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BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

When his pregnant daughter called for a ride, Doug Brown thought he’d have time for a cup of cof-fee before driving her to the hospital.

Mother Nature proved him wrong.Tiffany Brown “had three contractions by the

time we got to the Alberta Springs Golf Course,” re-called Doug, who ended up delivering his grandson on the side of Hwy 11 at 4:45 a.m. on Jan. 9.

Doug had taken on hospital driving duty because his daughter’s partner, Chris Foster, was still ap-prenticing as a millwright in Lloydminster when Tiffany went into labour. The young couple believed there would be plenty of time until the birth, since their second child wasn’t due until Jan. 23.

But there wasn’t time.“This isn’t supposed to happen,” Doug remembers

thinking, after his daughter said, “’Dad, I think the head’s coming’…

“I thought: Oh dear god, here we are. This is real life happening here!” Doug recalled.

The outside temperature was -25 C when he pulled off the dark, mostly empty highway. He parked his truck near the entrance to the golf course and called 911.

Although Doug remembers being calm “because I had to be,” he appreciated hearing what to expect from emergency dispatcher Alanna Robertson. “She said get a good hold of him, (the baby’s) going to be really slippery when he comes out,” Doug recalled.

All it took was one push by Tiffany, and Doug was holding his newborn grandson, Owen — who is brother to Patrick, age 20 months.

After the infant started breathing and crying, Doug wrapped him up in his jacket. Robertson told Doug to use one of his shoelaces to tie off the umbil-ical chord about six inches from the baby’s belly — and then to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

Tiffany and her newborn were taken by para-medics to hospital, where Owen weighed in at seven pounds, three ounces. There were no birth complica-tions.

Ten weeks later, mom and baby are doing so well they wanted to thank Robertson in person for her assistance. Along with Grandpa Doug, the whole Syl-

van Lake family met the emergency 911 dispatcher in Red Deer on Saturday to express appreciation.

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

Asdolah Khierandish’s hand-woven rug tells a sto-ry of horror and hope.

It recounts his history, as well as that of his war-torn homeland.

Khierandish, a master rug weaver from Afghan-istan, designed the artistic carpet on display at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery as part of an exhibit about the Central Alberta Refugee Effort. It was the best handiwork Khierandish brought out of his country when fleeing from the Taliban, along with wife and three young children, in 2008.

Like the family, the rug survived a long and per-ilous journey through Iran, Turkey and Syria before finally arriving in Red Deer in March, 2012.

Yet this one-of-a-kind weaving was the item Khie-randish later chose to donate to a CARE fundraiser.

There’s an Afghan saying: When you donate some-thing, give the best you have, said the rug maker, who wanted to express his gratitude through this gift for the assistance provided by CARE and other orga-nizations during his family’s passage to Canada.

The tapestry-like carpet, purchased by the Allard family of Red Deer, was woven in red-dyed wool, symbolizing those fighting for freedom in his coun-try. Slim, broken bands of blue denote hope for a better future, said Khierandish.

Arrow-like symbols represent people joining to-gether, while a band of barbed-wire symbols repre-sent Taliban oppression in Afghanistan. “It’s a jail,” said Khierandish, who nearly lost his life recording destruction in his village.

He was two years old when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

At age nine, Khierandish was sent to become a rug-weaving apprentice.

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Defenceman Kayle Doetzel of the Red Deer Rebels and Ben Carroll of the Edmonton Oil Kings collide in the corner during their Saturday night WHL tilt at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels defeated the Oil Kings 7-2. See related story on Page B1.

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‘THIS IS REAL LIFE HAPPENING HERE’!FAMILY DESCRIBES BABY’S BIRTH ON HWY 11

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Red Deer emergency dispatcher Alanna Robertson meets Baby Owen, his mother, Tiffany Brown, and his grandfather, Doug Brown, who helped delivered the baby at the side of a road in Sylvan Lake.

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BLACKFALDS — The father of an Alberta politi-cian who died following a highway crash last Novem-ber says an RCMP search of the median has turned up his son’s missing watch and eyeglasses.

But Baljinder Bhullar says some of his son’s oth-er personal effects including his kara — a bracelet worn by Sikhs — is still missing along with his cuf-flinks and shoes.

Manmeet Bhullar, 35, died on Nov. 23, 2015, when he pulled over on Highway 2 between Calgary and Edmonton to help a stranded motorist and was struck in a chain-reaction crash.

A special tactical operations team of the RCMP temporarily shut one lane each of the busy four-lane divided highway near Blackfalds on Saturday to search for some of Bhullar’s personal effects that have been missing since his death.

Police say the search was not related to the inves-tigation into the crash that killed the Calgary mem-ber of the legislature.

Baljinder Bhullar says he feels blessed that the searchers were able to find some of the missing items.

“Thanks to God, thanks to the RCMP who have spent the time,” Bhullar said Saturday from Calgary.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Sharon Franks couldn’t say whether it was unusual in Alberta for police to assist in such a search, although she said having of-ficers present would assist in the safety. She didn’t know what sparked the search four months after the accident, but suggested it might be due to the fact the crash occurred during a snowstorm and couldn’t be easily searched at the time.

An RCMP news release says police consulted with Alberta Transportation in launching the search.

Franks said the search was concluded on Satur-day afternoon and that an item or items had been located, but she said she didn’t know what they were.

Bhullar served in three cabinet portfolios — Ser-vice Alberta, Human Services and Infrastructure — under the previous Conservative government.

After Bhullar’s death, the World Sikh Organiza-tion praised the politician for his service, including his work on achieving the accommodation of the kir-pan in Alberta courthouses.

Under the Alberta policy introduced in 2013, a person must tell security officers they have a kirpan and wear it in a sheath, under clothing and the blade of the kirpan can be no longer than 10 centimetres.

The organization said at the time that it was the first province to adopt a policy that was uniform for all its courthouses.

Bhullar’s watch, glasses found in highway search


OTTAWA — The political messaging that will weave through Justin Trudeau’s first budget is poised to have a recognizable ring to it: reducing inequality while laying the groundwork for long-term economic growth.

But delivering the most substantial items from the prime minister’s election platform has been a tougher task than his government anticipated during the fall campaign.

For starters, Trudeau’s $10-billion deficit pro-jection is now widely expected to be three times the size.

His Liberals will unveil their inaugural budget Tuesday for an economy that has been battered by an oil-price shock. The already-dim fiscal pros-pects during the campaign have only darkened since the party took office in November.

Despite the slide, the government has signalled it will follow through on many — if not all — of its big-ticket election vows.

The promises include billions of dollars for economy-boosting measures, such as an enhanced child-benefit plan and infrastructure spending.

“There’s no question that times are tough right now for many Canadians across the country, and in that situation, a less ambitious government might see these conditions as a reason to hide, to make cuts or to be overly cautious,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau said last month after releasing a fis-cal update that suggested the government would more than double its previous shortfall target.

“But our government believes strongly that the economic downturn makes our plan to grow the economy even more relevant than it was just a few short months ago.”

The Liberals have cited the worse-than-expect-ed economy as the reason they broke their prom-ise to cap deficits at $10 billion over the next two years.

They’ve also backed away from their central pledge to balance the books by 2019-20. There are now doubts whether the party can even fulfil its most-flexible fiscal vow: reducing Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio in every year of their mandate.

Morneau argued the Liberals’ starting point was “much further back” than they had expected.

In his budget speech, Canadians can expect Morneau to refer to helping the so-called “middle class” by gradually creating conditions that will allow it to thrive even as the country’s population

ages.Infrastructure will be a key part of the plan.The Liberals have said the infrastructure pro-

gram will focus on maintenance and repair work over the next two years before shifting to larger, more substantial projects aimed at increasing long-term growth and guiding Canada toward a low-carbon economy.

Morneau took the rare step last month of releas-ing the government’s grim fiscal numbers only a few weeks before the budget. Observers have de-scribed it as a smart political strategy to prevent much of the bad news from overshadowing budget day.

Still, experts like former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page believe Morneau owes Canadi-ans a clear explanation for why he’s about to drive the country billions of dollars deeper into deficit.

“If you’re going to talk about a major fiscal ex-pansion … I think you’ve really got to make the case that you know what you’re doing from a fiscal policy perspective,” Page said in an interview, not-ing that current conditions aren’t nearly as gloomy as the deep recession of 2009-10.

Page, now a University of Ottawa professor, urged the government to show how much of the shortfall will be structural and how much is cycli-cal, an analysis other countries such as the United States routinely share with the public. He also called on the Liberals to spell out exactly what their measures will deliver in terms of boosting economic output and creating jobs.

The costly suite of Liberal election promises, however, doesn’t just contain spending commit-ments aimed at reinvigorating the economy. It also includes measures such as federal cash for home health-care services.

On top of that, the Liberals have made numer-ous uncosted vows — before and since the election — that could easily reach billions of dollars.

The yet-to-be fully costed pledges include end-ing all boil-water advisories on aboriginal reserves within five years, delivering on all 94 recommen-dations from the Truth and Reconciliation Com-mission and lifting the two-per-cent cap on annual federal funding increases for First Nations com-munities. Morneau has maintained the budget will include costing for “every single one” of the gov-ernment’s initiatives to give Canadians a very clear understanding of the financial situation.

To offset part of its spending plans, the govern-ment has also said it will find ways to raise reve-nues.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, goes face-to-face with Finance Minister Bill Morneau at Rideau Hall in Ottawa in November. The political messaging that will weave through Justin Trudeau’s first budget is poised to have a recognizable ring to it: reducing inequality while laying the groundwork for long-term economic growth.

The deficit diveLIBERALS WILL TRY TO SELL BIGGER SHORTFALLS AS KEY TO GROWTH

RCMP seek help IDing assailants Red Deer RCMP are seeking the public’s help

in identifying two men who assaulted and robbed a man near Spruce Drive on March 4.

The victim was walking on the walking path on the east side of Spruce Drive at approximately 1:30 pm on Friday, March 4, when he was approached by two men who asked him what time it was. When he stopped to check, they assaulted him, took his cell phone and MP3 player and left him in the snow beside the path. He regained consciousness a short later and went to the hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia and released. RCMP were told one of the two assail-ants as an aboriginal man with a stocky build and shoulder-length black hair. No description is avail-able for the second suspect. The investigation is ongo-ing. Anyone who witnessed anything suspicious in the Spruce Drive area or adjacent walking trails, or has information about this attack and robbery, please call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

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MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was one of many Canadi-ans who joined millions around the world Sat-urday night in turning off their lights for Earth Hour.

Government build-ings and monuments across the country also went dim from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time, in-cluding Toronto’s CN tower, the cross on Mon-treal’s Mount Royal and Edmonton’s High Level bridge.

Trudeau tweeted a photo of himself and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, cuddling by candlelight Saturday evening.

“We’re all on this planet together,” he tweeted, hinting the up-coming federal budget would contain measures to deal climate change.

“ T w e e t i n g a b o u t .EarthHour is one thing. Tuesday, we’ll put words into action with a budget that builds a clean econ-omy for Canada.”

Some of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers al-so took to social media. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna posted a series of tweets and International Trade Minister Chrystia Free-land also noted the oc-casion.

The event’s main or-ganizer said the leaders’ support was a welcome addition to the 10th edi-tion of the event, which

was launched in Austra-lia in 2007 as a way to draw attention to envi-ronmental issues includ-ing climate change.

“Seeing national , provincial and munici-pal leaders take part and encourage others to take part shows that Earth Hour is more than a symbolic gesture,” said David Miller, CEO of WWF-Canada. “It’s a message to change cli-mate change that’s heard by those in positions of political power.”

He said a record-set-ting 178 countries and territories participated this year.

Canadians also par-ticipated in a range of activities in cities across the country , which ranged from a stargaz-ing event in Westmount, Que., to a low-light skate at Whistler, B.C’s Olym-pic Plaza.

It was not immedi-ately clear how many Canadians took part in this year’s Earth Hour. Toronto Hydro tweet-ed Saturday night that the city’s electricity use dipped by 3.2 per cent, which the utility said was the equivalent of taking 36,000 homes off the grid.

PowerStream, which serves nine municipal-ities north of Toronto, reported a 4.3 per cent drop in electricity con-sumption during Earth Hour.

That was down slight-ly from the six per cent reduction achieved last year.

The City of Edmonton tweeted Sunday morning that the city decreased its energy use by 2.5 per cent.

While Earth Hour grew to include 7,000 cities worldwide last year, some say the event has been losing steam in recent years, at least in Canada.

B C H y d r o , f o r example, said British Columbians reduced the provincial electricity load during Earth Hour by just 0.2 per cent last year — much less than the two per cent reduction recorded in 2008. Miller says critics who measure the event’s success in megawatt hours are missing the point.

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TORONTO — An Ontario university professor who has applied for perma-nent residency in Canada is facing the prospect of having to leave the country because his son has Down Syndrome.

Citizenship and Immigration Can-ada has told Felipe Montoya that his son’s condition makes him inadmissi-ble to Canada because of the potential burden the child would place on the health care system.

Immigration lawyers say that when a whole family applies for residency, a finding of inadmissibility against one of its members winds up applying to everyone on the application.

Montoya takes exception to CIC’s ruling, saying his 13-year-old son is currently making use of the same pub-licly available resources as his daugh-ter, who does not have a disability.

He also questions CIC’s calculation of how much money his son could cost Canadian taxpayers, adding that he and his wife have been among those taxpayers since arriving in the country four years ago.

CIC said it could not comment on the specific case, which Montoya says has potential implications for families besides his own.

“We consider it to be in contradic-tion to the charter for many reasons, and we think that it’s based on outdat-

ed views of so-called disabilities and that it needs to be looked at again and brought up to date,” Montoya said in a telephone interview.

The family’s saga began when Mon-toya moved to Canada from his native Costa Rica to take up a position at To-ronto’s York University. He remains on staff there as a full-time, tenured professor of environmental studies.

Three years ago, Montoya filed an application for permanent residency for himself, his wife and his two chil-dren.

The fact that his son Nicolas had Down Syndrome was disclosed at the outset and confirmed by doctors the family visited for the medical exams required for the application process. Montoya said Nicolas, along with all the rest of the family, was found to be perfectly healthy.

Montoya hoped the medical clear-ance would help finalize his applica-tion, but a letter from CIC told a differ-ent story.

“I have determined that your family member Nicolas Montoya is a person whose health condition might reason-ably be expected to cause excessive demand on social services in Canada,” reads a letter sent to Montoya. “An ex-cessive demand is a demand for which the anticipated costs exceed the aver-age Canadian per capita health and so-cial services costs, which is currently set at $6,387.”

The CIC letter references reports that Nicolas functions at the level of a three-year-old. It goes on to estimate that special education supports for Nicolas would cost between $20,000 and $25,000 a year, a finding Montoya questions. He said CIC provided no de-tailed breakdown of how the estimate was reached, adding that his son did not require special accommodations because he joined a pre-existing com-munity classroom in his local public school.

“There were no extra provisions for him. He joined a classroom just like my daughter did,” Montoya said. “My daughter is not deemed inadmissible because of her use of state services, yet Nico is.”

Cases like Montoya’s are surprising-ly common, according to Toronto immi-gration lawyer Henry Chang.

Canada’s current immigration laws around family members with chron-ic conditions, are very strict, he said, adding the sweeping rules can even apply to people who are not physically living in Canada.

“Let’s say you have a child who’s in university in the United States who isn’t going to be immigrating to Cana-da with the rest of the family, but they have cancer and they’re having treat-ment right now. That could theoret-ically result in a whole family being barred for medical grounds,” Chang said. “It sounds crazy. If you’re not an

immigration lawyer, there’s no logic to this.”

Chang said the Montoyas still have a few strategies available to them if they want to fight the finding. They can file documents challenging CIC’s calcu-lations of Nicolas’ financial needs or appeal on humanitarian grounds.

Some Canadians turn off the lights for Earth Hour

Family may have to leave over son’s Down Syndrome

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Nico Montoya, a 13-year-old boy with Down syndrome, plays soccer with his home with his father Felipe, right, his sister Tania, second left, and his mother Alejandra Garcia, left, at their home in Richmond Hill, on Saturday.

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Employment situation in Red Deer is worse than

reportedIt was with interest that I read the

comments from Tim Creedon with re-gards to the employment picture in Red Deer.

While I do appreciate the statistics, and the fact that there are projects coming into the region that will create employment, I was somewhat alarmed at the conclusions he made.

He noted the following: “I don’t see Red Deer as being in a huge mess at the moment, I see it as having some substantial challenges but I’m not getting feedback that we’re in dire straits.”

As one of the unemployed, and not

government supported (either through EI or other government programs), I would beg to differ with his conclu-sions. I believe we are in dire straits. I would like to offer the following obser-vations:

1. The unemployment numbers are ‘only’ up by 3,500 but are likely realis-tically higher than that. Many laid off workers are not on EI, and have transi-tioned to welfare and other programs or are living off their savings, credit cards and lines of credit. What that re-al number is, I would not want to guess , but I suspect it is probably at least double that.

2. While projects are coming on board in the region (ie. schools, In-nisfail terminal, college health cen-tre), those projects require skill sets the recently unemployed and middle management workers are not quali-

fied and will never find employment in those projects. Trades people will find homes, but those with skill sets more non-management will not. Un-deremployment is just as difficult as unemployment.

3. An examination of job postings on Kijiji and in the Red Deer Advocate shows that thousands of individuals viewing job listings. By the numbers, if there is one job available, it may be more profitable to purchase a lottery ticket than apply for work, even if the companies who post their openings ac-tually hire someone.

4. On the positive side, there is an increase in job numbers for those looking for work doing handy man work, recycling beverage containers or self employed sales people and chang-ing occupations. However, much of that income just might be underground

status, and never declared.5. With fewer positions being filled

in the area, workers are fleeing the Red Deer region for BC, Saskatche-wan and Ontario, thereby reducing the number of unemployed, but increasing residential vacancies. Perhaps, hous-ing prices and rental rates will fall in the short term.

In short, the conclusions drawn by Mr. Creedon are not those of someone who is unemployed and searching for a position in the area. Our challenge is keeping up with household expens-es while managing an employment search. Our challenge is to survive, and that takes far more tenacity than an executive or business owner with resources to keep the wolves at bay.

Tim LasiutaRed Deer

Federal Conservatives have moved with astonishing speed and depth in their repudiation

of the Stephen Harper years.Some senior members of the par-

ty now talk of the need for carbon pricing. They back the Liberal inqui-ry into missing and murdered indig-enous women. They talk of a national anti-poverty strategy, speak in more centrist tones and are showing Canadi-ans a softer, more appealing style with Rona Ambrose as interim leader.

They are quickly putting the days of snitch lines and niqab wedge politics behind them.

And then there’s that obnoxious, mi-sogynist neighbour downstairs, the guy bellowing late into the night, shout-ing out his poll numbers, playing loud metal and breaking the furniture.

As federal Conservatives embark on a national leadership race, Donald Trump is no longer just a distraction. He is a stain on a political philosophy, just as the Canadian right is seeking to moderate.

He is not going away, as conserva-tives initially hoped. He is almost cer-

tain to win the Republican nomination and the saturation Canadian coverage of his race to the White House against Hillary Clinton will only ramp up and act as unwelcome background music to a Conservative leadership race.

The Canadian right and American right were not always comfortable bedfellows, but there were unmistak-able and enduring Conservative and Republican links. The Tea Party era leaked north of the border but now Conservatives must run from their brawling, cussing cousins.

Can they can run far enough?The presence of Trump on the front

of Canadian websites and topping net-work television news every night only helps Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

For Trudeau, this is all remarkably easy. He can sit at any U.S. venue, avoid direct comments on Trump, say he has faith in the “better angels” of U.S. democracy, vow to work with any-one, smile and having everyone watch-ing him know they are watching the true anti-Trump.

One of the early victories for Trudeau has been his aggressive gen-der equality campaign, his self-pro-claimed feminism that he links inex-tricably with progressive policies. He has challenged men to step up. He was given an award in New York for his gender equality and it has won him global acclaim.

While he was preparing to accept his award, an anti-Trump ad was in

heavy play in Florida in which women read back some of the comments about women from the Republican frontrun-ner.

“Women. You have to treat them like s—-,” recites one. “You know, it really doesn’t matter what (they) write as long as you’ve got a young and beau-tiful piece of a—,” recites another.

Trump calls Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly “Crazy Megyn,” still upset that she asked him tough debate ques-tions, attributable, in Trump’s view, to the fact she was menstruating.

Wednesday, he released an online ad featuring Vladimir Putin and a Daesh fighter and Clinton barking like a dog, as if in response to the dangers.

Trudeau repudiates this with his actions. Conservatives must do it with words as well.

To her credit, Ambrose has said Trump’s voice would not be welcome in the Conservative party. She repudi-ated his “ridiculous” call to temporar-ily halt Muslim immigration into the U.S.

But the fact is, links remain. Repub-lican strategists have worked on Cana-dian campaigns. Conservatives have travelled to Republican conventions and have studied Republican get-out-the-vote strategies.

There have been widening gaps be-tween the two parties in recent years before this year’s chasm.

Canadian Conservatives, for exam-ple, assiduously courted immigrants,

with electoral success in 2011. Re-publicans have repeatedly ceded the Latino vote to Democrats in the U.S. through a mix of rhetoric, failed poli-cies and candidates lacking appeal.

The Republican car crash south of the border does have ramifications for the right in Canada, even if no seri-ous potential Conservative leadership candidate holds views anywhere near Trump’s, whether on immigration, for-eign policy, trade or the treatment of women.

They are in a box - trying to engage voters who have tuned them out, trying to provide a pragmatic conservative view in a country which has shown its preference for progressive politics, with a crazy American uncle remind-ing every Canadian voter how quickly the right-wing vessel in that country can come unmoored.

There seems to be a question for Trudeau about Trump every 15 min-utes.

It might be more interesting to ask prospective Conservative leadership candidates about the man whose pres-idential bid once sparked amusement, but now sparks fear among allies. The distance between Trump and Trudeau is well known. The distance between Trump and Canadian Conservatives is more crucial.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Police are widening the search net as they look for a woman they allege has been kidnapped from a hospital in northern British Columbia.

Prince George RCMP spokesman Craig Douglass says they are notifying neighbouring authorities about the in-cident, including police in Alberta.

Mounties say witnesses outside the University Hospital of Northern B.C. saw a man pushing a woman in a wheelchair out of the facility and forc-ing her into a vehicle against her will Sunday afternoon.

Police say the hospital has reported that a 50-year-old woman is missing and that she is in need of medication.

The RCMP are not releasing the name of the woman, saying they’re not comfortable identifying her and that they don’t believe doing so is neces-sary to find her.

Police have identified a suspect in the case as 44-year-old Prince George resident Lash Leroux and they say he is considered violent.

The vehicle is described as a stolen, red Honda hatchback with B.C. licence plate 425 FRH.

Police say Leroux and the woman know each other.

Edmonton casino victim of cyberattack

EDMONTON — Officials at an Ed-monton-area casino are doing damage control after finding out they were the

target of a cyberattack that put em-ployee and customer information at risk.

Over the weekend, computer sys-tems at the River Cree Resort and Casino went down, but what happened wasn’t made clear until this week.

General manager Vik Mahajan says at first they thought it was a technical failure but later realized it was an ac-tual attack.

He says there was theft of customer and employee information — though he won’t say how many people are in-volved — but the incident didn’t affect the casino floor.

Officials say as soon as the attack was discovered, police were contacted, along with cyber security experts at a private company.

Mahajan wouldn’t say what type of cyberattack took place, or what infor-mation was compromised.

“We’re trying to sift through all that,” Mahajan says. “I know there’s some personal information in our sys-tem that would relate to associates as well as customers and how much of that information is gone, we are trying to determine that.”

River Cree has been contacting peo-ple whose information may have been compromised. The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission has been con-tacted, and is investigating as well.

Joe Clark honoured for international leadership,

innovationATLANTA — An international

governance think tank has honoured former prime minister Joe Clark for his “extraordinary contributions” to innovation in global governance.

Waterloo-based Centre for Inter-national Governance and Innovation named Clark as one of its 2016 Honou-rees at an event in Atlanta, Ga.

At the International Studies Asso-ciation Conference Friday night, the

president of CIGI commended Clark for setting “powerful precedents” in global governance. Clark is currently vice chair of the Global Leadership Foundation, and he is president and founder of an international consulting firm. Alvaro de Soto, who was formerly under-secretary-general of the United Nations, was also honoured.

Addictions and northern development debated in Manitoba election

campaigningWINNIPEG — Parties looking to un-

seat the Manitoba NDP in next month’s provincial election have focused on justice costs and northern develop-ment during weekend campaigning.

Liberal Leader Rana Bokhari prom-ised on Sunday to double funding for the Winnipeg Drug Treatment Court, which currently gets $400,000 from the federal government.

Bokhari says the investment will cut justice costs because more people will be returned to the community and the vast majority are unlikely to re-offend.

The Liberals say supporting the Winnipeg program will pave the way for it to expand outside the city.

The Progressive Conservatives, meanwhile, promised an economic development plan on Saturday to pro-mote sustainable development of for-estry and mining in Manitoba’s north, as well as tourism in the region.

The party says the tourism oppor-tunities would include Beluga whale watching, polar bear and aurora bore-alis tours, fishing and hunting.

“We’ve listened and heard the significant challenges we face in the north,” Pallister said in a news release. “If you care, you care about results. I want a better life for all Man-itobans. Working together as partners we can achieve that.”

The NDP responded that the Con-

servatives have spent years saying no to northern development, and that the party leader’s promised cuts will hurt the region.

“Brian Pallister and his Conserva-tives have no real plan for the North. They’re focusing on tourism because they are just visiting,” a statement on the NDP website said Sunday.

The NDP also said on its website that it agrees with the importance of addressing addictions issues, stating that’s why it created the Winnipeg Drug Treatment Court together with the federal government.

Toronto Police say baby in back seat of missing car

found safelyTORONTO — A three-month-old ba-

by in the back seat of a stolen car was found safe and sound Sunday night, about four hours after the theft.

Police received a tip from a mem-ber of the public about an infant in a car spotted in a parking lot in the city’s northwest, said Toronto Police Const. Craig Brister.

“They had seen a vehicle with a baby in the back seat and were con-cerned about the well-being of the child.”

The infant was unharmed and was being reunited with his family.

The discovery followed a frantic search that led to an Amber Alert be-ing issued and had a number of police forces responsible for the suburbs around Toronto, as well as the Ontario Provincial Police, on the lookout for the stolen vehicle.

The car was taken from a flea-mar-ket parking lot in Toronto’s west end Sunday afternoon, police said.

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VANCOUVER — Almost immedi-ately after Shergo Kurdi arrived in Canada, he picked up a hockey stick.

The 15-year-old is the cousin of Al-an Kurdi, the two-year-old boy who became a symbol of the Syrian refu-gee crisis when his lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach last September.

Just a few months ago, Shergo was working in a clothing factory in Turkey to help support his family after they fled the war in Syria. On Saturday, he met his goalie idol Kirk McLean and watched the St. Louis Blues practice at Rogers Arena.

“My team is Canucks, and I like to play goalie,” said Shergo, clad in a Vancouver Canucks jersey and clutch-ing a signed photograph of McLean.

The grinning teenager was one of 13 refugee youth who toured the arena as part of an event arranged by non-profit organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and the Vancouver Canucks, with help from a federal government grant, to introduce newly-arrived Syrians to Canadian culture through hockey.

As Shergo sat in the stands with his father Mohammad Kurdi and brothers and sisters, the moment couldn’t have been more different from his old life. His Metro Vancouver-based aunt, Tima Kurdi, has said while in Turkey he couldn’t go to school and had to work to help his family.

When the photograph of little Alan surfaced, it sparked international outcry and placed pressure on Canada to welcome more Syrians. Alan’s father, Abdullah, attempted the treacherous crossing from Turkey to Greece after Mohammad’s refugee

application was rejected by Canadian authorities.

The government later invited Mohammad to apply again, and the family of seven arrived in Metro Vancouver in late December.

“Since the first day they arrived in Canada, I remember (Shergo) went outside and he picked up the hockey stick,” said Tima’s son Alan Kerim.

“They started playing hockey and since that day, they loved the sport. So now to get this opportunity and to come see this on the ice and meet Kirk McLean, it was a great experience for them.”

Kerim said Shergo had never played before but has been getting “pretty good,” and though he isn’t on a team he regularly plays street hockey. After all his cousins had been through, Kerim, who was born and raised in Canada, said it was great to see.

“Now they just live their normal lives, playing hockey, going to school. It’s nice to see.”

Shergo’s sisters, 16-year-old Heveen and nine-year-old Ranim, both said their favourite players were Henrik and Daniel Sedin.

“Very nice day today,” said Heveen, wearing a toque that read “Canada” and carrying a hand-drawn “Go Canucks Go” sign. “I like to watch hockey.”

Mohammad has been working with his sister Tima at their salon Kurdi Hair Design in Port Coquitlam. He is still learning English, but said, with his daughter acting as translator, he is “very happy.”

Some 23 refugees, including youth and their parents, took part in the tour, which was also attended by Immigra-tion Minister John McCallum. The kids met Canucks mascot Fin, saw the

team’s dressing room and were set to watch the game later Saturday.

“We Canadians hold deep value in this game,” said Queenie Choo, chief

executive officer of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. “It’s a way to learn about Canadian culture and Canadian living through a sport.”

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Syrian refugee Shergo Kurdi, 15, watches St. Louis Blues NHL hockey practice after a tour of Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. With a federal government grant the Vancouver Canucks and local social services agency S.U.C.C.E.S.S have teamed up to teach refugees about hockey as a way to better understand Canadian culture and to integrate them into the community.


VANCOUVER — For 40 years, Dr. Ellen Wiebe has been fighting for choice.

At a time when providing abortions meant death threats and violent at-tacks on her peers, she spearheaded clinical trials of a pregnancy-termina-tion pill. Now, as the country debates assisted death, she has performed what’s thought to be the first legal pro-cedure outside of Quebec.

“(These issues are) just really im-portant to me,” she said in a recent in-terview in her bustling women’s clinic in Vancouver. “The choice over your reproduction is just crucial.

“The right to die is another thing I’m passionate about. We should all have the right to die at our own choice, and I will put in the effort and take the risks.”

On Feb. 29, Wiebe was by the side of a Calgary woman with ALS when she died. The woman, identified in court documents as Ms. S, won a legal ex-emption to receive assisted death, but she had to fly to Vancouver because she couldn’t find a local physician to help her. It was a situation Wiebe fore-saw last fall, when she learned that many palliative-care physicians were not planning to offer assisted dying. It struck her that although the law was set to change, there might not be doc-tors available to provide the proce-dure.

“That’s so much like abortion, where you have a legal right to a med-ical procedure but you don’t have ac-cess unless you’ve got providers,” she said.

She and a colleague set about pre-paring for Feb. 6, the original deadline the Supreme Court gave the federal government to come up with assist-ed-dying legislation. The court later granted an extension until June 6, but patients can seek exemptions from a judge in the meantime.

Wiebe spoke with assisted-dying providers in Oregon and the Neth-erlands to learn first-hand. She now knows how to have conversations with people who are considering ending their lives and how best to use lethal medications. She said most family doc-tors are familiar with end-of-life care and wouldn’t require much training. While some physicians have expressed reservations about how assisted dying squares up with their oath to do no harm, Wiebe sees no contradictions.

“My job is to help them have a good life and a good death by their stan-dards, not by mine or anybody else’s.”

But Larry Worthen, executive direc-tor of the Christian Medical and Den-tal Society, said doctors in his organi-zation are struggling with impending legalization. He said he’s concerned

Canadians haven’t thought carefully about the implications.

“If society thinks that assisted death is a virtuous thing, that you’re saving money for the health-care system, you’re saving your family from grief … how long before it starts to become an expectation?”

Most members of the Canadian So-ciety of Palliative Care Physicians do not want to provide assisted death, said executive director Kim Taylor.

“If you look at the World Health Or-ganization definition of palliative care you’ll see it states ‘neither hastens nor postpones death,”’ she said. “There must be a ‘safe’ place for the majority of patients who do not want a hastened death.”

Those who know Wiebe aren’t sur-prised she has taken on the cause.

When Vancouver abortion provider Dr. Garson Romalis was stabbed in 2000, Wiebe was leading cross-Canada clinical trials of abortion pill RU-486 and faced death threats.

“She really is fearless in her advo-cacy,” said Dr. Wendy Norman, assis-tant professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. “She places herself as a target because she can be seen, and so much of the care for women and for vulnerable people is not seen in that way.”

Wiebe speaks with a sense of ur-gency inside her cramped office. The reason she’s “going public,” she said, referring to her recent media inter-views, is to persuade other doctors to stand up and say they will provide as-sisted death.

“And they are doing it,” she said excitedly.

The number of doctors willing to of-fer assisted death is growing, she said, and she’s asking more to come forward to Dying With Dignity Canada, the na-tional advocacy organization.

But helping people die also re-quires the co-operation of nurses and pharmacists, and Wiebe expressed frustration at regulatory colleges that have advised members of those pro-fessions to seek legal counsel before participating in assisted death.

Looking ahead to June 6, she said she hopes the government creates a compassionate legal model that isn’t too sterile, allowing people to choose whether to take medication them-selves or have it administered by a doctor, and to die in their setting of choice.

Wiebe said she hasn’t gotten any threats because of her work on assist-ed dying, but those she received as an abortion provider only hardened her resolve.

“Death threats are terrorist acts, which are meant to scare you and make you stop working,” she said, dis-missing the idea with a laugh.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — A new poll published Sunday suggested strong support for the impeachment of embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in a politically polarized country mired in an economic recession and a corruption probe that has ensnared much of the county’s political brass.

The poll by the respected Datafolha agency, published in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, said 68 per cent of people surveyed want to see lawmakers vote to impeach Rousseff. That’s up 8 percentage points since February, with the jump was highest among the rich, who supported Rousseff’s impeachment by 74 per cent.

Just 10 per cent rated Rousseff’s agoverment good or excellent, with 69 per cent calling it bad or terrible.

The ratings of her predecessor, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, were also down — possibly dented by controversy over his appointment as Rousseff’s chief of staff, a move critics said was a bid to shield him from corruption allegations.

Fifty-seven per cent said they disapprove of him — a dramatic drop from the near-90 per cent approval rating he had when leaving office in 2010.

But in a sign of the depth of Brazilians’ disgust with the entire political establishment, Silva held

onto his ranking as the best president Brazil ever had, with 35 per cent of the survey’s respondents picking him, compared with the 16 per cent who chose his predecessor, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

A Supreme Court justice on Friday suspended Silva’s nomination to the Cabinet post, and the full Supreme Court will have to decide whether he can take office.

Under Brazilian law, Cabinet members cannot be investigated, charged or imprisoned unless authorized by the Supreme Court.

The Datafolha survey was carried out on March 17 and 18, with face-to-face interviews with 2,794 people in171 cities and towns.

The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

The effort to impeach Rousseff over allegations of fiscal mismanagement moved forward last week when the lower house created a special commission on the matter.

Rousseff backers say impeachment is a power grab by opponents who themselves have been sullied by an unrelated probe into kickbacks and bribery at

t h e s t a t e - r u n o i l c o m p a n y Petrobras. Eight of the 65 members of impeachment commission are currently facing charges, as is the speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, who opened the impeachment proceedings.

The political turmoil comes as Brazil prepares to host the Summer Olympics in August while struggling with an economic crisis and an outbreak of the Zika virus, which health experts believe may cause a devastating birth defect in newborns.

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Doug, who works as a mixer/driver with a local cement firm, said he had tried to talk to Robertson a few hours after the birth, but was told the dis-patcher had finished her night shift.

“All of a sudden, you were gone,” he told her.

Robertson said she actually helped deliver five babies by phone since she started dispatching in 2009, but this is the first time she got an in-person thank you. “I got a couple of thank-yous before, but never like this. It’s super cool,” said the dispatcher, who was thrilled to meet the family — espe-cially baby Owen.

“It’s nice to put a face to someone who helped you,” said Tiffany, who doesn’t remember much about what was said that night, but feels she was in good hands.

“My dad was pretty calm, so I was calm. If he wouldn’t have been, I wouldn’t have been.”

Considering Tiffany’s labour with Patrick lasted 10 hours, Foster never expected Owen to come so fast. “I wish I could have been there sooner,” said the young dad, who “thought they were messing with me” when he was first told about the road-side delivery.

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He practised his craft before and after school, often working from before sunrise to after sunset.

“My father thought it was a good fu-ture for me,” he said, since rug makers were esteemed, and could make a good living.

He became successful. By the time he was 20, Khierandish was employing other villagers to help weave his car-pets on looms.

But life became harder after the rise of the Taliban. He recalled Tali-ban members would bring their own livestock herds to graze on the land of farmers in his village of Behsood, located in a green belt. If local farmers protested, their homes and mosques would be burned.

“The Taliban’s language is just guns,” said Khierandish.

He started a side business as a wed-ding videographer to help supplement the family income. At the urging of village elders, he eventually began making videos of torched homes, over-grazed farmland, and other Taliban acts of aggression in Behsood.

One day, Khierandish was told someone wanted to buy copies of these videos. He was met by a group of men who beat him and attempted to drag him into a van. Afraid for his life, he shouted for help, and a number of vil-

lagers came to his rescue.Kierandish knew he would never be

safe in his homeland. He and his fami-ly went into hiding.

“It was very difficult for me to leave my country, but I had to do that. I sac-rificed… but it was worth it,” he said, with the hint of a grin.

The next three years were the most difficult of his life. Khierandish, his wife Fouzieh Hosseini, and children Mohammed, who was then 7, Shaki-la, 5, and Safora, 2, were refugees in Syria. They just managed to scrape by, selling items at a local bazaar. “It was very, very hard in a new country with a different culture, language and people,” he recalled. “There was no support.”

The family had to brace for another big transition after being accepted into Canada four years ago. But Khieran-dish, whose youngest daughter, Yusra, was born in Red Deer, said he thanks God for this chance to live in peace and freedom in a cold, but friendly land.

His children are now happy at school.

He works at a local coffee shop and remains grateful for CARE’s support in helping his family re-settle in Red Deer.

Khierandish eventually hopes to save enough to sponsor his brother and mother, who escaped to Pakistan, since he would like to be reunited with them in Canada.

Someday, he also hopes to make an-other beautiful rug that contains the threads of a more positive story.

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Master rug weaver Asdolah Khierandish of Afghanistan with one of his rugs currently on exhibit at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Avia-tion experts on Sunday began examin-ing the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia, killing all 62 aboard.

FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 from Dubai nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn Saturday after trying to land for a second time in strong winds in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. FlyDubai confirmed all 62 people on the plane were killed. Most of the passengers were Russian.

Several planes had trouble landing at the airport at the time of the crash.

The Inter-State Aviation Committee said in a statement that the plane’s da-ta and voice recorders had been heavi-ly damaged in the crash.

But Sergei Zaiko, deputy chairman of the committee, was quoted by Rus-sian news agencies late Sunday as say-ing that the quality of material on the data recorder was high.

The black boxes were being viewed in Moscow by experts from Russia, the United Arab Emirates and France, the aviation commission said. The Amer-ican-made Boeing plane had French-made engines.

At Rostov-on-Don, hundreds of peo-ple flocked Sunday to the airport, the region’s largest, to lay flowers and leave candles and toys in memory of the dead. The city is 950 kilometres (600 miles) south of Moscow near the Ukrainian border.

Closed-circuit TV footage showed the plane going down at a steep angle and exploding. The powerful explo-sion left a big crater in the runway.

The airport remained closed, but workers on Sunday afternoon were re-

pairing the damage to the runway, and plans are to reopen on Monday morn-ing, the airport said in a statement.

FlyDubai’s chief executive, Ghaith al-Ghaith, said on Sunday the plane had enough fuel to maintain its hold-ing pattern, which reportedly went on for two hours. He expressed confi-dence in Russian authorities and said the carrier intends to resume flights to the airport once it reopens. He reit-erated that the Rostov-on-Don airport

was open Saturday despite the high winds and was “good enough to oper-ate” at the time of the crash, and that it was up to Russian authorities to make that determination.

Some of the crash victims were from rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine where fighting between Rus-sian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government troops has killed more than 9,100 people in nearly two years. The war has turned the region’s main

airport of Donetsk into a wasteland, and many locals have been using the airport in Rostov-on-Don, across the border.

Self-proclaimed rebel authorities in Donetsk said Sunday that two res-idents had been killed in the crash, while the Komsomolskaya Pravda dai-ly reported that a family of three from the rebel-controlled town of Sverd-lovsk in Ukraine was among the vic-tims.

Black boxes from site are badly damaged

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Russian Police and Emergency Ministry employees investigate the wreckage of a crashed plane at the Rostov-on-Don airport, about 950 kilometers south of Moscow, Russia, Sunday. Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from a favorite Russian holiday destination decided to abort its landing.


BRUSSELS — The top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks told investiga-tors after he was captured that he was planning new operations from Brus-sels and possibly had access to several weapons, Belgium’s foreign minister said Sunday.

Salah Abdeslam had claimed that “he was ready to restart something from Brussels, and it’s maybe the real-ity,” Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said.

Reynders gave credence to the sus-pect’s claim because “we found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brus-sels.”

Abdeslam, captured Friday in a police raid in Brussels, was charged Saturday with “terrorist murder” by Belgian authorities. He is a top suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.

Abdeslam was wounded during the raid, and a senior Belgian police of-ficial said that he was shot in the leg as he ran toward officers outside an apartment in the Molenbeek neigh-bourhood.

The head of Belgium’s special fed-eral police unit, Roland Pacolet, told broadcaster RTL that one hypothesis being studied by police was that the suspect wanted to commit suicide.

“When someone comes out running toward the police, we have to ask our-selves some questions. What did he have in mind? What was he going to do? Either he wanted to get killed by the police, or he wanted to blow him-self up near the police,” Pacolet said.

He said that Abdeslam was un-armed.

Speaking to security experts at a German Marshall Fund conference in Brussels, the foreign minister said “we have found more than 30 people in-volved in the terrorist attacks in Paris, but we are sure that there are others.”

Reynders urged European intelli-gence, law enforcement, and border authorities to exchange more informa-tion to help track the suspects down.

Interpol also has called on Euro-pean countries to be vigilant at their borders, saying Abdeslam’s accomplic-es may try to flee after his capture. The international police agency rec-ommended closer checks at borders, especially for stolen passports. Many of the Nov. 13 attackers and accom-plices travelled on falsified or stolen documents

Abdeslam’s Belgian lawyer, mean-while, threatened to launch legal ac-tion Monday against a French prose-cutor, accusing him of breaching the confidentiality of the investigation into the deadly rampage in Paris.

Sven Mary told Belgian public broadcaster RTBF that part of the press conference given on Saturday by Paris prosecutor Francois Molins “is a violation. It’s a fault, and I cannot let it go unchallenged.”

Molins said Abdeslam, 26, told Bel-gian officials he had “wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France” as a suicide bomber, but that he backed out at the last minute.

France is seeking Abdeslam’s extra-dition for trial there, but Mary said he would fight any attempt to hand over his client and that investigators have much to learn from the suspect, who was born in Belgium but has French and Moroccan nationality.

“Salah is of great importance to this investigation. I would even say that he is worth gold. He is co-operating, he is communicating, he is not insisting on his right to silence. I think it would be worthwhile now to give things a bit of time … for investigators to be able to talk to him,” Mary said.

In response, an official in the Paris prosecutor’s office said French law allows prosecutors to speak about ele-ments of an investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause they were not allowed to discuss this issue publicly.

Paris attacks suspect reported to be planning new acts

RUSSIA PLANE CRASH


LEVIS, Que. — As Luc Villeneuve begins talking to a reporter about his renewable energy foundation, he is abruptly interrupted outside the con-ference room where public hearings on Energy East are taking place.

“You didn’t come here in an elec-tric car, did you?” truck driver Michel Morin asks in a taunting voice.

Villeneuve, 46, a little shaken, re-plies he would love to buy such a car.

“But there is oil in the car you drove here, isn’t there?” Morin aggressively counters, before storming off into the room where TransCanada vice-pres-ident Louis Bergeron is trying to as-suage local concerns about the pro-posed pipeline.

Villeneuve smiles and says, “He’s been after me for days. I don’t know that guy’s name but he hates all envi-ronmentalists.”

On Friday, Quebec’s environmental review agency wrapped up two weeks of hearings into the Energy East pro-posal by TransCanada (TSX: TRP). More hearings are scheduled to begin April 25.

Every day, Quebecers lined up at the back of the room inside a modern hockey complex across the St. Law-rence River from Quebec City in order to register to grill Bergeron and offi-cials from the National Energy Board and Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The hearings were civil but tense as the majority of participants voiced either outright opposition to the pipe-line or high levels of skepticism about TransCanada’s promises to safely transport 1.1 million of barrels of oil daily through Quebec territory.

Many of the participants were re-tired, middle-class parents who start-ed their own environmental organiza-tions out of their basements.

Irene Dupuis, 65, a retired elemen-tary school teacher, co-founded her environmental group with her sister,

Carole.“Under what circumstances is Tran-

sCanada not responsible for spills?” she asked the commission. “What if its IT system is hacked, what about van-dalism, earthquakes?”

Bergeron said a new federal law coming into effect this summer stipu-lates companies like his will be entire-ly responsible for up to $1 billion in cleanup costs associated with a spill, regardless of who is at fault.

“What about if a spill costs $1.1 bil-lion?” Dupuis pressed, ignoring the one-question rule.

TransCanada will still have to pay upfront but can try and recoup the money from those responsible, Bergeron said.

Outside the conference room, Du-puis said TransCanada’s promises mean little to her.

“Every day when I drive my grand-son to daycare, he asks me about the colour of the St. Lawrence River,” she said. ‘Why is it blue today?’ he asks me. ‘Why is it greyish today?’ I don’t want him to ask me one day why it’s black.”

Denis Desmeules, 59, a retired health-care worker, volunteers for a Quebec City-area environmental group that opposes pipelines.

“The science shows us global warm-ing is real,” he said. “So when will we stop?

“The people who work in the in-dustry, they want a salary, they want to pay for their car, they want to work. Environmentalists threaten their live-lihoods.”

One of those threatened is Morin, who after calming down from his en-counter with Villeneuve, lights a ciga-rette outside the hockey complex and discusses his frustrations.

“I have no problem with environ-mentalists,” says the truck driver. “But they should arrive here on foot or in electric cars if they are going to criti-cize oil and pipelines.

“I am for the pipeline. It moves the economy. It gives us work.”

He says Quebecers want expensive services but refuse major projects that can pay for them.

“We can’t have it all,” he argues. “Daycares at $7 a day paid for with money from other provinces. We want

parental leave for men. Then we reject energy projects.”

TransCanada wants to build a 4,600-kilometre pipeline from Alberta and Saskatchewan’s oil deposits to a marine terminal in New Brunswick.

In between, the pipeline is sup-posed to cross hundreds of kilometres of Quebec territory, connecting to re-fineries in Montreal and Quebec City.

Final approval rests with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet af-ter a review by the federal National Energy Board.

Quebec’s environmental review board is scheduled to produce a report in November. While its recommenda-tions are not legally binding, Trudeau will have a difficult time green-light-ing the project if it’s rejected in Que-

bec.Real Picard, 72, a former worker

at Quebec’s City’s Valero oil refinery, said he’s for the pipeline — “with con-ditions.”

He said he’s worried about corro-sion but that what concerns him most is the threat of another event like the one nearly three years ago that over-shadows much of the discussion on energy projects in Quebec.

A recent report says many residents of Lac-Megantic were still suffering nearly 30 months after an oil-train de-railment killed 47 people in July 2013.

“Lac-Megantic wouldn’t have hap-pened if that oil was being transport-ed by pipeline,” Picard said. “The pipelines will take some of the trains away.”


A9BUSINESSTENSIONS HIGH DURING HEARINGS

ENERGY EAST


TransCanada Vice President, Quebec & New Brunswick Energy East Pipeline Louis Bergeron speaks at the TransCanada offices in Montreal earlier this month. On Friday, Quebec’s environmental review agency wrapped up two weeks of hearings into the Energy East proposal by TransCanada. More hearings are scheduled to begin April 25

Even though they are still young and have a lot of time left, millenni-als (age 18-34) are facing some tough challenges when it comes to saving for their retirement in their Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs).

“The competition out there is tough and many Canadians in that genera-tion are not finding jobs or are not get-ting the jobs they hoped for at the sal-aries they might have expected,” says Geoff MacPherson, an adviser with Ed-ward Jones.

“With younger millennials their focus probably is more on getting a job and saving for a home, so it’s often tough for them to save and put away for retirement. Consequently, saving for retirement often is put on the back burner.”

Most millennials will not start thinking about retirement saving until their early 30s at which time the deci-sion on whether to put that money into an RRSP or a TFSA becomes relevant.

That decision largely will be based on the individual’s salary level and

personal circumstances.If you’re income is the mid-$80,000s

or higher and you expect your income in retirement to be lower than when you are working it probably makes sense to invest in an RRSP to take advantage of the tax deductions now and the fact that your withdrawals in retirement will be taxed at a low-er rate when you’re income is lower, MacPherson says.

In contrast if your income is lower now and you expect it to be relatively the same in retirement then you’re probably better to forego the tax de-ductions from an RRSP and invest in a TFSA which will be totally tax free when money is withdrawn.

“You’ve got to go into this with your eyes wide open,” says MacPherson.

“It really depends on your personal circumstances and preferences but a financial adviser can certainly explain your options and make recommenda-tions based on your personal situa-tion.”

If Canadian millennials are finding the times tough, the situation is worse for their counterparts in the United States.

A recent report by TD Economics has found that Canadians aged 25 to 34 do better when it comes to employ-ment, homeownership and net wealth than their peers south of the border.

As of the first half of 2015 50 per cent of millennials in Canada owned a home compared to only 36 per cent in the U.S. This is quite a feat consid-ering the average price of a home in Canada is six times that of the U.S.

Further, millennials in Canada have had better employment condi-tions with greater availability and ac-cess to credit than their American co-horts since the 2008/09 recession and they also carry less student debt than their U.S. counterparts.

“Canadian millennials are faring better economically than is commonly portrayed,” the report says.

It’s critical to get involved and en-gaged in the management of your fi-nancial security and future. This in-volves spending time to set your goals and determine your tolerance to risk and volatility, choose financial instru-ments which match those criteria and then to keep in touch with an adviser at least once a year to take stock of where your plan is and make adjust-ments if necessary.

“If you take the time to make these few basic steps you’ve got a pretty good chance of having a successful in-vestment experience,” says MacPher-son. “Millennials – in fact everyone — should get involved and engaged in their financial security and future.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based busi-ness communications professional who has worked with national news organiza-tions, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

Millennials face retirement saving challenges

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FAMILY EXPO

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Rodney, a month-old baby goat nibbles on the vest of Kaytie Peters, 7, at the Thistle Hill Petting Zoo during the 6th Annual Central Alberta Family Expo at Westerner Park’s Parkland Pavilion Saturday afternoon. The Expo featured tons of activities, vendors and booths for children and families, as well as pictures with Dora the Explorer, Snow White, and members of the 501st and Rebel Legion Star Wars costuming clubs.

Online lodging service Airbnb opens Cuba listings to world

HAVANA — Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing travellers from around the world to book stays in private homes in Cuba after the San Francisco-based company received a special authorization from the Obama administration, Airbnb announced Sunday.

Airbnb was the first major Ameri-can company to enter Cuba after Pres-idents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17, 2014. The service handles online listing, booking and payments for people looking to stay in private homes instead of hotels. Cuba has become its fastest-growing market, with about 4,000 homes added over the last year. Airbnb had only been allowed to let U.S. travellers use its services in Cuba under a relatively limited Obama administration excep-tion to the half-century old US trade embargo on the island. The expansion of that license gives Airbnb the ability to become a one-stop shop for travel-lers seeking lodging in private homes, which have seen a flood of demand from travellers seeking an alterna-tive to state-run hotels. Airbnb’s new authorization was announced on the morning of an historic three-day trip by Obama to Cuba and a day after Starwood Hotels announced that it had signed a deal to run three Cuban hotels, becoming the first U.S. hotel company in Cuba since 1959.

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BEIJING — China’s top plan-ner tried to reassure foreign compa-nies they are welcome in its slowing, state-dominated economy in a speech Sunday aimed at dispelling growing anxiety Beijing is squeezing them out of promising industries.

Speaking to an audience that in-cluded executives of top global compa-nies at a government-organized confer-ence, Xu Shaoshi pledged to “promote two-way opening up and liberaliza-tion.”

Xu promised foreign companies equal treatment with local enterpris-es as Beijing carries out a sweeping overhaul aimed at promoting self-sus-taining growth based on domestic con-sumption and making state companies that dominate a range of industries more competitive and efficient.

“We are ready to share these growth opportunities with you,” said Xu, chairman of the Cabinet’s National Reform and Development Commission.

The China Development Forum 2016 is being closely watched by glob-al companies because it comes at the start of the ruling Communist Party’s latest five-year development plan that runs through 2020.

Executives are eager to learn de-tails of how the party might carry out pledges to make the economy more competitive, open more industries to private and possibly foreign competi-tors and to shrink bloated, money-los-ing industries including coal, steel and cement.

The guest list for the weekend con-ference at a government guesthouse in the Chinese capital included ex-ecutives of U.S., European and Asian banks, manufacturers, Internet and other companies.

The ruling party’s plan promises to give the private sector a bigger eco-nomic role, but business groups say regulators are trying to shield Chinese rivals from competition or compel for-eign companies to hand over technolo-gy in exchange for market access.

Business groups say Beijing has yet to carry out most of the reforms prom-ised in a separate 2013 plan that called for giving market forces a “decisive role” in the economy.

They point to limits on foreign own-ership in an array of industries and say in some areas such as information security technology for banks regula-tors are reducing or blocking market access.

“The big question is whether for-eign companies will be able to access that growth,” John Frisbie, president of the U.S.-China Business Council, said in an interview last week.

Companies are getting “mixed sig-nals” from Chinese regulators, said Frisbie.

“That uncertainty is weakening business confidence.”

Meanwhile, Chinese leaders also are trying to restore faith in their abil-ity as economic managers following a stock market collapse and currency turmoil. Senior officials including Pre-mier Li Keqiang have spent the past month making an unusually prominent series of statements that the economy is on track and trying to dispel fears Beijing might weaken its yuan to boost exports.

On Sunday, Xu announced no new initiatives but promised to make “mar-kets more open, more efficient and more sustainable.”

Xu promised to reduce “regional and industrial monopolies,” a refer-ence to repeated promises to cut back the dominance of state companies in industries including banking, energy and telecoms that reform advocates complain are a drag on the economy.

Reform advocates complain the rul-ing party is dragging its feet on carry-ing out promises to open more indus-tries to private competition.

The party has given itself until 2018 to show the first results from its over-haul of state industry but reformers say with growth falling steadily, they need to act faster.

Last year’s economic growth fell to a 25-year low of 6.9 per cent and forecasters including the Internation-al Monetary Fund say it will decline further.

This year’s official target is 6.5 to 7 per cent, but the IMF and others say it is more likely to fall as low as 6.3 per cent.

Beijing wants to promote “new growth drivers” and encourage “mass innovation” in areas such as clean en-ergy, medical technology and artificial intelligence, Xu said.

He promised to “lower the thresh-old” for entrepreneurs to get into promising new fields.


A Chinese worker load cables on a steel frames at a building under construction at the Central Business District of Beijing, Wednesday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged Wednesday to press ahead with an overhaul of the state-dominated economy and financial markets despite slowing growth, saying the country’s rising debt levels are under control.

Chinese planner promises foreign

companies access to markets

“WE ARE READY TO SHARE

THESE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

WITH YOU.”—XU SHAOSHI

CHAIRMAN OF THE CABINET’S NATIONAL REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION


TORONTO — Five things to watch this week in Canadian business:

Ambrose: Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose is at the Eco-nomic Club of Canada in Ottawa on Monday to outline what the official Op-position wants to see in Prime Minis-ter Justin Trudeau’s first federal bud-get, to be tabled on Tuesday.

Budget: Finance Minister Bill Mor-neau tables the federal budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday at 4 p.m., after the markets close.

Women: Also on Tuesday, the Eco-nomic Club of Canada pays tribute to

International Women’s Day in Ottawa as six female trailblazers, including Karen Wilson, president of the Wom-en’s Business Network, discuss what they’ve accomplished as leaders to help bridge the gender gap.

Manufacturing : The annual FABTECH Canada conference kicks off in Toronto on Tuesday to examine the key issues facing Canadian manu-facturers.

Earnings: Several companies report earnings this week, including invest-ment firm AGF Management, transit bus manufacturer New Flyer and El-dorado Gold on Wednesday. Toymak-er Spin Master and Alamos Gold are among those reporting on Thursday.


BAGHDAD — Iraq on Sunday ex-ported the first shipment of natural gas in its history, a key development for the OPEC member struggling to feed a cash-strapped economy amid an expensive fight against the Islamic State group.

The move revives a long-sought ambition by Iraq to be a gas export-er, thanks to a joint venture with An-glo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. Iraq first planned to begin exporting gas in the late 1970s, but that timeline was de-layed by the Iraq-Iran war when Iraqi export ports were bombed.

A Panama-flagged gas carrier sailed Sunday afternoon from Iraq’s southern port of Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf with a cargo of about 10,000 standard cubic feet of gas in the form of conden-sates, Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said.

Jihad wouldn’t reveal how much the cargo was worth or the buyer, but he added that the next cargo will be shipped by the end of this month.

In November 2011, Iraq signed a $17 billion deal to form a joint venture to gather, process and market gas from three oil fields in the oil-rich prov-ince of Basra. The fields are the 17.8 billion-barrel Rumaila, the 4.1 billion barrel Zubair field and the 8.6 billion barrel West Qurna Stage 1.

In the 25-year joint venture, called the Basra Gas Company, Iraq holds a 51-per cent stake and Royal Dutch Shell has 44 per cent, with the remain-ing 5 per cent for Mitsubishi.

According the International Energy Agency, Iraq has estimated natural gas reserves of 112 trillion cubic meters, making it the 11th largest in the world.

The inauguration of Iraq’s gas in-dustry is meant to boost the coffers of a government badly in need of cash to fund ongoing military operations against IS extremists, who control key areas of northern and western Iraq, in-cluding the second-largest city, Mosul.

Iraq holds the world’s fourth largest oil reserves, some 143.1 billion barrels, and oil revenues make up nearly 95 per cent of its budget.

Like other oil-reliant countries, Iraq’s economy has been severely hit by plummeting oil prices since 2014, plunging the nation into an acute fi-nancial crisis despite record crude oil export levels. The crisis has forced Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s gov-ernment to introduce austerity mea-sures by eliminating government posts, merging some ministries, halting spending on construction projects and imposing new taxes to pay for civil ser-vants and fund the military.

According to Oil Ministry figures, Iraq exported an average of 3.225 mil-lion barrels a day in February 2016, far below levels planned for this year’s budget.

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B1SPORTSFinishing on a high note

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

Rebels 7 Oil Kings 2Scoring early and often, the Red

Deer Rebels closed out their Western Hockey League season with an excla-mation point.

With two goals on his first two shifts and an assist later in the second pe-riod, Defenceman Colton Bobyk and his laser slap shot led the Rebels to a 7-2 win over the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings Saturday night at the Enmax Centrium.

The second goal came after the Reb-els cycled the puck down low, Ivan Nikolishin fed a waiting Bobyk at the point. With that goal, Bobyk became the sixth Rebel to score 20 goals this season, joining Philp, Pawlenchuk, De-Brusk, Helewka and Nikolishin.

“It was a goal I set at the start of the year and I achieved it,” said Bobyk.

Adam Helewka gave the Rebels a 3-0 lead, but Grayson Pawlenchuk did most of the work. Pawlenchuk, at full speed went behind the goalie, getting Lee out of position, and backhanding the puck to a waiting Helewka, who had a wide open cage to bury his team leading 42nd goal of the season.

By the end of the first period, the Rebels had a 4-0 lead. By the end of the second that lead had widened to 6-0.

“You get a lead like that and you’re just trying to get through the third pe-riod without getting anybody banged up or any more injuries,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “Overall the kids came here ready to play. We wanted to finish the regular season off the right way.”

In and out of the lineup all sea-son, Austin Pratt had two goals of his own, both from the slot. His second goal came on a power play early in the third period to make it 7-0 Rebels. Sutter commented that his line played very well the whole game, even after Bleackley went out and he had to ro-tate guys in.

Jeff DeWitt and Luke Philp both scored in the second. Philp’s was set up by Michael Spacek who had a clear shot on net 50 seconds into the second period, but Lee was high in the crease, so Spacek passed it over to Philp in the slot. With Lee out of position, Philp sniped his 21st of the year.

Brett Pollock was the lone bright spot for the Oil Kings with short hand-ed and powerplay markers.

With the book closed on the Rebels regular season, their focus now shifts to the playoffs and a first round match-up with rival Calgary.

“I expect it to be a tough series,” said Sutter.

“They played us hard all year and it has been some tough games. It’s play-off time and if you play well anybody can beat anybody. You have to make sure you’re to play.

“It’ll be a tough, long, hard-fought series. They have a good team and we have to make sure we’re prepared.”

Game 1 of the Hitmen-Rebels series starts Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Cen-trium. Game 2 starts the next night at 7 p.m., also at the Centrium. Game 3 is in Calgary on Sunday at 4 p.m.

The Oil Kings will have to play the Medicine Hat Tigers in a one game winner-take-all playoff game on Tues-day for the eighth and final playoff spot. The Tigers beat the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Saturday 4-2.

Notes: Player awards were hand-ed out before the start of the game. Spacek was the rookie of the year,

Brandon Hagel was the most underrat-ed player, Haydn Fleury was the best defenceman and MVP, Evan Polei won the humanitarian awards, Ivan Niko-lishin was the leading scorer and the three star award winner and the Play-ers award was given to Kayle Doetzel for the second straight year … Martin came out of the game to start the third, giving Dawson Weatherill some ice time … Conner Bleackley left the game part way through the first period hold-ing his wrist. Sutter said Bleackley went to hospital with cut on his wrist.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Jake DeBrusk of the Red Deer Rebels battles behind the net with Brayden Gorda of the Edmonton Oil Kings during their Saturday night WHL tilt at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels defeated the Oil Kings 7-2.

Flames burn Habs behind Monahan’s three pointsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Flames 4 Canadiens 1MONTREAL — It had been 14

months since Niklas Backstrom start-ed a game in goal but if there was any rust, it didn’t show on the recently ac-quired Calgary Flame.

The 38-year-old Backstrom stopped 21 of 22 shots as the Flames downed the injury-riddled Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Sunday night.

It was his first appearance in goal since Jan. 13, 2015 with the Minnesota Wild.

“It was fun,” said Backstrom, who was acquired Feb. 29 by the Flames. “The guys in front of me played a great game to help me out a lot.

“It’s a long time since my last game so for sure there are some things I need to improve, but we got the win and that’s what we wanted.”

Sean Monahan had two goals and a helper while Dougie Hamilton had three assists for the Flames (31-35-6), who have points in four straight games heading into a meeting with the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Monday night.

The Flames end a three-game road trip Thursday night in Minneso-ta, where Backstrom is slated to start against his former team. He called that “special.”

One of his hardest shots came ear-ly in the second period when team-mate Mark Giordano accidentally put

a backhander at his own net, but he made the save look easy.

The two joked about it after the game.

“He just told me he wanted to have a shot on net,” said Backstrom. “I actu-ally saw the puck was rolling. It was a

tough play for him.”“I asked if they count that as a shot

against, to get his stats up,” said Gior-dano. “It was a funny moment.

“It wouldn’t be so funny if he wasn’t ready and it went in the net though.”

Joe Colborne and Johnny Gaudreau

also scored for the Flames, who out-shot Montreal 35-22.

Michael McCarron scored his first NHL goal for Montreal (33-34-6), which has lost four of its last five. It came in McCarron’s 14th NHL game.

The Canadiens trailed 4-0 when the six-foot-six centre planted himself in front of Backstrom and deflected a Na-than Beaulieu point shot at 12:57 of the third frame.

“Everyone was super excited for me,” said McCarron. “It only happens once.

“We didn’t get the result we wanted but it’s my first NHL goal and I was pretty excited.”

The Canadiens, coming off a 5-0 loss Saturday night in Ottawa, had allowed opponents 10 straight goals before Mc-Carron scored.

The Flames got on the board 16:06 into the second period after Alex Gal-chenyuk was checked off the puck in the Calgary zone. The transition play saw Sam Bennett feed T.J. Brodie for a pass in front that was redirected by Colborne past Condon.

Nearly three minutes later, Monah-an was alone at the edge of the crease to redirect a Hamilton feed.

The teams were each down a man when Monahan fed Gaudreau on the right side for a shot that trick-led through Condon’s equipment at 10:38 of the third frame, and Monahan jammed one in from the side of the net on a power play at 12:21.


Montreal Canadiens’ Jacob De La Rose, left, is dumped by Calgary Flames’ Matt Stajan during third period NHL action Sunday, in Montreal. The Flames beat the Canadiens 4-1.

Avalanche move into wild-card spot with win over OilersBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Avalanche 3 Oilers 2EDMONTON — Gabriel Landeskog

came back at the right time for Colo-rado.

Landeskog had a goal and an assist in his return from a three-game sus-pension as the Avalanche won their third game in a row, defeating the Ed-monton Oilers 3-2 on Sunday.

The Colorado captain’s offence was badly needed with his team currently without their two leading scorers, in-jured centres Matt Duchene and Na-than McKinnon, and in the midst of a heated playoff race.

“I felt good. It’s tough watching,” Landeskog said. “I was hungry and ready to go. But the guys have done a great job throughout the road trip to make sure we’re in a great spot and I was just hungry to come out and help

out.”Tyson Barrie and Blake Comeau al-

so scored for the Avalanche (38-31-4), who currently sit one point ahead of the Minnesota Wild for the final wild-card playoff spot in the Western Con-ference.

“We played really well,” said Colo-rado coach Patrick Roy. “I thought we had a great start and our power play was outstanding. Our puck possession was outstanding, we were able to hold on to the puck in the O-zone and we had a lot of shots. I was very happy with the performance of the team.”

Matt Hendricks and Ryan Nu-gent-Hopkins replied for the Oilers (29-39-7), who had a two-game winning streak come to an end.

“Tonight was one of those games where it was a desperate team battling for the playoffs,” said Oilers forward Mark Letestu. “It really showed early on. Their pace was higher than ours.”

With the loss, the Oilers were math-ematically eliminated from playoff contention for the 10th consecutive year.

“We may not be a playoff team, but we have playoff fans,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan. “At some point, we have to reward them.”

There was no scoring in the first period, with Colorado putting 12 shots on Edmonton starter Laurent Brossoit and the Oilers taking eight shots on Av-alanche goalie Calvin Pickard.

Colorado got on the scoreboard 1:19 into the second period when Landesk-og took a feed from Carl Soderberg in front and showed good patience before sending a backhand shot past a sprawl-ing Brossoit.

The Avalanche made it 2-0 just past the midway point of the second when a Barrie point shot deflected off of de-fender Mark Fayne and into the Ed-monton net.

Edmonton finally scored three min-utes into the third period as Letestu battled hard in front to sweep a puck to Hendricks, who tapped his second goal in as many games into a wide-open net.

The Avalanche restored their two-goal lead on the power play midway through the third frame when Comeau perfectly deflected an Erik Johnson shot.

Edmonton was able to make the score look better as Connor McDavid set up Nugent-Hopkins with Brossoit on the bench and just 7.6 seconds left on the clock.

The Oilers begin a three-game road trip in Arizona on Tuesday. The Avs are off until Thursday, when they host the Philadelphia Flyers.

Notes: It was the third and final game of the season between the two teams this season, with Colorado win-ning all three


SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Even after a massive 10-2 win, Amy Nixon needed a moment to calm down.

Nixon and her Canadian teammates remained undefeated at the women’s curling world champi-onships after American skip Erika Brown conceded in six ends on Sunday night in a controversial fifth draw matchup.

Both teams had heated exchanges with officials in the third and fourth ends over two disputed hog-line violations by Nixon, who was throwing third for Can-ada. Nixon’s sensored rock — which blinks red when its handle isn’t released in time — indicated she had hogged her throw in both the third and fourth ends.

The Canadians claimed in both instances that the handle malfunctioned.

“It was not a pleasant feeling. It was a difficult sit-uation,” said a terse Nixon, who added with a laugh. “I’m still trying to get over it, actually.”

Canada came out strong in the first end, with skip Chelsea Carey making a difficult shot to take out the Americans’ one rock for four points. Brown just barely made a draw to earn a single in the second end, to cut into Canada’s lead and make it 4-1.

Canada lost its fifth stone in the third end over the first disputed hog-line violation. Canada burned its own rock after the lights turned red following Nix-on’s throw.

Her teammates kicked the rock aside because of the sensors, but Nixon argued that there was a handle malfunction and that her hand was clear of the handle before the hog line.

Brown and her rink pointed out that as the Ca-nadians had burned their own stone, it couldn’t be re-thrown. Officials sided with the United States, pulling Canada’s rock.

“I’m not one to go over, but since we don’t have a jumbotron or a screen here it’s very difficult to know,” said Nixon, who had told officials during practice that her rock’s

lights had been malfunctioning. “The biggest thing about that is I just wish some-

one had been able to tell me on the replay if I was over or not because either you’re over and you ac-cept it or you’re not and you start to ride the offi-cials.

“To play in a world championship and be in that situation is, needless to say, not my favourite thing I’ve ever experienced.”

Carey missed a take out on the next throw, sailing her rock through the house without touching any-thing.

Canada recovered, though. Carey threw a raised double takeout, making it a 5-1 lead and bringing the largely Canadian crowd to their feet at the Credit Union iPlex.

Debate flared up again in the fourth end, as the same scenario played out: Nixon’s rock lit up red despite her hand releasing in time and Canada’s sweepers purposely burning the rock. This time, however, Canada was allowed to re-throw and offi-cials ruled that the sensor lights would be ignored for the rest of the game.

“Technology’s great but, as far as I’m concerned, just give everybody handles without sensors in them and if you have a problem with the other team then call an official out or something,” said Carey. “We play at all the other events, all the Grand Slams and everything, without sensored rocks.

“After experiencing that, that would be my pref-

erence because you generally don’t have other teams doing that and it’s just really unfortunate to get pun-ished for something you don’t deserve.”

Despite Canada’s rethrow, Brown drew for the single to make it 5-2 after four ends.

Carey responded with a point in the fifth, then added another four in the sixth when Brown came up well short on an easy draw for one. The Ameri-cans immediately conceded after that, bringing the game to a close in less than two hours.

Earlier Sunday, Carey and her Calgary-based rink beat Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher 7-4 in the third draw of the tournament.

The Canadians are first in the standings after five draws, with Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa also a perfect 3-0. Carey and her teammates play Anna Sidorova of Russia (2-1) on Monday morning in Draw 6, then Mar-garetha Sigfridsson of Sweden (1-2) in the evening draw.

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Calgary teams take provincial titlesBY DANNY RODE

SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Pride 110 Comets 94The Notre Dame Pride ran into

some problems in the Calgary playoffs and as a result were ranked eighth heading into the high school provin-cial 4A basketball championships.

But they finished exactly where they wanted as they defeated the Ray-mond Comets 110-94 in a highly enter-taining boys’ final at Lindsay Thurber High School Saturday.

“It wasn’t the best ranking, but we said coming in if we wanted to be the best we had to beat the best,” said Pride co-head coach Chris Thomp-son, whose team defeated the No. 1 ranked Archbishop O’Leary Spartans 88-65 in the quarter-finals, the fourth-ranked Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Rams 75-69 in the semifinals and third-ranked Comets.

“We didn’t do as well in the city championships as we liked, but this was the icing on the cake,” added Thompson.

The Comets, who reached the fi-nal with a 98-91 win over the sec-ond-ranked Harry Ainlay Titans of Ed-monton, started off strong, grabbing a 27-19 lead after the first quarter. How-ever, the Pride began hitting some of their outside shots and started to con-trol the inside and led 52-47 at the half. They led 80-72 after the third quarter, but the Comets showed their offensive skill by tying the game at 84. The Pride regained the lead on a pair of free throws by David Kuac and they never trailed again. The Pride hit on 10 of their last 14 free throws over the last three minutes and held the Comets to one three-point shot.

“We were a bit worried the way they (Comets) started out shooting extreme-ly well,” said Thompson. “They played basketball like we knew they would, but I give our guys all the credit. They weathered the storm and battled hard and deserved the win.”

Six-foot-four centre Tyrell Lindren led the Pride with 27 points, all from inside or the free throw line.

“Our big guys have been the foun-dation of the team all season. They all worked hard in practice and on the floor.”

Kuac added 22 points and Aaron Tesfagiorgis 21 for the Pride while Boomer Heggie had 30, Brock Dews-bery 24 and Chase Bohne 21 for the Comets, who have only two Grade 12 players and all their top players re-turn.

Browns 54 Rebels 46Meanwhile the top-seeded St. Fran-

cis Browns of Calgary downed the sec-ond-ranked Jasper Place Rebels of Ed-monton 54-46 in the girls’ final, also at LTCHS.

The Browns took an early lead and never trailed, although the Rebels, who have all Grade 10 and 11 players, narrowed the gap to 40-39 early in the fourth quarter.

The Browns went on an 8-0 run to take control.

“They’re a remarkable team, well skilled, aggressive and extremely smart,” said Browns head coach Claire Mitton. “They put a lot of pressure on us and took us out of our rhythm. We usually have a great transition game, but that wasn’t easy today. Every bas-ket was with extreme effort.

“But our five starters are all going to play post-secondary next year and

they showed their composure.”The Browns were the top-ranked

team all season, which put pressure on the team.

“We’ve been hunted all season, but I told the girls toward the end lets be the hunted and go out and get what we want.”

Emma Kary led the Browns with 17 points while Brianna Fehr added 15 and Summer Masikewich 14. Haily Weaver had 13, Sydney Fedick 11 and Morgan Mudge 10 for Jasper Place.

Raiders 68 Saints 64 (OT)The LTCHS Raiders put the finish-

ing touches on a solid championship, downing the St Mary’s Saints of Cal-gary 68-64 in overtime to win the girls’ consolation title Saturday morning at LTCHS.

After losing their opening game of the tournament 56-43 to Spruce Grove, the Raiders downed Foothills 72-43, Cardston 79-71 and St. Mary’s.

The Raiders led most of the way un-til late when the Saints tied it at 58.

The Raiders came back to take a 66-64 lead then Nikki Thomas put the nail in the coffin, hitting a pair of free throws with 9.9 seconds remaining.

“Nikki works extremely hard. She’s a terrific rebounder and has been working hard on her shooting and what a key time to come up with two good shots,” said Raiders head coach Kathy Lalor, who couldn’t have been happier.

“Overall the girls played well all weekend and they all contributed,” she said.

“They have to feel good. I was happy with the way our shooting came along after that first game. We didn’t shoot well that game, but yesterday (Sat-urday) I was happy with both games. We played four good quarters in both games. The last one here we had a bad quarter (outscored 17-4 in the fourth against the Saints), but the girls hung in there.

“I’m pleased. We won three games in the provincials and we have two Grade 10s and six Grade 11s and this experience will only help them next year.”

They will lose Grade 12 standout Kelsey Lalor, who had 23 points in the consolation final. Jenna Hawkes add-ed nine and Hayley Lalor had eight. Alexa Tan had 35 for the Saints.

Meanwhile, in other girls play the Hunting Hills Lightning tied for 13th by defeating Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie 96-40 with Gabby Spenst and Kristen Loney finishing with 14 points each and Leah and Paige Hagel 12 apiece.

Catholic Central of Lethbridge took third place on the girls’ side with a 67-55 win over Western Canada of Calgary and St. Albert Catholic stopped Spruce Grove 67-55 for fifth-place.

In other boys’ play, the Notre Dame Cougars finished tied for 13th with a 85-77 win over Charles Spencer while the LTCHS Raiders lost in their 13th-place game 85-83 in overtime to Lloyd-minster.

Cody White had 29 points and Ru-dy Soffo 14 for the Cougars with TK Kunaka and Ben Pasiuk hitting 15 each and Vince Barbuco and Kade Best 10 apiece.

LCI won the boys’ bronze with a 102-82 win over Harry Ainlay. Archbishop O’Leary took fifth with a 109-66 win over Lester B Pearson.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate re-porter who can be reached at [email protected]. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athelticsblog.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Reyna Crawford of the St. Francis High School Browns takes the ball down the court while pursued by Morgan Mudge of the Jasper Place High School Rebels during the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association’s 4A Hoop Classic tournament final in the Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School gymnasium Saturday afternoon.

PICTURE BUTTE — The Cen-tral Alberta Christian High School Knights played some of their best basketball of the season at the pro-vincial high school 2A girls’ champi-onships during the weekend.

The Knights came in ranked sev-enth and advanced to the final be-fore losing 58-51 to third-ranked and host Picture Butte Sugar Queens.

Nicole Ubels led the Knights with 19 points in the final while Calista Cooper added 12.

Earlier the Knights downed Glen-mary 73-48 in their opener with Ubels hitting 38 points, They downed the top-ranked Immanuel Christian 60-56 behind Ubels 28 point effort and reached the final with a 64-53 win over La Crete with Ubels hitting 32 points.

• OLDS — W. R Myers of Tabor won the girls and Chestermere the boys in the 3A provincials.

Myers stopped McCoy of Medicine Hat 67-47 in the final.

Earlier on the girls’ side Wetask-iwin downed Olds 68-62 in the first round then lost 85-45 to Edmonton

Christian in the quarter-finals and 60-55 to Holy Trinity Academy on the consolation side. Olds won the Pool C title, defeating Cold Lake 58-53 and Bowness 62-56.

On the boys’ side,Wetaskiwin opened with a 69-52 win over Grande Prairie before losing 96-58 to Ches-termere. They then lost 81-55 on the consolation side.

Olds lost 87-65 to St, Peter The Apostle in their opener, dropped a 73-62 decision to Onoway in Pool C before finishing 11th with a 71-61 win over Holy Rosary.

• La CRETE — The West Island College downed St. Joe’s Collegiate 82-54 to win the 2A boys’ crown.

• TROCHU — Stirling downed Bawlf 71-37 in the 1A girls’ final.

The host Tro-Val Jays lost their three starts — 62-38 to Bawlf, 53-33 to Olds Koinonia and 50-47 to Glendon.

Bawlf also defeated Rosemary 59-35 and CWA 66-33.

• LIVINGSTONE — The host Liv-ingstone squad downed Daysland 78-62 in the 1A boys’ final.

Livingstone stopped New Norway 77-49 in the semifinal while Days-land defeated Coaldale Christian 67-58.

New Norway finished third with a 66-62 win over Coaldale.

Central Alberta Christian High School girls take home silver from 2A provincials

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Canada stays unbeaten at women’s curling worldsOVERCOMES CONTROVERSY IN EVENING DRAW TO GO TO 3-0


INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Milos Ra-onic believes he has what it takes to beat the top players in tennis. He just didn’t have it in him on Sunday.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic rolled past the Thornhill, Ont., product 6-2, 6-0 to win the BNP Paribas Open for a record fifth time, improving to 22-1 in matches this year.

“I need to work harder, I need to execute better,” Raonic said. “I’m on the right track. It’s about putting things together, being effective, which today I wasn’t able to do. I think I have it with-in me, but obviously I need to reach a lot deeper to find that execution.”

It was Djokovic’s third consecutive title in the California desert, breaking a tie with four-time champion Roger Federer, who lost to the Serb the past two years in the final and skipped this year because of a knee injury.

The women’s final was equally one-sided.

Victoria Azarenka defeated er-ror-prone Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4, re-

turning Azarenka to the world’s top 10 for the first time since August 2014.

Djokovic needed an hour, 17 min-utes to dispatch Raonic, whose big serve got broken five times.

The 25-year-old Raonic served just four aces and had 27 unforced errors. His first serve averaged 206 kmph — much faster than Djokovic’s 178.6 kmph— but he connected on only 55 per cent. Djokovic landed 68 per cent of his first serves and was never bro-ken.

Raonic, who had been sidelined with an adductor injury sustained during the Australian Open semifinal in January, left the court for treatment after Sunday’s first set.

“It feels similar (to the Australian Open injury) but not as bad,” Raonic said. “It could be frustrating, could not be. Maybe it’s just sort of a mental way of my body protecting. I don’t think it affected my effort, he played much better than I did. I struggled again, just like last time, to start the match well, and then he’s the best player in the world at this moment and a good step ahead of everybody.”


ORLANDO, Fla. — Jason Day turned his fortunes at just the right time Sunday by making a 12-foot bird-ie putt and then saving par from just under 100 feet away in a bunker to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

It was another great moment for Palmer, the 86-year-old tournament host who watched it unfold on the 18th green.

Day closed with a 2-under 70 for a one-shot victory over Kevin Chappell, who looked as if he might finally win in his 150th start on the PGA Tour. Chappell didn’t flinch the entire back nine until his tee shot was buried in deep rough on the 18th, forcing him to lay up. He hit wedge to 25 feet and was ready to putt when he heard the big roar when Day made birdie on the 17th to tie for the lead.

“Being honest, kind of had me rat-tled a little bit,” Chappell said. He left his par putt well short and made bogey for a 69.

The closing hole at Bay Hill was just as tough for Day.

With a one-shot lead after Chappell made bogey, Day took water out of play from the right rough and went well left of the green into a bunker, 95 feet away with water on the other side of the green. Day blasted out to 4 feet and made the par for his first victory of the year.

He moves to No. 2 in the world and will have a chance to overtake Jordan Spieth next week in the Dell Match Play.

“It means the world,” Day said of winning Palmer’s tournament. “I just ground it out. I got it done when I wasn’t quite on.”

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont.,

was the top Canadian. He finished 10 strokes back in a tie for 20th.

Four players had at least a share of the lead on the back nine. Day was the last man standing.

Troy Merritt, four shots behind when he made the turn, ran off five straight birdies to catch the leaders, and then chipped in for par on the 17th to keep his hopes alive.

But his approach on the 18th went into the water and he made double bo-gey for a 71.

Merritt tied for third with Henrik Stenson, who was tied for the lead un-til failing to save par on the 14th and then finding the water for bogey on the 16th. He also shot 71.

Day finished at 17-under 271.Chappell was sick all week after

catching a bug from his young son. He took the lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th, hit a tough bunker shot close on the 17th to save par. The shot that cost him was his tee shot, and the lie was so atrocious that the only ques-tion was where to lay up.

“I had a chance to win, and that’s all I can ask for,” Chappell said after his fourth runner-up finish on the PGA Tour, and second this season.

Rory McIlroy ended a wild week with his sixth double bogey — the most he has ever made in a PGA Tour event — along with two eagles and five bird-ies for a 65. He shot a 67 on Friday to make the cut. It was the 75s in the oth-er two rounds that held him back.

“Pretty much every week there’s a lot of good golf in there, which you’ve seen on Friday and today,” he said. “I’m just making a lot of mistakes.”

Adam Scott, coming off two straight PGA Tour victories, played the 18th hole in 5 over on the weekend. He made double bogey on Sunday and still shot 69.

The four-man sprint required some help from Day early, and an improb-able birdie run by Merritt after he made the turn.

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Raptors closing in on CavsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raptors 105 Magic 100TORONTO — With 13 games to go in

what has the making of a record-break-ing season for the Toronto Raptors, they’re walking a fine line — between resting players, maintaining momen-tum, and shooting for the No. 1 spot in the Eastern Conference.

Priority No. 1 for coach Dwane Ca-sey: good health.

And so Sunday, it was Cory Joseph’s turn to rest as a mish-mash Raptors lineup pulled out a 105-100 victory over the Orlando Magic.

“I’d rather have health than any-thing else, and freshness. That’s so im-portant,” Casey said. “Believe me, no-body wants to win more than me, but the overall health of your players and the mileage and the minutes on your players’ bodies is something we’ve got to be smart with.

“It’s a double-edged sword. It’s im-portant to our organization and to the city to fight for a championship, to even talk about playing for a cham-pionship is important, and it’s never been done here before.”

DeMar DeRozan scored 25 points, while Luis Scola had 20, and Kyle Lowry added 18. Bismack Biyombo grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds to go with 12 points and six blocks, and Ter-rence Ross chipped in with 13 points for Toronto (48-21).

Joseph got the night off after al-ready topping his career-high in min-utes this season by a whopping 308. The Raptors were also missing Patrick Patterson (ankle), and Jonas Valan-ciunas and James Johnson, who have both been battling injuries. They were active but didn’t play.

The victory pulled Toronto to within one game of Cleveland for first place in the Eastern Conference, but the players echoed Casey’s sentiments in the post-game locker-room. Heading into the post-season healthy and strong is key.

“It’s a long season, you definitely don’t want to lose any momentum you have going, but at the same time your health is the most important thing, especially going into the playoffs,” DeRozan said.

Scola added: “Of course we want to win games, of course we want to fin-ish first, but the most important thing is just to build good habits and build good momentum… and then eventually when we get to the seven games of the conference finals, we’ll worry about that then.”

Victor Oladipo and Evan Fournier led the Magic (29-40) with 21 points apiece. Andrew Nicholson of Missis-sauga, Ont., added 15 points and nine rebounds.

The Raptors were ending a home-heavy stretch that has seen great suc-cess. They’ve lost just twice in their last 19 appearances at the Air Canada Centre. They now hit the road where they’ll play all but five of their remain-ing regular-season games.

They roared out to an early 11-point lead, and looked poised for a relative-ly easy victory against the 12th-placed Magic. But Orlando had other ideas in a game the Raptors didn’t put away until the dying minutes.

Fournier drilled a three-pointer to cut the Raptors’ lead to just a point with 1:11 left, but DeRozan drew a foul on a basket, and the three points put the Raptors back up by four. Brandon Jennings scored with 34 seconds left, but that’s as close as the visitors would come.

Minutes later, DeRozan was teasing Biyombo during his interviews in the laidback post-game locker-room.

“We understand we’re going out there to have fun, we try not to get too uptight, get too high or get too low, we try to keep our sanity by still being hu-man beings,” DeRozan said. “And we do that every time in the locker-room, you see it a lot of times when we joke around on camera, but that’s just us.

“But we understand when we go on that court, it’s all business.”


Toronto Raptors’ Bismack Biyombo blocks Orlando Magic’s Aaron Gordon, right, during the first half of NBA action in Toronto, Sunday.

Day’s wild ride ends with a Bay Hill victory

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Milos Raonic in act ion aga inst Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their men’s final round match at the BNP P a r i b a s O p e n tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, Sunday. Djokovic won the match 6-2,6-0. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED

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Wednesday● Chinook Hockey League: Bentley Generals at Stony Plain Eagles, 8 p.m.

Friday● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer

Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

Saturday● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Chinook Hockey League: Stoney Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 7:30 p.m., Lacombe arena

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EASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION

GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Ptz-Brandon 72 48 18 4 2 319 197 102x-Prince Albert 72 38 26 7 1 222 223 84x-Moose Jaw 72 36 27 7 2 249 239 81x-Regina 72 36 28 3 5 243 253 80Swift Current 72 24 38 7 3 189 249 58Saskatoon 72 26 42 4 0 219 318 56

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pty-Lethbridge 72 46 24 1 1 304 218 94x-Red Deer 72 45 24 1 2 260 205 93x-Calgary 72 42 26 2 2 246 219 88Medicine Hat 72 30 37 3 2 223 287 65Edmonton 72 29 36 6 1 197 238 65Kootenay 72 12 53 6 1 155 320 31

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Ptz-Victoria 72 50 16 3 3 281 166 106x-Kelowna 72 48 20 4 0 269 218 100x-Kamloops 72 38 25 5 4 237 218 85x-Prince Geo. 72 36 31 3 2 240 225 77Vancouver 72 23 40 5 4 199 273 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pty-Seattle 72 45 23 4 0 228 186 94x-Everett 72 38 26 5 3 182 172 84x-Portland 72 34 31 6 1 228 227 75x-Spokane 72 33 30 5 4 223 245 75Tri-City 72 35 34 2 1 236 253 73x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division z — clinched conference Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL col-umn.

Sunday’s resultsCalgary 6 Kootenay 5 (SO)Seattle 4 Portland 1

Saturday’s resultsBrandon 3 Regina 0Moose Jaw 3 Swift Current 1Red Deer 7 Edmonton 2Saskatoon 3 Prince Albert 2Medicine Hat 4 Lethbridge 2Kamloops 2 Prince George 0Victoria 4 Everett 1Seattle 4 Portland 3 (SO)Kelowna 10 Vancouver 1Tri-City 5 Spokane 3

Tuesday’s gameTiebreakerEdmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.End of Regular Season

Saturday’s summaryRebels 7, Oils Kings 2

First Period1, Red Deer, Bobyk 19 (Helewka, Nikolishin), 1:47 (PP).2, Red Deer, Bobyk 20 (Nikolishin, de Wit), 3:13.3, Red Deer, Helewka 42 (Pawlenchuk, Fleury), 15:25.4, Red Deer, Pratt 7 (Hagel, Strand), 16:03.Penalties-Meyer Edm (inter. on goaltender), 1:25 Musil RD (high-sticking), 7:58 Mayo Edm (slashing), 19:48.

Second Period5, Red Deer, Philp 21 (Spacek, DeBrusk), 0:50 (PP).6, Red Deer, de Wit 7 (Helewka, Bobyk), 12:23

(PP).Penalties-Philp RD (tripping), 2:16 Koep Edm (in-terference), 5:37 Koep Edm (slashing), 12:23 Carroll Edm (roughing), 18:58 DeBrusk RD (roughing), 18:58.

Third Period7, Red Deer, Pratt 8, 3:02 (PP).8, Edmonton, Pollock 29 (Carroll), 7:38 (SH).9, Edmonton, Pollock 30 (Irving, Baddock), 14:41 (PP).Penalties-Elizarov Edm (tripping), 2:37 Bertolucci Edm (hooking), 5:46 Irving Edm (cross-checking), 11:06 Robertson Edm (roughing), 13:24 Nogier RD (roughing), 13:24 Bobyk RD (tripping), 14:34 Grun-inger Edm (roughing), 16:09 Nogier RD (unsports-manlike cnd., roughing), 16:09.

Shots on goalEdmonton 9 12 12 — 33Red Deer 18 7 6 — 31Goal-Edmonton, Lee L,12-20-3-1 (25 shots-19 saves), Phair (6 shots-5 saves) Red Deer, Martin W,18-8-1-1 (21 shots-21 saves), Weatherill (12 shots-10 saves).Power Play-Edmonton, 1-4 Red Deer, 4-7.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 72 40 23 9 89 205 177Tampa Bay 72 41 26 5 87 196 171Boston 73 39 26 8 86 216 197Detroit 72 36 25 11 83 184 190Ottawa 73 34 31 8 76 211 223Montreal 73 33 34 6 72 192 209Buffalo 73 29 34 10 68 173 198Toronto 71 25 35 11 61 169 207

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Washington 71 51 15 5 107 227 168Pittsburgh 72 40 24 8 88 204 179N.Y. Rangers 72 40 24 8 88 203 190N.Y. Islanders 70 38 23 9 85 196 177Philadelphia 70 34 24 12 80 182 189New Jersey 73 35 31 7 77 166 189Carolina 72 31 27 14 76 175 195Columbus 72 29 35 8 66 188 223

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 73 43 21 9 95 236 211St. Louis 73 42 22 9 93 194 185Chicago 73 42 24 7 91 203 179Nashville 72 36 23 13 85 197 185Colorado 73 38 31 4 80 198 204Minnesota 73 34 28 11 79 194 186Winnipeg 72 29 37 6 64 184 216

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Los Ang. 71 44 22 5 93 196 160Anaheim 71 40 22 9 89 182 164San Jose 72 41 25 6 88 214 185Arizona 72 31 34 7 69 188 217Calgary 72 31 35 6 68 200 223Vancouver 71 27 32 12 66 167 205Edmonton 75 29 39 7 65 181 219NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.x-clinched playoff spot

Saturday’s GamesMinnesota 3, Carolina 2, SOPittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 1San Jose 4, N.Y. Rangers 1Toronto 4, Buffalo 1Ottawa 5, Montreal 0Detroit 5, Florida 3

Columbus 6, New Jersey 3Dallas 3, N.Y. Islanders 0St. Louis 3, Vancouver 0Tampa Bay 2, Arizona 0Los Angeles 2, Boston 1

Sunday’s GamesMinnesota 3, Chicago 2, SOAnaheim 3, Winnipeg 2, OTNew Jersey 2, Columbus 1Pittsburgh 6, Washington 2Calgary 4, Montreal 1Colorado 3, Edmonton 2San Jose 3, Arizona 0

Monday’s GamesFlorida at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.Calgary at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesBuffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Columbus, 5 p.m.Anaheim at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Washington at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.Vancouver at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Edmonton at Arizona, 8 p.m.St. Louis at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s summaryAvalanche 3, Oilers 2

First PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Rantanen Col (stick holding) 15:29.

Second Period1. Colorado, Landeskog 18 (Soderberg, Matthias) 1:19.2. Colorado, Barrie 13 (Boedker, Landeskog) 11:31.Penalties — Grigorenko Col (hooking) 3:57 Kassian Edm (roughing) 9:29 McLeod Col (roughing) 13:05.

Third Period3. Edmonton, Hendricks 5 (Letestu, Kassian) 2:53.4. Colorado, Comeau 11 (Johnson, Beauchemin) 9:09 (pp).5. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 11 (McDavid) 19:52.Penalties — McDavid Edm (high-sticking) 7:42 Martinsen Col (holding) 14:42.

Shots on goalColorado 12 9 4 — 25Edmonton 8 7 13 — 28Goal — Colorado: Pickard (W, 7-5-1). Edmonton: Brossoit (L, 0-3-1).Power plays (goals-chances) — Colorado: 1-2 Edmonton: 0-4.

Flames 4, Canadiens 1First Period

No Scoring.Penalties — None.

Second Period1. Calgary, Colborne 15 (Brodie, Bennett) 16:06.2. Calgary, Monahan 25 (Hamilton, Jooris) 19:03.Penalties — Dietz Mtl (holding) 1:53.

Third Period3. Calgary, Gaudreau 27 (Monahan, Hamilton) 10:38.4. Calgary, Monahan 26 (Colborne, Hamilton) 12:21 (pp).5. Montreal, McCarron 1 (Beaulieu, Danault) 12:57.Penalties — Hathaway Cgy, Brown Mtl (roughing) 9:40 Eller Mtl (tripping) 11:14 Emelin Mtl (elbowing) 16:09 Stajan Cgy (hooking) 16:42.

Shots on goalCalgary 10 9 16 — 35Montreal 6 8 8 — 22Goal — Calgary: Backstrom (W, 1-0-0). Montreal: Condon (L, 17-22-6).

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBx-Toronto 48 21 .696 —Boston 40 30 .571 8 1/2New York 28 43 .394 21Brooklyn 19 50 .275 29Philadelphia 9 61 .129 39 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 41 29 .586 —Miami 40 29 .580 1/2Charlotte 39 30 .565 1 1/2Washington 34 35 .493 6 1/2Orlando 29 40 .420 11 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBx-Cleveland 49 20 .710 —Indiana 36 33 .522 13Chicago 35 33 .515 13 1/2Detroit 36 34 .514 13 1/2Milwaukee 30 40 .429 19 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBy-San Antonio 59 10 .855 —Memphis 40 30 .571 19 1/2Houston 35 35 .500 24 1/2Dallas 35 35 .500 24 1/2New Orleans 26 43 .377 33

Northwest Division W L Pct GBy-Oklahoma City 48 22 .686 —Portland 36 35 .507 12 1/2Utah 34 36 .486 14Denver 29 41 .414 19Minnesota 22 47 .319 25 1/2

Pacific Division

W L Pct GBy-Golden State 62 7 .899 —L.A. Clippers 43 26 .623 19Sacramento 27 42 .391 35Phoenix 19 50 .275 43L.A. Lakers 14 55 .203 48x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Saturday’s GamesDenver 101, Charlotte 93Oklahoma City 115, Indiana 111Detroit 115, Brooklyn 103Washington 99, New York 89Miami 122, Cleveland 101Atlanta 109, Houston 97Chicago 92, Utah 85Memphis 113, L.A. Clippers 102San Antonio 87, Golden State 79

Sunday’s GamesDallas 132, Portland 120, OTToronto 105, Orlando 100New Orleans 109, L.A. Clippers 105Boston 120, Philadelphia 105Utah 94, Milwaukee 85Sacramento 88, New York 80

Monday’s GamesDenver at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Indiana, 5 p.m.San Antonio at Charlotte, 5 p.m.Orlando at Boston, 5:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Sacramento at Chicago, 6 p.m.Golden State at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Washington at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Memphis at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesCharlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.Miami at New Orleans, 6 p.m.Houston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

2016 World Women’s Curling ChampionshipSWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Standings and results Sunday after the fifth draw from the Women’s World Curling Championship, to be held Saturday through Mar. 27 at Credit Union iPlex:

ROUND ROBINCountry (Skip) W LCanada (Carey) 3 0Japan (Fujisawa) 3 0Scotland (Muirhead) 2 1Russia (Sidorova) 2 1Switzerland (Feltscher) 2 1Germany (Driendl) 2 1South Korea (Chi Gim) 1 2Denmark (Nielsen) 1 2Finland (Kauste) 1 2Sweden (Sigfridsson) 1 2Italy (Apollonio) 0 3U.S. (E.Brown) 0 3

Sunday’s resultsThird DrawCanada 7 Switzerland 4

Denmark 8 United States 7 (extra end)Fourth DrawGermany 9 Sweden 6Finland 8 Italy 7Japan 6 Russia 1Scotland 8 South Korea 6Fifth DrawCanada 10 United States 2Switzerland 7 Denmark 6Scotland 10 Germany 3South Korea 8 Sweden 6

Saturday’s resultsFirst DrawCanada 8 Denmark 7 (extra end)Switzerland 5 United States 4Japan 7 Finland 5Russia 8 Italy 2Second DrawJapan 10 Italy 3Sweden 5 Scotland 3Germany 8 South Korea 5Russia 7 Finland 4

Monday’s gamesSixth Draw, 9 a.m.Canada vs. Russia, Denmark vs. Japan, United States vs. Italy, Switzerland vs. Finland.Seventh Draw, 2 p.m.Japan vs. South Korea, Russia vs. Sweden, Finland vs. Germany, Italy vs. Scotland.Eighth Draw, 7 p.m.Scotland vs. United States, Germany vs. Switzer-land, Sweden vs.Canada, South Korea vs. Denmark.

Tuesday’s gamesNinth Draw, 9 a.m.Sweden vs. Switzerland, South Korea vs. United States, Scotland vs. Denmark, Germany vs. Can-ada.Draw 10, 2 p.m.Denmark vs. Finland, Canada vs. Italy, Switzerland vs. Japan, United States vs. RussiaDraw 11, 7 p.m.Italy vs. Germany, Finland vs. Scotland, Russia vs. South Korea, Japan vs. Sweden.

PGA-Bay HillSundayAt Bay Hill Club & LodgeOrlando, Fla.Purse: $6.3 millionYardage: 7,419 Par: 72Finala-amateurJason Day, $1,134,000 66-65-70-70—271Kevin Chappell, $680,400 68-68-67-69—272Troy Merritt, $365,400 67-69-67-71—274Henrik Stenson, $365,400 67-66-70-71—274Zach Johnson, $252,000 70-70-68-68—276Kiradech Aphibarnrat, $211,050 70-69-73-65—277Jamie Lovemark, $211,050 68-68-71-70—277Hideki Matsuyama, $211,050 70-69-71-67—277Paul Casey, $170,100 68-69-72-69—278Francesco Molinari, $170,100 68-72-69-69—278Justin Rose, $170,100 68-66-71-73—278Derek Fathauer, $123,480 70-66-69-74—279Smylie Kaufman, $123,480 69-71-68-71—279Chris Kirk, $123,480 68-71-69-71—279Ben Martin, $123,480 71-70-71-67—279Adam Scott, $123,480 67-73-70-69—279Emiliano Grillo, $94,500 68-71-68-73—280Brian Harman, $94,500 69-71-70-70—280Marc Leishman, $94,500 67-70-74-69—280Chad Campbell, $65,700 74-68-71-68—281David Hearn, $65,700 71-67-71-72—281Billy Horschel, $65,700 72-67-74-68—281Jason Kokrak, $65,700 70-68-72-71—281Rob Oppenheim, $65,700 70-68-71-72—281Patrick Rodgers, $65,700 70-70-70-71—281Chris Wood, $65,700 69-69-71-72—281Scott Brown, $41,934 70-74-68-70—282Lucas Glover, $41,934 68-74-71-69—282Rory McIlroy, $41,934 75-67-75-65—282Bryce Molder, $41,934 72-71-72-67—282Jonas Blixt, $41,934 72-68-71-71—282Matthew Fitzpatrick, $41,934 70-71-72-69—282Andy Sullivan, $41,934 70-70-70-72—282Cameron Tringale, $41,934 68-71-72-71—282a-Bryson DeChambeau, 72-72-72-66—282Byeong-Hun An, $29,745 74-70-67-72—283Keegan Bradley, $29,745 69-70-73-71—283K.J. Choi, $29,745 68-70-70-75—283Adam Hadwin, $29,745 69-72-73-69—283Sean O’Hair, $29,745 70-72-70-71—283Brandt Snedeker, $29,745 70-72-75-66—283Hudson Swafford, $29,745 72-72-69-70—283Tony Finau, $23,310 70-74-73-67—284Martin Laird, $23,310 69-74-70-71—284Kyle Reifers, $23,310 71-70-71-72—284Roberto Castro, $17,341 75-68-71-71—285Retief Goosen, $17,341 70-71-72-72—285Charles Howell III, $17,341 72-71-68-74—285Freddie Jacobson, $17,341 69-73-71-72—285Greg Owen, $17,341 71-71-72-71—285Ian Poulter, $17,341 72-70-72-71—285Brendan Steele, $17,341 67-70-74-74—285Jhonattan Vegas, $17,341 71-72-74-68—285a-Maverick McNealy, 69-71-74-71—285

LPGA Tour-JTBC Founders CupSundayAt Wildfire Golf ClubPhoenixPurse: $1.5 millionYardage: 6,601 Par 72Finala-amateurSei Young Kim, $225,000 63-66-70-62—261Lydia Ko, $138,527 70-67-64-65—266Jacqui Concolino, $100,492 68-64-68-68—268Megan Khang, $54,379 68-69-66-66—269Brooke Henderson, $54,379 68-69-65-67—269Paula Creamer, $54,379 69-65-67-68—269Stacy Lewis, $54,379 70-65-64-70—269Eun-Hee Ji, $54,379 66-67-65-71—269Paula Reto, $29,863 67-67-70-66—270Ryann O’Toole, $29,863 68-66-69-67—270Kim Kaufman, $29,863 67-68-67-68—270Brittany Lang, $29,863 63-68-71-68—270Ha Na Jang, $21,084 70-68-68-65—271Cristie Kerr, $21,084 69-66-71-65—271Sung Hyun Park, $21,084 66-71-68-66—271Karine Icher, $21,084 67-67-70-67—271Gerina Piller, $21,084 65-68-71-67—271Mi Hyang Lee, $21,084 62-75-66-68—271Pernilla Lindberg, $21,084 65-70-67-69—271Sakura Yokomine, $16,837 68-68-69-67—272Minjee Lee, $16,837 65-69-70-68—272Mirim Lee, $16,837 68-68-67-69—272Na Yeon Choi, $14,501 71-69-66-67—273Thidapa Suwannapura, $14,501 70-69-67-67—273Jenny Shin, $14,501 67-72-66-68—273Anna Nordqvist, $14,501 65-73-67-68—273Sun Young Yoo, $14,501 67-69-69-68—273Christina Kim, $11,922 72-68-67-67—274Hyo Joo Kim, $11,922 69-69-69-67—274Shanshan Feng, $11,922 71-66-69-68—274Alena Sharp, $11,922 73-68-64-69—274Sydnee Michaels, $11,922 69-68-68-69—274

Champions Tour-Tucson ConquistadoresSundayAt Omni Tucson NationalTucson, Ariz.Purse: $1.7 millionYardage: 7,143 Par 72FinalWoody Austin, $255,000 65-70-65—200Jim Carter, $149,600 70-63-68—201Bernhard Langer, $122,400 69-66-67—202Stephen Ames, $90,950 69-67-69—205Marco Dawson, $90,950 68-67-70—205Tommy Armour III, $55,080 70-67-69—206Mark Calcavecchia, $55,080 67-74-65—206Loren Roberts, $55,080 71-66-69—206Scott Verplank, $55,080 66-66-74—206Duffy Waldorf, $55,080 69-68-69—206Bart Bryant, $34,000 71-66-70—207Mike Goodes, $34,000 70-68-69—207Jeff Maggert, $34,000 72-71-64—207

Major League Baseball Spring TrainingAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L PctToronto 12 4 .750Detroit 14 6 .700Houston 11 7 .611Chicago 10 7 .588Los Angeles 10 7 .588Texas 11 8 .579Minnesota 9 8 .529Oakland 8 8 .500Cleveland 9 10 .474New York 8 9 .471Tampa Bay 8 9 .471Seattle 9 11 .450Kansas City 10 13 .435Boston 8 12 .400Baltimore 5 12 .294

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctArizona 16 4 .800Washington 12 4 .750Philadelphia 13 5 .722Los Angeles 10 8 .556Milwaukee 9 8 .529Colorado 8 8 .500New York 7 8 .467Cincinnati 9 11 .450San Francisco 9 11 .450St. Louis 7 9 .438Miami 6 10 .375Chicago 6 13 .316Pittsburgh 5 12 .294San Diego 5 12 .294Atlanta 5 15 .250

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

Saturday’s GamesMinnesota vs. Pittsburgh, ccd., RainBaltimore vs. Tampa Bay, ccd., RainBoston 3, St. Louis 1, 5 inningsDetroit vs. Miami, ccd., RainN.Y. Yankees 3, Atlanta 2N.Y. Mets vs. Washington, ccd., RainPhiladelphia vs. Toronto, ccd., RainTexas (ss) 13, Kansas City (ss) 6Oakland (ss) 7, Cincinnati 6Oakland (ss) 9, San Francisco 1Chicago White Sox 4, L.A. Dodgers 2Kansas City (ss) 5, Seattle (ss) 4L.A. Angels 15, Milwaukee 7San Diego 5, Colorado 5, tieArizona (ss) 11, Texas (ss) 1Cleveland 10, Chicago Cubs 5Arizona (ss) 4, Seattle (ss) 2

Sunday’s GamesMiami 5, St. Louis 2Philadelphia 5, Houston 4Detroit (ss) 8, Atlanta 2Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 8, tieN.Y. Yankees 6, Minnesota 4Detroit (ss) 7, Washington 6Toronto 3, Pittsburgh 2Boston 9, N.Y. Mets 4Milwaukee 3, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 1Chicago White Sox 6, Oakland 2Chicago Cubs 5, Kansas City 2San Diego 12, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 5Arizona 9, Cincinnati 3

L.A. Angels 5, Texas 1San Francisco 10, Colorado 4Cleveland 3, Seattle 1

Monday’s GamesBoston vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m.Houston vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.Atlanta vs. Pittsburgh (ss), 11:05 a.m.Philadelphia vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.Miami vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.Colorado vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.Seattle vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Milwaukee (ss), 2:05 p.m.Oakland vs. San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.Milwaukee (ss) vs. Arizona, 7:40 p.m.Cincinnati vs. San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesBaltimore vs. Minnesota (ss), 11:05 a.m.Atlanta vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m.Toronto vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.Minnesota (ss) vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.Boston vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.San Francisco (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Oakland vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.Texas vs. San Diego, 2:10 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. N.Y. Yankees, 4:35 p.m.L.A. Dodgers vs. Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco (ss) vs. Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

National Lacrosse LeagueEast Division

GP W L Pct GF GA GBBuffalo 11 7 4 .636 152 138 —New England 9 5 4 .556 120 107 1Rochester 11 6 5 .545 124 122 1Georgia 11 4 7 .364 137 149 3Toronto 10 3 7 .300 108 124 3.5

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GBColorado 11 8 3 .727 134 126 —Saskatchewan 10 7 3 .700 138 114 .5Calgary 12 5 7 .417 133 138 3.5Vancouver 11 3 8 .273 122 150 5

WEEK 12

Saturday’s resultsCalgary 13 Colorado 9Saskatchewan 24 Vancouver 16Friday’s resultRochester 11 Georgia 4

WEEK 13Friday, Mar. 25Rochester at New England, 5 p.m.Vancouver at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.Calgary at Georgia, 5:35 p.m.Saskatchewan at Toronto, 6 p.m.Saturday, Mar. 26New England at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.Toronto at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

TransactionsTransactionsSunday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reassigned OF Alfredo Marte and LHP Jeff Beliveau to their minor league camp.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reassigned RHPs Ryan Brasier, Angel Castro and Eduard Santos, C Bryan Anderson and INFs Franklin Barreto, Matt Olson and Chad Pinder to their minor league camp.SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned RHP Jonathan Aro, LHP David Rollins and C Steven Baron to Tacoma (PCL). Reassigned RHP Adrian Sampson and INF Ed Lucas to their minor league camp.TORONTO BLUE JAYS — RHP Rafael Soriano announced his retirement.National LeagueLOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Zach Lee to their minor league camp.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned INFs Dean Anna and Aledmys Diaz and OF Anthony Garcia to Memphis (PCL). Reassigned C Carson Kelly, and LHP Austin Gomber, RHPs Jeremy Hefner and Deck McGuire and INFs Jonathan Rodriguez and Patrick Wisdom to their minor league camp.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned LHPs Ty Blach and Steven Okert and RHP Clayton Black-burn to Sacramento (PCL). Reassigned RHP Vin Mazzaro, LHP Ricky Romero, OF Ryan Lollis and INFs Hak-Ju Lee and Kyle Blanks to their minor league camp.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCALGARY FLAMES — Recalled D Tyler Wother-spoon from Stockton (AHL).COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled F Mikko Rantanen from San Antonio (AHL).NASHVILLE PREDATORS— Recalled F Gabriel Bourque and F Eric Nystrom from Milwaukee (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned G Yann Danis to Albany (AHL). Recalled G Scott Wedgewood and D Vojtech Mozik from Albany (AHL).American Hockey LeagueSAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled F Trevor Cheek from Fort Wayne (ECHL).SOCCERMajor League SoccerCOLORADO RAPIDS — Acquired G Tim Howard from Everton as a designated player and will be added to the roster upon the opening of the second-ary transfer window (July 4).

Canadian teenager Henderson finishes in tie for fourth place

PHOENIX — Sei Young Kim turned an an-ticipated Sunday shootout into a record-tying blowout.

The 23-year-old South Korean player matched Annika Sorenstam’s LPGA Tour scor-ing record of 27 under, closing with a 10-under 62 at Desert Ridge for a five-stroke victory in the JTBC Founders Cup.

“It’s a dream come true,” Kim said. “I scored 10 under. It’s my best score ever, ever.”

Sorenstam set the mark in 2001 at nearby Moon Valley, shooting a record 59 in the sec-ond round. Kim also matched the tournament record of 62 set Thursday by Mi Hyang Lee.

Kim won last season in the Bahamas, Hawaii and China and was the LPGA Tour rookie of the year. Her four tour victories have come in a 31-event span. She will jump from seventh to fifth in the world ranking, putting her in the second position for South Korea’s four-woman Olympic team.

Canadian teenager Brooke Henderson start-ed the day in eighth place and shot a 5-under 67 for a top-five finish. Henderson put herself in a good spot for the final round on Saturday when she had her best round of the tourna-ment — a 7-under 65. The Smiths Falls, Ont. native finished in a tie for fourth place at 19 under.

“Good week, got off to a pretty solid start but I was really far behind and trying to claw my way back,” said the 18-year-old Henderson. “Yesterday was an awesome day and today was another solid round.”

Jacqui Concolino, playing alongside Kim, was third at 20 under after a 68.

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Alberta Farm Animal Care is hosting a Livestock Care Conference and producer workshop at Olds College focusing on sheep. The conference centers around promoting responsible, humane animal care and continual improvement in Alberta’s livestock production systems. For more information contact the AFAC at www.afac.ab.ca or [email protected] or at 403-652-5111.

Edmonton band Black Mastiff will be playing the Vat on Tuesday at 9 p.m. They will be joined by Calgary band Chron Goblin and Red Deer’s Dusty Trucker. Cover is $10.

LIVESTOCK CARE CONFERENCE

BLACK MASTIFF PLAYS THE VAT

THINGSHAPPENINGTOMORROW

1Those interested in multi-faith and peaceful co-existence to take part in the “Our Canada” full-day workshop from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. It is designed to build knowledge about faith-related situations in their workplace or community, and increase their ability to manage situations arising out of conflicting religious practices and cultural values.

CANADIAN RACE RELATIONS — OUR CANADA WORKSHOP

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Sausage made simpleDON’T BE INTIMIDATED BY SAUSAGE MAKING. THIS RECIPE IS EASY

BY SARA MOULTONTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

If you’ve always nursed a yen to make your own sausage, but you don’t own a meat grinder and you’re dubious about the joys of stuffing ground meat into casings, this recipe for rustic sausage patties is for you.

So what about this ground meat mixture qualifies it as sausage? The answer is threefold: the season-ings, the way the ground meat is mixed, and the high fat content of the mixture. Most hamburger meat contains 15 to 20 per cent fat. Ground chuck clocks in at about 30 per cent. But when it comes to sausage, most of which is made from pork, the fat averages 30 to 50 per cent.

And — big surprise! — that’s why we love it so much. The flavour and juiciness are enhanced great-ly by all that fat.

Still, there’s no reason to get crazy, which is why I’ve walked a middle line here, aiming for a fat con-tent around 35 per cent. Pork shoulder (also known as pork butt or Boston butt) is my cut of choice. It’s inexpensive, tasty and rich with fat. But the ratio of meat to fat varies even within a given piece of pork shoulder. Some parts are leaner, some fattier. In or-der to arrive at just the right ratio, you need to slice off the fat and weigh it, then weigh the meat, too.

Next, it’s time to toss in a couple slices of bacon, which is my way of adding smokiness to the sausages without actually having to smoke them.

Given that most folks don’t own a meat grinder, we’re going to use a food processor to “grind” the meat. First, however, the meat and fat must be fro-zen. This helps them break up more evenly during processing, and helps prevent them from overheat-ing in the machine. You can take advantage of that freezing time to cook and chill the onion mixture.

When all of the ingredients are combined — the ground meat, fat, onion and seasonings — it’s import-ant to mix them well. Kneading makes the finished sausages denser and springier. These qualities are what make a sausage a sausage rather than a burger, which should be loose and crumbly.

I call for the cooking and tasting of a “test pilot,” or tiny sample patty, before launching into full pro-duction. It’s a safe way to decide if the sausage is seasoned to your taste, given that you shouldn’t just pinch off and gobble down a piece of raw meat. First, it’s just not safe. Second, raw meat requires different seasoning than cooked meat.

The patties can be formed a day ahead and chilled, which will improve their flavour even fur-ther. One last caveat: Be careful not to overcook the patties. All they’ll need is three minutes per side, plus a few more with the lentils. If you cook them to well done, they’ll be dry.

I love the combination of pork and beans, which is why I paired these rustic sausage patties with warm lentils. The lentils and their cooking liquid are poured into the same skillet in which the sausag-es were grilled. This step deglazes the browned sau-sage juices on the bottom of the skillet and marries the pork to the lentils. If you want to make this dish more substantial, you might stir some baby spinach or kale into the lentils and let them wilt before add-ing the sausages. Or throw in some steamed baby carrots. Or both. It’s all good.

Sara Moulton is the host of public television’s “Sara’s Weeknight Meals.” She was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows, including “Cooking Live.” Her latest cookbook is “Home Cooking 101.”


This photo shows rustic sausage patties with lentils in Concord, N.H. Fresh sausage is easily made at home using a food processor to grind pork shoulder, pork fat and bacon with a handful of seasonings. A simple and vinegary lentil salad is the perfect complement to the rich and fatty goodness of the sausages.

RUSTIC SAUSAGE PATTIES WITH LENTILS

Start to finish: 1 hour 30 minutes (45 minutes active)Servings: 4

For the sausage patties:12 ounces trimmed pork shoulder meat, cut into

1/2-inch chunks4 ounces fresh pork fat (from the trimmed shoulder

meat), cut into 1-inch pieces2 slices bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces2 tablespoons olive oil2/3 cup finely minced yellow onion2 teaspoons minced garlic1 teaspoon dried sage1 teaspoon dried thyme1/2 teaspoon kosher salt1/2 teaspoon ground black pepperFor the lentil salad:1 cup dry lentils2 to 2 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken stock or broth1 tablespoon sherry vinegar2 teaspoons Dijon mustardChopped fresh parsley, to serve

To make the sausages, in a shallow container such as a baking dish or small sheet pan, spread out the pork, fat and bacon. Freeze, uncovered, for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium, heat the olive oil. Add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, sage and thyme, then cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Transfer the mixture to a shallow bowl and refrigerate until cooled to room temperature. Reserve the skillet.

Once the pork has chilled in the freezer for 30 min-utes, transfer the fat and bacon to a food processor. Pulse until it is very finely chopped, then transfer to a

bowl. Add the pork chunks to the processor and pulse until finely chopped. Return the fat-bacon mixture to the processor and pulse several times to mix. Transfer the mixture back to the bowl along with the cooled onion mix-ture, the salt and pepper.

Knead the mixture for several minutes, or until it is mixed well and holds together when you squeeze it with your fingers.

In a small skillet, test a small piece of the sausage mixture, cooking it until nicely browned on both sides. Adjust seasoning as needed. Shape the mixture into twelve 2-inch patties, then chill, covered, until ready to cook.

While the patties chill, prepare the lentil salad. In a 1-quart saucepan over medium-high, combine the lentils and 2 cups of the chicken broth. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook the lentils, par-tially covered, for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the lentils are just tender.

When the lentils are nearly done cooking, heat the reserved large skillet over medium. Working in batches, add the sausage patties to the skillet and cook until they are nicely browned, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer the patties to a plate.

Pour off and discard all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the skillet, then add to the skillet the cooked lentils along with their cooking liquid, the sherry vinegar and Dijon mustard. Simmer gently, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the skillet, for 2 minutes, adding more chicken broth if desired to achieve a soupy consis-tency. Add the patties to the skillet and simmer gently for 2 minutes.

To serve, transfer a mound of the lentil mixture to each of 4 serving bowls, then top with 3 patties and gar-nish with chopped fresh parsley.

Nutrition information per serving: 590 calories 310 calories from fat (53 per cent of total calories) 34 g fat (10 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 80 mg cholesterol 500 mg so-dium 33 g carbohydrate 12 g fiber 4 g sugar 38 g protein.

Parisians can now get meat through vending machinesBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — With their beloved ba-guette already available 24 hours a day, it seems only logical that Pari-sians can now get the Bayonne ham and Basque pate that goes so well with the bread from the first meat vending machine installed in the French cap-ital.

In a city filled with small shops where long lunches remain a crucial part of the French “art de vivre,” the gleaming red machine set up on the lively Rue de Charonne in eastern Par-is seems a bit incongruous.

The area has at least two dozen butcher’s shops and no shortage of meat, but that didn’t deter the own-ers of one of those shops, Florence and Michel Pouzol of “L’ami Txulette,” from investing 40,000 euros ($45,000) to set up their project, selling vacu-um-packed meat from the refrigerated machine.

“We’re closed two days: Sundays and Mondays,” Florence Pouzol said. “So this is to cater for customers over the weekend. … The idea was also to serve people after the shop’s closing hours. We close at 8 p.m. but some peo-ple leave work very late and find the shop closed when they walk past it.”

L’ami Txulette specializes in prod-

ucts from the Basque Country. From their machine, which takes cash or credit cards, customers can also get a large choice of traditional delica-tessen including duck confit and beef carpaccio. There are also faux-filet steaks on display, priced at 34 euros per kilogram. On average, the products are 20 euro cents more expensive than those sold inside the shop.

A majority of shops remain closed on Sundays in France, but the Pouzols are confident that France is changing fast and so are their customers’ habits.

“Our customers are young. There are also quite a few bars and restau-rants along the boulevard,” Flor-ence Pouzol said. “When we see them during the day, they tell us: “Last night, I bought this, or that, and it was really helpful.” We also have those who work in the cafes and restaurants and who come off work at 2 a.m. They tell us they were happy to buy an en-trecote or something else to eat.”

But not all residents, especially the older ones, seem ready to stop running errands at their favourite shop and switch to the meat dispenser.

“I’m so happy that I can actually go to the butcher’s shop now that I’m retired and go there in person”, said local resident Lydie Aparacio. “I think that it can be useful for people who are busier than a retiree. I don’t use it

because I have time.”While baguette dispensers have en-

joyed success across France over the past five years, the meat vending ma-chines business remains in the em-bryonic stage in France. The first ma-

chine of this type was installed three years ago in the small town of Garat by a butcher who set it up outside a bar.

According to the bar owner, it adds extra comfort in an area lacking ser-vices.


Residents watch the first meat vending machine installed in Paris, last Tuesday. With their beloved baguette already available 24 hours a day, it seems only logical that Parisians can now get the Bayonne ham and Basque pate that goes so well with it from the first meat vending machine in the French capital.

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TORONTO — It took mere days for Jian Ghomeshi’s celebrated media ca-reer to disintegrate when sexual as-sault allegations first emerged in 2014.

After decades spent ascending to CBC Radio’s top echelon he crashed with a sudden dismissal, while his image as an erudite man-about-town and social progressive was instantly blighted by stunning criminal charges involving several complainants.

A judge is poised to release a ver-dict on the bulk of those charges Thursday, a ruling that will likely determine whether Ghomeshi has a chance at ever working in the public eye again.

Some image experts believe the 48-year-old Ghomeshi could possibly become a media star again — if he’s acquitted of all charges.

“There are things he can do, abso-lutely, but we’re talking about a rep-utation that’s been slaughtered,” says Eric Schiffer, of the California-based firm Reputation Management Consul-tants.

“There’s always a way, if you’re in-nocent, to rebuild yourself,” insists the crisis management expert, who says his company has represent-ed some of the biggest names in the world, including “some of the wealthi-est men in Canada.”

“He’s been decimated but there are tremendous opportunities. If he is in-nocent and found innocent, I think you can certainly do a magnificent job in telling this story from a different per-spective.”

Regardless of what a judge says, the court of public opinion will be the true arbiter, says public relations expert Martin Waxman. The flood of news reports recounting allegations against Ghomeshi have had a damag-ing impact, he added.

“Just do a search of his name and you look on page one, page two, page three, page four, page five, page six … there’s so much stuff about the trial,” says the Toronto-based Waxman.

“With little other things peppered in, but absolutely no ‘good news’ sto-ries. Even his Wikipedia entry, para-graph two talks about the scandal. He has a long way to go to repair his rep-utation and his image, if he can even do that.”

Thursday’s verdict concerns four charges of sexual assault and one charge of overcoming resistance by choking. Ghomeshi has pleaded not guilty to all of them.

If convicted of sexual assault, the former “Q” host faces a maximum sen-tence of 18 months behind bars. The choking charge carries a potential life sentence.

If acquitted, the first thing Ghomeshi should do is start showing “a little bit of humility,” says Waxman.

“Ghomeshi needs to demonstrate that he’s a human being, he’s sympa-thetic, that he understands that may-be there are two sides to every story and maybe the women who charged

him, they have their side too,” says Waxman, who conducts digital media training through Martin Waxman Com-munications.

“Some kind of an apology would go a long way. If you think about our former mayor (Rob Ford) … he always fell back on apologizing. Sometimes his apologies may not have seemed that sincere but his audience, Ford Nation, sure bought them. He was able to kind of draw the story away from the current scandal.”

And there’s no time to delay re-branding efforts, says Alan Middle-ton, assistant professor of marketing at York University.

“If I was him, I’d be looking at the day, or the minute, the court result comes in,” says Middleton.

But he would have to re-enter the public sphere gradually.

“You can’t put his face on a pro-gram right off the bat,” says Middle-ton.

“It’s too soon, too dramatic. But if people gradually get used to him, it al-lows them to say, ‘Well, he was acquit-ted. There was nothing there.’ And get used to him in the new role.”

There’s still the matter of anoth-er count of sexual assault involving a fourth complainant. That matter will be tried separately in June.

Until all charges are dealt with, Waxman guesses Ghomeshi’s lawyers have advised him to maintain a low profile, regardless of Thursday’s out-come.

As for employment options, Ghomeshi’s chances of returning to a

major national broadcaster are slim, says Schiffer.

“Anyone that would be hiring him for the first year is doomed.”

He suggests Ghomeshi mount a pod-cast, which he could produce and dis-tribute himself.

“And strangely enough, I think his fan base, if leveraged right, can grow much bigger than it ever was before,” says Schiffer.

Public relations expert Marjorie Wallens adds that Ghomeshi will have to spend a fair bit of time defending his reputation.

“A lot of people write a book, and go on the talk shows and whatever,” says Wallens, of the Toronto-based MJW Communications.

“And he will be invited to talk about it. He is a Canadian personal-ity — if he is acquitted he likely will be asked to comment. And then, right then and there, he would start to build his key messages.”

S c h i f f e r a n d W a x m a n s a y Ghomeshi’s best bet might be to leave the country entirely and attempt a fresh start in the United States, or even Europe.

But Middleton believes a big move could actually be more difficult.

“The notoriety would work more against him internationally than here, not because there’ll be deep under-standing of it but he had no credibility going in,” he says.

“When they do the checking and this pops up, why would you hire a relatively unknown (broadcaster) with that background?”


Jian Ghomeshi and his lawyer Marie Henein (left) leave court in Toronto following closing arguments in his sexual assault trial on Feb. 11. Public relations experts say Ghomeshi’s career could rebound with an acquittal but not easily.

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UNB earns sixth CIS men’s hockey championship with

win over StFX.HALIFAX — The University of New

Brunswick made it all the way to the 2015 CIS men’s hockey final only to watch Alberta celebrate a victory in the championship game.

This year it was different.The No. 5 Varsity Reds returned

to the 2016 CIS championship and defeated the No. 3 St. Francis Xavier X-Men 3-1 on Sunday for the school’s sixth national championship.

Christopher Clapperton opened the scoring for UNB 6:49 into the first period before Zach MacQueen responded for St. Francis Xavier at 19:49. Francis Beauvillier restored the lead for the Varsity Reds on the power play at 9:02 of the second and Tyler Carroll added insurance just 17 seconds later.

Etienne Marcoux made 22 saves for UNB while Drew Owsley kicked out 27-of-30 shots for StFX.

Earlier, the No. 8 Saint Mary’s H u s k i e s t o p p l e d t h e N o . 2 Saskatchewan Huskies 5-2 to claim CIS bronze. Calder Brooks struck twice for Saint Mary’s while Anthony Repaci, Grant Gerrard and Stephen Macaulay added the other goals. Cole Cheveldave made 17 saves for the win.

Saint Mary’s was playing for third place after a 4-0 loss to UNB in the semifinals.

Jesse Ross and Josh Roach s u p p l i e d t h e s c o r i n g f o r Saskatchewan, which dropped a 2-1 decision in triple overtime against StFX in the semifinals. Jordon Cooke stopped 26-of-31 shots in a losing cause.

Labelle has three goals, Carabins rout Thunderbirds

for CIS women’s hockey titleCALGARY — Alexandra Labelle

scored three goals and added an assist as the Montreal Carabins won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s hockey title with an 8-0 victory over the UBC Thunderbirds on Sunday.

Marie-Pier Chabot made 23 saves for the shutout. Emmanuelle Passard and Maude Laramee each had a goal and two assists for the Carabins, while Jessica Cormier had four assists.

Alexandra Paradis, Maude Gelinas and Casandra Dupuis rounded out the scoring.

UBC starter Danielle Dube allowed five goals on 10 shots. Samantha Langford stopped five of eight shots in relief.

Earlier, Caitlyn Manning had a goal and an assist to lead Saint Mary’s over Guelph 3-1 in the bronze-medal game.

Guelph entered the tournament as the top seed but will leave Calgary empty-handed.

Dally, Dukate lead Huskies to win over Rams in women’s

basketball finalFREDERICTON — Laura Dally

had 25 points and six rebounds as the Saskatchewan Huskies beat the Ryerson Rams 85-71 to win their first Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball title.

Sabine Dukate had 22 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals for the Huskies, while Kelsey Trulsrud and Dalyce Emmerson added 14 points each.

E m m e r s o n w a s n a m e d t h e tournament’s most valuable player.

“We were composed,” she said. “Those emotions have been a factor when I have played in previous national finals, but this time, the senior girls led the way.”

Dukate (4-for-7) and Dally (4-for-9) were both dangerous from three-point range.

“Winning this makes you realize how special it is in this league, and how many things have to fall into place in order to win,” said Huskies coach Lisa Thomaidis, who has also coached Canada’s senior women’s team. “This is different than international, where you are together for a summer or a season. This is big because we have a lot of time invested in the players, and the players have a lot invested in the program. In some cases, we have been together everyday for the past five years.”

Keneca Pingue-Giles, the CIS

women’s basketball player of the year, had 26 points and six rebounds for the Huskies but went 1-for-9 on her three-point attempts.

“I shot a lot, but they weren’t falling for me, unlike other games in this tournament,” she said. “They played us tough and things fell in for them.”

In the bronze-medal match, Rachelle Coward scored 18 points as the Saint Mary’s Huskies beat the McGill Martlets 56-43.

“We have been to four nationals, and come away with three medals, so that says a lot about the players,” Saint Mary’s coach Scott Munro said. “They are an experienced group, and they knew what to do today.”

Ravens defeat Dinos for sixth straight CIS men’s

basketball titleVANCOUVER — Connor Wood

scored 22 points as the Carleton Ra-vens defeated the Calgary Dinos 101-79 on Sunday in the title game at the CIS Final 8 for their sixth straight Canadi-an university men’s basketball title.

The fourth-year guard from Guelph, Ont., who was named tournament MVP, nailed five of Carleton’s 16 three-pointers, while fifth-year guard Gavin Resch of Ottawa added all 18 of his points from beyond the arc.

The powerhouse Ravens, who en-tered the tournament as the No. 2 seed, have now won 12 of the last 14 men’s basketball championships, but this season wasn’t without obstacles.

Carleton head coach Dave Smart stepped away for a year’s sabbatical, leaving nephew Rob Smart in charge, while star siblings Philip and Thomas Scrubb were lost to graduation after standout careers.

The Ravens finished the regular season 16-3, losing to the Ottawa Gee-Gees twice and the Ryerson Rams once, before falling again to Ryerson in the OUA title game last weekend.

Carleton advanced to Sunday’s fi-nal at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on the campus of the University of British Columbia with a 76-66 victory over No. 6 Dalhousie on Saturday, while No. 4 Calgary upset top-ranked Ryerson 98-87 in the other semifinal.

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March 212010 — Closing ceremony for the Tenth Win-ter Paralympics held in Vancouver; 506 ath-letes from 44 countries participated. 1991 — Supreme Court of Canada rules 9-0 that the fetus is not a legal person; no guar-antee to life under Criminal Code; upholds BC Court of Appeal ruling. 1985 — Rick Hansen launches his “Man in Motion” world tour from Oakridge Mall in Van-

couver, to raise money for spinal cord re-search; inspired by his friend Terry Fox he pumped his wheelchair 3,600 times an hour for 26 months. 1940 — William Aberhart leads Alberta Social Credit Party to a second consecutive majority in the provincial election, winning 36 of 57 seats.1932 — The Albertan reports that the 1931 Alberta wheat crop is for the first time greater than that of Saskatchewan. 1865 — Prince Edward Island votes against Confederation.

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TORONTO — Flashback to the early 1990s and you might’ve found a young Nick Carter roaming the aisles of his local video store with VHS copies of Friday the 13th and Hellraiser in hand.

“Blood, gore, guts,” the Backstreet Boy singer says. “That’s some of the stuff I love.”

Now after years of serenading teen-age girls with ballads like Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) and Shape of My Heart, Carter is going back to his love for heart-stopping slasher movies by creating one himself.

Dead 7 teams Carter up with mem-bers of other boy bands, like ‘N Sync and 98 Degrees, who are resurrected to fight a zombie plague that’s infesting a small western town.

It’s a concept Carter imagined after finding it tough to break into the acting world through au-ditions.

So instead of playing in other people’s scripts, he decided to co-write one himself and got the pro-duction company behind Sharknado to foot the bill.

The result is a hor-ror-western mashup — half Magnificent Seven and half Night of the Liv-ing Dead — where Carter takes centre stage and fel-low Backstreet Boys sing-ers Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean play smaller parts.

Former ‘N Sync members Joey Fatone and A.J. McLean, as well as O-Town singer Erik-Michael Estrada, make appearances too.

Convincing all of them to sign onto the B-movie was actually pretty easy.

“The thing about musicians — espe-cially boy-banders — they all want to act,” Carter says.

“You know, Joey and Chris, I know all these guys. Do we hang out? Not necessarily as much, but we share the same path and the same experiences. There’s a lot of common ground there.”

His fellow Backstreet Boys also share a love for the horror genre.

During their early days, the group brought elements of classic monster movies to the Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) music video.

Carter played the Mummy.

In his personal life, the singer is a fan of more recent horror flicks, and they aren’t necessarily top-shelf picks either.

“Critters (is) one of my favourite movies,” he says, naming the 1986 thriller in which furry aliens invade a farming town.

Carter says he also loves Ghoulies, a tale of pocket-sized demons who hide in toilets, and House, about a horror writer who inherits a house possessed by a Vietnam War veteran.

“Most people would think they’re the corniest thing on the planet,” he says.

“I wanted to create a movie like that (which) has a little bit of that quirki-ness. That’s just how I am.”

Carter is currently touring for his third solo album All American, re-

leased in Canada earlier this month.The Backstreet Boys are also thriv-

ing as a group. Production is underway for their

ninth studio album and the boy band is considering a more long-term space in Las Vegas.

“We’re trying to work on a residency out there,” Carter says. “We’re doing a nine-show experimentation thing to see if it works.”

Other possibilities have also been floated, including a Backstreet Boys stage musical and a tour alongside the Spice Girls.

“It all depends on (if) we have the time to do it,” he says.

Dead 7 airs on U.S. cable channel Syfy on April 1. There are no immedi-ate plans for the film to show on Cana-dian television.

Blood, guts and boy bandsNICK CARTER ON HIS LEAP INTO WRITING HORROR MOVIES


LOS ANGELES — Zootopia contin-ues to run wild over its rivals in its third weekend in theatres, stomping all over the launch of Allegiant, the third film in the Divergent series.

The animated Disney film featuring the voices of Jason Bateman and Gin-nifer Goodwin earned $38 million this weekend to take first place once again, according to comScore estimates Sun-day. It’s now earned $201.8 million do-mestically.

It stole the thunder from The Diver-gent Series: Allegiant, starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James, which opened in second place with an esti-mated $29.1 million from 3,740 loca-tions.

It’s a new low for the YA series based on Veronica Roth’s novels, which both opened north of $50 mil-lion, but not unexpected. Lionsgate broke up Roth’s final book into two movies, the second of which, Ascen-dant, launches next year. And, like Twilight and The Hunger Games, it’s not unusual for Part 1 of a 2-film finale to fall short of some of its predecessors.

“It’s had mixed results in general, but it’s also had great results so I can’t really fault a studio for going with that strategy,” said Paul Dergarabedian, comScore’s senior media analyst. “It’s like skipping ahead in a book. I think it’s a strategy that may want to be re-considered. But there are other factors — is the movie good? What are the con-ditions of the marketplace?”

Dergarabedian also noted that fick-leness of the teen audience might be playing into the big drop from the pre-vious films.

“They’re chasing an audience that is very difficult to pin down,” he said. “What might be cool to them one day isn’t cool the next.”

But while the future of drawn out YA franchises might be looking as bleak as the dystopias they portray, one genre that does seem to produce near-consistent hits is that of the faith-based film.

The latest entry, Sony’s Mir-acles From Heaven, took third place this weekend with an impressive $15

million. The film, starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah, opened Wednesday. It’s earned $18.6 million to date, and cost only $13 million to produce.

Audiences, who were 65 per cent female and 75 per cent over the age of 25, gave the film an A+ CinemaScore, which bodes well for its longevity go-ing into the Easter holiday weekend.

It’s no secret that there have been a slew of faith-based breakout hits, but not many of them have mainstream Hollywood stars on the level of Garner and Latifah.

“These films are a home run in terms of having modest budgets and an audience, but star power does make a difference,” Dergarabedian said.

Rory Bruer, Sony’s President of

Worldwide Distribution, agreed.“It has a faith-based core, but this

movie is for everyone,” Bruer said.Rounding out the top five were

holdovers 10 Cloverfield Lane and Dead-pool with $12.5 million and $8 million, respectively.

The weekend overall was about on par with last year, but the 2016 box office is thriving, up 10.5 per cent from 2015 — a number that is likely to rise when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jus-tice opens next weekend.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadi-an theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest interna-tional numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

Final domestic figures will be re-

leased Monday.1. Zootopia, $38 million ($64.8 million

international).2. The Divergent Series: Allegiant,

$29.1 million ($22 million internation-al).

3. Miracles From Heaven, $15 million.4. 10 Cloverfield Lane, $12.5 million

($5 million international).5. Deadpool, $8 million ($6.1 million

international).6. London Has Fallen, $6.9 million

($10 million international).7. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, $2.8 mil-

lion.8. The Perfect Match, $1.9 million.9. The Brothers Grimsby, $1.4 million

($2.6 million international).10. The Revenant, $1.2 million ($36.4

million international).

Zootopia tramples Allegiant


This shows Judy Hopps, voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, left, Nick Wilde, voiced by Jason Bateman, second left, in a scene from the animated film, Zootopia.

Monday March 21CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:

Matthew Broderick, 53; Gary Oldman, 57; Rosie OíDonnel, 53

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars encourage compassion, creativity and spiri-tuality.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 2016 is the year to slow down and give your frazzled nerves a rest. July is the prime month to fall in love — or resuscitate a rickety relationship.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Being emo-tionally flexible is the key to a stress-free day for smart Rams. If you feel relaxed and on top of things, then communication will flow more easily and misunderstandings will be minimized.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today’s stars favour pursuing creative activities like gardening, cooking, crafting, painting, draw-ing, decorating and renovating.

It’s your way of expressing the tactile Tau-rean artist within.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have the opportunity to inspire others today Twins, especially at work. But don’t then disappoint them by talking far too much and delivering way too little. Keep your expectations ground-ed in reality.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re dreaming of the future and have so many ideas swirling around, but how many of them see the light of day? If you get side-tracked by endless possibilities, then you’ll never get anything done.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Attached Cats —it’s the perfect day to turn up the romance dial with your lover. Singles — are your roman-

tic expectations unrealistic? Remove your rose-coloured glasses and take a second look.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Step up Virgo because a friend or family member requires your assistance today. Some sound and sen-sible advice may be just what the doctor or-dered. But is a loved one telling you the full story?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You think you know what’s going on but are you living in La-La Land Libra? It’s time to dig deep with a lover or friend, as you look beneath the sur-face and discover what’s really going on.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Teamwork and networking will get you where you want to go today Scorpio, as you tackle a project that’s close to your heart. But don’t let a child, teenager or friend pull the wool over your eyes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the perfect Monday to socialize and entertain —especially at home - as you enjoy good food and convivial company. If the budget is being stretched, then find creative ways to boost your cash flow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Com-bining an adventurous approach with a solid work ethic is the secret to success for Cap-ricorns at the moment. If you are mentally creative and take calculated risks, then you’ll make pleasing progress.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to get started on a project that excites you but don’t be totally unrealistic about your budget. If you’re creatively focused and fi-nancially frugal, you’ll get more bang for your buck.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Creativity and inspiration are high so find fun ways to express yourself today Pisces. The stars also rev up your flirtatious side, but don’t let your-self be led astray by a charming sweet-talker.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an interna-tionally syndicated columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Dear Annie: I have been dating “Brad” for three years.

We currently date long-distance, but the relationship is fine. He is loving and kind toward me and everyone in our lives.

When he proposed, I said yes imme-diately. But what is supposed to be an exciting time in my life is now marred by his ex-girlfriend, “Marsha.”

I knew Marsha when she and Brad dated 10 years ago. For some reason, she disliked me, even treating me rudely when she and Brad were in-vited to parties at my place with my then-boyfriend. Brad confided that Marsha didn’t like any of the women he was friends with, saying they were “petty.”

Marsha is now married, but she and Brad have remained friends. The three of them have even vacationed together. I’ve never objected to their friendship, but I’ve also never found a reason to befriend her, nor has she reached out to me.

Brad has reiterated Marsha’s old ac-cusation of my being “petty” because I am resistant to initiating a friendship. He says that Marsha doesn’t remember how rudely she treated me and insists she be invited to our wedding. I dis-agree.

I envision my wedding filled with people who love me. Since I’m paying for half, I should have a say about the guest list.

Brad even told me to get counsel-ing in order to find the “real reason” I dislike her. He intimated that I had deep-seated problems and that Marsha was the innocent party.

I’m beginning to think wedding bells are not on our horizon. Please help. — To Wed or Not to Wed

Dear Wed: There are several things going on here.

If you are splitting the costs of the wedding, Brad gets to invite Marsha and her husband. You were wrong to turn that into an ultimatum. It made you seem ungenerous and forced Brad to defend his ex.

The way Marsha behaved 10 years ago is old news. She was probably jeal-ous of any women around Brad. You need to stop holding that grudge. Peo-ple can change, and you won’t know if you exclude her.

But we also wonder why Brad is so attached to Marsha and demands that you make friends with her. There is no reason for that except that he antici-pates including Marsha and her hus-band in your social life on an ongoing basis.

Frankly, if this argument is enough for you to stop the wedding, we think it might be for the best.

Dear Annie: I appreciated your an-swer to “Confused and Torn” about her dog.

I have loved and cherished a num-ber of animals in my life. It is always hard to let them go, so I ask myself, “Am I prolonging her life or prolong-ing her death?”

And, “Am I keeping her alive for myself or for her?”

The way I see it, the animal does not understand why it suffers. I will clear-ly understand the loss and take that pain upon myself to keep the animal from suffering more.

It is simply the price to pay for all the love and companionship the ani-mal has given me over the years, and is the last and most important thing we can do. — S.

Dear S.: Thank you for taking a dif-ferent perspective on such a difficult time.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

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