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STARS OF THE DAY Matthew Tkachuk Two goals. Playing with a sprained ankle, Tkachuk did what he’s done all tournament, score goals. He finished with five goals in four games and his last goal was a memorable one. Not many get the chance to win a Memorial Cup, but Tkachuk did with a toe drag and wrist shot that beat Huskies goalie Chase Marchand.

Chase Marchand 30 saves. Despite giving up the tying goal late and the winning goal in overtime, Marchand kept his team in the game. So many times the Knights heralded first line and unheralded second line had chances to run away with the game, but the over aged player from Nova Scotia held his ground.

Red Deer Rebels fans cheer as Rebel Luke Philp scores a powerplay goal in the second period against the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies during semi-final action, Friday.

Showing up to the rink in what he called style Scott Cummins along with Katey Thomas made a road trip from Portland, Oregon to watch the final of the MasterCard Memorial Cup Sunday.

Tyler Parsons 29 saves. For two teams with offensive firepower, the goalies really stole the show. Parsons and his quick glove hand took away several goals from the Huskies. In a close game having a goaltender you can rely on makes the difference.

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AWARD WINNERS

Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (MVP): Mitchell Marner, London Knights (OHL)

George Parsons Trophy (Sportsmanship): Francis Perron, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL)

Happ Emms Memorial Trophy (Outstanding Goaltender): Tyler Parsons, London Knights (OHL)

Ed Chynoweth Trophy (Leading Scorer): Mitchell Marner, London Knights (OHL), 2G-12A-14PTS

2016 MasterCard Memorial Cup All-Star Team: Goalie: Tyler Parsons, London Knights (OHL) Defenceman: Olli Juolevi, London Knights (OHL) Defenceman: Haydn Fleury, Red Deer Rebels (WHL) Forward: Mitchell Marner, London Knights (OHL) Forward: Christian Dvorak, London Knights (OHL) Forward: Timo Meier, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL)

STATS 2016 Memorial Cup Canadian Major Junior Hockey Championship ROUND ROBIN GP W L GF GA Pt x-London (OHL) 3 3 0 20 5 6 Red Deer (host) 3 2 1 9 9 4 Rouyn-Nor.(QMJHL) 3 1 2 9 13 2 Brandon (WHL) 3 0 3 5 16 0 x — clinched berth in Sunday’s final.

PLAYOFFS Sunday’s result Championship London 3 Rouyn-Noranda 2 (OT) Friday’s result Semifinal Rouyn-Noranda 3 Red Deer 1 PREVIOUS RESULTS Round Robin Friday, May 20 London 6 Red Deer 2 Saturday, May 21 Rouyn-Noranda 5 Brandon 3 Sunday, May 22 Red Deer 5 Rouyn-Noranda 2 Monday, May 23 London 9 Brandon 1 Tuesday, May 24 London 5 Rouyn-Noranda 2 Wednesday, May 25 Red Deer 2 Brandon 1 (OT) Sunday’s summary Knights 3, Huskies 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Fontaine RN (boarding) 13:33.

Second Period 1. London, Tkachuk 4 (Marner, Dvorak) 9:19.

2. Rouyn-Noranda, Perron 2 (Meier) 9:34.

Penalties — Greer RN (roughing) 4:55 Meier RN (tripping) 12:49 Graves Ldn (tripping) 18:49.

Third Period 3. Rouyn-Noranda, Nantel 2 (Fortin, Lauzon) 9:13.

4. London, Dvorak 7 (Berisha, Jones) 15:49.

Penalties — Greer RN (delay of game) 9:50 Fontaine RN (high-sticking) 11:38 Brouillard RN (roughing), Piccinich Ldn (holding) 12:53.

First Overtime 5. London, Tkachuk 5 (Jamieson, Juolevi) 7:49.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Rouyn-Noranda 6 16 5 4 — 31 London 11 10 9 3 — 33 Goal — Rouyn Noranda: Marchand (L, 2-3) London: Parsons (W, 4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Rouyn Noranda: 0-1 London: 0-5.

2016 Memorial Cup final scoring leaders G A Pts Mitch Marner, Ldn 2 12 14 Christian Dvorak, Ldn 7 5 12 Matthew Tkachuk, Ldn 5 3 8 Timo Meier, RN 5 3 8 Francis Perron, RN 2 6 8 Olli Juolevi, Ldn 0 7 7 Haydn Fleury, RD 1 4 5 Adam Helewka, RD 3 1 4 Aaron Berisha, Ldn 2 2 4 Max Jones, Ldn 2 2 4 Jake Debrusk, RD 1 3 4 Luke Philp, RD 2 1 3 JJ Piccinich, Ldn 2 1 3 Cliff Pu, Ldn 1 2 3 Alerxandre Fortin, RN 0 3 3 Evan Polei, RD 2 0 2 Julien Nantel, RN 2 0 2 Nikolas Brouillard, RN 1 1 2 Gabriel Fontaine, RN 1 1 2 Anthony-John Greer, RN 1 1 2 Philippe Myers, RN 1 1 2 Tim McGauley, Bdn 1 1 2 John Quenneville, Bdn 1 1 2 Conner Bleackley, RD 0 2 2 Alexandre Fortin, RN 0 2 2 Aiden Jamieson, Ldn 0 2 2 Jeremy Lauzon, RN 0 2 2 Ivan Provorov, Bdn 0 2 2 Michael Spacek, RD 0 2 2 Antoine Waked, RN 0 2 2

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London Knights team captain Christian Dvorak hoists the MasterCard Memorial Cup. the Knights beat the RouynNoranda Huskies in the final Sunday. these are the top end teams,” said Hunter. “To go 17 in a row is unheard of. It will likely never be repeated.

Through the playoffs and this tournament.”

Hunter called this year’s Knights equal to the 2004-05 squad that lost only 13 games in the regular season, playoffs and in the Memorial Cup. “You’re battling good teams and that’s why it comes down overtime lots of the time or late in the game,” said Hunter. “It was a battle out there, (goalie Tyler) Parsons made some big saves for us to keep us in it.

We were resilient enough to score the big goal.”

Mitchell Marner led the tournament in scoring with 14 points (2 goals, 12 assists). Taken fourth overall in 2015 by the Toronto Maple Leafs, he was named tournament MVP. “Being down 2-1 in the third with eight minutes left, we never gave up

and that’s the best thing about this team,” said Marner. “They came out hard and we had a couple of days off so I think our legs were a little tired in the first. But we came out hard in the second and third.”

With so much discussion about the offensive firepower in the final, it was the goalies Marchand and Parsons who stole the show in the tournament final. The two combined to make 60 saves and prevented many key scoring chances.

It took almost half the game for the first goal, but it was the offensive juggernaut line of Marner, Tkachuk and Dvorak ended the shutouts. Marner fired a hard pass from the right point that was tipped in mid-air by Tkachuk and into the net.

The Huskies top line responded 15 seconds later to keep the game tied up. Timo Meier skated hard around the net and fired a backhand pass

HUSKIES RUN WAS ONE TO REMEMBER

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD AD DVOCA ATE E STAFF All season long the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies lived, fought and won under the motto of “United for history.”

That led the team from north western Quebec to their first ever Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Title and a berth in the MasterCard Memorial Cup. After going 1-2 in the round robin, they bounced the host Red Deer Rebels in the semifinal earning a berth into the tournament final.

The Huskies pushed the Ontario Hockey League champion London Knights (3-0) to their limits and with five minutes to play in regulation they looked to be in the driver seat.

Ahead a goal in a game where they came at a premium, the Huskies were on the verge of ending the Knights 16 game winning streak.

But a Christian Dvorak goal to tie it up and a Matthew Tkachuk marker in overtime ended the Huskies season just shy of a Memorial Cup title.

The Huskies lost the final game 3-2 in overtime.

Gilles Bouchard, Huskies GM/ head coach, said his team improved throughout the tournament with a big win over the Red Deer Rebels in the semifinal and their showing against the Knights.

“We played the Huskies game,” said Bouchard. “It was a big challenge for us today, but we were confident we could win this game.

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“Our players played like champions and I’m very proud of my team today.”

A lot of the Huskies success in the tournament came from their goaltender Chase Marchand. Marchand carried his magic from the semifinal into the final game. He stopped two Max Jones chances, breaking up a 2-on-1 opportunity for Christian Dvorak and Mithcell Marner early in the game.

Then late in the game and in overtime he made huge saves, including one on Tkachuk moments before he scored the winner.

“He played a very good game,” said Bouchard. “He was unbelievable against Red Deer and again tonight.

But, their goalie was good too. He did a good job for them.”

Marchand stopped 30 of 33 shots to close out his junior hockey career.

The 20-year-old played hockey for four different junior teams.

“It’s tough to say goodbye to the organization,” he said. “We’ve had so many great memories. Just because we lost tonight doesn’t mean we’re losers. We accomplished so much through the year and I’ll remember this forever.”

A dominant force throughout the tournament, the Knights PP had torched teams in the round robin going 9-for-20. But in the final, it fell silent. The Huskies held the Knights power play in check and goalless as they went 0-for-5.

“We had only one power play,” said Bouchard. “If we had another one, maybe the game is different, but

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“It’s not the first time an opponent tied a game against us,” said Bouchard. “We bounced back and we told them on the bench to keep their heads up and play the Huskies game.”

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Despite the loss in the final, Bouchard fondly reflected on his team’s incredible season.

“At the start we were supposed to finish, maybe third in the west division and we finished first in the west, first in the QMJHL and first in Canada,” said Bouchard. “We made in the final of the Memorial Cup.”

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through the blue ice. Francis Perron was in position for the backdoor tip in and put the pass in past Parsons, tying the game up at 1-1.

The Huskies jumped out in front of the Knights near the midpoint of the third period. Fortin came down the right wing and fired a cross-ice pass to Nantel, who buried the one-timer past Parsons.

Notes: After not practicing for a few days, Tkachuk was on the ice for the Knights’ Saturday practice and in the lineup on Sunday … The Huskies were without the injured Bruno-Carl Denis or Mathieu Boucher …

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Knights 3 Huskies 2 (OT) Undefeated for 16 straight games, the London Knights faced the toughest test to that streak.

They even trailed in a game for the first time since May 1, down 2-1 for 6:36 in the third period Sunday afternoon at the Centrium.

But the Ontario Hockey League Champions kept on working for the equalizer and got it with 4:11 to play in regulation.

Then in overtime, Matthew Tkachuk played hero. He scored the OT winner coming down the left wing, toe dragging the puck around Rouyn-Noranda Huskies defender Jacob Neveu and fired a wrist shot that beat goalie Case Marchand. The goal and win extended the streak to 17 games, including all four MasterCard Memorial Cup games.

“There’s no way this just happened,” said Tkachuk about how he reacted to the goal. “I had to make sure. The goalie looked up and I fell over myself I was so happy.”

The goal ended the Memorial Cup, giving London the 3-2 victory over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies. Tkachuk led the Knights with two goals.

Knights head coach Dale Hunter called the second Knights goal “big.”

“They were tightening down us and it was hard to score. When you make a great play from the corner like that, usually good things happen.”

Christian Dvorak stood at the top of the crease and took a back handed pass from the end boards by Aaron Berisha and shot the puck over Marchand’s glove hand.

Under Hunter the Knights have been to four Memorial Cups in the last five years. Since Hunter took over the team in 2000, he has guided the Knights to five appearances in the tournament.

“It’s hard enough to get here, but it’s a lot harder to win it,” said Hunter. “You have three teams who are the best in the country. To come here and win four straight is unbelievable.”

Both of the Knights Memorial Cup victories came when they went undefeated during the tournament.

“These are top teams, it’s not like during the season when you can hit some team lower in the standings,

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City gets high praise as hosts PEOPLE IMPRESSED WITH COMMUNITY DURING MEMORIAL CUP

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF From centre ice to the nose-bleed seats everyone gave Red Deer first-star honours as MasterCard Memorial Cup hosts.

Rebels’ captain Luke Philp said the city and organizers have done an “awesome” job.

“It’s been fun to be a part of,” he said, before taking to the ice for Friday’s semi-final. “Everyone says the city and the atmosphere was awesome since they’ve been here.”

Fellow centre Conner Bleackley has heard nothing but good things.

“It’s been unbelievable, I think. I’ve had a lot of past teammates come here, a lot of family. Everyone has had a great time,” he said.

Everywhere the players go they felt the enthusiasm and support of the community.

“The crowd, obviously, has been electric. So it’s been first class from an on-the-ice and an off-the-ice standpoint.”

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer said the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) have been impressed from the beginning by the community, volunteers and the Memorial Cup organizing committee.

The event’s success will pay dividends, she believes. “Our community pride and spirit has been mobilized and solidified in new ways, which will strongly position us for future sports tourism and other events of this magnitude.”

Economically, the Memorial Cup was expected to pump $17-$19 million into the local economy.

But that’s not all Red Deer will be left with. It can now proudly say it is home to the third best junior hockey team in the country, said Veer.

From his seat high in the stands, Rocky Mountain House’s Paul Burns also praised the community and the team.

“I think the city embraced it from the get go,” said Burns. “It’s been awesome. From the restaurants to the work sites, everybody’s talking about it.

“I think (the hosts) did an excellent job.”

Red Deer was Jim Leclair’s 16th Memorial Cup and the city generated the same kind of spirit and fan camaraderie that he has seen all over Canada.

“For my wife and me the big thing is the wonderful interaction with the people,” said Leclair, who is from Cranbrook, B.C. “Everyone is very welcoming,” he said. The Leclairs were pulling for Rebels captain Luke Philp, who was in his fifth season with Cranbook’s Kootenay Ice before being picked up by Red Deer in January.

Sporting Rebels’ jerseys of defenceman Kayle Doetzel, Jim and wife Dianne were thrilled to run into Doetzel’s parents in the campground behind the Enmax Centrium earlier in the week.

Jim said he felt “chills go down his back” meeting parents he knew had done so much to support their son, who is from Rosetown, Sask. “They are absolutely wonderful people.”

Calgary’s Lorelei Schram recognized one sure-fire sign that Red Deer had no shortage of Memorial Cup spirit.

“This is the busiest I’ve seen the beer gardens at any Memorial Cup — and this is my fifth one,” she

said with a laugh.

The Centrium has been near full every game, even when the hometown team is not playing, she said.

“I think it’s been good all round.”

Rebels owner and head coach Brent Sutter said the feedback has been all positive.

“I’ve heard nothing but great things. It’s been an awesome event, an awesome tournament.”

Sutter said he was not surprised. “(Red Deer has) always been a community that the volunteers get behind big time.”

The host committee, of which son Merrick is cochair, followed that lead in creating a “first-class event,” he said, adding he knows the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) has been happy with what they saw.

“We wanted to make sure it was done the right way,” he said on Friday. “I just hope everyone who leaves Red Deer had a great experience and had a great time and they feel like it truly was a fantastic event that was well run and well organized and the hockey was great.”

Sutter was pleased that the CHL chose a smaller city like Red Deer to host junior hockey’s showcase event.

“I think it’s good and I think it’s important that we give opportunities like this to cities like Red Deer, to buildings like Red Deer’s.”

There are bigger arenas but Enmax Centrium ranks among the best.

“It shouldn’t always be about the big facilities or the big cities, or the next thing you know it’s always going to be about the mighty dollar.

“You’ve got to get back to your grassroots at times too, and that’s what makes this event.”

Gardens harvest innovation and awareness

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF There is plenty growing in Lacombe Composite High School’s Dow Community Gardens and outdoor classroom.

But besides the lemons, pineapples, herbs, spices and other garden plants, the most impressive thing being cultivated is student innovation and environmental awareness.

Just how far youthful enthusiasm, tireless research and plain hard work can get you was shown by a pair of the high school’s EcoVision club members Avy Lamb and Rachael Reitsma.

Their project to introduce a drip irrigation system that can be monitored and adjusted through a smartphone app landed the two Grade 10 students second place in the Caring for our Watersheds environmental competition that drew 169 student entries.

“It was a lot of planning and a lot of research because you needed to know what each plant needs,” said Lamb on Saturday.

“It was found that drip irrigation was the best (system), the most efficient.”

The system will provide a solution to the problem of maintaining such a wide variety of plants, many of which require daily watering. During summer months, community volunteers provided key help but it was a big job.

The drip irrigation system will make it much easier to maintain plants and will significantly reduce water usage.

Their system collects rainwater from the roof of the school to feed the irrigation system that will sustain the dozens of fruit trees and raised plant beds located next to the unique geodesic dome greenhouse beside the high school.

Among the challenges was determining whether the school’s roof water was suitable for watering.

Then, there was the job of getting the necessary approval.

Lamb was joined by other club members, community volunteers and Red Deer’s Scott Irrigation on Saturday to set up the system and connect up the network of water lines, feeder hoses and emitters.

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The project looks like it’s off to a good start, but Lamb is already thinking bigger.

“I felt really good to put it in today and I was excited,” she said. “But expanding this to a bigger crop or with livestock and tying it all in together as a sustainability system I thought would be really great.”

Watershed Alliance outreach assistant Jenna Szuch said competition judges were impressed by the amount of work that went into the project and its RED DEER WEATHER

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Avy Lamb, a Grade 10 student at Lacombe Composite High School, works on a drip irrigation system to keep the school’s plants watered. Lamb and Grade 10 student Rachael Reitsma, are both members of the school’s EcoVision Club. They recently took second place out of nearly 170 entries with their irrigation project in the Caring for our Watershed environmental competition.

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use of technology, such as the irrigation control app, to meet the challenge of water conservation.

Science teacher Steven Schultz said the project involved the efforts of students from an agriculture class, EcoVision and the community-led Friends of the Greenhouse — more than 40 people in all.

This project, like the many other environmental initiatives students have led at the school in the last few years, shows the “power of student dreams” when they are given a little support.

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Conservatives take stock

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — As former Tory cabinet minister Peter MacKay stood at the entrance to his party’s policy convention in Vancouver on Saturday, a fellow party member ambled past.

“Good to see you Peter,” he said, “we’re waiting for you!”

MacKay laughed but didn’t answer — a response not uncommon in Vancouver these last few days as those considering a run for the Conservative leadership were pressed again and again on when they might make up their minds to run or not.

By the rules of the race, they have until the end of February to formally file the papers but the party is trying to force the issue.

Leadership debates organized by the party were supposed to begin in the fall, but some are pushing to hold them sooner in order to prompt candidates to make up their mind.

One of the factors for the party executive is money.

The party needs to amp up its fundraising machine as it begins preparations for the 2019 election, and leadership candidates each pay a $50,000 entrance fee. They’ll also sign up thousands of new members for at least $15 a piece.

But at the same time, leadership candidates are fundraising from the same pool of donors as the party itself, making the fight for dollars competitive.

Making a decision on whether to run is a combination of having enough money, enough volunteers and the ear of the party’s grassroots, said Lisa Raitt, an MP currently thinking about making a bid.

“You have got to get out of Ottawa to truly understand whether or not the brand you put forward is something that Canadians and your membership is interested in,” she said.

“So far, so good.”

The more than 2,000 delegates to the convention had multiple chances over the course of the 2 ½ day convention to see the declared candidates and the maybes in action, from formal onstage panels to hospitality suites in hotels and pubs across the city’s downtown.

Hundreds crowded into a suite of rooms at Vancouver’s Terminal City club Friday night to hobnob with Jason Kenney, the longtime Conservative MP considering a bid for either the federal leadership

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Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu addresses the crowd dressed as the grim reaper at the Conservative Party of Canada convention in Vancouver, Friday, May 27, 2016. or potentially making a play in Alberta to unite the right there.

He says he’ll make up his mind in the coming months. The take-away from the convention for leadership hopefuls is the mood of the party, he said.

“I and some others were expecting this to be a bit of a wake, a funeral reception, and it doesn’t feel like that at all,” he said.

Kenney’s was one of the names bandied about when social conservatives in the party were asked during the convention who’d they support, though that could be in doubt after it emerged he backed a motion to drop the party’s policy defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.

All three of the declared candidates — Kellie Leitch, Michael Chong and Maxime Bernier — sup-

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Conservatives say ‘they do’ to same sex marriage VANCOUVER — Conservatives emerged from a spirited convention Saturday, ties to many of their past policies and politics severed after days of debate that many say is proof that the party is on the rebound.

The party wiped a policy opposing same sex marriage off its books Saturday and adopted another supporting a more permissive approach to marijuana after 2 ½ days of introspection and intense public debate.

“It’s a demonstration of the maturation of our party,” former Tory cabinet minister Peter MacKay said of the marriage resolution.

“We’re clearly recognizing the law, the realities of people’s lives and I’m heartened by the very open transparent way in which we dealt with this issue.”

The vote followed emotional debates in policy workshops Friday and on the floor Saturday with some social conservatives arguing that any lead-

ership candidate who supported it would automatically lose their vote.

That didn’t faze candidate and MP Maxime Bernier, who spoke in favour of the motion from the convention floor.

“It’s about freedom and respect. It’s about us and telling Canadians that you can love who you want and that you can be in love,” he said.

But if party members were listening to former leader Stephen Harper’s speech Thursday night about the need to stay true to Conservative principles of faith, family and community, then they can’t support it, argued Manitoba MP Ted Falk.

“This motion is an attack on our values and principles,” he said.

Harper had addressed the over 2,000 delegates to the convention Thursday night calling on them to remain united on the road to the 2019 election, taking the stage to AC/DC’s Thunderstuck, a song that was a classic for him on his many political campaigns.

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The Ontario premier says she accepts the Opposition party’s apology but suggests a man might not have been treated the same way.

Wynne was a visitor in the Alberta legislature Thursday, at the invitation of Premier Rachel Notley, when Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt launched an attack on her economic management. He called Ontario a fiscal basket case.

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randt contended he’d misread the supporter’s comment and had not intended a personal attack on the premier’s sexual orientation.

“Yes, I accept the apology,” Wynne said Saturday during a session on women in politics at the federal Liberal party’s national convention.

“But, you know, I think it was an interesting confluence of things. There’s a woman premier in Alberta, I’m there as a woman, we’re talking about climate change.

“And I think the attack, the viciousness of the attack, had a particular quality to it. So, I will just say we need to pay attention to that.”

Wynne acknowledged that there are “vicious women in politics” as well but she “suspects” a female politician wouldn’t have launched the same kind of attack.

Fildebrandt, meanwhile, issued a statement Saturday in response to his Wildrose caucus suspension over the Facebook comment.

“My colleagues know that those views do not reflect my own opinion and they recognize that I made an honest mistake.

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ported the motion as well, with Bernier going so far as to speak up from the convention floor in its defence.

Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost told some reporters at the convention that Kenney’s decision to support the motion means Trost himself is now not ruling out his own leadership bid.

But one person whose name was tossed around a lot at the convention is officially out of the race.

A motion to change the rules to allow interim leader Rona Ambrose to run was soundly defeated, to the relief of at least one person. Ambrose’s partner, J.P. Veitch, was spotted on the convention floor Saturday wearing a T-shirt reading “No, she’s not running.”

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Verdict expected for New child benefit could pose pitfalls Canadian in what family calls unjust case for divorced couples

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A verdict is expected this week for a Canadian imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates for nearly two years in what his family and human rights advocates have called an unjust case.

Salim Alaradi had originally been on trial for terrorism charges which were abruptly dropped in March and replaced with two lesser offences.

The man’s oldest daughter says she hopes her father will be declared innocent on Monday and released from prison as he’s done nothing wrong.

Alaradi immigrated to Canada in 1998 from the U.A.E. but returned there in 2007 to run a home appliance business. He was on vacation with his family in Dubai when he was suddenly arrested in August 2014.

Alaradi was among 10 men of Libyan origin detained around the same time — some of them have since been released. When his trial got underway in January, the 48-year-old pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges which relat-

ed to funding, supporting and co-operating with terrorist organizations.

When those charges were dropped, Alaradi was then put on trial for allegedly providing supplies to groups in a foreign country without permission of the U.A.E. government and collecting donations without the government’s permission.

His Canadian lawyer has said Alaradi always admitted he helped raise funds and secure supplies for the new transitional council in Libya after the ouster of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 but has nothing to do with the political situation in the country since increased unrest in 2012.

The U.A.E. was part of the NATO-led coalition that ousted Gadhafi and has taken a keen interest in the country’s future since.

Alaradi’s case has drawn growing international attention since he and his co-accused went on trial.

UN human rights experts have demanded the U.A.E. lease him and his fellow detainees.

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are income tested, meaning the more a family earns, the less they receive in subsidies.

The government says the new benOTTAWA — The Liberal government’s new child benefit could clog efit should lift 300,000 children out of courts with divorced couples fighting poverty in its first year, and provide over how much one spouse must pay more money to nine out of 10 families.

Critics still have questions about in child support when the potentially lucrative payments start landing in whether the new child benefit will just over one month, says Opposition have the same dampening effect on maternal employment rates that the finance critic Lisa Raitt.

The Liberals’ new $23-billion-a- universal child care benefit had as year benefit will replace three differ- women opt to stay home so as not to ent programs on July 1 with one in- earn too much money and lose out on come-tested payment to families each their benefit or on their taxes.

“Officials have said there hasn’t month.

Unlike with the benefits being re- been a lot of analysis done on certain placed — the universal child care ben- measures that the government has imefit and the Canada child tax benefit plemented,” Raitt said.

“Every time you make one change —the government’s budget and associated legislation doesn’t give guid- there is ripple effects across either the economy or the ance about how social cohesion in divorced parents ‘OBVIOUSLY THEY’RE the country and we can split tax deductions, or calcu- GOING TO HAVE A POINT OF just want to know much work lations of spousal VIEW ON WHETHER OR NOT how the Liberals did support payments.

THEY SHOULD BE PAYING around it.”

Raitt said the The issue is problem could afMORE OR LESS CHILD expected to be a fect some 1.2 milSUPPORT AND INSTEAD OF central fixture of lion Canadians.

CLOGGING UP THE COURTS, questioning Mon“Obviously they’re going to THIS GOVERNMENT OWES day when opposition MPs get three have a point of view on whether (IT TO) THEM TO GIVE THEM different chances to grill Finance SOME DIRECTION.’ or not they should Minister Bill Morbe paying more — LISA RAITT neau about his or less child supCONSERVATIVE FINANCE CRITIC first budget, and port and instead government spendof clogging up the courts, this government owes (it to) ing documents. First he will face the them to give them some direction,” daily question period, then go to the Commons’ finance committee, and fiRaitt said in a telephone interview.

“It’s going to affect anybody’s sep- nally face the House of Commons as aration agreements, it’s going to af- a whole in the evening for a detailed fect anyone’s child support orders and grilling in committee-of-the-whole.

The focus is a departure from the there’s silence on it (from the government). I don’t think they’ve figured it months-long war of words over whether the Tories left the Liberals with a out yet.”

The new child benefit will replace surplus and how the government inthe monthly universal child care bene- tends to balance the budget at some fit with an income-tested payment that point in the future.

The Finance Department said last will start at $6,400 a year for a child five and under, and $5,400 a year for week that preliminary estimates show children six to 17. Only those families a deficit of $2 billion for the fiscal year earning less than $30,000 a year will re- ending March 31, not including yearceive the full amount the government end adjustments and a $3.7-billion commitment to benefits for veterans. will reduce payments as incomes rise.

The government has been negoti- The Liberals argue the numbers supating agreements with provinces to port their view that the Tories left the ensure the new benefit wouldn’t ad- books in the red the Tories say the versely affect those receiving provin- Liberals squandered the surplus left cial social assistance. Those subsidies behind.

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PM insists contentious bill must pass by June 6

Rae finds PM praise for Harper hard to swallow

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WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is keeping up the pressure on parliamentarians to pass his government’s controversial legislation on assisted dying by June 6.

But two of his predecessors at the Liberal helm — former prime minister Paul Martin and former interim leader Bob Rae — say there’ll be no cataclysmic result if the deadline is not met.

June 6 is the date on which the ban on medical assistance in dying will be formally lifted in Canada.

That’s in accordance with last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the ban but suspended the ruling until June 6 to give Parliament time to craft a new law.

Trudeau’s government has been scrambling to get its proposed legislation enacted in time to meet that deadline but is quickly running out of time.

Bill C-14 is scheduled for a final vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday, after which it will be sent to the Senate, where the government has no control over the more independent senators and no levers to speed passage of the bill.

Few senators have shown any inclination to rush the bill through all stages of the legislative process in the two sitting days that will be left to the upper house before the deadline.

Trudeau acknowledged Saturday that he wants the Senate to conduct itself in a more independent and less partisan manner. But he said that doesn’t preclude senators from acting with haste on the bill to avoid a legal void after June 6.

“I have confidence that the more independent and thoughtful Senate is going to do right by the responsibilities that Canadians expect it to,” he told a news conference wrapping up a three-day Liberal policy convention.

If there is no law in place by June 6, Trudeau said many medical practitioners have told him they won’t help

patients who should be eligible for an assisted death because they’ll be “concerned that there isn’t any legal framework or protection for them.”

At the same time, he said some doctors might be “too enthusiastic” and will help patients who shouldn’t be eligible for an assisted death.

Trudeau did not mention that medical regulators in every province have already issued guidelines instructing physicians how to go about providing assistance in dying. Those guidelines impose safeguards similar to — and in some cases, even stronger than — those proposed in C-14.

Nor did he mention that the eligibility criteria spelled out by the Supreme Court in last year’s ruling will apply.

For Rae, those two factors are sufficient to ward against chaos should the deadline be missed.

“My view is, the provinces are more than ready and (have) the constitutional responsibility to regulate the medical profession and have done and will continue to do so,” Rae said in an interview.

“Obviously, if Parliament can come to a conclusion before (June 6), that’s fine but if they can’t there’s more than adequate legal structure in the country to deal with that reality.”

Martin similarly saw no rush. Indeed, he argued that it’s more important to take the time to get the legislation right.

“It is a very difficult subject on both sides for many of us and I think that the more we can debate it, the better it is,” Martin said during a break at the convention on Thursday.

He said it’s “important that we get it right and that we don’t be bound by arbitrary timelines.”

Bill C-14 would make assisted death available only for clearly consenting adults “in an advanced stage of irreversible decline” from a serious and incurable disease, illness or disability.

WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered rare praise Saturday for Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper but at least one Liberal elder statesman found it a bit hard to swallow.

Bob Rae was caught on video sticking two fingers in his mouth, pretending to gag.

The former interim Liberal leader later refused to comment on his gesture, which was caught on video by a reporter for The Canadian Press.

However later he posted an apology on Twitter calling it “a joke in poor taste that I regret very much.”

The video, posted on Twitter, quickly made the rounds at the Liberal national convention, provoking both hilarity and consternation.

Rae’s gag reflex was stimulated during a speech by Trudeau to the convention, the first such gathering since the Liberals defeated Harper’s Conservatives in last fall’s election.

After taking a few pokes at the Tories, who were simultaneously holding their own convention in Vancouver, Trudeau turned serious.

“We need to remember that even though they may be our opponents, they’re not our enemies. They’re our neighbours and our friends,” he said.

“So, I want to take a moment. You see, there are only a handful of people

alive who know what it’s like to do this job … And I can tell you, even if you weren’t a fan of his politics, there can be no doubting Stephen Harper’s commitment to our country.”

Trudeau asked Liberals to join him in thanking Harper, who has let it be known he will retire from politics over the summer, for “his many years of public service.”

Trudeau, the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, said he’s among the few who know first hand that it’s not easy to be part of a prime minister’s family. So he also thanked Harper’s wife, Laureen, and his children, Ben and Rachel, for “standing with him through thick and thin.”

Trudeau was not all sweetness and light when it came to the Conservatives, however.

He also noted that the Tories had been debating at their convention whether to delete the party’s policy on marriage being the union between one man and one woman.

“Among other things, they’re debating the merits of marriage equality.

In 2016. More than a decade after we made same-sex marriage legal in Canada,” Trudeau said to gales of laughter.

“Well, better late than never, right?

Who knows, ten years from now they might finally be willing to admit that climate change is real.

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No word on Vickers’ discipline, if any WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t say whether Canada’s ambassador to Ireland — who thwarted a gunman on Parliament Hill two years ago — will be disciplined after tackling a protester at a commemoration event last week.

Kevin Vickers, the former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms, tackled protester Brian Murphy at a Dublin ceremony. It raised eyebrows in security and diplomacy circles. Vickers was appointed Canada’s ambassador to Ireland after being hailed as a hero for his role in shooting and killing an armed assailant inside Parliament.

At the Liberal party convention in Winnipeg, Trudeau wouldn’t answer when asked by a reporter whether he would recall Vickers but did not defend his actions.

“It’s always easy to second-guess choices people make in emergency or unexpected situations,” Trudeau told reporters Saturday. “Canadians expect our diplomats abroad to do the right thing, to represent us well. We’re a country of people who believe in helping out and being

part of the solutions, not part of the problems.

“That’s the perspective I take on this particular issue.”

The incident occurred at a ceremony to remember British soldiers killed in the 1916 Easter Rising, which also claimed the lives of some 450 Irish republicans.

A spokesperson for Ireland’s foreign affairs minister said a protester was disrupting the ceremony when “Ambassador Vickers reacted instinctively to prevent the individual’s encroachment.” Video from the event shows Vickers tackling the man and struggling with him before leading him away.

Vickers then returned to the ceremony while Murphy was arrested by police.

Murphy, the manager of a youth and community centre in Dublin, told The Canadian Press he was not a threat but appreciated how the international incident raised awareness about Irish republicanism.

The Irish Republican Prisoner Welfare Association, which Murphy belongs to, demanded an apology from the Canadian government and the “immediate removal” of Vickers as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland.

“Not only did Mr. Vickers interfere with the right of an Irish citizen to peacefully protest in his own country he undermined the role of the Irish state and the Garda (police) authority to deal with such protests,” the association said last week.

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PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A inmate who founded the Indian Posse street gang with his brother has died after being found in need of medical attention in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan prison.

The Correctional Service of Canada says that Richard Daniel Wolfe, 40, was taken on Friday from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A news release from the agency says the circumstances of the incident are being investigated, but offers no further details on what happened.

Wolfe was most recently sentenced in Jan-

uary to five years for an attack and sex assault on a couple in Fort Qu’Appelle in 2014, which happened while he was on statutory release from a nearly 20-year sentence for attempted murder.

Wolfe was the brother of Daniel Wolfe, who was killed during a brawl at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary on Jan. 4, 2010, while he was serving time for a double murder.

The brothers founded the Indian Posse gang.

Richard Wolfe told the Winnipeg Free Press that the gang was started in the basement of his mother’s home.

He said there were five kids that night in 1989 — urban aboriginals, poor and from broken families, with abusive backgrounds and abuse problems.

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Long road to Cup final ends PENGUINS AND SHARKS GET READY TO FACE OFF TONIGHT

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After a big gain, Central Alberta Buccaneer Andrew Stanix is dragged down by a Grande Prairie Driller defender in Saturday’s game at the M.E. Global Field in Lacombe. Despite the play, the Buccaneers controlled most of the game with a 50-14 romp.

Buccaneers blast Drillers

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Buccaneers 50 Drillers 14 Having earned a reputation for a tough defence, the Central Alberta Buccaneers had a chance to show off their offensive additions.

The Bucs jumped out to a 28-0 lead in the first quarter on the visiting Grande Prairie Drillers and never looked back. It ended in a 50-14 romp for the Bucs at the M.E. Global field in Lacombe Saturday evening.

“It was nice to see the offence get hot and score some points out of the gate early,” said Bucs head coach Devon Hand. “Normally we’re a defensive minded team. I think when the defence put up the points early, the defence eased back a little bit and put in cruise control.

“But overall, scoring points is a positive thing. Grande Prairie is always a tough team that plays physical and hits hard. It’s a nice way to start the year, for sure.”

Two additions to the roster sparked the offensive outburst, lead by quarterback Brandon Leyh.

“He’s a great guy that’s going to put us over the top,” said Hand. “In the past we’ve had issues with that, the quarterback position and on offence.

We had to make sure we got the right kind of guy to get us over the top and Brandon tonight showed us he can be that guy.”

Leyh started his first Alberta Football League game Saturday evening after completing a four-year career with the Mount Allison Mounties in Canadian Interuniversity Sports.

But every good quarterback has a guy he can rely on to make plays when he throws the ball to him. On Saturday, that guy was Jamal Henry. Henry, a Concordia Stingers alumnus made several jukes and moves that left Drillers defencemen tackling air.

“It’s the same story, just a different position,” said Hand. “We’ve been known as a defensive team for so long and the rest of the league sees us as that. We made a lot of effort to focus on

offence and get guys that fit.”

Play was delayed in the first half for an injured Driller who was put on a spineboard and taken by ambulance to hospital.

The Buccaneers next face the Fort McMurray Monarchs, consistently one of the AFL’s top teams. Due to the wildfire that forced a massive evacuation in that community, the Monarchs will host their home games in Spruce Grove.

Last season the Monarchs ousted the Bucs from playoff contention in the semifinal.

Hand said the Monarchs and Calgary Gators have been a step above the rest of the league, and the offseason recruitment was made to help the Bucs challenge those two teams.

“Fort McMurray is obviously playing supremely motivated,” he said.

“They have a deep team, an excellent coach and they’ll be ready to play us for sure.

“They’re a heck of a football team and we’ll have our hands full.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Rossi pulls off stunning upset in 100th Indy 500

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — A new era for the Indianapolis 500 arrived in the form of a most unfamiliar driver.

An American, no less.

Alexander Rossi outlasted his faster rivals — and his fuel tank — for a stunning victory Sunday in the historic 100th running of “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing.” The unlikely win allowed the long-suffering Andretti family to celebrate in the biggest race of their storied careers and it left the top drivers in the field fuming over Rossi’s good fortune.

Rossi was a 66-to-1 long shot and certainly not the driver anyone would have picked to win. But the 24-year-old Californian used fuel strategy to outsmart a handful of drivers who had the most dominant cars in the race.

James Hinchcliffe, of Oakville, Ont., faded to seventh despite being one of the best cars in the field. The Canadian was the polesitter and missed this race last year after a near-fatal accident in a practice session. Veteran Alex Tagliani of Lachenaie, Que., was 17th.

Rossi stretched his final tank of gas 90 miles to cycle into the lead as others had to duck into the pits for a splash of fuel in the waning laps. He was sputtering on the final lap, working his clutch and getting screamed at by team co-owner Bryan Herta to conserve fuel, and he ultimately ran out of gas after taking the checkered flag.

His victory celebration came only after his Honda was towed to the party.

He sat in the car for some time before climbing out to take that sweet sip of milk.

“I have no idea how we pulled that off,” he declared.

“I really was focused on taking it one lap at a time,” Rossi said. “The emotional roller-coaster of this race is ridiculous. There were moments I was really stoked, really heartbroken, really stoked. I was like, ‘Wow, I’ll need to see a psychiatrist after this.”’

Rossi didn’t have the speed of Carlos Munoz, who was charging hard over the final 50 miles. But Munoz also had to stop for gas and didn’t have a chance to race his teammate for the victory, even though Rossi was running on fumes and completed the final lap at a snail’s pace of 179.784 mph.

The Colombian settled for second

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Alexander Rossi, center, celebrates after winning the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday. in a 1-2 finish for Andretti Autosport.

He seemed devastated after his second runner-up finish in four years.

“I was really disappointed when it comes with fuel and you lose the race because of that,” Munoz said. “I was really disappointed to get second. Half a lap short. What can I say? The only thing I’m clear about is that I will win this race one day.”

Munoz has contended at Indy before and he’s proven to be fast at the speedway.

Rossi? Well, not many know much about him at all.

He’s an IndyCar rookie who has chased a ride in Formula One since he was 10. He left for Europe when he was 16 and never pursued a career in American open-wheel racing. But stuck without a ride this year, he made the decision to return to the United States to race and became the ninth rookie to win the 500 and the first since Helio Castroneves in 2001.

Rossi understood full well that it was strategy that got him this win, and he knows what an Indy 500 victory

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means.

“I have no doubt it’s going to change my life,” he said.

Although he’s a relief driver for Manor Racing in F1, Rossi has no scheduled F1 races and IndyCar right now is his top commitment. He was lured back to America this year to drive for Herta in a partnership with Andretti Autosport. Herta was the winning car owner in 2011 with Dan Wheldon, the actual 100th anniversary of the first race in 1911, and now can claim a win in the 100th actual race.

“I can’t compare (the wins) other than to say I am so happy,” Herta said. ” I can’t overstate how hard it was for Alex to do what I was asking of him on the radio.”

This Herta effort relied heavily on its alliance with Andretti, and the family was hoping Marco Andretti would give them their first Indy 500 title since patriarch Mario Andretti won in 1969. Instead, Marco Andretti never contended on a day at least three of his teammates were clearly among the best in the field.

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PITTSBURGH — It wasn’t supposed to take the San Jose Sharks this long to reach their first Stanley Cup Final.

It wasn’t supposed to take this long for Sidney Crosby to guide the Pittsburgh Penguins back to a destination many figured they’d become a fixture at after winning it all in 2009.

Not that either side is complaining.

Certainly not the Sharks, whose nearly quarter-century wait to play on the NHL’s biggest stage will finally end Monday night when the puck drops for Game 1. Certainly not Crosby, who raised the Cup after beating Detroit seven years ago but has spent a significant portion of the interim dealing with concussions that threatened to derail his career and fending off criticism as the thoughtful captain of a team whose explosiveness during the regular season too often failed to translate into regular mid-June parade through the heart of the city.

Maybe the Penguins should have returned to the Cup Final before now.

The fact they didn’t makes the bumpy path the franchise and its superstar captain took to get here seem worth it.

“I think I appreciated it prior to going through some of those things,” Crosby said. “I think now having gone through those things I definitely appreciate it more. I think I realize how tough it is to get to this point.”

It’s a sentiment not lost on the Sharks, who became one of the NHL’s most consistent winners shortly after coming into the league in 1991. Yet spring after spring, optimism would morph into disappointment. The nadir came in 2014, when a 3-0 lead over Los Angeles in the first round somehow turned into a 4-3 loss. The collapse sent the Sharks into a spiral that took a full year to recover from, one that in some ways sowed the seeds for a breakthrough more than two decades in the making.

General manager Doug Wilson tweaked the roster around fixtures Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton, who remained hopeful San Jose’s window for success hadn’t shut completely even as the post-season meltdowns piled up.

“I always believed that next year was going to be the year, I really did,” Thornton said. “I always thought we were a couple pieces away. Even last year not making the playoffs, I honestly thought we were a couple pieces away, and here we are.”

The Penguins, like the Sharks, are a study in near instant alchemy. General manager Jim Rutherford rebuilt the team on the fly after taking over in June, 2014 and with the team sleepwalking last December, fired respected-but-hardly-charismatic Mike Johnston and replaced him with the decidedly harder-edged Mike Sullivan. The results were nearly instantaneous.

Freed to play to its strengths instead of guarding against its weaknesses, Pittsburgh rocketed through the second half of the season and showed the resilience it has sometimes lacked during Crosby’s tenure by rallying from a 3-2 deficit against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference finals, dominating Games 6 and 7 to finally earn a shot at bookending the Cup that was supposed to give birth to a dynasty but instead led to years of frustration.

True catharsis for one side is four wins away. Some things to look for over the next two weeks of what promises to be an entertaining final.

FRESH FACES: When the season began, Matt Murray was in the minor leagues. Now the 22-year-old who was supposed to be Pittsburgh’s goalie of the future is now very much the goalie of the present. Pressed into action when veteran Marc-Andre Fleury suffered a concussion on March 31, Murray held onto the job even after Fleury returned by playing with the steady hand of a guy in his 10th post-season, not his first. San Jose counterpart Martin Jones served as Jonathan Quick’s backup when the Kings won it all in 2014 and has thrived while playing behind a defence that sometimes doesn’t give him much to do. Jones has faced over 30 shots just four times during the playoffs.

“HBK” IS H-O-T: Pittsburgh’s best line during the playoffs isn’t the one centred by Crosby or Malkin but Nick Bonino, who has teamed with Phil Kessel and Carl Hagelin to produce 17 goals and 28 assists in 18 games. Put together when Malkin missed six weeks with an elbow injury, the trio has given the Penguins the balance they desperately needed after years of being too reliant on their stars for production.

POWERFUL SHARKS: San Jose’s brilliant run to the Finals has been spearheaded by a power play that is converting on 27 per cent (17 of 63) of its chances during the playoffs.

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Local Sports Tuesday

● Ladies Fastball: Badgers vs. Stettler and Bandits vs. Panthers, 7 p.m., Panthers vs. U18 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: St. Albert Tigers at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Wednesday

● High School Sports: Grade 9 track and field meet, Lindsay Thurber, 10 a.m.

Thursday

● Ladies Fastball: U16 Rage vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., and Bandits vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park and Badgers vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Stettler ● Midget Baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Red vs. Red Deer Midget Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park

Hockey Friday

● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Junior B Fort Saskatchewan Rebels at Red Deer Rampage, 8:30 p.m., Kinex

Saturday

● Rugby: Irish women’s team vs. Red Deer Titans, 1:30 p.m., Titan’s rugby field ● Bantam Baseball: South Jasper Place Jays vs. Red Deer Braves, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., Great Chief Park

Sunday

● Bantam Baseball: South Jasper Place Jays vs. Red Deer Braves, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget Baseball: Calgary Rockies vs. Red Deer Braves, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Senior ladies Sherwood Park Titans vs. Red Deer Rage, 2:30 p.m. and Junior B Sherwood Park Titans vs. Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2) (Cleveland wins series 4-2) Friday’s result Cleveland 113 Toronto 87 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Series tied 3-3) Saturday’s result Golden State 108 Oklahoma City 101 Thursday’s result Golden State 120 Oklahoma City 111 Monday, May 30 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Fourth Round NBA FINAL (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) Thursday, June 2 Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 5

Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Friday, June 10 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 13 Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 16 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 19 Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Cleveland (E1) vs. Oklahoma City (W3) Thursday, June 2 Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 5 Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8 Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Friday, June 10 Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 13 Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 16 Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 19 Oklahoma City at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Matt Hill Byron Meth

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (M2) vs. Tampa Bay (A2) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-3) WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (C2) vs. San Jose (P3) (San Jose wins series 4-2) Fourth Round STANLEY CUP FINAL Pittsburgh (E2) vs. San Jose (W6) (Best-of-7) Monday’s game San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s game San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Saturday, June 4 Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 6 Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 9 San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Sunday, June 12 Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 15 San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

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NHL Stanley Cup Champions x — Strike-shortened regular season. y — Series between Montreal and Seattle cancelled due to influenza epidemic.

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1917-18 — Toronto Arenas

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Baseball

Golf PGA-Colonial Sunday At Colonial Country Club Fort Worth, Texas Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,166 Par: 70 Final Jordan Spieth, $1,206,000 Harris English, $723,600 Ryan Palmer, $388,600 Webb Simpson, $388,600 Kyle Reifers, $268,000 Jason Dufner, $216,913 Matt Kuchar, $216,913 Anirban Lahiri, $216,913 Martin Piller, $216,913 Chad Campbell, $167,500 Kevin Kisner, $167,500 Bryce Molder, $167,500 Marc Leishman, $134,000 Chris Stroud, $134,000 Chris Kirk, $117,250 Patrick Reed, $117,250 David Hearn, $93,800 Tom Hoge, $93,800 Zach Johnson, $93,800 Troy Merritt, $93,800 Brandt Snedeker, $93,800 Steven Bowditch, $69,680 Adam Hadwin, $69,680 Danny Lee, $69,680 Tyler Aldridge, $53,433 Brian Harman, $53,433 Charl Schwartzel, $53,433 David Toms, $53,433 Ben Crane, $43,550 Jim Herman, $43,550 Tim Herron, $43,550 Ben Martin, $43,550 Jimmy Walker, $43,550 Blayne Barber, $32,411 Jason Bohn, $32,411 Chad Collins, $32,411 Tony Finau, $32,411 Sean O’Hair, $32,411 Vijay Singh, $32,411 Shawn Stefani, $32,411 Johnson Wagner, $32,411

John Carlson, Wash Patrick Marleau, SJ Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Joel Ward, SJ John Tavares, NYI Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Nicklas Backstrom,Wash Marc-Edouard Vlasic, SJ

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

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LPGA-Volvik Championship Sunday At Travis Pointe CC Ann Arbor, Mich.

Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,709 Par: 72 Final Ariya Jutanugarn, $195,000 Christina Kim, $118,120 Brooke Henderson, $75,987 Jessica Korda, $75,987 Belen Mozo, $53,353 Lexi Thompson, $35,245 Azahara Munoz, $35,245 Marina Alex, $35,245 Hyo Joo Kim, $35,245 Angela Stanford, $26,191 Brittany Altomare, $21,354 In Gee Chun, $21,354 Sadena A Parks, $21,354 Lindy Duncan, $21,354 Gaby Lopez, $21,354 Sei Young Kim, $16,491 Jennifer Song, $16,491 Mariajo Uribe, $16,491 Lydia Ko, $16,491 Ryann O’Toole, $13,350 Charley Hull, $13,350 Min Lee, $13,350 Amy Yang, $13,350 Minjee Lee, $13,350 So Yeon Ryu, $13,350 Suzann Pettersen, $13,350

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PGA Champions-Senior PGA Championship Sunday At Harbor Shores Benton Harbor, Mich.

Purse:, $2.8 million Yardage: 6,852 Par: 71 Final Rocco Mediate, $504,000 62-66-71-66—265 Colin Montgomerie, $302,000 67-66-68-67—268 Bernhard Langer, $161,000 69-64-71-67—271 Brandt Jobe, $161,000 67-67-69-68—271 Tommy Armour, III, $98,500 70-66-70-66—272 Billy Andrade, $98,500 70-68-67-67—272 Scott Parel, $72,200 69-71-67-66—273 Scott McCarron, $72,200 69-65-70-69—273 David Frost, $72,200 68-69-67-69—273 Kirk Triplett, $72,200 65-69-69-70—273 John DalCorobbo, $72,200 65-68-69-71—273 Rod Spittle, $58,000 69-65-71-69—274 Tom Byrum, $58,000 70-66-69-69—274 Mark O’Meara, $50,500 67-70-71-67—275 Gene Sauers, $50,500 63-69-73-70—275 Larry Mize, $43,000 68-72-67-69—276 Olin Browne, $43,000 66-69-69-72—276 Tom Lehman, $43,000 69-65-69-73—276 Glen Day, $35,000 69-68-73-67—277 Kiyoshi Murota, $35,000 72-70-66-69—277 Kevin Sutherland, $35,000 67-69-70-71—277 Joey Sindelar, $26,833 70-70-69-69—278 Mike Goodes, $26,833 64-72-73-69—278 Fran Quinn, $26,833 70-70-69-69—278 Kenny Perry, $26,833 65-71-72-70—278 Scott Verplank, $26,833 67-70-70-71—278 J.R. Roth, $26,833 67-67-71-73—278

JUNIOR GOLF DRAYTON VALLEY — Starting off the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour with a win is exactly what Sam Hamelin wanted.

The 15-year-old out of Stettler shot a two-over par, 73 at the Drayton Valley Junior Open on Saturday to win the tour’s opening event.

Hamelin, whose home course is Pheasentback, was one stroke ahead of Logan Hill, of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, for the win. Hill led all junior golfers (born from 1997 to 1999) and qualified, along with Hamelin, for the tour championship on Aug. 29 at Wolf Creek Golf Resort in Ponoka.

In third place with a 77, Jayden McConnell also had a strong round on his home course.

The tour now has three weeks off until its next event, scheduled for June 18-19 at Henderson Lake in Lethbridge.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Rams 5 Lightning 3 Despite a hat trick from Kristen Laney, the Hunting Hills Lightning fell short of the five goals put up by the Lacombe Rams, losing 5-3.

Laney had all the goal scoring for the Lightning, while five different goal scorers combined for the Rams win.

Chelsea Kenny, Michaela Rietsma, Kaitlin Swartz, Maddy Kendall and Heidi Giles all potted goals and put the Rams over the top in Central Alberta High School Soccer action.

Lakers 2 Rams 2 On the boys side, the H.J. Cody Lakers and Lacombe Rams played to a 2-2 tie.

Scoring for the Lakers was Tristen Koller and Dagan Slimmon.

The Rams found their goals from Marcel Schlak and Gabriel Capettini.

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Boston 30 20 .600 Baltimore 28 20 .583 Toronto 26 26 .500 New York 24 25 .490 Tampa Bay 22 26 .458 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 27 22 .551 Cleveland 26 22 .542 Chicago 27 24 .529 Detroit 24 25 .490 Minnesota 15 34 .306 West Division W L Pct Texas 29 21 .580 Seattle 28 21 .571 Los Angeles 22 28 .440 Oakland 22 29 .431 Houston 22 29 .431

GB — 1 5 5 1/2 7 GB — 1/2 1 3 12 GB — 1/2 7 7 1/2 7 1/2

Saturday’s Games Toronto 10, Boston 9 Kansas City 8, Chicago White Sox 7 Oakland 12, Detroit 3 Cleveland 11, Baltimore 4 Tampa Bay 9, N.Y. Yankees 5 Texas 5, Pittsburgh 2 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 2 Minnesota 6, Seattle 5 Sunday’s Games Boston 5, Toronto 3, 11 innings Baltimore 6, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Texas 6, Pittsburgh 2 Houston 8, L.A. Angels 6, 13 innings Oakland 4, Detroit 2 Minnesota 5, Seattle 4

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Bogaerts Bos 49 208 42 73 .351 VMartinez Det 48 171 20 60 .351 Ortiz Bos 44 168 25 57 .339 Nunez Min 40 151 21 51 .338 Bradley Jr. Bos 49 174 27 58 .333 Castellanos Det 47 175 24 57 .326 Altuve Hou 51 201 39 65 .323 Reddick Oak 41 146 21 47 .322 Machado Bal 48 194 38 62 .320 Hosmer KC 49 188 27 60 .319 Home Runs Cano, Seattle, 15 Frazier, Chicago, 15 Trumbo, Baltimore, 15 KDavis, Oakland, 14 Ortiz, Boston, 13 Machado, Baltimore, 13 Donaldson, Toronto, 13 Beltran, New York, 12 6 tied at 11.

Runs Batted In Ortiz, Boston, 46 Cano, Seattle, 44 Encarnacion, Toronto, 38 Trout, Los Angeles, 37 Trumbo, Baltimore, 37 Bautista, Toronto, 37 Bradley Jr., Boston, 36 5 tied at 35.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 9-1 Hill, Oakland, 8-3 Tomlin, Cleveland, 7-0 Tillman, Baltimore, 7-1 Price, Boston, 7-1 Porcello, Boston, 7-2 Zimmermann, Detroit, 7-2 Latos, Chicago, 6-1 3 tied at 6-2.

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-4) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 3-7), 11:10 a.m.

Boston (Wright 4-4) at Baltimore (Wilson 2-3), 11:35 a.m.

Minnesota (Santana 1-3) at Oakland (Graveman 1-6), 2:05 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-4) at Arizona (Escobar 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 2-4) at Seattle (Karns 4-1), 2:10 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 4-0) at Cleveland (Tomlin 7-0), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Nova 3-2) at Toronto (Estrada 2-2), 5:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Andriese 3-0) at Kansas City (Kennedy 4-3), 6:15 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 4-4) at L.A. Angels (Chacin 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Houston at Arizona, 1:40 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Texas at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Boston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Diego

National League East Division W L Pct 30 21 .588 28 21 .571 26 24 .520 26 24 .520 14 35 .286 Central Division W L Pct 34 14 .708 28 21 .571 26 25 .510 23 27 .460 16 34 .320 West Division W L Pct 32 20 .615 27 24 .529 23 26 .469 23 29 .442 20 31 .392

GB — 1 3 1/2 3 1/2 15

Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4 Chicago Cubs 7, Philadelphia 2 Texas 6, Pittsburgh 2 Arizona 6, San Diego 3 San Francisco 8, Colorado 3 Miami 7, Atlanta 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, N.Y. Mets 2 Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-4) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 3-7), 11:10 a.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 7-2) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 1-2), 11:10 a.m.

St. Louis (Martinez 4-5) at Milwaukee (Guerra 3-0), 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Straily 2-2) at Colorado (Bettis 4-3), 2:10 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-4) at Arizona (Escobar 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 2-4) at Seattle (Karns 4-1), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wood 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 6-1), 3:05 p.m.

Washington (Roark 3-4) at Philadelphia (Hellickson 4-3), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 3-3) at Miami (Nicolino 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Houston at Arizona, 1:40 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Murphy Was 49 186 27 72 .387 Braun Mil 41 151 23 53 .351 Zobrist ChC 46 168 36 59 .351 Ozuna Mia 49 189 34 65 .344 Prado Mia 46 184 16 60 .326 ADiaz StL 48 167 34 54 .323 Piscotty StL 49 192 34 62 .323 Harrison Pit 45 162 19 52 .321 Marte Pit 46 187 26 60 .321 Herrera Phi 49 178 28 57 .320 Home Runs Cespedes, New York, 15 Arenado, Colorado, 14 Story, Colorado, 14 Harper, Washington, 13 Carter, Milwaukee, 13 Stanton, Miami, 12 Kemp, San Diego, 12 4 tied at 11.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 39 Bryant, Chicago, 37 Cespedes, New York, 36 Story, Colorado, 36 Pence, San Francisco, 36 Rizzo, Chicago, 36 Zobrist, Chicago, 35 Harper, Washington, 34 Carpenter, St. Louis, 33 2 tied at 32.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 9-0 Strasburg, Washington, 9-0 Cueto, San Francisco, 8-1 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 7-1 Matz, New York, 7-1 Samardzija, San Francisco, 7-2 Fernandez, Miami, 7-2 Hammel, Chicago, 6-1 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 6-2 2 tied at 6-3.

GB — 6 1/2 9 1/2 12 19 GB — 4 1/2 7 1/2 9 11 1/2

Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 7, Miami 2 Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 6 San Francisco 10, Colorado 5 L.A. Dodgers 9, N.Y. Mets 1 St. Louis 9, Washington 4 Texas 5, Pittsburgh 2 Arizona 8, San Diego 7 Sunday’s Games Washington 10, St. Louis 2

Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHP Carlos Carrasco to Akron (EL) for a rehab assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Steven Moya to Toledo (IL). Recalled LHP Matt Boyd from Toledo.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned RHP Peter Moylan to Omaha (PCL). Recalled C Tony Cruz from Omaha.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Transferred RHP Evan

Scribner to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Traded INF Patrick Kivlehan to Seattle for a player to be named or cash.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Dominic Leone to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Archie Bradley from Reno.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Jim Johnson to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent OF Alex Guerrero to Oklahoma City (PCL) for a rehab as-

signment.

NEW YORK METS — Activated INF Wilmer Flores from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed RHP Cesar Vargas on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Leonel Campos from El Paso (PCL).

HOCKEY ECHL HERSHEY BEARS — Recalled D Joey Leach from South Carolina (ECHL).

BoSox down Jays in extra innings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Red Sox 5 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays were staying positive following a 5-3 extra innings loss to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.

Dustin Pedroia’s 11th inning ground-rule double helped Boston (30-20) avoid a series sweep and snap a three-game losing skid. Toronto (26-26) had won four straight and five of six prior to the loss.

“You keep winning series throughout the year, you’re going to end up where you want to be,” said Blue Jays starter R.A. Dickey.

“I don’t think anybody in here is discouraged. We had a great win last night. Today we had a chance at another great win, just couldn’t push one across when we had to.

“We’re on the right path. We still haven’t hit our stride, I don’t think, in the least.”

Pedroia scored Blake Swihart from third for the go-ahead run with runners on the corner. Xander Bogaerts followed it up with a ground out to second that scored Mookie Betts.

Clay Buchholz (3-5), who was making his first relief appearance since Aug. 17, 2008, which also came against the Blue Jays, pitched a scoreless inning for the win. Koji Uehara picked up his first save of the season.

“They (Buchholz and Uehara) did a heck of a job,” said Red Sox

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis gets back to first base safely under the tag of Boston Red Sox first baseman Travis Shaw during fourth inning action in Toronto on Sunday. manager John Farrell. “On the heels of two really tough days up here I thought we battled back, took the lead, gave it up and kept coming. I couldn’t be more proud with the energy and effort that guys find at some point during the game.”

Gavin Floyd (2-4) surrendered two earned runs in a third of an inning for the loss.

Toronto erased a 3-2 deficit on Edwin Encarnacion’s 11th home run of the season in the eighth inning. The designated hitter took Heath Hembree’s 1-0 pitch to the second deck in left field tying the game 3-3. Jose Bautista got the Blue Jays on the board in the fifth when he hit a two-run home run off David Price that smacked the top of the foul pole in left field.

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, May 30, 2016

McDermott brings crowd to its feet With his resonant tenor voice and gift as a storyteller, John McDermott took nearly 400 Central Alberta fans back through the mists of time Friday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

At times, his nostalgic tales dwelt on his boyhood in Toronto in the mid 1960s. McDermott, whose family had immigrated to Canada from Scotland when he was 10, remembered having no shower curtains in the tiny space that became a new home to him, his parents, and 11 siblings.

But with all of his sisters’ stockings hanging over the shower rod — there was no need for curtains, he quipped, getting a big laugh from the older audience.

At other times, his tales and tunes took fans much further back in history.

He spoke of the Battle of Culloden, fought by the Scottish and English in 1745. The traditional song Loch Lomond was introduced as being about two Scottish soldiers who were being held prisoner by the English.

One would be freed to take the “high road” back home, said McDermott, while the other would be executed, freeing his spirit to take the “low road.”

In this context, his haunting performance of the tune — accompanied by talented Toronto musicians, Maury LaFoy on upright bass, and guitarist Jason

LANA MICHELIN REVIEW Fowler — was practically shiver-inducing.

McDermott also gave sensitive treatment to the favourite hymn, You Raise Me Up, as well as to The Rare Ould Times, a bittersweet song about change from his latest album, Raised on Songs and Stories.

Fans sang along with him on My Bonnie, and got a musical history lesson on the origins of Streets of Larado. McDermott said the cowboy song was actually created from an old melody that had also spawned the Irish ballad, The Bard of Armagh, which is thought to be written by Patrick Donnelly (a.k.a Phelim Brady), in the late 1600s.

He delivered a riveting performance of it, to enthusiastic applause.

Also memorable was his rendition of Ron Hynes’s excellent No Change in Me. The heart-tugging tune is about Newfoundlanders who were forced to pull up stakes when the fishing dried up. “We’ve no choice

but to leave… Cant’ eat the air, can’t drink the sea,” sang McDermott, who knows firsthand about starting over.

The 61-year-old former newspaper circulation worker, who began his successful singing career in the early 1990s, sat perched on a stool at centre stage for most of the concert. Beside him were his father’s hat and cane, and one of his mother’s scarves — a visual tribute to his late parents.

Through various intros and his renditions of Leezie Lindsay, Mary of Argyle, The Loch Tay Boat Song, and other songs, McDermott showed his easy way with Celtic melodies — and his affable relationship with fans.

Most audience members were met by McDermott on their way in to the auditorium before the concert.

And their hands were once again shaken by the singer after the show. (Like a magician, McDermott somehow managed to appear in the front lobby before anybody else?!)

In hindsight, it’s a good thing he delivered a powerful, a cappella version of his standard, Danny Boy, during the encore, bringing the crowd to its feet — otherwise, fans probably wouldn’t have let him leave the theatre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

‘Alice’ bombs, ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ on top

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE EARNS BIG ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Johnny Depp’s Alice Through the Looking Glass bombed over the Memorial Day weekend with just $28.1 million through Sunday in North American theatres, while X-Men: Apocalypse debuted on top with an estimated $65 million.

The anticipated showdown of the two big-budget films turned out to be little contest for 20th Century Fox’s latest “X-Men” installment. Both films were lambasted by critics, and neither drew the audience many expected over the holiday weekend.

Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass had more than bad reviews to deal with. On Friday, as the film was hitting theatres, Amber Heard, Depp’s wife, was granted a restraining order after alleging the actor previously assaulted her. She appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday with a bruise on her right cheek.

Some fans called for a boycott of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, said it was difficult to quantify how much the fortunes of Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass” turned Friday afternoon when news of Heard’s allegations spread.

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with the film’s performance than any personal drama for Depp,” Dergarabedian said.

Before Heard’s court appearance on Friday, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland sequel had been expected to open above $60 million. Disney estimates that it will gross $35.6 million over the four-day weekend.

It’s a staggering fall for a sequel that returned Depp — one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, albeit with a recently checkered box-office history — as the Mad Hatter. Alice in Wonderland, featuring then-novel 3-D, made more than $1 billion worldwide in 2010 after opening with $116 million domestically.

“It’s a disappointing result,” said Dave Hollis, distribution chief for Disney. “We have embarked on a branded tent-pole strategy that makes big bets.

But when you make big bets, there are times when you have results that are disappointing.”

Hollis declined to speculate on the impact the allegations against Depp had on the film’s opening.

It’s a rare blip for Disney, which is already crossing $4 billion in ticket sales in 2016 — a record pace buoyed by hits like Zootopia, The Jungle Book and Captain America: Civil War. The flop of “Alice” made X-Men: Apocalypse look comparatively steady.

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But the seventh X-Men installment opened well below the $90.8 million debut of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past or the $132.4 million bow of February’s “X-Men” spinoff Deadpool.

Still, the film, made for $178 million, has already made $185.8 million internationally. Fox had looked to keep expectations in check for the film, directed by Bryan Singer. It stars “X-Men” regulars Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and others, but it introduces a number of newcomers, including Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan and Olivia Munn.

Chris Aronson, distribution head for Fox, called it not a reboot but “a readjustment” to pave the way for future installments featuring the new performers.

“I’m very pleased,” Aronson said.

“It’s right on track with what our expectations were going in.”

Overall business over the weekend, according to comScore, was up about 5 per cent from Memorial Day last year when Disney’s Tomorrowland bombed with $33 million. Boosting ticket sales were a handful of holdovers.

The family-friendly video-game adaptation Angry Birds grossed $18.7 million in its second weekend, good enough for third place. Captain America: Civil War followed with $15.1 million in its fourth weekend. (It has

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passed $1.1 billion globally.) And the R-rated comedy Neighbours: Sorority Rising came in fifth with $9.1 million in its second week.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore.

Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final fourday domestic figures will be released Tuesday.

1. X-Men: Apocalypse, $65 million ($55.3 million international).

2. Alice Through the Looking Glass, $28.1 million ($65 million international).

3. Angry Birds, $18.7 million.

4. Captain America: Civil War, $15.1 million.

5. Neighbours: Sorority Rising, $9.1 million ($4.5 million international).

6. The Jungle Book, $7 million.

7. The Nice Guys, $6.4 million.

8. Money Monster, $4.3 million.

9. Love & Friendship, $2.5 million.

10. Zootopia, $831,000.

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Griffin Poetry Prize nominee based on slain B.C. teen THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Soraya Peerbaye first learned of the brutal slaying of Vancouver Island teen Reena Virk, the Toronto poet recalled being haunted by the harrowing nature of the crime.

“Like many people across the country, I was just struck by the details of the story: the youth of the assailants and their gender and, of course, the sheer brutality of it,” said Peerbaye.

In November 1997, Virk was swarmed by a crowd of mostly girls under a bridge in the Victoria area. After the 14-year-old was beaten, she limped across the bridge followed by Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski. A trial later found the duo continued the beating and held Virk’s head underwater until she drowned.

Ellard is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, and was denied parole May 3. Glowatski, who was also convicted of second-degree murder, was given full parole in 2010.

Peerbaye was in the courtroom for Ellard’s 2004 trial — which ended in a mistrial — and was present again for the 2005 trial when Ellard was found

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Reena Virk, 14, is shown in this undated handout photo. guilty.

Peerbaye’s exploration of Virk’s story has extended into her creative work

with the anthology Tell: Poems for a Girlhood (Pedlar Press).

The collection is one of three Canadian titles nominated for the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, which will be awarded at a Toronto gala on June 2.

“Tell” was also recently shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry.

“The work doesn’t delve into biography,” Peerbaye said of the anthology.

“It’s not an attempt to say who (Virk) was, and it’s not an attempt to position myself as an authority of her experience….

“It’s really a reflection — and almost a critique — of the public literature, the trials and how she was seen by the witnesses or the Crown … and how her identity and her agency were described by those narratives.”

Peerbaye drew on court transcripts which she described as “very troubling — maybe even more so than watching the trials.”

“There were so many small and slight details that were brought up … and when you’re reading the transcript, it all seems even. In a way, it’s all kind of flat, like there’s no emotion, there’s no intonation.

“So, the feeling of an expert witness testifying to the tides doesn’t actually feel different from a young person describing participating in the assault. The texture of those words is the same.”

“In a way, it actually makes you watch more closely. There were things that I read in the transcript that I don’t think I would have caught otherwise.”

Peerbaye said she found writing the poems in “Tell” challenging in ways she hadn’t anticipated.

“I think part of it was that it was a strange imaginative exercise to try to take myself through — and then it was also an impossible exercise,” she said.

“The intensity of suffering and fear and loneliness she must have experienced, I think, is truly unimaginable.”

Also from Canada in contention for the Griffin prize is Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments (Brick Books) by Danish poet Ulrikka S. Gernes. The work was translated by Canadian collaborators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen.

Rounding out the Canadian nominees is northern Ontario writer Liz Howard for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland & Stewart).

Lady Gaga lays down her latest Loss, accusations mark turbulent days for Johnny Depp track at Indy speedway THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Already a regular singing partner with Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga found another golden oldie chart topper to pair with: Mario Andretti.

Gaga was at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 100th running of the Indy 500 on Sunday, though she kept a fairly low profile, dressed down in jean shorts with her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail.

Gaga and 1969 Indy 500 winner Andretti rolled onto the track with the field of 33 drivers before Sunday’s race in a custom-built, two-seat Indy car.

Gaga was a late substitute for country star Keith Urban, who was unable to participate after injuring his back.

Gaga gave Andretti and team owner Michael Andretti kisses on the cheek before the start of the race.

“Travel to any corner of the globe and people know exactly who Lady Gaga is,” Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles said.

Social media buzzing over Harvard spoken-word speech THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Social media is buzzing over a Harvard graduate’s poetic commencement speech, which has garnered millions of views and the attention of celebrities.

Donovan Livingston, who received his master’s degree in education, addressed his classmates Wednesday with a spoken-word poem outlining the historic obstacles that have prevented African-Americans from getting an education.

The speech begins with a quote by

education reformer Horace Mann and references influential African-Americans including poet Langston Hughes and abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education posted a video of Livingston’s speech on Facebook, saying it was “One of the most powerful, heartfelt student speeches you will ever hear!”

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LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp seemed the picture of rock star cool as he played guitar onstage in Portugal with his band, the Hollywood Vampires. An ocean away, he is facing serious accusations.

A judge on Friday ordered Depp to stay away from estranged wife, Amber Heard, after she accused the Oscar-nominated actor of repeatedly hitting her during a recent fight and leaving her face bruised.

Depp’s publicist has not responded to a request for comment, and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star made no mention of the allegations during his Friday night concert in Lisbon.

Depp appeared on stage puffing a small cigar and playing rhythm-guitar to a large crowd that had gathered for a Rock in Rio concert. The 52-year-old was introduced to the cheering audience as “the wings of the vampire” by band-member Alice Cooper.

The restraining order was issued on the day Depp’s latest film, “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” opened in theatres and caps a turbulent week for the star. His mother died May 20 and Heard filed for divorce on Monday. On

Friday, she appeared in court with a bruise on her right cheek below the eye, saying Depp threw her cellphone at her during a fight.

Heard’s filing alleges a history of abuse throughout her relationship with Depp, which started after they met on the set of the 2011 film “The Rum Diary.” A judge ordered Depp to stay away from Heard and not to attempt contact with her before a June 17 hearing.

Los Angeles Police responded to a domestic violence call at the couple’s home on May 21, but the person who made the call declined to file charges and officers determined no crime occurred.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carl H. Moor rejected Heard’s request that Depp attend a year’s worth of anger management classes and the protective order extend to her dog, a Yorkshire terrier named Pistol. The status of the couple’s other dog, Boo, was not immediately known. (The dogs received worldwide publicity last year when Heard brought them into Australia without proper documentation.

Heard and Depp released an awkward video last month apologizing for the action.) Depp’s attorney, Laura Wasser, declined to comment.

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BY ELLIE KRIEGER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE A highlight of spring for me, something I await with intense anticipation, is the moment local strawberries hit the farmers market. They are entirely different from the berries you get in the store year-round: small, delicate, plump with juice, deep ruby red and powerfully fragrant.

Each week I buy as many as I can carry, and the feasting begins. I go through a fair share of them right out of the container, pile them on cereal, stir them into yogurt, whir them into smoothies, blend them into sauce, toss them on salads and, of course, work them into sumptuous, healthful desserts.

The accompanying recipe is one of my all-time favorites, a treat that takes strawberries and whipped cream to another level by piling them into parfaits with a crumble of amaretti cookies.

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Nutrition Per serving (using half the cream mixture): 110 calories, 2 g protein, 17 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 15 mg cholesterol, 10 mg sodium, 1 g dietary fiber, 15 g sugar Ellie Krieger writes a healthful-eating column for Local Living and a weekly Nourish recipe for Food. She is a registered dietitian, nutritionist and author. Her most recent cookbook is You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, DoAhead Meals.

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We should remember to never say never RICK ZEMANEK OPINION

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ake the popularity of U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump for example. Never did anyone imagine Trump would ever reach the “magic” number of delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for president. Astonishingly, he did it last Thursday.

During the formative weeks of his campaign he was dismissed as a loudmouthed buffoon, slamming his fist on the podium and bellowing like a preacher from the Deep South urging people at political gatherings to join his flock. And indeed they were inspired. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump so far has amassed 1,238 backers — and his support continues to build.

His ‘he-will-never-rise-to-fame’ claims by many political observers “has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign,” says a report by Canadian Press.

So why is Trump popular? That’s easily explained in the 1976 iconic blockbuster satire/comedy Network.

Fictitious character Howard Beale, a long-time news anchor in the Acad-

emy-Award-winning film glared into the camera during what was to be his final broadcast for the “UBS Evening News” due to low ratings, and launches into a rant, saying life in the U.S. is “bull…t!”

Beale, played by the now deceased actor Peter Finch, welded his diatribe firmly with a universal condemnation of the United States and urged his viewers to open their windows and shout: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” And his viewers did exactly that.

This is Mr. Trump’s message. He has taken on the politically correct, and mustered a loyal following attracted by his intense drive to “tell-itthe-way-it-is.” Those in the U.S. voting community, who’ve been whistling in the dark and dismissing elections as a waste of time, have awakened in droves, inspired by Trump’s no-nonsense approach. And they’re now whistling openly in the light at Nation-wide political scrums. “… millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced Trump as a plain-speaking populist who is not afraid to offend,” says the CP report.

Trump has demonstrated he has no fear to take on the politically correct movement. Political correctness can be stifling, intimidating and frustrating for those with a point of view that goes against the grain of popular thinking. They can be afraid to speak out.

But en masse, what Trump has gar-

nered, those with a different opinion have broken out of their shell of obtuseness and now realize that by sharing similar views in numbers anything is possible. Including the presidency of the United States.

What’s frustrating Trump’s followers is, in their eyes, past governments have been raising so much dust in a mad scramble to appease the politically correct, the country has been blinded and can’t see the forest for its trees.

Trump’s supporters view the U.S. political terrain today as one which has afforded the politically correct the right to rule the roost on issues of right and wrong while trampling on their rights to freedom of speech. Contentious issues such as gender equality understandably has the gay community up in arms. Then there’s what can or cannot be taught in schools without upsetting the parents of minority students? Then there’s the controversial building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep the bad guys out.

And further, Trump’s stand on slamming the doors shut on immigrants is applauded. It’s sensitive issues such as these that have turned into mountains of discontent and frustration among American voters who have finally found a voice through Trump.

The butt of American politics has been festering into “the perfect boil” ripe for lancing by those travelling the same roads as this “accidental politician.” They’re tired of being told when or when not to cross the street, eventu-

ally leading to this troubling intersection Beale ranted about in Network.

“I think (Trump) has touched a part of the electorate that doesn’t like where our country is,” says backer Pam Pollard, Oklahoma’s Republican chairwoman. “I have no problem supporting him.”

Trump’s rants earned high ratings on the TV screens in both Canada and the U.S. Some watched in disbelief and were likely tempted to pinch themselves to make sure they weren’t dreaming. Others toasted a politician who dared to sail on uncharted waters.

His speeches set the tone for his ability to dominate headlines, calling Mexicans “rapists,” promising to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and said he would ban most Muslims from the U.S. for an indeterminate time.

“His rallies became magnets for free publicity,” reported CP. “Onstage, he dispensed populism that drew thousands of supporters, many wearing his trademark Make America Great Again hats and chanting, “Build the wall!”

The late, great country-outlaw singer Waylon Jennings, in his album Singer of Sad Songs, belted out the lyrics “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Trump is singing the same as are his supporters solidly behind his drive for top boss in the U.S. Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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The dying elephant at a happy Liberal gathering TIM HARPER OPINION

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endy Robbins called it the elephant in the room and she was not going to give up the podium before she aired her harsh criticism of her government’s assisted dying legislation.

But her effort to get a full debate on the contentious Liberal legislation at the party’s first post-election convention led to only acrimony and high emotion … and left her briefly in tears as she recalled the deaths of her parents.

It drew the ire of a cabinet minister and an MP. Most importantly, it unhinged a bid to keep this Liberal gathering as a celebratory party that would better feature paper hats and streamers, not debate.

Robbins, a law professor at the University of New Brunswick and policy chair for the Liberals’ national women’s commission, was right about the elephant in the room here.

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to delegates at the last Liberal convention, but the bill her party crafted, she told the room, was nowhere near as progressive as had been recommended. She had support in the room.

But her bid to get an emergency resolution to the floor will fail because this is a party that wants a public show of unity and wants to leave the bickering and infighting to the gang of Conservatives meeting simultaneously, further west, in Vancouver.

There is likely not a Liberal MP or cabinet minister at this convention who has not received some type of earful from constituents who find the bill overly restrictive, who want the right to give advanced directives of their assisted death or do not understand the wording of a bill that says death must be “reasonably foreseeable.”

That wording, Robbins told delegates to the Liberal women’s commission, is “nuts.”

The grassroots deserve to be heard and it is a democratic right to say what we want to happen, she reasoned. Politicians need to hear this and get back in touch with the grassroots, she said.

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ing was closed to the media, as were all first-day meetings at this convention. I wandered in anyway — the door was open and it had been anticipated that the assisted dying issue would be aired here.

For 90 minutes of dry debate on issues of no interest but to those in the room, I stood, large media tag in full view, and no one was bothered by my presence. In fact, many in the room came over to chat. There was no subterfuge involved.

Then, when things got contentious, the no-media rule was suddenly enforced and I and a late-arriving CBC colleague were ushered out the door.

Before we were shown the door, Robbins told the room there would be no legislative void if the court’s June 6 deadline was missed. That drew an audible “oh, come on,” from Aboriginal Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and an intervention from Kanata-Carleton MP Karen McCrimmon.

McCrimmon said delegates in the room were being given false hope if they thought that a resolution from this convention was somehow going to amend legislation that could win final Commons approval as early as Monday.

The bill may not be perfect, McCrimmon told the room, but the gov-

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ernment had to push this legislation forward.

Afterward, Bennett offered praise for Robbins’ work, then told me: “I’m not sure this forum was supposed to be a tutorial from the professor from UNB.” Outside the room, Robbins tearfully recounted the deaths of her grandfather and both parents.

Her mother desperately “wanted to go,” she said, but she would not have been eligible for assisted death under this legislation.

“If it (Bill C-14) isn’t stopped here, it will be stopped in the Senate and if it isn’t stopped there it will be stopped on a charter challenge in court, or all three of the above,” Robbins said.

“It’s just a matter of time.”

It won’t be stopped here, but Robbins did force an accounting of a flawed bill even if the need for unity will keep a lid on such debate.

Maybe it’s old-fashioned to think a debate could break out on an issue as fundamental as life and death, whether the government was on a court-prescribed deadline or not. But, of course, I wasn’t even supposed to see the limited debate in the closed room in the first place.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Communications is the key to success in every avenue of life, from personal relationships to our professional ventures. She did not grow up on a family farm, but the agricultural industry has been the impassioned focus of her 10-year career and her excitement for it is unyielding and contagious.

As a reporter for the Alberta Farmer Express, Jen is passionate in all areas of agricultural journalism. Jen is a voice connecting farmers and ranchers around the world with the stories that are important to them, from hard-hitting stories on abuse allegations at a hog facility to the newest innovations for crop yields. Outside of her professional persona, Jen is an exemplary member of the Red Deer community. She is a community activist, reporter, writer, storyteller, horse enthusiast, and pug mom. Whether she is taking to her yoga mat for meditation or wading through fields of manure for a story, Jen is truly a woman of excellence.

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Nellie was born a humble farm girl who wanted to be involved in the community. She has received many awards for her efforts in volunteering, from being inducted into the hall of fame at her alma mater Olds College for her community involvement and volunteerism, to being awarded the volunteer of the year award twice by the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Beyond her time as a volunteer, Nellie has played a role as a leader in the community for over half a century, including her time as a leader in the Benalto Brownies and teaching sunday school at the Benalto Presbyterian Church. Nellie also played a pivotal role in the presentation of the history book Along the Burnt Trail and creation of its follow-up Bridging the Century.

She is also a charter member of the Evarts Community Club.

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Christine is more than thrilled to be entering her tenth exciting season as the owner of Dance Magic Studio. With over 28 years of experience, Christine’s training has taken her throughout Alberta and Canada. Her professional experience includes modern dance projects throughout Toronto and a season with Ballet British Columbia’s mentor program in Vancouver, B.C. In 2006, Christine changed course to pursue a career as an entrepreneur/studio owner/dance instructor with the purchase of Dance Magic Studio. During her time as owner, she has been able to expand the studio twice and has doubled student enrollment. Christine also actively promotes recreation and fitness in the community, offering dance instructor mentoring programs to youth through her STEP program, hosting various “dance-a-thons” in support of local organizations, and through her wildly popular Daddy Daughter Dance which raises funds for the Give the Magic Fund, a scholarship covering studio classes for dance students in need.

Currently the executive director for the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre in Red Deer, Monica has been an advocate for senior recreation and fitness for 26 years. She is a certified senior fitness trainer and has recently collaborated with the Bowden Penitentiary support team to work on a national pilot project, to train inmates to be senior fitness instructors to promote wellness of other adults while in the judicial system. Monica was also approached to co-instruct a Physical Activity & Older Adults course at RDC, providing valuable content to the course curriculum. She believes that all seniors deserve a good quality of life till the end of their journey and works hard with her staff and community partners to ensure that senior issues and service gaps are indentified, and works hard at finding solutions.

Business and the Professions Archana Chaudhary Archana is a strategic capital planner in the Central Zone, Alberta Health Services. In a field largely dominated by males, she is the only planner selected from Red Deer to present at the International Annual Conference of Architects in Ontario and has earned numerous accolades for her work, including awards in various architectural and human services categories from around the world. She has co-edited two books on architecture, has researched two books on Le Corbusier, and has also been featured in two books. Hailing from a family committed to altruism, she contributes her time to volunteering with the City of Red Deer, Red Deer Regional Airport Authority, Volunteer Central and Red Deer Action Group Society.

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She became a crusader to save the old Cronquist farmhouse and with a core of other volunteers, moved it across a frozen Red Deer River. Over the next three decades, Elizabeth tirelessly promoted Red Deer’s diversity and multiculturalism while showcasing the city’s pride in its own heritage through programs and events at Cronquist House such as the Bower Ponds Canada Day celebrations. She became the face and name behind the house and turned it into the jewel of the City of Red Deer’s parks system it is today. Now retired, Elizabeth has continued to provide leadership, guidance and experience to the society as a board member and volunteer.

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Kelly is the founder and creator of Red Deer’s “The Princess Ball”. In 2009, Kelly’s daughter Rowan was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at only three weeks old. In 2011, exhausted and still trying to come to terms with Rowan’s diagnosis, Kelly knew she had to find a way to raise awareness and money to search for a cure. The first Princess Ball happened in 2012 and since then, nine other sister events have been held across Canada raising more than $600,000 for CF research. Last year, Kelly was recognized as the founder of this event and awarded the Western Canada Leadership Award by Cystic Fibrosis Canada. The community of support she has built includes 3,000 guests and donors.

Kelly is also a certified yoga instructor and owns the Love Yoga Grace studio in Red Deer.

Judy has lived in Red Deer for 35 years with her husband David and believes that Red Deer has been a wonderful community to raise their now adult daughter and son. Judy was a nursing faculty member and chair of the nursing programs at Red Deer College. She has been recognized for her leadership in nursing education, particularly the nursing degree program. As dean of program development, Judy led the development of several other new programs for RDC students.

She has also been active in the community, most recently as chair of the board of Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre. Her leadership in strategic planning, partnering at last year’s Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off 2015, and board development has had a significant impact for Aspire.

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For the past 30 years, Kathleen has been a teacher, school counselor, vice principal, principal and now the associate superintendent of Inclusive Learning at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools. Kathleen received her Bachelor of Education and Masters of Arts in Education.

Kathleen has left a legacy for creating positive learning environments within school communities, including the development of the first fine arts school in Central Alberta, the implementation of a Sports Excellence Academy and development of the ESL Neighbourhood School Concept. Kathleen has also worked in team to develop a division-wide literacy focus, implemented a model of inclusive education, restructured school counseling teams and created the Model of Student Support. She has been recognized for several awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the Central Alberta Council on School Administration and the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Bonnie’s background includes 30 years of experience in the area of rural post-secondary education and community learning.

Bonnie started her career working as an instructor teaching business administration at Red Deer College and at community campuses across the region. In 1995, she began working with the local Adult Learning Council in literacy education, later moving into administration. In 2014, Bonnie was hired as the executive director of campus Alberta Central (CAC), helping to bring post-secondary education to the central region. Bonnie believes that where you live should not dictate the opportunities that are available to you, and that education is the key to achieving both professional and personal goals.

In addition to her career in education, Bonnie is also very active in the education volunteer sector, sitting on boards for Literacy Alberta, Stettler Public Library and Community Learning Network to name a few.

Zainab Mouhamoud Originating from Somalia, Zainab has lived in Canada 17 years and chose Red Deer as her home in 2010. Recognizing the difference we can make in others lives, she graduated with her social work diploma from Red Deer College. Through visionary leadership and fundraising, Zainab is a tireless volunteer who recognizes impact and importance of education for Somali children who can’t attend and afford schooling.

Zainab travelled to Somalia in 2015 with hands on construction of a school, which gave 200 children the opportunity to receive education.

She is continuing to fundraise for the children in Somalia. She is active in educating the community about different cultural and social ways and has hosted many multi-cultural themed fundraising events.

Her current goal is to raise enough funds to build a residence at the school in Somalia, allowing an additional 200 children to attend.

Anne Marie Watson Anne Marie Watson was born and raised in Red Deer. She attended Red Deer College, and then transferred to the University of Alberta to complete her first degree, followed by a Masters of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Anne Marie’s career has included work in public, special, and academic libraries; she has worked at the RDC Library since 2000.

Anne Marie was elected as a Trustee for Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools in 2010 and as a University of Alberta Senator in 2013.

Her parents and grandparents modelled a strong commitment to community service and Anne Marie has continued this tradition by actively volunteering for over 30 years. She is an avid user of social media and believes it can positively contribute to, and change, communities. Anne Marie is married with two children.

Sherry Cooper

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Sherry became the chief flight instructor at Sky Wings in 1988. Since then she made the school into one of the most efficient and safe learning institutions in Canada.

Sherry is on many community boards and is a long term trustee for the Chinook’s Edge School Division, advocating and supporting learning to high school and college students alike. She is innovative in developing training for flight students improving quality of education as well as safe pilots. As a flight instructor and examiner she has conducted over 2000 flight tests for Transport Canada as well as administering written exams for the school. She received the highest honour her industry gives by winning the Top Flight Instructor Award for Canada in 2014. Sherry makes learning fun and creates a work place that promotes sincere respect for one another.

Fascinated by the messages delivered in the More With Less Cookbook gifted to her 33 years ago, Bev has strived to live by these principles ever since, which has fueled her passion for social justice, human rights and her desire to meet people from a variety of cultures and walks of life. Bev was instrumental in helping Olds High School, one of only nine schools in Alberta, to become part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. She also initiated, organized, facilitated and hosted an International UNESCO Schools Conference with over 250 students and advisors from around the world. She works tirelessly on a variety of projects, and is loyal and dedicated role model to her students, and to the community of Olds.

Entrepreneurship Shauna Bossert Coming from a farm family background, Shauna Bossert hasn’t been a stranger to hard work. In 2013, Shauna started the Tangelo Salon in an effort to build a business around her family. Her outstanding leadership and entrepreneurial skills have made it a success. In 2014, her business won the Red Deer Express Gold Reader Choice Award for Best New Business and she expanded her salon space to make room for more staff and an expanding clientele. In 2015, Tangelo Salon won the Red Deer Express ‘Gold’ Readers Choice Award Again, this time for Best Hair Salon. Today, Shauna has moved her salon to Red Deer County and has received many accolades for not only hair services but also her community spirit.

Cortney Hallenga and Sheena Johnson These two dynamic siblings built a business, The Bra Lounge Inc., from the ground up with passion, innovation, and the ability to quickly flex to their business’ needs.

However, throughout that growth they have not jeopardized their commitment to the quality of their products and of their customer service making The Bra Lounge one of the premiere places to shop for intimates in Red Deer. The sisters have also taken their business on the road, visiting retirement communities to help fit the residents in the comfort of their own homes, and established the innovative bra fitting through Skype option, allowing them to ship merchandise all over North America. Because of their dedication, endless enthusiasm and passion, Cortney and Sheena have won various awards including the two Red Hat Awards and the Readers’ Choice Gold Awards for Best Lingerie Store 20112014 to name a few.

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Tamara Hughes As the owner of Skin Deep Formulations & Rainy Daze Medi Spa, Tamara has been a dedicated trainer, master of aesthetics and a paramedical dermal specialist for over 20 years. Partnering with one of the biggest skincare companies in the world, Tamara has been able to double her territory sales. She offers exquisite experience with award–winning effectiveness using only the most elite professional skin care, cosmetic and medical technology in today’s beauty industry. This year, Tamara won “Top Training Team” in the company and was nominated for other sale awards too. As a licensed aesthetician, paramedical dermal technician and trained oncology aesthetician, Tamara has a passion for education in health and wellness and strives to help clients boost their sales, increase their knowledge and retain their clientele in the skin care industry. Tamara owns and operates an advanced training facility for spa industry professionals.

Melanie Warren Melanie is owner/partner of Millerdale Pharmacy, Urban Olive Trading Company, and Therapeutic Lifestyle Essential and as such, has built her companies as a conduit to support and develop her community in health and wellness. Melanie has utilized her companies to support many community agencies such as the Woman’s Outreach Centre, Breast Cancer Society, and Aspire. She has served as both Steering Committee and Board Member for the Ronald McDonald House. At the age of 39, she also competes in natural fitness competitions, placing second in her division. Melanie embodies the true spirit of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. She is truly generous and selfless, and is always looking for new challenges to conquer, and meaningful opportunities to help her community and its members meet their goals.

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Since graduating from the University of Alberta, Hospital School of Nursing in 1970, Cheri’s nursing career has taken some unusual paths. Arriving in Red Deer in 1975, she established a local branch of La Leche League International. LLL is a volunteer organization which supports and guides mothers and families in all aspects of breastfeeding. Cheri has not only helped hundreds of local mothers and babies, but nurtured and developed other woman to become LLL leaders. Her passion for mother and baby wellness led her to become active in childbirth education and midwifery – eventually opening her own midwifery practice in Red Deer in 1991.

In 2004, Cheri moved to the other “end” of lifespan nursing and has focused on palliative and End of Life Care. Currently, she is the nurse manager at Red Deer Hospice where for the last seven years she has been privileged to participate in the successful development of this facility.

Blayne was born and raised in rural Saskatchewan where her passion for the environment and all things natural began at a very young age. After graduating high school, Blayne obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Land Use and Environmental Studies in 2001 from the University of Saskatchewan. She pursued a career in the field of environmental management and was lucky enough to experience a combination of travel and work across the globe. Blayne has volunteered and worked in Canada, South America, Australia and England. Blayne returned to Canada in 2011 with her husband where she has been working for Lacombe County as their environmental coordinator. She also began her own consultancy in 2013 where she taught others how to establish environmental management systems for their organizations.

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Beverly is a registered psychologist with a unique combination of life experience, theoretical background and inspirational personal attributes. She is an aboriginal woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawach First Nation. She is married to Rod Soonias, L.L.B., a member of the Red Pheasant First Nation. Her parents and family members are survivors of Indian residential schools. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Beverly has extensive knowledge about ‘wahkotowin’ (the business of being attached), the inter-generational and systemic effects of the Residential School Experience (intergenerational trauma), family systems, adolescents, addictions, and the power of healing. She has been working with adolescents and families for Heritage Family Services, since 1995, and volunteers for local community agencies such as Red Deer Native Friendship Centre and Central Alberta Diversity Association.

Jenny has been a dedicated member of our community for over 42 years. She volunteers at many organizations including; Superfluity Thrift Shop, United Church, United Church Women, Royal Purple Elks, Festival of Lights, Stettler Hospital and Stettler Music Festival. In the past years she organized a gymnastics club for children and coached it for five years, assisted with a junior badminton club organized by her husband and established a breast feeding group for new moms and their babes with a friend. Jenny was involved with the Stettler Swim Club for 12 years taking courses to fill the positions of timer, clerk of course, meet manager and stroke and team judge. Many community individuals have been treated by Jenny during her years as a physiotherapist in Stettler. She also practiced animal physiotherapy treating mostly horses, dogs and sheep. Jenny still finds time to help her family and especially enjoys spending time with her six grandchildren in Calgary.

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Poshika is a highly motivated and people-oriented person who loves to challenge herself. As a 17-year old grade 12 student, she is an extraordinary dynamic and talented leader. Apart from being an accomplished student who has received honors with distinction throughout high school, she volunteers her time at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, City of Red Deer, Canadian Blood Services and is an active member of the student Leadership at School. She is among the few residents of Red Deer that have been selected for SHAD 2016 and continues to be a role model for the youth of the city. She is a recipient of Violet Richardson Award 2016 and on a national level, the Future Aces Citizenship Award 2016.

Ivy is a gifted young woman and Grade 11 honour student at West Central High School. As a published song writer and artist, she balances her impressive academic achievements with a growing career in music.

Ivy released her first album in May 2015 and completed her first tour in the United States and has been steadily growing an audience for her music online. Ivy also contributes to her community as an active participant in Rocky Mountain Houses’ Community Music & Drama Association – Northern Crossings. As a leader in her church youth group, Ivy uses her gift of an outgoing engaging personality, alongside her musical gifts, to help make distinct and beneficial differences in the lives of the people she meets. In all that she does, Ivy displays compassion, innovation and excellence. She is a leader and role model amongst her peers and in her community.

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Rebecca Swanson Becca is currently the director of operations of both East Side Mario’s and Fionn MacCool’s in Red Deer. She also obtained her Hospitality Management Diploma through SAIT in 2011. Dauntless and determined, tempered by an unconventional wisdom, she manages relationships, creates events, and builds community in what seems like an effortless way. Hustle. Innovate. Figure it out, and make everyone involved feel great about the process. Becca has an incredible talent for seeing the “not so obvious” and turning it into gold, whether it’s through mentoring staff, coaching hockey, or promoting and executing fundraisers in the community. She has developed and executed unique events such as the Fionn and Friends Charity Golf Classic and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Official After Party.

Nisha is a recent graduate of Burman University, majoring in the Arts with a focus on English. Her passion for service and leadership within her community is showcased in her many experiences as a student government officer. With her passion to inspire future leaders, Nisha successfully started a leadership award at her Alma matter, given out to every graduating student who demonstrated acts of service. She advocates for the inclusion of young people in local institutions and for the rights of the LGBTQ community and is a regular participant in the Bower Ponds Canada Day programs. As a radio show host for 90.5 Shine FM, Nisha enjoys sharing her free moments touching the lives of the people she encounters. While pursuing a career in media, Nisha dreams of continuing to empower immigrant youth to aspire to excellence in North America.

Alvina Zaidi Alvina Zaidi is a proud young entrepreneur. From an early age, she was passionate, demonstrated strong leadership qualities and developed a love of volunteering. As a true leader, mentor and role model, Alvina displays every aspect of the young woman of excellence. She co-started her award winning childcare centre, Tiny Toes Castle, in 2010 at age 19. Championing diversity in the work place, Alvina strives to create an inclusive work place and was the first childcare centre in the city to employ persons with barriers. She has dedicated her kind spirit to make a difference in her community by personally and professionally organizing a number of fundraisers. C.A.W.E.S, C.A.R.E, SPCA, and Red Deer Legion are a few well-recognized local organizations close to her heart. Alvina continues to strive for excellence through various volunteering and educational opportunities. She aspires to finish her HR diploma and go into law studies.

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Troubled teen turned out OK KATHY MITCHELL & MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I am “Louisville Uncle.” I wrote to you several years ago concerning my then-13-yearold nephew, “Hayden,” and the attempt he made to seduce me into sexual activity during a sleepover.

You reran my original letter a few weeks ago, and I thought your readers might be interested in an update.

Hayden is now 20 years old and thriving in college. He is in a relationship with a male student that he met on campus. They are engaged and plan to marry after graduation.

Everything is great, but it took a while to get to this point.

The hardest part was separating Hayden from the “relationship” he was in with the older neighbor boy. This boy seduced my nephew the same way Hayden tried to seduce me.

Apparently, this neighbor often forced himself on Hayden and convinced him that this was normal, acceptable and enjoyable. Through many prayers

and discussions, I was able to show Hayden that any sexual activity without mutual consent is an assault and always wrong.

At the age of 14, and on his own initiative, Hayden finally ended the relationship with the neighbor boy.

He didn’t want to press charges, and the boy and his family eventually moved away.

I did not break my promise not to tell Hayden’s mother about that sleepover, but together, we told Hayden’s mother that he is gay. She was accepting and supportive, and later said she had suspected this since he was 11 years old.

I am happy to report that Hayden and I are still close. — Louisville Uncle Dear Uncle: Thanks so much for the update regarding Hayden. We are delighted to know that his life is working out so well. He’s fortunate to have such a caring uncle.

Dear Annie: Because the cost of living is so high around here, I now rent bedrooms in my home to a couple of young adults in their 20s. It’s almost impossible for them to go out on their own.

Everything is fine about this arrangement, except my renters do not clean their rooms. They throw all of their things on the floor, including dirty dishes, and the mess collects for weeks.

They do keep their doors closed, so I don’t have to see it every time I pass by, but just knowing that

their rooms are such a mess bothers me a great deal.

To their credit, they do clean up after themselves when using the kitchen.

Would it be out of line for me to ask them to keep their rooms cleaned, or is it none of my business since they are renters?

Am I overstepping my boundaries? My friends know I’m a bit OCD about things like this. — M. Dear M.: What they do with their clothes or bedding is their responsibility. Closing the door is a good solution to this.

However, leaving bits of food on dirty plates (or pizza boxes and takeout cartons) can attract vermin, and this becomes your business since it affects the common areas of the house.

Inform your tenants that this is a health risk and that food or anything containing food needs to be disposed of properly on a daily basis.

Ask them to bring their dirty dishes to the kitchen sink, and to put their food-related garbage in the proper place. If you wish, you can also offer to do some housekeeping for an additional fee. This could make all of you happy.

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.

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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Monday, May 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jennifer Ellison, 33; Wynnona Judd, 52; Jake Short, 19 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Creativity, compassion and spirituality are highlighted today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Keep focused on the tasks at hand and avoid distractions. If you are patient and follow the middle path, it will lead to success and satisfaction in the coming year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have the power to persuade others today Rams ñ positively or negatively — depending on how you use it. So aim to be dynamic and discreet, rather than argumentative and insensitive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A close friendship or group situation may be especially confusing at the moment. However, if you take the time to examine the issues in a thoughtful way, then you’ll know what to do next.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You can accomplish an incredible amount today Twins, as your motivation and energy levels are high. If you combine creative ideas with a strong work ethic, then you’ll be unstoppable.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Intuition and creativity are an unbeatable combination today Crabs. Others are hoping you’ll come up with positive ideas, inspiring leadership and compassionate views, so don’t let them down!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t be afraid of change. Use your imagination to find ways to shake up your usual routine, otherwise you’ll just get stuck in a boring old rut. And do make time for regular exercise that you enjoy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Today’s stars are super for travel, sport, creative projects and outdoor adventures.

Single Virgos ñ you could be attracted to a colleague, client, customer or someone else you meet through work.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The combination of intuition and investigation will take you far, especially when it comes to a problem with a family member or work colleague.

Knowledge is power so make sure you get the facts right.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Communication is the buzz word for smart Scorpios, as you keep a wide range of people up-to-date with your movements and plans. Creative projects, romance and socialising are also favoured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Venus is visiting your relationship zone ñ until June 17 - which brings some much-needed peace to a trou-

bled partnership. But tread carefully with a stressed person at school or work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A purely business-like approach isn’t the best way to go today Capricorn. Instead, take the time to listen carefully and compassionately to what others are saying. Then respond accordingly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is much more to a current situation than meets the eye, so strive to keep your acute Aquarian curiosity under control. Compassion, discretion and sensitivity are what’s needed at the moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a delightful day to conjure up fabulously creative ideas, and then turn them into concrete reality. Don’t just dream about things Pisces Ö roll up your sleeves, get out there and get busy!

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A study released Thursday is the latest to investigate using technology to help meet the challenge of making that distinction, which now is generally based on a doctor’s bedside exam.

Patients in a vegetative state have open eyes and show periods of sleep and wakefulness, but they are unaware of themselves or others and unable to think, respond or do anything on purpose. Patients in a minimally conscious state show only intermittent and minimal signs of awareness of themselves or their environment.

Distinguishing between those two conditions is important because patients with even minimal awareness can be treated to help them communicate and to prevent suffering. They respond much better to medication or

sounds, touch, music and odours.

In the new research, released by the journal Current Biology, researchers from Denmark, Belgium and Yale University investigated using so-called FDG-PET scans to measure the brain’s consumption of blood sugar, which brain cells use as fuel. They sought to establish a specific level of consumption that could distinguish between the two groups of patients.

They studied 49 vegetative patients and 65 minimally conscious ones, diagnosed by standard bedside procedures. They found that using a particular cutoff for PET scan results, they could correctly identify patient status 88 per cent of the time.

The researchers checked the patient status again a year later. They found that 8 of the 11 vegetative patients who had scored above the cutoff, which had been associated with minimal consciousness, had in fact recovered consciousness.

The other three had died.

Three minimally conscious patients had scored below the cutoff. Of the two patients the researchers could find a

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Canadians changing travel plans LOW LOONIE SHIFTING CANADIAN TRAVEL FROM U.S. TO OTHER GLOBAL DESTINATIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian travel to the United States hit a six-year low this winter as a weak loonie and lower airfares prompted more residents to visit other international destinations.

Last year’s decrease of Canadian travellers to the U.S. continued in the first three months of 2016 as 4.38 million Canadian residents went across the border for at least one night, down 13 per cent from the same period in 2015 and matching a low set in 2010, according to data from Statistics Canada.

While interest in the U.S. has waned, 3.8 million Canadians travelled to other international destinations, up 6.2 per cent over the previous year and 33 per cent since 2010.

The low value of the loonie has also attracted more visitors to Canada.

After holding steady for several years, American visits to Canada were up almost 20 per cent between January and March, while the number of visitors from other countries was up 10 per cent over 2015 and 26 per cent from 2010.

The strong influx of visitors provided a boon to Canadian hotels, restaurants and car rental companies, said Robert Kokonis, president of airline consulting firm AirTrav Inc. When the Canadian dollar hovered around parity as late as 2013, U.S. travellers were pretty much no-shows in Canada, he said.

“So we’ve gotten to the point where

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Canadian dollar coins, or Loonies, are displayed on a map of North America in this January 9, 2014, file photo in Montreal.

Canadian travel to the U.S.A. hit a six-year low this winter as a weak loonie and lower airfares prompted more residents to visit other international destinations. we’re seeing Americans back in Canada, so that’s a nice reciprocal balance to the loss of Canadians not travelling across the border,” he said in an interview.

The U.S. tourism sector has responded to the currency softness by offering deals to Canadians, including accepting the loonie at par to the U.S. dollar for some expenses. Border malls are also offering discounts.

“When you have a 75-cent Canadian dollar, a lot of Canadians took a pass in 2015,” Kokonis said.

The latest results reflected a continuing trend from 2015.

Nearly 21 million Canadian residents took overnight trips into the United States in 2015.

That was down 10 per cent from 2014 and was the lowest number since 2010.

The results exclude the 23.3 million Canadians who crossed the border by car for same-day trips, down 21.6 per cent from nearly 30 million a year earlier.

The Canadian dollar hit its high in 2015 on Jan. 2 at 85.62 cents US, and sunk to 71.41 cents US on Dec. 18.

Canadians travelling to other international destinations in 2015 grew

Japan shares G-7 push for inclusive growth with Asia, Africa

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAGOYA, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sharing a push by the Group of Seven advanced industrial nations to promote inclusive growth across the globe in meetings with leaders of seven developing countries.

The bilateral summit meetings with leaders of Bangladesh, Chad, Indonesia, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam in this central Japanese city on Saturday followed a gathering with G-7 leaders after their annual summit, which was held in a nearby seaside resort.

Chad’s President Idriss Deby was representing the African Union at the meetings in Japan.

At that session, the leaders agreed to promote infrastructure development to help boost growth, Japanese officials said. They also voiced their support for the G-7’s stance on the need for peacefully settling territorial disputes according to law — a reference to frustrations over China’s growing presence in areas of the South China Sea also claimed by its neighbours.

Laos, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea are among the poorest nations in Asia. Vietnam and Indonesia are two of the fastest-growing developing economies. During the summit, Abe expressed strong concern over slowdowns in China and some other emerging economies that have sapped global growth at a time when

about 10 per cent to reach 11.55 million.

Meanwhile, 12.5 million Americans visited Canada in 2015, the highest level since 2008. An additional 5.3 million residents of other countries also visited the country.

In addition to the impact from currency, Canadian airlines like Air Canada and WestJet, and tour operators like Sunwing, have been boosting their international capacity by adding seats to sun markets, adding additional farflung destinations and offering new service to London Gatwick.

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH Economic pulse-taking A key measure of the health of the Canadian economy is revealed Tuesday when Statistics Canada is out with first-quarter GDP results. On Friday, the federal statistical agency releases Canada’s international merchandise trade figures for April, another gauge of economic vitality.

Paris powwow The OECD Forum kicks off in the French capital on Tuesday. The two-day conference held by the economic thinktank will feature nearly 80 debates, presentations and other events on topics ranging from the future of work to integrating migrants.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, poses with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc prior to their meeting at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Saturday, May 28, 2016. The bilateral meeting followed a gathering with G-7 leaders after their annual summit in Shima, central Japan.

Japan and European nations are struggling to keep their own recoveries on track.

A more than 50 per cent plunge in commodity prices was a key signal of the risks to growth, Abe said.

“What we are concerned about the most is contraction of the world economy,” Abe said Japan has pledged to increase its development assistance, help finance

an insurance fund for health emergencies in the developing world and to offer training to thousands of people in the developing world as part of its own contribution to bridging economic disparities.

The G-7 meeting also endorsed an effort to help 500 million people in developing countries escape hunger and malnutrition by 2030.

Andrea Stairs, managing director of eBay Canada, will discuss Canada’s e-commerce landscape in Ottawa on Tuesday. eBay announced this month that its Canadian marketplace will no longer list items in U.S. dollars — only in Canadian currency. It had been the e-commerce giant’s only dual-currency marketplace.

HBC, meet the Netherlands Hudson’s Bay Company holds its annual meeting of shareholders on Friday in Toronto. HBC recently announced it will begin opening stores in the Netherlands next summer, with a flagship outlet planned for Amsterdam.

Trudeau on towns Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to speak at the annual conference of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities on Friday in Winnipeg. The conference is expected to attract 1,500 municipal leaders.

Student debt can have far reaching consequences TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE Many Canadian students who have graduated this year with degrees and diplomas also will leave school with thousands of dollars of debt that may take them years to repay, impacting their adult years and their parents.

Higher education is a costly pursuit in Canada that likely will get more expensive in the future. The total cost for an undergraduate university degree currently can exceed $80,000 and is expected to be more than $140,000 by the time a child born now is old enough to enrol.

According to recent statistics, students who require a Canada student loan now graduate with an average debt of $28,000. With a youth unemployment rate of 13.4 per cent, many are having trouble finding jobs and either have to move back home with their parents or take on more debt to survive after graduation.

The result of these factors is that many students are sinking further into

debt upon graduation and may even have to delay major life events such as buying a home, getting married and starting a family due to their high levels of debt.

The impact of high student debt also can affect decisions and the lifestyle of their parents. A study by BMO Wealth Management has found that many parents are postponing their retirement to help support their adult children financially.

One third of parents with children aged 18 to 34 would save less for retirement than they planned to support their children while 41 per cent are concerned their adult children have or will have financial problems caused by debt.

Parents are willing to retire later than expected, save less for their retirement, have a less comfortable retirement, take on some of their children’s debt and even withdraw money from their retirement savings to help out their indebted offspring.

“Many students are going to school to get a good education but they are coming out with debt and often are struggling to find jobs and make money to support themselves,” says Doug Jones, a licensed insolvency trustee with BDO Canada. “A lot of them are

being forced to move back in with their parents. We’re seeing this situation all the time today.”

Part of the solution to the growing problem of student debt is good, pre-education financial planning. This could involve knowing how much your child’s chosen education will cost, working and saving for it beforehand and understanding the job prospects are after graduation. “We would encourage people to focus on budgeting sooner rather than later,” says Jones.

Budgeting is key.”

Parents and students alike also should investigate and take advantage of available government programs.

Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) allow parents, guardians, grandparents, other relatives and friends to put up to $50,000 in a plan for each child who is enrolled in qualified educational programs. There is no annual contribution limit and the government will add a grant of up to a maximum of $7,200.

Income and capital gains can be generated within an RESP through investment in a variety of options such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, guaranteed investment certificates and grow tax free until the children named in the plan are ready to pay for their

post-secondary education.

They only pay income tax on the gains earned by the plan and the grants as they are withdrawn, which usually is low because the income of most post-secondary students is very limited.

The federal government also offers a student loan repayment assistance program which may help students manage their loans by reducing their monthly payments. It operates a national student loans service centre where students can go for information and help with their loans.

As well, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada has a lot of great advice and financial information for students and consumers in general.

“If you access these resources and options and still are having trouble managing your debt then you may want to seek professional financial advice and help,” says Jones. “The sooner people plan for and manage education costs and borrowing the better.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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Sky high price for NYC ‘trophy apartments’ SUPERLUXURY SKYSKRAPER FLATS COULD LIST FOR $250 MILLION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Billionaires’ Row. That’s what New York real estate experts have dubbed a lineup of a half-dozen new superluxury skyscrapers overlooking Central Park that are home to some of the world’s most expensive apartments.

One penthouse on the 89th and 90th floors of a skyscraper near Carnegie Hall that went for more than $100 million seems almost a bargain compared to what will appear next year in a highrise being built on Central Park South: a 23,000-square-foot, four-story apartment offered at $250 million.

That jaw-dropping price was contained in documents the developer filed with the state attorney general’s office. Floor plans show 16 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, five balconies and a massive terrace.

The multi-million dollar question is: Who can afford to buy these places?

“These are the trophy buildings of our era, and the foreign buyer clearly fuels this very, very high-end condominium tower market,” says John Burger, a broker for such properties with the Brown Harris Stevens real estate firm.

The novelty is the prestige of living in sleek, breathtaking skyscrapers with 360-degree views of New York City, thanks to advanced engineering that allows residential buildings to stay skinny while soaring to dizzying heights.

Coming in 2018 is the Central Park Tower at 111 West 57th St., which at 1,438 feet aims to become the tallest residential edifice in the western hemisphere.

The 54-story tower at 520 Park Ave. — also set for a 2018 completion — will be what its architect, Robert A.M. Stern, describes as “an elegant spear of asparagus rising out of the ground.”

On the financial front, such properties often serve as a “safe haven” for investors from turbulent regions of the world with shaky economies, says Richard Jordan, vice-president of global markets for Douglas Elliman,

New York’s largest residential real estate brokerage.

“They believe in the U.S. market, they love New York and they like privacy,” Jordan says.

Other global buyers consider these properties as “the new Swiss bank account” — a discreet, private way of stashing away a fortune, says Burger.

The $250 million mansion in the Manhattan sky is the prize property in the 70-story building that is still under construction at 220 Central Park South.

Monthly common charges will be more than $45,000, with annual taxes of about $675,000, the documents show.

For most New Yorkers, there’s a downside to the exclusive real estate phenomenon. These properties are helping push up already record-breaking real estate prices, with a current average of $2 million for a Manhattan apartment.

The most expensive New York condo went for $100.5 million in 2014 — the penthouse in the 90-story One57 high-rise where many owners are wealthy Russians.

Those prices eclipse a previous, high-profile sale of $88 million for a penthouse just a walk away at 15 Central Park West.

That was sold in 2012 to a Russian mogul by Sanford Weill, the American financier and philanthropist who had purchased the apartment four years earlier for half that. Other residents included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

“That $88 million sale triggered the sense that there was this yet-to-be-harvested, nine-digit New York housing market,” says Jonathan Miller, an independent appraiser. “We started to see a frenzy of $100 million listings — what I call aspirational pricing.”

In addition, new high-rises are even sprouting in Queens and Brooklyn. Several real estate experts credit former billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg for pushing city rezoning laws that allowed these to be built in previously restricted areas.

Says Burger: “He positioned New York as the capital of the world.”

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show that Rodriguez was a resident of

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A luxury 90-floor apartment skyscraper called “One57,” left, rises above all other buildings overlooking Central Park, while a crane sits atop ongoing construction for a new condominium skyscraper at 220 Central Park South, May 26, in New York. A penthouse in One57 went for $100.5 million in 2014, but an apartment in the penthouse, new condominium is expected to sell for $250 million. not an owner.

Air Canada CEO says airport fees, restrictions hinder ability to compete THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Onerous restrictions and costs are hindering Air Canada’s ability to expand and compete internationally, the airline’s CEO last week.

Calin Rovinescu said Canada’s airport fees are too high and legacy legislation from when the company was government-owned means it’s operating at a disadvantage.

“We need to have the same ability to compete, the same level playing field that everyone else has,” said Rovinescu at a Calgary Chamber event.

He said he hoped Bill C-10 will come into force soon so the company

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will have fewer restrictions on where it conducts airline maintenance. The legislation would lift requirements on the number of maintenance employees in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario and how much work is done in those provinces.

The labour restrictions were part of

the privatization measures of Air Canada 28 years ago that Rovinescu said are outdated.

“It’s somewhat preposterous that we would have a duty to perhaps be uncompetitive, or potentially uncompetitive, in one aspect of our business by being required to do maintenance in certain places,” he said.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union has opposed the legislation, saying it will mean Air Canada will be under no obligation to do any maintenance work in Canada.

On boosting Canada as an international transit hub, Rovinescu said the

government needs to lower its fees, with Air Canada paying $802 million in airport and navigation fees last year.

“We shouldn’t have a cost disadvantage to connect passengers over Canada as opposed to over other destinations,” he said.

He hopes visa restrictions for tourists passing through Canada would also be lifted to make it easier to create international transit hubs in the country.

His comments come as Air Canada makes a major foreign expansion push, with about 90 per cent of its capacity increase to come from international markets this year.

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People try to jump in the water right before their boat overturns off the Libyan coast. Over 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried desperately to reach Europe in unseaworthy smuggling boats. tally slashing the neck of a female migrant.

According to Italian police, 300 people in the hold went down with the second boat when it sank, while around 200 on the upper deck jumped into the sea. Just 90 of those were saved, along with about 500 in the first boat.

Italian police said survivors identified the commander of the boat with the working engine as a 28-year-old Sudanese man, who has been arrested and faces possible charges for the deaths. Three other smugglers involved in other crossings also were arrested, police announced.

Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman in Italy for UNHCR, put the number of migrants and refugees missing in that incident at 550 based on a higher tally of 670 people on board. She said 15 bodies were recovered, while 70 survivors were plucked from the sea and 25 swam to the other boat.

Most of the people on board were Eritrean, according to Save the Children, including many women and children. One of the survivors included a 4-year-old girl whose mother had been

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POZZALLO, Italy — Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as rescue ships saved thousands of others in daring operations.

The shipwrecks appear to account for the largest loss of life reported in the Mediterranean since April 2015, when a single ship sank with an estimated 800 people trapped inside. Humanitarian organizations say that many migrant boats sink without a trace, with the dead never found, and their fates only recounted by family members who report their failure to arrive in Europe.

“It really looks like that in the last period the situation is really worsening in the last week, if the news is confirmed,” said Giovanna Di Benedetto, a Save the Children spokeswoman in Italy.

Warmer waters and calmer weather of late have only increased the migrants’ attempts to reach Europe.

The largest number of missing and presumed dead was aboard a wooden fishing boat being towed by another smugglers’ boat from the Libyan port of Sabratha that sank Thursday. Estimates by police and humanitarian organizations, based on survivor accounts, range from around 400 to about 550 missing in that sinking alone.

One survivor from Eritrea, 21-yearold Filmon Selomon, told The Associated Press that water started seeping into the second boat after three hours of navigation, and that the migrants tried vainly to get the water out of the sinking boat.

“It was very hard because the water was coming from everywhere. We tried for six hours after which we said it was not possible anymore,” he said through an interpreter.

He jumped into the water and swam to the other boat before the tow line on the navigable boat was cut to prevent it from sinking when the other went down.

A 17-year-old Eritrean, Mohammed Ali Imam, who arrived five days ago in another rescue, said one of the survivors told him that the second boat started taking on water when the first boat ran out of fuel.

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killed in a traffic accident in Libya just days before embarking, Di Benedetto said.

The UNHCR’s Sami also said that estimated 100 people are missing from a smugglers’ boat that capsized Wednesday off the coast of Libya, captured in dramatic footage by Italian rescuers.

In a third shipwreck on Friday, Sami said 135 people were rescued, 45 bodies were recovered and an unknown numbers of migrants were still missing.

Because the bodies went missing in the open sea, it is impossible to verify the numbers who died. Humanitarian organizations and investigating authorities typically rely on survivors’ accounts to piece together what happened, relying on overlapping accounts to establish a level of veracity.

Survivors of Thursday’s sinking were taken to the Italian ports of Taranto on the mainland and Pozzallo in Sicily. Sami says the U.N. agency is trying to gather information with sensitivity considering that most of the new arrivals are either shipwreck survivors or traumatized by what they saw.

Italy’s southern islands are the

main destinations for countless numbers of smuggling boats launched from the shores of lawless Libya each week packed with people seeking jobs and safety in Europe. Hundreds of migrants drown each year attempting the dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossing.

Habtom Tekle, a 27-year-old Eritrean who survived Thursday’s sinking, described people holding onto each other, some dragging others underwater, as the second boat was sinking.

“For me it was very shocking,” he said through an interpreter.

Tekle fled mandatory, open-ended conscription in Eritrea six years ago, spending time in Egypt, Israel, Uganda and Sudan before heading to Libya to take the risky, and ultimately deadly, sea journey to Italy.

“I want to tell the world this way is dangerous for us. Because my brother, sister, family will lose their lives in this channel,” Tekle said outside the hotspot where he was taken to have his arrival recorded. “Please help us to have freedom in our country. I don’t want to stay here or any place. I want my county with freedom.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI — Panicked zoo visitors watched helplessly and shouted, “Stay calm!” while one woman yelled, “Mommy loves you!” as a 400-poundplus gorilla loomed over a 4-year-old boy who had fallen into a shallow moat at the Cincinnati Zoo. The boy sat still in the water, looking up at the gorilla as the animal touched the child’s hand and back. At one point, it looked as though the gorilla helped the youngster stand up.

Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers. The animal then picked the child up out of the moat and dragged him to another spot inside the exhibit, zoo officials said.

Fearing for the boy’s life, the zoo’s dangerous-animal response team shot and killed the 17-year-old ape, named Harambe.

The child, whose name was not released, was released from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on Saturday night, hours after the fall.

His family said in a statement Sunday that the boy was home and doing fine.

“We extend our heartfelt thanks for the quick action by the Cincinnati Zoo staff. We know that this was a very difficult decision for them, and that they are grieving the loss of their gorilla,” the family said.

Zoo Director Thane Maynard said the gorilla didn’t appear to be attacking the child but was “an extremely strong” animal in an agitated situation. He said tranquilizing the gorilla

wouldn’t have knocked it out immediately, leaving the boy in danger.

“They made a tough choice and they made the right choice because they saved that little boy’s life,” Maynard said.

Zoo officials said the 4-year-old climbed through a barrier at the Gorilla World exhibit and dropped 15 feet into the moat Saturday afternoon.

He was in there for about 10 minutes.

Two female gorillas also were in the enclosure.

The two females complied with calls from zoo staff to leave the exhibit, but Harambe stayed, Maynard said.

Witness Kim O’Connor said she heard the boy say he wanted to get in the water with the gorillas. She said the boy’s mother was with several other young children.

“The mother’s like, ‘No, you’re not.

No, you’re not,”’ O’Connor told WLWT-TV. O’Connor shared video she and her family recorded of the boy and Harambe. The two appear in a corner of the exhibit while visitors yell, “Somebody call the zoo!” and “Mommy’s right here!” The station did not air portions of the video showing the gorilla dragging the boy.

Another woman said that just before the boy fell, she saw him in bushes beyond a fence around the exhibit.

“I tried to grab for him. I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely told The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“Everybody started screaming and going crazy. It happened so fast.”

Zoo staff cleared the area and visitors heard gunfire a few minutes later.

Firefighters then rushed into the enclosure and picked up the boy.

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A sympathy card rests at the feet of a gorilla statue outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden on May 29,ww 2016.

Lt. Steve Saunders, a Cincinnati police spokesman, said there are no plans to charge the parents.

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the zoo should have had a second barrier around the exhibit.

“Even under the ‘best’ circumstances, captivity is never acceptable for gorillas or other primates, and in cases like this, it’s even deadly,” PETA said.

The exhibit opened nearly 40 years ago, and this was the first breach, the zoo said.

Maynard called the killing a tragic death of a critically endangered species and a huge loss for the zoo and the gorilla population worldwide. The gorilla came to Cincinnati in 2015 from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.

Visitors left flowers at a gorilla statue Sunday. Gorilla World remained closed, but the rest of the zoo was open.

One father said he was shocked that the boy was able to get past the fence and bushes that surround the exhibit.

At least 6 dead, 2 missing after floods

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er, but no injuries were reported.

Torrential rains caused heavy flash flooding in some parts of the U.S. over the last few days, and led to numerous evacuations in southeast Texas, including two prisons. But the threat of severe weather has lessened over the long Memorial Day holiday for many places, though Tropical Depression Bonnie continued to bring rain and wind to North and South Carolina.

Near Austin, a crew aboard a county STAR Flight helicopter found a body Sunday on the north end of a retention pond near the Circuit of the Americas auto racing track, which is close to where two people were reported to have been washed away by a flash flood early Friday, Travis County sheriff’s spokesman Lisa Block said.

The body still must be recovered and

HOUSTON — Authorities in central Texas found two more bodies along flooded streams Sunday, bringing the death toll from flooding the state to six.

It’s unclear whether a body found in Travis County near Austin is one of the two people still missing in Texas.

An 11-year-old boy is still missing in central Kansas, too.

The latest flooding victim identified by authorities was a woman who died when the car she was riding in was swept from the street by the flooded Cypress Creek about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Kendall County sheriff’s Cpl. Reid Daly said.

The car, with three occupants, was in Comfort, about 45 miles north of San Antonio. The driver made it to shore, and a female passenger was rescued from a tree.

But Daly said 23-year-old Florida Molima was missing until her body was found around 11 a.m. Sunday about 8 miles downstream. She becomes the sixth flood-related death in Texas this Memorial Day weekend.

In Bandera, about 45 miles northwest of San Antonio, an estimated 10 inches of rain overnight led to the rescues of nine people. The rain caused widespread damage, including the collapse of the roof of the Bandera Bulletin, the weekly newspaper, KSAT-TV in San Antonio reported. Photos from the area showed GREAT campers and trailers stacked against each oth-

no identification has been made.

To the southeast along the rain-swollen Brazos River near Houston, prison officials evacuated about 2,600 inmates from two prisons to other state prisons because of expected flooding, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said. Inmates in a low-level security camp at a third prison in the area are being moved to the main prison building, Clark said.

All three prisons are in coastal Brazoria County, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

“TDCJ officials continue to monitor the situation and are working with our state partners as the river level rises,” Clark said, noting that additional food and water has been delivered to prisons that are getting the displaced

inmates and sandbags have been filled and delivered to the prisons where flooding is anticipated.

Another prison that’s about 70 miles northwest of Houston saw a brawl between inmates and correctional officers on Saturday that began when flooding caused a power outage. Clark estimated as many as 50 inmates in the 1,300-inmate prison were involved.

The rising water in several Houston-area rivers and creeks prompted Harris County officials on Saturday to ask about 750 families in the Northwood Pines subdivision to voluntarily evacuate their homes and apartments.

Officials also warned residents living near the west forkn of the San Jacinto River, north of Houston, that rising waters were likely to flood homes, even those that are elevated.

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The meeting will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2810 Bremmer Avenue, Red Deer. Enter the meeting through Molly B’s door. Meeting begins at 7 PM. Proposed changes to the RDFGA By-Laws include: • • • • • •

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BESWICK English porcelain horse, pinto pony model 1373. $175.

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COFFEE Maker, under counter, $30.

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

403-343-6044 DAYTON heavy duty industrial heater, 220 power, new cond., $60. 403-877-0825 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

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4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1495/mo. in Red Deer.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 GRANDVIEW 4 bdrm.,, 3 bath 5 appls. , fenced, N/S, $1250./mo. + util.

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The CAO reports to the Board and is responsible for the administration of the operations and programs for the Foundation. Rimoka is seeking an individual who is dedicated, motivated and dynamic to join our team.

Qualifications would include: • experience in working with a non-profit board, • government experience both municipal and provincial, seniors, housing and/or service industry, • financial management, • project management, • and personnel administration.

The candidate should also possess excellent communication and leadership skills and preferred post secondary education in a related field.

Interested individuals are asked to submit their resumes in confidence to Paul McLauchlin, Board Chair at rimoka@telus.net or by mail to 5608 57 Ave Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1P2 by May 30th, 2016. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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BELL Betty Ann Betty Ann Bell (Hilliker) passed away peacefully on May 24, 2016 at her home in Villa Marie, Red Deer. Betty Ann is survived by her husband Ralph of 67 years; six children, Doug (Linda) Bell, Dick (Cindy) Bell, Debbie (Dave) Odowichuk, Sandy (Bill) Houser, Ralph (Sherry) Bell Jr., and Linda King; 22 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her only sister Wilda Anderson (Hilton).

Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe, AB. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society would be greatly appreciated. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca

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

Industrial Property

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

1 BDRM. suite across from hospital. Own washer & dryer, N/S. No pets. $900 utils. incl’d. Avail. immed.

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Shootings in Houston leave two dead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — A man came into a Houston auto detail shop and began shooting, killing a man known to be a customer and putting a neighbourhood on lockdown Sunday before being killed by a SWAT officer, police said.

Several people were shot and injured, including a man authorities initially described as another suspect because he was present and armed.

Police said later Sunday they were investigating further whether he played any role.

Three others — two of them male and one female — were hospitalized with injuries police said were not believed to be life-threatening. Two officers were shot, but a union official said they should be OK. Police, who said they have no indication yet of a motive, said they got their first call about the shootings around 10:15 a.m. The customer de-

scribed as a man in his 50s had just driven in to the auto shop. Within a minute or two, authorities said, the gunman came in and started shooting.

Others in the shop ran out to take cover nearby and call for help.

Neighbours described hearing many gunshots, and some drivers told local television stations their cars had been shot at. Police say they believe a fire at a gas station next door began when gunfire hit a pump. A police helicopter was shot at with a “high-powered” weapon and was hit five times, authorities said.

Stephen Dittoe, 55, lives in the house right behind the shooting scene, separated by a fence and tall shrubbery at the end of cul-de-sac.

“I heard the first shot and I thought it was a transformer” exploding, he said. His wife, Ha, 41, said it went on too long for that and described the series of staccato sounds.

She took their two children, ages 6 and 7, into the bathroom, told them to eat breakfast in there, and called 911.

About an hour after the shootings began, a SWAT officer killed the gunman, said Police spokesman John Cannon.

“If he hadn’t taken that action that quickly, this likely would have been a lot worse than it was,” Cannon said.

Houston Police Union President Ray Hunt says an officer who was hit several times in the chest was wearing both a metal breastplate and a bulletproof vest.

The second officer was shot in the hand. Hunt says both officers hurt should be OK. At the Dittoe house, Ha Dittoe said police came to the door about two hours later and asked if anyone in the house was being held captive, and if they could walk around the backyard.

The streets were still blocked off late Sunday afternoon with many police cars and fire trucks on the scene.

A police SUV was seen with a shattered windshield and the back window broken out, and police said two patrol cars were riddled with bullets.

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Police block the intersection at Wycliffe and Apple Tree as they respond to a shooting where authorities say a gunman and at least one other person are dead, Sunday May 29, 2016, in Houston.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel alJubeir said Sunday that Iran must stop meddling in Iraq and that the presence of Iranian military units there is “unacceptable.”

His comments come as thousands of Iraqi Shiite militiamen, soldiers and police, backed by Iran, surround the Sunni city of Fallujah ahead of an operation to retake it from the Islamic State group.

Iran says its military advisers in Iraq are there at Baghdad’s request to help Iraqi forces fight militants. It has repeatedly rejected Saudi criticisms of its role in Iraq, instead accusing its regional rival of supporting extremism.

Al-Jubeir, speaking in a joint press conference with British Foreign Minister Phillip Hammond in Saudi Arabia Sunday, said Iran had sown “sedition and division in Iraq” through its policies, which he said had provoked sectarianism among Sunnis and Shi-

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agree to a demand made by the Iranians to allow a Shiite ritual during the hajj that includes protests against the West and often against the Sunni-ruled kingdom itself. Saudi Arabia says formally allowing them the right to protest would lead to chaos and disrupt the flow of some two million pilgrims from around the world.

Iran’s Hajj Organization said the Saudis failed to meet demands for the “security and respect” of pilgrims, while Iran’s Culture Minister Ali Jannati said Sunday that Saudi “sabotage and obstacles” mean “Iranians pilgrims cannot go to hajj this year.”

A stampede and crush of people during last year’s hajj killed more than 2,400 pilgrims, according to an Associated Press count based on figures reported by various hajj ministries and governments.

Some 464 Iranians were among the dead.

The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not changed since Sept. 26, and officials have yet to address the discrepancy.

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Hammond had earlier held meetings with Saudi King Salman and senior princes in the Red Sea city of Jiddah to discuss the wars in Syria and Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and Iran back opposing sides of the conflicts, and the ongoing turmoil in Libya. He told reporters during the press conference that his country is committed to the security and stability of Gulf Arab countries.

Saudi Arabia and Iran severed diplomatic ties earlier this year after Iranian protesters ransacked Saudi diplomatic offices there to protest the execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric in January.

The tensions have impacted the annual hajj pilgrimage, required of all able-bodied Muslims to perform once in their lives.

An Iranian delegation left the kingdom after a second round of talks without reaching an agreement to send Iranian pilgrims to the hajj this year, which is taking place in September.

Saudi Arabia says it could not

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Sunday that leaked audio recordings of men backing her impeachment show that the effort to oust her is meant to stop a corruption probe that has implicated numerous leading politicians and businessmen.

Rousseff told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that revelation of the recordings gives her hope of returning to office.

She was suspended early this month pending a Senate impeachment trial. Her now-estranged Vice-Presi-

dent Michel Temer is serving as interim leader.

Recordings of three politicians of Temer’s Brazilian Democratic Movement Party appear to link her ouster to attempts to limit the investigation.

Those involved deny that interpretation, and there is no evidence so far that they have stalled the probe.

“The dialogues show that the real cause for my impeachment was an attempt to obstruct the Car Wash operation,” Rousseff said, referring to the name of the corruption investigations at state-run oil giant Petrobras. “It was all made by those who thought that, without changing the government, the bleeding (of politicians) would continue.”

She said that another of the conversations noted that she had allowed the investigations to go forward.

“These conversations prove what we have consistently said: We never interfered. And those that wanted my impeachment had that objective. It is not me saying, it is them.”

The recordings forced new Planning Minister Romero Juca to take a leave of office, while two other heavyweights in Temer’s party, Senate chief Renan Calheiros and former President Jose Sarney, were heard making damaging comments about the acting president, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s Supreme Court, lawmakers and businessmen.

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Woman fails to save friend from crocodile THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISBANE, Australia — A woman struggled in vain to drag her friend from a crocodile’s jaws during a late night swim off a northeast Australian beach, police said on Monday.

The pair were in waist-deep water at Thornton Beach in the World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park in Queensland state when the 46-yearold woman was taken by the crocodile at 10:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, Police Senior Constable Russell Parker said.

“Her 47-year-old friend tried to grab her and drag her to safety but she just wasn’t able to do that,” Parker told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

A rescue helicopter fitted with thermal imaging equipment failed to find any trace of the missing woman Sunday night, he said.

The search resumed on Monday with a helicopter, boat and land-based search teams, he said.

The survivor was taken to a hospital in Mossman suffering from shock and a graze to her arm inflicted as the crocodile brushed against

her, Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Neil Noble said.

“The report that we have from the surviving woman is that they felt a nudge and her partner started to scream and then was dragged into the water,” Noble told ABC. The two women were not locals and might not have been aware that the area was well known as crocodile habitat, Parker said.

The attack occurred near where a 5-year-old boy was taken and killed by a 4.3-metre (14-foot) croc from a swamp in 2009 and a 43-year-old woman was killed.

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