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Child advocacy centre moves forward PROVINCE PROVIDES $150K GRANT FOR NEEDS ASSESSMENT, OPERATIONAL PLAN

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A faster, integrated way to help Central Alberta children and youth who have been sexually abused is coming to Red Deer.

On Thursday, the province announced $1.7 million in funding to support existing child advocacy centres in Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, as well as four emerging centres in Fort McMurray, Lethbridge, Lloydminster and Red Deer.

Red Deer is getting a $150,000 grant to assess the needs of the region and develop an operational plan for a Red Deer child advocacy centre.

Terry Loewen, co-chair of the Red Deer advocacy centre coalition, said the local centre will be modeled after

the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre in Calgary where numerous government agencies, police and others collaborate in one location to investigate and treat child abuse.

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Ambitious timeline concerns boards

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF While Red Deer public and Catholic school authorities are welcoming the province’s plans to introduce a modern school curricula there are concerns about the ambitious timeline.

The province announced this week that it intends to review and redo curricula for science, math, social studies, arts, language arts and wellness.

Kindergarten to Grade 4 curricula would be done by the end of 2018, Grades 5 to 9 at the end of 2019 and high school in phases between 2020 and 2022.

“I worry about timelines and about the government wanting to do things quickly … to review all of the curricula, it’s a pretty significant project,” said Red Deer Public School District board of trustees chair Bev Manning.

“I’d rather it be done right than it be done quickly. I worry about the processes and the timelines of the government.”

Literacy and numeracy are still really important and schools already take a hit now for not teaching the right things, she said.

“I hope that we can take a real hard look at how we teach reading and math and those kinds of skills. I’m pretty confident that the government will hang onto those.”

“To me that’s the core of what we do. … If we can teach every kid to be a great reader by the end of Grade 2 we’ve gone a long ways in ensuring their success.”

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Motivational speaker, author and hoop dancer Teddy Anderson finishes his performance at Eastview Middle School Thursday. Anderson, a former Red Deer resident, has performed more than 1,500 times in 20 countries to inspire people to see themselves as part of one human family. Using up to 30 hoops, Anderson motivates his audience to bring about a greater level of community, and teach a message of diversity and inclusion.

RCMP urge shooting witnesses to come forward VICTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are looking for witnesses following a shooting in the city on Wednesday evening that has left a man in life-threatening condition.

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Friday, June 17, 2016 Enforcement Services officer attempted to stop a speeding vehicle. The vehicle instead fled away from the officer. A short time later, police found the vehicle near the Fox Run school and attempted to stop the vehicle. Instead the driver drove into the field behind the school and attempted to flee. In the process it smashed into a police vehicle, damaging the car.

Police engaged in a pursuit and followed the vehicle as it entered another field, this time at C.P. Blakely Elementary School and then crashed into a fence to avoid apprehension.

The pursuit was re-engaged near the Boston Pizza, where the vehicle attempted to flee again, but got stuck in the wooded area behind Bayshore Link. The driver was arrested.

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Arrest warrant issued after accused fails to show up for trial A man accused of ramming police cars and driving through school fields in Sylvan Lake failed to show up for his trial in Red Deer on Thursday.

An arrest warrant was issued for Dakota Lee Cornelssen, 18, of no fixed address.

Five RCMP officers and two civilian witnesses were at Red Deer provincial court on Thursday to participate in a trial that must now be rescheduled.

Cornelssen is charged with assault with a weapon, possession of stolen property over $5,000, possession of stolen property under $5,000, flight from police, dangerous driving, impaired driving, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, mischief over $5,000, mischief under $5,000 and possession of crystal meth.

Charges stem from an incident that started at 9:20 a.m. on Oct. 30, 2015. Police previously said their investigation started after a Sylvan Lake Municipal

City council approves second reading of urban hen bylaw Lacombe residents will have some say in whether they want chickens as next-door neighbours.

City council approved second reading of a bylaw allowing urban hens earlier this week joining a

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In Lacombe, several amendments were made to the proposed bylaw, including a requirement that those applying for a hen licence get approval from at least half their neighbours sharing the property line.

Only those with detached or semi-detached homes will be eligible for hens, and the coop must be located in the rear yard.

To keep a lid on urban hen populations, the city will allow only 10 hen licences for four hens each.

Flocks must be registered with the province and meet all provincial and federal regulations.

Council is expected to give the hen bylaw final reading at its June 27 meeting.

Before deciding whether to allow urban hens the city polled local residents for their views.

Just under 53 per cent of 321 of those polled said they would be interested in having hens. Sixty-four per cent were in favour of having backyard chickens in their neighbourhood and 55 per cent felt four chickens was a good number.

The top benefit pinpointed by respondents was food security with 25 per cent citing that. Educational opportunities at 21 per cent and community building at 16 per cent followed.

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GRANT: Put to use over the next 18 months “Everything happens extremely quickly and extremely fluidly where you don’t see these people get lost in the system for weeks because nobody can get any information from each other,” Loewen said about the Sheldon Kennedy centre.

He said victims and families who are unsure where to go don’t have to visit multiple agencies for the variety of help they require.

The Red Deer centre would bring together Child Family Services, Alberta Health Services, RCMP, Alberta Justice and local education systems so children and youth can get what they need all in one location.

A not-for-profit board will run the facility and participating agencies will provide their staff.

Mark Jones, Red Deer coalition co-chair, said interested citizens in the Red Deer area first got together last September to look at creating a Red Deer centre. Discussions have already begun with government agencies.

He said the grant money will be put to use over the next 18 months with the intention to have the centre operational sometime between October 2017 and March 2018.

Jones said it’s likely the centre will initially be located in an existing building. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta Education Minister David Eggan meets École La Prairie School Grade 4 students from the left, Lucas Fontaine, Destiny Davis, Elise Schulz and Gabrielle Paterson during a visit to the Red Deer school Thursday afternoon.

CURRICULA: ‘Excited and anxious’

They have also heard overtures that curriculum redevelopment will be an ongoing process forever.

“That sounds fantastic and we really hope that’s how it turns out,” Henry said.

Paul Mason, superintendent at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools said they still don’t know a lot of the details however they are encouraged by anticipated revisions.

The school district likes the idea that the current needs of students, and preparing them for the world they will graduate into, will be recognized and accentuated in the new curricula.

However he is somewhat doubtful that the overhaul could be completed in six years . “We would find the minister’s timelines about the curriculum revisions to be ambitious.”

He said had not heard that pace discussed before. Curriculum revision has been discussed often in the past. “It just seems to be lacking in the follow-through.”

“We like the aspect that literacy and numeracy will be a focus. We like the aspect there’s a focus on real life applicability, or student-centred learning. ” As for issues like sexual orientation and gender diversity, Mason said he did not have concerns.

The curricula being discussed is representative of the world that students currently live in and will

Education Minister David Eggen announced that the new curricula — for the first time to be developed simultaneously in both English and French — will also better address topics such as climate change, gender disparity, financial literacy and coding for computer programs. The overall cost of $64 million is in the existing budget and will cover the cost of staff, consultations and an online curriculum portal.

“We’re excited and anxious all at the same time,” said Stu Henry, the public district’s superintendent.

Some of the programs can be as much as 40 years old but the world has changed a lot in those 40 years, Henry said.

The district really likes the notion there will be an increased focus on competencies in the fully-developed person, such as problem-solving and conflict resolution skills. “That sounds attractive to us.”

“They are talking about infusing skills in literacy and numeracy throughout every single curriculum at every grade level. We love the sound of that because we think reading is not just a skill that you pick up in kindergarten and Grade 1. It really is pervasive throughout your whole life.”

graduate into, so they are encouraged that it will reflect that, he said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

SHOOTING: Man bleeding heavily Bystanders at the scene on Wednesday said that it looked like the man was bleeding heavily. Cody Robertson had stopped to help but then paramedics arrived right away. He said the man wasn’t moving and “It didn’t look good for him.”

An empty black SUV was parked on the street at the scene, with the door open and the man had been lying on the ground on the passenger side of the vehicle.

Anyone in the area at the time and who heard or saw anything related to the incident, or with information about the identity of the suspect, is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

They can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or going online at www. tipsubmit.com.-

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Hospital replacing aging MRI machine

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will have a new state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging unit in the fall to replace its aging MRI unit.

The $1.4-million project includes the cost of the 4,800-kilogram machine and renovations to the hospital’s MRI space.

The new MRI will have more functionality with newer software. It’s also larger which will make it more comfortable for patients as scans can take 20 to 40 minutes to perform.

“It’s an exciting initiative. It’s a big project. We’re anxious to see it completed and in operation serving the community,” said Sandy Duckett, diagnostic imaging manager with Alberta Health Services, Central Zone.

The existing MRI has been at the hospital since 2001 and was the facility’s first MRI. “(The MRI) had a significant upgrade in 2006, but it’s getting fairly old.

That’s why we’re replacing it,” Duckett said on Thursday when the project was announced.

Construction to remove the old machine and renovate will begin later this month and continue for about 13 weeks. A mobile MRI unit will be set up on site to ensure ongoing access to scheduled and emergency MRI services.

The mobile MRI will be located inside a tractor-trailer unit parked outside the hospital’s main entrance, adjacent to the ambulatory annex. Once the mobile unit is installed and fully operational, the process to remove the old MRI will begin.

More than 8,000 MRI scans are performed annually at the hospital.

Duckett said the most urgent cases can access the MRI within a week, but the wait for less urgent cases can be as long as 25 weeks. The new MRI will not speed up access to the scans.

She said MRI at the Red Deer hospital is used for mostly for brain, spine, abdomen, knees, and ankle scans. Specialty scans, like breast and cardiac, must be done in Calgary or Edmonton.

Central Zone’s only other MRI is a mobile MRI that operates in the northeast area of the zone. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Calgary murder trial of parents of diabetic child adjourned until fall

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Key testimony chronicling the early years of a starved diabetic teen while he was living in British Columbia will be admitted as evidence in the first-degree murder trial of his parents.

Alberta Queen’s Bench Justice Karen Horner ruled Thursday the testimony can be included as part of the Crown’s case.

Emil Radita, 59, and his 53-year-old wife Rodica Radita are charged in the 2013 death of their 15-year-old son.

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

Court has heard evidence from medical officials and social workers who were involved with the Raditas from the time Alexandru was first diagnosed with diabetes in 2000 up until the family fled British Columbia while under the eye of child-welfare services.

The witnesses have testified that the parents refused to accept that their son had diabetes and failed to treat his disease up until he was hospitalized near death in 2003. One witness de-

scribed the teen as nothing more than “skin and bones.”

Social workers apprehended Alexandru after his October 2003 hospital admission and placed him in foster care — where he thrived — for nearly a year before he was returned to his family.

In arguing against the admissibility of the B.C. evidence, defence lawyer Andrea Serink said it doesn’t prove the crime the Raditas are charged with.

“The evidence demonstrates problems all along with mismanagement,” she said. “Yes, we’re saying there was mismanagement — this is not murder.”

Alexandru virtually fell off the map once the family moved to Alberta in 2008. Court was told he was enrolled in an online school program for one year but never finished. The boy never saw a doctor, although he did have an Alberta health insurance number.

The Crown, which wrapped up its case Wednesday, said although the evidence was prejudicial to the accused, it provided important background.

“It’s about his whole life. He didn’t just arrive in Alberta as a blank slate,” prosecutor Susan Pepper told the court. identified.

The body was taken to the Calgary Medical Examiner’s office to determine cause of death.

Police do not believe the death is suspicious.

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BRIEFS Alberta man dies in boating accident on Sylvan Lake A 70-year-old Alberta man has died in a boating accident on Sylvan Lake.

RCMP said shortly before 6 p.m. on Wednesday they were called for assistance to locate a missing boater.

The man had rented a boat shortly before noon and was last seen on the lake by a rental company employee about 3:15 p.m. Just before 5 p.m., the boat was found abandoned at a remote point on the north shore of the lake.

An RCMP boat searched the area and soon found the man’s body in the water in a remote part of the lake. He was pulled from the lake and taken to a place where emergency medical responders tried unsuccessfully to revive him.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene and next of kin have been

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for one of three men accused of operating a drug ring in Red Deer.

Dustin John Greuel, 22, of Red Deer, will have his hearing on Aug. 17 to determine if there’s enough evidence to determine whether he will be tried in Court of Queen’s Bench.

Greuel was arrested along with Steven Michael Temple, 28, of Penhold, and Randy Julius Larson, 26, of Red Deer, after police conducted simultaneous raids on one home in Penhold and two in Red Deer on Nov. 13, 2015.

All three men are charged with two counts of possessing drugs for trafficking and possession of stolen property.

Larson faces additional charges of careless use of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm with its serial number removed and breaching probation.

Temple and Larson also return to court on Aug. 17.

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All-out war with ISIS would be foolish GREG NEIMAN OPINION

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he time gap between action and reaction to moments of violent horror in our society grows ever shorter. People scarcely took the time to allow for the funerals of the victims of the Orlando massacre before politicizing it, and demanding violent retribution.

Don’t wait for the full facts to come out, we need a lynch mob.

Act in haste, regret at leisure, as the saying goes.

Columnist Michael Taube, a former speechwriter for former prime minister Stephen Harper, wants Western democracies to declare all-out war on Islamic State, committing troops to hand-to-hand combat “to eradicate this evil presence from the face of the Earth.”

He wrote that it’s a fight that would take years, cost enormously and require huge losses on the battlefield.

But it’s a sacrifice he is willing to make — from the safety of his desk.

He referenced a column in the National Review that said: “Islamic terrorist’s war … will continue here as long as we refuse to exercise the tactics necessary to stamp it out.”

Taube suggests such tactics would include identifying anyone who supports “radical Islam” as an “enemy of freedom, liberty and democracy.” Such people need to be “constantly attacked and denigrated,” according to his column.

That would be sort of hard to do, since even America’s top spymasters, listening in on our every phone call, reading every text, Tweet and email, can’t locate ISIS operatives within their own borders.

That is, if Omar Mir Seddique Mateen even was an ISIS operative — which is far from certain.

Rather, these kinds of tactics will far sooner result in home-grown atrocities, perpetrated by our own governments, than wiping anything from the face of the Earth.

Let’s consider a small portion of what our governments are doing now to identify and denigrate potential terrorists within our borders: the no-fly

list.

It’s a net that snares five-year-old children born with the wrong-sounding name. The snare never releases its catch, and there is no appeal process for even a young child to be shown he or she is not a terrorist, therefor they can never board an airplane.

And we would want to expand that to government powers of war for anyone who looks different, speaks different or prays different than us? There is no such thing as “radical Islam” any more than there is such a thing as gun-toting abortion clinic attackers who are “radical Christian.”

There are just good people and criminals. And if we make religion or ethnicity the first filters in deciding between them, we are on the road to destruction. Which, if you look at it, is exactly what ISIS wants from us.

There are still people among us who can remember the arrests and murder of innocent people identified as enemies of the state because of the way they prayed: Jews during the Holocaust.

There are still Canadians alive today whose perfectly peaceful homes and businesses were confiscated and who were imprisoned — without legal

recourse — because they were of Japanese descent.

On the road between Banff and Lake Louise, you can tour the remains of the prison camp where, recently in our history, we put people who were too Ukrainian to be trusted to stay on their farms and milk their cows.

How well did all that go in protecting “freedom, liberty and democracy?”

And now there are people who want us to do this all over again, this time with Muslims. One such person wants to be president of the United States.

This is playing into the terrorists’ game.

I don’t know how one goes about eradicating mindless hate masquerading as pure faith. But I suspect massive bloodshed creating even more massive throngs of displaced refugees is not the best way to go about it.

As far back as the Crusades, those tactics have never worked.

So rather than acting on a knee-jerk desire for revenge, let’s instruct our leaders to get the facts and think about what does work to eliminate the foundation on which this hate is based.

Hint: it’s not religion.

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Premiers, and maintain good relations to other provinces.

Just a few days after the Fildebrandt episode the WRP lashed out again. This time nine Wildrose MLA’s compared the NDP’s carbon levy to the death by starvation of six to 10 million people in the Ukraine in the 1930’s under dictator Joseph Stalin. A blazing social media controversy followed as many Albertans are of Ukrainian descent and found the Wildroser’s comment painful and wrong. The nine Wildrose MLA’s: Ron Orr, Grant Hunter, Rick Strankman, Dave Schneider, Drew Barnes, Dave Hanson, Don Mac Intyre, Wes Taylor and Mark Smith are now referred as the ‘Nutty Nine’ on social media.

Such bizarre comparisons, remarks, social media postings and disrespectful behavior is not new for the Wildrose Party. In 2011 Wildrose MLA and former leader Paul Hinman compared the PC’s ‘Land Use and Assembly Act’ to the same Stalin land collectivization policy.

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Reminiscing about the other great Howe

could have made the World Hockey League, a few could have made the NHL. The brigade area had four arenas. The local Germans loved Canadian hockey, often the games were sold out. Our coaches told us to “just enjoy the moment — don’t go into the corner with Howe with the intent to hit or injure him, if you do, he will punish you.” On the few occasions I went into the corner, I was just thrilled to be on the ice with Vern, I came close to rubbing shoulders a few times; when I did, with his glove, he would rub my glasses off my face, then smile and skate away.

Vern Howe was a wonderful skater, many people over the years said, ‘he was a better skater’ than Gordie.

The passing of Gordie Howe this weekend was sad for all of Canada, some of us though, were fortunate to be able to play against the other wonderful hockey great — Vern Howe. Over the years there were a lot of ‘what if’s’ — Wouldn’t it have been wonderful, if Vern Howe, had returned from the war and played on any of the six original NHL teams?

Ernie Slump Penticton, B.C.

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Wildrose Party shows true colours Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt was suspended from caucus after saying he was proud of a constituent who congratulated him on telling “the truth about Mr. Wynne or whatever the hell she identifies as.” Fildebrandt later insisted he had not seen the ‘Mr.’ in the social media post, but he surely didn’t miss “or whatever the hell she identifies as.”

Fildebrandt also chastised Premier Notley in the Alberta legislature for not inviting Brad Wall instead, he shouted across the aisle “Invite Premier Wall here! Invite Premier Wall!” Wynne looked on as Fildebrandt insulted her province as a failed debt-loaded enterprise, and warned Notley not to follow suit. Disrespect, misogynistic comments and insulting officials from other provinces is not only outright wrong, but also very unwise. Is it helpful for Alberta and Albertan’s? Of course not, after all Alberta wants to have approval for Energy East through Ontario and it is always wiser to pay some respect to visiting RED DEER

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Man killed in stabbing at clinic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Police say a stabbing at a Calgary medical clinic in which a man was killed appears to be domestic in nature but they aren’t saying what may have led to the attack.

Officers who arrived at the Perpetual Wellness Chinese Medicine Centre on Thursday afternoon also found two other people with non-life-threatening injuries.

One woman was transported to hospital and a second person was treated on scene before being taken into custody.

Police didn’t give any further details about the suspect, who was arrested at the clinic without incident and has not yet been charged.

“I can’t speculate on what the thought process of the suspect was going into this, but I can tell you that all three people were known to each other and it’s domestic in nature,” said duty inspector Dean LaGrange.

Police believe the attacker and the woman were romantically involved, or had been in the past, he said.

LaGrange did not say how deceased, the proprietor of the clinic, was related to the suspect and the woman.

The three involved were in their 40s and 50s, he said. Six witnesses were being interviewed by homicide detectives.

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TV host Mike Holmes heading to Fort McMurray FORT MCMURRAY — Canadian home renovation TV personality Mike Holmes says he will head to fire-ravaged Fort McMurray next week.

A huge wildfire last month in northeastern Alberta torched about 2,400 homes and other buildings and forced more than 80,000 people to flee.

Holmes, who is also a contractor, says he and a team of builders are to meet with officials on June 24 in the city and visit some of the damaged neighbourhoods.

There were large drops of blood leading up to the door of the clinic. Yellow police tape blocked off the section of mall while bystanders looked on. A single policeman stood in front of the business.

Maggie Law runs a spa a few doors down from the wellness centre.

“Someone was at my door and something happened. I just saw the restaurant people running over to help and were yelling, ‘Bring more towels, bring more towels! There’s a lot of blood,”’ she said.

“Then I went back to look at what was happening and saw two guys on the floor. I think it was two guys, I only saw their legs. It was really messy and there were some towels and then the police came.”

Law said about 15 minutes later, she saw one man being brought out in handcuffs.

She said she didn’t hear anything when the attack happened and the mall for the most part is usually quiet.

Several lanes of a major Calgary street were blocked off at one point as officers investigated what happened at the Central Landmark Building.

The area is north of downtown Calgary.

A salesman with an optician business in the building said no one was allowed to leave for a couple of hours.

“By the time it all started, the cops actually cordoned off everything, so it was basically on lockdown. We couldn’t leave,” said Nick Wong with Essential Eyewear.

“Between two and four-ish, there was basically

yellow tape everywhere. Upstairs was basically off

About half the evacuees have moved back to the community since June 1.

Holmes revealed his plans on social media and was not immediately available for comment.

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, says it is aware of his intention to visit, but there are no details available yet.

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ASSISTED DYING

OTTAWA — The House of Commons bounced the assisted dying bill back into the Senate’s court Thursday, rejecting an amendment that would have allowed suffering Canadians who aren’t near death to get medical help to end their lives.

Appointed senators must now decide whether to stick to their guns or accept the will of the elected chamber, a choice some clearly find agonizing.

“I cannot in all good conscience simply vote down a bill that is better than having nothing at all,” said Conservative Sen. Don Plett, who had hoped to impose more restrictions and safeguards on the right to an assisted death.

Conservative Sen. Doug Black said the Senate did its best to improve the bill and must now defer to the will of the Commons.

But others were adamant that without the primary amendment — which would have deleted the bill’s proviso that medical assistance in dying be available only to those whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable” — the bill doesn’t comply with the charter of rights or with last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the ban on assisted dying.

“I will never support a bill … that would strip a group of citizens of their rights that have been recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada,” said independent Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal, who authored the amendment.

“I will never vote for that, never.”

Similarly, James Cowan, leader of the independent Liberals, said: “I won’t support a bill that I believe to be unconstitutional … My position would be that we should stick to our guns.”

The Senate scrapped the foreseeable death requirement during two weeks of lengthy debate in the upper house before

passing the bill with seven amendments late Wednesday by a vote of 6412, with one abstention.

Early Thursday, Health Minister Jane Philpott and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould announced that the government would accept the more minor amendments. But, as expected, they stood firm on the legislation’s central pillar: that only those near death should qualify for medical assistance in dying.

After a brief debate in the Commons, MPs voted 190-108 to accept the government’s response to the Senate amendments. Only three Liberal backbenchers voted against the government’s position, along with New Democrat, Bloc Quebecois and Green MPs

Clarity urged around assisted dying in prison

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Belgian man three decades into a life sentence for rape and murder wanted doctors to help him die — and he nearly got his wish.

Frank Van den Bleeken suffered no terminal disease when he was granted a doctor-assisted death in September 2014.

Rather, he sought to end his “unbearable” psychological suffering, arguing his life behind bars was intolerable and there was no hope his violent sexual urges would ever go away.

The case underscores some of the prickly issues Canadian corrections authorities may have to tackle with the legalization of medically assisted dying.

So far, there’s been little clarity on how prisoner requests should be handled.

In January 2015, Van den Bleeken was supposed to die by lethal injection, but doctors backed out.

Belgium has allowed doctor-assisted death since 2002 and there, the practice is not limited to terminal patients. It’s unclear whether or not Canada’s law will be restricted to those close to death.

Howard Sapers, Canada’s prison watchdog, wants to know how authorities will deal with the issue.

By law, inmates must have the same standard of health care they would on the outside.

But Sapers has raised concerns about how inmates are cared for in their final years. About a quarter of the prison population is over the age of 50 and inmates tend to have more health problems and shorter life spans compared to the general public, he said.

The Correctional Service’s Avely Serin said the department is closely monitoring the debate.

and most Conservatives.

“It is crucial to keep in mind that Bill C-14 was carefully and deliberately crafted as a cohesive and balanced regime,” Wilson-Raybould told the Commons.

“The balance sought in Bill C-14 would be upset by the broadening of eligibility criteria to individuals who are not approaching death without the corresponding safeguards for these specific cases.”

The bill now returns to the Senate, which is expected to debate and vote on the government’s response Friday.

“I think that some changes (the government has accepted) are a good step but that doesn’t address the main issue of constitutionality,” said Conservative Senate leader Claude Carignan, adding that senators need time to reflect on their response.

Senators could simply acquiesce, which the government is clearly hoping they’ll do and which Senate insiders now believe is the most likely outcome. Liberal backbenchers privately say Trudeau told MPs Wednesday that it would be “appropriate” for appointed senators to defer to the will of the elected Commons, and he seemed confident they would do so.

But senators could also “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. Or they could shelve it, either by letting it languish in committee or by refusing to vote on it until the government refers the bill to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality.

The latter route is one that Joyal would like to see debated.

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Federal health transfer plan needed: Quebec OTTAWA — Quebec’s finance minister says the official agenda for next week’s meeting with his federal and provincial counterparts is missing a pressing item: health-care transfers.

The gathering in Vancouver will be dominated by talks on Canada Pension Plan reform — but Carlos Leitao warned the urgent issue of health funding is perhaps even more important.

He said provinces are staring at the possibility of “a sudden and significant deceleration” in federal health transfers in 2017-18.

As it stands, Leitao estimated next year’s Quebec budget will be up to $400 million short because the annual six-per-cent increase in transfers to the provinces is scheduled to end in 2017.

“That’s significant — multiply that by the other provinces,” Leitao said.

“Clearly for the Vancouver meeting, all the attention has been focused on the retirement issue. But I’m just raising the flag that we shouldn’t forget the other one because it is equally, if not more, important.”

Leitao urged Ottawa to extend the current formula for one more year while the negotiations on a new deal

are underway, calling it the “more efficient, pragmatic thing to do.”

The last health accord expired in 2014 and, after refusing to renegotiate it, the previous Conservative government unilaterally declared that the six-per-cent escalator would end in 2017.

In their election platform, the federal Liberals promised to restart negotiations on a new health accord with the provinces, which have constitutional

get because he expects the talks to help provide a “clear sense of direction.”

On Thursday, a spokesman for federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said Ottawa reached an agreement with provinces and territories in January on shared health priorities. The federal government’s goal is to sign a deal with the provinces and territories by the end of 2016, Andrew MacKendrick wrote in email.

‘CLEARLY FOR THE VANCOUVER MEETING, ALL THE ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THE RETIREMENT ISSUE. BUT I’M JUST RAISING THE FLAG THAT WE SHOULDN’T FORGET THE OTHER ONE BECAUSE IT IS EQUALLY, IF NOT MORE, IMPORTANT.’ — CARLOS LEITAO, QUEBEC FINANCE MINISTER

responsibility for delivering health care.

So far, the Liberals have yet to put a price tag on that pledge, nor have they specifically promised to reinstate the escalator.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said talks with the provinces will touch on home care, palliative care and mental health. But he has also noted the details were left out of the March bud-

He did not immediately address questions about the status of the talks, nor did he respond to a question on whether Ottawa would extend the current health-transfer formula for another year to help provinces avoid a major fiscal hit.

Other finance ministers, however, didn’t appear to show as much concern as Leitao over the potential shortfall.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Four Canadian financial institutions invested $565 million in the companies that manufacture cluster bombs, a weapon that is banned under a UN treaty that Canada has ratified, says a report released Thursday.

The report was released in Ottawa by the Dutch peace group PAX, part of the international coalition against the indiscriminate weapons that have been widely linked to the deaths of civilians.

The companies are among 158 worldwide that invested $28 billion in companies connected to the weapons between June 2012 and April 2016, the report said.

Paul Hannon, executive director of Mines Action Canada, is calling on the Trudeau government to issue guidelines that would ban such investments

by Canadian institutions.

Canada has ratified the Conven-

tion on Cluster Munitions, and while it doesn’t explicitly ban the investments, Hannon said they can be viewed as “a form of assistance” in the use of the weapon.

“These are inhuman and indiscriminate weapons and no financial institution should be investing in them,” said Hannon.

“Whether it’s because they don’t realize that they’re doing this, whether it’s because they’re such huge corporations, and one arm doesn’t realize what the other arm is doing, that’s fine.

But they now need to understand.”

The report names the Royal Bank of Canada, Manulife Financial, Sun Life Financial and CI Financial CI says it no longer holds any shares in the U.S. company that is cited in the report.

The report says Royal Bank invested $132 million and Manulife $48 million in the U.S. firm Textron, a leading manufacturer of cluster bombs that have been linked to recent attacks in the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

funding hole in his budget, Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said in an interview that he thinks it’s more of an issue for the federal and provincial health ministers.

“I think it’s unofficially on our agenda because of these kinds of (budgetary) questions,” said Ceci, who will be in Vancouver for the meeting.

“But I don’t know if the federal finance minister is in a position to go very far down the road of the health accord at this time, aside from listening to people’s views.”

The gathering provides a forum for the ministers to raise different issues.

Ceci said he plans to remind his counterparts about the big economic benefits of getting oilsands crude from “pipeline to tidewater.”

When asked about health transfers, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said while he expects other subjects to come up, his focus will be on trying to find consensus on CPP enhancement.

“We have a federation that needs participation by the provinces and Ontario is a net contributor to the rest of Canada — always has been, even when we qualified for equalization,” Sousa said in an interview.

“We want to make certain that everyone gets their fair share.”

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THE ADVOCATE Friday, June 17, 2016

Cavs force series back to California

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) dunks against the Golden State Warriors during the second half of Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland, Friday.

Cleveland won 115-101.

Cavaliers 115 Warriors 101 CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 41 points, Kyrie Irving added 23 and the Cleveland Cavaliers sent the NBA Finals packing for California by beating the rattled Golden State Warriors 115-101 on Thursday night to even this unpredictable series and force a decisive Game 7.

James delivered another epic performance in an elimination game and the Cavs saved their season for the second time in four days and are headed back to Oakland’s Oracle Arena for Sunday’s climactic game on the brink of history.

One more win and they’ll become the first team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals, and more importantly, give title-starved Cleveland its first major sports championship since Dec. 27, 1964.

“I want to win for sure,” James said.

“But I want to give everything I’ve got and we’ll see what happens. We forced a Game 7. It’s going to be a fun one.”

The Warriors never imagined being in this spot. The defending champions, who powered their way to a record 73 wins in the regular season, won the first two games by 48 combined points.

But MVP Stephen Curry and Co. have lost their touch, their poise and are in danger of their historic season — and a second title — vanish.

Curry was ejected from Game 6 with 4:22 left after he was called for his sixth personal foul, cursed at an official and fired his mouthpiece into the front row, striking a fan. Curry finished with 30 points, Klay Thompson had 25 and Draymond Green, back from a onegame suspension, had 10 rebounds.

On Wednesday, James called Game 7, “the two best words ever.”

He’ll live them once more, thanks to his spell-binding effort — he had a hand in 27 consecutive points in the second half — and put away the Warriors after they closed a 24-point deficit to seven in the final period. James scored 14 points in the fourth before checking out to a thunderous ovation

in the final minutes as Cleveland fans chanted, “Cavs in 7!” and “See you Sunday!”

“At the end of the day I’m going to give my teammates everything I got,” James said.

“I’m going to give my coaching staff all I’ve got. And I’ll be satisfied with the results.”

In typical Cleveland fashion, there were some heart palpitations in the fourth. The Cavs built a 24-point lead in the third, and when J.R. Smith blindly dropped a lob pass to a trailing James for a dunk, Quicken Loans shook with noise and thousands of fans packing a plaza outside the building began thinking about where they might watch Game 7.

The Warriors, though, weren’t done. On the anniversary of their title last season, Thompson made a pair of 3-pointers as Golden State, playing without injured centre Andrew Bogut, closed the third quarter with a 25-10 run to pull within 80-71 entering the final 12 minutes.

But James, as he did while winning two titles in Miami, made sure those belonged to him and extended Cleveland’s dream season.

Before taking the floor, James huddled his teammates in prayer the way he does before every game outside the locker room. He then offered some final words.

“Every possession counts. Every possession matters,” he said. “No breakdowns.”

The only things broken early on were the Warriors, who couldn’t make an outside shot and were sloppy in the first quarter, when they fell behind by 22 while Curry sat on the bench with two fouls.

Down by 20 at the end of the period, coach Steve Kerr told sideline reporter Craig Sager, working his first finals: “Am I worried? 31-11? We got this.”

The Warriors didn’t get it, though, and now have to fight off a Cleveland team rolling like never before.

Note: Bogut’s injury will take 6-to-8 weeks to heal, essentially knocking him out of playing for Australia in the Rio Olympics.

Eskimos make change to QB playbook REILLY WILL RUN IF NECESSARY BUT WON’T NECESSARILY RUN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — There’s a new game plan in 2016 for the CFL’s reigning Grey Cup MVP quarterback: Mike Reilly will run if necessary but will not necessarily run.

The Edmonton Eskimos star says he’ll still be using his legs to extend plays this season, but the plan is not to have his feet as part of the playbook.

“Under coach (Jason) Maas’ mindset when I’m out there running it means there is literally nothing open to throw to,” Reilly said Thursday after practice at Commonwealth Stadium.

“I understand that’s how you preserve a career, and that’s how you play and have longevity (by) limiting the number of hits you take.”

Running has always been an integral part of the game for Reilly, who enters his fourth season as Edmonton’s starting quarterback.

In 2013, his first year in Edmonton, Reilly scrambled out of necessity on a dreadful 4-14 team.

In the last two years his running has been incorporated into the playbook, particularly when multiple injuries decimated the running back position last year.

He averaged less than five carries a game in 2013 and 2014 but went up to 6.6 carries a game last season. Overall for Edmonton he has run the ball 229 times for 1,649 yards (7.2 yard average) and 11 touchdowns.

But his running, and his determination to squeeze every last inch out of every play, has also resulted in serious injuries every season.

In 2013, Reilly was concussed against Toronto when he was drilled helmet to helmet from behind by Toronto’s Cleyon Laing.

In 2014 he got rolled up running out of bounds against the B.C. Lions and broke his foot.

Last season, in the opening game against Toronto, Laing again took out Reilly, this time hitting Reilly low, shredding his left knee and putting him out until Labour Day. Maas, a former quarterback, acknowledged that the scripted quarterback runs won’t happen as much this year. But he said Reilly will still be Reilly.

“In the pass game we have a system that makes the quarterback go through a progression. He should know where to go with the ball on every single play, and if the play breaks down you let the athlete play,” said Maas. “(Reilly) has the ability to break contain and to make something happen with his feet. You’re never going to

take that away from him.

But Mass said if Reilly is going to freelance, discretion can be the better part of valour.

“That’s something that (Reilly) has to work on mentally, because it’s not in his MO to give up on a play. And a slide at times is not a bad thing,” he said.

Reilly returned from last year’s knee injury to have an outstanding finish, rattling off 10 consecutive wins capped by a 26-20 win over the Ottawa Redblacks in the Grey Cup. He has two souvenirs from 2015, a Grey Cup ring and a coal-black multi-buckled knee brace that now forms part of his basic equipment.

Laing has since signed with the Miami Dolphins. Reilly said he wishes him the best. He said they ran into each other in pre-game warmups in Edmonton last Aug. 28 and hashed out their shared history.

“He’s one of those guys that’s always going to push the edge of things and play to the edge of the whistle, and that’s not necessarily a guy you want to play against,” said Reilly.

“But I’ve heard he’s a good teammate and he’s a hard worker and a guy you want to have on your team, so I have no reason to question that.”

Reilly is now 31, and said he’s changed as a quarterback. He’s worked in training camp on improving his reads, keeping his eyes downfield while moving in the pocket instead of simply bailing out and going for a run.

His father, Pat Reilly, his onetime football coach and lifelong gridiron mentor, says there is a maturity to Reilly’s game that wasn’t there before.

Mike, he said, no longer feels like he has to save every play or make something out of nothing every down.

Sometimes its OK to throw the ball out of bounds if the play isn’t there.

Still, said Pat, the fire always burns.

Especially after every home game, when the family drives up from Montana, watches at Commonwealth, then goes back to Mike’s apartment as he rewinds the game tape and he and Pat go through it play by excruciating play.

“He’s pretty hard on himself,” said Pat, “I’ll ask him why he did something and he’s honest enough to say ‘I don’t know. I just absolutely screwed that one up. I missed the read or whatever.”’

Mike now has more off-season help.

He said his wife, Emily, is all in on the three-down game. Over the winter, he said, they took a trip to Kauai that morphed into a working vacation.

“Every day we were at the pool, two hours a day, she would have the QB reads and tip sheets and she would be quizzing and testing me,” he laughed.

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

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Toronto Blue Jays’ J.A. Happ pitches during the third inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Thursday, in Philadelphia.

Blue Jays blast off on Phillies in series finale

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 13 Phillies 2 PHILADELPHIA — The Toronto Blue Jays again showed their offensive prowess Thursday night and set some season highs in the process.

J.A. Happ allowed three hits and an unearned run in seven innings and the Blue Jays hit five home runs in a 13-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Kevin Pillar hit two homers and Edwin Encarnacion, Michael Saunders and Devon Travis added one apiece for the Blue Jays, who set season marks with the five homers and 17 hits.

“We’re hot. We’re playing good baseball right now,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.

Happ (8-3) struck out five in improving to 4-0 against his former team.

“I love coming back here,” Happ said. “He set the tone,” Gibbons said.

“He was really, really good. But he has been. He’s been like that all year so you always feel good when he takes the mound.”

Right now, Toronto is feeling good whoever takes the mound.

It was the Blue Jays’ third straight win over the Phillies and they have outscored them 31-7 in those games.

Encarnacion hit his sixth homer in as many games and his 18th of the season in the first inning against Phillies starter Aaron Nola (5-6). Encarnacion has eight home runs and 21 RBIs in June.

“Really, every year he goes through one of these,” Gibbons said. “And he’s dangerous. If you give him anything to hit there’s nobody better.”

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Pillar, who was 3 for 5 with three RBIs, homered in the seventh and eighth innings.

“We’ve got some of the best hitters in the world on this team,” Pillar said.

“It’s fun for me to say I’m a part of it and contribute.”

Nola followed up his shortest career outing in his last start with an even shorter one Thursday. The Phillies ace lasted just three innings plus four batters. He allowed eight hits and eight runs (six earned) to go with three walks and five strikeouts. He has allowed 15 hits in his last 6 2/3 innings.

“His breaking ball was flat,” Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. “He just doesn’t look the same.”

Toronto led 8-0 after four innings.

Every Blue Jays starter recorded a hit as Toronto outhit the Phillies 17-5.

STANDINGS The Phillies (30-37) are a season-high seven games under .500. The Blue Jays (38-31) won their seventh series in their last nine. They are 19-8 since May 19, the second-highest winning percentage over that span behind Texas.

EARLY EXIT Toronto RF Jose Bautista was removed from the game in the bottom of the seventh inning after colliding with the outfield wall on a double by Cameron Rupp. Bautista, who was 1 for 4 with an RBI, limped off the field with the help of a trainer. He is listed as “day-to-day” with left big toe soreness.

Precautionary X-rays were to be taken.

UP NEXT RHP Aaron Sanchez (6-1, 3.38 ERA) takes the mound Friday in Baltimore against RHP Mike Wright (3-3, 5.31).

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Maas hungry to get back to Grey Cup CFL PREVIEW

DESPITE LOSING IN LAST YEAR’S CHAMPIONSHIP, THE NEW ESKIMOS COACH WANTS TO LEAD LAST YEAR’S WINNER TO ANOTHER TITLE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Ed Hervey, general manager of the Edmonton Eskimos, left, and Jason Maas, right, pose at a news conference announcing Maas as head coach, replacing former coach Chris Jones, in December. Maas is hoping to lead Edmonton to the CFL’s first repeat champion since Montreal in 2010. free agency. ● Several other teams open the season with questions at quarterback.

Veteran Darian Durant returns as Saskatchewan’s starter, but he’s coming off two injury-plagued seasons.

Ricky Ray’s healthy return in Toronto from shoulder woes is pivotal with Harris moving on to Ottawa.

Winnipeg’s hopes bank on a big year from injury-prone Drew Willy. And in Hamilton, the Ticats open the season minus starter Zach Collaros, who continues to recover from last year’s season-ending knee injury. ● There will be drug testing in the CFL this year.

There was none in 2015 after the league severed its partnership with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports, which resumes its role of conducting the tests.

The number of tests performed will be equal to 100 per cent of the players in the league. Those testing positive face a two-game suspension for a first violation.

It will increase to nine games for a second and a one-year ban for a third.

A fourth offence results in a lifetime ban. ● Toronto returns to Exhibition Place after 27 seasons at Rogers Centre.

It spent 30 years at Exhibition Stadium before moving into the domed stadium in ‘89. After missing four home dates last year due to the PanAm Games and baseball playoffs, the Argos can look forward to a stable, cozier outdoor venue.

They’re the latest CFL club to move into a refurbished/ new stadium after B.C. (2011), Winnipeg (2013), Ottawa and Hamilton (2014).

Next year, Saskatchewan is scheduled to play at the new Mosaic Stadium. ● The CFL adopted 10 rule changes this off-season, including the addition of a video official to address errors not covered by replay challenges.

Also, coaches will be allowed to challenge offensive pass interference, illegal contact, illegal interference, no yards, called illegal blocks on kick plays, roughing the passer and kicker and illegal interference at the point of reception on kickoff attempts.

Unsuccessful two-point converts will be automatically reviewed by the replay official. ● Over 140 players hit the free-agent market in February.

Among those changing teams were running back Andrew Harris, kicker-punter Justin Medlock, centre Jeff Keeping and defensive lineman Euclid Cummings (all with Winnipeg), receivers Weston Dressler (Winnipeg), Chad Owens (Hamilton) and Chris Getzlaf (Edmonton), defensive back Keon Raymond, defensive linemen Brian Bulcke, Bryan Hall and Justin Hickman and tackle Josh Bourke (all Toronto).

TEAM PREVIEWS Hamilton Tiger-Cats

The Ticats will begin play minus their offensive leader as quarterback Zach Collaros continues to recover from last year’s season-ending knee injury. It’s unclear when Collaros will return, leaving the No. 1 job to either Jeff Mathews or Jeremiah Masoli. Whoever starts will line up behind a solid offensive line and have dependable Luke Tasker anchoring a receiving corps that also features former Argo Chad Owens.

Hamilton’s strength is a stout defence, anchored by linebacker Simoni Lawrence and tackle Ted Laurent. Brandon Banks remains a dangerous returner but the loss of punter-kicker Jason Medlock (Winnipeg) hurts.

Jonathon Jennings begins his first full season as the starter after posting a 3-3 mark last year with a 66-per-cent completion average, 2,004 yards and 15 TDs. But stalwart running back Andrew Harris is gone, signing this off-season with home-town Winnipeg. Linebacker Solomon Elimimian, the CFL’s top player in 2014, is coming off a season-ending Achilles injury.

Calgary Stampeders

Montreal Alouettes

Former offensive co-ordinator Dave Dickenson takes over as coach as GM John Hufnagel has added the president’s job to his resume. All-star tailback Jon Cornish has retired but fellow Canadian Jerome Messam is a former 1,000-yard rusher. Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell has quickly become one of the CFL’s top quarterbacks. DeVone Claybanks replaces the departed Rich Stubler (Toronto) as defensive co-ordinator and inherits a unit that allowed a league-low 16.1 offensive points last year but will be minus linebacker Juwan Simpson (released), defensive back Keon Raymond (Toronto) and defensive lineman Freddie Bishop III (New York Jets, NFL).

Ottawa Redblacks

The Eskimos will defend their title with a new head coach. Former Edmonton quarterback Jason Maas replaces Chris Jones, now Saskatchewan’s head coach/GM. Quarterback Mike Reilly is the club’s offensive leader as the Esks won their final 10 games after Reilly returned from injury. Adarius Bowman was the CFL’s receiving leader last year but Shamawd Chambers — the top Canadian in last year’s Grey Cup — followed Jones to Regina. Defensive linemen Almondo Sewell and Odell Willis anchor a solid front but gone are linebackers Dexter McCoil (San Diego, NFL) and Otha Foster (Saskatchewan) and defensive back Aaron Grymes (Philadelphia, NFL).

The hope is veteran Kevin Glenn can offer much-needed stability at quarterback. Seven different players were under centre last year as Montreal (6-12) missed the playoffs for the first time since 1996. Receiver Duron Carter’s return gives the Alouettes another big-play receiver to complement S.J. Green. Offensive consistency would help take pressure off a defence that last year was often overworked. Linebacker Chip Cox (CFL’s top defensive player in ‘13) and defensive lineman John Bowman (league-best 19 sacks) are the unit’s stalwarts. GM Jim Popp returns as head coach after going 3-6 last year as Tom Higgins’ replacement and has a 19-27 overall coaching record.

Henry Burris, the ‘15 CFL MVP, returns to headline a potent offence but the unit will be minus offensive co-ordinator Jason Maas, now Edmonton’s head coach. Jaime Elizondo, Toronto’s receivers coach last season, replaces Maas with plenty of weapons at his disposal, including Burris and a receiving corps that had four 1,000-yard performers last year. But questions exist on defence as Ottawa lost Canadian defensive linemen Justin Capiccotti (Saskatchewan) and Keith Shologan (Winnipeg), defensive back Jovon Johnson (Montreal) and linebacker James Green (Calgary) in free agency. The defending East champions also won’t have the element of surprise in their favour this year.

Toronto Argonauts

The good news is veteran starter Ricky Ray is pain-free after missing most of 2015 recovering from off-season shoulder surgery. It’s crucial for Ray to remain healthy because Trevor Harris, who led Toronto to nine wins over 16 starts last year, is now in Ottawa. A young receiving corps anchored by sophomores Vidal Hazelton and Tori Gurley should benefit from a healthy Ray and veteran slotback Andre Durie. The addition of respected defensive co-ordinator Rich Stubler should immediately enhance the Argos’ unit but former Winnipeg kicker/punter Lirim Hajrullahu has big shoes to fill with the departure of Swayze Waters (Carolina, NFL).

B.C. Lions

Wally Buono, who holds the CFL record for career coaching wins, returns to B.C.’s sidelines.

Buono relinquished coaching duties in 2011 after the Lions’ Grey Cup win, concentrating full-time on his GM post. He replaces Jeff Tedford, who resigned after registering a 7-11 record last year.

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Saskatchewan Roughriders

Jones’ hiring made huge headlines but the biggest key to Saskatchewan’s turnaround from a 3-15 record will be the health of starter Darian Durant, who has suffered season-ending injuries the last two years. However, Durant won’t have either Weston Dressler (Winnipeg) or Chris Getzlaf (Edmonton) to play catch with. Jones’ forte is defence and that, along with the off-season additions of defensive linemen Justin Capiccotti and Shawn Lemon (both Ottawa), running backs Kendial Lawrence (Edmonton) and Curtis Steele (Toronto) and linebacker Greg Jones (Toronto) will definitely help. But veteran lineman John Chick is now with Hamilton after being released during the off-season.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Winnipeg needs starter Drew Willy to remain healthy to reach the CFL playoffs for the first time in five years. The Bombers won just two games after Willy suffered a season-ending knee injury last August. GM Kyle Walters and head coach Mike O’Shea are both under the gun as they’re in the final year of their respective deals. Walters was very active in free agency, boosting his Canadian content by adding running backs Harris and Pascal Lochard, defensive tackle Keith Shologan and offensive lineman Jeff Keeping while also signing Americans Medlock, defensive tackle Euclid Cummings and receiver Ryan Smith.

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TORONTO — For Jason Maas, it’s the perfect match.

The 40-year-old begins his first CFL season as a head coach on June 25, when his Edmonton Eskimos squad hosts Ottawa in a rematch of last year’s Grey Cup. Not only are the Eskimos the defending champions after rallying for an exciting 26-20 win in the 2015 final, but Maas is eager for redemption after serving as the Redblacks’ offensive co-ordinator last season.

“When you look up at the clock and have five minutes to go in the game and you’re leading the Grey Cup and then it just doesn’t happen, that’s very disappointing,” Maas said.

“And then to come to this team that’s just won, I think it’s a good match.

“It’s a team that’s confident, that knows how to win with a coach who wants to win even more now.”

Maas returned to Edmonton in December to replace Chris Jones, who left to become the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach/GM. It was a homecoming for Maas, a Wisconsin native who spent 10 of his 12 CFL seasons as a quarterback with the Eskimos and was part of two Grey Cup-winning teams.

Maas takes over an Edmonton squad that won its final 10 games last season and is looking to become the first repeat Grey Cup champion since Montreal (2009-10) and just the second since the Toronto Argonauts did so in 1996-97.

The 2016 season kicks off June 23 with Toronto hosting the arch-rival Hamilton Tiger-Cats at BMO Field.

The Argos are moving into the refurbished outdoor stadium after 27 seasons at the domed Rogers Centre.

BMO Field will also stage the Grey Cup game Nov. 27. The Argos won the last CFL championship held in Toronto, that being the historic 100th Grey Cup in 2012 at Rogers Centre.

Maas isn’t the CFL’s lone new head coach this year.

Jones faces rebuilding a Riders team coming off a league-worst 3-15 record. And in B.C., GM Wally Buono returns to the sidelines for the first time since leading the Lions to the 2011 Grey Cup title.

Dave Dickenson took over as Calgary’s head coach when John Hufnagel stepped down after eight seasons to concentrate on his GM duties. Hufnagel later added the president’s title to his resume.

The sideline turnover leaves Toronto’s Scott Milanovich, entering fifth CFL season, as the league’s longest-tenured head coach.

Buono, 66, holds the CFL record for wins as a head coach with 254. He’s captured five Grey Cup titles and four times has been named the league’s top coach.

Buono, also the Lions vice-president of football operations, replaces Jeff Tedford, who led B.C. to a 7-11 record and third-place finish in the West Division last year before resigning.

“He’s a coach that just wants to win,” Lions defensive back Steven Clarke said of Buono.

“He’s always going to push us and challenge us.

“We’ve just got to answer the call.”

Other CFL storylines this season include: ● Can veteran quarterback Henry Burris continue fending off Father Time?

The 41-year-old was the CFL’s outstanding player last season after leading Ottawa (12-6) to the Grey Cup in just its second season. Burris was the lone quarterback to start all 18 regular-season games, but the Redblacks signed former Argo Trevor Harris in

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Cassidy sets pace for Innisfail rodeo DIANNE FINSTAD RODEO The Daines Ranch is about to crack the gate on the 56th edition of its family produced pro rodeo, but already there’s a member of another central Alberta rodeo clan leading an event.

The four performances over the weekend can’t accommodate all the contestants who want to take in the popular stop on the hill just north of Innisfail. So an overflow ‘slack’ is held on Thursday for the extra timed event contestants.

Canadian steer wrestling champion Cody Cassidy was one cowboy who requested the early start, to accommodate his busy rodeo weekend. He made the most of his opportunity, turning in the fastest run of the 31 steer wrestlers on hand. The 5.3 second performance isn’t in the same league as the 3.9 second job which gave him first place and

$2826 at Grande Prairie three weeks ago. The four-time national champion knows there are plenty of cowboys ahead at Innisfail who’d love to beat his time, but he is hopeful it will stand up for a place at the paywindow.

“They’re fresh steers,” explained Cassidy, as he spent a few minutes with his family, including six week old daughter Quinn, before leaving for a flight to his next rodeo in Reno, NV. When it’s the first time the steers have played in the arena playground, the bulldoggers aren’t sure how fast they’ll bolt out of the chute. Cassidy noted when he backed into the box, his steer was alert and paying attention to the surroundings, and that helped him gauge the headstart which set up the solid run.

“It was a bit of luck too. I was on Dusty Walker’s horse Tank. He’s been working so good for me,” commented the man who’s leading the Canadian standings this season.

“It’s probably the best start I’ve ever had to a season. Is it experience?

Luck? Probably a bit of both, but I have been drawing good steers.”

Cassidy, who turns 35 on June 26th, is riding the tide of momentum still in play from his successful November at the Canadian Finals Rodeo, where he more than doubled his season’s efforts, to finish with a $60,000 plus tally for 2015.

“My confidence is up, and I’m on the same program as last year where I’m going to the gym lots. That made a big difference for me last year, being better prepared mentally.”

It’s ironic that being in better shape physically could be such a boost to the brain end of competition. But Cassidy is convinced of the link.

“It makes you believe you’re supposed to win, because you know you’ve been putting in the work.”

Over the winter he’d head from their Donalda area ranch to the gym in Stettler to work out five times a week, finding good motivation by doing CrossFit workouts with other athletes.

“It’s been a turning point for me, and especially if I want to be competitive in my later years, I need to stay in the gym.”

In other events from the slack at

Innisfail, Rhen Richard of Roosevelt, UT set the pace in the tie-down roping event with an 8.4 second run, while the best team roping time was an 8.3 from Todd Gallais of Olds and Dale Skocdopole of Big Valley. Another Canadian champion, Nancy Csabay of Taber, has the fast time so far in barrel racing at 16.240 seconds.

Opening the Daines Ranch Rodeo, and serving as Saturday’s parade marshall, will be Dallas Stars defenseman Kris Russell, who grew up in Caroline.

His father was a bullfighter, and Russell actually is in on the ownership of a bull called Red Mile, which will be bucking Saturday afternoon. Tonight’s lineup includes the world’s number one bareback rider this season, Orin Larsen of Manitoba, on the Kelser horse Copper Cat. The sheep riding kicks off the nightly action at Innisfail Friday and Saturday at 6:00 pm, followed by the pro rodeo at 7:00 pm. Saturday and Sunday afternoon performances go at 1:30 pm.

Dianne Finstad is a local freelance reporter and covers rodeo for the Advocate

Storms shut down first round of U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKMONT, Pa. — Even a rainsoaked Oakmont didn’t keep the U.S. Open from delivering its usual dose of frustration.

Just not the kind anyone expected.

Defending champion Jordan Spieth, who had spent five days preparing on the firm and fiery greens of Oakmont, posed over a wedge into the 17th that landed behind the hole, spun back and kept rolling until it trickled down a slope into the bunker.

“You’ve got to be KIDDING me!

How is that in the bunker?” Spieth said before slinging his club toward the bag.

Masters champion Danny Willett sat in a cabin behind the seventh tee for more than an hour as his group waited out the first of three rain delays. When the weather cleared, players were sent back onto the course without having a chance to warm up again.

“You’re in a U.S. Open, they don’t give you a chance to even hit a few balls,” Willett said, and he wasn’t alone in that observation.

Most frustrating of all?

Only nine players finished the first round, and 78 players didn’t even tee off. Play was to resume at 7:30 a.m. Friday.

It was the worst rain delay in a U.S. Open since no one finished the opening round at Bethpage Black in 2009 in a tournament that ended on a Monday.

The first round was suspended for third and final time just as 28-year-old qualifier Andrew Landry was finishing up a dream round in his U.S. Open debut. Coming off two straight bogeys,

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Fan leave the course during the third rain delay during the first round of the U.S. Open golf championship at Oakmont Country Club on Thursday, in Oakmont, Pa. Landry drilled his approach to about 10 feet on the par-4 ninth when the horn sounded as a violent storm approached. He was at 3-under par.

“I was trying to get it in,” Landry said. “But it’s hard when you’ve got a couple of 60-footers out here. And it’s the U.S. Open. So you’ve just got to be patient with it.”

He wasn’t the only player to make a quick impression in his first U.S. Open.

On the short list of players who finished was Scottie Scheffler, who just

finished his sophomore year at Texas and opened with a 69.

“I feel pretty good. It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” he said. “There’s definitely some scores out there to be shot.

We’re used to playing short to all these pins, and now we’ve got to worry about controlling our spin. And you’ve really, really got to be on the fairway to attack these pins again.”

Willett, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler could not get off the course soon enough. They played in the same

Equestrian rider named ASDC-Central athlete of the month An equestrian vaulter out of Innisfail has been named the Alberta Sports Development Centre — Central Athlete of the month for June.

Avery Malone, 15, is an equestrian vaulter out of the Meadow Creek Vaulting Club in Olds. The Innisfail native is completing her Grade 9 year at St. Marguerite School in her hometown.

Vaulting is a combination of gymnastics and dance performed in har-

mony with a moving horse.

Malone has competed in the sport for seven years and in a recent competition in Blackfalds she finished fourth in Women’s Canter B and first in the team competition. In April, she travelled to Gilroy, Calif., to compete.

There she finished sixth in Junior 1 Star.

Malone is coached by Jeanine and Angelique van der Slujis, both former ASDC-Central athletes.

group and were a combined 14 over through 13 holes. Fowler has missed the cut in three of his last five events.

It was evident immediately how much the rain affected the course.

Denny McCarthy, the first to hit a shot in the 116th U.S. Open, struck what he thought was a good approach to No. 1.

The fairway slopes sharply downhill to a green that runs away from players, and the typical play is to land it some 25 yards short and let it run onto the green and, hopefully, have it stay there. His shot stopped short of the green.

But while the greens were soft, they still were quick as ever.

Starting on No. 10, Bryon DeChambeau had a 40-foot birdie attempt that didn’t stop until it was some 35 feet beyond the hole.

Two holes later, Spieth hit a wedge that checked up about 10 feet short of the hole and then trickled a few inches toward the cup. And it didn’t stop.

Turn by turn, the ball kept moving until it settled 2 feet away. Even then, Spieth gave the putt great care and rolled in it.

“It’s nice to know if I miss it, I’m chipping,” Spieth said walking off the green.

There was still enough excitement, with Lee Westwood holing out with a wedge on the 14th hole, Danny Lee holing out from the fairway on No. 6 and McCarthy getting it on the act with a hole-out from the 11th fairway.

Lee was at 2 under through 13 holes, along with Bubba Watson, who made only two pars in his opening holes.

Watson has never played the U.S. Open very well, except at Oakmont. He tied for fifth in 2007.

Brett Sutter hosting hockey fundraiser in Viking VIKING — A Brett Sutter backed hockey event will raise money for KidSport Alberta in the Sutter family’s hometown.

Sutter and family will host the second annual Brettzky’s Hockey Challenge, presented by ATB Financial.

The event runs from Friday to Sunday at the Carena Complex in Viking, where the Sutter’s grew up.

The 10 team challenge starts on

Friday and games run throughout the weekend until the championship game on Sunday at noon.

Last year the event helped get 80 kids into hockey and this year it hopes to raise $30,000 for KidsSport Alberta.

“I’m excited to see the numbers grown even more this year,” said Sutter in a release. “I created this event to help kids get into hockey — and that’s exactly what it has done.”

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Baseball Major League Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Baltimore 38 27 .585 Boston 37 28 .569 Toronto 38 31 .551 New York 32 34 .485 Tampa Bay 31 33 .484 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 35 30 .538 Kansas City 35 31 Detroit 34 32 .515 Chicago 33 33 .500 Minnesota 20 46 .303 West Division W L Pct Texas 42 25 .627 Seattle 35 31 .530 Houston 32 35 .478 Los Angeles 29 37 .439 Oakland 27 39 .409

Local Sports

GB — 1 2 6 1/2 6 1/2 GB — .530 1 2 15

Thursday’s Games Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 2 Toronto 13, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Pittsburgh 4 Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, late Washington at San Diego, late

Cincinnati at Houston, 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 2:10 p.m.

Texas at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Bogaerts Bos 64 273 52 96 .352 Altuve Hou 67 263 47 91 .346 Ortiz Bos 59 221 31 76 .344 VMartinez Det 63 222 27 75 .338 Nunez Min 57 225 33 71 .316 Hosmer KC 66 248 35 78 .315 Desmond Tex 66 264 48 83 .314 Kinsler Det 63 266 57 83 .312 Pedroia Bos 63 263 45 82 .312 YEscobar LAA 62 245 30 76 .310 Home Runs Trumbo, Baltimore, 20 Frazier, Chicago, 19 Cano, Seattle, 18 Encarnacion, Toronto, 18 Ortiz, Boston, 17 Machado, Baltimore, 17 5 tied at 16.

Runs Batted In Encarnacion, Toronto, 61 Ortiz, Boston, 57 Cano, Seattle, 51 Trumbo, Baltimore, 49 Betts, Boston, 47 NCruz, Seattle, 46 Seager, Seattle, 45 Kinsler, Detroit, 45 Napoli, Cleveland, 45 Bogaerts, Boston, 45.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 11-2 Tillman, Baltimore, 9-1 Zimmermann, Detroit, 9-3 Tomlin, Cleveland, 8-1 Happ, Toronto, 8-3 Hill, Oakland, 8-3 SWright, Boston, 8-4 Fulmer, Detroit, 7-1 Porcello, Boston, 7-2 2 tied at 7-3.

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

GB — 6 1/2 10 12 1/2 14 1/2

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 L.A. Angels 10, Minnesota 2 Texas 7, Oakland 5 Thursday’s Games Seattle 6, Tampa Bay 4 Texas 5, Oakland 1 Toronto 13, Philadelphia 2 Baltimore 5, Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, Minnesota 1 Detroit 10, Kansas City 4 Today’s Games Toronto (Sanchez 6-1) at Baltimore (Wright 3-3), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-2), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 7-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-8), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 5-5) at Boston (Elias 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4) at Houston (McCullers 3-2), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-2) at Minnesota (Dean 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Fulmer 7-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 5-4), 6:15 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 6-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-6), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-7) at Oakland (Graveman 2-6), 7:35 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at Boston, 2:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 2:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 41 25 .621 New York 36 29 .554 Miami 34 32 .515 Philadelphia 30 37 .448 Atlanta 20 46 .303 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 44 20 .688 St. Louis 35 30 .538 Pittsburgh 33 33 .500 Milwaukee 30 36 .455 Cincinnati 26 41 .388 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 41 26 .612 Los Angeles 35 32 .522 Colorado 32 33 .492 Arizona 29 39 .426 San Diego 27 40 .403

GB — 4 1/2 7 11 1/2 21

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

Today’s Games Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-6) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 10-1), 12:20 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 3-5) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-5), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Gant 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-8), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Gray 4-2) at Miami (Conley 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 7-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-8), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4) at Houston (McCullers 3-2), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 6-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-6), 6:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Davies 5-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

Washington (Ross 5-4) at San Diego (Friedrich 3-1), 8:40 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Arizona at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 2:10 p.m.

Colorado at Miami, 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Tampa Bay, 2:10 p.m.

Texas at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 6:15 p.m.

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

Washington at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Murphy Was 64 245 38 88 .359 Marte Pit 61 241 35 80 .332 Prado Mia 62 248 27 82 .331 LeMahieu Col 60 217 40 70 .323 Yelich Mia 61 218 30 69 .317 Zobrist ChC 60 215 46 68 .316 Ozuna Mia 65 247 41 78 .316 ADiaz StL 61 218 44 68 .312 CGonzalez Col 62 247 44 77 .312 Lucroy Mil 61 222 33 69 .311 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 20 Duvall, Cincinnati, 19 Story, Colorado, 17 Carter, Milwaukee, 17 Cespedes, New York, 16 7 tied at 15.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 57 Bruce, Cincinnati, 51 Rizzo, Chicago, 49 Duvall, Cincinnati, 46 Story, Colorado, 45 Bryant, Chicago, 45 Kemp, San Diego, 43 Murphy, Washington, 42 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 42 Carpenter, St. Louis, 42.

Pitching Strasburg, Washington, 10-0 Arrieta, Chicago, 10-1 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 10-1 Cueto, San Francisco, 10-1 Greinke, Arizona, 9-3 Fernandez, Miami, 9-3 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 8-2 Lester, Chicago, 8-3 Chatwood, Colorado, 8-4 Scherzer, Washington, 8-4.

GB — 9 1/2 12 15 19 1/2 GB — 6 8 12 1/2 14

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

Football Toronto Ottawa Hamilton Montreal

B.C.

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

PA 16 14 25 36

Pt 2 2 0 0

West Division W L T 1 0 0

PA 16

Pt 2

GP 1

PF 28

Edmonton Winnipeg Calgary Sask.

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1 1 0 0

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WEEK ONE Monday’s result Ottawa 18 Winnipeg 14 Saturday’s results B.C. 28 Saskatchewan 16 Edmonton 23 Calgary 13

2 2 0 0

Toronto 25 Hamilton 16 Wednesday’s result 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.

Golf U.S. OPEN At Oakmont Country Club Oakmont, Pa. Purse: TBA ($10 million in 2015) Yardage: 7,254 Par: 70 (35-35) First Round (a-amateur) Golfer SCORE THRU Andrew Landry -3 17 Bubba Watson -2 14 Danny Lee -2 13 a-Scottie Scheffler -1 F Kevin Streelman -1 16 Lee Westwood -1 13 Harris English -1 12 Romain Wattel E 15 Gregory Bourdy E 16 Daniel Berger E 15 Matt Fitzpatrick E 13 Martin Kaymer E 13 Russell Knox E 12 Shane Lowry E 11 Zach Johnson E 11 Rob Oppenheim +1 17 David Lingmerth +1 16 Hideto Tanihara +1 16 James Hahn +1 15 Matt Kuchar +1 14 Marc Leishman +1 14 Bryson DeChambeau +1 11 Jordan Spieth +1 11 Sung Kang +2 15 Yusaku Miyazato +2 15 Patrick Reed +2 14 Derek Fathauer +3 F Matthew Baldwin +3 17 Patrick Rodgers +3 17 Justin Hicks +3 16 Yuta Ikeda +3 17 Jimmy Walker +3 14 Jason Dufner +3 12 Chris Kirk +3 11 Mike Miller +3 11 Matt Borchert +3 11 Derek Chang +3 10 Rafa Cabrera Bello +4 14 Kevin Chappell +4 14 Paul Casey +4 14 Rory McIlroy +4 13 Danny Willett +4 12 Emiliano Grillo +4 11 Chase Parker +4 10 Mikael Lundberg +5 F D.J. Trahan +5 17 Andrew Johnston +5 17 Matteo Manassero +5 15 J.B. Holmes +5 14 Luke Donald +5 13 Kevin Foley +5 10

Mark Anguiano +5 a-Ryan Stachler +5 a-Kyle Mueller +5 Richie Schembechler +5 Denny McCarthy +6 Aron Price +6 Andres Gonzales +6 Mike Van Sickle +6 a-Sam Horsfield +6 Patton Kizzire +6 a-Jon Rahm +6 Robert Streb +6 Byeong Hun An +6 Rickie Fowler +6 a-Charlie Danielson +6 Patrick Wilkes-Krier +6 a-Nick Hardy +7 Soren Hansen +7 Bernd Wiesberger +7 Thomas Aiken +7 David Toms +7 Tom Hoge +8 Dicky Pride +8 Wes Short Jr. +8 Jason Allred +8 Jef Maggert +8 Gregor Main +9 Note: 78 golfers did not start.

10 10 10 10 F F F F 17 16 15 15 13 12 11 10 F 16 15 15 15 F 17 17 16 15 10

LPGA-Meijer Lpga Classic At Blythefield Country Club Belmont, Mich.

Purse: $2 million Yardage:—6,451; Par:—71 (36-35) (a-amateur) First Round Sei Young Kim 34-31—65 -6 Paula Reto 34-31—65 -6 Carlota Ciganda 33-32—65 -6 Laura Davies 34-31—65 -6 Lexi Thompson 30-35—65 -6 Q Baek 32-34—66 -5 In Gee Chun 34-32—66 -5 So Yeon Ryu 34-32—66 -5 Jaclyn Jansen 33-33—66 -5 Alena Sharp 33-33—66 -5 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 35-31—66 -5 Amelia Lewis 34-32—66 -5 Minjee Lee 33-34—67 -4 Lydia Ko 35-32—67 -4 Haru Nomura 34-33—67 -4 Brooke Henderson 34-33—67 -4 Sandra Gal 32-35—67 -4 Amy Yang 33-34—67 -4 Belen Mozo 35-32—67 -4 Azahara Munoz 34-34—68 -3 Ilhee Lee 33-35—68 -3 Ashleigh Simon 35-33—68 -3 Shanshan Feng 37-31—68 -3

Ariya Jutanugarn Katherine Kirk Brittany Altomare Xi Yu Lin Na Yeon Choi Lizette Salas Min Lee Caroline Hedwall Julie Yang Pernilla Lindberg Ryann O’Toole Moriya Jutanugarn a-Lindsey McPherson Demi Runas Karlin Beck Kelly Tan Simin Feng Beatriz Recari Danielle Kang Jessica Korda Brittany Lincicome Jaye Marie Green Casey Grice

33-35—68 34-34—68 34-34—68 35-33—68 34-34—68 32-36—68 34-35—69 36-33—69 35-34—69 33-36—69 37-32—69 32-37—69 38-31—69 36-33—69 33-36—69 34-35—69 36-33—69 34-35—69 33-36—69 35-34—69 33-36—69 34-35—69 34-35—69

-3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2

Nashville Golf Open At Nashville Golf and Athletic Club Nashville, Tenn.

Purse: $500,000 Yardage: 7,563; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Wesley Bryan 33-30—63 James Driscoll 33-32—65 Brian Campbell 33-33—66 Chris Thompson 35-31—66 Joel Dahmen 35-32—67 Ted Potter, Jr. 35-32—67 Len Mattiace 32-35—67 Reid Edstrom 34-33—67 Tyler Duncan 34-34—68 Taylor Pendrith 35-33—68 Sebastian Cappelen 35-33—68 Julian Etulain 35-33—68 Jonathan Randolph 34-34—68 Grayson Murray 36-32—68 Rodolfo Cazaubon 34-35—69 Tom Gillis 36-33—69 Zack Fischer 35-34—69 Steven Alker 35-34—69 Ryan Armour 35-34—69 Steve LeBrun 34-35—69 Josh Geary 37-32—69 Stephan Jaeger 36-33—69 Mark Silvers 33-36—69 Anders Albertson 34-35—69 Xander Schauffele 34-35—69 Jimmy Gunn 35-34—69 Chris Baker 36-33—69

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 GOLDEN STATE (101) Barnes 0-8 0-0 0, Iguodala 2-5 0-2 5, Green 3-7 2-2 8, Curry 8-20 8-9 30, K.Thompson 9-21 4-7 25, McAdoo 1-1 0-0 2, Ezeli 2-5 0-0 4, Varejao 0-0 0-0 0, Speights 2-2 0-0 6, Livingston 1-6 1-2 3, Barbosa 4-6 4-5 14, Clark 1-1 0-0 3, Rush 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 33-82 20-29 101.

CLEVELAND (115) James 16-27 6-8 41, Love 1-3 4-6 7, T.Thompson 6-6 3-4 15, Irving 7-18 7-7 23, Smith 5-11 0-0 14, Jefferson 1-3 1-2 3, J.Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Mozgov 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 2-2 0-0 4, Dellavedova 1-2 1-2 3, D.Jones 1-1 3-3 5, Shumpert 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 4077 25-32 115.

3-Point Goals—Golden State 15-39 (Curry 6-13, K.Thompson 3-10, Speights 2-2, Barbosa 2-3, Clark 1-1, Iguodala 1-3, Green 0-2, Barnes 0-5), Cleveland 10-27 (Smith 4-10, James 3-6, Irving 2-5, Love 1-2, Jefferson 0-1, J.Jones 0-1, Shumpert 0-2).

Fouled Out—Curry. Rebounds—Golden State 35 (Green 10), Cleveland 45 (T.Thompson 16).

Assists—Golden State 19 (Green 6), Cleveland 24 (James 11). Total Fouls—Golden State 25, Cleveland 25. Technicals—Curry.

2016 NBA Playoffs Fourth Round THE FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) (Series tied 3-3) Thursday’s result Cleveland 115 Golden State 101 Sunday’s game 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 Game Four — Friday, June 10 Golden State 108 Cleveland 97 Game Five — Monday, June 13 Cleveland 112 Golden State 97 Thursday’s summary Golden State 11 32 28 30—101 Cleveland 31 28 21 35—115

Soccer At Lyon, France Northern Ireland 2 Ukraine 0 At Saint-Denis, France Germany 0 Poland 0

UEFA Euro 2016 At Sites in France Group Stage Group A W L T GF GA 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 3 Group B MP W L T GF GA England 2 1 0 1 3 2 Wales 2 1 1 0 3 3 Slovakia 2 1 1 0 3 3 Russia 2 0 1 1 2 3 Group C MP W L T GF GA Germany 2 1 0 1 2 0 Poland 2 1 0 1 1 0 Northern Ireland 2 1 1 0 2 1 Ukraine 2 0 2 0 0 4 Group D MP W L T GF GA Croatia 1 1 0 0 1 0 Spain 1 1 0 0 1 0 Czech Republic 1 0 1 0 0 1 Turkey 1 0 1 0 0 1 Group E MP W L T GF GA Italy 1 1 0 0 2 0 Rep. of Ireland 1 0 0 1 1 1 Sweden 1 0 0 1 1 1 Belgium 1 0 1 0 0 2 Group F MP W L T GF GA Hungary 1 1 0 0 2 0 Iceland 1 0 0 1 1 1 Portugal 1 0 0 1 1 1 Austria 1 0 1 0 0 2 x — clinched berth in second round Note: Three points awarded for a win, one for a tie. x-France Switzerland Romania Albania

MP 2 2 2 2

Pt 6 4 1 0 Pt 4 3 3 1 Pt 4 4 3 0 Pt 3 3 0 0 Pt 3 1 1 0 Pt 3 1 1 0

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 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’s matches 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’s matches 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.

Thursday’s results Group B At Lens, France England 2 Wales 1 Group C

Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Acquired the negotiating rights D Alex Goligoski from Dallas for a 2016 fifthround draft pick.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Signed G Cam Ward to a two-year contract extension through the 201718 season. Agreed to terms with C Derek Ryan on a one-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Signed C Riley Sheahan to a two-year contract extension and D Brian Lashoff to a one-year contract extension.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Re-signed F Dmitrij Jaskin to a two-year contract.

American Hockey League ROCKFORD ICEHOGS — Extended their NHL/ AHL affiliation with Chicago (NHL) through the 2021-22 season.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced coach and director of hockey operations Jamie Russell have agreed to part ways.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Philadelphia RHP Alec Asher 80 games following a positive test for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Signed LHP Brett Adcock, OF Stephen Wrenn, RHP Nick Hernandez, LHP Ryan Hartman, RHP Dustin Hunt, OF Carmen Benedetti and INF Brody Westmoreland to minor league contracts.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms RHP Skylar Szynski and OF Anthony Churlin to minor league contracts.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed OF Kyle Lewis, RHP Brandon Miller, RHP Matt Festa, 3B Nick Zam-

marelli, 3B David Greer, RHP Michael Koval, LHP Timothy Viehoff, OF Eric Filia, OF Austin Grebeck and LHP Elliot Surrey to minor league contracts and assigned them to Everett (NWL). Signed OF Jansiel Rivera, RHP Steven Ridings and 2B Joe Venturino to minor league contracts and assigned them to Peoria (Arizona).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled RHP Tyrell Jenkins from Triple-A Gwinnett (IL). Optioned RHP Casey Kelly to Gwinnett.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Signed SS Errol Robinson, RHPs Andre Scrubb, Dean Kremer and Jeff Paschke, OF Darien Tubbs, 3B Brock Carpenter, 2B Brandon Montgomery and C Stevie Berman.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Signed 3B Lucas Erceg C Payton Henry 2B Trey York C Nathan Rodriguez LHP Cam Roegne RHPs Corbin Burnes, Zack Brown, Thomas Jankins, Scott Serigstad, Andre Vernon, Matt Smith and Chase Williams and SS Nick Roscetti to minor league contracts.

NEW YORK METS — Placed OF Juan Lagares on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 15. Recalled INF-OF Ty Kelly from Las Vegas (PCL). Signed RHP Austin McGeorge, C Dan Rizzie, OF Jacob Zanon, INF Jay Jabs, RHP Adam Atkins, 2B Nicholas Sergakis and OF Jeremy Wolf to minor league contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed TE Tony Moeaki and DL Marquis Jackson. Waived DL Kenton Adeyemi and LB Don Cherry.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived LB Gionni Paul.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed TE Orson Charles.

Waived DL James DeLoach.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted Jon-Eric Sullivan to director of college scouting. Named Charlie Peprah scouting assistant.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed RB Kenyan Drake to a four-year contract. Waived QB Logan Thomas

Thompson tied for Meijer LPGA lead, with Henderson, Sharp close behind BELMONT, Mich. — Defending champion Lexi Thompson shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday for a share of the Meijer LPGA Classic lead, with Canadians Alena Sharp and Brooke Henderson close behind.

The 21-year-old Thompson played the front nine — her final nine at Blythefield — in 6 under. After parring the first nine holes, she holed out from 71 yards with a lob wedge for eagle on the par-5 first and birdied Nos. 3-5 and 8 — playing the three front-nine par 5s in 4 under.

“I had a slow start for my first nine there on the back, but hit it very well

and then got on a birdie run there on my second nine,” said Thompson, ranked fourth in the world. “It’s definitely playing a little bit softer, so the greens are more receptive than last year. It was a lot firmer last year. The course was playing tough at one point because it got pretty windy.”

She was tied for the lead with 52-year-old Laura Davies, Sei Young Kim, Carlota Ciganda and Paula Reto.

Hamilton’s Sharp was at 66 along with U.S. Women’s Open champion In Gee Chun, So Yeon Ryu, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Jaclyn Jansen, and Amelia Lewis.

Henderson, coming off a playoff victory Sunday over the top-ranked Lydia Ko in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship outside Seattle, matched Ko

with a 67.

Henderson had five birdies and a bogey. The 18-year-old from from Smiths Falls, Ont., up to No. 2 in the world, has 10 top-10 finishes this season. She also won last year in Portland, Oregon.

“It was a pretty solid day,” Henderson said.

“Four under, I’ll take it. Only two back from the lead right now, the leaderboard’s pretty crowded with the top names and a ton of really good scores.

I’m excited for the rest.”

Ko had three of her four birdies on the back nine in her bogey-free round.

“It was a pretty consistent day,” Ko said. “I had a few putts where it was close to going in but didn’t fall. You’ve

got to commit to your lines and put a good stroke on it. But I’m happy to start with a 67. Especially, that front nine and those first few holes were tough because the wind was getting up and it seemed like the skies were getting dark, too.”

Ariya Jutanugarn, third last week after winning her previous three starts, bogeyed the last two holes for a 68. She played alongside Henderson.

Thompson won the Honda LPGA Thailand in February for her seventh LPGA Tour title. The long-hitting Florida player also won a Japan LPGA event last month.

She rallied to win last year at Blythefield, finishing at 18 under for a one-stroke victory.

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Late goal lifts England over Wales EURO 2016 ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Germany provided the first goalless draw, England earned the first comeback victory and Ukraine became the first team to be eliminated from the European Championship on Thursday.

World champions in Brazil two years ago and 2-0 winners over Ukraine on Sunday, Germany went into its Group C game against Poland at the Stade de France as the clear favourites.

Instead, Germany was kept in check by a well-organized Poland side that also had the best chance to break the deadlock in a dour game.

Arkadiusz Milik, who had scored Poland’s winner against Northern Ireland on Sunday, miscued a header as he fell to his knees in Germany’s goalmouth and the ball bounced wide.

“We created few chances today,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “We didn’t increase the tempo and then nine of 10 Poles were behind the ball.”

For a second match running, Gareth Bale scored with a long-range free kick to put Wales 1-0 up in a match.

But unlike its opening-game win over Slovakia, this time there was only disappointment after the break as England substitutes Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge turned the match around for a 2-1 victory.

England coach Roy Hodgson doesn’t have a reputation as a hardened gambler when it comes to substitutions. So the sight of Vardy and Sturridge walking on for the second half, instead of Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling, was little short of astonishing.

With teenager Marcus Rashford then replacing Adam Lallana in the 73rd minute, Hodgson ended up deploying three forwards plus Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney in a playmaking role to try to shake things up in the Group B match.

It worked.

Vardy levelled in the 56th minute and Sturridge rifled home the winner from a similarly close range in stoppage time.

“We made the decision (on the substitutes) early.

It was the right decision,” Hodgson said.

“We were anxious to inject a little bit more tempo and pace into our game, and we were anxious to persuade the players to take a few more risks and to show more confidence in themselves in the penalty area.”

Northern Ireland later claimed its first tournament victory in 34 years with a 2-0 win over Ukraine.

With the loss, Ukraine became the first team in the tournament assured of not advancing to the knock-

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England’s Gary Cahill, center, heads the ball during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Wales at the Bollaert stadium in Lens, France, Thursday. out stages.

Gareth McAuley put his side ahead with a header in the first half and Niall McGinn padded the lead by driving the ball home in the sixth minute of stoppage time.

Unrecognizable from the side that surrendered meekly in a 1-0 defeat to Poland, Northern Ireland played sharply in its first tournament win since beating host nation Spain at the 1982 World Cup. “It has been a long time,” McAuley said. “We talked about leaving a legacy from this tournament.

A few years down the line when I am finished and I look back on it, it will be extra special. It’s just sinking in, and now it means staying in the tournament.”

The victory was marred, though, by the death of a second Northern Ireland supporter at Euro 2016.

“The fan passed away as he was watching the game in the stadium,” said Patrick Nelson, chief

Canucks sign forward Sven Baertschi to two-year contract extension The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Sven Baertschi to a two-year contract extension.

The contract will carry a value of US$1.7 million in the first year and a value of $2 million in the second year for an annual average value of $1.85 million. The 23-year-old native of Bern, Switzerland, appeared in 69 games for the Canucks last season where he set career-highs in goals (15), assists (13) and points (28). The five-foot-11, 189-pound forward has appeared in 138 regular season NHL games with Vancouver and Calgary, collecting 58 points (25 goals, 33 assists) and 40 penalty minutes.

Baertschi was originally selected by Calgary in

executive of the Irish FA, the game’s ruling body in Northern Ireland. “This puts any result of a football match into perspective.”

Away from the stadiums, the French justice system continued to deal with the aftermath of last week’s violence in Marseille involving fans from England and Russia, as well as local youths.

Three Russian fans were sent to prison for up to two years and French officials announced plans to deport 20 others next week for their role in the violence.

However, the day ended with no major incidents involving fans in the northern towns of Lille and Lens, contrary to earlier fears.

On Friday, Group E leader Italy takes on Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Sweden. Two Group D matches then follow: Czech Republic against Croatia, and defending champion Spain taking on Turkey. the first round, 13th overall, at the 2011 NHL draft.

Coyotes acquire Alex Goligoski’s negotiating rights The Arizona Coyotes acquired negotiating rights to pending free-agent defenceman Alex Goligoski from the Dallas Stars on Thursday for a fifth-round draft choice. The Coyotes can negotiate with Goligoski until July 1. If a contract isn’t reached, the 30-yearold defenceman would become an unrestricted free agent.

Goligoski had five goals and 32 assists in 82 games last season with a plus-21 rating. He also had four goals and three assists in 13 playoff games. In 562 NHL games with Pittsburgh and Dallas.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Cam Ward got his wish to stick with the Carolina Hurricanes a little longer.

The team announced Thursday it has signed the former Red Deer Rebels goaltender to a two-year, $6.6 million contract extension that allowed him to avoid free agency. Ward will be paid $3.5 million next season and $3.1 million in 2017-18, keeping the 32-year-old netminder with the team that selected him in the first round of the 2002 draft.

“Obviously I’ve been here for my whole career — Raleigh and the Hurricanes are really the only place that I know, and we consider it home,” Ward said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “So just even slightly thinking about the chances of not coming back, that can weigh on you.

“But I remained hopeful and optimistic that something could get done.

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His tenure with COACHING STAFF, the team includes THE ORGANIZATION, the Hurricanes’ run to the 2006 Stanley MY TEAMMATES Cup, with Ward earnHAVE ALWAYS ing the Conn Smythe BELIEVED IN ME Trophy as the most player of the AND KNOW WHAT valuable playoffs as a rookie I’M CAPABLE OF that year.

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IT.’ “Cam has been a major face of the — CAM WARD Hurricanes both on the ice and in our community for more than a decade,” general manager Ron Francis said in a statement. “We are happy he has chosen to continue his career in Carolina.”

His future with the Hurricanes has been a frequent topic in recent months. He finished the final year of a six-year contract that paid him $6.8 million, going 23-17-10 with a 2.41 goals-against average that was the second-best of an 11-year NHL career.

Ward, married with two children, said in April his priority was “being where I’d like to be, and hopefully I get that option.”

“You’ve just got to put (the uncertainty) aside and go out there and do your thing and try to move forward,” he said on Thursday. “I’ve always known that the coaching staff, the organization, my teammates have always believed in me and know what I’m capable of doing. That gives me confidence to want to come back and keep going with it.”

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Friends turn foe at Ottawa UFC BACK FROM BLOODY TITLE DEFEAT, RORY MACDONALD SAYS HE PLANS TO HURT WONDERBOY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Rory (Red King) MacDonald’s analysis of his UFC main event showdown Saturday night with Stephen (Wonderboy) Thompson managed to be both pithy and more than a little chilling.

“It’s going to be a technical fight,” the 26-year-old Canadian told reporters Thursday. “There will definitely be bloodshed.”

MacDonald (18-3-0) knows of what he speaks. His last fight in July 2015 was a five-round bloodfest with 170-pound champion (Ruthless) Robbie Lawler that left the challenger looking like he had just put in a double-shift in a slaughterhouse.

His face was a bloody mask above a torso that resembled a crimson-spattered Jackson Pollock canvas. His nose was a far cry from what it had looked like just a half-hour previously. The battered champion, his lip sliced open like he had fallen into a table saw, didn’t look much better.

Lawler eventually prevailed, when the pain of repeated punches to MacDonald’s broken nose was too much.

MacDonald had thrown 222 significant strikes in 21 minutes, connecting on 86 according to FightMetric. Lawler was good on 70 of 156.

It was deemed fight of the year, an honour that speaks volume about the sport of mixed martial arts.

MacDonald, ranked No. 1 among welterweight contenders, and No. 2 Thompson are friendly having spent time together some years ago when Thompson, a former world champion kickboxer, used to come to Montreal’s Tristar Gym to help former champion Georges St-Pierre prepare for his fights.

“It kind of sucks,” Thompson said of fighting a friend.

MacDonald was less warm and fuzzy.

“We’ve been friendly for years,” he said. “But we’re also competitors. Right now that takes precedent.”

Or, as he put it another way: “I’m here to hurt this guy and take what’s mine.”

For MacDonald, that includes another title shot and a fair payday. Saturday’s fight is the last on his UFC contact and he has rejected the organization’s offer, gambling a win over Thompson will make him one attractive free agent.

Thompson (12-1-0) could be a prickly hurdle. He has won six straight and is coming off impressive first-round wins over Jake Ellenberger and former champion Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks.

The 33-year-old from South Carolina is a fifth-degree black belt in karate who changes stances to flick a dizzying array of kicks. He also has lightning-quick hands. Opponents have a hard time figur-

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Rory MacDonald, No. 1 ranked UFC welterweight contender, takes part in an open workout at the Aberdeen Pavilion on Thursday, in Ottawa. ing out his range.

And thanks to training with former middleweight champion Chris Weidman, Thompson has developed an impressive takedown defence.

MacDonald, a native of Kelowna, B.C., who fights out of Montreal, has his own extensive toolbox. He has a good jab which, along with front kicks, he uses to control range.

He is dangerous in the clinch and can do damage if he gets you on the ground.

“He’s the most well-rounded fighter that I’ve faced so far,” said Thompson, who went a combined 57-0 as a pro and amateur kickboxer.

The winner should get a shot at Lawler, assuming the champion dispatches No. 3 Tyron Woodley on July 30 in Atlanta. And if MacDonald, should he win Saturday, sorts out his contract.

Lawler also beat MacDonald in a non-title fight in November 2013, a split decision that MacDonald believes should have gone his way.

MacDonald and Thompson are a study in character. While MacDonald — whose partner is expecting a baby daughter this summer — has a winning smile, he leaves it at home when he comes to fight. On Thursday, he was all-business.

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Athletics Canada says no to Russians in Rio, asks IAAF to uphold ban

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dia Thursday.

“Keeping Russia’s ban will underscore our firm resolve to protect the interests of clean athletes everywhere.”

Russia’s track team was slapped with an international suspension in November after a World Anti-Doping Agency report, delivered by Canadian lawyer Dick Pound, accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.

Athletics Canada empathizes with Russia’s clean athletes, Guy wrote.

“Their federation has failed them and the ongoing recent revelations of non-compliance, lack of co-operation and widespread individual doping violations from previous Olympics cause one to be skeptical about any Russian performances,” he said.

“We encourage the IAAF to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of our sport and the Olympic movement.”

Many Canadian track athletes will compete at the Harry Jerome International Track Classic in Burnaby, B.C., on Friday.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Athletics Canada wants the ban of Russia’s track and field team to continue.

The governing body of track and field in Canada has sent a letter to IAAF president Sebastian Coe asking for the suspension of Russia’s track and field team because of widespread doping allegations be upheld.

The IAAF is expected to announce Friday in Vienna whether Russia will be reinstated for the Summer Games in Rio in August.

“While we acknowledge some modest progress has been made in Russia, Athletics Canada feels strongly there is little evidence of a reversal in a systematic and deep rooted doping culture in Russian Athletics, and therefore there is no justification to grant re-inclusion,” Athletics Canada chief executive officer Rob Guy said in the open letter posted on social me-

He acknowledged the bloody loss to Lawler had left him feeling different, although not perhaps the way you might expect.

“I feel better. I feel like it made me more animalistic, made me more hungry to be a fighter, to train like one and be a beast,” he said.

Thompson is a southern gentleman, as polite as they come, with a beaming smile fight week.

In the co-main event, lightweight contender Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone makes his second foray into the welterweight ranks to face Montreal’s Patrick (The Predator) Cote.

Cerrone, a thrill-seeker with a love for Budweiser, has enjoyed not having to deal with the stress of cutting wight. He said he ate his way around the Byward Market on Wednesday and planned to go bungee jumping after his workout Thursday, In all there are 10 Canadians on the 13-fight card at The Arena at TD Place. The show, the UFC’s 20th in Canada, is sold out.

The UFC plans a public weigh-in Friday afternoon but, like at UFC 199, the fighters will be able to make weight in the morning at their hotel. It allows them more time to rehydrate and recover in advance of the fight.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Two years after Dustin Brown accepted the Stanley Cup from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman for the second time, the Los Angeles Kings’ longtime captain has lost the job.

The Kings named Anze Kopitar their new captain Thursday, restructuring their leadership after a second straight early summer.

“It’s time for Kopitar to take over,” Kings President Dean Lombardi said. “He’s one of our best players, and he’s moving into his prime. It’s his turn.”

Brown had been the Kings’ captain for eight seasons since 2008, and the hard-hitting American centre led the franchise to its only NHL titles in 2012 and 2014. But

Brown’s production has dipped alarmingly since that first Cup win, with Brown failing to score 30 points in any of the past four seasons.

Kopitar is the Kings’ first-line centre and their leading scorer for nine consecutive seasons. The Slovenian playmaker has served as an assistant captain since 2008, but he never entertained the notion of becoming Los Angeles’ captain until Lombardi asked him.

“It’s a little bit of sweet and sour in my mouth, just because (Brown) and I are very good friends,” Kopitar said. “We’ve developed a strong relationship over the course of my 10 years in LA. …

I wouldn’t say it’s awkward. Just maybe a little bitter, but I don’t think our relationship is going to change. I’m still going to need him right beside me to help me out with a lot of stuff, and hopefully we can just manage and continue working together.”

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Canada BRIEFS Appeal in Stafford murder set to be heard Oct. 24 TORONTO — The man convicted of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford seven years ago is asking for a new trial, arguing there was too much weight given to the testimony of the “unsavoury” main witness.

Michael Rafferty was convicted in May 2012 of kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm and first-degree murder in the death of the Woodstock, Ont., girl. His appeal is set to be heard Oct. 24.

Rafferty’s former girlfriend, TerriLynne McClintic, pleaded guilty in 2010 to first-degree murder, initially telling police Rafferty killed the girl, but testifying at his trial that she delivered the fatal blows.

Rafferty’s lawyer, Paul Calarco, argues in documents filed with the Court of Appeal for Ontario that the judge made several errors, including failing warn the jury against relying on the testimony of McClintic, “a person of unsavoury character, with a serious history of violence and lying.”

The Crown’s case was strongest on the kidnapping count, Calarco concedes, but since forensic evidence could not prove a sexual assault, that conviction was almost entirely dependent on McClintic’s version of events, he argues.

Rafferty did not testify at trial, but argues in his appeal that he was “at most” an accessory after the fact to murder — a concept the judge did not put to the jury.

Ottawa’s refusal of veteran ‘bureaucratic BS’: premier HALIFAX — The plight of a decorated 94-year-old veteran seeking a bed in a Halifax veterans’ hospital has turned Liberal against Liberal, with Nova Scotia’s premier unleashing some mildly unparliamentary language to describe Ottawa’s behaviour on the issue.

Stephen McNeil resorted to unusually candid terms after a cabinet meeting Thursday while commenting on a ruling by Veterans Affairs against Petter Blindheim’s bid for a bed at the Camp Hill Veterans Memorial hospital.

“I’m trying to find an appropriate word that I can tell you on the news, but there has been more bureaucratic BS associated with this issue and the national government needs to do the right thing and treat this vet with the dignity he deserves,” the premier said.

“He (Blindheim) was good enough to stand beside our ancestors and defend this country. What he’s looking for is an opportunity to die in the same company of those men that he fought alongside to defend this country and the national government should provide him with that opportunity.”

Later in the morning, angry veterans demonstrated in front of a federal office in Halifax, saying the Trudeau government is betraying their trust by refusing to fulfil election promises of creating a more flexible department.

“Denials, denials … To say many of us are disgusted by this act is an understatement,” said organizer and fourth-generation veteran Doug Roberts.

“This is wrong. These men are our brothers. We will not take this lying down,” he said as members of Blindheim’s family stood nearby.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is moving to create a multi-party committee of parliamentarians — bound forever to secrecy — to serve as another set of eyes on federal intelligence activities.

Legislation tabled Thursday would authorize the security-cleared committee of seven MPs and two senators to scrutinize the intelligence work of more than a dozen agencies.

A maximum of four MPs from the governing party could be members.

The goal is to ensure security and intelligence organizations are effective while protecting Canadian values, rights and freedoms, said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, who called it the most important Liberal promise on national security.

All of Canada’s major allies — including the United States, Britain and France — have such committees.

“We have studied what those other

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It’s the latest manifestation of tension between the historic House of Commons security detachment and the RCMP, forced to merge into a single parliamentary protective detail after the 2014 shooting attack on Parliament Hill exposed flaws in the previous system of distinct security services.

The force will begin wearing new uniforms on Friday a promotional pho-

to for the outfits was taken earlier this month featuring two officers wearing the new kit.

But a version of the photo superimposed with images from the Disney movie Finding Dory was posted inside the Hill’s communications centre, with a description claiming it was part of an ad campaign to promote the uniform.

Many longtime Hill security staff viewed it as a slight and posted copies of the image on social media sites, accusing the RCMP of making fun of them and writing comments such as, “We are now officially a Mickey Mouse organization.”

All of the social media posts have since been deleted, but not before they drew a sharp rebuke.

“Public forums, which include social media, are not to be used to vent or defame (parliamentary protective service) or fellow employees, and those who chose to do so will be held accountable and disciplined accordingly,” read a memo sent Monday by Michael Duheme, the director of the protective service.

Several officers — including some who were on the Hill the day of the Oct. 22 shooting — are being called before a committee to explain their actions.

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The Canadian committee would have a high degree of independence, power to delve into any national security matter and access to classified government information. However, ministers could withhold information from the members if handing it over would harm national security.

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Nicholas Baker is seen along with his parents Danielle and John Baker in this undated handout photo. The search for a missing four-year-old Nova Scotia boy has ended in tragedy. The body of Nicholas Baker was found in his grandparents’ swimming pool early this morning at a home east of Middle Musquodoboit, about 80 kilometres northwest of Halifax.

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MIDDLE MUSQUODOBOIT, N.S. — Residents of a rural Nova Scotia community were shocked and saddened by news that a four-year-old boy had been found dead in his grandparents’ swimming pool, hours after he was reported missing.

The RCMP say Nicholas Baker was reported missing from his grandparents’ home near Middle Musquodoboit, about 80 kilometres northwest of Halifax, shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Police said officers and a ground search and rescue crew scoured the area for the boy and found him in the pool around 2 a.m. Thursday.

Nicholas was to start school in the fall, according to a posting on the GoFundMe crowdfunding site seeking expenses for the boy’s funeral.

“Nicholas was a free-spirited, energetic, outdoor loving little boy,” said the posting, attributed to Janina Drozdowski, the boy’s aunt.

“He loved monster trucks and recently went to the Monster Truck Rally with his family, and he enjoyed riding his bike much like his mother did at his age. He was looking forward to starting primary in the fall and showed so much potential.”

The death was a devastating outcome for residents of his grandparents’ quiet, pastoral community that one resident noted is never mentioned in the news.

“I heard it on the radio and you just can’t believe it. It’s hard to believe,” said an older woman who refused to give her name.

She said she didn’t know the boy,

but did know his grandparents, who she described as good neighbours.

“They don’t bother anyone.”

Hans Dittert said he learned about the tragedy, which took place just up the road from his home, on the morning news.

“It’s not right,” he said, adding that although the boy’s grandparents have lived in the area for a long time, he knows them only to say hello.

Another local resident who declined to give her name, said the sad news had her thinking about her own nine grandchildren.

“I can’t imagine what it’s like.”

The property where Nicholas Baker died was quiet by Thursday afternoon, the house hidden by trees down a long driveway off a two-lane highway that carves through the rolling farmland of the Musquodoboit Valley.

Most homes in the area are older farmhouses, surrounded by trees and lush, green hills. Residents said it gets warm and humid there, and it’s not unusual for people to have swimming pools.

RCMP Cpl. Jadie Spence said the pool where Nicholas Baker was eventually found was checked during an initial search by RCMP members, but there was a layer of “dark, scum-like film” on the surface and it didn’t look like it had been disturbed.

“The pool was later on searched by a member of ground search and rescue shortly after 2 a.m. with some kind of specialized equipment that they had and that’s when the child was located at the bottom of the pool,” said Spence.

Investigators said his death is not considered suspicious, but an autopsy would be conducted on Thursday.

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Residents identified the suspect to the BBC and other media as Birstall resident Tommy Mair. Neighbors said Mair was a quiet man who did gardening jobs for local people.

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British Labour lawmaker dies after shooting attack LONDON — A lawmaker who campaigned for Britain to stay in the European Union was killed Thursday by a gun- and knife-wielding attacker in her small-town constituency, a tragedy that brought the country’s fierce, divisive referendum campaign to a shocked standstill.

Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labour Party legislator who praised the contribution of immigrants to Britain and championed the cause of warscarred Syrian refugees, was attacked outside a library in Birstall, northern England, after a regular meeting with constituents.

Police would not speculate on the attacker’s motive, but Clarke Rothwell, who runs a cafe near the scene of the slaying, told the BBC and Britain’s Press Association that the assailant shouted “Britain first!” several times.

Police did not confirm that account.

Witnesses described a man shooting Cox several times and then stabbing her as she lay on the pavement. Police said they had arrested a 52-year-old man and were not looking for anyone else.

“Our working presumption … is that this is a lone incident,” said Dee Collins, acting chief constable of West Yorkshire Police.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — It’s an unwritten rule for Florida residents: Keep your kids away from ponds and lakes because alligators are everywhere.

But after a gator killed a two-yearold Nebraska boy at a Walt Disney World resort, attention soon turned to tourists. In a state with an estimated 1 million alligators, how should theme parks and other attractions warn visitors, and did Disney do enough?

Disney beaches remained closed Thursday after the death of Lane Graves, and the company said it has decided to add alligator warning signs, which it previously did not have around park waters.

Jacquee Wahler, vice-president of Walt Disney World Resort, said in a statement that the resort was also “conducting a swift and thorough review of all of our processes and protocols.”

Local law enforcement and state wildlife officials publicly praised the company for spotting and removing nuisance gators from park waters.

Disney’s wildlife management system has ensured “that their guests are not unduly exposed to the wildlife in this area,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said during the search for the child.

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Yet Kadie Whalen, who lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, saw no evidence of that system when she visited Disney World with her family four years ago.

Whalen said her three young children and niece were playing on a resort beach at the water’s edge with buckets and shovels provided by Disney workers when the beady eyes of a 7-foot gator appeared in a lake just a few feet away. She screamed and everyone scattered.

No one was hurt, but after her experience, this week’s fatal alligator attack did not surprise her.

“We knew that Disney was aware that this was a problem, and yet they encourage people to be there,” Whalen said.

The dead child’s parents, Matt and Melissa Graves, who live in a suburban area of Omaha, have not spoken publicly, so it’s unclear whether they knew anything about the gator threat in Florida. A statement released through a family friend thanked local authorities for their tireless work.

An autopsy showed that the boy died from drowning and traumatic injuries, according to the Orlando medical examiner.

Russia said the truce went into effect after midnight Wednesday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the city was calm early Thursday but that government warplanes later bombarded several rebel-held neighbourhoods in Aleppo.

The Observatory said that since the latest round of violence began on April 22, 627 people have been killed and some 2,900 wounded. It said the dead included 124 minors under the age of 18.

Rebels seized part of Aleppo from forces loyal to President Bashar Assad in 2012. Assad’s forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, have nearly encircled rebel-held parts of the city in recent months.

Aleppo-based activist Baraa al-Halaby said opposition fighters in the city — once Syria’s commercial centre — were not informed about the truce. He said that although there is a truce, government forces as well as Russian and Syrian warplanes have been targeting the Castello road that links rebel-held areas with the rest of the country, preventing people from leaving.

“This is a joke,” al-Halaby said by telephone, speaking of the alleged cease-fire. “The Castello road has been bombarded with barrel bombs for the past 12 hours.”

Jan Egeland, who is leading the UN Syria envoy’s effort to get humanitarian aid into the country, called the truce a “confidence-building measure” and a key step toward possibly getting convoys into Aleppo “where it has been impossible to do humanitarian work in many areas for too long.”

“The fighting has gotten worse.

The bombing is worse. The protection needs of the civilian population are being trampled upon across the Syrian map,” he told reporters in Geneva.

Russia says 48-hour truce reached in Syria’s Aleppo BEIRUT — The Russian Defence Ministry said a 48-hour cessation of hostilities has been declared in the divided northern Syrian city of Aleppo and activists reported a relative calm in Syria’s largest city on Thursday.

In past months, Aleppo has witnessed fierce fighting and bombardment, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of people on both sides of the contested city.

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BEHIND THE DERBY Photos by PENNY LOEB/The Washington Post

1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Alphabet Soup at Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky.

IT’S A NEW TOURIST-FRIENDLY ERA AT KENTUCKY’S FAMED HORSE FARMS

BY PENNY LOEB ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Racing’s American Horse of the Year in 2014, the horse with a half-dozen Facebook pages, stood politely as three dozen fans petted, hugged and kissed him. I took my turn, not quite believing I was actually allowed to touch the famous California Chrome.

What a way to begin our three-hour visit to Taylor Made farm, south of Lexington, Ky. As we gathered around the walking circle, chief executive Duncan Taylor, the oldest of the four Taylor brothers, spoke of how his father’s genius with racehorses, the family mantra of hard work, a focus on the well-being of the horse, and treating people right all added up to make a breeding and sales dynasty. We finished with a luxury bus ride to visit the mares, foals and yearlings around more than 1,100 acres, and we were always free to touch them.

We were experiencing the dawn of a new age of tourism for the storied horse farms of central Kentucky. The Taylors, who acquired minority ownership of California Chrome last summer, were allowing him to receive visitors for three “California Chrome Fan Days” in September 2015 — and they sold out of the nearly 500 tickets within a few hours. Clearly, fans want access.

While bluegrass country farms have always welcomed a few visitors, most of the public felt shut out. That changed last year when some of the largest farms, with advice from the Disney Institute, created Horse Country, a non-profit central office for promotion and ticket sales. In the first five months of 2016, Horse Country sold 10,000 tickets ($20, $11 for children younger than 12, for tours lasting about 90 minutes). The destinations include

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Foals and mares parade by at Taylor Made farm in Nicholasville, Ky. a dozen farms, two veterinary clinics and a feed store. Ten per cent of the proceeds support thoroughbred aftercare — retraining and caring for horses after their racing careers end. Each place designs its own daily tour; most farms bring out one or two stallions for about 10 minutes of pets and selfies.

Even tourists who know little about horses can’t help but enjoy seeing how they live, the dedication of caretakers and the big business of raising thoroughbreds. Best of all are the funny and heartwarming stories that horse folks love to tell. ★★★

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pad was Nyquist, destined to win the Kentucky Derby weeks later. It was a good beginning.

After breakfast at Keeneland’s Track Kitchen — scrambled eggs, home fries and a huge cup of coffee for $3.60 — I joined four members of the network for a tour of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, one of the largest and oldest such practices in the world.

In its McGee Medicine Center were two mares with sick foals. A two-dayold, breathing from an oxygen line, was standing up — which was a good sign, because it had been flat out the day before.

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At Keeneland Racecourse, a thoroughbred gets an early-morning workout.

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KENTUCKY: Equine stars living and dead Nearby was a hyperbaric chamber large enough for a horse, where pressurized pure oxygen aids in the treatment of a long list of ailments, from intestinal diseases to horrific wounds.

Our guide, Sarah Smith, told us this story: Her husband, a Hagyard veterinarian, is also the farm vet for nearby Summer Wind, home to Littleprincessemma, American Pharoah’s dam.

Summer Wind’s owner, the Lyon family, had rescued a pony from slaughter and turned her into a winning show pony. On the day the Smiths’ daughter turned 7, she was led to an amazing birthday present: the pony, Tessa, adorned with a giant pink bow. All the Lyon family asked in return was that Blair shower the pony with treats and allow her to live out her life at Summer Wind.

Next I visited Kentucky Horse Park, which has 1,200 acres of museums, exhibitions, breed-and-discipline associations, show rings and race-and-event courses. Camping is available, as are trail rides and a kids’ barn where children can interact with ponies.

A number of equine stars are permanent residents here — some living, including two Kentucky Derby winners, and some laid to their final rest. I said “hello� to 2003 Derby winner Funny Cide and also met Western Dreamer, the 1997 Triple Crown champion in pacing (in which the horse pulls a two-wheeled cart). I paid my respects at the grave of the famously cantankerous John Henry, who was Horse of the Year in both 1981 and 1984. Delight in

meeting horses abounded at the park’s Breeds Barn, where visitors can learn about some of the many kinds of horses. A fellow visitor, photographer Korrina Rae Glenn, told me that she can’t afford a horse of her own — but here, she got to smooch a black Arabian.

On the second day, vivid murals and rainbow-coloured stall fronts greeted me at Our Mims Retirement Haven, a former tobacco barn that is now home mostly to aged mares. It was founded by Jeanne Mirabito, who, as a horse-crazy teenager in the 1970s, fell in love with Our Mims, then a champion three-year-old filly. Years later, Mirabito rescued Our Mims from the cattle farm where she’d been “pensioned� after her career as a broodmare was over. After the mare’s death in 2003, Mirabito created the haven, now home to nine mares — plus Elmhurst, Our Mims’s grandson, who won the 1997 Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

I continued on to the legendary Claiborne Farm, founded in 1910 and still owned by the Hancock family.

Tour leader Kevin Lay told us that six of the 12 Triple Crown winners were sired by Claiborne stallions, 22 Kentucky Derbies have been won by Claiborne stallions or their progeny, and on and on.

One empty stall is still awaiting the horse that can live up to its former occupants, one of which was the legendary Secretariat. Lay led out 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb (born at Claiborne) and $200,000-a-mare stallion War Front for pats, hugs and photos, rewarding them with their favorite treat of Starlight mint candies. (“We should own stock,� he joked.)

As we ended at the farm’s graveyard, we heard yet another story: Every month for the past three years, a dozen roses have been delivered for placement on Secretariat’s grave, with a card mysteriously reading, “Secretariat, you know why.� ★★★

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Visitors flock to Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud farm for a single reason: Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Tickets had sold out quickly, but horse country was still able to offer a few special tours.

Our guide immediately took our throng to his barn, where American Pharoah stood patiently for many photos. I had seen him win the Belmont Stakes, but looked forward to seeing up close what so many had described as his unusually gentle and intelligent eyes. With the air of a kindly pastor, he paid us full attention.

Late in the afternoon, I followed the tour map, enveloped by the ancient trees, stone walls, traditional blackstained wooden fences — and tranquility.

After a stop at Wallace Station Deli and Bakery for sumptuous bourbon-and-honey ice cream, I settled in at my Victorian-style lodging in Versailles, with the unlikely name of “ca 1911 Montgomery Inn BnB.� The next morning, I sampled the homemade granola: it was just right, not too sweet, not too crunchy.

After a 35-minute drive, I walked into the gift store at Old Friends, a thoroughbred retirement farm, just as a horrified tourist was asking, “Ferdinand was slaughtered?� Yes, the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner was sold abroad and met that fate in 2002. It triggered an outpouring of rescue activism — including the founding of Old Friends in 2003. Today, 155 rescued and retired horses live here and at two smaller satellites, including Kentucky

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Derby winners Silver Charm and War Emblem.

We were one of several groups that Lisa Wood, carrying a bucket of carrots (some of the 13,000 pounds of carrots a year that visitors are given to feed horses) took around the fields to meet famous residents: Silver Charm, 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Alphabet Soup and three-time Santa Anita Handicap winner Game On Dude. We also met Popcorn Deelites, who played Seabiscuit in the 2003 movie.

Concluding at the pasture that is home to retired stud Genuine Reward, we hear another story: Old Friends’s phone lit up the evening that fans of his mom, Genuine Risk (one of only three female Kentucky Derby winners) spotted him for sale on Craigslist. Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend, helped finance his trip from Wyoming.

I ended my three-day bluegrass visit back at Taylor Made, where I found Laura Donnell, farm photographer and tour co-ordinator, shipping off California Chrome souvenirs. “The track is just one part of a horse’s life,� she said. “Our goal is to showcase what an awesome animal the horse is, and to open up these beautiful farms with so much history and tradition, and let people experience it truly for what it is.�

Then she asked if I’d like to see California Chrome again.

Of course!

Penny Loeb is a freelance writer who lives on a farm with retired thoroughbreds in Loudoun County.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI — Walt Disney Co. opened Shanghai Disneyland, its first theme park in mainland China, with a lavish celebration Thursday featuring Communist Party leaders, a children’s choir, Sleeping Beauty and other Disney characters.

A vice-premier joined Disney CEO Bob Iger in cutting the grand opening’s red ribbon, showing the ruling party’s support for the $5.5 billion investment in promoting tourism at a time of slowing economic growth. They read letters of congratulations from the Chinese and American presidents, Xi Jinping and Barack Obama.

“This is one of the proudest and most exciting moments in the history of the Walt Disney Co.,” Iger said after the choir sang. Later, actors dressed as Sleeping Beauty, Donald Duck and other Disney characters danced on stage.

The festive sentiment was tempered by news from Florida that an alligator killed a 2-year-old boy at Disney’s flagship Walt Disney World. The boy drowned after the animal dragged him into a lagoon on Tuesday.

The company hopes Shanghai Disneyland will burnish the brand behind “Frozen” in the world’s most populous film market and help revive Disney’s struggling international theme park business.

Analysts expect Shanghai Disneyland to become the world’s most-visited theme park, attracting at least 15 million and as many as 50 million guests a year. By contrast, Walt Disney World drew 19.3 million people in 2014.

Speaking as a light rain fell, Vice Premier Wang Yang quipped, “I would like to call this a rain of U.S. dollars or of renminbi,” the Chinese currency.

Wang, a member of the ruling party’s Politiburo, described the park as an example of Sino-U.S. “practical co-operation” and “people to people exchanges.”

Despite slower growth, China’s economy still is one of the world’s best-performing and tourism spending is rising.

Shanghai represents a market of 300 million people living within three hours of the park by car or train in one of China’s most affluent regions. China’s bullet train network can draw in areas further afield.

YouGov, a market research firm, said 44 per cent of people it surveyed in China in May said they plan to visit Shanghai Disneyland within a year.

It said 80 per cent plan to take family members.

“I think it’s really lively here and every girl can realize her dream of becoming a princess,” said Gong Haiyan, a visitor from western China..

Wang Lei, 34, said she liked the park, despite long waits for some things.

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Performers take part in a parade at the Disney Resort in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, on the eve of its grand opening.

The debut of Shanghai Disneyland offers Walt Disney Co. “incredible potential” for boosting its brand in the world’s most populous market, Disney’s chief executive said Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s grand opening for the $5.5 billion park. riences and on their kids,” Rein said.

“It’s going to be a huge success. Everybody in China who has a kid or a grandkid is going to want to go to Shanghai Disney.”

Disney’s opening follows a decade of negotiations, five years of construction and weeks of testing. Iger said more than 1 million visitors already have tried out its rides, shops, restaurants and two hotels.

Global brands like Disney are rushing to create products for Chinese tastes.

The company added China-themed elements and put the emphasis on popular characters at the Shanghai park, while downplaying its American identity. At the entrance, instead of “Main Street USA,” it’s “Mickey Avenue.”

Near its iconic Storybook Castle, Disney created a “Garden of the Twelve Friends” using characters such as Remy from “Ratatouille” and Tigger from “Winnie the Pooh” as animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Disney says the Wandering Moon Teahouse, modeled on a building in eastern China, is the only Chinese-style structure in any of its parks.

The park should generate some $1.5 billion to $4.5 billion a year in revenue, according to Drexel Hamilton analyst Tony Wible. However, Disney’s state-owned Chinese partner, the Shanghai Shendi (Group) Co. Ltd., which owns 57 per cent of the 7.5-square-kilometre (2.9-square-mile) park, will get the lion’s share.

Disney’s international parks in Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo haven’t made a profit in six of the past 10 years, Wible figures. So the main advantage of the huge park may be promotion of the brand and merchandise.

Disney has many inexperienced but ambitious competitors in China.

The country’s biggest developer, Wanda Group, opened a 20 bil-

A Chinese girl gets a Princess makeover at the Disney Resort in Shanghai, China. lion yuan ($3 billion) entertainment complex in the southern city of Nanchang in May and said it plans more.

It bought Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment in January, and Wanda founder Wang Jianlin, Asia’s second-richest businessman, said he hopes to surpass Disney as the biggest global tourism company by 2020, China is a challenging environment in other ways, with official controls on business activities and on taking profits out of the country. Live shows such as Disney’s “Lion King” musical must be approved by Chinese censors.

Disney’s DisneyLife direct-to-consumer online movie and book offering was closed in April, five months after opening, amid a Chinese regulatory review.

In the Shanghai park, Disney needs its Chinese partner’s approval to change restaurant prices and other management details.

“They are hamstrung in a lot of areas,” said Rein. But still, he said, Shanghai Disneyland “is far above anything else in China.”

One big risk is that the park will prove so popular potential visitors may be put off by the crowds.

Jin Yasi, a 33-year-old housewife from Wuhan, came with her husband and their two daughters, aged 6 and 3, dressed as Elsa from “Frozen” and as Snow White.

“The castle is definitely great,” Jin said. But after waiting an hour to get through a security check, she said, “I think they should offer better service.”

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Good results come from realistic goals CRYSTAL RHYNO RUNNING WITH RHYNO Kari Elliott easily won the women’s race with a three hour and change time at Woody’s marathon in May. It should have been me.

Okay, okay I didn’t actually run the marathon but I know if I did, I would have been the first woman to cross the line.

Forget that my best marathon time is four hours, which I ran in 2013.

It’s a reasonable goal, right?

All jokes aside, I called Elliott to chat about the mistakes that runners often make when setting goals.

Elliott is Red Deer College’s new cross-country coach. She recently took over the reins from long-time coach Brian Stackhouse who retired this year.

The 36-year-old competitive athlete ran cross country two years for Belhaven University in the in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in Jackson, Miss. In her senior year, she competed at the nationals before setting her sights on marathon racing.

It was a good move. She’s won a handful of marathons and reached the podium in the last 16 years while racing in North America, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Elliott’s PB for the marathon is 2:57.

She is shooting to run a sub-2:55 in the next year.

Realistic goal.

Saying you are going to shave an hour off a marathon time that you ran three years ago is an example of an unrealistic goal.

Often runners make a goal that is too big of a jump from where they are in their fitness and training, said Elliott.

“Say you want to run a 3:30 marathon and your present time is 4:40, well you have to start with something in between,” she said. “And say maybe my five-year goal is to run sub-3:30 and my next year goal is to take five or 10 minutes off my marathon PB. You break it down like that.”

It is extremely important to build from year to year.

Giving an example, Elliott says one of her college runners is relatively new but he is fast.

“He wants to be the fastest 8K man

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Kari Elliott shows off the hardware she won for the first place finish at Woody’s RV Marathon in late May. Elliott is also the new cross-country running coach for Red Deer College and talks with Crystal Rhyno about setting realistic goals when running. out there but right now he is the fastest one miler,” she said. “I told him we need to think about where you are going to be three years from now. That’s not going to the same place this year and this season. Patience for runners is key. You have to keep chipping away at your time and adding mileage.”

Not balancing training blocks with enough recovery is another mistake Elliott sees quite frequently.

“They push, push, push,” she said.

“They think, ‘If I train harder, harder, I will achieve my goal.’ But what happens is your body gets fatigued and you plateau and potentially injured yourself.”

Footwear is also a common area that new runners tend to err on the

side of wrong. One new runner recently told Elliott that she runs in Crocs on a treadmill.

(That’s just wrong.)

“Beyond that it is so important to change your shoes,” laughed Elliott.

“That’s a big deal. I think people underestimate the importance of a good running shoe and regularly changing them.”

Rotating different pairs of shoes to relieve the pressure points is also a good idea.

She offered some final advice for setting goals like sharing your goals with others for the accountability factor and setting different kinds of goals that are not achievement based — like having a destination marathon goal —

and training with like-minded athletes.

Getting back to Elliott, I had to ask, how is she going to train for her sub2:55 marathon goal?

“My 2:57 that I ran was on a hard hilly course in Jackson, Miss.,” she said. “I feel like I could take my current fitness and find a flat course at sea level and do it. But between now and then it’s about running a little bit more, raising my mileage and getting in two good quality workouts (each week). It is just building as much mileage as my body can handle. Usually it translates into a better race.”

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Samsung challenges Fitbit with new fitness tracker with GPS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Just in time for summer, Samsung is unveiling a new fitness tracker that aims to undercut gadgets from market leader Fitbit.

Beyond offering all-day step counting and automatic sleep tracking, the Gear Fit2 comes with GPS sensors for more accurate measuring of distance and pacing for runners and cyclists.

GPS is typically limited to higher-end devices, such as the Fitbit Surge and the Microsoft Band 2. The Fit2 is also cheaper than the new Fitbit Blaze, which doesn’t have GPS. The main drawback: The Fit2 won’t sync with iPhones, as Fitbits do. An Android phone — not necessary Samsung’s — is required for syncing music and workout data.

While Samsung is the world’s fifth-largest maker of wearable devices, according to technology market research firm IDC, most of those are Gear smartwatches, where fitness is an afterthought.

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ing the ability to reply to messages from the device. Rival trackers tend to show you messages replies are typically limited to smartwatches such as Apple Watch and Samsung’s Gear S2.

Later this year, Samsung will release its Gear IconX earbuds that, in addition to playing music, will track exercise and heart rate. They’re designed as a stand-alone tracker, rather than a companion to the Fit2.

Under Armour’s upcoming heartrate-tracking headphones are expected to cost $250. Samsung’s IconX goes further with built-in sensors to measure distance and pacing, though with less accuracy than GPS devices.

There’s no screen, so you get audio readouts every mile or whatever interval you set.

Samsung is trying to tap growing interest in health and fitness as sales of smartphones slow down. In the first three months of this year, Fitbit shipped 4.8 million devices, or 25 per cent more than a year earlier. That accounts about a quarter of all wearable devices worldwide. Samsung, by contrast, shipped about 700,000, an increase of less than five per cent, according to IDC. Samsung’s devices re-

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INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked “City of Red Deer Former West Yards Contaminated Site Reclamation (7/72:00:59)”, delivered or mailed to: The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk and received before 2:00:59 p.m. (Alberta Time) on July 7, 2016 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of: Soil reclamation activities for five sites located in the City of Red Deer Former West Yards Site and decommissioning of 10 water sampling wells.

Soil testing and possible reclamation at one location at the former City of Red Deer Electric Light and Power Yard, 5581 – 45 Street, Red Deer For all work completed on the site, the Contractor is to comply with the directives of the City’s site representative to establish the extents of soil remediation and to allow for soil sampling as required throughout the completion of the work.

On June 15, 2016 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications.

Discretionary Use Approvals: Clearview Ridge 1. Group2 Architecture Interior Design Ltd. - site development for a two-storey (2207 m2) addition for 66 beds/units and associated uses (dining, laundry, and therapy) to an existing Assisted Living Facility, to be located at 10 Carrington Drive.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 4, 2016. You may not appeal a permitted use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

The following provides a summary of the scope of work required at each of the five soil reclamation sites.

Site 1: Former Paint Storage Area • Excavate two test pits to a depth of 2m at locations specified by the City’s representative on the site.

• Excavated materials are to be placed on impermeable plastic sheeting (liner) to prevent cross-contamination of soils.

• The City’s site representative will take soil samples from the excavated soils.

• Backfill the test pits after soil samples have been taken.

Site 2: Former Sump Pit • Excavate two test pits to a depth of 2m at locations specified by the City’s representative on the site.

• Excavated materials are to be placed on impermeable plastic sheeting (liner) to prevent cross-contamination of soils.

• The City’s site representative will take soil samples from the excavated soils.

• Backfill the test pits after soil samples have been taken.

Site 3: North Storage Washing Area • Excavate two test pits to a depth of 2m at locations specified by the City’s representative on the site.

• Excavated materials are to be placed on impermeable plastic sheeting (liner) to prevent cross-contamination of soils.

• The City’s site representative will take soil samples from the excavated soils.

• Backfill the test pits after soil samples have been taken.

Site 4: Former 1961 Fuel Tanks Area • Excavate and separate contaminated soil and clean soil at the direction of the City’s representative at the site.

• Dispose of contaminated soils, at an appropriate disposal location, based on the results of the laboratory analysis of the soil.

• Import clean fill material (pit run) and backfill excavation.

• Estimated area of soil contamination: 5m x 5m • Estimated depth of soil contamination: 5m • Following the excavation of soil in this area, the City’s representative at the site will take confirmatory soil samples to determine if further excavation is needed to complete the soil remediation. Please note that it may take up to five calendar days to receive soil testing results. Excavations must be fenced and secure while soil testing results are pending. After receiving soil test results, the City’s representative will provide direction to the Contractor to either continue the excavation or to backfill the excavation. Please note that any water that accumulates in the base of the excavation due to either groundwater infiltration or precipitation will need to be pumped into containment and tested (sample to be taken by City representative) in order to establish an acceptable disposal method.

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Development Officer Approvals On June 14, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use None Discretionary Use Grandview 1. Voros, D. – a secondary suite, with two bedrooms, within an existing detached dwelling, to be located at 3927 40A Avenue.

Laredo 2. Avalon Central Alberta Ltd. – a show home up to June 25, 2017, to be located at 114 Ludberg Crescent.

Riverbend Recreation Area 3. IBI Group – renovations and enhancements to an existing recreation facility and playground, to be located at 3800 River Bend Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 1, 2016. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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Site 5: Civic Garage • Excavate and separate contaminated soil and clean soil at the direction of the City’s representative at the site.

• Dispose of contaminated soils.

• Import clean fill material (pit run) and backfill excavation.

• Estimated area of soil contamination: 18m x 16m • Estimated depth of soil contamination: 4m • Following the excavation of soil in this area, the City’s representative at the site will take confirmatory soil samples to determine if further excavation is needed to complete the soil remediation. Please note that it may take up to five calendar days to receive soil testing results. Excavations must be fenced and secure while soil testing results are pending. After receiving soil test results, the City’s representative will provide direction to the Contractor to either continue the excavation or to backfill the excavation. Please note that any water that accumulates in the base of the excavation due to either groundwater infiltration or precipitation will need to be pumped into containment and tested (sample to be taken by City representative) in order to establish an acceptable disposal method.

Sealed Quotations clearly marked “Discovery Canyon Renovations and Enhancements – Riverbend Recreation Area (06/30)”, delivered or mailed to:

The following provides a summary of the work required to decommission 10 existing groundwater monitoring wells.

• Decommission existing groundwater monitoring wells by removing the well casing and completely filling the well annulus with bentonite grout.

• The preferred method of decommissioning is by drilling out the well casing with a solid stem auger rig (or equivalent) and pumping bentonite grout into the resultant void. However, Contractor suggestions on alternative methods that can achieve the same end result will be considered.

• The Owner’s representative at the site will identify the wells that are to be decommissioned.

and received before 1:30:59 p.m. (Alberta Time) on “June 30, 2016”. Quotations received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Respondent (s) without consideration. Faxed Quotation Documents or Amendments will not be accepted.

Site 6: Electric and Power Yard • Excavate two test pits to a depth of 3m at locations specified by the City’s representative on the site.

• Excavated materials are to be placed on impermeable plastic sheeting (liner) to prevent cross-contamination of soils.

• The City’s site representative will take soil samples from the excavated soils.

• Backfill the test pits after soil samples have been taken Tender Documents may be obtained from Associated Engineering, located at 4802-50th Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X4 on or after June 17, 2016 for a $50.00 non-refundable fee.

The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Email: purchasing@reddeer.ca

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The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk

Mandatory Site Visit: A mandatory site visit is to be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 starting in the parking lot of the Riverbend Golf and Recreational Area.

The Work is comprised of: The proposed construction generally includes: • removal of a paving stone walkway, the existing artificial stream bed (concrete and rocks) and existing site furnishings; • construction survey set-out (based on design information to be provided by the consultant) • minor grading for the new stream bed, adjoining slopes and lower pond; • a new ‘shotcrete’ stream bed and stream edges; • new concrete and asphalt pathways; • timber staircases, decking and metal railings; • a culvert causeway/bridge; • fencing; • installation of a pre-fabricated shelter; • new site furnishings; • general landscape work including rock terracing, turf and planting; • maintenance and warranty of the work.

Quotation Documents may be obtained from The City of Red Deer, RP&C Department, Professional Building Suite 500, 4808 50th Street, Red Deer AB T4N 1X5 on or after “June 16, 2016” for a $50.00 non-refundable fee (payable by certified cheque only).

The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Quotation Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Email: purchasing@reddeer.ca

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Uniqlo’s search for global dominance

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Shoppers look at items at Uniqlo’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district. Japanese clothing company Uniqlo, a 17-nation 1,734-store empire that has thrived on a formula of churning out variations of colors and sizes of simple items like fleece tops and polo shirts. find.

The company has strengthened its sportswear, signing on tennis stars Kei Nishikori and Novak Djokovic.

Uniqlo also has partnerships with labels like Liberty London, with its colorful flower-pattern fabrics, and Hana Tajima, a designer who specializes in Muslim clothing such as head scarves and long dresses.

“Uniqlo has a smart format, which stands out from most of the mass fashion retailers. Less concerned on fashion trends, and more focused on ‘basics’ or ‘investment pieces’ of good fabric and quality,” said Luca Solca, analyst with BNP Paribas.

“They are trying to spice this up with designer collaborations.”

Uniqlo executives believe fashion is globalizing, and people around the world, from China to New York, more or less want the same thing — quality for reasonable prices, and clothes that suit their lives.

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Now the 17-nation, 1,734-store retailer is on a quest to beat Western giants like Gap, H&M and Zara to become the world’s biggest apparel maker.

In the overcrowded, highly competitive casual fashion market, size is important but no guarantee of success: analysts say Uniqlo’s challenge is to carve out a brand identity of its own, going beyond its formula of delivering no-nonsense quality at good prices.

“To win over consumers and break through the clutter, Uniqlo needs to get even more personal,” says Stuart Green, chief executive of Asia Pacific at Interbrand, which consults and ranks brands.

“It will be critical for Uniqlo to maintain product quality and, most importantly, create a deeper, more emotional connection with its customers to drive brand loyalty,” he said.

Interbrand ranks Uniqlo as Japan’s most valuable retail brand, and eighth among Japan’s global brands, including Toyota, Sony and Nintendo. The company’s founder and chief, Tadashi Yanai, is Japan’s richest man, according to Forbes magazine.

Analysts say that to move it its next stage of growth, Uniqlo also needs to beef up its digital presence and adapt to non-Asian markets. Winning over the huge market of suburban American shoppers will be crucial.

Consumers these days are picking brands on digital platforms and social networks, as they increasingly shop online. To cope with the mind-boggling volumes of information online, consumers now rely on brands to serve as filters and curators, Green said.

To help drive its global expansion, Uniqlo is tapping outside talent.

It just hired Christophe Lemaire, formerly of Hermes and Lacoste, who started his own Uniqlo line last year, to head its Paris research centre.

In 2014, it brought in a global branding expert, John Jay. An American of Chinese origin, he who worked on ad campaigns for Nike, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, and a fleece campaign for Uniqlo, at U.S. marketing company Wieden+Kennedy.

“Whether they’re in Beijing or New York, there is a commonality to young people and what they want in life,” Jay, whose title is president of Global Creative at Uniqlo’s parent company Fast Retailing, said at a recent Tokyo event, centred on Uniqlo’s second fashion show ever.

“We have barely scratched the surface. Our potential is amazing,” he said.

Uniqlo is still relatively small, with 44 stores in the U.S., 449 stores in China and 846 in Japan, its biggest market. Retail giant H&M of Sweden has 4,000 stores around the world, Gap Inc. of the U.S., 3,700 stores, and Inditex of Spain operates 7,000 Zara, Bershka and other brand stores.

H&M and Inditex have posted healthy financial results recently, but Gap, which has the Old Navy and Banana Republic brands, is struggling, slashing prices to draw buyers and closing dozens of stores, including some in Japan. The Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency recently downgraded Gap’s debt to junk status.

Uniqlo’s profits also have slowed recently, hurt by a warm winter that slowed sales of its down jackets, HeatTech underwear and other winter apparel.

Fast Retailing, with 100,000 employees, forecasts a profit of 60 billion yen ($560 million) for the fiscal year through August, down 46 per cent from the previous fiscal year, mainly because of falling profits at Uniqlo.

Yanai’s turnaround plan includes sweeping cost cuts, improved efficiency, pricing reviews, and, perhaps most importantly, greater flair in the company’s fashion offerings, building on collaborations with designers.

The company asked Nigo, a Japanese DJ with a reputation for innovation who created The Bathing Ape clothing line, to add more flair and edge to his T-shirts.

Nigo added to the T-shirt line motifs from pop artist Andy Warhol, music producer and singer Pharrell Williams and from traditional Kabuki theatre, in addition to old-time favourites like Mickey Mouse.

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Delivering delicious EDMONTON PALS OFFER TO HAND-DELIVER DOUGHNUTS FROM THE DONUT MILL ANYWHERE IN WESTERN CANADA

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF In this land noted for its varied entrepreneurial flavours, a cream-filled doughnut delivery idea may be about to take the West by nostalgia.

After Edmonton pals Shurtis Kawkin and Chaz Lepage posted an online ad that they would hand-deliver doughnuts from the Donut Mill in Gasoline Alley to anywhere in Western Canada, their ad has received over 5,000 views and a lot of requests.

“Oh my God. You have no idea how ridiculous this is,” Kawkin said Thursday.

The Donut Mill has been a stop for Hwy 2 travellers between Edmonton and Calgary since it opened 22 years ago in 1992. Owner Parry Dyck said that it used to be that 70 to 80 per cent of their customers were from the two big cities, although they see more and more local customers as the area grows.

The Donut Mill stands out on the west side of Gasoline Alley because of the large windmill attached to its front.

Kawkin, 30, said the whole idea started when he was in Red Deer one day, doing stand-up comedy at a bowling alley when his best friend, Lepage, called and asked him to bring him doughnuts from the Donut Mill to make him feel better. He was in Edmonton and sad that he was going to have to have his cat euthanized.

Long story short, it turned into plans to deliver Donut Mill fare to

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The Donut Mill general manager Kathleen Cooper, left, holds a tray of Oreo doughnuts, while Tashia Myers with a tray of eclairs and Ashley Forseth holds a tray of rainbow dip doughnuts at the Gasoline Alley doughnut shop on Thursday. Two Edmonton friends are trying to bring a little Hwy 2 nostalgia to Western Canada through a doughnut delivery service. help soothe the souls and tummies of transplanted Albertans who have been comforted by the pit stop halfway between Edmonton and Calgary. They’ve had delivery requests from places like Vancouver, Abbotsford and Victoria.

Kawkin said when they are not working on ideas like delivering the Donut Mill, they are working on other ideas.

“We kind of just float around and just hangout. Groovy things. We’re also doing pop-up sandwich shops that we do for vegans, where we take over a restaurant when they are closed during the day and we just do pop-up sandwiches.”

They plan to do a big doughnut delivery in Edmonton later this month and are still taking orders. They do not

Building an oil pipeline east is a national economic benefit not a financial perk for Alberta, says the province’s economic development and trade minister.

That’s the message the Alberta government is taking to other provinces and Ottawa as it pushes for National Energy Board approval of the Energy East pipeline project, Deron Bilous said in Red DERON BILOUS Deer on Thursday.

“At the end of the day, it’s our job is to explain to our counterparts across the country what the value is to a project like Energy East,” said Bilous, at the annual general meeting of the Central Alberta Economic Partnership.

When he travels to provinces that must be on board the proposal, such as Quebec and Ontario, Bilous highlights the number of jobs created, the bil-

lions in revenue produced and the unifying national link the pipeline would forge.

“In the past, one of the challenges we faced was the perception that a project like Energy East would benefit Alberta and, predominantly, benefit Alberta,” he said.

“The truth of the matter is, if Energy East gets greenlighted Ontario and Quebec will actually benefit more in GDP (gross domestic product) dollars than Alberta would.

“But the overall benefit to the country is significant.”

Proposed by TransCanada (TSX:TRP), the $15.7-billion pipeline would transport daily more than a million barrels of Western Canadian crude to refineries to the east and on to an Atlantic port. An estimated $55 billion in economic benefits to Canada will be created.

The project has many opponents, including the Council of Canadians and the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, which formally announced their opposition this week.

Bilous said his ministerial counterparts at both the provincial and federal levels recognize their stakes in Energy East and another pipeline west.

It is hoped that will mean that should the NEB approve the project, the decision won’t be rejected by another province or tied up in red tape

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for years.

“At the end of the day, we needed these pipelines built 10 years ago and we’ll continue to work at moving them forward.”

Premier Rachel Notley has been busy pushing the project and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has also been stumping for the project on an Eastern Canada swing this week.

In Red Deer, Bilous highlighted the importance of regional collaboration to create jobs and prosperity, especially during trying economic times.

The collapse of oil prices have created a “serious and prolonged shock” in the province, he said.

Bilous offered Red Deer Airport’s expansion as the kind of regional collaboration that will pay big dividends.

Last October, Bilous, then-Municipal Affairs Minister, announced $6 million in funding over three years towards a $9.5-million project to extend the runway to allow for mid-sized jets like the popular 737s used by Air Canada and WestJet. City of Red Deer and Red Deer County committed $1.75 million each towards the project to add 600 metres of runway and widen it by about 50 metres this summer.

“The expansion of the airport is going to have a significant impact on all communities in Central Alberta,” he said.

Saskatchewan premier defends pipeline project in Quebec

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall took his pro-Energy East road show into relatively hostile territory Thursday as he met with Quebec counterpart Philippe Couillard in a province where the proposed project has many detractors.

“Pipelines aren’t perfect, but they are the safest and most efficacious way to move energy across the country,” Wall told a news conference alongside Couillard.

But while pitching the pipeline as an “opportunity for nation-building” that could link the country much as the Canadian Pacific Railway did in the 1880s, Wall acknowledged Quebec has “unique questions” given most of the new construction for the $15.7-billion project would take place there.

“The fact remains that the new construction is almost all in this province and that does change things for this province,” he said. “The people of Quebec will have different questions, and rightfully so. And it is up to the proponent to answer those questions.”

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The most recent official opposition to the TransCanada (TSX:TRP) project surfaced Wednesday when the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador formally stated it was against it.

Couillard called the First Nations announcement “a significant event” that “should not be downplayed.”

In May, Canada officially adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Couillard pointed out includes obtaining free and informed consent when it comes to resource development.

Exactly what this means “will have to be resolved and made explicit at some point,” he said.

Consultation with First Nations groups is one of the province’s seven conditions that must be met before the project is approved, Couillard said.

Many politicians, environmentalists and other critics in the province also believe the ecological risks outweigh the economic rewards.

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When a group of Montreal-area mayors came out against the pipeline in January, Wall took to Twitter to suggest they “politely return” Quebec’s share of those payments.

On Thursday, he struck a more conciliatory tone. He admitted to feeling “a certain frustration” at the attempts to block his province’s efforts to bring its resources to market, but chose to acknowledge Quebec’s concerns.

“I’m going to continue to make the case for the pipeline, but I want to do so respecting that, for Quebec, this pipeline is different, it’s new construction, it’s under the St. Lawrence (River), it’s through a very populous area, and it must meet a high standard,” he said. “And I think it can.”

Wall argued that transporting oil by pipeline is safer and better for the environment than moving it by rail or truck and would also reduce Canada’s dependence on foreign imports.

Energy East would carry more than a million barrels of western Canadian oil a day to refineries in Eastern Canada and a marine terminal in Saint John, N.B.

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Walmart, Visa brawl over fees

Overall benefit of Energy East project to country ‘significant’: Bilous

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yet know how much they will charge, but like every savvy business operator knows, “The more orders we get, the cost goes down.” They will be delivering to “just a lot of groovy homies,” Kawkin said.

MONTREAL — Canadian retailers are watching with both hope and unease Visa’s very public battle with Walmart.

An association representing convenience-store owners says they are pleased that the world’s largest retailer has highlighted hefty credit card fees, but is worried Walmart will gain an even larger competitive advantage.

“If a big retailer like Walmart is faced with the challenge of paying these fees, you can only imagine how small businesses are facing this with very little leverage or the ability to negotiate,” said Alex Scholten, president of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association.

He said his members pay between 1.5 and four per cent for purchases made with credit cards, likely far in excess of Walmart.

“If Walmart is the only retailer able to get a good deal because of their buying power, it certainly isn’t something we’re happy about.”

Visa has accused Walmart of using consumers as leverage to strike an even better deal by threatening to ban the popular credit card from its Canadian stores.

“I was surprised that they would publicly state that they were going to put their consumers in the middle of this business dispute,” Visa Canada president Rob Livingston said in an interview Thursday.

He declined to speculate whether Walmart’s move might have been motivated by efforts to push its branded MasterCard. Walmart did not reply to a request for comment.

After months of negotiations, Walmart quietly announced last weekend that “unacceptably high fees” has prompted it to stop accepting Visa cards beginning July 18 at stores in Thunder Bay, Ont. The retailer then plans to reject the cards at its more than 400 Canadian locations.

Visa defended itself in an open letter published in several Canadian newspapers, saying it offered Walmart one of the lowest rates of any merchant in Canada. But the world’s largest retailer wanted more.

“And they are using their size and scale to give themselves an unfair advantage,” said the unsigned letter.

Livingston said Visa presented what it considers a “very fair offer” but doesn’t feel it is appropriate for Walmart to get a rate lower than charities, educational institutions and utilities.

“We are looking to do whatever we can reasonably do to help Canadians shop wherever they want to use their Visa cards, including Walmart.”

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets were mixed while the Canadian dollar fell for a sixth straight session Thursday amid continuing worries over whether Britain will exit the European Union.

The S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto closed down 41.04 points at 13,882.41, with the mining and energy sectors among the biggest weights.

In commodities, the July contract for North American benchmark crude oil fell 1.80 to US$46.21 a barrel, while the August contract, which is currently trading at a larger volume, was down $1.76 at US$46.74 a barrel.

The August contract for gold bullion, which is seen as a safe haven in times of turmoil, rose $10.10 to US$1,298.40 a troy ounce.

Elsewhere in commodities, July natural gas shed a penny to US$2.59 per mmBtu and July copper gave back four cents to US$2.05 a pound.

The loonie fell again, fading 0.21 of a U.S. cent to 77.15 cents US. In New York, indexes broke a string of five consecutive losses, with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining 92.93 points to 17,733.10, while the broader S&P 500 added 6.49 points to 2,077.99 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 9.99 points to 4,844.92.

The gains came despite growing uncertainty over the outcome of a British referendum next week in which British voters will decide whether they want to leave the EU. Current polls forecast that it will be a tight race, with the Bank of England cautioning that a socalled Brexit would likely result in damage to the economy and the pound dropping sharply.

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He noted that there are serious concerns over British growth in the short term, which could stagnant with trade deals needing to be renegotiated over the next few years.

Also, multinational companies headquartered in Britain could look to move out of the country and London could potentially lose its reputation as a major financial capital, Chalupka said.

A yes vote could also prompt other countries to consider similar referendums of their own.

“The whole concept of the EU would face a lot more scrutiny and be far more uncertain if Britain does, in fact, decide to leave,” said Chalupka.

In European trading, Germany’s DAX fell 0.59 per cent, while France’s CAC 40 was off 0.45 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 1.30 per cent.

In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 plunged 3.05 per cent after the Bank of Japan decided against further easing of monetary policy to help the country’s faltering recovery. The Bank of Japan already is pumping about 80 trillion yen (US$769 billion) into the country’s economy each year with purchases of Japanese government bonds and other assets.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,882.41, down 41.04 points Dow — 17,733.10, up 92.93 points S&P 500 — 2,077.99, up 6.49 points

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DOUGHNUTS: ‘Go as far as the people want us to’ When asked if the idea isn’t somehow tied to one of his occasional stand-up comedy acts, or some kind of performance art, Kawkin, laughing heartily, said: “You know a lot of people are saying it is. It kind of is in a respect because of how, like, stranger than fiction. I didn’t believe this would work. I didn’t believe people would actually want this. When we put it (online) it was just kind of something we did for ourselves and then it blew up to 5,200 views.”

“You know we are having some fun and why can’t we have some fun and connect with folks. Like this is one of

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $12.10 lower $509.50 Nov. ‘16 $10.30 lower $515.00 Jan. ‘17 $10.00 lower $518.80 March ‘17 $10.20 lower $519.90 May ‘17 $10.10 lower $521.10 July ‘17 $10.10 lower $522.60 Nov. ‘17 $6.80 lower 506.30 Jan. ‘18 $8.40 lower $504.70 March ‘18 $8.40 lower $504.70 May ‘18 $8.40 lower $504.70 July ‘18 $8.40 lower $504.70.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 719,860 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 719,860.

our hallmarks in Alberta, especially when reaches out to all over Western Canada.

“Believe it or not I actually don’t eat doughnuts but Chaz is a massive fan.

“I’m actually more about the unifying cause of just linking up with humans, getting that sense of community.

“We don’t believe this is real. …

We’ll go as far as the people want us to.

Kawkin doesn’t see any holes in the doughnut plan. “We believe this is a viable option.”

The owner of the Donut Mill has mixed feelings about it all.

Dyck said he’s not sure what to think. “They’re kind of representing us and not really, at the same time.”

He said that it’s a concern about how fresh their product would be if it’s going all the way to somewhere like Manitoba.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal Liberals found themselves on the defensive Thursday over talks to expand the Canada Pension Plan, with the Conservatives questioning the rush to raise benefits and take more off the paycheques of working Canadians.

Just how much more Canadians and their employers could end up paying in CPP premiums is a central issue in negotiations between Ottawa and the provinces that will come to a head next week on changes to the national pension plan.

The government faced questions in the House of Commons from the Conservatives and the NDP, wanting to know what the government imagines the plan will look like should provinces agree to changes in premiums and benefits.

At a news conference in Burnaby, B.C., Premier Christy Clark said the message Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered to her Thursday was that the federal government doesn’t want to harm those regions where the economy is struggling.

“Provinces are willing to be flexible and certainly the prime minister and the federal government want to make sure that this is something that works for small business, that it works for jobs, that it doesn’t affect what in the rest of the country is a pretty fragile economy,” Clark said.

Trudeau only said he wanted to ensure “Canadians are going to be able to afford the things they need in the present while ensuring retirement security for as many people as possible.”

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will meet with his provincial counterparts in Vancouver on Monday where a key

agenda item will be expanding the pension plan — specifically, increasing the benefits paid to the country’s retirees, requiring an increase in premiums paid by workers and employers.

Morneau has said he wants to see a deal to expand the pension plan completed by the end of the year, but talks are now in high gear in the hopes of a preliminary agreement much sooner. Ontario has been pushing for an immediate agreement, knowing that any consensus on CPP changes would affect the provincial pension plan that starts to roll out next year.

The talks centre on whether to have an across-the-board increase in premiums that would capture all workers, or to take a more focused approach that targets the most vulnerable Canadians, similar to the provincial plan being pursued in Ontario.

Conservative finance critic Lisa Raitt said the federal government hasn’t provided evidence to show that there would be widespread benefits from an expanded CPP, nor explained the reason to get a deal done now. She called on the government to consult Canadians on any changes.

“I’m not hearing a lot on the motivation for it,” she said of the push for immediate changes. “Everyone seems to have accepted that it’s a good deal, but I’m not seeing the evidence that on the balance — taking a look at how much money people are going to be removing from their paycheques, which is a given, who is really benefiting at the end of the day for it.”

She said the majority of Canadians know how to manage their finances and save for retirement, and that the government should focus on educating workers about retirement planning and giving them private vehicles to save.

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BAEHR John Anthony June 13, 1939 - June 14, 2016 John Anthony Baehr passed away on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at the age of 87 years.

John is lovingly remembered by his family. At John’s request, no Funeral Service will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in John’s memory to the charity of one’s choice.

HERMARY Johanne 1964 - 2016 Ms. Johanne Doreen Mary Hermary passed away peacefully, after fighting a courageous battle with cancer, at the Red Deer Hospice on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at the age of 52 years. She was born on March 20, 1964 at Red Deer, Alberta. Johanne was a very caring person. She spent twenty-five years working at the Michener Centre.

Johanne loved traveling, shopping, golfing, cooking, camping and entertaining family and friends. She especially enjoyed spending quality time with her daughter, Megan. Johanne is survived by the love of her life and best friend, Jim Bitschy and her loving daughter, Megan Works. She will also be sadly missed by her mother, Audrey Hermary, her father, Roger Hermary, her brother, Larry (Alida) Hermary, her sister, Lisa (Shane) Lester, stepbrothers, Myron (Pat) Hermary and Garry (Joan) Hermary, stepsisters, Laura (Keith) Budd, Marion (Rick) McLean and Della Hermary, and special friend, Candace Berger; as well as numerous other relatives and dear friends.

Johanne was predeceased by her stepfather, Albert Hermary and her grandparents. A Celebration of Johanne’s Life will be held at Crossroads Church, Southwest Corner of Hwy 2 and 32 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

Special thanks to Dr. Walker and nurse, Shelley at the Cross Cancer Institute, the staff of Unit 32 at R.D.R.H.C., Dr. Badenhorst, and the staff at the Red Deer Hospice, for all their care. If desired, Memorial Donations in Johanne’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

REAY Henry Alfred (Buster) Sept. 24, 1918-June 11, 2016 Passed away surrounded by family. Survived by his children Georgina (Jim) Jackson, Sheila Jackson, Henry (Dawn) Reay.

Grandchildren and great grandchildren. Predeceased by wife Mary, son Denis, grandson Vince, and son-inlaw Danny. Memorial Tea June 20, 2016, 2 pm at Valley Centre Hall. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Northcott Care Centre Ponoka, 4209-48 Ave. Ponoka, T4J1P4

GORDON LINDHOLM 1931 - 2013

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.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements.

403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

HOOD Irene Sophia 1923 - 2016 Mrs. Irene Sophia Elizabeth Hood of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at the age of 92 years. Irene was born in Grenfell, Saskatchewan on June 19, 1923. She will be lovingly remembered by her children, Cindy Mamen, Hardy (Barbara) Hood and Lynette (Ed) Grose; her grandchildren Ashley and Dallas Mamen, Stephen and Dustin Hood and Emily and Carson Grose, her sister-in-law’s, Irene Gataint, Edith and Katie Dech, and brother-inlaw, Vern Hack, as well as numerous relatives and close friends. Irene was predeceased by her husband Claybyn, her parents Jacob and Susanna Dech, her son-in-law Erik, siblings, George Fred, Chris, Jake, and Harold Dech and Katherine Milne and Jean Hack. Upon completion of school, Irene was as a hairdresser and owned her own salon. In 1952, she married Claybyn and they lived in Francis and Regina until the family relocated to Red Deer in 1966. After raising her children, she worked at the Red Deer Nursing Home for ten years.

She loved to curl, golf, play bridge, and was active in the community. Irene had the gift of hospitality and her love language was cooking and baking for her family and friends, and is remembered for her perogies, cabbage rolls, cookies and so many other wonderful treats! She was a loving mother and grandmother, who treasured time with her family and loved serving others. Special thanks to the staff of Michener Extendicare and the many others who have helped Irene over the last number of years.

A Celebration of Irene’s life will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd. Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.

Memorial Donations in Irene’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Lung Association, www.lung.ca/donate or the Canadian National Institute for the Blind www.cnib.ca/en/alberta.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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MEYER Wanda Gwethalyn May 27, 1948 - June 12, 2016 With great sadness we said goodbye to our mother, grandmother and great friend to many, Wanda Meyer on June 12, 2016. She is survived by her Son Peter (Theresa) Gosling and daughter Lylia (Grant) Bennett. Also dear to her heart were her two grandchildren Jane and Julie Gosling. To all whom cared for our mom at the Red Deer Hospice in Anders we can’t say thanks enough. The care and compassion shown by you was so wonderful. To Red Deer Regional hospital and to Rev Dale Fallon for allowing us the use of your wonderful chapel, allowing Grant and Lylia to be married in the presence of mom. To Moose Cottage and Brenda Farwell, thanks for opening your doors at the Hospital allowing our guests to visit and spend time with Wanda.

A very special thank you to Pastor Kyle and Amanda Mills for all your help and support.

You are truly amazing people thanks from the bottom of our hearts.

Our celebration of Wanda’s Life will be held at The First Church of Nazarene located at 2 McVicar Street on June 20th at 1pm with Pastor Kyle Mills. In Lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6; Canadian Cancer Society 200-325 Manning Road NE, Calgary AB, T2E 2P5 or Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta 100-119 14th St NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1Z6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

SHYSHKA 1930 - 2016 Lovingly, we say goodbye to our husband, father, grandfather and brother, Mike Shyshka, who passed away on June 13, 2016 at the Red Deer Hospice on at the age of 85 years. Mike is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Edna; daughters Deb (John) Bauler and Kim (Dale) Matwe; grandchildren Lee Edwards and Chelsea (Joel) Forrer; sisters Laura Tysarski, Mary (Ken) Gregory and Anne (David) Ulrich.

Also to cherish Mike’s memory are numerous extended family members and friends. Mike’s family would like to thank Dr. Rautenbach and all the staff at the Red Deer Hospice for the wonderful and compassionate care given to Mike. A memorial service will be held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 11 Bennett St., Red Deer, AB, Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Mike’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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Our hearts are full of memories With pride we speak your name, tho life goes on without you, it will never been the same.

Forever in our hearts you will always be loved and missed Barney, Teresa & Cindy In Loving Memory Yvonne Charlene Shackleton May 10, 1952 - June 17, 2014 It broke our hearts to lose you.

But you did not go alone.

Part of us went with you.

The day God took you home In our hearts forever Edward, Dylana, Shawne, and family, and Shawn

In Memory of Mildred Dorothy Frizzell Aug. 5, 1925 - Dec. 6, 2015 Memorial Service to be held Saturday, June 25, 2016 from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 MURRAY, Randy Mar. 24, 1912 - June 17, 2004 May the winds of love blow softly, And whisper so you’ll hear.

We will always love & miss you, And wish that you were here.

Love Jeannie, Terry, T.J . Shaun, Kelly & family.

MURPHY Steven Michael Mar. 21, 1961 - Jan. 26, 2016

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A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday June 25, 2016 at 01:00 PM. It will be held at Our Lady of Peace Parish in Innisfail Alberta, 4304 - 49 Ave. Steve was predeceased by his Father Leo in April of 2010. He is survived by his mother Clara, sister Regena, brothers Patrick and Jerry, many loving relatives and friends. Please join us to remember him and celebrate his life.

In Memoriam LINDA McINNIS 1945-2006 Time has done nothing to diminish the hole you left. Ten years is a long time without you. It has been just long enough to confirm that the life you spent here was anything but average. The impression you left on us children has given us more than the necessary tools to become semi-decent parents; but, what stings the most is that the superpower you possessed wasn’t able to reach the five beautiful grandchildren that came since you left. If we have to grind this up and place it with your ashes we will, but maybe, just maybe, they deliver newspapers to whatever garden or golf course in the sky that you are at today.

Forever in your debt and forever in your shadow Marni, Jeff and families

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Clearview 58 CLARK CRES. June 18, Sat. ONLY 9 - 4 HUGE SALE Lots of Stuff GREAT PRICES Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Clearview Ridge Neighbor Garage Sale CLEARVIEW VILLAS Sat. June 18, 9 - 3 Something for everyone Good Quality Items

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Kentwood Estates 162 KIDD CLOSE June 17 & 18 Fri. 2-8 & Sat. 9 - 4 Camping & fishing supplies, carpenter tools......

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PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4 appls., inclds. heat & water, no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594 PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., hrdwd. flrs., inclds. heat and water, $1100. 403-348-6594

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403-342-0813 SPACIOUS 1,150 ft. duplex condo in Michener Place, one bdrm with ensuite, walk-in closet, den, basement 60 % finished with bdrm., full bath, rec room, rear deck with awning, 2 car garage, only 459,900.

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WATER FRONT CRIMSON LAKE CABIN $480,000. 250-231-1965 Looking for a new pet?

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ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712 WEST PARK, $500. rent DD $250. smoking ok, Must have job or steady income 403-392-1499

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MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 NEW 4th flr. corner suite, 1096 sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreational amenities, extended care centre attached, deck.

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2 BDRM. mobile home, stove fridge, washer, dryer in Rimbey Mobile Home Park. Good cond. $19,500. obo. 1-780-465-7107

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

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

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2013 GMS Sierra 4X4 under 50,000 kms. very good cond., $23,500.

David 403-341-5670 1997 GMC Sonoma, 175,000 kms. $1800. obo 587-377-5034

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WatersEdge Marina Boat Slips Available For Sale or Rent Sylvan Lake, AB 403.318.2442 info@watersedgesylvan.com www.watersedgesylvan.com

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ENGINE STAND, $35.

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2 BDRM. 1400 SQ. FT. 2009 condo w/att. single garage, Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d. Avail. now.

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MOUNTVIEW entire home, across from school, 4 bdrm., dbl. garage, lrg. lot backs onto park, fully dev., 2 full baths, new reno’s, 5 appls., $1549 + utils. July 1.

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3 FAMILY garage sale, 114 Arthur Close, Fri., June 17 and Sat., June 18, 9 - 9, lots of stuff; over 20 years of accumulation.

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1. 403-304-5337

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403-343-6044 food for household now or July 1. 403-304-5337 • Distribute repurposed food to clients and Household ORIOLE PARK partner organizations 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975.

Furnishings • Provide compassionate rent, s.d. $650, incl water service. sewer and garbage.

GLASS TOP metal end • Participate at indoor Avail. now or July 1st. and outdoor promotion- tables (2) and coffee table 403-304-5337 w/glass. $50. each. al events.

TWO WEEKS FREE 403-341-9050 CLEARVIEW, 4 plex Food Repurposing Aide HOSPITAL Bed, single, 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), Exc. cond. $60. obo.

1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, • Reduce Hunger and But you pick up. no pets, . 403-391-1780 food waste by following 403-343-8662 established guidelines WESTPARK • In an efficient manner KITCHEN Chairs, (4), $40; 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. sort perishable and Chesterfield & Chair, Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. non-perishable food for French Provincial, Beige Avail. now or July 1 the purpose of redistriSatin $150.; 403-304-5337 bution 403-309-3045 • Distribute repurposed WANTED food to clients and Antiques, furniture and partner organizations Suites estates. 342-2514 • Participate in indoor and outdoor promotional 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult events bldg, free laundry, very Misc. for clean, quiet, Avail. now or Sale Applicants must be: JULY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 • A student enrolled in 100 VHS movies, $75 post secondary school for all. 403-885-5020 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious and returning in Sepsuites 3 appls., heat/water 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. tember. incl’d., ADULT ONLY 403-885-5020 • Must have a valid BLDG, no pets, Oriole driver’s license Park. 403-986-6889 50 - BRAND NEW turn • Must be friendly, buckles, hook and eye, CITY VIEW APTS. physically fit, & energetic 9-3/8” $1.00 each 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, • Available for a flexible call 403-728-3485 newly reno’d adult building. schedule Rent $900 S.D. $700.

CAMPING dishes, Avail. immed. Near hospiunbreakable, Durawere Apply in person with tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 Set. $35. resume to #12 7429 49 Coleman Propane lantern, Ave Red Deer to Fred DOWNTOWN well-man$50. Coleman Propane Scaife or Alice Kolisnyk. aged, quiet adult bldg., Camp Stove, $100. avail. now, 1 & 2 bdrm.

403-343-6044 with balcony, $850 and Employment $895/mo. Heat and water COFFEE Maker, Training incld. 2 wks. free with under counter, $30.

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Bully brother-in-law demeans sister ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: What is the best way to deal with someone who is a bully and verbally abusive?

My brother-in-law is very demeaning to my sister.

He makes cruel remarks about her physical appearance, calls her names and criticizes everything she does if it isn’t exactly what he likes.

My sister has been married to this bully for 30 years.

I really don’t know how she has put up with him for so long. I try not to spend a lot of time around my brother-in-law, but when I’m with the two of them, I want to defend my sister.

I’m just not sure how to go about it.

Is it best to ignore a bully’s comments or is there a way to put him in his place? — A Bully’s Sister-inLaw Dear Sister-in-Law: Please talk to your sister. This is not a bully on the playground, who should be held accountable.

This is your sister’s husband and while you want to protect her, you also must respect her wishes.

How does this abusive behavior affect her? She could be afraid or she may be ignoring him. After 30 years, she may not be bothered by it. Does she want your help?

Would she prefer that you not intervene?

Encourage your sister to speak up for herself or ask whether you can counteract her husband’s negative remarks with more positive ones.

You can suggest she speak to someone at the National Domestic Abuse Hotline (thehotline.org).

But ultimately, this is her marriage and she gets to decide how to handle it.

You cannot force her to want something better.

You can only be a source of love and support.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Missing Her,”

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Friday, June 17 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Barry Manilow, 73; Venus Williams, 36; Greg Kinnear, 53 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Passion and creativity are high today but avoid being rash.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a natural talent for persuading and influencing others.

November and December are marvellous months for love, romance and close relationships.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Red-hot Rams — today’s Moon/Mars connection could be a recipe for trouble, especially if you let your impulsive side take over. So calm down — and cool down — before you blow a fuse!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you sit back and let others make decisions, then you’ll just feel paralyzed and powerless.

The Moon and retrograde Mars urge you to be more self-sufficient — and more patient — in relationships.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): All types of study, research and travel are favoured, as you search far and wide for new up-to-date information. Don’t just replay old news — plan to be proactive about learning something new.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today’s lively stars favour sharing food and fun times with loved ones. But a child, teenager or friend may surprise you with temper tantrums, unpredictable moods or surprising choices.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nurture relationships with people who encourage your hopes and dreams for the future. Money matters are in a state of flux at the moment, so aim to be more financially independent.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you say exactly what’s on your mind, you could end up unintentionally offending others.

So think carefully before you speak today Virgo. If in doubt, just zip your lip and walk on by.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s stars encourage impulse shopping and making hasty financial decisions. So, before you buy anything, stop and think, “Do I really need this?”

If the answer is no, then move on!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Calling all aspiring Scorpios!

The stars encourage setting goals and pursuing ambitious dreams for the future. But circumstances are constantly changing, so your plans will need regular tweaking.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re feeling restless and communication could go hay-wire today, as you misinterpret someone’s true meaning. So avoid making important decisions, until you are much more settled.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more passion and focus you pour into your hopes and goals for the future, the

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the woman who was looking for a way to lessen her guilt over firing “Maria,” the nanny who had worked for her family for 20 years.

Maria’s services are no longer required, now that her youngest child is old enough to drive herself around.

Certainly, this employer has paid into Maria’s Social Security taxes over the years, hasn’t she? And also contributed to their state’s unemployment insurance program for her employee?

If “Missing Her” can’t “justify the cost” of keeping the woman who dedicated so much of her life tending Missing’s children, she should at least help Maria apply for programs to which she is entitled.

This will benefit her ex-employee far more than a farewell gift. — M. Dear M.: You are not the only one to bring this up.

Several readers asked whether “Missing Her” had been paying federal and state taxes as Maria’s employer.

We suspect not.

A great many people who hire nannies (and housekeepers, etc.), pay them in cash, especially if they are not U.S. citizens.

It also is not uncommon for these same employees to prefer cash payments because they, too, do not want to pay taxes.

But avoiding taxes on these employees is not only against the law, it does them a grave disservice when they are no longer in your employ and have no benefits. It’s too late to do this retroactively for Maria, but it’s not too late for others who are hiring good people to help them in their homes and who will become part of their families.

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.

LONDON — Go on, have another cup. Coffee is now off the list of things that could possibly cause cancer.

Experts convened by the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm declared Wednesday that there isn’t enough proof to show that the brew is linked to cancer. But in the same report, they warned that drinking “very hot” beverages of any kind could potentially raise your risk of the disease.

In particular, it cited countries including China, Iran and those in South America, where teas such as the bitter herbal infusion mate are traditionally drunk at extremely high temperatures — above 65 or 70 degrees Celsius (150 or 160 Fahrenheit) — considerably hotter than drinks would normally be served in cafes across North America and Europe Experts convened by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, concluded there was inadequate evidence to suggest that coffee might cause cancer, according to a letter published in the Lancet Oncology. The caffeinated drink was originally added to IARC’s list of possible carcinogens in 1991 based on a small number of studies that suggested a possible link to bladder cancer.

In its latest evaluation, the agency said that some studies showed coffee drinkers had a lower risk for cancers of the liver and womb. For more than 20 other cancers, the evidence was inconclusive.

“I’m not really sure why coffee was in a higher category in the first place,” said Owen Yang, an epidemiologist at Oxford University who has previously studied the possible link between coffee and cancer.

He was not part of the IARC expert group. “The best evidence available suggests that coffee does not raise the cancer risk,” he said.

Drinking very hot beverages, however, just might.

Dana Loomis, deputy head of the IARC program that classifies carcinogens, said they began to look into a possible link after seeing unusually high rates of esophageal cancer in countries where drinking very hot beverages is common. He said that even at temperatures below 60 degrees Celsius (140 Fahrenheit), hot beverages can scald the skin, and that consuming drinks at even higher temperatures could be harmful.

Loomis said very hot drinks might cause a “thermal injury” in the throat that could eventually promote the growth of tumors, but that evidence was limited. He said there wasn’t enough data to suggest if eating very hot food might also be risky.

more likely your dreams will come true. But it will take plenty of time and patience to come to fruition.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Resist the urge to be a disruptive influence at work today — aim to be smart and strategic instead.

The things you say have a profound influence on others, so choose your words wisely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When dealing with in-laws, education matters, travel details or international connections, make sure you take your time today Pisces. And avoid the temptation to jump to conclusions.

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

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