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City revisits marijuana plant

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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The City of Red Deer Planning Department has received an application from Medcan Solutions Limited to develop this building at 94 Burnt Park Drive into a federally licensed medical marijuana growing facility.

City residents will have the opportunity to weigh in on a proposed zoning change that would allow a controversial new business in Red Deer.

On Monday, council voted to revisit an amending motion that would allow a federally-licensed medical marijuana facility to operate at 94 Burnt Park Drive.

The motion was defeated in a 4-4 split vote on July 4.

Coun. Paul Harris said there were extenuating circumstances that permitted council to bring the motion back to the table under the Municipal Government Act.

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Harris said there were many questions that were left unanswered about the facility and a variety of information that was missing.

“We didn’t have any information about the ones that exist elsewhere in the province and the odour issue,” he said. “We talked about it a little bit but more importantly, we didn’t hear about the economic development statistics.”

Harris said there were also questions about industrial vacancy rates.

The first reading of the proposed amendment to the zoning bylaw is now tabled for up to six weeks.

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Missing man contacts family

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Riders and their horses pass through a canola field as they take an afternoon trail ride near Cremona on Tuesday. Canola is a contraction of Canada and ola, meaning oil. To earn the name canola, products must meet an internationally regulated standard. The world’s healthiest vegetable oil is extracted from the seeds of the canola plant.

A woman from B.C. who came to Red Deer two weeks ago desperately searching for her missing brother was much relieved this week after he contacted her.

And Kelly Gilmour is thanking a former co-worker of her brother for reaching out to him and getting him to contact his family.

RCMP had issued a release on July 1 that Kevin Gilmour, 30, had gone missing in Red Deer where he has lived the past several years. Kelly and her fiancé, Aron McKinnon, flew to Red Deer four days later and began scouring the downtown and other locations for Kevin.

“I heard from my brother on Sunday and my sister (who lives in Lacombe) picked him up,” Kelly said Tuesday.

Kevin, who had become unemployed, had left signs at his apartment where he was being evicted from that raised concerns with the building manager, who then contacted police.

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Child advocate urges cultural rethink on indigenous kids in care

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s child advocate says seven out of every 10 youngsters in the province’s welfare system are aboriginal and big changes are needed to bring those numbers down.

“Things are clearly not working,” Del Graff said in a report Tuesday.

“Aboriginal families are struggling when they face challenges related to the safety and well-being of their children. And the child-welfare system in place to help them is not doing it very

well.”

As of December, there were 6,880 children in care and 4,719 of those were aboriginal, Metis or Inuit.

Graff noted total numbers have been falling since a peak in 2012, but the ratio has remained constant and is one of the highest in Canada.

He recommended the government make a number of changes, including giving indigenous communities more say and legal authority over how their children are cared for.

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Child and youth advocate Del Graff and Alberta auditor general Merwan Saher speak to media on the release of two reports on the delivery of child and family services programs to indigenous children in Edmonton on Tuesday.

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Former Red Deer Mountie sentenced on assault charge

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A Mountie whose career started in the Red Deer city detachment has been given a conditional discharge for punching a man he had arrested on suspicion of impaired driving.

Const. Eric Pomerleau, currently on administrative duties with the Brooks RCMP, was tried and found guilty before Judge Gregory Lepp in Red Deer provincial court in June on an assault charge laid after the incident, which took place at the Red Deer city detachment on Nov. 7, 2012.

Sentencing arguments were heard on Tuesday, with Calgary-based Crown prosecutor Photini Papadatou asking for a fine in the range of $500 to $1,000.

Papadatou stressed that a police officer in charge of a prisoner is in a position of trust and that all police officers must be held to a higher standard than ordinary citizens.

Defence counsel Robb Beeman, also from Calgary, asked for a conditional discharge, which would uphold the conviction without creating a criminal record for his client.

Beeman argued that Pomerleau, 31 and married to a police officer, had suffered multiple effects as a result of the charge, including public humiliation, emotional stress and a financial shortfall because he was unable to perform extra duties that would have been available to him.

Beeman submitted 11 letters of reference from colleagues, professionals and family members describing Pomerleau as a public servant with a caring and kind nature and a good father.

Lepp said that, while Pomerleau is certainly guilty of assault, the nature of the incident was relatively minor in comparison to other cases where police have been brought before the court for the “gratuitous” assault of a suspect or prisoner.

He said Pomerleau had punched a man three times in the stomach and once in the head in a dispute over signing some documents before he was to be released from custody.

In this case, Pomerleau was an inexperienced member who over-reacted to a situation that could have been handled differently, said Lepp.

“This does not excuse his conduct, but puts it in perspective.”

Lepp found that the effects Pomerleau has suffered during criminal proceedings against him should discourage other police officers from using excessive force, while the public would not be well served if he were given a criminal record.

Citing Beeman’s submission, he noted that Pomerleau had worked as a public servant before joining the RCMP and that a criminal record would place hurdles in his path should he wish to continue as a public servant, whether with the RCMP or in another capacity.

“Society is better off if Const. Pomerleau can continue without the burden of a criminal record in the way,” said Lepp.

He granted Pomerleau a conditional sentence with one year of probation, including an order that he perform 50 hours of community service within the next six months.

Criminal charges could follow if Pomerleau breaches the conditions of his probation.

Pomerleau was previously acquitted of an assault charge laid in connection with his handling of a Red Deer teenager arrested for mischief in the early hours of Aug. 19, 2012. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Books on the Bus program a success PILOT PROJECT MAY EXPAND AGAIN IN THE FALL

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s Books on the Bus program has captured the attention of transit riders and readers.

Since January, riders have been encouraged to take a book, read it and share it with others or return it to the free mini libraries travelling the city’s streets.

Books are stored in containers located behind the bus driver’s seat.

“It started as a pilot project and it was so successful we’re continuing it. We’re currently on eight buses. It started out with four buses and we hope to expand it again in the fall,” said Dianna Souveny, community facilitator with the city’s social planning department, on Tuesday.

Souveny said the program was initiated by the city’s social planning department and while a report on the program is not yet complete, several thousand books have so far been distributed.

Most of the books stocked on buses have been donated and it now relies entirely on donations. Books for children, youth and adults are accepted, but they must be paperbacks in good condition. Books for children and youth are especially in high demand.

She said as the first program of its kind in Canada, and perhaps North America, Books on the Bus has received attention in the province and beyond.

“Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta would like this to become a provincial project.”

Books on the Bus has expanded to Sorensen Station where two library book carts are kept in the bus station shelter during the day.

“I often walk through Sorensen Station to see what’s going on with the books and often see people, especially young people, going through the book

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Free paperback books are available for the public on eight city buses through the city’s Books on the Bus program, as well as in the Sorensen Station transit shelter during the day. shelves and picking out books. It’s great.”

Volunteers from Cosmos restock the books on the buses and at the bus station.

Souveny said the next step will be the development of book exchanges in the form of more free, little libraries called Books about Town in the region.

Paperbacks can be donated to Books on the Bus by dropping them off at the Recreation Centre, Collicutt Centre, G.H. Dawe Community Centre, Sorensen Station, Cultural Services office, Kimmotion Family Day Home, Red Deer Child Care, and Cosmos.

Partners in the program include the Red Deer & District Family and Community Support Services, Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance, Cosmos, Red Deer Public Library and Red Deer Transit. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Notley tells Wall to call her if he dislikes beer tax

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her Saskatchewan counterpart Brad Wall should pick up the phone if he has a problem with her province’s new beer rules.

Notley says criticism of her policy is another “political drive-by” from Wall.

“My experience over the last 13 months is that when there’s a matter, pick up the phone and talk to your colleagues,” Notley said Tuesday at the legislature. “I would suggest that if he (Wall) would actually like to see a solution, that’s a better approach.”

“The fact of the matter is we did pick up the phone,” Wall countered. “We did it last Friday. We waited until Monday to make any public comment … obviously it’s not a drive-by it’s not even a walk-by.”

Wall said he asked his senior advisor Reg Downs last week to contact Notley’s chief of staff, saying they wanted to comment publicly on the matter but not without letting Alberta officials know.

“We have real concerns about this, about the impact on Saskatchewan jobs,” said Wall.

“Obviously Alberta consumers are going to be paying more for beer but that’s not our business.

What is our business, though, is if something’s violating the spirit of the New West Partnership and if it’s going to potentially cost jobs in our province, then we have to look at all of our options.”

At issue is Alberta’s new pricing plan for beer.

As of Aug. 5, the markup on beer will be set at $1.25 a litre — regardless of where the beer is made — but there will be grants available for Alberta-based small brewers.

Notley says Alberta has been too passive when trade rules in other provinces have harmed local interests in its brewing industry.

“We’re going to reach out and help some of our small brewers on an economic development basis,” said Notley, who noted there are a number of other Alberta-made products that can’t be sold in other provinces.

“But in the meantime I will not be lectured about any efforts that our government might take in the future in order to support our small brewers, our economic diversification, our workers and our industries.”

Wall’s government says the price change will hurt Saskatchewan producers selling in Alberta and violates the spirit of interprovincial trade agreements.

Last fall, Wall’s government announced it was lowering the markup on beer from smaller breweries in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia as part of the New West Partnership trade agreement with the three provinces.

Don McMorris, minister for the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority, has said Alberta’s markup will hurt his province’s brewers, namely Saskatoon-based Great Western Brewing.

Wall is expected to raise the issue with Notley at the premiers meeting later this week in Whitehorse.

Alberta man charged with murder in woman’s death

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — RCMP have charged an Alberta man in the death of a Saskatchewan woman five years ago.

Carol King was 40 when she disappeared on Aug. 6, 2011.

Police were unable to find any signs of King on her farm near Herschel, but her car was located in a slough a few days later.

Her remains were discovered in a wooded area three weeks after she was reported missing and had

Local BRIEFS Defence seeking plea deal for suspect facing 15 charges Defence counsel is seeking a plea deal for a young suspect arrested after a stolen pickup truck ran amok in the Clearview Meadows subdivison.

Red Deer City RCMP were called on June 22 to reports that a pickup truck had crashed into two other vehicles and a house.

Suspect Dakota Lee Cornelssen, 18, was arrested on 15 charges, including possession of stolen property worth more than $5,000; dangerous operation of motor vehicle; possession of weapon for dangerous purpose; unauthorized possession of firearm; seven charges of failing to comply with a recognizance; and resisting or obstructing a peace officer.

He is currently in custody at Red Deer Remand Centre and has not entered his pleas. In Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, defence counsel Brad Mulder asked that pleas be reserved to see if he and the Crown could work out a resolution.

He and his client are to return to court on Aug. 2.

RCMP hunting for suspects in attempted theft of ATM Red Deer RCMP are looking for two men who unsuccessfully tried to steal an ATM from the East Hill Fas Gas early Monday morning.

Police say a white truck with a covered licence plate pulled up to the front entrance of the Fas Gas on 30 Avenue and 22 Street with a tow strap attached to the rear of the vehicle around 2:45 a.m.

The first suspect used a sledgehammer to smash the glass door. The other suspect tried to cut a hole in the ATM with a portable saw. When those attempts were not successful, the suspects drove away.

The first suspect wore a black hoodie with “Ruthless” in white text on the front and “Crooks and Castles” in white text on the back. The second suspect wore a camouflage jacket with a hoodie and

to be identified through dental records.

Joseph (David) Caissie of Bluffton has been charged with first-degree murder and offering an indignity to human remains.

Police say Caissie, who is 53, was King’s former boyfriend.

He was arrested near the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon and was to appear in provincial court Wednesday.

In a brief written statement, King’s family said they have a sense of relief knowing that charges have been laid. camouflage pants.

If you have information about this crime or recognize these suspects, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

RCMP asking for public’s help to identify people involved in altercation Blackfalds RCMP are requesting the public’s help in identifying two individuals involved in a physical altercation Hwy 2, north of Highway 11A on July 16.

Police responded to the report by the truck stop on Hwy 2, north of Highway 11A around 4:50 p.m.

Witnesses saw a female carrying a large bag in the middle of the highway. A man approached the female, punched and dragged her back to a car parked at the truck stop.

Descriptions of the two people was limited.

The woman is described as 50 years old with long blonde hair. The man was described as wearing glasses and wearing a ball cap. The vehicle was described as a dark-coloured sedan with a partial licence plate number of BSM. If you have information regarding this incident, or any other investigation(s), call the Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300 or call your local police detachment. To remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), by internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by SMS (check your local Crime Stoppers [www.crimestoppers. ab.ca] for instructions). You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers, and if you provide information to Crime Stoppers that leads to an arrest(s), the recovery of stolen property, and/or a seizure of illicit drugs, you may be eligible for a cash reward.

Four large tires recovered from box of stolen truck Red Deer RCMP are looking for the owner of four stolen Wrangler truck tires.

Police recovered a set of four large truck tires in the box of a stolen truck on July 14.

The tires did not belong to the truck owner. The truck had been stolen early on July 11, and police believe the tires were stolen from the Red Deer area between July 11 and 14. The tires are Wrangler brand with Worx rims.

If you are missing four large Wrangler truck tires, please contact Red Deer RCMP Exhibits staff at 403406-2574 from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and

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Environmental group urges province to ditch caribou plan

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — About a dozen environmental groups from across the country are urging the Alberta government to abandon a draft plan for the recovery of woodland caribou.

The groups say a proposal to fence in 100 square kilometres of forest for pregnant females would lead to predators and other animals such as deer, elk and moose being destroyed.

The public is being asked to voice opinions on the draft before the Aug. 5 deadline.

Environmentalists say the major issue that needs to be addressed is the loss of natural habitat to industrial expansion.

Some of the organizations criticizing the caribou plan include the Animal Alliance of Canada, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Wolf Awareness.

The $40-million plan to restore industry-damaged habitat and section off forest to protect calving cows has drawn applause from scientists.

But some researchers have questioned the feasibility of the birthing pens. It’s been noted that they would only be needed for a few weeks each year.

It’s also been suggested that caribou coming out of a predator-free enclosure would not know how to handle themselves in the wild.

“These management experiments will destroy entire ecosystems, and many of the animals within, in an attempt to recover several threatened subpopulations of a woodland caribou,” Paul Paquet, a senior scientist with Raincoast Conservation, said Tuesday.

“If caribou are indeed the priority, why is industrial activity planned to continue within essential caribou habitat?” added Sadie Parr, executive director of Wolf Awareness.

The federal government has given provinces until 2017 to come up with range plans and recovery strategies for caribou herds, which are in danger across the country.

In Alberta, decades of development have left herds clinging to a few scraps of old-growth forest.

Numbers have declined by about 60 per cent and some ranges are more than 80 per cent disturbed.

The provincial government in June released the draft that includes a recovery strategy and a range plan for one threatened herd, which has declined to a few dozen.

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City’s director of development services taking job in Okotoks The City of Red Deer is losing another top administrator.

Elaine Vincent, the city’s Director of Development Services, is stepping down on July 29 to take the city manager position in Okotoks. She starts with the town on Sept. 1.

Vincent worked at the city for eight years. She started as a strategist in ambulance dispatch before moving up the ranks as city clerk, director of corporate services and finally director of development services.

“I get the opportunity to lead an entire organization,” said Vincent. “I have the opportunity to work with a city that is going through growth just like here in Red Deer and are also going through a major annexation process as well. I think the skill set that I gained here at the city [will make this] a great move over to the Town of Okotoks.”

Recently Charity Dyke, the Riverlands project manager, resigned to take a communications job with the City of Edmonton.

Wildrose leader visiting Red Deer today Wildrose leader Brian Jean will be in Red Deer today.

Join members of the Wildrose Red Deer North and Red Deer South Constituency Associations for a barbecue with Jean and other Wildrose MLAs at 3:30 p.m. at the Staples parking lot next to Costco in Gasoline Alley.

There will be a town hall with Jean at the Black Knight Inn from 6:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m.

Senior pleads not guilty to assault, uttering threats A Red Deer senior accused of threatening and assaulting a neighbour will stand trial in November.

Sunnybrook resident Robert Charlton, who recently turned 79, was charged on May 17 with assault and uttering threats by Red Deer RCMP investigating complaints of a dispute.

Represented by defence counsel Will Willms, Charlton entered a plea of not guilty on Tuesday.

He is to stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on the afternoon of Nov. 23.

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More important things than Pokémon Go MICHAEL TAUBE OPINION

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ur world has recently experienced some significant tragedies. We’ve witnessed several racially motivated/anti-police shooting deaths in the U.S., a horrific attack in Nice, France, by a rampaging truck driver, and a failed political coup in Turkey that’s led to thousands of arrests.

That’s why it’s been frustrating to watch many people spending enormous amounts of time focused on playing something as insignificant as Pokémon Go. Niantic’s free-to-play, augmented reality video game was released on July 6 in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. It is speedily making its way to other countries, and was officially unveiled in Canada on July 17. Millions of people are using it online, and it’s the most popular item in the App Store and Google Play.

Why are we so enamoured with this mobile version of a 20-year-old video game franchise?

It’s obviously a trendy thing to do right now. There is some indirect and direct peer pressure to join the gaming club (or mob, if you like) and play it.

Pokémon Go is a revolutionary video game, too. Unlike older, established multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, Farmville and Candy Crush, users have to leave their homes to capture the various types of Pokémon virtual characters. If you’re unwilling to physically go outside, you can’t participate.

There have been reports about businesses located on or near the PokéStops and Pokémon gyms (where you can find the Pokémon) witnessing increased profits, as well as the game’s role in helping catch criminals.

Dr. John Grohol, founder of the mental health network Psych Central, told the popular technology blog network Engadget on July 13, “In terms of the phenomena of people expressing the benefits of playing the game to their real-world mental health status, I think that’s very unique and it’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything

like that.” Even if we accept there are some personal and financial benefits, the game’s negatives still far outweigh the positives.

It goes without saying that Pokémon Go is a massive time-waster, similar to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. People are becoming exceedingly obsessive about playing it during the day and night. Motorists have hit users who were consumed by the game and weren’t paying attention while crossing the street. Hackers have become a problem, and computer viruses are sure to follow. While children are encouraged to go outside and communicate with others, discussing it non-stop with family and friends isn’t the best way to create a social environment. There are also optional game components that cost money … so you may want to consider hiding your wallets and purses!

In terms of mental health benefits, we should be careful to put too much stock into this theory.

Stephen Buckley of the mental health charity Mind told The Independent’s Kashmira Gander on July 12: “Getting regular contact with people is also helpful as it can reduce loneliness

and boost self-esteem. It is important, however, that gaming does not replace or damage genuine social relationships.”

Oxford University Professor Daniel Freeman, who works in the psychiatry department, was reported as saying, “Clinical tests are needed to prove the potential of augmented reality.” Dr. Suzanne Gage of Bristol University’s School of Experimental Psychology was also “sceptical,” believing the game’s overall effect was “far too early to tell.”

Yes, we all have the freedom to play this game as often or as little as we choose. In time, its popularity will dissipate — and it will be replaced by another augmented reality game with even more bells and whistles.

But will we ever look back at Pokémon Go during this difficult period of time, and claim it had a positive societal impact? I strongly doubt it.

It may be a form of escapism, but we shouldn’t be trying to constantly escape the reality we live in.

Troy Media columnist and political commentator Michael Taube was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

separation.

We hold these truths to self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And to paraphrase: that the people own these rights gifted by God. That no government allows or imposes these rights but, the people put in place, governments to protect these rights and give permission to be governed. Anything less than this is tyranny and dictatorship.

And, to draw to your attention that the first president of the United States, and the Founding Fathers, as well as most of the presidents were Free Masons. Free Masonry is the largest philanthropic organization in the world.

Free Masonry enshrines Aristotle, Cicero, and John Locke, the greats who advocated democracy, and setting up the levels of government in a repub-

lic style of government. Free Masonry being a democratic order and which practices moral law.

Free Masonry installed their beliefs in The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. But freedom being at the top of life, liberty, and to hold all possessions which is happiness. Under God’s law, which is the moral law, is liberty. You are free under and within the moral law.

Outside the moral law, one is subject to the law and subject to its penalty. The police are set up by our democratic system to guard, protect, and service the law. They are not to blame for protecting the system, us, the people.

If these rebel groups don’t like the police, I would think the National Guard or the military would suffice.

C.W. Wallace Red Deer

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Liberals shuffle foreign service ranks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s new ambassador to Japan was lauded Tuesday by a former Conservative trade official as a good choice for helping Canadian exporters crack the world’s third largest economy.

Ian Burney was Canada’s chief negotiator on its free trade agreement with South Korea, a deal which viewed as a breakthrough in Asia.

The bilateral Canada-Japan free trade process is all but dead as Japan has turned its attention to the 12-country Pacific Rim pact known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But with the ratification of the TPP in doubt — both U.S. presidential candidates are against it, and Canada is holding consultations well into the fall — revitalizing a deal with Japan is now more crucial, said Adam Taylor, a senior aide to former Conservative trade min-

ister Ed Fast.

“If there’s anybody who’s shown they have the skill, patience and temperament and the familiarity with the issues to take a deal that looks like it’s in the ditch and bring it back on track, it would be Ian Burney,” Taylor said.

“I’m a Tory, but if this is a sign where the trade folks will go in the new government, that’s actually STEPHANE DION good for Canada.”

Burney has a distinguished diplomatic pedigree: his father, Derek, served as Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. under Brian

Mulroney and was the head of Stephen Harper’s transition team when it won power in 2006.

Burney’s appointment was one of 26 Tuesday — 13 men, 13 women — that saw the Trudeau Liberals replacing several high-profile political appointments made by the previous Conservative government in a major shuffle of the top ranks of Canada’s foreign service.

Almost all are career public servants, with three of them replacing Harper government appointees in the United Kingdom, Iraq and Israel.

In the United Kingdom, former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell is being replaced by the former clerk of the privy council, Janice Charette. Campbell’s term was set expire last summer but he was given a oneyear extension.

In the Middle East, Stephane Dion is replacing the heads of two missions whose appointments both drew criti-

cism for being too partisan.

In 2013, former prime minister Stephen Harper appointed the former head of his RCMP security detail, Bruno Saccomani, as the ambassador to Jordan, which includes Iraq, and where Canada has no embassy.

Peter MacDougall, the assistant secretary to the cabinet for foreign and defence policy, where he would have worked on the government’s new mission to combat ISIL, replaces him.

Canada’s ambassador to Israel, Vivian Bercovici, is also gone just two years after her controversial appointment by the Harper government. The Toronto lawyer and former top adviser to the former Ontario finance minister Ernie Eves was seen as a harsh critic of Palestinian leadership.

Bercovici is being replaced by Deborah Lyons, who was previously Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan.

Canada to pledge up to $200 million in loans to Iraq fundraising conference

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada will open its wallet to help Iraq’s shattered economy when it co-hosts a major meeting in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Middle East country’s current and long-term needs.

Officials from 24 nations are expected to attend the Iraq pledging conference, which aims to raise more than $2 billion for humanitarian aid in the country, as well as for de-mining efforts and long-term stability.

Up to $200-million of that will come from Canada, the government announced on Tuesday.

The U.S. and Canada are co-hosting the event with Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands, and the focus will be less on fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and more on starting Baghdad down the road to recovery. A second meeting on the fight against ISIL will be held in Washington on Thursday.

Canada’s $200-million pledge will

go to the World Bank to help the Iraqi government with economic reforms.

The money, which will end up as a loan, is in addition to $1.6 billion the government committed to the region over three years in February as part of its reconfigured mission against ISIL. The Middle East country’s economy has been battered over the past two years thanks to the war against ISIL as well as the plummeting price of oil.

Corruption and a weak central government have added to the country’s woes.

But while Canada’s new money will be directed toward Iraq’s long-term economic success, much of Wednesday’s meeting is expected to focus on the country’s immediate needs.

In particular, U.S. officials said this week that a severe funding shortfall had caused the United Nations to close health programs and other services for the 3.3 million Iraqis forced from their homes by ISIL. The officials said the international community had delivered only 38 per cent of the $861 million needed.

That shortfall has taken on a new

sense of urgency with the planned liberation of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which has been under ISIL control since June 2014. The liberation of Fallujah last month was described as a humanitarian disaster, as fleeing Iraqis overwhelmed nearby camps and aid services.

Stephane Dion, who will represent Canada at Wednesday’s meeting, will announce that Canada is directing an additional $150 million in previously announced funding toward humanitarian needs. However, an official could not say how much of that would end up going toward the UN’s emergency appeal.

An additional $8 million will be evenly split between de-mining and returning Iraqis to their homes.

Bessma Momani, a Middle East expert at the University of Waterloo, said improving governance in Iraq and laying the foundation for economic growth is essential to address the root problems that led to the rise of ISIL. Such assistance is long overdue, she added.

Survivors meet to fight campus sex assaults

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Mandi Gray has lost count of the messages she’s received from women who say their universities failed them after they were sexually assaulted.

The PhD student publicly alleged last year that York University mishandled her case and emails and Facebook notes began to pour in — all expressing, in different words, “Me too.”

“On one level, it’s comforting to know that it’s not just me,” Gray said.

“On the other hand, it’s absolutely terrifying to know that if I’m raped or assaulted, whether as a graduate student or a professor, there is absolutely no safety net for me.”

Over the past year, an informal network of activists has emerged to fight campus sexual assaults, with Gray as a central figure. Now, the group is planning to meet to discuss concrete ways to access justice and hold universities accountable.

About 10 people, including assault survivors and lawyers, will gather at Toronto’s Ryerson University starting on Aug. 4. Three women who have filed human rights complaints will advise

others who are considering taking action against their schools.

Gray, 28, filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in June 2015 alleging gender discrimination.

She said York lacked clear procedures for reporting assaults, forcing her to repeat her story to a dozen staff members.

MANDI GRAY York spokeswoman Barbara Joy said this week the university approved a sexual assault policy last year and is working with student groups to develop new reporting procedures.

A major aim of the August event is to share knowledge about human rights law, said co-organizer Glynnis Kirchmeier, who filed a complaint in March over the University of British Columbia’s handling of sex assaults.

“It’s sort of a brave new world,” said

Kirchmeier. “Mandi was the one who started it, and the rest of us were like, ‘OK, our situation is like that and we can see the appeal of this forum.”’

In the United States, a legal provision called Title IX bans gender-based discrimination in universities and has enabled women to successfully sue institutions for indifference to sexual assault and harassment.

But in Canada, oversight of universities falls to provinces. Ontario and B.C. have passed laws requiring post-secondary institutions have sexual assault policies, but critics say the legislation lacks consequences for universities that don’t comply.

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Couple arrives at ER, told to call 911

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONCTON, N.B. — A New Brunswick woman says she has filed a complaint after a hospital told her to call an ambulance even though she drove her ailing husband right up to the emergency room doors.

Candy Price of Riverview, N.B., said she drove her husband, Scott Macdonald, to the Moncton Hospital on July 13 with crippling back pain.

Price said Macdonald was unable to sit or walk, was sweating profusely and was wailing in pain.

When they arrived at the hospital, Price said she went inside for help but was told by a nurse and security guard that she needed to call 911 so paramedics could bring Macdonald into the hospital.

“I’m sure my face dropped. I just looked at them,” said Price in a phone interview on Tuesday. “I didn’t say this but I was thinking in my head, ‘Really?

I’m at the (emergency room)’.”

Price said with her husband in pain in the vehicle’s back seat, she followed instructions and called 911.

She said she had to repeat her request multiple times to the 911 operator, who she says seemed bewildered.

Price said the paramedics who attended the scene also appeared to be in disbelief that they were called upon to help the man from the vehicle and through the doors of the hospital just metres away.

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Salad dressing and mayonnaise spill onto a highway after a transport truck crashed in Toronto on Tuesday in this police handout photo. A mix of salad dressing and mayonnaise oozed over a portion of a major Toronto highway after a transport truck carrying large vats of the condiments rolled over while making a turn. Crews spent the whole afternoon at the scene of the crash cleaning up the mess. Police have charged a 52-year-old Brampton, Ont., man with careless driving.

Woman accused of hiding baby remains had affair: trial witness

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker had a long-term, extra-marital affair that led to a pregnancy, a former friend testified Tuesday.

Lyn Burdett told Andrea Giesbrecht’s trial the 42-year-old was seeing a boyfriend for a few years about a decade ago and, on one occasion, used Burdett as cover when she wanted to spend the weekend with him.

“She told her husband she was going to Mahnomen (Minnesota) with me but she was actually going to (the boyfriend’s) house,” Burdett told court.

Asked under cross-examination

whether she felt bad about helping Giesbrecht go off with her boyfriend, Burdett said no because Giesbrecht “said so many bad things about her husband.”

Tuesday’s testimony was the first mention of substantial marital strife between Giesbrecht and her husband, Jeremy.

Giesbrecht’s husband, who verbally clashed with the two Crown attorneys during a break in the case this week, is scheduled to testify Wednesday. The Crown said it may invoke a section of law governing adverse witnesses when he appears.

Giesbrecht was arrested in October 2014 after the remains were found in plastic pails, bins and other containers

in a Winnipeg U-Haul storage locker she had rented. The judge-only trial has already heard it is unclear how long the remains had been there, but some were very decayed.

Medical experts have testified that the infants were at or near full term and were likely to have been born alive. DNA evidence suggests the remains are linked to Giesbrecht’s husband and a sample taken from a soiled sanitary napkin inside the Giesbrecht home.

Burdett said Giesbrecht told her around 2006 that she became pregnant from her boyfriend. A few months later, Giesbrecht was no longer pregnant.

“She told me that she lost it,” Burdett told the judge.

Half of aboriginal families could miss child benefit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Half of the country’s aboriginal families living on reserve could miss out on the federal government’s new child benefit aimed at raising hundreds of thousands of Canadians out of poverty.

Tax returns are the basis for calculating how much a family receives under the new benefit and internal government estimates peg the tax filing rate on reserves at about 50 per cent.

That means millions intended to help indigenous children could end up left in the federal treasury.

Families Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Tuesday that the government is trying to raise awareness of the benefit in indigenous communities.

Canada BRIEFS Alberta to do more inspections of new home construction sites EDMONTON — Alberta is cracking down on unsafe workplace practices in the new-home construction industry.

Labour Minister Christina Gray says more occupational health and safety inspectors are being will be sent to work sites during off hours this summer.

Gray says safety officers wrote more than 1,600 tickets last year.

More than half had to do with employees falling and injuring themselves.

Jim Rivait with the Canadian Home Builders Association says it wants to weed out builders who create unsafe conditions by cutting corners.

Grizzly with cubs bites woman hiking in backcountry COCHRANE — A woman hiking in the backcountry west of Calgary was bitten in the arm by a grizzly bear, a fish and wildlife spokesman said Tuesday.

Brendan Cox said the 25-year-old woman was walking along the Ghost River near Trapper’s Hill campground, about 45 minutes northwest of Cochrane.

He said a man who was with her

“They have larger family sizes — so more children — and second, they live in more difficult circumstances — most of them, not all of them of course — but on average, indigenous families struggle more to meet the needs of their children,” he said.

“For those two reasons, the (benefit) would be — will be — making…a very important impact in their lives.”

Census statistics now five years old suggest that there are about 44,000 children living in poverty on reserves — a number that departmental officials believe has only increased in the intervening years.

The government defines who is living in poverty by using an income threshold. On reserves, families who meet that criteria are on average about $9,000 under the cut-off, while chased away the bear, which was with two cubs.

The woman was airlifted to hospital where she was “doing well.”

Cox said it fish and wildlife investigators need to determine why she attacked.

“Sows with cubs are more protective … so they can be more aggressive when they run into a surprise encounter with humans,” Cox said.

“We’re not sure exactly whether this was a surprise encounter or whether it was something else.”

It’s too early to say what will happen to the bear and her cubs if they are found, he said. Investigators need to assess the scene and speak to the people involved.

Former priest granted parole after serving third of abuse sentence CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Roman Catholic priest George Ansel Smith abused more than a dozen boys over two decades, using alcohol, threats and bribes with children as young as 8 years old.

In 2013, the judge who sentenced him to 11 years described him as a “predator.”

But in a decision this month, the Parole Board of Canada has released the retired cleric on full parole after a third of his sentence, saying he is considered a low risk to reoffend. It noted that the Correctional Service of Canada rated Smith’s potential for reintegration into society as high.

“CSC is of the opinion that you have repeatedly demonstrated that you are fully committed to leading a pro-social life and are ready for a less structured release,” the decision said.

elsewhere families are $5,200 under.

The new non-taxable, income-tested child benefit rolls out Wednesday with the average family receiving about $2,300 under a program that was a cornerstone of the Liberals’ campaign platform.

The Liberals predict the benefit will cut the child poverty rate in Canada to 6.7 per cent from 11.2 per cent by this time next year once families feel the full effect.

Federal officials estimate almost 300,000 children and 200,000 adults will see their family income rise to above the low-income cut off as a result.

The single benefit replaces what Duclos called a more complicated system.

Alleged shooter says memory came back at second interrogation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Less than two days after Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting, accused murderer Richard Henry Bain moved quickly to protect his legal rights and fumed as a detective quizzed him on his lack of remorse.

Bain has testified he has no memories of the lead-up to the attack that left a man dead, but an interrogation video taken two days after the event and shown at his first-degree murder trial Tuesday suggests he was on the defensive.

Investigator Daniel Prieur tells Bain it bothers him he isn’t showing any remorse. Bain, who was briefly hospitalized after his arrest, explains he wasn’t well during his first interrogation a day earlier.

“I can tell you honestly, when I have regrets, I pray to my God,” Bain tells him. “Check your video camera.

I prayed to my God three times this morning.”

The charges against Bain are connected to events outside the Metropolis nightclub the night of Sept. 4 as then-Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois was inside giving her speech to celebrate the party’s election victory.

They include first-degree murder in the shooting death of lighting technician Denis Blanchette and attempted murder after the same bullet hit another stagehand, David Courage.

Bain, 65, has pleaded not guilty to all six charges, including three of attempted murder and two that are arson-related.

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Officer killed while looking for suspect

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kansas, police officer was shot and killed on Tuesday while searching for a suspect in a drive-by shooting, police said.

Capt. Robert Melton was searching for the suspect when he drove up to someone who matched that person’s description just before 2 p.m., police spokesman Tom Tomasic said. Before Melton could get out of his vehicle, the person opened fire, hitting the officer multiple times, Tomasic said. The alleged shooter was caught five minutes later about a block away, he said.

A police spokeswoman said the suspect was being questioned Tuesday evening along with another person suspected in the initial drive-by shooting.

Police weren’t releasing the suspects’ names because charges hadn’t been filed. A third person who had been taken into custody was determined not to have been involved and was released, police said.

It’s the second time a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has been shot and killed this year. In early May, detective Brad Lancaster was fatally shot near the Kansas Speedway, and Melton had served in the police honour guard at Lancaster’s funeral. The shooting also comes as police departments across the country are on edge after ambush attacks left eight officers dead in Texas and Louisiana.

“There’s a lot of pain and brokenness in our community and our nation right now, and we just want to ask everyone to be prayerful and thoughtful right now,” Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County said.

Ida Ford, 87, was watching television in her two-story brick home when

ics worked on the officer.

“I’m just so sorry for his family,” she said.

Melton was brought to the University of Kansas Hospital just before 2:30 p.m., but resuscitation efforts did not work, trauma surgeon James Howard said at a news conference.

The shooting happened after police responded to a report around 1:30 p.m. from a person who said several people in a car were firing shots. The suspect vehicle took off as police arrived, but it crashed into a fence and the occupants bailed out at 1:36 p.m., Tomasic, the police spokesman, said. Two people were taken into custody within three minutes of the wreck, he said.

Melton, 46, was driving around looking for a third person when he came upon someone who matched the suspect’s description, Tomasic said.

Melton was a 17-year veteran of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. According to his LinkedIn profile, he had also served in the Kansas Army National Guard and was deployed to Afghanistan from September 2010 to March 2012.

Outside the hospital where Melton died, local Baptist preacher Jimmie Banks — a friend of the city’s mayor — sat dejected on a bench, head lowered, after attending the news conference announcing the officer’s passing. He said it was painful to sit in that room and see the grief-stricken faces.

“The contributions that peace officers make to protect and serve — they deserve better,” said Banks. “When they leave home, the family expects them to return. It’s shameful this has happened.”

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Kansas City, Kan., police officer Brad Lightfoot, left, consuls Susan Goble at the shooting scene of a police officer in Kansas City, Kan., Tuesday. Goble knows the family of the fallen officer and hoped to place a wreath near the site of the shooting. gunfire erupted just outside. Ford said she thought someone was knocking on her air conditioner until her son rushed downstairs and told her the three loud noises she had heard

were gunshots. Ford said she looked through her window and saw the officer sprawled and unresponsive on the asphalt road in front of her home. She watched for a few minutes as paramed-

Trump wins the GOP nomination on a surreal day

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CLEVELAND — Donald Trump crossed the threshold of history the way he ran the Republican race: soaked in drama, surrounded by back-stabbing, jeered by well-heeled critics as a no-hope amateur, cheered by a die-hard base, and embraced at the finish line by his family.

The billionaire businessman was officially nominated as the Republican party’s candidate for president Tuesday in a surreal day befitting one of the most surreal campaigns in modern political history.

It started with intrigue over how the party of Honest Abe managed to allow the nominee’s wife to deliver a speech sprinkled with paragraphs of pilfered oratory. Hours later, it ended with his children hugging on the convention floor as he officially reached the number of necessary delegates.

Pixels of digital fireworks erupted on the overhead scoreboard. A muzak-style rendition of, New York, New York, blared on the speakers. And on the floor, the nominee’s namesake officially put him over the top in the roll call from his home state.

“Congratulations, Dad. We love you,” Donald Trump Jr. shouted above

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At the July 4 meeting, council denied any further discussion on the matter when the tie vote effectively quashed the motion on the floor.

Mayor Tara Veer did not vote because of a potential perceived conflict of interest. Veer said the company had approached her about the application before the council meeting.

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“It’s not a campaign anymore. It’s a movement. It’s my honour to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top in the delegate count tonight.”

There were only faint remnants of the once-bitter opposition to him within the party. The vote from New York was followed by Puerto Rico, which announced its delegates belonged to Sen. Marco Rubio. The crowd also booed as the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia, awarded Trump zero delegates.

But Trump won handily.

His moment of triumph came in yet another day that presidential-election historians will note for its novelty.

Melania Trump had recited near-verbatim snippets of an old speech from incumbent first lady Michelle Obama, causing a bout of fingerpointing at the Republican convention.

There were calls for heads to roll — again.

The party chair suggested someone should be fired. Donald Trump’s campaign manager, who was just fired, suggested someone should be fired.

And one of Trump’s closest, longtime political advisers who, according to the campaign, was fired — but who

insisted he quit — also said someone should be fired.

Roger Stone said there should be consequences for what happened: about seven per cent of the spouse’s speech appeared to be borrowed from Michelle Obama.

“Sloppy staff work, at a minimum,” Stone told a breakfast panel organized at the convention by the website Politico.

“It’s sloppy staff work and somebody should go.”

Stone was a former Nixon White House staffer and New York confidant of Trump’s who acted as his political aide in his previous flirtations with presidential runs. He parted ways with the campaign last year, but still speaks with Trump and remains a staunch supporter.

He downplayed the notion that the snafu might have any effect on voters.

The public won’t care about the lifted lines, he said, and most will probably remember the image, presence and presentation of the candidate’s wife.

Stone compared Melania Trump to Jacqueline Kennedy — as refined women speaking different languages, comfortable in front of the camera, great political assets to their husbands, but uncomfortable speaking publicly.

Trump’s senior staff attempted to close ranks, blaming Hillary Clinton and the media for making a big deal of a string of coincidental words. However, the rival Democrats had nothing to do with viral videos that spread across social media after an out-of-work journalist tweeted comparisons with a speech from 2008.

The theme of that apparently plagiarized passage? Honesty and hard work.

“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect,” Melania Trump said, largely lifting from Obama’s remarks.

Trump had told an interviewer before delivering it that she’d written it herself, with minimal help. The campaign later issued a confusing statement that said she had indeed received help, without assigning any blame.

When Republican party chair Reince Priebus was asked at an event Tuesday whether he’d fire a speechwriter who committed plagiarism, he replied: “Probably … The distraction gets you off message a little.”

17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker received word that a friend had died in his home country days before he went on a rampage with an axe and knife on a German train, wounding five. He vowed in a note that he would “take revenge on these infidels,” German investigators said Tuesday.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities say so far they have found no direct links to the group and believe the suspect, whose name was not released, self-radicalized.

German officials didn’t identify the victims, but Hong Kong’s immigration department said that among those in-

jured in the attack were four members of a family of five from the southern Chinese city. At least two of the five wounded were in a life-threatening condition.

Investigator Lothar Koehler said the teenager’s motivation appeared to be Islamic extremism based upon a passage, found in his apartment, which read: “Pray for me that I can take revenge on these infidels and pray for me that I will go to heaven.”

In the premeditated attack, the suspect boarded the regional train after 9 p.m. near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg with an axe and knife concealed in a bag, according to Bamberg prose-

cutor Erik Ohlenschlager. He said that the suspect had learned on Saturday that a friend had died in Afghanistan, but didn’t immediately give more details about the possible link.

He then concealed himself in a bathroom, and armed himself with his weapons.

“Then, without warning, he attacked the passengers using great force on their bodies and their heads,” Ohlenschlager said.

In an emergency call from the train, the suspect could be heard in the background shouting “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” as he hacked and slashed.

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Kelly made a public appeal to Kevin through the Red Deer Advocate that his family wanted to help him get back on his feet. They would bring him back to B.C., help him get a job and find a place for him to stay.

“I don’t have a lot of details … I wasn’t being too pushy with him because I just wanted him to come back. … He’s going to come out here tomorrow.”

She said her brother was in Red Deer the whole time he was missing but she doesn’t know yet where or what he was doing. “My brother’s a keep-to-himself type person.” It was out of character for him to just disappear and she described him as a responsible person.

Kelly said she felt really good that Kevin had been located. “It took a huge weight off my chest. … It’s just a huge, huge difference to know that he’s okay.”

She said Kevin had run into the former co-worker who had read the Advocate story, had located Kevin, told him his family was trying to reach out to him, and lent him some money as well.

“I’m actually pretty grateful to this person too because I felt like it helped him feel like he should come back,” Kelly said, adding that her brother already has some plans for getting back to work. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

The report follows meetings and discussions with hundreds of stakeholders.

Graff said feedback showed it is critical that children be kept in their communities and with their families wherever possible.

He said taking kids from their parents, siblings and surroundings profoundly hurts their well-being and ability to become successful adults.

Graff suggested a fundamental rethink is in order. He said aboriginal culture views extended relatives and community members as caregivers as opposed to the Canadian-European model which focuses on immediate family.

Government officials still tend to make risk assessments and child care arrangements through the Canadian-European lens, he said.

“Participants (to the discussions) said the child intervention authorities at times take a view that aboriginal children are not being cared for when in fact that is not the case,” wrote Graff.

“Without significant changes to the way the child-welfare system understands aboriginal children and families, there is every reason to believe that aboriginal children will continue to be over-represented in care.”

He also noted some stakeholders suggested that money going to foster

parents of aboriginal children might better be spent helping aboriginal families overcome the circumstances that can lead to family breakups.

Graff’s report was one of two issued Tuesday assessing the state of aboriginal kids in care. The other was from auditor general Merwan Saher.

Saher said an audit of provincial programs and services revealed that the government lacks a clear early-intervention strategy for First Nations children.

“We found that indigenous children received less-frequent contact with caseworkers than non-indigenous children,” said Saher. “Further, indigenous children had their care plans reviewed less often.”

Saher also said department staff receive minimal training on understanding cultural differences.

“The only specific indigenous-focused training the department requires is part of its delegation training for new social workers, and there is no requirement to update or retake the training regularly.”

Premier Rachel Notley said her government accepts the recommendations from Saher and Graff.

“We need to roll up our sleeves to make better and faster progress on how to improve the quality of service and the quality of relationships between the child protection authorities in the indigenous communities and the government of Alberta,” Notley said at the legislature.

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Last call at Lux Lounge BAR SOLD, EXPECTED TO RE-OPEN IN AUGUST UNDER NEW NAME

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A downtown lounge in Red Deer has changed ownership and will reopen in August with a new name and other changes.

The lounge, located at 4928C 50 St., was formerly known as the Olive, which was sold to a group of six people only last fall. It was then renamed the Lux Lounge.

The newest owner of the lounge, Sean Draper, took possession of the business on July 15. It is closed now until changes are made, he said.

Draper, 35, also owns the cocktail

lounge To The Lost and is part-owner of the Red Boar Smokery, both also on 50th (Ross) Street.

He said the former Olive is in a good spot, and often when To The Lost was full, patrons would be directed to the Olive.

He said he wants to change the theme of the new business and a few people have suggested it be turned back to what it was as the Olive.

“But I don’t think you should ever step back. I think you have to move ahead, so I’m going to put my own little twist on the place.”

He’s aiming to be open before the middle of August and hasn’t finalized

the lounge’s new name.

He said he has a close relationship with many of the artists in the city and has reached out to them.

Draper said downtown Red Deer is becoming a good place to visit.

The new large Hudson’s Pub downtown

has had a great impact because it draws more people into the downtown, he said.

With other businesses such as the Chill Out Cafe and Bakery, the Coconut Room and 50 West, “It’s all really coming together down there. It’s really nice. And City Hall has a beautiful park. We just want to get people down there.”

“It’s happening, which is pretty cool.”

Besides a business owner, Draper has also been a bartender for 16 years, 13 of those in Red Deer. He still does a stint as a bartender on Sunday nights at the Vat.

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Jeff Powers, assistant manager at Rock Candy Boutique, puts up a sign encouraging Pokémon Go players to play inside the store in Halifax on Tuesday. Some Canadian businesses are jumping on the popular Pokémon Go video game craze by encouraging people to use their shops and bars as a stop in their quest to catch the mythical creatures.

Canadian businesses trying to capitalize on Pokémon Go fever

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Pokémon Go sign directing people to the front door of Rock Candy Boutique in Halifax has only been up for a week, but Jeff Powers says he is already seeing it pay off.

“Downtown is alive in a way that I haven’t seen in a long, long time,” said Powers, a manager at the store, which sells various rock music T-shirts, hoodies, hats and other paraphernalia.

“There is just a flood from everybody, from young kids to older adults, and you can tell they’re playing this game.”

That would be Pokémon Go, which officially launched in Canada on Sunday. The wildly popular video game sends players on a quest to find superimposed animated characters on a map-like interface using the camera on their smartphones. It is currently the most downloaded app in the Apple app store.

Powers said Tuesday the sign has brought people into the store who

Business BRIEFS MEC announces plans to open two new Calgary stores VANCOUVER — Mountain Equipment Co-op announced plans Tuesday to open two new stores in Calgary within the next three years.

The company says it will open a 30,000-square foot location in the Seton Urban District of southeast Calgary in the fall of 2018, followed six months later by a 27,000-square foot store in west Calgary’s Medicine Hill community in 2019.

The Vancouver-based retailer says the stores will provide about 160 jobs through a mix of senior staff, full-time,

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wouldn’t normally shop there but hear it’s a good place to play the augmented reality video game.

“This has just blown up bigger than anybody has expected,” he said, adding that the various Pokémon merchandise the store carries have also been flying off the shelves.

“It leads people to travel down streets they normally wouldn’t. It’s bringing a lot of foot traffic down to the side streets and a lot of people are coming in and buying things because they were just in the area.”

Some Canadian businesses have been jumping on the craze by actively encouraging potential customers to use their shops as PokéStops or Pokémon gyms — locations to play the game.

But marketing professor Ken Wong cautioned that although it may seem like a no-brainer for businesses to capitalize on Pokémon Go’s popularity, it can also backfire.

“It’s a statement of what your brand is, who it stands for and who it seeks to appeal to,” said Wong, who is with the

Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.

“While it may generate traffic for you, whether or not that traffic generates profitability in the short, and more importantly, long term is a different story. If you’re in a business that needs a promotion to stay in business, you’re already on a slippery slope.”

Wong said the publicity stunt would mostly profit businesses that appeal to the biggest demographic of Pokémon Go players or have a link to the game — for example, stores that sell cellphone accessories or comic books.

There may be a potential to grow business in the short term, but he doesn’t see that enduring.

“Eventually the novelty will wear off. There will always be diehards but it’s no different than the Trivial Pursuit craze,” he said.

“If you are the right kind of business, get in as soon as you can when the fad has the greatest duration of effect, because if you wait too long, the fad will be over.”

part-time and casual positions.

The two new Calgary stores would deepen MEC’s recent investments in Alberta.

MEC’s South Edmonton Common location is scheduled to open this fall and the capital’s downtown store will be relocated to the Edmonton Brewery district next spring.

The store developments are part of an unprecedented period of growth for MEC. Its sales topped $350 million for the first time last year, while membership grew by more than 225,000.

New stores are also set to open later this year in Laval, Que., and the Toronto suburb of North York.

times of crisis.

The order was awarded by the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Office in Washington, D.C. BlackBerry says its AtHoc system will be fully implemented for the Capitol complex over the coming months.

The company (TSX:BB) didn’t say how many millions of dollars the Senate contract will be worth over five years.

Once running, the system will provide secure notification and communication for up to 50,000 individuals at the complex.

BlackBerry chief executive John Chen has positioned BlackBerry to get more of its revenue from software sales — rather than its handsets, which have lost most of their market share to Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

BlackBerry also announced that its AtHoc division will extend the capability of the U.S. Coast Guard’s warning system to allow staff members in the National Capitol Region to receive and respond to emergency alerts through their computers.

BlackBerry picked for crisis communications system at U.S. Capitol complex NEW YORK — BlackBerry says it has received a multimillion-dollar order for secure software that would used in the U.S. Capitol complex in

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WASHINGTON — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will reduce global economic growth this year and next, the International Monetary Fund says.

The IMF said Tuesday that it is shaving its estimate for worldwide growth to 3.1 per cent this year and 3.4 per cent in 2017. Both estimates are 0.1 percentage points lower than the bank’s previous forecast in April.

IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said the bank was prepared as of June 22 — the day before Britain’s vote — to slightly mark up its global forecast, citing unexpectedly strong growth in Europe and Japan and a partial rebound in global commodity prices. “But Brexit has thrown a spanner in the works,” Obstfeld said.

Britain must now renegotiate its trade relationship with Europe, creating uncertainty that could erode consumer and business confidence and freeze investment.

For Canada, the IMF shaved a tenth of a percentage point off its expectations for economic growth this year, marking down its prediction to 1.4 per cent.

But the think tank increased its forecast for Canada next year by twotenths of a percentage point to 2.1 per cent.

The world’s two biggest economies — the United States and China — are unlikely to sustain much damage from the tumult in Europe, the IMF said.

The IMF earlier downgraded its forecast for U.S. growth this year to 2.2 per cent after the American economy got off to a slow start this year, partly because a strong dollar pinched exports.

The fund has raised its forecast for Chinese growth this year to 6.6 per cent from an April forecast of 6.5 per cent. The improvement reflects economic stimulus from five interest rate cuts last year and an increase in government spending on infrastructure.

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to struggle with the fallout from last year’s free fall in commodity prices.

The Nigerian economy is expected to shrink 1.8 per cent, a dramatic turnaround from the IMF’s April forecast for 2.3 per cent growth. The South African economy is forecast to eke out 0.1 per cent growth.

Ikea Canada to begin accepting PayPal BURLINGTON, Ont. — Ikea Canada is adding a PayPal payment option for online purchases from the home furnishings company.

The Swedish retailer says it wants to make Ikea more accessible to Canadians.

PayPal has about 6.4 million active user accounts in Canada.

The service is an alternative to credit and debit cards, which Ikea Canada will continue to accept.

Walmart stopped taking the Visa credit card at some of its stores in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Monday in a dispute over fees.

Visa Canada says it offered Walmart one of the lowest rates in the country but the department store chain wanted more.

Walmart says credit card fees in Canada are too high by international standards and has threatened to ban Visa cards at all 400 of its stores in the country.

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When the mind wanders, safety also strays PLANS FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS HAVE PITFALL: THE HUMAN BRAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Experts say the development of self-driving cars over the coming decade depends on an unreliable assumption by many automakers: that the humans in them will be ready to step in and take control if the car’s systems fail.

Instead, experience with automation in other modes of transportation like aviation and rail suggests that the strategy will lead to more deaths like that of a Florida Tesla driver in May. Decades of research shows that people have a difficult time keeping their minds on boring tasks like monitoring systems that rarely fail and hardly ever require them to take action. The human brain continually seeks stimulation. If the mind isn’t engaged, it will wander until it finds something more interesting to think about. The more reliable the system, the more likely it is that attention will wane.

Automakers are in the process of adding increasingly automated systems that effectively drive cars in some or most circumstances, but still require the driver as a backup in case the vehicle encounters a situation unanticipated by its engineers.

Tesla’s Autopilot, for example, can steer itself within a lane and speed up or slow down based on surrounding traffic or on the driver’s set speed. It can change lanes with a flip of its signal, automatically apply brakes, or scan for parking spaces and parallel park on command.

Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old tech company owner from Canton, Ohio, who was an enthusiastic fan of the technology, was killed when neither he nor his Tesla Model S sedan’s Autopilot braked for a truck making a left turn on a highway near Gainsville, according to federal investigators and the automaker.

Tesla warns drivers to keep their hands on the wheel even though Autopilot is driving, or the vehicle will automatically slow to a stop. A self-driving system Audi plans to introduce in its 2018 A7, which the company says will be the most advanced on the market, monitors drivers’ head and eye movements, and automatically slows the car if the driver’s attention is diverted.

But Brown’s failure to brake means he either didn’t see the truck in his path or saw it too late to respond — an indication he was relying on the automation and his mind was elsewhere, said Missy Cummings, director of Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. The truck driver said he had heard a Harry Potter video playing in the car MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American traders avoided moving stock markets in any solid direction Tuesday, amid a dry spell of economic data and an anticipated meeting of the European Central Bank to be held later this week.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, the S&P/TSX composite index was barely changed, down 7.79 points at 14,524.61.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 25.96 points to climb to another record close at 18,559.01. The broader S&P 500 composite index declined a marginal 3.11 points at 2,163.78 and the Nasdaq composite faded 19.41 points at 5,036.37.

Equity markets had enjoyed a rally in recent weeks which helped send the Dow and S&P 500 to new heights. The rapid rise is in sharp contrast to this week, where traders have held off from making any major moves.

“The rally we’ve seen largely has been macro driven,” said Craig Jerusalim, a portfolio manager of Canadian equities at CIBC Asset Management. “For that rally to continue, we’re going to really have to see (corporate) earnings growth come through in these quarterly results.”

He notes that despite the pullback in recent days, the Toronto stock market is up 24 per cent since its January lows, while the S&P 500 is up nearly

20 per cent compared with its February lows.

“The sentiment has shifted so quickly from fear to greed and we could see that deteriorate from here,” said Jerusalim, adding that another terrorist attack, negative employment figures or a major central bank decision could easily shake global stock markets.

The European Central Bank is set to meet on Thursday, even though most economists don’t believe president Mario Draghi will be announcing any surprising policy changes. Nevertheless, it will be a well-watched meeting to see how the central bank reacts to last month’s Brexit vote, as the impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union still remains unclear.

Meanwhile in corporate news, shares in tech firm BlackBerry (TSX:BB) fell three cents, or 0.34 per cent, to $8.68 amid news that the Waterloo, Ont., company has won a multimillion-dollar contract to provide secure crisis software to the U.S. Capitol complex.

In currencies, the loonie lost 0.54 of a U.S. cent, closing at 76.76 cents US, as oil prices dropped.

The more heavily-traded September crude contract declined 49 cents at US$45.45 per barrel, while the August contract dipped 59 cents to US$45.65 a barrel.

August natural gas was up a penny at US$2.73 per mmB-

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Kaushik Raghu, senior staff engineer at Audi, is reflected in the passenger side visor mirror while demonstrating an Audi self driving vehicle on I-395 expressway in Arlington, Va. Experts say the development of self-driving cars over the coming decade depends on an unreliable assumption by most automakers: that the humans in them will be ready to step in and take control if the car’s systems fail.

Experience with automation in other modes of transportation suggests that strategy will lead to more deaths like that of a Florida Tesla driver in May. after the crash.

“Drivers in these quasi- and partial modes of automation are a disaster in the making,” Cummings said. “If you have to rely on the human to see something and take action in anything less than several seconds, you are going to have an accident like we saw.”

Operators — an airline pilot, a train engineer or car driver — can lose awareness of their environment when they turn control over to automation, said Rob Molloy, the National Transportation Safety Board’s chief highway crash investigator.

He pointed to the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Brazil to France in 2007. A malfunction in equipment used to measure air speed caused the plane’s autopilot to disconnect, catching pilots by surprise. Confused,

they caused an otherwise flyable plane to stall and fall from the sky, killing 228 people.

Planes and trains have had automation “for 20, 30 years and there are still times when they’re like, ‘Wow, we didn’t expect that to happen,”’ Molloy said.

Part of the problem is overconfidence in the technology causes people to think they can check out.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx warned automakers on Tuesday that they should realize that drivers will be tempted to use the technology in irresponsible ways and take that into account as they build their robotic systems.

“People are getting distracted by the coolness of the technology,” Foxx said following a speech at a self-driving vehicle conference in San Francisco. “In many cases, they are going beyond what the technology is capable of doing.”

TU, while the August gold contract rose $3 to US$1,332.30 an ounce and the September copper contract rose three cents to US$2.26 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,524.61, down 7.79 points Dow — 18,559.01, up 25.96 points (record high) S&P 500 — 2,163.78, down 3.11 points Nasdaq — 5,036.37, down 19.41 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.76 cents US, down 0.54 of a cent Pound — C$1.7051, down 0.92 of a cent Euro — C$1.4357, up 0.33 of a cent Euro — US$1.1020, down 0.52 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.65 per barrel, down 59 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,332.30 per oz., up $3.00 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $27.118 oz., up 7.3 cents $871.84 kg., up $2.34

Canola: Nov. ‘16 $7.30 lower $463.40 Jan. ‘17 $7.20 lower $471.20 March ‘17 $7.10 lower $478.40 May ‘17 $7.00 lower $482.40 July ‘17 $7.10 lower $486.50 Nov. ‘17 $4.20 lower $492.10 Jan. ‘18 $4.20 lower $492.20 March ‘18 $4.20 lower $492.20 May ‘18 $4.20 lower $492.20 July ‘18 $4.20 lower

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Ready to defend Olympic gold CANADA’S GOLFERS READY FOR CHANCE TO DEFEND OLYMPIC TITLE AFTER 112-YEAR WAIT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OAKVILLE, Ont. — There was a time when Graham DeLaet thought he would never be able to represent his country on the Olympic stage.

Now DeLaet will be part of a Canadian team brimming with potential when golf makes its Olympic return at the Rio de Janeiro Games following a 112-year absence.

The Canadian Olympic Committee and Golf Canada officially introduced the Olympic golf team Tuesday. DeLaet will join a potent squad including 18-year-old phenom Brooke Henderson, David Hearn and Alena Sharp.

“Up until a few years ago I never really thought I’d ever have the chance to be an Olympian,” said a smiling DeLaet, who recently shaved off his trademark beard so he could better cuddle his newborn twins. “Even just saying that and the closer and closer we get to Rio the more it’s kind of sinking in. It’s a pretty special opportunity, there’s no question.

“Both David and I and Brooke and Alena, we want to bring back some hardware.”

Hearn, DeLaet and Sharp were present for Tuesday’s announcement, with chef de mission Curt Harnett giving them their Olympic jackets. Henderson, who was in Calgary for a junior event, participated in the ceremony via teleconference and was given her jacket by Olympic ski-cross racer Brady Leman.

Golf was played at the 1900 Paris Games and again in St. Louis in 1904.

It was supposed to be an Olympic competition at the 1908 London Games, but when organizers couldn’t agree on the format of play it was dropped from the slate of competitions, not to reappear for over a century.

All of DeLaet’s teammates agreed that the return of golf to the Olympics presents a unique opportunity for them to play on a new, higher level. The newly minted Olympians described it as a chance to elevate the sport’s profile in Canada.

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Members of the Canadian Olympic Golf team Graham DeLaet, left, Alena Sharp and David Hearn pose with chef de mission Curt Harnett on stage with the 1904 Olympic Golf Trophy as the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Golf Canada announce the players to represent Team Canada at this year’s Rio Olympics at a ceremony at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont., on Tuesday. The team also includes a fourth member, Brooke Henderson, who was unable to attend the announcement. pics and being into golf, there was no chance to be an Olympian,” said Sharp. “When it was announced it was something very important to me to be able to represent Canada and go down to Rio. “Growing up I always watched the hockey and we’re known for hockey but I think it’s time to show the world that we’re known for golf.”

Men’s individual golf and a team event were held in 1904, with George Lyon of Richmond, Ont., winning gold, meaning Canada has technically been

the defending champion for 112 years.

The engraved, sterling silver trophy from the 1904 Olympics is still kept

by Golf Canada at its headquarters in Oakville and on Tuesday it was brought on stage for the golfers to pose with.

“The fact that we are defending gold medal champions is a neat piece of history that Canada can be proud of,” said Hearn. “Graham and I are going to try and go down there and defend on the men’s side and Brooke and Alena are going to do what they can to

bring home a medal for the women.”

It will be a somewhat depleted field for the Canadian men, as the top four players on the PGA Tour — Americans Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Great Britain’s Rory McIlroy — have all dropped out of the Olympics over health concerns, including the Zika virus. Hearn is No. 130 in the world, while DeLaet is ranked 140th.

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Riggers keep rolling with shutout of Cubs

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 9 Cubs 0 (7 innings) The Red Deer Riggers didn’t need more than catcher Kerry Boon’s three run double in the first inning, but they drove in six more runs on their way to a 9-0 shutout win over the Confederation Park Cubs.

In the middle of the busiest baseball week shortstop/manager Jason Chatwood can recall, the Riggers improved their season record to 14-1 with the win. The game on Tuesday at Great Chief Park was the second of three games in three nights for the team.

Then on Friday, the Riggers will host their 36th annual tournament.

But on Tuesday, they struck early and often in the 7-inning makeup game, played due to weather delays earlier in the season.

For Boon, it was a rare opportunity to play catcher as he typically enters the lineup as the designated hitter.

“It’s been a couple of years,” said Boon. “We’ll be missing a few guys on Friday so I had to step up and patrol the role of catcher. We’re busy all week and everyone needs to step into their roles.”

He went two-for-three with a double and four RBIs on the night. He came up to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the first inning with a plan for his first plate appearance of the night.

“He was a young pitcher and he threw a curve ball first pitch at Jaret (Chatwood, third baseman) and I went up there looking for the curve ball,”

The schedule for the Red Deer Riggers 36th annual baseball tournament held from Friday to Sunday at Great Chief Park.

Pool A: Red Deer Riggers, Edmonton Cubs and Calgary Cardinals.

Pool B: St. Albert Tigers, Sherwood Park Athletics and Calgary Wolfpack.

Friday Calgary Cardinals vs. Red Deer Riggers, 7 p.m.

Saturday St. Albert Tigers vs. Sherwood Park Athletics, 9:30 a.m.

Edmonton Cubs vs. Calgary Cardinals, 12 p.m.

Sherwood Park Athletics vs. Calgary Wolfpack, 2:30 p.m.

Calgary Wolfpack vs. St. Albert Tigers, 5 p.m.

Red Deer Riggers vs. Edmonton Cubs.

7:30 p.m.

Sunday Fifth place vs. sixth place, 9:30 a.m.

1st A vs. 2nd B, 12 p.m.

1st B vs. 2nd A, 2:30 p.m.

Final game, 5 p.m. said Boon, who got his curve ball and hit it the other way.

The double opened the game up for the Riggers and they kept on rolling, scoring four runs in the second and two more in the fourth.

And as the offence drove in their runs, starting pitcher Josh Edwards did what he could to close the door.

Edwards pitched five innings of shutout ball and struck out six, walking one and surrendering five hits.

Davin Gulbransen and Tyler Vavra came in to pitch the last two innings

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Red Deer Riggers starting pitcher Josh Edwards delivers a pitch Tuesday evening at Great Chief Park. Edwards threw six strikeouts as the Riggers beat the Confederation Park Cubs 9-0. and held the Cubs off the scoreboard.

“We have a busy week ahead of us and it’s nice to get everyone in the game and give guys breaks when we need to,” said Jason Chatwood, much of the regular lineup was pulled after the fifth inning to give them a break.

“Especially Kerry stepping up and giving Jaret a break, it’s a long week for a catcher. He stepped up and played really well.”

Tonight, the Riggers are on the road

against the Sherwood Park Athletics.

The game starts at 7 p.m.

Then on Friday, the Riggers kick off their annual tournament with a game at 7 p.m. against the Calgary Cardinals.

They play again on Saturday against the Cubs before the tournament moves into the playoff portion. All of the tournament games will be held at Great Chief Park. The tournament runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Encarnacion homers, Sanchez wins again in Blue Jays victory

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 5 Diamondbacks 1 PHOENIX — Edwin Encarnacion hit his 25th home run, Aaron Sanchez pitched seven strong innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Tuesday night.

Encarnacion’s three-run shot in the third inning pushed his major league-leading RBI total to 84.

Sanchez (10-1), pitching on nine days’ rest thanks to the All-Star break, allowed a run and scattered six hits to improve to 9-0 in his last 15 starts. He struck out five with no walks and hit two batters. Two Toronto runs were unearned, both set up when pitchers

threw wildly to first on a pickoff try.

Zack Godley (2-1), called up from Triple-A Reno to make the start for Arizona, went five innings, giving up four runs, three earned, and six hits. He struck out seven and walked one.

With the victory in the opener of a two-game interleague series, the Blue Jays pulled within 1 ½ games of firstplace Baltimore in the AL East.

Josh Donaldson singled three times for Toronto, driving in a run and scoring another.

Godley retired the first two batters in the third before singles by Devon Travis and Donaldson. That brought up Encarnacion, who hit Godley’s 2-1 pitch into the seats in left field and Toronto led 3-1.

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Travis singled again in the fifth and raced to third when Godley threw wildly to first on a pickoff try. Travis came home on Donaldson’s single and the Blue Jays were up 4-1.

Arizona reliever Dominic Leone walked pinch-hitter Justin Smoak to start the ninth. The runner moved to second on Leone’s throwing error, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Travis’ groundout. The Diamondbacks went ahead 1-0 in the first. Jean Segura led off with a single, stole second, took third on Michael Bourn’s groundout and scored when Paul Goldschmidt bounced out to second.

The seven strikeouts matched a career high for Godley, who was making his ninth big league start.

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TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: OF Jose Bautista (turf toe) is to make his first rehab appearance for Class-A Dunedin on Wednesday. He is to play three games for Triple-A Buffalo over the weekend and, manager John Gibbons said, if all goes well he will rejoin the Blue Jays on Monday.

UP NEXT Blue Jays.: RHP Marcus Groman (7-4, 4.89 ERA) takes the mound in a Wednesday afternoon game, the finale before the Jays head to Toronto for a nine-game homestand.

Diamondbacks: LHP Patrick Corbin (4-8, 5.28) tries to bounce back from a rough start against the Dodgers in the last home game.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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Now or never for Froome followers TOUR DE FRANCE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERN, Switzerland — As the Tour de France heads toward the Alps, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde have only a few opportunities left to try and derail Chris Froome’s bid for a third title in four years.

The remaining three high-mountain stages and uphill time trial should be the ideal playground for the Movistar teammates, who need to abandon their conservative approach and take all risks to make up for the big chunk of time they have lost.

Quintana, runner-up to Froome in 2013 and 2015, is in fourth place overall, 2 minutes, 59 seconds behind.

Valverde is 18 more seconds behind his teammate.

The gaps are significant, but Quintana, a pure climber from Colombia, managed to gain time on Froome in the Alps last year.

His subdued performance at the Mont Ventoux and his unimpressive time trial last week have, however, raised doubts about his ability to make a comeback.

Even his team manager, Eusebio Unzue, admits Quintana is not at his best.

“We did not see the Nairo we know at the Mont Ventoux. Hopefully, things will return to normal in the Alps,” he said.

Unzue has been vainly scratching his head to find the winning formula that will allow his riders to crack Team Sky’s supremacy. While many observers have been struggling to understand why Quintana and Valverde have not harassed Froome with relent-

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Current leader Chris Froome from Britain poses for a picture in front of the Swiss Alps at the shore of Lake Thun on the rest day before the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race on Tuesday. The 209-km stage between Bern and Finhaut, Switzerland, goes today. less attacks in the Pyrenees and the Jura mountains, Unzue says his cautious approach was right.

“Attacking all the time would be good for the show. But it’s unrealistic and not a guarantee for success,” Unzue said. “We need to wait for the right time, for the moment that will allow us

to be efficient when we make a move.”

Valverde agreed with his boss, saying Quintana “has to try it when he considers he can hurt his competitors.”

Encouraging for Movisar is that Froome has not been as dominant on the mountains as he has on previous

Tours.

Froome would normally use the first mountaintop finish to assert his authority on the race, something he has not been able to do this year. Instead, he’s built his lead with an impressive showing against the clock combined with master tactical coups in the Peyresourde downhill and the crosswinds near Montpellier.

“I believe that Froome and his rivals are more or less on the same level in the mountains this year,” Unzue said. “In Andorra and at the Ventoux, he did not attack to create gaps, I believe that he is not as strong as he was before. The problem is more that he has a team capable of controlling the race in delicate situations.”

Despite claims in French newspapers that Froome has no rival this year, he is certain he will be given a hard challenge in the Alps, where he struggled with a chest infection and lost nearly two minutes to Quintana last year. As a result, he has slightly changed his preparation to be in a better shape in the final week of racing.

“I feel more ready for the third week than I have been previously,” said Froome, who has a 1:47 lead over his closest rival, Dutch rider Bauke Mollema. “Starting the season later helped, and I had a quieter run-in to the Tour. I said at the beginning of the race I wanted to be at my best in the third week and I’m on track for that.”

Wednesday’s first Alpine stage takes the peloton on a 184.5-kilometre ride to the ski resort of Finhaut-Emosson, and features a punishing 10-kilometre final climb to the finish. It will be followed by an uphill time trial and two more grueling stages in high altitude before the ceremonial finish on the Champs Elysees.

“I feel as if I’ve been waiting for these four days,” Froome said. “Perhaps some other riders have, too.”

IOC explores options for banning Russians from Rio highest court in sports will rule on an appeal by 68 Russian track and field athletes seeking to overturn their ban LONDON — With just over two from the games. weeks until the opening ceremony, Two-time Olympic pole vault chamRussia still doesn’t know whether its pion Yelena Isinbayeva was among athletes — all or even some — will be those arguing the Russian track and competing in the Olympics in Rio de field team’s case Tuesday in Geneva Janeiro. It may all come down to the at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. lawyers.

Should the court rule Thursday in While the IOC decided Tuesday to their favour, it would seemingly rule ban from the Rio Games all Russian out the chance of the IOC imposing a Sports Ministry officials and other ad- blanket ban. ministrators implicated in allegations If the court upholds the IAAF’s exof a state-run doping clusion of the track program, it delayed athletes, however, ‘THE OLYMPIC a ruling on whether that would keep the to take the unprecepossibility of a total MOVEMENT, WHICH dented step of barban in play. Further IS A TREMENDOUS ring the entire Rusappeals are also posFORCE FOR UNITING sian Olympic team. sible, meaning that The International the final word on HUMANITY, ONCE Olympic Committee the Russians may go AGAIN COULD FIND said it “will explore down to the wire bethe legal options fore Aug. 5, when the ITSELF ON THE BRINK with regard to a colRio games open.

OF DIVISION.’ lective ban of all Still, it will take Russian athletes for a major leap for the — RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN IOC to impose the the Olympic Games 2016 versus the ultimate sanction of rights to individual justice.” kicking out Russia entirely. IOC PresThe IOC has also said it could let ident Thomas Bach has repeatedly individual international sports feder- called for a balance between “indiations decide on whether to ban Rus- vidual justice and collective punishsians from their events in Rio, just as ment.” the IAAF has done by ruling track and No country as a whole has ever field athletes from the games. The 28 been barred from the games for dopinternational federations that govern ing, and Russia is a major force in the the individual sports at the summer Olympic movement as well as a sports games have made clear that they do powerhouse. not support a blanket ban, The last time Russia was missing The IOC’s legal options may be- from the Olympics was when it boycome clearer after Thursday, when the cotted the 1984 Los Angeles Games in

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Russian President Vladimir Putin called the doping allegations “a dangerous return to … letting politics interfere with sport.”

“The Olympic movement, which is a tremendous force for uniting humanity, once again could find itself on the brink of division,” he said in a statement Monday after the release of the report into Russian doping issued by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren.

The 15-member IOC executive board met by teleconference Tuesday to consider its moves following McLaren’s report.

The report, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, accused the Russian Sports Ministry, headed

by Vitaly Mutko, of overseeing the doping of the country’s Olympic athletes on a scale larger than previous alleged. It said the ministry had help from Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB. The investigation uncovered an alleged doping program that ensnared 28 sports, both summer and winter, and ran from 2011 to 2015. It found 312 positive tests that Russia’s deputy minister of sport directed lab workers not to report to WADA. Mutko on Tuesday denied all wrongdoing and said he expected his subordinates to be cleared. But addressing the ban by the IOC of Russian sports administrators, he said he was ready to accept it because “we have always been guests at the Olympics,” and that the important issue was that the Russian Olympic team go to the games.

Lacombe, who is tied for fourth with four other golfers after shooting a five-over, 77.

Jordan Cooke, of Sylvan Lake, is in fourth place after one round in the bantam boys division. He shot a six-over 78 and is four strokes off of the pace.

Cole Bergheim and Logan Graf, both of Red Deer, are tied for second in the peewee boys division having both shot sixover, 78s.

Two Ponoka girls are in the top five of the 15-19-year-old girls division. Daria Leidenius leads the pack shooting a threeover 75 while Shaye Leidenius shot an eight-over, 80, which is good enough to tie for third.

The final round of the tournament tees off this morning.

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The summer sports federations prefer that doping allegations are handled on an individual basis.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federation asked WADA “to immediately provide all the detailed information to the 20 international federations concerned so that they may begin processing the individual cases under their own separate rules and regulations as soon as possible, and in line with the WADA Code and the Olympic Charter.”

“It is important to focus on the need for individual justice in all these cases.”

Rather than applying a total ban, federations could suspend individual Russian sports. That already was the case with the IAAF ban on Russia’s track athletes from Rio following previous WADA-commissioned reports into Russian doping.

The summer association’s position falls in line with recent comments by Bach, who cited the need for balancing “individual justice and collective punishment.” He said last week that, if summer sports were implicated in the McLaren report, the federations would have to decide on the eligibility of Russians “on an individual basis.”

McLaren’s report also confirmed details of state-supported doping that subverted the testing at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

That included allegations by Moscow’s former lab director, Grigory Rodchenkov, that dirty urine samples of Russian athletes — including medallists — were swapped out for clean ones in covert middle-of-the-night operations at the Sochi lab.

TIGER WOODS Tiger Woods withdrew from the PGA Championship, the first time he will go an entire year without playing a major.

The decision, while not a surprise, also means he will go an entire PGA Tour season without playing.

His agent, Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management, said Tuesday that Woods will not play the remainder of the tour season as he continues to rehab follow-

ing back surgeries. That would have amounted to only three more tournaments before the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Steinberg said Woods will continue to work hard and assess when he can play the following season, which starts in October.

In public appearances, whether it was opening his golf course in Houston or hosting his tournament in Washington, Woods has given no indication when he will be ready to compete. He had his second and third back surgeries last year and wants to take his time making sure it heals.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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Subban makes rounds in Music City

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — P.K. Subban certainly knows how to make an entrance, especially with a team more than happy to help manage his arrival in Music City.

The Nashville Predators took their new All-Star defenceman on a whirlwind trip around town that featured Subban jumping on stage at a renowned honky-tonk to belt out Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” Then the Predators introduced Subban to reporters and a few fans Monday in their first chance to show off the man they picked up last month in Nashville’s big trade with Montreal.

Subban said the past few weeks since last month’s trade have been filled with mixed emotions.

“There’s no question that I’m head over heels excited about this opportunity to play here in Nashville,” Subban said. “I’m excited about our team. I’m excited about our city and I’m most importantly excited about the opportunity to win a Stanley Cup. That’s what this is all about. Coming here is not a popularity contest. Coming here is about helping this team to win and win a championship. That’s what I’m here to do.”

The Predators and Canadiens stunned the NHL on June 29 with Montreal swapping Subban for Nashville’s captain and fellow All-Star defenceman Shea Weber. Nashville has been lauded for getting the better end of the deal with Subban having just turned 27 in May while Weber turns 31 in August.

Montreal has been criticized for trading away both the 2013 Norris Trophy winner and fan favourite who pledged $10 million to a children’s hospital last year.

Subban said he had an amazing relationship with the Montreal fans but promised they will learn to love Weber as both a great hockey player and person as well.

“Obviously leaving Montreal is emotional for me,” Subban said. “I have a lot of relationships there, a lot of great ties and I’ll be connected to that city forever. Now it’s time … Christmas Day is over, it’s Boxing Day and it’s time to move on.”

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Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban poses for a photo with fan Diane Fashing, left, after appearing at a news conference Monday, in Nashville, Tenn. Subban was acquired from the Montreal Canadiens in a trade for defenseman Shea Weber in June.

Subban was vacationing in Europe when the trade occurred. He used this quick trip to Nashville to meet general manager David Poile and some of the team’s employees. He has yet to sit down with coach Peter Laviolette and his assistants to find out what they want from him. Subban ate lunch Monday with new teammates defenceman Ryan Ellis and centre Mike Fisher and now has all his new teammates’ phone numbers.

Nashville’s new defenceman lacks Weber’s size at 6-foot and 210 pounds.

But Subban has more points (202) than

the 6-4, 236-pound Weber (180) over the past four seasons. The Predators wanted to add Subban’s offensive skills to Laviolette’s scheme where defencemen are encouraged to join the attack offensively to better compete in the Central Division where they finished fourth.

The Predators lost to San Jose in the second round of the playoffs in seven games.

“Hopefully, we’re either creating more offence and scoring more goals but for sure not spending as much time in our end,” Poile said.

Subban already has had fans asking for his autograph and coming up to talk to him. He was in Nashville for the All-Star Game weekend last January, which gave him a chance to get to learn about his new home a bit.

“I remember leaving saying, ‘Wow!’ I didn’t know people were so passionate about hockey here,” Subban said.

“It is a hockey city. I’m really excited to be playing here right now. It’s different. It’s definitely different from Montreal but different in a good way. I look to embrace everything about this city and definitely embrace winning.”

Condit to face Maia in main WAITING ON A DECISION event of UFC Vancouver BOUCHARD HAS NOT MADE UP MIND ON PLAYING AT RIO The welterweight bout between Demian Maia and Carlos (The Natural Born Killer) Condit has been shifted from UFC 202 to the main event of the UFC show in Vancouver on Aug. 27.

Maia, ranked third among 170-pound contenders, and No. 5 Condit had been scheduled to fight the previous week in Las Vegas on a main card headlined by the rematch of Nate Diaz and (The Notorious) Conor McGregor.

Now Maia (23-6-0) and Condit (30-80) will headline the televised show at Rogers Arena. The two have 16 UFC fight bonuses between them.

It marks Condit’s second fight in Vancouver. He famously rallied in the third round to stop Canadian Rory MacDonald with seven seconds remaining at UFC 115 in June 2010.

Brazil’s Maia has won five straight since losing a unanimous decision to MacDonald at UFC 170 in February 2014. Condit is coming off a split decision loss in January to welterweight champion (Ruthless) Robbie Lawler.

The Vancouver card will also see the debut of Victoria’s Ryan Janes and Fredericton’s Adam Hunter. Janes (81-0) will face Hunter (7-1-0) in a middleweight bout.

Shane (Shaolin) Campbell (12-5-0) of Kelowna, B.C., tackles Felipe Silva (70-0) in the Brazilian’s UFC debut.

Sam Alvey (27-8-0 with one no contest) faces Kevin Casey (9-4-1 with two no contests) in a battle of American middleweights.

In previously announced fights, it’s Anthony (Showtime) Pettis versus Charles Oliveira, Paige VanZant versus Bec Rawlings, Jim Miller versus

Bouchard upset by Giorgi at Citi Open WASHINGTON — Eugenie Bouchard is out of the Citi Open.

The fifth-seeded Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., was upset in straight sets in the first round of the Citi Open on Tuesday by Italy’s Camila Giorgi, 7-5, 6-4. It’s the fourth time in the Canadian’s past 10 tournaments that she lost her opening match. Bouchard said

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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency notified Lesnar last week about his first potential violation of the UFC’s policy from an out-of-competition test last month.

The UFC says Lesnar tested positive for the same unnamed substance in both tests.

The 39-year-old Lesnar declined to comment Tuesday on the UFC’s disclosure of his second positive test.

Lesnar is among the most popular athletes in both mixed martial arts and professional wrestling.

He beat Hunt by decision on July 9, handily winning his first MMA fight in 4 ½ years.

He made a UFC-record $2.5 million guaranteed purse at UFC 200, likely along with undisclosed millions in bonuses.

Joe Lauzon, Enrique Barzola versus Kyle Bochniak, Chad Laprise, a native of Chartham, Ont., who fights out of Montreal, versus Thibault Gouti, and Garreth McLellan versus Alessio Di Chirico.

The Vancouver show is the UFC’s 21st in Canada and fourth in Vancouver. Another Canadian show is expected later this year, with Toronto among the choices. she felt kind of out of it from the beginning Tuesday, when temperatures were in the 90s, but she put no blame on the heat and instead credited Giorgi for keeping her off balance.

“She kind of plays not like any other player, really: absolutely no rhythm, not long points at all,” Bouchard said.

“I found it hard to get my feeling and get into points and stuff.”

Bouchard battled back from a firstset deficit to tie it before Giorgi held serve and broke her to win 7-5.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Milos Raonic has already pulled out of the Olympics and now Tennis Canada is awaiting final word on whether Eugenie Bouchard will play at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Bouchard, ranked 41st in the world, is entered in the event, but no one is sure if Canada’s top women’s singles player will go.

“I’m kind of a last-minute person, so I’m going to make a decision next week, I guess, the week before,” Bouchard said after her first-round loss to Camila Giorgi at the Citi open in Washington. “I really don’t know what to do at this point.”

Bouchard said she had concerns over the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is known to cause birth defects and is currently active in Brazil.

“I am trying to learn as much as I can about (Zika), obviously,” she said.

“I don’t know if anyone knows enough about it to really give a good opinion on whether, as athletes, we should go or not. I just don’t know if the health of my future babies is worth it, so that’s what I’m trying to decide in my head.

“I’m truly undecided, and you see more and more people pulling out as kind of the deadline gets closer. It’s just unfortunate because it would be my first Games, and to have a problem like this kind of dampening the excitement of potentially your first Olympic Games, it really sucks, to be honest.”

Tennis Canada president and CEO Kelly Murumets acknowledged that health issues have made the decision tough for Bouchard.

“I know that she wants to play the Olympics and she’s been part of our campaign and she’s wearing the Canadian flag on her heart,” Murumets said Tuesday at a news conference to announce that National Bank has extended its sponsorship for another six years.

“I think the health concerns in Rio are scaring her a bit, so I think she’s a little bit on the fence.

“She’s signed all the papers and we have hotel and flights for her, but I think she’s a little nervous.”

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Canada’s top doubles player, may be even more nervous. She’s scheduled to team with Bouchard in Rio, but if the Westmount, Que., native pulls out, Dabrowski won’t go either.

Murumets, who spoke to Bouchard at a photo shoot in Toronto last week, expects that Bouchard will talk to Dabrowski before making her decision.

Both are to play at the women’s Rogers Cup in Montreal next week.

Seventh ranked Raonic announced this week he will not go to Rio due to concerns over health, including Zika.

Murumets said the Thornhill, Ont., resident will focus on the men’s Rogers Cup in Toronto and the U.S. Open at the end of August instead.

“Milos is a very intense, intelligent man and I respect his decision,” she said. “He does not take this lightly.

“He has represented Canada all over the world with great pride. I really do think it was about the health concerns in Rio and he just didn’t want to take any chances.”

The women’s Rogers Cup expects a full field of the world’s top players except for Victoria Azarenka, who has taken a break because she is pregnant.

It’s an ideal preparation for the Olympics, which will also be played on hard courts.

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Pt 7 4 4 2

PF 102 96 80 80 80

PA 73 97 68 102 109

Pt 6 4 3 2 0

WEEK FOUR Bye: Calgary Saturday’s result B.C. 40 Saskatchewan 27 Friday’s result Hamilton 31 Montreal 7 Thursday’s result Edmonton 20 Winnipeg 16 Wednesday’s result Ottawa 30 Toronto 20 WEEK FIVE Bye: B.C. Thursday’s game Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s game 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, 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 31 Toronto at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

CFL SCORING LEADERS (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Milo, Ott 0 8 11 3 Maher, Ham 0 9 10 3 Hajrullahu, Tor 0 8 11 0 Crapigna, Sask 0 6 10 2 C.Williams, Ott 6 0 0 0 Whyte, Edm 0 8 9 0 Medlock, Wpg 0 6 8 4 Paredes, Cgy 0 4 8 4 Leone, BC 0 4 6 6 Bede, Mtl 0 3 5 4 Banks, Ham 3 0 0 0 Bowman, Edm 3 0 0 0 Hazelton, Tor 3 0 0 0 J.White, Edm 3 0 0 0 x-Rainey, BC 2 2 0 0 D.Adams, Wpg 2 0 0 0 Allen, BC 2 0 0 0 Bagg, Sask 2 0 0 0 Chiles, Sask 2 0 0 0 Fantuz, Ham 2 0 0 0 Jennings, BC 2 0 0 0 McDaniel, Cgy 2 0 0 0

Pt 44 42 41 38 36 35 34 32 28 22 18 18 18 18 14 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF New York City 21 9 6 6 34 Philadelphia 20 8 6 6 34 New York 21 8 9 4 32 Montreal 19 6 5 8 30 Toronto 19 6 7 6 21 New England 20 5 7 8 26 D.C. 19 5 7 7 18 Orlando 19 4 5 10 30 Columbus 19 3 7 9 24 Chicago 18 4 9 5 17

GA 35 28 27 29 22 33 21 33 30 24

Pt 33 30 28 26 24 23 22 22 18 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF 22 12 6 4 34 19 10 2 7 22 19 8 3 8 32 20 8 6 6 29 21 8 8 5 33 21 7 6 8 32

GA 30 13 18 30 35 31

Pt 40 37 32 30 29 29

Dallas Colorado Los Angeles Salt Lake Vancouver Portland

Kansas City 22 8 10 4 24 25 28 San Jose 19 6 6 7 21 22 25 Seattle 19 6 11 2 20 24 20 Houston 19 4 9 6 23 26 18 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Friday, July 22 San Jose at Salt Lake, 9 p.m.

Saturday, July 23 Los Angeles at Portland, 1:30 p.m.

Chicago at New England, 5:30 p.m.

D.C. at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 24 New York City at New York, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

ALBERTA AMATEUR GOLF INNISFAIL — An impressive opening round seven-under, 65 from Matt Williams has the Glencoe Golf and Country Club out to an early two stroke lead at the Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship.

Williams shot seven birdies in his opening round, four on the front nine and three on the back nine.

Geoff Fry, also from Glencoe, is tied for second place with Scott Secord, of Country Hills Golf Club at five-under, 67.

The Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship runs until Friday at the Innisfail Golf Club.

Tom Mckinlay Jr., of the Lacombe Golf and Country Club, leads the Central Alberta contingent with a one-under 71 in the opening round. He had an up-and-down day with three birdies on holes six, eight and 12, but two bogies to balance out his day.

One stroke back of Mckinlay Jr. is Red Deer Golf and Country Club’s Grant Numrich, who shot an even-par, 72. His day had four birdies as well as four bogies. Numrich is tied with Brandan Lyster, playing on his home course Other Central Alberta inside the top 50 included Kyle Morrison (Red Deer Golf and Country Club), tied for 21st at one-over, 73; Michael McAdam (Red Deer Golf and Country Club), tied for 27th at two-over, 74; Ron Harder (Innisfail Aspen Hazel), Brett Pasula (Red Deer Golf and Country Club), Cash Reumkens (Red Deer Golf and Country Club), and Kyle Neilson (Innisfail Aspen Hazel) all tied for 32nd at three-over, 75; Colby Massignan (Innisfail Golf and Country Club) and Chandler McDowell (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) tied for 44th at four-over, 76.

Round two of the championship tees off this morning at the Innisfail Golf Club. The tournament runs for four rounds of golf and wraps up on Friday. After round two the field will be cut to the top 60 golfers plus ties for the final two rounds.

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GOLF: Willing to take the risk Henderson is world No. 2 among women, while Sharp is 85th.

All four Canadian golfers say they are willing to take the risk of being exposed to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which can lead to birth defects.

“I think part of being Canadian is having that pride,” said DeLaet, to a round of applause from fans assembled at Glen Abbey Golf Club to watch the qualifying rounds of the PGA’s Canadian Open. “It should be a privilege to represent your country, not a chore. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.”

DeLaet, whose wife gave birth to twins eight months ago, says his family doesn’t plan on having more children. Hearn is already a father, while Sharp believes the risk is minimal for a variety of reasons.

“The cases have decreased by 85 per cent, I think you can contract Zika in Florida too. It’s not a big issue for me,” said Sharp, who also said that the COC and the International Golf Federation have regularly updated the golfers on the virus. “Of course I’m going to be careful, I’m going to put bug spray on and probably wear long sleeves but I think I’m going to wear shorts.

“I think that at the golf course, because it’s supposed to be windy, I don’t think it’s going to be a problem. I think it’s going to be more about being careful at the Olympic Village. I’m going to be wearing bug spray 24/7.”

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 53 39 .576 Boston 52 39 .571 Toronto 53 42 .558 New York 47 46 .505 Tampa Bay 35 57 .380 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 55 38 .591 Detroit 49 45 .521 Kansas City 47 46 Chicago 45 47 .489 Minnesota 34 59 .366 West Division W L Pct Texas 55 39 .585 Houston 50 43 .538 Seattle 47 46 .505 Los Angeles 41 52 .441 Oakland 41 52 .441

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 6 1/2 18 GB — 6 1/2 .505 8 9 1/2 21 GB — 4 1/2 7 1/2 13 1/2 13 1/2

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 2, Baltimore 1 Detroit 1, Minnesota 0 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 3 Colorado 7, Tampa Bay 4 L.A. Angels 9, Texas 5 Oakland 7, Houston 4 Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Baltimore 1 Boston 4, San Francisco 0 Minnesota 6, Detroit 2 Cleveland 7, Kansas City 3 Tampa Bay at Colorado, late Toronto 5, Arizona 1 Houston at Oakland, late Texas at L.A. Angels, late Chicago White Sox at Seattle, late Wednesday’s Games Minnesota (Santana 3-8) at Detroit (Verlander 9-6), 11:10 a.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 6-3) at Kansas City (Kennedy 6-7), 12:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 4-13) at Colorado (De La Rosa 6-6), 1:10 p.m.

Houston (Fister 9-6) at Oakland (Mengden 1-4), 1:35 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 2-5) at Seattle (Hernandez 4-4), 1:40 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 7-4) at Arizona (Corbin 4-8), 1:40 p.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-9), 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 1-5) at Boston (Pomeranz 8-7), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Perez 7-6) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-4), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Altuve Hou 93 365 71 127 .348 Ortiz Bos 85 306 43 100 .327 Trout LAA 93 335 72 107 .319 Bogaerts Bos 89 374 67 119 .318 YEscobar LAA 82 330 41 105 .318 Nunez Min 83 337 48 105 .312 Desmond Tex 93 367 66 114 .311 Machado Bal 88 360 63 111 .308 Cano Sea 93 379 65 116 .306 Donaldson Tor 93 353 83 108 .306 Home Runs Trumbo, Baltimore, 28 Frazier, Chicago, 26 Encarnacion, Toronto, 25 KDavis, Oakland, 23 NCruz, Seattle, 23 Ortiz, Boston, 23 Donaldson, Toronto, 23 CDavis, Baltimore, 22 3 tied at 21.

Runs Batted In Encarnacion, Toronto, 84 Ortiz, Boston, 75 Trumbo, Baltimore, 68 Donaldson, Toronto, 67 Pujols, Los Angeles, 65 Napoli, Cleveland, 65 Seager, Seattle, 63 Trout, Los Angeles, 62 KDavis, Oakland, 61 4 tied at 59.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 14-3 Tillman, Baltimore, 13-2 Porcello, Boston, 12-2 Happ, Toronto, 12-3 Salazar, Cleveland, 11-3 SWright, Boston, 11-5 AaSanchez, Toronto, 10-1 Tomlin, Cleveland, 10-2 Hamels, Texas, 10-2 Iwakuma, Seattle, 10-6.

Washington Miami New York Philadelphia Atlanta Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

National League East Division W L Pct 56 38 .596 51 42 .548 50 43 .538 43 52 .453 33 61 .351 Central Division W L Pct 56 37 .602 48 44 .522 48 45 .516 39 52 .429 35 59 .372 West Division W L Pct 57 37 .606 53 42 .558 43 49 .467 41 52 .441 40 54 .426

GB — 4 1/2 5 1/2 13 1/2 23 GB — 7 1/2 8 16 21 1/2 GB — 4 1/2 13 15 1/2 17

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Miami 3, Philadelphia 2, 11 innings Cincinnati 8, Atlanta 2 St. Louis 10, San Diego 2 Colorado 7, Tampa Bay 4 Tuesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 8, Washington 4

Miami 2, Philadelphia 1, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Pittsburgh 3, Milwaukee 2 Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 4, 11 innings Boston 4, San Francisco 0 San Diego at St. Louis, ppd.

Tampa Bay at Colorado, late Toronto 5, Arizona 1 Wednesday’s Games Atlanta (Harrell 1-1) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 4-0), 10:35 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 5-3) at St. Louis (Martinez 8-6), 12:15 p.m., 1st game N.Y. Mets (Colon 8-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 8-6), 12:20 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 4-13) at Colorado (De La Rosa 6-6), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 7-4) at Arizona (Corbin 4-8), 1:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Norris 5-7) at Washington (Gonzalez 5-8), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Chen 5-3) at Philadelphia (Hellickson 6-7), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Anderson 4-10) at Pittsburgh (Locke 8-5), 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 1-5) at Boston (Pomeranz 8-7), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Clemens 1-0) at St. Louis (Garcia 6-6), 6:15 p.m., 2nd game Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 10:05 a.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

Atlanta at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. 89 341 54 120 .352 84 312 56 103 .330 78 281 40 92 .327 89 352 60 112 .318 88 324 45 103 .318 87 348 40 110 .316 79 301 36 95 .316 85 308 61 97 .315 77 297 38 93 .313 86 330 50 103 .312 Home Runs Bryant, Chicago, 25 Arenado, Colorado, 23 Duvall, Cincinnati, 23 Story, Colorado, 22 Carter, Milwaukee, 22 Rizzo, Chicago, 22 Cespedes, New York, 21 JaLamb, Arizona, 21 Stanton, Miami, 20 Myers, San Diego, 20.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 71 Murphy, Washington, 68 Rizzo, Chicago, 68 Bruce, Cincinnati, 66 JaLamb, Arizona, 65 Bryant, Chicago, 65 Duvall, Cincinnati, 64 Kemp, San Diego, 62 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 62 2 tied at 61.

Pitching Strasburg, Washington, 13-0 Cueto, San Francisco, 13-2 Arrieta, Chicago, 12-4 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 11-2 Fernandez, Miami, 11-4 Greinke, Arizona, 10-3 Lester, Chicago, 10-4 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 10-5 Scherzer, Washington, 10-6 Syndergaard, New York, 9-4.

Murphy Was LeMahieu Col WRamos Was CGonzalez Col Yelich Mia Prado Mia Realmuto Mia ADiaz StL Braun Mil Marte Pit

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the contract of OF Julio Borbon from Bowie (EL). Placed OF Hyun Soo Kim on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 11.

Designated OF Henry Urrutia for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHP Zach McAllister to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Sent LHP Daniel Norris to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed INF Sean Coyle off waivers from Boston and optioned him to Arkansas (TL). Designated RHP A.J. Achter for assignment. Placed RHP Nick Tropeano on 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Jose Alvarez from Salt Lake City (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with OFs Blake Rutherford, Joe Burton and Ben Ruta 1Bs Dalton Blaser and Tim Lynch LHPs Trevor Lane, Connor Jones, Tony Hernandez, Phillip Diehl and Tyler Honahan RHPs Brooks Kriske, Nolan Martinez, Greg Weissert, Nick Nelson, Taylor Widener, Brian Trieglaff, Miles Chambers, Braden Bristo, William Jones and Brian Keller CFs Dom Thompson-Williams, Jordan Scott, Evan Alexander, Timmy Robinson and Edel Luaces 3B Mandy Alvarez 2B Nick Solak and C Keith Skinner on minor league contracts.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Andrew Triggs on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 18.

Optioned INF Tyler Ladendorf to Nashville (PCL).

Recalled LHPs Daniel Coulombe and Dillon Overton from Nashville.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned INF Nick Franklin to Durham (IL). Reinstated 1B Steve Pearce from the 15-day DL. Sent RHPs Brad Boxberger and Chase Whitley to Charlotte (FSL) for rehab assignments.

TEXAS RANGERS — Sent C Bryan Holaday to Round Rock (PCL) on an injury rehab assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Sent RHP Trevor Cahill to Iowa (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed RHP Casey Fien and LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu on the 15-day DL Fien retroactive to July 17 and Ryu to July 9. Reinstated OF Joc Pederson from the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Luis Avilan from Oklahoma City (PCL). Sent RHP Yimi Garcia to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Yefri Perez to

Jacksonville (SL). Recalled RHP Jose Urena from New Orleans (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent OF Aaron Altherr to Clearwater (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated C Erik Kratz for assignment. Optioned RHP Chad Kuhl to Indianapolis (IL). Reinstated C Francisco Cervelli and RHP Jameson Taillon from the 15-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed INF Jhonny Peralta on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 18. Designated C Michael McKenry for assignment. Recalled OF Jeremy Hazelbaker and RHP Miguel Socolovich from Memphis (PCL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with RHP Kyle Drabek on a minor league contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed LHP Sammy Solis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 8.

Claimed RHP Abel de Los Santos off waivers from Cincinnati. Selected the contract of RHP Reynaldo Lopez from Syracuse (IL).

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released RHP Blake Oliver.

LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHP Danny Moskovits.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released RHP Alec Crawford.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released OF Trevor Gretzky.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Joe Ravert.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DENVER NUGGETS — Signed G Jamal Murray.

Agreed to terms with G Mike Miller.

DETROIT PISTONS — Signed F Henry Ellenson to a multiyear contract.

PHOENIX SUNS — Signed G Leandro Barbosa.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released CB Carrington Byndom. Signed CB Mike Jenkins.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed TE Emil Igwenagu. Waived QB Josh Woodrum.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed CB David Amerson to a four-year contract extension.

HOCKEY American Hockey League LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Named Brian Grogesky trainer.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Nick Luukko. Signed Fs Justin Crandall, Olivier Labelle, Mike Pelech, Mike Pereira, Joe Rehkamp and Ian Watters and D Derik Johnson and Mike Marcou.

Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed G Troy Passingham to a professional tryout agreement.

MOTORSPORTS MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY — Promoted Pam Kendrick to president.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined D.C. United MF Lloyd Sam an undisclosed amount for violating the policy regarding hands to the face, head or neck of an opponent in a game against Columbus on July 16 and Philadelphia Union D Fabinho an undisclosed amount for simulation during a game against New York on July 17.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Promoted Dave Debusschere to executive vice-president and chief operating officer, Dennis Carroll to senior vice-president of finance and Craig Amhaus to vice-president of corporate partnerships. Named Jean-Paul Dardenne senior vice-president of corporate sponsorships, Doug Vosik vice-president of marketing and Charlie Slonaker vice-president of tickets sales and fan services.

COLLEGE COLUMBIA (MO.) — Named Craig McAndrews assistant baseball coach and recruiting co-ordinator.

DELAWARE — Named Jordan Skolnick senior associate athletic director/director of development for athletics.

DOANE — Named Josh Oltmans baseball coach.

HOFSTRA — Named Amanda Ghysel senior assistant director of athletic communications.

OKLAHOMA — Promoted offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh and defensive backs coach Kerry Cooks to assistant co-ordinators.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — Announced sophomore CB Isaiah Langley has been suspended for the season opener against Alabama.

TEXAS STATE — Named Troy Douglas safeties coach. Reassigned assistant head coach/defensive co-ordinator Randall McCray to inside linebackers coach.

Canada to play Davis Cup World Group playoff tie against Chile in Halifax TENNIS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s Davis Cup World Group playoff tie against Chile will take place on an indoor hard court in Halifax.

Tennis Canada made the announcement Tuesday. The tie will take place Sept. 16-18 at the Scotiabank Centre.

Canada, looking to retain its World Group status for 2017, is ranked 12th in the world, while Chile is 23rd.

This will be the ninth time the two countries have played each other in Davis Cup with the record standing at 4-4. The home country has won each previous matchup.

The last time they met was in 2008, when Chile defeated Canada 3-2 in a zone group semifinal in Santiago.

Canada started the season in the World Group for the fifth consecutive year. The team,

Tobler leaving Generals to coach in ECHL WINDSOR, CO. — After three seasons at the helm of the Bentley (now Lacombe) Generals, Ryan Tobler is making the jump to professional hockey coaching.

He is returning to the Colorado Eagles of the ECHL where he played seven seasons and won

GIRL’S FASTBALL SURREY, B.C. — After four games at the Canadian Open Fastpitch International, the Red Deer Collins Barrow U16A Rage have just one win, coming against a familiar foe.

They split their two Tuesday games, losing to the Quebec Rebelles 9-1, but defeated the River City Hornets out of Edmonton 7-6.

Adjustments to different circumstances and tough pitching dogged the Rage on Monday as they opened the event with two losses.

It started on Monday in Surrey, B.C. with losses to the Richmond Islanders, 7-2, and the Whiterock Renegades, 19-12.

missing top players Milos Raonic and Daniel Nestor, lost its first-round tie 5-0 against France in Guadeloupe.

Chile has reached the World Group play-offs for the first time in four years after defeating Dominican Republic and Colombia in Americas Zone Group I competition.

Canada must win in September to remain in the World Group for 2017. A loss would relegate the team back to Americas Zone Group I for next year where it has not played since 2011.

“We are very happy to be awarded a home tie after two very tough back-to-back road ties in the last year,” Canadian Davis Cup team captain Martin Laurendeau said in a statement.

“We are also very excited to be heading back to Halifax as the World Group play-off there in 2014 was a huge success for us. The city, the venue and the crowd provided us with the ideal conditions to win and keep our spot in the World Group, and we will need that same support this time around against Chile as they will pose another big challenge for us.” two championships in 2005 and 2007.

This time he will be an assistant coach under the new regiment headed by new head coach Aaron Schneekloth.

Tobler scored 416 points in 367 games with the Eagles before retiring from playing in 2010.

As head coach of the Generals in the Chinook Hockey League, Tobler coached the team to league titles in 2014, 2015 and 2016. More recently, Tobler won the Allan Cup in 2016, the national senior men’s hockey title.

The first game was against the Islanders, the B.C. provincial bronze medalists, and the Rage had some trouble adjusting for the packed sand infields instead of the shale they typically play on.

In the second game, the Rage jumped out to an 11-5 lead against the Renegades. But a pitching change proved too much for the Red Deer team to handle and they lost again.

The Rage are in a division against teams from B.C., Alberta, Quebec and the U.S. Teams from across the country and the U.S. are competing in the international championship showcase.

The Rage have two more games, today against the California A’s Barber and then on Thursday against the Calgary Kaizen.

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E-cigarette use climbs among teens VAPING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Parents and doctors questioning teens about whether they smoke should also be asking if they’re using e-cigarettes, which could be a gateway to nicotine addiction later on, says a pediatrician who led a new study.

Dr. Michael Khoury’s research involved nearly 2,300 students in Grade 9 in the Niagara region of Ontario.

Over 10 per cent of them had used electronic cigarettes, said Khoury, though a national report funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and released earlier this year suggested the rate of Grade 9 students who have tried e-cigarettes is even higher.

“The most common reason that three-quarters of them used it was to be cool, or it was fun and something new,” Khoury said about his research. “That’s really concerning because they’re clearly not using them for what they’re marketed as, which is as smoking cessation devices.”

Khoury conducted the study while he was a pediatric cardiology resident at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. It was published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

E-cigarette use is now more common among adolescents than conventional cigarettes, but the practice that mimics the tactile experience of smoking could also renormalize it for youth who’ve grown up learning about its effects on health, said Khoury, who is currently completing his residency at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.

He noted that at least two previous American studies have concluded that youth who use e-cigarettes or “vape” are much more likely to smoke in the future.

E-cigarettes contain a battery, a heating element and a cartridge with a liquid solution that may or may not contain nicotine and other flavours such as cotton candy, peanut butter and jam, and vanilla.

Puffing on the e-cigarette heats the solution, creating a smoke-free vapour that is inhaled.

In Canada, e-cigarettes and “e-juice” containing nicotine have not been approved for sale. Nicotine-free vaping products that do not make health claims are legal.

Most provinces have created legislation around the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes though there are ongoing calls for the federal government to take regulatory leadership on the issue while balancing the protection of youth and making the product available to adults who want to use it as a way to potentially quit smoking.

Health Canada said e-cigarette products, including liquids containing nicotine, require federal approval before they can be imported, advertised or sold.

“Health Canada continues to advise Canadians, especially youth, against the use of these products,” the department said in a statement.

Industry is responsible for ensuring the products it manufactures, imports, advertises or sells do not pose a danger to health, it said.

“The department continues to actively review and monitor health and safety data, scientific studies and the actions of regulators in other jurisdictions.”

Khoury said further regulations are needed because e-cigarettes are so appealing to youth, who could be getting a hit of nicotine as they vape, depending on the cartridge they use.

Five things to know about e-cigarettes VANCOUVER — Five things to know about e-cigarettes: 1. Fruit and candy flavourings in e-cigarette liquids are the number 1 reason they appeal to youth, and

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E-cigarette use is now more common among adolescents than conventional cigarettes “It’s something that’s going to become a major public health issue, as it should be, and parents and physicians and schools alike really should put it at the forefront of their agenda.”

Prof. Elizabeth Saewyc, who teaches nursing and adolescent medicine at the University of British Columbia, wrote a chapter on substance use among youth in a Public Health Agency report released in March, showing 21 per cent of boys and 15 per cent of girls in Grade 9 have tried e-cigarettes.

“The study in Niagara puts its finger on the nub: It’s new, it’s electronic, it’s cool,” Saewyc said.

“Although we’ve been really good about cigarette smoking to identify the tar in the smoke and how it’s bad for your lungs people are looking at e-cigarettes and thinking it’s steam, it’s not smoke, so it must be safer and forgetting that if it’s steam with nicotine involved you still end up with that addiction to nicotine.”

Saewyc said it’s important for parents to have

regular conversations with their children about e-cigarettes, the same as other potentially harmful substances.

David Hammond, associate professor at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, said the federal government must step in with product standards and labelling requirements for e-cigarettes.

“There’s no way for consumers to know which manufacturers are acting responsibly, whether the number that’s on the label is accurate. And we know they’re often inaccurate.

Some of them that say they do not contain nicotine actually contain nicotine.”

In November 2014, Hammond testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, which recommended Health Canada establish a common framework to regulate e-cigarettes.

there are calls on the federal government to prohibit flavourings.

2. Groups concerned about the increasing popularity of vaping among youth want advertising that’s currently in place for tobacco products to be extended to e-cigarettes.

3. Health risks associated with e-cigarettes are un-

clear, and more research is needed.

4. E-cigarettes are often marketed as smoking cessation devices but it’s not known if they are effective in helping people kick the habit.

5. Eight provinces have passed or tabled legislation that treats e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco products, but Canada lacks federal regulations.

How to stop a silent heart attack DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN YOU DOCS According to the American Heart Association, a staggering 750,000 Americans have heart attacks each year. But brand-new research suggests that the real number may be closer to 1.4 million or even higher thanks to silent attacks that damage the heart without crushing chest pain and drenching sweat.

Silent heart attacks may masquerade as nasty heartburn, a bad case of stomach flu, an achy arm or weird fatigue.

The only way to uncover one is with an electrocardiogram, a test that tracks electrical activity, or another heart-imaging test that looks for signs of damage after the fact. That’s exactly what researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine did, sticking ECG electrodes on the chests of 9,498 women and men several times over nine years as part of a major, ongoing study. What they discovered was that while 386 study volunteers had conventional heart attacks that sent them to the hospital, another 317 had silent heart attacks so quiet they escaped notice. Those 317 silent heart attack survivors are three times more likely than people who didn’t have any type of heart attack to die later from heart-related problems. And while men were more likely to face one of these

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stealth attacks, women were more likely to die in the aftermath.

With more advanced testing, silent heart attack numbers could be even higher. In a high-tech study from Iceland, researchers used cardiac MRI tests to take detailed pictures of the hearts of 936 people.

The researchers found signs that silent attacks were almost twice (1.7 times) as common as conventional heart attacks.

As these reports reveal the staggering heart-damaging numbers, here’s what you need to know: High blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol levels and high blood sugar raise your risk for a silent heart attack, just as they do for a not-so-silent one. If your numbers aren’t in the healthy zones, get serious about following a healthy diet.

You know the drill: plenty of produce, whole grains, lean protein, plus good fats and low-fat or fat-free dairy. Banish added sugars and syrups as well as most saturated and all trans fats from your diet. Walk a minimum of 30 minutes daily (aiming for 10,000 steps) and make time for stress reduction.

If your doc recommends medications, take them as directed while you make healthy lifestyle changes. And don’t smoke.

Don’t ignore whispers (or shouts) of trouble. Diabetes, heart disease, congestive heart failure and pain when you walk (due to narrowed arteries in your legs) seriously elevate your risk for a silent heart attack.

And silent heart attacks aren’t actually symptom-free, but the red flags are easy to write off. Even

THRILLING THURSDAY AT DICKSON STORE

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Thrilling Thursday will be offered on July 21 at the Dickson Store Museum from 1 to 4 p.m. Come dressed as a pirate, fisherman, mermaid, or anything water-related — if you wish — to celebrate the water theme. Enjoy a water filled afternoon of crafts, games, scavenger hunt and much more.

Free but donations welcome. Phone 403-728-3355.

HIKERS MEETING AT GOLDEN CIRCLE ON THURSDAY

though blood flow’s been cut off to part of your heart, you may chalk up your odd symptoms to one too many burritos, overdoing it at the gym, a bad night’s sleep or a stomach bug.

If you have chest or abdominal discomfort that feels like heartburn or indigestion, unexplained tiredness, even nausea and vomiting or odd tightness in your throat and think it may be a silent heart attack, call 911.

Getting treated quickly saves as much heart muscle as possible.

But folks who have silent heart attacks often miss out on interventions, with deadly consequences.

Think you’ve had one? Tell your doc. If you’re wondering about weird symptoms in your past or if you have ongoing tiredness, shortness of breath and/ or chest twinges, talk to your doctor. A silent heart attack can cause valves in your heart to leak or leave scars that make the heart work less efficiently. Your doctor may order an ECG, a cardiac ultrasound or other tests.

If needed, you’ll get a treatment plan that includes lifestyle changes (nutrition upgrade and more physical activity) as well as possible medication (a statin and/or daily 162 mg of aspirin with a warm glass of water before and after) to protect your heart from further damage and make yourself strong again.

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www. sharecare.com.

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Red Deer Area Hikers go for a weekly hike each Thursday, meeting at the west side parking lot at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre at 8:45 a.m. Enjoy a hike at Bower Ponds/Maskepetoon Loop on July 21. Be prepared to car-pool to various locations, and bring lunch. Hikes will be cancelled if weather unsuitable.

Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

CENTRAL ALBERTA COMMUNITY LEGAL CLINIC PHOTO ID SESSION Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic will hold a photo identification clinic on July 21 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 301, 5008 Ross St. The clinic offers free affidavits of identification that are notarized by a lawyer. This ID does not replace government issued ID but is intended to help people access basic services while replacing their proper ID. To book an appointment, phone 430-3149129, see www.communitylegalclinic.net.

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JOHNSTON KOCINS (HUTLET-HAND) Sandra Karen Cathy Aug. 5, 1963 - July 14, 2016 With great sadness and It is with deep sadness that remorse in our hearts, we we announce the sudden announce that Sandra Karen passing of Cathy Johnston Kocins (née Kozun) passed (Hutlet-Hand) in Salmon Arm, away unexpectedly in Red BC on July 9, 2016. Cathy Deer on July 14, 2016. was predeceased by her Sandra is remembered by father, John Hutlet Sr., and is her loving husband, Maris; survived by her mother, children, Mitchell and Deanna Freda; two sisters, Judy and (Vincent); father, Morris Jill (Tony); two brothers, Kozun (Larine) of Ponoka John (Sharellen) and Jace County; mother-in-law Arija (Kim); three sons, Devon Kocins of Red Deer; sisters, (Amy), Jaymen (Heather) Barbara (Hardy) Hood of Red and Jarod (Jennifer); six Deer and Sharon (Bryan) grandchildren; and multiple Whittemore of Delburne; nieces and nephews. Cathy sister-in-law Ilze (Bryon) will be laid to rest at the Alto Schwartz of Red Deer; Reste Cemetery. numerous nieces, nephews, and many friends. Sandra was predeceased by her mother, Paulina Kozun and In Memoriam by her father-in-law, John Kocins. Sandra cherished In Loving Memory Of time with her family and FLOYD AXEL WESTLING, friends and enjoyed taking in May 8, 1929 - June 20, 2016 the beauty of life through her love of gardening, No Farewell Words photography, hiking, travelling were Spoken. and reading. Sandra’s early No Time to Say Goodbye. career involved working at You were Gone before Alberta Hospital in Ponoka We Knew of it and as a secretary, while the We know Why. majority of her career was This Leaves us a Heartache focused on helping countless that No One can Heal. people transform their But Love Leaves us the photographs into beautiful Memories that memories at London Drugs.

No One can Steal.

A celebration of her life will be held at 1:00 p.m. on From Your Friday, July 22, 2016 at the Dearest of Friends Red Deer Funeral Home, who Love You Like Family!

6150-67 St., Red Deer, Alberta. If friends desire, in lieu of flowers, donations honouring Sandra may be Marriages made to the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention and to the Canadian Mental Health Association, Central Alberta Region, 5017-50 Ave., Red Deer, AB T4N 4B2.

Condolences may be forwarded to her family at www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

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Lost REWARD

Deer-Head Chihuahua, missing from Bentley/Gull Lake area. Answers to Ukie, 8 yrs. old, very small.

403-550-4150, 597-2912 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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309-3300

has another Dentist joining us and we need to find the right Assistant to work with Her. The ideal person is a Registered Dental Assistant II, is a team player, has above average skills, is progressive and believes in the best for our patients. We require this person for 2 days/wk, 3 days/wk in the future, no nights or weekends.

We offer a competitive salary, benefits and a great work environment.

Please email resume to: linda@ riversidedentalcentre.ca

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Restaurant/ Hotel

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303

Business Opportunities

870

Build Shaklee Online.

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Auctions

1530

700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

LOOKING for 2 Live-In caregiver willing to do split shifts. High school graduate 1-2 yrs exp. In caring for person with high medical needs 44 hrs/wk at 11.50/hr. karenmeeres@yahoo.ca You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

720

P/T BOOKKEEPER req’d to work in office near Bentley 1 - 2 days per wk. flexible hours, exp. with Simply Accounting (Sage 50) is required. Please send resume to kingdom farmsinc@gmail.com or fax; 403-748-4613 phone 403-505-2647 VITAL Registry Services Ltd. Red Deer looking for qualified individual(s) for Part-time/Full-time employment. Previous Registry experience is required. Reply in person or email vitaldoc@telus.net Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Come in Small Packages A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

Clerical

HOLMES - LEMAN Dennis & Bonnie Holmes are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their son Virgil, to Jessica Leman, daughter of Francis and Penny Leman of Delia, AB. Wedding to take place Saturday, July 23, 2016 in Delia. Dance and cake cutting at 8:30, all welcome to attend.

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Personals

UNRESERVED Real Estate Auction Sale Gary & Bonnie Muzylouski 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.

Open Houses:

Sat., July 23 & Sun., July 31, from 1pm to 4 pm or by Appointment Contact Allen B. Olson at (403) 783-0556.

For More Info Visit our website at www.allenolsonauction.com Sale Conducted by:

Allen B. Olson Auction Service Ltd. (403) 843-2747 Sale Site 1-855-783-0556 Toll Free Rimbey, Alberta License No. 165690 Email: abolson@telusplanet.net

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Grandview 3817 46 St. BACK ALLEY July 18 to July 30 4 pm - 7 pm

EVERY DAY

Tools, & more tools, great furniture, housewares, 100’s of car mags, cook books & other good stuff.

Clothing

1590

LADIES size 6 knee length black chiffon dress, Canadian made, still tagged at $125.

Asking $30. 403-348-0201

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KING Kevin Douglas 1960 - 2016 Mr. Kevin Douglas King of Red Deer, passed away unexpectedly at his home, on Monday, July 11, 2016 at the age of 56 years. Kevin was born in Carman, Manitoba on July 4, 1960 and moved with his family to Innisfail, Alberta in 1979.

He completed his High School in Innisfail and shortly after that began his thirty year career with Nova Chemicals, at the Joffre Plant. Kevin retired on April 7, 2014 and was able to enjoy his passions of riding his motorcycle and exploring the West Country of Central Alberta. He was an avid outdoorsman, both fishing and recreational. He was blessed with an infectious personality, keen sense of humour and a constant smile. He will be lovingly remembered by his special partner, Debbie Schell of Airdrie, Alberta; his brother, Mike King (Brenda) of Winnipeg, Manitoba; and his sister, Linda (Dee) Henderson of Vegreville, Alberta. He will also be sadly missed by his step mother, Shirley King of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia; his step sisters, Lori Shilson of Parksville, British Columbia and Candace (Wayne) Muzylowski of Lloydminster, Alberta; and his nephews, nieces and many dear friends.

Kevin was predeceased by his parents, Joan King in 1974 and Cameron King in 2012. A Celebration of Kevin’s Life will be held at a later date. If desired, Memorial Donations in Kevin’s honour may be made directly to the Alberta Fish and Game Association at www.afga.org.

Cremation entrusted to the PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.

740

Dental

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A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL:

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Electronics

1605

PS2 with games, $60; Dreamcast with games, $50; and SONY DVD surround sound system, $40. 403-782-3847

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

FRAMING Nailers, 3 in 1 KING Canada, 28 degree x34 degree, flipped head.

Performance Plus.

18 guage, $80.

403-309-7387, 392-6138

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds FREE - great for firewood free truck loads of black poplar logs. You pick up.

Very close to Red Deer.

403-392-8385.

Household Appliances

1710

KENMORE fridge, white, 18 c.f., $50.; Range Hood, new, white, 220CFM, $100. obo 403-746-5123

Household Furnishings

1720

OAK pedestal table w/4 chairs and 2 leafs, good cond. $125 firm 403-746-5123

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20.

403-885-5020 COLEMAN Camp stove, 2 burner Propane, older, with stand. $30. 587-876-2914 DANBY air conditioner, new in box, 8000 btu, with remote, fits in window, $180. 403-358-5568 NEW Espresso coffee machine, $40.

403-358-5568 OFFICIAL set of horseshoes and pegs, $50; new 2 ton trolley jack, $20; Coleman 2 burner camp stove, $45; Coleman EasiLite lantern, $40; and standing rotating fan, $20.

403-358-5568 SHOES, ladies size 37, summer flat slingback, Rieker, anti-stress. Off white leather. Sides are open weave, worn once for a wedding. Regular $185.

Asking $80. 587-876-2914 SHOWER doors, set with frosted design. $50.obo; 100+ feet of eavestrough with fasteners, white. $40.; Whirley roof vent, galvanized. $40. obo. 403-746-5123 SUN Lightfoot Pedometer and flashlight, never used, $30. 587-876-2914 THREE patio chairs, $5 each; wooden pink stool, $5; dresser with 4 drawers, $5; 2 shelf bookcase, $5; mukluks, size 8 - 8 1/2, $40; and chandelier from Venice, $100. 403-347-0325 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020 WINE making equip. ~ 2 glass carboys, mixing attachment for electric drill, 4 dozen wine bottles, wine corker, siphon rod/hose, and stirring spoon. $125.

403-348-0201

Sporting Goods

1860

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

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Call Tammy at 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER ECKVILLE SPRINGBROOK

Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED INNISFAIL ECKVILLE WASKASOO ESTATES MORRISROE 6 DAYS A WEEK BY 6:30 AM

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Sporting Goods

Condos/ Townhouses

SLALOM SKI. Vintage (circa 1960’s) wooden “Ski Slipper” $40 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

1/2 DUPLEX, 5 1/2 bdrms., 2 full baths, new windows, dble. garage, fenced. $1500. mo./d.d. or for Sale $298,000. 403-782-5349 3 BDRM main fl. house for rent, avail. imm., $1150/mo. + 2/3 util.

Call Bob 403-872-3400 GLENDALE, 1/2 duplex, 2 bdrm., $900. rent/s.d., incld’s utils. Mature adults only, n/s, no pets, recently reno’d. Avail. Aug. 1.

403-740-6253

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

2 BDRM., 1240 sq. ft., 1-1/2 baths, Blackfalds, fenced, $1100. Avail.

Sept. 1. 403-505-8310 MORRISROE 2 storey townhouse, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, large kitchen, no pets, n/s, fenced yard, 403-342-6374, 396-6610

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

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2 BDRM. 1400 sq. ft. 2009 condo w/att. single garage, Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d.

No pets, utils. Rent neg. newly reno’d.403-728-3688 2 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1150/mo. + utils., inclds. condo fees. 403-616-3181

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1095. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $900/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Aug. 1. 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Aug. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 2 Bedroom BLOWOUT for $899/month! Receive $500 on Move-In Day! One FREE year of Telus cable & internet.

Cat friendly.

1(888)784-9279 leasing@rentmidwest.com Plaza Apartments 2 BEDROOM ground level suite in new home, 9 ft. ceilings, close to walking path, 5 appliances, in-floor heat, 2 parking stalls, Timberstone area, nonsmoking, no pets, mature tenants desired, $900 mnth + utilities.

403-307-0816 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incl’d., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

CITY VIEW APTS.

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., $850/mo., $850 D.D., and 1 bdrm. $765/mo, $765. DD. N/S, no pets, no partiers.

403-346-1458

Suites

3060

1 BDRM. apt. avail. Aug. 1 $775 + power.

Call Bob 403-872-3400.

3060

MORRISROE MANOR Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4 appls., inclds. heat & water, no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594

Income Property

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homes NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

Industrial Property

4010

PUBLIC NOTICES

4120

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

3090 3110

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Motorcycles

CLASSIFICATIONS

RIDING Mower, 30” TROY $850. obo . 403-348-8171

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 Looking for a place to live?

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Farms/Land Wanted

Cars

2012 BURGMAN 650, heated seat/handles, 6000 kms. $8500. 403-348-8171

2005 CROWN Vic LX, full load, leather, 96,000 kms. $6300. 403-358-3721

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Downtown Office

Large waiting room, 2 offices & storage room, 403-346-5885

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC LOADED, 44,600 KMS.

MINT CONDITION $7600. o.b.o.

Directory

4210

OPEN HOUSE SERGE’S HOMES

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

NOTICE is hereby given that the bankruptcy of Catherine Louise Suski of Red Deer, Alberta occurred on the 5th day of July, 2016 and that the First Meeting of Creditors will be held on the 26th day of July, 2016 at 1:30 P.M. at the: OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEE 4922 - 53 Street Red Deer, Alberta Dated at Red Deer, Alberta this 14th day of July, 2016.

MNP LTD Trustee in Bankruptcy 4922 - 53rd Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2E9 Phone (403) 342-5380

(403)318-4653 Red Deer

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Tour These Fine Homes North Red Deer

NOTICE

To Creditors of the Meeting of Creditors in the Matter of the Bankruptcy of Catherine Louise Suski Estate # 24-2142091

5030

4080

WANTED 1200 + Sq.ft.

CONDO in one of the three Medican buildings downtown. Call Kim Argent @ RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-357-4525

5080

wheels 5000-5300

6010

Public Notices

$5800.

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PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., hrdwd. flrs., inclds. heat and water, $1100. 403-348-6594

Offices

5030

Cars

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK 2006 Buick Lucerne, 4 dr.

New industrial bay, 2000 full load, luue tooth, remote sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. start, Harold 403-350-6800 or for Rent. 403-391-1780 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

Rooms For Rent

4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $616,000. ea. 403-391-1780

Opposite Hospital

$425. MO/D.D. incld’s everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. CLEARVIEW: TWO SUITES. 25+, adults only WEEKS FREE + $150. move-in, 4 plex, 2 bdrm. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 + den (bdrm), $975.mo. n/s, no pets. 403-391-1780 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $900/mo. d.d. $650.

Available now or Aug. 1 403-304-5337

Suites

July 22 & 23 2 - 5 6325 61 AVE RED DEER

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Accounting

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

1160

Flooring

NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Jon 403-848-0393

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For indoor/outdoor projects such as reno’s, painting small tree cutting, sidewalk blocks & landscaping Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 TUSCANY PAINTING 403-598-2434

Plumbing & Heating

1330

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

Elite Retreat, Finest Roofing in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

1180

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

1370

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

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Roofing

1370

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

1372

Seniors’ Services

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Yard Care

BE A PART OF YOUR COMMUNITY JOIN A CLUB, PLAY SPORTS, READ YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER. UNPLUG.

1430

YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

GET STARTED. CALL 403.314.4300 AND SUBSCRIBE.

n the o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u o Get y

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

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Sol

1976 DODGE new tires & brakes, sleeps 4, good cond., 85,000 kms,

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Sol 1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good,cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner stove/oven, micro., queen bed, x-long couch, $7000.

403-350-6695

1999 TOYOTA Solara, clean, well-maintained, 208,000 km, $4,800 obo.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC. Loaded! 44,600 kms.

Excellent condition 403-318-4653.

2012 BURGMAN 650, heated seat/handles, 6000 kms. $8500.

403-348-8171

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Sol 1978 Uniflite 28 ft. cabin cruiser live aboard, comes with new trailer.

Will sell or trade for value.

Ph. only. 403-304-3612

good cond., 4 new tires. $1,200. 403-342-5844

2005 CROWN Vic LX, full load, leather, 96,000 kms. $6300.

403-358-3721

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

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Everyone likes a quitter DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: My dad has been a smoker for his whole life, which is why we were all so proud of him when he announced that he had successfully quit several months ago.

I was elated. It had been an ongoing argument between my parents throughout my childhood.

It always stressed me out to hear them fighting about it.

It feels so good to know that my dad actually cares about his health and knows that we care, too. He’s even taken up jogging, something he was never able to do before because he’d start hacking up a lung.

However, the most recent time I visited home (I’m away at college), I caught my dad smoking outside in the garage one night. I quickly turned away, and I know he doesn’t know that I caught him, but I am so devastated.

My whole family would be devastated.

The next day, I asked him how the not-smoking thing was going, seeing whether he’d confess, and

he just said, “Great!” I feel so betrayed that he could just flat out lie about it. Along with feeling upset, I am torn when it comes to handling this situation because I know I can’t keep it to myself. My mom works so hard and cares so much. I don’t like seeing her lied to. I feel as if she deserves to know the truth.

Now I’m just trying to figure out how to go about dropping this bomb on her when I know it will just break her heart and my dad will be angry. How do I do this? — Nonsmoker Son Dear Nonsmoker: So he had a slip-up? Surprise!

Your dad’s human. Cigarettes are highly addictive, and he’s been smoking his whole life.

Talk to him about the matter privately. Be compassionate and try to understand where he’s coming from. On average, it takes eight to 11 tries before a smoker successfully stops for good. Don’t quit on him.

Dear Annie: I’ve learned that there is a difference between constructive criticism and just hurting someone’s feelings, and I’m having a hard time separating the two right now.

My friend is a loud chewer. She smacks her food.

She talks with her mouth full. She slurps. It is disgusting.

I find it incredible that somebody could get away with being raised that way, but the rest of her family is the same way, so she clearly has no idea.

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She really is a great girl and one of my closest friends, but this is a major pet peeve. Also, she complains about how she never gets asked on second dates, and I can’t help but wonder whether this is why.

I just don’t know whether that kind of habit is one that can be easily broken, and I worry for her. I don’t know how to go about telling her that she is being gross when she eats without having it come out in a way that would just hurt her feelings. All I know is I feel a responsibility to do something about this.

What do you think I should do? — Quiet Friend Dear Quiet: I don’t doubt that her dates have had allergic reactions to these “see-food” dinners. Few things are less attractive than chewing with one’s mouth open.

Tell her, in a gentle way, that it might be beneficial for her to watch out and make sure she is conscious of how she is eating. You’ll be doing her a huge favor.

Good friends are honest friends — even when it means telling a pal she eats like Cookie Monster (in much politer terms, of course).

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

World BRIEFS Methodists elect 1st openly gay bishop in defiance of ban SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Western district of the Methodist church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination’s ban on same-sex relationships.

The Rev. Karen Oliveto was elected late Friday night at a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, of the church’s Western Jurisdiction. Oliveto is pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. She is the first openly gay bishop in the 12.7 million-member denomination.

The United Methodist Church is deeply divided over LGBT rights. Church law says same-gender relationships are “incompatible with Christian teaching.” But several regional districts are openly defying the prohibition by appointing gay clergy and allowing same-sex weddings in churches. Some instances have led to trials under the church legal system.

Oliveto’s election could draw complaints that will prompt a review under church law.

Philadelphia museum puts early presidents’ hair on display PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump’s gravity-defying hair has generated plenty of attention, but have you seen George Washington’s?

You can check it out this month in Philadelphia, where a museum has put the hair of some early presidents on display.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is showcasing locks of hair once belonging to Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The exhibit, called “Presidential Archives: Letters, Hair and Fossils,” runs through July 29, coinciding with the Democratic National Convention.

A Philadelphia attorney collected the specimens, which were given to the museum after his 1860 death. Academy historian Robert Peck says it may seem like an odd hobby today. But he says it was once common for people to keep hair clippings from loved ones in “lockets, brooches, rings and pins.”

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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Wednesday, July 20 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Diana Rigg, 78; Carlos Santana, 69; Gisele Bundchen, 36 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A patient approach helps relationships today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Ups and Downs, you are very restless. The coming year is the time to be more adventurous at work and more settled at home.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The main quality you need to cultivate is patience — especially where relationships are concerned. Rams are raring to go but the message for today is: “Good things come to those who wait.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Lasting love takes time and patience. So your motto for today is from Ursula Le Guin, “Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re hungry for news and up-to-the-minute information, so phone a friend and have a good long chat. Don’t be too frivolous though Twins — they may have serious issues to talk about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are dealing with financial or business matters today then a conservative approach will reap rewards. ProAlberta Beef tecting current resources is preferable to taking a chance on risky new ventures.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When it comes to a problem with a child, teenager or friend, there are no quick fixes. It’s a case of one step forwards and two steps backwards — or sideways — but you’ll eventually make progress.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): If you dwell on things too much today Virgo, you’ll just make giant mountains out of tiny molehills. There’s a lot happening so quit being a worCall ry-wart and just get on with for reservations getting things done.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Attached Librans — remind your partner of your love and commitment. Singles — there’s a good chance you’ll find love on an online dating site. But it won’t happen overnight — you must be patient.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Saturn gives you a welcome confidence boost as you initiate a project, speak in front of a group or kick-start a new idea. Pace yourself, as you accomplish tasks in your own steady Scorpio way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You want to move fast but those around you are enjoying a slower pace. The stars are asking you to be more meticulous today Sagittarius, as you revise projects and wait for others to catch up.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Coupled Capricorns — work on deepening the commitment within your relationship.

With hard work and persistence, your love can last the distance. Singles — be patient and wait for the right person.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Attached Aquarians — look after your relationship as you would tend a garden.

Otherwise it won’t flourish. Singles — you may be attracted to someone who is much older and wiser than you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look at your work situation in a realistic way. Are you doing what you want to do? Are you

heading in the right direction? If not, then it may be time to make some positive, practical changes.

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

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Attached to the Hip ARTISTS REFLECT ON THE LEGACY OF CANADA’S PROLIFIC ROCKERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Friday marks the start of what’s expected to be a bittersweet chapter in the history of one of Canada’s most iconic bands.

Two months after the Tragically Hip revealed lead singer Gord Downie is facing terminal brain cancer, the band is preparing to embark on a 15-date tour that will culminate with a concert in their hometown of Kingston, Ont., which will be broadcast live by the CBC. Many prominent Canadian performers say they’re still trying to digest the news about the singer they idolized and were inspired by.

“If you’re a musician and you’re born in Canada it’s in your DNA to like the Tragically Hip,” says Dallas Green, the mastermind behind City and Colour.

Green is one of many Canadian artists who got to know Downie personally but ultimately consider themselves fans of the songwriter above all else.

“He’s the gold standard,” Green says. “The way he writes and cares about music. The way he cares about the song.”

Downie and his band of cronies — guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay — have spent more than 30 years capturing slivers of Canadiana and turning them into songs.

Hits like New Orleans Is Sinking, Ahead By a Century and Bobcaygeon have served as unofficial anthems for the country, while lesser-known tunes still ring familiar when they echo through cottage country or blare from car stereos in the summertime.

“In a weird way, it was the soundtrack to camping trips I used to go on as a kid,” says 30-year-old Vancouver rapper SonReal, who says the 1991 album Road Apples was a family favourite.

“My parents and my older sister would play a lot of Tragically Hip — I loved it. They were the biggest band of the world in my eyes.”

Leah Fay, co-lead singer of July Talk, considers her first Hip concert experience transformational in her growth as a musician.

“I remember seeing (Downie) for the first time and just sobbing my eyes out,” Fay says, recalling a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto.

“He has a way with performance and connecting to an audience that’s like no other.”

Fay says she admires “the rare connection” Downie has with his fans, how “he’s really there and really present. And he cares that you’re with him.”

“There’s times where he stared into my eyes — I believed they were my eyes, but probably 15 people around me thought it was their eyes,” she says.

“You just know what’s really happening for him in that moment.”

Downie’s live performances are often nearly as theatrical as they are about the music. He’s been known to jump around the stage and riff poetically during extended musical interludes.

Theatre actor Ramin Karimloo distinctly remembers studying Downie’s stage presence when he saw the Hip at his first concert and it marked a pivotal moment in his artistic career, which eventually led to Broadway.

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Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip performs in Moncton, N.B. This Friday marks the start of what’s widely assumed to be the Hip’s grand finale as Downie steps onto the stage for a round of 15 shows. The tour starts in Victoria, B.C., before rolling into other parts of the country and ending in the band’s hometown of Kingston, Ont., with a concert that will be broadcast live by the CBC.

Musicians pick songs for dream Hip set list

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS With the Tragically Hip’s much-anticipated Man Machine Poem tour kicking off Friday in Victoria, B.C., many longtime Hip aficionados are imagining a dream set list constructed from the band’s vast catalogue of classic Canadian songs.

The 15-concert run stretches across much of Canada, giving Gord Downie and his cronies plenty of opportunity to mix up the set lists and keep fans on their toes.

Before the band steps onto the stage, The Canadian Press asked some musicians which song they’d most like to hear and why it resonates with them.

Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace picks Grace, Too: “In 2004, I travelled to Darfur with War Child (an organization that works with children in war zones). We were provided housing in a United Nations shack. It was three of us and two UN personnel who were stationed there to decide whether the unspeakable sadness in Darfur was in fact genocide or not. Not long after I returned from Sudan I came across an article on Grace, Too. The journalist wrote that Gord described the song as being about the UN and the complexities surrounding this controversial entity. This blew my mind and I immediately began re-evaluating the song, trying to decipher the lyrics and apply my personal experience — I’d witnessed the UN ego and power first hand.

“His lyric about ‘When the appearance of conflict meets the appearance of force’ was now the perfect metaphor for the incredible circumstance and authority that came together there. I’ve not always been forthright with journalists as far as the true meaning behind songs I’ve written and I wouldn’t be surprised if Gord was trying to

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Raine Maida is shown in an interview with The Canadian Press in Toronto.

Before the Tragically Hip steps onto the stage, The Canadian Press asked some musicians which song they’d most like to hear and why it resonates with them. Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace picked “Grace, Too.” throw the journalist off his lyrical scent. Regardless, ‘Grace Too,’ has a strength and weight that feels beyond this world.”

Sean McCann, singer and former Great Big Sea guitarist, on Scared: “The song for me is a dissertation on the nature of fear itself and where it ultimately comes from — within. I have lived through much and while this song doesn’t let anyone off the hook, I always take comfort in its frank analytical approach. We have

nothing to fear but our selves and the sooner we face that truth, the quicker we will all be able to move forward into real freedom.”

K-os and the influence of Ahead By a Century: “That’s my song. The whole video, that guitar. That everything. I remember sitting on the floor watching it when it came on MuchMusic like, ‘This is the best thing ever.’ (Downie) was the first person I listened to where I was like, ‘This dude has something to say.’ That’s always why I’ve wanted to be a part of pop culture — to say something.”

Broadway actor Ramin Karimloo on a double-bill of and 38 Years Old and When the Weight Comes Down from the album Up to Here: “Lyrically (38 Years Old) is quite a dark song … but it was (Downie’s) voice that really I found haunting. That song sort of opened the doors for me to start listening to more of the Hip. For (When the Weight Comes Down) it’s hard to go down that route and say, ‘What a great song!’ but I love the melody. It’s so rare. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard him do it live. The way they do it you’re still bopping away, but you’d like, ‘What’s he saying there?”’

Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar on Boots or Hearts: “Grady, my band in Texas, covered Boots or Hearts on our third album. To me a great cover is one which retains its message while still providing a platform for individual interpretation. Boots or Hearts is that kind of song. Like any really great blues song it makes a universal observation about the human condition. You could have told me that Gord Downie was a great blues artist and I would have believed you.

To date it is the only Hip song that I know by name but it’s such a badass song.”

Star Trek executed Sulu gay revelation correctly: Cho TORONTO — Star Trek Beyond cast member John Cho says he had a few concerns about the film boldly going where none in the franchise has gone before — revealing that his character, Hikaru Sulu, is gay.

Cho learned about the revelation in pre-production from director Justin Lin, who told him it was cast member/ co-writer Simon Pegg’s idea.

While Cho felt they “were JOHN CHO saying something beautiful and positive,” he was concerned about the feelings of openly gay actor George Takei, who played Sulu in the original Star Trek series.

“My concern was actually that he would feel like we were violating his personal life or usurping his personal life, because his character is straight but he’s gay,” says Cho. “I was concerned that he might feel like we were lifting from his personal life.”

In a recent Facebook posting, Takei said while he is “delighted that the Star Trek franchise has addressed this

issue, which is truly one of diversity,” he feels it was “less than necessary to tinker with an existing character.”

Cho says he was also concerned about “how Asians would view” the decision and worried that the franchise “might be accidentally implying that sexual orientation was a choice.”

“Because it’s the same genetic person but in an alternate timeline, and (Sulu) has different sexual orientations in both, (I) thought that we might be saying the wrong thing about sexual orientation.”

But in the end, Cho felt they executed the revelation correctly, with “a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of moment” in which Sulu embraces his same-sex partner, with whom he has a child.

“It doesn’t feel like a bombshell at all, which is I think hopefully where we’re going as a planet and as a species,” he says “I think if we had made a thing out of it in the way it was filmed, that in 10 years we’d look back and it would feel anachronistic and out of time.

“Now, the movie can age well and hopefully 10 years from now, this sort of thing is common in film and in society.”

A followup to 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond finds the USS Enterprise under attack by a new enemy, played by Idris Elba. The ensuing battle splits up the crew, who are also played by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Sofia Boutella and the late Anton Yelchin.

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