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CALGARY GIRL MATCHING MISSING 5-YEAR-OLD SEEN MORNING BEFORE MOTHER FOUND DEAD

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Temporarily hauling effluent to Red Deer will keep the Town of Sylvan Lake’s critical wastewater from becoming even worse and help avert an environmental crisis in the coming days.

Joanne Gaudet, communications officer with the town, said Wednesday the town is looking at a multi-faceted approach to solving its current problem of running out of wastewater storage space.

Part of the immediate solution but beyond the town’s control would be for the rain to stop. The town has had a lot more rain this summer over a short period of time, Gaudet said.

People who have illegally tied their sump pumps into the town’s wastewater system are adding to the problem. Clean storm water has no use in the town’s wastewater system, she added.

Also part of an immediate solution is to haul the effluent from the town to the another community.

The town has had positive discussions with the City of Red Deer this week, she said, adding that hauling could start as soon as today.

The town also has one decommissioned wastewater cell that was used as a snow dump and it is hoping to get permission from Alberta Environment to bring it back on line shortly. This will also help a bit.

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Sara Baillie and her daughter, Taliyah Leigh Marsman, are shown in this undated image taken from CCTV surveillance footage from a Dairy Queen restaurant on Sandarac Drive in Calgary on Sunday.

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TALIYAH LEIGH MARSMAN

Calgary police say a girl matching the description of a missing five-year-old was spotted about nine hours before her mother was found dead and they have reason to hope the child is being cared for, wherever she is.

Insp. Don Coleman said witnesses saw a girl who looked like Taliyah Leigh Marsman on Monday around 11:30 a.m. with a

Statement from father of missing Calgary girl Page A2 stocky, black male.

They were seen in the northwest Calgary neighbourhood where Taliyah lived with her mother, Sara Baillie, who was found dead that evening in their basement suite.

Police say the sighting was near where Baillie’s vehicle was found. The girl who witnesses saw was wearing red or pink boots with white polka dots and was carrying a reddish-coloured suitcase.

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Red Deerians catching the Pokémon Go buzz

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Late Tuesday evening about 60 people gathered spontaneously in the darkness at Bower Ponds and stood staring at their glowing smartphones.

Then something unusual happened for people who are glued to their electronic devices — they all began to walk about.

It was a sure sign that Pokémon Go — a super hit new mobile online game — had arrived in Red Deer, even though it hasn’t officially arrived in Canada. It might become the biggest mobile application yet.

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Edward McIntyre, 31, a freelance website designer and developer from Sylvan Lake, was one of the people at Bower Ponds who showed up to play the game. It involves getting points and hunting for Pokémon — Japanese cartoon characters, perhaps best described as “cute.”

Pokémon Go is really attracting the late ’80s and ’90s kids that grew up with the original Pokémon video games, McIntyre said, adding it’s Nintendo’s first

foray into a mobile game. Up until now the company’s games have only been on consoles.

The game has actually only been officially released in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan, but people have found ways to access it in Canada.

“It’s pretty incredible that there were that many people playing the game at Bower Ponds when Pokémon Go was only released about one week ago,” McIntyre said.

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WASTEWATER: Residents asked to reduce water use The town is permitted to discharge its effluent twice a year into Cygnet Lake via Cygnet Creek, providing tests of the effluent show it will not kill fish.

New wastewater regulations kicked in on Jan. 1, 2015, under the federal Fisheries Act. The town wasn’t expecting this to be a big issue, Gaudet said.

But tests that showed the effluent did not meet new standards meant the town hasn’t been able to discharge it since the fall of 2015, she said. While the problem in part would solve itself through aeration and time, rain has reduced effluent storage capacity.

Previous, current and future budgets have been dealing with making improvements to the town’s water infrastructure, and the town has been strategic with the projects it has approved, said Gaudet.

The town is meeting provincial regulations but not federal regulations, she said.

“If anything, we underestimated our ability to meet these regulations, and that’s something we’re trying to get under control now.”

“If (the effluent) overflowed, we would have an environmental crisis.” However the town is optimistic this can be averted “barring any further unknowns.”

The town has asked people to help reduce the amount of waste water by being proactive such as only doing full loads on laundry, flushing toilets less and showering less.

The public seems to be supportive, Gaudet said.

Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to give administration direction and approval to deal with the immediate problem.

“Part of the urgency is we’re looking at the forecast,” she said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Jonathan Strome, who manages Bower Ponds Recreation, said the ponds are a good spot for Pokémon Go because there are numerous stops in close proximity. the suitcase is, in fact, Taliyah, the suitcase is a promising indication that whoever she’s with has intentions of caring for her to some degree,” Insp. Don Coleman said Wednesday.

“We’re hopeful that whoever does have her just maybe didn’t realize the situation or is trying to figure out how to resolve it.

“Whoever that is needs to be aware that any time children are harmed, that changes the game and takes things to a whole new level for everybody — police, community. Even other people in jail don’t take kindly to that sort of thing.”

The Amber Alert for Taliyah was still in effect Wednesday. Police have ruled Baillie’s death a homicide.

Police also said footage from a closed-circuit camera shows Baillie and her daughter at a Dairy Queen around suppertime Sunday. Baillie appears to be speaking with a man and a boy. Police say they want to identify the people in the footage and have posted still photos of the exchange on the City of Calgary’s website.

Taliyah’s father begged anyone who might know where his “baby” is to come forward.

“Please, it’s never too late to do the right thing! If you even think you might have seen something that could be a clue, let your local law enforcement know immediately,” Colin Marsman said in a statement released to the media through his friend, Gabriel Goree.

Marsman offered his condolences to Baillie’s family.

Court documents show he was charged last year with unlawful confinement and intimidation by threats against Baillie. The charges were later withdrawn and a peace bond was issued.

“Those who know me best, know the person and kind of father I am and know more than anything I just want my baby girl back,” Marsman said.

Coleman said Marsman is co-operating with their investigation.

Goree described Marsman as a “great dad” who also has a son and works in construction.

Marsman’s girlfriend, Jessica Mardinger, added on Facebook: “Colin is a great father. He is in so much pain right now. We need Taliyah back.”

Wracked with sobs and struggling to walk, Tanya Kruger, who is Taliyah’s godmother, stopped by their northwest Calgary home on Wednesday.

Kruger knelt on the rain-soaked lawn, piled with flower bouquets, stuffed animals and cards.

She said she met Baillie around 10 years ago working at Boston Pizza and the two became close.

“She had met Colin and gotten pregnant with Taliyah and she graciously asked me to be Taliyah’s godmom and, of course, I accepted,” said Kruger, whom

POKÉMON: You have to walk to play The game, which is overlaid on a real world map, involves physically going to different locations to digitally collect points and Pokémon, and even doing digital combat in “Pokémon gyms.” The real locations to collect are public landmarks such as signs, art and plaques.

When players hold up their iOS or Android phones at the locations, the creatures appear on their screens.

“It’s really gamification of fitness,” said McIntyre.

You have to walk to play. The game can detect if a person is riding a bike, on a long board or in a car.

“The thing that I love is it’s based on public art.

So when you’re standing there chatting, talking to people, I really hope people are taking in the art.”

McIntyre said that there are predictions Pokémon Go is going to be, if not already, the most used digital application in the world. “It’s already passed Facebook and Instagram for installs.”

He got involved last weekend when his two children, ages 7 and 10, heard about Pokémon Go and wanted him to play it. They spent last weekend exploring the parks in Sylvan Lake and Red Deer. “We were walking around for two hours as a family.”

Jonathan Strome, who manages Bower Ponds Recreation, said the ponds are a good spot for Pokémon Go because there are numerous stops in close proximity. “It’s unreal. … It’s augmented reality.”

“And you’re not paying attention to the exercise.

You’re paying attention to the game.”

Strome said there will be a Pokémon Go meet-up at the Bower Ponds pavilion on July 21 from 8 to 11 p.m. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

TALIYAH: Amber Alert still in effect “If the girl seen in Panorama with the boots and

Taliyah called “auntie.”

Kruger said she visited with Baillie and Taliyah last weekend.

“We played together, coloured together, and that’s the last time I spoke with them.”

She said she thinks whoever took Taliyah knew the little girl.

“We all, and her family all have one suspect in mind, not that I want to mention it. But that’s for the police to do their work and find out and I know that justice will be served.

“If anybody knows anything about her, please, she wants to come home. She needs to come home. She has a lot of people that love her and this little precious angel does not deserve this.”

A handwritten note left on the makeshift memorial, signed by Keisha Meas and encased in a plastic baggie to protect it from the rain, called Baillie a “beautiful, caring and strong” woman and thanked her for “giving us a home when no one else would.”

“We are trying our best to search for Taliyah and we know you are looking over us … We will get you justice no matter how long it’ll take.”

Baillie’s aunt and uncle tearfully pleaded on Tuesday to whomever took Taliyah to drop her off anywhere at all, no questions asked.

Taliyah is described as a mixed-race child with a slim build, brown curly hair and blue eyes.

COLIN MARSMAN’S STATEMENT “I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone out there, including the media, and especially law enforcement, for their continued search for Taliyah. I also want to send my deepest condolences to Sara’s family during this time.

“I want to make a plea to anyone out there who knows anything about where my baby is. Please, it’s never too late to do the right thing! If you even think you might have seen something that could be a clue, let your local law enforcement know immediately.

“With all my heart, I love her so much she is my light! Please allow her to come home to her family.

“Once again, I truly appreciate all the people who have shown support to our family and are praying for the safe return of Taliyah at this time. Those who know me best, know the person and kind of father I am and know more than anything I just want my baby girl back.

“Once again I plead for anyone knowing anything about where Taliyah is to please come forward with anything that will help get her home and back to her family.”

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Brewers applaud changes to beer rules

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Local brewers are toasting the Alberta government’s latest move in the trade game involving beer sales across the three western provinces.

Earlier this week, Finance Minister Joe Ceci announced that the markup of $1.25 per litre charged against wholesale beers would be applied equally to all breweries, small medium and large, effective Aug. 5. Previously, smaller breweries in the three western provinces were exempted from the markup in a policy aimed at stimulating growth.

Along with the change, the province has announced that it will create a grant program for smaller breweries in Alberta, reimbursing them for the markup and enabling them to invest that money back into their own businesses.

Local entrepreneurs Charlie Bredo of the Troubled Monk, Kevin Wood of Drummond Brewing Company and Shane Groendahl of Blindman Brewing all supported the move, which they see as a move to improve their economic foothold in the industry.

Local brewers are not in competition with each other, but are joined in competition against the larger companies, said Wood, who believes there is still room for many more small breweries in Central Alberta.

Bredo said brewers from B.C. and Saskatchewan were originally exempted from the markup with the expectation that Alberta brewers would be given similar access to their markets. That didn’t happen.

Now, with the markup applied across the board, B.C. and Saskatchewan pay the same levy as everyone else while the small brewers in Alberta will receive a benefit.

That means a net increase in revenue for Alberta taxpayers and more opportunity for growth within Alberta’s beer industry, said Wood.

Edmonton-based brewer Terry Rock, executive director of the Alberta Small Brewers Association, said the government’s decision to adjust the markup shows a recognition of a retail model unique to Alberta.

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From the left, Troubled Monk Brewery owner Charlie Bredo holding a six pack of his silver medal winning Open Road American Brown Ale. Head brewer Garret Haynes, and assistant brewers Doug Ellertson, John Hawkins and Tom Ross raise a glass of the winning ale at the brewery in Red Deer.

“The growth of the brewing industry in the province means good Alberta-based jobs,” Rock said in a statement released on Tuesday.

“It means fresher product made from Alberta barley. And it means new opportunities to attract tourists to the iconic Alberta story, connecting entrepreneurs to our beautiful landscapes and our hard working and passionate farmers,” said Rock.

Wood said the grant that has been promised along with the markup adjustment will make a huge differ-

ence in his company’s bottom line.

Bredo said the markup adjustment is certainly a factor, but the growing support from local consumers has been the real key to his brewery’s success.

Leah Holoiday, press secretary for the Treasury Board, said the government is still working on details of the grant program. An announcement date has not been set, but it will likely come in a few weeks, said Holoiday.

Sundre Hospital and Care Centre to keep five long-term beds

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The province has relented and will allow Sundre Hospital and Care Centre to keep five of its 15 beds for long-term care patients.

Four will be turned into restorative-care beds, which are beds used for patients who require rehabilitation before being discharged to home or another care option, and one will be turned into an acute-care bed.

The hospital will continue to have 14 acute-care beds despite the additional bed. One existing acutecare bed is a maternity bed that is not set up for acute care.

The announcement came about four months after Alberta Health Services angered the community by saying it was closing all 15 long-term care beds at the facility.

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Wildrose MLA Jason Nixon said closing the beds was unacceptable to his constituents.

“Alberta Health Services just arrived out of the blue and announced it was shutting half of the community’s hospital. There was no way long-term care would remain in the community under their plan,” Nixon said on Wednesday.

But that was then and this is now.

“Long-term care is staying in our community. The health minister has committed to that,” Nixon said.

The reversal came after consultation began between AHS, Alberta Health and the Sundre Hospital Futures Committee made up of community members and health professionals.

At the time, AHS said the beds would be replaced with 40 level-four supportive-living beds — the highest care level in supportive living but not as intensive as long-term care — at Mountain View Seniors’ Housing opening this summer.

Nixon said the reconfiguration is exactly what the community wanted and shows the importance of listening to local people when it comes to local hospitals.

“We can’t just depend on bureaucrats in Edmonton to decide the future. We need to talk to all the people utilizing the services and the people working inside those facilities,” the MLA said.

Two of the 15 beds will be eliminated to redevelop the hospital’s lab to bring it up to accreditation standards, which is unrelated to changes to longterm care.

AHS will also install a fire suppression sprinkler system at an estimated cost of $1.4 million in the long-term-care wing of the hospital as part of province-wide safety upgrades in seniors care now that long-term care will remain on site.

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South Sudan is not Africa ourselves as South Sudanese first rather than tribal or political groupings,” which is the sort of thing that leaders are obliged to say after a pointless clash like this. It’s true, too, but in South Sudan it is very hard to do.

Last weekend was the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan, but celebrations had already been cancelled before the shooting started because the government couldn’t afford them. The country has some oil but virtually no other exports, and was hard-hit by last year’s collapse in the oil price.

The real reason for its poverty, however, is war: the country that is now South Sudan has been at war for 42 of the past 60 years. British colonialists included it in what we now call Sudan for administrative convenience, but the dominant population in the much bigger northern part was Muslim and Arabic-speaking, while the south was mostly Christian and culturally, ethnically and linguistically African.

The fighting began a year before Sudan’s independence in 1956, with the southerners resisting the Sudanese government’s attempts to Islamise and Arabise their part of the new country.

That civil war lasted until 1971, and the second (1983-2005) was even longer.

By the time South Sudan finally won its independence in 2011, it had long been a fully militarized society.

GWYNNE DYER OPINION This is not an article on South Sudan, which is just as well because the conflicts there are almost fractal in their complexity. The mini-war last weekend between the forces of President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar, which killed more than 270 people and saw tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships used in the capital, Juba, is part of a pattern that embraces the whole country.

The four days of heavy fighting began on Friday, July 8, with a disagreement between the two men’s large forces of bodyguards outside State House where they were meeting, and rapidly escalated to an all-out clash between all of Kiir’s and Machar’s troops in the capital. Nobody was surprised, because the peace deal last August, which ended a two-year civil war that killed tens of thousands across the country, was never very secure.

After a shaky ceasefire was agreed, President Kiir said: “Making South Sudan glorious will only happen if we see

It didn’t take long after independence before the two biggest ethnic groups, the Dinka (led by President Salva Kiir) and the Nuer (led by Vice-President Riek Machar) were at each other’s throats. Those are just two of South Sudan’s sixty ethnic groups, each with its own language, culture and territory — and even within the two big ethnic groups, different subgroups sometimes find themselves on opposite sides of the fighting.

One-fifth of South Sudan’s 12 million people are currently refugees within their country — the lucky ones in United Nations camps, but many hiding in swamps and badlands from local ethnic militias. Kiir and Machar are both brutal, untrustworthy men, and neither is fully in control of his own generals. And the outside organizations that have poured foreign aid and peacekeeping troops into the country are losing patience.

Two Chinese peace-keeping soldiers were killed in the most recent fighting, causing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to abandon his usual diplomatic caution. “Yet again, the leaders of South Sudan have failed their people,” he said. “Rarely has a country’s conduct squandered so much promise so quickly.”

The current ceasefire may not last: seven others were broken during the course of the recent civil war. South

Sudan is unlikely to achieve a lasting peace settlement any time soon. But South Sudan is not representative of sub-Saharan Africa. Out of 48 countries south of the Sahara, only Somalia, Burundi, and South Sudan are currently suffering from large-scale internal violence.

A dozen others have experienced similar upheavals at some point in the past fifteen years: sub-Saharan Africa is unique in the extravagant diversity of its population, with two hundred ethnic groups of more than half a million people and only three with over 15 million people. But mostly they manage to co-exist fairly peacefully, and over time broader national identities are being built over the post-colonial wreckage.

The image of a continent ravaged by war is an optical illusion perpetuated by the international media’s fixation with violence. For example, during most of 2014-15 the headline news coming out of Europe, as far as the rest of the world was concerned, was the war in Ukraine — although all of the continent’s other fifty countries were at peace.

South Sudan is desperately unfortunate in its history and its leaders, but it is no more typical of Africa than Ukraine is of Europe.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist.

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Notley government hiding behind low oil prices

BY STEVE LAFLEUR AND BEN EISEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE There’s no doubt that 2015-16 was a bad year for Alberta’s public finances.

And with the recent release of the provincial government’s 2015-16 annual report, we now know just how bad it was.

According to the report, the province’s operating deficit for the year was even larger than expected, with the final tally checking in at $6.4 billion — about $300 million more than projected by the Notley government in its October budget.

Once you factor in capital spending (roads, bridges, etc.), the province’s fiscal position looks worse. When that spending is factored in, the annual report shows that the province’s overall net financial assets (that’s all the government’s financial assets minus its debts) deteriorated by $9.2 billion

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last year alone, leaving the province with just $3.9 billion in remaining net financial assets at year end. Since the provincial government is still spending much more than it takes in, it‘s now just a few months away from entering a net debt position for the first time since 2001.

So why is this happening?

The government and a number of news reports blame depressed commodity prices for the province’s weak fiscal performance last year. But this narrative ignores the fact that the 201516 deficit (and the six additional deficits the province ran in the previous seven years) could have been avoided if successive governments had not increased spending at such rapid rates over the decade.

Consider that between 2004-05 and 2015-16 program spending more than doubled from $24 billion to $49 billion.

Had the provincial government merely increased program spending to keep

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pace with population growth and inflation, it would have spent roughly $10 billion less in 2015-16. With the provincial government taking in $42.5 billion in revenue, that would have meant an operating surplus — not a deficit.

So it’s not quite right to solely blame depressed oil prices for last year’s deficit. More accurately, decisions by successive governments brought spending to unaffordable levels — a fact painfully exposed when commodity prices finally dropped.

Successive Alberta governments spent like the boom times would never end.

When they did, the predictable result was a rapid deterioration of the province’s fiscal position.

In short, spending choices are primarily responsible for last week’s grim annual report — not low oil prices.

Misdiagnosing the cause of Alberta’s fiscal problems can be dangerous, as it may distract from the solutions.

In fact, the misguided belief that Al-

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berta’s fiscal problems stem from inadequate revenues has already led to growth-inhibiting tax increases and calls for further tax hikes. These actions focus on the wrong side of the ledger.

Again, the government must reform and reduce provincial spending.

If it doesn’t, Albertans can expect more grim news in the future. This year, for example, the province expects an even bigger deficit than in 2015-16.

Hopefully, last week’s annual report showing a $9.2 billion decline in net financial assets, over just one year, will serve as a wakeup call and spur the government to finally strike at the root of the problem — uncontrolled government spending.

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Tourists to pay to park in Sylvan Lake Tourists who insist on parking close to the waterfront in Sylvan Lake will be paying for parking starting in 2017.

On July 11, Sylvan Lake town council unanimously approved a pay for parking plan in Centennial Park parking lots and on nearby streets between May 15 to Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.

Currently there is a no pay for parking system in town.

Residents will not have to pay in the lots or on the street by registering their licence plate, up to a maximum of two vehicles.

Parking fees in Centennial Park will be $2 per hour or $10 for the day.

Street parking will be $2 an hour for a maximum of three hours.

Tourists or visitors will be prohibited from parking in the nearby residential area and residents there will get two free parking passes to park on their street. Residents can pay for two more passes for $50 each.

Despite the switch to pay for parking, free parking will still be available to anyone — visitors or residents — at the Railway Park Promenade parking lot, located two blocks away from the

Edmonton-area doctor jailed for groping co-worker EDMONTON — An Edmonton-area doctor has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for sexually assaulting a co-worker.

Ismail Taher, 38, was also given two years probation.

The woman said he touched her

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SUNDRE: Plan to be reviewed The reconfiguration will be evaluated at regular intervals prior to a more formal one-year review.

“We’ll be working with community stakeholders and the medical community over the next 12 months to just evaluate utilization of these spaces to

downtown beach.

Joanne Gaudet, communications officer with the town, said on busy summer days there are always many empty stalls at Railway Park Promenade and along nearby 50th Avenue that is also available for free of charge.

“Everyone’s parking in Centennial Park. They are driving around for hours until they find a spot in Centennial Park when there’s ample parking by the railway,” said Gaudet on Wednesday.

The plan also includes signs to direct visitors to free parking. Information will be posted this summer to alert visitors to the parking changes coming next year.

Centennial Park lots have a total of 303 parking stalls. Paid parking on the streets will be in effect at 295 stalls.

Gaudet said three open houses were held to gather input from the community on visitor parking and the town received about 300 online responses.

Another open house will be held to update residents.

She said potential net annual revenue is about $92,000 from the parking strategy that will be put towards maintenance in the downtown and beach area. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com breasts and buttocks in 2013.

Taher was given a suspended sentence for common assault on another female co-worker, also in 2013.

Last month, the Alberta Court of Appeal denied Taher’s appeal of a sexual assault conviction on an 18-yearold patient.

He was found guilty in 2015 of groping the woman who went to a medicentre in Sherwood Park. make sure that it’s having the desired impact that we want it to have and it’s benefiting the community as a whole,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for Alberta Health Services Central Zone.

The review will evaluate the success of the restorative-care beds, which are a relatively new way of delivering rehabilitative care, and look at the utilization of three beds in the long-term care wing to be used when the hospital is at overcapacity.

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‘No one deserves the pain I caused’ CALGARY MASS KILLER ADDRESSES REVIEW BOARD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Calgary man found not criminally responsible for the stabbing deaths of five young adults expressed his remorse Wednesday at a review board hearing determining his future treatment and possible eventual reintegration into society.

“I am deeply sorry and regretful that my illness lead to this terrible tragedy,” said Matthew de Grood, reading from a prepared statement as he sat beside his lawyer at the Alberta Review Board hearing.

“Five young people are no longer with us and their families are suffering immensely. For them, I cannot express enough my regret and sorrow for their losses. No one deserves the pain I caused.

That being said, I will do everything in my power to ensure that my illness is safely managed so nothing like this ever occurs again.”

De Grood had been charged with five counts of first-degree murder stemming from an April 2014 house party marking the end of the school year.

His trial was told that he heard what he thought was the voice of the devil telling him to kill and believed the end of the world was coming before he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and fatally stabbed

Kaitlin Perras, 23 Lawrence Hong, 27 Josh Hunter, 23 Zackariah Rathwell, 21 and Jordan Segura, 22.

The review board consists of provincial court Judge Allan Lefever, two psychiatrists, a member of the legal community and a layperson.

They were told by de Grood’s psychiatrist Dr. Sergio Santana that he is reacting well to treatment for schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“He made a very quick response to the psychotic medication,” said Santana. “He’s going back to the Matthew MATTHEW DE GROOD that he was before the illness.

He has no active psychosis anymore.”

But Santana cautioned there is still the possibility that his violent behaviour could return, noting his condition is only in remission. He asked de Grood be kept in custody for a full year at a psychiatric facility in Calgary so he can continue to be assessed.

Wednesday’s hearing was another difficult ordeal for relatives of the victims. About 50 impact state-

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Jesse Vankroonenburgh, 23, was arrested on Dec. 9, 2015 by Lacombe police called to investigate a brawl inside a house at 51st Avenue and 53rd Street.

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Redblacks slip past Argos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Redblacks 30 Argonauts 20 TORONTO — Tristan Jackson’s 75-yard punt-return touchdown earned the unbeaten Ottawa Redblacks a 30-20 road win over the Toronto Argonauts on Wednesday night.

Jackson broke three tackles en route to snapping a 20-20 tie at 4:19 of the fourth quarter for Ottawa (30-1), the CFL’s lone unbeaten squad. The first punt return TD in Redblacks’ history ensured quarterback Trevor Harris’s return to Toronto was a triumphant one.

Harris spent four seasons with Toronto — going 9-7 as the starter last year while incumbent Ricky Ray recovered from off-season shoulder surgery. He signed with Ottawa this off-season as a free agent and assumed the No. 1 job after veteran Henry Burris suffered a hand injury in the season opener.

Harris, the CFL passing leader, was a masterful 28-of-31 passing for 392 yards, his fourth straight 300-yard game. He also had a one-yard TD run in the third following a 77-yard completion to Greg Ellingson as the big play hurt Toronto (2-2).

Ottawa’s Chris Williams (25 catches, 493 yards, six TDs) came in as the CFL’s receiving leader but Ellingson had nine catches for 218 yards.

The Redblacks also earned a third straight road win to open the season. The last time an Ottawa team did that was 1976 when the franchise earned its last Grey Cup title.

With Ottawa’s win, road teams are a 9-3-1 this season.

Toronto fell to 0-2 at BMO Field before a disappointing gathering of 12,373. That’s less than half the 24,812 who watched the Argos drop a 42-20 decision

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Ottawa Redblacks’ Nic Grigsby, right, runs in for a touchdown past Toronto Argonauts Keon Raymond (2), during the first half of CFL football action in Toronto. to Hamilton in last month’s regular-season opener.

Ray was 24-of-32 passing for 249 yards and a TD and moved past Danny McManus (53,255) into fourth on the all-time CFL passing list. He also threw his 77th TD pass as an Argo, moving into second in club history behind Condredge Holloway (97).

Brandon Whitaker capped an 81-yard, 13-play march with a five-yard TD run at 13:01 of the third that put Toronto back ahead 20-17. An illegal contact penalty against Ottawa’s Abdul Kanneh erased Antoine Pruneau’s interception in the end zone and

kept the Argos’ drive alive.

Rookie Cody Fajardo and Anthony Coombs had Toronto’s other touchdowns. Lirim Hajrullahu added two converts. Nic Grigsby scored Ottawa’s other touchdown. Chris Milo booted three converts and three field goals. Milo’s 31-yard field goal to end the second quarter cut Toronto’s half-time lead to 13-10, capping a smart 53-yard, nine-play drive.

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Olympic family members optimistic about safety in Rio

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Doug Bishop read recent reports of police unrest in Rio with a close eye.

Outraged over unpaid wages, police officers had gathered at Rio’s airport, greeting passengers with a banner that read “Welcome to hell. Police and firefighters don’t get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe.”

It was just latest in an avalanche of bad news to come out of Rio. From graphic pictures of horribly polluted water, to warnings about the Zika virus, and reports of violent crime and police protests, it’s been tough for Olympic family members to ignore the negative buzz around Brazil’s host city.

But Bishop and his wife Alison wouldn’t be anywhere else but in Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium when their daughter Melissa races for a medal in the 800 metres. They’re cautiously optimistic they’ll be safe.

“You hear about the police not being paid, and think ‘Hmm.’ (The crime) is in the back of your mind,” Doug Bishop said. “But at this point, you don’t want to think about it because you want to support your daughter. You have to look at it and say ‘She’s going, why can’t we go?”’

On Wednesday, Angelo Que of the Philippines became the 20th golfer to pull out of the Olympics.

He cited concerns about the mosquito-borne illness, which has been linked to birth defects in babies.

Hilary Stellingwerff is headed to Rio to race the 1,500 metres in her second Olympic appearance, but won’t stay there any longer than she has to.

Stellingwerff and husband Trent — a sport scientist who will be working with the Canadian team in Rio — have a two-year-old son, Theo, who will stay home in Victoria with grandparents.

But the two plan to have more children. So Hilary says she will fly into Rio four days before she races — three rounds, if she makes the final — and fly home the day after.

“I’ve especially been talking to our medical doctor (Paddy McCluskey) who over the last six months has become a real expert on Zika and dengue,” said Trent. “So we know that the transit times, or the residual times of Zika.

There’s also a Zika blood test you can get. The major issue with Zika is you can be a carrier and by asymptomic.”

And as Stellingwerff pointed out, Zika isn’t confined to Brazil — a man died of the disease last week in Utah, the first confirmed Zika death in the U.S. Then there’s the threat of crime, which Mayor Eduardo Paes, in an interview with CNN last week, called “the most serious issue in Rio and the state is doing a terrible, horrible job.

“It’s completely failing at its work of policing and taking care of people.”

Among recent ominous events: Australian Paralympic sailor Liesl Tesch was robbed at gunpoint in Rio when she was out on a bike ride. The robbers knocked her to the ground and took her bike. Earlier this month, a couple dozen armed men stormed a Rio hospital to free a suspected drug trafficker.

Thieves hijacked a German TV broadcast truck at gunpoint and made off with more than $US400,000 worth of equipment.

The police protests came amid slashed budgets, a product of Brazil’s worst recession in decades.

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Edmonton Eskimos’ Odell Willis (41) celebrates a play against the Saskatchewan Roughriders during secondhalf action in Edmonton, last Friday.

Bombers need rare win over Eskimos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Cornerback Maurice Leggett has done a lot in two-plus seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, but beating the Edmonton Eskimos isn’t on the list.

“It’s frustrating you know, since I’ve been here we haven’t won against Edmonton, and we’re just trying to get the ball rolling against them,” said Leggett, who recalled listening to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant talk about how he hated the Phoenix Suns, a team his Los Angeles Lakers struggled to beat.

“I guess I’ve got the same feeling.”

Winnipeg (1-2) picked up their first win of the season in Hamilton last week, Leggett named a CFL top performer for two interceptions (one for a 50-yard touchdown), five defensive tackles and one sack. Buliding on that win will be tough, as the Bombers haven’t managed to best the Eskimos since July 26, 2012, despite a few heartbreakingly close games.

The defending Grey Cup champion Eskimos (11) will be no easier to beat this time said Winnipeg quarterback Drew Willy, still trying to hit his stride after missing most of last season due to injury. But he said he doesn’t look at this game as a way to measure the depth of the 2016 Bombers against a key rival.

“I don’t think of it that way, obviously we’re playing a good team,” said Willy, whose 940 passing yards rank him second only to Ottawa’s Trevor Harris so far this season, partly thanks to his one-game lead on pivots such as Edmonton’s Mike Reilly.

“We know we need to be ready. We definitely had a good week of practice, a week of preparation … we’re definitely looking forward to it.”

Running back Andrew Harris said the Winnipeg’s win in Hamilton last week was important, but the team has put that in the closet.

“I think we flushed the win just like you would flush a loss … Every week you’ve got to flush it,” said the former CFL all-star, one of Winnipeg’s top additions this season.

But it did give the team a much-needed lift after dropping their first two of the season.

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“After last week the intensity picked up in practice.”

It’s early but Harris, a Winnipeg native, ranks second in CFL rushing yards this season behind only Calgary’s Jerome Messam.

The Bombers will be playing without kick returner Quincy McDuffie. Halfback Kevin Fogg will be first on the depth chart.

“Kevin Fogg is a guy who appears to be able to run all day,” said Bombers coach Mike O’Shea, praising his ability to play offence, defence and special teams.

“Guys like this are hard to find.”

The offences led by Reilly and Willy have both suffered from slow starts this season but Reilly says that doesn’t bother him.

“We don’t panic,” he said as he returned to the site of his Grey Cup win last November.

“We know a football game is four quarters and, apparently for us, four quarters and an overtime, but we know that there’s a lot of football to be played.”

Both Edmonton’s games so far have been decided in overtime. And despite the Eskimos’ winning record against the Bombers, Reilly said he takes nothing for granted.

“You come into this stadium you know you’re in for a dogfight.”

Rookie Edmonton coach Jason Maas and O’Shea have history together on the staff of the Toronto Argonauts, where they both shared in the team’s 2012 Grey Cup win.

“I think we’ll both be prepared, that’s what I know about Mike,” said Maas, who was offensive co-ordinator of the Ottawa Redblacks last season and watched his current team take the Cup from the opposing sideline in Winnipeg.

He would like to see a stronger start Thursday.

“We’ve been starting slow, stopping ourselves in games.”

He also saw the pressure the Winnipeg put on Hamilton’s quarterback last week.

“We’ve got to protect our quarterback and protect the ball … It’s hard to turn over the ball six times in a game and beat them.”

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LAS VEGAS HIRES MCPHEE AS GM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As general manager of the NHL’s expansion Las Vegas franchise, George McPhee wants to build a team that will entertain fans in a unique market and bring hockey’s hallowed trophy to the desert sooner rather than later.

Named the first GM in franchise history Wednesday, the seasoned McPhee had the deep resume to convince owner Bill Foley to choose him from among seven candidates. Now it’s up to him to build Las Vegas from scratch to begin play in 2017-18, a task he knows won’t be easy.

“Our mission here is clear: We’re going to build an organization and a team that people in Nevada and Las Vegas will be proud of, and we’re going to do it quickly and we’re aiming at the Stanley Cup,” McPhee said. “It’s that simple.”

McPhee most recently served as special adviser to New York Islanders GM Garth Snow and before that spent 16 seasons as GM of the Washington Capitals. As the Capitals’ GM, McPhee oversaw a complete rebuild around star winger Alex Ovechkin that led to six consecutive playoff appearances before he was fired in 2014.

“He took Washington from being a team that was scrambling and sort of turned it around, so I think that experience will be a big plus,” said Doug MacLean, who was the Columbus Blue Jackets’ GM when they entered the league in 2000. “I think it’s a real good fit.”

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George McPhee, left, and NHL’s expansion Las Vegas franchise owner Bill Foley attend a news conference Wednesday, in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas NHL expansion team named McPhee as its first general manager.

McPhee has a strong history of drafting and developing players, and his extensive NHL experience earned him the position over younger candidates. Foley said McPhee got the nod over two other finalists because of his communication skills.

Foley said he wanted a GM who was focused, dedicated and had a “take-no-prisoner” attitude and feels he got that in McPhee.

“We all want to win, and he’s going to win for us, but I like to have people that I really get along with and that I can communicate with,” Foley said.

“We had great candidates, they were all good. I just felt there was a little something extra with George.”

Despite not winning the Cup in Washington, McPhee’s success with the Capitals is what made him a sought-af-

ter candidate for openings in Toronto and Boston a year ago and now in Las Vegas. His experience in taking the second-oldest team in the league, tearing it down and creating a perennial playoff contender in the salary-cap era will suit him well in his new endeavour.

“I think I’ll be hopefully even better the second time around,” McPhee said.

“There are lots of GMs in this business that have done a good job in one place and gone to the next place and won Cups. I’d like to be one of those guys.”

A long rebuilding process McPhee said can be “negative fun” and called taking over a brand new team a phenomenal opportunity.

“Here you come in and it’s a clean slate and you get to pick everyone in your organization,” McPhee said. “This is what every GM wants to experience at some point in his career, to be able to start with a new franchise.”

With Las Vegas — which Foley said doesn’t have a name yet because of trademark issues — McPhee will have it a bit easier based on stricter NHL rules on how many players can be protected. The 58-year-old from Guelph, Ontario deemed it “a much more generous pool of players” than previous expansion teams have been able to choose from.

McPhee expects to have a nice start from the June 2017 expansion draft but cautioned that in the NHL teams don’t win by spending big in free agency.

He pointed to his enormous success in drafting well in Washington and said that will be the key to Las Vegas being a short- and long-term winner.

Canada’s James Hinchcliffe looking to put Canada wants whirlwind year behind him on home track at least 19

medals in Rio

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A year removed from a near-death experience at last year’s Indianapolis 500, Canadian James Hinchcliffe is back home and searching for his first victory of the season.

The Oakville, Ont., native will aim to pick up career win No. 5 at this weekend’s Honda Indy Toronto, which takes place Sunday at Exhibition Place.

Although this season has been inconsistent so far, the 29-year-old is feeling good entering his hometown race.

“The craziest thing about it is I’m healthier, fitter now than I’ve ever been,” Hinchcliffe said on Wednesday.

“When you’re in a position like that, you start paying a lot for attention to yourself, to your body. And now I know a lot more about myself personally and physically.

“Like I said, I’m fitter than ever, more prepared than I’ve ever been to get into an Indy car and do some damage, figuratively speaking.”

Hinchcliffe was rushed to hospital during the practice session of the 2015 Indy 500 after his car spun hard into the wall. The car briefly slid on its right side and almost flipped before coming came to rest upright.

Hinchcliffe’s left thigh was pierced by the car’s right front rocker and the piece of equipment needed to be removed, sources told The Associated Press. The injury required surgery on his left thigh and pelvic area to stop massive bleeding.

Hinchcliffe missed the rest of the 2015 season and has yet to win so far

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CFL: Impressive Grigsby put Ottawa on the scoreboard with a four-yard run, the Redblacks first rushing TD of the season, at 7:54.

Fajardo culminated an impressive 92-yard, 12-play march at 5:28 with a one-yard touchdown run, his first CFL score.

Toronto opened the scoring with a rather confusing 55-yard, 10-play drive.

Ray hit Phil Bates on a three-yard TD strike that was nullified by a procedure call.

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that’s traditionally been in my cards at this race, but hopefully we can buck the trend this week.”

After a series of poor finishes following his strong Indy 500, Hinchcliffe finished ninth at last weekend’s Iowa Corn 300.

Hinchcliffe said good qualifying is going to be key if he’s to win this weekend.

He finished eighth in the first race of the 2014 Toronto Indy before placing 18th in the second leg of the double-header.

The Canadian Olympic team is confident it can reach its goal of winning at least 19 medals at the Rio Olympics.

“Our primary goal is to win more medals than we won in London (in 2012), so 19 or higher will achieve that important goal,” Anne Merklinger, CEO of the Own The Podium program said Wednesday on a conference call.

“Our ultimate goal is to finish in the top 12 in total nation medal counts.

“We know that every medal will matter and it is an extremely tight medal race.”

By top 12, Merklinger was referring to total medals, regardless of colour.

The International Olympic Committee gives priority to gold medals in its standings, so Canada was nowhere near the top 12 in London with 18 total medals, but only one gold.

But she said boosting the medal count is a realistic goal based on performances in recent years, especially the athletics squad that took eight medals at its last world championships.

She said the current team is healthier, better funded and better coached.

“Athletics heads into Rio as Canada’s strongest multi-medal potential sport,” she said. “In addition, diving, swimming, cycling and women’s wrestling also have strong multiple-medal potential.

other U.S. families were looking into booking armoured vehicles, according to a New York Times report.

But Canadian family members call those extreme measures.

“Maybe we’re naive,” said Lynn Lalonde, mom of Genevieve, who made the Rio team in the 3,000-metre steeplechase.

Gathered at Edmonton’s City Hall on Monday to watch Canada’s track and field team introduced, parents and loved ones said they’ll be careful.

But none sounded too concerned.

“It’s just street smarts,” said Bever-

ley De Grasse, mom of sprinter Andre.

World decathlon silver medallist Damian Warner has a group a group of about a dozen loved ones and coaches travelling to Rio, including girlfriend Jen Cotten, a 400-metre hurdler who didn’t make the Olympic team.

Cotten plans to wear a money belt and stick with the group when travelling back and forth from the stadium.

Otherwise, she’s not “too worried.”

“I actually went to the Francophone Games in Lebanon in 2009, and people turned down that team saying it was too dangerous,” she said.

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Canadian James Hinchcliffe enters turn 5 after the first restart of the Edmonton Indy, in Edmonton. this year.

The Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver does have five top 10 finishes entering the Indy Toronto — highlighted by a third-place finish at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in May. He followed that up by taking the pole position at May’s Indianapolis 500 before finishing seventh.

“It’s been a roller-coaster ride,” Hinchcliffe said.

“We’re proving the paces week in and week out, we just need luck to fall our way a little bit. Not something

SAFETY: Protect But Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani said Tuesday the government is granting the armed forces an additional US$24 million for security. The military will begin patrolling sports venues July 24, and some 85,000 police and soldiers are to be deployed during the Games — roughly double the number of security at the 2012 London Olympics.

Still, some athletes are taking special precautions to keep their loved ones safe. American swim star Michael Phelps is paying for a private security company to protect his family, while

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NHL BRIEFS Oilers sign Puljujarvi to entry-level contract EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed Jesse Puljujarvi, the fourth-overall pick at the 2016 NHL draft, to a three-year entry level contract.

The 18-year-old forward spent last season with the Finish Elite League’s Oulu Karpat, recording 28 points (13 goals, 15 assists), 22 penalty minutes and a plus-5 defensive rating in 50 games.

He also posted nine points (four goals, five assists) in 10 playoff games.

The six-foot-four, 203-pound winger has spent the past two seasons with Karpat, accumulating 39 point sand 32 penalty minutes in 71 career games.

The Tornio, Finland native represented his country most recently at the 2016 world junior hockey championship, leading the tournament in scoring with 17 points in seven games, helping Finland capture a gold medal.

Red Wings re-sign Pulkkinen to 1-year deal DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have resigned forward Teemu Pulkkinen to a one-year, $812,500 contract.

The team announced the move Wednesday. The 24-year-old Pulkkinen had six goals and six assists last season for the Red Wings. He dislocated his right shoulder and played only 36 games for Detroit.

Over the past three seasons, Pulkkinen has played 70 games for the Red Wings, scoring 11 goals with nine assists. He also won the AHL’s Willie Marshall Award for top goal scorer in 2014-15.

Few teams today would dare try what the Montreal Canadiens did with P.K. Subban in the winter of 2013.

So-called “bridge contracts,” like the two-year agreement Subban inked with his now former team in Montreal, are disappearing as more teams opt to lock up their talented young players as soon as possible.

The Carolina Hurricanes added the latest name to the group on Tuesday morning, signing 23-year-old Victor Rask to a six-year deal worth $24 million US. Deals like Rask’ are essentially low to medium-risk bets under a restrictive cap system. Teams are betting that the contracts, the first after entry level agreements, will become bargains one day if the player continues to improve and the cap continues to rise.

The result is the disappearance of bridge contracts, shorter deals that “bridge” players from the expiration of their entry-level deals until a potentially richer third NHL contract.

Teams give themselves more time under such scenarios to evaluate players before they commit long-term.

“I think it’s a lot of things,” Hurricanes general manager Ron Francis said of the current trend.

“One, you’re banking on improvement (and) I think also you’re banking on the individual. Victor now, at the ripe old age of 23, has been with us for a while and we’ve got to know him as a person and his work ethic.

“That factors in our comfort level with a longer term deal as well.”

Francis said the Hurricanes have opted for both kinds of deals.

The club signed defenceman Justin Faulk for six years, already a winner because of Faulk’s improvement, and former top-10 pick Elias Lindholm to a two-year pact which expires after next season.

“I think it really depends on the situation and the individual and really, what you can get on a longterm deal number-wise and what you can get on a shorter term deal number-wise,” Francis said.

It’s a win-win deal initially for both player and team.

The player gets immediate security with term on his contract, while the team, assuming the player improves, gets a good player at a helpful number under the cap, which rose to $73 million next season.

The Winnipeg Jets just signed 23-year-old Mark Scheifele for eight years with a $6.1 million annual cap hit that could become a steal if Scheifele continues to build on the 29-goal, 61-point production he managed last season.

The Edmonton Oilers dove head-first into the tactic years ago, quickly locking up Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle after their entry-level contracts expired.

Those deals, while initially jarring, have looked somewhat more reasonable in time.

Among those to sign similar deals so far this summer: Columbus defenceman Seth Jones (six years), Toronto blue-liner Morgan Rielly (six years), Colorado forward Nathan MacKinnon (seven years), and Nashville centre Filip Forsberg (six years). The Florida Panthers signed 20-year-old defenceman Aaron Ekblad to an eight-year deal one year before he was even due a new contract.

Likely to follow suit in the weeks ahead are the

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Columbus Blue Jackets’ Seth Jones plays against the Tampa Bay Lightning during an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio. The Blue Jackets signed defenseman Seth Jones to a $32.4-million, six-year contract in June.

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Francis said Rask has become a trusted player in every situation for Carolina, a “solid kid” who works hard and is driven to improve.

“When you have that kind of fire in a guy and that kind of player then we’re really comfortable with a longer-term commitment to a player like that,” Francis said of Rask, who had a career-high 21 goals and 48 points last season.

The Hurricanes GM believes the former Hurricanes second-rounder is trending upward and will benefit from an improved supporting cast which now includes Lee Stempniak and talented former first-rounder Teuvo Teravainen.

Like many teams these days he was willing to bet on upside.

“I don’t think either side wins if it’s a lopsided deal,” said Francis, a Hall of Fame centre who sits third all-time in games played.

“Now we may pay a guy and he struggles and it looks that way (but) we may pay a guy and he blossoms and it looks like it’s unfair to the player. But I think when you go into a negotiation and a deal, at least my approach is we want to try and strike a deal that’s fair for both sides and I think that’s the best way to build your relationships moving forward.”

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HALIFAX — As Sidney Crosby prepares to carry the Stanley Cup through his Nova Scotia hometown, he says in many ways a championship tour is all the sweeter the second time around.

The Pittsburgh Penguins captain is in Halifax this week overseeing his annual hockey camp and will bring the Cup to the city for a parade on Saturday, ending at the same rink where he honed his skills as a boy.

During a break Wednesday from working with excited kids at the Cole Harbour rink, Crosby reflected on a season that had its ups and downs — and a championship ring that shone all the brighter as a result.

“This time I appreciate it a little bit more,” said Crosby. “I’ll make sure I spend every second I possibly can with it (the Stanley Cup).”

After the previous 2009 victory tour through this hockey-crazy suburb, Crosby said he naively imagined winning seasons might be an annual affair.

Not so much.

He struggled through a concussion, time away from the game, and the Penguins endured a seven-year hiatus from hoisting hockey’s greatest prize, until they raised it for the fourth time in franchise history on June 12 after beating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 in Game 6.

As team captain, Crosby is permitted to have the trophy an extra day, meaning it will have a proud place at his home on the outskirts of the city. He declined to say exactly what shenanigans are expected.

He said he intends to have friends over for a look, including several whose careers are over and may never have another opportunity to be so near it.

“The best part is being able to share it with people,” he said.

The Penguins evolved into a different team after a mid-season coaching change, picking up speed, scoring more and improving puck possession when Mike Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston in mid-December.

Crosby called it the “two-team” season during Wednesday’s news conference.

The captain’s performance also picked up under Sullivan, along with forward Phil Kessel, who became a key post-season force on the third offensive line. The Penguins went 33-16-5 after Sullivan took over.

“Everybody was talking about … do we need to change this, do we need to change that? There’s always those questions, and winning kind of answers all of those,” said Crosby, when asked about the year past.

The Conn Smythe winner was out on the ice most afternoons this week, joking with the young players and offering shooting tips.

Crosby’s hockey camp is in its second year and is drawing children from Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and northern Europe, say organizers. There’s a lottery for the 160 girls and boys allowed in, drawn from 5,000 applicants.

Parents attending say many of the children, aged 8 to 12, have a Crosby story to tell from their workouts.

Kristin Scarcella said her daughter dropped her water bottle and Crosby bent over the boards, bum in the air, to fetch it. She’s been sending the image around to some social media pals back in her hometown of Michigan.

For the NHL star, it’s all part of unwinding.

“You see how excited the kids are. … There are kids from all over here. That’s neat,” he said.

Crosby said he’s starting back on training after a short break, and is already reflecting on his role as a captain of Team Canada in this fall’s World Cup in Toronto.

The tightly packed tournament will leave little room for error and winning will depend on which squad adapts the most quickly, he said.

The team is similar to the Team Canada that won gold at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

“The biggest thing in Russia is we got better as the tournament went along. A short-term event like that, it’s very important. We’ll have to see. We’ll have to find our identity pretty quickly,” he said.

“It’s one-game scenarios so you need to execute pretty well.”

Meanwhile, the veteran is soaking up his hometown celebration, conscious this time around that in professional sports, you don’t know what the future holds.

“It’s a tough road … You understand it’s tough to get there, and you take in as much as you can when you do win it,” he said.

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SCOREBOARD THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2016

Baseball All-Star Game Results 2016 — American, 4-2 2015 — American, 6-3 2014 — American, 5-3 2013 — American, 3-0 2012 — National, 8-0 2011 — National, 5-1 2010 — National, 3-1 2009 — American, 4-3 2008 — American, 4-3, 15 innings 2007 — American, 5-4 2006 — American, 3-2 2005 — American, 7-5 2004 — American, 9-4 2003 — American, 7-6 2002 — Tied 7-7, 11 innings 2001 — American, 4-1 2000 — American, 6-3 1999 — American, 4-1 1998 — American, 13-8 1997 — American, 3-1 1996 — National, 6-0 1995 — National, 3-2 1994 — National, 8-7, 10 innings 1993 — American, 9-3 1992 — American, 13-6 1991 — American, 4-2 1990 — American, 2-0 1989 — American, 5-3 1988 — American, 2-1 1987 — National, 2-0, 13 innings 1986 — American, 3-2 1985 — National, 6-1 1984 — National, 3-1 1983 — American, 13-3 1982 — National, 4-1 1981 — National, 5-4 1980 — National, 4-2 1979 — National, 7-6 1978 — National, 7-3 1977 — National, 7-5 1976 — National, 7-1 1975 — National, 6-3 1974 — National, 7-2 1973 — National, 7-1 1972 — National, 4-3, 10 innings 1971 — American, 6-4 1970 — National, 5-4, 12 innings 1969 — National, 9-3 1968 — National, 1-0 1967 — National, 2-1, 15 innings 1966 — National, 2-1, 10 innings 1965 — National, 6-5 1964 — National, 7-4 1963 — National, 5-3 1962 — National, 3-1 1962 — American, 9-4 1961 — Tied 1-1, 9 innings, rain 1961 — National, 5-4, 10 innings 1960 — National, 5-3 1960 — National, 6-0 1959 — National, 5-4 1959 — American, 5-3 1958 — American, 4-3 1957 — American, 6-5 1956 — National, 7-3 1955 — National, 6-5, 12 innings 1954 — American, 11-9 1953 — National, 5-1 1952 — National, 3-2, 5 innings, rain 1951 — National, 8-3 1950 — National, 4-3, 14 innings 1949 — American, 11-7 1948 — American, 5-2 1947 — American, 2-1 1946 — American, 12-0 1945 — No Game 1944 — National, 7-1 1943 — American, 5-3 1942 — American, 3-1 1941 — American, 7-5 1940 — National, 4-0 1939 — American, 3-1 1938 — National, 4-1 1937 — American, 8-3

Local Sports 1936 — National, 4-3 1935 — American, 4-1 1934 — American, 9-7 1933 — American, 4-2

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All-Star Game MVPs 2016 — Eric Hosmer, Kansas City, AL 2015 — Mike Trout, Los Angeles, AL 2014 — Mike Trout, Los Angeles, AL 2013 — Mariano Rivera, New York, AL 2012 — Melky Cabrera, San Francisco, NL 2011 — Prince Fielder, Milwaukee, NL 2010 — Brian McCann, Atlanta, NL 2009 — Carl Crawford, Tampa Bay, AL 2008 — J.D. Drew, Boston, AL 2007 — Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle, AL 2006 — Michael Young, Texas, AL 2005 — Miguel Tejada, Baltimore, AL 2004 — Alfonso Soriano, Texas, AL 2003 — Garret Anderson, Anaheim, AL 2002 — None 2001 — Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore, AL 2000 — Derek Jeter, New York, AL 1999 — Pedro Martinez, Boston, AL 1998 — Roberto Alomar, Baltimore, AL 1997 — Sandy Alomar Jr., Cleveland, AL 1996 — Mike Piazza, Los Angeles, NL 1995 — Jeff Conine, Florida, NL 1994 — Fred McGriff, Atlanta, NL 1993 — Kirby Puckett, Minnesota, AL 1992 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle, AL 1991 — Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore, AL 1990 — Julio Franco, Texas, AL 1989 — Bo Jackson, Kansas City, AL 1988 — Terry Steinbach, Oakland, AL 1987 — Tim Raines, Montreal, NL 1986 — Roger Clemens, Boston, AL 1985 — LaMarr Hoyt, San Diego, NL 1984 — Gary Carter, Montreal, NL 1983 — Fred Lynn, California, AL 1982 — Dave Concepcion, Cincinnati, NL 1981 — Gary Carter, Montreal, NL 1980 — Ken Griffey Sr., Cincinnati, NL 1979 — Dave Parker, Pittsburgh, NL 1978 — Steve Garvey, Los Angeles, NL 1977 — Don Sutton, Los Angeles, NL 1976 — George Foster, Cincinnati, NL 1975 — Bill Madlock, Chicago, NL, and Jon Matlack, New York, NL 1974 — Steve Garvey, Los Angeles, NL 1973 — Bobby Bonds, San Francisco, NL 1972 — Joe Morgan, Cincinnati, NL 1971 — Frank Robinson, Baltimore, AL 1970 — Carl Yastrzemski, Boston, AL 1969 — Willie McCovey, San Francisco, NL 1968 — Willie Mays, San Francisco, NL 1967 — Tony Perez, Cincinnati, NL 1966 — Brooks Robinson, Baltimore, AL 1965 — Juan Marichal, San Francisco, NL 1964 — John Callison, Philadelphia, NL 1963 — Willie Mays, San Francisco, NL 1962 — x-Maury Wills, Los Angeles, NL 1962 — x-Leon Wagner, Los Angeles, AL x-two games

Saturday’s Games Detroit 3, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 6, 11 innings Oakland 3, Houston 2 Kansas City 5, Seattle 3 Minnesota 8, Texas 6 Sunday’s Games Toronto 6, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 7 Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 0 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Houston 2, Oakland 1, 10 innings Seattle 8, Kansas City 5 Minnesota 15, Texas 5 Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

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

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Toronto at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 810 p.m.

Baltimore Boston Toronto New York Tampa Bay Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota Texas

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 51 36 .586 49 38 .563 51 40 .560 44 44 .500 34 54 .386 Central Division W L Pct 52 36 .591 46 43 .517 45 43 .511 45 43 .511 32 56 .364 West Division W L Pct 54 36 .600

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NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 54 36 .600 New York 47 41 .534 Miami 47 41 .534 Philadelphia 42 48 .467 Atlanta 31 58 .348 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 53 35 .602 St. Louis 46 42 .523 Pittsburgh 46 43 .517 Milwaukee 38 49 .437 Cincinnati 32 57 .360 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 57 33 .633 Los Angeles 51 40 .560 Colorado 40 48 .455 San Diego 38 51 .427 Arizona 38 52 .422

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Saturday’s game B.C. at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

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GP B.C. 3 Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 3 Saskatchewan 2

WEEK FOUR Bye: Calgary Wednesday’s result Ottawa 30 Toronto 20 Thursday’s game Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

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WEEK FIVE Bye: B.C. Thursday, July 21 Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 22 Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 23 Hamilton at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Monday, July 25 Montreal at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

WEEK SIX Bye: Hamilton Thursday, July 28 Winnipeg at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, July 29 Saskatchewan at Montreal, 5 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Sunday, July 31

VANCOUVER — Jon Jennings didn’t get caught up in the success that came when he was a rookie phenom quarterback leading the B.C. Lions last year. He’s no less rattled by his first stretch of adversity in the CFL. Coach/GM Wally Buono said the 23-year-old sophomore will be back behind centre Saturday when the 2-1 Lions travel to face the 0-2 Saskatchewan Roughriders, despite being lifted for Travis Lulay in B.C.’s 25-14 home loss to Toronto last week. Jennings turned heads when given an opportunity after Lulay and John Beck went down with injuries last year, but the start of his second season has not reflected steady growth.

He’s last among starters in passing completions and efficiency rating and has thrown for only one touchdown so far, which is balanced by the Lions’ league-leading rushing average of 109.3 yards per game. Jennings said the added pressure of being asked to deliver results as an established starter hasn’t changed his outlook.

The downturn is a result of how opposing defences have prepared for him now that he has put his game on film.

“Last year I got away with things that made up for certain mistakes. This year they’re catching up a bit,” Jennings said. “It’s a good thing because it allows me to grow.”

TORONTO — Canadian rugby sevens coach Liam Middleton has paid the price for missing out on the “very attainable” goal of Olympic qualification.

In the wake of a review of the men’s sevens program, Rugby Canada says it will not renew Middleton’s contract and will launch a global search for a new head coach immediately.

Middleton, a Zimbabwe native, was appointed coach in September 2014.

His departure is perhaps not unexpected given an underachieving World Series season that saw the men finish 13th overall and go 12 matches without a win during a dismal run that touched on tournaments in Hong Kong, Singapore and London.

But the Olympic failure particularly stung.

“There’s no doubt we’re very disappointed we’re not there and we believe we should have been (in Rio),” Jim Dixon, Rugby Canada’s GM of rugby operations and performance, told a media conference call Wednesday.

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Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2 Miami 4, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 12, Chicago Cubs 6 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 3 Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Colorado 8, Philadelphia 3 Sunday’s Games Miami 7, Cincinnati 3 Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 5 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Philadelphia 10, Colorado 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 0 Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

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

Toronto at Ottawa, 75:30 p.m.

Redblacks 30, Argonauts 20 CFL Wednesday night: First Quarter Tor — TD Coombs 1 run (Hajrullahu convert) 10:24 Second Quarter Tor — TD Fajardo 1 run (convert failed) 5:28 Ott — TD Grigsby 4 run (Milo convert) 7:54 Ott — FG Milo 31 15:00 Third Quarter Ott — TD Harris 1 run (Milo convert) 1:00 Tor — TD Whitaker 6 pass from Ray (Hajrullahu convert) 13:01 Fourth Quarter Ott — FG Milo 11 3:14 Ott — TD Jackson 75 punt return (Milo convert) 4:19 Ott — FG Milo 30 14:50 Ottawa 0 10 7 13 — 30 Toronto 7 6 7 0 — 20 Attendance — 12,373 at Toronto.

B.C. had a 3-3 record with Jennings under centre last season but the Lions ensured stability at the position during the winter by giving both Jennings and Lulay contract extensions.

Lulay is currently the highest-paid Lions quarterback but Jennings will make $300,000 in 2018 in the final year of his new deal.

Jennings has not thrown for more than 300 passing yards in his last six regular-season starts dating back to last year, and was pulled last week one series after throwing his first interception this season. It could not have come as a surprise, however. Prior to the Lions’ first road game of the regular season schedule in Hamilton, the club told Jennings he would be pulled if he couldn’t adjust. B.C. won 28-3.

“If he can’t handle being pulled he’ll never be a pro quarterback,” said Buono, whose reputation for pulling more established quarterbacking stars in the CFL is legendary.

Lions offensive co-ordinator Khari Jones admits he is careful not to overburden Jennings, who will make just his 10th career regular-season start Saturday.

“He didn’t even have time to be a backup and I always say it’s great for a guy to experience being a backup for a year,” said Jones. “He’s still the same Jon but I told him teams now have a book on him whereas last year he was kind of an open book so you didn’t know what to expect.”

Liam Middleton out as Canada rugby sevens coach after disappointing season

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While Dixon said there were many factors behind Canada’s underwhelming performance, “on the whole it’s about performing under pressure and performing on demand. And unfortunately we weren’t able to do that at critical moments in the season.”

“We hope and feel confident that with a (coaching) change, we can improve those factors and get results at the times that are critical to the program,” he added.

The Canadian men had three opportunities to make the 12-team field for the Olympic debut of rugby sevens. First was finishing in the top four of the 2014-15 World Series (Canada placed ninth). The second was a June 2015 regional qualifying tournament for the North America and Caribbean region (NACRA) where Canada lost 21-5 to the U.S. in the final. And third was a June last-ditch repechage qualifying tournament in Monaco with the final Olympic spot up for grabs. Canada finished fifth. Asked about the players’ thoughts on Middleton, Dixon said they had a “huge amount of respect” for the coach, his work ethic and many of the programs he implemented.

BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Reinstated OF Anthony Gose from the suspended list and optioned him to Erie (EL) from Toledo (IL).

American Association TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed INF Cory Morales.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Traded RHP Frank DeJiulio Jr. to Bridgeport for RHP Scott Shuman.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released LHP Ari Kaufman.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released INFs Andrew Dundon and Luis Gonzalez. Signed RHP Josue Peley and C Jesus Fernandez.

TROIS-RIVERES — Released LHP Omar Duran.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed F James Ennis to a multiyear contract.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed Gs Jerryd Bayless and Sergio Rodriguez.

FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed RB Brandon Ross.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Re-signed LW Teemu Pulkkinen to a one-year contract.

EDMONTON OILERS — Signed F Jesse Puljujarvi to a three-year entry level contract.

LAS VEGAS — Named George McPhee general manager.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F J.T. Miller.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Cory Conacher to a one-year, one-way contract.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Named Vince Laise assistant coach.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Joe Rehkamp.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended LA Galaxy MF Nigel de Jong one additional match and fined him an undisclosed amount for his foul in the 74th minute of a game against Vancouver on July 4.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed MFs Derrick Jones and Ryan Richter to short-term agreements.

National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed D/MF Line Sigvardsen Jensen COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Announced the resignation of men’s golf coach Tim Mickelson. Named men’s assistant golf coach Judd Easterling golf coach.

AUGUSTA — Announced the resignation of baseball coach Jason Eller to become baseball coach at Georgia College.

BAYLOR — Named Mack Rhoades athletic director.

CUMBERLAND, TENNESSEE — Named Chad Lowman wrestling assistant coach.

GEORGE MASON — Extended the contract of men’s basketball coach Dave Paulsen for one year, through the 2021 season.

HOFSTRA — Named Shanna Brady women’s assistant lacrosse coach.

LIMESTONE — Named Kaitlyn Lentz assistant director for media relations.

NEW MEXICO — Released freshman G Sammie Woodward from her women’s basketball scholarship.

NYU — Named Kayleigh Fournier strength and conditioning coach.

ST. SCHOLASTICA — Named Patricia Elsmore women’s assistant hockey coach.

TEXAS STATE — Announced the resignation of associate head football coach John Wiley.

VIRGINIA TECH — Extended the contract of men’s basketball coach Buzz Williams through the 202223 season.

Pacquiao plans to return to the ring Nov. 5

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao isn’t ready to give up his night job just yet.

Pacquiao, who said before his last fight in April that he would retire, now plans to return to the ring in November against an opponent who has yet to be selected.

Promoter Bob Arum said Tuesday that Pacquiao got permission to take a break from his new duties as a senator in the Philippines to take another fight. It will be held Nov. 5, likely in Las Vegas.

“He likes to fight and he likes the attention,” Arum said of Pacquiao’s return.

Pacquiao looked impressive in his last fight in April, returning from a layoff to knock down Timothy Bradley on his way to a unanimous decision. After the fight he wavered on his previous plans to retire.

“If you ask me to come back I don’t know,” Pacquiao said.

“I may be enjoying retired life. I’m not there yet so I just don’t know.”

Pacquiao, who was formerly a congressman in his native country, was elected to the Senate in May and there were fears that increased duties would prevent him from fighting again.

But Arum said the head of the Senate told Pacquiao he was free to fight after the country’s budget is settled on Oct. 15.

“He would train in the Philippines and leave on the 16th to come to the U.S., train for two weeks and then come to Vegas,” Arum said. “The only issue is getting an arena for the fight.”

Arum said he is talking with MGM Resorts about an arena to host the fight. He had reserved the Mandalay Bay arena for Oct. 15, but Pacquiao can’t leave his Senate duties that early.

The fight also could be at the UNLV campus arena, he said, though UNLV would have to move a scheduled basketball exhibition from the date.

There were reports that Pacquiao might fight Adrien Broner, but Arum said he wanted the same money as Pacquiao, which was a non-starter. Another possible opponent would be Jesse Vargas, who fights for Top Rank, and holds a piece of the welterweight title.

Pacquiao was off for nearly a year after losing in May 2015 to Floyd Mayweather Jr., healing from a shoulder injury. But he seemed reinvigorated after beating Bradley in April in a performance that got good reviews from most, including trainer Freddie Roach.

“When I see Manny Pacquiao like that, this is the best Manny Pacquiao,” Roach said after the fight. “He hasn’t missed a beat.

I would like to see him fight again.”

NEWS IN BRIEF

Cowboys 1st team worth $4 billion, according to Forbes NEW YORK — The Dallas Cowboys are the first sports franchise worth US$4 billion, according to Forbes.

In its annual rankings, Forbes placed the Cowboys ahead of Real Madrid and Barcelona after the NFL team had a 25 per cent increase in value.

Champions League winner Real dropped to the second spot at $3.65 billion, followed by its archrival Barcelona at 3.55 billion. The rest of the top 10 has the New York Yankees ($3.4 billion) in fourth place, followed by Manchester United ($3.32 billion), the New England Patriots ($3.2 billion), New York Knicks ($3.0 billion), Washington Redskins ($2.8 billion), New York Giants ($2.8 billion), and tied for 10th, the Los Angeles Lakers and San Francisco 49ers ($2.7 billion).

The average current value of the 50 most valuable teams is $2.2 billion, the highest to date, a 25 per cent increase over last year. NFL teams account for more than half the list with 27.

“Blockbuster TV contracts are fueling unprecedented increases in sports team values around the globe as the average value of a top 50 franchise has doubled over the past four years,” says Forbes senior editor Kurt Badenhausen. “The NFL is still king on TV with contracts worth nearly $7 billion annually from its media partners.” Eight European soccer teams and eight NBA franchises made the list, and there were seven Major League Baseball clubs in the top 50.

No NHL teams made the list.

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Climate advisory panel named

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EDMONTON — One of Canada’s most prominent environmental activists has been named by the Alberta government to co-lead an advisory panel on how the oilsands can meet greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Tzeporah Berman — who has protested against new oilsands pipelines — will join well-known energy executive David Collyer and aboriginal leader Melody Lepine as part of the province’s Oilsands Advisory Group.

“There’s going to be creative tension on this group, no question,” said Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, who made the announcement Wednesday.

“But industry recognizes that and they were the one who began these conversations with these folks years ago.”

The group is to advise the government on how

best to implement on the industry a 100-megatonne cap on emissions. That is likely to mean regulatory changes, said Phillips.

It is also to look at technological innovation and ways that money from a carbon tax can be spent to reduce the amount of carbon emitted per barrel.

“We clearly need to raise the bar on environmental performance, particularly on carbon,” said Collyer, a former top executive at Shell Canada and head of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Pipelines are on the table as well.

“One of the issues the group is going to be looking at is the need for and role of pipelines, how that relates to emissions limits,” Collyer said.

“We have to recognize the importance of this industry to Albertans. There’s a prosperity dimension to this as well.”

Crown pulls charges against Brazeau

The panel is also to look at effective ways to address regional environmental concerns beyond climate change — a particularly important issue for First Nations in the oilsands area.

“The mandate is to focus on climate change, but there are other environmental issues — cumulative effects, community concerns, the inclusion of indigenous knowledge,” said Lepine, director of government and industry relations for the Mikisew Cree.

“When we look at the issues around the oilsands, we take a more holistic view.”

It’s the presence of Berman, a non-Albertan who has called the oilsands “the single largest and most destructive project on Earth,” that has raised the most eyebrows. Naming her to an advisory group on the industry’s future has already drawn fire from opposition politicians.

“Appointing a co-chair to the (group) who is vocally opposed and has made a career off opposing our oil sands industry is deeply disappointing,” said Opposition Wildrose Leader Brian Jean.

COMPANY TO REBUILD FISH PLANT

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Liberals may send peacekeepers to mission in Africa

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Containing the spread of terrorism across Africa is a consideration for Canada as it mulls where best to contribute to a UN peacekeeping mission, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Wednesday.

The government has yet to make up its mind on where it will send its peacekeepers, in fulfillment of a major foreign policy priority, Sajjan said. But Canada wants to have an impact wherever it deploys troops, he added, and doesn’t want to send a contingent to a specific country simply for the sake of doing so.

Sources say a mission to Mali, the West African country where more than a dozen peacekeepers have been killed this year, is a serious option for the government.

“Mali was definitely on the radar screen,” said a well-placed source with knowledge of the process, who spoke on the condition they not be named because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.

Sajjan said the need to control the spread of Islamic militants across the Middle East and Africa is part of the government’s calculation in determining where Canada’s eventual peacekeeping mission will be focused.

“We can’t look at a country in isolation,” Sajjan said from Kuwait after visiting Canadian military personnel there and in neighbouring Iraq who are talking part in the U.S.-led coalition’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“The reason I think when it comes to looking at Africa … you can look at various groups like Boko Haram, al-Shabaab who are trying to make a greater network with ISIL.” In West Africa, Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in northern Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, while alShabaab has used the chaos in Somalia to establish a foothold that has threatened East Africa.

France is leading the current UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has faced threats in its north from al-Qaida and other militant groups.

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Firefighters battle a fire at Quinlan Brothers Fish Plant in Bay de Verde, N.L. The Newfoundland company whose seafood plant was destroyed by fire in April says it plans to have a new processing facility ready for production by next year. Quinlan Brothers Limited says in a news release that the company has worked with snow crab producers since the fire to ensure that fish harvesters have been serviced as normal.

Canada BRIEFS Saskatchewan woman finds mother’s wedding ring 30 years after she lost it PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan woman who was a teenager when she lost her mother’s ring has found it more than 30 years later in a thrift shop.

Chris Moody was shopping at Value Village in Prince Albert recently when a ring caught her eye at the jewelry counter.

She took a closer look and was pretty sure it was the ring she had lost years before.

She told two employees that it was her mother’s ring and would have the initials “W.E.” on it.

It did, and even though it had a price of $80 on it, the clerks returned it to her.

Moody says her mom died more than 25 years ago, so finding her ring “brought her a little bit closer.”

The ring was a gift from Moody’s grandfather to her mother, but Moody liked to borrow it. She was no more than 17 when she lost the jewelry while she was out roller skating one night.

She says she’s very grateful to the clerks for giving her back the ring.

“These two girls said they didn’t care if they got in trouble. They didn’t care if they lost their jobs. But they said they had to give me my ring back and it was such an incredible act of kindness,” Moody said.

“It’s not something that (the girls) do, and not something they would probably do again, but they did that day.”

Plane carrying Jean Lapierre and his family flying too high and fast: TSB MONTREAL — The plane that crashed with former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and six other people aboard was travelling faster and at a higher altitude than recommended, the Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

The federal agency said the plane crashed in eastern Quebec last March 29 soon after the pilot turned off the autopilot and lowered the landing gear.

Almost immediately afterwards, the Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 aircraft “rolled quickly into a steep right bank and descended rapidly” before smashing to the ground, the TSB wrote in an investigation update.

According to the report, the aircraft’s mechanical systems all appeared to be working and the pilot was qualified for the flight.

“No mechanical deficiencies have been identified with the aircraft’s engines, flight controls, landing gear, and navigation systems,” it read.

The team has finished examining the site and gathering information about the incident.

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OTTAWA — The last remaining threads of the years-long Senate spending saga are finally being tied up, as the final few senators who have been facing legal scrutiny suddenly find themselves walking away without facing a criminal trial.

Fraud and breach of trust charges against Sen. Patrick Brazeau were withdrawn Wednesday, the latest legal domino to fall in the wake of Mike Duffy’s sensational acquittal on 31 criminal charges three months ago.

In May, prosecutors dropped charges against former senator Mac Harb, while the RCMP abandoned its three-year-long investigation of Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses without laying charges. PATRICK BRAZEAU And still more senators who were swept up in the expenses scandal are set to walk away without facing criminal charges, said a Senate source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The RCMP has informed the upper chamber that the force will not pursue criminal charges against any of the 30 senators named in auditor general Michael Ferguson’s critical review of Senate spending, said the source, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, The remaining two files are to be closed in the coming weeks, said the source, who would not confirm the identities of the senators in question.

The smoldering ruins of what was once a raging political scandal on Parliament Hill has left many in the upper chamber wondering what was gained from all the money and time spent on sifting through thousands of expense claims.

“Quite frankly, it’s a big waste of money,” Brazeau’s lawyer Christian Deslauriers said outside the Ottawa courthouse Wednesday.

“There were a lot of resources that were put on this for no reason and quite frankly, this destroyed Mr. Brazeau for three years now. He’s been having a hard time with this.”

Deslauriers said Brazeau was considering his options, which include taking the Mounties to court.

Brazeau did not attend Wednesday’s brief hearing in person, although he did express himself on Twitter shortly after the charges were dropped.

“I wouldn’t wish false accusations on my worst enemy,” Brazeau tweeted. “It almost ruined my life.

I was thrown under the bus, but I survived.”

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SIMPLY DELICIOUS SIMPLE SPICE SERVES UP DELICIOUS FLAVOURS FROM THE PHILIPPINES

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ABOVE: Filipino barbecue skewers are a popular choice.

BELOW: Simple Spice menu items include pancit bihon noodles and Filipino spring rolls.

MOBILE MUNCH Mmmmmmm barbecue pork skewers…

(Insert Homer Simpson drooling/gargling sounds here).

Wafting fingers of barbecue scent are pulling customers to Simple Spice, a Food Truck Friday rookie this year.

Ben and Nadine Flores are the couple behind Simple Spice, which brings the flavours of the Philippines to our back door.

A certified chef, Ben took his skills on the road for the first time last year, serving up pork kebabs on a barbecue among other dishes at the Red Deer Public Market. It was kind of a trial run to see if he would enjoy food trucking.

“I loved it,” he says. “It’s my work and I like meeting people. You get one-on-one compliments from the people.”

Encouraged, he got his truck and started outfitting it with everything he needed to hit the road.

His journey hasn’t been without its bumps in the road. Last Thanksgiving, he headed out the door to his truck at 5 a.m. to go to the public market. To his dismay, he found only empty driveway where his truck had been sitting.

It would turn up abandoned in Red Deer County a few hours later but not before the thieves stole his generator, cash register and a few other things.

Simple Stuff was soon up and running again and it’s unmistakable scent has been luring curious and hungry customers to its spot at the back corner of the Food Truck Friday all season.

The Filipino barbecue skewers have always been a big draw. Marinating is the secret. The marinade’s ingredients are not unusual, soy sauce, garlic, sugar, salt, pepper. It’s the measures that make the taste and he did a lot of tweaking to hit the taste sweet spot.

Pancit bihon noodles are another winner.

We put our trust in regular customer Michelle Hilz, who is an enthusiastic fan of the dish.

“It’s just the flavour. It’s just awesome,” she said, saying it was kind of Filipino version of comfort food.

Hilz, you’re on to something. The noodles were great, especially when accented with a little soy sauce. If you like a little burn in their food just ask for the hot sauce.

We tried the pancit noodles as part of a combo dish with the barbecue skewers for $10 and was not disappointed. Another 10-spot went to a second combination, this time with Filipino spring rolls, and we switched out the noodles for rice. The spring rolls were excellent and well worth a try.

Another Filipino dish is the pork adobo with rice for $7, which looks great.

A brunch combo offers barbecue skewer, rice and egg for $7.50 for kind of breakfast twist on the menu. There are also plenty of traditional Western choices such as burgers, BLTs, breakfast sandwiches and onion rings.

Flores says as the newbie to Food Truck Fridays, it’s taking a little time to build his clientele — but it’s happening.

“We started to get people to know us,” says Flores as he turns another row of skewers to get that perfect smoky barbecue crispness.

Flores can be found at Food Truck Fridays in Red Deer, as well as the Innisfail Farmers Market and the Innisfail Show ’n Shine on Thursdays. On Saturdays, he’s at Red Deer Public Market.

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Where we came from and where we’ve gone BOB SCAMMELL OUTDOORS Note: This is part two of three for Bob Scammell’s last column with The Advocate. Bob has been writing for The Advocate since 1966.

Pat O’Callaghan was a regular reader and true fan of the column. He bought it for The Calgary Herald when he was publisher there, likewise when he went to The Edmonton Journal.

In all, the column has appeared in half a dozen Alberta dailies and another half dozen weekly newspapers. It totaled 20 years in two stints in The Calgary Herald and more than that in my hometown weekly, The Brooks Bulletin.

The champion, my column’s lead paper, The Advocate, has published them all. If I could find that original topic list, most of them would remain uncovered because, from the start, the column took on a life of its own, energized by the lives and times of constant and faithful readers without which no column could survive nearly this long.

The Red Deer Advocate has always given the column its head and intelligent editing when needed or necessary. After Pat O’Callaghan, The Advocate newsroom names swarm: Tim Sheeby, Ted Bower, Joe McLauchlin, John Stewart, Rick Zemanek, always Annette, and so many more. At The Herald, there was Larry Wood, their last real sports editor, and at The Bulletin the column has always had Jamie, latest on the long list of Nesbitt owners and publishers of one of Alberta’s better weekly newspapers.

All readers are not on board, nor do all editors know what they are doing.

I’ve had threats of death and violence curiously all regarding cats: for my view that we have far too many cougars, and for a tongue-in-cheek column several years ago proposing declaring feral house cats to be game animals and opening the season on them.

Then there was the female travel editor of The Herald who decided my column on an eastern Alberta deer hunt would sound better if I was accompanied by a dog, so she inserted one. Being accompanied by a dog while big game hunting is illegal in Alberta.

The Friday edition in which the column appeared had barely hit the street before publisher O’Callaghan’s phone went ballistic. Pat demanded to see my original submitted copy: No dog. So he sentenced the editor to attend my book signing first thing the next morning at Country Pleasures store to apologize and buy at least one copy of each of my books.

At the end of 1998, in fairness to clients and partners, I ended 37 years of law practice because of debilitating and undiagnosed health problems. On the last Saturday of November 1999, Herself cell-phoned me down from my tree stand, startling the big Mule Deer I was watching court a doe, and told me to get home to go to Foothills Hospital very early on Monday for open heart surgery.

I like to say now that on November 29, 1999, my birthday, I was born-again by quadruple bypass. There followed seven golden outdoors years for me and the column, my first years ever as a full time outdoors writer.

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TOP: Seven or eight years ago I suddenly told myself, “You’re a mere shadow of your former self.”

ABOVE: Bob doing some outdoors writing, outdoors.

But the biblical best-before date expired in my 70th year. I had lens implants in both eyes and started a regime that continues today of monthly injections of different drugs in each eye to preserve some vision from advancing age and the macular and retinal ravages of diabetes. I also began a three-year consultation with many species of specialists to find out why I was seriously losing leg strength and falling down frequently.

Seven or eight years ago I suddenly told myself, “You’re a mere shadow of your former self,” as I took a selfie of shadow with cane on the Stump Ranch hayfield where I was running Beau, our last of five Brittanies. Just before Christmas, the year before, I had final-

ly been diagnosed with Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM), a very rare progressive muscle disease that has no known cause, cure, nor treatment.

On September 9th of that shadow year I hitched a long tow rope to a fence post and, with fly rod and wading staff, rappelled myself down into Prairie Creek. My home water gave me the gift of one of its exceptional fall days: six very large brown trout, each caught with a different method and a favorite fly of my own devising.

Even with my trusty Folstaf my wading was weak. I almost fell over playing and releasing my largest fish, a 26” male brown trout taken on a dry fly, a #10 Bastard Adams. Suddenly I realized that if I “fell-in” as all honest

flyfishing waders do, I’d never be able to regain my feet or haul myself out of the creek.

So I waded unsteadily downstream to the tow rope, hauled myself up the bank, de-wadered, un-rigged my rod, then rolled up the tow rope and my long fishing life. Later that fall I “hunted” deer for the last time, with unloaded rifle, just enjoying watching the critters from my Mobile Ground Blind.

By the next fall, the cane was no longer enough, so my last pheasant hunt was blocking a ditch, seated on my new walker, for our Beau and the other dogs and hunters.

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

Keeping ants under control LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING Ants in the house are bad as they get into food, cause surfaces to be dirty and can destroy wood.

In the garden ants can be beneficial.

They are usually found in dry soil where it is easy to dig tunnels which aerates the soil.

Aeration allows air and moisture into the soil, both are needed for plants to flourish. Too much aeration can be a bad thing as the roots of a plant are exposed to the air, dry and die. This is why the tops of ant hills are often devoid of plant material but the sides still contain foliage.

If ants are seen on plants they are most likely herding aphids and collect-

ing their sticky residue called honeydew. Ants control the aphid population insuring that they have a continuing source of food. In other words they help reduce the insect population as well as keep the area cleaner.

Ants also gather nectar and pollen but are not known for pollination due to their inability to fly between plants.

Ants cause two problems in the garden.

If they feel threatened they will bite the gardener which is painful.

Secondly, ant hills are not attractive. A poorly placed hill is an eye sore.

According to Pest Control Canada ant hills can be killed or diminished through the use of baits or dusts.

Active ingredients in the baits are usually boric acid or hydramethylnon.

Ants take the bait back into the hill and feed it to the other ants. This causes the number of ants to be reduced over time.

Active ingredients contained in dusts contain one or more of the fol-

lowing, boric acid, diatomaceous earth or pyrethrins.

Always follow the instructions on the container of all insecticides you purchase.

On the Internet, there are many home remedies to rid yourself of ants.

Before implementing any look at the probability of them working along with the repercussions before using them.

Borax and sugar has been used effectively for years as a bait. Borax is a poison and will kill other living things that ingest it, cats, dogs, birds, etc.

When using it, be sure it is out of reach for all but the ants.

Pouring boiling water on the ants will kill some ants and if done often enough it might get them to move. A direct hit with boiling water will also kill plants and plant roots.

Mixing two ant hills together will cause the ants to fight and kill each other. As in all wars many will survive and the hill will continue in that location or another.

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Digging a scoop out of an ant hill and flooding the inside with water will diminish the hill size but not eliminate the creatures as long as the queen is alive.

Cream of wheat, baking soda and corn meal are said to cause ants to explode. I haven’t seen this happen.

Coffee grounds are large enough particles to cause the ants to use or make another path.

Artificial Coffee Creamer doesn’t contain any nutritional benefits but ants will not eat enough of this product to become malnourished and die.

Before setting out to kill all the ant hills consider the following: Is the hill causing harm? Are the ants getting into the house? Is it unsightly? Are people getting bitten?

If the answer is yes, consider annoying the colony until it decides to move.

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From left, Jeffrey Edwards, Ashley Holmes, Nestor Bonilla, Jessica Sharp and Keyanna Arnett use their cellphones to play Pokémon Go at Augusta University in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday.

Pokémon Go popularity is also warping real life

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The Pokémon Go craze has sent legions of players hiking around cities and battling with “pocket monsters” on their smartphones. It marks a turning point for augmented reality, or technology that superimposes a digital facade on the real world.

But the game’s popularity has created unintended consequences in everyday life, from annoyed property owners dealing with hordes of monster hunters to store owners using the game to attract customers.

Though perhaps that’s to be expected from a game that has players visit real-world landmarks such as train stations, churches and museums in order to find and trap cartoon creatures.

Here’s a look at some of the bigger questions that have emerged since the game went live last Wednesday:

CAN DIGITAL LURES LEAD TO REAL CASH?

Some shops are exploring ways to use Pokémon Go to drum up business.

An Atlanta café owned by digital ad agency Huge turned out to be roughly 30 feet away from two prominent “Pokéstops” — game representations of physical landmarks where players can stock up on digital game gear. So it spent about $40 in real money to add digital “lures” to the stops, refreshing them every 30 minutes. The lures increase the chance that rare Pokémon with names like “Starmie” and “Poliwag” turn up nearby — drawing players in turn.

“Our corner was essentially lit up all day long,” says Huge executive creative director Derek Fridman.

In San Francisco, enthusiastic players working for Kawika’s Ocean Beach Deli likewise set out lures and branded the store as a “charging station” for drained phones. (The game is notoriously hard on

batteries.)

Given that the shop is bracketed by Pokéstops on one side and a battle arena on the other, players “have no choice but to walk past us,” says owner David Nottage III. “So we put up some signs.” The deli plans additional Pokémon-related activities in the future.

WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN PLAYING REALLY GETS OUT OF HAND?

In St. Louis, police say robbers perched near attractive digital spots to rob players engrossed in the game.

Another man who lives in a former church says his home — now also a Pokéstop — has become a digital magnet for Pokémon Go players, who sometimes block his driveway and passing traffic as they pull over to stare at their phones.

A 21-year old player in Forest Grove, Ore., even shrugged off a stab wound to continue his gaming.

He approached a stranger on the street and asked him if he was playing, too, police say. The other man then stabbed him. Police say the player described his attacker, refused treatment and continued on his Pokémon hunt.

Phoenix police are telling people not to trespass while playing the game. New York’s subway is warning people not to jump onto the tracks to chase digital “Rattatas.” The National Safety Council implored players not to play and drive.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. called playing the game inside its walls “extremely inappropriate” and is trying to remove itself from the game. At The Associated Press bureau in Los Angeles, an outdated reference to a statue no longer on the property beckons Pokémon players in from the street.

Todd Richmond, a director at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, says a big debate is brewing over who controls digital assets associated with real world

property.

“This is the problem with technology adoption — we don’t have time to slowly dip our toe in the water,” he says. “Tenants have had no say, no input, and now they’re part of it.”

HOW BIG CAN AUGMENTED REALITY GET?

Stock in Nintendo, which part owns Pokémon Go, jumped 25 per cent on Monday and another 13 per cent Tuesday, adding nearly $8 billion to its market value as investors assessed the breakout game.

But Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal says that’s just the beginning. He now targets a share price of 30,000 yen, or $286.40, nearly a third higher still. Nintendo is transitioning from console games to smartphone games, and “it has just started that journey,” Goyal says.

The game’s success on smartphones also could spur faster development from hardware makers — Microsoft with its HoloLens, the secretive startup Magic Leap, or Google, which could still revive its failed Glass headgear, says Timothy Carone, a professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

“The reaction (to Pokémon Go) is a quick of vote of ‘Yeah, they got this right,”’ Carone says. “My guess is that a lot of developers have gone back to figure out how to take this approach.”

DOES THIS AFFECT MY PRIVACY?

Adam Reeve, principal architect of security firm Red Owl, however, found that Pokémon Go required overly broad permission for those using a Google account as a sign-in. Even setting aside the location data collected by the app, he said, the app is a “huge security risk.”

He noted the app, in theory, could allow Pokémon Go to read one’s Gmail, send email as you and access your Google search history.

Samsung phone not actually water resistant the same price as the Edge, and $100 more than the regular S7.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Consumer Reports says a Samsung phone that’s advertised as being “water resistant” actually isn’t.

The problem appears limited to the Galaxy S7 Active, a rugged model available only through AT&T in the U.S. The standard S7 and S7 Edge models have the same claims on water resistance and have passed tests.

Consumer Reports, a non-profit organization that is well-respected for its product testing, said Friday that it can’t recommend the Active because it doesn’t meet Samsung’s own claims.

By contrast, Consumer Reports rates the S7 and S7 Edge phones as “Excellent” for their displays, battery life and cameras.

Maria Rerecich, Consumer Reports’ director of electronics testing, said she was surprised the Active failed.

She said Samsung’s claims are usually “fairly good.”

Samsung said it has received very few complaints and had subject the phone through strict testing for quality assurance, but “there may be an off-chance that a defective device is not as watertight as it should be.”

The company said it was in touch with Consumer Reports to learn more about its tests.

Samsung says all S7 phones, including the Active, are designed to survive in up to 5 feet of water for 30 minutes.

Consumer Reports says that after a half-hour in water, the Active’s screen flashed green and other colours and didn’t respond to touch.

Tiny bubbles appeared on the camera lenses.

Consumer Reports tested a second Active phone to verify results and it also failed.

Rerecich said it’s likely that the problems affect only some of the units manufactured, but “we bought two and they both failed.”

Both units were bought online.

Samsung says the Active can withstand drops of up to five feet on a flat surface, though Consumer Reports did not test those claims.

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Virus-hunter in space NEW RESEARCH HOPES TO DECODE DNA IN ORBIT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first virus-hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research.

Newly arrived space station astronaut Kate Rubins will attempt to complete the first full-blown DNA decoding, or “sequencing,” in orbit with a pocket-size device that should be delivered next week.

“We’re really interested in how this works in microgravity. It’s never been done before,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, four days after arriving at the International Space Station.

She said the benefits of DNA sequencing in space are huge. She noted it also could prove useful in remote locations on Earth.

The device will arrive at the orbiting lab on the next SpaceX delivery.

Liftoff is scheduled for early Monday morning from Cape Canaveral.

Trained as a professional virus-hunter, Rubins travelled to Congo for her research before becoming an astronaut in 2009. She wore top-level biosafety suits for her work with Ebola, smallpox and other deadly viruses on Earth, but won’t need such extreme precautions when she fires up the device in space.

At the space station, Rubins will be working with harmless test samples: bacteria, a virus and a mouse genome.

“We’ve got a lot of safety folks on the ground making sure that nothing dangerous gets on board,” said the first-time space flier.

Researchers initially wanted to fly “extreme and bizarre” samples, but decided to stick with well-sequenced, well-understood genomes for easy comparison, said Sarah Wallace, a microbiologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Control tests will be conducted on Earth, including by aquanauts who will move into an underwater habitat next week off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. The machine is already commercially available.

A DNA sequencer reveals the order of chemical building blocks along a stretch of DNA. That sequence contains the hereditary information that’s passed from one generation of organisms to the next.

Among other things, that can be useful to identify and study viruses.

“Altogether, it’s an extremely excit-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Kate Rubins, right, speaks during an interview aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. At left is Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams. Rubins will attempt to complete the first full-blown DNA decoding, or “sequencing” in orbit. The device will be delivered to the International Space Station in the next SpaceX delivery. ing research package and a great capability on board station,” Rubins said.

Researchers will better understand bone loss and microbial changes in space, Rubins noted, thanks to this new research.

“But it also actually has a benefit for the Earth-based research as well,” she said.

“When we do things in a remote environment up here, we can understand how these technologies might work in remote places on Earth that don’t have access to good medical care.”

NASA is interested in another potential application: the detection of life. Officials acknowledge more development would be needed for that capability at Mars and elsewhere.

The miniaturized biomolecule sequencer, called MinION by its maker in England, is less than 4 inches long and just 4 ounces including a USB cable. It hooks up to a laptop or electronic tablet.

“Picture your smartphone and cut that in half,” Wallace said.

The results will be beamed down following each experiment and analyzed by researchers on Earth. Microbiologists are particularly interested in how the liquid test samples will behave in weightlessness, especially if bubbles form.

Although the device is meant to be foolproof and used by anyone on the crew, “we are so fortunate to have Kate up there” to perform the first

tests, Wallace noted.

Rubins was heavily involved with the study from the beginning.

Following this initial $45,000 experiment, the DNA sequencer will remain on board for possible further use — conceivably even for diagnosing astronaut health in the off-chance of an infectious outbreak.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company behind the experiment, said the device going to space is the same model already used by more than 1,000 scientists in 30 countries.

Rubins arrived at the space station on Saturday, along with a Russian and Japanese, for a four-month stay. They launched from Kazakhstan on a Russian rocket.

Dark earth could herald a bright future for agriculture DAVID SUZUKI SCIENCE MATTERS

Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat.

That parts of the world are plagued by obesity while starvation is rampant elsewhere shows part of the problem revolves around distribution and social equity. But agricultural methods pose some of the biggest challenges.

Over the past half century, the world has moved increasingly to industrial agriculture — attempting to maximize efficiency through massive, often inhumane livestock operations; turning huge swaths of land over to monocrops requiring liberal use of fertilizers, pesticides and genetic modification; and reliance on fossil fuel-consuming machinery and underpaid migrant workers. This has contributed to increased greenhouse gas emissions; loss of forests and wetlands that prevent climate change by storing carbon; pollution from runoff and pesticides; antibiotic and pesticide resistance; reduced biodiversity; and soil degradation, erosion and loss.

The “solution” offered by many ex-

perts is to double down on industrial agriculture and genetic modification. But doing so ignores how natural systems function and interact and assumes we can do better. History shows such hubris often leads to unexpected negative results. Others are attempting to understand how to work within nature’s systems, using agroecological methods.

One promising development is the renewed interest in a soil-building method from the distant past called “dark earth” or “terra preta,” which involves mixing biochar with organic materials to create humus-rich soil that stores large amounts of carbon. In the book Terra Preta: How the World’s Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger, Ute Scheub and co-authors claim increasing the humus content of soils worldwide by 10 per cent within the next 50 years could reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations to pre-industrial levels.

Dark earth’s benefit to climate is just one of its many exciting possibilities. It also enhances soils so they produce higher yields, helps retain water and prevents erosion. It’s more alive with biodiverse micro-organisms, making it easier for crops to adapt to changing conditions. And it’s a good way to recycle nutrient-rich food scraps, plants wastes and even human

and animal urine and feces, rather than allowing them to pollute soil, water and air through burning and runoff.

Biochar is a form of charcoal made via pyrolysis — heating organic wastes in a low-oxygen environment. According to Scheub, “If you pyrolyze organic wastes, up to 50 percent of the carbon, which plants have extracted from the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, is converted into highly stable carbon, which can persist in soils for thousands of years.” As well as carbon, biochar retains nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous, and because it’s porous, adding it to soils and compost helps them store nutrients and water.

Western scientists first studied terra preta in 1874 when Canadian-born Cornell University professor Charles Hartt and his team found patches of dark, fertile soils, several metres deep, along parts of South America’s Amazon River where earth is normally low in nutrients and organic matter. Later archeological research determined the soils were created by human communities up to 5,000 years ago.

Scientists have since shed more light on the technique. Because the ancient practice is still employed in Liberia and Ghana, Africa, scientists from Sussex, Cornell and other universities were recently able to compare dark earth to soils nearby where the technique isn’t used. They found dark

earth contained 200 to 300 per cent more organic carbon and can support “far more intensive farming.”

Cornell University lead author Dawit Solomon was surprised that “isolated indigenous communities living far apart in distance and time” achieved similar results unknown to modern agriculturalists. “This valuable strategy to improve soil fertility while also contributing to climate-change mitigation and adaptation in Africa could become an important component of the global climate-smart agricultural management strategy to achieve food security,” he said.

Scheub and her co-authors say the technique can be used on any scale, from home and community gardens to large farms. Terra Preta includes instructions for creating biochar and enhanced soils, but cautions that organic wastes should be used rather than valuable forest products.

Dark earth won’t solve all our climate problems, but combined with reducing fossil fuel use, it could make a huge difference while addressing many agriculture, food security and hunger issues.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington

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Cheating pig DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: My friend has been dating the same guy for about a year, and I have always gotten along with him just fine. He has become my friend, too.

I’ve always thought they seem so happy together, and it makes me glad to see my friend treated well by someone she cares about. Friendship is everything to me. That’s why I’m struggling now. Another friend of mine, from a completely different circle of friends, was telling me about the guy she recently hooked up with. Well, lo and behold, he’s already taken … by my other friend. I’m really struggling with this information and feeling conflicted. First of all, I can’t believe that this guy had me fooled while he’s been fooling around with two of my friends.

But I just don’t know whom to confront first and how to get this pig out of my friends’ lives! — Fierce Friend Dear Fierce: “Pig” is too kind a word. But I digress.

You need to talk to both of your friends. (Let’s count it as some shred of a silver lining that the two of them aren’t friends with each other.)

First, talk to the one whom he cheated with. Don’t be accusatory.

Start with “I’m sure you weren’t aware of this, but…” Don’t get into too many details with her. Keep the conversation short and sweet.

Then comes the hard part. You need to tell your friend her boyfriend cheated. Do it soon — like, now. The longer you put off news such as this the harder it is to share. Put forth your comfiest shoulder to cry on, and tell her, as gently as possible, that he cheated. It’s not going to be fun. You’ll be in for a long few weeks as a human sounding board. But in the end, your friend will move on.

As for that pig? He’ll go “wah, wah, wah” all the way home.

Dear Annie: All of a sudden, I found myself being the only single one in my group of close girlfriends. I’m totally fine with being single right now; we are all second-year law school students and have a lot going on. I’ve just been focusing on school and myself since getting out of a four-year relationship last year. I’m just along for the ride!

My friends are at different stages in their relationships. Two are in semi-long-term relationships (one to three years). Two are in the puppy love phase. And one is just past the puppy love phase, aka the veil-is-lifted phase, aka we’ll see how that goes.

We all hang out as a group often — significant others included — and I’m usually included on other plans. But other times, I feel totally ditched. One of my friends hangs all over her boyfriend when the three of us are out.

And another has become flaky and noncommittal about making plans for just the two of us.

I’m all about their having fun and getting swept up in the whirlwind of

romance; it’s a great feeling.

But flakiness is my biggest pet peeve.

My feelings are starting to get hurt.

Should I talk to them about this or just give them some space? — Single Lady Law Student Dear Single Lady: What’s with the attitude? Your friends are in committed and loving relationships, and your overall reaction is “we’ll see how that goes”?

Perhaps you need to examine your own pessimism toward relationships.

If you’re still holding on to the heartache of your breakup, keeping your defenses up, you’re only hurting yourself.

As for your friends — talk to them.

These “smitten kittens” may not even realize they’ve left you by the wayside.

If you approach them about it and they continue not to be mindful, take some space and mingle in different social circles.

Things will normalize eventually.

And if not, you’ll always have Beyonce.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com

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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Thursday July 14 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Princess Victoria of Sweden, 39; Jane Lynch, 56; Sara Canning, 30 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury in Leo, favours artistic expression and creative communication.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: With Saturn moving through our job zone, the next 12 months is the time to be more consistent and persistent at work. Singles — love and money are linked.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With Mercury moving into your entertainment zone, it’s time to resume an old hobby — or take up a new

one. Plus enjoy some lively conversations with a child, teenager or close friend.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The stars highlight steady conversation and creative communication, as you enjoy the company of family and friends. Take the time to understand what a loved one is really going through.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Twins are in the mood to chat! You’re keen to express your ideas and enjoy plenty of stimulating conversations with interesting people, as Mercury moves through your communication zone.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is a tendency to overspend, as your wish list is a lot larger than your current bank balance.

Mercury encourages you to become more financially literate. Remember that knowledge is power.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Moon is moving through your home zone, so put aside plenty of time to spend with loved ones.

You’ve got a lot to say, but resist the urge to be judgmental and pontificate about your opinions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t become too rigid in your approach and believe there is only one way to achieve your goals. There are many roads to success, and one of your great strengths is your Virgo versatility.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With Mercury joining Venus in your networking zone, expand your peer group to include a stimulating and creative new crowd. Plus use your intuition to help solve a problem at work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The planets are giving you a professional power surge but don’t overdo it! You’re confident about your abilities but that must be tempered with a touch of humility and a willingness to learn.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Mercury is moving through your travel zone, so itís time to communicate with your overseas connections.

If you amp up the Sagittarian charm,

A busty mermaid sculpted from sand and placed outside a popular Cape Cod restaurant is raising eyebrows and triggering complaints. The town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and the local Chamber of Commerce say they fielded complaints from locals about the exaggerated proportions of the mermaid’s chest. Yarmouth’s police department took down photos of the sculpture from its Facebook page after residents said they found the work of art offensive. you’ll uncover some helpful long-term contacts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Coupled Capricorns — frank discussions with your partner will lead to a much-needed professional or personal breakthrough. Singles — if you’re looking for love, you’ll have to be proactive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mercury in your relationship zone, the more you communicate with loved ones, the better you’ll feel. Don’t be too independent — if you need help, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Venus and Mercury are stimulating your job zone so aim to be more creative, communicative and enthusiastic at work. If you slow down and stagnate, then you’ll just be left behind.

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Wildfires put economy in reverse: BoC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is cutting its outlook for the year, saying the extensive damage from the Alberta wildfires helped fuel an economic contraction in the second quarter.

The effects of the disaster, which temporarily shuttered key oilsands facilities, took hold as the national economy struggled with disappointing exports numbers, feeble business investment and uncertainty around the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union.

The central bank’s forecast was released Wednesday along with its scheduled announcement on its benchmark interest rate, which it left at the rock-bottom level of 0.5 per cent, as expected.

“Essentially, the underlying forces that support a strengthening of growth in Canada remain the same, and the adjustment process of the economy to the lower oil prices is well underway,” Carolyn Wilkins, Bank of Canada senior deputy governor, said in French after the announcement.

“That said, international and national factors have led us to lower our projections for growth in the (gross domestic product).”

Among its predictions, the bank for the first time released numbers on the potential impact of the U.K.’s refer-

endum last month to exit the EU, also known as Brexit.

It said the fallout from the vote will reduce the level of global GDP by 0.2 per cent by the end of 2018 — and fall by 0.1 per cent in Canada over the same period.

According to the bank, the “modest” effect on Canada was largely due to the country’s small direct trade exposure to the U.K. It stressed that the scope of Brexit’s impact remained uncertain and will only be understood as the process unfolds.

The report also provided a more-detailed assessment of the effects of the huge Alberta wildfires that erupted in May. The fires cut oil production, led to Fort McMurray’s evacuation and destroyed more than 2,000 structures.

The central bank estimated the fires shaved 1.1 percentage points from second-quarter growth — as measured by real GDP — and forced the economy to contract in that period by one per cent. In April, before the wildfires, the bank had forecast the economy would grow in the second quarter by one per cent.

But looking forward, the bank predicted a “marked rebound” in the third quarter with the resumption of oil production and rebuilding efforts in the region. It projected third-quarter growth to rise by 1.3 percentage points, helping the economy expand in

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Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz (right) speaks to reporters after making an interest rate announcement and releasing the Monetary Policy Report, while Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins looks on, Wednesday. that quarter by 3.5 per cent.

That bounce back is also expected to be fuelled by boosts from the federal government’s measures to enhance child benefits — which will support household consumption — and its commitment to increase infrastructure spending, the bank said.

The central bank also lowered its 2016 growth projection to 1.3 per cent

from its April estimate of 1.7 per cent.

In doing so, it pointed to weaker outlooks for investment and exports that have more than offset the positive effects of the recent rise in oil prices.

It now expects the economy to grow by 2.2 per cent next year and 2.1 per cent in 2018. In April, the bank had predicted growth of 2.3 per cent in 2017 and two per cent in 2018.

Moving industry slows down due to oilpatch woes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Amid the dozens of Calgarians posting online moving sale ads in the aftermath of the oil price crash, Lora and Danny Major’s story is typical, even if their relocation destination isn’t.

Next month, the couple plans to move with their three preteen children to Cuenca, Ecuador. Until that moment arrives, they’ll be selling almost everything they own in garage sales and leaving an uncertain future in the oilpatch.

Lora, 37, says the idea of moving overseas grew out of a “cyclical conversation” since Danny, 38, was laid off last October from his job as a process engineer for a major oilsands producer. He found employment with an engineering/design firm soon after, but hasn’t been happy with a job he says is less challenging, more stressful and offers fewer benefits.

“He said, ‘Well, someone’s got to pay for this house,”’ recalls Lora, who trained as a biomedical engineer but has been home with the children since the family moved from Edmonton eight years ago.

“Then we looked at each other and said, ‘Well, why? Why do we have to pay for this house? Why are we here?

Why don’t we take the opportunity we’ve always talked about and try something new?”’

Statistics Canada says Alberta lost a net 1,790 residents to other parts of Canada in the first three months of this year, the largest quarterly decrease since late 2009, the last time oil prices took a nosedive.

The outmigration should be good news for moving companies. But Doug Jasper, general manager of AMJ Campbell Calgary and a 30-year industry veteran, says that’s not the case.

“It’s a different kind of move this year,” he says.

“Most people right now — you hear about all the people who have been laid off and everything — they

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Lora Major, her husband, Danny, and their three children, Arya, four, Roland, six, and Everett, eight, are selling all their belongs and moving to Ecuador. The family is filling their garage with items for sale in Calgary. are moving small quantities either by themselves or by freight because what we’re seeing in the houses we go into, the furniture has all been sold.

“Instead of having the three-bedroom house that you look at and go, ‘Wow, that will fill a trailer,’ that’s not the case this year. Before, you might have one, maybe two families’ (belongings) on a trailer. Now you’re having 10 or 11 families on a trailer.”

Jasper says families leaving Calgary are trying to save money on their move because they don’t have an employer to pay for it.

A furnished house move from Alberta to Ontario that might have weighed 5,400 kilograms — and cost $12,000 based on weight — now weighs

and pays half as much. And customers who book a move are generally doing their own packing to cut costs, Jasper says.

For Jasper, that means residential moving revenue in the 2015-16 fiscal year ending June 30 was down 22 to 23 per cent from the previous year.

Fred Haladay, chief commercial officer for Atlas Van Lines, Canada’s largest association of moving companies, says internal industry statistics show the overall weight moved by the country’s top five van lines for corporate clients in Alberta last year fell by about 18 per cent from 2014. It is down another six per cent so far this year.

Haladay says moves from Alberta paid for by individuals, which repre-

sent about half of the provincial moving business, declined by about 13 per cent last year but have rebounded about two per cent so far this year.

“Some of the severance packages are starting to run out. They have to make a decision,” says Haladay.

“They don’t want to spend a great deal on relocation costs so they are making that ultimate decision on what really needs to go. And for the most part it’s mementoes, it’s their real, personal things that they don’t want to part with. It’s the family pictures, it’s the grandmother’s china and so on that form part of that move.

“The appliances, the sofas, you know, things they can get rid of at a yard sale, they would.”

Gordon Anderson, southern Alberta president for U-Haul, says the move-ityourself trend has been great for his truck and trailer renting business. He says more of his customers are leaving Alberta than returning.

“While that makes it challenging to keep the amount of equipment on hand to meet demand, we’re doing all we can to take care of our customers during this busy moving season,” he says.

Lora Major says the family’s garage sales feature beds, a poker table, toys, clothing, Christmas decorations and housewares. Some bigger or more prized items will go to friends or family under long-term lending arrangements.

“We’re planning on getting rid of almost everything,” she says. “We’re not taking anything with us or leaving anything in the house.”

After deciding to leave the country, the Majors concluded Ecuador was a cheap, safe place to live and they travelled there in April to check it out.

The two-week visit sold them. Danny gave notice he would leave his job by mid-July.

“This is pretty much the first time in my career where circumstances allow me to take some time off. The job market’s down a lot. How long will I have a job? I don’t know,” he says.

How to convert leads into future sales JOHN MACKENZIE BUSINESS BASICS

Some statistics indicate that without a documented sales process, businesses may be losing up to 95% of sales opportunities. Many businesses generate good leads, but are not following conversion strategies. By implementing a sales process and measuring conversion rates, businesses can actually see an overall increase, sometimes as high as 20 per cent.

It’s so important to qualify leads up front to be sure that those who respond to your marketing approaches have the motivation and ability to buy your product or service. Look for those that have a higher probability of purchasing from you.

A good definition of sales is professionally helping others to buy.

Ideally, your company should have a detailed system that outlines each step of your sales process, from lead generation to completed sale. Each step should build in specific conversations in order to understand a buyer’s needs,

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overcome objections and concerns, and build trust in your products and services.

You also have to have the correct type of trained salespeople.

There are generally been four types of salespeople. The Order Taker merely waits for someone to ask to buy. The Product Pusher talks about nothing more than the products and services they are selling. The Over-Seller is the stereotypical salesperson that promise the world just to get the sale. In the last decade, the Problem Solver has been the ideal model, one who genuinely has the best interest of their customers in mind.

The stereotypical sales person still exists. The old way of selling did not see value in building relationships or following up after the sale. The salesperson’s main focus was on the actual sale.

However, the new way of selling is just the opposite. Most activity is centred on building rapport, product/service education and client follow up.

Very little activity is focused on the selling process.

These days, prospects have usually done their homework before walking through the door. They gave researched products and services, and gone to several websites to make comparisons. A

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professional website and good use of social media offers many platforms to highlight specific information.

Never assume that buyers know everything about your company, or your products and services. Although they don’t appreciate long-winded commentaries, or pages of details, they do appreciate pieces of information that will help them make an informed decision.

Approximately 80 per cent of a sale is based on emotion. People make decisions not only on functionality or suitability, but how an item makes them feel. The other 20 per cent purchase based on reason. These people look for the details, value testimonials, a great warranty, and the after purchase follow-up to avoid buyer’s remorse.

There are many opportunities to educate customers on possible options by having an open conversation in order to uncover the customer’s real needs. The end result should be the best match-up of what the business offers in order to solve the need. The prospect will often arrive at their own conclusion – they sell themselves.

Learning to ask relevant questions takes some practice. Ask open-ended questions, not ones that can be answered with yes or no. Start with general questions and then become more specific and ask for more details as you

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progress. Eventually you can begin to offer suggestions.

You need to make sure the prospect is satisfied with what you have suggested for them. At this point, check their temperature and see if you’re on the right track before getting down to details. The type of question you may ask at this point is more direct. “Does that fit with what you had in mind?”

Always talk less, listen more. Really listen. Some salespeople actually end up talking themselves out of the sale.

Too much talk can turn off the prospect and often raise questions that they never had in the first place.

If your suggestions or choices don’t fit with what they had in mind, ask more questions. You may have missed something.

Or in fact, you may not have the solution. On these occasions, be willing to refer to another business.

The end result should be a satisfied customer – they have the solution they need, want and can afford while you have a new client that will return to your business many times.

John MacKenzie is a certified business coach and authorized partner/facilitator for Everything DiSC and Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team, Wiley Brands. He can be reached at john@thebusinesstraininghub.com.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Traders in Toronto and New York shied away from making any big moves Wednesday amid declining oil prices, yet most indices were still able to extend gains for a fourth straight day — with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 again breaking through new ground at the close.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index climbed by a marginal 16.13 points to 14,493.80, lifted by rising gold and materials stocks.

It was the same sentiment in the U.S. where stock markets were mainly flat as the Dow Jones industrial average advanced 24.45 points at 18,372.12, while the broader S&P 500 composite index saw an uptick of 0.29 to 2,152.43. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was the lone decliner, down 17.09 points to 5,005.73.

The last few days have seen North American traders take the lead from climbing oil prices, which have been mostly positive in the last few sessions. Then on Wednesday, the August crude contract lost $2.05 at US$44.75 per barrel.

“It makes sense. The markets had a nice run-up in the last little while and investors want to take a little off the table or not just be as enthusiastic to buy,” said Allan Small, a senior adviser at Holliswealth.

The lower crude price was not enough to put downward pressure on the Canadian dollar, which gained 0.26 to 77.01 cents US, after the Bank of Canada announced it was holding its benchmark interest rate steady while revising its economic growth forecast.

The central bank said the impact from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union could lower Canada’s gross domestic product by 0.1 per

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cent over the next two and a half years, while the effects of the Alberta wildfire in May also trimmed 1.1 percentage points from second-quarter growth and forced the economy to contract by one per cent.

It now projects the economy will grow this year to 1.3 per cent from its April estimate of 1.7 per cent.

Small called the announcement was “status quo,” saying it did very little to sway the loonie and barely had any effect on the Toronto stock market.

“Today’s meeting of the Bank of Canada is definitely not one that will go down as market moving, dollar moving or interest moving or anything moving,” he said.

“It’s kind of a non-event unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it.”

Even so, he projects the Canadian dollar to fall to the 72 to 74 cents US range over the next few months as traders await to see if the U.S. Federal Reserve will, in fact, hike interest rates at least once this year. Such a move will strengthen the greenback and put pressure on the loonie.

Earnings season, which kicked off this week in the U.S., is also expected to inject more volatility into stock markets.

Meanwhile, August natural gas was unchanged at US$2.74 per mmBTU, August gold jumped $8.30 to US$1,343.60 an ounce and September copper contracts rose three cents to US$2.24 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,493.80, up 16.13 points Dow — 18,372.12, up

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Air Canada indefinitely suspending service to Rio after rush of Olympic Games MONTREAL — Air Canada is indefinitely suspending service to Rio de Janeiro this fall due to lagging Olympic Games demand and Brazil’s weak economic environment.

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24.45 points (record high) S&P 500 — 2,152.43, up 0.29 of a point (record high) Nasdaq — 5,005.73, down 17.09 points Currencies: Cdn — 77.01 cents US, up 0.26 of a cent Pound — C$1.7061, down 2.06 cents Euro — C$1.4407, down 0.07 of a cent Euro — US$1.1094, up 0.32 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.75 per barrel, down $2.05 (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,343.60 per oz., up $8.30 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $27.597 oz., up 8.7 cents $887.24 kg., up $2.79 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $6.80 higher $479.60 Nov. ‘16 $6.80 higher $482.20 Jan. ‘17 $7.50 higher $489.50 March ‘17 $8.00 higher $495.80 May ‘17 $7.60 higher $499.80 July ‘17 $7.70 higher $503.60 Nov. ‘17 $7.40 higher $506.20 Jan. ‘18 $7.40 higher $506.30 March ‘18 $7.40 higher $506.30 May ‘18 $7.40 higher $506.30 July ‘18 $7.40 higher $506.30.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $158.50 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $158.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $158.50 March ‘17 unchanged $160.50 May ‘17 unchanged $161.50 July ‘17 unchanged $161.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $161.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $161.50 March ‘18 unchanged $161.50 May ‘18 unchanged $161.50 July ‘18 unchanged $161.50.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 439,580 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 439,580.

The Montreal-based carrier says other airlines are adopting similar changes.

“Service adjustments are part of normal airline schedule planning and the number of flights across our network may vary at certain times of the year due to a number of factors including customer demand and aircraft availability,” said spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur. Air Canada (TSX:AC) will end its triweekly flights from Toronto in mid-October but will continue to operate daily flights between Toronto and Sao Paulo.

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A Le Chateau retail store is shown in Montreal. Le Chateau is holding its annual meeting with shareholders Wednesday.

Le Chateau to speed up home delivery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Struggling fashion retailer Le Chateau is hoping to appeal to young consumers by speeding up delivery of online purchases with the opening of a larger, centralized distribution centre in the basement of its Montreal headquarters.

Starting this fall, the company said all purchases will be shipped within 24 hours from a fully-stocked location right now, some items may take extra time to source from a smaller warehouse or stores. The announcement was made at its annual meeting Wednesday.

Le Chateau president Emilia Di Raddo said the company needed a more efficient operation to propel its online business and meet the expectations of the millennial shoppers it’s targeting.

“This is the reality of retail today,” she noted, when asked if such moves are part of the firm’s salvation after 11 straight quarters of losses.

“I guess you could say salvation be-

cause if you don’t do that you’re not going to be around.”

Di Raddo said the improved delivery service will also make it easier to expand its online wares. Le Chateau has spent up to $1.5 million in the last six months to build on efforts since 2010 to develop its e-commerce offerings, which is now operating at breakeven.

Cost savings from the more efficient, larger operation is expected to reduce, if not eventually eliminate, shipping charges.

While customers can order online or in-store, the company is also hoping to introduce pickup at stores in mid2017.

Le Chateau (TSX:CTU.A) won’t say how much of its sales are e-commerce, but retail consultants Trendex estimates they were two per cent last year, behind Canadian rival Reitmans, Hudson’s Bay and well back of U.S. specialty apparel retailers.

The company said online sales increased 53.9 per cent in the first quarter of the year, after growing about 35 per cent in 2015.

Lightstream proposal gets court OK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lightstream Resources said Wednesday it’s been granted preliminary court protection from creditors as it pursues a plan to reduce its debt by $1.175 billion — a move that would see secured creditors receive 95 per cent of the struggling oil and gas company’s equity.

Current shareholders would end up with 2.25 per cent of the equity in a revitalized Lightstream, which has been unable to keep up with its interest payments due to the collapse in oil prices that began in late 2014. Unsecured noteholders would get 2.75 per cent.

The company said the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench had granted a preliminary interim order prohibiting holders of its secured and unsecured notes from declaring it in default or taking other enforcement steps. It said it will return to court in August to seek permission to hold votes with shareholders and secured and unsecured creditors, all of whom must support the restructuring proposal for it to proceed. CEO John Wright said the proposed recapitalization was Lightstream’s only option to survive after it failed to find a suitable buyer for its prized Bakken Saskatchewan light oil or line up alternative financial backers.

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GRAHAM Mabel Edith With unending sadness, we announce the passing of Mabel Edith Graham on Monday, July 11, 2016 in Red Deer Alberta, at the age of 79. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Ron Wuetherick; daughters, Anniversaries Crystal Graham (Marlon Happy 50th Anniversary Leggott) and Carol Ogura; REG AND JEAN grandchildren, Jason and BYWATERS Robin Ogura; and her sister, Because you have shared Roberta (Robert) Putnam. in their lives, with your love Warm hearted with a and friendship, please join generous personality, Mabel us Saturday, July 16th 1:30 led her life with great p.m - 5:00 p.m. Comfort Inn enthusiasm, engaging everyone & Suites 6846-66 Street Red to share her passion for Deer, AB No gifts please music, dance, cooking and Come with memories to the arts. A Celebration of Mabel’s Life will be held at share... shhhh, it’s a surprise. the Four Points by Sheraton in the Cascade Ballroom, Edmonton South, 7230 Argyll Rd, Edmonton on Tuesday, Births July 19, 2016 at 2:00 pm. For those wishing, donations may be made in Mabel’s memory to support Brain Care at the University of Alberta Hospital through the Brain Centre Campaign, c\o the University ARE YOU EXPECTING Hospital Foundation, 8440 A BABY SOON? 112 St NW, Edmonton, AB, Welcome Wagon T6G 2B7. has a special package just for you & your little one!

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Land Located Near Rimbey, Alberta August 19, 2016 Time: 12:00 Noon Selling a A Truly Fabulous, Executive Built, Stunning Home, Built in 2013 w/ Attached Garage, Trout Pond, Cabin, Finished Shop & A Beautifully Landscaped Yard.

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BRAND name roller blades, extra vented, size EU38, $20; and 10 speed bike, asking $5, good for parts. 403-348-0201

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2 GINNY DOLLS, mint in box, 1986 Vogue dolls, Bride and Mommy’s Attic.

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4 LEVEL split, 4 bdrm., 2 403-596-2444 full bath, near schools and ARAMARK at (Dow transportation, $1350/mo. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 Prentiss Plant) about AIR Compressor, 3 gal. or Avail. immed.

20-25 minutes out of Red 11.4 L, paid $149.99 plus a bdrm. apartments, rent 403-343-6229 or Deer needs hardworking, $750, last month of lease 2/1 nailer, drives, nails and 403-304-3979 reliable, honest person free, immed. occupancy. narrow crown staples, pd. w/drivers license, to work 403-596-6000 $119.99. Used once.

40/hrs. per week w/some Will sell both for $100.

Condos/ PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4 weekends, daytime hrs. or $50. each. appls., inclds. heat & water, $15/hr. Floor skills would 403-309-7387, 392-6138 Townhouses no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594 be an asset. Fax resume FRAMING Nailers, 3 in 1 w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 or 2 BDRM. 1400 sq. ft. 2009 PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., KING Canada, 28 degree condo w/att. single garage, hrdwd. flrs., inclds. heat and e-mail: lobb-black-valerie x34 degree, fl ipped head. @aramark.ca. Attn: Val Black Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d. water, $1100. 403-348-6594 Performance Plus.

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JJAM Management (1987) 3 1/4 nails. Sold for $300.

N/S, No pets. $1150/mo. + utils., inclds.

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Asking $100. for all 3.

403-596-2444 condo fees. 403-616-3181 Requires to work at these 403-309-7387, 392-6138 Red Deer, AB locations: MASTER CRAFT Driver, #3, 5111 22 St. Impact wrench, square, 37444 HWY 2 S 1/2”, speed 65 RMP Max. 37543 HWY 2N torque 320. Asking $30.

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Req’d F/T & P/T TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 403-309-7387, 392-6138 permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day Normandeau Deer Park Farmers' night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + Market 138 DOUGLAS Ave., 96 NASH STREET medical, dental, life and Sat. & Sun., July 16 & 17, July 14 & 15 vision benefits. Start BEAUTIFUL farm fresh 9 -5, modern furniture, Thurs. 2-8 & Fri. 12-8 ASAP. Job description chickens - too many for my kitchen items, decorative MULTI FAMILY - misc. www.timhortons.com freezer. avg weight 6 pieces, and much more. household, bike, baby gate, Experience 1 yr. to less pounds. 35 available tarps, rugs and lots more. than 2 yrs. Education not 25 more august 1st req’d. Apply in person or butchering 780-217-8201 Downtown Classifieds fax 403-314-1303 or 403-510-4121 Your place to SELL WHISKER Rescue is having Your place to BUY a Garage Sale Fundraiser Business August 4 - 6th. Donations Firewood will be accepted from Opportunities July 12 to 26 from 10:00 - Rosedale 4:00, Monday to Sunday at B.C. Birch, Aspen, 25 REEVES CRES. the Pidherney Centre Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

July 14, 15 & 16 (RD Curling Centre), PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 4725 - 43rd Street. We do Thurs. & Fri. 4-7 & Sat. 10-4 Power washer, boat, baby not take large appliances, Household clothes, household misc. clothes or mattresses. For more information, call or Furnishings text Diane 403-318-9448 You can sell your guitar or email dicat@live.ca for a song...

WANTED 24 FT. FOOD TRAILER, or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Antiques, furniture and fully equipped with Jen and we’ll sell it for you! estates. 342-2514 stainless grill barbecue Eastview Estates and oven. 10,000 watt electric start generator, 250 Misc. for 120 ELY CLOSE gallon water tanks, electric MOVING - Everything Goes South Hill Sale hot water fridge and top July 14, 15 & 16 freezer. Brand new unit.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY! Thurs., Fri. & Sat. 3:30 - 6:30 100 VHS movies, $75 Will consider trade of value 3417 - 52 Ave., Toys ~ No Reasonable offer refused for all. 403-885-5020 $24,000 or consider partplus tools, tools, tools, nership in venture or cash 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. jewellery, chandelier from 48 ELLIS CLOSE, offer. Unit in Red Deer. I Venice, clothes, plus lots Sat., July 16, 9 4, girl’s 403-885-5020 have no e-mail more. LOW PRICES. bicycle and girls clothes, WATER HOSE REEL, service. Ph. only.

Thurs., Fri. Sat. & Sun., golf clubs and cart, books, $35. 403-885-5020 403-304-3612 July 14 -17, 11 am - 7 pm folding chairs, misc. items.

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GROOM Kelly Lewis July 7, 1964 - June 29, 2016 It is with much sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the sudden and tragic passing of Kelly Groom. Kelly will be missed by his children Kassie and Landon, his parents Joy and Ernie Groom, three sisters: Pam Groom (Alf Petkau), Kim Keating, and Jody (Brian) Halbert, his nieces and nephews, aunties, uncles, and cousins, as well as numerous friends.

Kelly worked in the oil and gas industry on many different projects in Western Canada.

He worked through his apprenticeship and attained his journeyman pipefitter ticket. He most recently worked as a Project Manager with Quinn Construction, and has made many close friends through work over the years.

Kelly loved the outdoors. He was always happiest out fishing, boating, riding his Harley, spending time in the mountains, skidooing and camping. Kelly brought the “FUN” to any campfire. He could always make you laugh, and was known for teasing. He may have even played a trick or two on you.

At the beginning of June this year, Kelly moved into his ‘Dream Property’ in Markerville, AB, where he had found the perfect place with enough nature for his liking, and room for all his toys. Our family will always cherish the Father’s Day celebration he hosted. We welcome you to join us in a celebration of Kelly’s life at the Ponoka Legion, 3911 Hwy 2A, on Friday, July 22 at 2:00 p.m. ~Casual dress~ “ Kelly style “ - Bring your stories.

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ELIUK Lance Edward Lance was born in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan on January 5, 1957 and passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was predeceased by his parents Walter and Audrey Eliuk.

Lance will be lovingly remembered by his family and friends. Lance lived a life as big as he was. He was an avid outdoorsman, truly at his happiest out west whether hunting, quadding or sharing a campfire with friends. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Sylvan Lake, on Friday. July 15, from 2 pm to 4 pm. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made in Lance’s name at the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, 8602 112 St. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. T6E 2E1.

“Rest in Peace Big Guy”

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BEEBE Sheila August 1963 - July 2016 Sheila passed away after several years of battling with cancer on Wednesday July 6, 2016, at the age of 52.

Sheila worked many accounting jobs in Lacombe, Red Deer, and other places over the years. She also worked with her husband Richard on ranches in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. She was strong willed, but always quick with humor and a deep laugh to cheer others up. Sheila was born in Trail, BC on August 25, 1963. She will be continuing her journey with her loving husband, Richard, beloved father Andy, and brothers Tom and Danny. A great loss will be felt by her two sons, Christopher (Alisha) and Clifford, mother Ruth, three sisters, Brenda, Alison, and Darlene, stepdaughters Roxanne (Mike), Virginia, and Jalynn (Matt), step-son, Tyler, eight grandchildren, one greatgrandchild, and numerous brother and sister in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday July 16, 2016 at the Alix Community Hall (5008 49 Avenue,) at 2:00pm, in Alix, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Sheila’s name can be made to the Lacombe Hospital Palliative Care Unit (P.O. Box 5575 Lacombe, Alberta, T4L 1X2), who took such good care of her.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366, 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families for 40 Years”

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Anthem anger spills over CHERRY TAKES AIM AT ‘LEFT-WING WEIRDOS’ IN CRITIQUE OF THE TENORS’ ‘O CANADA’

Pereira no stranger to sharing outspoken views

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Tenors’ controversial rendition of O Canada at baseball’s all-star game got Don Cherry’s attention Wednesday as the hockey commentator slammed group member Remigio Pereira for embarrassing Canadians with his altered and politically charged lyrics.

Pereira changed a line in the anthem to “We’re all brothers and sisters, all lives matter to the great.” The normal lyric is “With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free.”

The Tenors issued an apology after the performance, saying Pereira acted as a “lone wolf” and will not be performing with the group “until further notice.”

The fallout continued Wednesday for Pereira, who had a show at a London, Ont., theatre cancelled.

He was to perform with renowned guitarist Pavlo in late September at the Aeolian Hall but the venue said it’s “an organization which embraces diversity” and would not “present or allow groups or individuals to use our facilities who either intentionally or unintentionally promote racism.”

The term “All Lives Matter” was born in controversy into the American political vocabulary last year as a response to the “Black Lives Matter” movement in the heat of a debate over police shootings in the U.S. presidential candidate Martin O’Malley uttered the phrase at a Democratic party forum. He was booed and later apologized, an action criticized by some including Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Cherry was offended by the change of lyrics, but the targets of his ire in his Twitter rant were perhaps misplaced.

“Oh well, all the left wing weirdos in this country are happy,” Cherry said, although the “All Lives Matter” campaign is generally embraced by

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The Tenors, shown on the scoreboard, perform during the Canadian National Anthem prior to the MLB baseball All-Star Game, in San Diego, on Tuesday. A member of a Canadian singing quartet changed a lyric in his country’s national anthem and held up a sign proclaiming ‘All Lives Matter’ during a pre-game performance at the 87th All-Star Game on Tuesday. conservative Americans and not associated with left-of-centre politics.

Cherry has taken aim at left-leaning Canadians before, famously uttering “put that in your pipe you left-wing kooks” at the inauguration of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

As for The Tenors, Cherry let the Canadian group off easy, except for the American-born Pereira. The Boston native who grew up in Gatineau, Que., also held up a sign reading “All Lives Matter.” The words “United We Stand” were written on the back of the sign.

“I do feel sorry for the rest of the

Tenors,” said Cherry. “They will be noted forever as ‘oh yeah, the Tenors, they’re the jerks that embarrassed us at the all-star game. Ah, they’re good singers but what a bunch of jerks.’

“It’s sad, it was only one, and it was done by an American.”

Meantime, a spokeswoman for Heritage Minister Melanie Joly called the anthem a treasured Canadian symbol.

“Mr. Pereira’s change to the national anthem to further his political views is inappropriate and disrespectful,” Christine Michaud said via email.

Celebrities back Jennifer Aniston’s tabloid takedown

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Jennifer Aniston’s takedown of tabloid culture is winning support among fellow celebrities but criticism from at least one tabloid journalist.

Ghostbusters star Melissa McCarthy tells Entertainment Tonight that she agrees “one hundred thousand billion per cent” with Aniston’s essay for the Huffington Post in which she writes con- JENNIFER ANISTON stant paparazzi coverage contributes to a “dehumanizing view of females, focused solely on one’s physical appearance.”

“It’s a ridiculous thing,” McCarthy said Tuesday. “I just hope it gets to the point where it’s embarrassing for people to have such a shallow thought.”

Aniston also used the piece to shoot down pregnancy rumours, writing that she is “not pregnant” but often gets congratulated on being so “a dozen times in a single day.”

Swift says she co-wrote ex’s latest hit NEW YORK — Taylor Swift has confirmed that she co-wrote exboyfriend Calvin Harris’ latest hit song under an alias, prompting the DJ-producer to send a series of angry tweets.

A representative for Swift said Wednesday that she used the name Nils Sjoberg for This is What You Came For, Harris’ song featuring Rihanna.

Harris responded on Twitter and said Swift had wanted to keep the collaboration secret. “(It’s) hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though,” Harris tweeted.

Harris and Swift announced last month that they’d broken up.

The Scottish DJ also targeted Swift’s

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The column also has received positive mentions on Twitter from actor Jason Bateman and comedian Margaret Cho .

Tabloid journalist and former CNN host Piers Morgan has responded with a column in Britain’s Daily Mail in which he calls out Aniston’s stance as hypocritical.

Morgan writes that he sympathizes some with Aniston’s complaints about nonstop scrutiny of her physical appearance, but adds his belief that the former Friends star helped create the attention by posing for dozens of magazine covers over the years that he says have been airbrushed to improve her looks.

“I do think the least stars like Jennifer Aniston can do in return for the massive financial and career boost these fake covers bring them is to stop pretending it’s all everyone else’s fault that impressionable young girls struggle with their own beauty and body images as a result of seeing perfect photos of Jennifer Aniston,” Morgan writes.

He says paparazzi photographers are “setting the record straight” by showing Aniston without airbrushing.

Morgan worked as the editor of several British tabloids before turning to television. CNN cancelled Piers Morgan Live in 2014. reported new relationship with actor Tom Hiddleston: “I figure if you’re happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do.”

Harris tweeted that Swift is looking for “someone new to try and bury like Katy,” referring to Katy Perry. Swift’s popular song Bad Blood was rumoured to be about her failed friendship with Perry.

Led by Alicia Keys, 23 stars appear in racial justice video NEW YORK — Alicia Keys and a host of other stars, including Beyonce, Bono, Rihanna, Taraji P. Henson and Chris Rock, appear in a powerful video released Wednesday that describes “23 ways you could be killed if you are black in America.”

The video made the social media rounds after its release on Mic.com, spawning its own hashtag, 23Ways, and thousands of shares and comments. In black and white, it juxtaposes 23 artists with photos of 23 black victims of violence, with each star noting the acts that led to their deaths, mainly after interactions with the police.

Many of the deaths led to intense anger and frustration among African Americans, and kicked off protests that led to the Black Lives Matter movement.

TORONTO — Before making international headlines for altering the O Canada lyrics to include the controversial statement “all lives matter,” social media followers of Remigio Pereira were well aware of his outspoken opinions.

Unverified Facebook and Instagram accounts attributed to the Tenors singer regularly included posts that went b e y o n d REMIGIO PEREIRA matters of music, including messages about veganism, nature, spirituality, world peace and animal rights.

The accounts under Pereira’s name regularly made use of the “all lives matter”’ statement as a hashtag on various social media posts.

They also shared articles and opinions on the Flat Earth movement, minds being “manipulated and destroyed via GMO poisonous foods,” and “chemical spraying of our skies.”

A Facebook post dated April 9 asked users who disagreed with what they were reading to “refrain from contacting my family members with your qualms” and also made it clear that the opinions were not shared by the other Tenors.

“This is a platform and a forum for discussion and I have a right to speak my mind on issues that I feel affect us all … as do you,” a portion of the post reads.

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