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‘My son is free’ MOTHER WANTS SOME GOOD TO COME OUT OF HER ADOPTED SON’S DEATH

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Filled with compassion and forgiveness, the adoptive mother of a Red Deer teen killed in Calgary last week reflected on how those who committed the act must feel.

“I feel so terrible for the family and those boys

who have to live with this for the rest of their lives,” said Lynda Marance. “My son is free.

“Can you imagine that boy when he woke up the next day and found out he killed somebody? I forgive them.”

Levi Marance, 18, was killed on July 19 in Calgary.

He was found by Calgary Police Service at about 1:30 a.m. that morning in medical distress. He was transported to Levi Marance hospital, but died a short time later.

A very protective, compassionate person he looked after his big blended family. Lynda, 70, said she has seven adopted kids and has guardianship of an eighth.

“He was extremely protective of anybody that knew him,” said Lynda. “Anyone that knew him, they’d call him basically their father. It didn’t matter who you were, he’d protect you.

“My husband died when Levi was seven, and he took on the role of protecting us. He was very compassionate and very loving.”

Levi always supported his sister’s dream of going to Ghana to do some work for an orphanage and bring some much needed medical supplies.

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Fentanyl seized during traffic stop in Lacombe

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A woman was taken to hospital with unknown injuries Monday morning in Rimbey. Rimbey RCMP, EMS and firefighters were called to a crash between a truck and a tanker truck at 51st Street and 50th Avenue shortly after 11 a.m.

Lacombe Police Service seized 40 hits of an illicit drug that is taking lives at an alarming rate in the province.

It was the first time fentanyl has shown up within city limits. The green pills were seized along with 26 grams of cocaine and several individual baggies of marijuana at a traffic stop on 50th Avenue in west Lacombe.

Six deaths related to fentanyl were recorded in Red Deer between 2011 and 2013.

So far this year an estimated 50 people have died from Fentanyl the street drug in Alberta. In 2014, there were 120 deaths.

Police chief Steve Murray said he is very concerned about what he calls “an evil nasty drug.”

“If you look at the death rate of users, it is alarming,” said Murray. “Like any other street drug, this has the potential to kill. It has a demonstrated history of killing people.”

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Power outages fixed to drive up electricity prices, commission says

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. deliberately timed outages at power plants in Alberta at peak times in order to drive up electricity prices, the province’s utilities commission said in a ruling Monday.

The Alberta Utilities Commission conducted hearings after the province’s market surveillance administrator alleged that the Calgary-based company manipulated the electricity market by shutting down coal-fired power plants in late 2010 and early 2011 to drive up power costs during periods when demand was high.

“The commission concludes, based upon clear, cogent and convincing evidence that TransAlta could have deferred each of the above described outages

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to off peak hours but chose instead to take them during peak or super-peak hours so as to maximize the benefit to its own portfolio,” the commission said in its decision.

“In other words, the timing of the outage was determined by market conditions rather than by the need to safeguard life, property or the environment.”

The commission also found that TransAlta breached a regulation by allowing its energy trader Nathan Kaiser to use privileged information related to plant shutdowns so that the company could benefit in the market.

“TransAlta knew, or should have reasonably known that Kaiser had information regarding the capability of Sundance 1 and 2 to produce electricity that could reasonably be expected to have a material impact on market prices and would give him an ad-

vantage over market participants who did not have that information,” the commission found.

But the commission said Kaiser established a defence of due diligence based on repeated assurances from senior TransAlta management that he could direct trades despite possessing information that wasn’t public.

The commission also found that the market surveillance administrator did not prove allegations that TransAlta’s compliance policies, practices and oversight were inadequate and deficient.

In a release late Monday, TransAlta said it has received the decision and will be reviewing the ruling.

It said it’s response could “include the possibility of an appeal to the Alberta Court of Appeal.”

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Wildlife hospital on brink of extinction Injured animals in Central Alberta may be sent elsewhere for care if the Medicine River Wildlife Centre hospital closes.

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Wildlife hospital on brink of extinction

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Injured and sick animals in Central Alberta may be sent to either Calgary or Edmonton for care should the Medicine River Wildlife Centre’s hospital be forced to close.

Carol Kelly, executive director, said the hospital’s closure is a real possibility if the centre does not raise $400,000 for the new hospital before the snow begins to fall.

The centre is currently in the middle of a fundraising campaign to raise the money for a replacement hospital.

The concrete foundation has been poured, but the walls will not go up until enough money is raised.

Kelly said the money is not coming in fast enough, which means the centre will have to consider other options, such as finding other places for the animals to be treated.

“We haven’t given up, but we wanted to let people know that we are getting close,” said Kelly. “It’s very frustrating. I am being constantly told, ‘What would we do without you?’”

The centre has raised roughly $17,000 through its online Indiegogo campaign, which closes in five days. Some individuals are expected to drop off cheques.

Built in 1991, the hospital does not have heat, and the plumbing is barely working. When it rains heavily, the floor floods, forcing staff to carry mops to keep the water under control.

Kelly said the centre cannot operate for another winter in the building.

“It has reached the end of its life,” she said. “The building has been used to death.”

There are about 60 to 70 animals in the hospital, but the number changes hourly. So far this year, the hospital has treated 1,100 patients.

The centre has been caring for injured, orphaned and compromised wild animals since 1984. The new

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period of April 1, 2014, to Sept. 30, 2014, was 131,082, and the number of needles returned between Oct. 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015, was 152,210, for a total of 283,292 returned needles during the fiscal year.

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Participants do not have to be garden club members to participate, and there is no entry fee.

People can drop off their entries between Aug. 19, from 5 and 8:30 p.m., and Aug. 20, from 7 to 9:30 a.m.

Club members will be available to assist people with their exhibits.

The show is open to the public from 2 to 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free.

A Garden Tea Party runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Dessert and tea or coffee is $5.

Awards will be presented at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, go to www.reddeergardenclub.ca. Festival Hall is located at 4214 58th St.

Beautiful blooms, picture-perfect vegetables and more will be on display at Red Deer Garden Club’s annual Flower and Garden Show at Festival Hall on Aug. 20.

Categories include gladiolus, roses, dahlias, sweet peas & cut flowers, potted plants, design arrangements and bouquets, cultivated fruits, vegetables,

A story about harm reduction in the July 23 Advocate had some incorrect information. In the last fiscal year, April 2014 to March 2015, the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society distributed 422,675 new needles. The number of needles returned for the

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MARANCE: Had issues with substance abuse The Lansen’s Helping Hand Foundation has raised funds through bottle drives, in an effort to travel to Ghana.

“They’re going to work at an orphanage of 140 children,” said Lynda. “If my daughter and her friend can go to Ghana, take supplies, work there for four to six weeks and help 140 children then his death won’t be for nothing.”

For more information on Lansen’s Helping Hand Foundation visit their Facebook page, or email fealtheluv@yahoo.com.

Levi lived with a brain injury that impaired his ability to understand consequences and left him vulnerable to suggestion. He did have issues with substance abuse before his death.

Lynda wants some good to come out of her son’s death.

She said one boy who knew Levi though his drug use came by their house, brought flowers and wanted to say he was sorry.

“He was crying, and I was helping him move on with his life,” said Lynda. “I was praying the whole time for what to say to this man, he’s only 19.”

Then the thought of forgiveness overcame Lynda.

“I said to him, ‘I want you to know I forgive you for your part in what went wrong with my son.’”

They talked some more and nearing the end of

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hospital will include five intensive care units, a quarantine room and an examination room.

The centre’s education and wildlife programs will continue.

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Medicine River Wildlife Centre executive director Carol Kelly stands in the decommissioned hospital at the centre. The building is being dismantled and sold so a new building can be erected.

their conversation Lynda asked the 19-year-old what he got out of the conversation.

“He looked at me and said ‘I’m forgiven,’” said Lynda.

Later that day, the 19-year-old went on Facebook posting how amazing Levi’s family was and that the night Levi died he gave up drugs.

“He said ‘I can move on with my life because Levi’s family forgave me.’”

Jesse Sky Copenance, 18, and a 17-year-old male have both been charged with second degree murder.

The 17-year-old can’t be identified because of provisions in the Canada Youth Justice Act. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FENTANYL: Often sold as OxyContin He said the street drugs is proving to be another scourge on the streets with lives being lost at an alarming rate.

The dangerous substance is often sold as OxyContin because of its similar green colour and identification marks on the streets and at parties.

“We want to make sure our families and parents are aware what this stuff is and what it looks like and the fact that it is here,” said Murray.

Prescribed by a doctor and taken in appropriate doses, fentanyl is used for pain management.

But when the painkiller is produced in clandestine labs and combined with other drugs or toxins, it can cause death.

Shay Clark Tangerman, 27, of Red Deer is charged with three counts of possession of a controlled sub-

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ELECTRICITY: Commission to decide penalties later The company has previously denied all of the allegations, calling them “categorically false” and saying that it triggers outages for maintenance, operations and safety purposes.

The commission said it will resume proceedings later to determine how much TransAlta benefited from the closures and what penalties to impose against the company.

Jim Law, a spokesman for the commission, said it could fine up to $1 million per day per offence, plus claw back any benefits it finds TransAlta gained from any offences.

Brad Hartle, press secretary to Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd, said in a statement that the government is “very concerned” that TransAlta was found to be breaking the rules.

“Alberta families need to know that they can get the power they need at a reasonable price,” said Hartle. “When the process is complete, we will take a good look at what happened, as well as what has happened since to determine whether there are steps our government should take to better protect consumers.”

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Tangerman appears in court on Aug. 6 in Red Deer provincial court. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Police looking for man who hurled vulgarities at on-air CBC reporter Toronto police are working to identify a man heard hurling vulgarities at a CBC reporter moments after the end of the closing ceremonies of the Pan Am Games.

Charlsie Agro was live on air Sunday night recapping the impressive performance of Canada’s female Pan Am athletes when a man shouted an obscenity that’s frequently directed at female reporters on the job.

Agro says she tried to chase the man down to confront him, but lost him in the crowd.

She wound up filing a report with Toronto police, who say they’re investigating the incident and trying to identify the culprit.

Const. Scott Mills says it’s too early to determine whether any charges could be laid.

Agro says the timing of this particular incident prompted her to join the ranks of reporters challenging the vulgar trend, which has been in force across Canada and the United States for months.

Earlier this year, Agro’s Montreal-based CBC colleague Jaela Bernstien and Shauna Hunt of Toronto’s CityNews both made headlines by confronting men who shouted the insult during their live coverage. One of Hunt’s hecklers wound up losing his job over the incident.

CBC Calgary reporter Meghan Grant managed to get one of her hecklers charged with stunting, an offense under Alberta’s Traffic Safety Act. Agro said those confrontations have obviously failed to send the message that such behaviour is unacceptable, adding the location and context of this latest incident was particularly striking.

“On the last night of the Games, to have this sort of unfortunate experience . . . I just don’t think it’s right that people leave thinking that something bad would happen at a time when we’re celebrating all that Toronto’s ac-

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Former MLA wins NDP nomination in CalgaryFoothills CALGARY — A former member of the legislature has won the NDP nomination to contest a byelection in former premier Jim Prentice’s old riding of Calgary-Foothills.

Bob Hawkesworth beat out Anne Wilson for the nod. Wilson ran against Prentice and lost in the May 5 provincial election.

However, even though he won the riding, Prentice quickly resigned when the Progressive Conservatives were swept from power by the NDP for the first time in more than 40 years, forcing a byelection.

Hawkesworth was the MLA for Calgary Mountain View from 1986 to 1993.

He also served on Calgary city council for 23 years.

No date has been set for the byelection, which must be held before the end of the year.

Man dies in crash on Hwy 22, two girls hurt COCHRANE — An Edmonton man

‘IF THIS HAPPENED TO A WOMAN WHO WAS SITTING AT HER DESK AT A WORKPLACE . . . I DON’T THINK ANYONE WOULD QUESTION IT AS BEING INAPPROPRIATE OR WRONG.’ — CHARLISIE AGRO CBC REPORTER

complished,” Agro said in a telephone interview.

In her discussions with city police, Agro said she obtained permission to share photos of the alleged culprit on social media.

Const. Scott Mills said the exposure on Twitter has led to several tips, but said the investigation is still in its early stages.

Mills said investigators will have to determine what, if any, criminal charges would apply. Such incidents could theoretically be treated as mischief offences under the Criminal Code, but some jurisdictions choose to pursue charges through civil legislation or municipal bylaws. Others may opt not to take any action at all.

“It’s safe to say that we’re on it, we care, and we’re trying to figure out how we’re going to go about this,” Mills said.

Lawyers have previously said that such heckling incidents generally fall outside the purview of workplace sexual harassment laws, since they involve third parties who are not directly connected to the women’s employers.

Agro said the explicit remarks, however, are threatening no matter where they’re made and should not be dismissed as a mere prank.

“If this happened to a woman who was sitting at her desk at a workplace and someone said it, I don’t think anyone would question it as being inappropriate or wrong.” is dead after a pickup truck crashed into his car on Highway 22 just south of the Trans-Canada Highway.

RCMP say it appears the driver was trying to make a U-turn when he was struck by the pickup.

Of the six people in the truck, two girls were sent to hospital with minor injuries.

All of the people in the truck are from Wildwood, a hamlet west of Edmonton.

Police say alcohol and speed are not believed to be factors in the crash.

Government warns consumers about ridesharing services EDMONTON — The Alberta government says people are taking a risk if they use ride-sharing services such as Uber.

The office of the Superintendent of Insurance says Albertans who use such services may not have access to coverage and accident benefits under Alberta law.

The office says drivers may believe they are covered by Uber’s supplemental insurance in the province, but that isn’t the case.

The government says passengers who want to use Uber and other ridesharing services should always ask the driver for proof of insurance coverage.

Uber and other services offer passengers rides through online apps.

The government says it has formed a committee to develop rules for ride-

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Suspended from a bucket crane high above the QEII, a pair of workers attach a cone to the top level of power lines being installed across the highway on Monday afternoon. Motorists were forced to squeeze to one lane traffic during the installation. for-hire companies in Alberta that will focus on public safety and consumer protection.

“The safety of Albertans is paramount,” the government said Monday in a release.

“The office of the Superintendent of Insurance will continue to work with Uber on finding ways for the ridesharing service to safely and legally operate in this province.”

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TSB probes fatal singleengine plane crash EDMONTON — The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the fatal crash of a light plane in northeastern Alberta.

The single-engine Cessna 182 went down Sunday near Seibert Lake east of the hamlet of Lac La Biche.

The pilot was the only person on board.

No other details were immediately available.

Multi-vehicle crash on southern Alberta highway takes second life STRATHMORE — A two-month-old baby girl who was seriously injured in a four-vehicle collision east of Calgary has died.

The infant was one of four members of a family who were in a car involved in the Friday afternoon crash on the

Trans-Canada Highway.

The baby’s mother died at the scene, while the child’s father and a second man were injured.

One of the three other drivers involved suffered minor injuries.

All four vehicles were heading east at the time of the collision.

RCMP are still looking into the cause.

A driver killed in a crash near Bowden on July 19 was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, an autopsy has concluded.

A passenger in the Ford F150, which collided with a Dodge truck, is recovering from his injuries and has been released from hospital.

At 4:40 p.m. on July 19, Olds RCMP officers were dispatched to a collision about one kilometre west of Hwy 2 on Hwy 587.

Police said a westbound Ford crossed into the eastbound lane. An eastbound Dodge truck attempted to avoid the collision, but the two trucks collided in the westbound lane. The Ford came a rest in the lane, and the Dodge flipped into a ditch, coming to rest on its roof.

Both drivers were flown by STARS Air Ambulance to hospital. Four other people were taken by ground ambulance to area hospitals.

Police said the occupants of the Dodge are still recovering from significant, but non-life-threatening injuries.

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Wasted opportunity for Trudeau In this summer of melting Liberal parties and the Liberal leader has takfortunes, this Sunday afternoon in a en another political hit at the worst steamy high school auditorium was possible time. supposed to be all about Eve, Dimitri Adams lost her first political race and Justin. of any kind, Soudas was left Instead it turned out to to shrug when asked what be all about prominent Towent wrong and Trudeau’s ronto lawyer Marco Mendijudgment can be questioned cino and an Eglinton-Lawanew. rence Liberal repudiation We snickered when he of interloper Eve Adams, trotted out Adams last Febher fiancé and one-time ruary as some major catch Conservative heavyweight for the Liberals. Check that.

Dimitri Soudas, and Justin We guffawed.

Trudeau, the Liberal leader But Adams was supposed who brought the duo and to be the woman to take on their steamer-size luggage Finance Minister Joe Oliaboard the listing Liberal ver in the riding in October, TIM ship. ready to brawl with the man HARPER The winner was supposed whose praises she once sang to be the drama queen with loudly and proudly. the temper, the woman who This was to be a victory had run afoul of Conservafor defectors everywhere, tive brass for the bare-knuckles style any man or woman whose principles — known generically as bullying — run so deeply they are prepared to run that she and Soudas employed in a across the street to work for the comprevious Conservative nomination bat- petition they once vilified. tle so tainted that she left before both It was supposed to be a victory for contestants were tossed from the ring. the long reach of a central party appaSoudas, the one-time Conservative ratus spreading its tentacles deep into power broker and loyal spokesperson the grassroots of a riding. for Harper had lost his job. Adams Instead the grassroots recoiled and had abandoned a nomination bid and the man who had spent a year camlost the support of her party. And then paigning for this nomination actually Trudeau found the pair while rooting won it. around in Harper’s blue bin.

To be fair to Adams, she was an inNow the one-time, would-be power terloper who ignored detractors — incouple have been cast aside by two cluding one who urged her to resign

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before she strode to the mike Sunday — and worked hard.

Those bare knuckles were replaced, she told us, by what she called cracked and bleeding knuckles from knocking on doors in the riding during cold winter nights.

For Trudeau, there was no clear win-win, but there was a lose-lose.

He found that spot. Most Liberals believed Mendicino had a better shot at besting a sitting finance minister, but at least the party, had it chosen Adams, would have loyally followed the leader’s wishes and given the riding the candidate hand-picked from headquarters.

Mike Colle, the Liberal MPP who had crowed that Adams would win this nomination over his “dead body” was very much alive Sunday, declaring Trudeau has to start listening to the “ordinary Joes and ordinary Janes” of the Liberal party instead of declaring candidates in a so-called open nomination process.

Mendicino pointedly told the audience he was no career politician but his life was in Eglinton-Lawrence.

A pledge by Adams to move into the riding was met with silence by the audience.

Mendicino had won the endorsement of the party’s former interim leader, Bob Rae, York West Liberal MP Judy Sgro, former MP Maria Minna and, most loudly, Colle.

They appeared resigned to defeat.

Mendicino’s supporters had charged the riding association had signed up people who had no idea what they were signing. They charged this nomination vote had been delayed until Adams had enough support for victory.

They blamed Liberal headquarters for pulling strings behind the scenes.

Adams’ backers were called “instant Liberals” by Colle who predicted a split party in the riding if she won.

But she’s also a lightning rod for controversy, whether being accused of shopping in New York on Remembrance Day while parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs, blocking traffic at an Ottawa gas station in a fit of pique over the quality of a car wash, or citing a concussion as reason for removing her name from an earlier Conservative race.

Now she’s going back to being a mom, for the time being, she said.

Before the vote, she told me she had never lost a political race. Afterward, she paused when asked if she chose the wrong riding, praised Trudeau when asked about his judgment.

Trudeau didn’t have to put his party through this.

He scooped up the drama queen and we got a lot of drama. But in the end, a grassroots victory only raises more questions about the upper echelon of this party.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

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Turkey joins the fight against Islamic State — sort of Last Friday, Turkey joined the war against Islam- ing to real popular demands for equal civil rights for ic State (IS), the terrorist-run entity that now controls religious people and for an improvement in living eastern Syria and western Iraq. standards. He delivered on his promises, and won After four years of leaving the border open for three successive elections by increasing majorities. supplies and recruits to reach IS, the Turkish governBut he reduced the once-free mass media to subment sent planes to bomb three IS targets in Syria. servience, undermined the independence of the juAt the same time, Ankara ended a four-year ban diciary, and staged show trials of his opponents. He on its anti-IS “coalition” allies using the also allowed his own political associates huge Incirlik airbase near the Syrian borto engage in massive corruption. der. There was rejoicing in Washington, As his power grew, moreover, he began since coalition aircraft (mostly American) to indulge his obsessions. He is a deeply will now be much closer to IS targets in conservative Sunni Muslim who shares Syria, and Turkey will also presumably the widespread Sunni belief that Shia close its border with Syria at last.

Muslims are not just heretics, but heretics But there may be less to this change whose power is a growing threat. than meets the eye.

From the start of the Syrian civil war On Saturday, Turkey broke a two-year in 2011, therefore, Erdogan supported the ceasefire with the PKK, a Kurdish revoSunni rebels against the regime of Bashar lutionary group that fought a 30-year war al Assad, which is dominated by the counto establish a separate state in the Kurdtry’s Alawite (Shia) minority — and he ish-majority southeast of Turkey. In fact, didn’t much mind if the Sunni rebels were GWYNNE since then Turkey has carried out considhead-cutting extremists like IS or not.

DYER erably more air strikes against the PKK That’s why the Turkish-Syrian border than it has against IS. stayed open and the coalition didn’t get The Turkish army has even shelled teraccess to Turkish airbases. ritory controlled by the PYD, the Syrian At the same time, Erdogan opened branch of the PKK, although the PYD has managed peace negotiations with the PKK, because conserto drive IS troops out of most of the Kurdish areas of vative Kurds who voted for his party on religious northern Syria. grounds were an important part of his electoral base.

So which war is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan But then his party lost its majority in parliament in really planning to fight, the one against Islamic State last month’s election on June 7. or his own private war with the Kurds? And why What cost him his majority was the new People’s now?

Democratic Party (HDP), which seduced most of The only person who knows the answers is Erdo- his Kurdish voters away. It’s liberal, pluralistic, gan, and he’s not saying. But you can work it out if all the things that Erdogan isn’t. But conservative you try.

Kurds had already got the religious freedoms they Erdogan has spent more than a decade subverting wanted, and the HDP was also advocating equal poa secular and democratic system and establishing his litical rights for the Kurdish minority. Of course they own unchallengeable power. At first he was respond- switched their votes.

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So now, if Erdogan wants to form a coalition government (or even win a new election), he needs the support of the hard right – but they are ultra-nationalists who loathe his willingness to make deals with the Kurds. To win them over he has started bombing the PKK. He might be re-starting a Turkish-Kurdish civil war (the last one killed 40,000 people), but that’s a risk he’s willing to take. And on the side he has dropped a few bombs on Islamic State to make the Americans happy.

Erdogan’s problem with Washington was that it finally had the goods on him. A US Special Forces raid in Syria last May killed Abu Sayyaf, the IS official in charge of selling black-market oil from IS-controlled wells into Turkey. The American troops came away with hundreds of flash drives and documents that proved that Turkish officials were deeply involved in the trade, which has been IS’s main source of revenue.

Turkey has now bombed a few IS targets to show willing — but if you look at the videos, the Turkish planes are launching missiles at single buildings out in open fields, not exactly where you’d expect IS to have weapons stores and command centres. It’s as if the Turkish forces were ordered to hit targets that wouldn’t do any real damage. But at least the coalition gets to use Incirlik.

Is Erdogan still in cahoots with IS? Maybe. Is he actively supporting the other big Islamist group, the Nusra Front, which dominates the battle in western Syria? Yes he is, quite openly, and the difference between these two terrorist groups is only skin-deep.

So if you’re expecting a radical change in the military situation in Syria, don’t.

Assad is still losing slowly, the Islamist extremists are still winning, and Turkey is still playing a double game.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist.

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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015

CHALLENGES PM TO SEEK TOP COURT’S ADVICE ON REFUSAL TO APPOINT SENATORS

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being challenged to ask the Supreme Court of Canada whether his moratorium on Senate appointments is constitutional.

Aniz Alani, a Vancouver lawyer who is already in court trying to compel Harper to fill Senate vacancies, says he’ll drop his case — and swallow his legal costs — if the prime minister agrees to send a reference to the top court, seeking its advice on the matter.

Harper announced Friday that he’s imposing a moratorium on Senate appointments — formalizing his practice for the past two and a half years of refusing to fill vacancies in the scandal-plagued, unelected upper house.

There are currently 22 vacancies in the 105-seat

chamber.

Alani is already in Federal Court, seeking a declaration that the prime minister has a constitutional obligation to fill vacancies within a reasonable time; the Harper government is currently appealing Justice Sean Harrington’s refusal to dismiss the case.

Given that his case is likely to lead to further appeals and delays, Alani argues that a reference to the Supreme Court would be the quickest and most cost-effective way to resolve the matter.

“In my opinion, the Prime Minister can declare a moratorium on filling Senate vacancies no more validly than he can declare an end to the granting of Royal Assent to bills approved by Parliament or the use of French or English as an official language

of Canada,” Alani says in a letter to Justice Department lawyers.

“In such cases, the requirements of the Constitution remain in effect and binding within Canada unless and until amended in accordance with the constitutional amending formulae.”

On Friday, Harper asserted that the Constitution gives the prime minister “the authority to appoint or not appoint” senators and vowed not to fill any vacancies so long as his government continues to be able to pass its legislation through the chamber.

Harper appears to think he has “untrammelled discretion whether to appoint or not appoint Senators as he sees fit,” Alani says in his letter.

He begs to differ, noting that the Constitution specifies that the governor general “shall” fill a vacancy when it arises. By convention, the governor general acts only upon the recommendation of the prime minister.

Accused B.C. terrorist aimed to kill ‘small Jews’: trial

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OTTAWA — Liberals who helped defeat Eve Adams in her bid to run as the party’s candidate in a Toronto riding said Monday they’ve done Justin Trudeau “a big favour.”

But both the Conservatives and one Toronto political science professor say the Liberal leader will still face criticism during the upcoming federal election campaign for taking the Tory defector under his wing in the first place.

Adams had been seeking the Liberal nomination in Eglinton-Lawrence, where she would have faced off against her former fellow Conservative caucus mate, Finance Eve Adams Minister Joe Oliver.

But Adams, who was welcomed into the Liberal fold by Trudeau in February after she had a falling out with the Tories, was handily defeated by Marco Mendicino in a weekend nomination vote.

“I think we did Trudeau a big favour by bringing in and having a candidate here who really is a genuine Liberal,” said Mike Colle, a Liberal who represents the riding in the Ontario legislature.

Adams would win the federal nomination “over my dead body,” Colle predicted in a Facebook post in February.

“I’m happy to be alive and standing,” he joked Monday. “I’m very glad to have survived that.”

But Trudeau will likely continue to be shadowed by the Adams defection throughout the campaign in advance of the Oct. 19 federal election, said University of Toronto political science professor Peter Loewen.

“I think it was a mistake for (Trudeau) ever to invite her in,” Loewen said. “He should have asked his caucus and given the caucus a chance to pass judgment on her membership.

“It was a strategic mistake, it was a political mistake on values. It was just a bad mistake all around.”

Already, Conservatives are hinting they aren’t about to forget the defection and Trudeau’s subsequent willingness to welcome Adams, and are honing their messaging accordingly.

Oliver was quick to rub salt in, issuing a statement on the heels of Adams’ defeat that accused Trudeau of trying to override the wishes of local Liberals.

And at an appearance Monday in Saint-Jean-surRichelieu, Que., Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney urged Trudeau to take responsibility for what he described as a “slightly bizarre decision.”

“It’s proof of his bad political judgment that he endorsed Ms. Adams,” Kenney said.

In fact, when Adams joined the party in February, Trudeau indicated that her willingness to do some tough slogging in a difficult riding was central to the decision to welcome her into Liberal ranks.

“One of the things that we agreed is that she’s going to have to convince an awful lot of Liberals and local folks that she is the best voice for them,” he said at the time.

Indeed, it was to Trudeau’s credit that the nomination process appeared to be an open one, said Loewen. “It appears the fix wasn’t in.”

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VANCOUVER — A woman found guilty of helping to mastermind a terrorist bomb plot wanted to infiltrate a synagogue and kill “small Jews” to save the children from going to hell, a court has heard.

Police notes presented in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday recounted Amanda Korody’s husband John Nuttall telling an undercover officer that his wife believed she would be doing Jewish children a favour by sending them to paradise, since she believed “grown-up Jews” go to “eternal hell” when they die.

“I asked Nuttall how he thinks he will have access to Jewish kids and he said they were both white and could pass for Jewish,” Crown lawyer Sharon Steele read from the undercover RCMP officer’s notes, dated from March 2013.

“They will be regulars in the synagogue. They will gain the trust of everybody. And once they have everything they will get enough guns and ammo to go ahead with their mission.”

Nuttall acknowledged that Jewish children were non-combatants but explained that they would be raised to hate Arabs and Muslims, wrote the undercover officer. However, Nuttall eventually conceded that “you never know, they may convert (to Islam) in their adulthood.”

Nuttall and Korody were found guilty of plotting to detonate homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the B.C. legislature during Canada Day celebrations two years ago.

Lawyers for the self-described Muslim converts are in court arguing that the RCMP entrapped the pair through an elaborate, months-long undercover sting operation.

The court heard that Canada’s spy agency sent a brief disclosure letter to the RCMP in late 2012, identifying Nuttall as a possible threat.

Police had already confronted Nuttall on a number of occasions by then, including after his friend reported that the suspect claimed to have shot a Jewish woman.

RCMP Cpl. Stephen Matheson told the court an officer interviewed John Nuttall, but he denied killing anyone.

The officer was concerned about the radical, jihadi-style views Nuttall was expressing and asked for a mental health assessment on the man, said Matheson.

A mental health nurse concluded Nuttall did not have a mental illness but that he may be developmentally delayed, said the officer.

On Jan. 31, 2013, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service sent a follow-up advisory letter alerting the RCMP that Nuttall had attempted to buy potassium nitrate — an ingredient in homemade explosives — from pharmacies in the Lower Mainland.

Matheson told the court about Nuttall’s criminal history, listing offences ranging from kidnapping and robbery to aggravated assault. Nuttall had also been kicked out of various mosques, he added.

The court has previously heard that Nuttall and Korody both saw themselves as jihadist warriors behind enemy lines, waging holy war against the Western World for its treatment of Muslims.

This is the final week before the trial adjourns until its scheduled return in October.

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Man, 40, killed in speedflying accident VANCOUVER — The BC Coroners Service says a 40-year-old man has died in a “speed-flying” accident.

Speed-flying is a new sport similar to paragliding, but uses a significantly smaller wing, designed to provide a rapid descent.

The coroners’ service issued a release saying Kyle MacdonaldWolochatuk was speed-flying near Squamish on Sunday when he hit a tree.

The man took off from the first peak of the granite cliffs of the Stawamus Chief mountain shortly after 6 p.m.

Sunday.

He hit the tree shortly after taking off, then fell about 500 metres to the bottom of the cliff and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The agency says Macdonald-Wolochatuk had been living in Squamish, but was originally from Cambridge, Ont.

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Military says Canadian reservist died while training at base in Manitoba SHILO, Man. — The Canadian Army says a reserve soldier who died at a base in Manitoba collapsed while learning how to build a trench.

Pte. Kirby Tott, who was 25, died during a training course Saturday afternoon at Canadian Forces Base Shilo.

Maj. Giselle Holland, a public affairs officer, says Tott was learning how to install revetting to reinforce the walls of a trench when he suddenly collapsed.

Another military official says there were no vehicles or weapons involved.

The official says the military cannot comment on any possible cause of death until an autopsy is completed.

Tott was from Prince George, B.C., where he worked as a correctional officer.

“This is a sad day and our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Pte. Kirby Tott,” Holland said Monday in an email.

“3rd Canadian Division along with his regimental family are providing care and support to the family during this difficult time.”

Public service labour board taken offline after breach discovered last week OTTAWA — Hackers have broken into the network of the tribunal that adjudicates disputes between public servants and the federal government.

The website of the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board has been down since Friday after security officials discovered hackers had exploited a weakness to get into the tribunal’s public network.

It’s not known how long the hackers were in the system, or exactly what — if anything — they took during the breach, which was discovered last Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada says the board’s public network has been taken offline as a precaution and officials are trying to get the site back online as soon as possible.

Catherine WrightCadieux didn’t say whether any personal information had been lost in the breach.

A spokeswoman for the federal privacy commissioner says the office was made aware of the breach Friday.

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Anita Stewart, founder of Food Day Canada, reeled in a nine-kilogram white Chinook salmon in Discovery Passage between Campbell River and Quadra Island, B.C., during an outing with East West Charters on June 3, 2015. On Aug. 1, the culinary activist and University of Guelph food laureate encourages Canadians from coast to coast to coast to join in a massive celebration in praise of the country’s farmers, fishers, chefs, researchers and home cooks.

Brown named to top court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named Alberta Court of Appeal Justice Russell Brown as his latest appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Brown, a former barrister and law professor, is taking over for the retiring Justice Marshall Rothstein, whose departure takes effect as of Aug. 31, Harper said Monday in a statement.

“Mr. Justice Brown brings to the court wide experience as a law professor and legal scholar, a barrister, and a judge at both the trial court and appellate levels,” Harper said.

“His appointment is the result of broad consultations with prominent members of the legal community and we are confident he will be a strong addition to Canada’s highest court.”

A member of the bars of both British Columbia and Alberta, Brown currently sits in Edmonton, where he also serves as an appeal judge for both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

He has also served as a member of the Court of Queen’s Bench.

Brown will be the second member of the high court from western Canada, the other being Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and law degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto. He also served as an associate professor and associate dean of the University of Alberta’s faculty of law.

He has also practised law in Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver.

Brown’s predecessor, who was appointed by Harper in March 2006, announced his retirement in April.

The Judges Act provides that for six

months after retirement, he can continue to participate in judgments of cases heard before his departure.

Rothstein was Harper’s first appointment to the highest court, shortly after the Conservative government took office.

Harper has appointed all but two of the nine judges on the court.

His last appointment, high-profile commercial trial lawyer Suzanne Cote, came last November and ended more than a year of unprecedented, roiling controversy over the composition of the high court.

It was triggered earlier in the year when Harper’s proposed choice of Justice Marc Nadon for a vacant Quebec seat was challenged and ultimately rejected on constitutional grounds by the Supreme Court itself.

Cote replaced Justice Louis LeBel as the third of three mandatory Quebec justices on the bench.

Helicopter pilot rescued from Arctic ice floe

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — A Russian helicopter pilot who spent more than 30 hours on an ice floe after ditching his small helicopter into frigid Arctic waters says he’s not sure he would have survived much longer had searchers not seen his remaining warning flare.

Sergey Ananov, 49, was on a solo, around-the-world journey in his singleengine aircraft and was about halfway between Iqaluit and Greenland when his Robinson R22 helicopter went down in the Davis Strait on Saturday afternoon.

Speaking via satellite phone from the coast guard vessel Pierre Radisson following his rescue Monday, Ananov related a tale that involved quick thinking, a visit from three inquisitive polar bears and a fortunate break in the weather.

“I was on the edge,” said Ananov of his condition when he was rescued.

“Luckily for one or two hours the fog disappeared.”

Ananov said his helicopter went down after one of two rubber belts leading from the engine to the rotor exploded. He said he was able to partially pull on his survival suit and scramble into a small life raft before the aircraft sank in a matter of about 30 seconds.

It was then a short, cold swim to an ice floe.

Ananov said the raft provided his

only means of shelter as he waited to be rescued, a prospect that proved difficult with thick fog and a low ceiling in the area.

At one point he fired one of his three flares as a Canadian military Hercules aircraft flew overhead.

“It was absolutely useless because they couldn’t see anything,” he said.

Ananov said the same thing happened when an aircraft approached for a second time.

“So I spent another day on the ice trembling, freezing and struggling ... to think, to manoeuvre.”

Ananov said at one point he was approached by three polar bears that

got to within a metre of him. He said he waited and then managed to chase them off by acting as aggressively as he could to startle the animals.

“They had never seen a creature dressed with a red survival suit ... with two legs, two arms waving and roaring.

It was like a red devil.”

He said the bears jumped into the water and swam to a nearby floe.

As Ananov struggled with the conditions with no food and water, the search — which had been triggered after picking up a beacon on board the helicopter — began to close in.

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OTTAWA — A Conservative-dominated parliamentary committee voted against a process Monday that would have likely called on Finance Minister Joe Oliver to testify in public about the state of Canada’s finances amid a troubled economy.

Before Monday’s closed-door meeting, opposition members of the finance committee had been urging the Harper government to study a recent report that said Ottawa was on track to run a budget deficit this year.

Last week, the parliamentary budget office released an analysis based on downgraded Bank of Canada projections that showed Ottawa was headed for a $1-billion shortfall in 2015-16.

The budget watchdog’s calculation raised doubts about the ruling Conservatives’ long-standing pledge to balance the election-year books — including their $1.4-billion surplus projection for this year.

The freshly crunched numbers were released after the struggling economy contracted over the first four months of 2015, a recoil triggered by the collapse in world oil prices and the failure of Canada’s non-energy sectors to pick up the slack.

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No QB controversy, yet MATT NICHOLS CONFIRMED AS ESKIMOS STARTER, BUT KEY QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton Eskimo head coach Chris Jones cut down a budding quarterback controversy Monday, but his starting pivot — Matt Nichols — remains confused over why he was yanked in the first place.

Jones said Nichols, a six-year veteran, will start Friday when the 3-1 Eskimos host the 0-5 Saskatchewan Roughriders.

“Matt Nichols has been the guy that’s taken us the last three games, and he’s going to be our starting quarterback,” Jones told reporters after practice.

“We’re not going to change a lot when we’re winning football games.”

He wouldn’t say if Nichols is on a short leash.

“It’ll be game-time situations,” he said.

Nichols was pulled with 20 minutes to go with the Eskimos leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 11-3 in the rain last Saturday.

Nichols was 17 for 25 for 196 yards in persistent rain and was the victim of a few dropped balls.

Backup James Franklin came in and fired three touchdown passes to rout the Bombers 32-3, leading to speculation the 24-year-old strong-armed rookie may start Friday.

After Friday’s game, a clearly agitated Nichols bolted from the field as the clock ticked to zero, and had to be brought back to face reporters 50 minutes after the contest ended.

At that point he said he didn’t know he was going to be pulled until it happened, wasn’t told it was for the rest of the game, and wasn’t told why.

After the game, Jones wouldn’t say why he changed to Franklin, but left the door open to a quarterback switch by refusing to confirm Nichols was still No. 1 on the depth chart.

On Monday, Jones declined to answer follow-up questions on how he came to stay with Nichols and why he nixed, or if he ever really considered, a start for Franklin.

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Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Matt Nichols (16) makes the throw against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers during first half CFL action in Edmonton, on Saturday.

At one point Jones stood mute in the media scrum, refusing to speak. Nichols has won three games since taking over from the injured Mike Reilly. His play

has been serviceable, but not outstanding.

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Local bodybuilder rising through the ranks

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer bodybuilder Kelly Teubert is all about quality over quantity.

Competing in just her third-ever major event July 18 at Halifax, the 22-year-old captured the women’s overall fitness title in the International Federation of Bodybuilding Canadian championships, in the process earning her pro card and opening the door to even larger and more prestigious competitions.

“I can compete for bigger prizes now and do all the pro shows throughout the year,” Teubert said.

“I don’t have to wait one complete year to do one show. I can compete in the Arnold Sports Festival and do shows that qualify for the Olympia.”

Teubert has risen through the ranks in short order.

She won the Alberta fitness crown in 2013 and last year finished second at the nationals.

Her success, of course, hasn’t come without personal sacrifices including extensive gym time and a regimented diet.

“I train every day at the gym and I have barely any sugar in my diet,” she said. “My only carbs are from oatmeal and potatoes. I have to do a meal prep every day.”

The Red Deer athlete is also involved in gymnastics and cheerleading, working as a coach

‘I CAN COMPETE FOR BIGGER PRIZES NOW AND DO ALL THE PRO SHOWS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I DON’T HAVE TO WAIT ONE COMPLETE YEAR TO DO ONE SHOW. I CAN COMPETE IN THE ARNOLD SPORTS FESTIVAL AND DO SHOWS THAT QUALIFY FOR THE OLYMPICS .’

— KELLY TEUBERT BODYBUILDER

with the Artisique Gymnastics Club at Lacombe and as a cheerleading mentor with the Red Deer Exelta cheer team and the Edmonton Perfect Storm Athletics Club, a position that requires her to drive to the provincial capital twice a week.

“I’ve been involved with gymnastics for 13 years,” she said. “I don’t get a rest day expect for maybe cheerleading practice.”

Teubert, whose trainer is Nicole Bell and is sponsored by Armor Inc. of Red Deer, is already looking ahead to her next competition.

“I’m thinking of probably doing the Toronto pro show next June,” she said. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kelly Teubert with the women’s overall fitness trophy won at Canadian body building championship July 18 in Halifax.

Hearn believes he is playing best golf of his career

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OAKVILLE, Ont. — David Hearn came painfully close on a handful of putts that could have won him the Canadian Open. Instead, he finished third, two shots back of Jason Day. Despite that loss, Hearn is on something of a roll.

He has top-three finishes in two of his past three events and picked up a couple of valuable experiences in falling short at the Greenbrier Classic and then on home soil at the Canadian Open.

“It’s got to be the best golf I’m playing,” Hearn said.

“I think I turned the corner on some of my ball striking. It’s really showing. I think everyone can see it. I’m hitting a lot of really quality golf shots, and I give myself those chances for birdies when the heat’s on.”

Even after playing in the British Open, the heat was hottest on Hearn on Sunday at Glen Abbey as he tried to snap a 61-year drought since a Canadian last won the Canadian Open.

With galleries cheering him on every hole, the 36-year-old Brantford, Ont., native felt the weight of big expectations on his shoulders.

Hearn missed some birdie chances that would have made a major difference but came away feeling good about hanging in there with Day and thirdranked golfer Bubba Watson, who was also in contention.

“I played great golf,” Hearn said.

“I gave myself a chance right until the very end, even though I didn’t quite have my best stuff.”

Hearn said he “could get used to” finishing in the top three so often.

He earned US$394,400 for his third-place finish in the Canadian Open.

Less than a month after losing in a playoff at the Greenbrier, Hearn got to experience sleeping on a 54-hole lead and the pressure that creates.

Now he’ll take some time off to prepare for the mid-August PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

That major is on his mind, but so is trying to qualify for the International team either through his play or as a selection by captain Nick Price.

“When I get back to the PGA, what will be on the top of my mind is playing well to get on that Presidents Cup team,” Hearn said.

“That was a goal of mine starting the year.

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David Hearn chips out of the bunker onto the 18th green during final round action at the Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., on Sunday.

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Athletes turn attention to Rio 2016 OLYMPICS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Feeling a summersport void now that the Pan American Games are over? It won’t last long — the opening ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics are just over 13 months away. Canada’s objective in Rio de Janeiro is a top-12 finish in total medals among the 200-plus participating countries. For that to happen, Canada’s divers, swimmers, rowers, wrestlers and paddlers need to come through, augmented by some track and field, cycling and trampoline medals.

Those sports are the most heavily funded in Canada based on Olympic medal potential. Many are sports in which athletes can win multiple medals at one Olympic Games.

“They’re the bread and butter,” Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger said. “If we don’t perform well in those sports in terms of multi-medal potential, then we’re going to struggle to meet our targets.”

Canada’s eventual goal at the Summer Games is to finish in the top eight, but it will take a strong performance to crack the top dozen in Rio. Canada finished 14th in total medals with 18 in Beijing in 2008. The country moved up one spot winning the same number in London, but earned fewer gold and silver medals. Merklinger said winning more than 18 medals is an objective for Rio. Canadian Olympic Committee chief sport officer Caroline Assalian said the COC’s focus is the top-12 result.

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Richard Weinberger of Canada swims to a fourth-place finish during the men’s open water swimming at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, Sunday, July 12, 2015. Weinberger qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics on Monday with an eighthplace finish in the men’s 10-kilometre open water marathon at the FINA World Championships.

“The reality is all sports have to come through because one or two medals made the difference between 13th and finishing 11th,” Assalian said. “Every single medal counts.”

Own The Podium doles out funding to Canada’s sport federations based on Olympic medal potential. Canada’s taxpayers are the biggest contributor via Sport Canada, although the COC contributes money to its coffers from its corporate sponsorship campaigns.

OTP doles out about $35 million annually for summer sport.

The 2015 world championships are the best performance-on-demand indicator of which athletes are tracking towards a medal in Rio. The majority of world championships are still upcoming, with the world aquatic championships just underway in Kazan, Russia.

Of the athletes who were top-five in their respective world championships in 2011, 60 per cent produced an

Olympic medal a year later in London.

The conversion rate in Beijing was 67 per cent.

“Our best conversion rate was 67 per cent,” Assalian said. “That is absolutely our goal as well.”

Canada’s performance at the Pan American Games in Toronto also rated as a measuring stick for Rio for OTP and the COC. Canadians won a Pan Am record 217 medals, including 78 gold.

“Winning a medal in any Games is an important point in an athlete’s career,” Merklinger said. “Winning one at home in this kind of environment that people have referred to as a miniOlympics is even more important.

“There’s been performances here where athletes have exceeded expectations because they’re performing on demand, they handled the environment so well.”

The federal government provided an extra $3 million to OTP for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games to assist athletes with medal potential across all the sports — not just Olympic and Paralympic sports. An important distinction in summer sport in Canada is there is a pot of money devoted to team sports not currently tracking for an Olympic medal. Team sports are traditionally a weakness for Canada at Summer Games, but the women’s soccer team’s bronze in London and their dramatic semifinal loss to the U.S. resonated at home. Women’s soccer and women’s rugby sevens currently receive “core” OTP funding because they have medal potential in Rio. But the 2015-16 funding recommendation for women’s and men’s basketball, men’s rugby sevens, men’s volleyball, women’s and men’s water polo and women’s field hockey is a combined $5.6 million.

Toronto considers making pitch for Olympics

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2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS

TORONTO — Boston’s withdrawal from the race to host the 2024 Summer Olympics could make a potential Toronto bid “far more attractive,” particularly if no other American city steps up to the plate, experts said Monday.

“The Boston decision today certainly makes the landscape easier for a Canadian bid, a Toronto bid,” said Bruce Kidd, an Olympics expert at the University of Toronto.

“With no U.S. bid, a Canadian bid has a much stronger argument,” he said, noting that by 2024, it will have been almost three decades since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the last time the Summer Games were held in North America.

A spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee said Monday that the organization has severed ties with Boston, where the prospect of a bid for the ’24

Summer Games was met with low public support and an active opposition group.

Scant time remains for the organization to find another potential host city — the deadline to register interest with the International Olympic Committee is Sept. 15. But there is speculation Los Angeles could be in the running.

The absence of a U.S. candidate “would mean that there would only be one North American for the Games, and obviously that is a simpler situation,” said John Furlong, who led the bid and the organizing committee for the Vancouver Winter Games.

“The lineup of cities in this particular round of bidding for the Summer Games is formidable but obviously it would make it a little bit easier,” he said.

“But Los Angeles and San Francisco would be very strong, I think, if they decided to get into it as well.”

Paris, Rome, Boston, Budapest, Hungary and Hamburg, Germany, have indicated they will apply. The winning city will be chosen in 2017.

Talk of a third Toronto Olympic bid has followed the city’s successful Pan Am Games, which wrapped up Sunday.

Toronto Mayor John Tory said he wants to let the dust settle before making a decision, adding that officials will conduct a “careful analysis” to determine whether a bid is in the city’s best interest.

“They say it’s not a good idea to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry and in the euphoria of what were a tremendously successful (Pan Am) Games... this is a serious, rational decision that has to be made,” Tory said Monday.

The head of the Canadian Olympic Committee wants to forge ahead with

the pitch, and the president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee has also thrown his support behind the idea.

Organizers for the Pan Am Games have said they should have ballpark figures for the total cost of the event before the bid deadline.

Toronto unsuccessfully bid for the Olympics twice, most recently for the 2008 Summer Games, when it came second behind Beijing. Bids were also discussed on three other occasions but not officially filed.

The IOC rated Toronto’s 2008 bid favourably on infrastructure and technical ability, but raised concerns about its commitment to supporting sports in the community.

Several published reports have estimated a bid would cost at least $50 million. A source confirmed that figure to The Canadian Press.

An Olympic bid comes with our list of demands for Toronto

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ESKIMOS: Lobbed his share of overthrows He is 48 for 85 for 650 yards and four TDs, but has five interceptions. He’s had some strong passes but has also lobbed his share of overthrows and underthrows.

Nichols told reporters Monday he hasn’t spoken with Jones.

“We were starting to take over the game a little bit, so I was frustrated,” said Nichols.

“I just felt like I was playing a pretty

letes got to experience joy and victory at home. That doesn’t come around often. That’s awesome.

Some of them are headed for bigger things. Twenty-year-old Andre De Grasse won two golds, still hasn’t figured out how to start a race, and became the first Canadian to run a sub-10-second 100 and a sub-20-second 200. The baseball team won a weird, wonderful gold-medal final over the Americans.

Canada’s women’s basketball team won the nation’s first gold medal in international basketball, ever, and 19-year-old Kia Nurse is a superstar.

Canada’s men’s basketball team, missing the nation’s biggest stars, was a delightful band of silver-medal-winning misfit treasures, led by 18-yearold Kentucky commit Jamal Murray.

Jamal Murray is gonna be a problem.

And people wanted to watch. CBC had to expand its television coverage, and was pilloried for not anticipating the demand. (If only their budget hadn’t been eviscerated by the government, right?)

It turns out Canadians love to watch Canadians win, and the Pan Am Games were set up for Canadians to win. So between that, and traffic not being cataclysmic — or so I was told, because to be honest, like many too-sensible Torontonians I left town to spend time with my family — the feelings seem positive, just now.

So . . . after the indignity of losing to Atlanta and the inevitability of losing to Beijing, an Olympic bid could happen here again, people.

And if this thing is going to creak and groan and somehow lift itself off the ground, we, as a city, are going to need a list of demands.

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solid game out here in tough conditions. I think my last seven quarters of football have been in a torrential downpour.”

But he emphasized he’s behind all of Jones’ decisions and is moving on to prepare for Saskatchewan.

Is that part of the frustration, Nichols was asked, having things happen to him without explanation?

Nichols declined to answer except to say, “Any time that they tell me I’m in the game, I’m going to go out and play my hardest, play smart football, and try to put points on the board.

That’s my job.”

Franklin said he’s good with whatever happens.

“If I have to go back in again, I’m going to try my best to do my best and that way hopefully I’ll have opportunities later on,” he said.

Line. That subway project has been designated as a priority since Rob Ford was walking face-first into cameras.

If we get the Olympics, that should be a thing. Ernst & Young did a feasibility study on a 2024 Olympic bid last year, and this was infrastructure ask No. 1. Good. (God forbid Toronto builds something we need without a global sports festival that would cost between $8.7-billion and $17.1-billion, per a 2013 city feasibility study, attached to it.

Every Olympics goes over budget, and we would still need a true Olympic stadium, which as my colleague Dave Feschuk notes, sounds like an invitation to a publicly funded backdoor NFL stadium.

Oh, and the true costs of the Pan Ams won’t be added up by the Sept. 15 bid deadline, apparently.)

Second: A data-driven transit system comprised of LRTs and subways that isn’t so simple that a dizzy 10-yearold could draw it from memory. Some projections have Toronto at nine million people by 2036.

Even if you make every lane an HOV lane, this is going to be an issue.

Third: better food trucks.

Why can’t I easily buy fish tacos from a truck on a downtown street?

Pulled pork sandwiches?

Japanese hot dogs? What is this, Atlanta?

While we’re at it: Better sports teams, a way for the Rogers Centre roof not to feel like an oppressive overarching industrial prison, fewer howling loons at city council, sane liquor regulations, and more fun.

Toronto needs to loosen up, everywhere but in terms of Olympic bid projections.

Oh, and let’s not spend $400,000 on the mascot this time. Dead Raccoon, IKEA Monkey, Mike Myers playing three different characters, and throw the porcupine thing into the lake.

Done.

But seriously: Olympics go wrong with bad leadership, and the Pan Ams were far from a perfect Games, budgetwise.

An Olympics is only worth it if it leaves your city better off than it found it, for a reasonable enough price. If there’s a relevant level of government you trust not to screw that idea up, do tell.

We’re not winning 200 medals in 2024, and it would be insane to bid on an Olympics just because the COC heavily funded a giant Pan Am team, the thing wasn’t an organizational nightmare, and the golden afterglow seduced us. So give us what we want, or no deal.

If Toronto’s going to go big, let’s try not to regret it. I mean, more than we usually do.

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So, let’s sum up. Canadians won big.

The HOV lanes were not a catastrophe.

The cost was momentarily forgotten, a summer daydream, a haze. The mayor thought Kanye West was Canadian. Nobody was impaled on the mascot. Good job, everyone.

Naturally, this has led Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut to admit what everyone knew: He is going to push Canada to bid for the 2024 Olympics, against Paris and Rome and Hamburg and Budapest and BRUCE probably Doha ARTHUR and Los Angeles.

Mayor John Tory had said he was going to see how the Games proceeded before deciding, and presto, nobody died. Momentum, as people like to say, is building.

Partly, this is because Canada won so many medals that you couldn’t possibly keep track. We won medals with guns and bows and javelins and epees.

We won medals that involved kayaks, canoes, pools, trampolines, wakeboards, water skis, roller skates, bikes, horses and sailboats.

We did this, of course, because we sent nearly 100 more athletes than the United States, who sent a B team, and Canada didn’t fool around. This Pan Am team included athletes responsible for 15 medals at the London Olympics, and remember, we only won 18 medals at the London Olympics. It was wonderful that all these Canadian ath-

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Canada battles Samoa in Pacific Nations Cup RUGBY

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Rugby captains Alesana Tuilagi (left) of Samoa and Tyler Ardron of Canada pose at a media availability for the Pacific Nations Cup in Toronto, Monday. Canada plays Samoa on Wednesday at BMO Field as part of a tripleheader.

18 to No. 12 Tonga in Burnaby, B.C. Wednesday’s tripleheader also features the U.S. versus Tonga and Fiji versus Japan. The tournament wraps up Aug. 3 in Burnaby with placement games.

The teams are using the Pacific Nations Cup as a warmup for this fall’s Rugby World Cup in Britain. The competition is of special interest to Japan, Samoa and the U.S., who have been drawn in the same World Cup pool along with Scotland and South Africa.

Queen’s Plate winner Shaman Ghost looks to buck Prince of Wales tradition

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Trainer Brian Lynch believes jockey Rafael Manuel Hernandez will be a key figure Tuesday night at the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes.

Hernandez will ride Queen’s Plate champion Shaman Ghost in the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown at Fort Erie Racetrack. And with just seven horses in the field, Lynch believes the 1 3/16-mile event will be a jockey’s race.

“Tactically (horses) can put you in awkward positions, pin you in or someone might try to stretch them out and show speed,” Lynch said Monday.

“Traditionally that track can be a bit fast this time of year and usually it does cater to speed-favouring horses.

“Rafael is a very patient, shrewd rider and hopefully he’s the better tactician out of the gate.”

Shaman Ghost rallied late under Hernandez to overtake Danish Dynaformer and register a 1 ¼-length victory in the $1-million Queen’s Plate on July 5 at Woodbine Racetrack.

The win was the fourth straight for the three-year-old, Stronach Stablesowned colt, the early 7/5 favourite who’ll break from the No. 4 post Tuesday night.

“He comes into the race in good order,” Lynch said.

“Usually when they come out of a 1 ¼-mile race you’ve taxed them a little bit so it’s a matter of trying to read him properly to get him to come back in three weeks and duplicate the second performance.

“Our horse will have a target on his back for sure. The public expects him to win and there’s a lot of pressure on him.”

Lynch is certainly bucking recent tradition by having Shaman Ghost at Fort Erie. He’ll be the first Plate winner to run in the Prince of Wales since 2010 and attempt to become the first horse to claim the opening two legs of the Triple Crown since ’03 when Wando accomplished the feature en route to becoming the last to sweep the series.

“No doubt about it, it would be quite an accomplishment to be able to pull it off,” Lynch said. “It’s just a nice situation to be in to even be able to talk

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“We’ll get through this one first and re-evaluate it after that.”

The Prince of Wales is the lone Triple Crown event run on a traditional dirt surface.

The Plate goes on Woodbine’s poly track while the 1 ½ -mile Breeders’ Stakes will be run on Woodbine’s E.P. Taylor turf course Aug. 16.

But Lynch, who won the 2010 Prince of Wales with Golden Moka, isn’t concerned about running on dirt because Shaman Ghost’s first two career wins came on that surface at Gulfstream and Keeneland.

“He shortens up a little bit but tactically he’s a horse Rafael knows well,” Lynch said. “He knows when to move on him and so fortunately that combination goes in our favour.

“He’s been a good horse and showed up at a lot of places he’s never really seen before . . . he’d never been to Keeneland and went there and won.

He’s an adaptable sort of horse.”

The field with post, horse, jockey and odds, includes: 1. Scorch, EmmaJayne Wilson, 12-1; 2. Conquest Boogaloo, Shaun Bridgmohan, 4-1; 3. Field of Courage, Eurico Rosa da Silva, 8-1; 4.

Shaman Ghost, Hernandez, 7-5; 5. Danish Dynaformer, Patrick Husbands, 9-5; 6. Breaking Lucky, Jim McAleney, 6-1; 7. Cut to the Chase, Luis Contreras, 15-1.

This will mark the third straight race that Danish Dynaformer and Shaman Ghost will face one another.

Danish Dynaformer finished third to Shaman Ghost in the Grade 3 Marine Stakes on May 16.

Roger Attfield, the Hall of Fame trainer of Danish Dynaformer, has won the Prince of Wales five times, the last being in 2005 with Ablo. Gordon McCann holds the record for most victories by a conditioner with seven.

The temperature Tuesday for Fort Erie, Ont., is expected to soar past 30 C but thankfully for horses and jockeys, they’ll go postward in the evening.

However, Lynch isn’t concerned about weather negatively affecting his horse.

“He’s a very level-headed horse, he takes everything in stride,” Lynch said.

“He’s not one that gets a bit antsy or fired up . . . we’re very lucky he’s got that sort of mentality.”

The Division III Titans dropped a 31-20 decision to the Calgary Knights.

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Local BMXers win gold in provincial races

Titans teams win two of three on the weekend

LETHBRIDGE — Four members of the Red Deer BMX Club were double gold medalists in the provincial 3 and 4 races during the weekend.

Blake Shepard-Colberg, Macie Holz, Annika Ricalton and Ryan Raymont each won gold on Saturday and Sunday. Taylor Boll, Dane St. Dennis, Shayne Hall and Ethan Holz each captured one gold, Tanika Nugent and Isabelle McLean

PREPPING FOR SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

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Red Deer golfer Tom Skinner warms up on the driving range at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club Monday as he gets set to take in a practice round. Beginning today and running through to Thursday Skinner will play in the 2015 Guardian Capital Alberta Senior Men’s Amateur Championship at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

The tournament will play as 54 holes of stroke play competition beginning each day at 7 a.m. Skinner is the 2010 Alberta Senior Men’s Champion and is joined by a number of other past champions.

Impact acquire Chelsea and Ivory Coast star Didier Drogba MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact feel former Chelsea star Didier Drogba has enough left in him to help them on the field, in the locker room and at the box office.

Impact management felt triumphant Monday after acquiring the 37-yearold striker from the Chicago Fire for an undisclosed amount of allocation money.

Excitement among fans over Drogba was evident on Twitter and there were reports of a flood of callers to the Impact offices seeking tickets to see perhaps the best and most famous player acquisition in team history.

Drogba is expected to arrive on

Wednesday. He will need some training time with his new teammates before making his debut on the field.

“We have to be patient to understand that he finished playing for Chelsea in May and hasn’t played soccer since,” said technical director Adam Braz.

The Impact had to go through the Fire to get Drogba because Chicago had put him on their “discovery” list, similar to protected lists in the Canadian Football League. Drogba apparently wanted to play in Montreal partly because it is a mainly French speaking city, so a deal was arranged.

Impact president Joey Saputo said it was an honour to have one of the top stars of international soccer on his club.

won two silver each with singles picked up by Xander Huteau, Jacob Veleti, Roy Meinders, Kyleigh Boylan, Carson Kowaski, Ethan Holz, Taylor Boll, Molly Simpson and Nickolas

Nugent. Holly McLeod won a pair of bronze medals. Singles went to Tyson Wakaluk, Chase Harrison, Simpson, Nugent, Huteau. Meinders, St. Dennis, Joron Dyck and Zachary Repp.

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The Red Deer Titans Rugby Club won two of three starts in Calgary Rugby Union play during the weekend.

The Titans defeated the Okotoks Lions 28-17 in Division II action while the Titans women downed the Highlanders 51-15 in Airdrie.

Alesana and Andy, 29, both play for the Newcastle Falcons in England. At 246 pounds and a shade under six feet, Andy may be the runt of the family.

Alesana, who spent eight years with Leicester Tigers before playing in Japan, says he only has one gripe about playing in northeast England.

“It’s a bit cold,” he said. “Different from where we came from.”

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TORONTO — At six foot two and 265 pounds, Samoan winger Alesana Tuilagi is hard to miss. Or stop.

“I’ve tried to tackle him about 10 times and I’ve failed every time,” said American captain Chris Wyles, who regularly sees Tuilagi in the England’s Aviva Premiership. “I’m still trying.”

Wyles, a fullback/wing, gives up two inches and 60 pounds to the 34-year-old Samoan captain.

Canada will have two Tuilagis to stop Wednesday when they host Samoa in the Pacific Nations Cup rugby tournament at Toronto’s BMO Field.

Younger brother Vavae Tuilagi, a mere six foot and 260 pounds, is also on the Samoan roster. The 27-year-old plays No. 8.

It could be worse. Six of the seven Tuilagi brothers have played elite rugby. Freddy, Henry and Andy have also won caps for Samoa. Manu plays internationally for England, although he is currently out of favour after pleading guilty to three charges of assault and one of criminal damage Samoa, ranked ninth in the world, opened the six-country Pacific Nations Cup with a 21-16 win over the 16thranked Americans in San Jose before tying No. 10 Fiji 30-30 in Sacramento.

No. 18 Canada is coming off losses of 20-6 to No. 13 Japan in San Jose and 28-

the heat wave.

“We love the weather like this,” Alesana said with enthusiasm.

He gets back to Samoa in the offseason, spending four to six weeks with his family back home. It’s a long haul from Newcastle. “A few stops,” he said with a laugh.

For Canada it will be back-to-back black-and-blue games against a hardnosed Pacific Island team.

“They’re a very physical skilful team,” Wyles said of the Samoans. “I think we played into their hands a bit.

We tried to be a little too physical with them. They were able to offload and perhaps our kicking game could have been a bit better.

“I think if you put them under pressure, you can get some results. Whatever happens you know there’ll be some big hits.”

Canadian captain Tyler Ardron, a sizable man himself at 6-4 and 242 pounds, says his team has no problem with that.

“The physicality is a given with them and I think we’ve shown we can match that,” he said. “So maybe it’s not our reputation but it’s something that we’re happy to do and I think the boys will enjoy it.

“It is going to be another really physical game but that being said, they’ve got pretty well a full professional team so we know these guys know rugby in and out.”

Canada will be looking to cut down on the errors and defensive lapses that helped Japan and Tonga keep the scoreboard turning.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports

Wednesday

● Golf: Alberta senior men’s championship at Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Thursday

● Golf: Alberta senior men’s championship at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place Padres at Lacombe Stone and Granite Orioles, Canadian Brewhouse Rays at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks; 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Saturday

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur Men’s, Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Sunday

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur Men’s, Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Monday

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur Men’s, Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Traded OF Shane Victorino and cash considerations to the L.A. Angels for INF Josh Rutledge. Recalled OF Rusney Castillo from Pawtucket (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned LHP Adam Wilk outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned INF Gregorio Petit outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKAND ATHLETICS — Traded RHP Tyler Clippard and cash considerations to the N.Y. Mets for RHP Casey Meisner.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent LHP Drew Smyly to Durham (IL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Anthony Bass to Round Rock (PCL). Recalled RHP Phil Klein from Round Rock. Designated RHP Ross Ohlendorf for assignment. Sent OF Antoan Richardson to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Dominic Leone from Mobile (SL). Reinstated C Jarrod Saltalamacchia from the 15-day DL. Traded RHP J.C. Ramirez to Seattle for cash or future considerations.

CHICAGO CUBS — Released RHP Edwin Jackson.

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled C Kyle Skipworth from Pensacola (SL). Designated OF Chris Dominguez for assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHPs Chin-hui Tsao and Josh Ravin to Oklahoma City (PCL). Sent RHP Carlos Frias to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for rehab assignments.

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent 2B Dee Gordon to Jupiter (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Sent OF Cesar Puello to the GCL Mets for a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Activated LF Nori Aoki from the 15-day DL. Designated INF Joaquin Arias for assignment.

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released INF Sam Lind.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released OF Kyle Robinson and LHP Blake Holovach.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed OF Cody Bishop. Released RHP Will Rankin.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released INFs Vince Guglietti and Tyler Heil and RHP Jamaine Cotton.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed INF Brett Zaziski. Released INF Frank Salerno.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Released RHP Tommy Danczyk and LHP Will White.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Released C Jesse Baker.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released LHP Kyle Bouman and OF Kelton Caldwell.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Traded RHP Richie Mirowski to Amarillo (AA) for a player to be named.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Re-signed G Matthew Dellavedova to a one-year contract.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed Fs Jamil Wilson and Brandon Ashley.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Traded F David Lee to Boston for F Gerald Wallace and G Chris Babb.

INDIANA PACERS — Re-signed Fs Lavoy Allen and Shayne Whittington. Signed G-F Glenn Robinson III to a three-year contract and F Rakeem Christmas.

MIAMI HEAT — Traded G Shabazz Napier to Orlando for a protected 2016 second-round draft pick, and G Zoran Dragic, a 2020 second-round draft pick and cash to Boston for a 2016 secondround draft pick.

NBA Development League AUSTIN SPURS — Agreed to terms with coach Ken McDonald on a contract extension.

Women’s National Basketball Association ATLANTA DREAM — Sent C Erika de Souza to Chicago, who sent a 2016 second-round draft pick to Atlanta and C Sylvia Fowles to Minnesota. Minnesota sent F Damiris Dantas, C Reshanda Gray and a 2016 first-round draft pick to Atlanta.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Named Levon Kirkland and Jen Welter assistant coaches.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived DL Tory Slater.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived G Will Corbin. Signed OT Matt Hall.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived WR Nigel King.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed TE Kevin Brock and OL Cole Manhart. Released LB Junior Galette and C Michael Brewster.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DE Da’Quan Bowers.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed RB Mack Brown.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Announced president Ted Black and the team have mutually agreed to part ways. Named Russ Brandon team president, along with his role as president of the Buffalo Bills.

Signed D Brendan Guhle to a three-year, entry-level contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Named Jamal Mayers community liaison.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Signed F Joey Hishon to a one-year contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed F Colin Wilson to a four-year contract.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Signed C Derek Stepan to a six-year contract.

ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Signed D Dennis Brown and Fs Matt White, Gasper Kopitar and Troy Power.

MOTORSPORTS INDYCAR — Rescinded the $500 fine of driver James Jakes assessed after the Iowa Corn 300 on July 18.

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHICAGO FIRE — Signed F Didier Drogba and traded him to Montreal for allocation money.

Claimed F Gilberto off waivers from Toronto.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed M Shaun Wright-Phillips.

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015

Baseball 11-5), 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 6-4) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-7), 8:10 p.m.

Arizona (Godley 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-1), 10:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 10-4) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Tampa Bay, 10:10 a.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 10:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Atlanta at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

American League East Division

Today

● Golf: Alberta senior men’s championship at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Senior men’s baseball: Play it Again Sports Athletics at North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Sunburst Baseball League: Edmonton Confederation Park Cubs at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

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Sunday’s Games Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland 1 Kansas City 5, Houston 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Minnesota 2 L.A. Angels 13, Texas 7 San Francisco 4, Oakland 3 Seattle 6, Toronto 5, 10 innings Boston 11, Detroit 1 Monday’s Games Baltimore 2, Atlanta 1, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 10, Boston 8 Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 Kansas City 9, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 6, Texas 2 Arizona at Seattle, Late Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-5) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-6), 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2) at Toronto (Doubront 1-0), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 7-5) at Boston (Miley 8-8), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Price 9-3) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 5-6), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 8-6) at Cleveland (Bauer 8-7), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 0-4) at Texas (M.Perez 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-7) at Houston (McHugh

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Central Division St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

W 64 57 52 43 43

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

W 56 55 47 46 42

L Pct GB 35 .646 — 41 .582 6 46 .531 11 54 .443 20 57 .430 21

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Baltimore 2, Atlanta 1, 11 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Colorado 8 St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1 Arizona at Seattle, Late San Francisco 4, Milwaukee 2 Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 6-5) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 7-6), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 1-2) at Toronto (Doubront 1-0), 5:07 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 8-3) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 4-5), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 8-5) at Miami (Fernandez 3-0), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Flande 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Beeler 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 6-4) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-7), 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 8-5) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 3-3), 6:15 p.m.

Arizona (Godley 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 10-4) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 1-5) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-1), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

Atlanta at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE

L Pct GB 44 .560 — 44 .556 1/2 52 .475 8 51 .474 8 55 .433 12

Kans. City 310 Cleveland 010 1/2 1/2 1/2

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 innings Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1 Atlanta 3, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 11, Chicago Cubs 5 San Francisco 4, Oakland 3 Colorado 17, Cincinnati 7 San Diego 3, Miami 2 Arizona 3, Milwaukee 0 Monday’s Games

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10 15 8 12

2 1

Danks, M.Albers (5), Duke (7), Petricka (7), Dav. Robertson (9) and Flowers; J.Kelly, Breslow (4), Ogando (5), Ross Jr. (6), Tazawa (8), Layne (9) and Hanigan. W—M.Albers 1-0. L—Ross Jr. 0-1. Sv— Dav.Robertson (22). HRs—Boston, Ortiz (20).

New York 003 Texas 020

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6 11 2 5

1 0

Nova, Shreve (6), Ju.Wilson (8), Betances (9) and B.McCann; M.Harrison, S.Freeman (7), Klein (8) and Chirinos. W—Nova 3-3. L—M.Harrison 1-2.

HRs—New York, Gregorius (5), A.Rodriguez (24).

INTERLEAGUE Atlanta Baltimore

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(11 innings) A.Wood, Frasor (8), Ji.Johnson (9), Vizcaino (10), Avilan (11) and Lavarnway; Gausman, Matusz (8), Britton (9), O’Day (10), Brach (11) and Wieters. W— Brach 4-2. L—Avilan 2-4. HRs—Atlanta, Ad.Garcia (2). Baltimore, Wieters (4).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado Chicago

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J.De La Rosa, Friedrich (4), Kahnle (6), Betancourt (8), Axford (9) and McKenry; Hendricks, Grimm (6), Strop (7), H.Rondon (8), Motte (9), Soriano (9) and Schwarber, D.Ross. W—Soriano 1-0. L—Axford 3-4. HRs—Colorado, Ca.Gonzalez 2 (20), Descalso (3). Chicago, Bryant (14).

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5 7

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Volquez, Blanton (7) and S.Perez; Co.Anderson, Rzepczynski (6), Manship (7), A.Adams (8) and Y.Gomes. W—Volquez 10-5. L—Co.Anderson 2-2.

Sv—Blanton (2). HRs—Kansas City, Hosmer (10), Infante (1). Cleveland, C.Santana (11), Lindor (4).

R.Iglesias, Badenhop (7), Ju.Diaz (8) and B.Pena; Lynn, Siegrist (8), Rosenthal (9) and Molina, T.Cruz.

W—Lynn 8-5. L—R.Iglesias 1-3. Sv—Rosenthal (31). HRs—St. Louis, Wong (11).

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Milwaukee 000 002 San Francisco000 300

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2 4

6 6

An.Sanchez, Alburquerque (6), Krol (6), A.Wilson (7), B.Rondon (8) and Avila; Karns, Jepsen (7), McGee (8), Boxberger (9) and Casali. W—Karns 6-5.

L—An.Sanchez 10-8. Sv—Boxberger (25). HRs— Detroit, Cespedes (16). Tampa Bay, Casali 2 (5).

Lohse, Cotts (7), Blazek (8) and Lucroy; Heston, Strickland (8), Romo (9) and Posey. W—Heston 11-5. L—Lohse 5-12. Sv—Romo (2). HRs—San Francisco, B.Crawford (15).

x-R.Bagg, Sask 2 x-A.Collie, BC 2 x-W.Dressler, Sask2 x-G.Ellingson, Ott 2 x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 2 A.Allen, Sask 2 B.Banks, Ham 2 B.Brohm, Wpg 2 P.Cotton, Wpg 2 A.Leonard, BC 2 J.Lynch, Edm 2 J.Mathews, Ham 2 R.Smith, Sask 2 K.Stafford, Edm 2 B.Whitaker, Tor 2 x-H.Burris, Ott 1 x-B.Grant, Ham 1 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 1 x-J.Messam, Sask 1 x-C.Owens, Tor 1 x-M.McDaniel, Cgy 0 D.Adams, Wpg 1 J.Adams, Wpg 1 N.Adjei, Tor 1 E.Arceneaux, BC 1 J.Beaulieu, Mtl 1 J.Collins, Ham 1 E.Davis, Ham 1 C.Denmark, Wpg 1 Z.Evans, Ott 1 J.Fuller, Cgy 1

S.Giguere, Mtl S.Green, Mtl T.Harris, Tor V.Hazelton, Tor C.Hoffman, Mtl R.Holley, Ham A.Jefferson, Tor N.Lewis, Mtl R.Lumbala, BC N.Moore, Wpg K.Raymond, Cgy J.Ojo, Edm J.Sears, Ham T.Smith, Sask T.Sherman, Wpg B.Sinopoli, Ott B.Stewart, Ham D.Tate, Cgy A.Thibault, Cgy T.Toliver, Ham C.Watson, Edm C.Williams, Ott C.Milo, Sask R.Maver, Cgy x-A.Coombs, Tor x-A.Fantuz, Ham S.Waters, Tor D.Stala, Tor R.Early, Sask

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CFL East Division W L T PF 3 1 0 118 3 2 0 105 2 2 0 119 2 2 0 85

PA 103 127 88 69

Pt 6 6 4 4

GP Edmonton 4 Calgary 5 B.C. 4 Winnipeg 5 Saskatchewan 5

West Division W L T PF 3 1 0 112 3 2 0 112 2 2 0 105 2 3 0 109 0 5 0 143

PA 58 126 113 159 165

Pt 6 6 4 4 0

Toronto Ottawa Hamilton Montreal

WEEK FIVE Bye: Montreal Sunday’s results Hamilton 31 Saskatchewan 21 Saturday’s results Edmonton 32 Winnipeg 3 Friday’s results Ottawa 29 Calgary 26 (OT) Toronto 30 B.C. 27 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. , Unofficial 2015 CFL scoring leaders through Week Five (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt J.Medlock, Ham 0 9 12 2 47 R.Leone, BC 0 7 10 1 38 P.McCallum, Sask 0 7 10 1 38 D.Alvaredo, Ott 0 4 11 0 37 G.Shaw, Edm 0 8 9 3 37 B.Bede, Mtl 0 5 10 0 35 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 6 7 4 31 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 3 8 2 29 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 6 7 1 28 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 4 2 0 0 26 A.Harris, BC 4 0 0 0 24 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 3 4 0 0 22 x-J.Cornish, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20 x-K.Elliott, Tor 3 2 0 0 20 A.Bowman, Edm 3 0 0 0 18 T.Gurley, Tor 3 0 0 0 18 E.Jackson, Ott 3 0 0 0 18 K.Lawrence, Edm 3 0 0 0 18 B.Smith, Sask 3 0 0 0 18 T.Sutton, Mtl 3 0 0 0 18

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0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 23 11 7 5 27 Columbus 22 8 7 7 34 New York 19 8 6 5 29 Toronto 19 8 7 4 31 New England 23 7 9 7 29 Montreal 18 7 8 3 25 New York City 21 6 9 6 29 Orlando 21 6 9 6 26 Philadelphia 22 6 12 4 28 Chicago 20 5 11 4 22

GA 22 33 23 31 35 27 31 31 37 30

Pt 38 31 29 28 28 24 24 24 22 19

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA

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Dallas Vancouver Los Angeles Kansas City Seattle Portland Salt Lake Houston San Jose Colorado

21 22 23 19 22 22 22 21 20 20

11 11 9 9 10 9 7 7 7 5

5 8 7 4 10 8 7 8 9 6

5 3 7 6 2 5 8 6 4 9

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25 22 28 20 21 28 27 26 27 19

Saturday’s results Columbus 3 Toronto 3 Montreal 1 Seattle 0 Chicago 2 New England 2 Dallas 4 Portland 1

38 36 34 33 32 32 29 27 25 24

Houston 3 Los Angeles 0 Sunday’s results New York City 5 Orlando 3 D.C. 3 Philadelphia 2 Vancouver 3 San Jose 1 Saturday, August 1 Montreal at New York City, 12 p.m.

Salt Lake at D.C., 5 p.m.

New York at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Orlando,5:30 p.m.

Toronto at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Sunday, August 2 Portland at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, August 5 New York at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Friday, August 7 Chicago at Portland, 9 p.m.

Saturday, August 8 Kansas City at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 5:30 p.m.

D.C. at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Houston, 7 p.m.

Salt Lake at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday, August 9 Seattle at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

New York City at New York, 5 p.m.

Canadian Adonis Stevenson sets date for next WBC light heavyweight defence

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian Adonis Stevenson will defend his World Boxing Council title on Sept. 11 at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto.

An opponent has yet to be named for Stevenson’s sixth defence of the belt he won with a first-round knockout of Chad Dawson in 2013. Details of the bout and the fight card are to be announced later this week, a spokesman for promoter Yvon Michel said.

Stevenson (26-1), a power-punching southpaw currently living in Blainville, Que., is coming off a win by unanimous decision over Sakio Bika on April 4. His last two bouts have been in Quebec City and he has fought mostly in Quebec, although he has trained at the Kronk Gym

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BRIEFS Derek Stepan and Rangers agree on long-term deal hours before arbitration hearing NEW YORK — The New York Rangers have signed centre Derek Stepan to a long-term contract.

General manager Jeff Gorton announced the deal Monday, hours before a contract arbitration hearing for the 25-year-old Stepan.

Terms were not immediately available.

A restricted free agent, Stepan had 16 goals and 39 assists in 68 games as the Rangers posted the NHL’s best regularseason record. He also had five goals and seven assists in 19 post-season games, tallying the game-winning goal in overtime in Game 7 against Washington in the Eastern Conference semifinal.

Stepan was one of two NHL players who ranked tied for fifth or higher on his respective team in all of the following categories in 2014-15: assists, points, game-winning goals, plus/minus rating, shots on goal, power play goals, power play assists, power play points, short-

in Detroit in recent years.

The 37-year-old tweeted on July 15 that his next bout would be in Toronto, adding that “Canada is a special place.” His promoter confirmed the Toronto date on Monday. It will be a busy season for Canadian fighters. Former IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute (31-2) returns from a 19-month layoff to face unheralded Italian Andrea Di Luisa (17-2) in a 10-rounder on Aug. 15 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Montreal-based Colombian Eleider Alvarez (17-0) will defend a minor WBC light heavyweight belt in the co-feature against Isidro Prieto (24-0-3).

Bute’s last bout was a 12-round loss to fellow Montreal fighter Jean Pascal in January 2014. There will be big interest in a clash of middleweight boxers as David Lemieux (34-2, 31 knockouts) of Montreal put his newly won IBF title against

WBA champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) of Kazakhstan on Oct. 17 at Madison Square Garden in New York. The bout will be an HBO pay-per-view event.

Talks are underway for Montrealbased Artur Beterbiev (9-0, 9 KOs) to face WBA, WBO and IBF light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (31-0-1) in an all-Russian bout Nov. 28 in Moscow. If the fight is finalized, Beterbiev would be a heavy underdog even though he beat the hard-hitting Kovalev twice as an amateur.

A Stevenson-Kovalev title unification bout has yet to be arranged mainly because Kovalev is committed to fighting on HBO while Sevenson, who is managed

by Al Haymon, is linked to rival Showtime. Beterbiev is also with Haymon, but Michel said he would be free to fight on HBO because it would be a first shot at a world title.

handed goals, short-handed assists, and short-handed points.

The other was Jonathan Toews of the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks.

Stepan established career highs in assists per game (0.57), plus/minus rating (plus 26), short-handed goals (two), and short-handed points (five), and tied a career high in short-handed assists (three) this past season. He tied for the NHL lead in short-handed assists and tied for second in the NHL in short-handed points.

Stepan has skated in 362 games over five seasons, all with the Rangers, registering 89 goals and 163 assists, with a plus-85 rating. He has 15 goals and 26 assists in 80 playoff games.

A second-round draft pick in 2008, Stepan skated with Team USA in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.

with the franchise, the team announced Monday.

The announcement comes as a significant surprise, as Black had held the role since the Pegulas purchased the Sabres in February 2011. And the decision comes after the Pegulas added to their sports holdings in October, when they bought the Bills for an NFL-record $1.4 billion from the estate of Hall of Fame owner Ralph Wilson.

Brandon has been with the Bills since 1997, and has served as the team’s president since 2013.

Bills president Russ Brandon to also oversee Pegulas’ NHL Sabres in replacing Ted Black BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills president Russ Brandon’s role is expanding to include overseeing the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres as part of a front-office restructuring under Terry and Kim Pegula, who own both teams.

Brandon will assume the duties of Sabres president Ted Black who has reached a mutual agreement to part ways

Nashville Predators sign forward Colin Wilson to four-year contract worth $15.75 million NASHVILLE — The Nashville Predators have signed forward Colin Wilson to a four-year contract worth $15.75 million.

Under terms of the agreement announced Monday, Wilson receives $3.75 million in 2015-16 and $4 million each of the next three seasons. Wilson was a restricted free agent.

The 25-year-old Wilson set career highs in goals (20) and points (42) and tied a personal best in assists (22) in 2014-15.

His plus-minus rating of plus-19 led the Predators.

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Tims TV under review

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Executives at Tim Hortons are reconsidering whether it’s worth the risk of flavouring your coffee break with potential controversy.

After the restaurant chain was dragged into a clash between environmentalists and oil industry supporters last month, Daniel Schwartz, CEO of Tim Hortons’ parent company Restaurant Brands, said Monday the company is reviewing its Tims TV instore digital screens.

“We’re now taking a look at the whole Tims TV program and what makes sense for the brand,” said Schwartz in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“As with many things in the restaurant, we explore what’s best from time to time.”

The review comes after Tim Hortons was put in the hot seat for giving advertisement space to pipeline giant Enbridge on its in-store digital screens.

The commercials angered environmentalists who launched an online petition to get them pulled.

When Tim Hortons yanked the Enbridge ads, some oil sector supporters called it an insult to one of Canada’s biggest industries and launched their own boycott.

The conflict showed the potential dangers of a brand as recognizable as Tim Hortons selling ad space to companies that could rankle its customers.

The coffee and doughnut chain began experimenting with Tims TV last year before rolling out screens at restaurants across the country. The company described Tims TV as its own version of a community space, serving as a home for the latest news, weather, local events and branded videos.

But the thrust of the concept was to pocket revenue from what’s essentially a billboard inside the restaurants. Advertisers could buy airtime on Tims TV in a looping rotation of content.

Canadian movie theatre operator Cineplex Inc. (TSX:CGX) runs Tims TV as part of a multi-year agreement with Tim Hortons where both companies sell advertising time on the screens.

On Monday, Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX:QSR) reported a second-quarter profit of US$9.6 million, or five cents per share for the three months ended June 30.

That compared with a profit of $75.1 million or 21 cents per share a year ago before the two brands combined.

The company behind Tim Hortons and Burger King said revenue totalled $1.04 billion, up from $261.2 million in the second quarter of 2014 before Burger King acquired Tim Hortons late last year.

Same-store sales — sales at outlets that have been

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Freshly-brewed coffee sits on a hot plate in a Tim Hortons outlet in Oakville, Ont. on Sept.16, 2013.

Executives at Tim Hortons are reconsidering whether it’s worth the risk of flavouring your coffee break with potential controversy. After the restaurant chain was dragged into a clash between environmentalists and oil industry supporters last month, Daniel Schwartz, CEO of Tim Hortons’ parent company Restaurant Brands, said Monday the company is reviewing its Tims TV in-store digital screens. open for at least a year — were up 5.5 per cent at Tim Hortons locations, while Burger King had same-store sales growth of 6.7 per cent.

Restaurant Brands said it will pay a quarterly dividend of 12 cents per share, up from 10 cents per share.

On an adjusted basis, Restaurant Brands earned $142.7 million or 30 cents per share in its latest quarter. Analysts had expected a profit of 25 cents per share for the quarter, according to Thomson Reuters.

Tim Hortons opened locations at a record pace in the first half of this year with net growth reaching a

historical high of 105 new restaurants, Schwartz said.

About 90 of those stores were in Canada.

The chain is also looking to make a bigger splash in the Middle East with its local operating partner Apparel Group. Schwartz said he recently visited the region alongside chief financial officer Josh Kobza with the intention of getting a better grasp on how to boost the brand’s presence.

“I’m really excited about the progress that has been made,” he said.

“We’ve been figuring out the target markets and started speaking with partners all around the world.”

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BRIEF Local builders up for Awards of Excellence in Housing Three local housing companies are in line for some provincial awards.

The Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta announced 75 finalists for the 2015 Awards of Excellence in Housing presented by RBC Royal Bank.

More than 400 entries were submitted for judging by industry members for 25 individual categories plus three prestigious Builder of the Year Awards.

The winners will be announced Sept. 18 at BUILD 2015 in Jasper.

Bruin’s Plumbing and Heating is a finalist in the Safety Leadership Awards, Large employer general member category. They are up against A&B Concrete Pumping of Edmonton and Giusti Group of Calgary.

Falcon Homes’ Solaris model is a finalist in the Single Family under $250,000 category. They are up against Avonlea Homes of Lethbridge and UrbanAge Homes of Edmonton.

Mason Martin Homes’ Jarvis Bay model is a finalist in the Estate Home over $1,500,000 category.

They are up against two Calgary builders, Windsor Brunello and Wolf Custom Homes.

Red Deer Lodge land redesignation open house set for Aug. 4

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, people pay attention to stock market quotation at a business lobby of a security company in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, Monday. The Shanghai share index dived more than 8 per cent Monday as Chinese stocks suffered a renewed sell-off despite government efforts to calm the market.

Nortel marks 15 years after peaking

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It was 15 years ago this month when Nortel Networks’ shares hit an all-time high of $124.50 on Toronto’s stock market.

The company’s sky-high stock made it by far Canada’s most valuable company at the time — with a market value that briefly surpassed any of the banks and resource companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

It didn’t last. A few months later, Nortel shares began a bumpy slide that resulted in a worthless stock and the bankruptcy breakup of what was once a global leader in telecommunications networks.

Even though Nortel is now long dead, industry veterans say that, human nature being what it is, most investors won’t learn from its boom and bust.

“I find in this business, people want to believe,” says Ross Healy, chairman of Strategic Analysis Corp., an investor advisory firm.

“People are mesmerized by rising stock prices.

They don’t ask if this is coming to a limit. The longer it goes on, the more that they are convinced that it’s going to keep on going on.”

He predicts that today’s high-flying social media stocks will be crushed — just as other tech stocks were in the past — because investors are willing to overpay if they expect a company’s spectacular growth will continue into “the infinite future.”

Thomas Caldwell, who has had a long involvement

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with the Toronto Stock Exchange as the founder of Caldwell Securities, says he thinks the next crisis will come from “the ETF world” — exchange-traded funds that mimic market indexes like the S&P 500.

“You may have some heavy weightings in some big companies that just aren’t going to be there some years from now,” Caldwell says.

Nortel’s large weighting on the Toronto market’s benchmark index — as much as 37 per cent of the entire TSE 300 index — was unusual and problematic, but not the focus of reforms going on behind the scenes during the same time period.

“Changing the TSE 300 to what became the S&P/ TSX composite was a fairly long, drawn-out effort and a lot of discussion,” says David Blitzer, who is managing director of S&P Dow Jones Indices.

“Clearly Nortel was on everybody’s mind when it was going up ... but in my recollection they were two separate issues.”

The S&P/TSX composite index, which is most often quoted in media reports on the Toronto Stock Exchange, had 248 stocks as of Thursday.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the Royal Bank of Canada each had a weighting of 6.1 per cent, followed by TD Bank at 5.4 per cent.

Blitzer says it’s not likely that another company could once again dominate Canada’s main stock market index the way Nortel did 15 years ago, but it’s also not impossible.

“It’s a question of, ’Are we going to find a company that grows that fast or makes that many acquisitions?”’

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An open house on the future of the Red Deer Lodge’s land is slated for Aug. 4.

It will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. at Red Deer Lodge (4311, 49 Avenue).

The Planning Department has received an application for a Land Use Bylaw amendment to redesignate land from C4 Commercial (Major Arterial) District to C1 Commercial (City Centre) District, at 4311 49 Avenue.

The applicant is requesting redesignation for greater future redevelopment flexibility.

At this time the applicant has not proposed any new development related to the proposed C1 District.

The open house provides an opportunity for stakeholders to receive more information, ask questions and provide feedback.

Australian company interested in buying troubled Yukon zinc, silver mine WHITEHORSE — An Australian company wants to buy a zinc-and-silver mine from a cash-strapped Yukon firm.

MinQuest says in a news release that it has submitted a conditional purchase offer for the Wolverine Zinc Mine owned by the Yukon Zinc Corp.

(TSXV:YZC). The mine halted production in January and received court protection from its creditors in March. Court documents show the mine owes $647 million, after losing more than $50 million a year since achieving commercial production in 2012.

MinQuest says it wants to buy the underground mine, its processing and management facilities, office, tailings, workshops, power station and operating licences.

The company says it wants to examine the possibility of using the mine’s existing facilities to “fast track” the Fyre Lake copper project in the territory’s southeast.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.48 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.11 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.36 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.35 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange registered a triple-digit loss Monday, led by the resource sectors, following a major sell-off in the Chinese market and weakness in oil.

The S&P/TSX composite index plunged 184.84 points to close at 14,001.37, while the loonie lost 0.06 of a cent at 76.66 cents US. The move in Toronto came after the Shanghai share index posted its biggest one-day plunge since February 2007.

Nearly all of the sectors of the TSX closed lower, with the exception of health care. Resources fared especially poorly, with the gold sector losing more than four per cent, while metals and mining lost 3.7 per cent, materials lost 3.1 and energy closed 2.8 per cent lower.

China is a major importer of metals and oil, which are heavily weighted sectors on the TSX. The September contract for crude oil fell 75 cents to US$47.39, while the August natural gas contract gained 1.3 cents at US$2.789.

Gold — often seen as a safe haven for investors during times of economic turmoil — closed higher, with the August contract gaining US$10.90 to US$1,096.40.

Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets, says the reaction in Canada to the plunge in China demonstrates a broader issue — the degree to which investors around the world are depending on China as a growth engine. “I think the problem with China is so many investors have put a lot of eggs in that one basket — needing China, really depending on China for growth and China for returns and China for overall appreciation,� said Belski.

However, Belski says inves-

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In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 127.94 points to 17,440.59, while the Nasdaq sank 48.85 points to 5,039.78 and the S&P 500 fell 12.01 points to 2,067.64.

Meanwhile, in U.S. economic news, business investments and shipments data remained soft, while June durable goods order exceeded analyst expectations.

Belski said investors are anticipating that the U.S. Federal Reserve could hike interest rates not once but twice before the year is done.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close on Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,001.37, down 184.87 points Dow — 17,440.59, down 127.94 points S&P 500 — 2,067.64, down 12.01 points Nasdaq — 5,039.78, down 48.85 points

Currencies: Cdn — 76.66 cents US, down 0.06 of a cent Pound — C$2.0299, up 0.81

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of a cent Euro — C$1.4473, up 1.63 cents Euro — US$1.1095, up 1.17 cents

Oil futures: US$47.39 per barrel, down 75 cents (September contract)

Gold futures: US$1,096.40 per oz., up ten dollars, 90 cents (August contract)

Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.911 oz., up 12.3 cents $640.14 kg., up $3.96 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $18.30 lower $490.50; Jan. ’16 $18.00 lower $491.00; March ’16 $17.60 lower $489.20; May ’16 $18.00 lower $485.20; July ’16 $18.00 lower $480.00; Nov. ’16 $18.30 lower $448.40; Jan. ’17 $18.30 lower $449.60; March ’17 $18.30 lower $451.30; May ’17 $18.30 lower $451.30; July ’17 $18.30 lower $451.30; Nov. ’17 $18.30 lower $451.30.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 $2.00 lower $210.10; Dec. ’15 $2.00 lower $210.10; March ’16 $2.00 lower $212.10; May ’16 $2.00 lower $213.10; July ’16 $2.00 lower $213.10; Oct. ’16 $2.00 lower $213.10; Dec. ’16 $2.00 lower $213.10; March ’17 $2.00 lower $213.10; May ’17 $2.00 lower $213.10; July ’17 $2.00 lower $213.10; Oct. ’17 $2.00 lower $213.10.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 536,140 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 536,140.

CP officially asks to appeal $430-million settlement fund LAC-MEGANTIC TRAIN DISASTER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The $430-million settlement fund in the Lac-Megantic train disaster is illegal because the Quebec judge who approved it did not have the authority to do so, Canadian Pacific Railway said in its official leave for appeal Monday.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press state the railway will argue that Superior Court Justice Gaetan Dumas erred in law by overstepping his jurisdiction in granting compensation to families of the 47 people killed on July 6, 2013.

The appeal application asks the court to cancel the fund and to rule that Dumas had no authorization to use Superior Court bankruptcy proceedings to offer companies releases from legal liability.

CP must still receive permission from a court to proceed with the appeal. If permission is granted, distribution of the millions of dollars offered to victims and creditors could be delayed by at least several months.

Earlier this month, Dumas approved the $430-million settlement package offered by companies accused of responsibility in the derailment.

CP (TSX:CP) is the only company out of roughly 25 accused in the tragedy to not participate in the offer. It maintains it bears no responsibility in the disaster.

The settlement offer is tied to the

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bankruptcy proceedings in the United States and Canada of Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), the now-insolvent railroad company that owned and operated the train that derailed.

All of the companies that offered money to victims and creditors were given releases from legal liability on both sides of the border for their part in the disaster.

In approving the fund, Dumas rejected three CP motions: one seeking access to privileged documents; another to have the fund cancelled; and a third to have the proceedings moved to Federal Court.

The fund still needs to be accepted in U.S. court but lawyers close to the proceedings say it’s likely to be greenlighted.

CP has already asked for permission to appeal the ruling regarding access to documents.

Jeff Orenstein, lawyer for the victims, said Monday he “wasn’t surprised� CP asked for permission to appeal.

However, he said “the jugement on the first instance was well-drafted and well-reasoned and I think (CP) will have a hard time in appeal.�

He added that even if CP is successful he will push to have the proceedings fast-tracked and added that a ruling can technically be handed down in a few months, not years.

Representatives from CP could not be reached for comment Monday.

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An oil pump at Pad 2 in the Racoon Point Oil Field in Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades on April 6, 1999. Renewed hunts for oil in sensitive Florida ecosystems have environmental groups raising questions about the state’s regulation of the oil and gas industry.

Fiat Chrysler must offer to buy back Rams, SUVs due to mishandled recall

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler could be required to lay out hundreds of millions of dollars to get potentially defective Ram pickups and older Jeeps off the road under a deal with U.S. safety regulators to settle claims that the automaker mishandled nearly two dozen recalls.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requiring the company to offer to buy back certain Ram pickup trucks and Dodge and Chrysler SUVs with defective steering parts that can cause drivers to lose control. More than 579,000 vehicles were initially recalled in 2013, but the company would only be required to buy back a third of those because many of the pickups have already been repaired.

The Italian-American automaker must also allow owners of more than a million older Jeeps with vulnerable rear-mounted gas tanks to trade them in at above market value or give them US$100 as an incentive to get a repair.

Fiat Chrysler also faces a record civil fine of up to US$105 million.

The settlement is the latest sign that U.S. auto safety regulators are taking a more aggressive approach toward companies that fail to disclose defects or don’t properly conduct a recall. “Merely identifying defects is not enough,� U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday during a conference call with media. “Manufacturers that fail in their duty to fix these defects will pay a price.�

Nearly 1.3 million Rams, Chrysler Aspen and Dodge Durango SUVs and Dodge Dakota pickups from as far back as the 2003 model year were recalled for the steering problem in 2013. The U.S. government excluded around 700,000 of the oldest models from the buyback program because most have already been repaired or are no longer on the road.

But it ordered the buyback for up to 579,000 vehicles from the 2008 through

2012 model years. Of those, around 193,000 have not gotten the recall repairs and are eligible for either a repair or a buyback, according to recall reports submitted to the U.S. government by Fiat Chrysler.

In each case, Fiat Chrysler would be required to pay the original purchase price plus 10 per cent, minus a certain amount for depreciation.

LouAnn Gosselin, a spokeswoman with Fiat Chrysler Canada, said the buyback program is a response to a decision by American regulators and does not include Canadian vehicles.

She said the company is working with regulators on both sides of the border to determine if the decision will have any impact in Canada.

The ultimate cost of the settlement depends on how many pickup and SUV owners join in. According to Kelly Blue Book, a 2010 Dodge Ram 1500 — one of the smaller, less-expensive trucks involved in the recalls — could fetch $20,000 in a dealer trade-in, assuming the truck has 60,000 miles on it and is in “good� condition. At that rate, FCA could spend US$956 million to buy back one-quarter of the vehicles at issue. The company is allowed to repair and resell the trucks it buys back.

The American government knows of at least one death attributed to the steering defect.

The older Jeeps have fuel tanks located behind the rear axle, with little to shield them in a rear crash. They can rupture and spill gasoline, causing a fire. At least 75 people have died in crash-related fires, although Fiat Chrysler maintains they are as safe as comparable vehicles from the same era.

Fiat Chrysler must offer US$100 to Jeep owners as an incentive to get a repair or a trade-in incentive of US$1,000 toward the purchase of another Fiat Chrysler vehicle.

The repair consists of adding a trailer hitch to the Jeeps. FCA has already repaired around 441,000 of the 1.5 million Jeeps recalled.

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Summer of science for local student NOTRE DAME STUDENT WORKING IN HERITAGE YOUTH RESEARCHER SUMMER PROGRAM

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Nothing beats a summer filled with science.

That’s what Notre Dame student Andrew Panteluk says. Panteluk is one of 50 exceptional students working in the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) Program.

“This is fun for me. This is just as much a vacation as it would be sitting on the beach, honestly,” said Panteluk, who is going into Grade 12 in the fall. “(Students) in the program wouldn’t necessarily consider this a job, but a great learning opportunity.

It’s something we love to do. We love science so it’s a dream come true to be part of this.”

HYRS is an intensive, six-week summer program that gives Grade 11 high school students the opportunity to do hands-on scientific research in labs and research centres at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, the University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge.

Students were chosen from 241 applicants from across Alberta.

Panteluk is working in a neurological research lab at the University of Calgary on Dr. Marc Poulin’s project — The Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance in Older Adults: An Analysis of Data Collected from Standardized Neuropsychological Tests.

Panteluk said the ‘brain in motion’ study looks at the cognitive effect of exercise on cerebral blood flow. Seniors participating in the study are being tested before exercise, shortly after exercise and a few months later.

“We haven’t done an analysis yet,” said Panteluk.

“We’re still focusing on collecting. We have 200-some participants.”

The Red Deer student is involved in scoring and entering data into computers.

“That’s a lot of what research is. Ten per cent of it is the actual testing, and the other part is the research and the analyzing and the entering.”

He has observed how participants are tested to gather data, and will be learning about the different jobs available in science.

“It’s really cool to see what goes on in a research lab. Sometimes it’s repetitive tasks. Other times you just do what needs to be done in the lab so the tasks can differ.”

As a skier and lifeguard who plans to pursue a career in neuroscience, Panteluk was particularly interested in Poulin’s study.

“I’m drawn to neuroscience just because it’s such a developing field. There’s so much to know still about the brain, the spinal cord, and how it affects the whole body.”

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Notre Dame student Andrew Panteluk is one of 50 exceptional students working in the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer Program. Penteluk is working in a neurological research lab at the University of Calgary.

He also has family members with neurological disorders and would like to work to prevent them in the future.

“That’s what medical research is, trying to make lives better in future generations.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe Police Service in for major building upgrade

ROCK’N RED DEER

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Rick Gagnon of Thompson, Man. takes a look at a custom ’51 Ford owned by Dana and Joel Henry of Red Deer at Westerner Park Monday. It was the first day of a seven-day celebration of classic cars, music and culture of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s that is taking place in Red Deer this week.

Rock’n Red Deer is bringing together vintage car enthusiasts for a week of activities sponsored

by The Alberta SuperRun Association. One of the largest car celebrations of its kind in Western Canada, the event will bring about 850 cars to Red Deer. The event culminates in a Friday Cruise night that will transform downtown Red Deer into an ‘American Graffiti’ time warp. The public is invited to ride with the rods on Friday night and visit the car show, which takes place on Aug. 1-2 at Westerner Park. There will be live entertainment, vendor displays and activities all day long on Saturday and Sunday.

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BRIEF Red Deer man places fifth at national air guitar finals He didn’t win, but air guitar competitor Mike Daniels can say he’s the fifth best player in Canada.

Daniels, aka “Michael von Poutine” from Red Deer, recently won the Alberta Air Guitar competition, which won him a trip to Toronto for the national Air Guitar Canada finals on Saturday.

Daniels said he placed fifth out of about 30 competitors. Jason ‘Thrust’ McNeely from Ottawa was the winner. Air guitar involves performing on an imaginary (air) guitar to a song of the player’s choice.

Daniels said he expects to compete again in the future, but will probably have a new persona next time. He won the Alberta competition playing Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’.

Hospital roads and sidewalks to be repaired Patients and visitors will have to leave earlier than usual to get to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Starting on Aug. 1, contractors will begin building the entrance and exit lanes on the new parkade.

Roads and sidewalks near the hospital’s main entrance will be repaired and landscaping will be completed. Weather permitting, the work is expected to take six weeks. As a result of all the activity, there will be changes to the traffic patterns, parking and access to the site.

Changes include: ● Access to the hospital’s main entrance and the Central Alberta Cancer Centre will be from the west only. Vehicles will also exit the site to the west. ● The existing patient loading zone will be closed to vehicles. A new temporary loading zone will be created in the Central Alberta Cancer Centre parking lot with short-term parking stalls available for those picking up or dropping off patients. ● Patients and visitors parking in the 39th St. public parking lot can access the main entrance by following marked pedestrian routes along 50A Avenue. ● Street parking will be reopened along 52 Avenue, west of the hospital. ● Traffic flow on 39th St. will be restored, though street parking remains closed.

Kerry Wood Nature Centre gets $50K for improving accessibility Kerry Wood Nature Centre has received a $50,000 funding boost to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities to its planned music park playground. The money, from the federal government’s Enabling Accessibility Fund, was announced on Monday by Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen.

The project consists of constructing an accessible music park/playground and installing automated door openers. The Waskasoo Environmental Educational Society, which looks after Kerry Wood Nature Centre and Historic Fort Normandeau, has been raising funds to establish the music park (Kiwanis Harmony Garden).

“Music gardens are outdoor music-based playgrounds that facilitate play-based learning and encourage children of all ages and abilities to use their imaginations while exploring the natural world’s smells, textures, sounds, and processes,” said Jim Robertson, Executive Director of the society.

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Out with the old, in with the new.

All sections of Lacombe Police Service’s new building, including the cell blocks, will be modernized during the $8.4-million project on Wolf Creek Drive.

Lacombe police chief Steve Murray said the existing facility served the community well for nearly 65 years but there is no capacity to improve or expand.

“It’s at the end of its useful life,” he said.

Officials broke ground on the facility in east Lacombe last week.

The three cells in the existing facility were grandfathered under old policing standards. There will be five cells in the new building.

The facility will include more room for staff, a modern exhibit storage and handling room, a large lobby and meeting rooms.

“Let’s face it, most people who come to a police station aren’t having a great day,” said Murray. “Our current lobby is quite small. It’s very crammed.

We can only assist one person at a time. The new lobby will be more welcoming. It’s going to be more a warmer, friendlier environment.”

There will be direct access from the lobby to the Victim Services office and the community partnership room.

Murray said the doors will be open for community groups to use the room which accommodates 50 people.

“The motto of the Lacombe Police Service is community partnership,” said Murray. “This will give us a chance to actually put our motto into real life practice. It will give our community organizations and groups a chance to interact with us when times are good.”

A new facility was identified as a need in 2007 and got off the ground in 2014 through a development steering committee.

Murray calls it a “made in Lacombe solution for Lacombe.”

There are 22 people including officers and other staff who work in the police station. The building is designed to carry the police for the next 25 to 40 years along with the projected growth rates of the city.

The new police station is expected to open in October 2016. Lacombe Fire Services share the existing facility and are expected to remain put.

“This new facility is going to give us an opportunity to put our community partnership model into action,” said Murray. “We are really excited to make it happen.”

The facility’s location in Wolf Creek Industrial Park, away from residential development, did raise some concerns from residents.

Murray said police will have several access points covering the city and he does not anticipate any negative impacts to public safety. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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More Canadians living with Number of Canadian stroke-induced disabilities babies getting HIV from STROKE STUDY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new study suggests the number of Canadians living with stroke-induced disabilities will rise substantially over the next couple of decades.

More people are surviving strokes — a good news story about what can be a devastating and even fatal attack on the brain.

But the study authors say that with an aging and expanding population, this country will face a significant increase in the number of people who need stroke rehabilitation and other forms of post-stroke support.

The study estimates that there were about 405,000 people living with a stroke disability in this country in 2013 — nearly 30 per cent more than was previously estimated.

And it says that number could increase to between 654,000 and 726,000 by 2038.

Dr. Mark Bayley, who is one of the authors, says more research is needed to find ways to help people overcome or cope with the after-effects of stroke.

“The good news is that more people are surviving their stroke,” says Bayley, the medical director of the brain and spinal cord rehabilitation program at the Toronto Rehab Institute.

“And therefore we’re concerned that we need to be ready for how those people are going to need to be supported and also cared for and how we can optimize their quality of life while they’re recovering from their stroke or after their stroke.”

The study was published Thursday in the journal Stroke.

It was funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery.

There are two major types of strokes.

Hemorrhagic strokes occur when a blood vessel in the brain breaks open or leaks blood, putting pressure on nearby brain tissue.

The more common ischemic strokes are caused by a blockage in an artery that supplies oxygenated blood to the brain.

For the latter, drugs that break up clots can restore blood flow to the brain and minimize the damage, but they must be given within a few hours of the stroke to have benefit.

‘THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT MORE PEOPLE ARE SURVIVING THEIR STROKE’ —DR. MARK BAYLEY MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD REHABILITATION PROGRAM TORONTO REHAB INSTITUTE

It’s estimated that about 36 per cent of people who survive a stroke will still have significant disabilities five years after the event.

Those can include problems with mobility, speech and brain functioning.

Bayley says the 36 per cent figure is probably low because it may not capture people who are living with the more subtle effects of what are known as mini-strokes or TIAs — transient ischemic attacks.

The blockages that cause TIAs are short-lived and not as devastating as a full stroke.

But damage can accrue over time.

Previously it had been estimated that about 315,000 Canadians are living with after-effects of a stroke. But Bayley and his co-authors believed that number was out of date.

It was arrived at using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, which is conducted by Statistics Canada.

But the survey does not collect information on children under the age of 12, a population in which strokes, though rare, do occur.

And it doesn’t include data on people living in long-term care facilities, a demographic at high risk of experiencing strokes.

So the researchers recalculated to include those overlooked groups, coming up with the higher figure.

Bayley suggests the need for health services to help stroke victims recover and function is an issue of serious public health concern.

“We think that research is crucial and that investment in research into living with the effects of stroke are really critical at this time,” he says.

“The problem is that access to rehabilitation, both as an early inpatient and as a later person living in the community, is highly variable in Canada.

And some people, unfortunately, do not get access to the best practice.”

moms now almost zero

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada has virtually eliminated the incidence of mothers passing HIV to their infants at birth, primarily because of high rates of prenatal testing and ready access to drug treatment that subdues the infection, researchers say.

In 2014, there was only one case of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Canada, continuing a decade-long downward trend, said Dr. Jason Brophy, chair of the Canadian Pediatric and Perinatal AIDS Research Group (CPARG), which has been tracking cases since 1990.

“The World Health Organization definition of elimination is less than two per cent transmission, and that’s where we are right now,” said Brophy, an infectious disease specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

The finding was among data from three studies by CPARG’s perinatal HIV surveillance program presented Wednesday at the 8th International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Vancouver.

Each year, an average of about 200 babies are born in Canada to women diagnosed with HIV, said Brophy, noting that in the 1990s, before the advent of antiretroviral drugs, 84 per cent of HIV-positive moms-to-be were diagnosed after they got pregnant.

“Whereas in the more-recent era, like 2008 to 2013, only 10 per cent were diagnosed during their pregnancy,” he said, with 90 per cent knowing they had HIV before becoming pregnant and already on infection-dampening drug treatment.

“And what that means is women are getting diagnosed and put on treatment ... and then choosing to have babies.”

Antiretroviral drugs stop HIV from replicating in the cells and eventually destroying the immune system and progressing to AIDS. But even among women who learn they are HIV-positive during their pregnancy, babies are rarely at risk of getting the infection, as long as the mothers are able to get on antiretrovirals for at least a month before giving birth, Brophy said.

“I reassure moms that for women who’ve been on medication and are

well-suppressed and everything goes fine at delivery ... I tell them: ’Don’t worry about your baby, your baby will be fine.

“I’ve seen hundreds of babies at this point and none have been infected.

It’s only the babies where mom’s virus isn’t suppressed at delivery — because of not enough time on treatment or not knowing the diagnosis — where there’s a real risk of transmission.”

Brophy also presented a study Wednesday that looked at the countries of origin of HIV-positive women who gave birth in Canada between 1990 and 2013. Of almost 3,900 women, 54 per cent were foreign-born, and of those, 71 per cent emigrated from Africa.

In the first half of the 1990s — before the use of antiretroviral drugs — the largest group of HIV-positive mothers came from French-speaking Haiti, with many of them settling in Quebec.

Since 2008, the largest group of HIVinfected mothers has come to Canada from Ethiopia, Congo, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.

“The interesting pattern we see in this is the source countries over time really reflect what’s going on in the world around us,” said Brophy. “There are many countries of conflict and we get an uptick in the number of women from those countries as people flee.

“Canada’s perinatal HIV population really reflects global trends.”

Yet the Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program studies show that African moms-to-be have a lower risk of transmitting HIV to their infants at birth than their Canadian-born counterparts, perhaps because HIV testing is required for immigration, he said.

Joel Singer, a professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, co-authored a study showing that in 2014, 97 per cent of all HIV-positive women in Canada had received antiretroviral drugs before giving birth.

Also of note, he said, is that HIV-infected aboriginal women and IV drug abusers — who previously had higher rates of mother-to-infant transmission — now have treatment rates comparable to other pregnant women with the virus.

“We’re finally reaching all of these groups who were, for one reason or another, more marginalized,” Singer said from Vancouver.

Drivers with fibromyalgia more likely to be in serious traffic crashes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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TORONTO — Drivers who have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia appear to have an elevated risk of being involved in motor vehicle crashes, even years after their initial diagnosis, research suggests.

A study in the July issue of the Journal of Rheumatology found that individuals with fibromyalgia had more than twice the risk of being in a serious automobile accident that sent them to a hospital emergency room, compared with the driving population as a whole.

“We’re not looking at the sort of fender-benders here,” said principal researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier, a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Toronto.

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome that affects at least 400,000 Canadians, but the numbers may be much higher. The condition, which disrupts nerve function, causes fluctuating symptoms, such as muscle pain, fatigue, insomnia, and joint stiffness.

There is no known cure, but symptoms can be treated with medications, lifestyle changes and stress management. The exact cause is unknown, but in some cases, trauma caused by a motor vehicle accident has been linked to subsequent onset of symptoms.

Using hospital and other records, the study looked at 137,631 Ontario adults with fibromyalgia between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2012.

The patients accounted for 1,566 serious motor vehicle crashes during the year prior to their diagnosis, the study found. In the year following a fibromyalgia diagnosis, the group was involved in 738 traffic collisions.

Redelmeier said these patients didn’t necessarily cause the accidents — the analysis did not look at fault — and there was no way of determining whether symptoms like pain, stiffness and fatigue might make it more difficult to “avoid a crash that was set up by somebody else.”

“Lots of studies have examined fibromyalgia as a consequence of a motor vehicle crash. But this is the first to our knowledge with the idea of testing whether it might be one of these underlying medical conditions that could contribute to a future motor vehicle crash.”

The study determined the risk for drivers with fibromyalgia is about five crashes per 1,000 individuals per year, compared with two per 1,000 per year among the overall driving population.

“And it was particularly high if the patient also had a co-existing psychi-

atric condition such as depression,” he added.

However, those who were receiving ongoing or “dedicated” fibromyalgia care — including better rest, physical activity and treatment to improve sleep, depression and pain control — had a somewhat reduced risk of harm.

“We found that it was effective,” Redelmeier said.

“It doesn’t return these people to the absolute population norm, but it seemed to make a significant difference in reducing the individuals’ risk of a serious motor vehicle crash. So that medical care could be effective for mitigating — but not totally normalizing — roadway hazards.”

Fibromyalgia is not among medical conditions, such as epilepsy and narcolepsy, included in fitness-to-drive guidelines, but because it can cause functional impairment in some people, the researchers suggest doctors should consider reinforcing messages about road safety.

“If you’ve got fibromyalgia, it doesn’t mean you can’t drive a car. But the standard safety suggestions would merit reinforcement: always wear a seatbelt, follow the speed limit, signal

your turns and minimize distractions,” Redelmeier said.

“And if you’ve got fibromyalgia, absolutely do not be using a cellphone when you are driving. That’s just inviting trouble.”

Dr. John Pereira, a pain specialist at the University of Calgary who coauthored Canada’s 2013 fibromyalgia treatment guidelines, called the study “groundbreaking research” that will lead to needed conversations about driving safety between doctors and patients with fibromyalgia.

“Some patients with this condition suffer from unrefreshing sleep and poor daytime concentration, which may explain the higher risk of traffic accidents,” said Pereira, who was not involved in the study.

“But we must equally emphasize that hundreds of thousands of Canadians with fibromyalgia drive safely to work every day,” he stressed.

“Our challenge now is to proactively identify those patients for whom there is the greatest danger, as this study also showed dedicated fibromyalgia care could help mitigate their risk.”

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Living a different life

The search for self-worth “Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy.”

— Wayne Dyer, American self-help author and motivational speaker “She’s perfect,” I said, more to myself than anyone in particular. “So beautiful.”

I gently passed my newborn grandchild back to my daughter. It was a precious and perfect moment. Life’s grand adventure had just begun to unfold for this perfect little person.

As I pondered what delights and challenges life would hold in store for this tiny being, I thought about my own children as babies and reflected on the people they had grown up to become. Aware of the many battles and victories each MURRAY had experienced, I wonFUHRER dered about the affect my parenting had on each of their lives. I had wanted only the best for them. And though I had always struggled with poor self-esteem, I tried to instill in each of them a sense of worthiness and deservability. I will admit that it was hard to teach what I had yet to learn.

I think that, of all the factors that shape our lives, a sense of self-worth is probably the determining factor when it comes to the amount of joy and success we allow ourselves. When we doubt our value, we undermine every aspect of our life experience from love to abundance.

It wasn’t until I began to question my self-worth (or lack thereof) that I was able to gain any serious insights into how I could improve my self-esteem. In the process, I came to a realization: I was the only one who could improve my sense of self-worth. Sure, other people could encourage and support my efforts, but I had to do the work. I had to own my life and choices.

It’s true that we don’t always get what we deserve out of life. It’s hard to admit but sometimes, for better or for worse, we get what we believe we deserve.

Many of us have lost touch with our personal value and allowed our worth to be obscured by a thousand perceived failures and transgressions. The problem is therefore not our actual value but our perceived worth.

In a workshop years ago, the facilitator asked us how deserving we felt. He asked us to score our deservability on a scale of 1 to 100. He encouraged us to be completely honest and choose a rating that felt right and true for us. I chose 20. I wanted to choose a higher number as I felt my score should be higher but it wasn’t so I stuck with the initial assessment.

With few exceptions, most people in the room chose a similar score and, sadly, some scores were even lower.

The facilitator explained that our unconscious mind had been rating us since childhood. As with many deep-seated beliefs and perceptions, selfworth is an unconscious assessment of personal value and deservability. It happens below the level of conscious awareness. Now that our score had been brought to light, we could begin to see how our self-worth had shaped our choices and experiences.

It was an uncomfortable yet deeply insightful realization.

Self-worth assessments begin in our formative years starting with the value judgements and treatment provided by our caregivers. For better or worse, these judgments are internalized and form the basis of every self-assessment that follows. It doesn’t mean that we’re bound forever by these early assessments but transcending them will likely take a dedicated effort.

Awareness is always the first step in shifting any negative way of thinking or being. You can start now by taking an honest look at your life and determining if you’ve been throwing roadblocks up in the way of your success and happiness. Have you ever wondered why you did or said certain things even when you were advised against it by friends, family or good sense? Success in life (as with anything else) involves effort, devotion and dedication. It requires a willingness to receive new information, insights and opportunities. In many ways, we only allow ourselves to receive experiences, people and lessons that are in keeping with our sense of worth.

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strewn messily about in my living room.

On the same token, never, ever, would I have thought that the mention of dollar days at the No Frills would send me into an exhilarated tizzy.

Back then I don’t believe I even knew what side of town the grocery store was located on.

All I needed was a gas station hoagie or a pub with a mediocre appy platter.

It makes me wonder how I got here.

How did I end up with this life of waking up long before the sun shines and mentally creating to-do lists of all the menial must-do’s to get done that day?

Much like the above list I have shaped for your reading enjoyment today.

I know I’m beginning to sound like a bit of a Debbie Downer, this is going somewhere I promise. …

It was a few days ago and I was feeling this same kind of melancholy in a major way. Now maybe I’m some sort of freak and am the only parent on the face of the planet who sometimes wonders what a different existence would have been like, but I have a sneaking suspicion I’m not alone on this one.

I was thinking about the “before” me and revelling in the awesome adventures I use to have when I was a solo gal.

Meanwhile, I was cleaning up dog puke on the one piece of carpet we have left in our house as the children literally leapfrogged over my body pushing my head into the stinking stew of puke.

They had just come in from outside and apparently it had slipped their minds that we weren’t living in the 18th century and they tracked the mud and gunk

from the sodden yard all over my kitchen floor. As I was yelling at them to clean it up, I spooked the dog, which possessed him to run out the door and under the deck.

There I left him because he was literally the last thing I could worry about at the time.

But then I remembered the gate was broken and he could have easily escaped.

It is an odd day when you have a kitchen floor filled with mud, your dinner is burning in the oven — you know this because the smoke alarm is sounding for the entire neighborhood the hear — you are wearing dog vomit in replacement of rouge and yet you are still smiling like a bloody doofus because you’ve just realized that your husband fixed the fence without you remembering.

It was this simple/weird moment that made me realize I didn’t want that life I lived so many years ago.

Life now can be hectic and messy and sometimes downright nasty, but the people who share this existence with me are purely irreplaceable.

Of course, I will keep those old memories close to me, perhaps to bring to mind in the tough times when there is bodily excrete involved, but I have something now that means so much more.

Never again will I be that solo gal, and as Lars and Sophie sit at the table drawing me, “I’m sorry” pictures and Jamie is sitting at his desk working away on whatever it is he is working at, I realize that never again would I want to be.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Husband needs to refocus his priorities for his family Q: My husband is a workaholic — he spends very little time with our sons and me, but when I approach him, he simply says, “Things will be better soon.” Do you have any suggestions?

Jim: Men are wired to provide for our wives and children.

But because we’re imperfect human beings, that natural, God-given desire can sometimes become distorted.

Some men become so focused on their role as provider that they end up neglecting the emotional and relational needs of their wives and kids.

Far too many dads in our society fit this description.

Your husband needs love, support and encouragement JIM in order to feel good about DALY himself not only as a provider but as a husband, a father and a person.

But remember that none of us respond well to nagging or demands.

I’d suggest planning a dinner out with your husband on a weekend — get a sitter, go to a nice restaurant, etc.

Put aside your frustration and reinforce how much you love him and appreciate his work ethic and his dedication to his role as family provider.

At the same time, be honest and let him know that his job seems to be taking precedence over his family.

Tell him you value his involvement as a father, and ask him if he’d be willing to examine his schedule and work together with you to make some changes.

If you can deliver this message in a spirit of love and concern rather than bitterness and anger, you may be surprised at how positively he responds — although don’t expect complete change overnight.

But if he denies there’s a problem, it may be time to seek professional help.

You can start by contacting Focus on the Family’s Counseling Department Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. (MST) at 855-771-HELP (4357).

Q: You always encourage parents to keep tabs on their kids’ music and to have regular conversations with them about the lyrics.

Your advice assumes that lyrics have a strong and

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lasting influence on kids, but frankly I’ve seen little evidence of that.

Can you convince me that all this isn’t a waste of a busy parent’s time? I’m skeptical.

Bob Waliszewski, Director, Plugged-In: For years when asked this question, I appealed to common sense, making the case that musicians were “instructors” of sorts, and just as a teacher in the classroom can mold and shape students’ beliefs and behaviors — isn’t that why schools hire them? — so, too, can recording artists.

But I wanted solid research to back it up.

Fortunately, in 2006 the Rand Corporation published a study of 1,461 adolescents, finding that those who frequently listened to sexualized music lyrics were almost twice as likely to engage in intercourse within two years after being surveyed as their peers who seldom listened to such songs.

This was the first of many research projects that came to similar conclusions.

I’ll note one more because it was quite comprehensive.

After examining 173 other studies, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (working with Common Sense Media) found that 80 percent of those projects linked media — defined as music, TV, movies, video games and the Internet — to a number of adverse outcomes for children including smoking, drug and alcohol use, obesity, sexual activity, attention problems and poor grades (nyti. ms/1JiV0yS).

Beyond research, let me add testimonial evidence: I interviewed school shooter Jamie Rouse (Lynnville, Tennessee, 1995), who directly told me — and others — that he was influenced by music lyrics to commit murder.

I also spoke extensively with the parents of Elyse Pahler (Arroyo Grande, California, 1995), who explained how lyrics influenced three teen boys to torture and kill their 15-year-old daughter.

Bottom line: There are plenty of solid reasons to set healthy lyrical boundaries in your home.

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/ DalyFocus.

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Weed the garden. Bake the bread. Clean the bathrooms. Call the insurance company. Pick the peas. Register the kids in another day camp. Pay the bills. Make that appointment for family pictures. Practise reading with Lars. Look into singing lessons for Sophie. Book in with the dog groomers. Write the column that’s due tomorrow.

Water the plants. Sneak in a workout. Cook a delicious dinner. Support your family.

Make sure everyone is happy LINDSAY and healthy. Unearth new and BROWN inventive ways to get the kids to eat broccoli.

ME PLUS THREE Smile through all of it.

Do you ever feel like you have stumbled into a life that cannot be yours? I look back at the Lindsay I knew 10 years ago and the changes that have occurred since then never cease to astound me.

Yes, I, your local family columnist, was one of those people who said they’d never have kids — you know the ones. The “I wouldn’t bring children into this horrid and cruel world” kind of people. I was self-seeking and sporadic and erratically eccentric.

And never in a thousand worlds of dancing pandas would I have thought that in a mere 10 years I’d be having a near nervous breakdown over a few toys

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Mercy rules in youth sports help shift focus for skills

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS With mercy rules sometimes limiting the number of goals, runs or points tallied in children’s sports, many associations are seeking to shift the focus towards developing skills among young athletes — and away from the score.

Aaron Thompson coaches a squad of 12- and 13-year-olds in the Mississauga Southwest Baseball Association.

Under Ontario Baseball Association rules, there are two mercy rule thresholds: a 10-run difference after five innings and an 18-run difference after three innings.

“I think the general consent is that it’s a good thing,” Thompson said of the rules.

“I don’t ever hear anyone complaining about having to call a game after being down 18 runs after three innings or even 10 after five. It’s almost inevitable at that point what the result of the game is going to be, so it just kind of preserves the feelings of the players so they don’t have to continue with the game.”

The Ontario Soccer Association maintains no scores or standings for players under 12. David Lowe, chairman of Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer, said scores are recorded for players aged 13 and up in their league, with an eight-goal mercy rule in place.

He said coaches are offered many suggestions on how to shift their approach when winning by a sizable margin, like repositioning players or having kids kick with their weaker foot.

“We want coaches to have that mentality where (they say): ’After I get up three or four goals then I affect some change in my team so that we don’t hammer the other team,”’ said Lowe.

While scoring remains the objective, “it’s not score or win at all costs,” said Lowe.

“We would like everybody to participate and everybody to have fun in the league, and everybody to develop.”

Daryl Leinweber, executive director of the Calgary Minor Soccer Association, said there’s a 5-0 mercy rule in every game played.

While the goal differential can exceed five goals, 5-0 will be the score posted, he noted.

If a team is regularly losing or winning games by 10 or more goals, the

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Young girls from the Gloucester Dragons Australia and Columbia U7 teams play a game of soccer in Ottawa. Many sports associations and leagues are trying to turn the shift the focus towards child and youth player development and away from the scoreboard by instituting mercy rules that limit the number of runs or goals scored. association can move them to another division.

“If we’re seeing where some of the teams are starting to run up scores of 10 goals, we really need to talk to the coach and say: ’Maybe there’s a better way to coach the team,” said Leinweber.

“You take a look at the different measures of success on your team.

Maybe it’s the number of passes you make prior to scoring the goal. Maybe it’s where you change positions within your team and your defence gets to play forward for a while.

“There’s a whole opportunity for learning. It can come in the game — and it’s not just the score.”

Even with mercy rules in place,

there’s still potential for sizable gaps on the scoresheet.

An April matchup between two New Jersey high school baseball teams made headlines as it resulted in a rout for defending state champion Buena who defeated Pleasantville by 52-3.

The 10-run mercy rule for New Jersey high school baseball games doesn’t kick in until the fifth inning, and Buena scored 20 runs in the third inning alone.

Pleasantville coach Erick McAllister told the Press of Atlantic City that his team never quit and that the Buena players were gentlemen in the win. A later rematch between the teams resulted in a 20-2 Buena victory.

Thompson said he’s been coaching

for about 13 years and has experienced both sides of lopsided results — and tailors his approach accordingly.

“If you find success and you continue to hit, that’s good. But you take a respectful approach while scoring.

You go conservative. You don’t look to exploit the other team when you’re up 10 runs,” he said.

“If they’re struggling, if they’re showing weakness, you don’t try to take advantage. That’s not really in the spirit of the game.”

In the face of a tough loss, Thompson recommended giving young athletes small tasks that are achievable and highlighting successes.

“And then, whether they win or lose, they have a sense of accomplishment.”

Coloured body hair among grooming trends

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — While Ginnifer Goodwin and Kelly Ripa both recently unveiled boldly dyed locks, other women are broadening the boundaries of selfexpression with colourfully tinted hair above and below the belt.

Once Upon A Time star Goodwin showcased her grey pixie cut at Comic-Con International in San Diego, while talk show host Ripa revealed her bright blue bob on Instagram. But there are a rainbow’s worth of options for those seeking a less visible hair colour experiment.

Wax Hair Removal Bar offers bikini tints in hues like pink, green, red and orange. Keeping in step with the “something borrowed” bridal tradition, blue is a popular option during wedding season, noted founder Luba Sasowski.

Sasowski said tinting is favoured by older clients not opting for full Brazillian waxes who are seeking grey coverage. They’ve also sold many take-home products to bachelorette parties for women wanting to test out different shades.

She said 40 per cent of their clientele are men, and many are opting for lash tinting.

“We’re the official salon to Chippendales and we have a lot of the guys that come in because it just makes their eyes pop,” she said.

“Honestly, it just really makes your eyes pop. It coats your eyelashes to make it more intensive without using makeup.”

The company also offers a pair of sparkling post-wax options: the application of Swarovski crystals down below with ”Bling Your Thing,“ or the waterproof tattoo ”Glitter Your Thing“ which lasts up to a week.

“People are looking for fun ways to spice things up or even feel better about themselves,” said Sasowski, whose company has locations in Vancouver, Burnaby, B.C., Las Vegas and

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Some women are dying their body hair different colours in a growing trend.

Henderson, Nev. Some women are ditching their razors and eschewing waxing to let their body hair flow freely.

Pop star Miley Cyrus has proudly flaunted her coloured armpits on social media. Cyrus and Girls star Jemima Kirke have also made headlines for flashing hairy underarms at red carpet events.

As leader of the Free Your Pits movement, Roxie Hunt has become a vocal advocate for women to be empowered in their grooming choices, and to not feel pressured to adhere to particular beauty standards — regardless of whether or not they shave.

Having become tired of shaving — a process she admits she never liked — Hunt said she decided five years ago to grow out her underarm hair after

having kids.

Hunt has not only embraced her growth, but has coloured her own pits pink. The hair colourist does the same for the underarms of clients at Seattle-based salon Vain, which charges US$65 for the service.

“We don’t have to fit into this box.

And in fact, we need to challenge these things,” said Hunt, DIY hair and style blogger at How-to Hair Girl.

“In so many ways as women it keeps us down to think that we need to look a certain way or be or act a certain way.

There’s not a lot in our society that honours our individual unique traits.

“So for me, freedom is about grabbing onto those things and expressing them and having fun with them and not worrying about judgment from others.”

New York-based beauty historian

Rachel Weingarten said for nearly every generation of women, beauty trends have evolved in part as a form of rebellion — and coloured body hair is no different.

“What seems so outrageous to us ... ’Oh my gosh, she has aqua underarm hair,’ you have to understand that in the ’70s someone having long hair and no makeup was as shocking and rebellious.

It’s our historical perspective that makes things just as interesting as they are,” said Weingarten, author of Hello Gorgeous! Beauty Products in America ’40s-’60s.

“If you look at the uptight Betty Draper-type who’s then evolving into the hippie type, that was shocking for that generation,” added Weingarten, a former celebrity makeup artist.

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That is to say, we only allow ourselves to receive people or experiences that we believe we deserve.

Learning to appreciate your innate worth has nothing to do with the ego — so if you’re feeling as though you’re better than others or more entitled, you’ve missed the point. It has to do with realizing that a deep sense of selfworth does not need to be earned — it was always be there. It belongs to you just like it did when you were that tiny, beautiful, perfect infant.

“Each of us is a HIT,” wrote Dan Millman, American best-selling author and lecturer in the field of self-help.

“A human-in-training. It’s time you recognize that you’ve done the best you could each day of your life, taking into account your own baggage, information, limitations, wounds, and struggles. You made the best choices you could see at the time. And now the time has come to appreciate your

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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innate worth and choose the higher roads of life.”

We may have free will but the freedom to choose the best available option is often limited by our perceived value.

When we doubt our value, we undermine our success. When we embrace our value, we underpin our success. Think about how your self-worth has shaped your life to this point. Consider how much or how little joy and success you’ve allowed into your life.

When I gazed into the wide eyes of my granddaughter, I scored her 100 on the deservability scale. And I hoped that she would grow up knowing that she was deserving of all the good things life had to offer. And as her grandfather, I vowed to teach her what I had learned.

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The laughable tradition Determining of death of comedy remakes cause may prove to BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JUST STAY AWAY

More often than not, the best advice is just put down the script and walk away. Such was the case for Shawn Levy’s The Pink Panther, which somehow managed to earn a 2009 sequel.

Steve Martin is a tremendous performer, but no one should be attempting to follow in the clumsy footsteps of Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau. (Martin has been a curiously frequent remake star, including two Father of the Bride films and the somewhat better Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which came from the Marlon Brando, David Niven 1964 original.)

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BRIEF Comedian pokes fun at Ottawa amid fallout from Ashley Madison hack TORONTO — Comedian John Oliver is taking the residents of Canada’s capital to task for their alleged extramarital affairs.

The host of Last Week Tonight chastised the inhabitants of Ottawa following a report that claimed nearly 190,000 people in the city were members of AshleyMadison.com, a Torontobased website for people seeking affairs. It was hacked last week.

“Let me speak to Ottawa — Ottawa, you cannot let this skeezy website destroy your marriages,” Oliver said on his show Sunday night. “Don’t take this lying down beneath some mulleted stranger wearing a wedding band. The city council of Ottawa needs to fight back.”

Oliver, who made a point to note that Ottawa was “known by locals as the city that fun forgot,” expressed his surprise at reports about the apparent popularity of the site in the city.

“That’s half the married population there,” he said. “If you live in Ottawa, look to your left, look to your right, both of those people are on AshleyMadison.com and so are you. That’s a fact.”

To purportedly assist the city’s residents in staying true to their spouses, Oliver’s show ran an instructional video of sorts, which mercilessly poked fun at the city, describing it as a “depressing, frigid sh--hole.”

“Lumberjacks turn off your chainsaws, hockey players stop skating for a second, boys, moose you just keep on moosing, this doesn’t concern you. This is for the married people of Ottawa, sitting at home, thinking about having an affair. Don’t,” the video said.

“Having an affair is downright unCanadian,” it went on. “Don’t have sex with someone else’s husband named Gordon. Have sex with your own husband named Gordon. Because Ottawa

be difficult

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Christina Applegate, standing from left, Ed Helms, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Skyler Gisondo, kneeling left, and Steele Stebbins appear in a scene from ‘Vacation.’

EVEN THE COENS CAN’T DO IT

It’s a testament to the difficulty of the task if even Joel and Ethan Coen whiff it. The comedies produced by London’s Ealing Studios in the 1940s and ’50s are comedy royalty that few would have the courage to tackle. But the Coens tried it with The Ladykillers in 2004, attempting a broader comedy that traded Tom Hanks and Mississippi for Alec Guinness and London. It’s among the Coens weaker films, though they can argue that they fell into directing it. They were first signed up just to write the script, but took over directing for Barry Sonnenfeld when he dropped out. Worth noting, though, is that by staying true to the Charles Portis novel, the Coens did give us easily the best True Grit.

RUSSELL BRAND IS NOT DUDLEY MOORE

And Adam Sandler isn’t Burt Reynolds. Brand and Sandler both have their particular talents, but neither were well suited heirs to their remakes of Arthur — the 2011 version of Moore’s 1981 film — and The Longest Yard, which had Sandler sliding in for

. . . is about watching your life float by like so much dirty river ice.”

Ashley Madison has vowed to hold those responsible for last week’s hack responsible for their actions.

The website, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair,” claims it has more than 37 million members around the world.

Patriarch of Jackson family hospitalized with stroke RIO DE JANEIRO — Joe Jackson, the father of the late Michael Jackson and patriarch of the musical family, suffered a stroke while visiting Brazil and was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a Sao Paulo hospital, the facility said Monday.

The Albert Einstein hospital said in an emailed statement that Jackson was admitted on Sunday afternoon and was suffering from an irregular heartbeat. It did not provide any further details about Jackson’s condition, and a spokeswoman said the hospital did not have any further information.

But one of the organizers of a party that brought Jackson to Brazil for his 87th birthday on Sunday said he was doing well.

“He is perfectly conscious, he is talking perfectly well without any problems, he is completely dynamic,” said Nogueira Fresco, one of the organizers of the party. The fete marking Jackson’s birthday went ahead Saturday without its guest of honour. Local media reported he was not feeling well enough to attend.

Reynolds in the 2005 prison football comedy. Both originals, like many comedies, drew considerably from the distinct personas of their stars, making for an out of whack chemistry in the remakes. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick had an even higher bar to meet in taking over for Mel Brooks and Zero Mostel in the 2005 film The Producers. If only someone had thought to try it as a Broadway musical instead.

IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE

An unavoidable fact is that a few of the very best comedies ever made were remakes. The zippy brilliance of Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940) came nine years after the play it was based on, The Front Page, had been turned into a film. It would be tried again, too, in 1974 by Billy Wilder with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and in 1988 — a lamentable swap of TV news for the newspaper biz starring Reynolds.

And Wilder’s Some Like it Hot, that majestically madcap 1959 comedy, was based on a 1935 French film called Fanfares of Love. When the screenplay couldn’t be found, producer Walter Mirisch tracked down a German remake of it for Wilder to write from. In the movies, originality can be a mangled, many-authored thing. Nobody’s perfect. well as comedians and musicians.

“I’m very pleased to be doing a show that is comedic, yes, but it’s tangential to it, because I intentionally wanted to have something that was more variety based,” he said.

“It’s a physical palate cleanser to constant comedy.”

Makes sense coming from Harris, a multi-faceted performer who can sing and dance on Broadway as well as perform magic tricks in clubs.

His comments come the morning after his first night at Just For Laughs.

The festival packs dozens of shows at various venues throughout the city.

Harris was “astonished that there were shows happening at 11:59.”

He found out that the after parties — where he ran into Howie Mandel, Norm Macdonald, Jeff Ross and James Corden’s Late, Late Show bandleader Reggie Watts — can go on until 4 a.m.

The 42-year-old marvels at how the stand-up comedians adapt to rooms little and big and crowds receptive and indifferent.

ATLANTA — An autopsy will be needed to evaluate what led to the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of singer Whitney Houston, authorities said Monday, the day after her death.

In a statement Monday morning, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office says the time that elapsed from when she was found unresponsive in January until her death Sunday will “compli- Bobbi Kristina cate” its effort Brown to reconstruct events.

“Interpretation of autopsy findings and other information will also be challenging,” the medical examiner’s office said in the statement. “However, an autopsy could be helpful to address questions which may arise about the cause of her unresponsiveness and eventual death.”

Bobbi Kristina died Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia, about six months after she was found Jan. 31, face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta townhome. She was 22.

A police report described it as a drowning.

Bobbi Kristina was the only child of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

“Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away July, 26 2015, surrounded by her family. She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months,” Kristen Foster, a representative for the Houston family said Sunday.

She had been hospitalized for months in Atlanta — eventually being placed in hospice care — after being found in a manner grimly similar to the way her megastar mother died three years earlier.

Nick Gordon, who shared her townhome with her, said at the time it seemed Bobbi Kristina wasn’t breathing and lacked a pulse before help arrived.

“The Roswell Police Department continues its investigation into the circumstances preceding and surrounding the time of the original incident leading to her death,” the medical examiner said in Monday morning’s statement.

The medical examiner did not release a timeframe for the autopsy, but said additional lab testing might take several weeks.

Born and raised in the shadow of fame and litigation, shattered by the loss of her mother, Bobbi Kristina was overwhelmed by the achievements and demons of others before she could begin to figure out who she was.

Bobbi Kristina — the sole heir of her mother’s estate — did have dreams.

She identified herself on Twitter as “Daughter of Queen WH,” “Entertainer/Actress” with William Morris & Co., and “LAST of a dying breed.” She told Oprah Winfrey shortly after her mother’s death in 2012 that she wanted to carry on her mother’s legacy by singing, acting and dancing. But her career never took off.

She became a social media sensation, sending more than 11,000 tweets and attracting 164,000 followers.

As the news of her death spread across social media, several celebrities tweeted their condolences.

Neil Patrick Harris hosts four shows in Montreal MONTREAL — Neil Patrick Harris has run off with the circus.

Or at least his “Circus Awesomeus.”

The ubiquitous awards show host and former How I Met Your Mother star is headlining Monday and Tuesday at Montreal’s Place des Arts. Harris will be hosting four shows as closing galas to the 33rd annual Just For Laughs comedy festival.

These shows aren’t all comedy, as Harris points out. He was invited to handpick the acts and booked swordswallowers, magicians and puppets as

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NEW YORK — The modern comedy remake is among the most laughable of movie genres.

In Hollywood’s reboot frenzy, the movie industry has increasingly turned to reviving classic comedies, only to find that few things are harder to rekindle than the elusive elements — Bill Murray’s timing, John Belushi’s eyebrows— that make up a great comedy. The distance between original and remake is usually as vast as it is between Caddyshack and Caddyshack II. The latest attempt is Vacation, a new try at the classic National Lampoon series that first emanated from John Hughes’ short story Vacation ’58 and was launched with the 1983 Chevy Chase original. Chase makes a cameo in the latest Vacation, but he has ceded the driver’s seat to his son, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms).

In some quarters, the movie has not been anticipated warmly. In a column for the Hollywood Reporter, former National Lampoon editor P.J. O’Rourke judged the film from its trailer “posthumoristic” and “a summer cineplex dump-fill featuring the Hangover wimp dentist as leading man.”

Whether screwball or satire, comedy only works when it feels bracingly alive. Most remakes, though, tend to feel like they’ve been brought back from the dead, only with all the really good jokes left back in the cemetery.

Hollywood is devoted to getting it right, though. The biggest test will come next July when Paul Feig releases his big-budget Ghostbusters. Feig, at least, has had the good sense to try an entirely different track, recasting the leads as female, including Melissa McCarthy and Kirsten Wiig.

But there are many others in various stages of quixotic development, including remakes of Meatballs, Fletch, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Police Academy.

With that in mind, here are a few lessons to draw from an often dubious tradition.

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JJAM Management (1987) EARN WHILE YOU Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s LEARN Requires to work at these Full time employment Red Deer, AB locations: 40/hrs/wk 5111 22 St. Training & Practicum hours 37444 HWY 2 S proved to successful 37543 HWY 2N candidate.

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Restaurant/ Apply in person or fax Hotel resume to: 403-314-1303

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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

Restaurant/ Hotel

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 ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

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COORDINATOR POSITION TERM POSITION AUGUST 25, 2015 – AUGUST 19, 2016 Rocky Support Services Society is a certified not for profit agency providing residential, employment, community access and independent living supports for persons with developmental disabilities in Rocky Mountain House.

Now Hiring

Reporting directly to the Program Director, the Coordinator provides input and supervises the development and delivery of programs and services to meet individual needs in residential and day programs, as well as ensuring the effective use of human and financial resources.

NORTH HILL (6889 50 AVE) LOCATION

Using well developed leadership skills, you will provide support in training, developing and evaluating staff.

FULL TIME

Experience in Behavioral Management is an asset.

SUPERVISORS

Qualifications: Community disability studies or comparative, related experience and/or education is required to ensure individual services plans are developed and implemented according to the needs of the client.

Rocky Support Services Society offers a competitive wage and benefit package and employee friendly policies.

Closing Date: August 7, 2015 Please Mail, Fax or Email a resume and cover letter to: Linda Bozman, Human Resources Manager Rocky Support Services PO Box 1120 Rocky Mountain House AB T4T 1A8 Phone: 403-845-4080 x: 102 Fax: 403-845-6951 Email: lbozman@rockysupportservices.ca

PH 403.845.4080 l FAX 403.845.6951 4940-50 Ave. Box 1120 l Rocky Mountain House, AB l T4T 1A8 www.rockysupportservices.ca

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

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Oilfield

COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

700-920

SCHEWALJE In loving memory of Dan who passed away July 28, 2013.

Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear Fond memories linger every day Remembrance keeps him near Loving wife Lorraine, Darcy, Trevor and Shawnacy, Tytan & family.

Please fax resumes to: 403-347-9310 or email administration @ barwpetroleum.com

SKATEBOARD in new condition found in Heritage Ranch area. To identify, call 403-346-7384.

CLASSIFICATIONS In Memoriam

Fast paced Service Company is currently looking for a Service Coordinator Assistant.

Duties include: Answering multi-line phone system, coordinating and managing service calls, create, schedule and manage/ track work orders and purchase orders, data entry, ensure all supporting documents are received.

Candidates must be organized, thorough and have good time management skills, good communication skills and proficient at typing with a high rate of accuracy and attention to detail, proficient in Word and Excel, demonstrate the ability to respond to rapidly changing situations and make critical decisions in a timely fashion.

LONG haired tan Chihuahua found in Mountview, w/blue and pink collar. 403-550-3858

Personals

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

Bar W Petroleum & Electric

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Coming Events

McGOWAN Laura 1929-2015 Laura passed away peacefully on Friday July 12, 2015 at the Red Deer Hospice after a short battle with cancer. She was born on May 7, 1929 in Saunders Creek, Alberta and later married Ted McGowan on October 18, 1952 in Markerville.

Ted passed away in 1962. Laura was a civil servant for 37 years at CFB Penhold, up to her retirement in 1992. She was survived by one son Don (Judy), grandchildren; Tammy (Chad Scotvold), Don (Lauren), and four very special grandchildren; Sloan, Lexi, Brody and Brynn. She is also survived by one sister Joan Watson, and sister-in-law Fran Weyts. As per Laura’s wishes no funeral services will be held. Donations in Laura’s memory may be made to Red Deer Hospice.

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TRUEMAN Carol 1944 - 2015 It is with great sadness and sorrow that we announce Carol Trueman passed away suddenly at her Lake Sanctuary on Friday, July 24, 2015 at the age of 70 years.

Carol is survived by her greatest gift, her family; her loving husband and soulmate of forty-one years, Dale Trueman, her loving son, Chuck (Teresa) Robertson, Cara (Neil) Doré, her loving daughter and best friend, her six grandchildren, who deeply loved their “G-Ma”; Lyndsey (Kris), Kaylee, Christopher, Nicolas, Joel and Marissa. Carol recently became a great grandmother to the beautiful Sophia.

Carol’s passions were abundant, so please join us in celebrating her life at the Black Knight Inn, 2929 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, July 31, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Memory of Carol’s passion toward the environment and horticulture may be made directly to the Old’s College at www.oldscollege.ca/donations/.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer 403.340.4040.

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Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Contractors

1100

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

WOOD fences starting at $18/ft. 403-352-4034

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

DALE’S Home Reno’s Central Alberta’s Largest Free estimates for all your Car Lot in Classifieds reno needs. 403-506-4301

Handyman Services

1200

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 CLEAN UP AND JUNK REMOVAL. 403 550 2502

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Painters/ Elite Retreat, Finest Decorators

1310

Roofing

1370

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

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, 10 - 2am Private back entry JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. companionship. At home 403-341-4445 or facility. 403-346-7777 Free Est. 403-872-8888

in VIP Treatment.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, July 28, 2015

U.S., Turkey agree on outlines for IS-free zone

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NORTHERN SYRIA

BEIRUT — Turkey and the United States have agreed on the outlines of a plan to rout the Islamic State group from a strip of Syrian territory along the Turkish border — a plan that opens the possibility of a safe haven for tens of thousands of displaced Syrians but one that also sets up a potential conflict with U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in the area.

The move further embroils Turkey, a key NATO ally, in Syria’s civil war, and also catapults it into a front-line position in the global war against IS. A senior Obama administration official said Monday that U.S. discussions with Turkey about an ISfree zone focused on a 68-mile stretch still under IS control. The U.S. has been conducting airstrikes there, which will accelerate now that the U.S. can launch strikes from Turkish soil, the official said.

No agreement between Turkey and the U.S. has yet been finalized, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations.

In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that any joint military efforts with Turkey would not include the imposition of a no-fly zone.

The U.S. has long rejected Turkish and other requests for a no-fly zone to halt Syrian government air raids, fearing it would draw U.S. forces further into the civil war.

While details of the buffer-zone plan have yet to be announced, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara and Washington have no intention of sending ground troops into Syria but wanted to see Syria’s moderate opposition forces replace IS near the Turkish border.

“Moderate forces like the Free Syrian Army will be strengthened, a structure will be created so that

they can take control of areas freed from ISIL, air cover will be provided. It would be impossible for them to take control of the area without it,” Davutoglu told Turkey’s A Haber television. ISIL is an alternate acronym for the Islamic State group.

The discussions came amid a major tactical shift in Turkey’s approach to IS. After months of reluctance, Turkish warplanes started striking militant targets in Syria last week, and allowed the U.S. to launch its own strikes from Turkey’s strategically located Incirlik Air Base.

Turkey has also called a meeting of its NATO allies for Tuesday to discuss threats to its security and its airstrikes. Davutoglu said “NATO has a duty to protect” Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq, and that Ankara will seek the alliance’s support for its actions at the meeting in Brussels.

But a Turkish-driven military campaign to push IS out of territory along the Turkish border is likely to complicate matters on the ground.

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria, who have been the most successful in the war against IS, control most of the 910-kilometre (565 miles) boundary with Turkey, and have warned Ankara against any military intervention in northern Syria.

The Islamic State controls roughly a 60-mile stretch of that border, wedged between Turkishbacked insurgents with Islamist ideologies to the left and Kurdish forces from the People’s Protection Unit, known as the YPG, to the right.

The Turkish-U.S. plan raises the question of which Syrian rebel forces would be involved in a ground operation against IS. The U.S. has long complained

Restaurant/ Hotel

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LOOKING for line cooks.

Must have some cooking experience and work well in a team atmosphere. chillabongs@hotmail.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Trades

HEAVY duty truck mechanic needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca Looking for a place to live?

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Household Furnishings

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experienced managers

CLASSIFICATIONS

is currently hiring

for our Canadian Division.

We are proud to offer our employees on the job skill development training to enable their career growth and an opportunity to advance within our company.

Position description: Managers are accountable for the welfare and operational excellence of their crew. They are responsible to promote teamwork, ensure their team complies with all Company Health, Safety & Environment policies and regulations, improve performance and seek out new opportunities, along with ensuring all paperwork is completed in a timely manner. Managers must do direct sales with clients and potential clients.

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Antiques & Art

1520

ANTIQUE dress maker’s form. Adjustable height.

Decorative cast iron feet/base. $75. Call (403) 342-7908

Children's Items

1580

CAR booster seat with two cup holders, good cond., $5. 403-314-9603 WOODEN toy helicopter, good cond., $5; and wooden food sets by Melissa and Doug, large variety, complete sets, very good cond., $75 for all sets.

403-314-9603

JOURNEYMAN Welder Position responsibilities: required: Is capable of - Effectively communicate performing a variety of with upper management, welding functions. The Crew and our Clients in Equipmentindividual should be familthe planning coordination iar with and capable of Heavy and execution of our using various types of services welding equipment. Please TRAILERS for sale or rent submit resumes to calvin@ - Review all functions and ensure they are error free Job site, ofÀce, well site or decoking.com. Thank you storage. Skidded or and within the capacity of for your interest wheeled. Call 347-7721. the crew and equipment - Plan and coordinate Buying or Selling - Ensure all equipment is your home? inspected and properly Check out Homes for Sale Tools conÀgured to meet in Classifieds treatment requirements OLDER Rockwell table - Complete and submit all saw, asking $150 obo paperwork including Truckers/ 403-342-1934 invoices, logbooks, Drivers pre-trip and post-trip SKILL SAW, Craftsman inspections, etc. to meet 7.25, $50. 403-314-0804 BUSY Central Alberta speciÀed deadlines Grain Trucking Company VARIETY of miscellaneous looking for Class 1 Drivers Position qualiÀcations: tools, $20. 403-885-5020 and/or Lease Operators. - Team leadership We offer lots of home time, - Must be willing to relocate beneÀts and a bonus - Fit for work Firewood program. Grain and super - Extensive heavy truck B exp. an asset but not driving experience and necessary. If you have a AFFORDABLE clean Driver’s Abstract clean commercial drivers - First Aid / CPR Homestead Firewood abstract and would like to - H2S Alive Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail. start making good money.

To apply: Please attach 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 fax or email resume and your resume including a comm. abstract to B.C. Birch, Aspen, list of your current certiÀca403-337-3758 or tions and current Driver’s Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. dtl@telus.net PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 Abstract, and email it to patsoffroad@thehat.ca or LOGS TOO MUCH STUFF? fax to 403-504-1711 Semi loads of pine, spruce, Let Classifieds tamarack, poplar. help you sell it.

Price depends on location.

Tired of Standing?

Lil Mule Logging Classifieds Find something to sit on 403-318-4346 Your place to SELL in Classifieds Your place to BUY

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 3 DIAMOND Willow walking sticks $20; silk plant 5 1/2’ $30; long handled car wash brush, like new $20; peanut butter jars $1/ea, blown glass water pitcher w/6 glasses $30; set of 3 porcelain song birds $35. 403-309-5494 CORN FLOWER plate, 14” diameter, good cond., $5, still available; and herb planter, beautiful beige and white ceramic, 7 cups for herbs, like new cond., SOLD. 403-314-9603 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 PS4 Playstation brand new, retail $450, sell $300 cash 403-728-3336 403-350-0959 QUAD cargo bag (never used) $25; 3 man tent, $35; one folding camp cot, $10. 403-342-7460 VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, beige, $95. 403-352-8811

Cats

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1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; 403-887-3649

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

Pidherney’s requires the following for work based out of the Blackfalds Office We require experienced

Heavy Civil Construction Equipment Operators Pidherney’s offers: • Top wages paid on experience • Benefit package • Career Advancement Opportunities First Aid and Ground Disturbance certificates required.

Advocate Opportunities

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Pidherney’s

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307 CARRIERS NEEDED

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

DEER PARK AREA

Davenport Place (Corner of Ross St. & Donlevy Ave.) $123.04/mo.

ALSO Dixon Cres, Ave, Close and Dunlop St. $111.52/mo DOWNTOWN / WOODLEA 55 St. and 47A Ave. area $95.84/mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

FREE barn kittens to a 3 BDRM., no pets, good home. Tame and $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 litter trained. 780-986-3037 ACROSS from park, Start your career!

Oriole Park, 3 bdrm.

See Help Wanted 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls.

Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or Aug. 1.

Sporting 403-304-5337

1860

Goods

CLEARVIEW

3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $1075. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Aug. 1. 403-304-5337

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $195. 403-352-8811 GOLF clubs and misc. clubs and bag $20 and up. 403-314-0804 T-BAR back roll sports equipment, hardly used, asking $100 obo Call 403-346-4263

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1100, N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

Suites

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2 BDRM. bsmt suite. Rent $950 DD same avail. Aug. 1 403-348-1304

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. Sept.1 $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337

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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458

rentals FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

ANDERS AREA Archibald Cres.

BOWER AREA

MORRISROE AREA Marion Cres/Mackenzie Cres.

Metcalf Ave/Mayberry McKinnon/Munro Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

Stirling Close Scott St.

VANIER AREA Vanier Drive Victor Close ************************ Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

3060

PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. Avail. immed. no pets, n/s 403-993-3441 Rent starting at $949/month 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location.

Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

BLACKFALDS, $600, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 COZY Furnished room, n/s, $575. 403-466-7979

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Cottages/Resort Property

WHISPERING Pines golf course lots on 2nd fairway, facing west.

Phase 4, lots #38 & #39.

Fully serviced. Listed at $88,888 each. “ MAKE ME AN OFFER FOR BOTH “ Call Nes : Royal LePage Benchmark (403) 601-2760 Cell (403) 990-5122

Lots For Sale

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Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

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Antique & Classic Autos

5020

ANTIQUE cars. Exc. running cond. Call for details. 403-396-2396

SUV's

5040

2015 TOYOTA 4Runner Limited, remote start, lots of extras, 490 km, $53,000 obo. 403-392-5446

homes

Townhouses

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

For Rent - 2 bedroom apt with in suite laundry, A/C, elevator & underground parking. $1475/month, does not include utilities.

No Smoking, No Pets.

3430 49 Ave Red Deer.

Call 403-350-0989 SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, starting at $1150. For more info 403-347-7545 or 403-304-7576 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

& Services

4010

MORRISROE MANOR

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN.. Priced to buy Call 403-318 3040

Trucks

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded.

Clean.. Priced to Buy Call 403-318 3040

Motorcycles JACK MACAULEY (403) 357-4156

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

5050

2009 DURAMAX GMC 3/4 ton 120,000 kms, full load, 403-227-6794 403-05-4193

Advocate Opportunities

2008 YAMAHA Royal Star 10,000 kms $8500 403-350-9893

AND JACQUI FLETCHER Motorhomes (403) 896-3244 Father/daughter team Sutton Landmark Realty suttonrd@shaw.ca

Houses For Sale

4020

5080 5100

1977 VANGUARD Class C fully self contained, 403-505-0962 for appt.

Holiday Trailers

5120

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. in

SOUTHBROOK AREA Sagewood Close/Sawyer Close

Suites

2x2 BDRM apts, one with balcony, no pets, free laundry, fairly new carpet and PADS $450/mo. paint, large, to over 35 Brand new park in Lacombe.

Houses/ year old, quiet living working Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., Duplexes tenants. 5910 - 55 Ave., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Ph: 403-341-4627. Rent Down payment $4000. Call 3 BDRM, 3 Ár, 3 bath, $1150 and $1100 with at anytime. 403-588-8820 Ànished basement w bath, D.D., the same.

CELEBRATIONS 5 appl., deck, 3 car parking on site, newly painted and ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious HAPPEN EVERY DAY suites 3 appls., heat/water IN CLASSIFIEDS carpeted, clean house at incld., ADULT ONLY 7316 - 59 Ave. for August 1.

BLDG, no pets, Oriole Rent/DD $1700 to over 35 Park. 403-986-6889 yr old working tenant family. Ph:403-341-4627 FEMALE TENANT wanted, for questions.

A.I.S.H. welcome, incld’s furnished bdrm., kitchen 3 BDRM. house in Rimbey facilities, washer/dryer & $1200 +/mo. utils. $500. rent & S.D. 403-704-6397 Phone Dalyse after 6 pm.

3 BDRM. main Áoor, approx weekdays 403-896-3722 CLASSIFICATIONS or Mike 403-346-8581 1000 sq.ft. Shared Laundry.

4000-4190 $950 + utils. 403-660-7094 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, Realtors rent $875 403-596-6000 Condos/

ROUTES IN:

Beatty Cres/Barrett Drive Baile Close/Boyce St. Bunn Cres/Baird St.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

1830

Cats

2 days per week, no weekends

577602H1

Please forward resumes to: hr@pidherneys.com or fax: 403-845-5370 Attention: Dave McLaughlin, in confidence.

TWO dining room chairs, upholstered seat and back, beige, frame and legs dark wood, from SEARS. Paid $300. Asking $125 obo for the pair. 403-342-2537

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about having no reliable partners among them. Defence Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged earlier this month that the U.S. has only 60 trainees in a program to prepare and arm thousands of moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against IS militants.

The Obama administration official said the U.S.led coalition was looking to anti-IS forces such as Syrian Kurds and the Free Syrian Army. He did not elaborate Syria’s main Kurdish militia — the YPG or the People’s Protection Units — is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey and maintains bases in remote parts of northern Iraq.

Nawaf Khalil, head of the Germany-based Kurdish Center for Studies, said Ankara is likely trying to limit advances by the Syrian Kurdish forces by using the war against IS as a pretext and to steer Washington away from the YPG, but “this will not work.”

In a reflection of the complexities involved, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday refused to draw a distinction between the Islamic State group and the PKK. “There is no difference between PKK and Daesh,” Cavusoglu said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State group. The PKK is fighting the IS “for power, not for peace, not for security,” he said.

Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said “Turkey has a right to defend itself” against the PKK. In a series of cross border strikes since Friday, Turkey has not only targeted the IS group but also Kurdish fighters affiliated with forces battling the extremists in Syria and Iraq. Also, the YPG and an activist group said Turkish troops had shelled the Syrian border village of Til Findire, targeting Kurdish fighters and hitting one of their vehicles on Sunday night.

WESTPARK

3 ACRES in Sundance Hills 20 minutes outside of Red Deer Lovely Bungalow with a view Huge 32’ X 36’ Shop $669,000 Call Today to View!

Jack Macauley (403) 357-4156 Sutton Landmark Realty

GRAND VILLA SALEM, 3 slides, $34,000 obo.

Contact Rennie Green, 587-225-7070

Boats & Marine

5160

“COMING SOON” BY

Flyer carriers needed for afternoon delivery 2 days/week Wed. & Fri. on Weddell Cres. & William Cl.

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Colombia looking for mass grave in landfill MISSING YOUTHS

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COB: Smoking creates mysterious flavours Smoking the corn creates the mysterious flavour that only smoke can, but it’s important to grill it a little first. Otherwise, the corn might over-smoke before the kernels are cooked to the desired tenderness. Again, the soaked corn out-performed the nonsoaked corn, maintaining more moisture and flavour.

The evocative smokiness is wonderful on its own but works even better in familiar side dishes to add an enigmatic quality. Which it did for, of all things, the much-maligned creamed corn. To be clear, I’m talking here of homemade creamed corn. There is such a thing, and it is fabulous. And it transcends all vestiges of childhood yuckiness when lashed with the flavor of wood-smoked, bronzed kernels. This is corn candy for smoke freaks.

Cooking in the husk turned out to be my favourite technique. It can be done using any of the methods I’ve described, but it is particularly well suited to cooking right on the embers. Some recipes will tell you to use twine to secure the husk after removing the silks. Don’t. What happens to twine in a fire?

Burns up. Then what? Husks come undone, corn burns. Use aluminum foil instead to bind the husk at the pointy top of the cob. Use long-handled tongs to move the corn frequently. Even then, the ear will be a patchwork of char, bronze and untouched blond.

The resulting textural differences, though, add up to spectacular flavour.

Cooking in the husk mates smoking, grilling and steaming and creates the most heady aroma and a flavor that seems to hark back to the field where the corn was picked. Regardless of your flavour profile, cooking in the husk, while the most challenging method, is the most rewarding, and the resulting corn is best eaten on the cob with whatever you want to put on it — including nothing at all.

There was a touch of madness about this whole thing, a fever that broke one evening with that revelation about the folly of perfection. It’s about what you like, and sometimes I like the char flavour of direct grilling, sometimes the juicy burst of foilwrapped corn, sometimes the field-fire aroma of smoked corn. Just depends on my mood and how I am going to eat it.

The key was cooking each properly. All of the methods, I should note, produced corn that was great with butter and salt — but only after it came off the grill. Pretty simple conclusion, right? Somehow, we need to complicate things before we can know how profound simplicity can be.

CORN: Once eaten mostly by the poor But corn wasn’t always so omnipresent. It took time for European settlers to warm to corn and, most importantly, a coalescence of fortunate events for it to sprout into an industrial behemoth. ★★★ Until the 1800s, corn was eaten mostly by the poor. It was a cheap and prolific crop, consumed by farmers and fed to prisoners. And it was also used as a commodity. As Pollan wrote in his poignant 2006 book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, corn “was both the currency traders used to pay for slaves in Africa and the food upon which slaves subsisted during their passage to America.”

But then came the industrial revolution, and with it three essential technologies that helped propel the grain from the

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Relatives and families of missing people arrive at a ceremony to remember the missing and kick off a search effort in La Escombrera, on the outskirts of Medellin, Colombia, Monday. holding up a placard with her daughter’s photo and disappearance date, the eye-catching symbol used by the group Mothers Walking for the Truth to draw attention to their fight.

The missing are a lasting reminder of one of the darkest chapters of Colombia’s half-century-old rebel conflict. The rightist paramilitary groups demobilized a decade ago, and the government now is negotiating a peace deal with the biggest rebel movement. With the five-decade conflict winding down, officials have been fanning out across the country to exhume hundreds of bodies, attempt to identify them through DNA testing and return the remains to fam-

ily members. But most of the unmarked graves are located in lawless rural areas, not Medellin, which is Colombia’s second-largest city. Restrepo’s disappearance took place at a time and place where being young like her was almost tantamount to a death sentence.

Shortly after taking office in 2002, then President Alvaro Uribe launched Operation Orion to repel leftist rebels from a densely populated hillside slum in the poor and violent Comuna 13 district. The offensive lionized Uribe’s reputation among Colombians as a crime-fighting conservative whose tough talk was backed by action.

diets of the impoverished to dining tables all over the country.

The first was an iron plow, which allowed farmers to sow deep into the soil, and on much larger scales.

The Midwest was planted with corn on a commercial basis precisely because of this new, simple but revolutionary tool. Two other advancements had an equally large effect, even though they touched corn production more tangentially.

“One of the most important boons for corn might have been that the commercial farms in the Midwest grew up at the same time as the canneries and railroads,” said Fussell.

Until then, corn was mainly distributed locally.

But the rise of trains, which moved the harvest well beyond county limits, and the advent of canning, which meant it could keep for much longer, allowed farmers to grow with hundreds of thousands of mouths in mind. In the coming decades, the amount of land dedicated to corn grew incredibly quickly. It would be another half-century, however, until corn made its way to the center of the American diet.

result is perpetuation of ambitious growing goals: Farmers, realizing that the more efficient they are, the more money they will get, grow more and more corn. The more corn there is, the lower its price, and the greater the incentive to use it in as many ways as possible.

To talk about corn without talking about the different varieties would be to overlook an important facet of its ubiquity in the United States. There are many types, but the most commonly eaten forms can be divided into three general categories.

The first, which is perhaps the most romanticized, is sweet corn. Sweet corn is what Americans grill in the summer, and boil or bake during the rest of the year. It’s eaten on the cob. It gets stuck in your teeth.

And it accounts for only about 1 per cent of the corn grown in America.

Flint corn, which has a soft center and harder outer shell, is what most people know as popcorn. It became popular in the 1960s after Jiffy Pop, which cooked the kernels in aluminum foil on the stovetop, was introduced, and rose further in the 1970s and 1980s, shortly after the introduction of the microwave. Today, much like sweet corn, flint accounts for a steady but comparatively insignificant portion of the U.S. corn crop.

And then there’s dent corn, a.k.a. field corn, the most important kind. It accounts for the vast majority of corn grown in America today, as well as the vast majority of the corn Americans eat. It’s in most animals we eat, because it’s fed to most animals we raise for slaughter; it’s in most of the beverages we drink, because high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from flint corn, is the most commonly used commercial sweetener; it’s even in our cheese, because our cows munch on it instead of grazing on grass.

It’s largely invisible, in other words, but also virtually inseparable from the American diet.

“People have this kind of nostalgic understanding of corn,” said Fussell. “They think of corn on the cob and popcorn. But the truth is that field corn is what we are really talking about when we talk about the dominance of corn in the United States.”

“It’s in almost every product in the supermarket today,” she said. “That’s no exaggeration.”

In many ways, Europe still scoffs at the grain that defines the American food system. The world is a wheat culture, Fussell said. But the truth is that corn’s ubiquity in the United States has, in turn, boosted its popularity elsewhere. American-style processed food, which almost always relies on corn, touches countries all around the globe.

★★★ Corn is what Fussell calls a genetic monster, because it’s highly adaptable and easily manipulated.

And there is, perhaps, no better example of its mutant-like qualities than what happened shortly after the turn of the 20th century.

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists discovered a way to boost corn production to a level that was previously unthinkable. They bred hybrid strains that had larger ears and could be grown closer together, which allowed farmers to produce a lot more corn without more land. The discovery, coupled with the introduction of new industrial fertilizers and moreefficient farm tools, such as tractors, led to a thunderous rise in output.

In the following decades, “the number of bushels of corn per acre doubled, and then continued to rise each year,” as Paul Roberts wrote in his 2009 book The End of Food. Corn yields have risen ever since, with only brief interruptions due to sporadic droughts, interruptions that farmers are countering with further engineered corn.

Advancements in farming technology and science paved the way for corn’s ascent in the American food system, but what has allowed for corn to seep into just about every food Americans eat today is that, above all, it is inexpensive.

“Corn has and always will be cheap, because it grows everywhere in the world,” said Fussell.

At present, a bushel of corn costs about $4 — less than half the price of soybeans, and a good deal less than wheat. And the price is falling.

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★★★ The most incredible thing about the corn grown in America today is how little of it we actually eat.

Less than 10 per cent of the corn used in the United States is directly ingested by humans. The bulk is either turned into ethanol, for use as fuel, or fed to the hundreds of millions of animals we raise. Cows, chickens, pigs and even fish, which are fed pellets made largely of corn, eat several times the amount of the grain people consume each year.

The relative cheapness of corn and its usefulness as a form of energy — both for living animals and for living, more generally — have proved important enough that the government subsidizes its production to the tune of some $4.5 billion each year. The

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MEDELLIN, Colombia — The last contact Margarita Restrepo had with her daughter was a hurried phone call on Oct. 25, 2002. The school day was over and 17-year-old Carol Vanesa was going to meet friends at a metro stop near the sprawling Comuna 13 hillside slum. Restrepo and her children had fled the violent Medellin neighbourhood a few days earlier, right before it was taken over by thousands of Colombian soldiers trying to ferret out leftist rebels. She begged the girl not to risk returning there, but the teen went anyway. Neither she nor her two friends have been seen again and, to this day, nobody knows who is responsible for their disappearance.

Thirteen years later, Restrepo and dozens of others who have missing loved ones are closer than ever to closure thanks to a project to remove 31,000 cubic yards (24,000 cubic meters) of rubble from La Escombrera, a debris landfill on Medellin’s outskirts where the remains of as many as 300 people are believed to have been dumped during one of the darkest chapters of Colombia’s long-running civil conflict.

At a ceremony Monday to remember the missing and kick off the search effort, officials joined more than 100 women who dressed in white and carried black, plastic silhouettes to represent their loved ones. After years of silence on the part of the government and much of society, supporters of the families welcomed the start of the work.

“This is the site of one of the most atrocious episodes that weigh down our history and is a stain on our national identity before the entire world,” Javier Giraldo, a Roman Catholic priest and human rights activist, said following a Mass to honour the victims.

Human rights activists say La Escombrera could prove to be the largest mass grave ever found in Colombia and the dig represents a glimmer of hope that justice will be realized. But the search will be complicated. Despite more than a decade-long clamour by victims’ families that the landfill be closed and excavated, giant trucks have continued to dump construction waste daily.

“If that light doesn’t shine for me, I hope it does for one of my companions,” Restrepo said while

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Mother-in-law using guilt to get her way Dear Annie: My daughter is getting married in two weeks. My 80-year-old mother-in-law is unable to attend, but she called us with a request.

Her daughter, “Donna,” the bride’s aunt, will be flying across the country with her two young children to attend the wedding. She asked whether Donna’s two children could MITCHELL have a role in & SUGAR the celebration because she thinks Donna assumed they would be asked to participate after going to the expense of buying three tickets to attend.

We do not feel this is an appropriate request and it puts us in an awkward position. My mother-in-law is trying to

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make us feel bad for saying no to something that was never a consideration.

Donna has a history of being manipulative.

No other children were invited and we do not want other parents to feel bad that their children were not included at all.

If we say no now, my mother-in-law will push even harder, adding more stress to an already stressful event. Can we simply say we are “taking under advisement” and let it go? —Stressed in Shrewsbury Dear Shrewsbury: Yes, that is one way of dealing with a presumptuous request. You also can bite the bullet and say firmly, but politely, “No, but we appreciate that Donna is coming and bringing the children.” What someone spends to attend the wedding is up to them. It should not be used as blackmail to get a starring part in the production.

Still, you might consider finding a small role for the children, possibly handing out programs, asking guests to sign a welcome book or directing them

to their seats if the kids are old enough to handle the responsibility.

It’s a minor effort that will make the children feel important and assuage your in-laws.

And please don’t worry about not having invited other children.

The bride’s first cousins are in a separate category.

But you should not be held hostage by someone else’s inappropriate demands on your daughter’s big day.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Artist’s Wife,” whose husband was asked to do a portrait for a family member who has yet to pay him. She has at least one real boar for a relative.

My niece is an artist. I like her work, family or not.

When I saw something on her website I really wanted to own, I approached her about it.

She offered to sell it to me at a discount. I refused her kindness and bought two pieces from her at the same price she was asking for her other work.

One family member did not take ad-

vantage of another on either side of this transaction.

If I couldn’t afford my niece’s prices, I wouldn’t have asked her to sell me anything.

When all was said and done, she was so grateful for the decent treatment that she created a third piece of art for me as a gift. It was her choice, and I appreciated it tremendously. —Grateful Family Member Dear Grateful: Thank you for demonstrating how relatives should behave toward one another.

Taking advantage of someone because you are related not only is unfair and unkind, but it poisons the well for future family encounters.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook. com/AskAnnies.

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BRIEF Scientists show people can detect distinct fat taste WASHINGTON — Move over sweet and salty: Researchers say we have a distinct and basic taste for fat, too.

But it’s nowhere near as delicious as it sounds. They propose expanding our taste palate to include fat along with sweet, salty, bitter, sour and relative newcomer umami. A research team at Purdue University tested lookalike mixtures with different tastes.

More than half of the 28 special tasters could distinguish fatty acids from the other tastes, according to a study published in the journal Chemical Senses.

Past research showed fat had a distinct feel in the mouth, but scientists removed texture and smell clues and people could still tell the difference.

“The fatty acid part of taste is very unpleasant,” said study author Richard Mattes, a Purdue nutrition science professor. “I haven’t met anybody who likes it alone. You usually get a gag reflex.”

Stinky cheese has high levels of the fat taste and so does food that goes rancid, Mattes said. Yet we like it because it mixes well and brings out the best of other flavours, just like the bitter in coffee or chocolate, he added. To qualify as a basic taste, a flavour has to have unique chemical signature, have specific receptors in our bodies for the taste, and people have to distinguish it from other tastes. Scientists had found the chemical signature and two specific receptors for fat, but showing that people could distinguish it was the sticky point.

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HOROSCOPES Tuesday, July 28 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Elizabeth Berkley, 42; Sally Struthers, 67; Jim Davis, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s positive stars favour innovative ideas and spontaneous action.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: You are incredibly resourceJOANNE ful.

MADELEINE But don’t be MOORE impatient and blame other people for delays — the only person stopping you from achieving success ATM is you.

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But if you’re too impatient you could end up butting heads with those around you. Aim to inspire others with your innovative ideas.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The day will work best if you are a flexible Bull and keep an open mind, because things will not run according to preconceived plans. So keep your adaptability muscles well-flexed!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You can light up a room with your quicksilver energy and gregarious Gemini nature.

Today is the perfect time to channel your abundant enthusiasm into exciting joint ventures.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Crabs are kind and compassionate, but you can also be brooding and bossy - especially at home.

Today you need to share the jobs around, as you combine ideas for the collective good.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Sun, Mercury and Jupiter are jumping through Leo, which adds to your already pumped-up energy like a dose of cosmic steroids!

Sport, hobbies and creative projects are favoured today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Less thought and more action are required Virgo.

It’s great to weigh up the pros and cons in your mind, but there comes a time when you need to act. Today is one of those days!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s stars suit social media plus networking with friends, relatives and colleagues and like-minded folk within your local community.

You have many talents to offer and much to contribute.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You usually hide your true feelings, for fear of revealing too much about yourself.

Today suits being frank and straightforward, as you tell it like it is especially involving money or work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today’s stars favour being spontaneous,

which suits your Sagittarian style. So do something dramatically different — the more you shake up your daily routine, the better you’ll feel.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorns are usually so discreet but someone may tempt you to share information that should be kept private. Resist the urge to pass on secrets and gratuitous gossip with a smile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in the mood to connect with others, as the Moon activates your networking zone.

You’re keen to communicate with a wide range of creative people, covering an eclectic range of topics.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Aim to get the balance right between personal commitments and professional responsibilities.

Making a snap decision about work or money could turn out surprisingly well.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Why we love corn, but Europeans don’t

BY ROBERTO FERDMAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with a handful of revelations and a pocket full of corn seeds. He had learned about many things during his travels to the New World, but few were as exciting as the promising grain he had encountered for the first time. It was unfamiliar; it was delicious; it was, as Columbus romanticized at the time, “affixed by nature in a wondrous manner and in form and size like garden peas,” and it could, if they learned to farm it properly, help feed a lot of people.

The only problem was that Columbus had left behind a fairly important bit of information.

“He didn’t take back the knowledge of how to process it,” said Betty Fussell, the author of The Story of Corn, which chronicles the grain’s several-thousand-year history. “That might sound innocuous, but it probably changed the course of history.”

Over the next few hundred years, most of Europe grew to misunderstand corn rather than embrace it. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the grain endured a different fate: It thrived, and eventually found its way to the very center of the American diet.

Today, the United States is the largest producer and consumer of corn — and by a long shot. Corn is in the sodas Americans drink and the potato chips they snack on; it’s in hamburgers and french fries, sauces and salad dressings, baked goods, breakfast cereals, virtually all poultry, and even most fish. The grain is so ubiquitous that it would take longer to list the foods that contain traces of it than to pinpoint the ones that don’t. “Our entire diet has been colonized by this one plant,” Michael Pollan told National Public Radio in 2003.

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Holding your ears to the fire CORN ON THE BARBECUE, PUT TO THE TEST

BY JIM SHAHIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Internet videos and cookbook recipes make grilling corn seem as easy as basic arithmetic. Cob on the fire + cob off the fire = classic summer bite. But the ear of corn I was holding might as well have been a calculus problem.

Why? Because after studying those videos and recipes, I was more confused than ever.

Each method is different, but all promise the same outcome: perfection.

To determine once and for all the best way to cook corn, I challenged myself to cut through the elephant’s-eyehigh thicket of information and get down to the basics.

That’s where things really got complicated, and where the calculus comes in.

Throughout an entire month, I tested more than 30 ears of corn in every conceivable way: husks on. Husks off.

Wrapped in aluminum foil.

Placed directly in the embers.

On the cold side of an indirect fire. And on and on.

I learned several lessons along the way, many applicable solely to the method being tested. Two of the lessons, though, could be applied to all.

One: soaking corn in water before putting it over a fire is never a bad idea. The kernels of water-submerged ears invariably came out plumper and juicier than those that went straight to the fire.

Two: perfection might be in the palate of the beholder.

Each method accentuates different aspect of flavour and texture. So depending on what kind of corn lover you consider yourself — a smoke freak, char head or kernel worshiper — there is a method for you.

Initially, I tried each method five ways: soaking the corn, not soaking, flavoring with butter, flavoring with olive oil and not flavoring at all. The flavourings, frankly, seemed only to complicate things. Whether charred, smoked or steamed, each ear took on too much of the flavor of the fat to truly spotlight the taste and texture of the corn.

So I dropped them entirely and could finally concentrate. ★★★

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Grilled Corn Four Ways. Oak and apple woods work especially well because they are mild, but other hardwoods, such as pecan and cherry, are fine.

Every chomp into the glorious seasonal vegetable became a rumination on tiny differences. This one was juicy but a little starchy, that one benefited from a caramelized char but was a tad dry. Which was the perfect ear of corn?

When wrapped in aluminum foil, I found, a soaked ear of grilled corn tasted practically irrigated. Its kernels squirted. The downside was that the grill flavour was more a whisper than a shout. Still, it was detectable. Another downside was that after a few bites the corn tasted slightly starchy, not as sugar-sweet as some of the other versions. That was

probably due to a lack of caramelizing, which occurs when the corn is singed by fire. Yet what more or less amounted to a form of steaming produced a fabulous, straight-ahead corn flavor that a little butter or olive oil slathered on — afterward — only enhanced. Kernel worshipers will love this version because it plumps the kernels to practically bursting, awarding deep pleasure to rows of munching.

Grilling corn naked over a fire — no husk, no foil — looks simple on the videos. But I found I had to watch carefully, because the kernels can blacken quickly and unevenly.

Once you get the hang of turning it roughly every two minutes, the corn tans deeply and somewhat more evenly. (Some deviation, as a mathematician might say, is a welcome thing.)

Perhaps predictably, the corn that went on dry came off dry, while the soaked ear was moister. Its char added depth to that picnic mainstay, corn and bean salad, whose limeaccented sprightliness was subtly set off by deeply caramelized and even blackened kernels. With its wonderful grill flavour, this corn is for the char heads.

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Grilled Creamed Corn MAKES: 4 to 6 servings PREPARATION: You can grill the corn a day or two in advance. The creamed corn can be refrigerated for up to 5 days.

INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3/4 cup chopped sweet onion 3/4 cup seeded, chopped green bell pepper 3/4 cup seeded, diced red bell pepper 3 or 4 ears “naked” grilled corn (see accompanying recipe) 2 tablespoons flour 1 1/2 cups light cream 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt A few grindings of black pepper

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ABOVE: Grilled Creamed Corn. The corn is grilled first, which adds complexity to the flavour.

RIGHT: To determine once and for all the best way to cook corn, the author got down to the basics. Corn and fire, put to the test. Here, Smoked Corn and Black Bean Salad.

STEPS Melt the butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Stir in the onion and bell peppers; cook for 5 to 7 minutes or just until softened, stirring a few times.

Scrape enough kernels from the ears to yield 3 cups. Transfer to a large bowl; discard the cobs or reserve them for making Corn Broth. Add the corn kernels to the pan, stirring to incorporate.

Whisk together the flour and light cream in a liquid measuring cup, then gradually pour the mixture into the pan, stirring to mix well. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally; adjust the heat as needed so the mixture does not scorch. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve warm.

Smoked Corn and Black Bean Salad MAKES: 6 to 8 servings (makes a generous 6 cups) PREPARATIONS: The salad needs to rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour, and preferably 1 day, to allow the flavors to mingle. It can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.

INGREDIENTS 3 or 4 ears smoked corn (see accompanying recipe) 1/3 cup diced sweet onion 1/2 cup seeded, diced green bell pepper 1/2 cup seeded, diced red bell pepper 1 teaspoon minced, seeded and stemmed serrano pepper 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic 16 ounces cooked or canned, no-salt-added black beans (if using

canned, drain, rinse and dry on paper towels) 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped cilantro leaves 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or more as needed 3 or 4 grindings of black pepper, or more as needed STEPS Scrape enough kernels from the ears to yield 3 cups. Transfer to a large bowl; discard the cobs or reserve for making Corn Broth (see recipe at washingtonpost.com/recipes). Add the onion, bell and serrano peppers, garlic, black beans, cilantro, oil, lime juice, salt and pepper (to taste); toss gently to incorporate.

Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (and up to 5 days). Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed; serve chilled or at room temperature.