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Unmistakably Red Deer OFFICIAL 2019 CANADA WINTER GAMES LOGO, SCHEDULE UNVEILED

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A red deer, frozen river and stylized winter star form an image that is set to become part of this city’s sporting history.

The official 2019 Canada Winter Games logo was unveiled on Monday morning and the image provides an unmistakable link to Red Deer.

Also unveiled was the Games schedule, which has boxers, hockey, ringette and table tennis players, freestyle skiers and speed skaters sharing the honour of being the first athletes out of the gate on Feb. 15, 2019.

Over the next 15 days, athletes in 19 sports and 15 different venues will compete at the highest level of national competition.

Helping make sure it all goes off to plan will be hundreds of volunteers led by a 12-member senior leadership

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The official 2019 Canada Winter Games logo was unveiled on Monday morning. team, which was officially introduced to the public on Tuesday.

Games chairwoman Lyn Radford said the leadership team is stocked with experienced community players with wide-ranging skills and multigames experience.

Having solid leadership at the top is particularly important for these Games, which will be unique in combining volunteers with paid staff from the get go.

“No other Games has really gone with this model where you have vol-

unteers working side by side with a paid staff. This is a model that we really want to show can be done,” said Radford at the Collicutt Centre news conference.

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Liam, Olivia top baby names for third year in a row PATIENCE, MERCY AND UNITY EVIDENT IN ALBERTA ALONG WITH JUSTICE AND WISDOM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The usual favourites topped the list of baby names in Alberta last year, but Patience, Mercy and Wisdom also made an appearance.

Liam and Olivia were the mostpicked names for the third year in a row. Noah and Ethan were in second and third place for boys, while Emma and Emily rounded out the Top 3 for girls. Some of the more unusual names for boys included Sky-light, Wisdom and Wealth.

Patience, Mercy, Karma, Journey and Symphony got the nod from some parents who had baby girls.

The province says there were 56,529 little Albertans born in 2015 — a record-breaking year for births.

Rounding out the Top 10 for boys were Benjamin, Lucas, William, Oliver, Mason, Logan and Alexander.

The favourites for girls included Sophia, Ava, Chloe, Ella, Abigail, Avery and Amelia. The top five girls names haven’t changed since 2013.

Popular culture continued to inspire some parents who chose monikers including Tyrion from Game of Thrones, Katniss from the popular Hunger Games trilogy and Elsa from Dis-

EDMONTON — Alberta released the top baby names in the province for 2015. Liam and Olivia were the favourites once again, some others held their spots and still others simply moved around on the list. Here’s are the Top 10 in 2015, 2014 and 2013: Girls: 1. Olivia Olivia Olivia 2. Emma Emma Emma 3. Emily Emily Emily 4. Sophia Sophia Sophia 5. Ava Ava Ava 6. Chloe Isabella Avery 7. Ella Abigail Abigail 8. Abigail Ella Charlotte 9. Avery Charlotte Chloe 10. Amelia Hannah Lily Boys: 1. Liam Liam Liam 2. Noah Ethan Lucas 3. Ethan Benjamin Ethan 4. Benjamin William Noah 5. Lucas Logan Logan 6. William Noah Benjamin 7. Oliver Jacob William 8. Mason Oliver Jacob 9. Logan Lucas Mason 10. Alexander Carter Carter ney’s Frozen.

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Chinook’s Edge approves sale of Benalto School

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County will soon be the proud owner of Benalto School.

Chinook’s Edge School Division board formally approved the sale of the school building to Red Deer County last week.

The school board has closed the

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Dreeshen off to Europe for conference

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer–Mountain View MP Earl Dreeshen will be diving into discussions on everything from the impact of the Brexit vote to oil production to international crime while taking part in the 25th annual session of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Parliamentary Association from July 1 to 5.

The session, to be held in Tbilisi in the Eastern European country of Georgia, will welcome policy experts, diplomats, representatives of international organizations, media and about 300 parliamentarians representing 57 legislatures.

Dreeshen said on Monday, while it will take time for legislative changes to occur as a EARL DREESHEN result of the Brexit vote, Canada still has to pay attention.

“From the Canadian perspective, we have a great deal of work that we’ve done as far as free trade is concerned,” said Dreeshen, who will be one of three Canadian MPs and three senators attending the OSCE session.

He said other countries in the European Union may follow Britain’s lead to opt out of the EU. “The discussion is out there in the public. That has to be fleshed out as well to see how serious they are.”

The OSCE is an international body set up as an East-West forum during the Cold War to prevent conflict and manage crises. It continues as a crucial warning system and has expanded to promote the internal stability of its member states by monitoring elections, encouraging the protection of human rights and freedom of the press, and more.

At the end of the session, a vote will be held on the Tbilisi Declaration containing pronouncements and policy recommendations addressing politics, economics, the environment, and human rights.

A total of 19 supplementary items that will also be discussed include the rights of refugees; reconsolidating European security as a common project; law enforcement co-ordination to prevent child sexual exploitation and trafficking by known sex offenders; fostering co-operation to protect drinking water which is considered a scarce resource adversely affected by climate action; and security challenges of migration.

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Rick Vickery (right) and Ron Barge clown around before the parade on June 25th, 2016 to celebrate the Torrington and District History Book Launch.

Torrington celebrates release of history book

BY TIM LASIUTA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Close to 700 people gathered in Torrington to celebrate the good old days over the weekend, keyed by the launch of a book about the hamlet’s history.

Chairwoman Dorothy Weimer, and a committee of as many 25 gathered 270 family histories, researched community organizations and searched for family photographs to be included in the 670-page Torrington and District History Book.

“This is a great looking book,” said Liz Anhorn, a former resident. “All the work the committee put in shows and we really appreciate it.”

The weekend featured two pancake breakfasts hosted by the Wildrose Party and the first parade through the community in 22 years.

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information was being released to protect the privacy of the inmate.

Standard procedure for all inmate deaths require police and the coroner to be notified and Correctional Service of Canada will review the circumstances of the incident.

Bowden Institution is a medium and minimum security prison.

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Bowden inmate dies A Bowden Institution inmate died at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday.

Thomas Molloy, 56, had been serving a two-year prison sentence since Feb. 10 for sexual assault.

Molloy died at about 9 p.m. and his next of kin were notified of his death.

John McKill, assistant warden of management services at Bowden Institute, said no more

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Police are asking for help finding a suspect involved in a shooting at the Hybrid Lounge (formerly the Post Time Lounge) in Red Deer on Sunday.

In a statement issued on Monday, Red Deer City RCMP allege that a man fired two shots into the ceiling during a robbery before escaping with the till at about 9:10 p.m.

Police allege that the suspect had been dropped

“I love coming to events like this,” said Ron Barge, aka Buckshot, who was the parade marshal and a popular children’s show host from 1967 to 1997.

“I get a chance to meet the kids who watched me 40 years ago who are now adults.”

The parade featured close to 30 floats which former mayor Harold Ehrman was pleased with.

“This is how Torrington used to be 30 years ago,” he said. “Full of life and people for the annual Lions Club sports days.”

Along with the history book, artifacts and school pictures were on display in addition to a well attended music jam on Saturday night.

Copies of the Torrington and District History Book can be purchased from the committee or via mail for $45 or $65 mailed. Contact Dorothy at 403-556-2497 or look at the Torrington History Book page on facebook. off at the bar by someone driving a white Dodge pickup truck reported stolen on June 20. He was then seen getting back into the truck, which had been waiting for him in the Checkmate Court parking lot next door to the bar.

There were no injuries reported to police as a result of the incident.

The suspect is described as Caucasian and in his early 20s, skinny and of average height at about 1.78 to 1.8 metres (five-foot-10 to five-foot-11) tall. He was wearing a grey hat with a flat brim, a black jacket or hoodie and a white and green shirt underneath, dark jeans and white hightop shoes with Velcro straps.

The suspect was carrying a long-barrel firearm with a wooden stock. Police did not state whether it was a rifle or a shotgun.

RCMP ask that anyone who has information that could lead to the suspect’s arrest contact the Red Deer City detachment at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, report online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

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Humane society investigating use of bison carcasses for movie

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Animal-welfare officials are investigating whether several bison were purposely killed so their carcasses could be used in the filming of an American movie in southern Alberta.

Studio 8, the California-based company producing the ice-age movie The Solutrean, said in a statement Monday that it is doing an internal review as well, but has so far found no evidence supporting the allegation.

The animals had been destined for slaughter, said the studio, and a beef-jerky company was contracted

Local BRIEFS Friends of the Red Deer Public Library honoured for support Outstanding library support and volunteer effort has earned Friends of the Red Deer Public Library the 2015 National Gabriele Schreiber “Friends of the Year Award.”

Since 1999 the annual award, sponsored by Penguin Random House Canada and awarded by Friends of Canadian Libraries, has recognized a Friends of a Library group for its support of existing or new library programs or services, promoting awareness of its library, and volunteer involvement in programs and fundraising projects.

It’s only the third time a Friends of a Library group in Alberta has won the award.

Christina Wilson, Red Deer Public Library CEO, said Friends of the Red Deer Public Library have had an impact on the library and on reading in the community through its many fundraising efforts and the programs it supports.

In 2015, Friends of the Red Deer Public Library had about 27 volunteers and the group raises about $20,000 a year for the library. Some of their projects include biannual book sales, Let’s Talk About the Art speaker series, The Friends Reading Garden at the Dawe branch, and providing early literacy computers for children at all three branches.

Friends of the library will receive a commemorative plaque on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the downtown branch, plus $1,000 worth of books from Penguin Random House Canada that Friends are donating to the children department’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program for children up to age five.

“It’s a free program and the purpose of the program is to encourage families to spend quality time together and really promote preliteracy and learning and reading 1,000 books before your child starts kindergarten,” Wilson said.

Each preschooler receives a book when they begin the program and the $1,000 will be used to purchase copies of This Little Chick, by John Lawrence.

Children receive another book once they complete the program.

So far 437 children have registered for the self-paced program that

to purchase and process the meat.

“Our preliminary findings confirm that no one from the production had authorized or was aware of any deviation from (American Humane Association’s) guidelines,” said the statement.

“If we find that any deviation did indeed occur, we will consider all potential remedies, including rescuing five other bison, who would have otherwise been slaughtered, by purchasing them for adoption by an animal sanctuary.”

The company also said that two representatives from the humane association were on the movie set to ensure staff were following rules.

Scott Sowers, a spokesman for the American Hu-

mane Association, said in an email that the organization has brought in an independent investigator to look into the claim.

The killing of any animal for use in film is strictly prohibited and any company involved in such would not receive the “no animals were harmed” certification for its movie, he said.

The Alberta SPCA originally received the complaint about the dead bison during filming in the Drumheller area in April.

Spokesman Roland Lines said that although the group disagrees with “killing an animal specifically to be used as a movie prop,” it had no legal authority to investigate.

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provincial court on Monday, defence counsel Andrew Phypers said he and Crown prosecutor Bruce Ritter had negotiated a plea agreement but were still contesting an issue concerning Coutre’s alleged possession of the stolen car.

After some discussion with both lawyers concerning the issue, Holmes asked them to dig up more case law and return their findings to him before proceeding with the hearing.

Coutre remains in custody on other charges that are not connected with the Sept. 21 incident.

Trial delayed to give Crown, defence more time to work out deal The trial of a woman arrested following a firearms incident in Red Deer last fall has been adjourned for a few weeks while the Crown and defence do some more homework.

Madison Leigh Coutre, 23 at the time, was arrested on Sept. 21, 2015 by Red Deer City RCMP called to investigate complaints that a crossover SUV was being driven erratically throughout the city while someone inside was pointing an imitation firearm at people on the street.

In a statement released shortly afterward, police said the vehicle was located, but sped off when the driver was signalled to pull over. The parked vehicle was located again later in the day and three suspects seen walking in the area were peacefully arrested.

Police allege that the car had been reported stolen on Sept. 4 from a site in the Summer Village of Norglenwold at Sylvan Lake.

Coutre was taken into custody on multiple offences, including possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possessing stolen property worth less than $5,000, possessing stolen property worth more than $5,000, making or possessing ID documents, flight from police, dangerous driving and breaching release conditions.

At trial before Judge John Holmes in Red Deer

Massage therapist charged with sexual assault Police have charged a Red Deer massage therapist with sexually assaulting one of his clients.

An investigation was launched on April 28 when Red Deer City RCMP received a complaint involving a 23-year-old woman who said she had been sexually assaulted during a massage therapy appointment at a private residence.

In a statement released on Monday, Cpl. Karyn Kay said the woman’s only relationship with the therapist arose from a previous therapy session at his place of employment. There have been no other complaints involving the accused man, said Kay. The suspect, 30 years old, is charged with a single count of sexual assault and is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on July 7.

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Dreeshen said coming to a consensus on resolutions is helpful even if the OSCE has no power of enforcement.

“It doesn’t have the type of teeth that some people might think, but when it comes to government and parliamentarians you have to have a certain amount of diplomacy when you work through this. Usually the consensus you get is meaningful back home.”

He said it’s always important to let others know Canada’s position on issues and what is happening here, for example the high environmental standards in place for the country’s oil and gas industry.

“To often we sit back and let others define what we do. If no one is there to speak to it, the assumption is that everything that is being said is done in a knowledgeable fashion. That isn’t necessarily the case. They need to know what is actually taking place.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Brexit won’t influence sovereigntists CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION

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here was a time, not long ago, when the Quebec sovereignty movement swore by the model of the European Union. In the lead-up to the 1995 referendum, it provided the template for the project of a post-secession partnership with the rest of Canada.

Back then, most leading sovereigntists sincerely believed in an EU-style Canada-Quebec union based on joint political institutions, a common currency and open borders. They probably still do. Others endorsed the idea strictly for marketing purposes.

Without the adjunct of a partnership offer to the rest of the federation, the sovereignty option would not have had a fighting chance of prevailing in the referendum. In 1995, the Yes camp sold the “partenariat” to sell sovereignty.

Since then, the Parti Québécois has taken its distance from the concept, mostly because it has zero traction elsewhere in Canada.

But the fact remains that a critical

number of Quebecers would never pursue sovereignty as an end in itself.

Some sovereigntist thinkers believe the outcome of the Brexit debate and the majority decision of U.K. voters to leave the EU could change that. They think it could have a domino effect on the Quebec-Canada dynamics in three positive ways for their cause.

They hope that the sight of a U.K. majority willing to jump out of the EU without a safety net will embolden more Quebecers to support a leap in the relative unknown in the shape of a clean break from Canada.

They note that, for the second time in as many years, the U.K. has determined that a simple majority is good enough to trigger dramatic political change. (The current federal mantra is that the threshold should be higher.)

The first instance was the vote on Scotland independence in 2014 — an exercise that stands to be repeated now that its voters’ pro-EU vote has been negated by a made-in-England majority.

From the Quebec sovereigntist perspective, a secessionist victory anywhere in western Europe — be it in Scotland or Catalonia — would be an asset as the movement tries to convince Quebecers that the quest for national independence is not outdated.

If all this sounds tenuous, it is be-

cause it is.

The U.K. episode is just as likely to remind the majority of Quebecers who resist the prospect of another referendum just how divisive such exercises can be.

Its economic fallout could well harden their collective resolve to avoid a repeat vote on the province’s future.

And then the PQ is struggling with a demographic deficit. A chronic weakness among the younger cohorts of voters is in the process of turning a structural impediment into winning majority victories.

(As an aside, that is a predicament it has in common with the federal Conservatives — the other Canadian political family that boasts prominent supporters of the Brexit outcome).

There is little in the result of the Brexit vote that will help the PQ on the demographics front. It has exposed a deep divide that finds younger U.K. voters on the losing side of the debate.

That outcome is unlikely to inspire a generation that is comfortable with open borders and shared national sovereignty.

By coincidence, the U.K. vote coincided with the start of the Quebec’s Fête nationale celebrations. To say that this year’s edition exhibits a dearth of nationalist ardour is an un-

derstatement.

This June 24 holiday finds the sovereignty movement decapitated, with its two main parties — the PQ and the Bloc Québécois — leaderless.

By all accounts, the campaign to find a replacement for Pierre Karl Péladeau features one of the weakest lineups the party has ever been presented with.

The Bloc has postponed the quest for a leader for another year, perhaps because the last time it held a leadership vote an exodus of MPs promptly followed.

The main irritant between Ottawa and Quebec these days involves a tiny frog whose habitat the federal environment department has just intervened to protect from a real estate development.

In so doing, Justin Trudeau’s government overruled its Quebec counterpart.

But while that has elicited outrage among the parties in the national assembly, Quebecers by and large do not seem inclined to rush to the barricades to defend their provincial government’s right to alone decide whether to accelerate the demise of an endangered species.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs columnist syndicated by Torstar.

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A bold and perilous stab at de-globalization

BY THOMAS WALKOM SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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n voting to leave the European Union, Britons have embarked on a bold but perilous experiment.

They are turning their backs on expert opinion. They are ignoring the advice of the mainstream elites who argue further economic integration is both inevitable and necessary.

They are, in effect, trying to de-globalize themselves.

It will be interesting to see if they can do it.

The motives of those who voted to leave the EU in Thursday’s referendum were not always noble.

Racism played a role, as did plain old xenophobia. Those leading the Leave campaign were hardly Churchillian. They included Nigel Farage, the odious leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, as well as former London mayor Boris Johnson, a buffoonish toff who may well end up being the country’s next prime minister.

But the Leavers were also responding to a real weakness in both the EU and other arrangements like it.

Global integration may serve that abstraction known as the economy. But RED DEER

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it doesn’t always help real, flesh-andblood people.

In effect, the roughly 17 million Britons who voted to quit the EU were saying: We don’t like what’s going on.

How will the experiment work out? First, the United Kingdom — in some form — will survive. I say “in some form” because boundaries may change. Scottish separatists will demand, and this time might win, a referendum to split off from Great Britain.

But the loss of its EU status will not send what remains of Britain back to the Stone Age. When the dust clears and the markets relax, the U.K. will still be one of Europe’s biggest economies.

Still, the transition is not going to be easy. Britain has been part of the EU for 43 years. Its economy has been successfully integrated with that of the continent. Commodities and parts flow effortlessly across borders.

It’s in the economic interest of both Britain and the EU that at least the tariff-free aspect of this relationship continue. But divorces are notoriously messy. The EU may not wish to reward a country that has just spurned its love.

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tentative Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between this country and the EU. It may. Europe may turn inwards as it focuses on the British problem.

Or conversely, it may not. Britain’s leaving might encourage the Europeans to strengthen their trans-Atlantic ties.

In any case, it won’t much matter.

We get along fine without a European trade-and-investment pact. So do the Europeans.

While the full story won’t be known for months, there are some immediate lessons that can be drawn from Britain’s decision to leave.

First, democracy and advanced capitalism aren’t always compatible. Britain’s voters were asked whether they wanted to stick with a globalized system designed to increase wealth in the aggregate. The majority looked at what they were getting out of the arrangement and said no.

Second, nationalism is alive. There was a time, not so long ago, when the nation-state was viewed as passé. It is not. When Britain’s Leavers said they didn’t want to be governed by bureaucrats in Brussels, they meant it.

Third, full labour mobility is, politically, a step too far. The conceit of

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the European Union was that it had erased borders - that EU citizens could travel, work and live anywhere.

Thursday’s referendum showed that a lot of Britons simply don’t agree. If the polls are right, a lot of other Europeans don’t agree either. They fear an unrestricted flood of newcomers will drive down wages. Sometimes, these fears are justified.

Fourth, the refusal of centre and left parties to deal with any of this has allowed the hard right to monopolize antiglobalization sentiment. In Britain, the right dominated the Leave campaign in part because there was no one else.

In the United States, would-be presidential nominee Bernie Sanders articulated a centre-left critique of globalization. But his Democratic party didn’t agree.

Now demagogue Republican Donald Trump has the field to himself.

It’s hard to imagine Trump winning on his platform of nativism and antiglobalization. But then it was hard to imagine Britain would quit the EU. Thomas Walkom’s column is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Sage grouse making tiny comeback

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The muffled drumbeat and strutting mating dance of a classic prairie bird is becoming louder in its grassland home, two years after the sage grouse became one of the first species to come under emergency protection from the federal government.

Numbers of the greater sage grouse have almost quadrupled since 2014, with nearly 80 male birds recently counted in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.

“They’re still dangerously low, but the increase in the last few years has been encouraging,” Jordan Ignatiuk of Nature Saskatchewan said Monday.

A few years ago, there were only 20 male sage grouse left in the two provinces. The slow collapse of the species spurred environmental groups to take the former Tory federal government to court to force it to follow provisions in the Species At Risk Act and declare an emergency protection order.

That order blocked the destruction of any more sagebrush, the bird’s natural habitat. It also banned new roads, structures or fences and prohibited noisy activities during the grouse’s mating season.

The measures applied to almost 1,800 square kilometres of federally and provincially owned land in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan.

They may have come at some economic cost.

At least one energy company, Calgary-based LGX Oil + Gas, blamed the protection order for forcing it into bankruptcy. The company, now in receivership, has filed a $60-million lawsuit against the federal government over the issue.

A spokesman for the receiver did not respond to a request for an update on the lawsuit’s status.

Ignatiuk said environmental restrictions under which the company was operating predated the emergency order. He also pointed out the emergency order didn’t lower the price of oil.

“It’s a bit of a stretch to say the emergency order was what affected them,” said Ignatiuk. “They’re grasping at straws.”

Ignatiuk also said the weather over the last couple of seasons could has been even more important than the protection order.

“It enabled some of the nesting cover and food availability for the hens and the nestlings. The factors within that one are pretty hard to tease out.”

Sean Nixon, the Ecojustice lawyer who brought the lawsuit that forced the protection order, said both weather and the law played a role.

“We had a couple decades of steady decline before the protection order came in, even in years with good weather.

“We probably need 10 years of good weather. And in addition, they need some kind of legal protection.”

Nixon said the comeback of the sage grouse proves such protections work.

“The Species at Risk Act has been in force for about 14 years now and the sage grouse is one of the first species that’s been protected by the federal act.

“It just shows that laws help.”

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Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Ryan Jimmo, from Edmonton weighs-in in Calgary. Edmonton police are investigating the hit and run death of former UFC fighter Jimmo.

Former UFC fighter killed in hit-and-run collision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton police are investigating the hit and run death of former UFC fighter Ryan Jimmo.

Investigators say Jimmo, 34, was fatally injured early Sunday morning following an altercation in a parking lot in the Alberta capital.

They allege he had approached the driver of a vehicle and was walking back to his own car when he was struck by a vehicle, which then fled the scene.

Jimmo, who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, was pronounced dead in hospital.

Late Sunday night police were still looking for the suspect vehicle, described as a dark coloured, customized older model pickup truck.

Known as “The Big Deal” during his mixed martial arts career, Jimmo made his sensational UFC

debut at UFC 149 in Calgary in July 2012.

Fighting as a light heavyweight he tied the record for the organization’s fastest knockout when he dispatched Anthony Perosh in just seven seconds. Jimmo celebrated by doing a robot-dance followed by the splits in the middle of the cage.

The six-foot-two, 205-pounder had a black belt in karate and was part of UFC’s TV series “The Ultimate Fighter” season 8.

Jimmo went 19-5 in his MMA career, with a 3-4 record in seven UFC fights — his last fight being a loss to Francimar Barroso at UFC Fight Night 67 in May 2015.

The native Maritimer had most recently lived in Arizona after stints in Edmonton and Halifax.

His death prompted a social media outpouring from the MMA community.

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Assisted-dying law challenged

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Just days after Canada’s physician-assisted dying law came into force, a 25-year-old British Columbia woman with a degenerative muscle disease is challenging it in court.

Julia Lamb who lives in the Fraser Valley city of Chilliwack has spinal muscular atrophy and worries her body will weaken and she will be left in a state of intolerable suffering because she doesn’t qualify for doctor-assisted death under the new law.

“My biggest fear is that if my condition suddenly gets much worse, which could happen any day, I will become trapped,” she told a news conference on Monday.

“I feel a shadow looming over me. I know I could lose the ability to breathe well enough on my own and require a ventilator, which could affect my ability to speak.”

Lamb was diagnosed with the muscle disease at 16 months and required a wheelchair at age six, but she said she has lived a fulfilling life with a loving family and enjoys her part-time job as a marketing assistant.

The Liberal government’s Bill C-14 received royal assent on June 17.

Lamb said she opposes the law’s requirements that a doctor’s help can only be given if death is reasonably foreseeable and the patient is in an advanced state of irreversible decline.

“If my suffering becomes intolerable I would like to make the final choice about how much suffering to endure,” said Lamb, who has joined the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to file a constitutional challenge in B.C. Supreme Court.

Grace Pastine, a lawyer with the association, said the law excludes a class of people who are suffering with no immediate end in sight from diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling last year gave people the right to end their lives with a doctor’s help when pain management, hospice care and

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Julia Lamb, who has a degenerative muscle disease, pauses following a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., Monday. Lamb is challenging Canada’s physician-assisted dying law just days after it came into force. medical treatments have not helped, Pastine said.

“The new legislation has the perverse effect of forcing some critically ill Canadians to resort to violent methods or the back alley. People will find ways to end lives that have become unbearable,” she said.

Pastine said the association is asking other Canadians with chronic conditions who want access to assisted dying to join the legal challenge.

Justice Minister Jody-Wilson Raybould said the legislation was a principled, cautious response and she is confident it is constitutional.

“It represents the right approach for Canada at this important time in our country’s history by striking the balance between personal autonomy for those seeking access, protection of the vulnerable, and respect for the conscience rights of health-care providers.”

Police investigating truck driver in fiery crash TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police say a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a north Toronto highway that left four people dead was “absolutely preventable.”

Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says investigators are still trying to identify some of those killed in the 11-vehicle collision Friday night on Highway 400 — but one is believed to be a four-year-old girl.

The crash occurred in the highway’s southbound lanes shortly before 10 p.m. ET and involved three transport trucks along with several other vehicles and one of the trailers and two vehicles caught fire.

Schmidt says the highway surface had to be ground down because molten metal from the fire was protruding

from the asphalt.

Schmidt adds that a rise in the road and construction on that section of the highway cause traffic to slow and require a driver’s full attention.

He says the OPP is looking into the actions of the driver of one of the transport trucks involved in the crash.

Investigators are “focusing on the actions of … one of the commercial vehicles to see whether or not the driver didn’t stop or slow down in time as traffic was slowing down,” Schmidt said Monday.

“I’ve never seen a collision, I think, of this magnitude and the fact that a fire consumed three of the vehicles — a trailer and then two more cars,” he said.

“Sadly, we’re having a very difficult time even identifying the deceased because of the fire,” Schmidt said. “Abso-

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“The absolute carnage that can come as a result is incredible and we saw that on Friday.”

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There are plenty of similar but not identical uses of teeth for tools that also cause damage. When I see gentlemen with multiple chipped teeth or women with the same – I've usually just met a fisherman or a seamstress. We've seen teeth used to tear open a bag of chips, rip price tags off clothing, open a bottle of nail polish, pull out a watch stem, and 'break' Scotch tape or packing tape. All can create unnecessary problems. Call them 'bad habits'. They will cause a tooth to chip or fracture. There are others. How about crunching down on ice cubes, for example? The brittleness as well as the cold temperature of the ice can cause a tooth to fracture. It is the tiny cracks in the enamel which can cause more significant dental issues over the long run that is the concern. Crushed ice is more kind to your teeth. Partially popped popcorn kernels (#1 cause of fractured teeth), pits of plums, apricots, and peaches are also problematic. Speaking of other problematic areas – as we age the choice of your toothbrush becomes more important. People used to believe that a firm, stiff toothbrush was best. This is not so for older adults, because when gums recede and roots are exposed, a hard toothbrush is more likely to cause sensitivity issues. Make sure you ask your dentist or hygienist for his/her opinion on the best brush for your specific mouth.

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In search of a middle road B.C. MAKES SECOND BID TO EVICT HOMELESS PEOPLE CAMPING AT VICTORIA COURTHOUSE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — A group of homeless people camping outside Victoria’s courthouse were put on relocation notice Monday after lawyers and a British Columbia Supreme Court judge discussed eventually shutting down the tent city.

Lawyers for the provincial government and homeless campers talked about the timing of the camp’s closure during a hearing into an injunction application.

Crown lawyer Warren Milman told the court that an immediate injunction is necessary because of fire hazards at the site. He called for a phased-in removal of people living there.

Catherine Boies Parker, the lawyer representing the homeless residents, said the campers need at least two weeks to find and register people who will move into government housing.

“I suppose there’s a middle road,” said Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson, who indicated he was considering an order shutting down the camp as early as this week.

The B.C. government returned to court for a second time this year seeking an interim injunction to evict more than 100 people who have been living in tents on the courthouse lawn since the fall.

Milman told the court that fire, crime and sanitary conditions at the camp have deteriorated since March when the province originally applied for an injunction, which was denied on the grounds that the government did not prove it will suffer irreparable harm if an interim injunction to remove the camp was not granted.

Milman said the fire dangers include crowded pathways, tarp-covered tents and the storage of combustible materials.

“Far from having made progress, there’s been movement in the opposite direction,” said Milman.

“Things have gotten worse, not better.”

He said the government is concerned about fire dangers and is prepared to accept a phased dismantling of the camp once the fire dangers are removed.

The government will have housing ready for every person in the camp by Aug. 8, Milman told the court.

Hinkson said reports of gang members living at the camp and dealing drugs are signs the environ-

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People demonstrate at the homeless camp in Victoria. The British Columbia government says fire, crime and sanitary conditions at a homeless camp outside the courthouse in Victoria have degenerated since March when the province originally applied for a court injunction to shut it down. ment has changed.

“That’s a significant change from March,” he said.

Victoria council granted police extra funds to increase patrols at the camp after reports of increased violence and gang presence at the camp.

Hinkson said the presence of rats at the camp are indications of maintenance issues.

“I understand there weren’t rats in March,” he said. “There’s rats now. Rats don’t come to a place that is well maintained.”

Housing Minister Rich Coleman recently announced that the provincial government purchased a former seniors care facility in downtown Victoria for $11.2 million with plans to turn it into 140 hous-

ing units with their own bathrooms and a communal kitchen for the homeless.

The province has already provided more than 190 spaces for Victoria’s homeless since last October, including shelter and living units at a former youth jail, a community centre and a seniors care facility, Coleman has said.

The former seniors care facility is expected to include programs for people dealing with drug and alcohol addictions or mental health issues, he said.

“It sounds like a good idea,” Boies Parker told the court.

But she said the campers need more time to register people for permanent housing.

Refugee system reform at risk: internal report

Manitoba killer jailed for life

‘IF CLAIM INTAKE CONTINUES TO INCREASE, THERE IS A RISK THAT THERE MAY BE FURTHER CHALLENGES MEETING TARGETS, THAT BACKLOGS MAY GROW, AND THE OVERALL AVERAGE CLAIMANT TIME IN THE SYSTEM MAY INCREASE.’

WINNIPEG — A homeless man who brutally beat three other transient men to death in separate attacks blamed police as he was handed the stiffest sentence in Manitoba history — life in prison with no chance of parole for 75 years.

“Who made me like this?” John Ostamas said Monday when he was given the opportunity to address his sentencing hearing.

“The only reason I’m like this is because they violated my human rights — the police,” he said in reference to a confrontation with officers as a young man that he said left him with a large scar on his face.

Ostamas, 40, had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder. The April 2015 killings shocked city residents and prompted police to warn Winnipeg’s homeless population to be cautious about their security.

In each attack, Ostamas beat and stomped a heavily intoxicated individual — one in a bus shelter, one in a back alley and a third in a parkade. Each victim suffered dozens of injuries, mostly to the head and neck.

“These monstrous murders were the work of a serial killer,” Crown attorney Sheilla Leinburd told court.

The victims were suffering from “abject and dismal vulnerability” and “had no place to run, no place to hide,” she added.

The Crown and defence jointly recommended a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years, served consecutively. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Vic Toews accepted the recommendation and said he would issue his written decision at a later date.

Leinburd said it is the toughest sentence in Manitoba’s history since the death penalty was abolished.

The sentence was welcomed by Franklin Bushie, whose uncle Stony Bushie was one of the three men beaten to death by Ostamas.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Changes made to Canada’s refugee system in 2012 resulted in faster decisions on asylum claims, but an internal government study warns those improvements may now be at risk.

Several asylum targets weren’t met following the implementation of reforms, despite the fact the government had set aside money to cover twice as many claims as were ultimately received, the study found.

Now, the number of claims is on the rise again.

“If claim intake continues to increase, there is a risk that there may be further challenges meeting targets, that backlogs may grow, and the overall average claimant time in the system may increase,” said an internal evaluation of the reforms posted online

by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

The latest evaluation comes with Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government poised to put additional pressure on the system by undoing another of the changes made by the previous Conservative government.

The primary goal of the changes had been to get claims decided faster, to ensure those in need of asylum were approved more quickly, and those who did not qualify were promptly deported.

The evaluation examined the implementation of two laws that — among other things — created timelines for certain steps in the process and limited avenues of appeal for claimants from certain countries.

Prior to that, however, the Tories also sought to cut off claims at the source by imposing visa restrictions on countries whose nationals were to blame much of the backlog.

One of those countries was Mexico: about 9,000 of 36,759 claims lodged in 2008 came from Mexicans. After visas were imposed in 2009, the number of Mexican claims fell to 1,199.

But this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and announce a plan to lift that visa requirement.

It will come despite objections from departmental officials who fear a new spike in claims and a precedent being set with regards to visas in place on other countries.

The evaluation doesn’t explicitly address the implications of a Mexican visa lift on the system. It was

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carried out prior to the Liberals winning the election.

But in general, it found, claims are already rising.

The year the reforms were introduced, 20,456 claims were lodged. In 2013, it was only 10,322. In 2014, 13,410 claims were filed, in 2015 over 16,000 and further increases are forecast in the next two years, the evaluation said.

The $259 million spent on the reform project means those seeking asylum now receive a decision on their file about five times faster than those who applied prior to 2012.

Despite that, targets for hearing dates and removals continue to be missed. Among them — the goal of getting 80 per cent of failed claimants out within 12 months of the decision. Just over half were actually removed.

In a formal response to the evaluation, both Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency said they were working to plug the gaps.

“Successful delivery of a decentralized asylum system requires close co-operation between independent organizations, while remaining mindful that each organization is independent in delivering on specific decision-making targets,” the government wrote in its response.

“Despite efforts to ensure the smooth management of the asylum system, there are factors that are beyond the control of IRCC and other organizations, such as unpredictable intake and challenges in obtaining travel documents from recalcitrant countries.”

Military veteran turns home into retreat for fellow PTSD sufferers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SABLE RIVER, N.S. — A military veteran who found sanctuary in the woods of rural Nova Scotia is opening his home and property to fellow servicemen and women who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bob Grundy and his wife, Johan, have converted their ranch-style home in Sable River into a retreat where people coping with trauma can recover, reconnect with nature and rebuild their families.

The former air defence technician says the Rally Point Retreat, nestled on 180 acres of land, welcomes Canadian Forces members, first responders and journalists who are receiving medical treatment for PTSD - and charges nothing for their stay.

“I feel that people have already paid with their soul, those people who have PTSD,” said Bob Grundy in an interview Monday. “Anybody that says it’s an easy road doesn’t have it.”

The lodge is equipped with two guest rooms, a fitness centre, a hot tub, a library, a ping pong table and a woodworking workshop, all surrounded by me-

andering trails and a lake.

It’s a place where time stands still, Grundy said, away from the traumatic memories that replay on a loop in his mind, over and over again, robbing him of sleep for all but two to three hours a night.

“Your brain just becomes numb,” he said. “When your brain stops running at the crest of a surfer-type wave, the crash is amazing as everything comes down on top of you that you’ve remembered.”

Grundy served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for about 35 years both in the reserves and as an active member. He believes he suffers PTSD as a result of the cumulative effects of events such as Swissair Flight 111, which happened when he was stationed at 12 Wing Shearwater, and a fishing accident that killed four men while he was working at a radar site in Manitoba.

He denied anything was wrong for years and began attending group therapy for PTSD only after retiring to the country.

“In a group, you find out all of these other guys have experiences, then you feel, ‘I’m not worthy to be here,” he said. “Then they let you know that you are, and that you’re not alone.”

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U.K. credit rating slashed CAMERON INSISTS ECONOMY IS ROBUST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Monday that Britain’s shock vote to leave the European Union won’t send the economy into a tailspin, even as the country was stripped of its top credit rating and stock markets and the pound continued a downward spiral.

Calling the vote a “seminal event” that “will lead to a less predictable, stable and effective policy framework in the U.K,” Standard & Poor’s knocked the U.K.’s sovereign rating by two notches, from AAA to AA. Hours later, Fitch Ratings followed suit, downgrading the country to AA, from AA+.

Both agencies said they were keeping a negative outlook on their ratings, which means they could downgrade the country further. Standard and Poor’s cited risks to the economy and public finances, the pound’s role as an international reserve currency and “risks to the constitutional and economic integrity of the U.K.” as Scotland’s strong vote to remain in the EU could raise the prospect of another referendum on Scottish independence.

Speaking earlier in the day as the House of Commons met for the first time since last week’s referendum, Cameron insisted the British economy was robust and could withstand the shockwaves.

“It is clear that markets are volatile, there are some companies considering their investments and we know this is going to be far from plain sailing,” Cameron told lawmakers. “However, we should take confidence from the fact that Britain is ready to confront what the future holds for us from a position of strength.”

Despite the uncertainty fueling financial instability, leaders in both Britain and the EU signalled there would be no immediate start to negotiations on an EU exit.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with her French and Italian counterparts and said “we agree there will be no formal or informal talks” until the British government officially declares its intention to quit by invoking Article 50 of the EU treaty.

The statement appeared to scotch hopes by Conservative lawmaker Boris Johnson and his Vote Leave campaign to hold preliminary talks on the general outlines of a deal before Article 50 triggers a two-year countdown to a British exit.

Earlier, Merkel said she understood that Britain may need “a certain amount of time to analyze things,” but said a “long-term suspension” of the question wouldn’t be in either side’s economic interest.

Cameron announced last week he would resign by the fall after failing to persuade a majority of voters to back continued EU membership, saying his successor should be the one to navigate Britain’s departure from the EU. Cameron said he spoke Monday with Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, and made plain this was not the time to start the process.

“We have discussed the need to prepare for the negotiations and in particular the fact that the British government will not be triggering Article 50 at this stage,” he said.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, the Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi, right, and the President of France Francois Hollande brief the media during a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday. The three leaders said they agreed there will be no formal or informal talks, until the British government formally declares its intention to quit the EU.

Leave victors will find it hard to fulfil promises

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Politicians who wanted Britain to leave the European Union were not shy about making promises. They plastered their campaign bus with vows to “take back control” on immigration and boost funding for the beloved National Health Service.

But with Britain facing months or years of negotiations to detach itself from the 28-nation bloc, victorious “leave” leaders will find their pledges of prosperity, sovereignty and more public spending hard to keep.

They know it, and are already lowering expectations.

Conservative “leave” supporter Iain Duncan Smith now says the campaign had not laid out promises but simply “a series of possibilities.”

And having shocked the world — and global markets — with the referendum result, Britain appears in no hurry to rush out the EU’s exit door.

The “leave” campaign led by former London Mayor Boris Johnson has yet to lay out what it thinks BritJohn Kerry, in Brussels and London to address fallout from the vote, said the U.S. has “immense confidence in … the leadership on both sides of the channel” to negotiate a deal — and urged the EU not to treat Britain in a “revengeful” manner.

Amid signs the uncertainty was hitting business confidence, a leading business group said 20 per cent of its members planned to move some of their operations out of the U.K. The

ain’s future relationship with the EU should look like, and Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain won’t trigger formal divorce talks until a new prime minister is in place after the summer.

Before Thursday’s referendum, however, the “leave” side’s tone was considerably less ambiguous: They wanted out, they wanted control of EU immigration and they wanted a lot of money back from the EU. “Let’s take back control,” said a slogan on the “Vote Leave” bus that traversed the country, as its leaders argued that Britain could secure its borders and limit EU immigration only by exiting the bloc, therefore eliminating the right that EU workers have to live and work in Britain.

An estimated 2 million Poles have come to work in Britain since 2004, and 850,000 are still here.

Another bus-side “leave” pledge said: “We send the EU 350 million pounds a week — let’s fund our NHS instead.”

Many economists think there’s a conflict between the key promises of reducing EU immigration and proInstitute of Directors said a survey of its 1,000 members showed three out of four believe Britain’s exit from the EU will be bad for business. About a quarter said they would freeze hiring and 5 per cent said they would cut jobs.

“Ultimately we think that our members are very resilient, we think that British business is tough and will adapt, but certainly at the moment there is a lot of nervousness,” said Edwin Morgan, the head of media rela-

ducing a flourishing economy. They argue that Britain needs access to the EU’s tariff-free single market of 500 million people, and won’t get it if it tries to restrict the free movement of EU labour.

Jonathan Portes, principal research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said anti-EU campaigners chose to ignore the link between economic access and EU immigration in order to win votes.

“They told lots of people that these trade-offs, which were reasonably obvious and are now coming to the fore, didn’t exist,” Portes said.

“Sooner or later they will have to deal with it.”

The desire to curb immigration motivated many “leave” voters, since more than 3 million people born in other EU nations now reside in Britain. An estimated 1.2 million Britons, including many retirees, have moved to other EU nations, but Britain’s relatively thriving economy has meant that immigration has far outstripped emigration in recent years. tions.

The pound hit a new 31-year low Monday, dropping another 3.5 per cent to $1.3199, while stock markets declined across Europe. Bank shares were particularly hard hit. Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, once the world’s largest bank and now mostly state-owned after a taxpayer bailout in 2008, closed 15 per cent lower after dropping by as much as 25 per cent.

U.S. top court strikes down major Texas abortion law

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Abortion providers celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court striking down major Texas abortion restrictions Monday also acknowledged a daunting reality: Women aren’t soon likely to see new clinics replace the about 20 abortion facilities lost since 2013.

The restrictions that justices toppled in a 5-3 decision have already forced more than half of Texas’ abortion clinics out of business — from 41 facilities before the law was passed to 19. Had the law that former Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis once temporarily blocked with an 11-hour

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GAMES: Volunteers part of core group Other Games have leaned on paid staff until volunteers are recruited shortly before the Games, or relied almost entirely on volunteer organizers.

In Red Deer, volunteers have been a core part of the organizing group from Day 1 and bring their local knowledge about available resources from human expertise to athletic venues and support networks. “(Volunteers) bring that knowledge.

Staff bring the technical knowledge and I think that is a winning combination,” Radford said.

The city’s hosting of the well-received MasterCard Memorial Cup provided proof the city can host the big

filibuster been found constitutional, only 10 would have remained open in a state of 27 million people.

But while the biggest abortion ruling by the Supreme Court in a generation leaves Planned Parenthood and others in Texas free to open smaller, more modest clinics, providers made no promises about breaking ground on new facilities. And any openings, they cautioned, could take years, meaning that women in rural Texas counties are still likely to face hours-long drives to abortion clinics for the foreseeable future.

Buildings need to be leased. Staffs need to be hired. Clinics must still obtain state licenses and funds for medical equipment must be raised. Mean-

while, the Republican-controlled Legislature is all but certain to remain hostile to abortion providers that try to expand.

“We really have a daunting task to determine whether and how we can reopen our health centres,” said Whole Woman’s Health founder Amy Hagstrom Miller, whose chain of abortion clinics in Texas includes the state’s only provider on the southern border with Mexico.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards also would not immediately commit to the nation’s largest abortion provider opening more Texas clinics, but she expressed hope.

“Just to re-establish services in a community and get the licensures is

just not something that is going to happen overnight,” said Richards, who is the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.

The Texas laws required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and forced clinics to meet hospital-like standards for outpatient surgery. The bill propelled Davis, at the time a state senator who ran for governor in 2014, to national stardom when her filibuster packed the Texas Capitol with raucous protesters whose shouts deafened the Senate floor as time ran out on the measure.

event, and volunteers from that will be tapped to lend their expertise to the Games. Radford said in September the call will go out for more Games planning volunteers.

Games CEO Scott Robinson said the leadership team is a key part of preparations. They will oversee a workforce that will grow over the next 2 ½ years to 60 staff and 5,500 volunteers.

Of the 15 athletic venues, 13 will be in the city or close to it, such as Canyon Ski Area. A key facility will be Red Deer College’s Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport.

Badminton, squash, figure skating, short-track speed skating, ringette and wheelchair basketball will be held there.

Two venues are located outside Central Alberta. Synchronized swimming will take place at Calgary’s Talisman Centre and alpine skiers will head to Nakiska in Kananaskis.

Robinson said River Bend Golf and Recreation Area will see some upgrades to ready it for cross-country skiing and biathlon.

Developing the schedule involved getting approval at the national level for all of the venues. They had to meet specific competitive standards as well provide space for spectators.

“It’s one thing to have a gymnasium, but the question is can you hold 1,000 people in there. Do you have the warmup areas? Do you have the certain technical aspects of the field of play?” said Robinson.

The national sports organizations behind each event got involved in ensuring facilities were suitable.

The next step for Games organizers is to pull together a detailed business plan over the summer. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

cation by Benalto school parents to create an alternate school program at the site.

That application has already been overtaken by events and school supporters wanted the board to make the decision it did. Parents have already applied to the province for a charter school and the alternative school proposal needed to be taken off the table.

Carol Rambaut, who has been campaigning to save the school, said on Monday the board’s decision was needed to keep the process moving forward.

When Alberta Education will make a decision on the charter request isn’t clear.

Charter schools are run by non-profit groups and are funded by the province and follow the Alberta curriculum.

The county has supported the community’s efforts to save its school.

Council approved buying the school site, including a well-used playground, to ensure it remained available for residents.

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Oilsands production expected to grow PRODUCTION TO BE 1 MILLION BARRELS A DAY HIGHER BY 2025: RESEARCHERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A U.S. research organization says Canada’s oilsands companies will gradually switch from new projects to expansion of existing operations as production grows over the next nine years to 3.4 million barrels a day from 2.4 million at present.

Kevin Birn, director for IHS Energy, said Monday that construction of new oilsands projects approved by before the fall in oil prices in 2014 will add 600,000 barrels a day of production by 2020.

Another 400,000 barrels per day will then be added by 2025 as companies focus on their most economic projects, primarily expansions of existing operations, he said.

“Expansions of existing facilities are better understood, quicker to first oil and lower cost to construct,” said Birn. “It is less risk at a lower cost.”

“As we saw with tight oil producers, when prices collapsed, they focused their activity on the most productive areas. We expect a similar experience to play out in the Canadian oilsands.

However, given the nature of the long lead times, we expect this will play out

over the coming decade.”

Some oilsands producers are already putting the strategy in play.

Producer MEG Energy (TSX:MEG), for instance, chopped its capital spending budget in 2015 by $600 million in reaction to low oil prices. It put on hold new projects it had planned to build but vowed to continue to grow production more slowly through “incremental brownfield expansions” and implementation of new technologies at its existing Christina Lake oilsands facility.

Last week, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers predict-

ed that Canadian oilsands production would grow to 3.7 million barrels a day by 2030.

The represented a reduction due to the prolonged period of low oil prices from its year-earlier prediction of four million barrels by 2030.

CAPP estimates that investment by producers in the oilsands will fall to $17 billion this year from $23 billion in 2015 and $34 billion in 2014.

It says the oil price crunch has resulted in the loss of 110,000 direct and indirect jobs related to the industry in Canada.

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S&P downgrades credit rating

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FILE photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A Zamboni floods the ice as preparations proceed for the start of an NHL season at the Saddledome in Calgary. The group that wants to build a new NHL arena and CFL stadium in Calgary wants to meet with city administrators to move the proposed project into the next phase.

Group pushing for new NHL, CFL facilities pitch council on moving ahead

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CALGARY — The group that wants to build a new NHL arena and CFL stadium in Calgary wants the proposal to move into the next phase despite a difference of opinion on what it might cost.

Calgary Flames president Ken King made a presentation to city council Monday to refute a city report from last April that pegged the bill for the project at $1.8 billion — with taxpayers bearing as much as $1.3 billion of the financial load.

King said the $1.8-billion figure is a half-billion dollars higher than the $1.3 billion estimate worked out by Calgary Flames Sports and Entertainment. He also pointed out that a field house and football stadium would be used by the public 94 per cent of the time.

King said he wants to move the project into the formal proposal stage and start negotiations.

“You have to be in a position to try and make a deal. So far I think there’s been a lot of impetus to try and not do this project,” said King during a break in Monday’s meeting.

“I think this council and the may-

or need to determine if we’ve provided sufficiently compelling information to sit down. During that meeting, there was a lot of negotiating points. … Those are all deal points that traditionally and always should be negotiated. You can’t negotiate on a piecemeal basis.”

The initial proposal outlined last summer called for a 20,000-seat arena for the Flames, a 30,000-seat football stadium for the Stampeders and a field house in Calgary’s yet-to-be-developed West Village.

The initial estimate of the CalgaryNext project was $890 million when announced last August.

A city report released last spring pegged the bill at $1.8 billion when costs of land, municipal infrastructure, environmental remediation and financing are incorporated.

“I think it’s wrong to focus on the discrepancy, because we could go back and forth and fight about the discrepancy,” said Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

“The point is even their best case scenario is still a lot of money we don’t have and that’s something we’ll have to

address.”

The Flames have offered $200 million and a $250-million loan to be repaid through a ticket surcharge. King said prospects of the team putting up more money could be negotiated.

He said the facility could come in handy if Calgary bids for the 2026 Olympics.

“If this project goes forward it will be a huge benefit to the bid,” King said. “You won’t be promising to build infrastructure — you’ll take that bid and you’ll have that infrastructure.

“This is a very happy coincidence.”

The proposal drew the attention of CFL Commissioner Jeffrey Orridge, who was in Calgary to watch the proceedings.

Orridge said he is concerned about the long-term health of the CFL and noted there are new stadiums in Hamilton and Winnipeg — and another being built in Regina — that are drawing fans. He said that’s not the case at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium.

“I think it’s lagging woefully behind and I think Calgarians certainly, rightfully, deserve the best in class accommodations.”

REGINA — Low natural resource prices have prompted Standard & Poor’s to downgrade Saskatchewan’s credit rating to double-A-plus from triple-A. The agency says the move reflects the impact that “persistently low natural resource prices, in particular oil and potash, have had and are expected to continue having” on the province’s budget.

“I’m not pleased about that obviously,” Finance Minister Kevin Doherty said Monday at the legislature.

“But we’re working hard towards our plan. We presented our budget on June 1, indicated what the situation was with respect to our revenues, indicated that we were going to work hard towards getting back to balance next fiscal year, and that’s still our goal. It will not be easy, I can assure you of that. But we’re going to continue doing everything we can to meet that objective.”

At a budget update in February, Doherty said the government was expecting a deficit of $427 million for the fiscal year that ended March 31, although final numbers were not yet available. He also said the government was aiming for a deficit of $259 million for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. However, the budget tabled June 1 projects a $434-million deficit. The Standard & Poor’s report notes that Saskatchewan’s “cash reserves have fallen notably and cannot be used to cover deficits.”

The agency’s negative outlook also says in the next two years there is a one-in-three chance the province will not be able to meet its budget targets of low or no growth in operating expenditures.

“They’re laying out what they see happening if resource revenues do not return to a more stable level. Then there’s no question that it’s going to continue to present some difficulties for us,” said Doherty.

NDP finance critic Cathy Sproule said the S&P report is a concern.

“I think we have to pay attention to what the lenders are saying because, as you know, every time the interest rate goes up, it’s almost like the taxpayers are paying more. That’s something that in this current environment we have to be very careful with,” said Sproule.

Couillard slammed on Mexican human rights comment

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The head of Amnesty International’s Mexican branch is taking Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard to task for his comment Monday that Mexico’s human rights record is moving in the “right direction.”

“I beg to differ (that) Mexico is going in the right direction,” Perseo Quiroz, Amnesty’s executive director in Mexico, told The Canadian Press.

Couillard offered his assessment during a joint news conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who was in Quebec City to kick off three days of carefully choreographed North American leader summitry.

Pena Nieto was scheduled to dine with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later Monday in Toronto before hitting the national capital on Tuesday for an official state visit.

The Mexican president will then join Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama for Wednesday’s North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa, commonly known as the Three Amigos.

Amnesty has been working to keep the human rights issue front and cen-

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tre as the three leaders seek a public display of economic co-operation as a counterpoint to the trade protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment that has marked this year’s U.S. presidential race.

The White House confirmed Monday that the central focus of the summit would be an ambitious new climate co-operation plan.

But the Mexican president was forced to confront the carnage from his country’s decade-old war on drugs that Amnesty says has left 27,000 Mexicans unaccounted for, or “disappeared.”

Last week, a group of female Mexican human rights activists urged Trudeau to push Pena Nieto on rights issues, citing a high level of sexual abuse of women by Mexican security forces.

Pena Nieto defended his country’s plan to tackle corruption and human rights abuses on Monday.

“Our government has made an important effort to advance issues related to human rights,” he said in Spanish, without elaborating. “We still have work to do. However, I think we are moving in the right direction towards having human rights being fully re-

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spected (in Mexico).”

Pena Nieto has pushed legislative reforms, but it simply hasn’t been enough, said Quiroz.

“The problem with Mexico is the gap between what the law says, and what happens, is really big.”

Couillard said human rights is an important topic for Quebecers, and one he raised with his guest.

“He has assured me, as he did with you a few minutes ago, that he is taking the right and appropriate actions now at the structural level to deal with the issue, which I think is also important for him and his government,” the premier said.

“I think he has set the boat in the right direction, but of course this will take time and he needs the support of his allies to go forward and succeed.”

Quiroz characterized Couillard’s handling of the issue as merely “scratching the surface.”

Rights issues are expected to take a back seat to pressing economic concerns in this week’s meetings.

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stabilized Europe, providing a sharp international contrast to this week’s expected North American love-in.

Experts say it will be in Obama’s interest, as well, to broaden the North American relationship in hopes of cementing his environmental policy legacy and insulating NAFTA from political mischief.

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has advocated tough new immigration policies, border defences and possible new trade barriers, while Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is expressing reservations about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.

Trudeau and Obama have already established a warm personal relationship that appears to transcend the usual Canada-U.S. niceties, but the American president is entering the final half year of his administration and may be looking to lock in some of his policy gains, particularly on the environmental front.

In March, during Trudeau’s state visit to Washington, Canada and the United States agreed to cut methane emissions 40 to 45 per cent below 2012 levels by 2025.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 115.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.35 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.17 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.24 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.81 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.98 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.73 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 158.18 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.65 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.01 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.25 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.97 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.67 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.97 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.86 General Motors Co. . . . . 27.51 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.77 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.51 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.73 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.64 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.05 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.22 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 57.28

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.23 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.87 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.50 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.52 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 27.60 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 13.99 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.24 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.05 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.57 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.74 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.68 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.66 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.760 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.91 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.24 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.26 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.06 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.28 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.66 Canyon Services Group. . 5.29 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.04 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1900 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.57 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.620

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 136.98 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.90 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.35

to make the U.S. Federal Reserve rethink hiking interest rates at its next policy meeting in July amid such turbulent global economic times.

The Brexit decision also weighed on currency markets as the Canadian dollar lost 0.44 of a U.S. cent to 76.49 cents US after plunging 1.37 cents US on Friday against a strengthening greenback.

In commodities, the August contract for benchmark North American crude oil was down $1.31 at US$46.33 a barrel. August natural gas rose five cents to US$2.74 per mmBtu and July copper added a penny to US$2.12 a pound.

The August contract for gold rose $2.30 to US$1,324.70 a troy ounce after soaring $59.30 on Friday.

Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 2.5 per cent, while Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 each gave up three per cent.

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Britain’s vote to leave the European Union continued to exact a toll Monday on North American stock markets, with Canada’s main index plunging to its lowest level in nearly two months.

Equity markets in Toronto and New York piled up losses for a second straight trading day, with the TSX dragged down by declines across most sectors including metals, energy and bank stocks.

The S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto ended 202.09 points lower at 13,689.79, dropping more than three per cent over the past two days.

Global stocks have been in free fall since Britons voted to leave the EU in a referendum on Thursday. Since then, British officials have tried to quell fears that the country’s departure from the economic union won’t send its economy into a tailspin, even as Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.K. of its top credit rating on Monday.

The aftershocks were felt in New York, as the Dow Jones industrials tumbled 260.51 points at 17,140.24 after a whopping 610-point drop Friday, while the broadly based S&P 500 dropped 36.87 points at 2,000.54.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 113.54 points to 4,594.44. Wall Street hasn’t seen such lows since March.

The after-effects of the British exit, commonly referred to as Brexit, have been even more pronounced because investors had not anticipated the “Leave” side to win.

“What we’re seeing is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction and also some unwinding of the gains in anticipation of a different outcome,” said Craig Fehr, a Canadian market strategist with Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Fehr said the continued decline is also a result of sellers who are still looking to flee their stock portfolios in favour of safer havens like gold.

“It’s reasonable to expect the market could find a bit of a base in the short term, but volatility is likely going to persist well into the summer,” he said.

The uncertainty that markets traditionally despise could weigh on stocks as the impact of Brexit unfolds in the next few months or potentially, years.

“There is no clear decisive playbook for how this is going to transpire,” said Fehr. “(But) I don’t think Brexit represents the catalyst that sends the global economy into recession and the markets are in some degree, treating it as such.”

Even so, it may be enough

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,689.79, down 202.09 points Dow — 17,140.24, down 260.51 points S&P 500 — 2,000.54, down 36.87 points Nasdaq — 4,594.44, down 113.54 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.49 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$1.7273, down 4.51 cents Euro — C$1.4404, down 0.09 of a cent Euro — US$1.1018, down 0.70 of a cent

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.86 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.88 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.02 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.55 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 38.86 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.24 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.720 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.31 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.33 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.07 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.44 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.59 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1700 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . 800.26 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.26 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.96 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.33 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.71 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.87 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.78 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.47 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.35 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.450 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.20 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.28 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.51

Oil futures: US$46.33 per barrel, down $1.31 (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,324.70 per oz., up $2.30 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.048 oz., down 7.6 cents $773.14 kg., down $2.45 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $5.80 higher $470.00 Nov. ‘16 $6.40 higher $483.30 Jan. ‘17 $7.50 higher $490.10 March ‘17 $7.50 higher $495.90 May ‘17 $7.50 higher $500.40 July ‘17 $8.50 higher $504.90 Nov. ‘17 $8.50 higher $503.80 Jan. ‘18 $8.50 higher $503.40 March ‘18 $8.50 higher $503.40 May ‘18 $8.50 higher $503.40 July ‘18 $8.50 higher $503.40.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 606,440 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 606,440.

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A VW logo photographed on a VW transporter T6 Business at a car exhibition in the context of the annual general meeting of Volkswagen AG in Hannover, Germany.

Volkswagen reaches $14.7B emissions settlement: source

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Volkswagen would repair or buy back polluting diesel vehicles and pay each owner as much as $10,000 under a $14.7 billion deal the car maker has reached to settle lawsuits stemming from its emissions cheating scandal, a person briefed on the settlement talks said Monday. The figure would be the largest auto scandal settlement in U.S. history and a huge step in Volkswagen’s efforts to address the legal fallout from its admission that its vehicles were designed to fool emissions tests.

The deal sets aside $10 billion to repair or buy back roughly 475,000 polluting Volkswagen vehicles with 2-litre diesel engines, and to compensate each owner with an additional payment of between $5,100 and $10,000, the person said. The person asked not to be identified because the deal will not be filed in court until Tuesday, and a judge has ordered attorneys not to talk about it before then.

How VW would repair the vehicles to bring them into compliance with clean air laws has not yet been finalized, the person said.

Owners who choose to have VW buy back their cars would get the clean trade-in value from before the scandal became public on Sept. 18, 2015.

The average value of a VW diesel has dropped 19 per cent since just before the scandal began. In August of 2015, the average was $13,196, and this May it was $10,674, according to Kelley Blue Book.

The settlement still requires a judge’s approval before it can go into effect. Owners can choose to decline Volkswagen’s offer and sue the company on their own.

The settlement also includes $2.7 billion for environmental mitigation

and another $2 billion for research on zero-emissions technology, the person said.

Don Marron, a banker from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who owns a 2012 Jetta SportWagen diesel, said he’s glad Volkswagen is offering more compensation than earlier reports had suggested. But Marron wants assurance that if Volkswagen fixes his car but he doesn’t like the way it performs, the company will still buy it back. And if he keeps his car and saves Volkswagen money, he wants compensation for doing that.

“At this moment, I don’t know anything more than I did a couple of months ago,” he said.

The scandal erupted in September when it was learned that the German automaker had fitted many of its cars with software to fool emissions tests and had put dirty vehicles on the road.

Investigators determined that the cars emitted more than 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen oxide, which can cause respiratory problems in humans.

Car owners and the U.S. Department of Justice sued.

VW is still facing billions more in fines and penalties, a lawsuit by state attorneys general and potential criminal charges. The $14.7 billion settlement also does not include another roughly 90,000 3-litre Volkswagen diesels, which had another version of cheating software. VW in April took an $18.2 billion charge to cover the cost of the global scandal, which includes a total of 11 million vehicles worldwide.

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Lindros among four called to Hall QUINN, VACHON AND MAKAROV WILL ALSO BE INDUCTED

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The debate is over.

Eric Lindros will finally get his plaque in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Passed over six times before, the long-time Philadelphia Flyers captain was announced as one of four nominees for this year’s Hall of Fame induction class, joined by the late Pat Quinn, goaltender Rogie Vachon and Russian winger Sergei Makarov.

“It was six years and it was a bit of time, but I guess you can turn around and say I’m in the Hall forever going forward,” Lindros said on a conference call after the announcement.

Lindros was driving north on Highway 11 in Ontario with his family when he got the call from Lanny McDonald, the Hall of Fame chairman.

He hasn’t stopped smiling since and for good reason.

This was a day that looked more and more unlikely to happen. Lindros was a hotly debated candidate every year for Hall induction, but each year it was revealed that, again, he had not made the cut.

Injuries, and the time they robbed him of, were used by some to justify of his absence from the Hall, though not from the committee, which keeps all deliberations private.

It’s hard to argue against the productivity and dominance of his career when healthy. Lindros posted 1.14 points per game, a mark that ranks 15th among all inactive players (minimum 500 games). All but one of the 14 names above him that list was previously inducted into the Hall of Fame.

“I think there was some times you get thinking back and wondering what if,” said Lindros, who scored 372 goals

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Canadian Olympic hockey player Eric Lindros (88) muscles back a Belarus player in second-period action during the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. Lindros was named as part of the this year’s Hall of Fame induction class. He is joined by the late Pat Quinn, goaltender Rogie Vachon and Russian winger Sergei Makarov. along with 865 points in 760 games.

“But I think when it’s all said and done it’s an honour. It just kind of feels full circle if you can understand that.

“I play hockey a couple times a week just to try to fit in my jeans. To have this honor right here at the end of things when my game is certainly on the downslope is a great feeling and a great honor.

“I’m super happy.”

Lindros could be an awe-inspiring blend of size, speed and sheer force,

almost a prototype for the ideal hockey player. Imposing at six foot four and more than 200 pounds, he was often a fearsome force over eight seasons with the Flyers, paired frequently with John Leclair and Mikael Renberg on Philadelphia’s “Legion of Doom” line.

Lindros led the Flyers as deep as the Stanley Cup final in 1997 where they were swept in four games by the Detroit Red Wings.

Troubles with concussions and subsequent friction with Flyers manage-

ment, which included his captaincy being stripped and a year-long contract dispute, eventually saw him dealt to the New York Rangers in 2001. He landed with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars in his final two NHL seasons, the summation of a career that began most awkwardly.

Prior to the 1991 draft, Lindros made it known that he would refuse to play for the Quebec Nordiques, who held the No. 1 overall pick. The Nordiques drafted him anyway. Lindros held out a full season before a trade to Philadelphia, one that included Peter Forsberg, was worked out.

Speaking more than 20 years after the fact, Lindros said the decision not to play in Quebec had nothing to do with the province, people or culture, but with the Nordiques ownership at the time, which included Marcel Aubut, the now-disgraced former head of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Lindros led the league with 70 points in 46 games in 1994, winning his first and only Hart Trophy as MVP. He also won gold for Canada both at the Canada Cup and Olympics, the latter in 2002 on a squad led by Quinn.

Inducted into the builders’ category, Quinn played for nine NHL seasons before spending almost four decades in various coaching and front office roles, both in the NHL and with Hockey Canada.

He served behind the bench of three Canadian clubs, including long and successful stints with the Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs.

He led the Canucks to the Cup final in 1994, coming just shy of that mark during his time in Toronto.

His 1979-80 Flyers squad was also defeated in the final.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Troy Tulowitzki fouls off a pitch from Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Jon Gray in the second inning of a baseball game Monday in Denver.

Rockies rally past Blue Jays THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rockies 9 Blue Jays 5 DENVER — Troy Tulowitzki received a warm reception from the Coors Field fans. The Colorado Rockies weren’t as welcoming to their former teammate.

Carlos Gonzalez homered, Jon Gray tossed seven solid innings and the Rockies beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 on Monday night to spoil Tulowitzki’s return to Colorado.

Tulowitzki went 0 for 4 in his first game in Denver since Toronto acquired him from the Rockies last July 27.

He received a standing ovation when he batted in the second inning.

He stepped out of the batter’s box and doffed his helmet to the 34,619 fans.

“It was a cool moment for me.

Brought back a lot of memories,” Tulowitzki said.

“It was great to see the fans react in that way. Definitely exciting.”

Gonzalez was happy the fans cheered for Tulowitzki, but it also served as motivation for the outfielder.

“That was pretty special for him and the fans. For me, I kind of took it personal,” Gonzalez said.

“When Tulo stepped to the plate they were cheering and doing the Tulo chant. I said, ‘OK, let me make sure they know I’m the one wearing purple.

You better cheer for me when I hit it in the seats.”’

He got the reaction he wanted when he sent Marco Estrada’s changeup into the second deck in right field in the sixth inning.

“To be able to hit a changeup off him you have to look for it,” Gonzalez said.

“If he threw me another fastball it would have been a different story.”

Tulowitzki was hoping for a different outcome but he did have his moments. He made a barehanded grab to throw out Nick Hundley to end the sixth inning and end a threat.

Edwin Encarnacion homered twice and Devon Travis also went deep for the Blue Jays.

Gray retired 12 straight and 16 of 17 batters after Travis’ homer in the first inning made it 1-0. The Blue Jays made it 4-0 in the third on Josh Donaldson’s RBI single and Encarnacion’s first homer.

Grey (5-3) settled down to pitch the seventh. He allowed four runs and five hits and struck out eight.

Estrada had allowed three hits before Gonzalez’s three-run homer — his 17th — made it a one-run game. It was his 189th home run with Colorado, moving him past Tulowitzki for fifth on the franchise list.

“Look at Estrada’s numbers. He’s having a heck of a year,” Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.

“We had a hard time figuring him out but that swing right there put us right back into it.”

The Rockies scored six runs in the seventh off three relievers.

Drew Storen (1-3) hit two straight batters ahead of Nolan Arenado’s tworun single, Jesse Chavez walked Mark Reynolds with the bases loaded and Daniel Descalso followed with a single to drive in two more.

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ronto manager John Gibbons said.

Brandon Barnes’ RBI double, his second hit of the inning, made it 9-4.

Encarnacion hit his 21st homer to lead off the ninth.

AWARD WINNER Rockies OF Charlie Blackmon was named the NL Player of the Week on Monday.

Blackmon hit .424 with five home runs and nine RBIs. He hit safely in all seven games.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: 1B Justin Smoak pinchhit in the seventh after sitting out all three games against the White Sox over the weekend with a bruised and swollen left knee.

Rockies: SS Trevor Story was feeling better after taking a pitch off his right middle finger in Sunday’s game.

He took batting practice and did some throwing.

He said the finger is a little swollen but improving. … An MRI on DJ LeMahieu’s left knee showed no damage and confirmed he suffered a contusion during Sunday’s game against Arizona. Weiss said he doesn’t think LeMahieu will need to go on the 15-day DL. UP NEXT Blue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ (9-3, 3.42) is 3-0 in his last three starts and has averaged 6 1-3 innings in the outings.

Rockies: RHP Eddie Butler (2-4, 6.71) struggled in his last start, allowing six runs and 11 hits in five innings against Arizona.

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The reputation of the Ponoka Stampede is known far and wide. Even as far away as a little town in the deep south called Heflin, Louisiana; population 234.

It just so happens of those 234 residents, two of them are top notch cowboys.

The oldest of the saddle bronc riding DeMoss brothers, Cody, is the current Canadian champion. The youngest, Heath, decided this year he’d better visit the rodeo famous town of Ponoka. He made it a worthwhile eight second stop, when he spurred to an 85 mark, the best ride in the opening performance of the 80th annual Ponoka Stampede.

“I’d never bought my Canadian card before,” explained DeMoss, of why he’d never ridden in Ponoka previously. “It just always seemed so far from home. But I’m sure glad I did it!”

“Up here in Canada, they’re the best bucking horses in the world. This is one of the most prestigious rodeos in the world, and I’d never been to it, so I figured it was about time.”

The seven-time NFR qualifier who just won $8,300 last week at Reno, NV, admits it was his wife who urged him to make the trek north.

“This is one of the biggest rodeos in the world, and I figured before I was done riding, I probably needed to come see what it was about,” he grinned.

Given the reputation of the July first event, DeMoss thought he’d be coming to a bigger place, so he was a bit surprised at Ponoka’s size.

“When I looked for it on the map, I had to zoom in real close to find it,” he chuckled.

DeMoss had already heard a jingle in his jeans when he knew he’d be matched up with a Kesler horse called Nickels and Dimes.

“I had him in Calgary one time, and in Austin, Texas, one time, so I was familiar with him, for sure. My brother was just 90 points on him the other day, so I was sure excited to have him drawn.”

“Today, I think he had a bit more of a rider-friendly trip than he has in the past. He was a nice horse, and had good timing, and just allowed a guy to show off on him.”

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Rebels schedule released

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Home-and-home series against the Edmonton Oil Kings bookend the Red Deer Rebels’ 2016-17 Western Hockey League season.

The league’s regular season schedule was released Monday, featuring all 72 Rebels games including 36 at home.

It starts on Sept. 23 as the Rebels host the Oil Kings in their home opener. The next night the Rebels journey up the QEII as the Oil Kings play their first home game at the newly built Rogers Place.

The Rebels’ regular season ends on March 18 and 19 also against the Oil Kings. They host the Oil Kings on 18th and close out their 2016-17 season on the road in Edmonton.

Between those four games, the Rebels will play 68 games against WHL opponents.

Their longest road trip starts on Oct. 29 and ends on Nov. 15, with eight-straight games away from Red Deer. Their longest homestand takes place from Jan. 20 to Feb. 1 when they will play five-straight games on home ice.

Outside of the opening and closing home-andhome series, the Rebels will play in four others.

Against the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Dec. 2 (Lethbridge) and Dec. 3 (Red Deer), Edmonton Oil Kings on Dec. 27 (Red Deer) and Dec. 29 (Edmonton and two times against the Kootenay Ice on Nov. 23 (Cranbrook) and Nov. 25 (Red Deer) and March 10 (Cranbrook) and March 11 (Red Deer).

All Rebels home games start at 7 p.m.

In other Rebels news: — The Canadian Hockey League Import Draft starts at 9 a.m. today. The two-round draft features all 60 teams from the WHL, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League. Red Deer will pick 49th overall and have already indicated they will pass on their second round pick, 109th.

Three teams in front of the Rebels, the Tri-City Americans, Prince Albert Raiders and Gatineau Olympiques have passed on their first pick, effectively raising Red Deer’s pick to 46th overall.

Renegades season ends after loss to Axemen

BY ADVOCATE STAFF CALGARY — The Red Deer Renegades went the distance in their semifinal matchup against the Calgary Axemen, but came up short.

The Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League Tier II Junior B team lost the best-of-three series 2-1, dropping both Sunday games.

The Renegades were in the driver’s seat after eking out an 8-7 win over the Axemen Saturday evening. But they couldn’t follow it up on Sunday, losing the morning game 13-7 and then the Sunday game 8-5.

The series loss closes the Renegades season, while the Axemen will face the Medicine Hat Sun Devils in the league final, the Sun Devils beat the Calgary Wranglers two games to one.

In other lacrosse action: the Red Deer Rampage, Tier I Junior B, swept a pair of weekend games over the Saskatchewan SWAT in Saskatoon.

They opened with a 9-7 win Saturday evening.

Dustin Bell led the Rampage with four goals and an assist while Keegan Kingwell had a goal and three assists.

After the close Saturday game, the Rampage came out flying with a 14-6 thrashing of the SWAT. The Rampage (9-6-1) are in second place in the RMLL Tier I Junior B North division, seven points behind the Sherwood Park Titans.

They next play on Friday, July 8 against the St. Albert Crude at 8:30 p.m. at the Kinex Arena.

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Milos Raonic of Canada plays a return to Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain during their men’s singles match on the first day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Monday.

Raonic advances to second round with win over Carreno Busta WIMBLEDON

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — Milos Raonic advanced to the second round of Wimbledon on Monday with a 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 win over Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.

The sixth-seeded Canadian used his big serve to his advantage, firing 27 aces past Carreno Busta in a match that took one hour 53 minutes to complete.

The Spaniard, however, did not surrender the match without a fight. Carreno Busta saved six match points before Raonic was finally able to put him away.

Raonic had a chance to break Carreno Busta for victory in the ninth game of the third set, but Carreno

Busta rallied to save two break points and force another game.

“I didn’t expect to pick up where I left off in Queen’s by any means,” said Raonic, who advanced to the final of a grass-court tournament at London’s Queen’s Club two weeks ago in preparation for Wimbledon. “But I though I created opportunities. Even in that first set I had a few looks on his serve or I was in most of his service games.

“Maybe I lost my concentration a few times on my service games but I was always able to bring myself back.”

Raonic will face Andreas Seppi in the second round. The Italian advanced with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 win over Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. Raonic and Seppi have only met once before, with the Canadian emerging victorious in the quarter-finals of the 2013 Davis Cup.

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PONOKA: Home turf DeMoss’ mark topped the performance, but Big Valley’s Zeke Thurston wasn’t far behind, when he got a reride and tapped out 84.5 points on Frostline.

That should earn him a spot back in Sunday’s Finals, but he was off Monday night to Greeley, CO for the first of many horses before then.

“I’ve had a really good couple of weeks. In the last three weeks, I’ve won close to $20,000, so it’s been a good, little month there,” smiled the 21-year-old.

“Hopefully it keeps going.”

Ponoka’s Kirsten Gjerde outraced some fast horses from the U.S. on her home turf, and now leads the pack in the barrel racing, after she was the only one to break the 18 second barrier with her 17.969 second run.

Another local favorite had the grandstand cheering in the steer wrestling.

Brock Butterfield was one of only two bulldoggers to catch his steer in the morning run, and he was fastest with a 7.8. He came back in the evening to follow that up with a 7.9 second run, to be the best on two with 15.7 seconds.

That may not be the fastest when the dust settles on the week, but there’s still a good chance it will get him another steer on Sunday.

While Butterfield is no stranger to the Ponoka long run used in the timed events, it was the first time for his horse, a yellow gelding he calls Hat Brim.

“He’s seven years old and he’s one that I started.

He’s kind of been my project. I’m pretty proud of

him. He’s been handling everything and he handled this rodeo good,” said Butterfield.

The Texas-raised former barrel horse has already helped Brock’s brother Luke get two steer wrestling cheques on his way to qualifying for the All-Around race.

If Brock could get a big cheque from Ponoka, it would be a major breakthrough for his season.

“There’s lots of rodeo left. I really don’t know where it’s going to be. If I do make it back, I suspect it will be in the later part of the pack. There could be some fast runs. It’s tough to say though, because with this rodeo, so much can happen,” noted Butterfield.

“I’m happy with the way my horse worked, and whatever happens, happens. But I’d be really happy to make the Finals. It’s my favorite rodeo, and I think it’s one of the greatest rodeos out there, but I just haven’t had much luck at this rodeo. That’s the way it can go sometimes.”

The best bareback ride of the first performance at Ponoka came from Oregon’s RC Landingham, who chalked up 84.25 points on Copper Cat. The bulls shut out the cowboys, so no one sits on the leaderboard yet in that event. In the tie-down roping, a former Ponoka Stampede champion, Timber Moore is in front after turning in two runs in 18.4 seconds. In the team roping, it’s the duo of Lee Rombough of Sexsmith and Chad Kurtz of Fort Saskatchewan who set the pace, with 18.9 seconds on their two runs.

Today’s rodeo action begins at 1:00 pm, with the first run for the pony and WPCA chuckwagons at 6:30 pm.

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

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ICELAND UPSETS ENGLAND

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICE, France — After voting to leave the European Union last week, the English left the soccer European Championship in similarly surprising fashion on Monday in what will go down as their most embarrassing loss in a generation.

Iceland, whose population of 330,000 makes it the smallest nation ever to compete at the tournament, pulled off one of the biggest shocks in European Championship history by beating England 2-1 in the round of 16.

“This is probably going to be a day that we will talk about for the rest of our lives,” said Iceland joint-coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, who runs a dentist surgery in his spare time.

Iceland’s players danced and sang in front of their joyous fans after earning the biggest victory in their small nation’s history. Next up is an even bigger challenge — host nation France on Sunday — but nothing may top beating England, a team Iceland always used to support in major tournaments.

As for England, the defeat meant more humiliation on the big stage and surely another inquest into why a team of supposedly talented players failed again.

David Cameron stepped down as British Prime Minister after the result of last week’s referendum that unsettled the country and the whole of Europe.

England coach Roy Hodgson did the same after overseeing yet another humiliating campaign in a major tournament.

“Now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress of this young, hungry and extremely talented group of players,” Hodgson said. “They have been fantastic.”

The England fans who jeered the team off the field at halftime and fulltime at the Stade de Nice will likely have a different opinion. This unexpected result for the country that invented the game came two years after England exited the World Cup in disgrace at the group stage. It all started so well on the French Riviera for England, with captain Wayne Rooney putting the team ahead from the penalty spot in the fourth minute after Raheem Sterling was clipped by Hannes Halldorsson as he prodded the ball past the goalkeeper.

Crucially, Iceland struck back within two minutes through Ragnar Sigurdsson, who volleyed in at the far post after Kari Arnason’s flick-on from a long throw. It is the third time Iceland has scored a goal from a long-throw routine this tournament.

Kolbeinn Sigthorsson then took advantage of more slack defending by England, getting time and space to shoot from just inside the area after intricate build-up play. England goalkeeper Joe Hart got a hand to the effort but the ball squirmed over the line.

Iceland was relatively untroubled in the second half as England’s passing and touch deserted its team of supposed Premier League stars, with Rooney especially culpable. The catcalls from England supporters were at their loudest when Harry Kane miscontrolled a pass in the last minutes.

England’s players slumped to the ground in front of their jeering fans after the final whistle, crestfallen and their heads in their hands.

For a soccer nation of England’s standing, its record in major tournaments is woeful. The English have still never won a knockout-stage game abroad in the European Championship in eight attempts and haven’t won a match beyond the group stage of a major tournament since 2006.

This defeat will probably go down as England’s biggest humiliation since losing 1-0 to the United

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Iceland’s Ragnar Sigurdsson, center, celebrates after scoring during the Euro 2016 round of 16 soccer match between England and Iceland at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France, Monday.

States in 1950 World Cup. “It’s embarrassing for us,” Rooney said. “We know we’re a better team. You can’t explain it.”

Iceland’s reaction at the final whistle was so different.

Its squad and backroom staff raced onto the field in pure joy to celebrate with the team. Iceland captain Aron Gunnarrsson, who plays for Cardiff in the second tier of English football, tore off his shirt off and ran over to fans, leading his teammates in dancing and singing. Almost 3,000 kilometres away, in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, an estimated 10,000 people watched the match on a giant screen down-

Italy beats Spain 2-0 to reach Euro 2016 quarterfinals SAINT-DENIS, France — Spain’s era of dominance at the European Championship came to an end Monday when Italy beat the two-time defending champion 2-0 in the round of 16.

Italy deserved its victory and was impressive from the start at Stade de France, stifling Spain’s attacking intent and creating several scoring opportunities with its slick interplay.

The victory meant Italy avoided a third consecutive elimination at the European Championship to Spain, and secure a quarterfinal clash against another old foe, Germany.

“It was definitely a great performance,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said. “They did something fantastic tonight. They are great men and wonderful footballers.”

Giorgio Chiellini, a member of Italy’s resilient defence, put his team ahead in the 33rd minute, when he poked the ball across the line after Spain goalkeeper David de Gea couldn’t hold on to a free kick by Eder.

In the second half, Spain showed more menace and came close to equalizing on a couple of occasions. Sergio Ramos nearly scored with a header from close range in the team’s first clear chance of the game, and Buffon had to make a difficult save on a powerful shot by Andres Iniesta in

town in daylight. Fireworks erupted and residents danced on their balconies.

The ease with which Iceland saw out the game was surprising, another ignominy for an England side that finished the match with four strikers on the field but didn’t seriously test Halldorsson.

Hodgson harboured hopes of staying on after Euro 2016. After this exit and England’s group-stage elimination from the last World Cup without winning a game, his legacy will be seriously tarnished.

“I’m a bit lost for words. Just very disappointed, upset, sad for England, Roy and us as a team,” Hart said. the 76th minute.

Buffon also made another impressive save in the 90th minute when he managed to get down and save Gerard Pique’s close-range strike.

As Spain swept forward in search of the elusive equalizer, Italy counterattacked to put the match beyond doubt.

Graziano Pelle sealed the victory — Italy’s first competitive triumph over Spain since the 1994 World Cup — with his second goal of the tournament after a cross by Matteo Darmian in second-half injury time.

“We have to accept the loss and move forward. It wasn’t meant to be,” Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said.

It was Italy’s first win over La Roja at the European Championship since it was defeated comprehensively by the Spaniards 4-0 in the 2012 final. Italy had also been eliminated by Spain in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals at Euro 2008.

The result brings an end to Spain’s unprecedented success at the European Championship following its two consecutive victories in 2008 and 2012. Two years ago, defending its 2010 World Cup, Spain was dumped out of the World Cup in Brazil at the group stage.

Spain entered Monday’s game surrounded by doubts after losing 2-1 to Croatia in its final group game, and again it wasn’t able to impose the passing game that’s been behind its recent success.

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The Red Deer Marlins swim club member place first in the nine- and 10-year-old girls 50 metre backstroke with a time of 42.65 , second in the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 3:27.74 and third in the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 46.31.

SHERWOOD PARK — Offensive struggles dogged the Collins Barrow U16 Rage softball team, as they fell short in the Girls Prairie League Softball Championship weekend.

After opening with a 8-1 win over the host team, they lost a 7-6 heart-breaker to the Calgary Adrenalin in the bottom of the seventh inning.

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BANTAM AAA BRAVES Rainouts cancelled two games for the Red Deer Bantam AAA Servus Credit Union Braves, but a sunnier Sunday meant they could play two games.

The Braves lost to the Sherwood Park Athletics 16-11 before beating the Edmonton Cardinals 7-6.

A nine-run fourth inning against the Athletics led the Braves offensively. Cleary Simpson hit two singles in the inning while Josh Zinger, Zack Jensen, Kolby Clark, Liam Graham and Colby Lindseth each had a single. The Athletics tied it up in their half of the inning and added five runs in the fifth inning.

Clark went 4-for-5 at the plate, with three RBIs. Simpson went 3-for-4 and Jansen went 3-for-5. Jared Arnold, Simpson and Lindseth shared pitching duties.

The Braves rebounded by edging out the Cardinals in a close game. Arnold hit a triple and Aidan Gehring had a double and drove in a run to lead the Braves offence.

Graham went the distance on the mound for the Braves, throwing 89 pitches and striking out eight batters.

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Local Sports Today ● Golf: Alberta Golf Tournament men’s mid amateur championship, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ponoka Golf and Country Club ● Ladies fastball: Badgers vs. Panthers and U18 Rage vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., and Bandits vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Senior mens baseball: Gar Moe Volkswagen Legends at Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: Confederation Park Cubs at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Wednesday ● Golf: Alberta Golf Tournament men’s mid amateur championship, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ponoka Golf and Country Club

● Bantam baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer AAA Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget baseball: Calgary Dino’s Yellow at Red Deer AAA Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park

Thursday ● Golf: Alberta Golf Tournament men’s mid amateur championship, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ponoka Golf and Country Club ● Senior mens baseball: North Star Sports at Printing Place Padres, 6:30 p.m., Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Play It Again Sports Athletics, 7 p.m., and Lacombe Stone and Granite at North Star Sports, 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Ladies Fastball: Badgers vs Stettler, 7 p.m., Stettler; Bandits vs. U16 Rage, 7 p.m., and U16 Rage vs. U18 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Football Hamilton Ottawa Montreal Toronto

Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T PF 1 1 0 0 42 1 1 0 0 45 1 1 0 0 22 1 0 1 0 20

PA Pt 20 2 37 2 14 2 42 0

B.C. Sask.

Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg

GP 1 0 1 1 1

West Division W L T 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

PA Pt 18 2 0 0 20 0 45 0 22 0

WEEK ONE

WEEK TWO Bye: Edmonton Thursday, June 30 Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Saskatchewan, 8 p.m.

Friday, July 1 B.C. at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP William Cuevas to Pawtucket (IL). Selected the contract of INF Mike Miller from Pawtucket.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned 1B Ike Davis outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with C P.J. Jones on a minor league contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned LHP Chad Girodo to Buffalo (IL). Recalled RHP Ryan Tepera from Buffalo.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated RHP Alexi Ogando for assignment. Recalled RHP Mauricio Cabrera from Mississippi (SL). Sent 3B Gordon Beckham to the GCL Braves for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned LHP Gerardo Concepcion to Iowa (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Joel Peralta from Iowa.

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Jumbo Diaz from Louisville (IL). Sent RHP Homer Bailey to Louisville for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned LHP Elvis Araujo to Lehigh Valley (IL). Reinstated RHP Vince Velasquez from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Dalier Hinojosa to Lehigh Valley for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated RHP Curtis Partch for assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Rafael Martin from Syracuse (IL). Sent RHP Jonathan Papelbon to Potomac (Carolina) for a rehab assignment.

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Released OF Jesus Solorzano.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released INF Anthony Asalon.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Sold the contract of INF Noah Perio to the L.A. Dodgers.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released OF Chris Grayson.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Released LHP Donnie Joseph and INF Ray Frias.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Bren-

den Webb.

Frontier League RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released 2B Mike Porcaro.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Sold the contract of INF Nick King to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Released LHP Brandon Hinkle.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Terrence Frederick to the practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed G Louis Domingue to a multi-year contract.

CALGARY FLAMES — Traded D Pat Sieloff to Ottawa for RW Alex Chiasson and signed Chiasson to a one-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Signed LW Drew Miller to a one-year contract extension.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed F Filip Forsberg to a six-year contract. Named Wade Redden assistant director of player development.

SOCCER North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA — Transferred F Matt Fondy to Carolina.

COLLEGE SOONER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE — Named Stan Wagnon commissioner.

BUCKNELL — Named Lisa Francisco women’s golf coach.

EAST CAROLINA — Named Amanda Barnes women’s lacrosse coach.

NEW JERSEY CITY — Named Joe Cullen men’s soccer coach.

NEW MEXICO — Named Glenn Cain men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach.

UTICA — Promoted Sam Catterson to associate head cross country and track and field coach.

YALE — Named Danielle McNamara women’s tennis coach.

NHL BRIEFS

Saturday, October 1, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Brandon Wheat Kings 6:30PM Sunday, October 2, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Regina Pats 4:00PM Wednesday, October 5, 2016 Kamloops Blazers @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, October 7, 2016 Medicine Hat Tigers @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, October 8, 2016 Kelowna Rockets @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, October 14, 2016 Moose Jaw Warriors @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, October 15, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Kootenay Ice 7:00PM Friday, October 21, 2016 Calgary Hitmen Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, October 22, 2016 Prince Albert Raiders @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Brandon Wheat Kings @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, October 28, 2016 Medicine Hat Tigers@ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, October 29, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Lethbridge Hurricanes 7:00PM Tuesday, November 1, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Victoria Royals 8:05PM Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Everett Silvertips 8:05PM Friday, November 4, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Spokane Chiefs 8:05PM Friday, November 11, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Brandon Wheat Kings 1:30PM Saturday, November 12, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Moose Jaw Warriors 6:00PM Sunday, November 13, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Regina Pats 3:00PM Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Swift Current Broncos 6:00PM Friday, November 18, 2016 Medicine Hat Tigers @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Calgary Hitmen 7:00PM

Baltimore Boston Toronto New York Tampa Bay Cleveland Kansas City Chicago Detroit Minnesota Texas Houston Seattle Oakland Los Angeles

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 45 30 .600 41 35 .539 41 37 .526 37 37 .500 32 43 .427 Central Division W L Pct 45 30 .600 40 35 .533 38 38 .500 38 38 .500 24 51 .320 West Division W L Pct 49 27 .645 39 37 .513 38 38 .500 33 43 .434 32 44 .421

Canadiens sign forward Andrew Shaw to new six-year contract MONTREAL — Forward Andrew Shaw agreed to a six-year contact with the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.

Shaw scored 14 goals and registered 34 points in 78 games last season.

He also was a standout during the playoffs, posting six points — including four goals — in six games.

He was acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday via trade.

A five-year NHL veteran, the Belleville, Ont., native won the Stanley Cup twice in Chicago, hoisting the NHL’s championship trophy in 2012-13 and again in 2014-15.

Friday, December 2, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Lethbridge Hurricanes 7:00PM Saturday, December 3, 2016 Lethbridge Hurricanes @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Medicine Hat Tigers 7:00PM Friday, December 9, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Calgary Hitmen 7:00PM Saturday, December 10, 2016 Brandon Wheat Kings @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Kamloops Blazers @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, December 16, 2016 Kelowna Rockets @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, December 17, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Medicine Hat Tigers 7:30PM Tuesday, December 27, 2016 Edmonton Oil Kings @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Wednesday, December 28, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Edmonton Oil Kings 7:00PM Friday, December 30, 2016 Kootenay Ice@ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, January 6, 2017 Vancouver Giants @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, January 7, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Lethbridge Hurricanes 7:00PM Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Prince George Cougars @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, January 13, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Prince Albert Raiders 6:00PM Saturday, January 14, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Saskatoon Blades 6:05PM Sunday, January 15, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Swift Current Broncos 3:00PM Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Calgary Hitmen 7:00PM Friday, January 20, 2017 Prince Albert Raiders @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, January 21, 2017 Victoria Royals @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, January 27, 2017 Prince George Cougars

@Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, January 28, 2017 Regina Pats @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Lethbridge Hurricanes @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, February 3, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Prince Albert Raiders 6:00PM Saturday, February 4, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Saskatoon Blades 6:05PM Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Lethbridge Hurricanes@ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, February 10, 2017 Swift Current Broncos @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, February 11, 2017 Regina Pats @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Seattle Thunderbirds 8:05PM Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Tri-City Americans 8:05PM Friday, February 17, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Portland Winterhawks 8:00PM Saturday, February 18, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Vancouver Giants 8:00PM Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Prince George Cougars 8:00PM Friday, February 24, 2017 Kootenay Ice @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, February 25, 2017 Calgary Hitmen @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Sunday, February 26, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Calgary Hitmen 4:00PM Saturday, March 4, 2017 Swift Current Broncos Red Deer Rebels @7:00PM Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Saskatoon Blades @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Friday, March 10, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @Kootenay Ice 7:00PM Saturday, March 11, 2017 Kootenay Ice@ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Tuesday, March 14, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Medicine Hat Tigers 7:00PM Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Calgary Hitmen @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, March 18, 2017 Edmonton Oil Kings @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Sunday, March 19, 2017 Red Deer Rebels @ Edmonton Oil Kings 4:00PM All Times Mountain

GB — 5 7½ 7½ 21 GB — 10 11 16 17

St. Louis (Wacha 3-7) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-4), 6:15 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 9-3) at Colorado (Butler 2-4), 6:40 p.m.

Houston (McCullers 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Lincecum 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Jimenez 4-7) at San Diego (Johnson 0-5), 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 6-5) at Seattle (Iwakuma 6-6), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 3-6) at San Francisco (Suarez 3-1), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Boston at Tampa Bay, 10:10 a.m.

Miami at Detroit, 11:10 a.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

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

Texas at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

Kansas City at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 45 32 .584 Miami 41 35 .539 New York 40 35 .533 Philadelphia 33 45 .423 Atlanta 26 50 .342 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 49 26 .653 St. Louis 39 36 .520 Pittsburgh 37 40 .481 Milwaukee 34 41 .453 Cincinnati 29 48 .377 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 49 29 .628 Los Angeles 42 36 .538 Colorado 37 39 .487 Arizona 36 43 .456 San Diego 33 44 .429

GB — 3½ 4 12½ 18½ GB — 10 13 15 21 GB — 7 11 13½ 15½

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 3, San Diego 0 Miami 6, Chicago Cubs 1

Atlanta 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Washington 3, Milwaukee 2 San Francisco 8, Philadelphia 7 Colorado 9, Arizona 7 St. Louis 11, Seattle 6 Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 4 Washington 11, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 11, Cincinnati 8 Cleveland 8, Atlanta 3 Kansas City 6, St. Louis 2 Colorado 9, Toronto 5 Philadelphia 8, Arizona 0 Oakland 8, San Francisco 3 Today’s Games N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-9) at Washington (Giolito 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 9-3) at Cincinnati (Lamb 1-4), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 7-7) at Atlanta (Wisler 3-7), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Conley 4-4) at Detroit (Pelfrey 1-7), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-2) at Milwaukee (Anderson 4-7), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 3-7) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-4), 6:15 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 9-3) at Colorado (Butler 2-4), 6:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eickhoff 5-9) at Arizona (Greinke 103), 7:40 p.m.

Baltimore (Jimenez 4-7) at San Diego (Johnson 0-5), 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 6-5) at Seattle (Iwakuma 6-6), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 3-6) at San Francisco (Suarez 3-1), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Baltimore at San Diego, 3:40 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 3:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

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

Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

SOCCER UEFA Euro 2016 At Sites in France PLAYOFFS Round of 16 (single-match elimination) Monday’s results At Saint-Denis, France Italy 2 vs. Spain 0 At Nice, France England 1 vs. Iceland 2 Sunday’s results At Lyon, France France 2 Republic of Ireland 1 At Lille Metropole, France Germany 3 Slovakia 0 At Toulouse, France Belgium 4 Hungary 0

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed winger Iiro Pakarinen to a one-year contract.

The 24-year-old registered 13 points (five, eight assists) and eight penalty minutes in 63 games with the Oilers last season.

The six-foot-one, 215-pound forward also appeared in four games with the American Hockey League’s Bakersfield Condors last season, posting three points and four penalty minutes.

The Loviisa, Finland native has accumulated 16 points (six goals, 10 assists) and 10 penalty minutes in 80 career NHL games.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have dealt forward Alex Chiasson to the Calgary Flames in exchange for defenceman Patrick Sieloff. Chiasson, 25, was acquired by Ottawa from the Stars on July 1, 2014 in the five-player trade that sent forward Jason Spezza to Dallas. He scored 19 goals and added 21 assists in 153 games over two seasons with the Senators.

Sieloff, 22, made his NHL debut with Calgary last season.

He scored the game-winning goal in his lone NHL game as the Flames beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on April 9.

Sieloff had scored two goals, nine assists and 54 penalty minutes in 52 games with the American Hockey League’s Stockton Heat.

The six-foot-one, 205-pound native of Superior, Mich., was Calgary’s second-round selection (42nd overall) in the 2012 draft.

GB — 4½ 5½ 7½ 13

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 7, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cleveland 9, Detroit 3 Baltimore 12, Tampa Bay 5 Chicago White Sox 5, Toronto 2 Kansas City 6, Houston 1 Texas 6, Boston 2 L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 6 St. Louis 11, Seattle 6 Monday’s Games Texas at N.Y. Yankees, Late Tampa Bay 13, Boston 7 Cleveland 8, Atlanta 3 Kansas City 6, St. Louis 2 Colorado 9, Toronto 5 Houston at L.A. Angels,Late Oakland 8, San Francisco 3 Today’s Games Texas (Hamels 8-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-4), 505 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 8-2) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-10), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 7-7) at Atlanta (Wisler 3-7), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Conley 4-4) at Detroit (Pelfrey 1-7), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 0-5) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-7), 6:10 p.m.

Oilers sign winger Iiro Pakarinen

Senators deal forward Alex Chiasson to Flames for defenceman Patrick Sieloff

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Kootenay Ice 7:00PM Friday, November 25, 2016 Kootenay Ice @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, November 26, 2016 Moose Jaw Warriors @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Wednesday, November 30, 2016 Saskatoon Blades @Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM

Baseball

Saturday’s results At Saint-Etienne, France Switzerland 1 Poland 1 (Poland advances 5-4 on penalty kicks) At Paris Wales 1 Northern Ireland 0 At Lens Agglo, France Portugal 1 Croatia 0 (extra time) QUARTER-FINALS Thursday, June 30 At Marseille, France Poland vs. Portugal, 1 p.m.

Friday, July 1 At Lille, France Wales vs. Belgium, 1 p.m.

Saturday, July 2 At Bordeaux, France

Germany vs. Italy, 1 p.m.

Sunday, July 3 At Saint-Denis, France France vs. Iceland, 1 p.m.

SEMIFINALS Wednesday, July 6 At Lyon, France Poland-Portugal Winner vs. TBD, 1 p.m.

Thursday, July 7 At Marseille, France TBD vs. TBD, 1 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 10 At Saint-Denis, France Semifinal Winners, 1 p.m.

Blue Bombers hopeful Dressler will play Friday in Calgary

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s been a tough start with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for Weston Dressler.

The all-star slotback signed a two-year deal with Winnipeg in January reportedly worth $350,000 after being released for financial reasons by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

But after missing most of training camp with an undisclosed ailment Dressler suffered a head injury in the first quarter of the Bombers’ season-opening 22-14 loss to Montreal on Friday.

Dressler was back at Investors Group Field on Monday but didn’t practise with the Bombers.

However, head coach Mike O’Shea is hopeful Dressler will play Friday when Winnipeg visits the Calgary Stampeders.

“It’s like anything else,” O’Shea told reporters.

“He shows up every day, sees (Bombers trainer Al Couture) and we’ll go from there.”

O’Shea wouldn’t say if Dressler had suffered a concussion.

“We don’t discuss the specifics of injuries,” he said.

Dressler, one of GM Kyle Walters’ big-name free-agent signings this off-season, had three catches for 22 yards versus Montreal.

On his final reception, Dressler was running towards the sideline when he was hit by rookie Alouettes cornerback Ethan Davis.

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Bye: Saskatchewan Saturday’s results B.C. 20 Calgary 18 Ottawa 45 Edmonton 37 (OT) Friday’s result Montreal 22 Winnipeg 14 Thursday’s result Hamilton 42 Toronto 20

RED DEER REBELS 2016/2017 Schedule Friday, September 23, 2016 Edmonton Oil Kings @ Red Deer Rebels 7:00PM Saturday, September 24, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @Edmonton Oil Kings 7:00PM Friday, September 30,, 2016 Red Deer Rebels @ Moose Jaw Warriors 7:00PM

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THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, June 28, 2016

LGBTQ voices reshaping music videos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Don Cherry, left, and Ron MacLean pose with their plaque as they are inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame during an event in Toronto.

MacLean back in HNIC host’s chair ROGERS HOPES MOVE WILL WIN BACK LOYAL FANS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF TORONTO — A little bit of Red Deer returns to Canada’s Saturday nights this coming hockey season.

After a two-year absence from hosting Hockey Night in Canada, Ron MacLean is set to return to the pilot’s seat of the nation’s flagship hockey show.

Rogers Sportsnet, which owns the majority of the National Hockey League broadcasting rights in Canada, announced MacLean will return to hosting the first game of the weekly Hockey Night in Canada.

“Obviously Saturday night is the ultimate goal in hockey,” said MacLean.

“Everybody would say ‘they miss me.’ I’d reply that I’m on Coaches Corner on Saturday night and they should check out Sunday nights. They were having trouble getting what they thought was the original Hockey Night in Canada and somehow I was a part of that. It was like a comfortable pair of shoes.”

Two years ago, Rogers chose to put a new face in the hosts’ chair when

they hired George Stroumboulopoulos.

MacLean was instead charged with co-hosting Coaches Corner with Don Cherry and co-hosting Hometown Hockey, a Sunday night hockey broadcast.

Going forward, MacLean will continue to host Hometown Hockey with Tara Sloan on top of his Hockey Night in Canada duties.

MacLean sees his dual role as a benefit to the broadcast, bringing grassroots stories and tales from the road on Sunday into the “ivory tower” that is the Saturday night broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada.

The second Hockey Night in Canada game will be hosted by David Amber, a 20-year sports broadcasting veteran who has worked as an anchor and reporter with ESPN in the U.S., covered four Olympic Games and hosted NHL On the Fly for two years.

MacLean started his broadcasting career in 1978 with CKRD in his hometown of Red Deer. He compared the announcement and the surrounding circus to similar hosting changes in Hockey Night in Canada’s history.

“Two years ago I understood fully why we would try some of these ideas

to make the game more accessible. I felt we were going from destination viewing to distribution viewing, which made sense in the new world order with all the platforms we come to news,” said MacLean.

“It was not easy for me when I replaced Dave Hodge, it was not easy for Dave Hodge when he replaced Ward Cornell. It’s one of those jobs everybody gets comfortable with.”

Admitting he hasn’t spoken with Stroumboulopoulos since the announcement, MacLean said he has great respect for how he handled the situation.

“People have been so kind and supportive and it’s humbling and you return the favour by giving it your very best on the viewer’s behalf,” said MacLean. “It’s mixed emotions, I know having gone through this with Dave Hodge back in 1986. There’s a feeling about Hockey Night in Canada about anyone who hosts the show.

“George probably put up with a lot and just kept coming and being a great colleague.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Clarke remembered for breaking down barriers for black writers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Austin (Tom) Clarke is being remembered as a pioneering black Canadian writer who rose above an impoverished childhood in Barbados to achieve top literary honours, meet the Queen, and inspire generations of authors.

“Austin Clarke really is the grandfather of black Canadian literature,” acclaimed author Lawrence Hill said Monday, a day after news of Clarke’s death broke. “He’s the first black writer in Canada to become internationally renowned, to win major national prizes and to be celebrated internationally, including throughout the black diaspora.

“He really broke the barriers.”

Clarke died Sunday in Toronto at the age of 81. His literary friends and colleagues said his health had been ailing in the last couple of years, with symptoms of dementia, and he was in palliative care in recent weeks.

Clarke was known for exploring the Caribbean immigrant experience in his 11 novels, six short-story collec-

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Giller Prize winner Austin Clarke hoists a glass as he holds a copy of his book ‘The Polished Hoe’ after winning the $25,000 literary prize at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. tions, four memoirs and two poetry collections.

His 2002 novel, the Bajan plantation story The Polished Hoe, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Prize

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and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, which earned him a private audience with the Queen.

“That was something huge, for a man born in a little cottage with a dirt floor, who ran around in bare feet all his childhood,” said Denise Bukowski, Clarke’s agent. “He had a wonderful education in Barbados but he came from extreme poverty, and to end up having a private audience with the Queen? That was the highlight of his life.”

Born in Barbados in 1934, Clarke was disadvantaged but his mother was determined to give him a good education and put him through the prestigious Harrison College.

“He’s a rare artist-writer who actually does come from the working class and becomes this outstanding intellectual and man of letters in his life,” said Patrick Crean, Clarke’s longtime friend and former publisher.

Clarke immigrated to Canada to attend the University of Toronto in 1955. He became engrossed in the civil rights and black power movement while working as a journalist and broadcaster.

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TORONTO — Pop singer Ria Mae never considered herself an LGBTQ activist, but a recent music video shoot for the song Gold pushed the Halifax native to reflect on the boundaries of her own identity.

It began when a director pitched Mae the idea of playing a fictionalized version of herself caught in a passionate but troubled romance with another woman.

“I loved the story so much,” Mae says. “The only thing I was RIA MAE worried about was the relationship.”

She knew portraying a lesbian could potentially pigeonhole her music career, but Mae paused to question why she was so worried about putting her sexual orientation on the radar.

“I had this gut feeling, like, ‘Shut up. It’s good, and it’s important.”’

So Mae agreed to the storyline for Gold, a rare example of a music video where a lesbian relationship doesn’t exist solely for the titillation of straight men.

Getting the gay-positive video made was relatively easy, but the experience was an anomaly, even in today’s music industry.

Gold director Alon Isocianu says this wasn’t the first time he’d proposed a same-sex relationship for one of his videos, but it was the only instance that he felt practically no resistance.

“It’s happened for years where I would pitch a video that had a samesex couple and the record labels were like, ‘We love all these scenes, but can you make that scene between the two high school kids a boy and a girl?”’ he says.

Isocianu, who has worked with Kelly Clarkson and Pentatonix, thinks executives sometimes don’t want to “open that can of worms” with an artist, or risk making a video where the song is overshadowed by the sexual orientation of its characters.

“It always blew my mind that would be an issue,” he says.

“If I had a black character and somebody was like, ‘Can we just make him white?’ it would be a weird conversation to have.”

In recent weeks, mainstream attention on LGBTQ issues has intensified, motivated partly by the Orlando gay nightclub shootings and June being Pride Month.

While music videos may seem like a minuscule concern in the bigger picture, they can play an important role for young LGBTQ people who — like many minority groups — are still searching for adequate representation in mainstream media.

“Pop music itself was, for many young people trapped at home in suburbia, all they had,” says Mark Simpson, a British author and critic of pop culture trends, reflecting on the era when MTV and Much Music ruled the airwaves. “(It was) their only escape and their only connection.”

Rewind to the 1980s and most gay characters in music videos were either part of tragic stories, like Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy, or subjects of overt sexual repression like in the Pet Shop Boys’ Domino Dancing.

By the 1990s, some headway was being made as singers like k.d. lang and George Michael came out in their public lives.

Music videos took some time to catch up, however, and through the end of the decade representation stalled on novelty acts like Russian duo T.a.t.u., two sexually ambiguous women marketed as lesbians to attract controversy.

Today, the portrayal of LGBTQ themes in videos is becoming more mainstream.

Tegan and Sara are putting the finishing touches on a video starring transgender teens, while others like Sam Smith and Hozier have released clips where same-sex relationships play a key role in the narrative.

Australian singer Troye Sivan went a step further, starring in a trilogy of music videos as a teenager locked in a complex relationship with his best friend.

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STEVENSON COLE NORA WINIFRED MULHALL Ruby “Joan” 1950 - 2014 July 29, 1924 - June 27, 2014 Darlene Marie Cole of Red May 17, 1934 - June 22, 2016 As time unfolds another year Ruby “Joan” Stevenson Deer, passed away at the (Andrews) of Red Deer, AB Red Deer Regional Hospital Silent memories keep you near passed away peacefully at on Saturday, June 25, 2016 No longer in our lives to share But in our Hearts her nursing home on June at the age of 66 years. you’re always there.

22, 2016 at the age of 82. Darlene will be lovingly Today, tomorrow, our whole Joan was born on May 17, remembered by her mother life through 1934 at Ardenode, AB and Ruth; a sister Sharon (Jim) We will always love was raised on a farm in the Hollman; three nephews and remember you.

Pine Lake area. She moved Terry (Lisa) Hollman and to Calgary, AB when she was their children Eryn and Hubby Vic and family Allan, 16 and worked for Dunn Mason, Kent (Marcia) Dennis, Barbara, Jacqueline, & Bradstreet. She married Hollman and their children Douglas, Gail and Michael Lloyd Stevenson on Kaitlyn and Hunter and Scott December 10, 1955 and had (Tara) Hollman and their three daughters Lynn, Brenda, children Jenna, Nolan and Also to cherish and Joanne. They moved to Sydney. memory are the farm at Delburne in 1962, Darlene’s other family Graduations where they lived for 30 years. numerous Joan was well known for her members and friends. She beautiful vegetable gardens, was predeceased by her her cooking and sewing father George in 2014. A skills. She belonged to the Funeral Service will be held Delburne Ladies Royal at the Gaetz Memorial United Purple and enjoyed curling, Church, 4758 - Ross Street, playing cards and board Red Deer AB on Thursday, games. Joan is survived by June 30, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.. her daughters, Lynn Brown In lieu of flowers, memorial (Randy), Brenda Stevenson donations may be made (Garnet), and Joanne directly to Red Deer Special Meulenbelt (Mike); five Olympics (Bowling), c/o Neil grandchildren; six step- Garbutt, 3935 - 35A Ave, grandchildren and five great Red Deer, AB T4N 2S6 or to grandchildren; two sisters; the Gaetz Memorial United four brothers; numerous Church Memorial Fund, 4758 nieces and nephews as well - Ross Street, Red Deer AB as many extended family T4N 1X2. Condolences to members.

She was Darlene’s family may be predeceased by her husband, emailed to COLE Lloyd; her parents, Howard meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca and Ethel and by two MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Katherine Cole, daughter of Vikki Tease (Cole) and brothers. Special thanks from Funeral Service Edwin Cole of Red Deer, the family to the wonderful Red Deer 587-876-4944 Alberta, graduated on May staff at Michener Extendicare 31, 2016 with a Doctor of for all their compassionate Medicine degree from McGill care and attention.

A University in Montreal, memorial service will be held Quebec. Dr. Cole will be on Thursday, June 30, 2016 starting her residency in at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer In Memoriam Internal Medicine at the Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 St., MITTEN Royal Victoria Hospital in Red Deer, AB. If friends In loving memory of my Montreal.

Grandparents, desire, memorial donations in husband Howard Mitten Joan’s honour may be made who passed away June 27, 2000. George and Leona Teed, brother Andrew, sister directly to the Canadian The love of a wonderful Kimberley and step-father Cancer Society, 101, husband is something that Brian are also very proud.

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PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and we are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years experience.

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ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License; with previous off road forklift and shipping /receiving experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan.

Benefits include: * Company provided Canadian Benefits Package * Voluntary Dental Plan * Life Insurance Option Plan * Short-term/Long-term Disability Policy * Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) * Paid Vacation * Quarterly Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage Systems Of Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail: lee.miller@ads-pipe.com Position closing date: JUNE 30, 2-16

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B.C. parrot refuge set to close

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS COOMBS, B.C. — Hundreds of parrots living at a Vancouver Island sanctuary need new homes as an Aug. 1 deadline approaches for the closure of the World Parrot Refuge.

Between 450 and 500 parrots, including macaws, cockatoos, lovebirds and conures, are up for adoption, following the death last February of refuge founder Wendy Huntbatch.

“After Wendy’s passing, the money has basically run out,” said Matthew Spate, a refuge supervisor and one of its few remaining paid staff.

Huntbatch, 70, an avid animal rights advocate, opened the refuge at Coombs, about 150 kilometres north of Victoria, in 2005.

At one point she had more than 800 parrots at the refuge, which includes 2,100 square metres of heated indoor free-flight avaries and about 1,500 square metres of outdoor flight area.

The refuge was open to the public.

An obituary posted on the refuge website by her son Justin Huntbatch says his mother devoted last 25 years of her life to the health and welfare of ex-breeder and ex-pet parrots. “Her goal was to educate people why parrots should not be pets, to stop the trafficking and importing of parrots into Canada and to provide a home for life for those parrots that were here already.”

Spate said parrots can be difficult pets, which is why many of those living at the refuge were given up for adoption. Some can live to be 75 years old.

“They take a lot of work and they often outlive their owners,” he said.

“Parrots need a lot of attention and when they don’t get enough attention they do get into trouble. Stories of people getting their kitchen ruined or base boards ripped off are not uncommon.”

Parrots are loud, he said. Their

Canada BRIEFS Girl, 14, boy, 17, charged in double shooting, and stabbing OTTAWA — Three people — including a 14-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy — are facing charges

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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 COLEMAN propane stoves, $40 each, Coleman propane heater, $20, 3 small coolers, $5 each, and 3 lrg. coolers, $20 each. 403-877-0825 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20.

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Roy Nordal cuddles up to a African Grey bird at the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, B.C. The refuge, which is home to some 400 to 500 exotic birds who have been rescued mostly from Vancouver Island and parts of British Columbia, is slated to close in August due to lack of funds to keep it running. squawks and screeches are louder than barking dogs, said Spate. They also talk, often mimicking the words of their owners.

“You also get bit quite a bit,” he said. “You definitely get put through the ringer. But once you get to know the birds and they get to know you, they are actually great animals who are very intelligent and very person-

able.”

The refuge is contacting the previous owners of the refuge’s adopted parrots and asking if they want them back.

The Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary, a non-profit society in Surrey, B.C., dedicated to bird conservation, is part of the effort to relocate the parrots, agreeing to take as many birds as they

can and find homes for them.

The city council in nearby Nanaimo has agreed to a short-term lease of a former Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Shelter to give some of the parrots a temporary home, Spate said.

He said he expects to find homes and shelter for all the parrots.

“But it’s going to take a while.”

following a double shooting and stabbing in Ottawa.

Police say officers responding to a call early Saturday found three males with non-life threatening injuries — one had been stabbed in the abdomen, the others had been shot. Two were taken to hospital and one refused medical treatment.

They say a loaded firearm was seized and several suspects were taken into custody.

A 14-year-old Gatineau, Que., girl is charged with several weapons offences — including careless use of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm — and accessory after the fact.

A 17-year-old Ottawa boy faces charges that include careless use of

a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of a firearm obtained by crime.

Investigators also say an 18-year-old Ottawa man is charged with a drugrelated offence.

of amendments.

Manitoba, along with Quebec, refused to sign the agreement last week in Vancouver, in part because people need to set aside their own retirement savings, Premier Brian Pallister said.

On Monday, he said Manitoba wants to see changes made that would help people who are on the verge of retirement as well as those retiring decades from now.

“The Canadian pension plan was designed to be part of Canadians’ retirement security,” he said. “But it was designed a half-century ago. It is time to bring the CPP into the 21st century, into the new millennium. But not just for millennials. For all Canadians.”

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HICKORY DICKORY DECKS For all your decking needs.

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

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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1 & 2 Bdrm renovated apts in quiet adult only building in the South Hill. Rents range from $875 to $1050.

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1 & 2 Bdrm renovated apts in quiet adult only building in the South Hill. Rents range from $875 to $1050.

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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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GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., CLEARVIEW: TWO $800/mo., D.D. $850, N/S, HERE TO HELP WEEKS FREE + $150. no pets, no partiers. & HERE TO SERVE move-in, 4 plex, 2 bdrm.

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3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., 403-596-2444 $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent now or July 1. 403-304-5337 $750, last month of lease MICHENER Hill condos ORIOLE PARK free, immed. occupancy.

Phase 3 NEW 4th Ár. cor3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975.

403-596-6000 ner suite, 1096 sq. ft., 2 rent, s.d. $650, incl water bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4 sewer and garbage. underground parking appls., inclds. heat & water, Avail. now or July 1st. w/storage, recreational no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594 403-304-5337 amenities, extended care PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., centre attached, deck.

WESTPARK hrdwd. Á rs., inclds. heat and 403-227-6554 to 4 pm.

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Fear of risk can lead to regrets MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

— T. S. Eliot, British poet “Hey,” said Tom, “congratulations on the new job!”

“Thanks a lot,” replied Bill. “I’m pretty excited about it!”

“Corporate Director of Advertising — that’s quite the title.”

“It will be a challenge, for sure,” said Bill. “But I’m up for it.”

“How did you catch wind of it? I mean, I didn’t know there was such a job.”

“There wasn’t,” said Bill. “I dreamed it up, and I pitched it to the company.”

Sometimes opportunity knocks on our door. Other times, we need to knock on opportunity’s door. What it often comes down to is this: how willing are you to take a risk?

We each face risks every day. How we face those risks can have a tremendous impact on the course of our life.

Our willingness to risk — in a healthy and appropriate manner — can provide an insight into our self-esteem and the overall assessment of our level of worthiness and deservability.

Some people are lousy at evaluating and navigating risk. Need proof? Just think of your last drive through town during rush hour or venture out onto a busy highway. To use risk to our ad-

vantage, we must be able to assess it, allocate it appropriately and utilize it effectively.

In my role as a self-esteem coach, I’ve spoken with many people over the years who have told me they would like a “do-over” with regard to certain aspects of their life. The chance to trust themselves a little more, the opportunity to be a little braver, and the willingness to take a risk for what they truly desire. Each was filled with regret for not having taken a chance.

I can relate. Perhaps you can too.

There are times still when I’ve cursed myself for not standing up and stepping into the fray. All too often, I’ve stayed on the safe path — head down, mouth shut and gaze averted.

I did it because I was afraid. I knew the status quo was not especially rewarding, but it appeared safer. Of course, the opposite can also be true.

You may look back and wish you’d played it safe instead of foolishly risking. Again, it all comes down to understanding risk and the subsequent consequences.

Why do so many of us go wrong when it comes to risking? To begin with, we often over-estimate the chances of something going astray.

If we focus on what could go wrong, as opposed to what might work in our favour, we may tend of withdraw. We may catastrophize and exaggerate the negative consequences of a particular action visualizing worst-case scenarios, a loss of status or the pain of a failed relationship.

In reality, the odds of something working in our favour tend to be just as high on the scale of probability. Persistence is the key. Or as American in-

ventor Thomas Edison put it, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Sometimes, we delude ourselves with such declarations as, “It’s not so bad,” or “Things could certainly be worse,” or “It’s better to be safe than sorry.” Out of fear, we come up with excuses that keep us trapped in our comfort zones. There’s a time to play it safe but if we’re choosing inaction because of fear, we’re liable to make the wrong choice. Playing it safe can keep us stuck in an unfortunate situation, and we might find ourselves sorry rather than safe.

We’ve all had experiences that hurt us, made us “gun-shy” or left our self-esteem shattered on the floor like so many pieces of broken china. As a result, some people decide that no one and nothing will ever hurt them again.

They’ve removed themselves from the playing field of life and decided it’s safer on the sidelines, to be a spectator rather than a player.

These natural tendencies help to explain how bright, capable and well-meaning individuals find themselves stuck in unfulfilling jobs, unhealthy relationships and living out lives they would never have chosen for themselves let alone aspire to attain.

To help break yourself out of these tendencies, it can help to ask yourself these three insightful questions.

If I were just a little more courageous, what would I do?

What has my inaction (fear of risking) cost me over the years?

Why have I over-estimated the risks and underestimated myself and my abilities?

I’ve come to believe that life is a full-contact sport. You must get in there and grind. You’ll never know the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat unless you play the game. Our enjoyment of life — despite the obstacles we encounter — is a matter of choice, not chance. Look at where you are today: is it by choice or by chance? Over time we can generally come to terms with poor decisions and the actions we chose. Regret for what we didn’t do can be irreconcilable.

The better our self-esteem, the more willing we become to put ourselves out there and live a life that matters. Start small if you like, but start. If you’re unwilling to risk due to a series of ongoing hurts and disappointments, stop and take a look at your attitudes and beliefs. You may be holding onto self-defeating ways of thinking and being. You might also be unintentionally sabotaging your happiness to justify a “play it safe” mentality. It’s easier if you remember that all experiences bring us awareness especially the challenging/hurtful ones.

Lao Tsu, the ancient Chinese philosopher and contemporary of Confucius once wrote, “You are capable of more than you think.” I think we’re all capable of more than we imagine.

A wise man once told me that I should fear regret more than failure. If an opportunity presents itself, seize it.

If an opportunity doesn’t exist, take a risk and create it.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

Puppies, children and watermelon: the best party ever TREENA MIELKE LIFE As summer weaves its lovely way into the world, it seems all kinds of good things are happening. ’Tis the season!

Take my garden for instance. Despite all odds, it is sprouting up, its slightly patchy green rows staggering in less than straight lines like slightly drunken sailors, but growing sufficiently non-the-less. I check it every morning before I go to work.

I must say I am so pleased I no longer have to get out a magnifying glass to prove that little seeds watered with hope, faith and my backyard watering can are actually growing.

And my backyard is as green as grass, well, it is grass actually, a most lovely grass, I might add.

And to me, the fact that this lovely green grass was thoroughly trampled by one slightly rambunctious puppy and six grandchildren, who were no less rambunctious, when I held the first wiener roast of the year, is a very good thing.

I planned the wiener roast in honor of Father’s Day and, much to my absolute amazement, my plan worked.

Minus two son-in-laws, the whole fam-damily showed up.

And it didn’t rain and the sun shone down us and the fire didn’t go out and every grandchild was there. True, I had to have a little grandmotherly chat with the two oldest, 13 and 12, respectively. I found them in the piano room.

The oldest was communicating in the way most young people communicate today.

She was texting.

“I need you to come outside,” I said sternly, sounding old and strict and slightly exasperated mostly because I was. “Grandma has worked very hard to make this happen and grandpa

made an outdoor Yahtzee game for you to play and everything.”

“Grandma there’s a wasp,” my grandson replied, totally ignoring me, the way young boys who know very well they are loved beyond compare, can do and get away with. “There’s a wasp on the floor.”

Oh for Pete’s sake,” I said, attempting to kill the annoying, buzzing insect with my shoe.

“Grandma, do you kill things?” he teased. I threatened him with my shoe, but he only laughed.

I pointed to the stairs.

“Out with you both,” I admonished.

They went obediently, masking their giggles only slightly.

It was a great party, filled with all the right ingredients to make it so.

There was food, music, a fire, kids and, thrown into the mix, a puppy with imploring brown eyes, a matching silky coat and large floppy ears.

The children enjoyed themselves immensely. They played the Yahtzee game, threw the dog’s toys around,

chased the dog and were chased by the dog.

They ate, laughed, teased each other and amused themselves by a mindless but competitive game of seeing who could toss a paper cup the farthest.

The youngest, munching on a piece of juicy red watermelon, stood close to his grandpa watching him put together his new outdoor speakers. When the music started, he rocked his little diapered self to the rock ’n roll tunes, still munching away on the fruit.

Watching him, I suddenly felt this overwhelming sense of gratitude for lots of things, but one thing in particular.

I truly am one of the lucky ones.

I am a grandma!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

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Dear Annie: Several years ago, our son lived with a very immature young woman. We tried to make her feel welcome, but she had no interest in getting to know us. The only thing she ever asked was how much our son would inherit.

She then had an affair.

Our son asked whether he should leave her. My husband said yes, but I told my son that people make mistakes and it was his decision.

He stayed.

A few months later, she was worried he might leave, so she lied about using the pill and got pregnant. The baby was christened and baptized with only her family present. We saw the photos on Facebook.

When they got married shortly after, they never said a word to us.

We decided not to hold a grudge. We bought a house where they could live for $200 a month in rent, and gave them $40,000 to furnish it.

Our new daughter-in-law said we should let them live there rent-free and they stopped paying rent. They also didn’t take care of the house.

So we sold it, and when we

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Tuesday, June 28 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kathy Bates, 68; John Cusack, 50; Mel Brooks, 90 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Things will be intense today so pace yourself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are energetic, emotional and entertaining. The next 12 months is the time to be more sensitive to the personal needs of those around you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Hot-headed Rams — the Moon’s in fiery Aries today, so you’re in boisterous bossy-boots mode. But sometimes you need to adapt your approach — and let someone else be the leader for a change.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Put aside time to escape from work issues and the pressures of daily life today Taurus, as you enjoy the creature comforts of home sweet home — and grab some much-needed peace and quiet.

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didn’t give them the proceeds, she told everyone that we were terrible people and had stolen their money.

They now have two children and a third on the way. We are not allowed to see the grandchildren.

Our son calls us once a month, but he’s afraid to tell his wife.

We just wrote a new will and are giving them nothing. We haven’t told our son this, but we’ve told our other children that they can give their brother a share if they choose.

But his wife has also cut off contact with the siblings, as well as our son’s grandparents. It’s been five years.

We would still welcome her, but we aren’t holding our breath.

Our son says he’s OK with this. He says he’s not abused. Sometimes there is no happy ending. — Resigned to Our Situation Dear Resigned: We are so sorry your son married such an unkind, immature person. Also, that he is too cowardly to take a stand, fearful that she might leave. But that is highly unlikely.

We wonder how your daughterin-law would react if she learned that you might reconsider including them in your will if you were allowed to spend time with the grandchildren.

She sounds mercenary enough to think about it. It’s good that you have other children to lean on.

Our condolences.

Dear Annie: I just returned from a bridal show Emma Root, Laurel Gill and Abby Daalder

(left to right) of the Rocky Mountain Highland Dancers in Calgary warm up their dance steps prior to competing in the Highland Dance competion in Red Deer, Saturday. er and learned that a few of us were not invited to the wedding. I am a good friend of the bride and of her mother.

The other women at my table said, “See you at the wedding.” I stayed silent.

Several of us are baking the cake and cookies for the wedding.

Most of us who are doing the baking are not invited. When did it become OK to invite people to a shower and not the wedding? — Old-Fashioned Dear Old-Fashioned: It is not OK to invite friends and family to a shower and not the wedding.

(Work showers fall into a different category.) It is especially rude to ask these same people to bake for the event, unless you are charging them a fee.

However, there is a possibility that the bride assumes you will be in attendance anyway since you are preparing the desserts. You might talk to the bride’s mother and clear it up. We’d hate for there to be a misunderstanding.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, 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.

keen to roll up your sleeves and showcase your talents but, if you are too accommodating, then others will walk all over you. So stand your ground Gemini — in a calm and controlled way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Relations with loved ones or work colleagues will be problematic today Crabs, as you feel the need to control an uncontrollable situation. Try to be more objective, and don’t take things so personally.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today peace-of-mind comes from accepting the strengths and weaknesses of yourself — and loved ones. If you are too judgmental, you’ll find it will just cause unnecessary problems with others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Think before you speak today as you have the power to influence others, especially your peer group. When it comes to a child, teenager or friend, avoid getting drawn into a power struggle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Laid back Librans — today you may be called on to smooth troubled waters involving a family member or close friend. Tension is building, so do all you can to tactfully diffuse a difficult situation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you try to manipulate others, then you’ll be surprised by their response. And is there a problem that’s getting you

down? What you resist persists, so maybe it’s time to lighten up and let go?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ve got plenty of energy to channel into a creative or sporting activity.

But there could be a disagreement with a loved one over who owns what, so strive to be more disciplined and diplomatic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Calling all Capricorns — the more controlling you are, the more difficult the day will be. Try to relax and go with the flow. When it comes to a personal problem, aim to be conservative and cautious.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in the mood to talk but is anyone listening? Take time out to do the things you love today, as you connect with sympathetic close friends. But hasty communication could lead to a misunderstanding.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Communicating with others will be tense so try to keep things in perspective today Pisces, as it’s just a passing phase.

Creative projects will help you escape into a private world of your own.

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

BOSTON — Traffic is crawling bumper to bumper as Mark Rabinsky parks his car near the Charles River, takes out his bike and prepares to cycle the rest of the way to his job at Harvard University.

“My ride is all along the river. It’s such a beautiful ride every morning,” said Rabinsky, one of a small but growing number of commuters who avoids the last few miles of gridlock by utilizing Park & Pedal.

Launched last year and recently expanded, the program offers free parking at 19 strategically located lots near major employment centres and an opportunity for people to easily complete their commute on two wheels instead of four.

The initiative is attracting attention from other U.S. and world cities, according to Dave Montague, the founder of a company that makes folding bikes and who first approached Massachusetts officials with the idea. Representatives from as far away as Copenhagen, Denmark, and Christchurch, New Zealand, have contacted him for information, he said.

Boston, like other urban areas, has tried in recent years to become more pedal friendly, designating bike lanes on major streets and rolling out Hubway, a popular bike-sharing program. Still, bicycle commuting is often seen as a viable option for those who live in or near the city, far less so for suburbanites.

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