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The cancellation of a culturally designed housing program will be a huge step backwards for the entire community, says a housing outreach worker.

Lianne Hazell, a Red Deer Native Friendship Society housing outreach worker, said the New Beginnings program will no longer operate once the funding runs out on July 1.

The housing program has an 80 per cent success rate and has housed roughly 250 people since 2011.

Along with helping the individu-als navigate the housing system, the staff has provided cultural support such as smudging and meeting with elders.

The society had applied for fund-ing through the provincial Outreach Support Services Initiative (OSSI) but it was not successful. The recip-ients received funding based on cri-teria from a new framework to end homelessness developed by the Com-munity Housing Advisory Board.

It is a decision that has the Red Deer Native Friendship Society shaking its head.

“It was an incredibly successful program,” said Hazell. “It was al-ways full. It was referred to by oth-er homeless supporting agencies. We know that people who want to be supported in their housing in a culturally safe way will not have any opportunities to do that in the City of Red Deer now.”

From 2012 to 2014, the homeless count saw a 20 per cent reduction in aboriginal homeless people, said Hazell.

“The (reduction) was 89. That’s almost the number that we worked with. When we see a reduction that dramatic in the number of aboriginal homeless people and we have pro-vided the support we know we can make those connections … What’s go-ing to happen two years from now?”

The Friendship Centre has been asked to provide a cultural connec-

tion program where the centre will support three agencies with cultural support for aboriginal people, said Hazell.

Hazell said the centre has a good relationship with the other homeless serving agencies.

But she fears the dissolution of New Beginnings is taking away an-other choice in the community.

The centre will continue to pro-vide the prevention piece in the housing equation with other pro-grams.

The existing clients in the pro-gram will move over to other housing programs in the city but they will

not be culturally supportive housing, which Hazell says is what aboriginal people need.

“It is how they get their health back together,” she said. “The rea-son why we have wrap around ser-vices here for people who are in housing is because that is the cul-tural way. It’s not culturally safe and appropriate to take someone and isolate the housing piece. It is ev-erything. It is working with family, health and housing. It’s everything. That’s the cultural piece of it.”

Bar owners are saying cheers to the new ‘happy hour’ policy.

Recently the Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission dropped the 8 p.m. limit on ‘happy hours’ allowing places serving alcohol to offer reduced drink prices any time during operating hours provided the prices comply with other policies related to minimum drink prices.

That could mean cheaper drinks for customers and more flexibility for bar owners, said Tari Klein, general man-ager of the East 40th Pub.

“We were fairly limited for quite awhile as far as happy hour and how long you could run it,” said Klein, who has worked at the pub for 21 years. “I think for a lot of bar owners it will help them out and make the customers a little happier.”

Klein said the staff hasn’t had a chance to discuss the new policy. The popular neighbourhood pub offers drink specials throughout the day and all week long.

She said it may draw bigger crowds and keep them in the bar a little lon-ger for the happy hour prices.

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Tari Klein, general manager of the East 40th Pub, is happy about changes to Happy Hour regulations. The bar at Eastview Shopping Centre will be adding a third happy hour time slot Monday to Saturday said Klein.

Bar owners happy with Happy Hour changes

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

See HAPPY HOUR on Page A8

BENALTO SCHOOL

County approves building purchase

Red Deer County plans to buy Ben-alto School.

Council approved the purchase of the school building for a “nominal amount” from Chinook’s Edge School Division, which plans to shutter the school at the end of the month.

A group of parents are rallying to keep a school in their community by applying to operate it as a char-ter school. They have applied to the province for approval and made their own request to take ownership of the school from the school division for a token amount.

Coun. Richard Lorenz, whose divi-sion includes Benalto, has led council support for the community’s efforts to keep their school.

“It’s more than just a school. It’s a full playground set up there and it’s a place for the community to interact. We don’t have another facility in that area set up like that,” he said on Tues-day.

“I think it’s important to save that for the community. Down the road, what we might do with the school is open to options.

“But I think we’re saving something for the community that the community is very interested in.”

Whether parents are successful in keeping a school open remains to be seen.

See SCHOOL on Page A8

Lack of funding shutters successful housing program


Marjorie Daniels is happy to have recently moved in to her own apartment in Red Deer. Daniels, a volunteer with the Native Friendship Centre in Red Deer, has received assistance from the Friendship Centre through the New Beginnings program.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF NEW BEGINNINGS

See HOUSING on Page A8

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

County urged to spend $1.5M on Springbrook-to-Red Deer trail

Red Deer County has a little more leg work to do before deciding how best to proceed on a proposed Springbrook-to-Red Deer trail.

Grant funding is available to cover up to half the cost — to a maximum of $1.5 million — of the eight-km route. At least one private donor has also ex-pressed interest in helping bankroll the project.

The cost of the trail, which would become part of the Trans Canada Trail, is estimated at $2.4 to $3.2 million.

A report to county council on Tuesday recom-mended that up to $1.5 million be taken from re-serves to go towards the trail that would run north

of Springbrook on Range Road 280 and connect to Township Road 381 and the city’s 32nd Street. The amount required would depend on project cost and private donations available.

Mayor Jim Wood voted with council to defer a de-cision for a month to work with the interested donor and review its options.

“Council has chosen today to further negotiate with the donor at this time,” said Wood. “I think we all want to get more information on where we’re at.”

In the next month, the county will also see if there are other donors willing to step up.

“There could be people that would like to, poten-tially put money towards something and maybe (pro-vide) a legacy.”

Wood said private help would be welcomed, es-pecially at a time when municipalities are managing their budgets carefully.

Whether to go with a gravel or asphalt trail must also be decided.

“The cost can, in fact, be hugely different,” he said, adding council doesn’t have detailed numbers yet.

There is pressure on the county to make a deci-sion soon because under the Trans Canada Trail and Alberta TrailNet grant programs, the trail must be done by the end of September 2017.

Besides lining up all of the necessary funding, land acquisition, design, engineering and tendering must be taken care of before the first shovel hits the ground.

The trail issue will come back to council for its July 5 meeting.

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A fisherman makes a cast into the setting sun this week at McKenzie Trails Recreation Area in Red Deer. Today, a mix of sun and cloud is predicted, with a 60 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. A high of 24 will be a little cooler than the previous two days.

Sluggish ticket sales jeopardize cardiac project

A sluggish economy and the Fort McMurray wild-fire have combined so far to stifle ticket sales for the 2016 Hospitals’ Lottery.

Sales for the annual lottery in support of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre has stalled at 70 per cent and has put a cardiac project in jeopardy.

Cynthia de Boer, lot-tery project officer with Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, said ticket sales lagged when tickets were first avail-able in the spring. Nor-mally a significant num-ber of previous ticket buyers automatically support the lottery, but not this year.

Then the wildfire happened.

Often a tragedy, or huge community proj-ect, will mean fewer do-nations to annual fund-raising campaigns, she said.

“Donors only have so many charity dollars to give and this year they opted to give to Fort Mac which was very urgent and very important, but at the expense of other charities of which our lottery is one,” de Boer said on Tuesday.

“We’re hoping now that things are perhaps a tiny bit settled in Fort Mac that they will turn their atten-tion back to us now and support us.”

The deadline to buy tickets is June 19, at 11 p.m., for the July 8 draw.

2016 Hospitals’ Lottery features a grand prize three-bedroom bungalow, located at 117 Lazaro Close, valued at $799,000. Other prizes also to be won include a Ford Mustang GT convertible, Dodge 1500 crew cab 4x4, a heli-fishing trip, furniture packages, and much more.

Hospitals’ Mega Bucks 50 tickets are 80 per cent sold. Proceeds from the lottery go towards phase two of the cardiac enhancement project, totally nearly $700,000, for the purchase and installation of more specialized equipment and technology.

De Boer said if the lottery doesn’t sell its 102,000 tickets, phase two would be delayed.

“It’s an all or none kind of thing. We’d have to fund for another year or the money we do have would have to be allocated to something smaller in cardiac care.”

Phase two includes 106 digital clocks in the Emer-gency Department, Inpatient Cardiology/Telemetry and Cardiac Intensive Care for time-sensitive thera-pies such as medication; four more hard-wired beds for appropriate monitoring for more cardiac pa-tients; portable monitors for continuously monitor-ing patients during transportation to other locations for treatment or procedures; renovations to update information technology and fundamental infrastruc-ture for future cardiac programs.

She said most cardiac patients in Central Alberta come to Red Deer hospital and the number of pa-tients is ever increasing.

“I’m not going to lie, I’m concerned. All of Central Alberta is relying on this money to enhance cardiac care so it’s pretty important,” de Boer said.

To buy tickets go to www.hospitalslottery.com or call 1-877-808-9005. Tickets are $35 each, 3 for $75, 5 for $100, or 15 for $250. The grand prize home is open Wednesday to Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

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Red Deer County to ban wild boar farms

Red Deer County is moving to ban wild boar farms.

Wild boar that have escaped from Alberta farms have proven a nuisance and the province officially designated them a pest in 2008 and a $50 bounty was slapped on their heads.

The county had its own brush with wild boars in 2008 when a number of the bristle-backed critters were spotted in the southwest corner of the munici-pality. Nineteen boars were later killed by hunters or county staff.

Clearwater County has already shut down a wild boar hunt farm within its borders and Mountain View County is working to ban boar operations, said Cody McIntosh, the county’s assistant agricultural services manager.

McIntosh recommended council enter into an agreement with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, which will enforce wild boar regulations. Once the agreement is signed, the county can pursue a bylaw

to ban wild boar operations.There is only one in the county currently.“I do believe we should go with the bylaw (to

ban),” said Coun. Richard Lorenz. “I think if these get loose we’re in trouble.”

No matter how good a fence is, something can happen, from a gate left open to a moose trampling through a property, that could allow boar to escape, said Mayor Jim Wood.

“I think it’s extremely important we do work to-wards a ban,” said Mayor Jim Wood.

In the U.S., boar numbers are estimated at two to six million and they cause an estimated $800 million in damage per year.

Alberta’s wild boar problem is nowhere near as bad with somewhere around 1,500 animals on the loose in areas from Lac la Biche to Medicine Hat. However, given that a female boar can produce two litters of 20 a year, the potential for a population boom remains.

Alberta’s European wild boars escaped from game farms and other breeders. Weighing up to 275 kg , the boars have adapted well to Alberta winters.

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

RDC hosting Pre-Employment Trades Open

HouseRed Deer College is hosting a

Pre-Employment Trades Open House on June 15 for those interested in pre-paring for a career as an electrician, steamfitter/pipefitter or welder ap-prentice.

Instructors will be on hand to an-swer prospective students’ questions about the program format and curricu-lum. RDC School of Continuing Educa-tion staff will also be there to provide registration and program details.

Prospective students do not require

experience and do not have to be em-ployed as an apprentice.

Pre-employment trade programs provide technical training in the first year of the Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT) and chal-lenge the AIT provincial exam upon completion. Students also gain hands-on experience in the shop, earn two safety tickets, develop a resume and establish a network within their cho-sen trade.

The program can be taken over 12 weeks full-time or 34-weeks part-time.

Funding options are available in-cluding scholarships, payment plans and student loans.

The 2016-17 Pre-Employment Trades programs are now open for reg-istration. Spaces are limited.

For more information, visit rdc.ab.ca/pre-employment.

Organizers of Central Alberta’s first Mini Maker Faire, coming to Red Deer College on Saturday, promise some-thing for everyone.

Set up to showcase innovation and creativity, the RDC version brings to-gether people who have taken a step further in developing new ideas from existing technologies as old as blow-ing glass and as new as 3D printers. People from the general public will be given a chance to try out some of those innovations for themselves, says Pau-lette Hanna, vice-president Academic for RDC.

“The submissions we’ve received so far that will be there for the public to view are drones, 3D printers, Lego sculptures, wearable technology, mov-ie-inspired ‘droids, advanced technol-ogies and heritage craft. And there’s some hands-on activities that they can take part in, such as learning to solder (and) giant cardboard puppet making, so there really is something for every-one,” Hanna said in a recent interview.

“We really hope that this event will ignite and combine the creativity of Central Albertans.”

The first Maker Faire was held 11 years ago in San Mateo, Calif. and has since then sprouted spin-offs across the continent, particularly in areas that were in need of more diversity

within their local economies.“The Maker Faire has many objec-

tives and it’s a significant benefit to Central Alberta,” said Hanna.

“It’s a catalyst and a driver of in-novation and entrepreneurship. This aspect of the event and the culture it reinforces has major impact on finan-cially troubled cities such as Detroit and Pittsburgh, and as they say, ne-cessity is the mother of invention, and Alberta is most certainly in need of the economic diversification and develop-ment that a Maker Faire can inspire and support.”

RDC’s version is a smaller edition of similar events held in other centres, under licence to California-based Mak-er Media Inc.

Exhibits will be set up in the Ceno-vus Learning Commons at the eastern side of the main campus, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are no fees for people attending the event.

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Every parent lives in fear.

For most of us, that fear is by necessity background noise. If

we can’t push it into the background, it will overwhelm us – and we know that a paranoid parent is a dangerously overprotective parent. We know the steps from loving, caring parents to he-licopter parent to consumptive moth-ers and fathers are far too easy to take.

So we concentrate on providing a good home, a stable environment, a quality education, and the freedom to find themselves and to examine ideas that will allow them to realize their potential. We focus on creating strong, bright and independent young people who will become adults who make us proud.

The best we can do, while going about this most important of life tasks, is manage the fear, and the most intru-sive factors that sharpen it.

But sometimes horrible things hap-pen regardless of our best efforts.

Our youngest son was an exception-ally healthy baby. Not much more than the occasional sniffle befell the first 12 months of his life.

But around his first birthday, two months before Christmas, he caught the flu. By early in the new year, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and our lives had changed. Somehow, the flu virus had destroyed the insu-lin-producing islet cells in his pancre-as.

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That was more than 26 years ago. Today, he is healthy, happy and active. But he is still a diabetic.

And we are still his parents, always worrying about his health and con-stantly hoping for a cure.

We are not nearly alone, of course. More than 300,000 Canadians have Type 1 diabetes. International study comparisons suggest that Canada has among the highest incidence of Type

1 diabetes, roughly 5.1 per cent of chil-dren up to 14 years of age. Type 2 di-abetes (with direct links to lifestyle) is one of the fastest-growing diseases in the nation, with 60,000 new diagno-ses a year. And every one of them is someone’s child, someone’s husband or wife, brother or sister.

As a parent, how you react in the moment, and how you learn to cope in the long term, depends a great deal on people with more expertise and compassion than you ever knew exist-ed. While you are desperately seeking some unknown inner strength in the face of diagnosis, they demonstrate again and again that there is an abun-dance of structure, knowledge and de-votion to helping you — and finding ultimate solutions.

Organizations like the Canadian Di-abetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the people who work for them, offer solutions and hope.

Doctors and nurses from your local clinic to the Alberta Children’s Hospi-tal to Stollery Children’s Hospital give you the tools you need to cope, and eventually thrive.

It is a long road, but there are road maps. And there just may be a destina-tion. Extraordinary research is being done at the Alberta Diabetes Institute

at the University of Alberta, and in ma-ny other facilities.

Science moves closer, day by day, to a cure.

The odds of a good life, today, are long if you are a diabetic. But for many diabetics, life expectancy can still be as much as 15 years less than the aver-age population.

And diabetes, like all chronic con-ditions, weighs heavily on the health system.

Every year about this time, as many as 45,000 Canadians join a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes in their com-munity, or offer their support to some-one who is taking part. In 2014 alone, the organization provided more than US$98 million to support more than 50 clinical studies. And there are many other ways to help science find a cure for diabetes.

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Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.

The time-sensitive production of a Charter-compliant federal law on medically assisted death was al-

ways going to be a logistical challenge for whomever was elected to power last October.

On that basis, the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government missed Monday’s court-imposed dead-line to prevent a legal void is probably the least unexpected development in the legislative saga that has consumed MPs and senators over the first session of the new Parliament.

Here are five developments that were less predictable.

1. The Liberal bill is not 100-per-cent Charter-proof: On the campaign trail, Trudeau cast himself as a cham-pion of the Charter of Rights and Free-doms.

He served his candidates advance notice that, on his watch, dissenting votes on abortion and gay rights would not be tolerated. Yet when push came

to shove, the Liberal government was reluctant to walk the talk of compli-ance.

Bill C-14 is a piece of legislation that begs to be challenged. A host of top legal experts has warned that it falls short of the threshold set by the Supreme Court.

Trudeau, if he were still in opposi-tion, might have declined to support it. Moreover, by taking the restrictive route, the government forsook a poten-tially larger parliamentary consensus in favour of its bill.

2. The assisted-death discussion is not a replay of the abortion debate: The parallels between the two are overstated. There are more Canadians — including some social conservatives — who want as much latitude as possi-ble to exercise the right to a medically assisted death than those who support the right of women to exercise their reproductive freedom.

That would suggest that provinc-es that drag their feet on providing access to medically assisted death would do so at greater risk of incurring widespread ire among their electorate than they did by sitting on their hands on abortion services. The threat of a patchwork approach to medically as-sisted death — absent a legislated fed-eral framework — may be overrated.

3. Fears that giving MPs more freedom to vote as they see fit would lead to a parliamentary free-for-all are wildly exaggerated: To a man and woman, the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May voted against bill C-14. An overwhelm-ing majority of Liberals supported their government’s plan.

By all indications, their votes were informed by discussions with their respective critics. When it comes to breaking ranks with their caucus, most MPs do tend to choose their battles. Freeing them to decide how to vote mostly shifts the onus of weighting the pros and cons of their decision on their own shoulders. In most cases, they are happy to follow their party’s guidance.

4. The Liberal government’s pur-ported commitment to democratic reform is as selective as its embrace of Charter rights. Loosening the par-ty’s control over the Commons does not come naturally to its House lead-er Dominic Leblanc. His instincts are not terribly different from those of his Conservative predecessors.

The government initially decreed that the vote on Bill C-14 — because it was Charter-related — would be whipped only to then agree to treat it as a free vote. (One can only won-

der how the Liberals would otherwise have handled the paradox of forcing their MPs to vote for a bill of dubious constitutional standing!) The govern-ment rejected most of the opposition input — including every substantial amendment to the bill that came its way. It used closure repeatedly to cur-tail debate.

5. As counterintuitive as it may seem, a more independent Senate may force more democracy (and collegiali-ty) on the House of Commons: What is certain is that Bill C-14 gave the ma-ligned upper house a much-needed op-portunity to shine in a capacity other than that of parliamentary villain. The high calibre of its deliberations con-founded many of its critics.

For the first time in years, the up-per house earned some truly positive coverage.

It is early days but, based on the assisted-death debate, it is possible to postulate that the more the Liberal government uses its majority to trun-cate debate in the Commons, the more scrutiny it can expect in the Senate. To earn the respect of a less partisan up-per house, the government may have to show more respect to due process in the House of Commons.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Mueller sentencing delayedSentencing will be held off until later this year for

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Justin Chase Mueller, 31, was arrested in connection with an incident on Dec. 3, 2014, when a man accosted a hotel worker while she was warming up her vehicle after finishing her shift.

The victim, whose identity is protected under the Criminal Code of Canada, was driven by her attacker to a bank machine and forced to take money from her account. Her assailant then drove her into a rural area near Penhold and sexually assaulted her, after which he drove her to a motel and assaulted her again.

Mueller was scheduled to stand trial in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench in the late winter of 2015, but changed his plea to guilty on three of the five charges against him. Sentencing was adjourned, however, pending the outcome of a psychiatric report.

Back in court on Monday, defence counsel Norm Clair said the assessment had not been completed through an administrative malfunction. A new psychiatric assessment has been ordered, with a new date for sentencing to be set during arraignments in the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Mueller remains in custody pending the outcome of his sentencing hearing.

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CALGARY — A doctor has testified that the par-ents of a teen who died of starvation and complica-tions from untreated diabetes were providing fake blood-sugar readings while caring for him after his initial diagnosis.

Dr. Daniel Metzger from the British Columbia Chil-dren’s Hospital told the cou-ple’s trial on Tuesday that they refused to believe their son had diabetes and had to be pressured by child and family services to treat him before he could be released from hospital in 2000.

“The major thing that I re-member is the initial resis-tance: that I was wrong about the diagnosis of diabetes, that we hadn’t done the right tests, that we still were not correct with the diagnosis,” Metzger testified.

Emil Radita, 59, and his wife Rodica, 53, have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Alexandru, who weighed less than 37 pounds when he died in Calgary in 2013.

A judge, who is hearing the case without a jury, has yet to decide if evidence dealing with the fami-ly’s time in B.C. will be admitted.

Metzger, a pediatric endocrinologist, was one of the first physicians to deal with Alexandru and his parents when the boy was diagnosed at about age two. The doctor said training the couple on the ba-sics of diabetes was difficult and, after Alexandru’s release, a community health nurse had to visit the

family’s home twice a day to make sure he was get-ting insulin. It was discovered in March 2001 that the parents appeared to be taking their own blood-sugar readings and calling them in to the hospital, Metzger said. A check of the blood-sugar meter confirmed that something wasn’t right.

“At one point, the blood sugars were very consis-tently the same. I’ve been doing this for 23 years. We have a lot of teenagers who fabricate blood sugars. You start to recognize patterns,” he said.

“I concluded that somebody was probably falsify-ing the blood sugars — perhaps doing their own fin-ger pokes, because you have to put a sample on the meter to get a reading.”

The results from a non-diabetic person were be-ing recorded, Metzger concluded.

The doctor documented his concerns to the gov-ernment ministry that was looking out for Alexand-ru. A short time later, the B.C. Children’s Hospital was told the boy was going to be treated at a hospital in Surrey. After another admission to hospital for malnutrition in 2003, Alexandru was placed in fos-ter care for one year before being returned to his parents. At that point, the boy gained weight, his condition was being managed and he appeared to be thriving, said Metzger, who saw him twice a year un-til 2008. A call was placed to children’s services, the doctor testified, after Alexandru failed to appear for a scheduled appointment in July 2008 and another six months later.

“Anybody who misses two visits, we would get concerned. Obviously this is a high-risk situation and so we needed the ministry to try and find him for us,” Metzger said. “We did as many inquiries as we could do (and) … checked provincial dispensing records. At that point, it had been a year since the parents had bought insulin in British Columbia. We called the school and they hadn’t seen him in a long time.”

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Carney tells grads: success a matter of balance


EDMONTON — Young people at the start of their careers must learn to balance their own hopes and ambitions with the needs of the world around them, says Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.

Speaking at the University of Alberta, the Edmon-ton-born central banker said previous financial cri-ses have been partly caused by business forgetting its role in society.

“The severity of the financial crisis showed what happens when those responsibilities are not widely held,” Carney said in a prepared text for a speech at spring convocation.

“In the runup to the crisis, banking became about banks not businesses transactions not relations counterparties not clients. The crisis undermined trust, and with it the social capital needed for mar-kets to be effective.”

Carney said businesses must embrace a larger social purpose.

“Profit is no more the purpose of business than is breathing the purpose of living,” he said.

“The best organizations are grounded in broader purposes, in crafting solutions for others. Banking, for instance, is fundamentally about connecting bor-rowers and savers in the real economy.”

Carney told students that the world they are about to enter is starting to understand that balance.

“Now, the best in finance are regaining their sense of purpose by recognizing that finance is not an end in itself, but a means to promote investment, innovation, growth and prosperity.”

Carney quoted Adam Smith and Frederich Hayek — two economists often noted by right-leaning think-ers — to make his point.

“Economic and political philosophers from Adam Smith to Frederick Hayek have long espoused the importance of values, beliefs and culture in econom-ic life.”

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OTTAWA — The federal govern-ment’s proposed new law on medically assisted dying is entering uncharted parliamentary waters, where the only certainty seems to be that it will not come out in the same shape in which it goes in.

Final debate on Bill C-14 begins Wednesday in the Senate, where the government no longer has any control over independent-minded, less-parti-san senators who appear determined to amend the controversial legislation.

Among other things, senators are likely to amend the bill to ensure that all grievously ill Canadians are enti-tled to an assisted death, not just those who are near death.

But no one knows what will happen if the government, which has rejected any substantive amendments thus far, refuses to accept Senate amendments. Will senators acquiesce? Will they in-sist and bounce the bill endlessly back to the House of Commons until they get what they want? Will they actually defeat the bill?

“I don’t know — that’s the simplest answer,” said Sen. George Baker, who is sponsoring the bill in the Senate.

“I don’t know what’s going to hap-pen in the Senate. This is a new situ-ation for the Parliament of Canada. There’s never been a situation similar to this before.”

Conservative Senate leader Claude Carignan was blunt when asked if the bill will be passed by the Senate with-out amendments.

“Without? Impossible,” he said.Carignan appeared confident

there’s enough support among Conser-vative, independent Liberal and inde-pendent senators to fix what he sees as the bill’s major flaw: the requirement that a person must be near death in order to qualify for medical help to end their suffering. That provision has been slammed by constitutional and legal experts who maintain it flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s land-mark ruling last year and will inevita-bly be struck down as unconstitutional.

“That’s the type of amendment that we will insist (upon) if the House refus-es,” he predicted.

Carignan himself is proposing a compromise amendment that would al-low those not near death to apply to a court for the right to an assisted death.

Sen. Jim Cowan, leader of the inde-pendent Liberals, is pro-posing to jettison the bill’s near-death provisions and replace them with the more permissive wording of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

The court directed that medical assistance in dy-ing should be available to clearly consenting, com-petent adults with “griev-ous and irremediable” medical conditions that are causing enduring suf-fering that they find intol-erable. C-14 takes a more restrictive approach, al-lowing assisted dying only for consenting adults “in an advanced stage of irre-versible decline” from a serious and “incurable” disease, illness or disabil-ity and for whom natural death is “reasonably fore-seeable.”

Could the Senate wind up killing the bill entirely, as it did decades ago with the last attempt to legis-late abortion in Canada?

“I don’t know,” Cowan said. “I can only speak for what we’re going to do and I think we’re doing the right thing in the right way.”

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First plank in plan passesBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Premier Rachel Notley’s government used its majority in the legislature Tuesday to pass leg-islation that includes a carbon tax and completes the first stage of Alberta’s landmark strategy to combat climate change.

The legislation gives legal teeth to the multibillion-dollar tax that is to take effect Jan. 1 and will raise the price of heating bills and gasoline as an incentive to go green.

It also lowers the small-business tax rate to two per cent from three and establishes an agency to fund energy savings programs.

The final tally was 42-39.After the results were announced,

Notley shook hands with government house leader Brian Mason and ex-changed a thumbs-up with Environ-ment Minister Shannon Phillips.

“I’m extremely proud of this piece of legislation and extremely proud of this government’s climate leadership plan,” Notley told the house just prior to the bill’s passage.

“Action by this government with re-spect to climate change is one that is long, long, long overdue in this prov-ince.”

All opposition members — the Wil-drose party, the Progressive Conserva-tives, David Swann of the Liberals and Greg Clark of the Alberta Party — vot-ed against it.

It was, at times, a bitter fight in the house.

Politicians stayed up until almost dawn Tuesday debating amendments. Opposition members said they agreed with the concept of taking action on climate change, but said tighter con-

trols were needed on raising, report-ing and spending the money.

The levy is expected to bring in $3 billion in 2017-18. The government has promised the proceeds will be used entirely for initiatives to help Alberta become more environmentally friend-ly — from small home-based changes to multibillion-dollar public transpor-tation projects.

Notley’s NDP government used its majority to reject all proposed chang-es except for one. It accepted a Pro-gressive Conservative amendment to issue receipts if items are confiscated during searches to ensure compliance with the act.

Notley said the bill did not need amendments, because it was well crafted beforehand, particularly re-garding accountability rules.

“The legislation itself includes a provision that ensures the money is redirected to very specific programs around promoting the objectives of the

climate change leadership plan.”The carbon levy is one element of

a climate-change strategy to reduce Alberta’s carbon footprint and give it more credibility when it makes pitch-es to other jurisdictions for greater resource infrastructure such as pipe-lines.

The government is also working to cap oilsands emissions, reduce meth-ane emissions and phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030.

The carbon levy is to take effect Jan. 1. Gasoline at the pumps will rise by 4.49 cents a litre and diesel will go up 5.35 cents a litre.

The government estimates higher heating and gasoline fees will cost the average family an extra $443 next year.

Opposition members say the govern-ment is lowballing that figure.

“This is going to pull at least a thou-sand dollars from every household in Alberta,” said Wildrose Opposition Leader Brian Jean.

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Petter Blindheim, looks up towards his son, Peter Blendheim in his home in Halifax. The son of a 94-year-old Canadian who fought with the Royal Norwegian Navy in the Second World War says federal officials have removed at least one obstacle to his father being admitted to a federally funded nursing home.

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RCMP terrorism sting based on ‘deceit and tricks’: lawyer


VANCOUVER — Illegal police tac-tics during an undercover operation that led a couple to be found guilty of terrorism-related offences endanger public rights, shock the conscience of Canadians and must be strongly con-demned, says a statement of defence filed in B.C. Supreme Court.

John Nuttall and his common-law wife Amanda Korody were found guilty last year, but their convictions are on hold while their lawyers argue the RCMP entrapped their clients in-to planting what they believed were pressure-cooker bombs at the B.C. leg-islature.

The Mounties used “deceit and tricks” throughout the elaborate sting, read the statement of defence.

Nuttall’s lawyer, Marilyn Sandford, told the court Tuesday that police aid-ed and abetted terrorist activity by helping the couple design, construct and transport the homemade explo-sives.

“It matters not that the RCMP knew the devices would not explode,” she said. “The RCMP knowingly facilitated terrorist activity.”

Nuttall and Korody were arrested in July 2013 after an undercover opera-tion that began five months earlier.

Sandford criticized what she called a lack of oversight on the operation, suggesting it would not have continued for as long had operational plans been properly communicated to RCMP su-periors in Ottawa.

“Clearly, there is something inher-ently problematic about (police) set-ting up a pretend terrorist group,” she said. “All of this ought to have been carefully considered.”

The sting went from gathering in-telligence about Nuttall, whose out-spoken views on radical Islam had already flagged him to police, to an operation designed to see whether un-dercover operators could induce him to commit terrorist acts, Sandford said.

“There’s nothing inherently wrong with targeting (a suspect) … based on these facts. But it’s the nature of the

operation and the direction it took that became problematic,” she said.

“Once their investigations had not uncovered anything as far as evi-dence of actual criminal activity they couldn’t then leapfrog into providing the opportunity. And that’s exactly what happened.”

The statement of defence said Nut-tall and Korody were promised new lives, future work, care for their cat, payment of debt and assistance going through drug withdrawal.

The lonely and isolated pair were misled about basic tenets of their new faith and their fears were stoked by suggestions that powerful terrorist as-sociates were keeping tabs on them, the statement read.

Korody’s lawyer, Mark Jette, told court that the RCMP treated the case as a national priority and that tran-scripts from high-level police meet-ings indicate the investigative team’s superiors were applying considerable pressure on officers.

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Marjorie Daniels recently received support through the New Beginnings program and is now working with Red Deer Housing staff. Daniels is an active volunteer in the homeless and aboriginal communities. Daniels said a housing program with cultural supports is critical for many in the city.

“Natives have special issues,” said Daniels. “They have special needs. And it’s not their fault. They don’t want to be treated special but they need to be recognized. We are dysfunctional but we need places to live that accept that … We were subjected by the Europeans and the Catholics. They destroyed our culture. I am very strong spiritually but that did not come easy.”

Daniels said there needs to be specific supports and housing for aboriginal people.

There are people out there still struggling, said Daniels.

In November 2015, Daniels’ son Darryll, who experienced homelessness, was found dead near Waskasoo Creek, near Taylor Drive and 32nd Street. The investigation is now in the hands of ASIRT, who are working to determine whether or not any acts or omissions by police officers contributed to Daniels’ death.

“We need safe healing homes,” she said. “It is crit-ical … We all need air to breathe. If you are living in the bush, you are getting your air to breathe

But owning the school puts the county in the “driver’s seat” for the future of the facility, he said.

Mayor Jim Wood said council believes having a school in the area is important and the county is open to exploring other options.

A charter school is “definitely an option, but it’s not the only option,” he added.

Other possibilities include using it as a commu-nity centre of some sort. Whatever the future use, Wood believes the county is in the best position to work with the community to find a good use for the facility and its playground.

“I believe it’s only prudent that we made the deci-sion we did today.”

County manager Curtis Herzberg said the pur-chase has not been finalized but there is not ex-pected to be any issue transferring ownership to the municipality.

“It’s very common that municipalities are actually consulted first to see if there is a continued need outside of what it has been used for.”

Once the county has official ownership, there can be more community discussion about future uses, he added.

In coming out in support of the school, the coun-ty pointed out it has invested millions in Benalto, which it sees as a future residential growth area. In

The policy was introduced in 2008.But MADD Red Deer and District chapter co-pres-

ident Peggy Gougeon is concerned about the ripple effects of cheaper prices for drinks, which will en-courage people to drink more because it is more affordable.

Gougeon said MADD encourages liquor establish-ments to be responsible in their serving to customers such as monitoring over serving during the happy hour period.

“We encourage patrons to be responsible and to plan ahead,” she said. “Plan a safe ride home before heading out. Happy Hour doesn’t forgo being respon-sible.”

She said that patrons who are saving money on drinks should put the money aside for a safe ride home.

Bill Robinson, AGLC president, said in a news re-lease that the new policy responds to the industry’s needs and is better aligned with its social responsi-bility mandate.

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NEW YORK — Claiming her place in history, Hillary Clinton declared victory Tuesday night in her bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first woman to lead a ma-jor American political party and then immediately taking aim at Republican Donald Trump.

“Tonight’s victory is not about one person,” Clin-ton said. “It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this mo-ment possible.”

Clinton spoke at an emotional rally in Brooklyn, eight years to the day after she ended her first failed White House run. She had already secured the del-egates needed for the nomination, according to an Associated Press tally, but added to her totals with victories in New Jersey and several other states.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s only re-maining rival, has insisted he still has a narrow path to the nomination. Still, Clinton made a direct ap-peal to his supporters, recalling the raw emotions of her own supporters when she lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary.

“It never feels good to put our heart into a cause or a candidate you believe in and come up short,” she said. “I know that feeling well. But as we look ahead to the battle that awaits, let’s remember all that unites us.”

The Democratic race was ending amid new tur-moil among the Republicans. GOP leaders recoiled at Trump’s comments about a Hispanic judge, with one senator even pulling his endorsement.

Trump capped his difficult day with victories in New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and Mon-tana. He was muted his victory rally, saying he un-derstands “the responsibility” of leading the Repub-lican Party. He also made a direct appeal to dejected Sanders supporters and other Democrats.

“This election isn’t about Republican or Dem-ocrat, it’s about who runs this country: the special interests or the people,” he said. Trump vowed to deliver a major speech next week on Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton spent much of her own victory speech tar-geting Trump, previewing a tough general election campaign.

“He wants to win by stoking fear and rubbing salt in wounds — and reminding us daily just how great he is,” Clinton said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

Clinton’s win in New Jersey came a day after she secured the 2,383 delegates she needed to become first female presumptive nominee of a major politi-cal party, according to an Associated Press tally.

DiNovo ‘unofficial’ candidate for federal NDP leaderBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Veteran Ontario New Democrat Cheri DiNovo announced Tuesday she would run as an “unofficial” candidate for the federal NDP lead-ership, but won’t pay the $30,000 deposit the party requires of would-be leaders.

“I intend to fight not for me, but for the NDP … to fight for principles rather than for a position,” DiNo-vo told a handful of supporters at a United Church in her Toronto riding, where she is an ordained minis-ter.

“Money should not in any way be a barrier for a leader of a democratic socialist party.”

DiNovo criticized the NDP executive for requir-ing a deposit fee and setting a spending limit of $1.5 million for candidates who hope to replace Tom Mulcair as federal leader, saying she plans to run “a grassroots-fuelled” campaign.

“It shouldn’t be about how much money you can raise to buy buttons and bobbles to promote your-self,” she said. “It should be about principles.”

However, Elections Canada rules show DiNovo would not be able to legally raise funds for her can-didacy unless she pays the $30,000 deposit for NDP leadership hopefuls.

The regulation states: “Every person who accepts contributions, loans or transfers, or incurs leader-ship campaign expenses, has to register as a leader-ship contestant even if he or she later decides not to run for the leadership.”

Federal New Democrat MPs treated DiNovo’s “unoffi-cial” candidacy with bemuse-ment.

“I think anybody wanting to run in a leadership race must follow the laws around this — and there are many and they’re in place for a reason,” said former NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen.

“That’s the basic entrance to this very serious conversa-tion.”

MP Alexandre Boulerice said the party welcomes all comers, “but if you want to be a candidate, you have to follow the rules.”

DiNovo, a long time champion of the poor and the LGBTQ community, promised to step aside if a stron-ger candidate came along espousing the same social democratic principles as she does.

Report warns against sole-sourced contracts amid talk of fighter jets purchaseBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Liberal government was warned late last year that a sole-sourced contract for big-ticket military purchases would be bound to drive up costs in the absence of an open competition.

The report, delivered to Public Services and Pro-curement Canada after the October election, found that choosing one company to provide equipment should be a “subordinate option” to a competitive process so taxpayers receive value for money.

The authors of the report, dated Dec. 17, say that developing better procurement practices is key if the Department of National Defence wants to go ahead with large-scale purchases, specifically refer-encing the CF-18 replacement process.

The team from PricewaterhouseCoopers listed a number of critical success factors to ensure compa-

nies didn’t “game” the system and drive up costs in order to also drive up profits in absolute dollars.

That list included reducing the government’s re-liance on sole-sourced contracting and ensuring in-dependent military specialists respected by govern-ment and industry reviewed costs to make sure they weren’t inflated.

The report raises a host of problems with the gov-ernment’s procurement processes amid reports that the Liberals are prepared to go with a sole-sourced contract to purchase Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing as an interim replacement for Canada’s aging CF-18s.

The government says there is looming capability gap when it comes to the CF-18s, which has caught observers and the opposition by surprise, since the previous Conservative government decided to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the jets flying until at least 2025.

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CALGARY — Proponents of natural gas-fuelled vehicles say they can help reduce carbon emissions now but gov-ernment support is needed to get busi-nesses on board.

The alternative fuel has been around for decades but new technol-ogy developments and greater aware-ness of the need to bring down emis-sions has led to heightened interest, said Bruce Winchester, executive di-rector of the Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance.

“We see some opportunities and some real potential, particularly as governments start to look at transpor-tation as a source of greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.

Like most alternative fuels, nat-ural gas still only makes up a small fraction of the fuel powering the to-tal number of vehicles on the road. But Winchester said he sees potential for growth in medium- and heavy-duty fleet vehicles, where energy demands are higher.

Natural gas has about 15 per cent less greenhouse gas emissions than diesel. That can translate into a far bigger impact if trucking fleets are converted to use natural gas.

“You’re going to get bigger emis-sions savings when you look at an application that requires a lot of ki-lometres and therefore a lot of fuel burned,” he said.

He pointed to C.A.T. Transporta-tion in Quebec that as of February had

switched 20 trucks to compressed nat-ural gas for long-haul transportation down to Texas. The company said that as a result, in the first six weeks of the year it saved 18 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

But Winchester said carbon prices are too low or non-existent to make it enough of a financial incentive to switch, especially with diesel prices

at their lowest in years, which is why the industry is hoping for government help.

Ritch Murray, manager of Enbridge Inc.’s natural gas transportation di-vision, says the $200 million for low-er-emission vehicles and refuelling stations mentioned in a leaked version of Ontario’s draft climate plan would go a long way.

“That’s going to be some welcome investment,” said Murray. “These are businesses and they’re looking at the bottom line. And if there’s not an in-centive to fuel switch, they’re going to think twice about it.”

British Columbia and Quebec al-ready have some forms of natural gas vehicle incentives. A spokesman for Alberta’s environment minister said the government could consider alter-native fuelling options through the en-ergy efficiency program once it’s estab-lished.

The federal government also prom-ised $62.5 million for alternative fuels in its latest budget, but almost all of that is going towards electric vehicle infrastructure.

Murray, who manages the largest commercial natural gas vehicle fleet in Canada at Enbridge, says that for heavier-duty vehicles there aren’t re-ally electric options, but natural gas is ready to go.

“It’s readily deployable, commer-cialized technology that has an im-mediate impact on GHGs and we can get it out right now in the heavy duty space, where there aren’t any electric options,” said Murray.

But with so many competing vehicle fuel alternatives, automotive analyst Dennis DesRosiers says governments should stay out of picking winners and losers.

“It’s not the government’s job to de-cide whether it’s going to be natural gas or diesel in the future,” he said. “Just set a standard and let industry figure it out.”


MONTREAL — Canadian Nation-al Railway will have its third leader in more than six years after the CEO of the country’s largest railway said Tuesday he’s stepping down because a medical condition makes it difficult to continue in the job.

Claude Mongeau returned to work in January after a five-month medical leave for treatment of a tumour in his larynx.

Luc Jobin, CN’s chief financial offi-cer — who was among members of the leadership team that filled in for Mon-

geau during his absence — will take over the top job as of July 1.

“Facing up to a situation like this inevitably stirs a lot of emotions, but I step down from my role with a deep sense of pride and the firm conviction that CN remains in good hands and has a bright future,” Mongeau, 54, said in a statement.

He has been CN’s chief executive since Hunter Harrison, now the cur-rent head of CP Rail, retired from the railway at the end of 2009.

Prior to that, Mongeau was CN’s chief financial officer for 11 years and has been with the Montreal-based railway for 22 years. He has been de-

scribed as one of the key architect’s of CN’s transformation from a federal Crown corporation to a publicly traded company.

As CEO, he oversaw the railway’s dramatic growth as profits nearly dou-bled and revenues surged 71 per cent to $7.4 billion.

Jobin, 57, has been CN’s chief finan-cial officer since joining the company in 2009. Prior to that, he had been a senior executive at the related com-panies Imasco, Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco, and at Pow-er Corporation.

“Luc (Jobin) and the senior leader-ship team are well-prepared to carry

on delivering CN’s agenda of opera-tional and service excellence,” said CN chairman Robert Pace.

Jobin is taking over as the railway industry faces volume decreases amid a challenging economic backdrop across North America.

Still, industry analysts said CN Rail’s “solid management team” should result in a seamless transition.

“Mr. Mongeau certainly made his mark at CN, in no small part by bring-ing a new way of thinking to CN Rail’s railroading (especially with regards to service and the customer),” Wal-ter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets wrote in a research note.

Encouraging a ‘natural selection’CALLS GROW FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR NATURAL GAS-FUELLED VEHICLES

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A natural gas refuelling port is seen on a vehicle at the Vancouver Board of Trade energy forum in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday. Proponents of natural gas-fuelled vehicles say they can help reduce carbon emissions now but government support is needed to get businesses on board.


CALGARY — Tough times in the oil and gas industry are being blamed for smaller crowds on the first day of the Global Petroleum Show, an annual event in Calgary considered a bell-wether for the energy business.

Wes Scott, executive vice-pres-ident of energy for show promoter DMG Events, said about 50,000 people pre-registered as delegates, about the same as in 2015. But returning exhib-itors said Tuesday that crowds were smaller than last year. Scott said there were about 1,500 companies exhibit-ing at the show, which isn’t too far off

from the number last year, but a far cry from the 2,000 during its peak year of 2014. He said that’s due to spending restraints as companies hit hard by low oil and gas prices rein in spending.

“This year we are slightly behind,” he said.

In another sign of the times, the show for the first time is highlighting exhibits and featuring educational talks zeroing in on clean technology.

Exhibitor Mike Crabtree, vice-pres-ident of energy for the Saskatchewan Research Council, said the theme works perfectly with his organization’s proposed technology testing service set to start next year. The service would help companies prove environ-

mentally friendly technologies for oil and gas.

“You know, it used to be around what’s the price of oil and how much does this (project) cost, what’s the dif-ferential that we’re paying?” he said. “The fourth piece now is very much the environmental component. How compliant am I with my technology?”

Quinn Holtby, president and CEO of Edmonton-based Katch Kan, said he likes the show’s new focus because his oilfield manufacturing company has been in the clean technology business since it was founded in 1994. It makes a portfolio of drilling rig products it calls the “zero spill system” designed to ensure safe and clean operations.


An attendee walks past hydraulic fracking equipment at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, Tuesday. Oil and gas industry leaders from over 84 countries are expected to attend the event that continues until Thursday.

Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, a bellwether for energy business, kicks off

MONGEAU STEPPING DOWN AS CN RAIL’S CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Suncor Energy plans to raise $2.5B in share issue to pay

for Syncrude stakeCALGARY — Suncor Energy says

it plans to raise $2.5 billion in a share offering to pay for an increased stake in the Syncrude joint venture.

The Calgary-based company said the money would help reduce its debt and go towards paying for the $937 mil-lion acquisition of Murphy Oil’s five per cent stake in the joint venture that Suncor announced in late April.

It says it will sell 71.5 million shares at a price of $35 a share in the deal made through a syndicate of under-writers led by TD Securities Inc., CIBC Capital Markets and J.P. Morgan Secu-rities Canada Inc.

ConocoPhillips restarts Surmont oilsands production

after wildfire shutdown ConocoPhillips Canada says it has

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 122.18ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.88BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.40BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.48Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.49Cdn. National Railway . . 77.44Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 173.70Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.10Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.02Cervus Equipment Corp 11.80Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.70Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 54.49Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.10Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.55General Motors Co. . . . . 30.23Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.10Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 53.63Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.52Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.84Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 7.02Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.89

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 142.30Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.74Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.57

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.56Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.16Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.99Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.03WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.50

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 24.03Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.50First Quantum Minerals . . 9.68Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.07Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.76Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.29Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.74Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 23.23Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.790Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.83

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 23.07Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.62Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 48.90Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.63Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 28.41Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.01Canyon Services Group. . 5.87Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.88CWC Well Services . . . 0.1850Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 11.07

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.590Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.71Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.08High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.70Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.81Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.49Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.200Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.33Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.50Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.940Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.80Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.08Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.78Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 67.07CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.04Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 26.93Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.11IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.75Intact Financial Corp. . . . 90.33Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.00National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.65Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.260Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.95Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.37TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.76

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MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — Oil prices

settled above US$50 a bar-rel for the first time in nearly a year on Tuesday, a sign that traders are confident that a balance can be struck be-tween supply and demand in the global crude market.

The July benchmark con-tract for West Texas Interme-diate crude closed 67 cents higher to US$50.36 a bar-rel, marking the first time oil has settled above the US$50 mark since July 21, 2015.

“$50 is a big psychologi-cal hurdle for crude oil, and it’s one that it’s been bump-ing up against for a couple of weeks now,” said Col-in Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada.

“To see it break through is very encouraging and sug-gests that there is enough support to keep carrying crude oil higher.”

Crude prices have grad-ually risen in recent weeks due to several factors, includ-ing the wildfires in Fort Mc-Murray, Alta., which at one point may have taken out as much as half of Canada’s to-tal oilsands production, ac-cording to some estimates. Those operations have grad-ually started to come back online.

Militant attacks on pipe-line infrastructure in Nigeria have also caused supply dis-ruptions in the oil-producing country, helping lift prices.

Cieszynski said traders are encouraged by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s wait-and-see approach on interest rate hikes.

The central bank has said that it plans on hiking rates but would not to commit to when that might happen.

Oil prices are often boost-ed on signs of a growing economy because it drives up the demand for crude.

Once that happens, it will

be important for the global market to be able to strike a balance between supply and demand or else oil pric-es are at risk of falling again, Cieszynski said.

Canada’s economy has been hit hard by a rapid and deep decline in global oil prices that began in 2014, when crude prices were above US$100 a barrel.

In February, oil settled as low as US$26.21 a barrel.

“It’s a pretty spectac-ular move in a fairly rela-tively short period of time,” Cieszynski said.

“We might just see it level off here for a while, for the next few weeks, in around US$50.”

Rising oil prices also helped the loonie, which climbed 0.22 of a U.S. cent to 78.30 cents US.

In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index was up 89.45 points at 14,365.61, driven by gains in energy and bank stocks.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial aver-age added 17.95 points at 17,938.28, the broader S&P 500 composite index advanced 2.72 points to 2,112.13 and the Nasdaq composite fell 6.96 points to 4,961.75.

In other commodities, July natural gas was down a pen-ny at US$2.47 per mmBTU, August gold fell 40 cents to US$1,247 an ounce and July copper contracts fell seven cents to US$2.05 a pound.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close

Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite In-

dex — 14,365.61, up 89.45 points

Dow — 17,938.28, up 17.95 points

S&P 500 — 2,112.13, up 2.72 points

Nasdaq — 4,961.75, down 6.96 points

Currencies:Cdn — 78.30 cents US,

up 0.22 of a centPound — C$1.8572, up

0.53 of a centEuro — C$1.4504, down

0.47 of a centEuro — US$1.1357,

down 0.04 of a centOil futures:US$50.36 per barrel, up

67 cents(July contract)Gold futures:US$1,247.00 per oz.,

down 40 cents(August contract)Canadian Fine Silver

Handy and Harman:$21.800 oz., down 34.9

cents$700.87 kg., down $11.22

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Fu-

tures Canada closing prices:Canola: July ‘16 $0.90

higher $518.00 Nov. ‘16 $1.40 higher $524.00 Jan. ‘17 $0.80 higher $527.40 March ‘17 $1.30 higher $528.90 May ‘17 $1.00 high-er $529.90 July ‘17 $0.80 higher $531.00 Nov. ‘17 $1.10 lower $516.20 Jan. ‘18 $1.10 lower $516.20 March ‘18 $1.10 lower $516.20 May ‘18 $1.10 lower $516.20 July ‘18 $1.10 lower $516.20.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 March ‘17 unchanged $173.50 May ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Ju-ly ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 March ‘18 unchanged $174.50 May ‘18 unchanged $174.50 July ‘18 unchanged $174.50.

Tuesday’s est imated volume of trade: 545,940 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). To-tal: 545,940.


TORONTO — A report released Tuesday ranking the world’s largest cotton consumers on the basis of their sourcing practices has put Canada’s oldest retailer, Hudson’s Bay Compa-ny, near the bottom of the list.

The study done for the World Wild-life Fund, Pesticide Action Network UK and Solidaridad examined wheth-er 37 international companies used sustainable cotton sources and ranked them according to a number of factors, including the guidelines used to pro-duce the cotton (organic, fair trade or recycled).

It also looked at whether the compa-nies had stated initiatives or policies on cotton farming.

Hudson’s Bay (TSX:HBC), the only Canadian retailer on the list, had a total score of one out of a possible 19.5.

The report said HBC’s low score did not necessarily indicate that it used unsustainable cotton, but rather re-flected a lack of transparency on its practices.

It also said the Toronto-based com-pany did not publicize its policies or targets on cotton sources.

Hudson’s Bay spokeswoman Tiffany Bourre said the retailer offers sustain-able cotton under its private label and is looking for opportunities to grow in that area.

“HBC also has stringent ethical sourcing guidelines in place to en-sure the highest principles of sourcing and compliance,” Bourre wrote in an email.

Keith Tyrell, the director of Pes-ticide Action Network, said the pur-pose of the report was to highlight the importance of sustainable cotton in terms of its impact on the environment and labour industry.

“Brands and retailers have the abil-ity to drive sustainable cotton demand through the requirements they set for their suppliers,” said the report.

“These requirements can ensure that their products are not associated with unsafe or illegal labour practices or environmental damage.”

Some of the biggest issues with cot-

ton is the use of child labour and the overuse of harmful fertilizers and pes-ticides that can result in death.

Tyrell said there’s always been a lot of attention given to unsavoury labour practices used in the creation of cotton with clothes and furniture, though he added cotton farming employs more people than the manufacturing indus-try does.

The report estimates that there are 40 million cotton farmers in develop-ing countries producing three quarters of the world’s cotton supply.

“If companies really believe that the way cotton is produced is import-ant to them, then they’ll switch,” he said. “At the moment, it seems like they don’t think it’s important. It’s about commitment.”

Tyrell said cost can be a hurdle ini-tially for a retailer to make changes to their supply chain, but he added that didn’t stop fast-fashion retailer H&M Group, which set a demanding target of sourcing organic and recycled cot-ton in the last few years.

Topping the list was home furnisher Ikea Group, which scored 12 out of a possible 19.5 points, followed by fash-ion retailers C&A Global and H&M Group with nine points each.

The report based its rankings on public information and also reached out to individual retailers informa-tion was not readily available. Some of the other companies ranked included Walmart, Foot Locker, Nike and Gap.

Shell’s shift away from growth raises new doubts for LNG Canada project in B.C.

Royal Dutch Shell says it’s shifting away from growing its liquefied natural gas business, a move that raises fresh doubts about the future of its proposed LNG Canada project in Kitimat, B.C.

The company said Tuesday the pace of new investment in LNG will slow as it moderates growth and prioritizes

cash flow generation and returns on existing projects. Shell said while its integrated gas business was previously a “growth priority,” it has now reached a critical mass after completing the acquisition of gas giant BG Group in February.

Oil and gas analyst Dirk Lever at Al-tacorp Capital said the announcement doesn’t mean an end to the company’s LNG Canada project, which could cost up to US$40 billion to build, but it could further delay development.

In February, Shell postponed a fi-nal investment decision on the project until the end of the year, a timeline it maintained in its latest presentation Tuesday.

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Sharks look for way to score firstBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose Sharks head coach Pete DeBoer called it the biggest fix his team needs to make if they have any hope of rallying in the Stanley Cup final.

On the verge of elimination after a 3-1 loss in Game 4, the Sharks have given up the first goal in every game so far. They have yet to play with a lead for even a second, trailing the Pitts-burgh Penguins 3-1 in the best-of-seven series with Game 5 ahead at Consol Energy Center on Thursday night.

“We’ve been chasing the game the whole series by not scoring first,” De-Boer said after Monday’s loss. “We have to find a way to get on the board earlier in the game instead of chasing it all night.”

The Sharks are 10-3 in the playoffs when they score first and 3-6 when they don’t. They also owned the sec-ond-best record during the regular season when hitting the board first, boasting a 35-6-2 mark, which trailed only the President’s Trophy-winning Washington Capitals.

DeBoer said the pressure increased when the opponent notched the game’s first goal. It ruined the rhythm of the bench, he said. Rolling four lines sud-denly became less enticing with a defi-cit because there was more urgency to score or create a scoring chance and more imperative to play certain play-ers more often.

“I don’t know what it is,” he said of the inability to score first. “But it’s

been a big issue these (four) games.”San Jose has had to chase its way

back into every game of the series, ral-lying on multiple occasions to even the score, but never to actually get ahead and play with the lead.

The Sharks got their first and only lead of the series when Joonas Don-skoi scored the overtime winner in Game 3.

The Western Conference champs came out with good energy in front of an enthusiastic home crowd at SAP Center in Game 4, one that was clad in teal T-shirts emblazoned with sharks circling around two penguins on a lonely chunk of ice.

Despite those encouraging opening minutes, the Sharks could not score. Instead it was Penguins defenceman Ian Cole, he of zero goals previously in the playoffs, landing the first marker on a rebound.

Cole was wide open on the weak side of the ice when Phil Kessel fired a shot from a bad angle at Martin Jones, the Sharks slow to find their bearings and their foes after a line change.

“You don’t want to give up the first goal, especially on that tough change,” Sharks centre Logan Couture said af-terward.

Pittsburgh has outshot San Jose 46-24 in the first period so far this se-ries and is now 12-3 in the post-season when scoring first.

It wasn’t this way at all for the Sharks in the opening three rounds of the post-season. They managed to land the game’s opening goal in 13 of their first 18 games this spring, winning 10

times.DeBoer couldn’t pinpoint what ex-

actly had changed.The first period of the first Stanley

Cup final in Sharks history was per-haps a sign of things to come. The club

was outshot 15-4 and outscored 2-0 in an eventual 3-2 loss.

“We haven’t been able to get out and get a lead,” Sharks defenceman Paul Martin said, “and we’re a differ-ent team when we do that.”

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San Jose Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer stands behind players on the bench after the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Eric Fehr scored a goal during the third period of Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals in San Jose, Calif., Monday. DeBoer and the Sharks have not held a lead in the series and say biggest fix for Game 5 is scoring first.


CLEVELAND — Golden State has won the first two games of the NBA Fi-nals, both of those wins coming by dou-ble figures and with a few dominant stretches of basketball in there.

Strange as this sounds, that has the Warriors feeling a bit uneasy.

The champions know exactly how fast a series can change, having just pulled off a mathematically improb-able comeback from 3-1 down against Oklahoma City in the Western Confer-ence finals. And even with the odds now stacked high against Cleveland in these NBA Finals, the Warriors say they cannot fall into the trap of think-ing this series that resumes with Game

3 on Wednesday night is already over.“That’s a great analogy, one that

we’ve already used,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Tuesday. “It doesn’t matter what the scores are, doesn’t matter if you win by 25 or lose by 25, it’s one game in the series. And we got blown out twice in a row in OKC, down 3-1, and we were able to come back. We know we’re playing against a great team. They’re coming home. They can change the momentum around with just one win.”

Cleveland hopes he’s right.The Cavs might be without con-

cussed Kevin Love for Game 3, but they are 7-0 at home in these playoffs — winning by an average of 20.9 points.

“It’s a do-or-die game for us,” Cava-liers forward LeBron James said. “We can’t afford to go down 3-0 to any team, especially a team that’s 73-9 in the reg-ular season and playing the type of basketball they’re playing.”

When the Warriors were on the brink of elimination against the Thun-der, history suggested that they had a 3.9 per cent chance to win the series — 232 previous NBA teams were down 3-1 in a best-of-seven, and only nine won. Compared to that, Cleveland’s chances look fabulous.

“We’re not in that bad of shape as they were — 3-1 is worse than 2-0,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. “And they came back and took it one game at a time, like we have to do.”

Teams that have fallen behind 2-0 in the NBA Finals have rallied to win 9.7 per cent of the time, with three of them getting it done in 31 past opportunities. The 1969 Boston Celtics, 1977 Portland Trail Blazers and 2006 Miami Heat all lost the first two games of the finals on the road before winning the title..

“History,” Lue said, “is something that’s made to be broken.”

Despite their predicament, the Cav-

aliers certainly seemed confident and loose on Tuesday. During the open portion of practice, James was laugh-ing with teammates and tossed up the occasional underhanded 60-footer — reacting with mock disbelief when the low-percentage shot didn’t fall. Point guard Kyrie Irving played a long game of 1-on-1 with Cavs assistant coach James Posey, who was on that Heat team that rallied from 2-0 down in the finals against Dallas and hit a huge shot in the clinching game.

Their thinking is simple: Take care of home court Wednesday and Friday, knot the series and see what happens in a best-of-three.

“When they go on their runs, we have to be able to withstand those punches,” Irving said. “And Game 1 and Game 2, we’ve done it at times. We’ve shown that we’re capable of do-ing it, but we’re just constantly on our heels.”

Tigers rally to beat Blue Jays in 10 inningsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tigers 3 Blue Jays 2DETROIT — With the tying run at

third and one out in the ninth inning, Miguel Cabrera was sent sprawling to the dirt by a high fastball from Rober-to Osuna.

No big deal for the Detroit slugger.“I don’t care what he did. I don’t

care what he’s going to do to me,” Cabrera said.

Moments after Osuna’s pitch up around his head, Cabrera lifted a two-strike double to tie the game, and the Tigers went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Tuesday night on Ian Kinsler’s game-winning single in the 10th. Detroit has won five straight.

The Tigers tied it with two runs in the ninth, spoiling an outstanding ef-fort by Blue Jays starter Aaron San-chez.

The Toronto right-hander struck out a career-high 12 and took a one-hitter into the ninth inning, but he didn’t get another out as Detroit rallied.

“That’s a really tough one to lose, because Aaron was about as good as you can possibly be,” Blue Jays manag-er John Gibbons said.

Kinsler’s RBI double in the ninth chased Sanchez, and Cabrera’s double off Osuna tied it.

The Tigers loaded the bases in the 10th with no outs against Joe Biagini (3-2), and Kinsler won it with a chop-per into left field.

Justin Wilson (2-1) pitched a score-less 10th for the win.

Kevin Pillar homered for the Blue Jays.

Justin Upton’s double in the third was the only hit off Sanchez for eight innings, but Jose Iglesias started the bottom of the ninth with a single, and Kinsler followed with a double. After

Kinsler went to third on Andrew Ro-mine’s sacrifice bunt, the Blue Jays chose to pitch to Cabrera rather than intentionally walk the winning run.

Cabrera’s drive to deep right-centre made it 2-2.

Upton opened the 10th with a sin-gle, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia walked. Upton then beat the throw to

third when the Blue Jays tried to get the lead runner on a bunt by Iglesias.

With the bases loaded, Kinsler came through for Detroit.

Tigers starter Matt Boyd held the Blue Jays hitless for four innings, but Pillar led off the fifth with a homer. Boyd — whom the Tigers acquired from Toronto last year in the trade that sent David Price to the Blue Jays — allowed a run and three hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked five and struck out five.

Pillar’s drive to left gave the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead, and he scored their second run after hitting a seventh-in-ning single.

BLOOPERDetroit reliever Bobby Parnell got

himself into a ninth-inning jam thanks to a wacky play on a comebacker by Darwin Barney. Pillar was on first, and Parnell turned to try to throw him out at second, but after realizing there was no play there, the right-hander tried to hold up on his throw.

He ended up accidentally throwing the ball straight into the ground, and it bounced over toward third base.

“I try to hold onto the ball, and when you’re going full force, it’s tough,” Parnell said. “I was fortunate to get out of there.”

After a wild pitch, the Blue Jays had men on second and third with no outs, but Parnell was able to escape thanks to two strikeouts and a flyout, keep-ing Toronto from adding to its two-run lead.


Toronto Blue Jays’ Aaron Sanchez pitches against the Detroit Tigers during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, in Detroit.

Warriors, Cavs both know how fast the series can turnNBA FINALS


TORONTO — When Dwane Casey and Masai Ujiri met the morning af-ter the Toronto Raptors’ most success-ful season in franchise history, there were no congratulatory high fives or back slaps. The message of that for-ward-thinking meeting was: what next?

“I love that,” Ujiri said Tuesday, moments after Casey signed a new three-year contract that will keep him in Toronto through 2019. “(Casey) doesn’t even know he said it … instead of celebrating what we’re doing — in his personality he doesn’t and I don’t either, and I think that’s a good thing — he talked about the things we need to get better at. It’s getting better, get-ting better, getting better.”

Casey guided the Raptors in their journey from the NBA hinterlands to the Eastern Conference final, and now Ujiri is trusting the coach with the

much tougher task of turning Toronto into a championship contender.

That’s been their goal since Day 1, and the common thread woven through Casey’s five seasons in Toronto has been about developing a culture of winning.

“And coach Casey has been a big leader for us, a great teacher, and a great teammate for us to have in this organization,” said Ujiri, who prom-ised last week the deal with Casey would get done “in his sleep.”

Ujiri worked quickly to make it hap-pen, and rewarded the coach with a deal reported to be worth US$18 mil-lion.

Casey was hired by former Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo after a 2010-11 season that saw Toronto post a 22-60 record. They missed the playoffs in his first two seasons, but Casey has progressively moulded the team into a tough and defensively responsible unit.


Kimbo Slice, the bearded street fighter who parlayed his internet pop-ularity into a mixed martial arts ca-reer and worldwide fame, has died. He was 42.

Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was taken to a hospital in Margate, Florida, near his home Mon-day, Coral Springs Police Sgt. Carla Kmiotek said.

Slice’s death was confirmed by Mike Imber, his longtime manager.

“We lost our brother today,” Imber said.

The cause of death was still un-clear. Kmiotek said there is no active police investigation, and no foul play is suspected.

Born in the Bahamas and raised in the Miami area, Slice was a strip club bouncer and bodyguard who be-gan competing in unsanctioned street fights in 2003. Videos of his violent knockout victories in those bouts be-came wildly popular online, both for Slice’s raw punching power and his distinctive, intimidating appearance.

After gaining viral internet fame at a time when the phenomenon was still relatively new, Slice studied MMA and eventually competed for several promotions, including the UFC and Bellator, which staged his two most recent fights.

While he went only 5-2 and never won a championship belt, the person-able Slice became one of MMA’s best-known figures, attracting large tele-vision audiences and crowds to his growing sport.

Slice’s death also was confirmed by Scott Coker, the CEO of Bellator, which promoted his return to MMA last year after a five-year absence. Slice beat Dhafir “Dada 5000” Harris with a third-round knockout in Febru-ary at Bellator 149 in Houston, but the result was overturned after Slice test-ed positive for steroid use.

“We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice,” Coker said.

“One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismat-

ic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport. Outside of the cage he was a friendly, gentle giant and a devoted family man. His loss leaves us all with extremely heavy hearts.”

Slice was scheduled to headline the Bellator 158 show in London next month in a bout against James Thomp-son.

He was the star of the first MMA show broadcast on network television, beating Thompson by third-round knockout in May 2008 on CBS with the defunct EliteXC promotion. With Slice and pioneering featherweight Gina Ca-rano as the top attractions, EliteXC’s two CBS shows drew big television rat-ings and introduced millions of view-ers to MMA.

Although Slice never reached the sport’s competitive heights, his aura never waned among MMA fans: His bout with Harris four months ago drew the largest television ratings in Bella-tor’s history.

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Beckie goal lifts Canada over BrazilBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada 1 Brazil 0OTTAWA — On a night when Cana-

da chased a goal for 90 minutes, substi-tute Janine Beckie delivered deep into injury time Tuesday to beat Brazil.

Diana Matheson sent a high ball to-wards the Brazilian goal and Beckie, from outside the penalty box, lobbed substitute goalkeeper Luciana, who had just come on as a late injury re-placement. It was virtually the last kick of the game and produced a dra-matic 1-0 win before 23,568 fans at TD Place.

“Tonight we showed a bit of grit to stay in the game and the resilience to go and win it,” said Canadian coach John Herdman.

“We found that next gear and that’s something we’ll keep reminding our-selves when we hit the Olympics,” he added.

It was Canada’s last match on home soil before Rio and Herdman took sat-isfaction “this close to an Olympics that when it’s tight, that we can find a way to win.”

Unlike its nervy start in Saturday’s 2-0 loss to the eighth-ranked South Americans before 28,604 at Toronto’s BMO Field, Canada was composed from the get-go Tuesday and had the better of the play against a much-changed Brazilian starting 11.

The 10th-ranked Canadian women will return to their clubs for the rest of the month before reassembling July 1 for a camp in Vancouver. They head to France in mid-July for a closed-door game against China and then a friend-ly with No. 3 France in Auxerre on July 23.

The team will leave France for Bra-zil, where it opens Aug. 3 against No. 5 Australia. Canada will also face No. 2 Germany and No. 95 Zimbabwe in round-robin play.

The Canadians had been after the goal all game. They pressed the ac-tion and had more and better scor-ing chances. As farewells go, it was a bright one with a hint of things to come.

“I think Canada was better than Brazil tonight,” Brazilian coach Vad-ao said through an interpreter. “They made fewer mistakes, had more oppor-tunities and they scored.”

Herdman wanted goals and while his team came close on numerous occasions — especially in the final stretch when it was one-way traffic — it took 90-plus minutes to put the Bra-zilians away.

“It was a mantra with the group — whatever it takes, let’s keep pushing until that goal comes and they did,” he said.

Canada improved to 6-7-6 all-time against the Brazilians.

Jessie Fleming and Sophie Schmidt pulled the strings in midfield as Cana-da found the holes in Brazil’s defence. Matheson was opportunistic on of-fence.

Brazil was restricted to counter-at-tacks. And Canadian ‘keeper Stepha-nie Labbe took charge when the vis-itors did threaten. At the other end, goalkeeper Barbara saved Brazil on several occasions, often playing like a

sweeper to snuff out attacks.It was the first game in Ottawa for

the Canadian women since July 2003, when they defeated Brazil 2-1 with current team members Matheson and Rhian Wilkinson in the starting lineup. Current captain Christine Sinclair was in the squad but sidelined by mononu-cleosis.

Wilkinson — earning her 175th cap — was in the starting lineup, one of two changes from Toronto. Fleming al-so came in, with Allysha Chapman and Beckie dropping to the bench. Mathe-son moved to forward from midfield.

Brazil rang in the changes with six new faces in its starting 11. Star for-ward Marta, the five time FIFA wom-en’s player of the year who scored both goals Saturday, and veteran Formiga started on the bench. Cristiane and Er-ika, who both play for Paris Saint-Ger-main, were among the additions.

Kadeisha Buchanan came close for Canada in the 18th minute when her deflection went high after a free kick pinged around the penalty box.

The Canadians pushed the pace with left fullback Ashley Lawrence, named Canada’s player of the game Saturday, leading the way as rain fell intermittently despite the evening sun-shine.

A desperate tackle by Bruna saved a goal, denying Matheson what seemed like a sure tap-in in the 24th minute after Barbara stopped a Deanne Rose shot.

Brazil’s best chance of the half came in the 40th minute when a prob-ing ball found Darlene behind the Canadian defence but her shot was off-target. Andressa Alves also mis-fired early in the second half.

Barbara earned a yellow card in the 55th minute for decking an onrushing Matheson after a fine feed from Sin-clair. The Brazilian’ keeper made a good save off Sinclair on the ensuing free kick.


Canada’s Allysha Chapman fights for the ball against Brazil’s Debinha during second half international women’s soccer friendly action in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Popular MMA fighter Kimbo Slice dead at 42


Kimbo Slice, right, battles James Thompson during their EliteXC heavyweight bout at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Slice, who’s real name is Kevin Ferguson, died in hospital Monday.

Raptors finalize extension with Casey

REGINA — The Team Alberta men’s squad took home top honours, led by Central Albertans, in the Cana-dian 5 Pin Open Championship.

Bary Baird, of Blackfalds, Shelby Crest, of Red Deer, coach Greg Gigliuk, of Red Deer, and manager Bev Gigliuk,

of Red Deer all were key in the teams successful showing at the event that run from June 1 to 4.

After finishing first in the round robin with 88 points, 15 ahead of sec-ond place Northern Ontario, they fin-ished on top of a four team stepladder. This put the team in a wait-and-see position as they faced the survivor of the first two matches.

In the final match, Victor Fobert, of

Drayton Valley, led the team bowling a 340 game. Baird was second with a 291 and Karie Kreutz, of Wetaskiwin, had a 260. Kreutz had led the team in the round robin averaging a 270.

They faced B.C. in the final and won three of the five games to defeat

B.C. Each game allocates one point for each of the five bowler in head-to-head scoring, plus three points for the team total score. The Alberta squad won 6-2.

Kreutz and Fobert made the men’s all-star team and Kreutz won the rook-ie award.


CALGARY — Ian Millar might not be on Canada’s Olympic team in Rio because he’s lacking a proven horse.

The 69-year-old show jumper from Perth, Ont., set an international record for appearances at the Olympic Games with his 10th in London in 2012.

An Olympic team without “Captain Canada” would be unusual. But Mil-lar’s top mount Dixson has undergone a pair of sinus surgeries since March and won’t be available to compete in Rio, Millar said Tuesday at Calgary’s Spruce Meadows.

“He’s definitely out for Rio,” he said.

“If he’s out for a month it takes two or three months to get him back. This horse has been out for a long enough time that I think we’ll have him back for September, but we won’t have him back for Rio.”

So Millar needs a solid internation-al mount with less than two months to go to the Aug. 5 opening ceremonies. Canada’s show jumping team for Rio is expected to be named in July.

The veteran rider says his top pros-pect Teddy du Bosquetiau, or “Teddy B”, needs a breakout performance at Spruce Meadows to earn consideration for the Olympic team.

“He would have to come on in a very spectacular manner to impress the (Jump Canada) committee enough to put him on the team,” Millar ex-plained.

“If Dixson was here, all they would need to see is if Dixson is on form and then they’re going to be comfortable.

“Dixson had nothing to prove. This horse, Teddy B, would have something to prove. So we’re going to prove it.”

The National, which kicks off four straight weeks of competition at Spruce Meadows, opens Wednesday. The tournament includes Saturday’s $500,000 RBC Grand Prix and Sunday’s $175,000 CNOOC Nexen Cup Derby.

Millar, Eric Lamaze, Jill Hensel-wood and Mac Cone won Olympic team silver in 2008 in Hong Kong. Lamaze won individual gold there.

If Millar can’t compete in Rio, he’ll aim for his 11th Summer Games in To-kyo in 2020.

“I’d just have to do it the next time,” Millar said.

He says daughter Amy or son Jona-thon, also competing at Spruce Mead-ows, could represent the family in Rio if he can’t.

“My son and daughter both have a strong possibility, so I go as a rider, I go as a trainer or I go as a father,” Mil-lar said.

“I’m still going to go. If all else fails, I’ll go as a commentator.”

Millar and Dixson helped Canada win Pan American Games team gold last summer to qualify for Rio.

“To not have Ian ride at the Olym-pics would be a big, big loss for our team,” Lamaze said. “To go to a Games without him is not a reassuring mo-ment.

“We have fantastic riders and I’m sure we can put a very good team to-gether, but all the great success I’ve had as a team rider has been with him.”

Millar and Dixson, a 13-year-old bay owned by Sue and Ariel Grange of

Lothlorien Farm, posted three clean rounds to claim the $1.5-million CP International at Spruce Meadows in 2014.

When it became no longer possible to manage hematomas in Dixson’s si-nuses with other treatments, surgery was the only option left, Millar said.

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Olympic appearance record in jeopardy


Ian Millar prepares to ride Star Power, in the equestrian individual show jumping competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Millar could miss his record 11th Olympics this summer in Rio unless his ‘top prospect’ horse can have a breakout performance this weekend in Calgary.

AFTER 10 OLYMPIC GAMES, CANADA’S IAN MILLAR MAY HAVE TO POSTPONE HIS 11TH

Ban lifted on Canadian reporter

The UFC has rescinded its indefi-nite ban on a Canadian reporter who was thrown out of its UFC 199 show last weekend.

Less than two days after mmafight-ing.com’s Ariel Helwani, a Montreal native who is based in New York, was told he would never be allowed to cov-

er future UFC events, the promotion announced Monday night that it won’t deny media credentials to his compa-ny. The UFC was hit with heavy online criticism from other journalists and MMA fans for its actions against Mon-treal native Helwani, one of the most prominent reporters covering mixed martial arts. Photographer Esther Lin and video director Casey Leydon also were ejected from the Forum with Hel-wani.

The UFC remains upset about Hel-wani’s report that heavyweight Brock Lesnar was nearing a deal to return at UFC 200, which revealed the plan be-fore the UFC could announce it.

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The next time Canada’s men’s national soccer team sees the field, the atmosphere will be in stark contrast to the quiet afternoon in the Austrian coun-tryside it enjoyed on Tuesday.

A late own goal gave Canada a 2-1 win over Uz-bekistan in a friendly in front of a scattering of fans at the Thermenstadion in Bad Waltersdorf.

Canada’s next game is Sept. 2 at the Estadio Olim-pico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It will likely be in front of a frenzied mob of over 40,000 fans for a crucial World Cup qualifier, with both teams fighting to advance to the final round of quali-fying in the CONCACAF region.

“You can feel the buzz, especially after the game today,” captain David Edgar, who opened the scoring for Canada in the 20th minute, said of his team’s up-coming matches. Canada will also host El Salvador Sept. 6 in Vancouver in the final game of the qualify-ing round.

After Uzbekistan’s Eldor Shomurodov tied the game the 62nd minute, Canada started to press late and were rewarded when Akramjon Komilov headed a Canadian cross from the left side into his own goal.

The game concluded a camp that started late last month and included a 1-1 draw with Azerbaijan last Friday.

“The other game (against Azerbaijan) was awful. It’s true,” said Canada coach Benito Floro. “Today, I am happy because, not only because the other team is good, but I think the players have been capable of doing a very good press and increasing the level of combined attack.”

Edgar got Canada in front with a nice header on a set-piece. After a free kick on the left side, Scott Arfield crossed in and Edgar was right in the middle just a few yards away from the goal.

Canada was a bit slow out of the gate in the sec-ond half, with Uzbekistan getting some looks. Poor marking led to Uzbekistan’s equalizer. Canada had been unable to clear their lines and Shomurodov was gifted with a free header from a few yards out.

After picking up four points in four games in CONCACAF, Canada lies third in a World Cup quali-fying group with Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. While tied on points with Honduras, Canada has an inferior goal differential.

Arfield, who will be up in the English Premier League next season with newly promoted Burnley FC, teased the Uzbekistan side with a number of passes and filled in as playmaker-in-chief in the ab-sence of Atiba Hutchinson.

Throw in the addition of Will Johnson, who left camp earlier with an injury, and Canada’s midfield looks strong heading into September’s matches.

COLD LAKE — Red Deer fighter Brian Samuel got his third win in his fourth fight with a unanimous decision victory.

Samuel, 27, and Stephen Bass, 33, of

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Samuel fights with Dekada Boxing out of Calgary. After the fight, he was encouraged to lengthen his fights to six rounds.

After losing his first fight in May of 2015, Samuel has won three straight.

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Pittsburgh (E2) vs. San Jose (W6)(Pittsburgh leads series 3-1)Monday’s resultPittsburgh 3 San Jose 1Saturday’s resultSan Jose 3 Pittsburgh 2 (OT)Thursday’s gameSan Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Sunday, June 12Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.Wednesday, June 15San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Game One — Monday, May 30Pittsburgh 3 San Jose 2

Game Two — Wednesday, June 1Pittsburgh 2 San Jose 1 (OT)

NHL playoff scoring leaders G A PtsLogan Couture, SJ 8 18 26Joe Pavelski, SJ 13 9 22Brent Burns, SJ 6 16 22Phil Kessel, Pgh 10 11 21Joe Thornton, SJ 3 17 20Nikita Kucherov, TB 11 8 19Tyler Johnson, TB 7 10 17Sidney Crosby, Pgh 6 11 17Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 5 12 17Nick Bonino, Pgh 4 13 17Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 9 6 15Carl Hagelin, Pgh 5 10 15Jamie Benn, Dal 5 10 15

Robby Fabbri, StL 4 11 15David Backes, StL 7 7 14Jonathan Drouin, TB 5 9 14Jaden Schwartz, StL 4 10 14Victor Hedman, TB 4 10 14Troy Brouwer, StL 8 5 13Joel Ward, SJ 7 6 13Patrick Marleau, SJ 5 8 13Alex Killorn,TB 5 8 13Colin Wilson, Nash 5 8 13Jason Spezza, Dal 5 8 13Paul Stastny, StL 3 10 13Kris Letang, Pgh 2 11 13Patric Hornqvist, Pgh 8 4 12Joonas Donskoi, SJ 6 6 12Alex Ovechkin, Wash 5 7 12John Carlson, Wash 5 7 12Marc-Edouard Vlasic, SJ 1 11 12

2016 NBA PlayoffsFourth RoundTHE FINALS(Best-of-7)

Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1)(Golden State leads series 2-0)Sunday’s resultGolden State 110 Cleveland 77Thursday’s resultGolden State 104 Cleveland 89

Wednesday’s gameGolden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Friday, June 10Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Monday, June 13Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.Thursday, June 16Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Sunday, June 19Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Major League BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBBaltimore 34 23 .596 —Boston 33 24 .579 1Toronto 31 29 .517 4 1/2New York 28 30 .483 6 1/2Tampa Bay 26 31 .456 8

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 32 24 .571 —Kansas City 30 28 .517 3Detroit 30 28 .517 3Chicago 29 29 .500 3Minnesota 17 40 .298 15 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 36 22 .621 —Seattle 31 26 .544 4 1/2Houston 28 32 .467 9Los Angeles 26 32 .448 10Oakland 25 33 .431 11

Monday’s GamesBaltimore 4, Kansas City 1N.Y. Yankees 5, L.A. Angels 2Detroit 11, Toronto 0Texas 6, Houston 5Tampa Bay 6, Arizona 4Cleveland 3, Seattle 1

Tuesday’s GamesBaltimore 9, Kansas City 1N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Angels 3Detroit 3, Toronto 2, 10 inningsTexas 4, Houston 3Milwaukee 5, Oakland 4Minnesota 6, Miami 4, 11 inningsWashington 10, Chicago White Sox 5Arizona 5, Tampa Bay 0Cleveland at Seattle, lateBoston at San Francisco, late

Wednesday’s GamesToronto (Dickey 3-6) at Detroit (Zimmermann 8-2), 11:10 a.m.Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-3) at Arizona (Bradley 2-1), 1:40 p.m.Kansas City (Volquez 5-5) at Baltimore (Tillman 7-1), 5:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Weaver 5-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 6-2), 5:05 p.m.Houston (Fister 5-3) at Texas (Darvish 2-0), 6:05 p.m.Miami (Chen 3-2) at Minnesota (Nolasco 2-4), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Hahn 2-3) at Milwaukee (Anderson 3-6), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Scherzer 6-4) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 2-7), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 2-0) at Seattle (Walker 2-6), 8:10 p.m.Boston (Price 7-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 7-2), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesHouston at Texas, 12:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.Baltimore at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.Miami at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.Washington at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.Cleveland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Bogaerts Bos 56 238 46 82 .345VMartinez Det 57 205 24 70 .341Ortiz Bos 51 194 28 66 .340Nunez Min 48 187 29 63 .337Altuve Hou 60 238 45 79 .332Bradley Jr. Bos 53 189 29 61 .323Hosmer KC 58 218 30 70 .321Kinsler Det 55 231 50 74 .320Mazara Tex 50 192 27 61 .318Pedroia Bos 55 228 41 72 .316Home RunsTrumbo, Baltimore, 20 Frazier, Chicago, 18 Cano, Seattle, 16 Ortiz, Boston, 16 Beltran, New York, 15 Machado, Baltimore, 15 KDavis, Oakland, 14 Napoli, Cleveland, 14 Betts, Boston, 14 Longoria, Tampa Bay, 14.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 35 23 .602 —New York 31 26 .544 3Miami 30 28 .517 4 1/2Philadelphia 29 30 .492 6Atlanta 16 41 .281 18

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 40 17 .702 —Pittsburgh 32 26 .552 8 1/2St. Louis 30 28 .517 10 1/2Milwaukee 27 31 .466 13 1/2Cincinnati 22 36 .379 18 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 35 24 .593 —Los Angeles 31 28 .525 4Colorado 26 31 .456 8Arizona 26 35 .426 10San Diego 24 35 .407 11

Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs 6, Philadelphia 4N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, ppd., 2nd gameTampa Bay 6, Arizona 4Colorado 6, L.A. Dodgers 1San Diego 7, Atlanta 2

Tuesday’s GamesPittsburgh 3, N.Y. Mets 1, 1st gamePhiladelphia 3, Chicago Cubs 2Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 6Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Mets 1, 2nd gameMilwaukee 5, Oakland 4Minnesota 6, Miami 4, 11 inningsWashington 10, Chicago White Sox 5Arizona 5, Tampa Bay 0Atlanta at San Diego, lateColorado at L.A. Dodgers, lateBoston at San Francisco, late

Wednesday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Lackey 6-2) at Philadelphia (Velas-quez 5-2), 11:05 a.m.Atlanta (Teheran 1-6) at San Diego (Pomeranz 5-5), 1:40 p.m.Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-3) at Arizona (Bradley 2-1), 1:40 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 6-2) at Pittsburgh (Taillon 0-0), 5:05 p.m.St. Louis (Garcia 4-5) at Cincinnati (Simon 2-5), 5:10 p.m.Miami (Chen 3-2) at Minnesota (Nolasco 2-4), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Hahn 2-3) at Milwaukee (Anderson 3-6), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Scherzer 6-4) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 2-7), 6:10 p.m.Colorado (Rusin 1-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 5-3), 8:10 p.m.Boston (Price 7-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 7-2), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesPittsburgh at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.St. Louis at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.Miami at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.Washington at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Murphy Was 55 211 34 81 .384Braun Mil 47 176 24 59 .335Yelich Mia 53 185 26 60 .324Harrison Pit 53 198 26 64 .323ADiaz StL 55 196 38 63 .321Marte Pit 54 218 30 70 .321Zobrist ChC 53 187 40 60 .321Herrera Phi 58 207 32 66 .319Lucroy Mil 54 196 32 62 .316Piscotty StL 55 212 37 67 .316Home RunsArenado, Colorado, 18 Duvall, Cincinnati, 17 Story, Colorado, 16 Carter, Milwaukee, 16 Cespedes, New York, 15 Kemp, San Diego, 14 Seager, Los Ange-les, 14 7 tied at 13.

AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

SEMIFINALS(two-game, total-goals series)Wednesday’s resultsFirst LegOttawa 2 Vancouver 0Toronto 4 Montreal 2Wednesday, June 8Second LegToronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Ottawa at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP(two-game, total-goals series)First Leg — June 21 or 22Second Leg — June 28 or 29

Euro 2016At Sites in France

Group StageGroup AAbania, France, Romania, SwitzerlandGroup BEngland, Russia, Slovakia, WalesGroup CGermany, Northern Ireland, Poland, UkraineGroup DCroatia, Czech Republic, Spain, TurkeyGroup EBelgium, Italy, Republic of Ireland, SwedenGroup FAustria, Hungary, Iceland, Portugal

Friday, June 10Group AAt Saint-Denis, FranceFrance vs. Romania, 1 p.m.Saturday, June 11Group AAt Lens Aggio, FranceAlbania vs. Switzerland, 7 a.m.Group BAt Bordeaux, FranceWales vs. Slovakia, 10 a.m.At Marseille, FranceEngland vs. Russia, 1 p.m.

Sunday, June 12Group DAt ParisTurkey vs. Croatia, 7 a.m.Group CAt Nice, FrancePoland vs. Northern Ireland, 10 a.m.At Lille Metropole, FranceGermany vs. Ukraine, 1 p.m.

Monday, June 13Group DAt Toulouse, FranceSpain vs. Czech Republic, 7 a.m.Group EAt Saint-Denis, FranceRepublic of Ireland vs. Sweden, 10 a.m.At Lyon, FranceBelgium vs. Italy, 1 p.m. CFL Pre-Season Standings

East Division GP W L T PF PA PtHamilton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

West Division GP W L T PF PA PtB.C. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Saskatchewan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2016 Canadian Football League Schedule(all times Eastern):PRE-SEASONWEEK ONEWednesday, June 8Montreal at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.Saturday, June 11Hamilton at Toronto, 4 p.m.B.C. at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.Monday, June 13Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7 p.m.WEEK TWOFriday, June 17Toronto at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Ottawa at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 10 p.m.Saturday, June 18Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

REGULAR SEASONWEEK ONEBye: SaskatchewanThursday, June 23Hamilton at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Friday, June 24Montreal at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.Saturday, June 25Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 10 p.m.WEEK TWOBye: EdmontonThursday, June 30Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.Toronto at Saskatchewan, 10 p.m.Friday, July 1B.C. at Hamilton, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Calgary, 10 p.m.WEEK THREE

Bye: MontrealThursday, July 7Winnipeg at Hamilton, 7 p.m.Toronto at B.C., 10 p.m.Friday, July 8Calgary at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 10 p.m.WEEK FOURBye: CalgaryWednesday, July 13Ottawa at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, July 14Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.Friday, July 15Hamilton at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, July 16B.C. at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.WEEK FIVEBye: B.C.Thursday, July 21Calgary at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.Friday, July 22Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.Saturday, July 23Hamilton at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Monday, July 25Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.WEEK SIXBye: HamiltonThursday, July 28Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Friday, July 29Saskatchewan at Montreal, 7 p.m.B.C. at Calgary, 10 p.m.Sunday, July 31Toronto at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.WEEK SEVENBye: TorontoWednesday, Aug. 3Hamilton at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Aug. 4B.C. at Montreal, 7 p.m.Saskatchewan at Calgary, 10 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 6

Edmonton at Ottawa, 7 p.m.WEEK EIGHTBye: OttawaThursday, Aug. 11Montreal at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Friday, Aug. 12Winnipeg at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 13Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.Hamilton at B.C., 10 p.m.WEEK NINEBye: WinnipegFriday, Aug. 19Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 10 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 20Edmonton at Toronto, 4 p.m.Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 7 p.m.WEEK 10Bye: TorontoThursday, Aug. 25B.C. at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 26Winnipeg at Montreal, 7 p.m.Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 10 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 28Hamilton at Calgary, 7 p.m.WEEK 11Wednesday, Aug. 31B.C. at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 1Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 4Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 3 p.m.Monday, Sept. 5Edmonton at Calgary, 3 p.m.Toronto at Hamilton, 6:30 p.m.WEEK 12Bye: OttawaFriday, Sept. 9Montreal at B.C., 10 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 10Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

BOXING

Due to a lack of interest and regis-trations, the 2016 University of Alberta Golden Bears football outreach camps in Lacombe have been cancelled.

A Tuesday release from the La-combe Athletics Park Association said the June Outreach camps have been cancelled and full refunds will be pro-vided to registrants and parents over the next week or two.

“The cancelling of an event is never something the Lacombe Athletic Park

Association does lightly,” said LAPA chairman Murray Cunningham. “Mul-tiple factors are taken into consider-ation before a decision was made.”

LAPA is working with the Univer-sity of Alberta Golden Bears Football program and trying to postpone the camps until 2017.

For more information on the camps next year contact Darrin Thompson at 587-877-6294 or email [email protected].

UofA football camps in Lacombe cancelled

Mosquito AA2 Braves take silver in Sherwood Park tournament

SHERWOOD PARK — Five games over the weekend at a tournament had the Red Deer Mosquito AA2 Lock N Safe Braves finish with a silver medal.

They opened with a 13-11 win over the Bonneyille Braves as Elijah Cadieux took MVP honours for the game. Daven Comfort, Austin Goruk and Addison Giesbrecht combined to pitch the game.

The Braves followed up the showing with a 13-0 shutout of the Sherwood Park Athletics. Avery Bettesworth pitched the entire game, which lasted only four innings as the Braves mercied the host ball club. Bettesworth pitched three perfect innings and faced only 13 batters in the win, he was awarded game MVP honours.

The third game provided some foreshadowing for the Braves as they lost to the South Jasper Place Jays 12-8. Avery Coumont and Giesbrcht pitched the game and Raymond Bottin won game MVP for a spectacular catch.

Game four was a bounce back effort for the Braves as they topped the Edmonton Angels 12-7. Kieran Peterson pitched four innings and won the game MVP, Luke Schmitt also pitched for the win.

In the final, the Braves lost again to the Jays this time 16-8. Owen Dixon, Raymond Bottin and Noah Nackonechny pitched for the Braves and Nackonechny took the game MVP award for two clutch hits, one coming with the bases loaded.

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Independent Achievers is having a Patio Party Luncheon at Glenn’s Restaurant on June 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This is an opportunity to do some business networking while enjoying the sun. There will be a unique networking activity for us to enjoy while we sip specialty tea (or coffee) after a wonderful lunch. Please pre-register on the website: www.independentachievers.com

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It is our common understanding that the aging process affects everyone differently. Some of us develop the tell-tale signs of gray hair and wrin-kles in fifties, while others reach their sixties, eluding these changes. We also know that some mental/cognitive de-cline is common as we age, but it is not an inevitable part of aging, according to researchers.

Is it possible for individuals over the age of 80 to have mental capacities of 50-60 year olds? Is preservation of memory possible after the age of 80? The answer to both questions is yes.

There are Super-Agers amidst us who have escaped age-related brain changes and are performing as well as people 20-30 years younger than them. It is intriguing how a few people are able to exhibit superior mental capac-ity at a life-stage when the brain is fac-ing the maximum risk of decline.

This phenomenon undoubtedly captured the interest of researchers from the North-Western Universi-ty who initiated a longitudinal study, the Super-Aging Project, in 2008, with the intention to gain insight about

Super-Agers and use it to find a cure for dementia. They wanted to find out what was going on in the Super-Agers’ brain that made them so different from normal 80-90 year olds.

One of their interesting observa-tions is that Super-Aging is a rare phe-nomenon.

Even though the researchers re-cruited around 1000 older adults who believed that they were performing better than their peers, only 16 people met the criteria. To be defined as a Super-Ager, the participants had to be over 80 years of age, and needed to score at or above the norm for the 50-60 year-olds on memory screenings.

The researchers found that though the Super-Agers had aged physically at a normal rate, their brains retained their youthful appearance. Although thinning of the outer layer (cortex) of the brain is commonly seen in normal 80-year-olds, the Super-Agers had a thicker cortex compared to even 50-60 year-olds. Cortex is an area of the brain key for memory, attention, and thinking abilities and a thicker cortex is indicative of a greater number of healthy functioning nerve cells.

They also found that Super-Agers’ brain had no changes of Alzheimer’s disease- such as plaques and tangles compared to brains of those who had aged normally. Plaques consist of ab-normal deposits of Amyloid protein that slow down communication in the

brain and tangles consist of a protein called Tau that accumulates inside nerve cells and eventually kills the nerve cells.

The Super-Agers had more of an entity called Von Economo Neurons (VENs) – large cells located in some specific parts of the brain – than their peers. These cells are implicat-ed in empathy, social awareness, and self-control, and early destruction of these cells are found to occur in cer-tain types of dementia.

In terms of their psycho social fea-tures, based on life story interviews, the Super-Agers were found to have unique personality profiles, having less of neurotic characteristics, and more of warmth and agreeableness. They had more resilience and had sur-vived severe hardships in their child-hood and adult life, and were socially very active.

What did these Super-Agers do to be so different from their peers? In fact, researchers were not able to find anything unusual about their lifestyle, education level, or exercise. They were a mixed bag in terms of smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise, and education level.

The purpose of the study which is now in its sixth year is to study the heritable changes in genes from other causes, such as environment, life style etc. The researchers hope to unlock the secrets of Super-Agers’ youthful

brains, and apply the knowledge to help others suffering from dementia.

What are the implications of this study for the society? Well, these stud-ies remind us of the amazing diversity of experience, lifestyles and personal history of older adults. This reiterates the fact that when it comes to seniors, one size does not fit all.

As for relevance for seniors, this study confirms the fact that demen-tia is not an inevitable part of normal aging. Though many of us may not be-come Super-Agers, it is reassuring to know that at least a few of us could be members of this elite group.

The important point is that all of us can strive to reduce our risk of devel-oping dementia by adopting a healthy lifestyle, engaging in regular physical and mental activity, and being socially active. If you want more info about this study, or would like to participate in this study, please go to research sec-tion at www.brain.northwestern.edu. I wish you all a wonderful Seniors’ week!

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bach-elor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontolo-gy, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies. A past resident of Red Deer, and a past board member of Red Deer Golden Circle, she is now a Learning Specialist at the Alzhei-mer Society of Calgary. Please send your comments to [email protected]

If you’ve ever dropped some pounds only to pick them right back up again in no time, you know firsthand how tough it is to keep weight off once you’ve shed it. Just one in six over-weight or obese people who slim down manage to stay that way! Now, two fascinating reports reveal why — and what might help you persuade Mother Nature (and your metabolism) to hold on to your weight loss.

A National Institutes of Health study tracked 14 “Biggest Loser” con-testants for six years after their sea-son on that reality TV show. On av-erage, the contestants lost about 127 pounds apiece through strict diets and relentless exercise regimens. Some lost more than 200 pounds! And their health improved in countless ways.

Fast-forward six years. Most con-testants regained much of the weight they’d lost — on average, about 90 pounds each (although many remained at least 10 percent slimmer than when they started the show, reducing their risk for diabetes, heart disease, joint pain and other major health prob-lems). A few contestants weighed more than they had before the show.

Why was weight maintenance so dif-ficult? The answer jumped out when researchers measured the contestants’ resting metabolic rate, the number of

calories burned by the body around the clock. The results were shocking. Before their participation in the show began, their metabolic rates were nor-mal. Right after their appearance on the show ended, their metabolic rates had dipped. That was to be expected; it’s not unusual after weight loss. But here’s the kicker …

Six years later, the contestants’ bod-ies were burning about 500 fewer cal-ories every day than expected based on their age and body composition. Their post-weight-loss metabolic dip had never reversed itself. In some cas-es, a contestant’s metabolism slowed even more as the years went by. And as they gained weight back, their metabo-lism stayed sluggish. Mother Nature, it seems, was doing everything possible to make their bodies regain weight — a survival tool in prehistoric times of severe famine, but a big challenge for 21st-century dieters!

This info, coupled with other recent studies on metabolism and weight loss, can help you succeed at a task that’s even tougher than losing weight: keep-ing it off. Here’s what to do:

Pamper muscle mass. Your muscles drive your metabolism, whether you’re sleeping or sweatin’ along to a You-Tube exercise video. The more muscle mass you have (usually), the higher your calorie burn rate. So the smart move is to lose weight slowly, preserv-ing more muscle mass than extreme weight-loss programs allow.

Feed your muscles, then make them work. During your weight-loss phase and afterward, be sure you’re building

muscle as you lose fat, and are eating enough protein to feed lean, sexy mus-cle. Build and maintain muscles with ongoing strength training two to three times a week. Then boost your metab-olism further by adding short bursts of faster, higher-intensity aerobic activity to some of your cardio workouts, go-ing for 10,000 steps a day. Try interval walking: Walk faster for 30 seconds, then back to your usual pace for a min-ute; repeat a couple of times.

Give yourself a year to let your new weight become your “new normal.” A recent University of Copenhagen study found that levels of the “feed me!” hor-mone ghrelin rise during weight loss, urging you to eat and making it tough to maintain a lower weight. But if you stick to your healthy eating and exer-cise plan, it’ll get easier. We promise! The researchers found that ghrelin levels drop to normal about a year af-ter weight loss. Bonus: Levels of “I’m full” hormones rise, too.

Slash stress. Ongoing tension from work, family or finances, for example, boosts your levels of the appetite-stim-ulating hormone cortisol. Turn to ex-ercise, progressive muscle relaxation (breathe calmly as you tense and relax muscle groups from your toes to your head), yoga, time with friends and your favorite hobby to soothe stress, instead of reaching for sweets and snacks.

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.

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PADMAJA GENESH


TORONTO — Many of this year’s new post-secondary graduates have left the academic world carrying tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Mean-time, those heading to college and uni-versity this fall will soon contend with steep tuition rates that often result in a similar burden.

While schools attempt to lessen the load by offering financial aid, average student debt appears to be climbing. So some institutions are also respond-ing by beefing up their mental health services to help students cope with life in the red.

“We’re worried about one type of debt — student debt — and we want to know how to pay it off as quickly as possible,” said Dillon Collet, who is about to enter his final year at the Uni-versity of Toronto’s faculty of law and sat on the dean’s advisory committee on financial aid.

The committee organized a finan-cial aid workshop that discussed the psychology of debt. It was well-attend-ed, Collet said, with about 60 students in the room and a lineup outside. The committee’s student representatives also pushed to have tuition fees — and their connection to student stress — to be discussed at the faculty council’s meeting each year, Collet said.

“A lot of students suffer silently.”Estimates suggest average student

debt in Canada is past the $25,000 mark.

In 2013-14, graduates finished school with an average of $12,480 in federal loan debt, according to num-bers from the Canada Student Loans Program. However, that figure doesn’t include provincial or private loans. An Ontario student graduating from a four-year university program, for example, shouldered an average of $22,207 in provincial debt in 2012-2013. That makes for a total debtload of more than $34,000 if they also bor-rowed the average sum from the feder-al government.

The Canadian University Survey Consortium surveyed more than 18,000 graduating university students from 36 Canadian universities for its 2015 annual report. The average debt-rid-den student owed $26,819. Such a debt load can have an impact on a student or graduate’s mental health, though only a small amount of published re-search exists on the apparent link. A 2015 journal paper analyzed data from a U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics sur-vey of more than 8,000 youth in the United States — where tuition fees are significantly higher than in Canada — to determine if debtload and psycho-logical well-being were connected.

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It’s tough to keep weight off once you’ve shed it, but some recent studies on metabolism and weight loss could hold some secrets to keeping a healthy weight for good.

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CARSCADDENElizabeth Mae 1946 - 2016We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Betti Carscadden. As a mother, sister, spouse, grandma and friend she was light in our every day. Her positivity, unconditional support and love will be profoundly missed. Betti enjoyed life to its fullest and fi lled her days by surrounding herself with those she loved. She and Keith’s home was a hub of activity with friends and family always warmly welcomed… and always fed. She was the ultimate host. Spending time kayaking, hiking and skiing were some of her favorite ways to enjoy the Windermere Valley. Having grown up in Windermere, and then retiring here in 1999, Betti had a deep connection and love for the valley. It was in Red Deer, Alberta that Betti and Keith lived, worked and raised their family. Betti loved that community and the wonderful connections she made in Red Deer have lasted way beyond her time there. She is survived by her husband Keith, brother Bob, son Kevin (Angela), daughter Julie (Duncan), and her fi ve grandchildren, Emmett, Stirling, Rio-Belle, Aria and Kada. She is predeceased by her parents, Dix and Gertie Anderson and by her son, Jay. A Celebration of Life will be held at Copper Point Resort’s, Quartz Grand Hall on Thursday, June 9th, at 1:00pm with Rev. Laura Hermaken presiding. In lieu of fl owers, donations in her memory can be made to the Salvation Army or to a local charity of choice.

DAVISRandall JamesSept. 20, 194 5- June 3, 2016It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Randall (Randy) James Davis. Randy passed away with family by his side on June 3rd at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. He was born in Leader, Saskatchewan to Elmo and Marjorie Davis and was the older brother to Ross Davis. Randy married Theresa (Terry) Marie Moo-ney on August 4, 1968 and they soon settled near the family farm in Portreeve, Saskatchewan to start their lives together. Soon after Randy started on the pipe line and was how he sup-ported his family for the next 40 years. Eventually Randy and Terry moved to Alberta and settled in Red Deer in 1981. Dad lost the love of his life Theresa Marie last year and we all take great comfort in the thought of them being together again. Randy will be lovingly remembered by his four children Keith (An-gella) Davis, Michele Davis, Kent Davis, Marty (Rayna) Davis and his eight grand-children, Tessa, Brody, Riley, Ella, Pyper, Myah, Deegan and Van. A Memorial Ser-vice will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 St. Red Deer, on Friday, June 10, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. Memo-rial donations in Randy’s honour may be made directly to the charity of your choice. Condolences may be for-warded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneral-chapels.comArrangements entrusted to

EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL

4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.Phone (403) 347-2222

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de GROOTJohannes Adriaan1961-2016It is with great sadness that we, the family, announce the passing of Johannes Adriaan de Groot, on June 3, 2016 at the age of 54. Johan was born and raised in Streefkerk, The Netherlands on a dairy farm. The family moved to Swifterband, The Netherlands and started a new farm this is where he got his education and love for dairy cows. Johan later on moved to Oldeberkoop, Friesland, where he started his own dairy farm and met his life partner Janneke Poot. In March of 1999, they emigrated to Red Deer, Alberta and started their Dairy on the hill. In October of that year their son Paul was born. Due to health reasons, they sold the cows in 2012 and Johan started riding his motorbikes again. He traveled to Australia, USA, South Africa and explored Canada. On Friday he left the house to do what he loved best, riding his bike, with his best friends at his side. Unfortunately he got in an accident. Johan will be lovingly remember and sadly missed by Janneke Poot, Paul de Groot, Marie de Groot- de Vos (mother) and many family members and friends. The funeral/memorial service will be held on Friday June 10, 2016 with viewing at 12:30 pm and the memorial service to start at 1:30 pm, at the Farm Alta Vista Holsteins. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations in memory of Johan may be made to the Roland McDonald House, 5002 39 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2P2. Condolences may be forwarded towww.sylvanlakefuneralhome.caSYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY

FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM,

your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the

arrangements. 403-887-2151

HOVLAND (nee Hogan)WendyNov. 8, 1953 - May 3, 2016Wendy passed away at the age of 62 in Oklahoma City, where she had lived for a number of years working in her chosen career of nursing Wendy will be forever remembered by her daughter Jennifer, her grandchildren Ryder and Skylar of Choctaw, OK; her brother Mike Hogan (Lee) of Calgary; sister Barbara Holmes (Richard) of Pasadena, CA; nieces and nephews on both Hogan and Hovland sides, as well as Rod Hovland. A casual open house to celebrate her life will he held on Saturday, June 11 from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Elks Club in Red Deer (6315 Horn Street). Condolences may be sent to [email protected].

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JenkinsGary LeeNov 21, 1945 - June 3, 2016 It is with great sadness that the family of Gary Lee Jenkins announce that he has taken his last ride on this Earth. Gary passed away surrounded by his family at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, June 3, 2016 at the age of 70 years. Gary was born in Brooks, Alberta to Ernest and Myrtle Jenkins on November 21, 1945. They moved to Calgary where Gary attended school and met the love of his life Betty Jean Munro. They married in Calgary and proceeded to have three children. Gary and Betty moved to Red Deer in 1975. Gary ran his business, Burbank Crane from 1978 to 2011. Upon Gary’s retirement he became a full time NASCAR fan. Gary’s passions in his life were attending his children’s sporting events and his interest in motorcycles, camping, 4 wheel driving and fast cars. Gary is survived by his wife Betty of 49 years, his daughters Kari (Randy) Lindholm, Kelly Jenkins (Joe Callihoo) and son David Jenkins, and four grandchildren, Mason & Mackenzie Lindholm and Easton & Archer Jenkins. He will be sadly missed by his sister Myrna (Paul) Birnie and his brother Bligh (Pat Gaviller) Jenkins. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 St. Red Deer on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. In lieu of fl owers, memorial contributions may be made to the Charity of the Donors Choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visitingwww.eventidefuneralchapels.com

Arrangements entrusted toEVENTIDE FUNERAL

CHAPEL4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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WEISGERBEREdward1932 - 2016Mr. Edward Joseph ‘Ed’ Weisgerber of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away in the Palliative Care Unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at the age of 84 years. Ed was born on January 16, 1932 at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He was the second oldest child of George and Kay Weisgerber. While serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, Ed met and married his love, Lorraine. In 1979, the family moved to Central Park, located just north of Red Deer. Ed retired from the Armed Forces in 1980; he continued his service to others through his dedication with the County of Red Deer Fire Department. Ed was also a dedicated and valuable member of Sacred Heart Parish, always available to offer a smile and a helping hand. One of Ed’s favorite hobbies, besides fi shing, was square dancing. Even after he lost Lorraine in 2007, Ed still continued to dance. Ed became invaluable in assisting with the care of his dear friend, Marie Landry, and became a treasured honorary member of the Landry family. Ed will be fondly remembered for his unique sense of humor, the twinkle in his eye and his charming smile. He will be sadly missed by all his many friends. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Joseph Wroblewski celebrant. Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Interment will be held at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Ed’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society Alberta Division at www.cancer.ca. A heartfelt thank you goes out to all the doctors and staff who assisted Ed during his fi nal days, from Emergency to Palliative Care. May God bless each of them for their nurturing and comforting care. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 B7Restaurant/Hotel 820JJAM Management (1987)

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’sRequires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:

5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. +medical, dental, life and

vision benefi ts. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com

Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Education not req’d.Apply in person or fax

resume to: 403-314-1303

Misc.Help 880

We are hiring aGeneral Labourerto work as part of our

service team in the dairy industry. The ideal

candidate must have a valid driver’s licence, and be able to perform work in a safe and effi cient manner

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around livestock and are able to use power tools, please send resume to [email protected].

We are hiring an INSTRUMENT TECHNICIAN

to work as part of our service team in the dairy

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Children'sItems 1580HOODIE, LACOSTE, blue child’s size 12, very good

condition. $10. 403-314-9603

SUITCASE, Child’s Ladybug, by Samsonite,

$15. 403-314-9603

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools 1640AIR Compressor, 3 gal. or 11.4 L, paid $149.99 plus a 2/1 nailer, drives, nails and narrow crown staples, pd. $119.99. Used once. Will sell both for $175. 403-309-7387, 392-6138

BENCH Grinder, 1/3 HP, $25.; Dremel Tool Kit with base, $40.; Metal Folding table, $15. 403-346-6539

Start your career!See Help Wanted

Tools 1640FRAMING Nailers, 3 in 1 KING Canada, 28 degree x34 degree, fl ipped head.

Performance Plus.18 guage,2 Brad Nailer Kits Performance Plus,18 guage x 1/4, narrow

crown stapler, in carrying case. Includes full box of 3 1/4 nails. Sold for $300.

Asking $150. for all 3. 403-309-7387, 392-6138MASTER CRAFT Driver, square, 1/2”, speed 65 RMP Max. torque 320 .

Asking $50. 403-309-7387, 392-6138

METAL STORAGE shelves, (2) metal 3’ x 6’.

$30. Wind speed Indicator, $15.; CB Radios (2), w/accessories. $25.

403-346-6539

Firewood 1660B.C. Birch, Aspen,

Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

GardenSupplies 1680

MOWER, rear bag. $85. 403-347-5873, 350-1077RIDING LAWMOWER, 12

HP, 30`` CUT. $500. 403-347-5873, 350-1077

HouseholdAppliances 1710

WANTED TO BUY Apt. size deep freeze,

must be in good condition and good price. 403-346-5360

HouseholdFurnishings17202 YEAR OLD GREEN re-cliner for sale, good shape, needs a bit of cleaning. $200. 403-358-3597.

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

StereosTV's, VCRs 1730

SONY STEREO Component System, $30.

403-358-5247

Misc. forSale 1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020

2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. 403-885-5020

5TH WHEEL tail gate, $257; Dodge truck box,

8’ with tail lights and gate, $1500 obo; outdoor cooker 2 burner camp stove, $75;

tie down bar for Dodge Dakota, $50; aluminum tool box, $200. 403-358-6579.

GRILL, 3 in 1, Hamilton Beach.

New still in box. $40.403-358-5247

MAKEUP, from New York, red hot crocodile

bag, 12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. NEW!! Valued at

$195. Asking $75. 587-876-2914

SEWING MACHINE, Brother, Portable.

Used Twice. $75. o.b.o. 403-342-7061

SHOES, ladies size 37, summer fl at slingback, Rieker, anti-stress. Off white leather. Sides are open weave, worn once.

Regular $185. Asking $80. 587-876-2914

SOCCER BOOKS, (3) plus box of player cards.

$35. 403-314-9603

SUITCASES (3) $10.Stepping Stool, Oak $100.Gas Barbecue, Portable.

$20. 403-358-5247

Misc. forSale 1760

VIDEO Photo Tripod, extended height, 143 cm.

$40. 403-346-6539

WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

Cats 1830KITTENS To GIVE AWAY

ready to go. 403-782-3031 call between 1 & 4 pm

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for

free. 403-887-3649

SportingGoods 1860

WANTED TO BUY,FOLD-AWAY cot/table for exercising. Must be clean

and in good condition. 403-346-5360

TravelPackages 1900

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WeddingSupplies 1910VINTAGE Wedding Dress XS, (approx. size 2), Ivory embossed, satin broquet,

Full length. $200. 587-876-2914

WantedTo Buy 1930

SMALL TABLE with two chairs for indoor use

wanted. Call 403-358-3597.

CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390

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Houses/Duplexes 3020

3 BDRM. upper fl oor in house, near schools and transportation, good for

family of 4, 950/mo. 403-343-6229 or

403-304-3979

4 LEVEL split, 4 bdrm., 2 full bath, near schools and transportation, $1350/mo.

or room for rent at $500/mo. incld’s util. 403-343-6229

or 403-304-3979

SYLVAN: fully furn. rentals incld’s all utils. & cable.

$550 - $1300. By the week or month. 403-880-0210

Condos/Townhouses30301400 SQ. FT. condo with att. garage, South Red

Deer. Ref’s req’d. 403-728-3688

3 BDRM. 2 full baths, 4 appls., avail. now or July

1. SD $800. Rent $975403-304-5337

SEIBEL PROPERTYONE MONTH FREE RENT

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained

townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood,

Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576

or 403-347-7545

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Condos/Townhouses3030

SOUTHWOOD PARK3110-47TH Avenue,

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses,generously sized, 1 1/2

baths, fenced yards,full bsmts. 403-347-7473,

Sorry no pets.www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/6 Plexes 3050

2 BDRM. suite in 4-plex, 4 appls., Rent $875. DD. $650. incld’s water sewer,

& garbage 346-7917, 877-5070.

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1. 403-304-5337

GLENDALE2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.,

$925. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or July 1.

403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water

sewer and garbage. Avail. now or July 1st.

403-304-5337

TWO WEEKS FREECLEARVIEW, 4 plex

2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s,

no pets, . 403-391-1780

WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1

403-304-5337

Suites 30602 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or JULY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water

incl’d., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

CITY VIEW APTS.2 bdrm in Clean, quiet,

newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospi-tal. No pets. 403-318-3679

GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., $800/mo., D.D. $850, N/S,

no pets, no partiers. 403-346-1458

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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Rental incentives avail.1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent

$750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000

NOW RENTINGSELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S.

starting at $795/mo.2936 50th AVE. Red DeerNewer bldg. secure entry

w/onsite manager,3 appls., incl. heat & hot

water, washer/dryer hookup, infl oor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony,

adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

Suites 3060PENHOLD 1 bdrm., 4

appls., inclds. heat & water, no pets, $760/mo. 348-6594

PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., hrdwd. fl rs., inclds. heat and water, $1100. 403-348-6594

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building,

N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

RoomsFor Rent 3090FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent,

$500/mth - $250 DD. Call 403-396-2468

Offices 3110Downtown Offi ce

Large waiting room, 2 offi ces & storage room,

403-346-5885

Pasture 3180PASTURE

North Red Deer. 10 cow/calf pairs, no bulls, no yearlings. 403-346-5885

MobileLot 3190

PADS $450/mo.Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm.,2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Realtors& Services 4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVECall GORD ING atRE/MAX real estate

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ManufacturedHomes 40902 BDRM. mobile home, stove fridge, washer, dryer in Rimbey Mobile Home Park. Good cond. $19,500. obo. 1-780-465-7107

IncomeProperty 4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS

4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

IndustrialProperty 4120QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARKNew industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. or for Rent. 403-391-1780

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BuildingsFor Sale 4150SMALL offi ce storage etc. Unit approx., 8x20, not on skids, all steel & insulated

w/power & furnace.8x12 Calf shed w/fl oor &

doors. Call 403-347-6455

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MoneyTo Loan 4430

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HolidayTrailers 5120

2011 SPRINGDALE by Keystone 31’ travel trailer

in mint cond., 3’ x 14’ slide, electric awning, jacks & hitch lift, rotating tv - to

view in living room or bdrm. 2 - 30 lb. propane tanks,

equalizer hitch, REDUCED to $16,750 obo.

[email protected] or 403-347-9067

Boats &Marine 5160

WatersEdge MarinaBoat Slips Available

For Sale or RentSylvan Lake, AB

[email protected] www.watersedgesylvan.com

Tires, PartsAcces. 5180

BUG defl ector, $100. 403-358-6579.

Accounting 1010INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

with oilfi eld service companies, other small

businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning 1070CLEAN FREAK FOR HIREAvail. to start cleaning houses on July 2. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 leave msg

Contractors 1100BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads

Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

BRIDGER CONST. LTD.We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???We’ll do it all...Free est.Call E.J. Construction

Jim 403-358-8197

COUNTERTOP replacement. Kitchen reno’s.

Wes 403-302-1648

Contractors 1100DALE’S HOME RENO’S

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

DAMON INTERIORS Drywall, tape, texture,

Fully licensed & insured. Free Estimates. Call anytime

Dave, 403-396-4176

Entertainment1160DANCE DJ SERVICES

587-679-8606

Flooring 1180NEED FLOORING DONE?Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp. Call Jon 403-848-0393

HandymanServices 1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home

projects such as bathroom, main fl oor, and bsmt.

renovations. Also painting and fl ooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

MassageTherapy 1280FANTASY

SPAElite Retreat, Finest

in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.Services 12905* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

Painters/Decorators1310JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

TUSCANY PAINTING 403-598-2434

Roofing 1370PRECISE ROOFING LTD.15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Roofing 1370QUALITY work at an

affordable price. Joe’s Roofi ng. Re-roofi ng

specialist. Fully insured. Insurance claims welcome. 10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’Services 1372HELPING HANDS Home

Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning,

companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

YardCare 1430

SECOND 2 NONE, reg. and res. grass cutting/yard clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ rock and sod jobs/eaves. Free est. 403-302-7778

TREE /YARD CARE, JUNK Removal, Garage

Door Service. 403-358-1614

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1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block.

$16,500. 403-598-4131

1976 DODGE new tires & brakes, sleeps 4, good cond., 85,000 kms,

$2500 obo

FULL size camper van 18 ft. 1987 Dodge 3/4

ton Ram 250, 318 auto., 150,000 mi., extras, new parts, $4350. 403-877-6726

1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good,cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner

stove/oven, micro., queen bed, x-long couch, $7000.

403-350-6695

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TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 WINDSTAR, lady driven

184,000 kms. Exc. cond. $3000.

2005 CROWN Vic, loaded, 94,000 kms.

$6000. obo.

2006 CHRYSLER 300, LTD, low kms., sun roof, leather, new winter tires.

$8000. obo

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2006 Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide,

10,800 kms, mint cond. $11,000.

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2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new

tires, exc. cond. $5500.

403-318-4725

2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD,

extras$12,500 obo403-505-5789

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2011 DODGE CALIBER, only 56,000 km, exc. cond.,

$8,900.403-406-7600

2011 SPRINGDALE by Keystone 31’ travel trailer in mint cond., slide, $19,000 obo.

[email protected] or 403-347-9067

2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, 1,700 km,

$2,000.

2014 19.6’ NOMADSUV towable, sleeps 4,

Gently used. REDUCED to $14,500.

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June 82013 — Torrential rains hit Alberta; up to 75,000 people will be evacuated from Cal-gary as the Bow and Elbow rivers burst their banks. 2000 — The Dallas Stars and the New Jer-

-less game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal

by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.1974 — Governor General Jules Leger suf-fers a stroke; administrative duties taken by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.1944— As many as 156 Canadian POWs murdered by 12th SS Hitler Youth Panzers

D-Day.1912 — Body of James McGrady, a steward

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Corus to air Real Housewives of Toronto as part of 2016-17 lineup

TORONTO — Get ready for big drama in the Big Smoke: the Real Housewives reality franchise is headed to Toronto.

Corus Entertainment says Real Housewives of Toronto will be part of its 2016-17 programming lineup.

The show will follow “the city’s wealthiest women, from their extravagant day-to-day escapades in Toronto to grandiose getaways at their exclusive colossal cottages” in Muskoka, Ont., says a statement.

Other new unscripted series in the lineup include the first-ever version of The Bachelorette Canada, set to debut this fall on W Network.

Global will have the new scripted series Bull, starring Michael Weatherly of NCIS fame, as well as a fourth instalment in the Chicago franchise, Chicago Justice.

Global will also air four new comedies with big stars: Kevin James in Kevin Can Wait, Matt LeBlanc in Man With a Plan, Ted Danson and Kristen Bell in The Good Place, and Joel McHale in The Great Indoors.

Also set for Global is the new Canadian assisted-suicide drama Mary Kills People, starring Caroline Dhavernas.

Incorporated, a futuristic thriller from executive producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, will air on Showcase, as will Supergirl.

Russell Peters to star as Toronto cop in CraveTV dramedy series

TORONTO — Canadian comedy star Russell Peters is set to play a Toronto cop caught up in a case in India in a new CraveTV dramedy series.

The streaming service says Russell Peters is the Indian Detective will begin production this fall and shoot in Durban, Mumbai and Toronto.

The series, with four hour-long episodes, will premiere in 2017 and mark Peters’s first starring role in a scripted TV show.

The Brampton, Ont., native will play Doug D’Mello, a Toronto cop who visits his dad in Mumbai after being unjustly suspended.

While there, he gets caught up in a dangerous investigation, falls for a beautiful lawyer, and suffers from culture shock.

The series was developed for Peters by writer and executive producer Frank Spotnitz and Smita Bhide.

Renee Zellweger ‘found anonymity’ during Hollywood break

Renee Zellweger is opening up about her six-year absence from Hollywood, saying “it was time to go away and grow up a bit.”

The 47-year-old tells British Vogue she “found anonymity” during her time off so she could not be defined by her image and have exchanges with people on a “human level.”

Zellweger put on weight recently to reprise one of her most famous roles in Bridget Jones’s Baby, which opens in September.

The Oscar-winning actress tells the magazine that she doesn’t understand the extra attention when she changes her body to play the cherubic Jones, saying

“no male actor would get such scrutiny.”Zellweger’s appearance made headlines in

2014 after social media commenters said she was unrecognizable. She attributed the change in her looks to “a more fulfilling life.”

Corden not interested in replacing Stephen Colbert

NEW YORK (AP) — Late Late Show host James Corden says he has no interest in taking over for his lead-in on CBS, Stephen Colbert.

Colbert’s Late Show brought in a new executive producer in April and has been running neck and neck with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live in the ratings behind NBC’s Jimmy Fallon.

Of the possibility of replacing Colbert at 11:30 p.m., Corden tells Howard Stern “that’s never going to happen” and that Colbert’s show “is working.”

Corden also touched on the origins of his wildly popular Carpool Karaoke skits, which feature Corden driving alongside singers like Adele and Justin Bieber belting out hits.

He tells Stern his first-ever guest on the segment, Mariah Carey, initially told him she wasn’t able to sing before joining in once Corden put her songs on the stereo.

Game of Thrones star Maisie

Williams calls out newspaper

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has taken to Twitter to rewrite a re-cent headline about her.

Williams, who plays Arya Stark on the HBO se-ries, tweeted to her near-ly 1.3 million followers

Tuesday a Daily Mail headline that read Williams “goes braless in sheer lace dress and quirky head-piece at charity masquerade ball.”

Her suggested alternative: “Game of Thrones ac-tor, Maisie Williams, helps raise thousands at a Sum-mer Masquerade Ball for NSPCC.”

That’s the Twitter handle for England’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The tweet has received more than 31,000 retweets and 57,000 likes.

The 19-year-old Williams started on Game of Thrones when she was 12 in her first-ever acting job.

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Words, music transfix crowd

Dallas Green’s songs of love and death cast a trance-like spell on 2,500 fans at his City and Colour concert at Red Deer’s Centrium.

Sporting his trademark brimmed hat, the Ontario musician started singing Woman alone with his gui-tar on Monday night. A spectacular light show erupt-ed as four backup musicians joined him on stage.

White beams from four overhead tracks began spinning at impressive angles. A moody feeling was created as Green started singing in falsetto about the kind of love that outlasts the world.

Perfectly melding his vocals with the instrumenta-tion, Green rarely veered from a mellow vibe.

His series of atmospheric soul/pop tunes were performed under different lighting effects — a wash of aqua and blue for Northern Blues, peach and green for Two Coins and deep red for The Grand Optimist. But all of the songs were delivered in similarly slow tempo by Green standing mid-stage with his guitar.

There’s no question his dark-edged emo music was embraced by the crowd. Many fans mouthed every word — even Green’s rather morbid lyrics to If I Should Go Before You (“into the great unknown, I’ll leave my ghost right beside you, you won’t have to wait alone …”)

But at some point, probably after Killing Time, Hel-lo, I’m in Delaware, and Wasted Love, it all got a little monotonous — despite the dazzling lights that occa-sionally blinded the audience (presumably to wake the sleepyheads).

While Green could do no wrong, according to his devoted followers, the rest of us could have used more song variety — and more interesting banter than his thank yous.

A couple of songs were introduced later in the show, including, We Found Each Other In the Dark (“about trying to be nice to each other”), and Comin’ Home (“Nothing makes me as happy as touring the country with a guitar and a song.”) And the tem-po eventually picked up enough to get some girls dancing during the more upbeat Lover Come Back and Sleeping Sickness. Some arms were even slowly waved in the air during Waiting ...

There were transcendent moments in which the sheer beauty of Green’s songs sufficed — including the darkly gorgeous A Body in a Box and the roman-tic The Girl.

But the best thing about the City and Colour con-cert was that a mild, not-at-all-wild, singer/songwrit-

er could completely transfix so many young people with the power of just his words and music.

Texas musician Shakey Graves opened with a backup trio that also had something to say about love and death.

Blending a cowboy attitude with murky atmo-spherics, Graves (a.k.a Alejandro Rose-Garcia) paint-ed evocative pictures with his toe-tapping, rootsy tunes.

Suggesting someone died in Red Deer’s hockey

arena (“If you’re very quiet, you can still hear him …”), he launched into his clap-along song, Dearly De-parted that features the lyrics “you and I both know the house is haunted … and the ghost is me.” Anoth-er terrific tune was To Cure What Ails.

Before exiting, Graves thanked the crowd for be-ing “absolutely stupendous … This is the first time I played an arena of any sort.”

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While Dallas Green could do no wrong, according to his devoted followers, the rest of us could have used more song variety — and more interesting banter than his thank yous.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You set very high standards for yourself — and others. 2016 is the year to be less stressed and have more fun, especially when it comes to your dreams for the future.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re full of fabulous ideas today Rams. But re-member, just because you’ve thought of something — and talked about it enthusiastically and endlessly— doesn’t mean you’ve actually done it!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it comes to an in-timate relationship or a close partnership, you may feel as if you’re treading water — or even going backwards. Retro-grade Mars and Saturn both urge you to be extra patient.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Communication is the buzz word today Twins, as you ex-press your creative ideas to those around you. You’re in the mood to talk up a storm,

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): With the support of family and friends you can go far today Crabs. Whether you are on your own or in the company of others you’ll feel at ease with yourself, both inwardly and outwardly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Jupiter favours fi-nancial matters until September 11 — as long as you are careful with cash and responsible with credit. Explore new ways to boost your bank balance with an extra stream of income.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cooperation and consultation will take you far at work. Looking for employment? With Venus visit-ing your career zone, make sure your outer appearance is as immaculate as your job resume.

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volving travel, international connections, work and networking are all favoured, as you ex-tend your peer group to include some fresh faces. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you feeling incredibly frustrated at the moment Scorpio? Mars is reversing through your sign - until June 29 - so you need to conserve en-ergy, pace yourself and be extra patient and persistent.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today you’ll discover that true peace of mind comes from accepting others as they are, plus em-bracing what comes your way in a relaxed and non-judgemental manner. Feel the love Sagittarius!

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the perfect time to share new activities — and go on exciting adventures - with the children in your life. And how long has it been since you had heaps of fun with your own inner child?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Find enjoy-able ways to combine your professional and domestic lives.

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Dear Annie: I just received a baby shower invitation that makes me feel more like a fundraising target than a loving family member.

I have hosted or attended at least 20 baby showers.

There have always been games and prizes.

This shower will include a diaper raffle, so that means an “entry fee.” Attendees are excluded from the game if they don’t pony up a package of dia-pers.

They have also asked for a book in-stead of a card.

I am an artist. I always create per-sonal drawings on handmade paper tags as my card, but now I have to get a book.

And then, of course, a gift from the baby registry is expected.

This mother-to-be is financially bet-ter off than my husband and I, so it’s not as though they can’t afford diapers. It just seems greedy, rude and tacky. If I choose not to participate in the pay-per-play events, I will not only feel left out, but will be viewed as a cheap-skate.

I might add that we never received

a thank-you note for the $400 wedding gift we sent several years ago.

When did it become acceptable for a celebration of new life to become a crowdfunding event? — Appalled In-vitee

Dear Appalled: It has never been ac-ceptable, but it hasn’t stopped people from trying.

And this one seems particularly de-manding — books, diapers and gifts. Diaper showers have become popular as a way to help the new parents stock up on this particular necessity, espe-cially since the cost is minimal and of-ten considered the shower gift, as well.

You are not obligated to do every-thing that is asked of you.

And should you decide to bring a book and diapers, consider the cost of those items to be part of your overall budget for the shower and choose the gift accordingly.

Not receiving a thank-you note for your wedding gift is, sad to say, not un-common for those brides and grooms who lack consideration for others.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Save Your Feet for the Beach,” whose co-worker likes to walk around the of-fice barefoot and the managers don’t comment.

You said the reader should point out that she could pick up all kinds of germs or step on a staple.

The managers would likely have something to say if their workers’ com-pensation insurance or liability insur-

ance company was aware that anyone, at any time, was without shoes in the office.

This is an avoidable hazard and if the co-worker were injured due to be-ing barefoot, the managers would care plenty.

Of course, the reason she goes bare-foot is a separate subject.

If she needs a second pair of com-fortable shoes at the office, she should keep them there and stop putting her-self at risk. — V.

Dear V. Thanks for the input. Other readers pointed out that this could be a board of health violation, leading to fines.

When you hit the owners or manag-ers in the pocketbook, they tend to pay more attention.

No matter how uncomfortable your shoes may be, it is completely inappro-priate, unprofessional and dangerous to walk around barefoot in the office. It is not your home.

Bring something else to put on your feet.

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The Sims removes gender barriers in video game

LOS ANGELES — The creators of The Sims are opening up gender cus-tomization options for the first time in the history of the popular life simula-tion video game.

The Sims publisher Electronic Arts and developer Maxis says a free up-date available Thursday for The Sims 4 will remove gender boundaries and allow players to create Sims with any type of physique, walk style or voice.

The Sims 4 and earlier installments in the 16-year-old series previously restricted specific clothing, hair styles and other esthetic options to either male or female characters.

EA and Maxis say over 700 pieces of content previously available to only male or female Sims will now be ac-cessible regardless of their gender in The Sims 4 and its expansion packs.

The gaming medium rarely depicts or allows players to create transgen-der characters.

The creators of The Sims are open-ing up gender customization options for the first time in the long-running history of the popular life simulation video game. The Sims publisher Elec-tronic Arts and developer Maxis said a free update available Thursday for The Sims 4 will remove gender boundar-ies and allow players to create virtual townsfolk with any type of physique, walk style or voice they choose.

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