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Regional sewer line meeting next week BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta politicians will meet with Transportation Minister Ric McIver next week to press for money to complete a regional sewer line. Area representatives were dismayed last month when the province balked at covering the full $20 million cost to complete the Olds-to-Red Deer sewage project, based on a funding model that saw the province pick up 90 per cent of the cost and municipalities 10 per cent. McIver offered communities $10 million, which was rejected by the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission, which is overseeing construction of the line. Mayor Jim Wood and Coun. Dave Hoar, who is the county’s representative on the commission, will be at the Alberta legislature with other mayors and councillors on April 17 to make their case. “The message is that this particular project is very important to the region,” said Wood on Tuesday, adding it is important both from health and economic development standpoints. “We have started a project that needs completion.” The sewer line was originally expected to cost $107 million and under the Alberta government’s Water for Life Strategy was to be funded in the 90/10 arrangement. Since construction started in 2009, costs have climbed to around $130 million because of inflation, route changes and a decision to stretch the build out over more years. The commission claims the province was aware of cost increases, but until the recent provincial budget had assured communities the previous funding split would be maintained. Wood said municipalities are not in position to take up the financial slack. “It’s extremely important to recognize these costs would be an extreme burden on municipalities.
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Forward Joel Hamilton of the Red Deer Rebels collides with Victor Rask of the Calgary Hitmen during the fourth game of the series at the Enmax Centrium on Tuesday. The Rebels lost 3-2 in overtime. See related story on page B4.
Cash seized, driver arrested during traffic stop BY ADVOCATE STAFF Police have seized more than $300,000 and arrested a motorist after a driver was pulled over on Hwy 2 near Olds on Monday. An estimated $300,000 to $500,000
was seized and the driver arrested under Criminal Code proceeds of crime provisions. Shortly after 2 p.m., an patrolling RCMP vehicle stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation. A Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) investiga-
tion ensued, with police dog Gus utilized. The search of the vehicle turned up several large sealed bags of Canadian currency. The driver was subsequently arrested and the money was seized.
Farmers protest genetically modified alfalfa BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF More than 80 protesters marched in downtown Red Deer on Tuesday over the introduction of genetically modified alfalfa in Ontario that they say will hurt organic farmers and their consumers nationwide. As part of a Canada-wide protest, the group marched from City Hall to Red Deer Conservative MP Earl Dreeshen’s office about 10 blocks away. Carrying placards that read Protect Our Pollinators and I Love Family Farms, the group wanted to show the public why the issue is so important. The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, which promotes food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues, recently released a report documenting how genetically modified (GM) alfalfa will contaminate non-GM alfalfa and hay crops if released in Eastern Canada. Large-scale agricultural companies Forage Genetics International and Monsanto want to introduce it. Joffre-area organic beef and pork producer Blake Hall said it’s critical that the federal government stop GM alfalfa. If introduced, it would be the
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first GM perennial crop introduced in Canada. “Because it’s a perennial and it’s pollinated, it’s been proven that spreading is inevitable and will make its way to Western Canada,” said Hall, a youth advisor for the National Farmers Union. Hall has been organic farming for four years and over that time, he’s seen demand increasing for clean, local food. “It’s not just farmers here, but eaters and co-producers that are wanting food that isn’t genetically modified,” said Hall. Hall said it will impact his business because certification is required for organics. It will also have wide effects on conventional agriculture, both for the export markets and with crop rotations. The GM alfalfa would spread through spilled seed. “Hay is harvested late and when it’s already gone to seed, it can spread that way,” said Hall. “And because it’s pollinated with bees, those pollinators will spread pollen from a GM plant to a field that may not have that tracer gene in it and will propagate it that way.”
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A group of about 100 people marched on City Hall in Red Deer Tuesday to protest the introduction of genetically modified alfalfa being introduced into Canada. The rally made its way from City Hall to Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen’s office. ALBERTA
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Identity Project to uncover what city is about BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer is on the lookout for what makes Red Deer special. And it wants the community to help. On Tuesday, civic leaders announced the Identity Project, which will aim to uncover what Red Deer is all about. “Red Deer has a personality — we just need your help to articulate it,” says a flashy comic-style postcard. The $85,000 council-endorsed project will last over the next two years. Creating a formal identity will then be used to better promote the city on the benefits of living, playing and doing business here. Mayor Morris Flewwelling said the project arose shortly after the municipal election in 2010. The newly elected leaders shared what the community was telling them during the campaigning. As a result, the city crafted the Identity charter, one of six work plans the city would devise. “Every day, Paris, Vancouver and Edmonton tell the world about their buildings, logos, tag lines — and we immediately know,” said Flewwelling during the launching inside the G.H. Dawe Community Centre. For Red Deer, one of its most iconic features is the pale green water tower in town, Flewwelling said in reference to the Horton Spheroid standing 40 metres tall in the Mountview area. It also stores 2.27 million litres or 500,000 gallons of water. Flewwelling later told reporters that he sees Red Deer being a number of things — a caring community, emerging from a small to a big city, plus it’s becoming more cosmopolitan. It’s also known for its natural beauty, its parks. It’s also big on nature conservation. The key element, though, is what people think makes Red Deer tick. Even Calgary and Edmonton feedback will be included. The project will be done in three phases: ● Uncovering — asking the public about who we are and compiling data
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Mayor Morris Flewwelling helps launch the City of Red Deer’s Identity Project on Tuesday. ● Validating — revisiting the public to ensure what we heard is accurate ● Revealing — sharing Red Deer’s authentic story. Julia Harvie-Shemko, director of Communications and Strategic Planning, said that city staff will attend a number of events and visit establishments to talk to a wide range of people.
People can submit input online at www.uncoverreddeer.com. “Once we analyze the data, we’ll come up with a narrative and it may only be a few sentences,” Harvie-Shemko said. “Then we’ll take that back to the community and ask what you think to see if we actually got it right.” ltester@reddeeradvocate.com
Cancer clinic accused of patient queue-jumping under review BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says it will review the practices of a Calgary cancer clinic accused of allowing patients to jump the queue for tests. “For Alberta Health Services, access for any type of health care must be based on clinical circumstances,” Chris Mazurkewich, chief operating officer of AHS, said in an interview Tuesday announcing the review. “It’s a core value.” Mazurkewich said the investigation begins May 1 and is expected to be completed by the summer. The review will be jointly conducted by two health care leaders and a physician from Edmonton. Mazurkewich said they also want to determine why an internal investigation into reports of queuejumping at Calgary’s Colon Cancer Screening Centre
in early 2012 did not find any evidence, only to have evidence surface a year later at Alberta’s preferential access inquiry. Last week, in closing submissions to the head of that inquiry, John Vertes, commission lead counsel Michele Hollins singled out AHS executives for doing little when warned in early 2012 that some patients were getting preferential treatment at the colon clinic, also known as CCSC. Vertes has finished hearing testimony and is to submit his report to the Alberta government by Aug. 31. Mazurkewich said even if AHS finishes their investigation earlier than Vertes, they will wait for the release of his report to see if any of his recommendations need to be added to their findings.
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SEWER: Red Deer to Springbrook incomplete “It doesn’t make sense to get a project to this level and stop it. “I’m confident that (McIver) will hear our position.” Most of the pipeline from Olds to Red Deer has been buried but a stretch from Springbrook to Red Deer and other infrastructure remains incomplete. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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far succeeded that.” About 180 signatures on a petition were presented to a representative at Dreeshen’s office. Hall said they were aware that Dreeshen wouldn’t be there since he was at a prior commitment in Sylvan Lake. Reached later Tuesday, Dreeshen said he would present the petition once it’s determined it’s valid. Dreeshen, who has farmed GM canola on his Pine Lake area farm, said he’s OK with GM alfalfa coming on stream. These genetically modified crops have great value, he said. Dreeshen said it should be farmers’ choice to grow crops with altered genetic traits. During the federal regulatory process, the research showed there would be no concerns with pollination, he said. “As long as the safeguards are there within the science behind the breeding of the plant, then it should be safe,” Dreeshen said. The Grain Growers of Canada and its more than 50,000 farmer members issued a statement of support on Tuesday for genetically modified crops because they say that weeds, insects and diseases are then controlled with fewer pesticides. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com
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will come back in the spring, it will spread that way as well. Alfalfa is an important crop for dairy farming as well as for livestock farmers and vegetable and field crop producers. Many Alberta farmers also save alfalfa seed. Canada approved GM alfalfa for health and environmental release in 2005, but any variety must be registered through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency before it can be commercially released. To date, no genetically modified alfalfa varieties are registered. Forage Genetics International applied Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) herbicide tolerant Roundup Ready technology to alfalfa. Registration and commercial release could happen this spring, according to National Farmers UnionOntario. Hall said GM alfalfa has been in the United States since 2010. It was important to march to Dreeshen’s constituency office because this is a federal issue, said Hall. “We also have a petition we have for him to table (at the House of Commons),” said Hall. “If we ask him to, he’s mandated to, provided we have enough signatures, which is a minimum of 25 and we have
At the Vertes inquiry, CCSC clerks testified that from 2008 to 2012 — at the direction of management — they slotted in low-risk patients belonging to Dr. Ron Bridges and others from the Helios Wellness Centre within weeks or months. The wait for everyone else was three years. Bridges is an associate dean of medicine at the University of Calgary and the founder of the CCSC. The inquiry heard Bridges is also a key fundraiser for the university. Helios is a non-profit private clinic that dispenses yoga, exercise, and diet advice and, along with the CCSC, rents office space from the university. The inquiry was told that Helios patients paid $10,000 a year to join, and that Helios donated $200,000 or more annually to the university to fund medical scholarships and other projects. Bridges testified he didn’t follow the normal CCSC booking rules but never knowingly pushed a patient ahead in line.
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Redford lobbies for Keystone THE PREMIER’S FOURTH SUCH TRIP TO WASHINGTON IN THE PAST 18 MONTHS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she’s not a proponent of any individual resource project, even as she’s working the Washington corridors of power this week in favour of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Alberta government paid to take out a large ad in the Washington Post newspaper Tuesday that called the proposed $7-billion pipeline from Canada’s oil sands to the Gulf Coast “the choice of reason.” Yet Redford maintains it is the industry’s job to sell any given project, not hers, calling it “a very clear distinction.” “We do think it’s an important project. It is not my job to be the proponent of that project,” Redford said late Tuesday after a protest-filled forum at the Brookings Institute, a centrist Washington thinktank. “There is a private company that has a commercial interest, that is going through a process where they are addressing the issues that need to be addressed by decision-makers in the United States,” she said. Her role, she continued, is to describe Alberta government policy to policy makers in Washington. The current visit, which wraps up Wednesday, was Redford’s fourth such trip in the last 18 months since becoming premier. Separating policy from sales pitch could get confusing. Gary Doer, the Canadian ambassador in Washington, walked Redford out onto an embassy terrace overlooking the Capitol for a Tuesday morning photo op where he used the panorama to announce that “down the street, 62 senators, in principle, voted for our favourite project, so onward and upward.”
‘IT IS NOT MY JOB TO BE THE PROPONENT OF THAT PROJECT . . . THERE IS A PRIVATE COMPANY THAT HAS A COMMERCIAL INTEREST, THAT IS GOING THROUGH A PROCESS WHERE THEY ARE ADDRESSING THE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BY DECISION-MAKERS IN THE UNITED STATES.’ — PREMIER ALISON REDFORD
Doer was referring to last month’s symbolic budget amendment vote, when 62 senators — including 17 Democrats and all 45 Republicans — voted to endorse the Keystone XL pipeline. That has put wind in the sails of other members of Congress who are attempting to pass the Northern Route Approval Act, which would approve the project while explicitly stating that “no presidential permit shall be required.” U.S. President Barack Obama is to decide later this year on whether to approve the 1,800-kilometre line, which would take oil from Alberta’s oilsands through the U.S. to refineries and ports on the Gulf Coast in Texas. The petroleum industry, labour groups and Redford have said Keystone XL is a vital measure to bolster Canada’s economy and ensure a stable source of oil for the United States. They got a boost recently when the U.S. State Department, in a preliminary report, said rejecting Keystone XL would not reduce greenhouse gas emissions or slow down development in the oilsands. The fate of the TransCanada (TSX:TRP) line has
already been postponed once by Obama amid widespread concerns from environmentalists. Protesters have demonstrated by the thousands in Washington over not just the potential environmental damage by any leaks from the Keystone line, but also over what the line represents. They say approving Keystone XL would be a tacit endorsement of the expansion of carbon-intensive operations like the oilsands, causing further damage to the environment through greenhouse gases. Redford is using her Washington pulpit to tell opponents that stopping XL will not stop oilsands development, while attempting to reassure all that Alberta — and Canada’s federal government — are making headway on environmental policy. “We think it’s very important to have a price on carbon; we have a price on carbon,” Redford told a question-and-answer forum at the Brookings Institute. “We’re working very closely right now with the federal government on a new set of oil and gas regulations that will deal with this. Part of that dialogue is talking about what our carbon price can do for technological development and economic growth.” Redford’s assurances didn’t appear to ease the concerns of a group of anti-Keystone protesters who infiltrated her afternoon speech and repeatedly disrupted the proceedings. The premier shrugged off the disturbance, saying emotions will rise as the decision gets nearer. “It is interesting because some of the people who made comments today, they’re valid comments,” said Redford. “They are important questions to ask and all we’re ever looking for is the opportunity to be able to answer those questions because we’re pretty proud of our record in Alberta.” Redford’s trip wraps up Wednesday after meetings with senators and members of Congress.
Alberta accused of bungling McConnell case BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s attorney general has bungled the case of a woman ordered deported after killing her children and is now making inflammatory comments that border on professional misconduct, the woman’s lawyer said Tuesday. Peter Royal, in a letter released to the media, said the office of Jonathan Denis had almost six months notice that Allyson McConnell was going to be deported to her native Australia and did nothing about it. “Simply doing the math would lead to the inevitable conclusion that (McConnell) was to be released on April 4,” wrote Royal, who noted that a deportation order from the federal government was issued on Oct. 18, 2012. “We fail to see how this (deportation) could have taken the minister by surprise.” McConnell was found guilty last April of drowning her two young sons, but a Crown appeal of the sentence and conviction has yet to be heard. Royal said the attorney general’s office did not ask to have the appeal hearing moved up and didn’t contact his office to see if McConnell would agree to return to Canada if her sentence were extended. He also said that the province’s appeal was delayed for months because the Crown missed deadlines to file background information with the court. “(Denis) suggested that all reasonable steps had been taken to prosecute this appeal. That is simply not the case,” said Royal. But Greg Lepp, assistant deputy minister of justice responsible for prosecutions, maintained Tuesday there was nothing the province could have done. “There was no basis upon which to move it up,” he said. “Even on an expedited basis, the appeals could not have been heard before she was released and
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Group says foreign worker program wrongly used to fill low-skill jobs EDMONTON — A labour group is calling for a review of a federal program designed to help employers quickly hire temporary foreign workers for high-skill jobs. The Alberta Federation of Labour says since the program was announced last April, more than 2,400 permits have been approved to hire foreign workers for low-skill service industry positions. Federation president Gil McGowan says access to information documents show the employers include fast-food restaurants, convenience stores and gas stations. “You look down this list, and it’s McDonald’s, Tim Hortons, A&W, Subway,” McGowan said Tuesday. “Are we supposed to believe that these are ’high-skill’ employment opportunities?” Some of the other businesses listed in the documents include The Big Moo Ice Cream Parlour in Alberta, Burger King in British Columbia and Pizza Express in Ontario.
either deported or free to leave Canada of her own volition.” Royal’s comments echo remarks from federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who is in charge of deportations. In a written statement last Friday, Toews chided Alberta for not taking action on the appeal. “It is unfortunate that the Alberta government did not act prior to Ms. McConnell’s release in order to prevent this situation from occurring,” said Toews. McConnell reportedly flew home to Gosford, Australia, late Monday. She was convicted of manslaughter for drowning her two-year-old son, Connor, and his 10-month old brother, Jayden, in a bathtub in the family’s home south of Edmonton in February 2010. The children were found by their father Curtis McConnell. The couple was involved in an acrimonious divorce and custody fight. The same day the father found his boys, his wife drove to Edmonton, jumped off a freeway overpass and seriously injured herself. She was kept in psychiatric care from then on and remained so after she was sentenced last June to six years. She was given credit for the more than two years she had spent in pretrial custody, so had 15 months left to serve. She completed two-thirds of her remaining sentence by last week and so, by law, had to be released. Regardless of the deportation order, McConnell had already indicated at her trial she planned to go home to Australia if she were released. The case has outraged Curtis McConnell and his family. They have told the media that the government has told them little about the case and that they want a longer sentence for his former wife. Denis is also publicly pushing for harsher punishment. He said the Crown will pursue its appeal and will push to have McConnell brought back if her sentence is extended.
“Our department filed the appeal immediately and has left no stone unturned whatsoever,” Denis told the house during question period Tuesday. “We’re dealing with two dead children and a grieving family,” he added. “We will not stop until justice is served in this province.” Royal suggested Denis is out of bounds for publicly stumping for a longer sentence in a case still before the courts. “For the attorney general to descend into the arena and make these sorts of comments is entirely inappropriate and indeed may constitute professional misconduct as a lawyer,” said Royal, who declined an interview with The Canadian Press. Critics from the three opposition parties agreed. “It’s completely inappropriate for an attorney general who has direct impact on, for example, the compensation of judges as well as the judicial system in general to be commenting on a specific case and trying to influence the outcome,” said Wildrose critic Shayne Saskiw. Added Liberal critic Laurie Blakeman: “If I can go to my minister of justice and say, ’I’d like you to come out on my behalf this time,’ then there’s a good argument they’re going to have to come out on somebody else’s side next time. “All of a sudden what we don’t have is not an independent court, but something that is influenceable by the highest bidder.” NDP critic Rachel Notley said “the conflict is big.” “We have a minister who is making decisions about courthouses, about support for courthouses, about support staff in courthouses, about schedule matters, about laws that govern lawyers,” said Notley. “He has extensive control over the whole judicial system.
McGowan said the permits are being used to replace Canadian workers and drive down wages. He has sent a letter, along with the documents, to federal auditor general Michael Ferguson. It asks for an audit of the government’s approval process. Alyson Queen, director of communications for Human Resources Minister Diane Finley, said in an email that the department is “very concerned.” “Officials are investigating and will look into any evidence that the program is being misused,” she said. “The program exists to address real and acute la-
bour shortages in certain sectors and regions across the country on a temporary basis. It was never meant to replace Canadians with foreign workers.”
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Keep Michener open CENTRE IS A MODEL OF CARE; PROVINCE NEEDS TO STAY TRUE TO ITS WORD BY GUY SMITH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE For good reason, residents, families, guardians, staff, community members, all three Alberta opposition parties, the Red Deer Public Schools board, Red Deer city council and others have come out against Premier Alison Redford and her government’s abrupt decision to close Michener Centre. The single persistent voice advocating for the government’s poor decision is Bruce Uditsky of the Alberta Association of Community Living (AACL). What most people don’t know is Uditsky and the AACL is the one group
also advocating for no government involvement in community living at all. In fact, last year Uditsky’s organization challenged the government’s right to implement accommodation standards for two- and three-person group homes. The AACL believes group homes should not be subject to any government oversight. Currently, there are 130 service providers in Alberta that are members of the Alberta Council of Disability Services. Mr. Uditsky’s organization is not. The AACL’s philosophy is risky because third-party regulation and inspection helps ensure proper, quality care and safety standards do not take a back seat to the self-interest of private operators. It’s the same philosophy that caused Wall Street to crash in 2008. The only difference here is Uditsky is playing with peoples’ lives instead of their life savings.
Mr. Uditsky is simply cheerleading the government spin by calling Michener an institution. The fact is Michener is not an institution at all. Michener is the preferred home for 125 vulnerable Albertans with high needs that can’t be met in the community. Uditsky fails to mention that there are a number of cases where individuals have returned to Michener after other placements were unable to meet those needs. He also doesn’t mention the eight Premier’s Awards of Excellence Michener has received since 1999, or that Michener has been awarded the highest level of accreditation under the Alberta Council of Disability Services audit. He also doesn’t point out that in 2008, the government promised in the Moving Ahead — It’s My Life report that “No one currently living at Mi-
chener Centre will be forced to move away from Michener Centre.” This promise was made after residents, families and guardians made the choice to stay at their Michener Centre home. This broken promise by the government is an infringement of the basic human rights of Michener residents and families and it’s wrong. Michener is an award-winning, highquality facility that serves as a model for care and must remain open for the individuals who have called it home for decades. For Uditsky, Redford and MLAs Mary Anne Jablonski and Cal Dallas to suggest Michener is not a real home or community for people with developmental disabilities is an unfortunate display of lofty elitism based in ideology rather than in truth and morality. Guy Smith is president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Motorcycle crash photo uncaring I am absolutely appalled and disturbed at today’s (April 4, 2013) headline news photo of a fatal motorcycle crash. Granted what happened the day before was likely newsworthy, an unfortunate and tragic accident, however I believe that the photo was not. I turn to the Advocate as it is our only main source of news in this community aside from the radio. I grew up in this community and feel that it exemplifies sorrow and sympathy when needed but feel that it was lost here in this article, starting with the picture. A picture of a simple cross and flowers at the roadside would have gotten the message across — rather than what you printed today. As a responsible news source in this community, I felt you promoted fear and judgment by printing this picture, rather than sympathy and advocating the news of this story. Why not reach out to this community and encourage our motorcycle riders and other members of society sharing the road with them that it is that time of year again to watch out for each other? Or take an opportunity to remind us of motorcycle safety? Or even take a political standpoint and talk about the guardrail likely involved in the crash? I hope that this young mans family does not live in this city to see such a disgraceful photo picturing the remains of his final resting place. However his colleagues and many friends do call this community their home and likely did see today’s photo. This man was a selfless, serving member of our community and I find it so incredibly disheartening that you would print this picture for the rest of our community to see and remember him by. Likely this won’t be the last motor vehicle collision fatality of the year, and I ask that you and your staff show some respect to the families and use some discretion by leaving a positive lasting impression — good news is newsworthy — the pictures are not necessary and not newsworthy! Amandha Richter Red Deer
Waste water a resource; don’t sell it Re: Rimbey town council’s decision to sell waste water to Encana. I am dumbfounded at the naivety of people. Maybe it’s just greed that drives decisions like that. This will come as news to those with toonies over their eyes or money stuck in their ears, but waste water is potable water. What do you suppose happened to sewage up until now? When you flush the toilet or run a load of wash, the waste water ends up at a treatment centre. There it is cleaned through the use of holding and settling ponds. The clear brackish water is then directed down channels where nature does another job of filtering. Those channels flow into rivers and lakes where other communities draw water. The water is treated, mostly by chlorination, to kill bacteria and piped to households where the whole process repeats itself. Community problems with water contamination can often be connected to overpopulation on a water source, or inadequate treatment facilities. The issue with selling waste water for use by the energy industry is that this water is never returned to the water cycle. Once it is mixed with chemicals used in today’s drilling and fracturing operations, it is not recoverable for human consumption. The industry injects this water into formations, hoping it will not migrate to surface because of its toxicity. The decision to sell waste water sounds great if you don’t care about your neighbours’ water source. In this area, most rural residents depend on groundwater from wells, but in larger centres and where water is not so plentiful, water is drawn from rivers and lakes. One community’s waste water is the next community’s drinking water. Like it or not, it’s the truth. Even a bottle of water, pop or beer ends up being recycled eventually, but not energy’s waste water. Don’t discard something valuable (potable water) in your eagerness to get rid of some useless thing associated with it (sewage removal). How much will it cost to buy back potable water once all that you had is promised to the energy companies? Couldn’t help but notice how this announcement
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Bike lane pilot needs to be completed With respect to the letter by Carmen Wallace published April 3, 2013, which offers support for Coun. Chris Stephan’s motion to cancel the pilot project on bike lanes, I hope Red Deer city council will continue the pilot in order to gather the data needed. Most of the bike lanes were established at the end of August 2012 and at least a full year of data should be considered to understand what worked well and what did not. The city did remove several contentious bike lanes last fall in response to public complaints, which demonstrates their sensitivity to the public on this issue. To remove all the bike lanes without a full year of data would be a lost opportunity. The City of Red Deer is seeking to accommodate various modes of travel as an alternative to driving. The Red Deer Association for Bicycle Commuting (I am a member) has provided input to the city in this regard. There has been ongoing consultation with the public, for example, an online survey in 2011. If you go to the city’s website and search for ‘bike lanes,’ you will see a lot of links on this topic. Incidentally, most cyclists are taxpayers too (or their parents are). The city is seeking to balance the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers with safety as a primary concern. Cyclists will ride on the sidewalk if they do not feel safe on the road. The bike lanes provide space for cyclists on the road to travel more safely. I don’t know if Kelowna’s bike lanes were considered in the design of the pilot project, but the city did look at various examples from other communities. The city will be in a better position to evaluate the pilot project with a full year of data and public feedback. Bill Franz Red Deer
Wolf bounties endangering species Re: Wolf bounties, Advocate, March 28, 2013. I’m writing to voice my concerns over the proliferation of private and municipal wolf bounties in this province. Having grown up in rural Alberta, and within wolf range, I have invested a great deal of time in educating myself on the subject, including the views of competing interests. I do not feel that this practice can be called “hunting” in the normal sense of the word. The wolf has suffered an onslaught south of our border since losing federal protection in August 2012. With scientific evidence ignored, the wolf re-
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mains the customary scapegoat for an array of problems. Despite the efforts of biologists, documentary filmmakers, etc., there are those who seem to refuse to believe the wolf is the intelligent, sociable, balanced part of our ecosystem it has proved to be. The hunting community at large has recognized the fervour and persecution of the wolf within its midst, and refer to the perpetrators of the extreme wolf hunt as “rabid” (E. Donnall Thomas, How Sportsman Saved the World — The Unsung Conservation Efforts of Hunters and Anglers). Since some bounties here are funded by the Wild Sheep Foundation, I am concerned that this “unhinged American hatred of the wolf” is working its way into Alberta. It is disappointing to read the comments of the president of the Alberta Fish and Game Association that appeared in the article run March 28, citing lots of “smiling and happy and fat” wolves. Opinions are not fact, and I ask our government to base its decisions on scientific findings. I have not heard of such a thing as a fat wolf to exist in the wild — the No. 1 killer being man, and second starvation. The continued killings have resulted in fragmented packs with distressed youngsters lacking the skills to hunt, or in packs so small they have difficulty bringing down their normal large prey. There is a large segment of the population, and business such as tourism, who value the wildlife of Alberta, and who care about the humane treatment of the wolf. Limiting the number of wolves legally killed by humans is imperative as they have very little protection as compared with other wildlife. The use of strychnine and other draconian methods of killing need to change. The government’s use of strychnine not only results in an agonizing death for the wolf, but then continues through the food chain to poison eagles, owls, and fox, etc. Likewise, snares and traps, long outdated and outlawed in many countries, are in use in our area and known to be killing untargeted prey. The system seems to have gone awry, with the power of our provincial Department of Environment and Sustainable Resources being undermined by individuals and special interest groups. The mindset of the authorities needs to catch up to the idea of protection of our wildlife, with reasonable limitations on kills, and considering the welfare and protection of wolves on public lands. Wolves face so many dangers at present, and it is time for the minister of the Environment and Sustainable Resources Department to take action to curtail and discontinue to the practice of bounties on our wolves. Anna-Marie Carr Ferguson Red Deer PS. Red Deerians have a new face book page for those interested in upcoming talks, etc.: https://www.facebook. com/albertawolfdefenders.
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MLAs’ rationale on Michener falls flat Re: Michener model ‘no longer best practice,’ Red Deer Advocate, April 1, 2013 I must admit I was somewhat amused when I read the April 1 press release (Michener model ‘no longer best practice’) by Frank Oberle and his PC associates Mary Anne Jablonski, MLA, Red Deer North, and Cal Dallas, MLA, Red Deer South. Obviously a large number of people must have expressed their displeasure as to the recent closure of Michener Centre, otherwise these MLAs would have not found the need to submit this letter. I was even more amused to see that they required someone else to compose this letter on their behalf. It appears the government is concerned about what information is presented to the public. Obviously the government can’t allow these MLAs to speak for themselves. Words must be chosen carefully when spinning the half truths of an ill-thought policy. But even then they got it wrong: there are currently 230 residents at Michener Centre, not 125. I am not overly surprised to see Mr. Dallas’s name on this letter. He has never met with our society, so how could he possibly understand our concerns? He has chosen instead to hide behind the political excuse of caucus conformity and will not stand up to a bad decision. On the other hand, the about-face of Ms. Jablonski is somewhat disappointing. Year after year, Ms. Jablonski had assured us she would always speak for the voiceless at Michener. In 2010, as minister of Seniors, Ms. Jablonski supported the Capital Initiative Plan of the Moving Ahead Report (2008). This report would have allowed the residents to remain at Michener, respected their choice and kept the promise that “No one currently living at Michener Centre would be forced to leave Michener Centre” (Moving Ahead Report, 2008). Had Ms. Jablonski felt that the Michener model was “no longer best practice,” then why did she not just reject the Moving Ahead Report when she had the opportunity? What has changed so much in the past three years that Michener is no longer a model of best practice? The short answer: nothing. Obviously, Mr. Dallas and Ms. Jablonski have put the interests of the Conservative party ahead of the well-being of the residents of Michener. One must also question Mr. Oberle’s statement that the Michener model is “no longer best practice. As recently as October 2012, he toured the Michener site to consider it as a possible option for housing individuals with complex needs. Only a month ago, the Central Alberta FASD Network visited Michener for the very same reasons. So how is it that Michener can be considered for the care and housing for individuals with complex needs and FADS, but it cannot continue to provide the same for those with developmental disabilities? When asked what became of the promises as outlined in the Moving Ahead Report, Mr. Oberle’s retort was that “he was not familiar with it.” How could it be that a study that took three years to complete (2005-2008) was approved at PDD Central Region level (2008) and supported at the ministerial level (2010) be so candidly dismissed? It has been 10 months since Mr. Oberle became Associate Minister of Services for Persons With Developmental Disabilities, plenty of time for him to review the Moving Ahead report — he has chosen instead to ignore it. Mr. Oberle points to the recent transition of individuals at the Eric Cormack Centre in Edmonton as an attempt to placate the public, promising that “transition to community” will be smooth. What Mr. Oberle does not mention is that only 12 individuals were involved, all non-ambulatory and that they were moved collectively into group homes. In addition, their long-term caregivers will continue
Board opposes Michener closure
We are currently adjusting our budgets in order to react to the fiscal realities — we understand and accept this necessity. What we do not understand, and what we cannot accept, are the actions of the government in the treatment of the most vulnerable among us, the residents of Michener Centre. We urge the government to reverse its decision. Lawrence Lee, Board Chair Red Deer Public School Schools
Michener offers care for the fragile Re: Closure of the Michener Centre Once again, the most vulnerable people in our society are being targeted for cuts to services. Now, more than ever, they need society’s help and protection. These people are already living in a community with the very best possible care. The residents at Michener Centre are encouraged to achieve their potential and are at their capacity for achievement. Some newspaper articles make the Michener Centre sound like a prison, which is not the reality. This province should be proud of the example they set in caring for very these very fragile people. Bringing people into malls in wheelchairs or stretchers to be pointed at and remarked about while the caregivers drink coffee off at another table is not socializing. At the Michener Centre, the residents are provided with meaningful social activities. Prior to his placement at Michener, we tried to place our son in various community settings but it was a disaster. Not one of these situations worked out and they just didn’t want to keep him. Transitions are very difficult for these people and I don’t think he’s up to experimenting with yet another situation when the one he’s in now has been so successful. Moving the residents all over the province, which is what is being proposed, is just breaking apart their community. I am very concerned about who will be monitoring the care of these individuals in these settings. In my experience, it never worked very well. My husband and I are elderly and have been living on a pension for over 20 years. My husband is at the point where he needs 24-hour care. I don’t think we’ll be able to afford to get this care in Calgary as it is too expensive and there is no help for seniors. We are very concerned about the care our son will continue to receive if he is moved somewhere else. I am sure the City of Red Deer is very concerned about this closure as well as it will be a big blow to their economy. I would like to suggest that the government think a little more carefully about this rather than making what feels like a rash decision. Mildred Miller Calgary
The board of trustees for Red Deer Public Schools opposes the provincial government’s decision to close the Michener Centre in Red Deer and urges the Redford government to reverse its decision. In our own work with students with exceptionally diverse needs, we very much understand that segregation of individuals with special needs is not desirable. As a school jurisdiction, we are very strong proponents for inclusion of students with diverse learning needs throughout our schools. Red Deer Public Schools has closed 34 congregated programs for special needs students over the past four years and has provided more enabling environments for those students. However, we have also retained eleven programs for students with complex needs since this is the most appropriate environment for them. Inclusion is not simply placing all individuals with special needs in integrated settings. This is precisely why Michener Centre must not be closed. Over the past number of years large numbers of residents of Michener Centre have been moved to community placements. We support this move to inclusion for these residents since it certainly was not appropriate to have those individuals who were capable of being successful in community placements housed at Michener Centre. Advocate letters policy The residents who have remained to this point, however, are those with very complex needs who are The Advocate welcomes letters on public issues from readers. extremely well served in their present environment. Letters must be signed with the writer’s first and last name, plus In addition, for most of these individuals, Michener address and phone number. Pen names may not be used. Letters Centre has been their home for the majority of their will be published with the writer’s name. Addresses and phone adult lives. In many cases these residents have had numbers won’t be published. Letters should be brief and deal the same caregivers for many years. Moving these with a single topic; try to keep them under 300 words. individuals into the community is akin to taking a Due to the volume of letters we receive, some submissions very young child out of his home and away from his may not be published. Mail submissions or drop them off to Letsiblings and family in order to place him elsewhere. ters to the Editor, Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., T4R It is cruel and it is inappropriate. 1M9; fax us at 341-6560, or e-mail to editorial@reddeeradvocate. What is also concerning is that this most vulnerable population does not have a voice to advocate 3 pc. Coffee Sectional at on their own behalf. This then becomes an issue Table with only of social justice where 2 Ends at others need to speak out for what is fair and just. Our work with diverse students, many with complex special needs and our work in providing ... Sofa the most enabling environments for learning, starting provides a valued perat spective and strong voice ... everything in opposing the proposed changes. We believe othin the ers in our community entire store need to and are ready to step forward to provide As is ... discontinued.. has been a voice for residents ad... some floor models ... versely impacted by this drastically decision. one of reduced! We very much undera kind stand the budget confor best selection. straints that the provincial government faces. 1880 - 49 Ave. Red Deer Phone:
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There was a day I lived my life by my motto “pride.” But since your government has chosen to now take away my home, the structure that enables me to be an individual with independence, uniqueness, values, goals and abilities in light of my disabilities. I have no “pride,” you have devalued me, disrespected me, and treated me as a number, not as a person. It would be great if you could put “pride” back into my life. P — Personality with emotions, values, goals, strengths and weaknesses, however a person. R — Rights, security given to me by the veterans that fought the war for equal rights for all Canadians. I — Individuals with dignity, rights, respect, goals. With a heart, soul, mind, and body like yours but unique. D — Disabilities are abilities with a prefix. See beyond the disabilities and celebrate my abilities. Respect me, I am human to. E — Evolving, evolution, enhancing, extraordinary, effectiveness, excellence, environment, enemy (government) It is with great pain and confusion I write you this letter on behalf of the individuals at Michener Services. I don’t understand how your government can come out and attack the individuals who are receiving the greatest quality of care and service as we enhance their lives. Giving them the most compassionate, nurturing care while reinforcing there dignity, choice, respect, privacy and rights. With this being said, lets visit another area. One that pulls at my heart. Why did our grandfathers go to war and risk everything they had? Oh that was so we could all have equal rights in Canada; medically, emotionally, live with pride, dignity, respect, and to be seen as an individual with hopes, dreams, and desires, to be a part of a community, to have shelter, heat, food, and be protected by the laws that governed Canada by the government. That would be you and your counter parts. Is your cabinet outright ignoring what our veterans did for us? Do you honestly believe they were thinking about individuals with disabilities as they were dodging bullets from the enemies? They were fighting for everyone black, white, able, disable everyone who is Canadian. I’m horrified that you can disrespect our fallen soldiers and the great fight they put on for us. This is inconceivable and the utmost disrespect. Don’t forget many soldiers who were lucky enough to come home were disabled mentally, physically or emotionally. My grandfather was a great man and was awarded many medals for his service and accomplishments and now you attack the people most vulnerable in society. My grandfather said the enemy was strong and now I say I’m in for the fight of my life for what my grandfather started I must finish, only for me the enemy is the government. Your decision is not only hurting the individuals at Michener Centre but also the families of our fallen soldiers. Please rethink your decision and show the fallen soldiers in death we celebrate your dedication, handwork, and strength. Elizabeth Taylor Red Deer For the individuals of Michener Services
to care for them. This is hardly what is going to happen with regards to Michener. He also neglects to mention how he intends to find additional caregivers for the new group homes that are to suddenly appear. It takes a special person to understand the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and an even more special person to make it their career of choice. These people are not easily found and are not created overnight. But that matters little to Mr. Oberle. Mr. Oberle claimed on March 11, 2013, that the announced closure was not about money but about providing a better quality of life outside of Michener. Unfortunately, it is about the money and Mr. Oberle knows it. The recent change of direction that the PDD support services has taken is based on a model of care that is quantitative, not qualitative. One only has to look at the latest removal of $42 million from a muchneeded PDD community support program to realize that this is a sign of things to come. As associate minister of Services for Persons With Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Human Services, perhaps it is time to remind Mr. Oberle that he needs to put the “human” back into the “services” he provides. Bill Lough Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre
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Outsourcing Quebec demands Ottawa open controversy rattles its books on the Constitution RBC, supplier BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The increasingly widespread use of outsourcing and the way in which Canada’s temporary foreign worker program could be used to facilitate the practice emerged as a key issue Tuesday in the controversy over the Royal Bank of Canada’s decision to outsource dozens of Toronto jobs. Many Canucks have lambasted RBC after it came to light that Canada’s largest bank contracted an external supplier called iGate to provide certain technology services, a decision which ousts 45 employees from their current roles. Questions have been raised about how iGate brought its own employees into Canada under the temporary foreign worker program so they could be trained at RBC branches for the services they’ll be providing to the bank. The program itself has been criticized as a tool that allows companies to opt for temporary workers who can be paid up to 15 per cent less than Canadians. iGate told The Canadian Press on Tuesday that it operates with a “high level of integrity” and will “fully co-operate” with a government investigation into the situation. “iGATE’s hiring practices are in full compliance with all Canadian laws,” said Jason Trussell, senior vice president and regional head of iGate Canada. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley has asked officials to review documents submitted by iGate after apparent discrepancies appeared between public statements made by RBC and information previously provided to the government by iGate. “We are very concerned with recent issues involving the Temporary Foreign Worker program,” Finley’s spokeswoman Alyson Queen said Tuesday. “Officials are investigating recent reports concerning labour market opinions granted to iGate and will look into any evidence that the program is being misused.” To obtain permits for temporary foreign workers, companies need to apply for labour market opinions and show that a Canadian cannot be found to do the work. iGate (NASDAQ: iGATE), headquartered in the U.S. with offices around the world, employs more than 28,000 people and counts RBC as one of its larger clients. The company has run afoul of international laws involving temporary foreign workers in the past.
QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government is urging Ottawa to “open its books” on the events that led to the repatriation of the Constitution by Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s federal Liberals in 1982. The call by Quebec Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Alexandre Cloutier on Tuesday came after the publication of a book that alleges Supreme Court of Canada magistrates interfered in the political process and engaged in backroom discussions. The judiciary “cannot interfere with the political powers — that’s the basics of democracy,” Cloutier told a news conference Tuesday. The book, which was released Monday, was written by historian and journalist Frederic Bastien. Bastien writes that Bora Laskin, then chief justice of the Supreme Court, provided information to the Canadian and British governments on the discussions between magistrates about the legality of repatriation. Another high court judge, Willard Estey, also secretly advised the British government in 1980 that the Supreme Court would address the issue, the author wrote. Bastien suggests that both jurists violated the principle of separation of executive and judicial powers. Bastien’s information was gathered during eight years of digging through documents, including British Foreign Office archives. All provinces except Quebec, which was then led by sovereigntist premier Rene Levesque, endorsed the Constitution in 1982. Two attempts to bring Quebec on board since have both failed. Cloutier said the new allegations are troublesome in that Quebecers not only had a Constitution imposed on them, but also because judges named by the federal government allegedly intervened in the case. “It also shows just how far prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was ready to go and what means he was willing to use to force the Constitution down the throat of Quebecers, gestures that are extremely serious,” Cloutier said. An irked Cloutier said the subject matter discussed was very sensitive and Quebecers deserve to know the truth about what happened. “It’s the first time that I’m personally aware a Supreme Court justice would have intervened during the repatriation period,” Cloutier said. Cloutier wants the federal government to make
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Alexandre Cloutier, Quebec minister for intergovernmental affairs reacts to a book by Frederic Bastien on irregularities on the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, Tuesday, in Quebec City. public all the documents relating to the repatriation and “discuss what really happened.” But the request was dismissed by Ottawa. “I understand the PQ wants to reopen the constitutional battles with Pierre Trudeau’s former Liberal government,” said Carl Vallee, a spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “We do not intend to play in that movie, we will remain focused on what really matters to Quebecers, Canadians: jobs and growth.” Premier Pauline Marois vowed the Quebec government wouldn’t stand idly by in the face of Bastien’s revelations of what he describes as a “constitutional coup d’etat.” The matter will be discussed by PQ ministers during their weekly cabinet meeting today. The other parties in Quebec City say they’re interested in answers but add little would be changed 30 years after the fact. The Liberals’ Jean-Marc Fournier was prudent in his comments. The party’s new leader, Philippe Couillard, has said he’s in favour of reopening talks on the Constitution. Fournier emerged from a party caucus meeting and said repatriating the Constitution without Quebec’s approval was a missed opportunity at Canadian unity.
Calgary student takes top research prize for possible cancer therapy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A 16-year-old Alberta high school student has taken top prize in this year’s Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada contest with his research into an experimental therapy that uses nanoparticles to kill cancer cells. Arjun Nair, a Grade 11 student at Webber Academy in Calgary, was awarded the $5,000 honour Tuesday by a panel of Canadian scientists at the National Research Council’s headquarters in Ottawa. “I’m still in a state of shock,” Nair said. “I’m just really, really honoured.” Nair’s project represents an advance in photothermal therapy, which involves injecting a patient with gold nanoparticles. The particles accumulate in tumours, forming so-called “nanobullets” that can be heated to kill cancer cells. Working with mentors at the University of Calgary, he showed how an antibiotic may overcome defences that cancer mounts against the therapy. Judges described his research as being of “world class masters- or PhD-level quality,” and also awarded it a special $1,000 prize as the project with the greatest commercial potential. “The idea that a kid’s idea can be transplanted into the real world and that those ideas can be poten-
tially down the road save the lives of people, that’s a very exciting thought for me to have,” enthused Nair. “And that’s what’s really pushing me forward.”
The teen, who hopes to become a medical doctor and also conduct research, was one of 11 students aged 16 to 18 who took part in the national finals.
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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s justice minister says he does not plan to order a review of an RCMP investigation that concluded there were no grounds to lay charges against four boys over allegations they sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Ross Landry said Tuesday he has no reason to believe the Mounties did not follow proper procedures in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons. “In regards to the issue of second-guessing the police at every case, no, I’m not going to do that,” Landry said. Landry was responding after reports that Parsons killed herself, nearly a year and a half after the alleged incident. Leah Parsons, the girl’s mother, has said she is dissatisfied with the outcome of the RCMP investigation.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bad advice from Conservative party headquarters appears to have caused headaches for Saskatchewan MPs, some of whom say they were caught off guard on the redrawing of the province’s electoral map. Conservative caucus sources told The Canadian Press that party officials directed them to stand down last year when the Saskatchewan boundaries commission first invited input a year ago. Of the 181 names of people who submitted their views on how the ridings should be formed, there’s nary a single MP on the list. The vast majority of those early submissions were in favour of creating new urban-only ridings, instead of the urban-rural hybrids that the Conservatives prefer for both political and practical reasons. Four months later, the commission released a proposed map and report for comment — one that favoured urban-only or ruralonly ridings as a way to keep “communities of interest” together. The party quickly attempted to do damage control, making automated calls to residents warning them of the possible changes. A postcard campaign was launched. MPs made written submissions and appeared at public hearings across Saskatchewan. But the commission’s draft report, released in January, stuck to the concept of changing the face of the province’s ridings. One of the three commissioners, David Marit, offered a dissenting opinion. Conservative spokesman Fred Delorey said he would not comment on internal party matters.
In an interview, the head of the commission, Saskatchewan Justice Ronald Mills, refused to speculate about whether more submissions early on would have changed the commission’s initial position on urban-only ridings. “When we published the report, the report provided for that, not just because of those (early) presentations, but because of our view of the demographics, the population trends, immigration to Saskatchewan, of the size and growth in the cities, and a whole raft of things that involved communities of interest,” Mills said. MPs are now trying an eleventh-hour appeal, testifying before a Commons committee that is tasked with reviewing the commission’s report. Two weeks ago, some Conservative MPs suggested the body had already made up its mind early in the process, influenced by a group of eight political science professors who made a group submission last April. The MPs argue that some of the rural ridings will be unwieldy, and that some suburban areas are being tacked onto them unnecessarily. Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski is scheduled to testify in the next round of hearings April 16. He said there are have been times in provincial politics were certain parties represented rural ridings, and others urban ridings, and he thinks that’s unhealthy. “The economy of Saskatchewan is so integrated between rural and urban, I think that’s why it makes sense to have members who are conversant and represent both rural and urban interests, so you don’t have competing interests,” said Lukiwski. Mills emphasized that he was appointed to the commission by the chief justice of Saskatchewan, and commissioners Marit and John Courtney by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
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Earthquake rattles southern Iran AT LEAST 37 PEOPLE KILLED; NUCLEAR PLANT UNDAMAGED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said, adding that it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. The report said the earthquake struck the town of Kaki some 96 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of Bushehr, a town on the Persian Gulf that is home of Iran’s first nuclear power plant, built with Russian help. “No damage was done to Bushehr power plant,” Bushehr provincial governor Fereidoun Hasanvand told state TV. He said 37 people had died so far and 850 were injured, including 100 who were hospitalized. The plant’s chief, Mahmoud Jafari, confirmed the site’s condition to semi-official Mehr news agency, saying that it is resistant to earthquakes of up to magnitude eight. Water and electricity were cut to many residents, said Ebrahim Darvishi, governor of the worst-hit district Shonbeh. The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency said on its website that it had been informed by Iran that there was no damage to the plant and no radioactive release and, based on its analysis of the earthquake, was not seeking additional information. The International Atomic Energy Agency statement indicated that it was satisfied there was little danger. Shahpour Rostami, the deputy governor of Bushehr province, told state TV that rescue teams have been deployed to Shonbeh. Three helicopters were sent to survey the damaged area before sunset, said Mohammad Mozaffar, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent rescue department. He said damage was particularly bad in the village of Baghan. Kaki resident Mondani Hosseini told The Associated Press that people had run out into the streets out of fear. Dozens of aftershocks have been reported by the official IRNA news agency since the earthquake, which occurred at 16:22 local time, 11:58 GMT. Iran announced three days of mourning. The quake was felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, where workers were evacuated from high-rise buildings as a precaution. Earlier on Sunday a lighter earthquake jolted the nearby area. Iran is located on seismic faults and it experiences frequent earthquakes.
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Scotiabank doesn’t plan to outsource jobs Scotiabank is not planning to outsource jobs at the bank to temporary foreign workers, but will expand the use of international call centres, chief executive Rick Waugh told the bank’s annual meeting Tuesday. Ottawa is investigating whether the Royal Bank outsourced dozens of Toronto jobs to a company that brought in temporary foreign workers for training in Canada. The controversy prompted a shareholder to ask the chief executive if Scotiabank was doing something similar. Waugh said it wasn’t part of the bank’s plan. “I’m not aware of these details that have come up over the last day or two but it’s certainly not... in our strategy to do temporary outsourcing of jobs,” he responded. He also said the bank intends to create more jobs in Canada, “while still expanding and maintaining some efficiences ... contact centres around Canada and around the world.” The company said it is not its practice to replace permanent positions with offshore workers, however it did currently contract out some IT services to augment project work. — The Canadian Press
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Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com
Housing starts rise in Q1 PACE SLIPS IN MARCH Housing starts in Red Deer through the first three months of 2013 are 72 per cent higher than for the same period last year, although the pace of work slipped in March. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported on Tuesday that work began on 236 homes in the city from January to March, as compared with 137 during the first quarter of 2012. This year’s tally included 71 single-detached houses and 165 units in multi-family projects, as compared with the 2012 breakdown of 49 single-family dwellings and 88 multi-family units. But last month there were only 52 housing starts in the city: 31 single-family and 21 multi-family. That marked a 51 per cent decline from March 2012, when there were 107 housing
starts, consisting of 25 single-family and 82 multi-family homes. Elsewhere in Central Alberta, there were 39 housing starts in Sylvan Lake to start the year, down 31 per cent from 51 in the first quarter of 2012. Lacombe’s three-month tally slipped 32 per cent, to 15 in 2013 as compared with 22 in 2012. Year-over-year housing starts for March were down in four of Alberta’s seven major urban centres. Medicine Hat experienced a 47 per cent slide, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo was down 46 per cent and the Calgary metropolitan area dropped 17 per cent. Conversely, building in Lethbridge jumped by 73 per cent, Grande Prairie was up 41 per cent and the Edmonton metropolitan area climbed 14 per cent. Nationally, CMHC said the pace of hous-
ing starts crept up slightly from February but were down 13.6 per cent from a year ago. Meanwhile, Statistics Canada released a report on building permits that showed future building intentions for residential construction fell 7.2 per cent in February. Both numbers suggest that the housing market will be a drag on growth during the quarter and likely in the near term, as starts and sales come off higher levels of previous years. But analysts added that the recent slow descent from very high altitudes in a sector that some calculate is overpriced by as much as 25 per cent and overbuilt — especially in Vancouver and Toronto — is actually what the doctor ordered and may hold off a punitive collapse.
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RODDIS 3D
From the sidelines to the track RED DEER MAN’S TECHNOLOGY GETS ATTENTION OF INDYCAR BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Less than three years ago, Murray Roddis was begging his way onto the paddock at the Edmonton Indy. Today his company, Roddis 3D Dimension Technologies, is sanctioned as a technical inspections team for the IndyCar Series, including the Indianapolis 500. The vehicle that carried the Red Deer man into the racing limelight was metrology — specifically, the process of scanning objects to create three-dimensional renderings that are accurate to within microns. Roddis has shown that the technology is an effective way to check the dimensions of race cars and their components, and ensure they comply with regulations and have no defects. Roddis 3D performed second-opinion measurements at the 2012 Indy 500, making it the first private entity to be hired by a motorsports series to conduct technical inspections. It’s been invited back this year as a technology partner, with the opportunity to remain involved for the entire racing season. Roddis, a longtime surveyor who operates Landmark Surveys, has always been quick to try and adopt new technologies. This included laser scanners, and in July 2010 he attended the Edmonton Indy in hopes of trying his industrial scanner on a race car. Roddis’ efforts to gain access to the race paddock were unsuccessful, until the unexpected announcement that Octane Motorsports Events had just taken over as promoter. The resulting confusion enabled him to access the racing area, and he began searching for a team willing to have its car scanned. “They all said, ‘No, go away!’” recalled Roddis. He persevered, and eventually attracted the attention of Sam Schmidt, owner of the Sam Schmidt Motorsports (now Schmidt Peterson Motorsports). “He is one of the most successful team
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Above: Murray Roddis of Roddis 3D Dimension Technologies at the Indy 500, where he used scanning equipment to create 3D images of cars and their components. Below: Roddis uses a hand-held scanner to create a precise rendering of parts from an IndyCar vehicle.
‘NOBODY HAD EVER SEEN ANYBODY SCAN AT TRACKSIDE. IT WAS ALWAYS DONE IN A CLOSED ENVIRONMENT.’ — MURRAY RODDIS
owners in the history of IndyCar racing,” said Roddis. Schmidt granted Roddis access to one of his cars, and soon a curious crowd of race officials were watching. “Nobody had ever seen anybody scan at trackside,” he explained. “It was always done in a closed environment.” To Roddis’ horror, the tripod supporting his high-tech scanner collapsed and the equipment clattered onto the concrete floor. He collected himself, confirmed that the scanner was still functioning, and soldiered on. “We ended up getting the scan,” said Roddis, adding that it took an hour and a half to create a 3D rendering of the vehicle. The performance earned him an invitation to Indianapolis, Ind. for further demonstrations. But before he departed, Roddis realized that his scanner lacked the precision needed for race car applications.
Nikon Metrology came to the rescue with one of its high-end scanners. The equipment was used to test a rear mainplane of a Sam Schmidt Motorsports car that driver Alex Tagliani felt was hindering performance. Traditional inspections had found no defects, but a scan revealed that one side of the mainplane was six-thousandths of an inch high and the other side was threethousandths of an inch low. “The thickness of one piece of photocopy paper is three one-thousandths of an inch,” pointed out Roddis. Other tests were conducted, including one that confirmed a cockpit salvaged from a damaged car was slightly out of alignment. Tagliani even inquired about getting his helmet scanned, reasoning that if he was ever in an accident the helmet could be scanned again to identify the points of impact and possible locations of head injuries. The following year, Roddis scanned a variety of race car wings and planes at the Edmonton Indy, with the results compared to the technical specifications. He was also asked to help Sam Schmidt Motorsports build a car for Tagliani to race at the 2011 Indy 500.
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Pidherney’s building new headquarters Pidherney’s is preparing to consolidate its Red Deer operations to a single location west of Blackfalds. The Rocky Mountain House-based company, which specializes in a broad range of construction work, is developing a twostorey, 12,000-square-foot building south of Aspelund Road and west of Hwy 2. It expects to move in by the end of June. The company currently has facilities in Red Deer’s Edgar Industrial Park and McKenzie Industrial Business Park, south of the city. Charles MacDonald, Pidherney’s civil operations manager, said those operations will relocate to the new building. He said they consist primarily of the company’s civil operations, although the new premises will also be used by Pidherney’s oilfield operations. The space is larger than its existing Red Deer premises, with 26 staff expected to work there.
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Work continues on the new 12,000 sq.foot Pidherney’s building just west of Hwy 2 at Blackfalds. “It will allow us to grow,” added MacDonald. Pidherney’s civil operations involve work like site grading, infrastructure repair, water and sewer projects, and highway and road construction.
The City of Red Deer is one of its biggest customers, said MacDonald. In addition to its head office east of Rocky and its Red Deer facilities, Pidherney’s has operations at Fort McMurray and a portable camp at Hinton.
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Jana defeated at Agrium election BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Jana Partners LLC was defeated Tuesday in its battle to win seats on fertilizer giant Agrium Inc.’s board but the New York hedge fund suggested the fight may not be over. All 12 of the company’s nominees were elected to the board — some by a much wider margin than others — denying a spot to the five that had been nominated by activist investor Jana. “We’re very pleased that this proxy battle is behind us,” Agrium CEO Mike Wilson told reporters after the meeting. “It’s been a long 10 months and now we can go and focus on what’s very
important to our shareholders, and that’s growing the company, continuing to improve in the way we operate the company, looking at how we return capital to shareholders and embracing all kinds of new ways to expand shareholder value.” Jana managing partner Barry Rosenstein told shareholders the vote was “tainted” and said the fund intends to investigate whether Agrium lobbied investors to switch their vote after Friday’s deadline and whether the company engaged in “vote buying” to sway the results. He vowed Jana would “pursue all appropriate remedies.” Jana, which is Agrium’s largest shareholder, said it had enough votes as of Friday to get two of its nominees
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100-room Microtel hotel approved A 100-room hotel in Red Deer County’s Gasoline Alley lined up planning approval on Tuesday. The county’s municipal planning commission approved a 3.8-metre height relaxation to allow construction of a four-storey hotel that will be operated as Microtel Inn and Suites. It will located on Leva Avenue just south of Hampton Inn and Suites, and will include a pool, waterslide, fitness area and two meeting rooms. The project is expected to be worth more than $10 million. Microtel is part of the Wyndham Hotel Group and is known as an upper-end economy brand. Two as-yet-unnamed restaurants are also proposed nearby in a sec-
ond construction phase. A nationally branded restaurant chain and a national breakfast restaurant are being courted for the spaces. Construction will be underway soon and the hotel is expected to open by May 2014. Some work still needs to be done on the site plan. The initial proposal included a direct access to Leva Avenue, which the county does not favour because it could lead to congestion on that road as the area develops. Access to the side road is preferred. A motion to remove the Leva Avenue access was passed unanimously. Hotel builders plan to meet with county staff to review alternatives.
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SLOWDOWN: Not crashing “The slowdown suggests we are not crashing, people are not panicking, especially condo builders,” said Benjamin Tal, a senior economist with CIBC World Markets. “All the indicators we are seeing as of today, in the resale market and in the housing start market, suggest this is a market that is slowing softly.” Canada’s housing market, which had been among the world’s hottest following the recession, began to slow at about this time last year and braked sharply after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tightened mortgage rules in July. The policy move, which made it more difficult for first-time buyers to enter the market, was widely praised at the time as necessary to avoid a U.S.-light housing crash that would be crippling to the economy. Recently, Flaherty has upbraided lenders from cutting mortgage rates too far and undercutting his policy objectives, succeeding in having both the Bank of Montreal and the Manulife reverse mortgage rate cuts. Arlene Kish of IHS Global Insight said she expected residential construction to remain subdued for the rest of the year, but added that it has become “increasingly unlikely there will be any kind of precipitous collapse in new home building activity.” A major ballast for the market is that despite Flaherty’s recent efforts, mortgage rates remain at historic lows, and affordability — the measure of household disposable income in relation to home ownership costs — remains near historic levels. Tal said the cooling, if it continues for a year so, will prepare the market for the eventual squeeze when interest rates start rising, likely in 2014. Regionally, urban starts decreased 15.7 per cent in Ontario on a seasonally adjusted annual rate and were down 13.5 per cent in Quebec. However, urban starts jumped 27.1 per cent in Atlantic Canada, were 13.8 per cent higher on the Prairies and 13.1 per cent higher in British Columbia. With files from The Canadian Press.
SCANNING: ‘The only guy who...can do this’ “As a result, Alex Tagliani won the pole at the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500.” Roddis has had discussions with representatives of other North American racing series about scanning applications, and Ganassi Racing asked him about the use of optical technology to measure race cars travelling at 220 m.p.h. (354 km/h) — an exercise they felt would reveal how components like tires distort at high speeds. He’s also conducted other demonstrations for IndyCar Series officials, earning Roddis 3D its place in the Indy 500 technical inspections garage. “I’m the only guy who has the right to go down and do this,” said Roddis. He pointed out that laser scanning helps ensure consistency in testing, which is something all racing teams want. The technology could become an essential service in the future if aero kits — custom, manufacturerspecific bodywork — are allowed by IndyCar officials. That’s because the physical templates currently used to test car components would be inadequate for the broad range of kits likely to be used by racing teams. As as an IndyCar sanctioned entity, Roddis 3D is able to accept sponsors — just as race teams do. Sponsorship opportunities range from packages with naming privileges and inside passes for IndyCar races, to the display of small logos on Roddis 3D banners and its website. Additional information about Roddis 3D can be found on the company’s website at roddis3d.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com
— Rosenstein and former UAP executive David Bullock — on the board. However, Rosenstein said Tuesday that enough votes were revoked over the weekend to sway the election. He said Jana will continue to be a big shareholder in Agrium and that “we’re not going away.” For its part, Agrium said the vote was done according to the rules. “The loss was pure and simple, fair and square,” said Walied Soliman, a lawyer working on behalf of Agrium, following the vote count. “The results speak for themselves and stand up to any scrutiny. “All of Agrium’s shareholders had their say today and they supported Agrium.
“The victory of Agrium’s nominees was decisive, unequivocal and beyond reproach.” New York-based Jana, which has spent more than $1 billion for a 7.5 per cent stake in Agrium, has made a number of proposals for changes at the company — the most controversial of which has been to spin off Agrium’s retail business into a separate company. Agrium said the board has weighed the idea of a split and determined such a move would destroy shareholder value. Jana has said it merely wants Agrium to thoroughly and independently review that option, as well as better manage capital, improve governance and cut costs.
More tough times ahead, housing correction included ECONOMIC GROWTH TO SLOW THIS YEAR, SAYS FORECASTER THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A leading international forecasting firm says Canadians should brace for tough economic times lasting another two years, lifting the jobless rate once again beyond eight per cent and setting back Ottawa’s plans to balance the budget. In one of the gloomiest forecasts issued on the Canadian economy since the recession, Capital Economics predicts a sharp and protracted housing correction, in conjunction with muted business investment and government austerity, will keep Canada’s economy in stall mode throughout 2013 with a one per cent growth rate, only improving slightly to 1.3 per cent in 2014. That’s half the current Bank of Canada estimate on both years, and well below the 1.6 per cent consensus used by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in the March budget for the current year. “Canada’s economy has lost considerable momentum and signs unfortunately point to continued slow growth ahead,” says the new outlook. “With the housing downturn intensifying, business investment intentions softening and government plans to restrain spending, we expect GDP (gross domestic product) growth of only one per cent in 2013 and 1.3 per cent in 2014.” In an interview, the
‘CANADA’S ECONOMY HAS LOST CONSIDERABLE MOMENTUM AND SIGNS UNFORTUNATELY POINT TO CONTINUED SLOW GROWTH AHEAD.’ — CAPITAL ECONOMICS FORECAST
firm’s chief Canadian economist David Madani agreed that his view is darker than most, but noted the consensus — the average of forecasts — has been steadily dropping for months and coming closer to his position. And recent indicators all point to weak growth, he added. Job creation for the first three months of the year has been non-existent. In fact, there has been a net loss of about 26,000 jobs, while exports remain weak. On Tuesday, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported housing starts inched up to 184,028 annualized in March from the previous month, but were still 13.6 per cent below a year ago. As well, Statistics Canada said February building permits for residential construction fell 7.2 per cent. Madani said where he differs from many other economists is that he believes Canadians are in for a rough ride in the housing market, one of the pillars of economic growth until recently. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see housing starts fall to 150,000 by the end of the year,” he said.
“Historically housing markets are either overbuilding or underbuilding and this boom we’ve been in the last decade has been enormous ... and that why I think the correction process will be fairly severe and protracted.” Over the long term, Madani says Canadian home prices, which have held up remarkably so far in the face of falling sales and starts, will drop by 25 per cent. The only bright spot in the outlook is exports, said Madani, which will benefit from the recovery in the United States, particularly in the auto sector and housing market that support shipments of Canadian lumber. But given the size of the Canadian housing market, and weakness elsewhere, Capital Economics sees only minimal employment growth in the next two years, in the range of 11,000 jobs a month. That won’t be enough to absorb population growth causing the unemployment rate to rise from the current 7.2 per cent to 8.1 per cent by the end of 2014. With the economy underperforming, and low inflation, government revenue growth will also suffer, the firm says.
The Harper government has staked political capital on eliminating the deficit in 2015 so it can fulfil several campaign promises to bring in partial income splitting and doubling taxfree savings account limits in time for the next election. “Unfortunately, eliminating deficits will take much longer than federal and provincial governments currently expect, even if the focus remains on controlling spending,” the report states. ● The average firsttime homebuyer in Canada is 29 years old and expects to be able to put down a down payment of $48,000 on $300,000 home, according to a recent poll by the Bank of Montreal. But the study, released Tuesday, also found that price expectations vary widely, depending on where the homebuyer lives. Buyers in Atlantic Canada say they expect to spend the lowest in the country with an average of $202,000 on a first home, followed by Quebec with $224,000, Ontario with $326,000, British Columbia with $384,000 and Alberta with $406,000. The sample size used in the Prairies was too low to be included in the survey. Meanwhile, the data also found Vancouver to be the most expensive city, with first-time homebuyers there saying they plan to shell out an average of $443,000 for a home, followed by Toronto at $347,000.
Risk reversal for increased sales E-commerce spending in Can- world’s largest Internet shoe reada topped $22 billion in 2012, up tailer. almost 10 per cent over the previWhat contributed to the comous year. Canadians consumers pany’s success? Granted, they do made over 105 million transac- offer a wider variety than most tions last year, an increase of 17 traditional shoe stores. They know per cent. (1.) On averthat their prices are age, these statistics surcompetitive. pass those in the U.S. What really transJust a few years ago, forms prospects into e-commerce in genloyal customers is their eral was unproven. It risk reversal guarantee. was logical to assume No matter if the colour that customers would is wrong, the size needs not purchase without to be larger/smaller, seeing the products or or the customer just consulting with knowlchanges their mind, edgeable salespeople Zappos will accept the first. return and pay the cost There are many facof shipping. JOHN tors contributing to the They eliminate the MACKENZIE surge and success of perceived risk, and online sales, including ACTION COACH t h e r e f o r e i n c r e a s e technology advanceconsumer confidence. ments, trust in online Happy customers are security and the ease and confi- repeat customers, and tell friends dence the younger generation has and family about their experiwith purchasing over the Internet. ence. Internet retailers are always Even though your business looking at ways to increase visibil- may not use the Internet to sell ity and connect with customers. products and services, there are Those that are most successful ways to implement risk reversal have gone beyond making it easy policies, effectively removing the to buy for the customer, to revers- buyer’s risk. ing the risk almost entirely. Try and then buy Let’s look at a company called This type of guarantee works Zappos as an example. best with specific products. The Who in their right mind would buyer pays nothing, or a small start an Internet shoe company? percentage up front, knowing that Shoes are something you need to they will be billed at a later date. try on before you buy. Custom- They get to test the product beers want to examine the material, forehand for a minimal fee. look at the colour. Guaranteed results or a full reThere are a multitude of rea- fund sons not to buy shoes online. What are you prepared to offer Zappos entered the shoe busi- to your customers? Better relaness in 1999. In just 10 years, the tionships? Greater investment? company was doing $1 billion in Reduced stress? Safety and secusales. rity? Amazon purchased the comThink what a satisfied custompany for $1.2 billion in November er looks like in your business then that same year. Zappos is now the determine how you can guarantee
the outcome. Do not simply guarantee satisfaction, but state exactly what the customer can expect before they buy. Customer always wins In this situation, bonus or sample items are supplied with the purchase. Allow the customer to return the product within a defined period if not totally satisfied, and keep the bonus items or samples. Become the go-to company; educate the customer. Create a risk reversal guarantee in your business. Do some research to determine what your competitors offer. Look outside your specific marketplace and compare the information to your industry. Evaluate your own strengths. What area of your business is a strong point? Installations, maintenance, or do you respond quickly to customer queries? Do your products or services produce consistent results? Do you have the widest selection in town? Will your customers really save money? Be fully prepared to stand behind and honour these claims. Anywhere from 0.5 to two per cent of customers will exercise a guarantee. An attractive payback won’t cost much but will have a high perceived value. A hassle-free, money-back guarantee is a good place to start. Reversing the risk, as Zappos does, is the best guarantee of all. www.internetretailer. com/2013/03/07/canadians-browseand-buy-more-online-2012 ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@ actioncoach.com or by phone at 403340-0880.
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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.
Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.53 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.95 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.50 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.08 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.88 Cdn. National Railway . . 98.11 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 122.86 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 79.95 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.38 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.22 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.44 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.19 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.89 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.95 General Motors Co. . . . . 27.53 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.66 Research in Motion. . . . . 15.10 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . . 43.4 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.00 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.55 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.08 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 71.53 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.20 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.87 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.73 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.87 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.56 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.73 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.79 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.94 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 27.16 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.13 First Quantum Minerals . 19.24 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 32.97 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.44 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 67.59 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 7.39 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.41 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a solid triple digit advance Tuesday as positive inflation data from China boosted commodity prices and resource stocks. The S&P/TSX composite index ran ahead 139.5 points to 12,484.05 after government data showed China’s consumer prices rose at a 2.1 per cent rate in March. That was down from the previous month’s 3.2 per cent and well below the official target of 3.5 per cent for the year. Wholesale prices in the world’s second-largest economy declined by 1.9 per cent compared with last year. The showing gives China some leeway in being able to take further measures to stimulate growth, particularly if industrial production figures coming out next week show activity weaker than expected. The Canadian dollar rose 0.1 of a cent to 98.4 cents US amid positive housing data. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported that housing starts in Canada were at an annualized rate of 184,028 units last month, up slightly from 183,207 in February. That was well above the 175,000 economists had forecast. U.S. indexes gained strength during the afternoon after aluminum company Alcoa got the first-quarter earnings season off to a positive start after the market close Monday by beating earnings expectations and delivering a strong outlook. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 59.98 points to 14,673.46, the Nasdaq composite index climbed 15.61 points to 3,237.86 and the S&P 500 index moved up 5.54 points to 1,568.61. Alcoa posted net income in the first quarter of US$149 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with $94 million, or nine cents per share, a year earlier. Earnings ex-items came in at 11 cents per share, beating analysts’ forecast of eight cents per share, according to FactSet. But Alcoa’s revenue fell to $5.83 billion from $6.01 billion a year earlier and was below the $5.91 billion that analysts predicted as results were weighed down by depressed aluminum prices, which offset strong demand from auto and plane makers. However, the company still sees demand for aluminum growing seven per cent in 2013, with gains cutting across many industries. Its stock was unchanged at US$8.39 after rising 15 cents Monday ahead of the earnings announcement. Online auto retailer CarMax, home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond and banks Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are among other companies that will report earnings later this week. Elsewhere on the corporate front, the largest shareholder of fertilizer company Agrium (TSX:AGU) has been shut out in its attempt to win a spot on the company’s board and push its agenda for change. All 12 of Jana Partners’ the company’s nominees were elected to the board during today’s vote, denying the five that had been nominated by Jana for a spot. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares were up 20 cents to $15.10 as presales of its BlackBerry Q10, a new generation model with a physical keyboard, began at Canadian carriers Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) and Telus (TSX:T). Bell (TSX:BCE) will begin preorders on April 19. Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) shares were eight cents higher to $4.08 after The Wall Street Journal reported that Toronto-based Porter Airlines is preparing to announce an order for up to 30 CSeries jets from the Montreal-based transport company. Copper was up seven cents to US$3.44 a pound, taking the base metals sector up 3.25 per cent. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) climbed $1.37 to C$29.37 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) advanced 28 cents to $19.24. The gold sector was up 3.4 per cent as June bullion gained $14.20 to US$1,586.70 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) gained 40 cents to C$27.16 while Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) was up $1.04 to $32.97. The energy sector drifted 2.4 per cent higher as June crude on New York Mercantile Exchange shed early losses to gain 84 cents to US$94.20 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) rose 90 cents to C$29.84 and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was 86 cents ahead to $32.04. The financials sector was also higher, up 0.67 per cent and Royal Bank (TSX:RY) was up 74 cents to $60.18. In other corporate news, U.S. retailer J.C. Penney has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 17 months on the job. The department store chain has rehired Johnson’s predecessor,
Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.73 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 29.37 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.59 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 40.22 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.24 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.94 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 49.47 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.04 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.39 Canyon Services Group. 10.80 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.80 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.740 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.39 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.07 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.77 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.11 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.37 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.15 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.42 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 3.03 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.23 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.01 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.120 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.70 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.84 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.31 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.87 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.14 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.97 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 62.69 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.37 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.25 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.86 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 34.51 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.40 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.41 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 63.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.26 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.17 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.39 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 60.18 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.33 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.13 Mike Ullman. SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) was up 40 cents to $43.40 after it said its jointly owned Saudi engineering company, SNC-Lavalin Fayez Engineering, has been awarded a contract to work on a new refining and petrochemical facility in the Middle Eastern country. No financial details were provided. The strong showing put the TSX back into positive territory for the year, albeit by only about 50 points. The TSX tumbled 3.27 per cent last week in the wake of Chinese purchasing managers indexes that missed forecasts, disappointing expansion data for the American manufacturing and service sectors with the week capped by big job creation disappointments last month in Canada and the U.S. The TSX Venture Exchange gained 13.38 points to 1,054.77. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at closeTuesday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,484.05 up 139.50 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,054.77 up 13.38 points TSX 60 — 714.37 up 7.99 points Dow — 14,673.46 up 59.98 points S&P 500 — 1,568.61 up 5.54 points Nasdaq — 3,237.86 up 15.61 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.40 cents US, up 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.5572, up 0.60 of a cent Euro — C$1.3299, up 0.69 of a cent Euro — US$1.3086, up 0.81 of a cent Oil futures: US$94.20 per barrel, up 84 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,586.70 per oz., up $14.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $29.505 per oz., up 75.4 cents $948.59 kg., up $24.25 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $1.10 higher $619.30; July ’13 $1.50 higher $606.00; Nov. ’13 $0.80 higher $557.10; Jan. ’14 $2.00 higher $558.20; March ’14 $2.00 higher $552.00; May ’14 $2.00 higher $549.90; July ’14 $2.00 higher $548.00; Nov. ’14 $2.00 higher $523.60; Jan ’15 $2.00 higher $523.60; March ’15 $2.00 higher $523.60; May ’15 $2.00 higher $523.60. Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $244.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $244.00; March ’14 unchanged $244.00; May ’14 unchanged $244.00; July ’14 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $244.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $244.00; March ’15 unchanged $244.00; May ’15 unchanged $244.00.
Prime rate this week: 1.0% (Unchanged)
Bank of Canada rate: 1.0% (Unchanged)
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This chart is compiled by the Advocate each week with figures supplied by financial institutions operating locally. Term deposit rates are for $5,000 balances, while guaranteed investment certificates are for $1,000 balances. Figures are subject to change without notice.
Ottawa threatens to use courts to get tax evasion list BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Ottawa will use the courts to try and get the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to hand over leaked data naming people who have allegedly used offshore tax havens, National Revenue Minister Gail Shea said Tuesday. Shea said she has asked the CBC for the information but it has refused, so now the department will pursue legal means in a bid to get the list. “We will pursue any legal options that we do have to obtain the list and we are working with the United States and our other international partners to do so,” she said in an interview. Shea said tax evasion is illegal and the media has an obligation
to provide the department with any information about suspected illegal activity, which she said the CBC’s stories suggest is a possibility. Asked what specific laws apply, Shea said that will be left to the department’s legal experts. The CBC is the sole Canadian member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which has refused to give Ottawa a list that it says includes 450 Canadians. CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said the public broadcaster cannot divulge its sources or the data, and it will defend itself in court if necessary. “Like the other members of the ICIJ, our responsibility is to tell the story,” he said in an interview. “As a journalistic organization and as a matter of journalis-
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Sony warns tariffs mean higher costs BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian consumers could soon face higher prices on electronics like TVs and iPods because it’s going to be all but impossible for importers to exempt the products from a controversial tariff, a major electronics maker warns. Importers are being asked to jump through too many hoops in order to qualify for a special exemption from the tariff on the popular products, said Mark Trylinski, logistics director at Sony of Canada. Trylinski — who predicted a price spike of about five per cent — said companies may eventually decide the customs duties that are imposed on some items mean it no longer makes financial sense to import them.
Wireless carriers begin presales for BlackBerry 10 model with keyboard Loyal Canadian BlackBerry users who refuse to give up their keypad will finally have a chance to upgrade to a newer version starting this week. A number of retailers and wireless carriers across the country began accepting presales for the BlackBerry Q10 physical keypad smartphone on Tuesday. The device is expected to arrive in stores by the end of the month. The new model, which sports both a keypad and a touchscreen, D has been highly anticiI pated by some longtime L BlackBerry fans. B Both Rogers CommuE nications (TSX:RCI.B) R T and Telus (TSE:T) say presales are underway
tic principle, CBC doesn’t reveal sources nor any related background information.” Detailed financial information of several thousand individuals from around the world was leaked to consortium, which shared it with other media outlets. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has promised to crack down on tax cheats. His recent budget included a program to stop international tax evasion by offering financial rewards for tips to the Canada Revenue Agency if an investigation bears fruit. Flaherty said the goal is to bring in hundreds of millions of new tax dollars. Canadians are already required by law to report any offshore holdings worth more than $100,000 to the Canada Revenue Agency.
for the device, but neither would provide a date for when the Q10 would be available. Bell (TSX:BCE) will begin preorders on April 19, the company said. All three companies are selling the phone on a three-year contract for $199.99. Telus and Bell said they will sell the phone without a contract for $700. Rogers will sell the phone for $649.99 without a contract, and will be the only Canadian carrier that offers the BlackBerry Q10 in a white version, as well as the more common black model. Retailers Best Buy and Future Shop said they are also taking preorders at its stores.
Enbridge lawyers question opponents Lawyers for Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) are getting their turn to question opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline as hearings examining the project continue in Prince Rupert. Enbridge spokesman Ivan Giesbrecht says company lawyers want more detail about research methods and evidence presented at the joint review panel hearings by groups critical of a twinned pipeline between Alberta and B.C.’s West Coast. Giesbrecht says questions this week will focus on spill projections offered by environmentalists and First Nations, as well as the groups’ perceived impacts of the $6-billion project. Enbridge wants to know more about how critics built their case against the 1,200-kilometre line, which would carry bitumen for shipment overseas, while condensate, a substance used to thin heavy crude, would be piped back to Alberta. The joint review panel must hear interveners and federal government officials questioned under oath, in advance of final arguments slated for May. The panel report is due by the end of the year.
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Rebels on the brink HITMEN TAKE A 3-1 SERIES LEAD AFTER OVERTIME WIN JARED WEAVER
WEAVER BREAKS ELBOW Los Angeles Angels right-hander Jered Weaver will be out for at least a month after the ace broke a bone in his left elbow, casting a pall over the team’s home opener Tuesday before it even began. The Angels put Weaver on the 15-day disabled list, and the durable 20-game winner’s non-throwing arm was in a blue sling while his teammates took batting practice before their Angel Stadium opener against Oakland. Weaver left Sunday night’s loss to the Texas Rangers early after jamming his nonthrowing arm while dodging a line drive back to the mound. The Angels initially thought Weaver had only strained his elbow, but Weaver felt abnormal pain after the game, and an MRI exam on Monday unexpectedly revealed a fracture expected to sideline him four to six weeks. Weaver’s injury has sent the big-budget Angels scrambling after their 2-4 road start to a season of high expectations. Manager Mike Scioscia promoted hardthrowing right-hander Garrett Richards from the bullpen to replace Weaver in the rotation, and the Angels called up right-hander Dane De La Rosa, who just joined Los Angeles in a trade with Tampa Bay last month.
Thursday
● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, fifth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, if necessary, 7 p.m., Saddledome.
Friday
● Midget football: Calgary Hilltoppers at Prairie Fire, 8 p.m., Lacombe ME Global Athletic Park.
Saturday
● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, sixth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.
BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hitmen 3 Rebels 2 (OT) The almighty hockey god was not a Rebel Tuesday night at the Centrium. The Red Deer Rebels rallied from a poor first period to carry the play through the next 40 minutes, but in the end dropped a 3-2 WHL overtime decision to the Calgary Hitmen. Hitmen captain Cody Sylvester, all by his lonesome, cashed a rebound to give the visitors a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal. Game 5 goes Thursday at the Saddledome in Calgary. “It’s a loss and obviously it puts us down two games in the series,” said Rebels GM/ head coach Brent Sutter, whose squad trailed 2-0 after one period then drew even while dominating the second. “Our battle level and compete level for the second and third periods were very good, but our first period was something that’s inexcusable. We just weren’t good at all,” Sutter continued. “Then you have to rattle some chains and then they play. You don’t like seeing that at this time of the year, where you have to push guys to do it the right way” The visitors connected on the power play six minutes into the game when Jake Virtanen squeezed a puck past Rebels goaltender Patrik Bartosak while stationed at the post. Brooks Macek cashed a rebound seven minutes later and it was 2-0. The Rebels, though, got rolling in the second stanza after Dominik Volek beat Calgary goalie Chris Driedger at 2:32 during a Red Deer power play. With Hitmen forward Zane Jones off for boarding, Volek moved into the faceoff circle and picked the far top corner. Less than three minutes later, Conner Bleackley tipped home a power-play point shot by Haydn Fleury and the Rebels ruled the remainder of the period, outshooting their guests 18-4 through the stanza. “In the second and third the kids did a lot of good things and in overtime we had a couple of opportunities,” said Sutter. Rhyse Dieno had the best chance, but by
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Goaltender Patrik Bartosak of the Red Deer Rebels watches the puck as Elliott Peterson of the Calgary Hitmen drives the net during the fourth game of the WHL playoff series at the Centrium on Tuesday. the time he got his relay away from 15 feet out, Driedger was in position to get his pad on the shot. “Dieno had an opportunity right in the slot. He’s a goal scorer. He has to bury that for us,” said Sutter. “Then we make a mistake by giving up an odd-man rush and they capitalize. Maybe, in some way, the hockey gods got even with us for having a first period like we had tonight. “That’s a period you see in exhibition hockey and shouldn’t see at this time of the year.” In the end, Sylvester, the Hitmen captain, sealed the deal and put his squad in position to conclude the series at home Thursday. “We call him ‘captain clutch’ in the
dressing room and he definitely lived up to his name tonight,” said Driedger, who finished with 36 saves, eight more than Bartosak. The Rebels were indeed the better club for more than half the game — as was the case the night before in a 2-1 overtime win — but as captain Turner Elson noted . . . “In playoffs you have to play a 60-minute game. We were gawd-awful in the first period, that was probably the worst period we’ve played in a long time and we can’t have that happen in the playoffs. That’s our fault and that’s something we have to live with right now.”
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Canada loses gold medal to Americans BY THE CANADIAN PRESS U.S. 3 Canada 2 OTTAWA — The United States reclaimed the women’s world hockey championship with a 3-2 win over Canada on Tuesday. The Americans have won four of the last five world women’s titles. Amanda Kessel roofed the winner on a 2-on-1 break at 3:09 of the third period. Canada pulled goaltender Shannon Szabados in the final seconds but couldn’t get the equalizer with the extra attacker. The Canadians defeated the U.S. in overtime for gold in Burlington, Vt., last year and the U.S. turned the tables in 2013. Brianna Decker and Megan Bozek also scored for the U.S., while goaltender Jessie Vetter needed to make only 14 saves for the win. Kendall Coyne added two assists. Courtney Birchard and Caroline Ouellette replied for Canada in front of 13,776 at Scotiabank Place. Szabados was the busier goalie, stopping 27 of 30 shots in the loss. Marie-Philip Poulin had two assists and led the tournament in scoring with six goals and
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Team Canada’s Jocelyne Larocque (left), Jennifer Wakefield and Meaghan Mikkelson (right) show their disappointment after losing 3-2 to Team USA in the gold medal game at IIHF Women’s World Ice Hockey championships in Ottawa, Tuesday. six assists in five games. The 22-year-old from Beauceville, Que., was named the tournament’s most valuable player and top forward. Since Canada’s 2-0 win over the U.S. to win Olympic gold in 2010, the teams have gone 8-8
against one another, with nine of those games decided by one goal. The two countries have met in the finals of all 15 world championships held since 1990. Canada has won 10 times, but this was the fifth title for the
Americans. The two countries will face each other at least half a dozen times next winter when both teams are training full-time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A schedule of games between them has yet to be announced, but a Dec. 20 date in Grand Forks, N.D., has already been confirmed by USA Hockey. The two countries are bitter rivals, but favourite opponents because they bring out the best in each other and make for the most entertaining games in female hockey. Tuesday’s championship game was another tug-of-war. The Americans used their superior size on the blue-line to keep Canada to the outside and scored a pair of goals on oddman rushes. Kessel, the younger sister of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Phil Kessel, scored the winner on a two-on-one in the third. Canada led 1-0 after the opening period, but the game was deadlocked 2-2 heading into the third when Ouellette skated out from boards and scored a power-play goal on a snapshot at 17:50 to tie it.
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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes can’t reach a ground ball single hit by Detroit Tigers center fielder Austin Jackson in the fourth inning in Detroit, Tuesday.
Tigers 7 Blue Jays 3 DETROIT — This isn’t the way Jose Reyes and the Toronto Blue Jays hoped to begin their season. The Blue Jays, who spent millions during the winter to upgrade their roster, lost to Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers 7-3 Tuesday. At 2-5, Toronto is off to its worst start since 2004. “It’s still early. But if you’re going to win at this level, you’ve got to play good baseball,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. Two of those off-season acquisitions were productive in the last loss. Melky Cabrera had three hits and his first RBI for the Blue Jays, and moved past 1,000 career hits. Reyes had two hits, scored a run and drove in one. “It’s only seven games, but in August or September we’re playing like this, it’s kind of hard to believe,” Reyes said. “We’re not relaxing at all. We’re disappoint-
ed in the way we’ve played.” Colby Rasmus hit his third home run in the Toronto ninth. Brandon Morrow (0-1) gave up five runs and nine hits in 3 2-3 innings. “Just didn’t make a pitch when I needed to,” Morrow said. “Probably, that was the story of the game.” Miguel Cabrera hit first homer of the year and drove in four runs, left fielder Don Kelly made a home run-robbing catch and the Tigers pulled away. Cabrera, coming off his Triple Crown season, had four hits and scored three times. “He’s the best right-handed hitter I’ve ever seen,” Tigers newcomer Torii Hunter said. “I’ve only been here 15-16 years in the major leagues, but I tell you, this guy’s probably one of the best right-handed hitters I’ve ever seen. (Albert) Pujols is pretty good, saw him the last decade or so, but Cabrera is the best hitter I’ve ever seen.”
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EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Edmonton leads series 3-0) Tuesday’s result Edmonton 9 Medicine Hat 2 Sunday’s result Edmonton 2 Medicine Hat 0 Wednesday’s game Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 12 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Calgary (3) vs. Red Deer (4) (Calgary leads series 2-1) Tuesday’s game Calgary 3 at Red Deer 2 (OT) Monday’s result Red Deer 2 Calgary 1 Thursday’s game Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Calgary at Red Deer, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Portland leads series 2-0) Tuesday’s game Portland at Spokane, Late Wednesday’s game Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m. Monday, Apr. 15 x-Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kamloops leads series 2-0) Tuesday’s game Kelowna at Kamloops, Late Sunday’s result Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1 Wednesday’s game Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 12 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Kelowna at Kamloops, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. x — If necessary. Tuesday’s summaries Hitmen 3, Rebels 2 (OT) First Period 1. Calgary, Virtanen 2 (Chase, Rissling) 7:17 (pp) 2. Calgary, Macek 2 (Peterson, Rask) 13:00 Penalties — Dumba RD (delay of game) 5:58, Gaudet RD (slashing) 9:36, Elson RD (holding) 13:31. Second Period 3. Red Deer, Volek 2 (Fleury, Maxwell) 2:32 (pp) 4. Red Deer, Bleackley 2 (Maxwell, Volek) 5:19 (pp) Penalties — Sylvester Cal (boarding) 1:55, Maxwell RD (delay of game) 2:59, Macek Cal (hooking) 4:49, Rask Cal (slashing) 5:55, Thiel RD (slashing) 8:46, Virtanen Cal (hooking) 10:19, Red Deer bench (too many men) 19:14. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Dumba RD (hooking) 3:45, Brassart Cal (cross-checking) 9:22. First Overtime 5. Calgary, Sylvester 4 (Humphries, Virtanen) 5:10 Penalties — None. Shots on goal Calgary 16 4 7 4 — 31 Red Deer 9 18 10 2 — 39 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (W,7-2); Red Deer: Bartosak (L,5-3). Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-7; Red Deer: 2-5. Oil Kings 9, Tigers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Samuelsson 3 (Legault, Lowe) 1:39 2. Edmonton, Samuelsson 4 (St. Croix, Lazar) 12:25 (pp) 3. Edmonton, Gernat 1 (Wruck, Corbett) 14:35 (pp) Penalties — Lewington MH (hooking) 2:21, Lazar Edm (charging) 4:01, Ryckman MH (interference) 12:13, Ryckman MH (slashing) 14:07, Ewanyk Edm (hooking), Shinkaruk MH (embellishment), Valk MH (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 19:50, Samuelsson Edm (slashing) 20:00. Second Period 4. Edmonton, St. Croix 5 (Foster) 1:40 5. Edmonton, Gernat 2, 5:49 6. Edmonton, St. Croix 6 (Legault, Musil) 10:36 7. Edmonton, Ewanyk 3 (Moroz, Kulda) 16:21 (pp) Penalties — Kulda Edm (hooking) 2:52, Kulda Edm (inter. on goaltender) 6:32, Staples MH (tripping) 12:41, Cheek Edm (kneeing) 12:59, Becker MH (interference) 15:37, Cheek Edm (interference) 17:11, Shinkaruk MH (boarding) 18:08. Third Period 8. Medicine Hat, McVeigh 2 (Staples, Jensen) 2:45 9. Edmonton, Cheek 4 (Musil, Corbett) 10:04 10. Edmonton, Corbett 3 (Bertolucci) 10:48 11. Medicine Hat, Valk 3 (Pearce, Shinkaruk) 15:55 (pp) Penalties — Cheek Edm (high-sticking) 4:40, Musil Edm (holding) 15:06.
Shots on goal Edmonton 22 17 18 — 57 Medicine Hat 2 13 12 — 27 Goal (shots-saves) — Edmonton: Brossoit (W,6-1); Medicine Hat: Lanigan (L,4-2)(27-23), Langhamer (1:40 second, 30-25). Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton 3-7, Medicine Hat 1-8. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts y-Pittsburgh 40 30 10 0 60 d-Montreal 39 25 9 5 55 d-Washington 40 21 17 2 44 Boston 38 25 9 4 54 Toronto 39 22 13 4 48 Ottawa 39 19 14 6 44 N.Y. Islanders 40 20 16 4 44 N.Y. Rangers 39 19 16 4 42 Winnipeg 41 20 19 2 42 New Jersey 39 15 14 10 40 Buffalo 40 16 18 6 38 Philadelphia 39 17 19 3 37 Tampa Bay 39 17 20 2 36 Carolina 39 16 21 2 34 Florida 39 13 20 6 32
GF 132 122 120 108 121 96 117 96 102 92 106 107 124 102 96
GA 98 94 112 81 109 88 120 94 121 106 122 122 116 126 132
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Chicago 39 30 5 4 64 129 83 d-Anaheim 40 27 8 5 59 123 99 d-Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 105 95 Los Angeles 40 22 14 4 48 115 101 San Jose 39 20 12 7 47 98 98 St. Louis 38 22 14 2 46 107 98 Minnesota 39 22 15 2 46 103 98 Detroit 39 19 15 5 43 99 101 Dallas 39 19 17 3 41 109 118 Columbus 40 17 16 7 41 95 104 Phoenix 39 17 16 6 40 105 106 Edmonton 39 16 16 7 39 101 108 Nashville 41 15 18 8 38 96 110 Calgary 38 14 20 4 32 102 134 Colorado 39 12 22 5 29 90 124 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Monday’s Games Boston 6, Carolina 2 Toronto 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Calgary 3, Colorado 1 Vancouver 2, Phoenix 0 Anaheim 2, Edmonton 1 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 5, Carolina 3 Columbus 4, San Jose 0 Washington 3, Montreal 2 Tampa Bay 3, Ottawa 2 Winnipeg 4, Buffalo 1 St. Louis 1, Nashville 0 Chicago 1, Minnesota 0 Dallas 5, Los Angeles 1 Wednesday’s Games Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Boston at New Jersey, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Calgary, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Tuesday’s summaries Kings 1 at Stars 5 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Doughty 4 (Kopitar, Richards) 1:13 (pp) 2. Dallas, Goligoski 2 (Rome, Fiddler) 11:16 Penalties — Eriksson Dal (high-sticking, double minor) 0:34, Nolan LA (cross-checking) 9:10, Doughty LA (unsportsmanlike conduct) 18:03. Second Period No Scoring Penalties — Rome Dal (high-sticking, double minor) 9:40, Robidas Dal (high-sticking) 15:24. Third Period 3. Dallas, Whitney 8 (Chiasson, Daley) 0:52 4. Dallas, Fiddler 2 (Robidas) 7:58 5. Dallas, Whitney 9 (Eriksson, Eakin) 11:06 6. Dallas, Fiddler 3 (Nystrom, Daley) 13:56 Penalties — Clifford LA (high-sticking) 2:11, Richardson LA (hooking) 18:18, Dallas bench (too many men, served by Chiasson) 19:22. Shots on goal Los Angeles 8 17 5 — 30 Dallas 11 10 10 — 31 Goal (shots-saves) — Los Angeles: Quick (L,1312-3); Dallas: Lehtonen (8-7), Bachman (W,4-3-0) (14:18 first)(22-22). Power plays (goals-chances) — Los Angeles: 1-5; Dallas: 0-4. Blackhawks 1 at Wild 0 First Period No Scoring Penalties — None Second Period 1. Chicago, Hossa 14, 15:14 Penalties — Rupp Min (roughing) 6:17, Brookbank Chi (interference) 12:41, Shaw Chi (cross-checking), Konopka Min (unsportsmanlike conduct) 16:44. Third Period No Scoring Penalty — Parise Min (tripping) 12:12. Shots on goal Chicago 11 16 4 — 31 Minnesota 4 10 6 — 20 Goal — Chicago: Emery (W,15-1-0); Minnesota: Backstrom (L,20-11-2). Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 0-2; Minnesota: 0-1. Blues 1 at Predators 0
National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Miami 61 16 .792 — y-New York 51 26 .662 10 y-Indiana 49 29 .628 12 x-Brooklyn 45 32 .584 16 x-Chicago 42 35 .545 19 x-Atlanta 42 36 .538 19 x-Boston 40 37 .519 21 x-Milwaukee 37 40 .481 24 Philadelphia 31 46 .403 30 Toronto 30 48 .385 31 Washington 29 49 .372 32 Detroit 26 52 .333 35 Cleveland 24 53 .312 37 Orlando 19 59 .244 42 Charlotte 18 60 .231 43
First Period No Scoring Penalty — Weber Nash (hooking) 8:31. Second Period 1. St. Louis, Steen 7 (Sobotka, Perron) 16:37 Penalties — None Third Period No Scoring Penalties — None Shots on goal St. Louis 6 15 5 — 26 Nashville 4 6 5 — 15 Goal — St. Louis: Elliott (W,7-6-1); Nashville: Rinne (L,14-14-7). Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 0-1; Nashville: 0-0. Sabres 1 at Jets 4 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Myers Buf (hooking) 2:30, Kane Wpg (high-sticking) 17:06. Second Period 1. Winnipeg, Wellwood 4 (Kane) 4:54 2. Winnipeg, Gagnon 1 (Byfuglien) 10:04 3. Winnipeg, Ladd 15 (Little) 19:38 Penalties — None Third Period 4. Buffalo, Porter 3, 4:54 5. Winnipeg, Wheeler 15 (Ladd, Little) 19:34 (en) Penalties — Stuart Wpg (cross-checking) 6:00, Ladd Wpg (tripping) 16:17. Shots on goal Buffalo 8 8 14 — 30 Winnipeg 11 12 7 — 30 Goal — Buffalo: Miller (L,14-16-5); Winnipeg: Pavelec (W,17-18-2). Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo: 0-3; Winnipeg: 0-1.
FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS—Signed C Taylor Boggs, DT Andre Fluellen and DE Kyle Moore to one-year contracts. DALLAS COWBOYS—Re-signed WR Anthony. DETROIT LIONS—Signed K David Akers. GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed TE Matthew Mulligan. HOUSTON TEXANS—Re-signed OT Ryan Harris. NEW YORK JETS—Signed S Dawan Landry. OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed CB Mike Jenkins, CB Joselio Hanson and S Usama Young. Re-signed DE Andre Carter. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Agreed to terms with QB Brady Quinn. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Re-signed QB Dan Orlovsky. Restructured the contract of CB Eric Wright. Canadian Football League CFL—Named Michael Copeland president and chief operating officer. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed DL Anthony DeGrate and Marquis Frazier. Released DT Brandon Collier.
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Thursday’s Games New York at Chicago, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. code:6 INDEX: Agate HL:BC-BKN--NBA Leaders, BKN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THROUGH APRIL 7 Scoring G FG FT Anthony, NYK 63 622 398 Durant, OKC 77 698 654 Bryant, LAL 75 706 485 James, MIA 73 739 384 Harden, HOU 73 545 631 Westbrook, OKC 77 638 436 Curry, GOL 73 573 250 Wade, MIA 66 549 294 Aldridge, POR 71 613 273 Ellis, MIL 76 556 273 Lopez, Bro 69 525 277 Lillard, POR 77 517 246 Pierce, BOS 74 460 324 Williams, Bro 73 458 292 Lee, GOL 74 568 244 Griffin, LAC 75 545 271 Jr. Holiday, PHL 72 523 171 Gay, TOR 70 482 223 Smith, NYK 76 489 228 Jennings, MIL 76 479 222
PTS 1792 2183 2022 1964 1885 1802 1643 1409 1501 1465 1327 1451 1384 1365 1380 1366 1301 1257 1355 1343
AVG 28.4 28.4 27.0 26.9 25.8 23.4 22.5 21.3 21.1 19.3 19.2 18.8 18.7 18.7 18.6 18.2 18.1 18.0 17.8 17.7
Baseball Boston New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto
American League East Division W L Pct 5 2 .714 4 4 .500 3 4 .429 3 5 .375 2 5 .286
Pittsburgh at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Colorado at San Francisco, Late GB — 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 3
Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati (H.Bailey 1-0) at St. Louis (Westbrook 0-1), 11:45 a.m. Pittsburgh (J.Sanchez 0-1) at Arizona (Miley 1-0), 1:40 p.m. Colorado (Francis 1-0) at San Francisco (Zito 1-0), 1:45 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Hefner 0-1) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 1-0) at Miami (Sanabia 1-0), 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Lohse 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Feldman 0-1), 6:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 0-0) at San Diego (Stults 1-0), 8:10 p.m.
Central Division Kansas City Chicago Detroit Minnesota Cleveland
W 5 4 4 4 3
L 3 3 3 4 5
Pct .625 .571 .571 .500 .375
GB — 1/2 1/2 1 2
W 6 5 4 2 1
L 2 2 4 4 6
Pct .750 .714 .500 .333 .143
GB — 1/2 2 3 4 1/2
West Division Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Houston
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—Cuddyer, Colorado, .478; CCrawford, Los Angeles, .458; Segura, Milwaukee, .458; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, .435; JUpton, Atlanta, .400; Choo, Cincinnati, .394; Buck, New York, .393. RBI—Buck, New York, 14; Frazier, Cincinnati, 10; JUpton, Atlanta, 9; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 8; Phillips, Cincinnati, 8; 6 tied at 7. HOME RUNS—JUpton, Atlanta, 6; Buck, New York, 4; Fowler, Colorado, 4; Choo, Cincinnati, 3; Frazier, Cincinnati, 3; CGonzalez, Colorado, 3; Harper, Washington, 3; Pence, San Francisco, 3; Rosario, Colorado, 3; Werth, Washington, 3. PITCHING—Bumgarner, San Francisco, 2-0; Lee, Philadelphia, 2-0; Maholm, Atlanta, 2-0; Stammen, Washington, 2-0; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2-0; Harvey, New York, 2-0; 45 tied at 1. SAVES—Romo, San Francisco, 4; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 4; RBetancourt, Colorado, 3; RSoriano, Washington, 3; Grilli, Pittsburgh, 2; Fujikawa, Chicago, 2; League, Los Angeles, 2; Chapman, Cincinnati, 2.
Monday’s Games Boston 3, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 6 Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1 Texas 5, Tampa Bay 4 Seattle 3, Houston 0 Tuesday’s Games Detroit 7, Toronto 3 Washington 8, Chicago White Sox 7 N.Y. Yankees 14, Cleveland 1 Texas 6, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 7, Minnesota 4 Oakland at L.A. Angels, Late Houston at Seattle, Late Wednesday’s Games Toronto (Buehrle 0-0) at Detroit (Porcello 0-1), 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-0) at Texas (D.Holland 0-0), 12:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Floyd 0-1) at Washington (Zimmermann 1-0), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Nova 0-1) at Cleveland (Myers 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Baltimore (Arrieta 0-0) at Boston (Dempster 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Minnesota (Hendriks 0-0) at Kansas City (W.Davis 0-0), 6:10 p.m. Oakland (Milone 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Blanton 0-1), 8:05 p.m. Houston (Peacock 0-1) at Seattle (Beavan 0-0), 8:10 p.m.
Penguins 5 at Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Carolina, Corvo 5 (J.Staal) 4:06 (pp) 2. Pittsburgh, Bortuzzo 2 (Pa.Dupuis, Adams) 5:38 3. Pittsburgh, Morrow 7 (Jokinen, Pa.Dupuis) 13:49 4. Carolina, Sanguinetti 2 (E.Staal) 15:33 Penalties — Engelland Pgh (fighting, major), Westgarth Car (fighting, major) 2:02, Adams Pgh (slashing) 2:29, E.Staal Car (slashing) 3:03, Kunitz Pgh (tripping) 3:22. Second Period No Scoring Penalties — Nash Car (high-sticking) 9:27, Skinner Car (slashing) 14:58. Third Period 5. Carolina, Nash 4 (Ruutu, LaRose) 2:00 6. Pittsburgh, Bennett 3 (Adams, Engelland) 9:49 7. Pittsburgh, Malkin 7 (Iginla) 10:02 8. Pittsburgh, Pa.Dupuis 19, 19:58 (en) Penalties — None Shots on goal Pittsburgh 11 8 14 — 33 Carolina 9 9 10 — 28 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,20-6-0); Carolina: J.Peters (L,3-7-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Pittsburgh: 0-2; Carolina: 1-2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—AJones, Baltimore, .500; Lowrie, Oakland, .500; CSantana, Cleveland, .500; Berkman, Texas, .480; Reyes, Toronto, .444; TorHunter, Detroit, .424; CDavis, Baltimore, .417. RBI—CDavis, Baltimore, 17; Butler, Kansas City, 10; MiCabrera, Detroit, 10; Fielder, Detroit, 9; AJones, Baltimore, 8; Kinsler, Texas, 8; Morse, Seattle, 8; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 8; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 8. HOME RUNS—Morse, Seattle, 5; CDavis, Baltimore, 4; Middlebrooks, Boston, 4; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 4; Rios, Chicago, 4; 6 tied at 3. PITCHING—Ogando, Texas, 2-0; Masterson, Cleveland, 2-0; Lester, Boston, 2-0; Darvish, Texas, 2-0; Guthrie, Kansas City, 2-0; Buchholz, Boston, 2-0; Pettitte, New York, 2-0. SAVES—Wilhelmsen, Seattle, 3; Hanrahan, Boston, 3; Reed, Chicago, 3; JiJohnson, Baltimore, 2; Perkins, Minnesota, 2; Nathan, Texas, 2; GHolland, Kansas City, 2.
HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS—Signed F Seth Griffith to a three-year entry-level contract. CAROLINA HURRICANES—Activated D Justin Faulk from injured reserve. Sent D Brett Bellemore to Charlotte (AHL). CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Agreed to terms with F Garret Ross on a threeyear contract. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Reassigned F Michael Chaput and D Cody Goloubef to Springfield (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled F Daniel Bang from Milwaukee (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS—Assigned F J.T. Miller to Connecticut (AHL). PHOENIX COYOTES—Assigned D David Rundblad to Portland (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES—Recalled F Dmitrij Jaskin from Peoria (AHL). American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS—Loaned D Dallas Jackson to Gwinnett (ECHL). GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS—Signed D Richard Nedomlel and G Jake Paterson to amateur tryouts. PEORIA RIVERMEN—Acquired F Stefan Schneider and F Nathan Longpre from Chicago for D Brent Regner. Acquired D Carl Sneep from Texas for F Brett Sonne. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed G Dov Grumet-Morris to a one-year contract extension. TORONTO MARLIES—Signed D Andrew MacWilliam to an amateur tryout contract. ECHL ECHL—Suspended Stockton’s Andrew Clark one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in an April 8 game at Las Vegas.
National League East Division W L Pct 7 1 .875 5 2 .714 5 3 .625 3 5 .375 1 7 .125
Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami
Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee
L 3 4 5 5 6
Pct .625 .500 .375 .286 .250
GB — 1 2 2 1/2 3
W 5 5 4 4 2
L 2 2 3 3 5
Pct .714 .714 .571 .571 .286
GB — — 1 1 3
New York 041 202 041 — 14 18 0 Cleveland 000 001 000 — 1 7 2 Pettitte, Warren (8) and Cervelli; Carrasco, Myers (4) and Y.Gomes, O.Santos. W—Pettitte 2-0. L— Carrasco 0-1. HRs—New York, I.Suzuki (1), Cano (3), Youkilis (2), Overbay (1), Boesch (1). Cleveland, A.Cabrera (2).
INTERLEAGUE Chicago 100 001 302 — 7 11 1 Washington000 114 11x — 8 13 1 Peavy, N.Jones (6), Veal (7), Lindstrom (7), Thornton (8) and Flowers; G.Gonzalez, Stammen (6), Clippard (7), Storen (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—Stammen 2-0. L—Peavy 1-1. Sv—R.Soriano (3). HRs—Chicago, Konerko (1), Rios (4). Washington, Desmond (2), Werth (3), LaRoche 2 (2). NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles000 200 100 — 3 10 0 San Diego 200 010 15x — 9 11 1 Beckett, Capuano (6), Belisario (7), P.Rodriguez (7), Guerrier (8), Howell (8) and A.Ellis; Richard, Cashner (6), Thatcher (7), Gregerson (7), Thayer (8), Brach (9) and Hundley. W—Gregerson 1-0. L—Belisario 0-1. HRs—Los Angeles, Uribe (1). San Diego, Venable (1), Hundley (1). New York 000 210 000 — 3 8 2 Philadelphia043 100 00x — 8 11 1 Gee, Burke (4), Rice (6), Hawkins (7), Lyon (8) and Buck; Lee, Mi.Adams (9) and Kratz. W—Lee 2-0. L—Gee 0-2. HRs—New York, Buck (4). Philadelphia, Howard (1), M.Young (1), Mayberry (1).
West Division Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego
AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 001 010 001 — 3 8 1 Detroit 110 300 02x — 7 15 0 Morrow, Cecil (4), E.Rogers (6), Oliver (8), E.Gonzalez (8) and Arencibia; Ani.Sanchez, Smyly (8), Alburquerque (8), Benoit (9) and Avila. W—Ani. Sanchez 1-0. L—Morrow 0-1. HRs—Toronto, Rasmus (3). Detroit, Avila (2), Mi.Cabrera (1).
Minnesota 111 010 000 — 4 8 0 Kansas City511 000 00x — 7 13 1 Pelfrey, Swarzak (3), Pressly (7) and Mauer; Guthrie, Collins (7), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—Guthrie 2-0. L—Pelfrey 1-1. Sv—G.Holland (2). HRs—Minnesota, Mauer (1), Willingham (2), E.Escobar (1).
GB — 1 1/2 2 4 6
W 5 4 3 2 2
Tuesday’s Major League Linescores
Tampa Bay 001 000 000 — 1 4 1 Texas 002 020 20x — 6 10 0 Ro.Hernandez, McGee (7), B.Gomes (8) and J.Molina; Tepesch, R.Ross (8), Frasor (9) and Pierzynski. W—Tepesch 1-0. L—Ro.Hernandez 0-2.
Central Division
Atlanta 200 000 010 — 3 8 1 Miami 010 000 010 — 2 4 1 Medlen, O’Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and Gattis; LeBlanc, A.Ramos (7), Rauch (9) and Brantly. W— Medlen 1-1. L—LeBlanc 0-2. Sv—Kimbrel (4). HRs—Atlanta, Gattis (2).
Monday’s Games Milwaukee 7, Chicago Cubs 4 Cincinnati 13, St. Louis 4 N.Y. Mets 7, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 2, Miami 0 Pittsburgh 5, Arizona 3 San Francisco 4, Colorado 2
SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION—Placed D Kevin Alston on the disabled list. National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT—Signed F Jasmyne Spencer. Waived D Skyy Anderson.
Milwaukee 030 000 000 — 3 9 1 Chicago 000 010 23x — 6 9 3 W.Peralta, Mic.Gonzalez (7), Axford (7), Figaro (8) and Lucroy; Tr.Wood, Rondon (7), Marmol (8), Fujikawa (9) and Castillo. W—Marmol 1-1. L—Axford 0-2. Sv—Fujikawa (2).
Tuesday’s Games San Diego 9, L.A. Dodgers 3 Philadelphia 8, N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 3, Miami 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 1
Cincinnati 000 100 000 — 1 5 0 St. Louis 000 004 01x — 5 9 0 Arroyo, M.Parra (7) and Hanigan; Lynn, Mujica (7), Rosenthal (8), Boggs (9) and Y.Molina. W—Lynn 1-0. L—Arroyo 1-1. HRs—St. Louis, Ma.Adams (1).
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Tuesday’s Games Indiana 99, Cleveland 94 New York 120, Washington 99 Brooklyn 104, Philadelphia 83 Miami 94, Milwaukee 83 Toronto 101, Chicago 98 Houston 101, Phoenix 98
Flyers 1 at Islanders 4 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Voracek 17 (Giroux, Timonen) 6:28 2. N.Y. Islanders, Moulson 13 (Boyes, Tavares) 15:36 Penalty — Grabner NYI (elbowing) 11:49. Second Period 3. N.Y. Islanders, Grabner 13 (McDonald, Aucoin) 17:42 Penalties — B.Schenn Pha (fighting, major), Martin NYI (fighting, major) 6:01. Third Period 4. N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 24 (Moulson, Boyes) 18:23 5. N.Y. Islanders, Cizikas 6 (Martin, McDonald) 18:51 (en) Penalties — Timonen Pha (holding) 5:06, Joensuu NYI (goaltender interference) 19:19. Shots on goal Philadelphia 5 14 8 — 27 N.Y. Islanders 8 13 11 — 32 Goal — Philadelphia: Mason (L,3-7-1); N.Y. Islanders: Nabokov (W,19-11-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Philadelphia: 0-2; N.Y. Islanders: 0-1.
COLLEGE DELAWARE—Named Joe Shirley as senior associate athletic director for facilities, operations, and capital projects. DEPAUL—Granted junior F Moses Morgan, freshman F Montray Clemons, freshman G-F Jodan Price and sophomore C Derrell Robertson Jr. permission to transfer. GEORGE MASON—Named Cory Hanks women’s assistant soccer coach. Announced junior G Vertrail Vaughns will transfer from the men’s basketball program. INDIANA—Announced junior G Victor Oladipo will enter the NBA draft. KANSAS—Announced freshman G Ben McLemore will enter the NBA draft. LIPSCOMB—Announced the resignation of WITH men’s basketball coach Scott Sanderson. MAINE—Fired men’s ice hockey coach Tim THE Whitehead. NJIT—Named Mandi Risden women’s soccer coach. PROVIDENCE—Announced freshman G Ricky Ledo will enter the NBA draft.
Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Orlando, 5 p.m. Miami at Washington, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Boston, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Portland, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m. Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. San Antonio at Denver, 8:30 p.m.
Monday’s Games No games scheduled
Senators 2 at Lightning 3 First Period 1. Ottawa, Alfredsson 9 (Turris, Phillips) 14:29 Penalties — Smith Ott (hooking) 1:07, Labrie TB (high-sticking) 4:29. Second Period 2. Tampa Bay, Labrie 1 (Thompson, Crombeen) 2:35 3. Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 9 (Purcell, St. Louis) 4:28 (pp) Penalties — Turris Ott (hooking), Regin Ott (faceoff violation) 3:50, Benoit Ott (holding stick) 7:42, Gonchar Ott (slashing) 9:56, St. Louis TB (hooking) 9:59, Bishop TB (delay of game) 10:54, Phillips Ott (high-sticking) 12:55, Crombeen TB (holding stick) 19:21. Third Period 4. Ottawa, Latendresse 6 (Turris, Wiercioch) 0:21 (pp) 5. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 26 (Lecavalier, St. Louis) 14:56 (pp) Penalties — Gonchar Ott (hooking) 14:40, Neil Ott (roughing), Malone TB (roughing) 16:32, Neil Ott (roughing), Brewer TB (roughing) 20:00. Shots on goal Ottawa 13 9 11 — 33 Tampa Bay 8 12 4 — 24 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (L,8-6-2); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W,10-7-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Ottawa: 1-4; Tampa Bay: 2-7.
Tuesday’s Sports Transactions
BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS—Assigned C Tim Ohlbrecht to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 57 20 .740 — x-Oklahoma City 57 21 .731 1/2 x-Denver 53 24 .688 4 y-L.A. Clippers 51 26 .662 6 x-Memphis 53 25 .679 4 1/2 Golden State 44 33 .571 13 Houston 44 34 .564 13 1/2 L.A. Lakers 40 37 .519 17 Utah 41 38 .519 17 Dallas 38 39 .494 19 Portland 33 44 .429 24 Minnesota 29 47 .382 27 1/2 New Orleans 27 50 .351 30 Sacramento 27 50 .351 30 Phoenix 23 55 .295 34 1/2 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference
Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended Chicago Cubs RHP Pedro Silverio (DSL Cubs) 50 games after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League CLEVELAND INDIANS—Placed C Lou Marson on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Yan Gomes from Columbus (IL). Selected the contract of C Omir Santos from Columbus. LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Placed RHP Jered Weaver on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 8. Selected the contract of RHP Dane De La Rosa from Salt Lake (PCL). Transferred LHP Andrew Taylor from the 15- to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS—Selected the contract of RHP Nick Tepesch from Round Rock (LCL). Designated OF Julio Borbon for assignment. National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Transferred 1B Corey Hart from the 15- to the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of C-1B Blake Lalli from Nashville (PCL). American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS—Signed OF Buddy Sosnoskie. GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Traded 1B John Alonso to Sioux Falls for a player to be named. KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Signed LHP Aaron Meade. LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed RHP Eddie McKiernan. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS—Signed OF Eliezer Mesa. ST. PAUL SAINTS—Signed INF Joe Becker. Can-Am League NEWARK BEARS—Signed LHP Bryan Banes. NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Signed LHP Bobby Lucas. ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Signed INF Nick Del Guidice. Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM—Signed RHP Jason Wilson. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS—Sent INF Brandon Gregorich to Gary SouthShore (AA) to complete a previous trade. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Signed OF Darian Sandford.
Memphis 94, Charlotte 75 Oklahoma City 90, Utah 80 Minnesota at Golden State, Late New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, Late
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REBELS: Need a better start Elson insisted he and his teammates will need a better start Thursday. “We need everybody energized, everybody ready,” he said. “This is do or die. We want to keep winning, we want to keep playing. It’s going to be tough but we have to find a way to do it.” Sutter will do his best to make sure his charges are ready to roll in Game 5. “This series is far from over. We’re going into their rink with the mindset that we have to win one game and try to get it back here Saturday (for a sixth game),” said the Rebels boss. “We’ve lost three games and won one and every game has been tight. We have to be prepared to play (Thursday) and try to bring the series back here.” ● The Hitmen got away with a blatant trip with less than two minutes left in regulation time, a missed call that didn’t please Sutter and enraged the vast majority of the 5,633 fans in attendance . . . The Edmonton Oil Kings are up 3-0 in the other semifinal after hammering the host Medicine Hat Tigers 9-2 Tuesday. . . Advocate’s three stars: (1) Driedger . . . Turned aside 16 shots in the second period to keep the score deadlocked at two; (2) Bleackley . . . Red Deer rookie scored once and continued to show why he’ll be a physical force over the next few seasons; (3) Sylvester . . . Potted the winner. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
WORLDS: Penalty troubles But it was the hosts in penalty trouble in the period’s midsection. With Rebecca Johnston and Hayley Wickenheiser serving minors, American defenceman Bozek scored on a one-timer at 14:26. Decker tied the game 1-1 on an oddman rush. She deked Szabdos and slid the puck by her at 2:23. The Canadians killed off a pair of minors in the period. Time spent on the kill meant fewer shots on the U.S. net and the host country was outshot 24-10 after two. Bichard’s heavy shot beat a screened Vetter as 9:50 for the only goal of the first period. Both teams had scoring chances and strong goaltending in the first period. Szabados stopped an all-alone Decker after Canadian turnover in the neutral zone early in the period. Vetter dropped to her pads to stone Meghan Agosta-Marciano on her doorstep 14 minutes in. Canada’s Brianne Jenner hit Vetter’s right post eight minutes into the game. The hosts were outshot 12-8 in the first period and weren’t able to turn 29 seconds of a two-man advantage late in the period into a second goal. Canadian captain Hayley Wickenheiser was not at full health in the game. She injured her back in the first game of the tournament — a 3-2 shootout win over the Americans — and sat out the rest of the preliminary round. Earlier Tuesday, Russia defeated Finland 2-0 for bronze and that country’s second medal in tournament history after winning bronze in 2001. The Russian Ice Hockey Federation is finally putting resources into female
hockey because they want the home team to win a medal in Sochi. Former Ottawa Senators Alexei Yashin was appointed the team’s general manager in December. Germany finished fifth and Switzerland sixth in Ottawa. Sweden, the Olympic silver medallist in 2006, avoided relegation by beating the Czech Republic in a threegame series. There will not be a women’s world championship in 2014 because the International Ice Hockey Federation doesn’t hold a women’s tournament in an Olympic year. Sweden will host the 2015 world women’s championship. Canada will host it again in 2016 and 2020. The field for the 2014 Olympics will include Canada, Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Germany and Japan. The 2013 women’s world hockey championship sold about 150,000 tickets, but because they were sold in packages, actual attendance was just under 100,000, according to organizers. The 2007 championship in Winnipeg set a tournament attendance record of 119,231 and generated a profit of $751,000 for Hockey Canada and Hockey Manitoba. The world championship in Ottawa will make a profit of at least $500,000, according to host committee vice-chair Cyril Leeder, of which 25 per cent will go to women’s hockey in Ontario and the rest to Hockey Canada’s development programs.
JAYS: Awesome Hunter had three hits, including the 2,000th of his career, and Alex Avila homered. Kelly took away a home run from J.P. Arencibia leading off the second. Kelly ran back to the wall, reached above the fence and caught the ball as he rammed into the padding. Kelly bounced back toward the field and fell onto the warning track, but held on. “I didn’t know how far it was going to carry,” Kelly said. “He hit it, obviously, pretty well. So just to be able to get back there and catch it was awesome.” Said Gibbons: “One thing about Kelly — he doesn’t play a lot, but that guy is in the middle of something good all the time.” Anibal Sanchez (1-0) struck out eight in seven innings. He allowed two runs and five hits with one walk. “He throws his off-speed pitch when he’s behind in the count. Guys who can do that are awful tough,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “He did a nice job. He held us in check and went deep into the game for them.” NOTES: Toronto OF Jose Bautista returned as the DH after missing three games because of a twisted right ankle. He was 0 for 4 ... Detroit DH Victor Martinez didn’t play because of a cut on the top of his right thumb that required eight stitches. He is day-today. ... Former University of Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson threw out the first pitch, bouncing it about halfway to the plate. ... The Blue Jays signed P Miguel Bautista to a minor league contract. ... Wednesday’s starters are Rick Porcello (0-1, 5.06 ERA ) for the Tigers against Mark Buehrle (00, 10.13) for the Blue Jays.
run the way he’s always done throughout his career. And now that he’s doing it and winning tournaments in such dominating fashion, it does have the feel of what we expect to see from Tiger.” The previous time Woods won back-to-back tournaments going into the Masters was in 2001 (Bay Hill, The Players Championship), and he made it three in a row that year by beating Mickelson and David Duval on the back nine to give him a sweep of the four professional majors. So that’s a good omen for Woods. Then again, he was at No. 1 in the world by miles in 2000 — he won or finished second in 10 out of 11 tournaments — and when he got to the Masters, Woods made a double bogey and a triple bogey in a span of three holes, opened with a 75 and never recovered. “I think he’s always a threat at any golf tournament,” Adam Scott said. “But he’s far from just running away with it at the moment. He’s just returned to No. 1, and that’s just a number at the end of the day. There are so many players playing well, I think it’s just not a foregone conclusion.” Scott also wonders about the growing number of young players, who never knew the Woods that Mickelson, Ernie Els and others had to face. They don’t have the scars from running into a guy who already had 12 majors after just eight full years on the PGA Tour. “They don’t know of him really doing that, or they haven’t seen him at that level where he has played before,” Scott said. “I think that’s the difference. I think he’d have to put the runs on the board again to get back to that.” The Masters would be a good place for Woods to start. More than just the Masters, he hasn’t won any major since the U.S. Open in 2008. He is stuck on 14 majors and has been for five years, putting him further behind the pace he once set to break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 professional majors. Nicklaus has long believed that Woods will break his record. But even the Golden Bear says Tiger better get moving. “The older he gets and if he doesn’t win, it makes my record move out further,” Nicklaus said. “But I’ve said it — and I continue to say it — that I still expect him to break my record. I think he’s just too talented, too driven and too focused on that. “He’s played very, very well this spring,” Nicklaus added. “I think if he figures it out here, it will be a great boost for him. If he doesn’t figure it out here, after the spring he’s had, I think it will be lot tougher for him.”
WHL PLAYOFFS MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — Henrik Samuelsson, Michael St. Croix and Martin Gernat each scored twice as the Edmonton Oil Kings crushed the host Medicine Hat Tigers 9-2 on Tuesday in Western Hockey League playoff action. Six players recorded a multi-point game for the Oil Kings, who lead the best-of-seven secondround matchup 3-0. Cody Corbett scored once and set up two more for Edmonton, which has outscored the Tigers 173 in the series, while St. Croix tacked on an assist for his third three-point performance of the playoffs. Trevor Cheek and Travis Ewanyk also scored for the Oil Kings as David Musil and Stephane Legault each chipped in with two assists. Curtis Valk and Logan McVeigh scored for Medicine Hat, which found itself trailing 7-0 before getting on the board early in the third period.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Around every corner at Augusta National is another reminder that Tiger Woods isn’t getting any younger. He played a practice round with a teenager from China who wasn’t even born when Woods won his first Masters. He was introduced at his news conference Tuesday as playing the Masters for the 19th time, which caused Woods to bow his head and cover his eyes. Among dozens of photographs on the walls of the club is one of defending champion Phil Mickelson helping Woods — with a much fuller head of hair — into the green jacket after Woods won the Masters in a playoff. That was from 2005. And that was the last time Woods won the Masters. Woods says at least he’s contending, so he’s not about to panic. He conceded that it feels a lot longer than eight years ago, though he is not the least bit discouraged that the Masters is the major he has gone the longest without winning. Since that Sunday evening, Woods has won the British Open twice, the PGA Championship twice and another U.S. Open. Could he have imagined in 2005 that seven Masters would come and go without him winning? “I wouldn’t have been happy with that,” Woods said. “I put myself in the mix every year but last year, and that’s the misleading part. It’s not like I’ve been out there with no chance of winning this championship. I’ve been there, and unfortunately just haven’t got it done. “Obviously, I’m not real happy with the fact that I haven’t won more,” he said. “But the whole idea is to give myself opportunities. And as of right now, I’m tied for second on the all-time win list here. So that’s not too bad, either.” Woods has changed his practice routine at this major. For years known as a dew sweeper for playing his practice rounds at the crack of dawn, Woods hasn’t shown up at the course until after lunch this week. He played Monday afternoon with 14-year-old Guan Tianlang and Dustin Johnson. After his news conference, he headed to the practice range before going out for nine holes with Fred Couples. Asked about the change, he was coy, telling a reporter with whom he’s familiar, “Just wanted to mess with you.” He smiled, never giving an explanation, so
that much hasn’t changed about Woods. The biggest difference is his health and his game, which are connected. There has been so much activity off the golf course — the scandalous revelations of extramarital affairs that ended his marriage, changing swing coaches to rebuild his swing for the fourth time, a move to South Florida to a mansion so large he has his own practice range in the backyard — that it was easy to overlook the injuries. It all started to turn the corner last year when Woods began winning again — three times on the PGA Tour — and getting back into contention at the majors. It was early last summer when he could finish a round and spend an hour on the range, and when his fitness plan was more about building strength then rehabilitating his left leg. “The No. 1 concern was first of all, get health, get strong enough where I can practice,” he said. “And once I started to be able to practice, things turned. And they turned quickly. I feel comfortable with every aspect of my game. I feel that I’ve improved, and I’ve gotten more consistent, and I think the wins show that. That’s something that I’m proud of so far this year. And hopefully, I can continue it this week and the rest of the year.” The wins are piling up, and they are impressive. He led by as many as eight shots on the back nine at Torrey Pines. He was never seriously challenged over the final hour at Doral and Bay Hill, two more wins that marked the first time in 10 years he had three wins before going to the Masters. And he’s back to No. 1 in the world. To no one’s surprise, he is the overwhelming favourite when the Masters gets under way on Thursday. Mickelson came within a fraction of an inch from shooting 59 this year when he won the Phoenix Open, and while he’s a bit nervous about not playing the week before the Masters as he usually does, he can contend at Augusta even when he’s not on form. A win this year would give him as many green jackets as Woods. Rory McIlroy is getting his game together at the right time, finishing second last week in the Texas Open. There are challengers all around, and yet most players would agree that Woods is the man to beat this week. “Even at times where has not played his best, you know what he’s capable of, and so you’re always looking at his score,” Mickelson said. “You’re always worried about him making that big
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Toronto Raptors’ Jonas Valanciunas tries to drive past Chicago Bulls’ Nazr Mohammed during an NBA game, Tuesday, in Chicago.
Raptors get win over playoff-bound Bulls BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 101 Bulls 98 CHICAGO — DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points, Rudy Gay added 19 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Chicago Bulls 101-98 on Tuesday night. Toronto allowed a 15-point lead to dwindle to four at halftime but regrouped in the third quarter, getting it up to 16. The Raptors then hung on after the lead got down to two near the end of the game. Nate Robinson nailed a 3-pointer with just under a minute left and Carlos Boozer hit two foul shots with 16.8 seconds remaining to pull Chicago within 99-97. DeRozan then made two free throws to get the lead up to four, but the Bulls weren’t finished. Robinson hit the first of two free throws with 10.6 seconds left, and after a jump ball following the
miss, there was a scramble for the loose ball. From the floor, Boozer threw it to Robinson. The ball went through his hands and started to go into the back court. The guard saved it off Toronto’s Amir Johnson to avoid the violation but missed a heave at the buzzer. That preserved the win for the Raptors, but an injury to centre Jonas Valanciunas sure cast a cloud over it. He walked off the court clutching his neck after colliding with Gay during that scramble and was tended to for several minutes on the sideline before being wheeled off on a gurney. He was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons. For the fifth-place Bulls, the loss left them just a half-game ahead of Atlanta in the Eastern Conference with five to play. It also damaged their chances of catching Brooklyn, a team they
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BRIEFS Hoosier Daddy takes home A side title Hossier Daddy captured the Red Deer Women’s Basketball League A Pool title with a 62-30 victory over the Storm at Lindsay Thurber Monday. Veronica DenOudsten led the Hoosiers with 18 points while Kari Kaiser was played of the game. Erika Pottage had 10 points for the Storm with Krista Sawatsky was their player of the game. Meanwhile, the Spartans downed
trailed by two when the night began, for the fourth seed and homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Veteran guard Richard Hamilton returned to Chicago’s rotation after missing more than a month with a back injury, but with Joakim Noah (right foot), Luol Deng (hip), Taj Gibson (sprained left knee) and Derrick Rose (left knee) sidelined, the Bulls struggled on both ends and dropped their second straight game. Gay shook off a poor performance after matching a season low with four points in Saturday’s loss to Milwaukee. DeRozan came up big. Terrence Ross came off the bench to score 13. Kyle Lowry added 13 points and 10 assists, and the Raptors shot over 51 per cent. Jimmy Butler led Chicago with a career-high 28 points. Robinson scored 22, and Boozer added 19 points and 11 rebounds.
the Big Ballers 69-61 to take third place with Cassie Stewart hitting 21 points. Sam Eggink was the player of the game Aimee Sandham had 18 points for the Spartans with Rayne Prins the player of the game. In the B Pool, the Nikes edged the Shooting Stars 43-42 to take third place. Teresa Meyers led the Nikes with 13 points and was named their player of the game while Chandra Visser had 10 points and was the Stars top player.
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Capitals 3 Canadiens 2 MONTREAL — The puck keeps going in for Alex Ovechkin. The league’s co-leader in goals finished a spectacular play with a tricky shot that fooled Montreal goalie Carey Price on Tuesday as the Washington Capitals downed the Canadiens 3-2 to extend their winning run to five games. The Capitals are a perfect 5-0-0 in April and Ovechkin has eight goals in that span. The centre on his line, Nicklas Backstrom, picked up two assists and has 11 points, all helpers, in the same five games. Ovechkin said getting the win was bigger than the goal he scored to tie the game 1-1 at the 7:50 mark of the second. It helped the Capitals (21-17-2) stay two points ahead of Winnipeg atop the Southeast Division, with a game in hand. “It’s big two points for us right now,” said the twotime Hart Trophy winner, whose level of play looks to be back near its peak after dipping the last two seasons. “We beat a team in front of us (in the standings). “We know we can play against good teams. If we play hard and play our system it gives us results.” Eric Fehr and Jack Hillen also scored for Washington, which is 6-0-1 in its last seven. Lars Eller scored twice for Montreal (25-9-5), which ended a two-game winning run. Ovechkin’s 26th of the season left him tied for the league lead with Steven Stamkos, who got the gamewinner late in Tampa Bay’s 3-2 win over Ottawa. When told that Stamkos had scored, Ovechkin said “good for him.” Washington killed off a slashing penalty against Ovechkin to start the second period, but then the 27-year-old put on a show to tie the game. He took the puck at the right point, slipped past Michael Ryder into the high slot and fired a mediumspeed shot that dipped on Price. “I beat Ryder and I knew there was lots of traffic in front,” Ovechkin said. “The shot wasn’t that hard but it went in, so that’s good.” It was Montreal’s first loss to a Southeast team (111-0) in 2013, but the Capitals always play well at the Bell Centre, where they are 6-0-1 in their last seven visits. “We got pucks at the net but they did a good job of blocking the lanes, and when they scored, it seemed like the puck found ways to go behind Price,” said Montreal coach Michel Therrien. The Capitals came out looking hungry and owned the puck in the first six minutes of the opening period, firing the first nine shots on goal to force Price into a number of big saves. tories at an Edmonton tournament during the weekend. Mike Rodenbush won a unanamous decision over Regan Auger from the Edmonton Wabasca Club in a senior 165-pound match, while Lowie Cordillo won by unanimous decision over current Manitoba Gold Gloves champion Eamon Ryan in a 120-pound junior B match. In addition, Lester Cordillo stopped Kyle Woods of the Edmonton Cougar Club in the second round of a 110-pound junior B bout. All three Red Deer boxers will be competing in the Alberta provincial championship in June.
ber of the Zone 5 Grit. The Grit, consisting mostly of players from rural communities around Edmonton, claimed bronze in the under-19 category. Guse, who played ringette in Red Deer and joined the Zone 5 AA team for the 2012-13 season, led the club in scoring at the nationals with 14 goals and five assists in nine games. She finished sixth in tournament scoring.
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MASTERS SWIM CLUB CALGARY — Catherine Alcorn of the Red Deer Masters Swim Club shattered a provincial record at the Masters Provincials during the weekend. The 19-year-old Alcorn, who runs crosscountry for RDC, broke the provincial mark while winning the 18-24 year-old 200-metre butterfly with a time of two minutes 44.29 seconds. She also won the 400m Individual Medley in 6:07.65 and 100m butterfly in 1:13.57 while taking second in the 800m freestyle in 11:13.55 and the 1,500m freestyle in 21:36.24. Meanwhile Bryan Iliscupidez struck gold in four events in the men’s 18-24 year-old division. He won the 100m breaststroke in 1:09.23, the 50m butterfly in 28.89 seconds, the 50m breaststroke in 31.44 seconds and the 100m I.M. in 1:04.39. Marissa Hutchison, competing in the women’s 25-29 year-old division, won the 800m freestyle (11:04.97), the 400m I.M. (6:13.05) and the 1,00m freestyle (21:11.00) and was second in the 400m freestyle (5:25.57) and third in the 200m I.M. (2:56.46). Michael Miller earned four medals in the men’s 25-29 year-old division,
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Flower aficionados can get some good material for their gardens this weekend at the annual dahlia tuber, gladiolus corm and mignon dahlia sale. The sale, hosted by the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, will take place at the Bower Place Shopping Centre from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Two corms will sell for $1, potted mignon dahlias will go for $5, and each tuber sells for $5 for non-members and $4 for members. New members will receive two free tubers and two free corms. Contact Lorne McArthur at 403-3464902 or visit www. albertadahlia andgladsociety.com.
County softens tax bite STRONGER GROWTH, ADDITIONAL TAXES ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS ALLOW RED DEER COUNTY TO CHOP PROPOSED 2013 TAX INCREASE BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County has lowered this year’s tax increase to two per cent, thanks to stronger-than-anticipated economic growth. A tax rate in the three per cent range was projected last December, but additional taxes raised through $1.5 million in new development allowed the county to chop that number by one-third. “I think we’re going to have smiling residents,” predicted Mayor Jim Wood on Tuesday. “It doesn’t mean there isn’t going to be some increase. “We have put forward a re-
alistic budget that will get the work done.” On a typical home valued at $300,000, ratepayers will see their annual municipal taxes go to $1,078.26 this year from $1,054.50, an increase of $23.76. A non-residential property valued at $500,000 would pay another $146.30 in municipal taxes — $5,345.10, up from $5,198.80 last year. Total tax bills also include school taxes, which are calculated separately. Red Deer County’s combined operating and capital budget is $66.8 million, down from $73.7 million last year. Last year’s budget was higher, mostly because of a back-
log of capital projects that had to be completed that were left over from 2011’s poor construction season. Council unanimously voted to give the municipal tax rate bylaw first reading on Tuesday. Residents will have an opportunity to provide their input before the bylaw returns to council for second and final readings in two weeks. Wood said the county’s growth numbers bode well for the future. “We’re back into the times of growth,” he said. “Our planning department right now is extremely busy just trying to handle the development permits that are coming in every day.
LACOMBE EXPO Spring cleaning soon gives way to the spring spruce-up and the Lacombe Lifestyle Expo and Marketplace can help. On Friday and Saturday at the Lacombe Recreation Complex, the 33rd annual trade show will feature more than 100 exhibits and vendors. Show runs from 1 to 8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free. Contact Kim Berube, Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce executive director, at 403-7824300, or go to www. lacombechamber.ca/ events.
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METAL ART AT MALL Los Angeles metal artist Christopher DeRubeis will bring his unique, colourful metal creations through Red Deer on Saturday. Using paint on metal, DeRubeis creates flowing, vibrant images with colours that appear to change and move before the eye. Editions Gallery in the Bower Place shopping centre will host DeRubeis Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served. If you would like to attend or for more information, call Debbie at 403-3422366.
“It’s a great sign.” The county has been doing its share to encourage investment in the municipality and its urban communities, he said. “(Growth) doesn’t come by accident. We’ve been working very hard to have smart growth happen within our communities. “This growth has produced significant revenues for us to use.” More budget information and audited financial statements are available at www.rdcounty. ca.
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From left, Elza-Marie Grundling, Red Deer RCMP Const. Shane Mykyte, Beniah and Corry Giesbrecht wait to give a prayer at the 10th annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast at the Parkland Pavilion on Tuesday.
Still hope in community rocked by youth suicide, Mainse says BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The co-host of 100 Huntley Street brought a message of hope to the 10th annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast at the Parkland Pavilion on Tuesday. Rev. Ron Mainse drew about 400 people from across Central Alberta. Mayors, councils, church groups and residents attended the early morning event. “There’s a lot of hurt happening recently in Rev. Ron Mainse Red Deer with young people taking their own lives,” said Mainse. In January, the ministry released Helping you and your friends to live, a resource book aimed at debunking suicide myths, creating awareness and providing warning signs. There’s even a chapter on bullying featuring Amanda Todd’s story. The Coquitlam, B.C., teen killed herself in 2012 after suffering the effects of bullying for several years. Mainse said the book is geared for young people to help friends who may be contemplating suicide get help. “Yes, there is hope,” said Mainse. “Just to open the conversation because young people are hurting. They need to feel the love and the acceptance of people around them.”
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Mayor Morris Flewwelling acknowledged there has been a lot of hurt in the community over the rash of youth suicides over the last 12 months in Red Deer. “One suicide is too many,” said Flewwelling. “We know the rate of suicide in youth is increasing.” Flewwelling said there is difficulty in recognizing the symptoms and the community needs to dig deep to find ways to help prevent suicide. He said many of the suicides stem from bullying, cyberbullying and gender identification. “Up until now our collective thinking has been we should not talk about it or in anyway acknowledge it,” said Flewwelling. “In an earlier time, that may have worked.” Flewwelling said in today’s world of personalized technology and media coverage, there’s no way around this serious issue. “We can’t play ostrich and put our heads in the sand and say it just isn’t happening,” said Flewwelling. “(Now) there’s a heightened awareness. Hopefully this heightened awareness will result in heightened action.” The annual breakfast is organized by the Business Leaders Network. Red Deer will be highlighted on an edition of 100 Huntley Street this week. For more information on the show or the resource book, go to www.100huntley.com. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
A young woman with no previous criminal record has been sentenced to 45 months in prison, minus time served, on charges laid following a home invasion in Red Deer late in the evening of Jan. 17, 2012. In an agreement worked out earlier this year, Stacey Joy Hogg, 24, had pleaded guilty to three of the six charges against her, including housebreaking with criminal intent, possession of methamphetamine for trafficking and breaching conditions of her release. Hogg had been released on a recognizance, but was returned to custody after a subsequent arrest. Crown prosecutor Jillian Brown told Judge Ken Rostad in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday that Hogg and three others — two men and one woman — knocked on the door and then let themselves into a house occupied by an adult couple. The man in the house spoke with the intruders while his frightened girlfriend hid in a closet, said Brown. When the man told the intruders that he didn’t have the $500 they wanted from him, they demanded property instead, taking a laptop computer and a set of speakers. The man discovered later that they took his wallet. Hogg was a drug suspect and was under police surveillance at the time of the incident, said Brown. RCMP members were watching as she and the other woman took items from the house and placed them in the back of her pickup truck before driving away. Police subsequently searched Hogg’s house, finding the stolen goods as well as various stashes of methamphetamine totalling 45.1 grams in her bedroom. Brown said police estimated the street value of the drugs to be in the range of $2,600 to $3,600. Defence counsel Balfour Der of Calgary said his client’s problems stem from her addiction to drugs. She became embroiled in the business to support her habit. Der joined Brown in seeking a global sentence of 45 months, minus six and a half months for the time she has served in pre-trial custody, noting that Hogg had no prior convictions at the time of her arrest. Rostad accepted the recommendation and ordered that Hogg serve an additional 38 and a half months in prison, that she submit a sample of her DNA and that she be prohibited from possessing firearms or explosives for 10 years after her release from prison. Charges from a subsequent drug arrest were withdrawn, as were the balance of the charges that arose from the initial incident. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com
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Happiness goal set Three evening programs organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association will be presented in May to help people increase their happiness, activeness and mindfulness. The May series of programming is designed to explore wellness issues among all people. “We want to really make sure that people understand the wealth of programs that are
out there and the strategies that are out there that increase peoples’ mental health and wellness. They can be valuable to everyone in the community,” explained CMHA education program supervisor Vicki Fox Smith. The first presentation is May 6 in conjunction with national Mental Health Week.
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Trial on drug charges An Edmonton man accused of peddling pot and steroids in Red Deer has chosen to be tried by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench. Travis Stewart, 24, was not in court for arraignments on Monday, during which the dates and nature of his trial were discussed before Justice Monica Bast in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Stewart was arrested on the evening of April 29, 2011, by a Red Deer RCMP officer who observed what he believed to be a drug deal taking place inside a vehicle in the downtown area. Investigators allege that open liquor was found inside the vehicle, along with an undisclosed quantity of marijuana and anabolic steroids. Stewart was charged with possession of marijuana for trafficking, production of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance. Charges were not laid against the other man alleged to have been in the vehicle with him. Stewart’s trial has been set for two days, starting on Feb. 18, 2014.
Citizens click for census In one week, more than 18,000 Red Deerians have clicked to be counted in the city census. For the first time, residents have been able to fill in the annual municipal census online. Since getting underway on April 2, some 18,000 people have logged onto www.reddeer.ca/census, entered their unique code, and answered the basic demographic questions. “The response has been great thus far,” said deputy city clerk Erin Stuart. Residents have until April 16 to submit their information through the online avenue. Any residents who have not answered the census by computer will be visited by an enumerator starting on April 19. Enumerators will be carrying picture identification cards. Any citizen with questions about the identity of a census worker can phone the census office at 403-342-8317. This year’s census questions ask the number of people living at a residence, their genders, years of birth, and their citizenship status. The questionnaire will be useful in providing information to community agencies, determining grant funding, and helping with infrastructure and program planning. It will update the city’s 2011 demographic count. No census was done last year.
Centennial exhibit to launch The public is invited to launch the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery’s centennial exhibition Remarkable Red Deer at its grand opening on Sunday. Attendees will be invited for a free tour the new exhibit, which tells stories from the city’s past 100 years. The exhibit ribbon cutting will take place just after 2 p.m. at the museum which is located at 4525 47A Ave. After the ceremony, patrons will be encouraged to move next door to the Golden Circle for festivities, including entertainment, cake and refreshments. The Golden Circle Seniors Centre is located just north of the museum. Entertainment will include aboriginal and Métis dancers, local musicians, and Canada’s sports poet Frank Pavlick. Authors will be reading and
Morris Flewwelling is having so much fun celebrating the city’s 100th birthday, he wants to get in on other, more personal centennial celebrations. “We are having a great time celebrating our 100th birthday and I want to recognize, in some special way, our residents turning 100 as well,” said Red Deer’s mayor. Flewwelling is encouraging anyone celebrating or anyone with a family member celebrating their 100th birthday in 2013 to contact his office so he can take part in the celebrations. In a release, Flewwelling said he would like to possibly share a visit and offer a token of appreciation to any celebrants. Interested citizens can contact the mayor’s office at 403-342-8154 or mayor@reddeer.ca.
Bike lane tenders The City is accepting tenders to paint lines for the 2013 Commuter Bike Pilot Program. Bidders have until 2 p.m. on April 19 to submit an application. The final scope of work is subject to Red Deer city council approval. In the coming weeks, city council will review the pilot program. Any modifications resulting from council direction will be incorporated into the contract in an addendum before the tender closing date. The contract must be completed by June 30. Tender documents for a $50 non-refundable fee can be obtained directed from the City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department on the third floor of City Hall. Contract specifications (2012 edition) may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for $40 non-refundable fee or on the city’s website (www.reddeer.ca). For information, contact Simone Thompson at 403-342-8158.
Environment checks Red Deer County is considering bylaw amendments to outline when environmental reviews are required in environmentally significant areas. Under proposed Land Use Bylaw additions, a full environmental review is required when developments require rezoning or an area structure plan, or gravel or sand removal or processing is involved. Basic environmental reviews may be required in other cases as determined by the county. Environmental reviews will not be required for homes, accessory buildings, home-based businesses or additions to homes or accessory buildings. The county undertook an inventory of its environmentally significant areas in 2011 and it was part of a municipal development plan passed last December. Council gave first reading to the amendments on Tuesday. A public hearing is set for May 7. The identification of environmentally significant areas does not prevent development, but it ensures that the environment is considered as part of the approval process, said Mayor Jim Wood. The proposed changes further clarify the process.
Fight charges stayed Charges have been stayed against two men arrested after a bar fight in Red Deer early last year. Red Deer City RCMP were called to the former Tequila Night Club at about
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PROGRAM: Happiness, mindfulness Titled Happiness 101, the fun and interactive program will teach proven skills to increase one’s level of happiness. On May 13, Monica Morrison will present It’s the Feel Age Not the Real Age. Morrison, who has spent 23 years working with disabled adults, seniors and the multicultural community in recreation, will speak of what the Golden Circle has to offer for people of all ages. Finally, on May 27, mindfulness will be the key word as Dr. Anomi Grace Bearden presents how to cultivate presence and joy while minimizing stress and negativity. “Mindfulness as a concept started out being used by people with borderline personality disorder, but it’s come over to the general community as a way of recognizing where you are in time and space and bringing a focus to the moment that you’re in that’s used widely by people all over the world,” said Fox Smith. All of the sessions are at the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Pub-
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Lorne Holman sends off the ashes of his father, Frank Holman, tied to some helium balloons in front of the Gaetz Memorial United Church Tuesday. Holman was one of Red Deer’s first architects and a fighter pilot in the Second World War. He previously survived a plane crash that took his son Bruce in 2004. He died in Calgary on April 1 at the age of 88. 2:15 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2012, to investigate reports that a man was severely injured after being stabbed in the midsection. The 25-year-old victim was taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital where he required emergency surgery. Police arrested Harvey James LeeBernick, then 27, and charged him with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Vibert Davis, then 38, was arrested later and also charged in connection with
the incident. The two men were to have had a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court early this week. However, the hearing was cancelled when the charges were stayed. Crown prosecutors are not required to state reasons for staying proceedings, which means the charges remain in limbo for a period of a year. The charges are dismissed if they are not reinstated during that term.
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How to pack a car safely (MS) This is the prime season for road trips, which many p e o p l e feel are the most affordable vacation o p t i o n available. They also p r o v i d e unsurpassed views of the countryside and the ability to slow down and customize the trip as desired. Packing the car for a road trip can be complicated. Although the goal may be to cram as much as possible into the car and get on the road quickly, part of the safety plan for this year’s adventure should include packing properly to avoid injury. Americans and Canadians combined drive trillions of miles in any given year. Although it is difficult to make a direct comparison between how many people choose driving as opposed to flying, when comparing data from
the Federal Highway Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, for every mile Americans flew they drove about six more in 2011. With so many miles clocked on the road, it is essential to make the experience as safe as possible -- and that means properly securing belongings in a vehicle before getting on the road. In 2009, a laptop computer became a projectile that killed its owner. Heather Storey of Surrey, British Columbia, was driving to work when her vehicle was hit by a tow truck. Her laptop was propelled at such a force that it caused a deadly injury to her head. Unsecured or improperly packed items in a car or truck have the potential to cause serious injury when on the road or, at the very least, may obscure visibility when driving, says Consumer Reports. The organization and others offer drivers a series of tips that can help make travel safer. • Adjust tire pressure prior to travel. Consult the owner’s manual to determine the proper tire pressure when the vehicle is carrying a full load. This will not only help alleviate unnecessary wear and tear on the tires, but also can help to prevent a tire blow-out. • Know the car’s limits. It also is important to stay below the maximum permitted weight or maximum load capacity for the car or truck. Consumer Reports says that the capacity for small SUVs can span from 825 pounds to 1,155 pounds. Midsize SUVs may carry anywhere from 900 pounds to 1,405 pounds. Minivan capacities can vary significantly as well. The load capacity is specified in the owner’s manual. • Store the heaviest items at the lowest, most central
part of the vehicle. This helps reduce effects on handling that can lead to problems with steering or braking. Drivers should keep the overall center of gravity lower to help reduce the risk of rollover. • Make sure everything is secured in the car or truck. Use crates or boxes to house smaller items. Use straps or rope to tie down anything loaded in the back of a truck or SUV to the vehicle’s cargo anchors. Load as much as you can into a car’s trunk to avoid having loose items rolling around inside the passenger area. • Keep a clear view of mirrors and the rear of the vehicle. Do not pack any items higher than the level of the rear seats. Not only can these items fly forward in the event of sharp braking or a crash, but they also may obscure the driver’s view of the road. • Invest in a roof rack or cargo box. Place light items on the roof of the car so you can free up interior space. Secure roof items tightly, as they will be caught by the updraft while driving and you do not want to send them airborne and onto the roadway. Also, if you do use the roof for storage, be aware of how much taller the items will make your vehicle so you know if you can safely drive beneath underpasses. • Make sure passengers can be seated safely. Packing a car doesn’t always mean being able to fit suitcases and belongings. It also means ensuring passengers can ride safely. Do not seat more passengers than can be restrained by the seat belts in the car. If there is not enough room, it is safer in the long run to take two cars. Pack a vehicle safely and make sure it is maintained before heading out on your first road trip of the season.
Octane rating affects car costs (MS) A variety of factors come into play when a person is deciding which new or previously owned vehicle to purchase. While body type, model year and make all are considered, shoppers should also look into what type of fuel the vehicle needs. Many drivers are aware of the different grades of gasoline available at the pump. Unleaded versions come in regular, plus and premium varieties, which coordinates to the octane of the gasoline. The octane rating of gasoline tells a driver how much the fuel can be compressed before it spontaneously ignites, rather than igniting normally from a spark plug in the vehicle engine. Lower-octane gasoline can withstand less compression than higher-octane gasoline. Gas that ignites on its own rather than from a spark from the spark plug causes knocking and pinging, which can damage the engine. Therefore it is important to use the right octane level of gasoline for a vehicle, based on the car’s compression ratio for the engine. Car engines that are rated in a particular way will benefit from the
correct octane in gasoline. Higher-performance engines commonly found in race cars and sporty, luxury vehicles will generally require a premium, high-octane gasoline to run at their optimal performance. Most cars on the market are built to take regular 87-octane gasoline. A visit to the gas station clearly indicates that higheroctane fuel costs more per gallon than the lowest octane. Over time, filling up with premium gas can be a significant factor in how much it costs to own a particular vehicle. If you are looking to save money, it is important to consider just how much of your budget will be devoted to fuel costs. A vehicle that requires premium gasoline instead of regular gasoline may end up costing a few hundred dollars more per year based on the size of the fuel tank. It is important to note that using a higher octane fuel in a vehicle that is not rated for it will not increase performance -- it only will end up costing you more. That’s because the octane rating refers to how much energy it takes to ignite the gasoline and at what point
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1963 — Parliament passes Food and Drugs Act, getting more control over sale of drugs. 1947 — Montreal Royals of the International League sell their star player Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. He appears in uniform for the Dodgers the next day. He becomes the first black player to break the colour barrier in major league baseball. 1912 — Government appoints Board of Grain Commissioners, to inspect and regulate the grain trade.
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TAKING A MOMENT These swans enjoy a quick rest while making their way to their summer homes. The trumpeter and whistling (tundra) swans will be feeding in Alberta fields on their northern migration to Alaska. The swans passing through Alberta have wintered on the eastern U.S. seaboard. Photo by D. MURRAY MACKAY/ freelance
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SUN SIGNS tion that you need to take it down a notch. Remodel your schedule around your life’s most basic needs and consider changing some of your habits. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You seem headover-heels with a romance. Your interest in this person or a creative project is skyrocketing. You will passionately go after your heart’s desire and you will expect the same in return. Relationships pursued now will be very adventurous. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): This is a fostering time for you where you can open up your heart and tap into your feelings. You will be able to further understand the foundations of your true origins. Use this marvellous occasion to start some domestic venture. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The methods which you are trying to use in conveying a message or a skill can be mastered now to its fullest potential. At this time you will fervently desire to improve your communication abilities through some written or verbal tactics. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are highly attuned to the physical world and you will seek more refinement out of life. Pleasure and comfort come hand in hand for you. Stick to your initial budget and you will prosper out of this celestial opportunity. Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/ columnist.
Wife wants husband to show same adoration from when they first met Dear Annie: I have been mar- oration and helpfulness because ried to “Dennis” for eight years. he was trying to win my heart. Early on, Dennis couldn’t do How do I deal with this? — Wife enough for me. of the Plumber with Leaky Pipes at Now, if my car won’t start, he Home yells at me and says to call a tow Dear Wife: Some people put truck. If I ask him to spend time on a good show for others, but at with me, he always has other home, they let down the facade. things to do. We recommend On the rare occacounseling, prefersion when we attend ably with Dennis, but a social event towithout him if necesgether, he abandons sary. me so he can “work We also suggest the room” and have you stop relying on a great time with evyour husband to proeryone else. We arvide your social life. rive together and Instead of sitting leave together, and “miserable and forthe rest of the time, gotten,” develop your I sit alone, miserable conversational skills. and forgotten. Get involved in some Dennis will go local activities that MITCHELL above and beyond interest you so you for others. It doesn’t are less dependent on & SUGAR matter if it’s the Dennis’s availability. middle of the night, You need to take raining, snowing, better care of yourspending money we self. don’t have, missing meals, birthDear Annie: I am a retired days, holidays and our daughter’s schoolteacher and would like to school programs. request that you stop recommendIf it’s a chance to make himself ing that high school students see look good, he’s there with a smile their guidance counselors for any and compassion. problems other than recommendI get the repairman to take care ed course requirements for graduof me with a handshake and a bill. ation. But when I ask Dennis to treat his While it may be widely thought family with the same enthusiasm, that they are there for guidance he calls me a selfish nag. on many personal issues, most of Yes, I resent all the people he them, in my experience, are the helps, because they get the side of last person I would recommend a my husband that belongs to me. student speak to about family or I’m told to take care of myself emotional issues. because he’s too busy helping This may sound harsh, but they others and inflating his ego. I get are not compassionate and caring whatever is leftover. individuals. Perhaps they are in I love Dennis, but I’m starting elementary and middle schools, to feel that he only gave me his ad- but not in high schools.
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Wednesday, April 10 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Mandy Moore, 29; Jaimie Chung, 30; Charlie Hunnam, 33 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Be ready for a New Moon in brave Aries! This is a cycle that will allow us to go after our desires with a heavy dose of confidence and optimism. It’s a marvellous time to start anew and to take full charge of our lives. We are seeking immediate results within a short time span. There is tremendous potential for self-renewal. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, prepare to go through an amazing journey of self-discovery and to greet the new you. You got all the celestial players helping you out in your most significant endeavours. There’s plenty of support for you which will help you advance on a variety of levels. Take advantage of this wonderful window of opportunity to start something big. ARIES (March 21-April 19): It is great to be in your shoes, dear Aries. This is your special time to go boldly after you want in life. You are given the chance to reinvent yourself into a much stronger and fulfilled individual. Believe in your own abilities as the universe is on your side. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Liberate yourself from unnecessary dilemmas in your life. If you have the fortitude to eliminate the recognizable impediments in your life, you will have the potential to grow spiritually as an empowering person. Take the time to charge your batteries. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Engage yourself further into group related activities. There is someone out there willing to help you get closer to your dreams. It is also possible that one of your friends may turn out to be of massive support right now. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expand your horizons when it comes to your destiny. Don’t be afraid to take a chance right now by opting to follow your chosen vocation. You are endowed with the assistance that you need in order to advance. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You want to go beyond your own potential at any cost. If you are in the quest of a more meaning life and simply break out of your routine, now is your time to plant your seeds. Think outside the box. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Go with vigour after your innermost desires and utilize your endurance to build more income by merging with another. This is your golden opportunity to develop your self-mastery potential and to dig deeper into your soul. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you sought to improve your current relationship or a marital situation, this is a period where you can work towards building stronger foundations for your union. You will both develop deeper awareness of what it truly takes to make you both happy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your daily routine has been pretty hectic lately and you may come to the realiza-
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Paisley, LL Cool J stir up controversy SONG ABOUT RACIAL PERCEPTION DRAWS IRE FROM BOTH COUNTRY, URBAN MUSIC WORLDS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Kahane is a master at genre-bending music BY ANNE MIDGETTE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — Craigslistlieder, a song cycle from 2006, is not necessarily Gabriel Kahane’s best work. The 31-year-old composer, or singer-songwriter — let’s just stick with “musician” as the most accurate designation — has written piano sonatas, orchestral pieces, a pop album and even a musical about hipster artists living an alternative lifestyle in Brooklyn 70 years ago. But this song cycle, built of eight texts taken from personal ads on Craigslist, is his bestknown work. Quirky and funny and abruptly poignant, with music tightly calibrated to the words and feelings behind them, it gives a good taste of the aesthetic of an artist who defies genres in the cause of making music that sticks with you. Kahane is on a roll these days, rapidly becoming one of the most visible representatives of a generation of Brooklyn, N.Y., musicians who bring individual voices to many genres at once. He resists all labels — “indieclassical,” he says, “is a word I wish did not exist” — but whatever he does, he’s bringing a lot of it to Washington this month. His newest song cycle, Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, the culmination of a residency with the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, will be performed at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Centre on April 20. On Friday, he gave a joint recital at the Library of Congress with another composer/performer, the jazz pianist Timothy Andres, with music by everyone from Robert Schumann to Benjamin Britten to Thomas Ades to the two performers themselves. “I’m definitely interested in advocating for anyone’s music I can interpret,” Kahane says, calling Schumann “the proto-emo, deep-feeling forebear” of today’s singer/songwriters. None of which will necessarily make it any easier to pin this mercurial artist down. “As a composer,” Kahane says, “I learn a lot about all of my creative endeavors from doing the other ones.” Kahane didn’t set out to become a musician. His first love was acting, which he pursued seriously in high school. But he started performing music at a very early age, singing in a Catholic boy’s choir from the age of 7, “which was super weird, because we’re Jews.” After stints at the New England Conservatory (where he majored in jazz piano) and then at Brown University, he wrote a musical on a lark
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and “kind of got hooked on putting pencil to paper.” (He still composes on paper; “I find I write differently, the ideas come out a little bit less square sitting at the piano” than at the computer.) His father is the pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane; “I think I revered him, growing up,” he says, “and I was obsessed with [Bach’s] Goldberg Variations as a 6-year-old; I would play the first eight bars of the aria over and over. I think the purity of [his father’s] musicianship and his integrity as a musician is something that’s really important to me.” The respect goes both ways: Jeffrey Kahane led Gabriel’s Crane Palimpsest, another orchestral song cycle, with his Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, which cocommissioned the piece, in 2012. Gabriel Kahane’s childhood also provided a model for his future take on music. “The music my parents listened to, the priority on emotional clarity and honesty in music regardless of genre, had a really big impact on me,” he says. “My dad would be practicing [Mozart’s] K. 488 and take a break and put on [Paul Simon’s] Graceland. . . . The tacit implication was, ‘This is all great music; we don’t make a distinction between classical music and pop music.’ “ Kahane, however, does make a distinction between the two — precisely because he does both. Where are the Arms, his 2011 CD, is unabashedly a pop album; Craigslistlieder is not. February House, his music which ran at the Public Theater in 2012 to warm reviews, is a musical, as distinct from an opera, which he would also like to write (he is trying to get the rights to set David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest). “Making good pop music is hard because it has to be necessarily so distilled,” he says. On the one hand, “writing a three-minute pop song is an end in itself, but also a training ground: how to manage dramatic expectations, harmonic expectation.” On the other hand, when he writes pop songs, the tools are different: “It’s like a different set of
paints, different sent of pencils. I probably think of harmony in a different way when I’m writing a pop song. I’m still hoping that the idea of expectation being built up and then broken will occur, but it’s happening with a different set of colors than it would in concert music.” Indeed, he’s something of a purist. “One of the things I find slightly irritating is calling stuff ‘classical music’ because it has strings and woodwinds,” he says. “There is economic cynicism behind the branding of music that is essentially pop music plus some bells and whistles as something other than what it is.” Yet in his recent work, Kahane has found plenty of room for metaphorical displacement. Take February House, based on the true story of the Brooklyn rooming house shared by W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers, Gypsy Rose Lee and other artists in the early 1940s; for Kahane and his collaborator, Seth Bockley, “there was a sense that we were living the piece we were making,” Kahane says, writing a piece about a creative generation forging a new lifestyle in Brooklyn. Coincidentally, Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, his new piece for Orpheus, focuses on the same era; its subject is the WPA and the New Deal. For it, Kahane excerpted texts from WPA travel guides, the work of fine but anonymous writers on the WPA payroll. “There were so many resonances with FDR and the New Deal and what’s happened over the last five years in Washington,” Kahane says, “that if I didn’t do something with found text, it was going to be leftist propaganda — which I’m certainly not averse to,” he adds. But he decided that using existing texts was a better way to go. However, Kahane doesn’t want to spend his career focused on the 1930s. “I have plans,” says the non-indie composer, “to deal with other eras in the near future.” Anne Midgette writes for The Washington Post.
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NASHVILLE — Brad Paisley’s collaboration with LL Cool J on Accidental Racist has accidentally kicked up some controversy. The song about racial perception has drawn ire from both the country and urban music worlds after its wide release. Paisley’s publicist says he isn’t giving interviews about the song. But the country star known for the white cowboy hat and virtuoso guitar work briefly addressed the debate Monday night on Twitter when he reposted a radio host’s blog entry on the song he felt was thought-provoking. “Cool,” Paisley wrote. “It’s fun to get ya’ll’s take on this. Bring it.” The song appears on Paisley’s new self-produced album Wheelhouse, released Tuesday. It’s his most ambitious album so far and the progressive message of Accidental Racist is in line with opinions the 40-year-old West Virginia-born singer has expressed before in interviews and songs. Of the album, Paisley wrote, “I hope it triggers emotions,” and says he wouldn’t change a thing about it: “This is a record meant to be FAR from easy listening. But fun. Like life. Have a ball, ya’ll.” At its heart, Accidental Racist is about how cultural symbols favoured by whites and blacks — the fashion choice of wearing Confederate flags or baggy pants, for instance — come loaded with meaning. It’s not a new discussion. Though race relations have evolved over the decades, cultural symbols continue to colour perceptions. Paisley uses the Confederate flag as an example in the song, noting whites are “caught between Southern pride and Southern blame” 150 years after the end of the Civil War. “I try to put myself in your shoes and that’s a good place to begin,” Paisley sings, “but it ain’t like I can walk a mile in someone else’s skin/Because I’m a white man livin’ in the southland/Just like you I’m more than what it seems/I’m proud of where I’m from/But not everything we’ve done/It ain’t like you and me can rewrite history/Our generation didn’t start this nation/We’re still paying for mistakes that a bunch of folks made long before we came.” LL Cool J’s publicist did not immediately respond to messages. The 45-year-old, who elevated himself from a teen rap sensation on the streets of Queens to an American cultural icon as an actor and personality, provides the response to Paisley’s meditations. He kicks off his portion of the song “Dear, Mr. White Man, I wish you understood what the world was really like living in the hood.” Later in the song he raps, “I guess we’re both guilty of judging a the cover not the book/I’d love to buy you a beer, conversate and clear the air/But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn’t here.” Later he and Paisley enter a call and response portion of the song where LL Cool J raps in part: “If you don’t judge my ’do rag, I won’t judge your red flag. ... If you don’t judge my gold chains, I’ll forget the iron chains ... Can’t rewrite history, baby ... let bygones be bygones ... Rest in peace, Robert E. Lee, I got to thank Abraham Lincoln for freeing me ... .” Online: http://bradpaisley.com
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The Journey Home There’s a path that leads to a turn in the road, and we each must travel there, where the Father waits to take us home to the shelter of his care, where happiness and peace and joy replace the tears and pain and our loved ones rest in the arms of God to sweetly live again. -Author unknown Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
Obituaries
Obituaries MOUSSEAU Barthley (Bart) Joseph March 23, 1938 - April 8, 2013
Bart passed away peacefully and with dignity in the presence of his loving family on April 8, 2013. He was born in Bristol, Quebec, son of Thomas and Rose Mousseau. He was the beloved husband of Carmel (Scissons) for 47 years. He was the exceptionally proud father of Larry (Theresa Victoor), David (Sandra Dransfield), and daughter Pauline, and loving Grandfather of Renee, Elizabeth and Adam. He is survived by his sister Josie Berrea, sister-in-law Nora (Mousseau) Findlay, brother-in-law Harry McCall, and many, many special nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his parents and siblings Margaret, Patrick, Mary, Teresa and Michael and brother-inlaws Martin Dowe, Walter Berrea and Edward Cunningham. Bart was a proud member of the United Association of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry since 1960 - Locals 71 (Ottawa) and 488 (Edmonton). Profound gratitude is extended to the Doctors and many care givers of the Heart and Kidney Transplant Teams at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta for the significant care they provided Bart since 1999. Thanks to Dr. Kym Jim and Dialysis Unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital plus Drs. Janke, Ellis, Fiorello, Walz, Ohanjanians, and Murphy, to name just a few, for their kindness and excellent care. Appreciation is also extended, to the thousands of nurses who tended to his needs since his first medical challenges began in 1977. A prayer service and visitation will be held on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta, with Mr. Charlie Sevik, officiating. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, with The Reverend Father Gary Lee, Celebrant. A cremation will follow and an interment will be held at a later date at Mount Calvary Cemetery, 67 Street, Red Deer. An additional Mass and Service will be held at St. Edwards Church, Bristol, Quebec in July 2013. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the charity of choice. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040
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BOYDEN Victoria “Grace” Victoria “Grace” Boyden (nee Hall) was born July 4, 1928 in Barrhead Alberta. She passed away April 6, 2013 in Trochu, Alberta. Grace grew up in the Hespero area. She married Paul Kaikkonen and was busy with assisting Paul on the farm at Hespero and raising their sons; Eino, Jim, Albert, and John until Paul’s passing. A time later Grace remarried Eugene Saari and together had a son Matthew. Eugene and Grace parted ways with his subsequent move to Prince George. Love and friendship entered Grace’s life again when she met and was courted by Bernie Boyden. They were married in 1991. Grace moved to Lousana with Bernie, until being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, then moved to St. Mary’s Lodge, Trochu, where she lived for the last 8 years until her passing on April 6th. Grace was a living angel, forever greeting you with a golden smile. She was loving, caring and thoughtful. Grace was an active volunteer in the Hespero and Lousana communities. Grace’s family always came first, she is now with God and has her angel wings. She is survived by her husband, Bernie; four sons; Jim Kaikkonen of Edmonton, Albert Kaikkonen of Sylvan Lake, John (Nina|) Kaikkonen of Red Deer and M a t t h e w ( Va l ) S a a r i o f Hespero; brother; Ted Hall of Edmonton, sisters-in-law; Leah and Glen of Eckville, Jean of Delburne, Marge and Dave of Red Deer, Dorothy of Ontario and Donna and Larry of Savona B.C. She was pre-deceased by her husbands; Paul Kaikkonen and Eugene Saari; son Eino; and brother James Hall and sister Elizabeth Hall. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday April 12, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lousana Community Center, Lousana Alberta with Reverend Edith Sandusky officiating. Interment to follow in the Lousana Cemetery. If friends desire, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Mary’s Health Care Center of the Alzheimer’s Association. KNEEHILL FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., Trochu, entrusted with arrangements. 403-442-2123.
MacKAY William Michael Dean 1961 - 2013 William Michael Dean (Mike), son of William Dean, and loving father to William Courtney, Michael Anthony and Blaydon Dean, passed away suddenly o n S a t u r d a y, M a r c h 3 0 , 2013. Mike is predeceased by his grandparents; his parents, Bill and Elva, and youngest brother, Anthony. Mike was born on July 10, 1961 in Red D e e r, A l b e r t a . R a i s e d i n Parkvale, in the 60’s and 70’s, Mike enjoyed his youth and at the age of 16 began his career working in the oil patch. Mike was a hardworking and honest man with a fondness for fast cars, wild women and whiskey, but most of all, he loved his family. To Mike there was nothing greater than to spend time and share a laugh with the people you love. Left behind are his three sons; brother, James; sisters, Marianne and Heather and eleven nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at the Pioneer’s Lodge, 4324 - 46A Ave., Red Deer, AB on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 2:00 pm with lunch and tea to follow. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.
KULMATYCKI - Jared Apr. 10, 1988 25 years ago we lost a bright star you are still remembered and talked about fondly by those left behind. We love you always Jared. Mom, Dad, Tara and Layna
Card Of Thanks Mildred Laura Armstrong On January 30, 2013 my beloved wife of 19 years marriage was taken from our home. She will always be loved and in my heart forever. Thanks to Tom Barley, Ed and Dianna Rye, Maureen Brownell. Heaven will have the last say. Your loving husband A.
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HAPPY 65 ANNIVERSARY Cec and Alice Swanson April 10, 2013 ~Love From Your Family
CASE, Doris Passed away 8 years ago, April 10, 2005. Doris Case, Mom & Grandma. Never forgotten, Always in our hearts, Love and miss you. Delinda, Todd, Curtis Marshall
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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846
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Making a Difference The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is the local charity that offers support to individuals who are infected or affected by HIV and provides prevention and education throughout Central Alberta.
McDonald Pauline McDonald celebrated her 99th birthday in good health, April 6, 2013 at a special supper in Red Deer, with about 30 family and friends.
CAANS is looking for p/t front line worker interested in Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention . for more information, www.caans.org OFFICE manager req’d for Clive area trucking company. Knowledge of trucking industry and general knowledge of maintenance an asset but willing to train. Exc. wages/benefits. Fax resume to 403-784-2330 or call toll free 1-877-787-2501
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FLEMING, Lorraine Sept. 1, 1952 - April 10, 2010 Another year has passed since we lost the heart of our family. Our thoughts are always with you as life goes on its way. Forever loved, Bryan & Family
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DINE & DANCE April 18 Stettler Legion Hall Dance to a live band: YESTERYEAR Cocktails: 5 p.m. Supper: 6 p.m. Dance: 7-10 p.m. CATERED BY: Gobbles Food Express Tickets $17.50/person, Dance only $10/person Available at the door Sponsored by: Stettler Seniors Social Society Everyone Welcome Young & Old!
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BELL Bretton Bretton Daniel Bell suddenly passed from this life to the next on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at the age of 21 years. Bretton is lovingly remembered by his father, Dan, his mother, Angela, his sister, Alysia, his brother, Colton and his long-time sweetheart, Elyse Richards. He is also survived by his paternal grandparents, William and Jean Bell, and his maternal grandparents, William and Betty Wyntjes. Bretton also leaves behind a large community of extended family and friends. He was predeceased by his Aunt, Elizabeth, in April of 2011. Bretton was born in Red Deer, Alberta on December 11th, 1991. He graduated with Honours from École Secondaire Notre Dame High School in 2009 and went on to earn a Paramedic Diploma with Honours from Medicine Hat College in June, 2012. Bretton was passionate about sports. He grew up having played competitive hockey, lacrosse, rugby, tennis, and volleyball. He found his niche in volleyball. Having developed his skill in the middle position with the RDC Kings’ Club team, and the Notre Dame Cougars, Bretton went on to play for two years with the Medicine Hat College Rattlers. In his free time, Bretton enjoyed spending time with friends as well as camping and hiking with family. Most recently, he was challenging himself in physical fitness pursuits such as long distance running events. Bretton was ecstatic to obtain his dream career of becoming a Firefighter Paramedic with Red Deer Emergency Services. He loved his job. He was dedicated to helping others particularly the most vulnerable. Bretton will be remembered for his remarkable personality, his genuine smile, and his incredible zest for life. He exuded a unique gentleness and benevolence of spirit that touched all who knew him. Bretton’s life was a celebration of the family and friends he loved. A Prayer Service will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. and a Celebration of Life will also be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. with Father Gary Lee officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Brett Bell Memorial Scholarship Foundation, c/o Red Deer Firefighters, Box 535, Red Deer, AB, T4N-5G1.
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CALL 309-3300 DEADLINE THURS. 5 P.M.
D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 10, 2013
RECEPTIONIST
Needed for an Automobile Dealership in Red Deer. Full-time position. Experience operating a multi-line switchboard and greeting customers in a cheerful manner. Manage an organized reception area. Work in the Sales area and redirect calls for Service and Parts and Body Shop. Office duties such as fax, photocopy and printer. Familiar with e-mail. Duties will include some Secretarial and knowledge of Word and Excel programs. Competitive pay and group plan benefits. E-mail resume with references to: darcya442@gmail.com.
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Dental
SOUTHPOINTE DENTAL
F/T RDA, prefer ortho. Some eves. req’d. Exc. wages and benefits. Please drop off resume to Roxanne .
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Janitorial
CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr. Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463
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Oilfield
RATTRAY Reclamation Ltd is seeking a versatile individual with a background in farming duties. The position will involve minimal disturbance lease construction and reclamation in the central Alberta area. Duties will include operating tractors and various attachments, fencing and other manual labour, Competitive wages and benefits are available, current oilfield safety tickets are an asset. Please email resume to drattray@rattrayrec.com or fax to (403)-934-5235
SERVICE RIG
Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants
must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
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SERVICE RIG
Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a DRILLER. Locally based, home every night!
Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
SEEKING TRANSPORTATION DESIGN ENGINEER & TECHNOLOGIST. Above industry standard wages, benefits plan, vehicle allowance, profit sharing. Experience a diverse variety of projects in Red Deer & all over Alberta. P.Eng., E.I.T, or C.E.T designation with a minimum of 2-5 years experience. Please email resumes to: Tyler Broks, R.E.T tbroks@al-terra-rd.com or fax 403-340-3038. Or visit website: www.al-terra-rd.com
Restaurant/ Hotel
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TREELINE WELL SERVICES
*HIRING ALL POSITIONS (ESPECIALLY COOKS!)* Meadowlands Golf Club in Has Opening for all Sylvan Lake is hiring! positions! Immediately. All applicants - COOKS - Proshop must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorse- - Maintenance - Backshop ment, First Aid - Marshals We offer competitive wages & excellent bene- - Food and Beverage fits. Please include 2 work E-mail your resume to info@ reference names and meadowlandssylvanlake. numbers com and state preferred Please fax resume to : position. Look forward to 403-264-6725 hearing from you! Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com LUAU Investments Ltd. No phone calls please. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant Buying or Selling F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) your home? Must be avail. weekends Check out Homes for Sale $11.00 per hour. in Classifieds 4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net
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is now hiring for the following positions:
* Downhole Tool Supervisors * Coil Tubing Rig Managers * Crane Truck Operators * Nitrogen Pump Operators * Fluid Pump Operators * Mechanics Competitive wages and benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers license and valid oilfield tickets. Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to quality and safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another. Please forward all resumes to: jobs@wiseisi.com or by fax to 403-340-1046
Professionals
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EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS
requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided. Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.
Required for busy office. This is a permanent part time to three quarter time position with occasional full time hours. The successful candidate will be skilled in accounts payable, payroll, balancing the bank, GST and Excel. Other duties to include general reception, answering phones, and filing.
KFC/Peacock Inn #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Fax: 403.341.3820 Email: kfcgals@shawbiz.ca
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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
Sales & Distributors
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WESCLEAN - Red Deer F/T sales position in well established territory Base salary, commission, and car allowance E-mail resume to: mdoll@wesclean.com or fax to 403-347-8803
Trades
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ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY Gull Lake. Phone Brian 318-6760 CRIBBER & LABORERS wanted. Start Tuesday April 9. 4 - 5 wks work in Red Deer. Wage negotiable. Contact Kristian @ 403-588-1581 Eagle Builders is expanding its facility to double production. We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:
Dozer Operator Class 1 & 3 Drivers Tractor Operators Loader Operator Labourers Flag People Fax resume: 403-885-5137 Email resume: office@ccal.com OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT WTIH TJ PAVING. Looking for Exp`d Class 1 Driver to move equipment and haul material. Exp`d Asphalt Roller Operator. Exp`d Skid Steer Operator. Comp. Wages. Great working atmosphere. FAX Resume to 403-346-8404 or email tjpaving@hotmail.com
PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is currently accepting resumes for SERVICE ADVISOR POSITION. Must have good communication skills and have the ability to work independently or with a group.. Excellent company benefits. Please submit resume in person along with wage expectations to Joey. RELIABLE, competent person required for deliveries, inventory, and stock control. Must have clean drivers abstract, be physically fit, and be able to operate a forklift. Non-smokers preferred. Please fax resume to 403-309-8302 or email brad@ comfortecheating.com
SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580
TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires
QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr. JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED
WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER
with class 3, air. All safety tickets required. Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town. Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015
Truckers/ Drivers
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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net DO you want regular home times, dedicated truck, a company that cares, benefits, exc. wages, safety bonus, year round steady work? We are looking for CLASS 1 drivers for flat deck work. Must know your cargo securement, be hard working and enjoy driving as you visit the 4 western provinces. Please contact 1-877-787-2501 or fax resume to 1-855-784-2330
INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Cleaning
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ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly. Homes & Offices 302-0488
Contractors
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CUSTOM HOMES
Escorts
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CLASSY & SIMPLY THE BEST. High class companionship at its finest. 403-550-0470
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Handyman Services
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BUSY B’S HANDYMAN
BRIAN’S DRYWALL SERVICES LTD. Framing, drywall, taping, Spring & summer bookings. textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857 Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
Moving & Storage
EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net
GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089
Massage Therapy
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Misc. Services
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5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned. 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca
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Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317
ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Morning Advocates Mon. through Fri. before 6:30 a.m. and Sat. by 8:00 a.m. in East Rosedale area $643/mo. Reliable vehicle needed !!
Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc.. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St
BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.
Timberstone Area Timothy Drive Towers Close Turner Crsc. Tobin Gt. $110/mo. Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo. ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo. Good for adult with small car. ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK
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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in
THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West. No phone calls please.
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4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.
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Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.
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Carriers Needed Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.
Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308
Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery 6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday) in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day. Must have own vehicle. 18+ Needed ASAP Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@
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* Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5. No Phone Calls Please.
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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788 FULL TIME MAINTENANCE AND LABOUR PERSON REQUIRED ASAP. Knowledge of Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting. Must have own tools, own vehicle an asset with valid drivers license. Monday - Friday 8 - 5. Come and join our team. Please fax resume 403-346-1086 GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com
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Auctions
Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping
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Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers
Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms. Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855
Children's Items
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BASSINETTE with skirt $45 obo; 1957 LLOYD baby buggy $45 obo 403-347-0293
EquipmentHeavy
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
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Tools
CRAFTSMAN 10” table saw with stand $100 403-347-1637
Farmers' Market
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ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, frozen. Locally grown. Locally butchered. Phone 403-782-4095
Firewood
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FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227
LOGS
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275
Garden Supplies
CASUAL POSITIONS
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positions available. Must be able to work in a team environment. Mandatory criminal record check required. Salary according to union scale. Please apply in writing to Lisa Manning-Eaton, Lodge Manager, 4277 46A Ave. or by fax to: 403-343-1728
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SERVICE ’S WRITER
Seniors’ Services
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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - in home or in facility. Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghandshomesupport.com for information. Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week
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CARRIERS NEEDED
ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK
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SEMI RETIRED? SPRING BREAK UP? Seasonal drivers req’d. for local fertilizer dellivery. Clean Class 3 license req’d., AG exp. an asset. Call 403-588-0956. EMAIL: benaltoag@ benaltoag.com
Misc. Help
GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS Michener Area Central AB Greenhouses West of 40th Ave. We have some seasonal North Ross St. to positions available commencing immediately and 52 Street. ending June 1, 2013. $236/monthly Duties include planting seedlings, watering plants, GARDEN SHEDS Good for adult with moving plants from one area to another, loading Most sizes, delivery avail. small car. 403-314-1870 plants onto carts and F/T SYNIK CLOTHING, ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK http://willowrun Gasoline Alley. Exc. hours. loading trucks. This position Looking for a place constructionltd.webs.com Call Jamie is labor intensive and Exc. pay, based on exp. to live? 403-314-4306 info Apply w/resume in person. includes working weekends Take a tour through the and some evenings (approx. Household CLASSIFIEDS 65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will Appliances P/T CLASS 1 Truck Driver Misc. train. Wage is $11.50/hr. req’d to haul feed with Help APPLS. reconditioned lrg. Fax resume to B-Train Tanker to our farm 403-885-4146 or email to: selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. in Ponoka. 1-2 days per warr. Riverside Appliances ar-cag@telus.net. wk, or 3-4 days every other 403-342-1042 Please note that only week, approx. 8-10 hrs. those to be interviewed will per day, flexible hrs. Must FREE working clothes be contacted. have clean driving record dryer to give away. Fax resume (403)784-2726 GONE LIVE in caretaker req’d. for or Phone 403-704-0257 13 unit condo in Red Deer. Duties include: Reply to - Service Writing Household mmccrd@yahoo.ca
CLASSIFICATIONS
1010
860
Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info
wegotservices
Accounting
Truckers/ Drivers
LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816
Apply in person after 3 pm.
Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403 885 5516 or e-mail: HR@eaglebuilders.ca. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD.
Office Assistant
Requires
Experienced P/T Cocktails Servers & Door Security
* Concrete Finishers * General Labourers
Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
850
Trades
Al-Terra Engineering (Red Deer) Ltd.
720
Clerical
Professionals
1430
SPRING LAWN CLEANUP IRONMAN Scrap Metal Call 403-304-0678 Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinCELEBRATIONS ery, vehicles and industrial. HAPPEN EVERY DAY Serving central Alberta. IN CLASSIFIEDS 403-318-4346
Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service
In the towns of: 294878D6-12
800
Oilfield
KITCHEN TABLE WITH 4 Chairs. Padded, back & front. Exc. cond. Bought at Sim’s. $150. 403-343-1112 LARGE oak china cabinet, exc. cond., $150, computer desk, $40 403-506-3071 MOVING SALE: fridge $40; large recliner $20; hide a bed $40; bed & mattress $75; dresser $10; end tables, lamps etc. $5-$10 403-348-2396 RECORD player/radio w/2 matching speakers. Asking $100. 403-341-4650 Call between 9 am - 12 p.m. or call Cell after 1 pm. 403-307-3043 SOFA HIDE-A-BED Blue, double. $60. 403-346-3844 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting! Packages come ready for delivery! Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold! Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook
ENVIRONMENTAL & PHYSICAL CONDITION REQUIREMENTS: • Outdoors • Standing for extended • Heights periods of time • Confined Spaces • Bending, crouching, • Noisy, Dusty, Hot, kneeling Cold, Wet/Damp • Handling heavy loads • Manual Dexterity • Physically demanding • Attention to detail & repetitive tasks
1 day per wk. No collecting!!
Hall Industrial Contracting offers competitive wage and benefit packages, we provide training as required.
We thank all applicants, but only successful candidates will be called for an interview.
1720
WANTED
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: • Must have a valid driver’s license (Class 3 Preferable but not mandatory) • Previous Industrial Spray Foam Application Required • Pride in their work and generate high quality workmanship • Willingness to work evenings & weekends • Willingness to work out of town for short period of times.
Wages is based on experience, skills and level of training. Please send resumes to either info@hallindustrialcontracting.com Or fax 403-885-8886
Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303
FULL TIME SPRAY FOAM APPLICATOR
Please contact QUITCY
at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com 294476D4-10
720
Clerical
Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
OVERRUN w/Mule Deer E. of R. D. First Nations persons call 403-391-8246
Stereos TV's, VCRs
1730
PS2 w/6 games. $80 obo. XBOX w/6 games. $80 obo. 403-782-3847 SONY STEREO w/surround sound. $180 obo. 403-782-3847
Misc. for Sale
1760
2 BOXES OF ROMANCE PAPERBACK BOOKS. $45 obo. 403-782-3847 2000 LB. remote control winch, $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea. leather brown recilner $60 403-887-4981 BARBEQUE, Brinkman, stainless steel, 60,000 BTU side burners, full cover, new full propane bottle, $200. Nice Shape. 403-347-1992
RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 10, 2013 D3
FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here
DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2003 SUNFIRE, 1 owner, 140,000. kms., good cond. $3500. obo 403-309-3580
1985 Dodge Camper Van ..Mini Motorhome Asking $9800.00 OBO. Ph: (403)229-2984 Joan or (403)845-6852 Pat
1996 GMC Jimmy red, new transmission. $2500 obo 403-596-0391
DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2005 CHRYSLER Crossfire 80,954 kms, $12,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
2006 Dodge Ram 1500 mega cab 4x4 leather dvd $16888 403- 348- 8788
2007 GMC Sierra 2500HD SLE 4x4 Duramax $27,888 Sport & Import 348-8788
DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2004 BMW X3 AWD, lthr., pano-roof, $14,888 348-8788 Sport & Import
DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2006 Escalade ESV Platinum Edition 22” Foose Rims one owner $21,888 Sport & Import 348- 8788
2007 MERCEDES BENZ GL320 4matic, lthr., nav., sunroof, $31888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
2009 TOYOTA Venza awd 3.5L V6, 55,000 kms, smart key system, backup camera, heated leather seats, priced to sell $22,900 403-343-2020
2004 Cadillac Escalade ESV $16,888 403-348-8788
2005 DODGE Magnum $9,888 , 403- 348-8788 Alberta Sport & Import
2006 Honda Civic LX Sedan 120,000 km $10,888 Sport & Import 348-8788
2007 MONTE Carlo SS 5.3L, 71,000 kms, loaded $16,500 403-346-3844
DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
DO YOU HAVE
2005 HONDA Accord EX-L FWD,64981 kms, $11,888 348-8788 Sport & Import
2006 LAND ROVER Sport HSE AWD $28888 403- 348-8788 AB Sport & Import
2007 Range Rover Sport
2010 FORD Expedition Eddie Bauer 4X4, lthr.,
HSE $29, 888 *SOLD*
8 passenger, $28,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
VEHICLE ACCESSORIES
TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2004 PONTIAC Grand Am GT FWD, $4888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
2005 MINI COOPER lthr., 5 spd, 77596 kms., $17888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix FWD, 65611 kms, $10888 348-8788 Sport & Import
2007 TOYOTA Camry LE sunroof, $9888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2005 BMW 745 LI $21,888 Sport & Import 403-348- 8788
2005 NISSAN Altima SER $12,888 403-348-8788 AB SPORT & iMPORT
2007 BMW 335i htd. lthr.,sunroof, $19888 7620 -50 Ave., Sport & Import
DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2010 MAZDA 3 GT sunroof 33986 kms., $15888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
2002 BUICK Century, 1 owner. 153,500 km. Carfax & mechanic asses. incl. 2 sets tires, $4000. 403-346-0785
2005 BMW X5 4.4i htd. lthr.pano roof, $16888 348-8788 Sport & Import
2006 CADILLAC Escalade ESV Platinum, $24,888 403- 348-8788 AB Sport & Import
DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2008 DODGE 2500 HD crew cab s/b, 183,000 kms $13,500 403-346-9816
2010 SIERRA ext/cab 4x4, 5.3L 6 spd, auto, $15,500 403-346-9816
2003 BMW 3 series 325xi htd. lthr., sunroof, $10,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
2005 CADILLAC SRX fully loaded, white diamond, cashmere leather, 7 pass. 4.6L V8, 152,000 kms. rear
2006 CHEVY Silverado. 186,000 km. stnd. trans. Exc. cond. $5700 obo. 403-392-1313
2007 FORD F-150 XLT 4X4, 107,115 kms, $14,888 403- 348-8788 Sport & Import
2008 JEEP Grand Cherokee Laredo AWD,turbo diesel, $29,888 403-348-8788
DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2005 CHRYSLER 300 $11888 403-348-8788 Alberta Sport & Import
DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2007 GMC Sierra 2500 SLE Turbo diesel $25888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
2008 MERCEDES BENZ
DVD, $14,250. 403-352-1863
E300 4-matic, nav., sunroof, 77001 kms, $26,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
2013 Ford Lariat
5th wheel 2013 Coachman 38.5’ Total retail price $169,300 Total net sale price $110,000 Phone 1- 403-650-8947
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$
24,990
2011 GENESIS COUPE 2.0T
$ 8 to choose from
Stk #HP5109. 19” alloy wheels, manual trans., fog lamps, keyless entry, leather, heated seats, sunroof, Brembo brakes, audio steering wheel controls, 6-disc changer, 13,524 kms
$
2011 FORD FIESTA SES
Stk #H34941A. 16” alloy wheels, leather, heated seats, sunroof, tilt, traction control, cruise, abs, cd, 67,483 kms
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24,990
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18,990
2010 SANTA FE
Alloy wheels, leather, sunroof, heated seats, traction control, keyless entry
$
starting at
15,990
D
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Stk #HP4916, 16” alloy wheels, abs, bluetooth, cruise, keyless entry, tilt, traction control, power L,W,M., 48,034 kms
$
13,990
2011 CHEVROLET EQUINOX LS FWD Stk #H35022B. 17” alloy wheels, abs, tilt, traction control, keyless entry, cruise, cd player, auto head lights, 33,444 kms
20,990
$
| 7652 Gaetz Ave., North Red Deer | 403-350-3000
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D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Misc. for Sale
1760
LIGHT brown recliner, like new, $60; tiger torch & hose, $30; Black & Decker 7 1/4” skill saw, $10.; (2) 2 ton hydralic jack, $10. ea. beige coffee and end table $60, 403-887-4981
1840
Dogs
Condos/ Townhouses
3030
Sporting Goods
1860
AB DOER & Power Assistance Attachments. Paid $300, asking $200. 403-342-1752
Travel Packages
1900
TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
AGRICULTURAL
CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290
3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000. Avail. May 1, 403-304-7576, 347-7545
Manufactured Homes
3040
Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Mauricia 403-340-0225
4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes
3050
ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. May. 1 403-304-5337
GREAT FAMILY 4-Plex in Oriole Park
3 bdrms,1.5 baths, 4 appls. No pets. N/S. In-suite laundry. $1095 & Gas & ELECT; SD $1095; Avail MAY 1st. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554
3060
Suites
2140 2150
rentals CLASSIFICATIONS
FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390
Acreages/ Farms
3010
5 BDRM. house acreage, 10 min. S. of Pine Lake & 40 min. SE of Red Deer. $1650, $800 d.d. utils. incl., 1 month last month rent, 1 yr. leasing, references & record of employment. No house pets. Avail. June 1 403-442-2631 or 357-9909 EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail. 403-346-5885
Houses/ Duplexes
3020
2 BDRM., new bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., $975. + s.d. Greenham Dr. Avail. May 15. .....RENTED!!!.... 3 + 1 BDRM. fully dev. bungalow in Clearview, quiet location, lrg. dbl. det. garage, 2.5 baths, fireplace, jacuzzi tub, patio, $1600, May. 1. 403-304-4666 3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants. No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627 DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., $1350/mo./dd utils. incld. 403-392-7044
GREAT SUITE IN LANCASTER FOR MATURE ADULTS
Main floor of house 2 bdrms, 1 bath, 4 appls. No pets. N/S. Shared laundry. $1295 INCL UTIL; SD $1295; Avail NOW. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm. house, lrg. lot. $975/mo. 403-886-5342 or 357-7817
5030
Cars
403-588-2550 In-suite laundry. Yard & unfinished bsm’t. No pets. www.laebon.com N/S $1275 & UTIL; SD Laebon Homes 346-7273 $1275; Avail NOW! Hearthstone 403-314-0099 2005 CHRYSLER Crossfire or 403-396-9554 Condos/ 80,954 kms, $12,888 Townhouses WESTPARK 403-348-8788 Sport & Import
1 BDRM. $740; N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed. 1-403-200-8175 Horses 1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed. WANTED: all types of Incl. most utils, no pets. horses. Processing locally Call 403-886-5288 in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912 1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, utils. incl., washer & dryer, $700 403-346-1292 after 4 Horse ELNORA, reno’d, 3 bdrm. Boarding bsmt., $895/mo. incl. all YEAR-AROUND boarding utils, immed. 348-6594 close to Red Deer. Riding LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. rings, box-stalls, paddocks. SUITES. 25+, adults only Phone 403-342-0475 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
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4020
WELL KEPT TOWN- MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft. HOUSE on 71 St. Dbl. att. garage. Clean 3 bdrms,1.5 bath,
11/2 blocks west of hospital!
F1 LABRA DOODLES, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370
Houses For Sale
MORRISROE MANOR
1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852
OPPOSITE HOSPITAL Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885
4040
MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
4050
Acreages
2003 SUNFIRE, 1 owner, ACREAGES FOR SALE BY 140,000. kms., good cond. OWNER, 5+/- ACRES EACH: $3500. obo 403-309-3580 1 mile west of Clearwater Trading Store, Caroline. Treed w/pine, poplar & spruce, offering scenic views of the Clearwater valley & Rocky Mountains. $175,000. Natural gas & power on property, Telus on property lines. One acreage 2002 BUICK Century, 1 incl. a rustic 2 storey log owner. 153,500 km. Carfax & cabin & water well for mechanic asses. incl. 2 $250,000. For more info sets tires, $4000. 403-346-0785 call 403-722-4076. 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. Clean 403-318-3040 Manufactured
4090
Homes
VIEW ALL OUR 4100 PRODUCTS
MUST SELL By Owner. Mauricia 403-340-0225
Income Property
NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550
Businesses For Sale
4140
At
www.garymoe.com
has relocated to
Successful & busy Dry Cleaners for sale in Stettler, Alberta. URGENT SALE as owner leaving country soon. Annual sale of about $150,000. Please contact Mahinder Dhillon at (780) 655 5038 or (403) 742 4558
Lots For Sale
4160
112 ACRES of bare land, located in Burnt Lake area structure plan, great investment property with future subdivision potential. Asking 1.2M 403-304-5555
279139
SUV's
5040
2003 ACURA MDX. Silver loaded $7500 403-343-1849 2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o. 403-348-1634
FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great N/S. No pets. 1996 GMC Jimmy, red, new returns. Call 403-588-8820 trans. $2500 obo 596-0391 403-596-2444
THE NORDIC
Rooms For Rent
3090
ROOM in Westpark, n/s, no pets. Furnished. TV & utils incl. 403-304-6436 VANIER WOODS 1 bdrm. $490/mo. + DD 403-588-6268 after 6 pm.
Warehouse Space
3140
WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE 4860 sq. ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays. Call 403- 318-4848 to view
Mobile Lot
3190
LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. Mauricia 403-340-0225
wegot
homes
Pinnacle Estates
(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail. 403-304-5555
Out Of Town Property
4170
S WA P y o u r C a n a d i a n property for a tropical home in Latin America. Phone 780-989-3122
5080
COVER (LARGE) FOR MOTORCYCLE, light weight, elastic hem, water repellent. $10. **SOLD**
Campers
5090
wegot
5000-5300
Automotive Services
5010
1985 Dodge Camper Van ..Mini Motorhome Overhead bunk, dinette makes into bed, Awning, Fridge, Stove, oven, furnace, sink, bathroom with shower. New brakes all around, battery and power vent. Asking $9800.00 OBO. Ph: (403)229-2984 Joan or (403)845-6852 Pat
5180
2010 MAZDA 3 GT sunroof 1966 MERCURY Comet 33986 kms., $15888. 348-8788 Sport & Import 289 motor and C6 trans, accessories 403-704-3714
Cars
5030
4000-4190
Auto Wreckers
5190
RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519
4020
Vehicles
5200
FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, 2007 TOYOTA Camry LE Wanted sunroof, $9888 To Buy prices, address, owner’s LACOMBE, 2 bdrm. house phone #, etc. 342-7355 403-348-8788 Sport & Import A1 RED’S AUTO. Free with garage, $800/mo. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer scrap vehicle & metal $800 d.d., fridge, stove incl www.homesreddeer.com removal. We travel. AMVIC avail,. May 1, approved. 403-396-7519 403-348-9059 leave msg. REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for Condos/ complete cars. 304-7585
3030
EXCLUSIVE CONDO IN INGLEWOOD! 3 bdrm, 2 full baths. w/ balcony. 5 appls, In-suite laundry. Family friendly. NO PETS, Avail May 1st. $1535 INCL UTIL., SD $1535 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554
IDEAL STARTER / Rental In Penhold $189,900 ! Call John Richardson Century 21 Advantage KITSON CLOSE 403-346-0021 newer exec. 3 bdrm. INGLEWOOD. 1042 sq.ft. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, modified bi-level 3 bdrm , 2 bath, fully finished, n/s, no blinds, lg. balcony, fenced pets, fenced, $329,900 No in rear, front/rear parking, agents. Serious inquiries no dogs, rent $1395 403-347-1713 evenings SD $1000. n/s avail. May 1 MASON MARTIN HOMES 403-304-7576 / 347-7545 New 2 Storey 1500 sq.ft 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, LARGE 2 bdrm. plus den in 6 plex w/5 appls, close $399,900. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550 to shopping, avail. now 403-341-9974 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft. SOUTHWOOD PARK 3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900. 3110-47TH Avenue, Dbl. att. garage. 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, 403-588-2550 generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, MASON MARTIN HOMES full bsmts. 403-347-7473, New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft. Sorry no pets. Dbl. att. garage. $409,900. www.greatapartments.ca 403-588-2550
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2007 MERCEDES BENZ GL320 4matic, lthr., nav., sunroof, $31888. 348-8788 Sport & Import
2005 MINI COOPER lthr., 5 spd, 77596 kms., $17888. 348-8788 Sport & Import 1998 VW Passat. 4 dr., 2L Turbo, $3800 obo. 403-357-3311
Tenders
WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629
Public Notice #6000
Public Notices ..................6010 Special Features ..............6050
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SAMSON CREE NATION WATER TREATMENT PLANT TENDER
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Scores of North Koreans of all ages planted trees as part of a forestation campaign — armed with shovels, not guns. In the evening, women in traditional dress danced in the plazas to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il’s appointment to a key defence post. Despite more warnings from their leaders of impending nuclear war, people in the capital gave no sense of panic. Chu Kang Jin, a Pyongyang resident, said everything is calm in the city. “Everyone, including me, is determined to turn out as one to fight for national reunification ... if the enemies spark a war,” he added, using nationalist rhetoric common among many North Koreans when speaking to the media. The North’s latest warning, issued by its Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, urged foreign companies and tourists to leave South Korea. “The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war due to the evermore undisguised hostile actions of the United States and the South Korean puppet warmongers and their moves for a war against” North Korea, the statement said Tuesday. There was no sign of an exodus of foreign companies or tourists from South Korea. White House spokesman Jay Carney called the statement “more unhelpful rhetoric.” “It is unhelpful, it is concerning, it is provocative,” he said. The warning appeared to be an attempt to scare foreigners into pressing their governments to pressure Washington and Seoul to act to avert a conflict. Analysts see a direct attack on Seoul as extremely unlikely, and there are no overt signs that North Korea’s army
Tender Available: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 10:00AM MST Tender Closing: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 2:00PM MST
TUPELO, Miss. — Authorities say a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting. Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the elephant was not seriously hurt Tuesday. She says no other animals were harmed. The elephant is part of the circus in Tupelo, Mississippi for a series of per-
Steve Vaivada, P.Eng. Dillon Consulting Limited (403) 215-8880 ext. 4361 svaivada@dillon.ca
is readying for war, let alone a nuclear one. North Korea has been girding for a showdown with the U.S. and South Korea, its wartime foes, for months. The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula still technically at war. In December, North Korea launched a satellite into space on a rocket that Washington and others called a cover for a long-range missile test. The North followed that with its third underground nuclear test in February, a step toward mastering the technology for mounting an atomic bomb on a missile. Tightened U.N. sanctions that followed drew the ire of North Korea, which accused Washington and Seoul of leading the campaign against it. Annual U.S.-South Korean military drills south of the border have further incensed Pyongyang, which sees them as practice for an invasion. Last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un enshrined the pursuit of nuclear weapons — which the North characterizes as a defence against the U.S. — as a national goal, along with improving the economy. North Korea also declared it would restart a mothballed nuclear complex. Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday that he concurred with an assessment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., calling the tension between North Korea and the West the worst since the end of the Korean War. “The continued advancement of the North’s nuclear and missile programs, its conventional force posture, and its willingness to resort to asymmetric actions as a tool of coercive diplomacy creates an environment marked by the potential for miscalculation,” Locklear told the panel. He said the U.S. military and its allies would be ready if North Korea tries to strike.
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keeping firearms from criminals and certain other buyers, remain the cornerstone of Obama’s gun plan. Democrats have been buoyed by polls consistently showing more than 8 in 10 Americans support subjecting more buyers to background checks. Obama was calling senators from both parties Tuesday to push for the gun bill, according to a White House official. There are 53 Democrats and two Democratic-leaning independents in the Senate, though it remains unclear whether any moderate Democrats from Republican-leaning states might support the conservative effort. In a hopeful sign for Democrats, at least five Republican senators have indicated a willingness to oppose the conservatives’ attempt to block debate with stalling tactics. “The American people ought to see where everybody stands on this,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican who said he wants the debate to proceed. A Senate vote to begin debating the guns package would mark a temporary victory for Obama and his allies. But some Republicans, though eager to avoid blocking debate on the plan, could well vote against the measure’s final passage. And with Republican senators facing resistance from their cohort in the Republican-run House of Representatives, the ultimate outcome seems shaky for the Democrats. Reid stood on the Senate floor Tuesday before a poster-sized photo of a white picket fence with 26 slats, each bearing the name of one of the victims of the Newtown massacre. “We have a responsibility to safeguard these little kids,” he said. “And unless we do something more than what’s the law today, we have failed.” Another cause for concern among Democrats are some moderates in their own party who remain noncommittal and might oppose opening the gun debate, including Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who are seeking re-election next year. Begich declined to directly state his position and said of Alaskans, “We like our guns.”
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat set the first showdown vote in Congress on President Barack Obama’s gun control drive for Thursday as a small but mounting number of Republicans appear willing to buck a conservative effort to prevent debate from even beginning. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Republicans anew Tuesday for trying to prevent a gun control debate. Conservatives say they will use procedural tactics to prevent the Senate from even debating firearms restrictions, meaning 60 out of 100 senators will need to vote for allowing a debate — though several Republicans are coming out against the obstruction effort. The Senate machinations follow Obama’s remarks in Connecticut on Monday night on gun control, an issue catapulted into the national arena by the gruesome December slaying of 20 young children and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Obama’s proposals — headlined by background checks for more gun buyers and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines — have hit stiff opposition from the powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and are struggling in Congress. A federal ban on assault weapons has gone nowhere, though some states are imposing their own. Participants from both parties said a bipartisan deal was imminent on expanding required federal background checks to gun purchases conducted at gun shows and online. The two chief negotiators, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey, were expected to announce the compromise Wednesday. Such a compromise would be likely to attract bipartisan support because both lawmakers are among their parties’ most conservative members. Currently, background checks are required only for sales through licensed gun dealers. The background checks, aimed at
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Morning sickness treatment returns FDA APPROVES RETURN OF TREATMENT FOR MORNING SICKNESS, DECADES AFTER FALSE ALARM OVER SAFETY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness. That long-ago safety scare, prompted by hundreds of lawsuits claiming birth defects, proved to be a false alarm. Monday’s FDA decision means a new version of the pill once called Bendectin is set to return to U.S. pharmacies under a different name — Diclegis — as a safe and effective treatment for this pregnancy rite of passage. In the intervening decades, the treatment is widely believed to have undergone more scrutiny for safety than any other drug used during pregnancy. “There’s been a lot of buzz about this. Nothing better has come along” to treat morning sickness in those 30 years, said Dr. Edward McCabe, medical director for the March of Dimes, who welcomed the step. “We know safety-wise, there’s zero question,” said Dr. Gary Hankins of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who headed one of the company-financed studies of Diclegis that led to its approval. U.S. sales of Diclegis are expected
‘THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF BUZZ ABOUT THIS. NOTHING BETTER HAS COME ALONG,” TO TREAT MORNING SICKNESS IN THOSE 30 YEARS. — DR. EDWARD MCCABE, MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE MARCH OF DIMES
to begin in early June, according to Canada-based manufacturer Duchesnay Inc. The company has long sold a generic version of the pill in Canada under yet another name, Diclectin. For all the names, the main ingredients are the same: Vitamin B6 plus the over-the-counter antihistamine doxylamine, found in the sleep aid Unisom. U.S. obstetricians have long told nauseated pregnant women how to mix up the right dose themselves. In fact, in 2004 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued guidelines calling the combination a first-line therapy. The difference that prescriptiononly Diclegis would offer: Combining both ingredients with a delayed-release coating designed to help women take a daily dose before their nausea sets in. The return of an FDA-cleared treatment is needed, said ACOG spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn’t involved in the study of Diclegis.
“It’s not magic,” Ecker cautioned, saying few women see their symptoms completely disappear with the medication. “But for some it allows them to be much more functional.” In Hankins’ study, about 260 U.S. women with morning sickness were given either Diclegis or a dummy pill for two weeks. The Diclegis users missed on average 1 ½ fewer days of work than their counterparts. Duchesnay wouldn’t reveal a U.S. price. About three-quarters of women experience at least some nausea and vomiting with the hormonal surges of early pregnancy. Although it often occurs upon waking, some women have trouble all day. It usually ends by the second trimester. About 1 per cent of women undergo dangerously severe vomiting called hyperemesis gravidarum, the condition that made headlines last December when in Britain, Prince William’s wife Kate was briefly hospitalized. An initial version of Bendectin began selling in 1956, and 33 million wom-
en around the world were estimated to have taken it before the lawsuits began. At the time, the FDA continued to call the drug safe; appeals courts ruled in favour of Bendectin maker Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals; and eventually a U.S. Supreme Court decision would render continuing suits unlikely. But Merrell Dow declared the litigation cost too high, and quit making Bendectin in 1983. What happened? The government estimates 1 in 33 babies are born with birth defects regardless of medication use during pregnancy, and studies eventually concluded that Bendectin didn’t increase that baseline risk. McCabe of the March of Dimes says it’s important to recognize that when a drug is widely used in pregnancy, some babies will be born with birth defects that are a coincidence. Doctors advise trying some other steps before turning to medication for morning sickness: Eat protein snacks before bed. Nibble crackers or sip ginger ale before getting out of bed. Eat frequent small meals. Avoid nauseatriggering odours. When that doesn’t work, Ecker says vitamin B6 alone helps some women. His next step is the B6-and-antihistamine combination that will form Diclegis. A next-step option includes the drug Zofran, normally used to treat nausea from cancer therapy.
Tetanus: no fun HOW YOU CATCH IT AND WHY YOU REALLY WANT TO AVOID INFECTION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS You do not want to get infected with tetanus. The disease, which used to kill about 40 to 50 Canadians a year in the 1920s and ’30s, is now only rarely reported. In recent years, Canada has seen, on average, only a couple of cases a year. But doctors who have seen what tetanus does do not forgot it. The bacteria multiply and start producing toxins that force muscles into painful contractions. One of the first places where those contractions take hold is in the muscles of the jaw — that’s where tetanus’s other name, lockjaw, comes from. Patients are racked with spasms. It can take weeks and even months for the toxins to break down and the muscles to release, if they do. Between 10 and 20 per cent of tetanus cases die. Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Allison McGeer vividly recalls the first time she saw a tetanus case. She remembers the date without needing to consult notes or a calendar. It was Nov. 1, 1981, and she was a medical intern, a doctor in training. It was the first day in her medicine rotation and McGeer was in the emergency department. In walked a British man in his late 70s. “He said ‘I think I have lockjaw,”’ McGeer recalls. “Three hours later, he was intubated and paralyzed. And he stayed in the ICU until the end of February. I have absolutely no idea how he survived.” The disease is caused by the bacteria Clostridium tetani, which are found in soil all over the world. The bacteria form spores, a hardy casing that helps them survive. Because the bacteria are in soil, they are also in dust, so the spores can settle on objects like the thorns of a bush or a fence. Typical tetanus stories involve gardening, which is why health practitioners aggressively promote the shots around this time of year. “Gardening is particularly bad because you have your hands in soil.... You’re more likely to injury your hands when you are gardening — which is why people focus on the gardening. Doing anything outside,” McGeer says. People who haven’t been vaccinated but who have been exposed — or possibly exposed — are treated with tetanus immune globulin, tetanus antibodies taken from donated blood. Treatment involves placing patients into induced comas to try to combat the spasms. Patients are also
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Registered nurse Sarah Hollingsworth provides a tetanus shot to a first responder in tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tetanus causes nasty disease, but can be avoided with vaccine. put on ventilators, machines that breathe for them. “You sedate the hell out of them so they’re not awake, and then every once in a while you let the paralysis lift to see if they go into spasm. And if they go into spasm, you paralyze them again and you just wait,” McGeer says. But the toxins wreak havoc on the rhythm of the heart. Victims can experience tachycardia — a rapidly racing heart beat — for hours on end. That can interfere with the circulation of blood, causing organs like kidneys to go into failure. Dr. Ian Gemmill, the medical officer of health for the health unit that serves four counties in and around Kingston, Ont., has memories of a different tetanus case. In 1985, a man from his region was walking when he got knocked over by a cyclist. His face was abraded when it scraped the ground. When emergency room staff treat skin wounds, they will often give tetanus vaccine, just to be on the safe side. But because this man had been in the Armed Forces, health professionals assumed he had had tetanus shots at some point in his life. He had not. “It’s a very nasty death because one can’t breathe anymore, so you have to be intubated. And then it’s a question of whether or not that very tightly binding protein, which is paralyzing muscle, can be removed over time. Or can you keep the person alive long enough ... before other complications lead to death?” Fortunately, doctors in Canada these days don’t
often have to struggle to keep tetanus patients alive, because a large proportion of the population has been vaccinated. Tetanus is among the shots given in childhood. It’s bundled in vaccines that protect against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Hemophilus influenzae type B. Any child who has had all his or her shots will be protected against tetanus. But that wouldn’t be true for children whose parents refuse to vaccinate them. Those children would all be at risk. With some diseases, unvaccinated children are shielded to a degree because most children are vaccinated. Diseases like measles and chickenpox are much rarer these days because so many children can’t catch — and therefore don’t spread — these viruses. That’s a phenomenon called herd immunity. But there is no herd immunity against tetanus, Gemmill notes. Because the source of infection is the environment, the only way an individual can be protected is if he or she is vaccinated. Adults need tetanus booster shots every 10 years to maintain the needed level of protective antibodies. For adults, the vaccine comes in a serum that also protects against diphtheria and pertussis. “Think about tetanus this time of year, especially if you’re a gardener or you’re working with your hands,” says Gemmill. “Because that’s exactly the kind of person who might sustain a injury.”
Science has spoken: penis size matters, relatively BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS Science has spoken and, yes, gentlemen, size does matter. A newly published study by a University of Ottawa researcher has concluded penis length exerts a measurable sway on females evaluating potential sexual partners. “We found that flaccid penis size had a significant influence on male attractiveness,” concludes the study that was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. “Males with a larger penis were rated relatively more attractive.” Biologist Brian Mautz said he came to the study through curiosity over the evolution of male genitalia. Compared to other male primates, human endowment is generous. “This observation has generated suggestions by evolutionary biologists that the comparatively larger human penis evolved under premating sexual selection,” says his
paper. “Novels, magazines and popular articles often allude to the existence of a relationship between penis size and sexual attractiveness or masculinity.” Nor is the effect limited to pop culture. “Another project I was on, looking at female preferences in genital size in fish, showed that females actually do discriminate in males before copulation even begins,” Mautz said. “That potentially influences genital evolution.” Previous studies have attempted to discern what women like by, for example, asking them to choose between a series of drawings of men that vary only in the size of the anatomy in question. Mautz believes those conclusions are probably limited by selfcensorship. “When you directly ask someone about a sensitive topic, you’re likely to get some bias in responses,” he said. “Penis size isn’t supposed to matter.” His study tried to mask its
intent by introducing three variations on male appearance: body shape (shoulderto-hip ratio), height and penis size. Those variables were presented in seven gradients, small to large, and intermixed until there were 343 combinations. Each variation was represented in a computer-generated, life-sized picture of a naked male, which could be rotated to allow an examination of the image in profile. A study group of 105 heterosexual women were then asked which picture they found most sexually attractive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they preferred men who were tall, long and V-shaped. Overall, body shape accounted for about 80 per cent of the variation in attractiveness scores, penis size about six per cent and height about five per cent. “The finding suggests that selection on penis size is potentially as strong as selection on stature.” That finding was reinforced by slower response times for some pictures.
“We found a significantly positive, albeit small, correlation between penis size and response time,” the study says. “This finding is consistent with a pattern in adults whereby attractive stimuli are viewed for longer periods.” That attraction, however, wasn’t a simple formula of bigger is better. “Attractiveness increases rapidly until you reach around average for each of the three traits,” said Mautz. “Then, although the attractiveness continues to increase, it doesn’t increase as much.” What was truly interesting was the interaction between the three traits, Mautz said. “If you look at how penis size interacts with male height, it has a differential effect at the lower height sizes. Take the tall men — you get a really big impact (in attractiveness) of how large your penis is relative to your height. “An increase in penis size if you’re of average height does influence your attractiveness. It doesn’t do quite as much as it does at the upper end of the
height spectrum. “If you’re short, it doesn’t matter what size your penis is.” Statistically, 185-cm tall men get about twice the boost in attractiveness that their 165-cm friends do as length increases from six to 10 cm. If that doesn’t seem fair, Mautz hastens to point out his study only considered three male traits. Characteristics such as musculature — not to mention a pleasant smile or great hair — were not considered. Still, he said, his results do suggest that male gentalia factor into sexual selection and are therefore subject to evolutionary pressure. “It shows that females can exert a choice and influence genital evolution, which is a relatively understudied area.” His conclusions also have considerable intrinsic interest. “You’re my first interview,” Mautz told The Canadian Press. “I’m watching emails roll into my account as we speak.”
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