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Arens fails to get bail DEFENCE STILL REVIEWING CASE

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The Central Alberta man awaiting a new trial in connection with a highly publicized drunk driving fatality almost six years ago remains in custody, unable to meet bail conditions.

Rodney Ross Arens, 38, was convicted in June of last year on charges laid in connection with the July 1, 2010 collision that killed a teenaged boy and severely injured his older brother. The conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered last September after a hearing by the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary.

Red Deer resident Jeffery Chanminaraj, 13, died after a pickup truck crashed into the passenger side of the car driven by his sister. Police alleged at the time that she was making a lefthand turn at the intersection of Taylor and Kerrywood Drives at about 11 p.m., just before Canada Day fireworks were to be set off.

Arens was arrested at the scene on charges including impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death.

He was returned to the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to set a new trial date, via a video feed from the Red Deer Remand Centre. The matter was adjourned for another month while his lawyer, Donna Der-Gillespie of Sundre, reviews the appeal court decision before making any further moves.

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River Bend Golf and Recreation Area grounds keeping staff Mack Unrau runs a greens mower over one of the pitch and putt greens on Monday afternoon. The Pitch and Putt course opens today, while the main course will open Friday, says River Bend general manager Dale Tomlinson. ‘The course came through the winter awesome, it’s perfect,’ said Tomlinson.

Concert to fund breakfast, lunch program for Maskwacis students

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

MUSIC WITH A MISSION

Keeping a free breakfast and lunch program for some Maskwacis students is the goal of the upcoming Music With a Mission concert.

For the past dozen years, two groups of young musicians — the Red Deer Youth Orchestra and Lacombe’s Rosedale Valley String Orchestra — have joined forces to perform an annual charitable concert in support of children’s programs in Africa and Asia.

This year, the goal was to fill a need

closer to home, said Naomi Delafield, director of Rosedale Valley Strings. “I thought it would be good to help young people in our (Central Alberta) community.”

When Delafield discovered through Eric Rajah, of Lacombe’s A Better World Charity, that a meal program at the kindergarten to Grade 12 Mamawi Atosketan Native School in Maskwacis was in danger of folding, she knew the 2016 concert — on Saturday at First Church of the Nazarene in Red Deer —

had found a worthy cause.

Free breakfasts and lunches at Mamawi Atosketan Native School had been paid for by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Canada.

But the group opted to focus instead on international relief projects.

Since more than a third of the students at the 200-pupil Maskwacis school participate in the breakfast and lunch program, it was important to try to raise the $30,000 annual cost through other means, said campaign director Lynn McDowell.

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Co-op presses ahead with expansion despite downturn

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Work is scheduled to begin on the Co-op Shopping Centre just to the east of Clearview Market Square in Red Deer later this week.

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Foundation work for Central Alberta Co-op’s third grocery store in Red Deer is beginning this week.

Co-op general manager Larry Parks said Monday the economic downturn in Alberta will not affect the project’s timelines, and he expects to see the new store, gas bar with car wash, and liquor store opening in Timberlands North in just over a year, probably

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The new store will be the anchor tenant of Timberlands Market, a commercial and residential development on the east side of 30th Avenue, across from Clearview Market Square.

Parks said that the new grocery store will be quite a bit larger than the Co-op’s Deer Park store — 40,900 sq. ft. compared with 26,000 sq ft.

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Union files complaint against AHS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta Health Services has been accused of bargaining in bad faith by the union representing some Sundre Hospital and Care Centre workers.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees said on Monday it had lodged a complaint against health officials for not disclosing a contentious plan to close 15 long-term care beds in Sundre.

Auxiliary nursing care and general support services jobs will be affected by the planned June closure, says the union. Labour officials have been bargaining on behalf of the auxiliary nursing care workers since March 2015. An arbitrator’s decision is pending on general support jobs.

“At no time during pre-bargaining or bargaining for either group did AHS (Alberta Health Services) disclose its intentions to end public long-term care services in Sundre,” says the union in a statement.

“This is a violation of the employer’s bargaining disclosure obligations.”

If long-term care bed closure goes ahead, licensed practical nurses, health-care aides and some general support staff could be laid off, see their jobs disappear or face transfers out of the community, says the union.

Asked for comment, AHS released a statement on Monday afternoon denying that information was held back.

“The AUPE was advised in advance of the closure of these long-term care spaces and that the opening of the new Mountain View Seniors Housing continuing care facility in July would affect some employees at the Sundre Hospital and Care Centre,” says the statement.

All affected employees will be offered positions within the AHS and all collective agreements will be followed.

AHS will continue to negotiate at the bargaining table in good faith, says the statement.

The plan is to replace the long-term care beds with 40 level-four supportive-living beds — the highest care level in supportive living — at Mountain View Seniors’ Housing. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman has also promised that two Sundre seniors n need of long-term care will continue to get that care in the town’s new supportive living facility.

AHS says residents in the hospital’s long-term care wing can move to the new facility if they choose.

Last week, AUPE launched the Save Sundre LTC campaign by calling on Health Minister Sarah Hoffman to reverse the decision to close the beds.

A town hall meeting has been organized by the AUPE at the Sundre Legion on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

The closure of the long-term care beds has been criticized by Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Wildrose MLA Jason Nixon, who said as many as five residents will need long-term care and closing the beds will reduce local health-care options.

AHS says it will meet with doctors, the public and community leaders in coming weeks to determine how best to use the space left vacant when long-term care is moved.

Suspect in drug case to stand trial in the fall of 2017

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Crews began the process of removing trees along the sides of Range Road 282 west of Red Deer on Monday morning.

County residents angry as contractors begin chopping trees

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer County resident fighting to save a scenic stretch of black poplars thought a compromise had been worked out to limit the damage.

However, when contractors began mulching trees on Range Road 282 on Monday Susan Manyluk was angry to see how far back they were cutting.

Manyluk said there appears to be little attempt to reduce the planned brush clearing despite what residents thought was a commitment to clear only 1.5 metres — instead of three metres or more — from the edge of the gravel road that runs between Hwy 11 and Hwy 11A about five km west of Red Deer.

“They are certainly not doing the compromise we were offered on Friday morning,” said Manyluk, who owns HolmeHus Antiques and has lived on the road for nearly 40 years.

She was heartened when the mayor told her that

Murder trial scheduled for October 2017

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A trial date has been set for the two men accused of murdering a Castor-area family and then burning down their house to hide the evidence.

The bodies of Gordon Klaus, 61 and his daughter, Monica, 40 were found in the rubble after their farmhouse burned down on Dec. 8, 2013. Gordon’s wife, Sandra, 62, was never found. RCMP investigators allege that she also perished in the fire.

Police also reported that the family dog was found in the yard, shot and killed.

RCMP arrested and charged two suspects on Aug. Ray has asked to be tried by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench. Granted bail earlier on, he is to stand trial in Red Deer on Oct. 23-25, 2017.

One of the suspects from a drug bust in Penhold will stand trial in the fall of next year.

Darren Ray, 33, was arrested on various charges related to illegal drugs, weapons and possessing stolen property after a raid at a home in Penhold on Aug. 7, 2015. RCMP members allege seizing cocaine, methamphetamine, GHB, morphine and prescription pills during their search of the property.

Lagrelle trial slated for early 2017 A Red Deer man accused in the beating of another man and holding him against his will is to stand trial early in 2017.

Darren Curtis Lagrelle, 19 at the time of his arrest, has asked to be tried in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench arising from an incident on July 30,

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morning about a proposal to reduce the scope of the brush clearing. That compromise followed a faceto-face meeting on Tuesday with the mayor, Coun.

Christine Moore, whose division includes the area, and county manager Curtis Herzberg.

The county wants to clean up the brush and trees along the road as a safety measure and in keeping with long-held maintenance procedures on its roads.

Manyluk said she’s been to look at what brush clearing has been done so far on the road and is not impressed.

“It’s a hell of a mess. It’s pretty much gone,” she said of the much-loved cathedral of trees, some a century old, framing the road. “It’s fence line to fence line.”

Since Manyluk’s concerns about the county’s clearing plan were published in the Advocate last week, she was “inundated” with phone calls and emails from supporters, she said.

Wood and Moore could not be reached for comment on Monday.

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15, 2014 — Monica’s brother, Jason Gordon Klaus, 43 and an acquaintance of his, Joshua Gregory Frank, 30.

Both men were charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one of arson.

Following numerous appearances in Red Deer provincial court, the two men elected to be tried by judge and jury in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

They were ordered to stand trial at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing, held in Red Deer provincial court earlier this year.

Both men remain in custody pending the outcome of their trial, set for Oct. 10-24, 2017.

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Red Deer City RCMP allege that they were searching for Lagrelle, who was wanted on warrants, when they found four men and three teen-aged girls beating a man inside a room at a motel.

Lagrelle and the others were arrested at the scene and charged with a variety of offences.

Following a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court on Jan. 13, Lagrelle was ordered to stand trial on numerous charges, including forcible confinement and aggravated assault.

He remains in custody pending trial by judge alone, set for Feb. 27 to March 1, 2017.

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Witness places Vader in SUV

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A key witness has testified that he saw murder suspect Travis Vader driving an SUV that looked like one owned by two Alberta seniors who vanished six years ago.

Myles Ingersoll told a trial judge Monday that he stopped to visit a friend in Peers, a hamlet west of Edmonton, in early July 2010.

Vader — a fellow meth user — was there, TRAVIS VADER too, and they chatted briefly, said Ingersoll.

“He just said he had to get going.

There was too much heat around … apparently he had warrants out for his arrest,” Ingersoll said.

He added that Vader “seemed upset, or something was bothering him.”

Vader then drove away in a green SUV that Ingersoll said he had never seen before. He later recognized the vehicle in a newspaper story about a missing couple.

Lyle and Marie McCann were last seen driving their motorhome with their green Hyundai Tucson towed behind it as they set out from St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton, on July 3 of that year. The great-grandparents, in their late 70s, were going on a camping trip to meet family in British Columbia.

But they didn’t make it far.

Two days later their motorhome was found burning in the bush in the Peers area. Their SUV was later found hidden in some trees on a nearby rural property.

Their bodies have never been found.

The Crown alleges Vader was a desperate drug user on the run from police, and living in a makeshift camp in the region, when he came across the McCanns and killed them. The defence has suggested there’s not enough evidence to prove the couple is really dead and that police should have looked at other suspects.

Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Under cross-examination, Ingersoll, a 47-year-old trucker, testified that he has a criminal record and had been a meth user for years. He was even high on drugs during one police interview about Vader.

But he told court that he definitely remembers seeing Vader with the green SUV, and that it even had a hitch on the front of it so it could be towed.

Local BRIEFS Drug trial scheduled almost three years after arrest The suspect in a Red Deer drug trafficking bust will stand trial more than three years after his arrest.

Shane Clifford White, 31 and another suspect were arrested on Aug.

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City of Red Deer Recreation parks and Culture employee Colin Fraser uses a blower to move leaves out of a campsite at the Lions Campground in Red Deer on Monday. The campground is still closed but will open for the season soon.

Former judge suggests another look into allegations about Redford

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A former Supreme Court judge is calling for another investigation into conflict-of-interest allegations involving former Alberta premier Alison Redford.

Frank Iacobucci makes the recommendation in his report, released Monday, into the 2013 investigation by ethics commissioner Neil Wilkinson.

Wilkinson looked into how a Calgary law firm with close ties to Redford was awarded a contract to represent the province in a lawsuit against tobacco companies.

Robert Hawkes, one of the partners at JSS Barristers, is Redford’s former husband.

Wilkinson cleared Redford of any conflict in awarding the contract for the multibillion-dollar lawsuit while she was justice minister.

But Iacobucci said the commissioner didn’t have all relevant information

he needed, including a draft note that listed the law firm as the last of three that should be considered.

“These questions would very likely have been explored by the ethics commissioner had the information on which they are based been known to him,” Iacobucci said.

“They therefore now warrant further attention.”

Justice Minister Kathleen ALISON REDFORD Ganley said it’s “deeply concerning” that Wilkinson didn’t have all the information he needed. She has sent the report to the province’s new ethics commissioner, Marguerite Trussler, to

Taxis aren’t Uber’s competitors: legal director

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Uber Canada’s legal director says the ride-sharing outfit isn’t spooked by the prospect of taxi companies developing their own competing app-based services.

Jeremy Millard, who took the job at Uber last summer after years as a litigator with major law firms, says taxis aren’t Uber’s main competition — private car ownership is.

He made his remarks during a ques1, 2014, by members of the RCMP’s organized crime team, following a nine-month investigation.

Police allege seizing 2.2 kilograms of marijuana and almost $130,000 in cash at a home in Red Deer. A bank account containing $103,000 was also seized.

White was charged with trafficking pot, possessing proceeds of crime and laundering the proceeds of crime.

Charges were later stayed against a woman arrested with him.

Released on bail, White made numerous court appearances before asking to be tried by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with a preliminary hearing to be held beforehand. Preliminary hearings are optional for Court of Queen’s Bench trials, and may be held to test

tion-and-answer session at the Corporate Counsel Association of Canada’s national conference in Calgary.

The taxi industry has protested the ride-hailing service in various Canadian cities, arguing Uber drivers are at an unfair advantage because they are not subject to the same rules.

Millard says navigating regulatory issues dominates his work these days, as cities across Canada grapple with how to handle the nascent industry.

He says small differences between cities’ ride-hailing rules can have a big

impact.

For instance, Edmonton’s bylaw requires Uber to pay the city $50,000 a year plus six cents per trip, whereas Calgary’s charges individual drivers $220 a year for an operating licence.

“The problem with that is most drivers are not driving full time. Most drivers are driving less than 10 hours a week and so to have a high barrier of entry in terms of on-boarding a driver is not useful … We want to be able to get drivers on as simply and as easily as possible,” he said.

the strength of the Crown’s evidence before proceeding to trial White was ordered to stand trial after the hearing, held last December.

His trial has been scheduled for five to seven days, starting on Nov. 20, 2017.

Correction There was an error in a story published on Page A1 of the April 4 Advocate. Corgi dog breeder Jan Bergeron lives in Innisfail.

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decide if another investigation is warranted.

Redford resigned in 2014 as she was stung by scandals that included improper use government planes and the ordering of a personal penthouse apartment on top of a renovated government building.

Ganley said even though Redford is no longer a sitting legislature member, the allegations against her still need to be examined.

“I think people still have outstanding questions arising from this matter and I think it’s really important that we do our absolute level best to ensure that those questions are answered and that the public can have confidence in their government.”

She added that tobacco lawsuit is far into litigation and it doesn’t make sense to switch law firms.

“We have no indication other than they have been anything other than fully competent in pursing this matter,” Ganley said.

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What peace could look like in Syria GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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fter the Syrian army recaptured the city of Palmyra from Islamic State a week ago, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted that the liberation of the ancient city was a “good thing.” But he could not resist adding: “We’re also mindful, of course, that the best hope for Syria and the Syrian people is not an expansion of [President] Bashar al-Assad’s ability to tyrannise the Syrian people.”

This was entirely in line with the long-standing U.S. policy of seeking to destroy both Islamic State and the Syrian government (i.e. the Assad regime) at the same time. But that was never more than wishful thinking, especially as the United States was quite sensibly determined not to commit its own ground troops to the conflict.

If the Syrian army actually had collapsed (as was looking quite likely before the Russians intervened to save it last September), nothing could have prevented Islamic State and the rival Islamist forces of the Nusra Front from taking the whole country. They

might then have fought each other for control, but all of Syria would have ended up under extreme Islamist rule.

But the opposite is not true. The revival of the Syrian army, and even its reconquest of Palmyra, does not mean that the Assad regime can destroy Islamic State, let alone regain control of the whole country. Nor does Russia have any intention of helping President Assad to pursue such an ambitious goal, as Moscow made clear by withdrawing most of the Russian combat aircraft from Syria two weeks ago.

Russia’s strategy has been more modest and realistic from the start. It was to restore the military stalemate that had persisted until the spring of 2015, and to convince the remaining non-Islamist rebel groups that they had no chance of somehow riding to power on the coat-tails of an Islamist victory over the Assad regime.

This hope was as delusional as the American policy in Syria. By mid-2015 between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of the Syrian rebels actively fighting the Assad regime belonged to Islamic State or to al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, the Nusra Front, and its Islamist allies in Ahrar al-Sham. Moreover, the remainder of the rebels, the non-fanatics or so-called “moderates,” were mostly allied to the Nusra Front.

This curious alliance came to pass mostly because the Nusra Front want-

ed to avoid the American and “coalition” bombs that were falling on Islamic State. So it created a broader alliance called the “Army of Islam” that wrapped these small “moderate” groups around the Islamist core, and the United States fell for it. Or at least American propaganda fell for it.

The Russians cheerfully bombed all these forces indiscriminately, making no distinction between Islamists and the allies of Islamists. The United States ritually condemned the attacks on the latter groups (always described as “moderates”), and the Russians cheerfully ignored that too.

And after five months, when most of the “moderates” had been persuaded that they were never going to gain power through an alliance with the Islamists, Moscow proposed a ceasefire that would include the “moderates” but exclude the Islamists. That ceasefire has now been in effect for almost a month.

The negotiators for these moderate groups are still demanding the departure of Assad from power as the price of a permanent ceasefire. They haven’t a prayer of getting such a sweet deal, but the Russians are putting pressure on Assad to come up with a formula of words, however vague, that will persuade them to accept amnesty and come in from the cold without losing too much face.

The Islamists, although largely surrounded and blockaded, will not be defeated any time soon by military force, but they are growing weaker and may fall to fighting among themselves.

And the Syrian Kurds, the only American allies on the ground in Syria, will probably manage to hold on to the long strip of territory they control along the border with Turkey. However, they may have to settle for being an “autonomous province” within Syria if they wish to avoid a Turkish invasion.

President Vladimir Putin’s goal was to isolate the Islamists and reconcile the rest of the rebels with the Assad regime, and it is well on the way to accomplishment. It will not be a happy ending for any of the groups involved in the Syrian civil war, but it is the least bad outcome that can now be realistically imagined.

It will not put an end to all the fighting on Syrian territory. Not all the refugees will want to come home to such a country, and the terrorism abroad will continue. (But then, it would continue even if Islamic State disappeared — you don’t need a state to plan terrorist attacks.)

When no decisive victory is possible for any side, it makes sense to stop as much of the shooting as possible.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

feeding habits of wildlife, how about removing all of the trees and brush cover to build the city yards at Three Mile Bend. Not only removing wildlife feed, also removing wild wildlife sanctuary.

How much consultation has the city engaged in about altering wildlife feeding habits when they build a new subdivision?

Not only changing wildlife feeding habits, actually starving them out of that area entirely.

Whoever is responsible for guiding the City of Red Deer parks department, if your job is stressing you out so badly that you have lost all common sense, it’s time that you go on vacation, a long unpaid vacation.

Larry Brown Red Deer

ment with considerable interest. This rather sounded like an April Fool’s Day invention, however this financial manoeuvre by the U.S. is all too real. Mr. Harper indicated that this invasive law applies to dual citizens of Canada/U.S., those with American partners, or Canadians with U.S. green cards. That would be bad enough, though some case could be made for U.S. taxes for some of those people.

However, I understand that this law is also being used against Canadian citizens of long standing who renounced their U.S. citizenship with all the necessary paperwork and legalities completed.

These Canadians have paid taxes in Canada, voted in Canadian elections, and complied with Canadian laws — but are still being hounded by the U.S. law that works on the basis of “once American, always American”.

To me, the worst of this is not only that our own governments, of whatever political stripe, have apparently knuckled under and looked the other way at such tactics. Our own banking system has also evidently meekly complied with U.S. demands, opening

up financial information on perfectly ordinary Canadian Citizens for probing by the American Internal Revenue Service. How can this be so?

Moreover, how can it occur with the majority of Canadians being unaware of this loss of privacy, violation of our Charter rights, and much stress and distress to Canadian citizens? Watch out, folks, this thing appears to be going international, under some sort of agreement that leaves almost everyone vulnerable to probing by many other nations as well as our “good neighbours” to the south, with the complicity of our formerly trustworthy banking institutions. Our government has again been snookered into an agreement that is damaging to Canada as a sovereign nation, starting with our ordinary citizens who have had faith and trust in our Canadian institutions.

Get your emails, phone calls, and pens into action, let our government in Ottawa know that — retroactive complications or not — these activities must be made fully public with the goal of halting them entirely.

Bonnie J. Denhaan.

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City priorities on protecting wildlife inconsistent I am comforted to know how caring the City of Red Deer’s Parks department is about the wild life at Three Mile Bend dog park.

There is a directive from the City of Red Deer Parks Department for all of those responsible for putting up bird feeders at the dog park, to have them removed within 30 days, or the city will remove them through the parks department.

One reason for the removal is, that the feeders might alter the feeding habits of the moose and deer that are attracted to the feeders, and the danger with people/dogs and wildlife conflict.

I have been going to Three Mile Bend off leash dog park for the last 15 years, and I have never seen any moose or deer feeding at these bird feeders, no tracks no moose poop or any other evidence, nada, that these animals feed there.

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Threepeat: Wall wins comfortable majority

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Premier Brad Wall and his Saskatchewan Party delivered a resounding — and widely expected — threepeat majority victory in Monday’s provincial election.

Polls throughout the campaign had suggested the popular Wall would defeat the rival NDP for the third time since 2007.

Voting results showed the Saskatchewan Party leading or elected in a comfortable majority of the legislature’s 61 seats against the New Democrats and their leader Cam Broten.

The Saskatchewan Party BRAD WALL was also taking about twothirds of the popular vote.

The NDP appeared to be holding its pre-election beachhead of nine seats with the chance at a few more.

But Broten, running in his first campaign as leader, was trailing in his Saskatoon Westview seat. A Broten loss would be deja vu for the NDP. Party leader Dwain Lingenfelter lost his Regina seat in the 2011 election.

Longtime NDP legislature member David Forbes, who was re-elected, was upbeat as he spoke to supporters in Saskatoon.

“You know it’s not easy to take down an incumbent government, but we are no strangers to hard work,” he said.

“That’s because of the leadership of Cam Broten who really sees the future of our province. We want a stronger, fairer, kinder province here in Saskatchewan and we will keep fighting for that.”

Wall, 50, handily won his Swift Current seat, which he has held since he was first elected in 1999.

Most of Wall’s cabinet were elected or were leading, including deputy premier Don McMorris, Economy and Energy Minister Bill Boyd, Health Minister Dustin Duncan, Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart and Education Minister Don Morgan.

The 27-day campaign featured few spending promises and pared party platforms.

Broten’s NDP knew it was facing a formidable foe in Wall, who consistently polls as one of the most popular premiers in Canada and has carved out a niche as defender of the province and a strong voice for small-c conservatives, especially in the West.

Political scientist Charles Smith said Wall’s victory is welcome relief for Canada’s conservatives, who have seen their power disappear in Ottawa to Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and in Alberta to Rachel Notley’s NDP. “If you’re a conservative across the country, it’s nice to see a familiar face and a friendly face get elected in a province, and had he gone down to defeat, there would have been no conservatives at any level of government, federally or provincially,” said Smith from the University of Saskatchewan.

Wall spent most of the campaign talking about his party’s record. The premier said the ballot box question was about the economy and which party would best protect and create jobs in the province.

Broten, 37, suggested that the sheen was off the Wall government. The resource-dependent province has been hit by sluggish oil and potash revenues and is running a $427-million deficit this year. Wall is expected to soon table another deficit budget for the coming year.

Political scientist Tom McIntosh said Wall’s third term is likely to be rougher than the first two given the worsening economy.

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Red Deer-raised singer Danielle McTaggart is thrilled to share a new a Juno Award with her partner in life and music, Drew McTaggart. an interview.

However, a spokesperson from their label, Universal Music Canada, said “It’s been an incredibly exciting weekend for the group and they are so thankful for all of the support.”

Here’s a look at the results of the other elections in Saskatchewan’s history: 2003: Lorne Calvert, who takes over the helm of the NDP from Romanow in 2001, leads the NDP to a fourth-straight victory. It’s an election many expected the party to lose after more than a decade in power. A natural resource boom allows his government to slash business taxes while freezing tuition for students and capping drug costs for seniors.

Dear Rouge won a Juno Award Sunday in a category that also included the nominees Half Moon Run, Milk & Bone, The Elwins, and Young Empires. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Their husband-wife duo of Dear Rouge nabbed Breakthrough Group of the Year at Sunday’s Juno Awards in Calgary.

The excited McTaggarts tweeted: “This is insane!!!

Thanks @TheJUNOAwards for this amazing experience!”

Vancouver-based Dear Rouge was named after Danielle’s hometown of Red Deer. The former Danielle Heykants performed in Notre Dame High School musicals and sang in a church choir at the Word of Life Centre while growing up in this city.

She met Drew through friends while she was still playing with the Red Deer band Gaetz Ave and he was a bassist in the Vancouver band McLean.

Danielle moved to Vancouver in 2010 after their relationship became romantic, and the couple were married a year later.

They started making music together right away.

“Driven by a passion to create energetic music with a creative backbone,” according to the duo’s website, the McTaggarts dived right in to make the debut EP Heads Up Watch Out. The follow up EP, Kids Wanna Know, further honed the duo’s alternative dance-rock sound. It also helped Dear Rouge win the $100,000 Peak Performance Project in 2012 — the largest artist development prize in Canada.

This helped finance the group’s full-length album, Black to Gold. The lead single I Heard I Had is a driving synth-rock jam that climbed to the Top 5 on alternative and rock charts with no record label backing it — a rare feat for a band with no previous charting history.

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Leap Manifesto gains ground

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OTTAWA — Backers of the radical “Leap Manifesto” have come up with a two-step plan aimed at getting federal New Democrats to end their flirtation with mainstream moderation and sign on to a more left-wing agenda.

The manifesto calls for dramatic change, urging a swift transition away from fossil fuels, a rejection of new pipelines, and an upending of the capitalist system on which the economy is based.

Leading left-wing thinkers released the creed in September in the middle of the election campaign, jolting NDP Leader Tom Mulcair as he attempted to convince Canadians that his party was a safe, moderate alternative to the Conservatives.

Now, as Mulcair’s leadership is up for debate and the party questions its own identity and direction, key New Democrats are pushing the Leap Manifesto

principles into the mix.

Former MPs Libby Davies and Craig Scott, as well as the head of the influential Toronto-Danforth riding association and documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis, are circulating a plan to entrench the manifesto’s ideas.

But they don’t foresee a wholesale adoption of the manifesto all at once.

Rather, they’re proposing a two-step process: first, have New Democrats at this week’s convention approve a resolution declaring that the manifesto is “a high-level statement of principles that is in line with the aspirations, history and values of the party.”

If that passes, they’re proposing another resolution calling for meaningful debate of the manifesto by riding associations, leading up to a full, detailed discussion on how to implement it at the next con-

WestJet faces potential lawsuit over harassment

vention in 2018.

“We agree that the time is clearly right to embrace the analysis and values in the manifesto, but we believe that the party also needs a chance to debate and articulate the many policies that flow from it,” says a letter set to be circulated to rank-and-file NDP members at the Edmonton convention, a copy of which was provided to The Canadian Press.

“In other words, we believe the NDP needs to take some ownership over this agenda through a democratic process.”

In an interview, Lewis, one of the key drivers of the manifesto, said there also needs to be an online mechanism to allow members to have a strong voice in the policy-making process.

Nearly two dozen NDP riding associations have drafted their own resolutions urging the party to embrace the manifesto as rank-and-file members mull the future of the party following October’s disappointing election results.

TWO KILLED IN COLLISION WITH TRAIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A former WestJet flight attendant already embroiled in a legal dispute with the airline has launched a second lawsuit, accusing the company of fostering a corporate culture that tolerates harassment against female flight attendants and silences alleged victims.

Mandalena Lewis said she decided to file the latest lawsuit, potentially a class-action case, after former colleagues came to her with their stories of workplace harassment when her initial complaint became public.

“The common denominator was definitely fear.

They were afraid to say anything for fear of losing their jobs, which is really sad and just shows there’s a bigger problem that needs to be addressed,” Lewis said in an interview.

“It’s 2016 and we are still facing a huge injustice in our workplace environment. To say that WestJet has failed to create and maintain a safe work environment is incredibly accurate.”

Lewis couldn’t say how many women might be involved in the lawsuit.

She launched a separate lawsuit against WestJet earlier this year over allegations the airline didn’t take proper action after she reported being sexually assaulted by a pilot while on a stopover in Hawaii.

On Monday, she submitted a notice of claim in British Columbia Supreme Court, asking that the second case be granted class-action status on behalf of all WestJet female flight attendants.

None of the allegations have been tested in court.

A spokeswoman for WestJet said in an email that the company is not in a position to comment because it hasn’t been served with a notice of claim.

A document filed in court accuses WestJet of breaching its contract with its female flight attendants by failing to follow its own anti-harassment policy.

It describes how the airline industry is historically fraught with discriminatory attitudes toward women and that WestJet has failed to buck that trend by allowing a workplace culture that is permissive of harassment.

“This has included attitudes by some male pilots that female attendants are or ought to be sexually available to them and that harassment against female flight attendants is generally acceptable, or at least will not be subject to meaningful sanction,” said the document.

Behaviours mentioned in the notice of claim include sexist jokes, humiliating and obscene comments, unwelcome physical contact and sexual advances.

Included in that list is “midnight knocking,” which is defined as a request or demand for sexual favours by pilots while on a stopover.

The notice of claim alleges WestJet encourages women who report harassment to remain silent and are told they will be disciplined if they fail to keep quiet.

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Firefighters carry a stretcher to the resting place of a car that collided with a Via passenger train near Glencoe, Ont., Monday. Two people in the car were killed and one person on the train suffered minor injuries.

Cold-fX makers misled public, lawsuit alleges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The makers of Cold-fX are in court fighting allegations they ignored their own research and misled consumers about the short-term effectiveness of the popular cold and flu remedy.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) was in British Columbia Supreme Court on Monday, opposing an application to grant the lawsuit class-action status.

Vancouver Island resident Don Harrison launched a claim in 2012 against Valeant and its subsidiary, Afexa Life Sciences, over advertising saying that Cold-fX offered “immediate relief of cold and flu symptoms” if taken over a three-day period at the first sign of illness.

Harrison’s notice of claim said Valeant and Afexa continued to “knowingly or recklessly” promote Cold-fX despite evidence the natural-health product only had a possible positive impact after being taken daily for prolonged periods of two-to-six months.

“The gist of the case is that people paid money for a worthless product … and the money they spent should be returned,” said Harrison’s lawyer, John Green, in a interview.

Valeant also unnecessarily exposed its customers to a health threat by distributing a useless drug with a risk of adverse side effects, he said.

The Laval, Que.,-based company denied the accusations in a statement and said it will fight the application for class-action certification.

“Valeant believes the suit is without merit and

Canada BRIEFS Stories of residential school abuse can be shredded after 15 years, court says TORONTO — Survivors of Canada’s notorious residential school system have the right to see their stories archived if they wish, but their accounts must otherwise be destroyed in 15 years, Ontario’s top court ruled in a split decision Monday.

At issue are documents related to compensation claims made by as many as 30,000 survivors of Indian residential schools — many heart-rending accounts of sexual, physical and psychological abuse.

Compensation claimants never surrendered control of their stories, the Appeal Court said.

“Residential school survivors are free to disclose their own experiences, despite any claims that others may make with respect to confidentiality and privacy,” the court said.

The decision came in response to various appeals and cross-appeals of a ruling by Superior Court Justice Paul Perell in 2014 related to claims made under the confidential independent assessment process — or IAP — set up as part of an agreement that settled a class action against the government.

The federal government and Truth and Reconciliation Commission fought destruction of the documents, saying they should be kept — with appropriate safeguards — to preserve the historical record of residential schools. Catholic parties argued for their destruction.

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Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau gestures during his speech to Yes supporters after losing the referendum in Montreal Monday night, Oct. 30, 1995. Quebec’s national library has released the 1995 Englishlanguage videotape recording of the speech thenpremier Parizeau would have given had the Yes side won the sovereignty referendum.

Quebec releases English version of 1995 Parizeau speech prepped for Yes win MONTREAL — Quebec is standing tall and the world should make space for the new country, the late premier Jacques Parizeau said in a speech prepared in the event of a Yes victory in the 1995 sovereignty referendum.

Parizeau’s comments — made in English and French — were destined for media organizations but were not aired because of the No side’s win on Oct.

is vigorously defending this matter,” said the document.

None of the allegations have been tested in court.

Afexa is the original manufacturer and licence holder of Cold-fX and was bought by Valeant in 2011.

Valeant has been marred by a succession of controversies in recent months that have sapped its stock value and hammered its reputation, leading the CEO of the embattled Quebec drugmaker to step down last month.

The series of setbacks include gouging customers by hiking drug prices and filing misstated earnings, the latter of which it blames on its former chief financial officer.

Green also alleged Valeant and Afexa kept quiet about an internal study conducted in the early 2000s that contradicted the health claims around Cold-fX. “The defendants knew at least as early as 2004, when they had a study done themselves, that Cold-fX might be even less effective than a placebo,” he said.

“The study actually showed the placebo to be more effective at relieving (some) cold symptoms than Cold-fX.” The study found the product effectively reduced the severity of a runny nose during the early days of a respiratory infection, but that it had limited efficacy in treating other symptoms, particularly a cough and stuffy nose.

If the case receives class-action approval, anyone who bought Cold-fX for the short-term relief of cold and flu symptoms will be able to apply to a fund that will be created to get their money back, said Green.

30, 1995.

The French version of the videotape was broadcast in January during a television show on Radio-Canada but Quebec’s national library uploaded the English copy to its website last week.

“The first task for us all tomorrow will be to take off our Yes and No labels so we can come together behind the democratic decisions Quebecers have made,” says Parizeau, sitting behind a desk in front of a Fleur-de-lis flag.

Discussions with Canada on a new “political and economic partnership” will begin immediately, he says, adding his government will choose a few members from the No side to sit on the negotiating committee.

Parizeau tells Quebecers it will take about one year for the legislature to declare independence “and after that things will become more simple.”

“Every box was checked (in the speech) in terms of reassuring people this would be an orderly, respectful transition,” Lisee said.

Before signing off, Parizeau looks at the camera, and says all Quebecers will be able to tell their children and grandchildren in a few years: “Look at this new Quebec … I contributed to its birth, and now I’m giving it to you.”

Convicted murderer Dennis Oland again denied bail by appeal court FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick court has denied bail to Dennis Oland for a second time, following his conviction of second-degree murder in the death of his father Richard Oland.

In a written decision released today, the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick confirmed an earlier court decision to deny bail to Oland.

The 48-year-old Oland was sentenced to life in prison on Feb. 11 with no chance of parole for 10 years in the July 2011 murder.

The appeal of Oland’s conviction is set to begin Oct. 18.

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EU begins shipping migrants to Turkey

MIGRANT CRISIS AT A GLANCE BRUSSELS — The European Union plan to contain the refugee crisis took a major step on Monday with the return to Turkey of 202 migrants and refugees who had not applied for asylum in Greece, and Germany received its first Syrian refugees under the program.

Both were important steps in launching the EU-Turkey deal agreed on March 18 that aims to see tens of thousands of migrants returned to Turkey and make the deadly and dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Greece an unworkable exercise.

Here is a look how the EU and Turkey plan to implement the deal: ● It has been described as a onefor-one operation: for every Syrian among the returnees to Turkey, one Syrian refugee already in Turkey would be resettled in Europe. Under this voluntary part of the plan, up to 72,000 Syrians would be brought to Europe.

Monday morning, 32 Syrians were sent to Germany and 11 to Finland. A further planeload is due in the Netherlands on Tuesday.

One-for-one should not be taken literally. “There will be a pool of Syrians from Turkey to be resettled and the numbers will come in alignment — which is difficult to see in these first early days,” said EU Commision spokesman Margaritis Schinas. ● Under the deal, the EU says Greece has moved all migrants who arrived before March 20 to the mainland from the islands. Greece has returned 147 “irregular” migrants among those arrivals. At dawn on Monday, all “new irregular migrants” crossing from Turkey to Greece will be sent back. ● The agreement stipulated that Turkey would act to prevent new sea and land routes to Greece and would limit new crossings as much as possible. On March 20, arrivals of migrants in Greece still stood at 1,667. On Sunday, they stood at 200, the European Commission said. ● Though the agreement has been criticized by human rights activists and several political groups in the EU, the UN refugee agency says returns are so far “normal policy” but that it will be watching. Spokeswoman Melissa Fleming says those deported “did not express their intention to seek asylum.”

Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the ALDE liberal group in the European Parliament, said the Turkish parliament still had to approve the necessary conditions for fully legal returns. Anything less, he said, “is simply unacceptable.”

In Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged police officers to show compassion to returnees.

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Refugee children walk along railway tracks in a makeshift camp at Idomeni border station on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia, photographed from the Macedonian side of the border line, Monday. The European plan to send migrants from Greece back to Turkey is set to be implemented starting today. were expected on a flight later in the day.

Turkey and the European Union reached a deal last month that says migrants who reach Greece illegally from Turkey after March 20 will be returned to Turkey unless they qualify for asylum. For every Syrian turned back, a Syrian refugee is to be resettled from Turkey to the EU. The agreement aims to deter people from making the short but dangerous journey with smugglers to Greek islands from the Turkish coast.

More than 52,000 migrants and refugees are stranded in Greece following the border closures of European nations further north, but only those

Obama says NATO alliance key to collective security

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday called NATO “the linchpin” of U.S. security policy and a critical ally in the fight against terrorism, indirectly countering Republican Donald Trump’s recent claims that the 67-year-old alliance is obsolete.

Speaking after an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Obama praised the alliance’s contributions to the fight against the Islamic State group, its partnership in Afghanistan and assistance in the refugee crisis in southern Europe.

“NATO continues to be the linchpin, the cornerstone of our collective defence and U.S. security policy,” Obama said.

Obama did not name Trump and ignored a reporter’s question about the Republican presidential candidate’s recent statements. Still, his comments struck a strong contrast to Trump’s assertion that NATO is irrelevant and ill-suited to fight terrorism. As president, Trump has said he would force member nations to increase their contributions, even if that risked breaking

up the alliance.

Both the president and the secretary general aimed to dispute that characterization. In remarks after the meeting, Obama described Europe as especially burdened by instability and reliant on Trans-Atlantic alliance.

“This is obviously a tumultuous time in the world. Europe is a focal point of a lot of these stresses and strains in the global security system,” he said. “It is because of the strength of NATO … that I’m confident that despite these choppy waters we will be able to continue to underscore and underwrite the peace and security and prosperity that has been a hallmark of the trans-Atlantic relationship.”

Stoltenberg described the alliance “as important as ever.”

“NATO has been able to adapt to a more dangerous world,” he said, noting the NATO had begun training Iraqi soldiers last week.

Obama said he and Stoltenberg discussed NATO’s potential role in Libya, as well as its plans to assist the European Union with the migrant crisis stemming from Syria’s civil war.

He says the migrants are taking very dangerous trips and that the response must be “humane and thoughtful.”

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Monday was a symbolic benchmark in the agreement that has been plagued by concerns over human rights and the adequacy of preparations made in Greece and Turkey. The numbers transferred, however, were smaller than initially forecast.

And while the number of new arrivals in Greece has dropped since March 20, potential asylum-seekers are still taking smuggling boats across the Aegean Sea, including 339 people who authorities say landed from Sunday morning to Monday morning.

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DIKILI, Turkey — A controversial European Union plan to curb migration and smash smuggling rings in Turkey began Monday as 202 migrants from two Greek islands were piled onto boats and shipped back to Turkey.

Under heavy security, authorities on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios deported people from 11 nations — the first in a plan that has drawn strong criticism from human rights advocates but is seen by some European nations as the only way to resolve the continent’s migration crisis.

The first vessel from Lesbos was escorted into the Turkish port of Dikili by the Turkish coast guard as a helicopter hovered overhead. The migrants were taken to red-and-white tents for registration and health checks.

About a dozen people stood at the port holding a banner that read “Welcome refugees. Turkey is your home.”

That sentiment came in sharp contrast to protests over the weekend by locals who feared that Dikili would turn into a warehouse for refugees.

A second vessel motored in from Lesbos and a third from the nearby island of Chios later Monday.

Greek authorities said a total of 191 men and 11 women were sent back.

Those included 130 people from Pakistan, 42 from Afghanistan, 10 from Iran, five from Congo, four from Sri Lanka, three from Bangladesh, three from India, one each from Iraq, Somalia and Ivory Coast, and two Syrians who had asked to be sent back.

Those who arrived from Lesbos were sent to “reception and removal centre” in the northwestern Kirklareli province on the Black Sea, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.

It said the Syrians would be placed in refugee camps and other migrants would be deported.

In an address to police officers in Ankara, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged them to show “compassion”’ to the returning migrants and said Syrian refugees from camps in Turkey would be sent to Europe.

In the other half of the plan, 16 Syrian refugees from Turkey flew into the central German city of Hannover on Monday to be resettled and 16 more

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Resentment frames Trump policy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Imagine being an international-affairs expert, mortified by the views of Donald Trump and you suddenly discover you’ve helped create his foreign-policy slogan.

Welcome to Ian Bremmer’s world.

The author and international-risk consultant recently spotted a consistent concept in a Trump foreign policy most people consider incoherent.

Trump himself brags about its unpredictability — he says he wants to keep rivals guessing.

Build up the U.S. military, but withdraw it from foreign bases encourage the spread of nuclear weapons to Japan and South Korea, so they stop relying on the U.S. for defence avoid military adventurism, but take Mideast oil while bombing ISIS build the Keystone XL pipeline, but only if Canada pays more call NATO obsolete cancel trade deals build a wall with Mexico, make Mexico pay.

In all these Trump policies, Bremmer noted a recurring theme: American resentment.

It’s the persistent notion that America is being ripped off. In Trump’s world view, it’s time to make others pay. Bremmer began referring to Trump’s foreign policy in speeches and emails to clients as: “America First.”

He didn’t mean it as a compliment.

“I said, ‘This is clearly America First.’ It’s not, ‘Make America Great Again,’ because it won’t make America great again. This is viewing international relations through a purely zero-sum, winners-and-losers kind of frame,” Bremmer said in an interview. “It’s blaming everyone else in the world for America’s challenges. …

“I was not suggesting this was a good thing.”

The term carries deep, negative connotations in U.S. history. The America First Committee was the isolationist group which pilot Charles Lindbergh belonged to that opposed war with Nazi Germany.

The phrase has just been endorsed, however, by a surprising source: Trump himself. A New York Times reporter asked the candidate about the term

Former daycare building in Lacombe to become parking lot A former Lacombe daycare building will be flattened for more parking.

Lacombe Daycare Society dissolved last December and the daycare closed its doors near the Lacombe Memorial Centre. In 1983, the site was provided by the municipality free of charge to the society.

Reclaiming the site for additional parking has been in the plans since 2006, when the the Lacombe Memorial Centre underwent extensive renovations.

Getting rid of the day-care building will provide

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Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, is seen at the National Summit in Detroit, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. — Imagine being a international-affairs expert, mortified by the views of Donald Trump, and you suddenly discover that you’ve helped coin his foreign-policy slogan. Welcome to Ian Bremmer’s world.

Bremmer coined.

Trump replied, “I am America First,” he said. “I like the expression.”

The newspaper put the term in the headline.

It published the entire interview transcript, to let readers judge for themselves. It includes Trump suggesting, more than once, that he’d be fine with new countries getting nuclear weapons — a drastic reversal in long-standing American policy.

If it saves Americans money, he said, why

another 29 parking spaces at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, which will now having 189 parking stalls.

Lacombe is also considering adding a park-andride stop at the site to connect with the regional BOLT transit system that links Lacombe, Blackfalds and Red Deer.

Williams trial to resume in September The trial of a Red Deer man accused of causing a ruckus in the Eckville Post Office will resume in mid-September.

A trial opened in Red Deer provincial court on Friday for Leon Williams, 51, who was arrested in

shouldn’t Japan and South Korea get their own nukes? “We cannot be the policeman of the world. … You may very well be better off if that’s the case.”

“America First” has now surfaced in numerous media headlines.

It’s an unexpected career development for Bremmer — author of numerous books on foreign policy, president of the Eurasia Group and writer for Time magazine.

Bremmer’s latest book, Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World, argues the U.S. needs to pick a clear foreign-policy path after stumbling around since the end of the Cold War. He argues that indecision has had disastrous results. One example Bremmer cites is Russia — while the U.S. was repairing relations with it in the 1990s, it was simultaneously provoking it with NATO expansion. Every recent president has been guilty, he says, of unpredictable vacillation that has confused friends and foes alike.

He suggests the U.S. choose one of three paths: A leader-of-the-free-world approach that aggressively promotes democracy a so-called moneyball approach, where the U.S. makes clear it’ll only pick priorities that serve its interests or a domestic focus, where the U.S. tries setting an example abroad by having an ideal democracy at home.

Bremmer ultimately sides with the third option — which he refers to as Independent America.

He suggests Trump offers a distorted, unattractive version of that: “It’s independence on very large steroids… (We) wouldn’t be an example for the world.

(We’d) be a great example for Putin.”

It’s not the first foreign-policy concept Bremmer has named.

He’s coined the J-curve — which illustrates how some countries become more stable with repression, and others with openness. He’s also offered a twist on the G7 — the G-Zero world, a post-Cold War order defined by a dangerous power vacuum.

He notes some irony in his contributions to the language of international affairs.

“Maybe I’m destined to coin terms for things I don’t like,” he said.

Eckville on Feb. 19, 2015 following complaints that a man was causing trouble and refusing to leave.

Sylvan Lake RCMP allege that the suspect engaged in a scuffle with police who members who came to investigate and that both were assaulted during the melee.

Williams was charged with disturbing the police and two counts of assaulting a police officer.

Already short of time for other reasons, the trial — originally set to last just one day — was scuttled when the Court was unable to play the disc from a video recorder that police allege was owned by the accused man and set up and running on the post office counter. An adjournment was sought, with the continuance set for Friday, Sept. 16.

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ARENS: Back in court on May 2 Deri-Gillespie advised that there are two issues of concern arising from the decision.

She told the Court she is currently discussing those issues with the Crown prosecutor’s office and wants more time to negotiate with the assigned Crown before deciding how to proceed.

Her client, in the meantime, has been granted bail with a number of strict conditions, but remains in jail until he is able to meet those conditions.

Arens had originally been sentenced to serve five years and nine months in prison, minus 185 days in pre-trial custody. He was also prohibited from driving for 10 years.

He returns to court on May 2.

“The teachers were seeing these students coming to school without adequate food .… This program is huge for these students for their growth, health concentration and general happiness,” said Louise Stuppard, director of the Red Deer Youth Orchestra.

Stuppard hopes Central Albertan music lovers will support the program by attending the charitable concert — which is free with donations accepted at the door.

This year, the two youth orchestras will be joined by members of the Mamawi Atosketan School signing choir at the Music With a Mission concert.

The Total Praise choir, led by director Cheri Notice, doesn’t sing. The 12 travelling members (of the 22-youth choir) will perform by using American sign language and interpretive movements to get across the meaning of recorded contemporary devotional music.

McDowell said the students’ movements are so artistic the choir was invited to perform last year at an Adventist conference in Washington D.C. The two youth orchestras, each made up of about 35 mostly teenage musicians, will perform classical selections from Mahler, Holst, Handel and Bloch at the 7 p.m. Music With a Mission concert at 2 McVicar St. The 12th-annual event, presented by A Better World Canada. It will also feature a silent auction.

Delafield has noticed a huge increase of parent volunteers for this year’s event. There’s more excitement because it’s for a local cause, she added — “and we will need lots of excitement.” In previous years, the charitable concert raised $10,000 to $15,000 — about half of what’s needed this year. “We may have to look for a matching grant,” said Delafield.

For more information about Mamawi Atosketan School, its choir, breakfast program and on-going campaign to build a new high school starting this spring, please visit www.mans1.ca.

Members of the public can also attend an open house at the school at 2 p.m. on April 28. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

EXPANSION: Will create about 120 jobs He estimates the 120 to 130 jobs will be created when the three centres are up and running.

“Everything is going ahead as planned,” said Parks.

While the economy has slowed down, the positive side is tender prices might come in better than normal, he said. “So it’s a good time to build.”

But on the negative side, refrigeration equipment

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The Mamawi Atosketan Native School signing choir in Maskwacis will team up with the Red Deer Youth Orchestra and Lacombe’s Rosedale Valley String Orchestra for the annual Music With a Mission Concert on Saturday with a goal of raising $30,000 to help keep the breakfast and lunch program at the school going. must come from the United States and will have to be purchased with the U.S. dollar, which is about 30 per cent higher than the Canadian dollar at the moment.

Parks said the foundation work should be completed towards the end of May and then shortly after that, work will start on building.

The grocery store and gas bar will be owned by the Co-op and the liquor store will be a lease, he said.

The Co-op is part of a 13-acre 200,000 sq. ft. commercial and residential development by Developments 2 Inc., based in Okotoks.

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Panama Papers sting wealthy TROVE OF DATA ON OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS PROMPTS PROBE, QUESTIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — The release of a vast trove of documents and data on offshore financial dealings of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world is raising questions over the widespread use of such tactics to avoid taxes and skirt financial oversight.

Reports by an international coalition of media outlets on an investigation with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists brought to light details of offshore assets and services of politicians, businesses and celebrities, based on a cache of 11.5 million records.

Among the countries with past or present political figures named in the reports are Iceland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Argentina.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman claimed that the Russian president was the “main target” of the investigation, which he suggested was the result of “Putinophobia” and aimed at smearing the country in a parliamentary election year. The ICIJ has links to the U.S. government, Dmitry Peskov suggested.

“I don’t consider it possible to go into the details” of allegations that Putin’s friends ran an offshore scheme, Peskov told reporters, “mainly because there is nothing concrete and nothing new about Putin, and a lack of details.” He added that Sergei Rodulgin, a St. Petersburg-based cellist allegedly involved in the offshore schemes, was a friend of Putin’s but that the president “has very many friends.”

Peskov, who had last week foreshadowed the disclosure of the documents by warning of an upcoming “information attack” on Putin, said Monday he expected more reports to follow.

In Russia, where the investigation was published by independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the scandal faced an effective coverage ban. Russian television on Monday morning made no mention of it.

In Australia, the tax agency said Monday it was investigating more than 800 wealthy people for possible tax evasion linked to their alleged dealings with Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm with international offices that provide offshore financial services.

The Australian Tax Office said in a statement that it had linked more than 120 of those people to an offshore services provider in Hong Kong, but did not name the company.

In New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key rejected ICIJ’s characterization of his country as among 21 tax havens used by Mossack Fonseca.

“Tax havens are where there is nondisclosure of information,” Key said.

“New Zealand has full disclosure of information.”

Ramon Fonseca, a co-founder of Mossack Fonseca — one of the world’s largest creators of shell companies

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A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City, Monday. Panama’s president says his government will co-operate “vigorously” with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world’s rich and famous. An international coalition of media outlets Sunday published investigations it said stemmed from the leak of 115 million records kept by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca on behalf of clients.

Ottawa to study gap in uncollected taxes in light of Panama Papers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A senator who has crusaded against tax evasion has released recent correspondence from the revenue minister revealing the government’s plan to determine how much money Canada loses to tax dodgers.

National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier says in a Jan. 20 letter to Sen. Percy Downe that her department will try to estimate the value of Canada’s so-called “tax gap,” the difference between what is owed in taxes and what is actually collected.

The Charlottetown senator was responding to the leak of 11.5 million records from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the authenticity

— confirmed to Panama’s Channel 2 television network that documents investigated by the ICIJ were authentic and had been obtained illegally by hackers.

But he said most people named in the reports were not his firm’s direct clients but were accounts set up by intermediaries. He said the firm did not engage in any wrongdoing.

Businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars — the ICIJ said

of which the firm has confirmed. The firm denies any wrongdoing and says most of the individuals named in the leaked documents were not its direct clients, but accounts set up by intermediaries.

Lebouthillier’s letter says Canada will work with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which uses the tax gap measure to help develop policies that target tax evaders.

Downe said in a statement that the Canada Revenue Agency has resisted his attempts to get it to measure the tax gap since 2012. But he said the government needs the information so it can assess the level of overseas tax evasion and fight it.

“The time has come for the CRA and Canada to join countries like the

United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Mexico and measure the tax gap,” said Downe.

Lebouthillier’s letter says that’s about to change.

“I have instructed my officials to commence work on a plan aimed at enhancing public understanding of non-compliance with Canada’s tax laws and to identify the financial resources that would be required to move forward on the plan,” the minister writes.

“As a first step, the CRA will undertake a comprehensive study of tax gap estimation.”

Lebouthillier’s spokeswoman Chloe Luciani-Girouard had no comment on the letter Downe released, but said she was not disputing its contents.

the documents involve 214,488 companies and 14,153 clients of Mossack Fonseca. The non-profit group said it would release the full list of companies and people linked to them early next month.

The Munich-based German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it was offered the data more than a year ago through an encrypted channel by an anonymous source. The source sought unspecified security measures but no

Panel to help shorten list of female nominees for 2018 Canadian banknote

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada has appointed a group of people to develop a short list of Canadian women whose images could appear on a new banknote in 2018.

In announcing the panel Monday, the bank said it has received more than 18,000 submissions since issuing a public call for nominations last month.

Those responses include the names of about 120 different women.

The advisory council will narrow the list to between 10 and 12 nominees and survey Canadians on those names.

From there, the advisers will listen to expert advice as they trim the list further, to between three and five women.

Bank governor Stephen Poloz and Finance Minister Bill Morneau will discuss the final candidates, with Morneau making the ultimate call.

Poloz and Carolyn Wilkins, the bank’s senior deputy governor, announced the council on Monday at an Ottawa elementary school named after astronaut Roberta Bondar.

“Banknotes aren’t really just money — I like to think of them as being little pieces of art that tell Canada’s story,” Wilkins told students.

“We want the banknotes to be inspiring.”

The council members are: writer Gurjinder Basran Michael Redhead Champagne, youth activist and founder of AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Oppor-

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tunities) Margaret Conrad, professor emerita, University of New Brunswick Francine Descarries, sociology professor, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Perdita Felicien, world champion hurdler Merna Forster, historian and author Dominic Giroux, president and vice-chancellor, Laurentian University.

Only one woman has been featured on the currency since the Bank of Canada started designing and producing notes in 1937: the Queen.

“It’s 2016 — it’s way, way overdue for this,” said Felicien, a former Olympian.

“I think that person has to be of the highest integrity — I think she has to be a woman that all Canadians can find inspiration from.

“I really love trailblazers and people who create their own path, so that’s one of the things I hope Canadians look for.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last month that a woman would be featured on the next issue of banknotes due out in 2018.

Candidates must be Canadian women who have shown outstanding leadership, achievement or distinction in any field, benefiting the people of Canada, or in the service of the country.

No fictional characters are allowed and nominees must have been dead for at least 25 years.

Members of the public can suggest candidates on the bank’s website until April 15.

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compensation, said Bastian Obermayer, a reporter for the paper.

The documents provided to Suddeutsche Zeitung, amounting to about 2.6 terabytes of data, included emails, financial spreadsheets, passports and corporate records detailing how powerful figures used banks, law firms and offshore shell companies to hide their assets. The data dated from 1977 through the end of 2015, it said.

Business BRIEFS Novagold posts loss of $10 million in 1st quarter VANCOUVER — Novagold Resources Inc. (NG) on Monday reported a loss of $10 million in its fiscal first quarter.

On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 3 cents.

Novagold shares have risen 20 per cent since the beginning of the year.

In the final minutes of trading on Monday, shares hit $5.05, an increase of 61 per cent in the last 12 months.

U.S. judge OKs $20B settlement from BP oil spill

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Nellie McClung is shown in an undated photo. Manitoba’s Conservative leader is calling for suffragette Nellie McClung to be the first woman other than the Queen to be on a banknote.

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NEW ORLEANS — A judge in New Orleans has granted final approval to an estimated $20 billion settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s final order on the settlement was released Monday.

The settlement includes $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 113.76 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.69 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.85 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.51 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.280 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.91 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.68 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 171.91 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.63 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.05 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.25 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.07 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.52 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 18.92 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.82 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.90 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.09 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.66 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.91 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.07 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.93 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.44 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.63 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.41 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.40 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.75 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets were lower Monday, with pressure from falling commodity prices weighing particularly on the Toronto index.

Metals, gold and energy stocks had the biggest influence on the S&P/TSX composite, which slid 104.29 points to 13,336.15 amid declines in stocks of big mining companies such as First Quantum Minerals and HudBay Minerals.

Meanwhile, the commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar was down for a third consecutive session, trading 0.34 of a U.S. cent lower at 76.50 cents US. Benchmark North American crude oil, which enjoyed a brief resurgence above US$40 a barrel in mid-March, saw the May contract lose $1.09 to US$35.70.

Selling pressure increased as traders reacted to word out of Saudi Arabia that the kingdom would freeze its production only if Iran and other oil producers agreed to do the same.

Kash Pashootan, vice-president and portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory of Raymond James Ltd., said that any comment from OPEC will move crude markets on a day-to-day basis.

“There’s been a lot of blood and carnage in the energy space, a lot of pain in that space,” he said. “As long as there’s still an oversupply issue that exists, we will continue to see pain.”

Pashootan said investors should expect to continue to see turbulence in oil prices.

“We’ve seen considerable recovery and calming in oil markets, resulting in equity markets feeling the same relief,” he said.

“But we’re not out of the woods yet.”

Elsewhere in commodities, May copper was off two cents at US$2.14 a pound and June gold

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 27.47 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.79 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.10 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.14 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 17.64 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.00 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.41 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.76 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.41 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.44 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.95 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.42 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.780 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.55 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 17.61 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.78 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.47 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.75 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.47 Canyon Services Group. . 3.43 Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 16.59 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.70 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.600 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.16 fell $4.20 to US$1,219.30 a troy ounce. May natural gas gained four cents to US$2 per mmBtu. Meanwhile, New York markets were also in the red amid a report that U.S. factory orders fell for the third time in four months in February. The Commerce Department said orders fell 1.7 per cent in February after a 1.2 per cent rise in January. Orders in a category that serves as a proxy for business investment declined 2.5 per cent after a 3.3 per cent increase in January.

The report underscores how American manufacturers are struggling with weak global demand and a rising U.S. dollar, which makes their goods less competitive in foreign markets. In addition, the big fall in oil prices has resulted in sharp cuts in investment spending in the energy industry.

The Dow Jones industrial average was off 55.75 points at 17,737, while the broader S&P 500 shed 6.65 points to 2,066.13.

The Nasdaq composite was down 22.74 points at 4,891.8 as shares in Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) rose more than nine per cent to US$246.99. The company announced it had received 276,000 preorders for its highly anticipated Model 3, which will be unveiled Thursday.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,336.15, down 104.29 points Dow — 17,737.00, down 55.75 points S&P 500 — 2,066.13, down 6.65 points Nasdaq — 4,891.80, down 22.74 points Currencies:

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.00 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.42 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.13 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.540 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.150 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.29 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.33 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.120 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.56 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 35.39 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1650 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.67 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.48 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.87 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.03 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.45 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.19 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.99 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.68 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.220 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.76 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.14

Cdn — 76.50 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent Pound — C$1.8646, up 1.33 cents Euro — C$1.4892, up 0.68 of a cent Euro — US$1.1392, up 0.01 of a cent Oil futures: US$35.70 per barrel, down $1.09 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,219.30 per oz., down $4.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.430 oz., up 5.5 cents $656.82 kg., up $1.76 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $2.50 higher $481.60 July ‘16 $2.60 higher $487.60 Nov. ‘16 $2.00 higher $486.20 Jan. ‘17 $2.60 higher $489.40 March ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.50 May ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.00 July ‘17 $2.70 higher $490.00 Nov. ‘17 $2.70 higher $482.40 Jan. ‘18 $2.70 higher $482.40 March ‘18 $2.70 higher $482.40 May ‘18 $2.70 higher $482.40.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 404,660 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 404,660.

TransCanada shuts down pipeline after oil spill in South Dakota KEYSTONE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransCanada said Monday it has shut down its Keystone pipeline because of an oil spill in South Dakota, drawing fresh criticism about the risks pipelines pose.

Mark Cooper, a spokesman for TransCanada, said a local landowner noticed signs of an oil spill around noon local time Saturday and informed the company.

The pipeline, which carries about 500,000 barrels of oil a day, was shut down in minutes, Cooper said.

“As soon as we got that report in we immediately began efforts to shut down the pipeline and crews were immediately dispatched to the site,” Cooper said.

Greenpeace campaigner Keith Stewart said it was worrisome that it was a landowner — and not TransCanada’s spill detection system — that noticed the spill.

“The company has been making big claims at the Energy East Pipeline hearings in Quebec about how their spill detection system will identify a leak within minutes, but the truth is that most pipeline spills aren’t detected until the oil makes it way to the surface where it can be seen and smelt,” said Stewart in an email.

Cooper said it’s still too early to say what caused the leak but the company is investigating.

He said it was difficult to determine precisely how much oil was spilled, but the overall footprint of the visible oil covers about 3 metres by 10 metres, with no significant impact to the environment observed.

The spill was found about six kilometres from TransCanada’s Freeman pump station, which sits roughly 60 km southwest of Sioux Falls, S.D.

The company said it has notified landowners and local agencies in the area as well as regulatory agencies including the National Response Center and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

The Keystone pipeline, which opened in 2010, carries oil from Hardisty, Alta., east through to Manitoba before it turns south to markets in the American Midwest and U.S. Gulf Coast.

TransCanada said it has notified customers that the pipeline running from Hardisty to Cushing, Okla., and to terminals in Illinois would remain shut until at least Friday, while the Gulf Coast extension of the pipeline remains active.

The incident comes as TransCanada continues to push forward its proposed 4,600-kilometre Energy East Pipeline that would ship Alberta crude to New Brunswick.

The company hit a major setback in its pipeline expansion plans when U.S. President Barack Obama rejected its proposed Keystone XL pipeline last November.

Environmental groups had opposed the pipeline, which would have run from Hardisty to Nebraska, both because it would allow increased exports of oilsands crude and because of potential spills.

Anthony Swift at U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council said the spill reinforces the need for the Obama administration to require a thorough environmental review for Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper line and other efforts to expand the Midwest pipeline system.

“This weekend’s Keystone oil spill is the latest stark reminder that all too often with pipelines it’s not whether they will leak but when,” said Swift in a statement.

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THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, April 5, 2016

RDC honours top athletes

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Emily Swier wasn’t sure she would be back at RDC this season after taking some time off and getting married.

But when she made the commitment to rejoin the hockey Queens she was all in. She never looked like she was away and turned in a brilliant season, helping lead the Queens to the ACAC championship. She put the finishing touches on her season by being named the RDC female athlete of the year at the RDC Awards Night at the Arts Centre Monday.

Swier (nee Lougheed) shared the evening with volleyball Kings outstanding setter Luke Brisbane, who picked up his second consecutive male athlete of the year award.

“I wasn’t expecting this at all, there were so many awesome athletes up there with all the recognition. So this is just the icing on the cake.”

But receiving the award will go nice on the family wall.

“This is crazy. My sisters in the past were recognized with (college) volleyball so it will be nice to put this on the wall with the family achievements,” she said.

Swier beat out an outstanding group of athletes, which also included soc-

cer keeper Lauren Good, golfer Kate Griffiths and basketball forward Emily White.

Good was an ACAC All-Conference goalkeeper and CCAA All-Canadian while Griffiths was second in the CCAA nationals and an all-star. White was the ACAC Emily Swier South Division rookie of the year and an all-star.

Swier finished tied in ACAC scoring with 25 points and lead the league with 12 goals.

“I try not to pay attention to that too much. I try to contribute to the team.

Usually (Ashley) Graf or Pettie (Jade Petrie) made all the plays and I’m lucky to be in the right spot. It worked out for me this year.”

But despite the individual awards it was the team championship that she had the most pride in.

“It was awesome,” she said. “I think this year everyone was on the same page. We had a great vibe in the room

and everyone was very competitive. We carried more skaters than normal which forced everyone to work harder to get a spot on the ice.”

Returning last year was a tough decision for her.

Now she plans on being around at least one more year.

Luke Brisbane “There’s a few things that could change that, but I can’t foresee them happening,” she said.

Brisbane, who will be back next year, is coming off his second straight outstanding individual season. He was a first-team All-Conference player and was the MVP at both the ACAC and CCAA championships. He was also a CCAA Academic All-Canadian.

“It’s definitely nice to be recognized and there were a number of guys on my team who could have received this, and other teams as well.

See RDC on Page B2

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Michael Saunders, right, follows the flight of his two-run home run off Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Drew Smyly during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion also scored. Rays’ looks on Curt Casali.

Donaldson homers as Blue Jays beat Rays 5-3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 5 Rays 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kevin Pillar chased a drive deep into the left-centre gap and extended his arm above his head before leaping to make the catch and falling into the wall.

The high-scoring Toronto Blue Jays hit three home runs to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Monday night, but the centre fielder’s defensive gem — robbing Steve Pearce of an extrabase hit in the eighth inning — was the highlight of the game.

“Does it get any better than that?

But I’ve seen it before,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “Nothing surprises me. He’s that good. … That’s how you win games. Not only do you have to make plays but you have to take away hits.”

Josh Donaldson, Michael Saunders and Josh Thole homered for the Blue Jays. R.A. Dickey (1-0) allowed three runs and six hits over five-plus innings, and Pillar’s catch helped the bullpen prevent the Rays from rallying late.

“Right when I took my last step, I knew it was going to be a tough play, and I knew diving was out of the question the wall was there,” Pillar said. “I think just athleticism and body awareness took over and I was able to tip my head just in time” to avoid hitting the wall face-first.

“As soon as you have a moment of fear, you don’t make a play like that,” Pillar added.

“That’s what I’m out there to do I’m out there to make plays.”

All three of Toronto’s home runs were hit off Drew Smyly, with

Donaldson connecting for a solo shot in the fifth inning, Saunders delivering a two-run homer in the fourth and Thole going deep on a third-inning drive that umpires initially ruled a double after a fan interfered by catching the ball before it reached the stands.

The call was reversed after a replay review, erasing a 1-0 Tampa Bay lead.

Roberto Osuna, the fifth Blue Jays pitcher, worked a perfect ninth for his second save.

Smyly (0-1), limited to 12 starts a year ago when he spent much of the season on the disabled list due to left shoulder tendinitis, allowed five runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings.

“He just got beat up by the long ball,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.

The left-hander walked one and struck out five.

“I can’t let that happen, two home runs to two different lefties in the lineup,” Smyly said.

“They have enough hard-hitting righties. I can’t let those lefties beat me.”

Donaldson hit .297 with 41 homers and 123 RBIs in 2015.

The reigning AL MVP helped the Blue Jays win 93 games and advance to the AL Championship Series in their first playoff appearance since 1993.

Troy Tulowitzki had a sacrifice fly after homering during the Blue Jays’ 5-3 victory on opening day. Monday night’s game drew a crowd of 15,116 to Tropicana Field, a little less than half of Sunday’s announced sellout of 31,042.

Steven Souza Jr. homered for the Rays. Kevin Kiermaier had three hits and drove in a run.

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

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada (back) pitched in a minor league game in Dunedin, Florida, and remains on schedule to pitch Sunday’s game in Toronto against Cleveland. … Gibbons said Thole will work most of Dickey’s starts because it will help regular catcher Russell Martin physically avoid the stress of handling knuckleballs.

GOING RIGHT

The Blue Jays’ lineup featured six straight right-handed hitters at the top of the order against Smyly. Gibbons finished it with three lefties, even though the manager acknowledged constructing the lineup that way figured to make it easier for the Rays to set up their bullpen “with us going right-right-right.”

FOR NAUGHT

Rays ace Chris Archer is one four pitchers to strike out 12 or more batters on opening day and lose. He was the first do it since Bob Gibson fanned 12 for St. Louis against Montreal in 1975.

UP NEXT

Blue Jays RHP Aaron Sanchez, who was 7-6 with a 3.22 ERA in 2015, starts Tuesday in the third game of the four-game series between AL East rivals. The Rays counter with RHP Jake Odorizzi, who was 9-9 with a 3.35 ERA last season.

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Supporters, leaders recognized at awards night

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

One of the most prestigious awards presented at the annual RDC Awards Night Monday at the RDC Arts Centre was handed out to long-time supporter Rocky Beekhan.

Beekhan received the Major Volunteer Contributor Award.

Beekhan played a major role in the development and continued support for RDC athletics through her work with the athletic alumni.

She spent numerous hours going through historical documentation, organizing and locating alumni. She was instrumental in bringing many of the alumni back to participate in a number of events, such as the 2016 ACAC women`s volleyball championships.

She was also a major force behind a successful alumni social and helped secure an alumni guest speaker.

Meanwhile the ACAC Minor Officials Award went to Marissa Morrison and Karyn Anthony.

Morrison worked as a statistician at the basketball and volleyball games and missed only one night all season.

Anthony has done everything except announce during the basketball and volleyball games.

Soccer keeper Lauren Good received the Al Ferchuk Athletic Leadership Scholarship.

The award is presented to a student athlete who is a member of any RDC athletic team and has demonstrated excellent leadership qualities through the community, team and school involvement.

The recipient must also be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits per semester and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0.

Good was a key leader of the Queens soccer team.

Her mental and physical toughness helped lead the Queens to an 8-2 season record. She was an ACAC All-star and a CCAA All-Canadian. She also volunteers with the Red Deer Renegades soccer program.

Meanwhile Ashley Graf and Ben Williams received the Al Ferchuk Hockey Leadership Scholarships.

Graf achieved excellent grades in her nursing program and was one of the leaders on the hockey Queens.

She was also an excellent role model and mentor for the first-year members of the Queens, showing them how to balance school work and athletics. Besides the hockey team she was also involved in minor soccer as a coach.

Williams, a highly sought after recruit from the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, was team captain of his junior team and one of the top scorers in the Manitoba League before joining the Kings.

He began the season as a fourth line centre with the RDC squad and quickly became a spark plug, penalty killer and power play contributor.

Meanwhile, the Jon Walsh Memorial Kings and Queens Volleyball Scholarship in Search of Excellence was presented to Queens first-year right side McKenna Barthel and Kings first-year middle Ty Moorman.

The award is presented annually to a member of the volleyball teams who exemplifies a strong commitment, perseverance and love of the game and who has the potential to use their skills developed from playing experience at RDC in the future.

Barthel made an impression in her first season with the Queens and while she excels on the court she works hard academically and also volunteers as a coach with high school and club teams.

Moorman came a long way this season and by the end of the year was one of the more dominant middles in the ACAC and CCAA. He is physically imposing, but also has an excellent work ethic and his lighthearted nature was contagious with the group.

Volleyball fifth-year middle Tom Lyon received the Inglis Family Kings Volleyball Athletic Excellence Scholarship while libero Michael Sumner received the Henry`s Eavestroughing Kings Volleyball Scholarship.

For other awards presented see scoreboard on Page B4

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Fans prepare to bid goodbye to Rexall

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It wasn’t wanted.

It arrived late, asked for money, and overstayed its welcome.

But if Rexall Place (nee Skyreach Centre, nee Northlands Coliseum) was a lousy guest, it was the perfect host for almost 42 years of highs and lows that most fan bases can only dream about.

The circular concrete rink in the city’s north end hosts its final Edmonton Oilers hockey game Wednesday.

Fans and former players will say goodbye to a building that Edmontonians at the dawn of the 1970s didn’t feel was even necessary. Citizens back then had twice rejected plebiscites to fund a new rink to replace the 7,000-seat Edmonton Gardens.

But when the Oilers and the World Hockey Association took flight in 1971, and with the Commonwealth Games eventually coming to the Alberta capital, city leaders realized a bigger building was needed.

The Edmonton Exhibition Association picked up the tab, with multimillion-dollar cash infusions from the feds and the province. They broke ground in 1973 on five hectares of land.

Then the problems started.

The soil was unstable. Construction workers went on strike. Steel didn’t show up. The crane broke down. The cost soared from $10 million to $18 million.

Deadlines fell like dominos until a patchwork Coliseum finally opened on Nov. 10, 1974, before a sold-out crowd of 15,326. The Oilers and ageless goalie Jacques Plante beat the Cleveland Crusaders and netminder Gerry Cheevers 4-1.

That night, crews continued to install seats as fans entered. The dressing room was a bench. Heating was scarce. Some concession workers wore winter coats. The men’s washroom had no dividers between the toilets.

The bugs got ironed out. The Oilers and their fans settled into their new building, growing with the WHA team until Oilers owner Peter Pocklington changed everything in 1978 by acquiring a teen named Wayne Gretzky — the kid who would make the building fa-

mous.

On Jan. 26, 1979, Gretzky was already a rising star in the WHA when he celebrated his 18th birthday at centre ice, surrounded by his family beside a cake shaped like his 99 jersey number and signing a 21-year multimillion-dollar personal services contract with Pocklington.

“Looks like I’m here for life,” said Gretzky. “Everything is great here.

There’s no sense leaving.”

Oops.

Less than a decade later, Pocklington would be demonized by Oiler faithful for trading the man known as Waynederful to the Los Angeles Kings for 30 pieces of silver (actually US$15 million, plus two players and three first-round picks).

But in the intervening years, Gretzky and core stars like Mark Messier,

swilled bear, jumped on cars, hung off telephone poles and buses, and yelled “We’re Number One!” The Oilers won it all again the next year, but it was almost as if Edmontonians couldn’t take it all in. Too much in too short a time.

There were empty seats during the playoffs. Bars reported brisk traffic on game nights, but not like the year before.

Fans were urged to make more noise, the forerunner of sarcastic quips in later years about the silence of “Northlands Mausoleum.”

The dizzying highs were followed a year later by an equidistant low in Game 7 of an early playoff round against the hated Calgary Flames.

With 15 minutes left in a nail-biting 2-2 tie, and Flames buzzing around the Oiler net, rookie defenceman Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Banners from past championships hang in Rexall Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers in Edmonton. The circular concrete rink in the city’s north end hosts its final Edmonton Oilers hockey game Wednesday.

Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey, Kevin Lowe, Glenn Anderson and Grant Fuhr — under the direction of master strategist Glen Sather — would turn the game on its head with their up-tempo, Euro-style free-flowing pond hockey game that delivered one escalating triumph after another.

On a bitterly cold Dec. 14, 1979, they beat Guy Lafleur and the visiting Montreal Canadiens 5-3 — the first team ever to beat Les Glorieux on its first try.

In April 11, 1981, they knocked the storied Habs out of the playoffs in three straight, clinching the sweep at home.

On Dec. 30, 1981, fans roared as Gretzky scored five on the Philadelphia Flyers to seal a record 50 goals in 39 games.

And then the capper on May 19, 1984, when Dave Lumley fired the puck 180 feet into an empty net to seal the Oilers’ win over the New York Islanders for Edmonton’s first Stanley Cup. The Coliseum was the launch point that night for celebratory mayhem that eventually forced police to cordon off the downtown.

Thousands of fans honked horns,

Steve Smith fired a breakout pass that banked off Fuhr’s leg and into the goal.

Fans were stunned into silence and Smith found himself stapled to the bench as Calgary held on for a 3-2 win to end the Oiler’s Cup run.

Smith, eyes red-rimmed, gamely answered reporters’ questions, even managing a weak joke: “I got good wood on it.”

Redemption for Smith and the Oilers came with a Cup win a year later, followed by two more in 1988 and 1990.

But by then the genesis of the great teams was an exodus. The greats left one by one as Pocklington struggled to keep up in the NHL’s new big money era.

Gretzky came back for one last hurrah in Oct. 15, 1989, setting the all-time NHL points record as a King by beating the Oilers in overtime.

In the years that followed, the rink hosted a mishmash cavalcade of returns, reunions, and number retirement ceremonies.

In the 1990s, the on-ice game in Edmonton was overshadowed by high stakes table hockey. Pocklington played chicken with the non-profit

board that ran the Coliseum, threatening to move the team without rink improvements and a bigger slice of the revenue pie.

More seats were added along with luxury boxes and a new scoreboard, but by 1997 Pocklington’s financial stresses were too much. He sold the franchise to a board of community owners who passed the hat to keep the team in town.

The fans enjoyed scrappy teams in the 1990s, with fan favourites like Doug Weight, Jason Arnott, Curtis Joseph, Ryan Smyth, Todd Marchant, and Kelly Buchberger.

Joy returned briefly in the spring of 2006 when defenceman Chris Pronger put the Oilers on his shoulders and carried them to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final before losing to the Carolina Hurricanes.

For a brief period the magic was back at Rexall. Journalists on the catwalk could feel it shake ever so slightly amidst the clapping, foot-stomping and ear-splitting cheers from fans when the Oilers skated out under a replica oil derrick to hit the ice.

That was the last of the good times.

The Oilers and new owner Daryl Katz have missed the post-season for the last 10 seasons in a row.

For a while starting in late 2013 disgusted fans began a new tradition by throwing their Oiler jerseys on the ice.

The rink began looking its age, with spotty Wi-Fi and concrete steps blackened by the trudge of countless footfalls.

This fall, the Oilers move into shiny, new downtown Rogers Place. The lifesize bronze statue of Gretzky outside Rexall will move there, too.

But it will be tough to match the glory of the only home the Oilers have known in the NHL. It was a place where, for over a generation, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters would grab a bag of popcorn and get lost for a few hours in a make-believe world of illusory importance underpinned by real and raw emotion.

It was a memorable roller-coaster ride and a confetti and streamer reminder that in sports, as in life, the joy is in the journey.

Villanova tops Carolina 77-74 on Jenkins’ buzzer-beater HOUSTON — One good shot deserved another.

Kris Jenkins of Villanova wasn’t about to be outdone.

Jenkins overcame the shock of watching North Carolina’s Marcus Paige hit a double-clutch 3 to tie it by spotting up behind the right side of the arc and draining a 3 of his own at the buzzer to lift Villanova to a 77-74 victory and the national championship Monday night.

What a shot! What a game!

The second-seeded Wildcats (35-5) had a six-point lead with 1:52 left, but watched it slowly trickle away. Then, it was gone. Paige collected the ball and jumped to take the shot. With Ryan Arcidiacono running at him, Paige double clutched and pumped one from beyond the arc to tie the game at 74 with 4.7 seconds left.

After a timeout, Arcidiacono took the inbound pass from Jenkins, worked the ball upcourt and got it back to the junior guard. Jenkins took two quick stutter steps and, with daylight between himself and the defender, swished it from about two paces behind the 3-point line.

“Kris told him he was going to be open, Arch made the perfect pass,” Villanova coach Jay Wright explained.

“Kris lives for that moment.”

Jenkins’ range is anywhere in the gym, as he showed earlier in the tournament by nonchalantly draining a shot from the edge of the midcourt logo. When this one went up, he never had a doubt.

“I think every shot’s going in,” he said, “and this one was no different.”

He finished with 14 points — the last three as memorable as any that have been scored in the history of this

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RDC: All about the team “None of us play for individual awards,” he said. “It’s all about the team and what we achieved this year (CCAA gold) is the ultimate reward.

But when I’m done I will look back and be proud of this as well.”

Brisbane was up against Ryan Dahmer, who skipped the men’s curling team, and hockey Kings netminder Mike Salmon.

Dahmer was an ACAC All-star and the co-winner of the male curler of the year.

He was also the all-star skip at the nationals.

Salmon put together an outstanding season for the Kings and helped lead them to a second round of the playoffs before losing to undefeated NAIT. He was also a second team all-star.

While Brisbane was enjoying his individual recognition he was more interested in talking about the team.

“Last year we were young … this

NCAA BASKETBALL tournament.

After being thrown to the floor by his teammates, he got up, leaped over press row, hugged his birth mom — a college basketball coach who helped him hone his shot — and shouted, “They said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t.”

Oh yes, they could.

This adds to the other title Villanova won in 1985, when Rollie Massimino, who was on hand Monday night, coaxed a miracle out of his eighth-seeded underdogs for a victory over star-studded Georgetown.

Hard to top this one, though.

Jenkins, who was adopted by the family of North Carolina guard Nate Britt when his mother moved to take a coaching job, now has a spot with Keith Smart, Lorenzo Charles, Christian Laettner and anyone else who ever made a late game-winner to win a big one in March Madness. Paige finished with 21 and Joel Berry II had 20 for the Heels (33-7), the only No. 1 seed to make the Final Four, who came one agonizing shot short of giving coach Roy Williams his third national title.

Not surprisingly, the tears flowed from the 65-year-old coach who, some speculate, could have worked his last game on the sideline the entire sports program at Chapel Hill is under NCAA scrutiny and awaiting possible penalties for a long-running academic-fraud case.

“I’m not very good because I can’t take away the hurt,” Williams said. “I told them I loved them. I told them I wish I could have helped them more.”

His thought when he saw the last shot fly: “It was helpless. It was not a good feeling.” year we’re more experienced. Tommy (Lyon) and Nic (Dubinsky) were in their fifth year and we added Riley (Friesen) and Matt (Lofgren) at Christmas. But more important was the fact we believed if we did the job the results would take care of themselves.

Last year we were trying to perform above ourselves. This year we knew if we did our jobs and play our role we’d be OK.” Brisbane is happy to be part of the RDC Kings volleyball legacy, which has them winning a CCAA record 12 national titles, including eight in a row from 2000-07.

“You take pride in being part of the legacy,” he said.

“We won this year and we want to add to that next year. It’s impressive seeing all the banners on the wall.”

Meanwhile, long-time cross-country running coach Brian Stackhouse, who is retiring after 41 years with the program, received the CCAA Coaching Excellence Award presented to one coach across all sports.

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Cochrane no longer searching for perfection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian swimmer Ryan Cochrane admits that in the past he might have been searching for a level of perfection that wasn’t there.

He won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games and added silver four years later in London. Cochrane is using a new approach this season as he tries to finally get to the top step of the Olympic podium.

“It’s almost a Zen-like attitude,” he said. “It’s not about blood in the water and having to attack these things. It’s just trusting in yourself that you’ve done the work and I know I have.”

Cochrane has reached the podium eight times (four silver, four bronze) at the world championships — a Canadian record. He has won gold at the Commonwealth Games, Pan Pacific Games and the Pan Am Games but world and Olympic titles have remained elusive.

“In 2012, I felt like I was talking myself into being able to win,” Cochrane said. “In the back of my mind, I was just a little too far off of probably being able to do that. This time around, I’ve surprised myself that at 27 years old I’m still getting best times in practice.

“Ten years on, to still be progressing, I think is a best-case scenario obviously. It really I think can only mean good things for Rio.” First up is this week’s Olympic Trials at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. Cochrane won gold here last summer in the 1,500-metre freestyle and the 400 free.

“We know that this is a necessary step to make the team,” he said. “We have a chance to put up times that are hopefully the best in the world now

and then go back to work for a couple months.”

This will likely be the last Olympics for the Victoria swimmer. He made his international debut with the senior team a decade ago.

“I know how badly he wants that Olympic gold,” said friend and teammate Hilary Caldwell. “But he’s been in the top two or three in the world for eight or nine years now. That’s pretty incredible.”

The six-foot-three Cochrane appeared loose and relaxed after a onehour training session Monday morning.

“My self-belief has kind of wavered in previous years because I got second so many times that you start to create a little bit of self doubt — ‘Is first place possible?,”’ he said. “But I think this year I’ve just been excited to live in the moment and appreciate this opportunity to go to another Olympic Games.”

Other top swimmers to watch this week include Caldwell and West Vancouver’s Emily Overholt. Caldwell, from Victoria, won world bronze in the 200-metre backstroke in 2013 while Overholt finished third in the 400 IM at last year’s world championship.

Aurelie Rivard and Benoit Huot headline the list of competitors in the para-swimming trials. Rivard won six gold medals at the Parapan Am Games last year while Huot is a 19-time Paralympic medallist.

Cochrane, meanwhile, has been able to focus more on his swimming since completing his psychology degree at the University of Victoria in 2014.

His training routine has changed as well. He has been working with coach Ryan Mallette since the passing of longtime coach Randy Bennett a year

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Ryan Cochrane of Canada poses with his gold medal for the men’s 1500 meter freestyle swimming event at the Pan Am Games in 2015 in Toronto. Cochrane admits that in the past he might have been searching for a level of perfection that wasn’t there. ago.

“The upside to this year is he’s really taken control of what he believes we should be doing,” Cochrane said. “I think it’s not going against all the work we’ve done in the past but it’s exciting to think he brings something new to the table. We need him to be as passionate and trusting in the work that we’re doing as we are.

“I think he’s really done that this year.”

Mallette, who coached in Montreal before spending three years working with Bennett as a talent development

coach, said he has tinkered with Cochrane’s workload this season.

“We did more volume than he’s done in a long time,” he said. “We swam more metres, we swam harder with longer workouts than we have in a long time and we really feel it’s going to pay off.

“He’s more confident than I’ve seen him in a while and he’s just excited to race and see where we are right now.”

Competition begins Tuesday and continues through Sunday. The Rio Games begin Aug. 5.

Scott looking forward to being a Canadien, even for just one game

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Dustin Johnson catches a golf ball on the driving range during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament, Monday

Big 3 of best without a major hope to change that at Masters

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — The modern “Big Three” have won five of the last six majors going into the Masters.

The other “Big Three” can only hope they are next.

That would be the trio of top players — Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson and Rickie Fowler — who have done everything right over the past several years except for those four weeks that define careers.

All of them are among the top 10 in the world. All of them have had their close calls in the majors, which motivates them even more.

“I still feel like my time is coming,” Johnson said Monday. “I’ve just got to keep putting myself in position to have a chance to win. One of these days, I will get it done.”

The label of “best to have never won a major” has been around for at least three decades, and most of those players eventually won one, whether it was Tom Kite or Corey Pavin, Davis Love III or Phil Mickelson. And then there was Colin Montgomerie, who never did, and Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, who have to wonder if they ever will.

The list of current candidates is growing.

And with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day taking turns winning majors and trading time at No. 1 in the world, it’s getting tougher.

“It’s never been easy to predict winners in golf, but it’s certainly not getting any easier,” Stenson said.

Stenson, who turns 40 on Tuesday, might feel the greatest sense of urgency.

He has reached as high as No. 2 in the world. He was runner-up at Muirfield in the British Open and tied for third in the PGA Championship three years ago. His closest call was in 2014 in the PGA Championship at Valhalla, when he was among four players tied for the lead on the back nine and tied for third.

Frustrating? Yes. Hopeless? Not even close.

“I know I’ve got a game that fits well for major championship golf, and I’ve just got to keep on putting myself in the final groups, or in the last couple of groups,” Stenson said. “The more times I do that, the better the chances

are for the outcome that I want to have. … I’m certainly motivated to make it happen.” To make that happen at Augusta, history is not on his side. That goes for Johnson and Fowler, too.

Stenson believes Augusta National suits him well, even though he has yet to record a top 10 in the Masters.

Johnson finally cracked the top 10 last year with a tie for sixth — nine shots behind Spieth. Fowler tied for fifth in 2014, though he took himself out of the picture early in the final round.

Fowler is the youngest of the group at 27, though he joined an elite group two years ago by finishing in the top five at all the majors. He’s starting to win with more regularity, piling up four wins against strong fields over the last 12 months. Mickelson was 34 when he finally won his first major in 2004 at the Masters.

“It was difficult to be patient,” Mickelson said. “But I always believed and knew that I would end up winning a major. In fact, I knew I would win multiple. So it was never a hurdle. It was more of when this happens, it’s going to take off. And not that five is a ton, but it’s a lot more than zero where I was at.”

Mickelson considers The Players Championship, which Fowler won last year, to be a precursor.

“It just a minor step below a major,” Mickelson said. “I feel that the way he drives the golf ball and the way he’s striking it now, it’s inevitable.”

Johnson still gets the most attention of the current crop of those trying to win their first major. Most of that is because of sheer skill, and some because of the wounds he has accumulated.

He had a three-shot lead in the 2010 U.S. Open and closed with an 82. Later that year, he was knocked out of a playoff in the PGA Championship because of a two-shot penalty for grounding his club in sand without realizing it was one of the thousand bunkers at Whistling Straits. He was closing in on the lead at the British Open the following year until hitting 2-iron out-of-bounds.

And then last year at the U.S. Open, he went from a chance to win to runner-up with three putts from 12 feet.

What helps is that the 31-year-old Johnson has a short memory. He sees his failures in the majors as learning experiences, and the label of “best to have never won a major” as a compliment.

BROSSARD, Que. — John Scott only expects his latest stint in the NHL to last one game.

“Unless I score a hat trick,” he told reporters with a laugh.

Scott will play an NHL game for the first time since being traded to Montreal, and the first time in over four months, when the Canadiens host the Florida Panthers on Tuesday.

“I’m glad I can get into a game,” Scott said. “The fans (in Montreal) have always been the best. I’ve been here a few times and it’s just one of the best arenas to play at, so I’m excited to be on the home side of it this time.”

The Canadians recalled Scott form the American Hockey League’s St. John’s IceCaps on Sunday. His return to the big leagues caps a wildly upand-down season for the affable enforcer.

He was elected into the NHL allstar game in a write-in campaign that started as a joke, and then was traded from Arizona to Montreal, buried in the minors and told he didn’t belong at the all-star showcase in Nashville.

BRIEF Canada sits alone in first at men’s world curling championship BASEL, Switzerland — Canada

The NHL allowed him to keep his elected place as Pacific Division allstar captain amid appeals from fans and players, and he made headlines by scoring two goals at the three-on-three tournament en route to being named the all-star weekend’s most valuable player.

On top of that, Scott and his wife welcomed the arrival of twin daughters.

“It’s definitely been a whirlwind,” Scott said, reflecting on his season.

“Getting back to the NHL is going to be a big deal. Obviously the twins are number one but this is going to be up there.”

Scott said he had a chance to talk to his new teammates, as well as some familiar ones.

“Half the team I met in St. John’s,” he joked.

The timing to give Scott another taste of the NHL makes sense for Montreal, which has been eliminated from playoff competition.

“From everything we heard he’s an unbelievable teammate, and with the year he’s had he’s deserving of the opportunity to be here,” Montreal forward Brendan Gallagher said. remains unbeaten at the men’s world curling championship after posting a pair of wins today.

Kevin Koe’s Calgary-based rink improved to 5-0 with a comfortable 9-2 win over Japan in the late draw.

The Canadians blew the match open with a steal of five in the fourth end.

Earlier, Canada defeated Scotland 5-3 in the 100th men’s world championship meeting between the longtime rivals. Canada is alone in first after eight draws.

Norway and defending champion Sweden are a game back at 4-1.

New Bike Shop Now Open in Red Deer

Owner Paul Burgess (far left) watches as City Councillor Ken Johnston gives a hand to store manager Sean Watson as he cuts the ribbon for the store’s Grand Opening on Saturday

On Saturday, April 2, Mud Sweat & Gears Red Deer celebrated its Grand Opening opening. Although the location at 7121 Gaetz Avenue has been operating since early March, today marked the official launch of the bike shop’s Red Deer location. In order to mark the occasion, owner Paul Burgess gave a free helmet with the purchase of any bicycle.

The store has a large selection of bikes to suit most riders, and Paul and his family have been running the business for nearly 30 years. The Red Deer store is the company’s third location, so the staff comes to our community with a wealth of knowledge and support from

the other shops, located in Spruce Grove and Sherwood Park.

Mud Sweat & Gears also provides a full range of in-house services and repairs as well, so whether you already own or are looking to get into cycling, it’s worth stopping in for a consultation with manager Sean Watson or one of his experienced staff.”

7121E - 50th Ave Ph.403.340.2463 www.rdmud.com 7524554D5-7

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SCOREBOARD TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016

Hockey

Local Sports

WHL 2016 Playoffs All Times Local First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2) (Brandon leads series 3-2) Sunday’s result Brandon 5 Edmonton 2 Thursday’s result Brandon 5 Edmonton 0 Tuesday’s game Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s game x-Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Monday’s game Kamloops1 at Kelowna 2, Saturday’s result Kamloops 4 Kelowna 0 Friday’s result Kelowna 4 Kamloops 0

Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Moose Jaw wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Moose Jaw 5 Prince Albert 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts x-Florida 79 45 25 9 99 Tampa Bay 79 45 29 5 95 Detroit 79 40 28 11 91 Boston 79 41 30 8 90 Ottawa 79 36 34 9 81 Montreal 79 36 37 6 78 Buffalo 79 33 35 11 77 Toronto 79 28 40 11 67 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts z-Washington 78 55 17 6 116 x-Pittsburgh 79 46 25 8 100 x-N.Y. Rang79 44 26 9 97 ers N.Y. Islanders 78 43 26 9 95 Philadelphia 78 39 26 13 91 Carolina 79 34 29 16 84 New Jersey 79 37 34 8 82 Columbus 79 31 40 8 70 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts x-Dallas 80 48 23 9 105 x-St. Louis 80 48 23 9 105 x-Chicago 79 46 26 7 99 x-Nashville 79 39 26 14 92

Minnesota Colorado Winnipeg

x-Anaheim x-Los Angeles x-San Jose 79 44 29 6 94 233 205 Arizona 79 35 37 7 77 205 235 Vancouver 79 30 36 13 73 182 227 Calgary 79 33 40 6 72 218 251 Edmonton 80 30 43 7 67 194 239 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1) (Seattle wins series 4-0) Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) (Everett wins series 4-0) x — played only if necessary.

NHL

Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) (Regina wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Regina 7 Lethbridge 2 Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Red Deer wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Red Deer 5 Calgary 3 Friday’s result Red Deer 2 Calgary 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2) (Victoria wins series 4-2) Sunday’s result Victoria 6 Spokane 2 Friday’s result Spokane 4 Victoria 1 Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kelowna wins series 4-3)

80 38 31 11 87 215 201 79 39 36 4 82 208 227 79 32 39 8 72 204 231 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 78 44 24 10 98 209 185 79 46 28 5 97 215 186

GF 229 219 204 233 224 211 193 192

GA 197 191 216 220 240 228 214 233

GF GA 241 182 235 194 229 209 219 203 192 176 205

203 208 216 200 246

GF 260 221 224 219

GA 226 195 200 207

Sunday’s Games Chicago 6, Boston 4 Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 2 Winnipeg 5, Minnesota 1 St. Louis 5, Colorado 1 Anaheim 3, Dallas 1

Toronto Baltimore Boston New York Tampa Bay

East Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 2 .000

GB — 1/2 1 1 2

Kansas City Chicago Cleveland Detroit Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1

Texas Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

West Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

Seattle at Texas, 12:05 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 2:55 p.m.

Boston atCleveland, 4:10p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

National League

Washington Miami Atlanta New York Philadelphia

Monday’s Games Houston at NewYork, ppd. ,rain Baltimore 3,Minnesota 2 Texas 3, Seattle 2 Boston at Cleveland, ppd., cold weather Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3 Chicago Cubs at L.A. Angels, Late Chicago White Sox at Oakland,Late

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee St. Louis

Tuesday’s Games Houston (Keuchel0-0) atN.Y.Yankees(Tanaka0-0), 11:05 a.m.

Boston (Price 0-0) at Cleveland (Kluber0-0

BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Selected the contract of RHP Joba Chamberlain from Columbus (IL). Placed RHP Tommy Hunter on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 26. Designated OF James Ramsey for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed LHP Felix Doubront on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Andrew Lambo from Nashville (PCL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Placed RHP Homer Bailey on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 25. Recalled RHP Robert Stephenson from Louisville (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed OF Tommy Pham on the 15-day DL. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Tyler Stirewalt and OF Keury De La Cruz.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed RHPs Jason Zgardowski and Josh Hodges.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed OF Drew Martinez and RHP Jeff Inman.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed OF Jon Smith.

TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed LHP David Napoli.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed OF Bobby Coyle and RHP Jailen Peguero.

Atlantic League SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed RHPs Chris Treibt and Zech Zinicola and INFs Josh Prince and Rick Hage.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded RHP Danny Moskovits to Laredo (AA) for a player to be named.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed catcher J.D. Dorgan to a contract extension.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed RHP Alex Moore.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed OF Bobby Romano.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Josh Heddinger.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed C Kyle

● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, second game, best-of-seven, Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball Association: Division I and II second game best-of-three final, 4:15 p.m.; Division III first game best-ofthree final, 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber

● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball Association: Division II first game best-of-three final, 7:15 p.m.; Division I first game best-of-three final, 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber

Sunday

Lacrosse

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

Buffalo at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

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

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

Florida at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

National Lacrosse League GP Buffalo 13 New England12 Rochester 13 Georgia 13 Toronto 13

Wednesday’s Games Columbus at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 6 p.m.

East Division W L Pct GF 9 4.692 187 7 5.583 156 6 7.462 145 4 9.308 163 4 9.308 138

GA GB 162 — 140 1.5 148 3 183 5 159 5

West Division GP W L Pct GF 13 10 3.769 173 13 10 3.769 159 15 6 9.400 170 13 3 10.231 143 —clinched playoff berth.

x-Sask. x-Colorado Calgary Vancouver x

Los Angeles

East Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

GB — 1/2 1 1 1

Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

GB — — 1/2 1 1

West Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000

GB —

San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego

1 0 0 0

0 1.000 0 .000 0 .000 1 .000

— 1/2 1/2 1

GA GB 140 — 148 — 174 5 180 7

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, St.Louis 1 Kansas City 4,N.Y. Mets 3

y-Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia

Monday’s Games SannFrancisco 12,Milwaukee 3 Cincinnati 6,Philadelphia 2 Washington 4,Atlanta 3, 10innings L.A. Dodgers 15,San Diego 0 Colorado at Arizona, Late Chicago Cubs at L.A. Angels, Late Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets(Syndergaard0-0) at Kansas City(Young 0-0), 2:15 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha0-0) atPittsburgh(Niese0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander0-0) at Miami(Chen0-0), 5:10p.m.

San Francisco(Cueto 0-0) atMilwaukee( Nelson 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis0-0) at Arizona (S.Miller0-0), 7:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs(Lester 0-0) at L.A.Angels(Heaney 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir0-0) at SanDiego(Shields0-0), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games San Francisco at Milwaukee, 11:40 a.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 1:40p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 2:55 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05p.m.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 5:10p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego,7:10p.m.

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WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed LHP Blair Beck, LHP Evan Crower and INF Tim Zier.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ — Announced the Idaho Stampede (NBADL) will relocate to Salt Lake City next season.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed LB Zach Brown to a one-year contract and CB Corey White and WR Leonard Hankerson.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Re-signed DT Kyle Love to a one-year contract. Signed P Michael Palardy to a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Austin Pasztor and Kaleb Johnson, LB Scott Solomon, PK Travis Coons and WR Darius Jennings.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed DE Wallace Gilberry and TE Matthew Mulligan.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Claimed OL Tanner Hawkinson off waivers from Philadelphia.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DT Terrance Knighton and TE Clay Harbor.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed LB Bruce Carter to a one-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed LB Aldon Smith.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed OL Stefen Wisniewski and Matt Tobin to one-year contracts.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Glen Young linebackers coach and Greg Knox defensive backs coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Toronto F Nazem Kadri four games for cross-checking Detroit’s Luke Glendening in the back of the head.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled Fs Patrick Brown and Sergey Tolchinsky from Charlotte (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Cody Bass from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned D Seth Helgeson to Albany (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Mitchell Stephens to a three-year, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Released RW Alexandre Carrier from a professional tryout agreement.

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Announced coach and general manager George Burnett will not return next season.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Announced the N.Y. Rangers reassigned G Mackenzie Skapski to the team from Greenville (ECHL).

ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Returned F Cason Hohmann and D Spiro Goulakos to Elmira (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Kevin Montgomery from a professional tryout agreement.

Returned F Tyler Currier to Elmira (ECHL).

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Announced F Brant Harris was returned to the team by Manitoba (AHL).

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

COLLEGE ARIZONA — Named Adia Barnes women’s basketball coach.

BAYLOR — Promoted volunteer assistant volleyball coach Jason Williams to full-time assistant.

BUCKNELL — Named Steven King wide receivers coach and Eli Wicklund running backs coach.

DUKE — Freshman G/F Brandon Ingram announced he will enter the NBA draft.

MINNESOTA — Announced men’s freshman basketball G Kevin Dorsey is transferring.

SAINT ROSE — Named Vanessa Volpe-Rivera women s volleyball coach.

SOUTH CAROLINA — Dismissed F Eric Cobb and G Jamall Gregory from the men’s basketball program.

UAB — Promoted Robert Ehsan to men’s basketball coach.

WISCONSIN — Named Joe Krabbenhoft men’s assistant basketball coach.

W 45 44 44 37 33

y-Cleveland Indiana Detroit Chicago Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct GB 55 22 .714 — 41 36 .532 14 41 36 .532 14 39 38 .506 16 32 45 .416 23

Despite being elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday, Allen Iverson knows he still won’t be able to shake his infamous rant about practice.

“I’m in the Hall of Fame and I can go outside today and go to a restaurant or whatever and somebody will say to me: ‘Practice? We talking about practice,”’ he said with a laugh, adding that even his children mock him for the 2002 news conference in which he repeated the phrase about 20 times. “Man, I am a Hall of Famer and that’s all you can think about -- me saying practice.”

Along with Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, Yao Ming, Sheryl Swoopes, Tom Izzo and Jerry Reinsdorf were elected to the Hall of Fame on Monday. Posthumous honorees this year in-

WEEK 14 Saturday’s results Colorado 12New England 10 Buffalo 18 Georgia 14 Saskatchewan 11 Calgary 9 Toronto 13 Vancouver 11 WEEK 15 Friday, Apr. 8 Saskatchewan at New England, 5 p.m.

Saturday,Apr. 9 New England at Toronto, 5p.m.

Rochester at Buffalo, 5:30p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 10 Colorado at Georgia, 12:05p.m.

1/2 1/2

L Pct GB 32 .584 — 32 .579 1/2 32 .579 1/2 40 .481 8 44 .429 12

Northwest Division W L Pct GB City 53 24 .688 41 37 .526 12 39 38 .506 14 32 46 .410 21 25 52 .325 28

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Pacific Division W L Pct GB y-Golden State 69 8 .896 — x-L.A. Clippers 48 28 .632 20 Sacramento 31 46 .403 38 Phoenix 20 57 .260 49 L.A. Lakers 16 60 .211 52 x-clinched playoffspot y-clinched division

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Saturday’s Games Indiana 115,Philadelphia 102 Detroit 94,Chicago 90 San Antonio 102, Toronto 95 Sacramento 115, Denver 106 Portland 110,Miami 93 Sunday’s Games New Orleans 106,Brooklyn 87 L.A. Clippers 114,Washington109 Dallas 88,Minnesota 78 Houston 118,Oklahoma City 110 Cleveland 112, Charlotte 103 Utah 101, Phoenix 86 Orlando 119, Memphis 107 Chicago 102, Milwaukee 98 Indiana 92, NewYork 87 Golden State 136, Portland 111 Boston 107, L.A. Lakers 100 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games New Orleans at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Memphis, 6p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 7p.m.

San Antonio at Utah ,7p.m.

Portland at Sacramento, 8p.m.

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

L.A. Lakers at L.A.Clippers 8:30 p.m.

RDC Awards RDC Awards Team Service Awards Kings basketball: assistant coach Clint Unsworth.

Queens basketball: manager Aaneli Zemlak.

Cross-country running: assistant coaches Stephanie Flieler, Courtney Long, Kari Elliot, Jodi Nesbitt.

Curling: assistant coach Jason Anderson.

Kings hockey: assistant coach Cody Reynolds.

Queens hockey: Assistant coaches Megan Abt, Wes Makofka, Laura Salomons.

Queens soccer: assistant coaches Katrina Loiselle, Moria Duley.

Kings volleyball: assistant coach Blake Henwood.

Queens volleyball: assistant coach Mandy Carroll.

Student Trainers Awards Kings basketball: Grant Buchanan, Nic Regehr.

Kings volleyball: Jessika Cobb, Stephanie Marchinko.

Queens hockey: Daelyn Cooper, Bea Landaverde Queens soccer, volleyball and Kings hockey: Alyse Fitzpatrick.

Queens volleyball: Shawna Macdonald.

Queens basketball: Kyra Paulgaard, Jordyn Saxton.

Kings soccer: Jose Ribeiro.

Kings hockey: Sydni Seibel, Norm Slater.

Team Awards Kings Basketball: JP LeBlanc, coach`s award

(CA); Matt Matear, most improved (MI), Rodney Teal, rookie of the year (R), Anthony Ottley, most valuable player (MVP).

Queens basketball: Kennedy Burgess (CA), Anna Houtman (MI), Eva Bonde (R), Emily White (MVP).

Cross-country-Indoor track: Jonathan Allan (CA), Melissa Ray (MI), Amy Severtson (R), Jordanna Cota (MVP).

Curling: Jeff Ireland (CA), Julie Selvais (MI), Sara McMann (R), Ryan Dahmer (MVP).

Golf: Rochelle French (CA), Kyle Antochow (MI), Grant Numrich (R), Kate Griffith (MVP).

Kings hockey: Tanner Butler (CA), Ben Williams (MI), Dylan Thudium (R), Riley Simpson (MVP).

Queens hockey: Suze Vanderlinde (CA), Kirsten Brown (MI), Julia Wing (R), Emily Swier (MVP).

Kings soccer: Alim Hirji (CA), Alex Brezovan (MI), Turner Johnson (R), Julius Abegar (MVP).

Queens soccer: Alexandra Moyer (CA), Sydney Daines (MI), Krysten Strand (R), Lauren Good (MVP).

Kings volleyball: Tom Lyon (CA), Ty Morrman (MI), Michael Sumner (R), Luke Brisbane (MVP).

Queens volleyball: Hanna Delemont (CA), McKenna Barthel (MI), Jessica Jones (R), Kelsey Tymkow (MVP).

Hockey BRIEFS United States beats Canada for women’s hockey gold

clude 27-year NBA referee Darell Garretson John McLendon, the first African-American coach in a professional league Cumberland Posey, who also is in the Baseball Hall of Fame and Zelmo Beaty, who led Prairie View to an NAIA title in 1962. The selections were announced in Houston in advance of Monday night’s NCAA Tournament championship game between North Carolina and Villanova. Iverson, selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the first overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft, was named rookie of the year and went on to become an 11-time All-Star. John Thompson, his coach at Georgetown, was there to celebrate the latest honour with his former player.

O’Neal, the top overall pick in the 1992 draft by the Orlando Magic, was the NBA MVP in 2000, a three-time NBA Finals MVP and 15-time AllStar. When he was introduced Monday at the media event, the jokester scolded the announcer for not mentioning his work in the 1996 movie “Kazaam,” in which he played a genie.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 64 12 .842 — Memphis 41 36 .532 23 1/2 Dallas 39 38 .506 25 1/2 Houston 38 39 .494 26 1/2 New Orleans 29 47 .382 35

BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

Iverson, O’Neal and Yao lead group elected into Hall of Fame

Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 51 25 .671 — 45 32 .584 6 31 47 .397 21 21 56 .273 30 9 68 .117 42 Southeast Division

x-Atlanta x-Miami x-Charlotte Washington Orlando

y-Oklahoma Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions

Thursday

Basketball 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets(Syndergaard0-0) atKansasCity (Young 0-0), 2:15 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander0-0) at Miami (Chen0-0), 5:10p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez0-0) atTampa Bay (Odorizzi0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma0-0) at Texas (M.Perez0-0) ,6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs(Lester0-0) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox( Quintana0-0) at Oakland (Bassitt 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3 Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3

● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, first game, best-of-seven, Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium

Saturday

Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Columbus 2 Florida 4, Toronto 3 St. Louis 5, Arizona 2 Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2

Baseball American League

Today

● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball Association: Division II and III semifinals at 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., all games at Lindsay Thurber

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Alex Carpenter scored the winner as the United States beat Canada 1-0 in overtime on Monday to win the women’s world hockey championship in Kamloops, B.C. The Americans have won the past three world championships and seven of the last nine overall.

The U.S. and Canada have met in every final of the 17 women’s world championship to date.

Kadri suspended 4 games NEW YORK — Nazem Kadri won’t be playing again for the Maple Leafs this season.

The NHL suspended Kadri for Toronto’s final four games for his cross-check to the head area of Red Wings centre Luke Glendening. Kadri hit Glendening in the second period of an eventual 3-2 loss on Saturday after the Detroit pivot knocked Kadri’s helmet off in the offensive zone. Kadri’s cross-check left Glendening briefly down on the ice and drew a two-minute penalty.

Leafs head coach Mike Babcock felt Kadri initially targeted Glendening’s arm following a battle in the corner.

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LIFE ‘The voice’ draws Reitman into TV

THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, April 5, 2016

‘(ACCEPTANCE) WILL TAKE FOREVER. THE REASON I HAVE HOPE IS IT’S SUCH A COMPASSIONATE CULTURE. I THINK IT SHOULD TRANSLATE IN THE LONG RUN INTO ACCEPTANCE FOR QUEER CULTURE ON THE COLONY.’ — KELLY HOFER PHOTOGRAPHER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman says he thinks “there’s a lot of brave writing happening in television now” and he’s excited to be a part of it.

The Montreal native is an executive producer and director on the Golden Globe-nominated dramedy series Casual, which debuted on Hulu in the U.S. last October and began streaming exclusively on CraveTV in Canada on Friday.

Zander Lehmann created the series, which stars Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey as 30-something siblings navigating their way through the world of digital dating.

“There’s a lot of great storytellers and they’re using television as their medium right now,” says Reitman.

“What it frankly feels like to me is, we’re at the beginning of something that we don’t completely understand.

Platforms are changing month-tomonth and we’re constantly figuring out new ways to find great storytelling.

“What’s exciting to me is just having yet another avenue, another place to tell stories.”

Watkins plays Valerie, a newly divorced therapist who lives with her frank-talking bachelor brother Alex and her teenage daughter, played by Tara Lynne Barr.

The show marks Reitman’s first foray into television. What drew him to the project was “the voice.”

“At the end of the day, I think that’s what draws me to anything,” says Reitman, who got an Oscar nomination for directing Juno and three more for Up in the Air. Lehmann admits the sibling relationship in the series was inspired by his close bond with his own sister.

“She’s one of my closest friends,” he says. “We lived together for three years and I wrote this show as a result of her starting to date my best friend.

“She subsequently moved out of my apartment, in with my best friend, and my revenge to her and him was to write this television series about them.”

Lehmann says the first draft of the show had “more of a TV tone.” Reitman and fellow producer Helen Estabrook helped give it more of an indie-movie feel, “which is this marriage of the character-driven, half-hour show that is thematic, real world, not overly jokey, not overly dramatic.”

“This is a show that never points to the jokes but rather points to the story and the character and the humanity,” says Reitman.

“From the beginning it felt as though we were thinking of the first season as one movie that was broken down into 10 30-minute episodes.”

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Kelly Hofer always felt different, but realizing you’re gay while growing up on a Hutterite colony in rural Manitoba isn’t just unusual — it’s almost unheard of. The 23-year-old photographer’s story has been recorded in a short documentary film ‘Queer Hutterite,’ which is available on Telus Optik TV on Demand and Telus Optik Local online.

Queer Hutterite recounts lonely life on the colony

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Kelly Hofer always felt different, but realizing you’re gay while growing up on a Hutterite colony in rural Manitoba isn’t just unusual — it’s almost unheard of.

The 23-year-old photographer’s story has been recorded in a short documentary film Queer Hutterite which is available on Telus Optik TV on Demand and Telus Optik Local online.

Hutterites, also known as Hutterian Brethren, live on farming colonies mostly in Western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Reformation of the 16th century.

There are no personal belongings.

Members follow the teachings of Christ and the Apostles, and although some are open to technology, they live a solitary life and few things change, including their style of dress.

Hofer was about 16 when he realized that he was gay, but even before that he says he always knew he didn’t fit in with the other boys on his colony near Wawanesa southeast of Brandon.

“I was always the artist. They were

always the boys. I was always the creative one. I didn’t really play a lot of sports,” Hofer said.

“They would always play hockey and I would be at home either on the computer, playing Legos, creating art or shooting photos.”

Hofer said it was lonely.

“There was nobody to tell because you don’t know how anyone will react.

I didn’t know who to trust. There were no other guys that I thought were gay.

There was no one to reach out to.

“I saw all my other peers in relationships or being attracted to women and I just never felt that. And because on the colony there’s such a strong push to get married — there’s always that kind of expectation — it never felt right to me,” Hofer said.

“There was a really long period where I was somewhat depressed.”

He left the colony when he was 19.

“I realized being at home and being gay were not compatible. I was shunned in that I couldn’t come home because I was gay for three years. But in the grand scheme of things I wasn’t banned from the culture entirely,” he continued.

“They want less to do with me, and by ‘they,’ I mean the leaders of the colony.”

Hofer said his family appears to be OK with his decision, although he has never discussed it with his parents.

He isn’t expecting acceptance, but is hoping for tolerance.

“I’m not going to give up on that. But I also know the culture and it doesn’t change in less than 50 years.

“It’ll take forever. The reason I have hope is it’s such a compassionate culture. I think it should translate in the long run into acceptance for queer culture on the colony.”

Hofer said there are other gay Hutterites who have reached out to him for support. He has nothing bad to say about his previous life and calls it a “warm and caring” society where everyone was honest.

Laura O’Grady, the Calgary filmmaker responsible for the 15-minute documentary, convinced Hofer to allow her to do the film.

“He’s an incredibly articulate young man and I thought it was a unique perspective that I don’t think has been heard a lot in the past,” she said.

“He’s very respectful of the community he came from and I could see the internal conflict for him in terms of other things in his life.

“He’s incredibly brave for standing up for who he is.”

Dice the latest in a slow-burning comeback

BY GEOFF EDGERS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES LAS VEGAS — Six minutes into his new Showtime series, Andrew Dice Clay faces one of his harshest critics. It isn’t MTV, which once banned him, or the National Organization for Women, which protested his hosting Saturday Night Live back in 1990.

It is David, a gay man getting ready to marry into the comic’s TV family.

The Dice Man has just offered a little pre-wedding advice. David snickers.

Tips from a man who refers to women as piglets?

“Yeah,” Clay says with a Brooklyn shrug. “In my act. There’s a big difference between Andrew, who is in front of you right now, and the guy onstage when I’m performing.”

That’s the conflict that is central to both Dice — a scripted, semi-autobiographical series that premieres April 10 — and the 58-year-old comedian’s wild career. Clay has been blasted by those who think he’s mean, sexist and profane. He’s been embraced and praised by those who either get the joke or say he’s extremely talented, including directors Woody Allen and

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Comedian Andrew Dice Clay poses for a portrait at a blackjack table at Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas. Clay’s Showtime series ‘Dice’ launches in April.

Martin Scorsese and super-producer Rick Rubin.

But even his colleagues admit they sometimes struggle to parse Andrew Clay Silverstein, a hardworking and loyal father, from the trash-talking, idgone-wild known as Dice.

“Only he knows what’s going on inside of him,” says Scot Armstrong, the Old School screenwriter who created

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Dice. “There’s just pure ego and outrageous and funny, and then there’s the guy who is so kind and is at home with the kids and managing his sons’ band.”

“People don’t realize it’s an amalgamation of two human beings,” says Bruce Rubenstein, Clay’s manager.

“This is a guy who doesn’t let me curse in his house.”

Clay hopes Dice is the latest in a

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slow-burning comeback that began in 2011, when he did a multi-episode turn on Entourage, included his role as Augie in Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine and led to a stunning performance as a coked-up radio mogul in the Scorsese-directed premiere of HBO’s Vinyl.

“If you want proof of how brilliant he is, just take the two segments in Vinyl and put them together like a movie by themselves,” says actor and playwright Eric Bogosian. “I’ve now watched it four times. I can’t believe what he’s doing in those two scenes.”

Not only is Clay excited about Dice, he has also relaunched his stand-up career, which fizzled out after its early ’90s peak. In those days, the comic sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row. Recently, he’s been playing a 300-seat room in Las Vegas. That’s better than where he started his comeback — the back room of a restaurant.

“But I believed,” he says. “The one thing that is very real about me is my confidence. I’m not sure where it comes from. I have the strength of 10 men in me as far as confidence. So even when I was in that back room, as long as I’m killing that crowd, it’s going to change, it’s going to build. It didn’t bother me. I’m coming back.”

RED DEER RAMBLERS HIKING CLUB ANNUAL MEETING The Red Deer Ramblers Hiking Club is holding their annual meeting as they prepare for their 19th year. The meeting will be held at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Wednesday at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. to buy memberships for $10 a person or $20 a family. For more information email rdramblers@gmail.com or phone Bertha at 403-343-8126.

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BOORMAN Dr. George Coverdale (1917 - 2016) Dr. George passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 23 at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 98 years. He was predeceased by his wife of 68 years, Blanche in 2011; 2 brothers, Arthur and Samuel; one sister, Mary; grandson, John; and great grandson, Cohen. George is survived by 6 sons, David (Terry) of Red Deer, Michael (Annette) of Rimbey, John (Nancy) of Rocky Mountain House, George (Cristina) of Vancouver, Robert (Rose) of Edmonton, and Douglas (Karen) of Fort Langley. George also leaves to mourn 15 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren, and one sister Betty of Port Alberni. George was born in Lethbridge, and spent his school years in Didsbury and Lacombe. Upon high school completion he spent one year at Normal School in Calgary. He then taught at the small rural school of Andrew for 2 years following which he attended the University of Alberta where he obtained his M.D. and courted and married Blanche. He practiced medicine briefly in Barrhead before moving to Rimbey in 1948 where he worked until his retirement in 1984. As a physician and surgeon George served the communities and surrounding districts of Rimbey, Bluffton and Winfield, providing a broad spectrum of medical services. Many local families recall George’s compassionate and competent care during his 36 years of work in Rimbey, and it is still common to hear “Dr. George delivered me!”.

George had endless energy for many activities (skiing, windsurfing, sailing, golfing, curling, dancing, bowling, and art club). He was committed to Rimbey United Church and served in many capacities (Board, choir, building projects, and related social justice programs). He and Blanche had a keen interest in travel and visited many parts of the globe together. George’s love of nature was evident in his carefully maintained yard and garden, and the time he spent at the family cottage on Gull Lake. Many happy gatherings were enjoyed at the cottage, as George’s greatest joy was being surrounded by his family. The family is grateful to all those over the years who have expressed their high regard for George as a physician, and also as a strong proponent of a socially just society who lived his life as he believed. A celebration of his life will be held April 9th at 2:00 pm, at the United Church in Rimbey. Friends will be invited to share their memories of Dr. George at that time. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre (www.rimbeyhealthdonations.com) and Rimbey United Church (Box 7, Rimbey, Alberta, T0C2J0).

MORRISON Nadine 1924 - 2016 Mrs. Nadine Morrison (nee Haluschak), beloved wife of Mr. Don Morrison of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at Harmony Care Home, Red Deer on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at the age of 92 years. Nadine was born at Vilna, Alberta to parents, Sam and Anna Haluschak.

She attended Primary School at Vilna and then moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where she attended Teacher’s College.

Nadine’s first teaching job was at Peace River, Alberta, a long way from home for a young lady to travel, but she was an adventurous sort. She then spent a year teaching at Poplar Ridge School, a year at Niobe School near Innisfail, Alberta, and then twenty-three years at the Red Deer Catholic School District at Montfort, St. Martin De Porres School, and St. Patrick’s Community School, Red Deer.

While living and teaching at Poplar Ridge, she met her husband, Don and moved to the Shady Nook Community where they raised their six children and worked together to run the farm. Nadine was always a hard worker. She helped Don with the farm accounting, fed the harvesting crews, raised six children, and even went back to the University of Alberta to obtain a Degree in Teaching, her lifelong passion, where she made a difference in many children’s lives. After retiring from teaching in 1985, Nadine’s adventurous side led her to travel extensively, visiting eastern Canada, Europe and rural China, as well as enjoying cruises to the Caribbean and Panama. She continued to contribute to the community by delivering Meals On Wheels to seniors in need, and she spent fifteen years selling pull tickets to support the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Nadine also volunteered cooking many a meal for the Shady Nook Community Centre, and also served on their Board of Directors. Nadine will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Don; her six children, Pat (Sandy), Daryl (Lorraine), Margaret (John), Michael (Connie), Carole (Don), and Ross (Anne); seventeen grandchildren; Jennifer, Erin (Ryland), Carrie, Tara (Angus), Melissa, Kayla (Beau), Krista, Becky (Cory), Michael, Sheila (Cory), Laura (Doran), Colin (Kelsey), Greg, Scott, Ashley (Jeremy), Theresa (Manu) and Monica; and four great grandchildren; Lauchlin, Kalem, Logan and Ayla.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. with The Reverend Father Jozef Wroblewski celebrant. If desired, Memorial Donations in Nadine’s honor may be made directly to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation at www.stollerykids.com. The family would like to say a special thank you to Rene and all the girls at Harmony Care Home, for their loving care and compassion toward Nadine. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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An ethnic Armenian man walks past a destroyed house during the fighting in Martakert province in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Monday. Fighting raged Monday around Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan saying it lost three of its troops in the separatist region while inflicting heavy casualties on Armenian forces and the Armenian president warning that the hostilities could slide into a full-scale war.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court is hearing the appeal of a Cleveland man who killed 11 women and hid the remains in and around his home.

Attorneys for Anthony Sowell (SOH’-wehl) say he deserves a new trial because a judge wrongly closed a portion of jury selection and a hearing where attorneys argued about his police interrogation.

They also say he deserves a new trial or new sentencing hearing because Sowell’s original lawyers wrongly wasted time by arguing there was reasonable doubt about Sowell’s guilt in the face of overwhelming evidence against him.

The court plans to hear from both sides Tuesday with a decision expected in several months.

Prosecutors say Sowell received a fair trial and his conviction and death sentence should stand.

Vietnam confirms first two Zika virus cases HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has confirmed the country’s first two cases of Zika virus.

The online Vnexpress newspaper quoted Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long as saying two women, aged 64 and 33, tested positive for the virus.

The two suffer from fevers, rashes and red eyes, it said, adding the younger woman is eight weeks pregnant.

The newspaper said the two were among 1,215 samples taken for testing from suspected cases in 32 provinces throughout the country.

The World Health Organization has said the virus has been reported in 61 countries and territories, mostly in Latin America and Western Pacific region.

Most people who get the virus have no symptoms. Others may suffer from a mild and brief illness, but infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and to potentially devastating birth defects such as babies born with abnormally small heads. That has been common in Brazil.

bakh under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military. Armenian forces also occupy several areas outside Karabakh proper.

International efforts to settle the conflict, fueled by long-simmering tensions between Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris, have brought no results.

Anxiety over the new outburst of fighting was high in diplomatic circles. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on the phone Monday and called for both sides to stop fighting, a Russian foreign ministry statement said.

They also condemned “outside players” for trying to heat up the conflict, the statement said without specifying.

The Karabakh military said Monday 20 of its servicemen have been killed since Saturday, another 72 have been wounded and seven of its tanks have been destroyed. The Armenian defence ministry later reported that five “volunteers” had been killed by an Azerbaijani drone strike on a bus.

None of the claims could be independently verified.

Five killed in tourist helicopter crash in Smoky Mountains SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — Five people died Monday when a sightseeing helicopter crashed near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee, officials said.

The Bell 206 tourist helicopter crashed about 3:30 p.m. near Sevierville, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an email. Officials said the helicopter was destroyed by fire.

“There’s not much left of the helicopter,” Pigeon Forge Police Chief Jack Baldwin said. “It’s pretty much gone from the fire.”

Baldwin said the helicopter appeared to have come down the side of a mountain and crashed at the foot of it.

“There’s a little bit of the tail fin of the helicopter, and that’s about all that’s left, that and the console, that’s about it,” he said.

About four hours after the crash, more than a dozen emergency vehicles were at the site, which is less than a mile from a large outlet mall in Sevierville and adjacent to a neighbourhood off the main tourist drag. The site is about three miles from Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park.

Smoke billowed over the wooded area. The Pigeon Forge Fire Department said it had units at the scene.

US senator wants investigation into gun resembling phone NEW YORK — A U.S. senator on Monday called on the federal Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate before a gun that looks like an iPhone comes to market. But the head of the company making the gun said concern over the two-shot weapon was misplaced.

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said the gun, being promoted online by a company calling itself Ideal Conceal, “is just a disaster waiting to happen.”

On its website and Facebook page, Ideal Conceal has images that show something that looks like a phone in its case. But it can open into a .380 calibre gun. The site lauds its “high velocity, increased accuracy,” and the weapon has a list price of $395.

Ideal Conceal CEO Kirk Kjellberg said the gun would likely be ready for sale later in the year. He pushed back against the outrage, pointing out that there are already small, easily concealed guns with more firepower than two shots on the market, as well as a wide range of holsters for practically every part of the body.

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Ditching alcohol can solve life’s problems KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I always had an exaggerated response to alcohol and could never have just one drink. The first time I ever tried drinking was when I was 14 years old, and I got drunk. I wasn’t a heavy drinker right away, though. I would drink on weekends and otherwise led a “normal” life through my teens and 20s.

However, when I was in my early 30s, I found myself in a high-pressure professional job, living alone in a big city. My life appeared to be great, but I was completely miserable.

On weekends, I would start drinking at 4 p.m. and would continue until I passed out or fell asleep. I also started abusing pills and found that as long as I was passed out, I could avoid the pain that had become my life.

Finally, I decided to end my life. Fortunately, my suicide attempt did not pan out and I went for help. I was sent to a state psychiatric facility for six months.

While there, I finally admitted to myself that I had a problem with alcohol. For years, I thought that once

I got my mental health issues straightened out, I could drink alcohol safely.

But I learned that alcohol was also causing a lot of my problems.

With the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, I got the support I needed and have been sober for 12 years. I am now happily married, have earned a second college degree and have a career I love.

I hope others who have a problem with alcohol will realize that they can’t wait for their other problems to go away. They need to stop drinking as a first step. — Sarah B. Dear Sarah: Thank you for sharing your story.

April 7 is National Alcohol Awareness Day. It’s also a good reminder that any of our readers who worry that they or their loved ones have a problem with alcohol can take a completely free and anonymous screening at HowDoYouScore.org.

Dear Annie: You missed the boat on your response to “Confused by Wife,” who said his wife thinks she’s ugly, refuses to stop drinking or smoking, and won’t go anywhere.

Worse, she wants him to stay there with her.

He says he is in good shape, but she wants him to go bald, give up exercise and snack on junk food so he would know how she feels.

He’s such a typical male. Everything is about him and his looks.

Annie, this woman is severely depressed or she

has some kind of medical condition. She has withdrawn from life. It common for depressed people to expect others to behave the same way so they can “see how it feels.” They can’t always figure out what’s wrong with them, and they’re tired of being misunderstood.

Other indications are her lack of energy and not caring about her health.

The first step is for her to have a complete physical, and then she should seek out a mental health professional.

With the right medication, assistance and support, she can start participating in life again. — Sarasota, Florida Dear Sarasota: You could be right that the wife is depressed or has a medical issue and should speak to her doctor.

But she must be willing to make the effort, which she is not.

Our advice was for the husband. But we will add that if he can convince his wife to see her doctor, it could help.

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

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HOROSCOPES Tuesday, April 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Pharrell Williams, 42; Agnetha Faltskog, 65; Hayley Atwell, 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Drive and determination will get the job done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The next 12 months is the time to pace yourself and tackle tasks one step at a time. Strive to be more sensitive towards a family member who is experiencing difficulties.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Stop rushing Rams! It’s the perfect day for solo pursuits, as you work independently on a long-term project. With hard work and plenty of persistence, you really can make your dreams come true.

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They are looking for smart ideas and sensible advice — not critical comments and stern lecturing. So adjust your approach accordingly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Enthusiasm is high but donít jump to hasty, half-baked conclusions, and then pass on incorrect information. Serious Saturn cautions you to think before you speak and consult before you act.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve got a lot on your plate but don’t expect too much assistance from others today, at home and work. You’ll have to be your own cheer squad, as you tackle tasks in solo Scorpio style.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Saturn is moving through your sign — which isn’t easy — but it will help you grow and mature.

As birthday great Bette Davis said, “The key to life is accepting challenges.” And learning from them!

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Failure won’t hurt you, but fear of failure will cripple you.” Don’t worry about making mistakes.

Keep trying new things, and be inspired by the wise words of fellow Aquarian, the actor Jack Lemmon.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Saturn pushes you to be the very best you can be at work. So your motto for the moment is from Aries birthday great Bette Davis, “Always attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

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

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many people will be feeling super serious so thank goodness for genial Geminis! Don’t overdo the humour though. Some sensitive friends — in person and online — must be handled with extra care.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t expect loved ones to lavish you with lots of love and attention. People are more emotionally reserved today so don’t take things too personally. Dip into your own emotional reserves instead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The more practical you are, the better the day will be. Stick to the job at hand and donít let vague worries or dark moods bring you down. Focus on writing down your fabulous goals for the future.

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HAPPINESS IS AN INSIDE JOB “What do you want,” I asked, “more than anything in the world?”

“That’s easy,” she replied. “Happiness – I just want to be happy.”

“OK,” I said. “So what does happy look like and how does it feel?”

There was a pause. “I’m not sure I understand the question.”

“Happiness is what you desire, correct? It’s what you want more than anything else in the world. So, if you were to receive the gift of happiness right now, how would you recognize it?”

In my therapy sessions, I’ve discovered that it’s not unusual for people to want something yet to have no idea what it looks like or how it might feel to possess it. Happiness is a good example. How can you describe something you have never truly experienced?

Think of a blind man trying to describe colours or someone who is deaf explaining the melody of a songbird.

Over the years, I’ve asked a lot of people what they want and happiness is one of the most common responses.

A recent Harris poll revealed that only 30 percent of those surveyed claimed to be happy. Some respondents said childhood was a happy time for them — when they were free of obligations and responsibilities. Others said when they were young and still hopeful, they were happy. Sadly, a lot of people couldn’t remember ever being truly happy.

It’s important to understand that happiness is not a simple goal but a process; a journey and not a destination. Happiness is the result of striving, seeking and finding content-

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ment — often in the smallest, most unexpected places. It is letting go of the notion that we should be happy and free of discontent and when we’re not, feeling somehow that we’ve been shortchanged. I admit, happiness is not a simple concept. It’s hard to define, and it’s hard to explain the conditions that create it. Sometimes people believe things will bring them happiness: a better job, more money, freedom from stress or debt, a healthy relationship or a loving partner. And while these things can certainly enhance our enjoyment of life, many people find them unattainable. One of the more common reasons is a deep-seated lack of deservability resulting from poor or eroded self-esteem. They just don’t feel worthy and deserving of happiness.

Of course, this prompts the question “Is self-esteem the key to happiness?”

Yes, and no. While healthy self-esteem can certainly open our minds and hearts to the possibility of experiencing happiness, it’s not a magic bullet. There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to becoming happy or happier. That said, building our self-esteem can make a huge difference. Though it is not the key to happiness, it is certainly one of the primary building blocks of it.

Many of the obstacles that stand in

our way of experiencing happiness are self-created. Learning to live happily first requires that we see clearly what is blocking our path to happiness and then learning to move through them.

Here are a few of the most common culprits. Fear is one of the main barricades to happiness: fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of risking, fear of criticism — you name it. Fear can keep us in a job we hate and in a dead/unhappy relationship or, conversely, from sticking with a challenging job or nurturing a budding relationship. One of the greatest rewards of building self-esteem is facing our fears.

Negative thoughts and unrealistic expectations block our path to happiness. It’s important to remember that in the same way lightning precedes thunder, our thoughts precede our emotions and in turn, our actions and behaviour.

Dr. Yusuf Merchant, a psychiatrist, explains it this way. “Every emotion is sponsored by a thought, which acts as its trigger. By making use of this principle, we can consciously alter our moods and emotions by becoming aware of our thoughts, and changing our line of thinking.”

Some of us have deeply rooted negative beliefs and expectations that function below the level of conscious awareness. Are you pessimistic, always expecting the worst? Are you overly optimistic, always expecting a pony?

A grounded, realistic approach to life and living combined with a hopeful, confident expectation of good things generally delivers much better results.

Comparing yourself unfavourably to others is destined to erode both your happiness and self-esteem. Sure, we’ve all looked at others and thought, “If only I had his or her life, things would be different and so much better.” Really?

Stop comparing yourself to others. If you want a better, happier life, make it your goal and strike off boldly in the direction of its attainment.

Reliving the past endlessly is a surefire way to miss out on all the happiness going on around you right now.

Sure, we’d all like to go back and change or relive a few things but we can’t, and to dwell on past achievements or failures does nothing but drain the joy from this moment.

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth,” wrote author, Stacey Charter. “Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself, no-one else will be able to make it happen. Accept who you are completely — and good and the bad — and make changes as you see fit — not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

Happiness is an inside job. All the best things in life — the ones that truly matter — must be created and cultivated: enduring relationships, positive experiences, and loving memories. The better our self-esteem, the more willing we become to own our choices and actions. And that, perhaps more than anything else, brings us closer to enjoying a happy life.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator.

Feeling guilty as a parent A time to remember and to LINDSAY BROWN ME PLUS THREE My “feels” are on overload right now and I am having a very difficult time dealing with it. The kids have most definitely started feeling our absence in regards to Jamie and me starting this business. The pure amount of mom-guilt that surrounds this fact is enough to make a person explode!

So, in a feeble attempt to preoccupy my little darlings I enrolled them in an afterschool activity. The first few times they went it was a total hit.

They loved it and talked for hours afterwards about how awesome this extracurricular was. This made us feel a bit better about simply dropping them off while we used the hour and a half to get whatever small tasks we needed doing done (child-free).

Last week, they began their class like any other day. They were excited to get going and we were excited to whip up The Hot Wire’s polished menu on the computer at home in peace and quiet. Seemingly, it was going to work out great for everyone.

Jamie and I finished our work early and headed back to watch the last half hour of the kids’ activity. This was where things got smushy. Yes smushy, horribly horribly smushy.

We walked into the gym and both Lars and Sophie were weeping hysterically. My first reaction was to run to them, but there was a thick green line drawn on the floor with a sign telling me that as a parent I shall not cross.

Ugh why do I have to be such a stickler for the rules?

Sophie spotted me and pushed her way past the instructor who was trying to calm her.

She was hysterical and I could not understand a word that was being spit from her mouth.

This concerned me because 99 percent of the crying that my daughter does is 100 percent fake (to get something she wants) and that’s just pure math. I haven’t seen her cry like this in years to be truthful.

Lars calmed down on his own shortly after our arrival and was back to playing. I wanted to take Sophie out of there but the instructor said it would be better for her to stay and calm down then join back in with the group.

So begrudgingly I guided my daughter back towards the instructor and she

led her off once again to that area in which I was forbidden.

The incident left me with a sickening lump in the pit of my throat. I could nearly feel the tears welling in my eyes.

The viewing area was packed and it felt like every parents eyes were sighted on the back of my skull. How badly I wanted to run past that illicit line of segregation, grab my children and get the hell out of there. But I didn’t because sometimes we need to be placed in uncomfortable situations. It helps us grow as individuals. It keeps us strong. It ensures we are always on our toes. And I promised myself I’d try to cut back on all of the Drama-Queen stuff.

A woman then approached me and asked if I was the mother of the sister and brother. She pointed towards Lars and Soph. What she proceeded to tell me inflamed the mom-guilt. It inflamed it good.

This mom, this perfect mom who had been present the entire lesson, saw that Lars and Soph had been having a problematic time all class. She said that Sophie was finding it difficult to carry out the coaches instructions and Lars being the emotional darling that he is was sad for his sister.

As I glanced back out at the playing area, Sophie sat morosely by herself. She was hyperventilating and still clearly distraught. “Screw the line!” I shouted to no one in particular while thrusting my imaginary Drama-Queen flag to high into the space above my head.

I picked up Sophie off the floor and she wept uncontrollably (and completely out of character) as I carried her to the car.

There we spoke about how she was feeling. She told me the other kids were making fun of her because she couldn’t keep up with them. She was sad because I hadn’t been there for her when she needed me.

We agreed that she would stick out the last few classes she was enrolled for, but I would stay there to watch. Then we’d try out a different after-school activity. After about ten minutes of talking my daughter bounced back to her happy self.

The guilt that comes along with parenting can be a real pain sometimes.

However it’s there to remind us that we are human, that our babes our human and that we may make mistakes once in a while.

In the end it just comes down to getting up, getting on and moving forward.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

find the good TREENA MIELKE FAMILY

The Easter celebration at my house came and went, complete with the lovely, soft pastel blues and gentle pinks and warm yellows of spring.

Outside my freshly washed dining room window the birds fluttered around and chirped and sang and scattered bird seed all over the ground in complete disregard for any semblance of tidiness which I was trying to achieve, inside. But, I was happy.

I cleaned and cooked and allowed my creative mind to worry about tiny insignificant little things that no one but me would notice anyway which, in the end, is probably quite justifiable.

Thinking back over my rather frenzied preparedness, I’m wondering if I was immersing myself in the details of preparation so I didn’t have to think about it. I didn’t have to think about the thin, invisible pall of sadness that hung, unseen like a huge net over our entire family threating to choke out any joy the Easter season had to offer.

One of us had lost a child, a dearly beloved daughter with laughing eyes and curly dark hair. A girl who loved to ride horses and run, a girl with a quick and ready smile and a sweet and caring spirit. She died. She would have been 55-years-old on March 22.

My sister, her mother, said the church in Little Rock, Arkansas where her daughter had lived for many years was full.

“And it was a big church,” she said.

They said the minister who shared in giving the service, cried.

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“It was the hardest service I ever had to do,” he was reported as saying, later.

Everyone nodded in sympathy.

The service was for his sister. Yes, it has been a dark time for the family; my sister and her husband and their children and the grieving children and grandchildren left in the States and the shroud of sadness that surrounded them has reached out to touch us all.

I invited them for Easter thinking the change of scenery may be good for their bruised and tender souls.

I didn’t know, really, but I thought I would extend the invitation, anyway.

They said they would come.

And so I cleaned and cooked and planned and struggled in my head to find the right words to say when they arrived. I could not, so I washed the floor. I could not, so I arranged my table to make it more lovely. I could not, so I put a ceramic angel on my sister’s pillow. As it turned out, love is a verb anyway and it seemed to be all around us that day. No words were necessary.

My nephew arrived, armed with a huge bouquet of pussywillows and crocuses. Another nephew and his wife came with a beautiful card filled with a personal message. Another one brought his quiet self. His presence was enough.

The last post written on Facebook by my niece was ‘Find the good in every situation.’

And as I write this, the thought occurs to me that somehow, in spite of all the sadness that this woman with the curly dark hair and laughing eyes has left, she has given us all a reminder to do that very thing. Find the good.

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years.

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