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‘Why would a man do this to a woman?’

Marlene Bird, 48, struggles with every day tasks since she was attacked and set on fire in Saskatchewan nearly one year ago.

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‘Everything has itsignition point’

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

A Red Deer fire prevention officer has not come across a blazing smartphone in his 30 years on the job.

But Wes Van Bavel says it is not as odd as it might seem.

He said lithium-ion batteries, which power cell-phones, have the potential to overheat and start a fire, especially when placed under something like a pillow or when leaning against something.

“Everything has its ignition point,” he said. “If that product gets to ignition point, yeah it can start a fire.”

A Rimbey teenager was badly burned after his iP-hone 5c caught fire while he was sleeping late Sun-day night. His phone was charging on a night stand next to his bed.

Van Bavel said it takes quite a bit of heat for that product to break down and start liberating the gases that burn.

“That phone would have to had to really be hot to start heating a product up to get to that point to ignite its gases,” said Van Bavel. “Who knows? We would have to do an investigation.”

But he said anything can happen when you are talking electronics, including product malfunction.

He said some people tamper with their devices to ‘jailbreak’ (modify the operating system), replace batteries and fix problems.

The user or the manufacturer could be the culprit in this case.

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A Red Deer Emergency Services fire medic douses a blaze at Clayton Park apartments on 3039-49 Ave on Thursday afternoon.

Fire guts apartment; mother, daughter left homeless

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

A woman and her adult daughter are homeless after a fire gutted their two-bedroom apartment on Thursday afternoon.

Red Deer Emergency Services crews responded to the blaze at Clayton Park Apartments at 3039 49 Ave. around 3:50 p.m.

Platoon chief Gord Klootwyk said crews arrived to find flames and smoke billowing out of the corner apartment on the first floor.

“It took a little over 10 minutes for a quick knock down,” he said.

The fire did not spread to surrounding apartments but caused minor damage to the suite above on the second floor.

The two residents were taken to Red Deer Region-al Hospital Centre with undetermined injuries.

A small crowd gathered within minutes to watch the crews battle the fire. There are 30 suites in the three-storey building with close to 40 residents.

There did not appear to be many people at home at the time.

Fire medics went door-to-door to ask residents to leave while they worked.

A city bus was available for residents to take shel-ter at the Black Knight Inn parking lot. Residents were allowed to return home within a few hours.

Heather Handford, who co-manages Clayton Park Apartments, said the mother and her daughter have lived in the building for about a year.

Greyhound sorry for leaving teen at side of highwayBY MURRAY CRAWFORD

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Alone after being left on the side of the Hwy 2 after getting on the wrong bus by mistake, a terrified Red Deer teen trudged through the ditch to safety.

Leslie Schafer said her daughter Alison had makeup all down her face and red eyes when she came to rescue her about 3:30 p.m.

“She was shaking, just terrified,” said Schafer. “I was crying while I was driving to get her.

“It’s not a good highway, it’s not very safe. There are so many what ifs about what could have hap-pened.”

A Greyhound spokesperson said they sincerely apologize for the incident. And the company said it has apologized to the family and will provide travel vouchers.

An experienced bus rider, Alison regularly takes a bus to Calgary to visit her father.

On May 1, she got on the Greyhound bus that the 16-year-old thought was going to Calgary. Before she got on board, she asked the driver if it was the Cal-gary bus and he told her it was. She handed him her Calgary ticket and boarded.

Everything seemed normal as the bus headed to-wards 32nd Street and onto Hwy 2.

But the bus turned north towards Edmonton in-stead of south.

Alison turned to a fellow passenger and asked her if they were on the Calgary bus. The passenger told

her she was on the Edmonton bus.She went to the bus driver and said she got on the

wrong bus and asked to be let off.Alison asked the driver to let her off just a short

distance up the road at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. This request was denied.

The bus stopped a little further along and Alison was left on the side of Hwy 2, alone, terrified and in tears.

She walked five to 10 minutes to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and waited for her mother to pick her up.

“She phoned me just sobbing,” said Schafer. “She didn’t know where she was, she saw a building up ahead but didn’t know what it was. Just from her de-scribing what she was seeing, I was able to figure out where she was.

“I drove to Heritage Ranch and walked over to the museum to pick her up. She was so upset.”

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IPHONE: ‘Don’t be afraidto plug it in’

Van Bavel estimated that fewer than three per cent of all fires in Alberta are electrical in nature.

“It’s very rare,” he said. “We just don’t have out-lets or wiring in homes starting on fire. Usually it is an appliance or something plugged into (the outlet).”

Recently a fire at a Red Deer restaurant started when a cooler was pushed against a plug in the wall, dislodging it so that some combustibles caught on fire.

“It was an electrical fire but it was an accident,” he said. “It was a user fault. When we get to these electronics, it’s rare that we come across these things.”

Users should not be worried about plugging in their devices overnight or for long periods of time, he said.

“Follow your manufacturer’s recommendations

with any device you buy,” he said. “If your cellphone company says do not plug it unattended, I would be surprised.”

Van Bavel encourages people to use ULC or CSA-rated accessories to go with the devices.

“There should not be any products sold in Canada that are not ULC or CSA rated,” said Van Bavel. “The knockoffs are fine to use as long as they meet those ULC or CSA ratings, which they all should.”

He doesn’t suggest putting the devices under pil-lows or blankets while charging.

But, “Don’t be afraid to plug it in,” he [email protected]

FIRE: Crews had easyaccess to blaze

Handford was just exiting the building when she noticed the smoke.

“I saw this pitch black smoke,” she said. “I thought where the heck is that coming from? I thought my tree was going to start on fire.”

Handford said the apartments rugs were recently shampooed and the building was renovated.

Klootwyk said the good news is the apartment was on the first floor which meant crews that easy access to fight the fire.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. [email protected]

GREYHOUND: Safety ofcustomers key

In an emailed statement, a Greyound spokesper-son said the safety of customers is the cornerstone of their business.

“We take incidents such as this very seriously. We strive to provide an overall great travel experience and this is not representative of that commitment to our customers,” read the email.

“We are currently looking into exactly what hap-pened and why proper procedure may not have been followed.”

Schafer said she called the local Greyhound sta-tion and corporate offices to make a complaint over the incident.

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City of Red Deer Emergency Services personnel clean up the scene of a two vehicle collision Thursday afternoon at the corner of Gillespie Cres. and 59th Avenue. The female driver of this overturned SUV was taken to hospital with undetermined injuries. The occupants of the second car were not injured in the incident.

Inquest into fatal mill blast in B.C. makes 33 recommendationsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A coroner’s inquest into a deadly mill explosion in northern British Colum-bia has suggested that the RCMP develop a policy for investigating criminal negligence in the workplace as one of 33 recommendations aimed at preventing similar disasters.

A five-person jury made the recommendations af-ter eight hours of deliberations on Thursday but ul-timately concluded that the fatal 2012 blast at Lake-land Mills in Prince George, B.C., was accidental.

Accidental means the deaths were the result of unintended or unexpected events.

Workers Alan Little and Glenn Roche died from severe burns suffered during the Apr. 23 explosion, while more than 20 others were injured, many seri-ously.

The outcome brought little satisfaction to Roche’s widow, Ronda Roche, who continued to call for a full public inquiry into the disaster at Lakeland Mills and into a similar explosion that levelled Babine Forest Products near Burns Lake on Jan. 20, 2012.

That blast also killed two people and injured more than 20 others.

“It is unfortunate that these proceedings did not assign fault or accountability,” said Roche. “It has been an emotional journey for myself, my family and the injured workers.”

She said the inquest confirmed many of her suspi-cions, from a decline in the level of the mill’s clean-liness to running new equipment without installing accompanying waste disposal systems to manage-ment ignoring employees’ concerns.

Most importantly, said Roche, management “found it reasonable to run a third shift without properly as-sessing the changes in the work environment, which ultimately led to excessive amounts of fuel within the facility.”

The recommendations are directed at a variety of agencies, including WorkSafeBC, the RCMP, the Steelworkers Union, the mill owners and govern-ment.

They included the recommendation that the BC Ambulance Service conduct a review to ensure time-ly response, and for government to ensure that any mill construction or upgrade is made to the highest possible standard.

Public, Catholic school boards

hike busing feesBY SUSAN ZIELINSKI

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Free school bus rides will soon end for Red Deer elementary school students who live 1.6 to 2.4 km from their designated school.

Starting in the fall, both Red Deer Public Schools and Red Deer Regional Catholic Schools will charge a $150 annual busing fee to students in kindergarten to Grade 5.

The new $150 fee will also apply to elementary students attending Red Deer Catholic schools in other communities.

Elementary students with Red Deer Public who live more than 2.4 km from their designated school will also be charged a new $75 fee.

Both jurisdictions approved new fees to supple-ment provincial transportation funding. They re-ceive a $460 grant per student only for those who live 2.4 km or further from their designated school.

Red Deer Public is facing a $378,952 transporta-tion deficit.

“It’s not just a problem that’s here in Red Deer. It’s a problem that’s everywhere in the province. We’ve been underfunded on transportation for some time now. We’re been absorbing those costs and we can’t do it anymore,” said Bev Manning, Red Deer Public board chair, on Thursday.

To address the funding shortfall, Red Deer Public will also increase the price of subsidized busing on Red Deer Transit for Grade 6 to 12 students who live more than 2.4 km from their designated school. The fee rises to $75 from $30 per year.

And more of the district’s school buses will serve more than one school to reduce expenses. That will involve adjusting class start and/or dismissal times by five to 15 minutes, depending on the school.

To reduce costs by $162,000, buses will do double shifts at Westpark Middle School, Annie L. Gaetz El-ementary School, Joseph Welsh Elementary School and Ecole Barrie Wilson Elementary School.

“It’s a good, cost-effective way of saving some money. It’s a fairly commonly used practice,” Man-ning said.

Red Deer Public trustees approved the transpor-tation changes at a school board meeting on Wednes-day.

Manning said no complaints were brought forward at the meeting.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t some concern out there. We’re keeping our ears to the ground and we’re prepared to respond to parents should they have some concerns or questions.”

Both Red Deer Public and Catholic have transpor-tation fee waiver programs for parents experiencing financial difficulties.

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Man charged in stabbing deaths of 3 people in Alberta knew victims: police

LETHBRIDGE — Police say an Alberta man ac-cused of killing three people was facing charges of assault and threats against one victim at the time of the deaths.

On April 28, police found the bodies of Kyle Devine, 27, Clarissa English, 24, and Dakota English 18, in a townhouse in the west end of Lethbridge.

Police allege the accused was known to all three victims and had been in their company prior to their deaths.

An autopsy found the three died from multiple stab wounds.

Austin Lane Vielle (VEE-ell), who is 21, has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder.

At the time of the deaths, Vielle was out on bail charged with assault with a weapon and uttering threats against Devine earlier in April.

One of the bail conditions was that he have no contact with Devine.

The day after the deaths, police arrested Vielle and charged him with breaching his conditions.

On Wednesday, police arrested Vielle at the Leth-bridge Correctional Centre and charged him Thurs-day in the deaths.

He remains in custody and will appear in court in Lethbridge on May 21.

Officials say bridge girders that had buckled will now be safe

EDMONTON — The City of Edmonton says engi-neers have assured them they won’t have to replace girders that buckled during the construction of a new bridge back in March.

A city spokesman says crews were able to straight-en out the girders and they will be completely safe.

Byron Nicholson says the city has “received docu-mentation” that the bridge over Groat Road should

be good for at least 75 years.An investigation into the root cause of the original

incident is expected to be complete by the end of the month.

Nicholson says the project would have been de-layed a lot longer if the city had to replace the gird-ers.

He says they’re still waiting for an updated sched-ule for the bridge’ completion, but says they’re hap-py to be back on track.

“As soon as they took those girders down, they took them to the shop, started analyzing right then,” said Nicholson. “Those folks have been working around the clock and we thank them for that.”

Two killed in collision north of StettlerTwo drivers died in a two-vehicle collision north

of Stettler on Wednesday afternoon.Stettler RCMP responded at 2:45 p.m. to the crash

scene located 15 km north of Stettler on Hwy 56.Police say a northbound SUV crossed the centre

line and struck a southbound minivan nearly head-on.

The drivers, an elderly man and a middle-aged man, died of their injuries.

A passenger in the minivan was in serious condi-tion when transported by STARS air ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

Police say alcohol and road conditions were not factors in the crash, which is still under investiga-tion. RCMP will not be releasing names of those in-volved in the collision.

Mexican national living in southern Alberta extradited to U.S. in drug case

LETHBRIDGE — A Mexican national who has been living in Lethbridge has been sent back to the United States to answer to drug trafficking charges.

Javier Batista Cervantes was handed over to U.S. marshalls in Calgary earlier this week and flown to Colorado where he is wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on charges in an international drug importation opera-tion.

Police allege Cer-vantes, 35, is a cartel-connected fugitive who

was indicted in 2010 with six others for the importa-tion of cocaine from Colorado to Canada.

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Tory party humbled by loss: PrenticeBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Outgoing Alberta Premier Jim Pren-tice says the Progressive Conservative party has been “humbled” by the message sent by voters in the recent provincial election.

“We are disappointed and we are saddened,” Prentice said of party’s loss to the NDP, which ended the Tories’ long stretch in power. “Certainly I made mistakes. And there can be no doubt that 44 years was indeed a long time. However, the sun will shine again.”

Until his speech at Thursday night’s annual lead-er’s dinner in Calgary, Prentice hadn’t spoken pub-licly since the May 5 vote, when he immediately re-signed both his seat and the party leadership.

He said he takes full responsibility for the party’s failure — the Tories came into the election with 70 seats and were left with only 10 when it was done. Prentice was widely criticized during the campaign for an unpopular budget and for going to the polls a year early.

“I accept responsibility for the fact that we were unable to convince Albertans of the merit of our plan,” he told party faithful. “Ultimately the plan we put forward alienated both public-sector stakehold-ers who thought it too aggressive and Conservative voters who thought it not aggressive enough.

“The voters are always right and they have chosen a different path than we advocated.”

It was a subdued audience. There were 1,550 tick-ets sold at $500 apiece for the event, but far fewer than that actually showed up Thursday night.

“This is obviously not an easy night for anyone,” admitted Prentice. “It is especially difficult for me. I will carry those decisions and the electoral conse-quences of it for the rest of my life.”

The former federal cabinet minister said he is done with public life but intends to stick around as a volunteer in years to come.

He acknowledged there is a need for changes within the PC party going forward.

“We must learn from this experience and make changes to our party,” he said. “The public will never entrust a party that is preoccupied with its own internal matters and personalities at the very moment it should have only one concern, namely the

best interests of the province.“We have all learned a lesson. We will re-emerge.

And when we do, we will be more humble, wiser and better grounded.”

Interim PC Leader Ric McIver told the crowd he was not about to “sugarcoat” where the party stands.

“We’re in the penalty box,” he said. “You know how I can tell? Because when we sat on the player’s bench there was a lot more of us around.

“The people of Alberta have spoken. We need to respect their decision. No one has a divine right to govern.”

McIver issued an unflattering description of the job the Progressive Conservative party did in the lead-up to the election.

He said they were too quick to blame others and too slow to take responsibility for Alberta’s “fiscal mess.”

“We were too quick to raise taxes on Albertans and too slow to cut spending in our government,” he said. “We were too quick to talk and too slow to lis-ten. At times we were arrogant and complacent and we forgot how to apologize and mean it.”

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Outgoing Premier Jim Prentice waves during applause at the Alberta Progressive Conservatives Dinner in Calgary, Alberta on Thursday.

ALBERTABRIEFS

Can Barb Miller really speak for the peopleof Red Deer South?Congratulations to Barb

Miller for being elected to Red Deer South with almost 36 per cent of the popular vote.

The Advocate quoted her say-ing, “It means I can speak for the people now. I can be the voice for the people of Red Dee South.”

But wait a minute. Red Deer South voted over 52 per cent in favour of the right-wing parties — the PCs and Wildrose.

Does that mean a clear ma-jority of the constituents are not in favour of the left-wing policies of the NDP?

I believe it does.So how is Miller going to

speak for the majority of the constituents of Red Deer South?

Red Deer North is in a simi-lar position with the NDP sup-port at 30 per cent and right-wing support at 47 per cent, with 21 per cent for the centre Liberals.

So democracy has done its job and I fear for the near fu-ture of Alberta.

Doug DeWittRed Deer

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BY PAUL KERSHAWSPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Alberta’s recently-elected NDP en-joyed more support among younger Al-bertans than any other party, accord-ing to polls. Perhaps these younger vot-ers had a hand in deciding the historic result.

There is some irony, then, that the NDP platform will substantially grow spending on retirees, while doing much less to address challenges faced by those under 45. Such generational disparity in provincial budgeting actu-ally worsens the pattern of the former governing party, the Progressive Con-servatives.

Under the PCs, Alberta had the largest age gap in social spending in Canada. The bulk of Alberta’s 2015-16 spending is delivered through health care ($18.9 billion), education ($7.5 bil-lion), post-secondary education ($5.8 billion) and human services, including services for the elderly, disabled and social assistance ($4.2 billion).

Of this money, approximately $17,129 was budgeted for each Alber-tan age 65 plus. Only $7,489 is spent on each Albertan under 45.

Premier-elect Rachel Notley plans to grow this age gap. Her platform in-creases yearly spending per retiree to more than $18,000, while leaving spending on those under 45 around $7,800. Alberta will soon spend $3,000 more per senior than Saskatchewan, the next most generous province, and $7,000 more than British Columbia. All the while, Alberta will spend less than Saskatchewan per younger citizen, and only moderately more than B.C.

No political party in Alberta, or elsewhere in Canada, breaks down spending by age. Notley may not yet recognize that the NDP aspiration to grow medical care spending faster than other parties without growing revenue by a corresponding amount disadvantages younger citizens.

First, 41 per cent of the NDP’s pro-posed $20-billion health-care budget will go to services for the 11.5 per cent of the population age 65 plus. Medical spending on retirees adds up to more than Notley’s entire kindergarten to Grade 12 budget; one-third more than the entire post-secondary budget; and nearly double the entire human ser-vices budget.

Such health spending might be jus-tifiable if Albertans were getting bang

for the buck, because we want the best for our aging parents and grandpar-ents. Alas, evidence shows Canadi-ans spend more on medical care than many other rich countries, but get only middling or below average access to doctors, CT scans, MRIs and patient satisfaction. All the while, doctors get above average remuneration.

Revenue is the second problem with the NDP approach to medical care, re-peating a longstanding pattern in Ca-nadian politics. People age 65 and old-er grew from nine per cent of Canada’s population in 1976 to 15 per cent today, provincial and federal governments added $32.5 billion in annual medical care spending for this age group. But governments did not increase revenue to pay for it.

Instead, governments held inflation-adjusted post-secondary spending rela-tively constant since 1976, even though twice as many young people pursue extra education to compete for jobs. Similarly, governments didn’t build a child care system, even though young Alberta women increased their labour force participation by 42 per cent.

The NDP platform continues the national tradition of making tradeoffs between medical care spending for

retirees and investments in services that younger Albertans need more and more. A year from now, the NDP an-ticipates collecting an extra $815 mil-lion in revenue. More than 80 per cent will fund their commitment to even more medical care services for retir-ees, leaving little left over.

Small wonder Notley’s platform budgets only modest extra spend-ing for grade school, post-secondary or child care by comparison with her health-care increases.

In this, she aligns with the federal NDP. Federal Leader Thomas Mulcair is running on a platform that would en-trench the same generational inequity.

The Alberta election proved big political change is possible — inspir-ing evidence for younger Canadians who deserve a better deal from politi-cal parties. To get this better deal, we need to build a lobby to influence all parties well in advance of voting day. That’s the only way we will get politi-cal alternatives that don’t grow inter-generational unfairness.

Paul Kershaw is the founder of Gen-eration Squeeze, and a policy professor in the University of B.C. School of Popula-tion Health. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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BY MARK MILKESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

In a famous explanation of why voters choose the governments they do, a 1990s-era adviser to Bill Clin-ton remarked, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

That’s not wholly accurate; voters toss parties out (and vote parties in) on matters other than unemploy-ment rates and incomes. The recent Alberta election is only the most obvious example.

Nonetheless, economic facts matter, at least to anyone not independently wealthy and who needs a job and income.

Here I will purposely note the 1994-2013 period, because Alberta’s NDP campaigned on a platform to reverse many of the policies implemented in those two decades — restrained government spending (the first decade), lower business taxes, moderate royal-ties, and reduced and flatter provincial personal income taxes (the second decade).

The following then is a reasonable standard by which the new government can be measured in fu-ture years.

Economic growth: Between 1994 and 2013, Al-berta’s economy grew faster than any province in 10 of those 20 years; Saskatchewan recorded six first place finishes, British Columbia was tops twice and Ontario once. (In one year, 2009, every province was in recession.)

Over the 1994-2013 period, Alberta’s annual aver-age GDP growth was 3.6 per cent — much higher than the national average of 2.7 per cent. Alberta thus al-

so trumped Ontario and Quebec (2.7 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively) and other western provinces such as British Columbia and Saskatchewan (2.6 per cent each) and Manitoba (2.5 per cent).

Private-sector investment: Between 1994 and 2013, Alberta topped the charts with private-sector invest-ment (non-residential). Of the almost $2.9 trillion in private-sector investment in all 10 provinces. Al-berta attracted $893 billion, or 31 per cent. The next largest destination for private investment: Ontario, $743 billion or 26 per cent.

Those big numbers are why per worker, private-sector investment in Alberta topped every other province.

On an annual average between 1994 and 2013, Alberta per worker private investment was $37,285, followed by Saskatchewan ($29,024), and Newfound-land and Labrador ($23,303). Alberta tripled British Columbia ($12,116) and Manitoba ($12,080); Alberta easily beat Ontario ($9,132) and Quebec ($8,836).

All that private-sector investment in Alberta drove down unemployment. Between 1994 and 2013, Alberta had the lowest average annual unemploy-ment rate in the country, at just 5.4 per cent. That was followed by Saskatchewan (5.5 per cent), Mani-toba (5.6 per cent), British Columbia (7.4 per cent), Ontario (7.5 per cent) and Quebec (9.1 per cent) with Atlantic Canada much higher still.

Population growth: Unlike some provinces, Al-berta’s unemployment rate was not the result of working-age people leaving the province. Rather, the opposite was true.

Between 1994 and 2014, those in the 15 to 64 cohort

increased by 59 per cent in Alberta. Compare that to British Columbia and Ontario (28 per cent), Sas-katchewan (19 per cent), Manitoba (18 per cent) and Quebec (12 per cent).

It’s vital to note that Alberta’s prosperity did not result from permanently high oil and gas prices. Over the last two decades, the province prospered through high and low commodity prices.

From 1994 to 1999, oil prices were as low as $11.35 a barrel and as high as $26.10. In the 2000s, oil prices never reached where they are today (about $60) until 2005.

Natural gas prices were similarly low for extend-ed periods before a few sharp increases coupled with the recent steep drops.

Also, the mere presence of oil and gas doesn’t guarantee prosperity. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec all have decent oil and gas reserves but choose to block most development. Internationally, Venezuela has plenty of oil and plenty of poverty.

There’s a reason why Alberta has prospered: in part, mostly smart policy on royalty rates, taxes and regulation (and in part the “boring” necessities such as rule of law, property rights and other foundational elements for prosperity that are generally common Canada-wide).

If the new NDP government in Alberta wants to help Albertans prosper, the above-noted statistics and successes should remain in mind. All those posi-tive numbers didn’t occur by accident.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troyme-dia.com).

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OTTAWA — The federal information commis-sioner says the Conservative government is setting a “perilous precedent” by retroactively rewriting Canada’s access-to-information law to absolve the RCMP of wrongdoing.

Suzanne Legault says if the government is allowed to retroactively change the law, there’s nothing pre-venting parliamentarians from rewriting election laws to stop cheaters from being prosecuted.

A special report tabled in Parliament on Thursday reveals Legault recommended almost two months ago that charges be laid against the RCMP for its role in withholding and destroying gun registry data.

But instead of Justice Minister Peter MacKay moving on the recommendation to lay charges, the Harper government rewrote the law, backdated the changes and buried the amendment in an omnibus budget bill last week.

Legault said the issue goes far beyond the now-defunct gun registry.

“We could do the same thing after investigat-ing potential electoral fraud. We could erase these things retroactively,” she said in an interview.

Or the former Liberal government, she said, could have stripped auditor general Sheila Fraser of her investigative power at the height of the sponsorship scandal.

“This is the kind of precedent that we are propos-ing to set with these proposed amendments. Now that is why this matter is very serious,” said Legault.

She said each member of Parliament “is going to have to look themselves in the mirror and decide whether they can, in their own integrity, actually vote in favour of those proposed amendments.”

Legault filed a suit Thursday in Federal Court in an effort to pre-serve the rights of the complainant in the case, who had been seeking copies of the now-de-funct, long-gun registry.

In a letter to the Speakers of both the House of Commons and

the Senate, Legault said she was submitting her spe-cial report “in the hopes that parliamentarians will carefully consider the implications of Bill C-59,” the omnibus budget implementation bill.

The RCMP responded to the report by stating it felt it had fully complied with provisions of the Ac-cess to Information Act.

“The RCMP would vigorously defend against any accusation of unlawful conduct in respect of the han-dling of this Access to Information request,” spokes-man Sgt. Harold Pfleiderer said in an email.

Under the provisions in Bill C-59, the Mounties won’t have to defend anything.

The omnibus budget bill exempts any “request, complaint, investigation, application, judicial re-view, appeal or other proceeding under the Access to Information Act or the Privacy Act,” related to those old records.

Legault revealed that this is the fourth time she has recommended to the attorney general of Canada that there are grounds for criminal charges under the Access to Information Act.

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Khadr not an adult offender, says top court


OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada wasted no time Thursday as it summarily rejected the feder-al government’s bid to have former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr declared an adult offender.

The case — the third time the Khadr file has come before the high court — centred on whether the eight-year war-crimes sentence he got from a U.S. military commission in 2010 ought to be interpreted as a youth or adult sentence.

The federal government has argued the latter, say-ing Khadr actually received five concurrent eight-year terms for each of his five war crimes — a con-clusion the nine justices rejected in a rare decision from the bench.

“The sentence is under the minimum for an adult sentence,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin told the court after about 30 minutes of midday deliberations that immediately followed the end of the hearing.

“We are of the view that a proper interpretation of the relevant legislation does not permit Mr. Khadr’s eight-year sentence to be treated as five distinct eight-year sentences to be served concurrently.”

McLachlin ordered the appeal dismissed with costs, and confirmed the earlier order of the Alberta Court of Appeal that Khadr’s sentence should be served in a provincial facility.

Dennis Edney, the lawyer with whom the 28-year-old Khadr lives in Edmonton under strict bail condi-tions, said the swiftness of the ruling was a message to the Harper government for wasting taxpayer mon-ey on “persecuting my client.”

Standing in the vast marble foyer of the country’s highest court, Edney repeated the accusation that he first levelled at Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week.

“I come to the conclusion ... Mr. Harper is a big-ot,” he said. “Mr. Harper doesn’t like Muslims and there’s evidence to show that.”

Tories setting‘perilous precedent’INFORMATION COMMISSIONER WANTS MOUNTIES CHARGED;

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— SUZANNE LEGAULTFEDERAL INFORMATION COMMISSIONER

Brazeau’s accuser grilled at sex assault trial

GATINEAU, Que. — The defence attorney for suspended senator Pat-rick Brazeau grilled the Crown’s main witness at his client’s criminal trial Thursday as he resumed his determined effort to find gaps in her story.

Brazeau, back in court after a six-week break, is facing charges of assault and sexual assault aris-ing from an alleged inci-dent two years ago in the Quebec city of Gatineau. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Brazeau was kicked out of the Conservative caucus shortly after his arrest.

The female complain-ant, whose identity is protected by a publica-tion ban, has alleged that Brazeau pushed her down some stairs, hit her head against a wall and a staircase, spat on her and sexually assaulted her.

Earlier in the trial, defence lawyer Gerard Larocque suggested to the court that the woman started the physical confrontation that led to Brazeau’s arrest — accusing her of hitting Brazeau with her hand and a bra.

Brazeau’s lawyer has indicated his cli-ent plans to testify in his own defence — an appearance that could come next Tuesday. The judge-alone trial is taking place entirely in French.

On Thursday, the senator’s accuser was back on the stand for a fifth day.

She faced a scatter-shot cross-examination by Larocque, who picked up where he left off when the case was last heard April 2. The ex-tended delay in court dates was caused by scheduling conflicts.

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RCMP charged with labour violations in relation to

deaths of Moncton officersMONCTON, N.B. — Nearly a year

after three RCMP officers were mur-dered in Moncton by a lone gunman, the police force has been charged with four labour code violations in relation to the incident.

The Employment and Social Devel-opment Canada investigation alleges there were violations of the code relat-ing to the force’s equipment, training and supervision in the June 4 case that terrorized the New Brunswick city.

Justin Bourque murdered consta-bles Doug Larche, Fabrice Gevaudan and Dave Ross, and constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were wounded in the young man’s rampage through the city’s north end.

Bourque was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 75 years in October after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

A review of the shootings said offi-cers responding to the shootings faced a litany of problems that included communicating accurate information, accessing high-powered weaponry and securing protective equipment.

Commissioner Bob Paulson says the police force is considering the sub-stance of the labour code charges and reviewing what actions it will take.

He says further comment is inap-propriate as the matter is before the courts.

Bourque used a semi-automatic rifle to shoot the five officers in the

city’s north end, and set off a 30-hour manhunt that drew in officers from around the region.

Top court says it won’t hear appeal in B.C. ferry sinking

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has abruptly ended the legal campaign of a man who was at the helm of a British Columbia ferry that slammed into an island and sank.

The high court announced Thurs-day that it would not hear the appeal of Karl Lilgert’s convictions on two counts of criminal negligence causing death.

Lilgert was convicted by a jury in 2013 and sentenced to four years for the deaths of Gerald Foisy and Shirley Rosette, who disappeared when the ship went down in March 2006.

He had been free while appealing the case and turned himself in last December when the B.C. Appeal Court unanimously rejected his case.

As usual, the Supreme Court of Canada gave no reasons for not hear-ing the appeal.

Youth representative criticizes B.C. government for aboriginal teen’s death

VANCOUVER — She was found unconscious on sidewalks and transit buses. Once, paramedics pulled her from a basement with a 14-year-old friend who was naked and covered in blood. A police officer warned she may be hurt or killed while drunk.

These are just a few of the horrific incidents documented by a report ex-amining the life and death of Paige, a 19-year-old legally blind aboriginal girl who overdosed in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.


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VANCOUVER — A British Colum-bia couple accused of plotting to blow up the provincial legislature has been found not guilty of one among four charges even before a trial concludes.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Cathe-rine Bruce told jurors that due to legal reasons they will not need to make a decision on count three of the indict-ment — knowingly facilitating a terror-ist activity.

“You will not be required to come to a decision about the guilt or inno-cence of the accused on this count in the indictment,” Bruce said Thursday, a week after jurors were last in court for the trial that began in February.

“You must accept as matter of law that the accused cannot be convicted of this charge and you must not specu-late as to why this has occurred.”

John Nuttall and Amanda Korody pleaded not guilty to a total of four charges. The remaining charges are conspiring to commit murder, conspir-ing to place explosives on behalf of a terrorist group and possessing explo-sives on behalf of a terrorist group.

They are accused of planting three homemade pressure-cooker bombs on the grounds of the legislature on Cana-da Day in 2013.

Outside court, Crown lawyer Peter Eccles said each charge stands on its own and the ruling makes the jury’s job a little easier.

“It’s not anything I’d be upset about, it’s a matter of law,” he said. “And it makes sense.”

After the judge’s ruling, defence lawyer Marilyn Sandford opened her case by presenting several audio and

video clips not included during weeks of evidence displayed by the Crown.

The jury spent several weeks watch-ing an extensive series of videos cap-tured by undercover RCMP officers involved in an elaborate police sting that ultimately led to the charges.

Most of the recordings showed se-cretly captured conversations between the couple when they were alone, but in one excerpt that ran just over an hour they are seen discussing their plans with one of the officers.

In a video that was recorded on June 17, 2013 in a Kelowna, B.C., hotel room, he asked the pair if they have a “real plan.”

“Something realistic that you’re go-ing to do? Or not?” said the Mountie they believed was part of the plot.

Nuttall replied that their plan is what they’ve told him about — firing rockets from a school field in Victoria towards the Esquimalt, B.C., military base.

“I just think that I’m not going to even worry about that because that would take forever,” the officer re-sponded.

Korody said they realize it will take a lot of preparation work, including joining a rocket-building club and ob-taining explosives. She said they have thought about dropping pressure-cook-er bombs around Victoria as practice to gauge the reaction time by police.

The officer responded to the latter idea, saying, “That’s doable. It’ll send a great message.”

Neither Nuttall nor Korody are ex-pected to testify, and their lawyer said she will not be calling any witnesses.

Closing arguments are expected to start May 25, and the judge is set to charge the jury on May 27.


Anti-abortionists march through the downtown core following a rally on Parliament Hill Thursday in Ottawa.

CANADABRIEFS Friendly-fire reports expose

weakness of Kurdish forcesBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The friendly-fire death of Sgt. Andrew Doiron may have been a tragic mistake, but it serves to illus-trate the shaky state of Kurdish forces and just how much additional training they need, defence experts say.

Both the Canadian military and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have gone out of their way to showcase the tenacity and bravery of peshmerga fighters, who last summer halted the advance of extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant just out-side the city of Irbil.

But details gleaned from heavily censored reports into Doiron’s March

6 death indicate the formation, while courageous, amounts to little more than a popular militia, said retired col-onel George Petrolekas of the Confer-ence of Defence Associations Institute.

“They are not ready for prime time,” Petrolekas said. “It calls into question how ready they are for battle and to take back a place like Mosul.”

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MONTREAL LAKE, Sask. — Morning is the most difficult time for Marlene Bird — she just wants to climb out of bed and make a pot of coffee.

But the 48-year-old struggles with every-day tasks since she was attacked and set on fire in northern Saskatchewan nearly one year ago.

Bird, who had been homeless for several years, was burned so badly that doctors had to amputate both her legs. She has also had several surgeries for skin grafts and there are more surgeries to come.

A cut to Bird’s face stretches from her eyelid to her shattered nose. An operation is set for next month on one of her eyes that will hopefully improve the double-vision that leaves her feeling dizzy.

“Why would a man do this to a woman?” Bird says in an interview with radio station CKBI.

Leslie Black, 29, pleaded guilty last month to the attempted murder of Bird.

A judge ordered the man remain in custody and undergo a psychiatric assessment. He is be back in a Prince Albert courtroom June 26.

“I’m feeling glad that he admitted it,” Bird says.She wasn’t able to attend the last court appear-

ance and says she heard about the plea on the news. She had attended court on an earlier date, hoping Black would see her, but he wasn’t there.

“I really wanted him to see my situation and my wheelchair — no legs.”

June 1 will mark one year since Bird was found clinging to life in a parking lot outside a community centre in downtown Prince Albert.

“Help me, help me,” she told one of the first peo-ple who discovered her battered body.

There was an outpouring of support for Bird around the globe and a local shelter set up a trust fund that has helped cover her medical costs and some living expenses.

Bird moved from Prince Albert into a home on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation with her long-time partner, Patrick Lavallee, who has been helping her navigate her new life in a wheelchair.

Lavallee says the crime has left his spouse with “a life sentence without legs. And there is no chance of parole to ever get her real legs back.”

It was necessary for them to move to the reserve north of the city, says Bird, away from some of her

friends and easy access to alcohol.Bird, a chronic alcoholic, still struggles with her

addiction, she says.“It’s easy for me to have temptations.”An addictions counsellor on the reserve is trying

to get her into a treatment program, she says. Mean-while, she relies on help every day from Lavallee, her grown daughters and her mother.

“My mom helps me lots,” Bird says. “She keeps telling me to pray, pray before I go to bed, because I tell her about my frustrations.”

Bird says she’s also hopes to find to an elder who is disabled to talk with, so she can learn how to re-main strong and show others that, despite consider-able challenges, it can be done.

Her future plans include completing high school and maybe getting a job.

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June 1 will mark one year since Marlene Bird was found clinging to life in a parking lot outside a community centre in downtown Prince Albert. There was an outpouring of support for Bird around the globe and a local shelter set up a trust fund that has helped cover her medical costs and some living expenses.

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Canada finally escapes quarterfinals


Canada 9 Belarus 0PRAGUE, Czech Republic

— After five straight disap-pointing quarter-final defeats at the world hockey champi-onship, Canada wasted little time ensuring there would not be a sixth early exit.

Defenceman Brent Burns scored just 27 seconds into the game en route to a four-point night, and Canada set the tone early in a dominant 9-0 thrashing of Belarus in a world championship quarter-final Thursday.

“We wanted to start quick-ly,” said coach Todd McLel-lan. “We thought that some of the games that the Belarusians won, they were comfortable early.

“Sometimes the plan doesn’t go as laid out, but to-night it did. We scored right on the very first shift then had some good shifts after that so we had a chance to push a team back that maybe wasn’t sure of themselves.”

The impressive offensive showing moved Canada into the semifinals for the first time in six years. Canada will next face the Czech Republic on Saturday after the hosts beat Finland 5-3 in a later semifinal.

“We had the opportunity to play a very hard game against the Czech team (in the prelim-inary round),” McLellan said. “Their advantage is playing in this building with their rabid fans behind them and the en-

ergy that they bring.”Canada rolled through the

preliminary round of the tour-nament with a perfect record but wanted to avoid compla-cency heading into the play-offs, where one bad game can end a team’s gold-medal hopes. Thursday’s fast start went a long way to prevent a letdown.

“That was one thing that we wanted to make sure that we did,” said defenceman Aaron Ekblad. “If you remember against Sweden (where Cana-da fell behind 3-0 in the first period), one of the main topics for us is to get a good start.”

Burns led Canada with two goals and two assists. Forward Tyler Seguin added three goals to tie for the tournament lead with eight, while Ryan O’Reilly scored twice. Tyler Ennis and Jason Spezza also scored.

Canada now has a total of 58 goals over the first eight games of the tournament, a new Canadian record since NHL players started partici-pating in 1977. Canada scored 57 goals over 10 games in 1989.

The Canadian defence held the dangerous Belarusian top line of brothers Sergei and Andrei Kostitsyn and Alexei Kalyuzhny off the scoresheet. The trio combined for 26 points in the seven-game pre-liminary round.

“It’s nice to put ourselves in a position to get to the finals,” team captain Sidney Crosby said.

“The important thing is to get better every game and at this point you’ve got to be at

your best. It’s win or go home, so we did a good job today.”

Belarus turned some heads by reaching the elimination round for the second straight year.

“We got beat by an excel-lent team that has high skill, great coaching and the abil-

ity to win in different ways,” said Belarus coach Dave Lew-is, originally from Kindersley, Sask.

“I told our players to forget this game. This game does not exist in their mind — I want it washed away. I’m proud of the group and I want the group

to be proud of what they’ve done.”

The best chances for Belar-us came in the second period, when Mike Smith stopped 13 of the 24 shots he faced in the game.

CRUSH BELARUS AT HOCKEY WORLDS TO MAKE IT SEMIFINALS FOR FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS

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Belarus’ Kevin Lalande, right, blocks a shot next to Canada’s Matt Duchene, left, during the Hockey World Championships quarterfinal match in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday.

Lightning boys rugby team hoping to put things together for playoffs

BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF

The Hunting Hills Light-ning senior boys rugby team has had a Jekyll and Hyde sea-son, but as the playoffs come around the corner they are hoping for more of the good to shine through.

Their 69-15 loss to the Notre Dame Cougars (3-0) on Wednesday at Titans Park, en-capsulated their season.

The Lightning (0-2) had beat the Cougars 20-5 earlier in the year in an exhibition game, but in the rematch they were missing several top players.

It has been a season long battle.

“I think we were maybe a little cocky that it would be easy this time — but we had our full squad, we had every-one out there (the first time),” said Lightning coach Aaron Sewards.

“It was payback time, for sure.”

The Lightning have also been dealt a couple of momen-tum killing blows like having their previous league game snowed out and are coming off a heart breaking, one-point loss to Cold Lake in a tourna-ment in Drayton Valley.

The biggest thing they are hanging their hat on from the game on Wednesday is their resiliency, as they kept playing hard until the final whistle.

“At the end of the game they were still fighting and clawing,” said Sewards.

“We were down by 60 points but it didn’t matter, they were still fighting to get into that end zone.”

There is much to like about

the roster they can field, if ev-eryone is available. They do have a lot of talent with the likes of the Howse twins — Blaine and Shaun — Clay Wil-lie and Grade 11 co-captain Zech Pilgrim, who play on Team Alberta’s U-18 squad.

“Last year (Pilgrim) was invited out to the U-18 Team Canada tryouts, he’s our playmaker, our quarterback, our general,” said Sewards. “Sometimes he tries to do a little bit too much, but he’s our heart.

Their biggest strength is with their backs while their forwards have a lot of inexpe-rience.

“Our backs have been play-ing together since they were about 14 so they can read each other and they know where to go,” said Sewards.

One of their biggest chal-lenges this year is their youth, with only one Grade 12 player — co-captain Keaton Lachance — on their roster.

Woody’s marathon a favorite for top athletes

BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF

Brendan Lunty and Adela Salt are both returning to de-fend their Woody’s RV Mara-thon titles.

The Alberta marathon sta-ple will be ready for its 17th edition this Sunday — rain or shine — with a few new twists, adding a kids run and a mara-thon relay.

Organizers are prepared for a field of 1,500 runners to take part in what has become a favourite race for many an endurance athlete.

“Our course is made for runners and not for cars,” said race director Jason Hazlett. “You’ve got the beauty on the right or your left for just about the entire course, you’re look-ing at the Red Deer River or you’re looking at woods and forest or at the golf and coun-try club; the beautiful scenic trails all through the area. There’s very little road that we actually have our runners on.”

The reputation is well earned.

Lunty told Hazlett that this is one of his favourite races of the year, and that he makes a note of it to come down from Camrose for it. Last year was his 10th year in the marathon and fourth straight men’s title.

Salt, who moved to Calgary from England two years ago, was transfixed by the atmo-sphere and scenery of the race.

“She felt she was with na-ture the entire race,” said Ha-zlett of a recent conversation with Salt. “It wasn’t racing with competitors, in a sense, it was racing with nature.”

They will be competing against 160 in the 42.2 kilome-tre marathon this year, while there are 750 registered for the half marathon. The 10K, meanwhile, sold out its 500 spots in March.

Hazlett says the race has a large participation with run-ners from Central Alberta, Ed-monton, Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. This year there will even be a few in-ternational participants from Belarus and Australia.

Four years ago organizers added a 10K event to the day to help feed the half and full marathons. This year, they are striking for an even less ex-perienced demographic with a 1.2 kilometre kids race. The Kids race is part of an even larger competition called a marathon quest, encouraging kids to run regularly, finishing the 42.2 km quest on Sunday. The event filled its 100 slots.

“We want to get the kids in-volved with running and the atmosphere and feeling it, be-cause we have many parents that are encouraging their kids to get out and run,” said Hazlett. “We’re thinking, start at the bottom up and bring them up and support athletics and fitness in Red Deer and Central Alberta.”

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Hunting HIlls Lightning;s Zech Pilgrim scores a try as he is tackled by Notre Dame Cougars Taylor Vida during Central Alberta High School Rugby action at Titans Park on Wednesday.

WORLDS: Back at it“It was great,” he said of his first

shutout of the tournament. “I think we kind of got away from our gameplan a bit in the second period and they came at us a little bit. That’s a good team. If you give them chances, they can hurt you.

“We got back at it in the third and were able to get through, so we’re hap-py with the outcome.”

Elsewhere, the United States ad-vanced with a 3-1 win over Switzer-land. The Americans will play a semi-final against Russia, which defeated Sweden 5-3.

RUGBY: PotentialBut that also means their is some

big potential on the horizon, including their eighthman, six-foot-five Caleb Neilsen.

“This is his first time playing rugby, he’s a basketball player and he’s loving it and getting better every game, every practice,” said Sewards. “He wants the ball and that’s impressive because we didn’t know how he’d take contact because rugby is a little different than basketball. He’s itching to play and he wants to play over summer and he wants to play next year.

“Next year should be very exciting, all of our boys will move up a grade and put on about 20 pounds and a couple of

inches, they won’t look tiny any more.”Despite their troubles and an 0-2 re-cord with playoffs beginning on May 25, they believe they stand a puncher’s chance at making it to the league final. They have two regular season games left and think they should be able to get back to .500. Regardless they will play the second place team from Red Deer in the first round of the tier I playoffs.

If they win that game then they will be playing for a chance to go to provin-cials.

“We need to get that commitment from everybody — when we have our full team and everyone is in the right spot, the machine runs great,” said Sewards. “Right now we have people playing out of place, they’re not used to it, so they’re a little shy, a little hesi-tant.”

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WOODY’S: New pairs relay

One of the other new wrinkles is a pair’s relay, with one runner doing the first half of the race, and the second runner finishing out the final 26.1 kilo-metres.

The idea is to allow those who have only ran the half marathon to finally see the entire course.

However, through his own experi-ence, he says this can be an intimidat-ing experience for those running the whole marathon.

“I’m running and these fresh run-

ners all of a sudden come out that got tagged off by their relay partner,” said Hazlett, who first saw the format at the California International Marathon.

“You think you’re doing well and then you (get passed) by these fresh runners, but you see them later on in the race.”

All of the races begin and end at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. The 10K has a 7:45 a.m. start time while the full and half marathons starting at 8 p.m. with the kids race slated for 10:30 a.m.

The full course encompasses loops of Heritage Ranch and River Bend while using the city’s trail system. Among some of the better viewing ar-eas include River Bend Golf Course and Discovery Canyon and Heritage Ranch for the full marathon while ev-

ery single race will go through Bower Ponds.

Those looking for parking are rec-ommended to do so in the Michner area by the cemetery and walk down to Lindsay Thurber, where there is lim-ited spots available.

For many, this will be their first marathon experience and Hazlett says that in and of itself can be a daunting mental challenge for many runners. His advice is simple: Don’t change any-thing you’ve done in training, use the same shoes, socks, gels.

“Treat your body right, don’t change anything and stay hydrated,” said Ha-zlett.

For more information, including a map of the course, go to http://www.reddeermarathon.org/index.php

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Cavs clinch series with win over BullsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cavaliers 94 Bulls 73CHICAGO — No dominant perfor-

mance by LeBron James. Not much from Kyrie Irving, either.

Somehow, the Cleveland Cavaliers still found a way to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

James struggled to score 15 points, Irving limped off the court and the Cavaliers still beat the Chicago Bulls 94-73 on Thursday night to clinch their semifinal series in six games.

Matthew Dellavedova scored 19 points and Tristan Thompson added 13 points and 17 rebounds to help the Cavaliers advance to the conference finals for the first time since 2009 even though their superstar played like a mere mortal and their All-Star point guard hobbled to the locker room in the first half.

Despite all that, Cleveland is right where it expected to be after James decided to come home from Miami and return to his first team. The Cavaliers didn’t expect to get there like this, though — with Kevin Love suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in the opening round and Irving trying to gut through problems with both legs.

“These guys work their tails off ev-ery single day when you guys are not around,” James said. “Yes, I’m a little bit surprised because of how we’ve handled the post-season so far. These are first-timers right here (Dellavedo-va and Thompson) as well as Kyrie and Kev before the injury. They want to be good, they want to be great, and every single day they prepare the right way.”

Irving scored six points in 12 min-utes before twisting his left knee when he came down on Thompson’s foot ear-ly in the second quarter. The score was 35-35 and he did not return.

James had 11 assists and nine re-bounds but hardly looked like the su-perhuman that carried Cleveland in Game 5 with 38 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, three steals and three blocks. He shot 7 of 23 from the field and missed all four 3-point attempts in this game. But the Cavaliers had more than enough to get by, setting up a meeting with Atlanta or Washington.

It is James’ fifth straight conference

finals, the previous four with Miami. Getting there sure hasn’t been easy with all the injuries.

“I do everything for my team, do everything for my teammates,” James said. “I want these guys to be able to feel this moment. That’s what I came back here for. I’ve got four guys that never made the post-season that played a huge role on this team.”

Jimmy Butler led Chicago with 20 points and Derrick Rose finished with 14. Pau Gasol scored all of his eight points in the first quarter after missing the previous two games with a strained left hamstring, and the Bulls simply got overmatched in what could be their fi-nal game under coach Tom Thibodeau.

There is heavy speculation that he could be out because of friction with management despite leading Chicago to a 255-139 record and playoff appear-ances in each of his five seasons.

“I love him as a coach,” Rose said.And Thibodeau said he expects to

be back unless he’s told otherwise.“Yeah. Until they tell me I’m not, I

expect to be here,” he said. “That’s the way I’m going to approach it.”

Iman Shumpert scored 13 points for Cleveland. Dellavedova, James Jones and J.R. Smith (12 points) all hit three 3-pointers and combined to score 40 points.

Even with Irving missing most of the second quarter and James scoring just six points on 3-of-11 shooting, the Cava-liers led 58-44 at halftime and main-tained control the rest of the way.

Things were not looking good for Cleveland when Irving landed on Thompson’s foot and hit the court gri-macing in pain with 9:47 left in the half. He limped to the sideline and headed to the locker room.

“He’s sore and bowed but not bro-ken. He’ll be OK,” coach David Blatt said.

After Irving went down, James tweaked his back.

Even so, the Cavaliers went on a 20-2 run to go up 58-42 before Butler scored on a layup in the closing seconds of the half.

Shumpert had nine points during that stretch and let Nikola Mirotic hear about it when he nailed a 3 after get-ting clotheslined by the Bulls forward less than a minute earlier.


Cleveland Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson, right, blocks a shot by Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson during the second half of Game 6 in a second-round NBA playoff series in Chicago on Thursday. The Cavaliers won 94-73 and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals.

Flames GM anxious to lock up Giordano to long-term extension


CALGARY — There’s one cheque Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving can’t wait to write, but he’s going to have to.

Flames captain Mark Giordano has one year remaining on a five-year con-tract. Under the collective bargaining agreement, Treliving says he can’t offi-cially sign the 31-year-old defenceman to an extension until July 1.

“Mark Giordano is the number one priority for this summer,” the GM said this week.

“That is one we hope to get wrapped up very quickly this summer.”

Despite missing the last quarter of the regular season, Giordano posted a career-high 48 points in 61 games to finish fifth on the Flames.

The six-foot, 200-pound rearguard was on track for Norris Trophy consid-eration when he tore his bicep Feb. 25 in a road game against the New Jersey Devils.

Giordano watched from the press box as his team secured a playoff berth in the last home game of the regular season and got in 11 playoff games be-fore bowing out to the Anaheim Ducks this past Sunday.

Treliving believes Giordano’s lead-ership style was a difference-maker in Calgary’s surprising run to the second round of playoffs.

“I think everybody in this room knows what Mark means to this team,

both on and off the ice,” Treliving said.“He’s a culture-setter for me. You

can’t win on the ice until you have the right culture off the ice. He sets that for us, so he’s the priority.”

Giordano’s previous five-year ex-tension signed in 2010 was worth $20.1 million.

At an annual average of $4.02 mil-lion, the captain wasn’t the highest-paid Flame this past season. Defence-man Dennis Wideman was at $5.25 mil-lion.

“I’m sure Tree and myself will have a discussion and talk about things,” Giordano said.

“I want to stay here and I think the feeling is mutual. We want to get some-thing done sooner rather than later.

“You want to stick around and be here for a long time, hopefully the rest of my career.”

Giordano underwent what was said to be season-ending surgery on his bi-cep March 4. He began participating in full practice late last week with the green light to shoot the puck.

The development prompted specu-lation that Giordano was about to re-turn to the lineup early.

“I think I was a ways away, but not unrealistic to think I could get back in if we went deep enough,” the captain said.

Giordano, San Jose defenceman Brent Burns and New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist are the three finalists for the NHL’s Founda-tion Player Award that goes to an NHL

player “who applies the core values of hockey — commitment, perseverance and teamwork — to enrich the lives of people in his community.”

The winner will be announced June 24.

Locking up Giordano long-term may entice other Flames nearing the end of their contracts to stay in Calgary.

Jiri Hudler, David Jones, Joe Col-borne, Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monah-an, defenceman Kris Russell and goal-tender Jonas Hiller each have a year remaining on their deals.

But another pressing matter for Treliving this off-season is a number of restricted free-agent forwards: Mi-kael Backlund, Michael Ferland, Josh Jooris, Lance Bouma, Paul Byron and Drew Shore.

Defencemen David Schlemko, Ra-fael Diaz, Corey Potter and goaltender Karri Ramo will be unrestricted free agents.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has estimated the salary cap in 2015-16 will be about $73 million. Treliving will have between $20 million and $25 million in cap room.

“I know it’s been talked about and I’ve been asked lots of questions this year, ’you’ve got all this cap room,’ well you project out two years from now,” the GM said.

“We’ve got models that go out five years from now. Some of those young players continue to play like they have, they’re going to get significant increas-es.”

Rockets rally to shock Clippers, force Game 7

in HoustonBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rockets 119 Clippers 107LOS ANGELES — Corey Brewer

scored 15 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter and the Houston Rockets erased a 19-point, second-half deficit to stun the Los Angeles Clippers 119-107 on Thursday night to force a Game 7 in the Western Conference semifinals.

James Harden, who played less than a minute in the fourth quarter, scored 23 points — making all 11 of his free throws — and Dwight Howard added 20 points and 21 rebounds for the Rock-ets, who have won two straight games.

Game 7 is Sunday in Houston.The Clippers were cruising with

a 19-point lead in the third quarter, seemingly assured of earning the fran-chise’s first berth in the conference fi-nals. The Rockets scored nine straight to cut it to 13 heading into the fourth.

Houston hit seven 3-pointers in the fourth and stymied the Clippers of-fensively. Blake Griffin, who finished with 28 points, didn’t score in the final quarter.

The once-raucous crowd was re-duced to a low mumble while the Rock-ets went on a 23-2 run to take a 111-102 lead with 1:44 left. Dazed fans began clearing out with time left on the clock.

Chris Paul had 31 points and 11 as-sists for the Clippers and J.J. Redick added 15 points.


The 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs may become better known as the 2-1 play-offs.

Over a quarter of games have been decided by that score as part of the lowest-scoring NHL post-season since 2012.

But while scoring is down, drama isn’t. More than half of the games through two rounds were decided by one goal, and 15 went to overtime.

“When you get to the heightened intensity and how you’re hanging on every play of every single game in the playoffs, a 2-1 game becomes pretty darn exciting,” Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “That probably masks a little bit of not so many goals being scored because it’s the win-at-all-costs type of atmosphere and I don’t think people care as much about the score.”

Goals are being scored at a rate of 4.88 a game, down half a goal from the regular season and the lowest in the playoffs since 4.84 three years ago. That’s thanks in part to bigger and bet-ter goaltenders, more advanced coach-ing systems, a ton of shot-blocking and even just a difference in mentality for players.

Among the four teams left, only the Chicago Blackhawks, who split goal-tending time in the first round be-tween Corey Crawford and Scott Dar-ling, have allowed more than two goals a game. Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers, Frederik Andersen and the Anaheim Ducks and Ben Bishop and the Tampa Bay Lightning are all at a 2.00 goals-against average or below.

Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau

pointed to the first period of Game 6 between the Rangers and Washington Capitals on Sunday as an example of how good the hockey has been with the goaltending a notch above. The Rang-ers and Capitals combined for 37 shots in the opening 20 minutes and just two goals as Lundqvist and Braden Holtby were brilliant.

“The goaltending has been just out of this world and if you look at the names that are goaltending for each series, they’re pretty big names,” said Boudreau, whose Ducks have a playoff-best 35 goals. “That’s why I think the goal-scoring is down.”

The size of goaltenders is up. Among the 26 goalies to make an appearance in these playoffs, only Jaroslav Halak of the New York Islanders is under six foot one.

“The day and age of the small goal-tender is done,” NHL executive vice-president and director of hockey op-erations Colin Campbell said. “Ben Bishop is 6-7, Frederik Andersen is 6-3. Big goalies, they fill the net, but also with big equipment and it’s hard be-cause with big equipment they play a certain style that they need protection on the inside of their pads.”

Bigger butterfly goaltenders need more padding than their predecessors, and the league has taken steps in re-cent years to shrink the equipment enough to try to increase scoring. Goal-ies also have better technique, coach-ing and training now. But often the puck doesn’t get to the net because of the emphasis on blocking shots. It’s part of playoff culture to sacrifice the body, and 34.8 per cent of shot attempts through 69 games were blocked.

That’s the coaching philosophy, too. Campbell has always said adding a coach like Ken Hitchcock can make a team better within a couple of weeks because it’s easier to lock-down defen-

sively and negate talent than it is to teach offence.

“We once said if we wanted to in-crease goal-scoring, we needed worse goalies and worse players,” Campbell said. “Players are getting better, the coaching is better, preparation is bet-ter. It’s easier to prevent goals than it is to produce and manufacture goals.”

Some of that, Cooper believes, is on players who might take an extra chance or make an extra move at the blue-line in the regular season to cre-

ate a scoring chance. Not in the play-offs, where they’ll chip it in and make opponents go 200 feet to score.

“For 82 games in the regular sea-son, everybody’s trying to score, and as soon as the playoffs start, everybody’s trying to prevent goals,” Cooper said. “There’s such a commitment to play defence now and not as much a com-mitment to score because teams know you just really need to get one, maybe even two, and there’s a really good pos-sibility you’re going to win the game.”

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Astros rally in seventh to down Blue JaysBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Astros 6 Blue Jays 4HOUSTON — When the Houston As-

tros needed a roster spot earlier this week they kept rookie Preston Tucker and sent the more experienced Robbie Grossman to Triple-A.

On Thursday night, Tucker showed them they made the right decision, fin-ishing with three hits and an RBI to help Houston to a 6-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

“What a great night,” manager A.J. Hinch said of Tucker’s performance. “The opportunities are so few and far between when you’re a young player like that ... we kept him on the team when we had to make a move and he responds with really good at-bats. Big night for him, hitting the ball to all fields and handling some pretty good pitching.”

Tucker’s RBI double off Aaron Loup (1-2) with no outs in the seventh brought the Astros within 4-3. Villar’s groundball double down the right field line scored two more to give Houston the lead. The Blue Jays intentionally walked Jose Altuve with one out be-fore he stole second and catcher Josh Thole’s error on the play allowed Vil-lar to add an insurance run.

It was Houston’s 10th come-from-behind victory this season, which is second in the American League be-hind Kansas City.

“Winning’s huge for us but when we come from behind to win that’s even better and I think everyone’s having fun right now,” Tucker said.

Loup’s blown save ruined a solid start by Drew Hutchison, who allowed five hits and two runs with a season-high nine strikeouts in six innings.

“These guys are an aggressive team; they like to swing the bat,” Loup said. “I made a few mistakes in the zone, and they took advantage of it.”

Josh Fields (2-0) got the last two outs of the seventh for the win and Chad Qualls struck out one in a perfect ninth for his fourth save.

Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarna-cion hit back-to-back home runs to give Toronto a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

Tucker, who entered the game 0 for 7, had the first multi-hit game of his short career and Altuve added two hits for Houston, which is tied with Kansas City for the AL’s best record at 22-13.

Houston starter Roberto Hernandez yielded six hits and four runs in 6 1-3 innings.

Bautista drilled a homer off the wall above the Crawford Boxes in left field to give Toronto a 1-0 lead with two outs. Encarnacion’s home run came three pitches later to give Toronto back-to-back homers for the first time this sea-son.

Luis Valbuena cut the lead to 2-1 with an RBI double that landed on Tal’s Hill in centre field with one out in the bottom of the inning before George Springer drew a walk. But Hutchison struck out Colby Rasmus and Jason Castro to limit the damage.

Toronto’s Devon Travis drove in a run with a double in the third inning to make it 3-1.

Altuve doubled to start Houston’s sixth and scored on a groundout by Springer to get the Astros within 3-2.


Houston Astros’ Jonathan Villar doubles on a ground ball to right field scoring two runs in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays Thursday, in Houston.

Streb shoots low in opening round at Wells FargoBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Phil Mick-elson faded early and Rory McIlroy tailed off late. Robert Streb just kept on making birdies.

Streb shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take a one-shot lead over Patrick Reed and Kevin Chappell after the first round of the Wells Fargo Champi-onship.

McIlroy appeared on the verge of a late run at the leaderboard before making a double bogey on the difficult par-3 17th hole. The world’s top-ranked player appeared stunned when his tee shot hit the rock wall in front of the green and his ball caromed high into the air and into the water. He finished with a 70.

“One big mistake,” McIlroy said.McIlroy had just made par on the

16th hole by hitting a 9-iron pin high from 166 yards. He went with an 8-iron from 178 yards on No. 17, but it wound up not being enough to carry the water when his ball got held up in the wind.

Despite the error, McIlroy said over-all he was pleased with his round.

“I did what I wanted to,” said McIl-roy, who won the event in 2010 for his first PGA Tour title. “I took advantage of the par 5s and made birdie on a couple of par 4s.”

Mickelson had his troubles too after a fast start.

Lefty opened with three birdies, but had a double bogey on the 18th hole when his tee shot wound up in the creek on the left side of the fairway. He shot 71, leaving him six shots back.

Mickelson has long expressed his affinity for Quail Hollow, saying it is suits his game perfectly. Yet, he is win-less in 11 tries, although he has come close with five top-5 finishes.

He got things off to a rousing start, sinking birdie putts from 6, 9 and 12 feet to start the back nine, draw-ing roars from a crowd. But the putts

wouldn’t fall for Mickelson after his initial burst.

“I turned a 66 into a 71 today,” Mick-elson said.

Mickelson, who missed the cut last week at The Players Championship, insists his game “isn’t that far off.”

“Fortunately, I didn’t shoot myself out of the tournament,” he said.

While Mickelson faded after his strong start, Streb didn’t.

After tying for 30th at The Players, Streb set the early pace with two quick birdies on the back nine and played a bogey-free round.

His 65 was the second-best opening round score of his brief PGA Tour ca-reer. He found his putting stroke last week at TPC Sawgrass and it was right there again at Quail Hollow.

“It’s the first time in a while I feel like I have my putter working,” Streb said.

It didn’t hurt that he caught a few breaks along the way.

On the par-5 seventh hole, Streb hit a pitch shot from 10 feet off the green too hard, but the ball hit midway up the flagstick and dropped 4 feet from the hole, leading to an easy birdie.

“I smashed the flag,” Streb said with a sheepish grin.

While many of the fans were head-ing for the parking lot to call it a day, Chappell turned in a strong finish with an eagle on the par-5 seventh and a birdie on the eighth to move into a tie with Reed for second place.

Reed spent time tied for the lead, but couldn’t maintain it after failing to save par on No. 17 when his tee shot landed in the sand.

Stewart Cink topped the six-player group at 67.

Defending tournament champion J.B. Holmes put himself in position to become the first repeat winner in the tournament’s 13-year history by open-ing with a 69.

“I’m feeling really good about my game,” Holmes said.

Many of the world’s top players skipped the event, including Players winner Rickie Fowler, Tiger Woods,

Jordan Spieth and Bubba Watson. Er-nie Els withdrew because of a muscle strain.


Phil Mickelson hits from the rough on the 11th hole during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday.

Goal-scoring is down but entertainment value still high in playoffs

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Today● High school girls rugby: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m., Titans Park 1.

Saturday● Karate: Western Canada Championships at Hunting Hills, 10 a.m. start.● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

Sunday● Marathon: Woody’s RV World Marathon; 10k starts at 7:45 p.m., half marathon and marathon at 8 a.m., 55th St. and 42 Ave.● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

Monday● Lacrosse: Tradition Lives tournament at the Kinex, Collicutt Centre, Dawe Centre and Kinsmen Arenas.

NBA PlayoffsCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCECleveland 4, Chicago 2Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92Wednesday, May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91Friday, May 8: Chicago 99, Cleveland 96Sunday, May 10: Cleveland 86, Chicago 84Tuesday, May 12: Cleveland 106, Chicago 101Thursday, May 14: Cleveland 94, Chicago 73

Atlanta 3, Washington 2Sunday, May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98Tuesday, May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90Saturday, May 9: Washington 103, Atlanta 101Monday, May 11: Atlanta 106, Washington 101Wednesday, May 13: Atlanta 82, Washington 81Friday, May 15: Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.x-Monday, May 18: Washington at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Clippers 3, Houston 3Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101Wednesday, May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109Friday, May 8: L.A. Clippers 124, Houston 99Sunday, May 10: L.A. Clippers 128, Houston 95Tuesday, May 12: Houston 124, L.A. Clippers 103Thursday, May 14: Houston 119, L.A. Clippers 107Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6 or 7:30 p.m.

Golden State 3, Memphis 2Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86Tuesday, May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90Saturday, May 9: Memphis 99, Golden State 89Monday, May 11: Golden State 101, Memphis 84Wednesday, May 13: Golden State 98, Memphis 78Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.x-Sunday, May 17: Memphis at Golden State, 1:30 p.m.

Wells Fargo ChampionshipThursdayAt Quail Hollow ClubCharlotte, N.C.Purse: $7.1 millionYardage: 7,562; Par 72 (36-36)First RoundRobert Streb 33-32 — 65Patrick Reed 32-34 — 66Kevin Chappell 33-33 — 66Webb Simpson 34-33 — 67Ricky Barnes 32-35 — 67Michael Thompson 34-33 — 67Stewart Cink 32-35 — 67Chesson Hadley 34-33 — 67Billy Hurley III 34-33 — 67K.J. Choi 34-34 — 68Carl Pettersson 33-35 — 68Patrick Rodgers 34-34 — 68Matt Jones 32-37 — 69Kevin Streelman 35-34 — 69J.B. Holmes 35-34 — 69Hideki Matsuyama 34-35 — 69Bill Lunde 35-34 — 69Shawn Stefani 34-35 — 69Brendan Steele 36-33 — 69Steven Alker 34-35 — 69Justin Thomas 35-34 — 69Martin Flores 35-34 — 69Russell Knox 35-34 — 69Geoff Ogilvy 34-35 — 69Angel Cabrera 34-35 — 69Kevin Kisner 36-33 — 69Will MacKenzie 35-34 — 69George McNeill 36-33 — 69Scott Gutschewski 35-34 — 69John Huh 35-35 — 70Bo Van Pelt 36-34 — 70Gary Woodland 36-34 — 70Padraig Harrington 35-35 — 70Hunter Mahan 35-35 — 70Andres Romero 35-35 — 70Brian Stuard 34-36 — 70Cameron Percy 38-32 — 70Freddie Jacobson 34-36 — 70Michael Putnam 37-33 — 70Sangmoon Bae 34-36 — 70Rory McIlroy 34-36 — 70Jason Gore 33-37 — 70Carlos Ortiz 35-35 — 70Jonathan Randolph 32-38 — 70

LPGA Tour-Kingsmill ChampionshipThursdayAt Kingsmill Resort, River CourseWilliamsburg, Va.Purse: $1.3 millionYardage: 6,349; Par 71 (36-35)First Rounda-denotes amateurJoanna Klatten 31-34 — 65Pat Hurst 34-32 — 66Alison Lee 35-31 — 66Morgan Pressel 34-32 — 66Jacqui Concolino 35-32 — 67Paula Creamer 32-35 — 67Perrine Delacour 33-34 — 67So Yeon Ryu 35-32 — 67Katie Burnett 32-36 — 68Austin Ernst 34-34 — 68Nannette Hill 35-33 — 68

Mi Jung Hur 35-33 — 68Minjee Lee 35-33 — 68Sarah Jane Smith 35-33 — 68Angela Stanford 34-34 — 68Mariajo Uribe 36-32 — 68Yueer Cindy Feng 36-33 — 69Christina Kim 36-33 — 69Sei Young Kim 35-34 — 69P.K. Kongkraphan 35-34 — 69Stacy Lewis 36-33 — 69Brittany Lincicome 34-35 — 69Paula Reto 36-33 — 69Christel Boeljon 35-35 — 70Eun-Hee Ji 37-33 — 70Jennifer Johnson 34-36 — 70Moriya Jutanugarn 36-34 — 70Hyo Joo Kim 35-35 — 70Pernilla Lindberg 33-37 — 70Catriona Matthew 38-32 — 70Paola Moreno 35-35 — 70Haru Nomura 35-35 — 70Anna Nordqvist 36-34 — 70Ji Young Oh 36-34 — 70Ryann O’Toole 36-34 — 70Pornanong Phatlum 36-34 — 70Kris Tamulis 36-34 — 70Ayako Uehara 36-34 — 70Jing Yan 35-35 — 70

Regions TraditionThursdayAt Shoal CreekShoal Creek, Ala.Purse: $2.3 millionYardage: 7,231; Par: 72 (36-36)First RoundJeff Maggert 31-36 — 67Kevin Sutherland 33-35 — 68Tom Watson 34-35 — 69Colin Montgomerie 35-34 — 69Wes Short, Jr. 33-36 — 69Tom Byrum 36-34 — 70Gil Morgan 35-35 — 70Gene Sauers 35-35 — 70Kenny Perry 36-34 — 70Fred Funk 34-36 — 70David Frost 33-37 — 70Esteban Toledo 34-36 — 70Michael Allen 35-35 — 70Guy Boros 36-34 — 70Scott Hoch 37-34 — 71John Cook 34-37 — 71Olin Browne 34-37 — 71Tom Pernice Jr. 35-36 — 71Jay Don Blake 34-37 — 71Billy Andrade 35-36 — 71Mark O’Meara 34-37 — 71Kirk Triplett 35-36 — 71Russ Cochran 37-34 — 71Jeff Hart 36-35 — 71Brian Henninger 35-37 — 72Brad Bryant 35-37 — 72Tom Purtzer 34-38 — 72Peter Senior 34-38 — 72Joey Sindelar 36-36 — 72John Riegger 37-35 — 72Scott Dunlap 35-37 — 72Ian Woosnam 37-35 — 72Joe Daley 37-35 — 72Woody Austin 36-36 — 72Morris Hatalsky 37-36 — 73

MLSEastern Conference

GP W L T GF GA PtD.C. 10 6 1 3 13 8 21New England 10 5 2 3 14 10 18New York 9 4 1 4 14 9 16Columbus 9 4 3 2 15 10 14Toronto 8 3 5 0 12 13 9Chicago 8 3 5 0 7 10 9Orlando 10 2 5 3 9 14 9New York City 10 1 6 3 7 12 6Philadelphia 11 1 7 3 10 21 6Montreal 5 0 3 2 3 8 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA PtVancouver 11 6 3 2 14 9 20Dallas 10 6 2 2 17 13 20Seattle 9 5 3 1 15 9 16San Jose 10 4 4 2 10 11 14Kansas City 10 3 2 5 13 13 14Los Angeles 11 3 3 5 11 11 14Salt Lake 10 3 2 5 9 11 14Portland 10 3 3 4 9 9 13

Houston 11 3 4 4 13 14 13Colorado 10 1 2 7 9 9 10

Wednesday’s resultsD.C. 2 Orlando 1

Friday’s gamesChicago at New York City, 5 p.m.New York at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesSalt Lake at Montreal, 2 p.m.Seattle at Vancouver, 5 p.m.Toronto at New England, 5:30 p.m.Portland at Houston, 6:30 p.m.Colorado at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.Columbus at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s gamesLos Angeles at Orlando, 3 p.m.D.C. at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 20New England at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

WHL PLAYOFFSFINAL ROUND

WHL Championship(Best-of-7)

Brandon (E1) vs. Kelowna (BC1)(Kelowna wins series 4-0)Friday, May 8Kelowna 4 Brandon 3Saturday, May 9Kelowna 5 Brandon 3Monday, May 11Kelowna 5 Brandon 3Wednesday, May 13Kelowna 3 Brandon 0x — if necessary.

Scoring Leaders G A PtsPetan, Por 10 18 28Draisaitl, Kel 10 18 28Merkley, Kel 5 22 27Tambellini, Cal 13 13 26Bjorkstrand, Por 13 12 25Baillie, Kel 10 14 24Chartier, Kel 13 7 20P.Quenneville, Bra 10 10 20Hawryluk, Bra 10 9 19J.Quenneville, Bra 10 9 19McGauley, Bra 8 11 19De Leo, Por 7 12 19Bowey, Kel 7 12 19Sanheim, Cal 5 13 18Bukarts, Bra 4 14 18Magee, Vic 9 6 15Patrick, Bra 8 7 15Henry, Por 5 10 15Roy, Bra 3 12 15

2015 IIHF Men’s World ChampionshipAt Prague and Ostrava, Czech RepublicPLAYOFFSThursday’s resultsQuarter-finalsAt PragueCanada 9 Belarus 0Czech Replubic 5 Finland 3At OstravaRussia 5 Sweden 3U.S. 3 Switzerland 1

Saturday’s gamesSemifinalsAt PragueCanada vs. Czech Republic, 7:15 a.m.Russia vs. U.S., 11:15 a.m.———Sunday’s gamesAt PragueBronze Medal GameSemifinal Losers, 8:15 a.m.Gold Medal GameSemifinal Winners, 12:45 p.m.

Thursday’s summary

Canada 9, Belarus 0First Period

1. Canada, Burns 1 (Crosby, Hall) 0:272. Canada, Ennis 3 (Barrie, Muzzin) 7:363. Canada, O’Reilly 1 (Burns) 10:154. Canada, Seguin 6 (Spezza) 17:28Penalty — Volkov Blr (hooking) 15:36.

Second Period5. Canada, Seguin 7 (Couturier, Muzzin) 3:236. Canada, Burns 2 (O’Reilly, Eberle) 11:08 (pp)Penalties — Hall Cda (tripping) 7:55, Belarus bench (too many men) 9:45, Kulakov Blr (slashing) 12:45, Ekblad Cda (tripping) 19:07.

Third Period7. Canada, Seguin 8 (Hall) 10:32 (pp)8. Canada, O’Reilly 2 (Giroux, Savard) 13:029. Canada, Spezza 5 (Burns) 15:19Penalties — Burns Cda (high-sticking) 0:59, Goroshko Blr (hooking) 5:57, Kostitsyn Blr (rough-ing) 8:43.

Shots on goalBelarus 3 13 8 — 24Canada 20 18 12 — 50Goal — Belarus: Lalande (L, 0-1-0) ; Canada: M.Smith (W, 6-0-0).Power plays (goals-chances) — Belarus: 0-3; Canada: 2-5.

Scoring Leaders G A PtsSpezza, Cda 5 8 13Ekman-Larsson, Swe 2 10 12Hall, Cda 6 5 11Eberle, Cda 5 6 11Dadonov, Rus 4 7 11Duchene, Cda 4 7 11Jokinen, Fin 3 8 11Burns, Cda 2 9 11Kalyuzhny, Blr 5 5 10Panarin, Rus 5 5 10Eriksson, Swe 4 6 10Darzins, Lat 3 7 10Voracek, Cze 3 7 10O’Reilly, Cda 2 8 10

NHLStanley Cup Playoffs

SECOND ROUNDDivision Finals

EASTERN CONFERENCEMontreal (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2)(Tampa Bay wins series 4-2)Friday, May 1Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 1, 2OTSunday, May 3Tampa Bay 6 Montreal 2Wednesday, May 6Tampa Bay 2 Montreal 1Thursday, May 7Montreal 6 Tampa Bay 2Saturday, May 9Montreal 2 Tampa Bay 1Tuesday, May 12Tampa Bay 4 Montreal 1

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Washington (2)(NY Rangers wins series 4-3)Thursday, April 30Washington 2 NY Rangers 1Saturday, May 2NY Rangers 3 Washington 2Monday, May 4Washington 1 NY Rangers 0Wednesday, May 6Washington 2 NY Rangers 1Friday, May 8NY Rangers 2 Washington 1, OTSunday, May 10NY Rangers 4 Washington 3Wednesday, May 13NY Rangers 2 Washington 1, OT

WESTERN CONFERENCEChicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC)(Chicago wins series 4-0)Friday, May 1Chicago 4 Minnesota 3Sunday, May 3Chicago 4 Minnesota 1Tuesday, May 5Chicago 1 Minnesota 0Thursday, May 7Chicago 4 Minnesota 3

Anaheim (1) vs. Calgary (3)(Anaheim wins series 4-1)Thursday, April 30Anaheim 6 Calgary 1Sunday, May 3Anaheim 3 Calgary 0Tuesday, May 5Calgary 4 Anaheim 3, OTFriday, May 8Anaheim 4 Calgary 2Sunday, May 10

Anaheim 3 Calgary 2, OT

THIRD ROUNDConference finals

EASTERN CONFERENCEN.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2)Saturday, May 16Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 11 a.m.Monday, May 18Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.Wednesday, May 20NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Friday, May 22NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Sunday, May 24x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.Tuesday, May 26x-NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Friday, May 29x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEAnaheim (1) vs. Chicago (3)Sunday, May 17Chicago at Anaheim, 1 p.m.Tuesday, May 19Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m.Thursday, May 21Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.Saturday, May 23Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.Monday, May 25x-Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m.Wednesday, May 27x-Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.Saturday, May 30x-Chicago at Anaheim, 6 p.m.x — if necessary.

Scoring LeadersPLAYOFFS / Through May 13 GP G A PTSCorey Perry, Anh 9 7 8 15Patrick Kane, Chi 10 7 6 13Tyler Johnson, TB 13 8 4 12Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 9 2 10 12Nikita Kucherov, TB 13 6 5 11Jonathan Toews, Chi 10 4 7 11Jakob Silfverberg, Anh 9 3 8 11Zach Parise, Min 10 4 6 10Steven Stamkos, TB 13 3 7 10Duncan Keith, Chi 10 2 8 106 tied with 9 pts.

2015 RBC Cup StandingsCanadian Jr. A Hockey Championship

ROUND ROBIN GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Ptx-Penticton (BCHL) 4 3 0 0 1 15 8 9x-Portage (MJHL) 4 3 0 0 1 13 9 9x-Carleton (CCHL) 4 2 0 1 1 13 8 7x-Melfort (SJHL) 4 1 1 0 2 11 13 5Soo (NOJHL) 4 0 0 0 4 7 21 0x — clinched playoff berth.Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Thursday’s resultsPenticton 5 Soo 2Portage 3 Melfort 2Wednesday’s resultMelfort 4 Carleton Place 3 (OT)End of round robin

PLAYOFFSSaturday’s gamesSemifinalsFirst place vs. Fourth place, 1 or 6 p.m.Second place vs. Third place, 1 or 6 p.m.Sunday’s gameChampionshipSemifinal winners, 6 p.m.

Red Deer Senior Men’s Baseball LeagueResultsThursdayGary Moe VW Legends 17 Printing Place Padres 9

Major League BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 21 15 .583 —Tampa Bay 20 16 .556 1Boston 17 18 .486 3 1/2Toronto 17 19 .472 4Baltimore 15 17 .469 4

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 22 13 .629 —Detroit 21 14 .600 1Minnesota 19 16 .543 3Chicago 14 17 .452 6Cleveland 12 21 .364 9

West Division W L Pct GBHouston 22 13 .629 —Los Angeles 17 17 .500 4 1/2Seattle 15 19 .441 6 1/2Texas 15 20 .429 7Oakland 13 23 .361 9 1/2

Wednesday’s GamesBoston 2, Oakland 0Cleveland 2, St. Louis 0Baltimore 6, Toronto 1Minnesota 6, Detroit 2Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 2Texas 5, Kansas City 2Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee 2Houston 4, San Francisco 3L.A. Angels 2, Colorado 1, 11 inningsSan Diego 4, Seattle 2

Thursday’s GamesSt. Louis 2, Cleveland 1Detroit 13, Minnesota 1Kansas City 6, Texas 3Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 1Houston 6, Toronto 4Boston 2, Seattle 1

Friday’s GamesL.A. Angels (Weaver 1-4) at Baltimore (W.Chen 1-1), 5:05 p.m.Cleveland (B.Chen 0-1) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 1-1), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 5-0) at Kansas City (C.Young 2-0), 6:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 3-2) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 2-4), 6:10 p.m.Toronto (Dickey 1-4) at Houston (Keuchel 4-0), 6:10 p.m.Detroit (Greene 3-2) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 3-1), 6:15 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-0) at Oakland (Hahn 1-3), 8:05 p.m.Boston (Buchholz 2-4) at Seattle (Happ 3-1), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesTampa Bay at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.Detroit at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.L.A. Angels at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.Toronto at Houston, 5:10 p.m.Cleveland at Texas, 6:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.Boston at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.NCruz Sea 34 133 24 48 .361Ellsbury NYY 33 138 27 48 .348Fielder Tex 35 138 13 48 .348Vogt Oak 33 101 19 34 .337AJones Bal 32 122 18 41 .336Altuve Hou 35 144 19 48 .333Hosmer KC 35 138 22 46 .333Reddick Oak 29 108 18 36 .333Brantley Cle 27 106 17 35 .330MiCabrera Det 35 125 20 41 .328Home RunsNCruz, Seattle, 15; Teixeira, New York, 11; HRamir-ez, Boston, 10; ARodriguez, New York, 9; Trout, Los Angeles, 9; Vogt, Oakland, 9; 5 tied at 8.

Runs Batted InVogt, Oakland, 30; NCruz, Seattle, 29; Hosmer, Kansas City, 29; Teixeira, New York, 28; MiCabrera, Detroit, 26; KMorales, Kansas City, 26; Travis, Toronto, 26.PitchingFHernandez, Seattle, 6-0; Pineda, New York, 5-0; Buehrle, Toronto, 5-2; Betances, New York, 4-0; Keuchel, Houston, 4-0; Gray, Oakland, 4-1; McHugh, Houston, 4-1.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 20 15 .571 —Washington 19 16 .543 1Miami 16 19 .457 4Atlanta 15 19 .441 4 1/2Philadelphia 13 23 .361 7 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 24 10 .706 —Chicago 19 15 .559 5Cincinnati 18 17 .514 6 1/2Pittsburgh 17 18 .486 7 1/2Milwaukee 12 23 .343 12 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 22 11 .667 —San Diego 18 17 .514 5San Francisco 17 18 .486 6Arizona 15 18 .455 7Colorado 11 19 .367 9 1/2

Wednesday’s GamesWashington 9, Arizona 6Cleveland 2, St. Louis 0Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 2Cincinnati 5, Atlanta 1Miami 5, L.A. Dodgers 4Chicago Cubs 2, N.Y. Mets 1Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee 2Houston 4, San Francisco 3L.A. Angels 2, Colorado 1, 11 inningsSan Diego 4, Seattle 2

Thursday’s GamesSt. Louis 2, Cleveland 1Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2Chicago Cubs 6, N.Y. Mets 5Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 3Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, lateWashington at San Diego, late

Friday’s GamesPittsburgh (Locke 2-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-1), 12:20 p.m.Arizona (C.Anderson 0-1) at Philadelphia (Billingsley 0-2), 5:05 p.m.Atlanta (Teheran 3-1) at Miami (Phelps 2-0), 5:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Lohse 2-4) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 6-1), 5:10 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-2) at Cincinnati (Mar-quis 3-2), 5:10 p.m.Detroit (Greene 3-2) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 3-1), 6:15 p.m.Colorado (E.Butler 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-2), 8:10 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 2-2) at San Diego (De-spaigne 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesAtlanta at Miami, 11:05 a.m.Detroit at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.San Francisco at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.Washington at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.DGordon Mia 32 136 20 58 .426AGonzalez LAD 33 125 26 45 .360Galvis Phi 34 119 13 42 .353Goldschmidt Ari 33 121 28 42 .347Holliday StL 32 110 16 37 .336Rizzo ChC 34 119 24 40 .336Pagan SF 34 134 10 45 .336YEscobar Was 31 120 18 40 .333LeMahieu Col 29 98 6 32 .327

Freeman Atl 34 130 24 42 .323Home RunsFrazier, Cincinnati, 12; Harper, Washington, 12; Pederson, Los Angeles, 10; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 9; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 9; Byrd, Cincinnati, 8; Marte, Pittsburgh, 8; Stanton, Miami, 8; Upton, San Diego, 8.Runs Batted InStanton, Miami, 33; Harper, Washington, 31; AGo-nzalez, Los Angeles, 30; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 28; Marte, Pittsburgh, 25; Zimmerman, Washington, 25; Upton, San Diego, 24.PitchingBColon, New York, 6-1; Shields, San Diego, 5-0; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-0; Wacha, St. Louis, 5-0; GCole, Pittsburgh, 5-1; Harvey, New York, 5-1; Casilla, San Francisco, 4-0.

Thursday’s Major League LinescoresAMERICAN LEAGUEMinnesota 000 100 000 — 1 5 2Detroit 301 013 32x — 13 20 0Pelfrey, Duensing (5), Pressly (6), Graham (7) and K.Suzuki; An.Sanchez, Alburquerque (9) and Ho-laday. W—An.Sanchez 3-4. L—Pelfrey 3-1. HRs—Detroit, Castellanos (3), Mi.Cabrera 2 (8), Holaday (1).

Kan. City 100 203 000 — 6 14 0Texas 000 020 100 — 3 7 1Guthrie, Madson (6), Hochevar (7), K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and Butera; Detwiler, Bass (6), S.Freeman (6), Fujikawa (8), Claudio (9) and Corporan. W—Guthrie 3-2. L—Detwiler 0-5. Sv—G.Holland (7). HRs—Kansas City, Hosmer (7).

New York 000 000 001 — 1 5 1Tampa Bay 130 100 10x — 6 10 0Whitley, E.Rogers (2), D.Carpenter (6), Shreve (7), Pinder (8) and B.McCann; E.Ramirez, Andriese (6) and Rivera. W—E.Ramirez 1-1. L—Whitley 1-2. Sv—Andriese (2). HRs—New York, A.Rodriguez (9). Tampa Bay, Rivera (2).

Toronto 201 000 100 — 4 7 1Houston 100 001 40x — 6 8 0Hutchison, Loup (7), Osuna (7), Delabar (8) and Thole; R.Hernandez, Fields (7), Neshek (8), Qualls (9) and J.Castro. W—Fields 2-0. L—Loup 1-2. Sv—Qualls (4). HRs—Toronto, Bautista (6), Encarnacion (8).

Boston 000 100 001 — 2 10 0Seattle 000 001 000 — 1 7 1J.Kelly, Layne (7), Barnes (8), Uehara (9) and Swihart, S.Leon; Elias, Lowe (7), Furbush (7), Ca.Smith (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino. W—Barnes 2-0. L—Rodney 1-2. Sv—Uehara (8). HRs—Boston, Victorino (1).

INTERLEAGUESt. Louis 000 000 020 — 2 7 0Cleveland 000 001 000 — 1 8 0Wacha, Siegrist (6), Choate (8), Maness (8), Rosen-thal (8) and Molina; Bauer, Rzepczynski (8), McAl-lister (8), B.Shaw (9) and R.Perez. W—Siegrist 2-0. L—Rzepczynski 1-1. Sv—Rosenthal (12). HRs—St. Louis, M.Carpenter (6). Cleveland, Brantley (4).

NATIONAL LEAGUEPittsburgh 000 000 002 — 2 7 2Phila. 201 010 00x — 4 11 1Worley, Liz (5), LaFromboise (8) and Stewart; Ha-rang, Giles (9), Papelbon (9) and Rupp. W—Harang 4-3. L—Worley 2-3. Sv—Papelbon (8). HRs—Phila-delphia, Howard (7).

New York 010 220 000 — 5 10 1Chicago 000 140 10x — 6 6 0Niese, Robles (7), Leathersich (8), Goeddel (8) and Recker, Monell; T.Wood, Motte (5), Grimm (6), J.Russell (7), Strop (7), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo, D.Ross, M.Montero. W—Strop 1-2. L—Niese 3-3. Sv—H.Rondon (8). HRs—New York, Recker 2 (2), Flores (5). Chicago, Fowler (3).

San Fran. 101 000 010 — 3 7 0Cincinnati 000 120 01x — 4 7 0Lincecum, Lopez (5), Machi (7), Romo (8), Affeldt (8) and Posey, Susac; Cueto, Cingrani (8), Ju.Diaz (8), A.Chapman (9) and B.Pena. W—Ju.Diaz 2-0. L—Romo 0-2. Sv—A.Chapman (7). HRs—Cincin-nati, Byrd (8).

TransactionsThursday’s Sports TransactionsHOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueVANCOUVER CANUCKS — Signed D Jordan Sub-ban to an entry-level contract.WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned D Nate Schmidt to Hershey (AHL).FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueBUFFALO BILLS — Signed G John Miller and RB Karlos Williams.CINCINNATI BENGALS — Agreed to terms with TE C.J. Uzomah, S Derron Smith and WR Mario Alford.CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu.DALLAS COWBOYS — Released LBs Keith Smith and Will Smith. Signed S Danny McCray, LB Donnie Baggs and TE Geoff Swaim.DETROIT LIONS — Signed DE Corey Wootton to a one-year contract. Promoted Lance Newmark to director of college scouting, Cedric Saunders to se-nior vice-president of football operations and Scott McEwen to senior personnel executive.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed TE Jesse James to a four-year contract.TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with RBs David Cobb and Jalston Fowler. Named Jimmy Stanton vice-president of communications. Pro-moted Ralph Ockenfels to vice-president of market-ing and broadcast and digital rights, Gary Glenn to senior director of digital media and Robbie Bohren to senior director of media relations.Canadian Football LeagueEDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed OL Tyson Pencer and PK/P Zackary Medeiros.TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Announced the retire-ment of WR Mike Bradwell.WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed LB Sammy Brown.Arena Football LeagueORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with DB Rod Issac.SPOKANE SHOCK — Assigned DB Jeff Richards. Activated DB Andre Jones. Placed DB Sam Pope on injured reserve. Traded QB Danny Southwick to the Los Angeles Kiss for two future considerations.

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Justin Master-son on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday. Recalled LHP Robbie Ross from Pawtucket (IL). As-signed 3B Luis Jimenez outright to Pawtucket.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned INF Micah Johnson to Charlotte (IL).CLEVELAND INDIANS —Assigned RHP Anthony Swarzak outright to Columbus (IL).OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Traded C Blake For-sythe to Philadelphia for cash. Sent LHP Sean Doolittle to Stockton (Cal) for a rehab assignment.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Claimed RHP Preston Guil-met off waivers from Toronto and optioned him to Durham (IL).TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Spencer Pat-ton to Round Rock (PCL). Reinstated RHP Kyuji Fujikawa from the 15-day DL.National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES — Placed OF Kelly Johnson on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Todd Cunningham from Gwinnett (IL).

Teenager Jessie Fleming scores as Canadian women beat Mexico in soccer friendly


SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Teenage midfielder Jessie Flem-ing scored in the first half to give Canada a 1-0 win over Mexico in a women’s soccer friendly Thursday.

The Mexican ’keeper could not corral a cross and the 17-year-old from London, Ont., tapped the ball in.

The game came one day after the Canadians, thanks to a goal by Sophie Schmidt, played the U.S. to a 1-1 draw in a closed-door training match at Santa Ana College.

“A really strong performance,” Canadian coach John Herd-man said of the U.S. match. “Then we put out a completely different team today which includes some of our alternate play-ers.”

That included Sura Yekka, Rebecca Quinn and Janine Beck-ie.Herdman said his team emerged from both games unscathed, although captain Christine Sinclair left the first half Wednes-day.

“It was more precautionary,” said Herdman. “Everyone’s looking good at the minute.”

The Canadian women leave Friday for a training stint in Can-cun, Mexico.

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BROSSARD, Que. — P.K. Subban says the Mon-treal Canadiens’ anemic power play has to change.

The team’s star defenceman said Thursday it can-not remain as static and predictable as the one that produced a meagre two goals on 36 opportunities (5.6 per cent) during the playoffs.

“It’s frustrating that our power play wasn’t bet-ter,” Subban said Thursday as the players met with the media for the last time before their off-season break. “You look at our offensive numbers and you wonder what they would have looked like if our pow-er play was just a little bit better.

“It’s shocking what the numbers could look like on our team. But listen, it’s something we know we have to improve on for next year. I guess that’s a bright spot when you finish first in your division and your power play was a non-factor pretty much the whole season. It’s a positive thing going into the off-season.”

The Canadiens managed to finish second overall

in the NHL with 110 points this season despite hav-ing the league’s 23rd ranked power play, with a 16.5 per cent success rate.

But offence was a big part of their undoing in the playoffs as they scored only 11 goals (1.83 per game) while bowing out in six games in the second round to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Montreal was expected to do well with the man advantage with skilled rearguards on the point like Subban and Andrei Markov, but it never got going. Opponents guarded the points and the forwards were unable to generate much around the net.

Subban said the power play was too predictable and needed more movement among the point men and the forwards.

“You need sometimes just to be mobile,” he said. “Sometimes it’s just being in positions teams don’t expect you to be in.

“One thing I give Tampa credit for is that there’s no lack of creativity on their power play. Their play-ers obviously get off that leash to move around. I don’t think there’s any cemented structure on that power play. They’ve got skilled players and they

move around the ice. They make plays, they change position, they read off each other.”

Assistant coach Dan Lacroix, who joined Michel Therrien’s staff this season from the New York Rang-ers and was put in change of the power play, has taken some heat for not finding answers to season-long woes.

There was no word on whether he’ll be back next season. Therrien did not meet with the media, while general manager Marc Bergevin is scheduled to speak on Friday.

The Canadiens had lower than average scoring all season. Part of that stems from a defence-first sys-tem, but they also lack depth in offensive talent after scoring leader Max Pacioretty, centre Tomas Pleka-nec and winger Brandan Gallagher.

Forward Alex Galchenyuk, the third overall pick in 2012, took a step forward this season with 20 goals and 26 assists. There is hope that if the 20-year-old moves to his natural position at centre he can have a breakthrough season.

Otherwise, the Canadiens will likely look for help on attack.

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks have a sell-out streak of 323 games and counting. The New York Rangers play in the world’s most famous arena, and the Anaheim Ducks are undefeated at home in the playoffs. The Tampa Bay Lightning set a franchise record with an NHL-best 32 home wins this season.

Welcome to the NHL’s final four, where one road win could go a long way.

Fresh off a Game 7 victory over Washington at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers host the Light-ning on Saturday in the opener of the Eastern Con-ference finals. In the West, the Ducks put their per-fect home playoff record on the line in Sunday’s Game 1 against the Blackhawks, who also are 5-0 at home in the post-season.

“It’s been a good run so far at home, but every round gets harder,” Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said Thursday.

The four remaining teams are a combined 19-5 at home this post-season. The home team is 42-27 in this year’s NHL playoffs for a winning percentage of .609 that ranks ahead of last year (56-37, .602), though way below the remarkable 59-27 home record for the 2013 playoffs after the season was shortened because of labour strife.

Of course, players credit their fans for success at home, but the NHL also gives home teams the last line change after play is stopped, and last stick on the ice for faceoffs. Savvy coaches use the last line change to get the matchups they want at critical mo-ments, and the advantage for faceoffs can produce extra possessions or help clear the puck from the defensive zone at the end of a frantic shift.

“This time of year, especially against a team’s top line, you want to be able to get the right people on the ice at that moment, but when it goes down from there, you can see people playing against anybody,” Ducks defenceman Cam Fowler said. “It’s not a huge thing that Bruce is preaching, but I think it still is a factor for us in the first couple of games.”

There also is a pronounced advantage for faceoffs. Each of the four remaining teams is better at the dot

at home compared to the road, with Tampa Bay post-ing the biggest split at 53.1 per cent at Amalie Arena and 47.8 per cent in road playoff games. The next biggest difference is 4.9 points for New York (46.8 per cent at home, compared to 41.9 per cent on the road), and then Chicago (53.7 and 49.1) and Anaheim (56.7 and 53.9), according to STATS.

Give stars such as Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos or New York forward Rick Nash more time with the puck, and good things happen for their teams.

Seeking their third Stanley Cup title in the last six seasons, the Blackhawks have won 24 of their last 28 home playoff games. With Joel Quenneville behind the bench and a deep group of forwards taking the ice, they are uniquely positioned to make the most of the rules for home games, but captain Jonathan Toews thinks the crowd is the biggest reason for home success in the NHL.

“When you play well and you create things and things are going your way, the crowd’s behind you,” he said. “I think it adds to the fact of trying to take away momentum, take away energy from the other team. Everyone wants that, especially in the play-offs.”

But Chicago needs at least one road win to move on, and top-seeded Anaheim is 11-3 at the Honda Center since Feb. 27. The Ducks outscored the Jets and Flames 18-6 at home while beginning the play-offs with eight wins in nine games.

“We also feel confident playing on the road,” Chicago forward Patrick Sharp said. “We know Ana-heim’s going to be a tough place to play, but we’ve gone there and won before. Hopefully we can do it again.”

New York’s 2-1 overtime win against Washington on Wednesday night was the Rangers’ fifth victory in seven home playoffs games this year. They also im-proved to 7-0 at home in Game 7.

The Lightning needed a Game 7 home win against Detroit to escape the first round, and coach Jon Coo-per said that is where home ice provides the biggest advantage. Home teams are 94-65 in Game 7s in the Stanley Cup playoffs, including 3-0 this year.

“I do think it matters in Game 7, and that’s why you want it,” Cooper said. “I think that’s the one game that home ice can matter.”


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In this Nov. 26, 2014 photo, Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Ryan Callahan (24) celebrates his goal past New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist during an NHL game in Tampa, Fla. The NHL’s final four teams are 19-5 at home in the playoffs.

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Subban says Habs attack, power play must improve for next season


FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady appealed the four-game suspension he was handed for his role in using deflated footballs during the AFC championship game, and the players union urged Commis-sioner Roger Goodell to appoint a neu-tral arbitrator to hear the case.

The expected appeal was filed by the NFL Players Association on Thurs-day about an hour before a 5 p.m. East-ern deadline.

The league’s collective bargaining agreement stipulates that it will be decided by Goodell or a person he des-ignates. But the players union said in a news release that “given the NFL’s history of inconsistency and arbitrary decisions in disciplinary matters, it is only fair that a neutral arbitrator hear this appeal.”

The union did not detail the basis for the appeal. But in a 20,000-word rebuttal posted online by the Patriots’ lawyers earlier Thursday, the team disputed the conclusions on matters of science, logic and law.

Attorney Daniel Goldberg’s re-sponse claims the league’s conclusions are “at best, incomplete, incorrect and lack context,” claiming as one example that the “deflator” nickname used by a ballboy and cited in the discipline was about weight loss, not footballs.

Goldberg represented the team and was present during all of interviews of team personnel. Patriots spokes-man Stacey James confirmed that the site wellsreportcontext.com was genu-ine and “approved/supported by the team.”

The NFL suspended the quarter-back for four games on Monday, also fining the defending Super Bowl cham-pions $1 million and taking away two draft picks. Brady’s appeal only deals with the suspension and must be heard within 10 days. The team has not said if it will appeal its penalties, which in-clude a first-round draft pick next year and a fourth-rounder in 2017, before a May 21 deadline.

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Wells found that Brady was “at least generally aware” of plans by two team employees to prepare the balls to his liking, below the league-mandated minimum of 12.5 pounds per square inch.

But the team’s rebuttal presented its own science that would explain the loss of pressure in a more innocuous way.

“The most fundamental issue in this matter is: DOES SCIENCE EXPLAIN THE LOSS OF PSI IN THE PATRIOTS FOOTBALLS?” Goldberg wrote before concluding, also in all capital letters, that it does.

The rebuttal also alludes to other incidents of ball-tampering that were not dealt with as harshly. And it says increased communication between Brady and the ballboys after the scan-dal broke were just normal expres-sions of concern, rather than evidence of the quarterback’s guilt.

Here are some more of the claims and counter-claims in the Wells report and the Patriots’ rebuttal:

THE DEFLATORThe NFL says: Texts in which locker

room attendant Jim McNally refers to himself as “the deflator” are an in-dication that he was taking air out of footballs after they were inspected by the referees. His texts with equipment assistant John Jastremski also include a reference to a providing him with a needle.

The team says: McNally used the term “deflator” refer to his desire to lose weight, as in the text, “deflate and give somebody that jacket.” And the needle was necessary because McNal-ly was sometimes responsible for get-ting an inflation needle to referees for pregame testing.

THE SCIENCE:The NFL says: The footballs provid-

ed by the Patriots lost more air pres-sure between the pregame test and halftime than could be explained by non-nefarious reasons.

The team says: The league cherry-

picked readings from two different gauges to create the biggest gap be-tween pregame and halftime measure-ments. That overshadowed a differ-ence in air pressure in some of the balls that could be explained by atmo-spheric conditions.

WHO IS “HE”?The NFL says: It’s Brady. A text

message from Jastremski to McNally says: “Talked to him last night. He ac-tually brought you up and said you must have a lot of stress trying to get them done.”

The Patriots say: It is a leap of logic to conclude that the stress was related

to football deflation. They refer, Gold-berg wrote, to “Mr. Jastremski’s friend, as the investigators were told, and the conversation involved issues relating to Mr. McNally’s stress relating to re-selling family tickets.”

CO-OPERATIONThe NFL says: Brady obstructed the

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TORONTO — Barefoot in a board-room, the world’s most dominant ath-lete — so says the cover of Sports Illus-trated — is losing her voice.

(Rowdy) Ronda Rousey, UFC cham-pion, Olympic judo bronze medallist, actor and now author, is feeling the ef-fects of a bout of pneumonia.

“I’ve never fully recovered because they’ve had me talking constantly all day since,” she said with a slight laugh. “But now I’m feeling like Adele-raspy not like mute. We’re going in stages.”

Rousey, 28, has survived far worse, as her new autobiography My Fight/Your Fight documents.

The current rock star of mixed mar-tial arts was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, came late to talking, been homeless, battled bulimia, fallen asleep at the wheel while juggling minimum-wage jobs, put her body through hell, discovered naked photos taken without her knowl-edge by a boyfriend, bumped heads with her mother and mourned the trag-ic death of her father.

There was no shortage of material for the book Rousey had always talked of writing.

“When I was really having some of my hardest days, I would tell myself — kind of as a pep talk — that I was just in the difficult part of the book and that I was in the middle of a very in-teresting autobiography,” said Rousey, who kept journals growing up.

“And I was convinced I was on my way to something and I wasn’t stuck where I was.”

Rousey, who wrote the book with journalist/sister Maria Burns Ortiz, wanted to deliver more than a memoir and succeeds. It’s an easy read that rises from the entertaining to the in-spirational at times.

The book is accompanied by Eric Williams’ candid photos from training camps for bouts with Canadian Alexis Davis and Cat Zingano.

Each chapter is prefaced by a brief statement/confession or lesson learned.

“I have lost tournaments. I have lost

friendships. I have lost my father,” she writes in opening the chapter titled “You Will be Tested.

“I know that I can deal when things are bad. I can come back when things are at their worst. I’m not afraid of los-ing all my money or losing my career, because I know I’m capable of living in my car and rising up. Once you’ve conquered the worst things that can happen, there is no need to fear the unknown. You are fearless.”

You start to believe that after read-ing how Rousey pushed a dislocated elbow back into place during a 2007 bout with world judo champion Edith Bosch. Or how she felt her jaw dis-locate in 2013 before rallying to beat Liz Carmouche in her first UFC title defence.

In person, the five-foot-seven Rous-ey moves gracefully. A tiny tattoo peaks out of her sleeve. Inked words adorn her foot. A two-time Olympic ju-doka, Rousey keeps the Olympic rings out of sight unless you have a copy of ESPN’s The Magazine “Body Issue” ly-ing around.

She has a big, hearty laugh and a crinkly smile that is worlds apart from her go-to-war Octagon face.

Rousey has a soft spot for Canada and it’s not just because she only need-ed 158 seconds to dispatch Canadians Charmaine Tweet, Julie Budd, Sarah Kaufman and Davis. Rousey fondly recalls living four to five months in Montreal as a cash-strapped amateur athlete.

These days Rousey has a tight circle of friends, family and confidantes. Ref-erencing the film Million Dollar Baby, she says head trainer Edmond Tarve-rdyan is the Clint Eastwood to her Hi-lary Swank.

Asked about the Sports Illustrated cover and its headline “Ronda Rousey is the world’s most dominant athlete,” Rousey replies: “I’m so immeasurably proud that the word woman wasn’t in there. And that a lot of people didn’t even notice it was missing.”

While Rousey is at the top of her game, the books suggest she has not fared well with boyfriends.

“I can’t be good at everything,” she said with a chuckle.

Rousey’s mother routinely refers to the boyfriends of her four daughters as Bob. “Unless you’re engaged, they Bob.”

The rationale is why make the effort if they’re not sticking around.

Unbeaten in 11 pro fights, 10 of which ended in the first round, Rousey no longer has to worry about paying the bills. But challenges remain.

“When I was struggling, it sucked but it was simple. I knew exactly what I had to do that day to get through the day. It was hard work but it was easy to wrap your mind around.”

The problems were basic, like pay-ing for rent, food, gas, car insurance, feeding the dog, and sorting out train-ing.

“I had six or seven problems. I don’t have enough digits for my problems these days,” she said with a laugh. “They’re a lot smaller problems and I’d rather have those than worry about eviction. But it’s hard to mentally keep track of so many things at once and not let anything fall through the cracks.”

If she does move, it may be to reach for a book or a mouse to play World Of Warcraft.

But there are no complaints. “Life is good. I’m having a ball. I really am.”

Rousey says she has one day off be-tween now and Aug. 2, which is the day after her UFC 190 fight against Bethe Correia in Brazil.

So what will she do to relax then? “I think I’m going to faceplant, not move.”

FIRST UFC WOMEN’S CHAMPION PENS AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUT STRUGGLES

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UFC bantamweight and former Olympic judo medallist (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey poses for a photograph in Toronto on Thursday. She has just penned a new autobiography detailing her struggles to stardom story.


WINDSOR, Ont. — The new bridge between Cana-da and the United States will be named after hockey legend Gordie Howe, Prime Minister Stephen Harp-er announced on Thursday.

Howe, 87, who is recovering from a stroke, was un-able to attend a riverfront event overlooking Detroit to announce the name, but his son called it a “truly incredible” honour.

“That sounds pretty good to me,” Murray Howe quoted his father as saying when told of the tribute.

“He is deeply moved by this gracious gesture.”The sport hero known as “Mr. Hockey” was born

in Floral, Sask., but made his name playing for the Detroit Red Wings, the squad he helped propel to four Stanley Cup wins.

As Howe’s other son, Marty, and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder looked on, Harper praised the former NHLer as a proud Canadian who is not only a nation-al hero in Canada but also an idol in Detroit.

His name fully deserves to be on the planned span joining two countries that share a special bond, the prime minister said after unveiling a portrait of a youthful Howe.

“I don’t think we could think of a better person who symbolizes that relationship than Gordie Howe,” Harper said. “Very few people are living legends and it’s great to be able to honour this living legend.”

The Windsor-Detroit corridor is the busiest com-mercial crossing between the two countries and the lone existing bridge, whose owner has fought the new one, has long been a bottleneck.

The still-to-be built bridge — expected to cost well in excess of $1 billion — is on track to be up and run-ning in 2020, Harper said.

Snyder said the Howe name was an inspiration and a legend in both Canada and Michigan, and therefore a good choice for the span.

Murray Howe called it fitting the bridge connects Windsor to Detroit because his German grandmother landed in the Ontario city a century ago, making it her home before heading to Saskatchewan.


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TORONTO — At the Toronto Track and Field Centre at York University, where most of Canada’s top sprinters train, there was some good-natured ribbing going on this week.

The athletes were just home from the Bahamas, where Canada’s women’s 4x100-metre relay team twice lowered the national record and qualified for the Olympics for the first time in 16 years.

After years of men dominating the sprint events in Canada, the women are giving them a run for their money.

“It actually feels really good to. . . not be rubbing it in their faces, but let them know we’re there too, that we can be contenders,” Kim Hyacinthe said, with a laugh.

Hyacinthe, from Lachenaie, Que., Toronto’s Crystal Emmanuel and Shai-Anne Davis, and Khamica Bingham of Caledon, Ont., were fourth at the IAAF World Relays in Nassau, clinch-ing their spot in Rio. They broke the Canadian record in both the heats and final, and their time of 42.85 was just 0.01 seconds out of a medal position.

“It’s a really exciting time for track and field because we genuinely have athletes who are one, young, but they’re also competing at a high level, so they’re just scratching their sur-face,” said Phylicia George, a 100-me-tre hurdles specialist who’s also in the women’s relay mix.

“I think Canada has kind of changed their approach to how they want to get things. Its not about going and being participants, it’s about going and being competitors.

“I think it creates an environment where you see other people competing hard, you see other people doing well, you want to do that. So it brings every-body up.”

The women’s 4x400 team of Nicole Sassine of Windsor, Ont., Fawn Dorr of Marten River, Ont., Carline Muir of

Edmonton, and Audrey Jean-Baptiste of Montreal, was sixth last weekend, guaranteeing a berth in Rio with their top-eight finish.

Canada hasn’t had a women’s relay over either distance run at the Olym-pics since 2000 in Sydney.

Hyacinthe moved from Montreal to Toronto almost three years ago to sur-round herself with better sprinters.

“Me and Crystal have this ’I’m going

to beat you on this one.’ Just yester-day, she said ’Are you waiting for the whup ass this weekend?’ I was like ’Woah. . . really,”’ Hyancinthe said, laughing. “It’s all fun and games. And when we’re in (heavy) base training and we die, we die together. We’re all dying together, crying together, vomit-ing together. (More laughter).

“It’s a good environment.”The men’s 4x100 squad was disqual-

ified last weekend because of a bad baton exchange, but Canada’s men are clocking fast times this season as well.

Andre De Grasse of Markham, Ont., a 20-year-old who runs for USC, ran 10.04 in the 100 metres recently.

“That’s one of the fastest times for awhile. . . 10.04, going back to Donovan Bailey time,” said Gavin Smellie, part of Canada’s heartbroken 4x100 team that lost bronze on a disqualification at the London Olympics.

“Everybody feeds off it, because if somebody runs fast, for some reason somebody else comes. And it keeps getting faster every year. Everybody feeds off the competition and we’re just going to get better from there.”

Priscilla Lopes-Schliep’s bronze in the 100-metre hurdles at the 2008 Bei-jing Games was Canada’s only Olym-pic medal in the sprints since 1996, when Bailey won the 100 metres and the men’s 4x100 relay team raced to gold in Atlanta.

The Canadian men made up for their heartbreak in London by winning bronze at the world championships in 2013. Dontae Richards-Kwok, who ran on the bronze-winning team in Mos-cow, said the depth in the sprints has cranked up the competition level in Canada.

The Canadian championships next month in Edmonton is the qualifying event for the world championships, and the battle for spots will be fierce.

“Definitely it’s lot harder (to make teams) than it has been in the past,” said the Mississauga, Ont., native. “We have legitimately five or six people who could be on the team for the 100 and the 200, so it’s going to be tough. But that is good, it raises everybody’s level of competition.

“As opposed to the past, you had a pretty good idea of who was going to make it, now anyone could make it, so you’re kind of — not thinking about it all season — but you have that pushing you in the back of your mind, because nothing is certain this year.”

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Sprinter Crystal Emmanuel of Canada is silhouetted as she runs in the USA vs. the World Women’s 4x100 meter during the Penn Relays athletics meet, April 25, 2015, in Philadelphia. Canada’s Rio-bound women sprinters are giving the men a run for their money.

France’s Klatten leads Kingsmill after opening

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — France’s Joanna Klatten had five birdies in a six-hole stretch and finished with a 6-under 65 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s Kingsmill Championship.

Klatten birdied Nos. 3-6 and 8 and closed with a par on No. 9 on Kingsmill Resort’s River Course.

“I made a few bombs, which is nice, but it was just solid,” Klatten said. “I’ve been playing pretty good lately. Just struggled with the putting the last few tournaments, but today it was fixed.

“I definitely had luck on my side today. I had good breaks and it feels good. Lately, it felt the other way around, but I knew that it always evens out. Today, it definitely did.”

The 30-year-old former Georgia State player is winless in 27 career events on the LPGA Tour.

“This is one of my favourite courses all year,” Klatten said. “I feel very comfortable here. It suits my eye really well. I think you have an advantage if you’re among the long hitters.”

Morgan Pressel, Alison Lee and Pat Hurst were a stroke back, and So Yeon Ryu, Paula Creamer, Jac-qui Concolino and Perrine Delacour followed at 67.

Michelle Wie withdrew because of a hip injury after a 78.

“Regrettably, I need to withdraw today due to a left hip injury that has been bothering me this week,” Wie said on Twitter.

She had a double bogey, six bogeys and one bird-ie.

Pressel had five birdies in a bogey-free round. Winless since 2008, she has two top-three finishes in her last four events. She was third in the ANA Inspiration and second in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.

“I just played pretty steady out there today,” Pres-sel said. “I don’t think I hit the ball quite as well as I would’ve liked to, but made a few really good up-and-downs. Made birdie when I had the opportunity. The good up-and-downs certainly were part of the reason why I had no bogeys.”

Lee had seven birdies and two bogeys. The 20-year-old former UCLA star tied fourth in the Kia Classic in March and has three top-25 finishes in her rookie season.

“I was able to grab a couple birdies going down the stretch,” Lee said.

“Especially the last four holes — I got three bird-ies. I’ve been putting it a lot better. That’s what I’ve struggling with the past month, like my putting. But I had a lot of good rolls today.”

The 45-year-old Hurst had a bogey-free round. She won the last of her six LPGA Tour titles in 2009.

“You got to hit the ball well out here,” Hurst said. “It’s all about the angles out here and being on the right side of the fairway and the way you come into the greens. If you’re hitting the ball good, it’s easier to put them in that spot.”

Third-ranked Stacy Lewis opened with a 69, top-ranked Lydia Ko and 17-year-old Brooke Henderson from Smiths Falls, Ont., shot 71, and second-ranked Inbee Park had a 72.

Park won the North Texas Shootout two weeks ago for her second victory of the year.

Three-time Kingsmill winner Cristie Kerr had a 73, and defending champion Lizette Salas shot 74.

Jennifer Kirby of Paris, Ont., fired a 72, Hamil-ton’s Alena Sharp shot a 73, Toronto’s Rebecca Lee-Bentham shot a 76 and Sue Kim of Langley, B.C., shot a 77.

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A collection inspired by the work of famed Canadian artist Alex Colville helped Mat-thew Gallagher land top honours at the TFI New Labels contest. The emerging womenswear designer behind Maison Matthew Gallagher was awarded a $25,000 cash prize during the annual contest organized by the Toronto Fashion Incuba-tor. TFI is a non-profit, small business centre that offers support and mentorship to budding Canadian fashion design-ers and entrepreneurs. The organization’s con-cept has been adopted by cities worldwide, in-cluding New York, Lon-don, Paris, Milan, Mel-bourne, Auckland and Amsterdam.

Montreal-based de-signer Valerie Tolila of Vaiken, high-end streetwear brand Benji WZW and Toronto-based womenswear brand Jen-nifer Torosian were the other contenders vy-ing for the New Labels crown. Gallagher re-called seeing a picture of a Colville painting fea-turing a mother and her two children. He used the woman portrayed in the image as inspiration for his own creative jour-ney with his fall-winter collection. He started to imagine the mother having aspirations of Hollywood stardom and dreams about what life as a starlet would be like which he translated into his glamorous range of garments. The line fea-tured a mostly muted palette of cream, grey and blush hues. Femi-nine tops in silk, wool and chiffon fabrics were showcased alongside em-bellished apron skirts, cut-out skirts and dress-es, pullovers and bolero jackets in wool boucle and elegant outerwear.

Gallagher rounded out the presentation with a trio of dramatic all-black looks, notably a crepe column gown with crystal detailing, and a black ostrich, chiffon and crepe apron skirt.

“I wanted to let the fabrics speak for them-selves,” Gallagher said after the event conclud-ed. The Milan-trained Gallagher said he was living in Italy and partic-ipating in an internship when he got a call from Toronto-based designer management company The Collections asking if he wanted to show his line.


TORONTO — Jose Bautista has no plans to abandon his day job, but the Toronto Blue Jays all-star slugger is exploring another passion away from the baseball field: fashion.

The right-fielder has partnered with Canadian brand Silver Jeans Co. on the Joey Series, which will be released in North America this July.

The denim collection’s moniker is a reference to Bautista’s “Joey Bats” nickname, which he also uses as his social media handle. The Joey Se-ries jeans will be featured in classic straight and loose fits in a variety of washes.

Bautista said he tried to be hands-on for his initial foray into fashion. He embarked on several trips to learn more about production and manufac-turing, which proved eye-opening.

“There’s so many selections on stitching, on buttons, cuts, fabrics, washes, the logos and where they go.... I didn’t know the process was that com-plicated,” Bautista said in an interview at the Toronto launch event.

“If you want to let everybody else do the work and you just put your name

on it, I’m sure it’s easy. But for me, I wanted to make it a really information-al learning process for me — so I asked about everything.

“It’s difficult to get the wash right, to get the fabric and the feel right.... If you want to make it a little stretchy, just by changing one per cent of the fabric into a more elastic fabric, you can change the feel of the denim com-pletely. So, I enjoyed learning a lot — and I think there’s a lot more for me to learn still.”

Bautista said he values comfort and versatility in jeans.

“Being a professional athlete, being on the road a lot and travelling and not wanting to pack a suitcase that weighs 200 pounds, substituting six, seven or eight pants for two pairs of very versa-tile jeans is definitely ideal.”

Growing up in the Dominican Re-public, Bautista admits he dabbled in the baggy T-shirt and baggy jeans look that was particularly popular in the ’90s. However, the loose-fitting styles weren’t the most flattering for his lanky frame.

“I was always one of the skinny guys, and I wasn’t nearly as filled out as I am now,” said the six-foot Bautista.

These days, Bautista keeps his den-

im choices crisp and classic, favour-ing basic straight blue jeans, a “su-per light” wash and coloured pairs in black and grey.

While Bautista’s primary focus is on helping to propel the Blue Jays into playoff contention, he’s considering other fashion pursuits in the future.

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Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail [email protected] WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM

Sylvan Lake’s controversial mobile vending project is off to a promising start.

Mayor Sean McIntyre said he was pleased to see that a number of applications for vending licences have already been filed, with other entrepreneurs expressing interest.

The first local mobile vendor already set up temporary shop re-cently, selling artwork.

Eight applications came in by April 15 and the first lottery divvy-ing up approved locations was held on April 20.

In March, town council approved mobile vending as part of tightly controlled pilot project that will al-low six vendors per week.

Council chambers was packed, many of them local Lakeshore Drive business owners concerned about food trucks cutting into their profits and getting an unfair advan-tage.

As a response, council eliminat-ed one of two locations available for food trucks and boosted licence fees. One food truck can only set up in the parking lot at 50th Street and

50th Avenue. Food truck licences cost $1,000 weekly and food cart licences are $300.

McIntyre said while he recog-nizes the concerns of some busi-nesses, he wants to see the town try out mobile vending as a means to attract more residents downtown, as well as to cater to visitors in the summer season.

The other vending licences will give local entrepreneurs an oppor-tunity to boost their exposure.

McIntyre said years ago the Lakeshore Drive area was home to multiple mini-golf courses, an amusement park and other “at-tractors” that brought people to the area. Those visitors might then wander around local shops and sit down to dine at restaurants.

The one-year pilot project will be reviewed in February.

In another effort to draw locals downtown, council recently agreed to allow the former Sylvan Lake Hotel site at the town’s most prom-inent corner at Lakeshore Drive and Centennial Street to be used for special events.

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

Some cuts in the Red Deer College vi-sual arts program are stirring student con-cerns.

A second-year elective course on print-making will no longer be offered. This means the loss of about one-third of a staff-ing position.

A ceramics technician contract will al-so not be renewed, resulting in the loss of nearly a full-time position (the techni-cian worked about 80 per cent of full-time hours).

Visual arts student Stephanie Mead said many of her classmates are upset about these reductions. They met with ad-ministrators to express discontent about decisions being made without consultation with the students, faculty or community.

Concerns remain about the loss of val-ued staff, electives and services while ad-ministration at the college is being built up, added Mead.

Jason Frizzell, dean of the RDC School of Creative Arts, said the decisions were cost driven, based on falling enrolment in the printmaking course and ceramics program.

“Visual arts is important to the college,” he maintained. To ensure the program’s

viability, courses must be cost effective, he added. “We have to make sure programs are healthy over the long term.”

Although a costing analysis found the optional printmaking course no longer vi-able, Frizzell said ceramics classes will continue with technician support. The vi-sual arts program still has two full-time technicians who can help in ceramics classes, as needed.

Frizzell said he does not want to dimin-ish decisions that impact people. But he affirmed the college’s commitment to vi-sual arts by saying many positive changes were also made to the program, including new and renovated studio and learning lab spaces.

Three years ago, the Professional Prac-tice I and II courses were added to the curriculum. The college purchased the downtown Welikoklad Event Centre, which includes an art gallery space. And a long-awaited soda kiln is expected to be built for ceramics this summer.

As for growing administration, Frizzell said a minimal increase was needed, due to some restructuring at RDC.

Visual Arts, theatre, film and music now all fall under RDC’s new School of Creative Arts. He believes student educa-tion will be enhanced by more collabora-tion between these programs.

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Park booze ban remainsCREATING ALCOHOL-FREE CAMPGROUNDS FOR LONG WEEKEND

HAS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED VANDALISM, VIOLENCE, DRUNK DRIVINGBY MARY-ANN BARR

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While camping is often associated with having a cool drink beside a warm fire, the alcohol ban in some Central Alberta provincial campgrounds will be in effect as usual for the long week-end.

Tim Chamberlin, a spokesman for Alberta Environment and Sustain-able Resource Development, said on Thursday that the ban in Aspen Beach,

Jarvis Bay and Pigeon Lake provincial parks is again in effect from Thursday at noon until Monday at 6 p.m.

The ban, which has been applied to a handful of provincial parks since 2004, is not being reviewed, he said. “At this point in time it’s status quo.”

The liquor ban was brought in at the particular parks based on a past his-tory of excessive liquor consumption, vandalism, impaired driving, assaults and other alcohol-related incidents, he said.

“It’s greatly reduced incidents in

these particular parks over the course of the years it has been in place, sig-nificantly,” Chamberlin said.

“Our goal is to ensure Alberta pro-vincial parks are safe and enjoyable for all our visitors and our staff.”

The ban is enforced by parks staff and conservation officers. “We have a full compliment out in our parks this weekend.”

All indications are that the provin-cial campgrounds are filling up again, said Chamberlin. The province’s res-ervation numbers are up by 5,000 from

last year, amounting to a total of over 50,000 online bookings through the res-ervations system since it opened for the 2015 season in February.

More campgrounds have been add-ed to the reservation system, and this year Alberta Parks moved to a stag-gered approach by region instead of opening up reservations for the entire province all at the same time.

People were very receptive and hap-py with that change, made after input from customers, Chamberlin said.

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Two of the latest additions to the Sunnybrook Farm Museum compete for attention as they stick their snouts through the fence in the pen (above). Joining these little weaner pigs are some lambs from the Gibson Farm, a miniature horse named Snowball from the Johnson Farm, Daisy the goat is back again this year and a variety of heritage chickens are visiting from ChickenTown in Innisfail. Two baby calves from the Wyntjes Farm are also spending the summer at the farm museum, as are a turkey and a donkey. The farm museum, just north of Bower Place mall in Red Deer, offers daily programs for school age children until the end of May. Attractions also include a tractor ride (inset) around the property. The farm museum, at 4701 30th St., is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 1 to Aug. 30. The farm’s mission is to create a place where people experience and learn about the early history of rural life in Central Alberta through preservation, interpretation and a living farm community.

Mobile vendor pilot projectdraws strong early response

SYLVAN LAKE Cuts to college visual arts programspark student protests

Red Deer man chargedafter store robbed

A 19-year-old man has been arrest-ed and charged following an armed robbery of the Deer Park Express 24 on Tuesday.

Red Deer RCMP said a masked man armed with a knife entered the store on Davison Drive about 5:20 a.m. and demanded cash from the store clerk.

The suspect then departed in a blue truck with a tool box in the back, east-bound down the alley behind the store.

Thanks to the store’s video surveil-lance, RCMP were able to quickly identify a suspect and vehicle, and at about 1 p.m. the same day they located the suspect in the vehicle and made a traffic stop.

Jayden Riley McKean of Red Deer, who was also wanted for outstanding warrants, was taken into custody with-out incident.

A search of the vehicle revealed evi-dence linking the suspect to the armed robbery.

McKean is charged with armed rob-bery, wearing a disguise with intent to commit a crime, possession of stolen property, two counts of failing to ap-pear and driving without insurance.

He is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on May 19.

Consort-area murder caseappeal ordered by court

A man convicted of shooting his brother at their Consort area farm will have his appeal heard later this year.

John Wayne Mock, 38, of Consort, was convicted in November 2013 of second-degree murder. Mock’s brother Timothy James Mock was found dead in the farmhouse.

John Mock was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 11 years at the conclusion of the three-week trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Kirk Sis-son and an 11-person jury.

That jury was reduced to 11 people from 12 after one juror notified the court he was not a Canadian citizen, after the trial started.

John Mock’s appeal will be heard by the Calgary Court of Appeal on Oct. 16.

John Mock was found by Consort RCMP running into the house naked and screaming, where police were investigating. They were called to the scene after John Mock placed a 911 call saying his brother had been shot. Timothy Mock was found dead at the scene.

Sylvan-area sewage hookupto take up to five years

Residents in four Sylvan Lake com-munities will have up to five years to hook up to a new sewage system.

Lacombe County council approved first reading on Thursday of a bylaw paving the way for the regional sew-age system that will serve the com-munities of Blissful Beach, Kuusamo Krest, Palm Bay and Yuill.

Owners who hook up right away will pay about $5,400. Those who want to wait will see that price go up based on the prime interest rate plus 2.5 per cent. Those who choose a financing op-tion rather than paying the full price up front will also be charged the same interest rate.

There are 69 homes in the four sub-divisions that will be required to hook up to the regional sewer system by 2020. The total cost of tying, including pump and tank installation, is expect-ed to average $18,300 — less than half early estimates.

Work has already begun on the sys-tem and the first homes can hook up in October.

The county was keen to undertake the project, which will protect the lake by eventually doing away with private

septic fields. Also, almost $1.3 million in federal funding had been lined up, which would have been lost if the proj-ect didn’t go ahead.

Keith Boras, the county’s manager of environmental and protective ser-vices, said a flat rate of $28.89 will be charged to connected homes. Hom-eowners will also be required to in-stall a water meter and sewage usage charges will be based on a percentage of the water used.

Rates will likely have to be tweaked after the county gets a clearer picture of actual costs. The subdivisions are not typical in that many of their resi-dents only live there during summer months.

“This is a really unique project. I couldn’t find much to go on (as far as setting consumption rates),” Boras told council.

Habitat for Humanity fundsrefused by Lacombe County

Lacombe County will not join an af-fordable housing initiative.

Habitat for Humanity made a pitch to council last month seeking support for its effort to build six affordable housing units in Lacombe this year.

However, a report to council points out the county has no affordable hous-ing policy and it has not been raised as an issue by ratepayers.

Administration recommended that council not support Habitat for Hu-manity with funding.

Coun. Rod McDermand urged cau-tion about getting involved in an area that has not been considered a county responsibility.

“I agree with administration. Once you open this door, how wide do you want it?”

Coun. Dana Kreil also pointed out that, unlike the county, the city has ac-cess to government affordable housing grants.

City of Lacombe has also been ap-proached to set aside six duplex lots in the McKenzie subdivision. Those lots could be considered the municipality’s 25 per cent matching contribution for $950,000 worth of available grants.

Habitat’s Central Alberta branch is boosting its charity home-building ef-forts in the region.

The organization wants to build 10 homes this year. Since 1994, the charity and its volunteers have built 25 homes in Central Alberta — 23 of them in Red Deer.

Habitat’s approach is built on put-ting low-income people in homes and giving them a solid start.

Successful applicants must have family incomes in the $37,000 and $52,000 range, be without adequate housing already, and be willing to donate 500 hours of their time, either building their home or working with Habitat in some other capacity.

Foodgrains plants seedsfor 20th fundraising yearA charitable project aimed at help-

ing to end hunger in parts of the world such as India and Sudan is getting un-derway again for the 20th consecutive year.

The Central Alberta Growing Proj-ect will grow wheat and also raise cash. Under the umbrella of the Cana-dian Foodgrains Bank, the local volun-teer effort raised $74,250 last year. It was their second highest result.

There are about 30 projects in Alberta, and across Canada more than 200 in total. Besides the Central Alberta Growing Project, the Ponoka Foodgrains Project also raises funds for the foodgrains bank.

The foodgrains bank, based in Win-nipeg, is a partnership of 15 church and church-based agencies. Accord-ing to its website, it provides food in the developing world “but also helps people grow more food to better feed themselves and their families, and pro-vides nutritional support to malnour-ished people with a focus on pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and young children.”

Doug Maas, one of the Central Alberta Growing Project committee members, said that they have secured 145 acres of land east of Lacombe and they will be growing Canadian Prairie Spring wheat, the same crop as last year.

The Canadian government matches the amount raised up to a four-to one basis, up to $25 million per year, so the value of last year’s Central Alberta Growing Project was actually $371,250.

Maas said for some reason it took them longer to find land this year. It is in the same vicinity as last year.

This year, the Central Alberta proj-ect is undertaking a new initiative. They are developing a website “be-cause we need to engage younger peo-ple. Our supporters tend to be older.”

A volunteer is going to build the website over the coming months with the goal of having it running by Sep-tember, Maas said.

They have done some early field work for this year’s crop and antici-pate volunteers will be seeding this weekend, taking time from seeding

their own fields, he said.For more information, contact Maas

at 403-782-1860.

Discarded cigaretteblamed for Normandeau fire

A discarded cigarette sparked a mattress fire in Normandeau on Wednesday.

The fire was contained to the mat-tress and box spring in a bedroom, causing $300 damage and minor smoke damage.

The call came in at 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday to the blaze at 6731 59th Ave.

Three of the five smoke detectors in the home had been removed. One de-tector was working.

Before leaving the scene, Red Deer Emergency Services personnel in-stalled several battery-operated smoke detectors.

Emergency Services reminds the public to keep fire safety in mind by not tampering with or removing smoke alarms from your home. Check your smoke alarm and call 911 as soon if you see smoke or flames.

After-market truck partsrecovered, owners soughtRed Deer RCMP have recovered

large, after-market chrome truck parts through several recent investigations and are looking to return them to the rightful owners.

Mounties said on Thursday that they have recovered a significant number of stolen items but have not been able to identify an owner.

An unusual set of after-factory chrome truck parts includes a “bush bumper,” spring mechanisms that appear to be part of a truck lift kit, chrome running boards and four very large truck tires.

Police said all the items appear to be from the same extremely large truck.

In addition, police have recovered a number of missing items that may have come from campers or RVs over the winter. If anyone notices they re missing items from their RV, they can contact RCMP exhibits staff. People will be asked to provide proof of own-ership, which may be a photo, descrip-tion or invoice from the supplier.

Red Deer RCMP exhibits staff can be contacted by calling 403-406-2574 from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The office will be closed on Monday, Victoria Day.

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MONTREAL — Bombardier announced Thursday that it’s cutting 1,750 employees in Montreal, Toronto and Ireland over the coming months — and at least one analyst suggests more layoffs could loom on the horizon because of weak demand in other aircraft segments.

The Montreal-based manufacturer of planes and trains has slashed thousands of jobs in the past cou-ple of years, including at least 4,550 aerospace and support positions since last July.

With none of its operations adequately profitable, industry analyst David Tyerman of Canaccord Genu-ity said Bombardier’s hiring of strategic advisers to review its commercial aircraft operations suggests more cuts or other changes are to come.

They’re likely to involve the CRJ regional jet and Q400 turboprops. There’s also uncertainty about the future of the small Learjets.

“I’m personally looking to see what are these guys are going to do to improve the businesses and it’s conceivable that head count reductions are part of that,” he said in an interview.

Alain Bellemare, Bombardier’s new CEO, ac-knowledged the pressure he’s under to turn things around, telling shareholders last week that profits are inadequate.

However, a company spokesman declined to say whether additional job cuts are in the cards.

The bleak news had the federal government on the hot seat on Parliament Hill on Thursday as Em-ployment Minister Pierre Poilievre fended off at-tacks from the opposition, repeatedly saying the Conservatives have created 1.2 million jobs since the recession.

“Good jobs have been lost because of government inaction,” Liberal MP Judy Sgro said during the dai-ly question period. “The minister continues to sell his phony 1.2 million jobs line, but unemployed fami-lies know better ... The Conservatives’ track record is clear. They have abandoned the manufacturing sec-tor and the Canadians it employs.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, meantime, was in Windsor, Ont., providing details of a previously announced initiative that will allow manufacturers to write off equipment more quickly under proposed tax rule changes. He said the measure will help man-ufacturers create jobs.

Officials in Quebec and Ontario said they regret-ted the latest job losses at Bombardier, but added they mask the thousands of jobs created by the com-pany since 2007.

Quebec Economic Development Minister Jacques Daoust said the government is open to providing the leading aerospace manufacturer with financial sup-port to weather the latest challenges.

His Ontario counterpart, Brad Duguid, said he remains confident that Bombardier “will continue to be a strong global force within the aerospace sec-tor.”

Bombardier is expected to save about U$135 mil-lion a year from the reduction. Up to 1,000 of the lost jobs will be in Montreal, where Bombardier has its main operations, while 480 positions are on the chop-ping block in Toronto and another 280 in Belfast.

The cuts will begin in June and continue until the first quarter of 2016, said the company, which employs more than 70,000 people, about half in its aerospace division.

“This is a difficult but necessary decision,” Eric Martel, president of the business aircraft division, wrote Thursday in an email to employees.

He said the company will try to limit the impact through retirements and by transferring as many em-ployees as possible to other aircraft programs.

Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) signalled the move af-fecting union, non-union, office and contract em-ployees last week when it announced a production decrease in its Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft to reflect conditions in some markets such as Latin America, China and Russia. It said layoffs are just one tool to reduce costs, along with savings from sup-pliers and elsewhere.

The reductions announced Thursday will touch nearly 36 per cent of the 2,800 Global aircraft jobs in Montreal, where the plane interiors are installed and the finishing touches are completed before de-livery. Toronto’s final assembly facility currently employs 1,750 workers. Belfast, which supplies aero-structures and does engineering work, has more than 1,000 people working on Globals.

Bombardier cuts 1,750 jobs

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Microtel Inn and Suites owners Alan Arsenault, right, his wife Maria, second from left, their son Matthew, left, and hotel staff Ivan Singson, Mary-Joy Penales and Maria Cruz raise a glass of champaign as they celebrate the grand opening of the Microtel Inn and Suites located at 126 Leva Avenue in Gasoline Alley on Thursday. The 100 room hotel has swimming pool and a water slide and a detached restaurant called the Sunset Grill also owned by the Arsenaults.

Cilantro and Chive moving to LacombeA three-year-old Ponoka restaurant is relocating

to downtown Lacombe later this year.Cilantro and Chive will expand to 80 seats (from

60) when it opens at 5021 50th St. in Lacombe.The restaurant boasts fresh simple food from

locally-sourced producers.When it started, the restaurant employed five

people. It now employs 14.The owners decided to look for a new location

when their lease expires. Updates on timelines will be posted to the social media site https://twitter.com/cilantro_chive

Westerner Park CEO out after just three months

Westerner Park’s chief executive officer is no lon-ger at the helm after three months on the job.

Darrell Komick started in March to replace John Harms, who stepped down last year after 18 years.

A press release issued on Thursday said the board of directors of Westerner Park decided not to continue Komick’s contract as the organization’s chief executive officer and general manager, effec-tive Thursday.

“As we move ahead with our strategic vision for Westerner Park, we look forward to finding a CEO to reflect our goals, and to work with our staff, stake-holders and volunteers to carry those plans out ef-fectively,” said Graham Heron, president and board chair of the Westerner Exposition Association.

In the interim, assistant general manager Jim White will serve as acting CEO and general manager while the board looks for a replacement.

No further information was available.

Calgary sees first new home price drop since November 2011 as economy lags

Calgary new home prices are down for the first time in more than three years after months of eco-nomic pressure from low oil prices.

New home sale prices dropped 0.4 per cent in March, the first retreat since November 2011, ac-cording to numbers released Thursday by Statistics Canada.

“We’ve obviously had some challenging economic conditions, and it’s starting to put downward pres-sure on pricing because sales activity is a lot lower than what we’ve had,” said Ann-Marie Lurie, chief economist at the Calgary Real Estate Board.

Calgary had the highest home price drop of major Canadian cities after holding steady in January and February with no price movement, though prices are still up 2.8 per cent compared with March last year.

“To put some perspective to it, last year we had price gains over nine per cent,” says Lurie. “It’s re-ally just a matter of how long the cycle will last and what impact it will have moving forward.”

The decline is largely coming from the high-end housing market, said Calgary realtor Lowell Martens. He said he’s seen encouraging sales in homes selling below roughly $550,000, but above that he’s noticed prices have been down as much as five per cent.

Continued low interest rates have helped keep the market afloat, said Martens, adding that many people still see buying as a better move than renting.

Montreal-area mayors want in on lawsuit against Canada Post’s home-

delivery planMontreal-area mayors say they hope to join a law-

suit aimed at overturning Canada’s Post’s decision to reduce home delivery because they say the Crown corporation is acting arrogantly and refusing to lis-ten to their concerns.

The leaders of Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and surrounding suburbs want to obtain intervener sta-tus in a Federal Court lawsuit filed by the union rep-resenting Canada Post employees.

Canada Post’s decision was made without consult-ing municipalities and will hurt large numbers of se-niors and people with reduced mobility, the mayors told a news conference.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said cities should be “full partners” with the Crown corporation on plans to modify home-delivery services. He went so far as to threaten to make mail delivery a federal election issue this fall.

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Everything you thought you knew about e-com-merce is in flux and the head of Canadian Tire says retailers better get used to it. Michael Medline said Thursday that the days of offering limited options for shoppers are over and retailers need to start thinking about how to stay nimble both in stores and online.

“This is going to get really fluid,” Medline said after the company’s annual meeting in Toronto. “You’ve got to be flexible. What might work today will be totally different two years from now.”

Canadian retailers have been slow to adapt to the changing digital expectations of consumers but, unlike some of its peers, Canadian Tire has experi-mented with new ideas like innovative viral cam-paigns on social media and interactive digital flyers.

Canadian Tire scrapped its e-commerce platform in 2009 when sales were lagging and is still work-ing on getting a revamped version back online in a meaningful way. Others Canadian retailers have lagged even further, like Shoppers Drug Mart, which finally this month launched a smartphone app for its Optimum loyalty card program. Shoppers’ par-ent company Loblaw (TSX:L) has tested a “click and collect” model at one of its supermarkets that lets buyers select their groceries before swinging by the store. Canadian Tire is a little further ahead when it comes to technology. Right now, customers can use the Canadian Tire website to reserve items for pickup in local stores, while its Sports Chek brand has started to roll out what is essentially a beta ver-sion of its online store.

“The site will be good, but not great,” Medline told shareholders during the annual meeting, prom-ising that it was a work in progress. Retail analyst Brynn Winegard said Canadian Tire, by the nature of its product offerings, has been given some leeway in developing its e-commerce business.

“They don’t have a very robust online offering, but they’re not struggling for it,” she said. “There is less expectation.”

Garden hoses and lawn mowers aren’t the first thing most shoppers would think of buying online, which almost certainly bought Canadian Tire some

extra time to tinker with its digital business.But Winegard suggested millennials are quickly

becoming a larger part of the hardware and home renovations market, which adds more pressure on Canadian Tire to get its plan in gear. A study re-leased this week by international consulting firm De-loitte says shoppers and retailers are caught in the middle of a “drastic digitally driven change” where the consumer’s digital behaviour and expectations are moving faster than retailers can respond.

“Our projection for the future of retail is that the concept of online is dead,” Deloitte said in the report, called “Navigating the New Digital Divide,” which focused in particular on the U.S. market.

“When everyone is online all the time, when digi-tal is pervasive — there is no offline. When no one is offline, then the concept of online is not necessary.”

The report argues that consumers still shop in bricks-and-mortar stores, but that they do it with the help of devices like their smartphone to research in-formation about products and load digital coupons, which lead them to buy more overall.

Earlier Thursday, Canadian Tire Corp.

Canadian Tire CEO to retailers: be prepared to get

flexible with your service


Canadian Tire President and CEO Michael Medline, right, and Chairman of the Board Maureen Sabia get ready to speak with shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto on Thursday.

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WASHINGTON — The race to a ma-jor international trade deal cleared a key hurdle in the United States Con-gress on Thursday, recovering from a stumble two days earlier.

The Senate mustered enough votes to begin debate on a so-called, fast-track bill, seen by some as a prereq-uisite for reaching any free-trade deal with the U.S.

That debate is being watched close-ly by Canada and other countries seek-ing to complete negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, which would create a sprawling, 12-nation trade zone.

The legislation moved ahead with a 65-33 vote, enough to override a fili-buster. It appeared stuck earlier in the week, when Democrats sided en masse against the bill — and against their president. The debate has created bit-terness between the pro-trade Obama administration and the trade-skeptical Democratic caucus, in a bizarro-realm dynamic where Republicans are the president’s biggest backers.

President Barack Obama pushed his own side to back the deal and the parties reached a procedural arrange-ment that swayed enough Democratic

votes to open debate on the bill.It led to a surreal scene Thursday:

Republicans praising their rival-in-chief.

“I’d like to thank the president,” said the Republican leader of the Sen-ate, Mitch McConnell.

“No, you’re not hearing things. Pres-ident Obama’s done his country a ser-vice by taking on his base and pushing back on some of the more ridiculous rhetoric we’ve heard. ... He should be recognized for it.”

The grumbling was on the Demo-cratic side.

The party’s left wing is fuming over several aspects of the trade talks — notably the secrecy. Lawmakers being briefed on the negotiations say they can’t even take notes from the room. They say business groups are helping shape the text, with little representa-tion from labour.

Their opposition to free trade is longstanding — and a repeat of the dynamic during the NAFTA debate, when Bill Clinton faced down his own skeptical caucus. Today’s anti-trade contingent notes that manufacturing jobs have plummeted by almost one-third in the U.S. since NAFTA came into effect in 1994, with middle-class wages driven down by cheaper over-seas labour.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 128.9ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.21BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.24BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.39Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.68Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.69Cdn. National Railway . . 73.57Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 231.95Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.75Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.84Cervus Equipment Corp 17.29Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.24Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 60.44Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.54Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.34General Motors Co. . . . . 34.65Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.17Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.42SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.78Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.52Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.54Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.09Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 53.61

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 128.11Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.26Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.20Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.38

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.98Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.43Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.72WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.80

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.81Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.65First Quantum Minerals . 18.44Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.49Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.92Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.03Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.19Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.73Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.77Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.74

EnergyArc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 22.91Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.43Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 65.50Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.86Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 35.45Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.80Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 11.09Canyon Services Group. . 6.98Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.57CWC Well Services . . . 0.3100Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 16.50Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.10

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.97Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.44High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.21Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 24.67Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 48.83Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.66Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.55Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.27Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.30Talisman Energy. . . . . . . . . NATrican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.62Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.07Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.48Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.17CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.62Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.14Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.50IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 43.23Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.72Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.71National Bank . . . . . . . . . 49.16Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.89Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.88Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.49TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.48

COMPANIESOF LOCAL INTEREST

DILBERT

MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — The Toronto

stock market closed moderately higher Wednesday with the en-ergy sector the main drag as oil prices retreated below US$60 a barrel.

The S&P/TSX compos-ite index was up 47.40 points at 15,028.12 in its first sign of strength this week after falling almost 190 points the previous three sessions. The loonie was off 0.22 of a U.S. cent at 83.34 cents.

In New York, buyers flooded back into the markets after three consecutive down days that saw the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average shed more than 130 points.

On Thursday, the Dow re-versed that and more, soaring 191.75 points to 18,252.24 on the strength of encouraging news on the U.S. job market and a drop in producer prices that possibly signalled lower inflation and a continuation of historically low interest rates.

Meanwhile, the Nasdaq jumped 69.11 points to 5,050.80 and the S&P 500 shot up 22.62 points to a record high 2,121.10.

In commodities, the June crude oil contract lost 62 cents to US$59.88 a barrel and the TSX energy sector fell 1.89 per cent. Meanwhile, June gold con-tinued its recent tear, up $7 at US$1,225.20 an ounce.

In economic news, the U.S. Labor Department said its pro-ducer price index fell 0.4 per cent in April after rising 0.2 per cent in March. The core index, which strips out the volatile food and energy sectors, was down 0.2 per cent.

CIBC senior economist An-drew Grantham said in a note that the latest figures take the annual rate down to minus 1.3 per cent.

“While the producer price se-ries doesn’t have a great cor-relation at times with CPI, these soft figures could see forecasters trimming expectations for next week’s CPI release,” Grantham said.

Meanwhile, the Labor Depart-ment said that fewer Americans applied for unemployment aid last week.

Seasonally adjusted appli-cations were down by 1,000 to 264,000, just above a 15-year low reached three weeks ago.

Tim Caulfield, directory of eq-uities research at Franklin Bissett Canadian Equity Fund, said that while U.S. employment numbers have seen their ups and downs, “I think the trend generally has been continuing to improve.”

“Of course, that’s most impor-tant to what is the world’s largest economy and has great bearing on the Canadian economy and North American equities, Cana-dian equities included,” Caulfield said.

“Obviously we’ve seen sig-nificant volatility in the price of crude oil ... and today its risk-off for energy equities,” he said, but noted that crude oil price is up 25 per cent quarter to date.

“So $59.50 crude is quite a bit higher than the mid-$45 level that we saw in crude as recently as March.”

Also heartening for the oil-patch is the fact that natural gas now is trading above US$3 per thousand cubic feet, something Caulfield described as “an inter-esting story that’s been much more positive as of late.”

“(And) in general, we’ve seen pretty good earnings from a lot of the constituents of the TSX, in particular outside of energy,” he said. “That provides a pretty solid backdrop for equity markets.”

In corporate news, Bombar-dier (TSX;BBD.B) announced it will cut about 1,750 employees in Montreal, Toronto and Belfast, Ireland, over the coming months because of weak demand for its largest business jets. Its stock was up 13 cents or 5.1 per cent at $2.68.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close of

Thursday at world financial mar-ket trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 15,028.12, up 47.40 pointsDow — 18,252.24, up 191.75

pointsS&P 500 — 2,121.10, up

22.62 points (record high)Nasdaq — 5,050.80, up

69.11 points

Currencies:Cdn — 83.34 cents US, down

0.22 of a centPound — C$1.8925, 0.89 of

a centEuro — C$1.3690, up 1.16

centsEuro — US$1.1409, up 0.66

of a cent

Oil futures:US$59.88 per barrel, down

62 cents(June contract)

Gold futures:US$1,225.20 per oz., up $7(June contract)

Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman:

$21.697 oz., up 34.9 cents$697.56 kg., up $11.22

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: May ’15 $9.70 higher

$471.20; July ’15 $1.70 higher $456.20; Nov ’15 $2.70 higher $450.20; Jan. ’16 $2.40 higher $451.90; March ’16 $2.40 higher $451.20; May ’16 $2.40 higher $451.70; July ’16 $2.40 higher $451.70; Nov. ’16 $2.40 higher $446.50; Jan. ’17 $2.40 higher $447.20; March ’17 $2.40 higher $447.20; May ’17 $2.40 higher $447.20.

Barley (Western): May ’15 $3.00 lower $192.00; July ’15 $3.00 lower $194.00; Oct. ’15 $3.00 lower $177.00; Dec. ’15 $3.00 lower $182.00; March ’16 $3.00 lower $182.00; May ’16 $3.00 lower $182.00; July ’16 $3.00 lower $182.00; Oct. ’16 $3.00 lower $182.00; Dec. ’16 $3.00 lower $182.00; March ’17 $3.00 lower $182.00; May ’17 $3.00 lower $182.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 278,020 tonnes of cano-la; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 278,020.


CALGARY — U.S. requirements for new braking systems on trains carrying flammable liquids would mean addi-tional costs without any guarantee of improved safety, top executives at Ca-nadian Pacific Railway said Thursday.

Adding electronically controlled pneumatic, or ECP, brakes is meant to reduce the pileup effect in the event of a derailment, but railway chief operat-ing officer Keith Creel said the notion that they must be installed is not based on “valid science.”

“I just think that there’s money bet-ter spent to get a better safety impact for the public,” he told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting.

Creel was replying to a shareholder who raised concerns about how new rail safety rules following the fiery crash in Lac-Megantic, Que., nearly two years ago would affect the rail-way’s bottom line.

The ECP brake rule was announced earlier this month at a news confer-ence with Canadian Transport Min-ister Lisa Raitt and U.S. Transporta-tion Secretary Anthony Foxx. By 2021, there will be a 48 km/h speed limit in the U.S. on trains where a single car lacks new brakes.

Not only may tank car manufac-turers face higher costs, but railways would need to retool locomotives to run the ECP-equipped trains, Creel said. On top of that, slower train speeds may also hurt its customers’ business, he added.

The Foxx-Raitt announcement also set out a phase-out plan for the model of tank cars involved in the Lac-Me-gantic disaster.

Creel had more positive things to say about what’s being done to address that issue, saying requirements for stronger tank cars “can’t happen soon enough.” CEO Hunter Harrison said the ECP brakes would not have pre-vented Lac-Megantic.

“That had nothing to do with a mov-ing train. That was a train that was parked. All indications are, as I read in the media, an individual failed to set the brakes. The same would have hap-pened if they were electric brakes,” Harrison said.

It comes down to “human behav-iour” rather than regulations, he add-ed.

“Writing another reg doesn’t do any good. If people don’t live up to reg one, two, and three, why are they going to do four?”

Harrison’s contract as CEO ends in mid-2017, after which point he’ll hand the reins to Creel. He said he’d like to still sit on the board of directors or stay on in an advisory role once he leaves the top job.

CPR execs take aim at new braking rules


Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison attends the company’s annual general meeting in Calgary, Thurs.

Free-trade bill back on track in Congress after stumbleTRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

‘I JUST THAT THERE’S MONEY BETTER SPENT

TO GET A BETTER SAFETY IMPACT FOR THE PUBLIC.’

— KEITH CREELCPR COO

Russian cargo spaceship’s launch failure leads to delays

in landing for space station crewMOSCOW — The launch failure of an unmanned

Russian cargo spaceship has prompted the nation’s space agency to delay both the landing of some of the International Space Station’s crew and the launch of their successors, officials said Tuesday.

The chief of the Roscosmos space agency, Igor Ko-marov, said the April 28 launch mishap was caused by a leak of fuel tanks in the Soyuz rocket’s third stage. Left in low orbit, the Progress cargo spaceship fell to Earth over the Pacific on May 8.

The need to pinpoint the cause of the flaw and work out steps to prevent it from happening again has required changes in the schedule of following launches, officials said.

Vladimir Solovyov, the head of the station’s Rus-sian segment, said three of the orbiting outposts’ six-person crew, who had been scheduled to return this week, were asked to stay in orbit until early June.

“They have accepted it with understanding and agreed to work an extra month or so in orbit,” So-lovyov said at a briefing.

He said the launch of a replacement crew will be pushed back from late May to late July. It will be preceded by the launch of a Progress cargo space-ship in early July to en-sure crew safety, Solovyov said.

“In accordance with space and aviation regi-men, we can’t immedi-ately make a manned launch,” Solovyov said.

Both the Soyuz space-craft that delivers crews to the station and the Progress cargo spaceship are put into orbit by the Soyuz booster rocket, a workhorse of the Soviet and then Russian space program for more than four decades.

Russia’s space program has seen a string of launch failures in recent years, which have been linked to defects in workmanship and other human errors. A manufacturing flaw caused the loss of a Prog-ress cargo spaceship in August 2011.

Solovyov said that space officials foresee no further delays beyond the summer. He said that the flight of British soprano Sarah Brightman set for September should go ahead as planned.

More than 40per cent of bee

hives in U.S. diedin past year

WASHINGTON — More than two out of five Amer-ican honeybee colonies died in the past year, and surprisingly the worst die-off was in the summer, ac-cording to a federal sur-vey.

Since April 2014, bee-keepers lost 42.1 per cent of their colonies, the sec-ond-highest rate in nine years, according to an an-nual survey conducted by a bee partnership that includes the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture.

“What we’re seeing with this bee problem is just a loud signal that there’s some bad things happening with our agro-ecosystems,” said study co-author Keith Delaplane at the University of Geor-

gia. “We just happen to notice it with the honeybee because they are so easy to count.”

But it’s not quite as dire as it sounds. That’s be-cause after a colony dies, beekeepers then split their surviving colonies, start new ones, and the numbers go back up again, said Delaplane and study co-author Dennis vanEngelsdorp of the University of Maryland. But that pushes the bees to their limited, he said.

What shocked the entomologists is that is the first time they’ve noticed bees dying more in the summer than the winter, vanEngelsdorp said. The survey found beekeepers lost 27.4 per cent of their colonies this summer. That’s up from 19.8 per cent the previ-ous summer.

Seeing massive colony losses in summer is like seeing “a higher rate of flu deaths in the summer than winter,” vanEngelsdorp said. “You just don’t expect colonies to die at this rate in the summer.”

Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Maine and Wisconsin all saw more than 60 per cent of their hives die since April 2014, according to the survey.

“Most of the major commercial beekeepers get a dark panicked look in their eyes when they discuss these losses and what it means to their businesses,” said Pennsylvania State University entomology pro-fessor Diana Cox-Foster. She wasn’t part of the study, but praised it.

Delaplane and vanEngelsdorp said a combination of mites, poor nutrition and pesticides are to blame for the bee deaths.

UN-type body needed to administer space mining: NASA scientist

MONTREAL - Prospecting on the moon or on asteroids is probably a couple of decades away, a NASA scientist told a symposium on planetary and terrestrial mining Tuesday.

The event, part of the Canadian Institute of Min-ing’s annual convention, heard that issues like own-ership and management of resources in outer space still have to be worked out.

One of the main problems is that no country owns anything in space.

One Canadian geologist suggests a regulatory sys-tem is needed for any future mining in space.

Joe Hinzer said the mining industry on Earth is regulated by an international committee under a United Nations umbrella that sets standards in dif-ferent countries.

“I think that’s the kind of approach that might work for extraterrestrial stuff as well,” he said.

Hinzer also cited Europe as an example, noting it has developed its own parliament and legal system and operates in a manner similar to that of the Unit-ed Nations. But John Gruener, a planetary scientist at NASA, doesn’t expect space prospecting to hap-pen any time soon. He said in an interview that many space agencies are currently concentrating on small robotic missions to the moon.

May 17 - 23, 2015

Public Works:• for staying a safe distance and slowing down

in our construction work sites• for your patience and cooperation each spring

as we sweep your streets to remove sand that is spread during the winter

Environmental Services:• for diverting 5,200 tonnes of recyclables,

4,800 tonnes of yard waste and 4,600 tonnes

• for conserving water by reducing your water consumption per person by 24% since 2006

Electric Light & Power:• for keeping a safe distance from power

boxes and lines, and for your patience and understanding during power interruptions

• for turning off non-essential appliances to conserve energy

Parks:

protected areas, open space and landscaped areas clean by collecting litter and picking up after your pet

• for giving our staff room to work and helping us by following all posted signs

Transit:• for the brake – when we are pulling away

from stops and making lane changes• for riding transit and reducing our

carbon footprint• for keeping our citizens safe at bus stops

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Public Works Week

A big th anks fr om Th e City of Red Deer for all th e th ings you do so th at we can serve you bett er. Th ank you fr om . . .

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With fears that the Alberta energy sector will become a victim of the recently-elected government and their cadre of inexperienced members, I have to admit that the next few years may prove very stimulating, if not challenging.

We have lived through a number of government-caused recessions, and although their intentions may have been hon-ourable, their abilities and their proficiencies proved de-ficient.

We live in a complex world, and Alberta’s strength is in it entrepreneurial spirit, with 98 per cent of all our businesses being in the “small” category of 99 employees or less.

A corporate tax increase will definitely affect “Uncle Joe” and his small electrical contractor business.

We did need a change; I implore our new leader-ship to provide us with a positive one.

In 2007, Alberta created the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. (CCEMC) as “an Alber-ta based, non-profit corporation, with the mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting, the

discovery, development and deployment of technolo-gies.”

To this end, it has set up funding and issued a grand challenge to any and all companies, academic researchers, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and inventors to come up with ideas that can be convert-ed into usable technologies to reduce emissions, and find uses for the recovered carbon.

With its mandate financed by industry since 2010, the CCEMC is pushing the technologists and innova-tors with seven categories, classifying 86 projects, in various stages of development or completion.

These seven categories are carbon capture and storage (CCS), renewable energy, clean energy, en-ergy efficiency, climate change adaptation, carbon uses, and biological.

There are eight projects in the CCS class, includ-ing Calgary’s Carbon Engineering Ltd., which is designing, and attempting to commercialize CO2 capture from the atmosphere on an industrial scale, similar to Utah’s Sustainable Energy Solutions cryo-genic capture and storage.

The renewable energy category has projects in Medicine Hat with a concentrated solar (CSP) dem-onstration project, and Bio-Refinex’s organic waste expertise in Lacombe. These are just two of some 14 renewable technologies projects.

The clean energy group has two completed proj-ects and some 10 others are in the development

stage, four of which are 90 per cent completed. One project is a Calgary company called Evergreen Tech-nologies. It has one permanent employee who has re-ceived funding to develop a device for utilizing waste natural gas, normally vented, to produce electricity.

The energy efficiency category has 13 projects, two completed and 11 in various stages of develop-ment. These range from NetZero homes in Edmon-ton, Red Deer and Calgary, to Grand Prairie’s Wey-erhaeuser pulp mill’s new evaporator system being implemented to recover and place 27 megawatts of power into the grid.

The CCEMC is funding the Alberta Innovates-En-ergy and Environment Solutions research project in the South Saskatchewan River Basin in conjunction with the not-for-profit company, Water Smart Ltd., to improve water management.

The Foothills Research Institute and Tree Im-provement Alberta received financing to determine how our native trees will tolerate climate change.

Two categories remain and space dictates we ex-amine them in the next column. Albertans will pre-vail and likely prosper.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His col-umn appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Con-tact him at: [email protected].

LORNEOJA

ENERGY

The challenges ahead

INBRIEF

Robert Parker’s The BridgeBy Robert Knott

If you are really a Robert B. Parker fan, you will know that this could not be a new book by him, since he died in 2011.

Robert Knott has carried on in the tradition of Parker in this sequel to Appaloosa.

The lawmen are Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, whose laconic style of conversation is one of the books’ charms.

This column reviewed Ap-paloosa when it came out. It is a book that set you right down in the theatre seat on a Sat-urday afternoon, popcorn in hand.

That book was a highly entertaining duster and this one follows right along. There is a bit more vio-lence in this yarn, but the bad guys are really, really bad, and Virgil and Everett don’t wait for explana-

tions and excuses.A bridge is being constructed about a day’s ride

south of the town of Appaloosa. When completed, it will span the Rio Blanco River and open up the country to commerce.

The bridge is over a deep gorge, more 200 feet long, and the cost is $200,000.

It’s a quiet day in Appaloosa, Virgil’s girl Allie is working on supper, and Everett and Virgil are work-ing on a bottle of Kentucky.

Suddenly on the main street appears the Bea-champ Brothers Theatrical Extravaganza, a travel-ling group from New Orleans. On tap are “dramatic shows, dancing, magic ... sharpshooters and a clair-voyant fortune-teller.”

This raises excitement in town, but Virgil and Ev-erett have other things to think about.

A bridge worker named Lonnie Carman has not returned from work and his wife Winifred is wor-ried.

A lawman named Sledge and deputies Chip and Karl headed down to the bridge to check on him. But they’ve been gone a couple of days and there’s been no word and they haven’t come back.

Winifred has sent two wires down the line to the

way station near the bridge, but had no reply.Virgil and Everett don’t like puzzles like that.Down at the Boston House Hotel Saloon, barman

Wallace McDonough is having a chat with Everett when who should walk in but the clairvoyant from the travelling show, Madam Laroux. She is a stun-ningly beautiful woman and she has a message for the lawman.

He is in great danger.She names people and situations to watch out for,

and she believes he will die in a shootout.Everett thinks the message is hocus pocus, but he

certainly doesn’t mind getting to know Madam Sera-phine Laroux better.

Of course, you and I have been reading from the beginning of the book and we know someone has blown that bridge sky high, not minding who they blew up along the way.

There are lots of dirty tricks and nasty people involved and a great old gun fight before the two marshals have the bad guys put away. Sadly some young lives are lost, but eventually things are back to normal in Appaloosa.

This is a very entertaining western. Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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Development Offi cer Approvals

On May 12, 2015, the Development Offi cer issued approval for the following applications:

Permitted Use

Aspen Ridge1. G. Ward – a 0.19 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to an existing deck, located at 100 Ammeter Close.

Clearview 2. S. Martin – a 1.31 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 55 Conners Crescent.

Gaetz Avenue South3. Phoenix Construction Inc. – site development and exterior elevation upgrade for a 92.9 m2 addition to the existing Southside Plymouth Chrysler dealership, located at 2804 50 Avenue.

Riverside Meadow4. M. Crawford – a 0.35 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing dwelling and a 0.26 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing detached garage, located at 5917 58 Avenue.

Rosedale 5. T. McGinnis – a 0.84 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 9 Russell Crescent.

Timberstone6. B. Hansford – a 1.1 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to the proposed steps of an existing deck, to be located at 5 Tallman Close.

7. S. Pochylko – a 0.06 metre relaxation to the maximum width of a proposed detached garage, to be located at 127 Timberstone Way.

Westlake8. M. Hamers – a 1.39 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, to be located at 56 Windermere Crescent.

Discretionary Use

Laredo9. Falcon Homes Ltd. – a new two bedroom secondary suite, with a separate entrance at the rear, to be located within a proposed single- family dwelling and attached garage, at 80 Lundberg Crescent.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 29, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

Road Closure NoticeWoody’s R.V. World Marathon

– Sunday May 17th, 2015The following roads will be closed this long weekend to accommodate the staging of the Woody’s R.V. World Marathon

42A Avenue from 55 Street to 58 StreetSaturday May 16th at 10:00am to Sunday May 17th at 3:00pm.

55 Street Hill from 52 Street (& 40 Avenue) to 45 Avenue (& 55 Street)Sunday May 17th from 7:30am to 8:15am

45 Avenue from 55 Street to McKenzie TrailsSunday May 17th from 8:00am to approximately 8:45am

In addition, the right hand west bound lane of the 55th Street hill will be closed from 8:00am until approximately 2:30pm on Sunday May 17th to accommodate runners approaching the fi nish line. Traffi c will be 30km/hr during this time.

Expect delays along Riverside Drive by the North end on/off ramp from 8:30am to 8:45am. This is to allow runners to cross Riverside Drive.

Motorists are advised to use caution and expect delays. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238.

Your cooperation is appreciated.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions

On May 6, 2015, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications:

Permitted Use Approvals:

LaredoTrue-Line Contracting Ltd. – site development for a semi-detached dwelling, with a site coverage of 193.5 m2, a 28.62 m2 (17.4%) relaxation, to be located at 27 Little Close.

LaredoTrue-Line Contracting Ltd. – site development for a semi-detached dwelling, with a site coverage of 196.95 m2, a 31.87 m2 (19.3%) relaxation, to be located at 31 Little Close.

Discretionary Use Approval:

Southpointe JunctionKWA Site Development Consulting Inc. – site development for a 10496 m2 Lowe’s Home Improvement store, including a covered garden centre, and the discretionary use of the outdoor sale or display of goods, with 373 parking stalls, a 159 stall (29.88% parking relaxation with the seasonal garden centre).

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 29, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

INVITATION TO TENDERSealed Tenders clearly marked 2015 Pedestrian Connections and Safe Routes to School Programs, closing Tuesday, June 2, 2015, delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section, Sixth Floor at:

The City of Red DeerProfessional Building Suite 6004808 50th StreetRed Deer, AB T4N 1X5Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk

and received before 2:00:59 p.m. local time on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of approximately:

835 lineal meters of new concrete sidewalk (ranging from 0.9 m to 2.1 m width) 1030 square meters of asphalt trail 20 new curb ramps 1173 square meters of landscape restoration 1438 cubic meters of topsoil and excess material removal 2534 square meters of granular base course

Tender Documents are to be obtained directly from The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department, Third Floor, City Hall, on or after 10:00 am, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 for a $50.00 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifi cations 2015 Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 plus GST, non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer Website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offi ces.

Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to:

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BOOKS C6FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015

A highly entertaining duster

Backlashtakes on

cyber-bullying with a clear eyeBacklashBy Sarah Darer LittmanScholastic

Sarah Littman has written a whirlwind of a novel that fo-cuses on one of society’s most distressing issues — cyber bullying.

Backlash tells the disturb-ing story of how such bullying not only affects the victim and the abuser, but their families.

Lara Kelley and Bree Con-ners were best friends when they were in middle school. When they reached high school, they went their sepa-rate ways. Bree blamed it on Lara’s depression as a victim of bullying and “selfish whining about how horrible her life was when she never once asked Bree about how she was doing.”

When Lara and Bree try out for cheerleading, Lara gets in and Bree doesn’t. A fire fuelled by anger and jealousy is started.

Bree creates a fake Facebook profile posing as a high school guy named Christian. She befriends Lara and starts a fake relationship with her, only to send her disgusting and horrifying messages saying how much of a loser she is.

But it is not just Lara and Bree who are at odds.Bree’s mother, Mary Jo, views Lara’s city council

mother as a stuck up, prim perfect woman who needs to be taken off her high horse. When Mary Jo dis-covers what Bree is doing, instead of acting like an adult, she joins in!

Slammed back into the dark world of being bul-lied, Lara attempts suicide by overdose. Her younger sister Sydney finds her and calls 911 before it is too late.

This novel looks at what happens to the bully and the victim’s families. Lara’s father is driven by justice and pushes his daughter and the police to charge Christian and the other teenagers who bul-lied Lara. Kathy, Lara’s mother, tries to shield her family from the press while using her position on council to push forward a bylaw to take further ac-tions against cyber-bullying.

When police find out the true identity of Chris-tian, the target of bullying shifts to Bree and her fam-ily. Bree and her little brother Liam are picked on at school, their parents’ businesses suffers, and the whole family receives threatening phone messages and emails.

Liam and Sydney are friends. They find comfort in each other since both their families are at rough stages. But their friendship is looked upon with dis-approving eyes by family and friends. Why would Sydney talk to Liam when his sister pushed Lara to attempt suicide?

Sydney is at odds with herself. On one hand she is worried about her sister and loves her, but she feels invisible to her parents because the focus and priori-ties are always on Lara.

This novel draws feelings of anger and disbelief out of the reader. But that means the reader gets it. Backlash takes on cyber-bullying with a clear eye.

Kirsten Lowe is a freelance book reviewer and Red Deer College student.

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Jeffery Deaver’s Solitude Creekis an outstanding thriller

Solitude Creekby Jeffery DeaverGrand Central Publishing

What begins as a fun outing for a mother and her daughter turns terrifying in Solitude Creek, Jeffery Deaver’s latest thriller.

They go to a small concert venue that brings in popular music acts. During the show, smoke and cries of fire create a panic. There’s no fire, but peo-ple die in the ensuing stampede, and many are in-jured. California Bureau of Investigation agent Kath-ryn Dance knows how to read body language, and she knows that the man responsible for starting the chaos has more attacks planned.

Meanwhile, Dance’s personal life is in turmoil, and the perpetrator has uncovered what makes her vulnerable. He knows every move her team is going to make to stop him. Dance — and everyone she loves — will not come away unscathed.

What do we truly fear, and how would we react in a crisis? Would we fall apart and claw our way to safety? Or would we help someone else? Deaver forc-es the reader to tackle these questions, then adds his own brand of twists to play with expectations, delivering another outstanding and unpredictable thriller.

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May 151991— Premier Robert Bourassa puts for-ward legislation for a referendum on Quebec sovereignty by October 1992.1990 — Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait of Doc-tor Gachet is sold for $82.5 million. The sale sets a new world record.1952 — Albertan Johnny Longden becomes the second jockey in history, and the first North American, to ride 4,000 winners.

1941 — Joe DiMaggio begins his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.1926 — The National Hockey League awards franchise to the New York Rangers. They will win their first Stanley Cup two years later.1919 — Winnipeg General Strike: up to 30,000 workers from 52 unions walk off the job, paralyzing the city for 41 days.1861 — Joseph Howe proposes a union of the British North American colonies, passed by the Nova Scotia legislature, sent to the governors of the other provinces on July 6.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Swedish peace group launches gay-rights sonar

STOCKHOLM — Swedish peace activists who argue that military hard-ware isn’t the best way to deter Rus-sian submarines have launched their own underwater defence installation: a gay-themed sonar system.

In a publicity stunt dubbed “Opera-tion The Singing Sailor,” the Swedish

Peace and Arbitration Society placed a sonar device in the Stockholm archi-pelago sending out a Morse code mes-sage saying “This way if you are gay.”

The device also features a neon sign with a sailor waving a white flag and the words “Welcome to Sweden — Gay since 1944” — the year Sweden legal-ized homosexuality.

The group is urging the Swedish government to resist calls for re-arma-ment after a weeklong hunt in October for a suspected Russian submarine, saying “love and peace across bound-aries is more important than ever.”

Friday, May 15CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Caroline Dhaver-

nas, 37; Greg Wise, 49; Chazz Palminteri, 63THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Learn to take

frustrations in your stride.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a fertile

imagination and a natural talent for storytelling. 2015 is the year to become more involved with like-minded people in your local community.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With Mars and Saturn causing mischief in your conversation and travel zones, expect delays or dramas involving cars, computers or communication. Take time out to talk with a trusted friend.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Money matters become serious as you are hit with extra bills or rising costs. It’s imperative that you have a strict budget and stick to it — especially if you are in a financial partnership.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When it comes to a relationship, you want to zoom full steam ahead whereas they want to take things more slowly. So you are going to have to be patient — not one of your strengths!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Life’s confusing for many Crabs, but don’t complicate matters by becoming dependent on the counsel of others. Asking for advice is fine but it’s up to you to make the final decision.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you rush projects today then you’ll just have to re-do them later on. When it comes to a child, teenager or friend, look beneath the surface to discov-er what’s really going on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Aim to get the balance right between your personal and professional lives. If you are too critical of loved ones or col-leagues, then you’ll just cause a whole lot of unnecessary angst.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take your time when commu-nicating with others; whether in person or via social media. If you say something — or send a message — when you are feeling rushed, it could lead to problems.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Moon links up with Pluto so your obsessive/compulsive side is likely to take over. If you

sweat the small stuff, you’ll end up feeling stressed and exhausted by the end of the day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Rushing a relationship seems like a good idea — but it will just cause problems further down the track. With Saturn in your sign, slow and steady wins the race at the moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Expect frus-trations, delays or challenges today as Mars and Saturn seem to stymie every move you make. Don’t stress!

Use the down time to review your approach and reassess your plans.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are your dreams taking forever to come true? Are you blam-ing circumstances — or other people — for the delays? Take a long hard look at yourself. Perhaps you are the saboteur?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you got the balance right between your professional and personal lives? At the moment, you need both to be working harmoniously to feel really good about yourself.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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READY FOR TAKEOFFSteering clear of talking

politicsa good way

to stay friendsDear Annie: My best friend,

“Clara,” and I have known each other for 30 years. We’re both retired and live in the same town. Neither of us has a husband. We talk on the phone every day.

We get along fine, except we have never been able to talk politics. If I don’t agree with her completely, Clara gets angry. I’m not allowed to have my own opinion. It’s her way or the highway. Ev-ery time she gets mad at me, I’m always the one to pick up the phone and talk to her as though we’ve never argued.

Last month, we got into a heated discussion about our world problems, and we both hung up angry. I called Clara that evening, but no one answered, and she didn’t call me back like she always does. This went on for two weeks, so I wrote her a letter explaining how sorry I am, but that I am entitled to my own opinion, the same as anyone else. I also said our friendship is too important to let a silly argument end it. I haven’t heard back.

Clara and I were the kind of friends who told each other everything, and I thought we had each other’s back. Her friendship meant everything to me. But am I supposed to lie and say I think the same way she does just to keep the peace? She claims to be religious, but how can she not forgive something like this? I really miss my friend. — Need Some Advice

Dear Need: These days, politics can make enemies out of anyone. Your best bet is to steer clear of the discussion altogether, because you know it only cre-ates an argument. If Clara brings it up, simply say, “I don’t want to talk about politics. How is your daugh-ter doing?” You shouldn’t need to apologize every time.

But is there a possibility that, rather than avoiding you, Clara is unwell? Could you check with someone to see whether she is OK? A mutual friend or rela-tive can fill you in on her status and also act as an intermediary to put this latest argument behind you. And keep it there. We hope she’s fine and you can reconcile. A 30-year friendship shouldn’t be thrown away over politics.

Dear Annie: I am 91 years old and would like the ability to cry at a death or a funeral or anything sad. What is wrong with me? I feel that I should cry at these times and am hurt when others remark on it. — Paducah, Ky.

Dear Paducah: Everyone responds differently to various emotional events. An inability to cry at all is often a sign of depression, brain injury or illness and should be checked by a physician. But if your prob-lem is that you simply cannot cry at sad events where others are present, it’s more likely you have an in-hibition against showing extreme emotion in front of others, something that may have been reinforced since childhood.

It doesn’t mean you aren’t sad, and you don’t need to apologize. How you display emotion at funerals is nobody’s business. If faking it would make your life easier, pull out a handkerchief and pretend to wipe your eyes now and then.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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A red headed blackbird is being buffeted by the wind while taking a rest on a fence post south of Red Deer. The blackbird is a common species through much of the West and is a ground-foraging bird that is at home in the city or in the country.

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ENTERTAINMENT D1FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

To all the young people who feel like they’re drifting through life, hip-hop artist Snak the Ripper says: Per-severe.

“Keep on working on whatever it is you’re interested in, and believe in yourself — even if no one else does ...

“Thinking too much about what oth-er people think of you — that’s what stops a lot of kids,” said Snak, whose real name is William Scott Fyvie.

A decade or so ago, the popular Vancouver rapper and founder of Stealth Bomb Records was a homeless graffiti kid, sleeping on other people’s couches.

“I was really unsure of myself and I didn’t have a lot of friends,” re-called the 32-year-old, who performs on Wednesday, May 20, at Wild Bill’s Sports Bar in Red Deer.

His early childhood was mostly spent drawing and painting at home. “I always knew I was an artist,” said Fyvie, who developed an apprecia-tion for music — from Neil Young to Eminem and Nirvana — while growing up in Maple Ridge, B.C.

His dad was never a big part of his life. But his divorced mom worked hard selling fruit, vegetables and flow-ers by the roadside to feed her three kids. And Fyvie feels she set a good early example of entrepreneurship.

When his mom later moved to the U.S. to marry an American, he felt like an aimless 20-year-old, left behind and cast adrift.

“I was kind of a troublemaker,” he recalled, moving from place to place, doing odd jobs, spray-painting public property, drinking and using drugs.

“That time was a real struggle for me. Sometime I didn’t have a place to sleep and had to steal food to eat. ... It

was a rough time, but a good learning experience.”

By age 25, he’d hit “rock bottom” with his substance abuse.

Realizing “I needed something to do on my weekends that was not party-ing,” Fyvie began staying home and writing music lyrics. The challenge of coming up with cohesive rhyme schemes became “addictive,” he re-called, and “I started not caring that I wasn’t partying.”

He took the stage for the first time in front of an audience at Vancouver bar The Bourbon — and felt immedi-ately at home.

“For me, the easiest part was the performance and joking-around-on-stage part. The hardest was coming up with the lyrics. I would really take my time writing the lyrics and working on my albums,” said Fyvie.

He put out a debut CD called The Ripper in 2007, followed by the albums

Sex Machine, Fear of a Snak Planet and White Dynamite. Among his big-gest hits are the inspirational tune Forgotten, with 2.8 million YouTube views, Yup (with 1.9 million views) and Bombay Dreams (1.2 million).

His title track of his latest album, Just Giver, could be interpreted as tak-ing an irreverent poke at the party life-style he once ditched. The video stars actor Paul Spence of the 2002 cult film Fubar, which Fyvie describes as a big influence, and a cross between This is Spinal Tap and Trailer Park Boys.

Fyvie said Just Giver could be inter-preted as an ode to hard partying or as a motivational anthem. “I transformed the meaning at bit to if you do some-thing, you’ve got to really do it — as in ‘just give ’er.’”

The same work ethic has applied to his own music career.

Once Fyvie became dissatisfied with the way his label was treating its artists (“They were just taking mon-ey out, not investing money in”), he quit in 2013 and formed his own label. Stealth Bomb Records now represents five other artists — Merkules, Caspian, e.d.g.e., Young Sin, and Fyvie’s girl-friend, singer Jaclyn Gee.

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Pianist and composer Vernon Murgatroyd works on a score at his piano in his Red Deer home.

LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

When Vernon Murgatroyd fractured his collarbone and couldn’t use his left hand, he didn’t take a break from com-posing music at the piano.

The indomitable 74-year-old em-braced the challenge by writing a pia-no piece for the right hand.

“The piece would never have ex-isted had I not had a fall,” said Murga-troyd, with a flash of his characteristic optimism.

As one of his friends joked, “at least something good came out of it!”

More than 150 original works are, so far, listed in his catalogue of pub-lished chamber, choral, vocal and pia-no pieces. And never once, through all the years of figuring out new music at the piano, has he experienced writer’s block or any impediment to his cre-ative flow.

The Red Deer composer who, un-

conventionally, comes up with the har-monies first, then adds the melodies, doesn’t understand how anyone could be stymied when “so many notes are available to us all. ...

“You don’t have to invent them from scratch,” he maintains, “All you have to do is arrange the ones that already exist.”

The music teacher has been writing original compositions since he was a boy growing up on an Innisfail-area farm. His parents played the organ and led the church choir. As their only child, Murgatroyd immersed himself in the family business, so to speak.

“I would line up notes on paper to make the sounds I wanted to make. They didn’t always make sense,” he admitted, but as a fast learner, he soon figured out how to achieve some inter-esting harmonies.

Murgatroyd moved to Red Deer with his parents in 1956, when much of West Park was a cow pasture and his father got the organist job at Gaetz Memorial

United Church. Their farm house was moved onto a city lot at the time — and the composer still lives in the same, later expanded, vintage residence.

As a student at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, he came to appreciate many composers, but be-came a particular fan of Alexander Borodin.

Like the Russian composer and chemist, he initially thought he could take pharmacy studies in university and continue to devote himself to mu-sic. But he soon learned “I was no Borodin.”

After only a few months, he switched to the University of Alberta’s music program, majoring in piano, clarinet and composition. This is when Murga-troyd’s composing took a more serious turn, based on encouragement from Canadian composer and teacher Violet Archer, who became his mentor and lifetime friend.

He attained a bachelor’s degree in 1965 and continued composing, even

while continuing with independent studies.

Murgatroyd would also make time for writing original music between teaching private piano and clarinet lessons in Bonnyville, and later Red Deer. He returned to this city in 1968 and taught school band classes in the 1970s.

His inspiration came from many sources, including the poetry of W.B. Yeats and the Central Alberta coun-tryside.

The camping enthusiast recalled being stirred by the sight of rising mist one early morning. This image sparked his Alberta Nocturne for Woodwind Quin-tet and Strings, which he wrote in hon-our of this province’s 75th anniversary.

This growing city also inspired Mur-gatroyd to write two Red Deer Overtures. The second, more dynamic overture was played in 1984 by a Lindsay Thurb-er band, The Perfect Fifth.

‘If I can do it, you can do it’SNAK THE RIPPER

‘THAT TIME WAS A REAL STRUGGLE FOR ME.

SOMETIMES I DIDN’T HAVE A PLACE TO SLEEP AND

HAD TO STEAL FOOD TO EAT . . . IT WAS A ROUGH TIME,

BUT A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE.’

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Snak the Ripper, a Vancouver-based rapper and founder of Stealth Bomb Records, performs on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at Wild Bill’s Sports Bar in Red Deer. Tickets for the 10 p.m. show with Caspian and Jaclyn Gee are $30 in advance, $35 or $40 for VIP access from www.trueability.ca.

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And in 2013, his four-verse choral selection, Tribute to Red Deer on its 100th Birthday, was performed at Sun-nybrook United Church. The work was requested by Sadie Braun for her Red Deer Chamber Singers.

Some of his creative spark came from less lofty sources. The everyday antics of a friend’s pet gerbil and yel-low cat prompted the ditties Ode to Tiffany and Beatles-esque titled Simon in the Sun With Roses. Like the furry creatures that inspired them, he said, “they are active pieces, with some quiet parts.”

His works range from a few minutes long to a momentous 10 movements (for a lengthy piece commemorating Lacombe’s centenary in 1995), and have been played by the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Roy-

als, the Red Deer College Symphonic Winds, local high school bands and many Central Alberta community or-chestras.

Murgatroyd recalled his rousing piece Entrance Festive was toured by late Red Deer conductor Keith Mann and his Royals all over Europe.

About a quarter of his compositions have been performed, which Murga-troyd feels is a respectable number for any composer.

Many solo and chamber pieces were written for various musicians who have impressed him over the years. Some were students he met while act-ing as accompanist at the Red Deer Festival of the Performing Arts (for-merly Kiwanis Music Festival). Two years ago, Murgatroyd was honoured by the festival for a half-century of service.

His other recognitions are a Pro-vincial Crowsnest Pass Music Award for Composition (1981), Red Deer and District Allied Arts Council Celebra-tion of the Arts Award (1983), and the Red Deer, Alberta Centennial Award (1967).

Although Murgatroyd takes his com-posing seriously, his works are often slyly playful.

A friend once presented him with a free ticket to a piano concert that would have cost $26 for admission. He returned the favour by composing a piece of music that was as long as it would take to pay back the cost of admission at 50 cents for every bar of music written.

“It’s called Fifty Cents a Bar, Plus a Dime, because I thought at least I could write a piece for him that’s worth 50 cents a bar,” said Murgatroyd, with a grin.

The composer, who was married briefly and has a daughter who is a lawyer, has also never been afraid of experimentation.

For instance, his short work Cloud 11, which was performed by the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, is based on palindrome. The notes in the first half are played in exactly the reverse order in the second. It’s written for an unusu-al grouping of instruments, including glockenspiel, chimes and gong.

Murgatroyd once wrote a duet for the unusual pairing of a tuba and flute — because why shouldn’t a tuba per-form with a flute?

Parting ways with convention, he feels, is par for the course for any Ca-nadian composer.

Like the diverse makeup of this country’s population, “Canadian music will never be any one thing. It will be many things.”

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RIPPER: Collaborated with SwollenMembers

As Snak the Ripper, he has collabo-rated with the likes of Swollen Mem-bers and the Onyx collective.

If anybody had told the 20-year-old Fyvie that he could make all this hap-pen someday, he said he never would have believed it.

“If any young person listens to my music, what they can take from it is you can do anything you want to do,” Fyvie added.

“I’m not an angel. I’m not perfect. ... If I can do it, you can do it.”

Tickets to his 10 p.m. show with Caspian and Jaclyn Gee are $30 in ad-vance, $35 or $40 for VIP access from www.trueability.ca.

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Mad Max: Fury RoadFour stars (out of four)Rated: R

Varoom, varoom!A n y f e a r s

that 30 years of waiting for George Miller’s return to his post-apocalyp-tic Wasteland of “fire and blood” m i g h t h a v e been in vain are resoundingly stomped right from the open-ing engine revs of Mad Max: Fu-ry Road.

The Aussie w r i t e r / d i r e c -tor’s blockbust-er reboot of his 1979-85 action trilogy had its world premiere Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, immediate-ly prior to its wide release Friday in North America.

With Tom Hardy assuming the Max Rockatansky title role that made Mel Gibson famous, ex-cop turned man-ic Road Warrior, the story shifts into overdrive without a hitch and with a great deal of kinetic energy.

It’s as smooth and commanding a transition as when Daniel Craig be-came James Bond a decade ago in Ca-sino Royale, bringing a more physical and taciturn presence to a well-known character, just as Hardy does with Max.

And Hardy does it while wearing the iron face mask of a prisoner for the first third of the movie, which recalls his ferocious villain Bane, Batman’s nemesis, from The Dark Knight Rises.

Everything here amazingly feels like a fresh idea, thanks to the addition of Theron in the co-lead role of Furiosa, a female road demon who is every bit Max’s equal — and then some — when the rubber hits the road, the fist hits the head and the bullets hit the bull’s-

eye.A franchise known for its testoster-

one appeal suddenly gets a solid jolt of estrogen, from Furiosa and other strong female characters, a true rarity for a movie like this.

Furiosa is also the main plot mover as driver of the War Rig, a tanker truck loaded with scarce gas and nitro sto-len from Wasteland warlord Immortan Joe, a skull-masked creep played by Hugh Keays-Byrne, previously seen as the sociopathic villain Toecutter in the original Mad Max.

Furiosa is helping five women — played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Courtney Eaton — es-cape the raping clutches of Joe, who enslaves “wives” as breeders for the male heir he desires. Joe and his skin-head War Boys followers are in hot pursuit and loner Max is forced to ally with Furiosa in the struggle to stay alive in a world where compassion is

rarer than water.That’s really all the plot summa-

ry you need, apart from noting that Nicholas Hoult’s indefatigable Nux, a War Boy with no greater desire than to die and go to the Valhalla that Joe promises his warriors, makes for an excellent third main character, as his allegiances become complicated.

The beauty of the screenplay by Miller and co-writers Brendan McCa-rthy and Nico Lathouris is so much of the story is told visually, like silent cinema, and without recourse to whip-lash editing or excessive CGI.

We learn about the characters and their agendas on the run, with barely a moment to process what we’re seeing cross the brilliant lens of cinematogra-pher John Seale (The English Patient), who came out of retirement to make the golden sands of the film’s desert locales (shot mainly in Namibia) seem at once both hell and paradise.

“Don’t breathe!” Furiosa barks

to Max at once point, as she uses his shoulder to aim her deadly rifle at an advancing threat.

The audience needs the opposite command. You could use an on-screen reminder to take the occasional gulp of air.

What you don’t require is advance viewing of the previous Mad Max films. This one stands entirely on its own, al-though there are many little shout-outs to the past, the main one being Hugh Keays-Byrne’s return to the franchise as a different villain than his previous Toecutter, but one every bit as psycho-pathic and driven.

What you might enjoy, as I did, is a second viewing just take in all the fascinating characters, colours and textures of this thoroughly recreated and revived fantasy world, which now rivals Star Wars for the diversity of its mad characters and war machines.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Furiosa (Charlize Theron, right) is the main plot mover as driver of the War Rig, a tanker truck loaded with scarce gas and nitro stolen from Wasteland warlord Immortan Joe, in Mad Max: Fury Road.

BY VIRGINIA POSTRELADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

A landmark television drama is headed toward its conclusion — and I don’t mean Mad Men. CBS has just announced that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will end its 15-year run with a two-hour TV movie airing Sept. 27. Original series stars William Peters-en (Gil Grissom) and Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) will return for the finale.

Set in the Las Vegas crime lab, CSI was such a successful mass-market show and spawned so many spin-offs that it’s easy to forget just how surprising and original the series was. Its look, setting, and cen-tral themes were all distinctive.

“I need that cinematic look in television,” pro-ducer Jerry Bruckheimer told the pilot’s director Danny Cannon. Cannon, who ultimately directed 25 episodes, shot on Super 35mm film stock and ma-nipulated the colour in post-production to heighten visual impact. One of his tricks was to adjust the blacks, creating what he described in a DVD extra as “a graduated filter that goes all the way around the lens and draws your eyes into the center of it.”

On CSI, the tedious job of processing evidence — kept off-screen in most cop shows — was glamor-ized in dramatically lit montages, as mysterious and alluring as studio-era Hollywood portraits. But here the work, not the actor, was the star. “While scenes about sifting evidence might be all ‘talk’ in other crime series, in CSI they are all about ‘show,’” ob-served media-studies scholar Sue Turnbull in a 2007 essay. (For better and worse, CSI also taught viewers that databases are omniscient and work like magic.)

Although CSI may now seem like a cozy retreat, in its early days the show’s graphic depiction of corpses also pushed the boundaries of prime-time gore. (Who could forget the bloated body rotting in a bathtub?) When a rookie investigator vomited in the pilot epi-sode, she was standing in for an audience unaccus-tomed to seeing blue-veined bodies cut up on coro-ner’s slabs. And yes, the vomit was equally explicit.

And then there were the signature “CSI shots,” whizzing through blood vessels, tracking bullets as they burst through flesh or were fired in test tanks, magnifying hair follicles 1,000 times, penetrating the secrets of floorboards and walls. In the real Las Vegas, the spectacle is on a grand scale. On CSI, it was microscopic. “We took the camera where it had never been before,” said Cannon.

Las Vegas proved an ingenious venue, offering an unusual range of possible plots. While some episodes featured aspiring, current or washed-up entertain-ers, many depicted a mythic American city in a reso-lutely unmythic way — as a place of suburban tract homes where ordinary people made middle-class lives dealing cards and waiting tables. When the real estate bust tanked the real-life Las Vegas economy, the show took up that theme as well.

Some of the most memorable episodes used Las Vegas as a gathering place where people who were in some way unusual sought fellowship. Plots brought viewers into conventions of furries and chess players, dwarfs and obese people, science-fic-tion fans and word-game contestants. However rare their enthusiasms or bodies might be, these indi-viduals always turned out to share universal human emotions and motivations — including, of course, potentially deadly ones.

A show that introduced its heroes with a beat cop’s dismissive “Here comes the nerd squad” was bound to take a tolerant, even celebratory, view of oddballs. Gil Grissom, the team’s leader for the first nine years and the show’s moral center long after his departure, was a stereotypical eccentric scientist — with an important difference. Unlike the often- cruel Sherlock Holmes archetype, his strangeness made him not merely perceptive but kind. He developed a huge fan base, particularly among female viewers.

It was all a fantasy, of course. No police depart-ment has the resources of the CSI crime lab, nor is real-world forensic analysis as quick, certain and without prejudice as the show’s glamorous version might have us believe. But building a hit TV show around that ideal, and giving it cinematic production values, was a culturally significant achievement.

Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist, writes about commerce and culture, innovation, economics, and public policy.

D’oh! Is The Simpsons parting company with veteran cast member? NEW YORK — An escalating contract dispute sug-

gests that Harry Shearer may be exiting The Simp-sons, where he has voiced several of its characters since the Fox cartoon series debuted in 1989.

In a pair of Twitter posts on Thursday, Shearer said re-upping with the show would have denied him “what we’ve always had: the freedom to do other work.”

Hours later, Simpsons executive producer Al Jean tweeted, “The show will go on, made by people who love it...” In another post, he resolved to “recast if Harry does not return.” Yet another tweet seemed to leave the door open for a rapprochement: “In life I never say never.”

Shearer voices characters including Simpsons neighbour Ned Flanders, bil-lionaire Mr. Burns and his kowtowing aide, Smith-ers.

Fox recently announced picking up The Simpsons-for two more seasons — its 27th and 28th.

A statement from Jean and fellow Simpsons execu-tive producers James L. Brooks and Matt Groening said Shearer “was offered the same deal the rest of the cast accepted, and passed.”

Shearer did not respond to a request for com-ment.

The multi-tasking Shearer, 71, has charted a diverse career as an actor, writer, musician and producer, both before and since becoming part of the Simpsons troupe. Also known for his starring role in the 1984 mockumentary classic This Is Spinal Tap, as well as for hosting public radio’s weekly Le Show for more than 30 years, he recently produced and starred in Nixon’s The One, portraying President Richard Nixon in a TV dramatization of the secret White House tapes.

Thursday’s public acknowledgement of the ongo-ing dispute, he tweeted, was prompted by word from the lawyer of Simpsons executive producer Brooks that declared, “Show will go on, Harry will not be part of it, wish him the best.”

Shearer tweeted, “Of course, I wish him the very best.”

American Idol crowns second-to-

last championLOS ANGELES — “This

is the best day of my life,” said 29-year-old rocker Nick Fradiani after he was crowned the second to the last American Idol in not the best of weeks for the long-running music competition show.

On Monday, Fox an-nounced the former prime-time powerhouse and star-maker will end next year after 15 seasons following steadily de-clining ratings in recent years.

Fradiani, from Guil-ford, Conn. bested soulful 22-year-old vocalist Clark Beckham of White House, Tenn. to win Wednesday night.

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Playing the devil’s keeperBY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Scott Glenn remembers the phone call from his agent, shortly before the veteran performer would become one of the more memorable additions to the live-action Marvel universe.

Marvel and Netflix, his agent told him, were look-ing for an actor to play the mentor to Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock in the Netflix original series Daredevil. When Glenn, 74, listened to the word “mentor,” he presumed his role would be limited to that of an elderly man wagging his finger, providing examples for his pupil only through his stern words.

At that time, Marvel and Netflix “didn’t mention the name (of the character) — they just said they wanted me to play Charlie Cox’s mentor. The Dare-devil’s mentor,” Glenn told The Washington Post. “When I first heard that, my initial reaction was: ‘Aw, s---! I’m going to have to play some old guy who sits behind a desk and spouts wisdom. That’s what ‘mentor’ meant to me.”

Gratefully, Glenn was quite wrong. Once he saw the script, he realized he was signing up for much more, and was thrilled. “I said yes right away,” he recalled.

What Glenn jumped at was the role of Stick, the blind guide to the young and also blind Murdock. Stick pushes a soon-to-be Daredevil out of self-pity after Murdock loses his vision. The born-blind Stick teaches that having sight for even a short time, as Matt did, is an advantage. And the mentor guides him into living in a world of darkness, while learning martial arts along the way.

Teaching martial arts was a welcome element for Glenn, who has dabbled in Brazilian jujitsu, wres-tling and boxing. Convincing the audience that he was blind, on the other hand, would be a challenge.

“I have a lot of (martial arts training), just in my own private background of stuff I like to fool around with. The tricky part of all of that was doing it blind, and sort of finding the key to working blind,” said Glenn, who worked out ways for Stick to talk, walk and fight without sight. “Different actors find dif-ferent ways of solving that. The most common way of playing blind is just staring at people’s mouths rather than at their eyes. You’ll start to read blind. But that didn’t really work for me, because of all the physical stuff I had to do.”

Instead, Glenn decided to employ peripheral viewing.

“Rather than taking in information that is directly in front of your eyes, in a really relaxed way, start taking in information without moving your head or your eyes,” Glenn said. “How far can you see to the left? To the right? Above you and below you? And

the more you start taking in that information, the more you’ll start reading blind, but still be able to do things like walking up and down stairs, see punches coming at you — all of that stuff.”

Plenty of punches came Glenn’s way during Dare-devil, especially during a scene in which Stick and Murdock fight — the dynamic is that of father and abandoned son — after the two don’t agree on Stick’s methods.

“Someone told me that’s the longest single fight ever shot on television,” said Glenn of that scene, in which he and Cox engage in hand-to-hand combat in a Hells Kitchen apartment. “I don’t know if that’s true or not.”

The role of Stick also interested Glenn because of the “moral tight rope” that his character “skips around,” he said, as well as his fractured relation-ship with Murdock.

“For me, the first thing that I respond to — wheth-er it’s doing a play, or movie, or television or any-thing — is just the character. Is this a guy whose shoes I want to walk in for the next 12 days or six months?” Glenn said. “I get to dip into that kind of space and play a character who, deep down inside, really loves this kid, but will never show it. ... And (who) also kind of lives in the space of what would it be like to have a true Spartan sensibility in the 21st century.”

Glenn noted, too, that when he walked into the role, he was not an expert on Marvel Comics or its adaptations, but said that he’s grown to appreciate the fan base.

“Originally, I really didn’t think about that at all,” Glenn said.

“I now realize what a big deal and how important this comic universe is to so many people.”

SCOTT GLENN LEARNS MUCH FROM HIS ROLE AS A TEACHER ON MARVEL SERIES


As Stick, Scott Glenn (right) was glad to learn his role wouldn’t be that of a desk-bound mentor, but rather as a martial artist. Here he is with Skylar Gaertner, who plays Matt Murdock as a boy, in Netflix’s ‘Daredevil.’

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Obituaries

ALBERS Diane . K. Feb 25,1957 - Jan 7, 2015 Diane leaves to mourn her daughter Janet (Edward) Bloom, grandson Jordan Wolff, sisters Joan (Derek) Dickau, Anne (Charles) Gathercole, brothers Jim and Doug Albers, numerous nieces and nephews.

“LUTTMAB”Memorial Service Bentley

Community Church 4633 - 53 Ave Bentley AB.

Sat. June 6 2015 at 12 noon

COTTERJamesJames Cotter of Red Deer passed away on Tuesday, May 13, 2015 at the age of 91 years. James was born in Viking AB, on November 22, 1923. James spent his working life on the oil fi elds and was proud to say he knew his way around the old wooden rigs. After his retirement James enjoyed playing cards with friends and the freedom to do whatever he pleased. James will be lovingly remembered by son; Danny (Tracy) Cotter and their children, Erin, Tom and Jonathan; his daughter Patricia Cotter (Murphy Daniels) and her children, Erin, Jason and Ivan. As well as his great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He will also be remembered by his caretaker and friend; Robin Reid. James was predeceased by his loving wife Inez, his daughter Susan, 2 sisters and 2 brothers. At James’s request private family internment will be held at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL

CHAPEL4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

STONE Mary Ann Mar. 22, 1918 - Jan. 19, 2015Molly Gauld Davidson Stone passed away peacefully in Calgary. A full obituary will appear in the Red Deer Advocate on Thursday, May 21, 2015. The service to celebrate her life will be held at Memorial Presbyterian Church, 5020 48 Street, Sylvan Lake, on May 23, 2015 at 2 pm.

Obituaries

DHATT Dorothy (Dovbniak) nee Marshall 1928 - 2015Dorothy Dhatt passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, at the age of 87. Dorothy is survived by her children: Anne Wallace (Lyle-deceased), John Dovbniak (Beverley), Chris Dovbniak (Carola), Cindy Dunlop (Gail), Sean Dovbniak and Wesley Dovbniak (Pamela). She was predeceased by daughter Dorothy Jean and granddaughter Shawnna. Dorothy was also loved by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and special great-great-granddaughter Chloe. After a hard life having lived through the Depression and World War II, she moved to Canada with 3 little kids. With no destination in mind, she started again in a tiny house in a tiny village in southern Manitoba. With 7 children and having left an abusive husband, Dorothy lived out her days being the best mom, grandma, great- grandma and even great- great-grandma. Some of Grandma Dorothy Dhatt’s dying words were: “It’s easy to love someone, but it isn’t always easy to like them. Don’t get wound up in petty fi ghts, just love each other.” This story she told proved her point: “I was taught to hate the Germans, to hate the Japanese, and anyone gay. Now I have a German daughter-in-law, a Japanese daughter-in-law and a gay daughter-in-law and I love them all.” At Dorothy’s request, a private family service has been held. As an expression of sympathy, donations to Loaves and Fishes Benevolent Society, 6002 54 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 0J1, would be appreciated by the family. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at

PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND

CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor

Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

Obituaries

DUNCAN1968 - 2015Jeffrey Craig Duncan of Sylvan Lake passed away suddenly on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at the age of 46 years. Jeff will be lovingly remembered and deeply missed by his wife Michelle; stepdaughter Emily; mother Lois; brother David and sister Karen. He was predeceased by his father Donald; work brothers and best friends, Thomas Johnstone and PeterAndrews. A Celebration of Jeff’s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 35), 2810 - Bremner Ave, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations may be made directly to the NASH Project, (attention Ashley Duncan), Range Rd 8-38-54, Station Main, Lethbridge AB T1G 4P4. The aim of the NASH project is to rescue neglected and abused animalsand repurpose them as PTSD Service animals. Condolences to Jeff’s family may be emailed to [email protected] MEMORIALS

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GREENLEERoy1945 - 2015Mr. Roy Bernard Greenlee of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, May 11, 2015 at the age of 69 years. Roy receiveda plaque acknowledging his forty years of service; working for Sims Furniture in Red Deer. He was also a member of the Legion and the Elks Club. Roy will be lovingly remembered by his father, Harold, his wife, Margaret, sister, Karen, brothers, Trevor and Ron (Barb); as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and dear friends. Roy was predeceased by a son, Rodney, his mother, Lois and a brother-in-law, Ken. No formal funeral service will be held. If desired, Memorial Donations in Roy’s honor may be made directly to the Alberta Lung Association at www.ab.lung.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki,

Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL

HOME AND CREMATORIUM,

6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

In Memoriam

TAMMY THOMPSONMarch 1, 1975 - May 15, 2010

“There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we

don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.”

- Author Unknown

Forever cherished, loved and missed.

WATERSRichard K. “Dick”

Aug. 22, 1929 - May 15, 2014

God saw you were strugglingand heard your earnest plea.He took you in His arms and said,“Come, be at peace with Me.”

Always loved and always missed by all of us:

Ev, Diane (Dennis), Darlene, Dustin, Dave (Debbie),

Brendan (Dana w/Ava & Karson), Derek (Katrine), Brett, extended family and friends.

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FEEHAN

Gerry and Florence Feehan are proud to announce that Colette is now Dr. Feehan. On March 16, 2015 Colette

was awarded a PhD in Marine Biology from

Dalhousie University in Halifax. (Finally, not another lawyer in the Feehan family!) Colette has accepted a post-doctoral position at Rutger’s, New Jersey where she will

join her husband Mike Brown whom she married in Goose Pond, New Hampshire on

June 28, 2014. Mike is pursuing a PhD in

Oceanography at Rutgers. We wish them a wonderful

life together.

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Professionals 810

Wade Noble & Partners LLP requires a Chartered Accountant with at least

5 years’ experience to join our team in Rocky

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develop your corporate tax skills we offer competitive wages and benefi ts and fi rm supplied professional

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Restaurant/Hotel 820BUSY Retreat centre Looking for a weekend cook, specializing in home made food, from scratch, a cabin is available during your weekend stay, if you think you have the qualifi -cations we are looking for, please call or text 780-878-4019, Thank You

CALKINS CONSULTINGo/a Tim Hortons

15 vacancies at eachlocation for FOOD

COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $12/hr. +

benefi ts. F/T & P/Tpositions. Permanent shift

work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start

date as soon as possible. No experience or

education req’d. Jobdescription avail. at

www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620

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Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or

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FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. +benefi ts. Start ASAP.

Job description www.timhortons.com

Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303

SWISS Chalet -Red DeerHIRING FOOD SERVICESUPERVISORS: $13.75 - $ 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and co-

ordinate staff activities andcustomer service. Estab-lish work schedule and

train associates Interested parties can email

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Restaurant/Hotel 820

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time

Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave.

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time

COOKS AND DISHWASHERS.

Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Trades 850DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D.

Experience an asset. 403-341-7619

Pasquale MancusoConstruction

(51 YEARS OF SERVICE)Seeks individuals for civil concrete work

in the construction of oil and gas facilitiesTicketed &

Non-TicketedCarpenters and

Superintendents &Foreman

Excellent rate of pay based on the oil and gas

Plant sectors. Benefi t package, transportation

provided. Please faxresume to (403) 342-1549

or email [email protected]

SELF motivated journey-man req’d for sheet metal shop in Innisfail. The suc-cessful applicant will have a truck and fuel supplied.

Must possess good organizational skills and be able to work commer-

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SHOP HELP AND/ORAPPRENTICE MECHANIC

REQ’D IMMED.Truck exp. preferred.

8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Black-falds. Steady f/t year

round employment w/benefi ts. Fax: 403-784-2330

Phone: 403-784-3811

Truckers/Drivers 860BUSY rig moving company looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor

hands, and picker operators. Oilfi eld ticket an asset. Must be able to pass a

drug test. Pls call 1-306-463-6674.

Promax Transport islooking for a P/T Class 1A

shunt driver to workweekend shifts. Pleasesend resumes to fax # 403-227-2743 or call

403-227-2712 for more information

Truckers/Drivers 860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558

Misc.Help 880

Blue Water Wash hasopenings for Wash BayAttendants at our newlocation in Red Deer!

Wash bay attendants areresponsible for washing

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benefi ts. Please apply to: Blue Water Wash Red Deer, Alberta, Email:

[email protected]

CRYSTAL GLASS needs a GLASS

INSTALLER. Some exp. preferred, but training is provided. Benefi ts and

company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax

346-5390 or email:[email protected]

HERITAGE LANESBOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a

SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR

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Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

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Tools 1640TABLE SAW, asking $200.403-342-1934

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Homestead FirewoodSpruce, Pine, Birch -Split.

avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver

1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGSSemi loads of pine, spruce,

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Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

HouseholdAppliances 1710DRYER, LARGE capacity, gas, bought new electric dryer. $150. obo. 403-748-2750, 358-1529

HouseholdFurnishings1720HIDE-A-BED, dble. good

condition. $50. 403-340-1347

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

StereosTV's, VCRs 1730

GAME Cube w/2games $80, Wii Dance mat

w/game $50 403-782-3847

NINTENDO w/3 games $140 403-782-3847

SEGA Genesis w/13 games $140 403-782-3847

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/re-mote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125 403-352-8811

Misc. forSale 1760

70 Western LP records, 45’s & 78’s, $1. ea.

Electric typewriter, $35. 403-342-7460

AVON collection (12 pieces) $40. 403-885-5020

BIRD houses $15, $3, $45; bird feeder $20, bat house $10, 6’ high wishing well $70, 100 covered coat hangers .25 cents ea. 403-346-5745

ENTERTAINMENT stand, $40. 403-342-0813

STAR CHOICE, dish, stand & receive $100.

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OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

SPIDER Plants (4), $4. ea.2 mature spider plants, $8. ea. 403-342-7460

TWO window mount air conditioners, 19”w, 17”d,

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VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horses, brown shetland colt, foal and po-ny, 3 1/2” high $40; DC SHOES cap size 7 3/8, like new $18; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $35 403-352-8811

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ELECTRONIC Caddy, $100.

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Search continues for 15 miners missing after water floods shafts in Colombian mine


BOGOTA — Search teams worked for a second day Thursday hunting for 15 gold miners missing and feared dead after water poured into the underground shafts where they were digging.

Authorities said Wednesday’s accident at El Tunel mine in the northwestern town of Riosucio was likely triggered by an explosion or power outage that disabled pumps used to extract water and supply oxygen to crews working as deep as 90 feet (27 metres) below ground.

Miner Yeison Gutierrez said he was able to save several colleagues because he was one of the few who knew how to swim. He said one co-worker slipped through his hands and didn’t make it above ground.

“I swam to the surface fighting against the water and the air pressure; that’s how we were saved,” Gutierrez told The Associated Press from the mine where he was assist-ing the search.

President Juan Manuel Santos called on rescuers to “spare no effort” in the search.

Family members huddled near the mine throughout Wednesday night as crews used pumps to remove the wa-ter that raced into three vertical shafts from the adjacent Cauca river. Authorities said it could take at least three days to clear the mine.

“Every hour, every minute and every second that goes by the chances of finding survivors diminishes,” said Jai-me Gallego, a civil defence worker.

Mining accidents are common in Colombia but usually take place in wildcat mines dominated by leftist rebels and criminal gangs.

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CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Barack Obama pledged America’s “ironclad commitment” to anxious Persian Gulf nations Thursday to help protect their security, pointedly mentioning the potential use of military force and offering assurances that a potential nuclear agreement with Iran would not leave them more vulnerable.

At the close of a rare summit at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Obama said the U.S. would join the Gulf Cooperation Council nations “to deter and confront an ex-ternal threat to any GCC state’s territorial integrity.” The U.S. pledged to bolster its security co-operation with the Gulf on counterterrorism, maritime security, cybersecurity and ballistic missile defence.

“Let me underscore, the United States keeps our com-mitments,” Obama said at a news conference.

Thursday’s meeting at Obama’s retreat in the Mary-land mountains was aimed at quelling the Gulf’s fears of U.S.-led nuclear talks with Iraq. Gulf states worry that if Iran wins international sanctions relief, the influx of cash would embolden what they see as Tehran’s aggression in the region.

The president acknowledged those concerns, but said the U.S. believes Iran’s focus would be on shoring up an economy that has struggled under the sanctions pressure.

Obama and top advisers walked the Gulf nations through the work-in-progress nuclear deal in detail during private meetings Thursday. The president said that while the Gulf leaders hadn’t been asked to “sign on the bottom line” to approve the framework, they did agree “that a comprehensive, verifiable solution that fully addresses the regional and international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program is in the security interests of the international community, including our GCC partners.”

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Arab lead-ers were “assured that the objective is to deny Iran the ability to obtain a nuclear weapon” and that all pathways to such a weapon would be cut off.

He added that it was too early to know if a final nuclear agreement would be acceptable, saying, “We don’t know if the Iranians will accept the terms they need to accept.”

The U.S. and five other nations are working to finalize the nuclear deal ahead of an end of June deadline.

As if to underscore Gulf concerns, an Iranian naval pa-trol boat fired on a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Persian Gulf Thursday.

A U.S. official said it was an apparent attempt to dis-able the ship over a financial dispute involving damage to an Iranian oil platform.

The incident took place a bit south of the island of Abu Musa just inside the Gulf, according to the U.S. official, who was not authorized to discuss details by name. The White House said no Americans were involved in the inci-dent.

Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, said that while the incident did not come up in Thursday’s discussions, it was “exactly the type of challenge” the Gulf nations are focused on.


PHILADELPHIA — The death toll from the Amtrak wreck rose to eight with the discovery of another body in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train’s engineer said his client has no recollection of the crash and wasn’t on his cellphone or using drugs or alcohol.

A cadaver dog found the eighth body in the wreckage of the first passenger car nearly 36 hours after the crash, Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer said.

Officials believe they have now ac-counted for all 243 people who were thought to have been aboard the train, Mayor Michael Nutter said.

Amtrak, meanwhile, said limited train service between Philadelphia and New York should resume on Mon-day, with full service by Tuesday.

Federal investigators have said the train was barrelling through the city at 106 mph before it ran off the rails along a sharp bend where the speed limit drops to 50 mph. But they don’t know why it was going so fast.

“I don’t think that any commonsense, rational person would think that it was OK to travel at that level of speed knowing that there was a pretty sig-nificant restriction on how fast you could go through that turn,” the mayor said Thursday, repeating criti-cism of the engineer he made a day earlier.

Lawyer Robert Goggin told ABC News that engi-neer Brandon Bostian, 32, of New York City, suffered a concussion in Tuesday night’s wreck and had 15 staples in his head, along with stitches in one leg.

“He remembers coming into the curve. He remembers attempting to reduce speed and thereafter he was knocked out,” Goggin said. But he said Bostian does not recall anything out of the ordinary and does not remember using the emergency brake, which in-vestigators say was applied moments before the crash.

The lawyer said the next thing the engineer remembered was coming to, looking for his bag, retrieving his cell-phone and calling 911 for help. He said the engineer’s cellphone was off and stored in his bag before the accident, as required.

“As a result of his concussion, he has absolutely no recollection what-soever of the events,” Goggin said. He said he believes the engineer’s memo-ry will probably return once the head injury subsides.

Goggin said that his client “co-oper-ated fully” with police and told them “everything that he knew,” immedi-ately consenting to a blood test and surrendering his cellphone.

He said he had not been drinking or doing drugs.


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Afghan president condemns Taliban attack


KABUL — An audacious Taliban at-tack on a Kabul guesthouse that left 14 people dead, including nine foreign-ers, underscores the difficulties Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani faces in providing even basic security following the with-drawal of international combat troops from Afghanistan.

The hourslong siege, which ended early Thursday, was the deadliest in Kabul since the insurgents launched their annual “spring offensive” against Ghani’s administration in late April, sparking fierce battles that have forced the government to concentrate resources on security at the expense of desperately needed reforms.

An American, a British citizen, an Italian, four Indian nationals and two Pakistanis were among the dead. Five Afghans were also killed and seven were wounded, including a policeman.

By targeting a guesthouse popular with international residents and visi-tors, the Taliban also stoked fears they were renewing their strategy of killing foreigners, which will further under-mine Ghani’s credibility in his efforts to bring peace, stability and prosper-ity not only to Afghanistan but to the broader region.

“The attack shows that Kabul is very vulnerable. An increase in attacks on Kabul can paralyze life here, and if there is a cascade of attacks in Ka-bul, it can hurt the government,” said Haroun Mir, an independent political analyst.

Gunmen stormed the Park Palace Hotel in downtown Kabul as guests gathered Wednesday evening for a concert by a popular Afghan musician attended by an audience that included diplomats, business people, charity

workers, academics and others.As gunfire echoed around the guest-

house in the Shar-i-Naw neighbour-hood — near United Nations com-pounds and a foreign-run hospital — the area was rapidly surrounded by heavily armed police and special forces in armoured Humvees.

Some 60 people were held hos-tage until the early hours of Thursday morning. Sporadic gunfire and a se-ries of muffled explosions were heard over about five hours, before Kabul police chief Gen. Adbul Rahman Ra-himi announced the siege was over. Firefighters quickly moved in to clear

the building, which was cordoned off as residents moved out.

The Taliban claimed responsibility in an emailed statement that said the hotel was targeted because of the pres-ence of foreigners, including Ameri-cans. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was carried out by a lone at-tacker armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, a suicide vest and a pistol. However, authorities in Kabul said three gun-men were involved and all were killed in the shootout with Afghan security forces.

Ghani condemned the attack and lashed out at the Taliban in a state-ment Thursday, vowing the insurgents would not derail his plans to bring peace to his war-ravaged nation. He said he had spoken to the leaders of the nations whose citizens were killed, adding: “The terrorists and enemies of Afghanistan cannot harm our country’s relationships with other countries with these activities.”

Since taking office in September, public support for Ghani has rapid-ly evaporated, along with faith in his promises to bring reform and peace. His cabinet still lacks a defence min-ister and plans to kick-start a mori-bund economy, creating much-needed jobs after the withdrawal late last year of foreign combat forces and many non-government organizations, have stalled.

In the months immediately after his inauguration, Ghani embarked on a diplomatic offensive aimed at winning the support of neighbouring nations for his vision of transforming Afghani-stan from a war-torn no-go zone into a hub for regional economic co-opera-tion. Central to his plan was drawing the Taliban into a dialogue that would eventually lead to peace talks and its possible inclusion in government.

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SIEGE IN KABUL KILLED 14, INCLUDING 9 FOREIGNERS


Afghan police stand guard outside Park Palace guesthouse Thursday, after being attacked by gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed the guesthouse as it hosted a party for foreigners, and authorities said five people, including an American, were killed during an hourslong siege that ended early Thursday morning.


As Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, left, listens to Amtrak CEO, J o s e p h B o a r d m a n expresses his sorrow near the site of a deadly train derailment Thursday, in Philadelphia. An Amtrak train headed to New York C i ty derailed and crashed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night killing eight people and sending more than 200 passengers and crew to area hospitals. Investigators have said the Amtrak passenger train was going more than twice the allowed speed when it shot off a sharp curve.