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Work camps evacuated

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FORT MCMURRAY WILDFIRE

FORT MCMURRAY — A harsh reminder of the perils still at play in the Alberta wildfires emerged Monday afternoon as employees at work camps north of Fort McMurray were moved out as part of a precautionary evacuation.

High winds s p u r r e d t h e Tinder-dry quickly spreading wildfire as conditions tinder-dry con- prompt ditions persist in evacuation the region.

“Heavy smoke Page A3 … does make it unsafe to fly in some spots, but Bad start to we are able to fire season may still work the flanks and hope change: expert to pinch it off,” Page A3 said Alberta wildfire manager Chad Morrison.

“When you have this kind of extreme fire behaviour it doesn’t matter what tankers you put in front of it, it doesn’t matter how many helicopters, Mother Nature is going to want to continue to move that fire forward.”

The fire itself was about 20 kilometres away from the work camps as of Monday evening, but non-essential personnel left while others stayed to conduct work on the plant and engage in firefighting.

There are about 4,000 workers at 12 camps in the area, including many at Suncor and Syncrude.

Officials said another 500 to 600 people in four small camps along Aostra Road were under a mandatory evacuation.

Scott Long of the Alberta Management Agency said there was no panic and the evacuations were being done in an orderly manner.

“We’re very hopeful that we’ll be able to hold the line, but if not, we want to make sure that people’s lives are taken care of.”

“The big factor obviously for the folks on site is that they will see very, very, heavy, dark smoke,” said Morrison.

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Province adjusts boundaries of fire ban

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Campers west of Hwy 2 and south of Hwy 11 and can once again use their off-highway vehicles to enjoy the outdoors.

The fire ban has also been lifted from that area to allow open fires, including wood campfires, charcoal briquette fires, turkey fryers, and tiki torches.

On Monday, the province adjusted the boundaries of the fire ban and off-highway vehicle (OHV) restriction due to wetter and cooler weather in the southern part of the province that has reduced the fire hazard.

The ATV and fire ban no longer applies to the area west of Hwy 2 from Airdrie to Red Deer and south of Hwy 11 from Red Deer to Hwy 22 and across to the B.C. border. Land south of Clearwater River straight down to the U.S. border is also free of the bans.

“We picked Hwy 11 because it’s a highly recognizable feature on the ground. We wanted the public to have that definitive line,” said Barry Shellian, provincial information officer.

For a revised map go to http:// www.alberta.ca/documents/FireOHV-Ban-May13.pdf.

The fire ban and OHV restriction still applies to the majority of the province.

In the parts of Alberta where the fire ban is still in effect, portable propane fire pits and gas or propane stoves and barbecues designed for cooking or heating are allowed. Until further notice, all open fires are still prohibited and all fire permits remain suspended.

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A giant fireball is visible as a wildfire rips through the forest by Hwy 63, 16 km south of Fort McMurray. Employees at work camps north of Fort McMurray were moved out as part of a precautionary evacuation as high winds spurred the quickly spreading wildfire.

Buffalo said the fire was moving 30 to 40 metres per minute and was expected to burn six kilometres in two hours.

“This controlled, precautionary evacuation is an example why it is not safe to be in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo at this time,” the municipality said late Monday afternoon in a news release.

Syncrude Canada tweeted that buses were transporting workers to a safe location as part of its emergency plan.

“The facilities are not at risk,” said Sneh Seetal of Suncor Energy. “However, we felt it was important to take these steps in the interest of putting

people first.”

“We are just responding to the northern edge of the fire. The wind is changing towards the north,” said Kirk Duffee, president of oil and gasfield services for Clean Harbours, a company that operates a work camp at Ruth Lake.

“We are in the process of relocating folks out of harm’s way and working with the emergency operations command to evacuate facilities as required.”

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Calgary man admits to stabbing five young people for ‘son of God’

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Relatives of Lawrence Hong, who along with Kaiti Perras, Joshua Hunter, Zackariah Rathwell and Jordan Segura, were all killed at a house party in April of 2014, enter court in Calgary on Monday. Matthew de Grood, 24, faces five counts of first-degree murder in what has been called Calgary’s worst mass murder.

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CALGARY — Friends and family sobbed and gasped with horror Monday as they heard graphic details about how five young people at a house party were slain by a man who believed he was killing Medusas and werewolves for the son of God. Matthew de Grood, 24, admitted in an agreed statement of facts read at the start of his first-degree murder trial that he stabbed his victims. But court heard he told police he didn’t take pleasure in it.

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fully. I aimed for their heart. They put up a struggle which made it hard, but, so you know, it wasn’t sadistic or anything,” he said.

“I didn’t enjoy killing at all. I said sorry, but the son of God was controlling me.”

De Grood’s lawyer, Allan Fay, pleaded not guilty on his client’s behalf. Fay told reporters he plans to argue his client was not criminally responsible for the killings.

The stabbings, in what police have called Calgary’s worst mass killing, happened at a party being held to mark the end of the university school year in April 2014.

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Plan to take over dispatch service on track

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe Police Service’s plan to speed up response times by taking over dispatch duties is on track.

City council approved spending nearly $295,000 for a computer-aided dispatch system and a new first responders radio system.

Police in Lacombe are taking over dispatch because the previous system, which saw officers alerted to calls through an RCMP communication centre in Red Deer, was seen as too slow.

Poor response time was the top complaint of local residents. It wasn’t unusual for a 15-minute lag time between a call to police and officers arriving on scene.

The current average response time is 13:24 minutes. Moving dispatch services in-house is expected to chop response times to an average of 6:45.

To do that, new equipment is needed. Council recently approved $243,412 for the computer-aided dispatch technology.

Another $51,996 will be spent to upgrade police portable and mobile radios to mesh with the Alberta First Responders Communications System.

Mayor Steve Christie said taking over police dispatch will offer a number of advantages.

“It will definitely speed up the response and there will be a lot more direct contact with the local police force,” said Christie.

There will also be cost savings. Staffing and running the service is expected to save the city about $118,000 a year. Dispatch is expected to be handled locally beginning early next year.

Meanwhile, as work progresses on a new $8.5-million police station, Lacombe is looking at options for the existing downtown headquarters.

It is expected to cost about $70,000 to do a detailed building assessment of the police station that was built in 1971.

Turning the distinctive triangular building that houses both police and fire departments into office or commercial space are among options being considered. The police side of the building has 7,000 square feet on two floors.

Christie said the police department expects to move into its new station at 53rd Avenue and Wolf Creek Drive in October.

Local BRIEFS Six holiday trailers destroyed by fire on Gasoline Alley Red Deer County firefighters were called to a fire at Go Uncle Ben’s RVs & Marine dealership early Monday morning where six holiday trailers were destroyed and one was damaged.

District fire chief Tom Metzger said firefighters responded shortly before 1 a.m. to the fire near the

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Members of the Central Alberta Rhythmic Gymnastics Opportunity (CARGO) ladies group perform a hula hoop routine at Red Deer College. Nine rhythmic gymnastics teams participated Saturday in the Alberta Provincial Gymnaestrada 2016 Rhythmic Circus hosted by CARGO, which was a noncompetitive show. On Sunday many of the teams took part in a competitive event at the college showing off their individual and team skills.

Sunbreaker Cove boat launch closed for repairs

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sunbreaker Cove boat launch on Sylvan Lake has been closed so repairs caused by prop wash can be made.

The repair job can’t happen until June 1 because of environmental concerns. Provincial and federal permission is required to work in the water, which normally isn’t allowed until July 1 so that fish habitats are not disturbed.

But a concession was made to allow the county to get to work a month early rather than leave boaters waiting.

Phil Lodermeier, county operations manager, said serious issues with the launch at the northeast end of the lake first appeared last year and the county took steps to fix them.

“We’ve been trying to keep it so people can launch there without doing damage to their boat,” he said.

The damage is caused by prop wash from power boats as owners hit the throttle to push their boats up onto trailers. Prop wash is carving out a large service area and storage yard for overstock at the Gasoline Alley business.

“When we got here all six of them were fully involved. We had it under control within probably the first 30 minutes,” Metzger said.

He said the fact that the trailers were only about a metre apart made it difficult, but nothing else was damaged.

On Monday morning preliminary investigation was underway to determine the cause.

Metzger said the cost of the damage was not yet known.

Calgary man appealing sentence on theft charge A Calgary man who pleaded guilty to some of the charges laid after an attempted theft in Ponoka is now appealing his sentence.

Kenneth James Brimner, 52 and Gina Marie Godu-

hole in the lake bottom and stacking the sand and gravel up on the other side where it can scrape against hulls.

“I’m not sure if it’s just the level of the lake or the way people are loading their boats. It seems to be a problem, not just at that boat launch, but many of the boat launches around,” said Lodermeier.

“We’ve had discussions with the provincial parks people and they have many of the same issues.”

The county tried to fix the problem last year by lining the approach with large stones.

“They were just blowing them right off the end of the launch,” he said.

This year, the county plans to install steel plates at the bottom of the launch to shield the lake bottom.

Work is expected to take only about a day so the launch is expected to be open again on June 2. The county also plans to post signs reminding boaters to float their boats onto their trailers.

The county has spent a lot of money improving Sunbreaker Cove boat launch. Since 2010, about $1 million has been spent adding parking and picnic areas and demolishing a crumbling boat launch and replacing it with two new ramps. to, 37 and also of Calgary, were arrested by Ponoka RCMP checking a suspicious vehicles at a local tire shop on July 11, 2014.

Police reported at the time that two suspects jumped into a waiting pickup truck and attempted to flee, ramming a marked police vehicle three times before they were apprehended.

The two suspects were co-accused on a variety of charges, including break and enter to commit theft at a value over $5,000, possessing break-in instruments and possessing proceeds of crime exceeding $5,000.

Brimner was also charged with dangerous driving and assaulting a police officer with a weapon.

All charges against Goduto were withdrawn earlier this year. At trial in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench on April 14, Goduto pleaded guilty to break and enter and to possession of break-in tools. He was sentenced to 28 months in prison, with three months credit for time served in pre-trial custody.

Brimner is now appealing his sentence. A date for his hearing has not been set.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Faced with raging wildfires and more hot, dry weather, the Alberta government is urging people to be careful if they plan to play outside in the coming days.

“One can only hope that the Alberta tradition of a cold and wet May long weekend will reappear,” Premier Rachel Notley said Monday. “The fact is that most of Alberta remains under conditions of extreme fire risk.”

The province issued a fire weather advisory for some areas warning that wildfires will become large quickly and tough to control.

The government has banned campfires and other open fires over the northern half of the province from the Red Deer area to the Northwest Territories boundary.

There is also a ban on the recreational use of off-highway vehicles on public land in the same area over concerns they could spark fires in tinder-dry forests and brush.

Notley warned that even a carelessly tossed cigarette butt could cause trouble.

“I would like to remind all Albertans that we have a fire ban across much of Alberta for a reason. We have a ban on recreational use of off-highway vehicles across much of the province for a reason,” she said.

On Monday the wildfire that forced more than 80,000 people from Fort McMurray last week had grown to more than 2,800 square kilometres. It was burning away from the city but there are concerns about hot spots reigniting.

Another fire in the Municipal District of Greenview forced the mandatory evacuation of farms and rural homes in a region northwest of Edmonton.

The province said more than 1,900 firefighters were battling the fires, including crews from B.C., Ontario, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia with more on the way.

Wildfire officer Barry Shellian said even if Alberta gets some rain and cooler temperatures later this week it won’t be enough to make a difference.

He said the forest and grasslands are particularly parched this year due to lack of rain and less snow than usual over the winter.

The province is also warning boaters planning to head out on lakes to be mindful of the water bombers that are fighting fires in the Fort McMurray area and in other parts of the province.

Shellian said these aircraft may need to drop down for another load of water to dump on the flames.

“If boaters or recreationalists see planes circling we want them to remove themselves from the lake to ensure that these planes can be effective and safe,” he said.

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After a walk from the Native Friendship Centre in Red Deer to Fort Normandeau, a group of about 75 gathered in a teepee erected on the banks of the Red Deer River on Saturday. Along the way, the Hoop of 100 Feathers was carried by those involved in the walk and came to be at the centre of the circle in the teepee. The Hoop of 100 Feathers came to an elder in a vision and was to be constructed of eagle feathers from various Native American Nations. When the hoop was created, the elder was to gather the elders from four directions. The Hoop is also a element of the Wellbriety Movement, which is an effort to create the opportunity for individuals, families, communities and nations to live a sober, healthy life that is emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually balanced. During the ceremonies inside the teepee on Saturday, participants shared their experiences and their journeys of recovery.

Bad start to fire season doesn’t necessarily mean bad finish: expert

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The dramatic start to this year’s fire season across Western Canada and Ontario doesn’t necessarily mean the ferocious trend will continue into the summer, experts say.

John Innes, dean of forestry at the University of British Columbia, said weather is the single largest influence on wildfires, which makes forecasting extremely challenging.

“It’s always very difficult with weather and with climate,” Innes said in an interview on Monday.

“We hear about what’s going to happen next week and it can be totally wrong. The same goes for fire weather.

While visiting an evacuation centre in Edmonton more than a week ago, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the intense and early start to wildfires this year could spell a long and difficult season for all of Canada. He specified his remarks were not directed exclusively at Alberta, where the province is still reeling from the firestorm in Fort McMurray.

Tens of thousands of residents in and around the community in Alberta’s oilfields were forced to

leave when a blaze turned on the city earlier this month, razing 2,400 buildings.

Innes said so far, 2016 has been the most destructive fire season in recorded Canadian history, surpassing the damage done in 2011 when another northern Alberta fire destroyed part of the community of Slave Lake.

Natural Resources Canada says as of May 11, 1,429 fires had flared up across the country this season compared with a 10-year-average of 1,070. The fires have burned through more than 4,200 square kilometres, which is 41 times the 10-year average.

“Things can change pretty well overnight,” Innes said about fire conditions.

“It makes it very, very difficult to forecast what’s going to happen out in July or August.”

Kerry Anderson, a fire research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, agreed that an early start to the fire season doesn’t indicate increased risk down the road.

“Fire seasons vary dramatically from year to year,” he said. “Some start early and enter like a lion and exit like a lamb, while other years it’s the opposite.”

Alberta introduces new regulations for ride-for-hire firms like Uber EDMONTON — The Alberta government has introduced new rules to regulate ride-hailing companies such as Uber.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason says that under Bill 16, anyone who wants to drive for such a company will have to have a professional Class 4 licence.

They will also have to undergo a police information check and be subject to either commercial insurance or a new insurance policy specifically tailored to the industry, which will be ready by July 1.

It will be up to the companies to conduct the checks, ensure the drivers have the correct insurance, and are up to standard.

“The main emphasis has been on safety for the public,” Mason told a news conference at the legislature after introducing the bill in the house Monday.

“When you call with your app a stranger to come

Local BRIEFS Red Deer man facing revenge porn charge back in custody A Red Deer man accused of publishing intimate photos without the subject’s consent has been returned to custody pending a bail hearing on Wednesday.

Robert Peter Kornelson, 35, was charged on Dec. 1, 2015, under a recent addition to the Criminal Code of Canada. Section 162.1 makes it a criminal offence to publish or otherwise distribute intimate photos without the consent of the person depicted.

Red Deer City RCMP allege that Kornelson posted pictures of a woman on his Facebook page on Nov. 30. The images have since been pulled from the site.

Kornelson made his first court appearance on Dec. 17, but did not enter a plea at that time.

A warrant for his arrest was issued when he missed a subsequent court appearance.

He was returned to Red Deer provincial court on Monday morning via video feed from the Red Deer Remand Centre, represented by defence counsel Dan Wilson.

KMS Tools and Equipment collecting tools for Fort McMurray Fort McMurray will have plenty of rebuilding to

‘WHEN YOU CALL WITH YOU APP A STRANGER TO COME AND PICK YOU UP, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THAT PERSON HAS NOT GOT A CRIMINAL RECORD . . . THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DRIVING YOU SAFELY, AND THAT IF YOU DO GET INTO AN ACCIDENT, YOU DO HAVE THE REQUISITE INSURANCE.’ — BRIAN MASON TRANSPORTATION MINISTER

and pick you up, you need to know that that person has not got a criminal record … that they are capable of driving you safely, and that if you do get into an accident you do have the requisite insurance.”

The maximum penalty is a $50,000 fine per ofdo and a tool company wants to help out.

KMS Tools and Equipment, which has an outlet in Red Deer, is collecting tools through its Tools for the World campaign.

KMS has been sending tools to dozens of countries around the world through its donation project and is now offering help close to home. Donations of tools and equipment for Fort McMurray will be happily accepted at the KMS’s nine locations in B.C. and Alberta.

Those who have tools in good working condition lying around in shop, sheds or garages can now find a worthy home for them.

In Red Deer, KMS can be found at 53 Burnt Park Drive. For more information go to www.kmstools. com.

Nurses, support staff at Stettler facility join AUPE About 90 nursing and support staff at Points West Living seniors care facility in Stettler joined the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees last week.

AUPE now represents about 250 Points West Living employees in four sites in Vegreville, Cold Lake and Stettler.

The new group in Stettler will now begin the process to negotiate a collective agreement with their employer, which is already underway at the other sites.

Points West Living is a for-profit seniors care company based in Ontario.

Points West Living is opening a facility in Red Deer this year with designated supportive living beds that includes dementia care beds. The five-story building is under construction at 6950 Taylor Dr.

fence per day subject to appeal to the Alberta Transportation Safety Board.

“We wanted to make sure that the penalties meant something,” said Mason.

A Class 4 licence is for professional drivers and includes more training on defensive driving, handling disabled passengers, and dealing with fatigue.

The police information check goes beyond a criminal record check to plumb for outstanding charges and pending court decisions.

Mason said they’ve left mechanical inspections of the cars to the cities to regulate.

Edmonton has already passed regulations for ride-hailing but left the insurance and licensing provisions to the province.

Jean-Christophe de Le Rue, a spokesman for Uber, said they are reviewing the bill.

“We hope that the province will bring forward smart regulations that embrace the environmental, safety and economic benefits of ride-sharing,” he said.

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National Public Works Week

John MacDonald Wastewater Collection Inspector In his role as CCTV Operator, John is one of the “goto” guys that can get anything done. He is a wealth of knowledge, and answers are only ever a phone call away for his coworkers. His years of experience and knowledge of Red Deer’s wastewater collection system keep everything running smoothly, no matter the issue.

John leads by example and takes pride in his work, especially when educating the public on the wastewater collection system. Pleasant and soft-spoken, his coworkers agree that John is very approachable and has a knack for using humour to lighten the mood.

Those who learn from John are privileged to learn from the best. His patience and “by the book” approach make it easy for new coworkers to learn from him. John is well-liked by his fellow coworkers and epitomizes the Cornerstones Values that The City looks for in employees.

Born and raised in Red Deer, John is a devoted family man and enjoys spending time with his two children, Jenna and Ben. Over the years, John has coached his son’s hockey teams and always enjoys talking hockey.

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Prepare for a big uptick in ticks RICK ZEMANEK OPINION

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raditionally, it’s this time of the year many Central Albertans start the routine of applying gobs of insect repellent to ward off those pesky, blood-sucking mosquitoes.

The good news is that this year, saving a deluge of rain over the next few weeks or so, the ‘skitters’ have been held at bay, being robbed of their prime breeding grounds of standing water due to a mild winter with little snow.

The bad news is, there’s a new blood-sucking creepy crawler making it’s way into this area — the tick — compliments of the mild winter. And they’ve now been reported in Red Deer.

Yes, ticks! The dreaded blood-sucker burrowing into human skin, passing on some pretty nasty viruses, including Lyme disease. Normally associated with heavily treed mountainous and foothills regions in Alberta, this eightlegged ectoparasite has packed it’s bags and moved onto our turf, according to a tick expert.

Daniel Fitzgerald, a parasitologist with the Alberta Department of Agriculture and Forestry, said in a CBC report that more than twice as many

ticks as usual have been spotted across the province so far. There’s been reports of the external parasites the past couple of weeks from Lethbridge to Red Deer.

Since this region didn’t experience any lengthy cold snaps over the winter to complain about - which can kill these members of the arachnids’ family — Fitzgerald predicts ticks will be out in droves this spring.

“Because the winter started later, they had more time to get ready for winter,” he told CBC. “And because the winter didn’t get really cold and kill the ticks hiding in the grass, they’re more ready to wake up in the springtime and go out and get a meal.”

So how is it these pest guests have found their way into our urban areas?

These critters are ‘hitchhikers’, so to speak. They bum a free ride by attaching themselves to host animals such as moose, deer, mice and birds - which are plentiful in the Red Deer River valley. They also grab on to pets.

“Ticks are not highly mobile on their own and don’t have wings to cover a lot of ground,” says Dr. Bennett Jordan, entomologist and staff scientist for the U.S. National Pest Management Association.

“Instead of actively seeking hosts afoot, ticks will engage in a behaviour called ‘questioning’ in which they climb up to the top of a blade of grass or a leaf and wait for an animal (or person) to brush by,” Jordan told Yahoo Health News. “When this happens they will grab on.”

In a worst-case scenario, ticks can carry Lyme disease contracted from a host animal. The symptoms are multifold and can throw one’s entire body out of kilter for months to years. In rare cases it can lead to death.

For the full story on the symptoms it’s best to consult with those in the medical field or Google the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme), a group formed to raise awareness of ticks and the bacteria they carry. Ticks also can carry more than one virus.

Alarmingly, Health Canada reports that Lyme disease is one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America. And with new research that Canada’s changing climate is bringing more ticks and Lyme disease to Canada, the threat is more prevalent than ever, says a report by Steven Sternthal, acting director general of Health Canada’s Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.

“It is impacting our most densely populated regions,” says Sternthal. “We anticipate the disease will affect over 10,000 Canadians per year by the 2020s.”

Alberta has many types of ticks, including moose ticks, Rocky Mountain spotted ticks and black-legged ticks. So there’s quite a variety out there willing to latch on to you. Just the thought of them burrowing into your skin can bring on a major episode of the heebie-jeebies.

For example, in the late 1960s, after a family vacation to Banff National

Park, one of my younger sisters flew into a tantrum and started stomping around like she was auditioning for the River Dance troupe. She had discovered a tick in her hair.

There is an art to removing ticks if they become attached to you. Use tweezers to remove the whole tick, says Fitzgerald. “You don’t want to grab the body, you want to grab it down where it connects with the body,” he says. “You want to avoid squeezing whatever’s in the tick into you.” Outdoors stores also carry tick-removing kits.

With the May long weekend just a few days away, many Central Albertans will be heading into the West Country and our National Parks — prime tick habitat — for the first outdoors outing of the new season.

While most ticks don’t cause health problems, it wouldn’t hurt to take protective measures to repel them this weekend. There’s plenty of information over the Internet, or talk to CanLyme or somebody at an outdoors outfitting store.

If campers encounter a tick, the CBC recommends it’s always best to send the bug in for testing to determine if you’ve been exposed to any infections and make sure it’s safely disposed of.

“Or you could stomp it out and curse it,” joked Fitzgerald.

Rick Zemanek is a former Red Deer Advocate editor

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Electoral reform a sideshow to most CHANTAL HEBERT OPINION

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hen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argues — as he did this week — that he has been invested by Canadians with a mission to introduce a different voting system in time for the 2019 election he is both overstating the strength of his mandate (39.5 per cent) and misrepresenting its scope. The last federal campaign was anything but a debate over electoral reform. The result did not hinge on the parties’ various positions on the issue.

At it happens, the public’s fascination with electoral reform is inversely proportional to that of the chattering class. As central as the shape of Canada’s voting system is to those whose careers are on the line in every election, polls consistently show that it is peripheral to the priorities of most Canadians.

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but rather to point out that few would list the introduction of a new voting regimen as a top-of-mind matter.

Here are a few more observations based on the unpromising start of the electoral reform debate in the House of Commons this week.

There are sound reasons to consider other voting systems than first-pastthe-post (FPTP) but increasing voter participation is not one of the main ones. When Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef talks about constituencies that have a chronically low turnout, as if they were just waiting to bang on the door of a government-controlled special committee, she is blowing smoke.

When Elections Canada sounded out Canadians on FPTP after the 2000 election, it found that voters and non-voters alike were overwhelmingly satisfied with the system … even as they were also open to a more proportional approach. But the premise that anything would be better than the status quo is not as mainstream as reform advocates would like to believe.

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rights of Canadians will become stepping-stones for future governments looking to act unilaterally on the sheer basis of their majority.

As they defend their right to control the discussion and eventually dictate its outcome, the Liberals are banking on lingering anti-Harper sentiment to convince progressive voters that the end result of a system that could make it harder for the Conservatives to form majority governments justifies the use of undemocratic means to arrive at it.

Before giving Trudeau a pass on process, nonconservative voters should ask themselves how they would feel if it was Stephen Harper who was stacking this deck.

The Liberals are latecomers to the cause of electoral reform and their humbling third-place finish in the 2011 election drove them there. Now that they are back on top, more than a few of them feel a system that has just delivered them a majority should not be abandoned for one that could diminish their party’s advantage.

But electoral politics is a fluid business. A year ago the division of the nonconservative vote was a striking feature of the federal landscape … until it no longer was.

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If the ways of the electorate were predicated on past election behaviour or even on pre-election polls, the NDP would not be in power in Alberta and Trudeau would not be prime minister.

Whatever system is in place in 2019, voters in the end will remain in command. Just ask the Conservatives whose own rule changes — starting with the opportunity to spend more via a longer campaign — ended up benefiting the Liberals.

To hold a referendum on electoral reform is easier said than done. Forget that the current federal plebiscite law is not up to current political financing standards.

All it takes to fix that is political will.

A more thorny issue pertains to the level of regional consent required for a yes to mean yes in Canada’s diverse federation.

Should there be majority support in every region for a reform to be implemented? Or would it be OK to change the system in spite of the opposition of a majority in one or more provinces?

And can the country’s politicians even agree on an answer?

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer sydicated by Torstar.

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any homeowners spend substantial amounts of time and money tending to their lawns.

A lush lawn can be a point of pride for homeowners, and well-maintained landscapes also have a positive effect on property value.

Homeowners who want to take care of their lawns and gardens in an eco-friendly way may want to consider composting. Food scraps and lawn waste make up about 20 to 30 per cent of what we throw away each year.

Composting such waste can enrich the soil in homeowners’ yards while also reducing the size of local landfills, where food scraps and lawn waste contribute to the production of methane, a potent and harmful greenhouse gas.

Composting is relatively simple and serves as a cost-effective way to enrich soil and suppress plant diseases and pest infestations.

Homeowners who want to try their hand at composting can consider the following advice: • Purchase the right tools. Composting is not expensive, but you will need a few tools to help maintain your compost pile. A pitchfork or square-point shovel will be necessary so you can periodically mix or turn the compost.

In addition, a water hose with a spray head can help maintain the pile.

• Choose the right spot. A compost pile or bin should be placed in a shady area close to a water source. Shade will help ensure the pile does not dry out too quickly, especially for those homeowners who live in warmer climates. Those who live in colder regions may want to locate their piles in spots that get some sun exposure to trap some solar heat in their piles. Build the pile over lawn or soil instead of over surfaces like asphalt or concrete.

• Add materials as you collect them. Com-

posting requires three basic ingredients: water, brown materials and green materials. Brown materials include dead branches, leaves and twigs, while greens include grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps, and coffee grounds. Chop larger materials as necessary, adding both brown and green materials as you collect them and watering dry materials as necessary.

• Bury fruit and vegetable waste. When adding fruit and vegetable waste, bury it beneath 10 inches of compost material. You can do this by mixing your pile with your pitchfork or shovel.

If necessary, cover the top of your compost pile with a tarp so the pile can retain moisture. Compost may take as long as two years before it’s usable, but when materials are dark and rich in colour, they’re ready to be spread.

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N E D R A G & How to repot a plant

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ardening time is here, with people enjoying plants both inside and outside of their homes. Container gardening, which is a planting method in which flowers and other plants are grown in pots and other containers, is quite popular because of design versatility.

Containers can be moved from location to location if plants are not thriving in a particular spot. They also make gardening possible when there isn’t any available land space, which might be the case for apartment-dwwellers.

Flower pots enable plant enthusiasts to enjoy foliage inside of the home as well. Houseplants can add beauty to interior spaces and help filter indoor air. In the late 1980s, NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America actually studied houseplants as a way to purify the air in space facilities.

They found several plants are particularly good at filtering out common volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Having plants around can create inviting spaces and improve healthy conditions inside and out.

Part of caring for plants in containers involves knowing when a potted plant might

need a little tender loving care. As plants grow larger, they may outgrow their containers and require more roomy quarters.

Without ample space, plants may not be able to adequately draw up water and nutrients to support top growth. Repotting may seem like it is easy, but it actually takes a little finesse so not to damage the plants.

Gardening experts like those from Fine Gardening, HGTV and Today’s Homeowner suggest these repotting tips.

• Be sure the plant is well watered for a few days prior to the repotting process. Watering also will help loosen the root ball from inside of the smaller pot.

• A plant ready for repotting should slide out with most of the soil in one piece. If the soil is free-falling, it may not need to be repotted at this point because there’s still room for the roots to expand. Other signs that plants may need repotting include roots poking out of the soil or plants that are straggly and pale.

• Consider repotting outside because the process can be messy. Have all of your materials, which include a trowel, gloves, scissors, and potting soil, handy so that you can tackle the process smoothly.

• Remove your plant from the pot carefully.

Place the plant on its side, then support the main stem in one hand and use the other hand to gently pull the pot away. Be careful not to pull on the main stem or break the stem. Tread gently.

• Cut away any rotten or dead roots, and trim really long ends. Make three or four vertical cuts about a third of the way up the remaining root ball. This also will help with water and nutrient absorption once the plant is in its new pot.

• Gently untangle any remaining roots and prepare to place the plant in a new pot.

• Choose a new pot that is slightly larger than the root ball. Fill the pot with soil so that the root ball sits about an inch below the rim of the pot. Add more soil around the roots to fill the pot. Be sure to leave enough room so that with each watering the pot can hold water.

• Thoroughly water the plant after repotting to moisten the soil.

Watch your plant afterwards to be sure that it’s taking to its new potted home. It can take around three to four weeks for the plant to recover from repotting. Water regularly, avoid fertilizing and keep the plant out of direct sunlight.

Create a home landscape on a budget

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omeowners understandably envy the award-worthy photo spreads in lawn and garden magazines, wanting to emulate those same looks on their own properties. Scores of designers and landscape architects are involved in the process of creating those amazing lush lawns and perfectly placed plantings. Although not every homeowner has the budget to create lavish landscape designs, it’s still possible for homeowners to create lawns they can be proud of.

• Establish your budget. The first step in any project is to determine how much money you can devote to the job. Once you have established the budget, all other factors can be built around it.

• Find an inspiration piece. Great landscapes are inspired by many things, whether it’s a memorable piece of art or a landscape layout in a lawn and gardening magazine. Use photos of other gardens or neighbours’ yards as inspiration and build off of them. As long as the theme is cohesive, it will look pleasing to the eye.

• Consider the space and how you want to use it. Understanding the space will help you better allocate your budget. If your yard is more of a retreat, look for ways to create privacy and a vacation feel. If you have kids and entertaining friends is a main priority, focus on recreational aspects, such as a pool, playset and some durable plants. Understanding how to allocate your budget will help you to avoid spending money frivolously.

• Think about reclaimed or repurposed materials. Brand new items can quickly eat up a budget. However, repurposing salvaged or inexpensive items can stretch that budget while adding some unique flair to a landscape. See if you can find an outdoor patio set that someone is giving away or selling for a

lower price. All it takes is a coat of paint and some new cushions to make it look like new.

Discarded bricks or stones can be worked into a patio space or used to create raised garden beds. Purchase inexpensive flower pots and then paint them to make them look like stone or another desired material.

• Buy native plants. Native plants, shrubs, trees, and flowers will fare better than non-native, exotic plants. That means you’ll have to spend less time and money nurturing them into health, and less money having to replace plants that cannot withstand your climate.

• Consider perennial plants. Perennials may cost more at the outset, but the savings will be realized in the years to come.

• Hire a professional. It may seem counterintuitive to spend money on a landscaping professional when you’ve established a strict budget, but that’s one way to save money.

Landscape artists or garden designers have the experience to guide you in the right direction and help you avoid potentially costly mistakes.

• Use gravel in spots where plants don’t thrive. Gravel is an inexpensive landscaping material that can fill in voids where plants or ground cover simply do not flourish. Those working on limited budgets may be happy to learn gravel is typically less expensive than concrete or pavers.

• Ask friends or family for clippings. Don’t be shy about admiring the plantings of those you know. Flatter their good taste and ask if you can have some clippings to propagate yourself. These clippings can turn into lush plants in no time — with no additional spending required.

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Pregnant woman gunned down PREMATURE BABY DELIVERED IN STABLE CONDITION: POLICE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A premature baby delivered via emergency C-section shortly before its mother died from gunshot wounds is in stable condition, Toronto police said Monday as they appealed to the public for help identifying those responsible for the “outrageous” death.

Police said Candice Rochelle Bobb, of Mississauga, Ont., died late Sunday night when she was shot while returning from watching a basketball game.

They said the 35-year-old woman was in a vehicle in the city’s northwest end with three other people at the

time of the shooting. The occupants of the vehicle were not known to police, but officers said the vehicle was the clear target of the shooting.

Bobb, who was five months pregnant, has become Toronto’s 29th homicide victim in a year that’s seen a marked increase of guns on city streets, police said. There were 56 documented homicides in Toronto last year.

Divisional Supt. Ron Taverner said the “outrageous” death comes at a time when police are dealing with a spike in violence for which they have not identified a cause.

“There’s no doubt that there’s obviously more guns on the street. More

young people and people in general carrying guns,” Taverner said. “It’s a sad day when we have to come together to talk about a woman being shot and not knowing what it’s about…The outrage in the community is phenomenal.”

Police declined to speculate on the number of shooting suspects they’re seeking in Bobb’s death. They indicated the shots were fired from a vehicle, but did not provide descriptions or details citing the early phase of the investigation.

Police said the shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. as Bobb and three others were returning from an organized amateur men’s basketball league

game.

The shots rang out as the car stopped to drop off one of the people in the car, police said, declining to say whether the person in question was Bobb herself.

Police did not release any information about Bobb’s baby, but data suggests the infant faces a difficult struggle for survival.

The World Health Organization says pre-term birth complications are the leading global cause of death among children under the age of five, leading to a million deaths in 2013.

The WHO said about 15 million children around the world are born before 37 weeks gestation.

Feds face human rights complaint over gender info with social insurance numbers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is staring down the possibility of being ordered to stop collecting gender information on Canadians as part of their social insurance number record.

The outcome is one possibility in an ongoing dispute in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal over a piece of information that internal documents show isn’t central to identifying the owner of a social insurance number, or critical for preventing fraud.

A ruling from the tribunal would have a precedent-setting effect for the federal government, even as it takes steps to extend human rights protections to transgender Canadians in the form of legislation to be tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons.

The bill would be the latest attempt to make it illegal to discriminate against someone because of their gender identity and extend hate speech laws to include transgender persons.

But even on the eve of its introduction, the government appears no closer to making it easier to change the gender attached to a social insurance number without requiring the holder to go through a bureaucratic paperwork process.

Christin Milloy, the Toronto-based trans rights activist at the centre of the tribunal case, said there is no need for

Liberals to table transgender legislation MONTREAL — Legislation to extend human-rights protections to transgender Canadians will be tabled in the Commons on Tuesday, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau confirmed the news in Montreal on Monday as he received an award named after Laurent McCutcheon, a longtime gay-rights activist.

Tuesday happens to be International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

“We must continue to demand true equality,” Trudeau said. “We must carry on the legacy of those who fought for justice by being bold and ambitious in our actions the federal government to collect and store information on sex and gender.

“It’s not necessary to identify an individual,” Milloy said of the gender field.

“Name and birthdate and mother’s maiden name — these things are enough and storing (gender) creates opportunities for discrimination and oppression of all transgender people and women.”

It has been almost five years since Milloy first downloaded a government form needed to make changes to a social insurance number record. The

and we must work diligently to close the gap between our principles and our reality.”

The Montreal MP said Canada must do more to fight homophobia and transphobia, mentioning that gay men still cannot donate blood in Canada.

Trudeau said he will also attend Montreal Pride this summer, “which is just a regular part of my summer schedule but a very first for a prime minister.”

He also took the time to mention his father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who received the same award posthumously in 2005 and who was responsible for decriminalizing homosexuality in Canada.

Previous attempts at passing a transgender rights bill at the federal level have been unsuccessful. changes were simple: her address, legal name and an update to the gender field to female.

The sex or gender category on a social insurance number record is set at birth when a number is issued.

The department refused Milloy’s request, barring production of a new Ontario birth certificate.

Milloy launched a human rights complaint, saying that the department’s policy of using the sex designation at birth discriminated against transgender persons.

Remains of soldier found in Belgium identified OTTAWA — The remains of a Second World War soldier — found on Remembrance Day in a farmer’s field in Belgium — have been identified as those of Pte. Kenneth Donald Duncanson from Dutton, Ont. The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces say Duncanson was a member of The Algonquin Regiment, which served in 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Armoured Division in Northwest Europe.

Duncanson was born in Wallacetown, Ont., on June 7, 1915, married in 1939 and lived in Dutton before enlisting on Aug. 24, 1942.

Duncanson was 29 when was killed on Sept. 14, 1944, during an attempt by the Algonquin Regiment to establish a bridgehead crossing of the Derivation de la Lys and the Leopold Canal in Belgium.

Officials say members of Duncanson’s family have been notified, and Veterans Affairs is helping the family as final arrangements are made.

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Chong throws his hat in the ring

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Michael Chong joined the Conservative leadership race Monday, breaking ranks with the party’s long-standing opposition to carbon pricing but falling in line on face coverings — a controversy many believe cost the party votes last October.

Chong, a southern Ontario member of Parliament, said with carbon pricing already in effect at the provincial level, the federal Tories must refocus their energies on ensuring the revenues go towards reducing taxes.

It’s part of a broad rethink of environmental policy Chong, 45, said he will bring to the race — one he considers necessary if the Conservatives are to attract new voters and win back the trust of those who deserted them last fall.

“We have to attract younger people to our party and that begins by shifting our positions on issues like the environment,” Chong told a news conference.

The Tories were thrust into a leadership contest after former prime minister Stephen Harper stepped down as party chief on election night.

His resignation followed a campaign that critics, and later Conservatives themselves, said was marked too much by divisive policies such as the call for a “barbaric practices” tip line and the relentless push for a ban on wearing face veils during citizenship ceremonies.

Chong said he didn’t see those two issues as the sole reasons his party was reduced to Opposition status.

But while he disagreed with the tip line, he said he does support the face covering ban, though wouldn’t necessarily push to have it enshrined in legislation.

“I agree with the government’s decision on the niqab in respect of citizenship ceremonies,” Chong said.

“We live in a free society and people can wear what they want. However, I also believe that in a free and democratic society it is reasonable under Section 1 of the charter for the state to put a limit on that right in very limited circumstances.” He called citizenship ceremonies one of those circumstances.

Chong, whose father was a Chinese immigrant from Hong Kong and mother a Dutch immigrant from the Netherlands, was first elected in 2004 in the riding of Wellington-Halton Hills. He went on to serve in Harper’s cabinet as intergovernmental affairs minister.

But he resigned from that position in 2006 because he didn’t support a motion recognizing Quebecers as a nation, calling it ethnic nationalism. He said Monday he stands by that position even today.

From his seat on the backbenches, he spearheaded legislation to give individual MPs more power. A bill to that effect became law last fall.

As the child of immigrants, Chong said his decision to run was influenced by his upbringing and his family’s past.

“My family’s Canadian story is also the conservative story: it’s a story of hard work, of perseverance, of counting your pennies and investing in your children’s future,” he said.

Ontario MP Kellie Leitch and Quebec MP Maxime Bernier are the other two candidates currently in the race but several others are considering putting their names forward as well.

The Conservatives will gather at the end of this month for a policy convention and will choose their next leader in May 2017.

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Conservative MP Michael Chong announces he will run for the leadership of the party during a news conference in Ottawa, Monday.

Guns and other policies up for debate at Tory convention Environment and economy: ● At least three resolutions propose changes to the party’s existing statement on environmental principles.

One calls for a commitment to keeping municipal drinking water and sewage free of heavy metals and other pollutants another proposes adding that the party believes in the “principles of conservation and stewardship of renewable resources.” ● Remove the words “greenhouse gas” from the section on clean air and greenhouse gas reductions and replace it with the word smog, among other amendments. ● “The Conservative party supports banning unpaid internships in any federally regulated institution or enterprise that are more than eight weeks in duration and not supervised by an accredited educational institution.” ● Removing a very lengthy section on tax relief and replace it with “The Conservative party supports broadbased tax relief.” ● “We believe the government should support and encourage the private development of the Energy East pipeline.”

Criminal justice and social policy: ● The Conservative party “supports conscience rights for doctors, nurses and others to refuse to participate in or refer their patients for abortion, assisted suicide or euthanasia.” ● “A Conservative government recognizes that civilian

firearms ownership is a Canadian heritage” as part of three other modifications to existing policy on firearms. ● That peace officers be enabled to issue tickets for simple possession of small quantities of marijuana. ● That the existing policy stating the party would not support any legislation on assisted suicide be replaced with a call for national standards to govern such legislation because “we believe that all Canadians have the inalienable and private right, after deep personal reflection, to make their own end-of-life decisions.” ● Removal of existing ban on supporting same-sex marriage legislation, while adding support for freedom of religious organizations to refuse to perform unions or allow use of their facilities for events that are incompatible with their faith and beliefs.

The role of government: ● That a national referendum must be held prior to implementing any future electoral reform proposal.

Foreign policy, Canadian culture and diversity: ● Establish year-round manned bases in the North to solidify sovereignty and increase infrastructure for development. ● That the party believes in a “mutual obligation in the form of a military covenant between the people of Canada and each individual member of the Canadian Forces … this covenant recognizes that there is no equivalent profession to that of service in the Canadian Forces.” ● Adding the words “safety to Canadians” as part of a statement on how refugee resettlement should be approached.

‘He is not a criminal,’ wife writes to judge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The wife of a Toronto police officer found guilty of attempted murder in the shooting death of a troubled teen says her husband doesn’t deserve to go to jail because he isn’t a risk to society.

Irina Forcillo has made her plea to Justice Edward Then in a letter submitted as part of Const.

James Forcillo’s sentencing hearing, which is to hear lawyers from Crown and defence lawyers on Wednesday.

“I do not see how James can ever be in jail. He is not a danger to the public, I assure you of that!” the mother of two wrote. “In fact, he is the one whose purpose has always been to protect.”

Forcillo has been out on bail ever since being charged in the July 2013 death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, who was gunned down while holding a small knife on an empty streetcar.

The incident, which was captured on cellphone video that went viral, triggered public outrage and prompted Toronto’s police chief to launch a review of officers’ use of force and their response to emotionally disturbed people.

In January, after a lengthy trial, a jury acquitted Forcillo of second-degree murder in Yatim’s death,

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Const. James Forcillo leaves court in Toronto on Monday after a suspension in his sentencing hearing. but found the officer guilty of attempted murder for continuing to fire after the dying teen had fallen to the floor.

Forcillo’s lawyers have since filed a constitutional challenge to the mandatory minimum sentence of four or five years the officer faces, asking a court to consider a sentence of house arrest for the man rath-

Canada introduce latest astronaut

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Quebec engineer and doctor David Saint-Jacques says he’s not entirely sure why he was chosen to become the next Canadian to work aboard the International Space Station — but he’ll gladly accept the mission.

“They had to pick one of us,” Saint-Jacques said when asked why he believed he was chosen over his co-astronaut-in-training Jeremy Hansen.

“I guess the important (thing) is that there are two space flights coming up for Canada. This is the first one and I’m looking forward for (Hansen) getting the next shot.”

DAVID Saint-Jacques, 46, is scheduled to travel to space aboard SAINT-JACQUES the Russian Soyuz rocket for a six-month mission in November 2018.

“I promise to live up to your expectations,” SaintJacques told a group of schoolchildren gathered Monday at an Ottawa museum, where Minister of Science and Innovation Navdeep Bains announced the assignment.

“A mission like this makes Canada much bigger.”

Training for Saint-Jacques, who is a medical, engineering and astrophysics specialist, begins this summer in Canada, Russia, Japan and the United

States.

Saint-Jacques said he was inspired to be an astronaut by the many Canadians who flew out of Earth’s atmosphere before him.

“I stand on the shoulders of giants,” he said. “The astronauts who have preceded me, they were my childhood inspiration, my colleagues and my mentors.”

He’ll become the ninth Canadian to travel to space, six of whom worked at the International Space Station. In all, Canadians have made 16 space flights to date.

“These men and women have captured our imagination, motivated us to work and study harder, and inspired us to be our best,” said Bains.

Chris Hadfield, who was commander of the International Space Station in 2013, was the most recent Canadian in space, and won global notoriety by using his must-follow Twitter feed to routinely post photos, comments and videos, including several of himself singing and strumming his guitar. His rendition of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” was a sensation around the world.

Last year, the federal government announced that two Canadian astronauts would be going to the space station in the next decade — one by 2019 and one by 2024 — but didn’t specify who would be next.

Saint-Jacques and Hansen are the only two active members of the Canadian Astronaut Corps.

Both were sent to train at NASA’s space centre in Houston, Texas shortly after being chosen for astronaut school in 2009.

Born in Quebec City, Saint-Jacques is a married father of two children with a taste for adventure as an avid mountain climber, cyclist and skier.

er than time in prison.

Irina Forcillo, in her letter to the judge who will decide Forcillo’s sentence, explained why she believes her husband should not be sent to prison.

“He is not a criminal. He is a police officer who had an extremely dangerous and tragic encounter.”

It’s a sentiment echoed by Forcillo’s lawyers, who argue that certain sections of the Criminal Code involving the mandatory minimum sentence for attempted murder are unconstitutional and weren’t meant to deal with cases like Forcillo’s.

They argue that Forcillo was duty-bound to protect the public from a knife-wielding Yatim, trained to draw his gun and had been found to be justified in killing Yatim.

Irina Forcillo also emphasized the devastating impact a jail sentence would have on her family.

“If he is to be sent away, I will not be able to go on with my life,” she wrote, noting that she and her two young daughters would lose their home and have to move into her parents’ basement.

“The worst part is how am I going to explain this to my five- and six-year-old girls. What will I tell them? That daddy was trying to protect people but unfortunate events happened and now he has to go to jail. Jail, where drug dealers, rapists and real cold-hearted murderers go.”

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Duterte unveils agenda PRESIDENT-ELECT TO OFFER CABINET POSTS TO REBELS

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he will reimpose the death penalty, offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, and move to amend the constitution to give more power to the provinces, in some of his first policy pronouncements since winning last week’s election based on an unofficial count.

In his first nationally televised news conference since the May 9 vote, Duterte also said he will launch a major military offensive to destroy Abu Sayyaf extremists on southern Jolo Island.

The announcements, a sharp departure from current government policy, reflect his brash campaign pledge to end crime and corruption in the impoverished nation in three to six months. Police officials have said the plan is undoable, and that crime remains prevalent in Davao city, where Duterte has served as mayor for more than 22 years.

The military has been fighting a decades-long Marxist insurgency in the countryside.

Duterte said he would likely offer the Cabinet posts of environment and natural resources, agrarian reform,

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Presumptive president-elect Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from the media during a news conference in Davao city southern Philippines Monday. social welfare, and labour to the communist rebels.

“They are the most vigilant group in the Philippines about labour so they would get it,” Duterte said.

The move would likely be strongly opposed by big business and industry.

Duterte said he would ask Congress to reimpose the death penalty, which

has been suspended since 2006 in the face of staunch opposition from the dominant Roman Catholic church.

Capital punishment by hanging, he said, should be imposed for heinous crimes, and criminals convicted of killing along with robbery and rape should be meted “double the hanging.”

“After the first hanging, there will

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MURDER: Personality changed Killed were Kaitlin Perras, 23 Lawrence Hong, 27 Josh Hunter, 23 Zackariah Rathwell, 21 and Jordan Segura, 22. Hunter, Hong and Segura all attended the University of Calgary.

Perras studied at Mount Royal University and Rathwell was a student at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Prosecutor Neil Wiberg spent more than an hour reading out the agreed statement of facts that contained details from de Grood’s interview with police. The judge also lifted a publication ban on material submitted by police to obtain search warrants.

The unsealed documents detailed how de Grood, the son of a high-ranking Calgary police officer, was “a good boy, kind and compassionate” until his personality began to change about a month before the stabbings.

He began spending time alone and became quiet and withdrawn. He added a number of unusual posts on Facebook, including quotes from Mega Death lyrics, quotes from the Bible and ramblings on reincarnation.

A childhood friend invited de Grood to the party. De Grood had just finished a shift at Safeway and wore his uniform. The friend noted how de Grood was acting strange. He made a number of odd rambling statements including “Obama was the Antichrist.”

The agreed facts said de Grood handed his friend a clove of garlic stating that “he may need it.” He also passed him a knife similar to a bread knife with a serrated blade.

Once at the party de Grood put on a pair of blue latex gloves.

De Grood told police that he felt he had to attack Rathwell, a budding young musician, before Rathwell attacked him. He told police the two had a disagreement over Buddhism. De Grood grabbed a chef’s knife with a 21-centimetre blade from a knife block in the kitchen.

“I asked him to give me my space.

We were walking toward the knife block, so I decided to shoot first because I didn’t know what he was going to do so I stabbed him,” de Grood is quoted in the unsealed documents as telling officers.

“Then the people on the couch saw and obviously started freaking out, so I killed them from left to right as quickly as I could. The girl ran into the corner so I went and stabbed her. I said I’m sorry I have to do this. Then the guy from the kitchen wasn’t dead. I had to hunt him down. Then I just left.”

De Grood’s friend and some others had gone out to get something to eat and came back to chaos.

“He heard screams from a female believed to be Katie. This was followed by Josh running out of the house with de Grood chasing him,” read the court documents.

Police received a series of 911 calls beginning at 1:22 a.m.

Documents say one of the first officers on the scene described a “large amount of blood and carnage.”

“Upon entering the front door, there was panic throughout the main floor.

Two male victims lying head to head on the floor were motionless in a large pool of blood. People were attending to them but they were deceased,” reported the officer.

“A fourth male victim was found lying in a fetal position on a couch while a male kept pressure to the wound to his neck. This victim was also deceased.”

De Grood was arrested and taken into custody a short time later and interviewed by police.

“What I did may seem atrocious but I was killing Medusas, werewolves,” he told the officers.

be another ceremony for the second time until the head is completely severed from the body,” he said.

Commission on Human Rights Chairman Chito Gascon said his agency opposes the death penalty and would block any attempt to reimpose it, adding that the constitution forbids cruel and degrading punishments like hanging.

“In a country where the rule of law has so many loopholes and problems, what will happen is the possibility of a mistaken conviction,” Gascon said by telephone.

Duterte also plans to switch to a federal form of government, aiming to give more power and resources to regions, including the country’s south, where Davao city is located. Such a change would require an amendment to the constitution.

In a populist move, Duterte said he would sell the presidential yacht and use the money to buy medical equipment for military and police personnel.

“When people are hungry and jobless …it would be an obscene thing” to have the luxury vessel lying unused, he said.

TV network ABS-CBN also quoted him as telling reporters in Davao late Sunday that he plans to ban the use of luxury cars among his Cabinet members and will use his personal pickup truck as his official presidential vehicle.

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Gregg Perras, centre, the father of Kaiti Perras, reads a statement to the media on behalf of the immediate family of Lawrence Hong, Joshua Hunter, Zackariah Rathwell and Jordan Segura.

A LOOK AT THE FIVE STUDENTS Jordan Segura, 22: He was a religious studies student at the University of Calgary and worked parttime at funeral home McInnis & Holloway.

Segura’s boss, Ernie Hagel, has said Segura would have been a great funeral director — he wanted to serve people. ★★★ Kaitlin Perras, 23: She attended Mount Royal University and was passionate about dance, studying at the Counterpoint Dance Academy for several years. At her funeral, an uncle described her as a “tiny girl with such huge courage.” ★★★ Lawrence Hong, 27: He was on the cusp of completing the urban studies program at the University of Calgary and his bachelor’s degree was granted posthumously. Hong has been He has been undergoing treatment at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre since his arrest.

The victims’ families made a statement on the courthouse steps before the start of the trial in which they urged people to focus on their loved ones. De Grood’s parents, Douglas and Susan de Grood, were also in court and sat in the front row.

“The priority for us during this trial is to ensure that our loved ones will be given the full and just attention that they deserve,” read Greg Perras, Kaitlin’s father. “All we ask is that you remember how they lived — with purpose, with life, with goodness and love for their friends and family.”

The statement said the last two years have been extremely difficult, incredibly long and anxiety-ridden for the families.

“There’s no such thing as a new normal that some people talk about,” Perras said. “There is only existing, surviving, and a series of bitter-sweet events going forward in our families lives such as graduations, weddings and grandchildren.

“These milestones will be happy and they will be sad.”

described as a social butterfly who loved fashion and had a passion for cycling and urban planning. ★★★ Zackariah Rathwell, 21: He was a first-year student at the Alberta College of Art and Design and an avid musician. His band, Zackariah and the Prophets, played an album release party the weekend before the tragedy.

Rathwell was athletic, artistic and spent years as a Boy Scout, his father said at his funeral. ★★★ Josh Hunter, 23: He was a commerce student at the University of Calgary and drummer with Zackariah and the Prophets. He has been remembered as having strong morals and a knack for making those around him feel welcome.

choose to enact their own fire bans, restrictions or advisories.

To find out about local fire bans go to www.albertafirebans.ca.

Shellian said people still have to be careful no matter where they are in the province when it comes to wildfires and respecting the land.

Bans may have been lifted in Southern Alberta and a small portion of

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The entire population of Fort McMurray, more than 80,000 residents, are now entering their third week away from home. Many of the work camps were used to house evacuated residents who fled north when fire broke through into the city the afternoon of May 3.

Those residents were taken to points south, including Edmonton and Calgary, several days ago and workers were moved back in to begin ramping up oilsands production again.

About 2,400 structures were destroyed in Fort McMurray, but essential infrastructure, including the hospital, water treatment plant and the airport, remain intact.

Crews continued to battle hot spots on the edge of the city Monday while the fire still raged out of control deeper in the forest.

“The original fire does provide a very good fire guard for firefighters to work from,” said Morrison. “They have done a very, very good job of holding the line there and with the extra fire guard I believe that they will be quite successful.”

Earlier Monday, officials warned the air quality in the Fort McMurray area was dangerously poor.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the air quality health index is normally one to 10, with 10 being the worst, but the reading this morning was at 38.

Notley said the conditions were hampering efforts to get residents back to their homes.

“Alberta Health Services has recommended that members of the public who had been previously arranging to return to the area under various requests not return until those conditions improve,” Notley said. “This is something that could potentially delay recovery work and a return to the community.”-

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Penn West faces showdown with banks LATEST OILPATCH COMPANY TO HAVE TROUBLE WITH DEBT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Concerns mounted in the oilpatch after one of Calgary’s oldest oil and gas production companies warned Monday it was facing the possibility of defaulting on its debt by the end of next month.

Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:PWT) said it could be in violation of its agreements with its lenders by June 30 if it can’t negotiate some form of loan relief.

The firm, the latest member of the oilpatch to face a showdown with lenders amid depressed crude prices, said it has hired investment banking firm Rothschild Group and accounting company PwC as advisers to try to ease its loan conditions.

A default would allow the lenders to demand immediate repayment.

“We are focused on reaching an agreement with our lenders in the current quarter,” Penn West chief financial officer David Dyck said on a quarterly earnings conference call.

“Otherwise, at current commodity

price levels, we believe we will not be in compliance with our existing financial covenants at the end of the second quarter.”

Dyck said Penn West was in compliance as of the end of the first quarter on March 31.

Meanwhile, junior oilsands producer Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. (TSX:CLC) announced Monday afternoon it had asked an Alberta court for protection from its creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Connacher emerged from court protection last May after arranging a restructuring that resulted in creditors owed $1 billion taking almost all of its equity. It said Monday it plans to ask the court for permission to seek a buyer.

Penn West president and chief executive Dave Roberts said Monday that Penn West will continue to sell assets, adding to $1 billion in sales since the end of last year.

“I believe we can achieve more and we will continue to strive for additional asset dispositions to further reduce our debt,” he said on the call. “Our top

priority for 2016 remains improvement in the health of our balance sheet.”

Under an agreement with its lending syndicate, Penn West must maintain a certain ratio of senior and total debt to adjusted earnings. But low commodity prices and shrinking production have reduced earnings much faster than debt.

Analyst Brian Kristjansen of Dundee Capital Markets said even if Penn West is able to negotiate loan relief, it will likely pay for it in much higher interest, and it may be forced to sell off oil assets it otherwise wouldn’t.

“The company has said repeatedly in the past they are not going to sell their best assets but, when push comes to shove, they’re going to have to,” Kristjansen said.

While all Calgary energy producers have been hit by lower commodity prices, Kristjansen said intermediate-sized Penn West and rival Lightstream Resources Ltd. are most at risk of action by their lenders because of their high debt levels.

Penn West had total debt of $1.87 billion as of March 31 and Light-

stream’s was $1.6 billion at the end of 2015.

Earlier this month, Lightstream announced that its lenders had slashed the amount it was able to borrow from them from $550 million to $250 million, but they owe those lenders $371 million. That kicked off a 90-day countdown to renegotiate with the lenders, sell assets or pay down debt and avoid default.

“There’s a dire need for something to happen,” Kristjansen said.

Shares in Penn West plunged to penny-stock status Monday, settling at 82 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange, a decline of nearly 22 per cent from Friday’s close.

The company was founded in 1979.

It reduced its workforce by 560 people last year, leaving 718 employees at year-end.

The company reported Monday a first-quarter net loss of $100 million or 20 cents per share versus $248 million or 49 cents per share a year ago. Revenue was down 32 per cent, dropping to $231 million from $340 million.

Home sales set record: CREA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The number of homes sold in Canada last month hit a record as supply tightened, particularly in the Toronto area, where a fiercely competitive market is dissuading some homeowners from putting their properties up for sale, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.

There were 57,669 homes sold nationwide over the Multiple Listing Service in April, a 10.3 per cent increase from the same month last year, the industry organization said.

The rise in sales came as the number of new homes put up for sale slipped 3.7 per cent from a year ago to 103,028.

That trend was even more pronounced in the Toronto area, where new listings were down 10.3 per cent compared to April 2015.

“While significant home price gains may entice some homeowners in these markets to list their home for sale, the issue for many is that the decision to move means they would also be looking to buy while competition for scarce listings is fierce,” CREA chief economist Gregory Klump said.“As a result, many homeowners are deciding to stay put and continue accumulating capital gains. That’s keeping listings off the markets at a time when they are already in short supply.”

Still, CREA says sales in April were up year-over-year in about 70 per cent of all local markets compared with a year ago, boosted by B.C. and the Toronto region.

Compared with March, sales were up 3.1 per cent in April, while new listings declined 0.2 per cent.

Month-to-month figures for Vancouver and Toronto suggest the two frothy markets may be starting to cool, CREA president Cliff Iverson said.

In the greater Vancouver area, April sales were virtually flat from the previous month — up a meagre 0.1 per cent — while in greater Toronto sales climbed 3.2 per cent on a month-tomonth basis.

That comes on the heels of a tepid March, when Vancouver and Toronto saw sales fall 0.3 per cent and 1.8 per cent, respectively, from February.

TD economist Diana Petramala says the data suggests that new federal rules that came into effect in mid-February and require larger down payments for homes between $500,000 and $1 million have had some impact on the two markets.

“Activity was down or flat in both for the second consecutive month, suggesting that a soft-landing may be in store for these red-hot markets,” Petramala said. “Nationally, the effect of the new rules appears to be more than offset by low interest rates. After edging up in the early part of the year, Canadian mortgage rates came back down to record low levels again by March.”

The national average price for homes sold in April rose 13.1 per cent from a year ago to $508,097.

Excluding the greater Vancouver and greater Toronto markets, the average price was $369,222, up 8.7 per cent from April 2015. The national sales-tonew listings ratio rose to 64.5 per cent in April, the ratio’s tightest reading since October 2009.

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Truck driver Nadine Gauthier is seen at the wheel of a truck Friday, in Montreal. Gauthier, a former truck driver, is working on behalf of Quebec’s trucking association to encourage more women and girls to consider careers as truck drivers.

Trucking industry struggling to attract next generation of drivers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — After 40 years as a truck driver, Jack Fielding says it’s easier to name the places in North America where he hasn’t been than the ones he has.

And after driving five million kilometres, the 57 year-old still enjoys the freedom of the road.

“For the most part, there’s nobody looking over my shoulder telling me what to do,” says Fielding, who hails from McKellar, Ont. “I have an assignment and I’m left to do it at my own pace and how I think it should be done.”

But as Fielding and thousands like him near retirement age, the industry is struggling to recruit young people who share his enthusiasm for the job.

This means the industry is facing a looming labour shortage that could reach 48,000 drivers by 2024, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

The average age of a truck driver is over 47 — up from 45 in 2013 — and almost 30 per cent of the driving force is 55 or over, which makes it one of the oldest workforces in Canada, according to the organization’s president.

“Tens of thousands of them are nearing retirement and we’re not getting anywhere near our commensurate share of new drivers into the business,” says David Bradley.

There are multiple reasons for the looming shortage, but many believe the lifestyle simply isn’t attractive to a younger generation.

Fielding, for example, usually works 10-14 days straight, with three days off between trips. Schedules are not set in advance, and drivers often

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work 12 hours or more a day.

“You’re not home with your friends on Friday nights having parties,” he says. “If you have a family you might miss out on birthdays and things like that.”

Bradley says this makes it harder to attract younger people or those with families, who tend to place a higher emphasis on work-life balance than older generations.

It may also explain why the industry struggles to recruit women, who make up only about four to six per cent of the driving population.

Nadine Gauthier, who spent six years driving shipping containers in and around the Montreal area, is trying to change that.

The 43-year old, now a supervisor for Simard Transport, also works on behalf of Quebec’s trucking association to convince girls and women that trucking isn’t just a “man’s world.”

She says that while the first women “pioneers” may have been given a hard time, the industry has become very welcoming to women.

“I sincerely think men like having women in their teams and at the heart of the company,” she notes. “It brings a new dynamic, and men are very respectful of that.”

The average salary for a truck driver was listed as $40,728 in 2011, although Bradley says long-haul truck drivers can easily make $7080,000 a year.

However, they’re often paid by the mile, which means their income can fluctuate based on unexpected delays or traffic. They also tend to work longer hours than the rest of the population.

It’s also difficult to hire immigrants, except under the Temporary Foreign Worker program, since truck

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Bradley says the current economic downturn in Canada — particularly in the oil industry — has alleviated the shortage for the moment.

But he believes long-term solutions are needed to ensure people who enter the profession stay there, instead of viewing it as a stop-gap between jobs.

The industry is working to change the classification of truck driving to semi-skilled or skilled, which Bradley says is key to getting more resources for training and attracting career-oriented candidates.

Provinces are also working on implementing their own regulations and mandatory training standards.

In its own bid to address the shortage, the Quebec government has introduced a training program for 17and-18 year old wannabe truckers.

Students are partnered with companies that agree to give them internships at the end of the four-month course, which often lead to permanent jobs.

One recent graduate, 20-year-old Anthony Boisvert, was hired straight out of school and already has two years under his belt as a long-distance trucker for Groupe Robert.

He loves the job, including the 6080 hour workweeks and stretches of four to five days away from home, but realizes it isn’t for everyone.

“It’s more a passion than a job,” he says.

Bradley says that although individual companies are looking at scheduling, wages and recruitment strategies to tackle the shortage, change is slow to come.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — An upbeat forecast from a big U.S. investment bank, along with fears over how a disruption in crude production in Nigeria will impact global supply, helped rally oil prices to a six-month high Monday.

The June contract for benchmark North American crude rose $1.51 to US$47.72 a barrel, a level not seen since Nov. 3, when it settled at US$47.90.

Higher oil prices helped lift Canada’s largest stock market, the S&P/TSX composite index, up one per cent or 144.91 points to 13,893.49. All sectors rose on the TSX, with mining and energy companies leading the charge.

The positive sentiment in oil is being driven by production problems due to conflict in Nigeria, adding to ongoing cutbacks by oilsands producers in the fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Alta., area.

Temporary stoppages in both places have helped ease the glut in global supply and raise crude prices.

Oil prices also got a boost from a forecast from Goldman Sachs that said the crude market has gone from oversupply to a “deficit” much earlier than expected.

Goldman Sachs, normally bearish on oil, now predicts West Texas Intermediate crude will rise to US$50 in the second half of this year after having earlier predicted it could drop below US$20 barrel amid increasing supplies and flagging demand.

“All of that is compounding on the outlook to push prices a little higher,” said Craig Fehr, a Canadian markets strategist with Edward Jones in St. Louis.

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“What we’ve seen is a steady outlook for global demand coupled with a reduced outlook for supply given the disruptions in Nigeria and elsewhere. That combination has really put a floor underneath oil very recently.”

Fehr warned that oil prices will continue to stay volatile at these levels, and does not expect them to rise to US$70-80 a barrel in the near term.

The crude rally also helped send the oil-sensitive Canadian dollar higher, with the currency gaining 0.23 of a U.S. cent to 77.54 cents US. Elsewhere in commodities, July natural gas slumped seven cents to US$2.18 per mmBtu, while June gold edged up $1.50 to US$1,274.20 a troy ounce. July copper added two cents to US$2.09 a pound.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrials shot up 175.39 points to 17,710.71, while the broader S&P 500 rose 20.05 points to 2,066.66 and the Nasdaq added 57.78 points to 4,775.46, with help from a big gain in the shares of tech giant Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL).

Regulatory documents show that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought 9.8 million Apple shares in the first quarter, a stake now worth nearly US$1 billion. Apple stock rose $3.36 or 3.71 per cent to US$93.88.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,893.49, up 144.91 points Dow — 17,710.71, up 175.39 points S&P 500 — 2,066.66, up

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The Calgary company announced Monday that it had asked the Court of Queen’s Bench for shielding under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act while it tries to arrange a sale of its business in whole or in part.

Its restructuring last May resulted in creditors owed $1 billion taking over almost the entire company.

Connacher’s oilsands project reduced production when recent wildfires prevented access to its site south of Fort McMurray, but the company said its decision Monday was related to current depressed prices for oil and its limited ability to access capital to carry on.

In March, the company launched a process to review financing alternatives.

And it deferred until June an interest payment due March 31 on debt of US$35 million issued under last May’s restructuring agreement.

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.18 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.16 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.44 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.820 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.62 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.98 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.680 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.34 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 43.09 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2200 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.35 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.93 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.26 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.13 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.63 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.72 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.36 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.08 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.03 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.180 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.01 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.57 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.18

20.05 points Nasdaq — 4,775.46, up 57.78 points Currencies: Cdn — 77.54 cents US, up 0.23 of a cent Pound — C$1.8563, down 0.23 of a cent Euro — C$1.4597, down 0.34 of a cent Euro — US$1.1319, up 0.08 of a cent Oil futures: US$47.72 per barrel, up $1.51 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,274.20 per oz., up $1.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.195 oz., up 18.9 cents $745.72 kg., up $6.08 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $0.10 higher $515.90 Nov. ‘16 unchanged $512.90 Jan. ‘17 $0.20 lower $516.70 March ‘17 $0.30 higher $517.30 May ‘17 $1.60 higher $517.50 July ‘17 $2.00 higher $517.70 Nov. ‘17 $2.20 higher $505.80 Jan. ‘18 $2.20 higher $505.80 March ‘18 $2.20 higher $505.80 May ‘18 $2.20 higher $505.80.

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

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 251,860 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 251,860.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau met Monday for the first time with his group of hand-picked advisers who will help the federal government create a plan to boost Canada’s longterm growth.

The advisory council, which also met with several of Morneau’s cabinet colleagues, is made up of 14 leaders with backgrounds in business, academia and the administration of public pension funds.

Much of the discussion at the meeting north of Ottawa was dedicated to exploring how the government can work together with institutional investors, such as public pension plans, to help pay for infrastructure projects, Morneau told CBC in an interview.

He said he deliberately sought out the expertise of public pension funds by inviting the heads of two major plans to join his council — Mark Wiseman of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Michael Sabia of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec.

“We can keep the money here, it will help Canadian retirees, so we’re thinking about, how can we amplify the federal investment by finding ways to work together with institutional investors?” Morneau told CBC. “We’re actively engaged in that discussion.

“That was a significant part of our day today because, as I said, we want to think about the long term and how we have the biggest impact — and they’ll be part of that.”

The Liberal government has committed to doubling infrastructure spending over the next decade, which will raise the overall federal investment to $120 billion.

They say increasing infrastructure spending will improve productivity

and create jobs.

That extra infrastructure spending, however, will contribute to five straight budgetary shortfalls that could inflate Canada’s public debt by another $110 billion.

Ottawa is seeking other sources of cash that could allow the government to expand the number of infrastructure projects while helping prevent the country from sinking even deeper into deficit.

Morneau has said investors like Canada’s pension funds have international expertise investing in big infrastructure projects.

Senior Liberals, including Morneau, have been praising a funding model for a $5.5-billion light-rail proposal for Montreal.

The partnership would include investments from Ottawa, the Quebec government and the Caisse pension fund.

Last week, Morneau said Ottawa is studying the Caisse’s plan with “lots of interest.”

The Finance Department said council members were joined Monday by Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi and Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk at the meeting in Chelsea, Que. The group is also expected to look for solutions that will address concerns such as helping more graduates find jobs out of university and managing the looming economic challenges posed by the aging population.

The government said one of its primary goals is to find ways to improve the economy over the very long term by, among other things, exploring how Canada can take advantage of its skilled workforce, available resources and strong fiscal position.

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Crosby carries Penguins to OT win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Penguins 3 Lightning 2 (OT) PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby wasn’t sure Bryan Rust saw him, so the Pittsburgh Penguins captain gave his impromptu linemate a quick yell just to make sure.

“I tried to let him know I was there,” Crosby said.

A deft drop pass from Rust and a flick of Crosby’s wrist later, the superstar’s lengthy post-season scoring drought was over. So were the chances of the Penguins falling into a deep hole against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference finals.

Crosby’s shot sailed high and hard over Andrei Vasilevskiy’s stick 40 seconds into overtime on Monday night, lifting the Penguins to a 3-2 victory and tying the best-of-seven series at 1. Game 3 is Wednesday night in Tampa.

“It feels good to get rewarded,” Crosby said after collecting the first overtime playoff winner of his NHL career. “I feel we deserved it tonight.”

Crosby hadn’t found the back of the net since Game 4 of the opening round against the New York Rangers, though Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper downplayed the idea that the two-time MVP was in a slump, pointing out a cold streak for Crosby is a hot streak for most others.

Yet most others aren’t Crosby. In danger of heading south down 2-0, Crosby generated scoring chance after scoring chance, including a backhand in the second period that appeared destined for an open net before Vasilevskiy stretched his glove out to make a save that could have tilted the balance of power in the series.

Instead, it only seemed to lift the Penguins to another level. Pittsburgh dominated most of the night, outshooting Tampa Bay 41-21 while spending most of the game in the Lightning zone. Only the brilliant play of the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy — filling in for injured starter Ben Bishop — kept Tampa Bay in it.

“He was outstanding,” Cooper said. “You never want to lose your No. 1 guy in (Bishop) but …. Vasi was probably the reason why the game went to overtime in the first place.”

Vasilevskiy finished with 38 stops, but darted toward the dressing room after he moved too far to his left when squaring to face Crosby, giving Crosby all the room he needed to score perhaps the second-most important goal of his life after his overtime winner for Team Canada in the gold medal game of the 2010 Olympics.

That goal proved cathartic for his home country.

This one could do the same for Crosby’s adopted city,

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, second from left, celebrates with teammates Matt Cullen (7), Brian Dumoulin (8), Kris Letang (58) and Patric Hornqvist. right, after scoring the game winning goal in the overtime period of Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Monday, in Pittsburgh. The Penguins won 3-2. one in desperate need of a Stanley Cup to bookend the one Crosby helped claim in 2009.

The Penguins still haven’t lost consecutive games of any variety since January and none with the usual allotment of men on the ice since coach Mike Sullivan’s first week on the job back in December.

“We just stayed with it,” Sullivan said. “We tried to play the game the right way. That’s what I like the most about the group. As the game wore on we got better and better.”

Matt Cullen and Phil Kessel scored during Pittsburgh’s two-goal burst to start the game and Matt Murray rebounded from a shaky start to finish with

19 saves, including stuffing Alex Killorn on a breakaway late in the second period of a tie game.

“It was a huge save, there’s no doubt,” Sullivan said. “Matt’s history has been he’s always responded pretty solid when he thinks he could have had one or would have liked one back.”

Anton Stralman scored in his return to the lineup from a fractured left leg and Jonathan Drouin picked up his second goal of the series, but the Lightning lost for just the third time in 12 post-season games.

“It’s hard for us to swallow,” Drouin said. “You could have a 2-0 lead going to your building but we’ve got to go home and make sure we’re ready.”

Sharks hope to see more calls on Blues in Game 2

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada’s Mark Scheifele, right, fights for the puck with France’s Maxime Moisand during the Hockey World Championships Group B match in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday.

Canada blanks France to stay perfect

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 4 France 0 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Ryan Ellis fought off fatigue and jet lag and made an immediate contribution to Canada’s world title defence.

The Nashville Predators defenceman played a team-high 21 minutes 19 seconds as Canada downed France 4-0 Monday at the world hockey championship, setting up a winner-take-all matchup with Finland for first place in Group B. Ellis joined Canada after the Predators were eliminated from the NHL playoffs on Thursday. He said it was tough to get thrown into world championship action after two seven-game NHL playoff series and an intercontinental flight.

“I don’t think I even found my legs throughout the whole game,” said Ellis. “It was a tough travel day yesterday but the guys played great. It’s easy to play with a guy like (defence partner) Ryan Murray and with the rest of the guys on the ice. I just tried to do my part.”

Calvin Pickard made 13 saves to pick up a shutout in his second start as Canada improved its record to 6-0, tied for first place in the group with the Finns at 18 points.

Canada and Finland, led by top draft prospect Patrik Laine, meet Tuesday in the final round-robin game for both teams. The winner will face the fourth-place team from Group A in the quarter-finals.

With the tournament’s medal round starting Thursday, the Canadians used Monday night’s game as a tuneup. That gave Ellis a chance to get used to his new team.

“He’s a very smart player,” said Murray. “He’s obviously an offensive guy and we’re really happy to have him.”

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Ben Hutton was scratched for the first time in the tournament to make room for Ellis. Hutton was on the bench for Canada’s 5-0 win over Slovakia on Saturday night but didn’t play a shift.

Ellis picked up his first point of the tournament as time expired on a second-period power play, getting an assist when Matt Duchene slid a goalmouth rebound past French netminder Ronan Quemener to give Canada a 2-0 lead.

“Good to get him in the game and good to get the five years of NHL pro hockey experience on our back end,” said head coach Bill Peters after the game. “We saw him at the hotel upon arrival, he looked quite tired. Today, no pre-game skate, then he hopped out there and played 20 minutes.”

Mark Stone opened the scoring on a first-period power play with his third goal of the tournament, converting a nice give-and-go from Taylor Hall and Connor McDavid with a wrist shot from the slot.

Mark Scheifele and Corey Perry added insurance goals in the third.

Ellis also gave the French team a penalty shot opportunity at the 1:33 mark of the second period when he slashed forward Jordann Perret on the wrist, but shooter Charles Bertrand failed to get the puck on the net.

“I just tried to stay patient,” said Pickard, who was challenged on some point-blank opportunities despite facing a relatively small number of shots.

“It was a big part of the game. It was 1-0 at the start of the second, so I wanted to stay patient. He kind of lost the puck there-it was a good result for sure.”

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

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ST. LOUIS — The San Jose Sharks got just three power plays in their Game 1 loss to open the Western Conference finals, and no call when Joe Thornton’s bushy beard got tugged on by St. Louis Blues captain David Backes in the first period.

Coach Peter DeBoer didn’t make a big deal about it Monday. Still, he believes his team deserved a lot more chances with the man advantage, and is hopeful referees will have a firmer grip in Game 2 on Tuesday night.

“St. Louis is one of the most-penalized teams in the league, regular season and playoffs,” DeBoer said. “They need to call the game accordingly.

Need to make them pay a price for being the most-penalized team in the power play, which we didn’t last night.”

The Blues were the ninth-most penalized team in the regular season and they’ve got the second-most minutes in the post-season, although they’ve played more games than anybody.

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock, informed of those comments, wanted to know whether DeBoer was “whining for calls.”

“Well, we were told not to whine for calls, so we’re not going to whine for calls,” Hitchcock said. “We’ll play the game, we’ll play it the right way, we’ll play it honest, but we’ll play it hard, let the refs decide.”

Five minor penalties were called, three on the Blues, and there were none in the second period when the Sharks were at their best, ringing up a 16-6 shots advantage but coming up empty and falling behind for good on Jori Lehtera’s unassisted goal.

Thornton shrugged off the beard-tugging incident, saying it might have actually helped him.

“It’s all good for me,” Thornton said. “I think it gets you more involved in the game.”

Backes joked off the tactic, too.

“Yeah, just seeing whose was real and making sure they weren’t glued on,” Backes said.

Blues players spent little time celebrating their hard-earned 2-1 victory, showing up to the rink to dissect areas in need of improvement before sitting down with Hitchcock.

“Everyone knows this was kind of like a heavyweight fight, round one, just jabbing a little bit,” defenceman Carl Gunnarsson said. “Now we know how they play. We’ll make some adjustments and off we go.”

The Sharks weren’t disappointed in their effort, just the bottom line.

Both teams seemed to sense they might be in for a long haul, perhaps a seven-game marathon.

The Blues have twice gone the distance, putting them in the conference final for the first time since 2001. The Sharks dispatched the Kings in five games in the first round but needed seven to eliminate the Predators and earn a first trip to the conference final in five years.

Entering Game 2, the Sharks trail in a series for the first time this post-season.

“I think this team has shown short memory,” Thornton said. “Get the last game out of your head and focus on the next game. We’ll see if we can do it again tomorrow.”

The Blues took the opener despite getting outshot 32-23, relying heavily on another standout effort from goalie Brian Elliott.

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Blue Jays get beat up by Rays came in from the bullpen as the Blue Jays continued to leak runs and Toronto (19-21) lost its third straight.

Pearce established Tampa’s lead early, putting the first pitch he saw clear over the left-field wall, driving in Taylor Motter for a 2-0 lead. It was Motter’s major league debut.

The Rays piled on in the second inning, with Kevin Kiermaier’s sacrifice fly to deep centre field bringing Jennings home from third. In the next at bat, Beckham hit a home run to right-centre field, scoring Casali as well for a 5-0 lead.

Happ’s night ended in the third inning when he gave up an RBI single to Steve Souza Jr. That brought out Antolin, also making his major league debut.

Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson helped Antolin out, making a highlight reel diving stab to get Jennings out.

There was no helping Antolin in the next at bat, as Casali hit a three-run homer just inside the left-field foul pole for a commanding 9-0 Rays lead.

Jennings helped Tampa score for the fourth inning in a row, driving in two runs with a double to make it 11-0.

Gibbons was ejected from the game in the fourth inning after arguing over a called strike that sat down shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. It was Gibbons’s second ejection in a row after getting tossed from Toronto’s 7-6 loss in Texas on Sunday. Tulowitzki was also ejected.

“Ah, y’know, balls and strikes,” said Gibbons when asked what he said to home plate umpire Mike Winters.

“That’s all.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rays 13 Blue Jays 2 TORONTO — J.A. Happ’s two-seam fastball escaped him. And with it, so did the game.

Happ suffered his first loss of the season and was pulled after two-plus innings as the Toronto Blue Jays fell to the Tampa Bay Rays 13-2 on Monday night. He gave up seven hits and eight earned runs, all because his go-to pitch was misbehaving.

“I just don’t think it’s coming out of my hand the same way,” said Happ, who added he felt sharp warming up in the bullpen. “Maybe I’m trying to manipulate it too much instead of letting it work.”

Happ started the season hot with five wins over seven starts and a 2.05 earned-run average to lead Toronto in both categories. His 30 strikeouts heading into Monday’s game were fifth best on the team, but Happ has always been a groundball specialist. He now has a 3.40 ERA and 32 Ks. “This game can certainly drive you crazy and in the past it has,” said Happ.

“Tomorrow I’m going to flush it and I’m going to come in and get my work in like always. We’ll keep going.

“I felt good and I’m going to feel good the next time out and we’ll do everything we can to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was more direct.

“He’s human, y’know?” said Gibbons. “He’s been so good, he’s been on such a nice little run. Chuck it out,

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tampa Bay Rays’ catcher Curt Casali, right, celebrates with first baseman Steve Pearce after hitting a three-run homer off Toronto Blue Jays’ relief pitcher Dustin Antolin during third inning Major League Baseball action in Toronto, Monday. move on.”

Steve Pearce, Tim Beckham, Curt Casali and Desmond Jennings all hit home runs for Tampa Bay (17-19), which scored in each of the first four innings to build an early 11-0 lead. The Rays offence dominated all night, outhitting the Blue Jays 17-8.

“We came to play,” said Jennings.

“Everybody hit the ball.”

Drew Smyly (2-4) struck out six and gave up four hits and an earned run over five innings for the win. Steve Geltz, Ryan Webb, Dana Eveland and Enny Romero allowed only one run over four innings of relief.

Dustin Antolin, Joe Biagini, Drew Storen, Chad Girodo and Jesse Chavez

Gibbons, Pillar dislike timing of Rangers’ plunking of Bautista It’s not the retribution that bothers John Gibbons, it’s the timing.

The Blue Jays manager addressed media on Monday afternoon, a day after Toronto all-star right-fielder Jose Bautista was hit in the ribs by a pitch from Texas reliever Matt Bush and then punched in the face by Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor after a hard slide on the basepaths.

Bush’s throw was apparently in retribution for Bautista’s dramatic bat flip after a home run in Game 5 of the American League Division Series last season. The two teams had played in

two three-game series this season before Sunday’s bench-clearing brawl.

“It didn’t happen what, the first six games?” said Gibbons. “My only complaint was that if you’ve got an issue with someone, we get that, everyone views things differently, and if you’re going to do something, hey, that’s part of it, we get it. But I figured you might do it right away. Then you’ve got six more games for things to play out the way they’re going to play out.”

Instead, the Rangers and Blue Jays won’t play again this year, unless they meet in the post-season.

Bush plunked Bautista in the top of the eighth with Texas holding a 7-6 lead. Bautista ran to second on a groundout by Justin Smoak, with his brawl-triggering slide.

Toronto centre-fielder Kevin Pillar was one of the first players to reach the two fighting players as the benches cleared.

“When that punch is thrown, especially to a guy that’s not really expecting it because it’s something out of the ordinary in a baseball game, your mindset changes and you’re going out there as a soldier to protect your

guys and protect your team and protect what you think is right,” said Pillar in the Blue Jays clubhouse. “It’s unfortunate that it had to escalate to that. In the heat of the moment, I think everyone in here did what they think is right to protect our guy.”

Bautista did not speak to media ahead of Monday’s game with Tampa, other than to say that he was feeling fine despite absorbing Odor’s haymaker.

“If they thought it was something they needed to do, they got him. Hopefully this is the end of it,” said Pillar.

LOCAL LACROSSE The Red Deer Renegades, Junior B tier 2, split a pair of weekend games, winning over the Lacoka Locos, but losing to the Lethbridge Barracudas.

It started on Saturday with a tight, 11-8 loss to the Barracudas. Kole Weik had a four point night with two goals and two assists while six Renegades scored a goal each including: Kyle Kaldenbach, Chase Boswell, Tristan Clark, Curtis Hallman, Marshall Smyth and Jordie Potter.

The Renegades rebounded with a 13-4 win over the Locos on Sunday.

This time it was Kaldenbach’s turn to score two goals and two assists. Clark and Aidan Wilson had two goals each while Weik, Potter, Smyth, Cole Todd, Colton Levie and Cody Rush had a goal each.

For the Locos, Ryan Rowley had two goals and Brody Thomas and An-

AAA MIDGET HOCKEY The Alberta Midget Hockey League handed out its annual scholarships to players from across the league.

In total, 18 post-secondary scholarships of $2,000 each was handed out

drew Kooriman had one goal each.

The Renegades are off until May 27 when they go into Ponoka to play the Locos followed by a trip to Medicine Hat on May 29 to play the Sun Devils.

In other lacrosse action: the ladies Rage lost both games, losing 19-0 to the Sherwood Park Jr. Titans and to the Calgary Cougars 14-0. The Rage have almost two weeks off as they next play on May 27 against the Calgary Cardinals and on May 28 against the Beaumont Bandits. Both games are on the road for the Rage.

The Junior B Tier 1 Rampage won both weekend games including a 123 win over the Rockyview Silvertips on Saturday and an 11-7 win over the Sherwood Park Titans on Sunday.

The Rampage next play the St. Albert Crude on Thursday in St. Albert. to one player from each team. For the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, Matthew Froehlick was awarded the scholarship.

The forward from Rimbey finished the 2015-16 regular season with 10 goals and eight assists in 32 games, followed up with a goal and an assist in six playoff games.

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Red Deer Renegade Bronson Spearing is checked by a Lethbridge Cuda player during lacrosse action at the Kinex, Saturday in Red Deer.

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Raptors hope to see a ‘rusty’ Cavs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CLEVELAND — It was a seven-game drag ‘em out series that featured a slew of injuries and had coach Dwane Casey comparing it to a boxing match.

And now, just two days after finally knocking out the Miami Heat in a gruelling NBA Eastern Conference semifinal, the Toronto Raptors take the court against the well-rested Cavaliers.

The Raptors tip off their first-ever conference final on Tuesday in Cleveland, against a Cavs team that has enjoyed a nine-day break.

“You always take rest over rust in the playoffs,” Casey said. “I’ve never been with a team that’s had nine days off. Hopefully they’re a little rusty and game-rusty. But sooner or later, that rest is going to kick in and be a plus for them.

“We have to go in with our guns a-blazing, playing hard and playing to our identity, and let the chips fall where they may.”

The Raptors went the full seven games in each of the first two rounds of the playoffs, capped by their thrilling 116-89 victory over Miami on Sunday.

Top-ranked Cleveland has yet to lose in the post-season, sweeping Detroit and then Atlanta.

The Raptors have recent history on their side.

They won the regular-season series against the Cavs 2-1, and saw big games from Kyle Lowry. Toronto’s scrappy point guard averaged 31 points on 66 per cent shooting, and had the highest player efficiency rating of anyone who played at least 10 minutes a game against the Cleveland in the regular season.

But the post-season has been costly. Toronto lost starting centre Jonas Valanciunas to a badly sprained ankle in Game 3 against Miami. Casey confirmed he won’t play in Game 1 and is unlikely to return for Game 2.

The Lithuanian big man is still limping badly, making it tough to see him returning at all in this series.

“I’d like to see (Valanciunas return), I’m not committing to it,” Casey said.

“Just have to see how his body reacts, comes through rehab. To cancel him out for the entire series, I don’t know.”

Without the starting centre’s post-up presence, the Raptors will have their hands full with Canadian Tristan Thompson and Timofey Mozgov.

DeMar DeRozan is also battling a thumb injury that requires wrapping during every timeout to relieve the swelling by the team’s sport science guru Alex McKechnie and his famous red shoelace.

DeMarre Carroll, who was acquired last summer for his defensive intensity, was huge in containing

Five things to watch as Toronto and Cleveland meet in NBA East final The Toronto Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers open the NBA Eastern Conference final Tuesday night. Toronto is competing in the third round of the post-season for the first time, while Cleveland is trying to advance to its second straight NBA final. Here are five things to watch for as the best-ofseven series kicks off at Quicken Loans Arena: HAIL TO THE KING The emergence of Golden State guard Stephen Curry as the consensus top player in the league has taken a little of the lustre off LeBron James’ star — but the Cavaliers’ leader is not to be underestimated. James is averaging 23.5 points, 8.8 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 2.4 steals in the post-season. Those numbers are great, but his most impressive stat is five straight appearances in the NBA final. That number will increase to six if the Raptors fail to find a way to contain James.

REST OR RUST? While the Raptors needed the maximum 14 games to beat Indiana and Miami and reach the Eastern Conference final, Cleveland rocketed into the final four by sweeping past Detroit and Atlanta. The Cavaliers have been here before, so it seems unlikely James and company will let the extended time off dull their skills. But if they get caught napping, there’s a chance for the battle-tested Raptors to steal Game 1.

Dwyane Wade and Joe Johnson in Toronto’s do-ordie Game 7. But he faces a mammoth task in containing Cavs star LeBron James. He also missed more than half the season with a knee injury, and then sprained a wrist in Game 5 against Miami.

“He’s still kind of feeling his way as we go offensively, but his hustle, his hard play, his timely threepoint shots are a big part of what we need and why we signed him,” Casey said. “He’s exactly what we need at that position, to guard some of the power threes in this league.”

The Raptors will be in tough to defend Cleveland’s three-point shooting. The Cavs hit 77 threes in their four-game sweep of Atlanta. The Raptors, on the other hand, were second last in defending the three in the regular season.

“That’s going to be an issue,” Casey said.

“They’re such a great transition team, such a great pick and roll team that if you try to stop everything,

DAMAGE FROM DOWNTOWN Toronto’s perimeter defence has been hit-andmiss this post-season. It will have to be consistently good against Cleveland. The Cavaliers are leading the post-season in three pointers made and three pointers attempted. Game 2 of their series with Atlanta saw them drop a record 25 threes on 45 attempts in a 123-98 victory.

ROAD TEST The Raptors won two of their three meetings with the Cavaliers this season, but both victories came before a raucous crowd at the Air Canada Centre. To win this series, Toronto will have to steal a game on the road. That’s no easy task, as Cleveland has won its four post-season home games by a combined 58 points, and thrashed the Raptors 122-100 at the Quicken Loans Arena during the regular season. That presents a tough task for Toronto, but the Raptors have managed a road win in both previous series.

SHINING STARS For Toronto to have any chance against the reigning Eastern Conference champions, all-star guards DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry need to be at their best. The pair struggled mightily throughout Toronto’s seven-game win over Indiana, but came to life late in the series with Miami. The pair combined for 63 points in Toronto’s 116-89 series-clinching win over the Heat. It was the third straight game Lowry and DeRozan had at least 50 points between them. you can’t stop anything. We have to pick our poison.

They’re a lethal team right now, one through five.”

But while the Cavaliers are widely favoured to win the series, Casey’s not buying it.

“Every time you walk on the floor you’ve got to give yourself a chance. We’re humble but we’re hungry. I do believe we’ll play hard,” he said. “We’ll go in confident against what I feel is the best team in the league right now as far as playing together, playing both ends of the floor, shooting the three-ball.

“In my mind, LeBron James is the best player in the league. He does so many things for his team offensively and defensively. (But) I have no doubt that our team will compete and play hard.”

Several hundred Raptors fans are expected to make the trip from Toronto for Game 1. Game 2 is Thursday, then the series returns to the Air Canada Centre for Game 3 on Saturday and Game 4 on Monday.

Towns a unanimous pick for rookie of the year

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns has the height and agility, plus the intensity and intelligence.

Relentlessness might be his most valuable gift of all.

The unflappable 7-footer, admittedly unsatisfied with any performance short of perfection, is a unanimous winner of the NBA Rookie of the Year award, giving the blossoming Minnesota Timberwolves consecutive winners after Andrew Wiggins took the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy last season.

“This is such a landmark in my career,” Towns said, “but it’s not the last one.”

The first pick in the 2015 draft out of Kentucky received all 130 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, joining Damian Lillard (2013), Blake Griffin (2011), David Robinson (1990) and Ralph Sampson (1984) as recent unanimous winners.

The league unveiled the award Monday. New York’s Kristaps Porzingis finished second, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic was third.

Towns ranked eighth in the NBA in rebounds and field-goal percentage while producing the best debut for a big man since Tim Duncan in 1998. The 20-yearold Towns averaged 18.1 points, 10.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks, helping the Timberwolves win 13 more games than the previous season. They’re the first team with back-to-back winners of the award since Bob McAdoo (1973) and Ernie DiGregorio (1974) with the Buffalo Braves.

The only rookie in the league to start all 82 games, Towns was named Western Conference rookie of the month in all six months the award was handed out.

The figurative wall that so many first-year players hit during a schedule more than twice as long as college never impeded his progress. He only got better, averaging 21.3 points on 55 per cent shooting and 11.7 rebounds over the final 31 games.

“I’m just used to this grind,” said Towns, crediting his year under coach John Calipari at Kentucky for the NBA prep.

Displaying the polish and poise of a veteran from the earliest stages of his career, Towns showed an elite ability to pass, rebound and score from both the paint and the 3-point line, making him the quintessential big man for the modern era and giving the Timberwolves hope they’ve finally found the star needed to carry them out of the league’s dregs.

With Towns, Wiggins, Zach LaVine, Ricky Rubio, Gorgui Dieng and Shabazz Muhammad to be coached next season by Tom Thibodeau, the Wolves believe they have the ingredients to finally reach the playoffs for the first time since 2004. Wiggins and Towns are the star-crossed franchise’s first winners of the

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns takes a selfie with his NBA Rookie of the Year trophy next to him after a news conference announcing his selection Monday, in Minneapolis. Towns was the number one overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. rookie award.

“We’re doing a great job, every single day, every single minute, second, of improving our team to be the team that we want to be,” Towns said, “and I see nothing but aspirations to be in the playoffs next year and trying to make a run.”

Thibodeau and Towns have already spoken “a lot,” according to the player whom the new coach has already begun to lean heavily on.

“He has to be a leader,” Thibodeau said. “He has to help sell the vision for the team.”

Towns has spoken of his obsessive focus on excellence, and his appearance on the stage set up on the arena floor was the embodiment of this extremity in so many ways. Cool and confident in the spotlight, Towns brought an All-Star fashion game to the event with a black suit accessorized by a Prince-inspired silky purple pocket square and a long, lavender tie.

He wore loafers without socks and bookish-yet-stylish glasses with circular gold rims.

Source; Angels closing in on deal to sign Lincecum MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The injury-riddled Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a deal to sign two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, a free agent trying to come back from hip surgery, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on condition of anonymity because no deal had been announced.

Lincecum tossed 41 pitches on May 6 for about three dozen scouts representing nearly every major league club in Scottsdale, Arizona, the spring training home of the San Francisco Giants. That’s the only team the 31-year-old right-hander has pitched for.

Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award in 2008 and 2009 and made four All-Star Game appearances.

He helped the Giants win three World Series titles in five years, and he had a pair of no-hitters against San Diego during an 11-month span between the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

The Angels have been hard-hit by injuries, with seven players currently on the disabled list. They were forced to trade one of their minor league players last week to acquire a fifth starter to complete the rotation, making it possible Lincecum could become a starter.

“You’re looking at a lot of depth that we were counting on this year that is not there. We’re not sure when it’s going to re-emerge,” manager Mike Scioscia said. “You can’t get through a whole season with five and right now we’re pretty thin.”

Right-handers Garrett Richards and Huston Street and left-handers Andrew Heaney and C.J. Wilson are on the DL, while left-hander Tyler Skaggs is recovering from Tommy John surgery and left bicep tendinitis.

Richards had a stem-cell injection in his elbow Monday and there is no timetable for his return.

“Hopefully it’s going to be the course of action he needs to heal and get back to action,” Scioscia said.

Shortstop Andrelton Simmons had surgery Monday to repair a thickness tear of the ulnar collateral ligament of his left thumb, an injury he sustained in Sunday’s game at Seattle.

Longtime ace Jered Weaver has struggled since going 3-0 with a 3.86 ERA in his first four starts.

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Local Sports

Hockey

Deer Rebels, 6 p.m., Centrium

Today ● Ladies Fastball: Panthers vs. Bandits, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1; Badgers vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 and Stettler vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1 ● Sunburst Baseball League: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Saturday ● Memorial Cup: Brandon Wheat Kings vs. Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, 5 p.m., Centrium

Sunday Thursday ● Ladies Fastball: U16 Rage vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1; Bandits vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 and Badgers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1

● Woody’s RV World Marathon, 8 a.m., Camille J. Lerouge School ● Memorial Cup: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, 5 p.m., Centrium

Monday

Friday ● Memorial Cup: London Knights vs. Red

● Memorial Cup: Brandon Wheat Kings vs. London Knights, 6 p.m., Centrium

Ladies Fastball Red Deer Ladies Fastball League Wins loss ties pts 3 0 1 7 3 1 0 6 2 0 2 6 1 2 1 3 1 3 0 2 0 4 0 0

Panthers U18 Rage Badgers Bandits U16 Rage Stettler

Tuesday’s games Panthers 13 Stettler 1 Bandits 0 Badgers 0 Panthers 12 U16 Rage 4

Thursday’s games U18 Rage 9 U16 Rage 8 Badgers 8 Stettler 3 U18 Rage 10 Bandits 9 Today’s games Panthers vs. Bandits, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1 Badgers vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 Stettler vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1 Thursday’s games U16 Rage vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1 Bandits vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 Badgers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs Second Round CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3) (Toronto wins series 4-3) Sunday’s result Toronto 116 Miami 89 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Portland (5) (Golden State wins series 4-1) San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-2) Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2) Tuesday’s game Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game

Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May 23 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 27 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 29 Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Oklahoma City leads series 1-0) Monday’s result Oklahoma City 108 Golden State 102 Wednesday’s game Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 28 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 30 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Designated RHP Sean O’Sullivan for assignment. Recalled INF Marco Hernandez from Pawtucket (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Anthony Gose to Toledo (IL). Reinstated OF Cameron Maybin from the 15-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned OF Preston Tucker to Fresno (PCL). Designated C Erik Kratz for assignment. Selected the contract of INF/OF Tony Kemp from Fresno.

TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Luke Jackson from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Tom Wilhelmsen to Round Rock.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed INF Jimmy Paredes off waivers from Baltimore.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Assigned OF Ryan Kalish outright to Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Drew Hayes to Louisville (IL). Reinstated OF Billy Hamilton from the bereavement list.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed OF Starling Marte on paternity leave. Recalled INF/OF Alen Hanson from Indianapolis (IL).

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed RHP Karl Triana.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released LHP Kris Regas. Traded RHP John Straka to St. Paul for the reversionary rights to 1B Brett Harper.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released RHP Pete Perez.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Sign INF Ruben Gotay.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed LHPs Isaac Pavlik and Andres Caceres. Traded LHP Donnie Joseph to Rockland for a player to be named.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released RHP Steven Inch.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released RHP Dylan Thompson and OF Charley Thurber.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association INDIANA PACERS — Promoted assistant coach

Nate McMillan to coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released CBs Brandon Boykin and Ras-I Dowling and WR Jenson Stoshack. Signed LB Jared Barber, TE Braxton Deaver, CB Shaq Richardson, OT Jordan Rigsbee, WR Miles Shuler and RB Jalen Simmons.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DL Kenton Adeyemi, WR Kieren Duncan, P Ben LeCompte and OL Donovan Williams. Waived C Dan Buchholz, DT Bruce Gaston, TE Marcus Lucas and WR Nathan Palmer.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB Dekoda Watson.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed DT Sheldon Day to a four-year contract.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DE Jason Jones.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed WR Jake Lampman, LB Tony Steward and OT Tyrus Thompson. Waived DB Mike Caputo, QB Griffin Neal and WR Shane Wynn.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DB Chris Edwards, WR Joe Hansley, DL Branden Jackson, RB Jalen Richard and OL Torian White.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed LB Khairi Fortt.

Waived LB Christian French.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived QB Zach Mettenberger, DE Iosia Iosia, TE Kevin Greene and WR Rashon Ceaser. Signed FB Sam Bergen, WR Ben Roberts, DE Mike Smith and CB Bennett Okotcha.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed OT Al Bond, G Nila Kasitati, LB Mike Wakefield and RB Kelsey Young. Waived G Dominick Jackson and LB Reggie Northrup.

HOCKEY National Hockey League FLORIDA PANTHERS — Named Dale Tallon president of hockey operations, Tom Rowe general manager and Eric Joyce and Steve Werier assistant general managers.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed LW Justin Kirkland to a three-year, entry-level contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Signed D Agustin Jara.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed D-M Amobi Okugo.

GIRL’S FASTBALL Five wins in three days meant a perfect weekend for the Collins Barrow U16A Rage to open the Girls Prairie Softball League season.

It started on Friday with a 17-5 mercy win over the Edmonton River City Hornets. Morgan Hunter led the way for the Rage with a grand slam in the fourth inning.

Two games on Saturday meant two more wins for the Rage.

Starting with a 9-5 win over the Edmonton Warriors. Hunter threw five strikeouts in the first game. In the second game, Cora Martin’s fourth inning triple drove in the go-ahead runs as the Rage took a 7-5 win over the Twin Cities ball club.

To close out the weekend, the Rage had two come-from-behind wins over Prince Albert 11-8 and over Lloydminster 8-5.

The wins gave the Rage a 5-0 record to start the GPSL season.

They next play a doubleheader on Thursday at Great Chief Park against the Stettler Heat and the Badgers in the Red Deer Ladies Fastball league.

NBA PLAYOFFS

Durant, Westbrook power Thunder past Warriors Thunder 108 Warriors 102 OAKLAND, Calif. — Kevin Durant scored 26 points and made a key 17-foot jumper with 30.7 seconds left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder handed the Golden State Warriors their first home loss of the playoffs with a 108-102 victory in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals Monday night.

Russell Westbrook scored 24 of his 27 points in the second half for Oklahoma City, which trailed 60-47 at halftime. Westbrook also had 12 assists and seven steals in the opener of the Thunder’s fourth West finals in six years.

“We’ve just got to compete,” Westbrook said. “It’s going to be a tough game. It’s a tough building. They have a lot of great players on their team, but I know we’re a great team and when we put our minds to it, tonight we didn’t play our best game and we came out with a win.”

Game 2 is Wednesday night at Oracle Arena.

MVP Stephen Curry had 26 points and a playoff career-high 10 rebounds, but the Warriors missed too many shots down the stretch. Klay Thompson scored 19 of his 25 points in the first half, but shot 3 for 10 over the last two quarters. Curry’s 3-pointer to beat the halftime buzzer gave Golden State a 13-point lead at the break. Curry was 9 for 22 from the field, including a 6-for14 performance from beyond the arc, and committed seven turnovers to go with seven assists.

2016 Memorial Cup Standings ROUND ROBIN GP W L GF GA Brandon (WHL) 0 0 0 0 0 London (OHL) 0 0 0 0 0 Red Deer (host) 0 0 0 0 0 Rouyn-Nor. (QMJHL) 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Friday, May 20 London vs. Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Brandon vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Red Deer vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 23 London vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Rouyn-Noranda vs. London, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Red Deer vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.

End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Thursday, May 26 Tiebreaker (if necessary) Third vs. Fourth Places, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 27 Semifinal Second vs. Third Places, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 29 Final First Place vs. Semifinal Winner, TBA PARTICIPATING TEAMS Host — Red Deer Rebels (WHL) OHL Champion — London Knights QMJHL Champion — Rouyn-Noranda Huskies WHL Champion — Brandon Wheat Kings

At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada 4 France 0 Germany 4 Hungary 2 At Moscow Denmark 4 Kazakhstan 1 Russia 3 Norway 0

Thursday’s game St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 St. Louis at San Jose, 5:15 p.m.

Monday, May 23 San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 27 San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Monday’s summary Penguins 3, Lightning 2 (1st OT) First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Cullen 4 (Fehr, Kuhnhackl) 4:32.

2. Pittsburgh, Kessel 6 (Bonino, Hagelin) 9:37.

3. Tampa Bay, Stralman 1 (Marchessault, Hedman) 16:37.

4. Tampa Bay, Drouin 3 (Brown, Carle) 19:10.

Penalties — Killorn TB (holding) 13:23 Drouin TB (hooking) 16:53.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Murray Pgh (tripping) 7:02.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

First Overtime 5. Pittsburgh, Crosby 4 (Rust, Dumoulin) :40.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 8 7 6 0 — 21 Pittsburgh 14 8 16 3 — 41 Goal — Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (L, 1-1-0). Pittsburgh: Murray (W, 8-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-1 Pittsburgh: 0-2.

2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF x-Czech Rep. 6 4 1 1 0 22 x-Russia 6 5 0 0 1 28 x-Sweden 6 3 2 0 1 22 Denmark 7 2 2 1 2 17 Switzerland 6 1 1 3 1 16 Latvia 6 1 0 3 2 12 Norway 6 1 1 0 4 10 Kazakhstan 7 0 1 0 6 15

EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (M2) vs. Tampa Bay (A2) (Series tied at 1-1) Monday’s game Pittsburgh 3 Tampa Bay 2 (OT) Friday’s result Tampa Bay 3 Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday’s game Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday’s game Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

GA 8 9 14 22 21 19 21 28

Pt 15 15 13 11 8 6 5 2

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt x-Canada 6 6 0 0 0 34 4 18 x-Finland 6 0 0 0 0 25 6 18 x-Germany 7 4 0 1 2 22 20 13 U.S. 6 3 0 0 3 20 15 9 Slovakia 6 2 0 0 4 12 21 6 France 6 1 1 0 4 11 20 5 Belarus 6 1 0 0 5 13 32 3 Hungary 7 1 0 0 6 12 31 3 x — clinched berth in quarter-finals Note: Three points awarded for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (C2) vs. San Jose (P3) (St, Louis leads series 1-0) Sunday’s result St. Louis 2 San Jose 1 Tuesday’s game San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s results At Moscow Denmark 2 Czech Republic 1 (SO) Sweden 3 Switzerland 2 (SO) At St. Petersburg, Russia Finland 5 Slovakia 0 Germany 3 United States 2 Tuesday’s games At Moscow Czech Republic vs. Switzerland, 5:15 a.m.

Latvia vs. Norway, 9:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Sweden, 1:15 p.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia United States vs. Slovakia, 5:15 a.m.

Belarus vs. France, 9:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Finland, 1:15 p.m.

Conclusion of Preliminary Round PLAYOFFS Thursday, May 19 Quarter-finals At Moscow — 7:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia — 7:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Saturday, May 21 At Moscow Semifinals Quarter-final Winners, 7:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Sunday, May 22 At Moscow Bronze Medal Semifinal Losers, 7:15 a.m.

Gold Medal Semifinal Winners, 11:45 a.m.

Monday’s summary Canada 4, France 0 First Period 1. Canada, Stone 3 (Hall, McDavid) 8:32 (pp) Penalties — Lamperier Fra (interference) 7:31, Perry Cda (tripping) 13:54.

Second Period 2. Canada, Duchene 4 (Perry, Ellis) 15:26 Missed penalty shot — Bertrand Fra, 1:33.

Penalties — Fleury Fra (high-sticking) 4:09, Gallagher cda (high-sticking) 7:17, Janil Fra (hooking) 13:26, Dieude Fauvel Fra (hooking) 17:37.

Third Period 3. Canada, Scheifele 3 (Stone, Marchand) 3:51 4. Canada, Perry 4 (O’Reilly, Gallagher) 14:45 Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Canada 10 16 20 — 46 France 4 4 5 — 13 Goal — Canada: Pickard (W, 2-0-0) France: Quemener (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Canada: 1-4 France: 0-2.

Monday’s results

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 23 13 .639 Boston 24 14 .632 Toronto 19 21 .475 Tampa Bay 17 19 .472 New York 16 20 .444 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 24 14 .632 Cleveland 18 17 .514 Kansas City 18 19 .486 Detroit 17 21 .447 Minnesota 10 27 .270 West Division W L Pct Seattle 21 16 .568 Texas 22 17 .564 Oakland 17 22 .436 Los Angeles 16 21 .432 Houston 15 24 .385

GB — — 6 6 7 GB — 4 1/2 5 1/2 7 13 1/2 GB — — 5 5 7

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1 Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 6 Detroit 6, Baltimore 5 Boston 10, Houston 9 Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 innings Texas 7, Toronto 6 L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 0 Monday’s Games Cleveland 15, Cincinnati 6 Boston at Kansas City, ppd.

Tampa Bay 13, Toronto 2 Detroit 10, Minnesota 8 N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, late Oakland 3, Texas 1 L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati (Simon 1-3) at Cleveland (Salazar 3-2), 4:10 p.m.

Seattle (Miley 3-2) at Baltimore (Jimenez 2-3), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 2-4) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0),

5:07 p.m.

Minnesota (Hughes 1-6) at Detroit (Pelfrey 0-4), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 2-5) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-4), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 6-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 3-2), 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-4) at Arizona (Greinke 3-3), 7:40 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 4-0) at Oakland (Surkamp 0-3), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 3-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-1), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

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

Texas at Oakland, 1:35 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Boston at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

National League East Division W L Pct 23 15 .605 21 16 .568 22 17 .564 21 17 .553 9 28 .243 Central Division W L Pct 27 9 .750 20 17 .541 20 18 .526 16 22 .421 15 23 .395 West Division W L Pct 22 18 .550 20 18 .526 19 18 .514 17 22 .436 17 23 .425

GB — 1 1 2 13 GB — 7 8 12 13 GB — 1 1 4 5

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Olympic medallist Hudec left off ski team in dispute with Alpine Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Olympic bronze medallist Jan Hudec has been dropped from Canada’s ski team because of a dispute with Alpine Canada.

The organization says Hudec has refused to show proof of progress on his return from a knee injury. Hudec disagrees, saying the impasse is about money and Alpine Canada’s lack of faith in his ability to ski fast again.

Alpine Canada named a total of 35 skiers to its 2016-17 alpine, ski cross and para-alpine rosters Monday. A dozen men, including Erik Guay, Manny Osborne-Paradis and Erik Read, son of former star skier Ken Read, were named to the men’s slalom and speed teams, but Hudec was a key omission.

Hudec tied for third in super-G at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Canada’s first medal in men’s alpine skiing since 1994. But the 34-year-old from Calgary started just one race last season — a super-G in Lake Louise, Alta. — and did not finish it because of a knee injury. He underwent an eighth surgery on his right knee last month.

Alpine Canada contends Hudec was initially named to the men’s alpine speed team for next season under a “coaches discretion” clause in the selection criteria, but his selection was subject to Hudec proving progress in his rehabilitation under Alpine Canada testing and monitoring.

He had not done so prior to Monday’s team announcement, according to athletic director Martin Rufener.

“He has a rehab program,” Rufener explained. “We gave him guidelines that should be done. We said ‘we’ll name you to the team, but you have

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Jan Hudec skis during the men’s World Cup Super-G in Lake Louise, Nov. 29, 2015. The Olympic bronze medallist has been dropped from Canada’s alpine ski team for next season. to have these benchmarks to show us.’ We need checkpoints each month.

“Up until this time, he couldn’t sign off on this. It’s up in the air. Maybe in a month he comes back and says ‘I want to do it’ hopefully.”

But Hudec disagreed with Alpine Canada’s version of events. Reached in San Diego prior to a flight to Calgary, Hudec says he couldn’t sign off on the financial details in an athletes’ agreement with the organization.

“Every single time I agreed to the physical requirements,” Hudec told The Canadian Press. “I did not agree to the other stuff.”

The other stuff was the cost Hudec would pay for his own ski service. The cost was negotiated down from $70,000 to $35,000, but still $10,000 higher than anyone else on the team, he said.

Hudec also said if he wasn’t ranked in the world’s top 30 within the first few races of next season, he would have to fund the rest of his season himself.

“I’d have to completely crush the first couple of races to have a chance to ski with the team for the rest of the season,” Hudec said. “They basically didn’t budget for me.

That’s the gist of it. That’s how I felt.

“I was very clear that I wanted to continue, that I’m committed to it,” Hudec continued. “I wasn’t skiing slow when I got injured.”

Knee and back injuries have limited Hudec to nine World Cup starts since the Winter Games.

Despite an injury-filled career, Hudec has produced an Olympic bronze, a world championship silver and five World Cup medals.

He earned his medal in Sochi despite being bedridden a few weeks earlier with a herniated disc.

“I just feel like everything I’ve put forth in my career and my commitment to the team, and putting down results even when everyone else was saying it wasn’t possible or doable, speaks for itself,” Hudec said.

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BY EMILY YAHR ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES No, it’s not 2005, but 24 and Prison Break will be on TV next season.

Fox unveiled its 2016-17 TV schedule on Monday morning and touted that it is nearly 90 per cent original programming, the most in network history. Of course, “original” in this case also includes reboots of Prison Break, Lethal Weapon, The Exorcist and a spinoff, 24: Legacy.

It all adds up to a slew of new shows across fall and midseason, which has some holes after the end of American Idol and cancellation of several freshman series. “Our audience is not interested in repeats, and that requires a tremendous amount of programming,” Fox Television Group Chairman Dana Walden said on a conference call with reporters.

This fall, The Exorcist (which Fox Television Group chairman Gary Walden called “scary as hell and perfect for horror fans”) will air Friday nights after Hell’s Kitchen, while Lethal Weapon (which boasts “tremendous chemistry” between stars Damon Wayans Sr., and Clayne Crawford as famed cops Murtaugh and Riggs) leads into Empire on Thursday nights.

Meanwhile, in midseason, Prison Break, Fox’s hit that launched in 2005, debuts on Thursday nights with original stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell. The premiere of 24: Legacy, starring Corey Hawkins in the Kiefer Sutherland role, will air following Fox’s broadcast of the Super Bowl in February. (Sutherland serves as executive producer.)

Otherwise, some shows are fairly stable. Superhero drama Gotham and cop procedural Lucifer stay put on Monday nights, while Brooklyn Nine-

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Nine, New Girl and Scream Queens remain on Tuesdays. Crime dramas Rosewood and Bones (in its 12th and final season) are anchored on Thursdays.

The Sunday animation line-up of The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy is joined by new comedy Son of Zorn, starring Jason Sudeikis as the voice of a cartoon warrior who returns to his hometown to win back ex-wife and teen son … who are real-life people, played by live-action actors.

Other new midseason series include Star, a behind-the-scenes-of-fame drama from Empire creator Lee Daniels; Pitch, starring Kylie Bunbury as the first woman to play in Major League Baseball; The Mick, about a broke, dysfunctional woman who gains full custo-

dy of her rich, estranged sister’s three kids; and limited series Shots Fired, which explores the aftermath of racially-charged shootings in a Southern town, and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Helen Hunt and Sanaa Lathan.

For those wondering if we’ll get more of The X-Files after the reboot this winter, Fox executives said they’re “hopeful” another installment is in the works. But since they have to co-ordinate David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and creator Chris Carter’s schedules, it’s unlikely to happen before the 2017-18 TV season. Still, “all parties involved want to do more episodes of The X-Files,” Walden assured everyone.

Chilean-American writer seeks inspiration after loss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Isabel Allende begins writing all her books on Jan. 8. But when the day arrived this year, she struggled with writer’s block.

The practice began out of superstition. She started writing her first book, The House of the Spirits, on this date and it became an international bestseller. She then kept it as a discipline. But it was a strange year (she doesn’t want to call it a bad one). A year away from writing after great losses: her publicist, two friends, even her beloved dog had died. Her marriage of 27 years had ended.

“So, this year, on Jan. 7th, I asked myself: What on Earth am I going to write tomorrow? And I felt that I didn’t have much of anything,” Allende said.

“I could not get a word or a sentence on the page.”

Allende’s 21 books have been translated into 35 languages and have sold more than 67 million copies worldwide. And yet, she says it took her weeks before she could finally get back to “the rhythm of writing.” Her new book still has “no shape, not even a working title.” Allende knows one character will be an immigrant and the theme of refugees will appear somehow. The rest is a work in progress.

“But I know that I’ll have love in some form, because at this moment, when I don’t have love, I want it. I’m not too old to fall in love,” said the 73-year-old Allende, whose 2014 TED talk on living passionately, no matter your age, has been viewed more than 2.7 million times.

The Chilean-American novelist was married to lawyer-novelist William Gordon for nearly three decades. Why did it end?

There’s an element of luck in love, Allende says, and sometimes circumstances interfere.

“And that, I think, is what happened between Willy and I,” she said. “Together, we lost three children. I lost Paula and he lost two of his children to drugs. Very few couples survive the loss of one child. Now, three?”

Allende wrote the memoir Paula as a letter to her daughter while she was in a coma, suffering from a hered-

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itary metabolic disorder. She wrote a sequel, The Sum of our Days, to update Paula on everything that had happened in the world since her death in 1992.

Her most recent work, The Japanese Lover, is about a passionate affair between a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland and a Japanese-American gardener. It explores themes of memory and aging.

“Now, emotionally I’m fine. I’m living alone with my other dog, the one that’s still alive. I’m busy, interested in the world.”

That interest in the world is vast.

She’s concerned about the rise of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his targeting of immigrants and Muslims. Allende says Trump is effective because lower middle-class workers in the United States feel disempowered.

“These people don’t believe in the American dream anymore,” Allende said. “Trump blames the immigrants.

He finds a scapegoat, like Hitler found a scapegoat with the Jews. I think it’s really scary. It’s good that we got to see that the anger is there and that that population is there and that we have to listen. But we also have to stop Trump.”

Allende works to help refugees and promotes family planning through the Isabel Allende Foundation, which empowers women and girls worldwide. In Chile, that means working to change what she says is a “medieval” dictatorship-era law that bans abortions, even for women who have been raped or whose lives are at risk.

She also has a lot to say about the craft that made her famous.

“Discipline is important because you may have wonderful ideas but if you don’t sit enough hours a day to put those ideas into the computer, and work with those ideas, it’s useless,” she explains.

“I always compare it with sports. … Nobody cares about your training.

They only care about your performance. The same with writing — there are thousands and thousands of pages of drafts that go to the garbage for one published page.”

Allende has won more than 50 writing awards in 15 countries. She’s received 14 honorary doctorates worldwide, and her works have also been

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Writer Isabel Allende appears during an interview in New York. Allende’s 21 books have been translated into 35 languages and sold more than 67 million copies worldwide. adapted for films, plays, musicals, operas and ballets.

So how would she like to be remembered?

“Men think about their legacy.

Women don’t. We’re more realistic.

We know that we cannot control our image, our money or our legacy from the tomb,” Allende said. “I’d probably be remembered for a little while by my grandchildren, by my son, my great-grandchildren, maybe if they have a chance to meet me before I die, and that’s it. And I hope they can remember that I’m a good storyteller and generous person.”

She chuckles, and adds another thing: “I also hope that they don’t remember all the other stuff that’s not as good.”

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Cartoonist changed my comics life

BY DAVID BETANCOURT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Nearly a decade ago, when I thought about moving on from my love of comic books, Darwyn Cooke made sure I wouldn’t leave.

Many comic-book fans reach this crossroads at some point in adulthood: Do you keep reading — or move on?

Fortunately, when I reached this point, I happened to watch a feature about a forthcoming animated movie from DC called The New Frontier. That feature introduced me to Darwyn Cooke, the great writer-artist who died Saturday at age 53 after battling lung cancer.

The New Frontier was based on a DC Comics miniseries of the same name, and one of the first things I noticed was that the film’s producers had decided to use Cooke’s exact art style for the animated movie — a too-infrequent faithfulness in animated comic-book adaptations. I was transfixed not only by the animated previews, but also by the original pages of Cooke’s artwork on the series, which served as a background in the feature. I had to get to a comic shop and get The New Frontier.

That became one of the most memorable decisions of my comics-reading life thus far.

When news of Cooke’s death spread this weekend, many of the tributes that flooded social media spoke of the influence and inspiration he gave to so many in the comic-book industry. And many fans posted panels from The New Frontier.

What made The New Frontier special is the same dynamic that made Cooke special: both he and his masterpiece made reading comics fun again.

Cooke had been vocal about his feelings that the comic-book industry was becoming a darker and darker place — that it seemed less and less like a home for kids. That is an especially dispiriting thought when you consider that most of us who love comics discovered them as a child.

As if message and medium were in sync, Cooke’s brilliance was well-spotlighted by the fact that The New Frontier was set in a more innocent era of comics.

It was a vintage mid-20th-century comics experience combined with a 21st-century storytelling approach.

This unique tale helped many of us comics fans engage with an era that predated our births.

Somehow, Cooke’s artwork was timeless yet could transport you to another time.

Cooke also realized that the success of The New Frontier turned him into the “midcentury guy” of comics — an association that he didn’t mind too much because he was fascinated by the era.

I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Cooke multiple times. The last time I spoke with him, the interview was centered on Vertigo’s The Twilight Children, a project he had completed with Gilbert Hernandez.

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Jarmusch, Driver bewitch with poetic Paterson

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNES, France — Jim Jarmusch debuted his patient, bus driver-poet drama Paterson at the Cannes Film Festival where festival-goers responded enthusiastically to the film’s gentle and quirky rhythms.

In the movie, Adam Driver plays a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry inspired by conversations he overhears. The film, too, has a rhyming, internal tempo, full of everyday repetitions and is populated by twins in the background.

“I love variations in music, in art, in cinema,” said Jarmusch, whose film takes place across the seven days of a week. “Each day of our lives is just a small variation of our life from the previous day.”

Jarmusch, the New York filmmaker of Broken Flowers and Only Lovers Left Alive, acknowledged even he struggles to describe the film’s combination of working-class and creative life, inspired partly by the Paterson poet and doctor William Carlos Williams.

Paterson, the industrial city outside New York, has had a hold on Jarmusch for decades, he said. The city has been home to a surprisingly rich group of artists, including Lou Costello (of Abbott and Costello) and poet Allen Ginsberg. Paterson, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is a kind of ode to artistic lives eked out in blue-collar situations.

Jarmusch will also debut his Iggy Pop and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger later in the week at Cannes.

“They are very different stylistically, but they are both about the idea that you in your life can choose your path,” Jarmusch said. “You can choose what you want to do in your life. And Paterson is about that.”

The ruminative quiet of Paterson, Driver said, resonated with him. In the

Police issue Sinead O’Connor well-being check Chicago-area police issued a wellbeing check Monday for Irish singer and musician Sinead O’Connor, who reportedly went for a bicycle ride Sunday morning in a northern suburb but never returned.

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COOKE: Work had beguiling simplicity It was the type of project Cooke had longed to do for years — yet couldn’t because he was always called on to do “the type of books I do,” he told me.

“When you’re working on a mainstream book, there are certain criteria — there are certain things you have to do and you have to hit,” said Cooke, noting that Twilight Children was “really liberating in that those rules don’t apply here.”

Cooke’s voice reflected that sense of freedom. He loved what he did and the type of comics he was most known for, but he sounded happy to be trying something new.

And though Cooke may have helped ensure that mainstream comics didn’t lose their sense of all-ages fun, he would still tell the occasional “adult” tale. That included his work on the controversial Before Watchmen project from DC, as well as such works as

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Adam Driver plays a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry inspired by conversations he overhears. The film, too, has a rhyming, internal tempo, full of everyday repetitions and is populated by twins in the background.

CANNES script, he noticed how many of his directions were simply to be attuned to his surroundings.

“There were so many sentences that started with ‘Paterson listens,”’ ride, and police received a call from someone expressing concern after she didn’t return, police Sgt. Michael Robinson said in a statement. It’s unclear why she was in Wilmette, an upper-class suburb about 24 km north of Chicago along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Police said no other information was immediately available about O’Connor, who scored an international hit 1990 with her rendition of Prince’s ballad Nothing Compares 2 U. The gifted but troubled singer-songwriter is known as much for her fierce and expressive voice as her shaved head and blunt criticism of the Catholic Church and other institutions.

O’Connor has performed at least twice in Chicago this year, with blues legend Buddy Guy in January and at a cancer charity fundraiser at the Metro Chicago theatre in March.

Paradigm Talent Agency, which represents O’Connor, declined comment when reached by The Associated Press on Monday.

Parker.

The beguiling simplicity of Cooke’s work was intriguing; his style was cartoon-y but complex. Female superheroes and supporting characters are so often “sexed up,” yet Cooke managed to draw Wonder Woman and Lois Lane in an alluring way without forfeiting or subverting their grace, glamour and class. I’m convinced no one has drawn a more beautiful Wonder Woman.

His heroes were vintage — always conveying hope — and they frequently flashed something you see too rarely from superheroes today: a smile.

The Darwyn Cooke experience was the very best that the industry had to offer. His work made you happy, and made you remember why you fell in love with comics in the first place. To read a comic by Cooke was a cerebral experience that made it feel like reliving your first unforgettable comic-book moment.

Years ago, Mr. Darwyn Cooke was there to remind me what makes comic books so incredible.

He not only made great comics; he also made comics great.

We will miss him deeply.

said the Girls and Force Awakens actor.

“That was a lot of information for a couple months where his main action is to listen to everybody else.”

Driver, too, embodies the film’s dualities. Before Driver was an actor, he was a marine. He served a few years before being medically discharged after a biking accident. He soon thereaf-

ter enlisted in drama school.

“I was very struck by the idea that he understands both sides,” Jarmusch said. “He has experience in the military and he went to Julliard. These two things are kind of impressive to me because it’s breaking any kind of cliche of either thing.”

Record-holding symphony bassist dies onstage

She attended the University of Georgia and studied for four years with the principal bass player of the Chicago Symphony.

Little played the double bass, the orchestra’s largest instrument.

“Wrapping one’s hands around a bass requires a great degree of physical strength — something that at 87-years-old and 1.49 metres, Little did with ease for more than seven decades,” the orchestra said in a statement.

Her success in a role traditionally reserved for men served as an inspiration, said the orchestra’s executive director, Jennifer Barlament.

“We can say that Jane was fortunate to do what she loved until the very end of her storied life and career,” the orchestra said in a statement. “The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was truly blessed to have Jane as part of our family for the past 71 years and we all miss her passion, vitality, spirit and incredible talent.”

ATLANTA — Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist whose career spanned a world-record 71 years with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance.

Little collapsed Sunday during a performance of There’s No Business Like Show Business, the orchestra said.

She was briefly revived before dying at an Atlanta hospital.

The bassist was recognized by Guinness World Records for the longest professional tenure with a single orchestra earlier this year when she performed Feb. 4. That was 71 years to the day since her first concert with the group’s forerunner, the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The Atlanta native had joined the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra at age 16, after two years of studying bass in high school, orchestra officials said.

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ROMBOUTS Peter Jacobus Peter Jacobus Rombouts passed away peacefully into the arms of our Lord on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the age of 90 years. Peter was predeceased by his loving wife of 48 years, Jeanne in September 2000.

Family meant the world to Peter and he will be greatly missed by his four children; Jeanne (Tony) Perreault of Edmonton, Tony (Sandra) Rombouts of Red Deer, Carole Ann (Gary) LaGrange of Red Deer, and Monique (Paul) Johnston of Red Deer, his eleven very special grandchildren; Armanda, Tamara, Michelle, Cindy, Nicole, Katelyn, Tyler, Payton, Brady, Kieran, and Breanna, also his eleven great-grandchildren; Brayden, Hayley, Camryn, Konah, Addison, Quinn, Faith, Linken, Trinity, Alanna, and Brooklyn. A Prayer Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. If Friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 50A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4E7 or to the Canadian Cancer Society, 6751 52 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4K9. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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CUMMINGS Rose Marie 1935 - 2016 Mrs. Rose Marie Cummings passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at the age of 80 years. Rose will be sadly missed by her loving family; step daughter, Arlene (Larry) Follestad, son, Wayne (Penny) Sul, daughters, Wendy (Rodney) McKinnon and Debbie (Rob) Janko; her nine blessed grandchildren, Paul, Melissa, Emily, Kayla, Jared, Justin, Travis, Christopher and Ben; and five great grandchildren, Avery, Brodie, Cole, Hayden and Zania.

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REGISTRY OFFICE in Red Deer looking for qualified individual(s) for Part-time/Full-time employment. Previous Registry experience is required. Reply to Box 1119, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

770

Janitorial

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $15/hr. Floor skills would be an asset. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 or e-mail: lobb-black-valerie @aramark.ca. Attn: Val Black

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S F/T or P/T GRILL COOK

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. 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.

10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Coming Events

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino req’s Line Cooks, 1 day, 1 nights. Exp. is req’d.

Please apply in person w/ Touy between 2 - 4 pm.

4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE WHISTLE STOP, Domo Gas in Mirror Ab. is currently looking for 2 full time servers for a fast pasted environment.

Please only seriously application apply.

Whistlestop2012@ outlook.com or in person at the Whistle Stop.

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Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Household Furnishings

1720

LA-Z-BOY Full-size rocker recliner. Burgundy fabric, freshly cleaned like new. $75. obo. 403-755-2760 TWO oak book cases with glass, 76”h x 32”w, $75 each. 403-309-5494

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020 FREE COOKIE TINS, assorted sizes.

403-346-2231 GRILL, Charcoal, 180 sq. in. of cooking surface, temp. gauge on lid, used twice, like new.

Replacement $259.

Asking $65. 403-346-2859 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

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CLASSIFIEDS - VICTORIA DAY Hours & Deadlines Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY, May 23, 2016 Non Publishing Day

Winters, Cecil (Cec) Aug. 30, 1936 - May 17, 2011 Though five years have gone by Since you left our side Forever in our hearts You will always reside.

Remembered with love, Rose, Blaine & family, Karla & family

Announcements

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RED DEER ADVOCATE JOHNSON JUSTUS Dec. 7, 1926 - May 16, 1987 Words are few Thoughts are deep Memories of you We will always keep.

Beautiful memories silently kept Of the one that we loved And never forget.

Classifieds 309-3300

Sadly missed and forever in our hearts, Janice, Svea and Perry

Publication dates: Saturday, May 21, 2016 Tuesday, May 24, 2016 DEADLINE: Friday, May 20, 2016 @ 4 pm PLEASE NOTE: our NEW Classifieds hours are now Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Misc. for Sale

1760

MOVING ~ NEW dining room server, 52” l x 18” w x 3’ h, $275; 2 bar chairs, $40 each; 8 piece setting of dishes, $50; large mirror, gold frame, 46” h x 37” w, $75; 3 sets of stainless steel dinnerware, $15 per set; fireplace set with stand, $30; box of double lace, $20; and La-Z-Boy chair, 30. 403-309-5494 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

1830

Cats

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for free. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

EXPERIENCED golf balls, 8 dozen, $2/dozen, and quick-dry sports pants by REI, 30” waist, navy, $15.

403-347-3741

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

3010

FOR RENT - ACREAGE, near Pine lake - New Mobile Home, 3 bdrm., 1/2 hour from Red Deer/ Innisfail for rent, eff. Oct 1, 2016 - $1500 per month. call - 403-478-5165 forv further details

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

DUPLEX reno’d, Gibson Close, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 5 appl. (newer), large shed, fenced yard, close to school, n/s, no pets, $1001/mo., HEAT INCL’D Linda 403-314-0635 home or 403-396-4726 cell.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM., 1 bath, Condo for rent Sunnybrook. $1200/mo. Avail: July 1.

403-357-4203.

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

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

403-348-6594

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337

GLENDALE

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Tammy at 403-314-4306

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3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

TWO WEEKS FREE CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, no pets, . 403-391-1780 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

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

Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337

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CLASSIFICATIONS

CLASSIFICATIONS

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

3060

Suites

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

403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

CITY VIEW APTS.

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

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

Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)482-1711

MORRISROE MANOR Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

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

403-596-6000 PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 4 appls, inclds. heat & water, no pets $760/mo., avail.

June 1. 348-6594

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

4100

Income Property

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

3090

Rooms For Rent

$430./mo. All utils incl.

Furnished, cable, internet. n/s, working, clean adults only. 403-550-1298 BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

5000-5300

Motorcycles

5080

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC No shortage of power ALL the Bells & Whistles!!

44,600 kms.

MINT CONDITION Never laid down.

$7600. o.b.o.

(403)318-4653 Red Deer

Motorhomes

5100 Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cheyanne Flett (left to right), Gabriel Wood, and Elyssa Flett of St. Theresa Point First Nations, Man., practise a dance for the Outside Looking In program at the Tim Horton Onondaga Farms in St. George, Ont. on May 12. Outside Looking In is an accreditated dance program specifically for Indigenous youths from various reserves from Ontario and Manitoba.

4120

Industrial Property

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. or for Rent. 403-391-1780

Businesses For Sale

4140

SMALL OIL and gas mfg./representative company for sale. Solid and honest reputation, tons of contacts, function as is or easily expanded.

If interested contact kplace06@telus.net

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

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FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

4430

Money To Loan

1976 DODGE motor home, new tires and brakes, sleeps 4, good cond., 85,000 kms, $2500 obo.

403-782-4504

Fifth Wheels

5110

1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good, clean cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full propane tanks, full size fridge, 4 burner stove/ oven, microwave, queen bed, x-long couch, makes into bed, N/S, no pets. $7000. obo. 403-350-6695

Holiday Trailers

5120

HAVE you exhausted your efforts at the banks?

Is your company in need of Ànancing? Call 403-969-9884

TRY

Central Alberta LIFE SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300

2014 19.6 NOMAD trailer, SUV towable, sleeps 4, Gently used. REDUCED $12,500. 403-347-5953

Boats & Marine

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

5160

WatersEdge Marina

Boat Slips Available For Sale or Rent Sylvan Lake, AB 403.318.2442 info@watersedgesylvan.com www.watersedgesylvan.com

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

TIRES, summer (4) Continental, 225/55/R17 Low mileage. $150. all 4.

403-986-6878

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

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Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

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

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

DAMON INTERIORS

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

Repair or Renovate No job too small, full service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount.

Call 403-598-7499 R.D.

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Flooring

1180

Furnace Cleaning

1193

CHAIR, beige leather, Àrm in exc. cond., $50. obo.

403-347-1017 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main Áoor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and Áooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Roofing

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s RooÀng. Re-rooÀng specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Elite Retreat, Finest Care in VIP Treatment.

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1430

SECOND 2 NONE, reg. and res. grass cutting/yard clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ rock and sod jobs/eaves.

Free est. 403-302-7778

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. GEORGE, Ont. — Keanu Monias likes to crank tunes from Justin Bieber and Michael Jackson when he’s in the mood to groove, but recently dancing has become more than a hobby.

It’s part of his curriculum.

The 16-year-old attends high school in the Garden Hill First Nation in northern Manitoba, one of four communities where indigenous youth are translating dance moves into credits — an initiative yielding even greater benefits beyond the classroom.

“It really helped me focus on my life,” said Monias.

“It makes me want to do something more than dancing. I want to be able to do different things, something that would make people smile.”

Through the program Outside Looking In, professional choreographers have travelled regularly to each community over the course of the year.

While there, they offer teens the chance to hone their artistic skills and enhance their overall education.

“High school dropout rates for indigenous kids are so much higher than the Canadian average,” said program founder and CEO Tracee Smith, a member of the Missanabie Cree First Nation in northern Ontario.

“Being a dancer myself, I thought we need something else that’s going to bring these kids through the doors of school every day.

“Music, dance, is very much built into our culture as indigenous people. So I thought this is something that will draw them in, get them out of their seats, get them moving and, hopefully, give them a reason to come back to school or come to school every day.”

Students from Lac La Croix First Nation and Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve in Ontario, and St. Theresa Point First Nation, Man., are also a part of this year’s program.

Beyond class credits, the teens will have the

chance to bolster their performance resumes when they take to the stage at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Wednesday.

Under the shelter of a towering barn at Tim Horton Onondaga Farms in southwestern Ontario, the youngsters are clad in T-shirts, sweats and sneakers devoting hours of rehearsal time to prep for their big performance.

From an artistic point of view, Smith said she doesn’t typically include a lot of traditional dance in the show. The teens mainly focus on hip-hop routines, with modern and contemporary styles also in the mix.

But this year’s closing number will feature award-winning music producer DJ Shub, who specializes in electronic powwow dance, which they will, in turn, incorporate into their performance, she noted.

Garden Hill First Nation high school teacher Swabia Allen said that while the training schedule has been gruelling for students, the dancing has paid dividends.

“I’ve noticed kids that were very shy and timid, you see them come alive when they’re performing and dancing,” said Allen.

“It’s more meaningful to come to school….

Grades are increased because they’re there on a daily basis to get the support and learn the work that’s being taught.”

Smith said she’s also heard of students speaking of improved family relationships and better behaviour at home as part of their involvement.

“It’s grown into something bigger than I thought it was going to be.”

Bradley Monias, who turns 16 on Tuesday, admitted to jitters when he first started, but has benefited from newfound skills — and an emotional boost.

“I’ve discovered I know how to dance,” he said.

“I can make friends easily and I have the confidence I’ve never had before.”

Growers looking to bring sweet-tart haskap berries to more Canadians

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Dance program for indigenous youth offers boost beyond the classroom

THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 TREE /YARD CARE, JUNK Removal, Garage Door Service. 403-358-1614

YARD CARE NEED FLOORING DONE? MIKE’S Refresh Painting Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459 Don’t pay the shops more.

Exterior/Interior, Over 20 yrs. exp.

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TORONTO — Haskap berries might be the next new superfood — but most people haven’t heard of them.

That’s because the berries, which are higher in antioxidants than blueberries, have traditionally been found only sporadically in the wild across Canada, growing mostly on the edge of wetlands.

But Bob Bors aims to change that.

The head of the fruit program at the University of Saskatchewan has been breeding haskap berries for 15 years. Before that, he spent a few years studying them in order to pluck the most desirable characteristics from the species, which is native to northern Japan and Russia.

The plants are being grown in most provinces now, with more than two million sold, “which is pretty big for any plant breeding program,” says Bors.

Haskap, meaning “little present on the end of a branch,” is the name given by the Japanese.

Other names include edible honeysuckle, blue honeysuckle and honeyberry.

The taste is distinct, says Alain Bosse, the Kilted Chef who promotes Maritime cuisine.

“It’s got this raspberry, wild blueberry sort of undertone and then all of a sudden there’s that Honeycrisp (apple),” Bosse says from Pictou County, N.S. “It’s got that real funky flavour profile,” which he likens to bumbleberry, or mixed-berry pie.

Some people say the berries — which are dark blue, oval or cylindrical, and about 2.5 centimetres long — have a hint of elderberry, black currant or grape, and a tartness.

Liam Tayler, commercial director of Haskapa in Nova Scotia, says the company started with an acre of haskap plants in 2011 and has added more each year. Forty acres are nearing production and they plan to plant another 80 acres this year. Being a small company, they currently freeze the berries for use in products that are sold in their retail store in Mahone Bay, N.S., as well as online.

“The nice thing about the haskap berry is it’s incredibly versatile,” Tayler says from Mahone Bay. “It has the capacity to be a wine, but it also has the capacity to be a health-food supplement” because of its antioxidants.

Haskapa has created juice, jams and condiments with haskap berries and infuses other products with the fruit including maple syrup, gin and vodka. They also make body scrub, bath

salt, lip gloss and soap containing the haskap and plan to introduce powder for juice and wine in the next few months.

Tayler says Haskapa is working with Dalhousie University’s agricultural experts in Truro, N.S., to optimize processing techniques to maximize the bioactive content of the products. One of Bors’s doctoral students is also conducting research on the nutritional composition of the haskap.

“It is a fruit that makes a wine more like grape wine than any other fruit, so people in the far north like Saskatchewan, we can’t really grow any wine grapes here, but you can grow haskap to make a nice wine or liqueur,” says Bors, who says one of his favourite ways to eat the berries is in sauces and smoothies and with ice cream.

Because they’re not as firm as blueberries they can be mushy in pie, he notes.

Bosse adds Haskapa’s jams to dishes and loves the maple syrup infused with the berries in his signature candied bacon.

He also uses them on their own when they’re in season as a novel fruit.

“Quantities are not that high yet. (Haskapa are) still using pretty well everything they’re producing in value-added products,” says Bosse.

“I think when production gets to the point where they can start selling them fresh, or even dry or frozen, the product’s going to definitely take off.”

Gardeners have also adopted the deciduous shrub for its ease of growth and attractiveness in the garden. It has creamy unscented flowers.

During breeding, Bors selected against powdery mildew and leaned toward bigger, prettier leaves. The plants can also be grouped to form a nice-looking hedge.

“It doesn’t sucker, so it’s not like raspberries, saskatoons and cherries that will take over a garden and spread. Haskap is very polite,” says Bors.

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LUANN May 17 2007 — Hutterrite community in Alberta wins OHJDO ULJKW WR KDYH D SURYLQFLDO GULYHU·V OLFHQFH without a picture; believes willfully being photographed is a sin.

2000 — University of Alberta team of doctors announce they have successfully transplanted human pancreatic cells into eight severely-diabetic patients, who began producing their own insulin immediately.

1992 — Toronto Blue Jays pass the one million attendance mark in only 21 dates, earlier than any team in major league baseball history.

1949 — Canadian government grants full diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel 1939 — King George VI and Queen Elizabeth start first royal visit to Canada by a reigning monarch.

1878 — Thomas Edison demos his new phonograph to Governor-General Lord Dufferin at Rideau Hall.

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FAMILY TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016

Don’t judge a book by its cover MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM

“Appearances are often deceiving.”

– Aesop, Ancient Greek fabulist I’ve always loved live theatre, so when the emcee at a broadcast convention announced a play would be performed during lunch, I was immediately intrigued. I ducked out of my session early so I could watch the crew set up the impromptu stage. Among them was a slim, balding young man with the thick glasses who seemed especially interested in props and lighting.

Watching him brought to mind my days in high school drama and later in community theatre. I never played the lead in any productions. That honour typically went to one of the dashing and gregarious extroverts in our group. Wanting to remain involved, I settled for working be-hind the scenes.

I wondered if the young man in question worked backstage for the same reasons. I felt an immediate affinity with him and even a touch of sympathy for his plight.

I was impressed by the play – a light comedy – but in particular by the young man who played the lead role.

He was dynamic, captivating and striking with his jet black hair and piercing blue eyes – the quintessential gregarious extrovert. The troupe received rousing applause, especially the young

lead actor. I must admit, I was impressed and a little envious.

I watched the crew strike the set.

Among those helping with the teardown was the lead actor. I was floored when he removed the black wig he was wearing and fanned his bald head. It was the slim fellow with glasses whom I had seen earlier. My assessment of him and the assumptions that followed – based upon appearance – had been entirely inaccurate.

As much as we would like to believe our judgments are based on merit, more often than not they are based solely upon appearance, at least in the beginning. Think about the people you pass on the street every day; chances are your assessment of them happens in seconds and is likely prompted by how they look. Are they clean-cut or shabby?

Slim or overweight? Appearance-based assumptions are founded solely upon visual cues such as height, weight, ethnicity and attire and to a lesser degree the type of vehicle driven, job, friends, and associates.

When we lack information about someone, we automatically switch into assessment mode. It’s important to note that our brain sorts and categorizes information based on past experiences.

Let’s say we’re looking to determine whether a stranger is likely to pose a potential threat or a potential benefit. Drawing upon previous encounters with (apparently) similar individuals provides us with a starting point.

That’s all it is however – a starting

point – and it’s incumbent upon us to move past initial impressions and seek a deeper understanding. And despite what some will claim, these assessments can be easily changed.

I think most of us believe that first impressions are fairly accurate, but here’s something to consider: the more insecure we are, the more diminished our self-esteem, the more likely we are to pass a quick and baseless judgment.

Categorizing people we encounter allows us to move forward with an illusion of control.

The truth is we don’t know the reasons for someone’s cur-rent appearance. Let’s say you pass a disheveled gentleman on your walk to work – clothes wrinkled, hair mussed and a noticeable five o’clock shadow. You might assume the man is a slob, but ask yourself: have you ever had the washing machine break down, your hot water stop running or slept in with only enough time to pile out of bed and head straight to work?

Sometimes we pass judgments to make ourselves feel superior.

Ego and insecurity can prompt us to hold an inflated/distorted image of ourselves. When we see someone who appears to be below our status, we may adjust our behaviour and act aloof and indignant. Conversely, when you see someone whom we quietly, even subconsciously, believe to be above our standard, we may look enviously upon him or her and become bitter and resentful. Depending upon the level of our self-esteem, we may even begin to find reasons to dislike or find fault

Faith, hope and learning to use a screw gun TRENNA MIELKE FAMILY

The garden box began as a germ of an idea planted in my husband’s head by me.

“You know,” I said one day, conversationally, as I was chopping tomatoes and lettuce and little green onions and throwing them into a salad bowl at my kitchen counter, “I sure would like one of those little garden boxes like Jill has.” (Jill is child number three).

Last year she and her dad hammered, nailed and sawed two garden boxes together.

Her little vegetable garden, planted by herself and her three small boys, was truly a wonder to behold and the vegetables they grew rivaled Jack in the Beanstock, so well did they flourish.

My husband commented the same way he usually does when I toss an idea out along with the salad.

He said nothing.

But a few days later,

over a glass of wine after supper, he showed me a rough version of a garden box scribbled on the back of an envelope with a ball point pen that actually worked that I found in the junk drawer.

“What do you think?” he asked.

“Cool,” I said. “I think it would be very cool.”

He explained to me how the box would work.

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Dear Annie: Several months ago, my fiancee of two years announced that she wanted to date other people.

Although I knew things had not been good between us, I was devastated.

We met on the Internet, and I saw that she was back on the same website. I talked to her, hoping she would give me a sign that she wanted to get back together, but she said she wanted to see other men and that I should see other women. I was desperate and even logged onto her page on the dating website, hoping to get through to her.

After a few days of her not responding, I started getting messages from other women. I made a date with one of them, and we ended up having sex afterward.

I felt terrible about it. I called the woman and told her I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see her anymore because I was still in love with someone else. I continued to call and text my ex, even though I knew she was seeing other men.

This went on for about six weeks.

Last week, my ex and I had a wonderful day together and ended up cuddling under a blanket on her sofa.

Things started to get romantic, and she asked if I had been out with or had sex with anyone. I answered truthfully.

She became angry and said she did not want to see me again.

While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not making excuses for something I should not have done, I am confused by her attitude.

She said she expected me to know that she still loved me, even though she never responded when I tried to get back together.

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I as bad as she is making me out to be? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to say that I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already said. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heart Torn Out Dear Heart: We suggest saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;goodbye and good riddance.â&#x20AC;? Your ex wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfied with you nor committed to your relationship.

If you got back together, we suspect she would break your heart repeatedly.

She also expects you to read her mind, which is unfair and manipulative, and gives her a reason to leave whenever she gets bored.

We agree that you should not have hopped in the sack with the first woman you met, but you were essentially unattached and free to do as you pleased.

We know you are heartbroken, but we hope you can also see that you dodged a bullet with this woman. You deserve to find someone who cherishes and respects you.

Dear Annie: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not a Creepy Guyâ&#x20AC;? said his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiancee thinks heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creepy, for no particular reason.

Another reader said all young women think middle-aged guys are creepy.

I am a woman in my mid-30s and I have worked in health care for the past 10 years. I have discovered that any amount of polite, friendly attention can quickly turn a man, no matter his age, into Mr. Creepy. I have been grabbed and cornered and had to endure inappropriate comments. Now I do not treat any man as a safe and respectable human being. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Better Safe Than Sorry Dear Better: We have to wonder what men you are encountering that they are ALL like this.

You should never have to tolerate being grabbed and cornered, but your experience seems so lopsided that you might want to reconsider your work environment.

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Tuesday, May 17 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Sugar Ray Leonard, 60; Bill Paxton, 61; Enya, 55 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Libran Moon encourages calm cooperation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are dedicated and responsible. The coming year promises good fortune but you must grab lucky opportunities when they come along or they will pass you by.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Travel and communication are favoured today, as long as you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush. So hop in a car, bus, train or plane; plus talk, text or tweet up a storm. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got plenty of news to share with others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With the Sun and Venus both visiting your sign, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your time to shine! But Mercury is still retrograde so think things through Taurus, before you make any earth-shattering announcements!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The more creatively you work with others, the more productive and positive the day will be. Communicating and collaborating with the young people in your life brings many rewards.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are your dreams big enough?

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t limit yourself Crabs. With four planets activating your aspiration zones, make sure your plans for the future are as big and beautiful and creative as possible.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Self-indulgence and impulse buys are a danger at the moment as luxury-loving Jupiter stimulates your spending gene. So think things through carefully Cats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and leave your credit card at home.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Libran Moon boosts your conversation skills and your diplomatic demeanour. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a fabulous day to buy a new outfit, get your hair done, have a beauty treatment or enjoy a relaxing massage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it comes to work projects and business transactions, make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done all the homework and research required. Retrograde Saturn encourages you to pay close attention to important details.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Confidence, communication and creativity are the buzz words at work, as you strive to be more positive and proactive. Make sure you present yourself as professionally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and attractively â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When it comes to paid or volunteer work, make the most of any lucky breaks that come your way today. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to get moving, communicating, networking and circulating in style!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometime over the next five months, some lucky Aquarians will benefit from a gift, freebie, pay rise, bonus, marriage settlement, superannuation pay-out, inheritance or bumper tax return.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take a close look at your relationships plus your career, and find ways you can improve on your present performance. With focus and self-belief, you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

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