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RANCHTRACKER HERITAGE RANCH OFFERS THE THRILL OF BEING A FUGITIVE ON THE RUN BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Riding tall in his saddle, surveying tth he forest, keeping his ears open for even the faintest sound and his eyes peeled for a glimpse of his prey, Joel M a rtens patrols Heritage Ranch in sse earch of the latest group to try to outru un him, hide from him and outwit him. Taking a cue from the popular TV Show Mantracker, Heritage Ranch offers a similar experience: the thrill of being a fugitive and being chased by Martens. Heritage Ranch has offered the R anchtracker experience for about th hree years. Martens estimates they’ve done the chase 40 to 50 times, and perhaps more. Groups have ranged from small duos, in ncluding local Red Deer RCMP members, to stagette parties and corporate events with as many as 50 people. In one instance, four couples competed to see who could make it the longest o find the last flag. or Describing one Ranchtracker event fo orr a stagette, Martens said balloons we w erre e set et u up p th thro roug ug gho hout ut H Her erit itag ag ge Ra Ranc nch h
and each had a prize inside. “As they were going through, they y could choose to pop the balloon and see e what the prize was or they could take it with them,” said Martens. Popping the balloon would alert Marrtens to a person’s location, but carryin ng a balloon would also prove cumbersome e while trying to hide. Spread out over the some 200 acres of Heritage Ranch are four flags. The huntted have 90 minutes to two hours to find d the flags before Martens finds them. “So there’s a time pressure and d they’re rushing through it, trying to find d the flags,” said Martens. “I give them m about a 15-minute head start and then I leave the ranch on my horse.” He looks the part, too. Sporting a flan nnel shirt and a cowboy hat, Martens pa atrols the ranch looking for signs of the e guests lurking in the forest. “As the time ticks down, I start to narrrow in on them,” said Martens. “It getts pretty intense. “There are some really good chase es at the end usually.”
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Heritage Ranch operator Joel Martens is on a mission and when he and his horse Hummer team up to track you down, you better be fast. Hummer loves a good chase, says Martens, who is offering his own version of the TV show ‘Mantracker’ at Heritage Ranch.
Red Deer area among the top 10 lightning hot spots BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer area ranked fifth among FortisAlberta’s top 10 lightning hot spots in 2014. FortisAlberta owns more than 60 per cent of Alberta’s total electrical distribution network, with more than 120,000 km of mostly overhead power lines. It monitors lightning strikes in its 55 major service areas. The Red Deer service area, which is 2,700 square km and stretches from Red Deer to Innisfail, saw 1.82 strikes per square kilometre and a total of 4,861 lightning strikes in 2014. The Bassano service area had the most strikes at 3.32 per square kilometre and 8,407 total strikes during lightning season, which runs from late spring to September. In 2014, a total of 210,000 lightning strikes were recorded in FortisAlberta’s 55 major service areas, according to data collected by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. As a rural electricity distributor, FortisAlberta does not operate in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge or Red Deer. The City of Red Deer provides service to its residents. Blair Debaar, FortisAlberta communications specialist, said surge protectors called lightning arrestors are used by electrical power systems to divert lightning currents in order to bypass equipment like transformers. That reduces power outages and damage to equipment.
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“The power behind a lightning bolt is very high so it can cause damage. These arrestors stop it. Based on what we see, on patterns, we’ll tend to put more lightning arrestors in a hot spot,” Debaar said. More arrestors are installed if a service area regularly lands in FortisAlberta’s top 10 lightning hot spots. The Red Deer area was not in the top 10 in 2013. Information was not available for other years. FortisAlberta also uses storm tracking technology to monitor weather patterns and predict where trouble could occur, in order to prepare with extra resources. Some lightning storm safety tips: ● Take shelter when you can count 30 seconds or less between lightning and thunder. ● Disconnect electronics and electrical appliances, including radios and televisions, before the storm hits. ● Remain indoors if possible and stay away from anything that will conduct electricity such as radiators, sinks and metal pipes. ● Only use battery-operated appliances. ● Cellphones are the safest form of communication. ● If caught outside, stay away from objects that conduct electricity like water, tractors, golf clubs and carts, motorcycles, lawn mowers and bicycles. ● Avoid being the tallest point in an open area. ● Stay away from tall objects like trees, hilltops and poles. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
Heat, lack of rain inflame wildfire risk BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The risk of wildfires is now rated as high for Rocky Wildfire Management Area. Early last week, the wildfire hazard was down to moderate for the area that stretches east to Rocky Mountain House, west to the national parks, north to Drayton Valley and south to the Sundre area. Kris Heemeryck, wildfire prevention officer out of Rocky Mountain House, said the risk has increased due to increasing temperatures and winds, and little precipitation. “We’ve increased the resources we have in the district in anticipation of some more lightning moving through and new starts. We’ve upped the manpower and equipment we have available,” Heemeryck said on Monday. Two small lightning fires were extinguished over the weekend, one north of Alder Flats and the other northwest of Rocky Mountain House. Another fire in the garbage dump at O’Chiese First Nation is under control and continues to be monitored. He said lightning has been causing the fires lately. “We haven’t had any campfires issues of late. We lifted the fire ban and that still hasn’t brought us any issues. But the potential is still there if people are not careful.” Forty wildfires are burning in Alberta’s Forest Protection Area. More than 1,300 firefighters and 149 helicopters are in position across the province. To report wildfires, call toll-free 310-FIRE (3473). For information on fire bans, call 1-866-FYI-FIRE (394-3473). szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
G7 puts Canada on the spot Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the energy sector will have to transform itself to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Story on PAGE A5
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — There are media reports that an Edmonton police officer has been killed in a shooting. Unnamed sources have told multiple media outlets that one officer died and another is in hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening. Edmonton police were not immediately confirming the officer’s death but sent out a Tweet: “We appreciate all of your words of support and sympathy at this time.” Chaos unfolded in the residential neighbourhood Monday evening when residents reported hearing gunfire. Bystander Angela Wall told CTV News she was watching TV when the incident began. “I was at home in my living room ... and I heard like, five bangs go off, and I thought nothing off it,” bystander Angela Wall told CTV Edmonton. “I thought it was just basically someone working on their roof. Clearly that was not what it was.” A massive police presence quickly gathered, with dozens of police cars, a police helicopter and three ambulances on scene. Smoke also started billowing from a home in the neighbourhood and police evacuated several homes. Fire trucks stood at the ready to move in once the scene was contained and safe enough for them to move in, and before long, they had extinguished the blaze. At one point, two ambulances left the scene with a police escort. Throughout the turmoil, police continually urged onlookers to move to a safer area or stay in their homes. Const. Brendan Power sent out a Tweet pleading with residents in the area of 184 St. and 64 Ave. to move back, telling them they were “not safe to be observing anywhere near there.” He also caution media and onlookers: “Please don’t post pictures of our officers, other emergency crews or their locations. You’re putting them at risk.”
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Jessica Beach, 11, and her father, John, work to plant a row of shrubs on a site west of Lacombe on Monday. The two were joined by about 75 other Grade 5 students, some parents and school staff from Lacombe Upper Elementary School on a site at D&M Concrete Products Ltd. that is being reclaimed. More than 1,200 seedlings of a variety of species were being planted on the site, which is part of the overall final reclamation of the D&M gravel pit.
MP tables bill named after slain RCMP officer to tighten bail hearings An Alberta MP has introduced a private member’s bill named after a slain RCMP officer to ensure bail hearings have an accused’s criminal history. Const. David Wynn, who was 42, was shot and killed in January at a casino in St. Albert, north of Edmonton.
The shooter, Shawn Maxwell Rehn, was out on bail facing 15 charges, including escaping lawful custody, possession of a prohibited firearm and failure to show up to a previous bail hearing on the charges. Rehn was found dead in an apparent suicide later on the day of the shooting. The proposed law by Independent MP Brent Rathgeber would make it mandatory for prosecutors to present an accused’s entire criminal history before a justice of the peace at a bail hearing. Rathgeber says the public is put at risk by that information not being put before the court.
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TRACKER: Boasts about an 80% success rate He auditioned as the replacement for Terry Grant, of High River, on Mantracker. Martens said he was in the top 12 but didn’t make the final cut. Chad Savage Lenz, of Caroline, would become Mantracker for the seventh and final season of the show. Tracking a few people in the park may be difficult
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enough, but combine it with the regular pedestrian traffic in Heritage Ranch and it can be a challenge for Martens. But he boasts about an 80 per cent success rate when it comes to finding people. “There’s usually some signs that someone has been somewhere recently and the horse loves the hunt,” said Martens. “We get out there and start hunting and he knows it. It turns fun fast.” When Martens tracks down his target, their reaction varies immensely. Some give up and others try to run and escape. “I’ve heard from a number of them, we do a steak dinner afterwards, they come back and talk about the adrenaline that hits when they see me or when
they hear me — it can be pretty intense,” said Martens. In one instance, Martens said he had a guy pretend to be hurt when he was caught, buying his teammates time to flee the area. Although he has a few horses to use in his search efforts, Martens relies heavily on Hummer. “He’ll go through anything,” said Martens. “He’s an amazing horse, he’s super in-tune to what we’re doing down there. He loves the chase as much as I do.” The Ranchtracker experience costs $125 for adults and seniors and $110 for children. It can be booked online at www.heritageranch.ca. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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BASE jumper dies in windsuit jump BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CANMORE — A wingsuit jumper who died making a jump off a mountain peak in the Rockies didn’t seem to have a care in the world as he prepared for what turned out to be his final outing with friends. “Sun is shining, institutionalized on Sirius, going wingsuiting,� Gabriel Hubert posted on Facebook on Saturday afternoon. “Thanks life.� Hubert, 40, has been identified by friends as the person who died Sunday morning as he and two companions jumped off Ha Ling Peak near Canmore wearing wingsuits. The outfits have fabric stitched between the arms Gabriel Hubert and body that increases a jumper’s surface area and allows a user to fly impressive horizontal distances at a slower descent rate. While his two companions landed safely, Hubert, who called the Edmonton-area home, hit the trees without his parachute opening. He was pronounced dead at the scene. “The only thing we have an understanding of is that his parachute did not deploy,� RCMP Sgt. Ryan Currie said Monday. “I cannot say for certain if it was human error or an equipment malfunction.� Currie said the practice is not illegal and is quite common in the area, which is popular with thrillseeking wingsuit jumpers. “A lot of people do hike the trail up the backside to reach the peak. A lot of people do use that area for BASE jumping with wingsuits and parachutes,� said Currie. “It’s common for people to use it, but not common for us to have accidents of this sort.� Hubert’s Facebook page has many pictures of him in full skydiving gear in mountainous settings. There
are also pictures of his elementary-school-age children playing hockey. A Vice magazine profile from April called Hubert “Edmonton’s most prolific BASE jumper.� “We know we’re not normal. Normal people will look at what we do and say we’re stupid, but they don’t get to feel what we feel — the highs, that beautiful feeling of flying.� Hubert is quoted as saying in the article. “To jump off a cliff and fly down a mountain, it feels so amazing. But on the inverse side of the coin, with great happiness can come great sadness.� A welder by trade, Hubert was featured in a June 2012 National Geographic video shot in Switzerland on wingsuit jumping. Last month, he boasted on Facebook about making his first windsuit jump on home soil. There was immediate reaction on social media to Hubert’s death from the BASE- jumping community. “This is truly a sad day for our community, I have lost a friend, mentor, and roommate,� wrote Lance Lefebvre. Johnny James added: “That is so Gabe. Making news no matter what. Fly free brother.� While parachutists experimented with wings as early as the 1930s and there was another wave in the 1960s, commercial wingsuits weren’t developed until the late 1990s in Europe. Sometimes referred to as flying-squirrel suits or birdman suits, several companies now sell them for between US$700 and US$1,800. Speeds can exceed 160 km/h. Last month, two jumpers in Yosemite National Park were killed instantly when they attempted to zoom through a notch in a ridgeline and slammed into a rocky outcropping. Dean Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, were experienced at flying in wingsuits. Potter, who had been featured in a National Geographic documentary on wingsuits called Fly or Die, was considered one of the biggest inspirations of his generation in the climbing community. Hunt was one of the most prolific BASE jumpers in that part of California.
Gas station worker hurt while trying to stop driver in gas and dash BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An Alberta gasoline retailer is renewing a call for pay-before-you-pump legislation after one of its employees was seriously injured when she tried to stop two people in a stolen pickup truck from driving away without paying. Police say the driver took off after filling up at a Centex gas station in Calgary’s northwest Sunday morning. The employee, a woman in her 30s, gave chase and stood in front of the truck to try to block it from leaving. She was hit and carried along on the hood before she fell off and was run over. Police are still looking for the suspects. CTV News reported the employee was in a coma in the intensive care unit at Foothills Hospital. Alnoor Bhura, president of Centex Petroleum, said in a statement Monday that such thefts occur every day and little has been done to stop them. “The government of Alberta has shown very little or no leadership in this matter in the past, even though they have been advised by various chiefs of police to adopt ’pay-before-pump’ legislation,� said Bhura, whose company has service stations throughout the Calgary area.
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“We hope the new government reconsiders this issue and brings forward some much needed legislation and leadership.� Bhura said his company’s policy is for employees not to put themselves at risk chasing a “gas runaway,� but “it’s understandable how an employee may react in the heat of the moment.� Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann also called on the province to bring in pay-before-you-pump legislation similar to that in British Columbia. B.C. was the first province in Canada seven years ago to legislate having to pay upfront for gasoline. Grant’s Law was crafted after Grant De Patie, a young gas station attendant, was dragged to his death in 2005 while trying to stop someone in a gas and dash. Many North American jurisdictions have the same law. “This was a preventable, serious injury that could have been a death,� Swann told Calgary radio station CHQR on Monday. “There is no reason we can’t regulate this kind of thing and make it safer for the workplace.� There should also be better training for employees in dealing with people who are about to break the law, so that they don’t put themselves at risk, Swann suggested.
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The numbers won’t lie SURPRISES IN STORE FROM CITY TRAILS SURVEY I’m betting there will be quite a few surprised people in Red Deer when the results from this summer’s trails use survey are made public. Considering how little hard information we have on trail usage, I’ll admit that one of the surprised people might be me. But I doubt it. Right up front: In addition to writing a blog and column for our daily newspaper, I’m also president of the Red Deer Association for Bicycle Commuting, and a recently-elected GREG board member NEIMAN of the Central Alberta Regional Trails Society. So my bias should be obvious. I believe the future of city and regional transportation includes a big increase in non-motorized travel. But how big a change would that be? Nobody knows, and nobody can ever measure it. Red Deer has no historical baseline for the number of Red Deerians who travel by bike, therefore, nobody can give you a percentage increase in numbers that would result from building more (or more useful) community trails, or from building dedicated cycling infrastructure. All we’ve got is a bunch of people who say they never see a cyclist, another bunch who say they ride almost ev-
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ery day and see plenty of other riders, and another group that says they want to ride more, but their particular commutes are too inefficient on the trails system and too unsafe on the streets. That’s hardly a foundation on which to build a transportation plan. So better late than never, the city is measuring trails use. This summer, six small counters will be placed at various locations on the trails to count the people who go by. I’m told there is a way to interpret the numbers to determine how many of the “hits” on the counters are by walkers, joggers or cyclists. The city hasn’t determined the locations as yet, but the counters are easily moved — and better, they can be used for years to record changes and build a database. Hopefully, also to be useful year-round. We already know the old train bridge over the river downtown carries the heaviest traffic on our trails system. The closer you get to that bridge, the more people you will see on the trails. Academically, it might be interesting to track where the flows of people go out from there. Nice to know, but as a planning tool it’s less useful than knowing how many people in our residential neighbourhoods use the trails — perhaps even to get down to the bridge as part of their trip. Myself, I am more interested the numbers on four sections of our trails network that are designed for actual commuting as well as being regional connectors for recreational use. They are: the sidewalk/trail along 30th Avenue; the asphalt trail along 32nd
Street; the trail along the west end of Taylor Drive that goes nowhere; and the trail north from the Dawe Centre all the way to Hwy 11A, which is the link to the TransCanada Trail to Blackfalds and Lacombe. There are other spots that need a monitor, but these, in my opinion, should be the top priorities. The multi-purpose routes along 30th Avenue, 32nd Street and Taylor Drive became the “least bad” solution to public opposition to separated bike lanes. They are designed to make lawbreakers of every cyclist who uses them and will likely eventually kill some of them. Think about the route that includes the sidewalk/trail on 30th Avenue, from the new residential areas along 67th Street, south to the high schools and the Collicutt Centre (a very flat and easy commute, if it could be made safe). Seriously, who would expect a cyclist to dismount and walk across every intersection along that route, as traffic laws require? I’ve heard it suggested that it’s just as logical, on a safety basis, to require every driver to exit their vehicles and push them through the intersections. Injury collisions would drop to zero — and we’re all about safety, right? Yet cyclists, with every legal right to the road, must push their bikes through these intersections as if they were pedestrians. Folks, that just isn’t going to happen. Not here, not along 32nd Street, nor any other of the “sidewalk” routes the city has built or planned. Through this design, cyclists must choose between an absurd legal requirement, or the risk of “right hook”
and “left cross” collisions with vehicles. Which, by the way, are the top causes of injury and death to urban cyclists, along with dooring, where bike lanes run too close to parked cars. Cyclists are faster than pedestrians, and drivers who see no pedestrians often are not looking for cyclists when they turn right or left on a green light. That’s when they sideline the cyclist suddenly crossing on the walk signal. Red Deer has been fortunate to have avoided a rash of these collisions, and I wonder if it’s because cyclists simply do not like and therefore do not use these routes. If so, they are a waste of tax dollars on non-car infrastructure. Trevor Poth, Red Deer’s parks superintendent, says trails use has grown more or less evenly with city growth. If he’s right, I say that’s a sign of failure. I have asserted for years that Red Deer’s cycling community is growing, despite the shortcomings of our infrastructure. We know from the experience of nearly every city in the industrialized world that the proportion of commutes taken by bike is rising. If the numbers from this Red Deer study do not match that of the whole world, I will be surprised. If they do not show a growth significantly in excess of population growth, that will signal that as popular as they are, our trails are not a useful means for people to travel in the city — and something else needs to be found. Who would be surprised in that case? Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.
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Proud of the way our city rallied to help Nepal victims On May 31, our neighborhood held a garage sale for the benefit of earthquake victims in Nepal. We would like to thank all those people who donated the extraordinary array of items for sale, all who stopped by to simply offer their best wishes and a cash donation, and the many volunteers who gave their time and energy to help make the afternoon a success. In the space of a little over five hours, the sale raised more than $9,600 for the benefit of Lho, a village high in the Himalayas, and the SMD School in Kathmandu for children from mountain villages. The garage sale was one of a number of separate efforts in Red Deer to help victims of the devastating earthquakes in Nepal, and we salute everyone who is helping. We are very proud of our city. Pliny Hayes Maureen McCall Red Deer
Festival of Trees donor, sponsor support remains strong I am writing this letter in response to the article in the Advocate on Thursday, May 21, about the cancellation of the Festival of Trees event, Festival Lights the Night, held downtown at City Hall Park. It has been brought to our attention that the article may have given the impression that our sponsors had discontinued their support. The generous sponsors, who have given funds year after year to support the operation of this event, should be honoured for their support. Their commitment was unfailing. This free community event was held the end of November for the past 12 years and as one of the founding volunteers, I would like to draw attention to the over 100 hardworking volunteers who kept this event going every year under some very difficult weather conditions. The mission of the Festival of Trees is to raise funds to enhance patient care at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. The funds needed to host the Festival Lights the Night, for the community, were steadily increasing and although it was a fun kickoff to the Festival of Trees, it was not the best use of donated dollars. Almost all of the sponsors that supported the Festival Lights the Night downtown have continued their generous giving with new opportunities at the Festival of Trees to be held at Westerner Park, Nov. 25 to 29. The more than 2,000 volunteers of the Festival of Trees, along with over 500 sponsors and donors that support this event annually, can be very proud of their commitment to the central Alberta community. In the past 21 years, over $11.8 million has been raised. These funds have enhanced patient care with equipment and services at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.
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Thorium reactors can change Alberta’s oil, coal dependency I read with interest that the NDP government is looking to build a new refinery. I think it is a great idea, and I have an even better one that we need to be doing along with this refinery — building thorium reactors. Please consider : ● Thorium reactors do not go critical, do not melt down and do not leave radioactive fuel rods. ● Thorium reactors generate 200 times the power of a conventional uranium reactor, rod for rod. ● Thorium reactors can generate power at about one cent per kilowatt hour. ● India has eight million tons of thorium — enough to power the entire energy needs of the planet for the next 1,200 years. ● Thorium reactors cannot be weaponized. ● Thorium reactors were successfully proven by the U.S. atomic energy commission in the 1950s. ● Thorium reactor specifications are available online for free at moltensalt.org.
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SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany — Prime Minister Stephen Harper expanded at length Monday on why he feels such antipathy towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and why he wanted Russia kicked out of the old G8 even before it breached Ukraine’s borders. Harper said he doesn’t want Putin back because he simply doesn’t share the values of the group, which he added is doing well in its new form after completing a second summit without the mercurial Russian leader. Harper also commended the G7 leaders’ statement on the Russia-Ukraine crisis as strong, praising its commitment to keep sanctions on Russia in place and “to escalating those sanctions if necessary.” Harper expanded Monday on his reasoning behind the hardline position he has taken with Putin. Harper has refused to engage with Putin, unlike many of his fellow leaders, who do so in search of a diplomatic solution to the ongoing hostilities. “I came of the view, some time before the invasion of Ukraine, that his presence at the table of the G7 was not productive — in fact was inhibiting the kinds of discussions, the kinds of co-operation we could be having on a broad range of international issues,” Harper said. “Even though Russia may objectively share security interests with us in the West, Mr. Putin makes it his business to just deliberately be troublesome — to throw a spanner in the works wherever he can. “And of course, the final outrage was actually trying to erase boundaries by force in Ukraine.” Harper said there was great hope in the 1990s that when Russia was admitted to what was then the G7plus-one, its exposure to the other members would help it grow democratically and economically. Instead, Harper said Putin has dashed the hopes of his citizens, who want changes, while he has concentrated power in the hands of a few rich oligarchs. “The G7 is not the United Nations. The G7 is not even the G20 — the G7 is a group of countries who share fundamental values and objectives in the world,” Harper said. “We also share similar values — deep, progressive and aggressive commitments towards democracy, freedom, human rights and the rule of law — and of course we share security interests. We are all committed to each others’ collective security. “Mr. Putin fits none of these definitions — none of them.”
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives his closing remarks at a news conference following the G7 Summit in Garmisch, Germany on Monday. the prime minister’s office said they did not discuss climate change. “It’s shocking that Mr. Harper didn’t even bother to bring up climate change as an issue for discussion during his bilateral meeting with Chancellor Merkel,” said New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar. He said Harper is out of touch and sidelining Canada internationally. Liberal environment critic John McKay said the prime minister “has embarrassed Canada on the world stage.” “Other G7 countries have very clearly identified strong and immediate actions to tackle climate change,” McKay said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Mr. Harper is fixated on ensuring that he obstructs all progress nationally or internationally.” Harper’s office said in a statement that today’s French-led climate talks focused on the “collective response to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the advancement of energy security in the face of escalating threats.”
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B.C. government didn’t give accused polygamist fair warning: lawyer VANCOUVER — A polygamy charge against the leader of a fundamentalist, Mormon breakaway commune in southeastern British Columbia is unfair and should be thrown out because he wasn’t given “fair notice,” a court has heard. Winston Blackmore’s lawyer Joe Arvay argued in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday that the provincial government doesn’t have the right to criminally charge his client — or any resident of Bountiful, B.C. — for historical acts of polygamy. The cutoff point, said Arvay, should be a 2011 reference question that concluded polygamy laws did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; that decision provided constitutional clarity to Canadians involved in the controversial practice. “The whole point of having a reference (case) was to give b& those people fair notice that their conduct was lawful or unlawful,” Arvay said. “It would be unfair to the people of Bountiful to prosecute them for conduct that they were led to believe by many people in authority b& was lawful.” Blackmore is one of the heads of Bountiful, B.C. — a remote, fundamentalist community whose name has become synonymous in Canada with the practice of polygamy. Arvay told the court that Blackmore’s 25 alleged marriages took place between 1975 and 2001, predating the reference question by a decade. Blackmore sat quietly in court Monday watching the proceedings. His shock of white hair, neatly combed back, contrasted his sharp black suit. He held a ball cap in his lap emblazoned with the name of his family business: J. R. Blackmore & Sons Ltd.
Transit chaos in Toronto after 95-minute morning subway shutdown TORONTO — A complete shutdown of Toronto’s subway system caused transit chaos for tens of thousands of commuters in Canada’s most populous city Monday morning. The service suspension — which lasted from the time stations opened around 6 a.m. until just after 7:30 a.m. — was the result of a failure of all communication systems, the Toronto Transit Commission said. The lack of subway service on four lines at a key time, combined with no replacement shuttle buses for the duration of the shutdown, left crowds of commuters stranded on city streets on a rainy morning. The TTC explained that it didn’t send out shuttle buses, which are normally deployed when a line goes out of service, because it simply didn’t have enough vehicles to replace an entire subway system. Even once subway service resumed, a backlog of transit riders at all stations led to delays and crowded trains throughout the morning rush. A number of commuters took to Twitter to vent their frustrations, posting photographs of subway platforms teeming with people or streets clogged with commuters. “TTCTake The Car or Toronto Transportation Chaos,” tweeted one person. “All TTC lines were closed and chaos has unleashed in Toronto,” posted another. Hours after the morning’s hubbub, the head of the TTC made it a point to acknowledge the trouble the subway shutdown had caused. “I absolutely understand customers’ frustrations. I’m very disappointed that this happened,” said TTC CEO Andy Byford. “Our reputation took a big hit this morning.” Byford explained that the TTC’s main and back-up communications systems failed shortly before the start of subway service. The failure meant subway trains could not communicate with the TTC’s transit control centre to go through tunnels safely. “The safety critical system, which is the radio system to control communications with our trains, was lost,” said Byford. “You cannot run a railway safely if you do not have the ability to communicate with the trains.”
pension funds to finance small-town projects. The Liberals have come under attack in recent days from the Conservative government, which accuses them of plotting to use the Canada Pension Plan as a source of cash for their infrastructure promises. Such a scheme would threaten to undermine the independence of the public pension plan, Finance Minister Joe Oliver warned. But Liberal MP Adam Vaughan insisted Monday in an interview that the party is only proposing to help communities secure infrastructure cash by working with private pension funds. The party would, he added, avoid mandating or encouraging CPP on any of its investments because of conflict of interest concerns. Infrastructure is becoming a key issue heading into the October election. It was prominent during last weekend’s Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Edmonton, where the major parties made their pitches to community leaders. At the event, Oliver maintained how the Harper Conservatives expanded investments in cities, bringing the average age of core infrastructure to under 15 years today, compared to 18 years in 2000. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair pledged to give municipalities an extra penny from the existing gas tax, providing an extra $1.5 billion each year for roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has also promised to invest in infrastructure and, in a speech Friday, he said one aspect of the party’s plan would “mobilize alternative sources of capital, such as pension funds.”
Original Star Wars script discovered in University of New Brunswick library SAINT JOHN, N.B. — It’s one of the most iconic science fiction films ever made, so how an apparent draft of the shooting script of the original Star Wars movie ended up in the archives at the University of the New Brunswick is a head scratcher, says one of the school’s librarians. David Ross at the university in Saint John, said another librarian who was hired under a contract to digitize parts of the university’s science fiction collection made the discovery about a week ago. The “revised fourth draft” shooting script is dated March 15, 1976, about a year before the movie was released, and contains a red stamp that says “Property
of: Lucasfilm Ltd.” Ross said the school’s records show it was acquired in 1990, but exactly how or why it came to the library is not known. “It’s kind of a mystery,” said Ross. “It is in our catalogue, we just didn’t know to look for it.” Ross said it was most likely acquired by a previous librarian who was responsible for acquiring science fiction and fantasy material for the library’s collection at conferences and through his contacts. The light blue cover of the script includes the phrase The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills by George Lucas.
Air passenger advocate celebrates ruling against transport regulator HALIFAX — A Halifax man who took the Canadian Transportation Agency to court is celebrating a decision he says will improve transparency and accountability for airline passengers in this country. Air passenger advocate Gabor Lukacs says a ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal orders the agency to provide him with unredacted documents relating to a dispute between Air Canada and passengers bumped from a flight. Lukacs launched a challenge against the regulator in March after he requested to view material relating to the incident and was frustrated with the results. “I was asking for access to documents on the agency’s public record. Those documents were not subject to any confidentiality order and nevertheless I received redacted documents,” said Lukacs in an interview. He said the agency provided him with documents in which information -- including the names of the airline’s lawyers and some comments from passengers -- was redacted. The agency said in an email that it welcomed the ruling, saying it clarifies its obligations. “The Agency is currently reviewing the impact this decision will have on its adjudicative proceedings and intends to ensure that parties appearing before the Agency are made aware of the implications of this decision,” wrote spokesperson Martine Maltais. At the time, Lukacs said the regulator’s failure to disclose evidence received while reviewing passenger complaints is a violation of the open court principle in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Lightning strike down Blackhawks TAMPA TAKES A 2-1 SERIES LEAD WITH WIN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lightning 3 Blackhawks 2 CHICAGO — If there was any question about Ben Bishop playing in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final, he erased it in conversations with Jon Cooper. “There wasn’t a doubt in his eyes,” the Tampa Bay Lightning coach said. “You can read when guys are sitting there saying, ’Coach, I’ll go for you.’ Or you can say, ’Give me the net, and that kid said, Give me the net.”’ Bishop took the net, battled through pain and led the Lightning to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday at United Center to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Bishop looked like he couldn’t move up and down or side to side but made 36 saves in a gutsy goaltending performance. “It’s going to take a lot not to play in a Stanley Cup Final game,” Bishop said. “As the game went on, I felt better, more comfortable.” The Lightning still won’t reveal the nature of the injury that forced Bishop out of Game 2 and led to several discussions between him and Cooper about whether he should play in Game 3. Don’t expect an answer any time soon. But Bishop refused to let the apparent lowerbody injury slow him down. After a couple of scary moments early that ended with Blackhawks players missing the net, he gutted through an 18-save first period that could have been disastrous for the Lightning. “Just the stage he was on with all the uncertainty going on, for him to respond that way, especially in the first b& he was there for us,” captain Steven Stamkos said. Even though it looked like Bishop couldn’t get up and at times used his stick like a cane, he said he never had any doubt about remaining in the game. Cooper said he never considered pulling him in favour of rookie Andrei Vasilevskiy. The long-term effects of that may come later in the Cup final or never. But Bishop was brilliant enough to make it look like the right call in the moments after the victory. At the other end of the ice, Ryan Callahan gave the Lightning the early lead after a superb slap pass from Victor Hedman, and Ondrej Palat tied the score again in the third period just 13 seconds after Brandon Saad tied it. Hedman set up Cedric Paquette for the winner with 3:11 left to make Bishop’s courageous performance stand up. “Bish stood on his head there,” Hedman said. “I think we responded well and played well the last 40 minutes.”
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Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov and Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews battle for the puck during Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final Monday, in Chicago. Bishop’s only blemishes came on a Brad Richards power-play goal and then Saad from the slot at the end of a long shift for his Lightning teammates. He got lucky on a couple of wide-open-net misses in the first period and didn’t look 100 per cent but got the job done. “He looks like he’s got some issues,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “But I think we still didn’t put enough pucks at the net.” There was no shortage of praise for Bishop in the visiting locker-room, for his poise under pressure all season and playoffs and for playing hurt. Teammates weren’t revealing anything about the injury the 28-year-old is fighting through, with Stamkos
smiling and saying “I guess he’s OK.” Others expressed admiration for his play in the most crucial of situations. “He’s a competitor. He’s a guy when he’s in the net, you know he gives it his all,” centre Tyler Johnson said. “We have a lot of confidence in him to do everything he does and he never let us down.” Game 4 is Wednesday at United Center as the Blackhawks set their sights on getting to Bishop. “We’ve run into really good goaltenders in important series in the past and we just chip away and keep working and eventually, we always find ways to open the floodgates a little bit,” captain Jonathan Toews said.
IOC approves Canadian teenager Buchanan thriving at Women’s World Cup addition of events for 2018 Olympics
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It’s early days yet but teenage defender Kadeisha Buchanan is thriving at the Women’s World Cup. Canadian coach John Herdman acknowledged that some of his players made some nervy, nearly costly mistakes during the early stages of Saturday’s 1-0 win over China in the tournament opener. But not Buchanan. “There’s no jitters there,” Herdman said admiringly. “That’s a kid 19 years of age who just stepped and played like THE best centre back in the world. Look, I’m going to give her that label. That was as good a performance I’ve seen under that sort of pressure from a centre back.” Canada needed a strong showing from Buchanan on the weekend. Centre back partner Lauren Sesselmann had an erratic outing. Buchanan emerged from the China game with an ankle contusion but says she is not worried about the knock. And she reports the Canadian team, with a win under its belt, is “in a great space right now.” Buchanan certainly looks right at home. Physical and fearless, she is extremely hard to beat oneon-one. Plus she has the strength and athleticism to recover if an attacker gets a foot up on her. Her battles with veteran American striker Abby Wambach, who is at the other end of her career, have been relatively few but memorable with Herdman gleefully giving the edge to his player. “I’m not frightened to say it. She’s the Sinclair of defenders,” Herdman said in May 2014 after Buchanan and Wambach faced off in a 1-1 draw in Winnipeg. “She’s that good.” “Abby Wambach’s scored 200-plus goals in her career. And Kadeisha Buchanan was the better player tonight,” he added, rubbing salt in the wound. A measure of Buchanan’s importance to the Canadian team is that she has won 36 caps already. Buchanan was 17 when she made her senior debut against China in January 2013. On Thursday, she will lead the Canadian defence against a New Zealand side with its back against the wall after a 1-0 loss to the Netherlands. Buchanan says she is focused but relaxed on the pitch “because I know the hard work that I put in,
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Canada’s Kadeisha Buchanan and China’s Wang Shanshan battle for the ball during FIFA Women’s World Cup action in Edmonton on Saturday. It’s early days yet but teenage defender Buchanan is thriving at the Women’s World Cup. it’ll just flow right through me.” Away from the pitch, Buchanan is also chill personified. It wasn’t always like that around teammates like captain Christine Sinclair. “I’m not nervous anymore. I used to be super-nervous around Sinclair ... I was a huge fans of hers.” Growing up, Buchanan played striker but switched to midfield and then defender at the U-15, U-16 level. A sophomore at West Virginia, she took the spring semester off to concentrate on Canada. She will return to school in the fall. “I love it out there. The fans are great. The people are great out there.” Buchanan’s mother had seven daughters, with Kadeisha the youngest. Two others played soccer and Buchanan says they made her “tougher, faster, stronger,
smarter.” Family is key. She has the word tattooed on her forearm. “I keep them at arm’s reach,” she said. While she has relatives in Edmonton, family and friends will be gathering in numbers in Montreal next Monday for the final Group A game against the Netherlands. Buchanan, a Barcelona fan who grew up a fan of Ronaldinho, estimates she had more than 50 supporters in the BMO Field stands in June 2013 when she played in her native Toronto in a 3-0 loss to the U.S. Buchanan and childhood friend Ashley Lawrence, a 19-year-old midfielder, join 17-year-old midfielder Jessie Fleming as the youngest members of Canada’s World Cup squad. New Zealand, the team Herdman left to coach Canada, is ranked No 17 in the world, compared to No. 8 for Canada.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC approved new events Monday in snowboarding, Alpine skiing, speedskating and curling for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Big Air in snowboarding, mass start in speedskating, mixed doubles in curling, and a team skiing event were the additions ratified Monday by the International Olympic Committee executive board. The snowboard parallel slalom event, meanwhile, was dropped from the Olympic program to make room for Big Air. Under IOC rules, events and disciplines can be added or removed up until three years before the games. The new events are for men and women. The IOC has been determined to attract younger audiences, as evidenced by the addition of halfpipe and slopestyle events at recent Winter Olympics. “The changes reflect the continued evolution of the Winter Olympic program and build on the success of recent editions of the games,” the IOC said in a statement. “They also build on the reforms outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020 which aim to create more flexibility into the Olympic program of the Olympic Games.” The IOC recommends the participation of about 2,900 athletes competing in 100 events for the Winter Games. The Pyeongchang organizing committee said it “respects” the IOC decision, which will add four more gold medal events to the games for a total of 102. The South Korean organizers said it will be the first Winter Games in history with more than 100 medal events. The IOC said decisions on which new events to accept for 2018 were based on a number of factors, including youth appeal, TV and media interest, gender equality and “infrastructure and operational cost and complexity.” The IOC said the new program will ensure a record number of female events, mixed events and female athletes. It looks like snowboard’s Big Air will be the latest step in the goal to appeal to youth. In Big Air events, boarders fly off a highly pitched ramp similar to those on the slopestyle course, and perform jumps with multiple flips and spins. They do as many jumps as possible in an allotted amount of time. Big Air events in freestyle skiing had also been proposed for Olympic inclusion but did not win IOC approval. The International Skating Union has also been looking to make Olympic speedskating more exciting for fans. Mass start races would add intrigue, team tactics and a direct confrontation of skating styles in a longdistance event. It could also bring some of the push and shove elements of short track to the Olympic big oval — something likely to displease purists.
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Blue Jays’ bats blow up Marlins RUN WIN STREAK TO SIX GAMES Blue jays 11 Marlins 3 TORONTO — Marco Estrada sees it all coming together for the Toronto Blue Jays. He was the beneficiary of a six-run first inning in an 11-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday that extended the Blue Jays’ season-best winning streak to six games. What’s working for Toronto? “Everything,” said Estrada (3-3), who allowed seven hits and three runs while striking out six in seven innings. “Our starters are going deep into games. Our offence has been unreal. We’re scoring a lot of runs. “It makes our job a little bit easier. And obviously the bullpen has done a great job also.” First baseman Chris Colabello extended his hit streak to a career-best 18 games and designated hitter Josh Donaldson homered and had three runs batted in for the Blue Jays (29-30), who had every starter get at least one hit and score one run. “We’re just putting it all together lately,” said the right-handed Estrada, who has pitched seven innings in three of his past four starts. “It’s been pretty remarkable just watching everybody do their thing, it’s been a lot of fun. We’re too good of a team to be under .500. It’s been a lot of fun watching these guys play their hearts out and play as hard as they have.” Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton homered for Miami (24-34). Marlins left-hander Brad Hand (1-2) allowed
six hits and six runs in two-thirds of an inning in the opener of a three-game interleague series. “I just didn’t execute pitches,” Hand said. “I got the ball up and they got to me. You can’t leave your bullpen out to dry like that on the first day of a series.” Centre-fielder Kevin Pillar, who was 2 for 3 with two walks and two RBIs, said the first inning was fun. “Especially hitting in the bottom of the lineup, it’s always fun to get up in the first inning. “It means we’ve got runners on base, we’ve scored some runs. More importantly, it’s huge for our pitchers. He gets to go out there and just pound the zone and he’s done a great job. And it’s awesome to get a guy like that a huge lead.” It was the first game between the teams since they made a blockbuster trade on Nov. 19, 2012. The Blue Jays sent catcher Jeff Mathis, shortstops Adeiny Hechavarria and Yunel Escobar, pitchers Henderson Alvarez, Justin Nicolino and Anthony DeSclafani and outfielder Jake Marisnick to the Marlins. Toronto received shortstop Jose Reyes, pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, infielder Emilio Bonifacio, and catcher John Buck from Miami. The Blue Jays big first inning on Monday was started by a single by Reyes and a one-out single by right fielder Jose Bautista. Colabello then extended his hit streak to 18 games with an RBI single. Catcher Russell Martin walked, third baseman Danny Valencia hit a
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Innisfail Cyclone Ryan Wachter, left, fends off Hunting Hills High School Lightning Daniel Arias during second half action at Hunting Hills on Monday. Innsfail came away from the match on top out scoring the Lightning 4-3. Both teams will advance to the league final tournament in Red Deer this weekend.
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QB Mathews impresses in Ticats win over Redblacks HAMILTON — Quarterback Jeff Mathews threw two touchdown passes and led the Tiger-Cats to 20 points in the first half as Hamilton cruised to a 37-10 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks on Monday night in CFL preseason play. Mathews, who is competing for the back-up spot behind veteran Zach Collaros, hit Terrence Toliver down the
his 16th homer of the season. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, who was celebrating his 53rd birthday, was ejected from the game in the second after Bautista struck out on a checked swing. Gibbons argued that Bautista had held back his swing.
right sideline for a 73-yard catch-andrun TD and threw a 23-yard score to Matt Coates. Mathews, a 23-year-old who played for Hamilton head coach Kent Austin at Cornell before Austin left for the Ticats, finished the half completing nine of 15 pass attempts for 188 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions. Ticats kicker Justin Medlock hit field goals from 31, 37 and 32 yards out. Quincy McDuffie returned the second half’s opening kick-off 98 yards to give Hamilton a 27-0 lead. McDuffie also ran a punt back 105 yards late in the fourth, but it was called back for an illegal block.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — It was a big night for Canadians at the Major League Baseball draft. Two Canadian high schoolers — Josh Naylor and Michael Soroka — went in the first round on Monday night while college left-hander Jeff Degano was chosen in the second round. Naylor, a first baseman from Mississauga, Ont., became the highest Canadian position player ever drafted when the Miami Marlins selected him 12th overall. Soroka, a right-handed pitcher from Calgary, went 28th to the Atlanta Braves while Degano, from Surrey, B.C., was picked by the Yankees 57th overall out of Indiana State. Naylor, a six-foot, 225-pound lefthanded hitter, has been a standout on the junior national team for the past few years. He participated in last year’s MLB junior home run derby at Target Field, finishing second behind American Luken Baker. Blue Jays prospect Dalton Pompey, also of Mississauga, tweeted out a congratulatory message to Naylor moments after the selection was announced. “That’s huge! Making Mississauga and Canada proud! All the best,” Pompey wrote. The Blue Jays took right-handed pitcher Jon Harris out of Missouri State with the 29th pick, and chose high school right-hander Brady Singer of Florida with their second-round se-
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Eskimos lose star running back White for season BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SPRUCE GROVE, Alta. — Edmonton Eskimos general manager Ed Hervey knew exactly what happened to John White even before the star running back stopped suddenly and grabbed his ankle. “I was standing pretty much 10 yards away from him,� Hervey said Monday. “You could hear it. When your Achilles goes you can hear it. If you’ve heard it once you’ll never forget that sound.� The 24-year-old White, who ran for 852 yards in nine games last season, suffered a ruptured left Achilles tendon during drills at Sunday’s practice that will require surgery and is likely lost to the team for the season. His immediate replacement in camp is rookie Shakir Bell who physically is almost a duplicate of White at fivefoot-eight and 185 pounds. Both backs are strong, quick and hard to tackle. “(Bell) probably runs with a little more power, he hits (hole) a little quicker as far as when there’s a little
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WHL’s Raiders name Curtis Hunt as 10th GM PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — The Western
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Hockey League’s Prince Albert Raiders have named Curtis Hunt the 10th general manager in franchise history. Hunt takes over for Bruno Campese, who left the team in May after eight seasons. Hunt spent last season as the general manager and head coach of the Fort McMurray Oil Barons of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. The Oil Barons finished the regular season with a 3123-6 record and hosted the 2015 Western Canada Cup. Prior to his time in Fort McMurray, Hunt spent seven years in the WHL as a head coach, split between Moose Jaw (2002-04) and Regina (2004-08; 2009-10).
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ible,� Messier said. “What a fine young gentleman, very down to earth. Very honoured, genuinely so, honoured to be in the position that he is.� McDavid doesn’t believe his next position, as a young, NHL centre, will be an easy step to perfect. “I think there’ll be some growing pains, for sure,� McDavid said. “I don’t expect to step right in and be that guy. It’s a much different league. It’s going to be a lot harder, so I’m just looking to do what I can in ter ms of getting better and working hard this summer.�
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Tampa Bay (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Tampa Bay leads series 2-1) Wednesday, June 3 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Saturday, June 6 Tampa Bay 4 Chicago 3 Monday, June 8 Tampa Bay 3 Chicago 2 Wednesday, June 10 Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13 Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. Monday, June 15 x-Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. x — if necessary. Monday’s summary Lightning 3, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Callahan 2 (Hedman, Brown) 5:09. 2. Chicago, Richards 3 (Hossa, Shaw) 14:22 (pp). Penalties — Saad Chi (cross-checking) 8:12, Coburn TB (tripping) 8:12, Coburn TB (hooking) 12:42. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Kucherov TB (tripping) 8:53, Bickell Chi (roughing) 15:18, Saad Chi (goaltender interference) 15:52.
NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders G Tyler Johnson, TB 13 Nikita Kucherov, TB 10 Patrick Kane, Chi 10 Ryan Getzlaf, Ana 2 Jonathan Toews, Chi 9 Duncan Keith, Chi 2 Corey Perry, Ana 10 Jakob Silfverberg, Ana 4 Alex Killorn, TB 8 Steven Stamkos, TB 7 Derick Brassard, NYR 9 Ondrej Palat, TB 7 Rick Nash, NYR 5 Marian Hossa, Chi 4 Ryan Kesler, Ana 7 Patrick Sharp, Chi 4 Derek Stepan, NYR 5 Valtteri Filppula, TB 3
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EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Atlanta 0 Wednesday, May 20: Cleveland 97, Atlanta 89 Friday, May 22: Cleveland 94, Atlanta 82 Sunday, May 24: Cleveland 114, Atlanta 111, OT Tuesday, May 26: Cleveland 118, Atlanta 88 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, Houston 1 Tuesday, May 19: Golden State 110, Houston 106 Thursday, May 21: Golden State 99, Houston 98 Saturday, May 23: Golden State 115, Houston 80 Monday, May 25: Houston 128, Golden State 115 Wednesday, May 27: Golden State 104, Houston 90
Golden State 1, Cleveland 1 Thursday, June 4: Golden State 108, Cleveland 100, OT Sunday, June 7: Cleveland 95, Golden State 93, OT Tuesday, June 9: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, June 14: Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.
Soccer 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA Canada 1 1 0 0 1 0 Netherlands 1 1 0 0 1 0 China 1 0 1 0 0 1 New Zealand 1 0 1 0 0 1
Pt 3 3 0 0
Saturday’s results At Edmonton Canada 1 China 0 Netherlands 1 New Zealand 0 Thursday’s games At Edmonton China vs. Netherlands, 4 p.m. Canada vs. New Zealand, 7 p.m. Monday, June 15 At Montreal Canada vs. Netherlands, 5:30 p.m. At Winnipeg China vs. New Zealand, 5:30 p.m.
Germany Norway Thailand Ivory Coast
GF 10 4 0 0
GA 0 0 4 10
Pt 3 3 0 0
Sunday’s results At Ottawa Norway 4 Thailand 0 Germany 10 Ivory Coast 0 Thursday’s games At Ottawa Germany vs. Norway, 2 p.m. Ivory Coast vs. Thailand, 5 p.m. Monday, June 15 At Winnipeg Thailand vs. Germany, 2 p.m. At Moncton, N.B. Ivory Coast vs. Norway, 2 p.m.
Cameroon Japan Switzerland Ecuador
GP 1 1 1 1
Group C W L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
T 0 0 0 0
GF 6 1 0 0
GA 0 0 1 6
Pt 3 3 0 0
Monday’s results At Vancouver Cameroon 6 Ecuador 0 Japan 1 Switzerland 0 Friday’s games At Vancouver Switzerland vs. Ecuador, 5 p.m. Japan vs. Cameroon, 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 At Winnipeg Ecuador vs. Japan, 3 p.m. At Edmonton Switzerland vs. Cameroon, 3 p.m. GP
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● Ladies fastball: Topco Oilsite Panthers at N. Jensen Bandits at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; Stettler at Collins Barrow Rage at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.; Snell & Oslund Badgers at TnT Athletics at Great Chief 1 at 8:45 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at North Star Sports at Great Chief 2 at 6:45 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Olds Stingers at Olds Mavericks at 8:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe Dodgers at Rocky Red Dogs at 7 p.m.
Wednesday
● Midget AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Black at Red Deer Carstar Braves at Great Chief at 7 p.m. ● High school boys soccer: CACHS at Lacombe at ME Global Athletic Park at 4:15 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Red Deer Razorbacks at Innisfail Indians at 7 p.m.
Thursday
NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)
T 0 0 0 0
Great Chief 2 at 6:45 p.m.
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Basketball
Group B W L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
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GP 1 1 1 1
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GA
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U.S. Nigeria Sweden Australia
1 1 1 1
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 1 1 0
3 3 3 1
1 3 3 3
3 1 1 0
Monday’s results At Winnipeg Sweden 3 Nigeria 3 U.S. 3 Australia 1 Friday’s games At Winnipeg Australia vs. Nigeria, 3 p.m. U.S. vs. Sweden, 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 At Vancouver Nigeria vs. U.S., 6 p.m. At Edmonton Australia vs. Sweden, 6 p.m.
Brazil Costa Rica South Korea Spain
GP 0 0 0 0
Group E W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T 0 0 0 0
GF 0 0 0 0
GA 0 0 0 0
Pt 0 0 0 0
Tuesday’s games At Montreal Spain vs. Costa Rica, 2 p.m. Brazil vs. South Korea, 5 p.m. Saturday, June 13 At Montreal Brazil vs. Spain, 2 p.m. South Korea vs. Costa Rica, 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 At Moncton, N.B. Costa Rica vs. Brazil, 5 p.m. At Ottawa South Korea vs. Spain, 5 p.m.
Colombia England France Mexico
GP 0 0 0 0
Group F W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T 0 0 0 0
GF 0 0 0 0
GA 0 0 0 0
Pt 0 0 0 0
Tuesday’s games At Moncton, N.B. France vs. England, 11 a.m. Colombia vs. Mexico, 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13 At Moncton, N.B. France vs. Colombia, 11 a.m. England vs. Mexico, 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 At Ottawa Mexico vs. France, 2 p.m. At Montreal England vs. Colombia, 2 p.m. End of preliminary round SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 20 At Ottawa Group B winner vs. Group A, C or D third place, 2 p.m.
Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Jose Ramirez and 3B Lonnie Chisenhall to Columbus (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Designated INF Matt Dominguez for assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned OF Grant Green to Salt Lake (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned SS Danny Santana to Rochester (IL). Recalled 1B Kennys Vargas from Rochester. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP David Aardsma on a minor league contract. ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Dominic Leone to Mobile (SL). Reinstated RHP David Hernandez from the 15-day DL. Sent LHP Patrick Corbin to Visalia (Cal) for a rehab assignment. CINCINNATI REDS — Released RHP Matt Magill. COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Rafael Betancourt on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP David Hale from Albuquerque (PCL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Brandon League to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment. MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Bryan Morris on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled LHP Adam Conley from New Orleans (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Optioned RHP Vic Black to
Las Vegas (PCL). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Kevin Correia on a one-year contract. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent OF Wil Myers to El Paso (PCL). FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed CB Tracy Porter to a one-year contract and WR Ify Umodu to a threeyear contract. Released LB Jamil Merrell. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released RB Synjyn Days. Signed LB Justin Jackson and RB Lache Seastrunk. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed WR Tommy Streeter. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released LB Brandon Spikes. Signed DB Derek Cox. HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Signed D Brad Hunt and F Andrew Miller to one-year contracts. American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Agreed to terms with F Colin Markison on a one-year contract. TORONTO MARLIES — Named Sheldon Keefe coach. OLYMPIC SPORTS USADA — Announced ice hockey player Emily Field accepted a one-year suspension for committing an anti-doping rule violation due to her failure to properly file whereabouts information.
● Ladies fastball: Collins Barrow Rage at Topco Oilsite Panthers at Great Chief 1 at 7 p.m.; N. Jensen Bandits at Snell & Oslund Badgers at Great Chief 2 at 7 p.m.; TnT Athletics at Stettler at 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Canadian Brew House Rays at North Star Sports at Great Chief 1 at 6:45 p.m.; Play it Again Sports Athletics at Printing Place Padres at
Friday
● Junior B lacrosse tier III: High River Heat at Olds Stingers at 7:30 p.m.; Olds Mavericks at Calgary Axemen at 9 p.m. ● Senior women’s lacrosse: Red Deer Rage at Calgary Cougars at 8:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe Dodgers at Red Deer Razorbacks at Great Chief at 7 p.m.; Rocky Red Dogs at Innisfail Indians at 7 p.m. ● Boxing: Adrenaline Rush, headlined by Red Deer’s Cam O’Connell vs Mario Perez at Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, Daines Ranch, 7 p.m.
Saturday
● High School Soccer: League final tournament at Edgar Athletic Park. ● Alberta Football League: Calgary Gators at Central Alberta Bucs at 7 p.m. at ME Global Field Lacombe. ● Women’s Major Soccer League: Red Deer Rampage at Calgary CFSC Major at noon ● Midget AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer Carstar Braves at noon and 3 p.m. at Great Chief. ● Bantam AAA baseball: St. Albert Cardinals at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at 1 and 4 p.m. at Great Chief. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park
Athletics at Red Deer Braves at noon, 3 and 6 p.m. at Great Chief Park ● Men’s Division 2 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Canucks at 1:45 p.m. ● Men’s Division 3 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Canucks at noon. ● Women’s Rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Irish Athletic Club at noon. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Red Deer TBS Rampage at Sherwood Park Titans at 3:30 p.m. ● Martial Arts: Super Fights 23 at Westerner Prairie Pavilion. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, Daines Ranch, 1 and 7 p.m.
Sunday
● Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Carstar Braves at Edmonton Cardinals at noon and 3 p.m. ● Bantam AAA baseball: St. Albert Cardinals at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at 11 a.m. at Great Chief. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Braves at noon at Great Chief Park ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Okotoks Ice at 4 p.m.; Lacoka Locos at Strathmore Venom at 2 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Olds Stingers at Lethbridge Cudas at 1:30 p.m. ● Women’s lacrosse: Red Deer Rage at Calgary Saints at 4 p.m. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, Daines Ranch, 1 p.m.
Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct GB New York 32 25 .561 — Tampa Bay 31 27 .534 1 Toronto 29 30 .492 4 Boston 27 31 .466 5 Baltimore 26 30 .464 5
Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago
Central Division W L Pct 32 23 .582 33 24 .579 30 28 .517 27 29 .482 26 30 .464
GB — — 3 5 6
Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland
West Division W L Pct 34 25 .576 30 27 .526 28 29 .491 25 32 .439 23 36 .390
GB — 3 5 8 11
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Chicago Cubs (Lester 4-4) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-7), 5:08 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-4) at Tampa Bay (Karns 3-2), 5:10 p.m. Seattle (Elias 2-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 3-6), 5:10 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 7-1) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-0), 6:10 p.m. Kansas City (C.Young 4-2) at Minnesota (May 4-3), 6:10 p.m. Texas (N.Martinez 4-2) at Oakland (Gray 7-2), 8:05 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Miami at Toronto, 10:37 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Boston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. Houston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.
New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia
National League East Division W L Pct 31 27 .534 30 27 .526 27 30 .474 24 34 .414 22 37 .373
GB — 1/2 3 7 9
Monday’s Games Toronto 11, Miami 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Houston 1 Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1
St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee
Central Division W L Pct 38 20 .655 30 25 .545 31 26 .544 25 31 .446 21 37 .362
GB — 6 6 12 17
Tuesday’s Games Boston (E.Rodriguez 2-0) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 5-4), 5:05 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 6-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-1), 5:05 p.m. Miami (Haren 6-2) at Toronto (Buehrle 7-4), 5:07 p.m.
Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado
West Division W L Pct 32 25 .561 32 26 .552 30 29 .508 27 29 .482 26 30 .464
GB — 1/2 3 4 5
Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Angels 2 Toronto 7, Houston 6 Baltimore 7, Cleveland 3 Boston 7, Oakland 4 Detroit 6, Chicago White Sox 4 Minnesota 2, Milwaukee 0 Kansas City 4, Texas 3 Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 1
BANTAM AAA BASEBALL The Servus Credit Union Red Deer Bantam AAA Braves dropped a pair of exhibition games to the St. Albert Cardinals on Saturday at Great Chief Park. The Braves dropped a 7-5 decision in the first game. Starting pitcher Adam Junck Gave up two runs over four innings with one strikeout and a walk. Zach Baker came in on relief and pitched three innings
SWIMMING Red Deer Marlins attended the Lacombe Dolphins Swim Meet this past weekend and came away with as the top team. The Marlins were first overall out of the nine teams that competed. Marlkin swimmers also took home a total seven gold medals and 16 medals in total. Results from the meet are as follows; Hailey MacRae, silver 6u girls; Saryn
Late goal gives Nigeria a tie with Sweden at women’s World Cup VANCOUVER — Gaelle Enganamouit had a hat trick for Cameroon in a 6-0 rout of Ecuador on Monday in the Women’s World Cup debuts for both nations. Cameroon converted three penalty kicks. Enganamouit scored in the 36th and 73rd minutes, then got a penalty kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Madeleine Ngono Mani put Les Lionnes ahead in the 34th minute, and captain Christine Manie’s penalty kick made it 3-0 in the 44th. Aboudi Onguene converted a penalty kick in the 79th.
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Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 4, San Diego 0 Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 0 Philadelphia 6, San Francisco 4 Minnesota 2, Milwaukee 0 Chicago Cubs 6, Washington 3 Miami 3, Colorado 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 6, Arizona 3 St. Louis 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Monday’s Games Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 0 Toronto 11, Miami 3 Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4 San Diego 5, Atlanta 3, 11 innings Colorado 11, St. Louis 3 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 3-4), 5:05 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 6-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-1), 5:05 p.m. Miami (Haren 6-2) at Toronto (Buehrle 7-4), 5:07 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 4-4) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-7), 5:08 p.m. Philadelphia (Harang 4-6) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 4-4), 5:10 p.m. San Diego (Shields 7-0) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 3-2), 5:10 p.m. San Francisco (Heston 5-4) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 2-3), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 8-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 2-2), 6:40 p.m. Arizona (Ray 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Frias 4-3), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 10:35 a.m. Miami at Toronto, 10:37 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. San Diego at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.
giving up five runs with one strikeout and one walk. Both pitchers contributed with the bats going 2-3 with each getting a triple and a single. Brett Porter also went 2-3 with two singles and two rounds scored. In the second game the Braves lost 7-3. Hunter Leslie started on the mound and gave up five runs over two innings with three walks. Ben LeBlanc pitched five innings in relief giving up two runs with three strikeouts and one walk. Ty Moline led the offence going 2-3 with two singles. LBlanc also added a triple. Jacques, bronze 7&8 girls; Hayden Bettenson, gold 7&8 girls; Brady Leroux, bronze 7&8 boys; Veronica Panteluk, bronze 9&10 girls; Sean Raivio, bronze 9&10 boys; Andrew Seo, silver 9&10 boys; Owen Halford, gold 9&10 boys; Emma Wrench, bronze 11&12 girls; Madison Kohut, silver 11&12 girls; Lauren Bettenson, gold 11&12 girls; Jordan Isaac, bronze 11&12 boys; Jack Walton, gold 11&12 boys; Claire Halford, gold 13&14 girls; Cale Kooyman, gold 13&14 boys; Dylan MacDermaid, gold 13&14 boys. Ligia Moreira of 48th-ranked Ecuador was given a red card for a foul in the 66th minute. Also, Francisca Ordega’s 87th-minute goal pulled Nigeria into a 3-3 draw with Sweden in Winnipeg. Linda Sembrant came off the bench to put Sweden ahead 3-2 before Ordega’s drive sailed between goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl’s legs. Nilla Fischer put Sweden up 2-0 in the first half with a goal in the 31st minute after Nigeria conceded an own goal. Nigeria evened it in the second half when Ngozi Okobi and Asisat Oshoala scored in a 3-minute span. In the final match of the day Aya Miyama converted on a penalty kick in the 29th minute to lift Japan to a 1-0 win over Switzerland in Vancouver.
Catalina swimmers find success at pair of weekend meets Red Deer Catalina Swim Club athletes participated in a pair of events on the weekend and turned in some great results. The swim club hosted the 63rd Freeze or Fry swim meet at the Red Deer Recreation Outdoor Pool. There were a total of 325 swimmers from across the province that participated with 103 of those athletes coming from the host club. In total the club also cashed in with 152 top-three finishes. Six of the club members also achieved their age group trials meet qualifying times; Illia Ivanitskyi in 400 FR, Anna Krieger in 200 IM, Nathan Delver in 800 FR and 400 FR, Paige Paquin in 200 IM, Brooklyn Young in 400 FR, and Ally Wandler in 400 FR. The Catalina National Squad members also participated at the Cascade Swimming International in Calgary at the Talisman Pool. The 14 athletes per-
formed well behind Kyla Leibel who achieved her first Canadian Swimming Championship qualifying time in the 50 fly. Josh Young and Leibel also advanced to the Marquis Sprint eliminator final, both being the youngest competitors in their respective genders. Leibel finished fourth and Young finished sixth in the Marquis events. Results from both events; Cascade Swimming International Gold: Leibel (50fr, 400IM), Young (50fr, 100br, 400IM, 200br, 50br, 100fr) Silver: Leibel (50fl, 200IM) Bronze: Lainie Wareham (100bk, 200bk), Leibel (200fr, 100fl), Kristen Trepanier (400IM, 200fly) Freeze or Fry Elle Couture: 400 IM-3rd, 800 FR-1st, 100 BK-2nd, 50 BK-2nd, 100 BR-1st, 50 BR-1st Dalia Morales: 100 BK-3rd, 100 FR-3rd Kyra McMurray: 400 IM-1st, 800 FR-1st, 50 FLY-1st, 100 BK-2nd, 200 BR-3rd, 200 IM-1st, 100 FLY-1st, 200 FLY-1st Camila Chacon: 200 BR-2nd, 200 IM-2nd, 100 BR-1st, 50 BR-1st
Claire Xu: 50 FR-3rd Chloe Grant: 100 BK-2nd, 50 BK-2nd Jenna Jervis: 100 Bk-3rd, 50 BK-3rd, 200 IM-3rd Emma Barschel: 50 BK-2nd Zoie Kachor: 400 IM-2nd, 100 BK-1st, 200 BR-2nd, 100 BR-2nd, 50 BR-1st Jaleesa Zaparniuk: 400 IM-3rd, 50 FLY-3rd, 200 IM2nd, 50 BR-3rd, 100 FLY-2nd Emalee Broen: 400 IM-2nd, 200 IM-2nd, 50 BR-3rd, 400 FR-3rd Alexandra Mah: 800 FR-2nd, 50 FLY-2nd, 50 BK-3rd, 200 IM-1st, 400 FR-3rd, 50 FR-3rd Rachel Vida: 50 BK-1st Brooklyn Wiens: 50 BK-2nd Stephanie Schaerer: 50 FLY-3rd Madisson Young: 800 FR-3rd, 200 FR-1st, 100 BR3rd, 400 FR-1st Rebecca Smith: 800 FR-1st Jeanette Kruger: 800 FR-2nd, 200 FR-3rd, 50 BK-3rd Chayce Moon: 800 FR-3rd Kristen Irvine: 1500 FR-1st, 200 FR-1st, 100 BK-2nd, 200 BK-1st, 50 FR-1st Kyra Brown: 200 FR-2nd, 50 FLY-3rd, 100 FR-2nd, 100 FLY-3rd, 50 FR-2nd Laina Powell: 200 FR-1st, 50 FLY-1st, 50 BK-1st, 100 FR-1st, 50 BR-2nd, 100 FLY-2nd, 50 FR-1st Annika Erickson: 200 FR-3rd Ally Wandler: 200 FR-3rd, 50 BR-3rd Amy Wandler: 100 BR-2nd Ocean Roos: 200 FR-2nd, 200 IM-3rd, 200 BK-3rd,
400 FR-3rd Isaiah Janzen: 400 IM-2nd, 800 FR-2nd, 200 FR-2nd, 100 BK-1st, 200 BK-3rd, 100 FLY-3rd, 200 FLY-2nd Daniel Morrison: 200 FR-3rd, 400 FR-2nd Sam Ross: 400 IM-1st, 50 FLY-3rd, 100 BK-3rd , 100 FR-2nd, 100 BR-1st, 50 BR-1st River Roos: 800 FR-3rd, 200 FR-3rd, 50 FLY-1st, 100 FR-2nd, 50 BR-2nd, 100 FLY-2nd, 50 FR-3rd Logan Lopaschuk: 800 FR-1st, 200 FR-1st, 50 FLY2nd, 50 BK-2nd, 200 IM-2nd, 100 FLY-2nd, 400 FR-1st Pawel Kasinski: 50 BK-3rd, 50 FR-2nd Jayden Vale: 800 FR-2nd, 200 FR-2nd, 50 FLY-3rd, 100 FLY-3rd, 50 FR-3rd Jaden DeBruijn: 800 FR-3rd, 50 FR- 1st Aidan Johns: 800 FR-2nd, 200 FR-1st, 50 BK-1st, 100 FR-1st, 200 BK-1st, 50 FR-1st Elliott Moskowy: 200 FR-2nd, 200 BR-2nd, 100 BR3rd, 50 BR-3rd Hidde Geurts: 800 FR-3rd, 200 FR-3rd, 200 BR-1st, 200 IM-3rd Cooper Waddle: 200 FR-1st, 50 BK-1st, 100 BR-1st, 50 BR-1st, 50 FR-1st Myles Grant: 50 BR-3rd Illia Ivanitskyi: 100 BR-2nd Michael Chen: 50 BK-3rd Ethan Grant: 200 BR-3rd Tait Loyek: 200 BR-1st, 200 IM-3rd, 100 BR-1st, 200 BK-2nd, 50 BR-1st Jack Barschel: 100 BR-3rd Dalton Powell: 100 FR-1st
BUSINESS
B5 The steaks keep getting higher
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
‘TIPPING POINT’ FOR DEPLETED CATTLE HERDS DRIVING BEEF PRICES HIGHER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shocked by what the local grocer is charging for your favourite steak or ground beef for the grill? You’re not alone. Industry experts have warned a cattle shortage would send prices through the roof this year. “Thinking of barbecue, it’s very top of mind right now,” says Sylvain Charlebois, a professor with the University of Guelph’s Food Institute. He says retail beef prices have risen about 40 per cent over the past three years and the trend has continued to build each month from January through April, according to the most recent food prices compiled by Statistics Canada. “So there’s still momentum upward. I don’t think we’ve actually reached our peak yet.” That view is shared by Kevin Grier. The independent food industry analyst in Guelph, Ont., says the North American cattle herd has been on the decline for about 15 years but 2014 and 2015 has been “kind of a tipping point.” Grier says he’s been recently swamped by calls about beef prices, which he monitors as well as pork and chicken prices. Grocery flyers were advertising popular cuts of steak at $4.99 a pound (about $11 a kilogram) as recently as two years ago, Grier says, but that was before prices went up. “Now you’re seeing $7.99, $8.99, $9.99. And that’s the specials.”
Housing sector pace picks up BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The pace of new home starts picked up in May as the housing sector showed surprising strength Monday, giving economists hope for the second quarter after a slow start to the year. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said housing starts hit a seasonally adjusted rate of 201,705 units in May, up from 183,329 in April. The increase was driven by multiple-unit projects in Ontario, the Atlantic region and Quebec. Royal Bank economist Laura Cooper said the improvement in new home construction along with a stronger pace of sales in the resale market will contribute to an economic recovery in the second quarter. The economy took a hit in the first quarter as it shrunk at an annual rate of 0.6 per cent, due in part to the drop in oil prices. However, economists are looking for it to bounce back in the second quarter. Weak trade numbers for April combined with a strong jobs report for May last week have provided a mixed picture so far. Breaking down the housing starts report, multi-unit starts in urban areas accounted for 122,367 of the total for May, up 16.9 per cent from April, while construction of single-detached houses in urban areas was steady at a seasonally adjusted rate of 58,868 units. There were an estimated 16,470 housing starts in rural areas. The CMHC report came as Statistics Canada reported that contractors took out $7.8 billion worth of building permits in April, up 11.6 per cent from March. The increase was fuelled in large part by a 30.2 per cent increase in the non-residential sector to $3.3 billion in April, following a 24.8 per cent gain in March. Plans for residential buildings increased 1.2 per cent to $4.5 billion. CIBC economist Nick Exarhos said the report was positive for the economic outlook. “Today’s release gives some hope that after investment provided a major drag in the first quarter, there may be reason to believe that things may turn slightly higher in the quarters ahead,” he wrote in a note. The growth in residential permits was the third consecutive monthly advance with gains in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. British Columbia posted the largest decrease. Statistics Canada said the value of single-family home permits rose 6.6 per cent to $2.5 billion in April, the first increase in three months, while plans for multi-family homes fell 4.5 per cent to $2.1 billion.
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Charlebois says as shocking as it has been for Canadian beef lovers to see prices rise, it’s a phenomenon being experienced around the Western world. “Let’s look at the United States, for example. Since 2009, beef prices have almost doubled. So the increase in the United States has actually been higher than it has been in Canada,” Charlebois says.
“Herds in the United States are much more depressed than in Canada, so that’s why prices have gone up significantly. In Europe, it’s even worse.” The European Union ended dairy quotas in April, causing increased uncertainty for farmers, he says. “So a lot of farmers are exiting the industry — both in dairy and in cattle. So there’s less and less inventory in Europe. Supplies are much lower, so
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Cattle graze in a pasture east of Red Deer Friday.
prices have gone up.” Charlebois says Canadian ranchers and farmers are benefitting from the higher prices for their cattle but they’re cautious about expanding their herds because of the costs, time and potential risks — noting that cattle prices dropped 70 per cent overnight on May 20, 2003, after an outbreak of mad cow disease that scared away consumers and closed export markets. “That killed a lot of operations across the country,” Charlebois says. “These risks still exist today. You never know.” Grier expects cattle shortages until at least 2018 because it can take up to three years to produce a new generation of cattle. “In Canada, we haven’t started to increase the herd yet,” Grier said. Brenna Grant of Calgary-based Canfax Research Services, which collects market information for Canada’s cattle industry, says “it’s the very start” of an expansion phase after a “really tough” decade for cattle producers. “Many don’t have the labour available or the inclination to take on more work,” Grant says. She adds some producers are thinking that prices have been high enough for a long enough time to consider expansion, but they’re watching what weather will follow a dry spring and wondering, “Are they going to have grass this summer?” The grass will be required to feed the cattle herds through next winter, either in pasture or as hay, Grant says.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The CEO of AltaGas Ltd. says his company is on track to building Canada’s first liquefied natural gas export terminal by 2018, challenging an international report that said no such facility will be built in the country by 2020. “We think we’ll prove them wrong in this decade,” David Cornhill said Monday in an interview following a report last week by the International Energy Agency. Cornhill said the company is making progress on plans for the Douglas Channel LNG terminal in British Columbia, which an AltaGas-led consortium took over earlier this year. “We have nothing that we see at this
point that will stop us,” he said. “It is a lot of work, there are some tight timelines, so it’s not a walk in the park, but clearly we think it’s achievable.” AltaGas has not yet made a final investment decision on the project but expects to by the end of the year. The Douglas Channel project is much smaller than some of the other LNG projects being proposed for B.C., with its first phase designed to ship about 550,000 tonnes of LNG per year. In contrast, Royal Dutch Shell’s proposed LNG terminal in Kitimat, B.C., would have an annual capacity of 24 million tonnes, and the Petronas-led project in Port Edward, B.C., could ship as much as 22.2 million tonnes per year. The Douglas Channel terminal would be based on a floating barge
rather than on land and would make use of an existing gas pipeline that goes to Kitimat. “I think small LNG facilities are far better from an environment perspective,” said Cornhill. “We think it’s easier, the impact is lower, floating technology reduces the impact on land, cost control is better.” Dirk Lever, an energy analyst at Altacorp Capital, said in an email that he expects Douglas Channel to be the first new LNG facility on B.C.’s northern coast. Pacific Oil and Gas Ltd.’s 2.1-million-tonne-per-year Woodfire LNG project near Squamish is also at an advanced stage, but the project has been running into some local opposition.
Bank of France governor calls for longer work week to tackle unemployment MONTREAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Europeans have long been proud of their work-life balance, with legislation in many countries that limits hours and guarantees vacation. France even recently considered outlawing work emails after normal work hours. But the governor of the Bank of France says that needs to change in order to restore the competitiveness of European economies.Christian Noyer told reporters at the Montreal Economic Conference on Monday that the relatively early retirement age and short work week for most workers are putting a strain on governments and weakening the competitiveness of businesses. “It means that jobs are moving outside the country and the fiscal imbalance of the pension systems is impossible to attain with the increased duration of life if you retire too early,”
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Noyer said. Different European countries are trying to tackle the challenges, including France which has already engaged in three pension reforms. “All the countries have also started more or less decisively to reform their pension systems and we know that we need more flexibility in the working hours,” Noyer said. He added that rules that limit Sunday work need to change, especially in the tourism sector. In remarks prepared for the event, Noyer said economic growth has improved too little to significantly reduce high unemployment, especially among youth. Also Monday at the conference, the chairman of General Electric said Canada’s battered manufacturing sector can regain its foothold and create jobs because of the abundance of cheap energy. Jeffrey Immelt said low energy costs will be a factor in determining where factories are located and can offset higher wage costs that have traditionally been manufacturing jobkillers. “Be not mistaken. That is a big part of how you drive manufacturing second half of this year.Together with its partners, Aecon developed and financed the airport and holds a 45.5 per cent stake in Quiport, the airport concessionaire. “The monetization of this asset is a testament to the value proposition of the Quito International Airport project and to the value of our select participation in such public-private partnership projects both domestically and internationally,” president and CEO Teri McKibbon said.
First Nickel to idle Lockerby nickel and copper mine near Sudbury First Nickel Inc. (TSX:FNI) says it will idle the Lockerby nickel and copper mine near Sudbury, Ont., after current supplies of ore are used up, expected to be in the third quarter of this year. The Toronto-based company
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excellence in the future,” he said in a luncheon speech. New manufacturing plants will be much smaller, flexible facilities that employ a few hundred workers that can compete with many in the world, he said. Premier Philippe Couillard also spoke of the lure of affordable energy for industry, saying Quebec’s availability of cheap hydroelectric power can restore the province’s manufacturing sector. had been planning further development at the mine but said Monday it has decided to discontinue that work because of low nickel prices and low production levels at Lockerby. First Nickel says the Lockerby mine will either be put on “care and maintenance” for a possible restart or closed. It acquired the Lockerby mine in 2005 and idled it in 2008 during another period of low commodity prices before restarting it in September 2011. The company’s announcement didn’t say what impact its decision will have on its workforce. According to regulatory documents, First Nickel had 165 employees plus contractors at the end of last year and reduced that by 30 per cent in January. The Lockerby property formerly belonged to Falconbridge Ltd., a Canadian mining giant that is now part of Glencore, a Swiss commodities multinational that buys all the mine’s ore under an agreement with First Nickel.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . 126.67 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.18 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.80 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.51 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.40 Cdn. National Railway . . 71.92 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 205.12 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.55 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.41 Cervus Equipment Corp 16.40 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.40 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 56.28 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.89 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.44 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.99 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 25.12 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.45 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 45.49 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.99 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.58 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 9.70 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.57 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 131.98 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.67 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.68 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.45 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed sharply lower Monday, with energy stocks leading the decline as the price of oil slipped lower. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 213.83 points at 14,743.33, its lowest close in two months. That brought its losses since Thursday to well over 400 points. Meanwhile, the loonie rose 0.27 of a U.S. cent to 80.66 cents. “All major sectors are down today, so it’s a pretty broadbased sell-off,” said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada. The TSX’s energy sector was the biggest decliner, slipping 2.4 per cent, while the industrials sector was off 1.7 per cent and metals and mining slipped 1.6 per cent. The only sector of the TSX that didn’t register a decline was global gold, which inched up less than one per cent. In economic news, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported that housing starts hit a seasonally adjusted rate of 201,705 units in May, up from 183,329 in April, with the increase driven by multiple-unit projects in Ontario, the Atlantic region and Quebec. “You would have thought that the market would be doing a little better than it is,” Cieszynski said, noting that Monday’s housing starts data and Friday’s jobs report were both strong. “Canada is definitely outpacing the U.S. on the downside,” Cieszynski said. “It’s tough trying to figure out why. Energy is a big one; but otherwise the economy is doing well.” In New York, markets were also down, but the declines were less dramatic. The Dow Jones industrial average gave back 82.91 points to 17,766.55, while the Nasdaq plunged 46.83 points to 5,021.63
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.48 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.72 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.61 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.27 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.20 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.77 First Quantum Minerals . 16.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.44 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.75 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.14 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.49 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.51 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.08 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 21.76 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.99 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 64.01 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.93 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 32.10 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.56 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.25 Canyon Services Group. . 6.42 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.70 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.70 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.11 and the S&P 500 lost 13.55 points to 2,079.28. “U.S. markets are just generally drifting lower,” Cieszynski said, nothing that traders are still digesting the “very strong” employment figures that came out of the U.S. on Friday. “That moved up the potential timetable for the Fed to raise interest rates, so that’s been weighing on the markets there.” Positive economic news in the U.S. has been hurting the country’s stock markets lately, as investors anticipate that a rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve is imminent. Cieszynski said June is typically a bad month for North American markets. “Earnings season is over and there’s not a lot of corporate news out there to drive markets higher,” Cieszynski said. Traders are looking forward to U.S. retail sales on Thursday. “That could get U.S. markets going again,” Cieszynski said. On the commodity markets, the July crude contract was down 99 cents at US$58.14 a barrel while August gold rose $5.50 to US$1,173.60 an ounce. “This rally we’ve had in crude oil is kind of running out of gas,” Cieszynski said, noting that the commodity climbed from around $40 a barrel to around $60, where it’s now hovering. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,743.33, down 213.83 points Dow — 17,766.55, down 82.91 points S&P 500 — 2,079.28, down 13.55 points Nasdaq — 5,021.63, down 46.83 points
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.85 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.42 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.78 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 23.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 48.01 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.10 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.31 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.51 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.06 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.72 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.51 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.91 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2400 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.28 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.25 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.05 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.74 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 41.93 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.47 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.43 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.61 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.63 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.94 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.51
Cdn — 80.66 cents US, up 0.27 of a cent Pound — C$1.9023, up 0.29 of a cent Euro — C$1.3994, up 1.73 cents Euro — US$1.1287, up 1.76 cents Oil futures: US$58.14 per barrel, down 99 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,173.60 per oz., up $5.50 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.619 oz., down 33.4 cents $662.90 kg., down $10.74 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 unchanged $497.00; Nov ’15 $0.60 lower $494.90; Jan. ’16 $0.90 lower $491.50; March ’16 $1.10 lower $488.20; May ’16 $1.90 lower $484.20; July ’16 $2.80 lower $480.70; Nov. ’16 $2.80 lower $468.70; Jan. ’17 $2.80 lower $468.70; March ’17 $2.80 lower $468.80; May ’17 $2.80 lower $468.80; July ’17 $2.80 lower $470.20. Barley (Western): July ’15 $4.00 higher $205.00; Oct. ’15 $9.00 higher $200.00; Dec. ’15 $9.00 higher $205.00; March ’16 $9.00 higher $205.00; May ’16 $9.00 higher $205.00; July ’16 $9.00 higher $205.00; Oct. ’16 $9.00 higher $205.00; Dec. ’16 $9.00 higher $205.00; March ’17 $9.00 higher $205.00; May ’17 $9.00 higher $205.00; July ’17 $9.00 higher $205.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 698,220 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 698,220.
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Sears 1st-quarter loss narrows BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Sears’ first-quarter loss narrowed but sales continue to slump as the retailer prepares the rollout of its real-estate investment trust this week to raise cash. Sears Holdings Corp., which operates Sears and Kmart stores, said that it expects the real estate investment trust that it is forming, Seritage Growth Properties, will be declared effective by the Securities & Exchange Commission this week. Sears, based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, is planning to sell and lease back about 235 properties, most of them Sears and Kmart stores, to the REIT. The company expects $2.6 billion in proceeds. The transaction also includes the purchase of interest in its joint ventures. The chain closed more than 200 Sears and Kmart stores in 2014. In April, Sears struck three real estate transactions, including getting $150 million from a joint venture with mall operator Macerich. It also has deals with General Growth Properties Inc. and Simon Property Group Inc. Before establishing the REIT, the retailer had been subletting some of its excess space to Forever21 and Whole Foods. With the new real estate manoeuvr, the company said it will create a mechanism to continue that move in an accelerated fashion. The REIT will have the ability to recapture up to half
of the space in each of its stores, the company said. Sears is trying to extract value from its real estate holdings and replenish its cash as it tries to turn around its long-suffering retail business. The company is also selling some of its assets such as the Lands’ End clothing business. At the same time, the company is shifting its focus from running a store network to operating an online and offline business tied together by its Shop Your Way loyalty program. The company said that during the company’s fiscal first quarter, its Shop Your Way program accounted for more than 70 per cent of eligible sales. The goal is to have smaller and fewer stores and have them tied to online services. But the latest report shows the big challenges that continue for billionaire hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, who is Sears Holdings’ CEO and chairman, in turning around the company. Lampert combined Sears and Kmart in 2005, about two years after he helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy. The combination has proved unsuccessful, and the company, known for shabby stores, has been slow to compete with the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Best Buy, which have been updating their locations. Sears finished its fiscal year with its eighth annual revenue drop and its fourth annual loss. Losses continued into its first quarter and sales for a key measure continue to slump at its stores.
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The ride-sharing app Uber is shown on a smartphone in Montreal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. As thousands of Toronto commuters found themselves stranded during the morning rush hour Monday following a massive subway disruption, Uber’s surge pricing kicked into effect.
Toronto subway shutdown puts Uber’s surge pricing model in spotlight BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Uber calls it surge pricing. Some of its users call it gouging. But whatever the name, many Torontonians found themselves paying a lot more than usual for a lift to work Monday after massive subway disruptions left thousands of commuters stranded. Under surge-pricing, also known as dynamic pricing, the ride-hailing service uses an algorithm to lure more drivers to areas where demand is particularly high by increasing the rates in those areas. The practice has incited controversy among some users who have called it “price gouging.” Some tweeted that Uber was charging up to four times the usual rate in certain parts of the city. But Uber spokeswoman Susie Heath says that as soon as the company became aware of the transit shutdown, it capped its dynamic pricing at three times the normal rate. Heath says Uber always communicates to users that surge pricing is in effect. “Dynamic pricing solves the perennial challenge of never being able to get a ride on New Year’s Eve, after a major sporting event or during bad weather,” Heath said in an email. “Because Uber doesn’t employ drivers, every driver has a choice of how he or she spends his or her time. Dynamic pricing helps bring demand and supply into line, when necessary, by incentivizing more drivers to come onto the platform. Once demand falls or supply increases sufficiently, prices quickly go back to normal.” This isn’t the first time that Uber has faced heat over its dynamic pricing practices. The company publicly apologized
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Cogeco to buy U.S. cable, Internet provider MetroCast Connecticut for US$200M MONTREAL — Cogeco Cable Inc. (TSX:CCA) plans to expand its presence in the United States with a US$200 million-deal to buy the MetroCast TV, Internet and phone network in eastern Connecticut. The purchase will be made through the Montreal-based company’s Atlan-
for jacking up fares by as much as four times the usual rate during a deadly hostage incident in Sydney, Australia, last December. Uber also drew ire for trying to implement surge pricing in the wake of hurricane Sandy in New York. The company was later forced to backtrack. Although some users have expressed frustration with Uber’s surge pricing model, others said they would happily pay more for reliable service. Elena Yunusov, a Toronto resident who runs her own marketing agency, says she recently decided to stop buying transit passes, opting for Uber instead. Public transit is simply too unreliable, she said. “When I go to meet with clients there are contracts at stake and I just cannot be late for that,” she said. “Every meeting matters.” Ian Lee, an assistant professor at Carleton’s Sprott School of Business, says he’s surprised at some of the negative reactions to Uber’s dynamic pricing. “It’s simply good old-fashioned supply and demand,” said Lee. “There’s no evil person sitting behind a computer screen trying to exploit people. It’s purely using an algorithm in the software ... that says if there’s an imbalance between the demand for Uber taxis and supply of Uber taxis, the software prices you upwards.” Lee says a number of other industries — including airlines, hotels and car rental companies — also use dynamic pricing but are simply less transparent about it. “When you fly to Europe, you pay a lot more going in the summertime than you do going in the winter,” he said. tic Broadband subsidiary, which is the 13th largest cable operator in the U.S. Atlantic Broadband operates primarily in Florida, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. MetroCast Connecticut has 23,000 TV customers as well as 22,000 Internet and 8,000 phone customers. Cogeco says its definitive agreement to buy the assets from MetroCast Communications and its parent Harron Communications LP is expected to close by the end of September, subject to regulatory approvals.
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Penhold water ban imposed DRY CONDITIONS TO BLAME; RED DEER ENCOURAGES CONSERVATION Penhold residents who desire emerald green lawns had better hope for rain. A ban on outdoor watering was imposed on Monday by the Town of Penhold due to “extremely high” water consumption last weekend. Only watering from hand-held hoses or watering for new sod are allowed in Penhold. Penhold residents are also being urged to “conserve water whenever possible while the reservoir recovers.” The town’s website indicates the com-
munity gets its water from wells. Red Deer has no need for an outdoor watering ban but city officials are still encouraging conservation. Water superintendent Alex Monkman said the city’s water treatment plant has not reached capacity even though peak water consumption was reached on Monday. The temperature hit 26C. And Monkman said this increased water use on a day that’s generally highest for consumption anyway. Since many people return to their
homes on Monday after being away for the weekend, they tend to shower, do their laundry, run their dishwashers and water their gardens. He noted Red Deer doesn’t experience the water shortages that plague some other communities because it has a large supply, drawing from the Red Deer River, as well as a huge water treatment facility. An odd-even day watering schedule was only previously imposed when the treatment plant was not working at capacity due to a partial shutdown for
construction or repairs, he added. Monkman doesn’t anticipate any water shortages in the foreseeable future, regardless of temperature. “But we do promote water conservation, so if you don’t have to water your grass, don’t water it. “Or if you have to, water early in the morning or in the evening, when the temperatures are cooler and you can water for shorter time.” The weather forecast for the Red Deer area shows a chance of some rain by the weekend.
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Fading family farm film wins $10,000 BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF His short film about disappearing family farms in Alberta earned Red Deer’s Brendan O’Brien the top $10,000 prize in a national competition. Tradition was the theme of the latest Big Rock Eddies Short Film Festival. And this retro focus paid off for the local filmmaker, whose five-minute documentary, An Alberta Farm, nabbed the first-place prize, awarded on Saturday in Calgary. When O’Brien thought about ‘tradition,’ his mind automatically went to farming, “because that’s Alberta’s heritage.” An Alberta Farm explores the shifting culture of rural Alberta in a manner described as touching and subtle. The film contains voice clips selected from three hours of interviews that O’Brien did with area farmer Bruce Bell, as well as video footage of Bell completing chores on his Sylvan Lakearea farm. O’Brien said he met the farmer through his father. “My Dad has a farm west of Red Deer, around Benalto, and I spent a lot of time out there.” But the 32-year-old mostly grew up in Red Deer, with his mother. O’Brien did short stints at Red Deer College, Camosun College in Victoria and Burnaby’s Simon Fraser University, before getting a geophysics technician job in Calgary. While working there, he discovered his passion for filmmaking while making company videos. He now owns Red Van Studio in Red Deer. It mostly makes corporate films. Like most other young people, he
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Warrant issued for suspect in Mustang Acres fire A Red Deer man accused of setting a trailer on fire now has a warrant for his arrest, after he missed the start of his preliminary inquiry. Randy Evans, 31, faces a charge of arson for the Nov. 4, 2013, burning of a Mustang Acres mobile home. He was due in Red Deer provincial court on Monday for a preliminary hearing into the Crown’s case against him. The hearings are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case to determine if it is sufficient to go to trial. Evans’ counsel Kevin Sproule told Judge Jim Hunter that he had lost contact with Evans a few months ago and
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Red Deer film maker Brendan O’Brien has won a Big Rock Eddie award for his short film titled An Alberta Farm. does not work the family farm. “It’s unaffordable,” he said. “You have to own so many acres to make a living.” In the documentary, Bell also talks about how his children are uninterested in farming. “Kids are now moving to the cities,” said O’Brien, who doubts many family farms will survive another decade — a bittersweet fact, considering their role in the province’s history. “Alberta started off with homesteading, then little family farms, but now the farms are just getting bigger and bigger. ... Family farms are disappearing.” O’Brien, who feels it was “amaz-
ing” to win the top prize in the Eddies, plans to buy new equipment with his prize money. He will have his award-winning short doc screened in September at the Calgary International Film Festival and also plans to enter An Alberta Farm in other festivals. He hopes winning the blown-glass Eddie trophy will boost his reputation as a filmmaker. Although he does mostly commercial filming, O’Brien was also involved in Keeper, an independent 70-minute psychological thriller recently made in Red Deer for the festival circuit. (More information about his work can
be found by visiting www.redvanstudio.com.) The latest Big Rock Eddies festival abandoned a long history of hosting only short films involving product placement and beer. This year’s rebranded event welcomed submissions focusing on the broader theme of tradition. The second-place Eddie and $5,000 went to Calgary’s Gabriel Yee for his black-and-white film Stock, about artist David Brunning, while third place and $2,500 went to Winnipeg’s Matthew Dyck and Tedi Gilmartin for their film Zane, about the love life of a hipster puppet. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
had not spoken to him recently. Sproule sought leave to withdraw as counsel of record for Evans, leaving the accused person without a lawyer. Prosecutor Ed Ring canvassed the courtroom for Evans and had police make inquiries in the hallway to see if Evans had shown up to his scheduled court date. He had not. Ring asked Hunter for a warrant, which was granted. Red Deer Emergency Services was called to the fire at 6834 59th Ave. at 2 p.m. on Nov. 4. Crews took about 40 minutes to extinguish the blaze. No injuries were reported as no one was home during the fire. Nearby mobile homes were not affected by the fire. Evans was arrested on Nov. 5, 2013, after the investigation into the cause of the fire determined it was intentionally set. Daniel Land, who owned the trailer, was renting it out at the time. He previously told the Advocate he had been trying to evict the tenants for a number of months due to missed rent payments. Land had served the tenants with court-ordered eviction papers on Nov. 1, 2013, ordering them out by noon on Nov. 5, 2013. At the time, Land had already sold the trailer and was waiting to turn over possession of the unit. Evans’ preliminary inquiry was originally scheduled for Jan. 2 but it was adjourned then to Monday.
was transferred by STARS. Then on Saturday night at 7 p.m., STARS was dispatched to an area of Clearwater County south of Caroline for a 35-year-old male who was hurt in an ATV crash. The Caroline Fire Department secured the landing zone and STARS airlifted the man to Foothills Medical Centre. On Sunday evening at 7:20 p.m., STARS was dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Hwy 2 near Lacombe. With the landing zone secured by the Lacombe Fire Department, STARS picked up a 16-year-old female, who they flew to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.
5, 2014, incident. In Calgary provincial court last week, he pleaded guilty to the charges. A pre-sentence report was ordered before Abendroth could be sentenced. Olds RCMP said that at about 5 a.m. that day, a 60-year-old Calgary man was sitting in his vehicle, parked at a rest stop beside the northbound lanes of Hwy 2 north of the Hwy 27 overpass. It is alleged that the Calgary man noticed another man approaching his car. The accused pulled on a partially open car window, shattering it. He then pulled the motorist out of the vehicle, threw him onto the ground and drove off. Abendroth will be sentenced on Aug. 24 in Didsbury provincial court.
STARS Air Ambulance in area three times It was a busy weekend for STARS Air Ambulance, as they had to make three trips to Central Alberta. On Friday afternoon, a STARS helicopter was dispatched to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for a patient transfer. A 16-year-old male was injured while longboarding. STARS flew him to the Foothills Medical Centre. STARS spokesperson Fatima Khawaja said she had no information on the injured male’s condition when he
Young farmers program gets help from Pomeroy Inn Pomeroy Inn and Suites in Olds, Vegreville and Grimshaw are pitching in a few dollars to help out the Outstanding Young Farmer of Alberta program, supporting the future of the province’s agricultural industry. Anyone staying at the Pomeroy Inn and Suites in either of the three Alberta communities can book a room with the special code OYF2077 and $3 per room per night will be donated to the OYFOA program. The OYFOA recognizes farmers and producers between the ages of 18 and 39 who exemplify excellence in their profession. Each year, an Albertan farming couple is selected and put forward for a chance to win national honours. For more information, visit www. ofyalberta.com.
Carjacking sentencing delayed until Aug. 24 A Red Deer man has pleaded guilty to a carjacking at a Hwy 2 rest stop near Olds last summer. Craig Abendroth, 39, was charged with assault and robbery for the June
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Church bells ring to mark 90 years of service Red Deer churchgoers can be forgiven for thinking non-stop church bells are summoning them to church service on the wrong day. In fact, the bells will ring 90 times on Wednesday morning at Gaetz Memorial United Church. They join the pealing of bells at churches across the country to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the United Church in Canada. The bells will start to ring at 10:30 a.m. In 1925, churches came together with the amalgamation of the Methodist, Congregationalist and most Presbyterian churches in Canada. In the spirit of serving its community, Gaetz Memorial United Church will offer a free meal to street-involved people, downtown workers, residents and congregation members. Birthday cake will follow. Any donations will be given the Red Deer and District Food Bank. This year, Gaetz Church marks its 128th year of serving Red Deer congregations. The local church was founded by Rev. Leonard Gaetz and his brother, lay preacher Isaac Gaetz, in the winter of 1886.
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Ticks can spread more than Lyme disease ‘PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT TICK-BORNE DISEASES ARE IN THEIR AREA. AND THEY SHOULD KNOW HOW TO AVOID TICKS.’ — DR. PETER J KRAUSE YALE UNIVERSITY
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Lyme disease makes the headlines but there are plenty of additional reasons to avoid tick bites. New research highlights the latest in a growing list of tick-borne threats — a distant relative of Lyme that’s easy to confuse with other illnesses. Monday’s study suggests a kind of bacteria with an unwieldy name — Borrelia miyamotoi — should be on the radar when people in Lyme-endemic areas get otherwise unexplained summertime fevers. It’s one of several recently discovered diseases linked to ticks in different parts of the country, a reminder to get tick-savvy no matter where you live. “People need to be aware of what tick-borne diseases are in their area,” says Dr. Peter J. Krause of Yale University, a specialist who reviewed the research. “And they should know how to avoid ticks.” WHAT’S THIS NEW INFECTION? The first U.S. case was reported in 2013 in New Jersey, an 80-year-old cancer survivor who over four months became increasingly confused, had difficulty walking and lost 30 pounds. Doctors found spiral-shaped bacteria in her spinal fluid that looked like Lyme but caused a relapsing fever more closely related to some other tick-borne illnesses. While treatable by antibiotics — the woman recovered — doctors know little about B. miyamotoi. Monday’s study offers some clues. Researchers with Imugen Inc., a Massachusetts testing lab, tested blood samples from patients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York whose doctors suspected tick-borne illnesses and used that lab. During the 2013 and 2014 tick seasons the lab found 97 cases of the new infection. That’s roughly 1 per cent of sam-
ples tested and close to the lab’s detection of a better-known tick disease named anaplasmosis, researchers reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. More research is needed to determine just how prevalent the disease is. Researchers then analyzed medical records from 51 of those patients, and found symptoms typically include a high fever, severe headache, chills and blood abnormalities — decreases in infection-fighting and blood-clotting cells. About a quarter of patients were hospitalized, although Imugen medical director Dr. Philip Molloy cautioned that’s probably because doctors are seeking testing only for their sickest, most puzzling patients. The bacterium is carried by deer ticks, also known as blacklegged ticks, which also can spread Lyme and two other illnesses, babesiosis and anaplasmosis. IT’S NOT THE ONLY NEW WORRY Two new tick-borne viruses were recently discovered in the Midwest, and neither has a specific treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed nine cases of Heartland virus, and one death, with other reports under investigation, said CDC entomologist Roger Nasci. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, diarrhea and low blood counts. Identified in Missouri, the virus also was reported in Tennessee and Oklahoma, although the Lone Star tick that spreads it lives around the East and Southeast. Then there’s the Bourbon virus, with similar symptoms, discovered last year after the death of a Kansas man and named for his home county. Another patient, in Oklahoma, recovered. The Kansas man had found an embedded tick days before getting sick, and CDC researchers are searching for the culprit species. HOW MANY DISEASES CAN TICKS SPREAD?
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A deer tick is seen under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. Lyme disease makes the headlines but new research highlights the latest in a growing list of tick-borne threats. The CDC counts 14 illnesses linked to specific U.S. tick species, not including the Bourbon virus still being studied. Lyme is the most common, with about 30,000 cases reported each year, although CDC has estimated that the true number could be 10 times higher. It’s too early to know how widespread the newly discovered illnesses are. But people can be infected with more than one tick-borne illness simultaneously, complicating care. NO REASON TO STAY INDOORS Health officials stress that it’s important to enjoy the outdoors and get physical activity. Infections are more common in some parts of the country than others, and there are effective protections. “A lot of people get very concerned about any tick bite,” said Nasci, who heads CDC’s arboviral diseases branch. “Not every tick is infected.”
If you are bitten, remove the tick as soon as possible. PREVENTION IS BEST No matter where you live, CDC’s advice is similar. ● Shower soon after being outdoors to spot ticks more easily, and check pets that can carry ticks inside. ● If you’ve been in tick-infested areas, carefully do a full-body check, including under arms, behind knees, ears and hair. ● When in the woods, walk in the centre of trails, avoiding brush and leaf litter. ● Use bug repellent with DEET on exposed skin, or wear long pants and long sleeves. ● Discourage ticks around homes by keeping grass cut; removing leaf litter and brush; placing a barrier of wood chips or gravel between lawns and wooded areas.
MERS outbreak evokes visceral response in SARS veterans ach” when she hears dispatches from the MERS front in South Korea. She’s not alone. Dr. Brian Schwartz, Public Health Ontario’s chair for communicable diseases, emergency preparedness and response, says for many health-care professionals who fought SARS, the MERS news evokes a “visceral” response. An emergency room physician, Schwartz was vice-chair of the SARS scientific advisory committee back in the day. He says the South Korean outbreak isn’t making him nervous. But he is driven to do all he can to ensure Ontario’s health-care system remains vigilant, so that if a MERS case shows up at a hospital in the province, the disease isn’t given the chance to take off. With SARS, Toronto’s outbreak was already well underway when authorities realized a critically ill man suspected of having tuberculosis was actually dying of a new disease that would touch off big outbreaks in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. Early on Henry and McGeer went to the first hospital in the Toronto chain, Scarborough Grace, to try to determine how many people had been exposed and might be infected. “When we looked back on it and pieced it together there were 15 cases by the time we recognized that this person probably had this disease that was happening in China. Some of them were in hospital and some of them were in the community. Some of them were health-care providers,” Henry says. All those ill people were exposing multiple others to the disease. Sick health-care workers started booking
TORONTO — For the people who fought Toronto’s devastating SARS outbreak in 2003, the news out of South Korea right now sounds eerily familiar. A man infected with a new coronavirus for which there are no vaccines or drugs turns up in a hospital sick and infectious. It is days before he’s recognized as a carrier of the new disease and during that time he isn’t isolated. He infects a couple dozen people who, in turn, pass the disease to still more. The widening circle involves hospital patients, family members who visited them and health-care professionals who cared for them. Cases start popping up in other hospitals. The public gets spooked. Authorities order exposed people into quarantine as they struggle to get ahead of a fast moving outbreak. That could almost be a recitation of the early days of Toronto’s SARS outbreak. But South Korea is battling a cousin virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome or MERS. Right now there is a lot of sympathy for the South Koreans among people who work in Toronto’s hospital and public health sectors. “All of us who went through SARS — you know what they’re going through. It’s very similar and you understand what they feel like,” says Dr. Allison McGeer, head of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital and a SARS survivor. “They will get through it. But it’s just such an awful thing to happen to people.” As of today, South Korea is reporting 87 cases and six deaths. In the past 24 hours alone, the case count jumped by 23. Dr. Bonnie Henry is British Columbia’s depCentral Alberta uty provincial health officer. But in March 2003, Annual General Meeting Notice when SARS hit, she was Community Futures Central Alberta would like to an associate medical ofinvite you to our Annual General Meeting on ficer of health for the City of Toronto. Thursday, June 18th at 2:00 p.m. Henry admits she gets The meeting will be held at our office, “this feeling in my stom5013 - 49th Avenue, Red Deer
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off work. “And we realized they were in multiple parts of the facility. They were nurses, they were X-ray techs.... The security guard in the emergency department. So it became very clear within a short period of time that there were people that we didn’t know who had been in contact (with the first case),” Henry says. “And then there were health-care workers who were sick who’d been in contact with other health-care workers. And it sort of snowballed. And we had to make the decision to close the hospital.” That cascading effect seems to be happening in South Korea. In Toronto, transfer of patients among hospitals brought the virus to more facilities. There are currently at least six hospitals that have been involved in the South Korean MERS saga. Both outbreaks had a patient or patients who infec ted many others early in the outbreak. In Toronto, one of the earliest people to catch SARS infected 36 other people in two hospitals. Though there are many similarities, there are differences too. When SARS hit Toronto, it didn’t yet have a name. MERS hit the world’s radar in Septem-
ber 2012 and has made headlines off and on ever since, mainly for cases on the Arabian Peninsula. There was no test for SARS for much of the global outbreak, which burned out within four months. There is now a test for MERS. But a test only assists if you think to use it. “It’s a way of saying ’Yes’ or ’No.’ But it doesn’t help if you haven’t recognized that the person has a respiratory infection to start with. And that’s where we need to focus, is on catching people early,” Henry says. There is another difference: When SARS arose, no one knew what it was or whether its spread could be contained. That successful fight — as well as more than two years of experience containing MERS outbreaks in the Middle East — gives the South Koreans critical knowledge on what it takes to stop MERS. That experience may also give the broader public health community some confidence MERS can be controlled. But it may not be making the South Koreans more reassured at the moment, McGeer admits. “The fact that somebody else tells you it’s going to be over does not necessarily make you feel any better when you’re in the middle of it.”
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The dreaded return Parents need advice to help overweight son of the renovations One of the first articles I wrote for Me Plus Three was about home renovations. This piece explained in detail the hellish ordeal I put my family through when deciding I wanted to revive the joint with a fresh coat of paint. If you weren’t a reader back then, the entire article can be summed up in these two sentences: Painting the interior of your home while children still reside there is indefinitely the most idiotic thing a person can do. It will involve many tears and many swear words. This was me nearly two years ago. Now I sit here with my tumbler glass half full of cab sav because, well, I avoid cleaning wine glasses at all costs, and I look at the walls I toiled with so long ago. In past me’s defence, they do look pretty darn amazing. I still have to wonder, though, was it worth it? Was it worth the constant stress that some little finger would find its way to the wet wall? Was it worth constantly harping on the people I love to never push their chair up against the newly painted surface? Was it worth single-handedly transforming into the psychotic drill sergeant I did, ordering my husband and all of our helpers about like they were mindless drones in a painting crusade of apocalyptic proportions? Probably not. So why, I wonder, did I of sound mind choose to undergo this process once more? Yes you read that right, the Browns had decided to renovate … again. You know how I am always poking
fun at myself over the hoarded mess in my basement? Well among the piles of random stuff there is a heap of laminate flooring. It has been down there ever since Jamie’s mom put new floors in LINDSAY her home and BROWN we decided that we would — in ME PLUS THREE an effort to reduce, reuse, recycle and not to mention make our wallets happy — salvage the laminate floorboards and install them in our home, in due time. Three years later, we pulled ’em out. Before we could lay down the new/ reused stuff, we had to rip up the carpet. In all honesty, between the incorrigible innuendos Jamie kept coming up with in regards to this task and the fact that the destruction of it all allowed me to release some pent up frustrations of my own, it was probably the most enjoyable part of the entire flooring experience. It was what came next that began our quick spiral into renovation damnation.
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Q: Do you have any advice for the parent of a preteen child who’s extremely overweight? I want to help him lose weight while he’s young, before it becomes a serious problem later in life. Jim: It’s great that you want to see your child live a long and healthy life — starting now! Childhood obesity is a serious problem. Children who are clinically obese — an issue we’d encourage you to discuss with your family physician — are at high risk for diabetes, heart disease, vascular disease, stroke, arthritis and early death. That’s not to mention the hit it puts on their self-esteem. Our Physicians Resource Council suggests focusing on five things: 1) better nutritional choices; 2) an increase in physical activity; 3) eating meals together as a family; 4) better rest and recreation habits; and 5) wiser media choices. It’s especially important to make this a family project. One of the first things we’d recommend is to turn off the TV and begin taking walks in the evening. By working together, your son won’t feel singled out, and it’s much more likely he’ll embrace the dramatic lifestyle changes he needs to make. You might also want to talk to your son’s teacher once school resumes. He or she might be able to encourage and incorporate healthy habits across the curriculum so that the entire class benefits. You can also maintain a degree of control over his caloric intake by packing him a nutritious lunch and by restricting money that might be used to buy unhealthy snacks from
school vending machines. Most important, keep in mind that your child needs an overdose of your love and acceptance throughout this process. Do everything you can to help him lose weight, but make it JIM clear that your DALY affections do not depend upon his success in achieving that goal. Q: Like a lot of guys, I’ve tried to surprise my wife only to have my best efforts crash and burn. I have an aversion to failure, so I’ve just about decided to stop trying. Any advice before I throw in the towel? Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: Your experience reminds me of a guy most of us men can relate to. Wanting to find his wife the perfect gift for her 50th birthday, he kept hounding her for hints of what she’d like. Finally, in frustration, she told him, “I’d like something that goes from zero to 200 in under 4 seconds.” Armed with that information, he bought her the most unforgettable gift she’d ever received: a brand-new bathroom scale.
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process, you’ll need to become a witness to your thinking. That means listening to your thoughts and the words and statements you make to yourself. Use them as a feedback loop to gain a deeper understanding of what you believe to be true. With practise, you’ll be able to consciously create a space between your brain’s reactive movement and your awareness. This will begin the process of shifting your old thinking. You’ll need to get real with yourself and ask tough questions, such as what the greatest benefit is to holding onto a self-defeating belief. Look for secondary gain issues — that is to say, the benefit, the payback to a particular way of thinking and being. When you play the “poor me” game do you get the sympathy of others? When you play the victim do you get to justify your angry outbursts or depression? When you destroy relationships and deny your potential successes do you get to claim that you are unworthy and not deserving of anything better? Sandlin claimed that his inability
to ride the backwards bike revealed a deep truth to him. He had the knowledge of how to operate the bike but he did not have the understanding. Therefore, knowledge is not understanding. Sandlin was curious if he could gain understanding and, in doing so, transcend his early programming. To find out, Sandlin practiced riding the backward bike five minutes every day for eight months, at which point the pattern unlocked and, suddenly, he could ride the bike. He needed to stay intently focused on the task as even the smallest distraction like the ringing of the cell phone in his pocket would cause the old control algorithm to re-engage, resulting in a wreck. But at least he could ride the bike. As a further experiment, Sandlin had the welders create a backwards bike for his six-year-old son, who mastered riding it in just two weeks, proving two things: first, that children enjoy greater neuro-plasticity than adults; and second, they are not as invested in their beliefs.
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Riding a bike is a skill we learn as kids and one that generally sticks around for a lifetime. But American missile flight-test engineer Destin Sandlin was presented with a bike no one, not even he, could ride. Sandlin works at the Red Stone Arsenal, adjacent to Huntsville in Madison Country, Ala. He is the host and creator of the popular video blog Smarter Every Day. One day, a welder at the arsenal presented Sandlin with a challenge: to ride a “backwards” bicycle he had created. It was an ordinary bicycle with one exception: when you turned the handlebar to the left, the wheel went to the right. When you turn it to the right, the wheel went the left. Now you may assume, as did Sandlin, that riding the bike would be simply require a minor adjustment in thinking. In fact, the reality of the situation was vastly different. “I couldn’t do it!” declared Sandlin. After countless attempts and wrecks, Sandlin came to a startling conclusion. The algorithm in the brain associated with riding a bike was so fixed that it was all but impossible to overwrite. An algorithm is a precise step-by-step process developed and refined at a subconscious level that allows us to perform a complicated task without conscious effort. Think of typing, playing a musical instrument or any skill that you’ve mastered. As with riding a bike — the downward force on the pedals, the position of the body, the pulling and pushing on the handlebars and pedals — every single force is part of the algorithm. And if any one part of the process is changed, it affects the entire control system. Says Sandlin, “Once you have a rigid way of thinking in your head, sometimes you cannot change it, even if you want to.” Or at least, not without tre-
mendous insight and effort. T h i n k about any long-standing pattern of thought or behaviour. In particular, think about disempowering ways of thinking and being that have kept MURRAY you locked FUHRER in a world of fear and failure. Now understand that an algorithm is nothing more than neural pathways that have been established in the brain by past beliefs and conditioning. Negative beliefs are the result of neural pathways formed (typically) during our formative years and reinforced by perception and experience. The bike example shows us just how fixed these pathways can become. Your brain and body form a complex communication network and what allows you to move through your day is a constant flow of information between your conscious and unconscious mind — information that is both hardand soft-wired. Information that is soft-wired has been learned and can therefore be unlearned or changed. Your thoughts and beliefs fall in this category. In contrast, information that is hard-wired consists of unalterable laws that govern the operation of your body. For example, you cannot change your body’s need for oxygen, food and water in order to survive. If you want to shift these patterns — these algorithms — you’ll need unlearn a few things. The first step is always awareness — awareness and the realization that something different is possible and attainable. To start the
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California families look to recycle water IN MIDST OF RECORD DROUGHT, STATE LOOKS AT IN-HOME INNOVATION BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERKELEY, Calif. — Showering during California’s drought is a guiltfree experience for homeowners Catarina Negrin and Noah Friedman. The Berkeley couple — she runs a preschool, he’s an architect — are early adopters of a home plumbing do-over that’s becoming more popular during California’s record four-year dry stretch. California, like many states, long required all water used in homes to be piped out with the sewage, fearing health risks if water recycling is done clumsily. Since 2010, however, the increasingly dry state has come around, and now even encourages the reuse of so-called grey water, which typically includes the gently-used runoff from bathroom sinks, showers, bathtubs and washing machines. As mandatory conservation kicked in statewide this month, forcing many of California’s 38 million people to face giving up on greenery, these recycling systems have become attractive options in new homes, right along with granite countertops. California Building Industry Association executive Robert Raymer rattles off the droughtconscious top builders that now rou-
tinely offer in-home water recycling. And California’s building codes are catching up as well, allowing owners of existing homes to create the simplest systems for the safest grey water without a permit. So while others think about hauling buckets to catch stray drips from their sinks and tubs, Negrin and Friedman can relax: Each gallon they use in the shower means another for the butterflies that duck and bob over their vegetable garden, for the lemon tree shading the yard, and for two strutting backyard chickens busily investigating it all. “I love a lush garden, and so it seems like why not, right? I could have a lush garden if it doesn’t go into the sewer system,” Negrin said. “So, yes, ”I’m going to take a shower.“ Because pathogens swimming in untreated grey water can transmit disease if humans ingest them, most modern health and building codes have long made recycling it impractical. Many families did it anyway, without official oversight or permits. Greywater Action, a group that promotes household water recycling and trains families and installers on the do’s and don’ts, estimates that more than a million Californians had illegal systems before plumbing codes were updated. But interest in doing it the right way
has soared since April 1, when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a 25-per cent cut in water use by cities and towns. Palo Alto grey-water system installer Sassan Golafshan saw his website crash within a day from the surge in traffic. “There’s huge interest,” said Laura Allen, a co-founder of Greywater Action. Contractors “told us they’re getting so many more calls than before.” Water savings could be significant. A 2009 study by the University of California at Los Angeles found that if everyone in the southern part of the state recycled the water that currently goes down drains from their showers and washing machines, there would be enough to satisfy Southern California’s entire outdoor residential water use needs. At the California Water Resources Board’s recycled water unit, chief Randy Barnard is fielding many calls from homeowners desperate to save their beloved lawns and gardens. “If they’ve got a prize fruit tree they’ve been babying for years, they don’t want to lose that tree,” he said. But for many, he has some bad news to share. Recycling water at home is not as easy as just hooking your shower up to the lawn sprinklers, and recycled water probably won’t save the lawn. “Just like there’s no one sure way to fight the drought, there’s no one sure
way for grey-water treatment,” the state grey-water chief said. “Everybody has to look at all the options and figure out what works for them.” Water from toilets is considered “black” water and sent straight to wastewater treatment plants. Many states also bar water from kitchen sinks, since homeowners may have contaminated it by washing raw meat. In California, homeowners are now allowed to irrigate with untreated water straight from bathroom sinks, washing machines and bathtubs, as long as — among other requirements — the water lines run beneath soil or mulch, so as not to come in contact with people. That rules out using untreated grey water on lawns, which typically need above-ground spray heads or sprinklers. Grey water can even go to vegetable gardens like Negrin’s and Friedman’s, as long as it doesn’t touch root vegetables or any other plant part that’s eaten. Tomatoes are fine, but forget about carrots. The latest plumbing-code changes have enabled families to install these straightforward laundry-to-landscape systems without a permit, sending wash water into the yard with a valve to divert it back into the sewage system when needed. A handy homeowner can do it with no more than a couple hundred of dollars of piping and parts.
Tennis great thanks celebs for growth of trans tolerance BILLIE JEAN KING SPEAKS OUT ABOUT CAITLYN JENNER AND RENEE RICHARDS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Billie Jean King believes Caitlyn Jenner has given people clarity about transgender issues beyond the progress already made four decades after they shared the international sports spotlight. “The interview with then-Bruce Jenner, and now Caitlyn Jenner, really helped people to be clear in understanding, especially about gender vs. sexuality,” the 71-year-old former tennis star said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Everybody’s always getting very confused with that. Then they finally realized they have nothing to do with each other.” King won the last of her 12 Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon in 1975, a year before Bruce Jenner earned the unofficial title of “world’s greatest athlete” by winning gold in the decathlon at the Montreal Olympics.
Jenner, 65, publicly transitioned from Bruce in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in April to Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair this week. “I am so happy he’s finally going to be comfortable in his own skin; finally Caitlyn will be,” King said. “It’s been a long journey for Caitlyn, and I’m really happy for her.” King occasionally travelled in the same circles with Jenner, given they were two of the most recognizable athletes in the 1970s. “He was amazing when he won the decathlon, so I would run into him every so often,” King said. “We actually did a commercial together, but I don’t think they ever showed it.” King was 29 when she defeated former professional tennis player Bobby Riggs, 55, in the famed “Battle of the Sexes” match in 1973, putting gender issues in the spotlight. She later helped pros accept a transgender player in their ranks after she started the Women’s Tennis Association in 1973.
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DALY: Adding new things to marriage The truth is, most guys do try hard — but we don’t have a clue what our ladies really want or need. As time passes, many couples slip into a rut of predictability. Things that used to excite and thrill don’t produce the same reaction they once did. And when a marriage becomes routine, the passion wanes, and couples can drift apart. With this in mind, it’s important to understand that often the goal of surprising your wife is merely to find ways to keep injecting newness and freshness into your marriage. This can be as simple as trying a new restaurant — or it can involve a little more daring and adventure, like taking an art class together or going to an amusement park. You don’t have to go crazy, always make elaborate plans or spend lots of money to be spontaneous and do something unexpected. You’re limited only by your creativity (and even then there’s no shame in consulting the Internet and borrowing great ideas from others). Ultimately, your mission is to affirm your wife, remind her of your love and commitment — and have fun living life together. Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog. com or at www.facebook. com/DalyFocus.
weren’t clicking or locking. Instead they were shifting and sliding. It was at this point, I hooked up the sprinkler in the back yard for the children — the only place they’d be out of earshot of their father’s current use of colourful vocabulary. Turns out 15-year-old laminate does not hold up well in dank, cold and moist basements. We had a pro come and look at it for us and he stated what we were all thinking: it was unusable. We toyed with the idea of painting the sub floor a funky colour and calling it modern chic. Or perhaps we could just staple a bunch of layers of the underlay on and each time the kids had a spill we’d tear a layer off! Really the ingenious possibilities were endless. In the end, we opted for a perhaps more traditional route and bought new laminate flooring to install. Unfortunately, this particular product already had the underlay attached to it so the better half of the following day was spent removing the thousands of staples we had punctured violently into the floor in our attempt at effectively securing the previous (now useless) underlay. I won’t even start to tell you the hassle we went through when it came to the stairs, one because it is sort of
Renee Richards, who was denied the opportunity to play as a woman in the 1976 U.S. Open, was born Richard Raskind, a former captain of the Yale tennis team who had sex reassignment surgery. The New York Supreme Court ruled in Richards’ favour, allowing Richards to join the women’s pro tour in 1977. King said she called the players together after meeting with Richards for four hours and receiving confirmation from doctors that she was a woman. “I said ’We’re going to have her on the tour, so get used to it.’ Some were unhappy, some were trying to figure it out. But it worked out fantastic,” King said. “The players ended up loving Renee.” King played doubles with Richards, who reached the U.S. Open women’s doubles finals in 1977 with Betty Ann Stuart. Richards, who was also a renowned ophthalmologist, later coached Martina Navratilova and “really improved her backhand,” King said.
King marvels at how attitudes about sexual identity have changed since the early 1970s. “Being educated, learning, having knowledge is so much better,” she said. “Usually things become less shamebased the more you know. An unknown is what people usually fear the most.” Richards is still King’s eye doctor and “One of the best people I’ve ever known. She’s been a great role model.” While Richards fought through the courts for acceptance, Jenner introduced Caitlyn via Twitter and was immediately named the recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for the upcoming ESPY Awards on July 15. King, who was outed as a lesbian in 1981, won the award for individual contributions that “transcend sports” in 1999. “Caitlyn’s in for a whirlwind. She already has been, but it’s going to be crazy,” King said. “I think it’s really appropriate that Caitlyn’s won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.”
embarrassing if there are any flooring specialists reading today and two, I simply do not have a high enough word allotment to begin to get into that horrific turn of events. Eventually, we finished, no worse for the wear. … Wait, what am I saying? I think we may be scarred for life when it comes to the home renovation process. And then an unnerving thought crosses my mind: our unfinished basement. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.
Sandlin’s experiment proved that we can break old ways of thinking and that having a goal or purpose for the change is vital to the process. And that once positive change has occurred, it’s best if we don’t go back to test the old circuitry, as the old way of being can easily be re-initiated. Sandlin claims to have learned three things from the backward bike experiment: first, welders are often smarter than engineers; second, knowledge does not equal understanding; and third, truth is truth no matter what you or I think about it, so be careful how you interpret things because you’re looking at the world with a bias whether you think you are or not. From a self-esteem standpoint, this demonstrates that change is possible but requires from us awareness, honesty, perseverance and a sincere commitment to change for it to occur. And when you think about it, isn’t that the case with anything worthwhile in life? Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
FUHRER: Change is possible Later, while in Amsterdam — “a city with more bicycles than people” — Sandlin decided to see if he could still ride a regular bike and much to his surprise, he couldn’t — or at least not initially. “After 20 minutes, something in my brain clicked back into the old algorithm.”
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We put the underlay down with little trouble (for all of you flooring virgins out there, this is the foam matting you place under the laminate boards — I only relay this information because I was in fact a flooring virgin before this ordeal). However when we began to attempt to click and lock the first few boards together, something was wrong. They
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BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES It’s hard to tell from the first three episodes of Sense8, the Wachowskis’ new show for Netflix about a group of people who find themselves mentally linked, whether it will have the conceptual genius of The Matrix, their breakout smash hit. The series, which premiered Friday, depicts its large cast seeing apparitions that they can’t explain and that some sinister people seem very eager to stop. Among the strengths of Sense8 is the show’s recognition that political conditions affect almost all of our lives, and sometimes, its willingness to say and show things that other shows might not. But it’s also another illustration of the important principle that a show’s politics alone can’t make it great art or entertainment. While Orange Is the New Black and Transparent have broken some ground in their depiction of the lives of transgender people, Sense8 presses into new territory with a joyful, explicit sex scene between Nomi (Jamie Clayton, who, like her character, is a transgender woman), and her partner, Amanita (Doctor Who and Torchwood veteran Freema Agyeman), complete with the relevant equipment. In a flashback, we see the moment when Amanita and Nomi fall in love, at a previous pride event when Amanita defends Nomi from second-wave feminists who see transgender women as invaders. For those of us who are bureaucracy nerds, there’s a scene where Chicago cop Will Gorski (Brian J. Smith) takes a young gang member to an emergency room and finds out that the hospital has started refusing gunshot victims so it can more effectively focus on other patients. If you’re interested in how sexism and homophobia express themselves in specific cultural contexts, Sense8 has Kala (Tina Desai), who tries to hold onto her professional identity even as her Mumbai family is more excited about her marriage; Lito (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), a closeted telenovela star; Sun (Doona Bae), who is dealing with sexism in the Seoul business world; and Capheus (Aml Ameen), a Nairobi bus driver, whose face lights up when his supernatural mental connection to the others gives him a glimpse of an LGBT pride celebration in the United States through Nomi’s eyes. I just wish the show’s political components had the same wit or joy that comes across elsewhere. In the second episode, as Nomi prepares to head off to a pride parade, she records a video for her blog. It’s the kind of thing that might go viral if it were posted on Tumblr, with a hundred sites aggregating it with titles like “Blogger destroys transphobia.”
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COMMENT “I’ve been thinking about my life. And all of the mistakes that I’ve made. The ones that stay with me, the ones that I regret, are the ones that I made because of fear,” Nomi muses, as the camera travels from character to character. “For a long time, I was afraid to be who I am because I was taught by my parents that there’s something wrong with someone like me, something offensive, something you would avoid, maybe even pity. Something that you could never love. My mom, she’s a fan of Saint Thomas Aquinas. She calls pride a sin. And of all the venal and mortal sins, Saint Thomas saw pride as the queen of the seven deadlies. He saw it as the ultimate gateway sin that would turn you into a sinaholic. But hating isn’t a sin on that list. Neither is shame. I was afraid of this parade because I wanted so badly to be a part of it. So today I’m marching for that part of me that was once too afraid to march. And for all the people who can’t march, the people living lives like I did. Today I march to remember that I’m not just a me. I’m also a we. And we march with pride.” But I’ve seen lots of these videos and read lots of these blog posts and speeches, and plenty of -isms are still entrenched and intact. And Sense8 is not exactly the first Hollywood product to suggest that we’re really all the same, which is the effect of the editing of Nomi’s monologue. Crash won an Osin Graceland’s Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest. Leichtweis’ victory marks the second year for an international contestant to represent Tupelo in the Memphis competition. This year’s Tupelo Elvis Festival featured artists from six states and three foreign countries. Elvis Week is Aug. 8-16 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Netflix acquires Brad Pitt’s satire War Machine NEW YORK — Netflix has acquired the satirical comedy War Machine, with Brad Pitt set to star as General Stanley McChrystal. The acquisition was announced Monday by Netflix. It adds a major dose of star power to the streaming service’s growing stable of original films. Netflix will produce the film, to be directed by Australian filmmaker David Michod. Shooting is set to begin in August,
car off that idea. It’s not that I think Sense8 is naive, exactly; there are people having experiences in common all over the world, and the idea that they could learn from each other and feel stronger for knowledge of each other’s existence is powerful. I just wish that, through the three episodes I’ve seen, there was something spikier and more surprising about what the characters saw when they woke up in each other’s worlds. In one terrific moment in the pilot, a rider on Capheus’s bus insists on paying him with a chicken, arguing that “this is worth more than the fare,” and for a moment, Sun is shocked when that same chicken appears to wander across her desk. That’s much more fun and fresh than a moment when a cork pops out of a bottle of champagne to punctuate a sex joke. Clearer understandings of how big bureaucracies work, or more specific portraits of underrepresented experiences may make for richer and more nuanced pop culture. The Wire is a more interesting cop show for David Simon’s reporting on Baltimore. Jane the Virgin is a much more emotionally engaging show for its embrace of telenovela tropes and its respect for the characters’ Catholicism. But the kinds of politics designed to appeal to progressive viewers — or even practices such as casting a transgender actress to play a transgender character — don’t inherently make for great art or entertainment. with the movie being released on Netflix sometime next year. War Machine is based on Michael Hastings’ book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan, based on weeks of nearly unfettered access in 2010 to McChrystal.
House once owned by Steve Miller named a historic place WILLIAMS, Ore. — A modern-style Oregon house once owned by Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
TORONTO — How much are Canadians willing to pay to stream music? It’s a question that continues to flummox analysts, record labels and particularly online streaming services. As one component of its extensive Canadian Nielsen Music 360 report, Nielsen Entertainment polled consumers on how much they’d be willing to spend monthly for unlimited streaming of songs and albums without advertising. The respondents, on average, said they would be willing to devote $6.20 per month or up to $7.80 for high quality audio. But, of course, they were speaking on a hypothetical basis. Those numbers lie in the middle of the range of options offered by streaming services in Canada. And with Apple rumoured to unveil its own service imminently, much of the speculation has centred on how much it will cost. Currently, Spotify offers a limited free service in addition to a $9.99 per month premium version, which offers ad-free on-demand listening. Newcomer Tidal provides subscriptions for either $9.99 or $19.99 per month. Rdio, meanwhile, recently introduced a new $3.99 subscription tier called Rdio Select, joining its free ad-supported streaming radio service and its $9.99 ad-free on-demand service. The new plan allows subscribers to download 25 songs and replace them once per day, as well as offering unlimited song skips and high-quality sound. “This is the coach class version, if we were an airline — and up till now, the only seats available on airlines were business class,” said Rdio CEO Anthony Bay in a recent telephone interview. Bay said the new tier — less than the cost of a latte, he touts — was essential in part because the average listener spends only around $45 on music annually. “Although it’s a tremendous value, the challenge with the $9.99 (monthly) price point is it’s more than most people have historically spent on music,” he said. “We think the big opportunity is reaching out to people who have never been interested in subscribing,” he added. “For those people, $20 per month is a big jump — even $10 for a lot of people is a big jump. “We’re very focused on the broad consumer market.” Nielsen’s study was derived from an online poll of 3,500 consumers aged 13 and up from April 12 to 27. Representatives for Tidal and Spotify declined requests for comment. The William J. and Sarah Wagner Lippincott House was designed by architect Winifred Scott Wellington, a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. Architectural historian Diana Painter of the state Historic Preservation Office says the house built in 1951 just outside Williams is one of the finest examples of post-World War II modern-style architectural design in southern Oregon and a rare example in Josephine County. Miller owned the house from 1976 to 1986. It is now owned by a non-profit foundation that operates the 400-acre property as a nature centre, botanical garden, school and community centre.
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EXP. LINE LOCATOR, JJAM Management (1987) H2S PSTS, 1st aid req’d. Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s 3 yrs. exp. Resume by Requires to work at these WHAT’S HAPPENING Min. fax 403-227-1398 or email Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. CLASSIFICATIONS info@accutechcanada.ca 37444 HWY 2 S 50-70 LOCAL SERVICE CO. 37543 HWY 2N in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. 700 3020 22 St. VACUUM TRUCK FOOD ATTENDANT OPERATOR Req’d permanent shift Lost Must have Class 3 licence weekend day and evening w/air & all oilfield tickets. both full and part time. Fax resume w/drivers LOST BOWER AREA 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + abstract to 403-886-4475 male Bichon Frise, small benefits. Start ASAP. white curly fur, Please call Job description 403-307-7824 Brendan. www.timhortons.com Education and experience LOST at Childrens Festival Professionals not req’d. Fri. June 5, pair of ladies Apply in person or fax prescription eyeglasses in HIGH PAYING Real Estate resume to: 403-314-1303 case. 403-343-9271 Career opportunity. SWISS Chalet -Red Deer Training provided. Flexible REWARD!! HIRING FOOD SERVICE hours. Help-U-Sell of Red BRACELET, black SUPERVISORS: $13.75 Deer. Call Dave at Pandora leather, 6 - 7 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per 403-350-1271 or email charms. Very sentimental week. Supervise and coresumes to Dave value. Lost June 3, around ordinate staff activities and @homesreddeer.com 48 Ave. & 48 St. If found customer service. Estabplease call 403-505-3590 lish work schedule and train associates Interested parties can email Personals swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1 866 928 5481 or deliver resume to unit #8, 5111 ALCOHOLICS 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1. ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 THE ALZHEIMER Society of Alberta and NWT has an COCAINE ANONYMOUS opening for a First Link 403-396-8298 Coordinator located in the Red Deer office. This position is a contract position for a maternity leave. Degree in social services, health services or education and one year of experience in related THE OPEN RANGE field is preferred. Diploma SALOON in Sylvan Lake and relevant experience req’s Front Line Cook. Full CLASSIFICATIONS may be considered. or Part time with Food Responsibilities include: 700-920 Safety. Competitive receiving and acknowledgwages. Please apply in ing referrals, conducting interviews, data entry and person or email resume to: Caregivers/ tnpjep@shaw.ca assisting with program Aides 403-887-3033 delivery. Please send resumes and related The Tap House Pub & Grill LOOKING for a Live-in documents to: req’s full and part time Caregiver w/exp. to care cprysunka@ COOKS AND for 4 & 7 yr. old. Salary alzheimer.ab.ca DISHWASHERS. $1835/mo Criminal Record Apply with resume at check is necessary. 1927 Gaetz Avenue Email resume to: Restaurant/ between 2-5 pm. jeannette.lobaton@ Hotel yahoo.ca
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COTE Denis Roger Joseph Jan. 22, 1934 - Lafond, AB June 5, 2015 - Red Deer, AB Denis Roger Joseph Cote, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Friday, June 5, 2015 at the age of 81 years. Denis will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his loving wife Germaine; his daughter Gisele (Mark) Russell of Oxford Station, ON, and their children Brian, Shawn and Arielle; his son Dennis (Frances) Cote of Coaldale, AB, and their children Darryl and Lindsay; his son Marc (Diane) Cote of Red Deer, AB, and their children Julie and Alan; and his son George (Maria) Cote of Brighton, ON. A Prayer Service will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 48A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. At Denis’ request, memorial tributes in his honor may be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 6, 5015 48 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1S9. Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
ERVIN Alice July 15, 1938 - June 4, 2015 Alice Doraine Ervin passed away in Drayton Valley, AB on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at the age of 76 years. Alice was a proud mother of four children; Cherie (John) Gwin of Drayton Valley, Rodney (Donna) Odegaard of Sherwood Park, Blaine Odegaard of Winfield, and Venon (Mae) of Leduc. She will be missed by her twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, as well as her brother, Arthur Welsford and sister-in-law, Lorraine Welsford. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, AB, on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. For those wishing to pay their final respects to Alice may do so prior to the service between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Interment will follow the service at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Alice’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, Unit 1, 5550 45 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1L1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Lindsay Cuffe, Funeral Director at EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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PRIME Fasteners is seeking an individual for order desk/customer service. Dental Some experience with tools and fasteners used in the home building industry We are a fast paced oral is a plus, training is prosurgeon’s office looking for vided. Monday to a registered dental You can sell your guitar Friday 7:30 to 4:30 No assistant to work for a song... weekends Please respond Tuesday, Wednesday and or put it in CLASSIFIEDS with resume attention Gary Thursday with the potential and we’ll sell it for you! to Prime Fasteners, fax to work into more days. 403-343-3253 or email New registered dental F/T front desk agent req’d. garyd@primefasteners.ab.ca assistant graduates Must be avail. to work evewelcome. Please fax your ning shift and night audit. TOO MUCH STUFF? resume to 403-341-3599 Please apply in person at Let Classifieds or email it to Super 8 City Centre, 4217 help you sell it. ashley@camfc.ca 50 Ave. R.D.
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MULLISS Norman 1931 - 2015 Mr. Norman Ernest ‘Nobby’ Mulliss formerly of Innisfail, Alberta, passed away at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at the age of 84 years. Nobby will be sadly missed by his granddaughters, Cherilynn Mulliss, Nichole Mulliss; his son, Carlos Mulliss and his many friends. Honoring Nobby’s wishes; no Funeral Service will be held. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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CARRUTHERS F. Dwain May 13, 1933 - June 2, 2015 Goodbye is not Forever The Reverend Frederick Dwain Carruthers, passed away June 2, 2015 at Centennial Center, in Ponoka, at 82 years of age. Dwain was born in Creelman, Saskatchewan and attended school in British Columbia and Alberta. Dwain leaves behind a legacy of Christian ministry, hard work, love and compassion. Dwain leaves to mourn his wife of 55 1/2 years, Adele; children: Calvin (Tracey), Byron (Ingrid), Verlynn (Roger Woolf), Darwin (Beckie); seven grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Dwain is also survived by one brother Blaine (Deanna), and two sisters: Sherrill Carruthers and Sandra (Ted Kryn); two sisters-in-law and one brother-in-law. Dwain was predeceased by his grandson Zachary Woolf, his parents, three brothers and two sisters. A Celebration of Dwain’s life will be held at Deer Park Alliance Church, 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. A private family interment will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery. Donations in Dwain’s memory can be made to the Canadian Blind Ministry, 3844 Stouffville Road, PO Box 800 Stouffville, ON, L4A 7Z9, The Alzhiemer Society of Alberta and NWT, 10531 Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5H 4K1, or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Obama concedes Iraq setbacks SAYS US LACKS ’COMPLETE STRATEGY’ TO TRAIN IRAQIS TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ELMAU, Germany — Acknowledging military setbacks, President Barack Obama said Monday the United States still lacks a “complete strategy” for training Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State. He urged Iraq’s government to allow more of the nation’s Sunnis to join the campaign against the violent militants. Nearly one year after American troops started returning to Iraq to assist local forces, Obama said the Islamic State remains “nimble, aggressive and opportunistic.” He touted “significant progress” in areas where the U.S. has trained Iraqis to fight but said forces without U.S. assistance are often ill-equipped and suffer from poor morale. IS fighters captured the key Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi last month, prompting Defence Secretary Ash Carter to lament that Iraqi troops lacked “the will to fight.” That was a strikingly negative assessment of a military that has been the beneficiary of billions in U.S. assistance dating back to the war started during the administration of U.S. President George. W. Bush in 2003. Still, Obama indicated that simply increasing the number of Americans in Iraq would not resolve the country’s issues. The U.S. currently has about 3,000 troops there for train-and-assist missions. “We’ve got more training capacity than we have recruits,” he said at the close of a two-day Group of Seven meeting at a luxury resort tucked in the Bavarian Alps.
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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING
Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds). Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person
HERITAGE LANES BOWLING
SHRUMS MEATS Stettler, F/T BUTCHER $20 - $30/hr. Phone 1-403-742-1427 or fax 403-742-1429
Immediate Opportunity in the Dairy Industry:
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Busy road construction company looking for operators. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489
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FUTON, tan; $150; End tables, (2), 1 coffee table, brass & glass, $25. takes all. 403-347-0325 HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50. 403-340-1347 ROCKER/RECLINER, blue. Asking $150. call (403)986-2849
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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
Stereos TV's, VCRs
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SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125. 403-352-8811 TOSHIBA DVD & VCR, Firewood $25; Sony Trinitron TV, 32” w/remote control & stand, AFFORDABLE $40; Lloyds stereo radio Homestead Firewood and record player with 2 Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. speakers, $75. ALL like avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 new. 403-346-6303 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. Misc. for PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 Sale FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, 100 VHS movies, $75. Can deliver 403-885-5020 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 OVER 100 LP records, (45 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 tamarack, poplar. PILLOWS, decorative (3) Price depends on location. white & silver/grey; $20. Lil Mule Logging for all 3; queen quilt, light 403-318-4346 green, $5; Hoover upright vacuum, $25. 403-347-1637 Garden TWO window mount air Supplies conditioners, 19”w, 17”d, 12” h, one forced air, 8,000 JACKET, Real Leather, btu, Kenmore 5,200 btu. black biker style, sz, small; $75. each. 403-886-2542 $40; 403-347-0325 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown LAWN Mower, $25. shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high works well. $50; Merrell Ortholite 403-347-0325 shoes, air cushioned, size RIMBEY TREES 6 1/2, like new $35. Lazy TREES SALE Boy, recliner, tall style, 2’ - 4’ White Spruce beige, $95. 403-352-8811 Call Walter 403-748-3611 or leave msg
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G-7 leaders invited Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to join them Monday for talks on the security situation in the Middle East. Obama and Abadi also met one-on-one shortly before the president departed for Washington. In both public and private, Obama urged Abadi and his Shiite-led government to allow more Sunnis to fight the Islamic State. The White House has long blamed Iraq’s sectarian divisions for stoking the kind of instability that allowed the militants to thrive. “We’ve seen Sunni tribes who are not only willing and prepared to fight
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Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
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U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he finished speaking during a news conference at the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel near GarmischPartenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday.
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1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; BLACK 5 drawer dresser 403-887-3649 $40, Sunbeam white KITTENS (3) born April 10. microwave $20, twin mat2 - 6 toed males b/w each tress $20 403-346-0674 front feet 1, normal cute COUCH tan asking $75. little grey female runt . call (403)986-2849 FREE. 403-304-0126
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FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)
SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. SOUTHBROOK AREA Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres. Shaw Close VANIER AREA Viscount Ave. Voisin Close
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Convicted killer Richard Matt, center, is led by officers into Niagara County Court for sentencing in Lockport, N.Y., on May 30, 2008. Investigators are looking into whether civilian employees or outside contractors helped two murderers obtain the power tools they used to break out of a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border, New York’s governor said Monday. Officials said David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, 48, cut through steel walls at the back of their adjacent cells and sliced through steel pipes while making their breakout. guards making their rounds and left behind a taunting sticky note that read: “Have a nice day.” The prisoners surely had help, and the noise must have been heard, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, though officials have given no details on how the men managed to avoid detection. Cuomo said investigators were focusing first on civilian employees and contractors who have been doing extensive renovations at the 170-year-old prison — not on guards. “I’d be shocked if a correction guard was involved in this, but they definitely had help,” the governor said.
Turkish voters strip ruling party of majority BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL — In normal times, you can’t escape President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. His voice booms from television screens, his hands wave at campaign rallies and his face smiles from billboards. Yet as Turkey digested the surprise sinking of support for his long-dominant party, Erdogan’s only reaction came in a brief written statement Monday appealing for unity — and acknowledging the sudden need to make new political friends. “Our people’s will is above everything else,” said Erdogan, conceding that the new political landscape “does not allow any party the possibility to govern alone.” For the first time since his Justice and Development Party roared into power in 2002, Erdogan may have lost control of his political fate. His party, reduced to 258 seats in a 550-member parliament, has lost its previous strong majority and faces weeks of talks to form a coalition with opposition forces who will want dearly to bring Erdogan back down to earth. Erdogan’s ruined master plan involved running for president last year with the assumption that his dominant party, known as the AKP, could transform the largely ceremonial post with new powers into an office able to override and outmanoeuvr parliament. The expectation was that Erdogan would get what he wanted, because he has seldom lost. But he performed erratically in the subsequent campaign — and many questioned why he was centre-stage at all. Under Turkey’s constitution, the president is meant to stay above the fray of campaign politics. Not a candidate on any ballot, Erdogan made the election a referendum on his ambitions. On the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, voters of many political loyalties breathed a collective sigh of relief that the era of an unquestioned Erdogan may
be over. “The AKP was suffocating us. The people told it to stop,” said Erol Oran, who runs a barber shop in Ankara. A supporter of the right-wing opposition Nationalists, Oran said he didn’t care what kind of coalition emerged from negotiations. “I am just happy that the AKP didn’t get what it wanted,” he said. Cem Atac, a 49-year-old mechanical engineer in Ankara, expressed the same sentiment. “What’s important is that the dictatorial regime he was trying to bring has been stopped. I am very happy for my country. It’s a good result,” he said. “The people turned off their television sets when he came on,” said another voter, Zeki Altay, in Istanbul. “He wanted to be the only one in power, and the people did not give him permission.” Erdogan’s campaign proved divisive and personality-driven at a time when the once-booming Turkish economy — a foundation for his long success — was sputtering. And that picture could worsen with political instability as investors dumped Turkey’s lira currency, its stocks and its government bonds Monday, driving up the cost of future borrowing. On the campaign trail, Erdogan took no prisoners. He sought to demonize secularists and media, both foreign and domestic. He sued dozens of his critics and threatened newspaper editors with prosecution for publishing stories he found unacceptable. If he was trying to motivate his base, he instead managed to alienate much of his party’s traditional broad coalition of support that includes nationalists, Kurds and liberals. He repeatedly was put on the defensive over his 1,150-room presidential palace built for an untold fortune. In the last week of the campaign he was drawn into debate over whether his taxpayer-funded home had toilet seats made of gold. He also insisted that his government’s religious affairs chief deserved a Mercedes-Benz, even though the official already had surrendered the luxury sedan in embarrassment.
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Execution stay for man whose family says was just 14 when convicted KARACHI, Pakistan — A death-row prisoner whose family says was just 14 years old when he was convicted of killing a 7-year-old has had his execution stayed for a fourth time, authorities said Tuesday. Liaquat Khoso, an official at Karachi Central Jail, said the order to stay Shafqat Hussain’s execution was received from the country’s Supreme Court just hours before Hussain was scheduled to hang. Authorities said the execution was halted after Hussain’s conviction was challenged anew in the Supreme Court and an urgent hearing by a three-judge panel headed by the Chief Justice was set.
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defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in 15 minutes; the Queen’s Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d’Ardenne.
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Some students aren’t making the grade Dear Annie: Graduation is coming up, and I don’t know what to do. You see, most of the seniors aren’t qualified to graduate at all. Some of them have been truant for half of the years they were here. At least 15 seniors were absent from class for their entire senior year, and at least 20 percent lack grade-level reading and writing skills. For some, college will be impossible. Every year, we have “alumni” who return to school because they either graduated without necessary credentials or flunked out of college and need academic help. I never give passing grades to kids who don’t show up to class, but if they perform some token service, the school graduates them anyway. Should I go to this year’s graduation ceremony? I haven’t gone in two years, and when asked, I say why. Sometimes I worry that I appear unkind, because this is a low-income, troubled neighborhood and high school graduation means a lot to these families. I just
don’t like what I see as a deception because either the parents haven’t made sure the kids go to school, or the school lies to the kids and tells them everything is fine. What do you suggest? — Teacher MITCHELL Dear Teacher: & SUGAR There is only so much you can do, and you are already doing it. We understand that you don’t feel it is fair for kids to graduate when they haven’t done the work, shown up for class or achieved the required standards. You are already giving these kids flunking grades. But unless the other teachers and the school administration are will-
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ing to hold them back, they will graduate anyway. And your school is not the only one that operates in this fashion. While it serves no purpose for parents or kids to believe graduation will happen whether or not it’s deserved, for some, the humiliation of not graduating doesn’t spur them to achieve more. It makes them give up. Ask yourself what you hope to accomplish as an educator, and then seek the best way to achieve it. Dear Annie: I have a friend who, after lots of medical assistance, was finally able to get pregnant and have a little girl 18 months ago. Now, with further assistance, she is pregnant with twins. It’s exciting but expensive to give a baby shower. What is the proper etiquette? I really like her, and she was the matron of honor at my wedding three years ago. We worked together then and now have lunch once every month or so, but we are no longer super-close. — Second Baby Shower? Dear Second: Are you asking wheth-
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er you should host twice or attend twice? You are not obligated to do either, but it is especially onerous to host a second baby shower, so you are off the hook for that. Many women opt not to have second baby showers, because they already were provided with plenty of nice things that can be handed down to a second child. With twins, however, the need is greater, so a second shower is understandable. But it should not overburden people who gave generously the first time. Guests should include only close family, very close friends and those who were not invited to the first baby shower. If you choose to attend a second shower, you might consider a token gift rather than a pricey item. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
Bull napped while trapped in well FAIRBURN, Ga. — A bull that fell into a metro Atlanta well has been freed after taking a nap during the rescue effort. Abel Ambrosio Lopez told WSB-TV the bull fell through rotten wood that was covering a well on his property in Fairburn, south of Atlanta. Lopez says he assumed the 3-year-old, 1,500 pound bull named Boy jumped a fence and took off, and was surprised to find it lying in the well. Local media reported that crews used a backhoe to dig a bigger hole so the animal could walk out. But the bull decided to take a nap and didn’t immediately leave once he was able to. Lopez has said the bull seems to be OK. He said he estimated that the hole could be up to 12 feet deep.
Texting trucker spills paint on highway HANCOCK, Md. — Yellow means slow on Interstate 68 in western Maryland, where crews are cleaning up 6,500 gallons of spilled paint. The Maryland State Highway Administration said Thursday the cleanup will continue at least through Saturday night. The agency says one westbound lane will be closed during daylight hours so workers can scrape the road and replace the guard rail. State police say the driver of an overturned tractor-trailer was texting on a cellphone when he lost control of the vehicle Wednesday evening, causing plastic barrels of white and yellow paint to fall and break.
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Andy Goldfarb, a staff biologist at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, plays with one of the four clouded leopard cubs at the zoo in Tacoma, Wash. The quadruplets were born on May 12 and now weigh about 1.7 pounds each. Friday was their first official day on display for public viewing, usually during their every-four-hours bottle-feeding sessions, which were started after the cubs’ mother did not show enough interest in continuing to nurse them.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Progress at school or work has been slow but that’s about to change. So make sure you are ready to pounce when circumstances alter. There is no substitute for being thoroughly prepared. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Close relationships are favoured today Libra, as Pluto power helps you view a current problem in a positive new light. Your imagination is also cranking so get those creative juices flowing! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Venus and Jupiter are lighting up your work zone so it’s your chance to really get ahead. However, don’t let professional progress happen at the expense of your family, friends and personal life. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Has a close relationship been difficult over the past few weeks? You can expect a gradual improvement in communication as long as you are willing to put in the time and effort required.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A family or domestic problem won’t shift if you just keep doing the same old things. A completely innovative approach is needed, if you really want things to change. So get creative Capricorn! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you ready to jump out of a rut Aquarius? Be proactive about seeking out fresh friendships and innovative information today. Expanding your connections via social media will also be beneficial. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do all you can to feel good about yourself today. Make sure you surround yourself with plenty of positive people who support your Piscean creativity and encourage your daily dreams. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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Masala daani contains basic curry spices — turmeric, red chili powder, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, paprika, and salt — all needed to make curries like chicken, potato and p peas and red lentil.
The Indian spice rack or the masala daani is an essential component and holds the secrets to mastering the home-style Indian cooking. When opened, it is very colourful and fills your senses with a myriad of aromas that alone can send you to curry nirvana. It is so different from the spice rack found here; it is a round, lidded stainless steel container fitted with seven bowls, each filled with a different spice. The idea is that you set the container beside your pot so you’re not scrambling MADHU and looking for different BADONI spices while the oil is at its perfect temperature. The spice box is the most efficient and practical way of accessing the required spices easily, for all you do is open one lid and everything you need is right there. You might be wondering what spices fill up the little containers? Well it depends on the region of India your are from, the curry flavours that have been passed on from generations or how advanced a cook is. A south Indian masala daani may contain mustard seeds, lentils and peanuts, while a north Indian will have all the spices that are essential in a starter kit. I call it a starter kit because it is what my mom started me with when my cooking lessons began; it contained basic curry spices — turmeric, red chili powder, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, paprika and salt. In India, masala daanis are traditionally passed down from mother to daughter when the daughter marries and begins a new life in her husband’s home. This is done so that she enters her new home with everything she needs to prepare wellflavoured and aromatic meals for her new family. As she starts to incorporate her new family’s flavours, the masala daani slowly evolves to include new spices. Has my masala daani evolved from the kit that mom started me from? Not really, for me cooking is about tradition and every time I open up my masala daani it takes me back to my mom’s kitchen where my passion for cooking began. Here is a little of the basic curry spices:
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Turmeric India has long revered turmeric as “holy powder” and has used it for centuries, not only for cooking, but to treat wounds, infections and other health problems. You may know turmeric as the deep-yellow spice in Indian curries. The pigment that gives turmeric its yellow-orange colour, curcumin, is the active ingredient behind many of the emerging health benefits. Turmeric has a peppery, warm and bitter flavour, and a mild fragrance slightly reminiscent of orange and ginger, and it is best known as one of the ingredients used to make curry.
Paprika Paprika is a ground spice that is made from the dried fruits of Capsicum annum — either bell peppers or chili peppers, or a combination of both. Paprika ranges in colour from red to brown, however the bright red variety is the most popular. Because of its ability to impart intense colour, paprika is sometimes used as a natural source of
food colouring. Paprika’s deep red colour makes it a favourable garnish on a variety of dishes like tandoori chicken or for yogurts or raitas. Paprika ranges in taste from mild and sweet, to smoky and spicy. Regardless of the variety, paprika’s flavour is enhanced when it is heated in oil. The popular bright red variety of paprika has a woody, earthy aroma and adds a mild, sweet flavour to a dish.
Garam masala Garam masala is a blend of ground spices used extensively in Indian kitchens. The spices for garam masala are usually roasted to bring out more flavour and then ground to a fine powder. Garam masala is usually added to a dish near the end of cooking. There’s no single garam masala recipe as the ingredients differ according to region as well as each household’s individual preferences. But for the most part, garam masala will include coriander, cumin, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Coriander The leaves are referred to as coriander leaves or cilantro. It has a distinctly different, shiny appearance and a stronger aroma. Most Indian refrigerators will have this leafy bunch tucked away in the vegetable compartment. Different people may perceive the taste of coriander leaves differently; those who enjoy describe it has a refreshing, lemony or lime-like flavour, while those who dislike it have a strong aversion to its taste and smell, likening it to that of soap. It is an aromatic spice with a distinctive bitter flavour and strong, warm aroma due to its abundant oil content. In my masala daani, I keep the whole seed and when needed, I dry roast and grind it to fine powder before using in recipes.
Cumin An aromatic spice that has a distinctive bitter flavour and strong warm aroma due to its abundant oil content. Cumin “seeds” are actually the small dried fruit of a plant in the parsley family. The seeds have a lemony citrus flavour when crushed and are described as having warm, nutty, spicy and orange-flavoured. Cumin is hotter to the taste, lighter in colour and is often confused with caraway. Like the coriander seed, I like to store the cumin as seed, and when needed dry roast and grind before using in recipes. Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail. com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.
Chicken Curry
2 pound skinless, boneless chicken thighs, cut into bite-size pieces 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice Salt and pepper to taste 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon cumin seed 2 large onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger 1 (8 ounce) can peeled, chopped tomatoes 1 teaspoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric 1 teaspoon garam masala 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon paprika 3 tablespoons plain yogurt fresh chopped cilantro, for garnish In a large bowl, toss the chicken pieces with lemon juice, salt, and pepper to coat. Set aside. Heat oil in a large, heavy saucepan over medium heat. Stir in cumin seed and cook one minute, until lightly toasted. Mix in onion, garlic, and ginger. Cook until onion is tender. Add tomatoes, and season with chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, ground cumin, coriander, and paprika. Continue to cook and stir two minutes. Mix yogurt into the saucepan until well blended. Add chicken pieces and reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer about 40 minutes. Adjust seasonings to taste and garnish with fresh cilantro before serving.
Pea and Potato Curry 2 tablespoon oil 1 cup finely chopped onions 1 teaspoon grated ginger 1 teaspoon garlic, finely chopped 1 cup tomato, diced 1 1/4 cup boiled potatoes, cubed 3/4 cup green peas (fresh or frozen) Salt to taste 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 1 teaspoon chili powder (adjust to taste) 1 teaspoon coriander powder 1 teaspoon cumin powder 1 teaspoon garam masala powder 5-6 cashew nuts Soak cashew nuts in 2 tbsp of hot water for 15 minutes. Grind it to a fine paste. Heat 2 tbsp of oil, add finely chopped onions and sauté until onions turn golden brown. Continuous stirring is required for even browning. You can add a little salt to the onions to brown faster. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté until the raw flavor of the paste goes. Add tomatoes, and all spices. Allow tomatoes to stew. Add cubed potatoes and peas. Add 1 cup of water and simmer until the spices seep through the potatoes. Approximately 20 minutes. More water can be added if a soupy consistency is desired.
Red Lentil Dahal 1 cup uncooked lentils (will yield 2 1/2 cups of cooked lentils) pinch of turmeric powder 3/4 teaspoon of salt (can adjust to taste afterwards) water to cook the lentils 3 tablespoon oil (ghee, olive, vegetable, or sesame seed oil) 1 medium onion chopped 1 tsp cumin seeds 3-4 green chillies slit length wise 1 tsp minced garlic 1 tsp minced ginger 1 teaspoon of garam masala (found is Asian isle of supermarket) chopped coriander/cilantro leaves for garnish or curry leaves Wash and cook the lentil in enough water and turmeric powder. Takes about a half hour at a medium simmer. Take a saucepan and add oil, add cumin seeds and let them splutter and then brown. Add the garlic and ginger and sauté for a few seconds. Add the onions and green chillies and sauté till the flavours come out. Add tomatoes and garam masala. For added spice, 1/2 teaspoon of powdered cumin and coriander can be added. Finally add the cooked lentils with the water and cook for four to five minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves.