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Oil glut curbs growth BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Nearly three months of sub-$50 oil prices — and the attendant economic impacts — have soured ATB Financial’s outlook for Alberta. The provincial financial institution said Tuesday that it’s projecting a 0.8 per cent growth rate for Alberta this year. That’s down from the 2.0 per cent that ATB Financial was forecasting in early January, and a steep drop from the 3.7 per cent real GDP growth that the province enjoyed in 2014. The new prediction is contained in ATB Financial’s second quarter outlook for Alberta. That report says a contraction of the provincial economy is “somewhat unlikely,” but Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial’s chief economist, noted in his daily economic comment that 0.8 per cent growth would be the weakest in six years. The report attributed current low oil prices, which on Tuesday stood at US$47.60 a barrel for West Texas intermediate (WTI) crude, to high production levels by OPEC countries and the United States, and reduced energy demands in China and other developing nations. “The glut of oil is beginning to strain crude-storage capacity in the U.S. and abroad,” it said. “With American crude production at its highest level in more than 80 years, nearly 70 per cent of the nation’s storage facilities and tankers are full.”

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RDC athletes honoured for leadership BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE There’s more to a RDC student athlete than just being a member of the Kings and Queens. Along with time in the classroom and with their MALARCHUK RECOUNTS teams, a number of the HORRIFIC INJURY B4 athletes spend time in the community as volunteers. Two of those — Anna Duda and Brian Prenoslo — were honoured at the 12th annual RDC Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast at Westerner Park on Tuesday, receiving the Scott Builders Leadership Award. Duda is a fourth-year student in education and has competed for the cross-country running team the last three years. The Delburne native still lives in the Central Alberta community and spends time volunteering as a coach in Delburne. She is also a single mom of 12- and 14-year-old daughters. “About five or six years ago, I became involved in coaching rec soccer,” she explained. “As my daughters grew older, I saw their coaches and the people in their lives helping out and I felt it was time for me to get involved in the community and help out as well.” Since them, she has coached basketball, volleyball, baseball and badminton for youngsters in Grades 7 to 9. Duda grew up in Delburne before moving to Calgary briefly. She returned to Delburne and decided she wanted something different in her life. So she decided to attend RDC.

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Nova Argen, 3, of Red Deer reaches up to touch the soft fur on the Easter Bunny’s cheek at Parkland Mall. All this week and through the weekend the Easter Bunny will be posing for pictures near the food court in the mall.

Central Alberta schools grappling with fallout from ‘difficult’ budget SUSTAINING SERVICE LEVELS AMID CUTS CHALLENGING BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The 2015-16 provincial budget has Central Alberta school systems strained and jurisdictions worried. “It’s the fourth consecutive year where we find ourselves trying to sustain service levels and our budget falls in between $1 million and $3 million short of being able to do that. We’re concerned about the trend,” said Kurt Sacher, superintendent at Chinook’s Edge School Division, on Tuesday. He said his division will likely be short $1.5 million. The continued erosion of funding is not sustainable if Alberta wants high quality education for its children, he said. Last week’s budget provides $7.1 billion for public and separate schools, and requires school boards to reduce their non-teaching costs by three per cent. Non-teaching costs make up 40 per cent of school budgets and include costs like plant operations, transportation, non-teacher staff, supplies and services, and governance. Sacher said non-teaching cuts will have indirect

and direct impacts on the classroom, for example when it comes to students with disabilities. “We have in our school division complex student numbers going up significantly year after year and our funding is actually going in the opposite direction.” Transportation is another constant challenge for rural schools, he said. “We have spoken directly with government about that and what we’ve been advised to do is to work with neighbouring school divisions and to charge fees. There is a limit to what you can reasonably do with co-operative busing and nobody likes fees.” The board doesn’t want to charge rural students fees or pull from instruction funding to pay for busing, but Chinook’s Edge has a transportation budget deficit, he said. “It’s really unique to rural school divisions and unfortunately, the rural voice is not always the one that gets the most attention. That has been our experience,” Sacher said.

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Drunk driving law that suspends licence until case over appealed again EDMONTON — An Edmonton lawyer has filed a notice to appeal Alberta’s drunk driving legislation. Earlier this month, an Alberta judge rejected a challenge to a provincial law that suspends the

licences of drivers who are charged with being impaired. Since 2012, drivers who blow over .08 have their vehicles impounded for three days and lose their licences until their cases are resolved in court. The process can take months. A group of motorists who faced impaired driving charges had argued the law violates the Charter of

Rights because it presumes guilt and violates people’s rights by suspending their licences indefinitely. Lawyer Nate Whitling, who is appealing the decision, believes the law encourages some drivers to plead guilty — even if they’re not — just to get their lives and their licences back. “It’s one of those things that’s very difficult to prove, by way of evidence,” says Whitling.

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OUTLOOK: Spending plans scaled back That could push oil prices down further, it warned. Natural gas prices are also low, the consequence of high production from shale formations in the U.S., and a mild North American winter that curbed gas consumption. “Capital expenditure plans have been scaled back and employment has started to fall,” said ATB Financial in its outlook. Alberta shed 14,000 jobs in February, with unemployment jumping to 5.3 per cent from 4.5 per cent. The resource extraction industry alone lost 7,000 positions, with a large number of engineering, geology and related jobs also disappearing. On a positive note, a low Canadian dollar has helped reduce the price difference between WTI and the Western Canadian select crude produced in Alberta to less than C$15, ATB Financial noted. It also said that the agricultural sector remains strong, especially for beef producers, as does the forestry industry. And the low loonie is making other export resources more attractive to foreign buyers. Construction activity is still strong, but a slowdown in the residential resale market and a sharp dip in building permits (to their lowest level in three years) indicate this could soon change, said ATB Financial. It anticipates a gradual recovery, with Alberta’s GDP growth increasing to 1.7 per cent next year and 3.1 per cent in 2017. Unemployment is expected to average 6.0 per cent this year, and then decrease to 5.8 and 4.9 per cent over the next two years. “While difficult to predict, oil prices should begin to stabilize and increase gradually at the end of the summer or early fall,” said Hirsch. “But the increase could be very slow. We are more likely to see West Texas intermediate in the range of $50 to $60 per barrel than to see it bounce back up to $107.” ATB Financial said a less likely scenario would be oil remaining between US$40 and $50 this year, which would probably lead to a contraction of the provincial economy. The other extreme, with oil prices jumping to US$60 to $75, is even less likely, but would boost 2015 GDP growth to 1.5 per cent, it said. “While it will be a challenging year, Albertans shouldn’t panic,” said Hirsch. “It will by no means be the worst economic year in recent history. “Six years ago the province suffered a deep contraction (-4.2 per cent). As hard as it will be for a lot of people, the slowdown is a normal part of the cyclical nature of Alberta’s economy.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

SCHOOLS: Locked out of reserves The four-cent jump in gasoline and diesel tax will also squeeze school bus operations. “Typically what you’ll see across the province is some reduction in the fleet, by that I mean some of the routes may be combined. They might have to run a little bit longer routes to compensate for some of the additional costs,” said Larry Jacobs, superintendent of Wolf Creek Schools. Jacobs is also concerned about the control Alberta Education will have over school board reserves. According to the 2015-16 budget, requests by school boards to access their operation funding reserves must be approved by the education minister. Jacobs said most of its reserves are targeted for future upgrades, like buses. “We replenish our bus fleet on a 12-year rotation. So every year, we would put aside money to do that. Now those reserves are frozen and we don’t know if we’ll be able to use those or not in the future. The same thing for technology. We have a five-year rotation,” Jacobs said. He said if school boards maintain control of reserves, they can plan how they will be utilized and what sort of expenses they will cover. At times,

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Work continues on an Avalon Central Alberta multi-family project on Viscount Drive in Vanier Woods East in Red Deer. While Alberta’s construction sector remains busy, ATB Financial warns in its latest economic outlook that this could soon change. schools must also dip into reserves when they can’t meet their budgets. Last week’s budget also means that school jurisdictions won’t get more funding to address enrolment growth. To protect front-line teachers, the province decided it will not allow any reduction in classroom positions unless there is a decline in enrolment. Jacobs said while the budget does cover the final year of the four-year teachers’ contract, it doesn’t include money to cover the increasing salary cost of teachers as they advance up the salary grid. He said altogether, it’s a hard budget. “We can’t control the reserves to get over the hump. We’re locked into the number of teachers we had last year. We have the grid creep. So it’s going to be difficult, especially if we get more students.” School jurisdictions are not getting any funding to address enrolment growth in the provincial budget. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

LEADERSHIP: Both received $1,500 scholarships “I was in the gas and oil industry in technical sales, but wanted something different,” she explained. “I wanted to do something with more impact.” Duda is taking her student practicum in Elnora and hopes to find a teaching job next year. “The way things are right now, who knows, but hopefully I find something in the near future.” But two things are for certain — she will continue to run and continue to volunteer. “I would like to do more things to give back to the community, such as the Boys and Girls Club. Something that has impact on others’ lives, just not sports.” She’ll also continue to train for the ultra-marathon, and she will compete in this year’s Boston Marathon. “It takes time, but I love it ... I wouldn’t have it any other way.” Duda and Prenoslo both received $1,500 scholarships. “The money is nice it came at the right time as I

have some unexpected expenses,” she said. Prenoslo, a member of the RDC Kings basketball team, is finishing his third and last year at RDC before transferring to university, where he’s considering law. “This money will certainly help,” he said. “I can put it away for that plan.” Prenoslo was born and raised around Edmonton, then moved to Whitehorse, Yukon, where he finished high school before being recruited by RDC. He became involved in volunteering in his first year at RDC. “(Marketing director) PJ (Swales) had us going to schools and I found out pretty quickly how much fun it was ... how much energy the kids have and how much respect they have in you. It was a real confidence boost.” Prenoslo has spent time as an official with the middle schools basketball program, worked with the Hoops basketball program and spent time with the City of Red Deer Point in Time Homeless Count and with the Red Deer Food Bank “Feed The Need” program. “It’s something I like to take advantage of now, considering the support of the community,” he said. “I can give back. I’m recognized in the community and people see me as a King, whether it’s with the Hoops program or at the food bank when they see the crown on my chest. They see RDC Athletics and that gives me a lot of pride.” He also works with youth basketball in Whitehorse. “I try to help programs that helped me ... I try to give back. There’s not a lot of players out of the Yukon who play college ball, but I try to let them know if they listen to the coaches and work hard, they have a chance.” Prenoslo doesn’t have a lot of time for relaxation, which is fine with him. “It seems the more time I have, the less I get done,” he said with a smile. “When I plan my life, I’m more productive.” Just because he’s gone from RDC next year, he won’t quit volunteering. “It’s part of my life,” he said. “It’s fun and you get a sense of accomplishment.” Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Library nixed over timing, location BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Timing and location were key factors in the Red Deer Public Library board’s decision to turn down an opportunity to open a fourth branch. Lisa Wakefield, Red Deer library board chairperson, said the board did not enter into a new joint agreement with the city and Red Deer Public School District due to a variety of things, including the timing and the location. The Timberlands library branch is attached to École Barrie Wilson Elementary School in northeast Red Deer. It opened in September. The proposed library would have been attached to the new public elementary school on Irving Crescent and Inglewood Drive in Red Deer’s south quadrant. “It’s just not the ideal location that the library was hoping for,” said Wakefield. “We are still learning lessons from Timberlands so the timing didn’t

work out perfectly.” Both the city and the school board had anticipated the library would be prepared to sign off on an agreement similar to the one for the Timberlands branch. The city allocated $600,000 from its capital budget last fall. However, the city and the school board were forced to revise the original agreement on Monday. The money will now be used to develop a community space at the public school. “It was a tough decision for the library,” said Wakefield. “There were a lot of conversations. We did of research. We gathered as much information as we possibly could.” The board made the decision in December and revisited it earlier this month. According to the March meeting minutes, the board discussed a temporary branch in Inglewood and had questions about which organization would keep the funding, furniture and Burk family, RCMP dog services, RCMP air services, and Red Deer County civilian search and rescue. In addition, concerned family members organized 50 to 60 people to search within the city.

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RCMP awaiting Burk autopsy results RCMP confirmed on Tuesday that the woman found deceased on Friday west of Edmonton was Roze Burk. The RCMP investigation continues and they are awaiting autopsy results from the medical examiner’s office. The 68-year-old woman, from just east of Red Deer, had been missing since March 12. Her family confirmed on Sunday that police had located her body on Friday morning. Burk’s vehicle was spotted by RCMP during an air search on Friday. Officers had been working on a separate operation when they spotted Burk’s vehicle in a remote area, approximately 35 km south of Evansburg. RCMP said they believe Burke’s vehicle became stuck and she left the vehicle to seek help. The area where she became stuck is not frequented by travellers. RCMP were able to recover her 2008 Ford Escape vehicle as well as her small dog, Jewel. The dog has been reunited with the Burk family. Searches in Red Deer and the surrounding area were conducted by the

A crime spree throughout Alberta included a pit-stop in Red Deer to steal liquor and gas before the young offenders continued on their way. Two youth males were arrested by Airdrie RCMP at the Crossfield Inn on Saturday, ending their three-day-long spree that included offences in Airdrie, Didsbury, Crossfield, Olds and Red Deer. The spree started on March 24 at 3:30 a.m. with police responding to an alarm at a liquor store in Airdrie. Mounties attempted to stop the vehicle, which instead fled north. A pursuit was conducted as the vehicle approached Olds. The pursuit was terminated without any arrest. The vehicle was found in Olds abandoned and police believe the suspects had ditched it in a snowbank and stolen a truck with a horse trailer. The suspects headed north to Red Deer, where they allegedly went to the Eastview Liquor Store and stole three bottles of liquor at about 9:15 p.m. on March 24. The following morning, at 2:04 a.m. they allegedly stole more than $100

collections if the library decided on another location. The board asked the city if it would support a stand-alone library. City manager Craig Curtis said “when the community wants it.” Since a library is low on the community wish list, “it may be a long time before city funding for a new stand-alone library branch is available.” Minutes reveal that some board members felt pressured to reconsider the decision while others were in support of the fourth location. It was also discussed that the board should develop the criteria necessary to make a decision about adding another public library branch. Christina Wilson, library CEO, said the library was hoping to open a new branch more in the southeast part of the city. “Adding a branch is a big change for the library,” said Wilson. “Then there are a lot of factors to weigh in to make it work properly.” Wilson said there were a lot of lessons to be learned from opening Timberlands last year.

“We are succeeding in reaching to our younger clientele but we have some work to do to reach out to teens and to let adults know that it’s not a school library, it is in fact a public library,” she said. Wilson said the library had been looking to open a branch in the southeast since around 2011. A few years ago, the board hoped an opportunity would open up involving the Collicutt Centre and the two nearby schools but no plans were written. The library is now working on a community needs survey to determine what residents want out of a public library to help with future planning. Wilson said there will be a question about facilities. A version of the survey is expected to be available at the city’s Let’s Talk event at Bower Place mall on April 11. About 70 per cent of the library’s $3 million budget comes from the city. In January, city council turned down the library’s request for additional funding in order to expand its programming hours at Timberlands. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

worth of gas from a Red Deer Express 24. Two youth have been charged with attempted break and enter, flight from police, possession of stolen property over and under $5,000, theft under $5,000, theft of a motor vehicle, break and enter and numerous breaches. They have been remanded into custody and await a court date.

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Lacombe library flooded Flooding has closed the library in Lacombe, which suffered extensive damage to the north end of the facility. A press release issued on Tuesday said the Mary C. Moore Library, at 5214 50th Ave., will be closed until further notice following the flooding. “The City of Lacombe Library Board anticipates that the library will be closed for repairs and restoration for about two to three months,” said Christina Petrisor, head librarian. “All library programs and services, including children programming, have been suspended until further notice.” City assessors and restoration specialists are working to determine the extent of the damage to the facility and remove the collection. The collection will be placed in storage during the renovation. Library patrons can return borrowed materials at the exterior bookdrop at the library. Lacombe library patrons can access other Parkland Regional Library System libraries.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The union representing Canada’s meat inspectors says a critical shortage of inspectors is putting the safety of consumers at risk. Bob Kingston, president of the Agriculture Union, said only 12 of 18 meat hygiene inspection positions are filled at processing plants in northern Alberta. The numbers are the same in the Calgary region. In January, he said, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency also instructed staff in the northern part of the province to cut general sanitation inspection work by 50 per cent. Kingston said a lack of funding is creating similar problems and concerns at facilities across Canada, and the federal government needs to put more money into meat safety. “The entire beef basket of Canada is in the same corral,” he said. “This government has a lot to say about protecting Canadians and I’m hoping they realize that these are more than just numbers on paper ... There are lives at risk — the real likelihood that people are going to die.”

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Still waiting for reform JIM PRENTICE CHANNELS HIS INNER DON GETTY AS ALBERTA’S BUDGET DINGS TAXPAYERS WITH $11.4 BILLION IN EXTRA TAXES BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Alberta Premier Jim Prentice dropped hints for months that the 2015 provincial budget was a once-in-a-generation chance to “fix” Alberta’s finances. That didn’t happen. Instead, the province raised taxes on Albertans in a manner akin to the worst of the late-1980s budgets. That was the last time Alberta faced chronically high per capita program spending and then low oil prices and thus, a serious budget gap of this magnitude. In 1987, tax increases included higher provincial income taxes, a new surtax, another new tax on all incomes, an increase in liquor and tobacco taxes, a new hotel room tax, a new fuel tax, and higher insurance premium taxes. Now look at Budget 2015. As of 201617, new and increased taxes will carry a huge price tag, including increases to personal income tax ($420 million), fuel taxes ($535 million), and a new healthcare tax ($532 million). Increased taxes

on insurance premiums, on liquor, and increases in fees and fines will hit Alberta families for almost another $700 million annually. In total, the new budget hits Albertans with $2.2 billion in new or higher taxes as of 2016-17, and between now and 2020, a whopping $11.4 billion in total extra tax taken from the pockets of Albertans. The government claims that Alberta will remain the lowest-taxed province, next to British Columbia. The B.C. comparison is revealing, however. Budget 2015 notes how perperson program spending in Alberta was $10,880 last year; almost $2,000 higher, per person, than in neighbouring B.C. ($8,884 per person). Clearly, B.C. can make do with less per person program spending. But Alberta insists on spending more than one-fifth more, per person, than B.C. Which brings us to the missing element of Budget 2015. There’s no serious reform on the spending side of the budget. And spending was ripe for reform. Some examples:

● Provincial contracts (between 2007 and 2012) with teachers at double the rate of inflation. That helped put maximum salaries for teachers at 9.8 per cent above Alberta/B.C./Saskatchewan average, as of 2013. ● Salaries for academics: eight per cent higher than the three-province average. General management positions: eight per cent higher. Unionized government employee positions: 10 per cent higher. And nurses: 12 per cent above the three-province average. ● In-province comparisons also show a government-sector pay advantage over Alberta’s private sector. As my colleagues discovered recently, on average, Alberta government employees have a 6.9 per cent wage premium over comparable Alberta private-sector workers. And that’s after accounting for age, experience, education and other relevant factors that might explain a worker’s wage advantage. Just as concerning, none of the above accounts for the more generous pensions enjoyed by governmentsector works in Alberta, which led to

contribution rate increases of between 97 and 116 per cent across most plans since the early part of the last decade. Or the cost of bailing out other pension plan shortfalls, such as the Teachers’ Pension Plan, where ongoing extra payments include a special payment of $465 million this new budget year for pre-1992 liabilities. Tellingly, Prentice’s first act as premier was to cancel planned, modest pension reforms for government employees. Now the province has established a “working group” to study the wages and pensions of government-sector staff for any possible reform. In the meantime, while Albertans wait for reform — if it ever arrives — Budget 2015 will force Albertans to pay an extra $11.4 billion in taxes and fees over five years, with zero reform to the government-sector’s pay and pensions. Milke is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Fumbling the Alberta Advantage: How Alberta Squandered a Decade of High Energy Prices. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Red Deer College forced to make difficult decisions Re: the provincial budget announcement: I could comment on cuts to post-secondary budgets over the last six years, but I won’t. I could comment on why an investment in post-secondary education is important in a time when those who have lost their jobs and wish to retrain or reskill may not have the opportunity to do so, but I won’t. I have a bias — I am the president of Red Deer College and it would seem self-serving to make the case for support when so many other sectors have been affected by cuts as well. We all have to do our part, and we at RDC understand and accept that. What needs comment is the impact of budget reductions on our ability to achieve our mandate. Quite simply, we will serve fewer students, deliver fewer programs, and provide fewer services to our learners. As we make our decisions on what programs and services will be affected, we use a well-developed model of program and service review, consider the impact on learners, faculty and staff, the economic impact on the region we serve, and we consider the community and political implications. Not everyone will agree with our decisions, and while we respect and encourage their passion to fight for what they believe, the reality is clear — we can’t afford to do everything we are doing and in the same way. Change is inevitable. In spite of difficult financial times, the RDC board of governors, in collaboration with our communities, has articulated a powerful, future-focused plan to position our college to transition to polytechnic university status. This comprehensive university model builds on our offerings of trades and apprenticeship programs, one-year certificates, two-year diplomas, university transfer, adult upgrading, continuing education and, critically, the ability for us to offer our own degrees. The cost to people having to leave our region for degrees is not restricted to the loss of talent that doesn’t return. There is also the heavy cost of having to move to a larger city. This burden falls on families or takes the form of debilitating student debt. This prospect deters many from even pursuing degreelevel education in the first place. The impact of the budget reductions won’t deter us from our path. We will get through this, we always do. More than 30,000 Albertans are predicted to lose their jobs this year. Job loss will occur across all sectors of the economy. To those who lose their jobs, and to their families who will be impacted, no words will suffice to ease their worries. It would be disingenuous to try. At RDC, we will do our very best to mitigate the impact of the reductions to our budget on learners and our faculty and staff and on families. Joel Ward President and CEO Red Deer College

Prentice should look to the spirit of Lougheed Re: the Alberta budget. For most of us, the anticipation of our newly minted premier’s first budget ranged from a wait and see cautious optimism to waiting for the other shoe to drop. It is now apparent that when the premier was speaking about finding alternative revenue streams for the Alberta government that weren’t dependent upon the boom and bust cycles of the oil industry, he was referring to taxing the middle class. I suppose the logic being that the middle class

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would not mind a small pinch for the overall good of the province. I have to wonder how many of the middle class have already lost their jobs or are about to as the economic situation gets worse. The premier’s reluctance to tap the corporate sector for fear of more layoffs is justified, but these same corporations are likely to do so anyway as they move to protect their corporate headquarters. When was the last time you heard of corporate executives or even bureaucrats getting layoff notices? In Alberta this goes farther as a large number of players in the corporate sector have head offices in other countries. I resent the idea of being thought of as a resource for a government that has mishandled our fortunes when times were good, and has allowed our services and infrastructure to fall apart, creating the deficit we now face. Peter Lougheed masterminded a system that brought us the Heritage Savings Trust Fund, which put aside billions of dollars in savings (in 1970s money), which subsequent governments squandered. We had a debt-free province with a balanced budget. How long did that last? Having sat with my senior citizen father in a hospital emergency room until 2 in the morning waiting to get treatment, I can say that I am no fan of Ralph Klein’s era in politics. We pay for the infrastructure deficit every time we have to buy tires or repair damages to our vehicles caused by pot-holed streets and decaying highways. My feeling is that Prentice would do well to follow the example of Lougheed. If some of those policies cause foreign investment to go elsewhere, so be it. There are plenty of people and businesses in Alberta willing to take their places.

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Veterans expecting Lunney quits Tory caucus more from Ottawa over evolution BENEFITS OVERHAUL

OTTAWA — Veterans at the centre of a class-action lawsuit against the federal government are waiting to see whether legislation introduced this week by the Harper government to improve benefits is the beginning, or the end, of reforms to the system. If it’s the end, the lawyer for the ex-soldiers says the politically embarrassing court fight is, in all likelihood, back on. Don Sorochan says he will have to consult his clients, but his view is that the measures announced by the Harper government over the last month represent easy fixes and that more is to come. “If it is the end of it, I would think the answer would be pretty simple: It’s not enough,” he said. The lawsuit, which argues that modern-day soldiers are discriminated against compared with troops who fought the two world wars and Korea, was put on a hold earlier this year as the two sides entered settlement talks. Sorochan says it is possible the government, or the opposition parties, could promise more during the coming election campaign, but the ex-soldiers will have to make decisions based upon what’s in front of them. The time-out in the lawsuit ends on April 15, but the two sides could elect to extend it if they believe there’s value in continuing discussions. The lawsuit has been a black eye for the Conservatives, who pride themselves on supporting the troops and Sorochan says the government had been insisting that it be dropped immediately in light of the recent improvements. “We are certainly interested in continuing the talks, but we will have to reassess where we are in the lawsuit, given the reforms,” said Sorochan.

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“We’ve already done some analysis, but the point is, these weren’t supposed to be the end of the reforms.” Since the beginning of March, the new veterans minister, Erin O’Toole, has announced a series of measures, including a new $70,000 pain and suffering award that appears aimed at the physically injured. There is also a new proposed retirement income security benefit for moderately and severely wounded soldiers without military pensions and new programs for caregivers. The government has also expanded access to the permanent impairment allowance, which gives the most severely disabled veterans up to $2,800 a month in tax-free income for life. In their statement of defence against the lawsuit, government lawyers offended veterans by saying the government has no extraordinary obligation towards soldiers and that the current government cannot be bound by political promises made by previous governments, notably by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden during the First World War. The Conservatives pledged to include a recognition of that so-called “sacred obligation” in the preamble to the new legislation, which was tabled Monday in the House of Commons. Bill C-58 says its purpose “is to recognize and fulfil the obligation of the people and government of Canada to show just and due appreciation to members and veterans for their service to Canada. This obligation includes providing services, assistance and compensation to members and veterans who have been injured or have died as a result of military service and extends to their spouses or common-law partners or survivors and orphans.”

Police charge man in deaths of young brothers who were asphyxiated by python BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — Police in New Brunswick have charged a man with criminal negligence causing death after two young brothers were asphyxiated by a python. The RCMP said in a release Tuesday that a charge against Jean Claude Savoie, 38, was laid in provincial court on Monday in Campbellton, N.B. Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother Connor were found dead on Aug. 5, 2013, after an African rock python escaped its enclosure inside Savoie’s apartment in Campbellton, where they were staying for a sleepover. The RCMP alleged at the time that the 45-kilogram snake escaped a glass tank through a vent and slithered through a ventilation pipe, but its weight caused the pipe to collapse and it fell into the living room where the boys were sleeping. Police say autopsies determined the boys died from asphyxiation. Savoie was arrested Feb. 5 in Montreal, where he now lives, and is due in Campbellton provincial

Conservatives studying anti-terrorism bill reject opposition changes OTTAWA — The Conservatives have used their majority on the House of Commons public safety committee to vote down the first wave of opposition amendments to the federal anti-terrorism bill. As clause-by-clause consideration got under way today, opposition MPs from four parties put forward suggested changes to the 62-page security bill. Among the rejected amendments were a built-in expiry clause for new provisions and a requirement that the privacy commissioner report annually to the public safety minister on expanded informationsharing powers. The government bill would give CSIS more power to thwart suspected terrorist plots.

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OTTAWA — British Columbia MP James Lunney quit the Conservative caucus Tuesday so that he can more freely defend his religious beliefs. In a statement, Lunney said he’s leaving voluntarily so as not to entangle his Tory colleagues in controversy over his beliefs regarding evolution. He will sit as an Independent but continue to vote with the ruling Conservatives, he said. Lunney’s decision was sparked by reaction to remarks he made last month, which he says were inflated by the media and became part James Lunney of a “firestorm of criticism and condemnation” surrounding two Ontario politicians who do not believe in the theory of evolution. “In a society normally proud of embracing difference, the role of the media and partisan politics in inciting social bigotry and intolerance should be questioned,” he said. Late last month, Lunney defended two Progressive Conservative members of the Ontario legislature, tweeting that he has no problem describing evolution as “scientific theory” but that people should stop calling it fact. “(Beyond) realm of current science 2 observe or (reproduce) origins,” he tweeted, echoing views he’s previously expressed in the House of Commons that scientific fact can only be established “through the study of things observable and reproducible.” In Tuesday’s statement, Lunney said he agrees with Christian groups who held a news conference last week to warn of “deliberate attempts to suppress a Christian world-view from professional and economic opportunity in law, medicine and academia.” “I share these concerns,” Lunney said. “I believe the same is true in the realm of politics at senior levels.”

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OTTAWA — The country’s economy shrunk by 0.1 per cent in January as wholesale and retail sales retreated amid the steep, mid-winter drop in oil prices. The decline, however, in the gross domestic product wasn’t as deep as economists expected. According to Thomson Reuters, they had predicted the economy to shrink by 0.2 per cent in January. “But at the same time... it’s not a great omen for (first quarter) GDP growth in 2015,” said Scott Smith, senior market analyst at Cambridge Global Payments. “I think we’re likely to continue to see some soggy GDP numbers.” January’s GDP decline followed a rise of 0.3 per cent in December and a drop of 0.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said. The federal agency primarily attributed the January GDP drop to a 2.6 per cent decrease in wholesale trade and a one per cent fall in retail trade. Wholesale trade had climbed by 1.8 per cent in December, while retail trade saw its second-straight monthly decline after falling 1.4 per cent. Still, Smith didn’t expect the January numbers to coax Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to budge on the key interest rate at his next scheduled

rate announcement set for April 15. “They’re not horrible enough that, really, expectations will be ratcheted up that Poloz will cut rates over the next few meetings,” he said. Poloz shocked markets in January by unexpectedly lowering the central bank’s overnight interest rate. He called it an insurance against the expected, “unambiguously negative” economic effects of the global oil slump. The governor reiterated his warning about the oilprice shock this week, telling the Financial Times in an interview that low crude prices will make the economy’s first-quarter numbers look “atrocious.” BMO senior economist Benjamin Reitzes said that, ironically, the January data showed a positive offset of 1.4 per cent increase in mining, oil and gas extraction. “There’s no denying that the Canadian economy had a poor start to 2015, but the drop in GDP wasn’t nearly as bad as some feared,” Reitzes wrote Tuesday in a note to clients. He predicted the February growth to remain weak and said there’s a “decent chance” GDP for the first quarter — the first three months of 2015 — could be

negative. Reitzes said the big question is whether the economy rebounds in the second quarter as the central bank expects. “That will likely be a key driver for monetary policy,” he wrote. The GDP numbers were released Tuesday as the federal government prepares its spring budget. The volatility of plunging oil prices forced the government to take the rare step of delaying its release until at least April. The budget is typically presented in February, but Finance Minister Joe Oliver said more time was needed to assess the economic fallout of lower crude prices. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was challenged by political opponents in the House of Commons on January’s weak GDP number. “The Canadian economy has grown in the past year and the Bank of Canada and all other experts predict it will grow in the year to come,” Harper said during Question Period. “Obviously, Mr. Speaker, we’re all aware that there are negative impacts on the Canadian economy in the short run due to the fall of global oil prices.” The Statistics Canada data also produced a figure for the year-over-year change in GDP — between January 2014 and January 2015. It said the economy grew by 2.4 per cent.

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Jensens expand realty presence A father-and-son real estate team have expanded their presence in Central Alberta. Norm and Chad Jensen, who own Royal LePage Network Realty in Red Deer and Stettler, recently purchased the Royal LePage brokerage in Innisfail. And they’ve followed up by acquiring Century 21 Global Real Estate in Sylvan Lake, with that deal to close today. The Jensens opened an office in Sylvan Lake about six years ago, and last year moved that operation to bigger premises. Adding the seven Realtors from Century 21 Global to the 13 they already have in Sylvan Lake allows them to make better use of the office there and increase their presence in town, said Norm. He added that their firm has done very well in Sylvan Lake since it opened there. The Century 21 brokerage was owned by Theresa Strasser. The Royal LePage brokerage in Innisfail had been operated by Glenn and Allan Nimmo. Obtaining it about a month ago gave the Jensens eight Realtors in that town, and two more joined from another firm soon after. Expanding its presence in Central Alberta will enable Royal LePage Network Realty to better serve clients who are moving from one community in the region to another, said Norm. Royal LePage Network Realty now has 93 Realtors at its four locations. Norm said the local market remains strong, despite concerns about the impact of low oil prices on the economy. “We’ve had a really good March.”

Enbridge looks to transfer Cdn liquids pipeline biz to Enbridge Income Fund CALGARY — Enbridge Income Fund (TSX:ENF) says it has received a formal proposal that would see the transfer to the fund of the Canadian liquids pipelines business of Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) along with some renewable energy assets. The liquids business is owned by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc. “If completed, the transaction would be transformational for the fund, significantly increasing its business scale and scope as well as providing a highly transparent source of long-term growth,” the company said in a release issued Tuesday after markets closed. “Based on Enbridge’s financial assumptions and projections, the company’s dividend could be increased by approximately 10 per cent on closing of the transaction and by a further 10 per cent in 2016 and each year thereafter through 2019.” It said dividend growth is expected to be driven by a combination of “substantial organic growth” within the liquids pipelines business and by the company increasing its ownership in the fund over time. The proposed transaction, first disclosed by Enbridge in early December, is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. The boards have formed a joint special committee comprised of independent directors and independent trustees of Enbridge Commercial Trust to review and the proposal and negotiate terms of a definitive agreement.

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Kaylee Grobe sports the Red Boar Smokery T-shirt as chef Chris Grainger speaks with his father-inlaw during a soft opening for friends and family of the new restaurant on Tuesday. The Red Boar Smokery, which officially opens today at No. 104, 4916 Ross St., specializes in barbecued meats, with a thousand-pound (450-kg) wood smoker from Tennessee at the heart of its operations. Customers can eat in or take out.

RDC broadens partnership with Mount Royal University BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer College has strengthened its ties with Mount Royal University in a move that should enable more business students to earn their degrees in Red Deer. The two post-secondary institutions announced on Tuesday that they’ve broadened an existing partnership agreement so that local business students in university transfer programs won’t have to leave the college to complete their studies. “The expansion of our partnership with Mount Royal University improves our ability to provide high-quality business education, delivered entirely in this region,” said Torben Andersen, RDC’s interim vice-president, academic. Red Deer College and Mount Royal University struck a deal in 2012 that gave students in RDC’s two-year business administration diploma program

the option to continue on in Mount Royal’s business administration degree program. And they were able to do this at Red Deer College. However, RDC students working toward a business degree outside the business administration diploma program still had to transfer to a degreegranting institution like the University of Alberta or the University of Calgary. “The courses you would take in a two-year diploma are actually quite different from the courses you would take in the first year or two of a commerce degree going to the U of A,” explained Andersen. Now, degree-track students can also be accommodated in the Mount Royal program and can complete their studies at Red Deer College. Or, they can still transfer to a university elsewhere. Andersen said this choice can be important to students who work in Central Alberta, have family here or simply enjoy the RDC environment.

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True-Line helps Blackfalds family BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Red Deer construction company that pledged to celebrate its 25th anniversary by helping local families in need has delivered — literally. True-Line Homes showed up at the Blackfalds home of Nick and Brandy Cowles with a trailer full of supplies last week. The couples’ infant son Mateo is recovering from a recent liver transplant, and they also have a newborn daughter. Kevin Wilkie, True-Line’s vice-president of sales, said the family was presented with about $5,000 worth of goods. These included children’s clothing, toys, furniture and other supplies, as well as $1,000 in gas cards and $1,100 in grocery vouchers.

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He explained that while Mateo was receiving medical treatment, which included bouts of chemotherapy prior to his transplant, the Cowles had to rent accommodation in Edmonton. “So they had double the bills, because they had their mortgage, plus they had to pay rent.” It was also felt that the windfall of goods would spare the busy family from having to shop for their own supplies. In addition to True-Line, about 25 business partners are involved in its Pay It Forward initiative. One needy family or individual is being selected in each quarter of the year, with an appropriate gesture chosen to help them. The Cowles were among more than 60 nominees in the running for the first presentation.

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Know your options for severance packages Derek, I’ve been given a severance package from work. What should I do? Losing a job is never easy. We typically have a vision of how the next few years of our lives will look and an abrupt change in your work life is rarely in the cards. Yet layoffs and restructuring are DEREK commonplace in today’s marFUCHS ket and a severance package is an opportunity to revisit your cash flow and investments. With a severance package comes the need to make important decisions in a very short time frame. Understanding your options and consulting with a professional can be extremely beneficial. First things first: decide what you want to do for work. Is the severance

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a step towards retirement, or does it provide you an opportunity to pursue a new position? This decision will help guide you. The upside of a severance package is the payout, and the biggest decision is what to do with the money you receive. In many cases, this may be a one-time payment from your employer that is calculated based on various factors, such as your time with the company and your position. Regardless of the size of the severance package, it’s important to keep in mind that for tax purposes it all may be counted as income. In some cases, you may pay more tax on this severance than you would have if you’d continued working. So, it is very important to understand what options are available to you. One strategy is to place a portion of the severance in a registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) to help reduce your tax obligation. If you don’t have a pension and haven’t contributed much to your RRSP in the past, this may be a good option. The benefit is that anything you direct to your RRSP will help break up taxes, particularly if you’re going from

a year where you would have substantial income from the severance pay to little or no income the next year. In most cases, your former employer can direct a share of the severance to your RRSP. Keep in mind that your employer and you will need to determine if you have the available contribution room in your RRSP. Ideally, before you sign your severance acceptance letter, it may be best to discuss your personal tax situation with a professional. In addition to the severance package income payout, there are decisions that need to be made about any pension plan. Normally, you would retire with a pension and the payments would begin shortly thereafter. However, with a severance package you may be too young to begin receiving a pension. Most often you have two options: 1. keep the pension within your former employer’s plan and receive future payment; or 2. transfer the commuted value out of the pension plan to a locked-in retirement account. One benefit to remaining within your former employer’s pension plan is your potential eligibility to receive

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a specific and known payment from the plan in the future. Alternatively, if you choose to leave the plan, you may benefit from having greater control over your money. You may be able to generate a larger payment that offers you more flexibility. This should be discussed with a professional as all plans vary, and so do your future retirement needs. Finally, whether you decide to get back to work as soon as possible or enjoy an early retirement, it’s very important to consider your choices. Too often the lure of the big payment can lead to poor decisions. Remember, the severance pay is typically the last dime you’ll see from your former employer. As such, you’ll want to maximize whatever they give you. Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, a wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer. It is provided for informational purposes only and any opinions contained in it are his own. Readers are urged to consult a wealth advisor for help with their personal investment circumstances. Fuchs can be contacted at derek. fuchs@scotiamcleod.com.

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Provincial regulators propose new Canadian rules for corporate takeovers TORONTO — Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators are proposing amendments to rules for corporate takeovers. The regulators say the amendments would give boards of takeover targets sufficient time to respond to hostile bids. They say the rules would also give shareholders time to make informed, voluntary decisions. Among other things, the rules would require a bidder to obtain tenders from at least half of the securities held by the target company’s stockholders — not counting the bidder and its allies. Currently, a bidder may require that 50 per cent of the target stock is submitted, but has the option to remove that requirement. The rules would also increase the time that takeover bid is initially open to at least 120 days, subject to certain exceptions that could reduce that time to as little as 35 days. The current rules require a minimum of 35 days after a takeover bid and provides for extensions.

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In addition to Mount Royal University business degrees, students at Red Deer College can complete University of Alberta bachelor of science degrees in nursing or education, University of Calgary bachelor of arts degrees in psychology or sociology, and an RDC applied degree in motion picture arts. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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MONTREAL — Former Bombardier CEO Pierre Beaudoin took a large pay cut last year as the transportation giant struggled to develop new aircraft and swung to a loss. The 52-year-old grandson of the company founder, who stepped down in February to become executive chairman, received US$5.16 million in total compensation, down from $6 million a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The decrease was partly due to a smaller bonus for missing earning targets and a drop in the Canadian dollar which reduced Beaudoin’s pay when expressed in U.S. dollars.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 129.03 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.09 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.61 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.92 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended relatively flat on Tuesday as talks with Iran opened up the possibility that more crude oil could hit an already glutted market. The S&P/TSX composite index inched back 5.95 points to close at 14,902.44. The loonie improved after the release of Canadian gross domestic product data for January, which showed a smaller decline than economists had expected. The Canadian dollar finished the session up 0.17 of a U.S. cent at 78.95 cents. Crude futures came under pressure as Iran, the United States and five other countries discussed a potential deal on Tehran’s nuclear program. An agreement could lift some international sanctions, which would likely increase crude exports from Iran. The TSX energy sector slid 0.2 per cent as May crude settled $1.08 lower at US$47.60 a barrel, with the key commodity losing more than 10 per cent in the quarter. The metals and mining sector was hit the hardest, falling 2.9 per cent, as May copper prices backed off 4.2 cents to US$2.74 a pound. TSX financials was one of the few sectors to move higher, rising one per cent, with all of the big bank stocks gaining traction. Traders wrapped up the quarter and looked towards the start of first-quarter earnings in the United States, which are widely expected to disappoint. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 200.19 points to 17,776.12,

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BRIEFS Etsy expects to raise as much as $267M in IPO NEW YORK — Online crafts retailer Etsy says it expects to raise as much as $267 million in an IPO that would value the company at more than $1 billion. The New York company says its initial public offering will include 16.7 million shares, and it expects them to price at $14 to $16 each. Etsy said Tuesday in a regulatory filing that it was selling 13.3 million shares. The other 3.3 million shares are being sold by company stockholders. If the shares price at $16, Etsy’s market value

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would be $1.78 billion. Etsy reported $195.6 million in revenue in 2014. It says almost 20 million people made

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1.12 cents Euro — US$1.0749, down 0.66 of a cent Oil futures: US$47.60 per barrel, down $1.08 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,183.20 per oz., down $2.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.154 oz., up 16.6 cents $712.25 kg., up $5.34 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $2.70 higher $455.30; July ’15 $0.90 higher $454.40; Nov ’15 $0.90 higher $446.80; Jan. ’16 $0.90 higher $448.50; March ’16 $0.90 higher $449.50; May ’16 $0.90 higher $451.20; July ’16 $0.10 higher $451.90; Nov. ’16 $0.10 higher $448.00; Jan. ’17 $0.10 higher $448.00; March ’17 $0.10 higher $448.00; May ’17 $0.10 higher $448.00. Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $203.00; July ’15 unchanged $203.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $188.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $188.00; March ’16 unchanged $188.00; May ’16 unchanged $188.00; July ’16 unchanged $188.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $188.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $188.00; March ’17 unchanged $188.00; May ’17 unchanged $188.00. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 342,260 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 342,260.

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Deficit budget hikes taxes on fuel and for its wealthiest BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Liberal government had warned for weeks that its first budget would be painful for the province, but when it was tabled Tuesday the finance minister made it clear the tax increases and spending cuts listed in the document were only the beginning. In his first budget since the Liberals won the election in September, Finance Minister Roger Melanson announced that the $8.6-billion fiscal plan for 2015-16 will increase taxes for the wealthy, bump up the price of fuel, close some courthouses and eliminate nearly 250 teaching jobs. “More difficult decisions will be made in our second budget,” Melanson said before releasing the budget. It includes a projected deficit of $476.8 million, marking the fifth consecutive budget to dip into the red. In his budget speech, Melanson said

the province has faced many challenges in recent years, including weak economic growth, a declining and aging population, persistent job losses and rising government debt. “We still find ourselves in an unsustainable fiscal situation,” he said in a prepared text of his speech. “It would be easy to avoid making difficult decisions and leave the problems we face to the next generation. We are not going to do that.” Effective Wednesday, fuel taxes on gasoline will increase by 1.9 cents per litre and the cost of diesel will rise by 2.3 cents per litre, bringing the province in line with neighbouring Nova Scotia. The budget also increases taxes for the richest one per cent of New Brunswickers, creating two new tax brackets for those earning more than $150,000.

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GOALTENDER KNOWS IF CHANCE DOESN’T COME THIS YEAR, HE WILL BE READY NEXT SEASON and was selected by the Spokane Chiefs in the ninth round of the 2011 WHL bantam draft. Martin suited up with the Whitecourt Wolverines of the AJHL for eight games during the 2013-14 season and his WHL rights were dealt from Spokane to Saskatoon in May of last year. Martin appeared in 19 games with the Blades last fall — posting a 4.16 goals-against average and .886 save percentage — before being demoted to the Melville Millionaires of the SJHL in

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Trevor Martin might not see any game action with the Red Deer Rebels this spring, but he’s certainly in the picture for next season. Accordingly, the 19-year-old netminder is currently with the club and will stick around as long as the Rebels’ playoff run lasts. He’s officially the team’s third goaltender and likely won’t get into a game unless Rylan Toth, who’s been superb through the first two games of a WHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal versus the Medicine Hat, and/or back-up Taz Burman falters. Still, he’s been instructed by GM/head coach Brent Sutter to be prepared in case the call comes. “Just be sharp in practice because you never know if you might get in,” Martin said Tuesday, in reference to Sutter’s message to him upon his arrival in Red Deer late last week. For now, he’s working out — both on the ice and off — with his new teammates while forging friendships. “It’s a good experience to come in and meet everybody and just kind of settle in,” said Martin, who was acquired from the Saskatoon Blades Jan. 5 in return for defenceman Kolton Dixon. The Ardrossan native played major bantam and midget AAA hockey in Sherwood Park and Leduc

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late November. It was with Melville that the six-foot-two, 175-pound stopper emerged as a game-changer. In 21 regular-season outings, he recorded a GAA of 2.15 and a .929 save percentage with three shutouts. “It was a little disappointing (being reassigned by the Blades to the junior A Millionaires) but it was good because I got to fine-tune everything down there,” he said. “I got to start almost every game and we had a good coach as well in Jamie Fiesel. “He had a strong system and we had a great group of guys. I think it was really good for my development.” The Millionaires’ season concluded March 22 with

a 4-0 playoff loss to the Nipawin Hawks, who took the best-of-seven SJHL post-season set in six games. But Martin’s season continues, despite the fact he’ll be a spectator tonight when the Rebels — down 2-0 to the Tigers after a pair of one-goal setbacks on the road — host Game 3 of the quarter-final series at the Enmax Centrium. Sutter recently confirmed that Martin will definitely be a candidate for regular employment next season, an exciting prospect for the netminder considering the Rebels will host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament. It’s highly likely that the club’s two goaltenders will emerge from the competition waged by the trio of Toth, Burman and Martin, who insisted he’ll be up to the challenge. “Nothing is ever guaranteed. I just have to come in and work hard and stop the puck,” he said. “I’m definitely going to have a good summer of training this year. “I train with (former Rebels netminder and current Edmonton Oilers goalie coach) Dustin Schwartz and I work out with (Rebels defenceman Josh) Mahura at Athletes Nation in St. Albert, a real good program.” Game 4 of the Rebels/Tigers series will be played Thursday at the Centrium. Fifth to seventh games, if required, will go Saturday in Medicine Hat, Sunday at the Centrium and Tuesday at Medicine Hat. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada takes first loss at curling worlds BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud upped the fashion ante Tuesday night. He also showed Canada’s Pat Simmons why he’s the reigning world champion. Looking loose and comfortable in colourful checkered knickers, soccer socks and patterned flat caps, the Norwegians defeated Canada 9-3 to hand the host side its first loss at the Ford world men’s curling championship. “We got in trouble early and often,” Simmons said. “They’re too good to do that against.” The victory also moved Norway into a first-place tie with Canada at 6-1. Ulsrud opened with a deuce and piled on with four points in the third end after a Simmons takeout attempt was a little wide. That silenced the partisan crowd at Scotiabank Centre. “They made us pay, that’s for sure,” Simmons said. Simmons got one back in the fourth with a draw for one but Ulsrud hit a delicate raise for a single in the sixth. Canada scored a single in the seventh and Norway scored two in the eighth to end it. “We showed up to play tonight,” Ulsrud said. The two rinks are medal favourites and this very well may have been a gold-medal game preview. If so, Simmons, third John Morris, second Carter Rycroft and lead Nolan Thiessen have some work to do. Ulsrud and his crew were aggressive and used pinpoint accuracy to prevent the Canadians from mounting any offence. Norway set the early tone and Canada couldn’t find its rhythm. “We weren’t expecting to go through this undefeated, that’s for sure,” Simmons said. “There are too many good teams. We’ll just rebound and tomorrow’s a new day. I look forward to it.” Meanwhile, Sweden’s Niklas Edin appears to be finding his form again after a mediocre start. The 2013 world champion whipped Switzerland’s Marc

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Team Canada skip Pat Simmons directs Nolan Thiessen, left, and Carter Rycroft, right, as they play Japan at the men’s world curling championships in Halifax on Tuesday. Pfister 8-2 in the minimum six ends. Switzerland remained in third place at 5-2 while Sweden pulled into a fourth-place tie with Japan’s Yusuke Morozumi at 4-3. The top four teams at the end of round-robin play will make the Page playoffs. “My guess is it’s not the (only) time Norway and Canada will play this week,” Ulsrud said. “We’re going to play them again.” Simmons beat Morozumi 7-4 in the afternoon draw. The Canadian skip made a draw for three in the fourth end and stole a single in the eighth for a

three-point lead that held up the rest of the way. “We had to play well,” Simmons said. “They are a very good team. They gave Canada a whupping last year. It was a well-curled game and it had to be.” Canada shot 85 per cent as a team while Japan came in at 71 per cent. Japanese second Tetsuro Shimizu struggled at just 57 per cent, easily the lowest individual percentage of the 32 curlers on the ice in the afternoon.

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Support helped Malarchuk fight his demons BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It may be the most horrific injury of all time in the National Hockey League. On March 19, 1989, Steve Tuttle of the St. Louis Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Buffalo Sabres became entangled while chasing the puck and crashed into Buffalo netminder Clint Malarchuk. Tuttle’s skate blade hit Malarchuk on the right side of his neck, severing his carotid artery. Blood gushed from Malarchuk’s neck and his life was in peril. Spectators became physically ill and reportedly 11 fans fainted, two suffered heart attacks and three players vomited on the ice. Malarchuk thought he was going to die. “I knew my mother was watching so I skated off the ice — I knew that I was going to die and didn’t want her watching that,” he told the 12th annual RDC Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast at Westerner Park on Tuesday morning. But thanks to the quick thinking of Buffalo trainer Jim Pizzutelli, a former Army medic who served in Vietnam, Malarchuk survived. Pizzutelli pinched off the blood vessel and didn’t let go until doctors arrived. Malarchuk said the team doctor then applied

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pressure by kneeling on his collarbone, in order to slow his breathing and slow the blood flow. In all, Malarchuk lost 1.5 litres of blood and needed more than 300 stitches to close the wound. Eleven days later, he was back on the ice in Buffalo. “It was adrenalin that got me through the remainder of the season, then it hit me during the summer,” he said. “I started to spiral downwards.” It was the beginning of the

end of his career. He had suffered with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) since he was a youngster. Coupled with the trauma of the injury, it led to depression and anxiety. Six to eight months after the accident, he was having terrible nightmares and couldn’t sleep. “I didn’t want to leave home ... I was hiding it,” he said. Malarchuk’s NHL career came to an end following the 1991-92 season. He played parts of five more sea-

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sons in the IHL before calling it quits. He got into coaching in 1998 in Las Vegas with the Thunder and was the head man with the Idaho Stealheads in 1999-2000. He worked as the goaltending coach for the Florida Panthers in 2002-03 and the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2006-07, was a goaltender consultant with the Atlanta Thrashers in 2010-11 and the goaltending coach with the Calgary Flames from 2011-14. But he kept fighting his demons. On Feb. 10, 2008, the trauma of his injury came flooding back when Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik suffered a similar injury when teammate Olli Jokinen’s skate cut his neck and his carotid artery. “It all came back and I fell off the horse ... I was a full-blown alcoholic and became a recluse.” Then on Oct. 7, 2008, he tried to take his own life, shooting himself with a .22 calibre rifle. The bullet caused damage to his jaw and lodged in his forehead, where it remains. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and spent six months in a rehab centre in San Francisco.

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Monday’s Games L.A. Lakers 113, Philadelphia 111, OT Boston 116, Charlotte 104 Atlanta 101, Milwaukee 88 Toronto 99, Houston 96 Memphis 97, Sacramento 83 Utah 104, Minnesota 84 Portland 109, Phoenix 86 Tuesday’s Games Detroit 105, Atlanta 95 Brooklyn 111, Indiana 106 San Antonio 95, Miami 81 Golden State at L.A. Clippers, late Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Orlando, 5 p.m. Detroit at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Indiana at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Brooklyn at New York, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Houston, 6 p.m. Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Toronto at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Denver at Utah, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Miami at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Phoenix at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W 20 17 15 17 15 11 13 12 13 12 11 10 11 10 9

L 9 10 10 12 13 10 13 12 15 14 16 15 17 18 17

Pct .690 .630 .600 .586 .536 .524 .500 .500 .464 .462 .407 .400 .393 .357 .346

L.A. Dodgers 4, Arizona 2 Toronto 7, Houston 4 Boston 14, Minnesota 2

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Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 2, Washington 0 Boston 11, Tampa Bay (ss) 8 Miami 3, St. Louis 2 Tampa Bay (ss) 4, Baltimore 3 Minnesota 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Toronto 10, Philadelphia 6 Chicago White Sox 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Francisco 4, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 15, Texas (ss) 10 Cleveland 8, Seattle 6 Cincinnati 10, Milwaukee 4 Oakland 13, L.A. Angels 10 Arizona 8, Texas (ss) 7 Houston 8, Atlanta 5 Kansas City vs. San Diego, late

W L Pct Los Angeles 16 9 .640 New York 18 11 .621 Pittsburgh 15 10 .600 San Diego 15 11 .577 Cincinnati 14 11 .560 St. Louis 12 11 .522 Miami 13 12 .520 Arizona 15 14 .517 Colorado 15 14 .517 Chicago 14 15 .483 Atlanta 13 15 .464 Milwaukee 11 14 .440 Washington 10 14 .417 Philadelphia 11 16 .407 San Francisco 10 20 .333 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Washington vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m. Detroit vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Boston (ss) vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m. Toronto vs. Boston (ss), 11:05 a.m. St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Kansas City, 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. Oakland, 1:05 p.m. Cleveland vs. San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. Arizona vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (ss) vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m. San Diego vs. Chicago White Sox (ss), 2:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m. Texas vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m. Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 18, Philadelphia 4 St. Louis 6, Washington 2 Atlanta 4, Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 6, tie, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 1 Seattle 5, L.A. Angels 3 Chicago Cubs 8, San Francisco 5 San Diego 6, Cincinnati 3 Cleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Oakland 11, Colorado 2 Kansas City 11, Texas 7

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis, 10:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 11:05 a.m. Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. San Diego, 1:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. Arizona, 1:10 p.m. Baltimore vs. Atlanta, 4:05 p.m. Boston vs. Minnesota, 5:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m. Oakland at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

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

LOCAL GOLF If you are itching to hit the golf course one Central Alberta track is preparing to open this weekend. Lakewood Golf Resort manager Scott Bergdahl said they are planning to open the course on Friday. The Sylvan Lake facility’s driving range is already open and are hoping to have all nine-holes open on regulation greens for this weekend. River Bend Golf Course also opened their driving range on Tuesday but will stay open based on the weather. You check their Facebook page to check on their status daily. There is no date set for when the golf course is slated to open. Meadowlands Golf Club at Sylvan Lake has also opened their driving range with the course expected to open soon. The forecast does not look good with snow and showers in the for today and Thursday, but with sun and a high of 8 on Friday and Saturday, it might be a good time to dust off the clubs in time for the long weekend.

Calgary 5 Dallas 3 Edmonton 4 Colorado 1 Buffalo 4 Arizona 1

Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Monday, Apr. 6 x-Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s results Boston 3 Florida 2 Columbus 3 New Jersey 2 (OT) Washington 4 Carolina 2 Ottawa 2 Detroit 1 (SO) Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 1 NY Rangers 3 Winnipeg 2 Vancouver 5 Nashville 4 (SO)

Everett (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Mar. 27 Everett 5 Spokane 1 Saturday, Mar. 28 Spokane 6 Everett 2 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Friday, Apr. 3 Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Toronto at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Colorado at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Thursday’s games NY Islanders at Columbus, 5 p.m. Carolina at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. NY Rangers at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Calgary at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Edmonton at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Portland (2) vs. Seattle (3) (Series tied 1-1) Saturday, Mar. 28 Seattle 4 Portland 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Portland 3 Seattle 0 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Portland at Seattle, late Thursday, Apr. 2 Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (4) (Brandon leads series 3-1) Thursday, Mar. 26 Edmonton 4 Brandon 1 Friday, Mar. 27 Brandon 8 Edmonton 1 Sunday, Mar. 29 Brandon 3 Edmonton 2 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Brandon 3 Edmonton 2 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Brandon at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Edmonton at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s summaries

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Regina (2) vs. Swift Current (3) (Regina leads series 3-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Regina 4 Swift Current 2 Saturday, Mar. 28 Regina 3 Swift Current 2 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Regina 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 3 x-Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.

Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt x-Montreal 77 47 22 8 203 174 102 x-Tampa Bay 78 47 24 7 250 204 101 Detroit 76 40 23 13 221 208 93 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt x-NY Rangers 76 48 21 7 231 179 103 Pittsburgh 76 42 23 11 210 190 95 NY Islanders 77 45 27 5 235 215 95

Calgary (1) vs. Kootenay (4) (Calgary leads series 2-1) Friday, Mar. 27 Kootenay 4 Calgary 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Calgary 3 Kootenay 2 (OT) Tuesday, Mar. 31 Calgary 8 Kootenay 7 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 3 Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Monday, Apr. 6 x-Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna (1) vs. Tri-City (4) (Kelowna leads series 3-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Kelowna 6 Tri-City 0 Saturday, Mar. 28 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 0 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Kelowna 5 Tri-City 3 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Friday, Apr. 3 x-Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

WILD CARD W L OL 42 25 10 39 25 13 38 26 12 35 27 15 37 35 4 30 29 17 31 33 13 28 37 11 29 42 6 21 47 8

Washington Boston Ottawa Florida Columbus Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Toronto Buffalo

GP 77 77 76 77 76 76 77 76 77 76

GF 227 204 220 192 210 198 170 176 201 148

GA 190 198 204 210 234 219 197 208 245 255

Pt 94 91 88 85 78 77 75 67 64 50

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Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt 78 47 22 9 224 193 103 76 46 23 7 229 190 99 76 46 24 6 217 176 98

x-Anaheim Vancouver Calgary

Pacific Division GP W L OL 78 49 22 7 77 45 27 5 77 42 28 7

GF GA Pt 227 216 105 224 208 95 229 204 91

WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Minnesota 76 44 25 7 219 186 95 Winnipeg 77 39 26 12 217 204 90 Los Angeles 76 37 25 14 201 192 88 Dallas 77 37 30 10 239 248 84 San Jose 76 37 30 9 212 215 83 Colorado 76 35 29 12 206 213 82 Edmonton 76 23 40 13 185 255 59 Arizona 77 23 46 8 161 256 54 Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns. d — automatically qualifies for playoffs; w — qualifies for playoffs through wild card

Victoria (2) vs. Prince George (3) (Victoria leads series 2-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Victoria 5 Prince George 3 Saturday, Mar. 28 Victoria 5 Prince George 4 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 2 Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Monday’s results Tampa Bay 5 Montreal 3 Vancouver 4 St. Louis 1 Chicago 4 Los Angeles 1

Canucks 5, Predators 4 (SO) First Period 1. Nashville, Franson 7 (Fisher) 4:30 (pp). 2. Nashville, Beck 8 (Gaustad) 8:15. Second Period 3. Vancouver, Vey 10 (Dorsett, Hamhuis) 4:04. 4. Vancouver, Hansen 15 (Bonino, Hamhuis) 6:04. 5. Nashville, Stalberg 2 (Volchenkov) 19:30. Third Period 6. Vancouver, Burrows 16 (unassisted) 1:23 (sh). 7. Vancouver, Higgins 12 (Burrows, Bonino) 5:48 (pp). 8. Nashville, Fisher 19 (unassisted) 14:57 (pp). Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout — Vancouver wins 2-0 Vancouver : Bonino goal, Vrbata goal. Nashville : Santorelli miss, Forsberg miss. Shots on goal Vancouver 7 12 6 0 — 25 Nashville 11 9 16 2 — 38 Goal — Vancouver: Lack (W, 16-11-4); Nashville: Rinne (LO, 41-15-5). Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 1-3; Nashville: 2-7. Maple Leafs 3, Lightning 1 First Period 1. Toronto, Kadri 17 (Lindstrom, Brennan) 8:53 (pp). 2. Toronto, Booth 7 (unassisted) 12:03. 3. Tampa Bay, Callahan 23 (Palat, Kucherov) 18:04 (pp). Second Period No Scoring. Third Period 4. Toronto, Rielly 8 (Kadri, Gardiner) :24. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Tampa Bay 14 14 13 — 41 Toronto 11 10 7 — 28 Goal — Tampa Bay: Vasilevskii (L, 7-5-1); Toronto: Reimer (W, 9-15-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Tampa Bay: 1-3; Toronto: 1-3. Rangers 3, Jets 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Slater 4 (Thorburn, Tlusty) 3:16. 2. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 15 (Nash, Brassard) 9:42. Second Period 3. Winnipeg, Stempniak 12 (Perreault, Lowry) 1:24. 4. NY Rangers, Brassard 17 (McDonagh, Yandle) 10:13 (pp). Third Period 5. NY Rangers, Kreider 21 (Miller, Stepan) 16:14. Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (slashing) 19:21. Shots on goal NY Rangers 9 7 8 — 24 Winnipeg 16 7 11 — 34 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 26-12-3); Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 19-16-7). Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Rangers: 1-3; Winnipeg: 0-2.

Curling 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship HALIFAX — Standings and results from the 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship, at the Scotiabank Centre from March 28-April 5: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) W L Norway (Ulsrud) 6 1 Canada (Simmons) 6 1 Switzerland (M.Pfister) 5 2 Japan (Y.Morozumi) 4 3 Sweden (Edin) 4 3 Czech Rep. (J.Snitil) 3 4 Finland (Kauste) 3 4 U.S. (Shuster) 3 4 China (Zang) 2 5 Italy (Mosaner) 2 5 Russia (Arkhipov) 2 5 Scotland (MacDonald) 2 5 Monday’s results Sixth Draw Canada 11 Czech Republic 2 Finland 7 U.S. 4 Japan 9 China 5 Norway 11 Scotland 6 Seventh Draw Finland 5 Japan 4 Switzerland 7 Italy 1 Czech Republic 8 Scotland 6 Sweden 9 Russia 3 Eighth Draw U.S. 8 Italy 2

Thursday, April 2 Draw 15, 6:30 a.m. Czech Republic vs. U.S.; Scotland vs. China; Norway vs. Japan; Finland vs. Canada. Draw 16, 11:30 a.m. Sweden vs. China; U.S. vs. Russia; Canada vs. Italy; Switzerland vs. Norway. Draw 17, 4:30 p.m. Japan vs. Switzerland; Italy vs. Finland; Russia vs. Czech Republic; Sweden vs. Scotland. End of round robin

Canada 9 Russia 3 Norway 6 Sweden 5 Switzerland 7 China 4 Tuesday’s results Ninth Draw Scotland 8 Russia 6 Sweden 7 Czech Republic 3 Switzerland 8 Finland 7 Japan 8 Italy 1 Draw 10 China 8 Czech Republic 7 Norway 8 Finland 7 Canada 7 Japan 4 Scotland 6 U.S. 4 Draw 11 Sweden 8 Switzerland 2 U.S. 9 China 5 Russia 5 Italy 4 Norway 9 Canada 3

PLAYOFFS Friday, April 3 Tiebreakers (if necessary) One Draw: 6:30 a.m. Two Draws: 6:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Three Draws: 6:30, 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Page Playoffs One vs. Two OR Three vs. Four, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 1 Draw 12, 6:30 a.m. Italy vs. Norway; Canada vs. Switzerland; U.S. vs. Sweden; China vs. Russia. Draw 13, 11:30 a.m. Russia vs. Finland; Sweden vs. Japan; Scotland vs. Switzerland; Italy vs. Czech Republic. Draw 14, 4:30 p.m. Canada vs. Scotland; Norway vs. Czech Republic; Finland vs. China; U.S. vs. Japan.

Saturday, April 4 Page Playoffs One vs. Two OR Three vs. Four, 11:30 a.m. Semifinal One-Two Loser vs. Three-Four Winner,4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5 Bronze Medal Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 7 a.m. Gold Medal One-Two Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 1 p.m.

Transactions 28 game against San Antonio. HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed D Josiah Didier to a professional tryout contract. ECHL ECHL — Suspended Stockton’s Garet Hunt two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a March 29 game against Alaska. READING ROYALS — Signed F Justin Crandall to an amateur tryout agreement. Announced F Andrew Johnston was reassigned to Lehigh Valley (AHL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed QB Chandler Harnish to a oneyear contract. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed QB Matt Schaub to a one-year contract. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed LB Jason Trusnik to a one-year contract. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Re-signed DT Letroy Guion and DT B.J. Raji.

Tuesday’s sports transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Activated LW Matt Calvert off injured reserve. Assigned C William Karlsson to Springfield (AHL). DALLAS STARS — Reassigned LW Curtis McKenzie and RW Brett Ritchie to Texas (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed F Travis Boyd to a two-year, entry-level contract. American Hockey League AHL — Suspended San Antonio D Shane O’Brien three games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a March 28 game at Iowa. Suspended Lehigh Valley LW Jay Rosehill three games for his actions in a March 29 game against Manchester. Suspended Norfolk LW John Kurtz one game for an interference incident in a March 28 game against Albany. Suspended Iowa LW Brett Bulmer one game for receiving a match penalty for slashing during a March

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Released DT Antonio Smith. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed WR Miles Austin to a one-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Re-signed LB Desmond Bishop to a one-year contract. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Derrick Hector. BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended free agent minor league LHP Jose Mijares 50 games, following a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BOSTON RED SOX — Released RHP Felipe Paulino. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Released INF Rafael Furcal. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Nick Tropeano to Salt Lake (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHP Aaron Thompson to Rochester (IL).

SYNCHRO SWIMMING Claire Halford of the Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club snared a silver medal in the 13-15 age class solo event of the Orange Blosson Invitational in Riverside, Calif., during the weekend. Meanwhile, the team of Trinny Allier-Ortiz, Mya Freeman, Halford, Nina Hayes, Terra Paul and Kia Risling snared a bronze medal for their routine, and Risling and Freeman placed sixth and eighth in the 13-15 solo event.

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● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, fifth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, if necessary, 7:30 p.m. (The Drive). ● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Medicine Hat (2) vs. Red Deer (3) (Medicine Hat leads series 2-0) Saturday, Mar. 28 Medicine Hat 2 Red Deer 1 Sunday, Mar. 29 Medicine Hat 1 Red Deer 0 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 2 Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 5 x-Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 5 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 x-Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

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● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, third game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 7 p.m., Centrium.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct x-Memphis 51 24 .680 x-Houston 50 24 .676 San Antonio 48 26 .649 Dallas 45 29 .608 New Orleans 39 34 .534 Northwest Division W L Pct x-Portland 48 25 .658 Oklahoma City 42 32 .568 Utah 33 41 .446 Denver 28 46 .378 Minnesota 16 58 .216 Pacific Division W L Pct z-Golden State 60 13 .822

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National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 44 30 .595 — Brooklyn 33 40 .452 10 Boston 33 41 .446 11 Philadelphia 18 57 .240 26 New York 14 60 .189 30 Southeast Division W L Pct GB z-Atlanta 56 19 .747 — x-Washington 41 33 .554 14 Miami 34 40 .459 21 Charlotte 31 42 .425 24 Orlando 22 52 .297 33 Central Division W L Pct GB x-Cleveland 48 27 .640 — x-Chicago 45 29 .608 2 Milwaukee 36 38 .486 11 Indiana 32 42 .432 15 Detroit 29 45 .392 18

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Canada secures semifinal berth WOMEN’S WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

MALMO, Sweden — Canada is following the philosophy that less ice time is more as they prepare for their women’s world hockey championship semifinal game. The Canadians went 2-1 in Pool A behind the United States at 3-0. Both countries secured byes to Friday’s semifinals. Canada finished with a 6-2 win over Finland, while defending champion U.S. downed Russia 9-2 on Tuesday. With their three preliminary-round games starting at 4 p.m. local time, the Canadian women haven’t had a game day skate. Head coach Doug Derraugh will keep his team off the ice Wednesday. They didn’t skate Monday either, so Canada hasn’t been on the ice except to play games since the tournament started Saturday. Derraugh’s rationale is now is the time for his players to rest their bodies and mentally process all the information that’s been thrown at them since the start of their training camp March 18 in Toronto. Canada also skated four times, including a pre-tournament game against a regional midget-aged boys’ team, within 48 hours of arriving in Sweden. “We went about 11 days in a row in camp between games and practices where we never really gave them a break,” Derraugh explained. “For the coaches, it’s really hard to give the team the day off. You really want to get on the ice and do things. You’ve got to look at the end picture. “Even tomorrow, we’ll have some meetings and look at video. It’s nice to give them a little bit of a break here before the push.” The Canadian women will skate Thursday in preparation for their semifinal, in which they’ll face the winner of Wednesday’s quarter-final between Finland and Switzerland. The U.S. meets the quarter-final

winner of Russia versus host Sweden. The championship and bronze-medal games are Saturday. Toronto’s Natalie Spooner scored two goals and assisted on another to pace Canada against Finland. Jennifer Wakefield of Pickering, Ont., contributed a goal and a pair of assists, while defender Courtney Birchard of Mississauga, Ont., added a goal and an assist. Brigette Lacquette of Mallard, Man., and Saskatoon’s Emily Clark scored their first career goals for the national women’s team. “It was pretty amazing to get the first one under my belt,” said Clark, the youngest player on the Canadian team at 19. “My linemates did a lot of work to make that happen.” Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., stopped 15 of 17 shots in net for the victory. Finland’s captain Jenni Hiirikoski countered with a pair of goals, while goaltender Eveliina Suonpaa made 23 saves in the loss. With 10 on the 23-player roster making their world championship debut, Canada emerged from the preliminary round outscoring their opponents 12-6 and outshooting them 83-70. “I think we’ve been working real hard in the offensive zone and through the middle of the ice,” Derraugh said. “The defensive zone stuff, I’d like to nail down a little bit and our work off the puck.” Finland was without top forward Michelle Karvinen for a second straight day with what’s been reported as the flu. Their workhorse goaltender Noora Raty isn’t participating in this world championship because of injury. Nevertheless, the Finns engaged Canada in all three zones rather than throwing all their efforts into defending their half of the ice as they did prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Canada led by one goal until late in the second period when Spooner sprung Wakefield on a breakaway. Birchard added some breathing room less than a minute later. “We knew they were going to be a

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Canadian players celebrate after Brigitte Lacquette, hidden, scored the opening goal, as Finland’s goalkeeper Eveliina Suonpaa, looks away during the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship group A match between Canada and Finland at the Malmo Isstadion in Malmo, Sweden, Tuesday. tough team to play against,” Spooner said. “They always clog the middle. They like to trap us in our own end. We knew were going to have to put up with that and try and break it down and get in their end and just get shots on net.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto picked Drew Hutchison to make his first opening-day start, and the right-hander is slated to face the Yankees and Masahiro Tanaka on April 6 in New York. Toronto also released Dayan Viciedo from his minor league contract; reassigned left-hander Jeff Francis, outfielder Caleb Gindl and infielder Jonathan Diaz to their minor league camp; and optioned catcher Josh Thole to Triple-A Buffalo. At 24 years old, Hutchison will be the youngest opening-day starter in franchise history. He is 1-2 with a 4.80 ERA in three career starts at Yankee Stadium. “It’s really exciting, opening day is special,” Hutchison said Tuesday. “At the end of day, it’s a long game. But as we all know, it’s opening day. The excitement, the energy -- everything that goes into it is exciting.” After missing the 2013 season while

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WORLDS: Playoffs begin Friday Ulsrud held off Finland’s Aku Kauste 8-7 earlier in the day. Pfister beat Kauste by the same score in the morning draw for his fifth victory. Attendance was 1,889 for the afternoon draw and 1,117 in the morning. Things picked up a bit in the evening with 3,019 fans on hand in the 10,500-seat venue. The playoffs begin Friday and the medal games are scheduled for Sunday. Canada finished fourth last year in Beijing and hasn’t won gold since Glenn Howard took the 2012 title in Basel, Switzerland. The Czech Republic, Finland and the United States were tied at 3-4. China, Italy, Russia and Scotland were next at 2-5.

SUPPORT: Purpose to serve “I realized I was sick ... it was a mental illness, I wasn’t weak,” he said. “I

recovering from elbow ligament-replacement surgery, Hutchison was 1113 with a 4.48 ERA in 32 starts last season. He is 3-0 with a 1.80 ERA in four spring training appearances. “He answered the big question last year coming off of surgery. He can do this,” manager Gibbons said. “He’s bounced back and there’s no looking back and it’s a great honour for him. I think he’ll handle it well.” R.A. Dickey had started Toronto’s previous two openers. Viciedo agreed with the Blue Jays on Feb. 28 and was competing for a reserve outfield spot after Michael Saunders tore his left meniscus shortly after the start of spring training. After being informed Tuesday that he did not make the opening-day roster, Viciedo requested his release. He would have earned $2.5 million if he made the major league roster. Viciedo, who missed part of spring training with a right foot infection, batted .233 with two RBIs in 15 exhibition games.

accepted that and once I got out of rehab, I worked hard on staying with the program. I was in touch with my emotions. I work out every day as I believe good physical health helps your mental health.” And he wrote the book The Crazy Game, a task that proved harder than he imagined. During the writing, he had a relapse. He thanks the Flames for helping him and says he had no idea how he could impact people by talking about mental illness. “I have a purpose to serve, to help. I’m doing great today and proud of my book.” He also says that mental health is a sickness that no one should be ashamed of. “You keep fighting,” he said. ● The RDC athletic leadership fund has raised over $2 million. ... The Corporate Innovation Award was presented to WorleyParsonsCord, which has supported the RDC fund since 2009. ... The Calgary Flames Foundation is also a big supporter of the RDC fund and announced they it donate three scholarships each year to athletics. ... Bell Canada is also a major sponsor and has made a major push to help with mental health. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Parking lot an asset: casino APPEALING DESIGN TOUTED BY JACKPOT AFTER COUNCIL APPROVES PROJECT BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF It may be controversial but Parkvale’s new parking lot might also be the most visually appealing place to park in downtown Red Deer. On Monday, city council gave the green light to a site exception in the land use bylaw to allow for a temporary parking lot for Jackpot Casino staff and patrons at the corner of Ross Street and 47th Avenue. It does not change the permanent R1A (low impact commercial or residential use) zoning in the area and the exception is for nine years only. A public hearing on the application drew close to 30 speakers. The majority spoke in strong support of the ap-

plication. Adam Daines, Jackpot Casino operations manager, said they were pleased with the support from the community. Daines said the casino tries to be a good neighbour and is willing to work with residents who do not support the project, including the Parkvale Community Association. “I think everybody is going to be happy with the product when it’s done,” said Daines. “When you first hear parking lot, it’s not the most appealing thing, but once it is done it will add a lot to the downtown and the Parkvale community.” Jackpot Casino will build a 43-stall parking lot on its vacant lots (4643 and 4637 50th St.) where Botterill House and a bungalow stood until they were demolished in September 2013.

It will provide parking for the estimated 110 staff and casino patrons. Daines said a beautiful parking lot like this one not only benefits the business but also the community. “It cleans up the street corner and really showcases downtown Red Deer,” he said. “It’s definitely a winwin for everybody.” Using a combination of lighting, vegetation, street furniture and fencing, the lot is designed to enhance safety and improve the look of the area. The three existing trees on site including the Siberian larch will be preserved. A commemorative monument/ plaque using the bricks from the old Botterill House will be incorporated. “(We want to) pay respect to the community,” said Daines. “We have

done it in the past with Parkvale, if you notice the mural on the east side of the building. It’s a historical site in Red Deer. It is something that needs to be recognized even though the houses aren’t there anymore. ... It’s just great to pay (respect to the) heritage to our city.” A small area for public art and interpretive signage is designated. Pedestrian-scale lighting will be used to illuminate the parking lot while reducing glare, which can cause deep shadowed areas. It will also minimize the light spillover onto adjacent properties. The casino will now go through the city Planning Department for the necessary paperwork. Daines hopes the lot will be open this summer. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Smoking possible cause of blaze Five people were assisted by the Canadian Red Cross after their home was severely damaged by fire in Red Deer on Monday. No one was injured in the fire at 2 McCullough Cres. that may have been caused by improperly disposed of smoking material, according to Red Deer Emergency Services. Two adults and three children lived in the bungalow, which was occupied by the owner as well as someone living in a suite in the house. The residents were home at the time of the fire but escaped uninjured. Firefighters were call to the scene in the residential neighbourhood of Morrisroe at about 4 p.m. When they arrived the house was fully engulfed in flames. City of Red Deer fire inspector Barry Wulff said on Tuesday that the fire started on the exterior of the house near the front door, then migrated to the attic, causing substantial damage to that part of the house. The estimated damage is $300,000. Once the fire was out, fire crews removed all the blown-in attic insulation to prevent any rekindling, he said. “The cause is undetermined, however, due to the fire patterns and interviews with people, it started on the exterior of the building and we cannot rule out the careless disposal of smoking materials.” The roof’s trust system was heavily damaged and will have to be replaced,

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City of Red Deer fire-medics work on the scene of a residential home fire at 2 McCullough Cres. in Red Deer on Monday afternoon. The fire started on the exterior of the home. he said, adding that the gypsum ceiling held out quite well except for one of the bedrooms where it did drop down. Red Deer Emergency Services will visit some residents at their homes in the neighbourhood on Thursday to talk about the leading causes of fire in Red Deer, and discuss ways to avoid a similar incident in their own homes.

Riot role brings sentence A Kenyan refugee with a history of drug convictions in Central Alberta pleaded guilty to a minor role in the riot at the Red Deer Remand Centre last year. Athiang Geng, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of mischief to property in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday. Crown prosecutor Bina Border withdrew the charge of participating in a riot after the court accepted Geng’s guilty plea. Geng’s counsel, Norm Kelly, said the riot started in one of the pods at the remand centre, which typically hold 25 to 30 inmates at any time. It started when a guard and an inmate got into an altercation. The guard followed procedure, however several inmates did not like the way the altercation was handled and turned to violence. Showers, glass, tables and other furniture, and items in

the pod were damaged or destroyed during the riot. Geng’s involvement started when he tried unsuccessfully to cover a security camera with a piece of toilet paper. He was asked by guards to talk with them and help to negotiate a resolution with the unruly inmates. The riot, which began at about 3:30 p.m. on March 5, 2014, ended by about 9:30 p.m. as the tense situation calmed down and inmates returned to their cells. Red Deer RCMP, police dog services and an RCMP tactical unit were called. They were unarmed and helped resolve the situation. Geng was serving a sentence for possession of a controlled substance. That sentence ended in June and Geng remained in custody until October 2014. Judge Jim Mitchell sentenced Geng to time served.

With the arrival of spring time, things are dry, like shrubbery on the outside of houses, Wulff said. “We want to try and get across it’s a dry time of year. ... Smokers have to properly discard smoking materials.” Wulff encourages city residents to check out their yards and clean up dry branches and debris.

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Vandals hit new Ponoka gym BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Police have identified a possible suspect in their investigation of the anti-Semitic vandalism of a Ponoka gym that was close to opening before the destruction. On Saturday night, the Ponoka Gymnastics and Trampoline Club was broken into and damaged by one or more individuals. Swastikas and the phrase “white power” were written on the walls. Glass was shattered, walls were broken and paint was dumped or sprayed all over the facility. Const. Stephen Edwards of Ponoka RCMP called it a crime of opportunity, saying it wasn’t necessarily targeted. “It’s a priority file for us,” said Edwards, adding this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Ponoka. It’s very important for the community that someone be held accountable for this disaster.” The newly created gym was to open in late April or early May. However, with the damage the opening may have to wait until the fall. Two days before the incident, workers had just finished drywalling in the building located

at 5029 49th Ave. in Ponoka. Police said a school bus owned by the Ponoka Composite High School that was parked near the gym was also damaged in a similar fashion that evening. Barry Groves, president of the Ponoka Gymnastics and Trampoline Club, was one of the first people to see the damage on Saturday morning. He said he was devastated. “We wonder who could do something like this to kids,” said Groves. “It seems like someone is trying to make a point, but we don’t know what that point is.” The club had been fundraising for seven years to get their own building after renting for years. About 100 to 170 young people are members of the club at any given time, using the facilities and taking part in the programs provided. The hope with the new building was that they could accommodate more than 200 children. A cleanup bee will be scheduled by the club’s board. Police say they are looking for more than one person, saying there were multiple foot tracks at the crime scene. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

‘Cowardly’ habit of avoiding justice keeps man in jail BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Called a gutless coward by Judge Jim Mitchell, a Red Deer man pleaded guilty to several breach of probation charges while he awaits trial on other charges. Kristopher Rowe, 38, of Red Deer pleaded guilty to three breach of probation charges and one count of failing to appear in court. The breaches occur from July 4 to Oct. 24, 2014, when Rowe failed to report to his probation officer, failed to live at the residence designated by his probation officer and failed to attend a counselling services

assessment. He also failed to appear in court in July 2014. But what set Mitchell off on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court was Rowe’s conviction history and his habit of assaulting women. “It’s a gutless and cowardly habit to have,” said Mitchell, noting that at the time of the breaches Rowe had been on probation for assault. Mitchell sentenced Rowe to 20 days in custody, five days for each conviction, and added another eight days under the victims of crime surcharge legislation. Because Rowe was unable to pay the surcharge, eight days were added consecutive to his sentence.

Crown Prosecutor Bina Border suggested five days in custody as a sentence, but Mitchell decide to impose a five days consecutive sentence for each charge. “I’m not sure what five days is going to teach this recidivist,” said Mitchell. Walter Kubanek, defence counsel for Rowe, asked that his client not serve his time at the Red Deer Remand Centre, saying he wasn’t safe there. Rowe was assaulted by three other inmates during a previous period of custody in Red Deer. He was so badly injured that he spent the rest of his sentence in protective custody. Mitchell also tacked on an 18-month probation order to the sentence.

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Rowe is awaiting two trials on other charges, which includes five counts of possession of property obtained by crime and possession of a controlled substance. Those trials are scheduled for April 15 and July 24 in Red Deer provincial court. He is in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre. Mitchell ordered that the sentence given on Tuesday not be satisfied by pre-trial custody and said Rowe could instead use those pre-trial custody days towards any sentence that may be imposed following the outcome of the trials. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Wild Rose School Division names new superintendent A new superintendent has been chosen by the Wild Rose School Division, replacing the retiring Brian Celli. The board of trustees chose Brad Volkman, who has 27 years of education experience in the Prairie Rose School Division, located in southeastern Alberta near Medicine Hat. He was a principal for 15 years and spent and more than six years as both an assistant superintendent for human resources and as chief deputy superintendent for human resources. Celli announced his retirement in 2014 and will stay on until the end of this school year. “We were pleased that our extensive advertising resulted in excellent applications,” said Mae Tyron, Wild Rose School Division board chair. “Mr. Volkman was selected from a field of outstanding candidates. We believe that Brad’s values, principles and organizational skills; his knowledge of the division; his strong work ethic and his belief in community connections and partnerships will propel Wild Rose School Division forward.” Volkman has a bachelor of education from the University of Lethbridge and a masters of arts education in administration and supervision from San Diego State University. He will assume the role of superintendent on Aug. 1.

City, county seek grant to improve Red Deer Airport City of Red Deer and Red Deer County will jointly apply for funds to expand Red Deer Airport. The project would expand the main runway and provide infrastructure to enable new businesses to locate on the southeast field. The estimated cost for the project is $10.5 million. The cost is to be shared on a one-third basis among federal, provincial and municipal governments. Federal and provincial grants provide a maximum funding of $6 million. City of Red Deer and Red Deer County councils have each approved $1.725 million for the project. It is yet to be determined how to fund the remaining $1.05 million. The maximum funding offered per project is $3 million from the federal New Building Canada Small Communities Fund program. Each municipality is allowed a maximum of two applications, excluding partnerships with other municipalities. The program is available on a competitive basis to municipalities with a population under 100,000. Red Deer city council unanimously approved the grant application Monday.

Food bank first recipient of 100 Men donation A new local group, 100 Men Red Deer, helped raised $10,500 for a local charity. Members of the group commit to donating $100 each, four times a year, to a local charity. They each nominate a charity, and then the top three contenders make a pitch for the funds. Members then vote and the winner receives the charitable donation. On Monday evening at the meeting, held at Fionn MacCool’s pub, the group voted to make their first donation to the Red Deer Food Bank. Now, the food bank cannot be selected again for three years so other local charities will also benefit in each quarter this year. More than 100 men can belong to the group. For more information, contact 100MenRedDeer@gmail.com.

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Jordan Lenius hangs onto Luke Prenell during a pickup game of touch football. This play got a little more physical, however, when Lenius decided it was time change things up and switch to a tackle game. With the week off school and the weather shaping up nicely, several members of the Hunting Hills High School Lighting football squad and one member of the Lindsay Thurber Raiders played in the Eastview Middle School field. The money to be borrowed has been approved under the city capital budget. City council voted unanimously on Monday to pass the borrowing bylaw.

Red Deer Market history discussed on April 15 Learn about the history of the Red Deer Market on April 15. Dennis Moffat, manager of the Red Deer Market, will speak at the Central Alberta Historical Society meeting about the inception of the Farmer’s Market and how it evolved into the market it is today. Moffat will speak at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery at 7 p.m. The museum is located at 4525 47A Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, visit centralalbertahistory.org/events/ or call 403-309-8405.

Riverlands redevelopment borrowing OK’d by council The City of Red Deer will borrow $24.5 million to redevelop 25 acres of the Riverlands district. Environmental testing of water and soil is expected this year. Two major design concepts are being prepared. The land is bordered to the east by Taylor Drive and to the west by the south bank of the Red Deer River. The site is the former location of the Red Deer civic yards, which were relocated to north Red Deer several years ago. The last of the buildings in the area were demolished in November 2014. In 2015, designs are expected mapping the extension Alexander Way from Taylor Drive west to the Red Deer River. Construction is slated for 2016-2017. City Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said on Monday that $24.5 million is a great deal of money but that it is a good investment towards positive change in the downtown area.

which provides a maximum of $3 million per project. Each municipality is allowed a maximum of two applications, excluding partnerships with other municipalities. The program is available on a competitive basis to municipalities with a population under 100,000.

City seeks federal funding to shore up river bank The City of Red Deer is asking for federal funding to stabilize a river bank and to make improvements to 30th Avenue. The city wants up to $3 million in grants for its Riverview Park bank stabilization project, which is expected to cost $6.3 million. The plan is to shore up a section of the river bank on the south side of the Red Deer River east of Heritage Ranch. A further $3 million is wanted for a series of projects on 30th Avenue, including a traffic roundabout, underground services and adjacent roads. The total cost of that project is estimated at $40.5 million. The city is applying to a federal program called the New Building Canada Small Communities Fund program,

Photo radar sites Red Deer motorists could be caught on camera in the following photo radar sites from now until April 15. School zones: Oleander Drive, Davidson Drive, 60th Street, 48th Avenue and 57th Avenue. Playground zones: Jewell Street, Cornett Drive, 59th Avenue, Lancaster Drive, Roland Street, Inglewood Drive and Allan Street. Traffic corridors: Riverside Drive, Taylor Drive, 32nd Street, 40th Avenue, 50th Avenue, 49th Avenue, Overdown Drive, 22nd Street and Barrett Drive. Police reserve the right to change sites without notice.

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Noah under fire for tweets BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of The Daily Show, complete with the blessing of the exiting Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, Jews and Middle America are causing a social media backlash. By Tuesday, Trevor Noah was a trending topic on Twitter as he drew fire for jokes described as tasteless, hateful — and unfunny. Roseanne Barr was among those calling out the 31-year-old South African comic, who has Trevor Noah an international following and two million Twitter followers. “U should cease sexist & anti semitic ‘humour’ about jewish women & Israel,” she tweeted late Monday. Noah’s controversial tweets were posted between 2009 and 2014. In 2009 he wrote, “Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn’t look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!” A 2012 post derides “jewish chicks.” Another one from 2011 jokes about “a hot white woman.” In a post from 2011, he writes, “Oh yeah the weekend. People are gonna get drunk & think that I’m sexy!” He attributes the joke to “fat chicks everywhere.” When a fan tweeted him last fall with a request to come to Texas, Noah replied, “But you’ve already got Ebola?” He slammed the U.S.’s midsection in a 2013 tweet, writing that “When flying over the middle of America the turbulence is so bad. It’s like all the ignorance is rising through the air.” Comedy Central did not respond to a request for comment. However, conservative commentator David Frum, anticipating the network’s response to the uproar, tweeted, “Daily Show method: entrap & edit targets to look stupid & bigoted. But for Trevornoah (who edited himself) they’ll urge context & nuance” The tweets showed a different side to Noah than the picture painted by Comedy Central and the comedian himself: in a phone interview on Monday from Dubai, where Noah was travelling on a comedy tour, he likened himself to the New York-born Stewart, saying, “One thing we both share: We are both progressives.” He added, “travelling the world I’ve learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.” Noah, the son of a black South African mother and white European father who speaks six languages, was bring pitched by Comedy Central as reflecting a new age of global multiculturalism, “a citizen of the world,” in the words of Michele Ganeless, the network’s president. He was named a little more than a month after Stewart unexpectedly announced he was leaving The Daily Show following 16 years as the show’s principal voice.

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Jon Hamm portrays Don Draper in a scene from ‘Mad Men,’ premiering Sunday.

Mad Men enters final stretch BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — How time flies in this very mad world! It seems like only yesterday that the 1960s were dawning for Don Draper, his family and his comrades at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. Now, as if in the blink of an eye, the ’60s are waning as Mad Men nears the end of its glorious run. When the series begins its final stretch Sunday on AMC, the passage of time will be palpable for all concerned — the series’ characters, its audience and, oh, by the way, Mad Men mastermind Matthew Weiner. “I’m out of work,” cracks Weiner, who wrapped shooting last July, finished postproduction last October and, in December, vacated his office of seven years. He is excited about what the last lap will bring, but, during this recent conversation, was customarily tightlipped. “We deal with the consequences of material success,” he says, only hinting at what lies ahead for the agency’s newly well-to-do partners. “The incredible windfall they got at the end of last season wasn’t just a plot device. It is propelling them into these last seven episodes: once all your material needs are met, what else is on your mind?” In an interview a few weeks before Mad Men premiered in July 2007, Weiner explained why he had placed his ambitious new drama in the 1960s. “By talking about that era,” he said, “I can talk about everything right now that I care about.” Things like civil rights. Sex. Gender roles. The nature of adulthood. And that he has done, season after season, with a drama of modern society as viewed through the prism of modernity as it was a half-century ago. Weiner centred the action on Draper, whose gift for image-making, seduction and strategic chicanery was perfectly suited to the advertising game. Meanwhile, Draper, like the ’60s, was sufficiently removed, but not too far removed, from the present day to lend it fresh perspective — what Weiner

calls “the quotidian reality of everyday behaviour and desire and aspiration and frustration” — with startling currency, not to mention retro chic. Even so, Weiner’s choice of time frame was remarkable, since he, now 49, fell short of membership among the usual custodians of ’60s lore: baby boomers. And his chosen hero, Draper, born in the 1920s, was significantly older than the boomer crowd. “The story has been told mostly through the baby boomers,” Weiner says. “They got their hands on the wheel and they’ve been taking us on a tour of the quote-unquote ‘Turbulent Sixties’ ever since. But that way, we see it through the eyes of a child. I wanted to focus on what an adult was during that period.” When Mad Men began, Draper was already in his mid-30s, and increasingly he has viewed that decade through wary eyes. “Matt used a lot of incredibly resonant 1960s touchstones,” says Jon Hamm, who under his guidance brought Draper to life. “But it’s in a very wise way, because he’s never leaned on them. It’s never been a travelogue through the ’60s or a history lesson. It’s just been about these people who came out of Matt’s mind and have been working through their lives in

this tumultuous, tricky time. We navigated those incredibly choppy waters with his characters,” who have also included those portrayed by co-stars Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Rich Sommer, Aaron Staton and Robert Morse. Mad Men tapped into the ’60s ethos with painstaking authenticity. But that wasn’t all. From the vantage point of 50 years’ distance, Weiner also drew on his unfolding life — even his experience of doing the show. When Don, in the second season, says, “I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I’ve already been,” it’s not just an expression of his existential angst. It’s also Weiner’s lament as a writer feeling pressure not to repeat himself in each script. Negotiations that pitted Weiner against AMC and the series’ studio figured into Mad Men — particularly the bitter clash that dragged on for months before a new contract was signed in March 2011, a squabble that delayed the show’s return for its fifth season. “There’s a lot of negotiating that season,” notes Weiner, including failed negotiations that spurred Draper’s fedup protegee, Peggy Olson (Moss), to leap to a rival agency. “That was on my mind.”

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McCULLOUGH (Francis) Irene Aug. 30, 1923 - Mar. 17, 2015 Irene passed away in the Stettler Hospital at the ripe old age of 91 years. Irene was born to Josephine and Bill Dool of the Lincoln District. She married Raymond McCullough on November 21, 1941 and moved to the Spruceville Road Farm. They spent 10 years in Coronation where their company worked in the Oil industry. Irene was a loving mother of seven children; Carol (Bob) Murray, Dean (Bev) McCullough, Dixie McCullough, Bonnie Lou (Kevin) Walker, Kelly (Shauna) McCullough, daughters-in-law; Rose McCullough and Lilah McCullough. She will be lovingly remembered by twenty grandchildren, twentythree great-grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren. She was predeceased by Wally McCullough in 1999, Vince McCullough in 2014, and her loving husband of 67 years, Raymond, in 2008. Irene was the youngest of four sisters and three brothers who predeceased her; Sadie (Lester) Barr, Helen (Charlie) Mickey, Gladys (Fred) Mast, Maudie (Roy) Pierson, Alvin (Laura) Dool, Lawrence (Velma) Dool, and Chester (Audrey) Dool. Irene was involved in the WI Church Ladies group, the Curling Club, and the Oil Wives Club of Coronation. She taught Children’s and Adult Sunday School and served on the Church Board. A Funeral Service will be held at the Woodynook Christian Reformed Church, Lacombe, AB, on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Irene’s honor may be made directly to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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MAYHEW Christina Celina It is with sadness we announce the passing of our mother, the matriarch of five generations. Christina was born on August 16, 1920 to parents Thomas Myer and Christina (Beswanger) Myer. Mom passed away on March 30, 2015 at Bethany Collegeside in Red Deer. She was born in the Maryanne District. In 1939, she married Griffin and resided in the Shady Nook District for 72 years. There they raised a family of seven children. She is survived by Jim (Linda) Mayhew, Gerry (Grant) Veilleux, Sylvia (Alvin) Kelm, Linda (George) Motley, Robert (Kimberly) Mayhew, Daryl Mayhew, Todd Mayhew and daughterin-law, Leona Mayhew. She has numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren, and one sister-in-law, Lyla Myer. Christina was predeceased by her husband Griffin in 1981, grandson Brent in 1975, and infant daughter Beatrice in 1945, as well as thirteen brother and sisters. Mom enjoyed time spent with her families on camping trips, playing and watching sports, gardening, knitting, playing cards and making bread. The family wishes to thank Bethany Collegeside for the excellent care and compassion shown to our mother. A Funeral Service will be held at CrossRoads Church, 38105 R.R.275, Red Deer County, on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to Bethany Care Society, 1001 17 Street N.W., Calgary, AB, T2N 2E5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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HOVEY Norman Harold It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Norm Hovey in the early morning of March 28, 2015. Husband, Dad, Grampa and Poppa passed peacefully in his sleep at the Three Hills Hospital after a long and courageous hard fought battle with cancer. He was born July 15, 1939 at Elnora Alberta. Where he was raised and spent his entire life in the Trenville area, until his passing. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Deanna, daughter Karyn, son and daughter-in-law Jim and Cindy, daughter and sonin-law Wendy and Brad. grandchildren; Blayne (Christine), Jolyn (Ryan), Dylan and Bergen; greatgrandchildren Brooke, Juliet and Tyson. He is also survived by brother Ed Hovey (Jean), sisters Millie LeBlanc (Hugh), Edna Knights and sister-in-law Doris Hovey as well as numerous extended family and special friends. He was predeceased by his parents Helmer and Mary Hovey, brothers Adolph and Gilbert, sisters May and Margaret, brothers-in-law Les Ancion, Connie Buckley, and Stewart Knights. He was well known for his ready smile,quick wit and teasing. Norm had a special love for his family, his farm, his friends, his Simmental cattle, horses and his John Deere tractor. A quiet man of few words. He was always there for guidance and understanding, a listening ear of helping hand for all. A private family burial service will be held on Saturday April 4th, at 11:00 a.m. at the Trenville Cemetery. A Celebration Tea will be held at the Elnora Community Center, at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alberta Cancer Foundation. KNEEHILL FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., TROCHU, entrusted with arrangements. 403-442-2123

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BUIT Lorraine Marie Apr. 24, 1959 - Mar. 29, 2015 Lorraine Marie Buit passed away quietly on Sunday, March 29th at 5:50pm of meningitis in the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 55 years old. She was predeceased by her mother Rose Humphrey and a brother Lee Humphrey. She is survived by her husband Robert, daughter Cassondra, and granddaughter Falynn Rose. She is also survived by her father Leroy Humphrey, brothers Dennis, Allan, and Jason; and two sisters: Bonnie and Deanne. Services will be held Tuesday April 7, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel in Lacombe, Alberta. Visitation will be from 10am noon. Graveside service will proceed after the service at the Fairview Cemetery. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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CURRIE BEGGS, James H. John Jan. 17, 1926 - March 21, 2012 1925 - 2015 BEGGS, Elizabeth M. Mr. John Currie of Red Deer Feb. 13, 1928 - March 28, 2014 passed away peacefully at Today as in days past, you Bethany CollegeSide, Red are in our hearts and minds. Deer on Friday, March 27, We think of you and smile, 2015 at the age 90 years. A with tear streaked eyes. Funeral Mass will be Our hearts fill with sadness, celebrated at St. Mary’s its pain brings comfort, but Catholic Church, 6 McMillan no sorrow for we know that Avenue, Red Deer, on for you there is no pain. Friday, April 10, 2015 at Our memories of your love 11:00 a.m. with The keep us strong, uplifts our Reverend Father Les hearts, and comforts our souls. Drewicki, Celebrant. A more Our loss is Heaven’s gain. detailed obituary will appear Rest in peace in the Lord’s in the Red Deer Advocate. loving arms until we meet again. Condolences may be sent or Your Loving Family. viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at Card Of Thanks PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM CORRALES 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. The family of Delia Corrales 403.340.4040. would like to thank everyone for their support and prayers. All donations, cards and flowers were greatly appreciated.

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BOWER DENTAL CENTER req’s a full time Registered Dental Assistant who is a motivated, committed and passionate individual. We run a high paced practice where experience is an asset, but new grads are welcome. Must be avail. on evenings and one Sat. per month. Very rewarding position. Please send resume to: ebakleh@yahoo.com or apply within office.

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LADY, petite, enjoys walking, reading, dancing, travelling, cycling, looking for a gentleman, n/s, age 60ish, active with varied interests. Reply to Box 1105, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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F/T & P/T Pharmacist positions req’d. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer P/T Professional Medical Secretary needed in Red Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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Amperage Energy In is an emerging and growing oil & gas service company with mobile onsite water recycling solutions and fixed plant operations. We are committed to conducting our operations safely, in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. Amperage is looking for specific high pressure pumping experience for a new emerging specialty product service line starting immediately.

Cement and Acid Pumping Equipment Operators and Supervisors Required Immediately Email resume to careers@amperageenergy.com or by fax to 403-932-4276 with a current/clean 5 year drivers abstract & safety tickets.

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FLEET SERVICES & LOGISTICS Qualifications: Must hold a minimum of a class 5 driver’s license Experienced and comfortable with towing and backing up trailers Is knowledgeable of tools Professional attitude Exc. communication skills Good listening skills Capable of taking direction Organized and dependable Duties include but are not limited to: Cleaning vehicles inside and out Expediting & hotshots Maintaining inventory and tool cribs Preparation of vehicles and equipment for field use Vehicle maintenance and record keeping Various other duties as required Preference will be given to candidates who are reliable, efficient, accurate, highly organized and capable of multi tasking and able to complete tasks in a timely manner. We are looking for Team Players. Please send resumes to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com AND keggen@ newcartcontracting.com OR Fax to 403-729-2396 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity. Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

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JJAM Management (1987) YEAR-ROUND employment ACADEMIC Express GOODMEN Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s in Central Alberta, exp. ROOFING LTD. ADULT EDUCATION Requires to work at these maintenance grader AND TRAINING Requires Red Deer, AB locations: operator required. CLASSIFICATIONS 5111 22 St. Reply to Box 1106, c/o SLOPED ROOFERS SPRING START 37444 HWY 2 S RED DEER ADVOCATE, LABOURERS 1500-1990 37543 HWY 2N 2950 Bremner Ave., Red & FLAT ROOFERS • GED Preparation 700 3020 22 St. Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Manager/Food Services Valid Driver’s Licence Antiques Permanent P/T, F/T shift. • Women in the Trades preferred. Fax or email Truckers/ & Art Wknd, day, night & eves. Program info@goodmenroofing.ca Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. Drivers or (403)341-6722 40 hrs/week, + benefits , • Math and Science for PETITPOINT PICTURES, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., Dutch boy & girl, the Trades Program criminal record check req’d. HD Journeyman mechanic professionally framed. Req’d education some $50. pr. 403-314-9603 Gov’t of Alberta Funding for busy pipeline facility secondary. Apply in may be available. shop in Sylvan Lake. Must person or fax resume to: be punctual, be flexible to 403-314-1303 For full job 403-340-1930 work extended hrs., Auctions description visit www. service equip., must be www.academicexpress.ca timhortons.com able to troubleshoot hydraulic systems, fuel COLLECTOR CAR BULLDOG Metals Ltd. JJAM Management (1987) injection systems, sm. AUCTION, 5th Annual is looking for a highly Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s engine repairs. Able to Edmonton Motor Show motivated Assistant Shop Requires to work at these work on JD, Cat, New Collector Car Auction, CENTRAL AB based Supervisor. Position is Red Deer, AB locations: Holland, Cummins Indoors, Expo Centre, April trucking company requires FT. Key Duties include: 5111 22 St. fuller transmissions, 10 -12, over 80,000 CONTRACT Ability to deal with a 37444 HWY 2 S Differentials. Email: jobs@ spectators, 90% sold last multitude of personalities. DRIVERS 37543 HWY 2N redcoreltd.com year, all consignments Ability to take & give in AB. Home the odd night. 700 3020 22 St. welcome, call direction. Ability to deal Weekends off. MESSINGER FOOD ATTENDANT 888-296-0528 ext. 102 or with multiple tasks. Ability 403-586-4558 Req’d permanent shift e-mail egauctions.com Meats in Mirror, AB to adjust to change & weekend day and evening Req’s a BUTCHER immed. challenges. Good team both full and part time. Misc. MUST BE player. Experience with Children's 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + scrap metal materials are Items EXPERIENCED benefits. Start ASAP. Help an asset but not nec. If meat cutting, deboning, Job description interested in applying, sausage making and kill www.timhortons.com SOURCE ADULT VIDEO BABY DOLL with rooted please deliver resume in floor work. F/T (44 HRS) Education and experience requires mature P/T help hair & sleep eyes, person to the Attn: of Kevin permanent position, not req’d. Fri & Sat. and Thurs. 3 c/w a few clothes. $10. at 4305 78 St Cres. $18/hr. Please call Apply in person or fax pm-11 pm. Graveyard 403-314-9603 403-391-6061 resume to: 403-314-1303 Shift. 11 pm -7 am. e-mail resume to: nwoods1976@ Looking for a new pet? Employment hotmail.com, fax to: Check out Classifieds to 403-346-9099 or drop off at: Training find the purrfect pet. 3301-Gaetz Avenue

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356

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NORTH is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm. Start your career! See Help Wanted

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YARD ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT) Blackfalds Base Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.ca The term of this position will be from May 2015 to August 2015.

Red Deers Busiest RV Store

Ferus is looking for a Summer Student to work with will be handling duties that are more labour intensive such as grounds maintenance, office organization, and inventory organization.

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Uncle Ben’s is looking for an individual who is neat in appearance, reliable and works well with others to ½ll an open position in our Detailing Department. We offer excellent bene½t packages and on-going training. Please drop off resume at Reception Desk, Attn: Pilar or Joanie or: E-mail: djenner@unclebensrv.com Fax: 403-346-1055

You will be require to perform grounds maintenance such as sweep/mop office & shop floors, cut grass, clean up debris around yard site, paint, clean trucks and wash equipment. Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Ability to work in a team setting • Knowledge of trucking industry would be considered an asset • Strong communication skills • Experience in operating and maintaining various heavy equipment such as a grader, dozer, backhoe, excavator, and mower would be considered assets.

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT) Strathmore Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.com

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume by April 15th, 2015 to recruiting@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 Please reference: Ad #BLCK – 0215 - SSYA We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

Ferus has an immediate opening for a Plant Assistant at our Strathmore liquid nitrogen production facility. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner. Duties • Assist in general maintenance work as required • Wash Equipment • Work independently and as part of a team • General Plant and Yard Maintenance • Ensure correct environmental and safety practices are adhered to and upheld at Ferus facilities Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Clean Drivers Abstract • Own transportation • Ability to work in a team setting • Strong communication skills If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, Please visit www.ferus.com/careers or fax your resume to 1-888-879-6125 by April 24th, 2015 Please reference: Ad #STR – 0215 - SSPA We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted. 517873C18-D15

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

Call (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue

Advocate Opportunities ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

PINES Pearson & Pennington Cres., Pamley Ave. & Piper Dr. KENTWOOD Kentwood Dr. & Kirton Close WESTPARK Woodsworth, Wallace & Waghorn Close

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Ferus has an immediate opening for a Plant Assistant at our Joffre liquid nitrogen production facility. All duties will be performed in a safe, environmentally friendly & cost effective manner.

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CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Morning Delivery 6 days/week by 6:30 am

For More Information Call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

For VANIER Area With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area DEER PARK AREA Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. ALSO Durand Cr. & Drummond Ave. $69./mo. ALSO Drummond Cl. & Dowd Cl. $59./mo. MICHENER AREA 50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo.

3 days per week, no weekends

Boyce St. / Byer Close Barrett Drive

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

CARRIERS REQUIRED

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

BOWER AREA

Please reference: Ad #JFRE – 0215 - SSPA

Advocate Opportunities

Hunter, Hanna & Harvey Close 58 Ave.

The term of this position will be from May 2015 to August 2015.

Please visit www.ferus.com/careers or fax your resume to 1-888-879-6125 by April 24th, 2015

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

Alexander Cres., Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment,

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry. www.ferus.com

Requirements: • Currently enrolled in a two year Diploma program or working towards a Degree. • Ability to understand and follow detailed instructions • Valid Class Five Driver License • Clean Drivers Abstract • Own transportation • Ability to work in a team setting • Strong communication skills

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

For LANCASTER Area

CARRIERS NEEDED

Duties • Assist in general maintenance work as required • Wash Equipment • Work independently and as part of a team • General Plant and Yard Maintenance • Ensure correct environmental and safety practices are adhered to and upheld at Ferus facilities

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

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Joffre

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Homestead Firewood

ORIOLE PARK

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT)

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

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The term of this position will be from May 2015 to August 2015.

ITALIAN ladies chocolate leather boots, soft glove fit over knee length, zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, $200. 403-227-2976

Firewood

CARRIERS REQUIRED

NEW PROGRAMS

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

TAP HOUSE BAR & GRILL FULL and part-time F/T dishwasher, cooks and bus persons needed for varying shifts, including weekends. Exc. wages and benefits. Call 403-346-5448 for appointment.

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For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ammeter Close Ackerman Cres. BOWER AREA

INGLEWOOD AREA Isaacson Cres. / Irwin Ave. Iverson Close MORRISROE AREA

Beatty Close 54 Bell St. INGLEWOOD AREA

McCullough Cres. McDougall Cres.

Ingle Close Inglis Cres. Irving Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres. Savoy Close / Sydney Close

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres. Sunnyside Cres.

LANCASTER AREA

LANCASTER AREA

Lord Close

Lancaster Drive

SOUTHBROOK AREA

SOUTHBROOK AREA

Sorrensen/Sisson Ave.

Sutherland Cres.

VANIER AREA

VANIER AREA

Victor Close Viscount Drive

Viscount Drive Voisin Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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2001 Dodge Caravan, 189,000 km, no rust. 403-442-4223 or 403-373-6279

1985 HONDA 250 SX Trike $950.00 **SOLD**

2001 Ford 4x4 S/C F150 205,000 kms, very good cond., never abused $4100 403-887-8717

4x4, controls inside, & dump. Good working order. 403-348-9746

1998 CHEV 1/2 ton, ext. cab, 2 whl. dr., well maintained, no rust. $3500. 403-391-3677

1998 DURANGO, 119,700 kms. Must see! Safetied.

$5800. o.b.o. SOLD

2003 DODGE Dakota Sport, crew cab. 403-318-3040

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 PONTIAC Montana, V6, one owner, 115,000 km. 403-347-5919

2008 MONTANA, 2955RL, 2 slides, king bed, Mor-Ryde hitch, Arctic pckg. exc. cond., $27,500. **SOLD**

2006 SILVERADO Z71 special edition, e/c, 4X4. New windshield, remote start, 5.3, 1 owner, 160,000 km very clean. $12,500 no GST **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 CYCLONE 300C Toy Hauler, $44,500. 2007 GMC dually 1 ton 182,000 kms. Together $66,500. 403-507-0570

2006 VW Jetta TDI

2009 HYUNDAI Accent, 64,000 kms.

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 CHEV Avalanche, only 151,250 km., heated leather seats, sunroof, command start. Very good con. SOLD

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,000

***SOLD***

***SOLD***

2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, very good cond. 182,000 km. $4500 obo. 403-343-2058

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 TOYOTA Camry LE 4 dr., silver, 45,000 kms ***SOLD***

2002 CHRYSLER

2005 MERCEDES C230

2001 JEEP Cherokee 4x4 4L auto, new winter tires, remote, no rust, always garaged, 2nd set wheels. $4500 o.b.o. SOLD

Town N Country, Limited, AWD, leather, very nice cond. 159,000 kms. All avail. options

$6900.

136,000 kms. exc. cond. loaded. $8900. 403-886-5696

2007 DUTCHMAN, 28RK, front queen bed, rear kitchen, sleeps 6, slide living rm., n/s, clean. $17,750. 403-784-2482

403-598-0682

2010 SANTA FE, V6, silver 87,000 kms., remote 4 summer, 4 winter tires & whls., A1 $16,750. 403-347-6889

$6500.

2011 RAV4 LIMITED Leather, sunroof, 8 way power driver’s seat, very clean, great cond. $19,500 obo. 403-341-0606

2009 TOYOTA Corolla, 124,000 km, 403-348-9778

2012 DODGE AVENGER, $10,500. 403-896-9942

2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $15,000 obo must sell. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 27000 mi., new tires/awning Onan gen, roof a/c, slideout, sleeps 4, 3 pc. bath, A1, $31,500. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 SATURN AURA. Loaded, 1 owner, exc. cond. 86,000 km. Never winter driven. $10,500 403-391-3820

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1999 GMC Sierra 1500 2WD, E/C, original owner, 252,000 km, Immaculate $3400. **SOLD**

2002 GMC Envoy XL, great running shape. $6000. obo 403-340-2042

2006 JEEP Commander

2007 VW Tourareg, fully loaded, AWD, new windshield, Nokian all season tires, in exceptionally good cond.. 180,000 kms. $14,750 ***SOLD***

Caravan, stow n go seats, exc. con. 34,000 kms, $13,000. **SOLD**

2012 FORD Lariet 3/4 ton, 108,000 kms, set up for Ford 5th wheel, $35,000 403-362-1004

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 DAKOTA, 3.9, auto., 128,000., 60% tires, $4400. o.b.o. **SOLD**

2008 AVALANCHE, 4x4, nice shape. 587-679-1000

2010 DODGE RAM 3500, loaded SLT, white, 4x4, S/B, 60,600 kms., $39,000. ***SOLD***

2013 CHEV LTZ full load, sunroof, leather, over $4000 in extras. $41,000. Sliding box cover. SOLD

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2014 SIERRA short box, 4x4. 587-679-1000

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IF YOUR VEHICLE DOESN’T SELL THE FIRST WEEK, THE 2ND WEEK IS HALF PRICE!

full load, 4.7, $12,000. 403-342-7798

2006 JEEP Commander 4x4, exc. cond. $14,500. o.b.o. 403-347-5947

2006 JEEP Liberty 4x4. Awesome for winter & summer. $6000. obo 403-340-8447

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Household Furnishings

2 TABLE lamp sets, colored glass stems and metal base, Like new. $8. set; 403-346-2192 MOVING. Furniture, home decor, 403-986-8656

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KING size quilt, $40, queen size quilt $35, lrg. alum. elec. roasting pan fits 25 lbs. or more, $25. 403-348-6449

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ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail. Apr. 1st. 403-304-5337

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DELUXE Innisfail 2 bdrm. n/p, balcony, inclds. water $860 + utils, 403-348-6594

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Motorcycles

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Airline aware of co-pilot’s history BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Lufthansa knew six years ago that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had suffered from a “serious depressive episode,” the German airline said Tuesday. The airline said that as part of its internal research it found emails that Andreas Lubitz sent to the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen when he resumed his training there in 2009 after an interruption of several months. In them, he informed the school, where he had started studying in 2008, that he had suffered a “serious depressive episode,” which had since subsided. The airline said Lubitz subsequently passed all medical checks and that it has provided the documents to prosecutors. It declined to make any further comment. The revelation that Lufthansa had

been informed of Lubitz’s psychological problems raises further questions about why he was allowed to become a pilot for its subsidiary, Germanwings, in September 2013. Authorities say the 27-year-old Lubitz, who in the past had been treated for suicidal tendencies, locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing the Airbus 320 into a mountain in the French Alps on March 24. All 150 people aboard Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf were killed. Separately Tuesday, German daily Bild and French magazine Paris Match said their reporters have been shown a video they say was taken by someone inside the cabin of the doomed plane shortly before it crashed. Both periodicals reported that the video was found on a memory chip that could have come from a cellphone. Paris Match said the footage was found “among the wreckage by a source close to the investigation.”

The Associated Press could not independently confirm the reports. Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin, overseeing the French criminal investigation into the crash, told the AP Tuesday night that no cellphone video has been found from the plane. Paris Match reported that “you can hear cries of ’My God’ in several languages” and metallic banging, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object. It said the screaming intensified toward the end, after a heavy shake. Bild said that “even though the scene on board is chaotic and completely shaky, and no individual person can be identified, the accuracy of the video is beyond question.” Lufthansa earlier Tuesday said it had set aside $300 million to deal with possible costs from the crash as French aviation investigators said they were examining “systemic weaknesses” like cockpit entry rules and psychological screening procedures that could have

led to the Germanwings plane crash — issues that could eventually change worldwide aviation practices. French aviation agency BEA signalled the latest re-think about airline procedures in the wake of the Germanwings crash, which jolted an aviation industry already reeling after one passenger plane disappeared into an ocean and another was shot out of the sky over war-torn eastern Ukraine. The goal of the BEA investigation is to make recommendations to aviation authorities, not just in France but anywhere, about what can be done to prevent similar crashes. French prosecutors are carrying out a separate crash probe to pinpoint possible criminal wrongdoing. The Germanwings crash has already produced some changes in aviation procedures. Europe’s aviation regulator now says all airlines in Europe should require two people in the cockpit at all times during a flight.

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BRIEF Indiana governor wants clarification to religiousobjections law

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Opposition candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari waves to supporters after casting his vote in his home town of Daura, northern Nigeria on Saturday, March 28. Nigeria’s aviation minister said President Goodluck Jonathan had called challenger Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday to concede and congratulate him on his electoral victory, paving the way for a peaceful transfer of power in Africa’s richest and most populous nation.

Buhari congratulated on electoral victory BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s aviation minister says President Goodluck Jonathan has called challenger Muhammadu Buhari to concede and congratulate him on his electoral victory. This paves the way for a peaceful transfer of power in Africa’s richest and most populous nation. Celebrations erupted all over Buhari’s strongholds in northern Nigeria and around Buhari’s campaign headquarters in Abuja. Cars honked and people waved brooms in the air — a symbol of Buhari’s campaign promise to sweep out Nigeria’s endemic corruption. Jonathan called Buhari, 72, to congratulate him Tuesday evening, thus conceding defeat, Aviation Minister Osita Chidoka told The Associated Press. Chidoka is close to the man who has governed Nigeria for the past five years. Jonathan was to make an address to the nation and Buhari was preparing to address a news conference. This is the first time in Nigeria’s

history that an opposition party has democratically taken control of the country from the ruling party — a sign of the West African nation’s maturing young democracy. Jonathan’s party has governed since decades of military dictatorship ended in 1999. Jonathan’s concession comes before the final announcement of election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Results of all but one of the 36 states and the Federal Captial Territory show Buhari, a former military dictator, dealing a crushing defeat to Jonathan. Earlier, Buhari’s spokesman Garba Shehu told The Associated Press that Buhari feared his victory could be stolen by “tricks” from the government. Jonathan’s campaign has denied a warning from Britain and the United States Monday that they suspected possible political meddling in the final tally of votes from Saturday’s election. Tuesday evening, results from 35 states and the small Federal Capital Territory amounting to some 28 million votes showed Buhari leading by 2 million votes. Buhari is expected to

carry the sole remaining state, northeast Borno that is the birthplace of Boko Haram and has 1.4 million eligible voters. Electoral officials broke off the count saying it would take up to two hours for Borno results to arrive. Buhari crucially carried Lagos state, Nigeria’s commercial hub with the largest number of voters, according to results announced Tuesday though fewer than one third of voters participated. Spontaneous celebrations sprang up across cities in northern Nigeria, where Buhari is almost revered. Young men on motor scooters performed wheelies as hundreds of youths chanted: “Change! Change! Change!” and cars honked their horns in support. In Kano state, Buhari delivered a crushing defeat to Jonathan, winning 1.9 million votes for Jonathan’s 215,800. Britain and the United States warned Monday of the possibility of political meddling in the final count. Jonathan’s campaign spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode said that was “absolute balderdash” and demanded evidence.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Indiana’s governor said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that a new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. Gov. Mike Pence defended the measure as a vehicle to protect religious liberty but said he has been meeting with lawmakers “around the clock” to address concerns that the law will allow businesses to deny services to gay customers. The law has provoked a national outcry, with businesses and organizations including Apple voicing concern and some states barring governmentfunded travel to the Midwestern state. The measure prohibits state laws that “substantially burden” a person’s ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. The definition of “person” includes religious institutions, businesses and associations. Although the legal language does not specifically mention gays and lesbians, critics say the law is designed to protect businesses and individuals who do not want to serve gays and lesbians, such as florists or caterers who might be hired for a same-sex wedding. Pence acknowledged that Indiana has a “perception problem” over the law but defended it as a vehicle to protect religious liberty. “I don’t believe for a minute that it was the intent of the General Assembly to create a license to discriminate,” he said. But, Pence said, he “can appreciate that that’s become the perception, not just here in Indiana but all across the country. We need to confront that.”

Prosecutor injured in Istanbul hostage standoff has died in hospital ISTANBUL — Two members of a banned leftist group and a prosecutor they held hostage inside a courthouse in Istanbul died Tuesday after a shootout between the hostage takers and police, officials said. Istanbul’s police chief, Selami Altinok said police had negotiated with the gunmen for six hours before the violent end of the hostage situation. The prosecutor, identified by the state-run Anadolu Agency and state television TRT as Mehmet Selim Kiraz, was shot in the head during the standoff and rushed to hospital where doctors tried to save his life, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier Tuesday. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and hospital officials later announced he had died.

Iraqi troops reach centre of Tikrit in battle with Islamic State BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TIKRIT, Iraq — Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister said security forces had reached the heart of the city. In a statement on Twitter, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the “liberation of Tikrit” and congratulated Iraqi security forces on their “historic milestone.” But an official statement from his office said the troops “hoisted the Iraqi flag” over the Salahuddin provincial headquarters in Tikrit and are moving to control the entire city. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, the commander of the Salahuddin operation, said his forces fighting from the west were still 300 metres (325 yards) from the centre of Tikrit. Extremists from the Islamic State

group seized Saddam Hussein’s hometown last summer during its lightning advance across northern and western Iraq. The battle for Tikrit is seen as a key step toward eventually driving the militants out of Mosul, Iraq’s secondlargest city that is farther north. Street-by-street fighting raged into the afternoon, and estimates differed widely on how much of this strategic city on the banks of the Tigris River that Iraqi forces held. Army Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati said at least 75 per cent of Tikrit had been recaptured. Ammar Hikmat, deputy governor of Salahuddin province, said more than 40 per cent was under Iraqi control. “Our security forces are now pushing forward toward the presidential complex and have already entered parts of it,” Hikmat said. “I think the whole city will be retaken within the coming 24 hours.” An Associated Press reporter embedded with Iraqi security forces saw soldiers surround the iconic presiden-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iraqi security forces launch a rocket against Islamic State extremist positions during clashes in Tikrit, 130 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. tial palace, and they also surrounded the provincial government headquarters. Soldiers worked to detonate bombs remotely, while federal police went house to house looking to arrest militants or identify booby traps that

may slow the offensive. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim said at least 40 militants were killed Tuesday, and Iraqi forces dismantled 300 roadside bombs.

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Send invitations even if they can’t attend Dear Annie: My son lives in California and is going to marry a local girl in the fall. Our entire family lives in the Midwest. My husband and I, along with our daughter’s family, will attend. But I know it is far too expensive for any of my relatives to be there. S h o u l d they receive invitations even though we know they can’t come? I don’t want it to seem like a gift grab. Do I MITCHELL have a “meet & SUGAR the bride and groom” party in our hometown after the wedding? What is the proper procedure? I have another question, too. My husband and I are retired, but are giving our son and future daughter-in-law

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a large sum of money to help with wedding costs. As the parents of the groom, we will pay for the rehearsal dinner, but what about the rest? What are our responsibilities when it comes to out-of-state guests? — Don’t Want To Get Another Job Dear Don’t Want: If these are close relatives, they probably would be hurt or offended to be excluded. Please invite them. They may wish to send a gift whether they attend or not. But you can skip more distant acquaintances, such as business associates or people you rarely contact. And should you decide to have an informal reception of your own after the wedding, that would be lovely and much appreciated. As for expenses, your son should be covering most of them without your assistance. These days, most couples split the costs, perhaps with help from their parents. Traditionally, the groom or his parents would be responsible for his attendants’ accommodations, along with

the officiant’s fee and travel costs. Other out-of-town guests, however, are on their own. They should be given information about available hotels in the area, and you can supply a gift basket to each room so the guests have something to nibble on should they arrive too late to find an open restaurant. (Some hosts provide a hospitality suite or include all out-of-towners at the rehearsal dinner, but this is optional and certainly not a requirement.) Our congratulations on your upcoming special event. Dear Annie: I want to respond to the letters you’ve printed about relationships between mothers-in-law and their son’s wives. When I first married my husband, my MIL was great — shopping, vacations and activities with the grandchildren. When her parents experienced health problems, I helped care for them, including trips to the ER in the middle of the night, checking in on them daily and managing their health care needs for 15 years.

Meanwhile, my mother-in-law continued her travelling and active social life. When her parents died, they left me an inheritance that ticked off my MIL. (Mind you, had she paid someone for the care I was giving, there would have been no money left.) My MIL never calls anymore, I only see her on holidays and she barely acknowledges me. She has given her daughter a trip to Europe and her other son a home makeover, but my husband receives nothing. I am cordial and polite, but things will never be the same. — FedUp Daughter-in-Law Dear Fed Up: You became the daughter her parents needed. When you were rewarded, it underscored her guilt, and that made her angry. We’re so sorry. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

BOREAL CHICKADEE

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, April 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Ali MacGraw 77; Debbie Reynolds 83; Sam Huntington 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: When the Moon and Saturn are at odds, affection is low and criticism high. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday Aries! November and December are the best months to join an online dating site, fall in love, propose, get married or renew your wedding vows. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Avoid the temptation to blow the budget with some binge shopping. Your ruling planet Mars moves into Taurus, which encourages you to have a solid financial plan — and JOANNE stick to it. MADELEINE T A U R U S MOORE’ (April 20-May 20): With Mars and Venus moving through your sign, it’s time to be bold and beautiful as you utilise your determination and natural charm. With both assets working, the world’s your oyster! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The focus is firmly on domestic matters as you talk things over with a relative, or clean and de-clutter your living space. It’s also the perfect night to entertain friends or family at home. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Moon/Saturn aspects mean cranky Crabs are in hypersensitive mode. So be super selective about who you mix with, as you’re liable to misread signals and misunderstand motives. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Moderation and compromise are what’s needed. Being bossy will only lead to a fraction too much friction. If you patiently listen to the views of others, you’ll have a great day. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgos are great with details and you’re at your studious best today, as you dig up information that others have missed. Communication is also highlighted so start chatting up a storm. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you accept things at face value then you could find later that you were way off the mark. If you are more astute, and do the research required, it will save you heaps of time in the long-run. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Attached Scorpios — your partner could be more assertive than usual, so factor that into your approach. Singles — look for love with someone who is charming and motivated. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You’re feeling restless so find practical ways to express your adventurous, sporty side today. Go to the gym; venture into the great outdoors; or plan an exciting trip for some time soon. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Conscientious Capricorn — you’re in the mood to accomplish tasks with precision, plus plenty of thought and preparation. But a family member may unsettle you by making an unexpected decision. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You thrive on doing your own thing, in your own time and unique Aquarian way. But today the focus is on those around you, as you connect with like-minded souls within your local community. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Study and research are favoured and the more organized you are, the easier the day will be. You’re in the mood to communicate via social media as you email, post, text or tweet. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated GREAT astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

SUN SIGNS

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The boreal chickadee is a delightful small bird but not as common as the black capped chickadee. This one was spotted along McKenzie Trails in Red Deer.

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