regina Leader-Post and the late Kamloops Daily News. He is at greggdrinnan@gmail.com and twitter.com/gdrinnan.

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The Red Deer Rebels show their enthusiasm as they pose for a team photo around the trophy after defeating the Val-d’Or Foreurs to win the Memorial Cup championship in Regina, Sask. on May 27, 2001. The Rebels start their WHL playoff run tonight but will get another crack at hoisting the Memorial Cup no matter what happens as they are hosts for this year’s Canadian major junior hockey championship.

WHL FINAL STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt z-Brandon 72 48 18 4 2 319 197 102 x-PrinceAlbert 72 38 26 7 1 222 223 84 x-Moose Jaw 72 36 27 7 2 249 239 81 x-Regina 72 36 28 3 5 243 253 80 Swift Current 72 24 38 7 3 189 249 58 Saskatoon 72 26 42 4 0 219 318 56 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt y-Lethbridge 72 46 24 1 1 304 218 94 x-Red Deer 72 45 24 1 2 260 205 93 x-Calgary 72 42 26 2 2 246 219 88 Medicine Hat 72 30 37 3 2 223 287 65 Edmonton 72 29 36 6 1 197 238 65 Kootenay 72 12 53 6 1 155 320 31 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt z-Victoria 72 50 16 3 3 281 166 106 x-Kelowna 72 48 20 4 0 269 218 100 x-Kamloops 72 38 25 5 4 237 218 85 x-PrinceGeorge 72 36 31 3 2 240 225 77 Vancouver 72 23 40 5 4 199 273 55 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL 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

WHL Scoring leaders G Adam Brooks, Reg 38 Dryden Hunt, MJ 58 Brayden Burke, Let 27 Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn 47 Nolan Patrick, Bdn 41 Parker Bowles, TC 39 Tyson Baillie, Kel 43 Reid Gardiner, PA 43 Alex Forsberg, Vic 31

A 82 58 82 59 61 57 52 49 60

Pts 120 116 109 106 102 96 95 92 91

Tyler Wong, Let Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Tyler Soy, Vic Jack Walker, Vic Ivan Nikolishin, RD Chase Witala, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Brett Pollock, Edm Matthew Phillips, Vic Jesse Gabrielle, PG

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46 53 61 39 48 51 39 42 48 39 35

89 88 88 85 84 82 79 79 78 76 75

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Wild walk over Flames

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wild 6 Flames 2 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Zach Parise took advantage of getting a day off to rest and gave the Minnesota Wild’s playoff chances a big boost.

Parise scored three times for his third hat trick of the season and added an assist as the Wild beat the Calgary Flames 6-2 on Thursday night, spoiling goalie Niklas Backstrom’s return to Minnesota.

Jared Spurgeon scored two power-play goals as Minnesota, which holds a three-point advantage over Colorado for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, matched a season high with its fourth straight victory.

After being held out of Wednesday’s practice for what interim coach John Torchetti described as “maintenance,” Parise got his three goals in a span of 11 minutes, 12 seconds of the first period, the fastest three goals by a player in franchise history.

Parise had totalled two goals in his previous 25 games and reportedly has been dealing with an unspecified injury.

“Of course,” Parise said when asked if he felt some relief following the three-goal output. “You work hard and when things aren’t going well, it’s tough. It feels good when it shifts the other way.”

Backstrom, the Wild’s all-time leader in wins and shutouts, made 23 saves for Calgary in his second game after being acquired by the Flames at the trade deadline. Johnny Gaudreau scored his 28th goal and rookie Jakub Nakladal added his second.

“It was weird, but you can’t really hide behind that,” Backstrom said.

“You have to find a way to be out there and play at your best every night and be ready in every situation. At the end of the day you just have to find a way.”

Parise reached the 20-goal mark for the eighth time in his 11-year career by becoming the first Wild player to record three goals in a period. He became the first player with three hat tricks in the NHL this season.

“That’s something special in this league, and to do it in one period is

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Calgary Flames’ Joe Colborne, center, tries to work a rebound as Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk and Marco Scandella, left, defend in the first period of an NHL game, Thursday, in St. Paul, Minn. pretty crazy,” said Spurgeon, who set a career-high with his ninth and 10th goals of the season. “You could tell from the first shift he was going out there. The team followed, that’s for sure.”

Backstrom was warmly greeted by his former teammates a day earlier when he arrived at the arena during practice. A day later, the reunion wasn’t as sweet.

A video tribute was shown on the Xcel Energy Center’s videoboard shortly after Parise’s second goal.

Backstrom was a free-agent signing out of Finland in 2006 and went on to become the franchise’s leader in games played and started. Minnesota traded Backstrom and a sixth-round draft pick for forward David Jones.

Backstrom earned the start, in part, because he made 21 saves to win his Flames debut on Sunday in his first game since Jan. 13, 2015, for the Wild.

“I felt that then he settled down,” Calgary coach Bob Hartley said of Backstrom. “I didn’t want to pull him.

Tonight, it was his show. It was in front

of his fans. I thought that he deserved it. A tough start cost us, and then their power play went to work.”

Nino Niederreiter scored his fifth goal in seven games and goalie Devan Dubnyk had 31 saves for the Wild, who visit Colorado on Saturday.

“This might come down to the last period of the last game of the year, so that’s what we’re focused on,” Torchetti said. “But we’re game-by-game.

We’re not worried about who our next opponent was when we’ve got a game in front of us.”

Canada earns playoff spot after win over Scotland

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Chelsea Carey wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice.

The Canadian skip made a raised takeout for four points to beat Scotland’s Eve Muirhead 9-4 in nine ends on Thursday night and advance to the 3-4 Page playoff at the women’s curling world championship.

Muirhead got a steal of one in the eighth end when Carey missed a raised double takeout, only driving one Scottish rock out of the house to make it 5-4. That set the stage for Carey’s winning shot in the ninth.

“I was thinking ‘I’d missed it in the last end and I’m not going to miss it again,”’ said Carey with a laugh. “I mean I’d just thrown it so it was the same throw, nice clean throw and lots of deep breaths and kind of let your body do what you’ve trained it to do when I’m at the rink throwing hundreds of rocks a week.”

After Scotland conceded Carey, third Amy Nixon, second Jocelyn Peterman and lead Laine Peters all hugged by the hog line of their sheet as play in other games continued around them. The largely Canadian crowd at Credit Union iPlex roared its approval.

“That’s easily the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced right there,” said Carey. “The crowd is just amazing. I mean come on, it doesn’t get better than that in sports, I don’t think.

“It’s been absolutely incredible. Bar none, the best thing I’ve ever experienced.”

Although it was their last game of the round-robin portion of the tournament, it served as a virtual tiebreaker with the teams sharing identical 7-3 records heading into the match. Canada faces Russia’s Anna Sidorova (8-3) on Saturday afternoon in the 3-4 Page playoff.

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Team Canada skip Chelsea Carey makes a shot during the 17th draw against Scotland at the women’s world curling championship in Swift Current, Sask. Thursday.

“I don’t even know, are we third or fourth?” asked Nixon, who laughed when she was asked if it mattered.

Canada finished the round robin in fourth place.

Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher (9-2) will face Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa (9-2) in the 1-2 Page playoff on Fri-

day night. The semifinal will be Saturday night with the bronze-medal game and final on Sunday.

Carey opened against Scotland with a single on a draw just past the button in the first end. Muirhead responded with a single in the next end, making a difficult shot through a crowded house for a tap out.

Canada tapped out in the third for a single to make it 2-1.

A scoreless fourth kept the hammer for Scotland, with Muirhead taking advantage with a single in the fifth to tie it 2-2.

Carey scored three with an easy draw in the sixth after Muirhead was too light on a takeout attempt.

The play gave Canada a 5-2 lead. Muirhead replied with a single in the seventh to set up the dramatics of the eighth and ninth ends.

Canada was put in the must-win situation against Scotland after a stunning 11-2 loss in six ends to Japan earlier Thursday. With only two hours to regroup, the Calgary-based rink returned to their hotel to clear their minds.

“We all sat on beds in Chelsea’s room between games and we had some powerful moments,” said Nixon. “Some swear words, some high fives, some tears and everything around the block.

“It was a very powerful moment for our team.”

Fujisawa opened with a deuce in the first end, then took a 4-0 lead after Carey tapped a high guard while Fujisawa was sitting two.

A Canadian hit and roll in the third chipped away at Japan’s lead, but Fujisawa replied with a double in the fourth to make it 6-1. Carey added a single in the fifth with an easy draw in. Japan used a single takeout in the sixth end to score five with Carey and her teammates offering handshakes.

It’s only the third time Japan has made the playoffs at the women’s world championships and the first time they’ve made the 1-2 Page playoff.

Loney to add local flavour to RDC Queens next season DANNY RODE LOCAL SPORT Besides building a championship team, RDC Queens basketball head coach Ken King would love to add local talent.

“We’d love to add girls from Red Deer and Central Alberta,” he said.

“We are trying to make sure we can do our part to grow interest in the game and the quality of the game here.”

King will add one of the top players out of Central Alberta next season with the addition of Hunting Hills star forward Kristen Loney.

The 17-year-old has the size, strength, athletic ability and overall desire for the game to step in at the next level.

“Kristen has an athletic build and attitude to help her develop once she gets to college,” added King. “She will

have the opportunity to grow a lot playing against a lot of competitive people in practice and in a different atmosphere.”

Loney indicated she will also play with the newly formed U18 Queens Club team.

“Playing club and practising with us at the college it will give her a chance to develop in the off season,” said King, who likes the fact she enjoys playing inside.

“That’s huge in that she likes the physicality and doesn’t allow that physicality to affect her emotions, which will serve her well.”

“I’ve always played inside and enjoy that part of the game … I feel rebounding is a strength,” she said.

Loney was born and raised in Red Deer and got into basketball in Grade 5.

“I had two brothers who played and that’s the reason I got into it,” she explained.

She also plays volleyball, soccer, handball and runs cross-country, but decided to try to play post-secondary in basketball while in Grade 9.

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“We had an awesome team, coached

by Jody Potts,” she said. “We were so close as a team that year and most of the same girls carried on to Grade 12.

‘The other sports I enjoy but mainly got into them because my friends were doing them.”

Although she likes playing inside, Loney, who is listed at close to six-foot, attended point guard camps in Seattle the last two years.

“I know it was for guards, but I just kind of showed up anyway,” she Kristen Loney said with a laugh. “But it was good. I handled the ball a lot and in college I won’t be the tallest so I have to have other strengths as well, other than just being tall.”

Loney played in the high school 4A basketball playoffs in Red Deer last weekend and also in the 3A-4A Senior

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Bowl at RDC on Monday. She had 17 points in the Senior Bowl and was one of the leaders during the provincials, which saw the Lightning finish tied for 13th.

“We wanted to play better, but it was an awesome experience,” she said. “It was nice playing against tough teams. We went in (ranked 14th) and were hoping to finish higher and technically we did.”

Loney indicated she learned a thing or two at the provincials.

“I realized I needed to step up my game against tough competition,” she said. “You have to work harder to get better. One thing I did learn is that I need to finish better. It kind of gets in my head and I don’t finish as much as I want.”

She hopes to continue to work on that with the club program, prior to joining the Queens.

“The more I get to play the better,” she said.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Football community mourns Van Loon

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A titan of football in Red Deer — as a coach, referee and league founder — Ken Van Loon died late last week.

The long time volunteer wore many hats coaching Grade 9 basketball and junior football at Lindsay Thurber as well as the Red Deer Packers, a former Alberta Junior Football League team.

A teacher, Van Loon, 71 at the time of his death, started at Eastview Middle School and taught at Lindsay Thurber.

While at Eastview Middle School he also coached track and field and basketball.

He officiated football and basketball games and founded and became president of the Central Alberta Football Officials Association.

He, Jay Hetherington and Gino Castellan helped found three foot-

ball leagues in Central Alberta at the bantam, pee wee and atom levels. They rearranged the bantam program to get two of the high schools involved and founded the pee wee and atom leagues that still run today.

Ken Van Loon “Ken, above all, was a good citizen,” said Hetherington. “He was passionate about kids and sports and the good it can do for them.

Hetherington, president of Football Alberta, collaborated with Ken as both a colleague, Hetherington was the guidance counsellor at Lindsay Thurb-

er, and a shared passion for football.

“He loved to organize things and see things happen,” said Hetherington.

“He loved to take a concept and make it happen.”

Hetherington described Ken’s referee style as “a little bit different.” Ken was never able to shed his coaching mentality as he would always teach, even as a referee.

“He would throw a flag and then say ‘I’m not throwing the flag this time. But it’s because you did this and I could have thrown the flag. If you do that again I will.’”

His son Roger spent some of his childhood on the sidelines as a ball boy.

“He took me to games and practices all the time,” said Roger. “When he was the assistant coach for Lindsay Thurber, I remember being on the sidelines with him as a ball boy. I got to be there watching, going to practices

Dickey roughed up but Blue Jays down Tigers

and even close road games.

“It was like an extended family, the players look after you.”

Roger said Ken has battled to stay alive for the last four months. He died on March 18.

Roger described Ken as “very passionate” when it came to football. Ken taught physical education.

“He cared for his kids too,” said Roger. “He loved us.”

In 2011, Ken was given a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to sport in the community by the Sports Council of Red Deer. He was also awarded a lifetime membership to Football Alberta in recognition of his contribution to the sport and officiating.

While a student at the University of Alberta, he was on the 1967 Vanier Cup winning Golden Bears football team. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

OILERS SINK SHARKS

SPRING TRAINING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey was roughed up for four runs in five innings Thursday, and the Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers 6-4.

After quickly retiring the Tigers in order in the first, the 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner allowed two runs in the second on a single by James McCann and a throwing error by centre fielder Kevin Pillar.

Jose Iglesias hit an RBI single against Dickey in the fourth. Nick Castellanos homered in the fifth.

The 41-year-old Dickey yielded eight hits, walked one and struck out five on 100 pitches. He has a 5.02 ERA in four exhibition games.

“I couldn’t really be more pleased with today’s outing,” he said. “You know, you try not to look at the results, really. And in a scenario like that, I wanted to get to 100 pitches and was able to do that. I was able to maintain my velocity through pitch 100 and felt great — could have gone right back out there.”

Justin Smoak hit his fourth homer of spring training, connecting off starter Matt Boyd.

Blue Jays star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who left Wednesday’s game against the Mets after being hit on the right hand with a pitch, took the day off. He said he will hit in the batting cage Friday and could return to the lineup before the end of the week.

“It was obviously scary for me because when you get hit in the hand, anything can happen,” Tulowitzki said. “Luckily, everything is OK.”

STARTING TIME Tigers: Boyd struggled through 3 1-3 innings, allowing four runs — three earned — and seven hits.

The right-hander walked two and struck out three.

Blue Jays: Dickey said he expects to make one more start on the minor league side to fine tune before the season.

“Much like a marathoner, you’re just kind of tapering,” he said. “So instead of running a full marathon, I’ll probably run a 5K or something — a two-or three-inning thing just to make sure all the parts are working like they should and then it’ll be time to go.

I’ll be ready.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Tigers: RHP Daniel Norris (back tightness) will start the season on the disabled list and is scheduled to visit a specialist for further tests, manager Brad Ausmus said. Norris, who was in competition for the fifth spot in the starting rotation, was removed from Tuesday’s loss to Toronto in the first after just 26 pitches.

Blue Jays: 1B/DH Edwin Encarnacion (strained oblique) will take batting practice Friday and should play in a minor league game within the next couple days. Manager John Gibbons said the slugger is still on track to play in the April 3 opener at Tampa Bay, but any further delays will alter that outlook.

“We should be able to pull it off, but if he’s not going to be ready, then he won’t be ready,” Gibbons said. “At this moment, the way everything is set up, he should be okay.”

SOME KIND OF BLUNDERFUL To say Pillar’s first-inning run for Toronto came in an unconventional matter would be an understatement.

After Pillar singled leading off the game, Boyd had him picked off at first base, but Iglesias bobbled the throw at second. Then, Boyd caught Pillar again, but the throw to third sailed past Castellanos’ glove into left field, allowing Pillar to come all the way around to score with ease.

UP NEXT Tigers: Shane Greene gets his third start Friday against the Braves in Lakeland. The right-hander has 14 strikeouts in 13 2-3 innings, including four in his last outing, also against Atlanta.

Blue Jays: Marco Estrada is to make his second start, against the Phillies in Clearwater. The righthander, who was sidelined the first four weeks of with a sore back, allowed two runs against Pittsburgh on Sunday.

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San Jose Sharks’ Tommy Wingels (57) collides with Edmonton Oilers’ Griffin Reinhart (8) and Oilers goalie Cam Talbot (33) during an NHL game Thursday,in San Jose, Calif. Patrick Maroon scored the go-ahead goal and assisted on another in Edmonton’s four-goal second period that carried the Oilers to a 6-3 victory over the Sharks. Lauri Korpokoski, Taylor Hall and Adam Clendening also scored in the big second that made sure Oilers coach Todd McLellan wouldn’t have to watch his old team clinch a playoff berth. Jordan Eberle added an insurance goal in the third and Hall added an empty-netter as Edmonton earned its first regulation win in San Jose since Jan. 13, 2011. Cam Talbot made 22 saves.

Nicholson, Johnson receive RDC leadership scholarships

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A positive role model for female athletes and a basketball player with a “get it done” attitude scored big at the 13th annual Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast on Thursday.

Casey Nicholson, 23, captain of the Queens hockey team and Matt Johnson, 21, captain of the Kings basketball team were tapped for the Student-Athlete Leadership Scholarships.

Nicholson said she is going to take a lot away from her RDC experience.

“I’ve learned perseverance, resilience, relentless work ethic,” said Nicholson. “This program has given me more than I ever could have given it. I am so honoured to have been recognized.”

Next year Nicholson will either attend the University of Calgary or the University of Alberta to finish her kinesiology degree and later obtain her Masters in adapted physical education.

Johnson said his time over the last four years has been incredible. Johnson said coming straight out of high school into a top program like the one offered at RDC was amazing. Johnson said he has learned many things from his collegiate career and the leadership opportunities along the way.

Johnson will graduate this year with a business administration degree from Mount Royal.

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RDC student athletes Casey Nicholson, 23, and Matt Johnson, 21, took home scholarships at the 13th annual Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast on Thursday.

Athletic Director Diane St-Denis said the student-athletes are leaders at the college, the Athletics program and the community.

She said the breakfast is a wonderful opportunity to profile the student-athletes and the programs and to remind people why their support is appreciated and where it is going.

“It’s all about the student athletes,” said St-Denis. “This is a great opportunity for them to enhance their learning at the college, get those skills that they

WHL PLAYOFFS

Oil Kings score three in third period to rally past Wheat Kings THE CANADIAN PRESS BRANDON, Man. — Ben Carroll and Jesse Roach scored just over three minutes apart in a three-goal third period on Thursday as the Edmonton Oil Kings rallied past the Brandon Wheat Kings 4-2 in Game 1

can’t really get in the classroom and take that to the next level when they get their careers. It’s important for us to remind folks you’re not just donating money, you are also helping someone develop themselves into that next level in their lives.”

The Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast has raised more than $280,000 for the Athletic Leadership Fund since its inception. It helps student-athletes pursue education and passion for playing collegiate sports.

of their first round Western Hockey League playoff series.

Brandon Baddock also found the back of the net in the third for Edmonton, which squeaked into the post-season with a tiebreaker win over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Tuesday. Andrew Koep had a goal in the first.

Reid Duke opened the scoring nine seconds into the first period and Nolan Patrick added another before the end of the period for the Wheat Kings.

Brandon entered the playoffs as the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

Payton Lee made 39 saves for the win. Jordan Papirny kicked out 25-of-29 shots in defeat.

The Oil Kings were scoreless on their lone power-play opportunity while Brandon was 0 for 3.

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WHL 2016 Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2) (Edmonton leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Edmonton 4 Brandon 2 Friday’s game Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Mar. 31 Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 3 x-Brandon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) Friday’s game Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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

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

NHL

Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) Friday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Saturday’s game Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 74 41 24 9 91 Tampa Bay 73 42 26 5 89 Boston 75 39 28 8 86 Detroit 74 37 26 11 85 Ottawa 75 34 33 8 76 Montreal 75 34 35 6 74 Buffalo 74 30 34 10 70 Toronto 73 27 35 11 65

GF 211 202 219 190 214 199 176 180

GA 182 173 206 199 230 216 200 214

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 72 52 15 5 109 74 42 24 8 92 73 40 25 8 88 72 39 24 9 87 73 36 24 13 85 74 36 31 7 79 74 32 28 14 78 74 30 36 8 68

GF 231 212 204 200 192 169 180 193

GA 170 194 182 182 195 189 200 228

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts x-Dallas 75 44 22 9 97 St. Louis 74 43 22 9 95 Chicago 74 42 25 7 91 Nashville 74 38 23 13 89 Minnesota 75 36 28 11 83 Colorado 74 38 32 4 80 Winnipeg 74 31 37 6 68

GF 243 195 205 205 202 200 190

GA 216 185 185 189 189 208 217

z-Washington N.Y. Rangers Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Columbus

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Los Ang. 74 44 25 5 93 200 171 x-Anaheim 73 40 23 10 90 190 174 San Jose 74 41 27 6 88 217 192 Arizona 74 33 34 7 73 195 220 Calgary 74 31 37 6 68 204 234 Vancouver 73 27 33 13 67 169 210 Edmonton 77 30 40 7 67 189 226 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot, z-clinched conference

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, Ottawa 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, Boston 2

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

Saturday’s game Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Nashville 3, Vancouver 2, SO Florida 4, Boston 1 New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 0 Carolina 3, Columbus 2 Toronto 6, Anaheim 5, OT Detroit 4, Montreal 3

Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) x-Switzerland (Feltscher) x-Japan (Fujisawa) x-Russia (Sidorova) x-Canada (Carey) Scotland (Muirhead) U.S. (E.Brown) South Korea (Kim) Denmark (Nielsen) Sweden (Sigfridsson) Germany (Driendl) Finland (Kauste) Italy (Apollonio) x — clinched playoff berth.

W 9 9 8 8 7 6 5 5 4 3 1 1

L 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 10 10

Thursday’s results Draw 15 Japan 10 Scotland 4 Russia 8 Germany 3

South Korea 7 Italy 5 Sweden 10 Finland 3 Draw 16 Japan 11 Canada 2 Russia 10 Denmark 7 (extra end) Switzerland 5 Italy 4 United States 8 Finland 3 Draw 17 Canada 9 Scotland 4 Denmark 8 Germany 4 Switzerland 7 South Korea 5 United States 5 Sweden 4 (extra end) End of Round Robin Wednesday’s results Draw 12 Japan 8 Germany 1 Scotland 7 Russia 1 South Korea 9 Finland 6 Sweden 11 Italy 5 Draw 13 South Korea 8 Canada 7 Sweden 6 Denmark 2 Switzerland 7 Scotland 6 United States 7 Germany 4 Draw 14

Saturday’s Games Winnipeg at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, noon.

Minnesota at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 2 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Anaheim at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Wild 6, Flames 2 First Period 1. Minnesota, Parise 20 (Reilly, Koivu) 5:21.

2. Minnesota, Parise 21 (Coyle, Koivu) 6:07.

3. Calgary, Gaudreau 28 (Monahan, Giordano) 10:35 (pp).

4. Minnesota, Parise 22 (Suter, Koivu) 16:33 (pp).

Penalties — Koivu Minn (tripping) 10:27 Monahan Cgy (hooking) 16:22.

Second Period 5. Calgary, Nakladal 2 (Stajan, Wotherspoon) 6:25.

6. Minnesota, Spurgeon 9 (Coyle, Parise) 8:30 (pp).

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (hooking) 8:00 Pominville Minn (slashing) 14:01 Dubnyk Minn (tripping) 15:54.

Third Period 7. Minnesota, Spurgeon 10 (unassisted) 13:42.

8. Minnesota, Niederreiter 19 (Pominville, Haula) 16:11.

Penalties — Bennett Cgy (high-sticking) 4:24 Reilly Minn (tripping) 6:16 Koivu Minn (high-sticking) 8:50 Bollig Cgy (delay of game) 12:44 Bollig Cgy (hooking) 13:59.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 16 8 — 33 Minnesota 10 8 11 — 29 Goal — Calgary: Backstrom (L, 1-1-0). Minnesota: Dubnyk (W, 30-22-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-5 Minnesota: 3-5.

Oilers 6, Sharks 3 First Period 1. San Jose, Wingels 7 (Polak, Spaling) 3:47.

2. San Jose, Pavelski 35 (Thornton, Couture) 11:41 (pp).

Penalties — Nurse Edm, Haley SJ (fighting) 3:11 Kassian Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct) 11:05 Gazdic Edm (holding) 14:19.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Korpikoski 10 (Clendening, Letestu) 1:39.

4. Edmonton, Hall 24 (unassisted) 8:18.

5. Edmonton, Clendening 1 (Maroon, Nurse) 9:03.

6. San Jose, Marleau 21 (Thornton, Burns) 12:26 (pp).

7. Edmonton, Maroon 7 (McDavid, Yakupov) 18:04.

Penalties — Maroon Edm (slashing) 11:45 Kassian Edm (boarding, served by Draisaitl) 14:55 Kassian Edm (game misconduct) 14:55 Kassian Edm (misconduct) 14:55.

Third Period 8. Edmonton, Eberle 24 (Maroon, Sekera) 12:54.

9. Edmonton, Hall 25 (Sekera, Draisaitl) 19:54 (en).

Penalties — Karlsson SJ (boarding) 17:08.

Shots on goal Edmonton 4 9 9 — 22 San Jose 12 9 5 — 26 Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (W, 20-25-4). San Jose: Reimer (L, 14-14-7).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-1 San Jose: 2-4.

Canada 7 Finland 1 Denmark 7 Italy 5 Japan 7 United States 4 Russia 6 Switzerland 3 PLAYOFFS Friday’s game Page Playoffs One vs. Two Switzerland (Feltscher) vs. Japan (Fujisawa), 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games Page Playoffs Three vs. Four Russia (Sidorova) vs. Canada (Carey), 2 p.m.

Semifinal Switzerland-Japan Loser vs. Russia-Canada Winner, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s games Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Russia-Canada Loser, 10 a.m.

Championship Switzerland-Japan Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 3 p.m.

GROUP 2 Thursday Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Thongchai Jaidee (36), Thailand, 5 and 3.

Paul Casey (23), England, halved with Graeme McDowell (62), Northern Ireland.

Standings Day 2-0-0, Thongchai 1-1-0, McDowell 0-1-1, Casey 0-1-1.

GROUP 3 Thursday Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, def. Smylie Kaufman (46), United States, 3 and 1.

Kevin Na (26), United States, def. Thorbjorn Olesen (64), Denmark, 3 and 2.

Standings McIlroy 2-0-0, Na 2-0-0, Olesen 0-2-0, Kaufman 0-2-0.

GROUP 4 Thursday Bubba Watson (4), United States, def. Emiliano Grillo (33), Argentina, 2 up.

J.B. Holmes (21), United States, halved with Patton Kizzire (63), United States Standings Watson 1-0-1, Grillo 1-1-0, Kizzire 0-0-2, Holmes 0-1-1.

GROUP 5 Thursday Rickie Fowler (5), United States, halved with Scott Piercy (47), United States.

Byeong-Hun An (27), South Korea, def. Jason Dufner (58), United States, 2 up.

Standings An 1-0-1, Dufner 1-1-0, Piercy 0-0-2, Fowler 0-1-1.

GROUP 6 Thursday Adam Scott (6), Australia, def. Chris Wood (41), England, 3 and 2.

Bill Haas (30), United States, def. Thomas Pieters (55), Belgium, 4 and 2.

Standings Haas 2-0-0, Scott 1-0-1, Pieters 0-1-1, Wood 0-2-0.

Cabrera-Bello 2-0-0, Matsuyama 1-1-0, Kisner 1-10, Kjeldsen 0-2-0

GROUP 7 Thursday Justin Rose (7), England, halved with Anirban Lahiri (48), India.

Matt Kuchar (28), United States, halved with Fabian Gomez (57), Argentina Standings Rose 1-0-1, Kuchar 1-0-1, Lahiri 0-1-1, Gomez 0-1-1.

GROUP 13 Thursday Ryan Moore (45), United States, def. Sergio Garcia (13), Spain, 1 -up.

Lee Westwood (59), England, def. Marc Leishman (25), Australia, 1 up.

Standings Moore 1-0-1, Garcia 1-1-0, Westwood 1-1-0, Leishman 0-1-1.

GROUP 8 Thursday Dustin Johnson (8), United States, def. Kiradech Aphibarnrat (37), Thailand, 5 and 4.

Jimmy Walker (22), United States, def. Robert Streb (49), United States, 4 and 3.

Standings Johnson 1-1-0, Walker 1-1-0, Streb 1-1-0, Aphibarnrat 1-1-0.

GROUP 14 Thursday Zach Johnson (14), United States, def. Martin Kaymer (44), Germany, 8 and 6.

Shane Lowry (24), Ireland, halved with Marcus Fraser (60), Australia Standings Johnson 2-0-0, Kaymer 1-1-0, Fraser 0-1-1, Lowry 0-1-1.

GROUP 9 Thursday Patrick Reed (9), United States, def. Matthew Fitzpatrick (42), England, 4 and 3.

Phil Mickelson (17), United States, def. Daniel Berger (53), United States, 1 up.

Standings Reed 2-0-0, Mickelson 2-0-0, Berger 0-2-0, Fitzpatrick 0-2-0.

GROUP 15 Thursday Brandt Snedeker (15), United States, halved with Danny Lee (34), New Zealand Charl Schwartzel (19), South Africa, def. Charley Hoffman (56), United States, 3 and 2.

Standings Schwartzel 2-0-0, Snedeker 1-0-1, Lee 0-1-1, Hoffman 0-2-0.

GROUP 10 Thursday Billy Horschel (40), United States, def. Danny Willett (10), England, 3 and 2.

Brooks Koepka (18), United States, def. Jaco Van Zyl (50), South Africa, 5 and 4.

Standings Koepka 2-0-0, Horschel 1-1-0, Willett 0-1-1, Van Zyl 0-1-1.

GROUP 16 Thursday Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa, def. Bernd Wiesberger (35), Austria, 2 and 1.

Andy Sullivan (29), England, def. Matt Jones (61), Australia, 3 and 1.

Standings Oosthuizen 2-0-0, Sullivan 2-0-0, Jones 0-2-0, Wiesberger 0-2-0.

GROUP 11 Thursday Branden Grace (11), South Africa, def. David Lingmerth (38), Sweden, 4 and 3.

Russell Knox (32), Scotland, def. Chris Kirk (54), United States, 2 and 1.

Standings Knox, 1-0-1, Kirk 1-1-0, Grace 1-1-0, Lingmerth 0-1-1.

LPGA Tour-Kia Classic Thursday At Aviara Golf Club Carlsbad, Calif.

Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,593 Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Inbee Park 35-32—67 Brittany Lang 31-36—67 Ai Miyazato 34-33—67 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 33-34—67 Jane Park 34-34—68 Lydia Ko 31-37—68 Mi Jung Hur 33-35—68 Mirim Lee 34-35—69 Jenny Shin 37-32—69 Felicity Johnson 34-35—69

GROUP 12 Thursday Hideki Matsuyama (12), Japan, def. Soren Kjeldsen (43), Denmark, 4 and 2.

Rafa Cabrera-Bello (52), Spain, def. Kevin Kisner (20), United States, 4 and 3.

Standings

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 51 21 .708 — x-Toronto 48 22 .686 2 Atlanta 42 30 .583 9 Boston 42 30 .583 9 Miami 41 30 .577 9 Charlotte 41 30 .577 9 Indiana 38 33 .535 12 Detroit 38 34 .528 13 Chicago 36 35 .507 14 Washington 35 36 .493 15 Milwaukee 30 42 .417 21 New York 30 43 .411 21 Orlando 29 42 .408 21 Brooklyn 20 51 .282 30 Philadelphia 9 63 .125 42

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Golden State 64 7 .901 — y-San Antonio 60 11 .845 4 y-Oklahoma City 50 22 .694 14 1/2 L.A. Clippers 43 27 .614 20 1/2 Memphis 41 31 .569 23 1/2 Portland 37 35 .514 27 1/2 Dallas 35 36 .493 29 Houston 35 37 .486 29 1/2 Utah 35 37 .486 29 1/2 Denver 30 42 .417 34 1/2 Sacramento 27 44 .380 37 New Orleans 26 45 .366 38 Minnesota 23 48 .324 41 Phoenix 20 51 .282 44 L.A. Lakers 15 56 .211 49 d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 104

Atlanta 122, Washington 101 Boston 91, Toronto 79 Detroit 118, Orlando 102 New York 115, Chicago 107 Minnesota 113, Sacramento 104 Utah 89, Houston 87 San Antonio 112, Miami 88 Denver 104, Philadelphia 103 Phoenix 119, L.A. Lakers 107 Portland 109, Dallas 103 Golden State 114, L.A. Clippers 98 Thursday’s Games Indiana 92, New Orleans 84 Brooklyn 104, Cleveland 95 New York 106, Chicago 94 Oklahoma City 113, Utah 91 Portland at L.A. Clippers, late Friday’s Games Minnesota at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Houston, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

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

Phoenix at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

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

Saturday’s Games Indiana at Brooklyn, 4 p.m.

Toronto at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Portland, 8 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Toronto 15 4 .789 Houston 14 8 .636 Detroit 14 9 .609 Los Angeles 12 8 .600 Chicago 12 9 .571 Texas 13 10 .565 Minnesota 12 10 .545 Oakland 10 9 .526 Tampa Bay 10 9 .526 Cleveland 11 10 .524 Seattle 11 12 .478 New York 9 11 .450 Boston 10 13 .435 Kansas City 11 15 .423 Baltimore 6 14 .300 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Arizona 19 4 .826 Washington 15 4 .789 Philadelphia 14 7 .667 Colorado 10 9 .526 Milwaukee 11 10 .524 Los Angeles 10 10 .500 St. Louis 8 11 .421 Miami 8 12 .400 Cincinnati 9 14 .391 San Francisco 9 15 .375 Chicago 8 14 .364 New York 7 13 .350 Pittsburgh 7 14 .333 San Diego 7 14 .333 Atlanta 6 16 .273 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 6, Baltimore 5 St. Louis 4, Miami 1 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 2 Toronto 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 6, San Diego 1 Texas 5, Chicago Cubs 0 Cleveland 7, Kansas City 6 Arizona 10, San Francisco 6 Washington 13, N.Y. Yankees 0 Houston 2, Philadelphia 1 Oakland 13, Seattle 12 Thursday’s Games Boston 4, N.Y. Mets (ss) 1 Washington 8, St. Louis 2

Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh 5 Minnesota 8, Miami 4 Toronto 6, Detroit 4 Houston 8, N.Y. Mets (ss) 5 Texas (ss) 12, Cincinnati 5 Milwaukee 9, Kansas City 2 L.A. Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 5 Seattle 10, Colorado 8 Arizona 9, San Diego 8 Atlanta 0, Philadelphia 0, tie, 3 innings Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 2, 8 innings Chicago Cubs 16, San Francisco 14 Texas (ss) vs. Oakland, late L.A. Dodgers vs. Cleveland, late Friday’s Games Houston vs. Atlanta (ss), 11:05 a.m.

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

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

Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

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

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

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

Kansas City vs. San Francisco (ss), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Boston, 4:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Philadelphia, 4:35 p.m.

Washington vs. Miami, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Texas, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.

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

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

Detroit vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

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

Cincinnati (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox (ss), 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Cincinnati (ss), 2:05 p.m.

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

Texas vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

San Diego (ss) vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Miami vs. Houston (ss), 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh (ss), 4:05 p.m.

Houston (ss) vs. San Diego (ss), 5:00 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss), 8:05 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF Buffalo 11 7 4 .636 152 New England 9 5 4 .556 120 Rochester 11 6 5 .545 124 Georgia 11 4 7 .364 137 Toronto 10 3 7 .300 108

Colorado Saskatchewan Calgary Vancouver

GP 11 10 12 11

West Division W L Pct 8 3 .727 7 3 .700 5 7 .417 3 8 .273

GF 134 138 133 122

GA GB 138 — 107 1 122 1 149 3 124 3.5 GA GB 126 — 114 .5 138 3.5 150 5

WEEK 13 Friday’s games Saskatchewan at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Rochester at New England, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Georgia, 5:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 26 New England at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

WEEK 14 Saturday, Apr. 2 Colorado at New England, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.

Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Heath Hembree and LHPs Brian Johnson and Henry Owens to Pawtucket (IL). Reassigned OF Ryan LaMarre, RHP Roman Mendez and 1B Sam Travis to their minor league camp.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reassigned INF Tim Anderson, RHP Matt Lollis and LHP Matt Purke to minor-league camp.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned C Gary Sanchez to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) and reassigned him to their minor league camp.

National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reassigned RHPs Wilfredo Boscan and Guido Knudson to their minor league camp.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Granted RHP Casey Janssen his release.

FOOTBALL National Football League ALANTA FALCONS — Re-signed LB Philip Wheeler to a one-year contract.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with WR Deonte Thompson on a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed QB Robert Griffin III. DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DE Benson Mayowa.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed WR Nate Washington.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Columbus F Jared Boll four games for a blind-side hit against Philadelphia F Pierre-Edouard Bellemare during a March 22 game.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Brody Sutter from Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Viktor Svedberg from Rockford (AHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed F Justin Crandall to a professional tryout agreement.

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed D Luke Juha and D Parker Wotherspoon to amateur tryout contracts. Released D Graeme McCormack from his ATO. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled D Will Weber from Fort Wayne (ECHL). Reassigned D Mason Geertsen to Fort Wayne.

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced F Caleb Herbert has reassigned to the team from Hershey (AHL). Signed G Jimmy Kruger to an amateur tryout agreement.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR — Fined driver Danica Patrick $20,000

by NASCAR for walking near the race track after a crash and placed her on probation for four races.

Fined driver Kyle Busch $10,000 for failing to meet media obligations at California and placed him on probation through April 27.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Signed F Herculez Gomez.

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GROUP 1 Thursday Jordan Spieth (1), United States, def. Victor Dubuisson (39), France, 5 and 4.

Jamie Donaldson (51), Wales, def. Justin Thomas (31), United States, 2 up.

Standings Spieth 2-0-0, Dubuisson 1-1-0, Donaldson 1-1-0, Thomas 0-2-0.

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

Basketball

Golf Dell Match Play At Austin Country Club Austin, Texas (Seedings in parentheses)

Sunday

Saturday ● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer

Curling 2016 World Women’s Curling Championship SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Standings Thursday following the conclusion of round-robin play at the Women’s World Curling Championship, held through Sunday at the Credit Union iPlex:

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

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer

Friday’s Games Washington at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

2015-16 Canadian Hockey League Top Ten Poll The Canadian Hockey League’s final weekly top 10 poll for the 2015-16 season (last week’s rankings in parentheses final regular-season records): 1. (1) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 54-9-3-2) 2. (2) Erie Otters (OHL, 52-15-1-0) 3. (3) London Knights (OHL, 51-14-2-1) 4. (5) Victoria Royals (WHL, 50-16-3-3) 5. (4) Val-d’Or Foreurs (QMJHL, 49-15-3-1) 6. (8) Kingston Frontenacs (OHL, 46-17-3-2) 7. (9) Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL, 48-18-4-2) 8. (6) Kitchener Rangers (OHL, 44-17-5-2) 9. (7) Gatineau Olympiques (QMJHL, 46-19-2-1) 10. (NR) Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL, 45-23-4-0) Honourable Mentions: (10) Kelowna Rockets (WHL, 48-20-4-0) Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 44-19-4-1) and Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, 42-20-6-0).

Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) Friday’s game Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Monday, Mar. 28 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 29 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

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Minnesota 6, Calgary 2 Winnipeg 4, Los Angeles 1 Philadelphia 4, Colorado 2 Arizona 3, Dallas 1 Edmonton 6, San Jose 3

Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) Friday’s game Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s game Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29 Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

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Ali bout made Chuvalo a Canadian hero

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It was the biggest fight in Canadian boxing history and it turned George Chuvalo into a source of national pride, even if he lost the one-sided contest to the man they call “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali. Chuvalo’s epic 15-round bout with Ali at Maple Leaf Gardens on March 29, 1966, transformed the lightly regarded Toronto fighter into a symbol of courage and determination and lifted him into the top rank of contenders during a golden age of heavyweights.

“Icon — that’s the only way I can describe George Chuvalo,” said Lennox Lewis, a Canadian boxing star of another generation.

The fight’s 50th anniversary will be celebrated on Tuesday with a gala dinner at the Mattamy Athletics Centre, the former Maple Leaf Gardens.

Chuvalo, 78, is to attend, although 74-year-old Ali is unable to go due to his long-running battle with Parkinson’s disease.

It was a gripping time for boxing, with Ali embroiled in controversy over his anti-Vietnam War stance and refusal to be drafted. The Louisville, Ky., native famously said at the time that he “ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.”

He had been slated to fight Ernie Terrell in Chicago, but fierce opposition from U.S. war veterans and others over what they called Ali’s “unpatriotic” statements moved Illinois state officials to declare the bout “illegal.”

Instead, the fight was offered to Chuvalo — on only 17 days notice. Ali’s promoters originally looked at staging it in Montreal, but when war vets threatened to boycott the Expo 67 world’s fair, then-mayor Jean Drapeau backed out.

Even in Toronto, there was opposition to letting Ali fight. Officials demanded that they not bill it a title bout, even though it would be the champion’s third defence. That he had converted to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay made him even more unpopular to some.

But nobody could deny Ali’s magnetic personality and his brilliance in the ring.

When he fought Chuvalo, Ali was coming off the three most talked-about fights of his early career — two wins over Sonny Liston and a dramatic 12thround technical knockout of Floyd Patterson.

The Chuvalo fight was supposed to be easy. Ali had named him the “Washerwoman” after witnessing the churning left-right attack Chuvalo had used three years earlier against Mike DeJohn.

Chuvalo’s manager Irving Ungerman played the bout up as well, bringing in former champions Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano as “advisers,” although his fighter said later they did little more than pose for pictures and that it was “a pain in the ass having those guys around.”

When the fight finally began, with 13,540 at the Gardens and thousands more watching in theatres, Ali threw all his speed, skill and flair at a comparatively plodding Chuvalo. But a funny thing happened — Chuvalo did not go down.

He took Ali past the 12th round for the first time in the champion’s career and was still on his feet when the bell ended the bout after 15.

The judges and referee Jackie Silvers scored it a lopsided win for Ali, with most having it 13 rounds to two.

But just by staying upright and not giving up against the world’s best heavyweight made Chuvalo a hero to fans across Canada and around the world.

“He showed Canadians weren’t soft, that they were durable and they wanted to win so badly and were good,” said Lewis. “It was electric. Everybody was tuned in.”

Chuvalo said later he had never faced a fighter with such quick hands, but found Ali’s punches less heavy than expected.

Ali said: “He is the toughest fighter I ever fought.”

After the Ali bout, Chuvalo starting taking on the top heavyweights, including George Foreman, Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry. And he had a rematch with Ali in 1972 in Vancouver, a 12-round loss by unanimous decision.

Chuvalo never got the world championship he coveted, but he retired in 1978 having never been knocked down in 93 professional fights.

The 1966 Ali fight didn’t make him rich. After management fees and taxes, Chuvalo said he ended up with only $12,500 of his $49,000 purse. Ali reportedly was paid $125,000, a large sum back then.

But the fight remains the highlight of his career, and Chuvalo insists that, in a way, he was the winner.

“When it was all over, he was the guy who went to the hospital because he was (urinating) blood. Me? I went dancing with my wife,” he said in his biography Chuvalo: A Fighter’s Life. “No question I got the best of that deal.”

A look at top fights of George Chuvalo’s career George Chuvalo went 73-18-4 with 64 knockouts between 1956 and 1978. Some 50 years after his milestone fight with Muhammad Ali, here is a look at some of the top fights of the Toronto heavyweight’s career: Sept. 9, 1958 — Chuvalo knocks out James J. Parks in the first round to win the vacant Canadian heavyweight championship, a title he would hold for most of the next 20 years.

Sept. 19, 1963 — Muhammad Ali watches at ringside and dismissively dubs Chuvalo “The Washerwoman” for his left-right attacks in a win by majority decision over Mike DeJohn in Louisville, Ky. Feb. 1, 1965 — The Ring magazine names this nasty bout the fight of the year after Chuvalo loses a wild, 12-round decision to Floyd Patterson at Madison Square Garden.

Nov. 1, 1965 — Chuvalo loses one-sided bout with Ernie Terrell, who earns the a title shot against Ali. Illinois state officials eventually nix

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

George Chuvalo (left) lands a punch to the head of Muhammed Ali during their boxing match in Toronto in 1966. the fight because of Ali’s “unpatriotic” statements on the Vietnam War and the title fight goes to Chuvalo instead.

March 29, 1966 — After showing enormous courage in a one-sided, 15-round loss to Ali at Maple Leafs Gardens, Chuvalo becomes a national hero.

July 19, 1967 — This brutal loss to Joe Frazier was stopped by the referee 16 seconds into the fourth round at Madison Square Garden after Chuvalo suffered a broken orbital bone.

Dec. 12, 1969 — Chuvalo posts a seventh round TKO win over Jerry Quarry at Madison Square Garden. Quarry was leading on the judges’ scorecards, but was knocked down in the seventh and the fight was stopped when he took his time getting back up.

Aug. 4, 1970 — The closest Chuvalo came to being knocked down in his career, this fight was stopped in Round 3 after a ferocious onslaught from Foreman.

May 1, 1972 — Ali wins a 12-round unanimous decision in a rematch held at Vancouver’s Pacific Coleseum. Chuvalo says: “I’m a better fighter than I was in 1966 and he’s not as good a fighter as he was then.”

Motherhood motivates Mikkelson at women’s worlds HOCKEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Everything and nothing will have changed for Meaghan Mikkelson when she pulls a Canadian jersey over her head Monday at the women’s world hockey championship.

Reclaiming gold from the U.S. is still the goal. The Americans have beaten Canada in five of the last six world championship finals.

A pregnant Mikkelson watched her country’s most recent defeat in 2015 from her Calgary home.

Six months after giving birth to Calder, the twotime Olympic gold medallist returns to the national team for the 2016 world championship in Kamloops, B.C. The host team opens the preliminary round Monday against the defending champion U.S. at the Sandman Centre. Mikkelson will play her first international game for Canada since an overtime win over the U.S. for Olympic gold two years ago.

There’s anecdotal and some scientific evidence indicating that increased red blood cells and a surge in hormones during pregnancy can make elite athletes stronger in the weeks after birth. Mikkelson will vouch for that theory.

“I’m shocked at how much stronger I am,” the defenceman says. “It’s pretty crazy and awesome.

“Somehow during my pregnancy and in the past two months I’ve gained a lot of muscle.”

It’s a compensatory perk for the hard work she’s put in to re-gain her pre-pregnancy body and game.

Getting to the gym and on the ice enough to be the world-class player you once were is not easy when you’re a nursing mother.

“They say it takes a year for your body to go back to normal — whatever normal is I’m not sure — but it has been a challenge,” Mikkelson said.

“Your ligaments and your joints are still kind of going through that transition and going back into place where they were before I guess you were carrying around a 30-pound medicine ball. That’s been the biggest thing, just staying on top of little strains and pulls.”

Her husband Scott Reid, a former minor pro goalie, coaches her Calgary Inferno club team which recently won the Clarkson Cup. So when Mikkelson was cleared to play for the Inferno on Jan. 2, she and Scott were on the ice together for practices and games. Calder’s grandparents or aunts stepped in as baby-wranglers.

“I don’t think she expected it to be as difficult as it was,” Reid said.

“She’s put a lot of work, dedication and time into it, whether it’s parenting or on the ice. She’s been able to find that balance.”

Mikkelson has a former teammate to consult. Defenceman Becky Kellar returned to the national team to win Olympic gold in 2006 and 2010 after giving birth to sons.

“I knew Becky Kellar had been at a national-team camp just three months after she had her son,” Mikkelson said. “I hoped for myself that setting a goal of being at our January camp four months after I had (Calder) was attainable.

“My body decided to co-operate.”

The 31-year-old from St. Albert, has played both forward and defence for Canada.

She has 13 goals and 28 assists in 78 career games wearing in the Maple Leaf. In five world championships, she’s worn a gold medal around her neck once in 2012.

“I’m sick of the silver medals,” Mikkelson said.

“I think I have kind of a newfound motivation after I’ve had (Calder) and what I’ve gone through to come back.”

Scott and extended family are on Calder duty at Canada’s training camp this week in Penticton, B.C., and during the world championship.

Nursing mothers were news at last month’s Canadian curling championship in Grande Prairie, Alta., when there was initially no designated space in the arena for them. Organizers quickly found an area when the controversy started to pick up steam.

Mikkelson intends to nurse Calder when she can and will have a breast pump with her when she can’t.

Calder, whose name Meaghan and Scott chose from a Twitter campaign, won’t remember watching his mom play for Canada in Kamloops, but it will

still become part of their family’s history.

“To look back and tell him the story of this is what he did when he was so little, I had him and came back and played in a world championship in my home country and he was right there to watch,” Mikkelson said.

“He may not know right now the impact that he has on me. Whether I have a good game or a bad game, I have this little guy to come home to and it puts things into perspective for you.”

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WANT TO SKI ON YOUR SUMMER VACATION? HEAD TO PORTILLO, CHILE

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Skiers gather for lunch at Tio Bob’s at Portillo Resort in Chile. The bistro is perched right off the El Plateau lift, which sports a vertical drop of more than 1,000 feet and overlooks the lake.

WILLIAM TRIPLETT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES PORTILLO, Chile — It was 90-plus outside, another sweltering August day in Washington, and all I could think about, of course, was the snow on the slopes and the number of layers I would need. Why? Because while my neighbors were either mowing lawns or chilling by the A/C, my mind was about 5,000 miles south, in the Chilean Andes, where it was the middle of winter.

Spring skiing? Done it, love it, but ready for something else. It was time to try summer skiing.

In a few days, I was bound for Portillo, a reputed little jewel of a resort favored by die-hard skiers the world over. Some go there, I’d been told, simply because they can’t wait for the next season in the Northern Hemisphere to start. Some just want a different type of summer vacation. And others — who are paid to ski — go there to train.

Portillo had been on my bucket list of resorts for a long time. Last summer, I was finally able to cross it off. It may not be for everybody, but for someone like me, who’d love to be on a pair of skis no matter what time of year and who has a weakness for special places, Portillo was probably inevitable.

As I stepped into the cold morning air outside the Santiago airport after an overnight flight from New York’s JFK, having gone to sleep when it was August and woken up to what seemed like January felt peculiarly normal. I loaded into the van headed to Portillo and settled back for the two-hour ride north.

The skies were beautifully clear and calm, but after about an hour, the winds picked up, and they would only get worse, the driver said. As if on cue, we were stopped at an impromptu checkpoint; the police were holding traffic because of stronger winds ahead. The driver said not to worry — the police realize Portillo drivers know how to deal with winds, and we’ll be let through shortly.

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He was right. The police waved us through while still holding all other traffic — which, I admit, briefly gave me mixed feelings as the van rocked slightly from side to side. We were heading straight into the upper strata of the fabled Andes. My ears were popping.

Trees, bushes and grass gradually disappeared as craggy rock formations grew bigger. The winds eased up, but the snowpack got thicker. The wall of plowed snow by the highway edge was easily six or seven feet deep.

We rolled on until slowing to enter something that

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PORTILLO: More about quality than quantity

The Hotel Portillo Renato Sanchez 4270 Las Condes, Santiago, Chile 1-800-829-5325 skiportillo.com Think of it like a ski cruise. The Hotel Portillo — the only sign of civilization — includes a large restaurant as well as a gym (with a regulation basketball court), fitness center, spa, sauna, outdoor heated pool and jacuzzi, piano bar, disco, movie theater, and climbing wall. Given how remote the resort is, the vast majority of visitors opt for one of the week-long packages, the price of which includes lodging, four meals a day (alcohol is extra), and all lift tickets for seven days and nights. Roundtrip ground transfer from the Santiago airport is about $145. Hotel rates run from group rooms in low season (late June and then all of September) starting at $1,050 per person for the week all the way to $13,500 for a private chalet in high season (July). In regular season (August), double rooms start at $3,200 per person, singles at $4,350. The menu isn’t elaborate but

It sits just off the edge of the Laguna del Inca (Lake of the Inca), which, under the cloudless afternoon skies that welcomed us, looked like a blue mirror reflecting sunshine everywhere.

Surrounding everything were towering sheer rocks under blankets of white streaked in places with ski trails.

To me, the Rockies, the Grand Tetons and the Alps are beautiful and intimidating each in their own way. I found the Andes, at 19,000 feet above sea level, incomparably glorious and plain fearsome in their austerity. Even at 9,400 feet of elevation, where the hotel’s front doors stand, you’re already well above the tree line.

There’s no greenery to soften the which is part of the Portillo regimen stark and stunning view, which inevery day at 5 p.m. With the first dincludes a jagged crest of peaks aptly ner seating not until 8 p.m. and the known as the Devil’s Spine and the second at 10:30 - this is Latin America, occasional massive condor riding the remember — tea comes with lots of updrafts. freshly baked cookies and cakes. I There’s no village or town, which found it a nice alternative to the usual explains why the hotel includes not on- après-ski relaxer, though alcohol was ly a restaurant and bar but also a discertainly available if you wanted. co, movie theater, exercise room and My room was pretty compact: twin gym (with a full-size basketball court), beds, an armchair, a desk that doubled along with a sizable outdoor heated as a dresser, and a smallish bathroom. pool and jacuzzi overlooking the lake.

Contemporary decor and a window All that, plus the fact that most visitors onto the lake gave everything a new, come for a full week, made it clear to cozy feel. But no TV, or even a clock. me why people have likened the PorThe telephone was really the only nod tillo experience to being on a cruise to postindustrial technology. And that ship. The hotel really is the only sign was no accident, as I would find out. of civilization.

I made a significant discovery beEven counting the handful of prifore dinner, in the bar: the pisco sour, vate chalets and some group housing claimed equally by Peru and Chile as nearby, the hotel’s capacity of 450 a native drink. It seemed like a saltmeant I wasn’t likely to be waiting in less second cousin to the margarita, a any lift lines. And because the weeksweet-and-sour lime concoction that long package includes not only the appears to involve great skill and care room but also all meals and lift tickto make and that goes down way too ets, I wasn’t going to be tied up in any easily. lift-ticket lines, either. All I had to do Dinner was a social affair. Everyone was suit up, mosey out, lock into my is assigned a table and waiter for the skis and head to one of the lifts. week for every meal (that cruise ship I knew from friends who’d been thing). I sat with people I’d ridden here that the resort wasn’t particularly with in the van from the airport, all of large — 35 runs on 1,250 acres — but whom were American. In fact, there Portillo, they said, was more about were lots of Americans, judging from quality than quantity. The terrain can overheard conversations at nearby tabe world-class challenging, especially bles. I even saw a kid wearing a Washthe extensive off-piste areas. The tops ington Capitals T-shirt. My severely of some of the expert runs can’t even limited Spanish was never put to the be served by chairlifts; you ride what’s test. called a “va-et-vient slingshot,” which Afterward, it was back to the bar to hauls you up on a pulley, and when catch one of the bands that the hotel you get as high as you want, you just let brings in every night. American ’80s go. As I learned, there’s quite an art to pop seemed to be all the rage in the knowing just when and how to let go so Andes, and my new friends and I eased that you don’t start skiing backwards.

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I was more interested in the intermediate-friendly pistes, a number of which roll on at length, with one stretching 1½ miles. For my first April 6, 2016 outing, I opted for a few of the blues off the Las Lo$ 00 55 per person mas lift, which was nearly empty. They weren’t among the longer runs but were perfect for an initial shakeout, and the views along the way made me stop frequently to take in the postcard-like scenes of the lake and mountains, PARSONS HOLIDAY TOURS LTD. which eventually slipped 403.782.6341 | 403.318.5700 into shadows.

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A lot of people must have hit the dance floor. I had my choice of nearly empty runs at 10 a.m. and so headed to the Conejo and La Laguna lifts, which took me to the longer intermediate runs. Even though I skied everything available within a couple of hours, I fell in love with these long, loping groomers. And again, the views were so breathtaking in places that it was a

pleasure just to stop and gawk.

Occasionally, I caught sight of the Austrian downhillers, whose pistes were roped off. It’s one thing to watch these amazing athletes on television, but to see them right in front of you whooshing by with such extraordinary grace and power — and irritatingly perfect form — was truly a highlight.

Lunch was at Tío Bob’s, a bistro perched right off the El Plateau lift, which sports a vertical drop of more than 1,000 feet and overlooks the lake.

Sitting outside in the gorgeous sunshine, I had broiled salmon and green salad along with a glass (well, maybe two) of regional white wine. Then came more skiing until teatime.

That was pretty much my itinerary for the week, except for a couple of afternoons either lounging in the pool or reading in the living room, as the big open space off the dining room is called. Low-slung sofas and deepbacked armchairs are everywhere, none of them looking particularly new.

This wasn’t five-star luxury. But everywhere I sat felt comfortable, even homey.

In the living room, chatting with others about how no TV, radio or clocks — and only middling WiFi — were kind of growing on us, I really started to understand what this place was about: a chance to unplug from the world to focus on something you love, at an unusual time of year, amid like-minded people who even include Olympians, in the relaxing atmosphere of a farflung aerie.

As the Austrian ski team doctor told me one evening, “Even the skies and the colors of the snow here are different.”

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Family friendly travel destinations

BY JEFF SCHRUM ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The most common reaction we get when people learn about our family’s year-long trek around the country living in a travel trailer is, “So what was your favorite place?” It’s not that it’s an unreasonable question, it’s just impossible to answer.

Despite 40,000 miles under our timing belts and miniature plastic license plates from most of the 49 states you can drive to (next time, Nebraska), so many of this country’s attractions await our discovery. “Best place” is hopeless anyway, like picking a favorite child or singling out the best slice of pie in the Florida Keys. You love them all.

By the numbers, Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone draw the most visitors.

But how about the unheard-of or under-appreciated gems further down the list? They deserve some love too.

I love the underdogs, those obscure or out-of-the-way places that surprised us with their culture, history, learning opportunities, recreation and beauty.

These are the places we could easily have missed but now can’t stop raving about. ● Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. Standing on its pure white sand, gazing into aquamarine infinity, Sleeping Bear Dunes wows “lake people” and “ocean people” alike. As lifelong sea-goers, Sleeping Bear checked all the boxes for us.

It didn’t hurt that our late-summer stop served up the perfect weather: warm enough to swim and sip a chilled cherry pop, but cool enough to sleep with the windows open. I understand why so many families return here year after year - it’s a blast. Stumbling down the 400-feet high dunes rocked (climbing them not so much) and we got totally carried away (pun intended) tubing down the Platte River. Family fun, beautiful beaches, Junior Ranger programs, world-class sunsets and quaint nearby resort towns made Sleeping Bear one of our favorite stays. ● Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. Our family’s favorite ecosystem? Easy: the desert. Its infamous dry heat, the aroma of Brittlebush and Ocotillo in bloom, the jaw-dropping night skies - this is the happy place I retreat to in my mind while getting a cavity filled or having blood drawn.

Anza-Borrego sports a rugged look, much like the bighorn sheep who call it home. Only an hour from the sprawl of Palm Springs, the setting feels unexpectedly remote. We circled the wagons with a group of traveling friends over New Year’s, setting up camp in one of the huge expanses of empty desert available to campers and RVers.

More than a year later we continue to reminisce about the sunsets and stars, coyotes yipping through the night, hikes through slot canyons and tropical oases, 500 miles of unpaved roads, wide-open space for kids to roam and the unforgettable view of the Badlands from Font’s Point. ● Death Valley National Park, California. Many of our favorite places blindsided us. We knew little about them and almost skipped them, only to be blown away when we arrived.

Welcome to Death Valley, where your adventure begins before even entering the park. Only a few roads lead into the valley, all descending sharply from the ear-popping passes over the surrounding mountain ranges to the lowest elevations on the continent. The park wooed us at first sight, making the four days we allotted feel woefully inadequate. During our tooshort stay we crammed in a slot canyon hike, white-knuckled our way through a 27-mile off-road back country drive, scaled enormous sand dunes and explored several old-west ghost towns, all while avoiding seeing one of the park’s native “sidewinder” rattlers.

Rounding out its awesomeness, Death Valley holds International Dark Sky Park credentials. ● Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Unless you’re one of McCarthy, Alaska’s 40-someodd permanent residents, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park - the largest in the country - is the most isolated and inaccessible destination on this list.

However, if you can manage to get the family here either by bush plane or car (the only “road” into the park is so sketchy, many rental car agencies expressly forbid it), you’re in for a treat.

The frontier lives on here, in the bush and up and down the unpaved streets of McCarthy. The town’s handful of businesses rely on generators for power and a nearby spring for fetching pails of water. Eco-friendly composting toilets, in hand-crafted reclaimed wood enclosures (read: outhouses), round out the town’s modest list of amenities. Thrill-seeking visitors can enjoy back-country excursions, white-

water rafting and mountaineering. mountaineering The park has a lot to offer less adventurous, bear-fearing frontiersmen such as ourselves, too, such as touring the abandoned Kennecott mining town and glacier trekking. ● Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, UT/AZ. Just outside Page, Arizona, near the Utah border, the Colorado River flows through one of the most iconic images of the desert southwest: Horseshoe Bend. Perched on the red sandstone cliff like the king of the hill, feet flirting with the edge of a 1,000-foot vertical drop, I found myself securing my first-born with one hand and reaching for my selfie stick with the other. A few miles away, Antelope Canyon is another gem begging to be checked off your bucket list.

Navajo guides lead small groups down impossibly steep staircases where you’re enveloped by the most gorgeous (and photographed) water-sculpted slot canyons anywhere.

And since you’ve journeyed this far, you might as well travel a little further to Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, home of another bucket-list slot canyon hike known as “the Wave.” ● Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. This park immerses visitors in Ancestral Pueblo life in some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings on the continent. While many of the park’s 600 dwellings housed one or two families, the larger ones provided shelter for as many as 150 people. A ranger-guided tour of Balcony House has you scaling a cliff on a 30-foot wooden ladder and crawling through a 12-foot long torso-width tunnel. In Spruce Tree House we climbed down into a kiva, one of the sacred subterranean living spaces, as we imagined the lives lived here nearly a millennium ago.

The phenomenal ranger-led tours and hands-on environment made this our favorite road-schooling stop. ● Everglades National Park, Florida. The Everglades have always held top billing on my other travel bucket list - the places I’d be scared to death to ever step foot in. Are you kidding?

Pythons big enough to ingest a deer?

I suppose morbid curiosity and the opportunity to show the boys crocodiles and alligators commingling in nature finally swayed me to suck it up.

The park didn’t just surpass expectations, it blew them out of the wetlands.

A one-of-a-kind ecosystem that plays home to exotic birds, cougars, bears and even carnivorous plants … it was all but guaranteed the boys would love this place. With its nine distinct habitats, the Everglades refuses to be typecast. At times I couldn’t tell if I was in a delta, a prairie, a forest or on the African savanna.

This list, like our messy route across the continent, isn’t all-inclusive.

Had we visited places such as Great Sand Dunes, the Olympic Peninsula, Big Bend, or the Dry Tortugas, this post may have turned out very differently (or probably just longer).

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ABOVE; Hiking to a glacier, WrangellSt. Elias National Park in Alaska.

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Pioneering HIV researchers honoured GAIRDNER AWARDS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Two pioneering researchers in the HIV-AIDS field are among this year’s winners of the prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards.

Each year, seven awards — which are nicknamed the “baby Nobels” because 83 Gairdner winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes — are handed out along with $100,000 cheques.

Dr. Frank Plummer is the recipient of the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, which honours a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science.

The scientist, academic and former head of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is being recognized for “groundbreaking research” he conducted in Africa that helped in understanding HIV transmission.

With support from the University of Manitoba, Plummer conducted research throughout the 1980s on a large group of sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya.

He discovered that two-thirds of them had HIVAIDS. Meanwhile, despite multiple exposures, about 10 per cent of the sex workers were not infected by HIV. The identification of “natural resistance” to HIV was able to guide strategies in vaccine development, and are being used worldwide to prevent many thousands of HIV infections. As head of the National Microbiology Laboratory, Plummer also led the response to numerous outbreaks.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was named recipient of the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, which recognizes an individual responsible for a scientific advancement that has made a significant impact on health in the developing world.

Fauci, director of the U.S.-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was honoured for “critical contributions” made to understanding how HIV destroys the body’s immune defences. He played a pivotal role in directing research that led to the development of antiretroviral drug combinations, transforming the lives of people infected by HIV. He was also one of the main architects of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has already been responsible for preventing millions of HIV infections throughout the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The other five award recipients were recognized for their work on a technique used for gene editing known as CRISPR: — Dr. Rodolphe Barrangou of North Carolina State University, and DuPont senior scientist Dr. Philippe Horvath for their research on understanding the genetic basis of bacteria used in fermenting food.

— Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier of Umea University in Sweden, and Dr. Jennifer Doudna of University of California, Berkeley for publishing the description of new genome editing technology dubbed CRISPR-Cas9. The technology allows biologists to disable, activate or alter genes with “high efficiency and precision.”

— Dr. Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, whose team pioneered development

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Canada Gairdner Wightman Award recipient Dr. Frank Plummer is seen in this photo. of genome editing tools for use in human cells relying on CRISPR systems. The technique may prove to be a “powerful therapeutic” for treating human diseases by editing out harmful genetic mutations.

The awards will be presented at a dinner in Toronto on Oct. 27.

Researchers look into sleep issues for children with cancer CALGARY — Alberta researchers are compiling data to help provide insight into why children often have difficulty sleeping while overcoming illness and to develop treatment options for them and their families. Children with cancer often have trouble falling and staying asleep and those difficulties can stick with them into adulthood.

“Cancer survivors have long-standing issues with their sleep,” said Dr. Fiona Schulte, a psychologist at Alberta Children’s Hospital.

“We think that that probably starts at the point of when they’re diagnosed and some patterns that develop with the patients and the families during the treatment process. There may also be some effects of the treatment itself that contributes to poor sleep but those patterns develop and then persist longterm.”

Researchers with Alberta Health Services and the University of Calgary say when sleep patterns are disrupted it can have a serious impact on health and quality of life.

“Sleeping well is critical for children’s cognitive, physical and social development,” said Dr. Lianne

Tomfohr-Madsen, assistant professor with the University of Calgary’s Department of Psychology.

There are many reasons why children’s sleep patterns are often disrupted while they’re in hospital: — the effects of the illness or treatment might make sleep difficult.

— health care providers sometimes need to wake children to monitor their condition.

— with little else to do, children might increase the amount of time they’re watching TV or using handheld electronic devices, which can negatively affect sleep.

— co-sleeping with a parent might be a short-term solution that facilitates sleep but can present challenges when families return home.

Doctors say stress can also be a significant barrier to a fitful sleep and that families often have fears about monitoring the child once they return home from hospital.

“That anxiety turns bedtime into a challenge and may lead to a cycle of waking up in the middle of the night,” said Schulte. “The rhythms of the whole family can be disrupted.”

Traci Rhyason’s nine-year-old son, Leland, was diagnosed with leukemia when he was just three years old and he is now working with the experts at ACH to

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Testicular cancer is the most common form of the disease in young males and a new study out of the University of Calgary is showing a cure rate of almost 100 per cent in patients who are disease-free two years after diagnosis and treatment.

About 1,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer every year and if it is caught early, the survival rate is 99 per cent. But in those cases where the disease has spread to other parts of the body the prognosis varies and scientists say the survival rates for men with advanced metastatic testicular cancer ranges from 50 to 90 per cent.

Researchers at the university collected data from about 1,000 metastatic testicular cancer patients over a 12-year period and found that there was a 98 per cent cure rate for those men who were free of the disease two years after diagnosis and treatment.

“This is a paradigm shift for men with advanced testicular cancer,” said Dr. Daniel Heng, a clinical associate professor at the University of Calgary’s Department of Oncology. “For many cancers, the five year mark has been the gold standard. Only when you’ve passed the five-year mark are you thought to be at a very low risk of relapse.

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“Now with metastatic testicular cancer, after the two-year mark you’re considered golden. This is much more reassuring for patients as opposed to waiting five years.”

The results of the study are changing medical guidelines on disease surveillance around the world and that could mean fewer CT scans for patients after treatment.

“That actually relieves a lot of anxiety for a patient,” said Heng. “And now we can tell them, after two years, if you’re good, you’re probably golden and you don’t need any more CT scans.”

Patients recovering from the disease typically have a CT scan every three months in the first year, every four to six months in the second and annually after that for five years following treatment. Scientists say the new study now suggests that monitoring the patient through CT scans can be discontinued after two years of disease-free survival along with the associated blood tests and physical exams.

Doctors say the best defence is still a strong offence and men should conduct regular self-checks regardless of whether they’ve had a cancer diagnoses or not. The study was funded by the Calgary charity Oneball and the findings will be published in this month’s edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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“Leland’s sleep was affected drastically through treatments,” said his mother. “In hospital stays, quite often, I would sleep in the bed with him and the nurses would come in to wake him up to check vitals and all that stuff so it’s quite interrupted when you’re here.

“I honestly don’t know if he’s had a full night sleep, probably in six years, seven years.”

Leland said if he doesn’t have a good sleep, “I’ll be up for a couple of hours but I don’t feel very good and I know I’ll feel really tired the next morning.”

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Things non-runners say Some of my best friends do not know the difference between a 5K and a marathon. (It’s 37.2K.) I still like them.

I love to run. I love to talk about running. Even more so I love to give unsolicited advice about running.

I understand that some people do not get my obsession with running. My love-hate relationship with running is the one constant in my life.

But you know what is annoying to runners? Some of the mind-bogging remarks from non-runners.

Some of it definitely leaves us shaking our heads in frustration or sheer amusement.

My favourites: 1. How far is your marathon? or My friend just ran a 10K marathon over the weekend.

The official distance for a marathon is 42.2K. (A half-marathon is 21.1K.) The long-distance running event was in the original modern Olympics in 1896, and the distance was standardized in 1921. Its name comes from the tale of the Greek solider who ran from the Battle of Marathon to Athens many moons ago.

CRYSTAL RHYNO RUNNING WITH RHYNO 2. I don’t even drive that far Clearly you need to get out more. I am banging my head on the desk now as I write this response. Get some new material folks. I have heard this one way too many times. (Please give Run, Crystal, Run! a rest too.)

6. What do you think about when you’re running?

Generally if it’s a long run, I think about how long I can hold it in before I have to dash into the bushes. Most times I am thinking about a clever one-liner for Twitter or planning my next Instagram post.

4. I would run but my doctor says I can’t because X,Y,Z Find another doctor.

7. You don’t run the entire distance, do you?

Road runners in marathons or shorter distances typically run every step. Unless they are following a runwalk strategy. Trail runners have no problem hiking up a steep hill. Some people walk at aid stations while they drink something or take i some nutrition. It’s all perfectly acceptable in the running world. Nobody is keeping track.

5. Did you win?

Usually I will lie. Why yes, I did win. I know the person who is asking

8. I am too fat and too old to run.

Enough with the excuses. The only limits you have are the ones you

3. Don’t you get tired?

Yes. I do but that’s when the magic happens. Running helps us push through what we think is impossible and builds physical and mental strength. In most cases, I may start out “tired” and finish with tons of energy.

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set. You are not too overweight. Many new runners have success in dropping weight when they take up a regular running program. Other chubby runners simply run for fitness. Ever hear of Ed Whitlock? You are never too old.

9. I would run but I have bad knees.

Look I am not an expert and I don’t even pretend to be one on Social Media (where it’s perfectly acceptable).

Experience and experienced runners tell me the only people complaining about bad knees are non runners. Maybe you do have bad knees or maybe you just don’t want to run.

10. You’re crazy.

Guilty. Running brings me joy and joyful people into my life. You don’t have to run. Find your own passion.

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doesn’t have a clue so why disappoint them? I run to push my limits and not necessarily to win the race. (I am winning if I ignore the voices in my head who are telling me I cannot do this.)

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City of Red Deer Good Friday & Easter Monday Holiday Hours of Operation City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Friday, March 25, 2016 and Monday, March 28, 2016

RED DEER TRANSIT Friday, March 25, 2016 Transit service will operate on Sunday / Holiday hours.

First departure from the terminal is at 8:45 AM and last departure at 6:45 PM. No service on Routes 6, 12 / 12A or BOLT Routes 100 / 101.

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Action Bus Phone lines will be closed and limited pre-booked service will be provided.

Sunday, March 27, 2016 NO TRANSIT SERVICE. Transit Customer Service and Phone lines are closed.

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Monday, March 28, 2016 Regular weekday transit service hours. Last departure from the terminal is 11:15 PM. Transit Administration and Customer Service Closed.

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RECREATION FACILITIES Collicutt Centre Friday, March 25, 2016 – OPEN 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 27, 2016 – OPEN 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Monday, March 28, 2016 – OPEN 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

GH Dawe Community Centre Friday, March 25, 2016 – OPEN 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Monday, March 28, 2016 – OPEN 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Michener Aquatic Centre Friday, March 25, 2016 - CLOSED Saturday, March 26, 2016 – CLOSED Sunday, March 27, 2016 – CLOSED Monday, March 28, 2016 – CLOSED Recreation Centre Friday, March 25, 2016 – CLOSED Saturday, March 26, 2016 – CLOSED Sunday, March 27, 2016 – CLOSED Monday, March 28, 2016 - CLOSED Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area Friday, March 25, 2016 - OPEN 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Monday, March 28, 2016 – OPEN 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Discretionary Use Approval: South Hill Berry Architecture & Associates Ltd. – site development of a four storey (a 1-storey variance of 25%), Multiple Family Residential Building development, consisting of 24 units, with a site area of 1926.8 m2 (a 1073.2 m2 variance of 35.8%), a north side yard of 4.0 metres (a 5.52 m variance of 58.0%), a south side yard of 6.0 metres (a 3.52 m variance of 37.0%), and 27 parking stalls (an 8 stall variance of 22.9%), to be located at 3718 52 Avenue.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 8, 2016. You may not appeal a permitted use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked “Pavement Rehabilitation – 2016 (4/7-2:00:59 pm) (Alberta Time)”, delivered or mailed to: The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk and received before 2:00:59 p.m. (Alberta Time) on “April 7, 2016” will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of:

Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/E-2016 Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to clarify the uses contemplated in several Land Use Districts, update the Inventory of Historical Significant Resource List and clarify the general purpose of the C2B Commercial (District Shopping Centre) District.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearing on Monday, April 11, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

by Friday, April 1, 2016. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals

• 945 square metres of extra depth asphalt repairs

On March 22, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications:

• 183,000 square metres of asphaltic concrete pavement milling

Permitted Use Downtown • R. & C. Pawloff – a 0.3 m variance to the maximum height for a proposed garage addition, to be located at 5530 48A Avenue.

• 9,000 square metres of reshaping and compacting granular base • 174,100 square metres of tack coat • 26,155 tonnes of asphaltic concrete overlay paving • 1,200 square metres of mill and fill or infrared repairs (optional) • 17,920 linear metres of thermoplastic pavement markings Tender Documents may be obtained from Building 300, 7721 - 40 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta – Public Works Department on or after “March 23, 2016” for a $50 non-refundable fee.

The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

A pre-tender meeting has been set for 10:00 a.m. on March 30, 2016 at Building 300, 7721 – 40 Avenue, Red Deer,Alberta, Room C-201/C-202. This meeting is mandatory for all contractors.

Tender process inquiries regarding Project shall be directed to: Shelly Flahr, CPPO, CPPB, SCMP City of Red Deer Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 Email: purchasing@reddeer.ca

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Kingsgate • T. Mandalifi – a 0.7 m variance to the maximum lot width coverage for a proposed garage addition, to be located at 194 Kerr Close.

Discretionary Use Clearview Ridge • L. Johnson & M. Millard – a secondary suite with one bedroom, to be located at 10 Crossley Street.

Gaetz Avenue North Commercial • Deco Windshield Repair Inc. – a temporary windshield repair service, from May 1 to August 31, 2016, to be located at 4747 67 Street.

Grandview • Lyla May Yip, Doctor of TCM – an approval of use for a home-based acupuncture business, to be located at 4433 40A Avenue.

Normandeau • P. Kingwell – a secondary suite with three bedrooms, to be located at 19 Newcombe Crescent.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 8, 2016. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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HOROSCOPES Friday March 25, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Elton John, 68; Aretha Franklin, 73; Sarah Jessica Parker, 50 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to get the balance right between being responsible and having fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Energetic and independent, you have many talents and skills.

2016 is the year to relax your body, rejuvenate your mind — and have plenty of fun!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams are full of enthusiasm as you rush around doing too many things. Just remember not everyone is as gung-ho as you; and there’s a fine line between being confident and just plain cocky.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Holiday hijinks and good times are highlighted today, as you relax and enjoy socialising with family and friends. Romance, creativity, sport and hobbies are all favoured but avoid overspending.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your motto for the moment is from feminist writer Gloria Steinem ‘Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.’

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Even if you’re on holiday today, professional opportunities are buzzing around you so keep your eyes and ears open. Some lucky Crabs will find that work, travel and love are linked in exciting ways.

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stay in touch with us. No one in the family seems able to stand up to this woman. We have no legal standing and are frustrated watching this runaway freight train.

Jane’s family has asked for our advice, but all we can tell them is to get a lawyer and they don’t have the funds for that. I know both sides of the family are grieving, but this is just a mess.

Please help. — Harley Momma from Texas Dear Texas: This is such a tough time for everyone. Try to keep in mind that, although Jane and her motherin-law are not close, it doesn’t mean Mom is mistreating her granddaughter.

You are getting only one side of the story. Also, while your advice to find make the most of every minute of the day.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Avoid being a holiday hermit today Virgo. International contacts and social networking are favoured.

But don’t assume you know what a loved one is thinking — you may be way off the mark.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re in a friendly and talkative mood today Libra as you mix and mingle; socialise and circulate.

You have a sweet tooth so you’re also keen to sample some deliciously rich and indulgent Easter treats.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you come on too strong — which is a Scorpio speciality — then you’ll just drive others away. So try to calm down and enjoy spending precious time with your favourite family members and friends.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the next few days you’re in the mood to indulge your Sagittarian sweet tooth, as discipline flies out the window and you overdose on too many hot cross buns and chocolate Easter eggs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Home life looks busy today Goats, with unexpected guests coming and going. So it’s the perfect time to play the gracious Easter host, as you cook up a storm and entertain with classy Capricorn style.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Pleasure planets Venus and Jupiter stimulate your tendency to be wildly spontaneous. So be careful you don’t overdrink, overeat or overspend today — which could lead to long regrets tomorrow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Get set for a fabulous Good Friday as the stars favour eating, drinking, socialising, travelling and hanging out with loved ones. Time for frazzled Fish to de-stress and have some serious fun.

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an attorney is good, the family should clarify what for. Does someone want custody of Astrid? Is the grandmother keeping Astrid from seeing her other relatives?

If so, perhaps the entire family can pool their resources or look into Legal Aid. In the meantime, please do your best to stay close to Astrid, not only through social media and phone calls, but also by befriending her grandmother. She lost her son and now has responsibility for her granddaughter.

It would be a kindness for you to offer assistance, and it also will be supportive of Astrid.

Dear Annie: This is about “Not a Creepy Guy,” whose soon-to-be daughter-in-law thinks he’s creepy, for no particular reason.

My 30-year-old daughter, with whom I have a wonderful relationship, has told me that young women think men in their 50s are creepy just because of their age and gender — no matter how gentlemanly or polite they may be.

Patients who delay getting treatment and insurers who balk at paying for it are among job stresses that Chicago nurse Ben Gerling faces on a semi-regular basis. So there was no tail-dragging when his employer offered a few four-legged workplace remedies. Gerling and dozens of other nurses, doctors, students and staffers flocked to a spacious entrance hall at Rush University Medical Center after learning about special animal therapy sessions the hospital has organized.

Three huggable pups named Rocco, Minnie and Dallis greeted almost 100 white-coat and scrubs-clad visitors at a recent session, happily accepting cuddles, ear rubs and treats. Big grins on the human faces suggested the feelings were mutual. Minnie, a fluffy white and grey Labradoodle mix, had “the softest fur I’d ever felt, like a little cloud,” Gerling said dreamily as he headed back to work. Many hospitals use animal therapy for patients — Rush has even brought in miniature horses. And many workplaces allow pets on site to boost employee satisfaction, but heelers for

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The medical centre has held the monthly Pet Pause sessions for over a year, using dogs from a local shelter and an animal therapy group. Recently, Rush nurses launched a study to see if the program has tangible effects on employee stress. Research in other settings has shown benefits from interacting with animals, including lowering stress hormone levels, blood pressure and heart rate. Early indications are that it may have similar benefits for hospital workers. The human visitors get blood pressure measurements and fill out questionnaires rating their stress levels before and after the canine cuddle sessions. Gerling’s results were promising.

“My blood pressure was kind of high when I came in, and it was lower when I left by about 10 points, so that was good,” he said.

Melissa Browning, a Rush nursing directo, rattles off a long list about what makes hospital work particularly stressful: constant beeping from medical device alarms, dealing with gravely ill patients and worried families, triple checking the accuracy of patients’ doses — it can all add up.

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She says now that I am entering my 60s, I am leaving behind the “creepy middle-aged” guy demographic and will enter the “kindly grandfather” stage. I am looking forward to it.

Hopefully, this daughter-in-law is looking at a stereotype and has no particular concern. But he is right to talk about it with her. — Too Old to Be Creepy Dear Too Old: We have never noticed this particular stereotype and think it is odd and potentially damaging.

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The husband was killed and the wife suffered brain damage. “Jane” does not remember the accident and only recalls her husband because she has been told about him. She is not capable of making any major decisions.

Here’s the real tragedy: Jane has two children. Her 21-year-old son is now responsible for all of the decisions, and he is overwhelmed. Fortunately, he seems to be adjusting. We can’t say the same for his 17-year-old sister, “Astrid.” Her world has fallen apart.

Right now, the entire show is being run by Jane’s mother-in-law, who never got along with Jane. She plans to sell Jane’s house and move Astrid in with her. She recently took away Astrid’s phone and car as a punishment for not doing her chores, leaving her unable to visit her mother or

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Morneau rejects idea of independent EI

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OTTAWA — The Liberals have no plans to make Canada’s employment insurance fund independent of the federal government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday.

“I think the current system works,” he said in a round-table interview with BILL MORNEAU The Canadian Press.

Morneau said new measures to help the unem-

ployed are included in his recently tabled budget.

The NDP and Bloc Quebecois, however, have long wanted the fund to be independent to prevent governments from using surpluses to reduce budget deficits or pay down debt.

Employment insurance surpluses were $3.5 billion in 2014 and $2.2 billion in 2015, with the money going directly into government coffers.

The government predicts an EI surplus of $1.2 billion in 2016 and a deficit in 2017 when the Liberals plan to introduce a reduction in premiums.

Contributions to the EI fund will be lowered that year to $1.61 per $100 earned from $1.88 — a sharper decrease than the Liberals promised

during the election campaign.

Morneau said during the interview an actuarial report is conducted every year to help the government set the ideal insurance premium.

“We want to be transparent,” he said. “I think with the report, we can explain clearly the premium required for employers and employees. So that’s our decision for now.”

NDP MP Guy Caron said workers and employers should determine for themselves how to spend the money in the fund and decide whether to lower premiums.

“Instead of increasing accessibility, particularly during difficult economic times, they’re lowering the premiums,” he said in a telephone interview.

“That was the choice of the government. Once again, there weren’t any consultations with those who pay the premiums.”

He said 850,000 unemployed people in Canada don’t qualify for EI benefits.

The government says new policies introduced in Tuesday’s budget will give another 50,000 people access to EI benefits.

Caron said it was a step in the right direction but that too many people are still left out.

The NDP MP added that even though the EI fund looks like it will be balanced over the next few years, it might not stay that way.

“We could once again reach a surplus,” he said. “And once again, because the fund is not independent, the money will go into government coffers as has been the case for the last 25 years.”

BRIEF Capital Power ditches agreement to buy output of Sundance C coal-fired plant EDMONTON — Capital Power Corp.

(TSX:CPX) is terminating an agreement to buy electricity from the Sundance C coal-fired power plant west of Edmonton in response to a change in provincial regulations that took effect this year. The Edmonton-based company says it expects to record a noncash writeoff of the power agreement’s value, amounting to $53 million before taxes and $46 milion after taxes.

However, Capital Power says it expects the termination will have a positive impact on earnings between now and 2020. Capital Power is the latest company to terminate power purchase agreements with the Sundance power generating operation.

TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) previously issued notice that it would terminate its powers purchase agreements for Sundance A and B, either directly or through its ASTC Power Partnership with AltaGas Pipeline Partnership. The NDP government of Rachel Notley announced in November that it planned to impose a carbon tax and phase out coal-fired power plants in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, a contributor to global warming.

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Trudeau makes Bombardier CSeries sales pitch in Toronto

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The federal government is still carefully reviewing Bombardier’s request for US$1 billion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday as he extolled the virtues of the company’s CSeries plane despite lagging sales.

Trudeau was in Toronto to promote the federal budget’s impact on families, but instead he found himself making a sales pitch on the merits of the CSeries passenger aircraft.

“The CSeries jet is an exceptional jet that is going to show Canadian innovation and quality manufacturing to the world,” he said. “That’s why it’s important to make sure that the Canadian aerospace industry is strong, not just in the short term, but in the medium and long term.”

Late last year, Bombardier asked Ottawa for assistance as it encoun-

tered trouble trying to sell the CSeries. International competitors have gobbled up contracts as Bombardier’s sales of the jet have waned.

Trudeau declined to say Thursday whether the government has set a deadline on its decision.

The notion of providing support to Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) could prove awkward for Trudeau in Toronto, where the Montreal-based aerospace manufacturer is reportedly considering outsourcing work. The Globe and Mail, citing sources it said were close to the matter, reported earlier this week that Bombardier plans to relocate about 200 jobs that help assemble the company’s Q400 planes from Toronto to Mexico and China. Bombardier has not confirmed the report but said it is exploring ways to reduce costs of its Q400 planes, including reviewing work packages and supplier contracts. When asked how it would

be in the best interests of taxpayers to provide federal aid to a company considering sending Canadian jobs elsewhere, Trudeau highlighted the benefits of the aerospace sector to the country’s economy.

“The aerospace industry in Canada is responsible for thousands upon thousands of jobs and they’re exactly the kind of high-quality, innovative jobs that are deeply linked to the knowledge economy we need to continue to build on,” he said. “That’s why we’re looking very seriously at the possible support for Bombardier.”

The Quebec government promised last fall that it will give US$1 billion to support the Montreal company. Also Thursday, Transport Minister Marc Garneau introduced changes to the Air Canada Public Participation Act that are intended to prevent lawsuits by giving Air Canada more flexibility over where maintenance work is done.

Mexico lifts ban on Canadian fresh poultry imports OTTAWA — Agriculture and AgriFood Canada says Mexico has lifted a ban on Canadian fresh poultry meat imports that were put in place in 2004 after an outbreak of avian flu.

It says the industry estimates that lifting of the ban will open the way for exports including chicken, turkey and most significantly duck worth a combined total of roughly $3 million a year.

The government says it’s still working to lift the few import restrictions from avian flu still in place in Mexico. The lifting of the fresh poultry ban comes after Mexico’s secretary of agriculture met with Canadian Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay in February.

Handling negativity in the workplace JOHN MACKENZIE BUSINESS BASICS

Whether a business owner/manager or an employee, at some time we all must deal with negative individuals in the workplace.

Realistically many of us spend more hours in the day managing relationships in the workplace more than we do with our family and friends. Navigating our workplace relationships is essential because they have a direct influence on our personal lives.

Most of us have had an experience with that someone who carries a ‘chip on their shoulder’, a person that is perpetually in a grumpy mood. They are the first to criticize and usually highlight the worst in any situation. Negative behaviour is a chronic habit.

Any of these attitudes affects staff morale, and therefore directly impacts productivity. Business owners/ managers must discover the underlying source of negative behavior and find ways to the directly improve the situation.

An employee that is excessively pessimistic and sarcastic exhibits negative body language and produces below normal performance levels. A person with a chronic negative attitude usually

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comes with a history.

One of the simplest ways to identify and weed out these individuals is during the recruitment process. Always contact references. Ask pointed questions to determine if candidates maintained a positive or negative attitude, and how they generally interacted with coworkers. Were there any regular disruptions? Have them outline the reasons that the candidate left their previous job.

It’s also important to recognize that certain employees don’t perform well in specific jobs or environments. Their personality clashes within the nature of the tasks and frustration can build.

For example, a person with high energy may not be the able to focus in a job that requires attention to details.

There are times that management will tolerate a challenging employee because they are high producers. Or if they do know that there are ongoing issues, they’re not willing to have a straight forward conversation with the difficult individual. It’s all too common a situation and can hold the entire team hostage when the not handled in a timely manner.

When I have had the opportunity to interview staff, I often hear similar concerns. Unresolved issues can cause employees to feel they’re in a no-win situation, which can increase negative behaviour. Often, management is not totally aware that a problem exists or the consequences negative behavior has on

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Employers must also carefully consider the factors that can contribute to stress in the workplace, such as understaffing, poor communication, and outdated processes. Be open to the fact that lack of training or inadequate resources may be a significant factor.

There can be many reasons for an employee’s sudden negative behaviour.

If a normally positive and productive staff member becomes moody or exhibits unusually negative behaviour, there may be other serious issues. Personal problems, like financial concerns and family issues will often surface. It’s critical to get to the root of the problem in order to address the situation before things get totally out of hand.

Criticism fuels insecurities. During a meeting, explain what’s at stake and describe the impact the behavior has on the rest of the team. Tackle the situation, not the individual. Look for areas of agreement and gain their commitment to work towards a solution.

A toxic staff member can affect the entire culture of your business. Other employees can begin to show signs of dissatisfaction, adopt the similar behavior or even leave the company. If repeated meetings do not result in changes, and the toxic behavior continues, termination is the best decision.

One individual’s grouchy behaviour creates an overall negative atmosphere in the workplace. If you are an employee faced with a difficult co-worker,

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there are a few options you can try to improve the situation. Be conscious of how your own frustration and irritation builds. If possible, don’t respond; attempt to ignore the negative behaviour.

Reward good behaviour – ‘catch them doing something right’.

Sometimes it’s worthwhile to try to get to know the individual on a more personal level. Make an effort to find something about this person you can relate to, common ground that will improve your working relationship. Always consider how you will maintain personal boundaries beforehand.

Everyone has their off days. But if a co-worker’s negative attitude is not their normal manner, you can suggest a private conversation. They may not be aware of the shift in their behaviour.

You can also encourage them to seek support if need be.

If your own efforts aren’t working, you can always look for a fresh perspective. Get the perspective of a few peers, people who don’t have an emotional stake in the outcome. Describe the situation as objectively as possible, then ask for practical solutions.

Finally, try to model a positive attitude. Don’t resort to the level of a negative co-worker. Remember, you do have control over your response to any situation.

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

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.57 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.61 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.30 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.04 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.60 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.46 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 171.15 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.59 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.52 Cervus Equipment Corp 10.61 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.32 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.57 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 18.87 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.90 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.96 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.15 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.62 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.12 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.33 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.65 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.74 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.98 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.21 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.23 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.38

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Weakness in commodities and Canadian financial stocks helped the Toronto stock market slide into the red Thursday, capping a holiday-shortened trading week.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 21.37 points at 13,358.11, its third consecutive decline.

The heavily weighted financials sector was the second largest loser on the Toronto market, falling 0.98 per cent. Shares in National Bank (TSX:NA) dipped $1.24 or 3.46 per cent to $41.56, and Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) gave back 85 cents or 1.34 per cent to $62.42.

“Banks have been doing quite well in recent weeks,” said Andrew Pyle, a senior wealth adviser and portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont. Despite the strength, he noted that a factor adding to the weakness was low oil prices, which raise concerns about the credit quality of oil firms with whom the banks have outstanding loans.

The May contract for benchmark North American crude oil slipped 33 cents to US$39.46 a barrel, falling for a third day in a row.

Pyle believes the price of oil, now hovering around US$40 a barrel, is fair, adding that predictions from earlier this year about it bottoming out at $20 may now be unlikely.

“The demand of crude is still strong. We’re close to entering a seasonally strong part of the year for crude demand … because of summer travel season,” he said.

Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported that the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in

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the U.S. dropped by 12 this week to 464, a record low amid continuing price woes in the energy industry.

A year ago, 1,048 rigs were active. At its peak in 1981, the U.S. rig count reached 4,530. It previously bottomed out at 488 in 1999.

The commodity-sensitive loonie was down 0.15 of a U.S. cent at 75.53 cents U.S, as April gold lost $2.40 to US$1,221.60 a troy ounce, while May natural gas advanced a penny to US$1.88 per mmBtu. May copper was unchanged at US$2.23 a pound.

Trade was relatively muted in New York amid disappointing manufacturing data.

The Commerce Department reported that orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods fell 2.8 per cent in February, with a key category that tracks business investment dropping by the largest amount since December.

The Dow Jones industrials gained 13.14 points at 17,515.73, while the broader S&P 500 was barely changed, down 0.77 of a point at 2,035.94. The Nasdaq added 4.65 points to 4,773.51.

Bay Street and Wall Street will be closed Friday ahead of the Easter long weekend.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,358.11, down 21.37 points Dow — 17,515.73, up 13.14 points S&P 500 — 2,035.94, down 0.77 of a point Nasdaq — 4,773.51, up 4.65 points

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.98 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 35.22 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.43 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.73 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.74 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.400 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.180 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.51 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.86 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.150 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.65 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 38.40 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1700 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.95 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.42 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.83 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.25 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.53 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.20 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.45 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.44 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.56 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.260 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.97 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.50 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.31

Currencies: Cdn — 75.53 cents US, down 0.15 of a cent Pound — C$1.8733, up 0.88 of a cent Euro — C$1.4798, up 0.29 of a cent Euro — US$1.1177, unchanged Oil futures: US$39.46 per barrel, down 33 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,221.60 per oz., down $2.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.101 oz., up 11.3 cents $678.40 kg., up $3.64 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $1.40 higher $470.90 July ‘16 $1.80 higher $475.90 Nov. ‘16 $1.20 higher $476.70 Jan. ‘17 $0.90 higher $479.60 March ‘17 $0.10 higher $481.20 May ‘17 $0.10 higher $480.70 July ‘17 $0.10 higher $480.70 Nov. ‘17 $0.10 higher $476.40 Jan. ‘18 $0.10 higher $476.40 March ‘18 $0.10 higher $476.40 May ‘18 $0.10 higher $476.40.

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

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 283,360 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 283,360.

Eldorado Gold says relations improving with Greek government on mine permitting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Eldorado Gold says its relationship with the Greek government has significantly improved since it suspended some mine development work there in January.

“We are, I believe, moving to a better place here,” chief executive Paul Wright said on a conference call Thursday.

“We’ve seen more encouraging engagement between ourselves and the ministry over the last month or two.”

Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD) put the Skouries gold project on care and maintenance and laid off 600 workers in January, saying it would not resume work until it received the necessary permits and relations with the government improved.

Those relations have been strained

in recent years, with the Skouries project drawing strong condemnation and protests from some locals over fears of environmental effects.

It has also been a source of several legal battles.

The company says it has been encouraged by developments since January, with the government having issued a building permit for its Skouries project in February and an installation permit for its Olympias gold project on Tuesday.

Wright said he’s encouraged that the company didn’t have to struggle to get the permits through the courts as they have over the last year or two.

“These approvals are being granted by the ministry, as opposed to us having to wrest them free through legal action,” said Wright.

The company is only awaiting approval of its technical study on Skouries before moving ahead.

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Tax credit restored for labour-sponsored funds, but experts urge caution

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is restoring the tax credit for labour-sponsored investment funds, but investment experts urge caution for investors who may be considering them.

They say tax credits should not drive your investment decisions and that labour-sponsored investment funds have been a risky proposition with a history of disappointing performance.

Professor Eric Kirzner of University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management says they are complex investments that are difficult to understand and carry high management fees.

“Would I recommend these as investments: No,” he said.

Labour-sponsored funds or labour-sponsored venture capital corporations were first introduced in the 1980s as a way for small investors to invest in small- to medium-sized businesses. Kirzner, who holds the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing and teaches investment finance, says the idea was that investors would do well and companies that otherwise would not have been able to raise capital would get needed investment.

However, investing in early-stage small businesses is a speculative and risky proposition.

“There has been the occasional success, but in general the performance of these funds has been awful,” Kirzner said.

He noted that for most individual

investors, the venture capital sector is not an asset class he would recommend.

“It is not until you get to very large portfolios that there’s a place for it,” he said.

The funds also have a holding period that can be as long as eight years.

That means if the fund is sold before the end of the hold period investors may face penalties and lose their tax credits.

Many funds also have higher fees than those associated with conventional funds and that can also eat away at investment gains.

Peter Bowen, vice-president of tax and retirement research at Fidelity Investments, said that, historically, performance has been a challenge for many labour-sponsored venture capital corporations.

“Tax efficiency is great, but you have to start with good solid investment performance and this has been an area of the market, the labour-sponsored funds, where that has not been the case in many situations,” he said.

Before investors make a decision to invest their money in any sort of security, they need to look at the merits of the investment, Bowen said.

“Just buying something because there’s a tax credit or other benefit associated with it, we don’t think is a good idea.”

Ontario ended its tax credit for labour-sponsored investment funds in 2012. However, the investments have remained popular in Quebec which continues to offer a credit.

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Patrick was a graduate of Vancouver Community College and dedicated his whole life to the service of others. He was a volunteer firefighter, which he often referred to as “the best job ever”; the architect of many human service organizations including the Boys and Girls Club of Camrose, and the Today Family Violence Help Centre in Edmonton. For many years, Patrick was a Family Violence and Bullying Prevention Coordinator with Central Alberta Child and Family Services (provincial government). In 2011 he assumed the role of Provincial Co-ordinator for the Alberta Father Involvement Initiative. Patrick took it from a fledgling organization tova provincial project that co-ordinated with national and international similar organizations. He coined the phrase “There is a DAD for that” and created resources and delivered seminars across the province to support communities and organizations to promote positive fathering.

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Security officials missed warning signs of attack

Iraq launches offensive to recapture Mosul

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Belgium’s prime minister refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers Thursday despite increasing evidence of intelligence and law enforcement failures to prevent this week’s suicide bombings by Islamic militants.

With at least one attacker at large and an unknown number of accomplices, police detained six people in raids around the Belgian capital Thursday night. In a Paris suburb, a man suspected of plotting an imminent attack was also detained Thursday, but the interior minister reported no apparent link with the Brussels airport and subway bombings or the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris.

Authorities lowered Belgium’s terror-threat level by one notch, although they said the situation remained grave and another attack is “likely and possible.”

Belgium had been on its highest alert ever since Tuesday’s bombings in the Brussels airport and subway that killed 31 people and wounded 270.

“We don’t have to be proud about what happened,” Justice Minister Koen Geens said of the government’s failures to halt the attacks. “We perhaps did things we should not have done.”

Less than a mile from the bombed subway station, European justice and home ministers held an emergency meeting where they condemned the “terrorist acts” as “an attack on our open, democratic society.” They also urged the European parliament to adopt an agreement allowing authorities to exchange airport passenger data.

A manhunt continued for one of the Brussels airport attackers who was recorded on a surveillance video and had fled the scene.

Belgian prosecutors said the raids Thursday night targeted central Brussels, Jette and the Schaerbeek neighbourhood, where police earlier had found a huge stash of explosives and bomb-making material in an apartment used by the Brussels attackers.

Prosecutors declined to comment on reports from Belgian state broadcaster RTBF and France’s Le Monde and BFM television that a fifth attacker may also be at large: A man seen on surveillance cameras in the Brussels metro carrying a large bag alongside one of the suicide bombers. It is not clear whether that man was killed in the attack or is a fugitive.

Photo by EPA/JULIEN WARNAND

People gather and pay tribute to the many people killed and injured in multiple terrorist attacks across Brussels, at Place de la Bourse, in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday. At least 31 people were killed with hundreds injured in terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday. Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Belgian police visited suicide bombers’ building last month BRUSSELS — Belgian police were called to the address used as a hideout for jihadists in Brussels a month before they took part in attacks that claimed 31 lives, the woman who phoned police that day told The Associated Press.

Although police were merely investigating fallen glass and it’s unclear whether anyone was living in the apartment at the time, news that law enforcement visited a key staging post for a triple suicide bombing only weeks before it took place may add to concern over the effectiveness of the country’s security forces.

Fathia Berajaa, a 41-year-old who works near the hideout, told the AP she called police on the afternoon of Feb. 8 after a pane of glass came loose from the top story window frame of the apartment building at No. 4 Max Roos Street and fell onto her Renault sedan parked below.

She showed the AP her damaged

car and a smartphone photo of a police officer filling out a report.

The AP was independently shown a signed copy of the same document.

It’s on the top floor of No. 4, in the northeast Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek, that police on Tuesday discovered an apparent bomb-making factory, including 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of homemade explosives and nails for use as shrapnel.

Berajaa said she called police because she wanted to discuss compensation with whoever was responsible for renovating the structure.

She said two officers came and climbed to the top floor.

“They went and checked it out,” Berajaa said. “They said they didn’t want to come every time something like this happened.”

It’s uncertain how close police came to stumbling upon the plotters. It’s possible the attackers, whose whereabouts during that period are unknown, had not yet arrived in the apartment.

Belgian police would not comment on the matter and prosecutors did not respond to calls.

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military backed by U.S.-led coalition aircraft on Thursday launched a long-awaited operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, a military spokesman said.

In the push, Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour, east of Mosul, early in the morning on Thursday and hoisted the Iraqi flag there, according to the spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool.

It was not immediately clear how long such a complex and taxing offensive would take. Only recently, Iraqi and U.S. officials refrained to give a specific time on when the Mosul operation could begin, saying it would take many months to prepare Iraq’s still struggling military for the long-anticipated task of retaking the key city.

Some U.S. and Iraqi officials have said it may not even be possible to retake it this year, despite repeated vows by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Iraqi state-run TV interrupted its morning program Thursday with a series of news alerts announcing the operation and broadcasting patriotic songs and flag-waving video clips.

Rasool told The Associated Press that the U.S.-led international coalition was providing air support but would not divulge more details on the offensive, which he said was dubbed “Operation Conquest.”

According to an official at the military’s provincial Nineveh Operations Command, the aim of the first phase of the Mosul offensive was to clear the areas between Makmour and the adjacent Qayara area to the east of the Tigris River, and to cut one of the supply lines to the nearby Shirqat area. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Mosul — Iraq’s second-largest city — fell to the Islamic State group during the militants’ June 2014 onslaught that captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq and also neighbouring Syria. Mosul, about 360 kilometres (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, became also the largest city in the Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate on the territories the militants control.

Rasool’s declaration came only few days after the United States announced that it has set up a small Marine artillery outpost in northern Iraq to protect a nearby Iraqi military base in Makhmour.

Families mark anniversary of doomed Germanwings flight

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by EPA/ARNOLD JEROCKI

Family members look at the crash zone during the first anniversary ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crash, at the village of Le Vernet, southern France, on Thursday. Germanwings flight 4U 9525, carrying 144 passengers and six crew members from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany, crashed March 24, 2015, in the French Alps when the co-pilot of the flight deliberately brought down the Airbus A320.

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Some 800 people were expected at the commemoration that started with a private ceremony and a minute of silence. Families had the option to visit the crash site on the mountain overlooking Le Vernet. A wreath-laying was to be the only public moment as families of victims — mostly German and Spanish — mark the grim day.

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“It happened on our mountains, and we have victims’ families visiting us every week, families who come and pay tribute,” said Le Vernet Mayor Francois Balique.

Villagers in Le Vernet and nearby Prads-Haute-Bleone have taken on the role of second family for many of the grieving.

Since the crash, parent company Lufthansa has replaced the Germanwings brand with the name Eurowings.

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Karadzic jailed for genocide

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRIEFS Hondurans flee capital neighbourhood under threat from gang TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Authorities in Honduras say more than 100 residents of a neighbourhood in the capital have fled with their belongings following threats from a gang.

People in El Hoyo on Tegucigalpa’s south side told local television that masked gang members armed with semi-automatic rifles appeared Wednesday night and announced that residents had 24 hours to abandon their homes or face the consequences.

They also distributed fliers.

Speaking at a news conference Thursday, Honduran army Col. Tito Moreno tried to reassure residents they would be kept safe and urged them to return to their homes.

Police spokesman Selkin Arita said more than 140 residents had fled.

Earlier in the week, residents of a neighbourhood in the city of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras similarly fled after gang threats.

France arrests man in ‘advanced stages’ of attack PARIS — A Frenchman in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country was arrested Thursday northwest of Paris and security forces locked down the area during a major search, France’s interior minister said.

Bernard Cazeneuve said there were no links “at this stage” between the plot and the attacks against Brussels this week or Paris in November.

Cazeneuve said bomb squads were on site. The raid took place in Argenteuil, on the northern outskirts of the French capital. He noted that the person arrested was implicated at a “high level” in the plot, but offered no details.

Witnesses told The Associated Press that the immediate area had been locked down, and residents were unable to return home for hours after the raid began.

France has been on high alert since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Cazeneuve said there had been 75 arrests since the beginning of the year, and 28 suspects had been jailed.

Malaysia detains 15 more suspected IS members KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have detained 15 more suspected Islamic State members, who police alleged planned to launch attacks and tried to obtain chemicals to make bombs.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement late Thursday that the 15, aged between 22 and 49, included four women, a police official, an airplane technician, a mosque cleric and a student.

Khalid said the 15 were detained

the Netherlands-based court.

Although 20 years in coming, the trial is hugely significant for the development of international law. Karadzic’s conviction will likely strengthen international jurisprudence on the criminal responsibility of political leaders for atrocities committed by forces under their control.

“Victims and their families have waited for over two decades to see Karadzic’s day of reckoning,” ParamPreet Singh, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “The Karadzic verdict sends a powerful signal that those over three days from Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur and six other states. He said they had allegedly received orders to launch attacks in the country from a Malaysian man who had joined the Islamic State in Syria.

The arrests followed Tuesday’s bombings by Islamic militants in Brussels that killed 31 people and injured 270 others.

Libya’s Tripoli government declares a state of emergency BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s Islamist-backed government in the capital, Tripoli, has declared a state of emergency after reports that four members of the rival United Nations’ unity government have arrived.

In a statement, the so-called National Salvation government in Tripoli said Thursday that it tasked the Defence Ministry, militias and security apparatus to “increase security patrols and checkpoints.”

The Tripoli government — one of Libya’s three governments and which is backed by militias — has warned before of the United Nations’ attempts to install a government in the capital.

The west has pinned hope for resolving Libya’s chaos and blocking the Islamic State group’s growth there on the unity government, which is brokered by the United Nations and headed by Fayez Serraj, who is yet to enter the capital later this month.

Egypt says it killed a gang linked to student death CAIRO — Egypt’s Interior Ministry says it has killed members of a gang suspected of being linked to the killing of an Italian student whose death sparked an international outcry.

In a statement Thursday, the ministry said the gang members are specialized in abducting foreigners posing as policemen, and found the personal belongings of the 28-year-old Giulio Regeni.

Ahmed Nagy, a state prosecutor investigating Regeni case, told The Associated Press, he has no information on the gang.

Last week, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi promised that investigators will work “night and day” to locate and prosecute those responsible for Regeni’s killing.

Regeni went missing Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, when police were deployed across Cairo in a broad security sweep to prevent any demonstrations.

Flight attendant who ditched heels, fled security nabbed LOS ANGELES -- A JetBlue flight attendant who authorities say left behind 70 pounds of cocaine after flinging off her heels and running from security at Los Angeles International Airport has been arrested in New York.

U.S. Attorney’s spokesman Thom Mrozek says Marsha Gay Reynolds surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

He says Reynolds is expected to be in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday. Reynolds is being charged with cocaine possession with intent to distribute.

who order atrocities cannot simply wait out justice.”

UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon’s deputy spokesman, Fanhan Haq, told reporters the judgment “sends a strong signal to all who are in positions of responsibility that they will be held accountable for their actions and shows once again that fugitives cannot outrun the international community’s collective resolve to make sure that they face justice according to the law.”

Karadzic had faced a total of 11 charges and a maximum life sentence.

However, the court acquitted him of

a second genocide charge, for a campaign to drive Bosnian Muslims and Croats out of villages claimed by Serb forces.

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, but the court’s chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, said 40 years amounted to the same thing for the aging Karadzic.

“Overall, we are satisfied with the outcome,” Brammertz said, adding that prosecutors would carefully study the judgment before deciding whether to appeal the one genocide acquittal.

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A woman holding a banner reading in serbian “Serb” of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic during a rally with the Serbian ultranationalist and war crimes suspect, Vojislav Sesel, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday. Seselj is denouncing the UN war crimes court which has convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in prison on 11 war crimes charges, including genocide.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia — A UN war crimes court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges on Thursday for orchestrating a campaign of terror that left 100,000 people dead during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, the worst carnage in Europe since the Second World War. Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in Serb atrocities that included the Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust, and for directing the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo.

In pronouncing the verdict, presiding Judge O-Gon Kwon said Karadzic and his military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, intended “that every able-bodied Bosnian Muslim male from Srebrenica be killed.”

Karadzic, the judge said, was the only person in the Bosnian Serb leadership with the power to halt the genocide, but instead gave an order for prisoners to be transported from one location to another to be killed. In the carefully planned 1995 operation, Serb forces moved Muslim men and boys to sites around the Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia and gunned them down before dumping their bodies into mass graves.

Upon hearing the sentence, the 70-year-old Karadzic slumped slightly in his chair, but otherwise showed little emotion. He plans to appeal the convictions.

The former leader, who was arrested in Serbia in 2008 after more than a decade in hiding, is the highest Bosnian Serb official to be sentenced by