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ADVOCATE REPORTER CRYSTAL RHYNO EXAMINES CENTRAL ALBERTA’S NEWLY FORMED PRIORITY CRIMES TASK FORCE, WHICH IS GAINING STEAM AS IT DISRUPTS MEDIUM AND MAJOR OPERATIONS IN THE REGION

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Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Eric McKenzie presents evidence during a press conference at the Red Deer RCMP detachment. Three men face drug related charges as a result of the Priority Crimes Task Force action where 55 ounces of cocaine and 9 ounces of methamphetamine, a stolen hand gun and cash were seized.

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The last time an Alberta team host-

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ed the Memorial Cup was in 1965, before the WHL even existed. But this year, it returns to the Wildrose province as Red Deer hosts the best major junior teams in North America.

It’s one of the most difficult trophies in sport to win. Each of the major junior leagues send their champions, the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. The host team, Red Deer Rebels this year, also participates in the tournament — if they win the WHL title, then the league’s

runner up will be sent as well.

After a four-round playoff, the best teams have to compete again in a 10day tournament, May 19-29. It truly is a best-of-the-best competition.

A round-robin tournament sees the top team take on the winner of a playoff between the second and third placed team in the final.

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PRIORITY CRIMES TASK FORCE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Last April 100 police officers descended on a 130-acre rural property near Markerville.

After combing the property for 11 hours, officers seized more than 150 items including drugs, drug paraphernalia, stolen vehicles, firearms, several rail torpedoes and weapons.

It was one of the largest Central Alberta police operations in recent memory and the largest effort by the newly formed Priority Crimes Task Force, which includes Mounties from Blackfalds, Innisfail, Red Deer and Sylvan Lake and support from Lacombe Police Services. RCMP from Rocky Mountain House have since joined.

The task force was designed to crack down on criminals who do business throughout Central Alberta.

Curbing crime in Central Alberta and opening up the communication lines among the six detachments and within units is the main objective, said Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Eric McKenzie.

Sure, information was shared in the past but it was on a very sporadic or as-needed basis.

Now there is a continual flow of information and exchange of resources with regular meetings and phone calls.

But one thing is certain — criminals know no boundaries when it comes to committing crimes.

The police, on the other hand, have very defined working areas.

Sylvan Lake Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes said the obvious truth is crime crosses borders.

“Criminals in Red Deer do not stay in Red Deer,” said Rhodes. “Criminals in Sylvan Lake do not stay there either.

They come into other communities in Central Alberta.”

McKenzie said police have to work better to break down those borders and ensure that they are working together to follow those criminals wherever they go.

They have also found that criminal groups from across the province are renting properties in rural areas.

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ABOVE: Sylvan Lake RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes gives an overview of the April 15 drug bust near Markerville. Details on the search warrant and the value of property seized were not released.

BELOW: Patrick Piche and Nathan Waldner of Rite-Way Fencing in Red Deer erect a fence around a home in Penhold at 52 Heartland Cres. under investigation by the RCMP and the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team. detachment in the province with 159 officers.

That’s good news for the surrounding detachments, which can take advantage of the additional manpower and resources.

“One detachment on its own has a hard time dealing with that because of the resources and the time it takes to investigate these crimes,” said Rhodes.

Files and information are shared so if a crime is committed in Sylvan Lake and has the same modus operandi as one in Blackfalds, the police can connect the dots much faster.

Bobby and the Kids is an example of a street gang operating in Penhold and Red Deer but conducting business throughout the region.

Numerous drug, property and weapons charges were laid by police after the task force descended simultaneously on two Red Deer homes and a Penhold address in November. Police seized 55 ounces of cocaine, nine ounces of methamphetamine, marijuana, a stolen pistol, drug paraphernalia, and $30,600 in cash.

“You have the Markerville file,” he said. “It’s tiny and it’s out in the middle of nowhere. But what a great place to have an operation.”

On April 13, the task force raided three homes in Red Deer and broke up another significant drug operation in Timberlands and Garden Heights. Po-

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lice seized more than eight kg of marijuana, 1.3 kg of cocaine, 240 Oxycontin pills, 1.4 kg of magic mushrooms, weapons, cash and other drugs and drugs paraphernalia.

The task force is gaining steam across the jurisdictions as it continues to disrupt medium and major crime operations.

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Terrier may lose eye after dog attack

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF The owner of a tiny dog attacked and seriously injured by another larger dog in a Red Deer park is reminding people that dogs should be on leashes.

Robert Young said Friday that his teacup Yorkshire terrier named Trixie was on her leash when she was being walked by a friend in Barrett Park on Wednesday. A large unleashed dog, that looked like a German shepherd-cross, suddenly came along and grabbed his dog’s head in its mouth, biting and shaking it.

Young said his friend had to smack the large dog so it would release the Yorkie, which weighs only a few pounds. Trixie’s left eye was torn out of the socket. The incident ended quickly.

The people with the larger dog — a man and woman who appeared to be in their 20s — took their dog and walked away while his friend frantically tried to deal with the injured dog.

The incident happened about 3 p.m.

Trixie, eight years old, was rushed to a veterinary trauma centre where she underwent surgery.

“She’s maybe going to lose an eye,” said Young, adding the vet bill was $700. If the surgery doesn’t work, his dog will need another $700 surgery.

“She’s as big as a minute, not like she was even a threat.”

“I think people need to be reminded, not warned, that dogs need to be

‘DOGS NEED TO BE ON A LEASH IN THE CITY, AND THERE ARE DOG PARKS IF YOU WANT TO RUN THEM FREE.’ — ROBERT YOUNG

on a leash in the city and there are dog parks if you want to run them free,” Young said.

“This has been an issue before.

People continuously run their dogs at large in that park. I’m sure it’s a problem everywhere there’s a park, and most dogs, you know, are pretty good, they come when they’re called but this one’s obviously out of control,” Young said. “I’ve been in the park often, seeing dogs running at large but usually with their owners and usually well behaved,” he said.

He’s not okay with dogs being allowed off leash, especially large ones “because you don’t know what they’re going to do, especially when you have little teeny-weeny dogs.”

“I’d like — if nothing else — people in Red Deer to know this and then if somebody has information or has had run-ins with this dog they can phone animal control.”

Alberta Animal Services, which enforces the City of Red Deer’s animal control bylaw, was contacted on the day of the incident and is investigating. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Robert Young holds Trixie, his Yorkshire terrier, in Barrett Park on Friday. Earlier this week, the small dog was attacked in the park by another dog, which was off leash at the time. Trixie’s left eye was torn from the socket during the attack.

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All operating rooms back up and running after flood repairs

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Flooding repairs are complete and Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s nine operating rooms are now open for business.

“All of the ORs are back up and running and online. The five that were closed are now reopened — one last week and four today,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for Alberta Health Services Central Zone, on Friday.

Five out of the nine operating rooms at Red Deer hospital closed March 1 after a mishap caused water to pour down from a construction site on the second floor and into operating rooms below.

All five of the flooded theatres had to be stripped down to the foundation and studs and rebuilt.

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TASK FORCE: Reaching out to other agencies “The RCMP in Alberta, when needed, send resources,” said Rhodes. “For example we had a search warrant on a property in Sylvan Lake last year where there were over 90 RCMP members on site for protection and searching. Very large property. We can get those resources when we need them and that’s how we are being effective.”

McKenzie said this model is gaining

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py to see this milestone reached. We recognize this was a very large inconvenience for the patients who were impacted and we’re just extremely happy to be back and running at normal capacity.”

A total of 309 surgeries were cancelled.

Bales said it’s difficult to say how long it will take for the surgery backlog to be eliminated as it will depend on how many extra hours operating rooms will run. Also patient status can change.

“We’re looking at options right now to see what we can perhaps do to run hours a little bit longer to look at some of the backlog.”

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

Urgent surgeries, like emergencies, obstetrical cases, urgent orthopedics and cancer cases continued to be done at the Red Deer hospital during

re-construction, while elective and other surgeries were deferred.

Some procedures were diverted to hospitals in Olds, Innisfail and Stettler during flood remediation. That’s no longer the case, but the option to do more surgeries at those hospitals may be considered, he said.

Shortly after the flooding occured, one surgery was diverted outside AHS Central Zone.

Operating rooms were damaged at Red Deer hospital when water gushed from construction underway to build two operating rooms for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures.

Bales said nine out of 12 patient rooms that flooded on the second floor are back online and the rest are expected to reopen by the end of April.

General surgery and obstetrical rooms were impacted. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

ty Dance Off 2016 raised $250,000 for Women’s Outreach Julietta’s Place.

Barb Barber, executive director of Women’s Outreach, said the proceeds will pay off the mortgage on Julietta’s Place.

“This relieves some of the financial stress to our agency operations,” she said. “Plus we now have funds to put towards the much-needed building maintenance reserve.”

Barber said the event allowed the organization to share the story of Julietta’s Place and raise awareness for the programs and services provided through the centre.

David Brant with Natalie Brooks

of Chair Tease Dance Studio won the competition and the technical award at the competition on April 16.

Other dancers were Ken King and Jena Smith; Tammy Schlamp and Dale Tosczak; Pat Higgins and Jody Liptak; Bonnee Gregg and Jo Jo Belmonte; Charlotte Rockwell and Brett Speight; Hermes Salas and Jinelle Themig; and Dusty Daines and Bryan Senn.

Julietta’s Place is a housing option for families fleeing domestic violence.

It provides 10 affordable secure suites, while occupants participate in intensive programming to learn how to live life free from violence.

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A former Mountie turned city councillor wants more boots on the street in downtown Red Deer.

Coun. Buck Buchanan is asking the city to create a beat patrol of uniform officers and possibly auxiliary officers to have a regular and consistent foot patrols in the downtown core.

Buchanan said the city spends all this money on infrastructure to make the downtown vibrant but it still grapples with the perception of a unsafe and crime-ridden downtown.

“What we hear all the time is that the downtown is a deep dark place and it’s scary, scary,” said Buchanan, who was a Mountie for 29 years. “I think what I am really hoping for is some real focus and scheduling on the downtown because of all the perception issues.”

Amanda Gould, executive director of the Red Deer Downtown Business Association, said this is what the city’s downtown needs.

“It has a lot to do with presence and perception,” said Gould. “Just having the presence will be a great deterrent.

We all see criminal activity going on. I would be naive to say it isn’t happening in the downtown. The downtown is meant to be the heart of the city. We’re promoting that more and more.”

Gould said there are great things happening downtown but she hears that people didn’t feel safe there.

“We need to address that and the best way to address that, I believe, is having some sort of presence whether it is in a beat patrol or some other capacity, I don’t know entirely what the answer is,” said Gould. “I firmly believe if we have some presence downtown it will go along way to deterring the crime and changing the perception. Our people just want to feel safe.”

Council will discuss Buchanan’s motion on Monday. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

attention across the province and is being mirrored in other jurisdictions.

He said the police do not have all the answers but they are trying new techniques and strategies to combat crimes.

Property crimes are increasing and it is often linked to drug use and population growth.

As communities get larger, people believe they are less known and can disappear in the crowd.

“So it’s easier for them to commit crimes and avoid detection,” said McKenzie. “In this town where I worked and there’s 80 people if someone committed a crime, everybody in town knew who did it and I would hear about it within minutes. Here you have 300,000 in the region, it is quite easy to slip through the cracks and avoid the detection.”

But it may be harder for the crimi-

nals to hide with the co-ordinated police efforts.

The task force recently reached out to other agencies that they have not traditionally worked with in the past such as Canada Post and the Insurance Bureau of Canada. It is also working with RCMP’s ALERT, SCAN and the Edmonton and Calgary Police Services. It is also working with the K Division’s prolific offender program.

The public also has a role to play too, said McKenzie. Residents are the eyes and ears of neighbourhoods.

“Members are out there doing the best job they can,” said McKenzie.

“We want to catch criminals. We want to solve crime. We want the public to know we’re doing the best we can within the confines of the law. We have certain restrictions that we have to follow.

Some people do not understand that.

That limits what we can and cannot do.

We have to work within that otherwise we are doing unlawful investigations and it does no one any good.”

Taking matters into your own hands, however, is not advised, said McKenzie.

One only has to look at the death of Dawson “DJ” Wegner Cramer, who died after apparently trying to stop thieves from stealing his truck in March.

McKenzie said the best thing to do is to stand back and call the police.

To report a crime call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8277 or visit www.centralalbertacrimestoppers.ca. Contact the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre at www.cacpc.ca for tips on preventing crime from happening in your neighbourhood. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Synthetic opioid ‘very scary’

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF W-18 is Alberta’s newest threat on the streets.

The drug is a synthetic opioid 100 times more toxic than fentanyl.

Last year the province battled fentanyl, which is about 100 times stronger than morphine, heroin, or oxycodone, with 272 deaths reported, including 15 in Red Deer.

Any street drug has the potential to be laced with fentanyl or W-18 so drug users never know what they are taking or the potency.

Dr. Mark Yarema, medical director of the poison and drug information service for Alberta Health Services, said so far no deaths have been attributed to W-18 in the province and it’s difficult to know if any non-fatal overdoses were caused by the drug.

He said labs in Calgary and Edmonton currently can’t detect W-18 in blood or bodily fluids because the concentration for toxicity would be so small that it won’t necessarily be detected.

He said potency does not provide an answer either because pills with fentanyl can also be so strong. Emergency departments give people 100 micro grams of fentanyl to treat acute pain and some street drugs have been found to have 60 times more than that.

“There’s definitely going to be some challenges with truly being able to give numbers on how many people are affected by W-18. All I can accurately say at this point is that there was a seizure of four kilograms of powder believed to be W-18 in Edmonton and that’s really all that we know at this time,” Yarema said from Calgary on Friday.

Earlier in the week, Edmonton Police Service reported the W-18 was seized in December.

Yarema said AHS was first alerted to watch out for W-18 in mid-January by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

“Definitely, W-18 is very scary. But again I’ve been in the job now for seven years so I’ve seen the PMMA fatalities, fentanyl, bath salts, and quite honestly every drug is scary because it does different things and all of these can result in sad outcomes. Either people die or they’re left with permanent deficits especially from a perspective of their brain. They may be left psychotic or with mood disorders. So quite honestly they’re all scary.”

Even drugs prescribed by a doctor can be unsafe when misused or abused, Yarema said.

He said W-18 is a chemical the medical community doesn’t know a lot about. It has no clinical use. Its scientific use has been limited to research purposes.

But the medication naloxone is probably going to temporarily reverse overdose symptoms as it does for fentanyl and other opioid poisonings, although more naloxone will to be needed.

Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, Turning Point executive director, said drug users who get take-home naloxone kits from Turning Point are making sure they have their kit with them.

Naloxone, which is injected intramuscularly, keeps people breathing until paramedics arrive. It’s

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Fentanyl pills are shown in an undated police handout photo. Police and Alberta health officials are raising the alarm about a dangerous drug called W-18 that is much more toxic than fentanyl, another opioid that has been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada. possible for a person to lapse into an overdose again once naloxone wears off so medical attention is required.

“People are certainly trying to be cautious. We recommend that people do a tester dose, a small dose, because you can always add but you can never take away. That small dose of a pill is one-eighth of a pill. It used to be one-quarter,” Vanderschaeghe said.

She also warned people not to use drugs alone.

Last year Turning Point, formerly known as Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, was one of eight agencies across Alberta giving out take-home naloxone kits as part of the province’s response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Since July 7, Turning Point has distributed 351 naloxone kits and 84 lives have been saved. That includes 10 kits and two saves this week.

Recently some pharmacies, walk-in clinics and hospitals around Central Alberta have also started providing naloxone kits.

She said at the end of January, drug users were reporting a drug stronger than fentanyl was causing heroin users to overdose and required more naloxone. It’s not known if it was W-18, but the amount of naloxone needed is a good indicator.

“It’s the best data available since science isn’t there yet.”

Vanderschaeghe encouraged people to contact Turning Point by phone, text, or on Facebook if they notice something weird with street drugs.

“We are the people who warn other people who use drugs about what’s going on and what we’re seeing,” Vanderschaeghe said.

Red Deer RCMP Const. Derek Turner said there have been no reports of W-18 in the city, but if people come across anything, they should tell police.

“It certainly is a big concern that drug dealers are pushing stuff like this,” Turner said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer RCMP are looking the man who stole $5,000 worth of tobacco products from the East Hill FasGas on April 16.

Police say the suspect paid for his gas went into the store and took the contents of a box of tobacco products that had just been delivered.

The suspect left in a gold Dodge Caravan with noticeable hail damage on the hood. It is believed

there were two people in the van.

Anyone with information about this crime is urged to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

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Duffy judgment shines light on Harper’s PMO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — There were no apologies from Conservatives on Friday following a scathing court judgment that exonerated Sen. Mike Duffy of 31 expense-related criminal charges while indicting his former political masters in the Prime Minister’s Office of Stephen Harper.

Only Conservative MP Candice Bergen was willing to speak with reporters, offering up a stout defence of Harper’s leadership while avoiding the specifics of the Duffy verdict.

Judge Charles Vaillancourt, in acquitting Duffy of all charges a day earlier, painted an exacting portrait of Harper’s underlings manipulating the Senate using a covert command-and-control system that the veteran judge flatly deemed “unaccept-

Local BRIEFS RCMP nab 34 speeders in two hours at Taylor and 67th Red Deer RCMP clocked 34 speeders in just two hours at one location this week.

On April 20, the Red Deer Traffic Unit set up with hand-held lasers at locations on Taylor Drive and on 67 Street to measure the speeds of westbound traffic.

RCMP spent an hour at each location and ticketed a total of 34 drivers going at excessive speeds, including one man who was caught driving 95 km/hr in a 70 zone.

Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Al Nickolson said speed limits exist for public safety reasons. He said RCMP traffic campaigns actively target those drivers who place the community in jeopardy by driving at excessive speeds. “The faster you’re driving, the more difficult it is to navigate around sudden obstacles and the longer it takes you to stop,� he said. “That makes you that much more likely to cause serious injury or death to yourself or to those around you.�

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Tight, centralized control from the Prime Minister’s Office isn’t a new story in Canada’s parliamentary system, but the Duffy trial testimony and judgment gave rare insight into what Vaillancourt described as a “mind-boggling and shocking� case study.

Donald Savoie, a political scientist who literally wrote the book on “court government,� said that his 1999 academic treatise Governing From the Centre was considered over the top. “Clearly I didn’t overstate the case,�

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From his vantage point, Savoie said Vaillancourt absolved Duffy and found the PMO guilty. “They over-played their cards,� said the acclaimed student of governments and bureaucracies. “It demonstrated tremendous disrespect for the institutions of the land, for parliament, the RCMP complaint line at 403-3435575.

RCMP need three pieces of information in order to follow up with traffic complaints including a licence plate of the vehicle. Partial plates can be useful when combined with a description of the vehicle and driver and a written statement from the witness and willingness to attend court if necessary.

Ponoka RCMP hunting for home invasion suspect Ponoka RCMP are looking for a suspect in an attempted home invasion on April 18.

Police say a man knocked loudly on the front door at 51st Street before shoving the sole occupant back into the residence when he answered the door. A fight ensued and the suspect fled the residence.

The suspect is described as a man, tall, bigger frame with short blonde hair. He has a thorn tattoo and a Nova Scotia/Halifax tattoo on his left hand and arm. He was driving a white Nissan Altima with the Nissan symbol missing from the back of the vehicle.

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for the Senate, for the House of Commons.� “I think the lesson learned for the current PMO is, look, guys and gals, you can’t push your weight around like that anymore. It doesn’t work. The level of transparency now (means) we will know.�

Harper, still the MP for Calgary-Heritage, did not respond to a request for comment through his office.

Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose was not in the House of Commons and top former cabinet ministers who were on hand, such as Jason Kenney and Peter Van Loan, exited by back doors rather than face reporters seeking reaction to the ruling.

Former cabinet member Michelle Rempel, usually a garrulous and open MP, offered a terse “no comment� as she sped past the microphones.

Only Bergen, the Conservative MP

for Portage-Lisgar and former minister of state for social development, was prepared to face the news cameras and defend her old government. “I would respectfully disagree with people, including the judge, who somehow thinks that we were all told what to do at the PMO,� said Bergen.

She said the Conservatives worked as a team, while acknowledging Harper’s image problem as a control freak, contrasting him to current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “It was the narrative because Mr. Harper wasn’t the selfie king at all. He wasn’t in GQ (magazine),� said Bergen. “He wasn’t talking with all of you (news media) folks as much as you probably would have wanted. The narrative then was he’s controlling, he’s a dictator. That was the narrative. It wasn’t true. He was a strong, strong leader.�

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Record low rates also offer existing homeowners the opportunity to refinance their mortgages in order to reduce their monthly payments. “We are hitting record low interest rates.

These are as low as we have ever seen them.

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By Gordon Hamilton Record low interest rates are contributing to robust home sales in some parts of Alberta despite an overall economy that has been hit by the downturn in oil prices, says mortgage broker Collin Bruce.

Oil’s troubles are attracting most of the economic attention, but Bruce, of Dominion Lending Centres, says in places such as Edmonton, house prices have remained stable and homes in the under-$400,000 price range are generating multiple offers. “There are pockets where you can get good deals,� Bruce says of Alberta’s real estate market.

Even in hard-hit cities like Calgary and Red Deer, low interest rates are on the side of homebuyers. Oil prices will rebound and along with them, the economy, making the downturn a home-buying opportunity.

There were fears in Alberta of a 20 to 30 per cent drop in house prices in the wake of lower oil prices says Bruce. However, in Edmonton, house prices have actually risen by 1.6 per cent over 2015. Prices have dropped in Calgary and Red Deer, but for those with stable jobs, the lower home prices along with low interest rates make home ownership or refinancing existing mortgages much more affordable.

Bruce says that the provincial capital has escaped some of the worst impacts of the oil downturn. Unemployment is lower than in Calgary and in the last 12 months the city has gained 25,000 new jobs. Edmonton also benefits from the large number of people who are employed by government or have stable jobs in fields such as health and education, factors that have contributed to the city’s stability. The NDP government, he says, is not expected to introduce any cutbacks in those sectors.

At the same time rates are stimulating demand, builders are often dropping prices to generate sales of unsold new homes. Further, in Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer, homes that were pulled off the market during the darkest days of 2015 are now coming back on the market, increasing the supply. It’s a buyer’s market, says Bruce.

The biggest challenge homebuyers face is fear, he says. When friends and neighbours are facing lay-offs, it’s difficult to make a decision to buy. Countering the fear, however, is the opportunity presented by the combination of low interest rates in a buyer’s market. “Alberta overall may be a troubled market right now but there are opportunities to jump in.�

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Ottawa wants ideas to reduce emissions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CLIMATE CHANGE

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined world leaders who rushed to put their signatures Friday to a global treaty on climate change in hope of bringing it into force.

Now comes the hard part.

Canada is nowhere near its target of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. Emissions are still inching up. A national plan is still being worked out.

Indeed, if you’ve got an idea how all this could work, please tell the federal government. Really — it wants your advice.

Trudeau used his appearance at the United Nations signing ceremony to promote the new website, www.canada.ca/climateaction, and the Twitter

hashtag where the government is seeking suggestions from Canadians.

“We’re looking for ideas on how to reduce emissions,” he told a news conference.

“On the best way to move forward with carbon. And (on) how we can best prepare for and, if possible, avoid the impacts of climate change…. It’s important that all Canadians be part of this conversation.”

He promised not to give up. In his first speech to the UN General Assembly hall, Trudeau said: “Today, with my signature, I give you our word that Canada’s efforts will not cease.”

The agreement enters into force once it is ratified by 55 countries accounting for 55 per cent of global emissions, which is now expected to hap-

pen, given the resounding reaction.

The event broke the record for most first-day signatures for an agreement of its kind. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said at least 175 countries signed on: “It is a very moving day for me, personally.”

The pact negotiated last year differs from the old Kyoto accord in several important ways: ● Every major emitter has set individual targets under this one — unlike Kyoto which excluded fast-developing countries. ● It does not include broad global emissions targets, nor is it binding. ● It does include a mechanism that will report on each country’s progress — it’s a peer-pressure strategy.

The broad goal of the agreement is to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 C from pre-industrial levels, to stave off the most catastroph-

ic effects of rising sea levels.

Trudeau received a warm reaction.

He was mobbed for photos, walking between meetings. The president of Colombia joked that he’s now the most popular leader in the Americas.

And he drew perhaps the most ovations of any leader who spoke to the assembly. One came when he described the particular challenge facing poorer countries: How to cut emissions, when their economies are growing fastest?

“They shouldn’t be punished for a problem they didn’t create, nor should they be deprived the opportunities for clean growth that developed nations are now pursuing,” Trudeau said.

Developing-country delegations applauded again when he mentioned the $2.65 billion his government budgeted for international-assistance programs geared towards clean-energy programs.

Government’s assisted-death bill rejects both evidence and advice: NDP critic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The NDP’s justice critic pleaded with the Liberal government Friday to ensure that desperately ill Canadians don’t have to go back to the Supreme Court to fight controversial new legislation on doctor-assisted death.

Murray Rankin, a public law expert from Victoria, said he was deeply disappointed to find a majority of recommendations made by members of a joint Commons-Senate committee were “missing from or contradicted” by the provisions in the bill.

Rankin, a member of the all-party panel, said the committee had a duty to make recommendations considering all situations that could arise in coming years, such as the issue of advanced consent for patients who face the prospect of losing their faculties.

“We can do better than flatly contradicting the evidence of experts and the advice of parliamentarians from all parties and both chambers,” Rankin told the House of Commons as debate on the bill got underway.

Canadians are relying on the government to craft an appropriate legislative response to the top court’s landmark ruling, and to get it right, he said.

“The reality is, this moment is not going to come again,” Rankin said.

“This means abiding by the letter and

spirit of the Supreme Court ruling and strengthening this bill against obvious challenges to its charter compliance.”

Rankin has a personal connection to the lawyer who represented the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in the case that led to the top court’s ruling on assisted death. He and Joseph Arvay previously worked together at a law firm in B.C. The exchanges that unfolded Friday in the Commons mark the first instalment of what is sure to be a long and emotional debate on the government’s legislative response to the Supreme Court’s ruling from February 2015.

That decision struck down the ban on physician-assisted dying, but was suspended until June 6 to give Parliament a chance to craft a law.

The clock is ticking to pass the proposed legislation and there are already indications there could also be roadblocks once the bill hits the Senate, where some members have already hinted they fear the bill could violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould insisted Friday the government’s bill is consistent with both the Supreme Court’s decision as well as the Constitution.

“There will always be a diversity of opinion about what is required to respond to a particular judgment, but it falls to Parliament not only to respect

Defence makes closing arguments in trial over boy’s death

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — A lengthy final argument by the defence lawyer for a couple charged in the death of their toddler portrayed them Friday as loving caregivers who didn’t realize the boy was seriously ill.

“I’m going to suggest to you that you will likely conclude that David and Collet Stephan were attentive parents,” said Shawn Buckley, who spent four hours reviewing the case for the eight-woman, four-man jury in a Lethbridge, Alta., courtroom.

The couple is charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Ezekiel Stephan was nearly 19 months old when he died in March 2012. A pathologist testified the cause of death was bacterial meningitis and a lung infection.

His 32-year-old father, who works for a nutritional supplements company out of Raymond, Alta., and 35-year-old mother didn’t seek medical attention until he stopped breathing, when they called 911. He died a couple of days after being taken to hospital.

The couple believed that Ezekiel, who had been sick for weeks, had croup and the flu, and treated him with natural remedies.

Buckley described the Stephans as “very loving and concerned about

their kids’ health. Is it really likely if they were seeing any symptoms that would say ‘go see a doctor’ that they wouldn’t?”

Buckley said the jury has to decide if the Stephans’ actions were a marked departure from what a reasonable and prudent parent would do.

“Did they seek medical attention and did they seek it soon enough?” he asked. “There’s the issue if seeking medical attention could, not would, have made a difference in Ezekiel’s survival.”

Buckley told the jury not a single witness who had seen Ezekiel prior to the 911 call thought he was in need of medical attention.

A friend of the Stephans, who is a registered nurse, testified during the trial that she told the mother the boy might have viral meningitis and advised he be taken to a doctor.

Buckley said Collet Stephan would have taken Ezekiel to a doctor if there had been any “red alert” emergency.

“A doctor’s not always called when a child has a typical illness,” said Buckley, noting that a number of witnesses indicated detecting bacterial meningitis can be a “tricky thing.”

Buckley also pointed to the testimony of Alberta’s former chief medical officer who disputed the cause of death.

the court’s decision but also listen to the diverse voices and decide what the public interest demands,” Wilson-Raybould said.

Parliament faces a difficult task in addressing this issue, she added.

“It must weigh and balance the perspectives of those who might be at risk in a permissive regime against those who seek assistance in dying.”

On Thursday, the family of Kay Carter — whose bid to obtain an assisted death was at the heart of the Supreme Court decision — said that under the proposed legislation, their mother would not have qualified for medical help to end her life.

“We fought for a half a decade and won our case at the highest court in the land and this bill would erase the victory that we achieved for people like my mom,” Lee Carter said.

“We ask ourselves, ‘What was the point?”’

Wilson-Raybould denied that claim, insisting the legislation — known as Bill C-14 — would in fact ensure that individuals like those who were before the courts in Carter could obtain access to medical assistance in dying.

Conservative MP Scott Reid also raised concerns about the bill during Friday’s debate, noting he has hesitations about the terminology that permits access to competent adults “whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable.”

Police investigate Facebook post about transgender woman LETHBRIDGE — Dillon Hargreaves was heading home from the legislature where she had attended a ceremony recognizing 100 years of women’s suffrage in Alberta when friends forwarded her a Facebook post suggesting she shouldn’t have been there.

As a transgender woman, Hargreaves says she’s used to hearing such comments and typically ignores them. But when she learned that the post allegedly came from a police officer, she couldn’t let it go.

“I felt that for someone in a position of authority, especially policing, to be posting comments like these was inappropriate and was painting himself in a light that would make people such as myself question our safety,” Hargreaves said Friday.

The Lethbridge Police Service said in a statement that it had received several concerned messages about an employee’s personal social media post, including an official complaint, and the chief had ordered an investigation.

It said it would work with the complainant to address concerns.

“All members of LPS receive diversity training and the service is committed to bias-free policing,” said the statement, which added that no other details would be released until the case is resolved.

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Rebels drop opener in OT

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Wheat Kings 4 Rebels 3 OT The Red Deer Rebels and Brandon Wheat Kings engaged in a back-andforth battle to open the series, potentially foreshadowing a lengthy Eastern Conference Finals.

It ended with John Quenneville’s second goal of the night 2:53 into overtime. With only Rebels goalie Rylan Toth to beat, his wrist shot fooled the netminder and put an end to Game 1.

“We have to find a way to win Game 2,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

Overtime was almost unnecessary.

Wheat Kings forward Stelio Mattheos scored what looked to be the final dagger — a wrist shot with 44 seconds left in regulation. The goal gave the Wheat Kings the late lead, 3-2.

But the Rebels responded.

With the extra attacker on and time winding down, Haydn Fleury carried the puck out of the Rebels zone and got an shot off that was blocked in front. Fleury picked up the loose puck just inside the Wheat Kings blueline and fired a long wrist-shot on net. The seeing-eye shot fooled Wheat Kings goalie Jordan Papirny and tied the game with 4.1 seconds on the clock.

Brandon now has a 1-0 edge with the Game 1 win in the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final.

“We played well enough to win,” said Brent Sutter. “We just got loose in the last seven minutes of the game and let some quality scoring chances happen in the middle of the ice on us and they’re going to capitalize.”

The Rebels withstood an early onslaught from the Wheat Kings, who had five shots in the opening few minutes.

The Wheat Kings forecheck kept the Rebels hemmed in their own zone to start the first period. But the Rebels kicked up the tempo in the second and third periods, outshooting the Wheat Kings 27-19 from the second period on.

Sutter said turnovers were a problem and that to win Game 2 they will have to be more careful with the puck.

Hagel had two assists while Evan Polei, Adam Helewka and Fleury were the Rebels goal scorers.

Photo by COLIN CORNEAU/Brandon Sun

Brandon Wheat Kings’ Stelio Mattheos (left) pursues Red Deer Rebels’ Adam Musil during the first period of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final, Friday, at Westman Place in Brandon, MB. Quenneville led the Wheat Kings with two goals while Duke Reid and Tim McGauley both had three assists.

Toth kicked aside 27 shots while Papirny was up to the task of stopping the Rebels’ barrage of pucks. Papirny made 34 saves in the win.

The two teams are back at it tonight in the best-of-7 series in Brandon for Game 2, puck drop is at 6:30 p.m.

Notes: Akash Bains made his first start of the post-season in place of Taden Rattie. The 17-year-old played in three regular season games for the

Rebels … The Rebels have now lost four straight road games this post-season … 5,006 fans packed into the Keystone Centre for Game 1. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Athletics dump Jays for sixth-straight win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oakland 8 Toronto 5 TORONTO — Chris Coghlan drove in three runs with a homer and Sonny Gray struck out seven as the Oakland Athletics hung on to win their sixth straight with an 8-5 victory Friday over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Oakland (10-7), the only team in the majors yet to lose away from home this season, extended its perfect road record to 7-0 despite squandering a 6-1 lead. Toronto (8-10) lost its third in a row with two hit batters, an error, wild pitch and passed ball adding to an ugly bottom line.

Toronto made it interesting with a run in the sixth and seventh and two in the eighth. But a Khris Davis tworun single off Roberto Osuna padded the Oakland lead with two outs in the ninth when the ball eluded left-fielder Ezequiel Carrera, who was given an error on the play.

Ryan Madson pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his seventh save of the season.

Gray (3-1) faced just two batters over the minimum in the first five innings before fading slightly. He saw seven

Colabello suspended for using PEDs Page B3 Jays come to the plate in a 27-pitch sixth but gave up just one run. In seven innings, the right-hander gave up three runs on six hits with three walks on 100 pitches (59 strikes).

Oakland outhit Toronto 14-8.

The game was played under the pall of a drug suspension, with MLB announcing prior to the game that Jays first baseman Chris Colabello had been suspended for 80 games without pay for testing positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid.

Oakland didn’t help the mood, getting to Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez early with one run in the first and three in the second thanks to Coghlan’s second homer in as many nights.

Sanchez had to escape the bases loaded with one out in the third.

Gray, meanwhile, mowed down the Jays with five strikeouts in the first two innings.

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Oakland Athletics’ Khris Davis is tagged out at home by Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin during second inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday.

Queens’ starting lineup shaping up nicely for next season

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Last season didn’t finish the way the RDC Queens volleyball team would have liked as they won the ACAC consolation title, but then again it was basically a rebuilding season.

After winning their second-straight Canadian Colleges Athletic Conference championship in 2015, they lost the majority of their starting lineup, leaving head coach Talbot Walton with several holes to fill.

Next season will be a different matter with nine players back, including four starts and three others who saw

significant time. As well middle blocker Megan Schmidt, who played three years prior to taking last year off, has returned.

Schmidt will step right in to replace all-star Whitney Zylstra, who decided late she wasn’t returning.

“Megan is definitely a good pickup,” said Walton. “Whitney was very athletic and super fast getting to the ball, but having someone with Megan’s experience, understanding of training and how to be an everyday player is huge.

It goes a long way to setting the tone in practices and for the new people to gain that experience of what we are about.

“Megan played a major role for us down the stretch in the provincials

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and nationals. Her growth the last couple of months in her third season was huge. Now taking the year off and coaching some her knowledge will make it so that when the coaches talk with her she will get it.

“There should be a good line of communications between what our expectations are, what the team is doing and how we go about getting that done.”

Walton has both setters — Ashley Fehr and Maegan Kuzyk — returning along with right side McKenna Barthel, left side Miranda Dawe and middle Hanna Delemont, who start after the team lost Taylor Wickson at Christmas.

Left side Jessica Jones, who saw a significant amount of playing time

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last season, and Lauren Marshall, who played some power hitter and libero, is also returning.

Backup middles Fauve Welsh and Cherisse Johannson are returning.

“We’re now into our second year after a big turnover and the people have grown,” said Walton.

“They understand our culture. They used last year to take the step forward and apply what they learned this year.

We have 10 players who have the experience and know what we do as a team.

They should be a solid base for us to work with.”

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Stellar Neuvirth forces Game 6

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STORIES FROM PAGE B1

JAYS: Athletics to quick, avoid double plays He retired the first eight batters he faced before Darwin Barney hit a solo homer to left in the third. It was the first Gray delivery to exit the infield.

Oakland added two more runs in the fifth on two singles, a wild pitch and Coco Crisp double before Sanchez finally got an out before giving way to lefthander Chad Girodo for his major-league debut.

Sanchez (1-1) gave up six runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and one walk. He threw 85 pitches, including 53 strikes, in facing 25 hitters in his worst outing in 15 career starts (he gave up five earned runs in 5 2/3 innings against Baltimore last May).

Girodo, facing an Oakland lineup filled with lefthanders, threw two scoreless innings before giving way to Jesse Chavez and Osuna.

Down 6-1, Toronto finally got to Gray in the sixth, loading the bases with no outs on walks to Barney and Josh Donaldson and a Carrera double. The Jays managed just one run — on a Jose Bautista sacrifice fly — as Edwin Encarnacion flied out and Josh Thole, with the bases loaded again, grounded out.

Thole had come in for Russell Martin, who had neck spasms.

Toronto cut the lead to 6-3 in the seventh on Barney’s RBI single and scored two more on Kevin Pillar’s bases-loaded single off reliever Sean Doolittle with two outs in the eighth.

Justin Smoak, who had been platooning at first with Colabello, started at first base. Toronto gave left-fielder Michael Saunders (hamstring) and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (hip) the night off, with Carrera starting in left and hitting leadoff, Barney at second and Ryan Goins shifting to shortstop.

Carrera threw out a greedy Davis at the plate as Sanchez gave up three straight singles to open the second. But one out later, Coghlan took him deep to left-centre to make it 4-0.

Oakland’s speed negated double-play attempts in the second and, at first blush, in the third inning.

But after review, Crisp was returned to second base on the grounds that Barney had not touched the second-base bag when he tried to start the double play.

That left the bases loaded with one out but Sanchez escaped further damage.

Another Oakland-requested video review in the fourth did result in a double play, with Toronto’s Encarnacion called out at first. The Jays lost a video replay in the ninth with Carrera ruled not to have beaten the throw at first.

Oakland came into the game having held its opponents to 2.4 runs an outing during its five previous games.

Toronto, which led the league last season with 891 runs (5.5 per game), had scored 65 in its 17 previous games (3.8 per game) this year to rank 12th in the majors. The Jays also led the majors in strikeouts with 164, hitting just .141 with two strikes over the past 14 days.

NOTES: The Jays confirmed the signing of Michael Bourn, a 33-year-old outfielder who split last season between Cleveland and Atlanta. He will be assigned to Buffalo. A former all-star known for his speed, Bourn has been hampered by injuries in recent years.

QUEENS: Impressive resumes Delemont is a bit shorter, but played well the second half of the season. “She played a big role for us. She stepped in and handled the position well,� said Walton, who expects Welsh and Johannson to be solid backups. “Fauve is coming off her best season by far and that has a lot to do with her dedicating herself to her physical training. She makes good decisions and understands the game. And her new strength will help put her into a position of dependability.

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Washington Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner (27) can’t score past Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth (30), from the Czech Republic, during the second period of Game 5 in a first-round NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoff series, Friday. who stopped eight shots from superstar Alex Ovechkin and five each from defencemen John Carlson and Karl Alzner. “We have lots of perimeter shots, but we don’t have traffic in front of the net,� Ovechkin said. “You see all these shots that he makes, he sees everything.�

Washington coach Barry Trotz pointed to the 82 shot attempts as an indication of his team’s dominant play. There’s no arguing the Capitals were the better team. “We had a couple good looks and we didn’t finish them,� Trotz said. “They got a little bit of a lucky goal. You put the puck to the net, sometimes, it goes in. It did. I went off, I think it was Chorney’s toe and went in, and it was really a nothing play. If we play like that, next game, we should be fine.�

Game 6 is noon Sunday at Wells Fargo Center.

Even the thought of a Game 6 earlier in the week

would have been unfathomable, but thanks to Neuvirth it’s a reality. “Neuvy stole us a game,� Flyers forward Sam Gagner said. “He’s made a lot of big, timely saves for us and kept us alive.�

Relying on Neuvirth to withstand onslaught after onslaught is not the Flyers’ plan moving forward, but there is some history to that in Washington. A handful of Capitals players need only think back to 2010 when Jaroslav Halak stopped 217 of 231 shots and the Montreal Canadiens erased a 3-1 series deficit to pull off the upset.

That same year, the Flyers erased a 3-0 deficit to beat the Boston Bruins.

NOTES: Chris VandeVelde added an empty-netter for the Flyers with 30.8 seconds left. ‌ Capitals forward T.J. Oshie fought Flyers forward Brayden Schenn off the opening faceoff.

“As for Cherisse she’s coming off a learning year and we saw a lot of upside toward the end of last season.�

As for the two setters, Walton believes they’ll be even better this season, especially with they’re both healthy. Fehr ran into injury problems last season which forced Kuzyk, who moved to RDC from NAIT, to step in full time. “Maegan had to learn our system so it was a big learning curve for her but she came a long way and toward the end of the season looked better and better. As for Ashley we’re hopeful she will be healthy.�

The pair will have a strong outside hitting core to work with, led by fourth-year all-star Dawe. “We’re looking for a lot of things from Miranda in terms of her ability and leadership,� continued Walton, who believes Barthel should be an all-star. “She can be a dominating right side,� he said. “As for Jessica we have to remind ourselves she was just a first year player. “Coming from Australia she had a big resume and we half expect she will be at a different level. But in all reality she was a first-year player. But after January she showed she could be a big time player for us on the outside.�

Marshall will also see more time at power this season and will also work with rookie libero Kaylee Domoney from Lindsay Thurber. “Kaylee grew up around Queens volleyball,� said Walton. “She’s a multisport athlete and had success in every sport which not only came from her skill, but her personality. She has a strong personality for the libero

spot. She understands it and played aggressively.�

The other three newcomers are right side McKenna Olson of Saskatoon and left side Katyrina Dawe of Grande Prairie, who is Miranda’s sister, and Brittney Davis of Sherwood Park.’ All three bring impressive resumes. “Katrina is smaller than Miranda, but hits the ball a tonne while passing and defending well. Brittney was looking at the CIS, but that fell through and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

She’s six-foot-one and aggressive. “As for Olson we were once again fortunate. Just after we lost (Kelsey Paton) I got an email from McKenna saying she was interested in our program. She’s also six-foot to six-one and a good blocker.�

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

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Neuvirth stopped all 44 shots the Washington Capitals threw his way Friday night, carrying the Flyers to a 2-0 victory and sending the first-round playoff series back to Philadelphia for Game 6 on Sunday. “They came at us pretty hard and if it’s not for Neuvy, we’re not winning this game,� Flyers captain Claude Giroux said.

After the Capitals took a 3-0 series lead, Neuvirth has been the difference since replacing Mason for Game 4 on Wednesday. Neuvirth has stopped 75 of 76 shots against the team that drafted and developed him after Mason allowed 12 goals on 81 shots.

It didn’t matter that Washington outshot Philadelphia 44-11 and an almost unbelievable 35-6 at 5-on-5.

It’s the first time a team won a Stanley Cup playoff game with 11 shots since the Capitals beat the Ottawa Senators in 1998, and that total is the fewest shots in Flyers history counting the regular season and playoffs.

Neuvirth said he got used to heavy shot totals by playing with the lowly Buffalo Sabres last season, though this tied the second-biggest disparity by a losing playoff team since 1989-90, according to STATS. “I like to face a lot of shots. It keeps me in the game,� said Neuvirth, who set a franchise records for saves in a playoff shutout and saves in a regulation playoff game. “I enjoy it. Guys did a really good job in front of me. I was seeing the puck well. We didn’t take any bad penalties, and we stuck to our system and big win for us.�

It’s the biggest win yet for the Flyers, who are still feeling the emotions of the death of founder Ed Snider, whose public memorial service they attended Thursday before travelling to Washington. Yet they were not at their sharpest in Game 5, which Giroux called the Capitals’ “best game of the series.�

The Flyers went 0 for 6 on the power play to fall to 1 for 21 in the series. Ryan White scored three seconds after a penalty expired as the puck bounced off Capitals defenceman Taylor Chorney’s left skate and past Braden Holtby 7:52 into the second period. “To get it by that guy, they’re not going to be pretty on him,� White said about Holtby, who made nine saves. “Doesn’t matter how they go in.�

It matters to the Capitals, who lost back-to-back games in regulation after not doing so the entire regular season on the way to the Presidents’ Trophy.

They chalked the loss up almost entirely to Neuvirth,

SPORTS

Saturday, April 23, 2016

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Colabello suspended for PEDs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The performance-enhancing substance that a Toronto Blue Jays player tested positive for is known to boost recovery time in athletes, not bulk up their size.

First baseman Chris Colabello, suspended for 80 games on Friday, is the second baseball player in as many weeks to test positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid sold under the name Turinabol.

“It would help in recovery, that’s its main form in this type of sport,” said Dr. Stuart Phillips, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University.

While body builders use the drug to gain a little bit of muscle, Phillips said its benefit for a baseball player would be the ability to recover faster to withstand the rigours of a 162-game season.

Phillips has been at McMaster for 19 years and specializes in the interaction between weightlifting and nutrition. He also runs a lab at the Hamilton university that’s equipped with a detection and analysis system he describes as “much the same as the system used by the doping lab that would have tested Colabello’s sample.”

Phillips said he could see why baseball players like Colabello — and Philadelphia Phillies lefthander Daniel Stumpf who was suspended 80 games after testing positive for the same drug last week — might find Turinabol appealing.

“Appreciate that a baseball player who flies around the United States and Canada, plays 162 games day in and day out, swings a bat at very high speed I would estimate around 3,000 times in a season … that creates a tremendous amount of wear and tear on muscles, joints and ligaments,” Phillips said.

“This substance, if it were to enhance anything, it would help with recovery from all that type of exertion.

“The bottom line is, if he had an enhancement, he recovers a little quicker and essentially comes back a little lighter on his feet the next day.”

The drug first came to light in the 1960s when an East German pharmaceutical company produced and gave East German Olympic athletes Turinabol during the 1970s and 1980s.

According to a 2005 article printed in the Guardian, 800 East German athletes who were given Turinabol developed serious ailments, including infertility among women, breast cancer, heart problems and testicular cancer.

“Essentially the whole idea was to generate a class of substances that didn’t have to be injected and could have some anabolic effects,” Phillips said of the drug’s creation. “It’s gone in and out of favour

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Chris Colabello hams it up on photo day at the team’s spring training facility, in Dunedin, FL. Colabello has been suspended for 80 games without pay after testing positive for a performanceenhancing substance. in clinical areas and athletic circles and it’s been on the shelf for a long time. The main point is it’s not made. In fairness, you have to search for it now.”

Colabello said in a statement issued by the MLB Players’ Association on Friday that he wasn’t sure how dehydrochlormethyltestosterone ended up in his system.

Phillips did say the drug could be taken accidentally.

“That’s a hard one to say because it is orally ingested,” he said. “If there’s an out, if that’s the right word, from taking this stuff it is that it could have been in something like that (protein powder or supplements). “But I would imagine that the doses of

Sports BRIEFS Quine wins it in 2nd OT, Islanders top Panthers 2-1

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Minnesota Wild center Mikko Koivu celebrates his goal during overtime in Game 5 against the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Friday in Dallas. The Wild won 5-4.

Koivu keeps Wild alive with winner in OT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesota 5 Dallas 4 (OT) DALLAS — Mikko Koivu redirected Ryan Suter’s shot from the left point 4:55 into overtime and the Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars 5-4 on Friday night to stay alive in their first-round series.

Koivu scored the last two goals for the Wild, who go home still down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.

Game 6 is Sunday.

Jason Spezza and Alex Goligoski scored 28 apart almost midway through the third period, giving the Stars their first lead of the game.

But the Wild forced overtime when Koivu went top shelf for the tying goal with 3:09 left in regulation. Koivu, the Wild’s leading scorer in the regular season with 56 points, had only one goal without an assist in the series until then.

Dallas fell behind 2-0 in the first 5 ½ minutes and didn’t lead until Goligoski’s goal with 11:04 left in regulation that hit the back of defenceman Marco Scandella on the way into the net and made it 4-3.

That came right after Spezza’s third goal of the series. With a defender tugging along, Spezza sent a shot that slid in front of Devan Dubnyk and hit the far post before ricocheting past the line to tie it.

Dubnyk stopped 37 shots.

Antti Niemi stopped 19 of 24 shots in his second consecutive start in the series for Dallas after Kari Lehtonen was in goal for the first three games.

After a scoreless, sometimes lethargic second period, the third period started with Minnesota up 2-1.

The teams then almost immediately traded goals in a span of 50 seconds.

Stars captain Jamie Benn tied it at 2 with some nifty stick work, guiding the puck around Dubnyk and into the net only a minute into the third period.

The Wild didn’t stay down long, with Nino Niederreiter scoring to put them back up.

Like he has all season, Stars coach Lindy Ruff has gone with both goalies in the playoffs.

Lehtonen was in net when the Stars won the first two games at home, and for the 5-3 loss in Game 3 at Minnesota. Niemi then stopped 28 shots in their 3-2 win in Game 4, but gave up two goals in less than 5 ½ minutes Friday night.

SUNRISE, Fla. — It’s been 23 years since the New York Islanders won a post-season series, a span that has seen the team use 383 players, hire 12 coaches, even change home arenas.

No team in the NHL has waited longer to advance.

And the Islanders have two chances to end that drought.

Alan Quine scored on a power play at 16 minutes of the second overtime, Thomas Greiss stopped 47 shots and the Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series. The Islanders lead the series 3-2 and can wrap it up at home Sunday in Game 6.

Roberto Luongo made 40 saves for Florida, which missed a penalty shot in the first overtime and was whistled for two penalties in the second overtime.

“We got the bounce on the power play,” Islanders coach Jack Capuano said.

The game ended at 12:16 a.m., and was the seventh consecutive playoff overtime loss for Florida — a streak beginning with the final game of the 1996 Stanley Cup final against Colorado.

Panthers coach Gerard Gallant tipped his cap to Greiss.

“I think we’re playing great hockey,” Gallant said. “We’re getting great scoring chances. The kid’s playing really well. …

Hopefully, sooner or later, we’re going to get some breaks.”

The Isles’ second OT power play came when

which it was found (would be) unable to be masked.”

Colabello and Stumpf are not the only athletes to test positive for the drug recently.

In 2014 the International Ice Hockey Federation banned Latvia’s Ralfs Freibergs for two years following an anti-doping rule violation for Turinabol committed during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

An IIHF statement from Feb. 2014 said Freibergs’s positive test followed Latvia’s quarter-final loss to the eventual Olympic champion Canadians.

Track athlete Elena Nikulina, who specializes in the women’s 400 metres, received a four-year ban from the Russian Olympic Committee last January after testing positive for Turinabol.

Derek Mackenzie was called for slashing at 14:31, and that would be the break New York finally needed. Quine took a pass from Marek Zidlicky and fired a blast from the right side that beat Luongo, and the Islanders swarmed the ice in celebration.

Red Wings follow refrain, make brief appearance in playoffs DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have developed a pattern of consistency, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Detroit extended its post-season streak to 25, a feat the franchise hailed by showing a slickly produced video montage before each of its two home playoff games.

The Red Wings, though, exited the playoffs in the first round for the third straight year and fourth time in five years. Since coming within a win of repeating as Stanley Cup champions in 2009, the Red Wings haven’t made it past the second round.

The Red Wings lost 1-0 on Thursday night at Tampa Bay in Game 5 of their first-round season series.

“It was a very disappointing season,” Detroit general manager Ken Holland said Friday night. “We had higher hopes.”

Now, the Red Wings will have to hope Pavel Datsyuk changes his mind about retiring or that they’re able to trade the last year of his $7.5 million salary to a team looking to inflate its salary cap to the league minimum without having to pay him.

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High School ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Brandon Wheat Kings, 6:30 p.m., the Drive

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Brandon wins series 4-1)

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7 x-if necessary)

Golden State 2, Houston 1 Saturday, April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78 Monday, April 18: Golden State 115, Houston 106 Thursday, April 21: Houston 97, Golden State 96 Sunday, April 24: Golden State at Houston, 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 27: Houston at Golden State, 7 or 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 29: Golden State at Houston, TBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 3, Detroit 0 Sunday, April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101 Wednesday, April 20: Cleveland 107, Detroit 90 Friday, April 22: Cleveland 101 Detroit 91 Sunday, April 24: Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: Detroit at Cleveland, TBA

San Antonio 3, Memphis 0 Sunday, April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74 Tuesday, April 19: San Antonio 94, Memphis 68 Friday, April 22: San Antonio 96 Memphis 87 Sunday, April 24: San Antonio at Memphis, 11 a.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: Memphis at San Antonio, TBA x-Thursday, April 28: San Antonio at Memphis, TBA

Toronto 2, Indiana 1 Saturday, April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 Monday, April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87 Thursday, April 21: Toronto 101, Indiana 85 Saturday, April 23: Toronto at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26: Indiana at Toronto, TBA x-Friday, April 29: Toronto at Indiana, TBA x-Sunday, May 1: Indiana at Toronto, TBA Miami 2, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 Wednesday, April 20: Miami 115, Charlotte 103 Saturday, April 23: Miami at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25: Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 27: Charlotte at Miami, 6 p.m.

Atlanta 2, Boston 1 Saturday, April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101 Tuesday, April 19: Atlanta 89, Boston 72 Friday, April 22: Boston 111 Atlanta 103 Sunday, April 24: Atlanta at Boston, 4 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: Boston at Atlanta, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE

Oklahoma City 2, Dallas 1 Saturday, April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70 Monday, April 18: Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84 Thursday, April 21: Oklahoma City 131, Dallas 102 Saturday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Monday, April 25: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, April 28: Oklahoma City at Dallas, TBA L.A. Clippers 2, Portland 0 Sunday, April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95 Wednesday, April 20: L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81 Saturday, April 23: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 27: Portland at L.A. Clippers, 7, 8 or 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 29: L.A. Clippers at Portland, TBA

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Montreal 6 4 2 0 10 Philadelphia 6 3 3 0 8 Orlando 6 2 1 3 11 Toronto 6 2 2 2 6 New England 7 1 1 5 8 New York City 6 1 2 3 9 Chicago 6 1 2 3 6 D.C. 7 1 3 3 7 Columbus 6 1 3 2 6 New York 7 1 6 0 5

GA 6 7 8 5 10 10 7 10 9 15

Pt 12 9 9 8 8 6 6 6 5 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Dallas 8 5 1 2 15 10 17 Salt Lake 6 4 0 2 10 6 14 Colorado 7 4 2 1 7 5 13 Kansas City 7 4 3 0 9 7 12 Los Angeles 6 3 1 2 12 5 11 San Jose 7 3 2 2 10 10 11 Seattle 6 2 3 1 6 7 9 Portland 7 2 3 2 11 14 8 Vancouver 7 2 4 1 6 11 7 Houston 6 1 3 2 13 13 5 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

18 18 17 14 15 14 13 11 9 11 11 10 10 10 8 7 7 3

9 7 8 14 9 9 8 11 14 8 8 10 10 9 7 9 8 7

7 9 9 6 9 11 13 11 11 15 15 14 14 16 19 17 19 24

58 62 42 57 56 45 37 49 53 33 41 34 31 36 35 39 36 23

34 34 30 43 43 35 47 45 48 40 57 45 42 45 60 57 62 65

63 61 59 56 54 51 47 44 41 41 41 40 40 39 31 30 29 16

Tuesday, April 19 Newcastle 1, Manchester City 1 Wednesday, April 20 West Ham 3, Watford 1 Liverpool 4, Everton 0 Manchester United 2, Crystal Palace 0

Saturday, April 23 Manchester City vs. Stoke, 1145 GMT Aston Villa vs. Southampton, 1400 GMT Bournemouth vs. Chelsea, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Everton, 1400 GMT, Ppd. Liverpool vs. Newcastle, 1400 GMT Norwich vs. Watford, 1400 GMT, Ppd. West Ham vs. Manchester United, 1400 GMT, Ppd.

Sunday’s Games Kansas City at San Jose, 1:30 p.m.

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

English Premier League GP W D L GF 34 21 10 3 59 34 19 11 4 64

34 34 34 34 33 34 34 33 34 34 34 34 34 35 34 33 34 34

Thursday, April 21 Arsenal 2, West Brom 0

Today’s Games New York City at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 2 p.m.

New England at D.C., 3:30 p.m.

Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Leicester City Tottenham

Arsenal Man.City Man United West Ham Liverpool Southampton Stoke Chelsea Everton Watford Bournemouth Swansea West Brom Crystal Palace Norwich Sunderland Newcastle r-Aston Villa r-Relegated

Sunday, April 24 Sunderland vs. Arsenal, 1305 GMT Leicester City vs. Swansea, 1515 GMT GA Pts 33 73 25 68

Monday, April 25 Tottenham vs. West Brom, 1900 GMT

East Division W L Pct 11 5 .688 9 6 .600 7 9 .438 6 9 .400 5 11 .313

GF 224 193 213 168 168

GA GB 194 — 179 1.5 213 4 179 4.5 196 6

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Sask.16 12 4.750 208 167 — x-Colorado 16 10 6 .625 182 187 2 Calgary 17 7 10 .412 198 199 5.5 Vancouver 15 4 11 .267 168 208 7.5 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 17

Today’s Games Georgia at New England, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Rochester, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK 18 Friday, Apr. 29 Vancouver at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 30 Vancouver at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Rochester, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 1 Rochester at New England, 4 p.m.

End of 2016 NLL Regular Season

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Toronto 1B Chris Colabello 80 games for violating Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP William Cuevas to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled LHP Roenis Elias from Pawtucket.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent OF Michael Brantley to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Danny Santana to Fort Myers (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Branden Pinder on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday.

Recalled RHP Nick Goody from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed 3B Danny Valencia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday.

Recalled INF Tyler Ladendorf from Nashville (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed 1B Chris Colabello on the restricted list. Selected the contract of LHP Chad Girodo from Buffalo (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Michael Bourn on a minor league contract.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Designated RHP Tim Melville for assignment. Assigned RHP Keyvius Sampson outright to Louisville. Selected the contract of RHP JC Ramirez from Louisville. Sent RHP Homer Bailey to Louisville (IL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Miguel Castro on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday.

Optioned LHP Jason Gurka to Albuquerque (PCL).

Designated RHP David Hale for assignment. Reinstated RHP Jon Gray from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Carlos Estevez from Albuquerque. Selected the contract of RHP Gonzalez Germen from Albuquerque.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned LHP James Russell outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Released 1B Michael Morse. Optioned INF Cole Figueroa to Indianapolis (IL). Recalled INF Jason Rogers from Indianapolis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP Leonel Campos to El Paso (PCL). Recalled OF Jose Pirela from El Paso.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Mac Williamson to Sacramento (PCL). Selected the contract of 3B Conor Gillaspie from Sacramento.

Transferred SS Ehire Adrianza from the 15- to the 60-day DL. Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF Michael J. O’Neill.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Hector Nelo.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP

NEWS IN BRIEF

Rays set to promote top prospect Snell to pitch vs Yankees NEW YORK — Blake Snell woke up Friday morning at the team hotel in Virginia, ate breakfast and began to focus on pitching several hours later for Triple-A Durham.

A top prospect in the majors, he then got a call from his manager. The call that every young player hopes to

Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) (Red Deer wins series 4-3) Tuesday’s result Red Deer 2 Regina 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) (Kelowna wins series 4-3) Tuesday’s result Kelowna 3 Victoria 2 (OT) U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) (Seattle wins series 4-1)

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle leads series 1-0) Friday’s game Seattle 2 Kelowna 1 Saturday’s game Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 26 Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 27 Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 29 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday, May 1 x-Kelowna at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. x — played only if necessary.

WHL Playoff Scoring Leaders Adam Brooks REG 7 Jack Walker VIC 8 Dryden Hunt MJ 7 John Quenneville BDN 7 Cole Sanford REG 7 Brayden Point MJ 6 Reid Duke BDN 6 Sam Steel REG 6 Jayden Halbgewachs MJ 9

Drew Cisco.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Tony Steward and LS Christian Yount.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Josh Norman.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Marty Costello assistant offensive line coach and Paul Boudreau special teams assistant.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with F Joakim Nordstrom on a two-year contract and D Jake Chelios on a one-year, two-way contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Announced the contract of coach Keith McCambridge of Manitoba (AHL) will not be renewed.

American Hockey League BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Signed LWs Scott Allen and Joey Benik to one-year contracts.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Promoted Sam Iannamico to graphic designer.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Orlando City M Antonio Nocerino and D.C. United coach Ben Olsen one game for violating the entering the field of play policy. Rescinded the one-game suspension for the red card issued to Columbus D Tyson Wahl.

COLLEGE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE — Granted Duke men’s basketball F Amile Jefferson a medical hardship waiver.

DETROIT — Named Bacari Alexander men’s basketball coach.

FORDHAM — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Jeff Neubauer on a contract extension through the 2020-21 season.

ILLINOIS — Named graduate LB Hardy Nickerson is transferring from California.

KANSAS STATE — Agreed to terms with athletic director John Currie on a two-year contract extension through the 2022 academic year.

NORTH CAROLINA — Announced sophomore F Justin Jackson and junior F Kennedy Meeks declared for the NBA draft.

NORTH DAKOTA STATE — Signed football coach Chris Klieman to a six-year contract through the 2021 season.SOUTH DAKOTA — Named Dawn Plitzuweit women’s basketball coach.

USC — Named Chris Capko men’s assistant basketball coach.

WISCONSIN — Extended the contracts of women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson through June 30, 2021 wrestling coach Barry Davis through May 31, 2019 and men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite through June 14, 2019.

hear.

Snell wasn’t starting Friday night at Norfolk. Nope, he was starting Saturday for the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in his big league debut.

“I liked the sound of pitching tomorrow,” Snell said.

A season after zooming through the minors, the 23-year-old lanky lefty arrived in New York, in time to play catch on the field and meet his new teammates.

Rays outfielder Steven Souza Jr. asked Snell to do something in particular, trying to help him settle in amid the whirlwind.

MJ MJ BDN BDN RD VIC RD SEA BDN KEL VIC KEL KEL REG SPO RD RD REG RD BDN KAM SEA MJ REG REG

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9 11 7 8 4 5 7 10 10 3 6 6 6 6 7 7 8 2 4 5 6 6 6 6 7

15 15 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Wheat Kings 4, Rebels 3 (OT) First Period 1. Brandon, Quenneville 8 (Duke, McGauley) 19:33.

Penalties — DeBrusk RD (interference) 9:45 Brandon bench (too many men served by Mattheos) 16:32.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Patrick Bdn (goaltender interference) 5:06 Quenneville Bdn (high-sticking) 9:43 Fleury RD (hooking) 11:33 Brandon bench (too many men served by Mattheos) 14:10.

Third Period 2. Red Deer, Polei 6 (Musil, Hagel) 3:39 (pp).

3. Red Deer, Helewka 9 (Hagel, Spacek) 7:54.

4. Brandon, Provorov 3 (Duke, McGauley) 13:39.

5. Brandon, Mattheos 3 (Campbell, Erkamps) 19:16.

6. Red Deer, Fleury 2, 19:55.

Penalties — Mattheos Bdn (high-sticking), 2:35 Musil RD, Polei RD, Mattheos Bdn, Provorov Bdn (roughing) 8:33 Coulter Bdn (roughing) 9:06.

Overtime 7. Brandon, Quenneville 9 (Duke, McGauley) 2:53.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 10 12 12 2 — 37 Brandon 12 7 10 2 — 31 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 2-2-1) Brandon: Papirny (W, 9-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 1-6 Brandon: 0-2.

Referees — Mike Campbell, Derek Zalaski. Linesmen — Kelsey Mahoney, Darrell Surminski.

Attendance — 5,060 at Brandon, Man.

Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Brandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2) (Brandon leads series 1-0) Friday’s game Brandon 4 Red Deer 3 (OT) Saturday’s game Red Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 26 Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 27 Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 29 x-Red Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 1 x-Brandon at Red Deer, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3 x-Red Deer at Brandon, 7 p.m.

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) 16 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 6

23 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 15

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (New York leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Florida 2 N.Y. Islanders 1 Sunday’s result N.Y. Islanders 4 Florida 3 (OT) Friday’s game N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 1 (OT)

Sunday’s game Florida at N.Y. Islanders, TBA Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1) Thursday’s result Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 0 Tuesday’s result Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 2 Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Philadelphia 2 Washington 1 Monday’s result Washington 6 Philadelphia 1 Friday’s game Philadelphia 2 Washington 0 Sunday’s game x-Washington at Philadelphia, TBA Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh leads series 3-1) Thursday’s result Pittsburgh 5 N.Y. Rangers 0 Tuesday’s result Pittsburgh 3 N.Y. Rangers 1 Saturday’s game N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBA Monday, Apr. 25 x-Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Dallas 3 Minnesota 2 Monday’s result Minnesota 5 Dallas 3 Friday’s game Minnesota 5 Dallas 4 (OT) Sunday’s game x-Dallas at Minnesota, TBA St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis leads series 3-1) Thursday’s result Chicago at St. Louis, late Tuesday’s result St. Louis 4 Chicago 3 Saturday’s game x-St. Louis at Chicago, TBA Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Series tied 2-2) Thursday’s result Anaheim 4 Nashville 1 Tuesday’s result Anaheim 3 Nashville 0 Saturday’s game Nashville at Anaheim, TBA Monday, Apr. 25 Anaheim at Nashville, TBA Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result San Jose 3 Los Angeles 2 Monday’s result Los Angeles 2 San Jose 1 (OT) Friday’s game San Jose 6 Los Angeles 3

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WHL 2016 Playoffs Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7)

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 10 5 .667 8 8 .500 8 10 .444 7 9 .438 6 9 .400 Central Division W L Pct 11 5 .688 11 6 .647 8 7 .533 7 7 .500 5 12 .294 West Division W L Pct 10 7 .588 10 7 .588 7 8 .467 7 9 .438 5 12 .294

GB — 2.5 3.5 3.5 4 GB — 1/2 2.5 3 6.5 GB — — 2 2.5 5

Friday’s Games Washington 8, Minnesota 4 N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 3 Oakland 8, Toronto 5 Cleveland 2, Detroit 1 Boston 6, Houston 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Texas 0 Kansas City 4, Baltimore 2 Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Minnesota (Hughes 1-2) at Washington (Roark 1-2), 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay (Andriese 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0), 11:05 a.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 0-0) at Toronto (Happ 2-0), 11:07 a.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 0-3) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 2-1), 11:10 a.m.

Texas (Lewis 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-2), 12:10 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 0-1) at Houston (Fiers 1-1), 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Worley 1-0) at Kansas City (Medlen 1-0), 5:15 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Oakland at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 11:10 a.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

Texas at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 12:15 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 12 4 .750 New York 8 7 .533 Philadelphia 8 9 .471 Miami 5 9 .357 Atlanta 4 12 .250 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 13 4 .765 St. Louis 8 7 .533 Pittsburgh 8 8 .500 Cincinnati 8 9 .471 Milwaukee 7 10 .412 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 10 6 .625 Colorado 8 7 .533 Arizona 9 8 .529 San Francisco 7 10 .412

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Pittsburgh at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Today’s Games Minnesota (Hughes 1-2) at Washington (Roark 1-2), 11:05 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lackey 3-0) at Cincinnati (Straily 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matz 1-1) at Atlanta (Chacin 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morton 1-1) at Milwaukee (Ch.Anderson 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 2-0) at Colorado (Chatwood 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Nicasio 2-1) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 1-3), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 1-0) at San Diego (Vargas 0-0), 6:40 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 1-1) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 2:40 p.m.

Monday’s Games Boston at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Golf TEXAS OPEN Partial Second Round a-amateur Brendan Steele 64-70—134 Scott Langley 69-68—137 Stuart Appleby 67-70—137 Charley Hoffman 66-71—137 Ricky Barnes 68-70—138 Patrick Reed 65-73—138 Ryan Palmer 68-70—138 Jon Curran 70-68—138 Mark Wilson 69-69—138 Sung Kang 71-67—138 Peter Malnati 67-71—138 Luke Donald 69-70—139 Brandt Snedeker 70-69—139 Spencer Levin 69-70—139 Andres Romero 69-71—140 Jason Gore 70-70—140 Zac Blair 70-70—140 William McGirt 71-70—141 K.J. Choi 71-70—141 Kyle Stanley 73-68—141 Kevin Chappell 71-70—141 Harold Varner III 69-72—141 Padraig Harrington 70-71—141 Kevin Streelman 70-71—141 Bryce Molder 70-71—141 Shawn Stefani 72-69—141 Cameron Tringale 71-70—141 Brian Stuard 73-69—142 D.H. Lee 71-71—142 Chris Kirk 71-71—142 Daniel Summerhays 72-70—142 Mark Hubbard 72-70—142 Chad Collins 73-69—142 Whee Kim 72-70—142 Keegan Bradley 71-71—142 Billy Horschel 70-72—142 J.B. Holmes 72-70—142 Ben Crane 71-71—142 Dicky Pride 70-72—142 Kyle Reifers 71-71—142 John Rollins 74-69—143 Tom Gillis 72-71—143 Greg Owen 74-69—143 Nick Taylor 75-68—143 Francesco Molinari 68-75—143 Brendon de Jonge 69-74—143 D.J. Trahan 74-69—143 Wes Roach 72-71—143 Thomas Aiken 71-72—143 Andrew Landry 70-73—143 Matt Jones 69-74—143 Brian Harman 70-73—143 Luke List 71-72—143 Kelly Kraft 72-71—143 John Merrick 70-74—144 David Hearn 73-71—144 George McNeill 71-73—144 Branden Grace 72-72—144 Matt Kuchar 71-73—144 Johnson Wagner 70-74—144 Freddie Jacobson 69-75—144 Brice Garnett 73-71—144 Bronson Burgoon 73-71—144 Tom Hoge 76-68—144 Steve Flesch 68-76—144 Aaron Baddeley 74-70—144 John Huh 70-74—144 Tim Wilkinson 73-71—144 Chris Stroud 72-72—144 Zach Johnson 69-75—144 Justin Leonard 73-71—144 Scott Stallings 74-70—144 Roberto Castro 73-71—144 D.A. Points 73-71—144 Jason Kokrak 72-73—145 Marc Turnesa 72-73—145 Brooks Koepka 73-72—145 J.J. Henry 70-75—145 Robby Ormand 73-72—145 Carlos Ortiz 78-67—145 Ernie Els 72-73—145 Camilo Villegas 74-71—145 Brendon Todd 73-72—145

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74-71—145 74-71—145 75-71—146 73-73—146 76-70—146 75-71—146 72-74—146 73-73—146 75-71—146 74-72—146 73-73—146 72-74—146 73-73—146 75-71—146 73-73—146 72-74—146 71-75—146 76-71—147 74-73—147 73-74—147 75-72—147 75-72—147 74-73—147 72-75—147 73-74—147 74-73—147 75-73—148 77-71—148 73-75—148 76-72—148 76-72—148 72-77—149 76-73—149 76-74—150 73-77—150 74-76—150 75-75—150 75-75—150 75-76—151 77-74—151 75-76—151 78-73—151 77-74—151 75-76—151 74-77—151 74-78—152 75-77—152 77-75—152 74-79—153 76-77—153 75-78—153 81-73—154 78-77—155 78-77—155 74-81—155 73-85—158

SWINGING SKIRTS CLASSIC At Lake Merced GC. Yards Daly City, Calif.

Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,507 Par: 72 Second Round a-denotes amateur Haru Nomura 65-70—135 Minjee Lee 73-65—138 Na Yeon Choi 68-70—138 So Yeon Ryu 63-75—138 Karine Icher 71-68—139 Gerina Piller 70-69—139 Brittany Lang 69-70—139 Lydia Ko 68-71—139 Julie Yang 72-68—140 Lee-Anne Pace 71-69—140 Mi Hyang Lee 69-71—140 Catriona Matthew 68-72—140 Angel Yin 70-71—141 Su Oh 70-71—141 Danielle Kang 69-72—141 Carlota Ciganda 74-68—142 Brooke M. Henderson 71-71—142 Kelly Tan 70-72—142 Azahara Munoz 70-72—142 Ryann O’Toole 69-73—142 Xi Yu Lin 67-75—142 Christel Boeljon 67-75—142

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EL BOSQUE MEXICO CHAMPIONSHIP At El Bosque CC Leon, Mexico Purse: $650,000 Yardage: 7,762 Par: 72 Partial Second Round Wesley Bryan 68-63—131 Brad Fritsch 66-65—131 Martin Flores 69-66—135 Adam Long 70-66—136 Seamus Power 70-67—137 Ryan Brehm 66-72—138 Eric Axley 72-66—138 Kevin Tway 69-69—138 Doug Letson 69-69—138 Justin Hueber 72-66—138 J.J. Spaun 69-69—138 Jason Millard 70-68—138 Ryan Armour 70-68—138 Denny McCarthy 68-71—139 Andrew Putnam 67-72—139 Brandon Hagy 72-67—139 Sebastian Vazquez 69-70—139 Jonathan Byrd 69-70—139 Scott Harrington 70-69—139 Ian Davis 69-71—140 B.J. Staten 68-72—140 Rafael Campos 70-70—140 Tag Ridings 70-70—140 Ollie Schniederjans 71-69—140 Max Homa 72-68—140 Timothy Madigan 70-71—141 Andy Winings 71-70—141 Sebastian Cappelen 71-70—141 Roger Sloan 70-71—141 Nicholas Maruri 72-69—141 Greg Eason 71-70—141 Jin Park 72-69—141 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 71-70—141 Mark Anderson 69-72—141 Erik Barnes 71-70—141 Cody Gribble 70-71—141 Aaron Watkins 72-70—142

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B5

Saturday, April 23, 2016

On-court hostilities spill into war of words between Carroll, George

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Brendan Steele waves to the gallery after making a birdie putt on the second hole during the second round to the Texas Open golf tournament, Friday.

Steele takes three-shot lead in Texas Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — Brendan Steele completed an 8-under 64 in the morning and shot a 70 in the second round Friday to take a three-stroke lead in the Texas Open.

The 2011 winner at TPC San Antonio for his lone tour title, Steele had a 10-under 134 total. Play was suspended because of darkness with 13 players left on the course.

“It’s my favourite place to come,” Steele said. “I have good memories, good mojo. I like all the shots.”

Scott Langley, Stuart Appleby and Charley Hoffman were tied for second. Langley shot 68, Appleby 70, and Hoffman 71. Appleby rallied after four-putting from 7 feet for a triple bogey on his opening hole.

“I was swatting at it — a golf ball got in the way,” Appleby was able to joke. “I was doing like when Seve (Ballesteros) had a four-putt many years ago. I asked him, ‘How did you have a four-putt?’ He said “I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.’”

Nick Taylor is the top Canadian through 36 holes after shooting a 4-under 68 on Friday. The Abbotsford, B.C., native sits at 1 under, good for 40th spot.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., is even after a 1-under 71 in the second round.

Patrick Reed (73) was 6 under along with Ricky Barnes (70), Jon Curran (68), Sung Kang (67), Spencer Levin (69), Peter Malnati (71), Ryan Palmer (70) and Mark Wilson (69).

“I feel like I hit a couple of loose shots,” said Reed, who was born in San Antonio. “The game feels solid. Just the ball striking a little bit.”

Branden Grace, the RBC Heritage winner last week in South Carolina, shot his second round 72 to make the cut on the number.

Defending champion Jimmy Walker missed the cut with rounds of 75 and 77. Phil Mickelson also dropped out, shooting 77-71.

“I don’t feel bad about the physical game, the ball coming off the blade,” Mickelson said. “The swing is on plane. I need better mental focusing, seeing the shot before I step into it.”

Former SMU star Bryson DeChambeau also missed the cut in his second pro start, shooting 74-73.

TORONTO — In the midst of the Toronto Raptors’ Game 3 rout of Indiana on Thursday night a mini-battle raged.

DeMarre Carroll versus Paul George. Carroll emerged as the undisputed victor.

The defensive specialist, who was acquired by the Raptors in the off-season for exactly the reasons he showed in Game 3, held George to 6-of-19 shooting in the 101-85 victory that gave Toronto a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven series.

Thursday’s on-court hostilities spilled into a good-natured war of words on Friday, with Carroll scoffing at George’s complaints of non-calls.

“Playoff basketball is physical. If it was a cakewalk, there would be a lot of people in the playoffs, right?” Carroll said. “So I feel like I’m just going to continue to play the way I’ve played him and let him talk to the refs and I’ll talk to the refs after the season.”

George said he’d complained to officials countless times during Game 3, claiming that Carroll was “hitting my elbow every shot.”

“We were laughing about it during the game…

That’s what DeMarre does,” George said. “I knew at some point I was going to see that DeMarre that’s going to be the chippy DeMarre. But a lot of my shots he was getting away with hitting the elbow hitting the wrist, making it tough for me to follow through Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and see the ball go down.”

Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots George’s complaints came despite a big discrepancy in free throws favouring the Pacers. George over Indiana Pacers center Ian Mahinmi (28) during went 12-for-12 from the foul line, and the Pacers had the first half of Game 3 of an NBA first-round playoff 33 free throws. The Raptors went to the line just 16 basketball series in Indianapolis, Thursday. times.

“How many more free throws you want? 20? 30?” take it from there, and do some more treatment toCarroll said. “But that’s on him, man. Like I said night and it will be like I never played 35 minutes I’m going to worry about myself and worry about the before.”

Raptors and we’re going to come out and keep doing what we need to do.”

“That’s Paul being Paul, man,” Carroll added. “But at the end of the day I’m going to keep playing him the way I’ve been playing him and that’s physical basketball.

And obviously if the refs didn’t call it, it wasn’t a foul, right?”

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SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds strolled into the indoor batting cage to join his hitters at work and immediately shut the door.

No distractions.

He was the major distraction Friday. No getting around it when you’re wearing a Marlins uniform in your old ballpark.

Bonds is all smiles these days in front of the cameras, seemingly content in his new role as Miami’s hitting coach when initially the job left him longing to get back in the batter’s box and swing for the fences as he used to making BARRY BONDS his living clearing outfield walls.

“At first in spring training, the emotions (were tough) because I’m used to being on the field with them and being in the dugout watching them biting my lip and going, ‘Oh, I wish I could do this, oh, I wish I could do that,”’ Bonds said Friday, sitting in the visitor’s dugout at AT&T Park. “You have to take a step back and realize your job is different. You can’t be a player anymore, you have to be a coach.”

In fact, he likes this coaching thing so much he will consider giving it another year beyond 2016. He isn’t ruling out that possibility yet, at least.

Even with all the extra hours at the ballpark spent in the batting cage and studying video, and the early wakeup calls at spring training he had forgotten about since his playing days ended in 2007.

“He’s behaving, I’ll leave it at that,” joked assistant hitting coach Frank Menechino.

In the house that Bonds built, the home run king returned to AT&T Park, hoping for a warm reception in the Bay Area where he grew up and played the final 15 of his 22 major league seasons.

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Barry!” He tipped his cap.

“It’s good to see him in baseball. It really is. He’s doing what he wants to do,” said Giants skipper Bruce Bochy.

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

B6

Bettman on what fans can throw on ice

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Attention, Florida Panthers fans: throwing those toy rats on the ice during a game means drawing the ire of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Days after fans in Philadelphia threw light-up wristbands onto the ice during a Flyers playoff loss, Bettman said the league strongly discourages throwing anything onto the ice except for hats to celebrate a hat trick.

That includes playoff traditions of faux rats in Florida and real octopi in Detroit.

“Putting aside the hat trick, we don’t think it’s a good idea for fans to be throwing things on the ice for a whole host of reasons.” Bettman said Friday. “We don’t think it’s appropriate, other than the case of the hat trick, to throw things on the ice. Not only is it disruptive to the game, it’s potentially dangerous.”

Bettman was at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Monday when fans threw hundreds of wristbands on the ice during the third period of a 6-1 loss to the Washington Capitals. The commissioner called it an unfortunate incident, especially considering the wristbands were part of a pregame tribute to late founder Ed Snider.

When Panthers fans threw rats onto the ice during a March 31 game against the New Jersey Devils, the team was given two minor penalties for delay of game, a rule the NHL put in to cut down on such events. Bettman said he spoke to the team’s executive chair-

No Canada: NHL playoff ratings plummet north of the border With no Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs, TV ratings have plunged north of the border.

Viewership is down by nearly 60 per cent through the first week of the post-season compared to last spring, when there were five Canadian teams competing.

The numbers are a concern but not man, Peter Luukko, immediately to express his concern about a tradition that dates to Florida’s Stanley Cup Final run in 1996.

Detroit’s octopus tradition goes back much further, but that doesn’t mean it’s league-approved.

“An occasional octopus, I’m not justifying it, is certainly different than 10,000 rats,” Bettman said. “They do a good job at Joe Louis (Arena) of getting the octopi off the ice as quickly as possible. And they don’t swing it around anymore because you can get octopus goop on the ice or on a player’s jersey.”

That won’t be a problem until at least next spring, as the Red Wings were eliminated Thursday night. The NHL told the Panthers that fans can throw toy rats on the ice only after a game.

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a surprise to Sportsnet President Scott Moore, who played a role three years ago in securing the Toronto-based cable giant’s 12-year, $5.2 billion (Canadian) bid to secure Canadian NHL broadcasting rights.

Moore is disappointed but not panicked seeing first-round playoff viewership decline from 1.3 million to about 500,000 in the second year of the deal.

By comparison, Canadian ratings are still out-pacing those in the U.S., where NBC is averaging about 484,000 viewers. er Bill Daly touched on other topics during the hour-long meeting: NO TOLERANCE FOR INTOLERANCE: After Chicago Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw was suspended a game for using a gay slur, Bettman said the league has tried to “raise the consciousness” about those kinds of issues. Daly said the league educates players and specifically rookies about the subject and sent out a memo before the season to make them aware of what’s not appropriate to say. Shaw apologized the next day.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KARLSTAD, Sweden — Canada was knocked out of the playoff round at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Friday after dropping a 6-5 decision to Scotland at the Lofbergs Lila Arena.

The Scottish duo of Gina Aitken and Bruce Mouat hit a takeout for the decisive single point in the eighth end.

Saskatoon’s Dustin Kalthoff and Marliese Kasner scored three points in the fifth end for a 4-3 lead but the Scots answered with a deuce in the sixth end before giving up a single in the seventh. It was Canada’s first loss at the competition.

Earlier Friday, Canada dumped New Zealand 12-2 in the opening playoff game for its seventh straight win.

Scotland qualified for the quarter-finals by upsetting defending champion Hungary 6-5.

Scotland will face China in one semifinal Saturday while the United States will take on Russia in the other.

Canada will play Finland in a placement game.

The medal games are scheduled for Sunday.

The combined results of the 2016 and 2017 world mixed doubles events will decide the seven teams who will join host South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

players gave after the incident, there’s an awareness and a greater awareness on the subject than ever before,” Bettman said. “And I think even Andrew’s response was an acknowledgement of that. Perhaps this was a teaching moment.”

COACH’S CHALLENGES: Bettman defended the league against criticism of the new coach’s challenge system that has been at the centre of controversy in a handful of playoff games.

Bettman believes plays that are offside by even the slightest amount should be subject to review.

“We’re trying to get it right,” Bettman said. “And in the playoffs, you look at how close the games are. The Chicago-St. Louis series, they’ve played 96 per cent of the time either tied or within a goal. Every goal matters.”

EXPANSION: There was nothing new on expansion, which Bettman again repeated wasn’t a guarantee for 2017-18 or at all. Las Vegas and Quebec City are the only cities in consideration for expansion, which has no timetable but for now also no opportunity for Seattle to join the fray.

“What’s new in Seattle on a building?” Bettman asked. “Even if you told me they were under construction tomorrow, it wouldn’t impact this process.”

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Inflation breathes life into economy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Fresh economic data released Friday showed sturdier-than-expected retail sales and underlying inflation, providing further evidence the economy has started to show some life.

A new Statistics Canada report found that inflation remained cool last month at 1.3 per cent as cheaper energy prices — compared to a year ago — continued to weigh down the annual rate.

But the core inflation rate, which omits some of the most volatile items such as gas pump prices, produced a robust reading of 2.1 per cent. The central bank watches core inflation closely because it’s a better indicator of underlying price pressures.

A separate Statistics Canada report Friday showed that retail trade numbers rose 0.4 per cent in February to $44.2 billion, which followed a healthy two per cent gain in January. Analysts had expected the figure to land in negative territory.

“I think the bottom line here is the Canadian consumer is still very much alive and well,” BMO chief economist Doug Porter said of the retail sales figures.

“We’re seeing very strong numbers out of places like Ontario and B.C. — pretty much anywhere but the Prairies reported very strong retail sales activ-

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Canada is on track to register a strong first quarter,” -Krishen Rangasamy Senior Economist, National Bank

ity.”

One retail sales number really jumped out at him: the 9.2 per cent year-over-year increase in Ontario.

He believes it was “way stronger” than anyone would have anticipated and may have been partly a result of more Canadians spending their cash at home, rather than absorbing the exchange rate hit of the low loonie across the border.

But despite the encouraging numbers, some forecasters are still expecting next week’s real gross domestic product figure — a measure of economic growth — for February to show a contraction after a few weak reports.

Looking at growth in the first quarter as a whole is showing more promise.

BMO is projecting real GDP to rise about 3.25 per cent over the three months of 2016, while National Bank is expecting a bump of three per cent.

“February’s increase in retail spending surprised consensus given that it comes on top of the prior month’s massive gains,” National Bank senior economist Krishen Rangasamy

wrote in a research note to clients.

“All told, Canada is on track to register a strong first quarter … driven by consumption and exports.”

The February retail trade gains were seen in most sub sectors, with motor vehicles and parts dealers benefiting from the largest increase in dollar terms. Sales were also up for clothing and clothing accessories stores, building material and garden equipment, as well as sporting goods, hobby book and music stores.

The biggest contributor of downward pressure on the headline retail number was the value of sales at gas stations, which slid for the eighth consecutive month to reach their lowest level since August 2010.

For inflation, the March reading followed a 1.4 per cent year-over-year increase in February and a two per cent rise in January.

The agency’s latest consumer price index said its headline inflation rate remained below the Bank of Canada’s two per cent target, largely due to a drop in prices for gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil compared to the year be-

fore. Prices were down 13.6 per cent at the pump, 17.4 per cent for natural gas and 25.8 per cent for fuel oil.

Those downward forces countered higher prices for shelter and food — particularly fresh vegetables and fresh fruit. Due in part to the lower Canadian dollar, vegetables prices were up 14.9 per cent and fruit rose 11.3 per cent compared to the year before.

Inflation was lower in eight provinces in March compared to the previous month, leaving Alberta and British Columbia as the only ones that saw a higher rate.

The new numbers suggest to Porter that the risk adjustment the federal government added to its forecasts in last month’s budget may have been too cautious.

Critics have said the Liberals deliberately lowered their fiscal outlook by including larger-than-usual risk adjustments of $6 billion per year in order to help the government beat expectations down the road.

“I would say the overall theme over the last month is that generally speaking there’s a little bit more certainty and there’s a little bit more positive vibes behind the Canadian economy this year than what was presented in the budget,” Porter said.

“It now looks like it will do a little bit better than what was expected. So, that’s going to put a healthier glow on Ottawa’s finances through this year.”

Buyback, repairs for VW owners in emissions deal SETTLEMENT TO APPLY TO CANADIAN OWNERS OF ABOUT 100,000 VOLKSWAGEN VEHICLES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A U.S. settlement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal that will see the automaker buy back or repair affected vehicles or compensate their owners will apply to Canadian owners of about 100,000 Volkswagen vehicles as well, VW Canada said.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer announced Thursday that an agreement-in-principle had been reached that addresses the majority of vehicles affected by the ongoing TDI emissions issue.

Breyer has ordered all parties to keep the specifics of the agreement confidential until full details are filed in court on June 21.

Under the tentative agreement outlined by Breyer, owners of polluting Volkswagens would have the option of selling them back to the company or getting them repaired at VW’s expense.

“Resolutions reached with the EPA apply to Canada as well because our Canadian vehicles are certified by the EPA,” Thomas Tetzlaff, a spokesman for VW Canada, said in an email Friday.

In a release Thursday, Volkswagen Canada said owners do not need to take any action at this time and they will be provided with next steps once they are available.

Volkswagen has admitted some

diesel cars had software installed to cheat on emission tests after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publicly revealed the scheme last September. The car maker has said about 500,000 cars had cheated emissions tests and about 100,000 of them were sold in Canada.

“We appreciate the ongoing patience and loyalty of our Canadian Volkswagen customers, employees and dealers, and we will provide more details as additional information is released,” Volkswagen Canada said Thursday.

Details of the agreement are expected to come out over the next couple of months. Breyer set a June 21 deadline for attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department and for Volkswagen owners to file additional paperwork about the agreement.

After that, owners will get the chance to comment before Breyer signs off on any deal.

The scandal erupted in September when it was learned that the German automaker had fitted many of its cars with software to fool emissions tests and had put dirty vehicles on the road.

“Although it is too soon to tell whether VW owners will be satisfied, and there are still other liabilities that must be addressed, this is the beginning of the end of the story,” said Michael Steel, an attorney in San Francisco who has advised car manufacturers.

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Joyce Ertel Hulbert, owner of a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, holds a sign while interviewed outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday. An agreement will give consumers who bought nearly 600,000 Volkswagen vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions tests the option of having the automaker buy back the cars or fix them.

Regulator to study risks of aging energy infrastructure

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

An idle pump jack is silhouetted against the prairie sky in Central Alberta.

Wellheads, pipelines and other industrial facilities in the energy sector are being inspected for human health and environmental risks.

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CALGARY — Alberta’s energy regulator is studying the risks posed by the province’s aging energy hardware.

“Aging infrastructure is an issue for the province,” said Jim Ellis, head of the agency which released a threeyear strategic plan this week.

Ellis said the regulator has already compiled a database that locates and assesses Alberta’s thousands of abandoned wells. Now it’s time to do the same for pipelines, wellheads, compressor stations and all the other industrial facilities a century of energy development has left on the province’s landscape, he said.

“We now have a database on what wells there are, what state they’re in,” Ellis said.

“What we’re going to do is move that … to pipelines, all subsurface infrastructure, and then the surface infrastructure. That’s going to take us a little bit of time.”

The database is to be compiled from agencies that preceded the current regulator, which brought together three different bodies in 2013. By the time it’s complete in March 2018, the database will detail the age, location and condition of about 415,000 kilometres of pipe and 50,000 oil and gas facilities.

The facilities — especially pipelines — will be ranked according to the human health and environmental risks they pose and dealt with accordingly, said Ellis.

He pointed to the effort his agency is already making on cleaning up 37,000 abandoned wells that dot Alberta. By January, he said, 6,800 such sites had been cleaned up.

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cleanups are being developed.

“We will sit down with stakeholders and government to look at this and determine how we’re going to move through this.”

The regulator also hopes to increase public confidence in its work.

It wants its overall approval among Albertans who are aware of the agency to increase to 80 per cent from about 77 per cent.

Polling released last summer suggested approval rates by industry were already at 90 per cent. That means the regulator will have to work on First Nations, landowners and environmental groups, where only between half and two-thirds of respondents were confident in its ability.

“We know that’s the focus we have,” said Ellis.

“One of the things I want to do over the next couple of years is to refocus on indigenous people. As a regulator, we can do a better job.”

First Nations have criticized the agency for not allowing them to speak at public hearings on energy projects adjacent to or on their traditional land. Ellis wouldn’t comment on whether the regulator would loosen its rules on who gets standing to appear.

He did point out a recent pipeline hearing held a special session on the Driftpile First Nation to make it easier for elders to testify.

Chris Severson-Baker of the Pembina Institute, a clean-energy think-tank, said there’s real urgency to tidy up the legacy of Alberta’s oilpatch.

Low oil prices have crimped the cash flow that used to pay for cleanup, he said. As well, carbon pricing will place further demands on industry funds.

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Cameco closes Rabbit Lake mine

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.12 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.92 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.48 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.19 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.710 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.78 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.45 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 189.30 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.05 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.91 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.05 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.61 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.84 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.60 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.88 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.18 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.72 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.11 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.27 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.40 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 50.97 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 15.18 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 136.28 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.18 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed in the red Friday, while major U.S. indexes were mixed, with the Nasdaq significantly lower amid disappointing earnings from several big tech companies.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 7.20 points at 13,874.00, after having slipped 30 points the previous session.

In New York, disappointing earnings from several big technology companies weighed on markets, particularly the techheavy Nasdaq, which retreated 39.66 points or 0.8 per cent to 4,906.23.

Among the biggest losers were Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), whose shares fell $4 or 7.17 per cent to US$51.78, and Google parent company Alphabet (Nasdaq:GOOGL), off $42.23 or 5.41 per cent at US$737.77.

Meanwhile, coffee chain Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) fell $2.96 or 4.88 per cent to US$57.68 after reporting disappointing sales growth for the first three months of the year.

Despite Nasdaq’s struggle, other New York markets managed to edge higher, with the Dow Jones industrial average adding 21.23 points to 18,003.75 and the broader S&P 500 gaining 0.1 of a point to 2,091.58.

Tom Siomades, head of Hartford Funds Investment Consulting Group, noted earlier in the session that absent major economic data, investors have been riding the ups and downs of earnings this week, although market swings haven’t been as volatile as earlier in the year.

“These mixed earnings that we’ve been getting … these mini rallies and mini sell-offs … are part of it,” Siomades, told The Associated Press.

At home, the Canadian dollar rose 0.35 of a U.S. cent to 78.92

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.37 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.52 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.83 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.72 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.05 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.41 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.59 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.76 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.65 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.43 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.90 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.74 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.920 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.17 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.97 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.94 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.43 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.98 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.59 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.68 Canyon Services Group. . 4.89 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.24 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.46 cents US. New economic data from Statistics Canada helped move the loonie higher, said Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3MACS. Statistics Canada released data Friday showing that overall, inflation cooled to 1.3 per cent in March from 1.4 per cent the previous month. However, core inflation, which excludes items like gasoline, rose to 2.1 per cent from 1.9 per cent.

A second report from the agency showed that retail trade numbers rose 0.4 per cent in February, outperforming expectations of analysts, many of whom expected a negative showing for the month.

The loonie finished up 0.35 of a U.S. cent at 78.92 cents US. The commodity-sensitive loonie’s rise was also helped by an improvement in oil prices, said Nakamoto. It’s definitely positive for the loonie, he said.

The June contract for benchmark crude rose 55 cents to US$43.73 although still shy of the US$44.18 it hit Wednesday, a five-month high.

Nakamoto anticipates oil will reach the $50 mark this year, boosting the Canadian dollar’s exchange rate along with it.

Elsewhere in commodities, May natural gas shot up 7.2 cents to US$2.14 per mmBtu. May copper added 1.3 cents to US$2.26 a pound, while June gold bullion shed $20.30 to US$1,230.00 a troy ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,874.00, down 7.20 points Dow — 18,003.75, up 21.23 points S&P 500 — 2,091.58, up 0.10 of a point

IN BRIEF

GM Stops production at four plants

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OSHAWA, Ont. — General Motors is shutting down production at four plants, including its flex line in Oshawa, Ont., for two weeks due to a part supply issue caused by the recent earthquakes in Japan.

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Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.53 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.84 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.87 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 18.05 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.58 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.880 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.390 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.00 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.30 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.710 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.26 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.39 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.17 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.29 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.16 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.72 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.71 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.25 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.81 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.78 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.06 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.58 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.08 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.19 Nasdaq — 4,906.23, down 39.66 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.92 cents US, up 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.8263, up 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4221, down 1.48 cents Euro — US$1.1223, down 0.67 of a cent Oil futures: US$43.73 per barrel, up 55 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,230.00 per oz., down $20.30 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.475 oz., down 17.6 cents $722.57 kg., down $5.66 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $5.30 lower $489.40 July ‘16 $5.40 lower $493.60 Nov. ‘16 $4.40 lower $488.60 Jan. ‘17 $4.10 lower $493.40 March ‘17 $3.90 lower $495.10 May ‘17 $3.90 lower $494.10 July ‘17 $3.90 lower $493.80 Nov. ‘17 $3.90 lower $485.30 Jan. ‘18 $3.90 lower $485.30 March ‘18 $3.90 lower $485.30 May ‘18 $3.90 lower $485.30.

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.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 663,380 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 663,380.

The automaker said the shutdowns, which start Monday, will also include assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., Lordstown, Ohio, and Fairfax, Kansas.

The Chevrolet Impala, Buick Regal and Cadillac XTS are built on the flex line. The consolidated line at the Oshawa plant will not be affected.

GM said the stoppage is not expected to have any material impact on its full-year production plans in North America or its second-quarter or fullyear financial results.

Two earthquakes caused widespread damage last week in parts of Kumamoto and surrounding communities on Kyushu.

REGINA — Premier Brad Wall says he hopes a uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan will eventually reopen, but he doesn’t think that will happen any time soon.

Mining giant Cameco (TSX:CCO) announced Thursday that it is suspending work at the Rabbit Lake mine, because of an oversupply of uranium around the world, caused in part by the shutdown of nuclear facilities in Japan.

About 500 jobs will be lost at the mine and another 85 at the company’s U.S. operations.

“It’s a terrible day for northern Saskatchewan, for those 500 people that have lost their jobs, at least temporarily,” Wall said Friday.

“If there’s some hope, it’s that they’re not closing it completely and permanently, that they are going to keep 100-plus staff there in terms of maintenance, for the occasion when prices regain strength and it can potentially open.”

But the premier added that he doesn’t believe there’s any expectation on the part of industry or analysts “that prices will be coming back to the extent that they would need to for Rabbit Lake to reopen any time soon.”

Wall said a team from the Economy Ministry will help those who have been laid off to identify other jobs or retraining opportunities.

Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel travelled to the mine to meet with employees.

“It’s a tough decision so I wanted to be there to explain it to them face to face,” he said Thursday. (They’re) obviously disappointed, but they know our business, they know our company.

Rabbit Lake is a higher cost mine and had a limited life.”

Cameco said it will offer employees exit packages and will consider relocating workers to other Cameco facilities.

About 150 people will be kept on at Rabbit Lake to maintain the facility and to do environmental monitoring and reclamation. That transition work is expected to be completed by the end of August.

Rabbit Lake has produced more than 91 million kilograms of uranium concentrates since production began at the Saskatchewan facility in 1975.

Gitzel said the mine was old and small compared with the company’s two other mines in the province, which each produce as much as 9.7 million kilograms of uranium a year. Rabbit Lake only produced about 1.8 million kilograms.

He said the market has been soft for about five years since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown at three reactors in Fukushima, Japan. Uranium is selling for about two-thirds less than it did before the accident.

“There’s certainly an excess inventory of uranium available around the world so that’s driven the prices way down.”

The company also said it will reduce its 2016 production target at the McArthur River/Key Lake operation, given the current state of oversupply in the market.

Wall said the province will work with companies and the federal government to find new markets and build demand for Saskatchewan uranium.

“When prices strengthen, if they don’t come back to the point that Rabbit Lake makes sense for this company, there might be other opportunities for production increases from companies.

“That would mean Saskatchewan people working again,” he said.

New IV to cure jet lag, hangovers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new clinic promises to help Toronto’s busy Bay Street financiers and overworked tech entrepreneurs cure their hangovers, shake off jet lag and even stave off the signs of aging through an intravenous drip.

Reviv, an international company offering IV infusions of vitamins and medicines, opened its first Canadian treatment centre last week, and more locations across the country are expected to follow.

“We aim to be coast-to-coast in the next couple of years,” says David Potter, partner at Reviv Canada, adding that roughly 80 private health and wellness clinics nationwide have said they’d like to get on board.

“The clientele we’re looking to attract is really that demographic of people that are living a 24-hour life cycle — working hard and then playing hard as well,” says Potter.

Reviv is not the first company to offer so-called “vitamin drips” in Toronto.

Naturopathic clinics have been providing the service for years, although Potter and his business partner Christopher Chapheau say Reviv goes beyond simple vitamin infusions.

What sets Reviv apart are its recovery concoctions, which deliver active medicinal ingredients such as anti-nausea and anti-inflammatory drugs

straight into the bloodstream to combat the symptoms of flu, hay fever, sunburns and more, says Chapheau.

Reviv was founded in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2010 by emergency room doctor Johnny Parvani, before expanding to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, London, Johannesburg and more.

“I personally believe that, if you fast forward 10 years down the road, these treatments will be as ubiquitous as Botox is today,” Parvani says.

As IV infusions have gained popularity, they have also attracted critics who question their efficacy.

Parvani says ER doctors have been using IV drips to deliver medicines and help hydrate patients for years.

“This is something we do day in and day out,” Parvani says. “There’s really no argument because this is standard of practice medicine.”

At Reviv’s Toronto location, located just west of the financial district in the heart of the startup tech community, treatments are administered by a team of registered nurses.

First-time patients fill out medical questionnaires and consult with one of the clinic’s three doctors via Skype.

“The foundation of Reviv is that we are delivering a controlled medical procedure,” says Potter, noting that it is governed by Ontario’s Regulated Health Professions Act and subject to oversight by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016

This Bard season is a celebration

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Bard will be celebrated at Bower Ponds this summer with a triple-threat season of romantic comedy, high-stakes drama, music and Shakespearean-themed improvisation.

Prime Stock Theatre will be staging three Bard on Bower plays, instead of two, to help mark the 400th anniversary this year of William Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616.

Four centuries of the Bard are being commemorated around the world — from authors such as Margaret Atwood writing so-called “deleted scenes” from Shakespearean works, to an English theatre company vowing to stage a Shakespearean production in every country on Earth.

In Red Deer, Julius Caesar and Love’s Labour’s Lost will be staged by a 14-actor cast on the outdoor stage in repertory from July 14-31st, said Prime Stock Theatre’s artistic director, Thomas Usher.

And in this seventh season of Bard on Bower productions, Usher will also present a smaller, scaleddown version of Othello.

A cast of five actors will stage this tale of love, jealousy and manipulation inside the Bower Ponds Pavilion. Seating will be provided for an audience of 40 for this ticketed, 70-minute “pocket production” that runs on July 17-31.

“We’re trying to create more of a festival atmosphere” at Bower Ponds, said Usher. To achieve this, there will be a plethora of special performances around the Bard on Bower productions. “There will be Shakespeare-based improvisation,” he added, from groups including Bull Skit Comedy, Tree House Youth Theatre and Improv Jelly.

There will also be pre-show chats, workshops, and a fundraising musical cabaret at Fratters held July 18-20 and 28-30.

Music will also be heard at Bower Ponds. Red Deer trio Underside Pattern will add Buddy Holly tunes to Love’s Labour’s Lost to go with a re-imagining 1950s plot line. The comedy is about four men who try — unsuccessfully — to avoid the company of women during their three years of monk-ish studies.

It will be directed by Emily Pole, a recent graduate of the Red Deer College Theatre Studies program and one of Usher’s former students.

Usher will direct the two tragedies.

Othello, is about a powerful military commander has his emotional strings pulled by his advisor Iago, who’s bent on revenge after he feels another soldier is “unfairly” promoted over him.

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Gertrude (Tara Rorke) questions Hamlet’s (Albertus Koett) sanity during the Bard on Bower’s production of Hamlet at Bower Ponds in 2014.

Julius Caesar tells of the dramatic fall of the Roman Emperor. Most of the play deals with Cassius’s plans to kill Caesar and Brutus’s psychological struggle between honor, patriotism and friendship.

Bard on Bower is operating with a grant from Heritage Canada and a generous corporate donation from Servus Credit Union and some other businesses.

Usher is seeking more corporate sponsorship for Prime Stock’s Bard on Bower season.

And he hopes the audience will help cover more

of the costs. While the Shakespearean productions have been drawing bigger crowds, he has noticed that public donations aren’t increasing. Admission to the two outdoor plays will remain free, but there’s a suggested donation of $20 for adults.

The indoor run of Othello will cost $20 a ticket.

More information on the shows and the cabaret will be available later this spring from www.primestocktheatre.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Wild T channels Hendrix, Bowie

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Toney Springer, of Wild T & The Spirit, is often compared to Jimi Hendrix. But he feels he actually learned more from David Bowie.

The Canadian guitarist grew up in Trinidad and Tobago playing “funky jazz” guitar, without knowing too much about rock or blues.

“We never heard of the blues. We had the ocean, beaches and sunshine… Why would we need the blues?” said Springer, who plays with Wild T & The Spirit on Sunday, May 1, at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

When a friend lent him a Hendrix cassette he wasn’t overly impressed at first. “I held onto (the recording) because there was some Otis Redding on the other side, and at the time, I was O.D.-ing on Redding!”

Springer gained greater appreciation of Hendrix’s music after coming to Toronto in the early ’80s and being recruited to a Jimi Hendrix tribute band.

“I learned Jimi Hendrix’s music because it was a job. They were offering me money,” he recalled.

But after listening carefully to guitarist’s grooves, Springer found himself a convert to the cult of Jimi.

“I thought, holy, s—t man, this guy’s amazing!”

Despite his admiration for Hendrix’s music, he believes it didn’t teach him more than different variations of what he’d already been playing in Trinidad.

Bowie, on the other hand, proved to be a revelation.

Springer, who played with Toronto band Rough Trade before starting Wild T & The Spirit in 1990, was asked to play on Bowie’s 1993 Black Tie White Noise album. He figures it was because the English superstar was always interested in musical experimentation, and his own guitar sound originates from the loose jamming style of Caribbean music.

In the studio, Springer asked to hear a loop of Bowie’s music for the tune I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday, for which he would play lead guitar. The Toronto-based musician listened to Bowie’s melody a few times, then did some “doodling” on his guitar to figure out how he would approach it.

By the time Springer said he was ready to record his part, some 15 minutes later, he was told, “It’s OK, we’ve already got it. You can go home now!”

It turned out Bowie had been recording his improvisational grooves while he was practising. “He told me, ‘I wanted to get you fresh, and not in your comfort zone,’” Springer recalled.

He figures this “sweet, small-boned Englishman who liked to tell stories,” was always looking to straddle new musical ground. “He liked my playing because there was no (formula)… I was always making something out of nothing,” said Springer, who went on to perform with Bowie on several talk shows and for the DVD for Black Tie White Noise.

“I learned a lot from him,” recalled the guitarist,

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Wild T & The Spirit are set to perform on Sunday, May 1, at Fratters Speakeasy who studied Bowie’s unique vocal techniques and his on- and off-stage demeanor.

He remembers the thin, blond artist was “the calmest man I’ve ever seen” while waiting in the wings to perform on Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall’s late-night talk shows. “There was not a bit of anxiety.

But as soon as the lights went on, he was on fire!

“I thought, this is the real deal. There is no space for ‘fair.’ (Bowie) knows how to turn it into this positive force,” said Springer, who was saddened to hear of his death in January. “We kept in touch for quite a while after I played with him,” and Bowie recommended filmmakers when Springer was looking to make a music video.

Drawing on a similar zen spirit of musical looseness, Wild T & The Spirit have recorded a live album.

ST. GEORGE’S DAY TEA AT ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

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St. George’s Day Tea will be hosted

by Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. at Red Deer Legion. Enjoy scones with Devonshire cream and dance to music by Red Deer Music Makers. Tickets are $5 and they are available at the Legion reception desk.

It includes a couple totally new songs written by Springer: No No No and Hooked. It also features a ZZ Top-style arrangement of the Wild T tune I’m a River, a slower version of Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower and a cover of James Brown’s Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag. Springer explained, “I’m a funky cat, man. I come from funk, and James Brown is the King of Funk for me… I had to pay tribute.”

He promises his trio, recently back from a European tour, will show Red Deer fans a good time.

“The mood we set for people is so musical, it allows us to go anywhere and everywhere” — from Bob Marley’s reggae influences to the soul of Sly and the Family Stone.

There’s a $10 cover for the 8 p.m. show. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

THE MASTER’S SINGERS PERFORM AT GAETZ UNITED Downtown Sounds at Gaetz Concert features The Master’s Singers — 60 member male voice choir from Calgary under the direction of Muriel Wiebe — on Sunday, 3 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in Red Deer.

Tickets are $15 at the door. See themasterssingers.org

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BENTLEY LIBRARY FUNDRAISER The third annual Bentley Library Fundraiser featuring Funhouse Dance Band, Bob Ronnie catering, silent auction, dance, bar, 50/50 draw and door prizes goes Saturday night starting at 7:30 p.m. and runs until 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the Blindman Valley Ag Centre. For more information call 403-748-4626 or email bentleystaff@prl.ab.ca.

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

ENTERTAINMENT

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Russell Peters on Netflix special, meeting Syrian refugees, political correctness

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — After a whirlwind twoyear world tour that saw him hanging out with Saudi royals and Syrian refugees, Canadian standup superstar Russell Peters is winding down on home soil.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, performances at Toronto’s Massey Hall will be recorded for a Netflix special.

Then after a couple of other shows next month — and an appearance on “Lip Sync Battle” with CeeLo Green — he’ll finally start a four-month break in June to spend time with his five-yearold daughter.

“I’m kind of excited about it, actually — nervous and excited,” the 45-yearold said of taking so many months off for the first time in his career.

The Brampton, Ont.-raised comic, who’s known for skewering racial stereotypes, is in town after performing 250 shows in 120 cities across 25 countries for his “Almost Famous World Tour” — his longest and biggest yet.

The Middle East has probably his biggest fanbase, “the most rabid, that’s for sure,” said Peters.

In Saudi Arabia, one of the show promoters was a prince and he was “treated literally like royalty by royalty.” Meanwhile, in Jordan, he visited the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp on a request by the Canadian government.

He discovered the children there don’t have aspirations of living in other countries, as he and many others had come to believe.

“They just want to go back to Syria,” said Peters. “I get it. When you’re there and you see it in their face, there’s no evil in them. They’re just displaced people, they just want to go home.”

Peters also beefed up his acting resume while on tour, with credits including the Jon Favreau film “Chef” and Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” in which he voices the peacock and Rocky the Rhino.

For his appearance on “Lip Sync Battle” next month, liquid courage helped him get through his songs, which include “Oh, What a Night” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

“In all honesty, I was pretty hammered when I did that because that’s the only way you’re going to get me to sing and dance on TV like that,” he said.

“The good thing is, because I was a little buzzed, I was really taking shots at (CeeLo Green).”

Peters said he picked Massey Hall for his Netflix taping because he want-

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Free screening of Goon on Saturday Celebrate National Canadian Film Day by watching a free screening of the hockey movie Goon on Saturday, April 30.

Described on Rotten Tomatoes as a “crude slapstick comedy with wellformed characters and a surprising amount of heart,” Goon stars Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel and Eugene Levy. The Canada-U.S. production is supposed to take place in Boston, but was filmed mostly in Brandon, Man. and Winnipeg.

The plot is about a nice but dimwitted man (Scott) who becomes the enforcer for a minor-league hockey team, despite not knowing how to skate.

The 7 p.m. showing (Rated 18+) is free at the Welikoklad Centre in downtown Red Deer.

Canadians from coast to coast are invited to stand together during this third-annual National Canadian Film Day and “celebrate the great cinematic stories we tell one another in this cold, vast country.”

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Comedian Russell Peters poses for a press photo.After a whirlwind two-year world tour that saw him hanging out with Saudi royals and Syrian refugees, Canadian standup superstar Peters is winding down on home soil. ed to “scale it back to a normal-sized venue” after previously recording specials at Madison Square Garden, the O2 arena, and the Allphones Arena.

“I wanted to do it in my city,” he added, “and I think Massey Hall defines my city as that building has been there before all the other buildings.”

This is Peters’s second straight-toNetflix special and he enjoys the freedom the platform offers.

“Regular TV, I deal with all their other corporate BS,” he said. “Netflix is still run fairly loose, I would say.

They let you do what you want to do and then they take the content.”

In his act, he plans to riff on some Canadian topics as well as his little girl — who lives in Los Angeles with Peters’s ex-wife, Monica Diaz— and the sassy nature she got from him.

“Too much of it,” he said. “But it’s so funny because she’ll do things the exact same way I would do something, and then I try to explain to her, ‘Baby, you can’t pull that on me, that’s exactly

what I would have done. And I’m not mad at you because that’s exactly what I would have done.’

“She stalls when she doesn’t want to do something, or if she doesn’t want to say hi to you she’ll just make a face at you.”

Peters got his start at Toronto’s Yuk Yuk’s comedy chain, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Founder Mark Breslin recently told The Canadian Press he feels standup comedy has “gotten really, really soft,” which Peters agrees with.

“Political correctness has disallowed us to be angry,” he said.

“We have to be so accepting of everything that if you have an opinion on something, it automatically means you are against these people. And that’s not what it means. It means I have a preference, this is what I like and that’s what they like and we can still co-exist quite fine, both liking different things.”

St. Groove to bring the funk to Bull Skit Red Deer funk-fusion band St. Groove will heat things up Bull Skit’s April shows.

This month it’s DIY Bull Skit on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, at the Scott Block theatre. “Come down and create your very own sketch show.”

The happy hour shows go from 7 to 7:45 p.m.

The regular monthly Bull Skit shows of live music, improvs and sketch comedy start at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $23 from www.bullskitcomedy.com or $25 at the door.

Calf Skit presents Frog Prince The next Calf Skit show is Frog Prince: She Kissed a Frog and She Liked It! Bull Skit’s family-friendly fairy tale improvisation will be presented at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, at the Scott Block Theatre.

Come on down for a fun take on the classic The Frog Prince story by the Brothers Grimm. There will be plenty of audience interaction and free popcorn for the kids.

Tickets are $20 per family at the door.

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agers called Everleigh’s head of security and said, “Prince wants to come back.”

Naturally, Fatah accommodated.

“I think he didn’t perform in front of everybody (earlier) because there were 400 people standing a few feet away from him,” said Fatah.

“Maybe he just wanted a more intimate type of experience.”

Hadi Teherany was one of those people who patiently waited for Prince to perform but eventually left the club when it looked like Prince wasn’t going to play.

He was sitting in his condo and tucking into a late-night meal when he got a text from a friend — one of the club’s other owners — encouraging him to rush back.

“I literally (threw) on my sweatpants and popped in the back door,” Teherany said.

“Lo and behold (Prince) is sitting there on stage, tuning up his equipment.”

Only a small number of people — maybe two dozen — were still milling around.

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TORONTO — Prince’s final moments in Canada were spent at Toronto’s Everleigh night club last month, where he thrilled a tiny crowd with a surprise performance.

A day before playing back-to-back shows at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Everleigh owner Zark Fatah got a call asking if Prince could host an after-party there.

They set up a stage with a keyboard and provided two bottles of Limoncello liqueur for the “Purple Rain” superstar and his entourage.

Prince showed up around 12:30 a.m. dressed in a velour robe.

It would be another 90 minutes or so before he addressed a large crowd of fans who were hoping he might perform.

“He came on the mic, thanked everybody for coming,” said Fatah.

“Then he said, ‘If you all stick around, I’ll come back and dance with all of you.”’

Prince then “went back behind his curtain” and hung out until about 3:20 a.m.

By that point most fans had gone home disappointed and Fatah began closing the club.

But Prince had a change of heart.

Fatah said one of the singer’s man-

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HEALTH SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2016

Lace up and get moving Alberta PADMAJA GENESH SENIORS

We all know that physical activity is important for physical and mental health. But many of us do not know how active we have to be to reap the benefits. Many of you might be thinking that since you are walking three times a week, you are probably getting adequate activity. But only 42 per cent of Albertans over the age of 50 are physically active, according to Canadian physical activity guidelines.

Among seniors between the ages of 65-74, only 20 per cent of men and 17 per cent of women get adequate activity, and among seniors aged 75 years and above, only 9 per cent of men and 6 per cent of women meet the recommended guidelines.

The benefits of regular exercise, recommended activity levels for older adults, and the initiatives taken by the province, and the cities to increase the physical activity levels of Albertans, formed the main topics of discussion at the ‘Active Living for Healthy Brains’ – a two day community engage-

ment event organized by the University of Calgary, and sponsored by several organizations such as AIHS Conference Grant program, Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Alzheimer Research, Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging, CIHR, CAIP Chair in Healthy Brain Aging, Heart & Stroke Foundation Chair in Stroke Research, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta.

So what is the latest research on the benefits of regular exercise? Research shows that regular exercise can significantly reduce the risk of premature death from coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and colon cancer. It can improve mental health by reducing depression, anxiety, and reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

Exercising regularly can also reduce the risk of osteoporosis and the risk of falls by increasing balance and coordination, thereby improving our functional independence. This in turn allows us to stay in our homes longer.

It can also improve our memory, mood, make us happier, and improve sleep.

Being physically active also increases the size and function of critical areas of the brain associated with memory, learning, information processing, problem solving and executive functions. It increases blood flow to

the brain, delivering more oxygen to the brain and promotes the formation of new nerve cells and new connections, all of which help to mitigate the age-related changes in the brain.

How much exercise should we do to reap these benefits? According to Canadian guidelines for older adults, the ideal dosage of exercise is 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity per week or an equivalent combination. Examples of moderate intensity physical activity are brisk walking, jogging, biking etc. We do not have to do all that exercise at one time, it can be done in three 10 minute slots, spaced throughout the day.

We also need to do strengthening exercises for the major muscle groups twice a week and flexibility exercises three or more times a week.

Where do Albertans stand in terms of meeting the guidelines? Although 94per cent of Albertans believe that physical activity will improve their health, only 35 per cent of Albertans 65 years and older meet this guideline.

Not only are we exercising less, we are also more sedentary. About one-third of Albertans spend more than 10 hours every day in sedentary activities. Physical inactivity of Canadians is emerging as a major threat to the country’s economy, directly and indirectly, since

it decreases productivity and increases healthcare spending.

Just increasing our physical activity by 1 per cent can give us significant returns in terms of improved physical and mental health, reduced risk of developing chronic health conditions or achieving better control of health conditions, and an overall improvement in the quality of our life. This can also save the nation billions of dollars in healthcare costs, which can then be made available for providing essential programs and services.

Walking is a preferred activity for Albertans and it is a no-cost activity that can be done individually or in groups. Goal setting and planning can help older Albertans get 150 minutes of physical activity per week.

Our city provides a variety of activities for seniors at discounted rates.

We are also blessed with beautiful and safe trails and parks that are waiting to be explored. So let’s lace up and get moving!

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bachelor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontology, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies. A past resident of Red Deer, she is now a Learning Specialist at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary. Please send your comments to padmajaganeshy@yahoo.ca.

Palliative care not synonymous with death STIGMA PREVENTING PATIENTS FROM ACCESSING SUPPORTIVE THERAPY, RESEARCHERS SAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A widespread perception of palliative care as being synonymous with death is preventing many patients from accessing supportive therapies aimed at improving their quality of life, researchers say.

In a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers found that cancer patients referred for early palliative care tended to view the concept as frightening and a sure sign they were dying.

But principal researcher Dr. Camilla Zimmermann, head of palliative care at the University Health Network in Toronto, said the service is intended to provide pain relief and other symptom control from the point of diagnosis through the course of a patient’s illness.

Zimmermann said there’s a disconnect between the World Health Organizations’s definition of palliative care — the use of various therapies to improve quality of life for both patients with a life-threatening illness and for their families — and many people’s beliefs about what the term means.

“I think attention needs to be paid to this because palliative care is something that can help so many people and there are people who are not accessing it because they’re afraid of it,” she said.

“It’s like being afraid of the umbrella rather than the storm, because we’re really trying to protect people from suffering.”

Zimmermann said not all patients referred for palliative care end up dying from the disease for which they are being treated, and some may live for several years following diagnosis.

“We might not know at the beginning if that life-threatening illness is going to be the cause of death for that person or not. But anyone with a serious illness has concerns related to symptom control. They often need emotional support, spiritual support, social support in terms of helping their families and maybe caregivers

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at home, or they may have financial needs.

“So regardless of whether the patient is actually actively dying, they need support for all these things.”

Palliative care is relevant for patients with a number of illnesses besides cancer, including heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, neurological disorders such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or even dementia, she said.

“So any disease may result in death, but that death may not occur for a very long time.”

To conduct the study, researchers interviewed 48 patients with advanced cancers and 23 caregivers who had participated in an earlier investigation of 461 patients. In the first study, half the participants received early palliative care at an out-patient clinic, in addition to cancer treatment. The other half received only cancer care.

Participants had an estimated survival prognosis of between six months and two years. The 2014 study showed improved quality of life for those who received early palliative care.

Both groups in the follow-up study initially viewed “palliative care” as a frightening term they equated with a loss of hope, with incapacity and “it being a place where you go to die, a place you never get out of again,” said Zimmermann. She added that some weren’t clear what the term meant.

After the four-month study, the group enrolled in palliative care shifted their view and saw the service as beneficial to their quality of life, while the group that didn’t get the supportive care continued to find the concept alarming.

ness, Caprio wrote.

“Palliative care would no longer be chosen it would simply be integrated into comprehensive oncology treatment that supports patients and caregivers by incorporating palliative-care principles and services into all aspects of their care.”

Zimmermann said addressing negative perceptions about palliative care is particularly timely, given that medical aid in dying is soon to be fully legalized in Canada, against a background recognition that supportive services for people with potentially life-limiting illnesses are inadequate or non-existent in many parts of the country.

“There’s the fear some people might be able to easily access physician-assisted death who don’t have access to palliative care,” she said. “And we would never want someone to choose assisted death without having experienced palliative care.”

Patients in both camps found the label “palliative care” extremely stigmatizing and said they wouldn’t use the term when speaking of their treatment with family or friends.

Participants said the stigma primarily arises from the medical system, with doctors and nurses giving the impression that palliative care was only end-of-life care, explained Zimmermann. She added that the mainstream media and social media tend to perpetuate that notion.

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No time for waiting in Attawapiskat WARREN KINSELLA OPINION What do you do when times get really bad where you are, and when your loved ones are at risk?

Well, you either stay where you are, and hope that things finally get better.

Or you move.

Around here, that question isn’t an abstraction. Around here, a majority of Calgary’s residents came from somewhere else, to get a piece of Alberta’s (formerly) limitless promise — better jobs, better services, better opportunities.

That’s why my own family came here, in fact: to escape Quebec’s cultural and language wars. We stayed three decades. This is home, still.

Now many Calgarians are agonizing about moving. The bottom has fallen out of the energy industry, and things aren’t going to get better anytime soon.

For the first time in three decades, many Calgarians are pulling up stakes and heading elsewhere. Nova Scotia, Ontario, B.C. Anywhere they can get a job. Anywhere they can give their families a semblance of a future.

That dilemma — should we stay or should we go — is arguably a bit easier for Calgarians to resolve. They came here to get away from tough times, and they’re now readying to leave here to escape tough times. They know what families have to do sometimes.

But what if your culture is wholly different? What if you were brought up to believe that you were, quite literally, part of the land beneath your feet? That you and the Earth are interchangeable?

In Attawapiskat, that’s what some folks may be feeling. They know people are saying they should leave. That they should get away from the grinding, bottomless misery of the place.

But, but, but: to leave the reserve is to leave behind a part of who they are.

Because the reserve isn’t a place. It’s them.

The issue came up in the House of Commons last week. My former boss, Jean Chretien, was on the Hill and the media caught up with him. They wanted to ask him about the state of emergency at Attawapiskat — about a youthful suicide pact that had been overheard involving 13 kids. One of the kids was just nine years old.

They wanted to ask Canada’s best prime minister about the 39 recorded suicide attempts since the start of March. In a place with only 2,000 people.

“People have to move sometimes,” my former boss said. “Sometimes it’s desirable to stay if they want to stay, but it’s not always possible.”

That doesn’t mean the reserve should be shut down or relocated, he said. “… It’s one case at a time.”

Chretien is father to an aboriginal boy. Some consider him the best Indi-

an Affairs minister Canada has ever had. He has spent a lot time — during and after politics – in remote places like Attawapiskat. And he taught his staff to strive to improve the lives of the people who were here first.

But that didn’t stop the NDP from implying Chretien is a colonial antediluvian monster.

An “assimilationist.”

Fresh from stabbing their leader in the back in Edmonton — fresh from immolating themselves by embracing a document that would economically emasculate Alberta and not a few other places — the NDP tried to change the channel on their problems. Theirs is the party that represents Attawapiskat in the House of Commons, you see, and they would prefer you not remember that.

So they went after Jean Chretien.

Said NDP MP Niki Aston: “A former prime minister of Canada, when asked about the suicide epidemic in Attawapiskat, perpetuated such assimilationist views in suggesting that First Nations people should just leave their communities.”

She went on: “These views are unacceptable.”

Hearing this sort of thing from the NDP was almost enough to make one throw up.

But piety is standard operating procedure for the NDP. They’ve represented Attawapiskat for years in the House of Commons, and it’s difficult to think of single thing they have done to improve lives there.

They would prefer, instead, that the people of Attawapiskat stay where

they are, and wait for things to get better.

The time for waiting is over. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, per the cliché, is the definition of insanity.

The people of Attawapiskat were here first.

We — the ones who took away their culture, their language, their religion, their land – owe them.

And if that means paying for them to move to a better place, then so be it.

In places like Calgary, they know what that is.

It’s not assimilation. It’s protecting the ones you love.

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Millennials helped, and could hurt, PM CHANTAL HEBERT NATIONAL AFFAIRS

But for young millennial voters Justin Trudeau might not have won a majority victory last fall.

As an Abacus Data study confirmed this week, the younger cohort of the electorate tilted the balance in favour of the Liberals. By turning out in greater numbers and coalescing behind Trudeau, voters aged 18 to 25 almost certainly made a difference between a minority and a majority.

Early indications suggest the Liberals were the preferred choice of a plurality of younger voters (45 per cent) beating the NDP (25 per cent) and the Conservatives (20 per cent).

In comparison to 2011, turnout among that age group went up 12 percentage points.

Before dismissing the growth of the youth vote and its impact on the election outcome as a one off — essentially due to Trudeau’s status as a political rock star — it might be prudent to consider that the reverse could turn out to

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be true.

In politics, empowerment and engagement tend to come as a pair.

The sense that one’s vote can make a difference is one of the main incentives to continue exercising one’s franchise. On that score, the experience was positive for many of those who voted for the first time in 2015.

In the big picture, no federal party can afford to ignore the changing demographics of the electorate. As the Abacus report points out, by the next election all millennials (born approximately between 1980 and 2000) will have a vote. Their generation will make up the electorate’s largest cohort.

The Liberals were the main beneficiaries of a higher level of youth engagement in the electoral process last fall but that does not mean they can take that support for granted.

Come 2019, Trudeau’s edge with young voters could be blunted by the upcoming leadership changes at the helm of the other parties.

Over the course of his first mandate, Trudeau also stands to lose some of the patina that allowed him to cast himself as the greatest agent of change last fall. It is often easier to act like an underdog than an incumbent.

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Many New Democrats came out of the 2015 campaign feeling they had been outflanked on the front of generational change.

That widespread sense contributed to Thomas Mulcair’s demise at the hands of party members earlier this month.

But before the NDP concludes that a younger leader could act as a magic bullet for what ails it, it might consider that under Jack Layton, in 2011, the NDP was the preferred choice of the younger cohort. Mulcair’s failure to keep that connection alive had more to do with the larger failure of the NDP campaign to connect with the electorate at large than with the age of the leader.

More so than any of its predecessors, the millennial generation was raised in a culturally diverse Canada.

That theme happens to be a constant in Trudeau’s political discourse and it is reflected in his caucus.

Looking at the delegates at the NDP convention in Edmonton, one had to look hard for evidence of the country’s cultural diversity.

Even before the last election polls showed that if younger voters were left to decide who should run Canada, the Conservatives would come dead last -

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behind the Green party.

Under Stephen Harper the party worked hard at hanging on to that last place.

The dismissive Conservative discourse on climate change; the reluctant acceptance of marriage rights for same-sex couples; the over-the-top fear campaign over the legalization of marijuana all seemed designed to drive millennials away.

The party’s reductive depiction of Trudeau’s leadership might as well have been calculated to come across as a generational put-down.

Like their elders, younger Canadians believe bread-and-butter issues like jobs should sit at the top of the to-do list of the federal government.

But also like a majority of their elders, they crave aspirational politics and believe in the virtues of government activism.

Those are generational traits that a decade of Conservative counterspin probably exacerbated rather than diminished.

On that basis, Trudeau should share the credit for the higher youth engagement that had such defining impact on the last election with Harper.

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FOLLOWING THE FELINE FOLLIES HARLEY HAY HAY’S DAZE So I may have mentioned previously that the new dog we finally got recently turned out to be more of — well — more of a cat, per se. The adorable puppy I was looking forward to is actually more of a little hairball kitten, technically. And for me being a certified life-long dog lover, when it comes to cats, it’s always been: um, not so much.

Don’t get me wrong, our old barn cat Kitty ruled our roost for nearly 17 years and though she’s been gone to the great cat barn in the sky for a couple of years now, I miss her still. But when she was around doing her duty as official household Guard Cat we also had two deranged dogs who cut the cat a wide swath, but they’re gone to the great gopher meadow in the sky now too, so this is the first time in all my years in this veil of tears that I’ve attempted to live with a solo cat.

Oh, the Better Half is ecstatic, of course. She is paw-sitive that this weird new creature running rampant around the house is meow-nificent.

It was the B.H. who accidentally discovered the fur ball at an Alley Cat Rescue Society display and then sab-

otaged Yours Truly into going to “just look at” the cat more or less against my will. But the rescue people told us the eight-month-old beastie had been found abandoned in a dumpster, and then when they looked at us and smiled a knowing smile and took the little fuzzhead out of the cage and it rubbed it’s weird little catface on me and curled up on the B.H.’s lap and gave a little contented cat sigh, I knew it was game over.

Once we got her home, we barely saw the thing for two whole days. Apparently cats, especially scaredy-cats, like to hide and sleep under beds, couches, furniture etc. I’m pretty sure I caught a glimpse of her once trying to squeeze under the refrigerator.

“She is just getting used to us,” the B.H. says. “She’s been through a lot, and just needs to sleep and find out that we are her new family, and that she is safe here.” The Better Half grew up having cats. What I mean is, she always had pet cats in her house when she grew up. So, as with many things in life, she knows what to do when I don’t have a clue.

We finally named the four-legged fuzzface Chicklet on account of she is a small female with a brain the size of a small piece of gum. I usually call her D.C. for ‘Dumb Cat’ or sometimes even F. C. (if you get my drift). But I must admit, she is fairly attractive (for a cat), what with her soft fluffy white and multi-colour fur, which she delib-

erately deposits in clumps and strings all over the house, the furniture, my clothes etc. They said she’s a “diluted calico” which is just a fancy way of saying “a white cat that’s been rolling around on a fresh paint canvas of modern art.”

And sure enough, eventually the little cloud of a cat finally emerged and decided that yes, she would stay here and not only that, she would allow us to stay here too.

She displayed her acceptance by attacking the lovely fern that grows in a pot on a table by the window and very nearly pulling the entire kit and kaboodle over onto the floor. She decided that scratching the couch would be a real fun thing to do on a regular basis.

Also, ambushing one or more of my wiggling feet under the table seems to be a highly enjoyable pastime for her, and an on-going surprisingly painful surprise for me. And she was just getting going.

So now, over a month after letting the cat out of the bag, we have a bona fide cat house that looks like the Feline Department of a well-stocked pet shop. Chicklet has scratch posts, scratch pads, an assortment of small whiffle balls, cloth balls and rubber balls to chase, several fuzzy fake mice, a couple of furry blobs that you wind up or switch on and they zig zag around on the floor and amuse the cat for about 20 to 30 seconds before she

gets bored and goes off to stare into the toilet. Her favorite is the classic feather on stick. We have two of these of course, enough to keep her busy for another one to two solid minutes in feline attack mode. Before she gets bored again and decides to jump up on the kitchen table just because she knows she’s not supposed to.

She has her own basket full of toys.

She has an expensive plug-in water fountain, because apparently cats like their water to move. She has a little harness and a leash and likes to take the B.H. on long and arduous tours of the back yard as many times per day as possible. This Chicklet chick is obviously, one cat-egorically spoiled and very fortunate feline.

Thing is, when you come home, the D.C. comes running to the door to greet you and then flops over on her back, all fours in the air, meowing and waiting for a tummy rub. In fact, for cat, she acts an awful lot like a dog. A dog that doesn’t bark at every doorbell. A dog that uses a litter box. A dog that doesn’t mind when you leave them alone for a while.

A canine-like feline? Really, what else can you ask for from a cat?

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Questions from the Leap manifesto DAVID CRANE INSIGHT The Leap manifesto raises two important questions: How is Canada to meet its existing climate change commitments and move to a low-carbon economy, and what is the role of the fossil fuel industry in Canada’s future?

The country needs to be able to plan its future so these are questions that need to be settled. But what are the best answers?

The Leap manifesto answers are, to be sure, blunt and direct. As it says, “small steps will no longer get us where we need to go.” So no new infrastructure projects that support fossil fuels — no new oil or gas pipelines, no fracking, and no increased tanker traffic off our coasts and, by inference, no new oil sands plants. By 2050, the manifest claims, we could have a 100 per cent clean economy based on renewable energy, with no role for coal, oil, or, it appears, nuclear power.

Leap envisages a Canada with energy efficient homes, retraining for workers in carbon-intensive jobs so they can be a part of the clean energy economy, high-speed rail powered just by renewables and “affordable” public transit in every community. There would be higher royalties in the resource industries, an end to fossil fuel subsidies and a progressive carbon tax.

Some of these things will happen, or are already happening, in clean energy, building codes and infrastructure investments in public transit. But are they enough to achieve our emission reduction obligations made to the international community? We don’t know because, despite much posturing in Paris last December by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, we still don’t have a national action plan on climate change.

Moreover, the Trudeau government seems certain to support one, if not two, pipelines to move oilsands oil. It’s not clear what the net effect on carbon emissions will be but there are good grounds for believing that Canada will fall short of the emission reduction target set by the Harper government.

Leap has done the country a favour,

though, if it forces Canadians to think through what moving to a low-carbon economy entails and how to do it. But much of the Leap manifesto fails.

In an interview with Maclean’s Magazine, Leap spokesperson Avi Lewis acknowledged Leap plans would carry a huge price but said it had not been calculated. “It wasn’t written by economists. But we know the money is there,” he said. Lewis said the manifesto was “an aspirational, high-level document that attempts to tell a story about where we are in history and what we need to do next.” The plans, he said, would emerge from town hall meetings across the country.

Yet there is much that is troubling about the manifesto. It appears to cherish a “small is beautiful” version of society, with locally owned renewable energy systems and what it calls “a far more localized and ecologically-based agricultural system” that

would “produce healthier and more affordable food for everyone.” But as the bumper stickers proclaim, “farmers feed cities” which of necessity means highly efficient and increasingly larger farms, and the transition to more genetically-modified crops if sufficient food is to be produced in greater quantities as our population continues to grow.

It is a manifesto that pays scant attention to wealth creation and the need for an economy that can produce tradable goods and services we can sell to the rest of the world and finance our education, healthcare and other programmes. It appears to take the challenges of innovation, technological change, productivity and competitiveness, as well as the related challenges of an aging society and the affordability of healthcare, as not worthy of consideration.

Instead, it talks of “expanding the

sectors of our economy that are already low carbon: Caregiving, teaching, social work, the arts and public-interest media.” But how would we pay for this somewhat utopian world, including the universal annual income it proposes? It calls for higher income taxes on corporations and wealthy people at a time of “unprecedented private wealth.” Yet there are limits to how far the state can push. Corporations don’t have to invest here and talented Canadians can leave.

The manifesto is designed to force hard thinking within the NDP on where it wants to go, but it should also invigorate thinking among Canadians more broadly.

While it does not have many of the right answers, Leap does ask some — but clearly not all — of the important questions.

David Crane can be reached at crane@ interlog.com.

We should treat every person with respect On days that I am not at the kitchen, as I sit at my computer and look out my window, I watch as this five-foot-11, fortyish, grizzle-faced fellow walks by on his way to the kitchen for breakfast.

There he eats, gets a bag lunch and goes off to work in the construction field.

I’ve known him ever since I took over the kitchen seven years ago. At that time, he was much more involved in the drug culture and his life was one of chaos. He had a son that he cherished and the possibility of getting him back from Social Services was the reason he needed to leave that chaos and do his best to make a home for him and his son.

Every day that I see him at the kitchen, I am reminded that it can be done, and his thankfulness for the help he received to ‘straighten’ out is what keeps us and many other agencies going. He is still doing well, but the lack of work is a worrisome thing for him; he needs to work full time in order to live and, in his own words, “keep from doing something stupid.”

“I’m never going back to that lifestyle, I would sooner die first;” this from a five-foot, bubbly young woman who has made dramatic changes in her own life in the last four years. Al-

CHRIS SALOMONS STREET TALES though recently she has met with some real challenges to that statement, and has a very occasional slip, she manages to hold on. She is a joy to behold as she makes tremendous efforts to stand firm.

About once or twice a year this smile walks into the door.

There really is no other way to describe this woman.

If ever some toothpaste company needed a model to show teeth along with an ear to ear smile, we have her here in Red Deer, or should I say Blackfalds where she now lives with her man.

For the last three years, in a herculean effort, they moved away from downtown and found a place in Blackfalds.

They are clean, working and just absolutely enjoying life.

I could go on for quite a while about all the victories downtown, and seriously we should, because these beautiful folks have made greater strides

than Sir Edmund Hillary ever did. In my mind, climbing Mount Everest does not even come close.

We often don’t hear much about the changes these folks make, but I’m going to ask you to consider the following.

Many people will not come downtown because of the goings on with the drug crowd; they are scared that someone might do something to them.

Others look on with absolute disgust at these same people, desiring that they would just leave. For sure they have the right to feel that way with certain individuals who abuse others by intimidation.

That those that are afflicted with addiction stand judged by society goes without saying. Without studied understanding, society has a tendency to just rule these addicts and their actions as not worthy, and therefore reject them outright.

For many years now I have been part of a society that has declared non-judgemental encouragement to addicts and all those afflicted. I have been at meetings where we cheered as a person declared that they were one week clean, no drugs, no alcohol, no prostituting. They may fail again, but we would encourage them the next

time as well. We do this for a simple reason; let me try to explain.

I smoked for 53 years, a pack-a-day habit for about 45 of them. Notice that I called it a habit, not an addiction? I probably tried at least 15 times to quit; once I did for about six months. Each time I tried, my wife and my children would cheer me on and thankfully say very little when once again I failed.

Then when I took over the kitchen I continued to smoke for just about another year. I was addicted, pure and simple.

One day as I stood outside to have a smoke, I realized just how much of a hypocrite I was; here I was telling these folks that drugs are bad for your health and can destroy their lives, while at the same time blowing smoke in their face! I quit then and there.

That was six years ago and have not touched a smoke since; not that the urge has not been there, but now I was committed to a smokeless life. It still is, to this day, a subject of pride in our family.

Would we not be better served to treat each and every person with the same loving, patient care and regard; let alone encouragement?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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A lesson in kindness for Europe POPE BRINGS 12 SYRIAN REFUGEES TO ITALY FROM GREEK ISLAND LESBOS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MORIA, Greece — In a gesture both political and personal, Pope Francis flew 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane Saturday after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis.

Refugees on the overwhelmed island fell to their knees and wept at his presence. Some 3,000 migrants on the island are facing possible deportation back to Turkey under a new deal with the European Union.

Francis said he decided only a week ago to bring the three refugee families to Italy after a Vatican official suggested it. He said he accepted the proposal “immediately” since it fit the spirit of his visit to Lesbos.

“It’s a drop of water in the sea. But after this drop, the sea will never be the same,” he said, quoting a well-known phrase of Mother Teresa.

During the five-hour trip, Francis implored European nations to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores “in a way that is worthy of our common humanity.” The Greek island just a few miles from the Turkish coast has seen hundreds of thousands of desperate people land on its beaches and rocks in the last year, fleeing war and poverty at home.

The pope visited Lesbos alongside the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians and the head of the Church of Greece. They came to thank the Greek people for their welcome and highlight the plight of refugees as the 28-nation EU implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey.

Many refugees wept at Francis’ feet as he and the two Orthodox leaders approached them at the Moria refugee detention centre, where they greeted 250 people individually. Others chanted “Freedom!

Freedom!” as they passed by.

Francis bent down as one young girl knelt at his feet, sobbing uncontrollably. The pope also blessed a man who wailed “Thank you, God. Thank you!

Please Father, bless me!”

The Vatican said the three Syrian families, including six children, who were taken back with the pope will be supported by the Holy See and cared for initially by Italy’s Catholic Sant’Egidio Community. It said the homes of all three had been bombed in Syria.

Two of the families hail from the Damascus area and the third from Deir el-Zour, a city close to the Iraqi border that the Islamic State group has been besieging for months, leading to malnutrition among area’s 200,000 residents.

Francis said the three families — identified by Sant’Egidio as Hasan and Nour and their 2-year-old son, Ramy and Suhila and their three children, and Osama and Wafa and their two children — all had their documents in order and Italian visas.

“It’s a small gesture,” he said. “But these are the small gestures that all men and women must do to give a hand to those in need.”

Francis seemed particularly shaken by the trauma the children he met at the detention centre suffered as a result of their voyages. En route home to Rome, he showed the picture one Afghan child gave him of a sun weeping over a sea where boats carrying refugees had sunk.

“If the sun is able to weep, so can we,” Francis said. “A tear would do us good.”

Hundreds of migrants have drowned so far this year in the waters between Greece and Turkey.

At a ceremony in the port of Lesbos to thank Greeks, Francis said he understood Europe’s concern about the recent migrant influx. But he said migrants are human beings “who have faces, names and individual stories” and deserve to have their most basic human rights respected.

“God will repay this generosity,” he promised.

In his remarks to the refugees, Francis said they should know that they are not alone and shouldn’t lose hope. He said he wanted to hear their stories and bring the world’s attention to their plight.

“We hope that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and indeed desperate need, and respond in a way worthy of our common humanity,” he said.

Human rights groups have denounced the EU-Turkey deportation deal as an abdication of Europe’s obligation to grant protection to asylum-seekers.

The March 18 deal stipulates that anyone arriving clandestinely on Greek islands since March 20 will be returned to Turkey unless they successfully apply for asylum in Greece. For every Syrian sent back, the EU will take another Syrian directly from Turkey for resettlement in Europe. In return, Turkey was granted billions of euros to deal with the more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees living there and promised that its stalled accession talks with the EU would speed up.

The Vatican said the 12 Syrians who came with the pope to Italy had been in Lesbos prior to March 20, and thus were not subject to possible deportation.

During the visit, Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos II, signed a joint declaration calling on the international community to make the protection of human lives a priority and to extend temporary asylum to those in need.

The declaration also urged political leaders to use all means to ensure that everyone, particularly Christians, can remain in their homelands and enjoy the “fundamental right to live in peace and security.”

“The world will be judged by the way it has treated you,” Bartholomew told the refugees. “And we will all be accountable for the way we respond to the crisis and conflict in the regions that you come from.”

Francis and the two Orthodox leaders, officially divided from Catholics over a 1,000-year schism,

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Pope Francis greets a group of Syrian refugees upon landing at Rome’s Ciampino airport last Saturday. Pope Francis gave Europe a provocative and concrete lesson in how to treat refugees by bringing home 12 Syrian Muslims aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the hard-hit Greek island of Lesbos. lunched with eight of the refugees to hear their stories. They then went to the island’s main port to pray together and toss floral wreaths into the sea in memory of those who didn’t survive the journey.

Upon his arrival in Greece, Francis met Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the airport and thanked him for the generosity shown by the Greek

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Let go of immature ex and move on HARLAN COHEN HELP ME HARLAN Dear Harlan; I’m a freshman in college right now and dated a guy during my senior year of high school.

Five days after he got to his southern college and I started at my northern college, he called and broke up with me. Two weeks after the breakup, my “friend” told me he had planned to break up with me as soon as college started, which was two months before the day actually came.

When we were both home for winter break, I contacted him to hang out and get on good terms. He told me he would check his work schedule and let me know, but he never did. He has not contacted me since, but I continuously hope and everyday face disappointment.

I’ve also heard that he and his friends got together and said terrible things about me (a trusted friend told me). How do I get over this guy? Why am I so sad over these bullies? — Holding On Dear Holding on; Let it go. Stop holding on. Respect yourself enough to see that you’re not getting any respect.

Your ex is immature and disrespectful. His behavior is childish. Attempting to fix this is just going to give him and his friends more fuel to be offensive.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to move on. Give them permission to be flawed and immature. Avoid them. If you stay away and they stay away, that’s not bullying. It’s called moving on. It’s the opposite of holding on.

Be sad, but don’t give them any more of your time or energy. Focus on doing things you love to do with people who share similar interests. Work to be the best version of yourself.

Hi Harlan; My daughter has been with this guy for eight months and is head over heels in love with him.

She sees getting married to him sometime down the road. They have been discussing the future together.

He disclosed to her that he feels that she is more into him then he is into her. They have said the “L” word and I know he cares for her greatly, but this revelation just devastated her.

I am so disappointed for her and honestly pretty mad at her boyfriend.

I would really like to see her be strong and break up with him, or at least tell him that she needs some time apart to figure everything out. She doesn’t want to do that because she feels that with time he will come around.

My daughter has always been a pretty strong woman, so it surprises me that she is being so meek when it comes to her boyfriend.

I honestly don’t know what to say to her other than offer my support for whatever choices she makes regarding this relationship (which I have done), but other than that, is there anything else I can say to her to help her sort this out?

It upsets me so much to see her heartbroken over this, and I really don’t know what to do. Thanks for any advice you can give me. — Concerned Mother Dear Concerned; Her boyfriend told her the truth.

This is a gift - a sad, disappointing, awful gift. This gift gives you an opportunity to remind your daughter that she needs to maintain a balanced life with or without him. She needs to be independent and self-sufficient, and

maintain relationships with friends and family.

She can’t depend on him to make her happy. When she has balance, she has power.

In the future, if he can’t give her what she wants, trust that she’ll be equipped to move ahead. The relationship will run its course, but wherever it goes, she needs to make sure she is strong, independent and balanced.

Dear Harlan; I took a risk and texted a guy I have a crush on.

I invited him over to do homework, which we actually did. Then we watched our favorite show (“The Office,” in case you were dying to know) and started to fool around afterward.

Now, I’m still relatively new to these things, so it was like PG-13 stuff - maybe R, but nothing crazy, if that makes sense.

I just got out of a serious relationship, so I’m not really ready to start dating again. But at the same time, I’m not into the hook-up culture. I do like what’s going on. The thing is, the more we hang out, the more I feel like we’ll simply hook up and nothing will happen, dating-wise.

I know I should just say that to him, but I’m not even sure if I want a relationship with him. — Took a Risk Dear Took a Risk; Talk. Don’t just hook up.

Tell him: “I’m not sure what I want, but I like hanging out. What about you?”

That’s all you have to do.

If he knows you’re non-committal, there will be no misunderstandings.

Talk about your feelings. Ask him what he’s looking for.

Make it safe for him to share his truth. Set a precedent that you two will talk about your feelings. Hook up with clarity.

Hello Harlan; I am a first-year grad-

uate student. I’m a bit shy, and it is difficult for me to approach people.

It is also hard because I live in an apartment away from school, so I don’t meet people from dorms. I just go to class and then go home.

What are some ways for me to make new friends? I am planning on moving to on-campus housing. I want to try having a roommate, as I think it will be good to have company, and it’ll help me be less lonely.

I am an introvert, and I sometimes need alone time. I have had bad experiences with roommates before. I am just wondering if you think having a roommate just for the purpose of having company is a good idea? — Moving Out Dear Moving Out; You don’t need a roommate. You need a life that gets you out of the house and involved with other people.

You need a leadership position, part-time job or interest that puts you in the middle of the action. Get involved in a cause, campus group or organization where you have a responsibility. You can be a volunteer, get involved in a spiritual organization or join a team sport.

You need to force yourself to take on a role where you are accountable to someone else. If you can’t get out, then find someone to talk to about these social issues.

As for where you live, stay close to campus but don’t expect a roommate to help you be social. If you want to get out of the house, get a pet. This will force you to walk around the neighborhood.

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tography.

“I found a way to say what I want to say using a camera, not my mouth,” Razan says.

Silva helped her a lot. “She gave us random stuff and said, ‘Make art.’ “ Razan had an idea to take photos of women and girls wearing the hijab, a head scarf she has worn for five years as part of her religious practice. People in the United States often stare at girls and women who wear a hijab, Razan says. Being stared at can make those women and girls feel “like alien beings that don’t belong,” she says.

To help people understand those feelings, Razan began gluing “googly” eyes to some of the photographs. In other photos, she covered the scarf in newspaper articles.

“I’ve also always been passionate about social justice,” Razan told Scholastic after winning the Golden Portfolio. “I felt like it was my job to break the stereotypes and significantly express the true goal of Muslim women, which is to spark positive change in this world.”

Razan has taken photography class-

Razan Elbaba recently made a statement about attitudes toward religion in the United States, but she didn’t need to say a word.

The 17-year-old from Vienna, Virginia, photographed friends and relatives wearing head scarves that are customary in the Muslim faith. She added newspaper clippings, bits of cloth and “googly” eyes to tell more of the story.

The striking artwork, which Razan called Covered, won the top prize in this year’s Scholastic Art & Writing competition. She was one of 16 students in the nation — out of 320,000 who entered — to win a Golden Portfolio. She will receive a $10,000 prize at a celebration in June at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Razan didn’t think she would win, but she said art teacher Susan Silva believed the Oakton High School senior’s talent would impress the judges.

“Ms. Silva always told me that I have something special about me, but I never had the confidence to think that I would be the one” to get a Golden Portfolio, Razan says. “It was very unexpected.”

Razan explains that she started to stutter when she was 3, not long after she learned to talk.

She says her severe stutter has made it hard for her to do things that are easy for other kids, “like answer the phone or order a pizza.”

“Things that were so simple for other people were really hard tasks for me,” Razan says.

“So I was always trying to find ways to express myself” without having to speak.

When she started high school, Razan says, she GREAT “set myself a goal to find a way to do that.” That’s when she discovered pho-

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Razan says she plans to use her $10,000 prize to help pay for college, where she is headed in the fall. She

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“I hope my work will make people be optimistic and make them not judge others,” Razan says. She wants people to look at her photographs and realize: “We’re all human. We all have a heart and a soul. We are all wanted on this Earth.”

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Woman feels left out by her stepchildren Dear Annie: My husband passed away last month.

His six children (who are my age) were never fans of our marriage, even though their father was happy for the 10 years we were together.

They never considered me a part of their family. Only one of his children attended the funeral.

I have not received a condolence card from any of them, although one called to express sympathy. Another called wanting things belonging to her father.

I loved my husband, but his unwillingness to insist that his children include me in their lives was always a problem.

I made every effort to have a relationship with them, but they were not at all interested and some were outright hostile.

My children accepted my husband into their lives and loved him as part of the family.

So here’s my question.

Since they never wanted anything to do with me, is it best if I just let this side of my family go or do I try to

Saturday, April 23 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Gigi Hadid, 21; Lee Majors, 77; Michael Moore, 62 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Don’t skip over details today. Look a lot deeper.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You love to feel emotionally and financially secure, but avoid being inflexible.

2016 is the year to smile more and worry less.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rushing Rams — you’re keen to move ahead on a project, as hasty Jupiter increases your impatience.

But slow down and examine details in depth, before you make any misguided moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take a good look at your feelings and inner motivations today Taurus. Are they supporting your dreams and aspirations for the future?

If not, them some serious tweaking is required.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re in the mood to rush current projects and jump to half-baked conclusions. But impulsive actions now will be regretted later.

Friendships with international contacts are favoured.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Flexibility is the key to a happy day.

There will be opportunities to release old emotional baggage from the past.

If you hold onto grudges, it will adversely affect your relationships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions can be incredibly fixed in their opinions and attitudes, which can put others off-side.

As today progresses, you’ll find a flexible and innovative approach produces the best results.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Moon’s in Scorpio but try not to obsess about minor details.

If you concentrate on improving communication with others, then you’ll reap

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keep in touch? I was raised to think that family meant something. Should I just move on? — New Widow Dear Widow: Our condolences on the death of your husband.

You should do as much as you are comfortable with when it comes to his children, without expecting closeness in return. Do you want to send holiday cards? Sure.

Birthday cards? Fine. Presents for the grandchildren?

If you like.

But if there is a total lack of reciprocity and it makes you resentful, it’s perfectly OK to stop. While we agree that family should mean something, these stepchildren don’t consider you to be “family.”

We’d give it a one-year try and see what happens, but you are not obligated to stress yourself out in an effort

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the rewards further down the track.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll feel pulled in many different directions, as loved ones demand more of your time and energy.

If you pace yourself and prioritize, you’ll get through the day in a positive way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Business projects and financial dealings are highlighted, as Saturn stimulates your money zone.

But retrograde Mars cautions you to slow down and read the fine print carefully first.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Impulsive Sagittarians are the big spenders of the zodiac, but now is the time to hunker down and count your pennies.

Pluto encourages you to have a solid financial plan for the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With Venus visiting your home zone, find ways you can bring more beauty, creativity and harmony into your domestic environment.

A current work issue must be examined carefully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Jupiter and Neptune activating your money zones, Aquarians are keen to shop up a storm.

But is that really such a good idea?

It’s time to focus on smart saving rather than frivolous spending.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be afraid to go off in exciting new directions. Be inspired by Piscean movie great Elizabeth Taylor: “There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”

to create what is neither wanted nor appreciated.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Old and Trapped,” who resents her husband now that he’s retired and refuses to help around the house.

When I first read the letter I laughed, and then it truly ticked me off.

I, too, am in my 70s, raised five children and was married 54 years to the most remarkable man I ever met.

He worked every day, sick or well, to enable me to be a homemaker and stay-at-home mother.

He had no such freedom. I made sure all of my duties and social gatherings were completed while he was at work and we spent evenings and weekends together.

He provided every material thing we needed.

So your husband wants to stay in the house he worked so hard for.

Why not? There are only two of you.

Close the other bedroom doors and leave them be.

You have laundry for only two. You make meals for only two.

You are intent on making the man who worked so hard for you miserable.

I would thank God every day for him.

I would sit with him and surf the TV channels.

He sounds like a decent man who is in it for the long haul. — A Woman Blessed With a Retired Lover Dear Woman: You have a charmingly retro attitude, and we suspect your husband shows his appreciation for you in many ways.

Not all women are as fortunate, and when retirement hits, they resent the ungrateful husband who expects to be waited on.

There is no reason a retired spouse cannot do his or her share around the house.

Sunday, April 24 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Shirley MacLaine, 82; Barbra Streisand, 74; Kelly Clarkson, 34 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Spend some time in the great outdoors today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your motto for 2016 is from birthday great Shirley MacLaine: “Donít be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to jump in and act with lightning speed but loved ones may need some time to adjust.

So aim to get the balance right between being spontaneous and thinking things through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With thorough research you can find the solution to a problem that’s been bugging you. So don your detective cap and look beneath the surface to discover what’s really going on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A close relationship is challenging at the moment Twins, as it’s full steam ahead one minute, and the brakes are on the next. So aim to be super flexible, rather than permanently frustrated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re keen to help and support others today Crabs — especially children, teenagers or close friends.

And they will respond positively to your upbeat mood and positive attitude.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The stars favour travel, study and all forms of communication as you socialize with a wide range of people, and cover a multitude of conversation topics.

There’s always more to learn.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let vague worries do your head in Virgo.

Stressing about things that might happen is not the sensible way to go.

Concentrate on practical changes you can make right here and right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are currently very focused on loved ones and

their needs.

Single Librans — you have a better chance of finding your soul mate if you are proactive, creative, and cast your net wide.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you stuck in the middle of a financial fiasco?

Listen to your intuition today Scorpio — it will point you in the right direction, and help you find the best way to approach the problem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A child, teenager or friend may surprise you with a move that comes right out of left field — and requires a quick response.

But others can forget that it’s hard to out-fox a smart Sagittarian!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put aside some quiet time for contemplation Capricorn, as you reflect on the past and set goals for the future.

You’ll also gain valuable insights into a worrying issue with a work colleague or close friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Attached Aquarians — is your partner losing patience with your unpredictable ways?

Clear communication is the secret to a successful union.

Singles — love could be as close as the boy or girl next door.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When it comes to finances, Lady Luck is on your side at the moment.

But don’t spoil your future prospects by being rash with cash. Think — carefully — before you make expensive purchases.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annieon Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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In this photo, visitors looks at furniture in the Cassina space, part of the Design Fair exhibition, in Milan, Italy. Big Italian furniture brands turned out collections at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair that both mined neglected treasures from their archives and added fresh innovations by the ‘’starchitects’’ who have infused design with glamour.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILAN — Big Italian furniture brands turned out collections at the 55th Milan Furniture Fair that included forgotten or neglected treasures from their archives, along with fresh innovations by the “starchitects” who have infused design with glamour.

A record 372,000 people attended the premier event for Italian design and furnishings that ended Sunday. It featured more than 2,400 exhibitors at the Rho fairgrounds and spilled out into eight design districts in Milan’s city centre. The annual gathering highlights the prowess of Italy’s furniture manufacturing sector, which last year reported a 3 per cent increase of revenues to nearly 25 billion euros ($28 billion).

Some highlights: GENDER BENDING Patricia Urquiola, who was named Cassina’s new art director in September, is doing it all: launching her own designs while curating new works from colleagues, and updating the Italian brand’s iconic pieces ahead of its 90th anniversary next year.

Urquiola said she has brought a more feminine influence to the Cassina DNA, which “has always been very masculine, very architectural.”

She started with a new armchair called “Gender,” which she described as her “manifesto piece.” It combines two elements: a ridged, high-back form that embraces the occupant with a more cartilaginous, adjustable headrest and a fitted cushioned “dress.”

The chair can be paired with an inverted U-shaped ottoman.

“I think it is time to stop the argument of gender. We need more blended gender,” she said.

For her debut collection, Urquiola also revisited a steel-supported table designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1968, making it from anodized aluminum in strong shades including copper and matte red to lighten the impact. The table in the central Milan showroom featured a clear glass top, but it’s also available in white or black marble.

“Now the table is much lighter,” she said. “Evolution means to take care of things and make them new.”

The energetic Spaniard’s works also

popped up at collateral design events, including a stained-glass credenza, cabinet and room divider trio commissioned by Spazio Pontaccio.

EAST MEETS WEST Taiwan-based architect Shi-Chieh Lu adapted the traditional yoke-back Ming chair popular in China for Poltrona Frau, as the Italian brand infuses its collection with a taste of the Orient.

While the Ming chair has traditionally been crafted from wood, the “Ming’s Heart” design for Poltrona Frau takes its European cues from the leather styling. The distinctive geometric back and seat are suspended from the tubular frame, creating the sensation of a swing.

“It gives the idea of floating in the air,” Shi-Chieh said.

The Ming chair is among a series of pieces commissioned by Asian designers this year that merge with Poltrona Frau’s iconic pieces and contemporary design.

“I think that Frau is recognizable beyond the fact of whether a designer is from Taiwan or from Milan, because identity is something you create through the construction, the way of working the leather, and the stitching,” said Marco Romanelli, who is in charge of reviving the brand’s icons.

“It is like saying the brand is strong enough to absorb the work of people who come from any part of the world.”

THE ESSENTIAL CHAIR Leave it to Knoll to provide the essential chair update.

The U.S. brand has made some of the world’s most distinctive, enduring chair designs, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair.

“The chair is an intricate question,” allowed Benjamin Pardo, Knoll’s design director, recalling the 70 series executive seating collection that marked the brand’s entry into the European market in the mid-20th century.

Knoll’s latest entry to the world of side dining seating, designed by Marc Krusin, arches comfortably around the occupant and features a functional horizontal aperture between the seat and the back that is both appealing to the eye and allows for easing lifting.

Keeping the focus on seating, Piero Lissoni designed a new rail-based sofa

system, a trend in the sector, allowing combinations of softer seating with tables on the same base. Dubbed “Avio,” the Knoll system evokes a sense of floating, and has the interior-design advantage of not being either left- or right-handed.

“It is intended to be a sofa that one can sit up and have a great conversation in, and also take a really great nap in,” Pardo said.

CRYSTAL WORKS One of architect Zaha Hadid’s last design projects before her sudden death last month was a striking, curved, crystal statement piece for the Austrian crystal maker Swarovski.

Titled “Crista,” the massive crystal and metallic flutes splay out of a central point like arching reeds, utilizing for the first time Swarovski’s new wave cut technology.

The work anchored Swarovski’s debut home collection, which also featured a collection of brightly reflecting trays, centerpieces and bowls by Spaniard Tomas Alonso, and candle holders with refracting crystal wax catch-

ers by Kim Thome of Norway.

Hadid’s creativity lived on elsewhere at the Milan design fair, with a prototype cubed low-back armchair for Cassina and curving, black granite wall shelves for Italian brand Citco.

HEROIC ACCENTS As with his runway designs, Tomas Maier took inspiration from materials for Bottega Veneta’s latest home collection, with heroic bronze accents.

The bronze base of round, arched coffee tables provided a fitting thematic counterpoint to frescoes of fierce war scenes in the living room of the brand’s 18th century palazzo showroom.

They were harmonized with velvet seating.

Bottega Veneta launched its home line in 2006, and as with other design houses, it is a growing part of the portfolio.

This year’s collection featured updates on tableware, including porcelain dishes and flatware imprinted with Bottega’s distinguishing weave pattern.

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The Chelsea Conversation Set is a perfect fit for small patios and balconies.

BALCONY BLISS DEBBIE TRAVIS HOUSE TO HOME

Dear Debbie; Our condo balcony has a great view, but not much space.

How can we make the most of it for sitting and eating outside?

Also privacy is an issue as the adjoining balcony is only partially blocked off. Thank you.— Marilyn Dear Marilyn; Begin by thinking realistically about how many people you want to be able to seat on your balcony.

If it is small, I am guessing you can make a comfortable arrangement for four.

Both indoor and outdoor furniture is being manufactured for small spaces today, so take your tape measure along with you when you shop

and aim for a table and chairs that will fit.

A love seat set up against the wall with a narrow rectangular table in front flanked by two side chairs creates an intimate setting, and provides a path in front of the table for walking.

I have just launched an exclusive collection of home products that are designed to meet the various demands of outdoor living.

Inspired by the Tuscan lifestyle, these pieces bring together the clean lines of modern Italian design and the comfort of relaxed living — everything you need for spending time outside.

The Chelsea shown here is an elegant, space-saving conversation set that can be tucked away when not in use.

The chairs nest within the loveseat framework and the coffee table sits on top of the sofa.

It’s a clever design a bit like rubik’s cube, and it comes

with a storage/rain cover. www.sears.ca. Outdoor furniture needs to be good quality to withstand the rigors of sun, wind and temperature fluctuations.

The Chelsea has a powder-coated steel frame, hand woven all-weather wicker and UV resistant cushions.

Privacy is a tricky issue when we move outdoors, whether it’s a balcony or backyard.

You should check your condominium rules about adding onto the existing privacy structure.

A solid wall is not necessary, why not add a wood or metal trellis and decorate with ivy, climbing plants or a fabric drape.

Consult your neighbours as they will be sharing this addition.

They will most likely be delighted.

Dear Debbie: We have an open living dining space and are unable to come up with a

colour or colours that work in both ends of the room.

I admit to liking black and white, while my partner is more colour oriented.

We know you will have a compromise. —Daryl Dear Daryl; You can definitely have fun compromising with these shades.

Start with your black and white palette in the dining room end as it will set up a theatrical, dramatic atmosphere that is perfect for dinner parties.

Try a soft matte charcoal back wall, white table (or tablecloth), black and white or gray china and napkins.

All very sophisticated.

Turn on the colour in the living room.

Go neutral with the sofa, then choose one or two side chairs in your favourite colour — pastel blue, rose pink and new leaf green are on trend, so will be easy to find. Mix and match colours and patterns in the throw cushions.

Link up to the black in the dining room with wrought iron in a book shelf, coffee table legs, or accessories in the living room.

Both black and white will punctuate the colours.

Hang white draperies.

Frame artwork in black or white.

Add a touch of colour to the dining table with a few simple blooms.

Finish with a stunning piece of art to hang on the matte black wall.

This will be visible to both areas and can radiate with your combined styles.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle.

Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com.

You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_ travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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Photo by STEVE MAXWELL

Jacob Maxwell now 15 years old, building the modular chicken coop he helped design.

Simple coop for backyard chickens

Photo by Len Churchill

This modular coop is idea for keeping backyard chickens. Self-heating in winter, easily ventilated in summer and portable.

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When it comes to food, people eventually make their way back to basics.

Heritage vegetables, free-range meats, artisanal cheeses — they’re all examples of what I mean. No matter how modern and convenient our food system has become, it has a hard time delivering a close enough connection to the land for many of us. This dynamic is probably why backyard chicken husbandry is on the rise, and of course this means an interest in backyard chicken houses of the kind I want to show you here.

We’ve kept chickens on our island home since 2002, and there’s one housing idea that we keep coming back to: modularity. A handful of smaller, semi-portable coops is better than one large, permanently anchored house.

This is especially true when you’re dealing with a city or suburban backyard. Permanent coops don’t make much sense in places like these, yet the serious drawbacks aren’t obvious until it’s too late. That’s why people keep building the wrong kind of chicken house, only to have to stick to it because they’re invested so much in the structure.

Permanent chicken houses are almost always troublesome and expensive to build.

Lack of flexibility means they offer no chance to reduce or expand flock size. Keeping chickens in one place all the time will turn that area of your lawn into a dusty, vegetation-free wasteland. Permanent coops are also difficult to heat with winter sun — an issue that really matters here in Canada.

So what’s the solution? Something I designed call a modular coop “community”.

One or more smaller, semi-portable backyard chicken barns that can be mixed and matched in different ways.

Raise some day-old chicks in one, and use another as a production house for adult birds.

Add a third house if you want to separate some birds.

The modular coop I designed are solid and surprisingly warm in winter because of the clear, solar roof, yet easily ventilated in summer.

Simple to build, this design can be moved to new locations when needed.

Individual modules can be pulled out of production for a time to break pest cycles, and they’re easy to clean without standing in poop.

My coop design sits on legs that raise the structure off the ground, keeping the wood of the coop well and truly dry and away from the soil.

Nothing can rot because of soil contact, as it often does with other coops.

Raising the height of a chicken house like this also makes it perfect for winter use in areas that get snow.

Although this design looks fancy, it’s really only a 5/8’ plywood box.

Nothing this substantial could be easier to build.

The opportunity to collect eggs without opening the chicken door is another advantage of the hinged roof.

Simply swivel the top upwards, reach down into whatever nesting box you’re using, then retrieve the eggs.

You can also replenish feed and water this way, too.

Although hens can get in an out of a very small door, having a large door makes it easier to move feed and water in from the side if you want, and move out manure when it’s time to clean the houses.

In my design nearly one whole side swings outwards, with no lip above the floor level.

Manure and bedding is easy to scrape out.

There are more details here than I have space for, but you can download free plans for my chicken barn at BaileyLineRoad.com/chickens.

As practical as it is to keep backyard chickens, the real attraction is also because these birds are great fun to watch.

In a world with too many screens in front of us, it’s refreshing to be entertained by something non-digital for a change. Try it you’ll understand what they mean by “chicken TV” Steve Maxwell blends digital and outdoor rural life with his family on Manitoulin Island. Visit him online at BaileyLineRoad.com to learn and be entertained.

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Celebrities of the garden GARDENERS CAN HELP PROTECT BUTTERFLY POPULATIONS POLLINATION

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A pearl crescent butterfly, member of a group that includes some of North America’s most endangered butterflies. Crescents are medium sized, strong flying pollinators.

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Bees aren’t the only pollinators suffering from a massive North American die-off. Butterflies and moths, those flying flowers of the insect world, are disappearing too.

“But the situation isn’t hopeless,” says Scott Hoffman Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, in Portland, Oregon.

“Anybody — gardeners or butterfly lovers — can make an oasis in their landscape for these important animals. It doesn’t matter if you have a tiny lot or a farmyard. A little effort can help a lot.”

Besides their beauty, butterflies and moths play a significant role in the pollination of flowering plants, 80 per cent of which rely on animals — mostly insects — to move their pollen from plant to plant, the Xerces Society says.

Butterflies and moths also serve as an important food source for other animals.

Yet in the United States alone, at least five butterfly species have gone extinct since 1950 an additional 25 are listed as endangered nationwide, and four are listed as threatened, according to Xerces in its new guide, Gardening for Butterflies (Timber Press, 2016).

Federal protection is being sought for the monarch butterfly population, which has plunged 90 per cent in North America in less than 20 years.

“During the same period, it is estimated that these once-common, iconic orange and black butterflies may have lost more than 165 million acres of habitat — an area about the size of Texas — including nearly a third of their summer breeding grounds,” the Center for Biological Diversity says.

Just as significant has been the near elimination in farm fields of milkweed, the exclusive food of monarch caterpillars.

Donald Lewis, a professor and extension entomologist with Iowa State University, cites a 2012 study that documented an 81 per cent decline in milkweeds in agricultural fields from 1999 to 2010.

“The cure for butterfly and pollinator preservation, conservation and improvement is to create biodiversity, which, of course, is at odds with most farming, urban sprawl and commercial development,” Lewis said.

“But it is our goal.”

Nurture, enrich and diversify your home habitat, entomologists say.

Planting pollinator gardens that emphasize nectar plants that bloom year-round for bees, wasps and other wildlife is a good first step.

Butterfly gardens take that a stage further by adding host plants suitable for hungry caterpillars.

“Since butterfly larvae are picky eaters, it takes a variety of food plants,” Lewis said.

Butterfly gardens should be located where they’ll get at least six hours of sun per day.

They should contain at least four annual, biennial or perennial nectar plant species, and at least 10 milkweed plants of two or more types.

Ironically, beware the invasive butterfly bush, which has been listed as a noxious weed in several states.

And think twice about the mass release of butterflies.

“Xerces is taking a stand that we should not be moving or releasing butterflies for such things as weddings, out of a concern for possible diseases,” Black said.

“We have a sense that the same issues that are happening with bees are happening with butterflies.”

Online: For more about creating butterfly gardens, see this University of Kentucky fact sheet: https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef006

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ADVANTAGE.............. 304-5265..... $439,500....... Blackfalds 4 Heartland Crescent ..... .....1:00 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Kim ...... Kim Wyse ....................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

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ADVANTAGE.............. 358-1557..... $409,900....... Blackfalds 115 Morris Court ..............1:00 .............. 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Alison ...... Alison Richardson ...... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 358-1557..... $439,900....... Blackfalds 94 Pine Crescent ..............2:00 .............. 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Christina ...... Christina Courte/Kim Fox .. CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

ADVANTAGE.............. 506-7552..... $300,000....... Blackfalds 716 Cypress Lane .............11:30 ............. 11:30 – 2:00 pm....BENEDICT .... BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE SERVICES.......................... 507-5405..... $379,000....... Springbrook 53 Springvale Heights....

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SUNDAY, APRIL 24 - RED DEER 37 Holt Street ....................1:00 .................... 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Lori ...... Lori Loney ................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 350-9700..... $289,900....... Highland Green 168 Andrews Close .........1:00 ......... 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Bob ...... Bob Gummow ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 598-7913..... $334,900....... Anders Park East 13 Keast Way .....................1:00 ..................... 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Rick ...... Rick Burega................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 350-6023..... $329,900 Kentwood West 20 Pearson Crescent ....... .......2:00 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Sena ...... Sena Walker .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 358-0077............................... Pines 41 Northey Avenue .........2:00 ......... 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Kathy ...... Kathy Fitzsimons ........ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 505-1894..... $199,900....... Normandeau 43 Martin Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Kevin ...... Kevin Glover ................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-2706..... $344,900....... Morrisroe 180 Inglewood Drive ......1:00 ...... 1:00 – 4:00 pm ......Pamella ...... Pamella Warner ........... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 302-3596..... $349,900....... Inglewood West 121 Chappel Drive...........2:00 ........... 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Kevin ...... Kevin Durling ............... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Clearview Meadows 11 Cole Street....................1:00 .................... 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Ed ...... Ed Katchur .................... MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 506-7171..... $339,900....... Clearview Meadows 215 Lyons Close................

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ADVANTAGE.............. 358-1557..... $409,900....... Blackfalds 7117 Henners Road ........2:00 ........ 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Ivan ...... Ivan Busenius............... REMAX .................................................. 350-8102..... $479,000....... Lacombe 12 Ebony Street ................1:30 ................ 1:30 – 4:00 pm ......Dale ...... Dale Stuart .................... COLDWELL BANKER ......................... 302-3107..... $371,900....... Lacombe 9 Briarwood Crescent..... .....2:00 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Kelli ...... Kelli Hildreth ................ COLDWELL BANKER ......................... 587-877-3267 .. $319,900....... Blackfalds 28241 Highway 596 ........2:00 ........ 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Carol ...... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER ......................... 350-4919..... $699,900....... Red Deer County 10 Horne Close .................2:00 ................. 2:00 – 4:00 pm. pm. .....Cam ..... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Sylvan Lake 9 Falcon Ridge Drive.......2:00 ....... 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Darlis ...... Darlis Dreveny ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 358-4981............................... Sylvan Lake 4668 Westbrooke Road Road2:00 2:00 – 4:00 pm ........ ........Larry Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984............................... Blackfalds 607 Maple Crescent ........2:00 ........ 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Tim ...... Tim McRae .................... MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 350-1562..... $230,000....... Springbrook #E4, 5300 Vista Trail .........1:00 ......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Debra .... Debra Grabo ................ TRICON DEVELOPMENTS ............... 396-1688..... $219,900....... Blackfalds 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612............................... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake

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In Memoriam

PARKER ELLA Ella May Parker (nee Matthews) was called home to be with her Lord and Saviour on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, at the age of 92 years. She was born in Govan, Saskatchewan, on October 15, 1923 to Donal and Emily Matthews. Ella married Frank Allen Parker on November 16th, 1942 at Melfort, Saskatchewan.

Frank and Ella were able to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Ella is together again with her husband, Frank Parker, who passed away April 1994, her parents Donal and Emily Matthews, sisters Donelda, Phyllis and Reena, and nephew Gilbert Thompson. Ella is lovingly remembered and survived by her three children: Donald (Shirley) Parker, Lacombe; Roy (Sherry) Parker, Ponoka; and Gloria (Duane) Bulmer, Penhold.

Ella was blessed with 10 grandchildren (and their spouses); 21 greatgrandchildren and one on the way. Special thanks to Dr. Keller and staff at Lacombe Hospital; the Parkview Manor residents; and the wonderful people at the Lacombe Senior Citizens Lodge for their care and concern for Ella. Funeral Services will be held at 1 pm. on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 - at Lacombe Pentecostal Church, 40331 Range Rd 27-1 (west of Lacombe on Highway 12).

If desired, memorial contributions can be made to the Canadian Bible Society or Gideons, and condolences through: www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366 or 4003-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

Steve Stayko April 24, 2013 Till memory fades and life departs, You live forever in our hearts.

Always loved and remembered, Blair, Jo-Anne and Cody

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59 YR. old farmer near Sylvan Lake seeks his country, n/s, slim, honest, healthy, sweetheart, for lifetime relations. I am around 175 - 180 lbs, 5’ 9”.

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

EXPERIENCED Caregiver needed for a Diabetic Mother, $18/hr. Mon. Friday). Please apply to robert_seeliger@ hotmail.com

740

REG. DENTAL Hygienist Must be flexible with hours.

Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resumes attn: Corinne or Chrissy (403) 347-2133 or email: healthysmiles4life@ hotmail.com

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Keyera is currently seeking a Gas Plant Operator at our Gilby Gas Plant.

The Gas Plant is located 60 km northwest of Red Deer. The successful candidate will perform intermediate to senior level operating assignments on plant equipment. Please visit www.keyera.com for further information.

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

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND AND DERRICK HAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Executive Sales

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Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747 67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm.

Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume - retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca

Professionals

820

Pike Wheaton Chevrolet

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Manager responsible for developing a sales team to manage sales and service throughout Alberta.

Responsible for team management, nurturing accounts, maintaining customer service, overall revenue and profitability.

Salary+benefits based on experience $75,000 - $100,000/yr.

Please forward your resume in confidence to: resume@ letstalkconnections.ca

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BUSY dealership now hiring.

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85TH BIRTHDAY FOR ERNIE SURKAN Apr. 30, 2 - 5pm Antler Hill Hall 27471 Township Rd. 362 More Info? 403-318-2000

*CLIENT RELOCATIONS* Immed. P/T position for professional individual to provide tours and rental housing assistance in Red Deer. Need car! $200-275 per day. Email resume to: Lynn@whrelocations.com

Trades

830

Dental

Celebrations

810

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

is currently seeking an exp. licenced automotive technician. GM Dealership exp. would be considered Coming an asset. This position offers a competitive wage Restaurant/ Events with a bonus system. Pls. Hotel apply in person with FREEHOLD OWNERS resume to the Service ASSOCIATION (FHOA) JJAM Management (1987) Manager. No phone call pls.

2016 AGM & SEMINAR Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s on Sat., April 30 Celebrate your life Requires to work at these at the CrossRoads Church, Red Deer, AB locations: with a Classified Red Deer County 5111 22 St. ANNOUNCEMENT from 9:00 to 4:00.

37444 HWY 2 S Members - $20 37543 HWY 2N Site Construction person/ couple 700 3020 22 St. Manager Required Non-members - $30.

Food Service Supervisor Currently accepting person/couple & Req’d permanent shift applications for RTM site $10 per person for lunch. weekend day and evening construction manager Seminar Topics: both full and part time. located in Red Deer, AB. Best in Class Energy 10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + We are looking for an Regulators - Jennifer Wells medical, dental, life and viindividual with proven with AER, New Crown sion benefits. Start ASAP. ability to organize and Royalty Regime - Mike Job description lead contractors and Ekelund, ADM of AB www.timhortons.com possibly a small crew in Energy and Current Experience 1 yr. to less our new RTM location.

Freehold Owner Problems than 2 yrs.

Preference will be given - R.J. Young, Lawyer/ Apply in person or fax to anyone with Director and David Speirs, resume to: 403-314-1303 Construction Journeyman Geologist/Director. certification. Valid drivers Contact www.fhoa.ca, license is required. morganallen@fhoa.ca or Sales & Send resume to: 403-245-4438.

Distributors kvolk@ TURKEY SUPPER championhomes.com.

LTC Inc SPECIAL Only those considered in Innisfail is seeking HUBIES “1955” diner in will be contacted.

Westpark. Apr. 24, Telephone Sales 3 - 7 pm. 403-340-3795 CELEBRATIONS Agents to take incoming HAPPEN EVERY DAY and outgoing sales calls and provide quality IN CLASSIFIEDS customer service. $11.75/ Found hr+ commissions+benefits Buying or Selling Submit resume to: your home?

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ESTELL Kathleen ‘Kay’ (July 1, 1927 - Apr. 21, 2016) Mrs. Kathleen (Kay) Estell of Camrose formerly of Mirror, passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 21st, 2016 at the age of 88 years. Kay will be lovingly remembered and forever missed by her four sons, Paul (Gail) Estell of Alix, AB, Glenn (Lorraine) Estell of Gull Lake, AB, Ross (Paulette) Estell of Tisdale, SK and Sean (Carolyn) Estell of Mayerthorpe, AB; two daughters, Pat (Wayne) Sorochan of St. Albert, AB and Shauna (John) Boden of Camrose, AB; fourteen grandchildren; and nineteen great-grandchildren. Kay is also survived by her sister-inlaw Lisa McIlveen. Kay was predeceased by her parents, George and Kathleen and her two brothers Charlie and Herb. Many thanks to all the staff at Bethany Meadows for their love, care and compassion over the years Kay was there. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, April 28, 2016 from the Mirror Community Hall in Mirror, AB. Rev. David Eriksson officiating. Interment will take place at the Mirror Cemetery.

For those who wish to do so, memorial contributions may be made to the Rheumatoid Arthritis Association, Bethany Meadows, Willow cottage, or the charity of your choice.

To send condolences, please v i s i t www.burgarfuneralhome.com BURGAR FUNERAL HOME CAMROSE & DAYSLAND (4817 51 Ave, Camrose, Alberta T4V 0V4) in care of arrangements.

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Hearing Commissioners The Alberta Energy Regulator ensures the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of hydrocarbon resources in Alberta. This includes allocating and conserving water resources, managing public lands, and protecting the environment while providing economic benefits for all Albertans.

The AER provides full life-cycle regulatory oversight of energy resource development: from application and construction to abandonment and reclamation, and everything in between. For over 75 years, Alberta’s oil and gas regulator has adapted to meet innovations in technology, new industry activity, and changing societal expectations. The Alberta Energy Regulator is building on this foundation and preparing the province for the next era in energy regulation.

The Alberta Energy Regulator is seeking new Hearing Commissioners. Appointed by the Government of Alberta through an Order in Council, Hearing Commissioners represent an important part of the AER’s structure. Hearing Commissioners report to a Chief Hearing Commissioner and are responsible for conducting public hearings and conducting alternative dispute resolution related to energy applications and regulatory appeals. Hearing Commissioners are independent adjudicators whose decisions are only subject to review by the Court of Appeal of Alberta. Hearing commissioners are also involved in developing the AER’s hearing processes and rules and alternative dispute resolution practices.

To fulfill this important mandate you will possess in-depth experience and knowledge of Alberta’s energy activities including technical, regulatory, safety, legal and financial requirements, an understanding of landowner, Aboriginal and environmental issues, and an understanding of provincial government policy, legislation and operations. You will have knowledge of the principles of administrative law and natural justice and experience presiding over or participating in public hearings and designing and leading alternative dispute resolution processes. Your aptitude for adjudicative decision making includes good listening skills, open mindedness, sound judgement, and the ability to interpret legislation and organize and analyze complex evidence. Your strengths include exceptional communication skills, both oral and written. Technical training and experience in the fields of geoscience, engineering or environmental science are preferred, but not required. Experience working with Aboriginal communities would be considered an asset.

The results of this search will be used to fill upcoming vacancies for full- and part-time Hearing Commissioners.

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If you are ready to take a leadership role in ensuring a positive future for Albertans, please contact Boyden’s Calgary office at 403-410-6700 or forward your resume and related materials, in complete confidence, to albertaopportunities@boyden.com .

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Truckers/ Drivers

860

Employment Training

900

1640

Tools

METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

403-343-6044

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Firewood

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

CONTRACT DRIVERS in AB. Super B exp. req’d.

Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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1660

April 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Westerner Agri Centre West Admission $ 5

Travel Packages

1710

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1760

Horses

10’ x 12’ GAZEBO, material covered, good cond., $120. 403-782-5206

CARSWELL’S

2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020

ANTIQUE

CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100.

Tire - Step, $23.

403-343-6044

27th Annual Red Deer MOTHER’S DAY Furniture & Collectibles Show & Sale

May 7 & 8 Sat. 10-5:30, Sun. 10-4:00 Westerner Park Over 300 Tables Carswell’s 343-1614

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1590

Clothing

CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to X large size. $5 each. (approx. 30) good shape.

403-347-2526

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

403-392-5533 Graduate of the OKLAHOMA Horseshoeing School Serving Red Deer & surrounding areas

MALT BARLEY GROWERS WANTED for new high yielding specialty craft brewing variety. Attractive terms.

Call Mastin Seeds @ 403-994-2609 for details.

COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

403-343-6044 DIE CAST models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons.

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

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SOFA & chair, very clean. $25. 2 matching table lamps, $5 for set, water cooler, $15. Sony 32” TV with stand, works well FREE. 403-346-6303

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

OPEN HOUSE Apr. 24, SUN - 1 - 5 49 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS SERGE’S BUILT

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

AVAIL. May 1, 3 & 4 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & schools.$975 - $1100 + util. + d.d. 403-506-0054

First 2 mo. $995/mo.

403-358-4582

SEIBEL PROPERTY $500 OFF 1ST MONTH’S RENT 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

UNIQUE black metal Houses/ bathroom mirror, towel bar, towel ring, and 2 hangers Duplexes look like “gazelles”. All for 3 BDRM. 2 bath, newly re$65. 403 309-3475 no’d 2 minutes from R.D. WATER HOSE REEL, $1600/mo. 403-346-1825 $35. 403-885-5020

3020

3050

1 & 2 BDRM. apts avail. in a quiet, pet-free adult only building. Please phone 403-340-1222 for more information (no text msgs please).

3 BDRM., no pets, $975. mo. 403-343-6609

CLASSIFICATIONS

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

GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

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

Avail. now or May 1st.

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

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

Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337

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Realtors & Services

4010

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Suites

3060

1 BDRM. apt. avail.immed. $825 + power.

Call Bob 403-872-3400.

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

2 BDRM. bsmt suite. $850/mo. 403-348-1304

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult central alberta 403-341-9995 bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. Income 403-304-5337 Property 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

CITY VIEW APTS.

4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679

Industrial Property

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000.

403-391-1780

4120

LIMITED TIME OFFER: One free year of Telus internet & cable AND one month’s rent FREE on 2 bedrooms! Renovated suites in central location.

Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)482-1711

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MORRISROE MANOR Rental incentives avail.

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

403-596-2444

5030

Cars

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000

Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500.

403-598-4131

SUV's

5040

Rental incentives avail.

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

403-596-2444

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Tour These Fine Homes

4310

3030

2 BDRM. townhouse w/5 appls, avail. immed. rent $895 403-314-0209

2200

Seed Grain

Directory Out Of Red Deer

2140

FARRIER

Open House

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

Condos/ Townhouses

1720

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3

IMMACULATE 2 bdrm, condo, SE Red Deer, fireplace, cherrywood floors, 4 appls, utils. incld., avail.

May 1, $1195/mo.

WANTED

Misc. for Sale

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $80.

403-877-0825

1500-1990

Antiques & Art

RED DEER GUN SHOW

MICROWAVE, Kenmore over the counter, black, clean, works perfectly. $100. 403 309-3475

Household Furnishings

1860

INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044

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

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances 278950A5

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Sporting Goods

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

Clearview

Kentwood Estates

MULTI-FAM SALE. LOTS of great items. Furniture, rims, theater seating, decor, kids stuff, LOTS of GOOD books & DVD’s & MUCH more! Fri. April 22 4pm - 8, Sat 23rd 8 - 4.

92 Timberstone Way

144 KELLOWAY CRES. Complete Household Goes Apr. 16 to April 23 9 am - 9 pm Everything Must Go! Massive Party Lights, home, women & children’s decor.

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Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Morrisroe

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

11 MCKINNON CRES. Apr. 22 & 23 Fri. 10-5 & Sat. 10-4 Baby items, pool table, deep freeze, home decor...

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Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Roommates Wanted

3080

BOWER area home, shared main floor & laundry, $550./mo. incld’s all utils. except internet. $300. dd. Ref’s req’d.

403-309-4464 after 6 pm

Rooms For Rent

2005 MITSUBISHI Endeavor, fully loaded, AWL, leather, exc. shape. $6900. 403-318-1878

Motorcycles

5080

3090

BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds S.E. House, furn. room, working M 403-396-5941

Storage Space

2011 DODGE Caliber, only 56,000 km, exc. con., $8,900. 403-406-7600

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC ALL the bells & whistles!!

44,600 kms.

Excellent Condition

3160

Never laid down.

$7600. o.b.o.

(403)318-4653

10’ X 26’ INDOOR space $175/mo, 403-348-0241

ANDERS Boats & Looking for a place BOWER To Advertise Your Business or Service Here to live?

Marine Take a tour through the HIGHLAND GREEN CLASSIFIEDS INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE Mobile classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Lot KENTWOOD Handyman Plumbing PADS $450/mo.

RIVERSIDE Brand new park in Lacombe.

Contractors Services & Heating Accounting MEADOWS Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., WatersEdge Marina 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

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THE ADVOCATE D8

FEATURE SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2016

Looking back: 30 years of photographing Chornobyl

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABOVE: This photo, taken in 1996, shows photographer Efrem Lukatsky, wearing protective clothes to reduce the radiation impact, standing in front of the sarcophagus that covers destroyed reactor No.4 in the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in Chornobyl, Ukraine. The Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion was only about 100 km from photographer Efrem Lukatsky’s home, but he didn’t learn about it until the next morning from a neighbour. Only a few photographers were allowed to cover the destroyed reactor and desperate cleanup efforts, and all of them paid for it with their health.

BELOW: In this photo taken in March, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, Chornobyl, Ukraine.

In this photo a crucifix and a radiation sign at the entrance to the out-of-bounds town Pripyat close to the Chornobyl nuclear power station are seen through a bus window.

KIEV, Ukraine — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, recalls the confusion and anxiety of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion, the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion was only about 100 kilometres (65 miles) from my home in Kyiv, but I didn’t learn about it until the next morning from neighbour Natalia Finkel, a policeman’s wife.

There’s radioactive dust, she said close all the windows and plug all the cracks. Later, my anxiety grew when I saw her husband,, Andrei taking off his clothes and putting them in a plastic bag before entering his apartment.

It was two full days after the April 26, 1986, explosion when the Soviet Union’s tightly controlled news media acknowledged that anything had happened — and the reports’ dishonesty was as bad as no news at all. The Tass news agency called it an “unlucky accident” and said there was nothing to worry about.

Nobody cancelled a May Day parade in Kyiv that saw thousands of people walking in columns along the streets, with songs, flowers and Soviet leaders’ portraits, covered with invisible clouds of fatal radiation.

A thick cloud of smoke was carrying radioactive poisons over much of Europe.

The only reliable source of information was the Voice of America, but the KGB was jamming the signal. If the signal got through, we heard doctors advising us to take a daily drop of iodine to protect our thyroids from radiation.

A friend, an Institute of Nuclear Physics engineer named Viktor Ivashchenko, called me a few days after the blast and urged more me to flee Kyiv and never come back. But I stayed, and went on to develop a photographic relationship with the ruined plant that lasts to this day.

Soviet authorities finally unveiled what had really happened, and let in a few photographers to cover the destroyed reactor and the desperate cleanup efforts. Initially, only three Tass photographers were allowed in: Vladimir Repik, Igor Kostin and

Valery Zufarov. Repik and Zufarov later died of radiation-related illnesses and Kostin suffered from the effects for decades before dying in a car accident last year.

They were not allowed to develop the film they shot. Instead, the rolls were sent to Moscow, where the photos were edited and top-level discussions took place on which could be made public.

Kostin was with a group of “liquidators,” soldiers who had been pressed into service to battle the disaster.

He climbed to the roof of the building next to the exploded reactor, firing off frames to record the soldiers who were frantically shovelling debris off the ruined structure’s roof. He had to shoot fast.

“They counted the seconds for me: one, two, three … As they said ‘20’ I had to run down from the roof. It was the most contaminated place,” he told The Associated Press in 2011. “Fear came later.”

“If that explosion had occurred now and I had been told to go to Chornobyl, I would have never gone,” Repik told me a few weeks before he died.

I went myself a few months later, the first of dozens of trips, as a stringer for Ogonyok magazine.

I saw crews of soldiers and firemen hastily labouring to cover the destroyed reactor with a concrete and steel sarcophagus. They had no protection from the radioactive smoke and dust except for face masks that they tore off because of heat.

I had no protection other than a gauze mask and a white medical-style coat and head covering, all provided by the plant, which also gave us a shower afterwards.

In all, some 600,000 people took part in the cleanup operations in the first five months of the work in subsequent years, that group has registered a markedly higher rate of cancer than in the general population.

In 2000, after I had been hired by AP, I went to mark the closing of Chornobyl’s last operating reactor and got a look into the sarcophagus over the destroyed unit.

I put on two layers of thick white cotton clothes, rubber boots, a special hat and a helmet, padded jackets, gloves and a face mask.

My guide’s flashlight picked up the sparkle of dust slowly whirling around us. We tried not to take any deep breaths as we wove our way through dark, wreckage-strewn passages.

We reached the old control room, long and poorly lighted, with its damaged machinery. This was the place where the Soviet engineers threw a power switch for a routine test on that doomed night, and two explosions followed.

We bent our heads to get through the dark, narrow labyrinth leading to the centre of the sarcophagus. The walls were covered with lead plates intended to decrease radiation levels. There were piles of lead and boron powder dropped by helicopters to suppress the nuclear reaction.

My Geiger counter registered about 80,000 microroentgens an hour normal background radiation is about 23 microroentgens an hour. It was time to leave.

The half-life of cesium-137, one of the most dangerous of the particles emitted by the explosion, is 30 years — as long as it has been since the blast.

At least three more of those half-lives will have to pass before the soil might be considered uncontaminated.

The catastrophe’s effects will outlive all of us who endured it.

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Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Respite Proprietors are paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Proprietors are required to take.

Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in either children or adult Proprietorship to: HR Fax: (403) 986-2404 or e-mail: hr@pclass.org If you would like to inquire more information please contact Roxanne Rose, HR Coordinator at 403-986-2400

COMMUNITY MANAGER MHA properties looking for a full time, outgoing, customer service oriented individual to manage a townhouse community in Red Deer.

Successful candidate will manage staff, contractors and the property while maintaining excellent resident relations.

On-site residency is not required.

We offer a competitive salary and benefit package including health and RRSP plans.

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Co-ordinator, Blackfalds Parent Link Centre 0.8 FTE (28 hours/week)

We are searching for an independent leader to co-ordinate the new Parent Link Centre in Blackfalds.

Working with parents, partners and staff, the Co-ordinator will be responsible for overall operations including program development, staff supervision, budget management and reporting, and compliance with Parent Link best practice standards.

Parent Link Centres provide programs and services for parents and caregivers of young children, newborn to 6 years in the areas of Parent Education, Early Learning, Family Support, Developmental Screening and Information and Referral. For more information about your local Parent Link Centre, see www.centralparklandparentlink.ca The successful candidate will have achieved a Post –Secondary Degree/ Diploma in a related Human Services discipline, as well as sound knowledge and experience in • Program Development and Evaluation • Group facilitation • Family dynamics • Relationship building and partnerships • Early childhood development • Supervision and mentoring of staff • Excellent Interpersonal skills Usually daytime hours, but some evening and Saturday hours will be required.

Competitive salary and benefit package.

Closing date Friday, April 29, 2016 Please forward your letter of interest and resume to: Ms. Donnie Tafts, Regional Parent Link Manager, Lacombe and District FCSS 201 – 5214 50 Avenue, Lacombe, AB T4L 0B6 email: dtafts@lacombefcss.net

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