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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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ALERT’s Safer Communities and Neighbourhood (SCAN) shut down a notorious drug house on Neal Close on Monday.

RCMP have responded to 60 complaints at the house over two years.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Normandeau residents are breathing a sign of relief after a known drug house was shut down on Monday.

The house at 64 Neal Close had been the bane of the neighbourhood for at least four years.

Neighbours said they lived in fear as they watched the suspicious comings and goings at all hours of the day and night.

“It was just anything and everything constantly,” said Kaysha Gelinas, who lived across the close from the house.

“It just didn’t stop. I have a three-yearold daughter and she can’t play out in the front yard.”

Others said there were constant disputes, loud music, scantily clad women and heavy traffic at the property.

One man said his basement windows were shot out with a BB gun twice.

“We raised kids here,” said Rae Ing. “We’ve been here for 40 years. We have never had neighbours like that.”

Gelinas said the residents on the

close finally got fed up and came together to put an end to the nightmare.

Members of ALERT’s Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) team swooped in and shut down the house on Monday. The residents were evicted and the windows and doors were boarded up and the locks changed.

SCAN began its investigation in September 2015 after hearing from community members. The warning letters were issued to the owners a couple months later.

A man and his two sons owned the property.

Insp. Mike Letourneau said police had responded to 60 complaints of everything from stolen vehicles, noise disturbances to drug activity over two years.

“Only one of the sons, that we were aware of, was occupying the property,” said Letourneau. “But he clearly lost control of it. As I said, lots of people coming and flopping and staying overnight at this property.”

The closure was obtained through a court order known as a Communi-

ty Safety Order. The owner and all tenants are barred from entering the property during a 90-day period.

The owner may go back to the house after 90 days but drug activity must cease, said Letourneau.

“In the event drug activity starts up again and we get calls from the community, SCAN will be back on this,” said Letourneau. “The RCMP will be collaborating with us and we will take it again.”

Letourneau said there are other investigations under way of suspected drug houses in Central Alberta.

Last December SCAN shut down a “notorious” drug house at 52 Heartland Cres. in Penhold. In December 2012, a drug house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer was shuttered.

If you suspect suspicious or criminal activity at a property in your neighbourhood, you can file a complaint with SCAN at 1-866-960-SCAN (7226). crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Wildfire hazard extreme in Rocky Forest Area

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF With temperatures more like mid-summer weather than early spring, the wildfire hazard in the Rocky Forest Area was raised to extreme on Monday.

The high for the Rocky Mountain House area is expected to reach 27C with low relative humidity today. On Monday, the forecast was for a high of 24C with winds gusting to 50 km/h and relative humidity only 15 to 20 per cent.

Kristopher Heemeryck, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry wildfire prevention officer for the Rocky Forest Protection area, said Monday that while it’s common for spring to be dry and the wildfire hazard to be higher before it greens up, it’s a month earlier than normal this year.

One new wildfire in the forest area was discovered on Monday west of Olds. The current conditions, which include dried cured grasses, high temperatures, low humidity and wind, are a concern.

“It’s a recipe for disaster,” Heemeryck said.

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If there’s a grass fire, it’s going to spread very quickly and has the potential to get in to trees.

Those trees are just coming out of their winter state and have very little moisture in the foliage, so are susceptible to wildfire, he said.

Forest conditions could improve if the forecast for the weekend holds. A 60 per cent chance of showers is forecast for each of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as cooler temperatures between 12C and 15C.

An urgent-care centre remains out of reach of Sylvan Lake and area according to last week’s provincial budget.

Susan Samson, Urgent Care Committee chair, said it’s incredible that absolutely no money could be found in the $20.8 billion health budget for an urgent-care centre to provide care for non-life threatening injuries locally and divert patients away from hospital emergency departments.

“They don’t have a single penny for Sylvan Lake and area. It’s criminal.

We’re not frustrated. We’re mad and we’re not going to take this anymore,” Samson said on Monday.

“The biggest crisis in health right now is the overcrowding in emergency.

That’s all we’re trying to do is keep people who don’t require emergency services out of emergency rooms so that high level, very expensive triage is being done for the people who need it.”

The Sylvan Lake area serves a population of more than 22,000 and includes Sylvan Lake, Eckville, Bentley, Benalto, Lacombe County, Red Deer County and summer villages Birchcliff, Half Moon Bay, Jarvis Bay, Norglenwold, and Sunbreaker Cove.

As many as 750,000 people also visit the area annually.

Sylvan Lake and area have diligently pursued an urgent-care centre since 2011 that would run seven days a week, with access to a lab and X-ray.

The centre got the green light last spring from the Progressive Conservative government before they lost the 2015 provincial election.

Samson said the committee is looking to renovate an existing clinic rather than construction a new building.

But the committee couldn’t even get $200,000 from $8 million put aside in the budget for health facility project planning in order to have an urgent-care centre plan ready and waiting for approval.

The situation will get even worse come June 1 when Sylvan Lake doctors will no longer provide after-hours care at closed clinics, nor will they look after patients in any capacity who are not directly attached to a doctor at Sylvan Family Health Centre, Sylvan Medical Clinic or Dr. Stephen Fugler’s office.

Sylvan Lake physicians will continue to provide phone coverage for their own patients after hours.

In an open letter to residents, the doctors said: “The current On Call Service is unsustainable. Although physician safety and burnout is an issue of concern, patient safety is by far and away the most significant and serious concern.

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Verdict expected next month in disclosure case

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

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On April 27, registered nurse Sarah Fleck will be answering the public’s questions about drug trends in Red Deer and programs like take-home naloxone kits used to temporarily reverse opioid overdoses.

Drug trends info session set for April 27

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Turning Point is hosting a public information session on drug trends in Red Deer on April 27, from 7 to 9 p.m.

The free information session, in collaboration with Central Alberta Addictions Consortium, will be held at Baymont Inn & Suites, formerly Red Deer Lodge.

Turning Point has been holding sessions in communities around Central Alberta since January, with more scheduled in coming months.

“Every presentation has been different. This is the first session for Red Deer,” said Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, executive director of Turning Point, formerly known as Central Alberta AIDS Network.

For example when it comes to naloxone, available in response to fentanyl overdoses, more is known about the program in Red Deer where there’s been

more community education, but the conversation in rural communities is just getting started, she said.

Since July, Turning Point has given out 341 naloxone kits and 82 lives have been saved.

Vanderschaeghe said public sessions have attracted people seeking a variety of information.

“I’ve been in rooms where you have a mom who wants some input into how to find her sister who has an addiction and is probably homeless in Edmonton.

Then you have people who really don’t understand why people just don’t stop using drugs. And then you have people who are mourning the loss of people who overdosed. You have a full range.”

She said people can ask questions during the presentation, which will run until about 8:30 p.m., or they can wait to ask questions privately after the presentation.

Baymont Inn & Suites is located at 4311 49th Ave. For more information about the session contact Turning Point at 403-346-8858. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

A provincial court judge will give his verdict next month concerning accusations of intentional misconduct against the Crown prosecutor’s office in Red Deer.

Defence counsel Maurice Collard made an application in Red Deer provincial court on Monday for a cash settlement from the Crown. Collard alleged that key evidence was withheld from him in connection with criminal proceedings against one of his clients, who is in custody and awaiting trial.

In his application, held before Judge Jim Hunter, Collard stated that his client, Robert Kilpatrick, was denied due process because the Crown did not provide defence with a copy of certain disclosure it planned to use against his client in time for a bail hearing set for March 16.

Collard said volumes of disclosure was withheld and was not produced until later that day. The bail hearing (also known as a show cause or judicial interim release hearing) was adjourned that day and attempted again on the day after. Bail was eventually denied for his client.

That hearing could have gone as scheduled had the missing disclosure been provided in a more timely fashion, argued Collard.

“Mr. Kilpatrick didn’t have a meaningful show cause, because he didn’t have meaningful disclosure. He was denied a meaningful opportunity to have a show cause that he has a right to,” said Collard.

He asked for $500 to compensate Kilpatrick, plus $92.40 and $924 in legal fees paid by the Legal Aid Society as well as $580,000 in punitive damages.

Those remedies are important, said Collard, in fleshing out and correcting a systemic problem within the Crown prosecutors office in Red Deer.

“The lack of disclosure is not an administrative issue. It is a human issue,” he said.

Michelle Doyle, Edmonton-based Chief Crown Prosecutor for the province, argued that Collard’s application trivializes remedies available under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that Kilpatrick’s right to a fair trial was never breached.

She said Collard’s efforts to enter disclosure delays in other proceedings as evidence had no bearing on Kilpatrick’s case.

“This is not a case of legal whack-a-mole, where we use the right to disclosure not as a sword, but as a shield,” said Doyle.

She said Collard presented “no hint” of any other remedies as alternatives to the monetary package he proposed, and that there is no basis for his “stunning allegation of intentional misconduct.”

Hunter said at the conclusion of their arguments that he would not make an immediate decision, but that a written decision would be provided later on and in time for Kilpatrick’s trial.

Kilpatrick remains in custody pending the outcome of his trial, set for Red Deer provincial court on May 17.

He is charged with multiple offences, including robbery, conspiracy to commit a major offence, uttering threats, pointing a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful use of a firearm.

Preliminary hearing delayed in human trafficking case

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Court proceedings against a Red Deer couple accused of human trafficking have been delayed after a judge ordered the pair to find a new lawyer.

Varinder Sidhu, 50 and Ravinder Sidhu, 47 were arrested and charged on April 17 of last year, following a lengthy investigation by an organized crime unit based in Calgary.

They had asked that the charges be heard in the Court of Queen’s Bench with the benefit of a preliminary hearing beforehand, represented by defence counsel Will Willms of Red Deer. Preliminary hearings may be held in provincial court to test the

Crown’s case before proceeding to the higher court.

Scheduled for Red Deer provincial court on Monday and today, the preliminary hearing was abruptly abandoned when Crown prosecutor Kent Brown of Calgary advised the court that he had discovered a conflict of interest involving defence counsel and a key Crown witness.

Brown told Judge Bert Skinner that a local RCMP member who was the lead investigator in the case against the Sidhus had been one of Willms’s clients roughly 10 years ago, in connection with an internal RCMP investigation. Brown said he had been un-

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aware of the conflict until last Wednesday, when the member revealed to him that she knows Willms and that he had represented her in the past.

Willms apologized to the court for his oversight, saying he had not recalled witnesses’s business with him until after receiving notice from Brown of the potential conflict.

He said that, while the Sidhus had asked him to stay on as counsel, he felt that an aggressive cross-examination of the witness may be uncomfortable for her and could breach their attorney-client privilege.

Willms pledged to provide as much help as possible to get a new lawyer up to speed on the case.

The Sidhus are to return to court with new counsel on May 31.

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Government questioned on carbon levy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Premier Rachel Notley’s government defended its carbon tax Monday in the face of suggestions that it will cost families a lot more than expected.

Wildrose Opposition Leader Brian Jean accused the NDP of underestimating the domino effect of the tax and suggested municipalities and businesses could download added costs onto consumers.

“Rebate or not, families that buy food, buy clothes, rent or own their own property will all see their costs go up,” Jean told the house during question period.

He noted that the City of Calgary is estimating the tax will cost it $6.5 million.

“There’s only one way for cities to pay for this tax: more borrowing or

higher property taxes. Either way, it’s Alberta families who will pick up the tab for this government’s mismanagement.”

The tax, which is to begin Jan. 1, is the centrepiece of the government’s plan to reduce Alberta’s carbon footprint and give it more legitimacy as the province fights for energy infrastructure such as pipelines.

The tax will increase prices at the gas pump and will be tacked on to home heating bills. Gasoline prices will go up by 4.5 cents a litre next year and 6.7 cents a litre in 2018.

There will be a sliding scale of rebates for lower- and middle-income families. Anyone making more than $51,250 a year will pay the full cost of the tax, but 60 per cent of households will get that back.

In 2017, for example, the government estimates the carbon levy will cost a family $338 a year, but it will

receive $360 to cover that off.

Progressive Conservative interim leader Ric McIver, picking up on Jean’s argument, said that economic cushion is dangerously threadbare.

“How could $22 possibly cover the additional cost of food, property tax, shelter, clothing, consumer goods and all the other costs that will pile up on Alberta families as a direct result of your regressive carbon tax?” McIver asked in the house.

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said money is being immediately reinvested in projects such as public transit.

“There is $2.2-billion of new green infrastructure investments that will be recycled straight back into the economy supporting municipalities,” she said.

“Those investments are over and above existing investments and will help municipalities adjust.”

She said there will also be projects to encourage Albertans to be energy efficient.

Phillips said the plan is for a beneficient spiral: cities and taxpayers have more resources to go green, they then go greener, and pay less carbon tax as a result.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark said there isn’t enough known about the carbon levy to make accurate predictions on its impact.

He said it doesn’t make sense for two-thirds of households to get a full rebate for something that is supposed to give them an incentive to reduce carbon.

“It feels more like a wealth transfer tax than a carbon tax.”

Clark also wants to see more details on what kinds of projects will be funded with the tax.

Ceci says no sales tax to fill deficit

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Sex-abuse therapy program at ranch helping children: study

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A new report says a therapy program at an Alberta ranch has helped child sex-abuse survivors suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma symptoms.

Therapy sessions delivered in a friendly camp-like atmosphere were designed to treat kids between 8 and 12 before they develop self-destructive behaviours such as seriously harming themselves or becoming addicted to alcohol or drugs later in life.

“The present results are very supportive that the clinical intervention program leads to a clinically meaningful improvement in symptoms of PTSD, as well as improvements in anxiety and mood symptoms,” reads the University of Alberta study published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour.

“This would support suggestions that such an intensive approach could be more widely utilized.”

The program was designed by a research team led by Prof. Peter Silverstone, a psychiatrist. Little Warriors, a charity that works to prevent and treat child sexual abuse, designed The Be Brave Ranch where the program is delivered.

The clinical trials last year involved small groups of girls and boys who lived at the ranch outside of Edmonton and underwent hours of therapy with psychologists each day. Parents stayed at other lodges at the ranch.

The kids were taught everyday life skills and then gradually were encouraged to speak about the abuse with therapists.

After formal sessions, the children took part in hours of “fun” therapy that included structured play, physical exercise, arts and crafts, music, role playing and interacting with horses

Alberta BRIEFS Brush fire forces students, staff from school MASKWACIS — Flames and smoke from a brush fire has forced students and staff from a school in the central Alberta community of Maskwacis.

RCMP say some people were also asked to leave nearby homes as a precaution because of the fire, which was fanned by strong winds.

Police say the flames are under control and no one was hurt on the Louis Bull First Nation. On Sunday, about 50 homes were evacuated as a precaution near Duffield, when a brush fire broke out near the community west of Edmonton.

They were later allowed home but on Monday, residents of the hamlet

and dogs.

Silverstone said the therapy, the ranch and the children making friends with each other were all factors in the positive results.

“It is very hard to put in a scientific document the very real and meaningful changes that you see in these kids,” he said in an interview.

“They are able to make proper emotional attachments. They can start trusting people again. They can be happier, less depressed, less anxious, and they can start enjoying life in a way that they were just not capable of doing before.”

Glori Meldrum, the driving force behind Little Warriors, is heartened by the study’s findings.

Meldrum, who was sexually abused when she was a child, hopes the study will persuade the Alberta government to help fund the program, which relies on donations.

Little Warriors has felt the same financial squeeze as other charities in Alberta due to a slumping provincial economy.

“We survive on the generosity of others,” she said. “Some government contracts would give us some more stability and allow us to treat these kids that are in care of the government, who often need lots of help.”

Meldrum said she is to meet with Alberta Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir in June. She also plans to pitch the Northwest Territories and other governments on The Be Brave Ranch.

The scientific results give the program credibility, she said, but a person need only speak with children who have spent time at the ranch to appreciate how the experience has improved their lives.

“The kids love it. It is a really warm, loving environment. They feel really safe there.”

Street sweeping begins on residential streets

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Residents will soon notice ‘no-parking’ signs in their neighbourhood as crews begin residential street sweeping this week.

Red ‘no-parking’ will be placed every 50 metre a minimum of 12 hours before sweeping begins.

Any vehicle that is parked on a signed street will be ticketed and towed as parked vehicles slow down cleaning operations and performance.

Once a street is swept, signs are removed and parking is permitted.

Grey Routes (side residential streets) will be swept first, followed by Green Routes (collector streets) in the following order:

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Man who sexually assaulted child gets 10 years STONY PLAIN — A man who sexually assaulted a seven-year old girl and left her for dead on an Alberta First Nation has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. Judge Charles Gardner also gave James Clifford Paul nearly two years credit for time already served.

Paul, who is 22, admitted to being drunk and high on methamphetamine at the time and told police he wouldn’t have done it if he had been sober.

Paul attacked the girl on Dec. 20, 2014, on the Paul First Nation, west of Edmonton, and family members found her outside, naked and suffering from hypothermia.

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The front entrance sign to he Be Brave Ranch in Edmonton is shown in this photo. A new report says a therapy program at an Alberta ranch has helped child sex-abuse survivors suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma symptoms. Therapy sessions delivered in a friendly camp-like atmosphere were designed to treat kids between 8 and 12 before they develop self-destructive behaviours such as seriously harming themselves or becoming addicted to alcohol or drugs later in life.

CALGARY — Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Monday he will hold firm on his promise not to introduce a sales tax even as a business audience expressed interest in such a revenue-raising measure.

Ceci told the Calgary Chamber that the government is focused on economic stimulus and cutting costs, and while it’s willing to hear suggestions on how it can bring in more revenue to plug a deficit hole, that would not include a new sales tax.

“I’m not ready to do that, this government has said it will not do that,” Ceci said.

“That commitment is pretty ironclad. And we have to find other ways to make this happen, and we will.”

But Adam Legge, chief executive of the Calgary Chamber, said perspectives on a sales tax are shifting, at least within the Calgary business community.

“I think people are saying you’re closing a door that doesn’t need to be closed,” Legge said following Ceci’s speech. “ They understand we have to find some way to raise revenue, and that’s the one that is staring Alberta in the face.”

Ceci’s speech to the chamber came days after he unveiled a budget forecasting a $10.4 billion deficit for this

fiscal year.

The government is expecting to balance the books by 2024, a stark reversal of fortunes for a province that was once the country’s economic juggernaut.

Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary, said that if the government wants to raise revenue a sales tax makes the most sense.

He said there is an almost universal consensus among economists that a broad-based consumption tax like a harmonized sales tax distorts the economy much less than increases to corporate or income taxes.

“If you’re going to raise revenue, you might as well do it in a way that doesn’t hurt the economy as much,” said Tombe.

Ceci said the government’s plan is to keep looking for ways to cut spending while growing the economy.

He said while the government will work to restore the province’s triple-A credit rating — which DBRS downgraded Friday to double-A — it wouldn’t slash spending just to satisfy rating agencies.

“To be more aggressive to restore the triple-A rating I think would mean draconian cuts to the province and the services and investments that we have planned,” he said.

“I don’t think that’s in the best interests of any of us.”

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Bill C-14 fails test of human compassion CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION

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Conservative government could have written the Liberal assisted-dying legislation introduced this week in the House of Commons. It reads like a bill Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould found in the bottom drawer of her Tory predecessor’s desk.

The bill barely meets the threshold of the Supreme Court ruling that prompted its drafting. It falls far short of the recommendations of the majority of senators and MPs of all political stripes who studied the issue earlier this year.

If there is a template for Bill C-14 it is neither the court ruling that opened the door to medically assisted suicide on charter grounds more than a year ago nor the subsequent report of a parliamentary committee, but rather the law that came into force in Quebec at the end of last year.

But that provincial legislation was

crafted at a time when the Criminal Code dispositions forbidding assisted suicide had yet to be struck down by the Supreme Court. In their efforts to tiptoe around a federal legal obstacle, its Quebec authors tried to err on the side of restrictive caution.

When the provincial law came into effect last year, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette said it would likely have to be reviewed in light of a federal law that he expected would reflect the more permissive Supreme Court prescriptions. On Thursday the normally unflappable minister sounded more perplexed than pleased by the similarities between the federal bill and the provincial law he administers.

For those who drafted Bill C-14 on the instructions of Justin Trudeau’s government faced none of the restrictions of their Quebec counterparts. Their task was not to find a way around the criminal law but to replace it with a framework that respected the right of Canadians to turn to medically assisted suicide as an end-of-life option.

Under Bill C-14 that right is grudgingly offered to some and not at all to others. Mature minors would have to

endure the years that separate them from their majority in excruciating pain by sheer virtue of their age. Anyone with a dementia diagnosis would be forbidden to make arrangements — while of sound mind and body — to be helped out of his or her misery at a time of his or her choosing.

A dying patient who happened to fit the criteria set in the law would still have to languish for 15 days between securing approval for a medically assisted suicide and the moment when that wish could be granted.

All of the above pave the way for more battles to earn the right to an assisted suicide based on more human considerations than those spelled out by federal bureaucrats. Those battles are more likely to be won in court than in Parliament.

Wilson-Raybould can always promise to look at liberalizing the law at some point down the road. But on this issue, the courts have had to drag parliamentarians every inch of the way.

To this day, this file continues to elicit little political will on either side of the House of Commons. Once adopted this law will not be easily revisited.

The Liberals needed a bill liable to pass — on a free vote — in both houses

of Parliament in time for a court-imposed June 6 deadline. If the existing federal statute is not replaced by then, the provinces will have to each set their own criteria.

By aiming for the lowest constitutional common denominator in terms of access to assisted suicide, the government may to be able to fulfill the minimalist duty of avoiding a national legal void. But if this bill passes, that is about all the Liberals will be able to brag about.

Looking at Trudeau’s first charter-related piece of legislation, one would search in vain for the proactive rights bias that the prime minister so often boasts about as he wraps himself in his father’s constitutional legacy.

There are those who will point out that Bill C-14 that has the merit of being closely aligned with current public opinion. But if poll results were the acid test of rights legislation, the death penalty would have been maintained and legal unions rather than equal marriage rights would have been granted to same-sex couples.

not doing well. He frequently gave up his own time to tutor students who needed help.

We all are complex creatures and there is no one picture or incident which can fully encompass one’s character. I regard Mr. Pelletier as a man for whom I have respect and admiration.

I sympathize with students who did not do well under him, or felt humiliated by his methods. I do not want to devalue their anxiety.

However, there is a wonderful side to Mr. Pelletier and I am glad that my children were taught by him. He set high standards and encouraged his students to attain those standards.

Look to examples around the world for future path of NDP

concerning the NDP revolves around the relationship of the main political parties over the period since the Second World War and assumes that status quo will continue without taking into account the present historical economic crises.

If we wish to see the probable course of the federal NDP we must look at the development of political parties and movements in other countries.

Similar conditions produce similar results.

For many years the best of the local media has provided an excellent forum for debate on these issues but whether debated or not the tide of change will continue.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Clearwater firefighters stay busy with multiple wildfires

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Firefighters in Clearwater County have been working overtime to control an unusual number of wildfires during recent days.

Cammie Laird, fire chief for the Clearwater Regional Fire Rescue Service, said on Monday that there were 10 fires reported over the weekend, including one that came perilously close to a house.

Most recently, crews from Leslieville, Condor, Caroline and Rocky Mountain House were called at about 7:30 p.m on Monday to tackle a brush fire that had spread into a hayfield and a heavy stand of spruce trees about three km south of Leslieville.

Crews were able to get control of the fire before the treed area became too heavily involved, said Laird. She estimated the fire would cover about 10 acres of land by the time it could be safely extinguished. It appears to have broken out from old embers fanned by high winds on what had been a hot, dry day, she said.

Embers from brush fires in swampy areas and muskeg can smoulder for

weeks, months and even years, igniting new fires when conditions are right, said Laird.

In this case, fire crews and local farmers were able to create a break around the fire and hold it to a wetland area that would normally be under water at this time of year, she said.

Crews and equipment were stationed at strategic points in the surrounding hayfield to make sure the fire did not breach the containment area.

Laird said there is a strong possibility of more fires as warm, dry conditions continue, made worse by periods of high wind. There is some rain forecast for later in the week, but not enough to significantly dampen the threat.

Clearwater County is under a fire advisory right now, meaning all burning permits have been cancelled and no new permits will be issued. Campfires are still allowed in the Rocky Forest Area, but people must employ safe campfire practices and make sure their fires are thoroughly doused and completely out before leaving their sites.

Up-to-date reports on fire conditions throughout Alberta, including a map of fire bans and advisories, is available online a wildire.alberta.ca

Photo by Brenda Kossowan/Advocate staff

Flames lick at their feet as Caroline firefighters use a rapid response unit to tend the fire break set around a grass fire south of Leslieville, about 50 km west of Red Deer, just before sunset on Monday.

Inuit population also plagued by suicide epidemic: leader

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The youth panel hold hands before a meeting in the northern Ontario First Nations reserve in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Monday,

Minister gets earful on visit to Attawapiskat

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ATTAWAPISKAT, Ont. — A young man in the troubled First Nation of Attawapiskat asked the federal indigenous affairs minister on Monday why his community was living in Third World conditions while Canada is greeting refugees with open arms.

Robert Sutherland was among several youths to express frustration to Carolyn Bennett over the lack of basic supports so desperately needed by those in his James Bay community.

“Tell me why we First Nations we live in Third World conditions,” he said during a meeting with Bennett and other officials.

“Why is it so easy for the government to welcome refugees and offer them first-class citizenship in our country? When will Canada wake up and open its eyes to First Nations communities?”

Attawapiskat has been rocked for weeks by numerous attempts by young people to kill themselves.

The public youth council session followed a private two-hour meeting with Bennett, activist New Democrat MP Charlie Angus and Attawapiskat Chief Bruce Shisheesh, who also made his frustration plain.

Bennett was able to commit to a new, properly equipped youth centre as well as some programming for

young people, a key demand in the isolated northern Ontario reserve.

In addition, a youth delegation from across the region will be invited to Ottawa.

Angus called it an important beginning in ending what he called this “cycle of despair.”

“I’m pleased we have something deliverable for the young people,” Angus said.

“Is this enough given the extent of the crisis that has faced Attawapiskat?

No, it’s not enough yet, but we have to start with this first step.”

Speaking briefly after her meeting with the chief, Bennett noted larger issues such as the acute shortage of housing, the desire for a healing lodge as well as the ongoing concerns of the youth. All levels of government and departments need to work together to “provide hope and a plan,” she said.

“The chief is very clear: we need to work no longer Band-Aid and piecemeal.”

Shisheesh said he’s happy with what had been achieved.

“The meeting was good and we’re getting somewhere,” he said.

But how quickly anything will change remains to be seen. The youth centre, for example, did not carry an immediate dollar figure. In the interim, the youth of Attawapiskat say they’re tired of waiting for an acknowledgement of their struggles.

Canada’s GHG emissions continued slow climb in 2014, now 20 per cent above 1990 NATIONAL INVENTORY REPORT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new government inventory report says Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions continued their slow climb in 2014.

The national inventory released Monday by Environment Canada shows emissions were estimated to be 732 megatonnes of carbon dioxide and other equivalents — a 20 per cent increase over 1990 levels, when Canada first committed to cutting emissions growth.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in New York later this week to sign the latest global climate agreement, under which Canada commits to slash emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The latest inventory shows that emissions in 2014 were 15 megatonnes below 2005 levels, but slowly rising.

Emissions actually fell steeply in 2009 due to the global economic downturn, but the report says emissions have climbed 5.2 per cent since then.

The energy sector made up 81 per cent of Canada’s GHG emissions in 2014, with agriculture the next biggest sector at eight per cent.

Since 2005, public electricity and heat production has seen a 39 megatonne decrease in emissions, with Ontario’s closure of coal generating power stations credited with most of the downturn.

However emissions from mining and upstream oil and gas production boosted emissions by 34 megatonnes.

“In 2014, emissions from mining and upstream oil and gas production were more than twice their 1990 values,” states the report.

“This is consistent with a 91 per cent increase in total production of crude oil and natural gas over the period, largely for export, which has grown by over 200 per cent.”

Six provinces saw declines in emissions between 2005 and 2014, led by Ontario (down 19 per cent) and Nova Scotia (down 29 per cent), while four provinces increased emissions, led by Alberta’s 17 per cent increase.

OTTAWA — The leader of the country’s national Inuit organization says his people are also dealing with devastating rates of suicide.

The “heartbreaking” suicide crisis in the First Nation community of Attawapiskat has become a touchstone moment for how mental health issues affect Aboriginal Peoples, Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said Monday.

Obed watched the House of Commons emergency debate on the issue last week — a discussion he was pleased to see.

“I am thankful for the leadership of (NDP indigenous affairs critic) Charlie Angus in bringing the issue forward,” Obed said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“I was sympathetic to a lot of members of Parliament who shared stories and it was obvious that a number of parliamentarians are passionate about this issue and really want to see positive change, for not only Attawapiskat, but all indigenous communities in Canada, including Inuit.”

Obed fears, however, that Canada is still stuck treating indigenous suicide in a very different way than other public health crises.

“We could have a much more informed debate and a much more sophisticated debate and not leave it up to communities to come up with answers to the entire problem,” he said.

Obed noted there are more than 1,000 attempted suicide calls each year in Nunavut, a territory of just over 30,000 people.

The suicide rate for Inuit is 11 times higher than the national average and the majority of deaths by suicide are people under 30, according to Statistics Canada.

ITK is also working on identifying more specific suicide figures by working with coroners in the four main jurisdictions where Inuit live — Nunavut, Nunavik (northern Quebec), Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador) and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories.

Obed said he hopes the government will move forward on a plan designed specifically to help Inuit people.

“It is going to take a lot of money and a very fundamentally different way in which we treat this particular issue,” Obed said.

“When I talk to anyone who has power, anyone who has influence in the area of suicide, it is as if we are taking all the things that actually mat-

“I AM THANKFUL FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF (NDP INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS CRITIC) CHARLIE ANGUS IN BRINGING THE ISSUE FORWARD.” — NATAN OBED, PRESIDENT OF INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI, ter, the societal change issues, off the table and to say ‘OK, what can we do to reduce Inuit suicide?’

“I’m supposed to answer that question and our communities are supposed to come up with a solid answer to the question without (government) doing the things everyone in the world knows that you would do to transform a high-suicide rate society into a low-suicide rate one with the infrastructure … the environment in which our children are raised. So then we get into the question of ‘What are people willing to do instead of what needs to be done’?”

Obed also said he is worried about some of the things the Liberal government has said in the federal budget about the funding it is providing to Aboriginal Peoples.

“There’s a lot of statements that this government has made that, I think, are quite frankly irresponsible,” he said.

“They keep talking as if the clean water funds and the education funds are indigenous funding when really they are First Nations, on-reserve funding.”

Obed said the government has acted to address some long-standing issues, which he applauds as a Canadian, but he does not see the investments as “transformative” from his perspective as an Inuit leader.

“Inuit get caught up in this all the time where something can be announced and it has nothing to do with our reality because we are not on reserves and our funding relationships are so different,” Obed said.

“I am disappointed that everything seems to be politicized to the point where it is preying upon peoples’ ignorance of the complex realities of funding between the federal government and indigenous peoples.”

Liberals targeted four BC ridings with party funds to help campaigns

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberals stockpiled almost $700,000 in four B.C. ridings in the last election, dethroning two Conservative incumbents and one New Democrat, and losing to the NDP in the hotly contested riding of Vancouver East, election spending data show. Those amounts, transfered back and forth between the candidates and a central party agency in British Columbia, helped in areas where the Liberals expected to be in tight races in a region all three parties considered a key campaign battleground.

But the transfer data also show how complicated it can be to follow the money in the world of election spending, where funds can move quickly between donors, candidates, local associations, and central parties.

Liberal Party officials explained that the four B.C. candidates are part of a service, now about a decade old in B.C., where the riding associations ship their money to a central party agency in the province that acts as auditor and administrator.

Returns filed with Elections Canada don’t always make those transfers clear. Those returns make it look like the national party — not associations — sent $225,415 to help Pam

Goldsmith-Jones defeat Conservative John Weston in the B.C. riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, and $213,638 in Surrey-Newton where Sukh Dhaliwal defeated NDP MP Jinny Sims.

The party says that in fact the bulk of that money was raised by the B.C. riding associations but sent to the central service for safekeeping.

The service doesn’t violate election spending rules in fact, the Liberals are now looking to take the program nationwide and are asking party members to consider the idea as part of proposed changes to the party’s constitution, said party spokesman Braeden Caley. Excluding the B.C. candidates, the Liberals at the national level shipped almost $3 million in financial help to riding associations before, during and after the election to help Liberal candidates get elected on Oct. 1. The spending was almost as much as the Conservatives and NDP combined shipped to their candidates from the central party.In all and excluding the B.C. Liberal candidates, the four big parties that ran candidates across the country sent almost $6.4 million in cash, goods and services to help local candidates, based on a review of some 6,000 transactions filed before the end of March by about 1,500 candidates in the last election.

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Manitoba campaign wraps up TORIES ON OFFENCE, NDP DEFENDS ON FINAL DAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A five-week-long, often-negative Manitoba election campaign drew to a close Monday with more signs that the Progressive Conservatives are set to leap from Opposition to government.

With voters set to cast ballots Tuesday, Tory Leader Brian Pallister played offence, travelling to the northern NDP stronghold constituencies of Keewatinook and The Pas. NDP Leader Greg Selinger spent time shoring up support in Selkirk, a seat his party has held for 26 years.

Opinion polls have shown a solid Tory lead throughout the campaign.

The governing NDP has steadily trailed by 20 points or more.

Voters have not let Selinger off the hook for breaking an election promise in 2013 and raising the provincial sales tax, said Karine Levasseur, who teach-

es political science at the University of Manitoba.

“I think there was a deep-seated hope within the NDP that Manitobans would forgive him for increasing the PST if there was enough buy-in that …

Greg Selinger is still the one person (people) can count on to ensure that health care is still going to operate the way it needs, that services are going to be delivered and they’re not going to be cut,” she said.

“It didn’t work at all.”

Kelly Saunders, an assistant professor at Brandon University, said the NDP didn’t help themselves by making a “really odd” decision to focus on Selinger in their campaign ads, given his low personal popularity.

Selinger, whose leadership barely survived a caucus revolt last year, showed no signs of worry Monday. In an interview in his St. Boniface constituency, he expressed no regrets about his party’s campaign.

“Sometimes we wish we could have been able to convey … and get more attention to the policy side of the discussion, but we’ve put out a solid program,” he said.

The Tories last held power in Manitoba in the 1990s under Gary Filmon.

The New Democrats have been in government for 16 years.

The campaign took a negative turn last week, when Selinger called Pallister “homophobic” and suggested the Tory leader release personal financial information in case he had any undisclosed financial holdings.

Pallister, a former MP who owns a vacation home in Costa Rica, has been on the defensive in recent days over the amount of time he has spent there, and the NDP has continued to suggest he has been inconsistent on his holdings in the Central American country.

Pallister has called some of Selinger’s assertions “desperate lies” and a distraction from issues such as

long health-care wait times.

The wild card has been the Liberal party, which held one legislature seat before the election was called, but which had been polling high as recently as December. The Liberals suffered a series of gaffes on the campaign trail and recent polls suggest they have dropped back to historical low levels.

Saunders doesn’t think the NDP’s attacks on the Tories will sway undecided voters, but could convince them to not show up.

Turnout at advance polls, which closed Saturday, was up 39 per cent from the last election. About 109,000 voters cast ballots early, according to Elections Manitoba.

“Those undecided voters that might have been close to making a decision, (may be) saying now, ‘This is ridiculous. We can’t trust any of them … so either we’re going to decline our ballot or we’re going to choose to stay home.”’

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On Monday afternoon, fire crews were called to a high-rise under construction after a 33rd floor window broke and fell to the street below.

Some of it landed on a vehicle driving by but no injuries were reported.

Firefighters and police immediately blocked off the area to vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

The police said in a news release that the high winds have made it unsafe to send anyone over the side to secure what is left of the window.

Wind speed needs to be at 15 kilometres per hour or less for repairs to be made to the glass.

The city created a wind-warning system for construction sites after three-year-old Michelle Krsek was killed in 2009 when loose construction material tumbled from the building in the downtown core.

Finance minister crunching numbers ahead of Saskatchewan budget expected June 1 REGINA — The final numbers are being crunched as Saskatchewan Finance Minister Kevin Doherty prepares to deliver the budget June 1.

Doherty says finance officials are to present some options to government MLAs later this week for input before the budget goes to cabinet.

He says the biggest obstacle is the low price of oil, which means less revenue for provincial coffers.

The minister also says that potash prices have softened since the third-quarter budget update in February.

At that time, the province was expecting a $427-million deficit in the fiscal year which ended March 31 and aiming for a $259-million deficit this year.

Doherty says he’s not yet at a point to determine whether those numbers “are holding.”

Water agency warns of rapid snow melt as temperatures climb above seasonal REGINA — People in eastern Saskatchewan may be enjoying temperatures near 20 C, but the Water Security Agency has a warning to go with the warm weather.

The agency says above seasonal temperatures combined with significant snow cover in the Assiniboine River Basin, north of Yorkton, could mean a rapid snow melt.

The agency says it doesn’t expect major flooding, but warns there could be some out-of-bank flows and the potential for some roadways to be overtopped.

Flows in the Assiniboine River basin are above normal with many locations still on the rise from the snow

melt.

The water security agency says it’s a result of wetter-than-normal fall conditions and above-normal precipitation in March and early April.

It says the rapid melt of the remaining snowpack may also result in above normal flows and some localized flooding in the Swan, Red Deer and Lower Carrot river basins.

The Water Security Agency is to issue a spring runoff update on Tuesday.

B.C. group buys last portion of antelope habitat owned by same family since 1886 OLIVER, B.C. — A conservation group has acquired nearly 35 hectares of land that is home to more than 20 species of at-risk antelope near Oliver, B.C. The rare antelope-brush habitat in the south Okanagan will be added to the 117 hectares of property that the Nature Trust of B.C. began purchasing in parcels starting in 1999.

The non-profit group says the property at the south end of Vaseux Lake between Okanagan Falls and Oliver also supports more than half of the Canadian population of Behr’s Hairstreak butterfly.

It says the butterfly’s survival depends on antelope-brush because it’s the only plant the butterfly uses to lay its eggs.

Individuals and organizations helped buy the entire property at an undisclosed price, and Nature Trust of B.C. CEO Jasper Lament says animals now have the opportunity to adjust to climate change in the years ahead.

Dylan Kennedy says his family had owned the entire antelope-brush habitat since 1886 and that it has remained in a natural state for five generations.

SURREY, B.C. — Homicide investigators in Surrey, B.C., say support from the family and friends of a teenaged murder victim was instrumental in cracking the case.

An 18-year-old male has been charged with second-degree murder following the December 2014 stabbing that killed 17-year-old Jaylen Sandhu.

The suspect, who was 17 at the time of the attack, is expected to appear in court Monday, but RCMP say because of his age, his name will not be released.

Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokeswoman Sgt. Stephanie Ashton says community assistance in the case began with quick reporting of the fight that led to Sandhu’s death.

Ashton says many witnesses came forward after the stabbing and with support from the victim’s family and friends, it was key to obtaining charge approval.

She says the victim came from a closely knit family and his relatives may be relieved that a murder charge has been laid.

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Dramatic rescue gives hope for survivors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANTA, Ecuador — Rescuers pulled three people out alive Monday after they had been trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping centre that was flattened by this weekend’s powerful earthquake on Ecuador’s coast.

Televised images of the dramatic pre-dawn rescue in the port city of Manta gave Ecuadoreans hope that some of the dozens of people still unaccounted for might yet be found even as the death toll from Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude quake rose to 413. An American and two Canadians were among those confirmed dead from the worst quake to hit Ecuador in decades.

To reach the survivors trapped between the floor and roof of the collapsed shopping centre in Manta, firefighters cut a nearly 2 ½-foot (70-centimetre) hole through concrete then pulled a woman out head first. A group of firefighters applauded as she emerged from the debris, disoriented, caked in dust and complaining of pain but otherwise in good health.

Later, at the same site, about 50 rescuers working with sniffer dogs, hydraulic jacks and a drill managed to free another woman and a young man.

All three were rushed in ambulances to a nearby hospital. In total, eight people were rescued from the site in the past 24 hours, said Angel Moreira, the firefighter co-ordinating the effort.

Authorities had hoped to save another woman whose legs were pinned by a heavy concrete slab. They were working to free her when they were forced to abandon the effort during an aftershock. When they returned the debris pile had moved and the woman was dead, Moreira said.

Christian Rivera, the head of emergency services for the capital, Quito, said that depending on the circumstances a person without serious injuries can survive up to a week under the rubble.

“After that, there’s a quick decline … and the rescuers’ work becomes very difficult,” he said.

Still, there are good reasons to believe more people will be found alive in the coming hours as some 450 rescue workers from Spain, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, and elsewhere reached the most-affected areas along the Pacific coast. The U.S. has also offered assistance but so far President

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Rescue workers use heavy machinery to search for survivors in an earthquake collapsed buildings in Manta, Ecuador, Monday.

Rafael Correa, a strong critic of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, has yet to respond publicly.

Correa, upon arriving in Manta late Sunday, said that the priority remains finding survivors.

“Our grief is very large, the tragedy is very large, but we’ll find the way to move forward,” the Ecuadorean leader said, adding that the quake was the worst to hit the country since a 1949 earthquake in the Andean city of Ambato that took more than 5,000 lives. “If our pain is immense, still larger is the spirt of our people.”

Manta, a thriving port city, was among the hardest-hit areas. Power cables were strewn across city streets as electricity in many neighbourhoods remained down. Among the ma-

ny building that were flattened was a control tower at the airport that was home to U.S. anti-narcotics missions in South America until Correa kicked the Americans out.

As rescuers scrambled through the ruins near the epicenter, in some cases digging with their hands to look for survivors, humanitarian aid began trickling in. More than 3,000 packages of food and nearly 8,000 sleeping kits were delivered Sunday.

The quake knocked out power in many areas along the coast and some who fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami had no home to return to or feared structures still standing might collapse. The country’s Geophysics Institute said it recorded 230 aftershocks as of Sunday night.

Spain’s Red Cross said as many as 5,000 people may need temporary housing after the quake destroyed homes, and 100,000 may need some sort of aid.

State Department spokesman John Kirby didn’t identify the American who was killed but said the U.S. government will work with Ecuadorean authorities to locate and ensure the well-being of all Americans. The area of pristine beaches where the quake struck is popular with American tourists and expat retirees.

Aggravating matters were reports of looting, including in Manta, where 180 prisoners from a nearby prison escaped amid the tumult. Authorities said some 20 inmates were recaptured and others returned voluntarily.

Family, friends in mourning after deaths of two Quebecers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Family and colleagues were in mourning on Monday after the deaths of two Quebecers in the devastating earthquake that killed more than 350 people in Ecuador.

Jennifer Mawn and her son, Arthur Laflamme, died when the roof of their residence caved in as the 7.8-magnitude quake struck Saturday night.

“She was a very nice person, I’m really shocked,” said Hugo Laprise, who worked with Mawn at a Montreal-area clinic she founded for children and teens.

“She was a very positive person, she was a very nice person, she was very honest, professional and was always trying to look for the best interest of everybody.”

Laprise said the neuropsychiatrist kept tabs on the clinic despite being abroad and that she checked in sever-

al times a week.

Another colleague, Jacqueline LaBrie, said “it was very hard” to wake up at 5 a.m. to the news the earthquake had killed Mawn and her son, who was described in various media reports as being 12.

LaBrie, a family mediation worker who shared an office with Mawn, described the mother of two as “brilliant, full of energy, a very kind person.”

They last spoke April 1 and LaBrie said Mawn was last in Quebec during the Christmas holidays.

Mawn’s husband, Pascal Laflamme, and their daughter, Laurie-Ann, were slightly injured in the quake but were OK, according to a relative.

Guy Laflamme, Pascal’s uncle, told Montreal radio station 98.5 FM his nephew and his family had moved to Ecuador not too long ago and that they liked travelling and working abroad.

He said Pascal had been chatting on FaceTime with his father Real, who

Houston area submerged after 16 inches of rain in 24 hours

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — More than a foot (30 centimetres) of rain had fallen by Monday evening in parts of Houston, submerging scores of subdivisions and several major interstate highways, forcing the closure of schools and knocking out power to thousands of residents who were urged to shelter in place.

Four fatalities appeared to be weather related, authorities said.

Sylvester Turner, mayor of the fourth-largest U.S. city, told residents to stay home to fend off a weather system he called “stubborn.” More rain was projected over the next two to three days, although heavy downpours had subsided and only another halfinch (1.25 centimetres) was expected through Monday night, he said.

Rain gauges in parts of Harris County, which includes most of Houston, showed water levels approaching 20 inches (50 centimetres) since late Sunday night, with slightly smaller amounts elsewhere in Southeast Texas as bayous and creeks overflowed their banks.

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county’s chief administrator, said two bodies were found in a vehicle shown on traffic cameras driving around barricades and unsuccessfully attempting to navigate a flooded underpass.

In addition, one person, believed a contractor with the city’s airport system, was found in a submerged vehicle not far from the airport. A second person, a truck driver, was found dead in the cab of his rig after encountering high water on a freeway service road.

Several shelters were established for people forced from their homes.

At least 1,000 people taken from apartment complexes in the north part of

the city and moved to a shopping mall were being ferried by city buses to a shelter, the mayor said.

Emmett said thousands of homes in the county outside Houston were flooded. At least 450 high-water rescues were conducted, he said.

One man on the city’s north side emerged from flood waters carrying an armadillo by its armoured tail to safety. In another animal rescue, deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Department livestock unit used boats to reach more than 70 horses trapped up to their necks in water when their stables were flooded.

About 1 million students got the day off, including the Houston Independent School District’s 215,000 students, Texas’ largest public school district.

Most colleges and universities also closed because of the bad weather.

Dozens of Houston subdivisions flooded. At least two interstates — I-10, the main east-west freeway, and I-45, the major north-south freeway — were under water near downtown.

Other major freeways, plus some feeder roads leading to the highways, were blocked by high water.

“I was trying to get to work,” Marcel Gwinn said as he was stranded for more than 90 minutes on an overpass in west Houston. “It kills me because my boss just told me that work’s closed for the day.”

Immediately to the north of Houston in Montgomery County, more than 260 water rescued were carried out, county emergency management officials said.

“When you get off the freeways and off the main thoroughfares, you could be in water 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 metres) deep,” Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said. One TV reporter in Houston helped to rescue a man who drove his car into a flooded underpass.

was in Quebec, when the earthquake hit.

“Everything was going well and from one moment to the next, everything started to shake, to vibrate,” Laflamme said. “Pascal shouted, ‘get out! get out!’ and all communication was cut off.”

The uncle said Pascal managed to get in touch later to confirm the deaths.

Guy Laflamme said Pascal and his daughter “went to the hospital but there were a lot of people extremely injured so they went to stay with friends.”

The family often blogged about their travels — they lived on Reunion Island between 2007 and 2010, returned briefly to Canada and then headed to Mauritius before moving to Ecuador.

Pascal Laflamme noted in one post the family had moved last September to the coastal town of Bahia de Cara-

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Man mauled by bear on student outing JUNEAU — An Alaska man has been mauled by a bear, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Troopers’ spokeswoman Megan Peters says in an email to The Associated Press that 35-year-old Forest Wagner, of Fairbanks, has been transported to an Anchorage hospital. His condition wasn’t immediately known.

About a dozen students at the Uni-

quez.

“We just love it here, weather is great and living by the Pacific Ocean is a real joy!,” he wrote.

The earthquake, the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, levelled buildings and buckled highways along the Pacific Coast of the South American country.

It was centred about 170 kilometres northwest of the capital, Quito.

Global Affairs Canada has asked friends and relatives of those known to be travelling in Ecuador to contact its emergency response centre.

In Ottawa, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said Canada will offer $1 million to “local authorities, very quickly.”

“We will help the (Laflamme) family through our consular services,” Bibeau said. “Our team is in contact with local authorities to evaluate the impact of the earthquake and the needs on the ground.” versity of Alaska Southeast in Juneau were taking part in a mountaineering class on Mount Emmerich, near Haines, on Monday when the mauling occurred, according to troopers. The university website lists a Forest Wagner as an assistant professor of outdoor studies.

Troopers say a student hiked down the mountain to find cell reception to alert authorities. Wagner was taken off the mountain by a rescue helicopter and then taken by a medical helicopter to Anchorage.

Troopers say the bear was seen again after the mauling, and the university arranged for other students to get off the mountain.

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Scaffolding collapse injures seven

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Members of the fire department stand in front of wreckage after part of a building and its scaffolding collapsed in Toronto on Monday. Several people were hurt at the site of a future crosstown LRT station at the city’s Bathurst and Eglinton intersection.

“Everybody’s there. All the police people, the firefighters and paramedics were covering the scene,” she said. “Some are still at the back, because the back alley is where the demolition was happening.”

B.C. court hears terror suspect boast of his record recruiting fellow jihadis

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man found guilty of masterminding a terrorist bomb plot boasted to an undercover officer about how many people he had converted to radical Islam, a court has heard.

Covert surveillance footage played in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday showed John Nuttall telling a man he believed to be a fellow Muslim extremist of his success in recruiting other jihadis.

“I took a brother out of the jails and off of the streets and turned him into a mujahed (holy warrior),” Nuttall said, pictured sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle dressed in an ill-fitting suit.

“That’s two now. Three if you include my wife. “‘We’re all going to taste death,’ says Allah,” added Nuttall. “Is there any better way to die than in a way that propagates Islam? … What better way is there to die?”

Nuttall and his common-law partner Amanda Korody were found guilty last June by a jury of plotting to blow up the provincial legislature during Canada Day celebrations three years ago. The convictions are on hold while their lawyers argue they were entrapped by the RCMP. Prosecutor Peter Eccles said outside court that the Crown will use video footage, audio recordings and police notes to dispute the defence entrapment argument, showing that Nuttall and Korody posed a threat to society before they were ever targeted in a police sting.

“We’re filling in the last pieces of the jigsaw puzzle,” Eccles said outside the courtroom.

Defence counsel finished its case on Monday, arguing that without the Mounties’ involvement their clients would never have attempted to carry out a terrorist attack.

In Canada, the question of entrapment is heard by a judge, not a jury, because the issue is considered a question of law.

Video shown in court on Monday also showed Nuttall pleading with the same undercover officer to find him a handgun as a “gesture of trust,” right

“I WANTED TO PUT A GUN TO HIS HEAD AND RIGHT BEFORE I PULLED THE TRIGGER I WANTED TO SAY, ‘TASTE WHAT YOU USED TO DENY,’ AND SEND HIM STRAIGHT TO THE HELL-FIRE” — JOHN NUTTALL after he described feeling murderous rage toward an American soldier he’d met who insulted Islam.

“I wanted to put a gun to his head and right before I pulled the trigger I wanted to say, ‘Taste what you used to deny,’ and send him straight to the hell-fire,” Nuttall said, stroking his wiry, grey-tinged goatee.

“I had my marble gun. I could have just pulled it out and put it to his head but (two other people) were in the back seat and I didn’t have enough bullets to take them all out.”

Crown is expected to play about four hours of intercept evidence that wasn’t viewed by jury members during last year’s trial.

Last week Nuttall and Korody’s lawyers abandoned efforts to force Canada’s spy agency to hand over secret documents related to a covert investigation into the pair.

Attempts to access the confidential information were moving too slowly through the Federal Court and there was no end in sight, said the couple’s legal counsel outside court.

Nuttall and Korody were arrested on July 1, 2013, following an elaborate RCMP sting operation in which officers posed as Muslim extremists.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce, who was the trial judge, is also hearing entrapment arguments in the case.

Proceedings are expected to last another several days before the court adjourns until closing statements in June.

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CARE: Allocations “We know from our data that changes to our On Call Service will mean an additional 2,000 to 3,000 visits to emergency departments in the next year; this is in addition to the already 3,000 community members forced elsewhere as a result of lack of health care service and access locally.”

Samson said the committee met with Alberta Health Services Central Zone on April 11 where they were told urgent care was not part of the zone’s current budget allocations.

Associate Minister of Health Brandy Payne said the province is continuing to work with local officials to find the best way forward for the community.

“We’ve heard the concerns coming from the community. Minister Hoffman met with the community in December and we spoke to the mayor last week.

Our deputy minister of health is coming to Sylvan Lake in the coming weeks and we’re confident we can find a solution for the community,” Payne said.

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre said inaction by the province is putting lives at risk and ignoring a way to reduce health care costs.

He said the cost to operate the urgent care centre would be $2 to $2.5 million and consultants have shown that the amount of money saved in diverting non-life threatening cases away from the Red Deer hospital’s emergency department would exceed that amount.

He said urgent care in Sylvan Lake would also speed healing for patients, reduce the wait time at Red Deer’s emergency, and provide the appropriate level of 24-7 urgent care to the Sylvan Lake area.

“This is such a no-brainer for a government that

needs to find ways to save money and improve patient care. And yet this minister of health turned that down. They flatly rejected this. It’s absolutely astounding,” MacIntyre said.

“I believe it is time for the people of Sylvan Lake to really rise up and mobilize on this issue,” the Wildrose MLA said.

The Urgent Care Committee is planning a rally for May 25 at Sylvan Lake Community Centre.

“We’re just going to start making some noise because I just don’t think the people who make the decisions are hearing us. I cannot believe that they would let this happen to this many people in Central Alberta,” Samson said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

ROCKY: Advisory A fire advisory for the Rocky forest is currently in effect. No burning permits are being issued and existing permits have been cancelled. Although safe campfires are still allowed, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry was recommending Monday that no burning take place at all until weather conditions improve.

In the 24-hour period preceding 10 a.m. Monday, the Rocky Forest Protection Area had three new wildfires. There had been 28 wildfires to that point, consuming about 117 acres Fire bans are currently in place for several Central Alberta areas, including the counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, Ponoka, Stettler, Kneehill, and the communities of Bashaw, Ponoka, Blackfalds, Trochu and Rochon Sands. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Police said streets in the area are expected to be closed for several hours as they continue their investigation.

They are joined in their probe by the provincial Ministry of Labour.

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RCMP say some people were also asked to leave nearby homes as a precaution because of the fire, which was fanned by strong winds.

Police say the flames are under control and no one was hurt on the Louis Bull First Nation.

On Sunday, about 50 homes were evacuated as a precaution near Duffield, when a brush fire broke out near the community west of Edmonton.

They were later allowed home but on Monday, residents of the hamlet and a subdivision were ordered out again, and residents of Clear Lake were given notice to be prepared for a possible evacuation.

Extremely dry conditions have prompted municipalities and the province to issue 42 fire bans, 12 fire restrictions and 34 fire advisories.

There have been 127 wildfires in Alberta’s forest protection area so far this year compared with 101 at this time in 2015.

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TORONTO — Seven people including a baby narrowly averted serious injuries on Monday afternoon as scaffolding came tumbling down to the streets of one of Toronto’s most bustling neighbourhoods.

Police flocked to a construction site in the city’s Forest Hill neighbourhood around 2:30 p.m. after the accident at a building currently being turned into a new public transit stop.

Police, firefighters and paramedics teamed up to rescue seven people believed to have been trapped in the rubble. Toronto police Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said those people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

“From what we know, everyone has been rescued from the building.”

Douglas-Cook said a baby was among those who had the closest call.

“Some of the material fell on the stroller,” she said, adding the baby carriage likely saved the infant’s life. “Fortunately the baby was not injured seriously. The injuries are quite minor.”

Douglas-Cook said all of the injured were close to or inside the building at the time of the collapse, but did not say whether they were working at the site or simply pedestrians passing by.

The accident took place at the site of a Chinese restaurant currently being demolished to make way for a station along a new route crossing Eglinton Ave, an east-west street that spans the bulk of the city.

John Jensen, chief capital officer at government transit co-ordinating agency Metrolinx, said the company is fully co-operating as police try to assess the cause of the collapse.

“Our primary focus is on the well-being of the injured, and our hearts and thoughts are out for them,” he said.

Hours after the collapse, the neighbourhood full of local businesses was still teaming with investigators probing the causes and consequences of the accident.

Douglas-Cook said police dogs were still on site to verify that no one was still trapped inside.

Lita Quinto, owner of grocery store Pampanguena, said swarms of first responders could be seen blanketing the scene from at least two blocks from the accident site.

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Lower U.S. supply to underpin oil price

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The failure by oil-rich nations to agree to freeze production sent crude prices lower Monday.

But prices recovered much of their losses by afternoon, and analysts said that oil is likely to rise in the longer term as many companies, particularly in the U.S., scale back output.

The effort to reach a consensus on limiting production to support prices failed after Iran stayed away from a weekend meeting of 18 oil-producing nations in Doha, Qatar. Saudi Arabia said it wouldn’t back a deal if regional rival Iran, which is trying to ramp up output as international sanctions are lifted, wasn’t involved.

The price of oil fell as much as 7 per cent after the talks ended but then bounced back. The contract traded in New York closed down 58 cents, or 1.4, per cent, at $39.78 a barrel Monday, while the international standard, Brent, fell 19 cents to $42.91.

Oil fell in the past two years from above $100 a barrel to touch 12-year lows under $30 a barrel earlier this year. Prices, however, have rebound-

ed by more than 50 per cent since mid-February, partly on the expectation that major producing countries would freeze production.

The inability of OPEC countries and Russia to freeze production levels means they will likely continue to pump oil at near-record rates. However, other producers — notably U.S. shale companies, which face higher costs — are cutting back on production to cope with the lower prices. Some have even gone bust. T hat has the potential to support prices.

Last week, before the Doha meeting, the U.S. Energy Department and the Paris-based International Energy Agency both reported that U.S. production was declining.

The IEA noted signs that “the much-anticipated slide in production” of shale oil in the United States “is gathering pace.”

The IEA, a group of oil-consuming countries including the United States, added that by early April the drilling-rig count in the U.S. had fallen nearly 80 per cent from the peak seen in October 2014 and that there was more anecdotal evidence of financial

problems taking a toll on shale producers.

Lower potential U.S. supply is one of the reasons why oil prices have rallied in the past two months — alongside expectations of some sort of deal emerging at the meeting in Doha.

Fadel Gheit, a senior energy analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., said the recent cutbacks in investments will help rebalance supply and demand in the longer-run whatever the short-term disruption caused by the Doha failure.

“We believe prices will rise regardless of what OPEC does or does not do, as U.S. shale oil production, not Saudi Arabia, will be the new swing producer,” Gheit said.

“We believe oil prices will rise to a sustainable level closer to $60, the new normal, not $100 and not $40 either.”

The failure of the talks in Doha prompted a knee-jerk response in the markets that was tempered perhaps by news of a strike by oil workers in Kuwait to protest government cutbacks.

The market volatility appears driven in part by speculative investors, “oil tourists” who drive the price up and down on expectations about things like the Doha meeting, said Kit Juckes,

a strategist at bank Societe Generale.

In the longer-run, he said, oil prices will be supported “as slowly increasing demand catches up with slowly decreasing supply and stock-building comes to an end.”

One likely impact of the Doha talks’ failure is that traders may scale back expectations that a deal will emerge in the future, starting off with the next scheduled OPEC meeting in June.

Rather than co-ordinated production cuts by the cartel, the market may see unilateral actions from individual countries.

The cheap oil price has a huge impact on the economies of crude-producing countries, particularly the poorer ones like Angola, Nigeria and Venezuela.

“Unless Saudi Arabia or Iran has a change of heart, we fail to see how the outcome (at the June meeting) will be any different, and it may ultimately be mounting supply disruptions in stressed states, rather than collective cartel action, that causes an accelerated market rebalancing,” said Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.

Province promises tech tax credit $90M TO HELP SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s economic development minister says a new investor tax credit will provide $90 million to help small- and mediumsized tech companies.

Deron Bilous outlined the details of the new credit Monday at an Edmonton business management software firm.

Bilous said that as of Jan. 1, investors will be able to receive a 30 per cent tax credit for investing in Alberta information, health and green technology companies.

Others to benefits include those working in interactive digital media and game products, digital animation, post-production and visual effects.

“These are growing industries in our province and industries that require highly skilled workers,” said Bilous.

“The majority of companies in these sectors have less than 100 employees, and new businesses and startups are big contributors to job creation.”

Bilous said the government will work out details, including the maximum investment amount, in the coming months.

The program is to run for two years and then be reassessed.

Bilous said Alberta is catching up to similar programs elsewhere.

“Over the last 10 years Alberta has consistently lagged behind other Canadian provinces in terms of venture capital dollars.”

The tax credit is part of the government’s new jobs creation package outlined in last week’s budget.

Premier Rachel Notley’s government has already put up about $2 billion in loan and investment incentive programs in an attempt to create jobs and move the economy away from its reliance on fossil fuels.

That reliance has seen Alberta move deep into the red due to the prolonged slump in oil prices.

Alberta’s deficit is expected to be more than $10 billion this year and $10 billion again the year after that.

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An employee adjusts a television set at a store in Ottawa. Rogers Communications says most of its customers are choosing to stick with their current TV packages rather than switch to the recently mandated skinny-basic TV bundles.

Rogers says few customers switching to skinny TV, but more choice coming

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rogers Communications says most of its customers are choosing to stick with their current TV packages rather than switch to the recently mandated skinny-basic TV bundles.

“It’s a bit like going to McDonald’s,” president and CEO Guy Laurence said during a conference call with analysts after the company reported first-quarter earnings.

“We’ve now given customers the chance to buy a basic hamburger and fries separately and some do. But most customers stick with the meal option … because they are better value for money.”

Meanwhile, this Stanley Cup playoff season Rogers stands to take a financial hit on its $5.2-billion investment for exclusive NHL broadcast rights in Canada since all seven Canadian teams failed to make it to the post-season.

The lack of Canadian representation is disappointing for all of Canada not just Rogers, said Laurence, who added that some advertisers have shifted their spending from hockey to baseball.

Pressed on the issue during a conference call with the news media, Laurence said: “We don’t give guidance on

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revenue for forward looking quarters.”

The three months ended March 31 was the first since the country’s broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, mandated all cable and satellite TV service providers offer basic cable packages capped at $25 a month as of March 1. They must also let consumers add on a-la-carte channels or pre-packaged bundles.

Last week, the CRTC said 66,000 consumers have signed up for the new offerings in the first five weeks of availability. It did not break down the subscribers by company, though Laurence said his company’s uptake is in line with its market share.

The type of consumer who is switching over to basic cable is “your grandmother,” Laurence said, adding that consumer may be less interested in some of the programming available beyond basic cable’s offerings.

However, he stressed it’s too early to determine long-term trends from the limited data available, adding companies are only partway into the process of adhering to the regulations as they’re not required to offer both a-la-carte channels and pre-packaged bundles to consumers until December.

Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) reported lower year-over-year profits in the first quarter, citing among other reasons higher restructuring costs and an increase in

the adjusted operating loss of its traditional media business.

The Toronto-based telecommunications giant said net income in the three months ended March 31 was $248 million or 48 cents per share, down from $255 million or 50 cents per share in the same 2015 period.

Adjusted net income, which excludes certain one-time items, was $263 million or 51 cents per share, down from $275 million or 53 cents in the prior-year period.

Revenue was $3.245 billion, up two per cent from $3.175 billion, reflecting growth of five per cent in its wireless operations and two per cent in business solutions. That was offset by a decline of two per cent in its cable business and three per cent in media.

Reporting after markets closed, Rogers said its lower consolidated adjusted operating profit largely reflected an increase in the adjusted operating loss of its traditional media businesses, which are facing pressure from a changing advertising landscape.

Net income was also impacted by higher restructuring costs for the company, which announced job cuts in the quarter affecting conventional TV, radio and publishing, as well as some back-office positions to help alleviate some of the pressure on its media business.

HP Inc. to buy a group of customer experience software and services assets for US$170 million in cash.

The business software company said the deal, which includes about 400 employees, will complement its portfolio and allow it to offer customers a wider selection of options.

Under the deal, Open Text will acquire HP TeamSite, a management platform for web content, HP MediaBin, a digital asset management system, and HP Qfiniti, a workforce optimization system.

The agreement also includes HP Explore, HP Aurasma and HP Optimost.

Open Text said the business being acquired is expected to generate between US$85 million and US$95 million of annualized revenues.

The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 financial year.

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A recent letter from Lax Kw’alaams Mayor John Helin to federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna offered backing for the $36-billion LNG project on Lelu Island, south of Prince Rupert, if two conditions are met.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.52 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.01 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.81

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets moved higher Monday as traders shrugged off failed efforts on the weekend by major oil-producing countries to limit production.

The S&P/TSX composite index extended added 82.62 points to 13,719.82, supported by energy and base metals stocks.

Despite a weak finish, the resource-heavy index added more than 200 points last week.

Energy companies were positive despite a 58-cent drop in the May contract for benchmark North American crude oil to US$39.78 a barrel. The more heavily traded June contract gave back 52 cents to US$41.19.

Oil weakened after Sunday’s talks in Doha, Qatar, failed to end with a consensus on freezing production to support prices.

Major producer Saudi Arabia said it wouldn’t back a deal if Iran, which is trying to ramp up output as international sanctions are lifted, wasn’t involved. Iran did not attend the meeting.

Relations between the two countries have deteriorated in recent months due to several issues, including their conflicting stances on the wars in Syria and Yemen.

Craig Jerusalim, a portfolio manager with CIBC Asset Management, said failure in Doha means some short-term pain for crude but that eventually prices should head higher.

“We should begin to see production continue to roll over in North America because $40 is not profitable for producers to continue to produce at levels that they have been,” Jerusalim said.

“It certainly is not enough to incentivize any growth in production,” he added, noting that it will result in “a natural stabilization of the supply and demand fundamentals.”

OPEC members meet again in June. Oil has fallen in the past two years from above US$100 a barrel to touch 12-year lows under $30 a barrel earlier this year before rebounding in recent weeks.

The impact of the Doha talks were also mitigated by news that oil workers in Kuwait are on strike to protest government cutbacks. The

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work stoppage has temporarily suspended production in that country.

Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar also gained strength, up 0.24 of a U.S. cent at 78.14 cents US. Elsewhere in commodities, May natural gas gained four cents to US$1.94 per mmBtu, while May copper added a penny to US$2.16 a pound and June gold added 40 cents to $1,235 a troy ounce.

New York markets also rose, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 106.70 points at 18,004.16, while the broader S&P 500 moved 13.61 points higher to 2,094.34. The Nasdaq composite advanced 21.80 points to 4,960.02.

In corporate news, shares in e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) rose 1.51 per cent after it introduced a stand-alone video streaming service to rival Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX). Its stock gained $9.46 to US$635.35.

— With files from The Associated Press.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,719.82, up 82.62 points Dow — 18,004.16, up 106.70 points S&P 500 — 2,094.34, up 13.61 points Nasdaq — 4,960.02, up 21.80 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.14 cents US, up 0.24 of a cent Pound — C$1.8267, up 0.43 of a cent Euro — C$1.4470, down 0.14 of a cent

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Euro — US$1.1307, up 0.24 of a cent Oil futures: US$39.78 per barrel, down 58 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,235.00 per oz., up 40 cents (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.867 oz., up 1.6 cents $703.02 kg., up 51 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $1.90 higher $478.80 July ‘16 $1.90 higher $483.30 Nov. ‘16 $3.80 higher $483.50 Jan. ‘17 $3.20 higher $488.50 March ‘17 $2.20 higher $489.50 May ‘17 $2.20 higher $489.20 July ‘17 $2.20 higher $489.20 Nov. ‘17 $1.30 higher $480.70 Jan. ‘18 $1.30 higher $480.70 March ‘18 $1.30 higher $480.70 May ‘18 $1.30 higher $480.70.

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: 567,300 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley).

Total: 567,300.

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Does it pay to leave the country for tax reasons?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — So you’re a wealthy Canadian whose tax bill is going up.

Does it pay to leave the country?

When media outlets reported last month that billionaire Murray Edwards is leaving Calgary for the United Kingdom, some saw it as proof that tax hikes for top earners are driving away the rich.

“High income earners like Murray Edwards fleeing the province is more evidence the NDP government’s economic agenda is hurting Alberta’s long-term competitive advantage,” Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose Party said in a March 29 release.

Despite the political haymaking, the prominent oilpatch financier, known also for his interests in the Calgary Flames and ski resorts, hasn’t publicly said why he’s hopping across the pond.

Recent regulatory filings for the publicly-traded companies in which he’s involved show him as living in London.

Between federal and provincial tax changes, the combined marginal tax rate for Albertans in the top bracket is rising to 48 per cent in 2016, from 40.25 per cent last year.

There’s a psychological element to whether a high net worth individual would feel compelled to leave the country for tax reasons, said lawyer Jonathan Garbutt.

It’s usually when the rate tips past 50 per cent — which is the case in many provinces, but not Alberta — that people with a high net worth get bent out of shape, Garbutt said.

“It just gets right up peoples’ noses,” he said.

“You’re not working for the benefit of you and your family. You’re working for everybody else who maybe isn’t working as hard or as smart as you are.”

The U.K. isn’t exactly known for being a low-tax jurisdiction, but its rules for non-domiciled residents, or “non-doms,” have been a draw for the wealthy.

Non-doms — who live in the U.K., but whose permanent residence is elsewhere — only pay U.K. tax on money they earn in the country, or bring into it.

In many cases, Garbutt said the tax savings could be substantial enough to outweigh the higher cost of living and a 20 per cent value-added tax on most goods and services.

But whether it’s the U.K. or a lowtax tropical locale, it doesn’t make sense to leave Canada solely for tax reasons, said Garbutt.

“You can’t let the tax tail wag the life dog,” he said, “because you won’t be happy and these people have enough money that they should be happy.”

There can be big upfront costs and sticky logistical practicalities that negate any tax-saving rationale for leaving, said Jack Courtney, vice-president of private client planning at Investors Group in Winnipeg.

“Very often there’s a very big tax hit for severing residential ties with Canada,” he said.

Specifically, those leaving could get dinged significantly on any capital gains from “deemed dispositions” of assets that became more valuable between the time they bought it and their departure.

They also have to be prepared to part with virtually all the cards in their wallet and embrace a new lifestyle.

“You’ve got to think really deeply about where your relationships are and what your life will be like in that place,” said Courtney.

Heath-care costs — particularly for those older than 65 — are also a huge financial consideration, said John Nicola, CEO of Nicola Wealth Management in Vancouver.

Nicola said he’s dubious there’s going to be a mass exodus of the rich.

“There tends to be, in my opinion, a lot more hype and press about people jumping ship offshore than there is the way of a lot of data suggesting it’s a significant outcome.”

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THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Rebels turn focus to Game 7

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Going from a best-of-seven, to a best-of-three to a winner take all game 7 shows just how close the Red Deer Rebels and Regina Pats have been.

Their Eastern Conference semi-final matchup will reach its conclusion today after six games of tough, competitive hockey.

The Rebels had a 3-2 series lead going in to Sunday night’s game, but were unable to match the Pats’ effort and lost 5-1.

Rebels captain Luke Philp conceded it was a poor effort by the Rebels.

“We all know it and we have to focus on game 7 now,” said Philp. “They were desperate, their will to win was higher than ours. They did everything better than we did. We have to move past it.

“Our will to win has to be higher than theirs. This time of year, Game 7s, anything can happen. We have to be ready and we’ll have a way better effort than we did the other night.”

Giving full credit to the Pats game 6 showing, Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said he expects to see a very different Rebels team after a lopsided loss on Sunday.

“They played like it was do or die for them,” said Sutter. “We never responded they way we needed to try and close the series out. I’m expecting our team to get its game back to where it needs to be and the emotional level back to where it needs to be.”

Discipline problems that surfaced early in the series weren’t a factor in Games 5 and 6. After taking 14 penalties in Games 3 and 4 in Regina, the Rebels

were penalized seven times in Games 5 and 6. In Games 3 and 4, the Pats capitalized six times on the power play. In Games 5 and 6, the Pats power play was held goalless.

The Pats trio of Adam Brooks, Cole Sanford and Sam Steel have combined for 19 goals and 54 points this post-season. For the Rebels Adam Helewka and Jake DeBrusk both have 11 points each, Helewka with seven goals while DeBrusk has five.

Sutter said the biggest advantage home ice affords him is getting the on-ice matchups he wants.

“As far as the players are concerned they have to throw it all out there,” said Sutter.

Defenceman Haydn Fleury said the team will look over at some of Game 6, but doesn’t want to dwell on it too much.

“We have to refocus and get ready to play game 7 on home ice,” said Fleury. “It’s a huge advantage and we’ve used that advantage all playoffs.

“We’re really comfortable here in front of our fans. They’ve been great the whole playoffs, they’ve been loud and getting into the games.”

Despite a lack of Game 7 experience on the Rebels’ roster, Fleury said they will lean on the coaching staff who has been there before.

“They know what to expect,” said Fleury. “They’ll have advice for us and we have to take it to heart. At the end of the day, we have to go out there and play our game. We can’t be too nervous, we can’t be too excited, we just have to go out there and play.

Puck drops on game 7 at 7 p.m. at the Centrium.

Notes: The Rebels have won three and lost two game sevens in their history. Both losses came on the road while the three wins came on home ice. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

How the Rebels have fared in Game 7s Results of Game Sevens the Red Deer Rebels have played in since joining the Western Hockey League in the 1992-93 season: 2001-02 Eastern Conference Finals: Rebels beat the Brandon Wheat Kings in game 7 by a score of 5-2 in Red Deer. Series featured three overtime games, including two in double overtime.

2002-03 Eastern Conference Semi-finals: Rebels beat the Medicine Hat Tigers in game 7 by a score of 5-1 in Red Deer. Series went to the seventh game after the Tigers won game 6 in double overtime.

2003-04 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals: Rebels beat the Calgary Hitmen in game 7 by a score of 4-2 in Red Deer. Rebels had a 3-1 series lead, Hitmen rallied with two straight wins to force the seventh game.

2004-05 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals: Rebels lose to Medicine Hat Tigers in game 7 be a score of 5-4 in Medicine Hat. Rebels forced the seventh game with a 3-0 win two nights prior on home ice.

2006-07 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals: Rebels lose to Medicine Hat Tigers in game 7 by a score of 2-0 in Medicine Hat. Rebels forced the seventh game with a 6-5 win.

MMA fighter bides his time for a shot

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Hungry for a chance to make the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a Red Deer fighter knows his chance is coming soon.

The 28-year-old flyweight was on the verge of trying out for the mixed martial arts promotion, when open tryouts were abruptly cancelled.

On April 5, UFC announced the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, an Ultimate Fighting Championship-run reality TV show, would be specifically for flyweight fighters, up to 56.69 kg (125 pounds), piqued the Red Deer fighter’s interest. The season of the show culminated in the winner getting a title shot.

Open tryouts were planned for April 25, but on April 12 tryouts were cancelled.

Working under the assumption that tryouts were going ahead, Davis started a GoFundMe page to help him finance his dream. Within five hours he had raised more than the $2,000 he had asked for.

“I’m pretty honoured to have so much support from so many different people,” said Davis. “It’s good knowing people have faith in you.

“Local companies are sponsoring me, even fighters and Red Deerians are scrounging up $5, $10 to help. I guess they want to see another local in the UFC.” Davis had already bought his plane ticket and hotel when he found out the season’s tryouts were cancelled. The UFC did not say the expected air date for the season had changed. Davis said it was likely tryouts had been pushed to after current flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson defends his title against Henry Cejudo at UFC 197 on April 23.

“The money is still funding the whole trip,” said Davis. “I’m going down regardless. It just gives me more time.

“It gives me the opportunity to work on myself as a fighter.”

Specifically, it gives Davis a chance to polish the interviews and social media side of fighting. He said he will use this time to polish his interview skills and outreach to the general public.

When he was 11 or 12, Davis started watching the UFC. By the time he was 20 he had started fighting mixed martial arts.

He describes his style as submission wrestling, but prefers to build a well-rounded arsenal.

“I could fight anywhere, what I’ve been training for my whole life is to be well-rounded and comfortable in any situation,” said Davis. “I’ll fight any style, any way I have to.”

In his time fighting, Davis has a 12-5 record. His 18th fight is scheduled for April 22 in Calgary against

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Red Deer MMA fighters Austin Ryan, left, and Michael Davis spar during a workout at Arahsi-Do Martial Arts in Red Deer. Both fighters are expecting to audition for Ultimate Fighting over the next few months.

Keegan Oliver, a Calgary-based fighter with a 3-4 record.

“It also lets me win this fight and maybe take on one more, with a better record it gives me a better chance of getting on,” said Davis.

“It’s happening. We were worried they were cancelling it altogether, but word is the season is happening.”

With the extra time, Davis hopes he can really work on his weight as well as strength and conditioning.

If he is successful in his tryout, he is put through the ringer of five fights in seven weeks. All competing for a title shot against whoever the current flyweight UFC champion is at the end.

“You get pretty banged up and then you do a finale and live TV,” said Davis.

“Leading up to this I’ve been training for my fight in Calgary.”

He’s been training constantly, only taking Fridays off, in preparation for his Calgary fight.

“You get tired and beat up a lot, but it’s worth every bit,” said Davis. “It’s tiring.”

The exposure afforded to someone on the show would benefit Davis.

“Even if you fight in the UFC and don’t make it your first time around, local promotions will pay you more to have you come in because of your reputation and name,” he said.

Davis moved to Red Deer from Edson about four years ago to further his mixed martial arts training, calling it the best move of his life. He trains at Arashi-Do. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Capitals hammer Flyers to take stranglehold on series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals 6 Flyers 1 PHILADELPHIA — Wayne Simmonds raised his hand toward the crowd and pleaded with fans to stop hurling colorful bracelets on the ice.

The Flyers PA announcer urged fans to “show some class” during the first wave of band tossing.

The Philly fans refused to listen and pelted the ice with the giveaways at seemingly the same rapid rate Washington was scoring goals.

Alex Ovechkin scored twice, Braden Holtby had 31 saves and the Washington Capitals moved one game closer to a sweep in their first-round playoff series with a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night.

The Capitals lead a series 3-0 for the first time in franchise history. Game 4 is Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

“It’s a huge opportunity for us to come back home with the win and see what’s going to happen and who’s going to be next,” Ovechkin said.

Ovechkin snapped a tie game with his 38th career post-season goal and Holtby made the lead stand with his third straight sensational effort in the series. The Capitals scored five power-play goals, including four in a third period marked by the behaviour of Philadelphia’s disgruntled home fans.

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Washington Capitals’ Jay Beagle scores a goal against Philadelphia Flyers’ Shayne Gostisbehere and Steve Mason during the third period of Game 3 in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Monday, in Philadelphia.

The Flyers lost in their first home game since founder Ed Snider’s death last week. Michael Raffl scored 57 seconds into the game and sent a crowd already rocking after an emotional pregame tribute into a frenzy.

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But passion alone wasn’t enough to fuel the Flyers.

Philadelphia fans showed the wrong kind of spirit late in the game when they tossed wristbands used as part of a pregame lights show on the

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ice as Washington turned this one into a rout.

Flyers public address announcer Lou Nolan scolded fans and warned the Flyers would be hit with a penalty if they kept littering the ice with bracelets and other garbage.

Sure enough, the wristbands kept coming, and the Flyers were whistled for a bench minor for delay of game.

Capitals defenceman Dmitry Olav was even smacked by a flying bracelet sitting in the penalty box. Nolan said, “way to go,” and the fans cheered as if they were proud of the penalty.

“I know they’re upset in that situation but that can’t happen,” Simmonds said.

The Flyers dedicated their post-season run to Snider, who died last week after a two-year battle with cancer.

The Flyers hanged a banner outside the arena with Snider’s picture and the caption “A Flyer Forever.” “EMS” — initials for Edward Malcolm Snider — were painted on the ice behind each net.

Raffl knocked in the first shot of the game off Brandon Manning’s attempt from the point and 19,678 fans went wild.

The Flyers had motivation, home ice and a bit of history on their side — Washington had been 0-7 in Game 3s of best-of-seven playoff series when leading 2-0.

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Raptors bounce back to beat Pacers NBA PLAYOFFS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 98 Pacers 87 TORONTO — If the Toronto Raptors walked onto the Air Canada Centre floor Monday night under a cloud of question marks, they delivered an emphatic answer.

Jonas Valanciunas scored 23 points and hauled down 15 rebounds as the Raptors bounced back from a horrible Game 1 to throttle the Indiana Pacers 98-87, evening their post-season series at one game apiece.

“It feels good that we’re 1-1, putting ourselves in a great position to turn things around,” Patrick Patterson said.

“It’s good that we tied this thing back up, we took care of business tonight and the focus now is to go on the road and take care of business there.”

Kyle Lowry had 18 points and nine assists, while Cory Joseph finished with 16 points, Patterson chipped in with 14, and DeMar DeRozan, on another rough night, had 10 in the Raptors’ first playoff victory in eight tries.

Paul George led the Pacers with 28 points.

The victory was a huge sigh of relief for Raptors fans after a horrible Game 1 that had Toronto looking nothing like the record-setting team that secured the No. 2 seed in regular season. The ugly 100-90 loss conjured memories of last season’s four-game post-season sweep by the Washington Wizards.

The big question Monday was: how would the Raptors respond?

Backed by another phenomenal performance by Valanciunas, they an-

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Indiana Pacers’ Paul George drives for the basket against Toronto Raptor’s Bismack Biyombo during second half, round one NBA playoff action in Toronto on Monday. swered with a solid team victory that saw them cough up an early 18-point lead, but battle back with a terrific fourth quarter.

“I’m just doing my stuff, I’m just going out there and battling,” Valanciunas said.

“Nobody is going to take that away from me, I’m going to put my heart (out there), and battle for every single ball,

every possession.”

Leading 74-66 to start the fourth, the Raptors found another gear, and when Lowry threaded a gorgeous pass to Joseph under the basket, the bucket put the Raptors up by 15 points and sent the Air Canada Centre crowd into fits of delirium.

A pair of free throws from Lowry with 4:19 to play put the Raptors up by

19 points, and they cruised to a wellearned victory.

“We’re not the same team as last year,” Patterson said. “We have different players, different personnel, different coaching staff and a different overall mentality…we have other weapons on this team.”

Lowry, who had a rough Game 1, was back at his scrappy best, diving all over the floor for loose balls. And while he shot just 4-for-13 on the night, his passing and defensive effort more than made up for his lousy aim.

“His numbers didn’t say how hard he played,” coach Dwane Casey said.

“He left it all out on the floor, diving on the floor for loose balls, rebounding, got to the free throw line 10 times.

He was really playing with force going downhill.

“That’s what this series is going to be about. I don’t know if you can look at a guy’s stat line and just tell some of the things he’s contributing.”

The Raptors won virtually without their leading scorer as DeRozan was MIA once again. The two-time all-star shot just 5-for-18, and looked completely out of sorts most of the night, hanging his head each time he trudged to the bench.

“I don’t know if it’s tightness or what it is,” Casey said of DeRozan.

“He only got to the line how many times (zero). He was No. 2 or 3 in the league in getting to the free throw line so I don’t know if it’s frustration. His teammates picked him up, he’ll come around.”

The Raptors shot a decent 44 per cent on the night, after hitting just 38 per cent of their shots on Saturday.

They also protected the ball better, cutting their turnovers down from 20 to 13.

Wild surge back to beat Stars 5-3 in Game 3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wild 5 Stars 3 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Given a pair of quick goals by Patrick Sharp, the Dallas Stars pushed the cruise-control button.

Jason Pominville and the Minnesota Wild raced past them and surged back into the series.

Pominville scored twice and had an assist for the Wild, and Minnesota roared back from an early two-goal deficit for a 5-3 victory on Monday night that sliced the Stars’ advantage in the Western Conference quarterfinals to 2-1.

“That was a nice way to respond,” said Pominville, who scored with 47 seconds left in the second period to give the Wild their first post-season lead in seven games, a span of nearly 400 minutes, and added an empty-netter in the closing minutes.

Chris Porter put the Wild on the board in the final minute of the first period for their first even-strength goal of the series. Erik Haula added a goal and an assist, Mikko Koivu scored on a power play in the third period and the Wild stopped a seven-game losing streak that started on March 31.

“We threw the kitchen sink at them,” Haula said.

Game 4 is in Minnesota on Wednesday night, and Game 5 will be back in Dallas on Friday night.

“It could be a heck of a series. The parity in this league is incredible, and if you don’t play well you’re not going to win,” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said.

Sharp scored 26 seconds into the game and again less than 4 minutes

later for the Stars, but the Wild controlled the action after that and finished with a 25-17 shots-on-goal advantage.

The Stars went nearly 50 minutes without scoring until the puck took a pinball-like path to the net off Colton Sceviour with 6:15 remaining to cut the lead to 4-3.

“They played with a lot of speed and scored some timely goals,” Sharp said. “You could tell that they fed off the energy of their fans. It was a fun game to be a part of, so we’ll take what we can as far as positives from this game.”

Sharp was uncovered in the slot when he converted a midair tip of Alex Goligoski’s shot into a crowd-silencing score, with many of the customers not yet settled in their seats. The quiet hung in the arena air when Sharp, the 14-year veteran in his first season with the Stars, turned a breakaway into a 2-0 lead with his low shot that slipped under goalie Devan Dubnyk’s glove.

In 18 career post-season games against Minnesota, Sharp has nine goals and eight assists. The Wild needed a few minutes to recover, but by the second half of the first period they were in clear control.

Porter muscled his stick in front of Goligoski’s to redirect a shot by Haula and give Minnesota a critical goal with 50 seconds left before the first intermission.

Interim coach John Torchetti put journeymen forwards Kurtis Gabriel and Zac Dalpe on the fourth line and scratched Ryan Carter and Jarret Stoll, the only players on the roster who’ve won a Stanley Cup. Torchetti has been calling for more crashing the

Canada downs Slovakia to stay undefeated at U18 worlds GRAND FORKS, N.D. — It didn’t take Boris Katchouk very long to make an impact for Canada at the under-18 world hockey championships.

Katchouk, who was one of two players added to Canada’s roster earlier in the day, scored Monday night as the Canadians downed Slovakia 3-1 in preliminary-round action.

The 17-year-old Waterloo, Ont., native was still playing for Sault Ste. Marie of the Ontario Hockey League when the U18 championships began on Friday, but was available to Canada after the Greyhounds’ season came to end in the second round of the playoffs.

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“It gave us a little bit of breathing room and it was a great play,” said Clouston.

After a scoreless first period, David Quenneville put Canada on the board 3:50 into the second and Brett Howden doubled the lead at 8:16. Noah Gregor, who was the second player added Monday morning along with Katchouk, earned an assist on the play.

“I think we executed much better in the second, we had a large number of turnovers through the neutral zone in the first and we minimized that,” said Clouston. “We managed the puck much better, had better support.”

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As it was down the stretch of the regular season, the Niederreiter-Haula-Pominville line was the catalyst on both ends of the ice for the Wild, helping keep Stars leading scorer Jamie Benn in check while producing a total of seven points on the night.

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Haula tipped in Pominville’s shot from the boards behind the circle in the second period to tie the game.

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Blue Jays rally to beat Red Sox

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 3 BOSTON — Toronto manager John Gibbons knew Boston had its bullpen lined up.

It didn’t matter when the Red Sox couldn’t throw a key strike.

Russell Martin hit a two-run single against Craig Kimbrel to cap a fourrun eighth inning, and the Blue Jays held to beat the Red Sox 4-3 Monday in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game.

“When you’re facing (Koji) Uehara and those guys at the end, it’s tough to do,” Gibbons said. “You see the end result. It was big.”

J.A. Happ (2-0) gave up one run and four hits in seven-plus innings. Drew Storen got three outs for his first save despite giving up two runs. Toronto gained a split of the four-game series by winning the last two.

“That was a huge inning for us against a tough pitcher,” Happ said of the eighth. “They brought Kimbrel in there, and we had some great at-bats — even before that with Uehara. It was a fun win.”

Boston’s Clay Buchholz allowed six hits in 6 2/3 shutout innings, helped by four double plays by his infield and a diving catch by centre fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Josh Rutledge and Travis Shaw had RBI doubles for the Red Sox. With Toronto trailing 1-0 in the eighth, Ezequiel Carrera reached second base against Uehara (0-1) after Rutledge’s throwing error on his infield hit to third. He advanced on Christian Vazquez’s passed ball and scored on Michael Saunders’ groundout.

Uehara was charged with four runs and gave up two walks while getting just one out. Kimbrel also gave up a walk.

“It’s probably just early morning,” Uehara said through a translator. “It’s just my body was not awake. I’ll do my best tomorrow.”

Kimbrel entered with one out and the bases loaded and struck out Edwin Encarnacion. He walked Troy Tulowitzki on a 3-2 pitch, forcing in the goahead run, and Martin singled.

“It’s definitely not a situation I’m accustomed to,” Kimbrel said. “I’m asked to come in and get two outs and leave it where it was. I was able to get the first one to give us a chance, got

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Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar makes a diving catch on a fly ball by Boston Red Sox’s Jackie Bradley Jr. during the eighth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Monday, in Boston. ahead on Tulowitzki and walked him.

That really wasn’t what we had written up.”

Shaw scored in the ninth on Hanley Ramirez’s two-out, RBI single, and Storen struck out pinch-hitter David Ortiz, who took a 93 mph sinker with a 2-2 count for a called third strike.

Boston took a 1-0 lead in the second on Rutledge’s double into the right-centre gap.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: 1B Chris Colabello said “my head’s completely fine” before the game after getting beaned in Sunday’s win. “I was never woozy.”

Red Sox: Benched 3B Pablo Sandoval, on the 15-day DL with a strained

left shoulder, went to see orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion. Manager John Farrell said after “There was an injection to calm the inflammation. At this point he’ll be examined by Dr. Andrews in a couple weeks.”.

Ortiz didn’t start against the lefthander.

THAT LOOKS DIFFERENT The Red Sox faced their first lefty starter this season.

It’s the furthest into a season since 1996, when they went against a lefty in the 13th game.

REMOVED THE DH Gibbons sent starting DH Bautista

into the game in right in the eighth.

LHP Brett Cecil was inserted in the lineup, but pinch hit for by Colabello in the ninth.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (2-0, 4.22 ERA) is scheduled to start against RHP Mike Wright (1-0, 7.20) when Toronto opens a three-game series at Baltimore on Tuesday. Stroman allowed two runs in eight innings to beat the Yankees last week.

Red Sox: RHP Joe Kelly (1-0, 10.13) is set to face LHP Drew Smyly (0-2, 4.61) Tuesday when the Rays come to Fenway for the opener of a three-game set.

Dinos quarterback Buckley, CHALLENGE SYSTEM TAKES McGill hockey player Daoust CENTRE STAGE IN NHL PLAYOFFS among BLG nominees

fore the challenge and then we challenge and then there’s another seven or eight minutes,” Blues centre CHICAGO — Aaron Ekblad had Paul Stastny said. “I think the game’s a big goal for the Florida Panthers, changed so much, I guess that’s the and then it was gone. Same for Vladi- only downside to the challenges. You mir Tarasenko in St. Louis last week. don’t mind them for certain reasons, Andrew Shaw of the Chicago Black- but you want to get an answer in 30 hawks and Derick Brassard of the New seconds, a minute, two minutes, quick York Rangers got to keep their clutch almost like a quick timeout basically.” scores.

Henrik Zetterberg’s second-period The breakout star of the first round goal in Detroit’s 2-0 victory over Tampa of the NHL playoffs is the coach’s chal- Bay on Sunday night was reviewed to lenge, and it seems as if no one is quite determine if the centre used a kicking sure how they feel about its promi- motion to score. Then Lightning coach nence. There were two more on Sun- Jon Cooper tried an unsuccessful chalday, including an offside ruling that lenge for goaltender interference. negated Ekblad’s goal in the second “The only bad thing is, it takes period of Florida’s 4-3 overtime loss at time, especially yesterday when they the New York Islandreviewed the kickers. ing motion, then it ‘I THINK THE GAME’S “The rule is there, went straight into the CHANGED SO MUCH, coach’s challenge,” it’s in place and you have to do as good a I GUESS THAT’S THE Zetterberg said. “But job as possible as a think overall, it has ONLY DOWNSIDE TO Ibeen staff and as a group (a) good thing to execute within the THE CHALLENGES. (this) year. If they rule,” Philadelphia could speed it up YOU DON’T MIND coach Dave Hakstol somehow, it would said. “We’re seeing THEM FOR CERTAIN probably be better.” how important and The challenge sysREASONS, BUT how much of an imtem and blue-line camYOU WANT TO GET eras also have pointed pact it’s had on a couple of games.” attention toward AN ANSWER IN 30 more The NHL apone of the most unproved the coach’s SECONDS, A MINUTE, heralded positions on challenge system last NHL coaching staffs — TWO MINUTES, summer, and it was video coach. used 266 times in the QUICK ALMOST LIKE Florida almost regular season, with had a 3-0 lead in A QUICK TIMEOUT 68 plays overturned. the second period BASICALLY.’ The system was mostagainst New York, ly praised, save for but Ekblad’s first ca— PAUL STASTNY reer playoff goal was the occasional disST.LOUIS BLUES thrown out when vidplay from a coach or CENTRE eo coach Matt Bertani player upset when a reversal went against got Islanders coach their team.

Jack Capuano to chalThe addition of lenge the play and blue-line cameras for video showed Florida the playoffs has crewas offside when it enated additional scrutered the zone. tiny and set the table “That was the turnfor more changes before next season. ing point,” Capuano said. “Down by Heading into Monday’s action, there two is a lot different than down by had been eight challenges in the play- three.” offs, with three plays overturned — Blackhawks defenceman Duncan each of them wiping out a goal for off- Keith praised video coach Matt Measide. cham for the call on Tarasenko’s goal Asked if the coach’s challenge is in Game 2. Hard to imagine a pair of good for the game, St. Louis coach Ken video coaches drawing public praise Hitchcock responded: “I don’t know. during the NHL playoffs before, much That’s probably for summertime con- less a single round. versation.”

The positive experience with chalA pair of challenges went against lenges in the playoffs is quite a turnthe Blues in the third period of their around for Chicago coach Joel Quen3-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks in neville, who threw his arms in the air Game 2 of their series. Tarasenko’s and cut short a postgame news confertiebreaking goal was erased by a ra- ence when asked about a disallowed zor-thin offside ruling on Jori Lehtera goal against San Jose in February. based on video from the blue-line camQuenneville almost didn’t make his eras. challenge in time against St. Louis, There was a video review of Shaw’s raising the question of whether the tiebreaking goal before Hitchcock un- NHL might need to go to a more formal successfully challenged the play, argu- way of notifying the referees in those ing goaltender Brian Elliott had been cases — such as the red flag in the pushed into the net on the score.

NFL. Quenneville was game for whatThe review and challenge sequence ever. caught the attention of several players.

“I was almost ready to jump on the “They get the OK from Toronto be- ice” in Game 2, Quenneville said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An Olympian, a soonto-be Olympian and an aspiring CFL quarterback are in the running for Canada’s university sport awards.

University of Calgary quarterback Andrew Buckley, 2014 Olympic hockey player Melodie Daoust from McGill and Rio-bound University of Toronto swimmer Kylie Masse are among eight nominees for the annual BLG Awards.

The awards have recognized the best student-athletes in Canadian Interuniversity Sport since 1993.

The Jim Thompson Trophy goes to the female winner and the Doug Mitchell Trophy is given to the top male athlete. Both receive $10,000 post-graduate scholarships. This year’s recipients will be announced May 2 in Calgary.

McMaster volleyball player Stephen Maar, hockey players Jordan Murray out of the University of New Brunswick and Guillaume Asselin from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres are the other male finalists.

Acadia basketball player Paloma Anderson and Thompson Rivers University volleyball player Iuliia Pakhomenko join Daoust and Masse as this year’s female nominees.

The awards ceremony ends one chapter and starts another for Buckley. He capped his fifth and final season with the Dinos winning the Hec Crighton Trophy that goes to the top CIS football player for a second straight year.

The six-foot pivot from Calgary put an exclamation point on his university career with a single-season CIS passing yards record (3,162). Buckley has signed with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders and will attend their rookie camp in May. “The transition from CIS to CFL is huge, but given that I’ve been to two CFL camps and had a chance to play in an exhibition game last year, it gave me a year to mentally prepare for what I need to get done,” Buckley said.

“This award, when it wraps up on May 2, will be basically be the last CIS thing I’ll be doing. The CIS career has been great and I’ve accomplished a lot of cool things. I’m ready to move on to see what the next chapter holds.”

Buckley was also a BLG nominee in 2015, while Daoust was a finalist in 2013.

Student-athletes must compete in CIS sport a minimum of two years to be eligible and can’t be a previous recipient of a BLG Award.

CFL football player and Olympic bobsledder Jesse Lumsden, Olympic women’s hockey team goaltender Kim St. Pierre and Olympic heptathlete Jessica Zelinka are among previous recipients of the awards.

The Canadian Athletic Foundation that chooses the winners consists of 19 business people from five Canadian cities. Lawyer Doug Mitchell, a former

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Melodie Daoust reacts after scoring a goal against Switzerland during the 2014 Winter Olympics women’s semifinal ice hockey game at Shayba Arena, Feb. 17, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

Daoust is among the finalists for the BLG Awards for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the year announced on Monday.

CFL player, executive and commissioner, is chairman of that board.

The public is also invited to vote online on the CIS, BLG and Sportsnet websites.

A quick look at some of this year’s BLG nominees: Iuliia Pakhomenko — In her two seasons at Thompson Rivers, the five-foot-11 left-side hitter helped transform the WolfPack from a winless squad to a playoff team. From Ukraine, she’s in the process of applying for Canadian citizenship.

Melodie Daoust — In what was a comeback season after major knee surgery, the 24-year-old from Valleyfield, Que., led the CIS in goals-per-game (0.9) and points per game (1.7). Daoust was a member of Canada’s victorious Olympic team in 2014.

Paloma Anderson — First BLG nominee from Acadia, Anderson’s 18.7 points per game ranked second in the country and lifted Acadia to a 16-4 record.

Jordan Murray — Defenceman from Riverview, N.B., helped the Varsity Reds win a CIS championship. Once cut from a midget triple-A team, Murray contributed at both ends of the ice with 28 points in 27 games and a plus-24 rating.

Guillaume Asselin — Right-winger from Quebec City is the first BLG nominee from UQTR. Asselin led the Patriotes and the CIS in goals (27), points (46) and game-winners (6).

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Local Sports

Hockey

Tuesday ● Esso Cup: Saskatoon Stars vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 12 p.m., Weyburn ● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium (if necessary)

Thursday ● Esso Cup: Weyburn Gold Wings bs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 7 p.m., Weyburn

Saturday

Wednesday ● Esso Cup: Express du Richelieu vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Weyburn

● Rugby: Red Deer Titans at Drayton Valley Riggers, 2 p.m., Frank Maddock High School

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Tampa Bay RHP Damion Carroll (Charlotte-FSL) and Detroit RHP Spenser Watkins (West Michigan-MWL) 50 games for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Sent LHP Daniel Norris to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Named Ron Gardenhire special assistant to the general manager.

National League ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned INF Greg Garcia to Memphis (PCL). Reinstated SS Ruben Tejada from the 15-day DL. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Released RHP Dakota Dill GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Sold the contract of RHP Matt Solter to the San Francisco Giants. Signed RHP Ryan Richardson KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released OF Brian Joynt.

LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHPs Cody Kendall and Tyler Harris. Signed C Zane Chavez.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed INF Dayner Moreira.

TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Carlos Misell.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed LHP Eury De La Rosa.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded RHP Dylan Thompson to Sussex County for a player to be named. Released 1B AJ Kirby-Jones.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed LHP Jordan Mills.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Released INF Giuseppe Papaccio.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released INF Tyler Urps.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed INF Eric Grabe.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Named Bobby Segal hitting coach.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed OF Brandon Landanger.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed INFs Josh Cassidy and Jake Gronsky and RHP Marc Rutledge.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed RHP Cody Mincey. Placed INF Mike Torres and OF Max White on the suspended list.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy $25,000 for public criticism of officiating after an

April 17 game at Cleveland.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Signed G Lindsey Harding.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released DT Cory Redding. Signed WR Jaron Brown and Ss Tony Jefferson and D.J. Swearinger to one-year contracts.

BUFFALO BILLS — Released DB Cam Thomas.

Signed DT Corbin Bryant.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR Joshua Bellamy.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Claimed LB Jackson Jeffcoat off waivers from Washington.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed Ss Shiloh Keo and Brandian Ross to one-year contracts. Re-signed RB Ronnie Hillman to a one-year contract.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Re-signed OL Don Barclay. Signed LB Lerentee McCray.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released S Sergio Brown.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Claimed DT Chris Jones off waivers from New England.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Re-signed FB Zach Line.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed PK Josh Brown.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed QB Matt McGloin, OL Matt McCants, CB Neiko Thorpe, DL Denico Autry, DE Shelby Harris, TE Gabe Holmes, S Tevin McDonald, WR Seth Roberts and LB Korey Toomer.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed C Patrick Lewis, TE Cooper Helfet, CB Mohammad Seisay and S Steven Terrell.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed OL Cody Booth.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned LW Nick Ritchie to San Diego (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned D Mason Geertsen from San Antonio (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled D Raphael Diaz from Hartford (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Assigned G Vitek Vanecek from Hershey (AHL) to South Carolina (ECHL).

American Hockey League LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Loaned D Adam Comrie to Reading (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Manchester F Danick Paquette four additional games.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Rescinded a red card issued to Columbus M Michael Parkhurt and applied it to Columbus D Tyson Wahl.

SWIMMING

Catalina Swim Club member perform well at weekend events

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Two swim meets over the weekend saw the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club take home numerous top three finishes.

In Edmonton, the Olympic Swim Club Pentathlon featured two first places finishes and a second over the five events. Each swimmer took part in five different events.

Murray Duncan won first place aggregate in the 12 and under category, Kyla Leibel won first aggregate in the girls aged 13 and 14 and Tanille Collicutt won second in the girls aged 13 and 14.

Top three finishes included: Lauren Bettensen third in the 100 m backstroke; Collicutt third in the 50 m butterfly, third in the 100 m freestyle and third in the 200 m medley; Mikaela Duncan second in the 100 m breaststroke; Murray Duncan third in the 50 m butterfly, first in the 100 m backstroke, first in the 100 m freestyle and second in the 200 m medley; Leibel first in the 50 m butterfly, first in the 100 m backstroke, first in the 100 m freestyle and first in the 200 m medley; Tait Loyek second int he 100 m breaststroke; Kyra McMurray third in the 100 m breaststroke and Justin Valentine third in the 100 m backstroke.

In Calgary, the Dino Cup saw 21 Catalina club members aged 10 and under competing. Madison Wiens qualified for age group trials in June and has the chance to go to the provincial championships.

Top three finishes included: Seven years and under: Finely Waddle first in the 25 m butterfly, 50 m freestyle, 25 m freestyle and 25 m breaststroke, second int he 25 m backstroke and 100 m freestyle and third in the 100 m medley.

Eight-year-olds: Ben Malfair second in the 25 m breaststroke and third in the 25 m backstroke; Elizabeth Morton third in the 25 m breaststroke; Dalton Powell first in the 50 m butterfly, 100 m medley, 100 m backstroke, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m medly, 25 m butterfly, 50 m backstroke and second int he 50 m breaststroke; Priya Thomas first in the 100 m backstroke and second in the 100 m breaststroke, 100 m freestyle, 100 m medley, 200 m freestyle, 25 m freestyle and 200 medley.

Nine-year-olds: Hayden Bettenson first in 50 m breaststroke, second in 25 m breaststroke and 25 m backstroke; Annika Erickson first in 25 m backstroke, 25 m freestyle, 50 m freestyle and second in 100 m freestyle, 25 m butterfly and third in 50 m backstroke; Jeff MacDonald third in 25 m breaststroke; Reef Roos second in 50 m butterfly and third in 25 m breaststroke and Jordyn Waldo first in 25 m breaststroke, 25 m butterfly and second in 25 m freestyle.

10-year-olds: Laina Powell first in 25 m backstroke, second in 50 m backstroke, 25 m breaststroke, 25 m butterfly and third in 25 m freestyle; Kaillen Sumang third in 200 m medley, 25 m freestyle and 25 m breaststroke; Noah Thomas second in 25 m freestyle, 25 m breaststroke and third in 25 m backstroke; Cooper Waddle first in 25 m freestyle, 50 m breaststroke, 25 m breaststroke, 25 m backstroke, 100 m breaststroke, 50 m freestyle, 25 m butterfly and third in 50 m butterfly and Madison Wiens third in 25 m backstroke and 25 m butterfly.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Red Deer to be well represented on North team for Senior Bowl Four Red Deer high schoolers have earned a trip to the annual Senior Bowl, a province-wide all-star football game between the North and the South.

The four, all from Hunting Hills High School, were named to the north roster after a camp was held in Edmonton.

Running back Brande Burzuk, offensive lineman Travis Derksen, defensive lineman Colt Maddock and defensive back Kaden Hall were all named to the team.

The all-star game is scheduled for May 23 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.

Dallas 2, Minnesota 1 Thursday, April 14: Dallas 4, Minnesota 0 Saturday, April 16: Dallas 2, Minnesota 1 Monday, April 18: Minnesota 5, Dallas 3 Wednesday, April 20: Dallas at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22: Minnesota at Dallas, TBA

WHL 2016 Playoffs Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Brandon wins series 4-1)

St. Louis 2, Chicago 1 Wednesday, April 13: St. Louis 1, Chicago 0, OT Friday, April 15: Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 Sunday, April 17: St. Louis 3, Chicago 2 Tuesday, April 19: St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Chicago at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) (Series tied 3-3) Sunday’s result Regina 5 Red Deer 1 Friday’s result Red Deer 5 Regina 1 Tuesday’s game Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Nashville 2, Anaheim 0 Friday, April 15: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 Sunday, April 17: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 Tuesday, April 19: Anaheim at Nashville, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Nashville at Anaheim, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) (Series tied 3-3) Sunday’s result Victoria 3 Kelowna 2 Friday’s result Kelowna 4 Victoria 1 Tuesday’s game Kelowna at Victoria, 5:05 p.m.

San Jose 2, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, April 14: San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3 Saturday, April 16: San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1 Monday, April 18: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) (Seattle wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Seattle 3 Everett 2 NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1 Thursday, April 14: N.Y. Islanders 5, Florida 4 Friday, April 15: Florida 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Sunday, April 17: N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 3, OT Wednesday, April 20: Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 22: N.Y. Islanders at Florida, TBA Tampa Bay 2, Detroit 1 Wednesday, April 13: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 Friday, April 15: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 Sunday, April 17: Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 0 Tuesday, April 19: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Washington 3, Philadelphia 0 Thursday, April 14: Washington 2, Philadelphia 0 Saturday, April 16: Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 Monday, April 18: Washington 6, Philadelphia 1 Wednesday, April 20: Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh 1, N.Y. Rangers 1 Wednesday, April 13: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Saturday, April 16: N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 2 Tuesday, April 19: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Monday’s summaries Wild 5, Stars 3 First Period 1. Dallas, Sharp 1 (Goligoski) :26.

2. Dallas, Sharp 2 (Eakin, Benn) 4:10.

3. Minnesota, Porter 1 (Haula, Brodin) 19:10.

Penalties — Dumba Minn (interference) 5:10 Demers Dal (tripping) 16:30.

Second Period 4. Minnesota, Haula 1 (Pominville, Niederreiter) 6:04.

5. Minnesota, Pominville 1 (Niederreiter, Dumba) 19:13.

Penalties — Benn Dal, Coyle Minn (roughing) 17:27 Pominville Minn (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 6. Minnesota, Koivu 1 (Spurgeon, Coyle) 6:26 (pp).

7. Dallas, Sceviour 1 (Demers, Fiddler) 13:45.

8. Minnesota, Pominville 2 (unassisted) 18:46.

Penalties — Benn Dal (holding) 5:55.

Shots on goal Dallas 6 4 7 — 17 Minnesota 10 8 7 — 25 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 2-1-0). Minnesota: Dubnyk (W, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Dallas: 0-2 Minnesota: 1-2.

Capitals 6, Flyers 1 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Raffl 1 (Manning, Gagner) :57.

2. Washington, Johansson 1 (Carlson, Backstrom) 4:43 (pp).

Penalties — Simmonds Pha (holding) 4:28 Raffl Pha (interference) 11:17 Chimera Wash (roughing) 13:45 Richards Wash (goaltender interference) 19:52.

Second Period 3. Washington, Ovechkin 2 (Backstrom, Oshie) 8:50.

Penalties — Gudas Pha (roughing) 2:48 Winnik Wash (interference) 10:43 Richards Wash, Simmonds Pha (roughing) 11:32 Kuznetsov Wash

(hooking) 18:30 Schenn Pha (slashing) 20:00.

Third Period 4. Washington, Kuznetsov 1 (Williams, Holtby) 1:58 (pp).

5. Washington, Carlson 3 (Ovechkin, Williams) 7:37 (pp).

6. Washington, Ovechkin 3 (Carlson, Oshie) 14:58 (pp).

7. Washington, Beagle 2 (Schmidt, Orlov) 18:20 (pp).

Penalties — Oshie Wash (roughing) 6:04 Streit Pha (cross-checking) 6:04 Gudas Pha (tripping) 6:35 Alzner Wash (interference) 9:42 Bellemare Pha (check from behind major, served by Cousins) 12:17 Bellemare Pha (game misconduct) 12:17 White Pha, Gudas Pha (misconduct) 12:17 Philadelphia bench (delay of game, served by Gagner) 14:58 Read Pha (slashing) 16:21.

Shots on goal Washington 7 7 13 — 27 Philadelphia 11 12 9 — 32 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 3-0-0). Philadelphia: Mason (L, 0-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Washington: 5-9 Philadelphia: 0-5.

2016 IIHF World Men’s Under-18 Championships At Grand Forks, N.D. PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTWOTL L U.S. 3 3 0 0 0 Sweden 3 1 1 0 1 Russia 3 1 1 0 1 Switzerland 3 0 1 1 1 Latvia 4 0 0 2 2

GF GA Pt 26 4 9 13 10 5 11 9 5 7 14 3 8 28 2

Group B GP W OTWOTL L GF GA Pt Canada 3 3 0 0 0 16 4 9 Finland 3 2 1 0 0 12 6 8 Czech Rep. 3 1 0 1 1 13 9 4 Slovakia 3 1 0 0 1 8 11 3 Denmark 4 0 0 0 4 9 28 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Monday’s results Canada 3 Slovakia 1 Czech Republic 9 Denmark 2 Russia 7 Latvia 0 Sweden 8 Switzerland 1 Sunday’s results United States 12 Latvia 1 Finland 4 Denmark 1 Tuesday’s games Sweden vs. Russia, 11 a.m.

Finland vs. Canada, 2:30 p.m.

Slovakia vs. Czech Republic, 5 p.m.

United States vs. Switzerland, 6:30 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET Thursday’s games Quarter-finals Teams TBD, 11 a.m., 2:30, 5 and 6:30 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7)

Saturday, April 23: Miami at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25: Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 27: Charlotte at Miami, TBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 1, Detroit 0 Sunday, April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101 Wednesday, April 20: Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 22: Cleveland at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta 1, Boston 0 Saturday, April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101 Tuesday, April 19: Boston at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 22: Atlanta at Boston, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Atlanta at Boston, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26: Boston at Atlanta, TBA

Indiana 1, Toronto 1 Saturday, April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 Monday, April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87 Thursday, April 21: Toronto at Indiana, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Toronto at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26: Indiana at Toronto, TBA Friday, April 29: Toronto at Indiana, TBA Sunday, May 1: Indiana at Toronto, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 1, Houston 0 Saturday, April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78 Monday, April 18: Houston at Golden State, late Thursday, April 21: Golden State at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Golden State at Houston, 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 27: Houston at Golden State, TBA

Miami 1, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 Wednesday, April 20: Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

San Antonio 1, Memphis 0

Sunday, April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74 Tuesday, April 19: Memphis at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22: San Antonio at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: San Antonio at Memphis, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, April 26: Memphis at San Antonio, TBA Oklahoma City 1, Dallas 1 Saturday, April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70 Monday, April 18: Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84 Thursday, April 21: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Monday, April 25: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers 1, Portland 0 Sunday, April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95 Wednesday, April 20: Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 27: Portland at L.A. Clippers, TBA

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 8 3 .727 Toronto 7 7 .500 Boston 6 6 .500 New York 5 6 .455 Tampa Bay 5 7 .417 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 8 4 .667 Detroit 7 4 .636 Chicago 8 5 .615 Cleveland 5 5 .500 Minnesota 3 9 .250 West Division W L Pct Texas 7 6 .538 Los Angeles 6 7 .462 Oakland 6 7 .462 Seattle 5 7 .417 Houston 5 8 .385

GB — 2 1/2 2 1/2 3 3 1/2 GB — 1/2 1/2 2 5 GB — 1 1 1 1/2 2

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 3 Tampa Bay 3, Chicago White Sox 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 0 Toronto 5, Boston 3 Houston 5, Detroit 4 Minnesota 3, L.A. Angels 2, 12 innings Baltimore at Texas, ppd., rain Oakland 3, Kansas City 2 Monday’s Games Toronto 4, Boston 3 L.A. Angels 7, Chicago White Sox 0 Milwaukee at Minnesota, late Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-3) at Minnesota (E.Santana 0-1), 11:10 a.m.

Seattle (Miley 0-1) at Cleveland (Carrasco 1-0), 4:10 p.m.

Oakland (Surkamp 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda

1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 2-0) at Baltimore (M.Wright 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 0-2) at Boston (Kelly 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Greene 1-0) at Kansas City (Ventura 0-0), 5:15 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 0-1) at Texas (Holland 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-1) at Chicago White Sox (Latos 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Colorado Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego

National League East Division W L Pct 9 3 .750 6 6 .500 6 8 .429 4 7 .364 3 9 .250 Central Division W L Pct 10 3 .769 7 6 .538 7 6 .538 6 7 .462 5 7 .417 West Division W L Pct 8 5 .615 8 5 .615 7 6 .538 5 8 .385 4 9 .308

GB — 3 4 4 1/2 6 GB — 3 3 4 4 1/2 GB — — 1 3 4

Sunday’s Games Atlanta 6, Miami 5, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 0 Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 3 Philadelphia 3, Washington 2, 10 innings St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 3 Colorado 2, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 1 Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 5, Cincinnati 1 Miami 6, Washington 1 Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 0 Milwaukee at Minnesota, late Arizona at San Francisco, late Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-3) at Minnesota (E.Santana 0-1), 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Verrett 0-0) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 2-0), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 1-1) at Cincinnati (Simon 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 1-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 0-2), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 2-0) at Miami (Conley 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hammel 1-0) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-0) at San Diego (Rea 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 0-0) at San Francisco (M.Cain 0-1), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Colorado at Cincinnati, 10:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

CFL vice president expects new video official to lead to more efficient game

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Glen Johnson doesn’t think CFL’s 10 new rule changes will mean more time to grab a beer or take a bathroom break for football fans this season.

The league’s senior vice-president, football is visiting each team’s coaching staff to explain the changes and outline what the officiating priorities are for this year — including reducing the number of penalties by the hundreds.

Johnson’s first stop was in Winnipeg on Wednesday, where he met with Blue Bombers coaches and had a session with media.

He said CFL games ran an average of two hours and 52 minutes last season, down three minutes from 2014 even though penalties and stoppag-

GYMNASTICS A local gymnast is going off to nationals after making the men’s national team at artistic

es were up.

“We put headsets on officials (last season), which helped speed up the game…”

Johnson said. “We found a bunch of other ways, just by being more efficient with communication, to have that time go down.”

One of the new changes he believes will add to that efficiency is having a video official in the command centre, a first in North American pro sports.

The video official will be able to communicate through a wireless set with the referee on the field when there’s a call that’s not instantly clearcut. For example, if officials are huddled up trying to decide who committed a penalty, the video official could quickly look at the video and tell the referee who it was so the game could resume faster.

That could shave six or sev-

en seconds off the indecision, Johnson estimated, which could add up throughout a game. The length of replays decreased 20 per cent last season to an average of one minutes and 31 seconds, he added.

Penalties did go up nine per cent last season over 2014 and Johnson wants to cut that in a big way.

“We’re not trying to take 10 or 15 penalties out, we want to take hundreds out, literally hundreds out of the game,” he said.

“In just the categories of defensive offside and procedure by the offence, we’ve got over 600 penalties in 81 (regular-season) games.”

One penalty that’s being dropped relates to offensive linemen. Now they can move their heads or make a signal when they’re in their threepoint stance and not be dinged for illegal procedure.

provincials in Fort McMurray.

Mitchell Kalan, from the Exelta Gymnastics Club, finished 16th all around including a fourth in rings at the event. He also had a 21st in floor, 11th in pommel horse, 12th in vault, 20th in parallel

bars and 17th in high bar.

Other notable results included: Aryan Appalraju finished 3rd in pommel horse, Keara Slimmon finished first in uneven bars and Sydney Galenza finished second in beam.

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Science of the slapshot UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS PHYSICS HAVE HIDDEN EFFECTS ON NHL SLAPSHOTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS All anyone wants to know from Alain Hache is how they can improve their slapshot.

The physics professor is the author of two books on the science of hockey, how real-world physics affect Canada’s most popular sport all the way up to the NHL playoffs. More often than not, that means telling people how to improve their games.

“There’s a lot of questions about shooting, a lot of questions about sticks,” said Hache from his office at the Universite de Moncton. “A lot of players are faced with the dilemma of going to the store and what kind of stick to pick.

“Do you want a strong flex, a weak flex, a really curved blade, a toe curve, a heel curve, there’s a lot of different aspects. That’s a common question.”

Hache has extensively researched the physics of hockey in his most recent book, aptly named “Slapshot Science,” and devotes an entire chapter to the inner workings of a shot.

Although most hockey players already know that flex quantifies the stiffness in a stick, Hache’s book explains why that happens. He also explains how a stick’s flex number, the amount of pressure it takes to bend the stick one inch over a one metre span, can be raised by cutting a stick shorter.

But what Hache’s readers may learn is that they should choose a stick with as low a flex number as possible for better wrist shots, but to remember that the more a shaft bends, the harder it becomes to be accurate.

Accuracy is another myth that Hache busts in his book.

“We don’t realize this, but shooters aren’t actually that accurate,” said Hache. “Even the best snipers in the NHL. If you look at the skills competition where they have four targets on all four corners of the net, they’re about one foot in diameter and about 12 feet away.

“Many times they need several shots to hit one target. So if (a goalie) has a small opening to the net and the puck goes in, you think ‘OK, that’s a great shot,’ but there’s an element of chance too.”

Hache, who wrote “The Physics of Hockey” in 2002, has become a resource for amateur and pro hockey players alike. The Ottawa Senators even reached out to him after a prank at their annual skills competition backfired.

Then Senators defenceman Jared Cowen’s slapshot hit 110.5 miles per hour in 2014, nearly two miles per hour faster than Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara’s record-setting blast. But unbeknownst to Cowen, his teammates had switched out a standard-issue rubber puck for a foam toy.

“For a while he thought he was the all-time leader,” said Hache. “They were surprised that a foam puck could travel so fast because it was so light it would just flutter in the air, so I explained from a physics point of view why a puck that light could

Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS

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ABOVE & RIGHT; Ryerson Rams player Brian Birkhoff demonstrates a slapshot at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, February 2. All anyone wants to know from Alain Hache is how they can improve their slapshot. The physics professor is the author of two books on the science of hockey, how real-world physics effect Canada’s most popular sport all the way up to the NHL playoffs. travel so fast.”

The key in that case was where the radar gun wass set up.

Cowen’s foam puck would’ve lost at least 10 miless per hour thanks to air drag before it hit the net. Butt e because the radar was trained on a spot early in the puck’s trajectory, the force of his shot was at its max-imum effect before air friction could slow it down. A regular rubber puck would be too heavy for the airr to have any tangible effect.

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No simple cloak-and-dagger affair LAURIE, HIDDLESTON LIGHT UP AMC’S NIGHT MANAGER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The premise of The Night Manager is simple. Or might seem so.

Jonathan Pine, a former soldier now in a different kind of service as night manager of a luxury hotel, is drawn into a risky mission to bring down international arms dealer Richard Roper by posing as a fellow merchant of evil.

But this six-part miniseries (premiering on AMC today at 8 p.m.) is based on the John le Carre spy thriller of the same name, which should strongly suggest this is no simple cloak-and-dagger affair.

Somehow The Night Manager manages to be as menacing and methodical as any film noir, yet at the same time teem with colour, sweep and action cloaked in stillnesss.

Meanwhile, its brilliant co-stars, Hugh Laurie (who plays Roper) and Tom Hiddleston (the intrepid Pine) — well, they speak for themselves. Literally.

The series, Hiddleston explained in a recent interview with them, “deals with the more fascinating aspects of the psyche and identity and to what extent we tell lies to ourselves to justify who we are.”

“I think that sums everything up,” said Laurie, pretending to take his leave. “Our work is done.”

Not quite.

Laurie said he had yearned to appear in a movie version — even attempting to option the novel himself — ever since its 1993 publication.

But the book seemed to resist being shoehorned into a feature-length film.

“There is a pace and a density to the interior lives of the characters that makes it hard to do justice to (in a movie),” said Laurie. “Le Carre is writing thoughts rather than deeds. Everything is oblique and concealed, and it’s the painstaking discovery that’s the fascination of it.”

Originally, Laurie saw himself as

Pine, but when the chance arose to play Roper, “I fell to my knees in an indecent display of pleading.”

Who indeed could resist playing anyone so charismatic yet so wicked that he is described as “the worst man in the world”?

“That’s quite a complicated metric to establish,” Laurie acknowledged with a laugh, “but clearly he qualifies for the semifinals. He does it with charm and skill and daring, and he’s fun to be around, the way one imagines the devil would be. If he was just a tattooed thug with ‘Devil’ on his forehead, we’d all give him a wide berth. Richard Roper is NOT like that.”

In effect, Laurie spent two decades preparing for the role.

“From the moment I read the book, I felt like I could picture and hear and almost smell this character.”

And from the moment viewers confront this character, Laurie, 56, guarantees with his performance they will forget his eight TV seasons on House M.D. playing the crusty yet lovable Dr. Gregory House.

As for the 35-year-old Hiddleston, whose past projects have included Thor, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and the role of Hank Williams in the recent I Saw the Light, he described the first Night Manager script as “immaculate.” After reading it, he was in.

Infiltrating Roper’s world, Pine is a model of disarming polish and suave restraint.

“I wanted to do as little as possible,” said Hiddleston, “and trust the audience to join the dots. I worried that I wasn’t doing enough, but there’s something very active about the way Pine is passive. It was a fascinating challenge to try to communicate how deep those still waters run.”

“The tendency that all actors have,” said Laurie, “is to constantly tell the story with every line and every look, and the audience very quickly reacts against it. But Tom is able to BE, to simply be.

“The audience wants to partici-

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tom Hiddleston (left) and Hugh Laurie (right) attend the L.A. premiere of ‘The Night Manager,’ in Los Angeles. The six-part miniseries based on John le Carre’s spy thriller premieres tonight on AMC. pate in the construction of the story.

And often that requires an actor who has the confidence to just be. There probably aren’t more than a half-dozen actors who can accomplish that, and I couldn’t name the others. So let’s just say ‘one’ — and he’s sitting right there.”

“Goodness,” said Hiddleston on hearing this accolade, then, recovering, turning the tables on Laurie: “I’ll tell you one thing I’ve never said before.”

“Bloody hell!” Laurie responded in mock dread.

“Hugh has a rigour about his work,” said Hiddleston, “that’s as far away from ego as you can imagine. Sometimes actors are shy about that kind of active involvement because they don’t want to rock the boat. But if something doesn’t feel right, Hugh is unafraid to

say so, and it’s all in the service of the whole.”

That tribute left Laurie speechless.

But only for a flash. The inevitable James Bond question must be dealt with, and Laurie waggishly went for it.

“I refuse to deny that I’m being considered for Bond,” he replied, deadpan. “I also refuse to deny that I’m being considered for Cleopatra.”

With that, he turned to Hiddleston, who in fact has been buffeted by gossip recently that he might headline the next Bond sequel. “Poor bloke,” said Laurie. “What can he say? There’s no way of answering the question that doesn’t increase this tabloid dialogue.”

“I’m just trying to take it as a compliment,” said Hiddleston, for now very pleased to play a breed of spy even James Bond would applaud.

Out-of-the-ordinary project blends jazz, art for a new work

AMBER HEARD AVOIDS JAIL IN AUSTRALIAN DOG SPAT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Pianist Vijay Iyer has an unlikely backstory for a musician who’s been voted jazz artist of the year in Downbeat magazine’s critics’ poll, received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, and is a professor in Harvard’s music department.

Largely self-taught on piano, he majored in physics and mathematics at Yale. At age 23, while pursuing his doctorate in physics at the University of California at Berkeley, he took the risky decision to become a professional musician to his parents’ bewilderment. He later received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Berkeley focusing on music and embodied cognition, or how the human body perceives music.

“I was a bit of a later bloomer and had a lot of catching up to do,” said the 44-year-old.

Iyer’s untraditional path has led him to another out-of-the-ordinary project: A collaborative suite, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, inspired by the art of late Indian visual artist Nasreen Mohamedi, recently released by ECM Records.

“It was a beautiful thing that we could make a duo project in relation to the work of this incredible artist from India who’s lesser known than she should be in the West,” said Iyer, interviewed in a gallery displaying Mohamedi’s geometric line-based drawings. “Her work is very spare, elegant and mysterious. It has a lot of order and geometry and patterns, and it also has a lot of space.”

After Iyer became the 2015-16 artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curators introduced him to the work of Mohamedi ahead of an exhibition opening The Met Breuer, a centre for the museum’s modern art program in the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum commissioned Iyer to compose the suite with Smith, and the duo recorded the album in October.

The titles of the suite and its seven movements are taken from phrases in Mohamedi’s diaries.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo released by ECM Records, composer-musician Vijay Iyer plays piano at Avatar Studios in New York. Iyer performed with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith after the world premiere of their collaborative suite, ‘A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke,’ at the newly opened The Met Breuer.

Iyer was particularly struck by the precise, delicate drawings Mohamedi made in her later years as she struggled with a debilitating neurological disease that made it difficult to hold her pen.

“There’s this field of energy behind each stroke — the cosmic rhythms,” he said.

Limor Tomer, the Met’s general manager of concerts and lectures, said she chose Iyer as the resident artist not only for his talents as a composer and pianist, but also for his “curiosity” about collaborating with other artists.

Iyer was inspired and encouraged by musicians like Anthony Braxton and Smith, who were involved in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, formed in the mid-’60s in Chicago by musicians who mixed avant-garde jazz, contemporary and world music.

Iyer’s collaboration with Smith underscored Iyer’s belief that “music can help you transcend differences.”

RED DEER RIVER NATURALISTS — FLOWER FOCUS

THINGS HAPPENING TOMORROW

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Red Deer River Naturalists — Flower Focus — meets on Wednesday, 10 a.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Don Wales will be discussing members of Asteracea family.

Contact Don for details at 403-3432937.

Their backgrounds are worlds apart: he is the son of Indian immigrants who grew up in upstate New York, and the 74-year-old trumpeter has roots in the Mississippi Delta.

“Vijay is a sincere, creative artist, a very generous human being who is well-attuned to human feelings and emotions,” said Smith, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his civil rights opus Ten Freedom Summers.

Iyer played in Smith’s Golden Quartet from 2005-2010 — an experience he says “stretched me in a way that I hadn’t really been before.”

They first performed as a duo in January 2015.

For his recent three-week performance residency at the Met Breuer, Iyer premiered Cosmic Rhythm with Smith, but also played with or presented 40 ensembles and soloists. Some of those performances included his trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who have been together since 2004.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO DISCUSS MICHENER CENTRE Central Alberta Historical Society program will be held on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Dr. Robert Lampard will speak on the history of the Michener Centre. Contact Lianne at 403-3471826.

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SYDNEY, Australia — Actor Johnny Depp’s wife Amber Heard pleaded guilty Monday to providing a false immigration document when the couple brought their two dogs into Australia last year, but she managed to avoid jail time over what was dubbed the “war on terrier” debacle.

Prosecutors dropped more serious charges that Heard illegally imported the Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country while Depp was filming the fifth movie in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. A conviction on the two illegal importation counts could have sent the actress to prison for up to 10 years.

Depp and Heard said little to the waiting throng of reporters and fans outside the Southport Magistrates Court on Queensland state’s Gold Coast, but they did submit a videotaped apology to the court that was played during Monday’s hearing.

It drew gibes online for the couple’s grim, wooden appearance as Heard apologized and they both expressed support for protecting Australia’s biodiversity, the aim of the strict quarantine regulations that were violated.

“When you disrespect Australian law,” Depp says in the video, “they will tell you firmly.”

The drama over the dogs began last May, when Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce accused Depp of smuggling the tiny terriers aboard his private jet when he returned to Australia to resume filming the “Pirates” movie.

Bringing pets into Australia involves applying for a permit and quarantine on arrival of at least 10 days to prevent the spread of diseases such as rabies.

“If we start letting movie stars — even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice — to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said. “It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.”

SYLVAN LAKE COMMUNITY SUPPER Head to Sylvan Lake’s Memorial Presbyterian Church on Wednesday for their community supper, made fresh by a strong contingent of volunteers. Come for the food and fellowship, quiet entertainment will be provided. Children are welcome.

For more information contact Anna Olive at 403-358-6558.

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

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A big moment for personal growth GIRLS SEASON FINALE BETHONIE BUTLER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ star Doris Roberts dies at 90

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Doris Roberts, who played the tart-tongued, endlessly meddling mother on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” has died, a family spokeswoman said. She was 90.

Roberts died overnight in her sleep, spokeswoman Janet Daily said Monday. Daily was told of the death by Roberts’ son, Michael Cannata.

UNDER THE BIG TOP

In the first part of the finale, a scene between Hannah’s roommate/ BFF Elijah and Dill Harcourt, the famous news anchor he had been casually dating, seemed to hint at some of the criticism of Girls and its main characters. When Elijah told Dill he wanted to be exclusive, Dill admitted that he was looking for “someone special,” but that he hadn’t found him yet. “Someone less aimless,” Dill told a heartbroken Elijah.

Despite the sheer wackiness of Hannah hitching a ride from a stranger named Hector (Scandal’s Guillermo Diaz, in a fun nod to Dunham’s appearance on the ABC show), the conversation they had on the drive back to the city ended up being a precursor to the changes Hannah made in the finale.

Hannah also found inspiration from an unlikely source: her college frenemy Tally (Jenny Slate), who she ran into after quitting her job. In an exchange made more candid by the presence of marijuana, Tally -- a published author who Hannah sees as successful -- confessed that she wasn’t as happy as one might expect her to be.

“Look at you. You’ve had all these, like, boyfriends and jobs and moments and you’ve lived all this truth,” Tally told Hannah after divulging that she Googles herself every day to see what other people might be saying about her. After months of not writing, Hannah committed herself to telling her story at The Moth. “So, you’re writing again?” her father asked upon finding out about Hannah’s plans. “I don’t know, but I have something say,” she said.

Season 5 of Girls included several high points, the most memorable of which saw Marnie unexpectedly reuniting with her ex-boyfriend Charlie (Christopher Abbott), who had changed dramatically since we last saw him in the show’s second season.

The result was a particularly strong The cause of death was not immediately known. Roberts had been healthy and active, Daily said.

In the last two weeks, the actress had attended a discussion on Hollywood and gender held by the SAG-AFTRA actors’ guild.

Roberts won four Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Marie Barone on CBS’ “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and received a total of seven nods as best supporting actress for the show.

“We loved our mom, the great .DorisRoberts. A wonderful, funny, indelible actress and friend,” Phil Rosenthal, the show’s producer, posted on his Twitter account.

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That decision will no doubt be explored in the show’s final season. Despite vowing to stay alone for a while, Marnie realized that she wanted to be with Ray, the most sensible, if grumpy, member of Hannah’s inner-circle. Marnie also decided to take Ray along, as she and Desi took their increasingly popular musical act on the road.

Ray left Brooklyn knowing that the coffee shop he manages was in good hands, thanks to Shoshanna’s brand marketing genius. The once-naive Shosh helped the struggling establishment become an anti-hipster destination (“earnest beards only,” read one posted sign).

Jessa, known for her breezy air of nonchalance, exploded at Adam for

causing friction between her and Hannah. “I’ll never forgive you,” she told him as the argument, which had been brewing for days, devolved into the pair throwing anything they could find across Adam’s apartment in a violent fit of dysfunction.

The Adam-Jessa pairing is a divisive storyline, for sure, but it was left unresolved, and thus open for development in the show’s final episodes.

(Also left unresolved -- and largely unexplored in the finale -- was Adam sister Caroline’s strongly implied postpartum depression.)

Ultimately though, it’s Hannah who has the most territory to explore in the show’s final season. Season 5 ended with her taking an exhilarated lap across the Brooklyn Bridge, but there was nothing aimless about it.

Bethonie Butler writes about television for The Washington Post.

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That’s about what we’d expect from a character that’s come to epitomize the self-entitled millennial. But as the finale progressed, we actually saw Hannah Horvath grow up a little bit.

“We were always conscious, especially because the show has been at times such a lightning rod, of overstaying our welcome,” Girls creator Lena Dunham said at this year’s Sundance Film Festival of deciding to end the show after the sixth season. Certainly, the argument could be made that the show could have, or even should have, ended already.

On the other hand, the fifth season of Girls has garnered its fair share of critical acclaim, with some calling it the show’s best season yet. Perhaps that’s because this season took the main characters in a decidedly realistic direction (as in, different directions). Marnie got married to her musical partner, Desi. Shoshanna moved to Japan. Jessa took a serious approach to her sobriety.

Over the course of the season, Marnie’s marriage predictably imploded.

Shoshanna returned from Japan with pastel pink hair and had an existential crisis on a moving airport walkway (Why am I here?!). Jessa’s dedication to staying sober brought her closer to Adam, putting a strain on her longtime friendship with Hannah, whose on-off relationship with Adam has been the source of Girls storylines for the better part of the show’s five seasons.

In the season finale, Hannah shared the sadness she felt upon finding out about Adam and Jessa’s relationship in a refreshingly honest turn at the famed open-mic storytelling competition known as The Moth. “I can only control the mayhem I create around me,” she told the crowd after revealing that she’d sent the couple a fruit basket and a note that “sincerely” wished them good luck.

Prior to Sunday’s finale, Hannah seemed to be resigned to more of the same shenanigans. A recent episode featured her exposing herself to her boss, and later hitchhiking her way back to the city from upstate New York after a series of misguided decisions.

For much of the season, Hannah had been dating a “nice guy” named Fran, whose frustration with Hannah as a person was perpetually apparent. The relationship ended shortly after they had embarked on a road trip together -- Hannah locked herself in a rest stop bathroom and texted Fran that she didn’t want to take that journey after all.

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HENRY (nee Petit) Simone Doreen Apr. 14, 1932 - Apr. 12, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Simone on April 12, 2016 at the age of 83 in Red Deer, AB. Simone was born in Drumheller, Alberta and raised there by her grandparents Louis and Leontine Petit.

Upon receiving her qualifications for Mental Deficiency Nursing from Alberta Hospital in 1969 she began a successful lifelong career in the Health Care field in both Alberta and British Columbia. Simone was an avid doll doctor and collector who boasted hundreds of dolls in her home at one time. She loved gardening and had a special way with decorating that made every home she lived in beautiful, for which she received many compliments.

After her retirement she adopted and pampered her beloved miniature dachshund “Charlie” who is the luckiest dog in the world and who will miss his companion. Simone will be remembered by numerous family members and friends including; Renee, Lenora, Donna, Roy, Gino; her sister Virginia and grandchildren Cory and Nadine. Also left to mourn are Simone’s numerous and dear grandchildren and great grandchildren. Simone was predeceased by her daughter Tracey Lynn Brady; son Wayne Brady, Randall Brady; sisters, Joyce and Margaret; grandsons Robbie Lambert and Riley Flett. in lieu of a memorial service donations can be made in Simone’s honour to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave. Red Deer AB, T4R 3S6 or reddeerhospice.com.

The kindness and dignity she received in their care will never be forgotten.

In Loving Memory Of ACKERMAN Troy David 1972 - 2016 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our son, brother, uncle, and nephew. On the evening of April 8, 2016, Troy passed away suddenly in Mission, BC at the age of 44. Troy was born at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta on January 7, 1972 at 11:40 a.m. Troy was the second child, making him the little brother to Jayne and becoming the older bother to Lee, Dustin and Wade. Troy enjoyed working out, listening to music, and playing sports, especially hockey, which he excelled in. Troy later found his true passion for art, from writing his own poetry and sketching his own drawings.

He always had a soft spot in his heart for animals and children, but his friends and family meant the most to him.

Troy was one of a kind and will be loved and missed greatly. Troy was predeceased by his grandparents Morley and Olive Ackerman, Herb and Philma Bray and Raymond and Delores McMullen, stepmother Laurel Ackerman and his Aunt Patty Kanteluk. Troy is survived by his father David Ackerman, mother Susanne (Jim) Mackinnon, sister Jayne Ackerman, brothers Lee (Jenna) Ackerman, Dustin (Tammy) Ackerman, Wade (Lisa) Ackerman, nephews Rylee, Justin, Aceson, Talon, Roan and River, nieces Amie, Montana, Alexa and Raya, along with many uncles, aunts, cousins and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Dreamcatcher Association, 1-780-809-1047, 53044 RR 213, Ardrossan, AB T8G 2C4 Attn: Jess Bradley, In honor of Troy. Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 2 p.m. at the Fallen Timber Hall.

MCLANE Eileen Eileen McLane of Rocky Mountain House passed away on Thursday, March 3, 2016. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, April 22, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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PHILLPOT Norman George Dec. 12, 1938 - Apr. 09, 2016 Norm skipped into the next dimension peacefully and unexpectedly at home. He leaves his wife and partner, Beulah, daughters Aimee (John Hawkins) and Darha (Rob Lok), five cherished grandchildren (Lucas, Kate, Jill, and Annika Hawkins and Marley Lok), a large extended family and many friends.

Norm was a devoted and beloved husband, father, grandfather and gathered many friends both where he lived and where he traveled: around the world; on all seven continents; from Canada’s arctic to Cape Horn; and beyond. Norm’s request for a wake will be held at a later date.

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ROSE Lavina 1930 - 2016 Mrs. Lavina Viola ‘Viney’ Rose of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at the age of 85 years.

Viney was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba and was raised on the family farm near Fleming, Saskatchewan. She met and married Gordon Rose and the couple resided at Manson, Manitoba. Next, they moved to Moosomin, Saskatchewan, where they raised their family. In 1973, they moved out to Alberta, and finally settled at Red Deer in 1976. Viney loved baseball and was an avid ‘Riggers Fan’; and as well she enjoyed curling and camping.

Her favorite Canadian holiday was an annual trip to the Okanagan.

Viney will be lovingly remembered by her children, Ron (Rita) Rose and Richard (Debbie) Rose, all of Red Deer, Brian (Val) Rose and Sherry (Eric) Shire, all of Moosomin, Saskatchewan; ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by her sister, Audrey Mills of Shoal Lake, Manitoba; her sistersin-law, Eileen Asselstine of Edmonton, Alberta, Marion Ferri of Rockport, Texas, Kay Logan of Virden, Manitoba and Maizie Rose of Killarney, Manitoba; and one brotherin-law, Al Leinweber of Stettler, Alberta. Viney was predeceased by her husband, Gordon in 2013 and two brothers, Elwyn and Ken. A Celebration of Viney’s Life will be held at the Springfield Crossing Clubhouse, 11 Jenkins Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Interment will take place at a later date at Manson, Manitoba.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Viney’s honor may be made directly to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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.

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SMITH Steven Frank Oct. 8, 1958 - Apr. 14, 2016 After battling cancer for the past six years, Steve took the hand of the Angel, and passed peacefully with dignity and his loving wife at his side, April 14, 2016 at the Red Deer Hospice Centre. Steve was born October 8, 1958 in Ponoka, AB to Frank and Dorothy Smith. He resided with his family and completed his education in Ponoka until he married his wife Cyndie Hermary, July 11, 1987.

They purchased their first home in the Village of Clive, where they enjoyed raising their four children; Dana of Stettler, Candace (Sandy) of Bentley, Stephanie (Shantel) of Wetaskiwin, and Brandon (Holly) of Clive. In 2008 Steve and Cyndie built their new home in the country North East of Clive. Steve loved the country lifestyle surrounded by wildlife and tranquility of nature. He enjoyed chain sawing and building “extreme” bon fires for family and friends. Steve was very passionate about his Grandchildren; Paul, Izaak, Dredan, Dylen, Sylaz, Cerenity, Lazarus, Saul, and little Emily. He loved to have their help with firewood, tell them stories, and do outside activities. Steve was an ambitious man, always striving for excellence. He was employed in the pipeline industry as a superintendent, foreman, and side boom operator.

Through his employment he created a large network of close friends, sharing his knowledge, skills, stories and his wonderful sense of humor. One of Steve’s most cherished memories was a private fishing trip with his wife, where Steve caught a 120-pound Marlin in Mexico.

He enjoyed long drives in the country listening to his favorite music, riding his tractor, spending time with his wife, children, grandchildren, family and all of the friends that touched his life along the way! Steve will live on through memories of the loved ones he leaves behind. He will be fondly remembered, sadly missed, but not forgotten!

A celebration of Steve’s Life will be held at the Clive Baptist Church, April 22, 2016 at 1:00pm. Refreshments to follow. Memorial donations can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Centre, 99 Arnot Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6, or the Canadian Cancer Society, #101, 6751-52 Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4N 4K8. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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Learn to clarify your expectations MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM

“Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.” – Guy Finley, American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher “Hey Paul,” our genial server exclaimed. “I haven’t seen you in ages!”

Paul shifted uncomfortably in his chair. I had joined friends Paul and Brenda for lunch at a local mall. Paul had suggested we eat in the food court, but Brenda and I wanted a place where we could sit down and relax.

When I suggested the mall’s all day breakfast restaurant, Paul resisted, offering a few excuses that sounded suspicious. After some arm-twisting, Paul relented and we walked inside.

“Paul used to come here two or three times a week,” the server continued. “Always ordered the same thing: bacon and eggs over easy with brown

toast, hash browns, and coffee.”

Both Brenda and I looked at Paul who huffed a couple times and cleared his throat.

“I moved to a different part of the city,” he said. “Wasn’t convenient anymore.”

The server smiled and nodded, took our orders and then disappeared into the back.

“When did you move?” asked Brenda. “You’ve lived in that same apartment for years.”

Under his breath, Paul explained that he had been a regular customer but over time, the staff had started taking him for granted. He didn’t get the same level of service or interaction he had initially.

Sometimes his coffee cup wasn’t refilled and occasionally, the staff would seat him in the back of the restaurant near the kitchen where it was cramped and noisy.

“Maybe they were just busy,” I offered, “and they figured you wouldn’t mind.”

“That’s no excuse,” he snapped, “I was entitled to something a whole lot better!”

Paul did raise an interesting point: repeat customers deserve acknowl-

edgment. Customers have the ability to construct or destruct a business. Even today, word of mouth remains our most powerful form of advertising. I’ve seen businesses take regular customers for granted and then wonder why they eventually departed for greener (more appreciative) pastures.

I couldn’t help but wonder if Paul’s sense of entitlement was justified – if his expectation was realistic. Obviously, Paul had an expectation as to how he, a regular customer, should be treated. Perhaps the restaurant staff also had an expectation of him. Maybe they thought Paul, being a regular customer, would be more patient and accommodating (especially when the restaurant was busy) and therefore require less attention. Both expectations went unfulfilled.

We’ve all felt frustration caused by unfulfilled expectations. We’ve all experienced not living up to someone else’s expectation and we’ve all had people in our lives who failed to live up to ours.

In relationships – both personal and business – frustration often arises from what I call unavowed expectations: essentially, expectations that have never been openly expressed, discussed or

clarified. Neither Paul nor the servers expressed their expectations of each other. Perhaps if Paul had said, “You know, you guys are taking me for granted,” he would have gotten a more desirable response. If nothing else, he would have come away with some clarity.

The truth is, unless we clarify our expectations, we’ll never know if they are realistic, attainable or desirable.

In my experience, the more confident and empowered we feel, the more willing we become to step up and ask those tough questions that demand clarity. Asking takes courage. Stepping up requires stepping through barriers of fear and resistance. The better your self-esteem, the more courageous you’ll feel and the more willing you’ll be to face your fears.

Byron Katie, author of Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change your Life and the transformational belief assessment process called The Work, believes disappointment and frustration are usually the result of stories we create and then believe to be true, and not the actions of others.

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Victimized by a phone scam artist LINDSAY BROWN ME PLUS THREE Dear Scam Artist, I was on the floor sobbing when I passed the phone to my husband. You had just informed me that I was being charged with tax evasion from an incident that occurred in 2012. In retrospect I can see that it was in that exact moment that you fully committed to taking advantage of my dramatic nature.

2012—the year I self-published a poetry book that would never gross

sales of more than one hundred dollars (in which I had already payed taxes on). Yet because of the publication of that dammed book and the grief it has caused me in the past years when filing, as well as all of the legal jargon you were spewing at me and, of course, the mention of jail time I admit to falling victim to your cheat.

There I was crouched over the couch violently gagging at the idea that right now there were police officers coming to my house to serve me with papers and “arrest me on site” as you so casually put it. I suppose I should have clued in that this is obviously not how the world works but I’ve been watching a load of Doctor Who lately (so it didn’t seem THAT out of the ordinary) and when one’s mind gets set

on an idea it can begin to believe some pretty radical things.

I hear Jamie tell you that I will not be going to jail. It just isn’t happening, he says. He starts to raise his voice but then stops. You must have said something that really scares him because now he is telling you we have children and that this is surely just one big mistake.

I wonder if you ever paused to think about us as an actual family. Actual human beings that you could have potentially ruined. We are not just a

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The joys of being Grandma morning coffee.

My granddaughter did not respond.

She simply opened one eye, looked at me in horror like I was an alien from a different planet, closed it again and buried herself deeper under the covers.

Right. Now I remember. Teenagers like to sleep and sleep and sleep some more.

I also learned another thing I had forgotten. Time means nothing to teens.

When my kids were kids, phrases like ‘hurry up, we are going to be late,’ were like a record stuck on the turntable, with the needle playing the same words over and over.

Apparently, that same record is still playing. Still stuck.

I also learned what the three most common words used by teens in the English language are.

I don’t know.

Mom: Where do you want to go eat?

Teen: I don’t know.

Mom: What do you want to do?

Teen: I don’t know.

Mom: What did you guys do?

Teen: I don’t know.

Finally, grandma — that would be me, said, “okay, this is what I want to do.

I want to eat at a restaurant by the water. I want to make use all my senses. I want to watch the water and the boats and the people and marvel at it all. And I want to breathe in deeply and let the smell of the salt water and the fresh spring air assault my nostrils.

I want to taste the ocean.

And I want to taste delicious food prepared by someone else and savour a glass of red.

And after I had said all that, I looked at my daughter and granddaughter who were staring at me somewhat quizzically and added, somewhat apologetically.

“If that’s okay.”

“It’s okay,” they said.

Sometimes being the grandma is so cool!

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. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

number on a long list of conceivable dupes.

Literally minutes before I answered your call my husband and I had just received some very troubling news.

Something that will affect our future with palpable impact. However you couldn’t care less about that. In fact I’m sure it made your game that much easier as we both were not in the right head space to realize that we were being had.

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At wits’ end with neighbour’s dogs KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I am struggling with my neighbors. They have not one, but two barking dogs, which is double the noise.

They confine the dogs to their backyard, which happens to be adjacent to ours. The barking drones on for hours, sometimes days, from very early morning until long after sunset. Our master bedroom, as well as our kitchen and family room, face the neighbors’ backyard, thus rendering half of our living space useless due to excessive noise.

That’s with the windows closed.

It’s even worse when we’re outside.

These dogs bark at any movement or noise, which means every time I do

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Tuesday, April 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Paula Abdul, 53; Ashley Judd, 48; Kate Hudson, 37 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Despite the dramas or delays, keep calm and carry on!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Powerful and skillful, others depend on you to get the job done.

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yard work, they are sounding off. They even bark when I shovel the walk in the winter. It is making me miserable.

I, too, have a dog, but he doesn’t bark all day long. I have tried several things hoping to resolve this issue without involving the authorities. I would like to live in quiet harmony with my neighbors. — Reached My Limit Dear Reached: We don’t know what you’ve already tried, but we assume it includes talking to the neighbors about the barking, asking them to bring the dogs inside for enough of the day that you can catch a break, and suggesting they look into dog training classes.

If those things have not helped, phone the humane society and ask them to check out the situation. It seems abusive to let dogs bark for days at a time, and be left outdoors, rain or shine, summer and winter. Do you have a neighborhood or homeowners

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Dear Annie: I read the letters from “Heartbroken in California,” and “Frustrated in Oregon,” who both complained about stepdaughters who were terribly rude and insulting to them, while behaving like little angels when their fathers were around. In each situation, Dad would not stop the rude behavior, because he claimed he didn’t see it.

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It might be best for a third party to mention this to her, so as not to have tension between the husband and wife. But I think it could get the point across. — Paducah, Kentucky Dear Paducah: You make a good point, but logic and reason often don’t enter into these emotional and manipulative choices. Though it’s certainly worth a try.

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cessful the outcome will be. But it won’t happen overnight.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Money dramas are looming — especially if your finances are linked up with someone else’s. Put away extra dollars to cover unexpected expenses over the next few weeks. Smart Bulls will be prepared.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect to feel pulled in many opposing directions today Crabs, as multiple responsibilities — and people - compete for your attention. If you pace yourself, then you’ll feel less stressed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you are over-excited, over-inflated or over-opinionated, then others will bring you back down to

earth with a thud today. Avoid being a lone Lion. The more consultative you are, the better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Clear and concise communication is the secret to a successful day. When it comes to feuding friends or family members, strive to be fair and balanced. There are always at least two sides to every story.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lackadaisical Librans can be a lazy lot and the more you procrastinate today, the more miserable you’ll feel. There are plenty of tasks to be done, so jump off the fence and just get on with it!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): With Mars and Pluto both retrograde, expect motivation and energy levels to be low. So it’s not a good time to initiate bold new ideas. Instead, make a long-term plan and work out a solid strategy.

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sense of humour. Don’t overdo it though — plus steer clear of taboo topics and sensitive subjects.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more you slip into Capricorn control-freak mode, the more problems you’ll have with others, at home and at work. The day will work best if you find creative solutions to current problems.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to your involvement with a group, club or organization, you may feel as if you are going backwards. If you are patient, then things will gradually improve but it will take time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time for friendly Fish to find fresh ways to connect with those around you, whether at home or within your local community. Expect some frustrations at school, college or work though.

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can do to make things right.

How could this be happening?

I thought. Over a stupid little poetry book that maybe ten people read. You are claiming that I owe 4000 dollars in back-taxes. Could the book have been making money and the independent publisher just wasn’t telling me?

Fraud? Maybe this was an inside job (whatever the hell that means). The possibilities of cons were endless.

By this point my mind is spinning.

You are still bantering with Jamie who seems to be back and forth on whether this is actually happening or not.

I then realize that you haven’t even asked me for my SIN number. Doesn’t the CRA need that to divulge any information about your account?

I grab the phone from my husband and start screaming at you. You tell me that I will go to jail if I continue to speak to you like this.

By this point I am so infuriated that I don’t even care. Take me to jail if you must. I will spend my five years in the pen plotting against you dear phone agent.

Finally Jamie comes to his senses when you ask for my cell phone number. “Well if you are the CRA shouldn’t that information be on her account?”

He says. Then we tell you that we are going down to our local government office to set this straight. You say that we have one hour before you send the police to our door. I’ve got to say, great job for committing to the bitter end.

So what I’d like to say to you, my scam artist, is thank you. Thank you for causing me to dry heave stringy saliva all over my living room carpet. Thank you for pushing me to the point of screaming bloody murder at you while my daughter sat in the next room listening. Thank you for increasing that already cynical outlook I have on this world-weary planet. And thank you for making my day just that much crappier than it already was.

I do hope that this letter finds you one day and reminds you that the targets you victimize are people with worries and ordeals who are merely trying to move on with the daily grind, just like you. Except not at all like you, we have chosen legitimate ways to make a living. It’s probably time to rethink your life choices man.

Looking forward to never hearing from you again.

Ruthlessly, Lindsay Brown Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

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FUHRER: Disappointment These stories usually begin with phrases such as “You should,” “You shouldn’t,” “I need,” “I want,” “You always,” “I can’t be happy until,” or “I will be happy when.” Our stories delude us into believing that what we’re thinking and expecting is obvious to everyone.

Think about the last time you were disappointed or irritated by a co-worker, friend or partner who failed to deliver the “goods” in a way you expected or required. Did you express your expectations in clear and certain terms and did you receive confirmation that the message was received and understood? People aren’t mind readers, although our actions suggest we believe otherwise. If you’re in the habit of creating unavowed expectations, you’re probably in the habit of making false assumptions about why others respond to you the way they do.

Though you may not want admit it and might not even realize it consciously, you may prefer ambiguity, and for no other reason than the belief that a lack of clarity allows you to assume a lack of responsibility. Think about it. If you stay vague, you cannot be pinned down or held ac-countable and thus avoid a painful confrontation that may result from an open airing of views.

Clarifying expectations is an ongoing process. Expectations need to be addressed and read-dressed on an ongoing basis to ensure clarity and avoid hurt feelings, anger or frustration. It’s important to get clear about what GREAT you want, need or expect instead of keeping it a secret.

“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations,” wrote German born psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Fritz Perls. “Nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”

The meal was good – for an all-daybreakfast restaurant – and when our server returned, he told us that Paul’s meal was on the house. A token of appreciation for a long-time customer.

Paul’s face turned red. Brenda giggled.

I thanked the server and Paul left a sizable tip.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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