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Illegal suite nets fine LANDLORD FAILED TO ENSURE SMOKE ALARMS WERE INSTALLED PROPERLY BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man who put the lives of his tenants at risk in his illegal secondary suite when a fire ripped through the basement has paid a fine of $9,200. The landlord entered a guilty plea under the Safety Codes Act in Red Deer provincial court on March 2. The maximum fine per offence under the Safety Codes Act is $100,000 and/or six months in jail. The fines have been increased in recent years from $15,000 per offence. He plead guilty to failure to en-

sure smoke alarms are installed by permanent connections to an electrical circuit. Four other charges involving not installing a fire alarm in a common area, keeping records of fire alarm cleaning and improper fire separations were dropped. He had until May 30 to pay the fine or he would serve 107 days in jail. With the proceedings wrapped up, Wes Van Bavel, fire prevention officer for Red Deer Emergency Services, said the city wants to remind secondary suite owners to comply with the regulations. Van Bavel said Emergency Services crews were called to a fire at a single family home where they discovered an illegal secondary suite in June 2014.

Van Bavel said the tenants were cooking in the basement suite, then left it unattended to go into the backyard. A fire broke out on the stove top while the tenants were outside. Another tenant, who worked the night shift, was wearing earphones while he slept upstairs. The downstairs tenants tried to wake up the upstairs tenant but they could not gain access to the top floor because the door was locked. “Thankfully we got there and put the fire out before it spread throughout the house and put the other tenant at risk,” said Van Bavel.

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Kyle Gonzales plays base while Michael Levia and Riley Parker bang out the beats on snare drums as the trio performs on stage at the Memorial Centre during the annual Thurber Idol competition Tuesday night. Fourteen acts took to the stage during the event with the top performers taking home $500 for first place $250 for second and $100 in prize money for third. A peoples choice award was also to be given out as judged by audience members.

Knee, hip replacements hitting wait-time benchmarks BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta is the best in Alberta for knee replacements when it comes to surgery wait times, and it’s also a pretty good place for those awaiting hip replacement. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 87 per cent of knee replacements in Alberta Health Services Central Zone were within Canada’s 182-day wait-time benchmark. The CIHI report: Wait Times for Priority Procedures in Canada, 2015, released on Tuesday, was based on surgeries performed between April and September 2014. In Central Zone, 50 per cent of patients had surgery within 71 days and 90 per cent within 196 days. Among large urban areas, Edmonton Zone did 79 per cent of knee replacements within 182 days and Calgary Zone completed 64 per cent. Wait times for hip replacements were slightly better in Calgary Zone. Calgary performed 90 per cent of replacements within the 182-day benchmark, while Central Zone performed 89 per cent. In Central Zone, 50 per cent of patients had hip replacement surgery within 84 days and 90 per cent within 184 days.

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Knee and hip surgery is performed in Central Zone at both Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and St. Mary’s Hospital in Camrose. CIHI has only started collecting regional data on hip and knee replacements and will be adding regional cataract surgery data next year. Tracy Johnson, CIHI manager of emerging issues, said as a province, Alberta did noticeably better on hip replacement wait times with 87 per cent of patients getting surgery within 182 days compared to the Canadian average of 83 per cent. With 81 per cent of knee replacements done within 182 days, Alberta also beat the Canadian average of 79 per cent. She said Alberta has been working to improve wait times since 2010 and has looked at standardizing patient booking, performing more surgery, and increasing the availability of surgeons. Data from six comparable countries within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show wait times in Canada for cataract surgery and hip and knee replacement were among the shortest, with Canada having the shortest wait time for cataract surgery.

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A Red Deer man may have been using copious amounts of crack when he was arrested, but he wasn’t dealing it, a judge ruled. Rodney Ross Arens, 37, was found guilty of possession of crack cocaine and obstruction. He pleaded guilty to impaired care and control of a vehicle and two breach charges one for a recognizance requiring the vehicle to have an interlock device and the other to abstain from drugs and alcohol. He was found not guilty of trafficking drugs and possession of property obtained by crime. Testifying Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court before judge John Holmes, Arens admitted to being in possession of the drugs and in the midst of a lengthy drug abuse spiral. He was found by police with about 25 grams of crack cocaine. “I figured I would have had that (crack) smoked before I bumped into any law enforcement,” he testified Tuesday. He said key elements of the Crown’s case proving trafficking were not his. Sylvan Lake RCMP found a digital scale, imitation firearm and $262, which the Crown alleged were signs of trafficking. However, no cellphone was found. Holmes said it was difficult to prove trafficking without a cellphone to arrange transactions or police observing transactions occurring. The fact Arens was found with several different bags of drugs, both powder and crack cocaine was representative of Arens being a heavy drug user, but not trafficking said Holmes. In the nine months he was out on bail Arens admitted to smoking three to four grams of crack every day at a bare minimum. When he was on binges he’d use half an ounce to an ounce and easily more. On benders he’d also use cocaine, MDMA, mushrooms, speed and would consume alcohol the whole time. Arens was arrested at 9 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2013 in a Fas Gas parking lot in Sylvan Lake. At the time he was asleep in a truck that belonged to Rhonda Harvie and Jimmy Murray. Murray worked for Arens. At the time Arens was staying with the couple in Sylvan Lake while he was working a framing job in the area. Police found Arens asleep in a truck. When they awoke him, Arens tried to swallow a small bag of drugs. At the time he was on bail conditions to abstain from drugs and alcohol. He was granted release from custody ahead of his trial in the Canada Day 2010 drunk driving crash that killed Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, and injured siblings Jamie and Stephanie. He was convicted of impaired driving causing death and bodily harm and reckless driving causing bodily harm on June 16, 2014. He was sentenced to five years in jail.

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Top court strikes down part of Tory crime agenda The Supreme Court of Canada dealt the Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda a serious blow on Tuesday. Story on PAGE A5

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RCMP investigating after O’Chiese man dies of injuries Alberta RCMP major crimes unit is investigating after an O’Chiese First Nations man died of his injuries on Saturday. Edwin Strawberry, 49, was admitted to hospital in Rocky Mountain House on April 8 with life-threatening injuries. He died four days later. An autopsy was performed in Calgary on Monday, but further testing is pending. Anyone with information about the matter is asked to call Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403845-2882. Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at www.tipsubmit.com.

Winnipeg woman not a match to donate part of her liver to girl WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg woman who offered to donate part of her liver to an 11-year-old girl has found out she is not a match. Allexis Siebrecht, who 11, needs a liver transplant within six to 12 months. Samantha Lussier stepped up to donate and after meeting most of the requirements, went to Toronto last weekend to undergo more tests. Those tests determined 24-year-old Lussier is not a match. The search for a donor with type-O blood is continuing.

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FINE: Another court case pending Van Bavel said this situation could have been a lot worse, especially because there was a lock on the door to the upstairs. He said the Alberta Fire Code exists to ensure there are early warnings through fire alarms and safe exits. “People are dying in these illegal secondary suites,” he said. “Fire happens very quickly, ... People need to have that early detection and a safe way out of the home if one way becomes blocked.” Another court case revolving around a illegal secondary suite is pending in Red Deer. Secondary suites are allowed on a discretionary basis in single family homes in Red Deer. The suites must be in compliance with the Alberta Fire and Building Codes. Red Deer Emergency Services crews have come across three illegal suites by way of a fire in the city in the last few years. Van Bavel said the city gets two to three complaints of illegal suites each month and they then inspect those suites. New rules on secondary suites in Red Deer came into effect in 2010. Existing owners had to register with the city within a specific period. After the deadline, owners had the option to file an application for a new suite, and face the prospect of meeting new regulations. The owners also face fines and could be forced to evict tenants. Go to the City of Red Deer’s website at www.reddeer.ca to find out more information about secondary suites, including requirements, under Inspections and Licensing. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Arens is serving his sentence at the Drumheller Institution. He said going to jail has saved his life and he probably would have died if he had kept going at his pace of using drugs. “Nothing was slowing me down,” he said on the stand Tuesday. “I wasn’t stopping for nothing.” Testifying Tuesday, Arens said the couple left him in the truck while they went to pick up their children in Red Deer. Earlier police testimony said they had found Arens with cooler full of drugs, including crack, a digital scale and an imitation firearm. Arens testified the cooler did not belong to him and he did not know there was an imitation firearm in the vehicle that wasn’t his to begin with. Some of the crack, nine pieces, was contained in a prescription pill bottle bearing Arens’ name. Arens admitted to it being his crack, but said it had gone missing and suspected it had been stolen by Murray. However, Arens admitted he was significantly intoxicated at the time and has little memory of how he got to the Fas Gas parking lot or of his arrest by Sylvan Lake RCMP. Federal Crown Prosecutor Dave Inglis and Provincial Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring sought for a combined sentence of six to nine months consecutive to the sentence he is serving. Ring also asked for a three-year driving prohibition on the impaired care and control, citing Arens’ history of impaired driving convictions. He asked for the new driving prohibition to be added to the 10-year driving prohibition that Arens received after his June 2014 conviction. Derie-Gillespie instead sought a four to six month sentence added to Arens current sentence. She cited the impaired care and control charge as the biggest factor on her sentence submissions. Holmes said he would be unable to deliver a sentence Tuesday and a sentencing date will be set Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court’s case man-

TORONTO — An Afghan immigrant found guilty of second-degree murder after nearly decapitating his wife is appealing his conviction, arguing the judge who presided over his trial made several errors. The case of Peer Mohammad Khairi will be heard by Ontario’s highest court Wednesday, where his lawyer is expected to ask that a new trial be ordered for the father of six.

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WAIT TIMES: Challenges remain “I think it shows us that when we do measure something and focus our efforts on improving it, because 10 years ago these waits were worse than they look now, that we’re actually not doing too bad at all,” Johnson said. The CIHI report showed about eight out of 10 patients in Canada have consistently had their priority surgery performed within the approved benchmark time frame every year since 2010. “Health-care providers are performing more procedures now than they did five years ago, and wait times are remaining stable. This is good news in the context of an aging population,” the report said. Benchmark wait times are based on clinical evidence, and the 90 per cent benchmark is considered a practical target as not all delays in treatment are directly related to access to care. But the report said Canada will face wait time challenges. “There are currently no wait time benchmarks for cancer surgeries and diagnostic imaging services. As the demand for these procedures continues to increase, establishing universal guidelines and appropriate benchmarking for wait times will require further collaboration of provincial health authorities and clinicians.” And the process of measuring and understanding wait times for specialized care for an aging population is just beginning. “Many unknown factors still remain, such as how long Canadians wait to see a family physician, wait for diagnostic tests and results or wait for a specialist appointment,” the report said. For more on the report, visit www.cihi.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEF Impaired driver who killed man loses appeal for shorter sentence CALGARY — A six-year sentence handed down in a deadly head-on crash in Calgary nearly three years ago will stand. Kelly James York was appealing the sentence after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing the death of Tony Harrison in July 2012. The motorcyclist was hit when York’s van crossed the centre line. York walked away from the scene, but was later arrested and court heard he was three times the legal alcohol limit. In a 2-1 decision, the Alberta Court of Appeal dismissed York’s argument that his punishment was unduly harsh.

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in expenses over the last two years. “The gold standard of disclosure was actually the gold standard of hiding,” he said. Prentice said the category was created in 2012 before he joined government. “It (the category) should be eliminated,” he said. “I’m not sure where it came from. It predated me as premier and I don’t think we need it.” Prentice, asked about the lag in proclaiming bills into laws, noted it takes time to draft regulations that support legislation.

Two other leaders also campaigned in the Alberta capital Tuesday. The NDP’s Rachel Notley said her party would add 2,000 long-term care spaces over four years to reduce the wait list and relieve pressure on overcrowded hospitals. She said hundreds of patients are being forced to spend months in hospital waiting for room in a nursing home because the PC government has ignored the issue for too long. Liberal Leader David Swann was campaigning and shaking hands in the city’s west end.

fecting people’s health. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment says the quality of the air in the Edmonton area is worse than Toronto’s even though its population is much smaller. Dr. Joe Vipond says the main factor is that more coal is being burned in Alberta while Ontario is phasing out the fossil fuel. He says coal-based air pollution can contribute to health problems such as heart attacks, abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure, emphysema and lung cancer. The association says since 2010 there have been two occasions when Edmonton’s air pollution levels exceeded federal Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards. The group wants Alberta to improve air quality by following Ontario’s lead in shutting down coal-fired power plants.

Lall was disallowed last month just days before a nomination vote was to take place. Bruce McAllister, a former Wildrose MLA who crossed the floor to the PCs, ended up being acclaimed. Two other members of the riding association board have also resigned.

Riding association president resigns in troubled PC constituency CALGARY — The president of a southern Alberta constituency where a potential Tory candidate was disqualified has resigned. John Fitzsimmons won’t say if his decision had anything to do with Jamie Lall being removed as Progressive Conservative candidate for ChestermereRockyview. Fitzsimmons does say he had nothing to do with Lall being pulled as a Tory nomination candidate.

Edmonton police to create counterterrorism unit to work with RCMP EDMONTON — The police force in Alberta’s capital city is setting up its own counter-terrorism unit. Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht says he’s going to bring in officers from other departments but won’t say how many officers the new group will include. “It’s going to be a situation of consolidating those resources, leveraging them and getting them focused on a single mandate,” Knecht said. Some city police already work with the RCMP as part of its Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) in Alberta. The RCMP has the same teams in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal to investigate terror threats. Knecht doesn’t believe Edmonton is a breeding ground for radicalization, but said the city has seen an increase in terror-related cases. Last month, Mounties charged a 17-year-old boy from the Edmonton area with terror-related offences for allegedly planning to travel outside Canada to fight with Islamic State militants.

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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he will “get to the bottom” of a governmentwide memo directing public servants to inform their bosses if they help out on election campaigns on their own time. “I can’t tell you how (the directive) happened because clearly I’m campaigning at this point in time,” Prentice told reporters Tuesday at an Edmonton party rally for the May 5 election. “(But) everyone in this province has the right on their own time to be involved as a volunteer in political service with a party of their choice. “No employer, including the government of Alberta, has the right to intervene and demand answers. I consider it ridiculous and I won’t stand for it.” A CBC report quoted an Alberta Public Service Commission spokesperson as saying the directive was to protect staff from accusations of inappropriate conduct or from straying into questionable activity. Brian Jean, leader of the Wildrose party, said the directive reflects a government mindset that considers public servants to be pawns for partisan political ends. “After 44 years of the same government, what they think is that the bureaucracy belongs to the PC party of Alberta,” Jean said at a news conference at the legislature. “It doesn’t. The public service belongs to the public.” Jean said Prentice has shown similar disrespect to the democratic process by ordering an independent legislature committee in February to reverse a decision on funding for the auditor general. The Progressive Conservatives have also failed to pass laws and pointed to 66 bills, including the 2012 Education Act, waiting to be proclaimed, he added. Jean also accused the PCs of subverting their own public disclosure rules by quietly creating a new spending category that details food and beverage costs for employees during business meetings. The category is exempt from public disclosure. Jean, handing out copies of government documents obtained through freedom of information, said the Tories have used the category to hide $6 million

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From Alberta to Ottawa A DIVISIVE FUTURE LOOMS FOR CONSERVATIVE VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY More than a decade after Prime Minister Stephen Harper reunited the right, the two main factions that make up his party are locked in acrimonious provincial battles. They could herald a divisive future for Canada’s conservative movement. In Ontario, the campaign to replace Tory leader Tim Hudak has CHANTAL turned into a HÉBERT fight to the finish between the Progressive Conservative old guard and a Reform-style right wing. The winner will be known on May 9. In Alberta, a resurgent Wildrose party has taken an early lead on the ruling Tories in the campaign for a May 5 provincial election. By now both campaigns have become must-watch events for all federal Conservatives, and not just because it is a rare political junkie who doesn’t crave a horse race. With less than six months to go to a competitive federal election, the sight of progressive conservatives and redmeat ones at each other’s throats in the two provinces that are the pillars of Harper’s coalition is hardly a welcome one. Against the backdrop of the Mike Duffy trial and the Conservative Senate tribulations, the last thing Harper needs is a set of battles that put more stress on party unity. And yet that is exactly what he is getting. Every protagonist in the two fights has a direct connection to Harper’s government. Each can be seen as a proxy for one of the rival clans that have coexisted, almost always uneasily, within the conservative movement. Brian Jean — the rookie leader of the Wildrose Party — served in Harper’s caucus for a decade before resigning his Fort McMurray seat a bit more than a year ago. Ontario leadership candidate Patrick Brown is a three-term Torontoarea MP who, like Jean, has toiled on the backbenches of the government. Over their time in the House of Commons, they burnished their social conservative credentials. Both opposed same-sex marriage. Their voting record on abortion has earned each of

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them the approval of the anti-abortion Campaign Life Coalition. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, whose task it is to prolong the reign of the long-standing Alberta Tory dynasty, was once a senior minister in Harper’s government. Before that, he was a leading contender for the leadership of the defunct federal Progressive Conservative party. Christine Elliott is the widow of Harper’s most influential minister, the late Jim Flaherty. Her leadership bid enjoys the support of some of the prime minister’s leading Ontario ministers as well as from the province’s senior red Tories. In the current Conservative pecking order, the premier of Alberta comes second only to the prime minister, just a rung or two above the leader of the Ontario Tory opposition.

It was not so long ago that federal Conservative strategists had cause to take for granted that Prentice and Elliott would be in those two positions come next fall’s election campaign. After Prentice co-opted most of the Wildrose caucus, including its thenleader Danielle Smith, into his government late last year, the expectation on Parliament Hill was that his first election as premier would be a cakewalk. Instead, a manoeuvre calculated to neuter the provincial opposition has backfired and turned Prentice’s snap election campaign into a three-way fight between the incumbents, the Wildrose and the NDP. In Ontario, the Tory leadership similarly seemed to be Elliott’s for the taking, until Brown came out of right field to out-organize his rival in the ground war for new members and rally the

right of the party behind him. From Harper’s perspective, the timing could not be worse. He needs the votes of moderate conservative voters, especially in Ontario, to hang on to power and a governing majority next fall. Rubbing shoulders with Elliott and Prentice is immensely more likely to advance that goal than sharing a federal campaign stage with recent social conservative members of his own caucus. And then, win or lose, next fall’s election is widely expected to be Harper’s last. It is not hard to construe the ongoing Alberta and Ontario battles for control of the right as a prelude to the divisive war that could attend the campaign for his succession. Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Why won’t the Turks face up to the past? It is with great reluctance that I write about the Armenian genocide, as I know from experience that what I say will infuriate both sides. But it is the hundredth anniversary of the catastrophe this month, and Pope Francis has just declared that the mass killing of Armenian citizens of the Ottoman empire in 1915 was indeed a genocide. Turkey, predictably, has responded by withdrawing its ambassador from the Vatican. Well, surprise! We’ve been listening to this argument for several generations now, and it rarely gets much further GWYNNE than “Yes, you did!” “No, I DYER didn’t!” Unfortunately, I know a lot more about it than that. Ages ago, when I was a history graduate student doing research about Turkey’s role in the First World War, I got into the Turkish General Staff archives in Ankara and found the actual telegrams (written in the old riqa script) that went back and forth between Istanbul and eastern Anatolia in the spring of 1915. Later on I saw the British and Russian documents on their plans for joint action with Armenian revolutionaries in the spring of 1915, so I also know the context in which the Turks and Armenians were acting. And I can say with some confidence that both sides are wrong. There was an Armenian genocide. Of course there was. When up to 800,000 people from a single ethnic and religious community die from violence, hunger or exposure in a short time, and they are under guard by armed men from a different ethnicity and

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religion at the time, it’s an open-and-shut case. (Today’s Armenians say 1.5 million died in 1915, but that’s too high. It could be as few as half a million, but 800,000 is plausible.) On the other hand, the Armenians desperately want their tragedy to be seen in the same light as the Nazi attempt to exterminate the European Jews, and won’t settle for anything less. But what happened to the Armenians was not pre-planned by the Turkish government, and there was provocation from the Armenian side. That doesn’t remotely begin to justify what happened, but it does put the Turks in a somewhat different light. A group of junior officers called the Young Turks seized control of the Ottoman empire in 1908, and their leader, Enver Pasha, foolishly took the empire into the First World War at Germany’s side in November 1914. He then led a Turkish army east to attack Russia, which was allied to Britain and France. That army was destroyed in the deep snow around Kars — only 10 per cent of it got back to base — and the Turks panicked. The Russians didn’t follow right away — poor generalship — but the Turks had almost nothing left to stop them if they did. The Turks scrambled to put some kind of defensive line together, but behind them in eastern Anatolia were Christian Armenians who had been agitating for independence from the empire for decades. Various revolutionary Armenian groups had been in touch with Moscow, offering to stage uprisings behind the Turkish army when Russian troops arrived in Anatolia. Learning that the Turks had retreated in disarray, some groups assumed the Russians were on their way and jumped the gun. Similarly the Armenian revolutionary groups further south, near the Mediterranean coast, were in contact with the British command in Egypt, and had promised an uprising to coincide with planned British landings on the Turkish south coast near Adana.

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Quite late in the day, the British switched their planned invasion much further west to Gallipoli, but once again some of the Armenian revolutionaries didn’t get the message in time and rebelled anyway. Enver Pasha and his colleagues in Istanbul simply panicked. If the Russians broke through in eastern Anatolia, all the Arab parts of the empire would be cut off. So they ordered the deportation of all the Armenians in the east to Syria — over the mountains, in winter, on foot. (There was no railway yet.) And since there were no regular troops to spare, it was mostly Kurdish irregulars who guarded the Armenians on the way south. The Kurds shared eastern Anatolia with the Armenians, but the neighbours had never been friendly. So many of the Kurdish escorts assumed they had free licence to rape, steal and kill, and between that, the lack of food, and the weather, up to half the deportees died. To the extent that the Turkish government knew about it, it did nothing to stop it. More Armenians died in the sweltering, diseaseridden camps they were confined in once they arrived in Syria. It was genocide through panic, incompetence and deliberate neglect, but it cannot be compared to what happened to the European Jews. Indeed, the large Armenian community in Istanbul, far from the military operations in eastern Anatolia, survived the war virtually unharmed. If the Turks had only had the sense to admit what really happened 50 or 75 years ago, there would be no controversy now. The only duty of the current generation is to acknowledge the past, not to fix it (as if they could). Instead, there has been 100 years of blank denial, which is why the issue is still on the international agenda. It will stay there until the Turks finally come to terms with their past. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Top court strikes down part of Tory crime agenda ans from gun crime and ensuring that our laws remain responsive.” “Our government will continue to be tough on those who commit serious crimes and endanger our communities.” McLachlin also took aim at the government’s core justification for tough sentencing laws, which it says is to keep Canadians safer. “The government has not established that mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment act as a deterrent against gun-related crimes,” she wrote. “Empirical evidence suggests that mandatory minimum sentences do not, in fact, deter crimes.” Eric Gottardi, head of the Canadian Bar Association’s criminal justice section, applauded the ruling because he said there is no solid evidence that stiffer sentences deter crime. “In a climate where almost every law that is coming out of the government in the past 10 years has had some kind of mandatory minimum sentence attached to it, it is a pretty strong message to the government that their internal checks for what is constitutional clearly aren’t working.” The case was focused on gun crimes, and will not affect other mandatory minimum sentencing laws on the books

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada dealt the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda a serious blow Tuesday by striking down a law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes. The 6-3 ruling, penned by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, said the statute was unconstitutional as it upheld a 2013 Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that labelled the law cruel and unusual. The court said the mandatory minimum sentence could ensnare people with “little or no moral fault” and who pose “little or no danger to the public.” It cited as, an example, a person who inherits a firearm and does not immediately get a license for the weapon. “As the Court of Appeal concluded, there exists a ’cavernous disconnect’ between the severity of the licensing-type offence and the mandatory minimum three-year term of imprisonment,” McLachlin wrote for the majority. Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in a statement that the government will review the decision to determine “next steps towards protecting Canadi-

for possession of marijuana plants, sexual assault, child pornography and fraud and theft, Gottardi said. Gannon Beaulne, a Toronto lawyer who has written in favour of mandatory minimum sentences, said the Supreme Court overstepped its jurisdiction, which is becoming a pattern. “The rule of law is aided by any legislative policy that makes it easier to determine what sentence you’re facing,” he said. “It impinges on Parliament’s jurisdiction to have a court of this country step in and erode that jurisdiction.” Justice Michael Moldaver echoed that sentiment in the dissenting minority opinion. “In my view, sending our elected representatives back to the drawing board... would impede the goals of deterring and denouncing the unlawful possession of deadly weapons and keeping them out of the hands of those who would use them as instruments of intimidation, death, and destruction,” Moldaver wrote. The ruling struck down both the three-year mandatory minimum for a first offence of possessing a loaded prohibited gun, as well as the five-year minimum for a second offence.

No checks on senators’ contracts, court hears Donohue. “Sen. Duffy’s contracts and the amount of detail in them and the way he described his requests are like any other senator?” Bayne asked Senate human resource officer Sonia Makhlouf. “Yes,” Makhlouf said. “This contract that you’ve approved and the commitment of public funds for all 105 senators, you don’t know what actual work was done at all in the contracts?” Bayne asked. “No, because it’s at the discretion of the senator,” Makhlouf replied. The Senate human resources office approved contracts given out to a firm owned by Donohue, a former local TV executive. Duffy said he was to do research and consulting work, including

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — A meeting of most of the country’s premiers on climate change ended Tuesday with renewed calls for the federal government to show greater initiative in addressing the issue. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said the time for action is now, especially with an upcoming get-together of environment ministers leading up to an international conference on climate change in Paris in December. “It has to be prepared, so we call upon the federal government right now to start working with us, first technically, then with the ministers, in order to work together in establishing our targets for Paris and the way we’re going to present our situation, our plans in the future,” Couillard told a closing news conference. “There’s no way it can be done in isolation. One order of government cannot ask the other to do the job. It has to be done together.” The goal of the meeting was to show Canadians how their leaders were uniting to fight the effects of climate change, but it also served to highlight their differences. While provinces such as Ontario and Quebec are working on cap-andtrade carbon emissions, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall told his peers that Canada, as a whole, should be focusing on creating clean coal technology. He suggested that zeroing in on reducing man-made greenhouse gas emissions — the cause of climate change and rising world temperatures according to scientists — is “playing on the margins.” He noted that Canada accounts for less than two per cent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “One-third of the world’s emissions come from coal,” Wall said after his brief presentation to fellow premiers. “And coal is expanding. As citizens of the world, if we’re not committed to finding the technological solutions to clean up coal, then we’re kind of playing on the margins.”

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OTTAWA — Senators hand out plenty of work contracts, but officials don’t check whether anything actually gets done, nor who ultimately does the job, an Ontario court judge was told Tuesday during the trial of Mike Duffy. Duffy’s defence lawyer Don Bayne used his cross-examination of a Senate official to make the case that the now-suspended senator was operating within the system as it existed — with broad rules and light oversight. The former Conservative faces 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery, including a set that involve $65,000 in contracts set up through the company of Ottawa friend Gerald

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Farmland value still strong BY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta farmland remained a pretty good investment last year, although it didn’t achieve the doubledigit gains it did in 2012 and 2013. Farm Credit Canada’s latest Farmland Values Report indicates that agricultural land in this province appreciated by 8.8 per cent in 2014, down from 12.9 per cent in 2013 and 13.3 per cent in 2012. During the past decade, the annual increase has ranged from 4.4 per cent in 2010 to 17.4 per cent in 2007. Farm Credit Canada noted in its report that high beef prices helped boost the value of pastureland in areas like Central Alberta. The rise in farmland values in the Peace region of Northern Alberta slowed somewhat, it added, while

demand for irrigated land in the southern part of the province remained strong. The rise in farmland values in Alberta last year was well behind the national average, of 14.3 per cent. That figure was pulled upward by an 18.7 per cent increase in Saskatchewan and a 15.7 per cent jump in Quebec. Elsewhere in Canada, the average rise in farmland values was 12.4 per cent in Ontario, 12.2 per cent in Manitoba, 9.3 per cent in Prince Edward Island, 8.0 per cent in New Brunswick and 7.0 per cent in Nova Scotia. It was unchanged in Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2013, the national average was 22.1 per cent and the year before that it was 19.5 per cent. “While the increases are still significant in many parts of the country, they do suggest we are moving toward more moderate increases for farmland val-

ues,” said Corinna Mitchell-Beaudin, FCC’s executive vice-president and chief risk officer. “This is good news for producers, since gradual change in the value of this key asset is always better for those entering or leaving the industry.” J.P. Gervais, FCC’s chief agricultural economist, said continued low interest rates might make it tempting to buy farmland. But he urged caution. “Interest rates will eventually increase, even if this is not on the 2015 horizon,” said Gervais. “Expanding world stocks of grains and oilseeds could bring prices down further, creating tighter margins.” Gervais added, however, that the low Canadian dollar, expanding trade agreements and the growing demand for food should support demand for Canadian ag commodities.

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Ebus to expand service to EIA BY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Albertans using the Edmonton International Airport will soon have a new way to get there and back. Ebus has announced plans to expand its motorcoach service to include the airport south of Edmonton. Beginning May 9, the Red Arrow Motorcoach affiliate will stop there four times a day, including on routes to and from Red Deer. “This new direct service to Edmonton International Airport will be very handy for those passengers making airline connections or simply traveling between Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer,” said John Stepovy, director of sales and business development with Red Arrow and ebus. Ebus currently stops at the Red Deer Radisson (formerly the iHotel) six to eight times daily during trips between Calgary and Edmonton. Its new service to Edmonton International Airport will add four more local stops, with northbound buses stopping at the at 1:10 and 7:40 p.m. en route to the airport, and southbound coaches from the airport stopping at the Radisson hotel at the same times. Red Deer riders who aren’t flying in or out of Edmonton International can also use the new service for transportation to or from Calgary and Edmonton. Ebus also provides daily scheduled service to Fort McMurray and CrossIron Mills, as well as to and from camps in the Fort McMurray and Conklin regions. Ebus and Red Arrow are part of the Pacific Western Group of Companies. For more information, go to www.myebus.ca.

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BRIEF Economic growth will be ‘solid’ but less than before oil collapse: IMF The International Monetary Fund has lowered its outlook for Canadian economic growth. It describes Canada’s recent performance as “solid” but says the risk to its growth has been increased by an unusally large drop in oil prices, weaker business investment in the energy sector and lower employment growth The latest projection from the Washington-based agency calls for the Canadian economy to grow 2.2 per cent in 2015, down from the January estimate of 2.3 per cent. Canada is expected to outperform Japan and countries that use the euro, but lag behind the United States and the United Kingdom. The IMF estimates in a report issued Tuesday that the American economy will grow 3.1 per cent this year and the U.K’s real gross domestic product will grow by 2.7 per cent. The IMF also predicts the 18 countries that use the euro will expand 1.5 per cent in 2015, up from a January forecast of 1.2 per cent. The fund forecasts that Japan will grow one per cent this year, versus an earlier forecast of 0.6 per cent. The IMF estimates were released a day before the Bank of Canada issues its latest pronouncement on the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, currently set at 0.75 per cent. Finance ministers and central bank leaders from G20 countries will be in Washington later this week for meetings with the IMF and World Bank.

Home prices set new highs in Toronto, Vancouver in March: Teranet TORONTO — Home prices were up in nine of 11 major Canadian cities in March compared with a year ago, with those in Toronto and Vancouver setting records, according to a new report. The Teranet—National Bank National Composite House Price Index says national home prices were up 4.7 per cent last month compared with March 2014. Hamilton saw the biggest yearly gain, with prices rising 8.4 per cent, although they were down 0.3 per cent from their peak in December 2012. Toronto and Vancouver set new records according to the Teranet statistics, rising 7.6 and 5.3 per cent, respectively, compared with March 2014. Even Calgary, where home sales have slumped due to the sharp decline in oil prices, the cost of buying a home was up 4.4 per cent from a year ago al-

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Work is well underway on the first villas at The Slopes of Sylvan Lake, a $40-million residential development near the Summer Village of Birchcliff on the lake’s northeastern shore. Covering 49 acres, the project will consist of lots ranging in size from 0.15 acres to 0.75 acres, and will have an on-site water treatment facility and be connected to the regional wastewater line. A multipurpose sports court with washrooms and a playground are also planned. The developer, Belterra Land Company of Calgary, plans to hold an open house on May 30. Information is available at theslopessylvanlake.com. though still down 2.1 per cent from October’s peak. Prices were down nearly one per cent in OttawaGatineau and one per cent in Winnipeg, while Quebec City, Halifax and Montreal recorded small gains. Prices were up 4.7 per cent year over year in Edmonton and 3.3 per cent in Victoria. On a month-to-month basis the index was up 0.3 per cent in March, representing its third consecutive monthly gain.

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Charter airline CanJet lays off nearly half its pilots, union says HALIFAX — The union that represents pilots at CanJet Airlines says the Nova Scotia-based company plans to lay off almost half of its 100 pilots by May 6. The Airline Pilots Association issued a statement Tuesday saying it’s disappointed that 47 pilots will be let go by the charter airline, saying the union had worked for months with management to mitigate involuntary layoffs. Company representatives in Enfield, N.S., could not be reached for comment. The airline is a division of IMP Group Ltd., based in Halifax. The pilots union would not comment on what prompted the layoffs. Meanwhile, the Canadian Union of Public Employees confirmed that 38 seasonal and nine permanent flight attendants have received layoff notices. Audrey Tam, president of CUPE Local 4044, said the seasonal layoffs were expected, given that the airline’s business slowed down when the winter flying season to vacation hot spots ended. “It’s the same number we saw last year,” Tam said in an interview from Montreal. “ We don’t consider them a layoff. Their contracts were to end on May 1.”

Software company Shopify files for initial public offering of up to $100M OTTAWA — E-commerce software company Shopify Inc. is looking to raise up to US$100 million in an initial public offering. The company filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday for the offering of subordinate voting shares. Ottawa-based Shopify says it plans to use the money raised from the offering to help grow its business. It plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols SHOP and SH, respectively. The filing with the securities regulator did not include a price for the shares. Shopify helps smalland medium-sized businesses sell their goods and manage their operations online. According to the documents, Shopify lost $22.3 million on $105 million in revenue last year.

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U.S. approaching switch to being net exporter of energy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The United States is approaching a historic economic tipping point: in about a decade, the country will cease to be a net importer of energy, a government forecaster predicted Tuesday. Sometime around 2028, the U.S. will become a net energy exporter for the first time since the late 1950s, according to the annual long-term forecast released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It said lower consumption, more efficient vehicles, increased domestic production of oil and natural gas and new alternative sources are making the U.S. more energy self-reliant than it’s been in decades. There’s a caveat, however, when it comes to crude oil. The agency projects the U.S. will require crude imports for the foreseeable future — albeit at a diminishing rate. It says the U.S.’s net crude imports will go from 6.2 million barrels per day in 2013, to 3.3 million barrels per day in 2040. Put in other terms, net imports would go from 33 per cent of domestic consumption to 17 per cent of consumption. Those crude statistics are particularly relevant in Canada, which is by far the U.S.’s top oil supplier. The U.S. imported 3.2 million barrels a day from Canada in January — more than OPEC and about the same as the next eight countries, combined. Canada has been supplanting other suppliers in the U.S. market and the projections released Tuesday, if accurate, mean imports from Canada alone would meet U.S. crude needs over time. Tuesday’s report was the first released since the plunge in global oil prices. It projected that Brent crude wouldn’t hit $100 a barrel again until the late 2020s, although that reference case was supplemented by other low- and highprice scenarios. It said Canadian oil production would keep growing, although at a slightly slower rate than predicted in last year’s report. The report said Canada would be producing 5.05 million barrels per day in petroleum products in 2020 — compared with a prediction last year of 5.1 million barrels a day by 2020.

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Investing in energy may be a waiting game Derek, what’s the best way to make some money by investing in energy today? The greatest investment opportunities tend to arise when there is the most perceived fear in the decision process. We are all aware the price of oil has declined substanDEREK tially from the FUCHS summer of 2014 highs. This has prompted a decline in spending, notable job cuts and reduced forecasts. As well, we’ve seen share prices of numerous oil and gas companies decline precipitously. So, before diving into energy investing, it’s best to consider your options and understand your risk tolerance. First of all, no one is absolutely sure where the price of oil will be in the short term. At any given time you might find an analyst who believes the price will only go higher; yet another predicts coming declines.

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The reality is there is no certainty, and from an investment perspective this is problematic. If you’re focused on the short term, you are speculating and taking on substantial risk. On the other and, if you’re planning on a long-term investment, you will likely see higher energy prices in the future. A longer time horizon of three-plus years should help eliminate some of the concern that prices will drop. Said another way, I don’t know what’s going to happen three to five weeks from now, but I believe that energy prices will be higher three to five years from now. An investment made today may be a successful one. Whether you’re a short-term speculator or a long-term investor, you’ve made the decision to invest in the energy sector. Whether this is the right decision or not, there are a number of ways to go about it. Your first option is to decide whether you want exposure to only the price of oil, or do you want to invest in the companies who operate in the sector. If you want to profit from the increasing price of oil, you could do one of two things. You could buy a barrel, store it, and sell it back to the market at a higher point down the road. Alternatively, you could invest in an exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the price of oil.

ETFs are relatively inexpensive investment vehicles that focus on a specific sector or commodity. By investing in an ETF concentrated on only the price of oil, your investment returns will be generated by the price movement in oil. The ETF is one way to get exposure, but be wary of what you’re actually invested in. Some ETFs use leverage and are intended for very short-term investments. There are many ETFs to choose from; be sure to discuss your choice with a professional investment advisor before proceeding. If you’d rather have exposure to the companies who operate in the sector, you need a strategy. For example, you may wish to diversify and reduce your risk by investing in multiple companies, or increase your risk and potentially your returns by selecting specific companies. To take a diversified approach, you may again consider an ETF. There are ETFs that track the Canadian energy sector that would give you a weighting in many of the biggest companies in Canada. The benefit to this approach is you’re not overly exposed to a particular company. You could also consider a mutual fund focused on the energy sector, whereby the fund manager is choosing companies they feel should profit the

most. If you plan on investing in select companies you should be fully versed on the potential upside and downside of each company. If prices do not improve, some companies may see declining share prices. Others will likely succeed for years to come but may not give you the full return you were expecting. A diversified approach is probably the best and a professional can direct you accordingly. Lastly, before rushing out to invest every last dime in the energy sector, consider the implications if you lost the money you plan to invest. Also, consider how long you are willing to wait to see favourable returns. Are there any other sectors besides energy that could do better? There are many other factors to consider prior to investing. To make the most of your investment dollars consult with a professional to create a strategy that works for 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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An oil worker holds raw oilsands near Fort McMurray on July 9, 2008. Some types of crude oil have a drastically bigger carbon footprint than others, according to a report that ranks some oilsands varieties among the highest emitters.

Not all crude oil created equal: report BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Some types of crude oil have a drastically bigger carbon footprint than others, according to a report that ranks some oilsands varieties among the highest emitters. In “Know Your Oil: Creating a Global Oil-Climate Index,” researchers from the University of Calgary, Stanford University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace compared the greenhouse gas emissions of 30 varieties of crude from around the world. Using publicly available information, they calculated emissions released at all stages of a barrel of crude’s life — from the oilfield to the refinery to the tailpipe. They found an 80 per cent difference between the highest and lowest carbon-emitting crudes. Crudes derived from Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and Syncrude Canada (TSX:COS) oilsands mines filled the highest and third-highest spots, respectively. Those are synthetic crudes, created by upgrading tarry oilsands bitumen into a light oil refineries can handle. However, not all types of oilsands crude could be painted with the same brush. For instance, diluted bitumen from Cold Lake, where crude is pumped out using steam rather than mined, held the eleventh-highest spot. Joule Bergerson, assistant professor at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, was responsible for crunching the numbers for the refining stage using a model

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that has been made publicly available. Heavy oils, like those produced in the oilsands, do take more energy to extract, she said. But to get a more accurate picture, she said it’s important to look at other high-emitting culprits. For instance, in some fields — like China’s Bozhong field, the secondhighest emitter on the list — producers burn off excess natural gas that’s a byproduct of the extraction process. Fields in Venezuela and California round out the Top Five. Oils from Norway and Kazakhstan were on the opposite tend of the spectrum. “I would argue that yes, oilsands tend to be on the higher side of the emissions, but there are other crudes that are sort of comparable in terms of their emissions,” said Bergerson. “You can have a very light, easy to extract crude but if it comes with a lot of excess methane that is flared, your emissions can be quite high.” The work is far from over. Bergerson said the research team would like to expand the index to 50 crude varieties in the next six months. One challenge has been getting access to the data from some regions. For instance, emissions from shale deposits in North Dakota and Texas — huge players in the global oil market — are conspicuously absent. Bergerson hopes the Oil-Climate Index will help companies and policymakers make wiser investment decisions by pinpointing where they can get the “biggest bang for your emission-reducing buck.”

OTTAWA — Smaller players — even some relatively obscure ones — in Canada’s wireless market will likely gain a little ground on the bigger telecom companies through the federal government’s latest auctioning of spectrum, says one industry expert. But the rules for the auction, which began Tuesday, are so “ridiculous” that Ottawa likely won’t achieve its goal of creating a viable fourth major wireless carrier, said Dvai Ghose, global head of equity research and telecommunications with Canaccord Genuity. Industry Minister James Moore announced the start of the auction — the second such bidding process so far this year — saying Canadians want the government to make decisions that will give them more choice, lower prices and better service in the wireless sector. “Our government is working to protect the interests of consumers in the wireless sector,” he said in a statement. “Promoting a healthy wireless industry through competition is the best way to drive results for consumers.” The auctioning of airwaves covers the higher-frequency 2,500 megahertz spectrum used to provide not only high-bandwidth functions like streaming video to smartphones, but also for home Internet service in rural areas where wired service is unavailable. Ottawa has placed caps on how much spectrum companies can own, a move that will almost shut out Rog-

ers and Bell from the bidding because they already own large chunks of it in some regions. Telus, considered Canada’s number three telecom service provider, owns almost no spectrum in the 2,500 Mhz frequency range and is expected to buy big. Telus was the biggest buyer in the AWS-3 auction in March, paying over $1.5 billion for 15 licences, while Bell Mobility paid nearly $500 million for 13 licences. But companies operating in provinces where there are already four industry players are being left out because the auction “rules are so ridiculous,” said Ghose. When the last bidding process was carried out in March, 30 of the 50 megahertz set aside for new entrants went on the block. But all four firms operating in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were eliminated from bidding because they didn’t qualify, he noted. “How can that be in the public interest?” Ghose asked. This latest auction is not expected to generate anywhere near the $2.11 billion raised last month. However, it will open the door to a number of smaller, rural wireless providers, who use high-frequency spectrum to provide home Internet service. Companies such as Xplornet Communications Inc., CCI Wireless and SSi Internet Inc. are all registered as bidders. Wind Mobile, Quebecor Inc. and other mobile firms have also said they would participate in the auction. Moore has said the spectrum auctions are aimed at increasing competition by giving smaller carriers preferential access to air waves.

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Ride-hailing service Uber is teaming with Loblaws (TSX:L), Canada’s largest grocer, in an experimental program that offers free rides to Toronto customers who order their groceries online. Uber says on its blog that the experiment, running from April 14 to April 20, will provide free rides valued at up to $30 to and from one of three Loblaws click & collect locations in the city. The move comes as Uber has come under fire from city officials, who filed

an injunction this past November to shut the unlicensed service down, saying it violates municipal taxi regulations. Loblaws and Uber both tweeted the offer on their Twitter accounts on Tuesday. According to the Uber blog, customers who pick up their click & collect order with Uber will be entered in a contest to win $1,000 in groceries at Loblaws in Toronto.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 132.47 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.51 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.17 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.60 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.21 Cdn. National Railway . . 82.23 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 233.16 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.06 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.70 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.82 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.83 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 64.04 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.80 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.09 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.48 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 26.11 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.23 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.56 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.27 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.20 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.99 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.37 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.31 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.99 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.59 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Tuesday, led by gains in the energy sector as the price of oil settled at its highest level in a week. The S&P/TSX composite rose 5.69 points to 15,389.28, following a small decline of 4.84 points on Monday. The Canadian dollar rose 0.64 of a U.S. cent. to 80.06 cents. The May crude contract closed up $1.38 at US$53.29 a barrel on reports that Iran’s oil minister has called on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut production by at least five per cent. The energy sector was the biggest gainer on the TSX, up almost two per cent. In New York, markets were mostly higher amid mixed earnings reports, including a surprise beat by America’s largest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), which said earnings rose 11 per cent in the first quarter. Its shares rose 97 cents or 1.56 per cent to US$63.04. Meanwhile, Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) stock lost ground after reporting that first-quarter earnings fell slightly from a year ago. Wells Fargo shares were down 40 cents or 0.73 per cent at US$54.19. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 59.66 points at 18,036.70 and the S&P 500 advanced 3.41 points to 2,095.84. Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer at Sun Life Global Investments, says investors are “happy” but “not overwhelmed” with earnings released by U.S. companies so far. “Earnings are not bad by any means, I just think the expectations have gotten to be quite big now,” Adatia said. As anticipated, strength in the U.S. dollar is beginning to hurt profits at U.S. multinational companies, he noted, a trend that is likely to continue. “As the U.S. dollar continues

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.97 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.25 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.15 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.36 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.62 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.99 First Quantum Minerals . 15.86 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.99 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.71 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.84 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.23 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.98 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.14 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.84 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 24.06 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.85 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 66.63 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.57 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 37.49 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.23 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 12.07 Canyon Services Group. . 8.34 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.74 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.87 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.20 to strengthen, you will see slowing growth of a lot of the multinational companies,” Adatia said. The Nasdaq gave back 10.96 points to close at 4,977.29 as technology stocks slumped. Adatia says investors are concerned that technology companies, whose share prices have rallied over the past few years, could be running out of room for growth. “When you look at earnings of these companies, though they’re good, the question that remains is whether or not you’re going to see a lot more growth coming out of those companies going forward,” Adatia said. “And with that, the caution is whether or not they’ll reinvest back into technology within their companies. I think that’s putting a little bit of a pause on the technology sector.” U.S. retail sales were higher than expected in March, rising by the largest amount in a year after three consecutive monthly declines. Adatia says it’s a sign that weakness in the previous months was likely caused by bad weather. Meanwhile, the June gold contract fell $6.70 to US$1,192.60 an ounce and May copper fell two cents to US$2.70 a pound. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,389.28, up 5.69 points Dow — 18,036.70, up 59.66 points S&P 500 — 2,095.84, up 3.41 points Nasdaq — 4,977.29, down 10.96 points Currencies: Cdn — 80.06 cents US, up 0.64 of a cent

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.63 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.20 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.50 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.57 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.07 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.81 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.005 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.08 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.90 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.91 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.03 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 56.18 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.56 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.66 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.00 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.61 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.77 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 93.29 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.13 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.55 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.78 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.32 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.69 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.35 Pound — C$1.8457, down 0.26 of a cent Euro — C$1.3298, down 0.23 of a cent Euro — US$1.0647, up 0.68 of a cent Oil futures: US$53.29 per barrel, up $1.38 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,192.60 per oz., down $6.70 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.271 oz., down 21.4 cents $683.86 kg., down $6.88 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $2.10 higher $456.20; July ’15 $2.10 higher $456.80; Nov ’15 $2.00 higher $447.90; Jan. ’16 $2.20 higher $449.10; March ’16 $1.60 higher $448.40; May ’16 $1.60 higher $449.10; July ’16 $1.60 higher $449.60; Nov. ’16 $1.60 higher $444.20; Jan. ’17 $1.60 higher $444.20; March ’17 $1.60 higher $444.20; May ’17 $1.60 higher $444.20. Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $205.00; July ’15 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $190.00; March ’16 unchanged $190.00; May ’16 unchanged $190.00; July ’16 unchanged $190.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $190.00; March ’17 unchanged $190.00; May ’17 unchanged $190.00. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 342,560 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 342,560.

Shaw profits slide in second quarter SIGNIFICANT ROUND OF LAYOFFS LEAVES DENT IN PROFITS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX:SJR.B) says a round of layoffs at its call centres, and other costs linked to improving its customer care operations left a dent in profits in the second quarter. The Calgary-based telecom and media company said Tuesday it recorded $38 million of expenses from severance packages and other costs tied to the departure of about 1,600 employees. Shaw announced in February that it would close or shrink some call centres and expand others as part of a reorganization. Its profit for the quarter ended Feb. 28 dropped 24 per cent to $168 million from $222 million a year ago when it benefited from the sale of specialty TV channels. On a per-share basis, Shaw’s profit was 34 cents for this year’s second quarter, five cents below analyst estimates. The company is in the midst of a customer-service reorganization announced in September, but has also had to deal with a pullback in Alberta’s economy as local oil companies were dealt a blow from the declining price of crude oil, causing them to lay off workers and tighten spending. “I think a lot of us were caught off guard by the dramatic shift in pricing of oil, but you know, I’m certainly confident that the Canadian energy sector will weather the storm and get through this current period of volatility,” chief executive Brad Shaw said in a conference call with analysts. Shaw said he believes cable subscribers will still find reasons to keep their services when they review their budgets. “The TV entertainment bundle becomes more valuable in this as you look at shows, movies and going out to dinner. That whole comparison is relative and puts us in somewhat stronger shape.” Shaw’s operating income grew 5.5 per cent to $557 million before the restructuring costs and amortization, although the growth was mostly due to a U.S. acquisition last year. The company’s media segment,

which includes specialty TV channels and the Global Television network, reported a 4.9-million drop in operating income to $58 million as it was affected by a “general market softness” for advertising and the impact of selling its stake in French-language cable channels Historia and Series+ to Corus Entertainment a year earlier. The consumer telecom segment that includes cable and Internet services increased operating income slightly to $409 million before restructuring and amortization, up from $408 million. Shaw also said a rule change by the CRTC, which makes it easier for customers to cancel their TV, Internet or wireless contracts, affected the number of subscribers who went elsewhere. The company booked a one-time loss of about 35,000 paid subscribers that it believes were linked to the new rules which do away with a 30-day cancellation notice to service providers. Desjardins telecom analyst Maher Yaghi noted that, despite the impact of the rule changes, Shaw is still being pressured by Canadians cancelling their cable packages and looking elsewhere for wireless service. “Even after accounting for this, the company still missed our (revenue generating subscriber) count by about 12,000,” wrote in a report. However, Shaw executives say they haven’t witnessed escalation in the number of people cancelling services despite the slowdown in the Alberta economy. “We haven’t seen any evidence of increased cord cutting,” said chief operating officer Jay Mehr. “When we’ve had downturns in the past we’ve done very well, but it’s fair to say consumers had fewer choices than they have today and so we’re certainly staying very close to that.” Shaw’s overall revenue rose five per cent to $1.34 billion, while revenue from the media segment was flat, dipping to $238 million from $239 million in the second quarter of 2014.

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Bell needs incentive to lure customers to ad program: expert ONLINE TRACKING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A technology law expert says Bell Canada will have to offer some form of financial incentive if it hopes to get customers to participate in its relaunched targeted advertising program. University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said it’s hard to imagine a lot of Canadians agreeing to have their cellphone usage tracked and sold to advertisers unless they receive some tangible benefit. American telecom provider AT&T offers $5 off per month its broadband service if customers agree to be tracked. Under Bell’s old program it only tracked the activities of cellphone clients, but had indicated it would extend that to landlines and to TV viewing habits. Geist foresees Bell linking its discount to the number of services a customer uses. “A lot of people would say that

their privacy is worth more than $5 per month but there may be some that say, ’well you want to pay me $60 a year to track me that’s something I’m willing to do,”’ said Geist, Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law. Geist said Bell is in unchartered territory with its program since it’s not clear what price people put on their privacy. Some experiments suggest people may be willing to pay extra to avoid advertising at all when they search the Internet or use Facebook or Twitter. Bell vowed Monday to reintroduce its ad program after accepting the Privacy Commissioner’s recommendation to obtain the explicit consent of customers to have their cellphone use tracked and sold to advertisers. The telecom giant declined to provide any details on when that will take place or whether it will offer incentives. Meanwhile, Toronto firm Charney Lawyers says it will launch a class-action lawsuit against Bell Canada over the advertising program that attracted numerous complaints and saw 113,000 Bell customers opt out.

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Looking to make history SUTTER FUND CHIEFS WANT TO BE FIRST HOST TEAM TO WIN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ESSO CUP BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF They’ve watched the boys bring national championship banners to Red Deer, but now the Sutter Fund Chiefs are out to one-up them, to actually win the tournament on home ice. The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs fell 3-2 in overtime to the Prince Albert Mintos in major midget boys national championship in 2007. The Sutter Fund Chiefs are hosting the Esso Cup, the major midget girls hockey national championship, starting on Sunday, and the opportunity is there for them to also make history as the first hosts to win the tournament. “Obviously, (our expectation) is the trophy, but for the team to be successful together and have so much fun with it,” said assistant captain and defenceman Mairead Bast, 16. “It would be unimaginable, unforgettable, it would be insane. We would be so proud, it would be awesome.” The boy’s loss helped launch a dynasty as the Optimist Chiefs became one of the most successful teams in recent Hockey Canada history, lifting the Telus Cup in 2012 and 2013. That opportunity is there for the girls as they continue to build the game in Central Alberta. “It would be nice to give (young girl hockey players) a show of what we are capable of and what the next level looks like and give them a goal for their years to come,” said assistant captain and defenceman Abagael Thiessen, 16. The Chiefs have played the entire season knowing this tournament was going to be the end results. But instead of resting on their laurels knowing they had their tickets punched for the national championship, they instead used it as a target to build towards. “It’s always been in the back of our mind,” said the five-foot-eight Thiessen. “We’ve always been thinking, ‘if we’re playing like this right now, how well will we play at Esso?’” They came within one game of earning a provincial title — losing 3-1 to the Edmonton Thunder in the final — and spent much of the season chasing down the best competition in Western Canada they could find, including a tournament in Vancouver and one in Winnipeg. Despite they only team at the Esso Cup they have played against is the Thunder — the other four teams are the Moncton Rockets (Atlantic), the Central Plains Capitals (Manitoba), the Saskatoon Stars (Saskatchewan) and the Sudbury Lady Wolves (Ontario) —

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Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs midget girls hockey team hits the ice in the Kin City Arena Tuesday. they believe they can hold their own. “Edmonton has been to the final round before and they’ve made the Esso Cup every year, so we’re confident with that,” said five-foot-eight forward Breanna Martin. “We’ve beat them (three times) in the regular season and we only lost to them the one time.” However, they have not played a meaningful game since their loss to the Thunder on March 22. When the puck drops on Sunday, that will be four full weeks since they played a game that meant something, despite a pair of weekend exhibition games against Warner, the Junior Women’s Hockey league regular season champs. They are focused on what they need to do to be successful. “We’ve just got to make sure we hit the ice running strong, moving our feet, getting pucks in, getting shots on the net and we’ll go from there,” said

Flames follow master motivator Bob Hartley into NHL playoffs locker-room prior to the team’s departure for Vancouver. Calgary finished 27th in the NHL CALGARY — The Calgary Flames last season. A team in the second year bought into what coach Bob Hartley of a rebuild, and one that lost captain was selling this season, no matter how and best defenceman Mark Giordano to injury, was not expected to make the much it hurt. The Flames led the NHL in blocked post-season. So Hartley paints their current situshots this season, putting limbs and sticks in front of an average of 19 shots ation as a fun ride to be enjoyed by a team with a dozen players about to per game. That’s a significant number of pucks make their NHL playoff debuts. The their goaltenders didn’t face. That’s 54-year-old from Hawksbury, Ont., is usually good for a quip per media also a lot of bruises. “You’d think they were goalies in a scrum. “I wish I could go to paintball tournament,” a local pharmacy and Hartley said. “They’re ‘I WISH I COULD buy a few cases of exblack and blue all over GO TO A LOCAL perience this morning, the body.” but I can’t,” was TuesThe Flames are a PHARMACY AND day’s offering. playoff team for the BUY A FEW CASES The day before it first time in six years because Hartley had OF EXPERIENCE THIS was: “Every party that has been organized them believing they MORNING, BUT I in the NHL this year, were a better team we always get the last than everyone thought. CAN’T.’ invitation and by the They did what Hartley asked in order — BOB HARTLEY time we got there, CALGARY FLAMES HEAD COACH there were no more to prove it, even if it sandwiches.” meant pain. That takes Behind the stand-up a master motivator. It’s why Hartley’s name is bandied act, however, is an authoritarian. “I don’t know if you guys know Bob, about for this year’s Jack Adams trophy that goes to the NHL’s coach of the but he can be somewhat intimidating behind the scenes,” forward Josh Jooyear. “Don’t talk about this. It’s not impor- ris said. “Maybe that’s part of the motant,” Hartley said when asked about tivation. You don’t want to let the guy the award. “The most important thing I down. “He does it in a good way. He’s a want acknowledged is the commitment nice enough guy, but when he needs to of my players.” The Flames open their first-round be stern, he is.” Added forward David Jones: “Guys series in Vancouver on Wednesday don’t like getting yelled at. He makes against the Canucks. Top centre Sean Monahan left Tues- you accountable if you don’t work day’s practice after skating for less hard. We’ve bought into his game plan than 10 minutes. Both player and coach and his system and it’s worked for us, so the more you’re winning, the more said the 31-goal scorer needed rest. Backup goaltender Karri Ramo was guys are buying into it.” Hartley coached the Colorado Avaback practising after sitting out the final three games of the regular season lanche to a Stanley Cup in 2001 during his five seasons there. He also coached with an apparent leg injury. Lanny McDonald, Theo Fleury and the Atlanta Thrashers for just over Joel Otto, who were members of Cal- four seasons. gary’s only Stanley Cup team in 1989, spoke to the current Flames in their Please see FLAMES on Page B5 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Martin, 16. The tournament also stands to be a major opportunity for not just the Chiefs, but players on all teams, to catch the eye of scouts. Thiessen has already committed to the University of North Dakota while Bast is currently trying to narrow down her NCAA and Canadian Interuniversity Sport choices. But for a player like Martin, who led the Chiefs in scoring with 23 points (15 goals, eight assists) in 32 games, the tournament can serve as a launching point for their educational opportunities. “The Esso Cup is going to be huge exposure for anyone looking to go on to schools,” said Martin. At the very least, the Esso Cup will be a major learning opportunity for most of the Chiefs, with many of them still with at least a season of midget hockey eligibility remaining.

“It’s a huge experience, it’s once in a lifetime,” said Bast. “To have it as a 16-year-old is just incredible.” One thing is for sure, whatever they do will be done as a group. Despite rolling through the Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League regular season as the second best team, they only had two players hit the top 30 in league scoring — Martin and Thiessen (14-7-21). They relied on a strong defensive first game and elite goaltending from Sarah Murray and Bailey Knapp. They have learned how to win the close games that championship tournaments are generally littered with. “We’re like 20 sisters, and as our coach (Tom Bast) always says, we’ve got 20 hearts and one beat,” said Martin. The Chiefs’ first game is Sunday at 7 p.m. against Moncton at the Red Deer Arena. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Generals open with win over host Clarenville BY ADVOCATE STAFF Generals 3 Caribous 2 CLARENVILLE, Nfld. — The Bentley Generals haven’t trailed too often during the 2014-15 hockey season, especially late. So when the host Clarenville Caribous got a go-ahead goal from hometown product Dustin Russell at 6:06 of the third period in Allan Cup tournament play Tuesday, the Generals were in — for the most part — unfamiliar territory. Not that it mattered, however, as the Alberta senior AAA hockey champions sniped a pair of goals down the stretch to pull out a 3-2 win in their first game of the six-day event. Cam Maclise cashed in a rebound from a shot that came off the glass to pull the Gens even at 13:46 of the final frame, and Torrie Dyck potted the winner just under two minutes later. “It was a really good hockey game, for both sides,” said Bentley head coach Ryan Tobler. “There wasn’t a lot of room out there, you had to work for everything you got. “This was one of the best senior games I’ve seen as a coach, for sure, and everyone on our (coaching) staff agreed. It was a good start for us and a good test.” The Generals twice battled back from a single-goal deficit, with Taggart Desmet notching the other Bentley goal and Stuart MacRae sniping the first Clarenville marker. Tobler was particularly impressed with his club’s third-period revival. “We went down 2-1 in the third and answered the right way,” said the Bentley bench boss. “I’m proud of the way the guys just battled. They were resilient and they stuck with it.” Dustin Butler turned aside 33 shots for the win, while Caribous netminder Jason Churchill made 34 saves. The game attracted an overflow and mostly partisan crowd of close to 1,800. “A great building with a great atmosphere . . . they’ve done a great job (with hosting),” said Tobler. “They

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packed the place to the rafters and had a good contingent of fans, but so did we. “There were some cheers in the stands when we scored, which was great to hear. It’s great that we have some of our fans here.” Bentley was zero-for-three on the power play; the Caribous zero-for-five. With the loss, the host Caribous dropped to 1-1 in the six-team, two-pool competition. The Generals can finish pool play with a 2-0 mark and earn an automatic berth in Friday’s semifinals with a win today over the Lameque Au P’tit Mousse of New Brunswick, who fell 5-1 to Clarenville Monday. “Nothing for granted, but I think we’ll probably be a little bit better tomorrow, considering we were off three to three and a half weeks before tonight’s game” said Tobler. “We’ll be ready tomorrow and try and earn that day off.” The second- and third-place teams in each pool will meet in cross-over quarter-final play Thursday, with the winners meeting the first-place teams in the semifinals. In Tuesday’s other contest, the Southeast Prairie Thunder of Manitoba slipped past the Ontario champion and defending Allan Cup champs Dundas Real McCoys 4-3 in their first game. Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld., is also 1-0 after defeating Dundas 5-3 Monday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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SCOREBOARD Hockey NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) Wednesday, April 15 Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m. Friday, April 17 Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19 Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) Thursday, April 16 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) Thursday, April 16 Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18 Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 8 p.m. Monday, April 20 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) Wednesday, April 15 NY Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m. Friday, April 17 NY Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19 Washington at NY Islanders, 12 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 Washington at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) Thursday, April 16 Minnesota at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18 Minnesota at St. Louis, 3 p.m. Monday, April 20

BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated RHP Shaun Marcum for assignment. Selected the contract of C Brett Hayes from Columbus (IL). Agreed to terms with RHP Ryan Webb on a minor league contract. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Asher Wojciechowski to Fresno (PCL). Reinstated RHP Brad Peacock from the 15-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF Alex Rios on the 15-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Smith on a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Sent RHP Kyuji Fujikawa to Frisco (TL) for a rehab assignment. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Placed INF Tommy La Stella on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 9. Recalled

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015

Local Sports Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 St. Louis at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

Today Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Clarenville, Nfld. — Bentley Generals vs. Lameque, N.B., 4:30 p.m. (MDT).

Calgary (1) vs. Medicine Hat (2) (Calgary leads series 2-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 1 Sunday, Apr. 12 Medicine Hat 3 Calgary 2 (OT) Monday, Apr. 13 Calgary 5 Medicine Hat 4 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 17 Medicine Hat at Calgary, 6 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Calgary at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. Monday, Apr. 20 x-Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) Wednesday, April 15 Chicago at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 17 Chicago at Nashville, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19 Nashville at Chicago, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 Nashville at Chicago, 9:30 p.m. Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) Thursday, April 16 Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18 Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m. Monday, April 20 Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m. Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) Wednesday, April 15 Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Friday, April 17 Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Sunday, April 19 Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m. WHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND Division Semifinals (Best-of-7)

Thursday

Friday

LHP Zac Rosscup from Iowa (PCL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Released RHP Ryan Webb. Optioned INF Darwin Barney to Oklahoma City (PCL). Selected the contract of LHP David Huff from Oklahoma City. MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP David Phelps on paternity leave. Recalled RHP Jose Urena from New Orleans (PCL). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned LHP Cesar Jimenez outright to Lehigh Valley (IL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Designated LHP Xavier Cedeno for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Rafael Martin from Syracuse (IL). Sent OF Denard Span to Harrisburg (EL) for a rehab assignment. FOOTBALL National Football League PITTSBURGH STEELERS — CB Ike Taylor announced his retirement. HOCKEY

z-Atlanta x-Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando

y-Cleveland x-Chicago x-Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Jake Paterson from Toledo (ECHL) to Grand Rapids (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Joe Piskula to Milwaukee (AHL). American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled F Alden Hirschfeld and D Scott Czarnowczan from Toledo (ECHL). IOWA WILD — Returned D Collin Bowman to Colorado (ECHL). MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Signed F Adrian Kempe to an amateur tryout agreement. ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Returned F Michael Pelech to Utah (ECHL). ECHL TOLEDO WALLEYE — Signed G Brodie Barrick to an amateur tryout agreement.

Wapple leads Pats in Game-3 win over Wheat Kings

After 4 straight NBA Finals runs, Heat out of playoff race

REGINA — Daniel Wapple stopped 39 shots as the Regina Pats edged the Brandon Wheat Kings 3-2 on Tuesday to pick up their first win of their second-round Western Hockey League playoff series. Carter Hansen, Jared McAmmond and Jesse Gabrielle scored for the Pats, who trail the best-of-seven series 2-1. Peter Quenneville, on a power play, and Stelio Mattheos supplied the Brandon offence. Jordan Papirny made 28 saves in the losing effort. Regina hosts Game 4 on Wednesday.

Miami’s playoff hopes are gone. And in an ironic twist, it was Indiana that delivered the knockout punch. The Eastern Conference representative in each of the last four NBA Finals, and champions in two of those years, the Heat will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Indiana’s 99-95 win over Washington on Tuesday night eliminated the Heat — who ended the Pacers’ season in each of the last three playoffs. Miami (36-45) ends the season at Philadelphia (18-63) on Wednesday night. The Heat are the first team to make the Finals one year and miss the playoffs the next since the Los Angeles Lakers, who lost the championship series in 2004 and went 34-48 the following season. So now, the lottery matters again to Miami. If the Heat lose Wednesday, they are assured of finishing the season with the league’s 10thworst record, a critical point. If Miami owns the No. 10 pick or better after the draft lottery, the Heat keep that selection. If Miami’s pick falls to No. 11 or worse, it goes to Philadelphia. Even if Washington had won Tuesday, Miami still faced an uphill battle. Not only would it have needed a win on Wednesday, but it also would have needed Orlando to beat Brooklyn and Memphis to defeat Indiana.

ROCKETS 4 ROYALS 2 VICTORIA — Jackson Whistle made 28 saves as Kelowna took a commanding 3-0 lead over the Royals in their second-round series. Madison Bowey and Nick Merkley had power-play goals for the Rockets, Leon Draisaitl scored shorthanded and Gage Quinney rounded out the attack. Greg Chase and Alex Forsberg struck for Victoria, which hosts Game 4 on Wednesday. Coleman Vollrath started in net and stopped 24-of-28 shots through 40 minutes and Justin Paulic was perfect on eight shots in relief.

The Kings will compete in the provincials May 2-3 at Edmonton.

LOCAL

BRIEFS

Red Deer’s Bakke commits to Concordia University College

All-age softball umpire clinic this weekend The Red Deer Softball Umpire Association will conduct a clinic Saturday and Sunday at Central Middle School in hopes of attracting prospective umpires of all ages. The RDSUA is comprised of approximately 50 umpires from Central Alberta, in the area encompassing Wetaskiwin, Camrose, Rocky Mountain House, Coronation, Olds and all points in between. To ensure enough manuals and equipment are available for newcomers, it is necessary to register in advance for the clinic. Prospective umpires can register at chris.harper@shaw.ca or by calling (403) 396-9502.

U16 Kings finish fifth at Calgary Premier volleyball tournament The Red Deer U16 Kings placed fifth in the third Premier volleyball tournament of the season at Calgary during the weekend.

W z-Golden State 66 x-L.A. Clippers 55 Phoenix 39 Sacramento 28 L.A. Lakers 21 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 48 33 .593 — x-Boston 39 42 .481 9 Brooklyn 37 44 .457 11 Philadelphia 18 63 .222 30 New York 17 64 .210 31

NBA

WHL PLAYOFFS

Canadian major midget girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Saskatchewan vs. Ontario, noon; Manitoba vs. Pacific, 3:30 p.m.; Atlantic vs. host (Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs), 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena.

Basketball

Everett (1) vs. Portland (2) (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Everett 5 Portland 3 Saturday, Apr. 11 Portland 4 Everett 3 (OT) Thursday, Apr. 16 Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. Friday, Apr. 17 Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 19 Portland at Everett, 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

Brandon (1) vs. Regina (2) (Brandon leads series 2-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Brandon 5 Regina 1 Saturday, Apr. 11 Brandon 5 Regina 2 Tuesday, Apr. 14 Regina 3 Brandon 2 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 17 Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saturday Sunday

Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Clarenville, Nfld. — Semifinals. at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. MDT.

Kelowna (1) vs. Victoria (2) (Kelowna leads series 3-0) Friday, Apr. 10 Kelowna 5 Victoria 0 Saturday, Apr. 11 Kelowna 4 Victoria 3 (OT) Tuesday, Apr. 14 Kelowna 4 Victoria 2 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Friday, Apr. 17 x-Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Midget football: Calgary Hilltoppers at Prairie Fire, 7:15 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park.

Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Clarenville, Nfld. — Final at 2 p.m. MDT.

Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Clarenville, Nfld. — Quarter-finals at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. MDT.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

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Former Red Deer Optimist midget AAA Chiefs captain and Bonnyville Pontiacs forward Brady Bakke will attend Concordia University College in Edmonton and play for the Thunder hockey team next season. Bakke, 20, appeared in 149 games with the Alberta Junior Hockey League Pontiacs — scoring 15 goals and collecting 34 assists — following his graduation from the Chiefs, who captured the 2012 Telus Cup championship at Leduc with the Red Deer native as captain. “Brady is one of the smartest players that I have had the privilege of coaching. You know what to expect of him every day in terms of his great work ethic, team first attitude and his character,” Pontiacs GM/head coach Rick Swan said in a press release. “Brady has made a significant contribution to the community of Bonnyville and our organization.”

Southeast Division W L Pct 60 21 .741 46 35 .568 36 45 .444 33 48 .407 25 56 .309

GB — 14 24 27 35

Central Division W L Pct 52 29 .642 49 32 .605 41 40 .506 38 43 .469 31 50 .383

GB — 3 11 14 21

Northwest Division W L Pct 51 30 .630 44 37 .543 38 43 .469 30 51 .370 16 65 .198

Pct .815 .679 .481 .346 .259

GB — 11 27 38 45

Monday’s Games Milwaukee 107, Philadelphia 97 Houston 100, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 109, Detroit 97 New York 112, Atlanta 108 Miami 100, Orlando 93 Chicago 113, Brooklyn 86 Oklahoma City 101, Portland 90 New Orleans 100, Minnesota 88 Utah 109, Dallas 92 Sacramento 102, L.A. Lakers 92 Golden State 111, Memphis 107 L.A. Clippers 110, Denver 103 Tuesday’s Games Boston 95, Toronto 93 Indiana 99, Washington 95,2OT L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 55 26 .679 — x-Houston 55 26 .679 — x-Memphis 54 27 .667 1 x-Dallas 49 32 .605 6 New Orleans 44 37 .543 11

y-Portland Oklahoma City Utah Denver Minnesota

L 15 26 42 53 60

Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Toronto, 5 p.m. San Antonio at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 6 p.m. Utah at Houston, 6 p.m. Portland at Dallas, 6 p.m. Boston at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Orlando at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. Detroit at New York, 6 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

GB — 7 13 21 35

Pacific Division

Baseball Pittsburgh Milwaukee

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct GB Boston 6 2 .750 — Tampa Bay 5 3 .625 1 Baltimore 4 4 .500 2 Toronto 4 4 .500 2 New York 3 5 .375 3

Kansas City Detroit Chicago Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 7 0 1.000 7 1 .875 3 4 .429 2 5 .286 1 6 .143

GB — 1/2 4 5 6

Oakland Texas Seattle Houston Los Angeles

West Division W L Pct 5 4 .556 4 5 .444 3 4 .429 3 5 .375 3 5 .375

GB — 1 1 1 1

Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco

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Tuesday’s Games Boston 8, Washington 7 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 1 Texas 8, L.A. Angels 2 Oakland 4, Houston 0 Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, late Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 1-0), 10:10 a.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 11:35 a.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 0-1) at Texas (Ranaudo 0-0), 12:05 p.m. Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 0-0) at Baltimore (B.Norris 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 0-0) at Toronto (Buehrle 1-0), 5:07 p.m. Kansas City (Volquez 1-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-1), 6:10 p.m. Oakland (Pomeranz 1-0) at Houston (McHugh 1-0), 6:10 p.m. Seattle (T.Walker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Kansas City at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Atlanta New York Philadelphia Miami Washington

GB — 1 3 4 4

Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis

Central Division W L Pct 5 3 .625 4 3 .571 3 3 .500

GB — 1/2 1

5 .375 5 .286

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West Division W L Pct 5 2 .714 4 3 .571 5 4 .556 4 4 .500 3 5 .375

GB — 1 1 1 2

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Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 2, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 4 Boston 9, Washington 4 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4 Colorado 2, San Francisco 0 Atlanta 3, Miami 2 Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 6, 10 innings Arizona 8, San Diego 4 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 innings

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 4 Boston 9, Washington 4 Kansas City 12, Minnesota 3 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 1 L.A. Angels 6, Texas 3 Oakland 8, Houston 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 innings

National League East Division W L Pct 6 2 .750 5 3 .625 3 5 .375 2 6 .250 2 6 .250

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Tuesday’s Games Boston 8, Washington 7 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0 Miami 8, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 5 Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2 San Diego 5, Arizona 1 Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, late Colorado at San Francisco, late Wednesday’s Games Miami (Haren 0-0) at Atlanta (Stults 0-0), 10:10 a.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 11:35 a.m. Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 5:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Williams 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Marquis 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-1), 6:05 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-0) at St. Louis (Lynn 0-1), 6:15 p.m. Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0) at San Diego (Morrow 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Seattle (T.Walker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Colorado (Matzek 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0), 8:15 p.m. Thursday’s Games Milwaukee at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—JIglesias, Detroit, .480; MiCabrera, Detroit, .471; Bogaerts, Boston, .433; AJones, Baltimore, .429; KMorales, Kansas City, .414; SPerez, Kansas City, .414; Cain, Kansas City, .407. RUNS—Kinsler, Detroit, 11; AJones, Baltimore, 9; KMorales, Kansas City, 9; Fuld, Oakland, 8; Zobrist, Oakland, 8; 9 tied at 7. RBI—AJones, Baltimore, 11; MiCabrera, Detroit, 9; JMartinez, Detroit, 9; SPerez, Kansas City, 9; Betts, Boston, 8; Cain, Kansas City, 8; Kinsler, Detroit, 8; Rios, Kansas City, 8. HITS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 16; Fielder, Texas, 15; Bogaerts, Boston, 13; BButler, Oakland, 13; Kinsler, Detroit, 13; 6 tied at 12. DOUBLES—Zobrist, Oakland, 5; Cespedes, Detroit, 4; Fuld, Oakland, 4; Kiermaier, Tampa Bay, 4; 13 tied at 3. TRIPLES—Orlando, Kansas City, 3; Fuld, Oakland, 2; 16 tied at 1. HOME RUNS—Cruz, Seattle, 4; AJones, Baltimore, 4; JMartinez, Detroit, 4; Ackley, Seattle, 3; Freese, Los Angeles, 3; Pedroia, Boston, 3; SPerez, Kansas City, 3; HRamirez, Boston, 3; Teixeira, New York, 3. STOLEN BASES—DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 4; Betts, Boston, 3; RDavis, Detroit, 3; JIglesias, Detroit, 3; JRamirez, Cleveland, 3; 9 tied at 2.

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Flames finished out the season 19-14. “The effect of this brought the guys together, but there was absolutely no plan there,” said Hartley, who put his fourth line out on the ice for the opening faceoff that night. “Is there positives that came out of this? Yes. The steps we made at the end of last season really set up the stage for this year’s training camp.” The Flames signed Hartley to a multi-year contract extension this past December. “I think he is the main reason we are where we are,” general manager Brad Treliving said earlier this season. “He’s pushed all the right buttons.”

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It’s anyone’s Stanley Cup to win BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NHL PLAYOFF PREVIEW

In the final weeks of the regular season, New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault talked to plenty of colleagues around the NHL and came away with a consensus about these Stanley Cup playoffs. “Everybody’s sort of got the same theme: Pick your poison,� Vigneault said recently at Madison Square Garden. “Any one of the 16 teams that gets in has really a legitimate chance of winning the Cup, they do. There’s so little separating teams.� The defending-champion Los Angeles Kings and defending Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston Bruins didn’t make it. There are seven new teams going for the Cup in 2015 that didn’t qualify a year ago. Put it all together and this is the most wide-open, unpredictable NHL post-season in recent history. “Can you sit here and honestly pick the four teams that are going to play in the conference finals? I can’t,� St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said last month in Toronto. “This is the first time in my life I can’t honestly pick anybody that you’d say, ’Man this team is for sure a lock,’ because it’s just so close.� Montreal Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher called it “nuts.� “It’s pretty hard to believe, actually,� he said. “It’s great for the league, it’s great for the game.� The name of the game is parity, something commissioner Gary Bettman touts as one of the strengths of the league in the salary-cap era. Seven different teams have won in the nine seasons since the cap was instituted, with the Kings and Chicago Blackhawks the only ones to do it twice.

With Patrick Kane back early from a broken clavicle, the Blackhawks have to be considered one of the favourites, especially given their wealth of depth and playoff experience. But Chicago doesn’t even have home ice in the first round against the Nashville Predators, and those teams are part of a brutal Central Division bracket with the Blues and red-hot Minnesota Wild. “The way Minnesota’s playing now, they can knock out any team in the league,� Blackhawks defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson told reporters in Chicago last week. Only one of St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville and Minnesota can reach the Western Conference final. Any of those teams could then win the Cup, but the start may be just as difficult. “It doesn’t really matter who you play in the first round,� Hjalmarsson said. “All the teams are so even now with the salary cap. The first round is probably going to feel like a conference final, every single matchup.� Out West, the Jets are in the playoffs for the first time since moving to Winnipeg and open against the conference’s top seed, the Anaheim Ducks. The fearless Calgary Flames face the more experienced Vancouver Canucks in one of two all-Canadian series. “We feel just lucky to be here, but at the same time, we’re not backing off from any challenges,� Flames coach Bob Hartley said Monday. “That’s in our DNA.�

McLellan to coach young Canadian team at world championships BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Todd McLellan will coach a young but talented Canadian team at the world championships next month in Prague. McLellan on Tuesday was named coach of Canada’s team, which will feature forwards Tyler Seguin, Claude Giroux and Nathan MacKinnon and defenceman Aaron Ekblad. “It looks like it’s a youthful, skilled, fast lineup,� said assistant Bill Peters, who coaches the Carolina Hurricanes. “I see the overall speed that we’re going to be able to have whether it’s with or without the puck. I think that’s our biggest calling card.� The 47-year-old McLellan, a native of Melville, Sask., just finished his seventh season behind the bench for the San Jose Sharks. He was an assistant at the world juniors in 2000 but will be coaching Canada at this tournament for the first time. Along with Peters, McLellan’s other assistants are New Jersey Devils coach Peter DeBoer and Sharks assistant Jay Woodcroft. Like Canadian general manager Jim Nill, McLellan, Peters and Woodcroft all have connections to the Detroit Red Wings. “This is a coaching staff with extensive experience in the NHL and knowledge of the international game, as well,� Nill said in a statement. “As a management group we are excited to work with this staff and look forward to building a roster and representing Canada in the Czech Republic next month.� Nill, and the management group that includes George McPhee, Claude Loiselle, Pat Verbeek and Sean Burke, already has 19 commitments for the tournament, which begins May 1. Seguin, Dallas Stars teammates Jason Spezza and Cody Eakin and three Edmonton Oilers forwards led that group. Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (pending his foot injury) will play for Canada. The other forwards are Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers, Matt Duchene and Ryan O’Reilly of the Colorado Avalanche, Tyler Toffoli of the Los Angeles Kings and Tyler Ennis of the Buffalo Sabres. The defencemen are Ekblad of the Florida Panthers, Jake Muzzin of the Kings, Tyson Barrie of the Avalanche, Brent Burns of the San Jose Sharks and David Savard of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Peters, who coached Duchene, Hall, O’Reilly and Eakin at the 2008 Ivan Hlinka tournament, called it an “emerging group� of young players. “I think they’re going to be real hungry,� Peters said in a phone interview. “I think they’ve got lots to prove still.� The goaltenders are Mike Smith of the Arizona Coyotes — the expected starter — and Martin Jones of the Kings.

The Canadiens, armed with all-world goaltender Carey Price, face Andrew Hammond and the Ottawa Senators in the other all-Canadian matchup. Montreal hasn’t matched up well against Ottawa recently, but players said they’re not worried about that. “The playoffs, it’s a new game,� forward Lars Eller said. “It’s 50/50. We’ve seen so many times in the past that records in the regular season don’t necessarily mean a lot. We kind of come in with a fresh mind-set, but at the same time understanding what made us successful during the regular season.� No team had more regular-season success than the Presidents’ Trophy-winning New York Rangers, who open up against Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh needed to win on the last day of the season just to get in. The Senators needed that, too, after becoming the first team in NHL history to be 14 points back of a playoff spot at any point to get in. The winner of their series will face the winner of the other Atlantic Division matchup, the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Detroit Red Wings. In the other Metropolitan Division series, the Washington Capitals face the New York Islanders for the first time since 1993. Capitals first-year general manager Brian MacLellan told reporters Monday outside Washington that he believed this team is more suited to win in the playoffs than in the past. So many teams can say that, making it anyone’s Cup to win. “You look at the route to the Stanley Cup and the teams, it seems like the league’s more balanced than it’s been in a long, long time,� Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban said. “Everybody’s got a chance.� straight win over Toronto (4-4). Kevin Jepsen worked the ninth inning for his first save. Tampa Bay (5-3) has won four games in a row.

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Crowder nails long shot to lift Celtics over Raptors 95-93 Jae Crowder hit an off-balance fall-away from deep on the right wing with .8 seconds left, lifting Boston to a 95-93 win over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday that secured the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference for the Celtics. Evan Turner and Avery Bradley each scored 14 points for Boston, which will face No. 2 seed Cleveland in the playoffs. Brandon Bass added 13 points and nine rebounds. It was the fifth straight win for the Celtics, who clinched a playoff spot on Monday when Brooklyn lost. Kyle Lowry had 16 points for the Raptors, who are locked into the fourth seed and will face Washington. Toronto beat the Wizards in all three meetings this season. Lou Williams also had 16 points for Toronto, Terrence Ross scored 12 and Jonas Valanciunas’ 11.

Rays extend winning streak to four games by topping Blue Jays 3-2 Steven Souza Jr. homered and later scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly to give the Tampa Bay Rays a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre. In the eighth inning, Souza Jr. reached on a bunt single, stole second base and took third when Toronto catcher Russell Martin’s throw was low for an error. Desmond Jennings lifted a fly ball into centre field off reliever Miguel Castro (0-1) to bring Souza Jr. home and help the Rays earn their second

Blackhawks star forward Patrick Kane is expected to be in the lineup for Game 1 of Chicago’s openinground playoff series against the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night. Both Kane and Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville confirmed that the dynamic right wing is ready to return following Tuesday’s practice. “Yeah, that’s the plan,� Kane said. “It’s exciting.� Kane, who broke his collarbone in February, received medical clearance to play on Monday. Kane practiced with the team on Monday and Tuesday, and skated with former linemates Brad Richards and Kris Versteeg. Kane missed the final 21 games of the regular season, and the All-Star still finished second on the team with 27 goals and 64 points. The forward was a candidate for the Hart Trophy for NHL MVP — and tied for the league lead in points — when he was hurt in the first period of a 3-2 shootout win over Florida on Feb. 24. Kane had surgery on Feb. 25. Originally, his recovery was expected to take up to 12 weeks and he wasn’t expected to be back before the Western Conference finals — if the Blackhawks advanced that far. “It’s great news and we’re happy to have him,� Quenneville said. “It wasn’t in the cards knowing we had to get through a round or two before he could even be considered. “He was having an MVP-type of season. Getting him back just makes you have so many more options. His versatility in all areas certainly enhances our team.� The 26-year-old forward progressed faster than he expected.

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BUSY BEAVER Photos by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

An industrious beaver makes a meal out of a recently cut branch at McKenzie Trails Recreation Area in Red Deer (top). Although the pond remains mostly frozen, the beaver is busy along the shoreline peeling bark and swimming in what open water it can find (right).

Surface rights issues on political parties’ radar

Bylaw, act govern urban noise Police are reminding residents to keep it down at house parties and to curb revving up their vehicles — or they will pay the price. Throughout the summer, RCMP receive numerous complaints about noise from vehicles and house parties. RCMP Cpl. Leanne Molzahn said some level of noise is part of the urban environment. “But now that spring is here and people are opening their home and vehicle windows, the RCMP want to remind people to be sensitive to the impact their behaviours are having on others,” she said. The most common vehicle noise complaints include revving at intersections and accelerating too quickly, which create excessive vehicle noise. Other common complaints include vehicles with excessively loud stereos or with modified exhaust systems that can be heard for blocks. Offenders can be fined $115 under the Alberta Highway Traffic Act for vehicle mufflers that create excessive noise or produce flames or sparks, prohibit widened exhaust outlets, and prohibit devices attached to exhaust systems or mufflers that increase vehicle noise. They can also be fined $115 for driving a motor vehicle in a residential area in an unduly disturbing manner between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Noise complaints also spike in the summer as loud music blares from house parties. Offenders can be fined under the city’s Community Standards Bylaw. Fines for a first offence are $250, and that doubles for a second offence and triples for the third and subsequent offences. Repeat offenders may also be charged with mischief under the Criminal Code. Noise complaints should be reported to the RCMP complaint line at 403-343-5575. Do not call 911 for noise complaints; 911 is for emergencies only. Please note that RCMP require a licence plate number in order to follow up with vehicular noise complaints.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Central Alberta landowner group has begun making an impact that surprises even one of its most dedicated leaders. Last Thursday, 425 people packed Trochu Community Hall to listen to a presentation on a pending court challenge by the Alberta Surface Rights Group related to lease payment compensation for landowners when oil companies go bankrupt. By Monday, Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice committed to asking the Alberta Surface Rights Board to review its decision not to provide compensation for Doug and Marg Lemke, who were out of pocket when an oil company leasing their land went bankrupt. Don Bester and two other board members from the Alberta Surface

Rights Group were at Prentice’s news conference on Monday in Three Hills. “Whenever have you seen a surface rights group or landowner group conduct a meeting on an issue and in less than three days the premier is making a press release on it?” said Bester on Tuesday. “I’ve been around this ball game a long time and I’ve never seen that kind of action that fast.” It doesn’t take a lot of cynicism to see the connection to the ongoing election campaign, but Bester also believes those in power, and those seeking it, are noticing that there are a lot of angry rural landowners. Prentice’s pledge was quickly followed the same day by a statement from Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean to strengthen property rights. Jean also criticized Prentice for not taking up the Lemke cause earlier and for his government’s failure over the past six months to review the

contentious Land Stewardship Act, which some landowners feel whittles away at their rights. Bester said while the group is pleased that their message appears to be getting heard, their lawsuit will continue unless the Lemke decision is reversed and the Drayton Valleyarea couple gets the lease money owed. “Are we going to just let this die? No.” The group’s ability to take the matter to court got a big financial push at the Trochu meeting, where thousands of dollars were raised towards a court battle expected to cost as much as $50,000. Bester said they are not done yet. The group intends to raise other issues, such as concerns over the Carbon Capture and Storage Act and the stalled pipeline safety review, before the May 5 provincial vote. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Probe into cause of fire continues Fire investigators continued to sift through the charred remains of two homes on Tuesday to determine what caused the devastating weekend blaze in Lacombe. The investigation began on Monday afternoon and investigators from Red Deer were expected to wrap up their on-site work on Tuesday. Lacombe corporate services director Michael Minchin said he couldn’t say when, or if, the source of the fire will be known. Minchin said a conclusive cause was never found for a $3-million fire that destroyed three homes in the Henner’s Pond area of town last July

LACOMBE because damage was so extensive. Little was left after the most recent fire either. Two homes were completely razed, two others damaged and three vehicles destroyed in a fire that began around 5 p.m. on Sunday. Damage is estimated at $2 million. Work to begin cleaning the site and hauling away the vehicle was expected to begin soon. A family of four and an elderly couple were left homeless following

the fire that witnesses said appeared to have started in the family’s garage on Elisa Close. Among the issues facing city volunteer firefighters and their counterparts from Bentley and Blackfalds was the number of spectators who flocked to the scene to take photos and watch the inferno. Police had their hands full keeping people away and fire trucks found themselves fighting traffic to get to the scene. Minchin said they will look at whether anything can be done differently as part of the routine postincident review that follows emergencies.

Candidates lining up for provincial race BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Thirty-one Central Albertans are vying for seven MLA spots at the provincial table. With only two days before the nominations close, more contenders have declared their intentions to run in the May 5 general election. The field in Red Deer’s two constituencies grows bigger by the day. Last week William Berry, the Red Deer man who was subjected to what was characterized as “excessive force” by sheriffs at the Red Deer provincial courthouse in 2011, said he will stand as an independent in Red Deer South.

Berry, a cancer survivor who breathes through a tube in his neck, has enlisted his niece Joanna Berry to act as his spokesperson because he cannot speak. Also running in Red Deer South are Ben Dubois for the Green Party, Deborah Checkel for the Liberals, Barb Miller for the NDP, Norm Wiebe for the Wildrose, Darcy Mykytyshyn for the PCs and Serge Gingras for the Alberta Party. Red Deer North’s race features Buck Buchanan, who will run for Wildrose after losing the PC nod to Christine Moore. Michael Dawe is Liberal and Green candidate. Kim Schreiner is the NDP’s choice. Krystal Kromm represents the Alberta Party.

There is no incumbent in the city. Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas and Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski will not seek re-election. In Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, incumbent MLA PC Kerry Towle will face Alberta Party’s Danielle Klooster, Wildrose’s Donald MacIntyre and NDP’s Patricia Norman. The Lacombe-Ponoka race also is wide open as PC incumbent Rod Fox, who jumped ship from the Wildrose, lost the PC nod to Peter DeWit. Also in the running are Wildrose’s Ron Orr, NDP’s Doug Hart and Alberta Party’s Tony Jeglum. In Rimbey-Rocky Mountain HouseSundre, incumbent MLA Joe Anglin will square off against the PC’s Tam-

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my Cote, Wildrose’s Jason Nixon and NDP’s Hannah Schlamp. Anglin is a former Wildroser who quit the party in November to sit as an independent. The Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills race features PC Wade Bearchell, Wildrose Nathan Cooper; NDP Glenn Norman and Alberta Party’s Jim Adamchick. Incumbent PC MLA Bruce Rowe, who also crossed the floor from the Wildrose, is not seeking another term. Three candidates are in the running in Drumheller/Stettler: PC Jack Hayden, Wildrose incumbent Rick Strankman and NDP Emily Shannon. An official list of candidates will be available following the close of nominations on Friday. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Teen faces trial next year over stabbing in Eastview A teen accused of stabbing another person during a streetfight will go to trial early next year. Victor L’Hirondelle, 19, of Red Deer will be tried in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before a judge alone from Feb. 1 to 3, 2016. He is accused of stabbing a 16-yearold on June 12, 2014. A fist fight had broken out between several people at 39th Street and 40th Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. The victim made his way to the East 40th Pub for help. L’Hirondelle is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public. He pleaded not guilty to those charges subsequent to his preliminary inquiry, held on Feb. 24.

Warrant issued for woman connected to hit and run An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman accused of a hit and run in Riverside Meadows in March. Cora Nichole Bush, 35, of Red Deer missed her April 10 court date in Red Deer provincial court. As a result, a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Bush faces several charges, including possession of stolen property over $5,000, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from a peace officer, failing to stop at the scene of a collision causing bodily harm and failing to comply with an undertaking. She was arrested on March 20 on 11 outstanding warrants. The charges were in relation to a March 11 hit and run of a cyclist neat 60th Street and 54th Avenue in Red Deer. Red Deer RCMP said while on patrol they located a stolen vehicle in Highland Green and activated their emergency lights in an attempt to stop

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A trio of deer make their way into the water after traversing a gravel bar in the middle of the Red Deer River north of the 67th Street bridge in Red Deer. Viewing wildlife in the city is very common, especially along the river and at dusk. the vehicle. The vehicle drove south at high speed on 59th Avenue. Later, the vehicle was found abandoned on 56th Avenue. Police dog services searched unsuccessfully for the suspect.

Annual pottery sale Saturday at Red Deer Rec Centre Local potters will sell and show their work at the Red Deer Pottery Club sale on Saturday. The spring show and sale runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Red Deer Recreation Centre at 4501 47A Ave. Decorative vases, trays, cups and

bowls will be among the large variety of ceramic art for sale. The show features hand-thrown and wheel-thrown work. Many pieces are adorned with decorative carving and special glazes.

Cross-Canada runner arrives in Red Deer today A B.C. man who plans to run across Canada twice brings his journey to Central Alberta today. Fast Eddy (a.k.a. Edward Dostaler) was in Wetaskiwin at noon on Tuesday and expects to make the 88-km trek to Red Deer by Wednesday morning. Dostaler, 26, plans to run along Hwy

2A and to arrive in downtown Red Deer before noon. Since March 1, he has travelled 1,800 km of his 20,000 km journey. He started in Victoria and intends to run to the East Coast of Canada and then return to Victoria. So far, Dostaler has raised only $1,500 of his goal of $40,000. He is raising funds and awareness for breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. He also welcomes contributions to the costs of his run. Dostaler was born in Hinton and has lived in Kamloops, but his current home is a different place each night. For more information or to donate to one of the causes, check www.fasteddycanada.com.

Two UBC scientists resign over lack of women nominations CANADIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Two female researchers tasked with helping to recognize the top scientists in the country have stepped down from their duties to protest lack of recognition for other women in the field. Judy Illes and Catherine Anderson resigned from the selection committee of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame this month after realizing that no women had been nominated for induction two years in a row. Illes, a professor of neurology at the University of British Columbia, called for more direct efforts to solicit nominations of female candidates after men swept the ballot during the 201314 nomination period. When the result was duplicated for 2014-15, Illes stepped down to voice her objections to what she felt was a flawed process. Anderson, a member of UBC’s faculty of medicine, followed suit days later. The Canada Science and Technology Museum, which houses the Hall of Fame, runs a nomination period of approximately one year during which the public is invited to put names forward for consideration. Illes said she pushed for officials to be more aggressive in advertising the nomination process among universities and other institutions, but feels her calls were ultimately ignored. “We...did not do a satisfactory job in eliciting a full range of possible nominations,” Illes said in a telephone interview from Vancouver. “There are great science and engineering women out there in Canada today who have been part of our communities.

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“To have zero women two years in a row signifies a failure on our part to really reach out as needed.” Anderson agreed, saying her decision to step down was an effort to force the museum to change its ways. “There were some good suggestions made last year and we didn’t act on them,” she said. “I was afraid that if we just kept making suggestions and kept thinking that we’d do them next year, it would always be next year.” Museum spokesman Olivier Bouffard said Illes raised the lack of female nominees as a concern last June in the middle of the 2014-15 nomination period. He said the organization felt her concerns were valid and said officials are working to address the issue, but declined to offer further details. Misunderstandings abound, since both sides have different perceptions of what Illes proposed to address the gender disparity. “What we understood is that Dr. Illes wanted us to start over the nomination process midstream when she expressed those views in June,” Bouffard said. “...We didn’t feel it was fair to those who had been nominated who are deserving scientists in and of themselves.” Illes contends that she proposed allowing existing nominations to stand while working more aggressively to solicit new ones from a more diverse candidate pool. “We’re at a time now when we have to make that extra effort until we find a better balance,” she said, adding that she hopes to rejoin the selection committee if that effort is made. At least one industry observer feels that outreach effort should be targeted far beyond scientific and academic

circles. Organizations have sprung up across the country with the primary goal of attracting youth to the sciences, many of which focus specifically on girls. Jennifer Flanagan, chief executive of youth outreach organization Actua, said the dearth of female nominees stems largely from public perceptions of women’s role in the sciences. The fact that nominations come from the public, she said, suggests that people don’t perceive women as viable candidates for such prestigious

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Former soldiers who want timely access to medical marijuana say they are undeterred despite having been denied a meeting with Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole. Retired corporal Clayton Goodwin, who represents a group known as Veterans for the Use of Medical Marijuana, was shut out of O’Toole’s stakeholder meeting Tuesday at the Canadian War Museum. A spokesperson for the minister said Veteran Affairs staff have spoken with Goodwin and are setting up a one-on-one meeting. “There isn’t a lot of blame to be placed on Veteran Affairs, they’re working,” Goodwin said. “It’s more that we need to work towards ending stigma and shame and get more voices in a room because I’m not aware if we’re ever brought up in there.” Veteran Affairs data shows the number of ex-soldiers eligible for medical marijuana jumped to 601 in the last year, up from 116 the previous year. Those veterans are facing unacceptable delays in procuring the drug and the government is taking too long to reimburse them, he added. “If everyone is in (the meeting) representing some children remain in jail until Child and Family Services can find somewhere for them to stay, she said. “It’s a lack of foster placements,” MacDonald said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “It’s a lack of any placements that could give stability to the child.” MacDonald said she recently visited Manitoba’s youth detention centre and was distressed by the stories of children there. Suicide is not uncommon for kids who have been incarcerated, she said. “Just the feeling of hopelessness and depression, particularly if they don’t have any family members visiting them or any hope in their life, any hope for the future,” MacDonald said. “Think of the extreme circumstances they’ve had in their life and then to be incarcerated with no therapy or wrap-around services — that’s very, very concerning.”

section of the Veteran Affairs file, I would like to know if we’re being represented. Because if we’re not, that’s 600 silent voices.” O’Toole, meanwhile, said Veteran Affairs will be hiring more than 100 new disability benefits staff, speeding up the application process — and complimenting the more than 100 new case workers announced earlier this week. In the meeting, the minister did not specifically address the issue of medical marijuana for veterans. O’Toole also said he wants Veterans Affairs to strive for service excellence and to work closely with the Canadian Armed Forces. “We want everything we do to be ’veteran-centric,’ having the veteran and their family at the core of everything we do,” he said. “We should constantly be reviewing how we discuss things with veterans and how to meet their needs in the future. And in areas where there are challenges, let’s try to tackle those challenges. Let’s not shy away.” He also said the government is revising the New Veterans Charter, the federal government’s benefits agreement with ex-soldiers, in an effort to “take the politics out” of the discussion and get rid of “unintended gaps.” hundred at a similar rally in February to several thousand on Tuesday. In that time, said Sandals, the opposition to the sex-ed curriculum has become overwhelmingly Conservative. “The correspondence that I received initially on this issue was very much parents who might have been misinformed about the details of the curriculum, but who were genuinely concerned,” she said. “I also got a lot of extraordinarily offensive homophobic correspondence, which I would not repeat in public. But the last week or two, the correspondence I’ve been receiving from some of the groups that are out there organizing the protest have turned into, ’We have to fight the Liberal curriculum because the Liberals didn’t consult with Conservative groups.”’ After the first protest, Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is openly gay, said some of the opposition was motivated by homophobia. The sex-ed curriculum was last updated in 1998, before smartphones were ubiquitous or sexting had been invented. Under the changes, Grade 3 students will learn about same-sex relationships, kids in Grades 4 and up will learn more about the dangers of online bullying, while the dangers of sexting will come in Grade 7. Lessons about puberty will move from Grade 5 to Grade 4.

OTTAWA — It appears Green party Leader Elizabeth May is a step closer to sparring with her political rivals in the upcoming televised election debates. The party has received an invitation to a meeting later this month with the consortium of TV networks that produces the debates. The letter from consortium chairwoman Jennifer McGuire says it is the goal of the networks to finalize details of the English and French debates as soon as possible. Green party spokesman Julian Morelli, who has TORONTO — Conservative groups are fuelling been involved in discussions with the consortium of the vocal opposition to Ontario’s new sex-education broadcasters, says he considers the letter confirmacurriculum, Liberal Education Minister Liz Sandals tion of May’s participation. said Tuesday as thousands of people protested outIt is now just a matter of determining the format side the legislature. of the debate at the April 24 meeting in Toronto, MoThe protesters’ ranks swelled from a couple relli said. McGuire was not immediately available for comment. Special For weeks there has been speculation as to whether May would be invited to take part. She participated in WITH FRIES OR 2008 but was denied a BAKED POTATOES spot in the 2011 — the year she won a seat in Parliament. The consortium of broadcasters includes CTV News, Shaw Media, CBC News and Frenchlanguage Radio-Canada. Home of A federal election is the All Day expected no later than Now Open 6:30 am - 10:00 pm Breakfast this fall.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BATON ROUGE, La. — Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic When a Man Loves a Woman, died Tuesday in Louisiana. He was 74. Dr. William “Beau” Clark, coroner for East Baton Rouge Parish, confirmed that Sledge died early Tuesday morning, about an hour after midnight of natural causes in hospice care. A No. 1 hit in 1966, When a Man Loves a Woman was Sledge’s debut single, an almost unbearably heartfelt ballad with a resonance he never approached again. Few singers could have. Its mood set by a mournful organ and dirge-like tempo, When a Man Loves a Woman was for many the definitive soul ballad, a testament of blinding, all-consuming love haunted by fear and graced by overwhelming emotion. When a Man Loves a Woman was a personal triumph for Sledge, who seemed on the verge of sobbing throughout the production, and a breakthrough for Southern soul. It was the first No. 1 hit from Alabama’s burgeoning Muscle Shoals music scene, where Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones among others would record, and the first gold record for Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler later called the song “a transcendent moment” and “a holy love hymn.” Sledge’s hit became a standard that sustained his long touring career in the U.S., Europe and South Africa, when he averaged 100 performances a year, and led to his induction into the

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Percy Sledge kneels as he performs ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ along with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at the Musicians Hall of Fame awards show in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 28, 2008. Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ died, Tuesday. He was 74. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. It was a favourite at weddings — Sledge himself did the honours at a ceremony for musician and actor Steve Van Zandt — and often turned up in movies, including The Big Chill, The Crying Game and a 1994 Meg Ryan drama named for the song’s title. When a Man Loves a Woman was rereleased after being featured in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War film Platoon in 1987 and reached No. 2 in Britain. Michael Bolton topped the charts in the 1990s with a cover version and Rolling Stone magazine later ranked it No. 53 on its list of the greatest songs of all time.

Recognizable by his wide, gaptoothed smile, Sledge had a handful of other hits between 1966 and 1968, including Warm and Tender Love, It Tears Me Up, Out of Left Field and Take Time to Know Her. He returned to the charts in 1974 with I’ll Be Your Everything. Before he became famous, Sledge worked in the cotton fields around his hometown of Leighton in northwest Alabama and took a job in a hospital in nearby Sheffield. He also spent weekends playing with a rhythm-and-blues band called the Esquires. A patient at the hospital heard him singing while working and recommended him to record producer Quin Ivy.

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Music producer Bob Ezrin chaired the international jury, which also included former governor general Adrienne Clarkson and soprano Deborah Voigt. Previous winners of the award include Robert Lepage, Leonard Cohen, Yo-Yo Ma and Oscar Peterson.

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TORONTO — American composer Philip Glass has won the Glenn Gould Prize, worth $100,000. This is the 11th instalment of the biennial prize, which honours living laureates from a variety of creative disciplines for their body of work. Jury members, who named Glass as the winner at an event today in Toronto, say they considered about 80 candidates and wanted to “find a laureate whose work elevated the human condition.” Actress-filmmaker Sarah Polley, singer Petula Clark and author Michael Ondaatje were among the jury members for this year’s award.

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, whose The Open Veins of Latin America became a classic text for the left in the region and propelled the author to fame, died Monday at age 74. Galeano had been ill with lung cancer for several months. His death was confirmed by the weekly publication Brecha, where he was a contributor. Galeano’s work inspired several generations of Latin Americans with powerful, acerbic descriptions of the continent’s exploitation by capitalist and imperialist forces. The writer defined himself as someone who helped rescue “the kidnapped memory” of Latin America, a “despised and beloved land.” No work reflected that more than Open Veins, published in 1971. In it, Galeano wrote that Chile with its vast nitrate deposits, Brazil with its abundant rain forests and small Venezuelan towns with oil reserves “had painful reasons to believe in the mortality of fortunes that nature bestows and imperialism usurps.” “The world and Latin America have lost a maestro of the liberation of the people,” said Bolivian President Evo Morales, a left-leaning leader. “His messages and works have always been oriented toward defending the sovergnty and dignity of our peoples.” Open Veins had such strong resonance in the region that former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handed a copy of the book to U.S. President Barack Obama the first time they met in 2009, calling it “a monument in our Latin American history.” Sales of the booked spiked after that interaction. Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones, has departed the comic book film and its development due to creative differences, Warner Bros. announced Monday. MacLaren would have been the first woman to direct a major comic book adaptation in recent years. Patty Jenkins was originally scheduled to direct Thor: The Dark World, but also departed for creative differences. Gal Gadot is set to star in the film as the titular character, who will be introduced to audiences first in director Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which bows on March 25, 2016. No details were given on whether or not MacLaren’s exit will impact the 2017 release.

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FLINT Chauncey D. April 28, 1920 - April 7, 2015 Chauncey D. Flint from Red Deer, formerly of New Norway, passed away Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at the age of 94 years. Left to cherish his memory are his companion Chris Thompson of Red Deer; children John (Vivian) of New Norway, James of Wetaskiwin, Frank of British Columbia, Susan (Doug) Pekrul of Okanagan Centre, B.C., and Virginia Flint of Dried Meat Lake; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two nephews. Chauncey was predeceased by his sister Mary Ellen Johnson; and parents Chauncey and Nellie. A Funeral Service will be held at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16, 2015 from the Burgar Memorial Chapel with Rev. Brian Hunter officiating. If family and friends so desire, memorial contributions are gratefully accepted to charity of one’s choice. To send condolences, please visit www.burgarfuneralhome.com BURGAR FUNERAL HOME CAMROSE & DAYSLAND in care of arrangements. 780-672-2121. “Dedicated service since 1906”

CASLICK- DOROTHY Nov. 25, 1925 - Apr.14, 2010 Three little words, “Forget me not” Don’t seem like much, but means a lot Just a memory, fond and true To show dear Dorothy, we think of you. ~Always, Janet Stang

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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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FEEDLOT in Central Alberta seeking F/T employee for feed truck operator and machinery maintenance. Send resume to fax: 403 638-3908 or e-mail to: dthengs@hotmail.com

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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 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. Medical 37444 HWY 2 S Call or visit us online! 37543 HWY 2N 1-844-299-2466 700 3020 22 St. F/T / P/T Pharmacy welcomewagon.ca Manager/Food Services Technicians. Apply w/ Permanent P/T, F/T shift. resume to: Highland Green Wknd, day, night & eves. Value Drug Mart, Red Deer Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. F/T & P/T Pharmacist 40 hrs/week, + benefits , Companions positions req’d. Apply w/ 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., resume to: Highland Green criminal record check req’d. GENT in 60’s closer to Value Drug Mart, Red Deer Req’d education some Ponoka looking for lady in secondary. Apply in 60’s. Please answer my person or fax resume to: ad. Please leave phone 403-314-1303 For full job Oilfield number. Reply to Box description visit www. 1107, c/o RED DEER timhortons.com ADVOCATE, 2950 Instrument Technician Bremner Ave., Red Deer, needed in Lacombe, AB at JJAM Management (1987) AB T4R 1M9 Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Decoking Descaling Requires to work at these Technology, Inc. Position LADY, petite, enjoys Red Deer, AB locations: will include working locally walking, reading, dancing, in our shop facility as well 5111 22 St. travelling, cycling, looking as field work. Please apply 37444 HWY 2 S for a gentleman, n/s, age to calvin@decoking.com 37543 HWY 2N 60ish, active with varied 700 3020 22 St. Thank you for your interest interests. FOOD ATTENDANT Reply to Box 1105, c/o LOCAL SERVICE CO. Req’d permanent shift RED DEER ADVOCATE, in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. weekend day and evening 2950 Bremner Ave., Red VACUUM TRUCK both full and part time. Deer, AB T4R 1M9 OPERATOR 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Must have Class 3 licence benefits. Start ASAP. w/air & all oilfield tickets. Job description Fax resume w/drivers www.timhortons.com Personals abstract to 403-886-4475 Education and experience not req’d. Apply in person or fax ALCOHOLICS resume to: 403-314-1303 ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 Professionals

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MANDRUSIAK Barry Wayne June 9, 1955 - April 16, 2005 We thought of you with love today But that is nothing new. We thought about you yesterday And the days before that too. We think of you in silence, We often speak your name. Now all we have are memories And your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake With which we’ll never part. God has you in His keeping We have you in our hearts.

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F/T live in caregiver needed for 3 kids, ages, 8 6, & 12 yr. old. Must love kids and do light housekeeping. $2000 wage less room and board, tax, CPP and EI. Call Brian 403-314-0895 FT caregiver needed 40 hrs/wk, Red Deer, $10.20/hr. to aid special needs adult, male, permanent position, light housekeeping, 12 mo. exp., high school diploma, must speak english. Contact eurocan5@telus.net

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YEAR-ROUND employment in Central Alberta, exp. maintenance grader operator required. Reply to Box 1106, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Adanac Insurance Services Ltd. Full Time

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Level 2 Licensed Agent required Commercial Experience preferred Salary is commensurate with experience. Please forward your resume:

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EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided. Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB.

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is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK and Dishwasher. Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

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Red Deer company requires three quarter to full time experienced accounting person that will learn company structure and daily duties including payroll, payables, bank reconciliations, lease managements and be able to complete monthly ¿nancial reporting to owners. Accounting experience required to prepare Year end ¿nancials for accountants.

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Competitive wages and bene¿ts plan. Hours Àexible. Please submit cover letter, resume and references to: Peacock Inn/KFC #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Email mail@peacockgroup.ca

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EAVES CLEANED INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Residential/Commercial Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. Free quotes. 403-506-4822 with oilfield service companies, other small GUTTERS CLEANED & businesses and individuals REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 RW Smith, 346-9351

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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

BROWN Proud mother of 5, Andrea Brown, would like to announce the birth of her beautiful boy, Caleb Benjamon Brown, born on March 28 via caesarean section. Weighing in at 9 lb., 7 oz., with a height of 55 cm., Caleb is welcomed by his two brothers, Frank and Dwayne, and his two sisters, Annette and Amanda. We love you, Caleb!

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ROBSON 1940 - 2015 Clifford John Robson of Red Deer County, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, April 10, 2015 at the age of 75 years. Cliff served with the City of Red Deer Fire Department from 1964 to 1995 as a Fireman, Fire Inspector and retired as Fire Marshall. During his career, Cliff received numerous awards for his distinguished service with the department. His hobbies were model planes and trains, hunting, fishing and spending time with family and friends. Cliff enjoyed a good round of golf and especially the coffee meetings with “the guys”. Cliff is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Sylvia; step son Mark (Angie) Wakefield; step daughters Janice (Neil) Bourque and Sandy (Don) Fedorak; step grandchildren Kimberly, Jessica and Jennifer Fedorak. Also to cherish Cliff’s memory are his brother Rick (Betty Lynn) Robson and sister Elizabeth (Bob) Abel; numerous nephews; nieces; family members and the many friends made over the years. A Memorial Service to celebrate Cliff’s life will be held at the West Park Church of the Nazarene, 3920 - 57 Ave, Red Deer AB on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer AB T4P 2J1, to the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, 5002 - 39 St. Red Deer AB T4N 2P2 or to the Red Deer Firefighters Community Fund, Box 535, Red Deer AB T4N5G1. Condolences to Cliff’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca. MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

REMOVAL of old concrete, Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285

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Massage Therapy

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

VII MASSAGE Window #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Cleaning Pampering at its Free Est. 403-872-8888 BEST! RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL 403-986-6686 Free quotes. Come in and see Roofing 403-506-4822 why we are the talk Something for Everyone of the town. PRECISE ROOFING LTD. Everyday in Classifieds

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777

GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME Property clean ups and all 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 junk removal. 403-550-2502

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NOW HIRING 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr 5 - Floor Covering Installers $25/hr Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk 3 - Construction Labourers $20/hr. No exp required. Full time perm position with Valid Driver’s Licence Email Resume to: cat1employment@ gmail.com or drop off resume at Central Alberta Tile One 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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BUSY rig moving company looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor hands, and picker operators. Oilfield ticket an asset. Must be able to pass a drug test. Pls call 1-306-463-6674.

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Truckers/ Drivers

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

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ACTIVE self-storage business requires permanent employee for customer service. Minimum of 3-4 days/week. To start immediately. Must be able to work independently and have good computer and communication skills. Attached 2-bedroom apt at discounted rent available. Please send your résumé to Lisa at iss@innstor.ca or drop it off at Innisfail SelfStorage & RV Parking at 4320 42nd Ave Innisfail, AB.

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

3 am - 11 am shift. Need to be physically fit. Must have reliable transportation. Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale greg@cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St.

GED Preparation

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F/T CLEANERS

LUBE TECH wanted for busy dealership, possible chance for advancement into apprenticeship. Must have drivers license. Fax resume to 341-5066

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PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT)

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

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8 PC. setting of dishes, cream w/gold trim, Wood & Son England $30 403-347-3849

Wii with drums, games, and dance mat $140 403-782-3847

ALUMINUM storm door 32” x 80”, $40. elec. pressure washer $100 403-887-2079

Misc. for Sale

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

Firewood

1660

SAFETY PERSON

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo. For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306

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Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 APPOX. 1 cord of birch firewood $40 403-343-8662 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

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

Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train Garden the right person. Must Supplies have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume KENMORE lawn mower 403-309-0489 $50 obo 403-346-7384 Looking for a new pet? Celebrate your life Check out Classifieds to with a Classified find the purrfect pet. ANNOUNCEMENT

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Employment Training

RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am. Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

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NEW PROGRAMS

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

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.) 529102E29

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PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (SUMMER STUDENT) Joffre

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 • 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. 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

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

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Houses/ Duplexes

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3 BDRM. main level, house, Johnstone Park. $1300 + d.d. 30% utils. incld’. immediate no pets 587-877-2839 403-667-5527 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils. Avail. now from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

WEST PARK Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

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SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

TWO window mount air conditioners, 19”w, 17”d, 12” h, one forced air, 8,000 ~ Westpark btu, Kenmore 5,200 btu. ~ Kitson Close $125 each. 403-886-2542 ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Office Rent $1195 to $1395 Supplies 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, OFFICE desk $100, lrg. balconies, no dogs. 403-346-7384 N/S, no utils. incl. Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required. Sporting

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Goods

GUN SHOW May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm. UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767

Travel Packages

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries. The terror designation has been a stain on Cuba’s pride and a major stumbling block for efforts to mend ties between Washington and Havana. In a message to Congress, Obama said the government of Cuba “has not provided any support for international terrorism” over the last six months. He also told lawmakers that Cuba “has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” Cuba will officially be removed from the terror list 45 days after the president’s message was sent to Congress. Lawmakers could vote to block the move during that window, though Obama would be all-but-certain to veto such a measure. Tuesday’s announcement comes days after Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro met on the sidelines of a regional summit in Panama. The historic talks marked the first formal meeting between the leaders of their countries in a half-century. The U.S. has long since stopped actively accusing Cuba of supporting terrorism. When Obama and Castro announced a thaw in relations in December, the U.S. president expressed his willingness to remove Cuba from that list. However, he held off on making a final decision amid indications that the White House was reluctant to grant Cuba’s request until other thorny issues — such as restrictions on U.S. diplomats in Havana — were resolved. The president’s final decision followed a State Department review of Cuba’s presence on the list. Removing Cuba from the terror list could pave the way for the opening of a U.S. Embassy in Havana and other steps. Administration officials said they were optimistic about the pros-

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A vendor gives a thumbs up to the camera as he sells shoes and paintings of Cuba’s revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Havana, Cuba, April 14, 2015. President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries. pects of opening the embassy, but did not provide any specific updates in timing. Cuba was designated a state sponsor of terror in 1982 because of what the White House said was its efforts “to promote armed revolution by organizations that used terrorism.” Those efforts included support for leftist guerrilla groups in Central and South America that carried out attacks on civilians in their efforts to overthrow U.S.-backed governments. State Department reports on the terror list specifically mention Cuba sheltering members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA. Cuba renounced its direct support for foreign militants years ago, and is sponsoring peace talks between the FARC and Colombian government. Cubans say the listing has badly damaged their ability to conduct international financial transactions by frightening banks away from doing

business with the communist government. Those who do businesses with state sponsors of terror are vulnerable to lawsuits in U.S. courts. Cuba’s removal from the terror list will likely make it easier to get credit from non-U.S. banks, transfer funds between countries and conduct a host of other international financial transactions. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that taking Cuba off the terror list does not change the fact that the U.S. has differences with the island nation’s government. “Our concerns over a wide range of Cuba’s policies and actions fall outside the criteria that is relevant to whether to rescind Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Earnest said. Until Tuesday, the communist island nation remained one of four countries on the U.S. list of nations accused of repeatedly supporting global terrorism. The others are Iran, Sudan and Syria.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A former community college student dismissed from a work-study program for too many absences is accused of fatally shooting his former supervisor, who was gay, and police are investigating the campus slaying as a possible hate crime. Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 20, was arrested without incident early Tuesday while sleeping on a Florida beach, about 500 miles (800 kilometres) from Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Stancil made his first court appearance later in the day, saying in a profanity-laced and unsubstantiated tirade that the man he killed had molested a relative. Stancil told the judge there is now “one less child molester.” The judge denied bond and appointed a public defender. Police say Stancil shot 44-year-old Ron Lane on Monday morning at the college. Lane, the school’s print shop director, had been Stancil’s supervisor in a work-study program before Stancil was let go in early March. It wasn’t clear how long they had worked together. Police have not released a motive in the shooting. Stancil’s mother told The Associated Press that Lane made

sexually laced comments to her son. “He was verbally inappropriate with Morgan at school. Very much verbally inappropriate,” Debbie Stancil said. “He would tell him to stop and he kept on.” College spokeswoman Tara Humphries said she did not know whether any complaints had been lodged against Lane. Classes were cancelled Monday, but the school reopened Tuesday. “It’s a day of healing. We will be paying personal tributes to Ron Lane,” Humphries said. Debbie Stancil said she knows one of her relatives was not sexually abused by Lane, as Kenneth Stancil claimed in court, because the relative and Lane had never met. She believes Kenneth Stancil is making the accusations because he is “rattled and confused.” He never recovered from his father’s suicide in 2009 and was angry about being dismissed from the college’s print shop, she told AP. “I don’t agree with what he did, but in his mind he must have thought that was the only way,” she said. “He’s probably out of his mind. I think he needs mental help.” Experts who track hate groups said Stancil’s facial tattoo with the number “88” is a clear indication of a neo-Nazi — a group that has been accused of attacking gays. However, police have not said whether Stancil held white supremacist beliefs or what hate crime they are investigating.

Stancil’s mother said he gave himself the facial tattoo over the weekend and it marked a wannabe rather than someone who expressed neo-Nazi views. Stancil entered the print shop on the third-floor of a campus building and fired once with a pistol-grip shotgun, police said. The shooting sparked a campus-wide lockdown and officers stormed the building looking for Stancil, who fled on a motorcycle. He left behind a six-page letter explaining his actions and a video, which have been turned over to police, his mother said. The manhunt ended with Stancil’s arrest in Daytona Beach, Florida. He had a knife on him but was apprehended without incident. Police have not found the 12-gauge shotgun they believe was used to kill Lane. A booking photo from Florida showed Stancil with the number “88” on his left cheek, a number used by racist extremists, said Brian Levin, a criminal justice professor and director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. Because “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, 88 equates to HH or “Heil Hitler,” Levin said. Goldsboro police and the Wayne County district attorney’s office will work to have Stancil extradited to North Carolina to face a murder charge. The judge denied bond and appointed a public defender.

Survivors tell aid group 400 migrants drowned in capsizing off Libya BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that an estimated 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed, Italy’s Coast Guard said it assumed that there were many dead given the size of the ship and that nine bodies had been found. The coast guard had helped rescue some 144 people on Monday and immediately launched an air and sea search operation in hopes of finding others. No other survivors or bodies have been recovered. On Tuesday, Save the Children said

its interviews with survivors who arrived in Reggio Calabria indicated there may have been 400 others who drowned. The U.N. refugee agency said the toll was likely given the size of the ship. The deaths, if confirmed, would add to the skyrocketing numbers of migrants lost at sea: The International Organization of Migration estimates that up to 3,072 migrants are believed to have died in the Mediterranean in 2014, compared to an estimate of 700 in 2013. But the IOM says even those estimates could be low. Overall, since the year 2000, IOM estimates that over 22,000 migrants have lost their lives trying to reach Europe. Earlier Tuesday, the European

Union’s top migration official said the EU must quickly adapt to the growing numbers of migrants trying to reach its shores, as new figures showed that more than 7,000 migrants have been plucked from the Mediterranean in the last four days. “The unprecedented influx of migrants at our borders, and in particular refugees, is unfortunately the new norm and we will need to adjust our responses accordingly,” the EU’s commissioner for migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, told lawmakers in Brussels. More than 280,000 people entered the European Union illegally last year. Many came from Syria, Eritrea and Somalia and made the perilous sea journey from conflict-torn Libya.

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Girls gone but not forgotten A YEAR AFTER ISLAMIC MILITANTS ABDUCTED GIRLS, HOPE FOR THEIR RETURN IS WANING NIGERIA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria — They have been gone a year now, the hundreds of girls abducted by Islamic militants from their school in northeastern Nigeria. And while the cry to “Bring Back Our Girls” remains a worldwide cause, the new president Tuesday would not repeat his predecessor’s failed promise to find them — only that they won’t be forgotten. A solemn march was held to remember the 219 girls seized from their boarding school in Chibok by gunmen from the Boko Haram extremist group. In Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, 219 girls paraded in the streets, with each carrying a placard bearing the name of a kidnap victim. “We believe the girls are still alive,” said Dr. Allan Manasseh, the brother of missing 18-year-old Maryamu Wavi, in an interview with The Associated Press. But it was clear that hope has dwindled a year after the April 14-15 mass abduction. President-elect Muhammadu Buhari said he must be honest about the prospects of getting the missing girls back to their families. “We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued. Their whereabouts remain unknown,” Buhari said in a statement. “As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them.” The statement by Buhari, a former military ruler of Nigeria who was elected last month and takes over May 29, is a marked departure from President Goodluck Jonathan. After Jonathan’s administration initially denied there had even been a kidnapping, he made repeated hollow promises that the girls would be rescued. Campaigners have replaced the slogan of “Bring Back Our Girls — Now and Alive!” with a new one: “Never to be forgotten.” Still, some of the marchers Tuesday held the new leadership accountable. “We are here to appeal to the government to do better. We want our girls now and alive,” said Solamipe Onifade, 16. A vigil was held after sundown, with people holding candles and singing. The gunmen initially seized 276 girls, but several dozen managed to escape as the militants transported them to the Sambisa Forest, with some clinging to the branches of trees from a moving open-back truck. Those still missing may have been split up. Witnesses said some girls

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Young girls known as Chibok Ambassadors, carry placards bearing the names of the girls kidnapped from the government secondary school in Chibok, a year ago, during a demonstration, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday. Never to be forgotten. The new slogan adopted Tuesday is a sad concession that many believe few of the Chibok girls kidnapped one year ago by Islamic extremists will ever find their way home. On the first anniversary of the day 276 schoolgirls were snatched in the middle of the night as they prepared to write science exams at their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria, Presidentelect Muhammadu Buhari said he cannot promise to find the 219 who are still missing. were taken across the border into Cameroon. Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, claimed they had converted to Islam and been married off to his fighters. A negotiator said that at least three died in the early days, from a snake bite, malaria and dysentery. Then, Jonathan refused to negotiate with Boko Haram, who were offering to exchange the girls for detained insurgents. The girls became the focus of a global campaign soon after their abduction. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama had said she was “outraged and heartbroken” about the kidnapping and also posted a picture of herself holding a sign reading “BringBackOurGirls” on her official Twitter account in May 2014. At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since

Three injured in chaotic Miami police shootout, car chase BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — A taxi driver armed with an assault rifle opened fire on an officer, then stole the officer’s cruiser and led police on a chaotic car chase before he was shot and wounded, authorities said Tuesday. Two bystanders also were hurt. The officer shot back, and neither man was hit, said Miami police spokesman Sgt. Freddie Cruz. However, the suspect managed to steal the police car and speed away. Witnesses said the taxi driver, who was not immediately identified, had been involved in some sort of altercation at a taxi company before he encountered the officer. “He caused a disturbance and they called the police,” said Joel Lubin, manager of a different taxi company across the street. “We saw the shooting, and that’s about it.” Local Fraternal Order of Police President Javier Ortiz said a motorist passing by in a van used the vehicle to provide cover for the officer while the suspect was firing the assault rifle. “The Fraternal Order of Police wants to thank this good Samaritanfor putting his life on the line to save one of our brothers,” Ortiz said. Meanwhile, the suspect in the stolen police car headed with officers in

2014, forced to become sex slaves and fighters, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Unknown hundreds of boys and young men also have been kidnapped and forced to fight for Boko Haram. Those who refuse are killed. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the U.S. has helped Nigerian security forces counter the threat by Boko Haram and also helped look for the kidnapped girls. “Unfortunately, this kind of kidnapping story is one that is becoming all too familiar in Nigeria,” Earnest said. “We continue to be very concerned about that and we continue to be supportive of the efforts of Nigerians to counter the depraved tactics that are employed by Boko Haram,” he said. Earnest added that the U.S. is engaged in a “substantial number of operations to try to address the many needs of the Nigerian people, particu-

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pursuit toward North Miami, where the chase ended in a residential neighbourhood. North Miami officers traded gunfire with the suspect, who was shot and wounded and taken for treatment at a local hospital. The stolen Miami police cruiser was parked for hours behind crime scene tape with a bullet hole in its back window. Authorities say two motorists were also wounded with apparently nonlife threatening injuries — one in the vicinity of the initial confrontation and one closer to where the cab driver was stopped. The names of those involved have not been released. The suspect’s condition was not immediately available. Local resident Robbie Hobbs said he was watching television in his apartment when he heard loud police sirens. He looked out the window and saw the suspect emerge from the stolen police cruiser. “I see the guy walking with a weapon in his hands. He fired a shot,” Hobbs said. “The siren was just going and going.” Hobbs said he ducked down inside his apartment and did not see any more of the confrontation. “He picked the wrong place to come to have a shootout with the police. They were on him in under a minute,” Hobbs said.

MEXICO CITY — Activists from Mexico, the United States and Canada are asking the UN World Heritage Committee to include the Monarch butterfly wintering reserve on a list of sites considered in danger. UNESCO designated the 139,000-acre reserve in the mountains west of Mexico City a World Heri-

larly as they try to counter the threat that’s posed by Boko Haram.” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said a team from U.S. government agencies was in Abuja “to help both in the search, providing training, equipment, to try and help them find not just the girls, but all of those kidnapped by Boko Haram.” A hopeful message addressed to the captives from Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai promised scholarships for the girls and said they must never lose courage. The 17-year-old Pakistani activist who stood up to the Taliban chastised Jonathan’s administration and other countries. “Nigerian leaders and the international community have not done enough to help you. They must do much more to help secure your release,” she said. tage site in 2008. Monarchs from the U.S. and Canada migrate 3,400-miles (5,470-kilometres) each year to winter in the forest reserve. But the number of butterflies wintering in Mexico has dropped steeply in recent years, leading to worries the migration might end. Writer and activist Homero Aridjis said adding the Monarch site to the list is needed to spur governments into greater efforts to protect the butterflies’ habitat.

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Freezing eggs no guarantee TRYING TO PROLONG FERTILITY MAY NOT WORK BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Women who are considering having their eggs frozen to prolong fertility should be aware there is no guarantee they will have a baby, despite spending thousands of dollars on the retrieval procedure and storage, researchers say. In an analysis published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the researchers say primary-care doctors need to counsel women that so-called social egg freezing isn’t insurance against future infertility and point out the high cost and medical risks of in-vitro fertilization. “It’s really getting marketed like it’s a back-up plan, it’s insurance,” says lead author Angel Petropanagos, a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. “The problem is that the success rate isn’t really that great. “It’s not guaranteed, so you can spend all this time, energy and money investing in egg freezing and think you’re covered, and when it comes down to it 10 years down the line, the IVF won’t result in a live birth,” she said from Halifax. “Some women might understand that, that it’s still a gamble. But depending on how this is marketed, some women might see this as a guarantee when it’s really not.” Egg freezing has been used for some time to preserve fertility in young women and girls treated for cancer, for instance. But more women who are delaying motherhood to build a career or who have not yet met a suitable partner are also electing to cryopreserve their ova. Females are born with all their eggs, or oocytes, but over time they begin to diminish in number and degrade in quality. To protect or preserve fertility, a number of eggs can be retrieved following hormonal stimulation of the ovaries, then flash-frozen and stored.

In Canada, each stimulation cycle costs $5,000 to $10,000, with annual storage fees ranging from $300 to $500, depending on the clinic, the researchers write. In October, the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society released a position paper on egg freezing, describing it as “an option for women wishing to preserve their fertility in the face of anticipated decline.” That contradicted a position statement by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (ASRM-SART), which cautioned again the practice. Despite that position, some U.S. companies including Facebook and Apple have offered to cover limited insurance coverage for the cost of egg freezing for their employees. ASRM-SART estimates that the survival rate of oocytes after vitrification (flash-freezing) and thawing is 90 per cent to 97 per cent; the fertilization rate is 71 per cent to 79 per cent; and the implantation rate of fertilized embryos is 17 per cent to 41 per cent. But those U.S. statistics also show the IVF pregnancy rate using frozen and thawed eggs is just 4.5 per cent to 12 per cent — and that’s primarily among women who had their ova preserved before age 30. Rates of pregnancy and live births decline among women as they age, and that’s likely true for those who have their eggs frozen when they’re older, said Petropanagos. “So the concern is if you’re in your mid-30s or late 30s even and you want to use social egg freezing, there’s not great data for how viable those eggs are going to be when frozen and then you try to use them later for IVF. “If you froze your eggs early enough, you have young oocytes and you reduce your chances of having a child with chromosomal abnormalities.... You’d have a better chance of pregnancy with younger eggs than with older eggs.”

Using IVF to get pregnant also carries a number of risks, including multiple births, premature delivery and low birth-weight babies. Dr. Ken Cadesky, medical director at Life Quest Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Toronto, said more women are approaching the clinic about banking their eggs for a future pregnancy. “It’s not a flood, but it’s definitely increased over the last three years,” Cadesky said Monday, estimating that Life Quest gets about 60 to 80 requests a year. Women are considered as candidates up until their 38th birthday. They must go through medical and psychological testing, as well as counselling about potential risks of powerful ovary-stimulating medications and those linked to future IVF before being accepted as clients. But the clinic has no way to judge the success of the program, Cadesky said. “Our program has been going on in earnest for the last three years, but just like the rest of the world, not a lot of patients are in a position yet where they wish to utilize the eggs. About 90 to 95 per cent still have them frozen, they’ve not come forward to use them,” he said. “In theory, it should work ... but since around the world the majority are still frozen, we don’t know for sure.” Petropanagos said it’s difficult to know how many women across Canada are inquiring about or pursuing elective egg freezing, but family physicians and other primary-care doctors are in an ideal position to discuss the risks and benefits of the technology “and really frame it in the context of their broader reproductive health.” Doctors also need to inform women that provincial health insurance programs don’t cover social egg freezing or related IVF procedures, such as embryo creation and transfer, which could add thousands of dollars more to the cost of trying to have a family.

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It’s OK to ask for info on wedding etiquette Dear Annie: How much can I ask my host about etiquette for her overseas wedding? I live in Canada. The bride is French. I met her when she was briefly living in my hometown. She went back to France two years ago, and now she’s getting married there. The wedding invitation was sent to my name only, and there was not any kind of RSVP card that I’m accustomed to seeing. So I’m unsure whether I am welcome to bring a guest, since attending would MITCHELL involve a rather lengthy jour& SUGAR ney. Would it be acceptable to email the bride and ask her whether I can bring my boyfriend? I don’t want to put her on the spot, but I also don’t want to bring my date to a country where he doesn’t speak the language and then stick him by himself for the day, only to find out later that they had expected me to bring him. -— Beaucoup Baffled

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Dear Baffled: Did the invitation appear to be formal or informal? If informal, it is perfectly OK to ask the bride whether you can bring a guest. If it is formal, however, you’d have to be more circumspect. Email the bride and say that you would love to attend her wedding, but you aren’t certain you are up to making such a long journey by yourself. If she wants you to bring a guest, she will then tell you so. But if she doesn’t make such an offer, you can assume that her guest list is limited, sorry. Dear Annie: After reading the letter from “Holding My Breath,” whose spouse has terrible breath, I had to respond. My husband had terrible breath, but he also had a very rigorous oral care routine, which made me wonder what else could be going on. Having been a dental assistant, I was aware of various odors from different oral diseases. The smell was not from what he ate. I ate it, too, and didn’t have such an odor. It was the worst thing I had ever smelled, and I just knew it was metabolic in nature. His dentist simply told him it was “not dental in nature.” The doctor told him he was “fine.” Finally, after three months of worsening gastrointestinal symp-

toms, his doctor gave him a blood test, and a colonoscopy showed a fist-sized tumor. He underwent chemotherapy and was graced with a lovely ostomy bag. But during this time, the breath issue went away. When it recurred, it was because the lesions on his liver had spread. He passed away two months later. I would get that man in for a full physical, including a colonoscopy. It could save his life. — Been There Dear Been There: Halitosis is often a result of poor dental hygiene, but it also can be due to oral problems, throat issues, gum disease, infection, certain foods and sometimes gastrointestinal difficulties. Some of these, as you have pointed out, can be quite serious. Please, folks, we want you to stick around for a long time. You must be an advocate for your own health. If you suspect something is wrong, be persistent. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HOROSCOPES Wednesday, April 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Emma Thompson, 56; Emma Watson, 25; Seth Rogen, 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There are relationship hurdles to overcome today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You can be very controlling. Jupiter brings career blessings this year involving children or creative projects. But sometimes you have to get out of the way and just let the magic happen! ARIES (March 21-April 19): With the Moon moving through your solitude zone, rushing Rams need JOANNE to slow down and spend some time MADELEINE alone, as you contemplate where you MOORE’ are going — and where you have been. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With Mercury now moving through your sign, pay close attention to the way you are communicating with others. Listen closely — and then respond carefully, cleverly and creatively. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid bringing up sensitive emotional issues, as loved ones are not feeling generous or forgiving. Relationships are acting as a mirror; reflecting back what you may not want to see. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Saturn pours cold water on displays of affection, so don’t take it personally if others respond to you in a detached way. Keep yourself busy with plenty of personal or professional projects. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re feeling friendly, but others may appear to be aloof or uncaring. Don’t worry; it’s a passing phase. You’re in the mood to help others — just don’t promise more than you can deliver. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As the Moon and Neptune move through your relationship zone, it’s time to reflect on partnership issues. Single Virgos — look for a long-term lover who is creative and compassionate. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your diplomatic skills will be put to the test today as family, friends or colleagues cause problems at every turn. So do your best to calm troubled waters and soothe furrowed brows. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve got your finger on the financial pulse — haven’t you? The less realistic you are about money matters, the more worried and out of control you’ll feel. So get on top of your finances ASAP. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Saturn demands that you take a close look at your personal and professional relationships, and accept responsibility for the part you are playing in any ongoing problems. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All types of communication and social media are favoured today Capricorn, as the stars encourage you to make contact with a wide range of people in a variety of different ways. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s a good day to write down your goals and dreams for the future. But, when it comes to your peer group, be discriminating and don’t waste time with fickle and flighty friends. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Pisces Moon heightens your creativity, sensitivity and compassion. So make sure you surround yourself with positive people who appreciate your talents and support your dreams.

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