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Your Career Path Your Skills Peoples Lives RED DEER RECRUITING TRIP APRIL 7 NOW HIRING Free Information Session Register at: /reddeer B5 A3 CALGARY ARTIST USES PAINT TO BECOME MAN OF STEEL BEFORE YOUR EYES ABSTRACT ARTIST EXPERIMENTS WITH ITEMS CLOSE AT HAND KAYAKER SETS SIGHTS ON RETURN GADGETS PROMISING A BETTER YOU B1 PLEASE RECYCLE W E D N E S D A Y M A R C H 3 0 2 0 1 6 www.reddeeradvocate.com $1.00 B9 INDEX RED DEER WEATHER NEWS A2-A3, A5, A7-A8 COMMENT A4 BUSINESS A9-A10 SPORTS B1-B4 HEALTH B5 CLASSIFIED B6-B7 COMICS B8 ENTERTAINMENT B9 ADVICE B10 LOTTERIES TUESDAY EXTRA: 5473696 PICK 3: 054 Numbers are unofficial. Local Today Tonight Thursday Friday A7 DRUNK DRIVER JAILED 10 YEARS 11° Cloudy 30% Showers 13° Sun and Cloud 18° Sunny KEEPING HIS BALANCE Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff Vincent Russell, 5, tries to keep his balance as he crosses a balance beam at the Rotary Park playground Tuesday afternoon. With temperatures reaching 12 C, and many children on spring break, the park was one of the busier places in the city. Trudeau fires back at critics of EI changes during Calgary visit BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back at critics who say changes made to employment in- surance to help the struggling energy sector don’t go far enough. Trudeau said in an interview with Global Calgary that people in Edmon- ton and Saskatchewan who complain of being left out of changes to the pro- gram should feel fortunate their areas have not been harder hit by the down- turn in energy prices. “I think that both people in Ed- monton and Saskatchewan should be pleased that they are not hit as hard as other parts of the country and indeed the province have been,” Trudeau said in the interview. “We’re of course go- ing to keep monitoring to make sure we’re doing everything we can for the places that need it.” Last week’s federal budget boost- ed employment insurance benefits in some parts of the country, but left some areas of the oilpatch out. The government said it picked 12 regions that needed the most help with extra weeks of benefits for jobless workers. Those include Newfoundland and Labrador, parts of northern and southern Alberta, northern British Columbia, northern Manitoba, north- ern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, Whitehorse and Nunavut. Council approves ’17 budget guidelines Belt-tightening is ahead for city de- partments as work begins on the 2017 operating and capital budgets. By a split vote of 5-4, council ap- proved a set of guidelines for admin- istration to use when planning next year’s spending. Council directed administration to achieve an overall 2.5 per cent tax rate increase which includes a one per cent growth and amenities contribution. Basically it’s a one per cent increase to the existing budgets. Administration had recommended a no more than 3.5 per cent tax rate as a starting point but Coun. Dianne Wyntjes successfully argued to bring the number down one per cent or $1.2 million in targeted savings. Councillors Wyntjes, Mayor Tara Veer, Tanya Handley, Buck Buchanan and Frank Wong voted in support of the guidelines. Wyntjes said this gives a message that council is in touch with the com- munity and is disciplined when it comes to the budgets. She said council is well aware of the tough times with job losses and layoffs in the communi- ty. “We talk about innovation, creativ- ity, belt-tighten and doing things dif- ferently,” said Wyntjes. “This is an op- portunity for us to see what our admin- istration can come up with some num- bers …. There are a lot of unknowns but the leadership starts with us at the top and we have to give that direction.” BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF HolmeHus Antiques owner Susan Manyluk has fought before to save trees near her Red Deer County home from being chopped down. Now, she’s once again defending the treasured line of old black poplars on Township Road 282 about five km west of Red Deer. The county has informed her it wants to take down the stretch of trees in a road allowance lining the route south of Hwy 11A to improve safety and visibility on the well-used route. “It is a travesty. I don’t know what else you can call it,” said Manyluk, who has lived practically in the trees’ shade for 39 years. “Some of those trees are 100 years old.” She points out these venerable nat- ural inhabitants of the rural landscape gave Poplar Ridge its name. It has been estimated only about 10 per cent of Central Alberta’s original poplar forests remain, heightening the im- portance of protecting what is left, she said. RED DEER COUNTY BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Infrastructure minister visits Central Alberta Page A2 Please see TREES on Page A8 Please see BUDGET on Page A8 Please see TRUDEAU on Page A8 Plan to chop trees panned ‘IT IS A TRAVESTY,’ SAYS CRITIC

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• Your Career Path• Your Skills• Peoples Lives

RED DEER RECRUITING TRIP APRIL 7

NOW HIRING

Free Information Session

Register at: /reddeer

B5

A3CALGARY ARTIST USES

PAINT TO BECOME MAN OF

STEEL BEFORE YOUR EYES

ABSTRACT ARTIST

EXPERIMENTS WITH

ITEMS CLOSE AT HAND

KAYAKER

SETS

SIGHTS ON

RETURN

GADGETS

PROMISING

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BUSINESS A9-A10SPORTS B1-B4

HEALTH B5CLASSIFIED B6-B7

COMICS B8ENTERTAINMENT B9

ADVICE B10

LOTTERIES

TUESDAY

EXTRA: 5473696

PICK 3: 054

Numbers are unofficial.

Local Today Tonight Thursday Friday

A7DRUNK

DRIVER

JAILED

10 YEARS

11°

Cloudy

30% Showers

13°

Sun and Cloud

18°

Sunny

KEEPING HIS BALANCE

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Vincent Russell, 5, tries to keep his balance as he crosses a balance beam at the Rotary Park playground Tuesday afternoon. With temperatures reaching 12 C, and many children on spring break, the park was one of the busier places in the city.

Trudeau fires back at critics of EI changes during Calgary visitBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back at critics who say changes made to employment in-surance to help the struggling energy sector don’t go far enough.

Trudeau said in an interview with Global Calgary that people in Edmon-ton and Saskatchewan who complain

of being left out of changes to the pro-gram should feel fortunate their areas have not been harder hit by the down-turn in energy prices.

“I think that both people in Ed-monton and Saskatchewan should be pleased that they are not hit as hard as

other parts of the country and indeed the province have been,” Trudeau said in the interview. “We’re of course go-ing to keep monitoring to make sure we’re doing everything we can for the places that need it.”

Last week’s federal budget boost-ed employment insurance benefits in some parts of the country, but left some areas of the oilpatch out.

The government said it picked 12

regions that needed the most help with extra weeks of benefits for jobless workers. Those include Newfoundland and Labrador, parts of northern and southern Alberta, northern British Columbia, northern Manitoba, north-ern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, Whitehorse and Nunavut.

Councilapproves’17 budget guidelines

Belt-tightening is ahead for city de-partments as work begins on the 2017 operating and capital budgets.

By a split vote of 5-4, council ap-proved a set of guidelines for admin-istration to use when planning next year’s spending.

Council directed administration to achieve an overall 2.5 per cent tax rate increase which includes a one per cent growth and amenities contribution. Basically it’s a one per cent increase to the existing budgets.

Administration had recommended a no more than 3.5 per cent tax rate as a starting point but Coun. Dianne Wyntjes successfully argued to bring the number down one per cent or $1.2 million in targeted savings.

Councillors Wyntjes, Mayor Tara Veer, Tanya Handley, Buck Buchanan and Frank Wong voted in support of the guidelines.

Wyntjes said this gives a message that council is in touch with the com-munity and is disciplined when it comes to the budgets. She said council is well aware of the tough times with job losses and layoffs in the communi-ty.

“We talk about innovation, creativ-ity, belt-tighten and doing things dif-ferently,” said Wyntjes. “This is an op-portunity for us to see what our admin-istration can come up with some num-bers …. There are a lot of unknowns but the leadership starts with us at the top and we have to give that direction.”

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

HolmeHus Antiques owner Susan Manyluk has fought before to save trees near her Red Deer County home from being chopped down.

Now, she’s once again defending the treasured line of old black poplars on Township Road 282 about five km west of Red Deer.

The county has informed her it wants to take down the stretch of trees in a road allowance lining the route south of Hwy 11A to improve safety and visibility on the well-used route.

“It is a travesty. I don’t know what else you can call it,” said Manyluk, who has lived practically in the trees’ shade for 39 years. “Some of those trees are 100 years old.”

She points out these venerable nat-ural inhabitants of the rural landscape gave Poplar Ridge its name. It has been estimated only about 10 per cent of Central Alberta’s original poplar forests remain, heightening the im-portance of protecting what is left, she said.

RED DEER COUNTY

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

Infrastructure minister visits Central Alberta Page A2

Please see TREES on Page A8 Please see BUDGET on Page A8

Please see TRUDEAU on Page A8

Plan to chop trees

panned‘IT IS A TRAVESTY,’

SAYS CRITIC

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Reports that the birds are back in town are true. Also true, thanks to a mild winter, is some never left in the first place.

Several observers have recently re-ported seeing more than a usual num-ber of bald eagles in the Olds and Sun-dre areas.

The large birds, which at one point were endangered but are now classed as a “sensitive species,” are being seen in increasing numbers because they are making their annual migration north, into and through the area.

Carol Kelly, executive director of the Medicine River Wildlife Centre located north of Olds and Sundre, said Monday that while eagles migrate south in the fall, some stay if the win-ter is milder because they have more access to food.

That’s what happened this past win-ter in Central Alberta where mild and even summer-like weather has also led to an early spring. Temperatures fore-cast for Friday and Saturday are ex-pected to reach highs of 18C and 19C.

It is also common to notice eagles

more now as spring calving is under-

way, and when a calf doesn’t survive

farmers will sometimes leave the car-

cass out in the field for wild animals.

Eagles are one of the first animals to

come in and feed, Kelly said.

“Some of the birds are coming back

earlier. I’m standing, looking out my

window and my bluebird is back. In fact the two of them are here looking at nests,” Kelly said Monday.

Judy Boyd, a long-time local bird watcher and enthusiast, said she has noted eight bald eagles nests already this spring when normally she sees three or four.

Boyd said it is hard to say why there are more — it could just be that she’s just been more successful this year with monitoring.

One bald eagle has moved onto an osprey nest, which has always been used by osprey in the past. The osprey are not back yet, she said.

The nests are marked with GPS for personal interest, but also in the event the Medicine River Wildlife Centre receives an orphaned bird. The bird can then be placed in the nest of new parents that have young ones about the same age.

Boyd said it was an unusual winter as she counted a lot of cedar waxwings during the Christmas bird count. Nor-mally this species migrates south.

She said she also spotted white-winged crossbills and red crossbills over the winter. Usually these birds aren’t seen locally.

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Infrastructure minister visits Central Alberta

Touting the Liberal’s maiden bud-get, Federal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi met with Central Al-berta elected officials in Red Deer on Tuesday.

Sohi rehashed the 2016 federal bud-get and explained the focus on growth, job creation and investing in seniors, families with children, Indigenous communities and middle-class Cana-dians.

“We understand that in the past the federal government has not done a good job at communicating with mid-sized cities as well as rural commu-nities,” said Sohi. “I was surprised to learn I was the first minister to pay a visit to City Hall for a long, long time. To us, that is not how we want to do business. We want to do business by being inclusive. We want to do busi-ness by listening to all sorts of commu-nities and municipalities.”

Sohi said the government values lo-cal input, which will help design the delivery of the programs to meet the diverse needs of communities so they are designed in a way that is nimble enough and flexible enough for local communities to make their own prior-ities.

One key investments in the federal budget is the allocation of $120 billion over 10 years, of which $60 billion is new money, for infrastructure. It could mean more money for public transit, social infrastructure including social and affordable housing, recreational and cultural facilities and early learn-ing and senior facilities.

Another $20 billion has been dedi-cated to green infrastructure such as water, wastewater and flood mitigation projects and new technologies and en-couraging low-carbon economy.

“We believe the infrastructure has been neglected for a long time,” said Sohi. “We also need to build new in-frastructure to recognize the growth of our communities. In our first phase we

will focus on repairing and fixing up the existing infrastructure and moder-ation or optimizing infrastructure by using new technologies.”

He said this includes invest-ing in growth in-frastructure by investing in new h o u s i n g a n d transit systems or recreation.

“We believe infrastructure plays a critical role in building strong, sustain-able communi-ties as well as our economic growth,” said Sohi. “It en-ables our communities to prosper and it also enables further growth in com-munities.”

“Alberta will get its fair share out of those three funding envelopes,” said

Sohi. “We have committed to invest $10 billion immediately in the next two years. Of the $60 billion, on top of the money that is available to commu-nities under the existing plans. In Al-berta’s case there’s about $700 million that is available under existing plans. We have committed to fast tracking that money to deal with the sluggish growth that communities in Alberta have faced.”

Sohi said his goal is to ensure that the new funding is invested during this construction season and the next construction season after the bilateral agreement is signed with the province. Announcements will be made after the government finishes reviewing the submitted projects.

Sohi also talked about the tax break for nine million Canadians, who will pay less in taxes and the Canada child care benefit, which will help nine out of 10 families with children. He said it will come to $2,300 more per family on average.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

AMARJEET SOHI

Mild winter, early spring a boon for local bird watchers

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

A bald eagle sits upon her eggs in a nest located west of Penhold near the confluence of the Medicine River and the Red Deer River on Tuesday morning.

BY MARY-ANN BARRADVOCATE STAFF

Six agencies were given the green light to deliver housing supports under a new framework starting on July 1.

Council stamped its approval on the Community Housing Advisory Board’s recommendations for the Outreach and Support Services Initiative grants. Every year the city receives $3.44 mil-lion to allocate to service providers.

Agencies such as Safe Harbour, Mc-Man Central, Red Deer Native Friend-ship Society, Canadian Mental Health Association and Central Alberta Wom-en’s Outreach Society and Third Sec-tor Services will receive support to run the programs to help end homeless-ness in the city.

The money will go to programs to support housing for youth, winter emergency support, Indigenous cultur-al support, permanent supported hous-

ing and others.This funding agreement is for July

1, 2016 to June 30, 2019.At the same time council heard

the changes to the framework, which will include a single entry point for housing programs and an emphasis on matching the right person with the right program.

The system builds on Everyone’s Home: Red Deer’s Five Year Plan to End Homelessness, and focuses on individ-uals who have been homeless the lon-gest.

Roger Goodwin, CHAB board chair said these changes will ultimate-ly make the most positive impact for those experiencing homelessness and

the rest of the community.The city’s goal is to end homeless-

ness by 2018.Under the framework, 115 of the

longest-term shelter guests and 43 rough sleepers who do not use shelters will be housed, which will eliminate street homelessness.

Other priorities are to bring the av-erage length of stay in shelters to four days and to develop targeted preven-tion, diversion and rapid rehousing measures

Coun. Ken Johnston said the city has the courage to state those numbers and back them up.

“I couldn’t be happier with the agencies that have come forward

and stepped in the particular social problem,” said Johnston. “Thirteen per cent of our homeless population account for over half of our shelter space and 57 per cent of our homeless population suffer from mental illness and 68 per cent suffer from substance abuse.”

Johnston said when there are in-vestments in housing, policing, en-forcement and incarceration, hospital and other costs go won. Studies have shown that a homeless person costs the city $43,000 in social, policing and agency supports compared to $17,000 that a housed person costs the munic-ipality.

“I want to put a flag in the ground today and be proud of it in a year or two to say Red Deer no longer has a homeless problem,” said Johnston. “This is a great day in the city and a great day to put our flag in the ground on this issue.”

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

Six agencies allocated $3.44M to help end homelessness in the city‘I WANT TO PUT A FLAG IN THE GROUND TODAY AND

BE PROUD OF IT IN A YEAR OR TWO TO SAY RED DEER NO LONGER HAS A HOMELESS PROBLEM.’

— COUN. KEN JOHNSTON

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016NEWS A3

Census available online in AprilTime to be counted.Participating in the 2016 municipal census is eas-

ier than ever with options to complete the census online, over the phone and in person when enumera-tors go door-to-door in April.

Each household will be delivered a Personal Identification Number (PIN), which can be used to log on and access the census questions and submit answers.

The census will collect information on the num-ber of people living in each household as well as

their sex and year of birth. Residents can also enter to win a tablet when they complete the census.

Letters with instructions and PIN numbers are being hand delivered to every home in Red Deer from April 1 to 6. Residents are being asked to look in their mailbox or front door for their letter. The PIN is specific to each address and is required to enter the census website. The site can be accessed at www.reddeer.ca/census starting April 1.

Residents can complete the census online from April 1 to 14.

Any device that can access the Internet will work including phones and tablets.

Residents can call the Census office at 403-342-8317 or wait for an enumerator to visit between April 15 and May 9, if they chose not to partake in the on-line option.

The city conducts the annual census to obtain an official count of the number of people living in Red Deer. Census data is crucial information for city planning and to ensure the city receives the appro-priate amount of grant funding from the provincial and federal governments. For 2016, the City of Red Deer is expected to receive approximately $236.34

per capita in grant funding which will be used for community projects and initiatives.

For more information, go to www.reddeer.ca/cen-sus.

Lacombe man charged in murder case makes brief court appearance

A Lacombe man facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of an Eckville man in 2006 made a brief court appearance on Tues-day.

Shayne Earl Gulka, 44, was charged in relation to the death of Bradley Webber, who was found shot to death inside his fifth wheel trailer in Eckville on Oct. 24, 2016.

He is also accused of using a handgun to kidnap another individual in October 2006.

Gulka was arrested on March 10.Police are still looking for Kevin Edward Brown,

33, of Calgary, in connection to those crimes. A Cana-da-wide warrant was issued for his arrest.

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Artist uses paint to become Man of SteelBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Kay Pike stands in front of a giant lit mirror, dabs her brush into a glob of paint and touches it to her skin.

She’ll repeat the motion thousands of times over the next 12 hours as she transforms herself from a willowy blond artist to the dark-haired Man of Steel for a throng of viewers following along on the Inter-net.

“We don’t talk about gender roles on my channel. In fact, when people say you should paint yourself as Superwoman, I’m like, ‘No. I want to paint myself as Superman,”’ says Pike, who, when she’s done, looks like she could have been ripped from a comic book panel.

“It doesn’t matter. When you’re painting a canvas, you’re not thinking this is a girl canvas or this is a boy canvas.”

Pike is a fan of cosplay in which participants wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character from anime, comic books and car-toons, video games or movies.

Twice a week, the 28-year-old spends up to 15 hours turning her body into a different character for an Internet audience.

“I’ve been painting my whole life. It kind of comes easily to me, but it’s a lot of practice and hard work too,” Pike said in a interview with The Canadian Press at her studio in northwest Calgary.

“Art is art. I’m one of those art class nerds that would go and eat lunch in the art room and hang out with the art supplies.”

After sitting as a body paint model for a friend, Pike realized she could still dress up without having to make a costume.

“It’s magic.”She posted a video of her first solo effort on

Reddit and it caught the attention of Twitch.tv, a live-streaming company in San Francisco.

“One week later I was live streaming body paint on Twitch.”

Pike started in December at https://www.twitch.tv/

KayPikeFashion and already has 163,000 followers on Instagram (@kaypikefashion).

Her sessions are a mix of reality TV and info-tain-ment. There are contests for signed prints or balloon animals she makes on screen.

She receives a little advertising money, but relies more on donations from viewers to offset her costs and from Patreon.com, a crowdfunding site for art-ists. An alarm that goes off when people make dona-tions.

There is also cash from her fashion line, which she sells at comic conventions, as well as appear-

ance fees.“It’s like small income from a lot of different plac-

es that add up to a mortgage payment.”Superman is a favourite of her husband, Moose,

who narrates, reads posts from her followers and runs things behind the scenes.

She said it would be boring and lonely to do the painting without an audience.

“While you’re painting it, it’s a lot more satisfying … because you have the joy of creation.

“At the end, it’s a little sad to wash it off.”

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Over a 12 hour period, all the while live streaming on the internet, Kay Pike transforms herself using body paint and latex into Superman at her home in Calgary.

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Re: “Eagle caught in snare euthanized”

Look, I am not a hunter or a trapper, although I do fish occasionally and am always mindful as I kill a fish to eat that is struggling to get away. I am not opposed to wearing leather and my wife had a fox fur ruff on the hood of her Northern Parka made the First Nations people of The Pas, Manitoba. I enjoy eating game that friends have hunted.

While respecting the rights of farm-ers and ranchers to protect their live-stock from predation by predators, I do not support the use of snares. A pair of golden eagles, 15 cougars, and who knows how many wolves have died in the Sundre area from snares believed to be legally set. I call on the Alberta Government to ban the use of snares in

the Province of Alberta.Bill Franz,

Red Deer

Deficit budgets do not have to be the course of action

Millions of thinking Canadians surely must be anxious about the developing chaos in government spending(mounting deficits). For those who care, a must read is the latest edition of the Fraser Institute Quarterly (Spring 2016).

The Advocate often publishes articles from this magazine, and for good reason, it is one of the top think tanks in the world, as judged by the University of Pittsburgh’s world survey of 6,986 think tanks.

In 1992-93, Canada’s federal deficit had reached $487 billion, not to

mention that all 10 provinces were in debt also. Canada and its provinces were on the brink of financial disaster.

And then it happened, revolution in politics.

It started in Saskatchewan in 1992, under NDP premier Roy Romanow. He cut spending by 12 per cent. Then Alberta, under Progressive Conservative premier Ralph Klein, cut spending by 21.6 per cent.

Then in 1995, according to the Quarterly, “The Chretien Liberal government introduced the most important budget in a generation, reducing spending by almost 10 per cent over three years, cutting the public sector, reforming provincial transfers, and broadly reviewing all federal spending to focus on smarter government. The results were extraordinary. In short, the government and a majority of the

provinces achieved balanced budgets and began to reduce debt. Elimination of deficits was not the end, though, as federal and several provincial governments started to reduce business taxes, capital gains taxes, personal income taxes, etc., to regain competitiveness.

“The ensuing decade from 1995 through roughly 2005 marked a period when Canada enjoyed one of the strongest economies of any industrialized country. Income rose, jobs were created, and opportunities for progress abounded. It’s hard to look back at the decade with any serious complaints. They were good economic times.”

This could happen again, maybe. Right now we have dumb and dumber governments.

Jim Swan,Red Deer

It is interesting how society views sport.

Most people are able to sepa-rate out the humanity of the athletes from the action taking place in front of them. After covering sports for the better part of 14 years before moving into the managing editor’s chair and being a failed athlete growing up, I have seen all sides of this and am as guilty as anyone for getting lost in the illusion.

We do not like to think of our en-tertainment pieces as weak or fallible physically. They are supposed to be able to fight through whatever injury comes their way, lest they be known as soft or wimps or by other more deroga-tory monikers.

Toughness makes for a better story, it helps us create legends that will be passed down for generations

The leagues which run sport at the highest level refuse to admit publicly, or to their stock, the potential dangers of their sport.

Both football and hockey leagues have been hammered by lawsuits

about the refusal to disclose or accept information about the long-term ef-fects of head injuries to their athletes and improperly rushing them back in-to action, though simultaneously intro-ducing new rules to help prevent these incidents.

I can understand both ends of the argument to a large degree.

Up until the last 10 or 15 years, there was very little known about the long-term effects of concussions and even less of an understanding by the broader public.

It used to be you got your bell rung and your coach would tell you to shake it off and get back out there.

In my final year of hockey at our annual midget tournament in Kitscoty in 2000, I was cross-checked over the head as I went to go hit another player. I was diagnosed with my sixth concus-sion, five of which are from playing hockey.

My coach was floored that I was going to be on the sideline at all, in-credulously saying, “In all my years of coaching I have never had a player miss any time because of a head inju-ry.”

I missed the next six weeks and still came back too early. To this day I still suffer effects from my concussions.

That was one incident, but I know it is a story that can be repeated many times in many different sports.

While I do expect the major sports leagues had better information than my minor hockey coaches at that point in time, the culture of being uber-tough and fighting through it was still wide-spread and the science they had was still not great.

The NHL and NFL have a long list of former players who continue to suf-fer the consequences of a career in their respective vocations, and an un-fortunate list of those who have died, unable to cope with those ailments.

The other end of it is, these sports have always been dangerous and the possibility of life-altering injuries has always been a real risk. This is some-thing athletes have long known, even if they refuse to acknowledge it. Ev-erything from broken bones to blown-out knees to paralysis, especially in contact sports, are strong likelihoods. Stories of taking pain killers leading to drug abuse in dealing with these injuries go back a long way. Head in-juries are just the latest risk added to the pile.

It is an ugly truth.While the leagues should support

those athletes who helped build them into billion dollar empires to a greater degree, athletes pleading ignorance to the potential risks — regardless of the sport — is tough to swallow.

But here’s the greater question, do we as fans really care how the sausage

is made?We made athletes like Lawrence

Taylor and Scott Stevens legends be-cause of their aggressive, predato-ry style. Enforcers like Bob Probert, Wade Belak and Derek Boogaard were fan favourites, and not because of their offensive abilities. While some, like my wife, become distressed when a fight breaks out, many more rise to their feet in anticipation, including myself.

Combat sports have always held a high place in society, pre-dating the days of gladiators fighting in colise-ums. In the last 100 years boxing has given way to mixed martial arts, which is supposed to be a less damaging sport to the athletes because it focus-es on technique and submissions — but talk to the average fan and they want to see the big knockout. Georges St-Pierre was one of the two biggest names in the sport for several years, but he was roundly criticized because of his inability to finish an opponent with a knockout.

It is a delicate balance that must be weighed by all parties: what are ath-letes willing to accept as risks for the millions of dollars they could poten-tially earn? How much of a blind eye are the owners willing to turn? And what are we as fans ready to accept as lives being damaged all for our amuse-ment?

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EDMONTON — New research sug-gests that hydraulic fracking of oil and gas wells is behind earthquakes caused by humans in Western Canada.

A study, published Tuesday by a group of top Canadian researchers, says problems in Alberta and British Columbia aren’t being caused by in-jecting waste water underground. It’s a major step in understanding seis-mic events that have already led to changed regulations in Alberta and caused public concern.

“It’s critical that we get to a com-plete scientific understanding of the issue,” said David Eaton, a University of Calgary geophysicist and a co-au-thor of the study.

Fracking involves pumping high-pressure fluids underground to create tiny cracks in rock to release natural gas or oil. Scientists had previ-ously concluded that oilpatch activity can cause earthquakes by making it easier for faults in underground rock to slip, but they didn’t know whether the Canadian quakes were caused by fracking or by the disposal of waste water.

Public interest has been high, es-pecially after a tremblor in January shook pictures on the walls of homes in Fox Creek, Alta., a community in

the centre of the Duvernay oil and gas field. Measuring between 4.2 and 4.8 on the Richter scale, the quake was the largest of hundreds of similar shakers around the community.

Eaton and his colleagues began with a database of more than 12,000

fracked and disposal wells drilled be-tween 1985 and 2015. They cross-refer-enced that with another database of seismic events over that time.

A complex statistical analysis pinned the blame convincingly on fracking and not disposal, Eaton said.

“There are more earthquakes in Western Canada that are more related to hydraulic fracturing than waste-wa-ter injection by a factor of about two.”

Eaton said the situation is reversed in the United States, where waste-wa-ter disposal is considered to be behind

most human-caused seismic activity.That doesn’t mean that a lot of wells

cause earthquakes. Eaton calculates that about 0.3 per cent of fracked wells create problems.

But there are enough wells drilled for even that tiny fraction to be a con-

cern.“Even at 0.3 per cent, because of

the very large number of hydraulically fractured wells, it still represents an issue that is of high priority to address scientifically,” said Eaton.

Alberta’s energy regulator has al-ready changed regulations for the in-dustry as a result of the Fox Creek earthquakes. Eaton said regulators in B.C. are also considering changes.

“The regulators have been quite re-sponsive.”

Eaton suggested his findings raise questions about how well the geology of heavily fracked oilfields in Alberta and British Columbia is understood.

“The occurrences in Canada have come as a surprise — in some cases to industry — because there was a belief that all the potential faults had been identified,” he said. “One of the things we’re actively researching is to find new and better ways to identify these features.

“We’re looking for the signature of critically stressed faults in new and different ways.”

Scientists are aware of the pressure they face getting the issue right, Eaton said.

“There’s a mixture of science and the whole social-political aspect of this.”

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Vader says vehicle trouble made him late for court again

EDMONTON — Travis Vader showed up late for the second time in his trial in the deaths of an elderly Alberta couple, again blaming vehicle troubles for his tardiness.

Vader arrived at the courthouse in Edmonton on Tuesday two hours late, prompting Justice Denny Thomas to demand an explanation.

Vader told court he suffered prob-lems with three vehicles — one with a bad spark plug, another with problems in the brake line, and the third getting a flat tire.

At the start of his trial, Vader was late for court when he said a truck broke down.

Vader is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann.

The trial was supposed to end next week, but dates are now being request-ed throughout April.

Fire crews contain grass fire BALZAC — Smoke filled the sky

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Officials in Rocky View County say it started as a grass fire at about 12:40 p.m. Tuesday and then spread to a large area.

Crews were able to save two near-by houses, but Laura Roberts, who lives in one of the homes, says the fire burned through a shop and several old buildings.

Roberts claims sparks from a rail-way line caused the fire, and she says it’s the third fire on the property in just the past few days.

“There was a fire two days ago lit by an engine and my son’s son-in-law and husband put that fire out. Early hours of this morning, there was another fire lit by an engine. The fire department — I think Chestermere — put that one out. This one got away,” Roberts said.

The official cause of the fire is un-der investigation.

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Drunk driver jailed 10 yearsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEWMARKET, Ont. — A drunk driver who killed three children and their grandfather in a horrific crash north of Toronto was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after a judge said Marco Muzzo must be held ac-countable for the irreversible suffer-ing he’s caused.

Muzzo, 29, had already accrued a lengthy record of driving infractions — many of them for speeding — when he made the fateful decision to drink and drive after returning home from a trip to Miami last September, said Superi-or Court Justice Michelle Fuerst.

And while he has shown genuine remorse for his actions, “the high de-gree of Mr. Muzzo’s moral blamewor-thiness, combined with the enormous and far-reaching consequences of his offences, set this case apart from oth-ers,” she said.

“Notwithstanding the many posi-tive aspects of Mr. Muzzo’s background and character… a lengthy penitentiary term is necessary,” in part to deter others from taking the same dangerous risk, Fuerst added.

Muzzo glanced quickly at his family in the front row of the courtroom in Newmarket, Ont., as he was led away in handcuffs. His mother wiped her eyes while the children’s mother, Jen-nifer Neville-Lake, sobbed quietly in a corner as others gathered around her.

Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison, their two-year-old sister Milly and the children’s 65-year-old grandfather, Gary Neville, died after the van they were in was hit by a speeding SUV driven by Muzzo.

Outside the courthouse following the sentencing, Jennifer Neville-Lake said her family is a tragic reminder of the consequences of drinking and driving.

“Please, keep in mind: when you choose to drink and drive, you’re hurting other families, you’re killing someone else’s babies, like mine were

killed,” she said.“All of mine were killed on a beau-

tiful Sunday afternoon just after 4 o’clock. Please don’t do that.”

She recalled holding Milly and Har-rison close in their last moments and showed a photo of the two children holding hands in their hospital beds.

“That’s Milly and Harry. They

joined their hands together. They pushed their beds together I decided I had to turn the machines off so Milly’s heart wouldn’t explode. I couldn’t pick which baby to turn off the machines first,” she said, her voice cracking.

“Edward and I crawled into bed with them,” she said. “We put our hands on top of theirs so that … just

like we were with them when they

were born, we were with both of them

when they died. They died hugged by

us in bed surrounded by all the family

and friends that sang to them Some-

where Over the Rainbow as we turned

off the machines.”

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Jennifer Neville-Lake cries as she holds up an old family photograph of her and her siblings at the courthouse for the Marco Muzzo sentencing in Newmarket, Ont., on Tuesday. Muzzo was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday.

Tributes pour in for Lapierre

after his death in plane crashBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre, who went on to become a highly visible and respected political pundit on nation-al issues, was remembered Tuesday as a great communicator who “really understood the country.”

Lapierre, 59, his wife, two of his brothers and one of his sis-ters were among seven people who died when t h e i r p l a n e crashed as it headed to the Iles-de-la-Mad-eleine, where his father had passed away just a few days earlier.

The Quebec coroner’s office identi-fied the deceased on Tuesday night as Lapierre, his spouse Nicole Beaulieu, his brothers Marc and Louis, his sister Martine Lapierre, and crew members Pascal Gosselin and Fabrice Labourel.

Former prime minister Paul Martin, who brought Lapierre back from polit-ical exile after taking over the Liberal leadership in 2003, said he would re-member his ex-colleague as a “great friend who had deep insights.”

“We’re talking about somebody who really understood the country, who un-derstood what the political process is all about,” said Martin, who made Lapierre his Quebec lieutenant.

“A lot of people comment on the political process. Jean Lapierre lived it and knew it. But also, he was a won-derful person. And I think I’ll remem-ber him as a wonderful person.”

The fluently bilingual Lapierre was much sought-after as a political com-mentator in English and French. While he worked primarily for the TVA tele-vision network, he could be seen and

heard on various other news outlets throughout the province.

“We have lost today not just a col-league, but also a passionate man who influenced all of Quebec with his rigour and his analytical skills,” said Pierre Dion, president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., which owns TVA.

Lapierre was elected to the Com-mons as a Liberal in 1979, represent-ing the Quebec riding of Shefford. He briefly served as youth and amateur sports minister in John Turner’s short-lived government in 1984. At that time, he was just 28, the youngest cabinet minister ever appointed to that point.

He co-chaired Martin’s campaign for the Liberal leadership in 1990, during which Lapierre became in-creasingly heated in his denunciations of the front-runner, Jean Chretien, and his opposition to the Meech Lake con-stitutional accord.

The moment Chretien was an-nounced the winner at Calgary’s Sad-dledome, Lapierre and fellow Quebec Liberal MP Gilles Rocheleau stomped out of the convention centre and quit the Liberal party. They later became founding members of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, although Lapierre lat-er said he was never really a sover-eigntist.

Former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe said he spoke to Lapierre as recent-ly as Monday and recalled his ex-col-league as “combative, passionate and generous.”

“He certainly had the best network of contacts you can imagine in Que-bec,” Duceppe said. “In all sectors, business, labour. He knew everybody.”

Lapierre quit federal politics in 1992 but returned after Martin became Liberal leader in late 2003. He served as transport minister between 2004 and ‘06.

Lapierre left politics in 2007 and soon became a popular on-air per-sonality, drawing from his long list of sources in both federal and provincial politics to offer commentary on im-portant news events for a host of dif-ferent media organizations in Quebec.

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Man shot dead on Saskatchewan reserve: RCMP

REGINA — Police say the search for the suspect in a fatal shooting on a northern Saskatchewan reserve has ended with gunfire and the man’s death.

RCMP told residents of the Ahtah-kakoop Cree Nation to stay inside their homes on Tuesday after a shooting out-

side the community’s health centre left a 56-year-old man dead.

Police searched for a man who was spotted leaving the scene on an ATV and wearing camouflage.

Late in the afternoon, police say they located a 59-year-old man on the First Nation who investigators think was the suspect.

They say in a news release that while police were at the scene, a fire-arm was discharged, and the man was later pronounced dead in hospital.

Sponsors ask Liberals to reconsider cuts, caps on refugee program

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — They have houses lined up, pantries stocked with rice, pasta and canned goods, plans for airport pickups and thousands of dollars in the bank, but what hundreds of refu-gee sponsorship groups don’t have is confirmation they’ll actually welcome a Syrian family into their communities.

As Immigration Minister John Mc-Callum attends a high-level UN meet-ing on Syrian refugee resettlement this week, sponsorship groups in Canada are asking him to reconsider the appli-cation caps and processing cuts made to the Syrian program for this year that will see some arrivals delayed, possi-bly until next year.

Guelph, Ont., businessman Jim Es-till made headlines last year when he committed to sponsoring 50 Syrian families. All of the applications were

submitted by mid-January and so far, five families have arrived. He doesn’t understand how 25,000 people could be brought here in three months, but fewer will take three times as long.

“To bring in 10,000 shouldn’t be rocket science,” he said. “They are go-ing to lose momentum and they are going to lose support.”

On Nova Scotia’s North Shore, over 65 people have been working together for months to try and sponsor a family of six. They’re waiting to be matched with a family under the program that sees the government share resettle-ment costs with private groups.

Ron MacNutt, the spokesperson for the North Shore Refugee Settle-ment Group says his group is work-ing to keep momentum going. He said the group’s major sponsors are onside and willing to wait and the issue still comes up each week at church, though there is disappointment at the delay.

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Manyluk does not see why all of the trees must be removed. A little brush clearing and chopping down dead or rotting trees would be a better option, she said.

Myrna Pearman, a biologist and site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm, has also taken up the call to preserve the tree belt. Research in the U.S. and Manitoba has shown roadside tree stands often support native plant and animal species that have disappeared from surrounding landscapes.

“These linear tracts of public land are critically important because they provide, not only important habitat to a wide variety of native species, they pro-vide linkages between scattered pockets of native habitat …” says Pearman in an email.

Pearman says biodiversity is being lost at a “cat-astrophic pace.” Preserving stands of trees like those on the township road allowance “would be an effective way for Red Deer County to practise more enlightened land stewardship, to save and manage — rather than continue to destroy — these repositories of native habitat.”

Manyluk agrees. In her yard lives a flying squirrel and species of birds, and even bees that favour the kinds of trees along the road, will be left homeless if the trees are gone.

Bees that live in the trees are important for polli-nating local canola crops, she said.

Marty Campbell, the county’s director of op-erations, said the township road trees are being mulched as part of the municipality’s ongoing com-mitment to ensuring safety and maintaining its road allowances.

It’s part of a council-approved program that has been in place for about a decade to get the brush out of road allowances.

“We’re trying to catch up on all the roads and keep them clean of trees and brush,” he said.

“There are very few roads that connect pavement to pavement like that in our county that have trees that big and that close to the road shoulder. It’s be-come a high priority to brush the trees out of that road right-of-way and open it up.

“Especially when it leafs out in the summer, it’s so closed in.”

Besides regular local traffic, farm and construc-tion equipment and school buses use the route. A construction contactor working for the city last fall expressed safety concerns after trying to get to a quarter section in the area.

Councillors Paul Harris, Lawrence Lee, Ken John-ston and Lynne Mulder voted against the guidelines.

Lee said the aggressive guidelines may impact service levels and existing infrastructure projects. Other councillors were concerned it was too limiting and restrictive.

Harris said the 3.5 per cent is a good middle ground for a starting point.

City manager Craig Curtis said this will be a dif-ficult budget because there are so many unknowns, especially the impacts of the provincial budget.

“We will be working hard to meet this target,” said Curtis. “Council has given us the opportunity to come back depending on what the provincial budget brings or any change in the economy.”

Curtis said the biggest concern is the carbon tax and whether it will apply to municipalities.

“If there is a full carbon tax it will be very, very difficult to achieve the guideline that was approved

Calgary is on the list, but Edmonton isn’t and Sas-katchewan Premier Brad Wall has complained that large parts of his province have also been shut out.

“We’ve heard the federal government say, well, they just sort of used this formula approach, they looked at where unemployment was high and decid-ed to extend benefits in those narrow regions,” Wall said Tuesday.

“But if it’s about helping the oil sector, how can you miss two-thirds of our oilpatch? I am hopeful that they will (change their position on that).”

Trudeau was in Calgary for an EI roundtable where he met with a dozen individuals, including some whose benefits had run out and others receiv-ing the benefit to get their views on what could be done better.

But the prime minister wouldn’t specifically com-mit to further improvements to employment insur-ance, adding the government is always considering ways “to improve or increase that impact if neces-sary.”

Trudeau said previous governments were keen to announce programs, but not so good at following up to make sure they were having the desired effect.

Jill Fink said she appreciated Trudeau taking the time to talk to unemployed workers. She applied for EI in February after she lost her job in the non-prof-it sector.

“The prime minister made a real effort to speak to everyone in the room, which I think was very kind,” she said.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Susan Manyluk, owner of Holmehus Antiques, stands amongst the line of trees she is once again fighting to save on R.R. 282 on Tuesday afternoon.

TREES: Perfect environment for saskatoon berries

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BUDGET: ‘Working hard to meet this target’

TRUDEAU: Appreciated for taking the time

tonight,” he said. “Really everything is up to (the provincial budget) on April 14.”

There’s also questions around funding for the MSI operating and capital grants. Curtis said these three factors will determine whether administration is able to work reasonably with this guideline and what will come back to council.

If the city is subject to a carbon levy, the city would start with an eight per cent tax increase and would have to trim down to 1.5 per cent or about $7.6 million in savings.

The city will soon begin its budget consultations with the community. One new tool this year will be a budget bus that may go on the road four or five times. The details are still being sorted out.

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Fink told Trudeau she is worried about people who don’t have enough savings and support while unemployed.

“He spoke to creating things that work for all Ca-nadians and support people in the right place at the right time.”

Alex Kent, who also took part in the roundtable, lost his job as an environmental consultant last year when his company downsized. His employment ben-efits have run out and he has sent 130 resumes to as far away as Ontario.

He’s had no luck.“I told him a bit of my story, but also asked him

what his government will do to try to escape the boom-and-bust cycle,” Kent said.

“Is the government trying to be different and do different things?”

Hijack drama ends in Cyprus with arrestBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LARNACA, Cyprus — A man described as “psy-chologically unstable” hijacked a flight Tuesday from Egypt to Cyprus and threatened to blow it up. His explosives turned out to be fake, and he surren-dered with all passengers released unharmed after a bizarre six-hour standoff.

As more became known about the motive of the 59-year-old Egyptian who was taken into custody, authorities characterized the commandeering of the EgyptAir jetliner not as an act of terrorism but more like a “family feud” with his former wife.

The aviation drama ended peacefully on the tar-mac of Larnaca airport on the island nation’s south-ern coast with the surrender of a man identified by Cypriot and Egyptian authorities as Seif Eddin Mustafa.

The incident was likely to renew concerns about Egyptian airport security months after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula in a bombing claimed by the Islamic State group.

But Egyptian officials stressed that their security measures were not to blame, and there was praise for the EgyptAir flight crew. Pilot Amr Gamal told The Associated Press: “We rescued all the people and the man got arrested.”

EgyptAir Flight 181 took off from the Mediterra-nean coastal city of Alexandria for a 30-minute hop to Cairo with at least 72 people aboard, Cyprus po-lice said, including about two dozen foreigners.

At some point, the hijacker claimed to have explo-sives in his belt and forced the pilot to fly the Airbus

320 to Cyprus, Egyptian authorities said.Egyptian passenger Farah el-Dabani told the

Dubai-based Al-Arabiyah TV network that the hi-jacker was seated in the back of the aircraft and that it was the crew who told passengers that the plane was being hijacked.

“There was panic at the beginning, but the crew told us to be quiet. They did a good job to keep us all quiet so the hijacker does not do anything rash,” she said in a telephone interview.

After the jet landed in Larnaca about 9 a.m., the hijacker asked to speak to his Cypriot ex-wife, who was brought to the airport, and he sent out a letter from the aircraft to give to her, said Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides.

The foreigners on board included eight Amer-icans, four Britons, four Dutch, two Belgians, a French national, an Italian, two Greeks and one Syr-ian, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry said. The nationalities of three other foreigners could not be determined immediately.

Most of the passengers were freed, and they calm-ly walked down a set of stairs from the plane, carry-ing their hand luggage and boarding a bus. But he kept on board seven people: four members of the flight crew and three passengers.

Mustafa later asked to speak to European Union representatives, and among his demands were the release of female inmates held in Egyptian prisons.

“It was one demand he made, then dropped it and made another,” Kasoulides said. “His demands made no sense or were too incoherent to be taken seriously.”

From the start, “it was clear that this wasn’t an act of terrorism,” he added.

“Despite the fact that the individual appeared to be dangerous in terms of his behaviour, we under-stood that this was a psychologically unstable per-son,” he said.

Hussein Abdelkarim Tantaway Mubarak, Egypt’s ambassador to Cyprus, said the whole affair “looks like it was a family feud.”

“As far as I know, I think he has a family problem, probably with members of his family, probably his ex-wife or something,” Mubarak added.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man leaves the hijacked aircraft of Egyptair at Larnaca airport in Cyprus Tuesday, March 29, 2016. An Egyptian man hijacked an EgyptAir plane Tuesday and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus, where all passengers and crew were eventually freed and he himself was arrested, Egyptian and Cypriot officials said.

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CANADIAN DOLLAR

▲¢76.54US+0.67

NYMEX NGAS$1.976US-0.005

NYMEX CRUDE$38.28US-1.11

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Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Rhonda Schmidt, left, and Linda Cid, owner and manager, respectively, of The Bone and Biscuit co. pet store, go through their selection of treats Tuesday during their opening day. The store, which features a natural selection of pet foods, will also have a dog wash, which will open in early April.

Alberta needs ‘unique’ regulatorBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta’s NDP government said Tuesday that it will not sign on to a national secu-rities regulator because the province’s economy is “unique.”

Finance Minister Joe Ceci told a news conference that his government will maintain the province’s op-position to the plan.

“The size and scope of our energy sector is an area of pride for Albertans. It makes us unique,” Ceci said in Calgary. “A unique economy deserves a unique regulator.”

He said local regulators with “street-level knowl-edge” can better respond to regulatory challenges in real time.

“When regulators oversee highly localized and special-ized markets, as they do in Al-berta and many regions across Canada, it is more valuable to be local than thousands of ki-lometres away on Bay Street,” said Ceci.

Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, New Bruns-wick, Prince Edward Island and Yukon have all signed on to the national securities regulator. Quebec remains opposed and has launched a legal challenge, arguing that the regulation of securities

should remain within provincial jurisdiction.When asked if Alberta would also push against

the national regulator, Ceci said it was something he would consider.

If implemented, the national body would be ex-pected to help oversee stock markets by policing abuses and securities fraud.

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said in January that the government would push ahead with creating the national securities regulator and work with the provinces that support it.

Canada is the only G20 country without a national securities regulator.

JOE CECI

Please see REGULATOR on Page A10

THE BONE AND BISCUIT

Jobless youth left

high and dryBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A notable Liberal election pledge de-signed to encourage employers to hire young people failed to make the cut in last week’s federal budget.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed during last year’s campaign to offer a 12-month holiday on employment insurance premiums to employers who give permanent jobs to people aged 18-24.

The promise, announced in September by Trudeau himself, was supposed to come into force this year and extend through 2017 and 2018 — but it didn’t receive a mention in the budget.

During the campaign, Trudeau noted that the Chretien Liberals did something similar in the late 1990s “to tremendously positive effect.”

“We saw the number of young people’s jobs spike during those years,” Trudeau said during a cam-paign stop in Burnaby, B.C.

“That’s exactly what we need right now, given the extremely high unemployment rates for youth.”

Last month, the country’s unemployment rate for youth aged 15 to 24 was 13.3 per cent, compared to an overall jobless rate of 7.3 per cent.

Trudeau`s promise would have also provided financial relief for potential bosses by waiving the EI contributions.

The Liberals estimated employers would have saved $80 million this year, $80 million in 2017 and $60 million in 2018.

Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said Tuesday his membership was very supportive of the promise of EI relief.

“That was one thing that business owners really liked,” said Kelly, who was also deeply disappointed the Liberals “deferred” another of their pledges to continue reducing the small business tax rate be-yond 2016.

“That was the second element of their platform that we applauded and they scrapped that, too.”

Federation members liked the previous edition of the EI-holiday program in the 1990s, Kelly added.

“Not only was that a promise to small-business owners … but it was a promise to young people,” he said.

Trudeau, who participated Tuesday in a roundta-ble on employment insurance in Calgary, had pre-sented the commitment during the election cam-paign as a component of the party’s broader youth job strategy.

During the campaign, the Liberals had estimated their overall youth job strategy would $455 million in both 2016-17 and 2017-18 $435 million in 2018-19 and $125 million in 2019-20.

But last week, the Liberal budget earmarked $165.4 million in new funding for youth employment in 2016-2017. The budget said that investment was on top of $339 million already announced, over three years, for the federal summer jobs program.

The government pledged to provide more cash in the coming years for youth employment, with partic-ular emphasis on boosting job opportunities for the most-vulnerable young people.

It also announced it will further explore, and eventually enhance, its youth employment strategy by seeking input from a panel of experts and a coun-cil of Canadians aged 16 to 24.

FEDERAL BUDGET

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Environmentalists say talks on creating a third national marine conservation area are being held up over Arctic offshore energy exploration permits that may not legally exist.

“Looking at the permits, it looks like the rights expired in 1979,” said Alex Speers-Roesch of Green-peace.

The federal government has been trying for years to protect the waters of Lancaster Sound, the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage and home to a wealth of Arctic seabirds and mammals. The effort is strong-ly supported by Inuit hunters and land-claim groups.

Drawing the exact boundaries of the area, off the north coast of Nunavut’s Baffin Island, has been at least partly held up over 30 exploration permits is-sued in the early 1970s to Shell.

Ottawa, under the previous Conservative adminis-tration, argued to keep the permits outside the area,

but Inuit and environmental groups wanted the pro-tected area to include them and block industry activ-ity. Shell wants compensation for any rights it loses.

Researchers have now found those permits may not be valid.

“Exploration rights are supposed to not last lon-ger than nine years,” said Speers-Roesch. “When we were looking at the existing exploration rights in the Arctic, the Shell permits stood out because they’ve been around for decades.”

An access-to-information search by Greenpeace found no evidence the permits had ever been re-newed. Nor could Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the responsible department.

The department acknowledged to Parvati.org, a Canadian environmental group dedicated to preserving the Arctic ecosystem, that there was no record of renewal. But a spokesman pointed out there’s no legal requirement that “permits be stamped for renewal purposes.” However, the de-partment must let companies know when permits

are about to expire — and there’s no record of that happening either.

“The validity of the Shell permits is indeed a legal question and not simply a ‘clerical issue,”’ Mi-chel Chenier wrote to Parvati.org researcher Erin Ryder.

Chenier argued the permits are valid because both the company and the government have acted as if they were.

“Both industry and government have continuously treated the 30 Shell permits as being valid and sub-sisting from the original date of issue to the present and will continue to do so in the future.”

Nigel Bankes, a professor of resource law at the University of Calgary who’s familiar with the issue, said: “I don’t think that’s good enough.”

He points out Canada’s regulatory regime has changed twice since the permits were granted and there’s no evidence they were kept up to date.

“It doesn’t look to me like these permits were properly maintained.”

Arctic exploration permits in sensitive area may be expired

Baazov takes leave as Amaya CEOBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — David Baazov is taking an indefi-nite paid leave of absence as CEO and chairman of Amaya Inc., owner of the PokerStars online gambling business.

Amaya said Baazov is tak-ing the leave voluntarily to fo-cus on his response to allega-tions against him by Quebec’s stock market regulator and prepare an offer to buy the Montreal-based company.

Baazov faces five charges, including influencing or at-tempting to influence the mar-ket price of the securities of Amaya and communicating privileged information. He has denied the accusations and said he is confident he will be found innocent of the charges.

“As always, I continue to be dedicated to doing the right thing for Amaya and all its stakeholders,” Baazov said in a statement Tuesday.

“I believe that stepping down in the short term will help to avoid distraction for the company and its management while I vigorously contest all allega-tions made against me and pursue my bid to acquire

the company.”Baazov was charged last week along with two oth-

er people and three companies following an inves-tigation by the Autorite des marches financiers into alleged insider trading.

The AMF also announced last Wednesday that it executed search warrants and obtained court orders to stop the activities of 13 people who traded in dif-ferent securities while in possession of privileged information. The 13 people are alleged to have used their access to information to reap nearly $1.5 mil-lion in profit from stock trades.

The company (TSX:AYA) said Baazov’s role as CEO will be assumed on an interim basis by Rafi Ashkenaz, who is currently CEO of the Rational Group, Amaya’s operating business that includes the PokerStars and Full Tilt brands.

The role of chairman of Amaya’s board will be assumed by Divyesh (Dave) Gadhia, who has been a director since 2010 and chairs the committee of inde-pendent directors that would evaluate any takeover proposal from Baazov.

In announcing Baazov’s leave, Amaya said the special committee headed by Gadhia has instructed its financial adviser, Barclays Capital Canada, to be-gin contacting other parties who might be interested in a transaction involving Amaya. The committee is also negotiating with certain parties that might gain access to confidential information.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 116.47ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.21BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.35BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.31Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.90Cdn. National Railway . . 80.61Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 171.31Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.99Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.72Cervus Equipment Corp 10.70Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.12Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.16Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.28Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.27General Motors Co. . . . . 31.19Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.25Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.47SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.57Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.94Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.12Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.89Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.56

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.37Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.31Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.47Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 73.94

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 27.20Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.76Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.03WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.09

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.36Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.63First Quantum Minerals . . 6.91Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.48Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.85Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.41Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.79Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.88Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.820Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.65

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.66Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.79Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.72Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.54Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.08Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.91Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . . . . Canyon Services Group. . 3.73Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.78CWC Well Services . . . 0.1500Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.65Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.640

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.53Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 35.02High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.38Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.54Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.34Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.43Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.19Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.45Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.51Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.66Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 37.35Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.16

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.39Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.22CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.30Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.22Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.72IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.33Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.13Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.09National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.39Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.78Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.29TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.76

MARKETS

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COMPANIESOF LOCAL INTEREST

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MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — Dovish com-

ments from Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen helped propel North American stock markets higher Tuesday as in-vestors were buoyed by reassur-ances that interest rates hikes won’t be happening any time soon.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 36.04 points to 13,426.23, reversing a triple-digit decline earlier in the day. Gold stocks led the way, rising almost 4.4 per cent and offsetting de-clines in the energy, consumer staples and health-care sectors.

The Canadian dollar add-ed 0.67 of a U.S. cent to 76.54 cents US.

Much of the strength in the loonie was attributed to a weak-ened U.S. dollar as investors turned bearish on the curren-cy following Yellen’s speech to the Economic Club of New York. The head of the U.S. cen-tral bank told the audience that the Fed will move slowly on rate increases because global eco-nomic issues could still harm the U.S. economy.

John Stephenson, president and chief executive of Stephen-son & Co. Capital Management, said Yellen’s comments sig-nalled to investors that she was going to “double down” on what the Fed had already reiterated in its statement in March: that it was in no hurry to raise rates.

“It was so dovish,” he said. “Essentially saying extreme cau-tion was warranted. That was basically her language. Central banks have been largely respon-sible for the gains in the markets for the last number of years. It’s been their policies… they’ve all been aimed at keeping rates low, keeping (the) money supply flow-ing.”

Stephenson said the market

still thinks the earliest the Fed will hike rates from their current lows will be at their meeting in June.

“If things aren’t strong enough for the U.S. to raise rates, the underlying message is that the economy isn’t strong enough,” he added.

Meanwhile, weakness con-tinued in the energy sector as the May contract for bench-mark crude oil slipped for a fifth straight session, down $1.11 at US$38.28 a barrel.

Elsewhere in commodi-ties, June gold rose $15.50 to US$1,237.50 a troy ounce, while May natural gas added five cents to US$1.98 per mmBtu. May copper shed three cents to US$2.21 a pound.

In New York, lacklustre mar-kets reversed course as the Dow Jones industrial average rose 97.72 points to 17,633.11, while the broader S&P 500 composite added 17.96 points to 2,055.01. The Nasdaq shot up 79.83 points to 4,846.62.

Among the Nasdaq win-ners was tech giant Apple (Nasdaq:APPL), which climbed US$2.49 to US$107.68 after the FBI dropped its legal efforts to force it to break into the iPhone used by San Bernadino, Calif., shooter Syed Farook who, along with his wife, killed 14 people in December. The FBI said it was able to hack into the phone on its own.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Tues-

day at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 13,426.23, up 36.04 pointsDow — 17,633.11, up 97.72

pointsS&P 500 — 2,055.01, up

17.96 points

Nasdaq — 4,846.62, up 79.83 points

Currencies:Cdn — 76.54 cents US, up

0.67 of a centPound — C$1.8795, up 0.05

of a centEuro — C$1.4760, down

0.03 of a centEuro — US$1.1297, up 0.97

of a centOil futures:US$38.28 per barrel, down

$1.11(May contract)Gold futures: US$1,237.50

per oz., up $15.50(June contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$20.803 oz., down 19.9 cents$668.82 kg., down $6.39

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: May ‘16 $3.60 higher

$478.10 July ‘16 $3.90 higher $483.10 Nov. ‘16 $1.00 higher $481.90 Jan. ‘17 $1.40 higher $485.40 March ‘17 $2.60 higher $487.10 May ‘17 $2.60 higher $486.60 July ‘17 $2.60 higher $486.60 Nov. ‘17 $2.60 higher $482.30 Jan. ‘18 $2.60 higher $482.30 March ‘18 $2.60 higher $482.30 May ‘18 $2.60 higher $482.30.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 unchanged $178.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $178.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $178.00 March ‘17 unchanged $178.00 May ‘17 unchanged $178.00 July ‘17 unchanged $178.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $178.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $178.00 March ‘18 unchanged $178.00 May ‘18 un-changed $178.00.

Tuesday’s estimated vol-ume of trade: 685,440 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (West-ern Barley). Total: 685,440.

While Alberta won’t join the nation-al regulator, Ceci said the province would continue to work to harmonize capital markets and that it supports the so-called passport system in which the decisions of one provincial com-mission are applicable in other prov-

inces.All provinces except Ontario have

signed onto that “single window of ac-cess” system.

Ceci’s comments came as he an-nounced the appointment of Stan Magidson as chairman and chief executive of the Alberta Securities Commission. Magidson said there is expertise on areas of energy regula-tions and disclosure that make Alberta best suited to regulate the province’s securities market.

“It’s having a regulator that really understands the nuances of its indus-try that I think informs the discus-sion,” said Magidson.

Ceci said Alberta has the sec-ond-largest capital market in Canada with roughly 25 per cent of the total.

REGULATOR: Understands nuances of industry

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HYBRID AIRCRAFT

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A Straightline Aviation hybrid aircraft is shown in a handout photo. Lockheed Martin has an agreement to sell 12 Hybrid Airships to a U.K. company is expected to transport good around the world including the oil sands and Canada’s north.

Fracking moratorium to stay unless five conditions are met

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

FREDERICTON — New Bruns-wick’s energy and mines minister says the province won’t lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until all the government’s conditions are met.

Donald Arseneault says the govern-ment is reviewing the report of a shale gas review committee that took almost a year to study the issue.

“At the same time, our principles don’t change. We set out five condi-tions out there and said we’re not go-ing to move on hydraulic fracturing unless those five conditions are met,” Arseneault.

Business groups are calling on the government to lift the moratorium, which was imposed in December 2014.

The business groups held a news conference in Fredericton Tuesday to

make their case.“When you look at the unemploy-

ment levels being as high as they are — almost 10 per cent unemployment in New Brunswick — certainly there are a lot of families in New Bruns-wick who could use the jobs at a time when our economy is really in a sig-nificant slump,” said Joel Richardson, vice-president of the New Brunswick division of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.

He said the only way to attract in-vestment and create jobs in the natu-ral gas industry in New Brunswick is to lift the moratorium.

But Arseneault said there are con-ditions that have to be met first.

“Even if you lift the moratorium to-day, (the industry) still can’t proceed because they need to…address waste water. Today there is no plan to do this,” Arseneault said.

A&W burger chain switches to French’s ketchup, mustard

TORONTO — French’s ketchup has won over another fan — the company that runs A&W restaurants in Canada.

A&W says it has now decided to serve French’s Tomato Ketchup and Classic Yellow Mustard in all of its restaurants across Canada.

The company has 850 locations across the country, making it the sec-ond-largest burger chain in Canada.

A&W’s endorsement is the latest publicity win for French’s ketchup, which became an Internet and media darling after a man’s Facebook post lauded the U.S.-based company for using 100 per cent Canadian-grown tomatoes.

McKenna won’t say if Canada can develop oilsands and

meet climate targetsMONTREAL — Canada’s environ-

ment minister wouldn’t say on Tuesday how her government plans to meet its climate change commitments and also green-light new pipeline projects.

Catherine McKenna told reporters after a luncheon speech to the Mon-treal Council on Foreign Relations that Canada needs to de-carbonize its economy but stressed it won’t happen overnight.

“We have made a lot of investments in green technology and clean tech-nology and that’s the direction of our government,” she said. “But it’s clear we also need jobs.”

Canada has come under increased pressure from environmentalists to explain how the country can continue to develop Alberta’s oilsands and also meet ambitious greenhouse gas emis-sion targets.

Former PM Martin calls for G20 to expand beyond

economic disastersOTTAWA — Former Liberal prime

minister Paul Martin says the G20 needs to widen its economic mandate to include helping United Nations agencies fight diseases and cope with a record number of refugees.

Martin offers that prescription for an international club that he helped to create, and that many, himself includ-ed, now find ailing, in a Tuesday night speech in Ottawa.

Martin was one of the driving forces behind the G20 in the late 1990s when he was Canada’s finance minister. Back then it was club for finance min-isters, who were meeting to deal with what was then a financial crisis in Asia.

Stantec to acquire Colorado-based engineering firm MWH

Global for US$795MEDMONTON — Stantec Inc. is

buying MWH Global Inc., a Colora-do-based engineering, consulting and construction management firm, in an all-cash deal valued at US$795 million, including $2 million in debt.

Edmonton-based Stantec says the acquisition of MWH Global and its 6,800 employees around the world, will position it as a global leader in water resources infrastructure.

It will also boost its presence in a number of countries, including key targeted geographies that include the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South and Central America, Europe and the Middle East.

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B1SPORTSNHL concussion debate exposed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Unsealed NHL documents in the concussion law-suit brought by former players reveal a snapshot of an internal debate by league officials over head injuries and a deeper concern about the impact of fighting than what had been publicly shared.

In some emails, among the 298 documents recent-ly declassified in the case by U.S. Magistrate Judge Janie Mayeron, Commissioner Gary Bettman’s tone comes across as defensive regarding criticism direct-ed at the league for its handling of player safety and the fighting culture that has existed on the ice for decades.

Other exchanges, however, suggested an NHL leadership that’s conflicted over a complicated is-sue.

In a January 2009 exchange between senior vice-president Colin Campbell and Canadian TV broadcast reporter Bob McKenzie, Campbell said he might go public with a recommendation that the NHL get rid of fighting or at least attempt to reduce it.

In a September 2011 thread between Bettman and Brendan Shanahan, who succeeded Campbell as the league’s disciplinarian, Bettman told Shanahan that his comments to CBC-TV revealing the league was scrutinizing fighting “went too far.” Bettman called the situation “sensitive territory,” citing the need to be “very careful.”

The material was obtained by The Associated Press from counsel for the plaintiffs and first report-ed by Canadian sports network TSN.

More than 100 former NHL players have joined the class-action lawsuit against the league, alleging it had the resources to better prevent head trauma, failed to properly warn players of such risks and promoted violent play that led to their injuries.

The plaintiffs’ primary request is medical mon-itoring for the roughly 4,800 living former players, plus additional unspecified relief. The 133-page master complaint is packed with anecdotes of former players suffering from a variety of neurodegenera-

tive conditions they’ve tied to hits to the head they experienced on the ice.

Spokesman Frank Brown said Tuesday the league’s stance has not changed from Bettman’s com-ments from Jan. 30 during an All-Star game weekend news conference.

“The selective released leaking of documents out of context may cause some people to scratch their heads, a couple of other people maybe to for a brief moment be a little embarrassed about salty language or the like. But I’m very comfortable with our re-cord,” Bettman said then.

“I think in terms of us doing our business on an ongoing basis and the fact that we have the league to run, I’d prefer these things not be public. They’ll be a distraction at best, but I don’t think they impact the rest of the case.”

The unsealed material showed a pattern of atten-tion by the league to media coverage of concussions. In one email exchange with NBC Sports executive Sam Flood in March 2007, Bettman said he was an-noyed over then-broadcaster Brett Hull criticizing the league for eliminating fighting.

The declassified documents also indicated an in-creased focus by NHL officials on concussions and fighting as early as 2004, following Vancouver’s Todd Bertuzzi’s vicious on-ice attack on Colorado’s Steve Moore.

The league established what became its concus-sion subcommittee in 1997. It wasn’t until 2010 when the league introduced Rule 48, outlawing illegal hits to the head.

More than 300,000 documents and 2.5 million pag-es were originally marked protected by the league, and Mayeron agreed with the plaintiffs that some should be public.

In the NHL’s defence of keeping the material sealed, Campbell wrote that his “colorful, crusty and sometimes crude” language would be appreciated only by “hockey people” and would embarrass the league if revealed.

DECLASSIFIED MEMOS, EMAILS DETAIL CONFLICTED INTERESTS OVER ISSUE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

Undaunted by a rock slide that put him in the hos-pital for a month-and-a-half, Darius Ramrattan has his sights set on returning to the Canadian Junior National Kayaking team.

In August, 2015, the Innisfail resident was hiking up Middle Sister near Canmore. No stranger to the area, he had hiked neighbouring mountains includ-ing Baldy and Lady McDonald.

During the hike, Ramrattan, 17, said he caused a rockslide. Sliding 20 metres down the mountain, he was badly hurt.

“I don’t remember too much, from what I heard I triggered a rock slide,” said Ramrattan. “That’s what took me down the mountain.

His friend attempted to help him, but slid as well. The other friend called for help and Ramrattan was airlifted by Stars Air Ambulance to Canmore. He was given some blood and then driven by ground am-bulance to Calgary.

He stayed in Calgary and had three surgeries over the next month-and-a-half for a broken femur, pelvis and shattered left heel.

Before the rock slide, April 2015, Ramrattan rep-resented Canada at the 2015 Junior World Champi-onships in Brazil in kayaking. The Notre Dame High School student finished 71st.

But he hasn’t given up his dream of representing Canada and competing on the international stage. A kayaker for the past seven years, Ramrattan enjoys the splash of water on a hot day.

“I love the feeling of gliding and pulling, adding

speed to your boat, it’s a great feeling,” said Ramrat-tan.

He is back at the gym working out too, which he enjoys because its better than doing nothing.

He got back into the water on his kayak just be-fore Christmas. And is now back working through the white water.

“All the body parts that are outside of the boat are working the same, its the body parts in the boat that nobody sees that are not quite working as well as they used to,” said Ramrattan. “I don’t have the range of motion in my left leg to get it to where I want it to be.”

To fix his femur, the doctors cut through all the muscles around the bone. He does about 1,000 to 2,000 leg extensions each day, hoping to restore some of the strength into his leg. The muscles, he describes as outside stabilizers, serve an important role in stability and flexibility in a kayak.

“Making Canada isn’t easy to begin with, but now I have to recover to have a shot at making team Can-ada,” said Ramrattan. “Just a little bit of extra pres-sure.

“I’m not changing my goal because of this. It just makes it more difficult.”

His first competition back in the water is in May at National Junior Team Trials. They are being held in Kananaskis, Ramrattan’s home course.

“It’s my home course, I still have a shot at qualify-ing,” said Ramrattan

Ramrattan was named the Alberta Sport Develop-ment Centre—Central Male Athlete of the Month for March.

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Innisfail kayaker Darius Ramrattan is ready to return to the water after recovering from an accident while hiking that caused serious injuries which put him the hospital for a month-and-a-half. The kayaker says his goals haven’t changed and is looking to earn a place on Team Canada.

Ramrattan ready to resume goal after serious injury

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada 8 Russia 1KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Defencemen Meaghan Mik-

kelson and Halli Krzyzaniak each scored twice to pace Canada to an 8-1 win over Russia at the wom-en’s world hockey championships Tuesday.

Trailing 1-0 after the opening period, the host country rattled off five goals in a span of four min-utes 40 seconds early in the second to take a com-manding lead.

Canada concludes the preliminary round against Finland on Thursday in a matchup of 1-1 teams in Pool A.

Rebecca Johnston’s short-handed goal 40 seconds into the second period sparked Canada’s spree. Cap-tain Marie-Philip Poulin also scored shorthanded with Jennifer Wakefield and Emily Clark contrib-uting even-strength goals. Brianne Jenner had four assists.

Charline Labonte picked up the win with 13 saves in front of 4,453 at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops, B.C.

Iya Gavrilova, who plays for the University of Calgary, countered for Russia. Anna Prugova was re-placed by Maria Sorokina in net after giving up three goals on 16 shots. Sorokina had 17 saves and stopped Mikkelson on a penalty shot in the second period.

The U.S. improved to 2-0 in Pool A with a 2-1 win over Finland, whose goaltender Meeri Raisanen had 49 saves.

Sweden was 2-0 in Pool B after a 2-0 win over Japan, which is winless in two games. The Czech Re-public upset Switzerland 3-1 to put both teams at 1-1.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada’s Meaghan Mikkelson (12) celebrates with teammates after scoring the fourth goal as Russia’s Elina Mitrofanova, left, and goaltender Maria Sorokina look on during second-period action at the women’s world hockey championships in Kamloops, B.C. on Tuesday.

Canada routs Russia

at worlds

Prime minister says NHL should look at head injuries as a ‘very real problem’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waded into the hockey concussion debate Tuesday, urging the NHL to look at head injuries as a “very real problem.”

Trudeau was asked for his thoughts on the issue a day after court documents revealed an internal debate by NHL officials over head in-juries and a deeper concern about the impact of fighting than what has been publicly shared by league leadership.

The prime minister said he worries about con-cussions, especially as a father who has watched his son “bravely get out onto the pond ice, usu-ally with a helmet on throughout this past win-ter…”

“Any active player of sports has to be aware of concussions and I certainly hope that the NHL is thinking both of its responsibility towards its players and to the example of so many young people who look to the NHL as a dream but may not reach it, and understand the severity with which we need to look at concussions as a very real problem,” Trudeau said after a roundtable event in Calgary.

More than 100 former NHL players have joined a class action against the league over its handling of concussions.

Spokesman Frank Brown said Tuesday the league’s stance has not changed from commis-sioner Gary Bettman’s comments during the all-star game weekend. Bettman said then that the release of the “out of context” documents would be “a distraction at best” and “not impact the merits of the case.”

Trudeau is a fan of the game and the Montreal Canadiens. His predecessor, Stephen Harper, was also an avid fan who occasionally weighed in on hockey issues.

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Canada falls to MexicoMEXICO CITY — First-half goals

from Jose Guardado and Jesus Corona were the difference as Mexico beat Canada’s men’s national soccer team 2-0 on Tuesday night in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier at the Azteca Sta-dium in Mexico City.

Guardado converted a penalty in the 17th minute and Corona added a lovely goal from the edge of the Cana-dian penalty area seconds before the end of the first half as Mexico picked up its second straight win over Cana-da after a 3-0 result in Vancouver last Friday.

The result leaves Canada in a sec-ond-place tie in Group A with Hondu-ras with four points. Honduras, though, is holding a better goal difference af-

ter a 2-0 win at home over El Salvador earlier in the day.

After Canada won the game’s first corner kick in just the second minute, Mexico started to turn on the pressure and spent a great deal of time in the Canadian half and was eventually re-warded for it.

After Doneil Henry was ruled to have knocked over Marco Fabian in the Canadian penalty area, Guardado stepped up and put his penalty kick to the left of Canadian goalkeeper Milan Borjan.

Borjan later had to come off with Kenny Stamatopoulos taking his place after it appeared the Borjan picked up a hand injury making a save.

Canada has two games left in this round as it looks for a first berth in the final round of qualifying in the CON-CACAF region. The Canadians play in Honduras in September before coming back for a home game against El Sal-vador.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

The UFC has added six Canadian fighters to its June card at The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa.

The MMA organization had previ-ously announced the card’s main event — No. 1 welterweight contender Rory (Red King) MacDonald against No. 2 Stephen (Wonderboy) Thompson — but the venue was not made public until Tuesday. The UFC also unveiled eight more fights on the card.

Montreal-based MacDonald (18-3-0) is coming off a UFC 189 loss to 170-pound champion (Ruthless) Rob-bie Lawler while Thompson (12-1) stopped former welterweight ti-tle-holder Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks last time out.

Also on the Ottawa show, Montre-al welterweight Patrick (The Preda-tor) Cote takes on American Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone. Ranked No. 9 at 155 pounds, Cerrone (29-7-0 with one no contest) won his welterweight debut in February when he stopped Alex Oliveira.

Cote (23-9-0) has won his last three fights and is 5-1 since dropping to wel-terweight three years ago.

In choosing The Arena at TD Place, the UFC opted for the small-er of the two main arenas in Ottawa. The televised card will be held at the 10,000-seat home of the OHL Ottawa

67’s rather than the larger Canadian Tire Centre where the Senators play.

Tom Wright, the UFC’s executive vice-president and general manager for Australia, New Zealand and Cana-da, said the smaller venue was chosen because its location allowed for “fan experience” and other events prior to the show.

Venue size was not a major factor, he said, adding that the Canadian Tire Centre capacity would be reduced to 16,000 or less due to the fight night setup.

In other fights on the card:● Former minor-league hockey en-

forcer Steve Bosse (11-2-0) of St-Jean Sur Richelieu, Que., meets American middleweight Sean O’Connell (17-7-0). Bosse is coming off a first-round KO win over James Te Huna in Brisbane on March 19.

● Toronto’s Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou (11-1-0) takes on American middleweight Sam Alvey (25-7-0 with one no contest).

● Charlottetown’s Jason Saggo (11-2-0) tackles Brazil lightweight Leandro Silva (19-2-1 with one no contest).

● Toronto light-heavyweight Misha Cirkunov (11-2-0) looks for his third win in the UFC when he faces Moldovan newcomer Ion Cutelaba (11-1-0).

● Montreal lightweight Olivier Aub-in-Mercier (8-2-0) fights France’s Thi-bault Gouti (11-1-0).

● American middleweight Tamdan

McCrory (14-3-0) faces Poland’s Krzysz-tof Jotko (17-1-0)

● Montreal-based Dominican wel-terweight Alex Garcia (13-3-0) meets American Colby Covington (8-1-0).

Ottawa becomes the ninth Canadian city to host a UFC show, joining Cal-gary, Halifax, Montreal, Quebec City,

Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver and

Winnipeg. It will mark the UFC’s 20th

event north of the border.

The UFC plans two more cards in

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RAONIC ROLLS INTO QUARTERS IN MIAMIBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Novak Djokovic rolled his eyes after a back-hand found the net, shrugged after an early barrage of errors, double-faulted eight times and even heard the crowd at times pulling for his opponent.

None of it wound up mattering. Even when not at his sharpest, Djokov-ic is nearly impossible to beat.

Looking for his fifth title on Key Bis-cayne in six years, the world’s top play-er reached the quarterfinals Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 14th-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria.

Canadian Milos Raonic also ad-vanced to the quarter-finals after downing Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia in straight sets. The Thornhill, Ont., prod-uct needed just 54 minutes to defeat Dzumhur 6-0, 6-3.

Djokovic will meet seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych — who grinded out a three-set win over 10th-seeded Rich-ard Gasquet of France — in the Miami Open semifinals.

“It was far from easy,” Djokovic said. “I struggled a lot.”

Djokovic moved to 25-1 on the year, 27-1 in his past 28 matches on Key Bis-cayne. The Serbian star also moved a step closer to becoming the tour-nament’s first back-to-back-to-back winner since Andre Agassi in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He fended off 14 of the 15 break points he faced and hasn’t dropped a set so far in the tournament.

“That’s a positive, in a way,” Djokov-ic said of his success on break points. “I try not to get myself in those posi-tions too much.”

Thiem was no pushover, and seemed the farthest thing from intim-idated.

He cranked his serve up to 141 mph, recorded 11 of the match’s first 16 win-ners and twice got games on Djokov-ic’s serve to last 10 minutes before the world No. 1 would ultimately prevail. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been sur-prising, since he and Djokovic came into the day leading the tour with 24 wins apiece this year.

“With one of 15 break points, you cannot beat anyone, probably,” Thiem

said. “For sure, not Djokovic.”Thiem nearly broke Djokovic to

get to 5-4 in the first, before a review showed that the backhand that looked like a winner actually sailed a tad long. Djokovic hopped from his seat — he was already in changeover mode — and took advantage, winning to finish off the opening set. He double-faulted to give Thiem a break and knot the sec-ond set at 3-3, but broke right back and

eventually closed out the win.“He’s still very young,” Djokovic

said of Thiem, 22, the youngest player ranked in the top 20. “He’s been play-ing some of his best tennis the last cou-ple of months. We’ll definitely see a lot of him in the future.”

Berdych needed nearly 2 ½ hours to win 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, with the temperature reaching the mid-80s and the humidity making it seem much warmer on the court. A slew of upsets knocked out most of the tournament’s top seeds, although Berdych hasn’t seen his side of the draw open up much with all that star power going home early.

And now Djokovic awaits him.“I’m just going to try and focus on

my game, try to play some good tennis, stick with the things that are working well so far for me and just try to go for it no matter who’s going to be the oppo-nent,” Berdych said.

Gilles Simon is also headed to the men’s quarterfinals, rolling past fel-low Frenchman Lucas Pouille 6-0, 6-1., No. 15 David Goffin of Belgium, No. 16 Gael Monfils of France and No. 24 Nick Kyrgios of Australia also ad-vanced to the quarters. Monfils needed three sets Raonic, Goffin and Kyrgios moved on with straight-set victories.

Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky, who has been the comeback queen on Key Biscayne, reached the women’s semifinals after another three-set mar-athon. The 19th-seeded Bacsinszky ral-lied to top fifth-seeded Simona Halep of Romania 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals.

“It’s something amazing,” Bacsinsz-ky said. “I’m really happy today.”

A Russian player will oppose her in the semis, either 15th-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova or 30th-seeded Ekaterina Makarova.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Milos Raonic, of Canada, returns the ball to Damir Dzumhur, of Bosnia, during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, in Key Biscayne, Fla. Raonic beat Dzumhur to reach the quarterfinals.

Canadians to be big part of UFC Ottawa show

WORLD CUP QUALIFYING

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — The stuffed Winnie the Pooh that doubles as a box for tissues still accompanies Yuzuru Hanyu to his practices, resting on the boards in front of coach Brian Orser.

The Japanese star is no longer the promising teenager who won Olym-pic gold at age 19 in Sochi. Now 21, he has put up dominating wins and record-breaking scores this season. Heading into this week’s world cham-pionships, his competitors seem to need a good-luck charm much more than Hanyu.

The problem for the rest of the field is that Hanyu’s advantages go beyond his two quadruple jumps in the short program and three in the long. At De-cember’s Grand Prix Final, Hanyu set a record with 330.43 points to beat reigning world champion Javier Fer-nandez by more than 37. He boosted his score in nearly every way: bonus points for doing a quad and two triple axels later in his free skate, top marks for his spins. And his component scores, which include choreography and musical interpretation, were high-er than those of Fernandez and Pat-rick Chan, the other past men’s world champion who will compete in Boston this week.

That stems from Hanyu’s commit-ment to perfecting his skating skills, enhancing his feel for the ice, Orser said.

“Some kids don’t always have that patience,” Orser said. “He got it. He started seeing how everything else im-proved, not just technically. But the way he could develop a program when you have that balance and that sense of glide that comes along with that foundation. Then you can start really choreographing.”

The 25-year-old Chan was once the kid doing the big jumps that others couldn’t match. Now, after taking a season off, the three-time world champ from Canada is the one playing catch-up with one quad in his short program and two in his long.

China’s Jin Boyang, 18, plans four quads in his free skate, including the big points of a quad lutz. But he has lagged behind in his component scores, which allowed Chan to over-take Jin at last month’s Four Conti-nents Championships.

Hanyu is able to strike the balance between the big jumps and everything

else in between. It may very well take a mistake or two from the Japanese star for another skater to win the title this week. It’s happened before — in-cluding last year’s worlds, when Ha-nyu was coming off a series of health problems. The title went to Spain’s Fernandez, who also trains in Toronto with Orser, the two-time Olympic sil-ver medallist .

In Sochi, Hanyu fell twice in his free skate. But that day also showed how the difficulty of his programs makes him so hard to beat, even when he stumbles. Chan needed to be per-fect to overtake Hanyu, and he wasn’t.

The first world championships in the U.S. since 2009 in Los Angeles open Wednesday with the short pro-grams for the men and ice dancing.

WomenTwo Russian teens are among the

favourites for the title, but not the one who was the sensation of the So-chi team competition. Or the one who went on to win the individual Olympic gold medal. Or the one who earned the world title last year.

Not on Russia’s team are Julia Lip-nitskaia, the then-15-year-old who won team gold Adelina Sotnikova, the individual Olympic champ at age 17 and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who won worlds last year at 18. That’s how deep the Russian women are. This year’s contenders are 16-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva, the Grand Prix Final and European champion, and Elena Ra-dionova, 17, who won bronze at last year’s worlds.

Gracie Gold, who was born in the Boston area, may be the Americans’ best chance at an individual medal. The 20-year-old was fourth at worlds last year and at the Olympics. She has the jumps and artistry to make the po-dium and good vibes at TD Garden, where she won her first U.S. title in 2014. But she has never put everything together at a major international com-petition.

And with the abilities of the Rus-sians and Japan’s Satoko Miyahara, a medal could be hard to come by if Gold is anything less than perfect.

PairsThe Olympic gold and silver med-

allists from Russia — Tatiana Volos-

ozhar and Maxim Trankov, and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov — skipped last year’s world championships, when Canada’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won. Now both Russian teams are back to challenge the Canadians in a deep field that also includes China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

Ice Dance

The Americans’ best chance at a medal — and a world title — again comes in ice dance. Madison Chock and Evan Bates won silver last year, but this season they’ve been overtaken by siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani, who hail from Connecticut. France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillau-me Cizeron are the defending world champs, and Canada’s Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the Grand Prix Final.

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Hanyu the favorite heading into worlds

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Patrick Chan, of Canada, spins during a men’s practice session prior to the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Tuesday.

FIGURE SKATING

Catchers still adjusting to baseball’s plate-blocking rule

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Retired World Series-winning catcher Bob Boone has a CD with 60 video clips of home-plate collisions that resulted in injuries. None of those happened in the past two seasons since Major League Baseball institut-ed a new rule to prevent collisions.

Still, Boone hates the rule that bans blocking the plate because it has thrown catchers off their game. Going into the third season under the rule, many catchers around baseball are still struggling to adjust.

“It’s one of the biggest plays we have in the game, and we put the de-fensive player, the catcher, out of posi-tion,” said Boone, who works in the Washing-ton Nationals’ front office. “What (run-ners) do is they dive to the outside back corner. And if you get away from that out-side back corner, your thought is, ‘Hurry and get there so I can make the catch and I’ve got to go a long way to make the tag.’ I think that’s probably the biggest problem, is guys trying to make the tag before they have the ball, and they know they’re not in position.”

Catchers no longer have to brace for contact like before, when Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants tore ligaments in his left ankle — the injury that precipitated the rule. Physically it’s easier, but mentally it’s more dif-ficult.

Because they can’t block a runner’s path before getting the ball, catchers have to consciously worry about the right positioning while also catching the ball on the fly and making a tag.

“With so much going on, you’re pay-ing attention to a lot of things, vari-ables — the runner, where guys are lining up with the cut-offs and if the outfielders are going to be able to make the throw on time,” Jason Cas-tro of the Houston Astros said. “Yet at the same time, you’re kind of trying to make sure you’re in the correct posi-tion to field the throw and still allow the runner the lane for him.”

Castro said the way he was brought up through the Astros’ organization made the transition easy because he was always taught to set up in a place that gave the runner a lane. But he understands why fellow catchers have had to retrain their brains and bodies to change their approach.

That’s true of the Nationals’ Wilson Ramos, who is still practicing making the smooth exchange from catching the

ball on the fly to tagging the runner.“I know I missed a couple balls last

year, trying to just catch the ball and tag the runner,” Ramos said. “I’m try-ing to fix that, trying to learn more, how to go and catch the ball and then go to the plate.”

Much like a receiver in football try-ing to run before securing the ball, catchers must make a conscious ef-fort to go one step at a time. While that’s nothing new, Boone pointed out that under the new rule, it’s harder for catchers to apply a quick tag like an in-fielder can on a would-be base-stealer at second.

“You see lot of catchers at home plate missing balls because we’re try-

ing to be like a first basemen — try to pick balls and tag,” Na-tionals backup catch-er Jose Lobaton said. “It’s not easy to catch the ball with one hand with a catcher’s mitt. It’s not the same as a first-base glove.”

The glove isn’t the main problem, though. It ’s more about mindset.

Veteran Carlos Ruiz of the Philadel-phia Phillies believes repeated practice in spring training and in game situations is the only way to perfect that.

“The key is to an-ticipate that play because if you’ve got a guy at second base, you have to put in your mind if you’re going to have a base hit, there’s a very good chance we have action at home plate,” said Ruiz, who’s considered one of the best de-fensive catchers around. “So you have to move in front of the plate. A lot of times you don’t have a bang-bang play and maybe the throw’s going to be the left side — that makes it tough. You’re going to do your best to get the ball.”

Astros manager A.J. Hinch, a ma-jor league catcher for parts of seven seasons, considers losing track of the runner the biggest issue. Josh Thole of the Toronto Blue Jays said setting up differently has been his most major adjustment and hopes umpires under-stand his intent is to be in the right spot.

Teammate Russell Martin doesn’t stick his leg out to block runners like he used to but insisted he won’t let the rule change him too much. Martin is in favour of the rule for the sake of safety.

“Guys are making more money, and the last thing you want is just for one thing to take somebody’s career away,” Martin said.

“Another thing is just the head is-sues, concussions. If somebody gets a free shot at you, you’re going to get a concussion.”

‘YOU SEE LOT OF CATCHERS AT HOME

PLATE MISSING BALLS BECAUSE WE’RE

TRYING TO BE LIKE A FIRST BASEMEN — TRY

TO PICK BALLS AND TAG. IT’S NOT EASY TO CATCH THE BALL WITH

ONE HAND WITH A CATCHER’S MITT. IT’S

NOT THE SAME AS A FIRST-BASE GLOVE.’

— JOSE LOBATONWASHINGTON NATIONALS CATCHER

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Thursday● Junior B Provincials: Wainwright Bisons vs. Calgary Royals-Gold, 1 p.m.; Killam Wheat Kings vs. North Edmonton Red Wings, 4 p.m. and North Peace Navigators at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena. Mountainview Colts vs. Wetaskiwin Icemen, 4:15 p.m., Kinex arena.● Men’s Basketball: Silver Spurs vs. Btown Maple Jordans and Carstar vs. Washed Up Warriors at 7:15 p.m., Rusty Chuckers vs. Alken Basin Drillers at 8:30 p.m., all games at Lindsay Thurber

Friday● Junior B Provincials: Calgary Royals-Gold vs. Wetaskiwin Icemen, 10 a.m.; North Peace Navigators vs. Killam Wheat Kings, 1 p.m.; Red Deer Vipers vs. North Edmonton Red Wings, 4 p.m. and Mountainview Colts vs. Wainwright Bisons, 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, 7 p.m., the Drive● Midget Football: Mavericks at Prairie Fire, 7:15 p.m., M.E. Global field Lacombe

Saturday● Junior B Provincials: Wetaskiwin Icemen vs. Wainwright Bisons, 9:30 a.m..; Calgary Royals-Gold vs. Mountainview Colts, 12:30 p.m. and semi-final — 1st place pool B vs. 2nd place pool A, 8:30 p.m., games at Kinex arena. North Edmonton Red Wings vs. North Peace Navigators, 9 a.m; Killam Wheat Kings vs. Red Deer Vipers, 12 p.m. and semi-final 1st place pool A vs. 2nd place pool B, games at Red Deer Arena● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

Sunday● Junior B Provincials: Bronze medal game, 10:30 a.m. and gold medal game, 2 p.m. games at Red Deer Arena

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 52 22 .703 —x-Toronto 49 24 .671 2 1/2Atlanta 45 30 .600 7 1/2Miami 43 30 .589 8 1/2Boston 43 31 .581 9Charlotte 43 31 .581 9Detroit 40 35 .533 12 1/2Indiana 39 35 .527 13Chicago 37 37 .500 15Washington 36 37 .493 15 1/2Orlando 31 43 .419 21Milwaukee 30 44 .405 22New York 30 45 .400 22 1/2Brooklyn 21 53 .284 31Philadelphia 9 66 .120 43 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBy-Golden State 66 7 .904 —y-San Antonio 62 12 .838 4 1/2y-Oklahoma City 52 23 .693 15x-L.A. Clippers 46 27 .630 20Memphis 41 33 .554 25 1/2Portland 39 36 .520 28Utah 37 37 .500 29 1/2Houston 37 38 .493 30Dallas 36 38 .486 30 1/2Denver 31 44 .413 36Sacramento 29 45 .392 37 1/2New Orleans 27 46 .370 39Minnesota 25 49 .338 41 1/2Phoenix 20 54 .270 46 1/2L.A. Lakers 15 59 .203 51 1/2d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Monday’s GamesOklahoma City 119, Toronto 100Miami 110, Brooklyn 99Atlanta 102, Chicago 100Minnesota 121, Phoenix 116New Orleans 99, New York 91San Antonio 101, Memphis 87Dallas 97, Denver 88Utah 123, L.A. Lakers 75Portland 105, Sacramento 93L.A. Clippers 114, Boston 90

Tuesday’s GamesChicago 98, Indiana 96Charlotte 100, Philadelphia 85Orlando 139, Brooklyn 105Detroit 88, Oklahoma City 82Houston 106, Cleveland 100Washington at Golden State, late

Wednesday’s GamesAtlanta at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Phoenix at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.New Orleans at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.New York at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Golden State at Utah, 7 p.m.Washington at Sacramento, 8 p.m.Miami at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesChicago at Houston, 5 p.m.Brooklyn at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Orlando at Indiana, 5 p.m.Denver at New Orleans, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.Boston at Portland, 8 p.m.

WHL 2016 PlayoffsFirst Round

DIVISION SEMIFINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEEast DivisionBrandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2)(Edmonton leads series 2-0)Friday’s resultEdmonton 2 Brandon 1Thursday’s resultEdmonton 4 Brandon 2Wednesday’s gameBrandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Thursday’s gameBrandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Sunday, Apr. 3x-Brandon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 5x-Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3)(Moose Jaw leads series 3-1)Tuesday’s resultMoose Jaw 7 Prince Albert 0Monday’s resultPrince Albert 7 Moose Jaw 3Friday’s gameMoose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Saturday, Apr. 2x-Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Central DivisionLethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1)(Regina leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultRegina 3 Lethbridge 2Saturday’s resultRegina 3 Lethbridge 0Wednesday’s gameLethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m.Friday’s gameRegina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 5x-Lethbridge atRegina, 7 p.m.

Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3)(Red Deer leads series 2-1)Sunday’s resultRed Deer 4 Calgary 3Saturday’s resultCalgary 5 Red Deer 2Friday’s gameRed Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.m.Saturday, Apr. 2Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Monday, Apr. 4x-Red Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.mWednesday, Apr. 6x-Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DivisionVictoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2)(Victoria leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultSpokane 5 Victoria 2Saturday’s resultVictoria 4 Spokane 3Wednesday’s gameVictoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.Friday’s gameSpokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3)(Kelowna leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultKelowna 1 Kamloops 0Saturday’s resultKamloops 5 Kelowna 4Wednesday’s game

Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Friday’s gameKamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

U.S. DivisionSeattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1)(Seattle leads series 3-0)Tuesday’s resultSeattle 5 Prince George 0Saturday’s resultSeattle 4 Prince George 1Wednesday’s gameSeattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.Friday’s gamex-Prince George at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Everett (2) vs. Portland (3)(Everett leads series 3-0)Tuesday’s resultEverett 5 Portland 3Saturday’s resultEverett 3 Portland 1Wednesday’s gameEverett at Portland, 8 p.m.Friday’s gamex-Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.x — played only if necessary.

NHLEastern Conference

Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA PtsTampa Bay 76 44 27 5 214 182 93Florida 76 42 25 9 218 189 93Boston 77 40 29 8 223 209 88

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Ptsp-Washington 75 54 16 5 236 175 113NY Rangers 76 43 24 9 219 199 95Pittsburgh 76 43 25 8 219 190 94

WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA PtsNY Islanders 75 41 25 9 210 193 91Philadelphia 75 37 25 13 196 199 87Detroit 77 38 28 11 198 212 87New Jersey 77 37 32 8 173 194 82Carolina 77 33 28 16 187 208 82Ottawa 76 34 33 9 217 234 77Montreal 77 35 36 6 205 224 76Buffalo 77 31 35 11 185 210 73Columbus 76 30 38 8 195 237 68Toronto 76 28 37 11 186 222 67

Western ConferenceCentral Division

GP W L OL GF GA Ptsx-Dallas 77 46 22 9 252 220 101x-St. Louis 77 46 22 9 206 186 101x-Chicago 77 44 26 7 213 192 95

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Ptsx-Los Angeles 76 45 26 5 208 180 95x-Anaheim 75 42 23 10 196 178 94x-San Jose 76 42 28 6 224 198 90

WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA PtsNashville 77 39 25 13 215 199 91Minnesota 77 38 28 11 210 190 87Colorado 77 39 34 4 205 218 82Arizona 76 34 35 7 199 226 75Calgary 76 32 38 6 210 240 70Winnipeg 76 31 38 7 194 223 69Vancouver 75 27 35 13 171 217 67Edmonton 79 30 42 7 194 234 67x — clinched playoff berth z — clinched conference p — clinched President’s Trophy.

Tuesday’s resultsNY Islanders 2 Carolina 1 (SO)New Jersey 2 Boston 1

Pittsburgh 5 Buffalo 4 (SO)Toronto 5 Florida 2Montreal 4 Detroit 3Minnesota 4 Chicago 1Dallas 5 Nashville 2St. Louis 3 Colorado 1San Jose at Vancouver, late

Monday’s resultsWashington 4 Columbus 1Philadelphia 3 Winnipeg 2 (OT)Tampa Bay 3 Toronto 0Detroit 3 Buffalo 2Colorado 4 Nashville 3Anaheim 2 Edmonton 1San Jose 5 Los Angeles 2Calgary 5 Arizona 2

Wednesday, March 30Ottawa at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Calgary at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 31NY Rangers at Carolina, 5 p.m.Nashville at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.Columbus at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m.New Jersey at Florida, 5:30 p.m.Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.Ottawa at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Arizona at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.Calgary at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

2016 World Women’s Hockey ChampionshipAt Kamloops, B.C.

PRELIMINARY ROUNDGroup A

GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtUnited States 2 2 0 0 0 5 2 6Canada 2 1 0 0 1 9 4 3Finland 2 1 0 0 1 6 5 3Russia 2 0 0 0 2 4 13 0

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtSweden 2 2 0 0 0 5 2 6Czech Republic 2 1 0 0 1 5 4 3Switzerland 2 1 0 0 1 5 5 3Japan 2 0 0 0 2 2 6 0Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Tuesday’s resultsCanada 8 Russia 1Czech Republic 3 Switzerland 1Sweden 2 Japan 0United States 2 Finland 1

Monday’s resultsUnited States 3 Canada 1Finland 5 Russia 3Switzerland 4 Japan 2Sweden 3 Czech Republic 2

Wednesday’s gamesNo Games Scheduled.

Thursday’s gamesJapan vs. Czech Republic, 2 p.m.Russia vs. United States, 4:30 p.m.Switzerland vs. Sweden, 6 p.m.Finland vs. Canada, 8:30 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKETFriday’s gamesQuarter-finalsThird A vs. Second B, 4:30 or 8:30 p.m.Fourth A vs. First B, 4:30 or 8:30 p.m.

Major League Baseball Spring TrainingAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L PctToronto 17 5 .773Houston 17 9 .654Los Angeles 15 8 .652Minnesota 17 10 .630Detroit 15 11 .577Chicago 15 12 .556Texas 16 13 .552Cleveland 14 12 .538Seattle 15 13 .536Tampa Bay 11 11 .500New York 12 13 .480Oakland 11 14 .440Boston 12 16 .429Kansas City 14 18 .423Baltimore 10 14 .417

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctWashington 17 4 .810Arizona 21 7 .750Colorado 14 10 .583Philadelphia 14 10 .583Los Angeles 13 13 .500Cincinnati 14 15 .483Milwaukee 12 13 .480Miami 10 12 .455St. Louis 9 13 .409San Francisco 11 19 .368Chicago 9 17 .346San Diego 9 19 .321New York 7 15 .318Pittsburgh 7 20 .259

Atlanta 6 18 .250NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

Monday’s GamesBaltimore 5, Boston 3Miami vs. Washington, ccd., RainMinnesota 6, Pittsburgh 4St. Louis 3, N.Y. Mets 1Toronto 2, Philadelphia 1Cleveland 6, Oakland 4Kansas City (ss) 11, San Diego 3Chicago White Sox 11, Colorado 7L.A. Angels 8, Chicago Cubs 8, tieSeattle 6, Kansas City (ss) 4Houston 12, Atlanta 9N.Y. Yankees 3, Detroit 2Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 8Arizona 7, San Francisco 3L.A. Dodgers 5, Texas 4

Tuesday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees (ss) 5, Pittsburgh 4, 5 inningsN.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Philadelphia, ccd., RainToronto (ss) vs. Detroit, ccd., RainWashington vs. St. Louis, ccd., RainMinnesota 6, Boston 2, 7 inningsTampa Bay vs. Toronto (ss), ccd., RainMiami 1, N.Y. Mets 0L.A. Angels 1, Cleveland (ss) 1, tieChicago Cubs 9, Oakland 5Chicago White Sox 6, Texas 2Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 2Colorado 6, Arizona 1San Diego 11, L.A. Dodgers 9

Baltimore 4, Atlanta 4, tie, 10 inningsCleveland (ss) 4, Seattle 1San Francisco 10, Kansas City 16

Wednesday’s GamesWashington vs. N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.St. Louis vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.Boston (ss) vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.Toronto vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.Houston vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.Boston (ss) vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.Kansas City vs. Texas, 1:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Oakland, 1:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Seattle, 1:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.Colorado (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Colorado (ss), 2:10 p.m.Detroit vs. Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesBoston vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.St. Louis vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 11:05 a.m.Cincinnati vs. Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.Atlanta vs. Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Colorado, 1:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee at Houston, 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.Oakland at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

TransactionsTransactionsTuesday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLCOMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Chi-cago White Sox RHP Kameron Loe (Charlotte-IL) 80 games and Arizona OF Stephen Dezzi (Hill-sboro-NWL) 50 games for a violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned OF Dariel Al-varez to Norfolk (IL).CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Tommy Kahnle and INFs Matt Davidson, Leury Garcia and Carlos Sanchez to Charlotte (IL). Reassigned OF Jason Coats to minor league camp.DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Wynton Ber-nard to Toledo (IL).LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHPs Nick Tropeano and Al Alburquerque to Salt Lake (PCL). Placed LHP Rob Rasmussen on the voluntary re-tired list. Acquired LHP Chris Jones from Baltimore for OF Natanael Delgado and INF Erick Salcedo and optioned Jones to Salt Lake (PCL).MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHP Ryan O’Rourke and RHP Tyler Duffey to Rochester (IL). Reassigned LHP Logan Darnell and RHP Brandon Kintzler to minor league camp.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP Jesse Hahn to Nashville (PCL).TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired C Bryan Holaday from Detroit for C Bobby Wilson and RHP Myles Jaye. Designated LHP Sam Freeman for assign-ment. Optioned RHP Nick Martinez to Round Rock (PCL). Released OF Drew Stubbs.TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Drew Hutchison to Buffalo (IL). Released RHP Steve De-labar and LHP Randy Choate.National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Zack Godley to Mobile (SL). Released LHP Wesley Wright and RHP Sam LeCure.CHICAGO CUBS — Released 2B Munenori Kawa-saki, OF Shane Victorino and LHP Manny Parra.COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned C Dustin Gar-neau to Albuquerque (PCL). Selected the contract of OF Ryan Raburn from Albuquerque.LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned LHP Adam Liberatore to Oklahoma City (PCL).MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHPs Nefi Ogando and Jose Urena to New Orleans (PCL). Released 3B Don Kelly and OF Justin Maxwell.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned 2B Darnell Sweeney, RHP Luis Garcia and LHPs Adam Mor-gan and Elvis Araujo to Lehigh Valley (IL). Released RHP Edward Mujica. Agreed to terms with OF Will Venable on a minor league contract.PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned INF Jake Goebbert and RHPs Trey Haley and Rob Scahill to Indianapolis (IL). Reassigned OFs Danny Ortiz and Antoan Richardson, RHP Curtis Partch and LHP Robert Zarate to minor league camp.SAN DIEGO PADRES — Released INF/OF Skip Schumaker. RHP Philip Humber announced his retirement. Optioned RHP Leonel Campos to El Paso (PCL).SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned C Andrew Susac to Sacramento (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Released RHPs Bronson Arroyo and Burke Badenhop. Selected the contract of RHP Matt Belisle from Syracuse (IL).FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueNEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed LB Jasper Brinkley.Arena Football LeagueORLANDO PREDATORS — Signed DL Monte Lewis.PORTLAND STEEL — Traded OL Sam Longo to Orlando for future considerations.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Derek Ryan from Charlotte (AHL).CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reinstated Rockford F Garret Ross after all charges against him were dismissed.COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned G Spen-cer Martin from San Antonio (AHL) to Fort Wayne (ECHL).DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Vili Saarijarvi from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with C Kyle Schempp on a two-year, entry-level contract.NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F Steven Fogarty on an entry-level contract.PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Reassigned D Maxim Lamarche from Lehigh Valley (AHL) to Reading (ECHL).American Hockey LeagueALBANY DEVILS — Signed C Kevin Rooney to an amateur tryout agreement.GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed F Kyle Criscuolo to an amateur tryout agreement.LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Assigned F Derek De-Blois to South Carolina (ECHL).STOCKTON HEAT — Signed G Josh Robinson to a professional tryout agreement. Returned G Mark Owuya to Utah (ECHL).UTICA COMETS — Returned F Evan Rankin to Toledo (ECHL).ECHLECHL — Suspended Quad City’s Zach Pochiro one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a March 26 game at Wichita.FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Signed D Alexander Kuqali.FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Released G Alex Vazzano.GREENVILLE SWAMP RABBITS — Signed F Matt Johnson to an amateur tryout agreement and D Nicholas Kuqali.NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Loaned D Jordan Hill to Manitoba (AHL).SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Released G James Kruger from an amateur tryout agreement.TOLEDO WALLEYE — Released F Tyler Maxwell.LACROSSENational Lacrosse LeagueBUFFALO BANDITS — Acquired a 2016 sixth-round draft pick from Georgia for F Jerome Thomp-son.SOCCERNational Women’s Soccer LeagueSKY BLUE FC — Signed M Ashley Nick.

Campbell didn’t pull many punches in the emails that were released.

In one November 2008 exchange with Bettman, Campbell criticized Toronto defenceman Mike Van Ryn for sustaining a concussion, broken nose and hand after being checked from be-hind and into the boards by Montreal’s Tom Kostopoulos.

After calling Van Ryn “soft,” Campbell suggested, perhaps sarcastically, that Van Ryn should be the one punished for put-ting himself in a bad position. Kostopoulos was issued a three-game suspension. Van Ryn missed a month and played just 13 more games that season. He later cited Kostopoulos’ hit as the reason he retired.

In one message to then-Anaheim general manager Brian Burke about a December 2006 fight between Washington’s Don-ald Brashear and Aaron Ward of the New York Rangers, Camp-bell called Brashear a “bully” and Ward a “punk.”

In that same email, Campbell referred to critics of the NHL’s handling of safety issues as “tree huggers.” He used the term “Greenpeace pukes” to express his disdain in a separate ex-change with Burke in March 2007.

In his response to several league officials regarding a May 2013 proposal to the NHL’s concussion working group from Ot-tawa head athletic therapist Gerry Townend, Campbell wrote simply, “This guy is a freaking idiot!”

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NHL: Didn’t pull many punches in the emails

Presidents’ Trophy brings mixed emotions for Capitals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Players can’t drink out of the Presidents’ Trophy, given to the top regu-lar-season team in the NHL. Not that the Wash-ington Capitals would want to, anyway.

The Capitals clinched the Presidents’ Tro-phy and home-ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs with a victory Tuesday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Yet after so many early playoff exits, including a first-round loss in 2010 after finishing with the most points in the league, there are mixed emotions about the achievement.

“Honestly, no one really cares about the Presidents’ Trophy,” defenceman Karl Alzner said. “It’s more of a nice thing to happen. We’re happy about it, but that wasn’t the goal at the begin-ning of the year.”

Finishing with the most points in the league — and wrapping that up with six games remaining — is noth-ing to sneeze at. Washington has skated circles around the rest of the NHL and is the favourite to win the Cup.

The memory of six years ago is sobering for the six players left from that group, including captain Alex Ovechkin and All-Star centre Nicklas Backstrom. The 2009-10 Capitals were prohib-itive favourites until they ran into hot goalten-der Jaroslav Halak in the first round and lost in seven games to the Montreal Canadiens.

Backstrom certainly hasn’t forgotten about that when considering what winning the Presi-dents’ Trophy means to this year’s team.

“It doesn’t mean anything, to be honest with you,” Backstrom said. “It’s good to have home-ice advantage through the playoffs, but at the same time it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t even mean anything because we lost the last time in the first round when we won the Presidents’ Trophy.”

At 29-7-2, the Capitals have the best home re-cord in hockey, so home ice at Verizon Center is a valuable commodity. Alzner pointed to the first-round series against the New York Island-ers last season and said not having home-ice could have cost them.

History is also a grey area. Only eight of 29 Presidents’ Trophy winners have won the Stan-

ley Cup, most recently the 2013 Chicago Black-hawks. Three lost in the final, seven lost in the conference final, six in the second round and six in the first round.

It’s no guarantee for success. But if Washing-ton comes out of the Eastern Conference, it’ll be able to match lines against the champion from the deep West, and that’s a big advantage.

“In the playoffs, it seems like everything is so even,” said T.J. Oshie, who spent the past seven seasons with the St. Louis Blues, one of the front-runners to emerge from the West. “There are so many one-goal games, or one-goal games with an empty-netter, or overtime games, that I think you just get a little bit more

(of an) advantage in a sev-en-game series with the sec-ond (line) change. I think that’s really important, es-pecially when you want to match on other teams’ key guys.”

With the start of the play-offs more than two weeks away, the Capitals are try-ing to shift into that mode. And while they didn’t cel-ebrate the Presidents’ Tro-phy, there was a moment to pause and recognize the ac-complishment.

“I think the guys rec-ognize it and they do

take some joy in it,” coach Barry Trotz said. “There’s not going to be a champagne party or anything like that. I think there’s a sense of fulfilment that we said we’re going to do some things, we accomplished them so far and we’ve still got some things to accomplish.”

Ultimately, the Capitals want the Stanley Cup, a trophy they can drink from. The fran-chise has never won it, and this core group has yet to make it past the second round.

The 2015-16 Capitals, though, are the deep-est group in the past decade with the addi-tions of defencemen Brooks Orpik and Matt Niskanen and forwards Oshie and Justin Wil-liams, plus the growth of centre and leading scorer Evgeny Kuznetsov and goaltender Bra-den Holtby. On paper this group is better than the one that lost in the first round six years ago, but players are eager to prove it after so much regular-season success.

“We won the marathon, and now we get to prepare for the seven-game sprints,” Niskanen said. “We felt that we were by far the best in the marathon this year, and now we’ll see.”

‘HONESTLY, NO ONE REALLY CARES ABOUT

THE PRESIDENTS’ TROPHY. IT’S MORE OF A NICE THING TO HAPPEN. WE’RE HAPPY ABOUT IT, BUT THAT WASN’T THE

GOAL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.’

— KARL ALZNERCAPIUTALS DEFENCMAN

Blue Jays-Tigers rained out in 3rd inning

The Detroit Tigers led a Toronto Blue Jays split squad 2-0 in the third inning Tuesday when their game was rained out.

Designated hitter Victor Martinez made his first appearance for the Tigers since March 14. He’s been recovering from a left hamstring strain. He lined out in his only at-bat.

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Family WRAP is an eight-weekcourse to identify what families needfor everyday wellness. Participantswill create a plan for themselves asindividuals and for the family at theTImberlands Branch of the Red DeerPublic Library at 5:30 p.m. Peopleinterested in WRAP courses must callCanadian Mental Health Associationat 403-342-2266 or email us [email protected]

The T. Buckley Trio deliver soulful laments and gritty truths, wrapped in a cowboy blanket to create a distinct western Canadian flavour on Thursday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer at 8:30 p.m. The band brings a more-than memorable stage presence and harmonies that create a sound much larger than their modest stage set up. Cover $10.

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Brain-zapping gadgets promising a better youBY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

LAS VEGAS - Jamie Tyler was stressed. He had just endured a half-hour slog through airport security and needed some relief. Many travelers in this situation might have headed for the nearest bar or popped an aspirin. But Tyler grabbed a triangular piece of gadgetry from his bag and held it to his forehead.

As he closed his eyes, the device zapped him with low-voltage electrical currents. Within minutes, Tyler said, he was feeling serene enough to face the crowds once again.

This is no science fiction. The Har-vard-trained neurobiologist was taking advantage one of his own inventions, a device called Thync that promises to help users activate their body’s “nat-ural state of energy or calm” -- for a retail price of a mere $199.

Americans’ obsession with wellness is fueling a new category of consumer electronics, one that goes far beyond the ubiquitous Fitbits and UP activi-ty wristbands only passively monitor-ing users’ physical activity. The latest wearable tech, to put it in the simplest terms, is about hacking your brain.

These gadgets claim to be able to make you have more willpower, think more creatively and even jump higher. One day, their makers say, the technol-ogy may even succeed in delivering on the holy grail of emotions: happiness.

There’s real, peer-reviewed science behind the theory driving these devic-es.

It involves stimulating key regions of the brain -- with currents or mag-netic fields -- to impact emotions and physical well-being. It isn’t too dif-ferent from how electroshock thera-py works to counter certain mental illnesses and how deep-brain stimu-lation smooths motion disorders like multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease. Indeed, recent studies have looked at the technique as a possible treatment for stroke, autism and an-orexia.

Lots of people and companies are making investments, too, from Sili-con Valley venture capitalists to large pharmaceutical companies and even the Defense Advanced Research Proj-ects Agency. And according to the start-ups selling the products, their technology appears to be safe and effective based on certain, very con-trolled tests.

But more rigorous research is ongo-ing, and some of the early results have generated controversy because of how the studies were conducted. Moreover, the gadgets themselves haven’t been independently validated, and many of the entrepreneurs making them, for competitive reasons, have revealed little information about their develop-ment and testing. The companies claim the stimuli they utilize are so weak that the products shouldn’t be con-

sidered medical devices and subject to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. To date, the agency hasn’t intervened.

That’s all unnerved many neurosci-ence experts, who worry about putting something that tinkers with the brain in the hands of naive consumers mass-es.

Kareem Zaghloul, who runs one of the brain labs at the National Insti-tute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said that even if the devices work as advertised -- which is a big if, he stressed -- there are also concerns about how they account for individu-al variability in brain structure and whether enhancing one area of the brain could negatively impact another. No one knows the long-term conse-quences.

“When you’re dealing with the brain and electrical simulation, there are al-ways possible dangers. We worry about this even with our own work. We think the chances are quite low, but it’s still a potential problem,” Zaghloul said.

Other scientists have issued stron-ger warnings. Writing in the Journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, one group of researchers argued that “non-invasive’ brain stimulation” may

sound benign but comes with risks as severe as when a body is opened up in surgery. And Marom Bikson, a pro-fessor of biomedical engineering at City College of New York, emphasized that the devices are “not play things” and said consumers who use them too much could essentially risk an over-dose.

Additional issues, although remote, include possible addiction or sabotage by hackers that could change a code to stimulate undesirable characteristics like anxiety, fear or aggression.

Tyler, who co-founded Thync and recently returned to academia as an associate professor at Arizona State University, says such concerns are le-gitimate. Yet he is certain that they can be overcome and that medi-cal-grade brain devices will one day be commonplace and able to relieve the pain of migraines, for example, or treat debilitating neurological condi-tions.

“Yes, a lot more work still needs to be done,” he said. “But the technology holds tremendous promise. It’s not just about us saying we’re going to stimu-late the nerves so you can chill.”

This ever-growing world includes two main types of products. The sim-

plest ones, such as a $299 meditation headband called Muse, measure brain-waves with the standard laboratory technology employed by doctors and hospitals. They don’t do anything to try to change or stimulate the brain but provide feedback to users that the companies hope will help them make changes leading to improvements in brain functioning.

The second type of devices work via transcranial direct-current stimula-tion. With tDCS, weak electrical cur-rents jolt neurons, which in turn can increase or decrease the release of certain chemicals that can impact how a person is feeling.

Halo, a product priced at $549, was secretly tested by members of the U.S. ski team who later claimed that it improved their “jump force” by 31 percent. Another, Foc.us, sells a $250 headset that it says boosts gamers’ fo-cus and performance.

Then there’s Thync. One of the ear-ly entrants, the company raised more than $13 million in venture funding from such serious backers as scientist Samir Kaul, who’s known as the right-hand man of Silicon Valley billionaire and health-tech investor Vinod Khosla.

Its creators claim the small, sleek piece of plastic plus electrodes either calms or energizes a person depend-ing on the area of the brain where its current is directed. It uses proprietary algorithms that control the tDCS cur-rents, plus another type of stimulation called transcranial pulsed ultrasound.

Thync has been tested on several thousand volunteers, and the company has published one study, in the journal Nature, that involved 82 volunteers in the Boston area and found that a 14-minute session using Thync’s elec-trical waveforms resulted in stress re-duction.

Response from users have been mixed, with about two-thirds of online reviewers writing about how happy they are with the product and about one-third saying they don’t feel any effects at all.

Early on, the start-up tried to mar-ket itself to the hip, early-adopter crowd by promoting the “vibes” in-dividuals would get. “You know how when you splash cold water on your-self, you become more alert, and when you get a neck massage you feel calm-er? Those are the same nerves we’re stimulating,” Tyler explained, describ-ing the electrical pulses as “digital content streamed to your nervous sys-tem.”

But in early 2015, following lacklus-ter sales, Thync tried to switch gears to sell itself as more serious. Co-founder and CEO Isy Goldwasser said at the time that the goal was to make the de-vice a “chemical-free path to manage your energy and stress.”

The company said this month that it’s trying to raise new capital for cur-rent and future ventures. Officials de-clined to comment further.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TONAWANDA, N.Y. — For Kim Vaillancourt, pregnant while staving off aggressive brain cancer, it comes down to this: “The baby saved me. Now it’s my turn to save him.”

Vaillancourt was diagnosed with glioblastoma after going to the hos-pital for headaches and nausea that came on over Christmas. Were it not for concern for the boy she’s carrying, she and her husband, Phil, said it was a life-saving trip she would not have made.

They believe the unexpected preg-nancy was heaven-sent.

Kim had surgery to remove the tu-mors, but now, to give the baby they’ve named Wyatt Eli the same chance he gave her, she is postponing any fol-low-up chemotherapy and radiation to avoid threatening her child.

“She’s going to do what she can to save the baby’s life and give it the healthiest life possible,” Phil Vaillan-court said.

It had already been an eventful time in the Vaillancourt home in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda. The couple and their 11- and 12-year-old children had spent Dec. 23 in Erie County Family Court for an adoption ceremony that made three sisters— ages 6, 7 and 10 — the couple had been fostering permanent members of their family.

With five kids on break from school, Kim wouldn’t normally have made a fuss about feeling ill.

“I would have just thought I had a headache and the flu and I would have laid in bed,” the 36-year-old mother said. But since she was about halfway

through her pregnancy and worried that being unable to keep food down was keeping the baby from getting the nourishment he needed, she headed to the hospital to be checked.

Soon she would be rushed into sur-gery to remove two tumors that doc-tors said could have killed her. One had grown on the front of her brain. The other was dangerously close to her brain stem in the back.

Holding hands on the couch in their suburban Buffalo living room, Kim and Phil lean on each other as they describe with calm acceptance the abrupt turn their life took between the joyful Dec. 23 adoption and the devas-tating diagnosis on Dec. 27.

Gliobastoma, they learned, is char-acterized by fast-growing tumors known to reappear within eight to 12 weeks. With April 25 the target deliv-ery date, Kim has been undergoing MRIs every two weeks to check for any signs of new activity.

“We’re praying a lot and trusting God through these next few weeks to keep these scans clean,” Phil Vaillan-court said.

It’s something the health-conscious Kim, with her focus on vitamins and nutrition, would never have imagined. She laughs while describing her long-standing practice of texting as far away from her body as her arms will allow and says the family’s kept the micro-wave oven in the garage for the last 10 years, even though there’s no scientific proof that either cellphones or micro-waves raise the risk of cancer — and her fears are unfounded.

It’s strange, she said, to now look for healing in chemicals and radiation. Unwilling to risk the baby’s health, the couple plans to begin treatment about

two weeks after his birth, hoping all the while the tumors don’t reappear before then.

In the meantime, they will start in-terviewing nannies to help care for the newborn and the rest of the children, among them 7-year-old Josie, who was born without arms and legs. Phil’s leave from his job with the town of Tonawanda is coming to an end.

“Just taking one day at a time,” Phil said. “Even looking too far into the fu-ture, you just get caught up in what it can look like. Why even do that?”

Though relatively rare, glioblasto-ma is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. It affects about 17,000 adults in the United States ev-ery year, but is uncommon during pregnancy, said Dr. Robert Fenster-maker, chair of neurosurgery at Ros-well Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.

Early in a pregnancy, a woman might be advised to end the pregnancy in favour of aggressive treatment, he said. Women further along have under-

gone chemotherapy.“It’s a tough cancer,” said Fenster-

maker, who has developed a vaccine therapy for glioblastoma that is now in clinical trials.

The Vaillancourts have found strength from their big and close families and in the prayers that have flowed in as word of the family’s fight has spread.

“People have wrapped their hearts around this family,” childhood friend Jenna Koch said, describing a Go-FundMe campaign and a host of bene-fits and fundraisers planned over the next few weeks.

With treatment, doctors say patients with the serious grade of glioblastoma afflicting Kim have a median survival rate of about 14 months. But the Vail-lancourts are holding onto their Chris-tian faith.

“I hope to fight this off for years and years to come,” Kim said. “I hope to be sitting here in 30 years saying how I beat this.”

Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

A device called Thync promises to help users activate their body’s “natural state of energy or calm” — for a retail price of a mere $199. It is just one of some new devices that claim to be able to make you have more willpower, think more creatively and even jump higher.

Mom who delayed cancer care says baby saved herPhoto by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kim and Phil Vaillancourt are interviewed at their home in Tonawanda, N.Y. Shortly after learning she was pregnant, Kim was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer, and was rushed into surgery to remove two tumors that doctors said could have soon killed her. She is postponing the chemotherapy and radiation, considered her best defense against the cancer, until after the baby’s birth.

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MACKENZIEJohn1932 - 2016Mr. John Horace MacKenzie of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, March 25, 2016 at the age of 83 years. John was born to Olive and Joseph MacKenzie in Wainwright, Alberta on May 10, 1932, and was raised in that town. John graduated from the University of Alberta in 1957 with a Degree in Law, and practiced briefl y with his father in Wainwright. He was the fi rst Agent of the Attorney General to be appointed in Red Deer in 1964. John spent thirty-six years serving the Alberta Courts, as Magistrate, Provincial Court Judge and Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, retiring in 2002. He was an active member of the Catholic community of Sacred Heart Parish since the late 1960’s, and was deeply sustained by his faith. John will be lovingly remembered by his beloved wife, Joan (nee Thomas), children; Joe (Sue), Mary (Wally), Robert, Margaret (Shane), Donald, Jamie (Jana), and Elizabeth (Glenn), and his grandchildren; Don (Alicia), Chantale, Dakota, Jaime, Jessica, Destiny, Sam, Liberty, Jacob, Rhys, Meg, Leo and three great grandchildren. He will also be sadly missed by his sisters, Isabel, Francis, Olive, Jean (Neil) and Ellen, his sisters-in-law, Marva (Wilf), Alma MacKenzie and Merle Wall, and brothers-in-law, Dan McGuire and Gordon Nagel; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. John was predeceased by his siblings, David, Kathy, Anne and Donald, a brother-in-law, Richard Thomas and a son-in-law, Pawel. Prayers will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Jozef Wroblewski Celebrant. If desired, Memorial Donations in John’s honor may be made directly to Organizations promoting Mental Health, or to a charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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HOWELL, VirginiaAug. 16, 1919 - Mar. 30,2011

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DAHLFrances AnitaThe family of Frances Dahl are sad to announce that after a life of almost 100 years, Frances passed away at Extendicare Michener Center, Red Deer, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. Frances was born on April 20, 1916 at Vera, SK, to Claude and Jennie Phillips, the middle child of a family of seven. She attended Normal School in Saskatoon. Teaching jobs were rare as it was the time of the depression of the 1930s but Frances found a job teaching at Trafford Park school, and one year later, was invited to teach at Hilldale School. This was where she met Harold Dahl. Harold and Frances were married in July 1939. They took over a country store at Court Saskatchewan and this is where the family of two girls and three boys grew up. They later had moved to Red Deer, then back to Court, then to Major, Sask., fi nally retiring in Red Deer in 1974. Frances is survived by sons; Duane (Beryl), Ralph (Donna), and Ray (Delores), daughters; Linda (Tom) Dixon, and Darlene Dickson, seven grandchildren and their spouses, eighteen great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Harold, her parents, sisters; Lois and Ruth, brothers; Leon, Wayne, Howard, and Archie, all her brothers and sisters-in-law, son-in-law, Dennis Dickson, grandsons; Rob Dixon, Bradley and Barry Dickson. An interment will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, HWY 11 East, Red Deer County, on Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. A Memorial Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, on Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. The family would like to thank the staff at Extendicare Units 2600 and 3400 for the excellent care of Frances during her last years. In lieu of fl owers, donation to a charity of your choice would be appreciated. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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WALDORaymond Dale Feb. 7, 1955 - Mar. 24, 2016After a long, heroic battle, Raymond Dale Waldo fi nally found peace on Thursday March 24th, 2016 in Red Deer, Alberta at the age of 61. He is survived by his wife Joanne Waldo; his sons Kristopher (Jessica Kerschbaumer) and Jared (Janine) Waldo; his two daughters, Jessica (Pete Olsen) Waldo and Tennille (Kwaku Ansah) Schell; his grandchildren: Jaylen, Violet, Cameron and Frankie Waldo, K’Senya Schell and Kashytn and Keiryn Pelletier and his siblings: Bob (Doris), Ken (Shirley), Barry (Annika), Calvin (Adele), Bill (Cheryl), Clayton Waldo, and Sharon (Jim) Davis. He is predeceased by his parents Lloyd and Ida and sisters Margaret Gillis and Marlene Deck. The son of Lloyd and Ida (Graham) Waldo, Ray grew up in and around Red Deer, where he met Joanne on the beaches of Sylvan Lake. The two were married in 1978 and called Central Alberta home for 38 years. Ray spent many years in the automotive industry as a salesperson and manager before moving into the oilfi eld up until the time of his passing. Never one to put himself fi rst, Ray will be remembered as a very selfl ess, caring man who was always willing to put the needs of others before his own. A Celebration of Ray’s life will take place at the Sylvan Lake Legion on Friday, April 1st, 2016 from 1-4pm. All are welcome to attend and celebrate a husband, father and friend. Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, AB.Condolences may be forwarded towww.sylvanlakefuneralhome.comSYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY

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NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Hel-en Keller in The Miracle Worker, then maintained a long career while bat-tling personal demons, has died at the age of 69.

The actress died early Tues-day morning of sepsis from a ruptured intes-tine, according to her agent, Mitchell Stubbs. She died in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-centu-ry, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin.

Duke astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both along-side Anne Bancroft as Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan (who won an Oscar of her won).

Then in 1963, Duke burst on the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, The Patty Duke Show, which aired for three seasons. She played dual roles as iden-tical cousins Kathy, “who’s lived most everywhere,from Zanzibar to Barclay Square” while (according to the theme song) “Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights.What a crazy pair!”

In 2015, she would play twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on an epi-sode of Liv and Maddie, a series on the Disney Channel.

“We’re so grateful to her for living a life that generates that amount of com-passion and feeling in others,” Astin said in reflecting on the outpouring of sentiment from fans at the news of her death.

She had “really, really suffered” with her illness, Astin added. From late last week until early Tuesday morning, he said, “was a really, really, really hard process. It was hard for her, it was hard for the people who love her to help her….”

But throughout her life, she was “a warrior,” he said. “You watch this 4-foot-10, tiny imp of a lady who’s more powerful than the greatest military leaders in history.”

Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York borough of Queens on Dec. 14, 1946, she had a difficult childhood with abusive parents. By 8 years old she was largely under the control of husband-and-wife talent managers who kept her busy on soap operas and advertising displays.

In the meantime, they supplied her with alcohol and prescription drugs, which accentuated the effects of her undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

In her 1988 memoir, Call Me Anna, Duke wrote of her condition and the diagnosis she had gotten only six years earlier, and of the subsequent treat-ment that helped stabilize her life. The book became a 1990 TV film in which she starred, and she became an activ-ist for mental health causes, helping to de-stigmatize bipolar disorder.

With the end of The Patty Duke Show in 1966, which left her stereotyped as not one, but two squeaky-clean teen-agers, Duke attempted to leap into the nitty-grittiness of adulthood in the 1967 melodrama Valley of the Dolls, in which she played a showbiz hopeful who falls prey to drug addiction, a broken mar-riage and shattered dreams.

The film, based on the bestselling Jacqueline Susann pulp novel, was critically slammed but a commercial sensation.

During her career she would win three Emmy Awards, for the TV film My Sweet Charlie, the miniseries Cap-tains and the Kings and the 1979 TV remake of The Miracle Worker, in which Duke played Annie Sullivan with Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert as Keller.

PATTY DUKE

Video Game Hall of Fame

reveal finalistsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Sonic the Hedgehog, Space Invaders and John Madden Football are among 15 games named Tuesday as finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.

The winners will be inducted May 5 at The Strong museum in Rochester, where the hall opened last year.

The contenders also include: Elite, Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto III, The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, Nurbur-gring, The Oregon Trail, Pokemon Red and Green, Sid Meier’s Civilization, The Sims, Street Fighter II and Tomb Raider.

The finalists “span decades, gaming platforms and countries of origin, but what they all have in common is their undeniable impact on the world of gaming and popular culture,” said Jon-Paul Dyson, director of The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games.

The list was culled from thousands of nominations from more than 100 countries, hall officials said. An inter-national advisory committee of jour-nalists, scholars and others will guide the final selection.

Nominations for the hall can come from anyone and be from any platform — arcade, console, computer, hand-held or mobile — but must be wide-ly recognized and have influenced the design and development of other games or other forms of entertainment.

Daniels, Travis & Foster to join

country hall of fameBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE — Fiddler Charlie Daniels, singer Randy Travis, and pro-ducer and label owner Fred Foster are joining the Country Music Hall of Fame.

T h e a n -n o u n c e m e n t was made Tues-day by the Hall of Fame and Museum, along with the Coun-try Music As-sociation, at a press confer-ence in Nash-ville, Tennes-see. They will b e i n d u c t e d during a cere-mony later this year.

Travis, who is recovering from a stroke suffered in 2013, is a seven-time Grammy winner whose hits include Forever and Ever, Amen and Three Wooden Crosses. Travis, 56, spoke a few words at the press conference, saying “thank you” when he got a standing ovation from other Hall of Fame mu-

sicians and music industry executives.Travis was inducted in the modern

artist category. He broke out as a sing-er on his 1986 album, Storms of Life, which was the first of six straight plat-inum certifications. He also had an acting career in the 1990s, appearing in dozens of films and television roles.

Daniels, 79, who was inducted in the veteran artist category, is a multi-in-strumentalist best known as the fid-dler behind the classic The Devil Went Down to Georgia. As the bandleader of the Charlie Daniels Band, he blends country, boogie and blues music. He got his start in Nashville as a talented session player, including playing on records like Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr’s Beaucoups of Blues.

Fred Foster moved Monument Re-cords from Washington, D.C., to Nash-ville in 1960 where he signed Roy Or-bison. That led to some of the singer’s most iconic recordings including Only the Lonely, Crying and Oh, Pretty Wom-an.

Foster, 84, also signed a young Dolly Parton and worked with several coun-try stars including Willie Nelson, Ray Price and Jeannie Seely. But it was his work with Kris Kristofferson that turned the songwriter into a star.

CHARLIE DANIELS

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Storm (Green), a mixed media on canvas painting by Paul Boutlbee, is on display at the Marjorie Wood Gallery at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre as part of the Storm Warnings exhibit. The exhibit will be on display until May 2.

Abstract artist experiments with items close at hand

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

Moody storm paintings evolved out of studio experimentation by Red Deer artist Paul Boultbee.

“I was trying to depict storms mo-no-chromatically,” said Boultbee — and the results can be seen in his Storm Warnings exhibit of mixed-me-dia works at the Marjorie Wood Gal-lery in Red Deer’s Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

The abstract artist opted to exper-iment with items that were close at hand in his studio in downtown Red Deer. Boultbee found tissue paper and glued it, crinkled, to anchor a canvas.

When he painted over this texture with one colour, the wrinkles at the bottom of the work became reminis-cent of flat Prairie ground or a dark sea.

With the tissue taking shape as land or roiling water, the monochromatic streaks he created with his paintbrush dipped in fast-drying acrylic paint be-gan resembling a turbulent sky.

In the blue version, a lightning streak of white appears in his paint-ed thunderstorm. “I let the paint fall where it would fall… and I also

learned when to stop fiddling, said Boultbee, who saw this streak as a fortuitous accident. “I thought, don’t screw it up. Just step away…”

Boultbee used different colours to created different kinds of storm ef-fects, from a blizzard in white paint to a firestorm in orange.

He believes these storm paintings are as representational as his art has ever been, and enjoys the drama he’s created on canvas.

“I like the effect of the sweeping strokes,” said Boultbee. He hopes the eight paintings in the exhibit will

allow viewers to appreciate some of the colours that naturally appear in stormy skies, including greens and yel-lows.

“I love storms, so this was not thera-peutic!” added the artist, with a chuck-le.

Boultbee graduated from Red Deer College’s visual arts program in 2003 and works part-time as a RDC librari-an. Storm Warnings runs to May 2. An opening reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. Friday at the gallery.

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Storm (Sage), a mixed media on canvas painting by Paul Boutlbee.

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Warren Beatty, 78; Eric Clapton, 70; Celine Dion, 47

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Discipline and hard work will take you far today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You love to have a goal or a vi-sion that you are working to-wards. 2016 is the year to pace yourself and learn to delegate, otherwise you’ll run out of steam.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t be a flash-in-the-pan Aries! While you’re fab-ulous at starting projects, make sure your promises and good intentions can last the distance, so that you ac-tually finish what you begin.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You won’t improve your financial situation by thinking small. Creative brainstorming and joint ventures will help you find novel ways to make money, but it won’t happen overnight. You must be pa-tient.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Mercury/Saturn trine is fabulous for taking creative ideas and turning them into practical and pro-ductive projects. It will take hard work and plenty of time, but is worth the extra effort.

CANCER (June 21-Ju-ly 22): The stars highlight health issues so stop crawl-ing along in cruise control Crabs! It’s time to call in some professional help and advice, as you overhaul your daily diet and restructure your exercise routine.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The planets activate your ad-venturous and ambitious side but slow down before you come a cropper Lions! Task-master Saturn encourages you to back up your enthu-siastic ideas with a practical plan.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re at your brilliant Virgo best as the stars boost your brain power and meticu-lous attention to detail. So it’s a great day to power through paperwork, do research, edit work and fine-tune details.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With the Sun shining in your relationship zone, get up-close-and-personal with loved ones. But avoid being a lackadaisical Libran. Being proactive about solving prob-lems is the key to positive partnerships.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Spending sprees are a danger, as your wish list dwarfs your current bank bal-ance. Under the cautionary influence of Saturn, avoid using credit and don’t spend money until you have actual-ly made it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Hey Sagittari-us - don’t sit around waiting for your fortunes to magically change. With practical, per-sistent Saturn moving slowly through your sign, it’s time to

roll up your sleeves and get the job done!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re keen to power ahead with a personal or domestic project but Saturn has other ideas! There’s a lot

going on behind the scenes so you need to do your homework, plus be patient and persistent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be realistic and practical about the way you communicate today. When dealing with a fractious fam-ily member, you’ll find a little sugar-coating helps convey your message in a more pos-itive way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be shy. With mighty Mars moving through your work zone, be more proactive about showing oth-ers what you are capable of. Confidence is the rocket fuel that will take you places Pi-sces!

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For the past two years, she has had an abusive boyfriend who also encour-aged her drug use. He broke up with her before she entered the facility, but I just discovered that she has been calling him.

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This is probably against the rules, in which case, they would take away her phone privileges. Ask the facility for help with the drug dealers. This could be dangerous.

Then contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) and ask for their help in disentangling your daughter from her abusive relation-ship. This is not going to be easy, Mom. We hope you can transmit some of your strength to your daughter.

Dear Annie: I am writing about the responses to “Please Leave Animals at Home.”

I am touched by the people who wrote in support of service animals. I know firsthand the independence they bring through their trained skills. I have been using a service dog since 2001.

However, I feel it is important to correct some information that these supporters mentioned.

Service animals are defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. They include only dogs or miniature horses. They must have a trained skill that

is directly related to the individual’s disability. Emotional support and com-panionship are NOT service dog skills.

Service animals are allowed in all places the public is allowed to go. They are to be under control of their handler and working when in public. Stores cannot require that they ride in shopping carts.

When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, only limited inqui-ries are allowed. Two questions may be asked: (1) Is the dog a service ani-mal required because of a disability, and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform. You cannot ask about the person’s disability or demand medical documentation, nor can you ask that the dog demonstrate its ability.

Service animals are not required to wear special vests or tags. But they must be harnessed, leashed or teth-ered, unless this interferes with the animal’s work.

The team should have good public behavior. Allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying ac-cess or refusing service to people us-ing service animals.

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Dear Kristin Hartness: We appre-ciate your clarifying the difference between trained service animals and emotional support animals. Thank you for writing.

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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