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BUILDING EXCITEMENT IS PARES TO AS RED DEER PRE EMORIAL WELCOME THE MRNING CUP THIS MO

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Hosting the Memorial Cup is m more than a once-in-a-lifetime oppo p portunity for Red Deer.

It’s a once-in-a-generation chance for Alberta.

It’s staggering to think that the last time Alberta hosted the Canadian Hockey League’s title was in 1974 in Calgary. But now, 42 years later, the Memorial Cup returns to the wildrose province.

“It’s amazing it has been this long,” said Brent Sutter, Red Deer Rebel owner, general manager and head coach.

“Maybe Alberta won’t have to wait another 40-some years to host this thing. You have to put a lot of time and effort into it and it truly is a community type of event because you have to have a tremendous amount of volunteers and you have to have a great chair group to oversee it all.”

Starting Friday, the Brandon Wheat Kings, London Knights, Rouyn-Noranada Huskies and Red Deer Rebels square off in the tournament. The Wheat Kings, Knight and Huskies all won their leagues, the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League respectively.

They will battle with the host team for the top major junior hockey title, which has been contested since 1919.

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City of Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer accepts a Red Deer Rebels jersey from Rebels senior vice-president Merrick Sutter. In council chambers Wednesday, Mayor Veer proclaimed May 23-27, 2016 as Red Deer Rebels Week in recognition of the MasterCard Memorial Cup.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deerians are Rebels for a week.

Mayor Tara Veer donned a personalized Red Deer Rebels jersey and made it official at City Hall on Wednesday morning declaring May 23-27 Rebels Week.

In keeping with the historic nature of the city’s role as MasterCard Memorial Cups hosts, the proclamation was a first.

“This is the first time we’ve issued a proclamation for a sports team,” said Veer, who was joined

by Rebels senior vice-president Merrick Sutter.

“With an event of this national and international magnitude, the Red Deer Rebels are such a source of community pride and we cannot underestimate what this opportunity means for the people of our community.”

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For Deborah Meaney, getting ready for the Woody’s Marathon has been a mental escape from the Fort McMurray forest fire she and 80,000 fled.

With family in Red Deer, she’s stayed with them while Fort McMurray has been evacuated. She said the fire came pretty close to her home, but from what she’s been able to gather it is safe for now.

Meaney has DEBORAH MEANEY run in Woody’s before and she’s determined to i m p r o v e h e r Evacuees could time in the 10 return home as km run. “ L a s t y e a r early as June 1 when I ran, I Page A3 could barely run a minute at a time. I Researcher had bad shin tracking health splints,” she said. “This year of firefighters I don’t have any Page A3 pain in my legs, I can run four or five minutes at a time and only have to rest for 30 seconds instead of walking for four or five minutes. It’s definitely been a big change.

“I actually enjoy running now. I’ve been calling it my medicine the past few weeks.”

Since July, she has shed 50 pounds.

Always being active, Meaney has been involved in running, zumba, yoga and swimming. She’s run the event before, but trying to lose weight she needed a goal to work towards this year and she eyed the Woody’s RV World Marathon/ Half/10K. “I’m not a pro by any means,” she said. “I just want to prove to myself that I’m worth it, that I’m strong. If I can get through the fire and the run and live to tell about it, I can get through anything.”

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ATVers warned to stay on trails

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House RCMP are warning off-highway vehicle drivers to stay on trails designated for their all-terrain vehicles and off-road bikes.

The same goes for Jeeps and monster trucks unlawfully driven through forests and waterways.

“If there are no trails, they shouldn’t be out there.

What they should be doing is staying on hard-path trails and not ripping through the bush and knocking everything down and going through the muskegs, damaging terrain,” said RCMP Cpl. Wayne Howse on Wednesday.

“We’ve had issues of ‘A LOT OF them driving in rivers THESE PEOPLE and creeks.”

FEEL LIKE THE He said the banks of Vetch Creek located CLEARWATER south of Rocky is badly RIVER IS THEIR eroded from off-highway vehicle use. The creek is PERSONAL now currently closed.

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PURPOSE TO “Unfortunately, a lot BE DRIVING of these people feel like the Clearwater River is IN THERE. IT’S their personal wash bay.

FISH HABITAT. We’ve repeatedly had STAY OUT.’ calls about people driving right down the mid— CPL. WAYNE HOWSE dle of the rivers. There’s RCMP no purpose to be driving in there. It’s fish habitat.

Stay out.”

He said last year a full-sized pickup truck was driven right through the spawning bed areas of Clearwater River. The driver was fined $2,000.

People will also ignore the no trespassing signs on logging and well site roads.

“People are still going in there setting up their RVs next to H2S gas sites. It’s quite common. You would not believe the amount of people that find anywhere they can to set up.”

He said this week three people pleaded guilty and were fined between $810 and $1,000 for ignoring no trespassing signs on Falls Creek Road last August.

A contractor for a local logging company was working on the private road with heavy equipment when three men drove down the road despite many posted no trespassing signs.

A verbal argument took place when they told the worker to move the equipment so they could continue driving down the road. The men left, but were seen in the area the following day.

Howse said the two most recent convictions concerning off-highway vehicles were due to public complaints.

“We have eyes and ears out here, not only the police. A lot of civilians have had enough of the activity.”

Members of the public are encouraged to take photos when it is safe to do so and record licence plate numbers. Complaints can be made to the police or Report a Poacher, at 1-800-642-3800, because Fish and Wildlife officers also deal with land issues, he said.

Howse said fewer off-highway vehicles have been in the West Country so far this year because restrictions on the vehicles due to the threat of wildfires.

“But that could change in an instant. We get a lot of rain.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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GrammaLink-Africa volunteer Lorraine Sproxton, right, hands Mary Smith a plate of macaroni and cheese at the annual Gramma-Link-Africa Mac and Cheese for a Cause event at Gaetz United Church Wednesday afternoon. All proceeds from the event are going to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to support grandmothers helping grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Mass killer psychotic before house party: psychiatrist

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Calgary man heard what he thought was the voice of the devil before he stabbed five people to death at a Calgary house party two years ago, says a psychiatric report introduced Wednesday at his murder trial.

Matthew de Grood, 24, told a psychiatrist that he believed a war was about to begin, signalling the end of the world, when he arrived at the party in northwest Calgary in April 2014.

“He heard a male voice, who he thought was the devil, telling him to ‘kill them before they get you,’ ” recounted Dr. Alberto Choy, the director of forensic psychiatry at Alberta Hospital Edmonton.

MATTHEW DE GROOD “He advised us he could not converse with the voice but it was directing him and warning him about others.”

De Grood, 24, admitted to stabbing the victims to death in an agreed statement of facts read at the beginning of his trial on five counts of first-degree murder.

But his lawyer has pleaded not guilty on his client’s behalf, saying he isn’t criminally responsible.

Both Choy and Dr. Lenka Zedkova, another psychiatrist at the hospital who did a number of interviews with de Grood, believe the accused suffered a “psychotic episode” before the attack.

“He was not in touch with reality. It appears he was suffering different categories of delusions,” said Zedkova.

“My opinion was he did not know what he was doing was morally wrong,” she said.

Zedkova believes that de Grood “likely suffered from schizophrenia,” while Choy’s diagnosis was schizophrenia, a severe form of bipolar disorder, or a combination of both.

“It was my opinion that he was suffering from a mental disorder. There’s little doubt in my mind he was psychotic at the time,” said Choy.

Killed in the attack were Kaitlin Perras, 23 Lawrence Hong, 27 Josh Hunter, 23 Zackariah Rathwell, 21 and Jordan Segura, 22.

De Grood said he thought he had to attack Rathwell, a budding young musician, before Rathwell attacked him, Choy testified.

Court heard that de Grood grabbed a chef’s knife with a 21-centimetre blade from a knife block in the kitchen before killing Rathwell and the other four victims who he believed “were on the side of evil.”

Choy said he considered the possibility that de Grood — the son of a veteran Calgary police officer — might be trying to fake insanity, but there was a “mountain of evidence” indicating that wasn’t the case.

Outside court, defence lawyer Allan Fay said he realizes not everyone is going to believe his client is not criminally responsible.

“No matter what we do there’s going to be certain members of the public who aren’t satisfied,” said Fay. “My client’s not getting any special breaks because his father is a police officer. My client isn’t trying to avail himself of some trumped up defence.

My client was mentally ill when this occurred to the point that he was incapable of appreciating the moral wrongness of what he was doing.”

In the agreed statement of facts, de Grood told police after his arrest that he didn’t have a choice in his actions.

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Evacuee re-entry possible June 1

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

FORT MCMURRAY WILDFIRE

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says people from the fire-ravaged city of Fort McMurray could start going home starting June 1 if conditions are safe, but warned there will only be basic services and a partially open hospital.

“Remember, many hazards remain in Fort McMurray,” Premier Rachel Notley said Wednesday.

“We need to address all of them before it is safe for residents to begin to return.”

Notley said the re-entry will be done in stages over two weeks. The city will not be suitable for everyone, including people with breathing problems, late-term pregnant women and those undergoing cancer treatment.

“We anticipate that many people will not return as early as June 1,” she said.

Five safety conditions must be met, including that wildfire is no longer an imminent threat and the air is safe to breathe. Basic emergency, medical and other services such as electricity and natural gas must also be available.

Notley warned that a boil-water advisory is likely to remain in place until the end of June and that people returning should bring with them what they need.

The hospital is scheduled to be fully operational by June 15.

More than 80,000 people fled the city on May 3 due to the wildfire that continues to burn. The fire destroyed more than 2,400 buildings, but firefighters managed to save almost 90 per cent of the city.

The wildfire continued to burn out of control, covering more than 4,200 square kilometres.

The flames spread toward Highway 63 north of Fort McMurray — the major road in the area — but did not cross it.

Notley said she was not aware of any further damage to oilsands industry work camps.

One facility was destroyed Tuesday after 8,000 workers were evacuated from several camps in the area.

Erin Peach works at a Shell facility that has continued operations throughout the fire, and has been flying in and out of the region to work her shifts, staying with her fiance at a hotel south of Edmonton when she’s off.

She was relieved to hear she might soon be able to settle back into more of a routine, saying they’ve already found a place to rent in Fort McMurray.

“I just want to get back to normal,” said Peach. “If I’ve got to boil my water and sleep in my car, I don’t care. I just want to get back to Fort McMurray.”

Alberta BRIEFS Suspect nabbed in drug raid to stand trial in 2017

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Dr. Jeremy Beach, left, tests the lung function of firefighter captain Kelly Lehr with a spirometer at a fire hall in Sherwood Park on Wednesday. University of Alberta researcher Nicola Cherry set up a mobile lab to test firefighters for breathing problems after returning from Fort McMurray.

B.C. premier says climate change is sparking need for national forest fire plan OTTAWA — Climate change is leading to more wildfires and the country needs a national forest firefighting strategy, says B.C. Premier Christy Clark.

While the country has been transfixed by the raging fires around Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, British Columbia’s interior is experiencing similar fire conditions this spring that have received far less attention.

“The federal government has to help us to come together and come up with a national forest fire-fighting strategy,” Clark said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“We’ve got a lot of experience with this in British Columbia.”

The labour-intensive job of clearing flammable debris on the forest floor is just one aspect of controlling wildfires, she said, as is pooling national fire-fighting re-

Province introduces bill to impose pay grid on agencies, boards, commissions EDMONTON — Alberta is bringing in new legislation to establish a pay grid for executives on its agencies, boards, and commissions — and to find out how much it is paying those same executives right now.

“Over the years, compensation practices between the public service and our province’s agencies, boards, and commissions have diverged, often significantly,” Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Wednesday.

“This framework will ensure that the spending of public dollars is in line with the broader Alberta public sector and comparable jurisdictions.”

Earlier Wednesday, the government tabled Bill 19, the Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act. The bill is part of a broader government plan to bring stability, consistency, and transparency to the payment and operation of the 301 agencies, boards and commissions that serve the public in varying capacities.

Trial is another 18 months away for one of four men busted during drug raids in Red Deer and Innisfail in the fall of 2013.

Red Deer City RCMP allege that four suspects were arrested on multiple charges, including possessing drugs for trafficking, simple possession of illegal drugs, possessing property obtained by crime, possession a weapon obtained by crime, possession of a prohibited weapon and careless use of a firearm.

Red Deer resident Nicholas White, 23, elected for trial by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench and was ordered to stand trial after waiving a preliminary hearing set in Red Deer provincial court for late January of 2015.

Preliminary hearings are optional and may be held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to Queen’s This week and every week, working for you Bench for trial.

White was originally National Public Works Week scheduled to stand trial in March of this year, but the trial was adjourned with a new trial set earlier this month.

White is now scheduled Engineering Planning to stand trial on Sept. 25Superintendent 26, 2017, represented by Red Deer counsel Andrew Phypers.

sources among provinces to attack the country’s hot spots.

“That has begun,” said Clark, adding more needs to be done “especially in terms of predictive work on where the fires will likely be.”

About 80 wildfires are currently burning in B.C., many of them east of the Rocky Mountains and essentially part of the same boreal forest conditions that have consumed hundreds of thousands of hectares around Fort McMurray, forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 people and disrupted about a million barrels a day of oilsands production.

Because of the oilsands link, talk of climate change as a contributing factor in the Alberta wildfires has proven to be politically toxic — even though scientists have been predicting and tracking increased fire losses due to global warming for more than two decades.

Clark said dry forests and longer fire seasons mean the problem of fire damage is only going to get worse. This year’s B.C. fire season was the earliest on record, she said.

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FOX CREEK — Residents of a town northwest of Edmonton are no longer under immediate threat of a forest fire.

Alberta Emergency Alert cancelled a twohour evacuation alert for people in Fox Creek and those who live south of the hamlet of Little Smoky.

Earlier this week, a blaze between the two communities forced residents south of Little Smoky out of their homes until Tuesday.

SHERWOOD PARK — A researcher has started tracking the health of firefighters helping battle the massive wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Nicola Cherry, an occupational epidemiologist at the University of Alberta, is taking blood, urine and breath samples of firefighters as they return from northeastern Alberta in a mobile laboratory she received two weeks ago.

The van has been sitting this week in Sherwood Park, east of Edmonton, and Cherry has so far tested about 55 firefighters from the area.

“They said the smoke was unbelievably dense — worse than anything they’d ever seen — and they are concerned about their health from that,” she said.

The fire, now covering more than 4,200 square kilometres, spread into the city on May 3, sending more than 80,000 residents fleeing for their safety. It destroyed about 2,400 buildings and continues to burn in the region.

Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze.

Government officials have said smoke from the fire is a safety issue. The air quality health index, measured on a scale of one to 10, was at 38 on Monday.

It hit 51 early Wednesday but dipped down to 11 later in the day.

Hundreds of other workers had been in Fort McMurray, working to restore utilities and reopen the hospital, but most were evacuated earlier this week. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Wednesday that anyone still working in the community is wearing “appropriate masks.”

Cherry said the index score doesn’t really demonstrate the level of danger for firefighters, who are working much closer to the flames. Although they do wear respirators, they typically remove their equipment while on breaks.

Some of the firefighters in the study have complained about breathing problems, heat stroke and fatigue, Cherry said.

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Ready for Memorial Cup spotlight JOSH ALDRICH OPINION

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he Memorial Cup is finally here and Red Deer is ready for the national spotlight.

In many respects this will be a test run for the 2019 Canada Winter Games, which will pack this city for two weeks in February and March in two and a half years. I believe Alberta’s third largest city should be able to handle both quite well.

While the scope of the two events are quite different, from an operations and volunteer standpoint the Memorial Cup should show just how well the city can handle a mass of people from across the country for more than a week, coordinating with national media and the fine details of a major national event.

We have had tastes of smaller major events in recent years like Telus, Esso

and Allan Cups as well as the Scotties Tournament of Hearts but nothing really to this level of attention or size of attraction.

There is no bigger hockey tournament that Red Deer can host on its own. The world juniors has outgrown smaller markets like Red Deer since the championship was here in 1995 with major international venues like Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, Buffalo, Toronto and Montreal as preferred destinations.

The city, organizing committee and the Canadian Hockey League have pulled out all of the stops. On Wednesday, Mayor Tara Veer proclaimed it Rebels Week. Today, the Memorial Cup will be choppered and paraded from Central Middle School to the Cenotaph on Ross Street in an armoured vehicle that serves as a memorial for those who fought in the First World War at 11:30 a.m. followed by a ceremony and entertainment.

Throughout the next 10 days there will be a number of events at Fan Fest and throughout the city to entertain the masses.

Those coming in from out of town

will also have the opportunity to explore all Red Deer has to offer, from our trail system, to our parks, the downtown, local stores, restaurants and other amenities offered by the community.

This is our time to shine.

The Advocate will have full coverage of everything going on throughout the next 10 days, in print and online at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

When the Canada Winter Games come in 2019, the circumstances will be much different. Those games will be our Olympics.

The major multi-sport games are almost always used as a vehicle for infrastructure and facility upgrading, often pushing the term legacy building.

Red Deer is no different.

The province recently green-lit a $100-million project to fix the interchange south of Red Deer, something that needed to be done regardless but the timetable of the games likely played a role in its approval over other projects.

It’s a similar situation with the Red Deer Arena replacement, which has a tight deadline to be fully operational

in 2018, mere months ahead of the start of the games, that is a $21.6 million project.

Perhaps the biggest project is Red Deer College’s $88-million Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness & Sport, a landmark facility that is tied directly to the games. RDC will serve as host for many of the events and the athlete’s village. The hope is that the Harris Centre will help the college in their bid to become a polytechnic university and attract more national calibre events to the city.

Events like the Memorial Cup and the Canada Winter Games serve an important role in not just our own civic pride and economics, but also our image as a developing player in the country while also reshaping the city itself.

It is an effort well worth the thousands of volunteers, man hours and the investment of major capital.

For the expected 10,000-plus guests that we will have descending on the city for the next 10 days, welcome to Red Deer, this is just the beginning. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Libya: dancing the hesitation two-step GWYNN DYER OPINION

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hen “Prime Minister” Fayez al-Sarraj of the “Government of National Accord” GNA) arrived in Libya a month ago, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that it was “not the time for obstructionists to hold back progress.” A noble sentiment, but it does make you want to ask Kerry: When would be the right time for obstructionists to hold back progress? Next Tuesday?

It was just one more slice of the meaningless waffle that passes for policy statements when Western statesmen discuss what to do about the Libya mess. The country has collapsed into violence and chaos since NATO bombers (with sporadic help from local militias) drove long-ruling dictator Muammar Gaddafi from power in 2011, and Kerry has no good plan for dealing with it.

Sarraj’s GNA merely adds a third contender to the two rival governments that already claim to rule the country, and not one of them actually controls much territory. It is the hundreds of militias that really control Libya’s territory, and the fortunes of the contending governments rise and RED DEER

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fall depending on how many militias will agree to back them (in return for various favours and subsidies, of course).

Western governments are finally paying attention to Libya mainly because ISIS fighters are active there, and because refugees are flowing into Europe from Libya again now that the route through Turkey and Greece has been blocked.

The Italian, British and French governments have been talking about sending 6,000 troops into Libya to train a Libyan army that could take on ISIS and defeat it. There are already American, British, French and Italian special forces teams in the country, and there have been at least four American air strikes against ISIS camps in Libya since December.

It all sounds like a full-scale Western military intervention in Libya is imminent — except that it has been sounding like that for the past six months, and the intervention still hasn’t happened. There is a curious reluctance to take the final step.

The Western interventionists are right to hesitate. The fear that ISIS will take over most of Libya if they don’t put troops in is grossly exaggerated: lately ISIS has been losing ground in Libya, not gaining it. More importantly, ISIS can never be eliminated entirely unless there is a single, legitimate Libyan government backed by a disciplined army.

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So the first priority for the Western powers is to create a government that has the legal authority to invite Western troops in to help. “The GNA [Government of National Accord] is the only entity that can unify the country,” Kerry explained. “It is the only way to generate the cohesion necessary to defeat Daesh [IS].”

So the Western great powers have just created such a government, using the United Nations as their vehicle.

The GNA is not a Libyan initiative; its members were picked by foreigners, and that is how Fayez Sarraj found himself the prime minister of the Government of National Accord.

Farraj is a respected non-partisan figure, the kind of person who gets appointed to head up a National Commission for this or that. If either of the existing claimants to be the Libyan government were inclined to hand over power to the GNA, Farraj would be just the sort of reassuring chap to win them over.

But neither contender — the General National Congress in the capital, Tripoli, or the elected House of Representatives in Tobruk, a thousand kilometres to the east — is inclined to do anything of the sort. Indeed, Farraj was unable to fly into Tripoli with his retinue because the General National Congress closed the airport. He only finally arrived by sea, thanks to the US Navy.

Ordinary Libyans might support the

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GNA, if only out of despair. They are heartily sick of the inter-militia fighting, the financial chaos, and the lack of any government services, and they might well accept a foreign-backed “government” with lots of money and troops at its disposal. But it’s not ordinary Libyans who have to be convinced to hand over power. It’s the local politicians and the militias who control them, and they won’t do it.

Maybe foreign firepower could compel them to accept the GNA’s authority, but the Western powers are not willing to commit their troops to that sort of open-ended military operation.

They just want to go after ISIS and the people-smugglers, and if the GNA can give them the legal cover to do that, it will have served its purpose.

And even then they may decide in the end not to commit Western troops on the ground, because ISIS is not really such a big deal in Libya. Amongst the several hundred thousand members of the innumerable Libyan militia groups, ISIS has at most 5,000 fighters.

It does some spectacularly nasty things, like murdering 22 Egyptian Christian foreign workers on a beach last January, but it only controls one smallish city (Sirte) and an adjacent stretch of coastline. The hesitation two-step may continue.

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Police are looking for a man who robbed a Ross Street convenience store last weekend.

Red Deer RCMP said a man armed with a longbarrelled gun walked into the Mac’s convenience store at 3801 Ross Street just before 5 a.m. last Saturday.

He demanded cash and cigarettes before fleeing.

Police do not believe this robbery is related to a robbery at a different Mac’s store the previous evening.

The suspect is described as Caucasian, about sixfeet (1.83 m) tall weighing about 180 pounds (82 kg).

He was wearing a black hoodie with the hood pulled up and blue jeans. He was wearing a black mask on the lower part of his face.

His weapon was described as a long-barrelled brown firearm resembling an antique rifle.

Anyone with information is asked to call RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Search continues for missing Red Deer woman Police are continuing to search for a Red Deer woman who has been missing for three months.

Lorie Joy Nichols, 49, was last seen in Red Deer on Feb. 23.

RCMP have received a number of tips from the public of possible sightings of Nichols in a number of cities and towns in Alberta.

They have followed up on each tip and have

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CUP: Tremendous group of volunteers For Ron LaRiviere, Memorial Cup Host Committee co-chair, the weeks leading up to the event have been exciting.

“We have a tremendous group of volunteers and a great committee,” said LaRiviere. “Everything is falling into place.

“It’s been 42 years since it has been in Alberta, so it’s long overdue. We’re really excited to host the event here in Red Deer and Alberta. It promises to be a great tournament, the hockey will be great and we have a tremendous line of event to supplement it with fan fest, the beer gardens and the arrival ceremony.”

On Thursday, the Memorial Cup is touching down in Red Deer. It will be flown in by a helicopter, landing at Central Middle School and then paraded down to Veteran’s Park for a short ceremony. The helicopter is scheduled to arrive at 11:30 a.m.

Red Deer had put in a bids for Memorial Cups in 2013 and 2001, but were unsuccessful. Saskatoon hosted the tournament in 2013 beating out the Rebels. The Centrium subsequently underwent a major renovation to add 1,000 seats as well as luxury suites and club seats.

Disappointed, but undeterred, the Red Deer contingent tried again the next time it was the WHL’s turn to host the tournament. On Oct. 7, 2014, it was announced Red Deer had won the right to host the Memorial Cup. “We’d made the bid for 2013 and were unsuccessful,” said LaRiviere. “With the help of Brent Sutter and the Rebel organization we decided to bid again for 2016 and it was just outstanding that we were awarded this event.”

Sutter said he is feeling the excitement in both the room and in the community getting ready for the Memorial Cup. “People are talking about it, downtown is done up now. It’s exciting,” said Sutter. “It’s not surprising, this community and the people of Central Alberta have always done a tremendous job hosting major events.

“This is the biggest hockey event here since the World Juniors in 1995. Being sold out for every game has been exciting. Whether you’re downtown or up in the rink, the excitement is building.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

REBELS WEEK: Official way to welcome people, encourage fans Veer said the city has a “strong, proud history of sporting excellence” both provincially and nationally.

The community is expected to welcome thousands for the Memorial Cup, which officially kicks off at 11:30 a.m. today when the trophy will be brought into town by military helicopter. The arrival will be followed by a parade honouring Canada’s veterans, for whom the Memorial Cup was originally dedicated.

Sutter sees Rebels Week as an “official way to welcome people and encourage fans to show their colours and support the team.

“I think it’s just kind of an indication of the general vibe in the city right now,” he said.

“You can’t go very far without hearing conversations about the event.”

Veer encouraged Red Deerians to show off their pride in their community to visitors and take part in the many events planned around the games.

Everyone is encouraged to don their Rebels gear on Fridays to show their support.

In honour of veterans, the Memorial Cup will be touring area Royal Canadian Legions.

It can be seen at: ● Friday, Red Deer Legion, 2810 Bremner Ave., 1-3 p.m. ● Saturday, Innisfail Legion, 5108 49th Ave., 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ● Saturday, Lacombe Legion, 5138 49th St., 3-4:30 p.m. ● Tuesday, Olds Legion, 5241 46th St., 1-3 p.m.

worked with the police in each jurisdiction.

Police have also undertaken ground searches in Red Deer over the past three months with support from search and rescue teams, Police Dog Services and the RCMP helicopter.

Police have conducted door-to-door canvases and interviews with a number of people who were in contact with Nichols in the time leading up to her being reported missing. They have distributed posters, made repeated checks at various organizations and businesses and viewed many hours of surveillance footage from various locations that have come up during the course of LORIE NICHOLS the investigation.

Red Deer RCMP are working with the Alberta RCMP Missing Persons Unit, KARE, and actively collaborating with other policing jurisdictions in their search for Ms. Nichols. The investigation will continue until she is located. Nichols is described as 1.58 metres tall (five-foot-two), slender build, long brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black ski jacket, ripped light-coloured blue jeans with black long underwear underneath and dark grey boots.

If you have any information on Lorie Nichols’ whereabouts, you are asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

College recognizing four people, one organization with Community Awards Red Deer College has recognized four individuals and one organization in its annual Community Awards, presented on Wednesday evening. ● Tanya Schur: G.H. Dawe Memorial Award for commitment to community and leadership. ● Joe Bower: Alumni Legacy Award, presented posthumously for his contributions to education. ● Andrew Kooman and Kathryn McKenzie: Distinguished Alumnus Award for personal and professional achievements as well as public service. ● Alberta Health Services: Community Partner Award for nearly 50 years of collaboration in training at the college.

MEANEY: Used event to escape doom and gloom She’s used the event and the preparation to escape the doom and gloom that has surrounded Fort McMurray as the wildfire rolled through the city.

That day, Meaney was sent home from work at about 1:15 p.m. when her boss told her to pack up and get out of town. Home by 1:30 p.m., she had to wake her husband Jeff up, who works a night shift.

They picked up their two girls, aged six and eight, and ran back home. The girls were told they could grab one stuffed animal each, Meaney said they were very scared and in tears. She and her husband stood in the doorway of their house and hugged each other, knowing this could be the last time they saw their home. Meaney left in her car with the cat and a few possessions while the girls got into Jeff’s welding truck.

“We made it down to the hospital and we could see the flames were right at the road,” said Meaney.

“The traffic was just at a halt, so we turned around and spent the night at Albian Sands camp.”

Meaney and her family, with their cat in tow, bunked in a room with a double bed.

Please Friday’s Advocate for an in-depth story about this year’s recipients.

Rowing club awaiting approval from county for Lacombe Lake boat launch A new launch spot may have been found for the Central Alberta Rowing Club.

Lacombe County was approached by the club in January to see if an unused road allowance leading to Lacombe Lake could be turned into a launching area for the club’s boats.

The club needs a new home because it has outgrown the site a lakeside property owner had allowed them to use for the past decade.

As an alternative, the club proposed using the road allowance to reach a new launch point. It was hoped nearby provincially owned land could be used for boat storage but Alberta Environment turned that request down.

The county believes the road allowance might still serve the club’s purposes and could be made available under several conditions.

County commissioner Terry Hager said staff are considering an option to allow use of the road allowance under a licence-to-occupy arrangement.

The club would not have exclusive use of the allowance but it would give its rowers, and any others who want to use the access, a route to the lake.

There should be enough room on the roughly 20-metre wide road allowance to allow for some boat storage. Some work is needed to create a ramp from the road allowance to the nearby road, which would be the responsibility of the club.

A staff recommendation is expected to go to county council at its May 26 meeting.

Man killed when motorcycle hit ditch A 55-year-old man is dead after losing control of his motorcycle and crashing in a ditch on Tuesday.

Blackfalds RCMP say the motorcycle was travelling southbound on C and E Trail when the driver lost control and hit the ditch on the west side of the road near Township Road 371 around 7:30 p.m.

Witnesses administered First Aid but the man sustained serious injuries and subsequently died at the scene.

Police continue to investigate.

At 5 a.m. the next morning, the family awoke and left for their family in Red Deer. With no gas to fuel up until Athabasca, the family was held up in traffic for four hours and down to fumes. A man drove by and gave her 10 litres of gas. Other people were going back and forth offering bottled water, but all her kids had to eat was a few crackers Meaney had grabbed.

They made it to Athabasca and got a free meal from a restaurant. They left behind Jeff’s welding truck and piled into the car.

They didn’t arrive in Red Deer until 10 p.m.

At the marathon on Sunday, she’s hoping to run the 10 km in an hour and 15 minutes. The two girls are entered into the one km run, their first events.

The marathon starts at 8 a.m. with the full and half runners going. The 10 km event starts at 7:45 a.m. and the kids start their race at 10:30 a.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘Excited for the challenge’ COACHES FOR MEMORIAL CUP TEAMS TALK ABOUT WHAT FACES THEM OVER THE NEXT 10 DAYS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Before the hostilities of competing for the MasterCard Memorial Cup, the coaches of the four teams involved talked about how they’re getting ready to square off.

The puck drops on the 10-day tournament on Friday, but Wednesday evening Brent Sutter, Red Deer Rebels head coach; Dale Hunter, London Knights head coach; Gilles Bouchard, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies head coach; and Kelly McCrimmon, Brandon Wheat Kings head coach gathered in the Centrium.

“We’ve been watching these guys play for the last two weeks,” said Sutter. “We’ve done a lot of practicing trying to get ready to play these three teams. They’re the champions of the leagues they play in, so we certainly have our hands full.

“To be quite honest, I’m kind of sitting up here as the loser right now.”

The Huskies (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League), Knights (Ontario Hockey League) and Wheat Kings (Western Hockey League) all got to the Memorial Cup by winning their respective leagues. The Rebels, as hosts, have an automatic berth.

Bouchard’s Huskies lost only nine games in regulation and 14 games overall during the QMJHL season.

They come into the tournament as the top ranked team in the Canadian Hockey League.

“We have four good teams here and the best team at this moment will win

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The four coaches of the teams competing in the MasterCard Memorial Cup talk about the upcoming competition. From left to right Kelly McCrimmon, Brandon Wheat Kings head coach; Gilles Bouchard, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies head coach; Dale Hunter, London Knights head coach; and Brent Sutter, Red Deer Rebels head coach. Canadian Hockey League communications director Paul Krotz conducted the conference. it,” said Bouchard.

“It’s our first Presidents Cup for our organization. It was an unbelievable moment for us. We had a great moment

and now it’s time to turn the page and be ready for the Memorial Cup.” After watching tape of the other three teams, Hunter said he expects

there to be quality hockey during the tournament.

“All four of us coaches were challenged to put the puzzle together to win,” said Hunter.

“It makes it interesting, that’s what hockey is all about.”

This is the third time in four years the Knights have won the OHL championship, qualifying for the Memorial Cup but not winning the title.

McCrimmon said all four rounds of playoff hockey were a real challenge for his squad, starting with an Edmonton Oil Kings team that upset them twice in Brandon before the Wheat Kings rebounded and won four straight games.

Facing teams they have never seen before changes preparation to an extent.

“You can’t over-analyze it,” said McCrimmon. “It’s still hockey, you still have to be able to play. For our team, we’re preparing for our game Saturday against Rouyn-Noranda that’s our focus. Likely the same as the other three teams, we’re more worried about our own team and how we play than we would be in a series.

“This is a sprint.”

The Rebels have had their spot booked in the Memorial Cup since they were announced as hosts in 2014.

“We’re excited for the challenge,” said Sutter. “We feel like we have a good team and we can compete and it will be nice to see how it goes here.

It’ll happen quite quickly and every game is very important, it’s like a Game 7.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Sharks’ success driven from power play

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Peter DeBoer took over as coach in San Jose one of the first tasks he wanted to complete was making sure the Sharks were more than just a power-play team.

Improved depth and 5-on-5 play helped get San Jose back to the post-season after missing it a year ago, but come playoff time that power play has served as an impressive weapon and a barometer for the team’s success.

One game after getting shut out on the man advantage, the Sharks struck twice following St. Louis penalties in a 4-0 win Tuesday night that tied the series at one game apiece heading into Game 3 on Thursday in San Jose.

“It creates momentum for us,” DeBoer said Wednesday.

“I think that’s what you’re looking to do with your special teams both ways, is create momentum. I think when our power play scores, that creates momentum. I think when we kill penalties like we did last night, like that four-minute penalty, I think that creates momentum the other way for us.

That’s what you’re looking to do as a coach, is get momentum out of your special teams. I think that does that for us.”

The Sharks lead the NHL with 15 power-play goals this post-season and their 30 per cent success rate is tops among all teams that have played more than one round. San Jose is 13-for-32 on the power play in nine playoff wins, compared to 2-for-18 in its five losses.

With a five-man top unit that has years of experience together, San Jose is a finely tuned unit. Joe Thornton is the playmaker, spending most of his time along the half-boards or behind the net. He has plenty of options.

Brent Burns scored both power-play goals in Game 2 off one-timers that St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott had little chance to save. Captain Joe Pavelski led the team with 12 power-play goals in the regular season, with many coming on deflections in front of the net or rebounds. Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau bring versatility with the ability to create plays for teammates or score on big shots of their own.

“Our power play’s pretty free-flowing,” Thornton said. “Really just can’t key on one guy. We got five guys that can hurt you. I think for us it’s just the way you move around, it’s really hard to defend.”

The Blues managed to neutralize the Sharks in Game 1 when they killed all three power plays in a 2-1 victory.

They were short-handed five times in Game 2, including a slash behind the play by Troy Brouwer that led to the Sharks’ second goal of the game and an interference call on Steve Ott for hitting Pavelski from behind when the puck was not in the area.

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Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy deflects a shot by Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby during Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals Wednesday, in Tampa, Fla. The Penguins defeated the Lightning 4-2.

Penguins double up Bolts to take series lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Penguins 4 Lightning 2 TAMPA, Fla. — Sidney Crosby and Co. kept pressing and shooting until the Pittsburgh Penguins finally imposed their will.

Crosby, Phil Kessel and Chris Kunitz scored third-period goals to help the Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday night.

Carl Hagelin snapped a scoreless tie late in the second period and Matt Murray had 26 saves for the Penguins, who took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and proving that they’re far from a one-man show.

“You don’t win consistently without depth,” Crosby said after scoring the winning goal for the second time in three nights.

Game 4 is Friday night at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

Crosby’s power-play goal off a pass from Evgeni Malkin restored a twogoal lead midway through the final period. Kunitz also beat goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy from the right circle to make it 4-1.

“It was a 4-on-3 so we had a one-timer on either side and (Malkin) was in a good spot to shoot it at the top of the ice,” Crosby said.

“He’s just smart with the puck and he’s going to make the right decision.

I don’t think I called for it but maybe I did.”

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Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat scored for the Lightning. They have lost two straight after winning the series opener in Pittsburgh. The defending Eastern Conference champions were outshot 48-28, including 38-16 over the last two periods.

“Every team is good offensively when they play in their system,” Pittsburgh defenceman Kris Letang said.

“Our system is to play north-south and get the puck deep. When we do that we have a good chance to win.”

Vasilevskiy won Game 1 in relief of the injured Ben Bishop and the Penguins took Game 2 in Pittsburgh when Crosby scored the first overtime playoff goal of his career less than a minute into the extra period.

The Lightning were outshot by a combined 76-41 in the first two games, but weren’t as concerned with that disparity as much as by a lack of good scoring chances — a problem they hoped to rectify by coming out more aggressive to try to put more pressure on Penguins goalie Matt Murray on Wednesday night.

And for a while, they did.

Murray, though, had 12 saves in the opening period, but the Lightning couldn’t keep up the pace. Pittsburgh controlled the puck for much of the second period, taking 21 shots to Tampa Bay’s six and finally breaking through against the 21-year-old goaltender when Kessel chased down a loose puck before flicking a shot from the right circle.

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Vasilevskiy, who had stopped Kessel on a breakaway earlier in the period, blocked the shot directly toward Hagelin, who tipped it in with 10 seconds remaining before the second intermission.

“It was a great second period,” Crosby said. “I thought we created a ton of chances, and to get one that late in the period felt good.”

Kessel’s team-leading seventh goal this post-season gave the Penguins a short-lived two-goal lead. Johnson countered for Tampa Bay just 14 seconds later, taking a pass from Nikita Kucherov and barrelling in on Murray, who was unable to stop a shot that bounced off his upper body before continuing into the net.

Vasilevskiy, making his third career playoff start, finished with 44 saves.

He’s stopped 115 of 123 shots since taking over for Bishop during Game 1.

“Vasilevskiy has been excellent.

He has really kept us in (the last two) games,” Lightning defenceman Anton Stralman said.

The Lightning have lost consecutive games for the first time this post-season.

They’ve been one of the NHL’s moist resilient teams, though, and aren’t counting themselves out.

“We have been to three playoffs together and we have been in every different situation,” coach Jon Cooper said. “Up two, down two, up 2-1, down 2-1, so it’s nothing we haven’t seen before.”

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Rays finish off sweep of Blue Jays

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rays 6 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO — Two blowout losses, a series sweep and a losing streak that is showing no signs of ending.

The Blue Jays left Toronto after another loss to Tampa Bay on Wednesday searching for answers and hoping a return to the road will help them end a nasty funk.

R.A. Dickey gave up three home runs as the Rays doubled the Blue Jays 6-3, handing them their fifth loss in a row.

“We ran into a team that has a lot of momentum,” Dickey said. “They’re swinging the bat really well.

We are not and we’re not pitching really well. When you combine those things together, you get swept.

“That’s part of baseball and that’s what’s hard about it.”

The Rays (19-19) recorded their first three-game sweep at Rogers Centre in almost three years. Tampa Bay outscored Toronto 31-7 in the series and set a franchise record for a three-game set with 44 hits.

Logan Morrison and Desmond Jennings hit backto-back homers in the fourth inning and Kevin Kiermaier added a two-run shot in the sixth. Toronto (19-23) also extended its home losing streak to five games.

Morrison had three hits and scored twice while Evan Longoria and Tim Beckham chipped in with two hits apiece. Tampa Bay outhit Toronto 10-4.

“It’s a lot easier to hit when you’re up there every other inning or every inning versus every third inning,” Morrison said.

The Blue Jays will try to turn things around Thursday as they kick off a four-game series against the lowly Minnesota Twins, who are last in the American League standings at 10-29.

Jimmy Paredes, who played third base for Toronto with Josh Donaldson getting a rest day, hit a solo shot in the second inning off Rays starter Jake Odorizzi (1-2). It was his first homer of the year.

Morrison’s no-doubt blast hit the facing of the second deck in right-centre field. Jennings followed with his third homer of the season.

It was Morrison’s first home run this season and the first time the Rays have hit consecutive homers this year.

Odorizzi walked the first two batters in the bottom half of the frame and Paredes moved them both into scoring position on a groundout. But Toronto stranded them as Kevin Pillar grounded out and Ryan Goins flied out.

“When you don’t cash in when you get some men on base, it’s tough,” said acting Blue Jays manager DeMarlo Hale.

“We’re looking for things to change. This is a good club in here, (they’re) accomplished hitters who have done things in this game. There’s a trust factor that you definitely have.

Raptors vow to give better effort in Game 2

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CLEVELAND — The Toronto Raptors have been here so many times, it’s almost become their comfort zone.

The day after being throttled by Cleveland in the opener of their first-ever Eastern Conference final, the Raptors find themselves having to claw back from behind, and hope that recent history means something.

The Raptors dropped a horrific 115-84 decision to the Cavaliers on Tuesday night. But they’ve lost every Game 1 of this post-season, and are 6-0 in games after losses.

“I see these guys, I see it in their eyes, and we’re a very resilient team and we always come back strong,” general manager Masai Ujiri said. “If I asked everybody here if they knew the Miami game, Game 7, was going to be a blowout, everybody would say no. And it was a blowout. There are going to be blowout games, and in the playoffs, every single game is different.

“We just have a resilient team. These guys fight, they’re going to have ups and downs, and I think they’ve fought through some down times in the playoffs and this year. They respond well.”

Things couldn’t go much worse than they did Tuesday at Quicken Loans Arena. One telling statistic: the Cavaliers held Toronto’s all-stars Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan to zero free throw attempts between them. In the 298 games that Lowry and DeRozan have played together, that had never happened.

“That’s a phenomenal number,” coach Dwane Casey said. “I’m not very good at math, but that’s almost mathematically impossible as much as we drive and kick.”

Lowry had been so solid against the Cavaliers in their three regular-season games, averaging 31 points on 66 per cent shooting. But the scrappy point guard was held to just eight points Tuesday night.

Asked about that spark in the eye that Ujiri spoke of: “There’s always a fire if you get your ass kicked like that.

“You gotta want to win,” said Lowry, wearing a backwards Maple Leafs ball cap. “We didn’t just get here to be like ‘OK.’ We want to win games. We want to compete. Our competitive nature as professionals, as NBA players is going to be at a high level.”

And although the Raptors weren’t keen to fall back on excuses, fatigue surely played a role. The Cavaliers hit the court running after a nine-day break. Toronto, on the other hand, has had games virtually every second day for nearly a month, including three overtime games versus Miami.

“We don’t have time to be tired. We’ve got to keep pushing, keep grinding,” DeMarre Carroll said. “Gotta dig deep inside, man. We’ve got a lot of warriors, got a lot of guys here who’ve got chips on their shoulders, who’ve been through rough times, a lot of obstacles.

“I guarantee you, (Thursday) our effort … will be way better.”

Carroll had arguably the toughest job of the night Tuesday in trying to contain LeBron James. The four-time NBA MVP blew by Carroll a few times, including on windmill dunk in the second quarter that was played over and over on Wednesday’s highlight reels.

“He’s a physical beast,” Carroll said of James.

“It’s one of those things man, you’ve just gotta do what you can. I feel like I can do better, especially staying in front of him, try to make tough twos, but I see now that they tried to go straight to the post.”

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Tampa Bay Rays’ Logan Morrison is out on the force out at second base as Toronto Blue Jays’ Troy Tulowitzki attempts to turn the double play during second inning AL baseball action in Toronto Wednesday. Rays’ Desmond Jennings was safe on the play at first.

“It doesn’t matter who’s on the mound (for the opposition). It will change and I’m looking forward to it.”

The Rays added a run in the fifth as Beckham led off with a double and scored when Paredes threw wide to first base. Michael Saunders halved the deficit in the same inning with a solo shot, his sixth home run of the season.

Kiermaier’s rainbow blast was his fifth homer of the year.

“Hitting comes and goes,” Kiermaier said. “Right now it’s definitely in full force for us. Everyone is really starting to get on board.”

The Blue Jays made it interesting in the eighth as Edwin Encarnacion hit a solo shot — his eighth homer of the season — and Justin Smoak followed with a two-out double to bring the potential tying run to the plate. But Tampa Bay closer Alex Colome came on and struck out Troy Tulowitzki.

The Rays added an insurance run in the ninth as Beckham hit a double off reliever Gavin Floyd and later scored all the way from second base on a wild pitch. Colome finished up in the ninth for his 10th save.

Odorizzi allowed two hits and two earned runs over five innings. He walked four and struck out two batters.

Dickey (2-5) worked six innings and gave up eight hits, four earned runs and a walk. He had six strikeouts.

“You’re not going to see panic in here,” Dickey said. “But at the same time there is a sense of urgency that we need to start doing some things better — myself included — and we need to take ownership of that. We can’t walk around game after game and say, ‘Oh we’re better than that.’

“We’ve got to go be better than that and I think everybody in here knows that.”

SOCCER COURT DENIES NHL MOTION TO Ottawa Fury advance to DISMISS CONCUSSION Amway semifinals with SUIT OVER CBA aggregate win over Edmonton

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal judge in Minnesota has denied the NHL’s latest attempt to throw out a class-action lawsuit by former players filed over head injuries.

The league had argued that the suit should be tossed because the issues raised by the former players were covered under the collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson wrote in a 47-page opinion Wednesday that the contract does not preempt legal action, in part because the players are retired and no longer subject to the CBA. Nelson also wrote that the subjects of the complaint are not spelled out in the CBA. Dan LaCouture, Michael Peluso, Gary Leeman, Bernie Nicholls, David Christian and Reed Larson represent former players who say the NHL did not sufficiently protect or inform the players of the dangers when it comes to head injuries they suffered when they played.

Last year, the NHL filed to have the lawsuit dismissed based on statute of limitations. That was also denied.

Stuart Davidson of Robbins Geller, a lawyer for the players, called the order a “historic decision in American sports and labour law.”

In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, the NHL said: “Based upon our review of Judge Nelson’s opinion, with which we respectfully disagree, the opinion merely defers to another day a resolution of the pre-emption issues underlying our motion.”

University of Illinois labour expert Michael LeRoy said the court’s opinion is significant because the case remains alive and he wondered if the NHL might move toward settling this case like the NFL did with its concussion lawsuit.

“The NHL had to try” to get the case dismissed on these grounds, LeRoy said. “But this crosses a bridge and it leads to the courthouse, not away from the courthouse.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Ottawa Fury FC have advanced to the semifinals of the Amway Canadian Championship for the first time in club history.

Ottawa dropped a 2-0 decision to their North American Soccer League counterpart FC Edmonton in the second leg of the series Wednesday night but won 3-2 on aggregate.

The Fury beat Edmonton 3-0 in Alberta last week.

Adam Eckersley, in the 45th minute, and Dustin Corea in the 27th, had the Edmonton goals in the second leg.

Ottawa will host the defending champion Vancouver Whitecaps in the first match of the two-legged semifinal on June 1. Vancouver will welcome the Fury for the second leg on June 8.

Vancouver topped the Montreal Impact 4-2 on aggregate in last year’s final to win its first Voyageurs Cup.

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Hockey 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

Local Sports 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 Memorial Cup Champions Canadian Junior Hockey Champions 2014-15 — Oshawa Generals (OHL) 2013-14 — Edmonton Oil Kings (WHL) 2012-13 — Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 2011-12 — Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) 2010-11 — Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL) 2009-10 — Windsor Spitfires (OHL) 2008-09 — Windsor Spitfires (OHL) 2007-08 — Spokane Chiefs (WHL) 2006-07 — Vancouver Giants (WHL) 2005-06 — Quebec Remparts (QMJHL) 2004-05 — London Knights (OHL) 2003-04 — Kelowna Rockets (WHL) 2002-03 — Kitchener Rangers (OHL) 2001-02 — Kootenay Ice (WHL) 2000-01 — Red Deer Rebels (WHL) 1999-00 — Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) 1998-99 — Ottawa 67’s (OHL) 1997-98 — Portland Winter Hawks (WHL) 1996-97 — Hull Olympiques (QMJHL) 1995-96 — Granby Predateurs (QMJHL) 1994-95 — Kamloops Blazers (WHL) 1993-94 — Kamloops Blazers (WHL) 1992-93 — Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) 1991-92 — Kamloops Blazers (WHL) 1990-91 — Spokane Chiefs (WHL) 1989-90 — Oshawa Generals (OHL) 1988-89 — Swift Current Broncos 1987-88 — Medicine Hat Tigers 1986-87 — Medicine Hat Tigers 1985-86 — Guelph Platers 1984-85 — Prince Albert Raiders 1983-84 — Ottawa 67’s 1982-83 — Portland Winter Hawks 1981-82 — Kitchener Rangers 1980-81 — Cornwall Royals 1979-80 — Cornwall Royals Memorial Cup Statistics

By League (Since 1971, Inception of Canadian Major Junior A) League Total Last Win WHL 17 — 2014 OHL 15 — 2015 QMJHL 13 — 2013 Note: Host team has won nine times (WHL, 4 OHL, 3 QMJHL, 2).

By Province Province Total Last Win

Coburn TB (elbowing) 9:53 Coburn TB (high-sticking) 14:12 Daley Pgh, Killorn TB (roughing) 19:41 Killorn TB (misconduct) 19:41.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 10 21 17 — 48 Tampa Bay 12 6 10 — 28 Goal — Pittsburgh: Murray (W, 9-3-0). Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (L, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-3 Tampa Bay: 0-1.

Ontario 48 — 2015 Manitoba 12 — 1959 Quebec 10 — 2012 B.C. 8 — 2007 Alberta 7 — 2014 Saskatchewan 6 — 1989 U.S.-based 4 — 2008 New Brunswick 1 — 2011 Nova Scotia 1 — 2013

By City City Total Last Win Toronto 14 — 1975 Winnipeg 10 — 1959 Oshawa, Ont. 5 — 2015 Montreal 4 — 1970 Regina 4 — 1974 Cornwall, Ont. 3 — 1981 Edmonton 3 — 2014 Kamloops, B.C. 3 — 1995 Ottawa 3 — 1999 Barrie, Ont. 2 — 1953 Guelph, Ont. 2 — 1986 Hamilton, Ont. 2 — 1976 Kitchener, Ont. 2 — 2003 Medicine Hat 2 — 1988 New Westminster, B.C. 2 — 1978 Niagara Falls, Ont. 2 — 1968 Owen Sound, Ont. 2 — 1927 Portland, Ore. 2 — 1998 Quebec City 2 — 2006 Spokane, Wash. 2 — 2008 St. Catharines, Ont. 2 — 1960 Windsor, Ont. 2 — 2010 25 cities tied at 1 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (M2) vs. Tampa Bay (A2) (Pittsburgh leads series 2-1) Wednesday’s result Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 2 Monday’s result Pittsburgh 3 Tampa Bay 2 (OT) Friday’s game Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s game 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.

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (C2) vs. San Jose (P3) (Series tied 1-1) Tuesday’s result San Jose 4 St. Louis 0 Sunday’s result St. Louis 2 San Jose 1 Thursday’s game St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s game 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.

Wednesday’s summary Penguins 4, Lightning 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hornqvist Pgh (slashing) 17:42.

Second Period 1. Pittsburgh, Hagelin 5 (Kessel) 19:50.

Penalties — Callahan TB (holding) 3:57.

Third Period 2. Pittsburgh, Kessel 7 (Bonino, Hagelin) 5:16.

3. Tampa Bay, Johnson 5 (Kucherov, Palat) 5:30.

4. Pittsburgh, Crosby 5 (Malkin, Schultz) 10:50 (pp).

5. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 2 (unassisted) 13:12.

6. Tampa Bay, Palat 4 (Kucherov, Carle) 18:16.

Penalties — Letang Pgh, Palat TB (roughing) 9:05

NBA PLAYOFFS

Curry dazzles as Warriors even series with Thunder OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry scored 15 straight points in less than 2 minutes during one dazzling third-quarter stretch, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-91 on Wednesday night to even the Western Conference final at one game apiece.

The MVP scored 28 points, making 5 of 8 3-pointers and shooting 9 for 15 overall, while Klay Thompson added 15 points in a balanced performance by the defending champions to bounce back from just their third defeat all season at Oracle Arena in the series opener two nights earlier.

Kevin Durant scored 29 points but just six after halftime. Russell Westbrook had 16 points and 12 assists for the Thunder, who were outrebounded for the first time in five meetings with

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Raiders 4 Spartans 0 A four goal outburst and a stingy defence from the Lindsay Thurber Raiders held the Spartans scoreless en route to a 4-0 win in Central Alberta High School Soccer.

Tony Castro, Mustafa Al Ithawi, Obai Altaiyan and Bryce Vleeming all scored for the Raiders.

Cougars 7 Cyclones 0 The Notre Dame Cougars cruised to a 7-0 win over the Innisfail Cyclones on the strength of two players who had two goals each.

Alejandro Drynan and Wyatt Reethius both had two goals for the Cougars while Joao Boz-

Local BRIEFS Lindsay Thurber dominate at track and field zones Lindsay Thurber’s track and field dominance was on full display Wednesday as their athletes took all but one aggregate gold medal.

Rob Chauvet and Dawson McCrea tied for gold in senior boys. Hunting Hills students Carson West and Gabe Duckering finished second and third.

Chauvet’s best events are on the track including the 800 metre, the 1,500 metre and the 3,000 metre.

“The 3,000 is my best though,” said Chauvet. “I got 9:55 today.”

Those three events led Chauvet to top the aggregate senior boys rankings, tying with fellow Lindsay Thurber student McCrea.

“It feels awesome, it’s nice to be recognized with all these other athletes, especially in our school.”

He’s been to provincials in his first two years, and is gunning for a chance at getting there again in his last year of high school.

Other results include: Intermediate boys: gold Caleb Heinrichs (Lindsay Thurber), silver Carter

2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt x-Czech Rep. 7 5 1 1 0 27 12 18 x-Russia 7 6 0 0 1 32 10 18 x-Sweden 7 3 2 0 2 23 18 13 x-Denmark 7 2 2 1 2 17 22 11 Norway 7 2 1 0 4 13 22 8 Switzerland 7 1 1 3 2 20 26 8 Latvia 7 1 0 3 3 13 22 6 r-Kazakhstan 7 0 1 0 6 15 28 2 Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt x-Finland 7 7 0 0 0 29 6 21 x-Canada 7 6 0 0 1 34 8 18 x-Germany 7 4 0 1 2 22 20 13 x-U.S. 7 3 0 1 3 22 18 10 Slovakia 7 2 1 0 4 15 23 8 Belarus 7 2 0 0 5 16 32 6 France 7 1 1 0 5 11 23 5 x-Hungary 7 1 0 0 6 12 31 3 x — clinched berth in quarter-finals r — relegated for 2017 championship Note: Three points awarded for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Wednesday’s results No Games Scheduled.

PLAYOFFS Thursday’s games Quarter-finals At Moscow Czech Republic vs. United States, 7:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Germany, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Finland vs. Denmark, 7:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Sweden, 11:15 a.m.

Saturday’s games At Moscow Semifinals Quarter-final Winners, 7:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Sunday’s games At Moscow Bronze Medal Semifinal Losers, 7:15 a.m.

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

World s Hockey Championship Scoring Leaders G A Pts Vadim Shipachyov, Rus 3 10 13 Artemi Panarin, Rus 5 7 12 Patrik Laine, Fin 6 4 10 Yevgeni Dadonov, Rus 4 5 9 Aleksander Barkov, Fin 3 6 9 Derick Brassard, Cda 3 6 9 Mikael Granlund, Fin 2 7 9 Gustav Nyquist,m Swe 7 1 8 Taylor Hall, Cda 6 2 8 Nigel Dawes, Kaz 4 4 8 Matt Duchene, Cda 4 4 8 Corey Perry, Cda 4 4 8 Pavel Datsyuk, Rus 1 7 8 Jussi Jokinen, Fin 1 7 8 Alexsander Wennberg, Swe 1 7 8 Nicklas Jensen, Den 5 2 7 Michal Birner, Cze 4 3 7 Mikko Koivu, Fin 4 3 7 Roman Lyubimov, Rus 4 3 7 Sven Andrighetto, Sui 3 4 7 Mark Stone, Cda 3 4 7 Patrick Hager, Ger 3 4 7

the Warriors this season.

Game 3 is Sunday night in Oklahoma City.

Durant provided a big assist during Curry’s flurry. He fouled the superstar point guard on a 3-point attempt with 6:33 to go in the third, then swatted his hand in disgust at the call and received a technical — a costly four-point play.

While Durant hit a fadeaway jumper moments later, Curry answered by knocking down consecutive long shots, one a 3, to make it 76-59 with 5:47 to go in the third.

NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala brought some timely pizazz off the bench. He missed his first five field-goal tries before a beautiful double-clutch, no-look layup in the final minute of the first half and then another basket the next time down that put the Warriors up 57-49 at halftime. He wound up with 14 points for his fourth double-digit scoring performance of the post-season.

Festus Ezeli scored 12 points for his first game in double digits these playoffs, Marreese Speights had 13 points off the bench, and Golden State didn’t falter after halftime the way it did two nights earlier in losing Game 1 108-102.

The Warriors built a 20-point lead late in the third and kept pushing. zan, William Arcinegas and Patrick Reyes had one goal each for the Cougars.

Knights 4 Lakers 1 Matthew Baong led the way for the Central Alberta Christian High School Knights as he scored twice to lift his team over the H.J. Cody Lakers 4-1.

Shelby Goedhart and Nicholas Van Doesburg added goals of their own to supplement Baong’s two.

Dagan Slimmon had the lone goal for the Lakers.

Lightning 4 Blazers 0 Four goals from three different goal scorers gave the Hunting Hills Lightning a 4-0 win over the Bowden Blazers.

Eric Huizing scored twice for the Lightning while Tristan Mullen and Henry Rubiano each had one goal.

Blair (Lindsay Thurber) and Curtis Graham (Lindsay Thurber) Junior boys: gold Maxwell Arnold (Lindsay Thurber), silver Ethan McDonald (Hunting Hills) and bronze Robert Schan (Bowden Senior girls: gold Kelsey Lalor (Lindsay Thurber), silver Rebekah Maciborsky (Innisfail) and Lina Koller (Notre Dame).

Intermediate girls: gold Leah Brunner (Notre Dame), silver Jesse Handley (Hunting Hills) and Tiana Lemon (Notre Dame).

Junior girls: gold Haley Lalor (Lindsay Thurber), silver Journey Flewell (Lindsay Thurber) and a three-way tie for bronze with Chance Duda (Delburne), Kayden Byrtus (Hunting Hills) and Hunter Ritchie (Lindsay Thurber).

Today ● 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

Friday ● Memorial Cup: London Knights vs. Red Deer Rebels, 6 p.m., Centrium

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

Sunday ● 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

Saturday ● Memorial Cup: Brandon Wheat Kings

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

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

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Series tied 1-1) Wednesday’s result Golden State 118 Oklahoma City 91 Monday’s result Oklahoma City 108 Golden State 102 Sunday’s game 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.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2) (Cleveland leads series 1-0) Tuesday’s result Cleveland 115 Toronto 84 Thursday’s game Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game 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.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 24 14 .632 Boston 25 16 .610 Tampa Bay 19 19 .500 Toronto 19 23 .452 New York 17 22 .436 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 24 16 .600 Cleveland 20 17 .541 Kansas City 20 20 .500 Detroit 19 21 .475 Minnesota 10 29 .256 West Division W L Pct Seattle 22 17 .564 Texas 22 19 .537 Oakland 19 22 .463 Los Angeles 17 22 .436 Houston 17 24 .415

GB — 1/2 5 7 7 1/2

Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Atlanta

GB — 2 1/2 4 5 13 1/2

Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati

GB — 1 4 5 6

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Diego

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 13, Cincinnati 1 Seattle 10, Baltimore 0 Tampa Bay 12, Toronto 2 Detroit 7, Minnesota 2 Houston 6, Chicago White Sox 5, 11 innings Kansas City 8, Boston 4 Arizona 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Oakland 8, Texas 5 L.A. Dodgers 5, L.A. Angels 1

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 3 13 1/2 GB — 7 7 1/2 11 13 1/2 GB — 2 2 1/2 5 1/2 6 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 13, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 12, Atlanta 9 Philadelphia 3, Miami 1 N.Y. Mets 2, Washington 0 Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Colorado 3, St. Louis 1 Arizona 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 L.A. Dodgers 5, L.A. Angels 1 San Francisco 5, San Diego 1 Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Miami 2 Atlanta 3, Pittsburgh 1 Cleveland 8, Cincinnati 7, 12 innings Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, late St. Louis 2, Colorado 0 N.Y. Yankees 4, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, late San Francisco 2, San Diego 1

Wednesday’s Games Detroit 6, Minnesota 3 Kansas City 3, Boston 2 Oakland 8, Texas 1 Baltimore 5, Seattle 2 Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 3 Cleveland 8, Cincinnati 7, 12 innings Houston 5, Chicago White Sox 3 Boston 5, Kansas City 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, late Thursday’s Games Seattle (Karns 3-1) at Baltimore (Wilson 2-1), 10:35 a.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 5-0) at Cincinnati (Adleman 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-3) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 8-0), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Estrada 1-2) at Minnesota (Santana 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 1-2) at L.A. Angels (Chacin 1-2), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Nova 2-1) at Oakland (Graveman 1-5), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hammel 5-0) at Milwaukee (Guerra 2-0), 11:40 a.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 5-0) at Cincinnati (Adleman 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 6-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 3-5), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Gray 1-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-4), 5:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 5-2) at San Diego (Shields 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 1-2) at L.A. Angels (Chacin 1-2), 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Texas at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 7:35 p.m.

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

Friday’s Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Colorado at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Arizona at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

MacLellan, Nill, Rutherford finalists for NHL GM of Year Washington’s Brian MacLellan, Dallas’ Jim Nill and Pittsburgh’s Jim Rutherford are the finalists for the NHL General Manager of the Year Award.

Voting by the 30 club general managers and a panel of NHL executives, print and broadcast media at the conclusion of the second round determined the finalists announced Wednesday.

The winner will be announced June 22 during the NHL Awards in Las Vegas. MacLellan’s Capitals were a runaway winner of the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top regular-season club (56-18-8, 120 points). They lost to Pittsburgh in the second round of the playoffs. The Stars reached the playoffs for the second time in Nill’s three seasons. They were eliminated by St. Louis in the second round. Rutherford’s Penguins rallied to finish the season 48-26-8.

tre Dame defensive backs Payton LaGrange and Beko Wande and Hunting Hills’ Edward Kim, a linebacker.

The four are among 38 high school football players who were named to the roster this week.

Solid results for Central Alberta golfers at MJT stop in Carstairs CARSTAIRS — Three Central Alberta golfers finished in the top three in their divisions at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s MJT Prodigy Series

and IMG Academic Junior Worlds Qualifier.

Mark Janes, 13, of Red Deer tied for third in the MJT Bantam Boys division. Over the two days he shot a 78 and an 84 for a two round score of 162.

Janes was one stroke off of the leaders Carson Rody and Richard Dou, both of Calgary, who shot a combined 161.

In the peewee boys division, Alex Gerrard, 12, of Red Deer County came in third place with a two-day total of 179, 91 and 88. He was 20 strokes off the leader Thomas Sluka of Canmore.

Clare McMahon, 17, of Red Deer finished in a three-way tie for third place in the MJT girls U19 division.

Four Central Alberta players named to U18 Team Alberta for Football Canada Cup The U18 Team Alberta heading to the Football Canada Cup in July will have a little Central Alberta flavour to it.

Three players from Red Deer and one from Sylvan Lake were named to the roster by Football Alberta and will represent the province in the national championship in July.

Receiver Tyrese Hamilton, of Sylvan Lake, plays for the H.J. Cody Lakers. He will be joined by two No-

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Commons descends into mayhem TRUDEAU ACCUSED OF MANHANDLING TORY WHIP, COLLIDING WITH NDP MP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The House of Commons erupted in pandemonium Wednesday as opposition MPs angrily accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of “manhandling” the Conservative whip and elbowing a female NDP MP in the chest prior to a key vote.

Quebec MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau said she was so shocked by the encounter, she had to leave the chamber as mayhem descended on the Commons floor, with Trudeau at one point in a face-to-face encounter with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, MPs scrumming around them like kids witnessing a schoolyard tussle.

The incident — coming amid the superheated atmosphere of the doctor-assisted death debate — had MPs in an uproar as they shouted and pounded their desks in a display of antipathy rarely seen in the parliamentary chamber.

Reporters scrambled to witness the unfolding drama Parliament Hill, where political staffers exchanged their respective versions of events, even pantomiming their blow-by-blow accounts as they shared stories in the foyer.

Footage from the Commons television feed showed Trudeau wading into a clutch of MPs, mostly New Dem-

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, face towards the camera left of centre of the frame, is shown near Opposition whip Gordon Brown in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Wednesday. Footage from the Commons television feed shows Trudeau wading into a clutch of MPs, mostly New Democrats, and pulling Opposition whip Gordon Brown through the crowd in order to get a vote started. ocrats, and pulling Opposition whip Gordon Brown through the crowd in an effort to get the vote started — a no-no in parliamentary procedure.

As Trudeau turns around to pull Brown through, Brosseau comes into

view, discomfort evident on her face as Trudeau pushes past her, forcing her against an adjacent desk.

“I was standing in the centre talking to some colleagues,” Brosseau told the House after calm was restored. “I was

Appeal court decision on doctor-assisted death creates political tremors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal created political shockwaves in Ottawa on Wednesday after three judges found the federal government is flouting last year’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on doctor-assisted death.

The judgment, handed down on Tuesday, said the government’s proposed legislation on assisted death does not comply with the high court’s landmark decision because it excludes people suffering solely from psychiatric conditions.

In setting out the parameters for an assisted death, the appeal judges noted the top court did not “require the applicant to be terminally ill to qualify.”

“The decision itself is clear,” the

Parliament sorry for 1914 Komagata Maru incident OTTAWA — There’s a Punjabi phrase shouted to give thanks for victories: the truth will always prevail.

So as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concluded his formal apology Wednesday for the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, Amarjeet Singh Sohi, who had travelled from outside Toronto to watch the event, could not restrain himself.

With a turban proudly on his head and a chest full of medals for his Canadian community service, he rose to his feet in the public gallery of the House of Commons and shouted the phrase for all to hear.

And the hundreds of IndoCanadians in attendance Wednesday for the historic moment roared back their thanks in union.

“This is a country for people who bring prosperity to be part of the

ruling said. “No words in it suggest otherwise. If the court had wanted it to be thus, they would have said so clearly and unequivocally. They did not.”

The findings had Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on the defensive on Wednesday, saying the Alberta decision makes her “fearful” about what could result if legislation is not in place by the Supreme Court’s deadline next month.

She also declined to say if the government will appeal the decision.

“We could, without legislation in place on June 6, be in an environment where there is no ability for a person to go to a Superior Court judge and get an exemption,” Wilson-Raybould said.

The minister’s comments did not sit well with Grace Pastine, the litigation director for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association — the group that worked on the historic case that led to the top

court’s ruling in February 2015.

If there is no law by June 6, there will no longer be a need to seek an exemption and medically assisted death will be regulated under provincial health laws, Pastine said.

“Frankly, I am shocked that the minister made this statement,” Pastine said. “It’s completely off-base.”

The judicial smackdown and the political fallout come as the federal government tries to persuade MPs and senators that its new law both complies with the Supreme Court’s findings and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

After a motion to curtail debate was passed Wednesday in the House of Commons, the bill is expected to be put to a final vote by the end of this week. From there, it will go to the Senate, where it’s expected to get an even rougher ride.

mainstream, work together, play together, pray together,” Sohi said afterwards.

It wasn’t always that way.

In 1914, the Canadian government turned away most of the passengers of the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, nearly all Sikhs, who’d hoped to start a new life in Canada.

The 376 passengers arrived off the coast of B.C. hoping to challenge the immigration laws at the time which refused entry to any Indians who had not arrived in Canada via a continuous journey from the home country — nearly impossible at the time.

Except for 20 passengers who had previously lived in Canada, officials refused to allow the Indians in, even though they were British subjects just like every other Canadian of the time.

The vessel sailed to India, where 19 of the passengers were killed in a skirmish with British authorities and dozens of others were imprisoned or forced into hiding.

document spied on the two for more than a week without authorization.

The report, based on a government briefing note obtained by the broadcaster, says Mounties placed two Ottawa-based journalists, Joel-Denis Bellavance and Gilles Toupin, under physical surveillance for nine days in 2007.

CBC also says the surveillance was carried out without the required permission of Bob Paulson, an acting assistant commissioner at the time.

Paulson is now the commissioner of the RCMP.Medical-Marijuana

Call public inquiry over Mountie monitoring of journalists: Mulcair OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says a public inquiry should be called after it was revealed Mounties monitored two journalists in 2007.

Mulcair’s comments come after CBC News reported a rogue group of RCMP officers investigating a leak of a secret

First retail licence granted to marijuana dispensary VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver has issued its first business licence to a medical marijuana dispensary in its plan to manage the proliferation of illegal shops.

A city spokesman says the Wealth Shop Society is the first to be regulated under rules established by the municipality nearly one year ago.

The city says 30 illegal marijuana stores have complied with regulations and stopped selling pot since the end of April, but 61 continue to operate against the rules.

It says nearly 140 fines of $250 each have been issued, while only seven have been paid.

The licence comes ahead of the federal government’s promise to introduce legislation next spring legalizing marijuana.

elbowed in the chest by the prime minister and then I had to leave.”

“It was very overwhelming and so I left the chamber to go and sit in the lobby. I missed the vote because of this.”

New Democrat Peter Julian could barely contain his outrage, saying he’d never seen such behaviour in his 12 years in the House.

Trudeau issued an abject apology, even amid the catcalls and protests of the opposition benches, saying he was just trying to help the opposition whip get to his seat.

He never intended to hurt anyone, Trudeau insisted.

“I took it upon myself to go and assist him forward, which was I now see unadvisable as a course of action,” said Trudeau, who characterized his actions as “unacceptable.”

“I apologize for that unreservedly and I look for opportunities to make amends.”

Not good enough, Julian later complained. “He should have known that what he did was absolutely inappropriate.”

Trudeau’s apology was followed by a lengthy parade of indignant MPs getting up to express their outrage to the Speaker, describing a scene unlike anything they’d ever seen before in all their years as politicians.

POLICE SHOOTING

Defence attempts to downplay injuries from gunshots

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The lawyer for a Toronto police officer found guilty of attempted murder in the shooting death of a teenager says injuries the victim suffered from a second round of bullets should not be a significant aggravating factor in determining the officer’s sentence.

Sammy Yatim was already dying from wounds caused by the first volley of bullets legally fired by Const.

James Forcillo, lawyer Peter Brauti said Wednesday during the officer’s sentencing hearing.

“It deserves the most minimal assessment of actual harm because, from an actual harm perspective, we know it doesn’t accelerate or cause his death,” Brauti said, as Yatim’s mother broke into tears and rushed out of the courtroom.

Brauti is seeking a sentence of house arrest for Forcillo while Crown prosecutors have asked for a prison term of between eight to ten years.

Justice Edward Then, who will decide Forcillo’s sentence, noted that there was still “substantial harm” caused to Yatim from the second volley of six bullets fired by Forcillo.

“The only wrinkle here is that by the grace of God it wasn’t felt because he had been rendered a paraplegic by the previous bullets,” he said.

In July 2013, Forcillo fired two separate volleys —three shots and then six shots — at Yatim, who had consumed ecstasy and was wielding a small knife on an empty streetcar.

A jury acquitted Forcillo of second-degree murder in the 18-year-old’s death, but found the officer guilty of attempted murder for continuing to fire after the dying teen had fallen to the floor. The attempted murder charge pertained to Forcillo’s second volley.

Brauti is arguing that certain sections of the Criminal Code involving the mandatory minimum sentence of five years for attempted murder are unconstitutional and weren’t meant to deal with cases like Forcillo’s.

He said Forcillo’s second volley of shots was “excessive” self defence in a situation where Forcillo did not appreciate the difference between a potential threat and imminent threat.

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HOUSE FINCHES Photos by MYRNA MYRN NA PEARMAN

MYRNA PEARMAN OUTDOORS The story of the House Finch is a fascinating one. Native to Mexico and the Western U.S., a few individuals were released in New York in 1940 after failed attempts to sell them as caged birds. The birds quickly spread westward, where the two breeding populations have now converged. In Alberta, we have birds from both populations.

House Finches were first documented on a Red Deer-area Christmas Bird Count in 2001 and on a Central Alberta May Species Count in 2003. I first saw them in Sylvan Lake in 2008.

Unlike the introductions of other birds (e.g., House Sparrows), the massive population increase and explosive range expansion of this species seem to have had no detrimental impact. They are not aggressive and their delightful song (both sexes sing) endear them to their human neighbours. Female House Finches are a uniform grayish brown, while the males range in colour from yellowish orange to bright red, a colouration that is derived from food pigments.

Last summer, a bird-loving resident of a condominium in Red Deer, The Sierras of Taylor Drive, emailed me to describe how she and her neighbours were encouraging House Finches to nest on their balconies. Four years ago, she (I call her The Finch Lady) explained, two different neighbours had mentioned to her that they each had House Finches nesting in their artificial flower arrangements. She was so intrigued that the next year she created two baskets filled with florist’s foam and rimmed with silk flowers. She placed them beneath the roof supports of two gazebos in their outdoor plaza and was delighted to have them both used by finches. Two other neighbours, including Reg Schultz (96 years young!) shown here, also reported birds nesting in their artificial flower arrangements that year. A total of 28 young fledged.

The birds have so taken to these artificial nesting baskets that their numbers continue to increase: 45 fledged in 2014 and 75 last year.

Most pairs raise two broods a season, but one pair last year raised three families. The average clutch size is four to five, but one nest successfully fledged eight young. This year, there are 12 baskets out on various balconies around the complex. The first egg was laid on April 1 and approximately 17 young have already fledged.

My thanks to the residents of this condo (especially The Finch Lady) for caring about these birds and for welcoming me into their homes to share the joy that these avian neighbours bring them.

If you are interested in attracting House Finches with these baskets, we will be selling them (thanks to The Finch Lady) in the Ellis Bird Farm Gift Shop this season.

NOTE: Ellis Bird Farm will open for the season on May 23. We have a busy season scheduled. Check our website for details (http://www.ellisbirdfarm.ca).

Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdfarm.ca.

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Readers write the column 50 YEARS OF OUTDOORS COLUMNS IN THE ADVOCATE BOB SCAMMELL OUTDOORS I’ve missed a 50th anniversary. The first of these outdoors columns appeared in The Red Deer Advocate on May 6th, 1966, and every week since, plus in many other Alberta daily and weekly newspapers. Such longevity is mainly due to a large and engaged readership. To give them their due, I’ll let some of them write this column.

Shane Campbell writes: “I don’t recall seeing any discussion from you, regarding the introduction of buffalo into Banff. Just wondering … if you have done much research into the subject. I have just spent a week with Tim Barton, owner of the Outpost at Warden Rock. His operation is located between the Ya-Ha Tinda Ranch and the Banff Park boundary. From my discussions with him, I get the feeling that the general public has absolutely no idea about the buffalo introduction program and the amount of tax dollars being spent now and in the future. It seems to me, that this is some bureaucrat’s ‘science project,’ that is being pushed forward.”

Despite my writings and research and much other opposition, Parks Canada will initially spend $6.4 million to transfer by helicopter 30 to 50 bison from Elk Island National Park to a remote paddock in Banff National Park, then, before freeing them, try to fence an area the size of Calgary to hold them. There is no credible evidence that bison have ever before inhabited this area.

This alleged reintroduction is the hobbyhorse of two, maybe three bison boosters and part of the currently fashionable concept that if anyone has bison, then we’ve got to have them too.

But we already have more bison than we can handle in Elk Island, Wood Buffalo, and Waterton National Parks, not to mention on too much Alberta public land in the south. There are huge wildlife and public safety issues here.

As might be expected early in the fishing season, many readers have expressed concern over the status of applications to mine gravel amid the springs that form Alberta’s top trout stream, the North Raven River. One of them inquired of Clearwater Coun-

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Bison at Waterton Lakes National Park – where the plains meet the mountains. ty and sent along the heartening reply he received from Rick Emmons, a Clearwater County official: “There is no application in process for the old Hankinson Pit. We had a developer (some time ago) inquire into obtaining an application for this site , at which time Clearwater County informed them of the requirements that would be needed to be met in order to proceed and have not heard back. So at this time there is nothing to report.”

The last line of a recent column jumped up and suggested Alberta’s fisheries biologists should be fired, having totally failed to do their job.

Emailing readers astonish me by agreeing, unanimously. Here are some of their reasons, in their own words.

From angler – activist, Ron Brown: “Last week I had a chat with biologist Dave Park about the walleye fishing and the 90% zero limit in this province.

He told me that the walleye population had not recovered enough in 26 years

to allow a one or two fish limit, he said if they did it would be like a Gold Rush and the walleye can’t stand that kind of pressure. So I asked what was the idea of raising tiger trout for two years and stocking them in a northern lake, where they lasted less than two weeks, now there’s a GOLD RUSH. I also asked why Swan Lake with an estimated 700 adult Lake trout still had a one trout limit when we can’t keep a walleye that’s in almost every body of water in the province. … No real answer. “I tend to believe that it is easier for SRD to do nothing, that way no one gets the blame. … I will keep bothering SRD until they get tired of me.”

Finally, a rant from an angler who must remain anonymous because he has to keep going to useless meetings with these biologists until they do get fired: “You are much toooooooooo optimistic. The biologists want those browns and brooks gone. If it’s not a native trout, it should not be there is

the new creed. How dare you propose a harvest slot – killing the breeders will get us to the new paradigm of streams without fish or anglers sooner. Shouldn’t be so negative but the last few meetings I have attended, the “blame anglers” and “introduced species” for fishing’s demise is still the order of the day. The total angling closure of the Pembina watershed upstream of Lodgepole is just the first of many to come. According to the fish biologists, habitat is not their responsibility. I think it was Duane Radford (a former top Alberta fishery biologist) who said. ‘they believe their job is to count fish till the last one is dead!’ I was told bluntly at a recent meeting that the priority for biologists should be inventory leading to regulatory change.”

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Adapting for low-moisture conditions LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING Warm weather early in the season resulted in plants breaking dormancy early. Initially the ground held enough moisture to support the plants. More warm weather and little if any moisture results in the ground dry making it hard for some plants to thrive. Plants with larger, deeper systems still have moisture available but shallower rooted plants and seedlings are suffering.

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It is early in the season and plants that are growing as well as dormant ones will benefit from a good soaking.

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The easiest way to measure this is to place a rain gauge in the area being watered.

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Containers can be watered by wand or by watering can. When using a wand or hose it is hard to gage how much water goes into the container. Using a soft spray, put the end of the wand close to the top of the pot, covering the entire surface. A quick sweep across a number of pots leaves the foliage wet, and the soil dry.

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Time for Twitter to ditch the text limit NEW YORK — Many Twitter users — and more importantly, the billions more who don’t use Twitter — feel constrained by the company’s somewhat archaic 140Whoops! That’s what happens when you hit the character limit imposed by Twitter. Is it time to ditch it as Twitter searches for ways to grow its stagnant user base?

The limit was created so tweets would fit in a single text message, back when people used Twitter that way. But most people now use Twitter through its mobile app, where there isn’t the same technical constraint.

And Twitter users already employ creative ways to get around it. They send out multi-part tweets, or take screenshots of text typed elsewhere.

CEO Jack Dorsey, in such a screenshot that he tweeted in January, appeared amused by the fact that people — not to be constrained — are finding creative workarounds such as the text block photos. Maybe it’s something Twitter could build on. “(What) if that text…was actually text?” he mused. “Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That’s more utility and power.”

This suggests that the company is at least thinking about creative ways to keep the spirit of the 140-character limit while giving people more freedom to share their thoughts and rants.

But there’s history, nostalgia, and the Twitter brand being inexorably tied to quick, short bursts of text. Twitter is still often described as a “short messaging service,” after all.

Dorsey called the limit a “beauti-

ful constraint” that inspires creativity, brevity and a “sense of speed.” Twitter, he wrote, will never lose the feeling.

A few months later, Dorsey insisted to “Today” show host Matt Lauer that the 140-character limit was here to stay, even as Twitter itself evolves.

But a news report this week, citing unnamed people, said the company was planning to stop counting Web links and photos in the 140 characters, a move that would further erode that limit. Twitter declined to comment on the Bloomberg report.

Gartner analyst Brian Blau called the idea “a good compromise.” Twitter already shortens long links to give users more room to write. This might be a logical next step.

Easing the character limit, though, might not be enough to reverse Twitter’s stagnation. The San Francisco company, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday, has long lagged behind Facebook as a place for everyone.

It has 310 million users, less even than the professional networking service LinkedIn. Facebook, meanwhile, has 1.65 billion users. Even though many people are familiar with Twitter, at least in name, the company has not been able to persuade them to use the service.

Twitter remains hard to understand for many people, with its own lingo of hashtags and “at” symbols.

Although it makes sense that Twitter doesn’t want to alienate existing users with too many changes, Blau said, Twitter has to “fundamentally revamp the service and make it more appealing to more people.”

Getting rid of that limit might be a start.

Samsung Gear expands virtual-reality arsenal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Virtual reality specialist Oculus is trying to dazzle consumers by adding more entertainment and educational options to the Samsung Gear headset in hopes of transforming the technological curiosity into a cultural phenomenon.

The new selections announced Wednesday include “Nomads,” a three-dimensional video series from Felix & Paul Studios that examines wayfaring lifestyles in remote parts of the world. There’s also an upcoming video game called “Tactera” that requires players to plot a battlefield strategy on a holographic tabletop, and another 360-degree video called “6X9” providing a grim look of what it’s like to be stuck in a prison’s solitary confinement cell.

They join a menu of more than 250 apps designed for the Gear VR since its consumer model was released nearly six months ago. That’s a meagre amount compared to the millions of apps available for the iPhone and devices running on the Android operating system.

Devices that build an arsenal of compelling apps usually are easier to sell to consumers. Programmers, though, put a lower priority on designing apps for devices until they have amassed a large audience.

That hasn’t happened yet with the Gear, though Oculus says it is winning over fans faster than it anticipated when the headset hit the market just before last year’s holiday shopping season. About 1 million people used the Gear VR last month for an average of 25 minutes per day, according to Oculus. About 80 per cent of that time

was spent watching video.

Samsung designed the Gear for its most recent smartphones with the help of Oculus, a little-known startup until online social networking leader Facebook bought it for $2 billion two years ago to help introduce virtual reality to the masses.

“Oculus can help people experience anything, anywhere,” boasted Max Cohen, the company’s head of mobile. “We think this (technology) can actually change people’s lives.”

The concept of virtual reality, a technology that immerses people in an artificial world, has been around for years, but has never taken off.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is convinced it is destined to become technology’s next big breakthrough, and other influential trendsetters Google and Apple are now scrambling to catch up in the still-nascent field.

Google is widely expected to unveil a virtual-reality device next week at its annual developers conference in the next step beyond its rudimentary product called “Cardboard” that works with smartphones.

The Gear was a forerunner to a more advanced virtual-reality headset called the Rift that costs $600 and requires a connection to a high-powered computer. The Rift began shipping nearly two months ago, although many buyers still haven’t received the headset yet because of delays that Oculus has blamed on parts shortages.

In contrast, users of the Gear only need a set of headphones and one of these Samsung phones: the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge Plus or Note 5. As part of its attempt to make it easier to find stuff to watch and play on the Gear, Oculus plans to release a new version of its app next month.

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The Twitter logo appears on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Is it time to ditch Twitter’s somewhat archaic 140-character post limit? Twitter users already employ creative ways to get around it, and CEO Jack Dorsey has called it a “beautiful constraint” that inspires creativity. But the technical reasons for having the limit in the first place no longer applies.

Amazon to expand its store-brand offerings NEW YORK — Amazon is planning to expand the store-brand items it sells to new categories including food and household products, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

The new products could include nuts and spices and other consumer goods such as diapers and laundry detergent.

The Wall Street Journal report cites unnamed people familiar with the matter. Amazon.com Inc. declined to comment.

Amazon already sells an array of

private-label products, or products designed by a third-party manufacturer and sold under a retailer’s name — usually cheaper than name-brand products — but food would be a new category.

It has been making a push into the grocery aisle, however. It offers Prime Fresh, a $299 annual grocery delivery service, in several cities on the West and East Coasts. Its Prime Pantry service lets you order a box full of groceries for a flat delivery fee of $5.99.

Currently, the Seattle company’s Amazon Basics line includes everything from patio furniture to office products. It also sells clothes under its labels Lark & Ro and Franklin & Freeman and others.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The TV after show is certainly no afterthought these days.

Ratings for Talking Dead, the interactive recap show that follows episodes of AMC’s megahit The Walking Dead, typically rank higher than some of the biggest titles on TV. AMC also cashed in on big audiences for Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Fear the Walking Dead by developing Talking after shows for those series.

Last year, Space launched After the Black for the Toronto-shot sci-fi series Orphan Black (it was also picked up by BBC America for the show’s current fourth season) and HBO recently launched After the Thrones to tap into the insatiable interest in Game of Thrones.

It’s clear the genre is thriving. And to think — it all seems to have started 10 years ago in Toronto, at MTV Canada.

“I think it was the first,” Jessi Cruickshank says confidently of The After Show that she and Dan Levy hosted on the channel from 2006 to 2010.

Back then, Cruickshank was fresh out of the University of Toronto, where she graduated with honours on a full scholarship. When her boss asked her to watch DVDs of the breezy teen reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, her reaction was: “I hate it. These vapid teenagers are sending a damaging message to young people. I don’t want any part of it.”

“He says, ‘Well that’s too bad, because you’re going to be doing a show where you talk about the Laguna Beach episode every Friday night,” Cruickshank recalls. “I thought this was the worst punishment any human could put upon me.”

She says the channel was just trying to meet its federal broadcast obligation to air a certain amount of Canadian content. She and Levy sat on pillows on the floor with martinis and guest commentators, providing bon mots on the show. At times, they weren’t even looking at the right camera.

“Nobody thought anybody would watch, the first few months,” says the comical Cruickshank, the Cal-

gary-born correspondent for CTV’s eTalk who also hosts Canada’s Smartest Person on CBC. Some of the guests weren’t shy with the martinis, and one imbiber said something “so — I think it was vulgar — inappropriate, that she actually lost her job,” says Cruickshank. “Maybe that was the first inkling that people were actually watching.”

And indeed, they were.

For the Laguna Beach finale, The After Show producers decided to shoot it in front of a live studio audience and were shocked when thousands of fans lined up outside MTV Canada headquarters, prompting police to shut down part of Yonge Street.

That led to the debut of The Hills After Show in June 2006, in which Cruickshank and Levy provided tongue-in-cheek commentary about the oh-so-serious lives of the series’ comely young adults in L.A. Thousands of screaming fans descended on the studio weekly and even The Hills cast members admitted to watching. The After Show became such a hit, MTV in the U.S. started broadcasting it in August 2007.

Thus spawned the after-show craze. It’s not surprising why after shows became the next big thing on TV, says “Damien” showrunner Glen Mazzara, who previously executive produced The Walking Dead.

“I’ll tell you why: they’re cheap,” says Mazzara.

“It’s a very, very cheap spin-off, in a sense. You have a built-in audience.”

It also adds to the brand and will probably “outperform anything else that’s going to run right after” the main series,” he adds.

Ajay Fry, co-host of After the Black, also points to the rise of genre content in cinema and TV. Sci-fi, supernatural and superhero shows present “strong moral challenges” that beg to be dissected in an after show.

“Orphan Black is a lot about body autonomy and issues of feminism, the crux of faith versus science — these are heavy things and people want to talk about these issues,” says Fry, who also hosts InnerSpace on Space.

The key is having guests and hosts who are as passionate about the show as the fans are, says Fry, who has also hosted several other after shows on Space.

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‘The After Show’ hosts Jessi Cruickshank (left) and Dan Levy pose with actor Lauren Conrad from ‘The Hills.’

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Comedies on tap for CBS this fall NEW YORK — CBS is looking for more laughs, with the nation’s most popular television network planning to double the amount of sitcoms it has on the air through new projects premiering this fall starring Kevin James, Matt LeBlanc and Joel McHale.

Former NCIS actor Michael Weatherly is also staying on CBS’ Tuesday-night lineup as the star of a new drama based on talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw’s past career as a trial consultant.

CBS was the last of the four biggest broadcasters to present its plans for next season to advertisers this week. The network is introducing eight new series next season, six of them in the fall.

CBS will end the current season as the nation’s most-watched network for the eighth year in a row, and 13 out of the last 14 years. The network has 17 series that average more than 10 million viewers per episode, more than all the other broadcasters combined, scheduling chief Kelly Kahl said.

The network will air four comedies each on Monday and Thursday night, the latter starting in late October following a package of NFL games. James, the former King of Queens actor, will play a retired police officer who finds home life unexpectedly complicated in Kevin Can Wait.

“It’s Kevin exactly the way you want to see him,” said Glenn Geller, CBS entertainment president.

He’ll be paired on CBS’ Monday-night lineup with LeBlanc’s Man With a Plan, where the star plays a contractor who stays home with the kids when his wife gets a job. With Matthew Perry returning on The Odd Couple, it brings CBS’ prime-time count of former Friends actors to two. On the Great Indoors, McHale plays a former adventure reporter who takes a desk-bound job and has to deal with a younger staff.

All six of CBS’ new fall shows feature white male actors in the starring roles, which left Geller open to questions at a news conference Wednesday about wheth-

er the network has diversity issues. Last year’s most high-profile new CBS show, Supergirl, has been transferred to the CW network, and CBS rejected a pilot series based on the Nancy Drew books.

He pointed to the midseason drama Doubt, which will feature transgender actress Laverne Cox playing a transgender lawyer.

Besides Weatherly’s show, Bull, the other CBS fall dramas are a remake of MacGyver starring Lucas Till and Pure Genius, a medical drama based in Silicon Valley.

With the cancellation of CSI: Cyber, next fall marks the first CBS schedule since 1999 without a CSI series. But Geller said that doesn’t necessarily mean the crime procedural franchise has shut down for good.

The NCIS franchise is still going strong, with the original series still the most-watched scripted show on TV. All three NCIS shows are back next fall, with NCIS: Los Angeles moving to CBS’ Sunday-night schedule to replace the departed drama The Good Wife.

CBS said it’s negotiating to move the series Limitless, a film adaptation that premiered last fall, to another network.

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erry Lee Ropchan wants to put the power back in people’s hands.

The Central Alberta Crime Prevention’s executive director said more people are getting an understanding of how they can get involved and what are the things that they can do to promote safety in their communities.

“Graffiti is one of those things that affect our neighbourhoods or affect how we feel in our neighbourhoods,” said Ropchan.“When you drive into a neighbourhood and you see graffiti, you instantly have a negative reaction to it.

We just want to put the power back in the people’s hands.”

There’s lots of things that you can do if you are frustrated or you don’t feel safe in your neighbourhood, she said.

“Come and talk to us because it could be some resource or some information that we have,” said Ropchan. “It could be a connection to start a meeting or it could be some community project that needs to be developed. We can be that catalyst to work with the city or whoever they need to get their project up and going. We are excited. We want people to come and talk to us.”

As May is Crime Prevention Month, there are several events planned throughout the month. Last weekend the centre held its successful inaugural Touch-A-Truck event at Crossroads

Church where 2,100 people showed up to learn about crime prevention.

A free pizza Luncheon Learn event is slated for lunch time at the centre’s parking lot (5015-48th Street) today.

Police will demonstrate how it is easy to break a vehicle window and grab stuff.

There will also be a chance to watch a photo radar at Gaetz Avenue.

Stay tuned for the Graffiti Clean event on May 25 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Both individuals and groups can go on line to volunteer.

Groups will be sent out every half hour with a map to scrub some of the hardest hit areas in downtown Red Deer.

“We are trying to engage people in crime prevention,” she said. “We get out there and do these events. We plan these events to try and get as many people as we can involved.

Every year we are getting bigger and getting more support out of the community, more people involved. I think if you look at the numbers out of Saturday it was like wow 2,100 people came out for the Touch A Truck event on May 14.

Find representatives from the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre every Saturday morning at Red Deer’s public market. Ropchan said people will be able to purchase wipes and sprays for graffiti removal.

Find out more information at www.cacpa.ca or 403-986-9904.

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Cyber predators are not much different than criminals lurking in dark alleys who wait for the perfect moment to strike their victims. But cyber criminals don’t have to hide in the shadows.

Instead, they can utilize computer viruses, keystroke logging programs and spyware to invade innocent people’s privacy, potentially stealing sensitive personal information in an effort to commit fraud that, according to global information services group Experian, has increased three-fold since 2010. But much like street crime can be thwarted, cyber crimes are often preventable as well, especially when men and women take precautionary steps to reduce their risk of identity theft and other cyber crimes.

• Set strong passwords and never use the same password for multiple accounts. Research from Experian found that consumers now have an average of 26 separate online logins but only five different passwords. Regardless of the strength of a password, using the same one for multiple accounts leaves consumers especially vulnerable to cyber criminals, who would only need to figure out one password to gain access to many accounts. When setting a password, make sure it’s strong and does not contain personal information, such as a maiden name or middle name, that criminals can easily access through public records or other accessible avenues. Make sure each account has a separate password, and periodically change those passwords.

• Update your software. Software updates may seem like a nuisance when the window pops up informing you they are available, but updating software, especially antivirus and antispyware, can protect you and anyone using your computer from cyber criminals. In addition, when installing cyber security software updates, these programs will typically scan your computer for any suspect programs or threats since your most recent install, removing any programs deemed suspicious. So while software updates may seem like a nuisance, they might just be your best line of defense against cyber criminals.

• Close old accounts you no longer use.

In its study released in 2012, Experian noted the prevalence of unused online accounts. Unused accounts, whether they are older credit accounts or email addresses that have long since been forgotten, can be used by cyber criminals to open lines of credit in your name. In fact, many people don’t realize they’re victims of such crimes until they apply for new credit and are turned down because of unpaid debts they never even knew had been accrued. Close any accounts you no longer use and confirm that such accounts are officially closed before forgetting about them.

• Never open unknown attachments or click on unknown links. Opening unknown attachments or clicking on links to Web sites you don’t recognize can put your personal information at risk, as such actions might be triggering the installation of viruses or spyware on your computer, tablet or smartphone. If you don’t recognize a link or aren’t expecting any email attachments, ignore them.

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SCIENCE THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

A closer look at early embryo development NEW YORK — New lab techniques have provided the first good look at a crucial but mysterious stage in the development of human embryos.

Researchers said follow-up research might eventually lead to new treatments for infertility and perhaps new forms of birth control.

The work extends the amount of embryonic development that can be observed in a laboratory.

In the first week after fertilization, an egg grows into a hollow ball of cells, and scientists have long been able to watch that happen. But then this early embryo — about the size of a grain of salt — attaches itself to a woman’s uterus and undergoes radical change, and that stage has been a “complete black box,” said Ali Brivanlou of Rockefeller University in New York.

He’s a member of one of two scientific teams that reported on Monday that they were able to extend embryonic development into a second week in a lab dish. Neither team simulated implantation, because the embryos attached themselves to the plastic of lab dishes rather than to uterine tissue.

But even without any direction from a mother, the embryos proceeded with critical steps toward making a body.

They flattened into disks, which then assumed a volcano-like shape. They produced primitive internal structures

ly to modify a lab technique Zernicka-Goetz’s lab had developed for working with mouse embryos.

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and specialized cells. Brivanlou’s team spotted an unexpected type of cell that he said had not been detected in any other mammal species. Researchers have “no clue” what it does, he said.

“We can now ask how the funda-

Canadian teen wins top prize at international science fair

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A Vancouver student who won the top prize at the world’s largest high school competition says four years of doing experiments taught him that patience and passion are keys to success.

Austin Wang, 18, won a US$75,000 award for engineering genetically modified E. coli bacteria that speeds up the process of converting organic waste into electricity.

The Grade 12 student at David Thompson Secondary School competed against 1,700 students from 77 countries at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz.

Wang’s love of science had him experimenting with hydrogen fuel cells in Grade 8 before he decided to switch paths and work with microbial fuel cells —devices that convert chemical energy into electrical energy.

“In Grade 9, I found that microbes can also do the same thing, they can also generate electricity in a fuel cell.

I thought that was super, super cool.”

Wang said his research means that companies that treat sewage could eventually offset much of their energy requirements by using electricity generated by the microbes.

“In North America, it’s a big problem. We spend a lot of our energy treating water. But waste water actually contains a lot of energy, almost 10 times the energy we put into treating the waste water. So with microbial fuel cells we can turn a waste source into a massive energy source.”

Wang conducted his experiments at University of British Columbia biology labs with mentoring from two professors and help from PhD students as he tried to come up with a new way to solve the perplexing puzzle.

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He credits the support of his father, a locksmith, and his mother, a homemaker, for helping him nab the big award.

“I try to explain it to them so they understand,” he said of his research.

Wang’s high school science teacher, Andrew Chang, said his student’s knowledge in genetics has surpassed his own.

“I’ve just become a cheerleader at this point,” Chang said. “He’s been teaching me a lot about the current technology and where they’ve taken it.”

Wang, who last year won a Canada-wide science fair in Fredericton, N.B., plays basketball with his friends for fun while preparing to study engineering at Princeton this fall.

In Grade 10, he was among the winners of an international piano competition called Golden Key, and flew to Vienna for a recital of young composers.

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Wang started by identifying a set of genes that can boost a bacteria’s performance and then used those genes to engineer a pool of genetically modified bacteria that could generate more electrical energy.

“I used this pool and I built an artificial biocell that could generate a substantial amount of power,” he said.

The challenges Wang faced along the way taught him some significant life lessons.

“The important thing is to be patient. The work that I’ve been doing started in Grade 9 and nothing came out of it for a few years but it was something I was passionate about.

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Sanjel headquarters will be shuttered

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The head of the firm buying Sanjel Corp., Canada’s largest privately held well-fracking company, says the target company’s headquarters in Calgary will be shuttered when the deal closes later this month as a result of “miserable” demand for its oilfield services.

Regan Davis, president and CEO of Step Energy Services, also said that reports by two Sanjel employees that all but a handful of staff are losing their jobs are “comically inaccurate,” but refused to give actual workforce numbers or say how many Sanjel staff will be offered Step jobs.

“We’ve been hiring some. We’re hopeful we will be able hire some more. But at this point we just don’t have a whole bunch of clarity on that,” Davis said in an interview earlier this week.

The office workers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had been told their jobs would end May 31, adding that most of their co-workers had also been told they would no longer be needed.

Sanjel said in court documents last month that it had trimmed its workforce in Canada and the United States from 4,300 to 2,200 since the end of 2014 as low oil prices and shrinking client spending plans cut deeply into revenue. It’s unclear how many of those staff worked in Canada.

“It’s probably worth reiterating that this was an asset transaction to begin with,” said Davis. “So it was never a transaction where we were buying the company we were buying the assets of the company.”

Davis said there are no plans to increase the size of Step’s Calgary offices after the Sanjel deal closes.

However, Sanjel’s oilfield cementing operations are being spun off into

a separate company that will need to find office and shop space and hire staff, he said.

More than 100,000 people are estimated to have lost their jobs in the Canadian oilpatch over the last two years as prices have plunged due to a glut of North American oil and gas — attributed in part to higher production from fracked wells.

Sanjel announced in early April that it would enter court protection from creditors while negotiating the sale of its Canadian oilfield services assets to Step and similar assets in the United States to Denver-based Liberty Oilfield Services.

No financial details were given initially but a subsequent court filing by Sanjel revealed that the total expected return was between $325 million and $375 million, less than the $397 million owed to its secured lending syndicate led by Alberta bank ATB Financial.

That makes any recovery unlikely for

unsecured suppliers and bondholders owed about $400 million.

Sanjel leases most of its office and shop space from MacBain Properties.

The firm is owned by the MacDonald family that also owns Sanjel but was not included in the Step purchase. Don MacDonald founded Sanjel in 1982.

Sanjel was among the largest five providers of pressure pumping services operating in Canada. Their crews inject liquids and sand under high pressure into underground formations to break up the rock and allow trapped oil and gas to flow into the well.

The procedure is called hydraulic fracturing or fracking and has been opposed by critics who fear it may taint potable water sources.

Step is a private company created in 2011 with the backing of Calgary energy investment firm ARC Financial Corp.

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Protesters march to a demonstration outside National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, B.C.in January. The proposed $5-billion expansion would nearly triple the capacity of the pipeline that carries crude oil from near Edmonton to the Vancouver area to be loaded on tankers and shipped overseas.

Trans Mountain decision coming today

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The National Energy Board will issue its report on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Thursday.

The report will reveal whether the board supports plans to triple the capacity of the pipeline, which carries diluted bitumen from oilsands near Edmonton across southern British Co-

lumbia to Burnaby for export.

If approved, the expansion would add or reactivate almost 1,200 kilometres of pipeline and would also expand the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, on the shores of Burrard Inlet.

A positive recommendation from the board would remove a major hurdle facing the development, while a federal cabinet decision is expected by the end of this year.

A three-member federal panel was appointed Tuesday to conduct an environmental review of the expansion and report to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr by November.

Carr says the panel cannot override the energy board’s decision, but will add a further layer of consultation, particularly with indigenous communities, in case issues were overlooked by the board.

A look at the state of pipelines in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The National Energy Board will release a long-awaited report Thursday that will reveal whether it supports Kinder Morgan Canada’s proposed $5.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. A positive recommendation would lift a major hurdle to the expansion, but Trans Mountain, like other pipeline projects in Canada, still has a long way to go before shovels are in the ground. Here’s an update on the status of four major Canadian proposals: Trans Mountain The Canadian arm of U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan wants to triple the capacity of its existing Trans Mountain line by adding or reactivating almost 1,200 kilometres of pipe between oilsands near Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C. The expansion would bring capacity to 890,000 barrels of oil a day and increase tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet seven-fold.

Following the energy board’s report on Thursday, the federal cabinet will issue its decision by the end of the year. A three-member panel has been appointed to conduct a separate environmental review and report to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr by November.

Carr said the panel will add an extra layer of consultation, especially with indigenous communities.

But the project still faces fierce opposition, including from British Columbia’s government and the cities of Burnaby and Vancouver. North Vancouver’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation has a case before the Federal Court that argues the energy board review was flawed and unlawful. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, on the other hand, has said the project is in the best interests of her province and Canada.

B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office is conducting a review that includes First Nations consultation, following a B.C. Supreme Court ruling in January on Northern Gateway that also impacted Trans Mountain. Environment and Climate Change Canada will release a draft assessment of upstream greenhouse gas emis-

sions by Friday for a 30-day public comment period.

Northern Gateway Enbridge’s $7.9-billion Northern Gateway project would bring 525,000 barrels a day of oilsands crude through a 1,177-kilometre pipeline from northeast of Edmonton to Kitimat, B.C., for shipping to international markets. A parallel line would send 193,000 barrels a day of bitumen-thinning diluent in the opposite direction.

The project obtained federal approval in 2014 but has been mired in legal uncertainty ever since.

Eight First Nations, four environmental groups and one labour union launched legal actions aimed at overturning the project’s approval. The Federal Court of Appeal heard the cases jointly in October and has yet to release a ruling.

Enbridge and its 31 aboriginal equity partners recently asked the National Energy Board for a three-year extension to the 2016 construction deadline to allow for more consultation. But the First Nations who oppose the project, many of them located on B.C.’s north coast, say extra time won’t sway their position.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed to formalizing a ban on tanker traffic on the north coast, which critics say will kill the project.

Trudeau has also voiced his opposition to a crude oil pipeline through the Great Bear rainforest, through which Northern Gateway would traverse.

The B.C. Supreme Court found in January the provincial government could not rely solely on the energy board’s review of Northern Gateway. The decision, which also affected Trans Mountain, means B.C. must conduct its own review that includes aboriginal consultation.

Energy East TransCanada’s Energy East is a 4,500-kilometre pipeline proposed to carry 1.1 million barrels of oil a day from Alberta and Saskatchewan through Quebec and into New Brunswick for overseas shipping. The cost of the pipeline is estimated at $15.7 billion, which doesn’t count the existing pipeline assets that would be converted for use in Energy East.

The proposal is popular in Western Canada but has encountered stiff opposition in Quebec, where politicians, citizens and ecologists have argued the environmental risks outweigh the economic benefits. New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant said he stressed the importance of Energy East to his province’s economy during a recent meeting with Trudeau.

The National Energy Board has announced that consultations with communities along the pipeline route will begin in August and its final report should be completed by March 2018.

Ottawa will also be presented with Quebec’s ruling on the pipeline, which is scheduled to come down in June 2018.

Public hearings into the Quebec portion of the project are expected to resume in October after TransCanada agreed to the provincial government’s request to provide more detailed information about the pipeline. A first round of hearings wrapped in March with Quebec residents grilling TransCanada executives on the risks and costs associated with the pipeline.

Keystone XL TransCanada, the same company behind Energy East, applied for U.S. permission to build its Keystone XL pipeline in 2008. The aim was to expand an existing cross-border pipeline to give crude from the Alberta oilsands a more direct route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. During a seven-year debate, the project became a focal point for environmental protesters.

After U.S. President Barack Obama rejected Keystone XL in November 2015, TransCanada launched a US$15-billion challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing it was treated unfairly. It has also filed a separate federal lawsuit seeking a declaration that Obama overstepped his constitutional power.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley recently visited Washington to rehabilitate the reputation of her province’s oilsands. She met with a White House environmental official and the head of the Center for American Progress, a prominent progressive think tank that opposed Keystone XL, but she told The Canadian Press she wasn’t focused on gaining approval for a future version of the pipeline.

“Derek, when is the best time to invest?”

Timing the market is one of the most challenging tasks when it comes to investing. I’m often asked if there is a perfect time to get money invested and the answer is never what the investor is hoping for. While there can be some historical data that supports how some months are better than others, my ultimate opinion is that timing the market shouldn’t be in your top list of concerns.

At this time of year we often hear the old tenet of “Sell in May and Go Away”. This essentially means that you should be selling some of your investments at this time of year, and look to get back to investing in the latter half of the year. The theory is that summer months are more volatile because there are less people investing and therefore more chances for changes in values. There is some data that supports this theory, but I think the average investor may be better off staying invested and focusing on the longterm.

The problem with trying to time the markets is that it’s near impossible to get it right. The reality is that sometimes the summer months are not a good time to invest, and other times they are the best time to invest. The fact is that you and I won’t know what is to come until it has already passed.

However, if you’re focused on the longterm instead of the next three months, the short-term factors become less important.

What often happens is that once you’ve sold your investment, it can be difficult to get invested again. For many, they either watch the markets move higher and focus on waiting until things finally move lower again, or the markets have declined and they are worried they will move even lower.

The point being that once you’re out of the market, getting back in can be a psychological battle that can be tough to overcome.

To avoid getting stuck in the market timing cycle, investors can mitigate their risk by following a few simple rules: One of the best ways to avoid market swings is to invest regularly. For some, this means an automatic purchase of an investment on a pre-determined schedule. The benefit is that you’re buying at all times of the market and are smoothing out the average price that you paid. If the markets decline you end up buying at cheaper prices, and if the markets go higher you’re already invested with your previous purchases. This is a disciplined approach that takes the emotion out of the decision.

Another way to invest is to avoid being overly focused on how your account is performing on a day-to-day basis. I think it’s reasonable to check it once in a while, but to watch it daily will create nothing but stress and concern. The point is that you want to remove as much emotion from investing as you can and checking in on it daily tends to do the opposite.

My experience reminds me that there will always be a reason not to invest.

There will be a headline, or a political event, or world crisis where investors will question if they should be selling.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 114.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.04 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.06 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.66 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.99 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.26 Cdn. National Railway . . 76.87 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 171.71 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.29 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.23 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.40 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.81 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.37 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.49 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.75 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.64 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.56 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.66 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.65 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.51 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 52.25 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 140.25 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.11 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.71 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.22

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market fell almost 100 points Thursday in the face of declining commodity prices, while Wall Street trading was muted amid growing signs of a possible June rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 91.09 points at 13,826.01, weighed down by gold, materials and metals stocks.

New York markets were mixed as minutes from April’s Fed meeting showed there was a widely held view that it “likely would be appropriate” to raise rates at its next meeting on June 14-15 as long as the economy and labour market remain strong and inflation continues to accelerate.

The Dow Jones industrials shed 3.36 points to 17,526.62 and the broader S&P 500 added 0.42 of a point to 2,047.63. The Nasdaq found strength late in the day to gain 23.39 points to 4,739.12.

Traders did not show much surprise to the strong language in the Fed minutes because they know a rate hike is coming sooner rather than later, said John O’Connell of Davis Rea Investment Counsel.

“I think the Fed has been pretty clear that they want to raise rates eventually,” he said.

“We have to stay focused on the fact that interest rates remain very low, the domestic (U.S.) economy is doing fairly well and people are getting jobs.”

Some investors are worried that a rise in rates will hurt a sluggish U.S. economy that grew just 0.5 per cent in the first quarter.

Interest rates have been languishing at historically low levels since the Great Recession and have been credited with providing some of the

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.32 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.98 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.15 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.39 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.94 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.91 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.73 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.15 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.12 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.40 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.94 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.90 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.780 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 12.22 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.52 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.59 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.95 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.31 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.54 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.01 Canyon Services Group. . 4.79 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.34 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.74 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.550 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.35

liquidity that has fuelled the subsequent recovery on equity markets.

In December, the Fed boosted its key policy rate for the first time in nearly a decade but has since passed on further moves at three meetings this year after financial market turmoil in January slowed U.S. growth.

The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates preyed on the loonie, which shed 0.71 of a U.S. cent to 76.79 cents US. Just last week, the Canadian dollar was a full cent higher on rising oil prices.

Those gains in oil were tempered Wednesday, with the June contract for benchmark North American crude giving back 12 cents to US$48.19 barrel, while the more heavily-traded July contract lost 21 cents to US$48.78.

“Clearly, this interest rate increase has had an impact on the currency markets in the sense that a higher interest rate environment in the States is going to put additional impact on low-yielding currencies like the Canadian dollar,” said O’Connell.

“Ultimately that will cause some problems for stocks because people will be worried about a strong U.S. dollar hurting multinational earnings in the U.S.” Elsewhere in commodities, June natural gas fell five cents to US$2 per mmBtu, while June gold lost $2.50 to US$1,274.40 a troy ounce.

July copper dropped a penny to US$2.08 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,826.01, down 91.09 points Dow — 17,526.62, down 3.36 points S&P 500 — 2,047.63, up 0.42 of a point

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.28 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.15 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.75 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.21 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.44 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.890 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.69 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.40 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.590 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.26 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.81 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1950 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.57 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.20 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.48 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.48 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.61 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.68 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.45 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.69 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.53 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.240 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.16 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.36 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.55

Nasdaq — 4,739.12, up 23.39 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.79 cents US, down 0.71 of a cent Pound — C$1.8999, up 3.43 cents Euro — C$1.4609, up 0.09 of a cent Euro — US$1.1218, down 0.97 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.19 per barrel, down 12 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,274.40 per oz., down $2.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.168 oz., down 13.9 cents $744.85 kg., down $4.47 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $5.80 higher $522.60 Nov. ‘16 $4.20 higher $519.80 Jan. ‘17 $3.70 higher $523.90 March ‘17 $3.40 higher $524.40 May ‘17 $3.40 higher $524.50 July ‘17 $3.40 higher $525.00 Nov. ‘17 $2.60 higher $512.30 Jan. ‘18 $2.60 higher $512.30 March ‘18 $2.60 higher $512.30 May ‘18 $2.60 higher $512.30 July ‘18 $2.60 higher $512.60.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $171.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $171.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $171.00 March ‘17 unchanged $173.00 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 July ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 471,320 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 471,320.

CMHC sees slowing of home construction in most of Canada, growth in some areas

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is expecting home construction to be slower in most of the country in the next two years compared with 2015, though it says stark differences in outlook have emerged in various regions.

The Ottawa-based agency announced Wednesday that between 181,300 and 192,300 housing units will be started this year and the range for 2017 will be between 172,600 and 183,000 units.

Those ranges compare with 195,535 housing starts in 2015. However, the national numbers tell only part of the story.

“Our forecast shows that there are important provincial variations within the Canadian housing market,” CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan says in a statement. “Increased housing starts in Ontario and B.C. will be more than offset by declines in provinces affected by the drop in oil prices in 2016.”

Citing data from the private-sector Multiple Listing Service, CMHC says it expects between 501,700 and 525,400 units of previously owned homes will be resold in 2016 and between 485,500 units and 508,400 units in 2017. Those compare with 505,673 resales last year, according to MLS figures.

The Crown corporation says the national average price will rise to as much as $495,800 this year and $501,000 next year.

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FUCHS: Aware A long-term investor may be aware of these events, but should remember to focus years out instead of on the short-term effect. My best suggestion for many investors is to focus on the long-term instead of the day-to-day noise that happens on the business channel. While those short-term events can seem serious, the reality is that in the long-term these changes become less significant. My final thought is to remain invested, focus on the long-

term, and if possible to average your costs. Remember that it’s not about timing the markets, but spending time in the markets.

Happy Investing!

Derek Fuchs Senior Wealth Advisor Scotia Wealth Management This is for information purposes only. It is recommended that individuals consult with their financial advisor before acting on any information contained in this article. The opinions stated are those of the author and not necessarily those of Scotia Capital Inc. or The Bank of Nova Scotia.

ScotiaMcLeod is a division of Scotia Capital Inc., Member Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

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British Columbia Premier Christy Clark is seen outside the FortisBC Tilbury LNG expansion project in Delta, B.C., is pictured in November.

Christy Clark says it’s time feds approve LNG DENIES LINKAGE TO OIL PIPELINES

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“The rate with which federal approvals have been moving means we’ve had a lot of time to discuss it, so they’re getting a lot closer on meeting those (five conditions).”

Clark said B.C. can easily sell its excess hydro south of the border in the United States, but she’d like to see it go to Alberta to help Canada meet its international commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

So it’s clear where Clark’s pitch to federal officials is heading, even if she denies there’s linkage between pipeline approvals, LNG and interprovincial hydro sales.

Her province, said the B.C. premier, can help reduce GHGs in Alberta through hydro transmission, as well as in China by exporting liquefied natural gas to replace coal.

She said her government and the federal Liberals both want to combat climate change while creating jobs.

“You don’t need to try to find a whole bunch of things to trade off because there’s a lot of agreement that Canada badly needs an economic boost and we’re in the best position to provide that, anywhere in the country,” said Clark.

“And secondly, we’re doing that with the export of clean energy on the Site C side and on the LNG side.”

OTTAWA — It’s long past time for the federal government to issue environmental permits for a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas terminal in Prince Rupert, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday while confirming she’s in three-way talks with Ottawa and Alberta over hydro sales.

Clark’s demand ups the pressure on the Trudeau Liberals, who have so far avoided hard choices on resource projects that are being squeezed between pro-development premiers and environmental and indigenous opponents.

But the B.C. premier isn’t laying the blame at the feet of the Liberal government elected last October, saying the bid by Indonesian giant Petronas for its Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal began more than three years ago.

“There is something wrong in the system when investors can’t expect to get a yes or a no on environmental certificates and other permitting in something other than 1,100 days,” Clark told The Canadian Press in Ottawa, where she was on hand for the historic Komagata Maru apology from the prime minister.

“So that’s what we need from the federal government.”

“To be fair to this new government,” she added, “they’ve been working hard at that and they’ve really picked up the pace.”

With the National EnPowered by ergy Board scheduled to Central Alberta’s release its assessment career site of Kinder Morgan’s proof choice. posed expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C., on Thursday, the country’s long political gridlock over resource approvals is approaching decision time.

There have been sourced reports of threeThe Red Deer Advocate, Central Alberta’s way, Alberta-B.C.-Ottawa only daily newspaper, is seeking an negotiations linking LNG EDITOR for one evening shift a week. project approvals in B.C. with Alberta’s purchase Duties will include writing, editing and of B.C. hydroelectricity and federal clearance page layout on Friday evenings, posting for a West Coast oil pipeto the web for our website and social line. media sites and any other duties assigned “Discussions are by the managing editor. They may also happening,” Clark confirmed, noting her fabe asked to fill in when other editors are mously fractious negoon vacation or are ill. tiations with Alberta go back to the Progressive Qualifications Conservative government of Alison Redford A degree or equivalent work experience three premiers ago. in journalism, and a working knowledge “But they’re not conof InDesign and Photoshop is required. nected” to pipeline apThe successful candidate will have strong provals, she added.

British Columbia has layout and editing skills. begun work on a massive hydroelectric dam Anyone interested is asked to apply known as Site C, whose to managing editor Josh Aldrich by power is required for the May 27, 2016. intense energy needs of liquefying natural gas for Josh Aldrich export by ship.

Managing Editor Clark said she’d like 403-314-4320 to sell excess Site C hydro to Alberta, which has jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com committed to phasing out We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only its coal-fired electricity selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please. generation.

To learn more about Black Press see blackpress.ca “So we’re working with them on that and we’re still discussing how they’ll meet the five conditions” the B.C. government set for oil pipeline approvals in the province.

“That’s a conversation that’s been going on for quite a few years now,” said Clark.

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In Loving Memory of PECK (nee Damant) Mildred Joyce Born: December 11, 1943 Passed Away: May 13, 2016 On the morning of May 13, Joyce passed away peacefully. Joyce is survived by her devoted husband and farming partner of 55 years, Martin, her children; Marlene (Leonard), Ken (Michelle), Steven (Shannon), grandchildren, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, as well as extended family and an abundance of friends. Joyce and Martin were married in Lacombe on April 05, 1961.

They resided on the farm southeast of Gull Lake, where as a team they raised crops, livestock, as well as a family. The family will fondly remember Joyce every time they curl up in one of her many crocheted blankets, gaze upon her numerous cross stitch pictures, or when they gather for a holiday feast, which was generally prepared by Joyce herself.

The farm will miss her input as she was an integral part of the farm right up until her passing. The family wishes to pass along a heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful staff of the Palliative Care Unit at the Lacombe Hospital, who along with Dr. Mckibbin, made a very difficult time considerably easier. In respect to Joyce’s wishes, no funeral service will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Lacombe Palliative Care (409 4425 Heritage Way, Lacombe, Alberta, T4L 2P4) or the Canadian Cancer Society (6751 52 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K9) in Joyce’s name. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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HAWLEY, Michael Oct. 30, 1984 - May 19, 2001 The hardest part wasn’t losing you, It was learning to live without you.

You can’t forget someone who gave us so much to remember.

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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Funeral Directors & Services

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

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S F/T or P/T GRILL COOK Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. Looking for a new pet?

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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 Start your career!

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Trades 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N SHOP HELP AND/OR 700 3020 22 St. APPRENTICE MECHANIC Food Service Supervisor REQ’D IMMED. Req’d permanent shift Truck exp. preferred. weekend day and evening 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Blackboth full and part time. falds. Steady f/t year 10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + round employment medical, dental, life and viw/benefits. Fax: sion benefits. Start ASAP. 403-784-2330 Job description Phone: 403-784-3811 www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less CELEBRATIONS than 2 yrs.

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CLASSIFIEDS - VICTORIA DAY Hours & Deadlines Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY, May 23, 2016 Non Publishing Day

Anders Park

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143 ANDERS Close, Fri. May 20, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Sat., May 21, 9 a.m. 1 p.m., rhubarb and fern plants; tools; ceramics; books; puzzles; lots for all.

#18, 4901 FARRELL AVE. Thurs., May 19, 12 - 8, Fri., May 20, 9 - 8, junior golf clubs, winter tires, lots of different things.

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DEADLINE: Friday, May 20, 2016 @ 4 pm PLEASE NOTE: our NEW Classifieds hours are now Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm

23 ORILLIA PARK ROAD May 19, 20 & 21 Thurs., Fri., & Sat. 9 - 6 John Deere collectables Something For Everyone!

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Anniversaries

Publication dates: Saturday, May 21, 2016 Tuesday, May 24, 2016

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1010

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Births

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has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

Welcome Wagon

Contractors

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

Announcements the informative choice!

Classifieds 309-3300

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Flooring

NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Jon 403-848-0393

Handyman Services

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

1200

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Yard Care

1430

MIKE’S Refresh Painting Exterior/Interior, SECOND 2 NONE, reg.

Prompt & Courteous Service and res. grass cutting/yard 403-302-8027 clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ BOOK NOW! rock and sod jobs/eaves.

For help on your home TUSCANY PAINTING Free est. 403-302-7778 projects such as bathroom, 403-598-2434 main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617 Roofing

1370

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

DAMON INTERIORS

1180

Misc.

Services

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

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

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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THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

TREE /YARD CARE, JUNK Removal, Garage QUALITY work at an Door Service. 403-358-1614 affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing Classifieds...costs so little specialist. Fully insured.

Saves you so much!

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

YARD CARE 403-350-7602 Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

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(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

CLASSIFICATIONS

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Children's Items

1580

SAMSONITE 500 piece LEGO in original box, early 60`s, $25. 403-347-3849

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

1640

Tools

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rentals 278950A5

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

POWER Wheel Chair, 3 yrs. old. Barely used. $2500. 403-845-3292

Household Furnishings

1720

CHAIR, beige leather, Àrm in exc. cond., $50. obo.

403-347-1017 LA-Z-BOY Full-size rocker recliner. Burgundy fabric, freshly cleaned like new. $75. obo. 403-755-2760

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 CAMPING dishes, unbreakable, Durawere Set. $35.

Coleman Propane lantern, $50. Coleman Propane Camp Stove, $100.

403-343-6044 COFFEE Maker, under counter, $30.

403-343-6044 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

403-343-6044 GRILL, Charcoal, 180 sq. in. of cooking surface, temp. gauge on lid, used twice, like new.

Replacement $259.

Asking $65. ~SOLD~

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 South Hill, 2 bdrm., 1.5 baths, 5 appls. Avail.

July 1. 403-350-7722

GLENDALE 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $925. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or June 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 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

3060

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

403-304-5337

WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

CITY VIEW APTS.

Suites

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, WHITE duvet / down quilt, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700. Àts double or queen bed, Avail. immed. Near hospicomes with blue cover.

Like new. $75. 403-347-3849 tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Cats

1830

Sporting Goods

1860

INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044

Collectors' Items

1870

1949 SINGER SEWING MACHINE, portable electric, good working cond. $120.

403-877-0825 ANTIQUE Railroad Train Set, 65 yrs. old. Complete set of 40 pieces & book volumes. Like New $800.

403-845-3292, 895-2337

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. ***RENTED***

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4310

ASPEN Shores Estates Area Structure Plan Development Proposal at Pine Lake. Open house Sunday, May 29, 2 - 4 p.m. at The Pine Lake Hub.

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

Money To Loan

4430

HAVE you exhausted ROOM, all utils. and cable incl’d, $450/mo. Call or text your efforts at the banks?

Is your company in need of 403-598-6386 Ànancing? Call 403-969-9884 TWO fully furn. rooms, all util. incl., Deer Park, AND Rosedale, 403-877-1294

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3190

wheels

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

CLASSIFICATIONS

Mobile Lot

5000-5300

Motorcycles

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

5080

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

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.

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Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Google engineering director Erik Kay talks about the new Allo messaging app and Duo during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, Wednesday, in Mountain View, Calif. Google unveiled its vision for phones, cars, virtual reality and more during its annual conference for software developers.

New Google products, services take aim at its biggest rivals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

Income Property

4100

2006 HARLEY DAVIDSON Dyna Super Glide, 10,800 kms. Mint Condition, $11,000. 403-896-1620.

Motorhomes

5100

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

Industrial Property

4120

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. or for Rent. 403-391-1780

Businesses For Sale

4140

1976 DODGE motor home, new tires and brakes, sleeps 4, good cond., 85,000 kms, $2500 obo.

403-782-4504

Holiday Trailers

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

5120

DELUXE BUILDING

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; Àreplace set with stand, $30; box of double lace, $20; and La-Z-Boy chair, 30. 403-309-5494

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for free. 403-887-3649

THE NORDIC

2 BDRM., 1 bath, Condo for rent Sunnybrook. $1200/mo. Avail: July 1.

403-357-4203.

METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

403-343-6044

Firewood

3060

Suites

Lots For Sale

4160

2014 19.6 NOMAD trailer, SUV towable, sleeps 4, Gently used. REDUCED $12,500. 403-347-5953

SERGE’S HOMES Lots Available in Lacombe, Blackfalds, Springbrook Custom build your dream home on your lot or ours.

For more info. call OfÀce - 403-343-6360 Bob - 403-505-8050

Boats & Marine

5160

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309-3300 Public Notices

6010 VILLAGE OF DELBURNE NOTICE OF PREPARATION AND MAILINGOF 2016 ASSESSMENT AND TAX NOTICES

Notice pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Government Act, Section 311 (1), being Chapter M26, RSA 2000 as amended, is hereby given with respect to the 2016 Assessment and Tax Notices: Combined Assessment and Tax Notices for the Village of Delburne were mailed May 16, 2016.

Taxes are due and payable without penalty by June 30, 2016. A penalty of 15% will be added to any outstanding current taxes as of July I, 2016. A further penalty of 10% will be levied on all taxes which remain outstanding on January 1, 2017.

All assessed persons are deemed to have received their assessment notices as a result of the publication of this Notice.

Any assessed person(s) who has/have not received their 2016 Assessment and Tax Notice(s) should contact the municipal office during regular business hours for a copy.

Assessment complaints must be filed within 60 days from the date of mailing of notice and must be filed using the Government of Alberta “Assessment Review Complaint Form” (number LG51402) available by contacting the Municipal Office at 403.749.3606 or by going online to http://www. municipalaffairs. alberta. ca/ mc_propertyassessment_and_taxation.cfm. Instructions and guidelines included with form LGSI4O2.

For further information contact:

Ms. Karen Fegan, CLGM, CT, Chief Administrative Officer Box 341, 2111 -. 20 Street, Delburne, AB TOM OVO 403-749-3606 Or email: karen.fegan@delburne.ca

Village of Delburne

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Chapter M-26 of the Municipal Government Act, 2000, as amended, that Council of the Village of Delburne has given first reading to Bylaw #1122/2016 for redesignation of Plan 1168HW, Block 8, Lot 1.

THAT Schedule A, being the Land Use District Map, be amended by the redesignation of Plan 1168HW, Block 8, Lot 1 from Low Density Residential (R-1) to General Residential (R-2) as shown on the plan that is attached to and forms part of this Bylaw.

A Public Hearing regarding proposed Bylaw #1122/2016 will be held Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in the Delburne Village Office at 6:00 p.m. Any person who claims to be affected prejudicially by the proposed Bylaw, or that person’s agent, shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard

by Council at a Public Hearing.

The proposed Bylaw #1122/2016 and any related documents may be inspected at the Village Office at 2111-20th Street, between normal office hours 900 a.m.4:30 p.m.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — From virtual reality to a new smart-home speaker, Google is showing off just how pervasive it has become even as it’s squeezed by its biggest competitors — Facebook, Apple and Amazon.

Google showed off a VR system called Daydream, along with plans for headsets that will compete with Facebook’s Oculus Rift. In a jab at Amazon, the company announced Google Home, an Internet-connected speaker that listens for your voice commands to play music or control lights and thermostats in the home. It is reminiscent of Amazon’s Echo and will be available later this year for a yet-unannounced price.

In an attempt to outshine Apple, Google is also adding features to its Android operating system, including the ability to run apps without actually installing apps. That’s perhaps the one truly new thing Google announced Wednesday. It is Google’s answer to the pain of installing phone apps you know you’ll use just once or twice, for shopping or booking a parking spot, for example. With this approach, the app runs on Google’s servers instead of your phone.

Only the parts you need get sent to your phone on an as-needed basis.

Meanwhile, the chat service Allo will use Google’s computers to predict how you want to respond, saving you typing. It will also chat directly with Google to find information or navigate. Allo will compete with popular chat services such as Facebook’s Messenger, which recently announced an artificial intelligence feature, and WhatsApp, also owned by Facebook.

More than 7,000 people attended Google’s keynote Wednesday in Mountain View, California. Besides journalists and bloggers, Google’s

three-day I/O conference attracts thousands of computer programmers, giving Google an opportunity to convince them why they should design applications and other services that work with its gadgets and an array of software that includes the Chrome Web browser and Android operating system for mobile devices.

Android powers about 80 per cent of the world’s smartphones, largely because Google gives away the software for free to device makers. Google can afford to do that because it designs Android to feature its search engine, maps and other digital services, giving it more opportunities to show the digital ads that generate most of its revenue.

But Apple’s iPhone carries more cachet with affluent consumers and often introduces features that Android copies. Apple will hold a similar conference in June to unveil its fall software plans.

Google’s bare-bones entry into the still-nascent field of virtual reality came two years ago when it unveiled a cheap headset made out of cardboard. The company is poised to get more serious, given far more sophisticated options available for sale.

With Daydream, manufacturers including Samsung, HTC and Huawei will have smartphones capable of handling it. These headsets promise to be more comfortable and more immersive than the cardboard headset.

Google is also distributing guidelines for a new controller with a few buttons, a touchpad and sensors to track its orientation and where it’s pointing. The controller can be used to flip digital pancakes, throw things and cast a virtual fishing line.

Analysts are touting virtual reality, a technology that casts its users into artificial, three-dimensional worlds, as one of the industry’s most promising areas for growth.

Kentucky bourbon production reaches nearly 50-year high

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky bourbon production swelled to a nearly 50-year high last year, and with new distilleries joining the boom, more of the amber whiskey is expected to reach stores and bars.

Bluegrass state distilleries filled nearly 1.9 million bourbon barrels last year, the highest level since 1967, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association said Wednesday. Last year’s production surged 44 per cent above the pace in 2014 — the biggest year-toyear difference since 1967, it said.

More than 6.6 million barrels are aging in warehouses dotting the state’s bourbon country, the most since 1974, the industry group said.

Since the turn of the century, Kentucky’s bourbon output has skyrocketed by more than 315 per cent, it said.

“I wish I were 40 years younger right now,” said Bill Samuels Jr., who retired after a long career as the top executive at Maker’s Mark, the brand started by his parents.

Kentucky is home to about 95 per cent of the world’s bourbon production.

The bourbon sector has benefited from improved brand development and marketing campaigns and an emphasis on premium products, and it looks poised for continued higher volumes in coming years, Samuels said.

That’s what the Bardstown Bourbon Co., an industry newcomer, is counting on.

It plans to start production at its $25 million facility in September, making whiskey for its own brands and for small distillers and brand owners lacking sufficient distilling operations.

Demand has been strong enough that the new distillery expects production to quickly approach its 1.5 million proof gallon annual capacity soon after opening, said the company’s president and CEO, David Mandell. That means an expansion could soon be in the works, he said.

“From our perspective, we’re at the beginning of a large growth cycle,” Mandell said.

It’s among a handful of larger distilleries starting production later this year, with more scheduled to open in a year or two, said Eric Gregory, president of the distillers’ association.

He said KDA members are in the midst of a building boom totalling at least $1.3 billion. It includes new production and storage facilities, expanded bottling lines and tourism centres.

The growing inventory amounts to a big bet among distillers that demand will stay strong when the whiskey is ready for bottling. Distillers see it as a winning hand, Gregory said.

“There is always a little bit of a crystal ball going on when you put bourbon back” for aging, he said.

“But these distilleries have experts who predict far out into the future as to what the market’s going to look like.”

Last year, combined U.S. revenues for bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey shot up 7.8 per cent to $2.9 billion, up $210 million from the prior year, the Distilled Spirits Council said in early February. The growth was led by demand for highpriced, super-premium brands.

Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey exports topped $1 billion for the third straight year, it said.

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ADVICE THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

Miserable woman needs to make choice KATHY MITHCELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I’ve been living with my boyfriend for nine years and we have a son together.

Over the 14 years that we’ve known each other, we’ve had our share of problems, but it’s gotten worse in the last couple of years.

Two months ago, “John” totally changed, and I found out he was being unfaithful. Of course, he denies it, but I have proof.

I want to leave him, but I really have nowhere to go. So I’m just stuck here while he continues to see the other woman.

I hate being made a fool. Please tell me what you think I should do? — Miserable and Cheated On Dear Miserable: You are not “stuck,”

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES

Thursday, May 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Grace Jones, 68; Sam Smith, 24; Eleanor Tomlinson, 24 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Disruptions aren’t necessarily a bad thing, as they offer the opportunity to shake up your routine.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are very energetic and often leave others behind. June is a marvellous month for love, romance, friendships and social functions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to break free from rules and restrictions but strive to get the balance right between independence and togetherness. Pooling in-

but you do have some difficult choices to make.

The first decision is whether you are better off with John or without him.

You have a son together, which means John is responsible for child support.

Please discuss this with a professional who can help you sort through your issues and do what is best for you and your son.

Ask John to come with you, but if he isn’t interested, go without him.

Free and low-cost counseling is available through local churches, graduate school counseling departments, medical school psychology departments, United Way, the YMCA and the Department of Children and Family Services.

Dear Annie: I’d like to give some advice to brides-to-be. These words of wisdom come from a middle-aged woman with 30 years of marriage under her belt: 1. He will not change for you. If he grew up in a dirty house, chances are

he is not a neat guy. If he’s nasty to you, he will continue to be.

2. If he views porn, at some point in your marriage, it will be a problem.

People who view porn will defend it, and it will not be good for you or your marriage.

3. If he likes to go out drinking with his buddies, be prepared to raise your kids alone and wait by the phone for him to call.

He might lie about where he was and he may even start fights as an excuse to leave the house.

4. My husband went from his mother’s couch to my apartment. His father believed that housework, laundry and cooking were women’s work and my husband was the same. If he believes his job is to go to work, come home and be waited on, well, my dear, that will be your life.

5. If he is addicted to his smartphone, no amount of pleading will change that.

6. Once you have children, he will not suddenly be a helpful, kind father.

If he was helpful and kind before, he

will probably remain that way. If not, you will cry many tears.

7. Discuss handling the finances before you say “I do.” My husband made more money than me, and always considered it to be “his money.”

Please ladies, do yourself a favor and heed your inner voice. It will not fail you. I wish I had paid attention to the red flags. — Married and Lonely in Connecticut Dear Married: Thank you for the advice - most of which is a variation on your first caveat, which is that he will not change because you marry him. All women should understand that.

dividual ideas could lead to an exciting joint venture.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t get too set in your ways Taurus — the only certainty at the moment is change!

The more flexible you are mentally, the easier it will be to adapt to the constantly changing landscape.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re keen to help others in generous and unexpected ways. You’re also full of energy and enthusiasm but don’t promise more than you can deliver. Learn to walk your talk Twins.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): With Mars and Saturn reversing through your well being zone, avoid the temptation to be lazy about healthy food and regular exercise.

Discipline and hard work now will pay off in the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Strive to get the ratio right between initiating necessary changes and maintaining the status quo.

Keep what’s working — and change what

isn’t. The trick is knowing which is which!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t be afraid to spread your wings and sample new endeavours Virgo. Fresh ideas will broaden your horizons, and innovative changes will also shake up your thinking in positive new ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re balancing twin desires but that’s nothing new.

If you have to choose between two options, go for the one that is fresh and exciting — especially if it involves close personal relationships.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have the courage to follow your gut instincts — and then communicate your thoughts and feelings clearly and confidently to those around you. Thereís no room for sulking or sarcasm today Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A superficial and scattered approach is definitely not the way to approach things today Sagittarius. The more thorough and focused you

are, the better the long-term outcomes will be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When it comes to friendships, hobbies or sporting activities, stop talking about what you want and start doing. They’ll be some delays but don’t let that daunt you. Keep your eyes on the prize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mercury reversing through your domestic zone, it’s time to tackle projects and challenging jobs you’ve been putting off around the home. Roll up your sleeves — DIY Aquarians to the rescue!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pisceans are impatient! But it’s not the ideal time to pursue goals, launch a group project or unveil a social media campaign. Wait until after May 22, when Mercury moves forwards again.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

New York could become 1st state to ban declawing of cats

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. — New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under a legislative proposal that has divided veterinarians.

Several vets — along with a spokescat named Rubio — came to the state capitol on Tuesday to lobby for the ban. They say the declawing procedure, which involves cutting through bone, tendon and nerves to amputate the first segment of a cat’s toes, is unnecessary and cruel. Australia, Britain and several European countries already ban the practice. It’s also illegal in Los Angeles and some other California cities.

“It’s a disfiguring, inhumane and misguided procedure,” said Eileen Jefferson, an Ulster County veterinarian who does not perform the procedure. She said about 25 per cent of cats will be declawed.

While Jefferson and the other vets discussed the bill at a press conference in the Capitol, Rubio roamed the room, sniffing the reporters and occasionally offering a meow as greeting. The 11-year-old Abyssinian has his claws but chose not to use them on the journalists.

The state’s Veterinary Medical Society opposes the legislation, saying the surgical procedure can often save cats

with destructive scratching behaviour from being euthanized.

In a memo of opposition, the society argues that declawing is a decision best left to cat owners and veterinarians and not lawmakers.

“It is the veterinarian’s obligation to provide cat owners a complete education with regard to normal scratching behaviour of cats, the procedure itself, and potential risks to the patient,” the society’s memo reads. “Declawing of domestic cats should be considered only after attempts have been made to prevent the cat from using its claws destructively.”

The bill is before both the Senate and Assembly, but no vote has been scheduled. Assembly sponsor Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat, says support is growing as more cat owners learn the details of the procedure.

Unlike clipping nails in a human, or even removing the entire fingernail, declawing a cat involves amputating the first segment of each toe on each paw.

Supporters of the ban say destructive clawing can often be dealt with through nail clipping, nail caps or scratching posts. And the vets lobbying for the legislation on Tuesday said that declawing a cat can often lead to worse behaviour problems, including difficulty using a litterbox or biting —

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A cat named Rubio walks in front of the podium during a news conference on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y. New York would be the first state to ban the declawing of cats under a legislative proposal that has divided veterinarians. something disputed by the veterinary

society.

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