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‘I didn’t think it would happen in Rimbey’ BERT PLUIGERS FEARS FOR FUTURE OF BUSINESS AFTER THEFT The headlines are so often taken up by the criminals and their bad deeds. But what about their victims? Who are they? So often we never know. Lambertus Pluigers is a regular hard-working guy in Rimbey trying to make a living doing odd jobs and running his firewood business. He could be any citizen in any small town in Alberta, trying to get by like anyone else who is self-employed when times are not the best and jobs are not as abundant, thanks to the continuing decline in the price of crude oil. Bert, as he is known by MARY-ANN folks in town, is the father of BARR seven children and grandfather to 13. He is married to Pauline, who works in a local flower shop. They have a

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14-year-old son who lives at home. Pluigers arrived in Rimbey from Truro, N.S., 15 years ago. “I always wanted to go to Alberta.” Sadly, his business, Bert’s Firewood, which helps him make ends meet, is on hold now because someone stole his 2005 four-by-four long box Ford F250 on Aug. 6. When they were done with it, they set it on fire, completely destroying the truck and the chainsaw and winter clothes in it that he also used for his business. Two men who aren’t from Rimbey now face more than 40 charges related to this and several other crimes in other Alberta communities. Whatever happens, Pluigers, 56, will never see a nickle for the truck by way of compensation. He could only afford basic insurance on it so was not covered for either fire or theft. And he certainly can’t just go buy another truck. “I didn’t think it would happen in Rimbey,” he said.

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Bert Pluigers, owner of Bert’s Firewood, is worried about the future of his business after his truck was stolen and set on fire. The truck was not covered for either fire or theft.

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Lab contract cancelled BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister is putting the brakes on the handover of Edmonton and area medical lab services to a private Australian company next March. Sarah Hoffman says she has told Alberta Health Services to cancel a contract with Sonic Healthcare. Hoffman says she doesn’t have enough evidence to prove that expanding private delivery of lab tests is beneficial to Albertans, so her department will do a provincewide review. She says there’s no deadline for when the review will be completed, but she’d like it done as soon as possible. Alberta Health Services awarded Sonic a $3-billion contract last October, but current lab provider DynaLife filed an appeal. Friends of Medicare and the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, which represents lab technicians, say they are pleased with the government’s decision. “This is really being driven by policy,” Hoffman said Thursday. “And the policy that I have is that I’m not going to be making one-off decisions on a hunch. “I want evidence to be able to guide those decisions and I don’t have that evidence today.” The NDP government has also cancelled a request for proposals from companies looking to take over the DynaLife contract next spring. Vickie Kaminski, CEO of Alberta Health Services, said work will begin immediately on a plan to ensure laboratory services will continue after the contract expires.

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Malia Mitchelmore, her brother, Maddyx, and their father, Jamie, dropped into the Dairy Queen in north Red Deer on Thursday to have lunch and get themselves a Blizzard treat. During the 13th Annual Miracle Treat Day, all proceeds from the sale of Blizard treats will go to the Children’s Miracle Network to benefit the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton and the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. In 2014, the three Dairy Queen locations in Red Deer combined in raising $121,000, which put them at the top of funds raised in Canada for the third year running.

Teenager held in custody for five armed robberies BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A teenage boy is headed to closed custody for a string of armed robberies in Blackfalds that caused “harm and fear.” Judge James Glass sentenced the 17-year-old to 18 months in custody, followed by 12 months of probation, on Thursday in Red Deer youth court. The boy, who can’t be named because of provisions in the Canada Youth Justice Act, pleaded guilty to five robberies in Central Alberta between October 2014 and February 2015, as well as three charges of disguising his face with the intent to commit an indictable offence and two counts of using an imitation firearm. Crown prosecutor Brittany Ashmore said the of-

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fences were very serious and if the boy was an adult, he would be facing a jail term of six years. Ashmore sought two years less a day in custody, followed by probation, as well as a 10-year firearms prohibition and an order compelling the boy to supply a sample of his DNA. The teen robbed the Fas Gas, Pony Express Liquor Store, Pizza King and IDA Pharmacy, all in Blackfalds. An underlying addictions issue is believed to have driven the youth to commit the offences. According to the reports developed before sentencing, the youth had issues with marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine. Defence counsel Walter Kubanek reminded the court that the sentencing aims of the Canada Youth Justice Act include sanctions that give youth the opportunity for rehabilitation.

To this aim, Kubanek sought a six-to-12-month period of open custody with a direction that some of it be served at an addictions treatment centre to aid in the youth’s rehabilitation. Kubanek pointed to the pre-sentence report that indicated a closed custody sentence is very limited in its ability to provide a youth with drug addictions treatment. The teen has been in closed custody for four months since he turned himself in to police. Glass sentenced the youth to 18 months in custody and 12 months of open custody, followed by six months of community supervision. Glass included a recommendation that the youth serve some of this time in a treatment centre. Glass also approved the firearms prohibition and DNA orders sought by the Crown. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Top Tories in the Duffy loop Members of Stephen Harper’s campaign team were told in 2013 that Sen. Mike Duffy didn’t pay back his own expenses. Story on PAGE A5

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April Osmond and Shaylyn Weisenburger flip some burgers outside the offices of Lo Cost Propane in Red Deer on Thursday. The two office administrators at Lo Cost, along with other members of the business, hosted a barbecue in support of the Canadian Cancer Society. They’ll be flipping burgers again today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Survey seeks input on town’s ability to address social needs BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Fast-growing Sylvan Lake wants to hear what residents see as priorities for ensuring a good quality of life. An online survey asks residents what trends should be taken into account — such as population growth, public transit, mental health, affordable housing and others — in developing the plan. Respondents are asked to highlight the community’s greatest strengths and weaknesses in addressing local social needs.

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PLUIGERS: Fundraising campaign launched Pluigers started the firewood business five years ago and built up a customer base of about 60 people. He’s worried that during the time it takes him to save up and get another truck big enough for the job, he will have lost many of those customers to others who also sell and deliver firewood. He continues to work odd jobs, such as feeding buffalo when needed for a nearby farmer. He’s busier at that in the winter, of course, than in the summer when the animals are grazing. “It’s less income that’s for sure,” he said on Thursday about the loss of his truck, and he will need to find other things to do to replace that lost income. Pluigers said he thinks it will take about a year to save up enough money to get another truck. He’s taking it “as well as you would want to take it I guess. It ticked me off at first, but oh well. “I just have to do something different until I get another truck.” But he admits it’s tough to find odd jobs right now. He said he will do whatever it takes to get by. “I’m never scared to do anything.”

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Other questions try to get a handle on the quality of life residents perceive and whether they have a voice in the community. Residents are asked to put in priority ways of addressing affordable living, mental and physical health, transportation, parenting, bullying and others. A short list of the top three priorities for the plan is also on the table, as is what social groups should be given priority in future plans.

Please see SURVEY on Page A3 A Rimbey businessman, Craig Oliver, has started an online fundraising campaign to help Pluigers get a new truck and chainsaw. Oliver, who operates a web development company, said he learned of what happened to Pluigers’ truck after he called him to order firewood a couple of days after the truck was stolen. He has started up a crowdfunding page at GoFundMe.com in the hopes of raising $20,000 so Pluigers can get his firewood business going again. Oliver has also set up a trust account in the name of Lambertus Pluigers at ATB Financial in Rimbey. Donations will be accepted at any branch. Oliver said that at one time in his life he was helped by others and he wanted to do something to “pay it forward.” “It’s pretty nice of him,” Pluigers said. You can find the GoFundMe page on line at gofundme.com/bertsfirewood barr@reddeeradvocate.com

CONTRACT: ‘No disruption of lab services’ “I want to assure the people of Edmonton and northern Alberta that there will be no disruption of lab services with the cancellation of the (request for proposals),” she said in a news release.

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Lacombe County council has approved a plan to turn a generous land donation into a natural area laced with trails. Earlier this year, Frank and Rose Kuhnen donated 146 acres of land just north of Blackfalds near Lacombe Lake to the county. It came with the condition that the picturesque quarter section be kept as a natural area for the enjoyment of visitors. On Thursday, county council got a look at the plans to turn the heavily treed area with beautiful views of the lake into a green oasis for walkers. This year’s schedule will see a gravel parking lot built on the southeast corner of the site near an existing campground and close to the TransCanada Trail. Signs will be placed to mark out the trails and some old fencing and a small pig barn will be removed and other general cleanup done. Next year, some of the animal trails that crisscross the site will be cleared for human walkers and a small picnic area will be set up with tables and garbage cans in the southwest corner of the site. In 2017, a more elaborate day use area and a connecting trail is planned to the north. The existing Tipi Village Campground will continue to operate on 24 acres of land leased back for that purpose. Councillors were enthusiastic about the trail plan, which doesn’t involve paving paths or creating more formal attractions, but aims to retain the natural character of the property. “I think it’s great,” said Coun. Ken Wigmore, he told staff. “I think your plan is good. Stay at it.” In the future, the park will be seen as a “jewel” in the county, he predicted. Coun. Dana Kreil was also pleased to see the vision for the area. “I think it’s fabulous,” she said, adding she expects its proximity to the TransCanada Trail will make it a popular destination. Some concern was voiced by Coun. Brenda Knight, who questioned whether county staff would be stretched too thin trying to undertake all of the park work along with regular road and maintenance jobs. “I don’t want to just keep adding projects and taking away from other things,” she said. County operations manager Phil Lodermeier said the park work was designed to fit in with existing schedules and won’t mean dropping other jobs. The park is just north of Blackfalds west of Hwy 2A. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com The health-delivery agency also released a report by a panel established last fall to review the DynaLife appeal. The appeal panel found that AHS breached its duty of fairness in considering proposals for a lab provider. It made three recommendations on how to best move forward. The appeal panel’s findings are moot given that Hoffman has put a stop to the search. At the time of the Sonic announcement last fall, Kaminski said the company offered the best lab services value for the money. Sonic was planning to build a large new lab in Edmonton and was predicting its contract would generate at least $200 million a year in revenue. But health-care advocates were worried that the Sonic deal struck under the former Progressive Conservative government would move the province a step closer to private health care. The Opposition Wildrose said the NDP government’s decision is driven by ideology and not by what’s best for patients. “We’ve been hearing there were challenges with the contract, and the review process needed to be fixed, but rejecting this proposal and future proposals based purely on ideology serves only to hurt patients in the long-run,” said Wildrose health critic Drew Barnes. “The rejection of successful private health delivery within a publicly funded and administered system that leads to lower costs and stronger outcomes is bad news for our health-care system.”

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SURVEY: Last assessment done in ’12 The last social needs assessment was done in 2012. Since then, the town has grown at about five per cent per year. The town’s latest census counted 14,310 residents, up just under 10 per cent and 1,295 from the last count in 2013. Sylvan also remains a young community with 54 per cent of residents under 35 and 26 per cent under 16, percentages almost identical to the last count. The survey can be found at www.sylvanlake.ca/public-notices and will be open until Aug. 25. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hard questions remain WRIGHT OPENS DOOR A CRACK ON PMO SCHEMING For the first time since he drew up the infamous bank draft 29 months ago, Nigel Wright sat calmly in the witness box and precisely explained why he decided to transfer $90,000 to Mike Duffy. He explained the “good to go” email after a meeting with Stephen Harper and he walked a courtroom through the increasingly frustrating and heated negotiations with the moving target known as TIM Duffy, the tenHARPER tacles of this damage control effort stretching through Harper’s office. Wright was poised, never flustered, under benign questioning, but still so much of this makes no sense. Because Wright was swiftly put through his paces by a friendly Crown there were too many answers left hanging without follow up and even more questions left unasked. Emails released on Wednesday that buttress some earlier missives released by the RCMP show the extraordinary lengths Harper’s office went

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to to craft a narrative for Duffy, put him in a “different bucket,” remove him from an audit, burnish his Prince Edward Island bona fides and do whatever was needed to make this problem go away. They agreed to put some “downhome Mike Duffy” in an agreed-upon statement and dealt with Duffy demands that his case never be referred to the RCMP, that government leader Marjory LeBreton urge caucus to vote against any move to remove him from the Senate — all against constant carping that he didn’t have the money to repay his dubious expenses. Harper knew nothing more than the broad strokes, we are told, because his office wouldn’t let him get down in the weeds, a proposition as perplexing today as it was in 2013. Wright never told Harper that he was paying Duffy’s $90,000 in inappropriate expenses, backing Harper’s long-held narrative. Why didn’t he tell him? We don’t know. Wright was never asked. He described marching down to Harper’s office in the Langevin Block to get prime ministerial approval on media lines for a matter “of some controversy,” which were actually lines that misrepresented Duffy’s spending problem. Wright knew he was putting pressure on a caucus member to repay money he thought he might not actual-

ly owe, was worried about a precedent because other senators were facing similar questions and wanted to alert the PM to potential “caucus management” issues at play. But there was no mention of the means of payment. He never told Harper there was a plan afoot to repay Duffy $32,000 (as the tab was then thought to be) from the Conservative fund — money raised from donors — or that Duffy’s legal fees would be paid by the fund. These were just not typically the matters he would trouble Harper over, Wright said, even though Harper was already immersed in the Duffy problem and had publicly debated him (along with Wright, who intervened) after a Conservative caucus about nine days earlier. And then there was the $90,000 transfer itself. Wright says he now regrets it, says it was a hasty decision but a private one. If it became public, he thought he would be embarrassed and admits he didn’t think through all the connotations of the decision. For a man who was such a titan on Bay Street, perhaps it is second nature to try to spend yourself out of trouble — to put a price tag on ending a problem — but it’s hard to believe he would advise executives at troubled companies to dip into their own wallets to repay possibly fraudulent expenses. As he testified, $90,000 wasn’t going

to put a dent in his net worth. But the altruism card was overplayed. “I viewed it as helping out our system and government,” Wright said, who said he had to keep such a good deed quiet. Besides, he had a deal with Duffy and it had to be fulfilled, “and I couldn’t think of another way to do it.” But the deal was cut when it was thought Duffy owed $32,000. A “beyond furious” Wright continued to honour a deal even when the tab topped $90,000. Clearly, Duffy had them cowed. They were worried about him going “squirrelly” on the weekend political shows. There are 94 employees in the PMO and a good portion of them were spending increasing amounts of time dealing with the Duffy problem and none of them — even the cerebral wunderkind Wright — knew how to fix this, short of cutting him a personal cheque and telling him to shut up. On day one, Wright, as expected, protected Harper. Tougher days of cross-examination loom but nothing burst onto the campaign trail Wednesday. But voters should probably wonder about a bloated office purportedly running the country that was consumed with secret machinations to protect the reputation of a man abusing taxpayer money. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

LETTER TO EDITOR

Gas pump price creeping up, oil heads the other direction A year ago when crude oil prices were above $100 per barrel, gasoline prices here in Red Deer were $1.19 per litre. Today, a number of gas bars of one particular company posted their price of $1.17 per litre. This in spite of the fact that crude oil is trading at US$43 and Western Canadian Select crude oil at Hardisty fell to $27.47 last Thursday, the lowest since April 2006. Meanwhile, the clueless and directionless Alberta government has no provincial budget so as to probably not upstage their federal counterparts prior to the federal election now on. Or do they really mean to say: “Meet your new boss, same as the old boss.” Ted Johnson Red Deer

You want votes? Get off the script An election campaign is a contest, not for the party faithful, but for the undecided voters who could tilt toward any of the major choices under the right circumstances. But just as the outdated consumer loyalty to a certain automotive has gone out the window, so too has party loyalty. Votes are no longer passed from father to son the way they once were. The size of the swing vote can vary — the less the voters connect with the parties and their platforms, the more likely they are to sit on the fence, awaiting something that DOUG will win them over. That is the FIRBY case for one in 10 of the completely undecided voters so far, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for Global News and released this week. Although it is much too soon to draw conclusions in this exceptionally long campaign, it is a troubling sign for all three of the major parties. In spite of a lively leaders’ debate last week, no leader has been able to set a fire in the bellies of the supporters they need to win if they hope to form government. Think

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of it as a failure to launch. It is also a good reason why no government will ever put “None of the above” as a ballot option. Too many voters would feel compelled to tick that box. The voter ambivalence has to be particularly troubling, however, for the incumbent Conservatives. Not being in a clear lead in the early going effectively puts the party behind the challengers, because it means some of the voters who gave them a mandate last time around aren’t so sure they’ll do the same again. The Ipsos poll confirms that: It found that only four in 10 decided voters are ‘absolutely certain’ of their vote choice. Of those, roughly one-quarter name the Liberals as their second choice and roughly the same number the NDP. Less than one voter in 10 says the Tories would be their second choice. That ambivalence was apparent when I reached out to friends this week in social media. My friends range from true blue conservatives to those firmly on left. Regardless of stripe, their comments reflected what the polling tells us. “I’m a card-carrying PC member, and have been completely turned off by the rhetoric from the PCs of late,” wrote one. “All scare tactics. All fear-mongering. I feel like the party has lost touch with what it actually means to be a conservative.” “Quite honestly it’s a saw-off between voting with

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my heart and voting with my head, between my conscience and my pocketbook,” wrote another. “But I can say, I won’t vote Liberal.” “I am hovering in the none-of-the-above category for now,” wrote another. This makes for an exciting ground war. The promises made; the scandals exposed; the fumbles and foibles of each of the parties will be dissected in and out, the way a psychic reads the tea leaves. After Labour Day, that is, when voters start watching the campaign in earnest. Which brings a key point to mind. It feels like the party that ultimately wins this election will be the one that finds a way to connect with Canadians in an authentic way. That will require the leaders to get off the contrived and heavily scripted messages, to listen carefully to what they hear on the hustings and to actually answer the questions that are put to them, rather than reciting a carefully rehearsed script. Part of the sea change in Canada’s political landscape is the growing rebellion against the obvious and cynical manipulation of facts. The Conservatives have been attacked for this, but neither of the two major challengers are innocent either. If we can truly get to honest conversations, then there might be hope yet for democracy in this country. Doug Firby is editor-in-chief of Troy Media and national affairs columnist (troymedia.com).

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Top Tories in the loop KEY PLAYERS IN CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN WERE IN ON DUFFY PLAN IN 2013 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Top members of Stephen Harper’s campaign team, including the most senior staffer in the Prime Minister’s Office, were among those told in 2013 that Sen. Mike Duffy didn’t pay back his own contested expenses. But the circle of key advisers kept their lips sealed, even as cabinet ministers told the House of Commons that Duffy had “shown leadership,” or that chief of staff Nigel Wright “was the only one involved.” Ray Novak, Harper’s current chief of staff, had been told in a direct email that his predecessor, Wright, was preparing to repay $90,000 in Duffy’s Senate claims. Among all of Harper’s aides, Novak is the longest serving and closest to him personally. A day earlier, he had participated in part of a conference call involving Duffy’s lawyer Janice Payne, the prime minister’s lawyer Benjamin Perrin and Wright. “I think her approach works,” Wright wrote only to Novak and Perrin on March 23, 2013. “I will send my cheque on Monday.” The email was filed as evidence in court Thursday during Wright’s second day of testimony at Duffy’s trial. The former Conservative senator has pleaded not guilty to 31 counts of breach of trust, fraud and bribery. Novak’s name appears as the recipient, the sender or a person copied on more than 100 emails about Duffy exchanged in February-April 2013. Novak, who is travelling with Harper, refused to speak to reporters. Campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke said Novak never read the mail from Wright, and wasn’t aware he was paying Duffy’s bill until it emerged in the media. Duffy’s current lawyer Donald Bayne launched into a methodical examination of Wright’s statements to police, as well as emails that he exchanged with Duffy and others in Harper’s office and the Senate. There were some prickly exchanges between Bayne and Wright as each betrayed moments of frustration or irritation. Bayne is trying to emphasize that it was Wright and his team — not Duffy — who devised the plan to have the senator say publicly that he had mistakenly claimed living expenses for his Ottawa-area home.

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Former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy leaves the courthouse in Ottawa, following the second day of testimony by Nigel Wright, former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on Thursday. Duffy is facing 31 charges, including fraud, breach of trust and bribery related to inappropriate Senate expense claims. He honed in on language that Wright had previously used, such as “pressuring,” “forcing,” or “browbeat,” to make the case that Duffy was not the instigator of any bribery or any fraud on the government. “I was persistent and eventually he agreed,” Wright said of getting Duffy to tell the public he had repaid his expenses. “What you call agreement, I would suggest, sir, is capitulation. It’s not agreement when you have to force someone to do something,” Bayne retorted. The emails introduced by Bayne also contain more indications of just how wide a circle of key aides were in the loop about the plan to have someone else repay Duffy’s expenses, in exchange for him telling the public he had done it. PMO lawyer Benjamin Perrin was one of the figures most actively involved in striking an agreement with Duffy and his then-lawyer Janice Payne that would see him publicly say he had repaid his expenses.

Wright in the witness box drowns out quiet day on campaign trail BY THE CANADIAN PRESS If Stephen Harper was holding out even the slimmest hope that the federal election campaign might overshadow the ugly revelations of the Mike Duffy trial, it surely vanished on Thursday. As Harper gave repeat answers to fresh questions about the witness-stand revelations of his former chief of staff, Justin Trudeau made his first promise of the Liberal campaign: a cash infusion for First Nations education. And with his ethics point man Charlie Angus securely esconced at the courthouse in Ottawa where Nigel Wright’s cross-examination was unfolding, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair stayed entirely out of the fray. Trudeau, campaigning in Saskatchewan, promised a Liberal government would spend $515 million a year more in core annual funding for First Nations education, rising to over $750 million a year by the end of the mandate. There would also be $500 million over three years for aboriginal education infrastructure and an extra $50 million for a fund to help indigenous students with post-secondary studies. “First Nation students are falling behind in reading, writing, and numeracy, and less than half of all First Nations students on reserves graduate from high school,” Trudeau told supporters. “Canadians know that that’s just not right.” Trudeau’s announcement provided only a brief respite from the intrigue unfolding in the national capital, where Wright generated new revelations — and ever more questions — about the ill-fated efforts in the Prime Minister’s Office to contain the cascading Duffy expense scandal in 2013. Pressed on the matter again Thursday, Harper repeated himself: no one told him Wright had given

Duffy $90,000 to repay his expenses. And the prime minister sidestepped a pointed question about why he signed off on a plan to instruct Duffy to deceive the public in media interviews about where the money actually came from. Harper, who has been leading the way in policy announcements, took a breather on that score Thursday and instead talked up his government’s tax-free savings accounts — a savings tool his opponents would love to do away with, he warned. The NDP and the Liberals see those tax-saving opportunities as taking money away from government, Harper said. “The money doesn’t belong to the government, it belongs to you. That’s our philosophy.” Thursday was a quiet day for Mulcair, who spent the day making a fresh batch of campaign ads. He was expected to make noise Friday in Toronto, however, with what the party was billing as a “major economic announcement.” Of course, resonance on the campaign trail isn’t measured in decibels. If it was, Thursday’s winner would have been Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre. A former Liberal cabinet minister, Coderre took a jackhammer to a concrete foundation for a community mailbox at the entrance to a Montreal nature park as he tried to put the end of home mail delivery on the campaign agenda. “I want to know exactly what (the federal leaders) are going to do with Canada Post,” Coderre said. Green party Leader Elizabeth May, meanwhile, is expected to introduce a proposal Friday to help military veterans.

Current party lawyer Arthur Hamilton also dealt with Payne. “ 1/8Perrin 3/8 could not tell me about funds and agreed I should ask you about the status of funds,” Payne wrote to Hamilton on March 21, 2015, four days before Wright drafted his cheque. The party had also paid for Payne’s legal fees. Stephen Lecce, a member of Harper’s campaign war room and the deputy communications director at PMO, helped put together the media lines around Duffy’s supposed repayment. Lecce had been copied on scenarios that outlined the party might be prepared to pay Duffy’s expenses, which had originally been estimated at $32,000. “The party is open to keeping Sen. Duffy whole since it is clear that any overpayments were innocently received,” reads an email from Wright on Feb. 21. “I have a call into the party to confirm this as I think that the senator has a right to have it confirmed.”

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian court has overturned convictions against a Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant who were serving 10 years in jail for sexually abusing three young children at a prestigious international school in Jakarta, their lawyer said Friday. Neil Bantleman, 45, from Burlington, Ont., and Ferdinant Tjiong were convicted in April by the South Jakarta District Court of violating Indonesia’s child protection law Neil Bantleman and were also ordered to pay a fine of $7,700 or serve six additional months in jail. Bantleman’s family did not immediately comment saying they were waiting for confirmation from the courts. They maintained their innocence and were sup-

ported by fellow teachers and the principal at the Jakarta International School, now called the Jakarta Intercultural School. They filed appeals to the Jakarta High Court and Hotman Paris Hutapea, an Indonesian lawyer representing Bantleman and Tjiong, said the court overturned the indecency convictions for raping three kindergarten students, now 6 and 7 years old, at the school which is attended by children of foreign diplomats, expatriates and Indonesia’s elite. It has 2,400 students aged 3 to 18 from about 60 countries. “The truth is finally revealed and justice has been done,” Hutapea told The Associated Press on Friday. He said earlier that the rape claims were all about money. The principal and a number of other teachers have alleged the same about the case. The parents of one of the children had sued the school for alleged negligence and were seeking $125 million in compensation. But on Monday, the same district court threw out the civil case brought by the mother of one of the

Police search Vancouver pot shop with alleged ties to organized crime BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — An owner of a Vancouver marijuana store that was raided by police says allegations his shop is connected to organized crime are “absolutely false.” Robert Clarke said he was stunned after police executed a search warrant at his Limelife Society store in east Vancouver on Wednesday afternoon. “I have nothing to do with organized crime. I’ve never even had a criminal charge in my life. I come from a normal family,” he said on Thursday. “I don’t know where they’re getting their information. They never called me, they never informed me about this. They just sort of ran with it.” Clarke, 32, said he’s the sole owner of four Limelife Society stores in Vancouver. He also owns a dispensary in Nanaimo, where he watched the raid unfold on a live security camera feed. Officers seized about a pound of marijuana and arrested a 25-year-old male employee before releasing him without charges, said Clarke. He said a female staff member was recently fired from the east Vancouver store after she was caught on camera selling pot to “one or two” youths. “We have a no-tolerance rule for selling to minors,” he said. “I think it was an honest mistake. She forgot to card someone.” Clarke said he’s in the middle of shutting down the location because of an outcry from the quiet residential community. He said he doesn’t know the building’s owners well. Police also raided a suite upstairs that they said was connected to the pot shop but did not arrest any residents. Sgt. Randy Fincham said the drug unit has

watched the store for about a month following complaints it was connected to organized crime. He wouldn’t identify the gang but said it was a “fairly substantial group.” Fincham said officers quickly determined the outlet was selling to youth and people without valid medical marijuana licences. The investigation is ongoing. He said police are not investigating the Limelife Society’s three other stores in Vancouver. “We wouldn’t group (together) a particular name of a store and automatically target the other ones as well, unless we had evidence to suggest that was necessary.” Vancouver recently became the first city in Canada to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries, requiring operators to pay a $30,000 licensing fee and locate at least 300 metres away from community centres, schools, and each other. There are more than 80 dispensaries operating in the city. Fincham said the VPD remains focused on stopping violent drug traffickers and those who jeopardize the safety of young or vulnerable residents. To date, he said 11 warrants have been served on marijuana stores across Vancouver and 20 people have been arrested with 29 charges recommended. But he said police are strapped for resources when it comes to investigating pot shops. Since the spring, officers have been focused on stopping the importation and production of the dangerous opioid fentanyl. “That appears to be the one that is the greatest public health concern right now,” he said. “It’s the biggest safety risk for our kids ... So that’s the one we’re continuing to pursue.”

children against the school, saying it was had not proven that any of the alleged abuses had actually taken place since new evidence from medical reports from three different hospitals in Jakarta and Singapore showed no major injuries or abnormalities in the three children. The decision after a court in Singapore on July 16 ruled that the woman accusing Bantleman had defamed him, Tjiong and the school because the allegations of sexual abuse could not be proven, and ordered the parent to pay a total of $164,700 in damages. The case was brought in Singapore by Bantleman’s family because the initial allegations were made in Singapore through emails, texts and other digital communications. Hutapea said both decisions had an impact on the higher court’s decision to free Bantleman and Tjiong. The arrests of Bantleman and Tjiong in July last year followed reports from the parents of a 6-yearold boy who have been sodomized three months earlier. Four male janitors were sentenced to eight years in jail in that case, while a woman received seven years as an accomplice. Police said a sixth suspect killed himself in custody by drinking bathroom cleaner.

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Tim Hortons will take action after knock-off coffee spotted in South Korea TORONTO — Tim Hortons says it’s taking action to combat knock-off products like the Tim Mortons instant coffee spotted in South Korea this week. Canadian Mike Elgar posted a photo of bags of Tim Mortons Mocha Gold Coffee Mix on Instagram on Sunday. The fraudulent coffee uses a logo that is nearly identical to that of the coffee chain. Tim Hortons spokeswoman Michelle Robichaud said the company is thrilled to see that its brand is recognized all over the world, but added that the company will be vigilant in protecting its intellectual property. Robichaud said the company will take the steps necessary to protect its trademark but did not specify what those might be. Tim Hortons has no outlets in South Korea.

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Truck bomb kills 67 ISLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — In one of the deadliest single attacks in postwar Baghdad, a truck bomb shattered a popular fruitand-vegetable market in a teeming Shiite neighbourhood Thursday, killing 67 people and wounding more than 150 others. Militants from the self-described Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing that incinerated much of the Jameela market in the district of Sadr City. The dead and wounded were carried away in blood-soaked blankets and garbage bags amid the charred and twisted stalls and spilled produce. The Sunni extremist group, which holds about a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, said it targeted a gathering place for Shiites and vowed more

attacks. It often attacks military checkpoints or predominantly Shiite areas with the goal of undermining confidence in the government’s security efforts. When it launched its major onslaught across northern Iraq last year, the Islamic State group vowed to continue on to Baghdad, but a mobilization of volunteer Shiite fighters deterred any significant attacks on the capital at that time. For the past two weeks, thousands of Iraqis have staged protests calling on the government to take a firm stance against corruption and reckless spending. Many see the corruption in the security forces as a major cause for its failures. This week, the government approved a reform plan by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that includes taking some money that was to go to

IRAQ individual officials and redirecting it to strengthening the Interior and Defence ministries. While attacks are common in Baghdad, Thursday’s was the deadliest single bombing in the capital since the height of Iraq’s sectarian bloodletting in 2006-07. More than 200 people were killed in a 2006 attack by a series of car bombs and mortar rounds that struck Sadr City. That prompted the government to implement a 24-hour curfew in Baghdad that remained in effect, onand-off, until earlier this year, when al-Abadi lifted it to try to return some semblance of normal life in the capital. In another major attack in Sadr City in 2013, two suicide bombers hit a clus-

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Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality, Thursday. Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed many people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored. supply chain management,� spokesman Nicholas Maxfield said. Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk said operations at its Tianjin port terminals, which are 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the blast site, resumed Thursday. A few warehouses owned and operated by suppliers to its logistics company, Damco, were damaged, two of them seriously. It said late Thursday that access restrictions and ongoing salvage operations have prevented it from fully assessing damage to cargo and Maersk Line containers. Port operator Tianjin Port Development Holdings halted trading of its shares in Hong Kong Thursday. The company said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that its port operations were normal and it did not anticipate “any material loss.� It applied for trading to resume Friday. The stock is also listed in Shanghai, where it lost 2.1 per cent in an otherwise rising market. Tianjin is northern China’s largest port, a gateway to Beijing that has grown in importance as companies seeking lower manufacturing costs migrated there.

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Croatia says hostage in Egypt was abducted by criminals BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia — The alleged beheading of a Croatian hostage in Egypt took a sinister new turn Thursday with the revelation that a criminal gang kidnapped him, then demanded a ransom from his employer before turning him over to the Islamic State group. The French geoscience company that the 30-year-old oil and gas surveyor worked for said it tried in vain to contact his abductors after receiving their emailed demand for cash. The kidnapping and apparent beheading of Tomislav Salopek, who was snatched in broad daylight on the outskirts of Cairo, is the first of its kind involving a foreigner in Egypt. It is sure to deal a blow to the government’s efforts to project stability and buttress an economic turnaround following years of unrest in the wake of Egypt’s Arab Spring. It will also likely rattle companies with expatriate workers in Egypt and cast a cloud over hopes of boosting international investment in the country. Christophe Barnini, the chief spokesman for Salopek’s employer, CGG Ardiseis, said the company received an email with a ransom demand eight days after his July 22 kidnapping, but it included no contact number and multiple responses to the address

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China tries to dampen fears of more big devaluations BEIJING — China tried Thursday to ease fears of more big declines for the yuan as companies from global automakers to Chinese clothing exporters faced uncertain exchange rates. There is “no basis for persistent and substantial devaluation,� said a deputy central bank governor, Zhang Xiaohui, at a news conference. Zhang said the yuan is close to “market levels� after two days of sharp declines. By late Thursday in the U.S., the yuan was down 3 per cent since Tuesday’s surprise announcement of a more

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Late FG lifts Eskimos to win BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 15 Alouettes 12 MONTREAL — It wasn’t Grant Shaw’s night, and yet the Edmonton Eskimos kicker still provided the tying and winning points with his right boot. After missing three field goals, Shaw was good from 28 yards on the final play of the game as the Eskimos downed the Alouettes 15-12 in a defensive CFL battle on Thursday night for only their second win in Montreal since 2007. Edmonton went into the second half down 12-7, but got a safety, a pair of singles off missed field goals and another off a punt to tie it before Shaw’s game-winner. “I kind of felt off all night,” said Shaw. “The offence and defence buckled down when it counted and they made my job easy. “There was little or no pressure on the final kick. All I had to do was hit it clean and it was going to go out the back of the end zone and we were going to win.” Edmonton (5-2), which blew a 13-point lead last week at B.C., came back from a 12-0 deficit to beat Montreal (2-5), which has lost three in a row. Kenny Stafford caught a touchdown pass for the Eskimos while linebacker Kyler Elsworth had the only major for Montreal on a fumble return. The Eskimos, already playing without starting quarterback Mike Reilly, lost Matt Nichols in the second half with what appeared to be a head injury. James Franklin stepped in and completed nine of 13 passes for 144 yards. “We’ll just call it day to day and see what the trainers say,” coach Chris Jones said when asked if Nicholls had a concussion. “We don’t want to be too hasty and say one thing or another. “Once he got dinged, that’s when we decided to make the switch.”

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Montreal Alouettes’ Rakeem Cato, left, is tackled by Edmonton Eskimos’ Odell Willis during CFL action in Montreal on Thursday. Montreal rookie Rakeem Cato stayed in the game despite being sacked eight times by Edmonton’s league-best defence, which held Montreal to 190 yards of net offence. The Eskimos dominated the statistics, out-rushing Montreal 123 to 63,

outpassing the Als 278 to 178 and posting 35:14 in time of possession. So there wasn’t a lot of excitement for 21,170 fans at Percival Molson Stadium looking for attacking football. “Hats off to Edmonton, their defence played well tonight, but to be

honest, I’m sick of answering questions about the lack of experience we have at quarterback or whatever the case may be,” said Montreal receiver S.J. Green. “We have to find ways to win.”

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Jays sweep A’s for 11th win in a row BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 4 Athletics 2 TORONTO — Mark Buehrle isn’t letting the Blue Jays get ahead of themselves, despite their impressive 11-game winning streak. The Toronto left-hander was solid for more than seven innings and Ryan Goins hit a home run as Toronto defeated the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Thursday afternoon to continue their dominant run. Even though the Blue Jays have climbed from fourth to first in the American League East over the course of the streak, Buehrle remains cautious. “We’re trying to go out and win games but it’s going to end eventually,” he said. “Put me on record: we’re not going to win the rest of the games here on out. “Don’t like to talk about (the streak) and don’t really pay too much attention to it. Every day’s a new day. We go out there and try to play the best game that day and win that game.” Buehrle (13-5) had two strikeouts and allowed seven hits and two runs over seven-plus innings as Toronto (6452) maintained a half-game lead over the New York Yankees in the AL East standings. Aaron Sanchez pitched a scoreless inning of relief while Roberto Osuna earned his 12th save of the season. Buehrle was dismissive of keeping an eye on the Yankees, who beat the Cleveland Indians 8-6 Thursday night. “I know guys scoreboard watch and I’m a baseball fan so I watch what’s going on whether we’re in first or in last,” said Buehrle. “But I don’t think we need to have it on in the clubhouse and sit there rooting against the Yankees every game.

“Whatever they’re going to do, it’s going to happen.” The Blue Jays have a chance to widen the gap this weekend as the Yankees come to the Rogers Centre for a three-game series. Goins downplayed the matchup. “I don’t think it’s going to matter the rest of the season who’s in the other dugout,” said Goins. “We’ve still got to come here, we’ve got to play our game, we’ve got to pitch, we’ve got to hit and we’ve got to play defence.” Billy Burns hit a triple for Oakland (51-65), which has lost three straight, all in Toronto. Starting pitcher Jesse Chavez (6-12) struck out nine but allowed four runs and six hits over six innings. Drew Pomeranz and Fernando Rodriguez combined for two scoreless innings out of the bullpen for the Athletics. The decision to start Chavez against his former team came just hours before the first pitch. Athletics ace Sonny Gray was scheduled but back spasms kept him from playing. Chavez pitched in nine games for Toronto in 2012. Buehrle got in trouble early, loading the bases with no outs in the first. But Buehrle bore down, inducing a double play at home and first from Danny Valencia, then a Josh Phegley ground out to end the inning. “I think that when he got out of the bases-loaded jam, no outs, that really sums him up,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “He’s got that knack of making a big pitch and something good happening when he’s out there.” Kevin Pillar got Toronto on the board with a single to right field that brought home catcher Dioner Navarro and advanced Justin Smoak to second. Goins cashed in both baserunners with a towering shot over the right-field fence for a 4-0 Toronto lead.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Cliff Pennington, top, turns a double play over Oakland Athletics’ Brett Lawrie during MLB baseball action in Toronto on Thursday. Oakland finally got to Buehrle in the eighth inning when Burns tripled to right field, sending Marcus Semien home. That run ended Buehrle’s day. He exited to a rousing standing ovation from the 46,902 in attendance, Toronto’s seventh sellout of the season. Sanchez came in from the bullpen to re-

lieve Buehrle. Mark Canha drove in Burns with a groundout to second, making it 4-2. The second run was also charged to Buehrle as Burns got on base while he was still the pitcher of record. Sanchez escaped the inning without allowing any more runs. Osuna induced three popouts to end the game.

Blue Bombers offensive line taking QB injury personally CFL BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Stanley Bryant and Dominic Picard are not happy hogs these days. The veteran offensive linemen were brought in to help protect starting Blue Bombers quarterback Drew Willy and stabilize a unit that had given up a franchise-high 71 sacks last year. Heading into Friday’s game against the visiting Toronto Argonauts (4-2), Willy is on the sidelines with a serious knee injury and Winnipeg (3-4) has allowed a league-high 23 sacks through seven games — the same number after seven games last season. That hasn’t reflected well on the “hogs,” the nickname given to the big men playing on the O-line. “The whole offensive line, we take pride in protecting our quarterback so it’s never easy to see our starting quar-

terback go down like it happened,” Picard, a 10-year centre, said after the team’s Thursday walk-through practice. “We take it personal, for sure. At the same time, we’re moving on and we’ve got to step up and play better as an offence.” The line will be protecting thirdstring quarterback Robert Marve on Friday as he starts his first pro game instead of backup Brian Brohm. Knowing Willy is out a minimum six to eight weeks after suffering a tibial plateau fracture and a partial posterior cruciate ligament tear in his right knee has been hard to swallow, said left tackle Bryant, a free-agent signing in his sixth CFL season. “Right now for us, I think it’s tough because three games out of seven we’ve seen Drew on the ground,” Bryant said. “I’ll say, for me, it’s kind of disappointing because I know I was brought here to be one of the guys to keep Drew upright, or any quarterback upright. But we just have to be better as a

whole, starting from the offensive line to the receivers to the running backs and any guy that’s blocking.” Marve said the offensive line met with him privately after he was named the starter and he didn’t sense they were down on themselves. “If anything, those guys have been the most positive group,” Marve said. “They kind of came at me and said, ’Hey, we’ve got you. Let’s make plays happen together.”’ The Bombers’ offence will also be without starting running back Paris Cotton (broken arm), leading receiver Darvin Adams (undisclosed) and offensive left guard Patrick Neufeld (broken thumb). Chris Greaves will replace Neufeld after being a healthy scratch the past two games. Winnipeg head coach Mike O’Shea’s injury woes didn’t get any sympathy from his Toronto counterpart, whose team has pulled off four come-frombehind wins. “We’re on our backup quarterback,” head coach Scott Milanovich said, re-

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ferring to Trevor Harris. “Our injury list is 20 pages long. “I love (O’Shea). I don’t feel sorry for him because everybody in the league is going through this right now.” Bombers defensive linemen Greg Peach and Bryant Turner return from injury. The Argonauts will have 2012 Grey Cup most valuable player Chad Kackert backing up running back Henry Josey. Kackert hasn’t played since October 2013 because of an ankle injury and retirement. Slotback Anthony Coombs returns to the lineup after missing the last game. The rookie Harris knows what it’s like to be thrust into the starting role while his team awaits injured veteran Ricky Ray’s return. He had a little bit of advice for Marve. “Just stay within the offence, stay within yourself,” Harris said. “Don’t do anything you can’t do. “But I don’t want to tell him too much. Can’t give him any of the Ricky Ray secrets.”

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Jordan Spieth hits out of a bunker on the 15th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament Thursday, at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. do,” McIlroy said. Spieth was far more boring in opening with 10 pars, and he was far more irritated. The Masters and U.S. Open champion had one birdie chance after another on the front nine and missed them all, trying to get the speed right and wondering how much the wind would affect it. “I guessed wrong,” he said. And then he started to press, and it nearly cost him. He wasted an easy birdie chance on the short 10th hole by chipping 12 feet by the hole. He threeputted from about 15 feet on the par-5 11th for a bogey. After going just long of the par-3 12th, he had to play a chip because of a sprinkler head in his line. The chip came out hot, and Spieth figured it would have gone some 12 feet by the hole. Spieth said he was pleading it for it to hit the pin, if nothing else to keep it near the hole. It hit straight on and dropped for a birdie he badly needed. “We really battled back after 10 and 11, which were disappointing holes for me, to salvage an under par round re-

Blue Jays ticket sales hit new season highs as team continues to roll BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays can feel the excitement in the stands and in the streets. Toronto is set to hit new highs in secondary market ticket sales for the season as the New York Yankees visit this weekend, and the Blue Jays are excited to have all the added attention. “I think I’ve fist bumped more strangers than I’ve ever fist bumped in my life,” said pitcher R.A. Dickey before Thursday’s game with the Oakland Athletics. “Today I walked down from Air Canada Centre to Rogers Centre and I think I fist bumped four people this morning on the way to work that I’d never seen before in my life. “That kind of stuff is happening more and more.” Thursday afternoon’s 4-2 win over the Athletics drew 46,902 fans, the team’s seventh full house of the season. Even still, the secondary market for tickets for the crucial weekend series with the Yankees has seen prices continue to climb. According to SeatGeek.com, a website that aggregates prices from other ticket resale brokers, all three games of the weekend series are more expensive than any other Blue Jays home game this season. Ticket sales on the secondary market have climbed in the past seven days as Toronto has reeled off 11 straight wins and taken over first place from New York in the American League East. The average cost to see Toronto ace David Price start against the Yankees on Friday climbed to $91 over the past week. The average price is $103 for Saturday’s game and $87 for Sunday. Two weeks ago a ticket for Friday’s

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game in the upper bowl at Rogers Centre overlooking the outfield cost $13. That same ticket has now climbed to $56, meaning just to get in to the stadium the price has more than quadrupled since the beginning of August. The lowest price isn’t any cheaper on Saturday ($60) or Sunday ($58). “That comes with winning,” said Dickey. “People enjoy winning teams. Hopefully we can give these guys a good ride.” Previously the Blue Jays’ most expensive home game of the season was Price’s first start with Toronto on Aug. 3, when the average resale price was $60 a ticket. “I can definitely tell there’s a buzz,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “We’re noticing the crowds we’ve had, of course. I get some comments on the street too.” “Good comments,” he added with a laugh. SeatGeek.com estimates that $1.4 million has been spent on the secondary market for the three Yankees games combined. “In the sports business that’s how organizations make their living, with full houses,” said Gibbons. “So everyone’s feeling good right now.” Even though the Blue Jays have seen a swell of support since mid-July, the series average resale price of $71 is still below the average resale price of any Toronto Maple Leafs home game last year. However, the average ticket for a game to this weekend’s series is more expensive than 20 of the Toronto Raptors home games last season. “It makes a world of difference when you’re playing, y’know?” said Gibbons. “Smaller crowds, you hear everything. You hear all the cheap shots. You get a big crowd and it’s all kind of muffled. It’s more like a roar. “Players thrive on that, no question about it.”

ally stay in this tournament,” Spieth said. “If I didn’t get that good break on 12, it could have been a different story the rest of the round.” The wind began to blow hard over the final hour of Johnson’s round, and it showed in the scores. Of the 14 players who broke 70, Lingmerth and Scott Piercy (68) were the only ones who faced the tougher afternoon conditions. Lingmerth also got off to a roaring start at the British Open with a 29 on the front nine (and a 40 on the back). Starting on the back nine, which was the easier at Whistling Straits, he hit a pure iron into the par-3 17th and had a good look at birdie to reach 6 under. He couldn’t help but think of St. Andrews. “It did cross my mind, but that was it,” Lingmerth said. He missed the putt, briefly tied Johnson with a birdie on the par-5 fifth hole, gave it back on the next hole and closed with pars. Tiger Woods might be one day away from the end of his season. Woods man-

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CFL: Subplot A subplot was an off-season trade that sent long-time Eskimos receiver Fred Stamps to Montreal for Stafford. Stamps was held without a catch, while Stafford caught four for 61 yards and a TD. The Alouettes led 12-7 at halftime thanks to four Edmonton turnovers. Chip Cox picked off a Nichols pass on the Eskimos first possession, setting up a 25-yard Boris Bede boot 3:25 into the game. On Edmonton’s next drive, Wallace Miles fumbled after a catch

aged only two birdies, both on the par 5s, in the calmer conditions and never looked good with the putter in opening with a 75. In the four majors this year, he is 18-over par in the opening round with a scoring average of 76. Johnson took three putts from 12 feet on the final hole at the U.S. Open to swiftly and shockingly go from a chance to win to a runner-up finish behind Spieth. He had the 36-hole lead at St. Andrews until he disappeared on the weekend. His confidence, however, does not appear shaken. “Today was pretty easy, I would have to say,” Johnson said. “But I was swinging well and I was hitting the shots where I was looking. So anytime you’re doing that, it makes things a lot easier on you. The ball was going where I was looking. I was controlling it. In this wind it’s tough to do, but I did a great job of controlling the golf ball today.” Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., was the top Canadian with a 1-over 73 and is tied for 55th. David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., shot a 4-over 76 and is tied for 102nd. and Elsworth ran it back 40 yards for a touchdown at 4:47. Cato’s 53 yard toss to Alex Charette set up a 38-yard Bede field goal to open the second quarter. Edmonton struck back with a fiveplay drive capped by Nichols’ threeyard TD pass to Stafford with 39 seconds left in the half. Cauchy Muamba sacked Cato in the end zone for a safety 2:36 into the third quarter. Shaw took over with his boot from there. Shaw missed a 46-yard field-goal attempt in the second quarter, his first miss in 16 attempts this season. It ended a streak of 21 straight that started at the end of last season. He fell one short of the team record set in 2001 by Sean Fleming.

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Canadian cyclist Ryder Hesjedal to race in Tour of Alberta next month BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Canadian cycling star Ryder Hesjedal will race in the Tour of Alberta next month. The Victoria native, who finished 40th in July’s Tour de France, said he is looking forward to the race’s moun-

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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Rory McIlroy rolled up the right leg of his pants to take on a risky shot out of the water. Jordan Spieth, who seems to never miss putts, couldn’t make one. Familiarity of the final major of the year came from Dustin Johnson. He was in the lead Thursday after the opening round of the PGA Championship, a spot he already has occupied after five of 13 rounds this year in the majors — just not on the day the trophy is awarded. Bouncing back from a summer of disappointment, Johnson breezed his way to a 6-under 66 in moderate morning conditions at Whistling Straits and wound up with a one-shot lead over David Lingmerth of Sweden. Jason Day, who also knows about hard luck in the majors, and Matt Kuchar were in a large group at 68. “We’ll just have to see what happens,” Johnson said. “It’s only the first round. We’ve still got a lot of golf to play.” The main event was McIlroy (No. 1) and Spieth (No. 2), who have won four of the last five majors and played in the same group. Round 1 was a draw. Both shot 71, a reasonable start considering the blustery conditions off Lake Michigan. McIlroy, competing for the first time in 53 days because of an ankle injury, handled all of the par 5s even though one was just a par. But it was a big one. He pulled his third shot into the water and a double bogey looked likely. But his ball was sitting up in the water, so McIlroy rolled up his pant leg, splashed it out to 7 feet and saved par. “The only thing I was trying not to do was get my feet wet,” McIlroy said. “Because if the water gets through this shoe, then the tape gets wet and then that would be a little more than just sort of annoying or uncomfortable for the rest of the day. But it was fine. It was a little bit deeper on the right side, so I just rolled my right trouser leg up and it was fine. I just had to remember to hit it hard. And I was very fortunate to escape with a par there.” That shot made for good TV. Good for his soul was getting that first tee shot out of the way, and especially the 3-wood he hit pure as ever onto the green at the par-5 second that led to birdie. “That was full bore, as good as I can

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Chalifour, Cloutier help boost Canada’s medal totals BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Daniel Chalifour and pilot Alexandre Cloutier are doing their part for Canada at the Parapan American Games. Chalifour of Mont-Laurier, Que., and Cloutier, of St-Antoine-de-Tilly, Que., led a Canadian sweep in the mixed time trial B on Thursday. In total, 27 medals were won in six different sports by Canada on Day 6 of competition. The Canadians have 43 gold and 140 medals overall — trailing only Brazil, which has 86 gold and 210 overall. The United States is third with 34 gold and 110 total medals. “A super week,” said Chalifour, who also finished first in the pursuit and one-kilometre time trial on the track and second in the road race last weekend. ’“We came in here with some question marks but we performed beyond our expectations. It’s hard to ask for better.” Chalifour and Cloutier clocked 26 minutes 47.11 seconds. Robbi Weldon of Thunder Bay, Ont., and Audrey Lemieux of Montreal took silver in 26:58.04 and Saskatoon’s Shawna Ryan and Joanie Caron of Rimouski, Que., were third at 27:47.62. Charles Moreau, of Trois-Rivieres, Que., won the bronze medal in mixed time trial H1-5 while Toronto’s Shelley Gautier took silver in the mixed time trial T1-2. Wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos of Dorval, Que., won his second gold medal of the Games, taking first place in the T53 800-metre race. Kyle Whitehouse of St. Catharines, Ont., added a

gold medal in the men’s T38 200. Lakatos thought he had wrapped up the T53 800 title when he crossed the line first when the race was originally run on Wednesday, but a crash and a subsequent disqualification forced a re-run. “We go out there and we’ve got to be focused when we’re doing it,” he said. “We have no idea what’s going to happen so you have to be prepared for everything, you can’t be thinking about what happened yesterday or last month. “Just went out there and did it.” He finished in one minute 43.90 seconds, ahead of the Colombian pair of Edisson Martinez Sarmiento and Jesus Aguilar. Lakatos won the 100 metres earlier this week, and could add another gold in Friday night’s 400 metres. Alexandre Dupont and his wife Ilana Dupont of Clarenceville, Que., combined for three medals in athletics on Thursday. Meanwhile, Canadian swimmers added 10 medals to their impressive haul, including golds by Aurelie Rivard of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., in the women’s S10 100-metre backstroke and Sarah Mehain of Vernon, B.C., in the women’s S7 50 butterfly. Rivard continued her dominant performance in Toronto, winning her fifth gold medal of the Games. Rivard took the S10 100 backstroke in a Parapan Am record time of 1:09.72. “After the 400-m, this is the race I’m the happiest to swim well,” Rivard said. “I didn’t know how fast the other girls would swim so I told myself to just give what I’ve got. I gave everything I had and nothing less. If the race

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Nicolas Turbide, of Canada, competes on his way to winning silver in the men’s 100m freestyle S13 event at the 2015 Parapan Am Games in Toronto on Thursday. was 101 meters, I’m sure I wouldn’t be talking right now.” Mehain won her third medal of the Games, and first gold, winning the S7 50 butterfly in 37.07 seconds. Ian Kent of Eastern Passage, N.S. and Masoud Mojtahed, a former Montreal and Vancouver resident, fell to Brazil in the men’s table tennis team play for silver. Toronto’s Joel Dembe and Philippe Bedard of Bromont, Que., took bronze in wheelchair tennis men’s doubles with a 6-4, 6-2 win against the U.S. Hamilton’s Alex Radoman captured

bronze in the men’s 81kg category by beating American Ryan Jones by Ippon in 1:28.00. “I just went out there and did what I could, knowing my strategy going into the match,” Radoman said. ”It’s been a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster. I haven’t had some success in a little while — I’m going to use this to fuel myself.“ The U.S. men’s sitting volleyball team beat Canada 26-24, 25-23, 16-25, 25-21. The loss means Canada won’t qualify for next summer’s Rio Olympics.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL which has an automatic placing in the Olympics as the host nation. “It felt great to be able to do that in front of our home crowd, with it sold out,” Ayim said. “The points on the scoreboard sometimes say something different than it feels on the court. We just wanted to play our best game and show our next opponent what is coming for them.” It was Canada’s 13th consecutive victory on home soil, a run which includes its impressive gold medal win over the United States at the recent Pan American Games in Toronto. The Canadians entered the FIBA Americas tourney ranked third in the Americas and 10th in the world, while Cuba is fourth in the zone and 13th globally. Canada got off to a rapid 9-2 lead and were able to hang on for a 21-13

advantage at the end of the first quarter. The Canadians clamped down on defence in the second, allowing only six points to the Cubans while stretching their lead to 42-19 at the half. They continued to control the game from there, leading 63-30 heading into the fourth quarter. Ayim said that nothing can be taken away from her own team’s performance. “You really want to peak at the right time and that is exactly what we are doing,” she said. “It started at Pan Ams where we got better each game and it feels like we are playing our best basketball now when it counts.” There has been a long history between the two teams lately, with Canada most recently coming away with a 71-68 victory over the Cubans at the

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EDMONTON — Canadian coach Lisa Thomaidis is certain that her team didn’t see the best Cuba has to offer. Kia Nurse scored 14 points to lead Canada to a 92-43 victory over Cuba on Thursday and finish the FIBA Americas women’s basketball championship round robin with a perfect record. “We can’t kid ourselves. That was not Cuba’s best performance. It is not indicative or how strong their team really is,” Thomaidis said. “We are all very aware of how these tournaments work. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose by two or 25, you move on.” Miranda Ayim and Natalie Achonwa chipped in with 12 points apiece for the Canadians (4-0). Canada is attempting to secure a berth in next year’s Rio Olympics by either winning the event outright or finishing second to Brazil,

Pan Am Games. The two teams also played each other twice at the last FIBA Americas in Mexico in 2013 where the Canadians beat Cuba 53-40 in the preliminary round finale to win their group. The Cubans bounced back to defeat Canada 79-71 in the gold medal game three days later. Anisleidy Galindo had 12 points for Cuba, which fell to 3-1 in the round robin and will now have to face the top team from the other pool in Saturday’s semifinals. Canada will face the loser of the Argentina-Brazil matchup, played after the Canada-Cuba game on Thursday night, in the other semifinal. Notes — Regardless of how any of the top four teams finish, all have earned automatic entry into next year’s FIBA women’s Olympic qualifying tournament, where they will have a second chance to earn their way to Rio.

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● Sunburst Baseball League: League final, Red Deer Riggers vs. Sherwood Park Athletics, Game 5 at Great Chief Park, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday

Saturday

● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central Alberta Cricket Association, also featuring teams from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray at G.H. Dawe Community Centre

● Alberta Football League: Central Alberta Buccaneers at Airdrie Irish, 3 p.m. ● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central

Football CFL East Division W L T 4 2 0 4 2 0 4 2 0 2 5 0

GP Edmonton 7 Calgary 6 B.C. 6 Winnipeg 7 Saskatchewan 7

West Division W L T 5 2 0 4 2 0 3 3 0 3 4 0 0 7 0

Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

PF 191 166 131 142 PF 180 137 144 140 174

PA 114 163 150 135 PA 101 148 159 210 225

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WEEK EIGHT Bye: Saskatchewan Thursday’s result Edmonton 15 Montreal 12 Friday’s game Toronto at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Saturday’s games B.C. at Hamilton, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets

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Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee

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Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh

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Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

Thursday’s summary Eskimos 15, Alouettes 12 First Quarter Mtl — FG Bede 30 3:25 Mtl — TD Elsworth 41 fumble return (convert failed) 4:27 Second Quarter Mtl — FG Bede 38 1:28 Edm — TD Stafford 4 pass from Lynch (Shaw convert) 14:21 Third Quarter Edm — Safety Cato tackled in end zone 2:36 Edm — Single Shaw 45 11:27 Fourth Quarter Edm — Single Shaw 47 4:28 Edm — Single Shaw 54 9:49 Edm — FG Shaw 28 15:00 Edmonton 0 7 3 5 — 15 Montreal 9 3 0 0 — 12 Attendance — 21,170 at Montreal. TEAM STATISTICS Edm Mtl First downs 22 8 Yards rushing 123 63 Yards passing 278 178 Total offence 401 241 Team losses 22 51 Net offence 379 190 Passes made-tried 25-38 14-22 Total return yards 162 86 Interceptions-yards by 1-1 2-24 Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0 Sacks by 8 4 Punts-average 9-44.4 11-44.8 Penalties-yards 7-55 12-97 Time of possession 35:14 24:46 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Edm: Bell 11-70, Lawrence 4-25, Lynch 3-9, Franklin 3-9, Nichols 1-5, Miles 1-5; Mtl: Rutley 4-27, Sutton 5-14, Logan 2-13, Cato 2-9. Receiving — Edm: Walker 10-125, Stafford 4-61, Bailey 2-34, Miles 3-21, Lawrence 2-16, Watson 1-13, Bell 2-10, McCarty 1-minus-2; Mtl: Charette 1-53, Green 2-50, Lewis 4-43, Sutton 5-24, Giguere 2-8. Passing — Edm: Nichols 15-24, 130 yards, 0 TDs, 2 ints, Franklin 9-13-144-0-0, Lynch 1-1-4-1-0; Mtl: Cato 14-22-178-0-1.

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Washington 1 0 0 1.000 Dallas 0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 South W L T Pct Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 Carolina 0 0 0 .000 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000 New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 North W L T Pct Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 West W L T Pct Arizona 0 0 0 .000 San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 Seattle 0 0 0 .000 St. Louis 0 0 0 .000

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Thursday’s Games Baltimore 30, New Orleans 27 Green Bay 22, New England 11 Detroit 23, N.Y. Jets 3 Chicago 27, Miami 10 Washington 20, Cleveland 17 Dallas at San Diego, late Friday’s Games Carolina at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Tennessee at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m. Denver at Seattle, 8 p.m. St. Louis at Oakland, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m. San Francisco at Houston, 6 p.m. Kansas City at Arizona, 7 p.m. Sunday’s Game Indianapolis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 Detroit at Washington, 5:30 p.m. Buffalo at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 26 13 8 5 35 New York 22 10 6 6 35 Columbus 24 9 8 7 38 Toronto 22 9 9 4 37 New England 24 8 9 7 32 Montreal 21 8 9 4 29 Orlando 24 7 10 7 32 New York City 24 7 11 6 34 Philadelphia 24 6 13 5 29 Chicago 22 6 12 4 24

GA 29 25 39 38 36 31 37 37 40 31

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Western Conference GP W L T GF 24 13 8 3 34 25 11 7 7 42 22 11 6 5 32 21 10 4 7 33 24 10 8 6 25 24 10 12 2 26 23 8 8 7 30 24 7 9 8 27 22 7 10 5 23 22 5 8 9 20

GA 22 30 27 22 28 27 28 37 29 24

Pt 42 40 38 37 36 32 31 29 26 24

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

FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 2015

Baseball

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Wednesday, August 19 New York City at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. San Jose at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m. English Premier League GP W Man. City 1 1 Leicester City 1 1 Crystal Palace 1 1 West Ham 1 1 Aston Villa 1 1 Liverpool 1 1 Man. United 1 1 Chelsea 1 0 Everton 1 0 Newcastle 1 0 Southampton 1 0 Swansea 1 0 Watford 1 0 Bournemouth 1 0 Stoke 1 0 Tottenham 1 0 Sunderland 1 0 Norwich 1 0 Arsenal 1 0 West Brom 1 0

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Thursday’s results New York City 3 D.C. 1

Friday, Aug. 14 Aston Villa vs. Manchester United, 1845 GMT

Friday’s games Colorado at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15 Southampton vs. Everton, 1145 GMT Sunderland vs. Norwich, 1400 GMT Swansea vs. Newcastle, 1400 GMT Tottenham vs. Stoke, 1400 GMT Watford vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT

Saturday’s games Toronto at New York, 5 p.m. Houston at New England, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Kansas City, 7 p.m. Portland at Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Sunday’s games Orlando at Seattle, 3 p.m. Chicago at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 16 Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, 1230 GMT Manchester City vs. Chelsea, 1500 GMT Monday, Aug. 17 Liverpool vs. Bournemouth, 1900 GMT

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Phil Hughes on the 15-day DL. Reinstated LHP Tommy Milone from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Tyler Duffey from Rochester (IL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Signed INF Greg Bird and selected him from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHP Nick Goody to Scranton/WilkesBarre. Transferred RHP Diego Moreno to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Chi Chi Gonzalez from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Nick Martinez to Round Rock. National League SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed OF Nori Aoki on the seven-day concussion list, retroactive to Aug. 12. Recalled OF Ryan Lollis from Sacramento (PCL). American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released RHP Jessie Snodgrass. LAREDO LEMURS — Signed C Phil Pohl and RHP Sean Tracey. WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed RHP Jon Link and RHP Paul Smyth. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed C Nelfi Zapata. Released C Dan Coury. SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed LHP Kelvin Villa. Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed INF Frank Salerno. OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed C Daniel Grauer. SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Michael Martucci. Released OF Jon Minucci. TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed RHP Carlos Mirabal. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Clint Manzo. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Traded RHP Alan Oaks to Traverse City for a player to be named. Signed RHP Lance Phillips. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Released C Jordan Savinon. BASKETBALL The NBA and the National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA) have agreed to a seven-year collective bargaining agreement, commencing with

the 2015-16 season and runs through the 2021-22 season. National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed C JaVale McGee. LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Agreed to terms with F Jonathan Holmes on a multiyear contract. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived S Damian Parms. BUFFALO BILLS — Waived/injured WR Justin Brown. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed CB Ryan White. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with WR T.Y. Hilton on a contract extension. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed RB Tyler Gaffney on injured reserve. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released WR Deshon Foxx. Signed LB Alex Singleton. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived P Spencer Lanning. Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Signed PK Garrett Lindholm. Placed PK Mark Lewis on injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK RANGERS — Named Steve Greeley assistant director of player personnel and Nickolai Bobrov director of European scouting. American Hockey League CHICAGO WOLVES — Signed RW Eriah Hayes to a one-year contract. ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Acquired the rights to D Brad Richard from Alaska for the rights to F Brodie Reid. FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Acquired D Corey Syvret from Alaska for D Gleason Fournier. IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with D Corbin Baldwin. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended New York D Damien Perrinelle two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for endangering the safety of an opponent in an Aug. 9 game against New York City FC. REAL SALT LAKE CITY — Signed F Juan Manuel Martinez as a designated player. TENNIS ATP — Announced Nick Kyrgios has been fined the on-site maximum of $10,000 for an insulting comment he made to Stan Wawrinka during their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal and issued an additional fine of $2,500 for Unsportsmanlike Conduct related to a comment made to a ball person.

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 64 52 .552 New York 62 51 .549 Tampa Bay 58 56 .509 Baltimore 57 56 .504 Boston 50 64 .439 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 68 46 .596 Minnesota 57 57 .500 Detroit 55 59 .482 Chicago 54 58 .482 Cleveland 53 60 .469 West Division W L Pct Houston 62 53 .539 Los Angeles 60 54 .526 Texas 56 57 .496 Seattle 54 61 .470 Oakland 51 65 .440

GB — 1/2 5 5 1/2 13 GB — 11 13 13 14 1/2 GB — 1 1/2 5 8 11 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Seattle 3, Baltimore 0 Houston 2, San Francisco 0 Miami 14, Boston 6 Toronto 10, Oakland 3 Tampa Bay 9, Atlanta 6 Cleveland 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Detroit 7, Kansas City 4 Chicago White Sox 3, L.A. Angels 2, 13 innings Minnesota 11, Texas 1 Thursday’s Games Toronto 4, Oakland 2 Texas 6, Minnesota 5 N.Y. Yankees 8, Cleveland 6 L.A. Angels 7, Kansas City 6 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-7), 2:10 p.m. Oakland (Mills 0-0) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 9-7), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Nova 4-4) at Toronto (Price 11-4), 5:07 p.m. Seattle (Montgomery 4-4) at Boston (J.Kelly 4-6), 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Karns 7-5) at Texas (M.Perez 1-2), 6:05 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 7-12) at Minnesota (May 8-7), 6:10 p.m. Detroit (Simon 10-6) at Houston (Keuchel 13-6), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Weaver 4-8) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 5-5), 6:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Seattle at Boston, 11:35 a.m. Oakland at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Detroit at Houston, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m. Seattle at Boston, 11:35 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m. Detroit at Houston, 12:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Texas, 1:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Fielder Tex 111 431 56 141 .327 Kipnis Cle 101 405 66 132 .326 NCruz Sea 112 432 63 140 .324 LCain KC 101 392 74 125 .319 Hosmer KC 111 422 70 134 .318 Bogaerts Bos 110 421 53 132 .314 Brantley Cle 103 397 48 124 .312 JIglesias Det 101 352 35 107 .304 Trout LAA 111 413 79 124 .300 Kinsler Det 113 453 72 136 .300 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 34; Trout, Los Angeles, 33; CDavis, Baltimore, 31; Donaldson, Toronto, 31; JMartinez, Detroit, 30; Pujols, Los Angeles, 30; Teixeira, New York, 30. Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 85; CDavis, Baltimore, 83; KMorales, Kansas City, 82; Bautista, Toronto, 79; Teixeira, New York, 77; JMartinez, Detroit, 75; NCruz, Seattle, 70; Trout, Los Angeles, 70. Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 14-6; Buehrle, Toronto, 13-5; Keuchel, Houston, 13-6; McHugh, Houston, 13-6; Eovaldi, New York, 12-2; SGray, Oakland, 12-4; Lewis, Texas, 12-5.

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

National League East Division W L Pct 63 52 .548 58 56 .509 51 63 .447 46 68 .404 46 69 .400 Central Division W L Pct 73 41 .640 66 46 .589 65 48 .575 50 62 .446 48 68 .414 West Division W L Pct 64 50 .561 61 53 .535 56 57 .496 54 61 .470 47 66 .416

GB — 4 1/2 11 1/2 16 1/2 17 GB — 6 7 1/2 22 26 GB — 3 7 1/2 10 1/2 16 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 7, San Diego 3 Philadelphia 7, Arizona 6 Houston 2, San Francisco 0 Miami 14, Boston 6 Tampa Bay 9, Atlanta 6 N.Y. Mets 3, Colorado 0 Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee 2, 10 innings St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 2 L.A. Dodgers 3, Washington 0 Thursday’s Games

N.Y. Mets 12, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 10, St. Louis 5 Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, late San Francisco 3, Washington 1 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-7), 2:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Happ 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 10-11), 5:10 p.m. Arizona (Ray 3-7) at Atlanta (Teheran 7-6), 5:35 p.m. Philadelphia (Morgan 3-3) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 2-7), 6:10 p.m. Miami (Koehler 8-9) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 4-4), 6:15 p.m. San Diego (T.Ross 8-9) at Colorado (Flande 2-1), 6:40 p.m. Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 7-7), 8:10 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 11-8) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-3), 8:15 p.m. Saturday’s Games Arizona at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Miami at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 6:10 p.m. Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Washington at San Francisco, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. Arizona at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m. Miami at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m. Washington at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 2:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Goldschmidt Ari 112 399 74 136 .341 Posey SF 106 391 57 130 .332 Harper Was 107 367 77 122 .332 DGordon Mia 98 421 52 139 .330 LeMahieu Col 109 407 63 130 .319 Pollock Ari 110 426 77 133 .312 Panik SF 97 375 56 116 .309 YEscobar Was 102 397 52 122 .307 Votto Cin 110 392 64 119 .304 DPeralta Ari 104 320 45 97 .303 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 29; Arenado, Colorado, 28; Frazier, Cincinnati, 28; Stanton, Miami, 27; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 26; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 22; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 22; Rizzo, Chicago, 22. Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 83; Arenado, Colorado, 82; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 77; Posey, San Francisco, 76; BCrawford, San Francisco, 71; Frazier, Cincinnati, 71; Harper, Washington, 69. Pitching Wacha, St. Louis, 14-4; GCole, Pittsburgh, 14-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 13-6; Arrieta, Chicago, 13-6; Greinke, Los Angeles, 12-2; CMartinez, St. Louis, 12-4; deGrom, New York, 11-6.

Golf PGA Championship Thursday At Whistling Straits, Straits Course Sheboygan, Wis. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,501; Par 72 (36-36) First Round Dustin Johnson 34-32 David Lingmerth 36-31 Russell Henley 36-32 Matt Kuchar 32-36 Harris English 33-35 J.B. Holmes 35-33 Jason Day 34-34 Danny Lee 35-33 Matt Jones 33-35 Scott Piercy 34-34 Brendan Steele 34-35 Thomas Bjorn 33-36 James Morrison 34-35 Justin Rose 34-35 Hideki Matsuyama 38-32 Charles Howell III 35-35 Robert Streb 35-35 Paul Casey 35-35 Martin Kaymer 36-34 Anirban Lahiri 33-37 Emiliano Grillo 34-36 Y.E. Yang 35-35 Marcel Siem 36-34 Rory Sabbatini 35-36 Brian Gaffney 35-36 Brandt Snedeker 36-35 Ernie Els 36-35 Tony Finau 37-34 Branden Grace 34-37 Francesco Molinari 36-35 George McNeill 35-36 Steve Stricker 35-36 Webb Simpson 37-34 Sangmoon Bae 37-34 Rory McIlroy 36-35 Jordan Spieth 36-35 Jason Dufner 38-33 John Senden 36-35 Sergio Garcia 37-35 Louis Oosthuizen 37-35 Bubba Watson 36-36 Hunter Mahan 37-35 Lee Westwood 37-35 Mikko Ilonen 35-37 Morgan Hoffmann 35-37 Marc Warren 38-34 Brendon de Jonge 36-36

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Soren Kjeldsen Justin Thomas Bernd Wiesberger Kiradech Aphibarnrat Luke Donald Phil Mickelson Billy Horschel Chesson Hadley David Howell John Daly Charl Schwartzel Bill Haas Ryan Moore Vijay Singh Jim Furyk Rickie Fowler Tyrrell Hatton Kevin Chappell Rafa Cabrera-Bello Graeme McDowell Brooks Koepka Kevin Streelman Nick Taylor Pat Perez Thongchai Jaidee Geoff Ogilvy Matt Every Adam Rainaud George Coetzee Shaun Micheel Steven Bowditch Daniel Berger Cameron Smith Shawn Stefani Troy Merritt Danny Willett Kevin Na Jason Bohn Boo Weekley Byeong Hun An Ryan Palmer James Hahn Tiger Woods J.J. Henry Bob Sowards Brett Jones Sean O’Hair Jimmy Walker Ian Poulter Camilo Villegas Patrick Reed Zach Johnson Tim Clark Kevin Kisner

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Ryan Helminen David Hearn Matt Dobyns Victor Dubuisson Stephen Gallacher Ross Fisher Keegan Bradley Carl Pettersson Brent Snyder Brendon Todd Martin Laird Alex Cejka Charles Frost Chris Wood Ben Martin Rich Beem Adam Scott Henrik Stenson Padraig Harrington Miguel Angel Jimenez Ben Polland Grant Sturgeon Johan Kok David Toms Steven Young Tommy Fleetwood Hiroshi Iwata Alexander Levy Russell Knox Omar Uresti

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LPGA Tour-Portland Classic Thursday At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,476; Par — 72 First Round a-denotes amateur Amy Anderson 31-34 Sandra Changkija 35-30 Julieta Granada 32-34 Alison Lee 33-33 Brooke M. Henderson 32-34 Cristie Kerr 32-35 Lee-Anne Pace 32-35 Alena Sharp 33-34 Jenny Shin 33-34 Mo Martin 34-33 Sandra Gal 35-32 Jacqui Concolino 34-33 Minjee Lee 32-36 Azahara Munoz 34-34 Felicity Johnson 35-33

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Parapan Am Games 2015 Parapan Am Medal Standings TORONTO — Medal standings at the 2015 Parapan Am Games (ranked by total gold medals won): Nation G S B Total Brazil 86 60 64 210 Canada 43 51 46 140 U.S. 34 40 36 110 Mexico 30 32 32 94 Colombia 23 32 24 79 Argentina 15 19 19 53 Cuba 14 13 10 37 Venezuela 6 11 20 37 Chile 4 2 5 11 Jamaica 2 2 1 5 Ecuador 1 0 4 5 Bermuda 1 0 0 1 Trinidad & Tobago 1 0 0 1 Uruguay 1 0 0 1 Nicaragua 0 0 3 3 Costa Rica 0 0 2 2 Puerto Rico 0 0 2 2 Dominican Rep. 0 0 1 1 What Canada Did at the Parapan Am Games TORONTO — What Canada Did on Thursday at the Parapan American Games (distances in metres unless specified): ATHLETICS Men’s 200 (T38) — Kyle Whitehouse, St Catherine’s, Ont., won the gold medal in 23.66 seconds (Parapan record). Men’s 800 (T53) — Brent Lakatos, Dorval, Que., won the gold medal in a Parapan Am record one minute, 43.90 seconds. Men’s High Jump (T42) — Cody Salomons, Strathroy, Ont., finished sixth in the final with a jump of 1.91 metres. Men’s Javelin (T34-57) — Jason Roberts, Toronto, finished ninth in the final with a throw of 21.63 metres. Men’s 800 (T54) — Alexandre Dupont, Clarenceville, Que., won the gold medal (1:40.67). Josh Cassidy, Port Elgin, Ont., won the silver (1:41.18). Women’s 800 (T53) — Ilana Dupont, Saskatoon, won the bronze medal (2:08.67); Jessica Frotten, Whitehorse, placed fourth (2:09.59); and Michelle Stilwell, Nanoose Bay, B.C., was eighth (2:22.90 — Parapan record for T52 category). Women’s Shot Put (F11-12) — Vanessa Murby, Salt Spring Island, B.C., placed eighth in the event (7.90). Women’s 100 (T53) — Ilana Dupont, Saskatoon, won the silver medal (18.63). Jessica Frotten, Whitehorse, won the bronze (19.25). CYCLING Mixed Time Trial B — Canada swept the podium

after Daniel Chalifour, Mont-Laurier, Que., and Alexandre Cloutier, St-Antoine-de-Tilly, Que. (guide) won the gold medal (26:47.11); Robbi Weldon, Thunder Bay, Ont., and Audrey Lemieux, Montreal (guide) , claimed the silver (26:58.04); and Shawna Ryan, Saskatoon, and Joanie Caron, Rimouski, Que. (guide), took the bronze (27:47.62). Mixed Time Trial (C1-5) — Michael Sametz, Calgary, was fifth in the final (28:52.38); Nicole Clermont, Sherbrooke, Que., was 11th (29:18.19); Marie-Claude Molnar, St-Hubert, Que., 23rd (30:45.53). Mixed Time Trial (H1-5) — Charles Moreau, TroisRivieres, Que., won the bronze medal (18:43.56); Mark Ledo, Maple, Ont. (20:48.17) and Robert Labbe, Quebec City (20:58.20) placed sixth and seventh, respectively. Mixed Time Trial (T1-2) — Shelley Gautier, Toronto, won the silver medal (22:01.36); Marie-Eve Croteau, Quebec City, was fifth (23:53.60); while Louis-Albert Jolin Corriveau, Ste-Claire, Que., was sixed (24:29.05). FOOTBALL (Seven-A-Side) Men — Samuel Charron, Ottawa, scored as Canada (1-2-1) ended the preliminary round with a 1-1 tie against Venezuela. The two teams meet again on Saturday in the bronze-medal match. JUDO Men’s 81kg — Alex Radoman, Hamilton, won the bronze medal over I.Cruz, Cuba, by ippon at 0:17. SITTING VOLLEYBALL Men — Canada (3-3) lost 3-1 to the U.S. in the semifinals. The Canadians will play Colombia for the bronze medal on Friday. Women — Canada (1-3) lost 3-0 to Brazil in the semifinals. The Canadians will play Cuba for the bronze medal on Friday. SWIMMING Men’s 100 Backstroke (S9-10) — Benoit Huot, Longueuil, Que., won the silver medal (1:01.62); Alexander Elliot, Waterloo, Ont., took the bronze (1:02.37); and Nathan Stein, Maple Ridge, B.C., placed fourth (1L07.49) Men’s 100 Freestyle (S8) — Zack McAllister, Lethbridge, won the silver medal (1:01.61); Zach Zona, Waterford, Ont., finished fourth (1:04.81); and Chris Sergeant, Kingston, Ont., was fifth (1:05.95). Men’s 50 Butterfly (S6) — Adam Purdy, London, Ont., won the bronze medal (33.80). Men’s 50 Butterfly (S7) — Jean-Michel Lavalliere, Quebec City, won the silver medal (34.13); Nathan Clement, West Vancouver, B.C., won the bronze (34.21); and Scott Patterson, Vancouver, was eighth (53.30). Men’s 50 Backstroke (S5) — Andrew Cooke, Penticton, B.C., was sixth in the final (54.81); Daniel Murphy, Bedford, N.S., was seventh (55.22).

Men’s 150 Individual Medley (SM1-4) — Jonathon Dieleman, Vancouver, was seventh in the final (3:38.50). Men’s 100 Freestyle (S13) — Nicolas Turbide, Quebec City, won the silver medal (57.30); Devin Gotell, Antigonish, N.S., finished fourth (58.75); Tyler Mrak, Aldergrove, B.C., finished sixth (1:01.70). Men’s 4x100 Freestyle Relay (S13) — Canada (Alexander Elliot, Waterloo, Ont.; Jean-Michel Lavalliere, Quebec City; Zack McAllister, Lethbridge; Nathan Stein, Maple Ridge, B.C.; Zack McAllister, Lethbridge Adam Purdy, London, Ont.; Nathan Clement, West Vancouver, B.C.), won the silver medal (4:07.66). Women’s 100 Backstroke (S9) — Katarina Roxon of Kippens, N.L., won the bronze medal (1:20.58). Women’s 100 Backstroke (S10) — Aurelie Rivard, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the gold medal (1:07.72); Samantha Ryan, Saskatoon, was eighth (1:21.36). Women’s 100 Freestyle (S8) — Morgan Bird, Calgary, won the silver medal (1:01.53); Abi Tripp, Kingston, Ont., was fourth (1:14.43); and Sabrina Duchesne, Quebec City, fifth (1:16.89). Women’s 50 Backstroke (S5) — Valerie Drapeau, Longueuil, Que., was seventh in the final (1:04.19). Women’s 50 Butterfly (S6-7) — Sarah Mehain, Vernon, B.C. won the gold medal (37.07, that also set a Parapan record); Tess Routliffe, Caledon, Ont., was fourth (39.12). Nydia Langill, Mississauga, Ont., placed sixth in her semifinal (46.15), did not advance. TABLE TENNIS Men’s Team (S3-4) — Steven Dunn (3), Halifax, and Asad Murtaza (3), Milton Ont., won the silver medal after dropping a 2-0 decision to E.Gomez Sanchez and E.Vento Cunha, Venezuela, in the gold-medal match. Men’s Team (S6-8) — Ian Kent (8), Eastern Passage N.S., and Masoud Mojtahed (7), Austin, Texas, earned a silver medal following a 2-0 loss in the gold-medal match against L.Guarnieri Manara and P.Salmin of Brazil. WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL Women — Canada (4-0) defeated Argentina 82-28 in the semifinals. The Canadians will play the U.S. for the gold medal on Friday. WHEELCHAIR RUGBY Mixed — Canada (5-1) defeated Brazil 62-38 in the semifinals. The Canadians will play the U.S. for the gold medal on Friday. WHEELCHAIR TENNIS Men’s Doubles — Philippe Bedard, Bromont, Que., and Joel Dembe, Toronto, won the bronze medal with a 2-0 win (6-4, 6-2) over Baldwin and Rydberg of the U.S.

sia, 6-3, 6-3. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-3. John Isner (16), United States, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 7-5, 6-3. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Donald Young, United States, 6-4, 6-4. Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

Third Round Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Andrea Petkovic (16), Germany, 6-3, 6-2. Simona Halep (2), Romania, def. Angelique Kerber (13), Germany, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Ana Ivanovic (5), Serbia, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-3. Agnieszka Radwanska (6), Poland, def. Alize Cornet, France, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Sara Errani (15), Italy, def. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 7-5, 6-3. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, def. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.

Tennis Rogers Cup Results MONTREAL (AP) — Results Thursday from the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles Third Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Jack Sock, United States, 6-2, 6-1. Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, 6-3, 6-2. Kei Nishikori (4), Japan, def. David Goffin (13), Belgium, 6-4, 6-4. Rafael Nadal (7), Spain, def. Mikhail Youzhny, Rus-

TORONTO (AP) — Results Thursday from the Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles

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Bencic continues strong run at Rogers Cup BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Belinda Bencic leaned against the back wall on the grandstand court at Aviva Centre on Thursday afternoon and tried to forget about her frustration from the previous two hours. Needing to hold serve to force a tiebreaker and keep her strong run at the Rogers Cup alive, she held a steely gaze as Sabine Lisicki had her wrist taped on the other side of the net. Bencic had already knocked off Caroline Wozniacki and Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard this week and wanted her German opponent to be next. The medical timeout gave Bencic a chance to collect her thoughts. When play resumed, there was no stopping her. She held serve at love — capping the game with an ace — before giving up just three points in the tiebreaker for a 6-1, 1-6, 7-6 (3) victory. “In that moment actually I really tried to go for it,” she said. “I served better and I’m happy that I could play my best in the important moments.” The two players were evenly matched and employed similar styles. Strong ground strokes often set up aggressive winner attempts but both players had their struggles with unforced errors. Bencic was relentless in the opener before Lisicki returned the favour in the second set. The rising Swiss star didn’t hide her frustration when things didn’t go her way. The fiery 20-year-old tossed her racket to the ground on several occasions and at one point, launched a

spare ball way up in the air after her serve was broken. However, Bencic managed to keep her emotions in check when it mattered. She’ll next face either fifthseeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia or Slovenian qualifier Polona Hercog in the quarter-finals. “I am like that — I get frustrated really fast, but I also calm down really fast,” Bencic said. At the same time, second-seeded Simona Halep survived a stiff test against Germany’s Angelique Kerber. The Romanian advanced with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory. Service breaks were the norm in the last set of the two-hour 23-minute match as both players had trouble generating power under the hot sun on Centre Court. “I did well in the last game,” Halep said. “I said that I have to win it because I cannot move anymore.” In other matches Thursday, Italy’s Roberta Vinci advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Daria Gavrilova of Russia and Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko topped Carina Witthoeft of Germany 6-3, 6-4 in a battle of qualifiers. Sixth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland defeated Alize Cornet of France 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 and 15th-seeded Sara Errani of Italy beat Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-3. Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States earned a straight-sets victory 6-3, 6-2 over 16th-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany, while fifthseed Ana Ivanovic topped Polona Hercog of Slovakia 6-2, 6-3 in the evening draw. “I think I served better,” Williams said. “It was a big difference. I still think

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Belinda Bencic, of Switzerland, celebrates her win over Sabine Lisicki, of Germany, during round of 16 tennis action at the Rogers Cup in Toronto on Thursday. I have a tremendous amount of improvement to do off the ground and everywhere else.” In second-round doubles play, the Canadian duo of Sharon Fichman and Carol Zhao defeated second-seeded Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. Fichman, from Toronto, and Zhao, from Richmond Hill, Ont., were ahead 5-2 when the Russian team retired. Francoise Abanda of Montreal and

Heidi El Tabakh of Toronto dropped a 6-3, 6-2 decision to fourth-seeded Caroline Garcia of France and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia. Bencic, who won her first WTA Tour singles title earlier this year at Eastbourne, has also captured a pair of doubles titles in 2015. She was scheduled to team with Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova on Thursday night against Errani and Italy’s Flavia Pennetta.

Top-ranked Djokovic rolls past Sock in straight sets BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — There were no major surprises in the third round of the Rogers Cup on Thursday, as the tournament’s top remaining seeds punched their tickets to the quarter-finals. Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori and Rafael Nadal all progressed to the next round of play with straight-set victories. World No. 1 Djokovic beat American Jack Sock 6-2, 6-1, and Murray defeated Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller 6-3, 6-2. Japan’s Nishikori downed David Goffin of Belgium 6-4, 6-4, while Nadal beat Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-3, 6-3. Rounding out the tournament’s final eight players are defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (ranked No. 24), John Isner (No. 12), Jeremy Chardy (No. 49) and Ernests Gulbis (No. 87). For the first time since 2010, four previous Rogers Cup champions - Djokovic, Murray, Nadal and Tsonga - are in the quarter-finals. In the first match of the day, Djokovic, the tournament’s top seed for the

fifth straight year, made quick work of the 35th-ranked Sock. The match lasted just 54 minutes. “I never played him before, so it took me some time to figure out what his patterns are,” said Djokovic. “I’ve watched him many times before, but it’s different standing on the court.” The Serbian started the match emphatically, shutting out Sock in the first game. With Djokovic leading the first set 3-2, Sock hit a ball long on break point. Djokovic broke Sock’s serve again in the final game to take the set. “The turning point was the 3-2 game when I made a break,” added Djokovic. “After that I just felt in control of the match. I was returning very well. I neutralized his serve, which is one of his biggest weapons.” In the second set, Sock made another unforced error on break point to go down 3-1. The American was broken again in the sixth game when his forehand return found the net. Djokovic started the final game of the second set with a beautiful drop shot, and Sock sent his return long on triple match point.

Djokovic, who won the Rogers Cup in 2007, 2011 and 2012, has now won 50 of his 53 matches this year. He’s 37-1 since March. The Serbian will face Latvia’s Gulbis in the quarter-finals. Gulbis beat American Donald Young, ranked 79th in the world, 6-4, 6-4, on Thursday. In the other afternoon match, Murray was just too much for Muller. The Scotsman broke the 46th-ranked Muller four times during the 65-minute match. “I thought I played a good match,” said Murray. “Returned well. First game was important. I served a few breakpoints there. That kind of settled the nerves a little bit.” The usually powerful-serving Muller, who upset Gael Monfils in the second round, couldn’t make the most of his service game. The lefty held serve just four times all match. In the second set, Muller was broken three times. Down 4-2, the 32-yearold double faulted on three separate occasions. “I got a good read on his serve today,” said Murray. “That helped. I was able to neutralize his biggest weapon.

That was the key for me. Whenever he missed his first serve, I was pretty consistently getting free points on the second serve.” On match point, Murray hit an ace — his fourth of the match — to advance to the next round. Murray will meet Tsonga in the quarter-finals after the defending Rogers Cup champion beat Austria’s Bernard Tomic 7-6 (7), 6-3. In the evening, Nadal defeated the 107th-ranked Youzhny, who didn’t make things easy for the Spaniard. The match was marked by extended exchanges and lengthy games. Nadal needed one hour and 43 minutes to taste victory. “When he plays like this, his level of tennis is much higher than what his ranking says,” said Nadal of Youzhny. “He played great today. When a player like him is playing well, it’s very dangerous. If he keeps playing like this, for sure he’ll finish the season high in the rankings. No doubt about that.” Isner downed 20-year-old Nick Kyrgios 7-5, 6-3, while France’s Chardy knocked off 23rd-ranked Ivo Karlovic 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

ATP fines Nick Kyrgios for ‘insulting remark’ toward Stan Wawrinka BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — After he was hit with a hefty fine and booed by the Uniprix Stadium crowd, Nick Kyrgios said he just wants to put his incident with Stan Wawrinka behind him. Kyrgios made a derogatory comment to Wawrinka during their second-round match at the Rogers Cup on Wednesday. A courtside microphone picked up Kyrgios saying that fellow Australian player Thanasi Kokkinakis had slept with a player who is reportedly Wawrinka’s girlfriend. Kyrgios subsequently made an inappropriate comment to a ball person about the age of Wawrinka’s reported girlfriend. The ATP fined Kyrgios US$10,000 on Thursday for his “insulting remark” toward Wawrinka and an additional US$2,500 for the comment to the ball person. Prior to finding out about the additional fine, Kyrgios said he hoped to move on from the incident.

“It’s all cleared now,” said Kyrgios after his third-round loss to American John Isner. “Obviously I apologized in public and privately as well. I’ve been fined. So everything is sort of put to bed now.” Following a video review of the match, however, the ATP also served Kyrgios with a “Notice of Investigation” to determine if the Australian’s remarks constituted a “major offence.” Kyrgios could face more fines and a suspension from future ATP events. Several fans booed Kyrgios when he took to the court on Thursday. Kyrgios lost to Isner in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3. The Montreal crowd’s frosty response made headlines in Kyrgios’s native Australia. “It’s been tough,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it’s been the toughest thing that’s happened. I got some sleep last night.” Wawrinka was livid at Kyrgios’s trash talk and took to Twitter after the match to ask the ATP to respond. “There is no need for this kind of behaviour on or off the court and I

hope the governing body of this sport does not stand for this,” he posted. He called the 20-year-old Australian’s words “not only unacceptable but also beyond belief.” Kyrgios ended up beating Wawrinka on the court when the Swiss player retired with a lower-back injury while trailing 4-0 in the third set. In a post-match interview on court, Kyrgios said Wawrinka had provoked him. “He was getting a bit lippy at me so, I don’t know, it’s just in-the-moment sort of stuff,” Kyrgios said. “I don’t really know, I just said it.” Kyrgios and Wawrinka then clashed in the hallway by the locker room. “It was interesting,” said Kyrgios on Thursday of the post-match altercation. “He came up to me, as I knew he would. I wasn’t surprised. I told him I was sorry. “Obviously he was angry. So I just had to deal with it. Something I had to deal with. Hopefully we can just put it behind us.” Kyrgios also made a public apology

Thursday on his Facebook page. “I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the comments I made during the match last night vs Stan Wawrinka,” he said. “My comments were made in the heat of the moment and were unacceptable on many levels. In addition to the private apology I’ve made, I would like to make a public apology as well. I take full responsibility for my actions and regret what happened.” The $10,000 fine is the maximum for incidents of verbal abuse or unsportsmanlike conduct. “In my opinion it was completely unnecessary to comment on something like that,” said world No. 1 Novak Djokovic after his 6-2, 6-1 win over Jack Sock on Thursday. “I think he was fined ... and he deserved it. I think he’s going to learn a lesson in a hard way and hopefully this won’t happen to him anymore.” The 30-year-old Wawrinka, ranked fifth in the world, announced in April that he had separated from his wife, with whom he has a daughter.

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Packers down Pats in preseason opener PRESEASON ROUNDUP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PACKERS 22 PATRIOTS 11 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady completed one of four passes before giving way to Jimmy Garoppolo, and the New England Patriots fell 22-11 to the Green Bay Packers in both teams’ exhibition opener on Thursday night. A day after appearing before a federal judge hearing the appeal of his “Deflategate” suspension, Brady played just two series — a three-and-out and a four-and-out. Garoppolo, who would fill in for Brady if any part of the Super Bowl MVP’s four-game suspension is upheld, played three quarters plus one play. He went 20 for 30 for 159 yards, no touchdowns and one interception, and was sacked seven times. Aaron Rodgers completed 11 of 19 passes for 117 yards for Green Bay. Backup Scott Tolzien was 10 for 16 for 107 yards and a 26-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Janis. Alonzo Harris ran for a 25-yard touchdown for the 2014 NFC North winners. REDSKINS 20, BROWNS 17 CLEVELAND (AP) — Quarterback Josh McCown threw a touchdown pass in his debut for Cleveland and backup Johnny Manziel scrambled for a TD as the Browns built an early lead before losing to Washington. McCown, signed during the off-season to bring stability to Cleveland’s troublesome position, connected with Travis Benjamin on a 2-yard TD in the first quarter. Manziel ran 12 yards for a score in the second. Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III went 4 of 8 passing for 36 yards during two possessions with Washington’s starters. Griffin would have thrown a TD pass, but wide receiver Pierre Garcon dropped a long toss. Kirk Cousins rallied the Redskins, who trailed 14-3 in the second quarter. Cousins ran for a TD and went 12 of 14 for 154 yards. RAVENS 30, SAINTS 27 BALTIMORE (AP) — Joe Flacco and backup quarterback Matt Schaub directed first-quarter touchdown drives, and Baltimore beat New Orleans. New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees was held out by coach Sean Payton. Brees participated in pregame drills, but remained on the sideline after the opening kickoff. Luke McCown started, and by the time New Orleans got its initial first down Baltimore led 17-0. New Orleans took the lead for the first time when Marcus Murphy scored on a 3-yard run with 1:56 left. The score came after Terrence Frederick picked off

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Green Bay Packers running back John Crockett (38) heads to the goal for a touchdown as New England Patriots outside linebacker Geneo Grissom tries to tackle him during an NFL preseason football game Thursday, in Foxborough, Mass. a pass by Bryn Renner. Renner answered with a 1-yard touchdown run with 2 seconds left to give Baltimore the win. LIONS 23, JETS 3 DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Stafford threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate, and rookie running back Ameer Abdullah ran for 67 yards — 45 on one play — to lift Detroit over New York. Stafford played only one possession in Detroit’s exhibition opener. He threw for 57 yards, completing his only two pass attempts — both to Tate. The touchdown came on a throw over the middle, and Tate slipped between three defenders after the catch and ran to the end zone. Ryan Fitzpatrick played one drive for the Jets, going 2 of 3 for 16 yards and guiding New York to a field goal. It’s been a tumultuous week for the Jets, who lost quarterback Geno Smith to a broken jaw when he was punched by teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali in

the locker room Tuesday. Enemkpali was cut shortly after. BEARS 27, DOLPHINS 10 CHICAGO (AP) — Ryan Tannehill picked apart a rebuilt defence, throwing for a touchdown on the game’s opening drive, and Miami led into the second half before Chicago rallied for a victory. The Bears used two interceptions by reserves to set up a touchdown and field goal that gave them a 10-point lead early in the fourth quarter. The rally aside, it was not a promising performance by a team coming off a five-win season. The Bears hired general manager Ryan Pace and coach John Fox while overhauling the defence, but there clearly is work to do. Miami, 8-8 last season, looked good until Chicago’s reserves made their move. Tannehill, armed with a $96 million contract extension, played like a big-money quarterback, going 6 of 7 for 56 yards.

Winston and Mariota ready to take first steps Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota. The Heisman Trophy winners’ preseason debuts are looming, and the top picks in the NFL draft are poised to show what they are learning at training camp. Winston plays Saturday night when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit Minnesota, while Mariota and the Tennessee Titans head to Atlanta tonight. It’s the first of four preseason games prepping the rookies for Sept. 13 when they square off for the first time as professionals in their teams’ season openers on Winston’s home field. As long as they are playing, when you hear one name, you’ll probably hear the other: Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, Peyton Manning and Ryan Jameis Winston Leaf. So with Winston and Mariota having gone through 11 training camp practices, here’s a look at their progress: Q. How are they mastering the passing game? WINSTON: If there was a knock on him coming out of Florida State, it was his supreme confidence that he could get the ball anywhere leading to a penchant for interceptions. The Bucs don’t want discourage him from being aggressive, but they’ve pressured him with blitzes so he can learn from mistakes. He’s thrown plenty of interceptions in practice, yet shown steady improvement with his completion percentage rising since the start of camp. “He’s got a short memory. We use the term snap-and-clear all the time,” quarterback coach Mike Bajakian said. “Every snap is an independent event. No snap, whether good or bad, determines the outcome of the next snap. So he does a good job of putting the previous snap behind him and moving on.” MARIOTA: The former Duck came to Tennessee first needing to show he could simply run a huddle and take the snap under centre after not doing either at Oregon. Mariota has had no issues with either with only one botched snap in camp. Fitting the ball into tight spots and away from defenders was another question, and Mariota has shown he can do just that. So far, Mariota has thrown 186 pass attempts at camp in seven-on-seven and team drills without being intercepted. “It’s getting the combinations that we’re using with the receiver and just getting used to those in the reads against the defence,” Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt said. “That’s the biggest thing.” Q. How are they growing into their leadership roles? Marcus Mariota WINSTON: Winston’s light switch always is on with his electric smile and engaging personality. But teammates and coaches say he has shown he knows when to tone it down and just be one of the guys. “Every day I come in — and I come in pretty early, between 6:30 and 7:00 — he’s already in the locker room, working on his abs, doing his core work with one of our strength coaches,” three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. “Then he gets to meetings early, does everything he’s asked off the field as well as on the field.” Winston’s veteran teammates probably also appreciate the rookie rejecting the notion that he is the face of the franchise just because he was the No. 1 overall pick. “I don’t believe it’s my team. It’s our team,” he said. “It’s my role to play quarterback.” MARIOTA: He seems to operate mostly on a dimmer switch, knowing when to turn it up. Teammates joke reporters might be lucky to get a two-word answer from Mariota inside the locker room. But veteran wide receiver Harry Douglas said Mariota leads by example. “Trust me, I haven’t seen many like him in my life,” Douglas said. “He may know it, but he doesn’t

act that way. He’s humble, and God is going to always reward those who are humble. That’s why he’s had so much success in his life so far.” Q. How are they taking command of the huddle? WINSTON: A change in quarterback was not a hard sell in Tampa. The Bucs were 2-14 a year ago, the team’s worst finish in 28 seasons. Winston has immersed himself in the playbook, picks the brains of veterans and offensive co-ordinator Dirk Koetter and exudes confidence players say is contagious. He carries all of that into the huddle. “I think the best surprise is when you are not really surprised. You have a perception of what someone should be like, and with Jameis that’s what it’s

been,” coach Lovie Smith said. “I knew he would be a good teammate and they would really like him.” MARIOTA: Mastering the huddle was something Mariota simply didn’t have to do at Oregon where the Ducks looked to the sideline for the play call. To make sure he can rattle off play calls that can be 13 words or longer, Mariota has practiced the night before to avoid any mistake in the huddle. Mariota also speaks up loud and clear, and the rookie looks like he’s run a huddle for years. “Out here, it’s a different story and a different Marcus,” Titans wide receiver Kendall Wright said. “That’s just his home out there, and that’s how he treats it.”

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CFL adding more concussion testing ADDING A 2-MINUTE TEST TO STANDARD SIDELINE EXAMS FOR SUSPECTED CONCUSSION BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — The CFL is adding a two-minute test to standard sideline examinations for suspected concussion. The aim is to quickly determine if a player should be pulled from the field or can safely return to play. The King-Devick test was initially developed by American optometrists Alan King and Steven Devick in 1976 to diagnose eye movement dysfunction that affects reading ability. A player rapidly reads aloud lines of irregularly spaced, nonsequential numbers on flip cards or smartphone/tablet apps. In the last five years, research groups began studying the test to see if it could detect concussion, a brain injury that can affect attention and concentration. The CFL is trying out the test for players on four teams — the B.C. Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The NFL is helping fund the CFL project, and this testing is not in place in the NFL yet. “It’s really just to collect some num-

bers to see if this gives us an additional tool,” said Kevin McDonald, CFL vice-president of football operations. “We thought there was a real opportunity to get some meaningful data.” The CFL is facing a $200 million lawsuit filed in May by two former players, who are seeking class-action status on behalf of all retired players going back to 1952. The suit alleges the league, former commissioner Mark Cohon, a Toronto doctor and clinic withheld information about how repeated concussions can lead to long-term cognitive disorders. In April, a U.S. judge approved a settlement involving the NFL, which had long been accused of hiding the cumulative effects of concussions. The agreement involves thousands of concussion lawsuits. McDonald denied that the CFL is adopting the test in response to the lawsuit. “This is about the health and safety of our players,” he said. Dr. David Dodick, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix who specializes in concussions, said numerous studies have concluded the King-De-

vick test is highly accurate in picking up the brain injury. “And that’s what makes it a very valuable tool,” said Dodick, noting that the time-based test is more objective than standard balance and cognition assessment tests and is not affected by player fatigue. Players are given K-D tests before the start of their season to establish a baseline time for recounting all 120 numbers, which are laid out in increasingly difficult-to-follow patterns. If a player is suspected of having sustained a concussion during play, the athlete is retested and the results compared. Should the task take longer to complete or include errors, the player should be removed from play and seen by a doctor. The Mayo Clinic this year endorsed the test for school-based, amateur and pro contact sports in a licensing agreement with King-Devick Test Inc. “We recognized the need for a simple, rapid and cost-effective sideline test,” Dodick said. “So to have an objective and reliable test, we felt it was very important and we saw the poten-

Baseball’s new deal with search firm emphasizes help for minority, female candidates THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Major League Baseball wants to help the top contenders for openings in baseball operations, especially women and minorities. MLB announced Thursday it had retained a search firm to assist candidates who reach the interview process. It also said it had instructed Korn Ferry to provide special emphasis to help for some of the most underrepresented groups in the baseball hierarchy. There has never been a female general manager in the sport, and there are very few women and minorities on that side of the organizational structure. While MLB has had a minority interview requirement for key openings in baseball operations for several years, Commissioner Rob Manfred said the league thinks the search firm “might be able to improve the effectiveness of the rule by making minority candidates who get an interview more effective in that interview process.” “These interviews are detailed activities,” Manfred said. “It’s not just how you present yourself in the interview, and you know that’s a skill that can be refined. But it’s also substantive packages of mate-

rial that demonstrate your ability to evaluate personnel, depending on what the job is, or manage, and we think we can help diverse candidates who get interviews make their best possible presentation and hopefully help them get hired.” Manfred made his remarks at the conclusion of a quiet two days of owners’ meetings at a luxurious hotel in downtown Chicago. Billy Bean, MLB’s openly gay ambassador for inclusion, made a presentation Thursday on his work, and the owners also listened to a presentation on domestic violence and several committee reports. It was quite a contrast to the owners’ meetings last August, when the race was on to find a successor for retiring Commissioner Bud Selig. Friday marks exactly one year since Manfred was elected to the job. “If the next four years go as fast as the first one,” a chuckling Manfred said, “I’m going to be looking for a renewal soon because it’s gone pretty darn quickly. Look, the organization does not look very much like it looked a year ago. We’ve made tremendous change internally.” On the field, there is hope for fans of the New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs for the first

tial for this King-Devick test to make a huge difference in increasing the likelihood of identifying concussion on the sidelines.” Dr. Paul Echlin, a Burlington, Ontario, sports medicine physician, treats young athletes with head trauma. He doesn’t use the K-D examination and questions the ability of a two-minute test to diagnose the complex condition with certainty — especially when administered by parents or coaches. “One test can’t say someone is concussed or nonconcussed,” said Echlin, adding that if there’s suspicion a player might have a brain injury, the player should be removed from play and fully evaluated by a physician. Dodick at the Mayo acknowledged that some of his colleagues have voiced a similar criticism, saying the test should be given to youth athletes by qualified professionals — not parents or coaches. “By the same token, do we not do anything? When we do have the tool, do we not administer it?” he said. “What would the harm be? You identify someone slower and you take them out. You err on the side of caution.”

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to the media after the owners meetings, Thursday, in Chicago. time in a while. The active trade deadline helped produce big ratings for the MLB Network, and Manfred said the sport also got a boost from last month’s All-Star Game in Cincinnati. “I think the state of the game is driven by — you know this, I don’t have to say this to you — is driven by the fact that we have really good competitive balance, excitement in a lot of markets,” he said. On the horizon is the expiration of the owners’ labour deal with the players after next season. Manfred helped lead negotiations for baseball’s last three labour contracts and the

first joint drug agreement that was instituted in 2002, a program that has been strengthened repeatedly. The upcoming labour talks were brought up during the owners’ meetings, and Manfred praised the work of chief legal officer Dan Halem in preparing for those negotiations. “I have always been a big negotiation preparation person,” Manfred said. “I think the better job you do in that preparation the better chance you have to make a deal and make an effective deal and I think Dan has taken that process really seriously. He has done a tremendous amount of work already.”

PORTLAND, Ore. — Canadian teen star Brooke Henderson is one stroke off the lead after the opening round of the LPGA Tour’s Cambia Portland Classic on Thursday. The 17-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., birdied six of the first 13 holes for a 6-under 66. Henderson, who doesn’t turn 18 until September, has made $466,818 in nine LPGA Tour tournaments this year. She earned a spot in the field in Monday qualifying, and thought that helped Thursday. “I feel much more comfortable in the first round than I do a lot of times because I’ve already played this golf course in a competitive atmosphere this week,” Henderson said. Amy Anderson and Sandra Changkija shared the first-round lead at 7 under. “I got off to a pretty fast start,” Henderson said. “I was 4 under through the first nine, and really took advantage of the soft and scorable conditions out there this morning.” In warm, calm afternoon conditions, Anderson had five consecutive birdies on the front nine in her bogey-free round at Columbia Edgewater. Changkija, playing in the morning, made six birdies on her opening nine and reached 8 under before finishing with a bogey. Anderson, the 23-year-old former North Dakota State player who won an NCAA-record 20 tournaments, had never led a round during her two-year LPGA Tour career. She’s coming off her best finish of the year, a tie for eighth in Michigan at the Meijer LPGA Classic. The 26-year-old Changkija, in her fourth LPGA season, has only two career top-10 finishes, but one came at the 2013 Portland stop. The 65 was her lowest competitive round since shooting 63 in Canada in the 2012 Manulife Financial Classic. Alison Lee and Julieta Granada join Henderson at a shot back of the lead. Mo Martin and Cristie Kerr shot 67. Secondranked Lydia Ko opened with a 70, and No. 3 Stacy Lewis had a 71.

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Red Deer College is once again offering a wide range of summer camps, from stay camps where students spend several days or a week immersed in a program, to day camps. Camps range from sports to science, to art, from introductory band to classical strings, chamber music to fiddling. Here’s a glimpse at a day at the Musical Theatre camp this week. It included 40 students who took on a shortened and modified version of the stage musical Bye Bye Birdie. “This is our third week, we had two weeks of band running up until now, all of our band students have gone home and we now have 40 musical theatre students with us,” said Neil Corlett, RDC Music Camp director. “The students are coming from all over Alberta, from Fort McMurray to Lethbridge.” The program introduces students to all aspects of musical theatre, from choreography to voice, movement and acting, says Corlett. “They run the whole gamut — they workshop everything to do with production.” The camp runs a full week with students arriving on Sunday and working through the week to master the production. The group take their work to the main stage at the Red Deer College Arts Centre on Sunday at 2 p.m. for a free performance with the public invited to attend. On Saturday at 3:45 p.m., you can also catch the ensemble concerts at the art centre.

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VLT lounge holdup suspect details released Red Deer RCMP have released descriptions of two suspects accused of holding up the Quality Inn North Hill VLT lounge on Wednesday, and information on their getaway car. The first suspect is described as a Caucasian man in his 20s about 1.8 metres (six-foot-two) tall with a thin build weighing 82 kg (180 pounds). He has a pock-marked face and short brown hair above the ears. He was carrying a shot gun and wearing a face covering. The second suspect is described as a Caucasian man between 1.73 metres and 1.78 metres (five-foot-eight and five-foot-10) tall with a stocky build. He has short brown hair and he was wearing sunglasses and a face covering. The suspects fled the hotel in a white 2015 Hyundai Sonata, which RCMP recovered at 1:50 p.m. in an alley near Norquay Street. The car had been reported stolen on Aug. 3 from the Kentwood neighbourhood. It was abandoned and running with the doors open. Police believe there was a second vehicle waiting for the suspects to help them escape. On Wednesday, police responded to an armed robbery shortly after 1 p.m. at the hotel’s VLT lounge. Less than a month earlier, two men held up the Radisson Hotel. Const. Derek Turner said it is too early at this stage in the investigation to determine whether the two robberies are related or if there is a connection to any other armed robberies in the area. RCMP ask anyone who may have seen suspicious activity in the area of Norquay Street between about 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it on-

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Red Deer RCMP arrested a person after a chase through downtown Red Deer on Thursday morning that ended near the police detachment. A man is in custody after the driver of a truck failed to stop for police, crashed the truck he was driving and tried to flee on foot. The incident occurred around 11:25 a.m. when members of the Community Response Unit located a white Ford truck with a stolen licence plate in downtown Red Deer. Police attempted a traffic stop with the truck, which then sped away south on Gaetz Avenue. Police did not pursue the truck for public safety. As it sped off, the truck struck a parked vehicle a short distance away. The crash caused damage to the truck, making driving difficult. The driver abandoned the truck on the side of the road and fled on foot. After a short foot chase, police were able to apprehend the male driver. No one was injured during this incident. A 28-year-old male is presently in custody facing charges. line at www.tipsubmit.com.

Lacombe County helps fund local community projects Lacombe County will bump up its share of the cost of upgrades to Eckville’s community centre parking lot after the cost came in higher than expected. An engineering report had pegged the cost of redoing the parking lot, which also serves the arena and curling rink, at about $407,000. But when tendered, the only offer that came in was around $508,000. Council had previously committed to covering 38.6 per cent of the cost, based on the percentage of facility users from the county. Using the formula, the county’s new contribution would be $196,197 — an increase of just over $39,000. “Though it is very unfortunate that the tendered cost of the project came in higher than original estimates, it is appropriate that the county provide additional support towards it considering our residents’ use of these facilities,” said a report to council. Council voted unanimously in favour of the funding increase on Thursday.

Sylvan seeks to preserve history BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake is mulling ways to preserve its history. Town council asked staff this week to take a look at what would be involved in establishing a municipal heritage program. Many communities have adopted policies to protect their historical buildings. They often include restrictions on tearing down or renovating properties, while sometimes including incentives to preserving the community’s historical gems. In Sylvan Lake, the idea was given a boost by a local group that wants to preserve a quirky 1905 home built to resemble a French stone castle. Another unrelated stone-built home also exists a few streets away that they want to see saved. A Facebook page under Sylvan Lake Stone Castle has been set up to rally support for a preservation campaign for the unique home. In a report to council, town administration suggests that a heritage plan could be included in a cultural master plan already in the works. The heri-

tage component would likely involve “significant” staff time and it was recommended it be considered as part of 2016 budget deliberations. However, council wanted to move faster and asked staff to look at what they could do this year. Typically, developing a plan starts with an inventory of the community’s existing historical resources and identifying the most valuable and vulnerable. Regulations would later be adopted requiring owners of historical properties to notify the town of any planned changes to the site or structure. Often owners are required to maintain the distinct character of a building, or can be required to maintain the essential elements of the property. Town communications officer Joanne Gaudet said the two stone houses are zoned direct control, which means council has a say in what happens to the property. “At the end of the day, nothing is going to happen at the sites without council approval anyway. “They would need permission to demo(lish). They would need permission to move a deck on those properties, really.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Penhold ATM theft admitted by Calgary man A Calgary man has pleaded guilty to the theft of an ATM from the Penholder Inn earlier this year. Brett Arthur Klyne, 34, pleaded guilty to his role in the ATM theft that saw two thieves break into the Penholder Inn on Feb. 28 at 4:30 a.m., attach a tow rope to an ATM inside the building and remove it by dragging it with a vehicle. Innisfail RCMP located a vehicle matching the suspect vehicle’s description a short time later driving east on Hwy 590. The vehicle’s driver refused to stop for police and fled the area. Klyne pleaded guilty in Calgary provincial court on Thursday. He was arrested after attempting to leave a restaurant on Gaetz Avenue in north Red Deer after not paying his bill. A charge of obtaining food by fraud was withdrawn by the Crown prosecutor. Klyne is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on Aug. 20 in Calgary provin-

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Chain Lakes water quality lobby to approach province Lacombe County has appointed two councillors to join an effort to lobby the province to protect Chain Lakes water quality. The landowner-led Chain Lakes Water Quality group has already enlisted Ponoka County support to join them in a meeting with Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to discuss the future of the lakes. It has been proposed that county representatives and the group should meet before the meeting with the province to hash out their key concerns. Coun. Brenda Knight, whose division the lakes partly fall in, and Coun. Rod McDermand will be the county’s representatives. McDermand, a retired farmer, said it will be useful to bring an agricultural perspective to the discussions because some farmers feel their views are sometimes not well represented when environmental issues are discussed. Recent studies have shown the first of the three lakes just southeast of Ponoka is almost dead, the second is in danger, and the third is in poor shape but better than the other two. Among the warning signs is the presence of high levels of phosphorous, which is not naturally occurring in the water. There are also unhealthily high levels of other pollutants in the lakes.

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Tempest in a teacup OILSANDS FUROR A POOR DEBATE, SAY EXPERTS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The furor over a New Democrat candidate’s remarks about leaving Alberta’s oilsands in the ground reflects how poorly the issue is understood, say energy experts. To many, Toronto Centre candidate Linda McQuaig’s recent statement is just the simple fact of the matter. “The shock is that anyone would be shocked by this,” said Mark Jaccard, an environmental economist at Simon Fraser University. Jaccard, who recently signed a letter with 100 scientific colleagues calling for a moratorium on new oilsands development, said Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s goals for emission reductions preclude complete development of the massive resource.

Harper has agreed with a G7 goal of up to 70 per cent greenhouse gas cuts by 2050 and a carbon-free economy by the end of the century. But estimates suggest the oilsands hold about 168 billion barrels. At current production of about two million barrels a day, that’s 230 years worth of emissions. Jaccard said Harper’s G7 promise automatically shuts in bitumen — unless massive costs are paid by the rest of society. “Let’s say you kept oilsands frozen at its current output level,” he said. “(That means) you can’t have any coal-fired power generation in Canada. You’ve got to convert about two-thirds of the vehicle stock to plug-in hybrid electrics and any kind of large trucks have to be on biodiesel.” And the more oilsands production increases, the more carbon has to come out of the rest of the econ-

omy. “You could expand the oilsands a bit if the rest of us went to zero emissions,” he said. “It would be insane, but it would be possible.” Or the costs of keeping emissions in check could be borne by industry, said Allan Fogwill of the Canadian Energy Research Institute, an independent research group. Greater energy efficiency or techno-fixes such as carbon capture and storage could reduce Canada’s overall carbon footprint and still allow for oilsands expansion. “We have the technical solutions available to go down any path,” he said. “The limiting factor is how much those solutions cost.”

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Risks outweigh benefits: Ontario BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Ontario Energy Board says the environmental risks of the $12-billion Energy East pipeline project outweigh the potential benefits, and warns it will drive up natural gas prices. “What we have found is there is an imbalance between the economic and environmental risks of the project and the expected benefits for Ontarians,” said OEB vice-president Peter Fraser as he released a report on Energy East. TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) is planning to build the pipeline to bring Alberta crude to refineries in Quebec and to a refinery and marine terminal in Saint John, N.B. For two-thirds of the way, it plans to convert a natural gas pipeline for oil and then build all new pipe through Quebec and New Brunswick. After 15 months of consultations with people in communities along the Ontario route of the pipeline, the energy board found people are worried about possible polluting of lakes, rivers and drinking water supplies. “The top concern expressed was the risk of an oil spill as the pipeline runs near or across many waterways,” said Fraser. “Our advice is that for the existing pipeline, when it is too close to environmentally sensitive areas, it should be rerouted unless it can be justified by TransCanada as necessary.” The OEB report also said residents are rightly concerned the project could drive up natural gas prices. Its technical experts found there will be higher natural gas prices as a result of Energy East because there will be less supply. “They estimated that on average, over a 20-year period, in the winter time, natural gas prices in eastern Ontario will be 11.9 per cent higher than if Energy East did not go ahead,” said Fraser. Union Gas Limited, a natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company based in Ontario, said it reached the same conclusion. “We want assurance that Ontario natural gas customers will not bear the costs and risks related to the Energy East oil pipeline, and we continue to be open to finding a satisfactory resolution of these issues with TransCanada,” said Union Gas president Steve Baker. TransCanada countered by pointing out the benefits of delivering Alberta crude to the Maritimes, saying eastern Canada imports more than 600,000 barrels of oil a day that could be replaced “from a secure supply right here in Canada in the safest possible way, by pipeline.” The company said it wants to address the concerns raised in the OEB report. “Our team will continue to work closely with the Ontario government to ensure the project meets proven safety standards and environmental protection while delivering important economic benefits,” said TransCanada’s Energy East president Francois Poirier.

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Rimbey Co-op’s meat department was gutted after a power outage knocked out its refrigeration system. The incident forced the store to close for a day.

Rimbey Co-op forced to toss thousands in perishables after power outage BY ADVOCATE STAFF A power outage at the Rimbey Co-op led to the town’s main grocery store being shut down for a day and between $30,000 and $40,000 in perishable goods being lost. General manager Jason Ryden said on Thursday that the power went out in parts of Rimbey, including at the Co-op, at midnight on Tuesday. The power came back on at 3 a.m. but when it did, there was a power surge through the Co-op’s refrigeration system, causing it to shut down. They lost all the store’s fresh products — anything that was perishable such as meat and dairy goods. About 80 per cent of the store is under one refrigera-

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BRIEF Kinder Morgan president says draft Trans Mountain pipeline conditions achievable VANCOUVER — Kinder Morgan Canada’s president says 145 draft conditions affecting the company’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline are rigorous but achievable. Ian Anderson’s comments come one day after

tion system. Everything was emptied out by 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Ryden said. All the products were compromised and cannot be resold or even given away. “We would hate for somebody to get sick,” he said. “We can’t do that at a retail level.” The warehouse that supplies the Co-op did a great job of getting them fresh product, he said. They had product by 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. The store was re-opened Thursday and staff were busy getting everything back on shelves. “This was one of the larger shutdowns that I’ve experienced in 15 years.” The Co-op is discussing the problem with their power provider and insurance company. the National Energy Board released conditions involving the company’s $5.4-billion plan to triple the bitumen-carrying capacity of the pipeline between Edmonton and Metro Vancouver. Anderson says Kinder Morgan will file its comments with the NEB next Thursday and ask it to clarify the timing of certain conditions and further explain parts of the approval process. Key draft conditions include orders requiring Kinder Morgan to hold more than $1 billion in liability coverage and to detail its plans to protect endangered species and reduce emissions. The company would also have to file reports about its discussions with First Nations every six months until operations begin and then annually for five years. Critics say the conditions ignore their input, while more than 35 groups and citizens have already quit the NEB review process, calling it biased and unfair.

New report suggests pipelines are safer than rail BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransCanada (TSX:TRP) is pointing to a new study on how pipeline safety stacks up against rail to show why two of its controversial projects should be built. According to the report by the Fraser Institute released Thursday, the rate of incidents or accidents per million barrels of transported crude is 4 ½ times higher for rail than for pipelines. The think tank crunched data from the federal Transportation Safety Board and Transport Canada between 2003 and 2013 to come to that conclusion. “In both Canada and the United States, rising oil and natural gas production necessitates the expansion of our transportation capacity,” said Kenneth Green, the study’s lead author.

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“The decision of which mode of transport should be used is a simple one. It should be the safer one; it should be pipelines.” TransCanada spokesman Mark Cooper highlighted the Fraser Institute study in a missive outlining the reasons why its long-stalled cross-border Keystone XL oil pipeline ought to be approved. The company first applied to the U.S. State Department to build the pipeline nearly seven years ago. The final decision is now in the hands of U.S. President Barack Obama. “If it is judged on fact and science over symbolism — as this report and many others before it have shown — it will be approved,” Cooper wrote. TransCanada has floated the idea of creating a “rail bridge” to tide shippers over while Keystone XL remains in regulatory limbo. The study was also pointed out by Tim Duboyce, a

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spokesman for TransCanada’s Alberta-to-New Brunswick Energy East proposal, in reaction to the Ontario Energy Board’s finding that the project’s risks outweigh its benefits. North American oil producers have been increasingly looking to move their product on trains as pipeline proposals remain stalled. In a June report, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said crude-by-rail volumes averaged 185,000 barrels a day in 2014. Thursday’s Fraser Institute study made reference to 2013 research that, based on U.S. data, found when pipelines do spill, it’s in greater volumes than rail — 42,722 litres per billion ton-miles versus 13,264 litres per billion ton-miles. However, it says that for pipelines, the figure decreases “noticeably” when recovery rates of spilled products are taken into consideration.

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Vale’s smelter complex is pictured in Copper Cliff, Ont. The Vale mining company said there was a nitrogen dioxide release from its Copper Cliff facility on Thursday. Residents near the facility had been told to stay inside with the windows and doors closed due to a release of nitrogen dioxide. A piercing alarm went off just after 6 a.m. and at one point, a yellow plume was seen over the town. Roads around the facility were closed to traffic as a precaution. By 8:30 a.m., the leak was contained to the facility and the emergency called off, Vale said in a statement. No injuries have been reported.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 126.31 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.75 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.50 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 73.40 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market posted a triple-digit decline Thursday, while the loonie fell by more than half a cent against the greenback. Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index closed down 101.13 points at 14,238.40. Allan Small, senior investment adviser at Holliswealth, said investors are dealing with a “malaise” that seems to have gripped the Canadian economy. “There doesn’t seem to be much positivity coming out of Canada,” he said. “I just think it’s an overall negativity in our markets here.” Small pointed to the continuing oil slump, talk about a potential recession for Canada in the first half of the year and a string of disappointing economic indicators, including mediocre job numbers released last Friday. “With all of that factored in you have this malaise, give or take one day up and one day down,” he said. “There’s kind of this feeling that Canada is not doing well.” The loonie ended the day at 76.55 cents US, down 0.53 of a U.S. cent. Small said the United States has been gaining ground on Canada as its diversified economy returns to growth and Canada’s resource-heavy markets look for a rebound in oil prices that is unlikely in the short term. “Any way you measure it we’re definitely lagging behind the U.S. and that’s why our dollar has fallen as low as it has,” he said. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average posted a rise of 5.74 points to 17,408.25, the Nasdaq index closed down 10.83 points to 5,033.56 and the S&P 500 fell 2.66 points to 2,083.39. Earlier this week the Chinese government shocked markets by devaluing its currency, which is

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OILSANDS: Point has been made before That limiting factor may be as important as government policy, said Erin Flanagan of the clean energy think-tank Pembina Institute. She points to research suggesting oil prices are likely to remain below the cost of production for new oilsands projects well into the next decade. By then, markets may have changed permanently. “Will they come out of the ground or won’t they come out of the ground? That question is being answered already by global oil markets,” she said. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers declined to comment during the election. A spokesman pointed to 2012 research that suggested burning the entire economic oilsands resource would increase global

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Currencies: Cdn — 76.55 cents US, down 0.53 of a cent Pound — C$2.0399, up 1.32 cents Euro — C$1.4570, up 0.75 of a cent Euro — US$1.1153, down 0.20 of a cent Oil futures: US$42.23 per barrel, down $1.07 (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,115.60 per oz., down $8.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.994 oz., down 5.5 cents $674.96 kg., down $1.77 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $10.30 higher $491.90; Jan. ’16 $9.50 higher $490.80; March ’16 $9.00 higher $489.80; May ’16 $8.70 higher $486.30; July ’16 $8.70 higher $481.80; Nov. ’16 $6.60 higher $453.90; Jan. ’17 $6.60 higher $455.10; March ’17 $6.60 higher $456.80; May ’17 $6.60 higher $456.80; July ’17 $6.60 higher $456.80; Nov. ’17 $6.60 higher $456.80. Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 $2.00 lower $205.10; Dec. ’15 $2.00 lower $205.10; March ’16 $2.00 lower $207.10; May ’16 $2.00 lower $208.10; July ’16 $2.00 lower $208.10; Oct. ’16 $2.00 lower $208.10; Dec. ’16 $2.00 lower $208.10; March ’17 $2.00 lower $208.10; May ’17 $2.00 lower $208.10; July ’17 $2.00 lower $208.10; Oct. ’17 $2.00 lower $208.10. Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 364,020 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 364,020.

picks up, with northern Alberta,” Medline told analysts in a conference call “We saw good sales but we are not fooling ourselves. It is going to be tough sledding there.” The negative impact was particularly evident at its Mark’s industrial wear stores as the oil industry began to cut jobs and shut down projects earlier this year. Canadian Tire thrives on sales of its industrial wear, like steel-toe boots and overalls, a segment that tends to have some of the highest margins across all of its businesses. Mark’s hopes to mitigate some of the slowdown by placing an emphasis on casual men’s and women’s clothing at its Alberta stores. “We know that it will be an uphill battle to make up for industrial wear over the very near term,” Medline said.

temperatures by 0.03 C. McQuaig’s point has been made before. In 2008, a report from the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy — a Harper-appointed body the government later shut down — said “research indicates that the only option to attain deep emission reductions is to reduce industrial output in some sectors, notably oilsands and mining.” Still, her remarks prompted a political back-and-forth between New Democrats and Conservatives that lasted days. Time to get real, said Jaccard. Even Saudi Arabia has begun to acknowledge some of its hydrocarbons will remain undeveloped, he said. “It’s kind of like we’re in a dialogue in Canada that reminds me of Saudi Arabia 20 years ago.” Flanagan said governments need to think about mitigating risks in a changing world. “The level of fanfare around these comments is really troubling. It shows we’re not ready to have that mature conversation.”

Toronto, Regina, Winnipeg at high risk of market correction: CMHC BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has added Toronto to its list of troubled housing markets, saying that rapid price growth and overvalued home prices put the country’s biggest real estate market at high risk of a correction. Toronto joins Regina and Winnipeg, which the mortgage insurer placed in the high risk category back in April. At the time, Toronto was only labelled as facing a moderate level of risk due to overvaluation. Dana Senagama, CMHC’s market analyst for Toronto, says it’s the detached housing market — and not the muchdiscussed condo segment — that faces a higher degree of risk. “Contrary to a lot of the chatter surrounding the condo market and unrealistic price growth happening in that segment ... we’re really seeing the rapid gains are being felt in the lowrise category, particularly in the single detached homes,” said Senagama. Prices of detached homes have been growing at roughly double the pace of condo units for the past four or five quarters, Senagama said. In Regina, price acceleration, overbuilding in the condo market and overvalued home prices are responsible for the heightened housing market risk, according to the report, although

CMHC notes that price growth is beginning to wane. In Winnipeg, overvalued home prices and overbuilding have been flagged as concerns. Meanwhile, Vancouver — one of the country’s priciest real estate markets — has been deemed low risk, even as home prices continue to soar. The benchmark price of a detached home in metropolitan Vancouver hit $1.1 million in July, up 16.2 per cent from a year ago, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said last week. “I think a lot of the reason for concern with respect to Vancouver is the tendency to equate high price levels with overvaluation,” said Bob Dugan, CMHC’s chief economist. “High prices are only part of the story.” Dugan said overvaluation measures take into account whether prices are supported by underlying factors such as incomes, population growth and, in the case of Vancouver, land constraints. “You have the mountains on one side, the ocean on the other and you have the Agricultural Land Reserve,” Dugan said, referring to a parcel of land set aside for farming where housing development is prohibited. “There isn’t a lot of land. There’s a lot of constraints there that put upward pressure on prices.”

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Readers won’t be able to put down Blue Thread A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler $32 Alfred Knopf Publishing

trayed as too good to be true. She calls Abby “Mother Whitshank,” which Abby finds irritating, but makes no move to correct. Abby is 72 and suffering a little mind slippage, Anne Tyler is well known to readers. Her many referring to their present dog by the name of their stories contain all the rumbles of family life, people previous (now deceased) pet. Sometimes she “miswe know, some not unlike ourselves. places” herself. The family worries, so Stem and This time out, we meet Red and Abby Nora and family have moved in with Red Whitshank, parents of four children, one and Abby to “help.” of whom they “adopted” in a rather unThere are lots of stories in the Whitusual way. This author throws the reader shank family, as there are in most families. into the middle of the family, beginning, Their house on Brouton Road was built in this case, with the black sheep. by Red’s father, a man known as “Junior,” Denny is the son who always quesbut he built it for a Mr. Brill, a Baltimore tions the status quo, makes a baby with a textile manufacturer with deep pockets. girl they don’t know, quits college, loses Junior loved that house and didn’t rest unjobs and doesn’t phone home. When he til it belonged to him. does show up, he’s charming but his path Junior and his wife Linnie came from is his own. humble beginnings, and because he never As we get to know these characters, felt he measured up, he is opinionated and we find them competitive but generally quarrelsome. They have a daughter Mercivilized and well meaning, something rick, who “marries up.” not all that common in recent novels, or This story could end at this point but PEGGY families. the author now gives us Part 2. It’s a bit of FREEMAN Abby Whitshank was a social worker a rough mesh as we meet Abby when she in her working life, with a tendency to was still young Abby Dalton, and falling for bring home “lame ducks.” She finds many a bad boy. We finally hear about Linnie, excuses for Danny’s behaviour, but Red Junior’s wife, their shocking courtship and says a person can be “too understanding, too sympa- their years of struggle and poverty. thizing and pitying.” It’s an old battle. Most of the hurt and bad feelings that no one The others in the family, two girls and a boy, are could understand at the time get ironed out here. married. Stem, the adopted son, is working with Red Denny redeems himself, in his own way. in the family construction business. He’s married It sounds like a fairy tale, but it’s well written and to Nora, a church-attending Baptist. She is a good you won’t put it down. It’s a rainy weekend kind of mother, a quiet, pretty, capable girl and a respectful book. daughter-in-law, but she is odd man out here, porPeggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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Author draws readers into a precarious world Confessions of the Lioness By Mia Couto (translated by David Brookshaw) Farrar, Straus and Giroux The village women of Kulumani have been under fear and torment for weeks due to lion attacks. For some reason, the men are not preyed upon — only the women. Mariamar’s eldest sister Silencia is the lion’s newest victim. KIRSTEN The whole family is devLOWE astated, especially Mariamar’s mother, Hanifa, since they could not bury all of her daughter’s mutilated body and it conflicts with their beliefs and traditions. Because of this, Hanifa begins to go mad with grief. Then her husband tells the family that people from the Capital are coming with a mulatto hunter to

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put an end to the threat of the lion attacks. But this does not bring Hanifa relief, only more anxiety. She yells at her husband, claiming that if this hunter comes, he will take Mariamar, their last child, back to the capital with him. Why? Readers are not told. The situation darkens when Mariamar’s father and mother decide that this hunter will come and deal with the lion problem, but he will not leave afterward. To take further precautions, the women of Kulumani are to be locked up in their houses and out of sight while the visitors are present. Archangel “Archie” Bullseye may be a well-respected hunter but like Mariamar, he also struggles with events from his past. He had only been in the Kulumani area once before, and that was to hunt a crocodile that was causing equal terror on the villagers. That is when he and Mariamar met, 16 years ago. For Archie, it was a few days of simple romance but to Mariamar it was so much more. Since then, she has been eagerly waiting for him

Day details how she became queen of the geeks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day Simon & Schuster Felicia Day fills her memoir with stories of her wacky childhood and a handful of bizarre circumstances that led her down the path to becoming an online media mogul. You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) chronicles her life from the time she discovered video games to the launch of her digital entertainment network. Through her many ups and downs, one thing has remained the same: Day has always let her freak flag fly. Day considers herself a product of homeschool education, albeit a nontraditional version. While her parents worked, Day and her brother taught themselves important life lessons by solving math puzzles, reading countless books and playing Ultima on her grandfather’s old laptop. Her love of technology and her online social life grew. She cherished the make-believe worlds and her online friends who embraced the cyber lifestyle. Along with the rare label of “girl gamer,” Day was also a musical prodigy. At 16, her violin teacher arranged for a full scholarship to the University of Texas. After earning math and music degrees, she moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. Day’s resume boasted an eclectic background. As she grew tired of being “the quirky” decorative character in commercials, she would escape her mediocre life by reigning as queen in a digital one. Unfortunately, her gaming pastime quickly became a full-blown addiction. A combination of depression and peer pressure resulted in Day creating a comedy Web series known as The Guild. When executives refused her scripts, Day decided to produce the show herself using borrowed equipment and various friends’ talents. A unique niche was born. In 2006, The Guild

was uploaded online, backed by social media, and took the Internet by storm. You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is quirky, uplifting and full of stories about embracing your inner nerd. Day has proven herself to be as talented in front of the camera as she is behind it. It’s evident that she’s a brilliant businesswoman whose avatar has secured a residence in digital media past, present and future.

to return and take her away from the sickness of the village. Now that Archie is returning to deal with the lions and lionesses, will he fulfil Mariamar’s wishes? This is by far not the typical story plot where a hunter comes in and deals with the lionesses and saves the day. Mia Couto uses figurative and murky language that swallows the reader up and allows them to enter the precarious world in Kulumani, where truth and lies are tangled, and the frightful question is this: Who are the real monsters committing such violence, the wildcats out in the bush or the wild animals that live inside all human beings? Kirsten Lowe is a local freelance book reviewer and Red Deer College student.

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Revealing the strangeness of the octopus BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-arm sea creature that’s even stranger and shares some of our social and mating habits. With their shifting shapes, mesmerizing eyes, and uncanny intelligence, octopuses “are one of the most mysterious and captivating species,” said Rich Ross, a senior biologist at the California Academy of Sciences. “They’re aliens alive on our planet and it feels like they have plans.” For Ross and colleagues, it got stranger when they got a batch of octopuses from Central America to study. The critters just didn’t fit the loner denizen-of-the-deep profile that scientists had drawn for the rest of the 300 or so octopus species. While most octopuses live alone, coming together for ever-so-brief and dangerous mating, couples of this species can live together to mate for a few days in the same cramped den or shell. While other male octopuses mate from a distance to avoid being cannibalized, these octopuses mate entangled beak-to-beak. That style could almost be thought of as romantic, said Alvaro Roura, an octopus expert at La Trobe University in Australia, who wasn’t part of the study. While other females lay one batch

of eggs and then die, the female of this species lives longer and produces eggs constantly, bettering the species chance of survival, Ross said. But it’s more than sex. These octopuses clean out food waste from their dens. They twirl their arms like an oldtimey movie villain with a moustache. And they quickly learn that people mean food: when someone enters the room, they leave their dens and head to the top of the tank. “It’s the most amazing octopus that I’ve ever gotten to work with,” Ross said. The octopus, normally a dull chocolate brown, suddenly sports stripes and spots when it gets excited or upset, said Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the lead author of a paper on the octopus with Ross and others published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. The species is preliminarily called the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, although it’s really not much bigger than a tennis ball — just bigger than a similar species. It was found almost 40 years ago off the coast of Panama. Other scientists wouldn’t believe it was a separate species or that it showed such distinctive behaviour. So its discoverer, Arcadio Rodaniche, gave up and the species was never formally described or named. Then in 2011, Caldwell got an email

This handout photo provided by Roy L. Caldwell shows a small male larger Pacific striped octopus stalking its prey. Shifting shapes, sporting mesmerizing eyes, and showing uncanny intelligence, the octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that sea creature that shares some of our social and mating habits. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

from a high school student about his pet octopus, Charlie. It was the same species discovered in the 1970s. Caldwell traced it to a dealer who sent him two dozen of the species from Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico to study in captivity. The researchers note that this octopus species could act differently in the wild. They included Rodaniche as a coauthor after the retired researcher declined to let them name the octopus species after him. In the journal Nature, a different team of scientists on Wednesday published the first map decoding octopus

genes. They found the octopus’s genetic code is only slightly smaller than humans, but twice as big as a bird’s genetic instruction guide. Octopuses are invertebrates, meaning they have no backbones. Invertebrates generally have a less evolved nervous systems, but not the octopus. They found that it had many of the same genes as other invertebrates, although mixed up as through a blender, said study author Clifton Ragsdale at the University of Chicago. “There’s a lot of weird creatures and these are the largest of the weird creatures,” he said.

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Boyfriend’s mom sabotaging relationship Dear Annie: I follow you on Facebook. I am 18 years old and have been with my boyfriend for more than a year. We used to spend a bit too much time together and I know it wasn’t healthy, so we worked it out and now have new hobbies and see our friends a little more. Everything is good except for one thing: His mother. She is reMITCHELL cently divorced & SUGAR and when my boyfriend and I were spending a lot of time at her place, she was upset and miserable. We understood, so we would make

dinner for her and keep the house clean, but she would never come out of her room. My boyfriend and I would eat dinner and converse. One day, his mother came into the kitchen and apparently, saw this closeness as a threat. She complained that she wasn’t getting any attention from her son and that I was stealing him away from her. She prohibited me from coming over for three weeks, which my boyfriend and I found hurtful. She still complains about me, saying I give her dirty looks (I would never do that) and that I ignore her, even when I say hello every time I see her. I get that she doesn’t like me, so I try not to engage her too often. But she also tries to sabotage our dates, saying my boyfriend can’t go out with me because he has some important family dinner, which is usually a lie. Sometimes, she calls in the middle

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HOROSCOPES Friday, Aug. 14 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Mila Kunis, 31; Halle Berry, 48; Steve Martin, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon’s in Leo, so set creative intentions for the year ahead. H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: Observant and honest, you are great JOANNE fun to be around. MADELEINE The coming year MOORE is the time to completely re-invent your life, as you make some bold

new moves! ARIES (March 21-April 19): The New Moon’s in Leo so it’s time for rambunctious Rams to be sporty or just super social. You’re definitely at your boisterous best as you lead the way, but avoid being too bossy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you been procrastinating Bulls? Are there jobs around the home that you’ve been putting off? The New Moon encourages you to roll up your sleeves and get to work ASAP. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do some of your friendships feel as if they are on autopilot? The New Moon urges you to find fresh ways to connect with those around you at home, at work and in your local community. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re keen to improve your physical appearance, as the New Moon stimulates your self-esteem zone. Enjoy updating your outer image, but remem-

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Morris Animal Inn started boarding cats in the 1980s with a basic enclosure, litter and food. It expanded its services because pet parents are treating their cats and dogs more like family and demanding specialized and customizable services, said Joann Morris, vice-president and co-owner. “Our first activity was the pampered pet session, simulating the love and attention they might get at home from an independent cat sitter,� she said. It costs $12.95 a session and is popular with those who don’t want to buy a full menu of services. For those who do, package prices range from $19.95 to $49.95 per day and vary mainly by how much one-on-one attention the cat gets. The most popular is the Purr-fect package, built for the most active animals, which gives cats lots of personal attention, five-star fare and even a running wheel that looks like a large hamster wheel. They also get plenty of time to play with toys, climb ropes, create art on iPads by pawing at the screen, listen to classical music and snack on catnip. Kitty TV is always tuned to something cats like to watch: butterflies, balls, birds. Once they’re tired, they head back to their three-story suites for a snooze. The rooms offer a birds-eye view of the lobby through clear plastic, wide window seats and soft pillows — no metal resembling a cage. Older cats or those who like to laze can get cheaper packages with more sleep time, fewer activities and a premium bed. But everyone gets maid service and daily brushing.

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of a date and tells him to come home right away and that sort of thing. The worst part, though, is that she has such a strong influence on my boyfriend that he is beginning to believe she knows what is best for him and that maybe we should break up. This devastates me. She is ruining our relationship and bringing stress into my boyfriend’s life. I don’t know whether to speak to her about her behavior or leave it alone. I fear I’m not going to win this. —Lost Dear Lost: You won’t win if your boyfriend doesn’t back you up. His mother seems very clingy, and this may be due to the divorce or it may be that she would not like any girl her son dated. Talk to your boyfriend. Let him know that if he doesn’t defend you to his mother, the relationship is over. Because, Honey, it will be. Dear Annie: I appreciate your advice to “Torn Son,� whose father is abusing alcohol, and the son suspects he is also using drugs.

I am a member of a local 12-step program organized to help people and families under the stress of having an addicted loved one. You recommended Al-Anon and Adult Children of Alcoholics. Please add to your list “Families Anonymous� which was founded in 1971 and is a national and international self-help group. There is no cost to attend our meetings. -- Outreach Coordinator Dear Coordinator: We have recommended Families Anonymous in this space before and we are happy to mention it again. It is a fine organization for those whose loved ones are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Interested readers can contact the organization at familiesanonymous.org. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ber that true beauty comes from within. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With the Sun and Moon joining up in your sign, it’s time for confident, charismatic Cats to shine which is just the way you like it. So do something special that puts you in the public spotlight. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The New Moon is the perfect time to revive your run down Virgo batteries. So take a break from hectic daily routine and escape somewhere quiet and private, where you can relax and rejuvenate. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The New Moon helps jolt you out of Libra laid back mode, and into productive working mode. Contributing to a joint venture or a group project brings longlasting satisfaction. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Think of creative ways you can kick-start a stale career, as the New Moon stimulates your work zone so But avoid applying for promotions or jobs until after Venus goes direct on September 6. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians are in the mood for excitement, as the

New Moon fires up your exploration zone. So it’s time to go on a grand adventure in the great outdoors with someone special! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hey Capricorn - the New Moon urges you to reinvent and revive a close relationship. If you’ve fallen into negative ways of relating, now’s the time to change those patterns of behaviour. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you having problems with your partner? Or has a close relationship become strained? The New Moon provides a golden opportunity to patch things up and adopt a totally fresh perspective. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The New Moon is the ideal time to develop a userfriendly daily routine. When the non-negotiable tasks are out the way, then you’ll have more time to do the things you really enjoy. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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SASKATOON BAND BRINGS ITS BLUES-INFUSED INDIE ROCK TO RED DEER BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

The Sheepdogs, Deep Dark Woods and now The Pistolwhips — if award-winning bands keep rolling out of Saskatoon, then maybe location has something to do with it. Zach Davies of The Pistolwhips credits the long Prairie winter for helping narrow his focus. “We have really cold winters here, and no mountains around to go skiing, so people tend to sit around at home and practise their guitar playing,” said the bassist, who performs

with the rest of his band on Tuesday at Bo’s Bar and Grill. Saskatoon’s music-central status could also be connected to the city’s pro-arts mindset. “We’ve got some great live music venues (and) a really great scene where all the bands really support each other,” said Davies, who admitted this close environment can create some cross-pollination. For instance, before forming the Pistolwhips, Davies and the group’s frontman, Rylan Schultz, played in a Saskatoon band called Guns at Dawn with Leot Hanson, who later became the guitarist for The Sheepdogs (he left last year). Schultz and Davies eventually signed on guitarist Paul Kuzbik and drummer Tallus Scott and officially became The Pistolwhips in 2012. But the band’s throwback rock sound still

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prompts comparisons to The Sheepdogs, which rose to fame after being chosen from 15 North American bands to become the first unsigned act on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. While Davies believes The Pistolwhips have their own sound, he said, “We all grew up listening to Hendrix and Zeppelin and the blues.” When these retro inspirations are mixed with those of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Arctic Monkeys, it goes towards explaining the psychedelic undertones in Whatcha Doin’, the first single from the group’s new album, On Your Side. The CD was recorded with a $10,000 RAWLCO 10K20 grant awarded to the group from Saskatoon radio station Rock 102 FM. Please see PISTOLWHIPS on Page D2

Re-imagining of spy caper will make you cry ‘Uncle!’ The Man From U.N.C.L.E. One star (out of four) Rated: PG-13 BY MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The character played by Alicia Vikander in the Cold War spy caper The Man From U.N.C.L.E. — a preposterously sexy and sophisticated East German grease monkey named Gaby Teller — is described on screen as “a lethal combination of beauty, brains and ambition.” If only the film were so well-rounded. Oh, it’s lethal, all right, but not in a good way. Although The Man From U.N.C.L.E. has ambitions of honoring the TV spy series on which it’s based, it fails to evoke any of that show’s 1960s cool. It’s a creaky, bloated simulacrum of the groovy past, where it should be a quick, slick and debonair re-imagining of it. Forget beauty and brains. This U.N.C.L.E. is not just decrepit, but ugly and dumb. Let’s start with the theory that the movie is, as it purports to be, an action film. After a brisk and mildly pulse-quickening prologue, in which CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) whisks Gaby over the Berlin Wall — into a waiting get-away van, via a zip line — the film pivots 180 degrees into a weirdly dull drawing-room comedy, set largely in hotel suites and posh clubs and devoid of derring-do. When it finally gets going again, close to the end, with a chase scene, the pursuit is filmed so poorly that the director, Guy Ritchie, has to resort to using multiple split screens to jazz it up. Seeing the same lame thing from five angles does not make it better.

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Henry Cavill as Solo and Armie Hammer as Illya in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. As for the plot, in which Solo teams up with a KGB agent named Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) to retrieve a nuclear warhead before it falls into the hands of a mutual enemy: It is a tedious exercise in bickering. Hammer, in the role created by David McCallum, is completely lacking in the quality that made Illya so popular, i.e., his sex appeal. Speaking with an accent as thick as borscht, and lumbering like a Soviet shot putter, the actor comes across as closer to another small-screen icon of the ’60s: Lurch, the Frankensteinian butler from The Addams Family. For his part, Cavill looks for all the world like

he’d be happier back in Superman’s cape than in the ill-fitting bespoke suits into which his beefcake has been stuffed. He’s supposed to be the witty one of the pair, but the only repartee he seems capable of delivering with anything close to panache is the film’s parade of dirty double entendres. (At one point, Solo makes a joke to some femme fatale about filling her “gaps”; at another, he asks whether someone is “turned on.” It’s like his dialogue was lifted from a Tinder chat.)

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Set in post-apocalyptic Philadelphia, CW’s ‘hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation’ of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women will bare little resemblance to the 1994 movie starring Susan Sarandon.

Little Women goes post-apocalyptic BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Late last month, the CW announced that it was exploring “a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation” of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. Like many of you, I was perplexed by what this would mean. But I’m at the Television Critics Association press tour, an entire event devoted to giving reporters opportunities to figure out what’s up in the world of TV programming. So when the CW presented a series of panels Tuesday, I decided to take the opportunity to find out what was going on with this potential project. “It’s a pitch,” CW president Mark Pedowitz told reporters, emphasizing that the show currently is only an idea and doesn’t even have a script for a pilot episode written (the network would have to cast, shoot and review a pilot before deciding if the show would become an actual TV show). “It’s an attempt to do something different. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, we took a shot. You got to take shots and you’ve got to let creative people do things that might be a different take on something. So we’ll see what happens when the script comes in.” When I asked for details, Pedowitz directed me to CW executive vice president Thom Sherman, who actually took the pitch for the show from Alexis Jolly and Michael Weatherly, who currently stars on NCIS. “The jumping-off point for the characters are the iconic characters from the book, in archetype, with the names and everything else,” Sherman explained of the pitch. “And you’ll see that they, in terms of their personalities, occupy the same space they occupied in the book. One of the characters is ill, which we come to learn in the pilot — she’s not going to die in the pilot, though. She will live. But that becomes

part of the storyline for the series.” Beyond that, though? Expect lots of differences. “They come together in the pilot; they actually don’t know each other until the pilot. They’re sort of half sisters of the same father but different mothers,” Sherman said. To a certain extent, that’s in keeping with Mr. March’s absence while he serves in the Civil War, which is a defining element of Alcott’s novel. But to have Mr. March be not just absent but a man who fathered daughters with multiple women and then abandoned them is a step beyond even the license the novelist Geraldine Brooks took with the character in March, which tells the story of the character’s war service from his own perspective and suggests strains in his marriage and vows of fidelity. Then there’s the setting, which moves from Massachusetts to a “bloody, violent” post-apocalyptic Philadelphia. “The show itself, we liken itself to Gangs of New York,” Sherman suggested. “There are these factions that are running this city. And in each faction are characters from the book that archetypically occupy those spaces in the book. You’ll recognize the names. The names will be similar, and you’ll go, ‘Oh, that’s Laurie.’ They decide to form their own clan to take back their own power and take back power in the city. They sort of become avenging angels, I think.” And what about Marmee, a part that Susan Sarandon turned into a feminist icon in the most recent film adaptation of Alcott’s book? No word yet, but Gayle Hirsch, who oversees drama development at the network, promised that “There’s an Aunt March character who we’re still working on developing.” Both Sherman and Hirsch emphasized their desire to make a show that would resonate with people who are unfamiliar with Little Women. Whether they can do that and satisfy fans of Alcott’s immortal novel is very much an open question.

“They were still around?” That was my reaction when I read Tuesday that Columbia House filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In a world now dominated by freemium streaming, how had a company best known for its mail-order music business survived for this long? Apparently there are at least 110,000 members who haven’t figured out how to cancel their credit cards yet. For those too young to remember a world without iPods or MP3s, Columbia House was this company that used to ship you eight CDs for a penny in order to get you hooked into its mail-order record club. It was a great way to discover a bunch of music at once and learn about the vagaries of financial fine print, which was how the company recorded $1.4 billion in profits at its height. After the introductory deal, Columbia House would keep sending you regularpriced CDs, and they would charge your credit card for them, too. Columbia House was responsible for me cultivating my own musical tastes outside of my parents’. The first cultural artifact I could truly claim as my own came to me as a gift from my only sister, Carol, who is 11 years older. It was the debut cassette of a hip-hop/new jack swing group called Another Bad Creation. When Coolin’ at the Playground Ya Know! came out in 1991, our father saw Red, Chris, Mark, RoRo and David in their oversize puffy coats and blanched. To him they registered as menaces. Carol tried to explain that hip-hop was part of black culture. “Not my culture!” my father growled back. From that point on, it was clear that my appreciation and understanding for pop culture, and hip-hop culture especially, lay largely in Carol’s hands. It was she who would always order the musical contraband that barely registered as original compositions to our parents. We were a Charlie Parker and Tchaikovsky household, but once I became aware of their existence, I spent a lot of time recording Mariah Carey and Coolio off my see-through radio. I idolized her, and Carol tried her best to inculcate me with some of her daring and cool subversiveness, but I grew up seeing her mostly for a few days at a time. By the time I was in kindergarten, my sister was a student at a magnet boarding school 80 miles away. The straight-A, goody two shoes expectations of my parents were hard to shake, though, and I was a giant theater geek, so the first time she approached me and told me to pick a CD from the Columbia House order form, I chose Barbra Streisand’s Back to Broadway. It was such a treat. She’d allowed me a CD all my own, and I got to choose, without any judgment from our parents! When I was tall enough to wash the dishes on my own, I would put on a one-girl karaoke show in the kitchen as I tried to keep up with Babs while she sang Everybody Says Don’t. As my tastes matured, I knew that when Carol asked my what I wanted for my birthday, I could count on her to come through with some Mary J. Blige. She gave me My Life and Share My World, which basically served as the melodramatic soundtrack for my high school years, played proudly on a hand-medown stereo that came from who else? Carol.

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Finally, Carson Tonight Show episodes are coming to TV Do you have Antenna TV? Ever heard of it? You may want to check your channel guide, because starting Jan. 1, it’s the only place where — for the first time in decades — the world will be able to fall asleep to the dulcet tones of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson every night. Beginning on New Year’s Day, Antenna TV (the Tribune Broadcasting network available in 102 markets across 78 per cent of the country) will air latenight reruns of the Johnny Carson show every weeknight at 11 Eastern time. On weekends, the network will show reruns of Carson’s 90-minute episodes at

10 p.m. The caveats: The episodes won’t air in any sort of order; a representative confirms that the programming team will handpick episodes to run every night. For example, the first episode will be a Carson New Year’s episode. However, there won’t be any repeats during the calendar year, and every episode will feature Carson — not one of his guest hosts. This should make some people very happy, as many fans complain that Carson reruns aren’t shown on TV. Jeff Sotzing, Carson’s nephew, runs Carson Entertainment and has made shows increasingly available in recent years, including a YouTube channel with full episodes; DVDs and clips are available on the Johnny Carson website. But Carson reruns are hard to find on television. Davies said the money was a huge help in creating the first the full-length recording, which was named Best Album of 2014 by Planet S Readers in Saskatoon. On Your Side helped launch two Canadian tours. “We’ve been right across the country,” said Davies, “from Charlottetown to Tofino.” Along the way, The Pistolwhips performed during Canadian Music Week, at JUNOfest, The Sasktel Jazz Festival, The Red Bull Sound Stage, Sasktel Summer Invasion, and Winnipeg’s Prairie Barge Festival. Last fall, band members made their first overseas trip to perform a string of shows in London, England. Davies, a Prince Albert, Sask., native who grew up in Fort McMurray, hopes to make some new Red Deer fans after the group plays for the first time in this city next week. “I’m really looking forward to the show.” Tickets for the 8 p.m. show with The Capones are $10 in advance from the venue or ticketfly.com.

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Although some famous interviews were excerpted a few years ago for TCM’s popular Carson on TCM series, this is the first time since his Tonight Show ended in 1992 that the episodes will be available in a nightly strip. The deal, a multi-year agreement, is a coup for Antenna TV, which is known for airing reruns of very famous shows of the past, including All in the Family, Father Knows Best, The Jeffersons and Bewitched.

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Ritchie, who co-wrote the script with his Sherlock Holmes collaborator Lionel Wigram, apparently thinks the audience is just as unsophisticated. When the setting switches from Berlin to the Eternal City, the on-screen title informs us that we’re now in “Rome, Italy” (just in case you thought the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps were in Rome, New York). In what seems like a half-baked nod to the pedigree of the TV series, which was created with the modest assistance of James Bond’s Ian Fleming, Gaby and Illya — who are posing as fiancés — check into a hotel room numbered 707. It’s less an homage than a math error. But the saddest thing is that the film is set up like an origin story, ending with the formation of the lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com titular international spy agency — which stands for United Network Command for Law and EnSPECIAL SPECIAL forcement. The threat that this mess of a movie might be followed by a sequel is enough to make anyone WITH FRIES OR BAKED POTATOES TOPPED WITH RED ONION, cry uncle.

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Hypnotic film brings Brando back from the dead BY JEN CHANEY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES “Actors are not going to be real. They’re going to be inside a computer. You watch.” That’s Marlon Brando speaking in the opening moments of the documentary Listen to Me Marlon. To be clear: it’s the sound of Brando on an audiotape recorded several years prior to his death in 2004, then synced to a 3-D-animated version of his head that’s been programmed to move its lips as if Brando is talking. This CGI image — conjured from a digital version of the actor’s face created in the 1980s — is disconcerting. From certain angles, it resembles George Washington. From others, it looks like Max Headroom. Most of the time, it looks completely like Brando. It’s as if the father of modern movie acting had returned to share his thoughts from inside a computer, just as he promised, or perhaps from some mysterious beyond. That’s the magic trick that filmmaker Stevan Riley, who wrote, directed and edited Listen to Me Marlon, pulls off in this stream-of-consciousness portrait of the most influential screen actor of all time. Riley doesn’t merely make a fine nonfiction film about the life and legacy of the late conflicted artist. He virtually resurrects him. Wisely, Listen to Me Marlon relies sparingly on that digitized talking head. It also completely avoids the kind of talking-head interviews normally found in documentaries. Instead, Riley blows up the standard doc format, allowing some of the more than 200 hours of uncovered personal audiotapes to shape the film’s narrative. This is not a biography of Brando so much as a journey inside his addled, beautiful mind. Many of the cassettes Brando recorded were labeled as “selfhypnosis.” The effect of listening to Brando in a contemplative state while old home movies, media interviews and evocative stock footage flash by is hypnotic for the audience, too. For cinephiles seeking perspective on Brando from Brando himself, there is plenty. Of Stanley Kowalski, the combustible abuser he played in A Streetcar Named Desire, the actor says: “I hate that kind of guy. I absolutely hate that person and I couldn’t identify with that.” Of his work in On the Waterfront, which resulted in his first Academy Award, “When I saw the picture finally, I was so embarrassed by my performance.” Of The Godfather, he says his screen test for the movie that reignited his career was “demeaning,” but “I needed a part at that time.” He also accuses Bernardo Bertolucci of stealing “too much personal” material from him vis-à-vis his perfor-

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Marlon Brando and his daughter Cheyenne, in an archival still from the documentary Listen To Me Marlon. mance in Last Tango in Paris, and he criticizes Francis Ford Coppola for publicly acknowledging that Brando was both overweight and difficult during the production of Apocalypse Now. (The specific words Brando calls the director cannot be printed in this newspaper.) As defensive and self-deprecating as he can be — he admits to sometimes having his lines fed to him via an earpiece — Brando also speaks about the satisfaction he derived from his actorly instinct to try the unexpected. “You want to stop that movement of the popcorn to the mouth,” he says. “Get people to stop chewing.” Later in his life, Brando became better known as an eccentric recluse, the butt of fat jokes and a man with family problems, all of which, according to Listen to Me Marlon, caused him enormous suffering. He begins one self-hypnosis session by soothingly telling himself to “think of all the good things that you like, like apple pie and ice cream and brownies and milk. But you must eat them not quite so often.” Though Brando does not speak with particular directness about his children, Riley includes footage from the media-circus trial of his son Christian Brando, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the boyfriend of his half-sister,

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network says. For the film and related information resources, TLC has teamed with two prominent abuse-prevention organizations, Darkness to Light and RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The film is being produced by NBC News’ Peacock Productions. The film was first announced last month when TLC pulled the plug on its hit series 19 Kids and Counting after reports surfaced that one of its stars, Josh Duggar, the oldest of the family’s 19 children, had fondled four of his sisters and a baby sitter a dozen years before, when he was a teenager. The documentary is built around the stories of child-abuse survivors. Among them is Erin Merryn, a mother, didate. Leeza Gibbons was named the winner of the most recent 7th edition of The Celebrity Apprentice.

New CNBC star Jay Leno talks cars, comedy BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jay Leno couldn’t help himself. Just because he’s no longer doing monologues as host of The Tonight Show doesn’t mean he can resist cracking jokes about Donald Trump. Meeting with TV critics Thursday to discuss his new CNBC car show, Leno took a detour to lampoon the GOP presidential front-runner. Noting the battle for that nomination between Jeb Bush and Trump, Leno said, “It’s kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad hair.” And recalling that a medical problem scored Trump a deferment from military service, Leno offered his own diagnosis: “He had an intrarectal cranial inversion: His head was up his ass.”

Cheyenne (who later committed suicide). This is held up as the ultimate example of Brando’s personal pain, turned into paparazzi fodder. “I’ve had a hard year,” we hear Brando say as home movies of a oncehappy Cheyenne flicker past. “Really harder than you could possibly imagine.” Is Brando alluding to the year of his son’s murder trial, the year that Cheyenne died, or some other year altogether? It’s unclear. Riley compresses the timeline of certain events — including the 1990 trial, and Cheyenne’s 1995 death — using the audio as commentary in ways that may slightly distort reality. But this documentary doesn’t seek to objectively explain what actually happened when Marlon Brando was alive; some of those talking-head interviews with people who actually knew the man would help, if that had been the film’s goal. Instead, it’s a thoroughly subjective and effective attempt to capture how it must have felt to be Marlon Brando. At one point, Brando half-jokes that after he dies, he will have “a special microphone” placed in his coffin so that he can speak from six feet under. After watching Listen to Me Marlon, one might be justified in thinking that, in a way, he made good on that promise.

two-time survivor and driving force behind Erin’s Law, legislation passed in 26 states that makes age-appropriate curriculum on personal body safety mandatory for children in schools. Also sharing her story is Terrae Lee, who was sexually abused by her father when she was 11 and is now a victim’s advocate, having co-founded the Young Survivor’s Foundation. And it includes the story of 11-yearold Kaelin, a survivor who is already channeling her experience into public speaking and education. Viewers will also hear from experts, including a prevention training session conducted by Darkness to Light that is attended by Jill and Jessa, two of the Duggar sisters.

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TORONTO — TIFF’s new competitive film program features projects from TV stars Elisabeth Moss, Lena Dunham and Norman Reedus while the festival’s first TV section will include work from filmmaker Jason Reitman and Oscar-winner Morgan Neville. On Thursday, the Toronto International Film Festival announced 12 films for its inaugural Platform program, and six premieres in the new TV sidebar, Primetime. Platform includes the London-set High-Rise from Ben Wheatley, based on J. G. Ballard’s 1975 novel about residents of a luxury apartment building who close themselves off from the world. It features Moss along with Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller. “It’s incredibly imaginative, startling filmmaking and it arrested us,” festival director Piers Handling said Thursday. “As soon as we saw that we felt, ‘Oh, yeah, this is going to be something that people pay attention to.”’ Dunham and Reedus star alongside Diane Kruger in the French/German film Sky, directed by Fabienne Berthaud. It’s about a woman who splits from her French husband while on holiday in the United States. And Canadian doc-maker Alan Zweig makes the cut with Hurt, a portrait of one-legged cancer survivor Steve Fonyo, who raised millions with a cross-Canada run, only to succumb to crime and addiction over the following 30 years. “It’s a wonderful portrait of somebody who was extremely well-known, was a celebrity at one time and this is his life 30, 40 years later and what it’s come to,” said Handling. It’s the only doc in the bunch and gives Zweig an international spotlight that has otherwise eluded the Torontobased filmmaker, despite much homegrown acclaim. An international jury will award a $25,000 prize on Sept. 20. The festival kicks off Sept. 10. Meanwhile, Primetime will put TV programs from France, Iceland, Argentina and the United States on the big screen. It includes the first two episodes of the Hulu comedy Casual, directed by the Montreal-born Reitman. It follows the creator of a popular dating website who uses his success to supply himself with an endless string of beautiful but shallow women. Neville follows his acclaimed music doc Twenty Feet from Stardom with the Netflix original Keith Richards: Under the Influence. And TIFF says the first two episodes of Tim Kring’s Heroes Reborn will make its world premiere before hitting NBC and Global on Sept. 24. The series is a followup to the 2006 superhero series Heroes. Other shows include the Argentine eco-thriller CROMO, about scientists who attempt to expose environmental crimes; the season 2 premiere of France’s supernatural drama The Returned; and the series premiere of Iceland’s Trapped. with it on my own, or a trip to see D’Angelo that we enjoyed separately, but always with the reassurance that the other was somewhere in the room enjoying some spiritual renewal at D’Angelo’s multi-instrument playing behest. More than anything, we are unapologetic and slightly unhinged Mariah Carey stans, and I am still waiting for pop music’s glitteriest grand diva of pop to breeze through D.C. again so I can pay Carol back for the all the aural lifelines she gave me as a nerdy kid growing up in small town North Carolina, courtesy of Columbia House.

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BAKER Arthur (Art) Arthur (Art) Leslie Baker passed away peacefully at the Ponoka Hospital & Care Center on Tuesday, August 11, 2015. He will be sadly missed by his son, John (and Margaret) Baker; his daughters, Ann (and Harvey) Sonnenberg and Helen (and Al) Kidney; his grandchildren, Conrad Enns, Jackie (and Chad) Robinson, Jeff (and Jessica) Baker, Alison Kidney and Amy (and Jason) Archambault; as well as his great-grandchildren, Troy and Brian Robinson, Lenyx Baker and Elizabeth Archambault. Art was predeceased by his wife, May in 2003. A Memorial Service will be held in his honor at the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 104), 5108 49 Avenue, Innisfail, AB on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Art’s memory may be directed to Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 104), 5108 49 Avenue, Innisfail, AB, T4G 1R1. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

BLAIR George Matthew Oct. 16, 1930 - Aug. 12, 2015 George Matthew Blair of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at the age of 84 years. Service details will be announced at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

DECOINE Hank Joseph 1963-2015 The family of Hank Decoine sadly announce Hank’s sudden passing on Saturday, August 8, 2015. He leaves to mourn his daughter Alexandra and her mother Emily. His sisters, Sophia, Cecile, Christina and Lorna; brothers, Rick and Keith as well a many nieces and nephews Celebration of life at Potter’s Hands Church, 5202 53 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:00 am.

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CLASSIFICATIONS LIEURANCE Thurlow Lann Thurlow Lann Lieurance died, after a short illness, surrounded by his loving family on August 3, 2015. Lann was born in Wichita, Kansas on October 31, 1946 to Thurlow and Meta (Mulconery) Lieurance. The family eventually settled in Topeka, where Lann graduated from Hayden High School. He obtained three degrees in the course of his life, including a Masters of Music Education from the University of Idaho. Lann joined the US Army in 1968 and served until 1971. During this time he was a member of the Fort Riley Army Band, a highlight of which was playing at President Eisenhower’s funeral. Lann moved to Dawson Creek, BC in 1975 to teach music to elementary, high school and Northern Lights College students and became the director of the Kiwanis Performing Arts Centre. He moved to Calgary in 1997 to start his own business as an independent instrument repair technician, eventually relocating the business to Red Deer while living in Lacombe. Lann’s passion was music - mastering performing, directing, band leading, teaching, composing, and arranging. He loved nature, road trips and a good scotch. Being a father and grandfather was one of his greatest joys. He lived life to the fullest, sharing his playful sense of humour along the way. He leaves behind wife Barbara; daughters Cara (Dan Keto), Barbara (Greg Wong) and their mother Pamela Lieurance; daughters Kim (Denis Boutin), Karen and Inga Taube; sister Lynne (Dan) Metz; nephews and niece Mike, Marci and Jim (Faye) Metz; and grandchildren Laine WongLieurance and Ben and Mia Boutin. The family will honour Lann’s life on August 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm at Fairview Cemetery in Lacombe, AB. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to Doctors Without Borders, 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 402 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2T9. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

WASHKEVICH Michael Aug. 21, 1925 - Aug.10, 2015 On August 10 Michael peacefully left this world. Michael will be sadly missed by his loving family and many dear friends. Michael was born in Laskow Poland and was the eldest son of Elizabeth and Konan Washkevich. In 1934 he immigrated to Canada with his mother, to join Konan at the family homestead west of Rimbey Alberta. Michael later had his own farm at Leedale, Alberta. He met his wife Nettie and they were married on June 6, 1955. They raised their family on the farm until moving to Red Deer in 1976 where they spent thirty-eight years. Michael leaves behind his loving wife of 60 years, Nettie: three daughters Irene Aldrich, Olga Stern and Debbie Baudais, and numerous Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren: his four siblings Mary Leblanc, Nena Rowat, Peter Washkevich and Nadia Papp. Michael was preceded in death by his daughter Anne Kimenius. He will be remembered as a wonderful Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle and Friend. A Celebration of Life will be held from Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer on Monday, August 17th, 2015 at 11:00 AM. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913-50 Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4N 4C4. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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GODFREY David John Dec. 30, 1955 - Aug. 11, 2015 It is with heavy hearts that the family of David Godfrey announce his passing on August 11, 2015 at the age of 59 years. In 1979, David moved from Souris, MB to Red Deer where he worked at the Red Deer Hospital as a medical laboratory technologist for 36 years. David will be lovingly remembered by his sons, Nicholas Alvarez-Godfrey (Olivia Johnston) and Andres Alvarez; life partner, Carmen Alvarez; grandchildren, Kiana, Arianna, Antonio, and Andres; brother, Bill; sister, Linda; as well as many nieces and nephews in the Godfrey and Alvarez families. David is predeceased by his parents, John and Bea. Please join the family for an Afternoon of Remembrance on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 St., Red Deer. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting: www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

Card Of Thanks FLUERY The family of Wayne Fluery would like to thank everyone for the love and support shown to us during the loss of our loved one. Special thanks to Dr. Greig from Horizon Clinic for his many years of care. We would also like to thank the staff at Red Deer Hospice for the comfort they provided to Wayne and family. Thank you to Bruce MacArthur and staff from Meaningful Memorials for helping us celebrate Wayne’s life. Finally a thank you to Chuck and Gladys at the Hanger in Springbrook for their support during a most difficult time. Wayne will be missed forever and he will live on in our hearts.

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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 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. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift. Wknd, day, night & eves. Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d. Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

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Thank-You On behalf of the Zone 3 Fish and Game Association, we would like to send our sincere thanks and applauds to the Central Alberta contractors and organizations who stepped up to the plate when Fisheries, government offices and Ducks Unlimited refused to help. The Kneehill pond, near Innisfail, has been a trout fishery for about 20 years. In 2013 when Calgary and High Level were flooded, the same storms broke our dam at the pond. Efforts to repair the dam were hampered by the needed funds, lack of heavy equipment and special material and of course the expertise. Those we like to thank wholeheartedly are, in alphabetical order .... Alberta Conservation Society supplied funds for the trout pond aeration system. Herb Nisbet supplied the huge boulders from his farm near Bowden. Howell's Excavation supplied other stones and gravel for the spillway. Jego Construction loaded and hauled the huge rocks to the site. Proform supplied at cost the large concrete "lego" blocks for the dam. Ron Smith of Smithiron Earthworks supplied the big track hoes to place the clay, boulders and the blocks. Zone 3 Fish and Game volunteers

It is a tribute to residents of these Central Alberta communities that they live amongst such caring and giving people who can come together to complete a task that at one time seemed impossible. Next year, it will hold trout again and kids in the area are welcome to come and wet a line.

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ONLINE ONLY AUCTION SALE! OFFERING OF FRACK WELL MONITORING UNITS GAUGE LOGGERS • AUTOBOXES • ETC. SURPLUS TO THE ONGOING NEEDS OF

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Household Appliances

DISHWASHER, portable Danby, good cond. $200. 403-342-4774 Sale Closing Date: Thurs., August 20th at 2:00pm (EST) GE 30” black top, smooth Inspection: Wed., August 19th 8AM-4PM or prior by Appt. electric self cleaning stove, Sale to Include: (39) MRL FRACK WELL MONITORING UNITS, all 4 burners, good cond., with Hawk Communications System, MRL Stand & Battery System $300 obo 403-782-4292 with Solar Panel • (8) WIKA GAUGE LOGGERS • (16) S25 AUTOBOX LOGGING UNITS • DUAL AXLE TRAILERS • METERS • DUAL Household CHANNEL PANTHER LOGGERS • & MORE Furnishings Visit our Website for a Complete Listing

4080 77th Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4P 3P7

OILFIELD TICKETS

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Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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Farmers' Market

GE OIL & GAS PRESSURE CONTROLS

TRAINING CENTRE

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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631-454-1766 www.kosterindustries.com

Jim Hanley Equipment Remarketing Services 10 Riverview Drive, Danbury, CT 06810 P: 203-749-3776 E:jim.hanley@ge.com

16.5% Buyer s Premium Will Apply On All Purchases

Advocate Opportunities

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CHINA Cabinet, 70’s style, glass front doors, 3 shelves, bottom detachable hutch with doors for storage. $100. 403-347-5846 HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50. 403-340-1347

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

stuff ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. in

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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BATHROOM MIRROR, 3’x4’, $35. 403-347-0293 COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100. 403-885-5020 DISH Setting, 8 piece, cottage rose pattern with extra serving pieces. 55 pieces total. Like New! $50. 403-347-5846 LEAF BLOWER, electric Black & Decker high performance. BRAND NEW!! never out of box. $50. 403-342-4774 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 POT belly stove w/chimney’s pail shovel and poker, used in garage, exc. cond. $200 SOLD! TEAPOT with creamer & sugar, Avon collectible. $25. 403-347-5846

Riverside Meadows

LEAPSTER 2 by leap frog with extra game. $10.; Wooden doll house furniture, nursery set, several pieces, $10; wooden doll house furniture, playground set, several pieces, $10. 403-314-9603

Flyer carriers needed for afternoon delivery 2 days/week Wed. & Fri. on 61 & 60A St. Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

Earn Extra Money

No s! ion Collect

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Misc. for Sale

Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $87.00/mo. Crawford St. Area $55.00/mo.

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

Tools

CLEARVIEW AREA

Inglewood

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $3 each. (approx. 50) good shape. 403-347-2526

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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Clothing

Advocate Opportunities

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat.

EquipmentHeavy

MOTORCYLCE Jacket, men’s 2XL, Open Road. Worn twice, $75. FIRM. 403-304-0554

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Employment Training

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PLAYPEN, Grayco, in good condition. $20. 403-340-1347

GED Preparation

Children's Items

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

Children's Items

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

FALL START

and

Advocate Opportunities 7113487H22

• 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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MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

MECHANICAL Great second career. DRAFTSPERSON Must be fit and love to Please refer to our website travel. • Work schedule approx. at www.sparteksystems. com for company informa8 months per year. tion. Applicants please • A strong interest in forward resume to: ladies fashion an asset. keri.lee@sparteksystems. Reply to: com or fax to 403-887-4050 Please state which position order@klassenjlrs.com you are applying for in your Terry, 306-652-2112 cover letter. Check us out at: www.klassenjlrs.com

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Trades

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Trades

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Cats

ash Extra C ise! & Exerc

2 Siamese, 2 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649

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Sporting Goods

HOME Gym, $50. 403-340-1347

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Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Routes Available in Your Neighborhood

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Houses/ Duplexes

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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3 BDRM, 3 flr, 3 bath house at 7316-59 Ave. to rent to over 35 yr. old couple. Five appliances, fenced yard., deck and 3 car parking. Rent/DD $1650. Ph: 403-341-4627. 3 BDRM. house, recently reno’d, fin. bsmt., 4 appls., no pets. 403-848-4618 AVAIL. Sept. 1 in Parkvale area 4614-47 St. Apply in person at 4610-47 St. No Pets. HOUSE in Sylvan partly furn., rent $1800 + DD and utils. 403-887-4610

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Timberland

Anders Park

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GRANDPA’S old stuff and our newer treasures. Tools, telephones, mic stands and cables, Moroccan area rugs, men’s 19” Norco 15 spd. bike, air hockey table and much more! 88 Ayers Ave. Aug. 14, 3-7, Aug. 15, 8-4.

31&35 Dixon Close. Mini 23 KIRKWOOD CRES. 66 TRAPTOW CLOSE fridge, vacuum, Bunk bed, Multi Family. Fri. Aug. 14, Aug. 14, 15 & 16 Women’s golf clubs and 4-9, Sat. 9-2 DVD’s books, Fri. 2-8, Sat. 10-8, Sun. 10-4 snow board. Children’s tools, tires, clothing, SouthClothing, sporting goods, clothes, toys, picnic table hill jewelry, household household misc. and household. Friday Something for Everyone Aug. 14, 4pm-8:30pm. SatRiverside Meadows Everyday in Classifieds urday Aug. 15, 9am-2pm

Aspen Ridge

Inglewood

LARGE garage sale. Fri. Aug. 14, 3-8. Sat. Aug. 15, 8-3. 95 Ackerman Cres. (off 30th Ave. west of Lancaster)

191 INGLEWOOD DR. (Alley) Aug. 13 & 14 Thurs. 2-8, Fri. 12-8 Household items, furniture, kids stuff, etc...

Clearview

Johnstone Park

72 CUNNUNGHAM CRES. Fri. Aug. 14, 2 -8 Kids bed and dresser, etc. and much more.

5 JARVIS CLOSE Aug. 14 & 15 Fri. 2-6, Sat. 9-5 Household misc., women’s clothing etc....

Kentwood Estates

4676 61 ST. BAY 7 (Alley) AUG. 15, Sat. 11 - 4 COMMERCIAL GARAGE SALE Electrical Supplies

Sunnybrook MOUNT Calvery Lutheran Church 18 Selkirk Blvd. Thurs. Aug. 13, 4-8 Fri. Aug. 14, 9-8 Sat. Aug. 15, 9-1 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Penhold 48 JARVIS CLOSE Aug. 14 & 15 Fri. 10-5 & Sat. 9 - 4 Tools, lawnmowers, wheel barrel, lots of misc. & household items, 2- 1980 “antique” CCM bikes, mint cond., X-mas & halloween stuff including yard, inflatables, all must go! You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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

Cleaning

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OFFERING cleaning services. Homes, offices, move in/out, seniors 10% off. 587-377-0443

Contractors

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Contractors

1100

CONCRETE??? We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

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Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Handyman Services

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE BEAT THE RUSH! Book Garage/Patios/RV pads now for your home projects. Sidewalks/Driveways Reno’s, flooring, painting, Dean 403-505-2542 small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree BRIDGER CONST. LTD. cutting, fencing & decking. We do it all! 403-302-8550 Call James 403-341-0617 DALE’S Home Reno’s Start your career! Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 See Help Wanted

Massage Therapy

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FANTASY SPA

Painters/ Decorators

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888

Elite Retreat, Finest Roofing in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc. Services

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 CLEAN UP AND JUNK REMOVAL. 403 550 2502

Moving & Storage

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MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

1310 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

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

WORLD

BRIEFS

has said in the past that such a move left the dollar alone as the world’s measure of value for currencies. Castro came to power in 1959 following a revolution. Relations with the United States were broken in 1961 as Castro led Cuba rapidly into a socialist model allied with the Soviet Union.

Fidel Castro turns 89; says U.S. has hefty debt to Cuba for embargo

Measure to withdraw Guatemala president’s immunity falls short

HAVANA — Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday with a newspaper column Thursday repeating assertions that the U.S. owes socialist Cuba “numerous millions of dollars” for damages caused by its decades-long embargo. The brief essay came a day before an historic moment in U.S.-Cuba relations: Secretary of State John Kerry is to raise the Stars and Stripes over a restored U.S. Embassy in Havana, though the economic embargo legally remains in effect. The rapprochement after 54 years of formal diplomatic estrangement was engineered by Fidel’s brother Raul, who took over Cuba’s presidency after the elder Castro suffered a health crisis in 2006. Fidel Castro did not directly mention the restored relations, though he made several critical references to the U.S. He said Washington owes Cuba indemnifications “that rise to numerous millions of dollars” for damage caused by the embargo. He also repeated his criticism of the U.S. decision to stop swapping dollars for gold in 1971, a stand shared with some conservative economists. Castro

GUATEMALA CITY — An effort to withdraw Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina’s immunity from prosecution has died in Congress following a string of corruption scandals that sparked large protests. Opposition legislators have been able to muster only 88 votes to support the motion, short of the 105 needed. Perez Molina’s former vice-president was forced to resign earlier this year over a customs kickbacks scheme that reached into her inner circle. A second scandal involving a $15 million kidney-treatment contract rocked the country’s social security institute. Last month the courts approved a congressional process to consider stripping Perez Molina’s immunity, but the measure failed Thursday.

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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

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appl., rent/$975, dd/$975, adults with ref., n/s, no pets. 403-358-8586

Suites

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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

Warehouse Space

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Mobile Lot

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PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Realtors & Services

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RISER HOMES Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades. This weekend only $405.000. GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Condos/ Townhouses

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PRICED TO SELL! MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 NEW 4th Ár. corner suite, 1096 Sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreational amenities, extended care center attached, deck 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 anytime. Pics avail. on kijji

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3 BDRM. 4 appl., incl. water., avail. immed. $875/mo. 403-348-6594

BRAND NEW RENTAL COMMUNITY Now leasing for Sept. 1! 1 & 2 BDRMs from $1170. In-suite laundry. Dishwasher. Storage. Balcony. Pet friendly. Elevator. Parking avail. Gym. Community garden. Non-smoking. On-site mgmt. 39 Van Slyke Way, Red Deer. 403-392-6751 SkylineLiving.ca

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

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Houses For Sale

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“COMING SOON” BY

SERGE’S HOMES

Duplex in Red Deer Close GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info apartments, avail. immed, Call Bob 403-505-8050 rent $875 403-596-6000

MORRISROE MANOR

GREAT LOCATION. 4.6 acres of privacy, yet close to the town of Dickson and easy access to Glennifer lake. Older 1 1/2 storey home with extensive upgrades. 3 bedrooms plus a bit of a loft, master bedroom is on the main Áoor. MLS# c3656487 Directions: 1/2 mile West of the Hamlet of DICKSON $309,000. Contact E. Dwayne Hassett, CIR Realty 403-650-8605

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 SPACIOUS luxurious 1360 sq.ft. lower suite in Johnstone, separate entrance, underÁoor heating, new Áooring, freshly painted, 5 appls, ensuite laundry, storage area, fully fenced w/parking pad at back, Small pets, n/s. Avail. Sept.1. Call Linda for info & appt. 403-356-1170 SYLVAN LAKE, Private suite. + Cable, fridge, etc. $550/mo. 403-880-0210 SYLVAN: 4 units avail. Sept. 1. $1100. to $1400. Details 403-880-0210.

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444 TWO 2 BDRM. apts, one with balcony, no pets , free laundry, fairly new carpet and paint, large, to over 35 year old, quiet living working tenants. 5910-55 Ave., PH. 403-341-4627. Rents $1150/ $1100 with D.D, the same.

Roommates Wanted

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FEMALE preferred rent negotiable 403-357-4640 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

M/F to share townhouse, private bath/shower $600 + 1/2 utils. 403-318-8487

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

RISER HOMES BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open Áoor plan, a must see! $355,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

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SUV's

Money To Loan

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CONSOLIDATE All loans with rates from 2.1% business or personal loan bankruptcy or bad credit ok. Call 438-992-5916 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Mac James Motors is looking for a

Saddle bags, windshield, cruise, running lights, back rest, 44,500 kms.

SALES MANAGER for our Red Deer location.

MINT CONDITION! $7990. o.b.o.

Mac James Motors is a well-established provider of automotive subprime lending, in house financing, & specializes in credit rebuilding and after sales client care.

403-318-4653 Red Deer

Our Sales teams at our three locations, Edmonton North, Edmonton South and Red Deer, have helped thousands of satisfied clients rebuild, repair and establish credit over the company’s successful history.

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We are looking for the candidate who brings strong sales experience, an ability to provide excellent customer service, after sales care, and leadership to our team and our clients. Auto sales experience is not necessary.

RV RENTAL SPACE in Red Deer, secure with 24 hr. surveillance, gravel lot. 403-302-8793 for price and location.

Please email your resume to

reddeer@macjames.ca We thank all applicants for your interest. If you are selected as a potential candidate you will be contacted.

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Parkland Community Living and Supports Society

1996 26’ PHOENIX 147,000 kms, sleeps 6, new tires, good working order $9100 403-704-3094

SELLING CHEAP! $1900 for 2001 Ford Escape 4x4, 5 spd, std, 293, 453 kms, dependable 403-887-0373

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2008 UPLANDER, low kms. $5300 403-782-2838

Motorcycles

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MOTORCYLCE Jacket, men’s 2XL, Open Road. Worn twice, $75. FIRM. 403-304-0554

TEAM LEADER/ AIDE – INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES

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Whatever You’re Selling... We Have The Paper You Need! Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

We have a rewarding opportunity for a dynamic individual to lead a small team of support staff to work with an independent adult male with a developmental disability. Responsibilities will include, supporting this individual to achieve his personal development goals, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, supervision, documentation, training, & budget management. Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related field. Ideally you will have 3 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well, you will be self-initiated, organized, and have a positive up-beat attitude. Good interpersonal skills are essential. Experience with supervision, teaching daily living skills, and working with individuals with mental illness is preferred. A valid class 5 driver’s license and willing to use your own transportation is required. Hours of Work: 20hrs./wk. as Team Leader. Hours of work are 9 am – 1 pm Monday to Friday. 6hrs./wk. as ILS Aide. Hours of work on Monday are 1 pm – 3 pm and 1 pm to 2 pm Tuesday to Friday. Team Leader Wage: $23.10 or $23.50/hr. ILS Aide Wage: $16.50 or $17.08/hr. Send resume quoting #5310TL-WM by August 24, 2015 to:

CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Open House

Human Resources, Parkland CLASS 6010-45 Ave Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3M4 Fax: 403-986-2404 or email: hr@pclass.org

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We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until position is filled.

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Central Alberta’s career site of choice. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

ADULT RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISOR 1 YEAR TERM

Parkland CLASS is currently seeking an Adult Residential Supervisor to manage the overall program delivery for 3 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. Responsibilities include: providing direct care, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, training, supervising a team of approximately 5-12 employees & budget management. Hours of work are 40 hrs. /wk., primarily days, Mon-Fri; however, you will be required to work some evenings and weekends. Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related field. Preferably, you will have 3–5 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as, excellent interpersonal, team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal. Salary: $4,004.15 - $4,073.49 A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required. We offer an RRSP Plan, a Group Benefit Plan, a Health & Wellness Plan and an Employee Assistance Plan after 3 months of employment. We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume by August 24, 2015 quoting competition # 5309SUP to: Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: 403-986-2404 email: hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until all positions are filled.

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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

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

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2400 sq. ft. approx. 40x60, 55 x 85 fenced compound, approx. 2/3 of attractive stucco metal trimmed, free standing building in Riverside Light Industrial area, an easy Ànd location that backs onto Windsor Plywood. 4614-61 St. avail. immed. 403-350-1777 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at $15 million that had been stolen from a Paris museum more than a decade ago and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey. The director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sarah Saldana, officially repatriated the artwork, titled The Hairdresser, during a ceremony Thursday at the French Embassy in Washington. The painting was on its way from Belgium to the New York borough of Queens when it was identified and seized in Newark, New Jersey, last December.

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WICHITA, Kan. — The U.S. military said Thursday

Officials return $15 million Picasso painting stolen in France

With unlimited earning potential, the successful candidate will contribute to the success of Black Press by growing our business, maximizing revenue streams with existing and potential clients, and providing outstanding customer service while maintain a strong focus on audience-based solutions. Responsibilities: Apply a consultative audience based selling approach accompanied by the delivery of proactive advertising proposals to key decision-makers, thereby maintaining and building a group of client accounts on a proactive basis; Achieve and exceed planned annual revenue targets, and superior customer satisfaction levels; Focus of time to increasing existing business and/or bringing new clients into their portfolio; consistently seek out new revenue opportunities with existing and new customers; Assist client, address any concerns and manage a successful client experience, ensuring positive relationship management. Competencies: Strong time management skills, well-organized, effectively managing multiple demands, prioritized against key business objectives with tight deadlines; An energetic self-starter with a drive to succeed; An ability to grow business while managing the existing business; Proactively embraces change; is consultative, positive, participative, enthusiastic, optimistic; Excellent communication, presentation and negotiating skills; Tenacious, persistent with strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Applies unique solutions to everyday situations and problems; Capable of creating good relationships while maintaining a professional approach at all times; Presenting and negotiations skills. Qualifications: Experience in an advertising sales environment preferred; however; proven history in sales including serving clients will be considered. Proven ability to sustain and grow business and revenue; Post-secondary education in Marketing, Sales or another related discipline; Understanding of the media landscape; Valid Driver’s License; personal vehicle in good working order required; Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, email, social media and internet media an asset. If you have the passion to succeed and enjoy selling in a fast-paced, everchanging environment, submit your resume along with a compelling cover letter no later than August 19, 2015 to: Wendy Moore, Advertising Manager Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer AB T4R 1M9 wmoore@reddeeradvocate.com We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Military says it is committed to fairness in case involving Chelsea Manning

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 D7 that it is committed to “a fair and equitable process” in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The response comes a day after Manning’s lawyer disclosed that the transgender Army private faces charges at an Aug. 18 hearing for allegedly having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste, among other things. The former intelligence analyst, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 of espionage and other offences for sending more than 700,000 classified documents to Wikileaks while working in Iraq. She is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking reams of war logs, diplomatic cables and battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website in 2010.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 2015

Kids with cancer get futuristic fertility chance EXPERIMENTAL TISSUE-FREEZING EVEN FOR BABIES BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“as long as there’s informed consent and a desire to do it.” Federal guidelines say there should be minimal risk to children involved in research, and risks need to be weighed against potential benefits, he said. “Kids themselves when they grow up would likely appreciate having that (fertility) option,” he said. After the tissue is removed, some is stored in liquid nitrogen for the patient’s future use and some is sent to a central research lab at Northwestern University in Chicago, where scientists are studying ways to make it work. Since 2008, the Philadelphia hospital has saved tissue for about 40 girls aged three and up and 50 boys — the youngest was three months. A few have since died but most still have tissue on ice, waiting for science and adulthood. Deaths from cancer are uncommon in children; about 80 per cent survive, “so we have the odds in our favour,” Ginsberg said. At age 10, Michael Richert recently finished treatment for a brain tumour. The North Brunswick, New Jersey, boy had testes tissue removed earlier this year at the Philadelphia hospital after a stem cell transplant, before starting chemotherapy. He comes from a large extended family, and from his hospital bed, mused about playing a LEGO video game with a future son “like me and my dad did.” His mom, Aileen Richert, says consenting to the procedure was tough. “But then I was thinking, years from now, if my son gets married and wants to have children, what if I told him I’d had this option and I didn’t do it for him?” she said. Parents help doctors present the details, depend-

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CHICAGO — Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She’s also getting a chance at having babies of her own someday. To battle infertility sometimes caused by cancer treatment, some children’s hospitals are trying a futuristic approach: removing and freezing immature ovary and testes tissue, with hopes of being able to put it back when patients reach adulthood and want to start families. No one knows yet if it will work. It has in adults — more than 30 babies have been born to women who had ovarian tissue removed in adulthood, frozen, and put back after treatment for cancer or other serious conditions. In lab animals, it’s worked with frozen and thawed testes tissue. But the procedures are still experimental in children who haven’t reached puberty, and too new to ing on the child’s maturity, Ginsberg said. have been attempted. “Some kids want to know every detail. Others are There are challenges to making immature eggs like ’I’ve heard enough.”’ and sperm from removed tissue suitable for concepWhen 8-year-old Hannah McStay of Mantua, New tion. Jersey, was diagnosed with leukemia, the offer of Still, fertility researchers hope to refine the sciovary-freezing forced her mom, Rachel, to have a ence while the first generation of children whose tisvery grown-up conversation with her. sue has been put on ice grows up. Now 11, with her leukemia in remission, Hannah Families like Talia’s are clinging to that optisays the potential chance for fertility is “a miracle.” mism. Online The dark-eyed toddler who loves princesses and ● Fertility preservation: http://bit.ly/1O3WtYL play dough had an ovary removed and frozen in ● Philadelphia program: http://bit.ly/1L69LWN April. ● Lurie Children’s Hospital: http://bit.ly/1L3beul She was treated for kidney cancer last year but when it spread, doctors started harsher treatment including brain radiation. “It seemed very new and pretty amazing that we can do something like this and help her in a bigger way,” said her ** mom, Maria Pisano, of Griffith, Indiana. “It definitely brought some peace” and raised hope for Talia’s future, Pisano said. Doctors face a delicate balance in broaching the idea of yet another medical procedure when families have been hit with a horrible diagnosis and difficult treatment plan. The tissue-removing surgeries are typically done while a child is being sedated for another reason. “We try to be thoughtMAX F. 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We try to be thoughtful about the fact that their main focus and ours is on the survival of the child.

— Dr. Erin Rowell a surgeon at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital

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