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The adrenalin takes over STOTT SISTERS HAVE CHUCKWAGON RACING IN THEIR BLOOD BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Siblings Tracey and Lori Stott can come in dead last but they will always receive the biggest cheers. The two chuckwagon drivers come from a family rooted in the sport. At the All Pro HUBL WINS CHUCKWAGON Chuckwagon and CHAMPIONSHIP B1 Chariot Association races at Westerner Days, the Stott family had four wagons and four mini chucks running. The fair wrapped up on Sunday. Both women have more than 20 years of racing experience under their belts. They followed in the footsteps of father Jack, who also started when he was 16. Their grandfather use to drive the stage coach at the Klondike Days. Younger brother John, brother-in-law Jonathan Big Charles and sister Karen also race. It would not be unusual for the Stott family to have 22 horses and 12 mini chucks running on any given weekend. “It wasn’t if you’re going to drive,” laughed Lori Stott, 38, about family expectations growing up. “It’s when you’re going to drive.”
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Fairgoers throw their hands in the air as they get a bird’s eye view of the midway ground from the Vertigo ride. See more photos from the midway at Westerner Days on page C1.
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Biker group advocates against abuse UBAKA BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF They do not look like your typical guardian angels. They sport tattoos. They wear leather and ride Harley-Davidsons. But a Red Deer biker group that advocates against domestic and child abuse is challenging stereotypes and doing good at the same time. The city’s chapter of Urban Bulldogs Against Kids Abuse (UBAKA) hit the streets running on Aug. 1, 2014. Darryl Hogenson, road captain, said UBAKA operates as the first line of defence in the “grey area” where a victim does not feel safe but no lines have been crossed. “We are not a vigilante group,” he said. “We appear by strength in numbers. We will attend any scene to make sure anybody feels comfortable.” Hogenson said their No. 1 goal is to ensure the victim’s safety and to be a guard or line of defence. They do not advocate violence. For example, the minute an alleged abuser shows up to confront a victim, the police are immediately called. Everything is taped and documented. “If that individual decides he is going to be dumb enough to try to get at that person we are protecting, we will restrain them and hold them on the ground,” said Hogenson. “We don’t hurt them. We don’t swing. We don’t believe in hitting. But we will do a personal restraint and hold them until the police come.” Last Halloween, UBAKA helped a 17-year-old who was being harassed and threatened at her job by a group of young women in their 20s. They would show up to her job and threaten to run her over in the parking lot. “She feared for her life, safety and security,” said Hogenson. After being approached by the teenager’s mother, the group went to the teenager’s job and parked their bikes in front of the business. When the teenager left for the day, she hopped on a bus to go home. A UBAKA member explained to the bus driver who they were and they were there to make sure the
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Members of the Red Deer chapter of Urban Bulldogs Against Kids Abuse (U.B.A.K.A) stand with Lehmana Smith, 18, who recently received a hand up in the form of a new car from the non-profit biker group. In the back are Darryl Hogenson (left), Rochelle Milner and Larry Wright. teenager made it home safely. “We followed the bus on the route until she got off and we gave her 20 metres and followed her in parade form to her house,” said Hogenson. “We waited until she got on her doorstep, then we all pulled away and honked our horns just to make our presence known.” The teenager never had another problem with the bullies. The worldwide organization began in France and there are now chapters throughout Alberta, Canada, Europe and the United States. Both the police and the courthouse are aware of UBAKA’s presence in Red Deer. Members also help the young victims in court who may need comforting support.
All members received various training working with victims and background checks. But they will also refer victims to other agencies such as Women’s Outreach in Red Deer. Hogenson said UBAKA fills in the gaps where social services, victim services, other groups and police miss because of limited resources. The other reality is that not everyone is comfortable going to the police. There are 18 male and female members in the chapter. It started with five last August. Larry Wright, chapter president, said they still fight the biker stereotype but they are beginning to change minds.
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CALGARY — The Calgary police homicide team is investigating a fatal stabbing at a house party. Early Sunday morning police were called to an apartment in the Collingwood area of northwest Calgary . An 18-year-old man was stabbed in the upper torso. He was transported to hospital, but died a short time later. Officers have a suspect in custody.
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STOTT: Still attract a lot of attention While there’s little sibling or family rivalry on the track, sometimes there’s a “sister dash for cash,” where sponsors put up $100 for the first sister to cross the line. The sisters still attract a lot of attention even though they have been in the sport for two decades. Tracey, 39, broke into racing in 1992 when she became one of two female drivers on the tour. Linda Shippelt-Hubl, the other woman, is also still picking up the lines. Over the years, a handful of other female drivers have taken up the reins. It is not a cheap sport, say the sisters. Just horses and wagons alone would cost a new driver roughly $10,000. Tracey said their family is unique because there are so many of them who drive, which helps trim the expenses. The horses are kept at Jack’s home in Gull Lake. The family wagons are also heavily sponsored. “That’s all we know,” said Tracey, who is the secretary of the Canadian Chuckwagon and Chariot Association. “We don’t know any different in the summers. In the summers, you go racing.” The women say it is the adrenalin and the people they meet that keeps them on the wagons. They cannot imagine doing anything else. “It’s a minute and a half of adrenalin and the rest is work and sleep,” said Lori. “Then 23 hours and 98 minutes worrying about it.” The family wagons typically finish in the Top 10. “You know the dangers right from the beginning,” said Tracey. “You’ve seen the dangers but those are far and few between. When you are sitting behind four horses that are doing 70 km/h, yeah, you’re nervous. You let that adrenalin take over.” Tracey was involved in a serious crash in 2012 where a driver’s horse had a heart attack during the race, resulting in a pileup of drivers, wagons and horses. Two horses had to be put down. Tracey spent several weeks in the hospital recovering from broken bones and fractures. But it did not deter her from the sport. She said you just get back up on it, “like riding a bike.” “There are four other drivers,” said Tracey of each race. “It’s not just you and four horses. It’s just like driving down the street. You’re watching everybody.” The season starts the long weekend in May and ends the long weekend in September. Lori said “a summer at the lake is not something they would ever do.” “It’s about family,” said Lori. “It’s something our whole family can do. You’re around horses 24/7. The fun, the people that you meet.”
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UBAKA: Plenty of cheers At the recent Westerner Days parade, the group received plenty of cheers and applause, he said. UBAKA is rooted in helping others, whether it is raising money for backpacks for youth at the 49th Street Youth Shelter or for the Women’s Outreach Centre. Most recently it was on Friday when they gave Lehmana Smith, 18, a “hand up” in the form of a 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser. Smith, whose brother Neil is a UBAKA member, was recently in a collision that totalled her Cavalier. Hogenson said he is a big believer in karma and wanted to help Smith, who has faced many challeng-
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es in her young life. Local businesses, individuals and UBAKA donated the money for the vehicle. Along with her sister, Smith, originally from Haiti, was adopted by Laurie and Peter Smith of Blackfalds in 2011. She began her formal education in Grade 9. UBAKA members escorted Smith in bike parade formation to her high school graduation in June. Smith said she can never payback the kindness that UBAKA has shown her with the graduation escort and the new wheels. Smith wants to be a lawyer so she can help others. “I have so much respect for UBAKA,” said Smith. “You asked why it’s needed? It’s especially needed for the teenagers in this town. There’s a lot that people don’t see. And for them to believe in (teenagers) is amazing. Most people when they see teenagers, they think of trouble. For them to look at the other side and not to judge the book by the cover ... is pretty nice to see.” To find out more about UBAKA, check out UBAKA Alberta Chapters on Facebook and at www. ubaka.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Aboriginals want long term clean-up of Nexen spill BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — The clean up of a massive pipeline spill in northern Alberta must be conducted with the long-term future of the land in mind, say area First Nations. “Our biggest concern is the land,” said Byron Bates, a band councillor of the Fort McMurray First Nation, which sits about 10 kilometres from the fivemillion-litre bitumen spill. Bates said the area around the spill isn’t used as much for hunting, trapping and other traditional purposes as it was before industry built up on it. But he said those developments aren’t going to be around forever. When industry’s done, his people expect no traces to be left of events such as last Wednesday’s spill. “In 50 or 70 years the oil companies are going to be gone,” he said. “We want to be able to use our land again. “Our biggest concern is to make sure it’s brought back to pristine condition.” Clean up continued Sunday on the site about 35 km southeast of Fort McMurray. A road into the site has been completed. Crews have fenced off the area to keep wildlife out and built berms to keep contaminants in. Vacuum trucks are sucking surface fluid off the muskeg in preparation for the deeper clean-up of digging up and removing potentially contaminated soil. “They’ve got to get that fluid out so they can then dig up that impacted soil
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A Nexen-supplied image of a pipeline oil spill near the Long Lake oil sands operation is shown at a press conference in Calgary. and treat that,” said Kim Blanchette, a spokeswoman for the Alberta Energy Regulator, who was on site. “Anything that’s come in contact with that fluid has to be treated.” Bates praised the activity on site, saying it has improved after a slow start. “There’s a better effort on the ground and they’re taking more active
measures to prevent (bitumen) getting into the lake,” he said. A small, unnamed lake sits near the spill site and is being monitored for any seepage. Bates said Nexen has given the band’s representatives full access to the site and has shared clean up plans with them. “We’re pretty happy with that,” he
said. “But there’s still concern in our community.” Nexen’s website said Sunday that a small tank farm has been built on the site for the collected fluids and that officials from the regulator have reviewed the company’s environmental clean-up plan. Testing of soil and water from in and around the site is conducted daily to make sure contaminants aren’t reaching any local water bodies, Blanchette said. “There’s been a lot of rain, so it’s very important they keep testing. Containment is a big, big part of what we require from them in terms of plans. “There’s a recognition that this is going to take some time to clean up.” The spill was spotted Wednesday by a contractor after the company’s automated monitoring system failed to report the breach. On Friday, Ron Bailey, Nexen’s senior vice-president of Canadian operations, said the company was investigating the system failure and apologized for the impact of the spill. Blanchette said the regulator’s investigation will consider why the relatively new section of pipe leaked as well as why the warning system failed. She said the pipe will soon be purged and removed for forensic testing. The affected area is about 16,000 square metres. That’s plenty big, said Bates, who visited the site Friday. “I was amazed at how big it was. You read five million litres but when you go out and see it, it’s something else.”
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Experts on HIVAIDS gathered in Vancouver are calling on political leaders worldwide to take action to help end the global epidemic. International AIDS Society president Chris Beyrer said community organizers have reached a consensus on asking world leaders to commit to giving all people diagnosed with HIV immediate treatment. Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIVAIDS, said science has clearly proven that giving people with HIV early access to treatment saves lives. “It is now irrefutable. There is no discussion anymore. The science is all in.” New data will be unveiled in Vancouver at the 8th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV
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RCMP national website goes offline Sunday OTTAWA — The RCMP’s website was down for several hours on Sunday, but the cause of the outage was not immediately clear. The site was back online by Sunday evening. The outage comes a day after the cyber group Anonymous vowed to target the force to raise awareness about an RCMP officer involved in a shooting incident in B.C. Anonymous has no identifiable
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Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, over the next four days. More than 6,000 international experts are attending the Vancouver conference, and Montaner said they all need to have the same message when it comes to pressuring governments to support HIV treatment. “We need to come out of this conference with a single voice because we have now the unique opportunity of ending the epidemic.” The conference will draw a line in the sand between people who are committed to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic — and those who aren’t, Montaner said. “Political leaders of the world, you are either with us or against us. We know the evidence, we know what needs to be done. It is up to you to decide whether you will be counted as doing the right thing.” leadership but online posters who say they’re members have claimed responsibility in the past for hacking incidents including the shutdown of the city of Cleveland’s website last fall. The Mounties did not immediately respond to questions about the status of the website. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office said little more than it was monitoring the situation. The website of Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, was recently taken down by a cyberattack. Police in the northern B.C. community of Dawson Creek shot and killed a man last Thursday who they say refused to comply with officers’ instructions. Social media posts claim the man was affiliated with Anonymous.
Mulcair jumps election starting gun, launches campaign-style tour of Ontario OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair is jumping the starting gun for this fall’s election, hitting the campaign trail this week in the crucial battleground of Ontario. The NDP leader is launching an eight-day tour on Monday designed to showcase his team, his policies and his party’s momentum in the province. Ontario accounts for more than one third of 338 seats that will be up for grabs on Oct. 19. The tour will heavily target ridings the NDP says it believes it can steal away from the ruling Conservatives. There’ll be no campaign plane or buses; but apart from that, the planned tour has all the appearance of a full-on election campaign: two events each day, rounds of local media interviews and daily media opportunities, capped almost every evening by partisan rallies.
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TORONTO — Peter May never dreamed that answering a newspaper ad in 1977 would eventually fill the world’s museums with hundreds of dinosaur skeletons. The call for a paleontology technician at the Royal Ontario Museum didn’t initially seem like a fit for a steel company employee who hadn’t shown the slightest interest in raptors as a child. But the job secured through that ad ultimately led May to launch Research Casting Inc., a company that’s been placing fossil replicas in museums from Argentina to Japan for the past 28 years. The past and present collide in Research Casting’s Trenton, Ont., factory, where 25 workers use modern materials and technology to recreate the remains of creatures that haven’t walked the Earth for millions of years. It’s a surprising career path for May, who answered the ROM’s ad on a whim and fell asleep from boredom while researching paleontology in preparation for the interview. Once he saw people in action duplicating pieces of history, however, he was instantly hooked. “I got all excited about the mouldmaking and how they were doing it,” May said in a telephone interview. “I was dressed as best I could — good pants and a sweater. I came out filthy. I probably would have volunteered.” May, who landed the ROM job on the spot, spent five years there before moving to Alberta to help set up the country’s best-known dinosaur museum. His years at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta., got him familiar with the intricacies of both preserving original dinosaur bones and creating realistic replicas out of materials like fibreglass or bronze. When May returned to Ontario, he brought his newfound love of dinosaur casting with him and began producing models in his spare time. When the number of orders piled up to total $1.2 million, May took his enterprise full time and has been stocking the world’s museums ever since. May said Research Casting’s output largely helps take paleontology exhibits to the next level by producing models fit for public exposure. While the company is often hired
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to help preserve original bones, the unique specimens are too rare and fragile to be part of most regular museum displays. The moulds and casts produced on the factory floor allow the museums to get more creative in the way they stage their exhibits, he said. Peter Root, director of facilities operations at Amhurst College in Massachusetts, said preservation techniques allowed the school’s Museum of Natural History to completely reconfigure its one-of-akind collection of fossilized dinosaur footprints. The originals, known as trackways, used to be awkwardly displayed on a wall before Research Casting produced replicas that allowed for a much more interactive exhibit. “One was a fairly large one (trackway) that we imbedded in the floor of the museum as part of the display,” he said. “People could actually walk on it, touch it, kids could put their feet in the tracks themselves.” These days May said his staff is providing interactive material through a whole new channel. Traditional techniques are giving way to digital scans, and May said the data that forms the basis of modern replicas can also be used as part of a museum’s exhibit. These days may only spends about 10 per cent of his time making reproductions, adding he relishes the rare opportunities to both revisit his old craft and learn about the more high-tech methods. He said the fact that he’s passed the torch to a new generation, however, is good news for both his clients and the historical record. “My crew here does a much better job than I ever did,” he said. “They’re light years ahead of what we used to do in the late 80s and early 90s.”
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Western alienation now? THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR BRAD WALL TO MAKE HIS POINT, NO MATTER HOW VALID BY TREVOR MCLEOD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall stoked the fires of Western alienation last week when he suggested this week that equalization dollars should be sent to Ontario and Quebec in a pipeline. Make no mistake, these comments struck a deep chord in the West. After all, the Western Canadian identity was forged in the concept of alienation — the idea that Canada’s four Western provinces have been excluded from the affairs of mainstream Canadian politics to the benefit of Ontario and Quebec. Wall’s argument hits the mark on so many points. First, he was right to remind us that Western Canadian provinces should not rush to take economic advice from jurisdictions like Ontario and Quebec, which have not found a way themselves to maintain global competitiveness while occupying the moral high ground. More appreciation of the West’s contribution and less moralizing would be a welcome change. Second, Ontario and Quebec (and,
for that matter, British Columbia) should not be hijacking the federation by placing conditions on the development of oilsands and pipelines. Natural resources are squarely within provincial jurisdiction and the production and transportation of such goods should not be derailed by those seeking economic concessions (or more wealth transfer). Accepting this highway robbery could literally destroy Canada as a trading nation. Third, provinces do not have the constitutional authority to stop pipelines. The decision is fully within the federal government’s purview. However, as Wall knows, politics matter (especially with a federal election approaching). It was politics that allowed Wall to prevent the BHP Billiton takeover of the Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan in 2010. In fairness, Wall acknowledged that this was a federal decision and at no point suggested Saskatchewan would not comply with the decision if it had gone against him. It is easy for Wall — a true statesman with a deft populist touch — to stoke the fires of Western alienation at a time when Western Canadian economic interests seem to be under siege
by Central Canada. However, it would be wrong to suggest that Western Canada’s interests will not be well served by thoughtful action to address climate change. The story is now well understood. Oil producers in Western Canada lack meaningful access to global markets. We are forced to sell into the North American market at a significant discount to global prices. This reduces investment, royalties and taxes that would provide public goods, like education and health care to all Canadians. The desire to block access is motivated, in large part, by the belief that Canada has been inactive on climate change. Yes, Alberta and Saskatchewan have taken some steps to address climate change. Yes, they have focused on technological solutions like carbon capture and storage (which could be used in countries like China and India where the real global emissions battle will be waged). But, in a Canadian context, Alberta and Saskatchewan account for nearly half of GHG emissions — and each province has a responsibility to do more. But, let’s not fall into the trap of this being a zero-sum game. Pricing car-
bon in Western Canada does not need to result in a large wealth transfer to Central Canada. This is part of the benefit of provinces developing their own systems — as opposed to Ottawa imposing a one-size-fits-all system. A welldesigned system can also protect trade exposed industries and make sure we are not simply exporting emissions to jurisdictions with less stringent (or non-existent) environmental policies. And, yes, an agreement between provinces on climate may clear the political barriers that are halting pipelines. As our premiers seek agreement on a path forward on energy and the environment in St. John’s this week, they would do well to remember that the interests of Canadians are aligned on this issue. There is a time to stoke the fires of Western alienation. This is not it. Now is the time to demonstrate that provinces are capable of working together to advance Canadian interests. If provinces want to lead, they should do so. Trevor McLeod is the director of the Centre for Natural Resources Policy at the Canada West Foundation. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www. troymedia.com).
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Global consciousness shift on climate crisis When an assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, no one called it the start of the First World War. That happened years later, after the implications, consequences and scale of the response could be assessed. It’s often the way. That’s why historians are important; they put events in context. Similarly, I doubt anyone knew how our world would change after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built their first computer in Jobs’ parents’ garage in 1975. DAVID In 1988, when climate sciSUZUKI entist James Hansen testified in Washington that human-caused global warming was kicking in, people might have been excused for failing to grasp the significance of his early warning. But there’s no excuse for humanity’s subsequent dismissal and denial of the reality of his statements and the deliberate, aggressive opposition to any action to reduce the threat. For years, environmentalists have called for an urgent response to runaway climate change. Evidence has poured in from around the world to corroborate Hansen’s conclusions, from melting glaciers, sea level rise and ocean acidification to increasing extreme weather events and changes in animal and plant behaviour and ranges.
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Despite the evidence, few governments have taken the necessary steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of listening to scientists and citizens, many leaders have chosen to heed the fossil fuel industry’s massive PR machine and right-wing ideologues who see the call for global action as a socialist threat to capitalism. There has been progress, at national and subnational levels, and among forward-thinking corporations and organizations. Some, like the commitment by countries including Denmark and Germany to reduce dependence on fossil fuels after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, were in response to markets rather than the climate crisis, but it positioned them well as evidence for climate change mounted. More recently, people on the frontlines of climate change such as Pacific Islanders and Inuit have warned of the changes they’re experiencing. The insurance industry and a number of corporations have called for action, with some, like Tesla, designing solutions. But many in the media and government continue to downplay the problem. I’ve been astounded by the lack of response over the years, but I’ll go out on a limb and suggest a shift is now taking place. Although we may not recognize its significance without the benefit of hindsight, we appear to be in the early stages of something huge. Even some news outlets are shifting. The U.K.’s Guardian decided earlier this year to increase its coverage of climate change, going so far as to encourage divestment from the fossil fuel industry. The New York Times decided to use the more accurate term “denier” rather than “skeptic” to refer to those who reject the overwhelming evidence for human-caused
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Tory, suburban ridings gain the most from enriched child benefits
Here are the top 20 ridings likely to receive the most from increased benefits for children five and under
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Most of what is billed as the largest, one-time benefit payment in federal history is likely to hit suburban voters living in federal ridings where the Conservatives can be considered the party to beat, an analysis by The Canadian Press shows. Number-crunching based on the last census shows that many of the ridings in line to get the biggest cheques from the newly increased Universal Child Care Benefit are in suburban Alberta and the all-important ridings that surround Toronto — and they usually have a history of tilting Tory. Only two of the top 20 destinations for the enriched UCCB payments landing on July 20 are locations where the opposition NDP would be considered the favourite; and one more in the top 20 would be considered a Liberal seat. That leaves 17 seats that could be considered Conservative-leaning, home to the voters who could receive the biggest financial windfall when almost $3 billion in child care benefit payments are mailed on Monday — three months before election day in October. The majority of spending continues to go to Conservative ridings — 15 of the top 20 — even after adjusting the payments to take into account the estimated percentage of families who haven’t signed up for the enhanced benefit. Opposition parties have criticized the government for giving out the increased benefit payment, backdated to the start of the year, as an election ploy to buy votes. But all three main parties have released platform planks designed to woo families who tend to concentrate in the key suburban ridings that could swing the federal election. “The demographic that (parties) are all fighting for are the parents, the kids, the families that are just starting out. So this is why this puts (child care) up on the agenda,” said Kathy Brock, an expert on party politics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Since 2006, the government has handed out monthly payments of $100 for every child in Canada under age six. That changes on Monday as the payment rise to $160 a month, and children age six to 17 earn their parents
$60 per month. The increased payments are retroactive to the start of the year, meaning the payments this month will be higher than any before: up to $520 for children under six, and up to $420 for every child six to 17. The government doesn’t decide where in the country the money will go; it does get to decide who should receive the money. To get a more detailed picture of where those families live, The Canadian Press used census data from Statistics Canada to plot the location of children under age 18 in each of Canada’s 338 ridings, and then calculated how much each riding would receive in new monthly child care benefit spending. The totals were also adjusted to reflect the percentage of families in each province who have not signed up for the benefit to see if there was any marked differences in outcomes, which there was not. The analysis then used an Elections Canada study that transposed the outcome in each of those 338 ridings based on the poll-by-poll breakdown of votes from the 2011 campaign. (In 2011, there were just 308 ridings, so Elections Canada has done number-crunching to figure out who would have won if the 338 ridings had exited in 2011.) The census figures are four years old, meaning the number of children in each age group has likely changed as children grow up, babies are born, and families move around the country. The analysis showed that the highest grossing ridings are most likely to be in the 905-belt around Toronto, as well as the suburban areas of Calgary that supported the Conservatives in 2011. In an interview, Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre, who oversees the expanded child benefit, offered a simple explanation. “Families have supported the Conservative party because the Conservative government has supported families,” Poilievre said. “It’s no coincidence that many families live in ridings that have elected Conservative MPs.” The Toronto-area 905 ridings in Mississauga and Brampton remain a key battleground for all parties heading
into the 2015 vote: The Conservatives want to maintain their support, the Liberals are looking to regain votes they lost, and the NDP want to expand support in the suburbs beyond the downtown Toronto ridings where they have traditionally done well, said Jack Mintz from the University of Calgary. Experts also suggest that the payments could attract two demographics the Conservative have to influence if they want to expand their base of support: immigrant communities and mothers, Brock said. Add to that the feeling from families that their finances are being strained by rising costs for goods, services and utilities, and there’s a fine line between the parties are being opportunistic and simply trying to respond to voters’ needs, Brock said. “We can be cynical about it, but on the other hand this is also democratic responsiveness,” she said. The NDP want to keep the universal child care benefit, but eventually spend $5 billion a year for a universal daycare system. The Liberals want to replace the child care benefit with a larger income-tested benefit payment that would require a Justin Trudeau to find $2 billion to make it happen. Poilievre argued the difference between the difference between his party and the opposition was “credibility”: “We offer proven results that people can see in their mailbox and in their bank account — on Monday.” The Bank of Canada predicts that families will save about half the $2.98 billion, socking some of it away in registered education savings plans. What families wind up spending will bump up consumption spending by about one per cent, the central bank said. And the spending may not be on daycare alone — something Poilievre recognizes. “There are four million different families with four million different situations. So parents can spend it however they like,” Poilievre said.
OTTAWA — The government is increasing the value of the monthly universal child care benefit (UCCB) starting Monday. Here are the top 20 ridings that are likely to receive the most money per month for children up to age five based on an analysis of census data by The Canadian Press. In brackets is the party that took the riding in 2011, or would have if the riding had existed then, according to Elections Canada: Calgary Skyview (riding history: Conservative): $1,903,200 Churchill—Keewatinook Aski (NDP): $1,879,200 Calgary Shepard (Conservative): $1,762,400 Brampton West (Conservative): $1,730,400 Edmonton—Wetaskiwin (Conservative): $1,720,000 Peace River—Westlock (Conservative): $1,711,200 Grande Prairie—Mackenzie (Conservative): $1,710,400 Oakville North—Burlington (Conservative): $1,684,800 Milton (Conservative): $1,656,000 Calgary Rocky Ridge (Conservative): $1,633,600 Red Deer—Lacombe (Conservative): $1,620,000 Saint-Leonard—Saint-Michel (Liberal): $1,606,400 Bow River (Conservative): $1,574,400 Brampton East (NDP): $1,561,600 Fort McMurray—Cold Lake (Conservative): $1,518,400 Whitby (Conservative): $1,514,400 Mirabel (NDP): $1,496,000 Brantford—Brant (Conservative): $1,492,800 King—Vaughan (Conservative): $1,490,400 Etobicoke North (Liberal): $1,484,000
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TIMING OF ELECTION CALL A POLITICAL CALCULUS FOR CONSERVATIVES OTTAWA — What voters will decide on Oct. 19 is beyond the Conservatives’ control. But one thing is firmly in their grasp: when to drop the writs that will take them to the polls. Exactly what day Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the Governor General to make the formal request to dissolve Parliament and call the election has been the source of weeks of political speculation. And with good reason — it’s ultimately a political calculus of the Conservatives’ own devising. Although a law passed in 2007 set a fixed election date for Parliament, it didn’t set a fixed length on how long the election campaign could be, only how short — no less than 37 days including the day it begins. Fast forward to 2014 and the introduction and subsequent passage of the contentious Fair Elections Act, which among other things changed the rules around campaign finance. In short — the longer the campaign, the more everyone can spend. As the party sitting on the biggest war chest, there’s no question the Conservatives would want to start the election sooner rather than later, the New Democrats suggested. “Word is Stephen Harper could call the election early, in as little as 25 days,” reads a fundraising pitch sent by the party last week. “It’s not hard to see why — the longer the election, the more money the Conservatives can spend attacking us.” The sooner the writs are dropped, the sooner the Conservatives could also potentially curb third-party groups like Engage Canada, a union-backed organization currently running ads against them, much to their frustration. Right now, groups like that also have no limits on spending, but if they spend $500 on ads after an election call, they must register as a third party.
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More Saskatchewan wildfire evacuees headed home SASKATOON — More evacuees from Saskatchewan’s wildfires are heading back to their communities. Officials say about 3,000 people have returned to their homes since yesterday and more are expected from all evacuation centres today. That includes 140 from Cold Lake, Alberta. Commissioner of Emergency Management and Fire Safety Duane McKay says most communities have lifted their evacuation notices, but some are still directly threatened. Nearly 4,500 people are still out of their homes. There are still 100 fires still burning in the province, being fought by more than 1,500 firefighters and soldiers.
Canadian techs train Ukrainian soldiers in the art of bomb disposal YAVORIV, Ukraine — Canadian bomb disposal troops are instructing Ukrainian troops over the next couple of weeks on how to better deal with the growing menace of improvised explosives in the eastern part of the wartorn country. The soldiers, from the 4th Engineering Support Regiment, based in Gagetown, N.B., are in Yavoriv, Ukraine to impart skills hard-won in the over decade-long Afghan war. In total, there are 15 Canadians involved in an annual 17-nation exercise, known as Saber Guardian/Rapid Trident 15, which is separate from the soon-to-be launched combat training mission. Gen. Jonathan Vance, in a recent interview with The Canadian Press, suggested it would be September before the two-year long deployment of trainers, which was announced in April, gets fully underway. Detecting and dismantling bombs will be a key part of that effort to bolster Ukraine’s hard-pressed national guard, which has suffered horrific casualties from both roadside bombs and artillery. Defence Minister Jason Kenney issued a statement that says the aim is to support Canada’s allies in the region while helping to strengthen Ukraine’s resilience and its ability to protect its territorial integrity.
Ontario cabinet minister threatens to sue Globe and Mail TORONTO — An Ontario cabinet minister is threatening the Globe and Mail with a lawsuit over stories it ran that said Canadian intelligence officials expressed concerns about him. Lawyers for Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade Minister Michael Chan have sent the newspaper a notice of libel. The Globe ran stories in June that said Canada’s spy agency warned the Ontario government in 2010 that Chan
Then, limits come into effect, though they are also increased according to the length of the election. Then there’s the other side of the political coin. Once the election has begun, government institutions can no longer advertise unless they have a legal obligation to do so or it’s a public safety matter. At the same time, limits are imposed on what political parties can spend. So, among the calculations being made in the Conservative war room is what’s worth more — attack ads on their opponents, funded by party dollars that are limited by law; or limitless taxpayer-funded ads they could be running promoting their policies. For a while, they were doing both in tandem. Health Canada at one point had an ad campaign against drug abuse which was running at the same time as a radio ad from the Conservative Party attacking Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for his stance on the legalization of marijuana. Just last week, the department announced it was putting its drug-abuse campaign back on the air until Aug. 8. That’s around when most Conservative insiders think Harper will go to Rideau Hall. Government spending announcements are on the calendars for some departments right up until the end of July, though this week’s roll out of the universal child care benefit cheques is considered among the final major things on the government’s to-do list before formally going to the polls. Then, there is the first leaders’ debate, set for Aug. 6, which will allow Harper the opportunity to set a political tone and potentially gather footage that can be turned around immediately into advertising. Meanwhile, some staffers have been told to make sure their bank accounts are flush enough by mid-August to cover off their rent for a few months, as many will be taking unpaid leaves of absence to work on the campaigns. had “unusually close ties to Chinese officials” and may have been susceptible to being influenced. Chan called the allegation unfounded when the stories first ran. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has backed Chan, saying there are no specific allegations and the concerns were baseless. In a statement, Chan said the newspaper has refused to apologize or retract its story and he has no choice but to turn to the court, serving the libel notice on Tuesday. “I regret that I have been compelled to turn to the courts to protect my reputation, but given the unjustified tone and content of the Globe’s articles I feel I have no other choice,” Chan said in the statement obtained by The Canadian Press. Chan also called on federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay to apologize for comments he made on the matter. When asked by reporters about the Globe stories, MacKay said he wouldn’t discuss Chan’s specific case because it is an “ongoing investigation.” He later distanced himself from those comments, calling it “asinine” to conclude that CSIS was actively investigating Chan, but the Ontario minister continued to demand an apology. A libel notice is the first step in the litigation process, but does not necessarily mean a lawsuit will be launched. The Globe and Mail did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the newspaper’s editor-inchief has said the paper stands by its stories.
Funeral held in Montreal for slain Quebec woman Samantha Higgins MONTREAL — A funeral was held Saturday in Montreal for a young mother killed and dismembered two weeks ago. The friends and family of Samantha Higgins gathered to remember the 22-year-old, who never made it home after visiting a friend July 6th. Her body was found in a plastic bag three days later in Hinchinbrooke, about 60 kilometres south of Montreal. Higgins’ fiance, Nicholas Fontanelli, has been charged with first-degree murder and committing an indignity to a body. The suspect did not enter a plea and is due back in court Aug. 17 to face the allegations. The couple had two young children.
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Marcel Dupuis of Memramcook, N.B., (right) powers through a log in the single buck event on his way to winning his first STIHL Timbersports Canadian Championship at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Sunday.
Watchdog investigating two police killings in less than a week BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia’s police watchdog is investigating its second police shooting in three days after officers killed a distressed man in Surrey early Saturday, sparking alarm from civil liberties advocates. The Independent Investigations Office said police responded to reports of a suicidal man outside Surrey RCMP headquarters before a struggle ensued and he was fatally shot. A police officer suffered a non-lifethreatening gunshot wound and was taken to hospital, but was expected to be released later that afternoon. The incident follows a fatal RCMP shooting in Dawson Creek on Thursday evening outside a BC Hydro public hearing on the contentious Site C dam project. Officers responded to an unrelated complaint of a disturbance inside the event and encountered a masked man outside. Police have said he refused to comply with directions and was fatally shot. B.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Josh Paterson said police in the province have received more mental health and de-escalation training in recent years — yet shootings of people in apparent distress continue to happen. “You can put in more training modules at police academies. How is that translating out into operations in the field?” he asked. “Police are entrusted with the ability to use force and to use lethal force. With that comes a really high standard of accountability.” The IIO has responded to six officer-involved shootings in B.C. since the beginning of April, including in Vancouver, Burnaby, Salmon Arm and Port Hardy. Spokeswoman Kellie Kilpatrick said in the 2013-14 fiscal year there were five officer-involved shootings, while in 2014-15 there were 11. Kilpatrick said the office was “very busy” but had the resources to deal with the spate of shootings. The Vancouver Police Department issued a report to the police board this
week that reviewed the recommendations of two Ontario-based studies that looked at use of force when dealing with people who have mental illness. Among the VPD’s recommendations were to buy 200 more Tasers and provide more mental health training to officers most likely to come into contact with people in crisis. Pivot Legal Society lawyer Doug King said B.C.’s police community must undergo the same kind of self-reflection that Toronto experienced when 19-year-old Sammy Yatim was shot by officers while holding a knife. He said Tasers can be a more effective tool to disarm someone. “It seems we almost have a gap in our use of force techniques where it escalates very quickly to the use of a firearm, and the use of a firearm is almost always deadly,” said King. Kilpatrick has said a knife was recovered at the scene in Dawson Creek. The B.C. Coroners Service has not released the dead man’s identity but social media posts claim he was affiliated with the loosely-connected online activist group Anonymous. Anonymous has no identifiable leadership and its members are known for wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Its members have claimed responsibility in the past for hacking incidents including the shutdown of the Cleveland city website last fall after the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. User bjaymack9 tweeted on Thursday afternoon that an Anonymous “splinter group” was to attend the Site C meeting in Dawson Creek that night. bYourAnonNews tweeted to its 1.46 million followers Friday: “Ohai brcmpgrcpolice we would like to report a murder of one of our comrades by some of your officers. Shall we expect justice or cover up?” The account retweeted a post by another user bOpAnonDown on Saturday that vowed to identify the officer and to post his personal information online. It called for protests outside RCMP stations across Canada and said it would raise funds for the man’s burial. “We are all aware of this and we take all precautions,” said Kilpatrick of the post.
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New Brunswick woman becomes president of national teacher’s federation OTTAWA — A New Brunswick woman has been elected the new president of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Heather Smith of Bathurst was voted president on Saturday at the group’s annual meeting in Ottawa. Smith takes over from outgoing president Dianne Woloschuk. Smith has been a teacher for more than 30 years, and has held other positions on the federation’s executive committee in the past. In a release Smith said she looks forward to the challenge of the presidency.
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HARNETT THRILLED WITH CANADA’S PERFORMANCE IN WEEK 1 OF PAN AM GAMES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Curt Harnett’s voice was raspy, so he was trying to take it easy over the weekend. He hiked up and down the stairs at Varsity Stadium, tossing pins into the crowd at the Pan American Games archery competition, in between waving a huge Canadian flag. But Canada’s chef de mission — and the team’s head cheerleader — was otherwise keeping quiet. “Still able to talk (barely), which is a good thing,” Harnett said. “I hit it hard. Of course water polo started on the Wednesday before the opening ceremonies, and I kind of maybe overdid it a little bit. “I’ve had a couple of days where I’ve tried to stay quiet, and the crowd’s doing their job. But I can’t contain myself, I’m emotionally invested in all of this, the success of our athletes is important to me as a person, it’s a sense of pride that I can’t seem to shake.” A little over a week into the Pan American Games, there has been plenty of reason to be proud and vocal. Canada topped the medal table through most of Week 1 before falling to second Saturday night. The United States leads with 59 gold and 160 total medals. But Canada stayed with the U.S. in the gold medal standings. The host nation boosted its gold-medal total to 54 on Sunday, capping Day 9 with a wild 7-6, 10-inning win over the United States in the men’s baseball final. Canada’s defence of its 2011 baseball title looked in doubt as it trailed 6-4 heading into the bottom of the 10th. That’s when the Americans completely collapsed. U.S. pitcher David Huff tried to pick off Canada’s Pete Orr at first base, but his throw went into right field to score Skyler Stromsmoe. The U.S. right-fielder’s throw to third then went wide, allowing Orr to score the winning run as
the Canadians beat the Americans for Pan Am gold for the second straight Games. In all Canada won 16 medals Sunday to sit second overall with 142 (54 gold, 48 silver, 40 bronze). Evan Dunfee started things off with gold in the men’s 20-kilometre race walk. His teammate Inaki Gomez captured the silver. Canada had another 1-2 finish in the women’s track cycling sprint, with Monique Sullivan defeating fellow Calgary cyclist Kate O’Brien in the final. Canada finished the day with five total medals in track cycling, while Sullivan became the first Canadian cyclist to win three gold medals at a Pan Am competition. “That’s pretty cool, I didn’t even know that,” Sullivan said of her historic achievement. “Canada has had a pretty strong history in sprinting in general and those people did it more as individuals who stood up and stood out. “Now we’re showing a program where we’re doing it together and it’s a group effort so hopefully we’ll see more consistency.” Jazmyne Denhollander paddled to gold in the women’s K1 whitewater kayak, leading a four-medal day for Canada in canoeing and kayaking slalom events. Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan defended her Pan Am title in women’s trampoline, with Canadian teammate Karen Cockburn winning bronze. Canada swept the golds when Red Deer’s Keegan Soehn won the men’s competition. “There’s been a lot of lead-up to this. Everyone knew I was defending champion, so I really wanted put on a good show and I ended up pulling it off,” said Soehn, 22. “The home crowd was fantastic. It felt like I could do no wrong when I hopped up on the tramp.”
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Red Deer’s Keegan Soehn, of Canada, celebrates winning the gold medal in men’s individual trampoline at the Pan Am Games in Toronto on Sunday.
Hubl wins first chuckwagon championships BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR You might say that Marvin Hubl was past due. A regular competitor in the annual North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships since 1989, the Alhambra driver finally claimed the cherished trophy Sunday at the Westerner track while aboard the Meyers Norris Penny rig. “The one thing about it was that Neil got me at the wire on the dash, but the money comes and goes but the name on the trophy stays forever. I’m pretty pleased with that,” said Hubl, who was runner-up to Neil Salmond in the final heat — the ‘dash-for-cash’ which netted the winner $2,500. Hubl, who posted Saturday’s best time of 1:16.64 in the rain-shortened meet — the second half of Wednesday’s performance was washed out along with the entire Thursday and Friday runs — pretty much knew he had the championship clinched when his wagon crossed the line in 1:16.89 Sunday, good for a total time of 2:33.53. Reed Rosencrans, on the Westerner Park Past Presidents wagon, came into the final heat .21 of a second behind Hubl but finished third in 1:17.18. Salmond, driving the ABC Country Restaurant outfit from Red Deer, was more than a half second behind Hubl in Saturday’s performance, then posted a time of 1:16.64 Sunday and finished with a cumulative clocking of 2:33.84, which earned him runner-up status. Defending champion Lee Adamson of Camrose, aboard the A-1 Supply wagon from his hometown, was also in
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Marvin Hubl pulls his team of horses through the barrels during the final heat of the North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships on Sunday afternoon at Westerner Park. Hubl won the event with a total time of 2:33.53 Sunday’s final foursome and crossed the line in 1:17.23, giving him a total time of 2:34.69 following Saturday’s 1:17.46. The fact the 2015 North American Championships consisted of two performances instead of the usual five took nothing away from Hubl’s triumph, he insisted.
“I had the good runs when it counted,” he said. “The track was excellent, the sponsors were excellent and it turned out to be a fun couple of days here for us with Meyers Norris Penny.” Hubl, whose best previous finish was second but has also turned in multiple top-10 showings over the years, described his current season on the
pony chuckwagon circuit as “up and down”. “I’ve been training new horses,” he said. “I finally put the old team back together this week and it worked excellent for me.” Two-time North American champion Louis Johner, guiding the Red Deer Wei’s Western Wear rig, posted Sunday’s best time — 1:15.72 in the 12th heat. Johner came home in 1:18.14 Saturday night and finished third overall with a total time of 2:33.86. Rosencrans, whose Saturday time was 1:16.85, finished fourth overall in 2:34.03, while Mark Harris, on the Rocky Mountain House Challand Pipeline wagon, rounded out the top five with a total time of 2:34.06. Sunday’s other heat winners: Heat one: Jake Van Ringen, Ol’ MacDonald’s Resort, Erskine, 1:17.82; Heat two: Dale Kobi, PureChem Services, Red Deer, 1:19.90; Heat three: Brad McMann, Bettenson’s Sand and Gravel, Red Deer, 1:16.96; Heat four: Tracy Stott, Wel-Can Welding & Fabrication, Red Deer Country, 1:21.09; Heat five: Albert Whiskeyjack, Westock Frame and Wheel Alignment Ltd., Red Deer, 1:20.79; Heat six: Curtis Wood, Speed Pro Signs, Red Deer, 1:17.81; Heat seven: Darryl Johnston, Marshall Construction, Red Deer County, 1:18.35; Heat eight: Larry Arcand, Terrafirma Resources Ltd., 1:17.97; Heat nine: Linda Shippelt-Hubl, KFC/Taco Bell, Red Deer, 1:18.48; Heat 10: Chris Arcand, CMR Fabricators Ltd., Sylvan Lake, 1:18.95; Heat 11: Gary Thiel, Pumps & Pressure Inc., Red Deer, 1:15.84; Heat 13: Jack Stott, Uncle Ben’s RV, Red Deer, 1:16.29. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
History in the making for Monday finish at St. Andrews BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — For a place dripping with centuries of history, St. Andrews got more than it could have wanted Sunday. Jordan Spieth punched his golf bag in frustration after a careless bogey, perhaps sensing the British Open was slipping away. Just like that, and because this is what Spieth does in big moments, he salvaged his bid for a Grand Slam. He made three straight birdies. He took 10 putts on the inward nine. And when he walked off the 18th green, he had a 6-under 66 and was one shot behind with one round left. “I’m going to play to win,” Spieth said. “I’m not playing for a place. I don’t want to place third tomorrow. I want to win.” But if there is history in the making at the home of golf, it no longer has to come from just Spieth. Fans who filled the two-story grand-
stand and watched from the tops of buildings on Golf Place witnessed a moment not seen at St. Andrews in 88 years — an amateur in the lead going into the final round of the British Open. Paul Dunne, the 22-year-old from Ireland, rolled in putts like this was the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy for amateurs instead of the oldest championship in golf. He played bogey-free for a 66 and shared the lead with former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen and Jason Day. Bobby Jones is the last amateur to win the British Open in 1930 when he came from one shot behind in the final round. He was the last amateur to lead after 54 holes three years earlier at St. Andrews, and he won the claret jug that year, too. Can it happen again? “It’s surreal I’m leading the Open, but I can easily believe that I shot the three scores that I shot,” Dunne said. “If we were playing an amateur event here, I wouldn’t be too surprised by
the scores I shot. It’s just lucky that it happens to be in the biggest event in the world. “Hopefully, I can do it again tomorrow,” he said. “But whether I do or not, I’ll survive either way.” The way the weather-delayed Open ended on Sunday, expect just about anything. Oosthuizen, the last player to lift the claret jug at St. Andrews in 2010 and a runner-up at the U.S. Open last month, birdied three of his last five holes for a 67. Day is just as big of a threat. He shot 67 and shared the lead for the second straight major, and he has challenged in four of them since 2011. They were at 12-under 214, one shot ahead of Spieth with plenty of others that cannot be dismissed Fourteen players were separated by three shots. Half of them were major champions, and there was yet another amateur among them — 21-year-old Jordan Niebrugge of Oklahoma State. Such an opportunity might not come around again for Spieth. Only three
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other players won the first two legs of the Grand Slam since the modern version began in 1960. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods only got one shot at it, and none ever started the final round of the British Open so close to the lead. And so it was Spieth, a 21-year-old Texan with an uncanny sense of occasion, who brought the grey, old town to life in a mixture of sunshine and rain. He rolled in birdie putts on the 10th, 11th and 12th holes to share the lead. He saved par from the high grass on the 13th, stuffed his approach to 4 feet for birdie on the 15th and made another tough par save on the Road Hole at the 17th. A victory would send him to the PGA Championship with a shot at the Grand Slam, and at worse put him in elite company. Ben Hogan in 1953 is the only other player to capture the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open in the same year.
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Stamps edge Bombers with late FG BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 26 Blue Bombers 25 CALGARY — Juwan Simpson preserved a big win for the Stampeders on Saturday with a key interception late in the game. The veteran linebacker picked off an errant pass by quarterback Drew Willy with 23 seconds remaining as Calgary edged the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 26-25 in front of 29,255 fans at McMahon Stadium. “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” said Simpson, who also had four tackles. “It felt good to be able to seal it for my team. We’ve been in this situation before. There was no panic by anybody on the team. We just keep fighting through. These are the games that you cherish because you realize how hard you fought to come back and get that win.” The Stamps (3-1) erased a 16-point deficit and won the game thanks to a 40-yard field goal by Rene Paredes, which was followed by Simpson’s heroics. “Fortunately we made a play at the end to seal the game,” said Calgary coach and general manager John Hufnagel. “(Parades) hit a big one. We needed it.” Following the game-winning kick by Paredes at 12:46 of the fourth quarter, Winnipeg’s Liram Hajrullahu had a chance to put the Bombers back out in front but he missed a 52-yard field goal attempt. “I’m trying to do my best out there and fell a little short today,” said Hajrullahu. “I’m going to learn from this and I’m going to be better for next week for my teammates and my coaches.” Bo Levi Mitchell, who started at QB for Calgary, threw a touchdown pass
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BRIEFS Silverbacks sweep North division final The Blackfalds Silverbacks overpowerd the visiting Vermilion Rage during the weekend en route to sweeping the best-of-three Rocky Mountain House Lacrosse League Senior C North Division final series. The Silverbacks prevailed in a pair of one-sided contests, winning 17-3 Sunday following a 17-5 wipeout Saturday. “I don’t want to say anything bad about the team we played,” said ‘Backs manager Chris Davis, whose squad romped through regular-season play with a perfect 12-0 slate. “They don’t have a lot of experience. If you took the years of lacrosse experience on our team to their team, it’s almost like a five-to-one, six-to-one advantage for us.” Brandon Kripps and Tyler McRobbie each netted three goals for the 2014 provincial champion Silverbacks in Sunday’s contest. Trent Oleson, Myles Nadon and Luke Flett each sniped a pair and Geordin Flett, Harry Thomp-
to Eric Rogers, while his backup Drew Tate had a rushing TD. Adam Thibault scored another touchdown for Calgary after picking up a blocked punt and running it into the end zone, while Paredes also kicked a pair of singles. Willy threw a pair of long touchdown passes to Clarence Denmark and Darvin Adams, while backup quarterback Brian Brohm ran for another TD. Hajrullahu kicked a field goal and added two singles for the Bombers (22). “It all stings,” said Winnipeg coach Mike O’Shea. “It’s sickening. We’ve got a team like Calgary on the ropes and we let them off the hook. We’re not smart enough yet. We need to play smarter football and they all know it. The positive out of it is these guys expect way more out of themselves.” The Bombers jumped out to an early 8-0 lead thanks to a 93-yard single by Hajrullahu followed by a 75-yard touchdown catch by Denmark. After Brohm plunged into the end zone for a one-yard TD to cap off an eight-play, 53-yard drive, Hajrullahu booted an 80-yard single to put Winnipeg up 16-0. Late in the first quarter, Calgary’s Randy Chevrier recovered a fumble by Bombers punt returner Troy Stoudermire at the Winnipeg 30-yard line. Three plays later, Rogers caught a 19-yard touchdown pass from Mitchell, who hooked up with the same target in the end zone for a two-point convert. The Stamps then settled for a single point early in the second quarter when Paredes missed a 26-yard field goal. Adam Berger, who earlier forced the fumble by Stoudermire, then blocked a punt by Hajrullahu and Thibault promptly picked up the ball and ran it in for a 10-yard score. Parades made up for missing the convert by booting a 95-yard single on the ensuing son, Shandi Werenka, Justin Kinnear and Ray Williams also tallied. Scoring in Saturday’s outing were Kinnear with three goals, Thompson, Oleson, McRobbie and Andrew Munden each with two, and Kripps, Williams, Werenka, Troy Klaus, Kevin Brown and Geordin Flett with singles. Blackfalds will host the South champion Airdrie Mohawks in the best-ofthree Alberta Lacrosse Association senior C provincial championship series this weekend. While the exact dates and times have yet to be determined, Davis said he expects the series to be played Saturday and Sunday. If the teams are tied after two games, a 10-minute mini-game will decide the series.
Rampage roll to 2-0 series lead over St. Albert The Red Deer TBS Rampage employed a balanced attack Saturday while posting a 6-3 Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League junior B tier 1 playoff win over the visiting St. Albert Crude. Scoring for the Rampage, who took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series, were Logan Sinclair, Ryan Beatson, Mack Hawthorne, Dawson Reykdal, Levi Whitney and Dustin Bell, who also added two assists. Brendan Machan was the winning netminder.
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Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Bruce Johnson, right, closes in on Calgary Stampeders’ Joe West during first half CFL action in Calgary, Saturday. kickoff to tie up the score at 16-16. The Stamps took their first lead of the game at 12:35 of the third quarter when Tate ran for a one-yard touchdown to cap off an impressive 11-play, 107-yard drive. Running back Jon Cornish carried the ball four times for 66 yards on the drive. The Bombers answered right back when Adams caught a pass from Willy
at mid-field and ran the rest of the way for a 79-yard score. After Hajrullahu missed the convert, the Stamps were left with a one-point lead heading into the final quarter. Hajrullahu then booted a 49-yard field goal at 8:07 of the fourth to put Winnipeg back up 25-23 before Paredes answered back with the game-winning kick.
The Red Deer squad knocked off the Crude 10-6 Friday at the Kinex, getting three goals from Beatson, two from each of Reykdal and Bell and singles courtesy of Kaden Christensen, Lorne Baile and Devin Sheridan. Machan earned the victory in net. The Rampage can complete a series sweep Friday at St. Albert, which will also host a fourth game if necessary 24 hours later. A fifth and deciding game, if needed, will go Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Kinex. ● The Rampage had their white jerseys slolen from a vehicle either late Saturday or early Sunday. The jerseys were in a black bag imprinted with the Rampage name and logo. ● The Red Deer Renegades were ousted from the junior B tier 2 playoffs during the weekend, falling 9-8 and 8-6 to the host Medicine Hat Sun Devils.
Cubs pitcher Riley Moskaluk handcuffed the Riggers with a completegame, two-hit performance, while Tate Uzda, who cracked a double and drove in a run, and Dan Chappel were each two-for-three at the plate. Joel Peterman started on the Riggers mound and was charged with the loss, giving up four runs through one and two-thirds innings. Joel Edwards pitched shutout ball through the final five and two-thirds frames. Jason Louis accounted for both Red Deer hits. The Sherwood Park Athletics got past the St. Albert Tigers in the other semifinal of the six-team tournament, then took out the Cubs 8-5 in the championship contest Sunday evening as Tommy Muhlethaler slugged a pair of homers and drove in five runs. The Calgary Cardinals, whom the Riggers defeated Saturday 12-1 night, and the Calgary Wolfpack both finished 0-2. Jaret Chatwood had three hits — including a run-scoring double — for Red Deer in their win over the Cards, with Louis adding a trio of singles, Joel Mazurkewich contributing two hits and driving in a run and Jason Chatwood singling home a pair of runs. Dustin Northcott pitched a complete-game, five-inning (mercy rule) two-hitter for the Riggers, who host the Parkland White Sox in a Sunburst League game Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Riggers fall in semifinals at host tournament The Red Deer Riggers were not perfect on the field, but they were perfect hosts. The Riggers advanced to the semifinals of their own weekend tournament at Great Chief Park with a pair of victories, but then fell 4-0 to Sunburst Baseball League foes Edmonton Confederation Park Cubs Sunday afternoon.
up,” said Harnett, who turned 50 recently. They showed up.
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GAMES: Taken advantage of home court Canada will get the chance to try for at least one more gold on Monday. Canada’s women’s basketball team routed Brazil 91-63 Sunday to set up a goldmedal showdown with the Americans. The Canadians, who came in with a goal of a top-two finish, have never won the Pan Am Games. Canada’s best finish was second in Winnipeg in 1967. But as the host country, Canada compiled its largest — and arguably strongest — team ever, of 719 athletes, and the results are showing. “The performance of the team is on par with what our targets were. . . and of course knowing that, with the number of athletes that we were bringing, specifically A-team athletes, that performance on the field of play would be top shelf and put them on the podium,” said Harnett, a three-time Olympic medallist in track cycling. “I think the more exciting thing is the athletes who have risen to the occasion, have taken advantage of the home court, homefield advantage and the home crowd, and raised their game, and captured gold medals,” he added. “So it’s a great combination.” Canada’s women’s K-4 kayak team of Michelle Russell, Emilie Fournel, KC Fraser and Hannah Vaughan got the parade to the podium going, winning gold on the morning of Day 1. Numerous memorable performances followed, including: — Double gold by the men’s and women’s rugby sevens teams. Women’s rugby made its Pan Am debut, and Canada made history in commanding fashion, crushing its opposition 28519 through six games, and demolishing the U.S. 55-7 in the final. The men clawed their way to a 22-19 win over Argentina. — Five medals (three gold, a silver and bronze) for Ellie Black, a 19-yearold gymnast from Halifax. — A one-two finish in women’s mountain biking. Canada’s Emily Batty and Catharine Pendrel pulled away from the pack in what essentially was a two-woman race. Batty, from Brooklin,
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Canada’s multi medalists Monique Sullivan (right), who won three gold medals in women’s sprint, women’s kreirin and women’s team sprint, stands with Hugo Barrette (left), who won two golds in men’s sprint and men’s team sprint, plus a bronze in men’s keirin, and Kate O’Brien, who won a gold in women’s team sprint and a silver in women’s sprint, in track cycling at the Pan Am games in Milton, Ont., on Sunday. Ont., won the gold, while Pendrel, from Harvey Station, N.B., claimed silver. — A Rio Olympic spot secured. Jacqueline Simoneau of Saint-Laurent, Que., and Karine Thomas of Gatineau, Que., dominated the synchronized swimming duet, to win gold and clinch an Olympic berth. The two added another gold when Canada captured the team event. — A Canadian swim team that raked in 27 medals including eight gold. Victoria’s Ryan Cochrane and Winnipeg’s Chantal Van Landeghem were double gold medallists and 17-year-old Emily Overholt of West Vancouver, B.C., collected one medal of every colour. Heading into Week 2, Canada can expect many more medals, especially in track and field — based both on the sheer number of medals available and the strength of the squad. Andre De Grasse, a 20-year-old who won both the 100 and 200 metres at the NCAA championships in stunning fashion, headlines a Canadian team that has numerous top-ranked athletes. For Harnett, the victories won’t have simply been about the interrupt-
ed march to the medal podium, but also the intangibles — the energy and enthusiasm of a Canadian team competing at home, some for the first time. “The energy in the (athletes) village and the energy is really really significant,” Harnett said. “Just the other day, Ellie Black is walking out of the village and some of the track athletes are coming in and there’s a high-five exchange going on. There’s this collective energy. “Ellie is high off the five medals she won in gymnastics and these athletes had been watching that on television, and following it through social media and they’re coming in with this energy that keeps us all going. And that’s really what’s exciting about what’s happening here and the overall attitude and spirit of this team.” And despite dire predictions that Toronto wouldn’t embrace the Games, fans are showing up, most venues are crowded, many are sold out. Harnett is happy. “It’s like throwing a 50th birthday party, and sending out 85 invitations, and then waiting to see if anyone turns
“Only one person has ever done it before. That opportunity very rarely comes around,” Spieth said. “And I’d like to have a chance to do something nobody has ever done. ... To be able to go into the last major and accomplish something that’s never been done in our sport is something that only comes around to a couple people ever. And I’d like to be one of those people to have that happen.” Canada’s Graham Delaet of Weyburn, Sask., had his best round so far at the British Open. He had five birdies to finish at 4-under 68. He’ll enter the fourth round tied for 45th at 4-under. Rarely has the Old Course been as easy as it was Sunday. One day after raging wind off the Eden Estuary caused a 10-hour delay and forced a Monday finish, the flags were soaked from passing showers and limp from no wind. The leaderboards were loaded with birdies, and seven players had at least a share of the lead at some point in the third round. That’s what made Dustin Johnson’s collapse so shocking. With a one-shot lead after powering his way around St. Andrews for 36 holes, he was the last player in the field to make a birdie Sunday, and that wasn’t until the 15th hole. He followed with three straight bogeys for a 75 to fall five shots behind. Spieth, the youngest professional in the field, seemed calm despite the historic moment in front of him. His goal at the start of the week was to treat the British Open like any other tournament he was trying to win. Even during the long delay on Saturday, he said he hasn’t thought much about the slam. There is no escaping it now, and Spieth doesn’t see that as a problem. “If I have a chance coming down the stretch, if it creeps in, I’ll embrace it,” he said. “I’ll embrace the opportunity that presents itself. As far as handling it, I don’t look at it as a negative thing. I look at it almost as an advantage. Why should it add more pressure in a negative way?”
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Estrada leads Jays to win over Rays BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 4 Rays 0 TORONTO — Marco Estrada offers a change of pace for the Toronto Blue Jays. Moved from the bullpen to bolster the starting rotation early in May, the right-hander has provided innings and excellence for the Jays this season. Estrada was at it again Sunday, using his changeup effectively in facing only one batter above the minimum over eight innings as Toronto shutout the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0. “He (Estrada) was as good as you could be tonight,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “He’s got that knack of making that big pitch, getting that big out when you have to have it. He’s very composed. You can’t rattle him. He’s got that equalizing pitch, that changeup. That’s the pitch that got him to the big leagues. That’s the difference maker for him. He’ll use it at any time. Chris Colabello and Jose Bautista each hit two-run homers to make sure Estrada’s effort was not in vain as Toronto finally figured out a way to beat Rays starter Chris Archer. Estrada (7-5) held Tampa to three hits with no walks and five strikeouts to win for the sixth time in his past eight starts. “I don’t think I located as well in the first few innings whereas as the game kept going I started locating a little better,” Estrada said. “It was just one of those days, hopefully you throw the ball down, keep it down and elevate it when you need to and then hopefully the changeup
is there and the defence was great today.” Estrada has had previous success against the Rays. He took a perfect game into the eighth against them on June 24, but didn’t factor in the decision. Logan Forsythe’s single with one out in the eighth was Estrada’s first runner since the third inning. Archer (9-7) allowed five hits, one walk and two runs while striking out six in seven innings. Archer won his first three starts against the Jays this season with a 0.54 earned-run average. In the right-hander’s 12 career starts against them before Sunday, he was 5-1 with a 2.51 earned-run average. “The big thing was to beat Archer,” Gibbons said. “He’s been a nemesis of ours.” Colabello gave Toronto a 2-0 lead in the fifth with his ninth homer of the season. He hit an 0-1 slider to left to score Justin Smoak, who had singled with one out. Brandon Gomes replaced Archer in the eighth and walked Josh Donaldson before giving up Bautista’s 19th homer of the season. It was Bautista’s second home run in as many days. Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth for Toronto, allowing one hit and striking out three. Toronto climbed back to .500 at 4747 — the same record as the Rays — with the series win. Notes — Toronto has Monday off before visiting the Oakland Athletics for a three-game series starting Tuesday. LHP Mark Buehrle (10-5, 3.34 earnedrun average) will start the opener against Oakland. Former Blue Jays prospect RHP Kendall Graveman (6-5,
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Toronto Blue Jays batter Jose Reyes connects with the ball for a ground out against the Tampa Bay Rays during first inning MLB action in Toronto on Sunday. 3.38 ERA) counters for the A’s....RHP Aaron Sanchez (right lat strain) is expected to rejoin the Blue Jays and will be used as a reliever after his second rehabilitation outing with Triple-A
Buffalo on Tuesday. Manager John Gibbons said he will be put in the bullpen because it is an area that needs bolstering....Announced attendance at Rogers Centre was 41,683.
Piercy wins Barbasol Championship for third PGA Tour title BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OPELIKA, Ala. — Scott Piercy’s surgically repaired elbow and his game seem to be in fine shape. Piercy won the Barbasol Championship on Sunday for his third PGA Tour title, closing with a 6-under 65 for a three-stroke victory. He began the season on a major medical extension after surgery on his right elbow early last year. Piercy said that did spark initial fears about how he’d fare upon his return. “I just knew it was a matter of time coming back and it’s been a long road,” he said. “My whole goal after coming back from surgery was to come back better. The way I played (Sunday) compared to my last two victories was a lot better. I struck the ball so well, so I’d say I’m kind of right where I imagined I would be.” The 36-year-old Las Vegas player made a 57-foot birdie putt on the second hole en route to his first victory since the 2012 Canadian Open. Tied for the third-round lead with Ricky Barnes, Piercy birdied three of four holes starting on No. 13 and finished at 19 under on Grand National’s Lake Course. Piercy hit 17 greens in regulation in the final round. “I struck it beautifully all week and made enough putts to get it done,” he said. Piercy finished second at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January before capturing the inaugural Alabama event for players who didn’t make the British Open field.
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Scott Piercy, of Las Vegas, kisses the trophy after he wins the Barbasol Championship golf tournament Sunday, in Opelika, Ala. Piercy had a bogey and double bogey on the first four holes Thursday after arriving the previous morning and not getting in a practice round. He appeared quite comfortable on the course after that. Birmingham native Will Wilcox was
second after a 67, virtually guaranteeing a PGA Tour card for next season in just 13 starts. It was his second straight top-10 finish. “That’s something I never thought in a million years I would have done,” he said.
Wilcox closed with two straight birdies, pumping his fists and hollering after sinking a 60-foot birdie putt on the closing hole. The former UAB player had once made dough at a local pizza place during a short time living in neighbouring Auburn and estimated he had 50-60 friends and family members on hand. “Having my family here, you always dream about doing something like that in front of them,” Wilcox said. “Just the good vibes were flowing this week. It just worked out so well. My aunt and uncles, they’d never seen me play. The fact that I could finish solo second in front of them was pretty shocking.” Barnes, University of Alabama junior Robby Shelton and South Korea’s Whee Kim tied for third at 14 under. Shelton shot 67, Kim 69, and Barnes 70. Shelton, a two-time All-American, had four straight rounds in the 60s. It was the best finish by an amateur since Phil Mickelson won the Northern Telecom Open in Tuscon, Arizona, in 1991. Shelton is the 18th amateur since 1940 to finish in the top three. “It was amazing,” said Shelton, from Mobile. “I played well, that’s all I could ask for. To do this with a sponsor exemption, it’s great. I mean, I’m speechless right now.” Barnes was seeking his first PGA Tour victory in 202 starts, but finished with a 70 and bogeyed the final hole. It was his best finish since taking second at the 2009 U.S. Open, the only other time he shared a 54-hole lead. The round was delayed 1 hour, 20 minutes because of rain and lightning before the leaders teed off.
Chella Choi wins Marathon Classic in playoff for first LPGA Tour victory SYLVANIA, Ohio — Ji Leon Choi promised his daughter he would caddie for her until she won the LPGA Tour. Chella Choi isn’t so sure she’s ready to break up the team after winning the Marathon Classic on Sunday. “My father wants to retire because we promise, but I don’t know,” Choi said. “We will talk later.” The 24-year-old South Korean player broke through in her 157th start on the tour, beating compatriot Ha Na Jang with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. “You know, first time win is hard,” Choi said. “I cannot believe it. Hopefully, this is a turning point for me. ...
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Monday finish at British won’t hurt Canadian Open field: Golf Canada CEO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MARKHAM, Ont. — The first Monday finish at the British Open in almost 30 years won’t negatively affect the RBC Canadian Open, according to Golf Canada CEO Scott Simmons. Rain and wind disrupted play at The Open Championship at St. Andrews in Scotland this weekend, forcing the entire final round to Monday for the first time since 1988. With the Canadian Open next on the PGA Tour schedule, beginning Thursday at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont., there might’ve been some concern that the late finish at the British would hurt the field. Simmons said it won’t. “Not at all,” Simmons said after the inaugural golf competition at the Pan Am Games. “It’s literally just the guys
It’s been a long time, seven years. So, I was really, really excited and happy.” In the playoff on the par-5 18th, Choi chipped onto the green from 87 yards and two-putted from 25 yards for the par — holing a 1-footer for the victory. Jang bogeyed the hole after hitting approach long into high rough. Choi closed with a 5-under 66 to match Jang at 14-under 270. Jang, the leader after each of the first three round, finished with a 68. Jang didn’t speak to the media after the round. Choi opened with a 73, then moved into contention with rounds of 66 and 65. “I made just made one birdie on Thursday,” Choi said. Her father was a police officer before joining her on the course. are coming a day later.” Simmons said the biggest impact would be on Monday’s pro-am with Canadian players, Toronto Maple Leafs alumni and current player Peter Holland. Canadians Graham DeLaet and David Hearn won’t be able to take part because they were still overseas. Several Canadians will still take part, including PGA Tour rookies Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor, both natives of Abbotsford, B.C. There are 14 Canadians set to play in the Canadian Open, with Mike Weir the most notable absence. Weir announced Friday he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from pro golf for personal reasons. Golf Canada said a total of 156 players will be in the field, which has a purse of US $5.8 million. The field includes three top-10-ranked players in Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk and Jason Day, along with defending champion Tim Clark, Vijay Singh and Hall of Famer Ernie Els. Louis Oosthuizen, Jason Day and amateur Paul Dunne shared the British Open lead at 12-under going into the final round. DeLaet was tied for 45th at 4-under, while Hearn missed the cut.
“I work with my father eight years and somebody say like that’s why I don’t win, just for my caddie,” Choi said. “So I’m so exciting with my father.” Choi earned $225,000. She will jump from 40th to 25th in the world ranking. Second-ranked Lydia Ko, the winner last year, had a 67 to tie for second with Shanshan Feng at 13 under. Fend also shot 67. “I’m happy that I could give it a run for it to defend the title,” Ko said. “Seeing how average my first day score
was, to be top five or whatever, I think it’s a good finish for the week. “I played really solid the front nine, and that’s all I could really do. I know it would have been great if I could continue that on the back nine, but it just wasn’t going.” Playing a group in front of the leaders, Ko was looking for a birdie on No. 18 to reach 14 under, but made a par. “I hit a great 3-wood off the tee and miss-hit it on the second shot,” Ko said. “I guess it’s not the worst place to be, but it’s not the best place to be either.”
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Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 50 41 .549 Baltimore 46 45 .505 Tampa Bay 47 47 .500 Toronto 47 47 .500 Boston 42 49 .462
Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m. Toronto at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. GB — 4 4 1/2 4 1/2 8
Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago
Central Division W L Pct 55 35 .611 50 42 .543 45 46 .495 44 47 .484 42 48 .467
GB — 6 10 1/2 11 1/2 13
Los Angeles Houston Texas Oakland Seattle
West Division W L Pct 50 40 .556 51 43 .543 43 48 .473 43 51 .457 42 50 .457
GB — 1 7 1/2 9 9
Saturday’s Games Seattle 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 6, 13 innings Baltimore 3, Detroit 0 Cleveland 9, Cincinnati 4 Texas 7, Houston 6 L.A. Angels 3, Boston 0 Oakland 3, Minnesota 2, 10 innings
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 77 277 43 97 .350 Fielder Tex 89 350 42 118 .337 Kipnis Cle 90 359 61 117 .326 LCain KC 80 308 57 99 .321 JIglesias Det 80 265 24 85 .321 Trout LAA 90 332 69 102 .307 NCruz Sea 90 338 44 103 .305 Bogaerts Bos 87 324 39 98 .302 Burns Oak 66 285 40 86 .302 MMachado Bal 91 350 58 105 .300 Home Runs Trout, Los Angeles, 27; JMartinez, Detroit, 26; Pujols, Los Angeles, 26; Teixeira, New York, 23; Donaldson, Toronto, 22; NCruz, Seattle, 21; Dozier, Minnesota, 20; MMachado, Baltimore, 20. Runs Batted In Bautista, Toronto, 63; Teixeira, New York, 63; Donaldson, Toronto, 62; KMorales, Kansas City, 62; JMartinez, Detroit, 60; BMcCann, New York, 58; Vogt, Oakland, 57. Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 12-4; FHernandez, Seattle, 115; Gray, Oakland, 10-4; McHugh, Houston, 10-5; Buehrle, Toronto, 10-5; Richards, Los Angeles, 106; Carrasco, Cleveland, 10-7.
Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia
Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 2, Seattle 1 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 0 Baltimore 9, Detroit 3 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Houston 10, Texas 0 Oakland 14, Minnesota 1 Boston at Los Angeles, ppd., rain Monday’s Games Boston (E.Rodriguez 5-2) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 6-4), 3:05 p.m., 1st game Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-0) at Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 0-5), 5:05 p.m. Seattle (Happ 4-5) at Detroit (Simon 8-6), 5:08 p.m. Pittsburgh (Burnett 7-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 4-6), 6:10 p.m. Texas (N.Martinez 5-5) at Colorado (Rusin 3-3), 6:40 p.m. Boston (S.Wright 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 3-0), 8:05 p.m., 2nd game Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Seattle at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Boston at Houston, 6:10 p.m. Cleveland at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.
St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee
National League East Division W L Pct 49 41 .544 48 44 .522 43 49 .467 38 54 .413 32 62 .340
GB — 2 7 12 19
Central Division W L Pct 58 34 .630 53 38 .582 49 41 .544 40 49 .449 41 52 .441
GB — 4 1/2 8 16 1/2 17 1/2
West Division W L Pct 53 40 .570 49 43 .533 43 49 .467 42 48 .467 39 51 .433
GB — 3 1/2 9 1/2 9 1/2 12 1/2
Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado
Saturday’s Games Washington 5, L.A. Dodgers 3, comp. of susp. game L.A. Dodgers 4, Washington 2 Philadelphia 3, Miami 1 Chicago Cubs 4, Atlanta 0 Cleveland 9, Cincinnati 4 Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 12, N.Y. Mets 2 San Francisco 8, Arizona 4 San Diego 5, Colorado 4
Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 5, Washington 0 Philadelphia 8, Miami 7 Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 1 N.Y. Mets 3, St. Louis 1, 18 innings San Francisco 2, Arizona 1 Colorado at San Diego, ppd., rain Chicago Cubs 4, Atlanta 1
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Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Harvey 8-6) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-4), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-0) at Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 0-5), 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Richard 1-0) at Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-4), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Beachy 0-1) at Atlanta (Wisler 3-1), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Burnett 7-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 4-6), 6:10 p.m. Texas (N.Martinez 5-5) at Colorado (Rusin 3-3), 6:40 p.m. Miami (Phelps 4-5) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 6-5), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (T.Hudson 5-7) at San Diego (Kennedy 4-9), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Cleveland at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Miami at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
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PGA-Barbasol Championship Sunday At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Grand National, Lake Course Opelika, Ala. Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,302; Par: 71 Final a-amateur Scott Piercy, $630,000 69-66-65-65 — 265 Will Wilcox, $378,000 66-70-65-67 — 268 Ricky Barnes, $203,000 67-68-65-70 — 270 Whee Kim, $203,000 67-66-68-69 — 270 Robby Shelton, $0 68-69-66-67 — 270 Austin Cook, $122,938 69-70-65-67 — 271 Mark Hensby, $122,938 69-64-68-70 — 271 Andrew Loupe, $122,938 68-70-68-65 — 271 Boo Weekley, $122,938 67-69-68-67 — 271 Aaron Baddeley, $84,000 69-72-64-67 — 272 Blayne Barber, $84,000 69-67-68-68 — 272 Emiliano Grillo, $84,000 68-66-67-71 — 272 Andres Romero, $84,000 71-64-69-68 — 272 Vaughn Taylor, $84,000 71-69-63-69 — 272 Johnson Wagner, $84,000 69-68-66-69 — 272 Jason Gore, $59,500 65-73-63-72 — 273 Tom Hoge, $59,500 68-71-69-65 — 273 Scott Langley, $59,500 72-67-69-65 — 273 Jonathan Byrd, $47,250 68-69-69-68 — 274 Martin Flores, $47,250 66-74-68-66 — 274 Martin Piller, $47,250 69-66-70-69 — 274 David Toms, $47,250 69-66-72-67 — 274 Roberto Castro, $29,944 69-70-69-67 — 275 J.J. Henry, $29,944 68-67-71-69 — 275 Ryo Ishikawa, $29,944 68-69-69-69 — 275 Duffy Waldorf, $29,944 72-69-67-67 — 275 Steven Alker, $29,944 69-72-65-69 — 275 Alex Cejka, $29,944 69-66-69-71 — 275 Ken Duke, $29,944 68-68-69-70 — 275 Alex Prugh, $29,944 72-68-66-69 — 275 Kyle Stanley, $29,944 70-67-67-71 — 275 Zac Blair, $21,219 72-66-69-69 — 276 Trevor Immelman, $21,219 70-69-67-70 — 276 Sam Saunders, $21,219 64-70-69-73 — 276 Chris Stroud, $21,219 70-70-70-66 — 276 Charlie Beljan, $18,025 70-64-74-69 — 277 Glen Day, $18,025 72-63-70-72 — 277 Wes Homan, $18,025 71-70-70-66 — 277 Matt Bettencourt, $13,650 69-69-72-68 — 278 Erik Compton, $13,650 67-73-70-68 — 278 Chesson Hadley, $13,650 69-72-68-69 — 278 Charles Howell III, $13,650 72-68-72-66 — 278 Doug LaBelle II, $13,650 69-71-68-70 — 278 Spencer Levin, $13,650 68-69-70-71 — 278 Troy Matteson, $13,650 70-71-69-68 — 278 Jonathan Randolph, $13,650 71-69-67-71 — 278 Michael Thompson, $13,650 67-70-71-70 — 278 Arjun Atwal, $8,708 69-68-72-70 — 279 Chad Campbell, $8,708 70-69-72-68 — 279 Andres Gonzales, $8,708 69-71-67-72 — 279 John Merrick, $8,708 76-65-66-72 — 279 Shaun Micheel, $8,708 73-68-68-70 — 279
Carlos Sainz Jr, $8,708 Roger Sloan, $8,708 Andrew Svoboda, $8,708 Garrett Willis, $8,708 Mark Wilson, $8,708 Ryan Armour, $7,840 Carlos Ortiz, $7,840 Kyle Reifers, $7,840 Cameron Beckman, $7,560 G. Fdez-Castano, $7,560 Bill Lunde, $7,560 Parker McLachlin, $7,560 Tyrone Van Aswegen, $7,560 Smylie Kaufman, $7,210 John Peterson, $7,210 Chris Riley, $7,210 Byron Smith, $7,210 Chris Smith, $7,210 Michael Block, $7,000 Billy Hurley III, $6,825 Brandt Jobe, $6,825 D.A. Points, $6,825 Richy Werenski, $6,825 Steve Lowery, $6,650 Josh Teater, $6,580 D.J. Trahan, $6,510 Maverick McNealy, $0 Zack Sucher, $6,440
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LPGA Marathon Classic Sunday At Highland Meadows Golf Club Sylvania, Ohio Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,506; Par: 71 Final Choi won on first playoff hole Chella Choi, $225,000 73-66-65-66 Ha Na Jang, $139,217 66-67-69-68 Lydia Ko, $89,559 71-66-67-67 Shanshan Feng, $89,559 69-67-68-67 Hyo Joo Kim, $52,465 71-68-67-67 Brittany Lang, $52,465 68-71-66-68 Q Baek, $52,465 68-67-68-70 Azahara Munoz, $34,173 73-68-68-65 Angela Stanford, $34,173 68-68-69-69 Inbee Park, $34,173 70-67-67-70 Cristie Kerr, $26,753 69-72-69-65 Haru Nomura, $26,753 71-69-67-68 Austin Ernst, $26,753 70-68-66-71 Kim Kaufman, $21,570 71-68-71-66 So Yeon Ryu, $21,570 72-69-67-68 Stacy Lewis, $21,570 71-68-69-68 Sei Young Kim, $21,570 68-70-69-69 Lexi Thompson, $17,874 72-67-71-67 Jenny Shin, $17,874 68-73-66-70 Mi Hyang Lee, $17,874 71-68-68-70 Jaye Marie Green, $17,874 69-70-68-70 Amy Anderson, $13,804 68-74-71-65 Sakura Yokomine, $13,804 72-68-71-67 Danielle Kang, $13,804 72-71-67-68 Minjee Lee, $13,804 69-72-69-68 Mo Martin, $13,804 72-68-70-68 Yani Tseng, $13,804 71-65-71-71 Moriya Jutanugarn, $13,804 71-66-69-72 Lee-Anne Pace, $13,804 67-70-69-72 Alena Sharp, $13,804 68-70-67-73 Dewi Claire Schreefel, $13,80468-68-69-73 Paula Creamer, $10,594 71-70-69-69 Natalie Gulbis, $10,594 72-71-66-70 Xi Yu Lin, $10,594 73-67-67-72 Eun-Hee Ji, $9,375 71-71-71-67 Mika Miyazato, $9,375 71-71-68-70 Caroline Masson, $9,375 68-69-73-70 Gerina Piller, $8,613 69-68-73-71
● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks, Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Play it Again Sports Athletics; 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.
Tuesday ● Senior men’s baseball: Canadian Brewhouse Rays at Printing Place Padres, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Sunburst baseball: Parkland White Sox at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.
Wednesday ● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Sun Tour tournament at Olds. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Black at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe Dodgers at Innisfail Indians, 7 p.m.
Thursday
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Goldschmidt Ari 90 326 60 111 .340 DGordon Mia 84 361 46 122 .338 Harper Was 84 285 60 96 .337 YEscobar Was 81 315 43 102 .324 Tulowitzki Col 81 299 45 95 .318 Posey SF 86 315 47 100 .317 Aoki SF 67 262 33 83 .317 Panik SF 88 340 52 107 .315 LeMahieu Col 86 323 46 101 .313 GParra Mil 90 288 43 90 .313 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Frazier, Cincinnati, 25; Arenado, Colorado, 24; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 21; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 20; Pederson, Los Angeles, 20. Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 72; Arenado, Colorado, 70; Stanton, Miami, 67; Harper, Washington, 64; Posey, San Francisco, 63; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 58; Braun, Milwaukee, 57; Frazier, Cincinnati, 57. Pitching GCole, Pittsburgh, 13-3; Arrieta, Chicago, 11-5; Wacha, St. Louis, 10-3; CMartinez, St. Louis, 10-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 10-5; Scherzer, Washington, 10-8; Greinke, Los Angeles, 9-2.
Golf British Open Scores Sunday At St. Andrews (Old Course) St. Andrews, Scotland Purse: $9.28 million Yardage: 7,297; Par: 72 Third Round (a-amateur) a-Paul Dunne Louis Oosthuizen Jason Day Jordan Spieth Padraig Harrington Marc Leishman a-Jordan Niebrugge Sergio Garcia Justin Rose Retief Goosen Robert Streb Adam Scott Zach Johnson Danny Willett Eddie Pepperell Charl Schwartzel Steven Bowditch Rickie Fowler Ryan Palmer Patrick Reed Stewart Cink Anthony Wall Hideki Matsuyama Marc Warren Dustin Johnson Jim Furyk a-Ashley Chesters Greg Chalmers Brooks Koepka Matt Jones Anirban Lahiri Paul Lawrie David Duval Hunter Mahan Jason Dufner Ben Martin Marcus Fraser Andy Sullivan David Lingmerth Martin Kaymer Webb Simpson Jimmy Walker Geoff Ogilvy Luke Donald John Senden Graham DeLaet Rafael Cabrera-Bello Harris English a-Oliver Schniederjans Kevin Na James Morrison Phil Mickelson David Lipsky a-Romain Langasque Greg Owen Russell Henley Lee Westwood Brendon Todd Ernie Els Thongchai Jaidee Richie Ramsay Brett Rumford Gary Woodland Graeme McDowell Matt Kuchar Henrik Stenson Jamie Donaldson
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● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports at Printing Place Padres, Gary
What Canada Did at the Pan Am Games TORONTO — What Canada Did on Sunday at the Pan American Games (distances in metres unless specified): ATHLETICS Men’s 20-kilometre race walk — Evan Dunfee, Richmond, B.C., won the gold medal in one hour, 23 minutes and six seconds; Inaki Gomez, Vancouver, finished 1:19 later to earn the silver medal. Women’s 20-kilometre race walk — Rachel Seaman, Peterborough, Ont., placed sixth in the event (1:32.49); Katelynn Ramage, Nanaimo, B.C, finished 12th (1:46:03). BASEBALL Men — Canada (7-1) won the gold medal 7-6 in 10 innings over the U.S. BASKETBALL Women — Canada (4-0) defeated Brazil 91-63 in the semifinals and will play the U.S. for the gold medal. BEACH VOLLEYBALL Women — Taylor Pischke, Winnipeg, and Melissa Humana-Paredes, Toronto, lost in the semifinal round to Lianma Flores and Leila Martinez, Cuba, 2-1 and will compete Tuesday for a bronze medal. BOXING Men’s Welterweight (69kg) — Sasan HaghighatJoo, Coquitlam, B.C., lost to Roberto De Queiroz, Brazil, 2-1 in the round of 16. Men’s Super Heavyweight (+91kg) — Simon Kean, Trois-Rivieres, Que., lost to Cam Awesome, U.S., 2-1 in the quarter-finals. CANOE/KAYAK (Slalom/Whitewater) Canoe Men’s C-1 — Cameron Smedley, Dunrobin, Ont., won the silver medal (1:34.09) Women’s C-1 — Haley Daniels, Calgary, won bronze (2:23.65). Men’s C-2 — Smedley and Hayward were fifth in the semifinal (2:52.00), did not advance. Kayak Women’s K-1 — Jazmyne Denhollander, Chilliwack, B.C., won the gold medal (97.92). Men’s K-1 — Ben Hayward, Edmonton, won bronze (1:32.76). CYCLING (Track) Women’s Sprint — Monique Sullivan, Calgary, defeated Kate O’Brien, Calgary, for the gold medal. O’Brien took the silver. Women’s Omnium — Jasmin Glaesser, Vancouver, won the silver medal. Men’s Keirin — Hugo Barrette, Iles de la Madeleine, Que., won the bronze medal. Men’s team pursuit — Canada (Adam Jamieson, Barrie, Ont.; Eric Johnstone, Calgary; Sean MacKinnon, Hamilton; Remi Pelletier-Roy, Longueuil, Que.), won the bronze medal in 4:06.005. EQUESTRIAN Individual eventing — Jessica Phoenix, Uxbridge,
Ont. (on Pavarotti), had a time of 42.10 in the jumping element and won the silver medal. Colleen Loach, Dunham, Que. (on Qorry Blue d’Argouges), was eighth with 51.80. Waylon Roberts, Port Perry, Ont. (on Bill Owen) was 17th with 69.10. Team eventing (jumping) — Canada (Loach, Phoenix, Roberts, Robinson), won the bronze with 163.00. GOLF Men’s individual — Austin Connelly, Irving, Texas, placed fifth overall with a four-round score of 280; Garrett Rank, Elmira, Ont., 15th (293). Women’s individual — Lorie Kane, Charlottetown, tied for 19th with a final score of 311. Mixed team — Canada (Connelly, Rank, Kane) finished in eighth place (14 over par). GYMNASTICS (Rhythmic) Individual Ball — Carmen Whelan, Aurora, Ont., placed fourth in the final with 14.873 points; Patricia Bezzoubenko, Thornhill, Ont., seventh (14.283). Individual Hoop — Carmen Whelan, Aurora, Ont., placed fifth in the final (14.633). Group Ribbons — Canada (Katrina Cameron, Mississauga, Ont.; Maya Kojevnikov, Richmond Hill, Ont.; Lucinda Nowell, Kanata, Ont.; Vanessa Panov, Toronto; Anjelika and Victoria Reznik, Vaughan, Ont.) won the bronze medal (12.817 points). GYMNASTICS (Trampoline) Women’s Individual — Rosannagh MacLennan, King City, Ont., won the gold medal with a total score of 53.560. Karen Cockburn, Toronto, won the bronze with 51.560. Men’s Individual — Keegan Soehn, Red Deer, won the gold medal with a total score of 56.405. Jason Burnett, Nobleton, Ont., finished fourth with 55.090. HANDBALL Men — Canada (1-1) evened their record in the preliminary round with a 28-25 win over the Dominican Republic. The Canadians are tied for second in group A. MODERN PENTATHLON Men’s Individual — Joshua Riker-Fox, Delacour, Alta., finished fifth in the final with a total of 566 points. Garnett Stevens, Rockland, Ont., finished 16th with 503. RACQUETBALL Men’s Singles — Coby Iwaasa, Lethbridge, Alta., defeated Christian Wer, Guatemala, 2-0 in the preliminary round. Mike Green, Hamilton, defeated Ramon De Leon, Dominican Rep., 2-0. Women’s Singles — Frederique Lambert, Montreal, defeated Anglea Grisar, Chile, 2-1 in the preliminary round. Jennifer Saunders, Winnipeg, defeated Maria Gomez, Colombia, 2-0. Men’s Doubles — Vincent Gagnon, St-Hubert, Que., and Tim Landeryou, Saskatoon, won their preliminary round match after Fernando Rios and Jose Alvarez, Ecuador, retired.
Women’s Doubles — Michele Morissette, BaieComeau, Que., and Christine Richardson, Regina, lost to Mariana Tobon and Mariana Paredes, Venezuela, 2-0 in the preliminary round. SAILING Open Sunfish — Luke Ramsay, Vancouver, placed fifth in the medal race and accumulated enough points to win the silver medal (45) Open J24 — Canada (Donald (Sandy) Andrews, David Jarvis, Terry McLaughlin, David Ogden — all Toronto) second in the medal race and won the silver medal with 39 points. Mixed Lightning — Canada (Jamie Allen and Chantal Leger, Montreal; Jay Deakin, Pointe-Claire, Que.) were first in the medal race, but finished fifth overall in the event with 54 points. Open Hobie 16 — Daniel Borg, Mississauga, Ont., and Liana Giovando, Toronto, fifth in Sunday’s race to place fifth overall (52.3). Open Snipe — Alexandra Damley-Strnad, Mississauga, Ont., and Evert McLaughlin, Toronto, were third (fifth overall, 68). SHOOTING Men’s skeet — Jonathan Weselake, Qualicum Beach, B.C., was 19th ; following the second day of qualifying with a score of 114; David Mylnikov, Toronto, was 21st (112) — neither advanced to the semifinal round. Men’s 50-metre rifle (three positions) — Grzegorz Sych, Kitchener, Ont., was ninth in qualifying with a score of 1,143; Michal Dugovic, London, Ont., 21st (1,107) — neither advanced to the final round. SOCCER Women — Canada (1-2) lost 2-0 to Brazil in the preliminary round. The Canadians are in a threeway tie for second in group B. SOFTBALL Women — Canada (1-0) defeated Brazil 6-0 to open the preliminary round. TABLE TENNIS Women’s team — Canada (Mo Zhang, Chilliwack, B.C.; Anqi Luo, Mississauga, Ont.; Alicia Cote Drummondville, Que.), defeated Guatemala 3-2 and Colombia 3-1 in the preliminary round. Men’s team — Canada (Marko Medjugorac, Sherbrooke, Que.; Pierre-Luc Theriault, St-Fabien, Que.; Eugene Wang, Ottawa), defeated Guatemala 3-0 and lost to Puerto Rico 3-2 in the preliminary round. TAEKWONDO Women’s 49kg — Yvette Yong, Vancouver, lost the bronze medal match to Iris Silva, Brazil, 8-6. Men’s 58kg — Tyler Muscat, Burlington, Ont., lost to John Maduro, Aruba, 9-4 in the round of 16. VOLLEYBALL Men — Canada (2-0) defeated Puerto Rico 3-1 in the preliminary round. The Canadians are alone in first place group B.
Friday
● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs at Red Deer Razorbacks, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Acme Pirates at Innisfail Indians, 7 p.m.
Saturday
● Bantam AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves, doubleheader, 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Alberta Football League: Fort McMurray Monarchs at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park.
Sunday
● Bantam AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: St. Albert Crude at Red Deer TBS Rampage, third game of best-of-five playoff series, if necessary, 3 p.m., Kinex.
Football Toronto Ottawa Montreal Hamilton
CFL East Division GP W L T 3 2 1 0 4 2 2 0 4 2 2 0 3 1 2 0
PF 88 76 85 88
PA 76 101 69 67
Pt 4 4 4 2
West Division W L T 3 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 4 0
PF 86 78 80 106 122
PA 97 83 55 127 134
Pt 6 4 4 4 0
GP Calgary 4 B.C. 3 Edmonton 3 Winnipeg 4 Saskatchewan 4
WEEK FOUR Bye: Toronto Saturday’s results Calgary 26 Winnipeg 25 Friday’s results Edmonton 23 Ottawa 12 B.C. 27 Saskatchewan 24 Thursday’s results Montreal 17 Hamilton 13
First Quarter Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 93 0:02 Wpg — TD Denmark 75 pass from Willy (Hajrullahu convert) 4:29 Wpg — TD Brohm 1 run (Hajrullahu convert) 9:43 Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 80 9:57 Cgy — TD Rogers 19 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert: Rogers 3 pass from Mitchell) 13:30 Second Quarter Cgy — Single Paredes 39 2:55 Cgy — TD Thibault 10 blocked punt return (convert failed) 4:11 Cgy — Single Paredes 95 4:29 Third Quarter Cgy — TD Tate 1 run (Paredes convert) 12:35 Wpg — TD Adams 79 pass from Willy (convert failed) 4:29 Fourth Quarter Wpg — FG Hajrullahu 49 8:07 Cgy — FG Paredes 40 12:46 Winnipeg 16 0 6 3 — 25 Calgary 8 8 7 3 — 26 Attendance — 29,255 at Calgary. TEAM STATISTICS Wpg Cgy First downs 15 13 Yards rushing 76 147 Yards passing 289 165 Total offence 365 312 Team losses 36 24 Net offence 329 288 Passes made-tried 22-27 12-21 Total return yards 125 66 Interceptions-yards by 0-0 1-0 Fumbles-lost 3-3 1-1 Sacks by 1 2 Punts-average 6-47.5 9-44.9 Penalties-yards 9-61 12-92 Time of possession 27:25 32:35 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Wpg: Cotton 10-56, Willy 4-18, Brohm 2-2, Marshall 1-0; Cgy: Cornish 15-120, Brown 2-10, Parker 1-6, Walter 1-6, Tate 3-3, Mitchell 1-2. Receiving — Wpg: Adams 5-121, Denmark 5-101, Moore 8-45, Richards 1-12, Cotton 2-11, Marshall 1-minus-1; Cgy: Rogers 4-71, Fuller 2-23, West 2-22, Durant 1-19, McDaniel 2-18, Walter 1-12. Passing — Wpg: Willy 22-27, 289 yards, 2 TDs, 1 int; Cgy: Mitchell 12-21-165-1-0.
WEEK FIVE Bye: Montreal Friday, July 24 Calgary at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Toronto at B.C., 8 p.m. Saturday, July 25 Winnipeg at Edmonton, 5 p.m. Sunday, July 26 Hamilton at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m. WEEK SIX Bye: Ottawa Thursday, July 30 B.C. at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 31 Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1 Montreal at Calgary, 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3 Toronto at Hamilton, 5 p.m. Saturday’s summary Stampeders 26, Blue Bombers 25
Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF D.C. United 10 7 5 35 24 Columbus 8 7 6 30 31 New York 8 6 5 29 29 Toronto FC 8 7 3 27 28 New England 7 9 6 27 27 Orlando City 6 8 6 24 23 Philadelphia 6 11 4 22 26 Montreal 6 8 3 21 24 New York City FC5 9 6 21 24 Chicago 5 11 3 18 20
GA 20 30 23 28 33 26 34 27 28 28
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 10 5 5 35 28 24 Los Angeles 9 6 7 34 36 25 Vancouver 10 8 3 33 24 21 Sporting KC 9 3 6 33 28 18 Seattle 10 9 2 32 25 20 Portland 9 7 5 32 23 24 Real Salt Lake 6 7 8 26 21 26 San Jose 7 8 4 25 21 24 Houston 6 8 6 24 24 26 Colorado 5 6 9 24 18 19 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Games Toronto FC 2, Philadelphia 1 New England 1, New York City FC 0 New York 2, Orlando City 0 Sporting Kansas City 2, Montreal 1 FC Dallas 2, D.C. United 1 Real Salt Lake 2, Houston 0 Colorado 1, Seattle 0 Portland 1, Vancouver 1, tie Sunday’s Games Columbus 3, Chicago 1 Friday, July 24 Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 11 p.m. Saturday, July 25 Toronto FC at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Seattle at Montreal, 6 p.m.
Pan Am Games
Moe Volkswagen Legends at Canadian Brewhouse Rays; 7 p.m, Great Chief Park 1 and 2.
New England at Chicago 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Houston, 7 p.m. Portland at FC Dallas, 7 p.m. Sunday, July 26 Orlando City at New York City FC, 12:30 p.m. Philadelphia at D.C. United, 3 p.m. San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m. GOLD CUP GROUP STAGE GROUP A GP W D ak-United States 3 2 1 ak-Haiti 3 1 1 ak-Panama 3 0 3 Honduras 3 0 1
L GF GA Pts 0 4 2 7 1 2 2 4 0 3 3 3 2 2 4 1
Saturday, July 18 Baltimore United States 6, Cuba 0 Sunday, July 19 Baltimore Haiti 0, Jamaica 1
ak-Jamaica ak-Costa Rica El Salvador Canada
GROUP B GP W D 3 2 1 3 0 3 3 0 2 3 0 2
GROUP C GP W D ak-Trinidad 3 2 1 ak-Mexico 3 1 2 ak-Cuba 3 1 0 Guatemala 3 0 1 ak-Advanced to knockout stage
L GF GA Pts 0 4 2 7 0 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 2 L GF GA Pts 0 9 5 7 0 10 4 5 2 1 8 3 2 1 4 1
Quarterfinals Sunday, July 19 East Rutherford, New Jersey Trinidad and Tobago 1, Panama 1, Panama advanced 6-5 on penalty kicks East Rutherford, New Jersey Mexico 1, Costa Rica 0
Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with LHP Andy Oliver on a 15-day contract. BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled RHP Noe Ramirez from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned INF Travis Shaw to Pawtucket. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Returned RHP Frankie Montas to Birmingham (SL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Designated OF Alex Presley for assignment. Reinstated RHP Scott Feldman from the 15-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned LHP John Lamb to Omaha (PCL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Vinnie Pestano to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled OF Grant Green from Salt Lake. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Bryan Mitchell to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Recalled RHP Branden Pinder from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent OF Steven Souza Jr. to Charlotte (IL) for a rehab assignment. Agreed to terms with C Chris Betts on a minor league contract. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Wesley Rodriguez on a minor league contract. ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Jake Brigham to Gwinnett (IL). Designated RHP David Carpenter for assignment. Recalled RHP Ryan Kelly from Gwinnett. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Zach Lee from Oklahoma City (PCL) as 26th man. MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Ryley MacEachern on a minor league contract. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Michael Petersen and Jordan Desguin and C Max McDowell on minor league contracts. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent RHP Jerome Williams to Reading (EL) for a rehab assignment. Agreed to terms with OF Destin Hood on a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with RHP Jake Thompson on a minor league contract. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Taylor Jordan from Syracuse (IL). Sent 2B Anthony Rendon to Potomac (Carolina) for a rehab assignment. American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed LHP Alberto Castillo. ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed INF Ryan Lashley. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed OF Eric Yavarone. Released INF Issael Gonzalez.
SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Traded OF Reggie Abercrombie to Winnipeg (AA) for OF Brady Wilson. TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Released OF Will Walsh and RHP Jordan Cote. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association TORONTO RAPTORS — Signed C-F Bismack Biyombo to a multi-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Re-signed D Seth Helgeson to a two-year contract. Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Designated 3B Conor Gillaspie for assignment. Reinstated RHP Matt Albers from the 15-day DL. DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned SS Dixon Machado to Toledo (IL). Reinstated 1B Marc Krauss from paternity leave. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned LHP Brandon Finnegan to Omaha (PCL). Recalled RHP Yohan Pino from Omaha. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned 2B Rob Refsnyder to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reinstated OF Carlos Beltran from the 15-day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed RHP Chase Anderson on the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Enrique Burgos to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Matt Stites and OF Danny Dorn from Reno. ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Brandon Cunniff to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment. COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Chad Bettis on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Eddie Butler from Albuquerque (PCL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Returned RHP Zach Lee to Oklahoma City (PCL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed OF Gorkys Hernandez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled RHP Wilfredo Boscan from Indianapolis (IL). SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed C Andrew Susac on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Hector Sanchez from Sacramento (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Taylor Jordan to Syracuse (IL). Sent 1B Ryan Zimmerman to Harrisburg (EL) for a rehab assignment. American Association SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed C Steve Sulcoski. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Released OF Jon Weber.
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Let there be light MINNESOTA VIKINGS NEW STADIUM USING SPACE-AGE MATERIAL FOR SOME TRANSPARENCY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — Ethylene-tetrafluoro-ethylene. It’s not one of quarterback Teddy Bridgewater’s audible calls, nor is it a term for a three-wide receiver set in the Vikings offence. Look higher for the clues to this tongue-twister, all the way up to the roof of Minnesota’s new stadium. Sixty per cent of the colossal venue, some 248,000 square feet of it, will be covered solely by this transparent material called ETFE. The space-age product, scientifically categorized as a copolymer plastic, lets in light like glass would. It’s just lighter, cheaper and cleaner. Public financial support for the project was never going to prevail unless the facility was usable year-round for a variety of events, so an open-air stadium wasn’t a viable option. The retractable roof would’ve cost more, but the Vikings realized through researching other NFL venues that roofs are rarely retracted enough to make them worth the extra expense. So the Vikings entered a new era of transparency: The $1.076 billion US Bank Stadium will open next season, boasting the only ETFE roof on a sports facility in the United States. “Clear is the new retractable,” said Vikings executive vice-president for stadium development Lester Bagley, repeating a slogan coined as the design was revealed more than two years ago. The transparent roof on the south side will be complemented by five 95-foot tall pivoting glass doors on the front of the building, letting actual fresh air in on warm days. With high-definition televisions at home serving as stiff competition for ticket sales in a northern climate where sunny autumn afternoons are savored, natural light was a high priority. The memory of the Teflon-covered Metrodome, cozy and quirky but dingy, was still fresh. “The easy way out would have been a simple roof,” said Kevin Taylor, the senior vice-president at HKS Architects who’s managing the project for the Dallas-based firm. “This’ll be one of those well-recognized buildings in the industry. We think the perception of sitting in a facility enjoying a game when it’s either raining or snowing outside and still feeling like you’re experiencing an outdoor stadium is going to be phenomenal.” There are a handful of ETFE buildings around the country, like a train station in Anaheim, California, an amphitheatre in Kansas City, Missouri, and a waterpark in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, but this will be the biggest. ETFE was originally developed by chemical company DuPont in the early 1970s as aeronautics insulation. Tested to withstand weather from hail to hurricanes, ETFE began to be used in the 1980s for structures like shopping malls, zoos and schools, primarily in Europe. One of the ETFE pioneers was the founder of the German company Vector Foiltec, which was selected as the manufacturer for the US Bank Sta-
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ABOVE; In this photo taken July 16, 2015, openings for the seethrough, lightweight EFTE roof panels are shown at the new Minnesota Vikings NFL football stadium that is under construction in Minneapolis. The architect chose the alternative roof that will let the light stream in during games and make fans feel closer to being outside. RIGHT; A sample of the see-through, lightweight EFTE roof panels is shown in construction company offices for the Minnesota Vikings. The architect chose the alternative roof that will let the light stream in during games and make fans feel closer to being outside. dium roof. The Water Cube in Beijing, used for swimming at the 2008 Olympics, became the largest building to incorporate ETFE. There’s Allianz Arena in Munich as well as a couple of soccer stadiums in New Zealand, where Taylor visited shortly after HKS got the Minnesota project. Taylor was joined on that trip by Edward Peck, a vicepresident and facade specialist for Thornton Tomasetti, the Chicago structural engineering firm for the stadium. The panels being used on US Bank Stadium average 10 feet by 300 feet, so only 75 will be needed to maximize transparency. The ETFE material is in thin foil sheets just a tiny fraction of an inch thick. There are three foil layers in each panel, with low-pressurized air in between for a total width around 25 inches. “You think about that actually resisting all of the climate conditions of Minneapolis, and it’s quite impressive. It’s due to its physical strength but also its ability to kind of elastically respond to things,” Peck said. The upper layer of foil is fritted to limit the greenhouse effect, and the
eair helps maintain the dee. sired thermal performance. nLight studies of the site coned ducted by HKS concluded that 60 per cent usage on pthe south side of the shiposhaped building would proor vide as much sunshine for op the seats as if the whole top was covered with ETFE. So about that weather. mThe Metrodome, rememhe ber, collapsed under the wweight of a 17-inch snowstorm in 2010. With an asymmetrical design and a catch-basin gutter system around it, this roof will be far better equipped for heavy snow. There’s also a system of thin cables to help support the ETFE panels. “You won’t see them sitting in the stands,” said Brendan Moore, the senior project manager of the building’s enclosures for Mortensen Construction, the general contractor of the project. “While this is very unique to Minnesota and North America, this is not the first time that ETFE has been used in a cold-weather environment by any
means.” There’s one unknown left, and that’s the noise. ETFE is considered more acoustically reflective than Teflon, so this place could be even louder than the Metrodome. “We may not know ultimately until our first game, but we believe and have been advised that this building will be loud and bring that home-field advantage we want,” Bagley said. Even in defeat, though, the sun will shine.
Froome on defensive at Tour despite big lead BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VALENCE, France — Despite his comfortable lead in the Tour de France, Chris Froome heads into the Alps — the last big hurdle between him and victory in Paris — on the defensive. Not against other contenders for the podium. They are long gone in the British rider’s rear-view mirror. But against skeptics created by the cheating of Lance Armstrong and other dopers, and against the legions of fans they betrayed. For many of those cycling fans, Froome’s performances are so good that they must be too good to be true. The leader of Team Sky said one spectator even hurled a cup of urine at him this weekend, shouting “Doper!” In short, Froome finds himself in the impossible position of being damned by his own success. No matter how many times he insists that he is clean, the words fall on deaf ears. As they would: After all, Armstrong used to say that, too. Froome understands that. He knows that the yellow jersey he wears has been so soiled by the deceit of those who wore it before him that some of that dirt, deservedly or not, is going to rub off on him, too. Being doubted, being hauled over of the coals of suspicion day-in, day-out, is the bill that must be paid now for
Canadian finish well at Symetra Tour event in NY ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Anne Park won the inaugural Toyota Danielle Downey Classic on Sunday for her first Symetra Tour title, holding off former Solheim Cup player Vicky Hurst. Making her fourth professional start, the 20-year-old former Southern California player closed with a 4-under 68 at Brook-Lea Country Club for a one-stroke victory over Hurst. “I’m speechless, this is my first professional win and it has been happening all so fast,” said Park, from Levittown, New York. “For me to win this tournament is crazy right now.”
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Britain’s Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali, to Froome’s left, and Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang, ride during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 183 kilometers with start in Mende and finish in Valence, France, Sunday. winning a post-Armstrong Tour, especially when you’re crushing rivals with apparent ease like the American did on the seven Tour victories that were later stripped from him. Two weeks in, the skepticism is getting under Froome’s very thick skin. It’s hard to find a more mild-mannered chap in the peloton than the gangly, sometimes awkward, Kenya-born Briton. But as he prepares for the Alps, the Park finished at 16-under 272. She earned $22,500 to jump from 93rd to 17th on the money list with $26,206. The final top 10 will earn 2016 LPGA Tour cards. Three strokes ahead of Hurst entering the round, Park had four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the front nine. She also birdied the par-5 10th, bogeyed the par-4 13th and closed with five pars. Hurst eagled the 10th in her bogeyfree 66. She played for the United States in the 2011 Solheim Cup. Canada’s Maude-Aimee LeBlanc had a 68 to tie for third with Marina Choi, Belgium’s Laura Gonzalez Escallon and Italy’s Giulia Molinaro. Canadian teen Brooke Henderson tied for seventh at 7 under after a 66.
ultimate test at this Tour, a hardening in his attitude and tone is unmistakable. He blames “very irresponsible” media for turning public opinion against him. He started on that theme Saturday after the urine incident and developed it Sunday after safely negotiating Stage 15 that ended with a bunch sprint won by Andre Greipel. It was the German’s third victory at
this Tour, and it left Froome’s large lead intact. “If people are led to believe that these performances are not legitimate, that’s what’s going to push them to start booing, and to start punching and spitting and throwing urine on riders,” Froome said. And for those who will still listen, he again repeated that “times have changed” from the Armstrong era. “This isn’t the wild west that it was 10 or 15 years ago,” he said. “Of course, there are still going to be riders who take risks in this day and age, but they are the minority. “It was the other way around 10 or 15 years ago. There is no reason in this day and age for that level of suspicion to continue. There’s absolutely no reason.” Still, French police took no chances. Following the urine assault, they posted half a dozen officers around Team Sky’s bus at the start of Sunday’s 183-kilometre stage from Mende to Valence. Because of its flat finish, Stage 15 represented the last opportunity for heavy, muscular sprinters to shine before light but strong climbers like Froome take back the spotlight in the Alps in the last week, after a rest day on Tuesday. It meant that sprinters’ teams wouldn’t let a breakaway group of riders steal the stage victory from under their noses.
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Busch wins second straight KYLE BUSCH WINS AT NEW HAMPSHIRE, GOES BACK-TO-BACK IN CUP RACES TO MOVE CLOSER TO CHASE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Kyle Busch burns out after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday, in Loudon, N.H. ting better and better.” Busch has gained 70 points on the 30th spot over the last two races and is not only a threat to qualify for the Chase — but to win it all for Joe Gibbs Racing should he crack the 16-driver field. “Ever since that injury, he’s been on it,” Gibbs said. “I don’t know what (the deficit is) now but it’s sure helping.” With Busch in the field or not, JGR has three other contenders in Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth. Kenseth finished sixth, Edwards started from the pole and was seventh, and Hamlin 14th. JGR took four of the top-five spots at Kentucky. Busch won and Hamlin-EdwardsKenseth went 3-4-5. “I think we’re certainly back, closer,” Gibbs said. “I don’t know that we’ve turned the corner.” NASCAR granted Busch a waiver
Hunter-Reay takes advantage of Penske struggles in Iowa BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEWTON, Iowa — Team Penske’s baffling lack of success at Iowa Speedway culminated with an awful performance Saturday night. But points leader Juan Pablo Montoya remained in control of the championship race despite his first big bad break of the season. Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay claimed his third victory in Iowa in the last four years, leading the first U.S. podium sweep in nine years and giving Andretti its sixth consecutive win on the 0.894-mile oval. Penske star Montoya, the reigning Indy 500 champion and the points leader since winning the opener, crashed on the ninth lap. Though the wreck threatened to put Montoya’s cushy lead in jeopardy, his lead dropped from 54 points to just 42 ahead of Graham Rahal. Will Power’s 10th-place finish was the best of yet another shaky race in Iowa for Penske. Helio Castroneves was 11th despite starting from the pole and Simon Pagenaud finished 14th. Montoya finished last for the first time in 2015. But he’s still first in the race that matters most heading into the MidOhio event Aug. 2. “Something broke. As soon as I let it up, something gave out,” Montoya said. “It sucks when it’s completely out of our hands, when something fails.” Josef Newgarden was second and Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Sage Karam was a career-best third, putting Americans in the top three spots for the first time since the 2006 Indianapolis 500. “It’s very important to note that it’s an international series ... so when Americans do (well) and beat the rest of the world it’s great,” said Andretti owner Michael Andretti, who as a driver was part of the podium sweep at Indy in ’06. “To do it here in the heartland...it’s pretty cool.”
Ganassi’s Scott Dixon was second behind Montoya heading into the weekend and was poised to make up major ground. But he finished 18th after a mechanical issue and fell to third, gaining just six points on his Colombian counterpart. Hunter-Reay, the 2012 series champion, had been among the more highprofile drivers to struggle with Honda’s engine and aero kit this season. But Hunter-Reay always seems to run his best in Iowa. Hunter-Reay, who used fresh tires to get past half the field in the final 10 laps to win in 2014, raced to his 15th career win and gave beleaguered Honda just its fourth victory in 13 starts. “(My car) was on rails until the end. I was driving the snot out of it. It was loose, and I just kept my foot to the floor,” Hunter-Reay said. “It was a lot of work in the cockpit. This was one we really had to work for.” Newgarden wound up second at Iowa for the second year in a row, as he simply ran out of time in his late pursuit of Hunter-Reay. “I think I probably needed another 20 laps or so and some lapped traffic. I think I could have done something with (Hunter-Reay). But it was really tough,” Newgarden said. “I think we were a winning car, so to finish second was bittersweet.” It wasn’t a shock to see the 20-yearold Karam have his breakthrough at Iowa after he won races here in four separate ladder series. Karam did so with some manoeuvring that left some of his competitors steamed. Ed Carpenter even confronted the rookie after a close encounter between the two, though the altercation didn’t become physical. “He’s just angry at my driving,” Karam said. “He says I squeezed him a few times, but it’s the same way he drove me.”
Japan beats Canada 20-6 in Pacific Nations Cup
touching down after Kotaro Matsushima broke through the Canada defensive line. Gordon McRorie kicked two penalties for Canada’s only points. Goromaru gave Japan the lead with his first penalty in the eighth minute before Fujita made it 8-0 with his 25th test try. Japan then extended its lead in the second half as Canada conceded more than a dozen penalties. The tournament started in Fiji earlier Saturday where the hosts defeated Tonga 30-22.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Captain Ayumu Goromaru booted five penalties as Japan opened its Pacific Nations Cup rugby campaign with a 20-6 win over Canada on Saturday. Samoa topped the United States 2116 in the second game at San Jose’s Avaya Stadium. Yoshikazu Fujita scored the first game’s only try in the 16th minute,
upon his return that made him Chase eligible, should he qualify. He has seven races left to crack the top 30 before the Chase opens Sept. 20 at Chicagoland Speedway. Busch had one of his best performances in his comeback, rallying from a lap down to win. Busch, who led 95 laps, stayed out during a late pit stop to take the lead from contenders Brad Keselowski and enseth. Keselowski was second, followed by Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Keselowski led a race-high 101 laps and his No. 2 Ford appeared the car to beat, leaving him clearly irked at losing the lead with 48 laps left. How tough would it be to beat Busch in the Chase? “He’s good,” Keselowski grumbled, “but we’re a good team and I feel like we can beat him.” Crew chief Adam Stevens, in his
first season calling the shots in Cup for JGR, made all the right choices to keep Busch in contention for the win and a crack at the top 30. “I don’t have any fears of being able to close that gap,” Stevens said. Busch was joined by son Brexton, born in late May, in victory lane wearing a No. 18 outfit. He should have borrowed his son’s bibs for the winner’s 21-pound lobster he was awarded in victory lane. He also made it 12 different winners at the last 12 New Hampshire races, the longest active streak at any track without a multiple-race winner in NASCAR. On a day with temperatures soaring into the 90s, Matt DiBendendetto and Michael Annett were treated after the race at the NASCAR care centre. “This is one of the warmest days I can remember in this part of the country,” Busch said.
French F1 driver Jules Bianchi dies from head injuries sustained at 2014 Japanese GP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has died in a French hospital from head injuries sustained in a crash at last year’s Japanese Grand Prix. He was 25. The Bianchi family announced the death in a statement issued in the early hours of Saturday morning. Bianchi had been in a coma since the Oct. 5 accident, in which he collided at high speed with a mobile crane which was being used to pick up another crashed car. The family statement said “Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but today his battle came to an end. The pain we feel is immense and indescribable.” Bianchi competed in 34 races over the 2013 and 2014 seasons, scoring the first ever championship points for Manor — then known as Marussia — by finishing ninth at last year’s Monaco Grand Prix. The Manor team tweeted: “We are devastated to lose Jules after such a hard-fought battle. It was a privilege to have him race for our team.” Bianchi is the first driver to die of injuries sustained in an F1 race since three-time world champion Ayrton Senna was killed at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. “The world of motor sport is in mourning today,” motorsports’ governing body said in a statement. “Jean
Todt, FIA President, expressed his deepest condolences to Jules’ family and recognized the great pain being felt by the Bianchi family and those close to them.” Bianchi died at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in his hometown of Nice, where he had been since his emergency treatment in Japan in the days after the accident. “We wish to thank the medical staff at Nice’s CHU who looked after him with love and dedication,” the family statement said. “We also thank the staff of the General Medical Center in the Mie Prefecture (Japan) who looked after Jules immediately after the accident, as well as all the other doctors who have been involved with his care over the past months. “Furthermore, we thank Jules’ colleagues, friends, fans and everyone who has demonstrated their affection for him over these past months, which gave us great strength and helped us deal with such difficult times.” Bianchi’s accident occurred at the end of the race at the Suzuka circuit. In rainy, gloomy conditions, Bianchi’s car slid off the track and ploughed into a crane picking up the Sauber of German driver Adrian Sutil, who had crashed out at the same spot one lap earlier. The section of the track where the accident occurred was subject to double yellow caution flags from race marshalls, due to Sutil’s crash, but they failed to prevent a second accident.
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LOUDON, N.H. — Stuck in a hospital, Kyle Busch could only think about a comeback, not championship contention. Could Busch imagine, days after a horrific crash, he would become a title contender? “Yeah, right,” he said. “You’re crazy.” Nothing seems preposterous these days for Busch, whose dormant-to-dominant run over the last two months has not only made him a regular in victory lane, but steamrolled him toward the cusp of a Chase berth. Busch rolled on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, winning for the second straight weekend and the third time in the last four NASCAR Sprint Cup races. “This is something I’m not sure we ever would have expected,” Busch said. Busch isn’t where he needs to be in the standings quite yet. His three wins are certainly enough to earn a Chase for the Sprint Cup championship berth. He’s still outside the top 30 in points, which is the second major qualifier to race for the title in the final 10 races of the season. Busch won at Sonoma Raceway and last week at Kentucky Speedway and is 33rd in the standings, 58 points behind David Gilliland for 30th. Cole Whitt is 31st and Brett Moffitt 32nd, easy pickings for Busch. “I’m not sure we’ve unleashed the beast at all,” Busch said. Busch broke his right leg and left foot in a crash the day before the season-opening Daytona 500. He missed the first 11 races of the season, then returned in late May determined to earn a playoff spot. Busch, who last won at New Hampshire in July 2006, said Friday he still is bothered by the leg injuries. The aches hardly seemed to matter in the No. 18 Toyota. “We’ve got to keep doing our deal,” Busch said. “Every week it keeps get-
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Photos by Ashli Barrett/Advocate Staff ABOVE; Red Deerians crowd the food stalls on Sunday afternoon, grabbing all the fair food they can eat before the Westerner Days Fair and Exposition officially ended on Sunday night. RIGHT; Cooler weather and a little bit of rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of Spandy Andy as he splashes and dances around with Ava Specht, 2, on the Midway Boulevard at the Westerner Days Fair and Exposition Thursday evening. BELOW; Sarah and Noah Dobson go fishing at one of the game stations on Sunday evening.
TOP RIGHT; Jack and Logan Gulmick react to the ups and downs of the “Sooper Jet” rollercoaster ride on the midway grounds. BOTTOM RIGHT; The Red Deer Royals Marching Show Band dazzles the crowd as the perform one last time during the 2015 marching season prior to the 2015 Pony Chuckwagon finals on Sunday afternoon. LEFT; The Ferris Wheel- a classic fair ride- is silhouetted against the afternoon sun on the very last day of the Westerner Days Fair and Exposition.
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Sand in demand CANADIAN COMPANIES VYING TO SCOOP UP BIGGER SHARE OF FRACK SAND MARKET BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — North American demand has surged in recent years for the smoothest, hardest sand available and Canadian companies are looking to carve out a bigger chunk of the market. The appetite is coming from the fracking industry, which in North America went from using about seven million tonnes of sand in 2007 to an estimated 35.3 million tonnes this year, accord to PacWest, a consulting group that tracks the industry. Part of the fracking process involves shooting tonnes of sand down a well as fracking fluid splits open rocks to release trapped oil and gas. The sand granules wedge into cracks and keep them open so the hydrocarbons can be sucked out. The process puts thousands of pounds of pressure on the tiny grains of sand, which is why the industry has high specifications for their sand, said Joe Peskunowicz, external vicepresident at fracking company Canyon Technical Services Ltd. “It’s got to be round, because if it’s angular, it will crush because of point loading,” said Peskunowicz. “Sphericity and roundness are important for strength, as is quartz content.” The best sand in the business is known as “Northern White,” and many Canadian companies think it’s good enough to justify hauling it some 3,500 kilometres from Wisconsin to the big shale plays of northern British Columbia and Alberta. “More than half of Canadian de-
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Spanish ’ghost airport’ that cost millions attracts single meagre bid at bankruptcy auction MADRID — One of Spain’s “ghost airports” — expensive projects that were virtually unused — received just one bid in a bankruptcy auction after costing some 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to build. The buyer’s offer: 10,000 euros. Ciudad Real’s Central airport, about 235 kilometres (150 miles) south of Madrid, became a symbol of the country’s wasteful spending during a construction boom that ended with the financial crisis of 2008, the year the airport opened.
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R.W. Sidley Company owner Rob Sidley holds one of four grades of crushed rare conglomerate silica sand processed, screed and used to frack wells. mand is satisfied by U.S. supply just because Wisconsin has the highest quality sand,” said Samir Nangia, managing director of PacWest. But with energy industry operators looking at any ways to save costs these days, importing sand from far away — and paying for it in U.S. currency — has become harder to justify.
“It is expensive to transport it to Canada,” said Samir. “So as a result, local sands are making inroads into the Canadian market.” Several Canadian producers have stepped in to try to fill the gap and provide some of the 3.5 million tonnes used annually in the country, but it’s been a rocky start for some.
The exacting demands of the industry have already claimed some Canadian upstarts, said Peskunowicz. “There’s been a couple of mines that started and made less than a quality product, and they went away. It all depends upon the deposit.” Others have succumbed to the tough markets, which saw North American sand sales drop from $2.8 billion last year to an estimated $1.7 billion this year, according to PacWest. Victory Nickel Inc. had to suspend operations at its recently opened processing plant near Medicine Hat, Alta., and Stikine Energy Corp., which was developing a project in northeastern B.C., is near bankruptcy. Canadian Silica Industries tried to open a frack sand mine near Fort Nelson, B.C., but the Fort Nelson First Nation launched a legal challenge to have the project undergo an environmental review, and won the case last week. Despite the challenges, those pushing forward with sand mine projects are optimistic for the long-term potential of the industry. With the possibility of Canada’s liquefied natural gas market taking off, there could be significant growth in fracking demands, said Dean Stuart, a spokesman for Athabasca Minerals, which is trying to develop a frack sand mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Stuart also said drillers are finding that more sand increases the effectiveness of the frack, with some wells using as much as 10,000 tonnes per frack, compared to an average of 2,000 tonnes. “Even though the drilling activity is going down, the amount of sand being used per well is going up,” he said.
Medical pot producers have global aspirations BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As Canada’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry ignites, a number of local pot producers are looking to take their homegrown expertise abroad. “With the cannabis market across the world expanding and opening up, that’s presenting opportunities for Canadian producers,” says Neil Closner, the chief executive of Toronto-based MedReleaf Corp. Analysts say Health Canada’s strict quality controls make exporting plants grown in Canada to other jurisdictions a cost-prohibitive proposition. Instead, Canadian producers are looking to take what they have learned at home and set up new corporate entities in other countries. “The strict regulatory environment has, in effect, made producers jump through hoops and pass some pretty high barriers in order to be compliant, and there are lots of lessons they’ve learned along the way,” says Daniel Pearlstein, a life sciences analyst with M Partners. MedReleaf, which has partnered with a U.S. company called Compassionate Care Center of New York, is currently in a tight race for one of five medical marijuana licences in New York State. Closner said he expects the winning bids to be announced by the end of July. Although MedReleaf was initially drawn to the geographic proximity — and the large population — of New York State, the company has also set its sights on more far-flung regions in Europe and South America for potential growth. “The regulations have allowed us to learn enough, and to scale up enough, that we feel, at MedReleaf, that we
have enough expertise to actually export Canadian knowledge to other areas of the world,” said Closner. Tweed Marijuana Inc. (CVE:TWD), the Smiths Falls, Ont.-based marijuana company that recently announced plans to acquire Bedrocan Cannabis Corp., is also looking overseas for growth, honing in on countries that are considering adopting medical or recreational marijuana programs. Chief executive Bruce Linton says the company will spend the remainder of this year beefing up its domestic operations, with international expansion slated for 2016. Brazil and Chile are two of the many countries on Tweed’s radar. “I want to first make sure we become the dominant supplier that is cash-flow positive and has a very significant market share in Canada — and then use that expertise and credibility to pursue international expansion,” says Linton. Experts say Canada’s federal regulations have allowed growers to get ahead of the curve. That’s in contrast to the U.S., where marijuana producers are stifled by patchwork rules that vary greatly from one state to the next. “They’re not able to take advantage of any economies of scale, because they have to build a separate growing operation in each state,” said Closner. “The benefit that we get is we can grow at a huge scale at one location, and hopefully have a lower price because of that.” Khurram Malik, a clean technology analyst at Jacob Securities Inc., says Canadian pot growers have also benefited from stringent rules that have forced them to produce high-quality products. “Health Canada considers marijuana a pharmaceutical-grade product,
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As Canada’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry ignites, a number of local pot producers are looking to take their homegrown expertise abroad. Production staff tend to cannabis plants at Tweed Marijuana Inc.’s Smiths Falls facility. not a food-grade product, and that’s a huge distinction in how you manufacture,” says Malik. Growers in the black market, or in jurisdictions like Colorado that treat marijuana as a recreational drug, can use pesticides and other chemicals to prevent insects and mould from harming the plants, says Malik — but such “shortcuts” are not permitted by Health Canada.
Protecting your automobile investment As anyone who owns one knows, automobiles are expensive to buy, operate and maintain. The average new price of a vehicle in Canada is now around $33,000 and the Canadian Automobile Association estimates the average cost to drive and maintain the average mid-size automobile is about TALBOT $10,700 a year for licence and BOGGS registration, insurance, fuel, maintenance and depreciation. An automobile is a significant investment that consumes a lot of your hard earned dollars. They’re also prime targets for theft.
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Statistics Canada reports there were approximately 73,000 auto thefts reported to police in 2013 costing Canadians more than $1 billion. “Car thieves usually have set agendas for their stolen vehicles,” says a report by Marsh Canada. “Most are motivated by greed and their actions are centred on illegal financial gain but sometimes the thefts can be attributed to not-so-innocent fun.” Basically there are five categories of auto thefts. The first is to sell the vehicle outside of Canada. Stolen vehicles often can fetch many times their value on the domestic market outside of the country and routinely are shipped to countries where law enforcement rules are more relaxed and the resale values are higher. Stolen vehicles often are sold intact locally with falsified vehicle identification numbers. Unsuspecting purchasers can be fooled into believing they are legitimately purchasing a vehicle. Stolen vehicles are used for their parts. “Chopping” or dismantling a ve-
hicle for parts is a common practice for converting a vehicle into cash. The parts often are sold to unsuspecting or unscrupulous repair garages which use the parts to repair their customers’ vehicles. Stolen vehicles often are used as tools for other crimes such as robberies. Most of these vehicles are recovered shortly after the crimes either abandoned or with substantial damage. And lastly cars sometimes are stolen merely for a joy ride. The number of auto thefts in Canada actually has been declining since 2007 when Transport Canada introduced a requirement that all new cars, vans, light trucks and sport utility vehicles had to be equipped with anti-theft immobilizers Immobilizers are devices which automatically stop the starter, ignition and flow of fuel when someone tries to start the vehicle without the key. Marsh has a number of common sense things people should do to help reduce the chances of theft. Lock your door, roll up the windows, turn off the engine and take your keys
with you if you’re leaving your vehicle. Secure your vehicle in a locked garage if possible, park in monitored and more secure locations, make sure any valuables are kept out of sight, preferably in the trunk, and engage the parking brake when leaving your vehicle because it makes it more difficult to tow away. As well, carry your registration and proof of insurance on your person instead of keeping them in the glove compartment and keep your other keys with you if you need to leave your car keys with a parking attendant. “Although (the immobilizer) has proven to be the single most effective device in helping to prevent automobile theft nothing replaces common sense and remaining vigilant against putting your vehicle at risk,” Marsh says. Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Canadian cities questioning taxi-permit system BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The advent of competition and new technologies is forcing politicians across Canada to reevaluate their cities’ taxi industries and to wonder just how many cabs they want on the roads. Big cities are struggling with new entrants such as Uber, a service that allows drivers to work with little overhead costs and to undercut traditional cab fares. Politicians in jurisdictions such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Edmonton are studying ways to modernize the taxi industry but while they come up with solutions, some cities are labelling Uber’s services “illegal” and forcing police to seize its drivers’ vehicles. But not all the battles against the upstart have been successful: the City of Toronto recently lost a court case against Uber when a judge ruled there was no evidence the company was operating as a taxi broker or that it breached city bylaws. Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, a public policy thinktank at the University of Toronto, says politicians should be thinking about the interest of citizens as opposed to ensuring traditional taxi drivers can earn a living under the current system. He questions whether Canadian mayors have the wherewithal to tell the powerful taxi lobby that the days of making a living driving a taxi full time might be coming to an end. “It’s going to take courage,” Johal said. In Quebec — as in many other places in Canada — the government strictly regulates the number of taxi permits that are granted. For instance, the island of Montreal can only have 4,522 permits. NotreDame-de-Pierreville, a town of 2,000 people about 130 kilometres from Montreal, is allowed two.
“The goal is to keep the revenues of the taxi drivers higher — that’s it,” said the Montreal Economic Institute’s Vincent Geloso, who advocates deregulating the industry. As a consequence of the limited number of permits, their price has soared to roughly $200,000 in Montreal, making its market worth roughly $900 million. Permits are bought, sold, traded and rented on websites of companies such as Fintaxi, which provides loans to drivers in order for them to afford the permits. The system worked for decades until companies like Uber came along. Uber drivers don’t buy permits, have little overhead and use a mobile application to locate customers. Johal says the solution is to end the limited taxi-permit system. “If you have someone who has a car and is a safe driver and is properly insured, why don’t they have the right to pick people up and drive them around?” he asked. “If you (deregulate the industry) the market would sort itself out and people who couldn’t make a living would stop doing it.” He is not optimistic such deregulation will happen because he believes it would result in the collapse of the taxi permit market across the country — a choice he said would be politically difficult to make. “If a city announces it will phase in three times more licences in the next 10 years, then the licences will lose their value now,” Johal said. “No one will buy at ($200,000) now because they know in (a few years) years it’ll be worth $50,000.” But the devaluation of the market is already happening, according to Montreal cabbie Enamul Haque, who received a loan to buy his $230,000 permit five years ago and now says it’s worth about $170,000. “I’m losing money on my investment,” Haque said. “I’m losing my
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A taxi driver protests Uber in Toronto on June 1, 2015. The advent of competition and new technologies is forcing politicians across Canada to re-evaluate their cities’ taxi industries business.” He says his costs include the permit loan, fees for the dispatcher, fees to the taxi bureau, a special driver’s licence as well as gasoline. “I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week,” he said. “And I am still struggling to survive. I’m earning less than people who are washing dishes in restaurants. Can you imagine that?” Marc Andre Way, president of the Canadian Taxi Association, argues limits on the number of permits are important. “You don’t want a Wild, Wild West type of environment where everyone can drive people around because then
no one can make a career out of it,” he said. The permits in the industry have a value, he said, and “it’s an inherited value and it’s been around for decades.” “Many of us have invested in them and consider them assets,” he added. But many taxi drivers aren’t lucky enough to have those kinds of assets. Bazzi Bassam pays $440 a week to rent his permit and says he works about 70 hours a week driving people around Montreal. His colleague, George Ene, also rents a permit for about the same amount and said he works 11 hours a day, five days a week.
Merkel again rules out ‘haircut’ for Greek debt BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday suggested that Germany would show flexibility in negotiating how Greece deals with its massive debt, but again ruled out writing off part of the money. Speaking on ARD television’s Bericht aus Berlin program, Merkel said that “a classic haircut of 30, 40 per cent of debt cannot happen in a currency union.” But Merkel, who persuaded German lawmakers on Friday to give their overwhelming backing to another financial rescue package, suggested that she was open to discussing ways to lessen the burden on Athens.
She said, for example, Greece previously has been given more favourable interest rates, time extensions and other relief “We can talk about such things again,” she said, but added such talks could only begin after details of Greece’s bailout program are finalized. Though the broad outlines of the Greek bailout were agreed last Monday by the eurozone’s 19 leaders, the details are now being negotiated. The discussions, which are expected to last four weeks, will include economic targets and reforms deemed necessary in return for an anticipated 85 billion euros ($93 billion) over three years. Merkel pushed for them to move as
Firms outside U.S. likely to move first into post-sanctions Iran BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The nuclear deal is done. Now it’s time to talk business. While it will likely be months before sanctions on Iran ease, business and political leaders are wasting no time in trying to tap into a large and what they hope will be a lucrative Iranian market. Germany is dispatching a large trade delegation to Tehran on Sunday. Spain has a similar trip planned, and France’s top diplomat is eyeing a visit too. Ads for European cars and luxury goods are starting to reappear in Tehran. Airlines in Dubai are fast adding new Iran routes to meet growing demand. American firms, though, have to be much more cautious. Deal or no deal, U.S. sanctions not related to the nuclear program will still be in place and bar most American companies from doing business with Iran. That means they stand to lose out to European and Asian companies — some that still have business contacts in the country before sanctions were tightened in recent years. “It’s easier to say who is at a disadvantage. And that will be U.S. firms,” said Torbjorn Soltvedt, principal Mideast analyst at risk advisory company Verisk Maplecroft. On paper, Iran holds plenty of promise. Two and a half times the size of Texas, it is home to some 80 million people, sits atop the world’s fourthlargest oil reserves and the secondbiggest stores of natural gas, and has well-established manufacturing and agricultural industries contributing to a $400 billion economy. London-based Capital Economics estimates the economy could surge ahead by 6-8 per cent annually over the next several years as sanctions ease.
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“Everything is in place for economic growth,” said Dominic BokorIngram, portfolio adviser at British asset management firm Charlemagne Capital. His company earlier this year announced a plan to launch Iranian investment funds in partnership with an Iranian company. “Iran has infrastructure, it has the institutions, it has the education,” he added. “It has a lot of highly educated people who will go back to Iran if sanctions are lifted.” Tapping the market won’t be easy. The elite Revolutionary Guard is deeply involved in the economy and corruption is such a problem that President Hassan Rouhani lamented late last year that once-secret bribes are now being handed out openly. Iran ranks only 130 out of 189 economies on the World Bank’s ease-of-doing-business list. Assuming the deal goes ahead as planned it will still take at least several months until nuclear-related sanctions are lifted. And those sanctions can quickly be slapped back on if Iran fails to live up to its end of the bargain. That means many multinationals are unlikely to commit to big investments in the immediate future, though the staggered sanctions relief also gives companies time to gear up their operations, analysts say. The oil industry is one area where Iran could use outside investment. Fitch Ratings expects it will take years for Iran to get back to the roughly 2.5 million barrels a day it was exporting before 2012, because investment in the sector has been limited under sanctions. Chevron Corp. spokesman Kurt Glaubitz said the company is reviewing the nuclear deal to understand its implications, but for now it remains “in strict compliance” with U.S. and international laws. Exxon Mobil Corp. declined to comment.
quickly as possible, saying that it was important that “the country gets back on both feet quickly.” Asked about Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s suggestion last week that Greece could take a five-year “timeout” from the shared euro currency to address its economic problems, Merkel said the idea of a “Grexit” was no longer on the table. “The option was discussed but we decided on this option, which was quite apparently the right one for all the other” eurozone nations, she said. Talking to Parliament on Friday, Merkel said the alternative to the new rescue package “would not be a timeout from the euro that would be orderly ... but predictable chaos.” German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Ga-
briel, who is also economy minister and chairman of Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, on Sunday criticized Schaeuble for bringing up the idea of a timeout, saying “it wasn’t prudent to make this suggestion as a German suggestion.” He suggested there was a disconnect between Merkel and Schaeuble, but the finance minister downplayed any differences, saying in a Der Spiegel interview “we’re not always of the same opinion but we’re on the same path.” Merkel skirted the issue when asked about internal strife, saying only that her coalition and her party would work together going ahead, and that “the finance minister will conduct the negotiations the same way I will.”
Five things to watch for in the business world in this week BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: Railways: Both CN Rail and Canadian Pacific Railway release their second-quarter results this week, on Monday and Tuesday respectively. Canada’s sluggish economy and lower volumes of coal, grain and energy-related products are expected to undermine the lofty 2015 earnings goals for the country’s two largest railways. StatCan: There are a slew of releases this week from Statistics Canada, starting with wholesale trade figures for May on Monday and retail trade figures and employment insurance data on Thursday. Lumber: Two major lumber producers — West Fraser Timber Co. and Canfor Corp. — are out with secondquarter results on Wednesday.
The lumber industry is in the midst of a recovery thanks to a boom in U.S. construction and a weaker loonie. The sector lost 50,000 jobs following the 2008 financial crisis. BlackBerry: CEO John Chen and members of the company’s senior leadership team are in New York on Thursday discussing the impact today’s cyber-threats are having on mobile security. More Q2 results: Grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. releases its second-quarter results on Thursday, as does Rogers Communications, Precision Drilling and Teck Resources. In Calgary on Friday, natural gas giant Encana is up with its Q2 results. The company has been suffering from enduring weakness in the natural gas sector and its faltering attempts to become a key oil producer just as oil prices plummeted.
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NEW YORK — Adam Sandler feels that when audiences finally see his upcoming Netflix comedy, The Ridiculous Six, they will realize he wasn’t trying to offend anyone. The spoof takes its name from the western classic The Magnificent Seven and pokes fun at the genre. But not everyone found it funny. Earlier this year, a group of Native American actors walked off the New Mexico film set over complaints that content in the film was offensive to their culture. The actors objected over the vile names of some of the characters, as well as a Native American woman urinating while smoking a peace pipe. “It was just a misunderstanding and once the movie is out will be cleared up,” Sandler told The Associated Press on Saturday on the red carpet for the world premiere of his new film, “Pixels.” Sandler called The Ridiculous Six 100 per cent pro-American Indian.
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In this Aug. 3, 2002 file photo, Bob Dylan plays an electric guitar the last time he performed at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I. On the night of July 25, 1965, Dylan strode onto a stage at the folk festival, plugged in an electric guitar and gave the music world a shock. Fifty years later, it’s considered one of the most important events in rock history, the high-voltage moment when Dylan broke from folk and helped show his fellow musicians the poetic possibilities of rock. the electric songs he played that night, Like a Rolling Stone, which had been released the previous week and was on the radio. But this was a poke in the eye from Dylan, who had played twice
Disney, credited Marvel for successfully expanding its universe both in tone and audience makeup. The movie, a more humorous heist film, appealed more to women (42 per cent of the audience) and families (28 per cent) than most Marvel releases. “Most encouragingly in this one, the exit scores we’re seeing from women — their likelihood to recommend and how much they enjoyed the film — was higher here than almost any film we’ve had,” Hollis said. “It’s a great sign for what word of mouth should be for the run, but, two, what it means for how women think about these movies being for them as much as men might.” The next question will be whether the result was strong enough to kick start an “Ant-Man 2.” \Though “Ant-Man” had a rocky path to the screen, with director Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright shortly before shooting commenced, its CinemaScore from audiences is an A. It took in $56.4 million abroad.
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before at Newport, in 1963 and 1964. Yarrow says Dylan was insulted by his position in the lineup: in the middle of the evening, rather than at the end, like a traditional headliner.
BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — Dave Chappelle’s return to the comedy stage comes at a racially charged time in the U.S., but the comedian, who never shied away from racial issues, says that’s just a coincidence. “I think it is important to be out now, but what’s going on in the world isn’t why I initially came back out,” Chappelle told The Associated Press on Saturday. He was on Long Island at the Art For Life benefit, where he received an award from Russell Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. “This is a very surprisingly emotionally charged time, so people like me, I think, are very relevant and necessary in sorting through all this information and emotional content,” he said. “And when we are at our best, hopefully we are doing a great service to many people.” The event raised funds for arts in schools and other programs that benefit children and emerging artists. Chappelle, who had a show on Comedy Central that he famoulsy left, had the audeince laughing when he told them, “I can say honestly that I’m happy, that I can sit at home on a Tuesday night and watch Key and Peele do my show and it doesn’t hurt me.”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — On the night of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan strode onto a stage at the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in an electric guitar and gave the music world a shock. Wearing a black leather jacket, the darling of the folk movement and singer of protest songs launched into a searing, distortion-filled, three-song electric set that brought boos from folk purists but thrilled others. Fifty years later, it’s considered one of the most important events in rock history, the high-voltage moment when Dylan broke away from folk and helped show fellow musicians the poetic possibilities of rock. The Fender Stratocaster that Dylan played that night sold for nearly $1 million, the highest price ever paid for a guitar at auction. A new book out this month, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, by Elijah Wald, takes a deep look at the event. And the three-day festival, which starts Friday, is marking the anniversary with a closing-night tribute to be performed by a still-secret lineup of artists. Musicians today still take inspiration from Dylan’s performance and talk about what it means. “It’s the true American spirit to rebel against the establishment,” says Joey Burns of the indie rock band Calexico, which is performing at the festival on Friday. He calls it a “moment of turning things upside down and questioning and rebelling and being true to oneself. Dylan being true to oneself as an artist. And also reinventing oneself.” Peter Yarrow of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, who introduced Dylan that night, agrees Dylan was a poet pursuing his artistic vision. But he says Dylan’s going electric had a different meaning back then for those in the folk world, which was deeply concerned with social causes such as civil rights. Until then, they thought Dylan, who wrote Blowin’ in the Wind, and A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, was, too. “The audience cared so much about his music and its meaning in the world of that time,” Yarrow says. “To them it was a breach of faith.” Listeners wondered whether Dylan had become a sellout, he says, someone who had decided to “go commercial and let the suits determine what you’re going to sound like.” Dylan’s performance was not the first time someone had played an electric guitar at the festival. And many in the audience had already heard one of
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Skinny dipping neighbours otherwise nice Dear Annie: My wife and I are lucky to live near the friendliest, most helpful neighbors we could ask for. They are a middle-aged European couple who moved to the States two years ago. Here’s the problem. They have a swimming pool in their backyard, and when they use it, they do not wear swimsuits. I assume they are just doing what is normal in their native country. When I am outside, I simply try to look the other way and ignore them. However, when they see me or my wife, they almost always call out to say hello and start a conversation. My wife is not bothered by it, and will go over and talk with them. However, I’m not so comfortable. Generally, I wave and go back into the house until they are out of the pool. My wife says I am overMITCHELL reacting, but I don’t think I & SUGAR should be uncomfortable in my own yard. She does not want to put up a fence, as she thinks it would be unsightly and unwelcoming. Can you help? — Neighbors of Lord and Lady Godiva Dear Neighbors: You cannot stop the folks next door from sunbathing nude unless there are restrictions in your town. You also should not be reluctant to use your own yard when the neighbors are out. The solution truly is a fence or perhaps shrubbery that would allow each of you to have more privacy. There is nothing unwelcoming or unsightly about nice bushes, plants or flowers. Unless, of course, your wife likes to look more than she is willing to admit. Dear Annie: Why do some people insist on arriving late for family dinners? My husband and I are great-grandparents with the only home large enough to host the entire family. We wake up early enough to set up and cook, and I set the time that seems most convenient for our family members. When there is a football game in the evening, I set the dinner for noon. When there is early morning rain, I set the time for late afternoon. When asked if we can set a specific hour, I always agree. On Memorial Day, I told everyone to be here at 1 p.m. Ten people were here waiting, and the last two came in 45 minutes later. We didn’t sit down to eat until after 2. This is awkward for everyone, but especially for young children who are hungry, seniors who haven’t eaten since early morning, and one family member who is diabetic and needs to time her insulin. Why is it no longer polite to be punctual? -- Late Arrivals Dear Late: It is still polite to be punctual, but some folks are simply inconsiderate. If there is only one couple that does this regularly, feel free to tell them that the festivities start an hour earlier than you tell everyone else. Otherwise, here’s how it works for chronically late family members: Set the time, and when that time arrives, sit down and start eating. Those who show up late can be told to find leftovers in the kitchen or join you for dessert. They will either accommodate themselves or make a greater effort to show up on time at the next family event. Either way, the rest of you should not be held hostage waiting for them. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Siberian tiger, sticks out its tongue at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Tuesday, July 14, 2015.
Long distance ballooning sets records ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s now in the world records books of long-distance ballooning: Two pilots from the U.S. and Russia travelled farther and longer in a gas balloon than anyone in history when the crossed the Pacific Ocean in a helium-filled balloon. The Federation Aeronautique Internationale said Thursday it ratified records for distance of more than 6,650 miles (10,700 kilometres) and for duration of 160 hours and 34 minutes for Troy Bradley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia. The flight, which had been 15 years in the making, ended early Jan. 31 just after sunrise when it touched down in the water a few miles off the coast and about 300 miles north of the popular beach destination of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Bradley and Tiukhtyaev happened to be in Washington, D.C., visiting the National Air and Space
HOROSCOPES Monday, July 20 cially at work. CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS When it comes DATE: Sandra Oh, 44; Julianne Hough, to a domestic 27; Gisele Bundchen, 35 issue, there’s THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s more going on stars favour being motivated and orga- with a family nized. member than HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are a rest- meets the eye. less and adventurous soul. So it’s imVIRGO (Aug. portant that you keep moving physical- 2 3 - S e p t . 2 2 ) : ly, and keep learning mentally. Strive If you are atto be satisfied with what you’ve got. tached, it’s time ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s a to up the roJOANNE good day to tackle routine jobs and m a n c e f a c t o r MADELEINE chores around the house or office. Mo- as you cook a MOORE tivation is high and - if you work hard mouth-watering you’ll still have time to do something meal or plan a that you really enjoy. special night TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t be a fly-by-night friend! The more you nurture friendships, the more mates you will have, and the more connected you’ll feel. Hard work now will pay off in the long-run. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Saturn urges you to be more responsible about your physical wellbeing. So aim to nurture your body with healthy food and regular exercise. Disciplined effort now will pay off in the future. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Calling all Crabs Mars is marching through your sign until August 9. So, over the next couple of weeks, strive to be bold and beautiful; passionate and proactive, confident and creative. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN Creative Cats — you have a fertile imagination so make the most of it, espe-
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Museum on Tuesday when they learned of the ratification. Bradley said he’s relieved all the paperwork is done. But he doesn’t feel much differently than the day the balloon landed. “I knew we had broken the record by substantial amounts,” he said. “Had it been close, then I would have been sweating it out.” The men beat a 137-hour duration record set in 1978 by the Double Eagle crew in a cross-Atlantic flight. They also exceeded the distance record of 5,209 miles set by the Double Eagle V team during the first trans-Pacific flight in 1981. So what’s next? Bradley has spent his summer getting up before dawn and flying tourists over Albuquerque and the Rio Grande as part of a booming ballooning business. He has no plans, at least for the next 12 months, of setting any records. But, he said, “There’s obviously others that I have my eye on. Probably some hot-air records are next.”
out. Singles — love is likely with someone who is creative in practical ways. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you have concerns about an issue at work, make sure you look into it deeply and thoroughly. With Jupiter visiting your networking zone, charm and confidence will take you far. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t assume you have all the answers Scorpio. You can gain valuable insights from an older family member or trusted mentor. You also have much to learn from a long-term friend. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): New experiences and opportunities are opening up on the work front, so keep your eyes and ears open. The more you cooperate with colleagues, clients or customers, the better the day will be. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When
it comes to a relationship issue, don’t stew over things on your own. You’ll need the advice and input of others including your family if you want to make the best decision. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The stars favour collaborating with work colleagues or loved ones. Sharing information and being generous with your time will put you in a positive position in the weeks ahead. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re keen to communicate with a wide range of people today. Some Pisceans will bump into someone from their past; while others will re-connect with an overseas friend. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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Lost GLOVER Mary 1926 - 2015 Surrounded by family, our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Mary Catherine Glover (nee Puzey) quietly and peacefully slipped away on Thursday, July 16, 2015 at the age of 89 years. Mary was born on February 16, 1926 at Red Deer, Alberta. An avid sports fan, she followed baseball, golf and curling, sharing her family’s passions. Mary spent many hours travelling the West Country looking for the best berry patches. Her hands were always busy either with her passion for gardening, sewing, knitting, crocheting or quilting. Mary will be lovingly remembered by her children, Lee (Catherine), Gary (Donna), Keith (Debbie), Gordon, Peggy and Barry (Jacky); ten grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by her sister, Nancy Radau and her brother, Vernon Puzey. Mary was predeceased by her beloved husband, Edward ‘Ned’, in February 1978, her parents, Edward and Annie, and a brother, Henry. A Celebration of Mary’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. The family would like to extend their sincere thanks to the staff of the West Park Lodge, Red Deer for their kindness and compassion to Mary. Flowers are gratefully declined. If desired, Memorial Donations in Mary’s honor may be made directly to the Lending Cupboard at 5406 - 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1C9 or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 8 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $13/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356 JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time. 4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303
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BELLAMY We invite you to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Ron and Dolores Bellamy on July 25, 2015, 1 - 4 p.m. at the Moose Lodge. No gifts please.
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DR. and MRS. CAROL and RENE WEBER Congratulations on 45 fabulous years of marriage. Thank you for being such a great example, Mom and Dad. We love you!
Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.
Qualifications: Applicants should possess prior experience in the human service field, ideally providing community based supports. Experience with dual diagnosis, dementia, personal care or unique challenges are definite assets. Driver’s license and reliable vehicle required for most positions. Successful candidates will be required to provide a criminal and vulnerable sector check. Valid First Aid & CPR certification is required within three months. Other required training is completed via in-service with staff being compensated for in most cases. Hours / Compensation: 8 - 30+ hours per week All positions may include shiftwork, weekends and overnights. $16.15 - $18.81 per hour Forward resumes to; CARS #101 -5589 47 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Fax: 403-346-8015 Email: markw@carsrd.org
TRICAN is a global well service company with operations in Canada, USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Australia, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and Norway. If you are a motivated, service-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills, we invite you to apply for the following position:
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FRAC SAND B-TRAIN DRIVER RESPONSIBILITIES: • Comply with our Target Zero program as a mimimum standard unless regulations or legislation is more stringent in any area • Operate various large duty trucks over outdoor terrain and through all weather conditions • Perform pre and post trip inspections and accurately ¿ll out all required forms • Perform rig-in and rig out of all equipment, for travel • Operate all equipment in a safe and responsible manner • Attend pre-job safety meeting on location • Perform maintenance on units and auxiliary equipment • Complete required paperwork • Establish and maintain effective communication with colleagues • Consult with supervisor and crew regarding any operational de¿ciencies
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: • Valid Class 1 Driver’s Licence is required • Pressure pumping experience is preferred • High school diploma is an asset • Safe driving skills, driver’s abstract will be requested • Heavy lifting required, must be physically ¿t • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
WHAT MAKES US ATTRACTIVE: • Values-driven organization • Full coverage bene¿ts program, Health Spending Account, RRSP matching program • Global technical leader within our industry • Focus on Safety, training and development
WORKING CONDITIONS: • 15 days on / 6 days off • On call 24-hours per day during days on • Willing to live near base of employment • Pre-employment medical testing required • Working in all weather conditions
Please forward your resume and a copy of a current driver’s abstract (in confidence) Fax: (403) 314-3332, Online: https://trican.hgcareers.com Please visit our website at www.trican.ca for additional information about our company. We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted
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Fletcher Richard John “Jack” Feb. 19, 1921 - July 15, 2015 Richard John Fletcher passed away peacefully on July 15, 2015 in the company of his family. He was predeceased by his granddaughter Dorinda and his son in law Dale Koch (married to Karen). He leaves behind his lovely wife Hazel, children Larry (Diane and family), Cheryl (Ken Zunti and family), Shelley (Alex Beier and family), and Karen (and family), his beautiful grand and great grandchildren and numerous other friends and extended family. He will be missed and loved forever. We are now lucky to have him as our guardian angel in heaven. Funeral services will be held at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51st Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta on Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 1:00pm. In lieu of flowers donations can be made directly to The Children’s Wish Foundation, 4-10016 29A Avenue, NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6N 1A8 or STARS, Calgary Base-Head Office, 1441 Aviation Park NE, Box 570, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 8M7. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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Airdrops shower leaflets over de facto IS capital SAYS ‘FREEDOM WILL COME’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday. An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead extremists and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arabic below translated as “Freedom will come.” The latest leaflet drop comes as YPG fighters have been advancing in northern Syria as close as 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Raqqa. Coalition warplanes have dropped such leaflets in the past. A previous one had a cartoon showing masked Islamic State extremists at a “hiring office” feeding people into a meat grinder. Also Sunday, the extremists gave Internet cafes in Raqaa four days to stop offering wireless Internet connections to nearby homes, the Observatory and Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered said. The move comes two weeks after extremists released a video purporting to show the killing of two Syrian men in Raqqa, allegedly for spying. The Islamic State group holds about a third of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in its self-declared “caliphate.” On Friday, a truck bombing by the group in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province killed 115 people at a crowded market. Authorities there have fired the local police chief and three officers, while two others are being investigated, said senior Iraqi police officials speaking on condition of anonymity Sunday as they weren’t authorized to talk to journalists. Meanwhile in Iraq on Sunday, a series of bombings killed at least eight people and wounded about two dozen others. In Diyala on Sunday, a roadside bomb killed four people and wounded nine near the Diyala Bridge, southeast of the capital, police said. In al-Ameen, a district in east Baghdad, police said two people were killed and eight wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near a busy cafe, police said. And in the Baghdad suburb of Nahrawan, two people were killed and six wounded when a bomb exploded on a busy commercial street. Hospital officials corroborated the deaths. All spoke on the condition of anonymity as they are not authorized to brief journalists.No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Islamic State militant group often is behind such attacks in and around the capital as it seeks to destabilize Iraq’s Shiite-led government.
Pentagon chief says he will agree to disagree with Isreal’s stance on Iran nuke agreement BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Sunday he has no expectation of persuading Israeli leaders to drop their opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, but will instead emphasize that the accord imposes no limits on what Washington can do to ensure the security of Israel and U.S. Arab allies. “Our ability to carry out that strategy is unchanged,” Carter told reporters aboard his plane en route to Tel Aviv. The Obama administration reserves the right to use military force against Iran if necessary, he added, although the nuclear deal is intended to preclude that by resolving the issue diplomatically. Carter is scheduled to meet with Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Monday and with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday before travelling to Saudi Arabia and Jordan to consult on the implications of the Iran deal and to assess progress in the regional campaign against the Islamic State group. One of the bases used for U.S.-led training and arming of moderate Syrian rebels is in Jordan, and the Jordanian air force has carried out strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. One Jordanian pilot was captured and killed by the militants. Netanyahu has been harshly critical of the Iran nuclear deal, asserting that it clears the way for Iran to build nuclear weapons that would threaten Israel’s existence and ultimately diminish U.S. and global security. “I’m not going to change anybody’s mind in Israel,” Carter said in the interview. “We can agree to disagree.” In his remarks, Carter repeatedly mentioned that the Iran deal places no limitations on the U.S. defence strategy or its military presence in the Middle East, which includes warplanes, an aircraft carrier and tens of thousands of troops. He gave no indication, however, that the Pentagon plans immediate moves to bolster that presence, which is anchored by the Navy’s 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain, an air operations centre in Qatar and a military headquarters in Kuwait running the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the interview, Carter previewed the message he will convey to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia on behalf of President Barack Obama, who already has called a number of Mideast leaders to reaffirm U.S. support and to explain the Iran deal. “This is a good deal,” Carter said. “It removes a critical element of danger, threat and uncertainty from the region,” and does so in a way that can be verified not only by the U.S. but by the international community. Asked whether he thinks the Iran accord makes it more likely that Israel will launch a pre-emptive military strike on Iran, Carter noted that the U.S. has discussed military options with Israel for a number of years. “One of the reasons this deal is a good one is that it does nothing to prevent the military option — the U.S. military option, which I’m responsible for” and which will be improved and preserved, he said. The U.S.-Israel defence relationship has deepened in recent years, even as tensions between the two over how to contain Iran’s nuclear program has grown. The U.S. has invested hundreds of millions in an Israeli air defence system known as Iron Dome, designed to shoot down short-range rockets, mortars and artillery shells fired into northern Israel from southern Lebanon and into Israel’s south from the Gaza Strip. The U.S. has worked with Israel on anti-missile systems and a wide range of other defences. Two years ago the Pentagon committed to providing advanced radars for Israel’s fleet of fighter jets and KC-135 refuelling aircraft, and making Israel the first country to buy the V-22 Osprey hybrid airplane-helicopter. Just two months ago Washington announced a $1.9 billion arms sale to Israel for a range of missiles and bombs, including bunker busters that can penetrate reinforced defences to reach underground targets.
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Rain dampens dangerous wildfire CALIFORNIA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — A rare summer storm allowed firefighters to contain 60 per cent of a wildfire that swept across a California interstate highway, torching vehicles and sending people running for their lives. Light rain and moist air dampened the blaze in the mountainous Cajon Pass, 55 miles (89 kilometres) northeast of Los Angeles, the main artery between Southern California and Las Vegas. The wind-driven fire was sparked Friday afternoon below the elevated lanes of Interstate 15. Pushed by 40 mph (64 kph) winds, it raced up a hill and onto the traffic-clogged freeway, trapping hundreds of people amid a cauldron of smoke, flames and ash. The flames destroyed 20 vehicles on the freeway before heading into the neighbouring community of Baldy Mesa, where it burned seven homes and destroyed 44 more vehicles. In all, the fire burned about 8.5 square miles (22 square kilometres). Two people were injured. Both suffered minor smoke inhalation, authorities said, but they declined medical attention. California is in the midst of a severe drought, and wildfires are common. Some break out near freeways, but it’s very unusual to have vehicles caught in the flames. It being a Friday afternoon, however, Interstate 15 was typically jammed with vehicles travelling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Adding to the congestion was construction work in the area. Another wildfire that broke out Friday night in the San Gabriel Mountains and forced the evacuation of 300 campers in nearby Wrightwood. It was 40 per cent contained after burning about 200 acres (80 hectares).
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Bystanders look on along Interstate 15 on the Cajon Pass, Friday, July 17, 2015, near San Bernadino, Calif., as a fast-moving wildfire swept across the Southern California freeway, destroying numerous vehicles and sending motorists running to safety before burning at least five homes.
Shiite rebels kill 45 in Yemen shelling SANAA, Yemen — Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen randomly shelled a town Sunday outside of Aden after losing control of some the port city’s neighbourhoods, killing at least 45 people and wounding 120, officials said. The violence highlighted the bloody chaos of the civil war gripping the Arab world’s poorest country, which also has been the target of Saudi-led, U.S.backed airstrikes since late March. A leader with the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, denied shelling Dar Saad, a town just north of Aden and long home to fighters resisting their advances. But Yemeni medical officials and a doctor with an international aid organization said the shelling clearly came from the north and east of Dar Saad — areas under rebel control. Aden, the scene of some of the war’s fiercest ground battles, saw Saudibacked troops and fighters seize from the Houthis some of its neighbourhoods and its international airport last week. Sunday’s shelling in Dar Saad
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Surfer fights off shark during world surfing competition in South Africa JOHANNESBURG — Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, a surfer punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa on Sunday. Three-time world champion Australian surfer Mick Fanning was struck by the shark from behind and knocked into the water as he sat on his board waiting his turn during the JBay Open in Jeffrey’s Bay in the Eastern Cape Province. As he scans the water, two fins appear and with a splash he disappears under the surface. He is next seen furiously trying to swim to safety before a rescuer pulls him out of the water. “A big sigh of relief seeing Fanning in one piece,” a commentator is heard saying, on the video of the event posted on the World Surf League website. “I felt something grab, get stuck in my leg rope and instantly jump away. And it just kept coming at my board,” Fanning said, once safe on the rescue boat. Fanning said at first he swam away but then decided to defend himself and turned to punch the shark in the back. “I saw it taking my board away and I just started cracking it,” he told a crowd that gathered around him once he was back on shore, referring to how he struck the shark. “I’m totally fine. I’ve got nothing wrong with me,” Fanning said in an interview. “There’s a small depression
appeared to be a way to both punish those resisting the Houthis, as well as halt the advance of their opponents. Yemeni medical and military officials said hundreds of residents fled Dar Saad amid the shelling as ambulance rushed through the streets, sirens wailing. They said the shelling killed at least 45 people and wounded 120, all believed to be civilians. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to brief journalists. Abdu Mohammed Madrabi, 65, said he was in line outside the post office to collect his pension when the shells hit, causing chaos. Madrabi, who was wounded in the neck, back and leg, said many private cars carried the wounded to hospitals because there weren’t enough ambulances. The shelling was intense in the neighbourhood of Sharqiya, hundreds of meters from the post office. “It’s been one shell after the other since the morning,” said Arwa Mohammed, a resident of Sharqiya locked up in one room with her seven-member family for safety. “We are feeling the house is going to collapse over our
head.” Anis Othman, a neighbour of Mohammed, also described a scene of pandemonium. “Balls of fire are falling over our heads amid the screams of children and women,” he said. “Why all that shelling? There are no weapons or fighters here. They (the rebels) want to terrorize us and drive us out. This is only rancour and hate.” Zeifullah al-Shami, a Houthi leader, denied targeting civilians in the shelling, saying his forces were engaging the rivals on the front lines. “This is part of the media deception,” he said. “We didn’t kill civilians.” However, the rebels had vowed to retaliate after losing ground in Aden. The rebels now are largely based in Aden’s western neighbourhood of Tawahi, as well as bases east of Aden and in Lahj province, north of the city. Saudi-backed fighters also are advancing on a military air base in Lahj province. Sunday night, anti-Houthi forces linked up in Tawahi from the north and south at the state television build-
ing, a Yemeni military official said. He claimed anti-Houthi forces fully controlled the area and said they were searching residences for rebels, some of whom had fled to nearby mountains. Witnesses and anti-Houthi forces said bodies littered the streets. Locals said loudspeakers were blaring in the streets urging the Houthis to surrender. In the city of Taiz, Yemen’s third largest, fighting raged on the ground, residents said, with a gas facility burning after it was hit. In the capital, Sanaa, satellite channel Ghazal said Houthi militias had stormed its building. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak to journalists, and the residents declined to be identified for fear of repercussions. The fighting in Yemen pits the Houthis and troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against southern separatists, local and tribal militias, Sunni Islamic militants and loyalists of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who is now based in Saudi Arabia.
in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I’m just totally tripping out. To walk away from that, I’m just so stoked. Oh man.” The World Surf League cancelled the remainder of the event and Fanning will split the prize money with fellow Australian surfer Julian Wilson, who was also in the water when the attack happened. The two will share second place.
now is the time to reflect on the victims and their families, and we feel it would be inappropriate to say anything more other than that we are truly sorry for their loss.” A law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity said FBI agents were continuing to interview people Sunday and reaching out to a broader circle of potential contacts and acquaintances. The official said that investigators were especially interested in Abdulazeez’s trip to Jordan and were trying to determine whom he met with, what he did and whether he might have gone or tried to go anywhere else.
Modesto police spokeswoman Heather Graves said Martin Martinez, of Modesto, was detained in San Jose early Sunday and booked into a Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of murder. Martinez had a relationship with one of the women and is the father of one of the girls found dead Saturday afternoon. All the victims are related, and the children’s ages range from 6 months to 6 years old, Graves said. Police aren’t releasing information about a motive or cause of death at this time, she said. Officers responding to a request to check on the home discovered the bodies Saturday afternoon, Graves said. Modesto is located in California’s Central Valley. The house is in a tidy subdivision lined with four- and five-bedroom homes that were built seven or eight years ago, the Modesto Bee reported. Connie Lycan, who lives a block away, said she moved to the neighbourhood when it was new and considered to be quiet. “Well it was quiet. No place is safe anymore,” Lycan said.
Family of Chattanooga shooter says he suffered from depression, expresses horror and grief CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The family of the gunman who killed four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga says he had suffered from depression for many years and “was not the son we knew and loved.” “It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this heinous act of violence,” the family of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez said in a statement issued Saturday through a lawyer. Law enforcement officials did not return calls seeking comment on the family’s assertion that Abdulazeez was suffering from depression. Counterterrorism investigators, meanwhile, continued to interview Abdulazeez’s acquaintances and delve into his months-long visit to Jordan last year, looking for clues to who or what might have influenced him and set off the bloodshed Thursday. The 24-year-old Kuwait-born Abdulazeez opened fire at a military recruiting office and a Navy-Marine operations centre a few miles apart. Family members said they are cooperating with the investigation. “We understand there are many legitimate questions that need to be answered,” they said. “Having said this,
Police arrest father of girl found dead with four others inside California home MODESTO, Calif. — A 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday in the deaths of his daughter, two other girls and two women whose bodies were found in a California home, police said.
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Chickenpox vaccine working CASES DROP IN ONTARIO AFTER PUBLIC VACCINE PROGRAM LAUNCHED: STUDY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario’s publicly funded chickenpox vaccination program appears to have dramatically reduced the number of children who get infected with the virus, researchers say. In a study that looked at 20 years of data, Public Health Ontario found the number of children who visited a doctor or an emergency room due to chickenpox dropped 71 per cent after the public immunization program began in 2004, compared to two earlier periods. Hospitalizations also fell 59 per cent. The study looked at health-care usage related to chickenpox among kids under 18 from 2004 to 2011. The numbers were compared to the period from 1992 to 1998, when there was no vaccine, and 1999 to 2003, when the shot was available but had to be paid for out of parents’ pockets. “This is a vaccine program that very clearly is working,” said lead author Dr. Anne Wormsbecker, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at Public Health Ontario. “So it looks like from our study that kids are not getting as much chickenpox ... and fewer kids are being hospitalized for complications of chickenpox. “So that’s really a good news story.” Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by the varicella zoster virus, which produces an itchy, blister-like rash and lasts about five to 10 days. Other symptoms include fever, fatigue and headache. The virus spreads in the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes, but can also be contracted by touching or breathing in the virus particles from chickenpox blisters, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. “Chickenpox is usually a mild, selflimiting illness,” said Wormsbecker. “However, chickenpox in some cases - and we can’t predict in which cases - can result in very serious complications, including infections of the skin and deeper tissues, the most serious being necrotizing fasciitis.” Those skin and tissue infections are caused by different types of bacteria, likely introduced when a child scratches a blister, she said. Necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating disease, is a potentially life-threatening infection caused by the group A
streptococcus bacterium and can be severe enough to require surgery or, in some cases, limb amputation. But the virus itself can also cause complications, by infecting the lungs, brain or bloodstream and organs, resulting in disability or death in rare cases. “So that to me is a reminder that it’s important to have the chickenpox vaccine, and I’m really happy to see that our vaccine is working,” said Wormsbecker. Dr. Joan Robinson, who was not involved in the study, said that when the varicella vaccine was first introduced, there were doubts as to whether it was really needed. “Many people regarded chickenpox as being just a rite of childhood (and) it’s usually quite a benign disease,” said Robinson, an infectious disease specialist at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. “But it’s been recognized by physicians that occasionally it does cause quite severe disease, even in children who have no known risk factors for having severe disease,” she said, noting that an estimated 1,000 children in Canada were hospitalized each year due to chickenpox complications prior to the vaccine’s development. “This study really nicely demonstrates that the vaccine has had an impact.” The research, published online Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that between 1992 and 2011, there were more than 600,000 physician office visits, 55,500 emergency department visits and 2,700 hospitalizations for chickenpox among Ontario children. In 1994, before the vaccine became available, visits to doctors’ offices due to chickenpox were 25 per 1,000 children. In 2011, seven years after the publicly funded varicella vaccination program began, that figure dropped to 3.2 per 1,000 children. The rates of hospital ER visits and hospitalizations saw similar declines, and chickenpox-associated skin and soft tissue infections declined significantly, especially in kids under 12. Initially, children were given one dose of the varicella vaccine. But in 2011, doctors began administering two shots - at 15 months old and between age four and six - after research showed the double-dose regimen
Lyme disease risk greater in Northeast, upper Midwest U.S. NEW YORK — The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new government study published Wednesday U.S. cases remain concentrated in the Northeast and upper Midwest. But now more areas in those regions are considered high risk. “The risk is expanding, in all directions,” said the lead author, Kiersten Kugeler of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A girl receives an injection in her left upper arm muscle in a 2011 handout photo. Ontario’s publicly funded chickenpox vaccination program appears to have dramatically reduced the number of children who get infected with the virus, researchers say. was better at preventing outbreaks in schools and other settings where groups of children come in close contact. In Ontario, almost 78 per cent of five-year-old kids are known to have had at least one shot of the vaccine. Most provinces cover the cost of vaccination to prevent chickenpox, and these programs even help those who haven’t been immunized because of the “herd immunity” phenomenon -
There are now 260 counties where the number of Lyme disease cases is at least twice what’s expected, given the size of each county’s population. That’s up from 130 a decade earlier, the report shows. Lyme disease is most common in wooded suburban and far suburban counties. Scientists aren’t sure why high-risk areas are expanding, but it likely has something to do with development and other changes that cause the deer and ticks that carry the bacteria to move, Kugeler said. Overall, 17 states have high-risk counties. The entire state of Connecticut, where the illness was first identified in 1975, has been high-risk for decades. Now, high-risk zones encompass nearly all of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and more than half of
which makes it more difficult for the virus to keep circulating and infecting people within the community. Such herd immunity is also important for helping to prevent the spread of chickenpox due to imported cases, such as the Mexican soccer player who was diagnosed with the virus and isolated herself shortly after arriving in Toronto to compete in the Pan Am Games.
Maine and Vermont. Other states that saw expansion of high-risk areas include Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York along the Eastern seaboard, and Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota in the Midwest. The disease is transmitted through the bites of infected deer ticks, which can be about the size of a poppy seed. Symptoms include a fever, headache and fatigue and sometimes a telltale rash that looks like a bull’s-eye on the tick bite. Most people recover with antibiotics. If left untreated, the infection can cause arthritis and more severe problems. About 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. cases are reported each year, but experts say there actually are as many as 10 times more.
Families hit by rare early Alzheimer’s push for better treatment WASHINGTON — Alzheimer’s has ravaged generations of Dean DeMoe’s family — his grandmother, father, siblings — all in their 40s and 50s. DeMoe himself inherited the culprit gene mutation and at 53, the North Dakota man volunteers for a drug study he hopes one day will end the family’s burden. International scientists gathering in Washington for a conference this week express cautious optimism that they may finally be on the right track to fight Alzheimer’s, a disease that already affects more than 5 million people in the United States and is expected to more than double by 2050 as the population ages. Families like DeMoe’s with the very rarest form of Alzheimer’s, young and inherited, hold crucial clues to fighting this brain-destroying disease in everyone. On Saturday, researchers for the first time brought together dozens of these families — patients, patients-tobe and their healthy loved ones — from as far as Australia and Britain to meet face to face. They shared advice about when their children should undergo gene testing to learn their own fate, and they got an unusual opportunity to grill government and drug company officials about why it’s taking so long to find a good treatment. “Finally, I got to talk to other people who are going through the same thing,” said DeMoe, of Thompson, North Dakota, who with four other siblings inherited the family’s bad gene. One sister was spared. His wife, Deb, said he experiences early memory changes known as mild cognitive impairment, but DeMoe still holds a job with an oil company and said, “I don’t dwell on it.” Families’ first question: Why not try to fix the gene defect that causes this form of Alzheimer’s instead of targeting its downstream effects? Why, asked others, can’t desperate families get faster access to experimental drugs, as AIDS patients once did?
“It’s time to ease our anguish,” said Tal Cohen of Calabasas, California. At age 37, his wife, Giedre, already is in the mild-to-moderate stage of Alzheimer’s. He emerged hopeful that researchers are considering creative ways to speed that access. “We don’t have any more time to wait and see,” he said. Alzheimer’s usually strikes older adults, affecting about 1 in 9 people age 65 or over. Less than 1 per cent of cases worldwide are the autosomal dominant form, caused by inheriting a gene with a particular mutation that triggers the disease well before the senior years. Children of an affected parent have a 50 per cent chance of inheriting their family’s bad gene. But if they do, they almost always get sick about the same time their parent did. Many of these families are part of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study that monitors the health of family gene carriers and their healthy relatives in several countries. Recently, it showed that silent changes in the brain can precede the first memory problems by 20 years. Now scientists think the best hope against Alzheimer’s is to treat high-risk people long before symptoms appear, aiming to at least stall the disease if not prevent it. On Sunday, researchers at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference reported possible new ways to predict who will get sick with the more common late-onset Alzheimer’s — vital to testing such treatments — and a single test probably won’t be enough, said Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Marilyn Albert. —Tracking about 350 people starting in middle age, Albert’s team found a combination of tests predicted development of mild cognitive impairment within five years. They include a spinal tap to measure toxic levels of Alzheimer’s hallmark amyloid and tau proteins; MRI scans to detect shrinking brain regions; and two standard memory assessments. The combination isn’t ready for doctors’ offices, but should help drug companies tell who to enrol in early-stage treatment stud-
ies, she said. —Scientists at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam found another protein, named neurogranin, in spinal fluid. It may signal that connections called synapses are dying, making it harder for brain cells to communicate. —Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, are beginning to hunt a saliva test for earlier markers of cognitive decline. But knowing who is destined for Alzheimer’s and approximately when it will strike makes rare families such as DeMoe’s especially critical for research. A second DIAN study now is testing whether either of two experimental drugs might give those gene carriers more symptom-free years by
fighting buildup of sticky amyloid in the brain. That study soon will expand to test additional drugs. “The goal here really is to get drugs approved to help everyone,” said Dr. Randall Bateman of Washington University in St. Louis, who oversees the DIAN drug study. Dean DeMoe came to the meeting with his wife, healthy sister and two of his three children. He wishes researchers could have revealed if those drugs are working, but they won’t know for several years. Meanwhile, his two oldest children, in their 20s, had gene testing as part of health-tracking research but chose not to be told the results until they are older or protective drugs come along. His teenager thinks she will make the same choice.
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Getting hitched in a graveyard Facebook CEMETERIES, FUNERALS BRANCH BEYOND DEATH BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Danessa Molinder entered the courtyard wearing a white dress and matching veil. Her groom waited at the other end, in front of decorative doors and lattice work that blocked the view of a nearby cemetery with 73,000 graves. Molinder’s June wedding was one of more than 50 that will be hosted this year at a $10 million events centre run by the Washington Park East Cemetery Association in Indianapolis. The somewhat ironically named Community Life Center sits on cemetery land near a funeral home and also has hosted a prom, community banquets and even breakfasts with Santa. “It’s such a beautiful building,” Molinder said. “That’s what really drew us to it.” Funeral homes aren’t just for funerals anymore. Businesses that once focused almost entirely on honouring the dead are now open to an array of events as they seek to add revenue. Cemetery and funeral home operators say they’re being squeezed as more people favour simpler, less expensive funeral services. Their businesses also are being pressured by the growing popularity of cremations, which can bring in less than half the revenue of a traditional casket burial. Cremations are expected to become the most common form of body disposition nationally in a few years, according to the Cremation Association of North America. Funeral home operators also say there’s a need in their communities for locations that can host weddings or other big events, and people are no longer hung up on their main business. Declining membership in churches and civic organizations also may be boosting demand for nontraditional venues for weddings and receptions. As a result, funeral homes and cemeteries nationwide have been marketing their properties for an array of uses. Nearly 10 per cent of 280 respondents to a National Funeral Directors Association survey last year said they built a community centre to host other events. That’s up from 6 per cent in 2011.
“As a business, we need to find ways to keep growing,” said Bruce Buchanan, a member of the Indianapolis cemetery association’s board and owner of a funeral home business. Younger generations are growing up without the same stigma toward death that their parents and grandparents had, said Mike Nicodemus, a vicepresident with the National Funeral Directors Association. “People aren’t as religious as they once were ... and their attitudes toward death are changing,” he said. “Funeral homes were seen for one reason: to have a funeral. Now they’re being used for all kinds of things.” That versatility might be appealing to couples who need a place to host their big day but aren’t affiliated with a religion, said Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion professor. He said that theory comes with a caveat: The site should have some separation between the wedding and funeral businesses, because there’s a cultural taboo against mixing death too closely with weddings, which often are about birth and the starting of families. Chelsey Lesnick picked a suburban Cleveland funeral home that her grandparents opened in 1949 as the site for her nuptials last March. The home’s second-floor reception centre — not the funeral site downstairs — hosted the service and the party afterward for about 50 people. Lesnick, 24, said the site didn’t feel like a “house of death or a place of mourning.” “It felt like a place of love and just bright happy joy on that day, it really did,” she said. Despite their growing openness to holding various events, funeral directors and cemetery executives say they haven’t replaced their main business. Matt Linn built a multi-use facility in 2008 after a flood damaged his funeral home. His Cedar Rapids, Iowa, business now runs three wedding venues and two locations that can host weddings and funerals. It also manages a golf course and runs a farmer’s market. Non-funeral related events still amount to only about 20 per cent of total revenue for Linn’s business. But the versatility helps with his main line of work.
Even when people are looking into holding services for a deceased loved one, they’re opting more for celebrations of life filled with slide shows, food and alcohol, instead of a traditional viewing and service that stretches out over a few days. “I don’t think I’ve co-ordinated a (traditional) funeral in a long time because they’re depressing things,” he said. Events at the Community Life Center in Indianapolis account for only about 5 per cent of the Washington Park Cemetery Association’s total revenue. The centre’s wedding business didn’t really take off until four or five years ago. Now, it’s booked nearly every weekend this summer for weddings and is taking 2016 reservations. “The words I love to hear, and I hear them all the time, is, ’I didn’t know you could do this,”’ said Buchanan, the cemetery association board member. Peak rental rates for the Community Life Center approach $4,000. That is less than half the average rate of $9,837 in Indiana, according to the wedding planning website TheKnot.com. Molinder, the Indianpolis, bride, said the centre’s rates were comparable to other venues they considered. The centre grabbed her attention in part because it was easy for her guests to reach and could host both the ceremony and reception. That convenience helped the 250 people who attended her wedding dodge rain that had been brewing in the grey clouds overhead. Guests were able to take a short walk from the courtyard into the centre after the ceremony. Once inside, they sipped drinks and mingled around a fountain in the centre’s rotunda, which is laid out in Italian marble, while they waited for the reception in a nearby ballroom. That fountain sat a short walk away from a darkened office where customers for the cemetery’s main business can view casket samples. In the end, that main business never bothered Molinder, 26. Her only concern was to make sure the photographer avoided getting gravestones in the pictures “Everything turned out perfectly,” she said.
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Around 200 people dressed as Vikings simulate a battle during the Viking Festival at Trelleborg, the Viking fortress of King Harald Bluetooth from around year 980 ad, near Slagelse, south-west of Copenhagen, on Friday July 17, 2015. 800 Vikings from all over Europe gather in Trelleborg for the annual Viking Festival, which also include a more peaceful Viking-style market.
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TORONTO - After Jill Kennedy finished high school, she decided to conduct a purge of her Facebook friends list - a move she now regrets. “I think I lost a lot of connections that way,” says Kennedy, 23, founder of That’s the Idea, a professional social media and content management service. “Moving home after university, a lot of the people I unfriended are still here; so if I see them in public, it’s really awkward.” The Ajax, Ont., resident says she’s also been on the receiving end of “unfriending,” by people she was at one point close to or connected with through work or school. “I can understand when people you don’t see at all, or you met them once at a party and then they sort of disappear and you’re never going to see them again - I get that. “But when it comes to people that I’ve worked with, I think that’s what would irk me.” Friends and followers are amassed on social networks at lightning speed compared to the typically gradual build of relationships forged offline. Yet for some, being digitally deleted by their contacts can be bruising to the ego - even if the relationships aren’t close. “In real life, you can just sort of let someone drift away from you.... You just stop interacting,” says Aimee Morrison, associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo, who works in digital humanities. “There’s this idea that unfriending on Facebook is like an active step that you take to tell somebody: ‘I don’t like you. I don’t want to see your stuff anymore.”’ What makes digital communications even trickier is the uncertainty around online etiquette, adds Morrison. “Social interactions and socially appropriate behaviours are culturally learned and Facebook is a new technology.... We’re all sort of casting about for what the rules are - let alone what they should be.” For those worried or uncertain about unfriending Facebook contacts, Morrison says the easiest thing to do is not engage with the individual’s posts by clicking or commenting on them. “Soon enough, the algorithm will bury that. You won’t see stuff from that person anymore.” Edward Kiledjian has a more active approach to managing his Facebook feed. He regularly sifts through his friends list, taking note of whether he interacts with each individual and is interested in their updates. “My rule of thumb is if I haven’t spoken to somebody in the real world in the last six months or in the last year then probably we shouldn’t be connected on Facebook.” During his “quarterly cleanup,” Kiledjian says he’ll post a message to inform friends that they may be removed, but adds that they can reach out if they want to remain in touch. He says he isn’t bothered if he’s unfriended and encourages others to take stock of their accounts. “These social media networks allow us to keep contact with people that typically in the real world we wouldn’t keep in touch with. That could include former flings, former friends, former colleagues. “And people often forget the rich nature of data that’s available on social networks,” says Kiledjian, chief information security officer at Bombardier Aerospace.
Oregon scientists develop bacon-flavoured seaweed BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. — What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon? The answer, according to scientists at Oregon State University, is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented. Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. It’s harvested and commonly used by people in dried form as a cooking ingredient or nutritional supplement. But OSU researchers say the variety they’ve developed can be farmed and eaten fresh, with the potential for a new industry for Oregon. Scientists have been trying to develop a new strain of the seaweed for more than 15 years. Their original goal was to create a super food for commercially grown abalone, a mollusk prized in Asia. The strain of dulse they came up with, which looks like translucent red lettuce, is a great source of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants, not to mention protein. The abalone grew exceedingly quickly when fed the dulse and an abalone operation in Hawaii is now using the seaweed on a commercial
scale. But after a product development team at OSU’s Food Innovation Center created new foods with the dulse, researchers began to think humans might benefit a lot more. Among the most promising foods created were a dulse-based rice cracker and salad dressing. And bacon-tasting strips, which are fried like regular bacon to bring out the flavour. The research team received a grant from the Oregon Department of Agriculture to explore dulse as a “specialty crop” — the first time seaweed had made the list, officials said. The team brought on a culinary research chef to further refine recipes and products. Several Portland-area chefs are now testing the sea “vegetable” in its raw or cooked form. And MBA students at OSU are preparing a marketing plan for a new line of dulse-based specialty foods and exploring the potential for a new aquaculture industry. There are no commercial operations that grow dulse for human consumption in the U.S. and chefs say fresh, high-quality seaweed is hard to come by. “The dulse grows using a water recirculation system,” said OSU researcher Chris Langdon, who developed the strain. “Theoretically, you
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