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‘Road map for the future’ ALBERTA ANNOUNCES SWEEPING SIX-YEAR OVERHAUL OF SCHOOL CURRICULA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Education Minister David Eggen says Alberta’s overhaul of its education curricula will include topics such as climate change, gender diversity and sexual orientation.

Eggen announced Wednesday that his department will work with teachers and administrators to redefine six

core subjects simultaneously and within six years for all grades.

“We’ll take a good hard look at how we can do a better job of addressing important topics such as climate change, gender disparity, financial literacy, coding and so, so much more.

“This critical work will set a road map for the future of education in our province.”

Eggen later confirmed to reporters

EDUCATION that the new education framework will include teaching on gender diversity and sexual orientation.

“There will be a strengthened sense of teaching in the health curriculum around those issues, and I think it’s about time,” he said.

“We can see from the unfortunate

circumstances in other countries, in other areas, that now more than ever we need to teach about inclusion and to teach about equality and social justice.

“But of course the cornerstone for us is to ensure that we teach strong and long and in a relevant way numeracy and literacy, those basic skills.”

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer & District Community Foundation has joined efforts to raise money to rebuild playgrounds and other social infrastructure destroyed or damaged in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

A total of 13 foundations, in- Alberta to c l u d i n g s o m e review response outside Alberta, have created the to wildfire Rebuilding Fort Page A3 McMurray Flow Through Fund.

The fund, which has raised about $1.34 million so far, will fund projects focused on restoring and enhancing community infrastructure.

Kristine Bugayong, Red Deer foundation CEO, said the RDDCF Board allocated $10,000 from its Smart and Caring Communities Endowment Fund towards the rebuilding fund and has so far received $1,000 from a community member.

The rebuilding fund remains open for donations from the Red Deer area.

Every donation will be eligible for a tax receipt. The fund will not be invested to grow, but will be used for immediate projects identified by community organizations in Fort McMurray in partnership with participating foundations.

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City of Red Deer RCMP members investigate the scene of a shooting incident at the entrance to Kerry Wood Estates on Kerry Wood Drive on Wednesday evening. Police at the scene released no details, but bystanders said it looked like a male was bleeding heavily before police arrived. Cody Robertson of Red Deer was driving by and stopped to offer first aid; however, before he could help the police and fire department showed up.

“The cops were working on him. A couple of minutes later, the fire trucks pulled up and they were working on him, and then the ambulance showed up about 30 seconds later and there were about 20 people standing around him,” said Robertson. “He wasn’t moving and he was covered in blood. It looked like he lost a lot of blood. It didn’t look good for him,” added Robertson. RCMP later said in a release one victim was taken to hospital with unspecified injuries.

Villa Maria expansion approved despite opposition

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A two-storey expansion to Villa Marie will go ahead despite opposition from adjacent neighbours who fear they will be left in the shade.

The Municipal Planning Commission approved a development permit application allowing the addition west

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“I think that came into play because there were lots of opportunity for this commission to be swayed by privacy issues and access to sunlight,” said Lee. “The commission thought there was not a significant impact in any of those to deny the application.”

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of the existing supportive living facility at 10 Carrington Drive on Wednesday.

It will add 66 beds to the existing 100-bed facility.

Acting MPC chair Lawrence Lee said he was impressed with the unanimous vote to approve the application, which shows the commission did consider all the facets (traffic, noise, employment of property and parking)

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Innisfail student’s essay her ticket to Parliament Hill

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF National contest winner Adele Beaudoin has been invited to join in the red and white festivities on Parliament Hill on Canada Day. The Grade 10 Innisfail High School student was one of three winners from across the country who submitted drawings, photos or creative writing pieces to the department of Canadian Heritage’s 2016 Canada Day Challenge.

Youth were asked to use their creativity and imagination to show or explain what makes them proud to be Canadian.

Beaudoin’s winning essay, The Sky, was written from the ADELE BEAUDOIN point of view of a Brazilian family who were conflicted about moving to Canada. But upon their arrival they discovered Canada’s cultural diversity and that Canada was indeed a place they could comfortably call home.

In her story she wanted to honour her friends who have moved to Canada from other countries and she reflected on how wide-open skies, that can radiate so many different colours, with Canada’s multicultural society.

A copy of her story can be found at http://canada. pch.gc.ca/eng/1464874104361.

Beaudoin said she stumbled upon the contest by accident.

“I was actually trying to do research for a social studies project. That’s why I was on the Government of Canada website and I found it,” said Beaudoin, 15, on Wednesday.

She said writing the story was fun and she had nothing to lose by entering the contest.

“I didn’t think I’d win anything so I just kind of wrote it and sent it, and didn’t worry about it too much.”

Winners get an all-expense paid trip for two to Ottawa to celebrate Canada Day on Parliament Hill and tour museums, galleries, the Parliament buildings and be part of a special summer exhibit at the Canadian Museum of History.

They will also work with education specialists from the National Film Board of Canada to create their very own short films about their adventures in Ottawa. Winners won iPads to create their films.

Beaudoin said she was in Ottawa last summer but didn’t get to tour inside the Parliament building so this will be her chance to walk the halls of government. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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About 200 people gathered in solidarity for the LGBTQ community at the steps of City Hall in Red Deer Wednesday evening in response to the Orlando shooting at a gay night club early Sunday morning.

Lucas Gagne, who helped organize the vigil, said she cried when she read about the heart-wrenching tragedy. “To just be with each other, I think that’s really important at this time,” Gagne said.

City converting street lights to LEDs

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF LED streetlights are being rolled out across the city.

Over the next year, nearly 10,000 street lights will be converted to LED from the old HPS (high-pressure sodium) bulbs. Roughly 5,500 street lights are expected to be retrofitted this year.

Crews will begin replacing street lights in North Red Deer and will move south over the next year.

Jim Jorgensen, Electric Light and Power manager, said about 22 per cent of the city’s total energy use is from street lights. By converting to LED technology, the energy consumed by streets lights will but cut by about 50 per cent.

Additional benefits include a longer lifespan, overall less maintenance and an improved ability to direct light onto roadways to help minimize light camera shows a car passing between two northbound vehicles and then taking the shoulder to pass another before speeding away.

The suspect’s vehicle was located about an hour later by Sylvan Lake RCMP, who then launched an investigation.

Calgary resident Kunal Anand was later charged with a single count of dangerous driving.

Anand entered a plea of not guilty on Wednesday at the case management office of Red Deer provincial court. His trial is booked for Dec. 1.

Local BRIEFS Dangerous driving suspect to stand trial in December

Theft suspect back in court next month A man accused of stealing a truck with two children inside from a Red Deer home will wait another month before entering his plea.

Police were called at about 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 12 of last year to reports that the truck had been stolen from a home in the Waskasoo neighbourhood.

The woman told police that she had left the truck running with her two children, aged one and three, asleep in their car seats.

A dangerous driving suspect allegedly nabbed on dash cam will go to trial in December.

Sylvan Lake RCMP were called to investigate earlier this year when one of a group of car buffs submitted a video showing a car making a dangerous bid to pass two others while northbound on Hwy 2 near Bowden.

The video captured from the complainant’s dash

pollution. All materials from HPS street lights that are removed during the conversion will be recycled.

There will be intermittent lane closures throughout Red Deer while this work is underway, and parking restrictions in residential areas are required to access each light standard. Residents are asked to watch for red no-parking signs, which will be placed a minimum of 12 hours in advance.

Neighbourhoods built after 2011 already have LED street lamps. Any street light that burned out after 2014 was retrofitted with LED technology.

The Street Light Conversion Project is an initiative stemming from the city’s Environmental Master Plan. It is also part of the city’s plan to reducing light pollution, improving environmental sustainability and reducing its overall environmental footprint.

For more information, visit www.reddeer.ca and search Street Light Replacement Program.

She said she had gone into the house briefly and saw a man get in and drive it away, but was unable to stop him. The children were found a few minutes later in Clearview Ridge, near Caribou Cresc. and Carlyle Grn. The truck was the next morning at Safety City, near 30th Ave. and Hwy 11.

Login Myles Gregory, 29, was arrested later on charges of theft of property worth more than $5,000, two counts of child abandonment, mischief over $5,000, resisting or obstructing police and breaching release conditions.

He has made numerous court appearances since his initial arrest, but has not yet elected whether his charges are to be heard in provincial court or the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Red Deer defence counsel Michael Scrase, recently appointed to represent Gregory, appeared on his behalf on Wednesday, but reserved election, stating that he and his client need some time to get together and review the Crown’s evidence before they decide how to proceed. Scrase asked for extra time, given that his client now lives in Edmonton.

Gregory is scheduled to return to court on July 13 to enter his election.

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Alberta orders review of wildfire response

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘THIS FIRE HAS ALTERED THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW FACED WITH THE DIFFICULT TASK OF REBUILDING THEIR LIVES. REVIEWS LIKE THIS ARE A NORMAL PART OF OUR BUSINESS . . . .’

EDMONTON — Alberta has ordered a review into how it responded to the huge wildfire known as “The Beast” that destroyed parts of the Fort McMurray region and forced close to 90,000 people from their homes.

The government says the review will focus on how well the province was prepared for the fire that broke out on May 1 and burned almost 5,900 square kilometres.

It will also cover how the government fought the wildfire, which is no longer growing but is not yet under control.

“This fire has altered the lives of thousands of people who are now faced with the difficult task of rebuilding their lives,” Agriculture and Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier said Wednesday in a release.

“Reviews like this are a normal part of our business when faced with extreme wildfire conditions or an extreme wildfire event.”

The fire destroyed 2,400 homes and buildings and caused the shutdown of two key oilsands facilities.

The government has issued a request for proposals to find a contractor to conduct the review, which is to be completed by the end of the year.

“The impact to both infrastructure and the economy will be measured in the billions of dollars,” the review document says.

The review is to include an assessment of the weather, which was unseasonably warm, dry and windy, and how much timber and brush surrounded threatened or burned neighbourhoods and oilsands facilities.

The review will also look at the behaviour of the

fire, which spread quickly and unpredictably.

Wildfire operations, including the number of firefighters, equipment and aircraft that were deployed to fight the fire and how they were used, are also to be looked at.

Carlier said the cause of the wildfire, which is being investigated by RCMP and wildfire officials, will not be part of the review.

The Municipal Affairs Department is looking at ordering a separate review into the evacuation of the city and the area, but no announcement has been made yet.

Similar reviews were held after the wildfire that destroyed part of the town of Slave Lake in 2011.

Those reviews lead to changes in how the province works to prevent and fight wildfires.

People have been returning to the Fort McMurray and the surrounding area since June 1.

Earlier this week the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo estimated that about half of the evacuees have come home as the community slowly works to bounce back from the disaster.

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a wolf petition, and founder Anna-Marie Ferguson also contributed to the award-winning documentary Unnatural Enemies: The War on Wolves.

Anyone wanting to contribute items to the garage sale can bring them to the parking lot Saturday.

Anyone interested in volunteering for the sale can contact Ferguson at anna@annamarieferguson.com.

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Emergency surgery delays shooting case

Garage sale to raise money for wolves A fundraising garage sale will be held Saturday by a group seeking more humane treatment of Alberta’s wolves.

Donated goods, including some unusual items, will be sold in the parking lot of Tiffany’s restaurant from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting.

Proceeds will go towards the cost of the public information booklet Wild Wolves of Alberta, by Wild Wolf Press.

Organizers hope to raise $18,000 for a second print run, as well as vehicle stickers in support of no more snaring or poisoning of Alberta’s wolves.

The volunteers of www.Wildwolfpress.org started

— ONEIL CARLIER AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY MINISTER

An autistic man accused of firing BBs at the Red Deer RCMP building remains in custody awaiting assistance from his new lawyer.

Cory Daniel Picard, 21, was arrested on March 14 by Red Deer City RCMP investigating damage to two of the windows in their detachment building.

He has not yet entered a plea on charges including possession of a firearm for a dangerous purpose, committing an offence with an

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South African company tries to clear the air about firefighters

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The South African company hired to bring in a crew to help fight the Fort McMurray wildfire says its workers are more highly paid than their Canadian counterparts when wages are adjusted for cost of living.

Working on Fire Ltd. makes the comment as part of a statement about a pay dispute that led to 300 of its firefighters leaving Alberta after only a few days on the job.

“Working on Fire remains uncertain as to how the dispute started however, we are investigating the matter further so as to ensure that a similar incident does not reoccur,” the company said.

“By adjusting for the local cost of living, it becomes evident that the Working on Fire firefighters, deployed to assist with the Alberta wildfires, earn more than the standard Canadian firefighting wages in real terms.”

The company said it agreed to a flat rate of $172.88 a day for each firefighter it sent to Alberta. The fee included $65 daily in wages and allowances. The balance was to cover medical, insurance, training, travel, equipment and other costs.

Working on Fire noted that the normal daily salary for its firefighters in South Africa would be equivalent to $9.17 in Canada.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has said the province will ensure that the firefighters are paid according to Alberta law, which includes a minimum wage of $11.20 per hour.

The company said after talks with its firefighters and Canadian officials that it plans to come up with a new financial agreement within three months. In the meantime, it will deposit additional money in each firefighter’s account for time spent working in Alberta. imitation firearm, mischief causing less than $5,000 in damages and uttering threats.

Picard had been scheduled to for a bail hearing in Red Deer provincial court on April 27. However, his hearing did not proceed when defence counsel Brad Mulder announced that he and his client were likely to part company.

On Wednesday, Picard’s third court appearance since then, Duty Counsel Robin Snider advised the court that Picard has secured services of a new lawyer, based in Calgary, who was unable to attend court on Wednesday because of an emergency surgery.

Picard and his new lawyer are scheduled to return to court today to enter a plea and speak to bail.

100 Kids Group raises $1,070 for Red Deer Food Bank CORY PICARD

Kids who care raised $1,070 for the Red Deer Food Bank.

The 100 Kids Group planted 1,490 trees in Red Deer while raising money for the charity earlier this month.

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Helping to heal Orlando’s wounds PAUL WELLS OPINION

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here is satisfaction in even a grim job done well. On Tuesday, doctors at the Orlando Regional Medical Centre described for reporters the onslaught of patients from Pulse Nightclub, only a few blocks away, who filled the hospital’s trauma bay to overflowing in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Their deadpan tone, their language purged of hyperbole, did nothing to hide how harrowing the night had been. But neither were they much good at hiding their solemn pride.

Like any large American city, Orlando has been bracing for mayhem for years. The arrival of multiple gunshot wounds “is something we practise frequently,” Gary Parrish, the director of the hospital’s medical department, said at a news conference.

When it actually happened, it was “surreal,” said Will Havron, one of the surgeons. “We were just getting patient after patient after patient.”

The staff stepped up to the challenge.

Surgeons and nurses rushed in from home. Triage and co-ordination were superb.

Angel Colon had been a patron in the club. He described how he lay still on the floor, playing dead, while the

gunman shot him in the hand and hip to make sure. He was effusive in his praise for the hospital’s staff.

Chadwick Smith had been the attending surgeon on call that night. “It was singularly the worst day of my career and the best day of my career,” he said gravely.

But there could be no resting on laurels. Eight more surgeries were scheduled for Tuesday alone. Six patients remained near death. Doctors were not sure all will survive. The punishing weight of the hospital’s burden was evident.

A few miles away, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida was busy with other burdens.

On Sunday, the region’s largest gay community drop-in office moved next door to a larger commercial space in a hurry, to handle its vastly expanded mandate. When I visited, a uniformed security guard was letting visitors through the door in ones and twos.

Volunteers were in a separate area at the back of the office, where they would not have to speak to reporters unless they wanted.

Corey Lyons is the president of Impulse Orlando, which promotes safe sex practices. Impulse was at Pulse Nightclub three weeks ago, offering vacation packages for patients who underwent HIV testing. When he woke up at 6 a.m. Sunday in his apartment two blocks from Pulse, his phone “kind of blew up” with messages from friends, and his partner was crying uncontrollably.

Since then it’s been non-stop for a large volunteer team: counselling survivors and victims’ families, raising and disbursing money for flights, funerals, car service, temporary housing. The weekend massacre was “overwhelming, very heartbreaking,” Lyons said. But it was the work of one man who decided to hate and whom to hate, he said. Orlando is replying, from the people most directly affected on out.

“We’re just trying to bring people together.”

The good work of good people to comfort the bereaved and bind up a community’s wounds was inspiring to see. But I kept being distracted by the larger debate this tragedy is feeding.

Including Donald Trump’s astonishing remarks on Monday, when he accused U.S. President Barack Obama of hiding something on terrorism, or pulling his punches, or screwing up, or wanting to screw up. On Tuesday Trump was still at it, calling for “extraordinary screening” against immigrants.

Obama gave his answer on Tuesday.

At the Treasury Department in Washington the president left a meeting of his National Security Council on the fight against Daesh, also known as ISIS and ISIL. But fully half his remarks were about Trump.

“The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer — they were all U.S. citizens,” Obama said. “Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently? … Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their

faith?”

Why doesn’t he talk about “radical Islam” when fighting terrorists?

“Groups like ISIL and Al Qaeda want to make this war a war between Islam and America, or between Islam and the West,” he said. “If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion then we’re doing the terrorists’ work for them.”

Obama has been reluctant to engage Trump directly. Even now, he indulged a bizarre tenet of campaign rhetoric which holds that it’s somehow more proper or high-flown to refrain from calling an opponent by his name. He never once pronounced Trump’s, referring only to “the presumptive Republican nominee” and “politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows.” And of course Obama is not the Democratic nominee this year. To some extent the race will come down to whether Hillary Clinton can fight her own fights.

But it is now clearer than ever that this election will come down to a candidate who rejects, condemns, marginalizes and denigrates, and one who advertises a preference for reaching out, reconciling and embracing. Canada’s 2015 federal election and the Quebec provincial election a year earlier suggest the less confrontational candidate, Hillary Clinton, should stand a good chance. It’ll be a nasty fight all the same.

Paul Wells is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

more than 10,000 students through its doors each and every day. We have 1,345 staff members, on a full- or parttime basis. It is a large organization that has a huge impact on our community. We are growing and teaching a generation who must be prepared to live in and lead our world in its rapidly changing environment. We cannot afford to give these students anything other than our best. Loaves and Fishes Benevolent Society has helped make this happen, one lunch at a time, one student at a time.

It is easy to see situations in our world which are unfair, or need addressing. The hard part is to respond to those complicated and complex problems which are facing kids today.

Loaves and Fishes has certainly done their part in responding.

It is with regret that we say farewell to this longstanding ministry. We want to issue a heartfelt thank you to its founders, Gertie and Everett Clark, to the countless numbers of supporters and volunteers who have contributed over the years to the school lunch program, as well as to its current board of directors and staff. You have all contributed to the success and well being

of thousands of students. We simply cannot thank you enough.

We are grateful that The Mustard Seed has stepped in to continue with this important work in our community and we look forward to a new partnership with them. But to all who have been part of Loaves and Fishes over the years, we say farewell. You have exemplified your mission, taken from Matthew 25:35, “I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.”

You are leaving us better for having served us.

Bev Manning, Board chair Red Deer Public Schools

ticed some young men as well skimpily clad without a care in the world or thought to consequences of a possible split second error. I cringe at the thought of a spill, loss of control, or worse a collision. Yes it happens that quickly.

I wonder what compels these young people to ride without the protection of leathers. Yes they think they look great on their bike. A sexy view of limbs and butts for all to see. But in reality, sheer stupidity.

Is there no law for bikers to wear protective clothing? We in vehicles must buckle up. We are protected by air bags, and also the car itself, like a wall around us. A tumble off a motorcycle with proper gear is bad enough, but without proper attire, your skin would basically shred right off or worse, and then the young, beautiful limbs will be no more.

For all you young riders — us seasoned riders know better or have experienced a split second error — use your brain and protect all that wonderful young skin.

Always wear leathers.

Debbie Mazzei, Red Deer

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Loaves and Fishes exemplified their mission On behalf of Red Deer Public Schools, our staff, and our students, I would like to thank Loaves and Fishes for their many years of service to our students and their families. They have provided bag lunches for more than 200 of our students each day, students who would otherwise have gone hungry. It is impossible to quantify the impact this has had on learning, but we know it has been great.

We believe that each student who walks into any one of our schools, deserves every chance to be successful.

Although we recognize that we can’t be all things to all students, the fact is that they are with us for most of their day. This provides us with the opportunity, and we would argue also the responsibility, to respond to their needs.

Because of that belief, we actively seek to partner with others in our community who can best meet some of those needs so that our teachers can do what they are trained to do — help students learn and grow.

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NEWS

Thursday, June 16, 2016

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Doctor wanted psych assessment for boy’s mother

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A doctor who treated a starved diabetic boy 10 years before his death thought the child’s mother should undergo a psychiatric assessment.

Emil Radita, 59, and his wife Rodica Radita, who is 53, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of their 15-year-old son.

Alexandru, who was one of eight children, weighed less than 37 pounds when he died in 2013 of complications due to untreated diabetes and starvation.

B.C. pediatrician Paul Korn was recalled to the witness stand at the trial in Calgary on Wednesday for cross-examination.

After Alexandru was admitted to hospital in Surrey, B.C., in October 2003, his mother’s odd behaviour in refusing to accept a diabetes diagnosis from three years earlier, as well as a failure to provide proper treatment, made Korn think a psychiatric assessment would be a good idea, he said.

“The information that had been presented to me up until that time, in terms of what had happened in 2000, what had happened in 2001, what eventually ended up hap-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A report says Canada is the only G7 nation that leaves unprepared homeowners on the hook financially for losses from severe flooding.

The study, released

by Swiss Re Canada, said floods have made up half of Canada’s natural disasters since 1970.

The international wholesale insurance provider said flooding is expected to remain a major concern as such disasters become more frequent.

Christoph Oehy of Swiss Re Canada said residential homes in Canada are either totally vulnerable or only marginally protected from flooding losses.

While insurance can be purchased for some water-related perils in Canada, comprehensive residential flood policies were not available until recently.

The way things are right now, Oehy said homeowners and government end up paying the majority of flood-related damage. It leaves many families without the necessary funds to rebuild their lives and delays economic recovery in the affected areas.

“We believe traditionally about 40 per cent of the flood risk each year is insured and about 60 per cent of the flood risk is uninsured,” he said.

The report comes just days before the third anniversary of the 2013 southern Alberta floods, which forced 100,000 people from their homes, primarily in Calgary and High River, and caused an estimated $6 billion in damage.

The high water damaged 14,000 homes, 80 schools and 10 health facilities and forced the closure of nearly 1,000 kilometres of highway.

The report said insurance covered only about one-third of the economic losses suffered as a result of the Alberta floods and about $1 billion of the almost $1.5 billion in total losses from a flood that submerged roads, railways and basements in Toronto a few weeks later that same year.

Swiss Re used a flood model to calculate the cost of one-in-200-year flood disasters province-by-province. The report estimates a major disaster in Ontario could cost $6.4 billion in damages but only $2.5 billion would be covered. In Alberta, the projection would be $4.3 billion while only $1.8 billion would be insured.

Widespread flood insurance may not be far off but Oehy said it requires the co-operation of government, the insurance industry and homeowners.

outcome would be if he wasn’t treated,” Korn testified. “I don’t think she had an understanding that, untreated, this was a fatal condition.”

The doctor recommended that Alexandru’s mother be allowed to remain at his bedside, even though he was being turned over to children’s services.

“He was in a very, very fragile state. The mother had been looking after him continuously … and my feeling was at that time (that) to separate mother from Alex could lead to a very bad outcome for Alex,” Korn told court.

“He was in a very tenuous state and we weren’t really sure that he was going to live in the first few days of his admission to the ICU.” Justice Karen Horner, who is hearing the case without a jury, has yet to decide if the evidence from British Columbia will be admitted.

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pening in 2003 — and everything in between — was very unusual,” Korn recalled telling an RCMP officer at the time.

“I’d been doing pediatrics for 20 years at the time and this was really, really odd. I thought a psychiatric assessment was something that should be considered.”

Korn also suggested a parental capacity assessment for the Raditas, although he did say he didn’t believe the mother’s behaviour was intentional or malicious.

The doctor didn’t believe the Raditas were targeting Alex or withholding nutrition from him “per se,” but was concerned about their “bizarre understanding” of how to manage his medical issues.

“I don’t believe she really had an understanding of what diabetes was or what it meant or what the

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

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Alberta BRIEFS Calgary police lay several charges against their own after anti-corruption probe CALGARY — Current and former members of the Calgary Police Service are facing a bevy of charges after a two-year anti-corruption investigation.

Police say a woman came to them in August 2014 with allegations that she was being harassed by people she believed were hired by her former husband.

It’s alleged that Kenneth Carter hired former officer Stephen Walton, who was working in security, to follow his ex-wife and report on her activity.

Walton faces charges of criminal harassment, bribery of officers, improper storage of a firearm and perjury, while Carter is charged with criminal harassment and perjury.

Police say that Walton allegedly hired three members of the police service, who have also been charged.

The suspension status of two, Bryan Morton and Bradford McNish, are under review. A third, Anthony Braile, was dismissed and relieved of duty without pay on an unrelated matter earlier this year.

Walton’s wife, Heather, a former civilian member of the police service, has also been charged.

Deputy police chief Ray Robitaille said it’s hard on the police service when members are facing criminal charges.

“It’s a sense of betrayal that officers feel,” he said. “They uphold the public’s trust at the highest level and whenever that’s eroded, it feels personal.”

Robitaille alleges the officers involved made hundreds of inquiries in police databases to gain private information about the woman.

“The database is monitored all the time, so you cannot access that database without leaving a fingerprint,” said Robitaille.

Farmer performs highway C-section on dying doe PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — An Alberta man was moving an injured deer off a highway in British Columbia when he saw a tiny hoof sticking out of its belly.

Sean Steele was on his way to visit family in Prince Rupert last Friday when he came across the dying doe near Smithers.

The farmer, who also runs a steel fabrication shop near Barrhead, northwest of Edmonton, said the car in front of him had hit the animal and he stopped to help.

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CURRICULA: Albertans have a say The government has run into opposition from Catholic church leaders and some faith-based schools over mandating gay-straight alliances in schools and developing policies to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.

When asked if he expects pushback from faith-based schools on teaching sexual orientation, Eggen said: “We will work with all of our partners with sensitivity and empathy … to ensure we build something that works for all students.”

Albertans will get to have their say in meetings and through online surveys starting this fall.

The revamp involves arts, language arts, math, social studies, science and wellness and, for the first time, will be developed in English and French.

It is to be rolled out in stages. The new plan for kindergarten to Grade 4 is to be done by 2018. The curriculum for Grades 5 to 8 is set for 2019. The high school plan is to be developed in phases from 2020 to 2022.

It will build on the principles of a recently completed curriculum framework that emphasizes student-centred direction. The revamp will cost $64 million.

Mark Ramsankar, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, ap-

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Baby deer are shown at a wildfire sanctuary in Smithers, B.C. in a handout photo. An Alberta man says he was moving a injured deer off a highway in British Columbia when he saw a tiny hoof sticking out of its belly. He performed a roadside C-section.

He grabbed his pocket knife from the dash of his pickup truck intending to kill the deer and stop its suffering.

But by the time he had dragged it to a ditch, it was dead.

He used the knife instead to free the baby.

“I just cut it open and pulled the fawn out,” said Steele.

“It was alive but it wasn’t really breathing, so I stuffed some grass up its nose, cleaned out its mouth — got all that slime out of there — and it started breathing.”

Steele said he dried off the tiny deer and checked to make sure it hadn’t also been injured in the crash.

“It was starting to jump around … it was in good shape.”

He placed the deer on the back seat of his pickup truck and delivered the fawn to a nearby sanctuary.

Man apologizes for hateful graffiti against Muslims, Syrian refugees CALGARY — A Calgary man has apologized for spewing hatred towards Muslims and Syrian refugees.

Kyle MacKenzie, who is 29, spraypainted racist words on an LRT station and on vehicles at a C-train parking lot on Dec. 3.

He pleaded guilty in March to mischief and inciting hatred. plauded Eggen for bringing his organization in as a full partner.

Ramsankar said the revised plans will need more focus and flexibility.

“When you have a program of studies with multiple objectives in it and you have a finite amount of time, it makes it difficult to cover all.

“We want to enrich the experience by looking at fewer objectives, but a richer experience for students.”

Mary Martin, vice-president of the Alberta School Boards Association, said her group is pleased to see the province will emphasize teaching the perspectives and histories of francophone, First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples.

The Opposition Wildrose party said it wants more details on how to ensure students are taught the fundamentals.

“We need to take the time to get this review done right and avoid change just for the sake of change,” said education critic Mark Smith.

REBUILD: Different needs than past Bugayong said social infrastructure would include projects like parks, community halls, wherever people would gather that would enhance their quality of life.

“This is a different need than what we responded to a month ago. There’s quite a bit of effort that needs to be put into the rebuilding,” Bugayong said on Wednesday.

The fund also supports Fort McMur-

MacKenzie told his sentencing hearing Wednesday that what he did was “ignorant, hurtful, and reckless behaviour.”

He told police after his arrest that the Paris terrorist attacks in November and his hate for ISIL spurred his crime.

MacKenzie will be sentenced on July 15 the prosecution wants 18 months in jail, while the defence is arguing for time served, plus three months for a breach of probation charge.

Police seize 2,000 fentanyl pills believed to be from B.C. EDMONTON — Officials with Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams say a drug supply including 2,000 fentanyl pills has been seized as part of a massive drug investigation, and three people have been charged.

The ALERT investigation started in May and investigators received information that a vehicle was coming back to Edmonton from the B.C. lower mainland, containing a large shipment of drugs.

Investigators found the vehicle on June 3, and three Edmonton homes were searched.

In addition to the pills, investigators also seized marijuana, cocaine, body armour, a Taser, ammunition and $26,000 cash proceeds of crime. ray which does not have a community foundation, she said.

“We wanted to make sure that we make the people in Fort McMurray feel they are supported by a community foundation.”

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EXPANSION: Plot next move The commission had put off making a decision at its June 1 meeting after hearing increased traffic and noise concerns from Cody Place residents.

Residents in the 22 homes were also concerned about losing direct sunlight and privacy because of the building’s height.

Administration was directed to consult with the developer about a potential change to the design of the development and to provide a sunlight

Staff Sgt. Pierre Blais says in 2015, fentanyl took the lives of 274 Albertans.

Christopher Jervis, 28, James JervisHilker, 35, and Billy Roche, 28, are facing a number of drug-trafficking charges.

Alberta wants American extradited for alleged murder of Edmonton man in 2015 EDMONTON — Alberta’s Attorney General and the Edmonton police want the U.S. to hand over an American man to face a charge of first-degree murder.

The remains of Dwayne Demkiw of Edmonton were found in a rural area near Innisfail in April.

Demkiw, who was 42, was last seen at his workplace in Edmonton on May 31, 2015 and his burning car was found in Calgary the same day.

Edmonton police say they issued a Canada-wide warrant for Jason Steadman on charges of first-degree murder and arson on Oct. 15, 2015.

They say Steadman, who is 41, is in custody in Washington.

Police say that no further details will be released now that the government and police have requested the U.S. extradite Steadman to Canada. report.

At Wednesday’s meeting the commission heard that a one-storey development would not be operationally viable for the site and the existing development.

Paul Gowans, who lives on the west side of Cody Place, acted as spokesperson for the group. He said the group of duplex owners will meet this week to determine their next move.

“I think there is a feeling that we need to appeal what has transpired,” said Gowans. “There is a lot of frustration particularly (related to) the early stages of development. The information that was presented to the buyers on the east side was not accurate. That is one of the major concerns.”

The duplex owners were left in the dark about the two-storey development next to their homes, he said.

Gowans told the commission that residents would essentially lose three hours of direct sunlight every day once the facility is built.

The group has two weeks as of Friday to appeal the decision. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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SPORTS

THE ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016

BLUE JAYS HAMMER PHILLIES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 7 Phillies 2 PHILADELPHIA — Marco Estrada has reached the point where he doesn’t need his best stuff to pitch well.

Estrada had another sharp outing, Edwin Encarnacion and Josh Donaldson hit solo homers and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-2 on Wednesday night.

Estrada (5-2) allowed two runs and four hits, striking out five in 6 2-3 innings.

“It was a battle for him tonight,” Jays manager John Gibbons said.

“They have pesky hitters. He might have the best changeup in baseball.

He has different weapons. He can throw anything at any time.”

Estrada has held opponents to five hits or fewer in 10 straight starts, extending his team record.

“I didn’t have my best, but I gave it everything, tried to hit the glove every time,” Estrada said. “Wasn’t the greatest of games, but a lot of great defence helped me. J.D. (Donaldson) made two great ones.”

Cody Asche had a homer, two doubles and drove in both runs for the Phillies, who have lost six of seven and 19 of 25. Jeremy Hellickson (4-5) allowed four runs and five hits in six innings.

The Blue Jays scored three runs to take a 4-1 lead in the fourth. Hellickson walked Donaldson and Encarnacion to start the inning. After a double steal, Russell Martin’s sacrifice fly made it 2-1. Ryan Goins hit an RBI

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson hits a home run off Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris during the eighth inning of a baseball game on Wednesday in Philadelphia. Toronto won 7-2. single with two outs and Devon Travis followed with a run-scoring double.

“You walk the first two guys in an inning, you’re just asking for trouble,” Hellickson said.

Donaldson connected off Hector Neris in a three-run eighth, sending his 16th homer deep to left after a knockdown pitch. He made two outstanding plays at third base, including

a long throw from several feet beyond the foul line to rob Hellickson of a hit.

“I take a lot of pride in defence like all the guys on our team,” Donaldson said. “It’s fun to make those plays behind your pitcher. It’s something I came into the season trying to be better at. Defence is fun.”

Encarnacion hit a 1-2 pitch off the facing of the second deck in left field

for his 17th homer leading off the second. He has five homers in the last four games.

“Eddie is locked in pretty good,” Gibbons said. “You give him something to hit and he’s going to hit it.”

Asche answered with a long drive of his own, hitting his second homer into the second deck in right field in the bottom half.

Asche’s RBI double in the fourth cut the deficit to 4-2.

STANDINGS Blue Jays (37-31) are a season-high six games over .500 while the Phillies (30-36) are a season-worst six games under .500.

BULLPEN BOUND Gibbons said the team still plans to move Aaron Sanchez to the bullpen at some point this season no matter his success as a starter. Sanchez is 6-1 with a 3.38 ERA in 13 outings. He’s thrown 85 1/3 innings and the team has him on an innings limit.

SLUMPING Phillies cleanup hitter Tommy Joseph was 0 for 4 and is hitless in his last 16 at-bats.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: OF Michael Saunders wasn’t in the lineup a day after he left in the third inning because of tightness in his right hamstring. … SS Troy Tulowitzki is expected to play in a rehab game for Single-A Dunedin on Thursday. He’s been out since May 27 with a sore right quadriceps.

Phillies: 3B Maikel Franco didn’t start for the third straight game because of a sprained right knee. He struck out as a pinch-hitter to end the game.

Rice vs Lo set to headline Superfights 24

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Western Canadian Super Lightweight full Muay Thai rules belt will be on the line as Superfights 24 rolls into the Red Deer Sheraton this weekend.

A total of 12 fights mark the card and headlining it is the title fight between Braedon Rice of Seven Stars Praying Mantis Red Deer facing off against Tim Lo, of Arashi-Do Martial Arts in Sherwood Park .

“The guys both have pretty good firepower,” said Lyle Cheney, event organizer. “Lo is very experienced, but Rice is a really good fighter. He’s tricky and very tall.”

Lo is the defending champion and will put his title on the line.

Rice, of Red Deer, is one of four Central Albertans fighting. Justin Rocheleau, of Red Deer, faces Dean Koslovi of Lethbridge. Rocheleau is one of two fighters from Cheney’s Zen Karate and Kickboxing.

The other is Stephanie Schmale in a non-title fight. The reigning Ladies Western Canadian Welterweight Muay Thai Champion will square off against Leslie Ens of Saskatoon, out of Scheer’s Martial Arts.

Michael Roe of Lacombe, who helps run Lacombe Karate and Kickboxing, will face Ryan Demyen of Regina to round out the local fighters.

Eight more bouts will feature fighters from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The main event between Rice and Lo will be a five-round fight while the rest of the card will be three rounds long each.

The Muay Thai and kickboxing event has happened in Red Deer since 1993 and featured a wide range of fighters; Cheney has run the fights since 2000.

FILE Photo by CARSON PAPKE/Advocate staff

Amir Vasseghi from Mike Miles Muay Thai out of Calgary protects as Gavin Owen from Cheney’s Zen Karate and Kickboxing out of Red Deer throws a kick during a match at Superfights 23 at the Westerner Prairie Pavillion. Superfights 24 is set to take place at the Sheraton in Red Deer this weekend.

Doors open at 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Sheraton, 3310 Gaetz Ave, and the fights start just at 7:15 p.m.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased in advance by calling Cheney’s Zen Karate and Kickboxing at 403-347-

9020 or at the door. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Green vows to be better for Warriors in Game 6

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — For all the criticism of Golden State’s Draymond Green and his penchant for committing flagrant fouls during these playoffs, Wednesday may have brought the harshest words yet.

The critic: Green himself. Saying he let the Warriors down and that he was a “terrible teammate,” Green spoke on how it pained him to be suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals — and how he will make amends Thursday night in Game 6, when the Warriors visit the Cleveland Cavaliers and get a second shot at winning what would be their second straight championship.

“I owe to my teammates to come back and give all that I have, all that I can do to better this situation,” Green said. “I have strong belief that if I play Game 5, we win. But I didn’t because I put myself in a situation where I wasn’t able to play.”

Golden State leads the series 3-2, but now knows it will play the rest of the series without starting centre Andrew Bogut because of a left knee injury. Green — who missed Game 5 because of how many flagrants he has accrued during the playoffs — will be called upon to

NBA FINALS play some centre in Game 6, as he has plenty of times in this post-season already.

“Draymond is the spirit of what we do,” said Warriors guard Stephen Curry, the NBA’s two-time reigning MVP. “You see it out on the floor.”

This series is back in Cleveland largely because LeBron James and Kyrie Irving could not be stopped in Game 5, when the Warriors’ best defender was watching the Cavaliers’ star duo score 41 points apiece from a suite at the adjacent baseball stadium that the Oakland Athletics call home. Green alone could not have stopped their onslaught, but it surely stands to reason that life would have been more difficult for Cleveland if he was in uniform. With Green watching, the A’s won by nine.

Without Green playing, the Warriors lost by 15.

He’s already spoken to his teammates about his mistakes, and made clear that watching Game 5 from next door left him hurting.

“Everybody’s helped with Draymond being on the floor,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “So that will be nice to

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have him back. We missed him the other night. We were disappointed in our performance without him. We thought we could still get it done, but we didn’t.

So now it’s time to recharge the batteries and get ready.”

The straw that got Green suspended was when he took a swipe at James’ groin area in Game 4. But when asked what he expected when he sees Green in Game 6, James showed he’s only focused on bigger pictures and no mano-a-mano battle.

“My only job is to get this win, man,” James said.

Green met with reporters for about 11 minutes before practice, and didn’t shy away from his mistakes in these playoffs. Some thought he merited a suspension when he kicked Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams in the groin area during the Western Conference finals.

The NBA upgraded the foul and fined him after reviewing that play, and when another flagrant was assessed afterthe-fact for taking the shot at James a suspension was automatic.

“I move on from the suspension. We move on. It was Game 5. We’re here in Game 6,” Green said. “So it’s behind us.

We’ve got an opportunity to do something that, I don’t know if it’s ever been done … where you win a championship

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on someone else’s floor two years in a row.”

Teams have won at home in consecutive years, but to do it in the same road locale has only happened once before — the Boston Celtics celebrated on the Los Angeles Lakers’ home floor in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969.

Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue was asked if his team might try to prod Green a bit, knowing another flagrant foul or two technicals in Game 6 would mean another suspension for Game 7.

“You just play the game,” Lue said.

Green, who acknowledged that he’s been working on keeping emotions in check, didn’t sound worried.

“I think I’ve got to come out and play my game regardless,” Green said. “But there are those little fine lines where you just know you can’t cross them.”

If Cleveland wins, Game 7 is in Oakland, California on Sunday. If Cleveland loses, the Warriors will celebrate on the Cavs’ home floor for the second consecutive year — exactly one year to the day from last year’s clincher. And if Golden State gets to spray champagne the cramped visiting locker room at Quicken Loans Arena around again, those bubbles will likely wash away most of not all the sting Green is feeling for letting his team down.

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

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Former Rebels assistant coach O’Rourke joins Cougars coaching staff

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Streamers and confetti fall around Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby as he holds onto the Stanley Cup while riding in the victory parade in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday. The Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks on Sunday to win the NHL hockey championship.

400,000 fans greet Pittsburgh Penguins at Stanley Cup parade

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins turned around a once-disappointing season and fired a coach before winning a fourth Stanley Cup, adversity that seemed to make Wednesday’s city-wide celebration that much sweeter.

Fans lined the victory parade route more than 10 deep as the players, coaches, their families and support staff rolled by in pickup trucks, convertibles and amphibious duck boats.

“We were slow at one time but, man, were we fast when we finished,” general manager Jim Rutherford told the crowd at the end of the parade route.

The parade was held seven years to the day that the 2009 team celebrated its Stanley Cup championship with a downtown victory lap. That parade drew about 375,000 spectators, and city and county public safety officials said this one topped out at 400,000.

“Well the one thing I’ve learned is this is one crazy sports town,” said coach Mike Sullivan, hired to replace Mike Johnston when the team was out of playoff contention in December.

Some fans arrived 12 hours ahead of

time for the 11:30 a.m. parade, despite overnight drizzle.

The skies largely cleared, though, as fans threw ribbons and confetti, peered out of office windows and from parking garage platforms, and thronged the city’s main downtown streets.

Twins Pat and Joe Stevens, 19, drove 10 hours from Phil Kessel’s hometown, Madison, Wisconsin, to honour their favourite player now that he’s joined their favourite team.

Kessel joined the team in an off-season trade from Toronto, where fans often took out their frustrations on him in a city that hasn’t witnessed a Stanley Cup championship since 1967 — the year the Penguins joined the National Hockey League as one of six expansion teams.

“I was a big fan before, more now,” Pat Stevens said. “I always thought that he had good talent, but he didn’t have much around him.”

Zachary Sheler worked a 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift at a convenience store in Johnstown on Tuesday before driving 60 miles west to grab a spot near the parade-ending stage by 3 a.m. He was holding a plastic replica of the Stanley Cup glued together from “a five-gal-

lon bucket and just a bunch of Betty Crocker bowls from the Dollar Tree.”

“I just wanted to see the Pens bring back Lord Stanley,” said Sheler, 18.

Allie Hosinski, 21, a University of Pittsburgh student, has culturally adopted two of the team’s Swedish stars, Patric Hornqvist and Carl Hagelin. She’s studied their language for three years at Pitt and will be studying abroad in Stockholm next month.

She wore a plastic-horned Viking helmet and held a sign that, translated, means, “Congratulations to Hornqvist and Hagelin.”

“Pittsburgh Egna Vikingar,” the sign also said, meaning, “Pittsburgh Our Vikings.”

Harry and Lisa Mosser, 59, have been fans since before they got married in 1979 and used their wedding present money to buy season tickets.

They knew finding a parking place would be daunting so they drove 20 miles downriver from New Kensington and spent Tuesday night at a hotel to be sure they could get to the parade.

“I paid $200 for a parking space, that’s the way I look at it,” Lisa Mosser said. “We’re both going to be 60 this year and we don’t know how many of these we’re going to see.”

Johnson confident a year after latest U.S. Open disappointment

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Dustin Johnson insists he’s over it. That his anxious three-putt on the 18th green during the final round of the 2015 U.S. Open does not define him. That if he’s near the top of the leaderboard this weekend at Oakmont, he’ll be focused on the next shot, not the ones that got away.

Johnson trailed Jordan Spieth by a shot as he walked to the tee at the par-5 18th at Chambers Bay last Father’s Day. Two majestic shots left him 12 feet from a championship. His eagle attempt slid 4 feet past the hole.

When the comebacker to force a Monday playoff burned the edge but didn’t drop, Johnson stood up and numbly tapped for the most unsatisfying par of his career.

“It wasn’t like I hit bad shots or did anything,” Johnson said Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, the greens weren’t as smooth as they could have been. This week, you don’t have to worry about that. If I miss a putt, then I can blame myself, not the greens, which I like.”

The stunning turn of events — labeled everything from a “collapse” to a “choke” — left Johnson 0 for 24 at the majors, a number that’s risen to 0 for 27 heading to Oakmont. The 31-yearold is well aware he has yet to raise one of his sport’s four most coveted trophies. He’s also aware that all he can do is keep going out there.

“I don’t know how much I would think about it, but it’s all about just putting myself in position, giving myself a chance to win on Sunday, coming down the back nine,” Johnson said.

That part hasn’t been much of a problem for Johnson, who has 11 top 10s between the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters. It’s the part where he sinks that last putt and thrusts his arms aloft in triumph that’s the issue.

He entered the final round of the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach three shots clear of Graeme McDowell. A triple bogey on No. 2 and a double bogey on the next hole sent him tumbling to an ignominious 82. Less than two months later, he was in a similar spot in the PGA at Whistling Straits.

Needing a par on the par-4 18th to win, Johnson grounded his club while setting up for his second shot. One problem: The patch of dirt he was standing in was technically a bunker. He was assessed a two-shot penalty after tapping in for bogey, leaving him out of the playoff. So much talent. So many near misses. Yet the nine-time PGA Tour winner — including at least one victory in each of the last eight years — remains undaunted. Asked if he’s aware of concerns about his ability to keep his nerves in check during the biggest moment, Johnson just shrugged.

“I don’t really read the media, so I didn’t even know,” he said. “So that’s how I block it out.”

If Johnson needs an example of how these things can work themselves out, he needn’t look far. Phil Mickelson spent his first decade as a professional finding interesting ways fall short, typically by taking unnecessary risks.

Mickelson didn’t capture his first major until he edged Ernie Els to capture the 2004 Masters at age 33. Four more

majors followed that breakthrough moment, though Mickelson — who turns 46 on Thursday and remains winless at the U.S. Open — admitted that constantly being reminded of all the things he hadn’t done weighed on him.

“The more it’s discussed, the more you start thinking about it,” Mickelson said. “The challenge is really on Friday and Saturday nights, when you have opportunities and you start putting that self-imposed pressure, because then you never play free. You never play with a kind of a loose attitude, where we all play our best.”

When he’s on, Johnson can overpower courses with his length. He arrives at Oakmont coming off consecutive top-five finishes at Memorial and the St. Jude Classic, though Oakmont’s notoriously quick greens will offer a far different test.

It’s a challenge the world’s sixthranked player insists he’s up for as tries to make inroads on the 20-something-year-olds ahead of him, including the 22-year-old Spieth, 27-year-old Rory McIlroy and 28-year-old Jason Day.

PRINCE GEORGE. B.C. — Two weeks after leaving the Red Deer Rebels, Steve O’Rourke has found a new home.

The Prince George Cougars announced Wednesday that O’Rourke would be named the team’s new associate coach.

O’Rourke spent three seasons with the Rebels as an assistant coach and was a part of the team’s Memorial Cup run that ended in the semifinals.

A Rebels press release on June 1 announced O’Rourke was not returning to the team for the 2016-17 Western Hockey League season and cited family reasons.

O’Rourke has also served as an assistant coach with the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Heat, the general manager and head coach of the British Columbia Hockey League’s Langley Rivermen and coached at the Okanagan Hockey Academy.

Jade Lee named third-team All American in softball A Red Deer softball product and freshman at Iowa Western has been named a third-team All American in the National Junior College Athletics Association.

Jade Lee, who graduated from Notre Dame High School, plays second base and shortstop for the Iowa Western Reivers.

She was one of 16 third team and 48 overall All Americans announced for the 2015-16 junior college softball season.

Lee finished up her first season playing ball in 54 games and had a .491 batting average with 12 home runs, 69 RBIs, 54 runs and seven stolen bases.

In May, she was named a first team All-Midwest infielder.

Rebels’ 2016-17 pre-season schedule announced Hockey season is really just around the corner.

On Wednesday, Brent Sutter, Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach announced the team’s 2016-17 pre-season schedule, starting on Sept. 2 against the Edmonton Oil Kings at 7 p.m. at the Centrium.

The Rebels will play a total of six pre-season games, three at home and three on the road.

The other home games at the Centrium feature the Calgary Hitmen on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. and on Sept. 17 against the Medicine Hat Tigers at 7 p.m.

In between the Hitmen and Tigers games, the Rebels will go on the road to play two games in Tri-City, Wash., on Sept. 9 against the Tri-City Americans at 8 p.m. and on Sept. 10 against the Spokane Chiefs at 4 p.m.

The Hitmen and Oil Kings games are part of a pre-season tournament hosted on Sept. 2 and 3 at the Centrium.

The Prince George Cougars will play the Hitmen on Sept. 2 at 3 p.m. and the Cougars will play the Oil Kings on Sept. 3 at 3 p.m.

Rebels rookie camp starts on Aug. 24 and ends with the Black & White game on Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. at the Centrium.

Tickets for all Rebels pre-season home games, including all tournament games, are included in season ticket packages.

Details on individual tickets will be released later.

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France advances to second round

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The French progressed to the second round of the European Championship they’re hosting with a 2-0 win over Albania, keeping their supporters and coach Didier Deschamps on edge right to the end on Wednesday.

For the second successive match, France left it late to secure victory with Antoine Griezmann giving the home team the lead in the 90th minute with a header. Dimitri Payet put the result beyond doubt with his second impressive goal of the tournament deep in stoppage time.

“I would prefer us to break the deadlock a little earlier,” Deschamps said.

France meets Switzerland in its last Group A match in Lille on Sunday, when the Swiss are hoping to qualify for the knockout stages of the European Championship for the first time.

Switzerland closed in on the round of 16 on Wednesday, rallying for a 1-1 draw with Romania at the Parc des Princes in Paris. Bogdan Stancu put Romania ahead in the 18th minute with a penalty — his second at Euro 2016 — after Switzerland captain Stephan Lichtsteiner pulled an opponent’s shirt.

Admir Mehmedi equalized in the 57th with a powerful left-foot shot to give the Swiss have four points after two games.

All four teams in Group A can still qualify as the new 24-team format means the third-place teams in the six groups have a chance to reach the round of 16. Romania, which has one point, meets Albania, which has zero, also on Sunday in Lyon.

In the only Group B match played Wednesday, Slovakia beat Russia 2-1 in Lille. The victory owed much to midfielders Marek Hamsik and Vladimir Weiss, who combined for both of

their teams goals.

Slovakia withstood sustained Russian pressure in the second half. But it was only in the 80th minute that Russia got one back with Denis Glushakov’s headed goal.

Both teams still have a chance to progress — Slovakia, which has three points from its two games, faces England in its final group game on Monday, while Russia, with one point, takes on Wales in Toulouse.

England and Wales meet on Thursday in Lens, which is only 30 kilome-

Gordie Howe’s life and legacy celebrated at Detroit funeral

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Hundreds of people, including Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky and Gary Bettman, bid farewell to Gordie Howe at a packed, two-hour funeral service in Detroit.

Howe’s son, Murray, began the service with a eulogy Wednesday that emphasized his father’s toughness and generosity.

“How do I do justice to the life of a living legend — my own hero? I still pinch myself at the realization that he was my father,” Murray Howe said to a rapt crowd at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, about six miles from the home of Howe’s longtime team, the Detroit Red Wings.

Dozens of fans stood in line a couple hours before the funeral, which was streamed online by the Red Wings from the cathedral that has a capacity of about 900. Ted Lindsay — part of Detroit’s famed “Production Line” with Howe and Sid Abel — was on hand, and so was Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman. The rugged Hall of Famer died Friday at the age of 88.

Murray Howe recalled talking with his father about what he should say after Gordie died.

“He said, ‘Say this: Finally, the end of the third period.’ Then he added, ‘I hope there’s a good hockey team in heaven,”’ Murray Howe said. “Dad, all I can say is, once you join the team, they won’t just be good, they’ll be great.”

The service came a day after thousands of people came to Joe Louis Arena for a public visitation scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., a nod to Howe’s famous No. 9, though it stretched beyond that.

Howe set NHL records with 801 goals and 1,850 points — mostly with the Red Wings — that stood until Gretzky came along. Howe also won four Stanley Cups with Detroit and those banners flanked his casket during the visitation on Tuesday on the floor of the arena.

Gretzky wore No. 99 as a player in a tribute to Howe, a man he got to know when he was a kid. The Great One said he was “embarrassed” to break Howe’s records because he played in an incomparable era.

“Not everybody gets to meet their hero or their idol,” Gretzky said Tuesday. “And sometimes when you meet them, it wasn’t as good as you thought it would be. I got so lucky that the guy I chose happened to be so special.”

St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock met Howe in Edmonton, Alberta, about six decades ago when he was a kid. Like a lot of people in western Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, Hitchcock grew up rooting for the Red Wings because of Howe. Hitchcock became one of Howe’s many friends in the early 1990s when he was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Flyers and Howe’s son, Mark, was playing for them toward the end of his Hall of Fame career.

“Gordie would spend all day and night at the rink because he just loved the game and the people in it,” Hitchcock said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

“And if you got an autograph from him back then or at any time in his life, he would look you in the eye and you could read every letter of his name because that’s what kind of great guy he was.”

Murray Howe has said his father’s remains will be cremated.

tres (around 20 miles) from Lille. The proximity of the two cities and the arrival of thousands of English fans in the city where Russia played its second game stoked concerns of a repeat of the violence that marred last Saturday’s match between England and Russia in Marseille.

Russian soccer authorities have been put on notice from UEFA that their team could be kicked out of Euro 2016 if there’s any repeat of the violence that marred the match in Marseille. At one point last Saturday, Rus-

sian fans stormed an English section in the stadium in Marseille.

French authorities say police made 36 arrests Wednesday in Lille in a largely peaceful day interspersed with bursts of crowd trouble and a few fights. Authorities also say 16 people have been hospitalized but gave no details about their injuries or ailments.

On Thursday, in addition to England vs. Wales, Ukraine takes on Northern Ireland in Lyon and Germany meets Poland at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

WHL to introduce changes for 2016-17 season

BY ADVOCATE STAFF VANCOUVER — Hybrid icing and enhanced video replay will be a part of the Western Hockey League’s 201617 season.

The league made the announcement on Wednesday, following the conclusion of the annual general meeting held in Vancouver.

Other changes included a clarification on pucks off of skates and the election of league executives including Red Deer Rebels owner, general manager and head coach Brent Sutter.

With hybrid icing being the biggest change, icing will no longer be automatic as it was in years past. Instead linesmen must make two decisions on potential icings.

Under the new rules, linesmen will determine if the puck has a chance to cross the icing line and second they must determine whether a defending or attacking skater will be the first to touch the puck. That second decision

must be made no later than the instant the first of the players chasing the puck reaches the end zone faceoff spots.

The National Hockey League adopted hybrid icing for the 2013-14 season.

The WHL cited its success as a reason to introduce it into their league.

A small change to the puck off of skate rules eliminates the debate over “a distinct kicking motion.”

Going forward, unless the puck is in the goal crease, a puck that enters the net off of a player’s skate shall be ruled a goal.

Bruce Hamilton, Kelowna Rockets owner, president and general manager, was re-elected as WHL board chairman. He has held the position since 2008 and from 1998 to 2004.

Sutter was re-elected to represent the WHL’s Central Division, while Seattle Thunderbirds owner and general manager Russ Farwell was re-elected to represent the U.S. Division on the WHL’s executive committee.

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Baseball GB — — 2 5½ 6½ GB — — 2 2½ 14½ GB — 6 9 12 12½

Wednesday’s Games Colorado 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Toronto 7, Philadelphia 2 Boston 6, Baltimore 4 Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 2, 13 innings Houston 4, St. Louis 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 3 Kansas City 9, Cleveland 4 Minnesota at L.A. Angels, late Texas at Oakland, late Today’s Games Seattle (Paxton 0-2) at Tampa Bay (Snell 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

Texas (Lewis 5-0) at Oakland (Mengden 0-1), 1:35 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 7-3) at Philadelphia (Nola 5-5), 5:05

p.m.

Baltimore (Wilson 2-5) at Boston (Rodriguez 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-4) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-4), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 6-5) at Kansas City (Duffy 2-1), 6:15 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

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

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

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 7:35 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 41 25 .621 New York 35 29 .547 Miami 34 32 .515 Philadelphia 30 36 .455 Atlanta 19 46 .292 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 44 20 .688 St. Louis 35 30 .538 Pittsburgh 33 32 .508 Milwaukee 30 36 .455 Cincinnati 26 40 .394 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 41 26 .612 Los Angeles 35 32 .522 Colorado 32 33 .492 Arizona 29 39 .426

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Wednesday’s Games Colorado 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, Arizona 2 San Diego 6, Miami 3 San Francisco 10, Milwaukee 1 Washington 5, Chicago Cubs 4, 12 innings Toronto 7, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 9, Cincinnati 8, 13 innings N.Y. Mets 11, Pittsburgh 2 Houston 4, St. Louis 1 Today’s Games Cincinnati (Straily 4-2) at Atlanta (Wisler 2-7), 10:10 a.m.

Toronto (Happ 7-3) at Philadelphia (Nola 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Nicasio 5-5) at N.Y. Mets (Colon 5-3), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Guerra 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 5-3), 8:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 5-4) at San Diego (Johnson 0-3), 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

Colorado at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Washington at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Football Toronto Ottawa Hamilton Montreal

CFL Pre-Season Standings East Division GP W L T PF 1 1 0 0 25 1 1 0 0 18 1 0 1 0 16 1 0 1 0 13 GP 1 1

B.C. Edmonton

West Division W L T PF 1 0 0 28 1 0 0 23

PA Pt 16 2 14 2 25 0 36 0

Winnipeg Calgary Sask.

2 1 1

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1 1 1

0 0 0

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31 23 28

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PA Pt 16 2 13 2

Winnipeg 36 Montreal 13 WEEK TWO Friday’s games Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 18 Saskatchewan at Edmonton,2 p.m.

Swimming The following are the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club swimmers podium finishes in their home event, the Freeze or Fry swim meet held in Red Deer from June 10 to 12.

Girls 4oo metre individual medley — 11 and under: 1st Elle Couture. 14-15: 1st Kyra McMurray.

Boys 400 metre individual medley — 12-13: 2nd Jayden Vale and 3rd Jaden DeBruijn.

Girls 800 metre freestyle — 11 and under: 3rd Dalia Morales. 14-15: 1st Elizabeth Moore and 2nd Claire Halford.

Boys 800 metre freestyle — 11 and under: 1st Cooper Waddle. 12-13: 1st Nathan Delver and 3rd Ian Tanish. 14-15: 1st Joshua Young and fourth Tyrus Toews.

Mixed 1500 metre freestyle — Women 14-15: 1st Tanille Collicutt and 2nd Jaleesa Zaparniuk.

Men 14-15: 1st Logan Lopaschuk and 2nd Daniel Morrison.

Girls 50 metre butterfly — 9 and under: 2nd Annika Erickson and 3rd Jordyn Waldo. 10-11: 1st Elle Couture and 3rd Dalia Morales. 14-15: 1st Clare Halford. 16 and over: 3rd Emalee Broen.

Boys 50 metre butterfly — 10-11: 2nd River Roos and 3rd Noah Thomas. 12-13: 1st Jayden Vale and 3rd Murray Duncan. 14-15: 2nd Logan Lopaschuk.

Girls 200 metre freestyle — 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson and 2nd Madisson Young.

Boys 200 metre freestyle — 9 and under: 1st Dalton Powell. 10-11: 1st River Roos. 12-13: 1st Murray Duncan and 3rd Jaden DeBruijn. 14-15: 1st Logan Lopaschuk. 16 and over: 2nd Tait Loyek.

Girls 100 metre backstroke — 9 and under: 1st Annika Erickson and 3rd Jodryn Waldo. 12-13: 3rd Brooklyn Wiens. 14-15: 2nd Kyra McMurray.

Boys 100 metre backstroke — 9 and under: 1st Dalton Powell. 10-11: 1st Noah Thomas. 14-15: 2nd Daniel Morrison.

Girls 50 metre backstroke — 9 and under: 1st Annika Erickson. 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson.

14-15: 3rd Claire Halford. 16 and over: 3rd Emalee

Broen.

Boys 50 metre backstroke — 10-11: 1st River Roos. 12-13: 1st Jaden DeBruijn. 14-15: 1st Justin Valentine.

Girls 200 metre breaststroke — 11 and under: 2nd Elle Couture. 14-15: 1st Kyra McMurray, 2nd Mikaela Duncan and 3rd Zoie Kachor.

Boys 200 metre breaststroke — 11 and under: 1st Cooper Waddle, 2nd River Roos and 3rd Dalton Powell. 14-15: 1st Justin Valentine. 16 and over: 1st Tait Loyek.

Girls 100 metre freestyle — 10-11: 1st Dalia Morales. 12-13: Lauren Bettenson. 14-15: 2nd Tanille Collicutt and 3rd Claire Halford. 16 and over: 2nd Chayce Moon.

Boys 100 metre freestyle — 9 and under: 1st Dalton Powell. 10-11: 1st River Roos and 3rd Noah Thomas. 12-13: 2nd Nathan Delver. 14-15: 3rd Logan Lopaschuk. 16 and over: 2nd Tait Loyek.

Girls 200 metre individual medley — 11 and under: 1st Elle Couture. 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson. 14-15: 2nd Zoie Kachor. 16 and over: 3rd Emalee Broen.

Boys 200 metre individual medley — 11 and under: 2nd Cooper Waddle and 3rd Noah Thomas.

12-13: 1st Jayden Vale and 2nd Jaden DeBruijn.

14-15: 2nd Justin Valentine.

Girls 100 metre breaststroke — 9 and under: 1st Priya Thomas. 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson and 2nd Madisson Young. 14-15: 1st Kyra McMurray, 2nd Mikaela Duncan and 3rd Zoie Kachor.

Boys 100 metre breaststroke — 10-11: 1st Kaillen Sumang and 3rd Raymond Fetaz. 12-13: 1st Murray Duncan. 14-15: 1st Justin Valentine, 2nd Jack Barschel and 3rd Logan Lopaschuk. 16 and over: 2nd Tait Loyek.

Girls 50 metre breaststroke — 9 and under: 2nd Jordyn Waldo. 10-11: 1st Elle Couture. 14-15: 1st Kyra McMurray and 2nd Zoie Kachor. 16 and over: 3rd Camila Chacon.

Boys 50 metre breaststroke — 9 and under: 3rd Dalton Powell. 10-11: 1st Cooper Waddle and

2nd Illia Ivanitskyi. 14-15: 1st Jack Barschel. 16 and over: 2nd Tait Loyek.

Girls 200 metre backstroke — 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson. 14-15: 1st Kyra McMurray and 2nd Claire Halford. 16 and over: 2nd Kristen Trepanier.

Boys 200 metre backstroke —11 and under: 1st Cooper Waddle and 2nd Dalton Powell. 12-13: 1st Murray Duncan and 2nd Jayden Vale.

Girls 100 metre butterfly — 11 and under: 1st Elle Couture. 12-13: 3rd Alexandra Mah. 14-15: 3rd Mikaela Duncan. 16 and over: 1st Camila Chacon and 2nd Chayce Moon.

Boys 100 metre butterfly — 12-13: 1st Jayden Vale, 2nd Murray Duncan. 14-15: 2nd Logan Lopaschuk.

Girls 50 metre freestyle — 9 and under: 1st Annika Erickson. 10-11: 1st Elle Couture and 2nd Dalia Morales. 12-13: 1st Lauren Bettenson and 3rd Brooklyn Wiens. 14-15: 3rd Claire Halford. 16 and over: 1st Kristen Trepanier, 2nd Emalee Broen and 3rd Chayce Moon.

Boys 50 metre freestyle — 9 and under: 1st Dalton Powell. 10-11: 1st Cooper Waddle, 2nd Noah Thomas and 3rd Kalen Sabasch. 12-13: 1st Jaden DeBruijn and 2nd Murray Duncan. 14-15: 1st Joshua Young.

Girls 400 metre freestyle — 12-13: 1st Madisson Young. 14-15: 1st Elizabeth Moore and 2nd Kyra Moore. 16 and over: 2nd Emalee Broen and 3rd Camila Chacon.

Boys 400 metre freestyle — 11 and under: 2nd Noah Thomas and 3rd Illia Ivanitskyi. 12-13: 1st Nathan Delver. 14-15: 1st Joshua Young. 16 and over: 1st Tait Loyek.

Girls 200 metre butterfly — 14-15: 1st Elizabeth Moore and 2nd Claire Halford.

Boys 200 metre butterfly — 14-15: 1st Joshua Young and 3rd Daniel Morrison.

Soccer UEFA Euro 2016 At Sites in France Group Stage Group A W L T GF 2 0 0 4 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0

Belgium

France Switzerland Romania Albania

MP 2 2 2 2

Wales Slovakia England Russia

MP 1 2 1 2

Group B W L T 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1

GF 2 3 1 2

GA Pt 1 3 3 3 1 1 3 1

Germany Poland N.Ireland Ukraine

MP 1 1 1 1

Group C W L T 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

GF 2 1 0 0

GA Pt 0 3 0 3 1 0 2 0

Croatia Spain Czech Rep. Turkey

MP 1 1 1 1

Group D W L T 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

GF 1 1 0 0

GA Pt 0 3 0 3 1 0 1 0

MP 1 1 1

Group E W L T 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1

GF 2 1 1

GA Pt 0 3 1 1 1 1

Italy Ireland Sweden

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Group F MP W L T GF GA Pt Hungary 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 Iceland 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 Portugal 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 Austria 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 Note: Three points awarded for a win, one for a tie.

Wednesday’s results Group A At Paris Romania 1 Switzerland 1 At Marseille, France France 2 Albania 0 Group B At Lille, France Slovakia 2 Russia 1 Tuesday’s results Group F At Bordeaux, France Hungary 2 Austria 0 At Saint-Etienne, France Portugal 1 Iceland 1 Today’s matches Group B At Lens, France England vs. Wales, 7 a.m.

Group C At Lyon, France Ukraine vs. Northern Ireland, 10 a.m.

At Saint-Denis, France Germany vs. Poland, 1 p.m.

Friday’s matches Group D At Saint-Etienne, France Czech Republic vs. Croatia, 10 a.m.

At Nice, France Spain vs. Turkey, 1 p.m.

Group E At Bordeaux, France Italy vs. Sweden, 7 a.m.

Saturday, June 18 Group E At Bordeaux, France Belgium vs. Ireland, 7 a.m.

Group F At Marseille, France Iceland vs. Hungary, 10 a.m.

At Paris Portugal vs. Austria, 1 p.m.

Sunday, June 19 Group A At Lille, France Switzerland at France, 1 p.m.

At Lyon, France Romania vs. Albania, 1 p.m.

Monday, June 20 Group B At Saint-Etienne, France Slovakia vs. England, 1 p.m.

At Toulouse, France Russia vs. Wales, 1 p.m.

Hurricanes acquire Teravainen, Bickell from Blackhawks RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes acquired forwards Teuvo Teravainen and Bryan Bickell from the Chicago Blackhawks for two draft picks on Wednesday.

Carolina sent a second-round pick in this month’s draft, the 50th overall, and a third-round pick next year to Chicago, which saves significant salary-cap space.

Carolina had acquired that second-round pick in the February deal that sent longtime

Hurricanes star Eric Staal to the New York Rangers.

“This deal allowed us to use some of our collected draft picks to improve our group of forwards for the coming season by (adding) two Stanley Cup champions,” Hurricanes general manager Ron Francis said in a statement Wednesday.

Teravainen had 13 goals and 22 assists for 35 points in his first full NHL season.

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Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said it was difficult to trade Teravainen, but explained it as a way to continue contending with young players.

Teravainen has one year left on his entry-level contract.

Bickell, who split time between Chicago and AHL Rockford last season, has one year left on his contract, at a cap hit of $4 million.

The 30-year-old was considered a buyout candidate with the window opening Wednesday.

Friday ● Rugby: Hornets vs. Red Deer Titans, 8 p.m., Titan’s Rugby Field

Saturday ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Edmonton Northwest United at Red Deer Renegades, 2 p.m., Edgar Park ● Fighting: Superfights 24, Muay Thai and Kickboxing, 6 p.m., Red Deer Sheraton.

Sunday ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Calgary Rapids FC at Red Deer Renegades, 12 p.m., Edgar Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: Doubleheader — Confederation Cubs at Red Deer Riggers, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park, second game to follow first

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs Fourth Round THE FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) (Golden State leads series 3-2) Monday’s result Cleveland 112 at Golden State 97 Friday’s result Golden State 108 Cleveland 97 Thursday’s game

Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

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

Game One — Thursday, June 2 Golden State 104 Cleveland 89 Game Two — Sunday, June 5 Golden State 110 Cleveland 77 Game Three — Wednesday, June 8 Cleveland 120 Golden State 90

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with 1B Cody Decker on a minor league contract.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed RHP Vance Worley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday.

Recalled RHP Odrisamer Despaigne from Norfolk (IL). Sent SS J.J. Hardy to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Colin McKee, LHP Howie Brey, Cs Jake Rogers and Chuckie Robinson and INFs Alex Degoti and Taylor Jones on minor league contracts.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Designated INF Omar Infante for assignment. Recalled LHP Brian Flynn from Omaha (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reinstated INF Andrelton Simmons from the 15-day DL. Designated INF Brendan Ryan for assignment. Agreed to terms with Cs Matt Thaiss, Michael Barash and Brennan Morgan SSs Nonie Williams, Connor Justus and Jose Rojas LHP Bo Tucker 2B Jordan Zimmerman RHPs Andrew Vinson and Blake Smith and OFs Troy Montgomery, Brennon Lund and Francisco Del Valle on minor league contracts.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Danny Santana to Rochester (IL) for a rehab assignment.

Oakland ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with C Sean Murphy, 3B JaVon Shelby, CF Tyler Ramirez and RHP Blackwood on minor league contracts.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent RHP Ryan Webb to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Christian Torres SSs Jonah McReynolds and Charles LeBlanc OFs Austin O’Banion, Preston Scott, Travis Bolin and Josh Merrigan Cs Clay Middleton, Stephen Lohr, Alex Kowalczyk and Joe Barlow and RHPs Reilly Peltier, Jean Casanova, Mark Vasquez, Marc Iseneker, Dylan Bice, Kaleb Fontenot, Alex Daniele, Reid Anderson, Derek Heffel, Hever Bueno, Tai Tiedemann and Kyle Cody on minor league contracts.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled LHP Chad Girodo and SS Andy Burns from Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned LHP Zac Curtis to Mobile (SL). Recalled LHP Andrew Chafin from Reno (PCL).

ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with LHP Joey Wentz, LHP Kyle Muller, RHP Jeremy Walker, 2B Matthew Gonzalez, OF J.B. Moss, RHP Matt Rowland, RHP Brandon White, 1B Ramon Osuna, RHP Devan Watts, LHP Tucker Davidson, 2B Gabe Howell, 1B Alex Lee, 1B Griffin Benson, LHP Corbin Clouse, OF Jackson Pokorney, RHP Cameron Stanton, RHP Ryan Schlosser and LHP Parker Danciu on minor league contracts.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated SS Jose Reyes from the restricted list and designated him for assignment. Placed LHP Chris Rusin on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 9. Recalled RHP Miguel Castro from Albuquerque (PCL). Reinstated C Tony Wolters from the 7-day DL. Agreed to terms with OF Steven Linkous, SS Tyler Orris, 1B Jacob Bosiokovic, C Will Haynie, LHP Kyle Cedotal and RHPs Riley Pint, George Thanopoulos, Austin Moore, Brandon Gold, Jared Gesell, Rico Garcia, Justin Calomeni and Mike Bunal on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with INF Colby Woodmansee, OF Ian Strom, LHP Placido Torres and RHPs Christopher Viall, Colin Holderman, Christian James, Trent Johnson, Maxwell Kuhns, Daniel Rivera and Eric Villanueuva on minor league contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with INFs Will Craig and Kevin Mahala, LHP Cam Vieaux, C Brent Gibbs, OFs Clark Eagan and Matt Diorio and RHPs Blake Cederlind, Dylan Prohoroff, Danny Beddes and Brandon Bingel on minor league contracts.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent C Brayan Pena and RHP Seth Maness to Memphis (PCL) for rehab assignments. Signed OF Dylan Carlson, C Jeremy Martinez, SS Tommy Edman, RHP Sam Tewes, OF Matthew Fiedler, 3B Danny Hudzina, OF Shane Billings, OF Vincent Jackson, C Tyler Lancaster, LHP Daniel Castano, OF Mick Fennell, LHP Anthony Ciavarella, RHP Spencer Trayner, RHP Mike O’Reilly, RHP Leland Tilley, 2B Caleb Lopes, RHP Jonathon Mulford, 3B Andy Young, RHP Robert Calvano, RHP Colton Thomson and RHP Levi MaVorhies to minor league contracts.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with LHP Joey Lucchesi, 2B Nate Easley, SS Chris Baker, OF Taylor Kohlwey and RHPs Mark Zimmerman, Will Stillman, Jesse Scholtens, Evan Miller, Chasen Ford, Dalton Erb, Lake Bachar and David Bednar on minor league contracts.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Mac Williamson to Sacramento (PCL).

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Charles Shirek and LHP Matt Snyder.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed OF Matt Petrone. Released INF Randy Santiesteban.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Released RHP Matt Parish and LHP Ryan Calby.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed OF Chad Christensen.

TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Paxton Bartley.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed LHP Dustin Richardson.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF Jared Mitchell.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released RHP Jamie Walczak.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed LHP Guillaume Blanchette.

Frontier League LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Sold the contract of OF Connor Oliver to the N.Y. Yankees. Signed LHP Conner Reed.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Promoted director of strategic planning Pat Garrity to assistant general manager, executive director of basketball operations Andrew Loomis to chief of staff and assistant coach Bob Beyer to associate head coach. Named Otis Smith director of player development/assistant coach. Reassigned assistant coach Brendan Malone to special assignment scout. Announced the resignation of director of player development Quentin Richardson.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Waive G Lindsey Harding.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Released OT Eugene Monroe.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Named Lionel Vital director of college scouting.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Robin West director of sports medicine.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with WR Jeremy Gallon.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released OL Steven Baker, DB Terrell Pinson, FB Matthew Rea, DEs Kaelin Burnett and Daniel Ross and WRs Jacoby Ford, Tim Smith, Darryl Surgent and Brandon Swindall.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released WR Kevin Cone, DBs Johnny Patrick and Donald Celiscar, OL Aundrey Walker and DL Andrew Robinson and Nate Collins. Placed OL Jeff Keeping, WR Addison Richards and LB Kyle Knox on the 6-game injured list.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Traded Fs Bryan Bickell and Teuvo Teravainen to Chicago for a 2016 second-round and 2017 third-round draft picks.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Richard Panik on a one-year contract.

DALLAS STARS — Announced the club will renew its affiliation with Idaho (ECHL) through the conclusion of the 2017-18 season.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with D Chris Summers.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR — Fined Kyle Larson’s interim crew chief Philip Surgen $25,000 and docked the Chip Ganassi Racing team 15 driver points and 15 owner points for failing a post-race inspection, violating rules relating to actions detrimental to stock car racing and vehicle inspection measurements.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Signed M Zach Mathers to a short-term agreement.

SPORTING KC — Loaned F Daniel Salloi to Vasas SC (Hungary).

COLLEGE ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE — Named Mark Whitehead co-ordinator of men’s basketball officials.

CHARLOTTE — Announced the resignation of associate head baseball and pitching coach Brandon Hall.

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New assistant Cookson reunites with Boucher OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have hired Rob Cookson as assistant coach.

Cookson, 55, joins associate coach Marc Crawford as new Senators head coach Guy Boucher fills out his staff for next season.

A native of Lacombe, Cookson spent the past four seasons as an assistant to Crawford with the Zurich Lions of Switzerland’s A League and was a member of Boucher’s Canadian staff at the 2015 Spengler Cup. He spent 11 seasons as a member of the Calgary Flames’ coaching staff from 2001-02 to 2010-11. Prior

to joining the Flames, Cookson spent three seasons as video coach with the Philadelphia Flyers.

“Rob is a knowledgeable, detail-oriented and resourceful hockey man who brings considerable NHL experience to this team,” Boucher said in a release. “In addition to having already worked for two NHL organizations, his winning track record at the international level and his exceptional ability to break the game into teaching segments all provide valuable intangibles.

“Given Rob’s history with both Marc and I, I’m certain that our existing chemistry will see him serve as a perfect complement to our staff.”

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ASSISTED DYING

OTTAWA — The Senate has sent the federal government’s controversial bill on assisted dying back to the House of Commons with a major amendment that guts the central premise of the proposed law: that only those who are near death should qualify for medical help to end their lives.

The bill, as amended over the past two weeks of lengthy debate in the upper house, passed late Wednesday by a vote of 64-12 with one abstention.

Support for the amended bill was not as overwhelming as the raw numbers suggest. Some senators, including government representative Peter Harder, voted for it rather than risk having the bill defeated altogether.

Harder told senators that defeat of the amended bill would “bring the whole law down” and result in a situation that “would be intolerable and Canadians would find unacceptable.” He made it clear that he expects the House of Commons will not accept all of the Senate amendments and will send the bill back to the upper house for further consideration.

Still, the vote sets appointed senators on a potential collision course with elected MPs. The Trudeau government has signalled it won’t accept deletion of

the near-death proviso, although it may agree to one or more of six other relatively minor amendments approved by the Senate.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be counting on senators to eventually back down on the issue. Liberal backbenchers privately say Trudeau told MPs during their weekly, closed-door caucus meeting earlier Wednesday that it would be “appropriate” for appointed senators to defer to the will of the elected House of Commons on the matter and he seemed confident they would do so.

Even before Wednesday’s vote, senators were anticipating that the amended bill will be rejected and were wrestling with whether they should stand firm on deleting the near-death provision or bow to the will of the elected parliamentary chamber.

If it is rejected, senators could agree to pass the bill unchanged. Or they could “insist” upon their amendment and send it back to the Commons, repeatedly if necessary, until one side or the other gives in. Or they could defeat the bill outright.

Independent Sen. Murray Sinclair argued that the Senate has no business defying the Commons.

“We are not an elected body,” he said during final debate on the amended bill.

“We must therefore recognize that it is those upon whom we impose our will (in the Commons) who are going to be held accountable for what we do in this house and therefore we need to use that power very carefully.”

Andre Pratte, another independent senator, admitted he’s torn over whether to “defer or stand our ground.” He expressed concern over how Canadians would view a deadlock between the two houses of Parliament.

But independent Liberal Sen. Dennis Dawson contended that Trudeau kicked senators out of the Liberal caucus and created a new process for appointing non-partisan senators precisely because he wanted the Senate to become an independent chamber of sober second thought.

“It is clear to me that the role of the Senate is to improve legislation when necessary, which it is with this bill,” Dawson, who is being treated for throat cancer, said in a statement read during the debate by a fellow senator.

“This Senate cannot and must not allow itself to be intimidated. That is the exercise of sober second thought, the essential function of the Senate.”

Veterans to hold protest against Liberals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada BRIEFS Highway of Tears bus service to run from Prince George to Prince Rupert PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The British Columbia government says a bus service will be available between Prince George and Prince Rupert by the end of the year on a notorious stretch of road known as the Highway of Tears.

Eighteen women have been murdered or have disappeared along Highway 16 and adjacent routes since the 1970s.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone says agreements between 16 communities along the highway will allow B.C. Transit to operate a scheduled bus service, slated to start at the end of the year.

First Nations, social service agencies and women’s groups have called for a shuttle bus service in the area to provide safe, regular transportation for people who live in communities along the highway.

The provincial government announced a five-point transportation plan late last year that promised regular B.C. Transit service and programs to train bus drivers from area First Nation communities.

Stone says the B.C. government is providing an extra $1 million to run the bus service while the federal government is contributing $1 million to fund bus shelters, lights and webcams along the route.

Watchdog probes RCMP’s response to Maher Arar torture case OTTAWA — The RCMP watchdog’s review of how well the Mounties learned the lessons of the Maher Arar torture affair could be hampered by ongoing lawsuits and difficulties in getting information from other agencies, an intelligence expert warns.

The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP will examine issues ranging from

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Mauril Belanger receives a standing ovation during a vote on his private member’s bill to make the national anthem more gender neutral, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Wednesday in Ottawa.

Dying MP’s anthem bill passes third reading

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Ailing Liberal MP Mauril Belanger was in the House of Commons today as his private member’s bill to render O Canada more gender neutral cleared one final hurdle.

The legislation still requires the approval of the Senate, however, which means Belanger — who was diagnosed last November with Lou Gehrig’s disease — may not live to see it become law.

Bill C-210, which would change the second line of the anthem from “true patriot love, in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command,” passed third and final reading in the Commons by a margin of 22574.

As the vote began, Liberal MPs stood and applauded Belanger, who sat in the House in his wheelchair. Many flashed him a thumbs-up sign, his trademark gesture, as their votes were registered.

When it was done, the entire House broke into an impromptu rendition of O Canada, as well as a rousing standing ovation.

The anthem change has been a Belanger cause for years, but took on far greater urgency in recent months after it was confirmed he has an incurable, the sharing of sensitive information with foreign governments to the detention of Canadians in overseas prisons.

It marks the review commission’s first known foray into the RCMP’s national security operations since legislative changes gave it the muscle to investigate Mountie intelligence efforts.

Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained in New York in September 2002 and soon after deported by U.S. authorities — winding up in a grave-like cell in Damascus.

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fatal, neurodegenerative condition also known as ALS. Belanger ran and easily won election for a seventh time in October, but found he was having difficulty speaking during the final weeks of the long campaign. He went public with his condition at the end of November, saying he would drop out of the race to be Speaker of the Commons, a position he had long coveted.

Belanger’s disease is a particularly aggressive version of ALS — a fact made plain by the alarming rate at which his condition appeared to erode.

By January, when he introduced his bill, he had lost his ability to speak, and so needed a voice generator to convert text into computerized speech — the first use of such technology in the Commons.

In March, he was named honorary Speaker. He shuffled down the corridors of the Centre Block using a walker. He had to be helped into the chair. He presided using a tablet and, at one point, mopped tears from his eyes.

In early May, he used the iPad again to open second reading of his bill. He seemed noticeably thinner. His collar was loose to accommodate a tube inserted in his throat to help him breathe and keep his lungs clear of fluid.

“I also asked for a Canadian presence in this proposal.”

Details of the proposed Romanian-led unit emerged this week at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, setting the table for the July leaders’ summit in Warsaw that Trudeau is expected to attend. The brigade’s strength is estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 troops.

NATO foreign ministers agreed to bolster its defences against Russia by deploying four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

OTTAWA — Romania’s visiting prime minister says Justin Trudeau has offered political support for his country’s proposal to host a NATO brigade that would help deter Russian aggression along Europe’s southeastern border.

Dacian Ciolos and his Canadian counterpart didn’t discuss specific troop numbers during their meeting Wednesday in Ottawa, but he did say he got a positive reception for his plan for a Romanian-led multinational brigade.

“I was very happy to discuss this and to have a political commitment from Prime Minister Trudeau to be proactively present in this project,” Ciolos said in an interview Wednesday.

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HALIFAX — It appears the Liberal government has stirred the anger of a veterans’ group who just months ago battled the Harper government over Veterans Affairs’ handling of applications for care and benefits.

The advocacy group Banished Veterans is organizing a public protest Thursday in Halifax over a decision earlier this week to deny a decorated 94-year-old war veteran entry into the federally funded Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Hospital.

Organizer Doug Roberts says his group — which has about 400 members — fought hard against the federal civil service that he says used technicalities to deny benefits to veterans, and it won’t stand by to see a similar approach flourish under the new government.

“Most of the veterans voted for change … but they’re doing business the same way they did last year,” said Roberts.

Ottawa initially rejected entry to Camp Hill for Petter Blindheim, a veteran of the Norwegian Royal Navy and merchant marine, because it said the Norwegian forces based in Britain didn’t qualify as official allies.

Blindheim’s family says the Department of Veterans Affairs backed away from that position, but then on Monday rejected the application on the basis that Blindheim could receive adequate care at provincial long term care facilities.

However, a spokesman for the Nova Scotia Health Authority said the current median wait time for a nursing home bed in the Halifax area is 285 days, and the family says Blindheim should have access to the better funded care at the federally subsidized Camp Hill facility.

The veterans with the advocacy group plan to protest in front of the Veterans Affairs building on Thursday morning over the decision, along with the treatment of several other Second World War veterans.

Meanwhile, a Norwegian military historian said the Canadian rejection of Blindheim’s application for care at Camp Hill has raised questions in the country he fought for.

Lars Borgersrud, the author of a number of books and academic articles on the Norwegian military, said veterans like Blindheim who served in both the merchant marine and the Royal Norwegian Navy are highly regarded in his country.

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The Stache owner and operator Michelle Tam, right, and Stache employees Teresa Durette and Natassia Wright work in the small but efficient trailer kitchen.

MOBILE MUNCH When I feel the yen to share some educational TV watching with daughter Emma, Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is a regular stop.

Fieri owns six restaurants in California, but most would know the peroxide blond, spikyhaired chef from his Food Network shows. In Diners etc., he pulls up at various eateries in his 502-horsepower 1968 convertible Camaro and taste tests some of the best rib-sticking, finger-lickin’ dishes south of the 32nd Parallel.

In that spirit, I gunned the engine of my 1995 Toyota Tercel (don’t judge me, it’s good on gas and almost qualifies as a classic) and headed downtown for Week 2 of Mobile Munch.

This week’s stop is Michelle Tam’s The Stache, a long-time Food Truck Friday staple and the resident specialty taco purveyor.

Tam started out as a Food Truck Friday regular customer.

“Every time I’d go there the menu at The Stache intrigued me, just because of the flavours, the coconut pork and the fish tacos,” she says.

So in true I-liked-it-so-much-I-bought-the-company spirit, she forked out for The Stache when it was up for sale two years ago and is now in her third season slinging tacos. The Food Truck ride has been a blast, she says.

“First and foremost is just having those regular customers you see every week is the best part.”

Tam’s fascination with food goes way back.

She took food and beverage management at Red Deer College and spent eight years at The Keg before taking a break to have kids.

She was looking to get back into the food business when The Stache opportunity came along and it’s been “awesome,” she says. “It’s a lot of work but it’s very rewarding.”

Besides Food Truck Fridays, The Stache can be found parked every Saturday morning at the Red Deer Public Market by Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. She also takes her truck to a lot of local schools and is available for private events.

So what are her big sellers?

“I would have to say the fish tacos, for sure.

People crave those all winter long and can’t wait to see The Stache back on the streets so they can get their fish tacos again.”

Second place is a pretty close contest among all of the other dishes, but the Fu Manchu Taco probably has the edge, she says.

A fish taco order comes with two soft tacos wrapped around lightly breaded cod. It is set off with creamy coleslaw, tomatoes, chipotle aioli, “secret stache sauce” and a shot of hot sauce.

Tasty marinated coconut pork is the heart of the coconut tacos. Spinach, tomatoes and some more of that secret sauce finish it off.

So we had to ask: what is the secret sauce?

No dice. Tam wasn’t budging. You’ll just have to try it out for yourself and do your own taste dissembling. The tacos cost $9 and are served with coleslaw or a chick pea salad.

My personal favourite was the chick pea salad. For those looking for something besides a taco, The Stache also has the No-Flaws, a pulled pork sandwich topped with creamy coleslaw and chipotle aioli on a fresh bun.

For more information, go to www.thestache. ca.

Food Truck Fridays runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. by the Cool Beans bus across from the courthouse. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fish, and the Foo Man Chu are two popular items on The Stache menu.

The Stache owner and operator Michelle Tam serves up an order last week at Food Truck Friday on Ross Street.

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The16th Annual Delburne and District Indoor Rodeo starts today and runs tomorrow.

The fun takes place at the Delburne Agriplex. The rodeo starts at 7 p.m. on both days.

Tickets available at the door or call Brittany 403-352-2091.

RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE AGM Join us from 9:00 a.m. to1:00 p.m. at the Red Deer Curling Centre (4725 43 Street). Dr. Jon Fennell will discuss groundwater and groundwater-surface water interactions. Learn how groundwater affects us all through a presentation on the Working Well program. For more information or to register, visit www.rdrwa.ca or email info@rdrwa. ca.

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BOWDEN MUSEUM GARAGE SALE Bowden Historical Society has a garage aale on the last Friday and Saturday of each month until November. The sale is located at the Anglican Church in Bowden from 10-4 p.m. Museum is open every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11-4 p.m. until the end of August. Entry fee is a donation.

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Technical difficulties BOB SCAMMELL OUTDOORS After answering readers who wondered where the June 2nd column went, and hearing their similar recent computer crash chronicles, I have concluded we are not sufficiently holding the many feet of the computer and software industry to the fire of product quality and service.

Aside from the fact that this was the first missed column owing to “technical difficulties,” it is time, in the more than 50 year history of this column, to tell the story of the part computers have played in its longevity.

I resisted word processors until old friend, the late Lloyd Graff, heavily into computers at Red Deer College, convinced me I’d enjoy getting a column or article just right on the screen, press “Print,” then, while shaving, listening to myself typing faster than the top secretary in my law office.

Lo! It was so, around 1982, with my clunky and beloved Kaypro 2X, the Volkswagen of word processors, and clackety daisy wheel printer with the endless olds skein of side - perforated

paper. Word processing it did superbly, but that was all; no email, or Internet, etc. I still had to hand deliver, or snail mail my writing and prints, negatives, and slides.

The CP/M basic operating systems of early computer — word processors could not compete with the MS Dos systems, and Kaypro went out of business around 1990. Since then I have been owned by and done my writing and considerable of my research on half a dozen computers, mostly Dell, with various software operating systems, each with more new “Apps” than I need, want, or use, taking up space from and clogging up those that I must have and use a lot.

A year and a half ago I got a new Dell with all the innards inside the large monitor instead of a tower and insisted on Microsoft Windows 7 as essential to operate my new 14 megapixel slide and negative digitizer, rather than Windows 8 which was then the new rage, but an utter disaster, according to writer-photographer colleagues.

All went well, and I was able to send my images to publishers from disks and from the memory cards of my cameras and the slide — print digitizer.

Suddenly, in the last half year or so, you and I have been regularly nagged by “cookies,” or “popups,“ or whatever, on our screens to upgrade our

computers, free, to Windows 10. I have resisted for several reasons: because users I respect have little good to say about Windows 10, because there’s no free lunch, and because I’ve learned to prefer computer viruses and malware any day to Microsoft “free updates” which are more frequent and always cost tech fees to correct the problems they cause.

Thus did I shudder one recent morning when I looked at the screen and found an unasked — for alleged Microsoft “free update” in progress that had obviously been underway for some time and took a further 30 minutes or so to finish. Immediately after the finish, the crash — like costs started piling up: email would not connect at all, and Internet only occasionally.

Worse, it became impossible to send pictures by email, even after a technician fixed the email for sending text, because the images I had been emailing for years were now suddenly too “big” for the allegedly updated software, whatever version it really is.

Actually I’ve been luckier than the readers who admit they did accept the offer of the free Microsoft update to Windows 10 and lost all of their computer files and folders of “saved” material. It is likely a competent computer technician can find and restore those files.

Setting your priorities LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING A garden can be a never ending place of work, enjoyment or both. Like anything in life, it is up to the individual to set priorities, limits, and make lists.

Start the list by taking time to assess the garden.

Are their empty spots?

If so, should they be filled with annuals, perennials, shrubs or trees?

Annuals work as a quick fix since they grow quickly and supply instant color.

They also make it easy to change the garden each year as a different variety and or color of plant can fill the same space.

Annuals are a yearly expense. They need to be planted each spring and removed every fall.

Perennials are slower to become established. Depending on the variety it can take a year or two. .Once perennials become established they are resilient and take care of themselves. To change the design of the garden, plants must be dug up and moved.

When perennials become too large for the area, they need to be dug, split and removed.

The price of perennials vary with the variety of plant. Initially perennials cost more than annuals but hey rarely need to be replaced.

Shrubs and trees are permanent features in the yard. Take extra time to plan what to purchase and were to plant.

Trees and shrubs can be moved in the first couple of years but it is often at the detriment of the plant. Once the plants become established the cost for removing a tree escalates.

Plants in greenhouses grow fast. .Purchase ones that are healthy.

The top growth should mirror the amount of roots in a pot. It is best to purchase less developed plants in small containers as opposed to large flowering plants in small containers.

Look for plants with roots that are just starting to follow the contours of the pot.

Prune early flowering shrubs such

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These plants set flower buds soon after flowering.

Waiting to prune in the fall means loss of flowers next spring.

Start by removing any dead or diseased wood.

Next remove branches that cross other branches. Lastly prune for shape and size.

Always cut back to another branch or to the ground when pruning. Stubs that are left die making it harder for the plant to heal.

Removing stems from the center of the shrub will allow the sunlight into the center and encourage new growth.

Honeysuckle and lilacs tent to get leggy, no foliage on the bottom of the plant, if stems are not cut back to the ground regularly.

Shrubs are very forgiving plants but remember never remove more than one quarter of the live growth in any year.

Removing too much growth will result in the plant producing many new shoots that will need removed next spring.

In June new growth or candles appear on spruce, pine and fir trees. To keep these plants smaller, remove a portion of the new growth by pinching off the stem in the center but leave the needles intact.

Spring pruning is a must for the larger varieties of Mugo Pines. It shortens the yearly growth of the plant making it more compact.

The first batches of weeds are up and blooming or ready to bloom. Removing the weeds before they bloom reduces future weeds.

Do not put weeds with seeds in the compost as it is unlikely to get hot enough to kill the seeds.

Spinach, lettuce and radishes are at the eating stage or close to it. Plant more seeds to keep a continuous supply of salad items for the table.

Look at the partial list of chores for June and decide what needs done and what can be ignored.

Take time to enjoy the flowers and smell the roses.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that loves near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com

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I’ve concluded that Microsoft went ahead and installed Windows 10, even though I never asked for it, under the guise of a Windows 7 update.

A very computer savvy writer — photographer colleague downloaded “free” Windows 10 and reaped many serious problems, including that his superb photographs are now severely distorted. He had to retain a top tech to get rid of Windows 10, reinstall Windows 7, and still things are not quite back to normal.

A highly computerized magazine publisher of most of Alberta’s outdoors writers gives me this simple, practical advice: “Get your computer tech to revert you back to Windows 7, then turn off “automatic update” and you should be good.”

I certainly hope so, but I can’t resist observing that a column now takes three times the time it used to, pecked and repacked out on my Smith Corona portable typewriter, when I consider the time spent repairing the Microsoft — caused crashes they call free updates.

It should be easier to track down the software slingers and hold them accountable for the horrible hashes they are really slinging.

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

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This spider, photographed while spinning a web in a Langley, Wash., yard, is one of the gardeners best tools for biological pest control.

Spiders are also one of the few pest predators that don’t eat plants.

Spiders are among effective predators of plant pests

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Although many people have a builtin aversion to them, spiders rank as one of the gardener’s best tools for biological pest control.

They also are one of the few pest predators that don’t eat plants.

“Spiders eat the (equivalent insect) weight of all the humans on earth annually,” said Linda Rayor, an assistant professor of entomology at Cornell University. “A significant percentage of those insects are herbivores or granivores (seed eaters) or other insects that adversely affect humans.

Spiders perform a vital function.”

There are more than 45,500 known spider species around the world, divided into 110 spider families, Rayor said.

“Few of those have a venom that affects us,” she said. “The yellow sac spider, the black widow and the recluse. That’s about it. And none are aggressive.”

Spiders, including black widows, respond to movements in their webs, and that leads to people getting bitten, Rayor said.

“Black widows are super common in the desert around the U.S. but you’ll also find them in many cities because they have water,” she said. “Houses and edges of houses are perfect for black widows. They can build underneath and protect their webs.”

Spiders use venom to kill or paralyze their prey. They actively hunt or spin webs to trap insects, invertebrates, and even small vertebrates like lizards and frogs. What also makes them garden-friendly is that that they don’t eat plants, Rayor said.

“They’ll eat a little pollen, maybe, but that’s about it,” she said. “They’re

totally beneficial to have in the garden.”

On the unfavourable side, spiders are generalists in what they hunt and cannibalistic. They feed on other spiders and many beneficial insects, including honeybees and butterflies.

Spiders also are not a good choice for taking out specific plant pests in fields or gardens if there’s a particular outbreak you’re trying to eradicate, Rayor said. “But for reducing all prey abundance in certain areas, they’re great.”

Rather than try to eliminate spiders in or near homes, the knowledgeable, organic-leaning gardener prefers to recruit them.

You can increase spider numbers in the garden by: ● Adding more trees, shrubs and perennials to provide anchor points for web-building spiders to spin their webs, said Gail Langellotto, an entomologist with Oregon State University’s Extension Service. ● Allowing areas to go untilled, or leaving plant stalks standing for overwintering habitat. Many adult spiders emerge in early spring, before most other bio-control resources are available. ● Mulching with grass or wood chips to provide cover and humidity. ● Growing flowers that attract insect prey.

“Even if you want to bring spider numbers down around your property, consider that they’re difficult to eradicate with pesticides,” Langellotto said.

“The amount and concentration needed is often higher than what’s necessary to kill insects, (and that) poses a greater risk to humans,” she said.

“Heavy doses also will kill a lot of other beneficial insects.”

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Drake, Bieber, the Strumbellas make long list for Polaris Music Prize

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Brandy Clark’s new album further cements her status as one of country music’s best.

Clark’s narratives go the extra mile

BY CHRIS RICHARDS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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The premise of Brandy Clark’s second album, Big Day in a Small Town, posits the ace songwriter as an eavesdropper and a gossip. But if you listen as closely as Clark does, you’ll actually find that she’s become country music’s most reliable character witness.

This is a concept album with a quaint concept: Each of the tales told in these 11 songs could have taken place over the course of 24 hours in an American town that’s too small for its own shopping mall. But according to the album’s title track, Clark’s imaginary anytown does have a Walmart, and “there’s always something to talk about.”

Lucky for us, Clark loves to talk in detail — excruciating, sobering, hilarious, illuminating detail.

Hard times have hit the farming family in Broke, but they’re laughing to keep from crying, “sittin’ on the porch, drinking generic Coke.” The single mom of Three Kids, No Husband, tries to stare down her debt, knowing full well that a “pile of bills ain’t gonna pay themselves.” And on Homecoming Queen, when the thud of adulthood hits 10 years after the dance, there isn’t a drop of schadenfreude in Clark’s voice when she sings, “Too bad life ain’t a local parade in your uncle’s Corvette on a Saturday.”

Two albums into her solo career, Clark has achieved a degree of realism that most songwriters on Music Row only pretend to offer. She’s timely, too. Country music is rarely ahead of the greater national conversation, but that’s exactly where Clark was standing in 2013 with Take A Little Pill, a quietly devastating song from her excellent debut album, 12 Stories. It’s a gorgeously brutal ballad about opioid addiction, an epidemic currently making big headlines — and it captures Clark at her best, humanizing a silent struggle that’s too often shrouded in shame.

If Take a Little Pill is her most crushing song, Follow Your Arrow might be her most liberating. Co-written with country phenom Kacey Musgraves, it’s a humble self-acceptance anthem with a hook that feels like the kindest of gifts: “Make lots of noise/Kiss lots of boys/Or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into/When the straightand-narrow feels a little to straight/ Roll up a joint, or don’t/Just follow your arrow wherever it points.” (For Clark — who is both gay and out — it might be as close as she’s gotten to addressing her sexuality in song.)

And while Clark’s lyrics are rarely about her, that doesn’t mean her music fails to radiate its own distinct human-

ity. Listen to her two albums back to back and you’ll hear an abiding human empathy — songs that aren’t meant to represent Clark’s listenership so much as stick up for them. This is the person you want in your church, your PTA, your AA meeting, your book club, your government.

She’s especially generous in her lyricism, and rarely settles for good enough. For instance, on Three Kids, No Husband, Clark’s protagonist isn’t just in trouble with the landlord, she’s “two weeks late on last month’s rent.”

Got all that? Clark is asking us to do a messy little math problem to see what a mess her heroine is in.

Over and over, those extra-mile narrative details do the work that Clark’s voice doesn’t. Her singing remains understated and smooth, as if she’s trying to stay out of the way of the story. That might explain why producer Jay Joyce has given Big Day in a Small Town such a high polish — a sheen reminiscent of the records that Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby were making in the late ’80s. These sonic flourishes don’t do much to enrich Clark’s stories in 2016, but they might help them stick on the radio.

But hey, who cares about the radio?

When you memorialize human lives with this level of care, you’re writing music that’s meant to last. Like Clark’s protagonists, these songs want to survive. And they will.

TORONTO — Canada’s biggest pop stars — Justin Bieber, Drake and the Weeknd — joined a roster of old favourites and newcomers on the Polaris Music Prize long list.

Chart-topping albums like Bieber’s Purpose, Drake’s Views and the Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness were the marquee names on the 40-title list, which will be whittled down in the coming weeks.

Albums from other big names also made the list, like Carly Rae Jepsen, Peaches, the Strumbellas and City and Colour.

Lesser-known indie acts like Black Mountain, Jean-Michel Blais, Basia Bulat and Suuns will also vie for the crown.

The Polaris Music Prize is awarded to the artist who created the best Canadian album of the previous year irrespective of genre or sales, as chosen by a large team of journalists, broadcasters and bloggers.

The long list was selected from 183 albums that made the first ballots. It will be narrowed to a shorter list on July 14.

The winner will be awarded $50,000 on Sept. 19 at a gala presentation held at Toronto’s Carlu.

A webcast will be hosted by CBC Music and Aux.tv.

Atwood wins PEN Pinter free-speech prize LONDON — Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has won the PEN Pinter Prize for her work championing environmental causes.

The award announced Thursday was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter. It goes jointly to a British, Irish or Commonwealth writer seen as sharing Pinter’s “unflinching, unswerving” social gaze and to an international writer who has faced persecution.

Pinter’s widow, Antonia Fraser, said he had admired Atwood “as a writer, a campaigner and a person.”

Atwood, whose novels include MaddAddam and Oryx and Crake, said she was honoured to receive an award named for Pinter, who wrote the screenplay for an adaptation of her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

The second winner — chosen by Atwood and writers’ group English PEN — will be announced Oct. 13.

Former CBC director sues broadcaster over alleged harassment, wrongful dismissal

A promising start, but a long way to go

BY HAROLD GOLDBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES I admit I am not the kind of person for which virtual reality is made. I became sick when I played the 1990s version of VR — in particular, an awful hang glider flying game. Yet I was completely enthralled by the Oculus Rift — the virtual reality headset which debuted earlier in 2016 — partially because the first time I used a prototype, I didn’t feel like puking. In fact, a jolting horror demonstration featuring evil trees really scared me — to the point I cried out. But the overall experience is a bit like your first experience with amusement park rides: a brand new, somehow familiar otherworld, real but not really, and one you don’t dare try too soon after eating fast food.

So, from the calming zen garden-feel of Oculus Home, the Rift’s VR base of operations, I chose the games that came with the system, and purchased some new ones. This time, I was prepared. I downed Dramamine to combat motion sickness and then went on a binge to find the Rift’s most promising games.

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A scene from ‘Edge of Nowhere.’ floes below in the cold sea. While that discovery took me momentarily away from the mystery at hand, I soon found myself climbing massive ice walls.

They crackled menacingly: I realized I could easily fall to my death if I lingered. I looked back to the stunning mountains, ocean and tundra, which settled me. It was beautiful, as if I were in an IMAX nature movie.

As the story unfolds, I find an insane man shoot at me. He’s been infected by a plant that looks like Sputnik with tendrils that rhythmically change into sharp, poisonous spikes.

When a creeping, insect-like creature

swiftly moves by, I get goosebumps.

There’s no time for chills as there are many I have to fight off with rocks.

While the feeling of trying to find my Siren-like scientist/wife Eva can be downright eerie, the constant climbing of ice walls makes me think there should me more to Edge of Nowhere. It’s not a thin, tedious experience, but it is repetitive. Perhaps there should be some penguin-like belly slides in between the third or fourth ice climb to break things up. In other words, Edge of Nowhere could have benefited from a wider variety of ways to play.

TORONTO — A former senior director at the CBC has launched a lawsuit against the broadcaster alleging he was harassed by one of his bosses for two years before he was dismissed from the organization.

Christopher (Jim) Kozak alleges that Jean Mongeau, CBC’s general manager and chief revenue officer for media solutions, harassed, intimidated and bullied him from late 2014 until his April 2016 dismissal.

In a statement of claim filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Kozak says the behaviour involved “speaking in a condescending manner” towards him, “unnecessary pressure tactics around work assignments,” and “unjustly challenging and ‘grilling’ Kozak at one-on-one meetings and deliberately putting him on the defensive.”

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

“We vigorously deny the allegations that have been made in the statement of claim,” said CBC spokeswoman Emma Bedard in an email.

“We will be filing our statement of defence in the coming days.”

Kozak began working at the CBC in October 2012 as director of sales for the network’s Olympics and sports partnerships. He was later promoted to senior director of marketing.

He is seeking $350,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal, $500,000 in aggravated or moral damages, and $250,000 in punitive damages.

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Apple makes Siri smarter, rolls out improvements

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is working to make its iPhone and other gadgets smarter, responding to competitors’ recent moves by building more artificial intelligence into its Siri digital assistant, photos, maps and other online services. The tech giant kicked off its annual software conference by announcing new software features for the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well, while unveiling a new design for the Apple Music service. It’s also extending Apple Pay to the web, so users can pay for purchases made on their Mac computers using the fingerprint authorization on their iPhone or Apple Watch. Most of these new features won’t arrive until this fall. At a time when sales of its flagship iPhone are slowing, Apple seemed determined to show that it can make its gadgets indispensable, or at least as useful as its competitors’ products.

THINKING FAST AND SLOW Still, the tech giant is taking a cautious approach to integrating computer intelligence into its online services. While Apple is opening its text messaging service to outside app-builders, for instance, Apple made no mention of adding the kind of intelligent programs, or “chatbots ,” that competitors are all rushing to build into their messaging platforms.

Apple executives also stressed their efforts to safeguard users’ privacy even while providing recommendations and suggestions based on individual user information. The company says it’s committed to keeping most user data encrypted on individual iPhones or other devices, rather than uploading information to process on Apple’s servers.

Experts say that can make it more difficult to analyze information and provide useful services, but Apple says its software can still be helpful. Apple’s once-maligned Maps service, for example, will offer traffic information, location-based restaurants for things like restaurants, and let users connect with outside apps to do things like make a reservation or call a car service. For some features, however, Apple says it’s starting to upload some user data to analyze for broader trends or patterns, but it vowed that information will be “anonymized.”

“We believe you should have great features and great privacy,” said senior vice-president Craig Federighi.

MAKING SIRI SMARTER Apple’s wisecracking digital assistant will play a larger role in the company’s products. On Monday, Apple announced that Siri will be coming to Mac desktop and laptop computers, where it can locate files and perform other feats. Siri will also gain new capabilities with Apple TV, where it will let you launch live TV viewing with voice command and search YouTube and the iTunes store for videos.

Perhaps more important, Apple is letting Siri work with applications made by other companies. The change will open up new ways for Siri to help iPhone owners get things done more quickly.

Such AI features are emerging as a major new tech battleground , one where Apple is racing to catch up with other virtual assistants from Google and Amazon. Amazon’s assistant, Alexa, is enjoying a surge in popularity, partly because it works well with a variety of other applications.

Outside developers are eager to work with Siri, according to Jordan Edelson, CEO of independent app-builder Appetizer Mobile. “It could really change the way that apps are built and how customers expe-

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Apple’s Phil Schiller talks about Siri during an announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Apple’s Siri made a big splash when the wisecracking digital assistant debuted in 2011. But as its competitors jockey to build intelligent “chat bots” and voice-controlled home systems capable of more challenging artificial-intelligence feats, Siri at times no longer seems cutting edge. On Monday, Apple is expected to demonstrate how much smarter Siri can get as it kicks off its annual software conference. It’s a potentially momentous time for the company; sales of its flagship iPhone are slowing, and AI is emerging as a key tech battleground. rience them,” he said.

But the move has trade-offs for Apple. Experts say the changes could make Siri more useful to consumers and help Apple learn more about its users. But it could diminish use of Apple’s homegrown apps, such as Apple Music or Maps. To start, Siri will only work with certain kinds of outside apps, like messaging, payments or ride-hailing services.

APPS GET SCHOOLED Apple’s AI improvements aren’t restricted to Siri. An update to the iMessage app, for instance, will rely on machine learning to automatically suggest appropriate emoji to place alongside texts. It will also show graphics and thumbnails of the information contained in a web link and automatically play online videos when they’re opened by a recipient.

Apple’s photo app will also get smarter. It’s adding the ability to analyze an individual’s photo library and group photos by people, locations or other subjects, automatically assembling them into albums and short movies. It’s similar to a feature that Google has offered users of its photo app, but with some new frills, like the ability to adjust the length of the album or select different kinds of theme music.

As sales of iPhones and other smartphones slow, it’s especially important for Apple to keep its soft-

ware and online services fresh, said Brian Blau, a tech analyst with the Gartner research firm. That’s why, he said, Monday’s announcements were all about “software and services, fast and furious.”

NEW COATS OF PAINT Other changes were more esthetic. The messaging app, for instance, will let users alter the size of the bubbles surrounding the text to help convey the feelings underlying the words. An expression of love might get a large bubble while a message of condolence might be shown in a very small one.

The feature is similar to an upcoming Google messaging app called Allo. Both are expected in a few months. Apple Music, which now has 15 million paying subscribers, is getting a new interface that’s intended to be simpler and that will make it easier to find music you store on your phone, and not just tunes you can stream from the internet. Apple’s watch, the company’s first new product since Cook replaced co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011, also got a face-lift.

The retooled watch software, due in September, will include an “SOS” feature that will automatically call for help in emergencies. It will launch software apps faster than before, and will also bring fitness tracking to wheelchair-bound users and let all users share their exercise activities with others.

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Woman annoyed by granddaughter’s 3rd wedding KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: When is enough, enough? My granddaughter is getting married for the third time in August.

We received a “save the date” card six months ago.

The first time this granddaughter got married, I attended the wedding and gave her a generous gift. The second time, I sent a card with a small check. But this is going too far.

My question is, am I obligated to attend this wedding? It is out of state, which means a plane fare, hotel and yet another gift. I say “no more.” A simple card will suffice.

People say I am wrong, but there comes a time when “no” is the only answer in my book. My daughter is upset

that no one in the family went to her other daughter’s wedding — which was also her second marriage and in another state.

I would like to know what you think.

— A Grandmother Who Doesn’t Get It Dear Grandmother: If you were unrelated, we’d say a card is perfect. But you are not just any guest. You are the grandmother and this puts you in a separate category. (Not to mention, third weddings should be very small affairs.)

No one is obligated to attend any wedding, particularly a second or third. But your daughter obviously wants the support of her family and your blessing would mean a lot.

If you can afford to attend, it would be a kindness to do so, but we understand the hardship of an out-of-state wedding. You also are not obligated to keep giving gifts for subsequent marriages. But again, as the grandmother, you may wish to send something small, such as a picture frame or bottle of

wine.

The point is not to create a rift, upset your daughter or make your granddaughter think you love her less because she can’t seem to get her act together. We say, send her a lovely card with a small token gift. Add that you are so sorry you cannot attend, but you will be thinking of her.

Dear Annie: You would be a hero to English teachers everywhere, and a help to many people, if you would use your column to explain when to use “I” and when to use “me.”

“I” is a subject pronoun (in the same group with we, she, they, etc.).

“Me” is an object pronoun (as in us, her, him and them). “I” never is used after a proposition.

To me, it’s simple. Use “me” where you would use “us,” and use “I” when you would use “we.” — A Faithful Reader Dear Faithful: Dear Faithful: We know many readers’ eyes glazed over as soon as you said “subject pronoun.”

But your basic instruction is good — use “me” when you would similarly use “us,” and use “I” when you would similarly use “we.” We’ve noticed this happens most often when people think using “I” is more classy than using “me.” No, it’s not. Sometimes, using a different pronoun or the singular version makes it obvious which is the correct choice. We’ve heard people say, “Jim and me went to the store,” but if you remove “Jim,” you’d never say, “Me went to the store” (unless you are Cookie Monster).

And for all those who are still paying attention, the correct phrase is “between you and me.” Please.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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Inmate sentenced for contraband-loaded football scheme An inmate involved in a plan to toss a football filled with drugs and cellphones over the fence of a Michigan prison will spend an additional three to five years in prison. MLive.com reports Monday that 22-year-old Myles Alexander was sentenced Wednesday for his role in the plot. He already is serving up to four years in prison for a 2012 felonious assault and discharging a weapon case. The football contained marijuana, heroin, the phones and chargers.

It landed between two security fences, but short of the prison exercise yard in June 2014 at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson.

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The Philippine-Canadian Association of Red Deer & District and the Fil-Can Seniors Society of Red Deer hosted its first Santacruzan. A Santacruzan is a religious-historical beauty pageant held throughout the Philippines during the month of May, in celebration of Flores de Mayo (Flower Festival). A procession is held that re-enacts the finding of the Holy Cross by Queen Helena (Reyna Elena) and her son, Constantine. Some 55 young girls participated representing various Reynas (Queens) and angels on their beautiful gowns under their beautifully decorated arches parade. About 200 Red Deerians gathered at Bower Ponds on May 28th to witness one of the most colourful May-time traditions observed in the Philippines.

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Thursday, June 16 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Arnold Vosloo, 55; Abby Elliott, 30; John Cho, 45 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Creativity and compassion are highlighted today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are shrewd and success-oriented. The next 12 months is the time to get the ratio right between professional projects and relationship responsibilities.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t assume you know how others are thinking or feeling today Rams. You may be way off the mark. What you say will not necessarily be what others hear, so take the time to double-check.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is a friend or acquaintance leading you up the primrose path to Taurean trouble? Keep a sensible head on your sturdy bovine shoulders today.

If you’re looking for love, you’ll have to be patient.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Aim to get the balance right between your personal and professional lives. And make sure you communicate with family and work mates clearly and creatively, so misunderstandings are minimized.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you escape into a fantasy world, problems won’t magically disappear. Find creative solutions

to current challenges Crabs. And — when it comes to health issues — don’t bury your head in the sand.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you under the illusion that your bank balance is more buoyant than it actually is? Make sure your plans are financially realistic and sustainable.

If in doubt, then get some professional advice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you think you’re seeing your partner clearly? And are you accepting responsibility for your part in any problems you’re having? Singles — look for a partner who is creative and compassionate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Communication and conversation are highlighted today, as you enjoy catching up with someone special. But a work colleague or loved one may confuse you by making a perplexing move.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What you want and what a friend or family member needs may be two very different things today.

So you may have to adjust your expectations to accommodate their current situation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you putting off starting projects until things falls into place? If you wait for the perfect circumstances, you’ll be waiting forever. With Saturn in your sign, take things one slow step at a time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be careful in the way you communicate Capricorn, otherwise you could say too much and be misunderstood. The more energy you put into close relationships, the more they will sparkle and shine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s a danger you’ll be misled, as Neptune causes

some confusion in your finance zone. If you are sensible, then you’ll get professional advice before you go making any major money moves.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Creative and spiritual pursuits are favoured today. But avoid food, drink and alcohol that doesn’t

agree with you, as Neptune aspects can aggravate sensitivities or trigger allergic reactions.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Oilsands lose 30M barrels due to fire

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Analysts say lost oilsands production from the Fort McMurray wildfires could top 30 million barrels and cost the industry upwards of $1.4 billion.

Some of the largest oilsands producers in the province were forced to shut down or curtail operations last month as 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray evacuated the city to escape the fierce blaze, which has yet to be extinguished.

Damage to oilsands projects was minimal but Calgary-based analysts say restarting operations is taking longer than expected.

Analyst Martin King of FirstEnergy Capital estimates the industry’s production loss at $1.4 billion, while Nick Lupick, an analyst for AltaCorp Capital, puts the value of the losses so far at almost $1.6 billion. Both said Wednesday that they expect their numbers to grow.

“It sounds like there have been some pipeline clogging issues on some of these projects,” said King. “I guess when the bitumen cooled it hardened and so they’re having trouble getting stuff down these pipes right now.”

King said his wildfire cost estimate is based on a production loss of about 37 million barrels, about half in the form of raw bitumen, which must be mixed with light oil to facilitate flow in a pipeline. The other half is much more valuable synthetic crude.

Lupick said he based his calculation on lost production of about 28 million barrels but with a higher proportion in the form of synthetic crude, which commands prices similar to West Texas Intermediate oil, thus delivering the higher dollar figure.

“Based on an outage of three weeks during the fires on average for all of

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Burned trees are shown in Saprae Creek near Fort McMurray. Analysts say lost oilsands production from the Fort McMurray wildfires could top 30 million barrels and cost the industry upwards of $1.4 billion. the affected projects, the total lost revenue works out to be roughly $1.6 billion,” he said. “Made up of roughly $1.05 billion of SCO and $550 million of bitumen revenue.”

He said he expects the final production loss to grow beyond 30 million barrels because of delays in restarting projects and the fact that Syncrude Canada must complete a maintenance turnaround at its upgrader before returning to normal operations.

Lupick estimated Suncor Energy

(TSX:SU) has lost about 21 million barrels of output from its own oilsands operations as well as from Syncrude, in which it has a majority stake.

Those barrels would have been worth about $700 million, he said, adding an outage at Suncor’s Edmonton refinery that caused gasoline shortages in Western Canada would take the loss to about $800 million.

Lupick said other costs of restarting production could easily inflate Suncor’s total losses to nearly $1 billion.

Saskatchewan’s Wall aims to woo Quebec on Energy East

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A day after pitching the Energy East pipeline to an enthusiastic New Brunswick crowd, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall faces a more skeptical audience Thursday: Quebec.

Wall, continuing a swing through Eastern Canada, told an energy conference in Saint John Wednesday the $15.7 billion project proposed by TransCanada (TSX:TRP) will benefit all of Canada, will be safe, and won’t make climate change worse.

The project would transport more than a million barrels of western Canadian oil a day to refineries in Eastern Canada and a marine terminal in Saint John.

“If we’ve made a mistake, perhaps it’s that we haven’t been as engaged as we could have been, with our neighbours and our friends, with telling the real story,” he said during a speech that closed to a standing ovation.

Many of the people in the audience were from the Saint John business community and Irving Oil, who would benefit from the pipeline and a proposed export terminal.

But Wall heads to Montreal Thursday for a meeting with Philippe Couillard, the premier of Quebec, where Energy East has run into stiff opposition.

Politicians, environmentalists and oth-

er critics there question whether the ecological risks outweigh the economic rewards, concerns that Wall said he understands.

“While a big part of the project is conversion, the new construction does go through Quebec. So it is reasonable that Quebecers would have serious questions about that. It’s a lot of construction in some potentially pretty sensitive areas,” he said.

“Let’s make sure we do it in a safe way, but let’s make sure we answer all of the questions that Quebecers have and satisfy the concerns that they have,” Wall said.

On Wednesday, though, the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador formally declared its opposition to Energy East.

A resolution adopted in Quebec City requests that Ghislain Picard, the AFN chief for the region, lead opposition to the pipeline, both inside and outside the province of Quebec.

And it says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People — officially adopted last month by the Trudeau government — bolsters aboriginal rights over lands and resources affected by the pipeline project.

Wall has also been at odds on social media with Montreal-area mayors who oppose Energy East.

He has said the pipeline is expected to generate $55 million in economic

In a recent report to investors, analyst Paul Cheng of Barclays said about half of the one million barrels per day of production interrupted by the fire has been restored.

“By the end of June, we estimate the majority of production would be back online, with about 300,000 bpd still ramping up or undergoing planned turnarounds, and operations basically back to normal by mid to end of July, assuming no new shut-ins from ongoing fires,” he wrote.

Assembly of First Nations in Quebec, Labrador, formally opposes Energy East

benefits for Canada, including $4.3 billion in Saskatchewan and $9.3 billion in Quebec.

The Council of Canadians issued a statement calling Wall’s tour of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick “a desperate attempt to save a failing project.”

“Wall is acting as an industry lobbyist for a pipeline that’s a huge economic liability for Saskatchewan and all of Canada, not to mention an environmental and public health disaster,” said the council’s Daniel Cayley-Daoust.

In Saint John, Wall said Canada needs to reduce its dependence on imported oil and needs to find a safer way to get western Canadian oil to tidewater for export. Wall said that the pipeline would eliminate 1,500 rail tankers per day from rail lines across the country.

Energy East dominated a closeddoor discussion between Wall and New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant earlier in the day.

“We talked about how the Energy East project would allow New Brunswick, Quebec and the country to reduce its dependency on foreign oil,” Gallant said in an interview following the meeting.

“We also talked about how it is a safer mode of transport. Hundreds of thousands of rail cars each year go through major cities in the country.”

QUEBEC — The Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador has formally declared its opposition to TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline.

A resolution adopted Wednesday at a conference in Quebec City requests that Ghislain Picard, the AFN chief for the region, lead opposition to the 4,500-kilometre oil pipeline, both inside and outside the province of Quebec.

The three-page resolution asserts that Energy East poses “the very real risk of a toxic tarsands spill that could not be adequately cleaned up” and says the 1.1-million barrels a day conduit will also “fuel catastrophic climate change.”

And it says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People — officially adopted last month by the Trudeau government — bolsters their rights over lands and resources affected by the pipeline project. The resolution calls on the federal and Quebec governments to fulfil their constitutional obligations “including completely overhauling the NEB’s review of the project in collaboration with First Nations.” It’s just the latest Quebec hurdle for TransCanada, which has already shelved plans for a tanker terminal at Cacouna, Que., due to concerns over beluga calving grounds in the Saint Lawrence.

Understanding the tax implications of RRSPs DEREK FUCHS WEALTH WATCH Derek, is there a penalty to take money out of my RRSP to help pay my household debts?

We are all aware of the tough times many Albertans are facing. The reality is that some people have been out of work for longer than they ever expected and are now looking to dip into other accounts in order to keep their household running. This tough decision comes with the responsibility of understanding the implications of your choice.

For some withdrawing money from their Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a natural choice. The money is there, it’s often easily accessible and it may be enough money to make ends meet. You should be able to withdraw funds from a RRSP within a short time frame and in some cases only pay a small processing fee.

It is important to understand that money withdrawn from a RRSP is received as taxable income. Said another way, think of the withdrawal in the

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same way you think of the deduction on a paycheque. As part of the withdrawal process, your financial institution will withhold a portion of tax. As an example, if you withdrew $10,000 you will pocket $8,000 because the bank holds back $2,000 for taxes. If there was a processing charge of $50, you would end up with $7,950.

Keep in mind that although your financial institution will withhold tax, you may still owe more when you file for the year. For example, if the bank withheld 20%, but your tax rate was actually 25%, you may owe an additional 5% come tax time. It’s best not to be scrambling for those additional funds.

There is often confusion about why you have to pay tax on the money that comes out of an RRSP. It is not a penalty from the Canada Revenue Agency, but a way of taxing money that they gave you a tax break on originally. If you think back, when you deposited the money to your RRSP originally you would have received a tax slip which reduced your income for that year, therefore paying less tax. The money was invested and was able to grow on a tax-deferred basis until withdrawal.

So when it comes time to take the money out, it is now taxed.

The RRSP works very well if your

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income is lower at withdrawal than it was when it was put in. For example, if you were paying an average tax rate of 30% when you put the money in and now are at an average tax rate of 20%, you’re paying 10% less tax on that money than you would have. Assuming that money was able to earn interest in that same time you may be much further ahead. The same is true for retirees who are now living on the money in their RRSP or Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF).

Finally, you should be aware of how much income you’ve earned this year before making a RRSP withdrawal. If you’re already in a very high tax bracket and have the ability to wait, you may wish to postpone your RRSP withdrawal until the next calendar year.

This is particular true if you’re not expecting to reach a high level of income the following year. The point being that you will want to take the money from the account at the lowest possible tax rate.

Before you decide to take money from your RRSP be sure to understand the tax implications but also the implications on your future retirement.

After all, this money was saved to look after your financial needs in your golden years and not to fund your immedi-

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ate expenses. You may want to have a discussion with your financial advisor about how many years it may set you back prior to making the withdrawal.

While it may not be possible to proceed otherwise you should consider your other choices.

For some, you may be able to renegotiate payments on debt and/or interest rates to ease the burden. Perhaps you can cut out of a few additional non-essential expenses to help make ends meet. Finally, perhaps the assistance of family members could prove to be a less costly way to keep above water. Lastly, a word of caution would be to avoid high interest credit cards or loans since the hole they create may be a drain on your financial future years after you’re back at work.

Whatever your situation I suggest talking with a qualified tax professional and financial advisor prior to making any rushed decisions.

Derek Fuchs is a Senior Wealth Advisor with Scotia Wealth Management in Red Deer and holds the designations of Chartered Investment Manager, Certified Financial Planner, Financial Management Advisor, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 120.15 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.04 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.84 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.94 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.51 Cdn. National Railway . . 75.03 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 163.19 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.19 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.43 Cervus Equipment Corp . . 1.75 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.86 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.28 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.56 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.74 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.86 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.40 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.44 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.74 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.96 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.81 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.16 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 138.46 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.57 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.30

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.42 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 28.15 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.99 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.41 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 26.52 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.51 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.64 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.55 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.60 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.76 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.68 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.56 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.750 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.88 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 21.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.79 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.99 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.22 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.11 Canyon Services Group. . 5.40 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.46 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.28

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — New York indexes turned negative at the close, while the Toronto stock market clung to a small gain Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it was holding its trend-setting interest rate steady for the time being.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials pulled back 34.65 points to 17,640.17, while the broader S&P 500 faded 3.82 points to 2,071.50 and the Nasdaq composite declined 8.62 points to 4,834.93.

All three indexes — now down five straight sessions — had been positive heading into the Fed announcement.

The U.S. central bank noted in a statement that it is not moving on rates even though the overall economy has improved, saying it still has concerns about job growth. As expected, Fed policy-makers voted to keep interest rates unchanged at their current level of 0.25 per cent to 0.50 per cent. The Fed did not signal when it might raise rates again.

“They have gotten more dovish,” said Laura Lau, a senior portfolio manager at Brompton Group. “The probability of a rate hike is going down every day.”

For weeks, the Fed had been expected to consider raising rates at its June meeting but that view was put into question after the release of surprisingly disappointing jobs figures for May. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen has repeatedly said the bank will only raise rates if the economic data supports such a move.

Some economists now think a July rate increase is still possible if the job market rebounds and financial markets remain calm after

Britain’s vote next week on whether to leave the European Union. Others think the economic outlook will still be too cloudy and are looking to September as the most likely time for a Fed move.

The Fed raised its key policy rate modestly in December from a record low near zero, where it had been since the depths of the Great Recession in 2008.

Lau said she now anticipates the Fed not moving on rates until December, following the U.S. presidential election.

Meanwhile, in Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index gave back some of its earlier gains but still ended up in the black, adding 39.22 points to 13,923.45 as it ended five consecutive losing sessions.

In commodities, the July contract for benchmark North American crude oil fell 48 cents to US$48.01 a barrel, while July natural gas was down a penny at US$2.60 per mmBtu. August gold added 20 cents to US$1,288.30 a troy ounce and July copper soared five cents to US$2.09 a pound.

The oil-sensitive Canadian dollar continued its recent retreat, falling 0.44 of a U.S. cent to 77.36 cents.

— With a file from The Associated Press FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,923.45, up 39.22 points Dow — 17,640.17, down 34.65 points S&P 500 — 2,071.50, down 3.82 points Nasdaq — 4,834.93, down 8.62 points

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.650 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.16 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.98 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.15 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.07 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 39.66 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.40 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.780 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.60 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.96 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.85 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.53 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.39 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.69 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.29 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.35 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.60 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.54 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.95 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.34 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.87 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.04 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.350 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.01 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.89 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.60

Currencies: Cdn — 77.36 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$1.8340, up 2.09 cents Euro — C$1.4546, up 1.44 cents Euro — US$1.1253, up 0.48 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.01 per barrel, down 48 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,288.30 per oz., up 20 cents (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.525 oz., up 31.9 cents $756.33 kg., up $10.26 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $4.70 lower $521.60 Nov. ‘16 $4.70 lower $525.30 Jan. ‘17 $5.60 lower $528.80 March ‘17 $5.70 lower $530.10 May ‘17 $5.80 lower $531.20 July ‘17 $5.80 lower $532.70 Nov. ‘17 $0.30 higher 513.10 Jan. ‘18 $0.30 higher $513.10 March ‘18 $0.30 higher $513.10 May ‘18 $0.30 higher $513.10 July ‘18 $0.30 higher $513.10.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 March ‘17 unchanged $173.50 May ‘17 unchanged $174.50 July ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 March ‘18 unchanged $174.50 May ‘18 unchanged $174.50 July ‘18 unchanged $174.50.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 603,340 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 603,340.

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Construction workers build new homes in a development in Ottawa. Canadian home sales started off the year at a torrid pace, fuelled by Vancouver and Toronto, but the Canadian Real Estate Association says sales in the country’s hottest markets are expected to slow in the second half in the face of high prices and a shortage of available properties.

CREA says home sales down

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian home sales started off the year at a torrid pace, fuelled by Vancouver and Toronto, but the Canadian Real Estate Association says sales in the country’s hottest markets are expected to slow in the second half in the face of high prices and a shortage of available properties.

“Activity should begin to rebalance away from B.C. and Ontario as supply shortages put upward pressure on home prices and constrain transactions even as housing demand remains strong in these provinces and interest rates remain low,” CREA said in its latest outlook Wednesday.

“Accordingly, sales activity over the second half of the year is expected to ease in B.C., Ontario and on a national basis.”

Still, due to the strong start to the year, the association raised its fullyear forecast for home sales to a record 536,400, an increase of 6.1 per cent.

That compared with its March forecast calling for an increase of just one per cent to 511,400.

The new forecast came as CREA reported that home sales through its MLS system dropped 2.8 per cent month-over-month in May. But compared with a year ago, sales in May were up 9.6 per cent and stood 15.1 per cent above the 10-year average for the month.

TD Bank economist Diana Petramala said even with the drop in sales in May, the spring selling season has been a hot one for Ontario and British Columbia.

“In fact, May’s decline looks more like a supply story rather than a demand story, with not enough homes on the market to fulfil what appears to be insatiable demand,” Petramala said.

For May, the number of newly listed homes fell 3.2 per cent.

The national sales-to-new-listings ratio climbed to 64.8 per cent in May, suggesting a seller’s market and the highest reading since October 2009.

CREA says a ratio between 40 and 60 per cent is generally consistent with a balanced market.

The national average price of a home sold in May was $509,460, up 13.2 per cent from a year ago.

Excluding Vancouver and Toronto, the average price for a home sold in May was $375,532, up 9.1 per cent from May 2015.

The average price for Canada, excluding the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, was $310,007 in May, down 0.7 per cent year over year.

Last week, the Bank of Canada warned that house prices in Vancouver and Toronto were climbing at an unsustainable pace and that they had outpaced local economic fundamentals.

Lanny McDonald going another round with Brookfield

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A group of investors led by former hockey great Lanny McDonald was facing off Wednesday against corporate heavyweight Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in the Alberta Court of Appeal.

The two sides are at odds over how a company called Birch Mountain Resources Ltd. went bankrupt in 2008, and how its $1.6 billion limestone quarry in the heart of Alberta’s oilsands ended up in Brookfield’s hands for less than $50 million.

McDonald and his co-plaintiffs allege in court documents that Brookfield subsidiaries used “misleading,” “usurious” and “oppressive” actions to gain control of the company and its Hammerstone quarry.

Brookfield said the accusations are “meritless, frivolous and an abuse of process” in court filings.

Last year a Calgary judge agreed, dismissing the case and ruling that there was no merit to the claim.

Now McDonald, who became an independent director and shareholder of Birch Mountain following his storied NHL career with the Toronto Maple

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“To me this is another story about corporate greed,” said Mazag.

He said he was hopeful when Brookfield subsidiary Tricap Partners Ltd. agreed to invest in Birch Mountain because it had the deep pockets to help fund the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to put the quarry into full production.

“I was excited about Brookfield coming on board because I knew they had the financial wherewithal to help us through,” said Mazag.

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McDonald could not be reached for comment, but former lead plaintiff Wanda Bond said in an email Wednesday that “we are confident that we will win this appeal.”

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FLEWELLING Barbara Barbara Flewelling passed away on Monday, June 13, 2016 at the age of 99 years.

Barbara was predeceased by her husband, Clyde (1999) and son, Murray (2011). She is survived by sons; Bruce (Iloe), Wayne (Hazel), and Glen (Wendy), daughter, Gayle Percival, daughter-inlaw, Margaret Flewelling, fifteen grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.

Barbara is also survived by sister, Jean Ferguson, brother, Dean (Etta) Chessor, and Jenny Cretney. A Celebration of Barbara’s Life will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226 51 Avenue, Lacombe, on Monday, June 20, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

Donations in Barbara’s honour may be made directly to the CNIB, 12010 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T5K 0P3 ATTN: Conor Pilz.

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HANNIN 1945 - 2016 Terrance (Terry) Herbert Hannin of Red Deer, passed away June 13, 2016, after a courageous fight with cancer.

He is survived by his loving wife Wanda, his son Chad (Aleah) grandkids Ayden and Abby. Stepchildren Mike, Marlina (Lori) and Mark (Brandy). Terry was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to parents Herbert and Loretta. He went on to become a member of the pipefitters union where he worked in pipeline construction for most of his days. Terry was passionate about sports, particularly football and was happy to sit in his black recliner on a Sunday, watching the games and discussing them with his son Chad. His true passion though was family and friends. He enjoyed nothing more than 4 p.m. happy hour in the backyard with Wanda by his side and whomever else could stop by. Listening to The Eagles, playing cards and a cold beer surrounded by those he loved was a great day for him. Terry will be missed for his incredible sense of humour, his smile that lit up a room and his love for his family and pets. An open celebration of Terry’s life will be held this Friday June 17th at 4:00 pm at the Red Deer Legion, 2810 Bremner Ave., Red Deer AB. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave. Red Deer AB T4R 3S6 or to the Central Alberta Cancer Centre, PO Bag 503, Red Deer AB T4N 4E7.

Condolences to Terry’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

SOLBERG (Stark) Christine 1948 - 2016 Mrs. Christine Solberg passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the age of 68 years. Christine was born in Picton, Ontario in 1948 and moved with her family to Red Deer in 1963. On April 2, 1966 she married the love of her life Art Solberg, they had a daughter Teresa in 1967 followed by their son Darcy in 1969. Christine had an abundance of love and zest for life which shone through her family and their home. Christine’s greatest joys in life were her grandchildren, gardening, traveling and enjoying the great outdoors. Christine will be sadly missed by her husband Art of fifty years, Teresa (Clyde) Barrett, Darcy (Nikki) Solberg, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. She will also be lovingly remembered by her sister Bonnie Frost and her brother David Stark and numerous extended family.

She was predeceased by her parents Clayton and Lena Stark and her brother Victor Stark. A Memorial Service will be held at the Bowden United Church on Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

Memorial tributes in Christine’s name may be made to the Red Deer Hospice.

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Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages TIU Liong Chi Mr. Liong Chi Tiu passed away in Red Deer on June 12, 2016 at the age of 95 years. He leaves to mourn his wife, Lay Chun Chua; children, Lily (Narciso) Lim, Peter (Rose), Antonio (Bella) and Julie (Sandie) Aseron; 11 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. A visitation will be held on Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street, Red Deer. A prayer service will follow at 7:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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MACKENZIE Frances Ann Apr. 18, 1952 - June 13, 2016 Frances Ann MacKenzie passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer on Monday, June 13, 2016 at the age of 64 years.

The world lost a beautiful soul that day. Fran is lovingly remembered by her husband of 20 years, Bruce MacKenzie; daughters, Morgan (Mark) Trenchard, Jessie (Troy) Boulton and Allison (Chris) Geiger; son, Chris Geiger; her grandchildren that she loved to the moon and back, Scott and Victoria Trenchard; and her stepchildren, Chelsea MacKenzie and Ryan MacKenzie. “Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

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All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”

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Body of boy snatched by gator found “There nothing in this case to indicate that there was anything extraordinary” in terms of neglect by the parents, Demings said.

Wildlife officials said the attack was a rarity in a state with a gator population estimated at 1 million.

But it still spooked visitors in a city built on tourism.

“We have been to Yellowstone and encountered grizzly bears, but this is just freaky,” said Minnesota tourist John Aho, who was staying at the park with his wife, Kim, and their 12-year-old son, Johnny.

The child had waded no more than 1 or 2 feet into the water around nightfall Tuesday when he was taken from a small beach, authorities said.

The boy’s father desperately tried to fight off the gator, suffering lacerations on a hand, but he could not save his son. Neither could a nearby lifeguard, officials said.

No other alligator attacks have been reported on the man-made lake, according to Demings.

Some visitors were surprised to learn the reptiles lived on the property.

“My question is why are there alligators in there?” said Michelle Stone, who lives near Detroit and was visiting Disney for 10 days with her two children.

The sheriff said the company has a wildlife management system and has “worked diligently to ensure their guests are not unduly exposed to wildlife here in this area.”

Nick Wiley with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said witnesses estimated the alligator was 4 feet to 7 feet long. Crews removed five gators from the lake during the search, and officials said one could have been the animal that attacked the boy.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The body of a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was snatched off a Walt Disney World beach by an alligator and dragged underwater was recovered Wednesday, ending a ghastly search at one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations.

Divers found the body of Lane Graves about 16 hours after authorities first got the call that a reptile had taken the boy from the water’s edge at Seven Seas Lagoon despite his father’s frantic attempt to save the child.

Sheriff Jerry Demings said it appeared the gator pulled the child into deeper water and drowned him, leaving the body near the spot where he was last seen. An autopsy was planned.

“Of course the family was distraught, but also I believe somewhat relieved that his body was found intact,” Demings told a news conference.

The boy’s parents were identified as Matt and Melissa Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, a suburban area of Omaha. A family friend released a statement on behalf of the couple thanking well-wishers for their “thoughts and hope-filled prayers.”

CEO Michael Iaccarino of Infogroup, a marketing company where Matt Graves is chief data officer, said Grave’s family “is the light of his life.”

In a statement from Disney World Resort President George A. Kalogridis, the company said it was “doing what we can” to help the family.

Disney World closed beaches around Seven Seas Lagoon during the search, and it was not immediately clear when they would reopen.

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NASA takes 23,000-foot view of the world’s coral reefs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii — Coral reefs have almost always been studied up close, by scientists in the water looking at small portions of larger reefs to gather data and knowledge about the larger ecosystems. But NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking a step back and getting a wider view, from about 23,000 feet above.

NASA and top scientists from around the world are launching a three-year campaign Thursday to gather new data on coral reefs like never before.

Using specially designed instruments mounted on high-flying aircraft, the scientists plan to map large swaths of coral around the world in hopes of better understanding how environmental changes are impacting these delicate and important ecosystems.

The researchers hope to discover how environmental forces including global warming, acidification and pollution impact coral reefs in different locations by creating detailed images of entire reef ecosystems.

“CORAL (Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory) is an airborne mission to survey reefs at select locations across the Pacific,” Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ Eric Hochberg, who is principal investigator for the project, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“The idea is to get a new perspective on coral reefs from above, to study them at a larger scale than we have been able to before, and then relate reef condition to the environment.”

Hochberg and the project’s lead NASA scientist Michelle Gierach were in Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay with The Associated Press on Tuesday to gather baseline data in the water.

While the primary science will be conducted using instruments that map the sea floor from above, the team must also take baseline measurements in the ocean to validate the data they get from the air, Gierach said. Her main role in the project is to decipher the data gathered from the aircraft.

“PRISM, the instrument that we’re using … is the state-of-the-art instrument for addressing coastal and in-water science questions,” Gierarch said.

“CORAL wouldn’t be possible without an instrument like PRISM, it’s really the heart and soul of the project.”

Coral reefs drive many tourist economies around the world, but they provide much more than pretty places to dive and snorkel, Gierach said. Reefs are critical habitat for the majority of the fish humans consume and also protect shorelines from dangerous storm surges and rising ocean levels.

Recently scientists have developed pharmaceutical applications from coral reefs, including pain killers that aren’t habit forming, Hochberg said.

“Just realizing that though you may

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A patch of coral reef is shown in Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay off the island of Oahu near Kaneohe, Hawaii. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and reef scientists from around the world are announcing the launch of a campaign to gather new data on coral reefs like never before. Using specially designed instruments mounted on high-flying aircraft, the scientists are embarking on a mission to map large swaths of coral around the world in hopes of better understanding how environmental changes are impacting these delicate and important ecosystems. The CORAL (Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory) team will study the reefs of Hawaii, Palau, the Mariana Islands, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the next three years. not see a coral, that you may not have your backyard be within this beautiful environment that we’re in right now, corals are impacting you, they are globally important,” Gierach said. “We have to understand how they’re changing so we can make some managed decisions about their future.”

Reefs are among the first ecosystems to be dramatically and directly impacted by global warming, according to the researchers.

The International Society for Reef Studies Consensus Statement, published in 2015, said that over the past few decades, up to 50 per cent of coral reefs have been “largely or completely degraded by a combination of local factors and global climate change.”

Julia Baum, assistant professor of biology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, has done extensive research on coral reefs and told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the data gathered from this kind of project could prove highly valuable for

international reef scientists and the conservation community.

“I’m a huge proponent of open source data,” Baum said.

“To me, the application of this technology to coral reefs holds great promise, but to fulfil that promise the data has to be made openly available to the scientific community.”

The CORAL researchers said all data will be publicly available and will take about six months to process once captured.

Baum acknowledged that a lot of coral reef science has been limited by the lack of broad data sets like this project plans to provide.

“As scientific divers we’re limited by the depth we can work at and the amount of bottom time that we have while we’re diving, so much of underwater marine science, especially on coral reefs is a painstakingly slow process,” Baum said.

“This Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory can’t replace scientists in the water, but it can provide a very high-level, complementary type of data.”

The CORAL team will study the reefs of Hawaii, Palau, the Mariana Islands, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the next three years.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government has named an independent, nine-member panel to review billions of dollars in federal funding for a variety of researchgranting councils.

Science Minister Kristy Duncan says the goal of the six-month study is to find better ways to make the most of funding for fundamental research.

And she’s pointing to a decade in which Canada’s international ranking on higher education research and development spending fell to eighth place from third in the world.

The previous Conservative government maintained billions in research funding but made a concerted push toward “taking ideas to the marketplace” — in the words of a former science minister — rather than funding basic scientific inquiry.

There is about $2.8 billion available for research granting councils in health, social and natural sciences, plus a $1.5-billion Canada First Research Excellence Fund and $1.3 billion over six years under the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

The review panel, which includes former Blackberry founder Mike Lazaridis and Nobel laureate Art McDonald, the former head of the Sudbury neutrino laboratory, is to report its findings by December.

Duncan said in an interview that she’s been criss-crossing the country since taking office last November and has heard a consistent message.

“We heard repeatedly that there is a need for this kind of review,” said Duncan.

“Our scientists really have been ignored for 10 years and they are looking for solutions.”

However Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, the party’s science critic, said the Liberals seem focused on studying and consulting rather than making decisions.

“There are areas where we can look at improvements,” in funding, added Gladu, citing specifically research overlap such as engineering and medicine.

The panel’s chairman, former University of Toronto president David Naylor, said the independent review appears to be first of its type in four decades of increasingly complex and “piecemeal” government research granting systems.

“Governments of all stripes love announceable programs. They like to

‘OUR SCIENTISTS REALLY HAVE BEEN IGNORED FOR 10 YEARS AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS’ — SCIENCE MINISTER KRISTY DUNCAN graft on new and exciting things, bit by bit,” Naylor said in an interview.

“So what you have is a system where there’s been an awful lot of add-ons.”

Those grants range from Genome Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

“The question of co-ordination and synergy is sometimes lost as that continual add-on process continues over years and decades,” said Naylor.

Naylor said the definition of basic science can be arbitrary, but the panel will be focusing on investigator-driven research.

He noted that many in the research community feel that new government funding in recent years was “earmarked,” while the Liberal budget signalled a change to “providing funding without that kind of earmarking and constraint that is welcome.”

It’s not an either-or proposition, added Naylor, but a matter of balancing fundamental and applied science “and that’ll certainly be an issue that’s on the panel’s agenda.”

The panel will also look at how much funding goes to senior established scientists as opposed to younger researchers, with an eye to engaging young PhDs and attracting others.

Panel member Martha Crago, the vice-president of research at Dalhousie University, doesn’t see the exercise as repudiating the Conservative approach to marketdriven research, but as just another piece of the puzzle.

“I don’t think we need to blow the whole thing up but I think there are some really interesting possibilities to look at and to compare with other places.”

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