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Eye in the sky RED DEER BUSINESS LOOKS TO CAPITALIZE ON COMMERCIAL USES FOR DRONES BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR With six propellers and weighing a hefty 18 pounds (eight kg), it’s immediately evident that the drone rising from the field on Red Deer’s northeastern outskirts isn’t your typical hobby shop offering. A GPS sensor sits atop the unit, a 24-megapixel camera is attached to a three-axis gimbal below, and three men oversee its operation: Shaun McLaren serving as pilot, Trevor Praud controlling the camera and Jeff Giesbrecht acting as spotter. The three men are partners in Alberta Aerial Imaging and Mapping, a Red Deer business that’s seeking to capitalize on the commercial applications of drones — or as they prefer to call them, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “It’s definitely picking up and it’s going to get big in the near future,” said Praud of the demand for UAV services. Obvious uses include photos and video of subjects like farmyards, homes and even wedding parties. Mount an infrared camera on a UAV, and it provides a way to scout farm

crops for evidence of disease; switch to a thermal imaging camera, and it can help firefighters detect hot spots in the aftermath of a blaze, or assist search and rescue personnel in locating missing people. McLaren, who’s worked in environmental drilling for the past decade, is excited about the potential for 3D mapping to facilitate spill assessments. Inspections of infrastructure like power lines and bridges could also be conducted with UAVs, he said. Praud, who is an IT specialist, listed flood management, municipal planning, disaster response and insurance surveying as other applications. Giesbrecht, who also operates Red Deer’s Tri-West Security, thinks a UAV with thermal imaging capabilities could be a useful tool for the security industry. “It would be a huge bonus for a security guard to know what’s out there in the dark, especially with construction sites,” he said. It was this potential that led Giesbrecht to McLaren and Praud. Soon after, he decided to invest in their fledgling business.

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Merkules delivers songs of gratitude, recovery RAPPER GOES IN DIFFERENT DIRECTION ON NEW ALBUM BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Rapper Merkules’s harrowing history is written in the scars on his face. Two sharp lines — one extending from the left side of his mouth, and another just missing his right eye and continuing across his nose — have inspired his new album Scars. The upcoming release will be weighted with gritty songs about violence and recovery, as well as more melody-driven tunes of gratitude, and should take Red Deer resident’s career in a new direction. “Maybe some youths will hear it and think twice about who they’re hanging out with, and what they’re doing with their lives,” said the 22-year-old who is originally from Surrey, B.C. So far, Merkules is best known for coining the slogan “Bacon over Bitches” and the music video of his song L.A.S.H., about the glories of marijuana, which made him recognizable in places like Germany, Spain, Greece and Bulgaria. The headliner of a hip-hop show on Friday, April 24, at Wild Bill’s Sports Bar has also been pigeon-holed as a “jolly, big fat rapper” when actually, he spent the last years of adolescence as a self-described mess. Until recently, Merkules said he was pushing 350 pounds and had to psyche himself up to leave the house or get up on stage. “I had the worst social anxiety ... I was basically a hermit. I put on 100 pounds eating and drinking, and trying to forget what happened.”

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From Left to Right, Shaun McLaren, pilots a UAV while Trevor Praud operates the camera while Jeff Giesbreht watches a camera monitor as the Alberta Aerial Imaging and Mapping partners launch their UAV in Red Deer recently.

Davidson hopes Esso Cup will help to grow the game BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Two years ago Melody Davidson charged the Red Deer Minor Hockey Association with going after hosting rights for the Esso Cup. On Sunday afternoon the puck dropped on the midget AAA girls hockey national championship. For the t w o - t i m e CHIEFS OPEN ESSO CUP O l y m p i c WITH WIN B1 gold medal women’s hockey coach, it was more than just being opportunistic for the region she grew up in to host another national championship. “There are so many options out there and sometimes I don’t think we know what’s out there when we grow up in smaller centres,” said the Oyen native. “I think this is great for Central Alberta and those who play the game to help grow the game and make it better and let them know that there are options.” The tournament pits the host Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs against the five regional champions from across Canada — Edmonton Thunder (Pacific), Saskatoon Stars (Saskatchewan), Central Plains Capitals (Manitoba), Sudbury Lady Wolves (Ontario), Moncton Rockets (Atlantic). Davidson, who is now the women’s high performance general manger for Hockey Canada, says several players playing this week have already been invited to the U-18 women’s training camp, including Chiefs defencemen Mairead Bast and Abagael Thiessen. But Davidson will be far from the only scout at the tournament with a number of college recruiters from across the continent coming in. Chiefs head coach Tom Bast says he has done his best to keep his girls focused on the task at hand. “I haven’t mentioned anything to them about (scouts),” he said. “I think they know there are going to be lots of people but that’s not front and centre right now, front and centre is playing a real solid team game. It’s a marathon,

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Cassidy Hollman of the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs fires a shot past Emma Rae Murphy of the Moncton Rockets Sunday night in Esso Cup action. not a sprint.” The Chiefs will have enough distractions with tournament organizers expecting record crowds. According to host chairman and RDMHA president Todd Thiessen, they have set a new standard for tournament passes sold with more than 220 purchased — the previous two years sold 189 in Burnaby, B.C., and 175 last year in Hamilton, Ont. — and then sold out for single day passes for Sunday. Organizers were also expecting a large walk-up crowd for the Chiefs’ opener against Moncton. There is the potential that the crowd will grow further, especially if the Chiefs can get off to a quick start at the tournament. “That’s going to be something new

for them that they are going to have to experience,” said Bast prior to Sunday’s game. “A building full of people cheering them on, the girls have never had that, I’m excited to see what kind of reaction I’m going to get from the girls. “It’s wonderful that Red Deer is supporting this as well as they are. Everyone thinks that ladies hockey is ladies hockey, but it’s competitive, it’s fun to watch and there’s lots of wild things that do go on.” One way the Chiefs are trying to avoid distractions is by staying in a hotel as a team, despite playing in their hometown.

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UAV: Capabilities are impressive Longtime UAV enthusiasts, McLaren and Praud had been pondering the jump from recreational to commercial flying for some time. They decided to take that step last fall. Alberta Aerial’s fleet currently consists of six UAVs: three hexacopters and one quadcopter. It also operates fixed-wing aircraft. High-end commercial UAVs can cost as much as $70,000, but their capabilities are impressive. “I’ve seen people flying as far as 50 km away,” said Praud, describing how operators can use “first-person view” goggles to fly using their UAV’s camera image. As far as vertical distance is concerned, the sky is literally the limit. “I watched a video of a guy taking off at the base camp of Everest,” said McLaren, adding that UAVs can ascend past the point of visibility. However, commercial operators never test the limits of their equipment, he stressed. Transport Canada regulations typically restrict UAVs to a 90-metre ceiling and require that they remain in clear view of their operators. Alberta Aerial is insured and goes through a checklist of potential hazards before sending its units aloft, said Giesbrecht. The locations of airports, power lines and bystanders are all considered. He, McLaren and Praud are conscious of the public’s perception of UAVs, noting that many people worry about being spied upon or otherwise affected by the aircraft. Some concerns are justified, but these typically relate to untrained users who don’t follow safety protocols. “Anybody can go to a hobby shop and pick up a toy and then fly irresponsibly,” noted Praud. Additional information about Alberta Aerial and its UAV services can be found online at www.aaim.ca. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

MERKULES: Paid a high price for shouting His story, as recounted on the titletrack of Scars, goes like this: Early on New Year’s Day, six years ago, he and a friend were attacked by eight men in a Surrey alley. Merkules, who was then a 16-year-old named Cole Stevenson, paid a high price for shouting at the wrong person. The aspiring rap artist had just finished recording vocals for his mentor Snak the Ripper’s song, Walk With Me. “I was so excited. It was my first-ever mixed tape,” he recalled. After celebrating at a house party in Surrey with his then-girlfriend and another teenage couple, the four were walking home when a car came speeding past, nearing hitting them. “I yelled, ‘Slow the f--- down!’ ” Merkules recalled. The vehicle immediately braked and a furious driver, a stranger in his late 20s, came out threatening retaliation. A few minutes later, when Merkules and his friends were walking down an alley, two cars pulled up to block both exits. The same driver and some cohorts came out of the vehicles, brandishing weapons. Merkules said that he and his male friend were beaten with a baseball bat into near unconciousness. They had

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their faces slashed with a knife and — in the most frightening moment of his life — Merkules recalled looking up and seeing someone standing over him with a machete. The rapper squeezed his eyes shut and shielded them with his fingers when the blade came down across his face and hand. He believes his protective instincts saved his sight. He was later told the assailants scattered when a Surrey resident came out of his house and fired a gun into the air. No one was ever arrested for the attack, said Merkules, who believes police had some idea of who had done it, but couldn’t get enough evidence. While his scars gradually faded — thanks to the expertise of a skilled plastic surgeon who used 150 stitches — Merkules remained haunted by this experience. “I couldn’t go out into the real world. I was scared by how easily these people were set off. I was worried it could easily happen again.” Merkules put on weight. He avoided friends and rarely left the house. The only positive was that he had many hours to work on his music. And after some time and a period of taking antianxiety medication, he said he could even begin performing in front of audiences again. Merkules embraced his “big fat rapper” persona. With tattooed arms and legs and stubble on his head, he cut a formidable figure on stage. But things weren’t working so well in his real life. He remembers a tour manager, who once worked with late rapper Big Pun, took him aside after one of his concerts in Kelowna. “Big Pun ate himself to death,” said Merkules — and this tour manager, called Vidal, told him that he was heading down that same path. “He said, ‘I’m not trying to be rude, but you remind me of him, when he was on his last legs and struggling with breath control. ... You put on a good show, regardless, but you remind me of Big Pun.’ ” Merkules thought long and hard about what image he wanted to project to fans and decided to turn his life around. He began eating better and exercising on a treadmill. “At first I was on a strict smoothie diet,” he recalled, then he expanded his entree choices to chicken and brown rice. The rapper lost 130 pounds over the last year or so and is feeling more positive about the future — which includes a new girlfriend from Red Deer and residence in Central Alberta. With a more positive mindset, he finally felt he could deal, musically, with what happened to him that night six years ago. The result is his 14-song Scars album, which is slated for release on Friday. The title-track deals directly with the assault, while the tunes My Bible of Bars and Save Us pay homage to musical inspirations, including his mentor, Snak the Ripper. Kill Em All and Scumbag should appease Merkules’s more hardcore fans. The tunes feature contributions from Sticky Fingaz and Fredro Starr, members of the U.S. rap collective Onyx. Merkules said the latter track pokes fun at public perceptions, while the former lets out “the angry side of me ... it’s about the people who talk trash.” The rapper challenged himself by telling stories and singing on the album, and plans to include a bonus track expressing gratitude to those who have stood by him, including his parents. “They’ve always been 100 per cent supportive,” said Merkules. “They’d take a lot of my friends in when they didn’t have anywhere else to go. My house was like a drop-in centr . ...” He grew up in the tough central part of Surrey known as Whalley but insists “I hate it when people associate me with it. ...

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Rapper Merkules’ new album Scars will be weighted with gritty songs about violence and recovery, as well as more melody-driven tunes of gratitude. “It’s like, yes, I have been through some hard stuff, and yes, I’m a big guy all covered with tattoos and scars on my face,” but he doesn’t believe this defines who he is as a person. One new track, Hunger Pains, pokes bitter fun at his oversized image. He feared it would enable other overweight kids to continue living an unhealthy lifestyle. “I’m trying to do something right (with this album). It says that bad things happen and you can do one of two things: Turn it into a positive or let it bring you down.” As time passes, wounds heal, he said, “and somewhere in the world, someone’s always got it worse than you.” Merkules hopes listeners take away the idea that “in life, we’re just fortunate to be here. ...” While the hip-hop artist is becoming one of Western Canada’s better-known rappers, his success leaves him ambivalent. He described his nervousness — and then amazement — at being approached by three thuggish-looking Bulgarians while touring in that country only to discover that they recognized him from his video and wanted him to appear in their selfie. “I’ve had people faint when they see me, girls bawl their eyes out, or shake when they see me ... I can’t walk through a mall in my hometown any-

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more,” said Merkules. “It’s like, be careful what you wish for.” Tickets to the 8 p.m. to 2 p.m. show, also featuring special guests, are $20 ($35 for VIP access) from the venue or Eventbrite. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

CUP: Hard work “We want our girls to experience the same thing that these other five teams that are here are experiencing,” said Bast. “As a head coach I don’t want any distractions for the girls. I told them ‘one week of total dedication to the sport ... and let’s see where it falls out.’” The tournament runs through Saturday with the gold medal game at 3:30 p.m. being broadcast live on TSN. Thiessen credits the roughly 100 volunteers for getting the tournament off the ground and the smooth start to the week-long championship. After 14 months of hard work, he’s just happy it’s all underway. “We’ve been waiting so long for the puck to drop,” said Thiessen. “It’s a smashing success, everything is going well, we’ve had no hiccups and great competition so far.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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NDP platform takes page from Lougheed WANTS CORPORATIONS TO SHOULDER MORE OF THE BURDEN DURING LEAN TIMES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley took a page from former Tory premier Peter Lougheed when she unveiled her party’s election campaign platform in Edmonton on Sunday. Notley said corporations that did well during the boom should be expected to shoulder more of the burden during lean times. She said Premier Jim Prentice calls that extremist, but notes that Lougheed also supported a corporate tax increase. Notley admitted she may have felt a bit odd at first to be agreeing with Lougheed, since her late father, Grant Notley, was NDP leader when Lougheed was premier. “I might have originally, given my dad’s historic relationship. But you know what? He had some pretty good ideas,” Notley said about Lougheed. “Some of those ideas were, in order to wean ourselves off the oil revenue roller coaster, we needed to start looking at asking corporations to pay a bit more.” She says 90 per cent of Albertans would pay less in taxes with the NDP platform than the PC plan, and she promised not to introduce a sales tax. The platform also promises to reverse the PC government’s cuts to health care and education, and introduce a job creation tax credit that would rebate 10 per cent of the wages paid to new employees. The provincial budget, the platform pledges, would be balanced by 2017. Opposition parties have been trending up and the Tories trending down in opinion polls, with the NDP, the Wildrose and the Tories meeting in the middle. Party supporters who were on hand

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standoff with officers before he eventually surrendered. Investigators say a woman in her 50s was alone in the closed restaurant at about 5 a.m. on March 28, 1995, when a man forced his way in and assaulted her. He allegedly forced her into her vehicle and drove her to the outskirts of Calgary, where police say he sexually assaulted her and left her on the side of the road. Police say the woman flagged down a passing car for help. Wayne Howard Bernard, 53, of Kingston faces numerous charges including sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping and robbery. Kingston police say arrangements are being made to return Bernard to Alberta to face the allegations.

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at the platform launch said they believed the reason for their party’s apparent rise was that voters are tired of the 44-year-old Tory government. “The premier says, ’Look in the mirror.’ People went and looked in the mirror and all they saw was PC for 40 years,” said supporter Rob Odokki, referring to Prentice’s remarks in March in which critics accused him of blaming Albertans for the current economic problems. Supporter Colleen Chapman said that while the boom years were a boost for many people, others in her central Edmonton constituency suffered, noting she knows people working several jobs just to pay bills. Susan Dut, meanwhile, said the government’s cuts to education and health were issues that are motivating opposition. “I feel like for me, it’s hitting a lot more close to home now,” Dut said. The NDP platform promises to eliminate the health levy announced in the recent budget and create 2,000 new longterm care beds. A re-introduction of a progressive income tax also means citizens making more than $125,000 will be asked to pay a little more, the platform says. The party also promises to ban corporate and union donations to political parties, and review of Alberta’s royalties and tax incentives. Notley refuted claims that hiking corporate taxes would hurt the economy, noting she’s talked to people in the business community who say it’s only one factor. “Jim Prentice’s plan is the one that’s going to exacerbate the problems. Jim Prentice is planning to take a billion dollars out of our health care. That’s going to hurt our economy. He’s planning to starve our school system. That’s going to hurt our economy,” Notley said.

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EDMONTON — The Alberta election was supposed to be a coronation for Premier Jim Prentice — and it still might be. But at the campaign’s midpoint, the Progressive Conservative leader finds himself rewriting the script as he gets squeezed by the left-leaning NDP and by a Wildrose party dispatched into that good night returning to rage, rage against the dying of the right. “I don’t think (Prentice’s Tories) expected that the Wildrose would still exist,” said Bob Murray, vice president of research with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. “The fact that the Wildrose is polling as well as it is in rural areas and its message is resonating, (the Tories) feel that they’re going to have to up their game and go more on the offensive and move the party to the right.” Things looked a lot simpler for Prentice in December when he effectively crushed the Wildrose, a party of fellow conservatives with a strong rural base. Many of them had left the Tory tent to protest record spending under former premiers Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford. But with Prentice preaching fiscal rectitude once again, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith led eight caucus members across the floor, leaving a rump of five on the other side of the aisle. With the right more or less secured, it was believed Prentice was free to clean up on the NDP and secure a 13th consecutive PC majority in an election called a year before required. But it hasn’t worked out that way. The Wildrose has rallied under a new leader named just days before the campaign, former Conservative MP Brian Jean. Opinion polls have the NDP, the Wildrose and the Tories meeting in the middle with the opposition parties trending up and the Tories trending down. Jean is proposing a plan to avoid tax hikes and balance the budget by, among other things, jettisoning thousands of civil service management

jobs and reprioritizing infrastructure plans. He has accused Prentice of losing his fiscally conservative nerve by running on a centrist budget of tax hikes, deficits, and debt. Political scientist Duane Bratt said the Tories misjudged the anger Albertans felt over the floor cross and Prentice’s tough-love budget, but noted it’s hard to make broad assumptions on rural ridings. “Rural campaigns are about family and friends and about being at the local coffee shop,” said Bratt with Mount Royal University in Calgary. “Those are tough campaigns to measure because you have to go beyond the leader’s tour and you have to look at almost every riding individually.” Prentice tacked his party right this week to attack the Wildrose head on, announcing that he will chop a quarter of Alberta’s 320 agencies boards and commissions this year. He also announced he would offer no wage hikes to unionized staff until the budget is balanced and he dispatched six cabinet ministers to attack gaps in the Wildrose budget plan. But Prentice must also contend with a surging NDP, which Murray said has become the progressive alternative. The NDP, with new leader Rachel Notley, is fighting to expand beyond its Edmonton base. With a recent spike in fundraising — $406,883 in the first three months of this year — it is running cheeky TV ads featuring Notley, the daughter of popular former NDP leader Grant Notley, in her best bedside manner urging Albertans to “kick the PC habit.” The broad PC strategy, say observers, is for the Tories to retain their traditional popularity in Calgary and by tacking right, lose ground to the NDP in Edmonton in order to regain some of the lost support in the rural Wildrose areas. Both Murray and Bratt said that despite the PCs’ problems, it’s hard not to think they will win the minimum 44 of 87 seats needed to form a majority government on May 5.

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Beijing’s 21-million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly caused by factories and coal burning. Schools and workplaces regularly shut down when pollution exceeds hazardous levels. People have exchanged paper and cotDAVID ton masks for SUZUKI more elaborate, filtered respirators. Cancer has become the leading cause of death in the city and throughout the country. Chinese authorities, often reluctant to admit to the extent of any problem, can no longer deny the catastrophic consequences of rampant industrial activity and inadequate regulations. According to Bloomberg News, Beijing’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says that, although life expectancy doubled from 1949 to 2011, “the average 18-year-old Beijinger today should prepare to spend as much

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as 40 per cent of those remaining, long years in less than full health, suffering from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and arthritis, among other ailments.” China’s government also estimates that air pollution prematurely kills from 350,000 to 500,000 residents every year. Water and soil pollution are also severe throughout China. The documentary film Under the Dome, by Chinese journalist Chai Jing, shows the extent of the air problem. The film was viewed by more than 150 million Chinese in its first few days, apparently with government approval. Later it was censored, showing how conflicted authorities are over the problem and its possible solutions. The pollution problem also demonstrates the ongoing global conflict between economic priorities and human and environmental health. Rather than seeing China’s situation as a warning, many people in Canada and the U.S. — including in government — refuse to believe we could end up in a similar situation here. And so U.S. politicians fight to block pollution-control regulations and even to remove the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, or shut it down altogether! In Canada, politicians and pundits argue that environmental protection is too costly and that the economy takes

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precedence. Some people even point to China as a reason for Canada not to do anything, arguing that what we do or don’t do to confront climate change and pollution will make little difference because our contributions pale in comparison to countries like China and India. But while Canada’s air quality is better than many places, half of us live in areas where we are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, “Short and long term exposure to air pollution are estimated to result in 21,000 premature deaths in Canada in 2008 as well as 620,000 doctor visits, 92,000 emergency department visits, 11,000 hospital admissions and an annual economic impact of over $8 billion.” And, as we know, air doesn’t stay within national boundaries. The global atmosphere is being loaded with the sum of all nations’ activities. As for greenhouse gas emissions, Canada may contribute less than two per cent of overall global emissions, but we have the highest emissions per capita — more than the U.S. and Russia and close to three times the global average. Even with a small population compared to many countries, we’re in the top 10 for overall emissions. Don’t we have a moral responsibility to re-

duce our share? We can and should do more to curb pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, especially as demands from industry and a growing population continue to increase. That means making homes and workplaces more energy-efficient and driving less. Transportation is a major contributor to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. But, despite the fact that a large percentage of the emissions and pollution come from SUVs, trucks and vans, sales of those vehicles are rising while car sales are decreasing. As individuals, we can take action to reduce pollution and emissions, but greater gains should be made at the policy level. Creating good transit and transportation infrastructure that gets people out of their cars is a huge step, as is offering incentives to improve energy efficiency in homes and buildings. Regulations to limit industrial pollution are also necessary. We may never experience the kind of deadly pollution China is struggling with, but we can do a lot to make sure our air, water and soil are as clean as possible, now and into the future. We must do our part. Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Tough questions for candidates seeking your vote on May 5 At the provincial election all-candidates meetings, which are sure to occur in the near future, the political candidates need to be questioned about what results they expect from their term(s) in elected office. Take notes recording their answers. Their answers to these citizen questions can then form the basis for the political office holder’s report card, due at the end of their term — when we should all reconvene to re-evaluate the choices made by our elected representatives. Anyone can devise their own questions but some suggestions for these tough questions to the candidates could be any or all of the following: ● What progress will you be able to report about improvements made, along with ongoing plans to continue these improvements, to the natural world we all occupy and owe a great debt for our continued existence? ● How will you demonstrate you have clearly abandoned and condemned the self-serving entitlement attitude of some of your contemporaries? ● How will your constituents know that you conducted your activities in an atmosphere of complete clarity and transparency? ● How will we know that you have improved the living conditions of the people and the environment of this province? ● How will you work towards mandating the replacement of overpaid and underworked education, health-care and social services administrators with efficient onsite caring health-care workers, teachers and social workers, fixing by law the smallest percentage of taxpayer money that can be used for administration costs in any publicly funded institution? ● What evidence will you be able to supply that offering the lowest corporate tax rate and lowest oil royalty rate, accorded multi-national corporations in this province (the same corporations currently laying off many workers but few administrators), has been successful in creating jobs, financing environmental remediation programs in Canada and improving quality of life for all citizens of this province, rather than more reasonable corporate tax rates and royalties operating in other resource-rich domains? ● What specific difference(s) will the citizens of Central Alberta and/or Red Deer notice after your first term in office, compared to your predecessor? ● What do you predict you will be able to brag to all of our grandchildren that you uniquely accomplished as a member of the legislative assembly of Alberta? ● At the end of your term, how can we expect the culture of care, concern, kindness and respect to be developed in the community of all politicians (moving away from the culture of self-serving and petty, partisan rhetoric with its abusive non-informative insulting rants against opponents)? ● At the end of your term, will you think better about yourself as a result of doing your job well or badly? Remember, if the voting public does not ask the tough questions now, asking them at the end of a candidate’s term is much too late! This would just inevitably initiate the spin doctor’s inspired noise and a set of lost opportunities. Jim Gough Red Deer

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community events were held: an anti-discrimination workshop (March 20) and the cultural mosaic (March 21). The events, held in Red Deer, were a collaborative effort between the Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association, Red Deer Native Friendship Society, Central Alberta FASD Network, Catholic Social Services – Immigration and Settlement, Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, the HUB and the Golden Circle. I would like to express my thanks to all those people involved in creating these successful events and also to the 140 diverse members of the community who attended and participated. At each event, we were fortunate to have amazing speakers who shared their experiences and messages with us. Thank you to Blair Charters, Aisley Miles, Monybany Dau, Lyle Keewatin Richards, Elena Duval, Amber Javaid, Mounir Rahwan, Leslie Stonechild, Haris Bin Zafar. I would also like to acknowledge the table facilitators, moderators and writers, at both events, for volunteering their time and expertise. A comment from one of the participants: “Both the events provided an open, respectful space for attendees to hear from some amazing speakers, but also to engage in meaningful dialogue around racism, other -isms and of diversity and the importance of building understanding and tolerance.” I think that Red Deer has come a long way from how it was 10 years ago when I first worked in the area of intercultural education and awareness, and promoted the need for understanding and acceptance of all diversity. If we had invited members of the public to attend events such as these back then, we may have had very few participants. I believe that Red Deer is becoming a more welcoming and inclusive community that will both at-

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Statues to honour John McCrae GUELPH AND OTTAWA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A century after he scribbled the simple but poignant stanzas of “In Flanders Fields,” John McCrae is being honoured with two statues. One of the larger-than-life bronzes will be installed in Ottawa on May 3, while a duplicate will be unveiled in McCrae’s hometown of Guelph, Ont., later this summer. The Ottawa statue will be placed at the National Artillery Memorial on Sussex Drive, just east of the downtown core. For those who think of McCrae as a doctor and a poet, the location might seem an odd choice, but his first calling was as an artilleryman. And his brother gunners want to honour that heritage. Jim Selbie, a retired general who now holds the honorary post of Colonel Commandant of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, said McCrae exemplified the concept of the citizensoldier: “He had two professions, both of which he had a great commitment to, that of a physician but equally that as a gunner. You still see that today amongst a lot of our reserve officers and I think that’s something to celebrate.” Mike McKay, a Guelph businessman and a retired reservist lieutenant-colonel, was one of the driving forces behind the statue project. “I’m the guy that volunteered, and

being a soldier I should have known to never volunteer,’ he joked in a recent interview. McKay helped organized a fundraising project to find the $300,000 for the Guelph statue. A second effort raised about $460,000 for the Ottawa statue. The Guelph project was covered mainly by private donations, although the Ottawa end was supported by help from National Defence and Veterans Affairs as well as an unexpected $50,000 from the government of Flanders, in Belgium. The statue itself, by Canadian sculptor Ruth Abernethy, shows McCrae sitting on a broken tree trunk, his cap perched on his medical bag in front of him and poppies scattered on the ground. In 1915, McCrae held a unique position. At the start of the war, he sought to rejoin the artillery. He had commanded a Canadian battery during the Boer War and wanted back into combat. But by then, he was also a physician and the army wanted doctors more than gunners. So he became major in an artillery uniform, simultaneously second-in-command of the 1st Canadian artillery brigade and its brigade surgeon. In early May, following the second battle of Ypres and after presiding at the funeral of a friend and former student who had been blown to fragments by a shell, McCrae jotted down the first draft of his famous poem. He wrote of what he saw and heard around him; the poppies, the ranks of crosses and

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A model of a bronze memorial to Lt. Col. John McCrae, to be installed in Ottawa in May, in shown in this undated handout photo. the trilling of birdsong against the grumble of the guns. “The call specially asked for John McCrae at the writing of ‘In Flanders Fields,”’ Abernethy said in an interview from her home near Wellesley, Ont. She stared by sculpting McCrae writing the poem, but that presented a problem. “If you’re writing something on your knee, you’re looking down at what you’re writing. As a portrait, it just means that his face is hard to see. So for that reason, we decided that he had just finished writing the poem, at which point he signs his name and

looks up and that was the moment I wanted.” Abernethy, whose works include the iconic bronze of Oscar Peterson and his piano outside the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, included the entire poem on McCrae’s notebook. Retired general Michael Jeffery, a former commander of the army and another artilleryman, said it is important to remind people that McCrae was a gunner. “As one of his medical corps colleagues said, and it’s almost a quote: For McCrae, his heart was always with the guns, even after becoming a medical officer.”

Canada’s turn as Arctic Council heads to end at meeting BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada will voice its concerns over what it calls Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine during a meeting of the eight nations that make up the Arctic Council this week. “Canada will use the Arctic Council ministerial meeting as an opportunity once again to deliver our tough message to Russia for their aggression against Ukraine,” said federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s representative to the group and its chairwoman for the last two years. But while the U.S. is sending its top foreign affairs official, Secretary of State John Kerry, the Russians won’t be. Aglukkaq said she’ll be making Canada’s concerns known to Russia’s environment minister, not Foreign

Minister Dergei Lavrov. In an interview before handing over leadership of the council to Kerry, Aglukkaq defended Canada’s accomplishments during its two-year term. Using that term to create a new forum for businesses operating in the North to get together should help create more opportunity in the region, Aglukkaq said. “I am most proud of the signature initiative around the Arctic Economic Council,” she said. “The Arctic is going to develop and it’s the private sector that’s going to develop the Arctic.” The Arctic Council brings the eight countries at the top of the world together to talk about shared issues and mutual co-operation. Canada has led the group for the last two years and will hand off the chairmanship to the U.S. at a meeting in Iqaluit later this week.

The body can’t discuss military or defence matters. But it has gained in importance as the Arctic grabs more global attention and has even negotiated one legally binding treaty. Some have said the economic council is a way to shift the Arctic Council’s focus away from it traditional role of research and advice to promotion of resource development. They point out most of its representatives are from large mining or energy companies and only a few from northern businesses. But in an interview, Aglukkaq made no apologies for emphasizing business. “I talked to people from the Arctic on the ground for their ideas,” she said. “It was so clear to me that the work of the Arctic Council has to be relevant to the people of the North, should be about supporting the development for the people of the North and that’s how we shaped Canada’s

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Duffy dependence MORE THAN 70 CONSERVATIVE MPS LEANED ON SUSPENDED SENATOR BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — It seems everyone wanted a piece of Sen. Mike Duffy. At least 74 former and current Conservative members of Parliament leaned on Duffy at one point or another to appear at their events, record messages for supporters or stump for them on the campaign trail, documents released at the suspended senator’s trial indicate. Duffy also did work for Ontario, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island Tories, and several unsuccessful federal Conservative candidates. The former broadcaster’s daily diaries for 20092012, now a courtroom exhibit, illustrate the full extent of Duffy’s celebrity status when he was still in the party’s good graces. Duffy is facing 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Eighteen of those charges deal with travel expenses claimed by Duffy, some of which involved travel to partisan events. His defence has made the case that such partisan activities are an integral part of a senator’s parliamentary functions, as stated in the Senate’s administrative rules. Lawyer Donald Bayne has also emphasized how much the party leadership bought in to what he was doing. “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator,” reads one photo entered into evidence, inscribed by none other than Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that shows the two of them together at an event. “Thanks for being one of my best, hardest-working appointments ever.” During one stretch in the summer of 2009, Duffy went to 10 political events in 18 days in two provinces and one territory. “Duff’s Tough Talk — Current Events and our Government,” was the title of one of his stops, hosted by B.C. MP Ron Cannan’s riding association. The amount of time Duffy spent travelling and working for his colleagues and the party brass might explain the lengths that the Prime Minister’s Office initially went to in order to shield his living expense claims from scrutiny. At an early stage in the Senate expense scandal,

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Queen visits Canada’s embassy to honour Canadian regiments LONDON — Queen Elizabeth honoured the First World War contributions of three Canadian regiments on Sunday. The Queen and Prince Philip attended an event at the Canadian embassy in London to pay tribute to the Calgary Highlanders, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and the Canadian Scottish Regiment. The Queen is the Colonel-in-Chief of the Calgary Highlanders and she posed for pictures with current members of the Highlanders, which is a reserve unit. The Royal couple were greeted by Canadian

the party paid for the services of his lawyer. His history of partisan work might also explain the sense of betrayal Duffy felt when he was ejected from the Conservative caucus in May 2013 and suspended from the upper chamber — a move instigated by his own party — that fall. “I never received a single note from Senate Finance or the leadership that suggested anything in my travels was amiss,” Duffy said in the Senate in October 2013. “In fact, those on the other side will remember how often I was lauded by the prime minister, in a weekly meeting, for all of the travelling I was doing...” Some of the duties that Duffy performed for the party included: — Participating in “tele-town hall” calls, in which MPs speak to large numbers of constituents at once by phone; — Visits to Conservative riding association meetings, picnics, barbecues, cocktails, breakfasts and dinners; — Recording “daemon dialler” calls, where Conservative donors or supporters are alerted to events or voting in a riding; — Shooting videos and messages for the Conservative party; — Appearing in photographs; At one point, even NDP MP Niki Ashton had her photo taken with Duffy and two farmers visiting from Manitoba, according to his diary. Ottawa MP Pierre Poilievre, now a cabinet minister, drew on Duffy’s time at least five times. While some ministers and MPs sprang to the defence of Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright for secretly paying off Duffy’s $90,000 in disputed living expenses, they have kept their distance from the senator himself. A former caucus colleague of Duffy’s, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said MPs are likely biting their tongues lest they be swept up in the controversy. “I think there’s a lot of people that appreciate the fact that Mike worked the circuit, he worked hard, he did what he thought he was supposed to be doing, as far as helping out other MPs,” said the colleague. High Commissioner Gordon Campbell as a crowd of onlookers looked on behind barricades — some waved British flags. Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that the Queen wore a white gold and diamond brooch, fashioned in the shape of the cap badge of the Highlanders. The newspaper reported that the brooch was a token that the regiment created especially for her. The three units are marking the 100th anniversary of the 2nd Battle of Ypres, the first time Germany used chemical weapons in the First World War. The Telegraph quoted Campbell as saying it was significant that the Queen took part in the event. “You can just feel, in the room, how important it is to everyone that she is here,” Campbell said. “It is really an honour and it is the sort of commemorative activity that is important to the soldiers and the service people who are involved.”

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Service dog trainers hope new rules will end fraud BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Dogs have long been recognized as man’s best friend, but a new law set to take effect in British Columbia later this year is hoping to ferret out the fraudsters in their midst. The province’s newly revised Guide Dog and Service Dog Act is widely thought to be among the first in Canada to tackle the subject of service animal impersonation, an issue experts say has escalated sharply in recent years. While there are no available numbers documenting the problem, service dog trainers and owners alike say their circles are increasingly abuzz with anecdotes of people putting official-looking paraphernalia on pet dogs in the hopes that they could then enjoy the same broad access rights as certified service animals. They say they’ve heard motives ranging from a reluctance to be separated from their four-legged friends during air travel to a desire to cash in on discounts most veterinarians offer clients with working dogs. This new breed of impersonation schemes goes hand in hand with a growing diversity in the types of service dogs on Canada’s streets, they said, adding updated laws like the one being finalized in B.C. are needed to help bring the issue to heel. Laura Watamanuk, Executive Director of the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society, says public perceptions of service animals are often limited to guide dogs donning conspicuous harnesses to lead their visually impaired handlers. The dogs emerging from her school, she said, have skill sets that address a host of other, less visible disabilities. These include alerting deaf people to the sounds around them, warning diabetes patients of potentially dangerous changes in their blood sugar levels and providing therapy for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. “There is a variety of working dogs which perform physical tasks for somebody,” Watamanuk said in a telephone interview. “With a lot of disabilities not being visual, there’s become a problem with the general public impersonating untrained dogs as assistance dogs. That really undermines our work in the industry for the past 30 years.” Since there are no federal regulations around service animal registration, the B.C. law proposes to tackle the problem by issuing all legitimate teams with provincial identity cards. Such IDs are available for certain pairs in provinces such as Quebec and Ontario, but the B.C. legislation has built-in regulations to cater to the changing population. Dogs trained by schools accredited under the leading global regulatory bodies — the International Guide Dog Federation or Assistance Dogs International — will automatically receive a provincial ID. Those who seek canine partners from non-accredited facilities or take on the training themselves will have to have their dogs pass a provincial test to ensure their performance and behaviour are in line with international standards. Such measures are being broadly applauded by many of the country’s more traditional working dog teams. Alan Conway of Guide Dog Users of Canada said dogs trained through less conventional channels could very well make exemplary partners, but also run the risk of posing safety hazards to their canine peers.

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Habs put Sens on brink with OT win NHL PLAYOFF ROUNDUP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANADIENS 2, SENATORS 1, OT OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Dale Weise scored the tying goal late in the third period and then won it 8:47 into overtime, leading Montreal to a victory in the first-round playoff series. Montreal has a chance to complete a four-game sweep Wednesday, with Game 4 in Ottawa. Weise skated in on the left side and beat Craig Anderson with a shot inside the near post. Many of the Senators fans in the stands urged officials to call for a hand pass by Brandon Prust on the play, but the goal stood — and the Canadiens have a commanding lead. Weise sent the game to overtime with his goal with 5:47 remaining in the third. Torrey Mitchell assisted on both goals, and Carey Price made 33 saves. Clarke MacArthur opened the scoring for the Senators at 11:28 of the first period. ISLANDERS 2 CAPITALS 1, OT UNIONDALE, N.Y. — New York captain John Tavares scored 15 seconds into overtime to give the Islanders a 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. Nikolay Kulemin’s initial shot was stopped by Braden Holtby, who then tried to direct the rebound into the right corner. The puck went to Tavares, who shovelled it in before Holtby could cover the right post. The goal gave New York a 2-1 series lead. Kyle Okposo also scored for the Islanders, and Jaroslav Halak made 24 saves. Washington tied it on Nicklas Backstrom’s goal with 6:06 remaining in the third. Holtby stopped 40 shots and showed no effects of an illness that forced him to miss Game 2. Game 4 is Tuesday night on Long Island. BLACKHAWKS 4, PREDATORS 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Jonathan Toews had a goal and an assist and Chicago used a three-goal second period to beat Nashville for a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference first-round series. Marian Hossa had two assists and Scott Darling

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Montreal Canadiens forward Lars Eller tries to screen Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson as defenceman Marc Methot defends during the second period of game 3 of first round Stanley Cup NHL playoff action in Ottawa on Sunday. made 35 saves to help Chicago win for the 20th time in its last 24 post-season home games. Brandon Saad, Brent Seabrook and Andrew Desjardins also scored in an impressive response by the Blackhawks after Friday night’s 6-2 loss in Nashville. Darling, a native of the Chicago suburb of Lemont, made his first post-season start after Corey Crawford

Taelum Henfrey (Level 1 men) added a silver in DMT. Kayden Levis (Level 2 men) brought back bronze in individual as did Madison ruff (Level 1 women 11 and up) in DMT.

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BRIEFS Red Deer Catalina Swim Club star Rebecca Smith took her skills Down Under and continued her excellence in the pool. Smith attended the Australian Age Group Championships which concluded Saturday in Sydney, wining one gold medal, two silver and three bronze. Smith, who qualified for the finals in all seven of her individual events, was golden in the 100-metre backstroke and settled for silver in the 200m back and 200m individual medley events, establishing new Alberta records in all three. She also won bronze in each of the 100m- and 200m freestyle events and the 100m butterfly, and placed fourth in the 50m free, establishing another provincial record in the process. Smith was one of six girls from across Canada named to the national junior team and helped the squad finish first in the 4x100 medley and freestyle relays and third in the 4x200 free relay. “This was an exciting event to be a part of. It was especially special to see a member of the Red Deer Catalina Swim Team represent Canada and our little program so well,” said Catalina head coach Mandi Smith, who was a member of the Canadian coaching staff.

Thunder Country athletes win 15 at Edmonton meet The Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club came back from the third 2015 Alberta Cup Championships and Western Canada Cup Trials in Edmonton with a full load of hardware. They totalled 15 medals, including eight gold, five silver and two bronze. Zachary Blakely (junior men) and Kiera Hofer (Level 1 women 10 and under) both earned gold in the individual trampoline and silver in the double mini trampoline. Kyle Soehn (senior men), Logan Chaput (Level 6 men), Jesse Starchuk (Level 3 men), and Sophie Nossack (Level 2 women 11 and up) earned gold in individual trampoline. Ebony Campbell (Level 4 women) added a gold in tumbling and Samantha Dancey (Level 1 women) added a gold in DMT. Spencer Kooman (Level 3 men) and Vivien Hawryscko (Level 1 women 11 and up) got silver in individual and

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was ineffective in the first two games of the series. The rookie also replaced Crawford in Game 1 and made 42 saves as the Blackhawks rallied for a 4-3 victory in double overtime. Mike Ribeiro and Mattias Ekholm scored for Nashville, and Pekka Rinne had 26 saves. Game 4 is Tuesday night in Chicago.

The Heritage Junior Hockey League’s Red Deer Vipers held their season-end awards banquet Saturday and Cole deGraaf walked away with the club’s most valuable player honours. Meanwhile, Brett Marsollier was feted as the Vipers rookie of the year, Jonathan Finnigan was named top defenceman and Nick Glackin snared two awards — scholastic player and unsung player. Other awards were presented to Adam Ferguson (players choice) and Kale Lapointe (top forward). In addition, Glackin, Ferguson, deGraaf, Finnigan, Justin Moltzahn, Colton Weseen and Mitch Morrison received education scholarship money from the Rex Turple Memorial Hockey Education Fund, as did game-day announcer and equipment manager Brady Sim, and trainer Nicole Foerster. A total of $4,700 in scholarship funds was distributed.

Bantam AAA Sutter Fund Chiefs head coach named Hockey Alberta coach of the month for March Red Deer Bantam AAA Sutter Fund Chiefs head coach Allyson Bendfeld was named Hockey Alberta coach of the month for March on Friday. Bendfeld was recognized for her dedication to the Chiefs, travelling an hour for every practice and home game, as wells as individual player and team success. The Chiefs were eliminated in the semifinal of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League by the Rocky Mountain Raiders. One community nominated coach is selected every month by Hockey Alberta from September to March and receives a coaching package valued at more than $350.

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Canada 3 Czech Republic 2 ZUG, Switzerland — After watching his team struggle through the first period against the Czech Republic, Canada coach Tim Hunter felt his top players could still come through. They didn’t let him down. Anthony Beauvillier scored his second goal of the game on a thirdperiod power play and Zachary Sawchenko made 43 saves as Canada beat the Czech Republic 3-2 Sunday at the world under-18 hockey championship. Beauvillier and linemate Mathew Barzal, who assisted on both goals, played a huge role inCanada’s win despite struggling defensively early in the game. “We weren’t competing really hard in the first period, that’s why they had 20 shots,” Hunter said. “We started to compete harder as we went along and I said in the third, ’You just got to dig in, be a little harder in the corners for pucks,’ and we did we got some results.

FENCING Red Deer fencers proved they are among Canada’s best in epee by dominating at the 2015 Alberta Provincial Fencing Championship at the Collicutt Centre this weekend. In open men’s epee, Petar Toshkov earned silver while Nathaniel Jonson took bronze as did Karren Lyver in open women’s. Lyver also won the veteran women’s epee division while Louise Zanussi and Michele Ostrikoff both got bronze. In U20 women’s epee, Kameron La-

BANTAM FOOTBALL Central Alberta is well represented on this year’s North team for the Bantam Football Bowl in Lethbridge on May 18. Five players from the region made the 40-man roster at this weekend’s All-Star Selection Camp at Foote Field in Edmonton, featuring the top Grade 9

We drew a penalty and our power play came up big, and that line was minus-2. “You’ve got to keep giving skilled players the opportunity to make a difference and they did. They were urgent and they got the job done.” The Czechs dominated early in the game, but Sawchenko kept Canada in it by making some big saves. That came as no surprise to Hunter, who coaches Sawchenko’s junior team, the Western Hockey League’s Moose Jaw Warriors. “We got the lead and we kept the lead. Sawzy had to make a few saves and he’s calm and cool back there and I’m used to seeing him,” Hunter said. Parker Wotherspoon also scored for Canada, which improved to 3-0 at the tournament. Pavel Zacha and Radek Koblizek scored for the Czechs (1-2), who led twice in the game but couldn’t hold on for the win. Czech goaltender Ales Stezka made 22 saves. Canada faces Finland on Tuesday, with the winner finishing first in Group B heading into the playoffs. mont finished second while Shawn Rowland and CJ Wilson both earned bronze in men’s. Lamont added the U15 girl’s epee division title while Rowland finished second in the boy’s division and Will Furguson third. Wilson also grabbed silver in the U17 boy’s epee, falling to Mazen Black in the gold medal match. Red Deer swept the podium in the U14 boy’s epee with Alex Lischevski first, Kai Moore second and Franklin Ma third. For more on this wekends fencing action please see the related story and pictures on page C1. players in Northern Alberta. On offence, Sean Vandervlis of Lindsay Thurber was selected at receiver and Conner Anderson was of Hunting Hills made it on the offensive line. On defence, Kallen Vickery of Hunting Hills and Evan Standish of Lacombe made it at linebacker and Burkley Theriault of Sylvan Lake will line up at defensive back.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Brandon (1) vs. Regina (2) (Brandon wins series 4-1) 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 3 Regina 2 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Brandon 3 Regina 2 (OT)

p.m. Wednesday, April 22: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Friday, April 24 : Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA

Goal — Vancouver: Lack (L, 1-2-0); Calgary: Hiller (W, 2-1-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Vancouver: 0-3; Calgary: 1-5.

N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1 Wednesday, April 15: N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 1 Friday, April 17: Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Sunday, April 19: N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1, OT Tuesday, April 21 : Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23: N.Y. Islanders at Washington, TBA

Canadiens 2, Senators 1 (OT) First Period 1. Ottawa, MacArthur 2 (Stone, Karlsson) 11:28. Penalties — MacArthur Ott (hooking) 16:44. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Eller Mtl (tripping) 0:36, Gryba Ott (holding) 3:54, Turris Ott (holding) 13:42. Third Period 2. Montreal, Weise 1 (Prust, Mitchell) 14:13. Penalties — Plekanec Mtl (roughing) 0:27, Methot Ott (roughing) 0:27, Michalek Ott (tripping) 8:51, Pacioretty Mtl (holding) 8:59, Borowiecki Ott (delay of game) 16:18. Overtime 3. Montreal, Weise 2 (Mitchell, Emelin) 8:47. Penalties — Lazar Ott (boarding) 6:13. Shots on goal Montreal 9 19 12 9 — 49 Ottawa 12 6 9 7 — 34 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 3-0-0); Ottawa: Anderson (LO, 0-1-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 0-6; Ottawa: 0-2.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota 1, St. Louis 1 Thursday, April 16: Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 Saturday, April 18: St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 Monday, April 20: St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22: St. Louis at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24: Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA x-Sunday, April 26: St. Louis at Minnesota, TBA

Calgary (1) vs. Medicine Hat (2) (Calgary wins series 4-1) 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 2 Medicine Hat 1 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT)

Chicago 2, Nashville 1 Wednesday, April 15: Chicago 4, Nashville 3, 2OT Friday, April 17: Nashville 6, Chicago 2 Sunday, April 19: Chicago 4, Nashville 2 Tuesday, April 21: Nashville at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Chicago at Nashville, TBA

Kelowna (1) vs. Victoria (2) (Kelowna wins series 4-1) 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 Victoria 5 Kelowna 4 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Kelowna 7 Victoria 3

Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 0 Thursday, April 16: Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 2 Saturday, April 18: Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 1 Monday, April 20: Anaheim at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22: Anaheim at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 24 : Winnipeg at Anaheim, TBA Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 Wednesday, April 15: Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 Friday, April 17: Vancouver 4, Calgary 1 Sunday, April 19: Calgary 4, Vancouver 2 Tuesday, April 21 : Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Calgary at Vancouver, TBA x-Saturday, April 25: Vancouver at Calgary, TBA x-Monday, April 27: Calgary at Vancouver, TBA

Everett (1) vs. Portland (2) (Portland wins series 4-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Everett 5 Portland 3 Saturday, Apr. 11 Portland 4 Everett 3 (OT) Thursday, Apr. 16 Portland 5 Everett 3 Friday, Apr. 17 Portland 2 Everett 1 (OT) Sunday, Apr. 19 Portland 3 Everett 2 NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 3, Ottawa 0 Wednesday, April 15: Montreal 4, Ottawa 3 Friday, April 17: Montreal 3, Ottawa 2, OT Sunday, April 19: Montreal 2, Ottawa 1, OT Wednesday, April 22: Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m. x-Friday, April 24: Ottawa at Montreal, TBA Detroit 1, Tampa Bay 1 Thursday, April 16: Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, April 18: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1 Tuesday, April 21: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. Saturday, April 25: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA N.Y. Rangers 1, Pittsburgh 1 Thursday, April 16: N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 Saturday, April 18: Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Monday, April 20: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5

Sunday’s summaries Flames 4, Canucks 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Bollig 1 (Raymond, Brodie) 6:35. 2. Vancouver, Matthias 1 (Vrbata, Bonino) 9:09. 3. Calgary, Brodie 1 (Schlemko, Backlund) 15:02. Penalties — Bollig Cgy (cross-checking) 16:58. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Jooris Cgy (goaltender interference) 5:35, Backlund Cgy (boarding) 7:58, Edler Vcr (interference) 8:15, Burrows Vcr (roughing) 15:39, Russell Cgy (roughing) 15:39. Third Period 4. Calgary, Bennett 1 (Colborne) 2:14. 5. Calgary, Monahan 1 (Gaudreau, Russell) 14:36 (pp). 6. Vancouver, Hansen 1 (Horvat, Kenins) 17:41. Penalties — Bieksa Vcr (charging) 4:34, Weber Vcr (goaltender interference) 13:52, Hamhuis Vcr (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 14:28, Burrows Vcr (fighting) 18:35, Russell Cgy (fighting) 18:35, Burrows Vcr (boarding) 18:35, Burrows Vcr (instigator) 18:35, Bieksa Vcr (fighting) 18:54, Ferland Cgy (fighting) 18:54, Colborne Cgy (misconduct) 18:54, Sbisa Vcr (fighting) 20:00, Engelland Cgy (roughing) 20:00. Shots on goal Vancouver 11 6 8 — 25 Calgary 9 4 14 — 27

Blackhawks 4, Predators 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Desjardins 1 (Hossa, Oduya) 14:48. 2. Nashville, Ribeiro 1 (Smith) 15:19. Penalties — Timonen Chi (holding) 0:53, Hossa Chi (hooking) 17:54. Second Period 3. Chicago, Toews 2 (Hossa, Keith) :36. 4. Nashville, Ekholm 1 (Ellis, Smith) :58. 5. Chicago, Saad 1 (unassisted) 3:38. 6. Chicago, Seabrook 1 (Toews, Shaw) 12:41. Penalties — Gaustad Nash (roughing) 6:40, Bickell Chi (roughing) 6:40. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Gaustad Nash (high-sticking) 6:36, Ribeiro Nash (holding) 19:17. Shots on goal Nashville 11 17 9 — 37 Chicago 14 10 6 — 30 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (L, 1-2-0); Chicago: Darling (W, 2-0-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Nashville: 0-2; Chicago: 0-2. Islanders 2, Capitals 1 (OT) First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Glencross Wash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 3:36, De Haan NYI (tripping) 8:07. Second Period 1. NY Islanders, Okposo 2 (Visnovsky, Bailey) 12:37. Penalties — Kennedy NYI (hooking) 2:12, Orpik Wash (interference) 4:35, Brouwer Wash (tripping) 12:51, Strait NYI (high-sticking) 18:40. Third Period 2. Washington, Backstrom 2 (Green, Ward) 13:54. Penalties — None. Overtime 3. NY Islanders, Tavares 1 (Kulemin, Leddy) :15. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Washington 5 8 12 0 — 25 NY Islanders 16 17 7 2 — 42 Goal — Washington: Holtby (LO, 0-2-0); NY Islanders: Halak (W, 2-1-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Washington: 0-3; NY Islanders: 0-3.

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Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 5, Washington 3 Toronto 6, Atlanta 5, 10 innings St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 2 Chicago Cubs 7, San Diego 6, 11 innings Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 4 San Francisco 4, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 3 Sunday’s Games Atlanta 5, Toronto 2 N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 6 Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 2 Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Arizona 5, San Francisco 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado 0 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 1

Sunday’s Games Atlanta 5, Toronto 2 Detroit 9, Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 8, Boston 3 Minnesota 7, Cleveland 2 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 4, Oakland 2 Seattle 11, Texas 10 Monday’s Games Baltimore (Chen 0-0) at Boston (Masterson 1-0), 9:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-2) at Detroit (Simon 2-0), 5:08 p.m. Cleveland (Bauer 2-0) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-2), 6:10 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 1-1) at Kansas City (Volquez 1-1), 6:10 p.m. Oakland (Graveman 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-0), 8:05 p.m. Houston (Wojciechowski 0-1) at Seattle (Iwakuma 0-1), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m. Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. AJones Bal 12 46 12 21 .457 JIglesias Det 12 39 5 17 .436 MiCabrera Det 12 47 7 20 .426 Cain KC 12 46 12 19 .413 Fielder Tex 13 52 4 20 .385 Joseph Bal 10 32 6 12 .375 Vogt Oak 11 38 6 14 .368 Trout LAA 12 44 9 16 .364 SPerez KC 12 47 7 17 .362 Travis Tor 13 45 9 16 .356 Home Runs Cruz, Seattle, 8; AJones, Baltimore, 5; JMartinez, Detroit, 5; HRamirez, Boston, 5; ARodriguez, New York, 4; 20 tied at 3. Runs Batted In AJones, Baltimore, 16; Cruz, Seattle, 14; Cain, Kansas City, 12; HRamirez, Boston, 12; Travis, Toronto, 12; SPerez, Kansas City, 11; ARodriguez, New York, 11. Pitching Greene, Detroit, 3-0; McHugh, Houston, 2-0; Keuchel, Houston, 2-0; Shoemaker, Los Angeles, 2-0; WDavis, Kansas City, 2-0; Pineda, New York, 2-0; Kazmir, Oakland, 2-0. National League East Division W L Pct

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Cincinnati (DeSclafani 1-0) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-1), 5:20 p.m. San Diego (Despaigne 1-0) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 0-0), 6:40 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. St. Louis at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Texas at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. AGonzalez LAD 12 49 13 23 .469 LeMahieu Col 12 41 3 19 .463 MCarpenter StL 11 45 10 18 .400 DGordon Mia 13 54 8 21 .389 Markakis Atl 11 40 8 15 .375 HKendrick LAD 12 46 7 17 .370 Votto Cin 12 44 8 16 .364 Holliday StL 11 36 5 13 .361 Pollock Ari 13 45 11 16 .356 Alonso SD 12 40 6 14 .350 Home Runs Goldschmidt, Arizona, 5; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 5; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 4; Freeman, Atlanta, 4; Harper, Washington, 4; Votto, Cincinnati, 4; 7 tied at 3. Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 14; Stanton, Miami, 11; Zimmerman, Washington, 11; Arenado, Colorado, 10; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 10; Dickerson, Colorado, 10; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 10; Votto, Cincinnati, 10; d’Arnaud, New York, 10. Pitching Harvey, New York, 3-0; BColon, New York, 3-0; Benoit, San Diego, 3-0; Hoover, Cincinnati, 2-0; McCarthy, Los Angeles, 2-0; Wacha, St. Louis, 2-0; SMiller, Atlanta, 2-0. Sunday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 000 001 000 — 1 6 0 Detroit 412 020 00x — 9 12 0 Quintana, Albers (5), Drabek (7) and Flowers; Greene, Krol (8), Nesbitt (9) and J.McCann. W— Greene 3-0. L—Quintana 1-1. HRs—Detroit, Cespedes 2 (3).

New York 102 110 000 — 5 11 0 Tampa Bay 200 010 000 — 3 9 0 Pineda, Ch.Martin (6), J.Wilson (7), Betances (7), A.Miller (9) and J.Murphy; Andriese, Geltz (4), B.Gomes (5), Frieri (7), E.Ramirez (9) and Rivera. W—Pineda 2-0. L—Andriese 0-1. Sv—A.Miller (4). HRs—Tampa Bay, Souza Jr. (3). Baltimore 210 023 000 — 8 15 1 Boston 300 000 000 — 3 6 0 Mi.Gonzalez, Tom.Hunter (6), Gausman (8) and Joseph; Porcello, Breslow (6), Mujica (9) and Leon. W—Mi.Gonzalez 2-1. L—Porcello 1-2. HRs—Baltimore, A.Jones (5), Flaherty (2). Boston, H.Ramirez (5). Cleveland 001 000 001 — 2 7 1 Minnesota 030 103 00x — 7 11 1 House, Swarzak (6), Rzepczynski (7), Shaw (8) and R.Perez, Hayes; May, A.Thompson (7), Graham (9) and K.Suzuki. W—May 1-1. L—House 0-2. HRs—Cleveland, C.Santana (2). Minnesota, Tor. Hunter (1). Los Ang. 000 200 010 — 3 8 2 Houston 002 020 00x — 4 6 0 Richards, J.Alvarez (6), Pestano (7), C.Ramos (7), Morin (8) and Butera, Iannetta; Feldman, Sipp (7), Neshek (8), Gregerson (9) and J.Castro. W—Feldman 1-2. L—Richards 0-1. Sv—Gregerson (2). HRs—Los Angeles, Cron (1), Pujols (3). Houston, Valbuena (3). Oakland 001 010 000 — 2 7 0 Kan. City 000 010 03x — 4 8 0 Kazmir, O’Flaherty (8) and Phegley; D.Duffy, Frasor (6), Madson (7), K.Herrera (8), F.Morales (8), W.Davis (9) and Kratz, S.Perez. W—F.Morales 1-0. L—O’Flaherty 0-1. Sv—W.Davis (2). Texas 007 003 000 — 10 13 0 Seattle 203 000 132 — 11 17 2 Detwiler, Bass (3), Sh.Tolleson (7), Scheppers (8), Kela (8), Feliz (8) and Corporan; Paxton, Olson (3), C.Smith (6), Leone (7), Medina (9) and Sucre, Zunino. W—Medina 1-0. L—Feliz 0-1. HRs—Texas, Smolinski (1). Seattle, A.Jackson (1), N.Cruz 2 (8). INTERLEAGUE Atlanta 302 000 000 — 5 8 0 Toronto 000 002 000 — 2 5 1 S.Miller, McKirahan (7), Co.Martin (7), Grilli (9) and Bethancourt; Da.Norris, Estrada (3), Francis (5), Osuna (8) and Ru.Martin. W—S.Miller 2-0. L—Da. Norris 1-1. Sv—Grilli (6). NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 010 001 220 — 6 11 0 New York 000 700 00x — 7 8 0 Koehler, S.Dyson (4), Hand (5), A.Ramos (7) and Realmuto; Harvey, Blevins (7), A.Torres (7), Carlyle (8), Familia (9) and d’Arnaud, Recker. W—Harvey 3-0. L—Koehler 1-2. Sv—Familia (6). Milwaukee 020 000 000 — 2 6 2 Pittsburgh 201 002 00x — 5 7 1 Garza, Cotts (7), Blazek (8) and Lucroy; Cole, J.Hughes (7), Watson (8), Melancon (9) and Stewart. W—Cole 2-0. L—Garza 1-2. Sv—Melancon (2). HRs—Pittsburgh, P.Alvarez (4). Phila. 000 000 010 — 1 7 1 Wash. 000 030 10x — 4 9 0 Buchanan, De Fratus (6), McGowan (7), J.Gomez (8) and Ruiz; Strasburg, Thornton (8), Storen (9) and W.Ramos. W—Strasburg 1-1. L—Buchanan 0-3. Sv—Storen (4). San Diego 020 001 200 — 5 10 2 Chicago 200 000 000 — 2 7 0 Cashner, Maurer (7), Kelley (8), Benoit (9) and De.Norris; Lester, Schlitter (6), Motte (7), E.Jackson (8) and D.Ross, M.Montero. W—Cashner 1-2. L— Lester 0-2. Sv—Benoit (1). HRs—San Diego, Middlebrooks (3), Solarte (1). Arizona 203 000 000 — 5 8 0 San Fran. 100 000 000 — 1 8 1 Hellickson, Ziegler (7), Reed (9) and Pacheco; T.Hudson, Kontos (6), Machi (8), Affeldt (9) and Susac. W—Hellickson 1-2. L—T.Hudson 0-2. HRs— Arizona, Goldschmidt (5). Colorado 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Los Ang. 020 005 00x — 7 14 0 E.Butler, Oberg (6), Bergman (6) and McKenry; McCarthy, Liberatore (7), Nicasio (9) and Ellis. W— McCarthy 2-0. L—E.Butler 1-1. HRs—Los Angeles, H.Kendrick (2), Van Slyke (1), Pederson (2).

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RED DEER SYNCHRONIZED SWIM CLUB The Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club more than held its own at the Wildrose Classic Provincial Championship in Sherwood Park on the weekend. Claire Halford led the way with gold in the 13-15 solo routine, bronze in figures to earn a merit award for a high standard mark and paired with Mya Freeman to earn silver in the duet routine. In the team competition, Halford, Freeman, Kia Risling, Terra Paul, Nina Hayes and Trinny Allier finished fourth in the 13-15 division. Hailey Oliver and Haley Pool earned gold for their novice duet performance while Sophie Schmidt and Katelyn Fuller got silver. Oliver also got a merit award in figures for her

fourth place finish. Meanwhile, Nina Hayes finished third in the 16-18 solo division. In other results, the 10 and under team of Schmidt, Fuller, Jolie Chavarria, Chloe Vandenhurk, Hayden Bettenson, Koda Reedler and Mia Wright finished sixth. Vandenhurk and Chavarria also placed fifth in their duet. The 10-11 team of Oliver, Poole, Jayden Haase, Piper Jackson, Anna Gordon and Olivia Moreau came in ninth while Hasse and Jackson’s duet also finished ninth. Risling and Paul’s 13-15 duet placed seventh while Risling’s solo routine was also seventh with Freeman ninth.

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Thursday

● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Saskatoon Stars vs. Central Plains Capitals, noon; Sudbury Lady Wolves vs. Moncton Rockets, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Edmonton Thunder, 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena.

● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Edmonton Thunder vs. Sudbury Lady Wolves, noon; Moncton Rockets vs. Saskatoon Stars, 3:30 p.m.; Central Plains Capitals vs. Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena.

Friday

Tuesday ● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Moncton Rockets vs. Central Plains Capitals, noon; Edmonton Thunder vs. Saskatoon Stars, 3:30 p.m.; Sudbury Lady Wolves vs. Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena.

Wednesday ● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Edmonton Thunder vs. Moncton Rockets, noon; Central Plains Capitals vs. Sudbury Lady Wolves, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Saskatoon Stars, 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena. ● High school girls rugby: Wetaskiwin at Notre Dame, 5 p.m., Titans Park 1; Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Rimbey, 4:30 p.m. ● High school boys rugby: Rocky Mountain House at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Notre Dame, 6 and 6:30 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2.

● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Semifinals at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Red Deer Arena. Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Axemen at Red Deer Renegades, 9 p.m., Kinex.

Saturday

● Midget AAA girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Bronzemedal game at noon; Championship final at 3:30 p.m., both at Red Deer Arena. Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lethbridge Barricudas at Lacoka Locos, 3:30 p.m., Ponoka; ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Saskatchewan Swat at Red Deer Rampage, 8 p.m., Kinex.

Sunday

● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Lacoka Locos, 3:30 p.m., Ponoka. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: St. Albert Crude at Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex.

Basketball EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 1, Brooklyn 0 Sunday, April 19: Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92 Wednesday, April 22: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Saturday, April 25: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 1 p.m. Monday, April 27: Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA

Saturday, April 18: Golden State 106, New Orleans 99 Monday, April 20: New Orleans at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Golden State at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25: Golden State at New Orleans, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 28: New Orleans at Golden State, TBA

Cleveland 1, Boston 0 Sunday, April 19: Cleveland 113, Boston 100 Tuesday, April 21: Boston at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Cleveland at Boston, 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26 Cleveland at Boston, 11 a.m. x-Tuesday, April 28: Boston at Cleveland, TBA

Houston 1, Dallas 0 Saturday, April 18: Houston 118, Dallas 108 Tuesday, April 21: Dallas at Houston, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24: Houston at Dallas, 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26: Houston at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 28: Dallas at Houston, TBA

Chicago 1, Milwaukee 0 Saturday, April 18: Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91 Monday, April 20: Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 23: Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Saturday. April 25: Chicago at Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m. x-Monday, April 27: Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA

L.A. Clippers vs. San Antonio Sunday, April 19: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, late Wednesday, April 22: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 24: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 28: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Washington 1, Toronto 0 Saturday, April 18: Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT Tuesday, April 21: Washington at Toronto, 6 p.m. Friday, April 24: Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m. Sunday, April 26: Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 29: Washington at Toronto, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 1, New Orleans 0

Memphis 1, Portland 0 Sunday, April 19: Memphis 100, Portland 86 Wednesday, April 22: Portland at Memphis, 6 p.m. Saturday, April 25: Memphis at Portland, 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 27: Memphis at Portland, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 29: Portland at Memphis, TBA

Golf PGA-RBC Heritage Sunday At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head Island, S.C. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71 Final a-amateur x — Furyk won on second playoff hole x-Jim Furyk, $1,062,000 71-64-68-63 — Kevin Kisner, $637,200 68-67-67-64 — Troy Merritt, $401,200 69-61-69-69 — Brendon Todd, $283,200 73-66-63-67 — Matt Kuchar, $236,000 68-66-68-68 — Sean O’Hair, $212,400 70-67-70-64 — Branden Grace, $190,27570-67-66-69 — Louis Oosthuizen, $190,27569-67-69-67 — Morgan Hoffmann, $165,20068-68-69-68— Bo Van Pelt, $165,200 69-68-67-69 — Blake Adams, $129,800 72-65-71-66 — Brice Garnett, $129,800 72-66-65-71 — Jordan Spieth, $129,800 74-62-68-70 — Justin Thomas, $129,800 70-67-68-69 — Luke Donald, $100,300 73-66-66-70 — Bryce Molder, $100,300 74-64-70-67 — Cameron Smith, $100,30068-73-67-67 — Brendon de Jonge, $69,32570-68-67-71 — Matt Every, $69,325 66-70-70-70 — Lucas Glover, $69,325 70-67-70-69 — Jerry Kelly, $69,325 71-66-70-69 — Russell Knox, $69,325 75-64-67-70 — Jason Kokrak, $69,325 72-70-65-69 — John Peterson, $69,325 72-65-71-68 — Ian Poulter, $69,325 69-70-67-70 — Graeme McDowell, $43,66066-69-70-72 — John Merrick, $43,660 69-65-71-72 — Pat Perez, $43,660 69-71-67-70 — Carl Pettersson, $43,660 72-69-69-67 — Brandt Snedeker, $43,66077-64-67-69 — Alex Cejka, $34,220 70-71-69-68 — Stewart Cink, $34,220 70-67-71-70 — Martin Flores, $34,220 73-67-69-69 — Bill Haas, $34,220 71-70-68-69 — Joost Luiten, $34,220 69-71-70-68 — William McGirt, $34,220 71-70-68-69 — Sangmoon Bae, $25,370 67-73-70-69 — Ricky Barnes, $25,370 69-72-70-68 — Scott Brown, $25,370 74-67-71-67 — Ben Crane, $25,370 72-67-72-68 — Jason Dufner, $25,370 74-67-66-72 — Freddie Jacobson, $25,37071-68-70-70 — Ben Martin, $25,370 69-69-70-71 — Zac Blair, $17,413 70-69-71-70 —

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Steven Bowditch, $17,41374-68-68-70 — Brian Harman, $17,413 75-65-69-71 — Anirban Lahiri $17,413 73-69-66-72 — Robert Streb, $17,413 74-68-68-70 — Hudson Swafford, $17,41370-69-71-70 — George McNeill, $17,413 72-67-72-69 — Billy Horschel, $14,072 72-69-69-71 — Martin Laird, $14,072 72-70-70-69 — Webb Simpson, $14,072 71-70-69-71 — Vijay Singh, $14,072 71-67-70-73 — Robert Allenby, $13,334 71-71-67-73 — Jason Bohn, $13,334 73-68-74-67 — Charl Schwartzel, $13,33472-70-71-69 — Kevin Streelman, $13,33471-65-71-75 — Brian Stuard, $13,334 73-68-69-72 — Andres Gonzales, $12,80370-72-70-71 — James Hahn, $12,803 70-69-72-72 — Danny Lee, $12,803 71-71-69-72 — Daniel Summerhays, $12,80370-70-73-70—

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Greater Gwinnett Championship Sunday At TPC Sugarloaf Duluth, Ga. Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 7,179; Par: 72 Final The final round was cancelled by rain Olin Browne, $270,000 68-64 Bernhard Langer, $158,400 69-64 Rocco Mediate, $129,600 68-67 Stephen Ames, $82,350 70-67 Mark O’Meara, $82,350 68-69 Jesper Parnevik, $82,350 68-69 Tom Pernice Jr., $82,350 69-68 Tommy Armour III, $54,000 67-71 Rod Spittle, $54,000 72-66 Bart Bryant, $39,960 69-70 Joe Durant, $39,960 69-70 Miguel Angel Jimenez, $39,960 69-70 Colin Montgomerie (40), $39,96071-68 Esteban Toledo (40), $39,960 69-70 Tom Byrum, $28,800 69-71 Paul Goydos, $28,800 71-69 Gary Hallberg, $28,800 69-71 Sandy Lyle, $28,800 72-68 Doug Rohrbaugh, $28,800 72-68 Jeff Coston, $21,060 69-72 Mike Goodes, $21,060 70-71 Kirk Triplett, $21,060 70-71 Willie Wood, $21,060 72-69 Ian Woosnam, $21,060 68-73 Michael Allen, $16,050 71-71

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Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts New York 3 0 2 11 D.C. United 3 1 2 11 New England 3 2 2 11 Columbus 2 2 2 8 Orlando City 2 3 2 8 Chicago 2 3 0 6 New York City FC 1 3 3 6 Philadelphia 1 4 3 6 Toronto FC 1 4 0 3 Montreal 0 2 2 2

Friday’s Games New York 2, San Jose 0 GF 9 6 6 8 6 5 5 9 8 2

GA 4 5 7 5 8 7 6 13 11 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 5 2 1 16 10 7 FC Dallas 4 2 1 13 10 10 Los Angeles 3 2 2 11 8 7 Seattle 3 2 1 10 9 5 San Jose 3 4 0 9 7 9 Houston 2 2 3 9 6 4 Real Salt Lake 2 1 3 9 6 5 Portland 2 2 3 9 7 7 Sporting KC 2 2 3 9 7 8 Colorado 1 2 3 6 5 5 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s Games D.C. United 1, Houston 1, tie Columbus 3, Orlando City 0 FC Dallas 3, Toronto FC 2 Seattle 3, Colorado 1 Vancouver 1, Real Salt Lake 0 Los Angeles 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 Sunday’s Games New England 2, Philadelphia 1 Portland 1, New York City FC 0 Friday, April 24 New York City FC at Chicago, 6 p.m. FC Dallas at Colorado, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25 Real Salt Lake at New England, 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Houston, 6:30 p.m. D.C. United at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26 Los Angeles at New York, 3 p.m. Toronto FC at Orlando City, 5 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF x-Toronto 17 13 4 .765 220 x-Rochester 16 11 5 .688 179 Buffalo 15 8 7 .533 179 Minnesota 16 5 11 .313 160 New England 14 4 10 .286 154

GA GB 178 — 154 1 1/2 180 4 198 7 1/2 185 7 1/2

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Edmonton 16 11 5 .688 212 155 — x-Colorado 17 9 8 .529 202 205 2 1/2 Calgary 17 6 11 .353 198 204 5 1/2 Vancouver 16 5 11 .313 189 234 6 x — clinched playoff berth; y — clinched division.

WEEK 16 Saturday’s results Calgary 10 Minnesota 6 Edmonton 13 Colorado 12 Rochester 13 Vancouver 9 Friday’s results Toronto 15 New England 12 Colorado 11 Rochester 10 WEEK 17 Saturday, April 25 Vancouver at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. New England at Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Sunday, April 26 Buffalo at New England, 4 p.m.

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Braves take rubber match against Blue Jays BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Braves 5 Blue Jays 2 TORONTO — Dalton Pompey shouldered the blame Sunday for the Toronto Blue Jays’ 5-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves. The rookie centre-fielder from Mississauga, Ont., figured in four of Atlanta’s runs. He misplayed Jonny Gomes’ first-inning fly ball with the bases loaded that resulted in a three-run double. Then in the third, Pompey’s throwing error brought Freddie Freeman home for the Braves’ fourth run. “We lose that game because I don’t make that play and I take full responsibility for that,” said Pompey, who began his availability by apologizing to Toronto coaches, players and fans. “I kind of stopped for a second and broke back and the ball started to slice back to my reverse side and I couldn’t make the adjustment in time . . . I should’ve been playing deeper in that situation but I wasn’t. “I made a bad throw also. It’s a learning experience for me but unfortunately it was one of those where I feel like I cost the team a chance to stay in the game.” Pompey, 22, admitted he’s been playing scared this season, afraid to make mistakes. But he said Sunday’s miscues reinforced the importance of playing aggressively and living with the results. “It shows me I just need to be more aggressive and if I make mistakes being aggressive then it won’t be as bad,” he said. Pompey wasn’t the only Toronto rookie to struggle. Losing left-hander Daniel Norris (1-1) allowed five runs (four earned) on six hits with two walks and a strikeout over 2 2/3 innings. “I’m going through a little bit of a dead-arm phase,” Norris said. “It’s something where you feel 100 per cent fine but it (ball) doesn’t come out like it usually does. “Even if I throw and it says 93 or 94 (miles an hour) it doesn’t have the same life on it and I can’t really command it like I’m used to. It’s mentally exhausting going out there trying to do something to give you a little bit of momentum. You can’t do anything to fix it, you just get through it.” Toronto manager John Gibbons said teams must take the bad along with the good when playing rookie players. “They’re here for a reason, we like them,” he said. “If you’re committed to them you’ve got to be able to

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak, left, tags out Atlanta Braves’ Cameron Maybin to complete an unassisted double play during seventh inning interleague baseball action in Toronto on Sunday. live with it. There are going to be days like that.” A bright spot for Toronto was left-hander Jeff Francis of North Delta, B.C., whose contract was added from triple-A Buffalo earlier Sunday. The 10-year veteran become the 22nd Canadian to play for Toronto, allowing two hits while fanning three and walking two over 3 1/3 scoreless innings. “He kept us in the game,” Gibbons said. “He really saved our bullpen, we were pretty short there so that was good.” Francis’ appearance gave Toronto three Canadians on the field — along with Pompey and Torontoborn catcher Russell Martin — for just the second time in its history. Atlanta (8-4) took two-of-three from Toronto (6-7), which dropped to 2-5 on their 10-game homestand. Right-hander Shelby Miller (2-0) got the win, allowing two runs and five hits over six innings while striking out six and walking three. Martin delivered the big blow off Miller, a two-run double in the sixth, and threw out two Atlanta bas-

erunners to delight the Rogers Centre gathering of 44,794. The Jays lost leadoff hitter Devon Travis (left rib contusion) in the first. Hit by a pitch, Travis left after diving back to first on a pickoff and was replaced by Steve Tolleson. Travis is listed as day to day. After Freeman scored in the third, Gomes’ sacrifice fly brought Chris Johnson home and chased Norris, who was replaced by right-hander Marco Estrada. Martin brought Jose Bautista (walk) and Edwin Encarnacion (single) home in the sixth. But after walking Justin Smoak, Miller retired Kevin Pillar (flyout) to end the threat. “He’s a tough assignment,” Gibbons said of Miller. Left-hander Andrew McKirahan replaced Miller to start the seventh and retired the two batters he faced before right-hander Cody Martin came on. Right-hander Jason Grilli retired the three Toronto hitters he faced in the ninth for his sixth save.

Lowry looking to bounce back for Raptors BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Kyle Lowry leaned on the microphone podium, and with the sleeve of his T-shirt wiped the sweat from his eyebrow. The Toronto Raptors didn’t practice Sunday, instead holding a team video session. And when the players piled out, Lowry headed upstairs to the practice court to work on his shooting. The Raptors point guard had one of the worst games of his season in Saturday’s 93-86 overtime loss to Washington, and those who know him best say that won’t happen again. “I have no doubt hat Kyle Lowry will come back and play at a level that he’s played at and has made him successful,” said coach Dwane Casey. “That’s who he is, he’s a guy who plays better with a chip on his shoulder, he’s been doubted all his life since junior high school so I think he’ll bounce back. “I don’t think shooting is where you rate him, I think making winning plays, defensive plays, draw and kick, not turning the ball over, those are the winning plays that he’s excellent at.” Lowry had just seven points on 2-for-10 shooting, plus four assists and three turnovers, and fouled out of the game with 2:36 left in regulation — the picture of the dejected point guard sitting alone on the bench, head in hands, said everything. “Super difficult,” he said, on sitting out the end of the game. “Just fouling out in general and not being able to be myself and help my teammates was definitely more frustrating than I wanted it to be. But that’s Game 1. You learn from your mistakes and you get better. That’s what the playoffs is about — adjustments.” Wizards guard Bradley Beal mockingly waved goodbye to Lowry when the whistle blew on his sixth foul. “I would have done the same thing,” Lowry said. “You get one of the best players off of the floor, you should be happy about it.” Lowry, DeMar DeRozan and Lou Williams — the team’s best scoring options — combined for a dreadful 12-46. “I don’t think that’s going to happen (again),” Lowry said. “It’s something that happens once in a while, it happened to be in the playoffs and it sucks, because it’s more magnified, but, I think guys are going

to keep taking the same shots and make (the) shots.” Greivis Vasquez took over at the point after Lowry fouled out and his three-pointer with 26 seconds left in regulation sent the game to overtime. Vasquez also believes the all-star point guard will be a different player come Tuesday’s Game 2. “I’m not going to be shocked if Kyle came and had an unbelievable game on Tuesday. He knows how much we need him,” Vasquez said. “I feel like we need to have a short memory. He needs to have a short memory. He needs to come to play and on Tuesday, and have fun — that’s the main thing. It’s not pressure. We all need to relax. We just have got to play our game.” While the Raptors’ shooting was uncharacteristically poor, their rebounding was about par for the season. The Wizards outhustled Toronto on the offensive glass especially, grabbing 19 offensive boards to the Raptors’ 10. Patrick Patterson said it was the lopsided rebounding performance was glaringly obvious in Sunday’s video session. “(It was) not being physical enough with the bigs but also the guards as well, getting free looks at long rebounds, the ones that we couldn’t corral in the paint, the ones that bounce around the free throw line,” said Patterson, who was solid off the bench with 10 points and five rebounds. “I think it’s just always physicality, the guy’s on

GM Masai Ujiri fined $35,000, team docked $25,000 for his expletive NEW YORK — Toronto general manager Masai Ujiri was fined $35,000 and the team docked $25,000 by the NBA on Sunday for his expletive Saturday talking about Washington forward Paul Pierce when addressing fans before the Raptors’ playoff opener. “People want me to say something about Paul Pierce but, we don’t give a (expletive) about ’it’,” Ujiri told a cheering crowd outside the Air Canada Centre. Ujiri was referring to the Wizards’ veteran who told ESPN he wasn’t worried about the Raptors because “I don’t feel they have the ’it’ that makes you worried.” Last year, Ujiri was fined $25,000 by the NBA for ending a speech with an expletive before the team’s post-season opener against the Brooklyn Nets. the perimeter, then you have to keep him from getting to the paint, and getting the ball first. But a lot of it was (Saturday) night just us turning our heads and looking at the ball and looking at the rim rather than worrying about our man not getting the ball.”

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Jim Furyk had gone 100 starts without winning, a stretch that gnawed at his psyche and challenged his confidence. That all disappeared in uncharacteristic fashion Sunday when he won his first PGA Tour title in five years with birdies on both playoff holes to outlast Kevin Kisner at the RBC Heritage. When the winning putt fell on the par-3 17th, the typically reserved Furyk dropped his putter and punched the air. “I think getting excited on 17 there was a lot of pent-up frustrations,” he said. Furyk won for the second time at RBC Heritage, the other coming in 2010 in what turned out to be the best year of his career. He won two other events, including the Tour Championship, and captured the $10 million FedEx Cup. Furyk won the 2003 U.S. Open and entered this tournament ranked 10th in the world, but he has struggled to close out events. He was 0-of-9 when leading tournaments after three rounds since that Tour Championship victory. He is 44 and always believed he’d win again. “But I was starting to feel like this game is beating me up, and the losing hurts a lot more than winning feels good,” he said. “I think I just forget how good” it feels to win. With that came a $1.062 million payday. For Kisner, it was his best finish on the PGA Tour. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford B.C., the lone Canadian to make the cut, shot 1-under 70 Sunday to finish the tournament in 74th at 4-over 288.

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Dixon rolls to victory at Long Beach INDYCAR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG BEACH, Calif. — Scott Dixon, like nearly every IndyCar driver, loves racing the streets of downtown Long Beach. But whether it was bad luck or an inability to close out a race, the New Zealander always found victory well beyond his reach. That changed with a dominating Sunday under the warm California sun. Dixon passed Helio Castroneves during a mid-race pit stop and stayed out front over the final 47 laps to win the Grand Prix of Long Beach for the first time. “I guess I finally got it right,� Dixon said. A three-time IndyCar Series champion, Dixon has not had much luck on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit, finishing fourth in 2010 for his only previous top 10. He led 22 laps last season, but a longshot gamble on fuel came up short. Dixon qualified third for this year’s race, his best starting position at Long Beach. Once the race started, he quickly passed series leader Juan Pablo Montoya for second and went to the lead when Castroneves nearly collided with another car in the pits on lap 33. Castroneves had one big challenge, but Dixon turned it back and cruised the rest of the 80-lap race to give Chip Ganassi Racing its first victory this season. It was also the 36th of his career, passing Bobby Unser for fifth place on the victory list. “Scott Dixon has talent and skill and will win races for years and years to come,� Unser said. “He is always really fun to watch, for sure.� So have the Team Penske drivers. Castroneves, who turns 40 next month, had his third straight top-5 finish with a second. Montoya made an impressive pass of teammate Simon Pagenaud to finish third. Pagenaud ended up fourth, giving Team Penske three top-five finishers for the second

time in three races. “We are all mature enough, we’ve done this long enough that it makes it easy,� Montoya said. “When you’re young, you’re greedy, you want to beat everybody and you don’t want to help anyone. At Team Penske, the No. 1 thing is the team and we understand that.� It was almost all Penske the first two races. Montoya won the opener at St. Petersburg, where Team Penske had four of the top five. James Hinchcliffe of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports won at Louisiana last week, but Penske had three of the top seven in that race. Team Penske entered Long Beach with the top three in the series standings and had three of the top five qualifiers, including the front row with Castroneves and Montoya. Castroneves set track record in qualifying, earning his first pole at Long Beach since winning the 2001 race. The Brazilian driver was strong at the start of the race and led the first 29 laps — his first laps led at Long Beach since 2009 — before a near collision in the pits cost him the top spot. Castroneves had a good stop and was in position to beat Dixon out of the pits, but had to brake after nearly hitting Tony Kanaan’s car while trying to pull out of his stall. The hesitation was just enough to allow Dixon. In the lead for the first time this season, Dixon beat Castroneves out of the final pit stop and turned back his pass attempt with 24 laps left before widening his lead. “Toward the end, I was really pushing hard, but with his experience, I knew he wasn’t going to make a mistake,� said Castroneves, who tied Robby Rahal for most all-time runner-up finishes with 37. Montoya had lift coming out of the start because of slow start by Ryan Hunter-Reay and was passed by Dixon for second. The Colombian driver kept battling, though, and pulled off gutsy pass to get past Pagenaud, ducking un-

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Scott Dixon, of New Zealand, reacts in the Winner’s Circle after winning the IndyCar Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach auto race on Sunday, in Long Beach, Calif. der him just before going into a turn. “I thought the move I made was pretty cool, I’ll be honest,� Montoya said. The fragility of IndyCar’s new aero kits was a problem during the first two races, causing caution-filled race as the tracks littered with car pieces. A woman also suffered a fractured skull at St. Petersburg after a chunk of debris flew over the catch fence. IndyCar clamped down on the aero kits, mandating Chevrolet and Honda to secure the parts better. Chevrolet

didn’t have time to make changes, so removed the parts Team Penske driver Will Power has called “rabbit ears.� The Long Beach had an early issue with a front wing, when a chunk of rookie Gabby Chaves’ front end broke off and caused a caution on the fifth lap. It turned out to be the only caution of the day, a rarity on the streets of Long Beach. “I think Chevy and Honda did a good job of making their aero kits stronger,� Dixon said. “That said, we shouldn’t be hitting each other.�

Canada loses Fed Canada’s James wins first Symetra Tour title Cup tie to Romania after Bouchard loss BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TENNIS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Eugenie Bouchard’s career has hit a standstill. The Westmount, Que., native lost in singles competition for the second time in as many days as Romania defeated Canada 3-2 in a Fed Cup World Group playoff tie. “It is definitely the difficult part of my career,� Bouchard said after the loss. “But I tried my best, and it was a close match particularly in the first and second sets.� Andreea Mitu defeated Bouchard 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday to give Romania the edge in the best-of-five series. Romania clinched the tie when Alexandra Dulgheru defeated Francoise Abanda 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Mitu, ranked 104th in the world, was a late replacement for 33rd-ranked Irina-Camelia Begu, who was injured in a loss to Abanda on Saturday. It is a much different situation than last year for the No. 7 ranked Bouchard. She was awarded the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award in December for a second year in a row after winning her first career title in 2014, along with reaching the Wimbledon final. Bouchard, 21, says she knows what it takes to get back to that elite level. “I know how to get there, because I’ve been in those tough match situations before,� Bouchard said. “I am going to skip the tournament in Stuttgart, train more, and play in Madrid.� Bouchard struggled in both her singles matches in the tie, losing 6-4, 6-4 to Dulgheru Saturday after Abanda’s win gave Canada a 1-0 edge. Abanda faced Dulgheru in the last singles match, while Gabriela Dabrowski and Sharon Fichman were scheduled to face Mitu and Raluca Olaru in a doubles match. Romania will play in the elite eight-team Fed Cup World Group in 2016, while Canada is relegated to the World Group II division. Bouchard started the match well, breaking Mitu’s serve to take a 5-4 lead then holding her serve to take the first set 6-4. Mitu was very strong at the start of the second set, breaking Bouchard in her first serving game en route to taking a 2-0 lead. Bouchard fought back and tied the set but was broken again to fall behind 5-4. The Canadian had three break points in a row in the next game, Mitu managed to saved them all and won second set 6-4. Mitu broke Bouchard three times in winning the third set, and the match. Abanda had a strong first set against Dulgheru and continued rolling to a 4-2 lead in the second. Dulgheru then showed her experience by holding serve and breaking Abanda to even the set at four. The experience factor continued into the third set, when Dulgheru cruised to victory. “Playing back to back matches at that level is a new experience for me, so I was a bit tired after yesterday’s match and the first two sets,� Abanda said. Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Toronto’s Sharon Fichman gave the Canadians their second win of the tie after downing Romania’s Andreea Mitu and Raluca Olaru 6-1, 4-6, 10-5.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Canada’s Augusta James won the Chico’s Patty Berg Memorial on Sunday for her first Symetra Tour title, and Laurie Rinker took The Legends Tour competition. The 22-year-old James, a former North Carolina State player making her fourth start on the tour, closed with a 5-under 67 for a four-stroke victory over Laura Kueny and Brianna Do. “It’s a fantastic feeling,� said James, named Augusta after being born on the first day of the 1993 Masters. “I’m really happy and really excited that my hard work is paying off.� James, from Bath, Ont. finished at 10-under 278 at Cypress Lake Country Club. She earned $22,500 to jump from 58th to first on the money list with $23,684.

The final top 10 will earn 2016 LPGA Tour cards. “It’s great to move to the top spot because my goal is to get one of the top 10 spots so I can play on the LPGA Tour next year,� said James, the Canadian Women’s Amateur winner last year. “However, I’ve been told that as soon as you start thinking about money, your golf game suffers.� James holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole. “You don’t plan on making 40-foot putts in the sense that if you do make them they are a bonus,� James said. “It’s tough to make 40-foot putts, but I stood over that putt and felt really confident. I liked the line, I liked the speed and pace and was happy to see it drop.� Kueny and Do each shot 72. In The Legends Tour event, the 52-year-old Rinker shot an even-par-72 for a three-stroke victory over Rosie Jones and Barb Mucha.

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ALBERTA FENCING ASSOCIATION PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Red Deer Fencing Club Coach Petar Toshkov, left,parries a strike made by Jake McBreen of the Epic Fencing Club in the gold medal match of the Men’s Epee Open on Saturday during the Alberta Fencing Provincials held at the Collicutt Centre. Toshkov lost the match, winning a silver medal.

Sword fighting and the clashing of blades isn’t usually something to be seen — nor allowed — at the Collicutt Centre. An exception was made, however, this past weekend as it opened the field house doors for the 2015 Alberta Fencing Association Provincial Championships. The tournament, hosted by the Red Deer Fencing Club, saw about 130 fencers of all ages from across Alberta step onto the piste and flash their skill with the foil, sabre, and epee. Each weapon has its own subset of rules, which affects the style of the match. Red Deer’s fencers primarily used the epee, in which the whole body is a target, and points are scored by hitting with the point of the blade only. Foil is a more flexible and lighter weapon than the epee, but only the front and back of the torso are considered to be a target. Hits can only be made with the point of the blade. Sabre is much more of a cut and thrust type of weapon, having been developed from the heavy cavalry sabre and the Elizabethan backsword. Hits can be made with the sides of the blade, and anything above the waist, including the head and arms is a target. Over 28 different events were held, however, the Veteran foil event was cancelled due to a lack of registrants. The Veterans Cup 2015 will be held on June 6 in Edmonton.

Ahmad Mahmoud, left, and Sean Rathwell take part in a friendly sabre match on Saturday afternoon during the Alberta Fencing Provincials held at the Collicutt Centre.

ABOVE: Foilists Felicia Yuen, left, and Liam Yau get a double hit during a U15 Qualifier match on Saturday afternoon. LEFT: Red Deer Fencing Club Coach Petar Toshkov, left, took on Jake McBreen of the Epic Fencing Club in the gold medal match of the Men’s Epee Open. BELOW: Karen Lyver, Louise Zanussi, Michelle Ostrikoff, referee Reyes Bertolin, Andrea Turik, and Gina Konschuh, all part of the Veteran Ladies Epee event pose for a picture between even matches on Saturday during the Alberta Fencing Provincials held at the Collicutt Centre. Lyver, Zanussi and Ostrikoff are all members of the Red Deer Fencing Club.

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Oil shock crushes budget wish lists BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — As last autumn’s colours were setting in, veteran Ottawa lobbyist Dan Kelly was confident the spring would produce a federal budget surplus with ample room for announcements. But following a long winter, the head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business is approaching Tuesday’s election-year budget with his hopes somewhat in check. “Things were trucking on really well, we were certainly thinking very positively about some of our requests — some of our tax-reduction requests in particular,” Kelly said in an interview. “But then, of course, that was before Christmas. So, then when oil prices started to plummet, then a few big question marks started to cloud the otherwise rosy picture.” Only about six months ago, the Harper government’s surplus kitty for budget day goodies in the 2015-16 fiscal plan was said to have swelled to $6.5 billion, Kelly said. Cabinet ministers who had waited years for a balanced budget were salivating at the thought of being able to spend money for once. By October, however, everything started to change. First, the Conservatives unveiled their long-promised family tax-and-benefit package, a grab bag of measures expected to carve $4.6 billion in revenue out of public coffers. Then, the weeks that followed brought the deep, unexpected plunge in world oil prices, a crash Ottawa has predicted will indirectly chew billions of dollars from its bottom line. Today, the surplus cupboard is bare and the Conservatives had to scramble to deliver on a long-held pledge critical to their re-election hopes: a balanced 2015-16 budget. The finance minister has indicated the budget’s $3-billion contingency reserve — designed as a cushion against unforeseeable events like natural disasters — could be in play. Earlier this month, the government unloaded its remaining shares in General Motors for about $3.26 billion. Last week, the Bank of Canada blamed the oilprice shock for its “zero growth” projection for the first three months of 2015, a stretch governor Stephen Poloz has warned will produce economic data

that looks “atrocious.” And those once-hopeful cabinet ministers? They’re waiting to see if there are any budget leftovers for their departments. Kelly, who had 20 or 30 budget-related meetings over the past year with officials, said the government’s shift in tone was impossible to miss. “With the oil-price decline you could feel it in meetings,” he said of his exchanges with the government, including several discussions with Finance Minister Joe Oliver himself. “They’ve been pretty careful to try to make sure that every group that’s out there with a budget request puts some water in their wine.” Kelly, however, said he remains “cautiously optimistic” the budget will address his group’s top request for a reduction to the small business corporate tax rate. The federation has been lobbying the government to lower the rate to nine per cent from its current level of 11 per cent. But Kelly has had to tweak his pitch somewhat and he now believes any tax cut might have to be phased in — perhaps a half-percentage point at a time over four years. “I’m no longer expecting the full victory that I was hoping for perhaps this time last year,” said Kelly, who expects many interest groups in the capital have tempered their expectations. Not everyone. The president of another powerful lobby group, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, believes the oil-price slide may have helped his cause. Jayson Myers said governments are looking to manufacturing and export industries to help lift the country’s economic fortunes, particularly as the energy and commodity sectors struggle and consumer spending shows signs of maxing out. Geography doesn’t hurt, either, as politicians zero in on key political terrain that overlaps the cradle of Canadian manufacturing, Myers said. “In an election year like this, where the battleground is in southern Ontario and in southern Quebec, I think manufacturing becomes even more important, politically,” he said. Myers said he’s “pretty optimistic” his group’s No. 1 request for another extension to the government’s accelerated write-off for manufacturing equipment and machinery will appear in the budget. He hopes the government will extend it for longer than two years or, perhaps, make it a permanent fix-

Canadian miners grapple with security risks BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OAXACA, Mexico — The recent theft of $10.7 million worth of gold from a mine in Mexico has cast a spotlight on the risks of operating in the country. The armed robbery of McEwen Mining’s El Gallo mine in Sinaloa State follows several other large mine robberies in the past five years, including multimillion-dollar heists at Pan American Silver and First Majestic. “That’s a part of doing business in Mexico,” says Andrew Kaip, a research analyst at BMO Capital Markets. “It happens a couple times a year; a couple of these producers get hit. In most cases it’s covered by insurance.” But it’s not just theft that’s plaguing mining companies in Mexico. They’re now dealing as well with kidnappings and murder. Last month, four employees from Canadian-based Goldcorp were kidnapped while heading home from the mine site in a personal vehicle. One was freed, but three were later found dead. And in February, four workers at Torex Gold Resources, also a Canadian company, were among 13 people kidnapped near the company’s Morelos gold project. All of the victims in that case were eventually freed. Also in February, Belgium-based Nyrstar closed its Campo Morado mine indefinitely, citing “systematic intimidation” of its workers. Last year that mine produced about $124 million worth of gold, silver, copper, and zinc. Both the Goldcorp and Torex kidnappings happened in Guerrero state -- the same jurisdiction where 43 students disappeared last year and are now presumed dead. Organized crime is thought to be behind most of these incidents, spurring fears that the security issues in Mexico will worsen in light of changing dynamics within cartels. Alejandro Schtulmann, head of research at the

Mexican risk analysis firm EMPRA, says Mexico’s large cartels are fracturing, leading to the creation of hundreds of smaller organizations that are in conflict with each other. “Where I see the most danger is where criminal groups are fighting each other and where they might extort mining projects in order to get cash to meet their objectives,” says Schtulmann. “My concern is that we’ll see more of what happened in Guerrero, with the kidnapping of personnel,” he says. “That may escalate into more kidnappings, and higher level personnel or managers being kidnapped to extort the mining companies.” The Mexican government has been boosting security across the country to try to make industry safer. Last year president Enrique Pena Nieto introduced a 5,000-strong police force tasked specifically with protecting industry. But there hasn’t yet been much of an impact, so mining companies still feel the need to fend for themselves as many of them boost spending on private security. Last year, Great Panther Silver had to contend with locals sneaking into its mine and making off with high-grade rocks. A tense standoff ensued, leaving one illegal miner dead. The company has responded by investing more heavily in security. “We have beefed up our security quite a lot in the past year,” says Bob Archer, chief executive of the Vancouver-based Great Panther. When the company took over the mine in 2005, he adds, the security budget was “practically non-existent.” But it now spends roughly $1.5 million a year on armed guards, cameras, fencing and dogs trained to work underground. In the wake of recent robbery at McEwen Mining, chief executive Rob McEwen vowed to make El Gallo as “impenetrable” as Fort Knox via more security spending.

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Finance Minister Joe Oliver takes questions from the media following an announcement at the Arts Market in Toronto on Monday, April 13, 2015. ture to help Canadian manufacturers compete with U.S. companies. The system, he added, costs about $1.5 billion every two years. Following the long winter of low crude prices, the government’s need for fiscal discipline is more important than ever heading into Tuesday’s budget, Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre said in an interview. “We can’t spend money that we don’t have and if revenues soften slightly that means that we have to control our spending accordingly,” he said late last week. When asked what Canadians might expect in the budget with regards to skills and training, Poilievre talked about his “No. 1 priority”: a loan program to help newcomers obtain recognition in Canada for their foreign credentials. He said his department ran a successful pilot project that provided small loans to immigrants so they could pay for courses to have their professional training accepted in Canada. “This is actually an area that’s extremely important to me and I’m hoping that we can do more in this area,” said Poilievre, who insisted he didn’t know what would be in the budget.

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TSB investigators assessing CN train derailment in New Brunswick EDMUNDSTON, N.B. — Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board are at the scene of a CN train derailment in New Brunswick. Agency spokeswoman Roxanne Daoust says three investigators are assessing the derailment to determine what kind of investigation is needed. CN says there were no injuries when 35 cars and one locomotive went off the rails near Edmundston, N.B., on Friday afternoon. In a statement issued Saturday, the company says crews are removing the derailed cars and repairing the track. Jacques Doiron, the Emergency Measures co-ordinator for Edmundston, said most of the cars contained wood and paper products, but some of the derailed cars were empty crude oil tankers.

Canadians unsure of charitable tax credits Canadians are a philanthropic people, giving generously each year to their favourite causes and charities, but many may not be aware of the tax benefits associated with charitable donations and may not file a claim for them on their tax returns. A report by H&R Block has found that most Canadians are not aware of the new firsttime donor tax credit which was introduced in the 2013 federal budget. The new credit effectively adds 25 per cent to the rates used in the calculations for up to $1,000 of monetary donaTALBOT tions. BOGGS As a result, a first-time donor will be allowed a 40 per cent federal credit for donations of $200 or less and a 54 per cent federal credit for the portion of donations over $200 but not exceeding $1,000. The new credit can be claimed once from the 2013 to 2017 taxation years. An individual qualifies as a first-time donor if neither the individual nor the individual’s spouse or common-law partner has claimed the charitable donation tax credit since 2007. The credit will apply only to cash donations made

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after March 20, 2013 up to a maximum of $1,000 in donations. The H&R Block survey found that seniors are the most likely group in the country who either intend to or have already made a donation, as are people whose annual income is $100,000 or more. A report on philanthropy late last year by BMO Bank of Montreal found that 91 per cent of affluent Canadians had donated to a charity in the last 12 months. Three quarters of those who have done charitable giving have donated up to $10,000, compared to the average donation of $5,217 in 2013. Sixty-one per cent in the H&R Block survey said they did not know the implications that charitable donations over $200 would have on their tax bill. Only 35 per cent said they make charitable donations for the tax receipt, a sentiment also reflected in the BMO study in which only 21 per cent said they give as a tax-reduction strategy. “For most of Canada’s affluent, donating isn’t about the tax incentives and the bottom line,” said Marvi Ricker, vice-president and managing director of philanthropic services with BMO Harris Private Banking. “Philanthropy for them is really about sharing a portion of their good fortune with those who are in need.” While Canadians may feel good about giving to their favourite charity or cause, they need to be aware that their generosity can be abused.

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During times of calamity and natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, there is always a call for people to donate money to charities to help out. Unfortunately, sometimes those charities either don’t exist or are not legitimate, so it’s imperative that people know to whom and what they are giving their money. Verify the legitimacy of those asking for your donations. Get them to give proof of their identity and provide the charity’s registered name, address and telephone number. Go to the CRA website, which has a listing of and information about registered charities and their activities. Always get a tax receipt. If they cannot or will not provide you with an official receipt, it is a warning sign that they may not registered. “It’s only natural that there could be some concerns associated with charitable giving,” Ricker said. “Working with a financial professional to create a philanthropic plan that aligns with your values, identifies legitimate organizations that are making a difference can provide peace of mind and help ensure your dollars are being used effectively.” Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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What to watch in business this week BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: Rogers: Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) will issue its firstquarter results Monday, shedding light on whether the telecom company continues to grapple with a defection of wireless subscribers to competitors. A CRTC rule change has shortened the span of wireless contracts to two years, meaning that a wave of customers signed to older three-year contracts will suddenly be allowed to leave their agreements without paying a penalty fee this summer. On Tuesday, Rogers will also hold its annual meeting in Toronto. Federal budget: Finance Minister Joe Oliver tables his first federal budget on Tuesday amid a global oil price slump that has threatened Ottawa’s bottom line. Oliver hasn’t provided many hints about what might be in the budget except to say earlier this month, somewhat ominously, that “the world’s troubles have reached our shores.” Oliver is widely expected to double the contribution limit for taxfree savings accounts.

Trade: Also on Tuesday, Statistics Canada releases the wholesale trade figures for February. The data serves as a good indicator of the health of the Canadian economy, and the business community uses the information to analyze market performance. Teck Resources: Canada’s largest publicly traded diversified mining company reports its first-quarter earnings results before markets open for trading on Tuesday. Prices for its metals have suffered in recent months due in large part to the slowing Chinese economy. Analysts expect the company to report a profit of 15 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters. Ontario budget: Finance Minister Charles Sousa tables the Ontario budget on Thursday. The Liberal government is projecting a deficit of $10.9-billion for 2014-15, down from the $12.5-billion originally projected, and has promised to balance the books by 2017-18. Sousa says the economic blueprint will lay out plans for job creation and economic growth, but observers are speculating that tax hikes may be inevitable if the government is intent on balancing the books in two years.

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World finance leaders see threats ahead for global economy, especially a Greek debt default WASHINGTON — The world’s financial leaders see a number of threats facing a global economy still on an uneven road to recovery with U.S. and European officials worrying that Greece will default on its debt. The finance ministers and central bank governors ended three days of meetings in Washington determined to work toward “a more robust, balanced and job-rich economy” while admitting there are risks in reaching that objective, the steering committee of the International Monetary Fund said in its communique Saturday. Seeking to resolve Athens’ debt

crisis, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis held a series of talks with other finance officials on the sidelines of the meetings. The focus now shifts to Riga, Latvia, where European Union finance ministers meet next week. The head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, said it was “urgent” to resolve the current dispute between Greece and its creditors. He said that while the international finance system had been strengthened since the 2008 crisis, a Greek default would still put the global economy into “unchartered waters” with its effect hard to estimate. Draghi told reporters he did not want to even contemplate the chance of a Greek default on its debt. But French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said he thought any damage would be confined to Greece because euro zone countries had established measures to protect themselves from any spillover effects. Seeking to assure financial markets, which fluctuated considerably on Friday over the possibility of a Greek default, Sapin said nothing had changed on the issue as a result of the weekend meetings.

Canada exporting more cold water shrimp to America BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Canadian imports of the shrimp are turning up more in American restaurants and seafood markets since a ban on fishing for Maine shrimp dried up local sources. Glen Libby’s brother Gary, a fishermen who sits on the multistate Northern Shrimp Advisory Panel, said the Canadian shrimp are “filling in for now” until the New England stock rebuilds. Gary Libby predicted that the presence of Canadian shrimp on the market could ultimately benefit Maine shrimpers, because it will keep consumers familiar with the product, which is smaller and sweeter than the familiar warm water shrimp of the Gulf of Mexico. “Once we get our resource back, we’re going to own it, because we’re going to be able to deliver the product for less than Canada can,” Gary Libby said. The lack of availability of cold water shrimp has also made them more

expensive. The shrimp often cost $10 or more per pound to consumers — more than three times the typical price three years ago. Maine Department of Marine Resource Commissioner Patrick Keliher is not concerned with the impact of Canadian imports, in part because consumers will “recognize the superior value of Maine shrimp when they once again have access to it,” a department spokesman said. Maine’s cold water

shrimp are typically a little meatier than their Canadian cousins, fishermen said. Spencer Fuller, a shrimp and lobster buyer at Cozy Harbor Seafood in Portland, said he hopes the ban on fishing Maine shrimp is lifted next winter. Consumers and restaurants are also replacing the shrimp with warm water species, he said. “We really need this fishery back in this state,” he said.

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PORTLAND, Maine — Maine fishmonger Glen Libby made a disheartening discovery on Easter Sunday brunch — the cold water shrimp on the menu at a restaurant up the street from his fish market were from Canada, not New England. Canadian imports of the sweet, quarter-sized crustaceans are turning up more in American restaurants and seafood markets since a ban on fishing for Maine shrimp dried up local sources. The value of Canada’s shrimp imports to the U.S. grew nearly 20 per cent, to more than $30.5 million, from 2013 to 2014, federal statistics say. Canadian imports of cold water shrimp to Maine alone more than doubled, to nearly 100 metric tons, in that time, Canadian authorities said. The price to American consumers has also risen since the December 2013 shutdown. Libby said the inability to sell the popular shrimp is a deep pain in the winter and spring, when customers typically come looking for them. But he said he’d rather wait for the American fishery to reopen than sell the Canadian alternative. “We’re trying to be about local food, so that doesn’t really fit the model,” Libby said. “We’re selling what’s available and what’s in season.” Fishermen from coastal New England and eastern Canada fish for the pinkish cold water shrimp, which are popular for their tender meat. Regulators shut down the Gulf of Maine fishery, which was dominated by Maine fishermen and also included some from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, over concerns about low population. Scientists have cited rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine as a threat to the species, which many Maine fishermen rely on to make money during the winter. The Canadian fishery for the shrimp is much larger — and according to Canadian authorities, more stable — than New England’s. Canadian fishermen’s catch of the shrimp averaged about 150,000 metric tons per year from 2009 to 2013. New England’s catch averaged about 3,300 metric tons in that time, including a low year of about 300 metric tons in 2013. Canadian shrimp landings are above average over the last 15 years, said David Walters, a spokesman for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. He said shrimp stocks are down in the southern end of their range off of Newfoundland and Labrador, where much of the fishing takes place, but they remain in “good condition.” Meanwhile, some Maine dealers said they or other vendors have resorted to Canadian alternatives so they can keep the popular item on the menu.

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Furious 7 speeds ahead to keep first place Unfriended is the 11th microbudget film to open above $15 million for Blumhouse. Other successes include Ouija, The Purge series and The Boy Next Door. According to exit polls, audiences for Unfriended were 60 per cent female and 74 per cent under the age of 25. Rounding out the top five were holdovers Home and The Longest Ride, with $10.3 million and $6.9 million, respectively. Disney’s animal film Monkey Kingdom debuted to $4.7 million to claim the seventh spot, in line with last year’s Bears, also from Disneynature. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Even in its debut weekend, Kevin James’s Paul Blart sequel couldn’t outpace Furious 7. The reigning box office champion might have slowed from its blockbuster debut, but Furious 7 maintained first place for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $29.1 million, according to box office tracker Rentrak on Sunday. This brings the high-octane action movie’s domestic total to a staggering $294 million, well above the $202.8 million that Fast & Furious 6 had earned at the same point in the cycle in 2013. The film crossed the $1 billion mark Friday. “The film has set a new standard for the potential for box-office in the presummer month of April and has truly become part of movie folklore with its record setting numbers, strong reviews, spectacular word-of-mouth and of course the outpouring of support for late star Paul Walker,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 came in a close second with an estimated $24 million. While the PG-rated comedy didn’t perform as well as the first film’s $31.8 million opening in 2009, it did surpass Sony’s modest expectations. Also, it only cost $30 million to produce. “It’s a great result. It’s going to be very profitable for us and a big success,” Sony’s President of Worldwide Distribution Rory Bruer said.

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1,100 ukulele players gather, pick and strum in LA — but fall short of setting record LOS ANGELES — What do you get

“It was something that Kevin really wanted to do and we wanted to do it with him,” he said. “ Kudos to Kevin for working so hard in promoting the film.” Dergarabedian said Blart’s opening “proves that if you give the people what they want, you can make a tidy profit.” Meanwhile, the low-budget, social media themed thriller Unfriended took third place with $16 million — sixteen

times its production budget. With Furious 7 topping the charts again and a strong debut for Unfriended, Universal’s President of Domestic Distribution Nick Carpou marveled how both of films are “so successful at both ends of the spectrum.” “When you find success you look to repeat them,” he said of Universal’s partnership with Blumhouse on microbudget horror films. “It works.”

Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1.Furious 7, $29.1 million ($167.9 million international). 2.Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, $24 million ($7.1 million international) 3.Unfriended, $16 million. 4.Home, $10.3 million (10.4 million international). 5.The Longest Ride, $6.9 million ($2.1 million international). 6.Get Hard, $4.8 million. 7.Monkey Kingdom, $4.7 million. 8.Woman In Gold, $4.6 million ($1.1 million international). 9.The Divergent Series: Insurgent, $4.2 million ($4.1 million international). 10.Cinderella, $3.9 million ($7.5 million international).

when more than 1,100 ukulele (OO’koo-leh-leh) enthusiasts gather and begin playing their instruments? Lots of noise, but not a new world record. Crowds gathered Saturday in the Little Tokyo neighbourhood of Los Angeles in a second annual attempt to set a new mark for the largest ensemble of ukuleles, the Hawaiian instrument that looks like a mini guitar. The ensemble played the same song for five minutes, but the Los Angeles Times reported (lat.ms/1JUwbXr) that 1,102 participants fell short of the official Guinness record of 2,370, set in England. Meanwhile, a recent gathering in Tahiti said it attracted an as-yet-unverified 4,750 participants.

traying the character of Gilbert Blythe in the 1985 Anne Of Green Gables television movie that aired on the CBC and spawned two sequels in 1987 and 2000. He was also the son of David Crombie, who was a federal cabinet minister in the government of Brian Mulroney and mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978. Jonathan Crombie was also a member of a sketch comedy troupe on the Canadian TV series Comedy Now! in 1998 and performed in The Drowsy Chaperone Broadway musical in 2008. Crombie’s co-star and onscreen love interest Megan Follows, who played Anne Shirley in the movies, said his unexpected loss was “a big shock.” “He was incredibly funny, Jonathan just had an amazing sense of humour,” she said. “Truly I just remember at times

just laughing so hard that you’d just be crying. He was so playful and silly and as I said really bright, so his humour was always informed with that, which made him even funnier.” Follows called Crombie a “sweetheart” and said a lot of the chemistry onscreen was natural during the filming of the movies. “He had that beautiful face. He was a lot of fun he was very open so you just felt he was someone who really wanted to play and it really was a new experience for him,” she said, adding that the project was one of Crombie’s first. “We were all just in it to do the best that we could and we had a lot of fun.” Sullivan says the news was “completely unexpected” and called Crombie the “quintessential boy next door.”

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Canadian actor Jonathan Crombie dies of brain hemorrhage at age 48 NEW YORK — Canadian actor Jonathan Crombie, best known for his role on the Anne of Green Gables movies, has died at the age of 48. Anne of Green Gables producer Kevin Sullivan says Crombie died from complications from a brain hemorrhage in New York City on April 15. Crombie became famous for por-

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Woman worried about second hand weed Dear Annie: For many years, I have heard about the dangers of secondhand smoke. I am a non-smoker, but was married to a smoker for 13 years and have asthma. Now that pot is being legalized in some states, including where I live, what are the dangers of secondhand pot smoke? I haven’t heard a word about it. Are the states just looking for additional tax revenue and keeping it out of the news? — Concerned Breather in Oregon Dear Breather: According to the American Lung Association, inhaling smoke is harmful whether it’s from cigarettes, pot or burning wood. Marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxins, irritants and carcinogens as tobacco smoke, and pot smokers generally inhale it for a longer period of time. Secondhand marijuana smoke contains the same ingredients. How dangerous is it to non-smokers? A 2014 study found that blood-vessel function in lab rats dropped by 70 percent after 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand marijuana smoke and hadn’t returned to normal even after 40 minutes. And the rats suffered the same effects even if the pot contained no THC. So, you might not get a “contact high,” but with continued exposure, you could suffer impaired lung and blood-vessel function. Marijuana is much stronger today than it was 40 years ago. More studies need to be done, obviously, but if you are regularly exposed to smoke of any kind, you are likely to develop a problem. Steer clear. Dear Annie: I am responding to “B” about unsolicited phone calls. I recently fell victim to such a scam. I purchased a lifetime repair contract for my computer. A month later, I received a call saying they were going out of business and needed to return my money. I foolishly let them gain control of my computer, where they claim to have accidentally “deposited” an amount greater than what they owed

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NEILSON Valery Heggie April 5, 1948 - April 16, 2015 Valery’s Baking is officially closed! On April 16th, 2015, Valery’s work on this earth was finished and she was reunited with family and friends she hasn’t seen in a long time. Her new work takes her to a wonderful place where she’ll be walking, baking, gardening, and listening to Christmas carols to her heart’s content. The food is delicious and she will never gain an ounce! She left instructions for her loving husband of 45 years, Gordon Neilson of Delburne; and their 5 children, Stacey (Neil) Nelson, Tanya (Bob) Judd, Eryn (Kevin) Murray, Scott (Janelle) Neilson, and Caryn (Brett) Hill, to celebrate her life here. The work she will miss the most is playing with her 19 grandchildren, who she loved more than anything. She was born and raised in Raymond, AB, and was the sixth of eight girls, to Dean and Georga Heggie. We want our mom to know that she did a great job and prepared us well for life. We will miss her ability to make everyone feel welcome, her sense of humor, and her love for fun. She worked very hard all her life, up until the very end. She made a difference in the lives of many. Please come and meet the family the night before service at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Days Saints, 3002 - 47 Ave, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday, April 21 from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. We then invite you to join us and celebrate together on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 1:00 pm. at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. Interment the following day in Raymond, AB. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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jobs SCHATSCHNEIDER Herb 1930 - 2015 Mr. Herb Schatschneider of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at the age of 85 years. Herb was born on April 7, 1930 at Brightview, Alberta and raised on the family farm where he stayed until the age of 22 years. He spent the next eighteen years working on the rigs, nine years in the packing plant and finally working as a caretaker at Mustang Acres for eighteen years before his retirement. Herb and Arletta moved eighteen times in their first twelve years of marriage before making Red Deer their forever home in 1966. He loved being outdoors, camping, fishing, hunting and gardening. Herb enjoyed playing baseball, curling, tugof-war, watching hockey, and could often be found keeping busy in his workshop. He will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his wife of 60 years, Arletta; his children, Gerry (Kelly) Coulter, Randy (Raelene), Darcy (Carolyn) and Cordel (Jodi); his twelve grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Alfred (Gertie); sisters, Elsie Walters, Freda Jess, Leona (Alton) Rix; sister-in-law, Freda Schatschneider; as well as extended family and many dear friends. Herb was predeceased by his parents, Rudolph and Martha; grandson, Chad Coulter; daughter-inlaw Brenda Schatschneider; and siblings, Paul, Ed, Edith, Heattie and Albert. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street, Red Deer on Monday, April 20, 2015 between 7:00 9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with visitation at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Herb’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stoke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca., or to the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

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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Dental

ON-THE-JOB Training for DENTAL RECEPTIONIST. Experience preferred but not necessary. Please drop off resume in person at Bower Dental Centre, Bower Mall Start your career! See Help Wanted

TWO F/T POSITIONS required by a busy dental office with a friendly atmosphere. Desirable hours and no weekends. F/T Level II Registered Dental Assistant - Looking for a professional, flexible, hardworking team-player. Competitive wages based on exp. and skill level. Sterilization Assistant Candidate must be organized, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to work independently. Pls. bring resume to Associates Dental or e-mail to associatesdental@ hotmail.com

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Farm Work

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

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

Professionals

810

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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Truckers/ Drivers

REGISTERED 2200 HOUR MASSAGE THERAPIST REQ’D Start immediately, please forward resume to: drjeff joneschiro@ gmail.com or drop off to: 3, 1959 GAETZ AVE. Jones Family Chiropractic

JJAM Management (1987) BUSY rig moving company Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s looking for exp. bed truck Requires to work at these operators, winch tractor Red Deer, AB locations: hands, and picker operators. 5111 22 St. Oilfield ticket an asset. 37444 HWY 2 S Must be able to pass a 37543 HWY 2N drug test. Pls call 700 3020 22 St. 1-306-463-6674. FOOD ATTENDANT Looking for a place Req’d permanent shift Start your career! to live? weekend day and evening Take a tour through the See Help Wanted both full and part time. CLASSIFIEDS 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Restaurant/ Job description Hotel www.timhortons.com Education and experience EAST 40TH PUB not req’d. Apply in person or fax REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK Apply in person with resume resume to: 403-314-1303 3811 40th Ave. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s You can sell your guitar Requires to work at these for a song... Red Deer, AB locations: CENTRAL AB based or put it in CLASSIFIEDS trucking company requires 5111 22 St. and we’ll sell it for you! 37444 HWY 2 S CONTRACT 37543 HWY 2N DRIVERS 700 3020 22 St. in AB. Home the odd night. Manager/Food Services Trades Weekends off. Permanent P/T, F/T shift. 403-586-4558 Wknd, day, night & eves. Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. NOW HIRING 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr Misc. 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., 5 - Floor Covering Help criminal record check req’d. Installers $25/hr Req’d education some Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk secondary. Apply in 3 - Construction Labourers ACADEMIC Express person or fax resume to: $20/hr. No exp required. ADULT EDUCATION 403-314-1303 For full job Full time perm position AND TRAINING description visit www. with Valid Driver’s Licence timhortons.com Email Resume to: SPRING START cat1employment@ TAP HOUSE gmail.com GED Preparation BAR & GRILL or drop off resume at Central Alberta Tile One NORTH Gov’t of Alberta Funding 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer is now taking applications may be available. for Full Time/Part time COOK and Dishwasher. 403-340-1930 Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer www.academicexpress.ca between 2-4 pm. SEEKS GLENN’S GIFT

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Concrete Finishers, Carpenters, Bobcat Operators

820

For residential & commercial concrete work in the Red Deer area. -Excellent rate of pay -Benefit packages Send Resume to: apply@pmcl1964.ca or Fax Resume to 403-342-1549 LAWN MOWER person approx. 4 days/wk, equal Classifieds opportunity employer, Your place to SELL suitable for semi-retired Your place to BUY person. Fax 403-342-7611

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Employment Training

900

NEW PROGRAMS

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FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

SHOP

(next to Glenn’s Restaurant) needs full and part time staff. Good wages in pleasant surroundings. Open 9 am 7 pm. 7 days/week. Phone 403-318-0687 or apply in person Hwy. 2 south Gasoline Alley. Ask for Glenn or Carlee

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403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Monday, April 20, 2015

Red Deer Advocate

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

Classified Memorials: helping to remember

Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

309-3300

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CONCRETE??? We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 REMOVAL of old concrete, Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285 SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects. Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking. Call James 403-341-0617

Landscaping

1240

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

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Misc. Services

1210

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS CONSULTING INC. is now accepting referrals! Sara Kreklewich, Registered Occupational Therapist, provides services in the areas of: -Disordered Eating -Wellness Coaching -Stress Management -Relaxation Sara at: 403-704-9459 or visit our website: www.createsolutions.biz

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town.

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

HELPING HANDS

GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

NOW is the time to get your yard in shape. Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Property clean ups and all junk removal. 403-550-2502

10 - 2am Private back entry

Health Care

Seniors’ Services

Property clean up 505-4777

Elite Retreat, Finest Painters/ in VIP Treatment. Decorators 403-341-4445

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured. Insurance claims welcome. 10 yr. warranty on all work. 403-350-7602

Yard Care

1430

SPRING clean up, loads to dump. 587-377-5034 Spring clean ups with aeration and edging $130 and up, weekly mowing, family-owned and operated, over 15 years experience, careful operators; Irish Green Yard Care 403 341-6620 SPRING cleaning, weekly mows, anything yards we do. familyyards.com or call 587-876-8969 THE ROTOTILLER GUY Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 20, 2015

A mission to aid an endangered species SWEDISH BABIES OF COLD WAR CROCODILES HEAD FOR CUBA SWAMP STOCKHOLM — Cuba’s efforts to sustain the critically endangered Cuban crocodile are getting a boost from Sweden, home to a pair of reptiles that Fidel Castro gave to a Soviet cosmonaut four decades ago. A Stockholm zoo on Sunday is sending 10 of the couple’s children to Cuba, where they will be placed in quarantine and eventually released into the Zapata Swamp, said Jonas Wahlstrom, the zookeeper who raised them. “It’s the dream of any zoo director to be part of releasing animals into the wild,” said Wahlstrom, 62, clutching one of the stout-legged youngsters outside its enclosure at the Skansen aquarium and zoo in Stockholm. The 10 crocodiles each are about 1 ½ years old and a meter (yard) long. The Cuban crocodile, once found across the Caribbean, is restricted today to two swamps in Cuba, where it is threatened by interbreeding with American crocodiles, habitat loss and illegal hunting. Wahlstrom said he received his original couple during a 1981 trip to Moscow. They had ended up in the Soviet capital after Castro gave them to cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov in the 1970s as a token of friendship between the communist nations. “He (Shatalov) brought them back to Moscow and he had them in his flat until his wife said: ’No more!’ And then he had to give them to the zoo in Moscow,” Wahlstrom told The Associated

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Misc. Help

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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Volunteers Wanted

WORLD VISION Canada needs volunteers to assist with some amazing events that are coming to your community soon! Are YOU ... Passionate about making a difference in the lives of others? Interested in: advocating for change worldwide, meeting new people, and learning more about the work of World Vision Canada! If so, email me today at susanne_milner@ worldvision.ca. The next event in Red Deer is Tues., April 21!

Press. But the zoo officials didn’t have a good space for the aquatic reptiles so they asked Wahlstrom if he could take them to Sweden. “I had them as my hand luggage back from Moscow,” Wahlstrom said. Zoo officials in Moscow confirmed the background of the crocodiles and their handover to Wahlstrom. Later named Hillary and Castro — in a nod to international politics — the two crocodiles have become a star attraction at Wahlstrom’s zoo, where they have been breeding since 1984. Wahlstrom said he’s sent hatchlings to zoos worldwide, but this is the first time he’s given any to Cuba for introduction into the wild. Cuba’s representative to Sweden welcomed the move. “We need this type of crocodiles,” Cuban Ambassador Francisco Florentino said as he inspected the animals before their departure Sunday. With only about 4,000 animals remaining in the wild, the Cuban crocodile, or Crocodylus rhombifer, is redlisted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population is restricted to Cuba’s Zapata Swamp and the Isle of Youth. This would be the first time that Cuban crocodiles raised abroad are introduced into the wild in Cuba, according to Natalia Rossi of the Wildlife Conservation Society. She’s been involved in other efforts to protect crocodiles in the Caribbean island nation but not the Swedish project.

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

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Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

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SAFETY PERSON Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume 403-309-0489 Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Clothing

1590

MEN’S coveralls size 44, $10, gown,rust/green Áoral size 8 $10 403-347-5316

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

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Garden Supplies

KENMORE lawn mower $50 obo 403-346-7384

Household Appliances

1710

FRIGIDAIRE fridge good working cond, white $200 obo 403-346-4263

Advocate Opportunities ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area DEER PARK AREA Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. MICHENER AREA 50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $229.00/mo. For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED

Household Furnishings

1720

OAK pedestal table w/4 chairs and 2 leafs, good cond. $150 Àrm 403-746-5123 318-5420 SOFA $40; double bed $80 can deliver 403-346-0674

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

VHS movies, (100). $75. 403-885-5020

Misc. for Sale

1760

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

ROUTES IN:

COFFEE table, glass top 20 x 26 $30; sleeping bag $8, queen size quilt $10 403-347-5316

ANDERS AREA

GAS BBQ $150 obo 403-346-4263

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Aikman Cres. Atlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres. BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres. Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Isbister Close SUNNYBROOK AREA Sunnyside Cres. Sutton Close LANCASTER AREA Lord Close SOUTHBROOK AREA Sutherland Cres. Shaw Close VANIER AREA Viscount Drive/Voisin Close

Office Supplies

1800

OFFICE desk 403-346-7384

Sporting Goods

$100,

1860

GUN SHOW May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm. UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767 PROSET Hockey Card, one box (NEW) 1991 - 1992, $30. GOLF bag, black, traveling style. $45. 403-885-5020

Travel Packages

1900

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

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Two adult Cuban crocodiles rest inside their enclosure at the Skansen zoo and aquarium in Stockholm, Wednesday April 15, 2015. Zoo director Jonas Wahlstrom says they were originally given as a gift from Fidel Castro to a Soviet cosmonaut four decades ago. The zoo is sending 10 of the pair’s hatchlings to Cuba for introduction into the wild. The Cuban crocodile is considered critically endangered. However, the crocodiles first would be genetically screened to ensure that they come from a pure breed, Rossi said. The Cuban crocodile can be distinguished from its American cousin by the way it walks and its characteristic bony ridge behind the eyes. But you cannot distinguish hybrid crocodiles from pure-bred Cuban crocodiles by their appearance, Rossi said.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

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

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required.

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

Suites

3060

3090

Rooms For Rent

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Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

CITY VIEW APTS.

MORRISROE MANOR

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

Advocate Opportunities

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

THE NORDIC

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

GARDEN HEIGHTS88 Garrison Circle walkout bungalow w/dbl. garage. $629,900 403-343-8327

MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE For VANIER Area With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

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

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

ORIOLE PARK

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

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

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

1989 29’ F350, very clean, sleeps 6, 61187 kms. $14500, 403-358-7782

Fifth Wheels

5110

HOUSE ON WHEELS 2014 Premier Elite 40’ 2 bdrm, 4 slides, fully loaded, $38,500 587-888-5595

4090

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 1 large slide, well maint., ready for trip. $16,900. 403-227-6794

Manufactured Homes

TO BE MOVED 16 x 80 3 bdrm. 2 bath, 2 walkin closets, vaulted ceilings, carpet/lino, inclds. appLs. and window coverings, n/s pet free home, $72,000 obo 403-350-0251

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Trucks

Boats & Marine

5160

4160

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

5050

2005, 5.3L, Z71 SPECIAL Edition Silverado, loaded, 180,000 km., $11,500 obo 403-350-6936 2004 Chev Silverado 2500, loaded, 200,000 kms. excellent cond. $25,000 obo 403-342-0813 403-307-8286

Advocate Opportunities

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Morning Delivery 6 days/week by 6:30 am

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4040

SERGE’S HOMES NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

Motorhomes

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

For LANCASTER Area ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am. Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

Condos/ Townhouses

“COMING SOON” BY

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

CARRIERS REQUIRED

RISER HOMES, Spring into summer Special. Beautiful 2 story with amazing master ensuite, 3 bdrms. 2 1/2 baths, hardwood/tile, Many upgrades: legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. All for the price of $389,000. A must see! Call LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Lots For Sale

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2 BDRM. Lacombe Condo Ground Ár, 45+ bldg, N/S no/pets. $1200/mo w/utils. Avail. May 1. 780-484-0236

4020

ROOM, all utils. and cable incld, $450/mo. Call or text 403-598-6386

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park. Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

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Houses For Sale

$450 MO/D.D. incl. everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30

Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $925 3 BDRM. main level S.D. $700. Avail. immed. house, Johnstone Park. Near hospital. No pets $1300 + d.d., 70% utils., 403-340-1032 or 318-3679 HERE TO HELP avail. now, no pets. & HERE TO SERVE 403-667-5527 587-877-2839 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. Call GORD ING at apartments, avail. immed, LACOMBE 3 bdrm. 1100 rent $875 403-596-6000 RE/MAX real estate sq. ft. bungalow, 2 full central alberta 403-341-9995 LARGE 2 BDRM. incl. baths, reno’d, det. garage, gord.ing@remax.net most utils, balcony, n/s, no pets, $1600 + utils, $1095 403-314-0209 May 15, 403-373-7247 Houses LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. WEST PARK SUITES. 25+, adults only For Sale Just completely reno’d. 3 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or May 1. 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, 403-304-5337 Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

Condos/ Townhouses

Wahlstrom said he was sure his crocodiles were pure Cubans and expected them to adapt quickly to the real world. “A crocodile is always ready for the wild,” Wahlstrom said. “They are always aggressive.” As if to emphasize his point, the baby croc he was holding briefly writhed out of his grip and snapped at an AP journalist’s jacket.

WatersEdge Marina Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

ELECTRIC trailer dolly $200 obo 403-346-7384

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Central Alberta LIFE

AN EXCELLENT CHOICE WHERE YOUR AD REACHES RURAL READERS

CALL 309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS WHATEVER YOU’RE SELLING... WE HAVE THE PAPER YOU NEED!

2001 Z71 L/B, 4wd, exc. cond., 251,000 kms, $4400 403-340-9248

Vans Buses

5070

2008 DODGE Grand Caravan Stow n Go, 98,500 kms, $9350 403-358-7678

Public Notices

Central Alberta LIFE

PUBLIC NOTICES

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF FIRST MEETING IN THE MATTER OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF CRITTER CREEK INDUSTRIES INC 24-1980749 Notice is hereby given that Critter Creek Industries Inc. became bankrupt on April 8, 2015 and that the First Meeting of Creditors will be held on April 28, 2015 at 11:00 am at the Scotia Place Conference Centre (Room A), at 10060 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta. To be entitled to vote at the meeting, a creditor must lodge with the trustee, prior to the meeting, a completed proof of claim and, where necessary, a proxy. These can be submitted to: Grant Thornton Limited 1701 Scotia Place II 10060 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3R8 Interested parties can obtain further information from Laura Demchuk at 780 401 8220 or via email at Laura.Demchuk@ca.gt.com.

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WORLD

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EUROPE SHOCKED AS SURVIVOR SAYS HUNDREDS WERE LOCKED BELOW DECK BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. Survivor accounts of the number aboard varied, with the Italian Coast Guard saying that the capsized boat had a capacity for “hundreds” of people. Italian prosecutors said a Bangladeshi survivor flown to Sicily for treatment told them 950 people were aboard, including hundreds who had been locked in the hold by smugglers. Earlier, authorities said a survivor told them 700 migrants were on board. It was not immediately clear if they were referring to the same survivor, and Premier Matteo Renzi said Italian authorities were “not in a position to confirm or verify” how many were on board when the boat set out from Libya. Eighteen ships joined the rescue effort, but only 28 survivors and 24 bodies had been pulled from the water by nightfall, Renzi said. These small numbers make more sense if hundreds of people were locked in the hold, because with so much weight down below, “surely the boat would have sunk,” said Gen. Antonino Iraso, of the Italian Border Police, which has deployed boats in the operation. Prosecutor Giovanni Salvi told The Associated Press by phone from the city of Catania that a survivor from Bangladesh described the situation on the fishing boat to prosecutors who interviewed him in a hospital. The man said about 300 people were in the hold, locked in their by the smugglers, when the vessel set out. He said that of the 950 who set out aboard the doomed boat, some 200 were women and several dozen were children. Salvi stressed that there was no confirmation yet of the man’s account and

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In this image from TV, migrants crowd at the rail aboard an Italian navy vessel as it cruises towards Italian port of Messina, Saturday. UNHCR says Sunday, the search and recovery rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying migrants overturned north of Libya. that the investigation was ongoing. Iraso said the sea in the area is too deep for divers, suggesting that the final toll may never be known. The sea off Libya runs as deep as 3 miles (5 kilometres) or more. “How can it be that we daily are witnessing a tragedy?” asked Renzi, who strategized with his top ministers ahead of Monday’s European Union meeting in Luxembourg, where foreign ministers scrambled to add stopping the smugglers to their agenda. Resurgent right-wing political parties have made a rallying cry out of a rising tide of illegal migration. So far this year, 35,000 asylum seekers and migrants have reached Europe and more than 900 are known to have died trying. With Sunday’s tragedy, demands for decisive action were going main-

stream, as authorities from France, Spain, Germany and Britain joined calls for a unified response. “Europe can do more and Europe must do more,” said Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament. “It is a shame and a confession of failure how many countries run away from responsibility and how little money we provide for rescue missions.” Europe must mobilize “more ships, more overflights by aircraft,” French President Francois Hollande told French TV Canal + on Sunday. “Words won’t do anymore,” Spain’s Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, told a political rally. Renzi said he too wants action, but he rejected calls by some Italian lawmakers for a naval blockade. That would only “wind up helping the smugglers” since military ships would be

there to rescue any migrants, and they wouldn’t be able to return passengers to chaos and violence in Libya. Meanwhile Sunday, rescuers were “checking who is alive and who is dead” in an area littered with debris and oil from the capsized ship. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose island nation joined the effort, said only 50 survived, and called it the “biggest human tragedy of the last few years.” The 20-meter (66-foot) vessel may have overturned because migrants rushed to one side of the craft late Saturday night when they saw an approaching Portuguese-flagged container ship, the King Jacob, which was sent to the area by Italy’s Coast Guard. The ship’s crew “immediately deployed rescue boats, gangway, nets and life rings,” a spokesman for its owner said.

Video shows IS militants killing Ethiopian Christians al-Furqan media arm. The video starts with what it called a history of Christian-Muslim relations, followed by scenes of militants destroying churches, graves and icons. A masked fighter brandishing a pistol delivers a long statement, saying Christians must convert to Islam or pay a special tax prescribed by the Qur’an. It shows one group of captives, identified as Ethiopian Christians, purportedly held by an Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya known as Barqa Province. It also shows another purportedly held by an affiliate in the southern Libyan calling itself the Fazzan Province. The video then switches between footage of the captives in the south being shot dead and the captives in the east being beheaded on a beach. It was not immediately possible to estimate how many captives were killed or confirm their identities. In Ethiopia, government spokesman Redwan Hussein said officials were in contact with its embassy in Cairo to verify the video’s authenticity. Hussein said he believed those killed likely were Ethiopian migrants hoping to

CAIRO — Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed Sunday. The attack widens the circle of nations affected by the group’s atrocities while showing its growth beyond a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The release of the 29-minute video comes a day after Afghanistan’s president blamed the extremists for a suicide attack in his country that killed at least 35 people — and underscores the chaos gripping Libya after its 2011 civil war and the killing of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. It also mirrored a film released in February showing militants beheading 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach, which immediately drew Egyptian airstrikes on the group’s suspected positions in Libya. Whether Ethiopia would — or could — respond with similar military force remains unclear. Ethiopia long has drawn the anger of Islamic extremists over its military’s attacks on neighbouring Somalia, whose population is almost en- Powered by Central Alberta’s tirely Muslim. While the militant in the video at career site one point said “Muslim of choice. blood that was shed under the hands of your religion is not cheap,” it did not specifically mention the Ethiopian government’s Executive Director, actions. Lacombe Daycare Society The video, released via militant social media Full Time Position accounts and websites, The Lacombe Daycare Society is a Not-For-Profit Licensed Daycare Centre providing could not be indepenchildcare for children 0 to 6 years. The Lacombe Daycare Society strives to provide dently verified by The quality childcare which benefits the Child, the Parent, the Staff and the Community. Associated Press. HowWe require a highly motivated team oriented leader to work with the Daycare Board and ever, it corresponded to Staff in the restructuring of the Lacombe Daycare operations. The successful candidate will possess a strong background in childcare services, organizational planning, business other videos released by management and community relations. the Islamic State group The successful candidate will: and bore the symbol of its

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reach Europe. Libya has become a hub for migrants across Africa hoping to cross the Mediterranean to enter Europe for work and better lives. “If this is confirmed, it will be a warning to people who wish to risk and travel to Europe though the dangerous route,” Hussein said. Abba Kaletsidk Mulugeta, an official with the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church’s Patriarchate Office, told the AP he also believed the victims likely were migrants. “I believe this is just another case

of the IS group killing Christians in the name of Islam. Our fellow citizens have just been killed on a faith-based violence that is totally unacceptable. This is outrageous,” Mulugeta said. “No religion orders the killing of other people, even people from another religion.” Ethiopia’s options to retaliate remain slim, given its distance from Libya. However, Egyptian Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohammed Edrees said his country could partner with Addis Ababa to strike the militants.

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Memorial service held to mark 20th anniversary of Oklahoma City bombing OKLAHOMA CITY — About 1,000 people gathered at the former site of the Oklahoma City federal building to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist bombing there that killed 168 people and injured many others. Former President Bill Clinton and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin were among those who spoke at Sunday’s service at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood. The service started with a 168-second moment of silence and concluded with survivors and tearful relatives of the dead reading the names of those killed in the April 19, 1995, attack. Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran with strong anti-government views, was executed for carrying out the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving life in prison.

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican security officials say they’ve captured the man accused of running the Juarez drug cartel following last year’s arrest of Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido says Jesus Salas Aguayo was caught Friday in the municipality of Villa Ahumada, about 75 miles (130 kilometres) south of the border metropolis of Ciudad Juarez. He says one of Salas’ bodyguards was killed and another arrested. Rubido said Sunday Salas Aguayo is linked with a 2010 car bombing in Ciudad Juarez as well as a 2012 bar attack that killed 15.

Afghan police say insurgents enter southern police station KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan police chief says insurgents armed with guns and explosives have entered a police station in the southern city of Lashkar Gar after a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gate of the compound allowing the others to gain entry. Nabi Jan Malakhail, the police chief of Helmand province, speaking Sunday, says at least two insurgents are inside the police station, fighting with police who have surrounded the building. “They haven’t been able to escape,” he says. Two policemen and one civilian have been wounded.

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SAO PAULO — Armed men killed eight people in a raid on a Sao Paulo soccer fan club that has close links to a notorious, now-closed prison, Brazilian police said on Sunday. Police said witnesses told them that around midnight on Saturday three gunmen stormed the dark and gritty site where Corinthians’ fan group Pavilhao 9 meets underneath a highway overpass. They ordered the victims to lie face down on the ground and shot seven in the head. An eighth man was shot but tried to escape, reached a gas station and was later taken to a nearby hospital where he died. Detective Arlindo Jose Negrao ruled out a fight between rival fan groups. He would not reveal the motive behind the attack, however, saying that could interfere with the probe. “Through witnesses, we are already exploring a line of investigation, which is not leading us to believe it was caused by fan rivalry,” Negrao said at a press conference. “We even have possible suspects.” The victims were having a barbecue at the club at the time and making flags with the soccer team’s colours for Sunday’s anticipated match between Corinthians and Palmeiras. The fan group did not answer several phone calls. Pavilhao 9 was founded by a group

CALIFORNIA DROUGHT SAN FRANCISCO — California almonds are becoming one of the world’s favourite snacks and creating a multibillion-dollar bonanza for agricultural investors. But the crop extracts a staggering price from the land. Almonds consume more water than all the showering, dish-washing and other indoor household water use of California’s 39 million people.

of Corinthians’ fans who played soccer with inmates at Brazil’s Carandiru prison, known widely for a massacre that left 111 inmates dead that was turned into a movie. The prison is now closed. The Corinthians team did not respond to a request for information but posted the word “Mourning” against a black backdrop on its official Facebook page. Former president of the team and current federal congressman, Andres Sanchez, said on the social network he was “deeply saddened to learn of what had happened at Pavilhao 9, with which I had a strong bond since I was a kid.” Much of the soccer violence that breaks out in or near Brazilian stadiums is traced to fan clubs. Police often investigate fan groups for ties with drug traffickers. “It is widely known that criminal organizations are inside of all fan clubs. Organized crime uses these fan groups as a front for their misdeeds,” Juca Kfouri, one of Brazil’s best-known sports commentators, told radio station CBN. Last year, dozens of members of another Corinthians’ fan club, Gavioes da Fiel, invaded the team’s training centre. Angered by the team’s performance, they attacked employees and grabbed Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero by his neck, forcing other players to flee into a locker room and barricade themselves until police arrived. As the state enters its fourth year of drought, the $6.5 billion almond crop is helping drive a sharp debate about water use, agricultural interests and how both affect the giant California economy. Almond grower Bob Weimer says almonds have claimed the spotlight as “the poster child of all things bad in water.” People around the world are eating over 1,000 per cent more California almonds than they did just a decade ago. China’s booming middle class is driving much of the demand.

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LOS ANGELES — Whoever snatched a seal or sea lion pup from a Los Angeles beach early Sunday should not confuse the animal’s cuteness with its potentially vicious bite, according to an animal rescue expert. Witnesses to the abduction said four people wrapped the pup in a blanket and left in a car around 3:20 a.m. from Dockweiler State Beach, just west of the city’s international airport, said Los Angeles Police Officer Rosario Herrera. The initial police report said the animal was a small seal. But a companion pup that escaped and was later found on the beach is a sea lion, according to Peter Wallerstein, the president of the group Marine Animal Rescue. The rescued pup weighs about 25 pounds and is probably 10 months old, said Wallerstein, who stays in a trailer at the beach and was woken by security guards seeking his help. Sea lions of this size are “really small, really look cute, but they’re dangerous,” he said. “These are wild animals.” They’re also not fit to be kept as pets. “The animal needs fluids, needs special treatments,” he said. “You can’t just feed it dog food. It’s not going to work.” Los Angeles police said an investigation was being conducted by the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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SANAA, Yemen — A Shiite rebel leader in Yemen vowed to not surrender Sunday amid Saudi-led airstrikes in a rambling speech that rejected U.N. efforts to halt violence there, even as the political party of the country’s former leader welcomed international efforts for a cease-fire. The speech by rebel leader AbdulMalek al-Houthi, his first since the Saudi campaign began, offered signs of cracks appearing in his alliance with Yemen’s one-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh. However, his speech signalled no sign of his rebels backing down from their offensive after earlier seizing the capital, Sanaa, and forcing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into exile. “The great Yemeni people will never surrender and never be subjugated,” al-Houthi said. Saudi Arabia and allied countries began their airstrike campaign on March 26, hoping to roll back the Houthi advance, which began in September. Western governments and Sunni Arab countries accuse the Houthis, who largely are Zayidi Shiites, of receiving military support from Iran. Iran and the rebels deny that, though the Islamic Republic publicly has sent humanitarian aid into the country. As of Tuesday, the strikes have killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and at least 364 civilians, the U.N. has said.

As al-Houthi blamed Saudi Arabia, the United States and Israel for orchestrating the campaign against his forces, the political party of Yemen’s former longtime autocrat said it welcomed a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the country. In a statement on its website, Saleh’s General People’s Congress said that it would “respond positively” to the U.N. Security Council resolution issued last week. Pro-Saleh forces have been fighting alongside the Houthis. The U.N. resolution demands that all Yemeni parties, especially the Houthis, end violence and return swiftly to U.N.-led peace talks aimed at a political transition. It makes no mention of the Saudi-led airstrikes targeting the rebels and pro-Saleh forces. Meanwhile Sunday, pro-Hadi forces regained control of part of the Aden coastline that had been held by the Houthis and their allies, security officials said. The gained positions allow them to attack the rebel-held airport and cut off supplies to anti-Hadi forces, they said. Rebel forces also made another push to take the Dar Saad area, just north of Aden, but failed, the officials added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists. In Amman, the United Nations said Saudi Arabia had agreed to fund completely a $273.7 million appeal for emergency aid to avoid a humanitar-

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Acceptance, less drastic treatments of intersex kids BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — She was born to a young Chicago couple, named Jennifer, and grew into a beautiful long-lashed child with wavy dark hair, big brown eyes and a yearning, youthful desire to be just like all the other girls. Only she wasn’t. Doctors first noticed her slightly enlarged genitals, and then discovered she had testes inside her abdomen and male chromosomes. And so began a series of surgeries to make things “right.” Jennifer Pagonis was born intersex, an umbrella term for several conditions in which an infant’s reproductive anatomy doesn’t conform to standard definitions of male or female. The physical effects can be subtle, or very obvious. A century ago, intersex adults were top draws at circus sideshows. Then, as surgical techniques for ambiguous genitals evolved, doctors began performing surgeries on affected infants and encouraged parents to raise children as the sex they visibly resembled. Many families kept the conditions hidden, fearing stigma and shame. Pagonis’ parents knew nothing about the conditions — or about the surgeries’ troubling risks, including Photo by THE ASSOCIATES PRESS damage to sexual function, satisfaction Pidgeon Pagonis poses for a photo at home in Chicago. Pagonis, who was raised a girl but has male chromosomes, works and psyche later on. Now, efforts are underway to change as an activist opposing drastic genital surgery for intersex children. the way intersex children are treated. ban Chicago woman who agreed to extended so that as an adult she might makes sense for parents to raise af“The way that we took care of things speak with The Associated Press on have normal sexual intercourse, but fected kids as boys or girls. “But somein the past ... where there was a fair condition of anonymity to protect her Pagonis says she learned as a teenager times we get that gender assignment amount of secrecy, where there was 8-year-old daughter from possible pub- that it was almost impossible. wrong. And in those cases it’s particusurgery done in the infant state, and lic scorn. The girl has congenital adrePagonis knew her body was differ- larly important that we’ve not done unpotentially irreversible surgery, is nal hyperplasia, an intersex condition ent, but didn’t learn the full truth until necessary interventions.” probably not the best way to go about that caused boyish-looking genitals. a college instructor described the horA Columbia, South Carolina, couple things,” said Dr. Earl Cheng, who runs It involves overproduction of male mone syndrome. who adopted a child with a condition the 2-year-old sex development disorhormones and can be deadly unless Pagonis phoned her mom after class similar to Pagonis’s filed a landmark ders program at Chicago’s Ann & Roblifelong hormone treatment is started to find out the name of her condition. medical malpractice lawsuit over surert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. quickly. Her parents agreed to a clito“I was like, ’Oh. My. God! That’s the gery performed after the birth parents The program is one of several naris reduction. thing the teacher was talking about ... lost custody. Doctors and social servictionwide that employ a team of spe“I definitely had second thoughts ,” said Pagonis, now 29. “And then I es authorities decided on operations to cialists including surgeons, hormone about were we doing the right thing,” went into like a freefall.” make him look like a girl, the 2013 lawexperts, genetic counsellors, psycholher mom said. “I still feel like we made Pagonis struggled with depression suit says. Representatives for the state ogists and ethicists. The team helps the right decision. Time will tell.” and angst until meeting young intersex and doctors declined comment. families weigh their options, including Pagonis has a different condition adults who’ve embraced their differPam and Mark Crawford, the adopwhether surgery should be considered involving male hormones — andro- ences. 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