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12 steps to stop suicides REPORT CALLS FOR PROVINCE TO FUND STRATEGY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

ABORIGINAL YOUTH

A new report to prevent aboriginal youth suicide calls for a provincially-funded strategy that supports community-led initiatives developed within the context of aboriginal traditional values and cultural practices.

On Monday, Alberta’s Child and Youth Advocate

Del Graff released his report, Toward a Better Tomorrow, Addressing the Challenge of Aboriginal Youth Suicide, that included 12 recommendations.

In late 2015, Maskwacis was concerned about the number of young people taking their own lives in the First Nation community.

Randy Littlechild, executive director of Maskwacis Health Services, said the recommendations could work in Maskwacis.

“I’m not going to criticize this report. It was a good report. I’m glad someone out there in Alberta took an interest. It’s just that where’s the money, where’s the commitment,” Littlechild said on Monday.

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CURBING THE TRASH

Sexual assault victims can text support centre

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Help from Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre will be a text away on May 1.

Right now victims of sexual assault can contact the support centre by calling the existing sexual assault support crisis line to talk to a volunteer. Soon they can text the same number — 1-866-9561099.

The line operates 24 hours a day for calling and soon for texting.

Texting can be done by phone or on a computer by us- PATRICIA ARANGO ing the webchat program on the support centre website, at www.casasc.ca.

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Dean Crozier of Progressive Waste Solutions in Red Deer makes a pickup in the Lancaster subdivision on Friday. Red Deer residents will soon have to curb the trash. City council approved a change that will see the allowable residential weekly amount of waste move to three from five bags starting in mid-May. Please see related story on page A2.

Women of Excellence nominees announced

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer & District Community Foundation has named 29 nominees for the the 2016 Women of Excellence Awards.

Award recipients will be announced at the 9th Annual Women of Excellence Awards Gala to be held on June 1. A Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Royal Bank of Canada, will be presented to an exemplary woman who has been a role model for the community.

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Award categories and nominees include: ● Agriculture sponsored by Scotiabank — Jennifer Blair, of Red Deer. ● Arts, Culture and Heritage sponsored by Air Canada — Elizabeth Plumtree, of Red Deer; Nellie Watson, of Eckville. ● Athletics, Recreation and Fitness sponsored by The Consider It Done Team and Century 21 Advantage — Christine Slaymaker, of Red Deer; Monica Morrison, of Red Deer. ● Business and the Professions sponsored by Johnston Ming Manning LLP — Dr. Katherine

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CITY COUNCIL

Trash limit trimmed

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Time to take out less trash.

Council approved a change that will see the allowable residential weekly amount of waste reduced to three from five units starting in mid-May. A unit is defined as a garbage bag or can with a 100-litre capacity.

Reducing the bag limit is part of the bigger picture to divert more trash from the landfill and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The city recently expanded its recycling program to accept plastics #1 through #7 in the blue box. It is also nearing the second year mark of its organics collection pilot project.

Elaine Vincent, Development Services director, told council that learnings from these two programs will help inform what works for Red Deer’s waste collection programs.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes unsuccessfully argued to bring the bag limit to four from five. She said there needs to be more education before the limit is reduced.

But council reasoned it is an achievable target as recent surveys and waste audits showed that 94 per cent of Red Deer households are already setting out three units of waste or less each week.

In voting against the reduction, Coun. Tanya Handley said education and awareness does not make diapers go away. She said the seniors and large families who have contacted her are not in support of the reduction.

“I feel this penalizes that six per cent that requires just a little extra,” said Handley.

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The mythical sea monster Ogopogo is shown on a city of Kelowna float in a handout photo. Ogopogo could get the heave-ho if councillors in Kelowna, B.C., decide to ditch images of the mythical lake monster from its parade float. A proposal for the city’s new float stresses outdoor recreation to better reflect and promote the community.

Kelowna votes to keep image of Ogopogo

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KELOWNA, B.C. — There’ll be no heave-ho for Ogopogo with councillors in Kelowna, B.C., voting to keep the mythical lake monster as the focus of the city’s parade float.

Staff had proposed ditching the iconic creature in favour of an outdoor recreation theme for the city’s new float, but politicians voted unanimously to stick with tradition.

A representation of Ogopogo, either a goofy one with big eyes or a menacing one with fearsome fangs, has appeared on the float for more than 50 years.

Ogopogo is a supposed sea serpent living in Okanagan Lake, and its legend goes back centuries to First Nations lore.

Its current image on the city float is well-travelled, with the float having logged 42,000 kilometres

in the past five years and appearing in parades in 55 cities in the Pacific Northwest of the United and into Alberta.

Coun. Luke Stack said there was clearly widespread support for having the beast continue to feature prominently on the float, which will get a $20,000 facelift.

“There’s just lots of love for the Ogopogo,” said Stack, sporting an pin of the creature on his lapel.

City staff had argued the float needed an update and proposed a theme emphasizing active living with depictions of bicycling, kayaking, and paddleboarding.

The idea was “not very original” and wouldn’t separate Kelowna from other municipalities, Coun.

Maxine DeHart said at Monday’s meeting.

The mythical monster is part of the city’s branding, DeHart said.

City boosts funding for civic garage, CNG Fire hazard downgraded to low but subject to change fueling station

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

The city will spend $1.96 million more to upgrade the civic garage and to build a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station.

Council approved the boost in funding bringing the total budget to $6.1 million, of which $2.2 million is on the books for the project on Monday.

The increase in cost is mainly due to a better understanding of building code requirements and US currency exchange rate. The majority of the equipment is produced in the United States.

The city will draw on its GreenTRIP and the Federal Gas Tax Fund grants to cover the shortfall.

Elaine Vincent, Development Services director, said by the end of 2016, the city will have 19 CNG buses and by 2019, 40 CNG buses will be in the fleet, said But the decision came with some remorse as council debated whether or not it made the right move to switch to CNG from diesel.

Rain and a bit of snow have dampened but not eliminated the fire hazard in Central Alberta.

Barry Shellian, area information co-ordinator for the Rocky Clearwater Forest, said on Monday the fire hazard in his region has been downgraded to low for now, but that may change with sunny days to come later this week.

There is still plenty of dry grass out there, said Shellian. While it absorbs water quite quickly, it dries out just as fast and can become a good source of fuel as conditions change, he said.

For now, Rocky Clearwater is not issuing permits for larger burns, although it will issue permits for people to burn small piles of refuse on their farms or in their yards.

Shellian said there is an ongoing hazard from hold-over fires, describing them as hidden embers that can re-ignite under the right conditions. He cited a case earlier this year where fire crews were called to tackle a wildfire caused by embers from a campfire that had been extinguished in October.

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Information on the maps is managed by the municipalities themselves, she said.

Shellian encourages people to be aware of safe practices for preventing fires, including clearing debris from hot spots on their ATVs, ensuring their campfires are properly extinguished and being aware that exploding targets pose a fire hazard.

Since April 1, Alberta has recorded 233 wildfires covering 1,42o acres of land.

As of Monday afternoon, there were 24 wildfires burning in the province, including one held, 13 under control and 10 turned over to the responsible parties.

That includes a couple of lightning strikes in the Rocky Clearwater forest over the weekend, said Shellian.

Maps and other information is available from wildfire.alberta.ca and albertafirebans.ca or by calling 1-866-394-3473.

Wildfires can be reported to 310-FIRE (310-3473).

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Bylaw restricts wind energy projects

BY THE PONOKA NEWS

PONOKA COUNTY

A strong wind put residents ahead of turbines in Ponoka County.

A public hearing in council chambers on Thursday saw close to 10 county residents who live the Calumet area show up to fight for regulations regarding the wind power industry.

In the end, council maintained its stance regarding the outline of its new bylaw aimed at restricting the activities of commercial wind energy projects near residences in the county.

The bylaw, which received third and final reading later in the day during council’s regular meeting, was mostly based upon a bylaw passed by the Municipal District of Provost along with a later decision by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) which struck down some sections of that bylaw in allowing a wind power project in that area.

The most contentious issue in the bylaw was the requirement for projects to adhere to a setback of one mile for any wind turbine tower from an oc-

cupied residence — a stipulation that came from the AUC in their ruling last year that effectively ignored the MD of Provost’s bylaw regulations.

Many of the residents attending the hearing were in favour of the restriction, while a representative from a company interested in establishing a wind power project in that area said it would effectively end that opportunity.

“We are in the very early stages of prospecting and having clarity of rules would significantly assist us,” said RES Canada development manager Phillippe Abergel, who was leading the search to place a 17-wind-turbine project in the county.

“A couple of months ago we began preliminary work after a thorough site search, but there are issues in this bylaw and if it goes through as drafted, would all but present a block to our potential project.”

He added the bylaw places an effective blanket on any development considering the setback and asked for

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prepared to lose $2.2 million of the taxpayers’ dollars to switch gears.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she feels comfortable with the decision because she knows there will be more conversations in the future. She added there are studies and research that support just about any new technology.

She asked if the door was closed on trying new technologies such as electric buses.

Vincent said the city is keeping an eye on St. Albert, which has recently purchased two electric buses in a pilot project.

The city is expected to save $1 million in fuel costs annually once the fleet is converted to CNG buses.

But once you start adding electric vehicles to fleet, it can impact the return on investment, said Vincent.

“What we need to do is just to take a look at our fleet growth and take a look at where that could be,” said Vincent.

“So I am not closing the door on that. It is certainly an option.”

Vincent said electric buses are still being heated by using diesel.

“Even if we were to order an electric bus today, the heating system for those buses are still being done by diesel,” she said. “That’s the one improvement we’re waiting for market approval to happen before we feel that that is a fully feasible option for Red Deer.”

CNG: Expected to save on fuel costs Coun. Paul Harris, who voted against the spending, argued that CNG is not the path that the city should be taking. He said technology has changed since council made the decision to go this route.

Harris said there are studies now that show that this is not the path to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He said the Canadian Urban Transit Association does not recommend CNG buses.

“Since our decisions, we have also had the introduction of a carbon levy and so we will be looking for more ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid that levy,” said Harris.

“And there are better technologies to help us with us. At this point to me it seems like a course correction is needed and we should find a way to have a discussion about alternatives and cut our losses and build something that is more forward looking.”

He also took issue with the substantial increase to the budget, which he said was approved in Canadian dollars not American.

Coun. Lynne Mulder said she is not

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Suspect in custody after police chase A suspect was taken to jail after police used a spike belt to stop a speeding pickup truck in Red Deer early Monday morning.

Red Deer City RCMP allege that the incident erupted shortly before 1 a.m., when a member on patrol saw the eastbound one-ton run a red light at high speed on 67th Street.

The truck sped off when the member signalled the driver to pull over.

For public safety reasons, members did not attempt to pursue the truck, but tracked it as it turned south on

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council to consider waiting to approve the bylaw until they can discuss other, better means for the county and landowners.

“We also only come into communities that we are welcome and if that support isn’t there, we will go,” Abergel said.

That statement elicited a terse response from some of the residents.

“It’s clear from the meeting of many landowners in the area (held a couple of months ago) that this community does not want you and our hope is that this bylaw is implemented as it stands,” said Warren Bloomquist, who sits on the board of directors of Synergy Alberta and farms near Calmut.

Abergel would later state, “I’m not blind, I can see where this is going. We will pack our backs and go, likely to the relief of the people here. I won’t be here tomorrow, but I urge council not to look at the alleged concerns.”

While there was a sense during the hearing this was more about the residents battling against RES to keep this proposed project out of their area, council members reiterated sever-

● The price tag to rebuild Red Deer Arena has jumped by roughly $1.5 million.

Council heard that the 2015 building code amendments, bucket seats and dressing rooms have all contributed to a boost in the project’s cost.

The building can be still be constructed within the approved budget of $21.5 million but the parking lot resurfacing and landscaping plans will be considered at the 2017 Capital Budget deliberations.

Roughly $1.4 million was included in the arena budget for the parking lot. ● A owner of a residential home assessed at $325,000 may pay $7.05 per month or $85 annually more in total property taxes in 2016. This would bring the total annual tax bill to $2,789 from $2,704.

Council gave first reading of the 2016 tax rate bylaw that sets the municipal portion of the tax bill.

It comes to a 3.13 per cent increase for each residential, multi-family and non-residential property taxes combined with the requisitioned amounts from Alberta Education and Piper Creek Foundation, crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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al times that the hearing was strictly about closing a regulatory gap in the county’s land use and that the bylaw would allow wind power projects to be developed in Ponoka County.

“This bylaw is not against any project, but has been driven by residents concerns,” explained councillor Bryce Liddle.

Reeve Paul McLauchlin added the county is interested in development and knows continuing to support it is important, but they also have an obligation to ensure, in the absence of regulation, rules are put in place that are reasonable and listen to residents.

He did say that simply because they pass this bylaw, doesn’t preclude it being overturned should a project decide to try and move forward.

“The county only has jurisdiction over land use. We cannot regulate the process, that is the AUC and they could simply sidestep the bylaw provisions,” said McLauchlin, adding if the wind potential and economics are as good as Abergel stated, then it’s likely a proposed project could be on the horizon. ensure a smooth transition, said Vincent.

Each household will receive a number of courtesy waste tags. Residents will still be able to purchase extra waste tags for $1 each through city facilities.

Coun. Ken Johnston said he is looking forward to the cart system, which he says will be a tremendous win for the city. He asked if switching to a cart system right now would be feasible.

Red Deer is slated to move to a citywide automated cart system for garbage and recycling in 2018 if its twoyear black and blue cart pilot program is successful.

Blue carts are for recycling and black carts are for garbage. A citywide organics collection is expected to be implemented next year.

Vincent said it would not make sense to roll out the black cart right now because the city does not understand the implications of the organics processing and collections.

“That’s a critical piece that moving from a five bag to a three bag limit did,” she said. “It allows us to assess that successful diversion that we are hearing from a limited number that may not be achievable. This pilot gives that opportunity to assess that.”

Vincent said it is important to first finish the pilots before discussing what organics collection will look like for the city. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

The city will work with residents to

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Burundi on track for next genocide?

GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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he good news is that the killing in Burundi has not yet grown into a civil war like the one that killed 300,000 people in 1993-2005, let alone a genocide like the one that killed 800,000 people in neighbouring Rwanda in 1994. The bad news is that Burundi is getting there.

It’s hard to speak well of Sepp Blatter, the disgraced former head of FIFA, the international football federation. But Africa would owe him a large debt of gratitude if he had persuaded Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza not to seek a third term, and instead to accept a job as FIFA’s “ambassador for football” to the world.

When the story came out recently in Blatter’s autobiography, the Swiss foreign ministry (which asked Blatter to make the offer) explained that “The intention was to contribute to a peaceful solution in order to prevent the current crisis in Burundi.”

It might even have worked. Nkurunziza is a keen footballer, and he certainly has put aside enough money to retire on. But he chose to stay on and run for a third term, and started Burundi on the road back down to Hell.

African presidents suffer from two besetting sins. One is the belief that they are irreplaceable: almost twothirds of African countries had twoterm presidential limits in their constitutions by 2000, but since then 10 of them have seen attempts by their presidents to remove the limit. The most recent was Rwanda, where President Paul Kagame’s last permitted term will now end in 2034.

But Pierre Nkurunziza’s excuse was particularly pathetic. He became president at the end of the civil war in 2005, when the peace was precarious.

There was no time for a presidential election, so he was elected to the presidency by a parliamentary vote.

On the basis of that, Nkurunziza began claiming last year that his first term shouldn’t count towards his constitutional two-term limit because he was chosen by parliament and not by the people. Even Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (seven terms and counting) saw the humour in that.

“They say the first term was not a real term,” he said at an African Union summit last June, “but you were there for five years!”

Burundi’s Constitutional Court accepted Nkuruniza’s claim, however, as it would have been hazardous to the members’ health to do otherwise. (One of the judges then fled the country, saying that they had all been bullied and threatened into giving that judgement.) The opposition parties all boycotted the election last July, so Nku-

runziza “won” — and by then the level of violence was rising rapidly.

The killing started after a failed military coup that tried to stop the sham election, and the reported death toll is now around 400. The known victims are mostly political activists and ordinary citizens murdered by the police in Bujumbura, the capital, but the real total of the killings must be far higher. Rural killings are rarely reported, but a quarter-million people have fled the country in the past year and now live in refugee camps in neighbouring countries.

The one consolation in this dreadful situation until recently was that it wasn’t a tribal confrontation. In both Rwanda’s genocide and Burundi’s civil war the majority Hutus (85 per cent of the population) were on one side and formerly dominant Tutsi minority on the other. Since the civil war, however, Burundi’s army has been evenly divided between the two ethnic groups, and the opposition groups have also included both Hutus and Tutsis.

The other besetting sin of African presidents, unfortunately, is that if they come from the biggest tribe (as they most often do), when they get into deep political trouble their default solution is to fall back on tribal loyalties. That is what Nkurunziza is doing now. The army is being purged of Tutsis, and the very same language used by the Hutus in the run-up to the Rwanda genocide is now being used

by Nkurunziza’s Hutu backers in Bu-

rundi.

Révérien Ndikuriyo, the president of the Burundian senate, has been referring to the regime’s opponents as “cockroaches” (the same word used for Tutsis by the Hutu extremists in Rwanda). He has even called on the government’s supporters to “start work” (“kora”), which was the code-word used in Rwanda for the launch of the 1994 genocide.

Nkurunziza is trying to turn a political confrontation he might lose into an ethnic conflict that he could win, but the cost would be another genocide.

The future of an entire country of 10 million people is being put at risk by his personal ambition.

The African Union offered to send 5,000 soldiers to help quell the violence, but backed down when Nkurunziza objected. There are 19,000 United Nations peacekeepers just across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the political will to send them in is lacking.

So far the opposition parties (which are, of course, mostly Hutu) are resisting Nkurunziza’s attempts to scapegoat the Tutsis, but in the world’s poorest country many ordinary Hutus will be tempted to go along with the regime’s lies in order to steal their Tutsi neighbours’ land. We may be weeks away from Africa’s next genocide.

this.”

Natalie Dawes, a member of the Piikani First Nation and a residential school survivor, says in an article in the ACSW Spring 2016 magazine: “Our Indigenous worldviews … are holistic. There’s a strong principle of interdependence and interconnection between everything — the natural world, human beings, our bodies, our language and our culture. They’re all connected. … And given that [we] have experienced what the Truth and Reconciliation Committee called cultural genocide, we’ve lost that interconnection. Our relationship with ourselves, each other and the natural world is what creates health, and that’s what’s missing. It’s resulted in generations of violence and abuse.”

The RDHR does not reflect this need for an interconnected, holistic solution to housing Red Deer’s Aboriginal homeless people (which is also a needed solution for all homeless people). A holistic solution would acknowledge and address the intergenerational trauma caused by deliberate cultural genocide on the part of mainstream society in Canada towards Aboriginal peoples. It seems that cultural competency training is urgently needed for the mayor, city council and the authors of this report.

Kathie Wallace Red Deer

Interchange improvements huge for city, county

Canada Trail from Blackfalds to Lacombe. CARTS is also working with the County of Red Deer to develop the regional trail system from Penhold to Springbrook subsequently connecting to Gasoline Alley and the City of Red Deer.

Currently, there is no pedestrian access to Gasoline Alley. As part of the infrastructure improvements to be made to the Highway 2 interchanges and collector roads, pedestrians, cyclists, and other active commuters will be accommodated via a path along Taylor Drive, under Highway 2. The connecting trail systems are under the jurisdiction of the City of Red Deer and Red Deer County.

Including an option for active travel for those who choose or by necessity walk, run, bike, rollerblade, or longboard as part of their daily commute or recreational activity can only benefit health and safety for vulnerable road users, the environment, and also for us drivers in reducing congestion and improving accessibility. Society as a whole benefits.

Well done, and keep up the good work.

Bill Franz, Red Deer President, Red Deer Association for Bicycle Commuting

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

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City council misses mark on Aboriginal homeless I want first to acknowledge that I am living on the traditional lands of the Blackfoot, Cree and Stoney peoples.

As an eager BSW graduate, passionate about social justice, I looked forward to reading the Red Deer Housing Report. I was disappointed. I couldn’t find any qualitative research reflecting perspectives and solutions from homeless people. Instead, RDHR looks like old-model research that pathologists and re-victimizes the victims of mainstream society’s failures, putting the onus on individuals to get housed and into treatment as the solution without addressing any of the complex root issues causing homelessness. These root issues must be solved in order for homelessness to end.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Alberta credit rating downgraded EDMONTON — Alberta’s credit rating has taken another hit.

Moody’s Investor Service announced Monday it has downgraded Alberta’s long-term debt rating to double-A1 from triple-A and has given it a negative outlook.

It’s the second downgrade from a rating service since the province released its budget on April 14 that included removal of its debt ceiling and a forecast of $58 billion in debt by 2019.

Moody’s says the downgrade “reflects the province’s growing and unconstrained debt burden, extended timeframe back to balance, weakened liquidity, and risks surrounding the success of

the province’s medium-term fiscal plan given the outlook for subdued growth.”

It also says the province forecasts oil prices to be higher than what Moody’s is predicting.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci, who is on a trip to Toronto and New York to meet with business leaders, says the downgrade is “disappointing.”

“We have the strongest balance sheet in the country and net assets of nearly $50 billion,” Ceci said in a news release.

“The budget released last week clearly demonstrated our commitment to getting costs under control, especially in health care, by cutting spending growth to an average of two per cent over the next three years.”

Moody’s said Alberta’s success in reducing the deficit is predicated on the success of the province’s spending plan and whether the anticipated forecasts for revenue improvement and oil price recovery will materialize.

“Given the lengthy period of deficits, potential for weaker economic activity and continued revenue dependence on volatile oil royalties, the negative outlook reflects Moody’s view that the province’s fiscal health could deteriorate further.”

A day after Alberta’s budget came out on April 14, DBRS downgraded the province’s rating to double-A from triple-A due to debt levels.

The budget includes a $10.4-billion deficit this year.

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Fate of parents charged in meningitis death of their son in hands of a jury LETHBRIDGE — The guilt or innocence of an Alberta couple accused of culpability in the meningitis death of their toddler is now in the hands of a jury.

David Stephan, 32, and Collet Stephan, 35, are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life to nearly 19-month-old Ezekiel in March 2012.

The couple testified they believed that Ezekiel was suffering from croup or flu, so they treated him with remedies that included hot peppers, garlic, onions and horseradish over 2 ½ weeks before he stopped breathing and was rushed to a nearby hospital.

The boy was then taken to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary where doctors detected little brain activity and he died a couple of days later.

Nenshi’s Uber comment under review

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Critical comments made by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi about the ride-hailing service Uber will be reviewed by the integrity commissioner.

Nenshi was using a rival service in Boston recently when he panned Uber’s background checks for drivers and used the word “dick” to describe company CEO Travis Kalanick.

“They are honestly the worst people in the world. I have nev-

er dealt with people like this before,” Nenshi is heard saying on a video, which was livestreamed by the Boston driver without Nenshi’s knowledge.

The mayor apologized to city council on Monday for his language. “(That) was me being a bit of a jerk and I am sorry for that,” he said. “I am better than that and we should all strive to be better than that.”

“It’s a bit embarrassing,” Nenshi said after the council meeting.

“I never swear and that’s prob-

ably the rudest word I’ve ever said … It wasn’t nice and it wasn’t civil.”

Nenshi told council he didn’t reveal any confidential information when he told the driver someone with a criminal record had made it through Uber’s screening process.

Nenshi appeared to say in the video that Calgary tested Uber’s background checks with registered sex offenders and people convicted of violent crimes. He said they passed Uber’s background tests.

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Grits release details of cash

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OTTAWA — Cities and provinces with new, shovel-ready infrastructure projects will be eligible for funding under the first phase of the Liberal infrastructure program, but only if the work is completed within the next three years.

That’s the message in letters which federal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi sent to his provincial counterparts last week.

Project costs for transit and waste-water and water-treatment projects will be eligible retroactive to April 1, “so work can begin immediately,” Sohi wrote.

The first phase of the Liberals’ promised 10-year infrastructure plan wraps up in 2019 — just as the country heads to the polls in a federal election — and is mostly focused on repairing aging roads, pipes and transit systems across the country. It is also designed to lay the foundation for the second and more lucrative phase of the Liberal plan by covering planning costs for larger projects.

“There is money for design, there is money for planning and there is money for doing small projects if they are ready to move ahead with them,” Sohi told reporters at the Liberal cabinet retreat in Kananaskis, Alta.

“There are big challenges related to not doing the rehabilitation and the repairs that are necessary and for Phase 2 we have already started consultations with (cities) and that’s where we will have the opportunities to support transformative projects.”

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says there are many projects that could be eligible, from transit stations in Vancouver to waste-water treatment systems in Victoria and St. John’s that are among 106 systems that need upgrades in the next four years at an estimated cost of $3.5 billion.

Money can’t go to municipal projects without funding agreements between the federal and provincial governments.

“What these letters today do is that they set the

framework and gives clarity for provinces and territories from the federal government for those negotiations and discussions to occur,” said FCM president Raymond Louie.

The Liberals pledged in the budget, flowing from a campaign promise, to double infrastructure spending over the next 10 years to bring the overall federal investment to $120 billion. The first two years of the new infrastructure program has $6.6 billion for provinces and cities, not including money promised to First Nations infrastructure or to universities.

The Liberals also promised changes to the government’s existing marquee infrastructure program, known as the New Building Canada Fund, to quickly move about $8.7 billion remaining from the provincial and territorial stream of that fund to cities and provinces. The Liberals want the remaining money allocated to projects within the next two years.

The government is expanding eligibility under the fund, including work on small-scale highways and roads in provinces like Prince Edward Island that previously didn’t qualify because they weren’t big enough in scope or impact.

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Liberals grapple with how to return to peacekeeping

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — They had come to reinvent the wheel — one their Canadian predecessors had played a significant role in shaping some six decades earlier.

The closed-door meeting at Global Affairs Canada on Jan. 29, 2016, was a brainstorming session on a topic that, at one time, would have been inconceivable in Canadian government circles: how Canada could make a meaningful contribution to international peacekeeping.

The day-long session brought together representatives from Canada’s renamed foreign ministry, leading diplomats, academics and former United Nations peacekeeping officials.

The agenda, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press, asked a number of questions about Canada’s return to the peacekeeping fold.

The participants tackled a range of issues — from the military’s capability to take on peacekeeping missions and how they would fit Canada’s broader foreign policy interests to how to incorporate women and where to deploy.

It was one of the first steps towards transforming a Liberal foreign policy campaign promise into a reality — one that had to confront the fact that Canada had been out of the peacekeeping business for more than a decade, focused instead on war-fighting in the post 9-11 era.

“This exercise will serve to lay the ground for establishing the criteria for engagement in specific missions or initiatives,” said the document, which asked far more questions than it answered.

“What are the respective strengths, weaknesses and implications of adopting these priorities, both for our peace operations engagement and for activities across government?”

The participants discussed some of the underlying criteria for future missions, including the “responsibility to protect” civilians, preventing violent extremism and whether unspecified “geographic priorities” should be the deciding factor.

They also looked at “gaps” in the military’s capability and how Canada’s “capabilities need to be updated and improved to be more responsive to UN needs.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion acknowledged that a lot of work lay ahead before Canada could return to the world of peacekeeping.

“We need to be very selective,” Dion said.

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Competitors pass an ice inukshuk on the Yukon River on their way to the Dawson City, Yukon during the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, Feb.15, 2008. Residents of Yukon have experienced something that has only happened a handful of times in the last 120 years. Ice breakup has occurred on the Yukon River at Dawson City, about 500 kilometres north of Whitehorse.

First case of sexually transmitted Zika virus confirmed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada has recorded its first confirmed case of sexually transmitted Zika virus in an Ontario resident whose partner was infected after travelling to a country where the mosquito-borne disease has become endemic.

The case was announced Monday by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Ontario Ministry of Health, but no further details about the resident were made public.

The diagnosis was confirmed after testing by PHAC’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, which is still investigating another possible case of sexually transmitted Zika.

On March 24, Saskatchewan’s deputy chief medical health officer said the province was scrutinizing the case of a woman who was believed to have contracted the virus after having sex with a man who

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No appeal of Jian Ghomeshi sex-assault and choking acquittal, Crown says TORONTO — The prosecution has decided against appealing the acquittal of former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi on sexual-assault and choking charges last month, a spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General said Monday.

In a statement, Brendan Crawley said a review of the ruling and case turned up no basis to contest the decision.

“The Crown has concluded that there is no legal basis upon which to appeal the acquittals,” Crawley said.

“The Crown’s right of appeal from an acquittal is limited to errors of law, and does not include errors relating to factual matters.”

had travelled to a country where Zika is prevalent.

“The Saskatchewan case remains under investigation,” a spokesman for the province’s ministry of health said Monday by email. “It hasn’t yet been confirmed by the National Microbiology Laboratory.”

To date, there have been 55 other confirmed cases of Zika among Canadians, all of whom were infected while travelling to regions where the disease is spreading, including South and Central America, parts of Mexico and the Caribbean. Among them are two B.C. women, who are pregnant.

“While bites from infected mosquitoes remain the primary way to get Zika virus, sexual transmission of the virus is to be expected given that a small number of cases have been reported elsewhere in the world,” PHAC said in a release.

Most people who contract the infection have no symptoms those who do get sick experience such ill effects as fever, joint pain, rash and red eyes. The disease usually resolves in about a week.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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PM condemns murder

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KANANASKIS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Monday the “cold-blooded murder” of a Canadian beheaded by terrorists in the Philippines after being held hostage for seven months.

Trudeau confirmed the victim was 68-year-old John Ridsdel of Calgary.

Ridsdel was one of four tourists — including Canadian Robert Hall, a Norwegian man and a Filipino woman — who were kidnapped last Sept. 21 by Abu Sayyaf militants from a marina on southern Samal Island.

The militants had threatened to kill one of the three male hostages if a large ransom was not paid by 3 p.m.

Monday local time — 3 a.m. ET. Trudeau said he was “outraged” by the news that a plastic bag containing Ridsdel’s decapitated head was dumped in a street Monday night by two men on a motorcycle in Jolo, a town in Sulu province.

“Canada condemns without reservation the brutality of the hostage takers and this unnecessary death,” Trudeau said in a hastily assembled appearance before the media in the midst of a cabinet retreat.

“This was an act of cold-blooded murder and responsibility rests squarely with the terrorist group who took him hostage.”

Trudeau said the Canadian government is committed to working with the Philippine government and international partners to “pursue those responsible for this heinous act and bring them to justice.”

On behalf of all Canadians, he also expressed his “deepest condolences” to Ridsdel’s family and friends.

“They have endured a terrible ordeal and this is a devastating moment for all of them.”

Saying that the safety of Canadi-

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Canadians Robert Hall, left, and John Ridsdel are seen in this still image taken from an undated militant video. Police said the head of a Caucasian male was recovered Monday night in the southern Philippines and DNA tests will be conducted to determine whether it belongs to one of three Western hostages who had been threatened with beheading by ransomseeking Muslim extremists. Two Canadians — Ridsdel and Hall —were among the hostages. an citizens is the first priority of the government, Trudeau said the government will not comment or release any information that might “compromise ongoing efforts or endanger the safety of the remaining hostages.”

He did not answer any questions, including whether the government had paid a ransom for Ridsdel or Hall. However, an official said it is long-standing government policy to not pay ransom demands.

In militant videos posted online, Ridsdel and fellow Canadian Robert

Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and Filipino Marites Flor were shown sitting in a clearing with heavily armed militants standing behind them.

In some of the videos, a militant positioned a long knife on Ridsdel’s neck.

Two black flags hung in the backdrop of lush foliage.

The abductions highlighted the long-running security problems hounding the southern Philippines, a resource-rich region that suffers from poverty, lawlessness and decades-long Muslim and communist insurgencies.

Pot operations found in Ohio homes where eight died

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in a “pre-planned execution,” raising more questions as authorities scrambled to find a suspect or suspects in the slayings in a rural southern Ohio community.

The killings at four homes near the small community of Piketon on Friday was “a sophisticated operation,” Attorney General Mike DeWine said at a news conference Sunday. Seven adults and one teenage boy were found shot in the head three young children were not harmed.

“This was a pre-planned execution of eight individuals,” DeWine said.

Authorities remained tight-lipped Sunday about details of the investigaFile hoto by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tion, any suspects or motives for the crime. They said they found marijua- This aerial photo shows one of the locations being investigated in Pike County, na operations at three of the crime Ohio, as part of an ongoing homicide investigation. Several people were found scenes, but didn’t say if the deaths dead Friday at multiple crime scenes in rural Ohio, and at least most of them were linked to pot. Autopsies were exwere shot to death, authorities said. pected to be completed Monday.

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said it was clear the family was target- er it was one or more people involved often did work for him as a carpenter and helped out with his excavation ed, and he’s told the victims’ relatives in this,” DeWine said.

More than 100 tips have been given business. He said Rhoden was a nice to arm themselves. to investigators, who’ve set up a numguy whose kids sometimes visited him Reader said he didn’t believe safety was an issue for others, but he said “If ber for people to call as police seek while he was working. information about the crimes. A Cin“It’s a large family,” Waddell said. you are fearful, arm yourself.”

Investigators have interviewed be- cinnati-area businessman also put up “There’s a lot of them and they’ve been tween 50 and 60 people in hopes of a $25,000 reward for details leading to in this community for generations. So finding leads, and a team of 38 people the capture and conviction of the killer this is affecting a lot of people.” is combing wooded areas around the or killers.

Robin Waddell, who owns the Big shooting scenes to ensure no evidence Bear Lake Family Resort just south was missed, authorities said.

“This was very methodical. This was of Piketon, said Christopher Rhoden well planned. This was not something that just happened,” said Reader, noting most victims were targeted while they were Kylie is a beautiful 3 year old Alaskan sleeping.

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Abu Sayyaf emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of a separatist rebellion by minority Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation’s south.

The group — which Canada and other western countries consider a terrorist organization — has relied on extortion and huge ransoms earned from kidnappings of mostly Western tourists and missionaries to survive for more than two decades.

World BRIEFS Afghan president calls on Pakistan to battle Taliban KABUL — Afghanistan’s president on Monday called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks.

Ashraf Ghani made the remarks during an address to parliament a week after a Taliban assault on the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed 64 people and wounded another 340.

Afghan officials have long accused Pakistan of turning a blind eye to the Taliban, the leadership of which is widely believed to be based in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar, near the border.

Ghani said there are “no good or bad terrorists, they are just terrorists,” and that “Pakistan must understand that and act against them.”

Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the U.S. have been trying to revive peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban in recent months.

“We don’t expect Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table,” Ghani said. “What we want is for Pakistan, based on the four nations’ agreement, to keep its promises and launch military operations against insurgents.”

Dawa Khan Menapal, deputy spokesman to the president, said that there has been no contact with the Afghan government regarding the peace talks from the Pakistani side.

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DeWine said the state’s crime lab was looking at 18 pieces of evidence from a DNA and ballistic standpoint, and five search warrants have been executed.

Since the slayings, authorities have refused to discuss many details of the crime, a potential motive, weapons, or the search for the assailant or assailants.

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Anti-Trump pact unites his rivals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BORDEN, Ind. — Declaring the Republican presidential contest at “a fork in the road,” Ted Cruz and John Kasich defended their extraordinary new alliance on Monday as the party’s last, best chance to stop Donald Trump, even as the New York billionaire surged toward another big delegate haul.

Trump, the Republican front-runner, lashed out at what he called collusion by desperate rivals, intensifying his attacks on the GOP presidential nomination system on the eve of Tuesday’s round of primary elections in the Northeast.

“If you collude in business, or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail,” Trump said as he campaigned in Rhode Island.. “But in politics, because it’s a rigged system, because it’s a corrupt enterprise, in politics you’re allowed to collude.”

“It shows how pathetic they are,” he said of his Republican rivals.

Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland hold primaries Tuesday along with Rhode Island.

Cruz, a Texas senator, and Kasich, the Ohio governor, announced the terms of an unprecedented agreement late Sunday night to co-ordinate primary strategies in three of the 15 remaining primary states.

Kasich will step back in the May 3 Indiana contest to let Cruz bid without interference for voters who don’t like Trump. Cruz will do the same for Kasich in subsequent contests in Oregon and New Mexico.

The arrangement does not address Tuesday’s primaries, where Trump is expected to add to his already hefty delegate lead. Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to keep him from amassing enough delegates to seal his nomination and avoid a contested national convention in July.

Ignoring the Northeast on Monday, Cruz insisted, “We are at a fundamental fork in the road,” as he campaigned in Indiana.

“It is big news today that John Kasich has decided to pull out of Indiana to give us a head-to-head contest with Donald Trump,” the fiery conservative told reporters. “That is good for the men and women of Indiana. It’s good for the country to have a clear and direct choice.”

The plan carries risks — especially as Trump bashes a “rigged” nomination system. Some wouldbe Cruz supporters in Indiana agreed with Trump’s criticism.

“That’s kind of sneaky,” said Joe Conder, a 75-year-old retired civil engineer from Scottsville, who is deciding between Cruz and Trump. “It’s more about politics than getting things done.”

Kasich sent mixed messages as he addressed the pact for the first time while campaigning in Philadelphia. Asked what Indiana voters should do next week, the Ohio governor urged them to vote for him.

“I’ve never told them not to vote for me. They ought to vote for me,” Kasich said just 13 hours after promising to give Cruz “a clear path” in Indiana. He

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SUICIDE: Complex, but preventable He agreed the importance of aboriginal culture in assisting youth should be recognized and enhanced.

Littlechild didn’t want to comment on rate of youth suicide in his community, only that it has improved.

“And we’re working to improve it more by hosting some community events involving elders and youth to try to come up with some sort of plan of action, but mostly an education from the elders explaining to them the gift of life.”

In his report, the Child and Youth Advocate said there is a “moral imperative” to use what is known to prevent aboriginal youth from dying by suicide, which is one of the leading causes of death among aboriginal youth.

Graff said suicide in complex, but preventable.

“The complexity is compounded for aboriginal young people because of their history and the legacy of residential schools and the ‘sixties scoop,’” said Graff in his closing remarks in the 100-page report.

“The problem is not a lack of knowledge. We know what factors and circumstances contribute to higher rates of suicide; and, we know what can be done to address and reduce them. What is required is a willingness to make this issue a priority and to devote the resources needed to address it effectively.”

The report investigated seven aboriginal youth, age 14 to 18, who died over an 18-month period during 2013 and 2014 in Alberta, to try to understand the high rate of aboriginal youth suicide.

Each youth received services from Child Intervention Services when they died, or received services within two years of their death. Identities of the youth are protected. Some lived in aboriginal communities, while others were part of urban centres.

The intent of an investigative review is not to find fault with specific individuals, but to identify and advocate for system improvements to help enhance the overall safety and well-being of children and young people receiving services.

One of the recommendations focused on the need for Alberta Education to develop and implement school-based suicide prevention programs.

Paul Mason, superintendent at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, said his division has diverse and comprehensive mental health initiatives about suicide to meet the needs of all of its students.

The division has close to 600 aboriginal students and is not seeing a suicide trend, he said.

He said schools have access to a First Nations, Metis and Inuit support team who can work oneon-one with aboriginal students and promote a better understanding of aboriginal culture among non-aboriginal students.

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Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump looks on after speaking at a campaign rally Monday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. said he had simply agreed not to spend “resources” in Indiana.

Trump is the only Republican candidate who can clinch the GOP presidential nomination before his party’s national convention. Yet his path is narrow.

The front-runner needs to win at least four of the five Northeastern states on Tuesday. He enters the day with 845 delegates, 392 short of the 1,237 needed to represent his party in the general election in November.

Eliminated from reaching that total in the primaries, Cruz and Kasich can only hope to block Trump from reaching a majority — and a first-round convention victory — and thus force a contested convention where delegates could select a different nominee.

“It is now abundantly clear that nobody is getting

to 1,237,” Cruz declared Monday. “We are headed to a contested convention. And at a contested convention, Donald Trump is in real trouble.”

Trump was also the target on the Democratic side as Hillary Clinton eyed Tuesday primary victories she hoped would all but seal her victory over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The former secretary of state ignored Sanders as she campaigned in Delaware, assailing Trump as being out of touch with average Americans.

“If you want to be president of the United States, you’ve got to get familiar with the United States,” Clinton said. “Don’t just fly that big jet in and land it and go make a big speech and insult everybody you can think of.”

it because our schools, our teachers and administrators are seeing a need for this. Their calendar is quite heavily booked,” Mason said.

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SUPPORT: Responding to technology available Patricia Arango, executive director, said it will definitely be the first texting program available from a sexual assault support centre in Alberta, and possibly Canada.

“It’s basically responding to the technology that we have now. Everybody now likes to text,” Arango said.

“If they text, we will answer. If they call the same number, we will answer them too.”

She said a lot of young people do more texting on their phones than calling so the new program may make it easier for children and youth to reach out.

“One good thing about texting is it’s more private.

It’s totally anonymous.”

She said the texting program is brand new so other community organizations will be looking at how well it works and how they can text with their clients.

“Everything is new. We have a very good group of volunteers training.”

But more volunteers would be welcome, she said.

May is Sexual Assault Prevention Month and Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre will be celebrating 30 years of providing sexual assault and sexual abuse services to Red Deer and surrounding communities.

On May 26, the centre will host a public event in recognition of its 30-year history and to officially launch the text line and webchat service. The event runs from 4 to 6 p.m. on the second floor of Cenovus Centre at Red Deer College. Cocktail attire is requested.

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Notley’s pleas fall on deaf ears

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KANANASKIS — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s pleas to the federal cabinet to give the province a pipeline and enrich employment insurance seem to be gaining little traction.

Notley met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately on Sunday and then addressed about half the cabinet at the beginning of a three-day retreat in Kananaskis, Alta.

But on Monday morning, even as ministers said the meeting with Notley was productive, there were no signs that anything was changing for the Ottawa-Alberta relationship.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau held firm on the federal government’s commitment to institute a crude oil tanker ban on B.C.’s north coast that threatens the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

“I have been tasked with implementing a formal moratorium and we’re working on that,” said Garneau.

But he would not say if the ban would be temporary or permanent.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr was also noncommittal on Notley’s requests.

He said ministers learned more from her about the tough economic times in the province and the need for market access.

“It was very useful, and I was very glad my col-

leagues had the opportunity to hear directly from the premier of Alberta,” said Carr.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi said cabinet is “keenly aware” of the challenges Alberta is facing and the need to get resources to market. But he made no promises.

“We need to get the right price for the resources that we have, and that we’re getting those resources to the international market, but we need to do it in a way that’s sustainable, that achieves the goal of economic growth as well as environmental sustainability,” said Sohi.

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Ceci looking to boost budget with investors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci is taking the province’s latest budget on a get-toknow you visit with investors and credit-rating agencies.

Ceci was to fly to Toronto on Monday and also has meetings planned in New York later this week.

Ceci said in a release that meeting face-to-face with business leaders helps raise Alberta’s profile as a stable and progressive energy producer.

He said it’s important that the financial community knows that Alberta remains what he calls a great place to do business, despite a “global price shock” brought on by low oil prices.

A day after the April 14 budget, credit-rating agency DBRS downgraded the province’s rating a notch to double-A from triple-A over the NDP government’s debt levels.

The budget includes a $10.4-billion deficit this year and forecasts the province will face a $58-billion overall debt within three years.

Derek Fildebrandt, finance critic for the Opposition Wildrose, says Ceci’s travels will do nothing to restore Alberta’s credit rating. He says that will only come once the government has a clear plan to control spending and balance the budget.

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Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci gives a third-quarter fiscal update in Edmonton on Wednesday. Ceci is taking the province’s latest budget on a get-to-know you visit with investors and credit-rating agencies.

Aerospace, consumers, auto sector propel exports

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new forecast from Export Development Canada says the value of exports will grow two per cent this year after shrinking 1.5 per cent in 2015.

EDC chief economist Peter Hall says the optimistic outlook is based on expectations of double-digit expansion in exports by the automotive, consumer goods and aerospace industries.

On the flip side, Hall also projects a double-digit contraction for energy exports in 2016 as the commodity sector continues to struggle in a low price environment.

Hall says higher U.S. demand and the weaker Canadian dollar have helped boost sales in several important industries. His report says early 2016

numbers suggest sectors like agri-food, forestry, advanced technology and industrial machinery are set to expand this year.

The outlook predicts exports of consumer goods to expand 14 per cent, aerospace to grow 13 per cent and automotive by 10 per cent. Exports are expected to contract one per cent in the chemical and plastics sector, five per cent in fertilizers and 14 per cent in energy.

Hall says exporters should continue to benefit from the lower loonie through 2016, even though the dollar’s value has crept back up from recent lows.

“The U.S. economy is powering up and spreading its growth to the rest of the world, which is the main cause for Canada’s surging exports in the transportation and consumer goods categories,” Hall said in a statement that accompanied Monday’s report. turn, which began in late 2014.

Valeant names former Perrigo chief executive Joseph Papa as new CEO

BRIEF Precision Drilling reports Q1 loss Precision Drilling Corp. (TSX:PD) reported a loss of $19.9 million in its latest quarter compared with a profit of $24.0 million a year ago. The company says the loss amounted to seven cents per share for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a profit of eight cents in the same quarter last year.

Revenue this quarter totalled $301.7 million down from $512.1 million in the first quarter of 2015, mainly due to lower drilling activity in the U.S., Canada and internationally.

The company says revenue from its contract drilling services and completion and production services segments both fell by 39 per cent and 57 per cent, respectively. During the quarter, Precision Drilling says it received $23 million in one-time contract cancellation payments in connection with five contracts.

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Embattled drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (TSX:VRX) has named Joseph Papa as its new chairman and chief executive. The company said Monday that Papa, who was chairman and CEO of drug company Perrigo in the U.S., is expected to join Valeant early next month. Papa said Valeant has world-class franchises, important treatments for patients across a number of areas and a talented workforce.

“We have an opportunity to move forward with a renewed focus on operating with integrity across all areas of the business and providing customers with safe and affordable products that improve their lives,” he said in a statement.

Papa, 60, had been CEO of Perrigo since 2006 and chairman since 2007. He resigned on Sunday.

Valeant announced last month that chief executive Michael Pearson was leaving after eight years with the company. Once one of Canada’s most valuable companies following years of acquisitions, Valeant has seen its shares plunge amid controversies over drug prices and its relationship with U.S. mail-order pharmacy Philidor.

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Line 3 replacement gets conditional approval

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A National Energy Board panel has decided it’s in the national interest for Enbridge Inc. to proceed with the largest project in the company’s history, which could enable hundreds of thousands more barrels of Canadian crude to flow into the U.S. a day.

The federal watchdog is recommending Ottawa approve the Canadian portion of the Line 3 Replacement project, saying it is not expected to cause significant environmental harm. However, it has attached 89 conditions.

The whole $7.5-billion undertaking involves removing a half-century-old, 1,660-kilometre stretch of pipe from service between Hardisty, Alta., and Superior, Wisc., and building a new pipeline along the same route.

Enbridge (TSX:ENB) aims to ship 760,000 barrels a day through the newer pipe — about double what the aging Line 3 currently is able to move, due to pressure restrictions.

“The hearing panel is of the view that replacing the existing Line 3 pipeline is an important step in the life cycle of the pipeline,” NEB chief environment officer Robert Steedman said Monday.

“The new pipeline will be built to modern standards and will operate with improved safety and reliability, which is a significant benefit of the project.”

Many of the conditions have to do with ensuring the 1960s-era pipeline is taken out of service safely and does not pose any environmental issues in its dormant state.

Line 3 is one of six arteries that make up Enbridge’s Canadian mainline, which moves Alberta crude east. The NEB has decided it’s better to keep the old, emptied out pipeline in the ground once the new one starts up, rather than remove it, to avoid any potential damage to other nearby infrastructure.

Several other conditions are centred around ongoing aboriginal and landowner consultation.

Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said new pipeline review rules, announced by the Liberal government in January, apply to the Line 3 project. A 30-day comment period on a draft analysis of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions is now open.

A final decision is expected in the fall.

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CN reports rise in Q1 profit

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST

Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.62 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.75 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.37 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.22 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.800 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.21 Cdn. National Railway . . 82.77 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 183.49 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.00 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.54 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.19 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.54 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.05 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.89 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.09 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.95 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.68 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.62 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.27 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.57 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.23 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.80 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 136.07 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.55 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.29 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Stock markets in Toronto and New York started the week in the red, pushed lower by falling oil and copper prices and some disappointing U.S. earnings results.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 78.01 points at 13,795.99, with the metals and energy sectors the major weights Monday as the June contract for benchmark North American crude stepped back $1.09 to close at US$42.64 a barrel The decline impacted the Canadian dollar, which dipped 0.09 of a U.S. cent to 78.83 cents US. As such, investors can expect volatility in the currency to continue as crude prices remain temperamental.

Elsewhere in commodities, May copper shed a penny to US$2.25 a pound, while June natural gas lost eight cents to US$2.19 per mmBTu. June gold bullion rose $10.20 to US$1,240.20 a troy ounce.

New York markets also turned lower amid disappointing earnings reports from document company Xerox (NYSE:XRX) and Irish drugmaker Perrigo (NYSE:PRGO).

Xerox shares lost more than 13 per cent, to US$9.68, as the company reported its profits fell 85 per cent and its plans to cut

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.41 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.53 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.84 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.47 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.08 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.49 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.42 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.47 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.48 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.46 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.88 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.09 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.57 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.910 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.06 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.62 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.52 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.04 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.93 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.38 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.17 Canyon Services Group. . 4.71 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . . 18.9 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1600 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.03 its outlook on future earnings.

Meanwhile, Perrigo’s (NYSE:PRGO) stock plunged 18 per cent after cutting its earnings outlook as a result of lower prices for its products in Europe.

Perrigo is also losing its longtime CEO, Joseph Papa, who resigned to take over the top job at Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,795.99, down 78.01 points Dow — 17,977.24, down 26.51 points S&P 500 — 2,087.79, down 3.79 points Nasdaq — 4,895.79, down 10.44 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.83 cents US, down 0.09 of a cent Pound — C$1.8362, up 0.99 of a cent Euro — C$1.4283, up 0.62 of a cent Euro — US$1.1259, up 0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$42.64 per barrel, down $1.09 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,240.20

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.33 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.88 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 17.54 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.14 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.780 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.330 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.67 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.17 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.610 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.13 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.78 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.95 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.93 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.20 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.10 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.87 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.31 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.90 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.82 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.96 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.29 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.29 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.05 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.67 per oz., up $10.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.531 oz., up 5.6 cents $724.37 kg., up $1.80 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $6.90 higher $496.30 July ‘16 $5.10 higher $498.70 Nov. ‘16 $4.40 higher $493.00 Jan. ‘17 $4.50 higher $497.90 March ‘17 $4.00 higher $499.10 May ‘17 $3.70 higher $497.80 July ‘17 $3.70 higher $497.50 Nov. ‘17 $3.70 higher $489.00 Jan. ‘18 $3.70 higher $489.00 March ‘18 $3.70 higher $489.00 May ‘18 $3.70 higher $489.00.

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

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 621,260 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 621,260.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway reported a higher than expected net profit in the first quarter but said lower commodity shipments weighed on revenue and have prompted a downward revision to the company’s 2016 financial outlook.

The country’s largest railway said net earnings in the three months ended March 31 were up 13 per cent at $792 million or $1 per diluted share, compared with $704 million or 86 cents per diluted share in the comparable 2015 period.

But revenue slumped four per cent to $2.964 billion from $3.098 billion, with declines of two per cent in grains and fertilizers, 10 per cent in petroleum and chemicals, 18 per cent in metals and minerals and 42 per cent in coal.

Automotive shipment revenues grew

18 per cent and forest products rose 11 per cent.

“We had a good start to the year,” CEO Claude Mongeau said during a conference call.

“We remain constructive about our prospects for the full year, even though there are some challenges out there.”

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected net income of $734.99 million or 92 cents a share on revenue of $3.015 billion.

Crude rail volume dropped by half to 14,000 carloads, with pricing making crude by rail the least profitable of the various commodities CN ships.

Its frac sand business was down 45 per cent and coal was cut in half, accounting for 3.1 per cent of total business, the lowest of any railway. CN said it expects crude and frac sands volumes to continue to decline until reaching a bottom later this year, with coal hitting a low in late 2017.

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PLEA: Educate Notley said last night that the meeting was an opportunity to educate and to emphasize the link between the province’s and Canada’s economy.

“I made the case again that Alberta’s economic health really is linked to Canada’s economic health,” said Notley.

She said she emphasized the province’s new climate change policies to cabinet while advocating for more pipeline support.

“You know, two Conservative governments — both at a federal level and at a provincial level — came together to fail on the issue of getting a pipeline approved because they paired that with a refusal to deal with climate change, and a refusal to deal with the fact that people distrusted the process that was in place,” she said.

Indeed, one of the first things the Trudeau government did upon taking office was to highlight the new climate change commitments made by Alberta and trumpet the new working relationship with the province.

Notley said the interests of Alberta were well-served at the Sunday meeting despite not securing any firm commitments on employment insurance or pipeline support.

Candice Bergen, natural resources critic for the federal conservatives, said the best way to help Albertans is to help the energy sector.

“Albertans are not just looking for EI, they’re not just looking for a BandAid fix. Albertans want to be working, and that’s exactly why pipelines need to be built and why oil needs to get to market,” said Bergen in a telephone interview.

She said the Liberals should reverse their plans for a crude tanker moratorium, and added that the lack of updates on the issue was creating more uncertainty in the industry.

“The minute they were elected they announced they were going to be putting in a moratorium that sent a signal that Northern Gateway was dead, then they went crickets on it, they went silent,” said Bergen.

“It sent the signal, as the Liberals have been doing consistently, that Canadian oil is closed for business.”

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Rebels seek redemption at home

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Game 1 and Game 2 were basically a carbon copy of each other for the Red Deer Rebels.

They withstood the early onslaught from the Brandon Wheat Kings, controlled the game for stretches and even held leads with single-digit minutes left in the third period.

But, the Rebels find themselves down 2-0 in the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference final as the series switches to Red Deer.

Defenceman Haydn Fleury said the team feels a little refreshed after playing a lot of hockey over the past two weeks. After a gruelling seven game series against the Regina Pats, the Rebels were on the ice two days later against the Wheat Kings. With an offday Sunday, the Rebels were back at practice Monday afternoon.

“Tuesday is a new challenge, we have to win on home ice and we’re comfortable with that,” said Fleury.

“We have to limit their chances. We can’t give up 10 goals in two games, that puts a lot of pressure on us to score that many goals. We need to tighten up defensively.

Giving up 10 goals in two games is out of character for the Rebels are undefeated this post-season when they have limited opponents to three goals or fewer.

But the feeling through the first two games is the Rebels were able to match the intensity the rested Wheat Kings had.

“Those games, I thought we played really well,” said Defenceman Kayle Doetzel. “I thought our game was where it needs to be. They got a couple of bounces and a couple of more goals than us, but for the most part if we stick to our game we’ll do fine.”

Doetzel believes the team can shut down the high-flying Wheat Kings attack.

A hit-or-miss power play led to only two special teams goals on 11 attempts for the Rebels. Fleury said the work had to include getting bodies to the net and shooting the puck more.

“We had some good timely goals during the games, but I think we need have more of them,” he said.

Fleury scored twice over the week-

end including a game-tying goal with 4.1 seconds left in the third period of Game 1.

Forward Jake DeBrusk said there will be some desperation in the Rebels play in Game 3, saying they can’t afford to lose the next game.

“It’s do or die, we can’t let them have a 3-0 lead or a 3-1 lead,” said DeBrusk. “It will be desperate times. But we just have to bring our all and play to our identity. Whenever we shifted away from our identity, they made us pay. Throughout the playoffs, whenever we’re off our game it has been bad.

“We have to play our style and we’ll be fine. This time of year home-ice advantage is huge. I don’t see it as a huge panic that they’re up 2-0, they have home-ice for a reason. But this is the biggest two games of the series.

We know when a team comes back with two wins, it puts you a bit on your heels.”

Game 3 of the best-of-seven showdown starts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Centrium. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Blues bounce Blackhawks from playoffs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blues 3 Blackhawks 2 ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues acquired Troy Brouwer for moments like this, dealing fan favourite T.J. Oshie to Washington for some badly needed veteran presence.

The 30-year-old forward showed plenty of poise when his first shot clanked off the post midway through the third period. The second effort off the backhand produced the goal that put a long-frustrated franchise over the top against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Brouwer described the go-ahead score in the third period of a 3-2 Game 7 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night as “the ugliest goal I’ve ever scored and probably the timeliest goal I’ve ever scored.”

“I just tried to stay with it, knowing the magnitude of the game, knowing how everything’s been going,” Brouwer added.

Brouwer played for the Blackhawks’ Cup winner in 2010 and this was his seventh career Game 7. The goal at 8:31 was his first in 24 post-season games since 2013 and was the difference in a tense series that was either tied or a one-goal game 91 per cent of the time, according to NHL.com.

Chicago just missed a chance to tie it when Brent Seabrook’s shot went off both posts with about 3:30 left. Coach Joel Quenneville came close to challenging the play.

“We had a sniff there,” Quenneville said. “We didn’t get the positive feedback from the headset. It was close.”

It is the first time the Blues advanced past the first round since 2012, when they beat San Jose in five games but then lost four straight to Los Angeles. St. Louis plays Dallas in the next round.

“We’re still not where we want to be,” Brouwer said. “We want to be playing in a month and a half still.”

Jori Lehtera scored his first career playoff goal and rookie defenceman Colton Parayko also scored for the Blues, who avoided another inglorious finish. They led 2-0 early, their second two-goal cushion in two games, before the Blackhawks tied it in the second period.

Marian Hossa scored his third goal of the series and Andrew Shaw got his fourth on a power play for the Blackhawks. Patrick Kane was dangerous all night but was scoreless, and was

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St. Louis Blues right wing Troy Brouwer, left, scores the game-winning goal past Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford in the third period during Game 7 of an NHL first-round Stanley Cup playoff series in St. Louis on Monday. minus-3.

“It just doesn’t really feel right,” Kane said. “Pretty quick right after to put everything right after into words.

Obviously, not the outcome we were looking for.”

The Blackhawks have won three of the last five Cups — but when they don’t win it all, the post-season can be a short one, with three first-round eliminations the last six seasons.

“You get the feeling that it’ll be one of those things again and we feel from the get-go we’ve got the team to do it again,” Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. “Not much you can say right now. It was close the whole way.”

Brouwer scored from close range off a feed from Robby Fabbri. The first shot went off the right post and he nudged the second past Corey Crawford.

St. Louis was coached by Quenneville the last time it played in a Game 7, a loss at Vancouver in 2003. The Game 7 win was the franchise’s first since 1999.

“To coach it, to play in it, to strategize in it, it was a lot of fun,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “I don’t know if it’s a milestone. It’s a hump.”

The Blues outscored the Blackhawks 7-3 in the first period in the series, but Chicago owned the second period with an 11-3 advantage. That included the first three of five unanswered goals in Game 6 on Saturday.

Blues standout Vladimir Tarasenko was no factor after entering among the playoff leaders with four goals. He went to the locker room for about 2 ½ minutes midway through the second for undisclosed reasons and his ice time was down at 14 minutes and 31

seconds — second-fewest on the Blues’ top three lines — just as it has been earlier in the series.

Game 7 drew a standing-room attendance of 19,935 and the arena had seldom been louder than after Parayko’s drive from the point made it 2-0 at 13:43 of the first period. Lehtera’s deflection on Jay Bouwmeester’s point shot gave St. Louis an early cushion just a minute in.

The Blackhawks had a 7-0 shots advantage the rest of the period and Hossa’s third of the series, a drive from the top of the right circle on the counter-attack, cut the deficit to one at 18:30.

Chicago made it 14 shots in a row at the start of the second period, including the tying goal by Shaw from a bad angle off the leg of Bouwmeester crouching in the crease and past Brian Elliott.

Predators survive to force Game 7 against Ducks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Predators 3 Ducks 1 NASHVILLE — By treating their elimination game like a Game 7, the Nashville Predators finally have pushed a playoff series to a seventh game. Now they want to go back to Anaheim and finish off the Ducks.

James Neal scored the winning goal late in the second period, and the Predators beat Anaheim 3-1 on Monday night to force the second Game 7 in the first round of this post-season.

“Anything can happen,” Nashville captain Shea Weber said. “It’s obviously two good teams that are pretty equal and it is going to come down to the last game, and we’ll see how it goes.”

The Predators had lost the previous five Game 6s when needing a win to stay alive in the playoffs, and they snapped a three-game skid to the Ducks to force this series back to Anaheim for the deciding game Wednesday night.

“For our group to come together like that with the way we played at home, we really wanted to make sure we left it all on the ice tonight because it would have been really disappointing if we lost every game at home,” Predators centre Ryan Johansen said.

Weber sealed the victory with an empty-net goal with 10 seconds left off an assist by Neal. Mattias Ekholm also scored a goal, and Pekka Rinne made 26 saves for the win.

“I don’t think there’s anything better in the Stanley Cup (playoffs) than a Game 7 when everything means something,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “It’s a big game, our guys will be excited.”

Ryan Kesler scored a power-play goal for the Ducks, who now are 8-6 in Game 6s. They return to Anaheim where they lost their last three last spring in the Western Conference finals to eventual Stanley Cup champ Chicago. They also lost Game 7 on home ice to the Kings in 2014 and Detroit in 2013.

“It’s a new team, new time,” Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Every year is different. Every day is different. We’re looking forward to the game.”

This will be the first Game 7 with Anaheim for players such as left wing David Perron. The Ducks did become the first to win on home ice in this series in Game 5.

“We are going to have to rely on guys who have been there before and we are going to throw our everything at them, play our best game and find a

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Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen celebrates with James Neal after Neal scored against the Anaheim Ducks in Game 6 of an NHL first-round Stanley Cup playoff series Monday, in Nashville, Tenn. The Predators won 3-1. way to move on to that second round,” Perron said. “I’m excited for our next game already.”

Rinne, who had been struggling in this series, came up big late. He stopped Corey Perry on a point-blank shot from in front with 6:40 left and turned away Perron’s wrister with less

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Nashville brought out Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker to wave a towel and charge up the sellout crowd. Fans just needed something to cheer after watching the Predators get outscored 12-3 in losing the last three games.

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White Sox rally past Blue Jays’ bullpen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS White Sox 7 Blue Jays 5 TORONTO — There was one persistent feeling that kept coming up in the Blue Jays’ post-game scrums on Monday night: frustration.

After a demoralizing 7-5 loss to the Chicago White Sox, punctuated by Toronto squandering a four-run lead over one bad inning, Marcus Stroman felt that more than anyone.

“I play the game extremely passionately and I was extremely frustrated with the way things played out there,” said Stroman, who left the game with a 5-1 lead and the bases loaded with two out in the seventh before the Blue Jays bullpen ran up the score.

“I felt pretty good all night but I was just really frustrated with the way things turned out and I felt like I didn’t do my job in the end.”

Brett Cecil (0-5), replacing Stroman in the seventh, took the loss after allowing two runs on two hits and a walk while failing to get the final out of the frame.

Gavin Floyd, in for Cecil and staked to a slim 5-4 lead with the bases loaded, then gave up a two-run double to Todd Frazier, the first batter he faced, as Chicago rallied for its fourth straight victory.

Stroman dominated through much of his start before running into trouble in the disastrous seventh. The 24-yearold right-hander was charged with four runs on six hits and two walks through 6 2/3. He also struck out four.

Pulled from the game, Stroman expressed his anger in the dugout, smacking his hand against the bench as his team gave up the lead.

“I heard him,” manager John Gibbons said of the outburst. “I didn’t see anything but I definitely heard him.”

Asked if he was showing up Cecil with his dugout antics, Stroman replied: “I don’t think so at all.”

“In no sense have I ever tried to turn my teammate up in any sense,” he added. “It was more frustration in the fact that I felt I didn’t do my job in the end and I didn’t put my team in a position to win when I went back out there for the seventh.

“I was frustrated. I’ve always been an emotional guy.”

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Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons pulls relief pitcher Brett Cecil during seventh inning American League baseball action against the Chicago White Sox in Toronto on Monday. The White Sox rallied to down the Blue Jays 7-5.

Frazier, Adam Eaton and Jose Abreu drove in two runs apiece for the White Sox (14-6). Chicago reliever Zach Putnam earned his first win of the season and David Robertson pitched the bottom of the ninth for his eighth save.

Edwin Encarnacion had three RBIs for the Blue Jays (10-11) and Michael Saunders, back in the lineup after sitting out the last three games with a sore hamstring, hit a two-run blast.

A ninth-inning Toronto rally ended when a Saunders chopper up the middle hit Troy Tulowitzki on the basepaths for the final out of the game.

“It was a tough play,” Tulowitzki said. “I’ve got to get to second base there so I’m trying to time it perfect.

The ball kicked back a little bit, hit me

in my arm.

“You sit there and you’re pretty frustrated. You don’t want a game to ever end that way.”

Stroman got off to a shaky start in the first inning, allowing the first two batters to reach and giving up a run on an Abreu ground out. He also walked a batter before settling down to retire the next eight.

A lead-off single from Frazier in the fourth inning snapped that string of retired batters. But the damage was negated when Stroman caught Frazier stealing second base for the third out of the frame.

Toronto seemed to be on a roll — until the seventh.

With Brett Lawrie on first base and

one out, Dioner Navarro hit a liner up the middle that could have been a double play. Instead, Stroman reached his arm out to catch the ball, and it deflected off the back of his arm and high into the air. By the time second baseman Ryan Goins could catch it, Lawrie was safe at second.

Stroman walked the next batter, Austin Jackson, on four straight pitches to load the bases with two out before leaving the game.

“The thing that made it worse was we had a shift on, I was right behind him, it would have been a double play,” Tulowitzki said. “But sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way, you don’t get any breaks and tonight was a perfect example.”

Flames told to look for other options for new facility CALGARY — The City of Calgary batted the ball back to the Calgary Flames in asking the NHL team to consider other locations and options for a new arena and football stadium.

Council has invited Calgary Flames Sports and Entertainment, who also own the CFL’s Stampeders, to respond to a city manager’s report stating the proposed location on the west side of downtown was too much money.

Without completely slamming the door shut on constructing a 20,000-seat arena, a 30,000-seat football stadium and fieldhouse all in the yet-to-be-developed West Village, the Flames were asked to work with the city and Calgary Stampede in investigating an arena build at the Stampede Park, as well as a renovation of McMahon Stadium.

“It really is not just punting the ball further down the field, but really trying to keep options open to see if there’s anything possible there if the CalgaryNext proposal in the West Village proves completely unfeasible,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said.

“The report did say it was not feasible in its current forms. The question is do you make it feasible or do you have to think of something else?”

An alternative location for the multi-purpose fieldhouse was also debated.

The initial estimate of the proposed CalgaryNext project was $890 million when announced last August.

But a city report released late week pegged the bill at $1.8 billion — with taxpayers bearing as much as $1.3 billion — when costs of land, municipal infrastructure, environmental remediation and financing are incorporated.

The Flames have offered $200 million of their money for the project and proposed a $250-million loan be repaid through a ticket surcharge.

Calgary Flames president and chief executive officer Ken King felt encouraged after council’s debate Monday because the West Village option wasn’t off the table. The door was still open to address council’s concerns with it, he said.

“I’m thrilled, frankly,” King said.

“We now know specifically and precisely some of the issues they’re con-

cerned about so we can hone in on those and deal with them on a direct basis.

“We’ve always known the contentious issues, but I think this was a level of clarity that came out of this report, which is something to focus on.”

While the West Village was clearly still the Flames’ preferred option, King said they were open to exploring a Plan B of the arena at Stampede Park and a McMahon reno.

“We will see how palatable that is,” King said. “We were asked to contemplate that when we were briefed on this report. We would be somewhat hypocritical not to keep an open mind about that.”

The Flames will be invited to a city strategic planning meeting in June to give their response.

The Scotiabank Saddledome, built on the Stampede grounds in 1983, will be the oldest NHL arena next season.

McMahon Stadium was built in 1960.

One of the major costs of the CalgaryNext project is decontaminating the proposed site south of the Bow River, which was once a creosote wood-treatment plant.

Raptors will ‘ride or die’ with Lowry, DeRozan NBA PLAYOFFS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Coach Dwane Casey says the Toronto Raptors will “ride or die” with star guards Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan.

Both have had a rough time against the Indiana Pacers in a first-round NBA playoff series all tied up going into Game 5 Tuesday at the Air Canada Centre. But Casey offered a spirited defence of his two marquee men when asked Monday about the discrepancy between their playoff and regular-season numbers, saying: “They’re our guys.”

“They’re like your kids,” he continued. “You get upset with your kids sometimes, you argue with your kids, you go back and forth (with them). But at the end of the day, they’re your kids, your guys. And they’re our guys.

“We’re going to ride or die with DeMar and Kyle. They haven’t shot the ball great but again it’s still basketball. So we’re going to go with them.

They’re our star players. They’re allstars for a reason and, as a coach and as a staff, we’re trying to put them in the best position to be successful.”

DeRozan is averaging 13.3 points a game while shooting 29.6 per cent in the playoffs, well off his regular-season average of 23.5 points and 44.6 per cent shooting. Lowry is averaging 15.5 points so far in the post-season (down from 21.2 in the regular-season) while shooting at 32.2 per cent (down from 42.7).

“I know our fans are still embracing

them and (are) not down on them,” Casey added. “There’s a lot written about the numbers and all that. But at the end of the day it’s a 2-2 series. No one, I don’t think, expected this series to be a shutout or for us to sweep Indiana.

“It’s going to be hard. Everything you do in this league is hard. But at the end of the day, DeMar and Kyle are our guys. I don’t care what their numbers say. They’re still, to me, two of the best guards in the NBA.” Perhaps nobody expected the second-seeded Raptors to sweep No. 7 Indiana. But equally few would have predicted the see-saw results in the series to date.

The Pacers won Game 1 (100-90) at the Air Canada Centre and Game 4 (100-83) at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Toronto won Game 2 (98-87) at home and Game 3 (101-85) in Indiana. Toronto led by as many as 19 in Game 2 and trailed by as many as 25 in Game 4.

“One thing about playoff basketball, every game is different,” said Lowry.

“You’ve just got to go in there with the expectation it’s going to be a new game,” he added. “That’s the way I think this series has been, every game has been a new game.”

DeRozan did not speak to reporters Monday.

“Again for us, it’s goes back to our energy level, our intensity, our sense of desperation,” Casey said. “And I’ve been saying this all year, we’ve got to be the hungry team. If we’re not the hungry team or if our backs are not against the wall, (if) we don’t feel like we’ve been attacked, we lose that edge little bit.

“We’ve been preaching it and I don’t know if it’s human nature but we didn’t come out with that same edge.”

UNDER THE BIG TOP

The report said a quick remediation of three years would cost $140 million, while a slower pace of five years dropped the cost considerably to $85 million.

But add construction to the latter option and it could take up to a decade to complete the project.

“Yes it’s cheaper than we thought to do the cleanup, but it’s going to take a lot of years, on the outside even 10 years,” Nenshi said. “You can’t start building anything subsurface until that’s done.

“I think what council said today is to look around Stampede Park and see if there’s anything there and I think that’s something well-worth doing.”

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman urged the city to get moving on a new arena during a stop in Calgary in January, saying the city could fall out of consideration for hosting major hockey events like the draft and the all-star game.

“The longer it takes, the harder the task becomes,” Bettman said. “CalgaryNext needs to happen and as part of the broader project, the Flames need a new arena.”

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‘Deflategate’ drama doesn’t end for Brady APPEALS COURT RULES NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS QUARTERBACK MUST SERVE FOUR-GAME SUSPENSION NEW YORK — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a four-game “Deflategate” suspension imposed by the NFL, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players union.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled 2-to-1 that Commissioner Roger Goodell did not deprive Brady of “fundamental fairness” with his procedural rulings. The split decision may end the legal debate over the scandal that led to months of football fans arguing over air pressure and the reputation of one of the league’s top teams.

It also fuels a fresh round of debate over what role, if any, the quarterback and top NFL star played in using underinflated footballs at the AFC championship game in January 2015. The Patriots won the contest over the Indianapolis Colts, 45-7, and then won the Super Bowl.

Soon after the ruling, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opened a campaign rally in Rhode Island by sticking up for Brady, a longtime friend and golfing buddy.

“First of all let’s start by saying leave Tom Brady alone. Leave him alone. Leave him alone he’s a great guy,” Trump said. “It’s enough. It’s enough.”

The ruling can be appealed to the full 2nd Circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it would likely be a steep and time-consuming climb even if the courts took the unusual step to consider it.

In a majority opinion written by Judge Barrington D. Parker, the 2nd Circuit said its review of labour arbitration awards “is narrowly circumscribed and highly deferential — indeed, among the most deferential in the law.”

“Our role is not to determine for ourselves whether Brady participated in a scheme to deflate footballs or whether the suspension imposed by the Commissioner should have been for three games or five games or none at all.Nor is it our role to second-guess the arbitrator’s procedural rulings,” the opinion said. “Our obligation is limited to determining whether the arbitration proceedings and award met the minimum legal standards established by the Labor Management Relations Act.” The 2nd Circuit said the contract between players and the NFL gave the commissioner authority that was “especially broad.”

“Even if an arbitrator makes mistakes of fact or law, we may not disturb an award so long as he acted within the bounds of his bargained-for authority,” the court said.

In a dissent, Chief Judge Robert Katzmann said Goodell failed to even consider a “highly relevant” alternative penalty.

“I am troubled by the Commissioner’s decision to uphold the unprecedented four-game suspension,” Katzmann said. “It is ironic that a process designed to ensure fairness to all players has been used unfairly against one player.”

The NFL Players Association said in a statement it was disappointed.

“We fought Roger Goodell’s suspension of Tom Brady because we know he did not serve as a fair arbitrator and that players’ rights were violated under our collective bargaining agreement,” the statement said. “Our union will carefully review the decision, consider all of our options and continue to fight for players’ rights and for the integrity of the game.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the court ruled Goodell acted properly in cases involving the integrity of the game.

“That authority has been recog-

Changes to Golf Canada’s handicap system for 2016

BY GOLF CANADA The 2016 golf season will see the implementation of a new Handicap cycle.

This two-year cycle took effect March 1, 2016. Six significant changes are seen in the upcoming edition of the Golf Canada Handicap Manual, which will impact approximately 3.3 million golfers who hold a Handicap Factor issued throughout Canada and 10 provincial associations. Those highlighted changes include:

Definition of a tournament score

Additional guidance is provided to Committees conducting competitions regarding the definition of a tournament score, placing greater emphasis on “significant events.” The definition excludes fundraising events and regular league play, in favor of designated competitions such as a member/guest or club championship, local amateur tournament or national qualifying and competition.

Adjusting hole scores

A revised decision provides clarity for acceptable scores in limited situations where the player has not played a hole(s) under the Rules of Golf, but his or her score would be sufficiently accurate for handicap posting purposes.

Three areas covered under the examples include: 1) where the Local Rule is not in effect, but a player chooses to use a Distance Measuring Device or preferred lies; 2) where a player does not wish to cause undue delay; or 3) where the situation is outside of the player’s control, such as an incorrectly marked golf course.

Posting scores when a player is disqualified

To improve alignment with the Rules of Golf, the revised Handicap System is clearer about what scores are acceptable when a player is disqualified. In general, a score is acceptable for handicap purposes even when a player fails to hole out, or apply a Rule that affects the rights of another player. If the disqualification breach is determined to provide an advantage for the player, the score is deemed unacceptable for handicap purposes.

Anchoring and posting

A new reference concerns a player who anchors the club while making a stroke during a round and fails to

apply the appropriate penalty or an adjusted hole score. Since the score would not be reflected as playing under the Rules of Golf, it would be unacceptable for handicap purposes.

Playing alone and necessary peer review

To further support the key System premise of peer review, scores made while playing alone will no longer be acceptable for handicap purposes.

This change underscores the importance of providing full and accurate information regarding a player’s potential scoring ability, and the ability of other players to form a reasonable basis for supporting or disputing a posted score.

Playing alone means completely by yourself with no others in the group at all (one-some). If you play with three strangers, that is acceptable and the score would be post-able for handicap purposes. Even if a walking witness/ attester (not playing) such as a family member or caddie was present, that score would still count for handicap purposes (if played under the Rules of Golf).

Player names need not be supplied with your scores, that is simply an option that exists in the Golf Canada Score Centre for those that wish to provide them, and is not a requirement for a score to be posted/accepted for handicap purposes.

This decision was also made in an effort for Canada to be more in alignment with the rest of the world’s handicapping policy on unaccompanied rounds, for the possible formation of a World Handicap System.

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New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, right, talks to quarterback Tom Brady during an NFL game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Foxborough, Mass. A federal appeals court has ruled Monday that New England Patriots Tom Brady must serve a four-game ‘Deflategate’ suspension imposed by the NFL, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players union. nized by many courts and has been expressly incorporated into every collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and NFLPA for the past 40 years,” McCarthy said.

The appeals ruling follows a September decision by Manhattan Judge Richard Berman that went against the league, letting Brady skip the suspension last season. Goodell insisted the suspension was deserved.

The appeals court settled the issue three days before the start of the NFL

draft and well before the start of the 2016 season, avoiding the tension built last year when Brady didn’t learn until a week before the season that he would be allowed to start in the Patriots’ opener.

The Patriots open the 2016 season on Sept. 11 at Arizona, followed by games at home against the Dolphins, Texans and Bills. Brady’s backup at quarterback is Jimmy Garoppolo, who appeared in 11 games over his first two seasons but hasn’t made a start.

Speedskater Morrison looking at 3-6 month recovery after stroke knee ligament.

Morrison still managed to return to action last month at the Canada Cup in Calgary. It was the final international speedskating event of the season.

The 30-year-old from Fort St. John, B.C., recently completed a month of mountain bike touring on the Arizona Trail. He was spending some free time around the Utah capital with teammate and girlfriend Josie Spence when she noticed signs he wasn’t doing well.

Spence, a certified lifeguard, drove him to hospital and advised medical staff with the national team.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Morrison had a recent fall or any kind of trauma.

“It would be unusual that this would be the first symptoms of a carotid dissection that occurred 11 months ago,” Forbes said.

“More mild levels of trauma can cause these. So whether while biking there was a hyperextension of his neck or twisting of his neck or even a fall during the biking, it could be something like that.”

A carotid dissection occurs when blood burrows between the layers of a blood vessel, Forbes said. It can occur anywhere in the body but the carotid artery is a common area.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The timeline for Canadian longtrack speedskater Denny Morrison’s return to the ice remained unclear Monday after he suffered a stroke over the weekend.

Morrison was hospitalized Saturday in Salt Lake City and tests later confirmed a brain blood clot and carotid artery dissection. No surgery was required and blood thinners were not used, Speed Skating Canada said.

A federation spokesman said Monday that Morrison seems to be in good shape and is hopeful that he’ll soon be able to return home. The team’s medical staff have been in touch with doctors who treated Morrison in Utah and they’re hoping to examine him later this week in Calgary.

Dr. Thomas L. Forbes, a professor of surgery and chair of the division of vascular surgery at the University of Toronto, said it can often take up to half a year for a blood vessel to recover in cases like this.

The stroke came less than a year after Morrison was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident. He suffered a concussion, a bruised liver and kidneys, two bone fractures and a torn

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In an effort to assist the Handicap Committee with its responsibilities, this revision addresses a player with a temporary disability or permanent disability who has a Handicap Factor that is no longer reflective of his/her current potential ability. In the particular instance cited, the Committee will no longer assign a local handicap (denoted with the letter “L” for local use only), but instead will issue a (temporary) modified Handicap Factor (denoted by the letter “M”).

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WHL 2016 Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Brandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2) (Brandon leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Brandon 6 Red Deer 4 Friday’s result Brandon 4 Red Deer 3 (OT) Tuesday’s game 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.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 2 Friday’s result Seattle 2 Kelowna 1 Tuesday’s game Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 27 Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 29 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, May 1 x-Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — played only if necessary.

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19 18 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 14 14 13 13 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS

Saturday’s summary Wheat Kings 6, Rebels 4 First Period 1. Red Deer, DeBrusk 6 (Philp, Helewka) 13:39 (pp).

2. Brandon, McGauley 7 (Patrick, Erkamps) 17:44 (pp).

Penalties — Mahura RD (holding) 3:26 Musil RD, McGauley Bdn, Thomson Bdn (roughing) 6:34 Kaspick Bdn (inter. on goaltender) 11:48 Toth RD (tripping) 16:34 Nogier RD (slashing) 16:44.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Philp 4 (Doetzel) 0:23.

4. Brandon, Patrick 6 (Hawryluk, Erkamps) 8:30.

5. Brandon, Clague 5 (Duke, Wheaton) 11:02.

Penalties — Patrick Bdn (tripping) 3:16 Doetzel RD (hooking) 13:44.

Third Period 6. Red Deer, Bobyk 2 (Musil, Helewka) 10:36.

7. Red Deer, Fleury 3 (Pawlenchuk, Philp) 11:33.

8. Brandon, Coulter 4 (Patrick, Hawryluk) 12:21.

9. Brandon, Patrick 7 (Hawryluk, Coulter) 14:29.

10. Brandon, Quenneville 10 (Hawryluk, McGauley) 19:18.

Penalties — Wheaton Bdn (interference) 6:28 Polei RD, Erkamps Bdn (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 8:15 Duke Bdn (tripping) 8:22.

Shots on goal Red Deer 11 8 14 — 33 Brandon 11 19 11 — 41 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 2-4) Brandon: Papirny (W, 10-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 1-5 Brandon: 1-4.

WHL Playoff Scoring Leaders Adam Brooks REG 7 Reid Duke BDN 6

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders win series 4-2) Sunday’s result N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 1 (2OT) Friday’s result N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 1 (2OT) Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1) Thursday’s result Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 0 Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington wins series 4-2) Sunday’s result Washington 1 Philadelphia 0 Friday’s result Philadelphia 2 Washington 0 Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Pittsburgh 6 N.Y. Rangers 3 Thursday’s result Pittsburgh 5 N.Y. Rangers 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas wins series 4-2) Sunday’s result Dallas 5 Minnesota 4 Friday’s result Minnesota 5 Dallas 4 (OT)

Today

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis wins series 4-3) Monday’s result St. Louis 3 Chicago 2 Saturday’s result Chicago 6 St. Louis 3

● WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

Wednesday

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Series tied 3-3) Monday’s result Nashville 3 Anaheim 1 Saturday’s result Anaheim 5 Nashville 2 Wednesday’s game Nashville at Anaheim, TBA

● WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red

Surkamp to Nashville.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Mayckol Guaipe from Tacoma (PCL). Placed RHP Joaquin Benoit on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 22.

TEXAS RANGERS — Selected the contract of LHP Cesar Ramos from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Nick Martinez to Round Rock. Transferred RHP Keone Kela from the 15- to the 60-day DL. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Placed OF Jay Bruce on the three-day paternity list. Recalled RHP Layne Somsen from Louisville (IL). Transferred RHP Michael Lorenzen to the 60-day DL. COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated C Nick Hundley from the seven-day concussion DL. Recalled RHP Scott Oberg Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned RHP Jordan Lyles and C Dustin Garneau to Albuquerque (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated RHP Louis Coleman from the bereavement list. Optioned LHP Luis Avilan to Oklahoma City (PCL).

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Released INF Alex Nunez.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed RHP Freddy Flores.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Cameron McVey. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Activated RHP Mark

BRIEFS Tigers OF Tyler Collins directs obscene gesture at fans Detroit Tigers centre fielder Tyler Collins directed an obscene gesture at booing home fans after losing a ball in the lights Monday night.

“To be at home and to hear boos after that play hit a trigger inside of me and I lashed out completely inappropriately,” Collins said after Detroit beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3. “I’m absolutely embarrassed it happened and I’m very sorry to everybody in Detroit.”

Collins extended the middle finger on his left hand and waved it from right to left, and also appeared to yell an obscenity at the fans.

He said he could not see the flyball hit by Oakland’s Marcus Semien, and an error charged to left fielder Justin Upton allowed Semien to

LOCAL LACROSSE The Red Deer Renegades lacrosse team opened their season with a weekend split, winning over the Sylvan Lake Yetti 14-7 and falling short to the Calgary Axemen 8-6.

On Saturday, the Junior B Tier II Renegades double up the Yeti on the strength of two four point nights from Andrew Keller and Nicholas Scott and five players with two goals.

Keller and Scott both had two goals and two assists while Travis Mears, Logan Evans and Tristan Clark all had two goals each.

The Renegades followed up the offensive explosion with a tight, but unsuccessful effort against the Axemen on Sunday.

Colton Levi led the Renegades with two goals and an assist while Mears, Cole Todd and Kole Weik each had a goal and an assist.

Final cuts have not been made to the Renegades roster with eight rookies in the lineup for both games. Among those rookies was goalie Cole Reschney, who held the Axemen’s high-powered offence to right goals in his debut.

Penalty trouble over the first two games im-

U18 KINGS VOLLEYBALL EDMONTON — A successful weekend at Volleyball Alberta provincials saw the Central Alberta Kings Volleyball Club U18 Black team come home with a fourth place finish.

A winning weekend put the team

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Thursday ● Alberta Cup Hockey: Central vs.

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Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1) Friday’s result San Jose 6 Los Angeles 3

Friday

Second Round CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Islanders vs. Tampa Bay Wednesday, April 27: N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Rest of schedule, TBA Monday’s summaries Blues 3, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. St. Louis, Lehtera 1 (Bouwmeester, Schwartz) 1:00.

2. St. Louis, Parayko 2 (Berglund, Steen) 13:43.

3. Chicago, Hossa 3 (Panik) 18:30.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 4. Chicago, Shaw 4 (Toews, Keith) 3:20 (pp).

Penalties — Shattenkirk StL (hooking) 2:49.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Brouwer 1 (Fabbri, Stastny) 8:31.

Penalties — Rundblad Chi (slashing) 2:56 Panik Chi (interference) 9:55.

Shots on goal Chicago 11 13 9 — 33 St. Louis 9 12 5 — 26 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L, 3-4-0). St. Louis: Elliott (W, 4-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 1-1 St. Louis: 0-2.

Predators 3, Ducks 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Arvidsson Nash (interference) :34 Anaheim bench (too many men, served by Perron) 3:09.

Second Period 1. Nashville, Ekholm 2 (Jarnkrok, Ellis) 8:10.

2. Nashville, Neal 2 (Johansen) 17:45.

3. Anaheim, Kesler 3 (Perry, Fowler) 19:46 (pp).

Penalties — Ekholm Nash (holding) 19:17.

Third Period 4. Nashville, Weber 2 (Neal) 19:50 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Anaheim 7 11 9 — 27 Nashville 8 12 6 — 26 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (L, 3-1-0). Nashville: Rinne (W, 3-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Anaheim: 1-2 Nashville: 0-1.

Blackmar. Placed LHP Jack Snodgrass on the inactive list.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Sold the contract of LHP Josh Blanco to Texas (AL).

Hall of Fame NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — Announced the resignation of vice-president of communications and education Brad Horn.

Named Jon Shestakofsky vice-president of communications and education.

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Saalim Hakim. Waived TE Chase Ford.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released DE Ray Drew.

Canadian Football League B.C. LIONS — Signed WR Avius Capers.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Aundrey Walker and WR Kris Adams.

HOCKEY American Hockey League SAN DIEGO GULLS — Signed D Keaton Thompson to an amateur tryout agreement.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Allen’s Vincent Arseneau two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in an April 23 game at Idaho.

reach third, bringing on the boos.

“Clearly, it’s something that can’t happen,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. “I spoke to Tyler immediately in the dugout, in the tunnel, after it happened and I spoke to him after the game. He regrets it.”

Collins entered batting .100 with one RBI. He has appeared in 88 games over three seasons with the Tigers.

Steph Curry out at least 2 weeks with sprained right knee If the Golden State Warriors want to cap a record-setting season with a second straight NBA title, they will need to survive the next two weeks without their best player.

Stephen Curry is expected to miss at least two weeks with a Grade 1 sprain of the MCL in his right knee, dealing an unexpected blow to the Warriors’ hopes of repeating as champions.

“From our perspective, it’s relatively good news,” general manager Bob Myers said Monday. “Clearly we don’t want to be here getting MRIs at this point of the season, especially someone of Steph’s stature. … But mechanically the knee is intact, so that’s good.”

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Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 11 7 .611 Boston 10 9 .526 Toronto 10 11 .476 Tampa Bay 9 10 .474 New York 8 10 .444

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 3

Chicago Kansas City Cleveland Detroit Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 14 6 .700 12 6 .667 9 8 .529 9 9 .500 6 14 .300

GB — 1 3 1/2 4 8

Oakland Texas Seattle Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 10 10 .500 10 10 .500 9 9 .500 8 11 .421 6 13 .316

GB — — — 1 1/2 3 1/2

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 5 Tampa Bay 2, Baltimore 0 Boston 1, Atlanta 0 Detroit 7, Oakland 3 N.Y. Yankees 3, Texas 1 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 3 Kansas City at L.A. Angels, late Houston at Seattle, late Tuesday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Sale 4-0) at Toronto (Dickey 1-2), 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Jimenez 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Boston (Price 2-0) at Atlanta (Wisler 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (R.Hill 2-2) at Detroit (Pelfrey 0-3), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-2) at Texas (Griffin 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Co.Anderson 0-1) at Minnesota (Nolasco 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 3-0) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 2-0), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 2-2) at Seattle (Karns 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct

GB

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta

Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee

Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Francisco San Diego

14 11 9 6 4

4 7 10 11 15

.778 .611 .474 .353 .211

— 3 5 1/2 7 1/2 10 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 14 5 .737 10 8 .556 11 9 .550 9 11 .450 8 11 .421

GB — 3 1/2 3 1/2 5 1/2 6

West Division W L Pct 12 7 .632 10 10 .500 9 10 .474 9 11 .450 7 12 .368

GB — 2 1/2 3 3 1/2 5

Monday’s Games Boston 1, Atlanta 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 1 St. Louis at Arizona, late Miami at L.A. Dodgers, late San Diego at San Francisco, late Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia (Velasquez 2-1) at Washington (Scherzer 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Price 2-0) at Atlanta (Wisler 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Finnegan 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 3-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 1-2), 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cole 1-2) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 1-2), 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis (C.Martinez 3-0) at Arizona (S.Miller 0-1), 7:40 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-0), 8:10 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 0-3) at San Francisco (Cueto 3-1), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games San Diego at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 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.

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs First Round Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result Cleveland 100 Detroit 98 Friday’s result Cleveland 101 Detroit 91 Toronto (2) vs. Indiana (7) (Series tied 2-2) Saturday’s result Indiana 100 Toronto 83 Thursday’s result Toronto 101 Indiana 85 Tuesday’s game Indiana at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Friday’s game Toronto at Indiana, TBA Sunday, May 1 Indiana at Toronto, TBA Miami (3) vs. Charlotte (6) (Series tied 2-2) Monday’s game Charlotte 89 Miami 85 Saturday’s result Charlotte 96 Miami 80 Wednesday’s game Charlotte at Miami, 6 p.m.

Friday’s game Miami at Charlotte, TBA Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) (Series tied 2-2) Sunday’s result Boston 104 Atlanta 95 (OT) Friday’s result Boston 111 Atlanta 103

Tuesday’s game Boston at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Atlanta at Boston, 5 or 6 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 30 Boston at Atlanta, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) (Golden State leads series 3-1) Sunday’s result Golden State 121 Houston 94 Thursday’s result Houston 97 Golden State 96 Wednesday’s game Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Golden State at Houston, TBA San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) (San Antonio wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result San Antonio 116 Memphis 95 Friday’s result San Antonio 96 Memphis 87 Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-1) Monday’s result Oklahoma City 118 Dallas 104 Saturday’s result Oklahoma City 119 Dallas 108 L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) (L.A. Clippers lead series 2-1) Monday’s result L.A. Clippers at Portland, late Saturday’s result Portland 96 L.A. Clippers 88 Wednesday’s game Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m.

Friday’s game L.A. Clippers at Portland, TBA

Gynmastics Results from the Alberta Provincial Trampoline and Tumbling Championship in Okotoks Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club Trampoline: Keegan Soehn gold medal (senior men), Kyle Soehn bronze medal (senior men), Kalena Soehn gold medal (junior women), Zachary Blakely gold medal (junior men), Alexandra Potter silver medal (level 6 women), Ashton Henfrey gold medal (level 5 men), Lauren Howse silver medal (level 4 women), Spencer Kooman gold medal (level 4 men), Eion Wolfe bronze medal (level 3 men), Taelum Hendfrey silver medal (level 2 men), Reese Hawryszko bronze medal (level 2 men), Brenyn Chapman gold medal (level 2 women 12U) and Keira Hofer bronze medal (level 2 women 12U).

Double Mini Trampoline: Kalena Soehn gold medal (junior women), Zachary Blakely gold medal (junior men), Alexandra Potter bronze medal (level 6 women), Ashton Henfrey gold medal (level 5 men), Ebony Campbell bronze medal (level 5 women 17U), Spencer Kooman silver medal (level 4 men), Jesse Starchuk gold medal (level 4 men), Taelum Henfrey silver medal (level 2 men) and Keria Hofer

pacted the Renegades, but coach Owen Rush addressed the early season issue after the Sunday game.

The Renegades play the Axemen again on Friday and have a Sunday game against the Medicine Hat Sun Devils.

— The Lacoka Locos out of Lacombe dropped both of their games over the weekend inlcuding a 9-7 loss to the Strathmore Venom and a 16-2 loss to the Lethbridge Barraudas.

The Junior B Tier II got a five-point game from James Wood with three goals and two assist against the Venom. Noah Smyth and Dylan Rowley both had a goal and an assist while Carson Barnes and Jared Raugust both had two assists.

Against the Barracudas Andrew Kooiman and Mack Hawthorne were the two goal scorers.

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into the semifinals with a chance at the gold medal match. But they fell and were in the bronze medal match against the Edmonton Northern Alberta Volleyball Club Griffins.

The Griffins came on strong and the Kings fell short and left the tournament in fourth place.

The Kings will compete at Volleyball Canada Nationals from May 12 to 15 in Saskatoon.

Warriors, 8:30 p.m., Edmonton

Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended San Francisco Giants SS Travious Relaford (Augusta-SAL) 100 games following a third positive test for a drug of abuse and free agent RHP Brent Jones 50 games following a second positive test for a drug of abuse, both violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated RHP Kevin Gausman from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Ryan Flaherty to Norfolk (IL). Claimed RHP David Hale off waivers from Colorado and optioned him to Norfolk.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Erik Johnson to Charlotte (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Miguel Gonzalez from Charlotte.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed RHP Carlos Carrasco on the 15-day DL. Activated OF RHP Michael Brantley from the 15-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Michael Feliz from Fresno (PCL). Optioned OF Jake Marisnick to Fresno.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated INF/OF Danny Santana from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Alex Meyer from Rochester (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP Andrew Triggs from Nashville (PCL). Optioned LHP Eric

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silver medal (lever 2 women 12U).

Tumbling: Eion Wolfe bronze medal (level 2 men).

Synchronized Trampoline Event: Kyle and Keegan Soehn gold medal (senior men), Ashton Henfrey and Zach Blakely bronze medal (novice men), Eion Wolfe and Kevin Missikewitz gold medal (level 3 men), Spencer Kooman and Jesse Starchuk bronze medal (level 4 men), Gabi Clarke and Sophie Nossack silver medal (level 3 women) and Taelum Henfrey and Kayden Levis silver medal (level 2 men).

Exelta Gymnastics Club Trampoline: Savanna Chanminaraj gold medal (level 4 women) and Carter Pisko silver medal (level 4 men).

Tumbling: Loami Rautenbach bronze medal (level 3 women) and Paige Tiegs gold medal (level 3 women).

Synchronized Trampoline Event: Carter Pisko and Benn Bilsborrow silver medal (level 4 men), Gracelyn Lauscher and Madyson Wiggins bronze medal (level 2 women), Loami Rautenbach and Karys Zirk bronze medal (level 3 women) and Jack Johnston and Liam Wygiera silver medal (level 1 men).

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Prince was a one-man band AND A FRIEND TO MANY OTHERS

Lemonade turns life’s lemons into furious pop

BY CHRIS RICHARDS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — On his own, Prince was a revolutionary recording artist and one-man band.

But the nearly-40 year career that ended with his death Thursday was hardly a private party. The other half of his musical legacy were his many collaborations and contributions, whether joining Stevie Wonder on stage in Paris for a spontaneous jam of Superstition or writing such future hits as I Feel for You and Manic Monday and giving them to other artists.

In an industry where collaborations with other artists and credits are negotiated as heavily as world treaties, Prince followed only one credo when it came to working with others: the love of the music.

“Oh yes, he loved helping other people,” said his friend and former fiancee Sheila E., “and helping people by saying, ‘Hey, here’s a song you might want to do or like, I think this fits you, or you know come into the studio and see if we can work together.’ “ In recent years, he boosted singer-songwriters such as Judith Hill, Lianne La Havas, Esperanza Spalding and Liv Warfield, and recorded singers like Rita Ora. Kendrick Lamar was among the many who travelled to Paisley Park for his famous late-night jams.

Among the countless tributes to Prince over the past few days were stories of his generosity and inspiration. On her Facebook page, Erykah Badu shared a litany of memories “That time Prince was your rhythm guitarist then sent you the picture.

The time Prince was so gracious to come to your club in the hood of South Dallas and play for 4 hours into the night…The time you recorded Today —- the earth song at Paisley Park. All the times y’all shot pool and argued over religion.”

Ken Ehrlich, the veteran producer of the Grammy Awards, told a story about luring Prince to the 2004 ceremony, where he would memorably team up with Beyonce on Purple Rain and Baby, I’m a Star.

“I had asked him on several occasions before. I had never had much success,” Ehrlich said. But as soon as he heard he would perform with Beyonce, Prince replied, “I’ll do it,” the producer said.

Prince called him and asked that they meet at a rehearsal hall in Los Angeles.

“In one day, he had laid out the entire medley” that he and Beyonce would perform, Ehrlich said.

“He put his guitar down, and he looked at me (with) a ‘look what I did’ smile,” the producer recalled.

“It was like a school kid showing off for the teacher.”

Singer Kandace Springs told the Associated Press that she was contacted by Prince a couple of years ago through Twitter after he saw a YouTube video for her cover of Sam Smith’s Stay With Me. Skeptical at first that the encouraging notes really were from Prince, she was on a plane to his home in Paisley Park within days and was asked to close his 30th anniversary concert for Purple Rain. At the time, she said, she was being encouraged to take on an urban hip-hop sound, but she considered herself more of a jazz artist.

“He spoke straight into me, ‘You

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On his own, Prince was a revolutionary recording artist and one-man band.

The other half of his musical legacy were his many collaborations and contributions, whether joining Stevie Wonder (above) on stage in Paris for a spontaneous jam of ‘Superstition’ or writing such future hits as ‘I Feel for You’ and ‘Manic Monday’ and giving them to other artists. need to be who you are, not be what some other people tell you,’ ” she recalled.

Prince was so prolific a songwriter that demos or B-sides became hits for others, often by design. Cyndi Lauper and Mitch Ryder covered When You Were Mine, an aching love song originally on the flip side of Prince’s single Controversy. Prince wrote Sheila E.’s signature hit The Glamorous Life, while an early song he worked on, I Feel for You, became a smash for Chaka Khan. Nothing Compares 2 U was Sinead O’Connor’s biggest hit. For the Bangles, he wrote one of their biggest hits, Manic Monday, under the pseudonym “Christopher.” “(Prince) really liked our first album,” the Bangles’ Debbi Peterson told MTV UK in 1989. “He liked the song Hero Takes a Fall, which is a great compliment, because we liked his music. He contacted us, and said, ‘I’ve got a couple of songs for you. I’d like to know if you’re interested,’ and of course we were.”

Sometimes, just a phone call was

Thursday.

Sales were led by Purple Rain, followed by When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette and Let’s Go Crazy.

Albums sales were led by The Very Best Of Prince.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sales of Prince songs, albums spike after superstar’s death

Douglas dons purple in honour of Prince at Tribeca Film Fest

Sales of Prince’s music have skyrocketed since the artist’s death last week.

According to Nielsen Music, in the three days following his death there were 2.3 million Prince song sales, including nearly 1 million on

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NEW YORK — Michael Douglas paid simple homage to Prince at the Tribeca Film Festival with his attire:

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enough. In the early 1980s, Stevie Nicks was working on her solo album, The Wild Heart. The Fleetwood Mac singer had heard Prince’s Little Red Corvette on her car radio and loved it so much she decided to write an answer song, Stand Back, which became a Top 5 hit in 1983. While in the studio, she came up with a crazy idea: Call Prince himself to help out.

“I said, ‘Prince, this is Stevie Nicks, and I wrote a song to your song Little Red Corvette, and we’re at Sunset Sound right now, and I was wondering — first of all, I wanted to tell you that I’m giving you 50 per cent of (the royalties) it if it ever goes anywhere, but are you in town?”’

Nicks told MTV.com in 2009. “If you are, how would you feel about coming down and playing on it?’ Never in a million years did I think this man would be like, ‘I’ll be right there.’

He was there in 20 minutes and he played (she mimes instrumental parts of the song on Stand Back,) and he was there an hour and a half, and then he left.”

a matching purple shirt and pullover V-neck sweater.

“He was such a private man, protected his work so much,” he said Saturday night. “But he was an extraordinary talent, just an extraordinary talent. I really feel a loss.”

Besides being a fan, Douglas has a connection to Prince: he gave him his 1985 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score for Purple Rain.

Douglas was at the festival to help filmmakers Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser promote their multimedia installation, The Bomb.

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The Red Deer Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society is holding their monthly meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the LDS Church (3002 - 47 Ave.). Guest speaker Wayne Shepard will speak on Natural Phenomena and Their Effect on Our Ancestors.

Further information Mary Joan 403346-3886. New members and those interested always welcome.

However many senses you have, Beyoncé wanted all of them working overtime on Saturday night with the presto-release of her sixth album, Lemonade. You could stream it as a dozen songs on Tidal, or you could watch it as an elongated music video on HBO. If you spent any time pondering the album’s title, your tongue might have tingled. And if you sang along, you definitely caught a whiff of something foul.

That’s because Lemonade is a surprisingly furious song-cycle about infidelity and revenge — and its indignation becomes clear the moment Beyoncé sings, “I smell your secret, and I’m not too perfect to ever feel this worthless.” The song is called Hold Up, and despite all its rage, it sounds like Enya’s Orinoco Flow reincarnated as reggae.

Which is to say it’s the kind of highly disjunctive pop tune that continues to make Beyoncé such a vexing superstar.

She’s singing about nasty personal wounds with a carefree confidence, revealing something huge as if she isn’t revealing anything at all.

This distance feels weird, but it’s always been there. Go back to her 2003 breakup anthem, Me, Myself and I, and you can hear the woman unplug herself from the universe with a vow of self-reliance: “From now on, I’ma be my own best friend.” Was she warning the world that it would never truly know her? Nearly 13 years later, we still don’t.

So yeah, it’s still impossible to figure out where Beyoncé stands, but with Lemonade, she has never been clearer about what she stands for. She might be a cloistered superstar, but she’s still a black woman navigating a country toxic with hatred for blackness and womanhood. Her stardom in and of itself becomes a form of opposition. Through her music, she projects an invincibility that makes less-invincible listeners feel more like her. She makes the hardness of life feel less indomitable. That was a David Bowie thing, it was a Prince thing, it’s always been a hip-hop thing, and it’s very much a Beyoncé thing.

Throughout Lemonade, she voices her politics most explicitly in lyrical fragments — a tactic that feels artfully appropriate for these shattered songs.

On Hold Up, she asks why women aren’t entitled to their anger: “What’s worse: Looking jealous or crazy?” On Formation, that rhythmic weather-system she performed at the Super Bowl, she touts her own work ethic: “I dream it, I work hard, I grind till I own it.”

And over the blustery march of Freedom, she makes a resolution: “I’ma keep running ‘cause a winner don’t quit on themselves.” (Lyrics aside, her singing has never sounded more agile or more exploratory.)

And, hey, speaking of time, look how far along we got without mentioning that elephant over there in the corner.

Yep, the one in the Yankees cap. His name is Jay Z, and he’s Beyoncé’s husband. For now, at least.

As gross and tawdry as it feels to ask, it’s impossible not to: Has Beyoncé set her divorce papers to melody? Or is this album simply aimed at the cheating slimeballs of the universe on behalf of scorned partners everywhere?

It becomes difficult to believe the latter on Don’t Hurt Yourself, a thunder-and-lightning collaboration with Jack White, where Beyoncé snarls, “You ain’t married to no average b——, boy!” Or on the swaggy flicker of “Sorry,” when she sings, “I regret the night I put that ring on,” and then, “Big homie better grow up” - a direct reference to her spouse’s nickname. (You’ll have to look up the jaw-dislocating insult Beyoncé drops in the song’s first verse. It’s unprintable here.) Autobiographical or not, people are going to lose their minds parsing this stuff.

So go forth and gossip your face off.

Just don’t let it drag your eardrums too far away from the sounds Beyoncé has made for you. There’s a serious encounter to be had with this music alone, and you’ll want to throw your entire sensorium into it.

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wegot WILLIAMSON Margaret (Peggy) In loving memory of Margaret (Peggy) Williamson, age 93, who passed away peacefully on the 20th of April, 2016 at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta. She was born on the 23rd of July, 1922 in Londonderry, Ireland to Elizabeth and Patrick Edward Mullan and shortly thereafter her family immigrated to Canada settling in the Clandonald district, but she has been a long time resident of Central Alberta and an active parishioner of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

She was predeceased by her husband, Jim Williamson of the Delburne and Pine Lake districts, whom she married in 1972. She was the last surviving member of the Mullan family being predeceased by her siblings, Edward Jr., Frank, Agnes, Eileen, Charles, John and Gerald. She is survived by her sons and their spouses, Dr. Art Lysons (Elaine) and James Earl Lysons (Connie); grandchildren, Shawn Lysons, Jodi Nicole Lysons Claus and Kimberley Dawn Lysons; and great grandchildren Tessa Lysons Johnston and Eliza & Max Claus. She is survived also by her step family, the sons of Jim Williamson, Warren, Tom (deceased) and Harry Williamson and their families.

Peggy was the only in-place grandmother known to most of the Williamson grandchildren, Pamela, JoAnn, Kevin, Mark, Grant, Michael and Craig. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, April 29, 2016 at 3:00 pm at St. Mary’s parish, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, with the Reverend Father Len Cadieux celebrant. A private interment service will be held sometime in the future at St. Andrew’s parish, near Clandonald, Alberta.

Peggy will be placed adjacent to her loving mother, Elizabeth and father, Edward. A reception at St. Mary’s parish hall will immediately follow the funeral mass.

Memorial donations in lieu of flowers may be given directly to the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, 3-48J Corbett Hall, 8205-114 Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G4 or to the Golden Circle, 4620-47A Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3R4, Tel (403) 343-6074 or to a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

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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 UNIQUE black metal bathroom mirror, towel bar, towel ring, and 2 hangers look like “gazelles”. All for $65. 403 309-3475 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

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WANTED: Small dog (Bijon/Shitzu) cross for elderly couple. Dog found.

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INVERSION Table, $200.

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April 30, 10 am - 5 pm 1500 Watt Pure Sine Wave May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Inverter never used $425.

4 Ton log splitter with Westerner Agri Centre West Admission $ 5 stand $225. 403-347-1637

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

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is currently seeking an exp. licenced automotive technician. GM Dealership exp. would be considered an asset. This position offers a competitive wage with a bonus system. Pls. apply in person with resume to the Service Manager. No phone call pls.

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METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

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Houses/ PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FREE TRUCK LOADS OF Duplexes BLACK POPLAR LOGS. You pick up. Very close to 3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, Red Deer. 403-392-8385. no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, Household 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3

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GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $80.

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WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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10’ x 12’ GAZEBO, material covered, good cond., $120. 403-782-5206 100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020 CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100.

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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

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

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1 & 2 BDRM. apts avail. in a quiet, pet-free adult only building. Please phone 1000-1430 403-340-1222 for more information (no text msgs please).

3 BDRM., no pets, $975. mo. 403-343-6609 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 Handyman CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 3 Contractors Roofing Services Accounting bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 .5 baths, $975./mo. n/s, no Avail. June 1.

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For help on your home 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-391-1780 Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

We’ll do it all...Free est. projects such as bathroom, WCB covered, fully with oilfield service Call E.J. Construction GLENDALE main floor, and bsmt.

Licensed & Insured. companies, other small Jim 403-358-8197 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., renovations. Also painting 403-896-4869 businesses and individuals $975. incl. sewer, water & DALE’S Home Reno’s and flooring.

RW Smith, 346-9351 garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Free estimates for all your Call James 403-341-0617 Seniors’ May 1 403-304-5337 reno needs. 403-506-4301

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

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Rent $900 S.D. $700.

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LIMITED TIME OFFER: One free year of Telus internet & cable AND one month’s rent FREE on 2 bedrooms! Renovated suites in central location.

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TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

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NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

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BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent, $500/mth - $250 DD. Call 403-396-2468 S.E. House, furn. room, working M 403-396-5941

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of Mario Ceccato who died on November 21, 2015 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by May 26, 2016 with Andrew J. Luft at

Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1

and provide details of your claim.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

NOTICE T0 CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

MARY ELLEN HUNT late of the City of Red Deer, Alberta, who died on April 15, 2016

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RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

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If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim by June 6, 2016 and provide details of your claim with ALVIN F. GANSER Barrister & Solicitor at Box 4040 Olds, Alberta T4H 1P7 If you do not Àle by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

NOTICE

TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of JON WOLFGANG PAUDLER who died on March 2, 2016 If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim

by May 30, 2016 and provide details of your claim with ERNIE SCHAFER P.O. Box 149 4819 49 St. Mirror, AB Email: bige@cciwireless.ca If you do not Àle by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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NEW DELHI — Unidentified assailants fatally stabbed two men in Bangladesh’s capital Monday night, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks targeting atheists, moderates and foreigners.

Police said they suspected radical Islamists in the attack, which occurred two days after a university professor was hacked to death. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The victims were identified as USAID employee Xulhaz Mannan, who previously worked as a U.S. Embassy protocol officer, and his friend, Tanay Majumder, according to Mohammed Iqbal, a police officer in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area. Mannan was also an editor of Bangladesh’s first gay rights magazine, Roopbaan, as well as a cousin of former Foreign Minister Dipu Moni of the governing Awami League party.

The U.S. ambassador condemned the killing, just weeks after the U.S. government and numerous rights groups urged the government of the Muslim-majority country to better protect its citizens and secure free speech.

“I am devastated by the brutal murder of Xulhaz Mannan and another young Bangladeshi this evening in Dhaka,” Ambassador Marcia Bernicat said in a statement. “Xulhaz was more than a colleague to those of us fortunate to work with him at the U.S. Embassy. He was a dear friend.”

“We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind these murders,” she said.

Security guard Mohammed Parvez told reporters that five or six young men posing as employees of a courier service entered the six-story building where Mannan lived and went upstairs to his unit. He said they hit him with knives later when they left. He was treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for his injuries.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bangladeshi policemen try to control the crowd of onlookers at a building where two people were found stabbed to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday.

Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

A man who told local broadcaster Somoy TV that he had witnessed the attack also said at least five young men took part in the killing. He said they chanted “Allahu Akbar,” or “Allah is Great” as they left the scene.

Bangladesh has been riven by a wave of deadly attacks on foreigners, religious minorities and secular bloggers, raising fears that religious extremists are gaining a foothold in the country, despite its traditions of secularism and tolerance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has cracked down on domestic radical Islamists. Although the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for several attacks, including the killing Saturday of university professor Rezaul Karim Siddique in a northwestern city, Hasina’s government dismisses the claims and in-

sists the extremist group has no presence in the South Asian country.

The U.S. government earlier this month said it is considering granting refuge to a select number of secular bloggers facing imminent danger in Bangladesh.

In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Monday that remained an option, and the department was encouraging the Department of Homeland Security, which makes the determination in such cases, to keep that under consideration.

Kirby called the attack “barbaric.”

He described Mannan as a “beloved member of our embassy family and a courageous advocate” for LGBT rights, and pledged U.S. support to Bangladeshi authorities “to ensure that the cowards who did this are held accountable.”

Egyptian police stifle plans for mass protest over islands

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Thousands of Egyptian riot police on Monday stifled plans for mass demonstrations against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s rule, using tear gas, birdshot and beating up young activists to quickly disperse flash protests by hundreds in what evolved into a day of cat-and-mouse games across parts of Cairo.

With overwhelming numbers, police took over Cairo locations designated by organizers as gathering points, checking IDs and turning potential protesters away under the threat of arrest. At least 100 protesters had been arrested by nightfall, mostly in the Dokki district in Cairo’s twin city of Giza, according to activists and rights lawyers.

The Press Syndicate said a total of 11 journalists were arrested during the course of the day and that all but one were released hours later.

“We have been running back and forth. Every time we gather in one place, they attack us,” said one female protester.

“The minute we started gathering they attacked us and we fled,” said another protester from the impoverished and densely populated Cairo district of Nahya.

Both protesters requested anonymity because they feared reprisals.

Fearing another round of unrest after years of turmoil, some city residents and shopkeepers were hostile toward the protesters on Monday.

“The sons of dogs want to bring down the state,” shouted one el-Sissi supporter as he watched police beat up two protesters.

Determined to prevent the protests, police took up positions early on Monday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 uprising, and deployed on the city’s ring road, downtown and at a suburban square where hundreds of Islamist protesters were killed when security forces broke up their sit-in in August 2013.

The sheer number of policemen on the streets and fear of arrest prevented protesters from gathering, often forcing them to trickle out from designated gathering points to assemble elsewhere.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Supporters of Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi rally in Cairo on Monday. Elsewhere, Police fired tear gas and birdshot to disperse hundreds of demonstrators calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down over his government’s decision to surrender control over two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

Monday’s arrests followed the detention in recent days of scores of activists in pre-dawn house raids and downtown cafe roundups as authorities sought to derail plans for the demonstrations. Rights groups say as many as 100 have been arrested since late last week, with some picked up by police just hours before Monday’s protests were due to start.

Monday’s most serious violence took place at a residential square in Dokki, where some 500 protesters led by prominent activists gathered.

Chants of “leave, leave” directed at el-Sissi, echoed across the square, along with “bread, freedom, the islands are Egyptian.” Masked policemen atop armoured vehicles and in full riot gear arrived 10 minutes later and immediately fired tear gas and birdshot. The protesters fled in panic.

From apartment balconies, pro-elSissi residents shouted “traitors” at

the protesters below and pelted them with water.

Later, an Associated Press reporter at the scene saw plainclothes policemen kicking and slapping protesters they arrested, before pushing them inside pick-up trucks.

Elsewhere in Dokki, dozens of riot and special forces’ policemen laid siege to the headquarters of the Karama, or Dignity, party founded by opposition leader Hamdeen Sabahi, the only candidate who ran against el-Sissi in the 2014 presidential election and who filed a lawsuit against el-Sissi for surrendering the islands.

“We denounce the violations of our constitutional rights of peaceful assembly. We are holding a sit-in here until they withdraw, and we demand the release of all those who were captured today and in previous days,” senior party member Masoum Marzouk told the AP.

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Transcending hopelessness EXTREME ESTEEM

“When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it just one more time.’”— Author unknown “This is probably going to shock you,” he said, “but here’s what I really, truly want.”

In my workshops, I often utilize an exercise called, “What do you want?

What do you really, truly want?” The idea of the exercise is to open participants up to expressing on paper and verbally their greatest desires. It can take tremendous courage to express openly what we truly want, especially when what we want may seem unattainable, or we may feel undeserving.

In this particular workshop, one of the participants (we’ll call him Joe) shocked us all with his open and honest admission. Knowing a little of Joe’s history, I viewed him as a strong and resourceful man who had weathered more than his fair share of storms — an honest, forthright, got-your-back sort of fellow whom people could look up to for sound advice and moral support.

“What I really, truly want is to go to bed tonight and not wake up in the morning.”

After a chorus of gasps and shocked exclamations, Joe continued.

“I’m just tired,” he said, looking around the room. “So very tired.”

Joe’s “want” concerned me. It seemed like a declaration of hopeless-

We can’t be happy all the time LINDSAY BROWN ME PLUS THREE I’ve always believed that happiness equated to success. If you are happy, you are successful. No if’s, no and’s, no but’s. Joyfulness, without a shadow of a doubt, means that you are rocking this thing called life. The theory fits pretty snugly into everyday life. When we are feeling cheerful, we sit on top of the world. Nothing shakes us. We are firm in our resolve that if we can keep up this feeling of euphoria then all will remain right in the universe.

However therein lies the problem— we cannot be happy all of the time.

At least, I, for one, can’t. It’s exhausting. I have hundreds of moments throughout the day where stress showers down on me. Periods of heartache and disappointment from the many unforeseen experiences of everyday life. There are times when a myriad of emotions will whitewash me and I will be left with this astounding feeling of nothingness.

It drives me to believe that any emotion other than happiness means I am not doing “it” right. Right? Where did that idea come from? Why do I feel like I am somehow failing when I am anxious? Why do I expect some foreboding disaster to appear when I’m sad? Why do I liken any emotion other than joy with negativity?

When did it stop being acceptable behaviour to feel?

Lately I’ve been “feeling” a lot.

Let’s start with my inability to decipher a scam phone call when it is right in front of me (humiliation/anger). Or perhaps we should talk about the fact that I’ve been procrastinating on getting the kids into another after-school activity (guilt). What about how I’ve somehow managed to gain five pounds despite my new workout routine (failure). We are very behind schedule at The Hot Wire and most definitely will not be opening on our sought out date of May 1st (angst).

All of these emotions resulting in a

ral to mourn the loss of what was, but staying stuck will only dig you a deeper hole. What can you change? What can you influence? It comes down to acknowledging the reality of the current situation and letting go of a need for that situation to be anything other than what it is. You can invest a tremendous amount of time and energy wishing for a different reality, but that accomplishes nothing. Accept it. Step out of resistance. Regroup. Rearrange and strike off in a new direction.

Examine the evidence. When we’re feeling hopeless, it’s easy to make assumptions or jump to conclusions. It’s especially easy to focus on worst-case scenarios. The psychological term for this negative mental process is catastrophizing — believing something is far worse than it might be in reality.

Catastrophizing can take two forms: expecting the worst or projecting the worst possible outcome into the future and then unintentionally creating it The first step when dealing with catastrophizing is to recognize that you’re doing it. For me, I started carrying a small notepad and began writing down the outcome I anticipated and the one I actually experienced. For example, if I was paged to the boss’s office, I might assume I was about to be severely reprimanded when in reality, he only wanted to talk to me about an upcoming project.

Express yourself. Look for a healthy way to express your feelings. I recommend keeping a journal. It’s the perfect way to express your thoughts in a safe and private manner. I’ve kept a journal for years. It’s a way to take a snapshot of my thoughts and emotions.

Paging through old journals, it be-

comes easy to see the negative thought patterns that trapped me in the past and to acknowledge how I moved through them. Remember, when you’re journalling, the words are written only for you, so you don’t need to stress about crafting perfect prose.

Seek guidance. If you’re feeling hopeless, it can be tremendously beneficial to sit down with a close friend and share your thoughts and feelings.

I recommended a friend who is a good listener and focused on your best interests. I have friends who will listen intently and provide sound, well-considered advice. I have other friends who will listen and provide me with the “swift kick” I need to get back on track. I think we all know, intuitively, whom best to select. And should you need it, there are many coaches, counsellors and therapists out there.

When feeling without hope, I have often leaned on this little piece of advice from American abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe: “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

What do you really, truly want?

If you’re convinced that life is truly hopeless, then you won’t do much to help yourself. But in my experience, no matter how impossible it seems, there are always things you can do – right here and right now – that will help you find a way out.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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gaping feeling of despondency. If only I could remedy these woes or simply push them away, all would be right in the world once more. However I don’t think life works that way. There will always be sadness and anger and guilt and humiliation. There will always be those uncomfortable moments. If there wasn’t, I don’t think happiness would feel so good.

It doesn’t matter how many scam artists I dodge, or after school programs I cram down my children’s throat or even if I lose 20 pounds— there will always be something else.

We’ve established that there is and always will be a reservoir of emotions at the stem of our existence, but the question now is what to do with that.

Clearly allowing it to steer us into even greater emotional disparity is unwise, so what’s left?

Dare I say, we allow ourselves to validate these feelings?

When we feel the crippling anger of being misled for example, instead of trying to push that emotion away what if we honor it? What if we were to spread that feeling out thin enough to wrap ourselves up in it? Allowing every inch of our person to understand what it was feeling. To give ourselves time to grasp why the anger was there in the first place. What if we embraced the “bad” feelings as closely as we do the good ones? What if we granted ourselves the time to work through our emotions rather than condemning them?

Let’s look at how we teach our children for example. When our kids get good marks in school or draw a fine picture we celebrate them accordingly. There is no time limit on this celebration, only an unbridled happiness shared by all. However when they are angry or saddened by something, sure we may allow them an allotted period of time to “get over it” but subconsciously we are willing them to move on and just be done with that emotion.

It is unpleasant therefor it is unwanted.

This afternoon Sophie was upset.

She was crying and feeling sad and there seemed to be nothing I could do.

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TREENA MIELKE FAMILY News flashes are ongoing. They are here, there and everywhere.

The price of oil remains a slippery slope of uncertainty.

A police investigation is underway after a passenger plane approaching Heathrow Airport flew into what is believed to have been a drone.

Understandably, both those news flashes are cause for concern.

And so it goes.

News on a global scale is keeping print media, broadcast media and social media alive and well.

But here at home, in good old cen-

tral Alberta, the land where wild roses go crazy in the spring, colouring roadside ditches with their shy pink blooms, there is also a news flash.

As of April 15, the ice went out in Sylvan Lake. And, according to records checked by historian Michael Dawe, it’s the earliest ever that has happened.

I believe that particular news flash was like a pebble dropped into the lake before it gets interrupted with boat waves. It caused a ripple effect, as locals and lake visitors alike peered into the past trying to bring to recall their own memories of the lake, almost washed away by the sands of time.

I flip back over my own memories, trying to clamp down a time, a date, and a story to go with it, but I come to a sad realization.

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ness. I knew Joe before the workshop so chose to speak with him at the end of the session. He wasn’t suicidal, just burdened and weary. He appreciated my concern and felt better having someone to acknowledge his issues. It took me back to a time when I felt the same way. Tired of people who didn’t do what they said they would, of expectations that would never be realized, of all those things in life that wore and ground me down and the lies that led me to believe in a hopeful and positive outcome when none was possible.

Tired of the endless struggle to find meaning.

Fortunately, those times have been few and far between and, since embarking on my journey of building self-esteem and personal empowerment, neither as devastating nor protracted.

I can’t speak for Joe but, for me, my dark state-of-mind was the result of hopelessness. Many years ago, following a series of setbacks and losses, I began to lose hope for a better tomorrow. I started thinking, “It’s all just a waste of time.” And it seemed to me — at the time — that the proof of my defeat was everywhere. My hopelessness had become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I know from experience, one of the toughest items to retrieve once lost is hope, but there are ways to regain your footing and strategies to shift a dark and hopeless perspective.

Step out of resistance. Sometimes we get stuck focusing on what we can’t change rather than what lies within our control. Let’s say you’ve lost your job and there’s no going back, or your relationship has ended and there’s no repairing the partnership. It’s natu-

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ADVICE TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016

Dealing with co-worker’s unwanted opinions ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My cubicle is separated by a low wall from “Terri,” the woman who works next to me.

Here’s the problem: I might be talking with seven other people near me at different times and we could be whispering, but Terri manages to hear the conversation and always has an opinion to add. Every associate who works near Terri has an issue with her constant opinions, her butting into other people’s conversations, and the incessant talk about her failing marriage, her difficult kids and her finances. We don’t invite these personal conversations, especially because no matter what you say, you are wrong and she is right.

Management has spoken to the rest of us, saying we shouldn’t talk about Terri when she isn’t present, because it creates negativity in the workplace.

Yet they say nothing about her constant, disruptive yapping during an eight-hour shift. The sound of her voice stresses me out so much that it’s hard to maintain a professional manner around her, and I’m afraid that little negative remarks are slipping out.

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Tuesday, April 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Carol Burnett, 83; Channing Tatum, 36; Jordana Brewster, 37 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s a great day to shake up your usual routine.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You can be very determined, but you can also be very stubborn.

The next 12 months is the time to be less socially isolated and much more flexible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Things are moving slower than you’d like but don’t let it get you down. If you turn your attention to future projects, and plan them with precision,

How can we make Terri mind her own affairs until she is invited into the conversation? How can we get her to do some work (and let us do ours) instead of blabbing all day about her personal problems? — Ready to Tear My Hair Out Dear Ready: Let’s start with the obvious — you don’t like Terri and you have been excluding her from your conversations.

She responds by talking and butting in, so that she feels part of the workplace environment. You respond with annoyance.

Imagine how you would react if you were frozen out of your co-workers’ conversations. Have you tried including her? Doing so now and then will make it easier to ask for some quiet time when you both need to finish your work. But if she still cannot stop talking, the next step is headphones and a smile.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Perplexed Grandmother,” who has been unable to establish a connection with her 3-year-old grandson because the family lives with the daughter-inlaw’s parents and she has limited contact.

Your advice was good, and I agree that she should talk to her son about taking a more active role in his child’s safety. I have another suggestion for Grandma to get closer.

I have many friends who live far

from their children and grandchildren and they have solved this problem with FaceTime or Skype.

Over the phone or computer, they read books to the kids, have lunch “together” and simply enjoy regular conversations.

This is what military families do, and it works just as well for everyone else who lives far away from their grandchildren.

Please remember this as an option.

You would be surprised how many of the older generation manage to make this high-tech connection. — M. Dear M.: We have often mentioned how easy it is to keep in touch with farflung family members through smartphones and laptops. We hope those who haven’t yet tried the technology will learn how.

Dear Readers: Tomorrow (Wednesday) is Administrative Professionals Day. If you have assistants who make your job easier, please let them know they are appreciated.

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 Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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then you’ll feel less restless and impatient.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With the Sun and Mercury in your sign, it’s time to be bold and brainy. Draw inspiration from fellow Taurus Eva Peron, who declared, “I am smart and have more strength than I appear to have.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Loved ones will behave in unpredictable ways that you can’t anticipate. So it’s time to broaden your mental horizons through nifty networking and sharing ideas with like-minded friends.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): With Venus and Uranus both visiting your career zone, strive to be proactive and creative at work.

Plus the more you network with others, the more professional progress you’ll make.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Sun — your ruling planet — in your career zone, step up to the professional plate and showcase your substantial Leo talents. But avoid being too black-and-white about a complicated situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Saturn and retro Mars in your domestic zone, avoid the temptation to dredge up old family grudges. The more generous — and forgiving ñ you are towards loved ones, the better the day will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Communicating with loved ones should be productive today, as you enjoy convivial conversation and discuss joint ventures. For some single Librans, love is waiting in your local neighbourhood.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Work, school or volunteer duties should go well today, as relations with colleagues improve and you’re in the mood to enjoy your job.

Joint ventures and group activities are also favoured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your stars highlight friendship, hobbies, sporting activities, travel, adventure and creative projects. So make sure you put aside time to do something special that makes your heart

sing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your imagination and intuition will take you far today Capricorn — if you let them. Pay attention to the symbolism in your nightly dreams — plus stay tuned for a distinctly deja-vu moment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re at your sparkling Aquarian best today, as you entertain others with your quirky stories and witty repartee. Social events, joint ventures and social media are also favoured.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work projects and business ventures look positive, as you accept the learned advice of a colleague or mentor. Don’t try to re-invent the wheel — follow in the footsteps of successful predecessors.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

back.

And so the summers came and the summers went.

Water-skiing and hamburgers.

Sunscreen and sandcastles.

Footprints in the sand.

And as the ever-changing tides of time keep on, keeping on, I learn nothing is as permanent as change.

But still, some things never change.

Sitting on the beach and savouring the taste of ice cream will remain now and forever a delicious waste of time.

The hot, dry feel of sand between your toes remains endlessly cool.

Watching the way the sun splinters

into a million shards of light when it is reflected off the water remains a timeless wonder.

And hearing the echo of a child’s laughter bouncing back over the waves is a lifetime guarantee that happiness can be contagious.

Does it get any better?

I don’t think so!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

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BROWN: We just need a cry So I gave her time. It was all there was left to do. Later, when I asked her if there was something she wanted to talk about she said, “Mom, sometimes we all just need a big cry.”

And you know what, I think my five year old is onto something. This life can be so chaotic and complicated and scary and mystifying that there is no possible way we could move through it with only a handful of emotions to rely on. We are a complex species therefore our emotions will be vast—infinite. We should celebrate these sentiments rather than feel indignity over them. It means we are living and that, my friends, is as prosperous as it gets.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

MIELKE: Moments I don’t remember dates, only moments.

I remember one such moment.

I, an ill-kept little kid with messy brown hair and bare feet, am perched in the front seat of an old ’49 Pontiac.

My dad is in the driver’s seat and our dog, a non-descript breed of nuisance, is in the back.

Suddenly without warning, there it is. A huge expanse of liquid blue, shimmering in the sunlight.

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A few miles later, we were there.

Being at the lake seemed like a different world.

I remember the sun, warm on my hair, the hot, dry feel of sand between my toes and the creamy cool taste of ice cream, soft on my tongue.

I remember my dad saying the ice didn’t melt in Sylvan Lake. It only sank.

My dad was smart and knew about such things.

I didn’t question him, I simply believed him.

I still remember the painful splash of the icy water on my poor tummy as I tried, unsuccessfully, to execute a graceful dive off the wooden pier.

I believe the common term for that particular dive was and probably still is, a belly flop.

Fast forward about 15 years. Sitting in a ‘70 something red Volkswagen, my husband in the driver’s seat, three kids in the back. We crest a hill on Hwy 11 and there it is, the same huge expanse of liquid blue, shimmering in the sunlight.

I remember ice cream and sticky fingers. Excited shrieks and laughter.

Sand pails and castles. And me, always in the background, admonishing the kids gently and then not so gently when they became tiny specks in the water, “don’t go out too far. Stay where I can see you.”

They did, of course, go out too far.

They grew up. And, always, they went out too far, to places far away and unknown to me.

But, always, thankfully they came

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