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Youth charged with sex assaults ALLEGED ASSAULTS OCCURRED WHILE YOUTH WAS WITH SCOUTS, CADETS BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer youth faces accusations of sexually assault male and female youths over a five-year period while with two youth-based organizations. Red Deer RCMP issued a news release on Tuesday that said some of the assaults are alleged to have occurred

while the youth was with Cadets Canada and Scouts Canada on trips. There were other alleged incidents unrelated to the youth organizations. A two-month police investigation into sexual assault allegations, including assault with a weapon, have led to the arrest of a 17-year-old Red Deer youth. The youth can’t be identified because of provisions in the Canada Youth Justice Act.

Through their investigation, police believe several sexual assaults occurred between 2011 and 2015 involving male and female youth victims. Some of the offences are alleged to have occurred in Central Alberta. The youth faces nine sexual assaultrelated charges. Police said the accused participated with Scouts Canada between 2007 and 2012 and with Cadets Canada between 2011 and 2015.

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John Petitti, Scouts Canada executive director of marketing and communication, said they were contacted by RCMP on June 29 about the investigation and co-operated fully with officers. “We provided them with any details or information they requested,” said Petitti.

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Nike likes city’s work on active living BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Clare McMahon, who golfs out of the Balmoral Golf Course in Red Deer, hits an approach shot on the fifth fairway of the Spruce course at the Innisfail Golf Club on Tuesday. McMahon and 50 other junior golfers from Alberta teed off at the Innisfail club Tuesday taking in the Junior Open golf Tournament. McMahon finished the day in fifth place amongst the girls with a 22-over-94. For related story see page B6

Red Deer has designed its way into being an international leader in promoting activity. The city is the only Canadian municipality out of nine case studies of exemplary active cities featured in Nike’s Designed to Move campaign. The campaign addresses the sedentary lifestyle epidemic. Red Deer was profiled as a fastgrowing city with a commitment to creating an urban environment that enables physical fitness and mobility. Mayor Tara Veer said the recognition speaks to the municipality’s progress in positioning itself as an active city. “We’re a very young city,” said Veer. “We’re one of the youngest cities in Canada. Because of that we have focused on sport and development. You can really see how that has translated into our community’s identity.” Veer said the international sports company took note of the city’s strides in extending the life of its existing infrastructure into the winter season. The city undertook a study analyzing transportation modes and collecting data on movement as part of the Integrated Movement Study. It resulted in strategies to improve walkability, cycling and transit use in the city through a Mobility Playbook, which provides the guiding principles on how the city grows and develops. Jeremy Bouw, a city divisional strategist, said the city was contacted by Nike in November.

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CNIB raising awareness of service dog regulations BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF About 190 guide and service dogs are helping Albertans with disabilities and medical issues — and providing more education on the provincial regulations regarding their access to businesses and services in the community. On Monday, a complaint was filed with the Red Deer RCMP after a guide dog for an Edmonton staff member with CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) said he was not allowed inside a Red Deer restaurant.

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They were in the company of another CNIB employee. “It just shows to me we have a huge hill to climb as an organization and as a society,” said Jung-Suk Ryu, CNIB director of public affairs. “There are probably a lot of instances out there where people with guide dogs or service animals are denied access and they really wouldn’t know the avenue to report it. We knew that we needed to report it to the RCMP because it was breaking the law. Not everyone else would know so I think they go under-reported.” Alberta’s Service Dogs Act, enacted

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in 2009, states that individuals with disabilities who are accompanied by qualified service dogs must be allowed access to restaurants, taxis, buses or any other location where the general public is allowed. It is an offence to deny access to any public place to individuals who use qualified service dogs. Those found in violation can be fined up to $3,000. Ryu said when there is a denial of service, it’s usually a lack of understanding of what a guide or service dog does. “They don’t understand this isn’t

a companion for the sake of being a companion. This is a companion for an individual, in the case of vision loss, to walk down the street safely in a straight line or being able to avoid certain obstacles when travelling,” Ryu said. John Wheelwright, executive director with Edmonton’s Dogs with Wings, which trains guide and service dogs and pairs them with people, said denial of service happens far too often.

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Oilpatch trying to stay positive With oil prices drifting closer to US$50, energy executives in downtown Calgary are trying to stay positive. Story on PAGE B1

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Neighbours object to subdivision plan BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A controversial plan to subdivide a farmsite just southeast of Red Deer has been rejected by county council. Peter and Dorothy Hansum wanted to create a new 21.9-acre parcel containing the stables of a horse boarding business so it could be sold. The remaining 73.5 acres of farmland could be sold as farmland to another producer. However, the plan ran into much neighbourhood opposition. Some Springvale Heights residents feared the subdivision could lead to future subdivision into country residential lots, which would have created traffic, loss of privacy and noise issues. John Hansum, Peter and Dorothy’s son, told council there was no intention of creating a multi-lot subdivision. “Nothing can be further from the truth,” he said. His aging parents wanted to subdivide out the long-running horse stable business to sell it. It would remain zoned agricultural, as would the remaining land. Council also heard that their had been hard feelings between the Hansums and neighbours of an easement used to access farm fields, which runs between two of the Springvale Heights lots. Another access point on Springvale Drive was proposed but it is at a steep hill slope, said planners. Planning staff recommended council deny the application because it did not meet the Municipal Development Plan’s goal of limiting fragmentation of agriculture land.

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The Downtown Branch of the Red Deer Library and Cafe Noir are getting a new roof. Here workers are installing new cedar shake shingles on the south side of the building. The City of Red Deer has approved up to $750,000 for the project that will also see a new air conditioning unit installed as part of phase one of the project.

Alberta economy remains in doldrums, but no recession: ATB Financial CALGARY — Alberta’s Crown-owned bank says the province’s economy remains in the doldrums, but it is not expecting a recession this year. ATB Financial says thanks to low oil prices Alberta’s gross domestic product will still grow by slightly less than half of one per cent in 2015. Chief economist Todd Hirsch says over the past year 38,000 jobs have been created, but overall the province’s labour market has weakened. He also says investment in the energy sector is

Please see PLAN on Page A3 with more information is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com. Calls to Cadets Canada were not returned. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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ASSAULTS: Investigation started in May Red Deer RCMP say the investigation started in May when one victim came forward and filed a complaint. Petitti said Scouts Canada does have a focus on parent and youth safety education for its participants. “So they understand what constitutes unacceptable behaviour, they understand the channels through which to make notice or advise that such behaviours have taken place and they need to feel confident should they bring complaints like that forward, that Scouts Canada will act,” said Petitti. “Like any national youth serving organization, we know that there are people who may want to do harm. We can’t pretend issues like this don’t arise,. But that’s why we spend so much effort and focus on making sure parents and youth are aware of our Safe Scouting practices and how to bring concerns forward.” The person is charged with five counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault with a weapon and one count each of indecent act and sexual interference. The youth will appear in Red Deer youth court on Thursday. The accused has been released from custody to an adult under court-ordered conditions. Police did not release details of dates or locations of the alleged offences or which Scouts of Cadets groups the youth was a part of to protect the identities of the alleged victims. Police are still investigating the matter. Anyone

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DOGS: Trained to help a variety of people “Usually when you explain it to an organization, a restaurant, a cab company, whatever, they say, ‘OK we get it.’ But it’s really something that needs some public awareness,” Wheelwright said. “Would you say no to someone who is attempting to get into your restaurant in a wheelchair? Of course not.” He said certified dog trainers also require access to businesses in the community while they train animals. Dogs are trained to help a variety of people, for example children with autism, people with hearing loss, and many more medical conditions. But Wheelwright said there is also the issue of people who buy a fake service vest and identification for their family dog. “Very few people are going to fake a guide dog. That just doesn’t happen. But service dogs, yes, it is a growing problem because it’s easier to fake that.” Guide dogs wear a harness with a rigid handle to provide more physical support for their owner. People can be fined up to $300 for claiming they have a disability when they do not in order to bring their dog, which is not a service dog, into a public place. The Service Dogs Act also addresses the rights of businesses.

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Protection under the Act does not apply if the owner does not control the behaviour of their service dog. The dog owner can be asked to leave. Ryu said it’s understandable for business owners to ask questions. But the rights of individuals with disabilities must also be respected. “Vision loss can happen to anyone of us. We’re not immune to it. We may be one day in a position where we need to rely on service dogs.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

NIKE: Representatives visited city in November The company had come across Red Deer’s Mobility Playbook on the consultant 8-80 Cities website while doing research on what cities were doing to integrate active transportation into daily commuting patterns. Representatives from the sports company visited the city and took photos of residents being active in November. “One of the things that we are really excited about is that we are starting to make things accessible year round,” said Bouw. “People walk to work in the winter time. They bike to work in the winter time or they take the bus.” Red Deer’s well-used trail system was highlighted in the report. The securing of the Canada Winter Games also demonstrated that the city has a longterm commitment to build an active city year-round. Other top cities included Buenos Aires, Argentina, New York City, Copenhagen, Denmark and Adelaide, Australia. For more information on the Designed to Move campaign, visit www.designedtomove.org. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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down and the real estate market is soft. ATB’s third-quarter financial outlook says despite the downturn more people keep moving to Alberta, but not as many as in previous years. Hirsch says while times are tough, ATB Financial does not expect them to get worse. He says Albertans have been through such economic shocks before and no one should panic. “The worst of the downturn is likely behind us,” he said in a release Tuesday. “We are close to the turning point where things could start to gradually improve.” On the plus side, Hirsch says agriculture, forestry and tourism continue to benefit from lower fuel prices and the lower Canadian dollar.

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Preliminary inquiry begins for pair accused of plotting to attack Halifax mall BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A preliminary inquiry for two people accused of plotting to open fire at a Halifax shopping mall heard its first day of testimony on Tuesday. Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, 23, of Geneva, Ill., and Randall Steven Shepherd, 21, of Halifax are each charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit arson, illegal possession of dangerous weapons and making a threat through social media. None of the allegations against them has been proven in court. The preliminary inquiry is scheduled for three days and is being held under a publication ban that prohibits reporting what is heard in Halifax provincial court. It was scheduled to resume on Wednes-

day. Outside court, Crown prosecutor Mark Heerema said the two accused face a jury trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. “It’s been conceded by the defence that there is enough evidence in this matter to warrant a trial,” he added. “We would expect that shortly after this preliminary is completed, we’ll be proceeding to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to begin the process of seeking trial dates.” The defence is asking questions of certain witnesses at the preliminary inquiry to assist in their preparation for trial, Heerema said. He said 11 witnesses are expected to testify at the preliminary hearing. Shepherd’s lawyer, Roger Burrill, confirmed outside court that defence has conceded there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.

Alberta man arrested following backhoe pursuit on New Brunswick highway BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FREDERICTON — A 27-year-old Alberta man is in custody following an early morning low-speed pursuit on the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick involving a backhoe. RCMP Const. Derek Black says police were called around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday about a backhoe on the highway west of Fredericton that was impeding traffic and didn’t have any lights on. Black says the driver was only travelling about 10 kilometres per hour, but refused to stop. He says the backhoe was finally stopped with the

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Calgary senior facing charges after kittens found dead in garbage CALGARY — A 75-year-old Calgary man accused of strangling up to three cats and throwing them in the garbage has been charged with two counts of animal cruelty. Police say a utility worker found two kittens dead Monday morning in a garbage container in a southeast neighbourhood. The worker tried to rescue the third kitten, but it fled and is believed to be in extreme medical distress. Officers called to the scene also found 15 rabbits living in deplorable conditions in the backyard of an area home. Ottavio Pio Marchesan has been released and his court date is Aug. 20. The Calgary Humane Society is still investigating to determine whether additional charges should be laid. Marchesan says he sees nothing wrong with raising rabbits for pets and for food and doesn’t believe he should face charges. He says there are several stray cats in the neighbourhood and that he was trying to protect the birds. When asked if he did kill a cat, Marchesan said: “Yes, because he came and killed my bird in here.” Marchesan said a stray cat wandered into his yard one day, killed

help of the Fredericton Police Force and a spikebelt. Police say alcohol is believed to have been a factor. Black says the backhoe damaged some asphalt and a number of guardrails over a distance of about 15 kilometres. Ross Mathers, general manager of Maritime Road Development Corp., the private company that maintains that section of highway, says there is damage in about 10 locations. Damage is estimated at about $15,000 and he says repairs have begun. The backhoe was also damaged.

a robin, and terrorized the other birds that he treats as pets. “I tried to clean them up, there’s a hundred cats run here, two come into my trap there. I was intending to clean up the system here, not to kill the cat, but I was caring for my birds,” he said. Marchesan also said he’s upset that officials took away his rabbits.

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Ahoy matey: Maritime company recruiting workers from oilsands BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — An East Coast company is putting a twist on the usual job recruitment strategy, coming to Alberta’s oilsands capital in an effort to lure workers back to the Maritimes. Irving Shipbuilding is hosting a one-day job fair in Fort McMurray, Alta., to hire as many as 200 journeymen, welders, pipefitters, fabricators and iron workers. The company recently won a $25-billion contract to build ships for the Royal Canadian Navy, a deal the federal government has said will provide fulltime work in the region for 30 years. Mary Keith, vice-president of communications for parent company J.D. Irving Ltd., says there are many Maritimers with the experience and skills they need who had moved to Alberta for oil jobs. Keith says there are probably a number of Albertans who also “might like to try life on the East Coast.” Irving’s jobs could be a big draw in Fort McMurray, where unemployment has surpassed the national average and is more than double what it was this time last year. At Irving’s recent job fair in Halifax, Keith says a handful of the 600 job hunters who showed up had come directly from the airport after returning from Alberta, where they’ve been working. Their families drove them to the fair, in hopes they’d get a job that would bring them home. Like the oil industry, shipbuilding has been plagued by economic boom and bust, but this contract is a “generational commitment,” Keith says. Besides the journeymen and tradespeople for the shipyard, J.D. Irving is also looking for professionals in finance, IT and human resources for other parts of its mammoth operation, which includes pulp, paper, lumber, rail and the Cavendish Farms potato processing plant in Lethbridge, Alta. Keith says the company expects to make 7,900 hires from now until the end of 2017. their homes by wildfires in a remote northern Alberta community can go home. RCMP say the evacuation order affecting the North Tallcree First Nation has been cancelled. At one point flames from the fires came within three kilometres of the reserve. The community was evacuated Thursday as a precaution, with many people leaving for nearby High Level. RCMP say firefighters worked long and hard to protect the community. An Alberta official says there are 93 wildfires burning in the province Tuesday, including 37 listed as out of control.

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PLAN: Many concerns Coun. Jean Bota said there were many concerns voiced about the subdivision application and she had a “serious issue” with the second proposed access point. “I can’t support this.” Coun. Christine Moore also agreed there were too many valid concerns raised and the subdivision application was not for the good of all. Mayor Jim Wood said with the easement issue already a bone of contention in the area, approving further subdivision might only make matters worse. If there had been a better alternate access proposed, the subdivision may have been a better fit. Council voted unanimously against the application. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Guaranteed income trap THE PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING A GAI MITIGATE ITS SUCCESS BY CHARLES LAMMAM AND HUGH MACINTYRE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The old idea of a guaranteed annual income (GAI) recently received renewed attention thanks to Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson. Both mayors hope the new provincial government is sympathetic to the idea, prompting several pundits to muse about a GAI program for Alberta. Largely missing in these discussions is the arguably insurmountable practical challenges involved in creating a GAI that lives up to its potential. A GAI — also referred to as a “negative income tax” — is a cash-transfer to individuals or families that ensures a minimum level of income, without conditions such as requiring recipients to work or look for work. It’s generally conceived as a single program that would replace all (or at least a significant portion) of the existing income support system (broadly defined as the complex web of programs and tax measures that increase a recipient’s income through cash or in-kind transfers). Being a replacement rather than an additional program is a critical feature of any serious GAI proposal.

After all, the GAI’s main conceptual appeal largely rests on the potential to reduce government administrative costs by simplifying the income support system, which consists of numerous, often-overlapping programs at the federal, provincial, and local government levels. According to our calculations, the total cost of the income support system in Canada was $185 billion in 2013 or roughly 10 per cent of the economy. This figure includes spending and tax measures by all levels of government targeting people with low income, the disabled, the elderly, and parents with young children. A single program, providing an unconditional transfer, could do away with the administrative duplication and expensive monitoring apparatus that ensures recipients comply with all the different rules. While proponents differ on what a GAI should replace, the wider the scope, the greater the potential for administrative savings. In theory, the potential for administrative savings is substantial. A nontrivial portion of spending on income support currently goes to administration rather than directly on transfers to people. Who would argue against making government more efficient? In practice, implementing a GAI that maintains its conceptual simplici-

ty and produces administrative savings is unlikely to happen in Alberta — or anywhere else in Canada. Here’s why. The Alberta government cannot unilaterally decide to replace the entire income support system with a GAI. It would require agreement across levels of government because income support is provided by the federal and provincial governments — and to a lesser extent local governments. If the Alberta government administered the GAI, Ottawa would presumably have to stop providing income support through programs such as Employment Insurance, Old Age Security, the GST/HST Credit, to name a few. At the same time, the provincial government would have to integrate roughly $5 billion worth of social services programs, including welfare, into the new GAI initiative. Local governments would also have to eliminate inkind support through social/subsidized housing. But it’s unlikely that the federal government would abdicate its role in providing income support to Albertans. Since building sufficient agreement among Canadian governments for much more modest reforms has encountered major difficulties (think: a national securities regulator), it seems doubtful that agreement could be

achieved for a reform as wide-ranging as a GAI, even bilaterally. There would also be strong internal political opposition to the largescale layoff of bureaucrats, which is required to achieve substantial administrative savings. The risk is that Alberta’s GAI would become just another program (with extra costs) within a larger web of existing government programs. Some programs that target specific groups, particularly groups less able to work — such as the severely disabled and elderly — may be especially difficult to consolidate into a single “one-size-fitsall” universal program like the GAI. But if some programs are preserved, this raises the possibility of further exceptions and diminishes the potential for greater simplicity and administrative savings, undermining the main advantage of a GAI. Regardless of the support from Alberta’s big city mayors and some pundits, a GAI reform in Alberta or anywhere else in Canada, although an appealing idea in theory, is a longshot in practice. Lammam and MacIntyre are co-authors of the Fraser Institute study, The Practical Challenges of Creating a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada, available at www.fraserinstitute.org. This was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

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Smoke gets in your eyes: don’t ban vaping BY DEREK JAMES FROM SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Calgary city council’s proposed ban on vaping — a practice that mimics cigarette smoking using atomized vapour — in public is giving me déjà vu. You may remember that in 2013 councillors discussed banning shark fins even though they knew the bylaw was outside their jurisdiction. Despite this, some councillors — motivated by feelings about the cruel treatment of sharks — vigorously supported the ban. Fortunately, no municipal government in Alberta can ban something merely because it disapproves or thinks it sets a bad example. So the ban’s advocates fabricated a narrative to support their cause. Sharks are apex predators, they reasoned. Apex predators bio-accumulate mercury. Eating shark fins could lead to mercury poisoning. Ipso facto a health crisis! Of course, this was a sham to distract Calgarians from the fact that council had no authority to enact the ban. No councillors were truly motivated by concern over mercury poisoning. To his credit, Councillor Andre Chabot did not support the ban because he saw it as an attempt by a handful of his colleagues to codify their feelings into law. Well, it’s happening again. This time council is about to enact a ban on vaping. And just like the previous ban, some councillors (spurred on by Alberta Health Services executives) have prioritized their disapproval of vaping over restraining themselves

within their proper authority. The adopted narrative this time is that vaping is unsafe and a nuisance; it should therefore be banned in all public spaces — including all private property to which the public has access. It’s prohibition all over again. The narrative concocted to support this ban is a sham too. Vaping is not a public health crisis. Aside from a handful of deeply flawed studies that have been discredited, the accumulated evidence is becoming clearer and clearer — vaping is orders of magnitude less harmful than smoking is. And it’s hardly more of a nuisance than wearing an excessive amount of perfume. Enter Coun. Chabot. He recently told the Calgary Herald that the proposed vaping ban is “ridiculous” since “e-cigarettes have helped a lot of people that I know get off of the use of tobacco.” He’s right. It would be ridiculous (irrational, in fact) to ban one of the most successful means of smoking cessation and treat it like a combustible tobacco product. The e-cigarettes used when vaping contain no tobacco and are not burned like traditional cigarettes. Instead, the vapour they emit contains a small amount of nicotine and some innocuous ingredients that are electronically vaporized and inhaled. Whether inhaled directly or second-hand, vaping is not associated with any of the negative health effects of inhaling combusted tobacco products. Importantly, statistics indicate that vaping helps smokers stop smoking. Lacking their health crisis narrative, what other

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support can these prohibitionists muster? Vaping sets a bad example and will corrupt the youth. In other words, won’t someone think of the children? Kids could observe someone vaping, take up the habit, and ultimately become smokers. It’s a so-called “gateway” hypothesis. Aside from the statistics undermining this gateway hypothesis, you’d search long and hard through Alberta’s Municipal Government Act to find where it says that Council can ban a practise merely because it doesn’t like the way it looks. The real effect of this ban will be to curtail consumer choice and restrict economic freedom. Currently, customers can sample vaping products in retail stores so that they purchase a product that will work for them. If vaping is banned in all public spaces, customers will no longer be able to make use of this important service. Even if it were within Council’s jurisdiction, a vaping ban covering all public spaces — including private businesses — would have the negative consequence of making it more difficult for smokers to stop smoking. This is irrational. City council should be considering reasonable accommodations to help smokers stop smoking. And even though the city should be free to enact policies restricting or banning vaping on its own property, it should butt out and let people decide what to permit on their own. Derek James From is a staff lawyer with the Canadian Constitution Foundation in Calgary (www.theccf. ca). This column was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

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Too early to use R word: Oliver BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Finance Minister Joe Oliver is tempering his optimistic outlook on the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy, saying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early to tell whether Canada has slumped into a recession. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The numbers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t out yet,â&#x20AC;? Joe Oliver said Tuesday in Vancouver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the numbers are out weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see what they have to say.â&#x20AC;? Concerns that the country has fallen into a recession have grown since Statistics Canada figures released last week showed that the economy contracted in April, marking the fourth straight monthly decline. The next round of GDP figures come out July 31. Oliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments Tuesday marked a shift in his position. Oliver rejected the possibility Last Friday when the Bank of America Merrill Lynch suggesting Canada was in a recession. On Monday, TD Bank added its voice to the growing chorus of economists warning that the country was likely in a recession through the first half of the year, largely because of the continuing fallout of low oil prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canadian forecasters have consistently underestimated the impact of the sharp decline in oil prices on the Canadian economy,â&#x20AC;? wrote TD senior econo-

mist Randall Bartlett. That, coupled with Statistics Canada saying Tuesday the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade deficit grew to $3.34 billion in May â&#x20AC;&#x201D; worse than the $2.5 billion deficit economists had expected â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have painted an economic picture that gets increasingly bleak. Despite the sluggish economic performance, Oliver said he remains confident that Canada would end the fiscal year with a $1.4 billion surplus as promised in the budget. Oliver said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to remember that as an export-oriented economy, Canada is in a fragile economic environment, citing Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic woes in addition to the dramatic decline in the price of oil. More than half of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearly $2-trillion economy consists of trade, making it highly susceptible to external factors, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trade is absolutely at the core of our prosperity and our growth,â&#x20AC;? said Oliver. A dismal American economic performance at the beginning of this year also undermined confidence for Canadian companies, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if they see the U.S. economy growing, I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see that as a positive sign to start investing once more.â&#x20AC;? New Democrat finance critic Nathan Cullen said the downturn is the product of the Conservative gov-

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Emergency officials in Saskatchewan say a large wildfire threatening one of the biggest communities in the north was stable Tuesday, but they feared a shift in wind could change the situation. The blaze, which had come within 1.5 kilometres of La Ronge, a town of 2,700 people, was one of hundreds burning across Western Canada. Six hundred soldiers from Edmonton have joined the fire fight in Saskatchewan. Of those, 360 were to complete a condensed day of training before going to work on fire lines Wednesday. Another 500 troops from Shilo, Man., were ready to be called in if needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just getting this one day quick refresher course to make sure when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out and in the fire zone they are operating safely,â&#x20AC;? Defence Minister

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‘OF COURSE HIGHER PRICES ARE GOOD AND THERE’S MORE CASH FLOW AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO MAKE THE BEST OF WHERE YOU SIT TODAY.’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — With oil prices drifting closer to US$50, energy executives in downtown Calgary are trying to stay positive. Apart from the crude drop and stock hit, “everything’s working pretty well” at Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) these days, deadpanned Harbir Chhina, the firm’s executive vice-president of oilsands. MEG Energy (TSX:MEG) vice-president John Rogers echoed Chhina’s assessment at an energy conference hosted by TD Securities. “I think a lot of people in the industry feel that way: that things are going very, very well but we’re kind of weathering through this low commodity price environment,” said Rogers. Over the last two trading sessions, the price of U.S. benchmark crude has dropped about eight per cent, settling at US$52.33 and dashing hopes of a quick recovery. The energy sector took a more than two per cent hit on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday but by Tuesday it had regained most of that ground. Lower oil prices have an upside, often leading to cheaper materials and equipment and a more productive labour force. In the first quarter of this year, when benchmark oil dipped well below US$50 a barrel, operating costs at Cenovus were down 20 to 25 per cent from the same period of 2014. Sustaining capital — investments made to maintain operations — is dropping by about 30 per cent, Chhina said. “This environment does force our industry to become more efficient and

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A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray, on Sunday June 1, 2014. there’s less competition for labour, there’s less pressure on equipment and things like that. So this is an opportunity,” Chhina said. “Of course higher oil prices are good and there’s more cash flow and all of those things. But you’ve got to make the best of where you sit today.” Encana (TSX:ECA) — focused on shale oil and gas in Texas and Western Canada this year — is planning for

US$50 oil, said vice-president Corey Code. “As unsettling as it is, the correction in the last couple of days, we still look at it as potential upside. We haven’t been counting on US$60 oil to make the books work.” Years before the latest downturn, the massive Syncrude oilsands mine had been focusing on lowering its costs, but the latest drop added a

“sense of urgency,” said Ryan Kubik, CEO of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. Canadian Oil Sands (TSX:COS) owns 37 per cent of Syncrude. When crude was above US$100, the Fort McMurray, Alta., region saw enormous cost inflation. “We recognized that costs were rising along with the oil price and that margins were starting to get squeezed in the business,” said Kubik. Nowadays, overtime costs are down “quite significantly” as Syncrude has shifted around schedules. Meanwhile, supplier contracts have been renegotiated and productivity rates are improving by as much as double-digits in some cases. Companies that provide drilling and other services to oil and gas producers have been hit particularly hard in the downturn. Dale Dusterhoft, CEO of Trican Well Service (TSX:TCW), said the sector can look forward to an oil price of US$75 or US$80 a few years from now. “So running a low cost operation’s going to be paramount to being successful there because there isn’t going to be that much extra money floating around.”

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A man uses an ATM of a bank after the government’s decision last week to limit daily cash withdrawals to 60 euro ($66) in Athens, Tuesday. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was heading Tuesday to Brussels for an emergency meeting of eurozone leaders, where he will try to use a resounding referendum victory to eke out concessions from European creditors over a bailout for the crisis-ridden country.

Greece comes back to the table without proposals BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Frustrated and angered eurozone leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a last-minute chance Tuesday to finally come up with a viable proposal on how to save his country from financial ruin. Overcoming their surprise when Tsipras failed to present them with a detailed plan, the leaders reluctantly agreed to a final summit Sunday, saying that could give both sides an opportunity to stave off collapse of the struggling but defiant member nation. Underscoring the gravity of the challenge, European Union President Donald Tusk decided to call all 28 EU leaders to Brussels instead of only the 19 eurozone members, because, for the bloc, it “is maybe the most critical moment in our history.” French President Francois Hollande agreed. “It’s not just the problem of Greece — it’s the future of the European Union” that’s at stake, he said. “We’ll see if on Sunday this issue will be solved once and for all,” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said. With Greece’s banks just days away from a potential collapse that could drag the country out of the euro, Tsipras arrived with only vague proposals and a commitment to back it up with real figures and a more detailed plan by Thursday. Speaking to reporters late Tuesday, Tsipras said he made proposals to the leaders during the evening summit but it was unclear whether it meant anything more than the general direction of staving off too

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tough austerity and insisting on debt restructuring. Yet he made clear he had gotten the message that there wasn’t a moment to waste as deadlines for debt payments that Greece cannot afford draw near. “The process will be swift, it will be speedy, it will begin in the next few hours with the aim of concluding until the end of the week at the latest,” Tsipras said. But patience among Greece’s allies was wearing very thin ahead of the meeting. “You know, there was a promise for today. Then, they’re promising for tomorrow,” said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. “For the Greek government it’s every time ’manana.”’ Tsipras came buoyed by a triumph in last Sunday’s referendum, where an overwhelming majority of Greeks backed his call to reject the belt-tightening reforms that creditors had last proposed. But that domestic victory did not appear to give him much leverage in talks with foreign creditors, who know Tsipras needs a deal soon to keep his country afloat. Banks have been shut since last week and will not reopen before Thursday, cash withdrawals have been limited for just as long, and daily business throughout the country has come to a near standstill. So it was with astonishment and dismay that European leaders learned Tsipras did not yet have a written proposal for new rescue aid. “I’m extremely sombre about this summit. I’m also sombre about the question of whether Greece really wants to come up with proposals, with a solution,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

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OTTAWA — Canada’s trade deficit grew to $3.34 billion in May from $3.0 billion in April, increasing chances the Bank of Canada will cut its key interest rate next week, economists said Tuesday. BMO senior economist Benjamin Reitzes said Canada’s trade balance is on pace for a record deficit in the second quarter. “This report caps a run of soft data over recent months and suggests that trade will not be nearly as positive as anticipated at the start of the year,” Reitzes said. “Unless we get another massively positive jobs report on Friday, there’s a good chance governor (Stephen) Poloz will cut rates at next week’s policy meeting.” Statistics Canada said earlier Tuesday that exports declined 0.6 per cent in May to $42 billion, while imports edged up 0.2 per cent to $45.3 billion. Economists had expected a deficit of $2.5 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. The Bank of Canada is set to make its next rate announcement and release its monetary policy report on July 15. The central bank is widely expected to cut its economic outlook, but what happens with its key interest rate is less certain. The Bank of Canada surprised markets when it cut the rate in January by a quarter point as insurance against the impact of low oil prices on the economy. However, since then the economy has contracted and talk of a possible recession has increased, prompting expectations by some that the bank will cut again. A key economic data point will be the Statistics Canada labour force survey for June on Friday. The jobs data has been volatile in recent months. The May report showed a gain of 58,900 jobs, but economists expect June to show a loss of 10,000, according to Thomson Reuters. TD Bank senior economist Randall

BRIEF Calgary-based Chevron Canada Resources confirms plans to cut 130 jobs CALGARY — Chevron Canada Resources has confirmed it is laying off 130 people as it restructures operations. Chevron spokesman Leif Sollid says the cuts are part of the company’s efforts to establish a competitive foundation in its key focus areas of Alberta,

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Bartlett predicted that even a positive jobs report would not be enough to dissuade the central bank from cutting next week. “We think there has been sufficient evidence thus far to suggest the Bank of Canada will need to cut now if it wants to meet its long-term inflationary goals,” said Bartlett, who added it is likely the country slipped into recession in the second quarter. In its report, Statistics Canada noted that export volumes decreased 2.5 per cent while prices increased 1.9 per cent. Meanwhile, import volumes were up 0.3 per cent and prices edged down 0.1 per cent. “All told, the weakness in volumes on the export front will have markets worried about May GDP, although we still expect better news from other categories like retailing,” CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said. “That’s one more chip on the side of our forecast for a rate cut . . . with Friday’s employment data still one more hurdle to cross.” Canada’s exports to the United States in May fell 0.3 per cent to $32.0 billion, while imports from Canada’s largest trading partner increased 0.5 per cent to $30.0 billion. Exports to countries other than the United States fell 1.6 per cent to $10.0 billion as shipments to the United Kingdom dropped $345 million and exports to China decreased by $307 million. Imports from countries other than the United States were down 0.2 per cent to $15.5 billion. Exports of metal and non-metallic mineral products were down 5.8 per cent to $4.6 billion, while metal ores and non-metallic minerals fell 9.2 per cent to $1.4 billion. However, exports of aircraft and other transportation equipment and parts rose 10.3 per cent to $2.1 billion, while motor vehicles and parts gained 2.7 per cent to $6.9 billion. On the other side of the equation, imports of consumer goods were up 2.3 per cent to $9.7 billion, while metal and non-metallic mineral products rose 5.0 per cent to $3.8 billion. British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador, but declined to provide further details. The job cuts amount to about 20 per cent of the company’s workforce of more than 600 full-time employees. Calgary-based Chevron Canada Resources has interests in crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids projects. Last December the company shelved plans to drill in the Beaufort Sea due to the “level of economic uncertainty in the industry.” The cuts do not affect Vancouverbased Chevron Canada Ltd., which is a separate subsidiary of Chevron Corp. that focuses on retail sales. It has a further 350 employees, according to the company website.

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Canada faces questions on mining industry UN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is sidestepping a UN panel’s request to explain how Canadian mining and resource companies deal with human rights complaints. Tuesday was the Canadian government’s first opportunity to address the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, which is conducting the first review in 10 years of Canada’s compliance to a major international treaty. The committee, comprised of 18 experts, heard repeated concerns about Canada’s extractives industry, the treatment of aboriginals and anti-terrorism measures from two dozen groups, including the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International. The committee asked Canada to provide answers to 24 separate questions about how it implements the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — including how it monitors the human rights conduct of Canadian resource companies operating abroad, some of which face lawsuits alleging abuses. “Please inform the committee of any measures taken or envisaged to monitor the human rights conduct of Canadian oil, mining and gas companies operating abroad,” said the list of issues given by the committee to Canada last fall in preparation for Tuesday’s testimony. “Please also inform what the available legal venues are in the state party for victims of human rights abuses arising from overseas operations of Canadian extractive firms.” Laurie Wright, the senior Justice Department official who led Canada’s delegation, did not address the issue in her six-page opening statement. Instead, she highlighted four topics, two of them related to the treatment of aboriginal affairs, along with the terrorism and the treatment of immigrants. “While challenges remain, we are committed to addressing them, and to our ongoing work in building an open, free and peaceful society where people from diverse backgrounds can live side by side and prosper,” Wright said in prepared remarks. But at the hearing, the committee members persisted. They returned to the topic of Canada’s foreignbased resource companies and several other areas of questioning that were not addressed in Wright’s opening remarks. Amnesty International, in its submission to the

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Kevitsa copper and nickel mine in Sodankyla Finnish Lapland on Thursday, 12th March, 2015. Kevitsa’s openpit mine is owned by Canadian First Quantum Minerals Ltd. panel, argued that any human rights initiatives taken by companies are purely voluntary, and no enforceable code of conduct exists. It urged the committee to recommend a way for overseas litigants to pursue legal action in Canadian courts. Alex Neve, the executive director of Amnesty International, pointed out that the federal government’s jurisdiction extends only to conduct within Canada’s borders. Neve, who attended the hearing, said committee members pointed out that the UN treaty deals not only with what happens within the borders of a country, but also the general conduct of its citizens. The committee also asked Canada to address a number of other areas that have sparked controversy, including: — what measures had been taken to compensate Abdullah Almalki, Ahmed El-Maati and Muayyed Nureddin, who were tortured in Syrian prisons after

Canadian officials were found partly to blame for sharing information about them. — whether the government planned to reverse cuts to health services for refugee claimants, and “respond to allegations that such cuts may undermine their rights to life and freedom from ill-treatment.” — asking the government to comment on allegations that it has taken punitive measures to limit the freedom of expression of “civil society organizations and human rights defenders that promote women’s equality, the rights of Palestinians, and environmental protection and corporate social responsibility . . .” Wright did not specifically respond to those three issues in her opening address to the committee. The panel will announce its findings in two weeks, after reviewing the performance of a series of countries, including Britain, France and Uzbekistan.

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Kitimat’s cleaner, more productive smelter pours first aluminum BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KITIMAT, B.C. — A ceremonial first pour of molten metal at Rio Tinto Alcan’s aluminum plant Tuesday marked the completion of a multibillion-dollar modernization project in the northern British Columbia community of Kitimat. Plant manager Gaby Poirier said the upgraded smelter will not reach full production until next year, but the pouring celebration starts shipments of aluminum for export from Kitimat’s port. Poirier said the US$4.8-billion project created about 3,600 construction jobs at its peak and the upgrade cuts emissions in half. Aluminum production is expected to increase by 48 per cent to 420,000 tonnes a year. “We are at the start of a new era for the smelter where we will become a supplier of high-quality, low-carbon footprint aluminum to the Pacific Rim,” he said. “For us, what’s the most important is with the new smelter we’re securing jobs for the future here in northern B.C. We’re aiming for nothing less than another 60 years.” The upgraded smelter will employ 1,000 people, at least 1,000 fewer people than employed at the old smelter during the 1970s. Four generations of Kitimat families have worked at the smelter since 1954, Poirier said. The community of about 10,000 resi-

dents was carved out of the wilderness to make room for a new industry and what was North America’s first planned city. The smelter’s modernization cuts overall emissions, including hydrocarbons, fluorides and greenhouse gases, by an overall average of 50 per cent, but sulphur-dioxide emissions will increase by 56 per cent, Rio Tinto states on its company website. The Ministry of Environment granted the company a permit to increase sulphur-dioxide emissions as part of the upgrade, but some Kitimat residents have appealed the permit. Environmental groups and residents have said the increase in sulphur-dioxide emissions can cause potential health and environmental harms. Court documents filed by Unifor Local 2301 last March on behalf of Kitimat smelter workers claim the B.C. government permitted Rio Tinto Alcan to undertake its smelter modernization without requiring the company to reduce harmful sulphur-dioxide emissions. The petition seeks to set aside the government’s approval under the Environmental Management Act on the grounds of failure to consider expert advice on pollution-reduction measures, including installing scrubbers to prevent adverse effects on human health. Last July, B.C.’s Environment Ministry released an independent, government-funded report that concluded with proper management, Kitimat’s air, water, land and residents can handle prospective oil, gas and aluminum industry expansions in the area.

EDMONTON — An energy company with a history of pipeline problems has been fined and warned by Alberta’s regulator for a 2013 spill that sent millions of litres of salty water into the muskeg. But environmental groups say Apache Canada’s $16,500 penalty isn’t even a slap on the wrist. “It’s more like a wave in the general direction of a wrist,” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace said Tuesday. Sometime during the first week in May 2013, an Apache pipeline in the Zama region of northern Alberta began to leak process water heavily contaminated with salt. That leak continued until it had released 15 million toxic litres into the surrounding muskeg. The company finally reported the leak to the regulator on June 1 of that year. It was the latest in a series of problems for the company. The regulator reported 12 “high-risk enforcement actions” between 2009 and 2013, most of which involved the release of hydrocarbons or other fluids. “The AER investigation revealed that Apache lacked adequate procedures, training, communication, and supervision that contributed to the failure to detect, evaluate, and take immediate action concerning the pipeline leak and subsequent release of produced water,” the regulator said in its report. Apache was fined on June 27. On Tuesday, the regulator ordered the company to hire an independent auditor to check how it maintains pipeline safety. The auditor’s recommendations must be in place by the end of the year. As well, Apache has until October to tell the regulator how it plans to prevent future releases. Apache has already complied, the regulator said. But Stewart pointed out the penalty amounts to about one-tenth of a cent per litre. That type of administrative fine isn’t enough to deter companies from cutting corners, he said. “If they don’t actually proceed with prosecution, they’re sending the message that this is no big deal. What they’re saying is that you can mess up badly and there’s no real cost.”

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market was higher Tuesday on a day marked by volatility and a sell-off in commodities. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 30.93 points at 14,624.50 after falling more than 200 points earlier in the session. Stocks in New York also rebounded after opening the day with significant losses. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 93.33 points at 17,776.91 after being down more than 200 points, while the Nasdaq rose 5.52 points to 4,997.46 after earlier shedding more than 90 points. The S&P 500 finished 12.58 points higher at 2,081.34 after sliding nearly 25 points in early trading. Sunday’s “no” vote in the Greek debt referendum plunged the country’s future in the euro into uncertainty, yet investors are now adjusting their expectations on the fallout in world financial markets, according to Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer for Sun Life Global Investments. “People realized around the same time that whatever happens with Greece, it’s still a really small economy,” he said. “You’ve still got to worry about the rest of the world and there could be opportunity there.” Commodities were hit hard, with oil, gold, and copper all losing value. The August contract for benchmark crude ended the day down 20 cents at US$52.33 a barrel. “People are starting to realize that supply hasn’t diminished, it’s actually gone up since we hit $44 oil in January,” Adatia said. “The next step is down rather than up for oil prices.” The August gold con-

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tract was down $20.60 at US$1,154.30 an ounce, while September copper fell 9.15 cents to US$2.45 a pound, reaching levels not seen since January. The loonie slid 0.37 of a US cent to end the day at 78.67 cents, its sixth consecutive day of losses against the greenback. In the face of the Greek crisis, Adatia said, investors have become risk averse and are flocking to the safety of the American currency, pushing up its value relative to the Canadian dollar. The loonie has also been under pressure from speculation that the Bank of Canada will cut its trend-setting interest rate next Wednesday. Much of that has come from economic reports indicating that Canada may be in a recession — defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Statistics Canada added more fuel to the fire Tuesday when it reported that Canada’s merchandise trade deficit rose to $3.34 billion in May from $3.0 billion in April, a gap that was much higher than the consensus estimate of $2.5 billion. Trade figures showed that exports declined 0.6 per cent in May to $42 billion, while imports edged up 0.2 per cent to $45.3 billion. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close on Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,624.50, up 30.93 points Dow — 17,776.91, up 93.33 points S&P 500 — 2,081.34, up 12.58 points Nasdaq — 4,997.46, up 5.52 points Currencies:

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Cdn — 78.67 cents US, down 0.37 of a cent Pound — C$1.9660, down 0.80 cent Euro — C$1.4004, up 0.20 of a cent Euro — US$1.1016, down 0.37 of a cent Oil futures: US$52.33 per barrel, down 20 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,152.60 per oz., down $20.60 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.906 oz., down 76.4 cents $639.98 kg., down $24.56 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $10.40 lower $532.10; Nov ’15 $10.40 lower $523.90; Jan. ’16 $11.00 lower $523.70; March ’16 $12.10 lower $522.00; May ’16 $12.20 lower $518.20; July ’16 $11.80 lower $513.00; Nov. ’16 $12.50 lower $470.60; Jan. ’17 $12.50 lower $471.70; March ’17 $12.50 lower $473.40; May ’17 $12.50 lower $473.40; July ’17 $12.50 lower $473.40. Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $212.40; Oct. ’15 unchanged $207.40; Dec. ’15 unchanged $212.40; March ’16 unchanged $214.40; May ’16 unchanged $215.40; July ’16 unchanged $215.40; Oct. ’16 unchanged $215.40; Dec. ’16 unchanged $215.40; March ’17 unchanged $215.40; May ’17 unchanged $215.40; July ’17 unchanged $215.40. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 374,580 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 374,580.

Quebec to go to court to challenge securities regulator BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Quebec government says it will ask the province’s top court to rule on the constitutionality of Ottawa’s plan to create a national securities regulator. Quebec has long argued that the sector is of provincial jurisdiction under the Constitution. “Regulation of securities trading is too important a matter to run the risk of its hinging, in whole or in part, on legislation whose legal basis is potentially unconstitutional,” Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee said in a statement Tuesday. “Given this new attempt by Ottawa to set up a pan-Canadian commission, Quebec needs to apply to the Court of Appeal once again.” Ottawa has long championed the idea of a national regulator, but the Supreme Court sided with the provinces in 2011 on who had jurisdiction. However, in its ruling the top court left the door open to federal-provincial co-operation. In April, Yukon became the first territory to sign up for the planned national regulator, with the federal Finance Department saying at the time it was joining British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

But the key jurisdictions of Alberta and Quebec have refused to join the national regulator. If implemented, the co-operative national body would be expected to help oversee stock markets by policing abuses and securities fraud. It would also administer a single set of regulations under the proposed rules and be funded through a single set of fees. Canada currently is the only G20 country without a national securities regulator. Under the current system, all 13 jurisdictions in Canada regulate their own capital markets and bond and securities issuances, although all except Ontario also belong to the so-called passport system by which the approval of one commission essentially allows for registration in another province. Quebec argues the proposed plan would give Ottawa a veto within the body responsible for administering the scheme. “This plan would adversely affect the maintenance of Quebec’s expertise in securities, a key sector of our economy,” Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao said in the same statement. “Moreover, the existing harmonized and collaborative securities regulatory system, set up by the provinces and territories, has been very successful in achieving investor protection and economic development objectives.”

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B.C. government approves construction projects for 9-billion Site C hydro dam FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The British Columbia government has given the green light for some construction to start on the massive Site C hydroelectric dam project on the Peace River. Two dozen authorizations have been given with conditions under the land, water, forest and wildlife acts. The government says each application for the construction phase was reviewed for its potential impacts on the environment and on First Nations treaty rights. A government news release states consultations with the local Treaty 8 First Nation began in August last year and concluded last month. The almost $9-billion project will generate about 10,000 jobs during construction while it floods 55 square kilometres of river valley. Site C represents an eight per cent increase to Hydro’s energy supply and will generate enough electricity to power about 450,000 homes per year.

Rogers appoints Rick Brace to head media arm TORONTO — Rogers Communications has appointed longtime Bell Media executive Rick Brace to head its media business, replacing the outgoing Keith Pelley. Pelley announced in April that he was leaving to become the new commissioner and CEO of the European Tour golf circuit. Brace, with 35 years of experience in the media business, helped found Bell’s successful TSN all-sports channel and served as president at both TSN and CTV. “Rick is a seasoned business leader with strong operational experience and a passion for the media industry that’s second to none,” Rogers CEO Guy Laurence said in a statement announcing the appointment on Tuesday. Brace will be in charge of Rogers’ media business, which includes its broadcast TV channels, publishing brands, specialty channels such as SportsNet, and sports investments including Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. His appointment comes as Laurence continues to implement his Rogers 3.0 corporate overhaul since joining the company (TSX:RCI.B) in December 2013. Among other things, he has cut staff and focused on streamlining the telecom giant’s organization. In May the company axed foreign-language newscasts at its OMNI multicultural channels, replacing them with cheaper current affairs programming and cut-

Jean Coutu says new Quebec drug rules will hurt results and confuse patients LONGUEUIL, Que. — Quebec pharmacy chain Jean Coutu says impending changes to pharmacy rules in the province will hurt its financial results and confuse patients. The province is reportedly eliminating the 15 per cent cap on professional allowances paid to individual pharmacists by generic drug manufacturers. The move, which still needs to be ratified by the government, is designed to soften the blow of a $177-million-ayear cutback in fees from the province, equivalent to about $100,000 per pharmacy. Jean Coutu (TSX:PJC.A) told shareholders Tuesday that the change will hurt its Pro Doc generic drug subsidiary and overall financial results. However, the company refuses to disclose the potential hit until details of a deal between the government and the association representing pharmacist owners are disclosed. Since the use of cheaper generic drugs has reached 69 per cent of all prescriptions sold, Pro Doc has been a growing driver of the company’s profits. Chief executive Francois Coutu says its too soon to say if the steady growth since 2008 will end as pharmacists try to negotiate the best deal they can get. “At Pro Doc, we will try to be competitive, hoping that people will remain loyal,” he told reporters after the annual meeting. Irene Nattel of RBC Capital Markets estimates that each one per cent rise in professional allowances will cut earnings by one cent per share.

Nova Scotia streamlines processes in restaurant and accommodations sector HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has launched a new website for the restaurant and accommodations sector that provides one-stop shopping for administrative paperwork. Service Nova Scotia Minister Mark Furey says various government permit and license applications are now all in one place, such as those needed to reserve a business name or to obtain a food establishment permit. Previously, businesses in the restaurant and accommodations sector were required to navigate several government departments for various information and applications. Furey says businesses can create a profile on the site with a customizable list of tasks for their specific needs. He says it shows operators what steps they need to complete and in what order. Furey says the province plans to develop the online tool for other sectors, with convenience store operators next on the list.

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Jays hang on to edge Sox BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 2 White Sox 1 CHICAGO — The Toronto Blue Jays lead the major leagues in runs scored by a wide margin. However, they had to eke out a win in a low-scoring game Tuesday night. Felix Doubront pitched into the seventh inning in his first start of the season and Josh Donaldson homered to lead the Blue Jays to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. “We’re used to slugfests,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “It was nice to play a game like that and come out on top.” Doubront (1-0) allowed one run and six hits in 6 2/3 innings. It was his first start in the majors since last Sept. 20 when he pitched for the Chicago Cubs against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Roberto Osuna worked out of a ninth-inning jam to get the last three outs for his fourth save. “I’m so blessed to be here again and have the opportunity with this team,” Doubront said. “I was giving them everything and I tried to help the team win. That’s the main goal.” A night after the marquee matchup of Chris Sale and Mark Buehrle, few expected Doubront and Chicago starter Jose Quintana to follow suit, but that’s precisely what happened. “Doubront was great tonight,” Gibbons said. “Just like Buehrle was and their two guys were.” Quintana (4-8) lost despite allowing just two runs and four hits in eight innings. He struck out eight —including five straight during the fourth and fifth innings — and retired 10 straight batters in one stretch. It was Quintana’s eighth straight start allowing three runs or fewer while pitching at least six innings, but he is just 2-3 during that stretch. “They have a lot of guys that can go deep and battle you and they come out swinging,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of the Blue Jays. “For what Q did, it was a good job. He battled all the way and really deserves better.” Donaldson led off the fourth inning with his 21st homer to break a 1-1 tie. He homered for the second straight game and has six in five games against the White Sox this season. Toronto’s other run came in the first inning when shortstop Jose Reyes manufactured a run to put the Blue Jays on top. He led off with a single, stole second, went to third on a ground out and scored on another ground out by Jose Bautista. The White Sox tied the score in the second inning. Gordon Beckham doubled with two out and Carlos Sanchez drove him in with a single to left field. Tuesday night’s game was a quick 2-hour, 33-minute affair, which followed Monday’s game that finished in 1:54.

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Spruce Grove White Sox player Jesse Poniewozik gets a lucky break as he slides safely into third base as Red Deer AAA Brave Parker Booth drops a throw from the outfield and fails to make the tag during first inning action at Great Chief Park on Tuesday. The Braves fell to the White Sox 9-4.

Canada’s Pospisil confident going into Wimbledon quarter-final BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — Playing on Centre Court against a former Wimbledon champion and local favourite doesn’t intimidate Vasek Pospisil. He’s been there before and has his own title to show for it. The 56th seed from Vancouver won the men’s doubles title with American Jack Sock last year, so squaring off against 2013 champion Andy Murray in Wednesday’s quarter-final on the biggest stage at the All England Club isn’t daunting. “I had one Centre Court experience, and it was a great one,” he said. “I’m looking forward to going out there again and giving it my best for sure.” Pospisil was concentrating on recovery Tuesday, a day after spending six hours on the court in a fourth-round singles win over Viktor Troicki and a third-round doubles loss with Sock. Both matches went five sets, which has been the Wimbledon pattern for Pospisil. He has finished only one match in less than five sets. “Obviously I played a lot of tennis, but one day of recovery is a lot,” said Pospisil. “I’ll do a lot of recovery and stuff. Then come out strong on Wednesday.” The third-seeded Murray has been playing well for his home fans. The Scot pulled off a four-set defeat of Croatian serving giant Ivo Karlovic in the fourth round. Pospisil hasn’t beat Murray in three career tries. “It’s going to be a tough one, he’s had a great results here over the years,” said Pospisil. “He’s one of the big four, as they say. “But I’m serving well, I’m playing well. I know I’ll have my hands full and I have to go out there and play to the best of my abilities. And that’s what I plan on doing.” The two have never met on grass before and Murray is not taking him lightly.

LONDON — Even as Serena Williams piled up aces and groundstroke winners from all angles, even as she stormed through seven games in a row and 10 of the last 13 in yet another comeback, her Wimbledon quarterfinal against Victoria Azarenka never felt like a runaway. That’s because Azarenka, a twotime major champion and former No. 1 in her own right, was playing spectacular tennis, too, nearly the equal of Williams in every facet. Nearly. For when Williams finds her best game, she becomes unbeatable. And for her past 26 Grand Slam matches she is, indeed, unbeaten. Erasing an early deficit at Centre Court, Williams got past Azarenka 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday with the help of 17 aces and a remarkable ratio of 46 winners to 12 unforced errors. “It’s been up and down, up and down, but somehow I’m still alive. I don’t know how,” said Williams, who

twice was two points from losing to Britain’s Heather Watson in the third round and is now 14-0 in three-setters and 37-1 overall in 2015. “So we’ll see what happens, but I’m just happy to still be here.” In Thursday’s semifinals, No. 1 Williams faces No. 4 Maria Sharapova, who beat unseeded American CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2. Williams is 17-2 against Sharapova, including 16 straight victories. But one of Sharapova’s wins came at Wimbledon, in the 2004 final, when at age 17 she stunned Williams for the first of her five Grand Slam titles. The other semifinal is No. 13 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland against No. 20 Garbine Muguruza of Spain. The men’s quarter-finals are Wednesday: Novak Djokovic vs. Marin Cilic, Roger Federer vs. Gilles Simon, Andy Murray vs. Vasek Pospisil, and Stan Wawrinka vs. Richard Gasquet. Djokovic finished his 6-7 (6), 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-4, 7-5 fourth-round victory over Kevin Anderson on Tuesday; it was suspended because of darkness after four sets Monday.

“He’s had a good run here,” said Murray. “He won the doubles last year and he can play well on the surface. He’s also played a lot of tennis here, which, is a positive for him in some ways. But also maybe he’s a little bit fatigued. I won’t bank on that being the case, but if it is, then I’ll try to use that to my advantage.” Pospisil said he has become battlehardened in front of partisan British fans after beating Murray’s Davis Cup teammate James Ward in a five-set, third-round marathon. “It doesn’t really faze me too much playing in front of crowds that are against me,” he said. “I like playing in front of big crowds in general. Doesn’t matter if they are against me or cheering for me. Obviously I’d prefer they are on my side, but, I tend to play well in those kind of situations. So I’m not worried about

that, really.” The 25-year-old, who said he has been working on his mental and motivational fitness as well as staying physically in shape, has learned how to handle the demands of Grand Slam tennis. “I’m more comfortable playing bestof-five-set matches,” he said. “I know how to manage it better — that was something that I was struggling with in previous years. It’s a long match even if you’re down two sets, the last set is always the toughest one to win. I realize it’s going to be a tough feat to accomplish, to beat Andy here at Wimbledon, his home court.” Pospisil is the lone Canadian left in the singles draw after Eugenie Bouchard lost in the first round and Milos Raonic went down in the third. Daniel Nestor of Toronto is still playing in mixed doubles.

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Froome concedes Tour leader’s jersey to Martin BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMBRAI, France — Having stayed safe on the treacherous cobblestones, Chris Froome cared little about conceding the race leader’s yellow jersey to Tony Martin on Tuesday’s fourth stage of an action-packed Tour de France. After crashing out of last year’s race early, following three crashes in two days, Froome had good reason to be nervous given that this stage featured seven sections of cobbles. But the nightmare scenario never materialized, and the British rider repelled the attacks of defending Tour champion Vincenzo Nibali as the valiant Italian failed to claw back time on him. “I wasn’t trying to show how strong I was on the cobbles today; it was about staying out of trouble,” said Froome, the 2013 Tour champion. “Congratulations to Tony for his late attack.” Relieved after cruising through the final paved section, Froome did not chase as the German rider peeled

away some 3 kilometres (2 miles) from the line to clinch a fifth Tour stage win and take the yellow after narrowly missing it on stage 1. “While Tony’s a great time trialist, he’s not going to be there in the mountains,” Froome said. “I’m happy to see the jersey go to him rather than any of the big overall rivals. This is the perfect situation for us.” Ferocious side-winds in stage 3, a huge crash on stage 4 that took down 20 riders and put five out of the race, and Tuesday’s cobbles have presented riders with a dangerous cocktail of hazards. Froome’s come through them unscathed and with a healthy lead over his rivals. He leads two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador by 36 seconds; Nibali by 1:38 and Colombian rider Nairo Quintana, the 2013 runner-up, by 1:56. “We can all let off a big sigh of relief after today,” Froome said. “It was a stressful stage and sketchy on the cobbles, and I know we’ll all be sleeping a lot better tonight.” The 30-year-old Martin, a three-time

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Denmark’s Michael Valgren, left, rides in the pack as they pass over a cobblestone sector during the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 223.5 kilometers with start in Seraing, Belgium, and finish in Cambrai, France, Tuesday.

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● Men’s golf: Alberta Mid Amateur at Coyote Creek. ● Women’s fastball: Topco Oilsite Panthers at Snell and Oslund Badgers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; N. Jensen’s Bandits at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place Padres at Play it Again Sports Athletics, Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks at Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Friday

● Parkland baseball: Acme Pirates at Red Deer Razorbacks, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Saturday

● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Lethbridge Barricudas at Olds Mavericks, 2:30 p.m.; Crowsnest Pass Ravens at Olds Stingers, 5:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Calgary Jr. Mounties at Red Deer Rampage, 5:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Alberta Football League: Lloydminster Vandals at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Division 2 rugby: Calgary Saints at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Women’s div. 2 rugby: Calgary Saints at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park.

Sunday

Football PA 51 32 50 31

Pt 4 4 2 2

PF 35 56 16 11 66

PA 52 78 27 26 72

Pt 2 2 0 0 0

WEEK THREE Bye: Hamilton

Thursday, July 9 Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Friday, July 10 Montreal at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. Saskatchewan at B.C., 8 p.m. Monday, July 13 Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Western Conference GP W L T GF 19 10 7 2 25 19 10 7 2 23 19 9 6 4 22 21 8 6 7 31 18 8 5 5 24 16 7 3 6 25 17 7 6 4 19 19 5 6 8 18 18 5 7 6 22 18 3 6 9 14

GA 18 19 20 23 23 17 17 23 24 18

Pt 35 24 24 24 23 23 20 19 18 15 Pt 32 32 31 31 29 27 25 23 21 18

Friday, July 10 Houston at San Jose, 9 p.m.

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Thursday, July 9 Carson, California El Salvador vs. Canada, 0230 GMT Saturday, July 11 Houston Jamaica vs. Canada, 2230 GMT

Cuba Guatemala Mexico Trinidad

GP 0 0 0 0

GROUP C W D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L GF GA Pts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thursday, July 9 Chicago Trinidad and Tobago vs. Guatemala, 2300 GMT

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent RHP Jason Garcia to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment. Optioned RHP Kevin Gausman to Norfolk (IL). BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Steven Wright to Pawtucket (IL). Assigned RHP Zeke Spruill outright to Pawtucket. Recalled INF Travis Shaw from Pawtucket. HOUSTON ASTROS — Signed LHP Patrick Sandoval to a minor-league contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Aaron Brooks from Omaha (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHP Aaron Thompson to Rochester (IL). Selected the contract of LHP Ryan O’Rourke from Rochester. Optioned C Chris Herrmann to Rochester. Select the contract of C Eric Fryer from Rochester. NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent LHP Andrew Miller to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) for a rehab assignment. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP Chris Bassitt to Nashville (PCL). Recalled OF Jake Smolinski from Nashville. SEATTLE MARINERS — Released SS Willie Bloomquist. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed OF Steven Souza Jr. on the 15-day DL. Reinstated OF John Jaso from the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Preston Guilmet for assignment. Recalled RHP Matt Andriese from Durham (IL). Agreed to terms with RHP Jesus Ortiz on a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms INF Andy Ibanez on an international free-agent contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with OF Reggie Pruitt on a minor league contract. Sent RHP Aaron Sanchez to the GCL Blue Jays for a rehab assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF Ender Inciarte to the AZL Diamondbacks for a rehab assignment. ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated RHP Nick Masset and LHP Dana Eveland for assignment. Recalled RHP Arodys Vizcaino from Gwinnett (IL). Selected the contract of RHP David Carpenter from Gwinnett. Signed RHPs Mike Soroka, Anthony Guardado, Josh Graham, Ryan Clark, Matt Withrow, Patrick Weigel, Taylor Lewis, Stephen Moore, Grayson Jones, Evan Phillips, Gilbert Suarez, Sean McLaughlin, Dalton Geekie and Matt Custred; LHPs A.J. Minter, Ryan Lawlor, Chase Johnson-Mullins, Trevor Belicek, Jaret Hellinger and Ben Libuda; Cs Lucas Herbert, Trey Keegan, Jonathan Morales and Collin Yelich; 3Bs Austin Riley, Jacob Lanning and Robby Nesovic; OF Bradley Keller; 2B Kurt Hoekstra and CF Justin Ellison to minor league contracts. CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Dallas Beeler from Iowa (PCL). Sent LHP Tsuyoshi Wada to Tennessee (SL) for a rehab assignment. CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled OF Yorman Rodriguez from Louisville (IL).

Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 49 37 .570 45 38 .542 41 43 .488 38 45 .458 39 47 .453

GB — 2 1/2 7 9 1/2 10

Monday’s Games Houston 9, Cleveland 4 Minnesota 4, Baltimore 2, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay at Kansas City, ppd., rain Detroit 12, Seattle 5

Thursday’s Games Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m. Toronto at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m. Houston at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 46 38 .548 43 42 .502 42 42 .500 35 49 .417 29 57 .337

GB — 4 4 11 18

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 54 30 .643 49 34 .590 46 37 .554 38 44 .463 36 50 .419

GB — 4 1/2 7 1/2 15 19

West Division W L Pct 47 38 .553 43 42 .508 41 42 .494 39 47 .453

GB — 3 1/2 5 8 1/2

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Tuesday, July 7 Frisco, Texas Panama 1, Haiti 1 Wednesday, July 8 Frisco, Texas United States 2, Honduras 1

Canada Costa Rica El Salvador Jamaica

GB — 4 1/2 6 1/2 10 11

Detroit (An.Sanchez 7-7) at Seattle (Happ 4-5), 1:40 p.m. Oakland (Kazmir 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-8), 5:05 p.m. Houston (Straily 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 7-5), 5:10 p.m. Miami (Koehler 7-4) at Boston (Porcello 4-9), 5:10 p.m. Arizona (Hellickson 6-5) at Texas (M.Harrison 0-0), 6:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Archer 9-5) at Kansas City (Guthrie 6-5), 6:10 p.m. Toronto (Hutchison 8-2) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 4-8), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-7) at Colorado (Rusin 3-3), 6:40 p.m.

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Monday’s Games Cincinnati 3, Washington 2 Pittsburgh 2, San Diego 1 St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 0 Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 3 L.A. Dodgers 10, Philadelphia 7 N.Y. Mets 3, San Francisco 0 Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 4, 1st game Cincinnati 5, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 3, San Diego 2 Boston 4, Miami 3 Arizona 4, Texas 2 Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 3, 2nd game Atlanta 4, Milwaukee 3 L.A. Angels 10, Colorado 2 Philadelphia 7, L.A. Dodgers 2 N.Y. Mets 0, San Francisco 3 Wednesday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-4) at Milwaukee (Fiers 4-7), 12:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 8-6) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-3), 1:45 p.m. Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-3) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-4), 5:05 p.m. San Diego (Cashner 3-9) at Pittsburgh (Morton 6-2), 5:05 p.m. Miami (Koehler 7-4) at Boston (Porcello 4-9), 5:10 p.m. Arizona (Hellickson 6-5) at Texas (M.Harrison 0-0), 6:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 10-3) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 5-4), 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-7) at Colorado (Rusin 3-3), 6:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Morgan 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-6), 8:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Atlanta at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Spieth skips Scotland, British Open prep for familiarity of John Deere Classic

WEEK FOUR Bye: Toronto Thursday, July 16 Hamilton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 Edmonton at Ottawa, 5 p.m. B.C. at Saskatchewan, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 18 Winnipeg at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Haiti Panama Honduras

Central Division W L Pct 48 33 .593 45 39 .536 42 40 .512 39 44 .470 37 44 .457

COLORADO ROCKIES — Claimed RHP Gonzalez Germen off waivers from the Chicago Cubs and optioned him to Albuquerque (PCL). Transferred 1B Justin Morneau to the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled LHP Ian Thomas from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned LHP Eric Surkamp to Oklahaoma City. MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Marcell Ozuna to New Orleans (PCL). Selected the contract of OF Jordany Valdespin from New Orleans. Sent INF Martin Prado to Jupiter (FSL) for a rehab assignment. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Matt Garza on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Recalled RHP Corey Knebel from Colorado Springs (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Activated RHP Jenrry Mejia from the restricted list and added him to the 25-man roster. Transferred RHP Buddy Carlyle on the 60day dl. Optioned RHP Logan Verrett to Las Vegas (PCL). ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled LHP Tyler Lyons from Memphis (PCL). SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Activated OF Hunter Pence from the 15-day dl. Optioned OF Ryan Lollis to Sacramento (PCL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Dallas owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for commenting about the team’s agreements with DeAndre Jordan and Wes Matthews during the league’s free agent moratorium. CHICAGO BULLS — Signed F Bobby Portis. Named Randy Brown and Charlie Henry assistant coaches. Retained Mike Wilhelm as an assistant coach. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Named Stephen Collins chief operating officer of GSW Arena LLC. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed C Jahlil Okafor. UTAH JAZZ — Signed F Trey Lyles. GOLF PGA Tour — Suspended Scott Stallings three months for violating the PGA Tour’s anti-doping policy. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed F Mikkel Boedker to a one-year contract. BOSTON BRUINS — Signed F Jimmy Hayes to a three-year contract, F Brett Connolly to a one-year contract and F Brandon DeFazio to a one-year, twoway contract. CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with F Zach Boychuk on a one-year contract. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with D Trevor van Riemsdyk on a two-year extension, s through the 2017-18 season. ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed F Vladimir Tarasenko to an eight-year contract. ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed F Scott Jacklin to a one-year contract. IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with F Chase Grant.

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SILVIS, Ill. — Most golfers believe the path to the British Open title starts a week early in Scotland. Jordan Spieth is content to stay at home and continue his Grand Slam push at the tournament that launched his PGA Tour career. Rather than join the majority of the world’s top golfers and prep for St. Andrews by playing the links course in Gullane, Scotland, Spieth will spend the weekend at the often-overlooked John Deere Classic. It’s not just that Spieth wants to remain loyal to the tournament where he won for the first time in 2013 at age 19. He’s also just very comfortable playing the TPC Deere Run, one of the easiest courses on the tour. “If I thought I wasn’t going to play well next week because I played here, it would be a different story. I probably wouldn’t be here. This is good preparation for me to get good feels, to get in contention and to find out what’s on and what’s off,” said Spieth, one of just six golfers to win the U.S. Open and the Masters in the same season. “I’m here because I believe I can win this week. I believe it’s advantageous for me to try and win this week.” Spieth’s rapid rise to No. 2 in the world — with injured Rory McIlroy’s top spot within reach as soon as next weekend — has taken many by surprise. Those who watched Spieth’s breakthrough on this Quad Cities course two years ago saw his potential first-hand. One year after playing the JDC at just 18 on a sponsor’s exemption, Spieth forced his way into a three-way playoff by holing out from the

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Canada’s Tara Muldoon in third place in ladies barrel racing BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Canada’s Tara Muldoon is in third place at the Calgary Stampede after the first day of Pool B ladies barrel racing.

St. Louis Blues sign forward Vladimir Tarasenko to 8-year, $60M deal ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues say they have signed star forward Vladimir Tarasenko to an eight-year, $60 million contract. General manager Doug Armstrong announced the move Tuesday, locking up the 23-year-old Tarasenko after a season in which he made his first career All-Star game and was 10th in the NHL with 73 points, including 37 goals, to go along with a plus-27 rating. He was the youngest Blues player with a 30-goal season

RUGBY Raven Craig of Lacombe and Cody Hawkes of Red Deer, both affiliated with the Central chapter of the Alberta Sport Development Centre, have been named to Rugby Alberta provincial teams. C r a i g , a winger, earned a berth with the U20 wom-

The Red Deer Baker Hughes Braves split a pair of weekend bantam AA baseball contests, downing Drayton Valley 7-3 and losing 7-4 to the Elk Point White Sox. Craig Bradley got the win over Drayton Valley, coming up just one out short of a complete game. Trevor Baron came on in the top of the seventh inning to get the third out. Reid Howell led the Braves at the plate, driving in three runs with a single and double. Braiden Michnik contributed a tworun double and Matthew Wik and Will Cebuliak each scored on an error. Wik also singled and OLF OURSE stole a pair of bases. Executive Par Three Cebuliak took the loss against Elk Point, giving 9 Hole Rate way to Baron in the sixth $ 2200 inning after a 92-pitch www.gull-lake-golf.ca Junior/Senior performance. Offensive$ 00 ly, Howell singled home • Tee Times • Tournament Bookings 17 two runs, Levi Elliott • BBQ/Banquet Facilities • Club Rentals • Lessons cranked a double and the Braves scored on a Location: bases-loaded walk and a Northwest Side of Gull Lake, Alberta on Hwy. 771 passed ball.

The Hinton, Alta., native scored 17.62 on Tuesday and is behind Lisa Lockhart and Callie duPerier, both of the United States. Orin Larsen is the top Canadian in the bareback. The Inglish, Man., native scored an 85.00 and is third after the fifth performance. American Trevor Knowles had the best score of 3.9 in the steer wrestling while Fred Whitfield, also of the U.S., topped the tie down roping competition. Bull rider J.B. Mauney, of the U.S., leads the field after scoring an 89.50. Fellow American Taos Muncy had an 87.50 in the saddle bronc for first place. since Brendan Shanahan in 1991-92. Drafted 16th overall by the Blues in 2010, Tarasenko has 135 points (66 goals, 69 assists) in 179 career regular-season games over parts of three seasons. He also has 10 goals and an assist in 13 playoff games. “Happy to be with you and carry a note on my chest,” Tarasenko tweeted Tuesday. “Let’s bring the cup to St. Louis!” The Blues recently traded forward T.J. Oshie to Washington for Troy Brouwer, goalie Pheonix Copley and a third-round pick in next year’s draft. St. Louis will have coach Ken Hitchcock back next season, when they hope to advance farther in the post-season. The Blues were ousted in the first round by Minnesota after posting the third-best record in team history. en’s team for the Prairie Championships July 13-19 at Regina, while Hawkes was selected as a member of the U18 men’s team and will train in Calgary this weekend in preparation for the Prairies July 24-26 at Saskatoon. National team coaches will attend both events in order to identify future players for the Canadian sides.

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18th-hole bunker. Spieth then outlasted David Hearn and local favourite Zach Johnson to become the first teenager to win on the tour in 84 years. Spieth also played the Quad Cities and the Open Championship in back-to-back weeks in 2014, finishing tied for 36th at Royal Liverpool. Spieth said the only issue he has with skipping Scotland is the 6-hour time difference he’ll have to make up following Sunday’s final round. But it might even be easier for Spieth to get into a rhythm at Deere Run — which yielded more eagles and birdies than any other PGA course in 2013-14. “It doesn’t matter where it is. When I get over there, whether I play well or I don’t play well, it has nothing to do with what I did the week before. I will certainly have enough energy. I will certainly have enough rest, and I will be as prepared as I can be,” Spieth said. Though Spieth is by far the marquee name in this event, he’ll likely have plenty of competition. Johnson, who grew up in nearby Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and serves on the tournament committee, has shot in the 60s in 24 consecutive rounds at Deere Run. Steve Stricker, a native of nearby Wisconsin, won three straight here from 2009-11. Last year’s winner, Brian Harman, and Kevin Kisner should also push Spieth. But this year’s event will be all about Spieth and how it impacts his run at a third straight major. “He stuck with his commitment, which is very honourable. At the same time, there has only been so many guys in so many years who’ve won the first two majors, and there’s a lot of pressure on him. I applaud him,” Johnson said.

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Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-4) at Minnesota (Milone 4-1), 11:10 a.m.

Soccer GF 23 27 23 25 22 23 20 22 20 18

GB — 1 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 5

Tuesday’s Games Kansas City 9, Tampa Bay 5, 1st game Oakland 4, N.Y. Yankees 3, 10 innings Cleveland 2, Houston 0 Boston 4, Miami 3 Arizona 4, Texas 2 Minnesota 8, Baltimore 3 Kansas City 7, Tampa Bay 1, 2nd game Toronto 2, Chicago White Sox 1 L.A. Angels 10, Colorado 2 Detroit at Seattle, late

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Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 44 39 .530 Baltimore 43 41 .512 Toronto 44 42 .512 Tampa Bay 43 43 .500 Boston 40 45 .471

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● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Sun Junior Tour event at Lacombe. ● Men’s golf: Alberta Mid Amateur at Coyote Creek. ● Parkland baseball: Red Deer Razorbacks at Innisfail Indians, 7 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs at Red Deer Dairy Queen Braves, 7 p.m., West Park.

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T D.C. 21 10 6 5 Columbus 18 6 6 6 Orlando 18 6 6 6 New England 20 6 8 6 Toronto 16 7 7 2 New York 17 6 6 5 New York City 18 5 8 5 Philadelphia 19 5 10 4 Montreal 15 5 7 3 Chicago 16 4 9 3

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Baseball

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CFL East Division GP W L T Toronto 2 2 0 0 Ottawa 2 2 0 0 Hamilton 2 1 1 0 Montreal 2 1 1 0 West Division GP W L T Calgary 2 1 1 0 Winnipeg 2 1 1 0 B.C. 1 0 1 0 Edmonton 1 0 1 0 Saskatchewan 2 0 2 0

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Numrich returns to winning ways at Innisfail BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer’s Grant Numrich shows off the hardware he received for winning the Innisfail Junior Open at the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour stop Tuesday. have gone on to play professionally,” said tour director Dunc Mills. “But I’m just as proud of a lot of these kids that will never play for money but will learn thing through junior golf that are helping them in their business careers and in their lives and raising families of their own.” Innisfail’s Jace Ouellette won the 1516 boys division with a 2-over-74, while Liam McKeen (Gull Lake) was second with a 7-over-79 and Chase Broderson (Lacombe) was third at 9-over-81. Brady McKinlay (Lacombe) won the U15 boys division with an 8-over-80 with Thomas Sluka (Camrose) in second two strokes back and Red Deer’s Cole Bergheim in third at 11-over-83. Calgary’s Lauren Cheung won the girls division with a 12-over-84, six shots better than Innisfail’s Courtney Dickson and Nikki Norlin.

Stallings first PGA Tour winner suspended under doping policy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scott Stallings has been suspended for three months for violating the PGA Tour’s anti-doping policy, making him the third player to be sanctioned for performance-enhancing drugs since the policy was introduced to golf seven years ago. Stallings said in a statement released Tuesday by the PGA Tour that he took a supplement to help with chronic fatigue and turned himself in when he realized in February that it was on the list of banned substances. “I regret my inadvertent mistake in not doing my homework to know for sure what was on the list of permitted and non-permitted substances,” Stallings said. “I take responsibility and accept the penalty imposed by the PGA Tour.”

The suspension means the 30-yearold Stalling is out for the rest of the season. He would not be eligible to return until Oct. 7, the week of the Presidents Cup in South Korea. The 2015-16 season opens the following week at the Frys.com Open. Doug Barron, who had not had a full PGA Tour card in three years, was suspended for one year in October 2009 for taking a substance to cope with low testosterone. His lawsuit against the tour was settled and he was granted a therapeutic use exemption the following year. In January, Bhavik Patel on the Web.com Tour was suspended for taking a banned substance. Patel said he had a lapse in judgment. Stallings is the first PGA Tour winner to be suspended. He has won three times in five years, most recently in 2014 at Torrey Pines.

Local golfers in contention after opening round at provincial mid-am SUNDRE — Kyle Morrison of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club carded a two-under 69 Tuesday and sat five shots off the lead heading into today’s second round of the Alberta Men’s Mid Amateur Championship at Coyote Creek. Brandon Markiw of the Edmonton Petroleum Club set the early pace with a seven-under 64 and was one stroke up on Bryan Toth of Victoria, B.C. Defending champion Frank Van Dornick of Camrose shot a 68, good for a fourth-place tie with David Alberti of Calgary Springbank Links. Meanwhile, Lorne Riffin of Lacombe fired an opening-round 69 and was tied for sixth, and Ryan Swelin of Sundre checked in with an even-par 71

and found himself in a tie for 17th following one round. Other Central Alberta first-round results: Neil McLaren, Wolf Creek (71, tied for 17th); Tim Boston, Wolf Creek (72, tied for 29th); Ron Harder, Innisfail (72, tied for 29th); Clint Richardson, Coyote Creek (73, tied for 37th); Michael McAdam, Red Deer Golf and Country Club (RDG&CC), (75, tied for 59th); Tom Skinner, RDG&CC (76, tied for 73rd); Darryl Ritten, RDG&CC (77, tied for 83rd); Blair Neal, Wolf Creek (77, tied for 83rd); Les Swelin, Sundre (77, tied for 83rd); Kyle Neilson, Innisfail (78, tied for 90th); Don Ward, Coyote Creek (78, tied for 90th); David Misener, RDG&CC (83, tied for 117th).

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Liam McKeen watches his drive off the 6th hole on the Spruce course at the Innisfail Golf Club, Tuesday, as he competes in the Junior Open. McKeen, who golfs out of Gull Lake hit a 7-over-79 and placed second in the boys category and fifth overall out of 51 young golfers from around Alberta. “We had perfect scoring positions and the kids played well,” said Mills, noting they had 51 kids finish the day. Other Central Alberta results include Brandon Maxwell (Pine Hills) finishing sixth in the junior boys division with an 8-over-80, Jordan Williamson (Balmoral) seventh at 11-over-83 and Brayden Bystrom (Sylvan Lake) 11th at 20-over-92. In 15-16 boys, Taylor Dobbs (Innisfail) was fifth at 16-over-88, Brody Kopec (Balmoral) was sixth at 19-over-91, Sam Narowski (Innisfail) was tied for seventh at 20-over-92 and Tanner Smith (Alberta Sprigs) was 9th at 22-over-94. In U15 boys, Tyler Watt (Innisfail) was 6th at 14-over-86, Jordan Siwak (Red Deer) was tied for seventh with

David Hearn hopes to stay hot at John Deere Classic and British Open BY THE CANADIAN PRESS David Hearn’s confidence is at an all-time high. Hearn, from Brantford, Ont., finished second after a four-man playoff at the Greenbrier Classic on Sunday, the closest he’s ever been to a win on the PGA Tour. That momentum could not be better timed as he heads in to this week’s John Deere Classic, followed by the British Open and the RBC Canadian Open. “I’ve felt like all year it’s been a lot closer than my results have been showing,” said Hearn on Tuesday. “Obviously, putting together a nice result like that will give me lots of confidence going forward. I’m doing the right things. “It was a good learning experience for me, the whole week, the way I played that golf course and the way I played my game.” Prior to the playoff at the Greenbrier, Hearn’s best performance this season was a tie for sixth at the Zurich Classic on April 23. His previous best result on the PGA Tour was at the 2013 John Deere where he also tied for second after a playoff. Hearn won US$500,267 at the Greenbrier after making bogey on the parfive 17th in the playoff at the Old White TPC, while eventual winner Danny Lee reached the green in three shots and two-putted from across the green for par. Hearn had birdied on No. 17 in regulation to join the playoff. That performance qualified him for the British Open on July 16. He believes that experiencing the pressure of a playoff scenario will help his game evolve. “When you get in contention, you get that feeling in your body, and you learn how that adrenalin works and how to handle it in those situations,” said Hearn. “That’s the type of thing that I’m going to be able to draw on going forward. The next time I get in that situation I’ll know what’s happening

for 37th. On the junior girls side, sisters Shaye and Daria Leidenius from Ponoka have some work to do to catch the top spot after the opening round. Shaye carded a 14-over-85 to sit in a tie for fifth place, eight shots behind leader Kehler Koss out of Calgary who finished at six-over-77. Daria finished in 14th place after shooting a 22-over-93. The top six finishers in both the junior boys and junior girls divisions at the CN Future Links Western Championship will receive exemptions into their respective national championships. The 2015 Canadian Junior Boys Championship will take place August 2-6 at Summerlea Golf and Country Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., while the 2015 Canadian Junior Girls Championship will be contested at Deer Park Golf Course in Yorkton, Sask., from August 3-7. The CN Future Links junior girls Western champion will also receive an exemption into a 2016 Canadian Women’s Tour event of her choice.

and how my body’s reacting and how to handle it.” Hearn will have plenty of opportunities to deal with pressure as he handles a busy mid-summer schedule. He played in the RBC Canada Cup on Monday in Halifax and will return to the familiar John Deere Classic this week. He will fly out to St. Andrew’s, Scotland, on Monday for the British Open and then return to North America for the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Course in Oakville, Ont., the following week. “Any tournament that I’m in I want to put my best foot forward and give myself a chance to win it,” said Hearn. “Right now it will be about taking a little bit more time off to rest. “A little bit of down time will help me recuperate mentally and physically. I want to be competitive in each of my three upcoming events.” That rest usually means taking his mind of golf and watching movies or spending time with his family if they travel with him. Hearn’s professional commitments have kept him from competing at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, which tees off on July 16, the same day that the British Open begins. However, he’ll be keeping a keen eye on how Canada’s team of Charlottetown’s Lorie Kane, Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont., and Austin Connelly, a dual citizen who lives in Irving, Texas, will perform. “This is a really big deal for the City of Toronto and Canada to be hosting these Games,” said Hearn, who hopes to represent Canada at the 2016 Rio Olympics. “It will be a real honour for the guys that do represent Canada to compete in that golf championship. I’ll definitely be paying attention and pulling for our guys. It would’ve been a fun competition for me to compete in but I know that the guys that they chose will do an amazing job and represent Canada very well.”

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Nicolls and Harrison battling for top spot after opening round at CN Future Links Western Canadians Ponoka’s Jared Nicolls sits one shot off the pace set by Camrose’s Andrew Harrison after the first round of the CN Future Links Western Championship, Tuesday at Goose Hummock Golf Course in Gibbons. Harrison, who is coming off his recent victory at the 2015 Alberta Junior Championship, shot an even-par-71 while Nicolls bounced back from a double bogey on hole 15 with a birdie on 16 and two subsequent pars to finish with a one-over-72. Nicolls is in a tie for second place in the junior boys division with Ryan Rody out of Calgary on the opening day of the three-round event. Other Central Albertans included Sylvan Lake’s Jaxon Lynn who shot a six-over-77 to sit in a tie for 15th place, Red Deer’s Brett Pasula carded a seven-over-78 which was good for a tie for 21st, Red Deer’s Cole Morrison shot eight-over-79 to sit in a tie for 25, Red Deer’s Carter Graf shot ten-over-81 to be in a tie for 32nd, and Red Deer’s Logan Hill shot 11-over-82 to sit in a tie

Denver Smith (Innisfail) at 15-over-87, Brendan Grabo (Lacombe) was tied for 9th at 18-over-90, Ben Narowski (Innisfail) was 11th at 19-over-91, Chase Giannioudis (Red Deer) was 12th at 20-over-92, Blair Korver (Red Deer) was 15th at 24-over-96, Mark Janes (Red Deer) was 16th at 24-over-99, Daniel Nieth (Red Deer) was 17th at 29-over-101, Joe Kelly (Innisfail) was 19th at 30over-102 and Ethan Meding (Innisfail) was 21st at 39-over-111. Rounding out the girls division was Clare McMahon (Balmoral) in fifth at 22-over-94 and Bradie Pillman (Innisfail) at 41-over113. The tour is back in action today at the Lacombe Golf Club. jaldrich@reddeeradvocte.com

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Grant Numrich has his game back on track. After struggling at the provincial junior championship this past week, the Red Deer golfer fired a tournamentrecord 69 at the Innisfail Junior Open to win the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour event on Tuesday. “I fixed some of my struggles from junior provincials last week,” said Numrich, 18. “I hit the ball well off the tee today and was able to give myself some chances to make birdie which I capitalized on.” Numrich finished the day with six birdies, four on the front and two on the back, and three bogies to out pace his nearest competition on the day, Jeremy Rietze of Lacombe, by three shots. Bryce Kopec (Alberta Springs) was third in the junior boys division with a 3-over-75. This is the second tournament win of the summer for Numrich, having earlier won a Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour event in Olds. He is building his golf resume into the fall when he and Rietze will join the Red Deer College golf team, where he will be taking business administration, including playing at the Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship July 2023 at the Edmonton Petroleum Club. At the Alberta Golf Junior Championships last week at Henderson Lake Golf Club in Lethbridge, he finished in a tie for 28th after posting a four-day score of 27-over-307. “I’m just working on my consistency,” he said. “I’m really working on my game for (the amateur championship) and hoping it that it will come around nicely for then.” Numrich is just the latest McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour player to make the jump to the college ranks. “There’s been a number of young people to have played on the McLennan Ross Tour over our 20 years that

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Upgrade RDC status: Harris COUNCILLOR WANTS CITY COUNCIL TO SUPPORT POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY BID BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City Coun. Paul Harris is calling on the province to change Red Deer College’s model. In a notice of motion read into council on Monday, Harris asks council to endorse and advocate with RDC in its request to change its status to a polytechnic university. “It’s something we wanted for a long time as a community,” said Harris. “We haven’t had great support with the provincial government in the past. Now we have a change, it is time we go right off the hop and make that request.”

Council will debate the motion at its next meeting, on July 20. Harris said the former Progressive Conservative governments were hesitant to grant the request. The new NDP government sees education in a different way, he said. “Some of that is obvious with the changes they made right away,” said Harris. RDC president Joel Ward said he has spoken to individual councillors and he is hopeful that council will pass the motion after debating it in two weeks. Ward said the city support would make RDC’s case before the government much stronger.

“Having the city backs us means it is just not a college initiative,” said Ward. “It is really a community, regional initiative.” It has been about a year since the college settled on the model of a polytechnic university. Ward said the college looked at various models and determined this was the right fit because it has everything the college currently has, plus it would grant its own degrees. Changing the status would mean the college would have local control of post-secondary programs as it continued to deliver trades programs, training, certificates and diplomas. Ward said many people in Central

Alberta have been asking for such a change for more than 25 years. “Many kids leave the community to complete their education,” he said. “We just don’t feel that’s in keeping with the access and affordability that the current government really believes about post-secondary education. We think this fits perfectly with their philosophy with access and affordability. The way you get access and affordability is keeping it closer to home.” As part of the strategy to build its case, RDC expects to secure letters of support from other Central Alberta municipalities, school boards and Chambers of Commerce. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Work has almost been completed on a cleanup of a wooded area just north of Gasoline Alley between the north and southbound lanes of the QE2 Highway. Piles of trash, tents, shopping carts, propane tanks, used needles and other items have been removed from the site that homeless people have used as a camp. The site is currently under surveillance by a security service 24 hours a day.

Red Deer County jumped on the bandwagon to support the local symphony. Council approved a $2,500 donation to the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (RDSO) on Tuesday. It was only half the orchestra’s request, but the amount is in keeping with financial support doled out to other county groups, said councillors. In a letter to council, symphony executive director Chandra Kastern says new sources of funding are being sought for the symphony, whose Main Series has been a technical sellout every year since 2006. “With limited ability to ‘grow’ our audience numbers, revenue generation for the RDSO remains a challenge, especially in light of ever-shrinking grant funds at federal and provincial levels,” says Kastern. Besides numerous community and education outreach programs, the symphony is performing as part of the Jazz at the Lake Festival in Sylvan Lake, is offering a free concern at Bower Ponds on Aug. 16 and is behind the Red Deer’s Got Talent event early next year with winners getting the opportunity to perform with the orchestra. County Coun. Christine Moore made a motion to support the $5,000 request, citing the importance of supporting recreation and culture throughout the area. But several councillors questioned the amount, noting that no other county group had been given more than $3,000. In the end, Moore agreed to amend her motion to provide the symphony with a $2,500 grant this year, which was passed unanimously.

Annual showcase trumpets local art ALBERTA’S BEST ON DISPLAY AT RDC BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Young artists feature prominently in the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association’s annual showcase. Nearly two dozen pieces from artists 15 to 18 years old are part of this year’s show — a welcome sight for association president Linda LaRochelle-Wilson. In all, 90 works from artists across the province are represented in the show on two floors at Red Deer College’s Four Centres building until Aug. 15 A gala evening is set for July 31 from 6 to 9 p.m. The pieces were chosen by jurors in three zone shows earlier this summer, including the Central Zone, which was hosted by the Red Deer Art Club last month at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Works are chosen in a number of categories: youth, beginner, intermediate, advanced, masters, signature, sculpture and digital. LaRochelle-Wilson is sure visitors will be impressed by the works on display. “(The show) looks good. There’s some really good art in there.” The youth efforts impressed jury members, who determined all of the submissions were worthy of going on to the provincewide show. For artists and their clubs, the association provides a forum for them to show off their work, trade experiences

with others and get valuable feedback from jurors during critiques. LaRochelle-Wilson said the organization offers an open invitation for artists to “come out of their kitchens, basements and home studios, and join a growing community of painters, sculptors and print makers. “There are a lot of artists who sit at their kitchen table and paint, and then they’ll put the painting on the wall, and that’s as far as it goes. “If they become a member of the ACACA, they can promote their art by putting their pieces in the different zone shows.” On Aug. 15, the show will end with an awards ceremony at 10 a.m., followed by the annual general meeting. Among Central Zone artists winning prizes in the Alberta-wide show are: Red Deer Advocate entertainment reporter Lana Michelin (President’s Award); Red Deer’s Susan Barker (winner Signature Class); and Lacombe youths Chelsea Halbert (Harry Wohlfarth Drawing Award) and Sofia Capettin (winner Youth Class). Winners of the Alberta-wide show will hang in Edmonton from Oct. 1 to Nov. 28 in the Alberta Spirit Show put on by Visual Arts Alberta. LaRochelle-Wilson said the association is always looking for more volunteers. Memberships cost $10 for youth and $30 for adults or clubs. For more information, go to www. acaca.ab.ca. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Susan Barker of Red Deer took first place in the Signature Class with this piece titled Ruth’s Jardiniere.

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BRIEFS Two inquiries scheduled for man facing firearms charges A Red Deer man facing 20 firearm charges, and several other allegations, will have two preliminary inquiries later this year. Jeremy Dean Keddy, 36, faces scores of charges from numerous incidents, including an alleged failure to attend court. A warrant was issued after his April 8 court date in Red Deer provincial court, for which he was not present. Appearing in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, his counsel Jason Snider said on charges of two counts of possession of break-in instruments and one count each of robbery with a firearm, vehicle theft, aggravated assault and assault, he was seeking a preliminary inquiry. Inquiries are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial. Should these charges proceed to trial, Snider elected to have two trials in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before a judge alone. On the remaining 20 firearm charges, as well as drug offences and breaching court order charges, Snider indicated a plea deal was in the works. Keddy’s charges were adjourned to July 15 in Red Deer provincial court for pleas to be entered and for preliminary inquiry dates to be set.

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Parker Thompson, right, after his dual triumph on the weekend in Montreal.

Healthy community grants deadline on Aug. 31 The deadline to apply for an Alberta Blue Cross Health Communities grant is approaching, with up to $200,000 being awarded across the province. Groups or organizations across Alberta have until Aug. 31 to apply for the four grants worth $50,000 each. These grants will be awarded across Alberta in support of projects that promote active living and wellness at a community level. Over a five-year period, Alberta Blue Cross is investing $1 million in projects. Some projects that have received awards include playgrounds and outdoor gyms. For more information on how to apply, visit www. ab.bluecross.ca.

of the event started by a group of stroke survivors to raise public awareness of strokes and raise funds to support research and stroke prevention treatments. Donation envelopes are available at the Red Deer Heart and Stroke Foundation office, at 5913 Gaetz Ave. For more information, call Hugh McKenna at 403-343-4894.

Road allowance closed to stop rowdy gatherings Red Deer County is shutting down another troublesome tailgate party spot. Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to close

off a 216-metre stretch of undeveloped road allowance about two km north of Red Deer Airport at Springbrook. The county has received numerous complaints from nearby property owners of trespassing and illegal activity at the site on Range Road 281. Locked gates will be put at the end of the road to stop late-night partiers from using it as a hangout. Neighbouring farmers don’t need the road for access so their work won’t be affected. The county has been clamping down on some of the more troublesome makeshift gathering spots in the last few months. A few weeks ago, council voted to close another section of adjacent road allowance because of the same problems.

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Thompson wins two races in first F1600 Formula foray For his first time racing in F1600 Formula cars, Red Deer’s Parker Thompson looked like a veteran on the race track. He won two races over the weekend despite being a rookie. Thompson, 17, swept both races during the Circuit ICAR even on Saturday and Sunday in Quebec. The racer has been on the USF2000 Championship circuit in the U.S. this season. He currently sits fifth in driver standings, the second highest ranked rookie. In his first outing in the F1600 car, he qualified to start from the second spot in the first race. When the race started, he utilized the great position, took the lead and never looked back, finishing first in the 13lap race. Starting second again in his second race of the weekend, Thompson had a similar result, steering his way to a first-place finish. Not only was it Thompson’s first time competing in F1600 cars, it was also his first time on the ICAR event at the former Mirabel Airport near Montreal. At the event, Thompson competed for Exclusive Autosport.

Catholic school projects to move ahead this summer Several capital projects are underway for Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, providing added classroom space over the summer. Construction at an Innisfail Catholic school will go well into the school year. Work on phase two of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys School is expected to start in September as the tender for the work will go out this month. The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Board received an update at their last meeting of the year on June 25 on the anticipated 16-to-18-month construction project. Materials have been moved out of the classroom wings prior to the work this summer. Other projects updated include: ● Permits are being worked on for the St. Gregory the Great Catholic School in Blackfalds. The school district is waiting to see when the new government will approve funding. ● The development permit for St. Joseph High School in Red Deer, near the intersection of 67th Street and 30th Avenue, was approved on June 10. ● Final approval from Alberta Infrastructure is all that is needed after a pre-qualifying contractor meeting for the addition to St. Francis of Assissi Middle School in Red Deer. Once government approval is obtained, they can proceed to tender. ● Shunda Construction was awarded the St. Teresa of Avila School in Red Deer modular addition project. Work will start this month and be finished by Aug. 18. ● Pearl Rose Construction was awarded the Holy Trinity Catholic School in Olds modular addition project. Work will start this month and wrap up by Aug. 25.

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More than one stop sign in Red Deer has been repurposed as a political message board by anonymous members of the public in recent days, including this one.

Free money for education theme of session on July 14 Helping parents start saving for their children’s post-secondary pursuits can be a little easier with a visit to a free money party. On July 14 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Salvation Army, at 4837 54th St., the free money party will educate parents about the Alberta Centennial Educational Savings Grant. The grant program contributes $500 into a Registered Education Savings Plan for every child under six. The free money party will go over what parents need to do to receive the grant to help with their child’s education savings. During the session, there will also be entertainment for children, door prizes and snacks.

Stroke survivors, friends, family and supporters are invited to join the Walk, Talk and Roll in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation. On July 21, starting at noon at the CrossRoads Church, west of Hwy 2 on 32nd Street, people are invited to join the one-km walk or roll, if a wheelchair is required, on the church grounds. After the walk, there will be a barbecue and entertainment. The walk or roll is the seventh annual incarnation

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Accused Winnipeg bomber appeared to make peace with ex-wife WINNIPEG — On the surface, the man accused of sending letter bombs to two Winnipeg law firms and his exwife appeared to be putting his legal troubles behind him in recent months. Court documents obtained Tuesday show Guido Amsel stopped fighting a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife over $40,000 and agreed to pay her by auctioning off equipment in a sale slated for Saturday. Instead, the auction has been postponed and Amsel stands accused by police of seeking violent retribution against his former spouse and lawyers involved with the case. The 49-year-old was charged Sunday with attempted murder and other offences after small voice recorders packed with an explosive compound were sent to his ex-wife Iris Amsel’s workplace as well as two law firms. Guido Amsel has not entered a plea to the charges and remains in custody pending another court date Thursday. The first bomb exploded last Fri-

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, July 8, 2015 C3 Trudeau called the situation “inperiod of upheaval within the AFN, excusable” in a statement Tuesday. If and the rocky relationship between elected in the fall a Liberal governthe organization and the federal govment would fund the road project, he ernment. said. Chiefs are gathered in Montreal for “Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has their annual meeting this week — Belbeen cut off from the rest of Canada, legarde’s first as national chief. with inadequate access to the most He took the reigns from Shawn basic necessities,” Trudeau said. “The Atleo, who abruptly resigned in the situation requires an urgent response, spring of 2014 due to controversy over yet for years the federal government his support for the federal governhas abandoned its responsibility to the ment’s First Nations education act anFirst Nation.” nounced the previous winter. Both the City of Winnipeg and the As he reflects on the events that led Manitoba government have offered to to his predecessor’s departure, Belleshare the cost of building a road, but garde is vowing not to make the same Ottawa has refused to commit. mistakes. Reserve residents were left in tears “There was a lack of awareness last month when Natural Resources and communication about it on everyMinister Greg Rickford, the MP for body’s side. And as the new national the area, visited the band but refused chief with a new mandate, I will not to agree in principle to partially fund be doing those kinds of agreements,” construction. Crowdfunding is underBellegarde said in an interview on the way now to raise Ottawa’s estimated sidelines of the Montreal gathering. share of $10 million to build the road. “That’s the reason that that failed, and I am not going to fail on any new things coming forward.” Bellegarde was in the room in February 2014 when Stephen Harper publicly announced the $1.9 billion education deal with Atleo in front of the national media. MONTREAL — National Chief PerHe insists he was never on board ry Bellegarde says he will not use his with the deal, but attended that day to influential role as the head of the As“find out what was going on.” sembly of First Nations to strike deals “That’s the truth,” he said. with the federal government without The education package, and Atleo’s the full support of First Nations. support of it, remain contentious. It’s a promise that speaks to a long

day, causing severe injuries to Maria Mitousis, the 38-year-old lawyer who represented Iris Amsel in the couple’s lengthy divorce and in a lawsuit in which she claimed her former husband owed $40,000 from an auto body shop they had jointly run while married. The second bomb was found Saturday at an auto repair shop where Iris Amsel works, and was detonated by police. The third bomb was found at a law office where Sarah McEachern used to work and safely detonated by police. McEachern represented Guido Amsel in the lawsuit filed by his wife, but withdrew as his lawyer last September.

Federal Tories ‘abandoned responsibility’ for cut-off reserve: Trudeau Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says the federal government has “abandoned its responsibility” to a First Nation cut off from the outside world and living under one of the longest boilwater advisories in Canada. Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which straddles the Ontario-Manitoba boundary, was carved from the mainland to build an aqueduct to send fresh water to Winnipeg at the turn of the last century. It has no all-weather road and has been without clean water for 17 years.

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ENTERTAINMENT Cosby admission adds fuel to fire BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s accusers see his admission of obtaining quaaludes to give young women before sex as vindication of their claims that he drugged and sexually assaulted them. But a former television co-star and a prominent Cosby defender say they’re reserving judgment because the 2005 deposition testimony unsealed Monday doesn’t show he did anything wrong. Cosby admitted that he gave quaaludes, a now-banned sedative, to a 19-year-old woman before they had sex in Las Vegas in the 1970s. He also admitted giving the powerful drug to unnamed others. His lawyer interfered before he could answer deposition questions in 2005 about how many women were given drugs and whether they knew about it. “I never thought I would be validated or vindicated in this,” said Joan Tarshis, of Woodstock, New York, who accused Cosby of drugging and attacking her when she was breaking into comedy writing in 1969. “I mean, it’s turned my life around 180 because now all the people that haven’t believed me or us have come out, most of them, and said, ‘We were wrong.”’ The Associated Press had gone to court to compel the release of a deposition in a 2005 sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former Temple University basketball team employee Andrea Constand — the first of a cascade of lawsuits against Cosby that have severely damaged his image as doting TV dad Dr. Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show. His lawyers objected to the release of the material, arguing it would embarrass him. Ultimately, a judge seized on Cosby’s public moralizing on issues

BRIEF Veteran voice actor back at The Simpsons NEW YORK — Harry Shearer and his many voices are returning to The Simpsons after a contentious and public contract dispute. Dueling tweets in May between Shearer and Simpsons executive producer Al Jean suggested Shearer might be leaving the Fox cartoon series, where he has voiced numerous key characters since it debuted in 1989. But Fox announced Tuesday that he will be alongside fellow cast members

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Comedian and Navy veteran Bill Cosby speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony in Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 2014. like family life, education and crime as he unsealed portions of the deposition. On ABC’s The View on Tuesday, Whoopi Goldberg said she was still reserving judgment on Cosby, reiterating the stance she’s held since the allegations against him resurfaced last winter. Cosby’s official Twitter account thanked her back then for her support. “You are still innocent until proven guilty,” Goldberg said Tuesday. Cosby, she said, “has not been proven a rapist.” The View co-host Raven-Symone, who starred on Cosby’s 1980s sitcom as a child, said she doesn’t like talking about the allegations because he

helped launch her career. “You need the proof and then I’ll be able to give my judgment here or there,” she said. The Bounce TV network, which is geared toward black viewers, didn’t wait. It said Tuesday that it was pulling its reruns of the 1990s-era CBS sitcom Cosby from the air immediately. More than two dozen women have accused Cosby, 77, of sexual misconduct dating back more than four decades. He has never been charged with a crime, and the statute of limitations on most of the accusations has expired. Cosby has not commented on the unsealed documents.

Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria for the series’ 27th and 28th seasons. Shearer voices characters including Simpsons neighbour Ned Flanders, billionaire Mr. Burns and his kowtowing aide, Smithers. The multitasking Shearer, 71, has charted a diverse career on numerous projects as an actor, writer, musician and producer, both before and since becoming part of the Simpsons troupe.

Star Wars spinoff will be released on Memorial Day weekend in 2018. Lord and Miller have been among the most sought-after writer-directors after their well-received 21 Jump Street and its sequel, 22 Jump Street, and the popular The Lego Movie.Miller and Lord say the movie is the first they’ve worked on that “seems like a good idea to begin with.” They promise to take “risks” and give the audience a “fresh” experience. The script will be written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan.

Lego Movie directors to direct Han Solo spinoff NEW YORK — Laugh it up, Fuzzballs: Han Solo is getting his own movie, and it’s going to be helmed by Lego Movie directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord. Disney announced Tuesday the

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — For decades, Bill Cosby cast himself as America’s dad and then as America’s granddad, a moralist with tough talk for young people about acting responsibly. It was that image that proved to be his undoing. The judge who unsealed documents on Monday revealing Cosby’s 2005 admission that he obtained quaaludes to give to young women before sex cited the comedian’s public moralizing in deciding to release the testimony. The testimony, from a decade-old lawsuit, has called into question Cosby’s denials that he drugged and sexually assaulted women. Cosby had fought the request from The Associated Press to unseal the material. But U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno in Philadelphia ruled: “The stark contrast between Bill Cosby, the public moralist, and Bill Cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct, is a matter to which the AP — and by extension the public — has a significant interest.” Cosby’s moralizing also triggered the most recent round of allegations by more than two dozen women who say he assaulted them. Last October, 31-year-old comedian Hannibal Buress set off the storm when he noted the contrast between Cosby’s image and the accusations. “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!”’ Buress said. “Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.” As leader of television’s Huxtable clan in the 1980s, Cosby was the dad who did things right. It was a persona that made him beloved and rich. And Cosby gave back. He and wife, Camille, offered millions in donations to colleges and other institutions across the country.

Saul is coming back for a second season. New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced Tuesday that AMC has renewed the Breaking Bad spinoff starring Bob Odenkirk and it again will be filmed in Albuquerque. Officials say Better Call Saul, produced by Sony Pictures Television, will employ at least 75 to 90 New Mexico crewmembers. Better Call Saul follows Jimmy McGill, played by Odenkirk, who later changes his name to Saul Goodman and becomes an attorney for drug lords in Breaking Bad. Odenkirk played the lawyer of Bryan Cranston’s character, methamphetamine lord Walter White, in Breaking Bad.

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DAVIDSON Connor James 1993 - 2015 Connor passed away suddenly on Sunday, July 5, 2015 at the age of 21 years. Connor led a joyful life, bringing his happiness and quirky sense of humor to bear on those around him. Connor was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia and lived in Victoria, Halifax, Stettler and finally settled in Red Deer in 2000. He attended Parkland School from the age of 6 until graduation in 2014. Connor will be lovingly remembered by his Mom, Dad and big brother, Nathanial, a wealth of family and close friends; as well as his two best friends; Marbalys and Christaine, who mourn his loss with his family. They contributed so much to his joy in life. Connor’s Mom and Dad would like to thank the staff of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre ICU for the care they gave Connor, and Parkland School staff for their years of love and care. A Special Thank You to the Oddfellows for their continued support of Connor during his life. Connor was pre-deceased by his grandparents, cousins; TJ and Dallas, and numerous fellow students and friends from Parkland School. A Celebration of Connor’s Life will take place at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 67A Street (Taylor drive) Red Deer, on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Interment to occur later in the year at Christ The King Roman Catholic Cemetery, Edam, Saskatchewan. If desired, memorial donation in Connor’s honor may be made directly to Parkland School, c/o Parkland C.L.A.S.S. 6016 45 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3M4. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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Obituaries SPENCER Edward Theodore 1945 - 2015 Edward was born October 16, 1945 and passed away peacefully on July 4, 2015. Edward is survived by his loving wife Grace Spencer. He is also survived by one sister Florence (Norman) Huseby; his three daughters Donna (Darren) Priske, Evelyn (Victor) Breault and Elaine Spencer; his step children Deanne (Ryan), William, Donna (Dale), Kim (Paul) and brother in law Brian (Debbie); 17 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Grace and Harold Spencer, sisters Edith and Dorothy and daughter Heather. Funeral Services will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe on Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 at 2:00 PM. Interment will Fairview follow in the Cemetery, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Lung Association in Ed’s memory. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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D3 Memory of bombing still raw

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

BRITONS MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF LONDON TRANSIT ATTACKS ‘IN 15, 16 YEARS, NO CALL HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO THAT . . . AND HOPEFULLY NOTHING EVER WILL AGAIN.’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

— DAVID TOMPKINS AND DREW MCRAE PARAMEDICS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and London Mayor Boris Johnson walk through the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park to lay wreaths in London, Tuesday. The attack occurred two years after Britain took part in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the nation’s leader at the time of the bombings, said Tuesday that terrorism was “a global problem” that affected countries regardless of

Confederate flag one step closer to coming down in South Carolina BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate gave its final approval Tuesday to removing the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, but across the hall in the House, Republicans quietly sought a way to make a last stand to preserve some kind of symbol honouring their Southern ancestors at the Statehouse. The House was scheduled to begin debate Wednesday on the bill to take down the flag and its pole and send the banner to the state’s Confederate Relic Room. Gov. Nikki Haley and business leaders support the proposal. To stress the chamber’s unity after Tuesday’s 36-3 vote, senators invited the widow of their slain colleague Clementa Pinckney to the floor. She stood just inside the door in a black dress, only a few feet from her husband’s desk, which was draped in black cloth with a single white rose on top. Every member stood as she entered and later walked up to her, offering condolences. After the flag was pulled off the Statehouse dome 15 years ago, it was called a settled issue. The banner was instead moved to a monument honouring Confederate soldiers elsewhere on the Capitol grounds. But the flag debate swiftly gained urgency last month after Pinckney and eight other black people were fatally shot at a historic African-American church in Charleston. A white gunman who police said was motivated by racial hatred is charged in the attack. Dylann Roof was indicted Tuesday on nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons charge. Haley and other conservatives have said they called for the flag to come down in part because of photos showing Roof posing with the Confederate symbol. If the House goes along with the Senate’s bill, the flag could be removed by the end of the week. But if the House changes the bill, either the Senate would have to agree with the changes or lawmakers would have to reconcile their differences in a conference committee, possibly delaying

action for weeks. Several senators said the lopsided vote shows they do not want their bill to change. Many Republicans in the House insist the flag will come down because of its association with racist groups. But they think lawmakers should at least discuss replacing it with a different flag that flew over Confederate troops. Rep. Mike Pitts plans to propose several possible flags for the pole and believes he has a majority to pass them. Completely removing the flagpole, he said, would scrub history, which includes family members from his Laurens County home and from the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia. “I guess my plan for tomorrow is to be a lot like my ancestors were at the Bloody Angle,” Pitts said, referring to part of a Virginia battlefield where fighting raged for nearly 24 hours in 1864, leaving Confederate dead stacked four deep behind their fortifications. “And fight until I have nothing left to fight with.” Pitts’ favourite amendment would place on the pole the flag of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers regiment, which is a blue flag similar to the state flag with its Palmetto tree and crescent moon but with a wreath around the tree. Similar art is etched on a wall inside the Statehouse, Pitts said. Any change to the Senate bill is unacceptable to the 46 Democrats in the 124-member House — a critical number because some Democrats will have to support any bill to take down the flag to reach the two-thirds threshold required by law, Minority Leader Todd Rutherford said. “It will become the new symbol,” Rutherford said of any flag that goes up beside the monument to Confederate soldiers. “It will be the new vestige of racism.” Asked if the GOP was using the idea of an alternative flag simply to avoid bringing down the existing banner, Democratic Rep. Joe Neal, elected in 1992, said he thinks most Republicans are willing to remove the flag and pole entirely. “I think a majority wants to do this. There is a minority that is dead set against it,” Neal said. “We’ll see when that vote comes up who they are.”

their involvement in the war in Iraq. Across the city, survivors, transport staff and emergency workers laid flowers at the sites of the four bombings. Some Londoners heeded a call to walk part of the way to work in memory of the day 10 years ago when the city’s

transit network stopped. At King’s Cross and other Underground stations, the trundle of luggage wheels stopped as staff and passengers paused for a moment of silence at 11:30 a.m. Among them were paramedics David Tompkins and Drew McRae, some of the first crews to reach the bombed Piccadilly Line train where 26 people were killed. McRae remembered the eerie silence, while Tompkins recalled the “unbearable” heat. “In 15, 16 years, no call has ever come close to that,” Tompkins said. “And hopefully nothing ever will again,” added McRae. Cameron said the slayings last month of 30 British tourists in Tunisia was a reminder that terrorist threats remain real and deadly. The gun rampage in the Tunisian resort of Sousse was the deadliest attack on Britons since 2005. “It’s a day when we recall the incredible resolve and resolution of Londoners and the United Kingdom, a day when we remember the threat that we still face,” Cameron said. “But, above all it’s a day when we think of the grace and the dignity of the victims’ families for all they have been through. And we honor the memory of those victims and all those that were lost 10 years ago today.” ued in the war against the insurgency waged by the Taliban since their ouster in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

BRIEF

Iran nuclear deal still elusive as another deadline passes

Afghan officials, Taliban talking in Pakistan KABUL — Afghan officials are holding talks with Taliban representatives in the Pakistani capital in their first official face-to-face discussions, which the Afghan president said Tuesday were aimed at starting full-fledged negotiations. The talks in an unannounced location in Islamabad come after repeated informal meetings between Taliban and government representatives, most recently hosted by Qatar and Norway. But the new talks were the first formally acknowledged by the Afghan government; that and the semi-public nature of the talks suggested possible progress after years of frustration in trying to bring the two sides together. Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, called the holding of the talks “a major breakthrough” in comments recorded for Pakistani TV from the Norwegian capital Oslo, where he is on a three-day visit. He said the overtness of the meeting was a positive development. “I hope there will be a positive outcome which will certainly be very helpful for peace and stability in Afghanistan,” he said. Since taking office in September, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has made it a priority to find a peace settlement, even as fighting has contin-

VIENNA — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks pushed past their second deadline in a week on Tuesday, raising new questions about the ability of world powers to cut off all Iranian pathways to a bomb through diplomacy. The discussions, already in their 12th day, were prolonged until possibly Friday. “We knew it would have been difficult, challenging and sometimes hard,” said Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief. She said the negotiations would continue despite hitting some “tense” moments, and the U.S. State Department declared the current interim nuclear arrangement with Iran extended through July 10. As the latest target date arrived for a deal that would set a decade of restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other top diplomats huddled in Vienna in search of a breakthrough. All had spoken of deep differences remaining, and there was no public indication they had resolved disputes ranging from inspection rules on suspicious Iranian sites to limits on Tehran’s research and development of advanced nuclear technology. “The last, difficult, political issues, we have to solve,” Mogherini said.

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LONDON — Britons paused in silence and walked in solidarity Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of suicide bomb attacks on London’s transit system. Four British men inspired by alQaida blew themselves up on three London subway trains and a bus during the morning rush hour on July 7, 2005, killing 52 commuters and injuring more than 700. The memory of that morning remains raw in this country of 64 million. Solemn ceremonies were held throughout the capital, starting at the memorial in London’s Hyde Park devoted to the victims. Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson weaved through the memorial’s 52 pillars to lay wreaths, one for each victim. At 8:50 a.m., the moment the attacks began, the park fell silent. Families of victims clutched flowers. Some in the crowd bowed their heads. Sajda Mughal, a survivor, said even after 10 years, the anniversary remains “emotional.” “(The ceremony) drew me back to the very same day, when I experienced the whole traumatic event being down there in the Piccadilly line, hearing those screams, people banging on the carriage,” she said. “And then, as I was watching the wreath being laid, I came back to 2015 and I thought ’’Well, I am alive, thank God I’m alive.’ But unfortunately, we’ve lost 52 lives.” Johnson said the attack was a terrible shock to the capital but it was important to remember it. “The people who are trying to attack the city basically failed,” he said.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Dodging the summer perils MAXIMIZE YOUR SUMMER BY AVOIDING ITS PESTS apply a cool compress or use something like hydrocortisone, lidocaine or calamine lotion, the Mayo Clinic’s website suggests. However, some people are allergic to insect stings and can have severe, even fatal, reactions if they are stung. If you are with a person who develops trouble breathing, dizziness, confusion, rapid heartbeat, nausea or vomiting after an insect sting, this is a situation to take seriously. HealthyCanadians.gc.ca suggests seeing a doctor right away. Ask if the person is carrying an epinephrine autoinjector — an EpiPen — and if yes, whether he or she needs help to use it. If the person stops breathing, begin cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — For many sun-starved Canadians, summer is a favourite time of the year. Days are long, windows are open, water is inviting and the world is green and blue. Down-filled jackets and scratchy woollen wear gets shoved to the back of the closet — for a few months, at any rate. As glorious as it is, summer poses a few health perils. Here are some things you’ll want to avoid and what to do about them if the season throws them in your path:

WEST NILE VIRUS

Certain species of mosquitoes pick up this virus from infected birds and pass it on to humans. Depending on where you live in Canada those species are Culex tarsalis, Culex restuans and Culex pipiens. Most years human cases of West Nile start to be diagnosed in late July and infections can continue to occur until frosts kill mosquitoes in the fall. Some years there isn’t much West Nile activity. Last year, there were only 21 cases reported in Canada. But in 2007 — the worst year on record — there were 2,215. What’s critical here is how much hot weather there is early in the summer, when virus levels start to build up in birds and bugs. “It’s too early to tell how intense the West Nile season will be. It will depend on basically temperatures that we get from now on in, the numbers of ... Culex tarsalis mosquitoes we get and virus levels in birds,” says Phil Curry, an entomologist with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health. The illness can be mild and almost flu-like. But some people develop encephalitis or meningitis — swelling of the brain or the membranes surrounding the brain — and some people die. The best way to avoid West Nile is to avoid being bitten. That means wearing long sleeves and trousers, dressing in light colours and using DEET-based insect repellents to protect against the dusk-till-dawn biting mosquitoes that carry the virus. It also means getting rid of standing water on your property because mosquitoes need water to breed.

POISON IVY, POISON OAK AND POISON SUMAC

You don’t want to run into — or brush up against — these rash-inducing forms of flora. But you need to know what you should be avoiding in order to successfully do so. A little time on the Internet ought to help you identify foliage to avoid. According to the federal government’s HealthyCanadians.gc.ca website, Newfoundland is the only Canadian province where poison ivy is not

STINGING AND BLOODSUCKING WATER CREATURES

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This photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. For many sun-starved Canadians, summer is a favourite time of the year. As glorious as it is, though, summer poses a few health perils. found. On the other hand, poison oak is only found in southern British Columbia. Words of warning: Poison ivy is pesky. If you get the sap on clothing, it can trigger rashes long afterward if it isn’t washed off. And if you are trying to rid a property of poison ivy, don’t burn the plants. That can release the urushiol — the component that causes rashes — into the air. Breathing in that smoke can trigger severe and even potentially fatal breathing problems. If your skin comes in contact with any of these plants, wash the exposed skin with soap and cold water. If there is no soap at hand, vinegar and water (30 millilitres/two tablespoons in 250 ml/one cup of water) or alcohol and water (half and half) can help.

TICKS

We’re talking blacklegged ticks here, the kind that can transmit Borrelia burgdorferi. That’s the bacterium that cases Lyme disease. It wasn’t that long ago that infected ticks were only found in a few spots in the southernmost part of Canada, near Windsor, Ont. But the Public Health Agency of Canada says blacklegged ticks can now be found in a number of provinces. It has posted a map detailing high-risk areas at http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/diseases-conditionsmaladies-affection http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/diseases-condit Ticks latch on to people (or animals) and take a blood meal. The bacteria

only transfers when the tick has been feeding for quite awhile, around 36 to 48 hours. Ticks — especially the juvenile ones — can be hard to spot. But doing a tick check after being outdoors as well as taking a shower and laundering your clothing should help you avoid being the source of a prolonged meal. Dr. Doug Sider of Public Health Ontario says these ticks like areas with brush and high grasses. “You’re not going to get Lyme disease risks in manicured lawns and sports fields.... That’s not where the tick hangs out.” If you find a tick a few hours after walking in the woods, Sider says the advice would be to remove it carefully — pull it straight out with tweezers — and not to worry about it. If, however, you find a tick a couple of days after your last trek through the woods, the second part of the recommendation might change. If you are living in an area known to have infected ticks, your doctor or hospital may give you a dose of an antibiotic that kills the bacterium, says Sider, the agency’s medical director for communicable disease prevention and control.

STINGS

Hornets, wasps, bees: They play a vital role in nature, but they sure can take the fun out of a summer picnic or meal on a patio. For most people the pain of an insect sting is short-lived. If you are one of these people, remove the stinger,

We’re talking about jellyfish and leeches here. The former are found in salt water and the latter in fresh. Jellyfish stings can vary in severity, according to information on them posted on the Mayo Clinic’s website. Most just cause pain and redness, though some will trigger a whole-body response, including nausea and difficulty breathing. If you have the latter type of response, you need to seek medical help. For regular jellyfish stings, the Mayo site suggests making sure none of the stingers are left on your skin by rinsing the area with salt (not fresh) water. You can also rinse with vinegar and a paste made of baking soda and salt water. As for leeches or bloodsuckers, don’t try to pull them off. Pouring salt or vinegar on them will make them release their grasp on your skin and drop off.

SUNBURN

Summer sun feels great on the skin. But too much exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays can prematurely age and permanently damage skin. It can also lead to melanoma, a dangerous form of skin cancer. Do your future self a favour: Avoid excessive tanning and sunburns. Limit the amount of time you spend in the sun when its power is at its peak, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Use sunscreen. The Canadian Dermatology Association recommends choosing a product with an SPF — sun protection factor — of 30 or higher. It should be reapplied every two hours or after swimming or sweating a lot. Wear a hat. Protect your eyes from the sun too — UV light may contribute to the development of cataracts. Be especially vigilant protecting children from the sun. And if you do get a burn? Soothe sunburned skin with a cool compress, a moisturizer, gel or lotion containing aloe vera, or hydrocortisone cream.

Gene therapy for cystic fibrosis promising for some patients BUT NOT YET READY FOR WIDE USE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Doctors who gave children with cystic fibrosis a replacement copy of a defective gene say it appeared to slow the expected decline of some patients’ lungs, but called the results “modest” and say there must be major improvements before offering the treatment more widely. Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition that fills the lungs with mucus, making people susceptible to infections that can eventually destroy the lungs; the average life expectancy is about 37 years. After scientists identified the genetic sequence that causes

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cystic fibrosis in 1989, many experts hoped the disease could be cured by replacing the problem gene. But before the new study, all attempts at such gene therapy — where a normal version of the faulty gene is given to patients — failed to show a benefit. In the new study, doctors in London and Edinburgh gave 78 children with cystic fibrosis a monthly dose of gene therapy using a special inhaler in the hospital while 62 others got a placebo treatment. All of the participants were older than 12. Children who got the gene therapy showed about a four per cent better lung function compared to those who got the placebo. But doctors said the perceived benefit was just a stabilization of the lungs from deteriorating further, rather than an actual improvement. The results could also have been simply due to chance. Both groups were followed for one year. “Our only hope was that some of the patients, on some occasions, might see some benefit,” said Dr. Er-

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ic Alton of Imperial College London, the study’s lead author. The research was published online Thursday in the journal, Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Alton said that while some children reported feeling better, others didn’t feel any difference. Some experts said the trial could spur related gene therapy studies. “This is a long-term problem and the solution is going to take time,” said Dr. William Skach, vicepresident for research at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the U.S., who was not involved in the study. Skach described the results as encouraging, but said scientists need to figure out how to improve delivery of the needed gene to patients to get better results. “That could translate into extended lives for patients,” he said. “If we really want to impact on the disease in a major way, we need to think about how to do this more effectively.”

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LEFT: A model wears a creation for Giambattista Valli’s fall-winter 2015-2016 Haute Couture fashion collection presented in Paris. RIGHT: Ana Beatriz Barros walks the runway for the presentation of Ralph & Russo Fall-Winter 2015-2016 Haute Couture collection in Paris.

Dior show the highlight of Couture Week BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Celebrities such as Lupita Nyong’o and Emily Blunt sparkled in the heat at Christian Dior’s vivid couture show, hosted in a timeless conservatory in Paris. It was the highlight of Monday’s fallwinter 2015-16 Paris Couture Week shows, which also included Giambattista Valli, Ralph & Russo, and Schiaparelli. DIOR CELEBRITIES HOLD COURT Lupita Nyong’o looked ravishing in a short, cherry red Dior couture dress Monday, and was at a loss for words on entering Christian Dior’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” show set inside the Rodin Museum. Guests ventured with trepidation on entering the huge, abstract painted conservatory garden that featured myriad multicolored panels — and some even tripped on the giant colored fruit scattered around the floor. “It’s really cool,” the actress said, looking around in amazement from her spot next to U.S. Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. “It’s so incredible. I think I need to take a moment!” Emily Blunt — in a simple, white knee-length Dior gown — was equally amazed. “This is just extraordinary. This is kind of why I would walk from London to Paris to see this show. I’m so excited,” she said. The only thing she regretted about her trip was a lack of sufficient planning for France’s soaring temperatures, which have recently hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). “I mean, I fry like an egg,” she said. “So I’m feeling like I should have put on more sunscreen. Or a higher factor.” Dior’s sweltering conservatory decor may well have contributed to the over-heating.

DIOR TIME MACHINE In a surreal garden setting, Dior designer Raf Simons wove his creative needle in and out through different centuries. That produced an imaginative timetravel of a couture show, which riffed on the styles of the Flemish Masters, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The large fruit props on the runway conjured up scenes from historic stilllife oil paintings. Long diaphanous column silhouettes in chiffon, like medieval undergarments, floated by elegantly alongside gowns with high-cinched waists and wide, billowing sleeves that mirrored the old Flemish styles. Some bejeweled net gilets were worn on the torso, evoking chainmail in a beautiful touch. The sense of chic time-travel was further heightened with delicate dots and patterns on the fabrics — designs that evoked the French Impressionists and the technique of Pointillism associated with artists like Georges Seurat. The coats were the highest point of this strong collection, with one standout: a flame-red coat with beautifully large tubular cuffs. ELSA SCHIAPARELLI’S THEATRICAL DELIGHTS Celebrity guests including Meg Ryan were swept away to the glamour of 1930s theatre life at Bertrand Guyon’s debut collection for Schiaparelli. And what better a setting than to start exploring the theatricality of the great couturier Elsa? Famed for inventing shocking pink and having collaborations with Surrealists like Salvador Dali, Coco Chanel’s hated rival Schiaparelli was one of the greatest and most colorful Parisian designers of the ’20s and ’30s. The house was recently revived. In an impressive recreated theatre, Guyon’s models harked from another

era. Fastidiously embellished ’30s Orientalist satin jackets had softly square shoulders. Silk “jabot” collars and voluminous “Duster” coats wafted by with exaggerated pockets, alongside bejeweled eye, star and key lock decorations. Guyon even referenced the mania for Grecian looks in Schiaparelli’s heyday in a couple of diaphanous column dresses with flashes of gold. Not all the theatrical exuberance worked, especially one overly clashing multicolored mink coat. But Guyon is certainly moving the house in a welcome, more coherent direction since the departure last year of designer Marco Zanini. GIAMBATTISTA VALLI IS A COUTURE ARTIST Italian designer Valli made a deft play with shape in his highly feminine, highly organic collection, which showed rare artistry. The devil was in the detail. Dropped hemlines sported upsidedown tutu silhouettes in monochrome tulle, and, elsewhere, a plain black dress was given a fashion-forward boost with a billowing black feather section that shot out vertically down, out of the skirt. Swirling organic decorations in embroidered coats merged visually with beautiful 20-centimetre (8-inch) tear-drop-shaped earrings that defined many of the show’s best looks.

Valli has a delicate touch. In some of the 48-piece-show’s more feminine gowns, embroidered flowers in orange and pale purple graced the bust and hips of full organza skirts, as if the wind had just blown them from a nearby tree or bush. RALPH & RUSSO DON’T DO THINGS BY HALF Even before their first on-calendar couture show in Paris last year, Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo already boasted celebrity clients, including Angelina Jolie and Beyonce. Now, just two seasons in, the Ralph & Russo collection has been moved into a highly prized, visible slot just after Dior, right in the middle of the couture week calendar. It’s quite a coup — and shows how the up-and-coming British house certainly doesn’t do things by half. Designer Ralph also works creatively by this philosophy, as showcased by Monday’s no-holds-barred glamor. Split dresses, Balkan-style embroideries, huge satin trains, a traffic-stopping gold bustier gown with exaggerated floor-sweeping panels in the skirt, a pink pearl feathered cape — and one coat-dress that was so embellished, it looked like an ornate lace curtain. While there seemed to be no common theme linking the varied looks — it all made for real couture drama.

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Son must stop enabling dad Dear Annie: My dad has been a mess for the past couple of years and he’s sinking into a hole. Six months ago, he was laid off and his unemployment benefits just stopped. He also hit a car and left the scene. The police caught up with him and charged him with a hit and run. Dad is a delivery driver and I worry that his driver’s licence will be taken away. He is too stubborn to find any other type of work. He recently went for an interview and didn’t get the job. I’m guessMITCHELL ing because they saw his driv& SUGAR ing record. Dad keeps asking me for money and I always give it to him because, well, he’s my father and I hate to see him like this. Here’s the real problem: Yesterday, I moved his laundry out of my dryer and noticed a cut piece of straw that is used for cocaine. Now I think I know where that money is going. For the past two weeks, I’ve been doing everything

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I can for Dad, helping him get food stamps, health insurance and cash assistance. I’ve been bringing him to all the government agencies, sitting with him and waiting. Then he asks me for money and I find that straw. I’ve had my suspicions for a while and this confirms it. He also drinks like a fish. I feel as though I’m the parent and he’s the child. Should I report him for the drugs so he can get court-ordered rehab? — Torn Son Dear Son: Your father might get into court-ordered rehab. But he also might have to spend some time in jail for possession. You sound like a caring, loving son. Please understand that you cannot get your father to stop using drugs and alcohol. He must want to do that for himself. But you can and should stop giving him money. If you are concerned about his bills, you can pay those directly, and you can feed him and do his laundry if you choose. But it seems that handing him cash will only lead to trouble. You can look into Al-Anon (al-anon. alateen.org) and also Adult Children of Alcoholics (adultchildren.org) for support for yourself. Dear Annie: The letter from “Tired of the Gimme

Generation” is right on. My husband and I are godparents to a lovely girl who is now 12. We have showered her with gifts since she was born, but have never once received any birthday or holiday cards in return. We can’t fault the child. Where are her parents? What are they teaching her? Our gifts were always something they expected her to receive. In fact, we only heard from them when a gift-giving occasion was on the horizon. A few times, the mother would tell us that the child wrote a thank-you note but the parents forgot to mail it. On the rare occasion when we did receive a thankyou, it was always just prior to the next gifting date. We sent our last gift on Christmas and received a thank-you note in April, just in time for her birthday. We sent a congratulatory email. — The Heck with You Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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