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Summer Greiner, 8, of Stettler, brushes her heifer at Westerner Days.

LEFT: Mike Skeels of Rocky Mountain House holds one of his favourite chickens at Westerner Days.

RIGHT: Riley Sharp, 19, of Lacombe leads her cattle into the competition ring during Westerner Days.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Nothing puts the west in Westerner Days Fair & Exposition like farm animals.

The tradition of cattle shows offer urbanites a glimpse into life on the ranch. The variety of chicken breeds on display is eye-opening. Miniature donkeys and horses are just plain cute.

Riley Sharp, 19, from Double Star Stock Farm, of the Lacombe area, started showing cattle when she was about three years old.

Now she owns her own cows and heifers and showed a few of them at Shorthorn Show at the AFSC Livestock Pavilion on Friday.

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Auctioneer loved a big crowd

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Long-time auctioneer Bud Haynes of Red Deer passed away unexpectedly this week.

“It’s been a real shock. We really weren’t prepared because my dad didn’t know he was as ill as he was,” his daughter Linda Baggaley said Friday.

As recently as a couple of weeks ago, Haynes, who was 82, had been filling in for her at the office, said Baggaley, also an auctioneer.

No one realized he had a cancerous tumor, she said. He was rushed to Red Deer Regional Hospital on Tuesday where he had emergency surgery but he passed away on Wednesday, she said.

Haynes was honoured in February at the annual Auctioneer’s Association of Alberta convention in Calgary for 50 years as an auctioneer.

In 1961 Haynes and his wife Dot moved to Red Deer. Later he worked as a guard at the minimum security prison at Nordegg. It’s there that one of the other guards gave Haynes books for an auctioneer correspondence course.

She remembers as a child seeing her father sitting in his office, practising by reading the Sears catalogue into a tape recorder.

The Haynes moved back to Red Deer from Nordegg in 1965 and have been here ever since.

Haynes’s first paying job as an auctioneer was at the Innisfail auction where he and Jack Daines, another well known Central Alberta auctioneer, became friends, said Baggaley.

In the 1970s, Haynes taught at the Western Canada School of Auctioneering, which was located in Lacombe. He always gave students a new dollar bill in a plastic sleeve when they graduated.

When he received his 50-year auctioneer pin, he asked the crowd how many of them still had the dollar bill he gave them. Baggaley said probably 40 people held up their hands.

“That’s the only time I ever saw my dad speechless.”

Haynes sent both his children — daughters Lynda and Rae — to auctioneer school, which was and still is very much a male-dominated business.

File photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Auctioneer Bud Haynes holds a .44 caliber Colt Dragoon revolver. Bud Haynes died suddenly on Wednesday at the age of 82. His memorial service will be on Wednesday, July 27, 1 p.m., at CrossRoads Church.

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FAIR: Chance to promote livestock “This is a heritage breed so they’ve been around since the 1800s. They’re one of the four foundation breeds for all beef cattle,” Sharp said.

But don’t look for horns. Shorthorns have long since lost their horns or they are surgically removed, she said.

She likes shorthorns because they are easier to handle which is especially helpful after the calves are born.

“The breed is much more docile than a lot of the other breeds. The mother cows are quite friendly.

They’re not as defensive during calving season.”

Her oldest cow is 13 years old. She

He also taught Dot auctioneering. She became the first female auctioneer in Alberta, Baggaley said.

Haynes bought Red Deer Auction in 1967 and located it in what is now Fratters Speakeasy downtown. He established Bud Haynes and Company Auctioneers in 1974, which is when he went strictly into firearms and antiques. In 1996, Lynda and her husband

bought the company but her parents continued to work there.

Haynes’s other daughter, Rae Carswell, owns Carswell’s Collectibles in Red Deer.

In 2013, Bud Haynes Auctioneers and Co. partnered with Ward’s Auctions in Edmonton where they specialize in gun auctions.

Haynes was writing a book about

interesting things he’s sold in auctions, Baggaley said.

He is survived by Dot, Lynda (Jim) and Rae (Fred), and four grandchildren.

Baggaley said her father always loved a big crowd, and one is expected at the 1 p.m. funeral service on Wednesday at CrossRoads Church, located at 32nd Street and Hwy 2.

brought an eight-year-old Westerner Days and pointed out its many physical attributes that make the cow sturdy, easy to keep over the winter time, and easy for calving.

“You want to look for traits that will give them longevity because you don’t want to keep buying cattle year to year.

You want to keep cows like her, that will be 11, 12 and 13, and still having calves and making you money because this is a living for our family.”

She said coming to the show at Westerner Days gave her the opportunity to promote her cattle as she continues her agricultural career.

Over at the Stockmens Pavilion, Mike Skeels of Mountainview Ranches, near Rocky Mountain House, answered questions about his free-range turkeys and chickens from curious fair visitors.

“The turkeys are very popular. It’s amazing how many people have never actually seen one,” Skeels said about people who dropped by to see the feathered heritage breeds.

“You never know what people are going to ask or why.”

He said his five-year-old Narragansett turkey has retired from breeding and is now considered more of a pet.

“He just wanders around, struts, and shows off to the girls.”

All their birds have plenty of room to roam.

“Ours are true free range. They run all over the place. We have pens that move around, but they truly do have access to several acres.”

He said more people are showing an interest in keeping urban chickens.

Shows like those held at Westerner Days give them an easy opportunity to check them out.

Skeels said his family first got chickens because his wife and children thought they were cool. He still considers himself “a cattle guy” but admitted a few silver laced Wyandottes chickens at Mountainview are his.

Donna Russell, of Double D Miniatures, of Parkbeg Sask., said the minia-

ture horse show at Westerner Days is one of her favourite shows.

She has 70 miniature horses and enjoys bringing a few to Red Deer every year.

“It’s good exposure coming to shows,” Russell said.

She had always wanted a horse when she was a child. In 1979 she saw an advertisement for miniature horses and got her first miniature in 1981.

Russell takes her horses to seniors’ homes, most recently while she was driving to Westerner Days.

“All seniors came out to see the horses. They love them.”

Once she took a horse and cart to a senior’s home and one resident happened to be celebrating her 103rd birthday.

“The best birthday she ever had, she said,” Russell said.

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Biologist defends caribou fence

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Stan Boutin, an ecologist with the department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, argues that without aggressive management, the province’s 3,500 caribou, comprised of a number of herds in central and northern parts of the province, could be doomed. tive, which is caribou conservation.”

“I take issue with this being a bloodbath,” said Boutin.

When conservationists raise big concerns about the 1,000 wolves that have been killed over the past 10 years to protect the declining caribou population, he argues that the fence will ultimately reduce the mass killing of predators.

“In many ways that’s why I came up with the idea. I just wonder when Albertans and the rest of society are going to say enough is enough of this lethal predator control and that tool will be taken away.

“Well if we don’t have some of these other alternatives ready then the caribou are right back at square one and they’re starting to decline rapidly again and will disappear,” Boutin said.

The fence would create an artificial refuge for caribou calves and the adults until the calves are bigger and have a better chance of surviving. They would be moved outside of the fenced area after a year. Then as caribou numbers stabilize and their survival increases, “we can start to wean ourselves off this ongoing predator control.”

Sylvan Lake lifts waste water restrictions

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF The Town of Sylvan Lake lifted voluntary waste water restrictions on Friday after a second set of tests again showed effluent met federal regulations.

The town had reached a critical storage situation when it had been unable to meet new federal regulations to discharge effluent since last fall, and higher than normal amounts of rainfall occurred this summer.

The town began to take several steps to mitigate the situation, including hauling effluent to Red Deer’s waste water system to avoid overflow and the possibility of costly Environment Canada fines.

The latest results of a second 96-hour effluent lethality test revealed compliance with new federal regulations. Previous tests showed the effluent could not be released into Cygnet Creek, which flows in Cygnet Lake be-

cause it could kill fish.

While a discharge plan was already underway, a second sample for testing was done to ensure discharge could safely continue before lifting volunteer waste water restrictions.

Town of Sylvan Lake staff are now confident enough to lift the restrictions for residents, visitors, and businesses. The RV sanitary dump station has also been reopened.

However, the public is strongly encouraged to continue to practise water and wastewater conservation, as the town will remain on high alert throughout the effluent discharge process.

The town will continue to seek a Temporary Diversion Licence from Alberta Environment and Parks, which will help increase the flow of Cygnet Creek during the discharge process.

The success of the licence will determine whether the town needs to reinstate voluntary wastewater restrictions.

ConocoPhillips Canada plans to cut 300 staff BLAMES REGULATION AND MARKET ACCESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — ConocoPhillips Canada says it plans to lay off 250 to 300 employees this September, with the vast majority of cuts coming from its Calgary head office.

Company spokesman Rob Evans said Friday the cuts are part of a global staff realignment to match future activity levels, with Canada looking less attractive than some of its other operations.

“Low commodity prices, combined with our inability to get product to new markets, has resulted in lower prices in Canada relative to other parts of the world,” Evans said in an email.

“Coupled with increased local cost pressures such as corporate taxes, regulatory compliance costs and property taxes, staying competitive in a global portfolio is a challenge for some parts of our Canadian business.”

In a statement, Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said the government is working to improve market access for Alberta oil.

“While we have no control over the global price of oil, we are taking the steps necessary to improve Alberta’s environmental reputation, get pipelines approved and diversify our energy economy,” she said.

“There’s no question that the previous federal and provincial governments did our energy industry a great disservice by denying climate change and failing to get pipelines built.”

McCuaig-Boyd added that job losses brought on by the low oil price are placing real hardship on too many families, but that Albertans support the government’s policies.

“Albertans also support our move toward corporate-tax fairness and ensuring regulations are in place that protect our environment and economy,” she said.

Evans said ConocoPhillips staff were told about the coming job cuts Thursday, but that details of how it will affect specific parts of the business are still being worked out.

The cuts at ConocoPhillips’ Canadian operations form part of the roughly 1,000 job cuts the company plans across its North American operations.

On Thursday, AltaGas confirmed it had laid off 70 staff after shelving or selling some natural gas projects.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates at least 44,000 direct jobs have been lost in the oil and gas industry since the downturn started.

At one time caribou had natural refuges where they were safe from most predators. But human activity in Alberta, largely by the oil and gas and forestry industries, has led to those natural refuges disappearing, Boutin said.

The fence, while the design is still being worked on, would be up to three metres high, with wire mesh with three- or four-inch squares. It would have electrification at the bottom to stop digging by other animals and also higher up to stop bears and cougars from climbing over, Boutin said.

Wildlife fencing is widespread elsewhere in the world, having been used to protect bird nests, keep deer out of orchards, and in Africa on game reserves to keep predators in or out, he said.

“It’s definitely new to North America because largely we’ve been able to get away with management in many of these systems without having to go to these greater interventions. But that time is over I’m afraid, and now we have to start looking at these sorts of things.”

“The cost to do this is immense and all the time society’s going to have to

make these decisions as to whether it’s worth it or not. No one can answer that, except basically us as Joe Public etcetera and how much we push, versus not push it.”

Boutin is hoping it’s full speed ahead once the draft plan is finalized.

“We just don’t have a lot of time, and the time is ripe to do something.”

“I haven’t thrown the towel in (on saving the caribou). … At the same sense I am not interested in doing that to the extent in a way that we get rid of industry on the land base. … We need to have a compromise.”

The province is mandated by the federal Species At Risk Act to preserve 65 per cent of critical caribou habitat by October 2017.

More information on the province’s plans to permanently protect the woodland caribou, including setting aside an additonal 4.4 million acres of protected range, is available online at the Alberta Environment and Parks website, aep.alberta.ca.

At the same website, the public can provide input on the Little Smoky and A La Peche draft range plan until Aug. 5. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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The funding will also go to soil bioengineering, implementation of agricultural best management practices, and the increased use of beaver structures.

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says improving natural watersheds is an important part of the province’s plan to help vulnerable communities like Calgary and others across the province adapt to a changing climate.

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There will be no “bloodbath” of other wildlife if a 100-square-kilometre electrified fence is built to protect some of Alberta’s threatened woodland caribou, says the scientist who has played a major role in the fence proposal.

Stan Boutin, an ecologist with the department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, has studied the province’s caribou for over 20 years.

Without aggressive management, the province’s 3,500 caribou, comprised of a number of herds in central and northern parts of the province, could be doomed, he said.

A draft range plan to protect the Little Smoky and A La Peche herds northwest of Hinton is expected to be the template to help other herds in Alberta, and includes a fenced area that would protect mostly female caribou and their calves from predators.

This week an alliance of 12 different Canadian conservation organizations issued a statement urging the Alberta government to drop the fence plan, which they believe will involve the “slaughter” of many other species in the fenced area.

They argue that the main issue that needs to be addressed is habitat conservation and connectivity. “The recovery plan proposes a bloodbath so that industry can continue at all costs,” Liz White, Director Animal Alliance of Canada, said in the group’s statement.

But Boutin said the fenced area within the Little Smoky herd’s range would involve capturing and removing wolves and bears live — if any of them end up in the fenced area when it is built. “There would be no reason to actually kill them.”

As well, other ungulates within the fenced area, such as moose and deer, would be harvested no different than the sort of harvest now done either by First Nations or hunters interested in taking animals out of there, he said.

At the same time, Boutin admits that some wildlife could be harvested within a fenced area.

“This is not a situation where it is a low-key management operation. It’s very aggressive management and one has to deal with these sorts of things in whatever way that makes the most sense to achieve the ultimate objec-

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Premiers strike internal trade deal

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses the media as Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski looks on during a meeting of Premiers in Whitehorse, Y.T., Friday.

“It’s really important that we open up trade across the country,” she said.

“But it’s also important to ensure that where there’s a need for provincial governments to engage intentionally in economic stimulus or regional development that they’re able to do that.”

Alberta is planning to spend billions on infrastructure to energize an economy damaged by low oil prices and the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Clark said she still hopes an internal trade deal can be reached, especially after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement during his speech Thursday night.

“If there was ever a time when Canadians need to come together and have free trade in our own country,

it must be now when Americans are making noises like that,” she said.

The premiers were also debating how many strings they’re willing to accept on new federal money for health care. They have been asking the federal Liberals to increase their share of the funding to 25 per cent from an average of about 20 per cent.

Ottawa has suggested it’s willing to provide more money, but wants much of it spent on federal priorities such as mental health.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he’s willing to listen.

“What the premiers are saying is let’s deal with the funding situation first,” he said. “Then we discuss federal government priorities. If their priorities are long-term care and seniors care, that will be the priority of almost

Husky oilsands project back on track after being shut down during wildfire BUT REPORTS OIL SPILL INTO NORTH SASKATCHEWAN RIVER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Husky Energy says its thermal oilsands project that was shut down while wildfires swept through the Fort McMurray, Alta., region in May is already back to producing bitumen at its previous level.

The Sunrise oilsands project is producing about 30,000 barrels per day of bitumen, the Calgary-based company said Friday. The $3.2-billion project began construction in 2014, produced first oil in March 2015 and was gradually ramping up to full capacity of 60,000 bpd when the wildfire broke out.

“At Sunrise, the reservoir responded very well to the restart of production in June following the Fort McMurray wildfires,” said Rob Peabody, Hus-

ky’s chief operating officer, during a conference call on Friday. He said all 55 well pairs at the project had been restarted.

Financial analysts had feared the project would take longer to recover after being shut down because its ramp up has been staged at a slower-than-typical pace due to the nature of the oil-bearing formation. Sunrise, which is 50 per cent owned by BP PLC, uses steam injected through horizontal wells to melt the heavy, sticky bitumen and allow it to be pumped to surface.

On Thursday, Husky (TSX:HSE) reported a pipeline leak in Saskatchewan had spilled 200,000 litres to 250,000 litres of diluted heavy oil, with some of the mixture winding up in the North Saskatchewan River.

During the call, Peabody said he doesn’t expect any production inter-

ruption from shutting down the leaking pipeline because oil can be routed on alternative paths through its gathering system to its hub at Lloydminster, Alta., on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

Husky reported a second-quarter loss of $196 million or 20 cents per share on Friday, compared with a loss of $458 million or 47 cents per share in the same period last year.

Production fell to 316,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day from 337,000 boe/d in the second quarter of 2015, thanks to the Sunrise outage and lower production from its Liwan gas project in southeast Asia.

Husky says asset sales that are nearing completion will allow it to reduce its debt to $4.5 billion from $7 billion earlier this year and put it in a stronger financial position.

Storms kill Texas boy, woman at Scout camp in Ontario park along border

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ELY, Minn. — A teenage boy and a woman, both from Texas, have been killed while camping in an Ontario provincial park after severe storms swept through a remote area along the U.S.-Canada border.

The boy and the female volunteer were camping with a Boy Scouts adventure program when they died.

Authorities say the group of nine people — three adults and six boys — were in Quetico Provincial Park, west of Thunder Bay, Ont., when strong winds blew through early Thursday.

The Boy Scouts of America says the winds knocked down trees that killed the two campers and injured two.

Ontario Provincial Police identified the two who died as 13-year-old Christian James Sanchez of Lewisville, Tex., and 39-year-old Rorth Lac of Carroll-

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MONTREAL — A Supreme Court of Canada ruling Friday means the defence minister can appeal in the case of a Canadian soldier acquitted of sexually assaulting a female subordinate.

The court ruled unanimously that the country’s National Defence Act, which governs the military justice system, is constitutional.

The decision stems from two sexual assault cases involving soldiers.

In one, warrant officer Andre Gagnon was found not guilty in 2014 of sexually assaulting then-corporal Stephanie Raymond in December 2011 at an armoury near Quebec City.

The Crown argued at Gagnon’s court martial that Raymond was in a position of vulnerability and had been forced to submit to his sexual advances after a party.

Gagnon’s lawyers said the sex was consensual and that she had followed him to the armoury.

Gagnon did acknowledge that Raymond never responded sexually as he touched her, kissed her and undressed her.

Raymond insisted at the proceedings her name not be protected under a publication ban.

The Defence Department appealed the not-guilty verdict and requested a new trial. It stated the military judge committed an error by submitting to the five-men jury the defence that Gagnon had a “sincere but erroneous” belief Raymond had agreed to the sex.

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every province and territory.”

Couillard repeated his opposition to any strings at all.

“We are totally opposed to targeted funding,” he said. “This is a concept we will never let go. We will decide how to use the funds.”

Kathleen Wynne of Ontario acknowledged there is a way to go before the premiers present a united front.

“There’s an acceptance that there needs to be accountability for those dollars and there’s a range of issues that we have to tackle as provinces and territories,” she said.

“But there’s definitely a discussion about how much targeting and how much specific allocation would be acceptable.”

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WHITEHORSE — Canada’s premiers and territorial leaders have agreed in principle on an internal trade deal they say will help create jobs and improve the economy.

Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, speaking at the end of a two-day premiers meeting in Whitehorse, called it a “historic day.”

He said there are still some technical issues to work on before the deal is submitted to the federal government and First Nations.

Pasloski said the deal also establishes a working group to study how to improve trade in beer, wine and spirits across the country.

Earlier in the day, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec agreed to allow online purchases of wine from each other’s provinces.

“We haven’t freed the grapes entirely, but they’re a little bit freer,” said B.C. Premier Christy Clark in making the announcement.

A deal to allow consumers to purchase wine online through each province’s government-controlled liquor monopoly may seem like small beer in the context of the overall agreement on free interprovincial trade the premiers were seeking at their Whitehorse meeting this week.

But Quebec’s Philippe Couillard said it was just the start.

“More will come,” he said. “We didn’t want to tie us down and wait until we work on the whole gamut of issues around our state-sponsored agencies.”

Couillard said that could take another two or three years. He added Nova Scotia, another wine-producing province, is interested in signing on to the deal.

The water-in-their-wine announcement was an indication of just how tough it’s proving to be to achieve a deal to allow Canadians to trade freely with their fellow citizens.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley acknowledged that several provinces, including hers, are seeking exemptions for economic development initiatives.

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Ministers pledge to open markets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A statement from a meeting of Canada’s agriculture ministers pledges to open new markets through trade agreements while protecting the country’s eggs, dairy and poultry from foreign competition.

The ministers concluded two days of meetings in Calgary on Friday with a document outlining goals in developing a new agricultural policy framework, which is set to expire in 2018.

The statement makes a series of wide-reaching commitments that range from a promise to respect the current 60-40 federal-provincial costshare ratio for funding, to examining how government can help reinforce confidence and public trust in the agriculture sector.

It was Lawrence MacAuley’s first meeting as federal agriculture minister with his provincial and territorial counterparts.

MacAuley called the discussions productive and noted they reached common ground on a number of key areas.

He noted the Canadian agriculture sector generates over $108 billion for the national economy and is the single largest employer of all manufacturing sectors, providing jobs to one in eight Canadians.

“We want to make sure farmers and processors can continue to take advantage of new global market opportunities,” MacAuley said in a statement Friday. “By doing so, we’re also supporting Canada’s economy and the middle class, which includes farmers and processors.”

The current supply management system shields Canadian farm products from foreign competition and guarantees certain farmers a price and demand for their products, but critics say it hurts consumers by keeping prices artificially high.

The statement says that while Canada continues to open new prospects through trade agreements, there are still challenges like non-tariff trade barriers and a need to adapt products for international markets.

“Overcoming these obstacles requires an ability to build on domestic strengths, create the conditions to attract investment in the sector, enable internal and foreign trade and pursue domestic and global regulatory co-operation, while continuing to preserve the integrity of the supply management system,” the statement said.

Other priority areas outlined by the ministers included a continued commitment to scientific research for agriculture, and ensuring that farmers have a variety of risk management programs available to offset extreme weather events and pests.

Part of that commitment, the statement says, will come through promoting the development of private-sector risk management tools and that for some sectors.

It also says that, for some sectors, supply management can be considered a business risk management tool.

Departmental officials are now tasked with drafting a multilateral agreement to achieve the objectives set out in the document.

An online poll will also seek public input on the statement until Nov. 30.

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Former CBC radio host and U.S. Army deserter Andy Barrie speaks at a news conference in Toronto on Friday. Barrie urged the Liberal government to let American war resisters stay in Canada. Looking on is another U.S. war dodger, former U.S. Marine Cpl. Dean Walcott.

U.S. war dodgers urge Trudeau to let them stay decry inaction on promises

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — American soldiers who fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq joined activists and a Liberal backbencher on Friday to urge the government of Justin Trudeau to end legal action against them and grant them residency status.

Bolstered by a recent British report that found no justification for the bloody U.S.-led invasion, the war resisters pleaded for the Liberal government to make good on promises to end their state of limbo.

“I’m shocked and dismayed that it’s still going on,” former U.S. Marine Cpl. Dean Walcott, 34, who came to Canada in 2006, told a news conference.

Walcott, who lives with his wife and Canadian-born children in Peterborough, Ont., is one of four American soldiers whose cases are due in Federal Court in September. Activists say the litigation is going forward even though Trudeau expressed support for the war dodgers during last year’s election campaign and told The Canadian Press earlier this year that his government was actively looking into the issue.

Also facing judicial action is Jeremy Brockway, 31, another U.S. Marine who returned from Iraq in 2007 with

OTTAWA — People who backed a plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada in a matter of months largely expected no increased risk of terrorism as a result, newly released federal polling information reveals.

About 44 per cent of those surveyed in November were in support of the plan. And of them, about 60 per cent thought there would be no change to the terrorism threat facing Canada in the next six months.

However, 35 per cent of respondents didn’t support the plan were concerned, and 55 per cent of them told pollsters they thought the threat of terrorism in Canada would increase in the next six months.

Overall, the results suggest that while people around the world may directly link immigration with terrorist threats, that’s generally not what is happening in Canada, said one expert.

The telephone poll of 1,512 Canadians was carried out by Harris/Decima between Nov. 18 and 24, 2015 and had a margin of error of 2.5 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

The poll was carried out just before the Liberals revealed how they were going to meet a campaign promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. The plan they launched kept the target but pushed back the date to February 2016.

The poll also came on the heels of a terrorist attack at a Paris nightclub linked to Islamic militants.

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turn to the U.S. to face a possible court martial.

“We came to Canada to save his life,” she said. “Canada is our home and is the only home our children have known.”

Following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, scores of American soldiers opted to come to Canada rather than fight a war they saw as without

justification. The former Conservative government under Stephen Harper essentially branded them as criminals.

Some were forced to return to the U.S. About two dozen are still in Canada fighting for status.

Former CBC radio host Andy Barrie, an American military deserter, lent his voice to the cause, describing how he came to Canada in 1969 and was granted permanent residence status immediately.

“When I crossed the border, I got out of my car and I kissed the ground,” Barrie said. “I knew I was going to be OK.” Barrie noted that Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, welcomed American deserters and draft dodgers into Canada and about 100,000 of them were given sanctuary here.

Liberal backbencher Nathaniel Erskine-Smith said he’s been raising the issue with the government and is “hopeful that action is going to be taken.” He could offer no details.

Immigration Minister John McCallum referred a request for comment Friday to the Immigration Ministry, which said it would “not be appropriate to speculate on future actions the government may take.”

Shark ventures into Nova Scotia harbour

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LIVERPOOL, N.S. — A peckish shark has been spotted snatching mackerel off people’s hooks on the Liverpool, N.S., waterfront.

Witnesses say the roughly 1.5-metre shark swam under a popular harbour bridge and into the estuary, grabbing mackerel right off their lines, along with their bait.

Lyndon Mooers was fishing Tuesday

Canadians didn’t link Syrian refugees with increased terror risk: poll

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

severe post-traumatic stress syndrome that keeps him largely housebound.

He came to Canada in 2008 after being ordered to deploy to Iraq for a third time.

His wife, Ashlea, choked back tears as she described the stress of not knowing whether they and their three Canadian-born children — aged 8, 6, and 3 — will be forced to leave their home in Port Colborne, Ont., and re-

It is unusual for the Immigration Department to ask explicit questions on terrorism in a poll about attitudes towards immigration, said Jack Jedwab, the director of the Canadian Institute of Identities and Migration.

Terrorism is usually a matter for public safety, he said.

“When the immigration authorities use it, the pollster is suggesting a potential link there, even though it’s being refuted by a lot of people — which is nice to see,” he said.

The $83,486 contract for the poll had actually been signed by the previous Conservative government for the annual tracking of attitudes towards immigration.

But a spokeswoman for the department said after the election, the questions were repurposed.

“It was important to assess Canadian attitudes towards security and terrorism in light of the existing global environment and the commitment to resettle of a large number of refugees,” Nancy Caron said in an email.

“There were numerous media articles citing security concerns related to the processing of Syrian refugees which illustrated the need to get a better sense of Canadian attitudes and concerns,” she added.

The questions weren’t asked again in a second wave of polling on attitudes towards Syrians done the following January.

Those results suggest Canadians’ embrace of Syrian refugees actually climbed over time.

night when he says he watched the shark grab the mackerel off three or four people’s line.

“Sometimes, he’d take their line and go with your mackerel jig, and take the line and go right off,” Mooers told New Glasgow News.

The shark sighting caused a stir in Liverpool, with local officials putting up warnings on the dock where people fish and swim, which some mistook for a Department of Fisheries and Oceans advisory.

“The DFO has had reports of people seeing sharks in Liverpool Harbour,” said David Jennings, communications manager for the department. “The DFO has not done any posting of signs … that was an independent action taken by an individual, as DFO does not have a role in this particular case.”

A local official confirmed the Region of Queens posted the signs, but has since taken them down because there have been no further sightings.

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Kurdish flag to stay on uniforms

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s top soldier has decided special forces troops in Iraq will continue to wear the Kurdish flag on their uniforms in addition to the Maple Leaf, despite questions about the practice.

National Defence says Gen. Jonathan Vance recently approved the flag patches in part to show solidarity with “a region facing existential threats,” but that they should not be construed as support for an independent Iraqi Kurdistan.

That may be wishful thinking, say experts, one of whom compared it to a foreign military force wearing the Quebec flag in Canada.

The Kurds’ distinctive red, white and green flag with a sun emblem has

been on the Canadian soldiers’ uniforms since they arrived in northern Iraq to help the Kurdish peshmerga fight ISIL in 2014.

The practice wasn’t publicly known until Vance led a group of Canadian journalists on a tour of the mission in April. At the time, Canada had several dozen special forces operatives in the region, though the Trudeau government is expanding the contingent to 200.

The military initially defended the flag patches, which are on one shoulder with the Canadian flag on the other. Officials said they were used for cohesion with Kurdish and allied forces, and to ensure Canadian forces could be easily identified by friends on the battlefield.

Nonetheless, a review was ordered after experts warned that sporting the

Kurdish flag, rather than the Iraqi flag, could be interpreted by both Iraqis and Kurds as support for an independent Kurdistan.

National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier said Friday the review was recently completed and Vance had decided to keep the Kurdish flag patches.

The flag “acts as an identification patch with our partner force, demonstrates solidarity with a region facing existential threats for which we are there to help, and is in keeping with previous methods used by Canada and allies when working with partner forces,” Le Bouthillier said in an email.

“The flag is in no way a symbol of Canadian support for political disunity in Iraq,” he added.

But two experts say whether the military likes it or not, wearing the

Kurdish flag is highly symbolic inside Iraq, with its ethnic and religious divides.

“It’s the optics of it on the larger political dimensions,” said Denise Natali, an expert on Kurdish politics at the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington. “Every time these types of things are done that support substate groups, it is actually undermining the idea that they need cohesion and unity.”

Bessma Momani, a Middle East expert at the University of Waterloo, put it another way. “Would we be comfortable with other forces putting on a Quebec flag?” she asked. “This sends mixed signals to our political partners.”

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Patrick Denine walks up from the surf with his net full of capelin at Middle Cove Beach on Friday. Each summer when the small fish come in and spawn on the beaches of Newfoundland, crowds flock to the Cove to watch or scoop up the fish. This year the mayor had to enlist the aid of the police to minimize traffic to the Cove. There is limited parking in the area and visitors were parking along both sides of the narrow cliftside roads.

Crown begins cross-examination of accused

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PQ SHOOTING

MONTREAL — The Crown began its cross-examination of accused murderer Richard Henry Bain on Friday by referring to psychiatric reports in which he reportedly said he wanted to kill as many Quebec separatists as possible.

Prosecutor Dennis Galiatsatos cited reports from meetings Bain had with a psychiatrist on Sept. 18 and Nov. 9, 2012.

Bain, 65, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of lighting technician Denis Blanchette outside the Metropolis nightclub as premier-designate Pauline Marois was inside celebrating her party’s 2012 election victory on Sept. 4.

He also faces three charges of attempted murder and two arson-related counts. He has pleaded not guilty to all six.

Galiatsatos said Bain told psychia-

trist Marie-Frederique Allard his plan on the night of Sept. 4 was to kill as many Quebec separatists as possible, including then-PQ leader Marois.

The accused replied he had no recollection of saying or writing such things or stating he wanted to set fire to the Metropolis to emulate a 1972 blaze at a Montreal club that killed 37 people.

Bain has previously said he still can’t recall events of that night, telling jurors he only remembers a second round of questioning by investigators two days later.

He testified earlier this week his last memories are of circling the Metropolis on the evening of Sept. 4 and of having taken several pills he said might have been anti-depressants.

Defence lawyer Alan Guttman has said he will try to show Bain should be

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DIGBY, N.S. — A Digby, N.S., man who helped free a whale from a fishing net said he’s convinced it came to the downtown waterfront looking for help.

Barry O’Neil was doing fibreglass work on a boat around noon Wednesday when Dallas Kenley, one of two men working with him, called out.

“He was under the boat, and he kept yelling, ‘Come look at this, you won’t believe it.”’

O’Neil and Nathaniel Denton rushed over to see a six-metre minke whale, burdened by about nine kilograms of net tangled in its nose and mouth.

“He was laying sideways, not moving much at all,” said O’Neil.

Without a pause, the trio went to work freeing the whale. O’Neil jumped into the waist-deep water it started to swim away, but he gently grabbed the net and pulled it in, he said.

He pulled its nose out of the water

and saw that the rope had really dug in. It had clearly been there for some time, and kelp had been growing on it.

“He … was as gentle as a kitten. It was just like it came there for help,” said O’Neil.

“It calmed right down. We just kept petting it. It seemed to know what we were doing, it was looking for help.”

He took out a jackknife to cut it free.

It took a bit of work, but the whale waited patiently for about five minutes. O’Neil said he figures the whale hadn’t been able to eat very much.

“He seemed to be pretty relieved.

We put his nose back in the water and he was in no hurry to get away. He took his time. We watched him swim away, nice and calm.”

Cutting the rope had turned the water red with blood, but the bleeding had stopped by the time the whale headed to sea, said O’Neil.

The trio returned to work, but posted photos of the rescue on Facebook lest family members were skeptical about their whale story.

found not criminally responsible by way of mental disorder — an argument based largely on Bain’s consumption of antidepressants, which apparently caused him to lose contact with reality.

Galiatsatos said Bain told Allard he had taken six pills to give him the courage to do “what was in his head.”

But the Crown prosecutor added that a toxicology report showed no signs of the drug in question in his blood in the hours following the attack.

On Wednesday, jurors were shown footage of the accused refusing to answer questions and eventually collapsing to the floor while being interviewed by police investigators on Sept.

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The Crown alleges Bain approached the back of the club with a tactical assault rifle and fired a bullet that killed Blanchette and wounded another stagehand, David Courage.

Galiatsatos has also argued the attacks were politically motivated.

The trial continues Monday.

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Texting questions to Canadians is one of several options the agency is considering to confront an alarming drop in response rates to surveys — declines that are “threatening the quality of official statistics” and could “soon lead some to question the usability of the data itself.”

The deteriorating quality of data was a key theme for chief statistician Wayne Smith when he delivered an address to staff in February, according to a copy of his speaking notes and presentation obtained by The Canadian Press.

The agency has already started using online questionnaires like the 2016 census to collect the information researchers and policy makers use to identify social, financial and economic trends.

Geoff Bowlby, the director general who oversees data collection work at the agency, said Statistics Canada has also tested using text messages to connect with Canadians who more and more are eschewing land lines but are less likely to want to spend time on their cell phones verbally responding to survey questions.

“If we did, what is the best way to text message, what kind of information would be in a text message. These are some of the things we’re studying with cell phones,” Bowlby said.

It’s one way the agency is looking to raise response rates, which are crucial for Statistics Canada. When the response rates are too low, the data becomes unreliable and unusable, which is why the agency withheld data on thousands of small communities from the voluntary long-form census in 2011.

This census cycle appears to be different. Statistics Canada spokesman Peter Frayne said early indications show the response rate for the shortform census is around 98 per cent and 96 per cent for the long-form survey, although those figures could change once forms come back from northern and First Nations communities where response rates tend to be lower.

There is no consensus on how low response rates can drop before results become unusable. Some voluntary social surveys Statistics Canada uses have response rates of less than 50 per cent, while the community health survey has a response rate of close to 80 per cent and all are considered usable, said Doug Norris, who spent nearly 30 years at Statistics Canada.

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Police give all-clear in Munich SUSPECT DEAD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MUNICH — A gunman opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s Friday night, killing nine people and wounding at least 10 others before killing himself, said authorities who called the rampage an act of terrorism.

Police gave a “cautious all clear” early Saturday morning, more than seven hours after the attack began.

They said a body found near the scene was that of the shooter and he appeared to have acted alone.

Witnesses had reported seeing three men with firearms near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall, but police said on Twitter that “as part of our manhunt we found a person who had killed himself — the person is likely to have been the attacker who, according to the current state of the investigation, acted alone.”

They lifted a shutdown of all public transport in the Bavarian capital, and said more details would be disclosed at a press conference later in the morning.

After gunfire broke out at the mall, one of Munich’s largest, the city sent a smartphone alert declaring an “emergency situation” and telling people to stay indoors, while all rail, subway and trolley service was halted in the city.

It was the third major act of violence against civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The previous attacks, in the French resort city of Nice and on a train in Bavaria, were claimed by the Islamic State group.

While police called the mall shooting an act of terrorism, they said they had “no indication” it involved Islamic extremism and at least one witness said he heard a shooter shout an anti-foreigner slur.

The attack started shortly before 6 p.m. at a McDonald’s across the street from the mall, which was filled with people doing their weekend shopping.

As dozens of shots rang out, terrified shoppers ran from the scene, some carrying babies and pushing strollers.

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People leave the Olympia mall in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, after several people have been killed in a shooting. ed Press from German news agency NonstopNews showed two bodies with sheets draped over them not far from the fastfood restaurant. Another video posted online showed a gunman emerging from the door of the McDonald’s, raising what appeared to be a pistol with both hands and aiming at people on the sidewalk, firing as they fled in terror.

Witness Luan Zequiri said he was in the mall when the shooting began.

He told German broadcaster n-tv that he heard the attacker yell an anti-foreigner insult and “there was a really loud scream.”

He said he saw only one attacker, who was wearing jack boots and a backpack.

“I looked in his direction and he shot two people on the stairs,” Zequiri said. He said he hid in a shop, then ran outside when the coast was clear and saw bodies of the dead and wounded on the ground.

Germany’s Interior Ministry said Munich police had set up a hotline for concerned citizens. Residents of Munich opened their doors to people seeking shelter using the Twitter hashtag .opendoor.

Also on Twitter, police asked peo-

ple to refrain from speculating about the attack. Germany’s interior minister cut short his holiday in the United States to go back to Berlin late Friday to meet with security officials.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was being regularly briefed on the attack, said her chief of staff, Peter Altmaier.

“All that we know and can say right now is that it was a cruel and inhumane attack,” he said on German public channel ARD. “We can’t rule out that there are terrorist links. We can’t confirm them, but we are investigating along those lines too.”

Clinton picks Kaine as running mate

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In a text message to supporters, the presumptive Democratic nominee said, “I’m thrilled to tell you this first: I’ve chosen Sen. Tim Kaine as my running mate.”

On Twitter a few seconds later, Clinton described Kaine as “a man who’s devoted his life to fighting for others.”

She called him “a relentless optimist who believes no problem is unsolvable if you put in the work to solve it.”

With the pick, Clinton moved into the political spotlight a day after newly crowned Republican nominee Donald Trump closed out his convention with a fiery address accusing his general election opponent of “terrible, terrible crimes.”

Kaine, 58, had long been a favourite for Clinton’s ticket. Fluent in Spanish and active in the Senate on foreign relations and military affairs, he built a reputation for working across the aisle as Virginia’s governor and as mayor of Richmond.

In a recent interview with CBS News, Clinton noted that Kaine has never lost an election during his lengthy political career and praised him as a “world-class mayor, governor and senator.” A favourite of Barack Obama since his early 2008 endorsement, the president told Clinton’s campaign he believed Kaine would be a strong choice during the selection process, according to a Democratic familiar with the search who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Those views are not shared by some liberals in the Democratic Party, who dislike his support of free trade and Wall Street. They pushed Clinton to pick Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, intensifying their criticism of Kaine late this week as his selection appeared imminent.

Clinton’s campaign largely declined

to comment on the search process, trying to keep the details — even the names of the finalists — under wraps to try to maximize the impact of their announcement. She made no mention of her impending pick during a sombre meeting Friday with community leaders and family members affected by the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and a later campaign rally in Tampa.

She is expected to campaign with Kaine on Saturday morning at an event in Miami.

As Clinton prepared to make her VP pick Friday, Trump met with supporters at his convention hotel in Cleveland to run through a long list of thank-yous after the end of his fourday coronation as head of the Republican Party.

But rather than stay focused on Clinton or reach out to the general election voters he now must court, the newly minted Republican nominee spent considerable time stoking the fire of his bitter quarrel with Republican former rival Ted Cruz. “Ted, stay home,” Trump said, dismissing any interest in an endorsement the Texas senator refuses to provide. “Relax. Enjoy yourself.”

Trump boasted of his TV ratings, his primary victories and other achievements, including winning over his wife, Melania, in a stream-of-consciousness delivery with his vice-presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, standing quietly nearby.

“I don’t do anything unless I win,” Trump insisted. He promised to work “so hard” as the nominee and vowed his campaign was “not going to disappear,” even though he has no plans to campaign this weekend and no events on his schedule for next week.

No matter, perhaps, as that time will belong to Clinton and the Democrats, whose own convention begins Monday in Philadelphia. Kaine, who won election to the Senate in 2012 after serving as Obama’s first chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will likely speak in the slot reserved for the vice-presidential pick on Wednesday night.

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World BRIEFS Ex-KKK leader David Duke runs for Senate

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands during an goodbye reception with friends and family following the Republican National Convention, Friday, in Cleveland.

Safe GOP convention boosts Cleveland’s image to the world

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cleveland’s safe and successful turn as host of the Republican National Convention has helped establish it as an ideal location for large events but also a city that people will consider when deciding where to live and do business, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said Friday.

“It really puts us in a different light with a different image,” the mayor said at a news briefing.

Police reported a total of 24 arrests during the four-day convention that ended Thursday night, a surprisingly low number that can be attributed to a massive police presence and to safety concerns that discouraged protesters and visitors from coming to Cleveland.

About 2,800 law enforcement officers from around the country joined 500 Cleveland officers for a security force that responded quickly to hints of trouble. Three hundred police officers patrolled downtown on bicycles, with Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams spending parts of two days riding along on patrols.

The demonstrations that many feared would end in pitched battles between police and protesters turned at times into carnival-like scenes on Public Square, the city’s commons, with bongo players, protesters dressed as nuns on stilts and children and adults alike splashing in the square’s water feature.

There were tense moments and some angry words over the four days as anarchists, anti-Muslim protesters and pro-capitalist groups congregated on the square. Yet most people seemed to get along as even those with divergent views on politics and other matters engaged in respectful discussions. By Thursday evening, law enforcement officers appeared to relax. Some played ping pong with visitors to the square while others kicked a soccer ball around with children.

At one point, Chief Williams joined a prayer circle.

“You don’t pull something like this off without a little luck and a lot of prayers,” Williams said Friday.

Early Friday afternoon, Cleveland had mostly pulled itself back together.

Security fencing and barriers that had blocked some downtown streets had been removed while hotels emptied.

Just a few people lingered on Public Square on an oppressively warm day. A street vendor pushed a car with drastically reduced convention-related items, including red baseball caps emblazoned with “Make America Great” at half price. Seven Cleveland police bicycle officers circled the empty square before riding off.

Without question, there was an “extremely heavy police presence” in Cleveland, with officers for the most part protecting people’s right to peacefully protest, said Eric Ferrero, an Amnesty International deputy executive director who helped oversee teams of

MH370 mystery spurred efforts to improve aircraft tracking

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG — As investigators prepare to wind down the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search after more than two fruitless years, the airline industry is still working to raise safety standards to prevent another plane from going missing.

The disappearance of the Boeing 777-200, which went missing March 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard, left families of the crew and passengers in limbo. The unsolved mystery also spurred airlines and aircraft makers to devise better ways to track flights, locate wreckage and retrieve data from flight data recorders, or “black boxes.”

Authorities said Friday that they’ll suspend the hunt after they finish scouring more than 100,000 square kilometres (38,610 square miles) of seabed in the Indian Ocean later this year.

Earlier this year, the International Civil Aviation Organization, spurred

by MH370, moved to tighten up safety standards.

ICAO, a United Nations agency that sets global aviation standards, approved a requirement for all airlines flying over open ocean to report their position every 15 minutes, which will take effect November 2018. Until now, pilots have typically done this every half hour.

In another move that could help searchers locate crashes, planes in “distress” will have to automatically report their position and other critical information at least every minute.

However, only planes built on or after Jan. 1, 2021 will be required to have this capability.

Minute-by-minute reports would help searchers zero in on a search area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometres).

observers in Cleveland.

“Our observers have been at some protests where there’s been more police than protesters,” Ferrero said.

Protesters and demonstrators themselves numbered in the hundreds, not the thousands as had been hoped.

“We had big groups that said they were coming in that got dwindled down to nothing,” said Larry Bresler, lead organizer of a Stop Poverty Now rally. “They weren’t coming to Cleveland because the fear of violence.”

Fears of violence were stoked by the ambush killings of eight police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this month and by Ohio’s open-carry law, which allows gun owners to carry their weapons in plain sight.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump also caused concerns earlier this year when he claimed there would be riots in the streets of Cleveland if he collected the required number of delegates and the GOP were to deny him the nomination.

A small number of people openly carried guns during some of the protests but caused no reported problems.

By the end of the convention, those who entered the Public Square with weapons were mostly ignored.

Cleveland police were “outstanding” in protecting the America First Unity Rally on Monday and preventing anti-Trump protesters from crashing the event, said organizer Tim Selaty Sr.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Declaring “the climate of this country has moved in my direction,” white supremacist David Duke registered Friday for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, saying he was partially spurred by the recent shooting deaths of three law enforcement officers by a black man.

“I believe my time has come,” the former Ku Klux Klan leader said after submitting his paperwork for the ballot. He added: “The people of this country, the patriotic, decent, Godfearing people of this country are now right with me.”

Duke’s candidacy comes one day after Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for president, and Duke said he’s espoused principles for years that are similar to the themes Republicans are now supporting in Trump’s campaign, on issues such as immigration and trade.

He said Americans are “embracing the core issues I have fought for my entire life.”

Duke, 66, is registered with the GOP, but Republicans at the state and federal level quickly denounced his Senate bid.

Bangladesh opposition leader’s son sentenced for laundering NEW DELHI — Bangladesh’s High Court on Thursday sentenced a son of the country’s top opposition leader to seven years in jail in a money laundering case, overturning an acquittal by a lower court.

Tarique Rahman lives in exile but remains an opposition figure and heir apparent to his mother, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose rivalry with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina runs deeps and strong in Bangladesh.

Defence lawyer Zainul Abedin said the court also fined him 200 million takas ($2.54 million). Abedin said they have not decided if they will appeal to the Supreme Court.

A Dhaka trial court in 2013 acquitted Rahman of charges that he and a businessman friend siphoned off 204.1 million takas to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.

Rahman, the senior vice chairman of Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was arrested on various corruption charges in 2007 during a state of emergency under a military-backed caretaker government after his mother dithered on handing over power peacefully at the end of her five-year rule. He has lived in London since 2008 after securing bail on medical grounds.

The court ordered authorities to take steps to bring him back, but Bangladesh does not have an extradition treaty with Britain.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday denied prior knowledge or involvement by the U.S. in last week’s failed coup attempt in Turkey, saying reports to the contrary are “unequivocally false.”

Obama said he had made that clear to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when they spoke by telephone earlier this week. Obama said he also stressed to Erdogan that he ensure everyone in the Turkish government understands that any reports to the contrary are untrue. Diplomatic relations and the safety of Americans on the ground in Turkey could be at risk otherwise, the president said.

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vious knowledge of a coup attempt, that there was any U.S. involvement in it, that we were anything other than entirely supportive of Turkish democracy are completely false, unequivocally false,” Obama said during a joint appearance at the White House with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, July 23, 2016

Riggers open tourney with win

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 10 Cardinals 0 (six innings) From start to finish, Red Deer Riggers starting pitcher Tyler Vavra got it done on the mound.

The six-foot-one right hander pitched six innings of shutout ball, leading the Riggers to a tournament opening night win 10-0 over the Calgary Cardinals.

The Friday night game came to a sudden conclusion after six innings due to the mercy rule. The Riggers are hosting five teams from across the province in their 36th annual tournament this weekend at Great Chief Park.

Vavra struck out five to pick up the win and retired eight batters in a row from the first to the third inning. He allowed only one hit and walked four.

“It was a fun day to throw against those guys,” said Vavra. “Guys played good defence behind even though there were some tough hops in the field.”

The teams combined for six errors in the game, three each.

There were a few times the Riggers defence and Vavra got out of tough jams, as the Cardinals left seven runners on base.

“Getting ground balls was the name of the game,” said Vavra. “When you get ground balls in situations like that, it helps. That’s what you want to do.

Get ground balls and have the defence make plays.”

Offensively, the Riggers had to look no further than their leadoff batter Kevin Curran. The third baseman went four-for-four at the plate with three doubles and a single. He was driven in three times.

J.P. Wilner also added some offensive power as he went two-for-three with a double, single and he was hit by a pitch.

Wilner drove in Curran in the first inning as the two batters clubbed doubles. The run became the game winner.

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate staff

Red Deer Riggers third baseman Kevin Curran slides into second base, the second of his three doubles, Friday night against the Calgary Cardinals.

The Riggers roughed up Cardinals starting pitcher Tommy Sidorkewicz early with a four-run first inning.

“It was a good team effort to get the lead right away and then it was easy to pitch once we got the lead,” said Vavra. “I just attacked them with fastballs. Then we turned it on the sixth to close it out and let everybody get home quick.

“We know we’re going to play some tough teams here and we have to gear up for that.”

Next up for the Riggers is a game against the Confederation Park Cubs at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

But the Riggers aren’t the only ball clubs playing today at Great Chief Park. The St. Albert Tigers and Sherwood Park Athletics start at 9:30 a.m.;

the Cubs and Cardinals square off at 12 p.m.; the Athletics and Calgary Wolfpack play at 2:30 p.m. and the Wolfpack and Tigers play at 5 p.m.

Sunday is the playoff round. It starts at 9:30 a.m. with the bottom two teams, then the semifinals go at 12 and 2:30 p.m. The championship game is scheduled for 5 p.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Holmes claims amateur title by three strokes

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate staff

Jim Boomer (left) and Darren Brown (right) present Evan Holmes with the Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship on Friday at the Innisfail Golf Club. Boomer and Brown work at the golf club. Holmes shot a 15-under par over the four-day tournament to win.

INNISFAIL — Evan Holmes got quite a scare in the final round of the Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship.

The Earl Grey Golf Club member was down two strokes to Matt Williams on the back nine in the final round at the Innisfail Golf Club on Friday.

But Holmes persevered. He shot four birdies in the final six holes and got some help, as Williams bogied on 14 and 17. In the end, Holmes won by three strokes, shooting a 15-under, 273 for the weekend to Williams’ 12-under, 276.

“It was a great day again. (Matt) gave me a scare there,” said Holmes.

“This course will test your patience for sure. It’s so much about position off the tee and if you hit one bad shot, it really caught you. I’m glad I was able to keep my ball in play and not make too many mistakes.”

Williams was the early leader in the four-day event as he shot a seven-under, 65 in the opening round. He followed it up with a 71-72-68. Holmes was under par every day throughout the tournament, shooting a 69-69-67-68.

“It was really neck-and-neck,” said Holmes. “He made a lot of birdies and

I made a bad double (bogey) on 10. But I knew I was playing well and I knew I would have a chance on the back of the course.

“It was really a battle until 18.”

Coming in third was Scott Secord who shot a seven-under, 67-70-7373=281. Secord, of the Country Hills Golf Club, tied with Geoff Fry, of the Glencoe Golf Club, and Andrew Harrison, of the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club.

The three went into a playoff for the third-place prize, a spot on Team Alberta heading to the Canadian Amateur Championship in Ottawa. On Secord’s second shot on the par 5 18th hole, he quite nearly ended it with a shot that was inches from going into the hole. He sat and watched as his opponents tried to chip in for eagle, and when they didn’t he tapped in the winning putt.

Leading the Central Alberta contingent was Chandler McDowell. The 16-year-old from the Red Deer Golf and Country Club came into the tournament with a top 10 finish in mind.

He met that goal as he shot a two-under, 76-69-71-70=286, and finished in eighth place.

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Gulbransen’s arm still strong after 21 years of senior baseball DANNY RODE LOCAL SPORT Little did Davin Gulbransen know that when he put his hand up to volunteer to pitch when he was 17, and playing midget AA baseball in Red Deer, that it would change his outlook on the game.

“I really didn’t start playing base-

ball until I was 13 and didn’t pitch until I was 17,” explained the Red Deer Riggers veteran right-hander.

“I was always the worst player on the team. If they used me in the outfield I would play left field to hide me.

I couldn’t hit,” he said with a laugh.

“I played midget AA on Al Johnson’s team and out of the blue we ran out of pitchers and he asked if anyone would try to pitch. I put up my hand and all of a sudden I had some success and found my place on the baseball field.”

He was a natural. He not only loved the game but worked hard to under-

stand how to pitch. Plus he had the type of arm that allowed him to remain healthy.

“I’ve been blessed in that I’ve never had a major injury,” said the 43-yearold. “My first year of college baseball (at Huntington University in Indiana) I was six-foot-two and a 150-pounds and I had tendinitis as I wasn’t used to throwing that much. But other than that I’ve been fortunate.”

Davin credited his father Vern for much of his success.

“He didn’t play competitive ball but he worked with me all the time. I also

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watched a lot of games on TV and attended camps in B.C. That’s the thing with a lot of kids today they attend practice and that’s it. They should go home and get out their gloves and play catch with their parents and friends.

The more the better.”

Despite pitching briefly in midget AA and a year with the midget AAA program Gulbransen was recruited

by Huntington University and given a four-year scholarship.

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Du Toit, Rahm tied for third

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OAKVILLE, Ont. — Jared du Toit still can’t beat his friend and university teammate Jon Rahm.

The 21-year-old Canadian closed out the second round of the RBC Canadian Open on Friday with three consecutive birdies to tie for third with Rahm and American Kelly Kraft at 6-under par.

Rahm and du Toit were teammates at Arizona State University last season and were roommates when the team was on the road.

“I’m playing out of my mind and I still can’t beat him,” said du Toit, with a laugh. “That was school, that was last semester, just in a nutshell right there.”

Du Toit, from Kimberley, B.C., is the low Canadian and low amateur at the PGA Tour event, hanging with seasoned professionals. For three holes he was tied for first with superstar Dustin Johnson and co-leader Luke List at 7-under par. A triple bogey on the par-5 No. 2 hole at Glen Abbey Golf Club knocked du Toit down the leaderboard, but he climbed back up thanks to the steady hand of Sean Burke, his caddy for the week.

“He kind of, you know, theoretically cracked me in the head and said ‘hey, get your head back in the game and stick to the game plan and keep doing what you’re doing,”’ said du Toit of his caddy’s advice.

Rahm and du Toit shared a brief moment together outside the official scorer’s tent on Friday as they crossed paths. Rahm, who was finishing with the morning group as du Toit was heading out to the course, gave the younger player some advice.

“It’s so cool, it’s a great feeling,” said Rahm of being on the leaderboard with his college friend. “Last time we played together and last time we were both on the leaderboard, it was still a college event. (…) To see him like that, it’s a great feeling.”

Only three other Canadians out of a field of 14 home-grown players made the cut on Friday.

Sports BRIEFS Adamson extends lead at pony chuckwagon championship Lee Adamson’s lead at the Red Deer Motors North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship is getting larger.

He increased it by more than a second with a speedy third day result, coming in at 1:15.22, the second time this week he’s had the fastest time of the day.

Friday was the third of five days of chuckwagon racing, part of Westerner Days at the Westerner.

The Championship now moves into the home stretch with two days left of racing.

He now has a three day total of 3:51.09 and leads second place Dale Young by more than a second. Young’s

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Jared du Toit of Canada hits out of the bunker on the second hole at the 2016 Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., on Friday.

CANADIAN OPEN Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., was much sharper, improving on his first-round par performance with a 2-under 70 to tie for 21st. Amateur Garrett Rank (75) of Elmira, Ont., was tied for 36th at par, while Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., just made the cut at 2 over.

Conners shot a 3-over 75 on Thursday and thought he’d played his way out of the event Friday after he double bogeyed on No. 9, his final hole of the second round. He finished with a 1-unthree day total is 3:52.65. The two race int eh same heat and Young finished the third heat with a time of 1:16.45.

Kevin Desjarlais remains in the mix with a three day total of 3:53.03. His time on Friday was 1:16.84.

Keith Wood, at 3:53.25, sits in fourth place while Reed Rosencrans rounds out the top five with a three day time of 3:52.39.

Two more races are scheduled before the conclusion of Westerner Days in Red Deer. They will race again on Saturday evening starting at 6 p.m. and the final is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Crapigna boots winning field goal, Saskatchewan picks up first win of 2016 REGINA — Tyler Crapigna’s 53-yard field goal with 1:09 remaining in the game rallied the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 30-29 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks Friday night at Mosaic Stadium.

Crapigna was 5 for 5 on his fieldgoal attempts in the game and it helped the Riders (1-3) secure their first win of the season. Ottawa dropped to 3-1-1.

der 71 on Friday, putting him at 2-over par on the tournament, which, at the time, was a shot over the cutline.

“It’s over with now, but yeah, a little sour taste I guess on the final hole,” said Conners, who left the course before the projected cutline was moved, extending his weekend.

Adam Cornelson (73) of Langley, B.C., was at 4-over par. Nick Taylor (74) of Abbotsford, B.C., Graham De Laet (72) of Weyburn, Sask., and David Hearn (75) of Brantford, Ont., all tied at 5 over.

“It’s obviously disappointing but it’s another golf tournament, and I’m able

to kind of get over it a little bit easier now than I used to be probably,” said DeLaet, who will represent Canada in men’s golf at the Rio Olympics along with Hearn. “Obviously I wanted to play well here this week, but there’s more tournaments to play.”

Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch (74) was 7 over, Branson Ferrier (74) of Barrie, Ont., wrapped up at 8 over, Mike Weir (75) of Brights Grove, Ont., was 9 over, amateur Blair Hamilton (79) of Burlington, Ont., was 12 over, amateur Hugo Bernard (76) of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Que., was 13 over and Montreal’s Dave Levesque (75) finished at 16 over.

Rookie quarterback Brock Jensen marched the Redblacks into the red zone to set up kicker Chris Milo’s 11-yard field goal with 1:49 remaining in the game to put Ottawa ahead 29-27.

But Jensen couldn’t muster anything in the dying seconds against a rejuvenated Roughriders defence.

Crapigna’s fourth field goal of the game gave Saskatchewan a brief 2726 lead midway through the fourth quarter.

The Riders forced Ottawa to punt on its ensuing possession, but promptly gave the ball back when quarterback Mitchell Gale fumbled the snap on his 50-yard line.

Ottawa lost starting quarterback Trevor Harris on the team’s first possession of the game. Harris was injured when he was sacked by Roughriders defensive lineman Corvey Irvin. Harris’s right leg was bent awkwardly underneath him on the play. He was able to walk off under his own power.

Jensen’s second completion of his CFL career was a 65-yard touchdown strike to Brad Sinopoli. The score put Ottawa ahead 7-6.

The Riders regained the lead, 10-7, early in the second quarter on Crapigna’s third field goal of the first half.

Saskatchewan added to its lead the

next time its defence was on the field.

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Top-seeded Venus Williams reached the Bank of the West Classic semifinals, beating 17-year-old wild-card entry CiCi Bellis 6-4, 6-1 in an all-American match Friday night.

The 36-year-old Williams won the last of her 49 singles titles in Taiwan in February.

Williams will face Alison Riske on Saturday at The Taube Family Tennis Center. Riske led fourth-seeded CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 1-0 in another all-American match when Vandeweghe retired because of an ankle injury.

Vandeweghe was taken off the court in a wheelchair.

Second-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia and third-seeded Johanna Konta of Britain also advanced.

Cibulkova beat fifth-seeded Misaki Doi of Japan 7-5, 6-0. The 2013 champion won the final 11 games after falling behind 2-5 in the first set.

Konta beat China’s Zheng Saisai 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. the game exciting for the players.

“You don’t get burned out so that even when you are older you’re still competitive.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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GULBRANSEN: Willing to adapt “I threw 29 innings before heading to Indiana, so the learning curve was pretty steep,” he said. “But it was a great experience. I learned a lot and I was playing junior and senior baseball (with the Riggers) as well and that helped me at the college level.”

Gulbransen admitted he was homesick at times.

“I was from a small country school (River Glen) and moving 30 hours away forced me to grow up quickly,” he said.

“There were times when I was homesick but I got over it once I realized how lucky I was to play this game.”

Gulbransen played with the Junior Riggers after midget and in 1994 was picked up by the senior team when they hosted the Canadian championships.

“The junior league at that time was a great league. There wasn’t a Western Major Baseball League and all the college players would come back and play junior. It was a great buffer between midget and senior and something they could still use. It helped me grow from a boy to a man and be able to step into senior ball.”

He played four years with the Riggers before joining Dan Zinger in starting the Red Deer Stags.

“At the time there were so many local players we needed two teams,” he said. “It was good for a while but we still only had a player or two over and eventually with guys moving away we didn’t have the players.”

There was always a rivalry between the Stags and Riggers.

“At times it wasn’t the best rivalry but toward the end it was a brotherly rivalry were everyone knew each other and got along,” explained Gulbransen.

Four years ago Davin along with Kevin Curran and Josh Edwards

Venus Williams reaches Bank of the West semifinals

GOLF: ‘Can’t get frustrated’

File photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer Rigger Davin Gulbransen pitches during first-inning action against the St. Albert Tigers during the first of a three-game playoff series at Great Chief Park. moved to the Riggers.

“It was a seamless transition and I’d say the last three years or so have been the most fun I’ve had playing the game.”

Gulbransen has played senior baseball for 21 years the majority with the Riggers and Stags, although he played for two seasons in Sweden with Todd Turner and Zinger. And he still loves the game.

His arm is still as good as it has been for some time and leads the Riggers with 25 innings pitched this season. Has four wins and a 1.96 earned-run-average.

The Riggers have enough depth on the mound that he doesn’t have to push himself.

“There were a few years with the Stags where I threw over 100 innings as we only had two or three starters,” he said. “It’s nice to be able to share the load, especially when you happen to go out and not have your best stuff on that day.”

Gulbransen believes one of the reasons for his success and longevity is that he is willing to adapt.

“I believe if you are a starter you have to be able to pitch in relief and if you can do that you can close. I was always willing to do all three.”

Outside of his love for the game he’s also had a great support from his wife (Kristen) and family (son and daughter).

‘When the kids were younger it was a chance to escape but my wife has been really supportive. She does ask each year if this is my last and I may nod but also have my finger crossed. I think I will know when it’s time to call it quits. I really enjoy the game and being with these guys and my kids love coming to the park.

“I know one thing we are so blessed to have senior baseball in the city and it allows us a chance to play a game we love.”

Gulbransen believes that because of a shorter baseball season it helps keep

“After the first round I was 45th or so,” said McDowell. “I stayed patient the rest of the week and got it back. I was looking forward to this course and after the first round I was kind of out of it. But I battled back and got under par.

“You can’t get frustrated out there or you will make bogeys.”

Six shots behind McDowell was Wolf Creek Golf Course member Jared Nicolls, who shot an two-over, 73-73-7472=292 and came in 13th place.

Kyle Morrison, a Red Deer Golf and Country Club member, had a disappointing final day and fell to a tie for 24th as he finished with a 10-over, 7369-75-80=298.

Other Central Albertans include: Brandan Lyster (Innisfail Golf and Country Club) 11-over, 72-72-78-77=299, tied for 27th; Michael McAdam (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) 12-over, 74-74-75-77=300, tied for 31st; Colby Massignan (Innisfail Golf and Country Club) 13-over, 76-70-87-74=301, tied for 34th; Grant Numrich (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) 14-over, 72-71-7782=302, tied for 38th; Carter Graf (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) 15-over, 78-73-81-73=303, and Tom Mckinlay Jr. (Lacombe Golf and Country Club) 15-over, 71-77-79-76=303, tied for 40th; Brett Pasula (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) 18-over, 75-77-81-73=306, 46th; Ron Harder (Innisfail-Asp/Hazel) 23-over, 75-78-82-76=311, tied for 55th; and Kyle Neilson (Innisfail-Asp/Hazel) 27-over, 75-77-84-79=315. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Paxton stellar as Mariners top Jays

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Seattle 2 Toronto 1 TORONTO — Marco Estrada battled through inconsistencies to keep his team in a tight ball game on Friday night. The Blue Jays offence couldn’t figure out Seattle’s James Paxton, though.

The Canadian left-hander allowed just three hits and one run while striking out nine over seven innings as Seattle edged Toronto 2-1.

Estrada (5-4), meanwhile, in his first start since July 2, gave up two runs on seven hits while hitting two batters, walking one and striking out two.

“I felt good, just rusty,” said Estrada, who landed on the disabled list with a back injury prior to the all-star break. “I threw a lot of first-pitch balls, I was behind in the count a lot, it was tough, it was a grind.

“I guess that’s to be expected when you miss that much time but I still battled, kept the team in the game. You have to tip your hat to the other guy, he threw a heck of a game.”

Paxton, of Ladner, B.C., made his only real mistake in the second inning when he allowed a solo home run to his former Seattle teammate and fellow Canadian Michael Saunders.

Paxton retired 12 straight after the homer, with a walk to Josh Thole snapping that streak in the sixth inning. Josh Donaldson, with a double,

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Seattle Mariners starting pitcher James Paxton throws against the Toronto Blue Jays during the third inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto on Friday. and Troy Tulowitzki, with a single, accounted for the rest of Toronto’s (54-43) offence.

“He’s always had a really good arm,

really good stuff,” Saunders said of Paxton. “I got to see him when he first came up and I thought he was going to be a special pitcher. Tonight he was

hitting his spots, keeping us off-balance.

“He’s a left-handed arm that throws 100 miles an hour, so yeah, he’s got good stuff.”

Robinson Cano and Seth Smith drove in runs for the Mariners (49-47).

Edwin Diaz struck out two more Toronto batters in the eighth and Steve Cishek rung up three in the ninth for a total 14 K’s.

“Not much offence, really, but Paxton was that good,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.

Toronto threatened in the ninth with a two-out walk from Edwin Encarnacion and a single by Tulowitzki.

Saunders struck out to end the game.

The crowd of 46,737 voiced its disapproval with home plate umpire Mike Everitt’s called second strike on Saunders’ last at-bat, which appeared low.

“I thought one thing and Mike thought the other,” Saunders said. “I’m not going to go on about it. But it definitely changes the count which changes the at-bat.

“At the end of the day you can’t sit there and mope about a call. Cishek made some good pitches and ended up striking me out.”

Estrada got off to a rough start in the first inning, allowing a triple to Nori Aoki and hitting the second batter, Smith, in the span of three pitches.

Aoki scored on a fielder’s choice from Cano to give the Mariners a quick 1-0 lead.

IOC: 45 more positive Former NFL coach cases in retests of Dennis Green dies at 67 2008, ’12 samples

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Forty-five more athletes, including 23 medallists from the 2008 Beijing Games, have been caught for doping after retesting of samples from the last two Olympics, the IOC said Friday.

The new cases bring to 98 the total number of athletes who have failed tests so far in the reanalysis of their stored samples from Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London.

Using “the very latest scientific analysis methods,” the latest round of retests produced 30 “provisional” positive findings from Beijing and 15 confirmed positives from London, the IOC reported.

No names were given.

The International Olympic Committee stores doping samples for 10 years so they can be retested when new methods become available, meaning drug cheats who escaped detection at the time can be caught years later.

In a separate announcement Friday, the IOC stripped a Turkish weightlifter of her silver medal from the Beijing Games after her urine sample came back positive for steroids in new testing.

The IOC said Sibel Ozkan tested positive for stanozolol and was ordered to return her medal in the 48-kilogram class. The 28-year-old lifter also faces a possible ban from the Inter-

national Weightlifting Federation.

Ozkan is the second athlete formally disqualified so far by the IOC in the retesting program. Last week, Ukrainian weightlifter Yulia Kalina was stripped of her bronze medal from the London Olympics after her sample came back positive for the steroid turinabol.

The retesting program has targeted athletes who were in contention to compete at the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but has also been widened to cover many medallists .

“All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing” at the Rio Games, the IOC said.

The announcement comes at a time when the IOC is weighing whether to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics over allegations of systematic and state-run doping.

On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an IAAF ban on Russia’s track and field athletes from the games. The IOC executive board is scheduled to hold a meeting Sunday amid calls by anti-doping bodies to exclude Russia entirely from Rio. The IOC said the previous first wave of retests had found 30 positive cases from Beijing and 23 from London. The Russian Olympic Committee has said 22 of those cases involved Russian athletes, including medallists .

A total of 1,243 samples have been retested so far in the first two waves of the reanalysis program.

Sabres’ Evander Kane charged with harassment at bar

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres forward Evander Kane was arrested by Buffalo police Friday, and faces numerous charges for allegedly grabbing three women by the neck, hair and arms during an altercation at a downtown bar last month.

The 24-year-old Kane was handcuffed after turning himself in outside the police department’s downtown booking facility. Kane was processed and released, and is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Aug. 1. He faces four counts of non-criminal harassment, one count of disorderly conduct and a count of misdemeanour trespass as a result of the altercation that happened in the early hours of June 24 — the same day the NHL’s two-day draft opened in Buffalo.

The arrest was made a day after investigators informed the player’s lawyer of the charges and requested Kane surrender himself, Buffalo po-

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lice downtown district chief Joseph Gramaglia said.

Kane’s lawyer Paul Cambria said his client denies the charges. Cambria questioned why Kane was charged with trespassing when he was invited to the bar by the owner.

Cambria was also surprised police handcuffed Kane outside the facility, when his client voluntarily surrendered.

“Obviously, it wasn’t necessary,” Cambria said. “But we don’t govern their actions.”

Gramaglia said it is police policy to handcuff all suspects upon entering the secure facility regardless of who they are or the charges.

Gramaglia said the charges are based on allegations made by three women, who said they were grabbed

by Kane inside and outside the bar. A male bar employee, who forcibly removed Kane from the establishment, also filed a complaint which led to the disorderly conduct and trespass charges, Gramaglia said.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Dennis Green, the trailblazing coach who led a Minnesota Vikings renaissance in the 1990s before a less successful run with the Arizona Cardinals, has died. He was 67.

Green’s family posted a message on the Cardinals website on Friday announcing the death.

“His family was by his side and he fought hard,” the statement read. Other details were not immediate- DENNIS GREEN ly disclosed, though the Cardinals said Green had died of a heart attack.

Green was the first black head coach in Big Ten history when he took over at Northwestern in 1981 and was just the third black head coach in the NFL when the Vikings hired him in 1992. Through it all, Green worked hard to provide opportunities for minorities on his coaching staffs and was beloved by his players for the loyalty he showed them.

“He was one of the forerunners, standard bearers from an African-American standpoint,” Vikings COO Kevin Warren said. “He was there early and won a lot of football games.

He not only got in that position as a head coach, he then hired people and gave them opportunities.”

Green spent 10 seasons in Minnesota, leading the Vikings to eight playoff appearances and two NFC championship games. He only had one losing season and compiled an overall record of 97-62, a mark second only to Bud Grant in franchise history. That included a 15-1 regular season in 1998 spearheaded by a record-setting of-

fence.

“They were pretty good when he was here,” current Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “I’m just trying to get close to him.”

Green went out on a limb in the draft before that season, taking Randy Moss at No. 21 after the super-talented receiver fell due to character concerns. Moss was a sensation from the start, teaming with Cris Carter, Jake Reed, quarterback Randall Cunningham and running back Robert Smith to give the Vikings the most dynamic and explosive offence the league had ever seen. The Vikings scored a record 556 points that season, a mark that stood until New England broke it in 2007.

But the Vikings were upset at home by the Atlanta Falcons that season and also were embarrassed by the New York Giants 41-0 in their other trip to the NFC title game after the 2000 season.

Green went 4-8 in the post-season, one of the reasons he was fired by Minnesota late in the 2001 season.

“Denny made his mark in ways far beyond being an outstanding football coach,” the Vikings said. “He mentored countless players and served as a father figure for the men he coached.

Denny founded the Vikings Community Tuesday Program, a critical initiative that is now implemented across the entire NFL. He took great pride in helping assistant coaches advance their careers. His tenure as one of the first African American head coaches in both college and the NFL was also transformative. Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Green family.”

Smith tweeted, “Rest in peace Denny. I lost my mother in April, I feel like I just lost father.”

Green finished his three years in Arizona with a 16-32 record. Perhaps his biggest accomplishment with the Cardinals was overseeing the drafting of Larry Fitzgerald as the No. 3 overall pick in 2004. Fitzgerald was a ball boy for Green’s Vikings.

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SCOREBOARD SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2016

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 55 40.579 — 54 40.574 ½ 54 43.557 2 49 47.510 6½ 38 57.400 17 Central Division W L Pct GB 56 39.589 — 50 46.521 6½ 48 47.505 8 46 50.479 10½ 36 60.375 20½ West Division W L Pct GB 55 42.567 — 52 44.542 2½ 49 47.510 5½ 43 53.448 11½ 42 54.438 12½

Friday’s Games Baltimore 5, Cleveland 1 N.Y. Yankees 3, San Francisco 2 Seattle 2, Toronto 1 Minnesota 2, Boston 1 Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Houston 2, L.A. Angels 1 Kansas City 3, Texas 1 Tampa Bay at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Seattle (Iwakuma 10-6) at Toronto (Dickey 7-10), 11:07 a.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 9-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 7-5), 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 10-2) at Baltimore (Gausman 1-7), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Boyd 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 143), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-7) at Houston (McHugh 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Nolasco 4-8) at Boston (Price 9-7), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 10-2) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-7), 5:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-11) at Oakland (Graveman 6-6), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Seattle at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Kansas City, 12:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Washington Miami New York Philadelphia Atlanta Chicago St. Louis

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 57 40.588 — 52 44.542 4½ 51 44.537 5 45 53.459 12½ 33 64.340 24 Central Division W L Pct GB 58 37.611 — 51 44.537 7

Local Sports Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati

49 47.510 9½ 40 54.426 17½ 37 59.385 21½ West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 57 39.594 — Los Angeles 54 43.557 3½ Colorado 45 51.469 12 San Diego 42 55.433 15½ Arizona 40 56.417 17

Texas 000 100000—1 5 2 Kansas City111 00000x—3 8 0 Darvish, Kela (7), Diekman (8) and B.Wilson, Chirinos; Duffy, Hochevar (7), K.Herrera (8), W.Davis (9) and S.Perez. W—Duffy 6-1. L—Darvish 2-2.

Sv—W.Davis (21). HRs—Texas, Odor (18). Kansas City, Cuthbert (9).

Los Angeles000 000001—1 5 1 Houston 000 01010x—2 7 0 Shoemaker, J.Smith (7), J.Ramirez (8) and Bandy; McCullers, Harris (9) and J.Castro. W—McCullers 5-4. L—Shoemaker 5-10. Sv—Harris (10).

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 3, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 5, Washington 3 Cincinnati 6, Arizona 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 2 L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Colorado 4, Atlanta 3 Today’s Games Philadelphia (Nola 5-8) at Pittsburgh (Glasnow 0-1), 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 9-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 7-5), 2:05 p.m.

San Diego (Jackson 1-1) at Washington (Scherzer 10-6), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 5-8) at Cincinnati (Sampson 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-6) at Milwaukee (Davies 6-4), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 6-4) at Miami (Fernandez 11-4), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 8-7) at St. Louis (Leake 7-7), 5:15 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 4-9) at Colorado (Anderson 2-3), 6:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Arizona at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 6:08 p.m.

Detroit 003 100300—7 11 1 Chicago 100 040000—5 8 3 M.Fulmer, Ryan (6), A.Wilson (7), J.Wilson (7), F.Rodriguez (9) and Saltalamacchia; J.Turner, Albers (4), Jennings (5), Kahnle (6), C.Fulmer (7), N.Jones (7), Duke (8) and Narvaez, Navarro. W— Ryan 4-2. L—C.Fulmer 0-1. Sv—F.Rodriguez (27).

HRs—Chicago, Morneau (1).

INTERLEAGUE San Francisco000 000110—2 9 4 New York 110 00001x—3 8 1 Bumgarner, Osich (8), Romo (8) and Posey, Brown; Tanaka, Betances (7), Miller (8), Chapman (9) and Au.Romine. W—Miller 6-1. L—Osich 1-2. Sv— Chapman (20).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia000 001102—4 11 0 Pittsburgh 000 000000—0 3 0 Eflin and Rupp; Cole, Caminero (7), Hughes (7), Niese (7) and Cervelli. W—Eflin 3-3. L—Cole 5-6.

HRs—Philadelphia, Rupp (10).

San Diego 100 040000—5 6 1 Washington200 000010—3 6 1 Perdomo, Hand (8), Maurer (8) and Norris; Roark, Rivero (6), O.Perez (8), Papelbon (9) and Ramos.

W—Perdomo 4-4. L—Roark 9-6. Sv—Maurer (4).

HRs—San Diego, Kemp 2 (22). Washington, Werth (12), Murphy (19).

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 100 010000—2 9 0 Toronto 010 000000—1 4 0 Paxton, Diaz (8), Cishek (9) and Zunino; Estrada, Cecil (7), Schultz (7), Biagini (8) and Thole.

W—Paxton 3-4. L—Estrada 5-4. Sv—Cishek (23).

HRs—Toronto, Saunders (17).

New York 100 100102—5 9 1 Miami 000 002001—3 7 0 Verrett, Robles (6), Reed (8), Familia (9) and d’Arnaud; Conley, Phelps (7), Barraclough (7), Rodney (9) and Realmuto. W—Robles 5-3. L—Phelps 4-5.

Sv—Familia (34). HRs—New York, Loney (5). Miami, Yelich (10).

Cleveland 000 010000—1 8 0 Baltimore 311 00000x—5 10 0 Bauer, Manship (5), C.Anderson (6), Otero (7), Adams (8) and Gimenez; Bundy, Despaigne (6), Britton (9) and C.Joseph. W—Bundy 3-2. L—Bauer 7-4. Sv—Britton (31). HRs—Baltimore, Machado (20), Trumbo (29).

Arizona 200 000000—2 5 0 Cincinnati 300 00111x—6 8 0 Bradley, Delgado (6), Curtis (7), Bracho (7), Burgos (8) and Castillo; Straily, R.Iglesias (7), Cingrani (9) and Barnhart. W—Straily 5-6. L—Bradley 3-6.

HRs—Arizona, Segura (8). Cincinnati, Barnhart (5), Votto (17).

Minnesota 010 001000—2 10 1 Boston 100 000000—1 4 1 Gibson, Kintzler (9) and Centeno; E.Rodriguez, Hembree (6), Ross Jr. (6), Tazawa (8), Layne (9) and Leon. W—Gibson 3-6. L—E.Rodriguez 2-4.

Sv—Kintzler (7). HRs—Minnesota, Dozier (17).

Boston, Betts (20).

Chicago 130 000010—5 8 1 Milwaukee 000 110000—2 4 2 Hammel, Edwards (6), Wood (7), Grimm (7), Strop (8), Rondon (9) and Montero, Contreras; Nelson, Torres (6), Knebel (8), Boyer (9) and Lucroy. W— Hammel 9-5. L—Nelson 6-8. Sv—Rondon (17).

HRs—Chicago, Fowler (8). Milwaukee, Braun (14).

Kyle Reifers Jon Curran Robert Garrigus Richard H. Lee K.T. Kim Brian Stuard Wes Roach Joey Garber Adam Cornelson Chad Collins Kevin Streelman Sung Kang Andrew Landry Bryce Molder Steven Bowditch Nick Taylor Graham DeLaet Morgan Hoffmann John Huh Erik Compton Jordan Niebrugge Tim Wilkinson Hunter Mahan David Hearn Shawn Stefani Daniel Summerhays Andres Gonzales Andrew Loupe Mark Wilson Bryson DeChambeau Billy Kennerly Dawie van der Walt Jason Gore Kyle Stanley Harold Varner III D.A. Points Graeme McDowell Greg Owen Rob Oppenheim Brad Fritsch Zac Blair Bronson Burgoon Jim Herman Peter Malnati Colt Knost Branson Ferrier Justin Leonard Cameron Smith Taylor Moore Ben Taylor Will MacKenzie Mike Weir Ben Martin Rory Sabbatini Abraham Ancer Michael Johnson Ted Potter, Jr. Scott Brown Carl Pettersson a-Blair Hamilton Dan McCarthy a-Hugo Bernard Brendon Todd Dave Levesque

Stephen Dodd David Gilford Tom Pernice Jr. Stephen Ames David Frost Ronan Rafferty Duffy Waldorf Gene Sauers Mark Brooks Barry Lane Ian Woosnam Paul Wesselingh Esteban Toledo John Daly Scott Dunlap Brendan McGovern Gary Marks Joseph Daley Bob Friend Andrew Oldcorn Jeff Maggert Tom Watson Gary Wolstenholme Glen Day Michael Bradley Mike Harwood Santiago Luna Brad Faxon Mark Calcavecchia Jeff Sluman Michael Allen James Kingston Gordon Manson Willie Wood Nick Job Scott Parel Brian Henninger Tommy Armour Iii Marco Dawson Takeshi Sakiyama Jimmy Carter Emos Korblah Russ Cochran Miguel Angel Martin Tim Thelen Andrew Murray Failed to Make the Cut Paul Eales Eamonn Darcy Mark McNulty Craig Stadler Colin Montgomerie Steen Tinning Jose Manuel Carriles Greg Turner a-Jim Carvill Kiyoshi Murota Philip Golding Jean-Fran Remesy Pedro Linhart Fran Quinn Joel Edwards Fred Funk Todd Hamilton Robert Arnott Michael Springer Guy Boros Peter O’Malley Sandy Lyle Bob Tway Chris Williams Costantino Rocca Bob Cameron Jose Buendia Jose Rivero Philip Walton Cesar Monasterio Walt Chapman Ross Drummond Lianwei Zhang Lee Janzen Lindsay Mann Andrew George Scott Verplank Paul Goydos Jerry Pate Joey Sindelar Mark Mouland Gordon Brand Patrick Burke Jorge Berendt Andre Bossert Paul Affleck Mark Nichols Stewart Savage Bruce Davidson Sam Torrance

Golf CANADIAN OPEN At Glen Abbey Golf Club Oakville, Ontario Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,253; Par 72 Second Round a-denotes amateur Dustin Johnson 66-71—137 Luke List 66-71—137 Jon Rahm 67-71—138 Kelly Kraft 67-71—138 a-Jared du Toit 67-71—138 Ricky Barnes 71-68—139 Ben Crane 69-70—139 Tyler Aldridge 69-70—139 Brendon de Jonge 68-71—139 Chad Campbell 73-67—140 Alex Cejka 71-69—140 Kevin Kisner 73-67—140 Chez Reavie 69-71—140 Matt Kuchar 69-71—140 Seung-Yul Noh 70-70—140 Jim Furyk 70-71—141 Vijay Singh 72-69—141 K.J. Choi 71-70—141 Brandt Snedeker 68-73—141 Cameron Tringale 68-73—141 Jerry Kelly 72-70—142 Tony Finau 74-68—142 Martin Laird 73-69—142 Jhonattan Vegas 73-69—142 Brett Stegmaier 69-73—142 Adam Hadwin 72-70—142 Jimmy Walker 70-72—142 Greg Chalmers 69-73—142 Spencer Levin 72-70—142 Rod Pampling 71-71—142 Hiroshi Iwata 75-68—143 Michael Kim 73-70—143 Carlos Ortiz 74-69—143 Mark Hubbard 72-71—143 Ryan Palmer 70-73—143 Johnson Wagner 70-74—144 George Coetzee 73-71—144 Rhein Gibson 72-72—144 Thomas Aiken 75-69—144 Tyrone Van Aswegen 72-72—144 Geoff Ogilvy 73-71—144 Chris Stroud 72-72—144 Hudson Swafford 72-72—144 Ken Duke 69-75—144 Henrik Norlander 75-69—144 a-Garrett Rank 69-75—144 Derek Ernst 77-68—145 Steve Wheatcroft 68-77—145 Chris Kirk 72-73—145 Camilo Villegas 74-71—145 Troy Merritt 74-71—145 Vaughn Taylor 73-72—145 Emiliano Grillo 73-72—145 D.H. Lee 74-71—145 Whee Kim 73-72—145 Patton Kizzire 73-72—145 Miguel Angel Carballo 73-72—145 Chesson Hadley 67-78—145 Jason Day 69-76—145 John Senden 73-72—145 Sam Saunders 71-74—145 Patrick Rodgers 76-70—146 Robert Allenby 72-74—146 Brian Harman 75-71—146 Stuart Appleby 71-75—146 Robert Streb 78-68—146 Billy Hurley III 78-68—146 Steve Marino 75-71—146 Bud Cauley 73-73—146 Blayne Barber 73-73—146 Corey Conners 75-71—146 Roberto Castro 74-72—146 Si Woo Kim 69-77—146 Cameron Percy 71-75—146 Michael Thompson 72-74—146 Derek Fathauer 74-72—146 Danny Lee 75-71—146 William McGirt 70-76—146 Ernie Els 70-76—146 Scott Pinckney 71-75—146 Failed to make the cut Scott Stallings 73-74—147 J.J. Henry 72-75—147 Stewart Cink 76-71—147 Sean O’Hair 76-71—147 Matthew Fitzpatrick 76-71—147 Martin Piller 76-71—147 Tom Hoge 72-75—147 Will Wilcox 74-73—147 Jonas Blixt 73-74—147

73-74—147 75-72—147 73-75—148 73-75—148 73-75—148 76-72—148 74-74—148 74-74—148 75-73—148 70-78—148 76-72—148 70-78—148 71-77—148 77-72—149 77-72—149 75-74—149 77-72—149 76-73—149 77-72—149 76-73—149 75-74—149 75-74—149 73-76—149 74-75—149 71-78—149 71-78—149 74-75—149 73-76—149 77-73—150 76-74—150 76-74—150 73-77—150 74-76—150 75-75—150 75-76—151 77-74—151 75-76—151 79-72—151 80-71—151 77-74—151 73-78—151 79-73—152 77-75—152 73-79—152 74-78—152 78-74—152 78-75—153 78-75—153 78-75—153 81-72—153 75-78—153 78-75—153 78-76—154 77-77—154 75-79—154 73-81—154 75-80—155 75-80—155 80-76—156 77-79—156 75-81—156 81-76—157 78-80—158 85-75—160

SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP At Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie, Scotland Purse: $2.1 million Yardage: 7,190; Par: 71 Second Round a-denotes amateur Kohki Idoki 70-67—137 Joe Durant 69-68—137 Olin Browne 72-66—138 Jesper Parnevik 70-68—138 Peter Fowler 69-69—138 Tom Byrum 69-69—138 Carlos Franco 69-69—138 Mark O’Meara 69-70—139 Magnus Atlevi 70-69—139 Scott McCarron 69-70—139 Brandt Jobe 73-67—140 Tom Lehman 73-67—140 Miguel Angel Jimenez 70-70—140 Wes Short Jr 70-70—140 Kevin Sutherland 72-69—141 Paul Broadhurst 75-66—141 Barry Conser 70-71—141 Woody Austin 68-74—142 Bernhard Langer 71-71—142 Roger Chapman 72-70—142 Carl Mason 74-68—142 Mike Goodes 72-71—143 Simon Brown 73-70—143 Billy Andrade 71-72—143 Jerry Smith 74-69—143

70-73—143 72-71—143 70-73—143 72-71—143 71-72—143 74-69—143 74-70—144 75-69—144 72-72—144 74-70—144 73-71—144 73-71—144 69-75—144 72-73—145 75-70—145 71-74—145 70-75—145 72-73—145 73-73—146 72-74—146 74-72—146 76-70—146 75-71—146 74-72—146 74-72—146 72-74—146 75-71—146 70-76—146 77-69—146 73-73—146 73-73—146 75-72—147 76-71—147 74-73—147 75-72—147 75-72—147 74-73—147 74-73—147 72-75—147 75-72—147 71-77—148 76-72—148 72-76—148 74-74—148 74-74—148 75-73—148 74-75—149 74-75—149 75-74—149 77-72—149 76-73—149 77-72—149 76-73—149 77-72—149 72-78—150 77-73—150 77-73—150 78-72—150 76-74—150 77-73—150 73-77—150 74-76—150 76-74—150 72-78—150 73-77—150 76-75—151 72-79—151 77-74—151 74-77—151 75-76—151 75-76—151 79-72—151 79-73—152 77-75—152 76-76—152 77-75—152 76-76—152 75-77—152 76-76—152 77-75—152 74-78—152 75-78—153 80-73—153 73-80—153 78-75—153 76-77—153 78-75—153 84-70—154 74-80—154 74-80—154 78-76—154 81-73—154 74-80—154 73-81—154 78-76—154 77-77—154

● Pony Chuckwagons: Red Deer Motors

Today ● Red Deer Riggers baseball tournament:

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. and Red Deer Riggers vs. Edmonton Cubs, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Midget baseball: Red Deer Braves vs.

Edmonton Cardinals, 12 p.m. and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Calgary Foothills WFC at Red Deer Renegades, 2 p.m., Edgar Park ● Alberta Football League: Airdrie Irish at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., M.E. Global Field Lacombe

North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship, 6 p.m., Westerner Grounds

Sunday ● Red Deer Riggers baseball tournament:

fifth place vs. sixth place, 9:30 a.m.; semifinal 1, 12 p.m.; semifinal 2, 2:30 p.m. and final, 5 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget baseball: Red Deer Braves vs.

Edmonton Cardinals, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Calgary Callies at Red Deer Renegades, 12 p.m., Edgar Park ● Pony Chuckwagons: Red Deer Motors North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship, 2 p.m., Westerner Grounds

Ladies Fastball RED DEER LADIES FASTBALL LEAGUE Wins losses ties points 13 6 1 27 12 6 2 26 11 7 2 24 10 10 0 20 7 12 0 15 4 16 0 8

Bandits Badgers Panthers U18 Rage U16 Rage Stettler

Playoff series are best two-of-three

Tuesday U18 Rage at Bandits, 7 p.m.

Panthers at Badgers, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Bandits at U18 Rage, 7 p.m.

Badgers at Panthers, 7 p.m.

Thursday (if necessary) U18 Rage at Bandits, 7 p.m.

Panthers at Badgers, 7 p.m.

Football CFL East Division GP W L T PF PA Ottawa 5 3 1 1 158 126 Hamilton 4 2 2 0 100 83 Toronto 4 2 2 0 95 103 Montreal 3 1 2 0 42 73 West Division GP W L T PF PA B.C. 4 3 1 0 102 73 Calgary 4 2 1 1 113 86 Edmonton 3 2 1 0 96 97 Saskatchewan 4 1 3 0 110 138 Winnipeg 5 1 4 0 95 135 WEEK FIVE Bye: B.C. Friday’s result Saskatchewan 30 Ottawa 29 Thursday’s result Calgary 33 Winnipeg 18 Saturday’s game 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, 3:30 p.m.

Pt 7 4 4 2

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Roughriders 30, Redblacks 29 First Quarter Sask — FG Crapigna 24 2:13 Sask — FG Crapigna 42 8:14 Ott — TD Sinopoli 65 pass from Jensen (Milo convert) 9:30 Ott — Single Medeiros 66 9:52 Sask — Single Bartel 77 11:32 Second Quarter Ott — Single Milo 43 0:42 Sask — FG Crapigna 28 5:28 Sask — TD Campbell 14 blocked punt return (Crapigna convert) 7:06 Ott — TD Sinopoli 47 pass from Jensen (two-point convert: Lavoie 3 pass from Jensen) 9:19 Ott — FG Milo 31 14:01 Third Quarter Ott — FG Milo 35 4:53 Ott — FG Milo 38 11:11 Sask — TD Roosevelt 89 pass from Gale (Crapigna convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Sask — FG Crapigna 35 7:21 Ott — FG Milo 11 13:11 Sask — FG Crapigna 53 13:57 Ottawa 8 12 6 3 — 29 Saskatchewan 7 10 7 6 — 30

Pt 6 5 4 2 2

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’s Games San Jose at Salt Lake, 9 p.m.

Today’s Games 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’s Games New York City at New York, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Noe Ramirez to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated RHP Junichi Tazawa from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with RHP Dakota Smith on a minor league contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed RHP Joseph Colon on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Recalled RHP Cody Anderson from Columbus (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned 1B A.J. Reed to Fresno (PCL). Recalled OF Preston Tucker from Fresno.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned RHP A.J. Achter outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned RHP Neil Ramirez outright to Rochester (IL). Recalled LHP Buddy Boshers from Rochester.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned LHP Patrick Schuster to Nashville (PCL). Recalled RHP Zach Neal from Nashville.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled INF Luis Sardinas from Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Designated LHP Cesar Ramos for assignment. Reinstated LHP Jake Diekman from the 15-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned LHP Aaron Loup and INF Andy Burns to Buffalo (IL). Designated RHP Dustin Antolin for assignment. Reinstated RHP Marco Estrada from the 15-day DL and LHP Franklin Morales from the 60-day DL. Sent OF Jose Bautista to Buffalo for a rehab assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned OF Albert Almora Jr. and RHP Spencer Patton to Iowa (PCL). Added LHP Mike Montgomery. Activated OF Dexter Fowler from the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned INF/ OF Zach Walters and Julio Urias to Oklahoma City (PCL). Designated 3B Charlie Culberson for assignment. Transferred RHP Chris Hatcher to the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of LHP Grant Dayton from Oklahoma City. Recalled INF Austin Barnes from Oklahoma City.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent OF Aaron Altherr to Reading (EL) for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — LHP Dean Kiekhefer to Memphis (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with OF Jorge Ona on a minor league contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent 1B Ryan Zimmerman and LHP Sammy Solis to Potomac (Carolina) for rehab assignments. Agreed to terms with RHP Justin DeFratus on a minor league contract.

American Association TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Trey Masek.

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NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded OF Mike Schwartz to Trois-Rivieres for a player to be named.

OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released C Steve Sulcoski.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed LHP Ryan Kulik.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Released RHP Andrew Potter. Signed C Jack Wietlispach.

FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed OF Shaun Cooper. Released LHP Marty Anderson.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed RHP Robert Robbins.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Released OF Ricky Claudio and INF Michael Skoller.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Signed F Chris Andersen to a one-year contract.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Signed F Livio JeanCharles.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Indianapolis DL Arthur Jones four games violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

CHICAGO BEARS — Terminated the contract of DB Omar Bolden. Signed DB Charles Tillman to a one-day contract and announced his retirement.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Nick Hayden.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Released LB Adam Hayward.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed F Stefan Fournier to a one-year, two-way contract.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Signed F Chris Kreider to a four-year contract and F Kevin Hayes.

ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Signed D Robbie Donahoe.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Agreed to terms with D Colton Saucerman.

COLLEGE GEORGIA — Announced the retirement of assistant athletic director for sports medicine Steve Bryant.

MICHIGAN STATE — Named Sheldon White football program consultant.

SHAW — Named Nadia Alexander-Pompey men’s and women’s cross country and outdoor track and field coach.

TENNESSEE — Named Jonathan Bowling associate athletic director for football compliance and administration.

Canadian women’s basketball team has eye on medal at Rio

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Natalie Achonwa has worn a wide smile since touching down in Toronto on Thursday night.

The 22-year-old forward for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever said there’s a transformation that happens when she suits up for Canada, a sentiment echoed by her Olympic teammates on Friday.

“Everyone was laughing at me (Thursday) because I was tearing up seeing everybody, and the fact I was so excited to practise,” Achonwa said. “You get chills, it doesn’t matter how many games you’ve played in, it doesn’t matter how many FIBA Americas you’ve been to. The passion… it’s something deep.

“I was trying to think of how to put into words what this environment with Canada Basketball feels like, and you literally can’t. It’s something you just embody. The pride and passion that this group plays with, and they live in, is something that can’t be replicated. And it’s contagious.”

Canada Basketball unveiled its 12-woman Olympic roster for Rio on Friday, a team that has built

on the momentum that began with its quarter-final appearance at the 2012 Games in London, and continued with last summer’s thrilling and historic gold at the Pan American Games.

The roster remains identical to the Pan Am squad. Achonwa joins six returning Olympics from London — Lizanne Murphy, Kim Gaucher, Shona Thorburn, Tamara Tatham, Michelle Plouffe and Miranda Ayim. Kia Nurse, Miah-Marie Langlois, Nirra Fields, Katherine Plouffe and Neyo Raincock-Akunwe are the team’s first-time Olympians.

Gaucher, the team’s 32-year-old team captain from Mission, B.C., said it’s an athlete’s “hugest honour” to play for Canada.

“I get chills that run down my spine every time I hear our national anthem played before a game, and you have your hands around 11 of your greatest friends ” Gaucher said.

Four years after the London Olympics, where Canada clinched literally the last women’s basketball berth, just a month before the opening ceremonies, Canada’s goal this time around is more lofty.

“Oh, we want a medal,” Achonwa said. “I’ve proudly said that to anyone who’s asked me. We want a medal. In 2012, we were happy and excited to be

there. But with the time and prep we’ve put in the past four years, we have a goal to win a medal, and a goal to wear our jersey with pride, no matter where we are or what we’re doing.”

The team carries itself with a quiet confidence that Achonwa said has developed over the past few years, instilled by the veterans such as Gaucher and Murphy, and injected with some youthful “edge” from the likes of Nurse and herself.

“It’s more of an edge now. We’ve always had that get-down-and-dirty, fight-no-matter-what idea,” Achonwa said. “But now we have the confidence to go with it. We can see that the work that we put in brings results, and I believe that’s where our confidence comes from.”

Their strength, according to head coach Lisa Thomaidis, is both in their chemistry and depth.

“Any time you can have more time, more experience playing together, that’s going to generate better chemistry and cohesion,” Thomaidis said. “We have some very young players. Kia, four years ago, was a teenager still playing in high school. Every one of our players is a better individual player from last year, which then again makes our team that much better.”

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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James seeking full parole

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Disgraced junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham James is seeking full parole with the support of his case workers.

James is serving a seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting players he coached in the late 1980s and early ’90s with the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League. He was convicted of sexually assaulting six of his former players hundreds of times during that period.

Documents from the Parole Board of Canada show James’s day parole, which was granted in January, has been extended for two months while the board schedules a hearing to consider his request for more freedom.

“You would like to be granted full parole,” states the decision dated July 8. “You have rented an apartment where you plan on living on your own.

There are no financial concerns. Family members have been deemed to be positive supports.

“Your (case management team) supports your release on full parole.”

James, 63, was sentenced to two years in 2012 for abusing former player Todd Holt and his cousin, retired Calgary Flames star Theo Fleury. A Manitoba Appeal Court increased the sentence to five years.

James pleaded guilty in June 2015 to more charges involving a player who described him as his tormentor and his demon. He received a two-year sentence on top of the five years he was serving.

James previously served time after pleading guilty in 1997 to abusing Sheldon Kennedy and two others.

James served about 18 months before being paroled. Kennedy played for the Broncos at the time of the assaults and went on to play in the National Hockey League.

The board’s decision states James has a job, does volunteer work and has shown insight into the damage he has caused.

“You state in your representations that you were indifferent to the needs of the young victims and you express

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Graham James arrives at court for sentencing in Winnipeg. Disgraced junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham James is seeking full parole with the support of his case workers. shame, guilt and remorse over your offending behaviour. You acknowledge having been manipulative, self-centred and inconsiderate,” the decision says.

“You state being committed to becoming a better person.”

The board cited James’s most recent psychological assessment in November 2015 which found he was “a low risk of sexual recidivism.”

“Your reintegration potential is assessed as high as well as your motivation,” the board report says.

“In meetings, you demonstrate a good understanding of your risk factors and your offence cycle. You acknowledge the consequences for the victims.”

Kennedy, the first of James’s victims to come forward, is now a strong advocate for sexual abuse victims. He

said the board’s report shows a lack of understanding about the impact of sexual assault.

“We need to start understanding the true impact of this crime. Until that time, we will keep seeing individuals like Graham James hurting kids,” he said. “Eighty per cent of mental-health problems in this country stem from adverse childhood experience such as sexual abuse.”

Durant, Idoki share Senior British Open lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Joe Durant birdied the par-4 18th hole Friday for a 3-under 68 and a share of the Senior British Open lead with Kohki Idoki.

The 52-year-old Durant birdied three of the first five holes on the back nine, the second two on the par-5 12th and 14th at Carnoustie Golf Links in 10-15 mph wind with some light rain.

“It is difficult, especially if you keep hitting your tee shots wayward,” Durant said. “But if you keep it in play and give yourself some opportunities, the greens are big, so you can hit some greens, but you have to have good pace on your long putts, too. It can be very difficult. We’ve been fortunate it has not blown real hard, but if the wind kicks up, this course is all you want.”

Durant teamed with Billy Andrade to win the 2015 Legends of Golf for his lone PGA Tour Champions title. The four-time PGA Tour winner has five top-10 finishes this season, including a runner-up finish to Bernhard Langer in the major Constellation Senior Players in June.

Idoki, the 54-year-old Japanese player who won the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, had a 67 to match Durant at 7-under 137. He rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 17th with a chip-in birdie on 18.

Olin Browne (66), Jesper Parnevik (68), Carlos Franco (69), Tom Byrum (69) and Peter Fowler (69) were a stroke back, Mark O’Meara (70) topped

Sports BRIEFS Blue Jays’ Martin out with sore left knee after fall TORONTO — An off-day trip to the health club knocked out Toronto catcher Russell Martin.

Feeling “woozy” following an extended spell in the sauna at his Toronto residence Thursday, Martin injured his left knee when he passed out and fell while taking a cold shower. He is expected to miss at least two games.

“I woke up and I had the shower curtain half on my body and the rest of my head was kind of sticking outside the shower,” Martin said. “It’s a weird feeling.”

An MRI on Martin’s knee Friday showed no structural damage, and the four-time All-Star said he may have aggravated an old injury.

“I just sat in the locker room for 10 minutes, completely drained,” Martin said. “It was scary, but i guess it could have been worse.”

Martin said he often treats soreness by alternating hot and cold water and has felt “weak” before but never lost

the group at 5 under, and Tom Lehman (67) and Miguel Angel Jimenez (70) were another stroke behind.

“Patience is important and you can’t force the issue,” Browne said.

“You just have to be smart. I don’t know that it’s patience as much as recognizing the situation and executing the appropriate shot. I’m going to try and hit the shot that I try and execute. I’m going to try and think clearly. That’s the key to playing good golf, keeping the demons outside of the six inches between your ears.”

Parnevik won the Insperity Invitational in May in Texas for his first senior title.

“I’m overjoyed,” Parnevik said after his bogey-free round. “I haven’t played much this summer. I’ve been in Sweden. Had a lot of fun with my family and friends. I hurt my back about a month ago. I felt so good in the gym, that I ended up working out with a couple of MMA fighters. That was a bad idea. My back was out for about three weeks. I didn’t know what to expect.”

Defending champion Marco Dawson was 3 over after a 75. He won last year at Sunningdale.

First-round leader Woody Austin had a 74 to drop into a tie for 18th at 2 under. Langer (71) also was 2 under.

The German star won the 2010 tournament at Carnoustie.

Mark McNulty had a hole-in-one on the 12th hole, using a 7-iron from 179 yards. He finished with a 74 to miss the cut by a stroke. Colin Montgomerie also missed the cut, shooting 76-73. consciousness.

An 11-year veteran who is in the second season of a five-year, $82 million contract, Martin is batting .228 with seven home runs and 36 RBIs Josh Thole is starting for Toronto against Seattle on Friday. Thole was already expected to catch Saturday’s game, when knuckleballer R.A. Dickey starts for the Blue Jays. Manager John Gibbons said he hopes Martin can play again Sunday.

Milos Raonic seeded fourth after Rogers Cup tennis tournament draw TORONTO — Milos Raonic could face two other Canadians on his way to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup. Raonic, of Thornhill, Ont., is seeded fourth at the men’s tournament, which begins Monday at Toronto’s Aviva Centre. The top eight seeds get a bye into the second round.

The draw for the Masters 1,000 tournament was revealed Friday at Rogers Centre.

Frank Dancevic, of Niagara Falls, Ont., and Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil are also in Raonic’s quarter of the draw.

Dancevic is slated to play American Sam Querrey in the first round while Pospisil will face Jeremy Chardy of France. Querrey made headlines earlier this month at Wimbledon when he upset World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in

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Kohki Idoki. the third round.

On the other side of the bracket, Steven Diez of Toronto will play Kyle Edmund of Britain and 17-year-old Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., plays Australian Nick Kyrgios.

Shapovalov is making his Rogers Cup debut after winning the Wimbledon boys’ title.

Raonic, who’s coming off a loss to Andy Murray at the Wimbledon final, could face Djokovic in the semifinals.

Djokovic is the only seed higher than Raonic in their half of the draw.

Second-seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland and third-seed Kei Nishikori of Japan are both in the other half.

No Canadian man has ever won the singles title in the 135-year history of the Canadian tournament. Raonic came the closest in 2013, when he lost to Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the final.

Three of the top-five ranked men’s players — Nadal, Murray, and Roger Federer — announced their withdrawal from this year’s Rogers Cup in the past week.

NFL to review domestic violence allegations against Elliott COLUMBUS, Ohio — The NFL says it is reviewing domestic violence allegations against Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott.

A police report says Elliott denied allegations that he assaulted his girl-

friend early Friday in Columbus, Ohio, causing bruises and abrasions. The report says he wasn’t arrested because of conflicting versions of what happened.

Three witnesses told police they didn’t see Elliott assault the 20-yearold woman. Elliott says the woman got the bruises and abrasions in a bar fight.

The player’s father, Stacy Elliott, said in a statement Friday that the claims are “completely false” and that his son has co-operated with the investigation.

Schmitt headlines Canada’s men’s volleyball roster at Rio Captain Gavin Schmitt was among 12 athletes named to Canada’s men’s volleyball team on Friday ahead of the Rio Olympic Games.

It’s the first time in 24 years that Canada will have a men’s team competing in indoor volleyball at the Olympics.

The Canadians earned their ticket to the Games last month at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan.

“The whole team has worked very hard to get to Rio 2016, and it was thrilling to qualify in the last chance tournament in Japan early in June,” Schmitt said. “Our goal is to make the country proud of our performance at the Games.”

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July 23 2003 — Lost Creek fire erupts south of Hillcrest in Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta; not contained until mid-August, forcing evacuation of Hillcrest, Blairmore and surrounding homesteads.

1996 — Survey shows that 29 per cent of Canadian adults have already used the Internet.

1987 — Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Interpretive Centre officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of York; First excavated in 1938, designated a provincial historic site in 1979 and a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981; named for young Peigan boy who was crushed by the buffalo because he wanted to watch the animals as they plunged over the cliff.

1943 — Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Calgary Highlanders join the Allied forces in Italy.

1891 — CP takes over operation of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway.

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, July 23, 2016

Downtown loses a small independent FRATTERS SPEAKEASY, A LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT VENUE, SET TO CLOSE ON AUG. 4

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Fratters Speakeasy Venue, a downtown bar in Red Deer that focused on a variety of live entertainment, will close its doors in two weeks after an almost three-year run.

Owner Chris Clark said it has been a struggle to maintain a business like Fratters in a smaller city.

Fratters opened almost three years ago, in October 2013, at 5114 48th St. It will close Aug. 4.

“People in my opinion generally want familiarity with chains that have larger backings for promotions in radio, give-aways and prime locations, etc. And it’s really tough to afford or compete … against these large entities.

“I have rarely seen a large chain ever close in Red Deer. In fact these chains are growing, which shows it’s not the economy. I have yet to see a local operator expand from Red Deer or any smaller city in this industry,” Clark said in an email to the Red Deer Advocate.

The general public also has a different taste nowadays. They want numerous TVs surrounding them, he said.

“That’s just something we can’t commit to. UFC and sports isn’t a good fit for us.”

To succeed in the entertainment or restaurant business in cities like Red Deer is nearly impossible unless you are involved in much smaller niche situations or the younger crowd nightlife, Clark said.

“It’s a lot of work with small return.”

“It was also a personal decision to

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Red Deer artist Christine Karron does some background work on a new mural on the east side of the Fratters building in Red Deer. The large mural features portraits of Neil Young, Ian Curtis, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, and Nina Simone and has become part of the downtown arts scene. leave Fratters now that I have a son and opportunities I can’t pass up.”

Clark gave kudos to the City of Red Deer for working hard to revitalize the downtown, to all the local operators who keep fighting and working hard,

and to the general public for supporting live entertainment.

He also gave a special thank you to his employees “who without them working around the clock in a stressful industry we never would have got our

feet off the ground.”

There will continue to be live entertainment at Fratters until it closes.

The final evening on Aug. 4 will close with Blue Moon Marquee, a Canadian “gypsy blues” duo.

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BUSINESS LEADERS WEIGH IN ON DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST VOW TO RENEGOTIATE – OR LEAVE – NAFTA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Donald Trump, the newly minted Republican presidential nominee, vowed to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement after securing the party’s backing at this week’s convention in Cleveland.

“Our horrible trade agreements with China, and many others, will be totally renegotiated. That includes renegotiating NAFTA to get a much better deal for America — and we’ll walk away if we don’t get that kind of a deal,” he said.

Trump’s been pledging to revisit NAFTA for some time now, but his nomination brings him one step closer to being able to fulfil that.

Here is some reaction to his promise to shake up the trilateral agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico if he goes on to become America’s next president: Mathieu Bedard, economist at Montreal Economic Institute: “If the U.S. walked away from NAFTA, it would definitely have a huge impact on the Canadian economy, but it would also have a detrimental effect on the U.S. economy.

It’s not true, that as Trump says, the U.S. produces nothing anymore …. Manufacturing production has increased tremendously since (NAFTA) the U.S. is producing 58 per cent more that it did before the deal came into effect.

He is so wrong, it is hard to even respond to his arguments, because a lot of it is just fantasy. How do you make a reasonable argument as a response to something completely fantasy?”

Global Affairs spokeswoman Diana

Khaddaj: “Canada believes NAFTA is in the best interest of our three countries and we are focused on deepening our trading relationship. Our three countries traded US$1 trillion in 2015, generating nearly 27 per cent of the world’s GDP with almost seven per cent of the world’s population. The benefits for Canadian middle-class families are clear.

Canada is also the United States’ largest customer. We buy more from the United States than China, Japan and the U.K. combined. Co-operation through NAFTA has created a North America where Canadian, American, and Mexican companies do more than make and sell things to each other now, our companies increasingly make things together.

We look forward to a productive relationship with whomever the American people decide to elect in November.”

Perrin Beatty, president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce: “The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is following the U.S. elections with a watchful eye, and we are concerned about the anti-trade rhetoric coming from many candidates in both parties.

The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and later NAFTA, have been hugely beneficial to the economies of all countries involved. They’ve reduced costs for consumers, helped businesses become more efficient and stimulated trade and investment.

When we hear comments criticizing free-trade deals, it’s not just the deals that are under attack but also the spirit of collaboration under which they are developed and implemented…We will continue to press governments to take down the barriers that stand in

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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, finishes his speech on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday. Among his policy announcements is a vow to renegotiate international trade deals — including NAFTA — and to walk away from the table if the U.S. doesn’t get the results he wants. the way.”

Monique Moreau, director of national affairs at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which represents more than 109,000 small businesses in Canada: “About 50 per cent of our members import from the U.S., and about 25 per cent export, so that’s a significant amount, and if there is a decrease in access to the U.S., that will certainly have an impact on our members. But we’re still very much in wait-and-see mode at this time.”

Jim Phillips, president & CEO of the

Canadian/American Border Trade Alliance, representing public and private organizations involved in Canada-U.S. trade: “I don’t see a major impact of any kind on Canadian-U.S. relations or Canada’s own self-interest or sovereignty interest because of the election…I look forward to a continuing very positive trade relationship between the U.S. and Canada, and I’m not losing any sleep at night about any major adjustments, whoever wins the political arena.”

Inflation rate holds steady as food prices cool

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate held steady last month at a modest 1.5 per cent amid a welcomed cool-off in sizzling supermarket prices.

This headline-inflation number in Statistics Canada’s latest consumer price index, which was released Friday, matched the year-over-year increase in May. And for a second straight month, the annual core inflation rate, which excludes some volatile items such as gasoline prices, also remained stable at 2.1 per cent.

However, it was the information tucked in the report’s underlying details that caught the attention of

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For example, Statistics Canada said lower fuel prices helped offset higher consumer costs for cars, electricity and air travel.

It also noted that prices related to shelter and households, such as items like furniture and appliances, registered the biggest gains of the major categories in the index.

But it was the long-awaited price deceleration at the country’s grocery stores that likely brought some relief for the largest swath of consumers.

Frances Donald, senior economist for Manulife Asset Management, said except for May and June, the annual inflation rate for food had been above three per cent for 18 straight months. The climbing food prices, she added, were largely a consequence of the weakened exchange rate and other interna-

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In June, inflation for food was a much softer 1.3 per cent.

“It was a major headwind for the Canadian consumer for a year-and-a-half, and that headwind is now dissipating,” Donald said in an interview. “It’s particularly important for low-income Canadian consumers who spend a larger share of their income on food.”

When it came to downward pressure on overall inflation last month, the federal agency pointed to lower prices for fuel oil, natural gas and gasoline compared to the previous year.

Excluding gas from the calculation pushed headline inflation in June up to 1.9 per cent, Statistics Canada said.

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

MARKETS

Ride share companies desperate for drivers

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OF LOCAL INTEREST

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 121.47 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.33 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.15 Blackberry. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.05 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.98 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.15 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.24 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 195.98 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.04 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.61 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.01 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.12 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.81 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.18 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.03 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.16 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.11 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 55.55 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.96 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.11 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 60.24 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 139.13 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.07 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 71.22 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.48 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets closed higher heading into the weekend, with one index hitting a new record high, as lower oil prices and strong U.S. earnings results weighed on the Canadian dollar.

“Not much trading volume out there,” said Allan Small, a senior adviser at Holliswealth. “All’s quiet in the markets right now.”

The loonie closed at 76.07 cents US, dropping 0.35 of a U.S. cent from Thursday’s close, partly due to a slide in the benchmark oil price. The September crude contract fell 56 cents at US$44.19 per barrel.

“But I think it’s more of a U.S. story of strength versus a Canadian story of weakness,” said Small.

The greenback has benefited from what has so far been a strong earnings season south of the border, he noted.

U.S. banks and tech companies — such as Microsoft, Qualcomm and Intel — have all reported strong results this quarter.

“A lot of people will say the bar has been set pretty low,” said Small. “That may be true, but you’re seeing earnings now beating on the bottom line and the top line.”

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX index rose 34.83 points to 14,600.66, led by the telecom sector, which was up 1.31 per cent.

Meanwhile, utilities stocks climbed 0.72 per cent, while the health-care sector of the TSX slipped 2.48 per cent.

The financials sector of the TSX was up 0.28 per cent, which Small attributes to a knock-on effect stemming from strong earnings performance by the U.S. banks.

Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.55 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.86 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 27.03 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 13.60 First Quantum Minerals . . 9.99 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.09 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.31 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.57 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.76 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.29 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . .0.86 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.85 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.47 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 20.85 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.55 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 25.03 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.57 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 5.16 Canyon Services Group. 18.62 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . . . 0.2 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.83 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . . 0.7 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.01 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.83 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.83 In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 53.62 points to 18,570.85 while the Nasdaq composite added 26.26 points at 5,100.16.

The broader S&P 500 composite index gained 9.86 points to hit a new record high of 2,175.03.

In commodities, September natural gas was up eight cents at US$2.74 per mmBTU, August gold dropped $7.60 to US$1,323.40 an ounce and September copper contracts fell two cents to US$2.24 a pound.

Traders are looking forward to next week, when both the Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve will hold policy meetings.

In Europe, markets were mixed following reports suggesting that countries that use the euro are proving more resilient to the turmoil surrounding Britain’s vote to exit the European Union.

Germany’s DAX index lost 0.1 per cent while France’s CAC 40 index was up 0.1 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.5 per cent.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index gave back 1.1 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.2 per cent and South Korea’s Kospi index dipped 0.1 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,600.66, up 34.83 points Dow — 18,570.85, up 53.62 points S&P 500 — 2,175.03, up 9.86 points (record high) Nasdaq — 5,100.16, up 26.26 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.07 cents US,

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.89 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.82 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.01 Penn West Energy . . . . . . . 1.8 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.95 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . . . 36 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.15 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.56 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 43.12 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.17 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.76 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.06 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.84 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.92 Great West Life. . . . . . . . . 34.2 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.55 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.89 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.2 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.07 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.68 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.6 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . . 43.6 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.11 down 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.7225, down 0.53 of a cent Euro — C$1.4426, up 0.03 of a cent Euro — US$1.0974, down 0.48 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.19 per barrel, down 56 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,323.40 per oz., down $7.60 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $26.796 oz., up 5.4 cents $861.49 kg., up $1.73 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $11.10 lower $451.50 Jan. ‘17 $11.40 lower $458.90 March ‘17 $11.50 lower $465.20 May ‘17 $11.70 lower $468.60 July ‘17 $11.60 lower $471.90 Nov. ‘17 $11.40 lower $478.20 Jan. ‘18 $11.40 lower $478.30 March ‘18 $11.40 lower $478.30 May ‘18 $11.40 lower $478.30 July ‘18 $11.40 lower $478.30 Nov. ‘18 $11.40 lower $478.30.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘16 unchanged $150.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $150.00 March ‘17 unchanged $152.00 May ‘17 unchanged $153.00 July ‘17 unchanged $153.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $153.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $153.00 March ‘18 unchanged $153.00 May ‘18 unchanged $153.00 July ‘18 unchanged $153.00 Oct. ‘18 unchanged $153.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 388,040 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 388,040.

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Bombardier lands maintenance contracts with SkyWest, ExpressJet fleets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — SkyWest Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines and their parent company have signed new 10-year, heavy-maintenance agreements with Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B).

The two airlines operate a total of 433 Bombardier CRJ Series regional jets for Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines.

The work will be performed at Bombardier’s U.S. maintenance facilities including the Tucson Air Center, West Virginia Air Center and Macon Air Center.

Financial terms weren’t announced.

but not before it left scars.

Ousmane Abdoulaye of Maryland had recently moved to the U.S. from Africa when he leased a car through the Santander program in 2014. He paid $1,000 upfront, plus faced monthly payments of $870. But after two weeks he was deactivated by Uber as a driver due to poor customer feedback.

With no job or way to make payments, Abdoulaye says he could not get anyone at Uber or the dealership to help him give the car back. Meanwhile, he began getting calls from a creditor for the payments due.

With help from the state Office of Consumer Protection, he returned the car and terminated the contract. He now works as a landscaper but recalling the incident still gets him mad.

New programs to match drivers with cars continue to pop up.

Lyft’s Express Drive rental program, launched in March through a partnership with GM, now operates in four cities. It’s a weekly rental, available for up to eight weeks. It costs $99 a week, plus a fee for mileage. But if you drive enough, the mileage fee is waived and if you drive even more, you pay nothing.

“It’s expensive but it does suit a ride share driver well,” said Harry Campbell, a driver for Lyft and Uber who runs the popular website Therideshareguy.com.

Campbell points out that turnover is high among drivers and pay has shrunk recently. So potential drivers increasingly might not have the cash to qualify for traditional financing.

No car? No problem for ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft.

These companies are offering rentals, leases and financing deals aimed at getting more drivers on the road. After all, the more drivers they sign up, the more rides are available and the more money they make.

But critics say drivers are paying high — even predatory prices.

“The lease terms are awful, you could buy the car for what they are being leased for, or maybe even less,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate, of Uber’s Xchange leasing program.

The deals have also caught some regulators’ attention. The California Public Utilities Commission is probing whether some of these leasing and renting arrangements run afoul of its requirement that ride share drivers use a “personal vehicle.”

Uber and Lyft say these programs serve people who are eager to work for a ride sharing company but do not have a vehicle or don’t have one that qualifies. Requirements of many traditional leases, such as mileage limits or long-term contracts, don’t work well for their drivers.

Dee Taylor of Houston, who says she was unemployed when she stumbled on Uber’s Xchange, is among the satisfied customers.

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THE ADVOCATE Saturday, July 23, 2016

The Bard on Bower Love’s Labour’s Lost: Despite vandalism of the set and wandering Pokémon players, the play will still go on LANA MICHELIN REVIEW Shakespeare was outplayed by Pokémon at the opening night of Bard on Bower’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

On the outdoor stage at Bower Ponds, the King of Navarre and his companions were pledging to forsake the company of women for three years of scholarly study in William Shakespeare’s comedy.

Meanwhile, real life was proving more bizarre than art.

Off stage at Bower Ponds, hundreds of local Pokémon Go players began showing up on Thursday evening to mill around the paths, seeking to ‘capture’ virtual-reality characters with their smart phones.

The Prime Stock Theatre actors didn’t seem to mind the constant distraction of people walking around with an eye on their electronics. In fact, at intermission, the actors invited a fuzzy, yellow Pikachu mascot to come out as a photo-op thank-you to the Pokémon players who helped the theatre company crack down on vandals. (The players captured video images of the jerks who allegedly trashed part of the Bard on Bower set early on Monday and turned these over to police).

Unfortunately, all of Thursday’s non-theatrical activity clogged up parking and didn’t help the opening night production, which was over-long and far too verbose to fit any modern sense of a frothy, romantic comedy.

There were certainly some positives about the show: Love’s Labour’s Lost was winningly reset in the 1950s, was exceptionally well acted, and con-

Photo by MARK BRETHERTON/Advocate staff

Costard, played by Armin Karam, receives an ear-bending from Sarah Spicer’s Princess of France in Thursday evening’s presentation of ‘Love Labour’s Lost,’ the latest offering from the Bard on Bower series. Admission to the performances are free, but donations are much appreciated. tained snippets of toe-tapping Buddy Holly tunes performed at intervals by local band Underside Pattern.

But at two-and-a half-hours including intermission, an hour could easily have been sliced from the play, directed by recent Red Deer College theatre graduate Emily Pole, without anyone missing much.

For the plot line is very simple: Ferdinand, the King of Navarre, and

his friends Berowne, Dumaine and Longaville (played here as college letter-men living in a ’50s frat house), take an oath to to devote themselves to three years of study and fasting.

No sooner do they temporarily turn their backs on women than four attractive females show up at their door.

The Princess of France (played here as the daughter of a financier who has business with Ferdinand) and her la-

dies, Rosaline, Maria and Katharine arrive — along with much put-upon attendant, Boyet.

As soon as the celibate college men get a gander of the comely, circle-skirted lasses, their hormones predictably rage — and the rest of the story plays out as a series of coy misunderstandings, mixed up identities and (just when you think things have to wrap up soon) a silly play-within-a-play.

Love’s Labour’s Lost’s language is flowery and dense, but this is essentially a Three’s Company episode written in 1590. Pole and her actors understand this, so astutely played up the buffoonery.

Among the many noteworthy performances were Dan Vasquez’s frat-boyish Ferdinand, Isiah Williams’ Berowne, Trysten Luck (Dumaine) and Stuart Old (Longaville). Also memorable were Sarah Spicer as the Princess of France, Tara Rorke (Rosaline), Naomi Esau (Maria), Brooke Dalton (Katharine), and Nate Rehman (Boyet).

Pole kept things moving apace — or as much as the wordy scenes would allow. But the mood could have been further lifted by using the Buddy Holly music as a soundtrack instead of as mostly between-scenes filler.

Love’s Labour’s Lost, which contains the longest word (honorificabilitudinitatibus) and the longest scene in all of Shakespeare’s plays, is worth checking out, as one of his earliest efforts. However, since it’s lesser known and contains few famous speeches, it would help to read a brief synopsis of scenes before heading out with your blanket, lawn chair and bug spray.

It runs at 7 p.m. on July 23, 27, 29 and 30, and at 2 p.m. on July 24 and 31. Admission is by donation ($20 suggested). This year, there’s also a beer garden at the site. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com.

Julius Caesar: Modern political allusions are clear, in a production clearly presented Photo by MARK BRETHERTON/ Advocate staff

LANA MICHELIN

Julius Caesar, portrayed

by Eric Pettifor ignores the warning of Sarah Spicer’s seer to “beware the Ides of March,” during a performance commencing the 2016 season of the Bard on Bower.

REVIEW An ambitious, ego-driven politician arouses public fear that he will rule as a tyrant.

While there’s no orange combover in sight in Bard on Bower’s gripping version of Julius Caesar, now playing on the outdoor stage at Bower Ponds, Donald Trump and the U.S. presidential race came to mind while watching the on-stage intrigue unfold.

In this Prime Stock Theatre production, directed by Thomas Usher, suspicion and mistrust divide cohorts who are supposed to be close supporters of Julius Caesar. Some of these polarized politicians lie to cover up their own self-serving agendas as they play to the crowd.

Commoners are easily led by political deception. Swayed by a manipulative speaker, the people of Rome begin to think and act as a mob.

That a 400-year-old play about power, politics and human frailty can still conjure up contemporary associations shows Julius Caesar is one for the ages.

Although the first act of the Bard on Bower vehicle is more riveting than the second, the drama contains one of William Shakespeare’s sharpest and most thought-provoking scripts. At one point, Brutus compares Caesar to a serpent’s egg, suggesting it’s morally justifiable to kill a potential threat “in the shell” in order to spare the world its “mischief.”

Later, Caesar’s wife Calpurnia warns her spouse, “Wisdom is consumed in confidence” — sage advice about cocky or complacent overconfidence that should be heeded by many a modern politician.

Considering when it was written, Julius Caesar contains fairly straight-shooting dialogue that can be deciphered by modern listeners — even those of us who’ve never studied the play in school or previously seen it performed.

For this, laurels must also be laid at the feet of Usher and his excellent cast. This is the best group of actors Bard on Bower has assembled. Not a single

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cast member rushes through any speeches. Every line is clearly spoken. And every actor knows the exact meaning of the dialogue and gets it across to the audience.

Particular standouts are Eric Pettifor’s rather fatherly portrayal of Julius Caesar, Nate Rehman’s Machiavellian Cassius, and Brock Beal’s co-conspirator Casca.

Armine Karame portrays Brutus as a complicated, well-meaning man who becomes mired in moral ambiguity when he decides loyalty to his country is grounds for the supreme betrayal of a friend.

Tara Rorke plays Brutus’s intense wife, Portia, while Brooke Dalton depicts Caesar’s concerned spouse, Calpurnia. Sarah Spicer is the soothsayer, who tries to warn Caesar of the fate that awaits him, but is ignored.

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Isiah Williams’ Mark Antony enacts some delicious political trickery by turning a crowd against the conspirators who assassinate Caesar.

Through epic use of irony in his famous speech at Caesar’s funeral, Antony pulls one over on the good people of Rome — as well as Brutus et al.

The biggest problem is that Caesar is murdered before the end of the first act. This leaves the second act to play out on the battlefield when various soldiers, caught up in a civil war of sorts, throw themselves on their swords after losing skirmishes.

This sounds more exciting than it actually is because, with few exceptions, Bard on Bower cast members need to get much more proficient at stage combat to actually make extended battle scenes thrilling.

Otherwise, the play’s great acting, swift pacing, and spectacular costumes (including shiny armour and cool, brush-topped Roman helmets like the one sported by the space alien from Looney Tunes) make it a must-see — especially for political junkies or students of human nature.

Julius Caesar continues its run at 7 p.m. on July 24 and 28, and at 2 p.m. on July 23 and 30. Bring lawn chairs, a blanket and bug spray. Admission is by donation ($20 suggested). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prime Stock Theatre presents a double header of Bard on Bower on Sunday. The first show is ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ at 2 p.m., with ‘Julius Caesar’ at 7 p.m. The productions are at Bower Ponds and admission is free but donations are welcome. Go to www.primestoktheatre.com for more information about show times.

WESTERNER DAYS WRAPS UP WITH FULL SLATE Come out for the final day of Westerner Days with the gates open from noon until 10:30 p.m. Make sure to catch the final running of the Red Deer Motors North American Chuckwagon Championships at 2 p.m., while all other events and the midway also wraps up in the evening.

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Justin Bieber gets warning after appearing with lions in Toronto

BY PAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Steven Tyler performs at the CMA Music Festival at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Tyler, a frontman for the rock band Aerosmith, released a country album, ‘We’re All Somebody From Somewhere.’

Steven Tyler hits pause on Aerosmith to go a little country NEW YORK — He’s led the bad-boy rock band Aerosmith for decades, written a book, learned to parasail, and is the father of four children.

But Steven Tyler had at least one more goal before hitting 70: his first solo album.

“I just thought, ‘Instead of (an) Aerosmith album, why don’t I just write something here and see what I get?”’ Tyler said by phone from his new home in Nashville, Tennessee. “It was something I’ve always wanted to do.”

What he got is We’re All Somebody From Somewhere, a 15-song, twangy CD that features Tyler’s playful voice backed by such un-Aerosmith instruments as mandolin, Cajun accordion, fiddle and trombone.

“If I could achieve one thing,” he said, “it would be that I opened the door to country being allowed to rock a little bit more. As you know, no great story ever started off with ‘I had a salad last night.’

It is sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.”

Tyler co-wrote the majority of the radio-friendly tunes, from the boot-stomping Sweet Louisiana to the unabashed flag-waving Red, White & You to the power ballad What Am I Doin’ Right?”(The album also has two song covers — Piece of My Heart and his own Janie’s Got a Gun.) The 68-year-old Tyler also leaves the world of pickups and cutoff jeans to belt out the pro-immigration title song, singing: “Some white, yellow, black, or red/ We’re all somebody from

somewhere.”

Might he be getting a little political in his old age?

“How do you like that?” he asked, laughing.

The song, he said, is about developing empathy and understanding other people’s pain.

“We’re all getting so caught up in our phones and texting. You’ve got to remember who people are.

I’ve never been one to go political.

It’s been more about life and spirituality.”

Jaren Johnston, singer and lead guitarist for The Cadillac Three who helped produce the album, said he found Tyler eager to work with different songwriters to create songs organically, not trying to fit a genre.

“For where he’s at in his career and what he’s done, who he is and what band he’s in, and every enormo-dome he’s played all over the world, over millions and millions of records, he still has an extreme passion for whatever it is he’s doing. He’s not scared to start a new journey,” Johnston said.

The album doesn’t mean the end of Aerosmith, Tyler insists.

“I love Aerosmith more than anything. My kids and Aerosmith are the two biggest loves in my life, short of an occasional girl in the front row who exposes her breasts,” he jokes.

Tyler said the band is still together and planning to tour South America this fall. “Maybe we’ll do another record before. Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t know,” he said.

He lists his accomplishments — albums, sobriety, four children and recently becoming a grandfather for the third time. “Those great joys are in this solo record,

too. I’m getting great joy out of playing with a new band and the love onstage.”

There’s a tinge of frustration in Tyler’s voice when he discusses what he sacrificed for Aerosmith, writing and performing songs that range from the classic Sweet Emotion to the hard rock strut of Walk This Way. “I think I’ve been very co-dependent with Aerosmith,” Tyler said. “I was married and had kids but I couldn’t go home to my family every night because I had to save my voice for Aerosmith. And I couldn’t go eat dinner with my kids every night because I had to finish the chorus line and write the goddamn melody.”

His relationship with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is clearly strained.

Though Perry recently collapsed during a performance with his band The Hollywood Vampires, several days later Tyler still hadn’t yet spoken to Perry, his wife or managers despite being concerned. Even so, Tyler insisted: “He’s my brother.”

Whatever happens to Aerosmith, Tyler is excited to be on the road supporting his own album.

He might be looking at turning 70 in the near future, but he’s proved old dogs can do new tricks.

“One of the things that I learned was maybe I can be an executive producer of a great television show. Maybe get a part in a movie, become a movie star,” he said.

“I don’t know yet. But I can take a risk and be whatever I want. I am Peter Pan.”

Hip’s farewell tour kicks off in B.C.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Avril Hughes has followed the Tragically Hip since seeing the band in concert in the 1980s, so she didn’t think twice about making the long road trip from her home in California to British Columbia to catch the farewell tour.

“I cannot believe I’m sitting here anticipating seeing them for the last time live,” Hughes said upon arriving in Langley, B.C., on Thursday.

The Tragically Hip kicks off its final cross-country tour in Victoria on Friday, with performances lined up in Vancouver on Sunday and Tuesday, part of a 15-date cross-country trip.

The tour, promoting the band’s latest album Man Machine Poem, was planned following the announcement in May that frontman Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Hughes said she was shocked when she heard the news of Downie’s condition.

“I saw them in October. It was spectacular,” she said. “He had all the energy in the world.”

Despite already catching the band’s performance in San Francisco last year, Hughes said she wasn’t going to miss the final tour.

She was among countless dedicated fans who were glued to their computer screens the evening pre-sale tickets for the farewell tour became available.

“I looked at the countdown clock and the second it was time I pressed the button, and it came up there were no tickets that matched my search,” she said.

After several more searches, she said she finally landed two tickets at the first Vancouver show that she’ll be attending with her brother Paul Hughes, who lives in Langley.

Victoria’s John Garside said he also failed to track down tickets initially, despite being one of the first people in line at the box office, working his mobile phone and enlisting friends to work the phones from their homes.

Finally, after searching for tickets at every tour venue, he picked up two platinum seats for Sunday’s Vancouver concert. Garside, 41, said he paid $1,400 for the two front-section seats.

“I’m going with my best friend of nearly 30 years,” he said.

“He just moved back here with his family from Australia, where’s he’s been since about 2002. Is

there any better way than to say welcome back to Canada and do a Canadian thing than to take him to a Hip show?”

For Jordan Kennedy, seeing Downie and his bandmates perform in Toronto next month will be his 17th time hearing them live.

While a university student 21 years ago, Kennedy was an extra in the band’s music video for the song Silver Jet. There he had the chance to spend the day hanging out and chatting with the musicians.

“They say ‘Don’t meet your heroes because you’ll be disappointed.’ But I at least personally had the complete opposite experience with Gord and with the rest of the guys,” he said. “It was a dream come true and I wish I could do it again.”

Kennedy said the Hip’s lyrics referencing various Canadian people and places even inspired him to learn more about Canada.

He will be going to the show with the same friend who accompanied him to his first Hip concert — also his first ever concert — in 1995.

The Hip’s Victoria performance is already sold out, but the venue will be offering up 50 additional Alberta Beef tickets for sale Friday to those who have put their names in a lottery.

The Vancouver shows are almost sold out, with only platinum seats remaining, through Ticketmaster and resale tickets are available on the website StubHub. The Tragically Hip’s final performance of the tour will take place in the band’s hometown of Kingston, Ont., on Aug. 20.

Fans who failed to nab Call tickets will still be able to watch the final live show, for reservations which is being broadcasted by the CBC.

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TORONTO — Is it too late now to say sorry?

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is in hot water over reports that he appeared with young lions at two Toronto events.

Toronto Animal Services said Friday it has sent the singer a notice of violation after receiving two complaints that he “exhibited” lions.

One complaint relates to Bieber being seen with a white lion cub, the other with a “juvenile lion,” the department said.

City bylaws state that no person can keep a prohibited animal in the city, either on a permanent of temporary basis.

Exotic cats such as lions and tigers are on the list of banned animals, spokesman Steve Johnston said in an email.

Photo by Advocate news services “The information Justin Bieber is in hot provided was that the water again, this time for lions came from Bowmanville Zoo. They appearing at events with were also issued a a pair of lions. Here, he letter seeking complicuddles a white lion cub. ance,” he said.

Photos posted online show Bieber posing with a white lion cub at an engagement party for his father in late April, and cradling a young lion while shirtless at a Toronto performance this spring.

Representatives for Bieber did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it filed the complaints after seeing photos of Bieber petting a chained tiger and other animals at his father’s party.

“The tiger and other animals were cruelly being used as living props at Bieber’s father’s engagement party in Toronto, and PETA soon learned that some of the animals had been taken there from the notorious Bowmanville Zoo,” the group said.

“Soon afterward, Biebs again shared photos of himself posing with an exotic animal, this time a lion cub who had apparently been taken backstage at his Toronto concert,” it said.

The organization vowed to follow up on the complaints and ensure no other alleged violations take place.

The Bowmanville Zoo, an exotic animal attraction east of Toronto, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It’s not the first time Bieber has gotten into trouble over an animal.

The young celebrity settled a fine and paid for the costs of caring for a monkey he brought into Germany in 2013 without the necessary papers, according to that country’s authorities.

The monkey was seized by customs and Bieber failed to claim the animal. It now lives in a zoo.

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RELIGION SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2016

More U.S. voters rejecting religion in politics DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPPORTERS MORE LIKELY TO DECLARE AS ‘NONE’ IN RELIGIOUS POLLS

BY MICHELLE BOORSTEIN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Joe Stone is part of an enormous but invisible voting constituency.

A “troubled atheist,” the retired Virginia accountant calls himself spiritual, celebrates Christmas and defines religious as the need to “do good.” He says organized religion — Christianity as well as Islam — has “gone off the deep end” and political candidates who emphasize the rightness of a certain faith turn him off. At the same time, Stone calls himself “religiously open-minded.”

When Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a New Hampshire town hall this spring that religion is a way of saying all people are connected, Stone agreed. “He is speaking directly to me,” he said.

Stone is part of a massive group of Americans who reject any label or affiliation to describe their faith.

At 23 per cent of the population, this group called “Nones” are the Democratic parallel to the GOP’s white evangelicals — except without organization, PACs, leadership and a clear agenda. They do, however, have one big expectation of political candidates: Be ethical, and go light on the God talk.

A huge group that skews under 40, white and non-immigrant, the Nones want politicians to tone it down not because they’ve made some final determination about God — the vast majority are believers — but because they are fed up with religious institutions they see as corrupt and discriminatory. And in the process, they are rewriting the country’s political discourse on morality.

Experts say the country is just beginning to feel Nones’ political power, in good part because their turnout has been low at about 12 per cent — unsurprising for a disproportionately young group. But that is likely to change, with early research suggesting they are not inclined to become more religious as they grow older.

Political scientist David Campbell, who focuses on religion, compared the Nones of today to evangelicals of the 1970s — who grew in number and slowly became a massive, organized political force.

“You might say we are awaiting the emergence of a secular Jerry Falwell,” said Campbell, who chairs the political science department at the University of Notre Dame.

With their socially liberal viewpoints, Nones will pull the Democrats to the left — which has already happened with the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, said Mark Rozell, dean of the government and policy school at George Mason University and author of multiple books on religion and politics.

“It will make a profound change in American politics in the long run. Put up a candidate who challenges people’s right to love who they want and make decisions about their own lifestyles, and see what happens among the unaffiliated. A lot of other issues go to the back burner,” Rozell said.

Talking too much about religion would be “dangerous” among Nones, he said.

Nones talk about tolerance, fairness, choice and “making the world a better place.” In interviews some describe their worldview as being more authentically holy than people who cite Scripture and denominational labels.

“My girlfriend said, ‘Greta, you’re the best Christian I know that doesn’t go to church,’ “ said Greta Clark, 81, of Youngstown, Ohio, an agnostic who says her religion is “do no wrong.”

Stone says he has an answer for Christians who are skeptical of Sanders, for instance: “Wait a minute, Jesus was a Jewish socialist.”

In addition to their skepticism about religious institutions, Nones share anger at secular institutions they feel are immoral, interviews show. Their political priorities include reducing big money’s influence on politics, raising wages and making college affordable. They do not trust government to police personal morality.

“We need a revolution at this point because corruption is so vast,” said Cheryl, a 43-year-old chief financial officer from Atlanta. She spoke on condition that her last name not be used because she said the stigma of being not religious in the South would harm her career and her child.

She doesn’t like it when candidates talk about religion, but it bothers her less if it seems like lip service — evidence that they probably won’t apply dogma to public policy. If they’re saying it just to get elected, that’s more okay, she said.

“It doesn’t bother me because I’ve done the same thing, tried to pass,” she said.

Although most evangelicals and Catholics say terrorism is their top voting priority, Nones say theirs is the economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll in December.

The major check on Nones’ political power is their lack of group awareness.

“This cohort is as large as evangelicals, but very poorly organized, and they don’t have the discipline or political reflex. But you can’t tell me campaigns aren’t thinking about them, especially the Democrats,” said Jacques Berlinerblau, a Georgetown University sociologist who has written several books about the role of religion in politics.

Democrats, he said, have to straddle the Nones, most of whom feel candidates are talking too much about their faith and prayer, and the rest of the Democratic faith coalition — which includes progressive Jews, Catholics and Protestants — “who don’t mind it as long as it doesn’t get overwrought.”

A quarter of President Barack Obama’s voters in 2012 were religiously unaffiliated — by far the largest “faith” group in his coalition. Perhaps in consideration of his religiously independent supporters, the president gave the first inaugural nod in his 2008 address to “nonbelievers.”

Mike McCurry, a communications consultant to candidates and faith groups who served as press secretary to Bill Clinton, said top Democratic advisers to campaigns “just don’t get” the role of faith groups — including the Nones.

In fact, the Nones are a complex and sometimes contradictory group. They believe in God — but on their own terms. They don’t particularly want to hear about religion, but they aren’t anti-religion.

Clark said she doesn’t believe in confession, doesn’t think she believes in God, considers herself a Christian “in some ways,” thinks candidates shouldn’t mention religion and is disgusted by “houses of worship fancied up with icons and statues, big churches built from poor people’s money.”

But she and her husband sent their now-grown sons to Catholic school. To her, the main election issues are things like roads, bridges and clean water.

The issue of water contamination “is a disgrace.”

“I wish we didn’t have to talk about religion in politics. This is not a religious race,” Stone said. He grew up in a big religious family but feels church has become arrogant and intolerant.

“We should be a spiritual country, meaning we should endeavor to have a good government in the eyes of whatever God you feel is right, or in the eyes of no God.”

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Joe and Betsy Stone, part of the estimated 23 per cent of Americans who declare as religiously unafiliated, are shown in their home in Springfield, Va. Christianity has become too broken into sects and intolerant, “it’s split up more,” he said.

“Back then Muslims were peaceful happy people and, for whatever reason, they got angry. Religions have gotten wacky,” Stone said. “Morality comes from another place. It’s a chicken or egg thing. The morality came before the stories” of religion.

Alexis Echevarria, 20, calls herself a None because “I don’t want to label myself. I believe in a bunch of little things, other religions,” including the Catholicism to which her family holds fast and in which she was raised.

But in recent years she has started questioning some church teachings, doesn’t like labels and sees her peer group in Katy, Texas, outside Houston, as split on religion — half her friends are religious and

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half are not. She values choice, whether that comes to whether to go to church, accept abortion or homosexuality or to even call yourself a believer.

“I’m open to everything and everyone,” Echevarria said, including candidates who talk, or don’t talk, about their faith. She has heard “very very little” about candidates’ religion, except Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talking about religion and immigration, “which is baloney,” she said.

Asked how she can tell if a candidate is speaking genuinely about their faith, Echevarria’s sunny, non-judgmental vocabulary shifted. “I was told candidates lie,” she said. “I’m guarded with everyone.

Open, but guarded.”

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The future with President Trump GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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et us suppose that it is July 2017.

Let us suppose that Donald Trump, nominated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency exactly a year ago, won the November election — quite narrowly, perhaps, but the polls are certainly suggesting that such a thing is possible. So he was inaugurated six months ago, and has started to put his campaign promises into effect.

We may also assume that the Republican Party retains control of both houses of Congress. If it doesn’t, then Trump’s ability to execute his plans would be seriously circumscribed, but the surge of support that gives Trump victory would probably also give the Republicans a win in some close Senate races. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives, thanks to extensive gerrymandering, is practically fireproof.

Trump’s three most disruptive campaign promises were also the three that had the most appeal to his core voters, and he is implementing them fast. They are: a 40 per cent tariff on all foreign imports, an end to free trade deals, and tight curbs on immigration — especially the famous “wall” on the Mexican border.

It won’t actually be a wall, of course.

It will be the kind of high-tech barrier that countries build when they are really serious about closing a frontier.

There will be a ditch about three metres deep and 10 metres wide extending for 3,000 km along the U.S.-Mexican border. It will have a three-metre-high razor-wire fence along the front edge of the ditch, facing Mexico, and another along the back edge.

The front fence has a high-voltage current running through it. The back fence carries the video and infra-red cameras and motion-sensors that detect attempts to cross the ditch, and the remotely controlled machine-guns that respond to those attempts. There are also land-mines down in the ditch.

Why is it so lethal? Because long experience has shown that the only way to really close a border is to kill people who try to cross it.

The “wall” is not yet finished in July 2017, of course. It will take several years to complete, at a cost of $30-50 billion. Already, however, there are daily deaths among the tens of thousands of Mexican protesters who gather at the construction sites — and a few among Mexican-American protesters on the other side of the fence as well.

The Mexican government, faced with economic disaster as the millions of manufacturing jobs created in Mexico to export back to the United States evaporate, has broken diplomatic relations with Washington, as have several other Latin American nations. State Department experts are worried that a

radical nationalist regime may come to power in Mexico, but “establishment experts” are not welcome in the new White House.

Negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the U.S. and European Union have been broken off, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership will never be ratified by Congress. The legislation for a 40 per cent tariff on foreign imports is still making its way through Congress, as is the bill to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (which is causing panic in Canada, 73 per cent of whose exports go to the United States).

The new laws will go through in the end, and the most important casualty will be U.S.-China trade (as Trump fully intends it to be). China is already in a thinly disguised recession, and the impact of the new trade measures will turn it into a political crisis that threatens the survival of the Commu-

nist regime.

Beijing will certainly respond by pushing forward with the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which would include 16 nations of the Asia-Pacific region but exclude the United States. However, it may also manufacture a military confrontation with the United States to distract popular discontent at home with a foreign threat. The dispute over the South China Sea would do nicely.

Japan, which is starting a major military build-up after Prime Minister Abe finally removed the anti-war Article 9 from the constitution in March 2017, will be at America’s side in this confrontation, but its European allies may not. Trump’s pro-Putin posture has not gone down well in the EU, which worries about Russia’s intentions, and his demands that Europe’s NATO members pay more of the alliance’s costs have not helped either.

The European Union, still in shock

after Britain’s Brexit vote in 2016, has been further shaken by the near-win of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right, anti-EU National Front, in the May run-off of the French presidential elections. The spectre of EU collapse comes nearer, and Europe has no time for America’s Asian quarrels.

In the United States, the economy is still chugging along despite the stock-market crash of November 2016.

Trump’s big increase in the military budget, his huge expansion of infrastructure spending (with borrowed money) and the rise in the minimum wage have kept the machine turning over for the time being. The effect of declaring a trade war on the rest of the world is not yet being felt at home — but it will be. And it’s only July 2017.

Trump still has another three-and-ahalf years in the White House.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Struggles can be passed down for generations CHRIS SALOMONS STREET TALES

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his one particular morning I was listening to some music videos on the computer and it struck me that there are an incredible number of musicians who are the children of musicians; plus their children are being raised to present music as well.

Of course, it made me think about how in all of life that children emulate their parents, especially if the traits are positive ones. But the reverse is true as well. Monarchies remain very generational as do people with specific giftings such as a particular vocation.

As a matter of fact, if we look around us, almost all areas of life and culture have generational roots. So much so I believe that the very stability of civilizations gain their strength in that repeated consistency.

We find that the major world religions make a point of remembering and recounting each and every generation. Today there are Judeans, IslaRED DEER

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mists and I’m sure others as well who lend weight to their standing in their society because of this ability to recount each and every generation that led to their existence.

In many cases, it is a matter of pride, both boastful and demanding; in others it is what they know and so they do not depart too far from it. For the latter, I remember watching a documentary on families in the back reaches of Nepal who have lived exactly the same for countless generations; they expect no more out of life. Others use their generational association to grab everything out of life that they can.

If you are wondering where I am going with this, let me show you how this led me to explore the generational phenomenon as it relates to the folks that I work with and for at the kitchen.

You see, we have several families frequenting the kitchen that encompass two and three generations. There is even one that counts as high as four.

Let me tell you as to how I see the situations as they develop over the few years I have been working there.

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sponsibility to try to find a way to help.

It all started with a child taken from its parents and forced to live in a residential school where the teachings were dedicated to exterminating their heritage. We would later find out that in the end, no more was accomplished except to remove all sense of (generational) belonging to a family and motivation from their lives.

As they grew, their drifting lifestyle prevented them from pursuing a more productive existence. They in turn had children who emulated them.

And because they did not learn any lifeskills in that school, they had no skills to teach their children. Then their children had more children. With no knowledge on how to deal with a growing child, a little one basically raises itself.

Now couple that fact with location and the influences that are present there and you have a generation that has descended in more ways than one.

All around me, in many circles, I hear only condemnation of these kids; their actions, lifestyle, everything about them, and voila, racism is exacerbated.

For many years I would be very critical of these beautiful folks, like everyone else around me; condemning them for not breaking the mold that they

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are trapped in. Only problem is, these people have adopted that self-loathing lifestyle they were taught, and so no longer feel that improving themselves is worth the effort. “Even if I change, they will still call me an Indian.” So forget changing.

So, generation after generation, something they should view with pride, they will remain the same with no change in their lifestyle, behaviours, and characteristics; they just don’t know how. There are not enough people with the heart to reach out to embrace them where they are and what condition they find them in.

We are at the point where we have to ask ourselves, “do we really want to see improvement in the lives of these unique people, and are we willing to step outside of our comfort zone in order to help?”

My thoughts on the U.S. elections are, if you elect Donald Trump, then you deserve him. In the same way, if we elect to do nothing to help our own population to make positive changes, then we deserve what the results will bring to our community.

Only one question remains. What are you going to do about it?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Trump has nothing on unlikely Willkie PAT MURPHY OPINION

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his year’s Republican convention is a keen disappointment for political junkies. History offers at least one such gathering that was more compelling.

Just a few months ago, we hoped to experience that rare animal in American politics — a contested, multi-ballot convention with all the drama we’ve only read about in books. But Donald Trump has deprived us of that pleasure, providing yet another reason to be mad at him.

So if we’re confined to dipping into history in search of a gripping contest, let’s look at the Republican gathering of June 1940. This was the convention that nominated Wendell Willkie.

Willkie (1892-1944) was a most unlikely Republican presidential nominee. For one thing, he’d been a registered Democrat until September 1939.

And he was an outspoken international interventionist at a time when much of the Republican base was isolationist, wanting nothing more than to shun

any involvement in the war in Europe.

Born in Indiana, Willkie was adept at presenting himself as a homespun midwesterner. The reality, though, was more complicated.

Willkie was a lawyer who came to initial prominence as CEO of the power utility Commonwealth and Southern, in which capacity he fought a public battle against Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to replace the company’s southeastern monopoly by establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority. Although he ultimately lost that fight, Willkie secured a good price for Commonwealth and Southern’s assets and made a name for himself as someone who would stand up to what many people saw as Roosevelt’s bullying antipathy toward private business.

Then there was his personal life.

Midwestern twang notwithstanding, Willkie was irrevocably attached to New York City, which he described as “the most exciting, stimulating, satisfying spot in the world.” That attachment was compounded by his long-running affair with Irita Van Doren, the New York Herald Tribune’s book editor. Had such an affair become public knowledge, it would have torpedoed the political career of any married man in 1940 America.

Willkie’s political rise is a case study of what happens when the char-

ismatic man, the moment and the media all come together. He was adopted by the likes of Henry Luce and the Cowles brothers, media magnates who believed that America should be doing much more to assist Britain’s fight against Nazi Germany.

Luce owned Time and Life, the two most influential mass audience magazines in the country. And the Cowles published Look and two important midwestern newspapers — the Minneapolis Star-Journal and the Des Moines Register. Thanks in large part to such high-powered media support, Willkie’s poll standing among Republicans climbed from less than one per cent in March 1940 to 29 per cent in early June.

When the convention voting started on June 27, Willkie initially placed third, behind New York’s Thomas Dewey and Ohio’s Robert Taft, both of whom were running as isolationists.

By the third ballot, he’d moved into second place. And by the fourth, he was leading as Dewey’s vote collapsed and Taft became the main opponent.

Finally, in the early hours of June 28, Willkie prevailed on the sixth ballot.

Willkie then did two things that can only be construed as putting principle above politics. And in both instances, he helped Roosevelt out of a tricky spot.

One was his tacit approval of the destroyers-for-bases deal, whereby America transferred 50 First World War ships to the Royal Navy in return for basing rights on British possessions in the Caribbean and western Atlantic.

At Roosevelt’s request, Willkie privately promised not to make the transfer a campaign issue.

The other action was related to the Roosevelt administration’s highly controversial desire to introduce a peacetime draft. Speaking to a massive rally on Aug. 17, Willkie endorsed the plan.

A month later, the Senate and House approved it.

But if he expected any gratitude for this statesmanship, Willkie was severely disappointed. With vice-presidential candidate Henry Wallace leading the charge, the Democrats assailed him. In the words of historical journalist Lynne Olson, “Wallace, the designated brawler on the Democratic ticket, came within an inch of saying that a vote for Willkie would be a vote for Hitler.”

Perhaps humourist Finley Peter Dunne’s fictional Irish-American Mr. Dooley put it best: “Sure, politics ain’t beanbag.”

Troy Media columnist Pat Murphy casts a history buff’s eye at the goings-on in our world. Never cynical – well perhaps a little bit.

Christmas in July with return of the fair HARLEY HAY HAY’S DAZE

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o some people, it’s like Christmas. Christmas in July, that’s what I used to call it. The Westerner, the exhibition, the fair — whatever you call it, as sure as hail in July, it’s here again.

It’s been a while since I felt the magical pull of the carnival (a year) and now that the catchy cacophony of the midway and the sticky fingers smell of the cotton candy and the manmade lightning of the flashing colours of the exhibition are back in town, well, almost everyone under the age of 12, myself included, is obsessing with the fair. So just for fun, let’s scientifically consider the key elements, good, bad and ugly, that account for our frenetic fair fever. ● The unpredictable weather. Just ask the Calgary Stampede this year! I can remember when the Rotten Kids were young we would arrive at the fair with approximately 400 kilograms of raincoats, hats, sunscreen, sweaters, shorts, water bottles, parkas, etc. all towed awkwardly through the crowds in a large red wagon. And, sure as shootin’ the rain and wind is going to hit at exactly the time you are sitting, stuck at the very top of a stalled ferris wheel. Which is, like, totally fun! ● The disappearing dough. Even with the ‘Ride Till You Drop’ passes, you will spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 per cent more than you intend to spend. This is because, hey, it’s the fair and they have those balloons that look so easy to pop with a dart, and those irresistible little red stars on a tiny piece of paper that you try to shoot out with a BB machine gun, and those enticing pop bottles that have tops that are about a half a centimeter too large for the ring you are tossing, and … and then there’s the five cent diggers. I estimate that over the years of my youth I could have purchased a brand new 1966 Corvette with the money I pumped into those diggers. Not to mention the food. ● The fatuous food. Let’s mention the food. The overpowering lure of fair food is just too much for some of us.

Fair food keeps the wallet empty, the face full, and the spare tire inflated.

(Old joke: My spare tire is a Dunlop — as in ‘done lopped over’ — haha.)

Let’s face it, elephant ears the size of a Frisbee can’t be all that healthy, and corn dogs, mini donuts and deep fried

artery clogging angioplasty on a stick — these are not real high on the Canada Food Guide recommendations. I’m pretty sure candy apples, fudge and snow cones are OK though.

I fondly remember one year when I discovered these cheesy, sleazy, messy, outrageously delicious taco thingies at one of the booths. I had to have several a day every day at the fair. Unfortunately, it was the year I also discovered the Zipper — that topsy turvy, crash and burn thrill ride where you spend most of your time flying around upside down. The technicolour food/ ride combo was not pretty that year, if you get my drift. ● The raucous rides. Speaking of rides, who can deny that climbing onto a large, creaky metal monster, fast moving, high flying contraption, put together hours before by a two-man sleep-deprived crew equipped only with a crescent wrench and a large hammer isn’t a real thrill. The Salt and Pepper Shaker where you can lose both your pocket change and your lunch, the Tilt-A-Whirl which, if you

get “a good one” is actually an astronaut training machine subjecting you to approximately 12 Gs, or the Scrambler where you make sure that guy or girl you have a crush on sits on the outside so that you can’t help crush him or her in a high-speed hug at every turn.

Oh, the screams of all the girly girls on those rides — this is the stuff the fair is made of. (Wait, you mean that wailing was coming from ME?) ● The fantabulous food. Did I mention the food? The caramel apples are the Better Half’s favourite. I kind of lean to the foot long hotdogs. And the poutine. Or some deep fried pickles, those are my favorite. Except for mac and cheese balls. Oh, and meat on a stick — I’m pretty sure that’s my absolute favorite. Next to that shaved ice with sprinkles of course.

But you may ask, Harley, is there a way to eat healthy at the fair? Sure.

Bring your own lunch. Some carrots and kale, bottled Evian water, two granola bars and a small peppermint for desert. Then hide under a tent flap to eat, because you are such a BUZZ

KILL! ● The engaging entertainment.

Where else can you go to see clowns, chuckwagons, washed up bands from the ’80s, and loud and silly teenagers dragging around stuffed animals the size of small humans and flirting with each other by crashing into you and knocking your one litre Coke out of your hands? Where else can you eat your weight in caramel popcorn and then immediately dangle upside down for three minutes, 50 meters off the ground? Where else can you hang out with friends, have more fun than should be legal and make memories that will last a lifetime? That’s what fairs are for.

I may not be able to find the five cent diggers anymore, but this year, I’m kind of counting on some funnel cake.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Innovative risk-takers will resurrect our economy

BY ROSLYN KUNIN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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ow can the sluggish Canadian economy generate more wealth for all of us? We need to find ways to encourage the innovative thinkers among us.

We all wouldn’t mind at least a little more income. And most of us would like to see that increase spread around a little more evenly. But Canadian income growth, especially at the lower levels, has been slow or stagnant. Why is this and what can we do about it?

Income doesn’t fall like rain. It is the product of the work of companies and individuals. Productivity (output per unit of input like labour or capital) is the measure of how much wealth our work generates. Unfortunately, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) productivity growth has been slowing around the world.

But let’s concern ourselves with Canada and the economic elephant we sleep with – the United States.

Between 2004 and 2014, labour productivity in Canada grew at less than one per cent – 0.9 per cent to be exact. That puts a very low cap on how fast incomes rise. And Canada’s labour

productivity in the last decade was down from 1.4 per cent in the previous decade. In the U.S., too, productivity fell in the same period, from 2.5 per cent to 1.2 per cent. But still their productivity growth is better and that helps explain why the standard of living is higher in the U.S. than in Canada – and why that gap will continue to rise.

The OECD has looked at the factors that contribute to productivity growth, concentrating first on frontier firms.

Frontier firms are the ones most productive, in industries, nations or globally. It is human capital, physical capital and especially the cutting-edge technology that puts firms on the frontier. Frontier firms tend to be young and fast growing. Then the technology and productivity gains developed and applied in frontier firms need to be diffused throughout the economy.

We should have many frontier firms because so many of us at the beginning of our careers aspire to start the next Google. And we should apply quickly and broadly what we can learn from those firms. What can we do to assure more success? The OECD offers some suggestions” ● We need to foster innovation and the spread of that innovation among firms.

● We need a market economy that will facilitate that innovation and its diffusion. ● We need to put our resources, especially people, to their most productive use by making sure that the labour force has the right skills.

Policies that enhance growth in productivity include: ● Reducing barriers to the entry and exit of firms. ● Research and development (R&D) and innovation policies balanced between basic and applied research as well as between start-ups and established firms. ● Encouraging superior management practices to increase competition against less efficient firms, so that those less efficient will not continue to misuse scarce resources and keep them away from a better allocation. ● Allowing for failure through a clear procedure for bankruptcy so that firms are not excessively penalized for leaving something that is not working to try something better. ● Having well functioning markets for goods, services, labour and capital so that resources can move easily to their most productive use, supported by an efficient and effective legal system. ● Public investment in basic re-

search, including support and incentives for researchers. ● Taking advantage of global R&D through multinational corporations and competitive tax policies. ● Being open and mobile, with goods, people and ideas able to move freely, allowing us to participate more fully in an increasingly integrated world economy. ● Increasing labour market efficiency to reduce skills mismatch. ● Minimizing unnecessary red tape, which slows down an economy. ● Maximizing lifelong learning since productivity ultimately comes from people.

New, cutting edge firms at the frontier of technology will make Canada productive and rich. We need an environment where such firms can thrive and prosper.

We need ambitious people willing to take a chance by setting up such firms and succeeding, or trying something else if success is not forthcoming.

We need well-educated, hard-working, flexible people to take the good jobs those firms can provide.

And then we need to get out of their way, since they will generate the income that supports us all.

Troy Media columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and speaker.

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ADVICE SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2016

If you like the job, get along with co-worker DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: I graduated college earlier this year, and after six months on the job hunt, I am finally employed full time at a large nonprofit as one of the receptionists.

The problem is that I share the front desk with another woman and she is getting on my nerves. She’s been working at this job for almost three years, and I don’t see her going anywhere any time soon.

Sharing a desk with her is becoming unbearable, and it’s only been a few months. She will hum throughout the day, tap her pen loudly on the desk while on the phone and chew obnoxiously while snacking.

She doesn’t seem to notice her habits. When I’ve brought up the humming, she says she’ll try to stop, but

nothing happens.

Annie, this woman is very sensitive, and I’d hate to be on bad terms with her, especially as I’m just starting out in this position.

We get along just fine otherwise.

I have tried wearing headphones for short periods of time, but as a receptionist, I need to be alert to the phones and people walking into the building.

How can I continue to work here without going insane? I don’t want to go through the process of finding a new job. Though the pay is not great for a college graduate, I can see a future within the company and love the work that we do. — Banging My Head Against the Wall Dear Headbanger: Before you punch a hole in your desk, try talking with this woman again.

She doesn’t seem to notice the humming, which could be a way for her to deal with tinnitus. A gentle reminder won’t make her hate you. And a frank discussion about habits could bring up some of your own of which you’re unaware.

As you’re just starting out, keep things in perspective. You’re lucky to be in a position you enjoy for a good company. Sure, incessant humming and desktop drumming can be unpleasant. But annoying co-worker habits come standard in every workplace.

Learning to tolerate them is just part of the job.

Dear Annie: I moved in with my brother and sister-in-law because it was a win-win situation — quality time with family and free rent. They also have a cat, dog and 1-year-old daughter.

I am very grateful for their generosity, and I try to keep my things tidy and help around the (small) apartment as much as I can.

I know my sister-in-law is busy with the baby and my brother works, but I also work a full-time job and am in graduate school. I am home at weird times and often gone for most of the day and into the night.

When I come home, I find any belongings of mine that I may have left around the apartment by my bedroom

door with a note saying I left these out.

My sister-in-law seems to keep tabs on what I leave out in the common areas. It’s usually not a lot, but it bothers me because it’s passive and the kitchen is always a mess because of them and they don’t clean it often, making it hard for me to plan and prep for my meals.

I can understand her wanting to keep the place tidy, but now I feel awkward bringing it up because it is their place.

How do I confront this issue? — Awkward Roomie Dear Awkward: As parents across the world are fond of saying, their roof, their rules. Don’t try to fire back at your brother and sister-in-law about the kitchen’s being messy. It’s their kitchen!

If you were paying rent, you’d have a leg to stand on here. Because you’re not, you just have to suck it up — and pick up your stuff.

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

Fitness instructors needn’t be drill sergeants

BY KELLI KENNEDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — My grandmother can do more push-ups than you. No one wants to see jiggly cellulite hanging out of a bikini. You need to make up for all those cookies you ate last night.

While those kinds of drill sergeant-style putdowns and body-shaming warnings have long been a part of many fitness classes, some instructors and researchers are promoting a change of message aimed at empowering clients, relieving stress and fueling students with confidence.

“Body shaming and focusing on appearance and comparing yourself to other people, we absolutely know that’s harmful for women,” said Renee Engeln, a Northwestern University psychology professor who has been studying messaging in fitness classes.

“The more you’re exercising to look good or to lose weight, the less you tend to enjoy it, the less you tend to stick with it. Whereas women who exercise because of how it makes them feel — healthier, stronger, less stressed — they tend to get more out of exercise and they tend to stick with it longer.”

She recently surveyed hundreds of women who worked out in various types of classes and asked them to list their least favourite motivating comments. Around half said they hated comments that focused on appearance.

Topping the list of loathed comments were those urging women to get a bikini body, look like a celebrity or endure punishment to atone for dessert.

“You still go into most group fitness classes and the lowest common denominator conversation is like ‘bikini body ladies, July Fourth is around the corner, what did you eat last night?”’ said Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a New York fitness instructor and assistant professor of history at The New School who has been studying feminism and group fitness.

Sadie Kurzban, owner of New York’s 305 Fitness, a dance workout with a live DJ, says such messages from instructors are ultimately counterproductive for clients, some of

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Sadie Kurzban, left, leads the Cardio Arms class at 305 Fitness in New York. Kurzban, a hip-hop dance workout with a live DJ, says drill sergeant-style putdowns and body-shaming comments from instructors are ultimately counterproductive for clients, some of whom already have body insecurities. whom already have body insecurities.

“When a fitness instructor shouts something to us at a class it’s very emotionally charged,” Kurzban said.

“As instructors we have this deep power to either build people up, empower them, give them a message that’s really about their choice, their bodies, their lives or about shaming or putting them down.”

But it’s a difficult shift for instructors to make, particularly because the lingo is so ingrained not just in the fitness world, but with the rise of social media where body photos are relentlessly dissected.

The instructors in the study denied making these types of comments “but the women we surveyed were like, ‘no, we hear it a lot,” Engeln said.

Elaine Lewinnek said she eventually stopped going to a studio near her home in Encinitas, California because she was sick of all the talk about getting a bikini body. While the 42-yearold mother of two and professor at California State University says she exercises in part for vanity, she says it’s mainly about taking a moment for her herself and being inspired by others, like the “the 80-year-old doing a headstand in yoga class.”

“I don’t work out to try to look like a Barbie doll. I work out to feel strong and healthy,” said Lewinnek.

New York trainer Kira Stokes says a full workout goes beyond the physical.

Clients are also looking for emotional support.

“A lot of it is reading the people

in the room and saying that woman’s shoulders are rounded forward, she won’t look at herself in the mirror.

The last thing she needs to hear is for someone to say, ‘What kind of posture is that, get your shoulders back’,” Stokes said.

Petrzela created Link Together, Lead Together to unite fitness instructors to better use their platforms to help women. The group has had three events in New York and Los Angeles in the past year, with more than 100 instructors attending.

The idea, she says, is to “raise our awareness about the words we are using in our studios and … see ourselves as vanguards of a new conversation rather just amplifying the old one which is pretty disempowering.”

sions today Rams. By all means be enthusiastic but pace yourself, otherwise youíll make hasty moves that you later regret.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may temporarily lose your momentum, and question your goals and aspirations. Keep going Taurus — the dreams you dream now will manifest later on. You just need to be patient.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get out and about in your local community this weekend Twins. Communicating with people from a wide range of backgrounds will feed your desire for variety and mental stimulation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll feel more comfortable articulating your feelings as the weekend progresses. Sunday night is fabulous for sharing sentimental memories via a special meal with family or friends.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you combine being proactive with being practical, then you’ll have a pleasant and productive week-

end. But, if you rush and cut corners, then you’ll just have to re-do things later on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When it comes to a personal matter or a close relationship, you’ve got firm ideas about how you want to proceed. But perhaps a more fluid and flexible approach will get you further, faster?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Group activities are favoured, so pal up with some kindred spirits. Creativity is also highlighted.

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” [Albert Einstein] SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more confident and proactive you are this weekend, the more successful you’ll be. Looking for employment? You need to think outside the square and find creative ways to present yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Communicating with acquaintances from over-

seas is favoured, as you extend your circle of friends to include a cosmopolitan new crowd.

When it comes to solving a problem, follow your instincts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Has communication become strained between you and a family member or close friend?

This weekend’s stars encourage re-establishing a connection, as you strive to let go of old grudges.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The focus is firmly on partnerships at the moment Aquarius. You’ll find the more energy and enthusiasm you put into communicating with loved ones, the better your relationship.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Incorporating plenty of invigorating exercise and outdoor activities into your weekend routine will shake your life up in positive ways. Choose a physical workout that is frequent, fast and fun.

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“It’s a place for contemplation, meditation, writing and reflection,” said Ochoa-Brillembourg. “To find these woods on the Eastern Shore was very magical.”

Like a window into the woods ON A HIKE, A WOMAN FOUND THE HOME SHE WANTED. SHE JUST HAD TO WAIT FOR OWNERS TO SELL IT

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES EASTON, Md. — Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg wanted a crystal cube in the woods.

One day she was walking through a forest on the Eastern Shore of Maryland when she saw a mid-century rambler, in the woods.

If the owners ever wanted to sell, she told them, she was interested in buying it for a weekend home.

Indeed, at the end of a gravel road was a house in a mesmerizing setting that begged to be renovated. So when the owners decided to move to Florida, Ochoa-Brillembourg and her husband, Arturo E. Brillembourg, were ready to buy.

“It’s a place for contemplation, meditation, writing and reflection,” said Ochoa-Brillembourg, whose first home is in Washington. “To find these woods on the Eastern Shore was very magical.”

The rambler had “all kinds of little rooms,” Ochoa-Brillembourg said.

“The main living area was partitioned into all kinds of little rooms” as well.

“I figured at some point it could be renovated,” and she knew just the architect who could transform the space into a weekend retreat where family and friends could get away from the hectic pace of the Washington area.

“It was as far away from a glass cube, a crystal cube” as could be, but Ochoa-Brillembourg, a portfolio manager, saw its potential, and so did family friend, architect Salo Levinas, a partner with Shinberg Levinas in the District of Columbia.

“We eliminated the walls and the original ceiling” in the main living space, Ochoa-Brillembourg said. “It’s the concept of a family room. There’s not a single space in the house where you’re not in contact with nature.”

Levinas worked with the needs of the owners in mind: They requested a place where their family could gather and spend time together, and they wanted to bring the outdoors into their living space. “We wanted to allow the house to merge into the woods,” Ochoa-Brillembourg said. “That’s the magic of it. It’s a little bit like discovering what a person is like on the inside. And the exterior is actually pretty now” as well. It had to be a place “where people could commune with one another and still have space for themselves.”

Levinas, who considers himself a minimalist architect, said he aims for practicality. “We tried to keep it as simple as possible, to keep as much as possible of the integrity of the original house,” he said. “We kept 80 percent of the house - the exterior walls and the roof are the same. We added very little square footage - a walk-in closet in the master bedroom, a garage and two

bathrooms.”

The main living area of the 3,100-square-foot home essentially became one big room - a combination living room, dining room, family room and kitchen. “This is an island floating in nature. It’s not about being big,” he said.

The key to the transformation was to utilize as much natural light as possible. “We wanted to change the house from night to day,” Levinas said.

The most striking features of the house are the new ceiling in the main living area and the skylight situated above the 20-foot-long island.

Though the exterior of the roof remains the same, Levinas’s design opened the ceiling up to the inside of the roof, raising it nine inches, to 14 feet.

“We restructured the interior of the roof,” he said.

Creating the skylight was central to the redesign of the house. The purpose of it is not to see the sky but “to bring a shower of light at the core of the house,” Levinas said.

Light also flows into the main living space from the sliding glass doors and windows across the back of the house and at the corners of the main living space. When you enter the house from the front door, you feel like you are walking outdoors because of the light and view of the forest at the back of the house. The house appears to be floating.

At the front is a boardwalk leading to the house and a pond; at the back is a deck and pergola where Levinas designed a wooden table and bench.

The house’s original red-brick exterior was painted white to blend with the contemporary design within.

For project architect Maria Gorodetskaya, the biggest challenge was “how to transform the dark Colonial house into a modern, light-filled structure,” she said. “By removing portions of the exterior wall, a strategic connection was made between the indoor

and outdoor spaces, bringing the landscape inside.”

The main living space includes four areas: the kitchen, seating areas at either end of the house that extend to the corners where the glass windows and doors are placed, and a space between the two seating areas dominated by a dining table and six chairs.

The two seating areas are defined by custom-cut sienna rugs and lavender contemporary crescent-shaped seating. At either end of the main space, open storage units display decorative arts and books.

“At some point, there will be less decoration and more books,” Ochoa-Brillembourg said. The seating area to the far right when you enter the house has a television for those who want to watch while others can read or play games in the adjacent areas.

Floors throughout the house are light gray ceramic, which is easy to clean. The house is designed to be “child-proof” and “adolescent-proof,” she said.

The island subtly separates the kitchen from the living and dining areas, and has four seats to encourage gathering around the island while meal preparation is in progress. Drawers were designed with varying depths and lengths to store kitchen equipment; a walk-in pantry provides additional storage.

“It’s nice to have an uncluttered space,” Ochoa-Brillembourg said. “It allows more freedom to interact with others. You’re less distracted. It’s easy to put things away.”

The house accommodates eight people comfortably, she said, including any combination of grown children, grandchildren and friends. Sometimes, the three generations gather together; other times, the children use the house by themselves.

The three original bedrooms remain small, but two bathrooms and a laundry room were added at the other end of the house.

“We didn’t want to make it a gigantic space,” Ochoa-Brillembourg said.

“It’s a very contemporary glass shed.”

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Sky light and mirrors DEBBIE TRAVIS HOUSE TO HOME

Photos by DEBBIE TRAVIS/Advocate news services

Step by step; Delicate ocher streaks provide realistic shadow and colour to the painted clouds. whiter on top as the sun hits them, shadowy underneath, and at sunrise and sunset youíll see gorgeous streaks of pink and ocher.

To replicate this cloudy sky, begin with a pale blue base coat. Then, mix a very transparent white glaze, 3 parts glazing liquid to 1part paint.

Use the runny white paint for drawing in the shape and direction of the clouds. They should have some form and movement and look as if they are all blowing in one direction. Next, use undiluted (thick) white paint to plump up some of the clouds. Finally, for a realistic highlight, brush on small areas of ocher colour to suggest that the sun has caught the clouds.

Check out stencils at your art and craft store or on the internet. You will find a variety of frames and mouldings including circular shapes. This was a

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Beauty shot: A hanging mirror, sparkling chandelier and whimsical skylight create an inviting hallway setting. two-part stencil, one for the moulding and the second to add the shadows that create the 3-dimensional effect.

Since the hallway is connected to the other main floor rooms in this home, I chose 3 tones of grey for an harmonious flow. The hallway is pale grey, the dining room a mid-tone, and the living room was painted a dark tone to add depth and a seductive

quality to the space. High gloss varnish was applied to the living room walls so that it stands out, yet blends with the other rooms.

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Your front hall is perhaps not the first space you think about decorating, but it has an important and very basic job to do, and warrants your attention.

This is the entry point into your home.

A thoughtful plan that considers immediate needs, such as where to hang up coats and hang keys, makes arriving home easy and welcoming. The colour of the walls, the lighting, any furniture or accessories have an instant impact on how comfortable you feel, and what you can expect from the living areas.

Entryways are not created equal.

Layouts vary from spacious, with a full closet and room for a table and chair, to tiny with room only for a mat for shoes and a coat tree. No matter the size, here are clever ideas that will build on your personal style.

In the hallway shown here, the homeowners lean toward a traditional style with details that were lacking in their new builder home. Good lighting is essential. There was plenty of light from large windows during the day.

For nighttime, I chose a chandelier that lights the hall from above with a gentle sparkle. A hall mirror was on their wish list, always a perfect solution for enlarging a space and making it brighter. However, there was no blank wall space, so I hung an antique framed mirror from the ceiling in front of the window. The windows are dressed in white sheers flanked by the warmth of textured gold silk drapes.

Painted skies are a popular way to decorate a ceiling. Rather than paint the whole ceiling, why not paint a small vignette? The illusion of a framed skylight is not difficult to produce and makes a stunning whimsical picture. The frame is made with stencils, so tape off the area and start with the sky. Clouds are easy to paint, watch the sky and study photos to get the feel.

Clouds move in one direction, they are

HOMES

Saturday, July 23, 2016

D3

Ideas for the bathroom CREATIVE SPACE

In last week’s column, I offered a few suggestions that might help make a bedroom décor everything it could be. In this next part, I will take a look at the bathroom and offer ways to make it safer, more practical and more up-to date.

If you saw the plan for last week’s column (if not, it is available at CreativeSpaceV2.com), you will notice that I have made a few changes to the bathroom floor plans.

For anyone who is renting their home, spending money beyond buying some fresh, new towels, a new shower curtain and some accessories would seem frivolous. Those who are decorating a newly-built home were likely satisfied with the selection of tile and other finishes, so they, too, wouldn’t buy much more to pull together an easy and pleasing look.

When Creative Space was strictly an advice column, hands-down, the most frequently asked questions about the bathroom would have something to do with the lack of space. Even bathrooms that by most standards would be considered large, readers would suggest that there is little or inappropriate space to store the things we use every day.

Another factor that is rightfully coming into play more and more is ìuniversal designî, a concept designed to accommodate the functional needs of everyone, with or without activity limitations or disabilities.

On a personal note, I have recently had to make some changes to my own home in order to accommodate a family member. I have found that, despite being able-bodied, I use and appreciate these new features all the time.

Look, the reality is, we are all getting older and with that, we are becoming less agile. While we may resist some of the changes I am suggesting here, once installed, you will wonder how you ever lived without them.

1. Everyone can appreciate a well-designed bathroom that is safe, spacious, relaxing and easy to use.

The successful design of a universally-accessible bathroom starts with identifying its users and anticipating the needs of all family members and visitors who will use the bathroom.

Its size and location are important considerations, and in the example I have drawn here, the fully-accessible bathroom is located on the homeís second floor, so it is assumed that there is an easy means of access to that level.

The biggest change I made from the previous floor plan was to increase the size of the room. The adjoining hall was more than large enough, so I borrowed almost 60 centimetres (two feet) of floor space for the newly-renovated bathroom.

The configuration of the toilet and shower were designed to allow independent access to a wheelchair-bound individual.

In both cases, the wheelchair is taken to the location and the individual transfers themselves to the appropriate facility.

Both the flooring and wall finishes should be slip resistance, as should the finish of any additional fur-

timetres (approximately five-feet by five-feet) within the bathroom will allow for turning around and approaching the bathroom facilities (for power wheelchair or scooter users the required turning radius is larger, depending on the size of the mobility device.

2. Finishes are more plentiful and more important than ever. When selecting bathtubs, flooring, toilets and showers, remember to take into consideration the surface finishes.

Wall and floor surfaces in the shower should be designed to prevent mold from growing. Adequate ventilation, both natural and mechanical, is extremely important to eliminate moist air and the potential for mold or mildew growth.

All surfaces chosen for a bathroom should be slip resistant, yet easy to clean and maintain.

3. Minimal effort should be required to clean the bathroom.

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As with all bathrooms, storage for toiletries, linens, medicines and anything else that may be required in the bathroom should be plentiful and easily accessible.

When lighting a universally-usable bathroom, consider the tasks at hand. A motion-sensor control for general illumination would be a terrific investment. In general, lighting controls should be installed lower on the wall.

When designing a bathroom for someone who uses a walker or wheelchair, allow a manoeuvring space of 75 centimetres by 120 centimetres (30 inches by 47 inches) in front of, or beside all fixtures including the bathtub, shower and storage spaces. It is especially important to consider the manoeuvring space in front of all of the controls, so that it is not necessary for someone to lean to reach them. Sufficient manoeuvring space in front of windows and window controls should be considered, as well.

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BIG interest in tiny homes STEVE MAXWELL HOUSEWORKS The tiny house movement is a growing part of the home building scene in Canada, and that’s why I get a steady stream of questions from people wanting to build tiny houses but not sure how. Even people who like their full-size homes are curious. What’s the minimum house size that’s possible? Where can I find a contractor to build a tiny home for me? What can I do to make a small space efficient? Answers to questions like these are the place to start.

There are two reasons people build tiny homes.

One is to save money, and the other is lifestyle simplification. A small home needs less maintenance, less cleaning, and forces you to own less stuff. As the population ages, the virtue of scaled down simplicity becomes important to more people. This is one reason for the rising popularity of tiny homes, but the movement is at odds with many existing municipal bylaws.

Housing bylaws and building code enforcement is a municipal matter in Canada, and many areas have a higher minimum house size than most tiny home people want. Minimum floor area is sometimes as large as 700 square feet - about twice the size of many tiny home floor plans. Bylaws like these are old, drafted in the days when municipal leaders thought minimum floor areas were the best way to combat the creation of unsightly shacks. An unintended consequence is the suppression of the kind of simple, elegant housing people want. So is there anything you can do about this? Yes, a couple of things.

First, understand that some municipalities don’t have minimum size restrictions at all. Others might have floor area minimums small enough to satisfy you. Other municipalities might be willing to issue a variance to allow construction for homes smaller than bylaws require. Canada needs tiny homes, and a few people in power are starting to wise-up and realize this. That’s why the tide is on your side when it comes to tiny home construction.

Technically speaking, there’s no big difference building a tiny home and a regular one, but that doesn’t mean all contractors are suited to the job.

The building business is quite slow to change, and building a successful tiny home does require different ways of thinking. It takes more patience and innovative work to create the features needed to make the most of a tiny home space. Not all contractors appreciate the chance to get creative like this.

Another difference to understand has to do with cost per square foot.

Although lower overall cost is one advantage of a tiny home, you won’t necessarily see this advantage in terms of price per square foot. That’s because there are fixed costs that apply identically to both large and small houses. Sewage system, water supply, electrical panel, inspection fees for instance - they’re all the same regardless of the size of house

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Fancy cedar sidewall shingles on the gable end of a tiny house. you’re building.

There certainly are contractors around who’ll build a tiny home for you, but don’t expect them to deliver a particularly low cost per square foot price.

For example, a very basic full-size house might cost $125 to $150 per square foot to build, but it might cost closer to $200 per square foot for a comparable tiny home. That said, building your own tiny home is much more doable than a full-size house, and this is where you can really lower costs per square foot.

I’ve seen some year-round tiny homes built by owners for less than $50 per square foot in materials.

Sometimes less is more, and this is the growing attraction of tiny homes. Fueled by a grass-roots movement, this is one area where government needs to catch up with the wisdom of average people.

Steve Maxwell writes about the building, gardening, homesteading and workshop projects he does at the end of Bailey Line Road on Manitoulin Island. Visit Steve online at BaileyLineRoad.com

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Eliminate difficult-to-reach areas, and one way to do that is to raise cabinets and counters off the floor so that there are fewer corners to clean. Try to avoid any materials that require special cleaning products. In general, bathroom cleaning products should be stored in easy-to-reach locations, preferably in drawers. In families that include small children, people with Alzheimerís or individuals with developmental disabilities, give careful consideration to the storage and security of these products, as well as to mediation.

4. Bathroom safety cannot be under-estimated.

Once upon a time, grab bars were institutional-looking. On the market today are some beautiful grab bars that are designed to do double-duty as a towel rack, shelf, soap holder or shower control, among other things. Although they may be considered more expensive, the price will no doubt decrease as their popularity increases.

Safety hazards in the bathroom deserve the highest consideration because the bathroom is the site of many accidents and falls.

A non-slip flooring surface is extremely important. When possible, bath mats should be avoided because they can be a tripping hazard and an obstacle.

On the other hand, a non-slip mat in the bathtub is an excellent idea to prevent a slip or fall.

Burns can be another safety hazard in the bathroom, particularly for children. Mixing valves that limit the water temperature to a maximum of 49C (120F) should be installed. The hot water tank temperature should never be lowered below 60C (140F) as dangerous bacteria can flourish in that environment.

Avoid sharp edges on surfaces in the bathroom to prevent injury in case of a fall and consider various lighting options.

In future columns, I plan to write a lot more about universal design, a subject I am passionate about and something I would like to see adapted to all newly-built environments.

In the meantime, please read more about bathroom design on my website where I will get more in depth about style and trends. There, you can also scroll through the archives that offer a wide range of subjects. Check out CreativeSpaceV2.com and drop me a line with a question, comment, or just to say hello. You can also join the discussion on Facebook (Creative Space), or follow me on Twitter and Instagram (DFCreativeSpace).

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@ hotmail.ca.

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HAYNES 1933 - 2016 Bud Haynes of Red Deer passed away peacefully with family by his side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at the age of 82 years following emergency surgery. Bud, the last of eight children, was born in a log cabin at Buck Lake, AB and named Harry Raymond.

Soon he was called “Buddy” and then “Bud”, the name he proudly carried for the rest of his life. Losing his father at the age of three, Bud was raised by his mother, Elizabeth. Bud’s mom took him to Edmonton to his first auction and taught him how to “buy on the dealer’s eyes”, instilling a lifelong love of auctions. At the age of seventeen, Bud survived a near fatal motorcycle accident and then went on the fulfill many of his dreams including racing cars and motorcycles, and owning his own Cab at nineteen. Bud always loved to be his own boss! Bud started guiding and outfitting, buying and selling horses, and then became a guard at the Nordegg Minimum Security Jail where Bud met a fellow guard who would change his life. Given Bud was an avid reader, he read some on how to become an Auctioneer. Bud taught himself selling by practicing into a tape recorder as he could not afford to attend auction school in the United States. Bud earned his first dollar as an Auctioneer selling for the Daines family in Innisfail and soon after opened Red Deer Auction where they often had three house hold auctions a week and in the process, taught his wife Dot to sell. After starting Bud Haynes & Co., (a family ran business that included the family dog Suzy), Bud would see his business become the first and largest firearms auction in Canada. Bud received many awards in his life. Some of his proudest moments were being an instructor at Canada’s first school of auction, being invited along with his daughter Linda to sell at Christies in London, England, helping to start Rock Island Auction in the USA ( the largest firearms auction company in the World ) and the merging with another second generation family ran business, Ward’s Auction of Edmonton. Bud’s family was extremely proud of him for having celebrated his 50th year as an Auctioneer earlier this year. Bud and Dot enjoyed traveling, camping and fishing with their family. Bud was a proud Grandpa, never missing a hockey or Lacrosse game or a practice and even cheering the granddaughters on at Ukrainian Dance competitions. Bud is survived by his wife of 57 years Dot Haynes; daughters Linda (Jim) Baggaley, Rae (Fred) Carswell; grandchildren Kyle, Thomas, Alayne, and Katey as well as numerous extended family members and many friends made over the years. Bud was predeceased by his parents, Jack & Elizabeth; brothers Ike (Norma) and Johnny; sisters Jayne, Gladys (Tom), Irene, Eve (John ) and Gwen (Len). Not only was Bud a wonderful husband, father and grandfather (Papa) but he also touched many people’s lives and will be sadly missed by all who knew him. A service to celebrate Bud’s life will be held at CrossRoads Church, (SW Corner of 32 Street and Highway 2), 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County, AB on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.. Memorial donations in Bud’s honor may be directed to the Salvation Army, 4837 - 54 St, Red Deer AB T4N 2G5 or to the Lending Cupboard Society, 5406 C 43 St. Red Deer, AB T4N 1C9. Condolences to Bud’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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CRAGG Kenneth “Lloyd” 1914 - 2016 Kenneth Lloyd Cragg was born on December 28, 1914 in the Edwell district, southeast of Red Deer. He passed away peacefully in his home in Red Deer on July 18, 2016 at the age of 101. Uncle Lloyd, as he was known to all, was a gentle, easygoing, kind man who leaves us with many happy memories. He was pre-deceased by his parents Fred and Maude Cragg, his brothers Colin, Earl, Alec, Fred, Ted, and Howard and his younger sister Doris. He is survived by numerous nieces and nephews; his roommates and dear friends, Wendy and Gerry; and many friends and support staff whose lives have been enriched by knowing this wonderful gentleman.

A Memorial Service for Uncle Lloyd will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 11a.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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MANN Almira (nee Hoyme) Almira leaves her family a 90-year legacy of faithfulness, loyalty, generosity and love.

Born on October 07, 1925, she passed away peacefully with family at her side in the early morning of Thursday, July 21, 2016. Proud of her Norwegian and Lutheran heritage, she died the way she lived her life, stubborn and resilient to the end, insisting on doing things her way as she passed from this world. Left to mourn her passing are her children, Linda, Bev, Leonard and Karen; her sons-in-law; brothers, Arnold, Clifford and Melford; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren, who were the loves of her life. She was predeceased by her husband, Jim in 2008. A Memorial Service for Almira will be held at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 40 Holmes Street, Red Deer, AB on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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MATHER Kevin Edward Nov. 17, 1956 - July 17, 2016 With great sadness, we announce the passing of Kevin Edward Mather on Sunday, July 17, 2016 at the age of 59. Kevin dedicated his life’s work to ensuring the safety of his colleagues in the oilfield. He spent many years at Nova Chemicals, Joffrey as their safety specialist, with his final years as Safety Specialist for Statoil. Kevin loved to travel.

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Kevin was predeceased by his parents, Raymond and Shirley Mather. A come-andgo Celebration of Kevin’s life will be held on Sunday, August 7, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. at 21 Gordon Street, Red Deer, AB. RSVP your attendance to l.harris5@shaw.ca. If friends desire, in lieu of flowers, donations in honour of Kevin may be made to the Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 St., Red Deer, AB T4P 2J1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family at http://www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

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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

15 March 1891 26 July 1916 Lance Corporal, Canadian Infantry, 5th Battalion, D Company Killed in Action near Ypres, Belgian, July 26, 1916, age 25 Beloved son of J.W. Broughton & Mary Alice (Lamming) Broughton of Red Deer, Alberta, brother of Nellie, William, Maggie, Ted, Mary Alice and John Croft.

Buried in Railway Dugout Burial Ground, Zillebeke, Belgian (CWGC).

Remembered In Honour July 26th, 2016

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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

Dental

740

Broughton descendants across Canada

RIVERSIDE DENTAL CENTRE

LISA THOMSON Feb. 4, 1971 - July 24, 1987 She was the sunshine of our life ~ Mom, Dad, Dean, Scott, and families

Funeral Directors & Services

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

Oilfield

800

LINE LOCATOR ASSISTANT

First Aid, H2S and PSTS, valid driver’s licence req’d.

Need to be physically fit.

Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca

In Memoriam

Restaurant/ Hotel

Card Of Thanks MACDONALD, GERRY Oct. 15, 1954 - July 23, 2012 In loving memory of our brother When we are in need of comfort We walk down memory lane, There we see you smiling We talk with you again, And as we wander slowly back We seem to hear you say, “Don’t grieve.

Don’t cry, my family, We’ll meet again some day.”

Forever loved, deeply missed but never forgotten, Norm, Wendy, Judy, Holly, Don & families

LEE We would like to thank everyone for all of the cards, messages, food, flowers and incredible caring we received during Dave’s illness and passing. To all the staff at Red Deer Hospice, we can never express our gratitude.

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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

Sales & Distributors

830

Marketing reps needed $500+/week to start 8 Full time entry level positions open in Red Deer this week! No experience necessary!

Must be available to start asap. Raise/promotion available in 30 days.

Kim, Daniel, Dawn, Heather, Owen and our entire Lee/Sinclair family.

Call 1-(844)-207-7513 for an interview today!

The Bill Wagstaff families wish to express our heartfelt thanks for all the sympathy and condolences offered by friends, neighbors and religious at the services in celebration of our centenarian father’s life.

We are especially grateful to Ven. Noel Wygiera of St. Luke’s and the Anglican Parkland Parish for their compassionate support along with the ofs fraternities of R.D. for their extraordinary considerations.

Michener Extendicare staff at all levels were completely supportive in providing comfort and care and giving great regard for all of our needs during his final weeks, days and hours. Thank you to Brian Berg and Sunset Services for their expedient help. We acknowledge and give thanks to all those present with us in loving thoughts and prayers of their hearts at this time.

Trades

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SOBEYS VILLAGE MALL NOW HIRING

Bakery Manager Previous Experience An Asset

• • •

Seeking highly motivated employee with the CAN DO attitude Competitive wages Full benefits

For inquires call Rob at (403) 347-4600 or email at rob.gustafson@ sobeys.com

Business Opportunities

870

Build Shaklee Online.

Visit naturalfreedom.net

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Coming Events

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Misc.

Help

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stuff

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

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

CLASSIFICATIONS

FREE - great for firewood free truck loads of black poplar logs. You pick up.

Very close to Red Deer.

403-392-8385.

AAA-1 OPPORTUNITY

Healthtek Inc is expanding in Red Deer area & needs 8 Full Time positions filled ASAP. Call for Red Deer interview

NO EXP NECESSARY

for

Canadian Wellsite Rentals Inc.

Personal Assistant to Executive Director Temporary Full time

Office & Phones CLOSED Monday, August 1, 2016 Non Publishing Day

REQUIREMENTS: •

Monday, August 8, 2016 Red Deer, Alberta Sale Starts at 10:00 a.m.

Location: 7447 Edgar Industrial Bend Selling a HUGE Selection of Shop Tools, Office Equipment, Supplies, Materials & So Much More!

1000’s of Items to Sell!

Valid class 5 driver’s license For a Complete Listing • Proficient in Microsoft Visit our Website at office programs • Professional courteous www.allenolsonauction.com attitude Sale Conducted by: • Able to work well under pressure Allen B. Olson • Excellent time management skills Auction Service Ltd. Rimbey, Alberta Please apply in person License No. 165690 with resume to Fred OR (403) 843-2747 Alice to #12 7429 49 Ave 1 (855) 783-0556 Toll Free Red Deer. No phone calls.

E-mail: abolson@ telusplanet.net Homepage: Employment allenolsonauction.com

Publishing Dates Saturday July 30, Tuesday August 2 Deadline: Friday July 29, 3 pm PLEASE NOTE:

our NEW Classified’s phone hours are now Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm Regular Deadline 4:30 pm

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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Training

GUARANTEED DELIVERY If your paper is wet, torn or missed, call our Circulation Dept. and we’ll gladly replace your paper.

314-4300

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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RED DEER ADVOCATE

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

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UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE

1 - (844) 207 - 7513

CLASSIFIEDS - HERITAGE DAY Hours & Deadlines

1500-1990

Auctions

Operators on duty Saturday 12pm-8pm Sunday 2pm-6pm Monday 10am-5pm Tuesday 10am-5pm

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Permanent Full Time Housing Coordinator Job Posting Number SLF0182016 The Sylvan Lake Foundation is looking for a Housing Coordinator that will be a member of the Administration Team with accountability for all housing services offered by the Foundation.

Responsibilities: - Accountable for the administration function for residents (i.e. waiting list, interviews, etc.)

- Responsible for liaison between Foundation and residents’ families as necessary.

- Responsible for implementing the Occupational Health and Safety standards in the housing services area.

- Responsible to function as a member of the Administration Team to insure the smooth and ef¿cient and effective operation of all facets of the day to day operation of the Sylvan Lake Foundation.

- Responsible to act as Acting Executive Director when assigned by the CAO. - Responsible for other related tasks as assigned.

Quali¿cations: - Thorough knowledge of Provincial mandated Seniors Housing Programs.

- Multiple years of experience in human services - In good health with no physical limitations - Proven leadership skills.

- Self-motivated team player.

- Good to excellent computer skills. Familiar with MS Of¿ce.

- FOIP Level 2 preferred - Clean Criminal Record Check - Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Remuneration will be based on experience.

Closes July 28, 2016 or until a suitable candidate is selected.

Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Please send resumes quoting Job Posting Number to: Sylvan Lake Foundation Sylvan Lake Lodge 100 – 4620 – 47 Avenue Sylvan Lake, Alberta T4S 1N2 Fax: 403-887-4069 info@sylvanlakelodgefoundation.com No phone calls please

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Firewood

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

Clothing

1590

LADIES size 10 deep purple swing coat, wool/viscose, $15; ladies waist length black dress jacket, size 10 petite, $10; and ladies grey sleeveless Ralph Lauren lined suit dress, knee length, new, size 10, $10.

403-348-0201

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.

Tools

1640

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

Performance Plus.

18 guage, $80.

403-309-7387, 392-6138

Farmers' Market

1650

SASKATOON BERRIES, east of 30th Ave on Hwy 11.

Open week days 3 -9 Weekends 10 - 8 4L U-pick $15.

403-318-2074

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS

Household Appliances

1710

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1720

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WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Misc. for Sale

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

403-885-5020

rentals

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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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

Flooring

1180

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

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

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Plumbing & Heating

1330

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

Roofing

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

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

1430

YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

Condos/ Townhouses

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

3020

4050

7 PARK-LIKE Acres, Families looking for a PRIVATE weekend retreat year round? Set up & leave your holiday trailers.

Share initial cost w/family or friends. Guest cabin & bunkhouse, power, well, lots of spruce & native trees, garden trout pond, fences, awesome waterfoul & white tail area.

403-340-3370 7.4 ACRES, 3 bdrm., 2 full bath, 2 m. south of Alix, large shop, only $295,000.

Call 403-396-2076

CLEARVIEW: TWO WEEKS FREE + $150. move-in, 4 plex, 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), $975.mo. n/s, no pets. 403-391-1780

Farms/Land Wanted

WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $900/mo. d.d. $650.

Available now or Aug. 1 403-304-5337

3060

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Suites WANTED • 3250-3390

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

3050

Acreages

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

CLASSIFICATIONS

Houses/ Duplexes

3030

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 BDRM. townhouse w/5 appls, avail. immed.

403-314-0209 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

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

Income Property

4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $616,000. ea. 403-391-1780

Industrial Property

4120

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. or for Rent. 403-391-1780

COLEMAN Camp stove, 2 burner Propane, older, with stand. $30. 587-876-2914 MOUNTVIEW entire home, across from school, 4 Lots For DANBY air conditioner, bdrm., dbl. garage, lrg. lot new in box, 8000 btu, with backs onto park, fully dev., Sale remote, fits in window, 2 full baths, new reno’s, 5 $180. 403-358-5568 appls., $1549 + utils. July 1.

SANDY POINT RV Resort, Call Alex 403-519-2944 Gull Lake, Lot #25, lot size NEW Espresso 45’ x 94’, close to marina, coffee machine, $40.

RENO’D 2 bdrm farm ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious beach, golf course, and 403-358-5568 house for rent, 6 km SE of suites 3 appls., heat/water walking trails. Fully serRed Deer. $1100/mo., incl’d., ADULT ONLY OFFICIAL set of horseviced, $88,900. NO GST. BLDG, no pets, Oriole shoes and pegs, $50; new avail Aug. 1. Electricity, tv, ~SOLD~ and wi-fi incl. N/S, no pets.

Park. 403-986-6889 2 ton trolley jack, $20; Ph. 403 886-2922 Coleman 2 burner camp CITY VIEW APTS. stove, $45; Coleman EasiWEST PARK, newer 4 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, Lite lantern, $40; and bdrm. home, dbl. garage, newly reno’d adult building. standing rotating fan, $20. fenced yard, 3 full baths, 2 Rent $900 S.D. $700.

403-358-5568 fireplaces, 4 appl., finished Avail. immed. Near hospibasement, n/s, no pets, SHOES, ladies size 37, tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 avail. immed., $1700/mo. summer flat slingback, 403-782-7098 or e-mail DOWNTOWN Rieker, anti-stress. Off CLASSIFICATIONS kgjones25@gmail.com well-managed, quiet adult white leather. Sides are bldg., avail. now, 1 & 2 open weave, worn once for 5000-5300 bdrm. with balcony, $850 a wedding. Regular $185. Condos/ to $895/mo. Heat and Asking $80. 587-876-2914 Townhouses water incld. 2 wks. free SHOWER doors, set with with 6 mo. lease. No pets Motorcycles frosted design. $50.obo; Ph. 403 309-2368 2 BDRM. 1400 sq. ft. 2009 100+ feet of eavestrough condo w/att. single garage, GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., with fasteners, white.

Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d. $850/mo., $850 D.D., $40.; Whirley roof vent, No pets, utils. Rent neg. and 1 bdrm. $765/mo, galvanized. $40. newly reno’d.403-728-3688 $765. DD. N/S, obo. 403-746-5123 2 BDRM. townhouse/ no pets, no partiers.

SUN Lightfoot Pedometer condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks 403-346-1458 and flashlight, never used, from Collicutt Centre.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. $30. 587-876-2914 $1150/mo. + utils., inclds. condo fees. 403-616-3181 SUITES. 25+, adults only THREE patio chairs, $5 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 2008 SUZUKI C109, each; wooden pink stool, 2 BDRM., 1240 sq. ft., 1800 CC $5; dresser with 4 drawers, 1-1/2 baths, Blackfalds, LOADED, 44,600 KMS. $5; 2 shelf bookcase, $5; fenced, $1100.

Avail. mukluks, size 8 - 8 1/2, $40; MINT CONDITION Sept. 1. 403-505-8310 and chandelier from VenRental incentives avail.

INGLEWOOD 3 bdrm. ice, $100. 403-347-0325 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. $7600. o.b.o. condo, 1.5 bath, parking, only, N/S, No pets.

WATER HOSE REEL, undeveloped basement.

403-596-2444 (403)318-4653 Red Deer $35. 403-885-5020 $1400/month plus utilities.

No smoking.

No Pets.

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 WINE MAKING equipment bdrm. apartments, rent for sale. Call 403 346-8040 Call or text 403-324-4127 $750, last month of lease LOCATED in Red Deer, free, immed. occupancy.

WROUGHT iron plant 3 bdrm., townhouse, 1 1/2 403-596-6000 stand, 3 levels, $10; bath, full bsmt., stove, 38” upholstery fabric, fridge, microwave, washer, Opposite Hospital textured beige, 2 yards, dryer. 403-887-4670, or 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, $5; misc. drapery rods, $5 PUBLIC NOTICES 403-350-6194 adults only, no pets each; and 2 canvas poppy heat/water incld. $875. pictures, 171/2” square, MORRISROE 2 storey 403-346-5885 $10. 403-348-0201 townhouse, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2 Public bath, large kitchen, no PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4 Notices pets, n/s, fenced yard, appls., inclds. heat & water, Sporting 403-342-6374, 396-6610 no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594 NOTICE

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5080

MORRISROE MANOR

Goods

1860

GOLF bag, Top Flite grasshopper, black/yellow, $10; (2) single flocked air mattresses, $5. ea.

403-348-0201 Start your career!

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

Call (403) 342-7908.

6010

SEIBEL PROPERTY PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., ONE MONTH hrdwd. flrs., inclds. heat and water, $1100. 403-348-6594 FREE RENT

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 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

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

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

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

$425. MO/D.D. incld’s everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Anders Park 19 ADAIR AVENUE, Moving to condo, Fri., July 22, 3 - 7, and Sat., July 23, 9 -3, Too many items to list.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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.

Fairview - Upper 11 FERN ROAD, Sat. and Sun., July 23 and 24, 10 - 4, aluminum and L’il Giant ladders, table saw, sliding mitre saw, furniture, and much more.

FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent, $500/mth - $250 DD. Call 403-396-2468

Offices

3110

Downtown Office

Large waiting room, 2 offices & storage room, 403-346-5885

Mobile Lot

West Park

3190

PADS $450/mo.

39 WOODWORTH CLOSE Brand new park in Lacombe.

July 23 & 24 Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., Sat. & Sun. 10 AM - 6 PM 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

All house hold items MUST GO! See something Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 you like, give us your best reasonable offer!

HALF MOON BAY Huge Multi Family.

58 Warbler Close, Half Moon Bay July 29, 30 & 31, Fri. 12 - 8, Sat. 9 - 5, and Sun. 9 - 3

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

1930

WANTED TO BUY used 1/2 ton truck, in reasonable cond. Must KENMORE fridge, white, have trailer hitch & electric 18 c.f., $50.; Range Hood, brake. 403-346-4842 new, white, 220CFM, WANTED TO BUY, $100. obo 403-746-5123 Red Currants.

Will pick my own if needed.

Household 403-347-5648 Furnishings Start your career!

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

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

1900

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

JOB HUNTING? Read the Classifieds. 309-3300.

Realtors & Services

4010

Open House Directory

Tour These Fine Homes North Red Deer

4210

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

City Centre

4240

OPEN HOUSE SERGE’S HOMES

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

Houses For Sale

4020

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

Estate of

Gary Bruce Porter who died on

January 7, 2016

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by September 6, 2016 with Klaus G. Ruschin Barrister & Solicitor at 201, 5005 Gaetz Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4B2 and provide details of your claim.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

Classified does it all!

The Red Deer Advocate Classified is the community’s number-one information centre and marketplace.

It serves as the best single source for selling items, seeking jobs, finding housing, meeting new people and more.

Red Deer Advocate Classified:

• Helps lost pets find their families • Brings buyers and sellers together • Serves as a key resource for renters • Helps families find new homes • Puts individuals in touch with each other • Provides job seekers with career information • Serves as a great guide to garage sales • Makes selling and shopping simple

Put the power of classified to work for you today.

July 23 & 24 , 1 - 5 6325 61 AVE RED DEER

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

OPEN HOUSE

5816 43 Ave. July 23, Sat. 12 - 2 July, July 30 12 - 2 1.5 Storey 4 bdrm. 2 baths, dbl. det. garage, large yard fully fenced, 1057 sq ft.

Mature Landscaping.

Margaret Comeau, RE/MAX 403.391.3399

VANIER EAST

bungalow in a quiet culde-sac, 4 bdrm. / 3 bath, 1,279 Sq. ft.

Offered at $519,900.

See the full listing at RussellTeam.ca or call Andrew Russell at 403-343-3020

To place an ad, call 309-3300.

To subscribe, call 314-4300.