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RAT RODS THEY MAY NOT BE PRETTY BUT THESE MUTTS OF THE HOT ROD WORLD HAVE THEIR ADMIRERS SEE STORY ON PAGE A2

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Jason Groulx of Gasoline Alley Rat Rods sends some sparks flying as he works on a 1928 Dodge Brothers Sedan in his Red Deer shop.

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Blue-collar building

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Rat Rods are the mutts of the hot rod world.

They may be nice to look at, but their pedigree is suspect to say the least.

Take the rat rod Jason Groulx is building in his bay in Red Deer’s Edgar Industrial Park.

It’s based on a four-door Dodge Brothers sedan that was saved from oblivion in a farmer’s field outside Lacombe. His rat rod’s front axle is from a ‘52 Ford truck, rear axle ‘95 Ford Mustang, wheel rims ‘32 Chevy.

The bench seat, for Pete’s sake, came out of a minivan — not exactly what you would call a cool ride.

And the engine? A 292 cubic-inch power plant from a school bus that once hauled reluctant kids to class in the 1960s.

“A rat rod is a blue-collar hotrod,” chuckles Groulx, owner of Gasoline Alley Rat Rods. “A rat rod is not pretty.”

Rat rod builders are masters of improvisation, welding, bending, chopping and rivetting a NAPA catalogue’s worth of parts into a machine that has gearheads drooling.

For Groulx, half of the fun is the thrill of the chase, finding automotive gems rusting away in fields and in barns, or tracking down parts through a network of connections.

Behind his shop, he shows off another find, a ‘31 Chevy found on a farm near Delburne. Every wreck has its own story, he says.

This rusted shell started out as a car. But at some point the owners rebuilt it as a makeshift truck.

It was a common conversion during war rationing because you could get more fuel tickets for a truck than a car.

Groulx grins as he points to the door, which was held closed by a gate latch.

“It’s just awesome to find something like that.”

For a long time rat rods were the black sheep in the auto show families. Impeccable provenance and period-correct components were the measure of greatness.

But rat rods and their wrong-sideof-the-tracks reputation have been getting a lot more recognition and re-

Alberta BRIEFS Drug charges net man 60-day jail sentence A Red Deer man received a 60-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to fentanyl-related charges in Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

Ronnie Ross, 33, pleaded guilty to possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of an unauthorized weapon and breaching a court order.

On June 15, 2015, police responded to a suspected impaired driving incident on a Township Road outside Red Deer. Ross was found with 42 fentanyl pills in his pocket and a spring-loaded knife.

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So much so, that Groulx is building his latest car to show at the 2016 SEMA Show in Las Vegas this November. Billed as the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world, it will draw 100,000 industry players from 100 countries and is not open to the general public.

Groulx will represent Canada against U.S. and Mexican competitors in the International Rat Rod Build-Off Competition Helping him, is a team of six other devoted volunteers, who will spend hundreds of hours creating their showpiece rat rod. A long list of sponsors, from as far away as Texas, are helping provide parts in return for recognition.

Handling custom painting duties is Jeff Sharpe, who has painted everything from banjos to lacrosse helmets with his trusty airbrush.

Sharpe, whose day job is setting up sound systems for big events such as rodeos, graduations and concerts, plans to paint mobster-inspired panels inside the rat rod in keeping with the Dirty ’30s theme.

“This art that I do it’s a hobby and I want to make it a full-time thing eventually,” says Sharpe.

Other gangster-inspired touches will include a gear shifter made out of a Tommy gun. Bullets are going to be used to embellish the interior.

“There’s going to be so much detail,” says Jason. “When you come up, it’s going to look like a crappy car.

Then, it will just blow you away.”

The project is a labour of love for the crew, which includes Dave Heykants, Eli (Shane) Russel, Russ Mastrachuk, Adam Holland and Stacie Bishop.

“Everyone in our crew has a full-

time job, except me,” says Groulx.

A 20-year oilpatch veteran, Groulx is a victim of the industry’s downturn.

Out of work for now, he turned to his hobby.

“I’ve always had cars. This is the perfect opportunity,” he says.

He would love to turn this build into a career customizing aging road warriors and helping others with their garage projects.

“I think Red Deer and Central Alberta needs something like this. We need a shop that specializes in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s stuff.”

Those interested in checking out progress on Groulx’s rat rod are welcome to visit his shop on Wednesdays at Bay 15, 7459 Edgar Industrial Bend.

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For more information go to www.ratrodbuildoff.com

The case was scheduled to go to trial in April when Ross pleaded guilty.

Defence lawyer Brad Mulder told the court his client became severely addicted to fentanyl after an injury and was taking 4o to 50 pills a day, but is now clean. Ross did not have a criminal record.

Judge Gordon Deck has allowed Ross to serve his jail sentence intermittently. Ross was given a fiveyear weapons prohibition and will be on probation for 12 months.

found the man non-responsive and notified police.

The Office of the Medical Examiner in determining cause and time of death.

At this time police will not release the name of the deceased.

Man charged with three counts of first-degree murder to go directly to trial

Man found dead in parked car near Blackfalds A 22-year-old man was found dead in a parked car outside of Blackfalds on Tuesday.

Police believe the man was living out of his car and may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. It is not known at this point whether the death was accidental. The autopsy results are not yet available.

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LETHBRIDGE — A woman in southern Alberta is accused of killing her mother.

Lethbridge police say Shelley Praill, who was 54, was found in a city home on Thursday suffering a stab wound.

She died later in hospital of her injury.

Police say Praill’s daughter, who is 28, was arrested at the home.

Jessica Praill is charged with one count of second-degree murder.

She was being held in custody pending a court hearing.

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EDMONTON — A man accused of killing three people in southern Alberta last year will go to trial without a preliminary hearing.

Derek Saretzky is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Terry Blanchette, his two-year-old daughter Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, and Hanna Meketech.

Alberta Justice says the Crown will proceed on the charges against Saretzky by direct indictment.

A preliminary hearing for Saretzky in the Blanchette and Dunbar-Blanchette cases was to begin on June 20.

The three bodies were found over several days in the Blairmore area last September.

Saretzky is to appear in court on June 13.

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Walking tours encourage residents to learn about the city

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Canadian National team member Tammy Cunnington paid a visit to Holy Family Elementary School in Red Deer Friday. She spoke to staff and students about her experiences competing for her country. The Paralympic athlete from Red Deer will be representing Canada and Red Deer at the Paralympic Games in Rio, Brazil, this August. Cunnington has participated in wheelchair basketball, Para-triathlon events and, most recently, she competed in at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, where she won two bronze and one silver medal. Cunnington also holds the world record for the 50 metre Butterfly event in the s4 classification.

Advisory group shortlists 12 women as contenders for new banknote

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada says it now has a list of a dozen women who could be featured on a new banknote.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Movie star Ryan Reynolds has posted an emotional goodbye on Facebook to a boy in Edmonton who has died of cancer.

Reynolds visited 13-year-old Connor McGrath earlier this year in hospital and gave him an advance screening of his film Deadpool weeks before it was released to theatres.

The Canadian actor says the Make-A-Wish Foundation arranged the visit and Connor was the first to see the movie.

“There were still huge sections with wires we hadn’t yet painted out, jokes which weren’t working (and still aren’t) and green screens,” Reynolds says in the Facebook post.

“Connor didn’t seem to mind. And I’d never felt luckier to get to be Wade Wilson.”

In the movie, Reynolds plays Wilson, who undergoes an experimental procedure that gives him healing powers and turns him into the snarky Marvel superhero Deadpool, known for his salty language and off-humour.

“Before you jump down my throat for showing a 13-year-old an R-rated film, please know this kid knew more swear words than a British chef,” writes Reynolds.

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Red Deerians have eight opportunities to join a local Jane’s Walk to explore their city next weekend.

The walking tours are free and encourage people to learn more about the city and have walking conversations with other residents.

Walks will be held on May 6, 7 and 8 and include: ● May 6 at 10 a.m. — Restoring an Ecosystem, led

by Rene Michalak, Cynthia Pohl.

The Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project is restoring 25 acres of Piper Creek just south of the city’s Waste Management Facility. A guided 1.5-hour walk around the property will look at how the degraded part of Piper Creek is being turned into a healthy and productive natural area complete with 15,000 sq. ft. pollinator habitat and edible forest garden. The walk starts at Piper Creek Gardens. ● May 6 at 6 p.m. — Physical Activity Gems in Victoria Park, led by Lynsey Hermary.

Participants will try out an outdoor gym equipment, throw some discs at the disc golf course and take a short walk around the park. The importance of staying active to be healthy will be discussed. The walk runs one hour and starts at the outdoor gym in Victoria Park. ● May 7 at 2 p.m. — A reverent Gaetz Historical Tour … with peeks in the Beyond, led by Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer.

A walk of Little Gaetz Avenue will look at its architecture, its metamorphosis from old to modern while taking a peek beyond the avenue. Find out which building had a ghost that had to be exorcised.

The walk runs one hour and starts at the entrance to Downtown at the archway just north of Wei’s Western Wear on Gaetz Avenue. ● May 8 at 1 p.m. — Red Deer’s “ghosts” and the places they used to hang out, led by Janet Pennington.

Search the many “ghosts” in Red Deer downtown and have a look at the places they built, lived, shopped or worked in. Learn interesting historical facts about the city on the two-hour walk that starts at City Hall Park at City Hall steps. ● May 6, noon — Local Watershed Trivia, led by Janessa Matthew.

Join the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance at Maskepetoon Park for a 2.5-hour walk full of trivia, friendly competition and exploration. Participants will be placed on teams to compete for tokens by answering questions about our watershed’s local flora and fauna. The walk will also stop at a wetland where participants will have the opportunity to identify macro invertebrates that live within the wetland. Dip nets will be provided. The walk starts from Maskepetoon Park parking lot. ● May 7 at 10 a.m. and at 2 p.m. — Air Quality in Red Deer, led by Kevin Warren.

The walk and tour of Riverside Air Monitoring Station will be led by Kevin Warren, executive director of the Parkland Airshed Management Zone.

He will provide a history of Parkland Airshed Management Zone, an overview of air quality concepts and discuss some of the air quality issues Red Deer faces. The walk will start in the main parking lot of the Three Mile Bend Recreation Area. ● May 8 at 1 p.m. — The Forgotten Downtown Railway, led By Paul Pettypiece.

Participants will meet at Red Deer Museum for a 1.5-hour walk to the Co-op Shopping Centre, the former site of the CNR station, grain elevator and turntable and on to the mouth of Waskasoo Creek where the CNR crossed the river, before returning.

An extended walk takes you to the Arches along the railway’s connection to the Canadian Pacific yards.

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Saturday, April 30, 2016

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Reunion marks mother’s spirit

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF It was Katalin Papp’s dearest wish to see all of her seven children united together, under one roof.

Although Papp died of a heart attack in 1998 after being able to raise only three of her seven kids, all of her now middle-aged children will be celebrating their mother’s survivor spirit when they arrive for what could be their first and last complete gathering.

Some of the siblings will be meeting for the first time after travelling from as far as Hungary and Winnipeg to the Red Deer reunion.

The complicated family history begins with Papp fleeing to Canada after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The student activist had to leave her threeyear-old son, Janos Boti, behind, since it was a door-die situation, explained her younger son, Jozsef Rakos (Jr.), who was born in Canada.

Student revolutionaries were bring rounded up and killed by Hungary’s pro-Soviet government.

“They had the trucks ready,” he said. “They had to jump in and go.”

Papp was smuggled into Austria, where a flight to Canada was hastily arranged. Papp later recounted her heart-stopping voyage across the Atlantic in an old plane that lost three of its four engines before landing in Gander, N.L. “They were flying only metres above the ocean,” said Papp’s daughter, Kathy Finley, who was also born in Canada.

The 24-year-old student activist, who had previously divorced Janos’s father in Hungary, settled in Montreal. Papp tried to bring her little boy into the country, but was unsuccessful. As a result, Janos was raised in a loving home in Hungary by his mother’s sister and her husband. But he always wrote to his mother in Canada.

Papp next met and married Imre Toth, another Hungarian refugee. She had three sons with Toth, but he turned out to be a controlling and deceitful spouse. Imre fraudulently admitted Papp into a sanatorium for tuberculosis. By the time it was discovered she didn’t have TB, Toth had fled with their three boys. Papp never saw these children again.

The boys — Barna, Peter and Tamas Toth — never knew why they were separated from their mother.

They did not have a happy or stable upbringing after their father told them their mom had died in hospital. They were constantly moved across North America. Over some periods, the kids were put into foster homes or orphanages. Peter Toth said he always doubted his mother was dead. When he asked where she was buried, Peter recalled his father would clam up. “It was a taboo topic.”

Papp spent the rest of her life trying to find her lost children — although her search was hindered by her poor command of English.

She married her third husband, Jozsef Rakos, who had been a friend of Toth’s, because he seemed helpful and caring in her desperate situation. They also had three children together — Jozsef (Jr.), Marton and Kathy Rakos (now Finley).

But Rakos became an abusive alcoholic who moved the family across the country, while trying

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From the left, siblings, Peter Toth, Kathy Finley, Janos Boti and Jozsef Rakos get to know each other in Red Deer on Thursday. to stay out of jail for embezzlement. Papp, who was never allowed to work outside the home, eventually summoned the courage to leave the violent Rakos.

She boarded a Greyhound bus with her three youngest kids and raised them as a single parent in Red Deer.

Kathy, Jozsef and Marton recalled a hard-scrabble but loving childhood.

“My mom had a very turbulent, hard life: She was physically and mentally abused; she lost four of her seven children; her English was not good; she suffered anxiety … but she was a good mom. She did what she could for us,” said an emotional Kathy, 49.

“She was a survivor,” added Jozsef, 52. “For her to have survived was a miracle …”

Her children’s reunion was also a near-miracle, since the three abducted sons didn’t know about the existence of their half-brothers and sister until they were contacted by Janos in 2004. Peter said he knew he and Janos were brothers because Janos had the same picture of Peter as a baby that he also had; “Thank God for the Internet!”

The 63-year-old Hungarian brother, now in Canada for three-weeks, had promised his mom during a previous visit, that he would help her look for her lost sons. Janos was relentless in his pursuit, contacting virtually every Toth family in North America

— and Toth is as common a Hungarian surname as Smith or Jones.

Besides honouring the promise to his mother, he said “I was curious” about meeting his half-siblings, since he was raised as an only child in Hungary by his aunt, Julianna Papp and uncle Sandor Bella.

Janos is happy to get to know his extended Canadian family.

“Janos told me I speak the best Hungarian,” said Peter, 57, who feels relieved to get beyond the lies his father told him. “Everybody needs to know their family.”

The siblings plan to gather on May 9 at Marton Rakos’s home in Red Deer. They are still waiting to be united with brother Barna Toth, 57, from Winnipeg, and Tamas Toth, 56, from Calgary.

The reunion is “very meaningful” said Jozsef.

“For our mother, this would have been a dream come true,” said Marton, 54, who suspects this will be the first and last time all seven of Papp’s children are together.

Kathy, who’s getting used to having six brothers instead of just the two she grew up with, is planning to have a family portrait taken. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Stephan conviction highlights a need for reporting of neglect: bioethicist ‘. . . . SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT CHILD FROM THE MOTHER’S ARMS AND IF THEY WERE TOO SCARED TO DO THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE CALLED 911 — IT’S NOT THAT HARD.’

CALGARY — The meningitis death of a 19-monthold boy who suffered for weeks while his parents treated him with home remedies is calling attention to the responsibilities of those who know about child abuse or neglect, but don’t report it.

Alberta’s Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act says anyone with “reasonable or probable grounds to believe that a child is in need of inter— JULIET GUICHON vention” must report it, and that anyone who fails in BIOETHICIST, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY their duty can be fined up to $2,000 or jailed for up to duced them when Collet Stephan later arrived at the six months.

However, Justice Department spokesman Dan clinic. She also said Tannis asked her to make up an Laville admitted Thursday charges have never been echinacea mixture.

An Alberta Justice official said it isn’t up to govlaid under that specific section.

“This does not mean the Act is not being used for ernment to decide on further charges in the case.

“There are other parties, namely police and proother purposes, it just means to date charges have not been laid under this section,” Laville said in an fessional associations, that are responsible for investigating the conduct of third parties that may have email.

University of Calgary bioethicist Juliet Guichon been involved in this tragic situation,” said press said she wonders if the provision could apply in the secretary Veronica Jubinville. “We cannot speculate on the result of any investigations that may be occurdeath of Ezekiel Stephan.

“It looks as though there were opportunities for ring.”

Alberta’s Human Services Department, which other adults to help this child and the question is: Did they call? And if they didn’t call, what will be handles intervention cases, relies on help from the the consequence? Why is this child dead?” Guichon general public, said spokeswoman Kathy Telfer.

“Child intervention becomes involved when cases asked.

“I do believe it takes a village to raise a child and are brought to our attention by the child’s communisomebody should have taken that child from the ty, which can include the medical community, police, mother’s arms and if they were too scared to do that neighbours, or teachers.”

Former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy, who they should have called 911 — it’s not that hard.”

David and Collet Stephan were found guilty this brought to light sex crimes by his former junior week of failing to provide the necessaries of life for hockey coach Graham James and is now an advocate their son Ezekiel. Believing he had croup, they treat- for child-abuse victims, said in most cases there ed him with natural medicines such as hot peppers, are usually people around who “have a gut feeling” onions, garlic and horseradish for two and a half about what is happening and don’t report it.

“If your gut’s telling you or the hair on the back of weeks before he later died.

The Crown said there was no doubt the Stephans your neck is standing up, we need to ask questions.” loved their child, but didn’t follow the standard of care as set by criminal law.

Court heard how the couple was warned by both a friend, who was a registered nurse, and a naturopathic doctor that the boy should be taken to a hospital. The College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta is investigating the actions of the naturopath, who has not commented since the trial.

The naturopath, Tracey Tannis, testified she was with a patient when a clinic worker interrupted to tell her a mother was on the phone asking about a treatment for meningitis.

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AUTO CLUB SWAP MEET

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Paul Hazen, left, owner of The Old Sign Shop in Calgary mans his booth at Westerner Park in Red Deer Friday as the 47th Annual Central Alberta Vintage Auto Club Swap Meet. The event features exhibitors selling hard-to-find classic automobile parts and accessories, from antique parts and tools to license plates to gas and oil memorabilia. General admission is $5 with children 12 and under getting in for free. The show continues today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Notley declares Washington trip a success BUT THERE IS A LONG ROAD AHEAD ON CLIMATE, ADDS PREMIER Canada’s east or west coast to get Alberta crude to markets in Asia in order to fetch a better price than the province can currently get from U.S. buyers.

Notley acknowledged her climate change plan slows the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, but doesn’t reverse them.

“In the long term (it) will reduce emissions,” she said.

“You can’t turn on a dime, but you can’t not make change simply because you can’t turn on a dime.”

On Thursday, Notley stressed in a speech at Johns Hopkins University that oil remains critical to her province, given that it’s responsible for one job out of six.

EDMONTON — Premier Rachel Notley says she made inroads in Washington, D.C., when she explained Alberta’s climate-change plan.

“My message everywhere was the same, that Alberta is now one of the world’s most responsible energy producers, that we are an extremely attractive place to do business, and that we hope to be a valued partner in driving green and value-added technologies,” said Notley in a conference call with reporters Friday.

“It’s a message that resonated with everyone I met.”

Notley met with numerous officials during her trip, including Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski, the chair of the U.S. senate committee on energy and natural resources She also spoke with Christy Goldfuss, managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Alberta’s climate-change plan, introduced late last year, calls for a cap on oilsands emissions, a broad-based carbon tax and a phaseout of coal-fired electricity.

Notley has said she believes the plan gives Alberta more credibility and moral authority when it pitches for more fossil-fuel infrastructure.

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Notley did not use the trip to lobby for the Canada-US Keystone XL pipeline, which was rejected by US President Barack Obama last year.

Notley said she would have liked to meet with more leaders, but said time was tight for US politicos given the presidential election season.

“The issue really is ensuring that you’re talking to those folks that are going to be influential regardless of the nature of the administration after the election,” she said.

“I feel pretty confident that our representations have been heard by people who will have the ear of key decision-makers in January.”

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No police at bail hearings: review

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A review ordered after the fatal shooting of a Mountie in Alberta last year says Crown prosecutors and not police officers should be present at bail hearings following an arrest.

“Although police representing the Crown at bail hearings is a practice of very long standing in Alberta, it fails to meet the requirements set out in the Criminal Code,” former federal Crown prosecutor Nancy Irving wrote in a report penned in February but released by the Alberta government on Friday.

“The practice is also strongly opposed by most stakeholders in Alberta’s criminal justice system. It is time for the current practice to end.”

Police can release people arrested for minor crimes on promises to appear in court later. In more serious cases, suspects must be seen by judges or justices of the peace within 24 hours and can ask for bail.

The shooting of Const. David Wynn

brought to light that, in most of these cases in Alberta, it has been police officers and not Crown lawyers attending these initial hearings.

Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley said the government is already acting on several of the review’s 31 recommendations, but adds it will need to consult with police, federal prosecutors and defence counsel before moving forward with others.

“The bail system needs to be looked at thoughtfully and thoroughly before significant change is made. This is a system that balances fundamental rights and public security,” she said.

“We must be careful not only to improve the system but to avoid any unintended consequences.”

For instance, it would be difficult to keep Alberta’s bail offices running 24 hours a day — a unique situation in Canada — if some of the recommendations were to be implemented, Ganley said.

“We’re looking at a number of new staff and some not insignificant costs if we do move to that model.”

A survey done by The Canadian Press in February 2015 found a patchwork of approaches to whether Crown prosecutors or police officers acting in their place attend such hearings. Alberta was the only province that predominantly relied on police rather than Crowns.

British Columbia: Crowns typically conduct initial bail hearings. But in smaller jurisdictions, after hours, police act in their place. Crowns are available around the clock in larger centres.

Alberta: Police step in for Crowns in almost all bail hearings before justices of the peace.

Saskatchewan: It’s uncommon, but police can act as Crowns before justices of the peace.

Manitoba: Crowns handle all bail hearings and are on-call nights and weekends.

They are also available by phone in remote locations.

Ontario: Crowns handle all bail hearings. Weekend and statutory holiday courts operate in each region of the province.

PC party board member resigns over remark linking terrorism, Earls

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A member of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party executive quit Friday following outrage over online comments he made linking Islam, terrorism and the Earls restaurant chain.

Craig Chandler told a Calgary radio station he didn’t mean to offend, but added it’s best to step down and avoid becoming a detrimental distraction to the party.

“I understand that I’m a lightning rod,” Chandler told CHQR Radio.

“I do not wish for me to be the focus at any time during this crucial time of rebuilding. Our party needs to decide what it is, what our values are and if we sincerely want a big tent — or we’ll be excluding people.”

Chandler, a businessman and political candidate, waded into controversy Thursday after the Earls restaurant chain announced it would serve only beef from a Kansas supplier because it had a Certified Humane designation, meaning the meat is prepared without the use of antibiotics, steroids or add-

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It was considered a slap in the face to Alberta’s beef industry and, when someone pointed out the Kansas supplier also does halal beef, Chandler posted to his Facebook page: “So now Earls supports terrorists as well!

Wow!” O n F r i d a y , CRAIG CHANDLER Chandler apologized.

He said he was making the point that halal meat is prepared according to Islamic law and a levy goes to Saudi Arabia to receive certification. He then made the leap in the posting that money going to Saudi Arabia equates to supporting Islamic terrorists.

“I could have chosen better wording, I admit that,” he said.

“Not all Muslims are like that (ter-

rorists) in any way, shape or form.”

Chandler is known for his outspoken views on socially conservative issues.

In 2007, Alberta’s PC party refused to endorse him as an election candidate after his Concerned Christian Coalition was rebuked by the Alberta Human Rights Commission over a homophobic letter.

Also that year, Chandler said newcomers needed to accept and adapt to Alberta’s conservative ethos or leave.

Chandler was recently acclaimed as a regional director for the PCs in Calgary. That angered Tory MLA Sandra Jansen, who said Chandler should be barred.

PC interim leader Ric McIver said Friday that while it was Chandler’s decision to step down, it was the right one.

“It (the posting) was inappropriate,” said McIver.

“This is a good time to remind ourselves and all others that Muslims have made a large contribution to Alberta in the past and they continue to do so today, and Muslims are most definitely welcome in the PC party.”

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The film’s producer, Rick Dugdale, is from Enderby and says it was pretty

special to shoot a movie in his hometown.

He says he always tries to go to the drive-in when he visits, and having premiere there will be nostalgic.

Quebec: Crowns, not police, actually lay criminal charges in Quebec and handle all bail hearings before judges. They are available nights and weekends.

Newfoundland and Labrador: Police officers can step in for Crowns on summary conviction offences, only if they are designated as agents by the attorney general.

New Brunswick: There are no justices of the peace in the province. Hearings are held with judges and Crowns, over the phone if necessary after hours.

Nova Scotia: Bail is heard during regular weekday hours before judges with Crowns. On nights and weekends, accused appear before justices of the peace with police acting on the advice of Crowns over the phone.

Prince Edward Island: When accused persons first appear before justices of the peace, police can make submissions instead of Crowns. But most cases are put over to be heard by judges with Crowns.

(Source: The Justice Departments or Crown offices in each province)

PM spends day on troubled reserve

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Trudeau spent seven hours on Shoal Lake 40 First Nation — a manmade island near the Manitoba-Ontario boundary, cut off from the mainland a century ago during construction of an aqueduct that carries fresh water to Winnipeg.

“It was an extraordinary day. It was a day for him to see and feel it, our daily struggles here,” Chief Erwin Redsky said afterward.

The visit was deemed a private one, closed to all media outlets except Vice Canada, which is shooting a documentary on the tour.

Trudeau hopped onboard a truck used to haul 20-litre jugs of water and delivered them to three homes, Redsky said. He visited every classroom in the local school, talked to elders and later watched a hockey game at the arena.

The federal government, along with Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg, recently committed to building an all-weather road that will connect the community to the Trans-Canada Highway. The reserve is not remote — it’s less than an hour away from Kenora, Ont. — but it has been isolated economically and in terms of services by the lack of a dependable roadway.

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Court refuses request for delay

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

AMANDA TODD

VANCOUVER — The needs of the alleged victims played a key role in a Dutch court’s decision to refuse a request for another delay in the trial of a man thought to be linked to the suicide of British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd, says a court spokeswoman.

Polly van Dijk of the Amsterdam court said in an interview that Aydin Coban’s trial on child pornography and extortion charges will start Monday even though his lawyer officially quit the case Friday.

“Coban knew he had to find somebody,” van Dijk said, adding that Coban was aware of the scheduling restrictions and had already been granted two postponements.

“Today the court said you had chances enough.”

Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old girl from Port Coquitlam, B.C., took her own life in October 2012 after a spate of incessant bullying over nude photos Coban allegedly posted of her online.

Her mother, Carol Todd, said Friday that the focus of the Dutch criminal proceedings shouldn’t be on her daughter. She said she distanced herself from the case to allow the stories of other alleged victims to be heard.

“I chose to stay away from it because I want the attention focused on the trial and not on myself or on Amanda’s story right now,” she said.

“I think the wisest choice is to let justice prevail.”

The Canadian government has requested Coban

be extradited to face five separate charges in connection to Amanda Todd’s case. If successful, that would lead to criminal prosecution in Canada and would put her daughter’s story at the forefront, Todd said.

B.C.’s Justice Ministry has said Amanda Todd’s case has had a significant enough impact to warrant pushing for it to be tried in Canada.

Coban faces 72 charges in the Netherlands, most of which relate to blackmail and the production and distribution of child porn involving 39 victims from across Europe, North America and Australia.

The alleged incidents took place between 2008 and 2014. Thirty four of those allegedly involved were underage at the time, while the remaining five were adult men.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

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Federal officials, Liberals at odds over F-35 jet

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals may have promised to exclude the F-35 from the competition to replace the air force’s aging CF-18 jet fighters, but federal officials meeting the day after last fall’s election were singing a completely different tune, documents reveal.

The records, obtained by The Canadian Press, show top Industry Canada bureaucrats met on Oct. 20 and discussed what advice to give the incoming government about the controversial procurement, emphasizing the decision should be based on requirement, not politics.

“A procurement decision like C-18 replacement is primarily driven by the operational needs of the Canadian Forces,” said the briefing.

Prior to the election, Trudeau said the Liberals would not proceed with the F-35 purchase and would instead run an open competition, with savings from a cheaper alternative set aside to rebuild the navy.

The Liberals have been quietly backing away from that position, with both Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Procurement Minister Judy Foote pointedly refusing to exclude Lockheed Martin, the F-35’s U.S.-based manufacturer, from the competition.

The documents provide, for the first time, clues as to why the Liberals moderated their tone.

Aside from saying the new fighter must meet the air force’s needs, officials pointed out that opportunities for Canadian aerospace firms to bid on sustainment contracts for the F-35 may be greater than expected.

“The program is beginning to make concrete decisions regarding how the global F-35 fleet will be sustained (i.e. maintenance, repair, simulation and training), said the analysis. “Like production work, such sustainment work will be allocated on a best-value basis to those countries that have committed to acquiring the plane.

“The industrial value of the sustainment opportunities can be expected to be even higher than that associated with production, with such opportunities anticipated to be valued in the billions of dollars, with similarly no guaranteed value of work.”

Unlike regular military equipment purchases made by the federal government, the F-35 program does not allocate a specific amount of work and cash for Canadian aerospace firms. Instead, it allows Canadian companies to bid on the world-wide contracts associated with the fleet.

Because Canada is still a partner in the program, companies in this country have so far won about $750 million in related production contracts.

The Industry Canada briefing says any replacement aircraft would have an impact on Canadian firms, but noted “not all companies in Canada are equally positioned to take advantage of industrial opportunities related to available fighters.”

One of the potential F-35 rivals is the Boeing Super Hornet, which is a significantly upgraded version of the F-18.

In an interview last month with The Canadian Press, Roberto Valla, vice president of global sales for Boeing in Canada, said the company already has long-standing relationships with suppliers in the country and would have no problem delivering significant industrial benefits.

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Crew prepare to board the HMCS Regina, during a ceremony the at CFB Esquimalt in Esquimalt, B.C., Friday. The frigate, one of 12 Halifax-class frigates was recently part of the modernization frigate life extension project and will return to service following tests in open water.

Social policy showdown looming at next month’s convention

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CONSERVATIVES

OTTAWA — A social policy showdown could be in the works for next month’s Conservative party policy convention.

On one side: a bid to further entrench the party’s stand against same sex marriage with a resolution to protect “the rights of Canadian workers who believe in the traditional definition of marriage from employment discrimination on the basis of their deeply held religious beliefs.”

On the other: efforts to get the existing policy banning same sex marriage dropped altogether.

Supporters of both sides say the stakes are high as the party seeks to reinvigorate itself after last fall’s election defeat.

The party can’t afford to lose its base of social conservatives, said Jack Fonseca, program manger with Campaign Life Coalition, which recently published a list of six pro-life, pro-family resolutions it says will be debated at the convention in May including the same sex marriage one.

“It would be disastrous for the CPC to alienate its large social conservative base and tell them they don’t want them, don’t care about them and don’t care about their values,” Fonseca said.

But those values should extend to, at very least, having no party policy on same sex marriage, others

argue.

Last year, a group calling itself LGBTory began to campaign to change current policy, arguing it offended not just LGBT Conservatives but all those who side with the Tories on fiscal or foreign policy issues but oppose their social ideas.

The party policy, as it stands, is that Parliament and not the courts should determine the definition of marriage and that the party supports legislation defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

But it also allows for free votes on matters of conscience, including same sex marriage, so there’s no sense having a specific policy prohibition against it, the group says.

A resolution to delete the same sex marriage provisions was backed by a policy congress of Alberta Conservatives earlier this year, as well as regional policy meetings in Quebec and Toronto, although that one was a close vote.

“There’s opposition, I’m not going to deny it,” said Eric Lorenzen, a member of LGBTory.

“But we do think we have broad support. I think the party wants this to happen.”

Postal union expects Liberals will stay out of any labour dispute

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The union representing more than 50,000 postal workers says it expects the federal Liberals to refrain from legislating their way through a potential labour dispute at Canada Post — in contrast to what the previous Conservative government did five years ago.

The union won a key court victory Thursday when an Ontario court found the Conservatives’ back-towork legislation that ended a dispute at Canada Post in 2011 was unconstitutional because it took away the union’s right to strike.

The government said Friday it is reviewing the decision and didn’t indicate whether it would appeal.

Mike Palecek, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, said the ruling should bolster the workers’ bargaining position. He said the union’s position is also helped if the Liberals follow through on public pronouncements that the federal government won’t get involved in any labour dispute.

“It’s a strong message to Canada Post that they can’t expect to lock us out and legislate us back to work,” Palecek said.

Since the late 1980s, federal governments have legislated postal workers back to work four times,

including the 2011 Conservative move.

About 6,000 rural postal workers have been without a contract since the end of December the 48,000 or so urban workers have been without a contract since the end of January.

The two sides are in the midst of intensive contract negotiations. Canada Post filed for conciliation in early April, but negotiators have made little movement towards a new collective agreement.

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“We do not believe anyone can be found alive,” said Boerge Galta of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center. The rescue operation was called off Friday at 5 p.m. after 11 bodies were found on land but divers were still looking for the other two bodies.

Eleven Norwegians, one Briton and one Italian were aboard the aircraft that went down for unknown reasons, said Jon Sjursoe, also of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center. The helicopter’s fuselage was found in the water off the island while its rotor system was on land, he said.

“Unfortunately, there are no signs of survivors,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference. “This is a sad day for all those who work in the Norwegian oil and gas industry and for Norwegian society.”

The helicopter was heading to Bergen from Statoil’s Gullfaks B oil field in the North Sea, about 120 kilometres (74 miles) offshore.

“All 13 were on a mission for us,” Statoil vice-president Arne Sigve Nylund told a news conference, declining to elaborate about their relation to Norway’s biggest oil company. He said after the “terrible tragedy,” all activities at the Gullfaks B oil field had been temporarily halted.

Statoil said it had “temporarily grounded all equivalent traffic helicopters.”

World BRIEFS Rowdy Trump protests portend explosive California primary BURLINGAME, Calif. — Hundreds of rowdy protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police Friday outside a hotel where Donald Trump addressed the state’s Republican convention. Several Trump supporters said they were roughed up but no serious injuries were reported.

The protest just outside San Francisco occurred a day after anti-Trump protesters took to the streets in Southern California, blocking traffic and damaging five police cars in Costa Mesa following a speech by the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Demonstrators at both locations waved Mexican flags, an action meant to counter Trump’s hard stance on immigration and disparaging remarks about Mexico.

Because of the protest, Trump was rerouted to a back entrance. In a surreal scene, news helicopters showed the billionaire businessman and his security detail walking between two concrete freeway barriers before hopping down onto a grass verge and walking across a service road.

“That was not the easiest entrance I ever made,” Trump quipped when he started speaking to the convention delegates. “It felt like I was crossing the border.”

Outside, crowds of anti-Trump demonstrators broke through steel barricades and pelted riot police with eggs as the officers stood shoulder-to-shoulder to keep the demonstrators from entering the hotel.

A man wearing a red hat bearing the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” was punched in the head from behind while being jostled by a group of shouting protesters. Another Trump supporter said he was punched and spit upon by demonstrators who also threw his phone to the ground.

“It went gangbusters. They attacked me,” said Chris Conway, a mortgage broker from San Mateo.

COPENHAGEN — A helicopter carrying Statoil workers from an offshore rig in the North Sea crashed Friday on an island off western Norway, killing all 13 people on board, rescuers said.

The Airbus EC-225 helicopter shattered into

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian army and rebels unleashed deadly new attacks on each other Friday in Aleppo, with insurgents shelling a mosque during weekly prayers and government airstrikes hitting opposition neighbourhoods in escalating bloodshed the UN decried as a “monstrous disregard for civilian lives by all parties.”

More than 200 people have been killed in eight days of mounting violence in and around the contested northern city, including 15 at the Malla Khan mosque hit by rebel rockets and another 10 from the government warplanes and helicopters, officials said.

The surge in fighting has caused the collapse of a two-month cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia. It also has raised fears of an all-out government assault on Aleppo and warnings of a humanitarian disaster in the 5-year-old civil war.

In rebel-held neighbourhoods, medical facilities,

North Korea accuses US soldiers of provoking border troops SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea on Friday accused U.S. soldiers of trying to provoke its frontline troops with “disgusting” acts and encouraging South Korean soldiers to aim their guns at the North.

A North Korean military statement warned U.S. soldiers to stop what it called “hooliganism” at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom or they’ll meet a “dog’s death any time and any place.”

“GIs hurled fully armed MPs of the South Korean puppet army into perpetrating such dangerous provocations as aiming at” the North Korean military side last week, said the statement carried by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency.

It said U.S. troops pointed their fingers at North Korean soldiers and made strange noises and unspecified “disgusting” facial expressions.

North Korea occasionally accuses South Korean and U.S. troops of trying to provoke its border troops and vice versa. After North Korea’s first nuclear bomb test in 2006, the U.S. accused North Korean troops of spitting across the border’s demarcation line, making throat-slashing hand gestures and flashing their middle fingers.

The latest North Korean accusation came a day after South Korean and U.S. officials said two suspected medium-range missile launches by North Korea ended in failure.

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“People have already started fleeing the city,” said Baraa al-Halaby, an activist who watched older men, women and children leave his rebel-held neighbourhood Friday. “If Aleppo comes under siege, people will starve to death within a month.”

Assad’s military declared a brief truce in the capital of Damascus and its outskirts and the coastal province of Latakia — but not in Aleppo.

That could signal plans for a ground assault.

Pro-Assad media in Lebanon have been reporting for weeks that reinforcements are preparing for the “grand battle of Aleppo.”

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Rebels sent packing RED DEER FOUND LACKING IN DO-OR-DIE GAME 5

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Wheat Kings 5 Rebels 2 In a must-win game, the Red Deer Rebels didn’t have the push needed to extend the series.

Going 0-for-4 on the power play and giving up a short handed goal can haunt a team.

Giving up a hat trick and four unanswered goals in the second and third periods ended the Rebels playoff run as they fell 5-2 to the Brandon Wheat Kings.

“I think our team was very fragile in this series,” said Brent Sutter, Rebels GM/head coach. “I don’t think we responded to some adversity in the series very well. I thought some of our top players played well and other top players struggled.”

The Rebels held leads, 1-0 to start the game and 2-1 going into the first period intermission, but couldn’t bottle up the Wheat Kings attack.

“Again we had a 2-1 lead and we didn’t stay with our game,” said Sutter.

“We made some risky plays and gave up 2-on-1s and they capitalized on it, we gave up a shorthanded goal and they capitalized on it. We just weren’t sharp.

“We never had 60 to 70 per cent of our team play to the level they need to play at in this series, like they did against Regina and it hurt us. Some of our guys really struggled in the series.”

The loss ends the Western Hockey League’s Eastern Conference Final in just five games. The Wheat Kings, conference champions for the second consecutive year, will now face the Seattle Thunderbirds in the WHL final.

Seattle swept the Kelowna Rockets to earn their spot in the final.

The Rebels will have about 20 days off before the Memorial Cup takes over the Centrium. Sutter said the team will develop a program to keep the players game-ready for the extended break.

“Next week is going to have to be a tough week because the other teams are going to be playing, battling and competing hard and we can’t just be running practices,” said Sutter.

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Brandon Wheat Kings’ Reid Duke makes a shot on Red Deer Rebels’ goalie Rylan Toth as teammate Kayle Doetzel looks on during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final, Friday evening at Westman Place.

Nolan Patrick had a hand in all five Wheat Kings goals, with three goals and two assists. His first goal came off of a turnover by the Rebels as they tried to clear their zone. His second came on a pass by Hawryluk, who used every inch of his stick and arm to pass

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Raptors collapse in loss to Pacers to force a Game 7

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Indiana 101 Toronto 83 INDIANAPOLIS — The Toronto Raptors’ playoff series against the Indiana Pacers has come down to one game.

Paul George scored 21 points to lead the Pacers to a 101-83 victory over the reeling Raptors on Friday, that evened their best-of-seven opening-round series at three wins apiece.

Cory Joseph and DeMarre Carroll had 15 points apiece to top the Raptors, who had disappointing shooting nights once again from their all-stars DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.

Jonas Valanciunas had 14 points and nine rebounds. Lowry had 10 assists but just 10 points on 4-for-14 shooting. DeRozan had eight points on a 3-for-13 shooting night.

Game 7 goes Sunday in Toronto.

The Raptors roared out to an early 12-point lead, but by the end of a horrible third quarter, it had turned into an eight-point deficit, and they trailed 71-64 going into the fourth.

Then things got ugly in a hurry. The Pacers reeled off a lightning-quick 130 run to take a 19-point lead just over two minutes into the fourth quarter that had the hundreds of Raptors fans in attendance sitting in stunned si-

lence.

Then it got worse. The Pacers continued to pour in one shot after another, to the delight of Pacers fans, and the Raptors seemed helpless to stop them. When George scored on a long jumper with 3:27 to play, it put the Pacers up by 26 points, and prompted fans to chant “U-S-A!” The Pacers shot 46 per cent on the night, to Toronto’s 36, and held a narrow 44-40 rebounding advantage over the Raptors.

Coming off last season’s disastrous four-game opening-round sweep by Washington, the subtext all season long has been: Can the Raptors win a playoff series? The answer will come Sunday.

The Raptors have just one series win in their 21-year history, in 2001 versus the New York Knicks.

Coach Dwane Casey said his team wouldn’t be distracted by thoughts of past post-season disappointments.

“Right now, today, the first quarter, second quarter, each possession, it’s far more important,” Casey said before tipoff.

“That’s what I try to get our players to lock in on, and not the heavy burden of history.”

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry (7) goes to the basket against Indiana Pacers’ George Hill (3) during the first half of Game 6 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball series Friday in Indianapolis.

RDC Queens looking to fill holes on the blueline

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kelly Coulter may have been in his first year as head coach of the RDC Queens hockey team last season, but he had the ability to see the future.

Coulter understood he would have some big holes to fill after last season and made sure he worked on those prior to even taking the ice.

“With the girls leaving it leaves some big holes to fill, but that’s why we wanted to carry a bigger roster last

year. It was to give some of those girls a chance to gain experience so that it’s not a big adjustment going into this season.”

The biggest losses for the defending ACAC champions comes on defence where captain and first-team all-star Casey Nicholson and Nikki Connor and Megan Jones all graduated following their fifth year with the team.

There’s also a possibility fourth-year Rikki Leonard may not return.

“She’s getting married and is in her fifth year of nursing so she has a lot of other commitments, so we’ll see what

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happens,” said Coulter. “Hopefully she’s back, but we’ll see.

“But last year I had 11 defencemen in camp and kept nine, although we used Julia Wing up front most of the season.”

Coulter did move Wing back to defence late in the year and for the playoffs and she didn’t look out of place.

Cassidy Anderson will be back for a fourth-year on the blueline with Breanne Neudorf and Teagan Borbandy second-year players.

Of the six new recruits who have committed, Landry Derdall of North

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Battleford is also on defence and has received high praise.

“I’m still looking for a couple more right-handed shooting defencemen, then the recruiting is done,” said Coulter, who does have one of the premier offensive lines in the league returning with Ashley Graf between Emily Swier and Jade Petrie.

Swier tied for the league-lead in scoring with 25 points and lead the league with 12 goals.

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Saturday, April 30, 2016

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Faksa scores tiebraker for Stars

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dallas 2 St. Louis 1 DALLAS — Radek Faksa scored the tiebreaking goal on a rebound with 4:44 to play and had an assist on the other Dallas goal to help the Stars open the second round of the Western Conference playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Friday night.

Like Antoine Roussel did on his second-period goal on which Faksa had an assist, Faksa started the rush that led to his winner.

Blues defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk tied it at 1 with 8:28 left in the third period with a shot from the top of the left circle after Dallas failed to clear the puck out of the zone.

Game 2 is Sunday in the best-of-seven series matching the Western Conference’s top two teams from the regular season.

After Faksa pushed the puck up the ice, Ales Hemsky had the initial shot stopped but not secured by Brian Elliott. Faksa was there to score his second goal of the playoffs.

Along with the Western Conference’s top two teams, this is a matchup of Stars coach Lindy Ruff and St. Louis’ Ken Hitchcock, coaches who became friends after being assistant coaches as Team Canada won gold medals in the last two Winter Olympics.

Hitchcock was coach of the Stars when the franchise won its only Stanley Cup in 1999, complete with a disputed clinching goal in triple overtime of Game 6 against Ruff’s Buffalo Sabres. They also went head-to-head in the 2006 playoffs, when the Sabres beat Hitchcock’s Philadelphia Flyers.

Kari Lehtonen stopped 31 shots, withstanding a final surge when the Blues pulled Elliott out of the net and had an extra skater the final 1:40.

Elliott, who has played all eight playoffs games for the Blues, had 40 saves.

Dallas took its initial lead midway

Central drops morning game to Northeast Alberta 5-0 CANMORE — An early morning game did not go well for the Central team in the second day of the Alberta

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REBELS: Some players struggled “It’s tough to win when you’re playing a good team and you go along further and further in the playoffs, the teams get better and your game has to rise,” said Sutter. “We had some guys really struggle with that.”

Rebels’ goal scoring came from Jake DeBrusk and Evan Polei. Both goals came in the first period.

The Rebels’ next game is scheduled for May 20 against the Ontario Hockey League champion at the Centrium. The London Knights and Niagara Ice Dogs start the OHL Final series on May 5.

That game will kick off the Memoral Cup. Brandon starts their series against Seattle on May 6 at home.

Notes: The Wheat Kings were 0-for7 on the power play in the last two games of the series … The Wheat Kings out shot the Rebels 31-26 … Attendance at Westman Place was 5,605. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Dallas Stars center Cody Eakin (20) and St. Louis Blues center David Backes (42) chase the puck during the first period in Game 1 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Friday in Dallas. through the second period when Roussel started a rush down the right side and then had a cross-ice pass John Klingberg before Faksa’s wrist shot from the om the left slot. Roussel was there to knock in the rebound.

It was Roussel’s second goal of the playoffs, the first one that he got a stick on the puck.

Roussel scored from behind the net in Game 2 of the first-round series against Minnesota. A puck ricocheted

off a teammate’s skate and then hit Roussel’s, popping over the net and into the back of the goalie’s head before falling to the ice. The strange goal was initially waived off before being overturned following a lengthy review.

Notes: Stars right wing Patrick Eaves was down between the circles and had a struggle getting off the ice after getting hit by a shot taken by teammate Stephen Johns early in the third period. Once to the bench, Eaves

hobbled to the locker room. … The Stars hosted a Game 1 in the second round for the first time since 2003, the last time they were a No. 1 seed. …

St. Louis opened a playoff series on the road for the first time since 2009. … Masters and U.S. Open champion Jordan Spieth was in a suite watching his hometown team with former Stars captain Brenden Morrow. In another suite was Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki

Cup tournament.

All-star bantam teams from across the province are in Canmore this weekend, competing against the best each region the province has to offer.

The Central team is comprised of players from across Central Alberta including Red Deer.

They dropped their morning game to the Northeast Alberta team 5-0.

Central goalie Jack Schneider faced 36 shots and stopped 31 one of them in the loss.

Central rebounded in the evening with a 3-2 win over Edmonton Blue.

Deegan Mofford, of Rocky Mountain House, led Central with two goals and Tye Carriere, of Red Deer, pitched in with one of his own.

Red Deer’s Bretton Park started in goal for Central and stopped 30 of the 32 shots he faced.

Central next faces Northwest at 9:30

a.m. today in the consolation bracket.

breaker.

In the other women’s quarters, Edmonton’s Val Sweeting (3-1) will play Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones (3-1), Winnipeg’s Kerri Einarson (3-1) is up against Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton (2-2) and Ottawa’s Rachel Homan (3-1) draws Edmonton’s Kelsey Rocque (2-2).

Only one of the four quarter-final matchups on the men’s side is set with Calgary’s Kevin Koe (3-1) facing Edmonton’s Reid Carruthers (3-1). Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen (4-0), Toronto’s John Epping (3-1) and Brad Gushue of St. John’s N.L. (3-1) have all qualified, but won’t know their opponents until after Saturday morning’s tiebreaker draws.

Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock will play Scotland’s Bruce Mouat, Calgary’s Pat Simmons is against Scotland’s David Murdoch and Sweden’s Niklas Edin plays Switzerland’s Peter De Cruz.

Their presence made for a raucous atmosphere at Bankers Life Fieldhouse with duelling chants and nonstop noise. There was a smattering of boos before the singing of “O Canada.”

Large pockets of Raptors red broke up the backdrop of yellow Pacers T-shirts.

Among those in attendance: longtime Pacer Rik Smits, comedian Mike Epps, and Brazilian race car driver Tony Kanaan.

The Pacers took aim at Toronto’s “We The North” slogan with their own “We The Gold” campaign, which was written on the yellow T-shirts given to fans, under the words “UNITED STATE OF BASKETBALL.” Casey had been preaching a strong start for Game 6 after woeful first quarters in Games 4 and 5. The Raptors were clearly listening, roaring out to a 12-point lead in the first quarter behind nine points from Carroll. The Pacers pulled to within 22-20 going into the second.

The Pacers tied it up midway through the second quarter, but the Raptors would go up by eight before taking a 44-40 advantage into halftime.

The Raptors’ defence disappeared in the third, as they gave up 31 points to Indiana.

The Raptors won Games 2, 3 and 5, while Indiana took Games 1 and 4.

while Petrie was seventh with eight goals and seven assists.

“It was nice to have the three Red Deer girls staying,” said Coulter. “We were excited when they made the decision. They are not only one of the top lines in the conference but mature leaders in the room. We rely on them.

“They are all special players. Emily may be smaller in stature but she doesn’t play that way. She has a great head for the game and a role model in showing how to balance work, marriage, schooling and playing.

“Ashley was a second team all-star and is great distributing the puck and Jade had a great season and should have been an all-star.”

With Graf and two-way centre Suze Vanderlinde heading into their fifth year Coulter went looking to add strength down the middle.

“That’s a big concern,” he said. “We wanted to bring some scoring in and from what I’ve seen from the new girls they have character and work hard.

They play the Queens style, which is relentless work ethic.”

Kaci Jones out of Swift Current, who is a sister to Megan, is expected to provide strength in the middle and scoring. Scotia Bellavance of B.C., who played Division III at Manhattanville University in New York two years ago,

RAPTORS: QUEENS: Strength Defence disappeared down the middle Once again, hundreds of Raptors fans made the trek from Toronto to Indy, “the heart of basketball country” according to the game announcer, a place steeped in basketball tradition.

She was a first-team All-Conference player and was named the playoffs MVP. Graf finished fourth in league scoring with eight goals and 13 assists

Switzerland’s Tirinzoni wins tiebreaker to reach quarters SHERWOOD PARK — Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni downed Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa 7-6 in the tiebreaker draw at the Champions Cup curling event on Friday night to advance into the quarter-finals.

Tirinzoni was the last skip on the women’s side to qualify for Saturday’s eight-team quarter-finals at the seventh and final event of the Grand Slam season and will face Japan’s Ayumi Ogasawara.

Ogasawara (4-0) was the only female skip to go undefeated through the 15-team round-robin portion of the event. Tirinzoni is 3-2 after the tie-

and Sarah Kendall of Comox, B.C., are also centers.

Forward Breanna Martin, from the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, and goaltender Tracy Kikuchi of Edmonton, who played for the Olds Broncos last season, are also newcomers.

Kikuchi gives the Queens three strong netminders, joining Jen West, who was outstanding in the playoffs, and Alex Frisk, who played only one game in the playoffs but it was a 1-0 shutout over SAIT. “I was extremely happy with Alex and Jen last season. We rotated them and I felt either one could give us a win. But Alex could move on with her schooling and adding Tracy will be a huge help in terms of the next few years. She had a fantastic season with Olds and now with three goaltenders it will be good competition.”

Other forwards returning are Kaely McMurtry, Keinyn Nordell, Morgan Fraser, Julia Murrell, Kirsten Brown and Jessica Anderson. Chantelle Petrie and Sarah Svenson could also be back.

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

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Saunders homers twice for Jays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto 6 Tampa Bay 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Drew Smyly gave up only two hits to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night, but both left the ballpark in a frustrating 6-1 loss for the Tampa Bay Rays.

“I thought I made a lot of good pitches, you know,” Smyly said. “A couple pitches went for home runs.

(We) couldn’t score.”

Michael Saunders hit two of Toronto’s four home runs and Aaron Sanchez pitched seven shutout innings for the Blue Jays, who broke a three-game losing streak.

The Rays had nine hits, but only one in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position. They did not score until Brad Miller’s eighth-inning home run off Drew Storen.

Manager Kevin Cash was ejected by home plate umpire Mark Ripperger in the fifth inning for arguing balls and strikes. It was the first ejection of the year for Cash and the fourth of his career.

“I just didn’t agree with the strike zone too much,” Cash said. “That’s going to happen. Those guys out there are busting to try and get it right. We want it right. Sometimes we’re not always going to agree.”

Saunders, the Blue Jays’ left-handed hitting left fielder, is hitting .368 (14 for 38) in nine games since moving into the leadoff spot. It was the first time he hit two home runs in a game against left-handers.

“Baseball is all about repetition and the more consistent at-bats you get, the easier it is to hit,” Saunders said. “You see (Chris) Sale, one of the best, and (Jose) Quintana did a great job the other night, and then you see Smyly … I guess maybe you can start feeling a little more comfortable.”

Saunders homered off Smyly (1-3) in the third inning and added his fourth of the season off Dana Eveland in the eighth.

Sanchez (2-1) gave up six hits and two walks while striking out six to help the Blue Jays win after losing three straight to the Chicago White Sox. Josh Donaldson hit his eighth homer off the catwalk at Tropicana Field in the sixth, giving the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead. Ryan Goins drove in the final run with his first homer in the ninth off Jhan Marinez, who was making his major league debut for the Rays.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Michael Saunders, right, shakes hands with third base coach Luis Rivera after hitting a home run off Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Drew Smyly during the third inning of a baseball game Friday in St. Petersburg, Fla. The first two home runs were the only hits given up by Smyly, who struck out eight in six innings. He tied a franchise record with 41 strikeouts in April.

FAN FRIENDLY The Blue Jays were striking out 9.4 times per game going into the weekend, enough for Donaldson to declare in a television interview that “some people need to evaluate their approach” to hitting. “There’s no doubt we’re striking out way too much,” manager John Gibbons said.

BAD NUMBERS The Blue Jays struck out eight times Friday night, bringing their season total to 225 in 24 games. … Troy Tulowitzki is hitless in his last 18 at-bats against left-handers. … Logan Morrison went 0 for 4 for the Rays, dropping his batting average to .100 (6 for 60). …

The Rays are 2 for 26 (.077) with runners in scoring position on their current homestand.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: C Russell Martin got a sore neck in the cold weather up

north. “Doesn’t feel great, but it’s playable,” Gibbons said … RHP Bo Schultz (off-season hip surgery) threw a shutout inning in his first rehab start for Class A Dunedin.

UP NEXT LHP J.A. Happ (3-0) will oppose Rays RHP Chris Archer (1-4), who lost to the Blue Jays on opening day despite striking out 12. It will be Archer’s 17th start against Toronto. “The common denominator in every start is if I fill up the strike zone, I’m pretty successful,” he said.

Ducks dump Lovemark, Vegas share lead at Boudreau after hot, humid Zurich Classic playoff exit

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AVONDALE, La. — Jamie Lovemark and Jhonattan Vegas shared the Zurich Classic lead at 11 under Friday when second-round play was suspended because of darkness.

Lovemark had a 27-hole day at hot and humid TPC Louisiana, completing a 5-under 67 in the first round and adding a 66 in the second in the event that fell behind schedule Thursday with a long rain delay.

“Just happy to be alive,” said Lovemark, winless on the PGA Tour. “It was hot, humid. It’s a tough walk, just soft, so ate a ton, walked slow. Not too bad. …

“I’m going to go sleep, man, find some AC, chill a little bit. I’m staying in town, so get some good food and just kind of relax, watch some basketball.”

Vegas, from Venezuela, shot 64-69.

“Long day,” Vegas said. “I played 30 ½ holes today. I knew it was going to be an extremely long day, so I just kind of kept the mentality and hit one shot at a time and just played as hard as I can. The course was a little easier this morning with the greens being soft, but the wind picked up in the afternoon, and this course was really hard.”

None of the players in the afternoon wave finished the round, with top-ranked Jason Day at 5 under and facing a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 11th when play resumes. The Australian is the first No. 1 player to play in the event since David Duval in 1999.

Brian Stuard, the overnight leader after a 64 on Thursday, was a stroke behind the leaders at 10 under with six holes left.

Harold Varner III was 8 under after a 67. He and Tiger Woods are the only players of black heritage with PGA Tour status this season.

“I just think I’m obviously putting better,” Varner said. “You get out of a few jams when you chip it bad and you hole a few putts you’re supposed to

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks fired coach Bruce Boudreau on Friday, two days after the fourtime Pacific Division champions’ firstround exit from the playoffs.

While announcing the move, Ducks general manager Bob Murray expressed much more anger at his players than at Boudreau, who hasn’t been able to pair post-season success with steady excellence in his two NHL jobs in Anaheim and Washington. Boudreau has won 409 regular-season games and eight division titles, but just five playoff rounds in his coaching career.

The Ducks have lost a Game 7 on home ice in four consecutive playoff years, culminating in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Nashville in the first round.

“I just think the last four years, the way they’ve ended, all very similar, that I didn’t think it would be a good situation to go forward in,” Murray said. “In no way, shape or form is this pointing a gun at Bruce’s head. Let’s make that perfectly clear. But you’ve got to start somewhere.”

Boudreau had spectacular regular-season success with the Ducks, leading them to four consecutive division titles while going 208-104-40 in nearly five seasons in charge. He had similar success in his first NHL coaching job in Washington, going 201-88-40 and winning four Southeast Division titles in parts of five seasons.

But the Ducks’ last four seasons have ended in much the same disappointment as experienced by the Capitals, who won just two playoff rounds in four postseasons under Boudreau.

The coach is an inexplicable 1-7 in Game 7s in his career, including six consecutive losses in the decisive game since 2009.

Compounding the pain, the Ducks also blew a 3-2 series lead in each of the past four postseasons.

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Jamie Lovemark, right, shakes hands with Brendon de Jong, of Zimbabwe, after making birdie on the 18th hole during the second round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Friday. hole, it just makes it a lot easier.”

Patton Kizzire, Thomas Aiken, Daniel Bergerand Patrick Rodgers were 7 under. Kizzire (67-70) and Aiken (68-69) finished, while Bergerhad five holes left, and Rodgers 11 to play.

Canadians Adam Hadwin and David Hearn are both 3 under. Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., finished his round with a 69. Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., is through seven holes and is currently even.

Nick Taylor, of Abbotsford, B.C., is even through 11 holes while Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont., shot a 3-over 75

in his second round and is currently slated to miss the cut.

Vegas won the 2011 Bob Hope Classic for his lone tour title. He made a double bogey on the par-5 11th — his second hole of the second round — after losing a ball on his second shot.

“I just hit a bad shot,” Vegas said. “I shouldn’t have really gone that close to that tree, but it’s part of the game.

I was proud to kind of get my head on the next shot and the next hole and bounce back with birdies after that.”

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Hockey WHL 2016 Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Brandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2) (Brandon wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Brandon 4 Red Deer 2 Tuesday’s result Red Deer 6 Brandon 2 Friday’s game Brandon 5 Red Deer 2

Local Sports DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders win series 4-2) Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1) Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington wins series 4-2)

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Seattle 5 Kelowna 4 (2OT) Tuesday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 1

Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-1)

WHL playoff scoring leaders G A Pts Adam Brooks, Reg 7 16 23 John Quenneville, Bdn 12 10 22 Tim McGauley, Bdn 8 13 21 Reid Duke, Bdn 6 14 20 Nolan Patrick, Bdn 7 12 19 Jack Walker, Vic 8 8 16 Mathew Barzal, Sea 5 14 19 Adam Helewka, RD 9 9 18 Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn 2 15 17 Jack Walker, Vic 8 8 16 Dryden Hunt, MJ 7 9 16 Cole Sanford, Reg 7 9 16 Jake DeBrusk, RD 7 9 16 Brayden Point, MJ 6 10 16 Sam Steel, Reg 6 10 16 Justin Kirkland, Kel 11 4 15 Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ 9 6 15 Tanner Jeannot, MJ 6 9 15 Ethan Bear, Sea 6 9 15 Brett Howden, MJ 4 11 15 Rourke Chartier, Kel 7 6 13 Kale Clague, Bdn 5 8 13 Luke Philp, RD 4 9 13 Michael Spacek, RD 3 10 13

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

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas wins series 4-2)

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Nashville wins series 4-3) Wednesday’s result Nashville 2 Anaheim 1 Monday’s result Nashville 3 Anaheim 1 Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1) Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders lead series 1-0) Wednesday’s result N.Y. Islanders 5 Tampa Bay 3 Saturday’s game N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3

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

Friday, May 6 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 8 N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Pittsburgh (2) (Washington leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Washington 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT) Saturday’s game Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 2 Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4 Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 7 Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. St. Louis (2) (Dallas leads series 1-0) Friday’s game Dallas 2 St. Louis 1 Sunday’s game St. Louis at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 5 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 7 St. Louis at Dallas, TBA Monday, May 9 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Pacific Division San Jose (3) vs. Nashville (WC1) (San Jose leads series 1-0) Friday’s game San Jose 5 Nashville 2 Sunday’s game Nashville at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3 San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 5 San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 7 Nashville at San Jose, TBA

Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Baltimore 14 8 .636 — Boston 13 10 .565 1.5 Toronto 11 13 .458 4 Tampa Bay 10 12 .455 4 New York 8 13 .381 5.5 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 16 8 .667 — Kansas City 12 9 .571 2.5 Detroit 12 10 .545 3 Cleveland 10 10 .500 4 Minnesota 7 16 .304 8.5 West Division W L Pct GB Texas 13 10 .565 — Seattle 11 10 .524 1 Los Angeles 11 12 .478 2 Oakland 11 12 .478 2 Houston 7 15 .318 5.5 Friday’s Games Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3, 11 innings Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 2 Detroit 9, Minnesota 2 Houston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Detroit (Zimmermann 4-0) at Minnesota (Duffey 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Houston (Devenski 0-0) at Oakland (Hahn 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 1-4), 4:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Latos 4-0) at Baltimore (Gausman 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-2) at Boston (Porcello 4-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-3) at Texas (Holland 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 2-0) at Seattle (Miley 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

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

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Washington 15 7 .682 — New York 14 7 .667 1/2 Philadelphia 13 10 .565 2.5 Miami 11 11 .500 4 Atlanta 5 18 .217 10.5 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 17 5 .773 — Pittsburgh 14 9 .609 3.5 St. Louis 12 11 .522 5.5 Cincinnati 9 14 .391 8.5 Milwaukee 8 14 .364 9 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 12 11 .522 — Arizona 12 12 .500 1/2

San Francisco 12 12 .500 1/2 Colorado 9 12 .429 2 San Diego 7 15 .318 4.5 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3, 11 innings Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 1 N.Y. Mets 13, San Francisco 1 Miami 6, Milwaukee 3 Washington 5, St. Louis 4 Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Washington (Ross 2-0) at St. Louis (Garcia 1-1), 12:15 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 3-1), 12:20 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-0), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Simon 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Chen 1-1) at Milwaukee (Anderson 1-2), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Rusin 1-0) at Arizona (Greinke 2-2), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 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) Toronto (2) vs. Indiana (7) (Series tied 3-3) Tuesday’s result Toronto 102 Indiana 99 Friday’s game Indiana 101 83 Sunday’s game Indiana at Toronto, TBA Miami (3) vs. Charlotte (6) (Series tied 3-3) Wednesday’s result Charlotte 90 Miami 88 Monday’s result Charlotte 89 Miami 85 Friday’s game Miami 97 Charlotte 90 Sunday’s game Charlotte at Miami, TBA

Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) (Atlanta leads series 3-2) Thursday’s result Atlanta at Boston Tuesday’s result Atlanta 110 Boston 83 Saturday’s game Boston at Atlanta, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) (Golden State WINs series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Golden State 114 Houston 81 San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) (San Antonio wins series 4-0) Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-1) L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) (Portland wins series 4-2) Wednesday’s result Portland 108 L.A. Clippers 98 Friday’s game Portland 106 L.A. Clippers 103

Second Round Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta-Boston winner Monday, May 2 Atlanta/Boston at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4 Atlanta/Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 6 Cleveland at Atlanta/Boston, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) Saturday’s game Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2 Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 6 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 8 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Curling CHAMPIONS CUP EDMONTON — Friday’s results and schedule after draw 13 from the Humpty’s Champions Cup, a Grand Slam event through Sunday on the World Curling Tour: MEN Round Robin Friday’s results Draw 10 B.Mouat 7 J.Shuster 2 Draw 11 M.McEwen 7 S.Meachem 3 R.Carruthers 7 N.Edin 2 K.Koe 9 P.Simmons 5 Draw 12 J.Epping 7 B.Clark 3 Draw 13 B.Gushue 6 R.Carruthers 3 P.De Cruz 7 M.Lizmore 2 P.Simmons 6 S.Laycock 4 M.McEwen 6 D.Murdoch 3

Ninth Draw S.Laycock 6 K.Koe 4 N.Edin 4 B.Gushue 3 End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Tiebreakers, 9 a.m.

S.Laycock vs. B.Mouat P.Simmons vs. D.Murdoch N.Edin vs. P.De Cruz Quarter-finals, 5 p.m.

K.Koe vs. R.Carruthers M.McEwen vs. TBD B.Gushue vs. TBD J.Epping vs. TBD Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Final Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

WOMEN Round Robin Friday’s results Draw 10 K.Einarson 6 S.Lawton 4 V.Sweeting 6 J.Harrison 2 Draw 11 A.Ogasawara 5 C.Carey 3 A.Flaxey 7 E.Muirhead 4 Draw 12 R.Homan 6 J.Harrison 4

Thursday’s results Sixth Draw M.McEwen 8 J.Epping 4 B.Mouat 6 N.Edin 5 D.Murdoch 6 B.Clark 2 Seventh Draw R.Carruthers 7 J.Shuster 3 Eighth Draw P.Simmons 5 P.De Cruz 1 J.Epping 9 D.Murdoch 7 B.Clark 8 S.Meachem 5

K.McCarville 5 S.Fujisawa 4 S.Tirinzoni 9 M.Fay 3 J.Jones 9 K.Einarson 2 Thursday’s results Sixth Draw K.Rocque 5 S.Tirinzoni 4 Seventh Draw S.Lawton 5 J.Jones 4 K.Rocque 7 M.Fay 4` K.Einarson 7 A.Flaxey 5 J.Harrison 10 K.McCarville 0 Eighth Draw S.Tirinzoni 8 C.Carey 6 V.Sweeting 10 S.Fujisawa 0 Ninth Draw A.Ogasawara 6 M.Fay 5 R.Homan 7 K.McCarville 1 J.Jones 6 E.Muirhead 2 End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Quarter-finals, 12:30 p.m.

A.Ogasawara vs. K.Rocque V.Sweeting vs. J.Jones K.Einarson vs. S.Lawton R.Homan vs. K.Rocque Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Final Semifinal winners, 2:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled RHP Michael Fulmer from Toledo (IL). Placed RHP Shane Greene on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated OF Charlie Blackmon from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Brandon Barnes to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Selected the contract of OF Cole Gillespie from New Orleans (PCL). Placed INF Dee Gordon on the restricted list.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP Taylor Jungmann to Colorado Springs (PCL). Recalled RHP David Goforth from Colorado Springs.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed hitting coach Jeff Branson, coach Brad Fischer, bench coach Dave Jauss, first base coach Nick Leyva, assistant hitting coach Jeff Livesey, bullpen coach Euclides Rojas, pitching coach Ray Searage, third base coach Rick Sofield and bullpen catcher Heberto Andrade to contract extensions through the 2017 season.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Blazers advance 4-2 with 106-103 victory over the Clippers PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard scored 28 points

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed C Matt M. Koch.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed INF Tyler Urps.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Released LHP Jhonathan Ramos.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Activated LHP Jack Snodgrass. Placed RHP John Brownell on the inactive list.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed OF Kalian Sams.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Named Luke Walton coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released TE Jacob Maxwell and LB A.J. Tarpley.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Pontus Aberg from Milwaukee (AHL).

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived WR Andre Davis, LB Darius Eubanks, G Antoine Everett, S Gerod Holliman, DT Derrick Lott, S Kimario McFadden, LB Jermauria Rasco and CB C.J. Roberts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Washington F Tom Wilson $2,403.67 for kneeing Pittsburgh F Conor Sheary during an April 28 game.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Fired coach Bruce Boudreau.

BUFFALO SABRES — Re-signed F Johan Larsson to a one-year contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Luke Johnson on a three-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Jake Paterson to Grand Rapids Griffins from Toledo (ECHL). Recalled D Joel Chouinard from Toledo.

Signed F A.J. Jenks to a professional tryout.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced F Mike Pereira was returned to the team by Utica (AHL).

and the Portland Trail Blazers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals by holding off the resilient Los Angeles Clippers 106-103 on Friday night to claim the first-round playoff series 4-2.

Portland will open the series against the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Sunday.

CJ McCollum added 20 points for the Blazers, who became the first team to overcome a 2-0 deficit since Memphis came back against the Clippers in the first round in 2013.

Jamal Crawford had 32 points and Austin Rivers added 21 points and eight assists.

Sunday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: St.

Albert Crude at Red Deer Rampage, 2:30 p.m., Kinex arena

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Montreal 8 4 3 1 11 9 13 Philadelphia 7 4 3 0 10 7 12 Toronto 7 3 2 2 8 5 11 Orlando 7 2 2 3 13 11 9 D.C. 8 2 3 3 10 10 9 New England 9 1 2 6 9 14 9 Columbus 7 2 3 2 7 9 8 New York City 8 1 3 4 10 13 7 Chicago 6 1 2 3 6 7 6 New York 8 2 6 0 8 17 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Dallas 9 5 2 2 15 13 17 Colorado 8 5 2 1 10 6 16 Los Angeles 7 4 1 2 17 7 14 Salt Lake 7 4 1 2 12 11 14 San Jose 8 4 2 2 11 10 14 Kansas City 9 4 4 1 10 9 13 Vancouver 9 3 4 2 10 12 11 Seattle 7 2 4 1 7 10 9 Portland 8 2 3 3 12 15 9 Houston 7 1 4 2 13 14 5 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Wednesday’s results Kansas City 1 Vancouver 1 Montreal 1 New York City 1 Portland 1 New England 1 Friday’s game Dallas at New York, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s games San Jose at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Colorado at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Columbus at Seattle, 2 p.m.

Vancouver at New York City, 2 p.m.

D.C. at Chicago, 3 p.m.

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

Houston at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Toronto at Portland, 1:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

English Premier League

GP W D L GF GA Pts Leicester City 35 22 10 3 63 33 76 Tottenham 35 19 12 4 65 26 69 Man City 35 19 7 9 66 34 64 Arsenal 35 18 10 7 58 34 64 Man United 34 17 8 9 42 30 59 West Ham 34 14 14 6 57 43 56 Liverpool 34 15 10 9 58 45 55 Southampton 35 15 9 11 49 37 54 Chelsea 34 12 11 11 53 46 47 Stoke 35 13 8 14 37 51 47 Everton 34 9 14 11 53 48 41 Watford 34 11 8 15 33 40 41 West Brom 35 10 11 14 32 43 41 Bournemouth 35 11 8 16 42 61 41 Swansea 35 10 10 15 34 49 40 Crystal Palace 35 10 9 16 36 45 39 Sunderland 34 7 10 17 39 57 31 Norwich 34 8 7 19 35 60 31 Newcastle 35 7 9 19 38 64 30 r-Aston Villa 35 3 7 25 25 69 16 r-Relegated Saturday, April 30 Everton vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. Crystal Palace, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Watford vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT West Brom vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Arsenal vs. Norwich, 1630 GMT Sunday, May 1 Swansea vs. Liverpool, 1100 GMT Manchester United vs. Leicester City, 1305 GMT Southampton vs. Manchester City, 1530 GMT Monday, May 2 Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 1900 GMT England FA Cup SEMIFINAL Saturday, April 23 Everton 1, Manchester United 2 in London Sunday, April 24 Crystal Palace 2, Watford 1 in London FINAL Saturday, May 21 Manchester United vs. Crystal Palace in London TBA

Lacrosse NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE East Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB x-Buffalo 17 12 5 .706 239 207 — x-N. England 16 10 6 .625 214 190 1.5 Georgia 17 7 10 .412 224 234 5 Rochester 16 6 10 .375 181 194 5.5 Toronto 17 5 12 .294 173 206 7 West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Sask. 17 12 5 .706 220 181 — x-Colorado 18 12 6 .667 203 202 .5 x-Calgary 17 7 10 .412 198 199 5

Vancouver 17 5 12 .294 192 231 7 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 18 Friday’s result Colorado 11 Vancouver 10 Today’s games Vancouver at Georgia, 3:05 p.m.

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

Saskatchewa at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Rochester at New England, 4 p.m.

Golf ZURICH CLASSIC AVONDALE, Louisiana (AP) — Scores Friday from the Zurich Classic, a PGA Tour event played at the par-72 course of TPC Louisiana.

Partial Second Round Jamie Lovemark 67-66—133 Jhonattan Vegas 64-69—133 Harold Varner III 69-67—136 Patton Kizzire 67-70—137 Thomas Aiken 68-69—137 Lucas Glover 69-69—138 Chris Kirk 71-67—138 Spencer Levin 68-70—138 Cameron Percy 68-70—138 Bobby Wyatt 67-71—138 Cameron Tringale 69-70—139 Will Wilcox 70-69—139 David Toms 68-71—139 Billy Horschel 68-71—139 Robert Garrigus 69-70—139 Henrik Norlander 66-73—139 Charley Hoffman 67-73—140 Scott Stallings 72-68—140 Dicky Pride 70-70—140 Michael Kim 74-66—140 Lucas Lee 72-68—140 Tim Wilkinson 72-69—141 Jon Curran 71-70—141 Chad Campbell 69-72—141 Roberto Castro 69-72—141 Anirban Lahiri 72-69—141 Aaron Baddeley 70-71—141 Adam Hadwin 72-69—141 Jamie Donaldson 73-69—142 Ken Duke 67-75—142 Russell Henley 69-73—142 Troy Merritt 71-71—142 Si Woo Kim 70-72—142 Michael Bradley 72-70—142 Benjamin Taylor 70-72—142 Joe Affrunti 69-73—142 Rod Pampling 72-71—143 Luke List 68-75—143 Sean O’Hair 67-76—143 K.J. Choi 70-73—143 Whee Kim 75-68—143

Jerry Kelly Matt Every Alex Cejka Keegan Bradley Justin Rose D.J. Trahan Scott Pinckney Hudson Swafford Jason Gore Kelly Kraft Carlos Ortiz Abraham Ancer James Hahn John Huh Kyle Reifers Martin Piller Matt Mabrey Brian Harman Chez Reavie Cameron Beckman Tom Hoge Brendon de Jonge D.A. Points Kyle Stanley Alex Prugh Julien Brun Andrew Landry Andres Romero Hunter Mahan Smylie Kaufman Zach Wright Mike Weir Brendon Todd Frank Lickliter II Dalton Ward

70-74—144 72-72—144 73-71—144 72-72—144 72-72—144 67-77—144 74-70—144 74-70—144 73-71—144 73-71—144 73-72—145 74-71—145 72-74—146 75-71—146 73-73—146 75-71—146 75-71—146 71-76—147 79-68—147 73-74—147 72-75—147 76-72—148 71-77—148 75-73—148 74-74—148 76-72—148 76-72—148 71-78—149 74-75—149 68-81—149 72-77—149 77-75—152 79-74—153 75-80—155 85-72—157

Leaderboard at time of suspended play SCORE THRU Jamie Lovemark -11 F Jhonattan Vegas -11 F Brian Stuard -10 12 Harold Varner III -8 F Daniel Berger -7 12 Thomas Aiken -7 F Patton Kizzire -7 F Patrick Rodgers -7 7

Ward leads Sharks past Predators

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS San Jose 5 Nashville 2 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Joel Ward scored the tiebreaking goal against his former team with 8:11 remaining in regulation to help the San Jose Sharks rally past the Nashville Predators 5-2 on Friday night in Game 1 of their second-round series.

Ward also set up Tomas Hertl’s power-play goal that tied the game earlier in the period before scoring one of his own to help San Jose win its first playoff game when trailing after two periods since 2011.

Logan Couture added a power-play goal and an empty-netter for insurance, before Tommy Wingels sealed it with another empty-net goal as the Sharks showed few signs of rust after having six days off since beating Los Angeles in a five-game series in the first round. Martin Jones made 29 saves Mike Fisher and Ryan Johansen scored for the Predators, who allowed five goals in the third period after having only one day off since winning Game 7 of a first-round series in Anaheim. Pekka Rinne made 33 saves.

Ward has long played his best hockey in the post-season, most notably when he scored seven goals in 12 games in 2011 to help lead Nashville to its first appearance ever in the second round. He proved he could do it just as well against the Predators.

He started the comeback by setting up Hertl near the side of the net late in a power play early in the third. Hertl then fired a shot just under Rinne’s glove on the short side.

Ward then scored his 15th career playoff goal when he was left all alone after taking a pass from Joonas Donskoi.

He stickhandled past Rinne before tucking the puck into the net.

Couture’s first goal on the power play gave San Jose breathing room it needed when Johansen scored with 1:49 left and Rinne off for an extra skater.

But Couture and Wingels answered with the empty-netters to clinch the win.

The game lacked the usual playoff atmosphere in the Shark Tank at the start where there were rows of empty seats in the first non-sellout in the playoffs in franchise history.

Nashville’s tight-to-thevest play also helped keep the crowd out of it as the Predators did their best to prevent the Sharks from setting up in the offensive zone and Rinne was once again sharp against San Jose.

But San Jose nearly scored first when Melker Karlsson shot his own rebound toward the net just as a sliding Bitetto knocked it off the moorings.

The Sharks argued that the puck would have gone in had Bitetto not knocked off the net but a replay review was inconclusive and the call of no-goal stood.

SPORTS

Saturday, April 30, 2016

B5

Gordon accepts penalty for PEDs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins says he unknowingly took the performance-enhancing drugs that led to his 80-game suspension, but he’ll accept the penalty.

The announcement of the suspension by Major League Baseball came shortly after the Marlins’ victory at Los Angeles on Thursday night. MLB said Gordon tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol.

“Though I did not do so knowingly, I have been informed that test results showed I ingested something that contained prohibited substances,” Gordon said in a statement released Friday by the players union. “The hardest part about this is feeling that I have let down my teammates, the organization, and the fans. I have been careful to avoid products that could contain something banned by MLB and the 20-plus tests that I have taken and passed throughout my career prove this.

“I made a mistake and I accept the consequences.”

The 28-year-old Gordon led the majors in hits and stolen bases last year.

He batted .333, became an All-Star for the second time and won a Gold Glove at second base.

The big season helped him earn a $50 million, five-year contract he signed in January.

He and Marlins manager Don Mattingly were together with the Dodgers for four years, but the 5-foot-11, 170-pound Gordon didn’t become a regular in Los Angeles until 2014. Gordon was traded to Miami in a seven-player deal in December 2014, and Mattingly became the Marlins’ manager this season.

“Dee is always a guy we felt could

play, but at that point he was 145 pounds soaking wet,” Mattingly said during spring training. “Now he has turned into a man. He has put some physical strength on him, and he’s a different player.”

The suspension came only months after steroids-tainted home run king Barry Bonds joined the Marlins as their hitting coach.

Mattingly said the Marlins will continue to support Gordon.

“I feel like Dee’s one of my kids, to be honest with you, because I’ve known him so long,” Mattingly said.

Initial reaction around the majors was mixed. Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist said the bigger the star, the more upsetting the news of a drug suspension.

“People are going to keep trying to find a way around just the hard work and everything that goes into this game,” Zobrist said before the Cubs’ game Friday against Atlanta. “It’s just the nature of man, I believe. People are always going to try and find a way to cheat the system.”

Shortly before the penalty was announced, Gordon hit an RBI single in the seventh inning and scored after forcing a balk as the Marlins rallied for a 5-3 win and a four-game sweep over Los Angeles.

Gordon became the seventh player to be suspended this year under the MLB drug plan. Last week, Toronto slugger Chris Colabello was penalized 80 games after testing positive for a PED. Colabello said he surprised to learn he had tested positive for an anabolic steroid.

“The last two guys seem like they didn’t know,” Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward said. “It’s scary world in that sense. You’ve got to be really careful.”

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon reacts after a strike while batting during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, in Washington. Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon says he unknowingly took the performance-enhancing drug that led to his 80-game suspension.

Chevrier hopeful he’ll have chance to continue his CFL career

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS After 15 seasons of pro football, Randy Chevrier isn’t ready to call it a career just yet.

The 39-year-old longsnapper continues to work out and prepare for the upcoming CFL season despite not having a job. The Calgary Stampeders opted against offering the six-foot-two, 289-pound Montreal native a contract in February, ending his 11-year tenure with the club.

Although he’s worked as a substitute teacher and applied to the Calgary fire department, Chevrier wants to continue playing because he feels he can still do so at a high level.

“My logical brain says, ‘Yeah, I’ve had a good career,”’ Chevrier said in a telephone interview Friday. “I’ve won three Grey Cups and done the impossible for a kid who never watched football and only started (playing) at 18 years old.

“But football programs you not to look at the past. You forget the wins, you learn from the losses and go forward. When I think about it as a football player, my memory is very short.

It’s like, ‘What’s next?’ From the day we lost in the playoffs to Edmonton until I got the call into (GM John Hufnagel’s) office, I was going to be back this year and do everything I could to help this team get over the hump.”

However, Chevrier can’t take the first offer that might come along. He’s married with three boys aged nine, seven and four and family would factor heavily in whatever football decision he made.

Despite getting a late start in the sport, Chevrier has achieved plenty.

He captured the Metras trophy at McGill as Canadian university football’s top lineman and played in the East-West Shrine game before being a 2001 first-round pick of the Edmonton Eskimos. But he started his pro career that year with the Jacksonville Jaguars after being taken in the seventh round of the NFL draft.

And it was with Jacksonville that Chevrier began thinking about life after football.

“The first meeting the first day I got to Jacksonville, the message was,

Flames sign Pribyl to twoyear entry-level contract CALGARY — Czech forward Daniel Pribyl was signed to a two-year entry-level contract by the Calgary Flames on Friday.

Pribyl was originally drafted by Montreal in the sixth round (168th overall) of the 2011 NHL Draft.

The 23-year-old forward has spent the last six seasons with Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga, scoring 47 goals and 62 assists in 174 games. He added 11 goals and 13 assists in 37 post-season games.

In 2015-16, the six-foot-three Pribyl was a point-per-game player with 45 points (16G, 29A) in 45 regular season games before scoring five goals and six assists in nine playoff matches.

Buffalo Sabres re-sign Larsson to 1-year deal

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Randy Chevrier of the Calgary Stampeders celebrates his Tom Pate Memorial award during the CFL Awards in Vancouver, B.C. ‘Welcome to the NFL. From this point forward we’re trying to replace you,’ ” Chevrier said. “I don’t remember too many speeches from my 15-year career but I’ll always remember the first one.”

The challenge facing Chevrier, though, is finding something outside of football that stirs his passion as much as the game does. He’s currently doing bully prevention work across Canada with Dare To Care as well as starting The Canadian Football Academy in Calgary with former CFL head coach

Tom Higgins and Tony Fasano, a former University of Calgary head coach.

“Am I certain what I’m going to be doing (after football)? Not 100 per cent,” he said. “I’ve got ideas and put things into motion but I’m constantly in search of what I’m going to be able to develop that similar passion that I have for football.

“It’s hard to see what that will be.

If I don’t end up playing this year I’m definitely going to have to immerse myself in whatever I’m doing to see if that’s what it is.”

Jack, Jaylon Smith go early in second round

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NFL DRAFT

CHICAGO — It was a long wait and a soft landing for Myles Jack and Jaylon Smith.

Now about those knees.

The pair of athletic linebackers with health questions went early in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday, with Jacksonville trading up to grab Jack two spots after Dallas selected Smith with the No. 34 overall pick.

Jack and Smith were two of the biggest names still on the board at the beginning of the day, and Alabama running back Derrick Henry went to Tennessee at No. 45. Henry powered the Crimson Tide to the national championship last season and won the Heisman Trophy.

Jack was considered a potential topfive pick at one point, but concerns about his right knee sent him tumbling down the board. He played both ways

as a freshman at UCLA and was the Pac-12 offensive and defensive newcomer of the year. But a knee injury limited him to three games last season.

“Bottom line is, man, I’m ready to go,” Jack said. “I’ll be there rookie minicamp. I’m a 100 per cent healthy.

I’m cleared. The knee shouldn’t be a concern anymore. I definitely proved that with my play. There’s nothing else to talk about. I’m ready to play ball.”

General manager Dave Caldwell said Jack had a great workout for the team.

“You’d never know there was anything wrong with him,” Jaguars general manager Dave Caldwell said. “As far as we’re concerned, there’s not right now. There’s no plan for surgeries. There’s no plan for any additional treatment. I think we’re good to go.”

Smith also was expected to be a first-round pick before he tore two ligaments in his left knee during Notre Dame’s loss to Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Following the advice of doctors at Notre Dame and agent Eugene Parker, who passed away from cancer on March 31, Smith had Cowboys team doctor Dan Cooper perform the surgery.

“I’m going to be fine. I’ll be able to play again,” Smith said. “It’s just timing. Timing is everything and for Dallas to draft me, they’re going to get a great player. I’m looking forward to playing for a great team.”

Mississippi State defensive tackle Chris Jones, one of the last players at the downtown Chicago theatre, went to Kansas City at No. 37 and got a big ovation when he walked onstage. He gave Commissioner Roger Goodell a big hug as the crowd roared.

Jones said he has never been to Kansas City.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed forward Johan Larsson to a one-year contract.

Larsson was eligible to become a restricted free agent once his contract expired this summer. The Swedish-born player is coming off a season in which he set career bests with 10 goals, 17 points and 74 games. He also finished tied with rookie centre Jack Eichel in scoring five game-winning goals.

Overall, he has 16 goals and 21 assists in 142 games for the Sabres.

Buffalo acquired Larsson in a trade that sent former Sabres captain Jason Pominville to Minnesota in April 2013.

The Wild selected Larsson in the second round of the 2010 draft.

Dismissal of charges against ex-Penn St. officials to stand HARRISBURG, Pa. — Prosecutors said Friday they will not appeal a ruling that threw out some of the most serious criminal charges against three former Penn State administrators related to their handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

The attorney general’s office announced it made the decision after determining an appeal had little chance of success. Instead, it will prepare for trial on the remaining counts against the school’s former president Graham Spanier, vice-president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley.

Solicitor General Bruce Castor, making legal decisions while Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s law license is suspended, wrote in a memo that he was “extremely conflicted” and disagreed with the Superior Court’s decision in January throwing out charges of perjury, obstruction and conspiracy.

Spanier lawyer Liz Ainslie said in an email that she was “deeply gratified.” Curley’s lawyer said she had not heard of the decision and declined to comment. Schultz’s lawyer did not respond to messages.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 30, 2016 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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LUANN April 30 2009 — Ottawa joins Washington in approving a multibillion dollar plan to help bankrupt automaker Chrysler as it restructures and cements an alliance with Fiat of Italy.

1987 — Brian Mulroney and 10 provincial premiers agree on constitutional reform package called the Meech Lake Accord.

1982 — Alberta Alsands oil project collapses despite offers of aid from Ottawa and Alberta.

1980 — Gordie Howe finally retires from the game at age 52, after his last game with the Hartford Whalers.

1945 — First Canadian Parachute Battalion crosses the Elbe into Germany.

1906 — Cable ship Mackay-Bennett reaches Halifax with first bodies recovered from the sinking of RMS Titanic.

1864 — Chilcotin people working for BC road crew go to war against builders killing 19.

1827 — Scottish botanist David Douglas is the first European to climb a peak in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, April 30, 2016

Canadian economy slips in February

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian economy dipped in February, marking its first contraction since September, after the blistering pace it set to kick off the year.

Statistics Canada said Friday that real gross domestic product edged down 0.1 per cent in February compared with growth of 0.6 per cent in January.

The decline followed four consecutive months of growth and matched the expectations of economists, according to Thomson Reuters.

“While a decline in monthly GDP is never great news, this one was largely expected and doesn’t fully detract from the pleasant surprise in growth around the turn of the year,” Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said.

“With the strong start to the year, with oil prices well off the lows, and with fiscal stimulus hurtling down the pike, we are looking at GDP growth of 1.8 per cent for all of 2016.”

The Bank of Canada recently raised its forecast for growth this year to 1.7 per cent due to the planned spending boost by the federal government announced in the budget.

The spending by Ottawa is expected

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A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray in June 2014. to offset some of the damage done by the drop in oil prices.

However, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld noted that the weak result in February could be a sign of

things to come.

“We have reasons to expect that February will be followed up by disappointing results in the next few months, notwithstanding the large gain

in household survey employment reported for March,” Shenfeld said.

“U.S. imports fell in March, including declines in categories where Canada is a major supplier. Canadian retail sales have run ahead of income growth, and may have been artificially lifted by much milder weather than the seasonal norm for the winter quarter.”

Statistics Canada said the output of goods-producing industries fell in February, while the service sector was essentially unchanged.

Goods-producing industries contracted 0.6 per cent in the month, due to lower results in manufacturing and mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.

Manufacturing output fell 0.8 per cent after rising for three months as durable goods fell 1.8 per cent and non-durable goods rose 0.4 per cent.

The service side of the economy saw a drop in wholesale sales offset by gains in retail sales as well as the public sector and accommodation and food services.

Wholesale trade contracted 1.8 per cent due to weakness in wholesalers of machinery, equipment and supplies, followed by the motor vehicles and parts and building material and supplies subsectors. Retail trade grew by 1.4 per cent.

Tougher emission rules not needed TRANSCANADA, IMPERIAL OIL SPEAK AGAINST NEW EMISSION REGULATIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Conservative MP Lisa Raitt asks a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Liberal deficit outlook challenged by $7.5B surplus

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government ran a budgetary surplus of $7.5 billion over the first 11 months of its fiscal year — putting Ottawa’s books well ahead of its 2015-16 deficit prediction with one month to go.

The Finance Department’s latest monthly fiscal monitor, released Friday, suggests the government would have to run about a $13-billion deficit in March to reach the Liberals prediction of a $5.4-billion shortfall.

Ottawa had a $3.2-billion surplus in February alone, the report said.

The fresh figures fed into an ongoing political debate whether the previous Conservative government left the public books in the red when the Liberals took power last fall.

The Tories have repeatedly insisted Ottawa was on track for a small surplus in 2015-16, while the Liberals have argued over and over that they inherited a deficit.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau reiterated Friday that the final, year-end numbers should look a lot different.

“We know that in every year the pattern is for government revenues to decline at the end of the year and for expenses to go up,” Morneau told reporters in Quebec City.

Lisa Raitt, the Conservatives’ parliamentary finance critic, said the new numbers reveal her party

left the Liberals with a solid foundation that continues to generate revenues because of the “low-tax environment” it left behind.

“To me it shows the fact that when the Liberal government prefaces all of their discussion about their budget with, ‘the Conservatives left us with a mess’ — the reality is, we didn’t,” Raitt said in an interview.

She also noted the Liberal budget decision to book a retroactive, $3.7-billion boost in financial support for veterans — a move that tacked on a major expense to 201516’s bottom line.

Last month’s federal budget projected the government to run six straight annual deficits between 2015-16 and 2020-21.

But experts such as Canada’s budget watchdog have released predictions that suggest the Liberals’ have been overly prudent in their projections.

Earlier this month, the parliamentary budget officer’s analysis challenged the government’s shortfall prediction for 2015-16, saying Ottawa will instead have a $700-million surplus.

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

CALGARY — The CEOs of two of Canada’s biggest energy companies spoke out Friday against recent moves by federal and provincial governments to toughen emission-based regulations.

Russ Girling, CEO of TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP), said he believes new federal requirements that take into account upstream emissions when reviewing pipelines are not needed.

Oil and natural gas projects are already subject to vigorous regulation, Girling said, adding that the regulatory process for pipelines should focus on safety and spill response rather than issues he said aren’t germane to pipeline development.

“The emissions, both upstream and downstream, are reviewed in other regulatory processes, when those facilities themselves are approved. Once approved, all we do is move that product from A to B,” Girling told his company’s annual general meeting in Calgary.

“So I think what we’ve determined is those emissions will be part of the review, but what I think what the review will determine is that building a pipeline really doesn’t have an impact on the rate of growth for production or the rate of refining.”

Girling added that he hopes efforts by the Alberta and federal governments to cap and lower emissions will help reduce the “noise” around the issue as it relates to pipelines.

TransCanada is proposing to build Energy East, a 4,600-kilometre pipeline that would ship oil from Alberta to as far east as Saint John, N.B., if approved. The $15.7-billion development has been the source of some controversy, particularly in Quebec.

At the Imperial Oil annual general meeting, CEO Rich Kruger took a similar position on the issue of regulation, though his was specifically directed towards the Alberta government’s cap on oil sands emissions.

Kruger said he feels there’s room to negotiate with the province on rules around the 100-megatonne-per-year oil sands emissions cap announced last year. The industry currently emits about two-thirds of that total.

“Our personal view is we didn’t think the cap was necessary,” he said.

“We think with existing regulatory practises and procedures, the drive to improve overall environmental performance, there were other ways to do it. That said, we will work and have been working with the government on putting the right regulations in place so industry overall can maximize production under the cap, achieve the objectives the government has set out and do it in a way that’s acceptable to industry.

“So the message is ‘Stay tuned.”’

When Premier Rachel Notley unveiled the emissions cap in Edmonton in November, she was joined and supported by top executives from four oil sands producers: Suncor Energy Inc., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Cenovus Energy Inc. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Imperial oil reports first quarter loss CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. lost $101 million in its latest quarter, hurt by lower oil prices, but offset in part by a weaker Canadian dollar.

The company says the loss amounted to 12 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a profit of $421 million or 50 cents per share in the same quarter last year.

Revenue and other income totalled $5.22 billion for the quarter, down from $6.2 billion a year ago.

Imperial also declared a second-quarter dividend of 15 cents per share, up a penny for the 14 cents paid for the first quarter.

The company says it is continuing to work to reduce costs. Capital and exploration spending totalled $408 million, down from $1.05 billion from the first quarter of 2015.

Production averaged 421,000 gross oil-equivalent barrels per day, up 26 per cent from 333,000 in the same period last year. Meanwhile, refinery throughput averaged 398,000 barrels per day, up from 393,000 barrels.

“Recognizing the uncertain market conditions, particularly in the upstream, our focus remains on what we can control,” Imperial chairman and chief executive Rich Kruger said in a statement Friday.

Supreme court protects World Bank in corruption case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The World Bank benefits from immunity under international law and won’t have to hand over documents to a Canadian court hearing a corruption case involving ex-SNC-Lavalin employees, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.

The international financial institution’s refusal to submit to an order signed by a trial judge was addressed by the high court, which found in its favour in a unanimous decision.

Four people — three former SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) officials and the representative of a Bangladeshi official — are accused in a case that centres on the granting of a lucrative

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supervision and advisory contract for the building of a multi-purpose bridge over the Padma River in Bangladesh.

The accused are ex-SNC employees Kevin Wallace, Ramesh Shah and Mohammad Ismail as well as businessman Zulfiquar Bhuiyan.

They’d been seeking information gathered by a division of the World Bank that investigates fraud, collusion and corruption cases. The unit initially shared some of its findings with the RCMP, which led to the federal force laying charges.

The Mounties announced in September 2013 that charges of bribing a foreign official had been filed in Toronto against Wallace and three other men.

The World Bank fought the order

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and the Supreme Court ruled its initial co-operation in the case did not mean the Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) — an independent investigative unit within the bank — had renounced its immunity.

“The World Bank Group’s immunities cover the records sought and its personnel, and they have not been waived,” the high court ruled. “Moreover, the INT’s records were not disclosable under Canadian law.”

The Supreme Court found the Ontario Superior Court trial judge had erred in issuing the order.

“He (the trial judge) found that the INT could not selectively share some of the information, documents or correspondences in its possession with Canadian law enforcement officials,”

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Justice Suzanne Cote and Justice Michael Moldaver wrote on behalf of the court in a 70-page ruling.

“However, the doctrine of selective waiver, developed at common law, should not inform the interpretation of an international treaty.”

Also that year, the World Bank, which had funded the project, prohibited SNC-Lavalin and hundreds of its subsidiaries from having access to institution-funded projects for the next 10 years.

It was described at the time as the longest exclusionary period ever doled out by the Washington D.C.-based institution.

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BUSINESS

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Border beer law violates constitution

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Canadian dollar briefly touched the 80-cent US mark Friday morning before retreating, capping a remarkable rebound for the currency thanks to strengthening commodity prices and weakness in the greenback.

The loonie hit the 80-cent US level on the nose minutes after North American stock markets opened for trading, but then slipped back to 79.69 cents US, unchanged from Thursday’s close.

The last time the Canadian dollar closed above the 80-cent US level was on June 30, 2015, when it settled at 80.06 cents US. Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada, said the loonie has been building momentum since late January.

“It’s really staged a very impressive comeback over the last three months or so,” Cieszynski said, adding that the 80-cent US mark is a “big psychological barrier” for the dollar.

In January, the Canadian dollar was trading around the 68-cent US mark, but it has since been aided by a rally in crude prices and a decline in the U.S. dollar.

“The Canadian dollar rebound has been hand-in-hand with the rebound in crude oil,” Cieszynski said.

Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer at Sun Life Global Investment, said monetary policy decisions by the Canadian and U.S. central banks have also boosted the loonie.

Earlier in the year, traders were expecting a rate cut from the Bank of Canada as oil prices continued to lag, Adatia said.

“When we didn’t get that rate cut, it actually lifted the Canadian dollar,” Adatia said.

The U.S. Federal Reserve had initially signalled it was planning to hike its benchmark lending rates four times this year. But it has indicated it’s now looking at fewer rate cuts than initially planned, which has hurt the U.S. dollar.

“About two to three cents of this Canadian dollar is actually coming from the fact that the Bank of Canada didn’t cut rates and the U.S. didn’t raise rates as fast as people were expecting,” Adatia said.

Cieszynski cautioned that the loonie’s recent rally is unlikely to continue much longer, especially as oil prices could soon run out of steam. He predicts the currency will either trade around its current level for some time or head for a moderate correction.

“It looks like it’s tired and getting ready for a rest here,” he said.

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 65.02 points to 13,951.45, while the June contract for benchmark North American crude oil was trading at US$45.92, a drop of 11 cents.

Earlier Friday, Statistics Canada reported that the economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in

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“Canada’s economy is still relatively weak,” Adatia said. “I think as you continue looking forward, you’re not going to see good results coming through from a GDP perspective.”

New York was in the red, with the S&P 500 down 10.51 points to 2,065.30, the Dow Jones industrial average sliding 57.12 points to 17,773.64 and the Nasdaq composite falling 29.93 to 4,775.36.

June natural gas rose 10 cents to $2.18 per mmBtu, while June gold gained US$24.10 at US$1,290.50 per ounce and July copper was up five cents to US$2.28 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,951.45, up 65.02 points Dow — 17,773.64, down 57.12 points S&P 500 — 2,065.30, down 10.51 points Nasdaq — 4,775.36, down 29.93 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.69 cents US, unchanged Pound — C$1.8335, unchanged Euro — C$1.4368, up 1.19 cents Euro — US$1.1450, up 0.95 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.92 per barrel, down

11 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,290.50 per oz., up $24.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.453 oz., up 44.4 cents $754.01 kg., up $14.27 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $1.50 higher $499.20 July ‘16 $3.30 higher $501.00 Nov. ‘16 $3.80 higher $494.50 Jan. ‘17 $3.90 higher $497.80 March ‘17 $3.70 higher $499.40 May ‘17 $4.90 higher $499.30 July ‘17 $4.70 higher $498.80 Nov. ‘17 $4.70 higher $490.30 Jan. ‘18 $4.70 higher $490.30 March ‘18 $4.70 higher $490.30 May ‘18 $4.70 higher $490.30.

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

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 369,780 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 369,780.

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — A “groundbreaking” court ruling Friday dismissing charges against a New Brunswick man arrested for importing Quebec liquor will have a national impact far beyond saving Maritimers a few bucks on their beer, says the man’s Ontario-based constitutional lawyer.

Arnold Schwisberg, who was part of the defence team, said the ruling could have the power to shift a host of laws across the country governing everything from selling chickens to how engineers and other professionals work across provincial lines.

“This is a groundbreaking decision, its ramifications are extensive,” said Schwisberg, who called it the first ruling of its kind in Canada.

In an 88-page decision, Judge Ronald LeBlanc threw out all charges against Gerard Comeau, 62, for importing 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor from a Quebec border town.

The judge cited the words of Canada’s founders, saying they never intended that laws should blatantly block the free flow of goods within the new country.

“I find that the speeches and orations from the Fathers of Confederation prior to the enactment of the British North America Act, 1867, conclusively point to their desire to implement free trade as opposed to the elimination of customs duties as between the provinces,” he wrote.

Schwisberg said the decision brought tears to his eyes. He expects the provincial court decision will eventually make its way through appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

He gamed out the implications of a top court ruling in Comeau’s favour, saying it could effectively throw out Canada’s marketing board system, allowing for the free trade of chicken, eggs, and milk, predicting food prices would likely come down as a result.

“All of that is going to change, and I argue for the benefit of Canadian consumers,” said Schwisberg, who was brought into the case by the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which supported Comeau’s challenge.

A Supreme Court ruling could also have the effect of doing away with

licensing standards that prevent engineers and other professions from moving easily between provinces, he said.

Comeau was one of four people charged after a police “sting” operation in 2012.

The New Brunswick Liquor Control Act prohibits anyone in the province from having more than 12 pints of beer that wasn’t purchased through a liquor store in the province.

That was the law RCMP were using when they seized Comeau’s liquor and fined him $292.50 for bringing the liquor home to Tracadie, N.B. His local lawyer, Mikael Bernard, said Friday the victory shows that the common New Brunswick practice of bringing in multiple cases of Quebec beer was never illegal.

“Essentially, Judge LeBlanc’s decision confirms that what tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of New Brunswickers have been doing for the past 40 years is not a crime,” he said in a telephone interview.

On Friday, Comeau said the case wasn’t just about dodging a fine.

“The way I look at it, I’m a Canadian citizen,” said Comeau on Friday. “I don’t see any reason why I can’t go buy merchandise anywhere in this country and bring it home. You can buy anything else like cars, clothes, everything. Except for beer.”

During the trial, Comeau’s lawyers and the Crown delved into Canadian history, debating just what the framers of the 1867 founding document meant.

Andrew Smith, a professor of political history at the University of Liverpool in England, told the judge that a law banning the carriage of beer between provinces was a travesty of what the framers intended.

The defence had argued that the section of the Liquor Control Act is unconstitutional because Section 121 of the Constitution Act says all goods from a province are to be admitted free into each of the other provinces.

“Admitted free means of all impediments,” Smith had told the court in August of last year.

The Crown had countered that regardless of Section 121 of the Constitution Act, there are policies in place that limit free trade between provinces.

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, April 30, 2016

Peters a ukulele sensation

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Jake Peters is about to earn some respect for the humble ukulele.

The Didsbury musician will treat the ukulele is if it was a Spanish-style guitar when he opens for Ian Tyson on Tuesday, May 3, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. In other words, his performance will be more along the virtuosic lines of Leona Boyd or Jesse Cook than a certain somebody who once tip-toed through the tulips. (“Don’t mention Tiny Tim,” said Peters, who doesn’t like the lingering association in some people’s minds of the ukulele as a novelty instrument.)

Peters is an award-winning guitar and banjo player and luthier who takes the ukulele as seriously as the other string instruments he plays and builds.

These include the Middle Eastern oud, sas, dombra, and barabat.

The four-string uke is his current favourite because “you can play the melody and the harmony at the same time,” he explained, before plinking out a sprightly few bars over the telephone to demonstrate.

Peters enjoys all genres of music, including bluegrass, blues, Celtic, Spanish, classical, folk and gospel. He suggests jazz and world music, including Hawaiian and flamenco, will be on his play list in Red Deer. “I’ll be doing things that are a little obscure, like a waltz, which isn’t commonly played…”

The musician, who’s worked with Cindy Church, Dick Damron, Pam Tillis, Lisa Brokop, Randy Travis, Randy Bachman and other artists, was born in Alberta, but raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., where his father worked at a steel plant.

Musical talent ran through his large Italian family. His mother, uncle and cousins played a variety of instruments, including mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass, and accordion.

“I grew up with string instruments,” said Peters, who was taught to play by his mom.

More recent influences are Oscar Lopez and Pavlo (Simtikidis), a Toronto guitarist who mixes the folkloric styles Greek and Latin music with pop sensibilities. After meeting Pavlo, a twice-Juno nominated gold-record selling guitarist, at the Bearberry Community Centre, Peters was commissioned to

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Didsbury musician Jake Peters will perform on May 3 at Red Deer ‘s Memorial Centre, opening for Ian Tyson. make a unique prototype guitar for him.

Having moved back to Alberta in 1984 because “I wanted to see where I was born,” the music teacher and performer became recognized as a “musician’s musician” in this province. Peters has been invited to perform at various festivals and events, including the former Central Music Festival and Canada Day

at Bower Ponds.

He looks forward to playing for a Red Deer audience once again — this time with the esteemed Tyson.

Tickets to their 7:30 p.m. concert are $62 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Steele among performers at SongRise Showcase

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Aspiring songwriters will write new tunes, record them, and perform them for an audience, at the SongRise Music Industry Conference and Showcase in Red Deer.

On Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, seasoned songwriters such as Red Deer-based country musician Duane Steele, will help up-and-coming tunesmiths of all ages unravel some of the mysteries of creating original music at the Scott Block.

After new songs are written, they will be rehearsed by the participants, and recorded with the help of Calgary sound engineer Josh Gwilliam.

“And the really exciting thing,” said Steele, is this just-written music will be performed for a live audience at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at the Scott

Block. Community members can attend the SongRise concert. Tickets are $20 at the door or from songrise. ca, and there’s a cash bar.

Starting Friday, Steele and other instructors will help aspiring songwriters fine-tune their efforts by examining what elements make a song great — from radio-friendly tunes, such as Kenny Roger’s song The Gambler, to less predictable ones, such as Led Zeppelin’s Going to California.

The parameters are wide, as there’s no real right or wrong with songwriting, said Steele, a two-time Canadian Country Music Award winner who is best known for the No. 1 hit Anita Got Married.

He noted even the Beatles wrote both formulaic (Love Me Do) and non-formulaic (A Day in the Life) music.

Conference participants will get professional tips on how to improve their tunes. And those who have never written a song before will learn how to start.

“We’re all about inspiring, not expiring, people’s creativity, so we’ll be pretty gentle with our criticism… We’ll steer them in the right direction,” said Steele.

About 30 people of all ages, who are either in the music business, or thinking about it, are expected to attend the SongRise conference that will include sessions on vocal coaching, financial aspects and website design.

This is the second time the music industry-themed event is being held in Red Deer. It was started nine years ago in Peace River by musicians Sherry Crawford and Dana Blayone of the band No Limitz, and will still be held in that community on May 13 and 14.

Only a few spots remain open at the Red Deer conference.

For more information, or to register, please visit songrise.ca. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Awesome, photographic art for First Friday this month

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Some “awesome art,” photographic art and doit-yourself art are part of May’s First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer.

View from the Pit, a photography exhibit by David Flewwelling, is on at the white gallery, accessed from the Sunworks store on Ross St. from May 6-29. A First Friday reception will be held from 6-8 p.m.

Upstairs at Sunworks, Flatpack, works on paper

by Antonietta Grassi, is still showing at the Harris-Warke Gallery. The exhibit runs to May 7 and a closing reception will be held on Friday from 6-8 p.m.

A flourishing of youthful creativity is displayed at the 31st Middle Schools Awesome Art Show at the Kiwanis Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Public library. The show, presented by the Red Deer Arts Council, features student artists from Eastview, Central, Gateway and Glendale Middle Schools. It runs to May 23, but a First Friday reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on May 6.

The work of more student artists can be seen at the Hub on Ross. Glimpse, featuring young artists from Notre Dame High School, is on from May 1-31. A reception will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday.

You can be the artist at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on Friday. All the walls will be covered in paper and visitors will be invited to take a pen or pencil to them to the sounds of inspirational music by a local DJ. There will be a 5-8 p.m. reception.

Gratitude, a Lettering Arts Guild of Red Deer exhibit, is on to May 29 in the Corridor Gallery, downstairs at the Recreation Centre. A reception for the mixed-media show will be held 5-7 p.m. Friday.

There’s no First Friday reception, but prints, ceramic sculptures and hand-turned wooden works by local artists Erin Boake, Robin Lambert, Brian McArthur and Andrew Glazebrook can be seen during business hours at the Viewpoint Gallery at 3827-39th St.

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Birds by Central Middle School Grade eight student Julz Labrash on exhibit at the Kiwanis Gallery during the 31st Middle Schools Awesome Art Show. The exhibit continues until May 23 featuring students from Eastview, Central, Gateway and Glendale Middle Schools.

Also The Edge of Reflection, a mixed-media exhibit by Susan Woolgar, is moving upstairs to the

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The Great Plains will be in concert Sunday, 3 p.m. at the Blackfalds United Church. Enjoy easy, crowd friendly style of Celtic music, with a dab of bluegrass and a touch of gospel all wrapped around extremely beautiful melodies. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance or at the door.

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CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH CELEBRATES 85 YEARS 85th Anniversary of Christ Lutheran Church, Red Deer County, will be celebrated on Sunday. Divine Service will be held at 10 a.m., Celebration Worship Service will be held at 3 p.m. and banquet will be held at Spruce View Community Centre at 5 p.m.

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HORSEBACK POKER RALLY HITS THE TRAILS Scott School Hall Community’s Chain Lakes Horseback Poker Rally will be held on Sunday. A pancake breakfast will be offered from 9 to 11 a.m. The ride takes place from 10 a.m. to noon. All riders must register.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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This image released by Open Road Films shows Julia Roberts, left, and Jennifer Aniston in a scene from Mother’s Day. trilogy of films? Or do you see more films centred around holidays?

Marshall: People send me a lot of scripts, and they send me all of the holidays, of course. But I don’t know.

I have a softball picture I’m trying to do with Jamie Foxx who I worked with in Valentine’s Day. I don’t know, but you never say never in this business. I could do a holiday (movie) tomorrow.

CP: Do you have a favourite personal holiday?

Marshall: Myself? I guess truly I love Christmas. I have six grandchildren, three kids. I get to spend it all with them with Christmas, so that’s my favourite. But I don’t particularly want to do a movie about it.

CP: You helped launch Julia Roberts to superstardom with “Pretty Woman,”

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Royals cancel Marching Showbands Classic The Red Deer Royals were forced to cancel their Marching Showbands Classic.

The event, to have featured marching bands from across the province, was supposed to be held at Red Deer’s Centrium on Sunday. But organizers had to cancel it due to a scheduling conflict at the venue.

They look forward to demonstrating the group’s field show for a hometown audience later this season.

Anime convention at LTCHS May 7 Red Deer’s Tsurucon will celebrate comic and video game culture on May 7.

The anime and multimedia convention at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School will offer booths, panel discussions and other opportunities for gaming, cosplay, anime, and comic book enthusiasts.

The event will be presented in a “safe and welcoming environment for participants of all ages, skill levels and talents.”

Tickets are $20 ($10 for kids ages 4-10) at the door. For more information, or to preregister please visit tsurucon.net.

Emerging Artist Award deadline extended

The application deadline for the Red Deer Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Award has been extended to May 16.

This is the third year the award is being offered to promising artists who are starting their careers, while also striving to raise the profile of arts in Red Deer City and Red Deer County.

The criteria for artists of all genres can be seen at www.reddeerartscouncil.wordpress.com under the scholarships and awards tab.

Funds for the award are a legacy of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Arts Awards held in Red Deer in 2013.

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The combination of string and jazz quartets will perform from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on May 5 in the Snell Auditorium in the downtown Red Deer Public library.

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CP: It will be such a treat for so many fans of “Pretty Woman” to see Hector Elizondo and Julia Roberts back togeth-

er onscreen. Correct me if I’m wrong, apparently he’s been in every single one of your films. Is that right?

Marshall: I can’t correct you. I’ve done a lot of films. I’ve directed 18, and Hector Elizondo is in all 18.

He had a nice moment there (in Mother’s Day) with Julia. He blew his line. Hector never blows his lines. But in that one scene with Julia, he kind of choked up.

I said: “What’s the matter?” He said: “I got verklempt.” He truly got teary.

He was looking at her, they were playing the scene, and he realized that we had worked together — the three of us — when she was 21 years old. She had her birthday on Pretty Woman. Then, to see her grow into a woman and everything, it was very touching.

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Marshall: I’m very delighted with her progression as an actress, but even more proud of her growing up as a person. I never saw her coming out of rehab. Julia never went that route. She went a very, very nice way, married with kids and enjoying it. She used to hang out with an entourage of other young actors, and now, she hangs out with three or four ladies from the (parent-teacher association) from her school. They come on the set, and I’m always hugging moms. She’s quite grounded and I’m very proud.

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TORONTO — In telling the stories of fictional families in the romantic comedy Mother’s Day, director Garry Marshall turned to his own relatives for help onscreen and behind the camera.

The Bronx-born screen legend enlisted his son, Scott, as a second unit director, while his granddaughter, Sienna, appears in the early moments of the film. His famed actor-producer-director sister Penny lends her distinctive voice as a narrator.

“When you start work at 5 o’clock in the morning, it’s nice to see people you know,” said Marshall, who credited his late mother Marjorie for passing on her sense of humour to himself and his siblings.

Mother’s Day, which opened in theatres on Friday, follows a similar template to Marshall’s previous ensemble vehicles Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve in telling the interwoven stories of a seemingly disconnected group of characters.

His latest star-studded cast includes Jennifer Aniston as a divorced mother of two, Jason Sudeikis as a recently widowed father and Kate Hudson and Ottawa’s Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) as married sisters with secrets.

Mother’s Day also served as a Pretty Woman reunion, with Julia Roberts acting as the queen of a home shopping network opposite Hector Elizondo as her agent. Roberts’s own kids, twins Hazel and Finn and son Henry, also appear in the film.

Reached in New York, Marshall spoke with The Canadian Press about why he enjoys ensemble films, his favourite holiday and his thoughts on Roberts from her breakout role to today.

The Canadian Press: What is the appeal of these ensemble films versus a conventional romantic comedy?

Garry Marshall: In the ensemble films, I can use more than one lead or two leads. I can get other people to do parts and they usually like to work on something where they don’t have to carry the whole picture. So I get in trouble when it doesn’t work — not them!

CP: Do you see this as the last in a

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China’s Xi warns against religious infiltration from abroad SAYS COUNTRY MUST BE ON GUARD

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Tommaso Di Ruzza, director of the Vatican Financial Information Authority, left, flanked by Rene Brulhart, president of the Vatican Financial Information Authority, talks to the media during a briefing to present the Vatican financial oversight report, at the Vatican, Thursday,

Vatican crackdown on tax cheats flagged in oversight report been quashed by the secretariat of state or the pope himself.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s financial watchdog said Thursday it received 544 reports of suspicious financial transactions last year, a three-fold increase over 2014, thanks in part to beefed-up efforts to flag potential tax cheats who are using the Vatican bank to hide money.

In its annual report, the Financial Information Authority said it passed 17 cases on to Vatican prosecutors for follow-up investigation, up from seven a year earlier. In December, European evaluators urged prosecutors to actually bring charges in some of those cases since no indictments have been handed down.

Since 2011, 34 out of 900 suspect transactions have been forwarded to prosecutors for possible follow-up.

The Vatican in 2010 created the financial watchdog to comply with international anti-money-laundering norms and in a bid to shed its image as a financially shady tax haven whose bank has been embroiled in scandal.

In its report, the agency stressed that the spike in suspicious transactions wasn’t the result of increased money-laundering activity, but rather the natural result of the closure of bank accounts at the Vatican bank and new efforts to comply with tax reporting obligations in Italy and the U.S. The effort at greater financial transparency has extended beyond the initial scope of compliance with anti-money laundering norms to implementing internationally accepted accounting standards across the Holy See’s fragmented departments - part of Pope Francis’ effort to reform the Vatican bureaucracy.

The tortured process has been on sharp display in recent weeks after the Vatican signed, and then suspended, an auditing contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Vatican said the suspension wasn’t due to any reluctance to submit to “adequate” auditing measures, but rather because of issues about the “meaning and scope” of the PwC contract and how it would be implemented.

The suspension, though, laid bare an increasingly public battle between the two centres of power in the Vatican: the secretariat of state and the new secretariat for the economy, headed by Australian Cardinal George Pell.

Pell had enlisted PwC to do the audit, and cosigned the contract, even though the Vatican has its own auditor general. His office issued a statement saying he was “a bit surprised” that the secretariat of state suspended the contract but was confident the PwC work would soon resume.

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His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of religious space that has seen bans on the wearing of veils and beards in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang and the removal of church crosses in eastern China.

“We must resolutely guard against overseas infiltrations via religious means and prevent ideological infringement by extremists,” Xi said at a Beijing conference on religions attended by top leaders, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

He said that religious groups must submit to the leadership of the ruling, and officially atheist, Communist Party, and stressed: “In no way should religions interfere with government administration, judiciary and education.”

Authorities in eastern Zhejiang province have over the past two years torn down church crosses and other outward symbols of the Christian faith, saying they violated building codes. Critics say that’s a sign of how the rapid growth of Christian groups, at the same time as contacts between Chinese churches and overseas supporters have grown, has made the Communist Party nervous.

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Activists representing the Muslim Uighur group say much of the violence is fueled by economic disenfranchisement and restrictions on Uighurs’ religious and cultural practices.

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Money won’t solve Attawapiskat crisis TO STOP THE TRAGEDY OF YOUTH SUICIDE, CANADIANS MUST REACH OUT IN REAL HUMAN WAYS TO MENTOR AND SUPPORT ROBERT MCGARVEY OPINION The recognition that a youth suicide pact was in place in Attawapiskat, an indigenous community in Northern Ontario, has sent shockwaves throughout Canada.

Like many First Nation reserves, Attawapiskat is an isolated community; this one has just slightly more than 2,000 souls. As a rule, reserves in Canada lack essential services and suffer disproportionate unemployment, mental illness, and drug and alcohol addiction. The catastrophe that triggered the present emergency in Attawapiskat was 11 suicide attempts in one night.

Suicide is an act of desperation and hopelessness.

And at the same time that we’re attempting to prevent youth suicides in Attawapiskat, we are legalizing assisted suicides in special cases.

An assisted suicide is one thing — almost understandable — if the individual is at the end of their life and in extreme, untreatable pain.

But when the entire youth population of a community conspires to end their lives in a death pact, it’s an indictment of everyone — their families, their community and Canada as a whole.

The chief in Attawapiskat, with other First Nations leaders around the country, immediately went to work asking for more federal funds to help deal with the problem. And, no doubt, more financial resources will eventually be made available.

But, regrettably, this is about more than money. It’s about creating a meaningful future for these youth.

Robert Louis Stevenson once described the meaning of life as “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming.”

The challenge is to build (or renew) First Nations’ social capital assets so that an indigenous youth’s human capital can be recognized and fully developed. Isn’t that what gives meaning to life?

The most telling signs of difficulty in Attawapiskat were the continuous refrain that drugs are too plentiful in the community and that there’s nothing for the youth to do; “there’s a few people organizing little activities for the young people in Attawapiskat but we need more help.”

Theses ‘little’ activities, however, are more than they seem. They are the social capital of a culture, providing many young people with purpose and the spark of ambition to realize a better future.

At the think tank I co-founded, Genuine Wealth, we are often asked: What is social capital? How it is different from human capital?

To explain this, consider the case of a 12-year-old Wayne Gretzky. Even

at that young age, he demonstrated tremendous potential as a hockey player. This potential represented his human capital. When Gretzky had grown to adulthood and become an accomplished star, he had converted his human capital into a valuable human capital asset. In other words, his extraordinary hockey skills became an asset that he could leverage to sign playing contracts and endorsement deals that provided both the meaning and financial support for his life.

None of Gretzky’s human capital potential would have been realized, however, without access to society’s social capital. Social capital is a people’s willingness and ability to work together for common purpose. The social capital assets that emerged in Gretzky’s case were the volunteer minor hockey associations in Ontario that provided the ice time, experience, training and support necessary for the

Great One to realize his full potential.

Social capital assets — like minor hockey leagues, music programs, fashion design and other mentorship programs, cultural achievement programs for youth, etc. — are the means by which individuals identify and develop their human capital and realize their full potential. They help support youth, in particular, and are vital to the advancement of communities.

Regrettably, it’s not possible to build these kinds of assets by simply constructing a new youth centre. These assets require much more energy and expertise than is present on many reserves; they need the active endeavours of skilled individuals willing to donate their time, patience and support.

Government funding can provide the physical infrastructure, the tangible assets that will support youth, but they cannot provide the intangible as-

sets, the skills, talent and willingness to support indigenous youth in becoming whole.

Although we tend to think of suicide as an individual act of desperation, it’s really a social deficit. Successful cultures encourage the development of their social capital as the foundations of civil society. The community assets and volunteer associations that emerge provide meaning and purpose to life.

Canadians carry a lot of guilt over our past treatment of indigenous peoples. Perhaps now is the time to share something we have in abundance with those who need it most.

Troy Media columnist Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and nations build communities of wellbeing.

What it takes to raise a child CHRIS SALOMONS STREET TALES Once again I sit at my computer this morning trying desperately to collect my thoughts enough to scribble something on this page, but I find myself very distracted. It’s not like I don’t have a thousand things to write about but there is a reason for my distraction.

You see, tomorrow we are expecting our daughter, her husband and the two most beautiful granddaughters in the world to arrive from northern B.C. She is pregnant and due in early May. Because the medical facilities do not have a complete maternity unit, nor a reasonably reliable medical team for emergency deliveries, they are coming to Red Deer to have the new baby.

Grandma is almost vibrating in anticipation; even the oven got a thorough cleaning. I think the entire house has been cleaned four times in the last week or so. Can you tell she is excited?

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It seems like just yesterday when we found out that we were to have our first child, and now here that first child of ours is having not just her first, but her third. The only difference is that she is coming to Red Deer to have it.

By the time this article will be published, the family will be here and anxiously waiting the new arrival. So the gears in my head are slowly starting to turn, and the results aren’t too great.

Let me explain.

Recently at the kitchen, we have several young girls who have or are about to give birth. Though they were and are excited about the coming children, there are some marked differences to their story and ours.

The anticipation of new life is very much the same although in some cases it is an interference in their pursuit of ‘good times.’ The greatest difference is the circumstances involved in the different players.

For our children, they have chosen a lifestyle that results in a stable, safe, protective and loving environment; one with clear guidelines where their children will know their position within the framework of a caring community. For many of the others though the

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story is quite different.

Of the girls that I’ve got in mind, one already has delivered only to have child welfare stand outside her door to take the child. Two of the others are contemplating abortion because they just don’t want to be tied down right now. The fourth has delivered a premie but is committing herself to keep the child and do her best to raise it — she is 17 years old. None of these four are married although I think two of them know who the father is.

None of these four girls was raised in a disciplined home, but they have the desire to be good Moms and desire the opportunity to raise a child in a loving manner. In their own upbringing they were not provided with the skills simply because their own mothers never had the skills taught to them. You cannot teach what you do not know; one of the great failures of the residential school system whose main focus was to de-Indianize them.

We can condemn these girls for the way things went, or we could even have provided them with contraceptive measures, but we have to, in my mind, look beyond the faults and look to the greatest need that they will have. And it’s not just assured wel-

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fare payments; it is the proper raising of their child. While discussing this with my wife, I was looking for possible solutions.

One of the ideas was mentorship homes. This is where the young mother would be paired up with a couple who would help the young mother raise the child but also mentor the mother to establish some of the skills she never learned. This has been tried before, but we can see where this could potentially go wrong.

I believe there are still folks who would commit themselves to this endeavor, but the potential legal issues would dissuade many from even making the attempt. Sterilization was done even as late as the 1960s, and that also did not provide the proper answer.

The Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre is making many strides toward solutions but even there the sentiment is often against them because of their stand toward Right to Life.

But as for our household, we look forward to the coming of new life, and are willing and committed to the proper and correct way to raising this new child. Should there be any other way?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Bangladesh in trouble GWYNNE DYER INSIGHT How’s this for a staunch defence of free speech in a secular state? Earlier this month, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh denounced anyone who criticized religion or expressed their own lack of religious faith in striking terms: “I don’t consider such writings as freethinking but filthy words.

Why would anyone write such words? It’s not at all acceptable if anyone writes against our prophet or other religions.”

So does she mean that it’s all right to kill people who write such words? Hack them to death with machetes, usually? She didn’t say yes, but she didn’t exactly say no either. And this is regrettable, because quite a few people are being hacked to death in Bangladesh these days.

In the current wave of murders, most of the victims have been “secular” bloggers who publicly stated that they were atheists and offered reasons for their lack of belief. They did not criticize or mock Islam directly, but merely insisting that religious faith was not necessary or rational was enough to “hurt religious sentiment.” For some people, it was reason enough to kill them.

Four high-profile secular bloggers were hacked to death in separate attacks in Bangladesh last year, in a campaign of murder that was clearly more than just random incidents of religious rage. What was remarkable was the response of the government — or rather, its lack of response.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leads a country of 160 million people that is officially committed to de-

fending the freedoms of speech and belief of citizens of every religion (and of no religion at all). But while she publicly deplored the murders, she was careful at the same time to insinuate that the bloggers were outrageous people who had in some way deserved to be killed.

She also insisted that these murders were the work of the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), or more precisely of its political ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party. She firmly denied that foreign extremist forces like Islamic State or al-Qaeda (which would certainly approve of the killings) are active in the country.

This probably seems to Sheikh Hasina to be sound practical politics in a country where 90 per cent of the population is Muslim. So while not openly approving of murder, she publicly sympathises with conservative Muslims who think they have the right to live in a society where their beliefs are never publicly questioned.

It’s also good politics for her to blame the violence exclusively on the opposition parties, since admitting that foreign Islamists are involved would mean that she was failing in her duty to defend the country. But the result of her pragmatism and passivity has been a rapid expansion in the range of targets that are coming under attack by the extremists.

On April23, Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, who edited a literary magazine and founded a music school — and never blogged about religion at all — was murdered by machete-wielding men as he left his home in the northern city of Rajshahi to go to the university. He was an observant Muslim, but he was involved in cultural activities which many hardline groups condemn as “un-Islamic.”

The following day gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan, editor of a LGBT magazine, and actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were hacked to death in the magazine’s

offices in the capital, Dhaka. In other recent violence religious minorities have been attacked: Shia and Ahmadi mosques, Christian priests and Hindus.

(Several of the murdered bloggers belonged to the 10-per cent Hindu minority, and their issue was religious belief in general, not Islam in particular.)

So is Bangladeshi society drifting into the chronic terrorism against minorities of all sorts that afflicts its former ruler, Pakistan? The answer, unfortunately, is probably yes — and the blame lies mainly with the two women who have polarized Bangladesh’s political life for so long.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is one of only two survivors of the family of Mujibur Rahman, the leader of Bangladesh’s independence struggle and its first prime minister. (He was massacred with all the rest of his family in a military coup in 1975.) The opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, is the widow of General Ziaur Rahman, who led a subsequent military coup and declared Islam to be the state religion, only to be killed in yet another coup in 1981.

In theory, at least, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League represents the ideal of a secular Bangladesh that embraces its minorities, and Khaleda Zia’s BNP depends mainly on the support of conservative Sunni Muslims whose ideal society is explicitly Islamic.

Such divisions exist in every Muslim society, but they are made far sharper by the mutual hatred of the two women who have utterly dominated Bangladesh’s politics for the past 25 years.

The BNP’s alliance with Islamist parties pushes it ever closer to the religious extremists, and Sheikh Hasina’s pandering to conservative Islamic sentiment (in order not to lose devout Muslim voters to the BNP) is taking her party in the same direction.

And Islamic State and al-Qaeda definitely are active in the country. Bangladesh is in deep trouble.

Credibility crucial for Morneau DAVID CRANE OPINION Nothing matters more to a Finance Minister than his or her credibility. The public must have confidence that the Finance Minister is delivering reliable and trustworthy pronouncements on the economy and the state of the public finances in budgets and other public statements. Once credibility is lost, it is difficult to win back.

This is why it is so hard to understand why Finance Minister Bill Morneau, in his first budget, got off on the wrong foot. He withheld important fiscal information that was a normal part of past federal budgets and played a bit fast and loose with economic forecasts. It took the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s intervention to force Finance to produce missing data, and more pressure to force Finance to withdraw its bizarre requirement that the missing data be kept confidential.

But the bigger concern is the impression left that the budget’s forecasted deficits are deliberately exaggerated so that by the time of the next election, the Trudeau government can claim that its policies worked so well that the actual deficits are much lower than it originally forecast. Fortunately, it is getting harder for governments to get away with this kind of thing, and one reason is the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office. This doesn’t mean that the PBO’s forecasts are always right and that Finance is always wrong. But it does mean that a second opinion is available.

In the last election campaign the Liberals, in their platform, promised to strengthen the independence of the PBO. While the Harper government had established the office, it soon turned on its creation when the PBO started to do its job and accused the PBO of engaging in “partisan” activities because it questioned federal initiatives. Now we need assurances that the Liberals will proceed with their promise to support the PBO. When Paul Martin became Finance Minister, to give more credibility to his budgets, he based his fiscal projections not on Finance Canada’s economic forecasts which could be politically manipulated to make a government’s fiscal numbers work, but on the

consensus economic forecast of private sector economists where the government couldn’t easily play with the numbers. As the PBO pointed out, this introduced an element of independence — or credibility — in a government’s fiscal forecasts.

What Morneau did was to tamper with this process, playing politics with the private sector forecast; he reduced the private sector forecast of nominal GDP by $40 billion a year from 2016 to 2020. The effect was to artificially raise the size of the deficit by $6 billion annually from 2016-17 to 2020-21. Morneau appeared to be building an artificial cushion so that later he could claim that his government’s stellar performance in economic management had delivered smaller deficits. Alternatively, the government could increase spending without adding to the deficit, again because the cushion was there.

The PBO charged that Morneau’s adjustment to the private sector consensus forecast was “excessive.” The difference is that the budget deficit this year would be $29.4 billion this year in Morneau’s budget forecast, but $20.5 billion in the PBO forecast.

And next year PBO forecasts a deficit of $24.2 billion compared to $29.0 billion in Morneau’s budget.

The economy will likely be a major issue in the

next federal election, and there are significant risks.

World trade could be flat so that Canada will get only modest lift from exports. Oil prices could show little upside. While Morneau’s budget assumes oil prices will rise from $40 this year to $63 in 2020, the PBO assumes they will rise from $39 to just $49. The PBO assumes the dollar will rise from 75.3 U.S. cents this year to 76 U.S. cents by 2020 while Morneau is assuming the dollar will go from 72.1 U.S. cents this year to 83.1 U.S. cents.

We don’t know if either will be right. Given the volatility of the global economy, and uncertainty of political changes in the U.K. Brexit referendum, the U.S. presidential and congressional races, ongoing unrest in the Middle East, and questions on the outlook for China’s economy, anything could happen.

This why Morneau’s public credibility is so important. Confidence is an important factor in the state of the economy. Canadians need a Finance Minister whom they can trust to be above politics on the big questions. The good news for him is that it’s not too late to establish credibility. The question is will he?

David Crane can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

YOU GOT TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT HARLEY HAY HAY’S DAZE Today, let’s look at what to do when your To Do List suddenly says: “Pick up large bed in Calgary and move it back home.”

Now this might be a cause for consternation for some, who would say: “That’s a job for somebody much younger than you.” (Translation: “Anybody but you.”) Or some would say: “That’s what highly paid professional movers are for.” And I would say, “Right, but notice the words ‘highly paid.’” And of course you (me) will, as usual, avoid the advice of smart people.

So here then, just in case you have to move something large, is how to move something large: 1. Borrow a very large truck. A humongous black truck from your 20-something nephew will do nicely. Make sure it’s at least 12 feet (17 meters) off the ground, so that anyone over the age of 25 will need a step ladder to get into the cockpit. Also, make sure the truck has the loudest muffler possible. This is so you can’t possibly hear CBC on the truck radio on the way down the Queen Elizabeth highway.

2. Bring tools. A lot of tools. Fill your duffle bag, backpack, suitcase, jacket pockets, used Canadian Tire plastic bags, etc. with what you will need to dismantle the bed and transport approximately 75 pieces of from a fifth-floor apartment, and secure same in the back of an open truck box.

Make sure to include: a cordless drill, drill bits, a hammer, four rolls of duck tape, eight bungee cords, fancy neon yellow “tie down straps” that you can’t figure out how to use, a chisel, a circular saw, chain saw, and table saw, three-foot crow bar, leather gloves, safety glasses and 15 Allen wrenches (also

known as Hex Keys) (also known as Tools from Hell).

Make sure the Allen wrenches are of every different size ever invented — none of which will fit. Did I mention the bed is an Ikea bed?

3. Bring a helper. This helper should be someone tall and young, who spends at least 10 to 20 hours a week pumping iron in a registered fitness center.

Your helper should be able to carry a 400 pound(1,200-kilogram) queen sized mattress and large pieces of wood all by themselves, without even thinking of asking for your help. Also, your helper should agree to assist you for the sole reward of a cheeseburger and fries at Peter’s Drive-In. (Don’t forget the milkshake.) When you fail to find a helper with these qualifications (and you will) talk the Better Half into “coming along for the ride.” And then make her do most of the work.

4. When (if) you get to the apartment building in Cowtown after riding a bucking-bronco Dodge Ram for two solid hours, the building will be situated in midst of a busy, bustling commercial area of shops, pedestrians, pigeons, etc. and absolutely nowhere to park. Allow 20 to 30 extra minutes to locate a parking spot, then hike back to the apartment. Don’t forget to bring the lunch that the B.H. thoughtfully packed; you’ll need to stop for nourishment on your long journey back to the apartment. Also, make sure to forget your bags of tools in the truck. “I did that on purpose,” you can exclaim. “I need the exercise!” No one will believe you.

5. Next, you completely forget how an Ikea bed fits together.

Whereas an Ikea bed is built over the course of four days and nights using a number of aforementioned Allen wrenches From Hell, 15 plastic baggies full of weird Swedish paraphernalia with names like Konstagruder and Hogfart, and a stack of folded directions containing 35 pages and 112 “Steps,” taking an Ikea bed apart without 35 pages of instructions is sort of like assembling a mountain bike on Christmas

morning with no tools whilst wearing a blindfold.

6. Once the B.H. points out exactly why the bed won’t come apart after yanking on it for quite a while, and you manage to turn the right Hogfart and push the correct Konstagruder, now you have a stack of boards and metal pieces and Swedish grommets and a heavy awkward mattress that you somehow need to get into the elevator and through the lobby and out onto the street. This is where you suddenly need to go get the truck. I’m sure your Better Half can handle the rest of it.

7. Once you and your B.H., through sheer and literal blood, sweat and tears manage to load the truck, take a little time out to rest.

A portable defibrillator will come in handy at this stage. Be sure to drink lots of water (accompanied by three or four Extra Strength Tylenols), and keep your thumb on the 911 of your cell phone. Just in case.

8. And finally, spend some quality time helping each other waaay up into the truck seats, and head for home.

Whereupon, assuming nothing significant flies out of the back of the truck on the highway, you can repeat all the grunt work lugging everything into your office in the basement for “storage.” Once again, make sure your defibrillator is fully charged.

So there you have it. But the punchline is: the bed isn’t even yours (ours). You see, the Rotten Kid, the daughter one living in a different province, got a “fantastic deal” on an “incredible bed” and could we “grab it for her?”

Let’s just say she owes us one. A cheeseburger and fries should do it. And let’s not forget the milkshake.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

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ADVICE SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016

Woman thinks older men smell KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: Can anyone tell me why old men (over 60) don’t or won’t shower or put on clean clothes?

I have several older male friends who smell so bad that we don’t want to be any closer than 12 feet. And they wear the same clothes for weeks until the clothes almost fall off their bodies. When they come to visit, the furniture where they sit smells for a couple of days, and the same thing happens when they ride in my car. And going into a store with them is embarrassing.

They look like homeless bums.

These men are not stupid. They are educated and intelligent and had good jobs with good paychecks. With the warm weather coming, I know it’s go-

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Saturday, April 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Cloris Leachman, 90; Kirsten Dunst, 34; Lars von Trier, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour being proactive and productive.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a plethora of exciting projects that you pursue with considerable passion. 2016 is the year to be more sensitive towards family and friends.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you get the balance right between being innovative and being organized, you’ll have a rewarding day.

You’ve got a lot of responsibilities at the moment but it’s nothing you can’t handle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What you want and what you need may be two very different things today Taurus. Put concentrated energy into clarifying your goals and dreams for the future. Then you’ll really start to fly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Attached Twins — your love life looks problematic today, as what you want and what the relationship needs are at odds. Singles — be careful you’re not sending out the wrong message.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are trying to achieve something — or persuade someone — then strive to be as direct and honest as you possibly can. Side-stepping and procrastination will get you nowhere fast Crabs!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Business and financial matters are favoured Leo — as long

ing to be really bad. They have families and other friends, but these people either have no problem with the smell or they don’t see the men often enough to be aware of how bad it is.

These men all live alone and their homes are filthy. They aren’t under a doctor’s care or living in a nursing home, so they don’t have medical problems that make them smell like this. — Wondering Dear Wondering: We appreciate that you are friends with these men, but your letter is so filled with insulting generalizations that we hardly know where to begin. First, 60 is not “old.”

You’ll be there sooner than you think.

Second, most men that age shower regularly and smell perfectly fine.

So it seems your particular problem is about specific men who happen to live alone. We assume these men used to live with someone who did their housekeeping and laundry, and reminded them about hygiene.

If you know the family members, you should ask one of them to talk to

their relative about this. Perhaps they (or you) would be willing to go to their homes and toss in a load of laundry, vacuum or wash some dishes. Or give them the name and phone number of a cleaning service and suggest they set up a regular schedule. We assure you, these men have no idea that they have an unpleasant odor and would be mortified to realize that others notice.

Please be kind enough to intervene.

Dear Annie: The list that “Dover, Pennsylvania” asked you to print is a bit dated. He said a wife should know how to change a fuse. My house is 50 years old and has circuit breakers, which are clearly labeled. Also, a spouse who doesn’t handle the finances needs to know which bills repeat and how they are paid. Are they paid online? Are the payments automatic? Does he use specific software, like Quicken? How do you use the program? What are the passwords?

In addition, as the wives of my deceased Lodge brothers found out, you should have the names and phone

numbers of a good plumber, an honest electrician, a roof repairman, an appliance repairman, a carpenter/home repairman and a handyman.

They say a woman’s work is never done. Neither is mine. — A Husband in the Hudson Valley Dear Husband: We suspect “Dover’s” house still has fuse boxes, but most places have circuit breakers.

And a great many bills are paid online, some automatically. Both spouses should know how this is done, along with every single password for logging onto the computer and into the appropriate accounts.

as you are patient and adopt a long-term approach. But there may be a misunderstanding with a friend or acquaintance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re keen to roll up your sleeves and work hard today.

However, don’t put too much pressure on yourself — and others. Just remember that perfection is a goal, not a destination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans are master diplomats, with the ability to calm those around them. You’ll be working overtime today, as you soothe a worried family member or console a frazzled friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is super for all sorts of community activities but don’t accept things at face value. Do your homework and check the facts before you believe what others are telling you SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians naturally possess a superficial grasp of a wide range of subjects. But today you need to zero in on important details, as you examine issues with greater focus and depth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Business deals are favoured Capricorn — but make sure you do your homework thoroughly and read all the fine print first. Whether you are at home or work, put time aside to socialize tonight.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Moon’s in your sign today, which bodes well for most of the day’s activities. You’re feeling optimistic and generous, but don’t promise more than you can realistically deliver.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make sure you surround yourself with positive people today Pisces, as you will soak up their feelings and moods like a sponge. And do your best to separate fact from fiction.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Rita Coolidge, 71; Tim McGraw, 49; Joanna Lumley, 70 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Do your best to be creative and compassionate today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your motto for the next 12 months is from birthday great, actor Glenn Ford, “If they try to rush me I tell them I’ve only got one other speed, and that’s slower.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams are feeling mighty restless so do all you can to avoid being bored. Variety is the buzz word today as you tackle a range of projects, juggle roles and multitask like a true professional.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take setbacks in your stride today Taurus. A flexible approach helps you sail through annoying hitches and glitches that come along. Don’t just talk to loved ones — take the time to listen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mercury links up with the Moon today, so it’s time to turn up the Gemini charm — and turn down gossipy behaviour. Use your endless energy and enthusiasm to inspire others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are clear in the way you communicate — and 100% honest — then you’ll have a positive day. When it comes to solving a personal problem, look for innovative solutions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Sun/Neptune connection is fabulous for expressing yourself in creative ways. If a colleague is going through a rough patch, take the time to listen to their concerns with kindness and compassion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t get stuck in a rut! The more you multitask and mix things up, the better — and more stim-

ulating — the day will be. Think of ways to be more proactive about a work or volunteer project.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s bright and breezy stars suit your up-beat personality. So all sorts of social activities are favoured as you chat and circulate; mix and mingle.

But resist the urge to pass on hot gossip.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you resist, the more problems will persist.

Peacemaker Venus encourages you to take a positive approach today, as you tackle challenges with a combination of charm and intuition.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sharing the good times with loved ones puts a sunny smile on your Sagittarian dial. The Moon encourages you to be more cooperative with loved ones. Compromise is definitely the key.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you got stuck in a rut when it comes to unhealthy eating choices and lack of exercise?

The more you nurture your body, the better you’ll feel — physically, mentally and emotionally.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to catch up with friends and acquaintances.

You’re keen to hear all the latest news but resist the temptation to pass on gratuitous gossip. You’ll become more thoughtful as the day progresses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t play the Piscean martyr. If someone upsets you, then don’t be afraid to speak up and tell them how you feel. Aim to limit alcohol intake today, as some Fish are feeling fragile.

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Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Canadian design duo Dsquared2 outfit Beyonce TORONTO — Beyonce is flying Canada’s colours during her “Formation” tour as the pop superstar wears custom designs by homegrown duo Dsquared2.

Toronto-born twin designers Dean and Dan Caten created a leather warrior jacket worn by Beyonce during her Super Bowl performance.

Now, the duo behind the Milan-based label has reteamed with the singer to create the opening look for her tour, as well as complimentary styles for Beyonce’s 20 female dancers.

Fresh off the release of her visual album Lemonade, Beyonce kicked off her tour in Miami on Wednesday night wearing a customized Victorian-style outfit inspired by the Dsquared2 fall-winter collection.

The design featured a black crystal embroidered bustier with velvet, puff-shouldered embroidered sleeves, a broad brim hat, and lace-embellished leather gloves.

A tattoo lace bodysuit created an embroidery effect on the skin, with ruf-

fled and jewelled black ankle boots completing the ensemble.

The Catens are used to creating stage costumes for high-profile stars, having previously outfitted Madonna and Britney Spears for their musical world tours.

Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes will also be sporting Dsquared2 styles at the upcoming Summer Games in Rio, with the label enlisted to create the opening ceremony outfit by official outfitter Hudson’s Bay Co. Beyonce’s Formation tour is slated to arrive in Edmonton on May 20.

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DESIGN STORIES DEBBIE TRAVIS HOUSE TO HOME Kit Kemp creates textiles that illustrate enchanting stories, such as these Winged White Rhino armchairs.

As Kit Kemp says, every room tells a story. She sees “making use of interesting creatures, textiles, art and objects, and using them in a creative way” as part of her job.

Her impressive career as one of the UK’s most unique designers for her upscale boutique Firmdale hotels and fabulous homes in the U.K. and U.S. demonstrates how Kemp’s daring and inquisitive character never rests.

It’s an exciting ride to visit rooms that Kemp has designed.

I venture to say that you will have seen nothing like these spaces that combine bold and whimsical fabrics with quirky elements and colour and pattern mixes.

In Kit Kemp’s magnificent book, Every Room Tells a Story, with stunning photography by Simon Brown, published by Hardie Grant, the author shares her secrets and introduces us to many of the talented artisans whose work she reveres.

There is always something that draws you in and keeps your eye moving.

A series of unique lamps made from old plastic bottles with woven raffia shades hang in a hotel bar.

Large marbles decorate a wrought iron balustrade in a foyer.

Two benches, one sitting on top of the other, becomes a bookcase.

A picture meant to hang on a wall is transformed into a tabletop.

Kemp says that “anything can be a feature if framed properly” and she illustrates this point repeatedly as everything from art to fabric to bowling shoes takes center stage.

Transparent plastic Perspex box frames are a favourite, but any material from ornately carved antiques to distressed wood frames decorated with sea shells, buttons or iron hinges has been employed. Kemp has also used old mobile phone cases, printing press letters, belts and buckles.

The list goes on, and Kemp concludes that the stranger the artwork (or object to be framed) the more inventive the frame.

Kemp has modernized the British look for comfort in traditional homes by making them bright and cheerful with an eclectic mix of fabrics.

Comfort is a priority for Kemp, and you will see that her sofas and chairs are plump and inviting.

Whatever the upholstery fabric, it must be soft and pleasing to the touch.

There should never be a hands off feeling to anything in a room that is meant to be lived in and enjoyed.

A riot of patterns proliferates in the drawing room shown here, but rather than fight each other, they each add a special note to the overall picture.

Blue is the base colour, while pink makes the colours pop.

I counted 12 individual patterns throughout the drawing room and adjoining master bedroom, textiles designed by Kemp, who admonishes us all to be brave and let our spirits soar.

Folk art is a vibrant theme that runs through Kemp’s work.

She explains that folk art covers a multitude of skills from painted ceramics and decorated travel chests to intricately woven bed linens and pictures.

They have all been made with gentle hands and big caring hearts.

They have soul.

Kemp has designed a collection of furniture and wallpaper for lifestyle and fashion retailer Anthropologie.

Her favourite piece is the Winged White Rhino armchair with flying monkeys dancing around the bright orange base and contrast piping in bright blue.

The White Rhino, an endangered species, has wings to save it from its enemies.

In the sitting room shown here these delightful chairs are surrounded by richly textured woven rugs, some used as throws, and above the mantel, a custom frame with hinge detail.

Kit Kemp’s thoughtful, playful and bold style is highlighted on each page of her book, accompanied by words that explain how she and her talented group formulate design plans and the art of pulling together a room that is unforgettable, yet inviting and comfortable.

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BELOW: White Rhino Chairs.

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This non-toxic outdoor wood treatment comes as a powder that you mix with water. The liquid looks like weak tea, it’s odourless and you only apply it once.

STEVE MAXWELL HOUSEWORKS Q: Do I need to use a special underlay on the laminate floor I plan to install myself in my basement?

I was told I needed something with added moisture protection.

A: The underlay used below laminates is made of thin foam and is designed to provide a small amount of leeway over tiny bumps and imperfections in the floor below.

It also makes the laminate floor quieter under foot.

Although moisture is always a concern in a finished basement, underlay could only offer the slightest protection against moisture.

You really need to have a reliably dry basement to start with, then install a moisture-resistant subfloor on top. Ideally you shouldn’t finish a basement without getting to know if for at least a couple of years to prove it’s dry.

Interlocking subfloor tiles with a dimpled plastic layer on the bottom side is an excellent choice for basements that have proven themselves leak-free.

You can certainly use an underlay with extra moisture protection on top of this, but it would only be a small part of success.

One more thing: For the same reason that laminate flooring is so tough under foot traffic, it dulls ordinary saw blade very quickly. Specialty saw blades are made to last for hundreds of cuts through laminate.

Regular saw blades will be too dull to use after 10 or 20 cuts.

Allergy-Free Home Siding

Q: What kind of hypo-allergenic siding can I put on my house?

My daughter reacts to cedar and pine, and I’m not crazy about aluminum siding because it dents. Vinyl seems good at first, but I know it breaks when wind blows strong. I’m looking to redo my home this summer and need a working alternative.

A; I’ve never heard of anyone being so sensitive that they’d react to wood siding on a house that’s made of wood framed walls and roof, but there are options for eliminating the use of wood siding.

Your concerns about aluminum and vinyl are valid, but have you thought about fiber cement siding? it looks like horizontal wood siding, except it’s made of reinforced masonry.

It never rots or warps, and usually comes factory-finished. It’s a great product with a long track record and is made by a range of manufacturers. I don’t think there’s anything anyone could get allergic about with fiber cement siding.

The only issue with this product is the dust caused by cutting it.

Special saws are available with a built-in vacuum system that makes the work virtually dustless.

Look for a contractor that has a saw like this and it will keep your house and yard a lot cleaner.

One-Time Outdoor Wood Finish

Q: Is the Ecowood Treatment that you’ve written about before a good option for my 16 year old deck?

The wood’s in very good condition and I treated it with a water-based finish about five years ago.

A: Ecowood is a great option for creating an even, weathered grey look on exterior wood. I use it a lot in many of my own projects.

That said, whether this is a good option for your deck depends on how much of the old finish remains.

The wood has to be completely bare for this stuff to work. Any residual finish will completely prevent it from doing the job.

Another issue is what you want in a deck finish.

Ecowood Treatment creates a weathered grey appearance.

Not everyone likes this casual look. It’s better than natural weathering because it’s even in colour.

Regular weathering is often mottled and not that great looking.

Watch one of my outdoor wood finish application videos at BaileyLineRoad.com/ecowood.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 30 - OUT OF TOWN 36142 Range Road 280 280....12:00 12:00 – 2:00 pm....Margaret .... Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020............................... Red Deer County Directions: Old Pole Road south on Hwy 2, Antler Hill. #53 Springvale Heights ..3:00 3:00 – 5:00 pm ......Margaret ...... Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020............................... Red Deer County Directions: East 2 kms on 20 Avenue, follow signs.

17 Rogers Road ................2:00 ................ 2:00 – 4:00 pm ......Len ...... Len Parsons .................. RE/MAX................................................. 350-9227..... $299,900....... Sylvan Lake 10 MacKenzie Crescent ..1:00 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Lisa ...... Lisa Suarez .................... ROYAL LEPAGE LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES............ ............ 782-3171..... $489,000....... Lacombe 114 Herder Drive..............1:00 .............. 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Lisa ...... Lisa Suarez .................... ROYAL LEPAGE LIFESTYLES LIFESTYLES............ ............ 782-3171..... $347,000....... Sylvan Lake 94 Pines Crescent ............1:00 ............ 1:00 – 3:00 pm ......Kim ...... Kim Fox/Kayla Iraheta . CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

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HGTV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ is must see TV for its growing fan base

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — With all the joking and hamming for the camera that Chip Gaines does on Fixer Upper, it’s hard to believe that he initially was the shy half of the husband-and-wife duo that’s garnered huge fans and ratings for HGTV. “He was scared of the camera at first where it was a real phobia,” said Joanna, who plays the Abbott to Chip’s Costello.

“He would freeze up and then he would have to exit, and it would just be me.”

To say that edge wore off is an understatement — he once got so comfortable that he ate a dead cockroach, just to prove he would.

Joanna responded with a mix of

shock, humour and disgust, and he drew plenty of laughs, including from viewers.

It’s the combination of humour, love and chemistry between Chip and Joanna that have made the Waco, Texas-based home improvement show one of HGTV’s most popular shows — its recent season finale was the fifth highest broadcast in the network’s history.

As the name suggests, Fixer Upper has the couple taking a subpar home and remaking it into a dream house thanks to Joanna’s designs and Chip’s carpentry work.

Devoted watchers now know all about Joanna’s love of shiplap (wide-wooden board siding), their four kids, and even the carpenters they use.

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MARCHUK Ben Dec. 15, 1932 - Apr. 17, 2016 Ben passed away peacefully at Red Deer Regional Hospital. He is survived by his loving wife Alice of 56 years. He will also be sadly missed by his companion dog Amber. He is survived by his sisters Lucy (Joe) and Julie (Ewald); sisters-in-law Shirlee (John) and Lorraine (Dick); brother-in-law Jack; many nieces and nephews, and many great friends. Ben is predeceased by his brothers David, Edward, Walter, and sister Jenny. A sincere thank you to Dr. Hulyk and Dr. H. Karachiwala, and the nursing staff on Unit 32 Palliative Care. There will be no service at Ben’s request.

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SCHAMBER Joe Arthur “Art” Nov. 16,1943 - Apr. 26, 2016 Art passed away peacefully following a bravely fought battle with cancer and Parkinson’s Disease. He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years Diane and sons Duncan and Jason, Brother Floyd (Nora) Schamber, Sister Lea Ann (Bruce) Mackenzie, Brothers In-Law Don Anderson and Laird (Susan) Knopp, as well as numerous Nieces and Nephews. Art was predeceased by his parents Ben and Urma Schamber, InLaws Roy and Eileen Anderson, Brother In-Law Doug Anderson, Sister InLaw Rita Anderson and Nephew Ron Anderson. A Celebration of Life will be held from the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Sylvan Lake, AB. on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice 99 Arnot Ave Red Deer.

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PYPER It’s with great sadness to announce that Jayson John Pyper passed away suddenly, April 27, 2016.

Jayson is lovingly remembered by his parents, Jack and Lois Pyper; his brother, Ryan Pyper; sisterin-law, Rozanne Pyper; extended family and many loving friends. He was born March 9th, 1981 in Red Deer, Alberta where he lived shortly before moving to Joffre, then resided in the Red Deer area while being employed in the oil field industry. He was full of life, loving, kind, a great brother and son and a friend to many. He had a big heart which he wore proudly on his chest. Jayson was also very smart and talented and could do anything he put his mind to like sports, woodworking, mixed martial arts, cooking, and art. A memorial service will be held in his memory Wednesday, May 4th, 2016, 1:00pm at the Lacombe Memorial Centre. In Lieu of flowers donations may be made out to Klassic Kennels at RR1 Red Deer AB, T4N 5E1. Expressions of sympathy can be made by visiting www.wilsonfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL of Lacombe and Rimbey are in charge of arrangements. 403-782-3366 or 403-843-3388.

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SMITH Whitman David Aug 4, 1929 - Apr 19, 2016 Mr. Whitman David ‘Dave’ Smith of Pine Lake, Alberta, passed away after a brief illness, at the Red Deer General Hospital, at the age of 86 years. Dave was predeceased by Beth, his beloved wife of 61 years. Left to mourn his passing are four sons: David (Kerry) and Douglas (Susan) of Calgary, Daniel (Tami) of Red Deer and Duncan of Pine Lake.

Survived by his grandchildren: Jay (Gillian), Brad (Kerri), Lauren, Haylie, Cole and Chase, and greatgrandchildren Charlotte and Spencer. Dave was born in Calgary, the youngest child of Alma and Whitman Smith.

He grew up on both the family farm in the southern Alberta community of Blackie and the city home in the community of Roxboro in Calgary. Dave met Beth when he was 12 and she was 11, and knew she would be the love of his life; a story that we all heard many times over the years. Dave and Beth moved to Pine Lake in 1958, where they established their own family farm and raised their sons. Dave was a social fellow who enjoyed curling, volunteered as a Cub Scout leader when the boys were young and worked as a seed salesman for 25 years, which resulted in many connections throughout the community. Dave continued to live on the family farm until pneumonia forced him into the hospital. We will miss his funny and cynical outlook on life, death and taxes. A memorial will be held at the Pine Lake Hub on Monday, May 09, 2016 at 1 pm, where we can all come together to celebrate Dave’s life. The family would like to thank Dr. Daniel and the staff on Unit 31 for their attentive and compassionate care.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer (403)340-4040.

MOSE Mr. David Robert Mose of Red Deer, Alberta passed away suddenly at the Lacombe Long Term Care Centre on April 24, 2016 at the age of 73. David was born on February 17, 1943 in Lousana, Alberta to parents Edwin and Margaret Mose.

David worked for Saputo Dairy (formerly Central Alberta Dairy Pool) as a cream/churn operator and pasteurizer for many years until Multiple Sclerosis made it too difficult to continue working. David was a quiet, kind, caring man with a great sense of humor, a passion for the outdoors and believed everything in life was a possibility. David is survived by his brothers Thomas Mose (Gloria) and Ian Mose (Betty); his sisters Anna Mose and Linda McGhie (Jack), as well as three nieces: Alicia McGhie, Selena McGhie, Melanie Mose and one nephew, Matthew McGhie. David was predeceased by his parents Edwin and Margaret Mose.

A private family gathering will be taking place on a later date. In memory of David, donations can be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or a charity of your choice.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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James (Jamie) Clifford Carl Petersen STONEBURGH (nee Melin) Tina Frances Marie Nov. 12, 1974 - Apr. 25, 2016 It is with great sadness we announce that Tina Frances Marie Stoneburgh of Sylvan Lake passed away peacefully at the age of 41 at Red Deer Regional Hospital on Monday, April 25, 2016 at 12:35am.

Holding her hand, her husband Jason Stoneburgh was by her side along with her brother Rodney. Tina is survived by her husband Jason Stoneburgh and her children: Ashley Stoneburgh (Joshua), Shayden Stoneburgh and two Grandbabies, Brooklyn and Marshall; siblings: Rohnda (Mark), Honalee, Kirk and Rodney (Venessa); Gramma Melin, Uncle Ray and numerous Aunts and Uncles, nieces and nephews. Tina is predeceased by both her parents, Louise Webb and Ron Melin. A Celebration of life will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at The Alliance Community Church, 4404 47th Ave, Sylvan Lake at 1:00pm with a time of fellowship and shared memories to follow. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations to support Tina’s troops can be made at www.gofundme.com/2bqbpny4 Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium Rocky Mountain House, AB. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

403-887-2151.

He lived his life on his terms.

I don’t think that he could do otherwise. He was unique in every way. He followed his heart wherever it led him.

This gift made life difficult for him. To think and act differently in the world, where fitting in is so important, was a constant battle. It was also a constant source of joy. To be his friend meant sharing a world of adventure and a view of life that was full of wonder.

We miss him every day.

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RUBY DAY For her, life more abundant, For us, a guiding star. ~ Heather, Beverley, Susan and Families

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*CLIENT RELOCATIONS* Immed. P/T position for professional individual to provide tours and rental housing assistance in Red Deer. Need car! $200-275 per day. Email resume to: Lynn@whrelocations.com

VANTAGE Community Services is a non-profit organization based in Red Deer governed by a volunteer community board of dedicated professionals who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from various areas of the private sector and human services field. Our wide range of programs and services help youth, adults, and families to find a way through the challenging problems they face.

To find out more about Vantage Community Services, visit our website vantagecommunityservices.ca

URBANO Cleopatria 1963 - 2016 Miss Cleopatria Berina ‘Pat’ Urbano of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, April 25, 2016 at the age of 52 years. She will be lovingly remembered by her mother, Lydia Urbano, her four brothers, Alfredo Jr. (Felyn), Frederick (Femia), Robert (Melinda), Froilan (Liza); her three sisters, Angelina (Bernardo) Bautista, Havilland (Benito) Cara and Sally Galilea. She is also survived by her five nieces, three nephews and her one great niece. Pat was predeceased by her father, Alfredo Urbano Sr. and her brother, Genaro Urbano. Prayers will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, May 5, 2016 between 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. with The Reverend Father Len Cadieux officiating. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

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YOUTH SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016

Freshman torn over transfer decision HELP ME HARLAN Dear Harlan; I am nearing the end of my first year of college, and I’m seriously thinking about transferring.

The university that I currently attend is smaller, with about 15,000 students, and has a non-traditional campus (it is a building 10 stories tall). I am very involved at my school. I started a club, I’m part of student government and I participate in the honors program and different honor societies. I also made lots of good friends and have gotten close with some professors.

As a high-school senior last year, I really wanted to go to this other school in the city, which has a traditional campus with about 40,000 students, and it’s much more diverse. However, I didn’t get accepted there. It really hit me hard because I was so sure I was going to get in. So, as a backup, I applied to my current school and got in.

The problem is, I’m not sure if I should transfer. I don’t want to make the wrong choice. I have already gone through the application process for transferring and I have been accepted to school B, but I don’t know if I should go through with it.

My main reason for transferring is the student life and social scene (even though I will be commuting).

The tuition is twice as much as that of my current school (but it is a better school), and I will be losing all of my positions in the organizations I am involved with. But at the end of the day, my heart says “transfer.”

I am really confused, and the stress of deciding is taking a toll on me! I would really appreciate your advice. — Torn Dear Torn; REALITY CHECK: You’re living the dream.

You have friends, leadership positions and a

U.S. teen birth rates plunge, but racial disparities persist

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Birth rates are falling dramatically for black and Hispanic teenagers, but they continue to be much higher than the birth rate for white teens.

The Hispanic teen birth rate fell by half over about eight years, and the black teen birth rate dropped nearly that much. But even with those declines, the white teen birth rate is still only half as high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

“Despite this historic progress, profound disparities remain,” said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

The teen birth rate has been falling since 1991, which experts attribute to more teens using birth control and more waiting until they are older to have

sex. But in the new report, the CDC focused on 2006 through 2014 — the most recent phase of the decline, when the fall was steepest.

The agency saw declines in every state and in every racial and ethnic group.

The recent drops in the black and Hispanic teen birth rates look more dramatic in part because they started at far higher rate, Albert said. The Hispanic rate fell 51 per cent — from 77 to 38 births per 1,000 Hispanic girls ages 15 to 19. The black rate fell 44 per cent — from 62 to 35 per 1,000.

The white rate fell 35 per cent, from 27 to 17 per 1,000.

Teen births have been declining across the country, through the drop has been greater in some states than others. The teen birth rate fell nearly 50 per cent in Arizona, Colorado and Connecticut, but only about 13 per cent in North Dakota and 15 per cent in West Virginia.

Arkansas, Mississippi and New Mexico have the highest teen birth rates each state sees more than 40 births to teen moms per every 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19.

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kids. Our oldest is 11 and youngest is six and it’s been now, almost four years, 3 ½ years that we’ve been doing this. … Once that van rolls in the kids get geeked out because they know there’s all these snacks that these guys basically house in the back of these vans.

All four of our kids just run to it like it’s Christmas morning.

HOW LONG DOES A HOME RENOVATION REALLY TAKE? Joanna: Depends on a house.

Right now we’re working on seven homes for season four … so the smaller homes we’ll have done in eight weeks and the larger projects will be 12 weeks. It’s definitely expedited, because in our business at home, generally it takes 4-6 months for any larger renovation.

DO CLIENTS PAY FOR THE FURNITURE? Joanna: It all depends on the client and their budget. Our show features real clients with real

budgets.

The furniture budget is not part of the renovation budget, it’s something some clients add at the end.

About half of our clients already have all their own furnishings, some of which I use for the reveal, and others buy the items I decorate the home with. The main reason I decorate the rooms for the reveal is because I want the clients to get the full picture of how to maximize their newly renovated space.

WILL THEY EVER LEAVE WACO? Joanna: Every day we get an email, “Come to Florida or come to New York.”

As much as we’d love to, with our children being so young, we’ve decided to stay in the Central Texas area so we’re close to home. But, later, when they’re off to college I think we’d love to take our show on the road.

We love seeing the transformations. It inspires us to see the potential in our own home,” said Tara Melodick, of Toms River, New Jersey. “(They) have such great chemistry. They really seem to love each other and love what they do. How many people get to make a living doing what they love most, with the person they love most?”

Even celebrities tune in.

“Ryan Reynolds has tweeted out at us a few times and Scott Foley and his beautiful wife watch the show and every now and then live tweet with us so we’ve become, you know, Twitter friends with these folks. It’s really been something else, I mean very surreal,” said Chip.

The Gaines’ are expanding their business. Besides their real estate and construction business and “Fixer Upper,” there’s a home line with paint and rugs, a Magnolia Market store located at silos in Waco, which they recently renovated for rePowered Powe ered by tail and a gathering space, plus a bed and breakfast Central Alberta’s called Magnolia House in McGregor, Texas. career site of choice.

A book called “Magnolia Story” is scheduled for release this fall.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

DIRECTOR, FINANCE & CORPORATE SERVICES

Clearwater County is accepting applications for a seasoned manager for the role of Director, Finance & Corporate Services. The position oversees activities related to accounting/finance, assessment/revenue, information technology/records management, human resources/payroll and FOIPP. For complete details and qualifications, please visit our careers page at www.clearwatercounty.ca.

This competition closes May 20, 2016.

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SPORT MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTORS

Olds College Agribusiness, Land and Fashion is in need of part-time contract instructors during the daytime to teach the following courses: September – December: • SPM 1220

Fitness for Life

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Activities and Sport

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Sport & Recreation Management

January – April: • SPM 1020

Training for Performance

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Sport Leadership

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Sports Promotion & Networking

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individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

MHA properties looking for a full time, outgoing, customer service oriented individual to manage a townhouse community in Red Deer.

CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED!

Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Respite (part time) Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Respite Proprietors offer support and care, working one to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where Respite can be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home.

Successful candidate will manage staff, contractors and the property while maintaining excellent resident relations.

On-site residency is not required.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Salary: $4500/month We offer a competitive salary and benefit package including health and RRSP plans.

Respite Proprietors are paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Proprietors are required to take.

Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in either children or adult Proprietorship to: HR Fax: (403) 986-2404 or e-mail: hr@pclass.org If you would like to inquire more information please contact Roxanne Rose, HR Coordinator at 403-986-2400

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H O W T H E I R MARRIAGE TURNED INTO A HOME R E N O V A T I O N PARTNERSHIP: Joanna: When we were dating, Chip was doing the whole real estate (thing).

He was renovating homes and so I would just come along with him and watch what he did. (The) first year of marriage, we just started partnering together, so honestly, we don’t know it any other way. … We always have to be kind of together on these projects. I need to get his input, he needs me and I think we figure out a way to balance it all out.

WHY ARE THEIR KIDS SO WELL BEHAVED? Chip: Lots and lots of editing. They are great kids. We try to watch them really closely because obviously they didn’t ask for any of this, they’re just

judged and discriminated against throughout history. Imagine being hated for being heterosexual or told that identifying as a male or female is wrong. I don’t see a difference.

You absolutely have the right to share your opinions - and many people might agree with you - but investigate and examine them before voicing them.

The minute you start sharing what is OK or not when it comes to addressing gender and sexual orientation is the minute people who have been hated and marginalized for centuries will raise their voices.

Inclusivity and acceptance is not encouraging behavior. It’s about stopping hate, discrimination and shame. And honestly, it’s saving lives.

Dear Harlan; Long story short - I met someone three years ago when I moved to Washington, D.C. At first I didn’t like him, but after a while I started to have feelings. We began dating and everything was great until May, when he decided to call it quits because he was moving. I wanted him to stay and even told him I was willing to work things out despite the distance.

Time flew by and he returned late 2015. A hug led to a kiss, and since then we have been seeing each other often just like the good old days. We have not talked about being official at all since then, and I know he is moving again soon.

My question is, do I still have a chance with this person, or is he just seeing me before he moves because it’s convenient? — Waiting Around Dear Waiting Around; Are you a hobby or a girlfriend?

Long story short, this relationship is doomed.

What do YOU want? Forget what he wants. This entire relationship has been about what he wants.

That’s why it’s doomed. Hiding your feelings isn’t how you get closer. It’s how you grow and fall apart.

Do you want to change this? Tell him what you want.

Figure out if he can give it to you.

If he can’t give it to you, then find someone else.

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school that will save you thousands of dollars. I know you’re crushed that you’re not living the experience you thought you’d be living last year, but this might be better.

You’re really happy, right? Is there a chance you can find what you’re missing without having to transfer?

The things you’re missing at your current school might be found by going abroad for a year, getting involved in summer programs or participating in a graduate program. To have to pay twice as much for a school that isn’t twice as good seems like a waste of money and energy. The friendships, leadership positions and work you’ve accomplished are incredible.

You can always transfer as a junior if you’re having a burning desire to leave.

If you know with absolute certainty what you’re looking for and are sure you can’t get it at your current school, then find it somewhere else, but if you’re not completely sure, I’d stick around.

Dear Harlan; There is a lot of new support for the LGBT community.

I’m worried that this is having a negative influence on society as it is convincing people that acting on homosexuality and feelings of being a different gender is completely normal and OK. I do not judge these people nor do I think of them any differently, but I want to share my voice and make a statement. I don’t want to be judged and disliked for sharing this. Should I even share my opinion? — Worried Dear Worried; I whole-heartedly support LGBT teens and adults.

My support hasn’t turned me gay, caused me to question my gender or encouraged me to experiment. I’ve never been threatened by other people’s sexual orientation (or my own). Supporting a group’s right to exist is not encouraging behavior. It’s encouraging acceptance. It’s making it clear that LGBT people have a right to live their lives free of fear, hate and prejudice.

Do you see the irony in your question?

You don’t want to be judged and disliked by condemning a group of people who have been hated,

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