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BATTLE AT THE BEND BRINGS REMOTE CONTROL CARS FROM ACROSS WESTERN CANADA

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The hard work of redesigning the track at Three Mile Bend and testing it finally paid off on the weekend.

Chris Coulter, president of Red Deer Radio Control Car Club, has been involved in getting the track ready for the Battle at the Bend, a weekend long remote control car race that featured cars from all over Alberta and parts of Western Canada.

Coulter estimated about 100 vehicles, of varying classes and sizes, were on hand for the races.

The event was to start on Friday night with practice races, but they were washed out by rain.

On Saturday, there were qualifying heats and it concluded early Sunday afternoon with the final races.

“We take turns going between cities,” said Coulter.

“Every three weeks, there’s a race that goes on in Alberta.

“We started the Battle at the Bend last year, we figured we’d need something catchy, and we’ve kept running with it.”

Although they just took the catchy name, races have been taking place for about 10 years. The club has 65 to 70 members.

Coulter was at work leading up to the event building the new track.

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Agricultural disaster declared DROUGHT

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has declared that the hardship to agriculture from this year’s drought constitutes a disaster.

Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier quietly approved the decision on Friday.

Agriculture department spokesman Renato Gandia says in an email that it allows the province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corporation to access more funds for insurance compensation.

Gandia says the dry weather and hail in 2015 has resulted in a “significant increase” in the number of claims across the province.

Many Alberta counties and municipal districts have already declared local states of agricultural emergency due to heat and drought and are seeking government assistance.

Earlier this summer, Alberta’s Progressive Conservative agriculture critic Wayne Drysdale said crop insurance isn’t enough and that the provincial NDP government should establish a disaster recovery program to address this year’s drought and grasshopper infestations.

“While we agree that insurance provides a solid safety net most years, there are times when it isn’t enough. It is pretty clear that 2015 is such a case,” Drysdale said in a statement on Aug. 14.

A spring and summer with insufficient rain has withered crops in many regions of Western Canada, including hay used by livestock producers to feed their animals.

Producers worry they may have to reduce their herds due to the price and lack of availability of hay, and the federal government has agreed to grant tax deferrals to western livestock producers in regions hit by drought.

The Alberta government has responded by cutting rental fees for a program that helps farmers pump water to fill their dams and dugouts, and is also helping municipalities identify additional public lands for grazing.

Saskatchewan announced a similar measure last month to help its producers. Rick Strankman, the agriculture critic for the Opposition Wildrose party in Alberta, said Saturday that he’s still sifting through the details of how the province-wide disaster designation will affect producers.

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Sylvan Lake takes first step toward securing water supply Those kinds of big-ticket projects can only happen with significant provincial investment. Alberta government’s Water for Life Strategy bankrolled up to 90 per cent of previous projects, including the Sylvan Lake has enough water to serve a popula- recently completed $132-million Red Deer-to-Olds tion of 20,000 — a threshold not so far away consider- sewer line.

But how much funding will be available in the ing the community’s popularity.

After that, either the community will have to add new government’s budget is anyone’s guess.

Commission chairman Thom Jewell said the city’s to its eight water wells or — the preferred option — support was an important step. be hooked up to Red Deer and its treatment plant.

“We’re pleased that the city has looked at and are The first step in that process was cleared recently when Red Deer city council agreed to provide working with our regional collaboration.”

The province has also a water supply to Sylvan been supportive of the Lake on a number of conditions, most importantly ‘WE’RE LOOKING AT SECURING OUR initiative and funded that municipal members SHORT-TERM SUPPLY FOR THE THREE- early technical studies.

The next step is to line of the Sylvan Lake ReTO-FIVE YEAR TIME FRAME. MOVING up cash for detailed engigional Water/Wastewater neering and get Alberta Commission foot the bill.

BEYOND THAT, INTO THE LONGER Transportation approvTown of Sylvan Lake TERM, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO BE al to run the water line public works direcdown the Hwy 11A righttor Dave Brand said the ABLE TO SOURCE SOME SUPPLY of-way. town has recently drilled OTHER THAN JUST INDIVIDUAL Jewell, who is mayor of a new water well. ComBirchcliff, said they have bined with seven other SHALLOW WELLS.’ had no word yet on what wells, plus a backup, there should be enough — DAVE BRAND funding may be coming PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, TOWN OF SYLVAN LAKE or when. water to sustain a comThe cost of the engimunity of around 20,000.

“We’re looking at securing our short-term supply neering work has not been determined. The line for the three-to-five-year time frame,” he said. “Mov- itself will likely be in the $20-million to $30-million ing beyond that, into the longer term, we definitely range.

Alberta Transportation oversees the province’s need to be able to source some supply other than Water for Life Strategy and spokesman Bob Mcjust individual shallow wells.”

Considering Sylvan Lake’s population is 14,310 Manus said the department continues to “evaluate and growing at roughly five per cent a year, the town specific proposals on an ongoing basis and work with has a few years before it must look for more water. municipalities to address local water and wastewaThe province doesn’t allow communities to draw ter needs.

“We understand that reduced funding for this imfrom the lake.

If Sylvan Lake and the other members of the com- portant grant program means that a number of projmission, which includes Red Deer and Lacombe ects in some communities haven’t proceeded,” says Counties and five summer villages, wants to pursue McManus in an email.

“This is something that we’ll be looking at as our water line to Red Deer, the work must begin well in government develops a new budget for the fall.” advance.

Both Lacombe and Blackfalds are in the queue, “Generally speaking, the process itself typically takes a number of years from approval through to ac- lobbying hard for a $40-million regional sewer line tual construction, being hooked up and operational,” connecting their communities to Red Deer.

That would be the second leg of a regional syshe said.

The idea of connecting Red Deer to communities tem, with a Red Deer-to-Sylvan Lake sewer line the around Sylvan Lake by water and a matching sewer third leg. line has been tossed around for more than a decade.

A regional water line from Red Deer to Ponoka went into operation 10 years ago.

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Brett Lapointe of the Central Alberta Buccaneers misses a tackle by Trevor Cordeiro of the Edmonton Stallions during AFL playoff action on Saturday evening at the ME Global Athletic Park field. The Buccaneers won the game 20-17. See full story on page B4.

Preparing for extreme weather Canadian municipalities are unprepared for ‘weather whiplash’ according to a top meteorologist.

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BEND: Hobby-grade “We took the Bobcats out and levelled the track and built a new layout,” said Coulter.

“We’ve been on it for a few weeks and it’s a lot of work and a lot of testing is involved.

“We always bring our vehicles out with us so we can test the jumps and perfect them.”

Coulter described the vehicles racing as “hobbygrade.” Some are worth thousands of dollars.

On top of the kit costs, the racers carry many spare parts and other equipment to race their vehicles.

Coulter said his wife races a one-eighth scale buggy. The kit for the buggy cost about $700.

“Then you have to build it, tune it and then you put your own engine, your own electronics in there,” said Coulter.

“Then you’ll need fuel, tools and starter boxes.

“When it was all said and done, just to get my wife on the track and racing we were about $1,500 deep into it.”

This is the club’s big annual race, and it provides most of the funding for the non-profit group.

A raffle was also held and all proceeds from the raffle were donated to the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre.

The winner walked away with an HB D8-12 buggy valued at about $1,000.

For more information on the club, visit their Facebook Page under the group name Clutch Nutz R/C Club. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

WATER: Sewage issues Blackfalds Mayor Melodie Stol and Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie met with Alberta Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason last month and he recognized the need for the communities to address their sewage issues.

The province agreed to fund a needs analysis that is now underway.

However, no indication was given of when, or if, provincial funding will be available for the project.

Stol said it makes sense to tackle the province’s infrastructure backlog during the current downturn when prices are lower and more people are in need of work.

Too often in the past, municipalities have found themselves competing with the private sector during construction booms.

“We need get our timing better and build infrastructure now,” she said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

DROUGHT: Extreme weather He said part of the difficulty is that the extreme weather hasn’t affected regions evenly.

“The devil is in the details and to make a province-wide designation, there could be unintended consequences,” Strankman cautioned.

Drysdale has said that the failure to implement a

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Dead bison in herd on reclaimed oilsands site test positive for anthrax FORT MCMURRAY — Three bison from Syncrude’s herd in the oilsands have tested positive for anthrax.

Officials recently found four carcasses on the Beaver Wood Bison Ranch, a herd that’s been living on reclaimed land on the Mildred Lake oilsands site for more than 20 years.

One tested positive for anthrax, and Syncrude spokesman Leithan Slade confirmed Saturday evening that tissue samples from two of the other animals also confirmed that anthrax was present.

Syncrude closed off the area, contained the animal carcasses and shut down a public viewing point.

Slade says tissue samples haven’t been obtained from the fourth animal yet because workers haven’t gone into the area.

Parks Canada confirmed several anthrax cases in

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Remote control cars fly over the first set of obstacles during the Expert Buggy qualifying race as part of the annual Battle at the Bend race Saturday. Ty Tessman’s vehicle came out on top in the race, with a time of 6:08.436. The event, put on by the Clutch Nutz R/C Club of Red Deer, had roughly 100 remote control vehicles compete throughout the weekend. disaster recovery program is effectively telling the counties that have already declared agricultural disasters that they’re not facing them.

Gandia said the Alberta government is keeping an eye on the situation.

“We continue to monitor the situation very closely to assess the effectiveness of our programs and services, and evaluate how to best support our producers facing challenging circumstances,” Gandia said in an email.

Wood Buffalo National Park over the summer, but it’s the first time it has been detected in the Mildred Lake herd.

There’s an average of about 300 bison in the Syncrude herd, and usually up to five workers on the ranch.

“We still do have a significant number of bison at the site and so we need to make sure that we protect those workers and allow them to be able to go to the remaining herd and feed and water those. So, that’s kind of the main focus right now,” Slade said.

Saskatchewan Agriculture said last month that anthrax killed two bison and was suspected in seven other deaths northwest of North Battleford.

Anthrax is caused by the bacteria bacillus anthracis, which can survive in spore form for decades in soil.

Animal cases pose minimal risk to humans but people can get infected through direct contact with sick animals or carcasses.

NDP promise positivity in the face of partisan attacks OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is using the anniversary of his predecessor’s death to promise

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he’ll run a positive campaign despite attacks from his rivals.

Mulcair attended a corn roast on Saturday in St. Jerome, a Montreal-area suburb, where a moment of silence was held for Jack Layton, who was seen by many as a positive campaigner. The former popular leader of the NDP died Aug 22, 2011, just a few months after he led the party to its best showing ever at the federal level.

Mulcair said the fact the Conservatives and Liberals are increasingly attacking him is a sign the NDP campaign is going well.

His rivals were off the campaign trail Saturday, but the Liberals tried to fill the news void by sending some of Justin Trudeau’s top lieutenants into the fray. High profile incumbents John McCallum, a former bank economist, and Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist and author of books on income inequality, held a news conference in Ottawa to try to poke holes in the governing Conservatives’ economic record. McCallum told the news conference that Canada is the only G7 country in recession.

The Liberals point to their record in the 1990s as proof they can eliminate deficits, balance the books and stimulate economic growth.

Stephen Harper has maintained the economy is being affected by international developments beyond Canada’s control.

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COMIC STRIP SIGNING

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Eric Dyck, an Albertan comic strip artist, made an appearance at the Red Deer Market Saturday morning, signing copies of his comic, Fiddleheaded, which features a number of Maritime-related things as seen by someone from the prairies, as well as Slaughterhouse Slough.

Prepping for the winds of change MUNICIPALITIES UNPREPARED FOR ‘WEATHER WHIPLASH’: METEOROLOGIST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A top Canadian meteorologist warns that municipalities aren’t prepared to deal with the impacts of an increasingly volatile climate that can bring devastating floods one season and a drought the next.

In the last five years, Canadian cities have been buried in record-breaking snowfall, scorched by unprecedented wildfires, blasted by tornadoes, hurricanes and lightning strikes, limping from one natural disaster to the next as the bills for emergency repairs climb.

Yet a senior climatologist with Environment Canada says municipal officials continue to build infrastructure based on decades-old weather patterns that are no longer the norm, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.

“You’ve got to keep pace with it and we haven’t kept pace with it,” David Phillips said in a recent interview.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which is calling on the next federal government to invest an extra $1.5 billion a year in infrastructure, says that’s easier said than done.

“Municipalities are ready, willing and able...What we need is stable, long-term funding sufficient to cover off these costs that we know are already in a deficit position,” president Raymond Louie said Friday from Vancouver.

Phillips said rising global temperatures don’t mean summer in January, but rather what he refers to as “weather whiplash” - extreme shifts in weather from one season to the next.

Torrential rain swamped Saskatchewan last summer, overwhelming sewer systems and causing flooding as far away as Manitoba. This year, raging wildfires are gobbling up thousands of square kilometres of parched land in the Prairies and British Columbia.

File Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS Storms aren’t necessarily getting stronger, said Waves hit the shore in Cow Bay, N.S. near Halifax.

A top Canadian meteorologist warns that municipalities Phillips, but our aging buildings, stormwater systems and seawalls are taking more of a beating. aren’t prepared to deal with the impacts of an increasingly volatile climate that can bring devastating floods Consider a nasty nor’easter racing up the Atlantic one season and a drought the next. coast, packing the same punch as one four decades ago. Now sea levels are higher and the coastline is In Halifax, work is undotted with pretty cottages loaded with big-screen derway using the latest TVs and other pricey electronics. technology to upgrade the “That storm...is going to inundate more because floodplains map of the the ocean is higher,” said Phillips. “And if there’s Sackville and Little Sackneighbourhoods or people living there, well, it’s go- ville rivers for the first ing to be more insurance loss.” time since the early 1980s.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada said insurance Along the city’s northwest claim payouts from severe weather events were not arm, an eroding seawall is notable prior to 2011. being replaced to better They now average around $1 billion a year. In withstand crashing waves.

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Harper deserves praise One of the most baffling developments in the current Canadian political arena is the amount of pure hatred and anger directed at Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The reasons behind the contempt are well beyond the realm of rational thought and are firmly based in an irrational assessment of this man and his JIM leadership.

SUTHERLAND Much of the anger has been ignited by Harper’s tumultuous relationship with the Canadian media.

Harper changed the game for media heavyweights when he chose to deny them the kind of VIP access presented by his predecessors in the PMO. Journalist egos were bruised and Harper became a target in the eyes of a nowangry press corps.

The daily list of perceived malfeasance by Harper has grown dramati-

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cally as we edge closer to a federal election and social media has come alive with people who hate this man for reasons that are mired in conjecture and perception much more than reality.

The Harper government has been called secretive and heavy-handed because this government has created Bill C-51, a data collection proposal designed to prevent terrorist/criminal acts before they create more victims on Canadian soil.

Detractors view Bill C-51 as an infringement on their right to privacy and an affront to civil liberties in this country.

Newsflash: your activity is already being monitored by every advertiser on the Internet through your computer activity in our connected world. That is why you see ads that reflect your web viewing habits.

What would happen without surveillance in Canada?

This country would be a soft target for people who want to make a violent statement against our way of life and Harper would be condemned for his lack of action.

Some even less rational people have actually called Harper a coward be-

cause of the attack on Parliament Hill and rumours that he “hid in a closet” during the firefight in the hallway outside his door. They would presumably expect our unarmed prime minister to confront a deranged murderer who was firing a weapon instead of the prudent measure: let the security detail handle the attack — the people with the weapons and the expertise to use them.

We have given press time to ex-patriots like actor Donald Sutherland because he has been denied access to vote in the federal election.

Here is another newsflash: you should live in this country full time before you whine about your right to vote.

The same applied to Canadians who chose to make this country a marriage of passport convenience rather than a place to live and build the Canadian dream. The 2006 evacuation of 13,000 “Canadians by convenience” from wartorn Lebanon cost Canadian taxpayers $100 million. Many of these evacuees spent more time in their former country than their new country of Canada.

They remembered this country only when they needed to escape an armed conflict in the country they liked bet-

ter than Canada.

The Harper government decided to close the loopholes on Canadian citizenship because they wanted to place a higher value on the privilege to be a citizen of this country.

The changes are realistic because plenty of other people in the world would be very grateful for any opportunity to live in Canada full time, and those are the people who should be given that privilege.

Harper has been vilified in the press for just about everything he has done as prime minister of this country.

The hysteria about the man has gone well beyond the reality and we may see another election decided by raw illogic of emotion rather than a realistic assessment of his tenure as prime minister during some very difficult times, including the 2008 global economic collapse.

I would suggest that voters make up their own mind about the federal election and do not fall prey to an active campaign to discredit Harper simply because he did not fawn over the press when he became prime minister. He was too busy running the country.

Jim Sutherland is a local freelance writer.

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Help bring monarchs back from the brink Jode Roberts has spent a lot of the summer checking out ditches and fields along the sides of roads, railways and trails. At first, he didn’t like what he was seeing.

Roberts, who is leading the David Suzuki Foundation’s effort to bring monarchs back from the brink, was searching for signs that the butterflies had visited patches of milkweed plants. Despite the bleak start, he recently hit the jackpot: a half-dozen eggs and a couple of monarch caterpillars, calmly munching on milkweed leaves.

Over the past millennium, DAVID eastern monarch butterflies have migrated northward from SUZUKI Mexico in spring, arriving in southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes in early summer, where they lay eggs on the undersides of milkweed leaves. In the following weeks, their caterpillars hatch and eat a steady milkweed diet. In late summer, they form chrysalises and undergo the amazing transformation into butterflies.

They then begin fattening themselves for the arduous return to the Mexican alpine forests where they overwinter.

Concerned citizens, scientists and conservation groups were starting to think monarchs might largely be a no-show in Canada this summer. The eastern monarch population has plummeted from more than a billion butterflies in the 1990s to an estimated 35

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million in 2014 — a drop of more than 95 per cent.

They bounced back to about 55 million in Mexico this past winter, but a cool start to their journey northward coupled with the virtual eradication of milkweed plants — mainly thorough widespread use of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) over the past two decades — left monarch experts wondering whether the butterflies would make it across the border this year.

The good news is that citizen scientists and backyard butterfly lovers from across the northeastern U.S. and southern Canada have reported through social media that monarch butterflies are arriving and laying a remarkable number of eggs. But it’s too early to gauge whether the numbers will meet already low expectations.

While monarch enthusiasts are breathing a momentary sigh of relief, Roberts and colleagues have launched the Monarch Manifesto, encouraging people throughout the monarchs’ path to pledge to do their part to ensure the butterflies continue to recover. Visit davidsuzuki.org/monarchmanifesto to sign.

Participants are asked to commit to do three simple things this summer: grow milkweed, report monarch sightings and avoid using pesticides on their properties. They also commit to two simple tasks for the fall: reach out to at least one neighbourhood school, faith group, business or other institution about planting a butterfly garden and call local garden centres or nurseries to ask them to order native milkweed plants for next spring. Manifesto signatories will receive information and tips on how to begin these conversations.

The Monarch Manifesto is part of a growing movement to bring back monarch butterflies and help

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other important pollinators, like honeybees and wild bees. If all goes well, we’ll see thousands of participants, hundreds of new butterfly gardens and more local milkweed sources next spring.

The backyard and urban-focused campaign is bolstered by research by University of Delaware entomologist Douglas Tallamy, who found monarchs lay more eggs on garden plants than on milkweed in meadows. The campaign also complements a research project the David Suzuki Foundation will launch this fall, in partnership with University of Guelph researchers Tyler Flockhart and Ryan Norris, examining best practices for cultivating milkweed and encouraging monarch populations along rail and hydro lines, roadways and trails.

What can you do to help? An easy first step is to sign the Monarch Manifesto, which includes information on how to attract butterflies to your neighbourhood. If you already have milkweed in your garden or on your balcony, consider collecting seeds this fall and sharing them with friends and neighbours.

If you don’t have a garden or balcony, you can look for places where you live, work and play that could become new butterfly garden patches.

While Roberts continues his hopeful hunt for signs of monarchs this summer, I hope you’ll join thousands of people who are taking action, adding pollinator-friendly plants to their yards, spurring butterfly gardens in their neighbourhoods and transforming a multitude of spaces into safe havens for bees and butterflies. Together, we can bring monarch butterflies back from the brink.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Jode Roberts. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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High profile Ebola scientist to leave national laboratory

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The scientist who led the work to develop the Ebola drug ZMapp is going to be leaving the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

Dr. Gary Kobinger is the lab’s chief of special pathogens, heading a team that works on some of the world’s worst disease threats.

Kobinger will be vacating that position next June to become the director of the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec City. “We’re so proud. We consider we are very privileged to have the opportunity to have him,� said Dr. Michel G. Bergeron, the founder and current head of the centre, who is relinquishing the directorship — but staying on as a researcher — after 41 years. “Gary is a fantastic human being and an extraordinary researcher.�

In an interview, Kobinger said the long notice will give the Public Health Agency of Canada time to find the right candidate to take over the special pathogens program, which has brought great acclaim to the national lab.

In addition to ZMapp, the Winnipeg group designed the first Ebola vaccine that has been shown to be effective in people. And it developed and pioneered use of small mobile laboratories — a lab in a suitcase, essentially — that have changed the way testing is done during Ebola outbreaks.

Kobinger grew up in Quebec and had hoped to return there someday.

Still, he said deciding to step down

from the Winnipeg job was difficult. “It’s actually very hard to leave here.... A very tough decision,� said Kobinger, one of the world’s leading Ebola researchers. “The amount of publications and contributions that this group has been doing ... in the past five years is quite impressive.�

He has made many contributions to the field of research into viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg. But the development of the drug ZMapp will likely be remembered as one of his major contributions during his time in Winnipeg.

The drug is made up of three specific antibodies that fight Ebola. The drug is currently being tested in West Africa, though it is possible the dwindling outbreak there may end before the trial can be completed.

Immune systems produce a variety of antibodies to protect against disease invaders; some are general and some highly specific. To produce monoclonal antibody drugs such as ZMapp, scientists try to home in on specific antibodies, then clone them to produce concentrations of them to infuse into a sick person’s bloodstream.

Kobinger and his team produced a cocktail of three Ebola monoclonals that looked promising against the virus in animal testing. Meanwhile, scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Md., produced their own monoclonal cocktail of three antibodies. There was no overlap between the two.

Kobinger decided to try to optimize the cocktails, mixing and test-

Harper defends Novak CHIEF OF STAFF NOT TO BLAME: PM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The revelations of the Mike Duffy trial have placed Stephen Harper’s two most recent chiefs of staff in a spotlight that has repeatedly outshined the Conservative leader’s federal campaign messaging.

On Sunday, the prime minister came down firmly on the side of this current chief of staff — Ray Novak.

And Harper did so by name, for the first time.

As he faced another question about the trial revelations — one that elicited a few noticeable groans from Conservative campaign supporters in Rockland, Ont. — Harper stuck to his core message about the controversial $90,000 repayment of Duffy’s expenses.

He again laid the blame at the feet of Duffy, for wrongly claiming the expenses, and of Nigel Wright, his previous chief of staff, for paying them back.

Harper prefaced his latest comment, though, with a hint that he’s discussed the matter with Novak, one of his most trusted, long-time aides. But he didn’t elaborate. “Mr. Novak has been very clear with me,� Harper said Sunday, using his name for the first time after more than a week of questioning by journalists.

Harper emphasized that Wright was the person in charge of his office back in 2013 when all of the Duffy machinations were unfolding, and was therefore the sole staffer responsible for paying back money the senator should have reimbursed himself. “Instead Mr. Wright did that for him — and I grant he paid back the taxpayers — but he did so without my knowl-

edge, and without my agreement,� said Harper. “And these were his actions, he was boss and he is fully responsible for them.�

Harper was kicking off the fourth week of the federal campaign, and he faces one more week of evidence from Duffy’s fraud trial, which resumes Monday before it adjourns until November, after the Oct. 19 election.

Last week, the prime minister’s former lawyer Benjamin Perrin testified that Novak — then Harper’s principal secretary — was present on two occasions when Wright’s payment was discussed. That contradicted assertions from Harper and the Conservative campaign about what Novak knew about the repayment scheme.

Harper once again maintained Sunday that he wasn’t going to comment on the evidence of a trial that was still ongoing.

As Harper wound up last week’s campaigning, Novak remained with the Conservative team but had dropped out of the public eye.

That fuelled speculation about whether testimony from the Duffy trial linking him to the Duffy payment scheme might mean Novak’s days at Harper’s side were also numbered.

But on Sunday, Novak was spotted at a campaign stop in Rockland, Ont., where Harper promised tax relief for service club members.

Harper was the only leader of the main parties expected to hold a public event on Sunday.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had no campaign events planned.

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Gary Kobinger works in a mobile laboratory installed by specialists of the National Public Health Agency of Canada, which enables teams on the ground to conduct rapid and precise diagnosis of new suspected Ebola cases and other diseases, within two to six hours, in Mweka, Congo. Kobinger is leaving the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg to become the director of the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec City. ing various combinations to see which was most effective when given to primates infected with Ebola. The resulting drug, ZMapp, is made up of two of Winnipeg’s monoclonals and one made by the U.S. team. Kobinger took over as special pathogens chief from the group’s first head, Dr. Heinz Feldmann. Feldmann, who left the Winnipeg lab in 2008 to become chief scientist for Level 4 laboratories at the U.S. National Institute of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Mont., led the work on the Ebola vaccine. Kobinger, who had been working on a different Ebola vaccine project at the University of Pennsylvania, had been collaborating with the Winnipeg group. Feldmann told then scientific director Dr. Frank Plummer he should

hire Kobinger. “So I hired him and it was one of the smartest things I ever did,� Plummer said in an interview with The Canadian Press last year.

Over the past 15 months, Kobinger and 26 other scientists from the Winnipeg lab have worked in rotations in West Africa, with two- or three-person teams operating mobile laboratories to help Ebola treatment centres diagnose those infected with the disease. At one point, Winnipeg had three lab teams in the field. One team is still in Guinea.

Though Canada first developed a mobile testing lab, other countries have followed suit. “I think the concept really spread out and I think that’s awesome,� Kobinger said.

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Richmond shooting victim has gang-ties: police RICHMOND, B.C. — Police say a shooting in Richmond, B.C. Friday night appears to be targeted and gang related.

Constable Adriana Peralta of Richmond RCMP says officers responded to a call about a man shot near Dover Park and found a man with multiple gun shot wounds.

The man was transported to hospital, where he remains in stable condition and is expected to survive.

Peralta says the man is well-known to police, has gang ties and is not cooperating with the ongoing investigation. Police have identified suspects in the shooting but do not have anyone in

GIMLI, Man. — Officials suspect an RV fire at a Manitoba campground that killed a dog and forced a woman to flee for her life was caused by lightning. Gimli fire chief Gary MacGregor says it appears the vehicle was hit by lightning at the Autumnwood RV Campground early Saturday morning.

A woman sleeping inside woke to find her curtains on fire.

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Campers say they heard a loud bang and that’s when they think the lightning hit. Janet Johnson says her husband ran to the vehicle and tried to open the door to save the woman’s dog, but the flames spread too quickly.

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Nine people hospitalized after boat crash CAESAREA, Ont. — Police say nine people, including a six-monthold baby, were hospitalized after two boats crashed north of Oshawa, Ont. Officers say a larger powerboat collided with a smaller boat on Lake Scugog late Saturday afternoon, trapping the infant underneath.

A bystander was able to swim out to save the baby, while the other victims were pulled from the water. Police say all of the injuries are believed to be non-lifethreatening. The cause of the accident is being investigated.

Air Canada flight diverted to Belfast because of ‘unusual odour’ BELFAST, United Kingdom — An Air Canada flight from Amsterdam to Toronto was diverted to Belfast today.

Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says in an email that flight AC825 was diverted after an “unusual odour was detected in the galley.�

The Boeing 767-300 landed safely and the aircraft is being inspected. There were 208 passengers and eight crew members on the flight.

Judges dismisses claim of paraplegic former DND staffer OTTAWA — The case of a former civilian defence employee, left as a paraplegic by a horrific military transport crash in the Arctic, has been dismissed by a Federal Court judge. Bob Thomson, whose 1991 ordeal was made into a movie over 20 years ago, had pleaded with Veterans Affairs and its appeal body to be treated on par with those in uniform.

Justice Denis Gascon, in a written decision last week, said the former manager made some valid, compelling points, but until Parliament changes the law, Thomson remains ineligible for the same benefits as military survivors of the same crash. “For the reasons that follow, while I sympathize with Mr. Thomson and his dramatic circumstances, I must dismiss the application,� Gascon wrote in an Aug. 18 decision, released online Friday. “I acknowledge that Mr. Thomson raises numerous valid concerns regarding the treatment of his claim for compensation when compared to the treatment received by members of the Canadian Forces in similar situations. However, this is something that only Parliament and the legislature, not this Court, can ultimately address.�

Thomson survived the Oct. 30, 1991 crash of C-130 Hercules in the Northwest Territories, but was left paralysed and after spending 30 hours exposed to the elements before rescue, he suffered multiple amputations because of frostbite.

September just another month for home schooled kids

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As many kids prepare to return to school this fall, the back-to-school season just doesn’t have the same meaning for other Canadian families choosing to home-school their children.

September is in the middle of the school year for Lisa Marie Fletcher and her five children. “We don’t start a new math book, we don’t start a new language book — we just keep going wherever we are,� Fletcher said in an interview from Whitby, Ont. Fletcher, who home-schools her kids, says she schedules her kids’ school year between March and December because her husband is off work in the winter. “My family is kind of a weird twist,�

Fletcher said. “We take time off in the winter to spend time with daddy.�

According to Fletcher, September’s only significance to the family is the beginning of fall programs and activities at community centres, accompanied by a “fresh start� feeling and “sense of newness� the time of year brings.

Fletcher says she’s never done fall backto-school shopping but does use the time of year to celebrate her family’s differences. “A lot of home-schoolers seem to be into the ’not back to school’ party, so they get all their home-school friends together and go hang out at a park,� Fletcher said.

Like Fletcher, Kara-Davison-Wildeman, her husband, Rob, and their 11-year-old daughter, Zoey, design their own school year that doesn’t follow the traditional September start. “We don’t fit into that mould,� DavisonWildeman said from Clarksburg, Ont. “(In September) we just do what we do normally.�

Davison-Wildeman says she will plan a “fun and special� event with other home-schoolers in September similar to Fletcher’s “not back to school party� to mark the season.

Juliet Forrester of Mississauga, Ont., also home-schooled her daughter, Katherine, and followed a unique schedule. “As far as September, our lives were just so different that it really wasn’t part of our routine,� Forrester said.

That will change soon when Katherine begins high school at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. “(Katherine’s friend) is going to be teaching Katherine how to do back-toschool shopping,� Forrester said. “It will be an event.�

Some home-schoolers choose to conduct class year round, meaning they never experience a back-to-school season.

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Lisa Marie Fletcher, centre, holds her two-month-old daughter Ellissa while helping sons Tristan, left, 7, and William, 11, with math lessons at the Whitby Central Library in Whitby, Ont..

Andrea Nair, a parenting educator, says she believes the year-round schedule works best for her two boys.

Home school is a departure for Nair, a former teacher who sent her boys to school previously.

She said not having to worry about the September rush this year is “oddly relaxing.� “It’s nice not having to buy backpacks and extra shoes and lunch kit stuff; I’m not going to miss that,� Nair said speaking from London, Ont. Fletcher, Davison-Wildeman, Forrester and Nair’s families are all part of a growing number of Canadians deciding to homeschool.

A report from the Fraser Institute released in June found a 29 per cent increase in the number of people choosing to home-school their kids over a five-year period.

Each family takes its own approach, with some choosing to follow a September to June schedule.

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The Stickpin fire is mapped at 168 square kilometres and there have been no evacuation alerts or orders issued for Christina Lake or Grand Forks in British Columbia.

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to mimic the traditional school year in some ways.

Simms and his wife have been homeschooling for seven years from their place in Conn, Ont., northwest of Toronto.

He says his four kids follow the September to June school year, carry backpacks and take part in back-to-school shopping like many kids destined for classrooms across the country.

Simms says his kids even wear uniforms. “The reason why is to give them the sense that it’s school, and during the hours of school this is your job, so it just gets them into that mode,� Simms said.

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Simms can’t hide his passion for his brand of home-school, sharing a joke explaining his family’s choice: “There’s a caption I used to have on my Facebook page that said I home-school my children because I’ve seen the village and I don’t want it raising them.�

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Blue Jays annihilate Angels SCORE CLUB RECORD 36 RUNS IN THREE-GAME SWEEP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 12 Angels 5 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Edwin Encarnacion went 4 for 4 with a homer and four RBIs, and the Toronto Blue Jays completed a thunderous three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday with a 12-5 victory that vaulted them back into first place in the AL East.

The Jays’ 16th victory in 19 games, coupled with the Yankees’ 4-3 loss to Cleveland, put Toronto atop the division for the first time since Aug. 13.

The Blue Jays, who lead the majors by far with 670 runs, set a franchise record for a three-game series with 36. They totalled 48 hits against a vanquished Angels pitching staff that has surrendered 44 runs, 60 hits and 15 walks over their last four games following Jered Weaver’s 1-0 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday.

R.A. Dickey (8-10) won his fifth straight decision over seven starts, despite allowing five runs and 11 hits in six innings.

The knuckleballing right-hander overcame a 39-pitch first inning in which he gave up all five runs.

In Friday night’s series opener, Angels lefty Hector Santiago made 48 pitches in the first inning and gave up three runs en route to a 9-2 loss.

Dickey’s catcher was Josh Thole, who was recalled Sunday from Triple-A Buffalo to catch his knuckleball. They were batterymates numerous times the past two seasons with the Blue Jays, and during the previous three years with the New York Mets.

Garrett Richards (12-10) was charged with nine runs and 10 hits in five-plus innings.

Toronto closed to 5-3 in the second inning when a hard grounder to third base by Troy Tulowitzki with one out and the bases loaded got past rookie Kaleb Cowart for an error that allowed two runs to score.

Richards minimized the damage by

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson gets congratulations for scoring on an infield single by Kevin Pillar during the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday. The Blue Jays won 12-5. getting major league RBI leader Josh Donaldson to ground into a double play on the next pitch, but the Blue Jays grabbed a 6-5 lead in the third.

Encarnacion hit an RBI single that extended his career-best hitting streak to 19 games, Ben Revere had a run-scoring infield hit, and Kevin Pillar scored the go-ahead run when shortstop Erick Aybar misplayed Ryan Goins’ grounder toward the middle for the Angels’ fifth error of the series.

Toronto increased its lead to 8-5 in the fourth with back-to-back homers

by Jose Bautista (his 29th) and Encar-

nacion (his 24th). The Blue Jays have homered in 14 straight road games.

NEEDS MORE SEASONING Angels manager Mike Scioscia said there were no plans to promote C Taylor Ward, their No.1 pick in the June draft, from Triple-A when the rosters are expanded on Sept. 1. Only two players in franchise history made their big league debuts the same summer they were selected in the opening round — 1B Danny Goodwin in 1975 (first overall pick) and LHP Brian Anderson in 1993 (third overall).

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Blue Jays: C Russell Martin sat out his second straight game because of a sore left hamstring.

UP NEXT: Blue Jays: LHP Mark Buehrle (13-6) gets the assignment Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series at Texas.

Angels: Weaver (5-9) will try for his first road win in over three months when he faces Detroit on Tuesday night in the opener of a nine-game trip.

He is 0-4 with a 6.12 ERA in his last four starts away from the “Big A” since beating the Blue Jays 4-3 on May 20.

Riggers ousted from nationals in quarter-finals

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Sun Devils 2 Riggers 1 Riggers 10 Sooners 0 Quebec 7 Riggers 4 CHATHAM, N.B. — The Red Deer Riggers relied on their pitchers to get them into the quarter-finals of the Baseball Canada senior men’s championships, but ultimately ran out of mound magic.

After falling 2-1 to the Kamloops, B.C., Sun Devils Saturday morning, the Riggers blasted the Sydney, N.S., Sooners 10-0 later in the day to qualify for the playoffs with a 2-2 record in Pool A. But the Alberta representatives coughed up a big inning against Quebec in an evening quarter-final and dropped a 7-4 decision.

“Going into the quarter-final our pitchers were fantastic,” said Riggers playing manager Curtis Bailey.

“We had the fewest runs against with five in round-robin play. Quebec

was next with seven, so our pitchers were absolutely great. They kept us in games.”

The Riggers, however, weren’t scoring runs at the pace to which they were accustomed this season, until bombing the Sooners.

“It took us awhile for our bats to come alive. Our first couple of games we were not very good (offensively),” said Bailey. “But in the 10-0 game against Nova Scotia our bats started to pick up.”

The Riggers were in good shape in the quarter-final after scoring four runs in the top of the fourth inning to erase a 2-0 deficit. Jaret Chatwood and Bailey each stroked an RBI single, Denver Wik singled home Chatwood and Bailey scored on an infield error.

But Quebec struck back for five runs in the bottom of the frame on three singles, a walk, a fielder’s choice and a home run — by Danny Deschamps — off Red Deer pitcher Ben Runyon.

Davin Gulbransen replaced Runyon — who gave up two runs in the bottom of

the first — and got the final two outs of the inning and allowed just one hit and no runs the rest of the way.

Michel Simard went the distance on the Quebec mound, giving up eight hits.

“Their guy (Simard) was throwing 89 to 92 (miles per hour) and we got eight hits off him,” said Bailey.

“We battled and we had some chances.”

The Riggers were flawless defensively, while Quebec — which also had eight hits — committed three errors.

But in the end, the Riggers ran out of pitching heroics.

“He (Runyon) was getting beat in the counts,” said Bailey. “He was throwing a lot of pitches and just wasn’t able to get ahead of batters and close the door.”

In the earlier outing versus the Sooners, the Riggers exploded for seven runs in the fifth inning, which ended at that point due to a 10-run mercy rule.

Tom Muhlethaler went four-for-four

at the plate with a home run, a double and three RBI, while Lance Romanchuk had two hits and drove in a run, Bailey drove in a pair of runs and Jaret Chatwood, Curtis Mazurkewich and Jason Chatwood each knocked in a run.

James Fischer tossed a three-hitter for the Riggers, who battered Sooners hurlers Craig Field and Justin Brewer for 13 hits. The Nova Scotia champs also committed four errors.

Against B.C., the Riggers got a solo home run from Jason Chatwood and a complete-game, two-hit outing from pitcher Jake Hansen.

Ontario, represented by the Tecumseh Thunder, downed Quebec 4-1 in the gold-medal game. Kamloops defeated the New Brunswick champion Fredericton Royals 5-1 in the bronzemedal contest.

“Every year that we come to these championships our goal is to play on Sunday,” said Bailey. “We fell short this year, but getting there is the tough part.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Sprinter De Grasse ties for bronze at world championships

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING — Andre De Grasse peered at the scoreboard, waiting and wishing, not knowing whether to frown or smile.

“So I just stayed straightfaced,” De Grasse said, laughing.

Several impossibly long moments later, the results popped up: De Grasse had tied for bronze in the 100 metres at the world track and field championships.

What the scoreboard didn’t say: 20 years old. Just his third year of running track. And the first Canadian to win a medal — or even make the final — in track’s marquee event since Bruny Surin raced to silver in 1999.

Either way, third or fourth, it would have been a remarkable performance in a season packed full of them for the sprint sensation from Markham, Ont. “The future looks bright,” De Grasse said.

“Next year I can’t wait to see what kind of training I’m going to do, and I can only get stronger from here. It’s only my third year in track and to be on the podium with these guys, it’s incredible right now.”

His performance capped a threemedal day for Canada, as Brianne Theisen-Eaton won silver in the heptathlon, and Ben Thorne won a surprise bronze in the men’s 20-kilometre racewalk.

But the day belonged to De Grasse, who finished in a dead heat with American Trayvon Bromell, of 9.911, taken to the nearest thousandth of a second via a photo finish.

Jamaica’s world record-holder Usain Bolt won gold in 9.79 — .01 seconds faster than American veteran

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Canada’s Andre De Grasse, middle, China’s Su Bingtian, left, and United States’ Trayvon Bromell compete in a men’s 100m semifinal at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday. De Grasse went on to win a bronze medal in the final later in the evening.

Justin Gatlin.

De Grasse has laid down one spectacular performance after another this season, sweeping the 100 and 200 at the NCAA championships, then repeating the feat at the Pan American Games in Toronto.

Only two Canadians — Surin and Donovan Bailey — had ever broken 10 seconds before De Grasse came along.

He has done that six times this season, including running sub-10 in all three

rounds here at the Bird’s Nest Stadium.

Talking to reporters moments later, the young sprint star bounced back and forth excitedly, from one foot the other. Every answer to a question was followed with a laugh.

“Super surreal right now,” he practically bellowed.

“It feels like a dream. I actually got the bronze medal, and to end the season I had. . . aw man.”

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A tie is a rarity in the sport, and the wait was an emotional roller-coaster for De Grasse and his USC coach Caryl Smith-Gilbert.

“I didn’t know you could actually tie for a bronze medal, so I didn’t know if they were going to give it to Bromell or me,” said De Grasse, who edged Bromell for gold at the NCAA championships. “I’m really happy for him, and I’m proud of myself.”

Smith-Gilbert’s joy at bronze turned to disappointment when she saw his name listed fourth.

“I left because I was so mad. And I came back and someone said ’No, they tied,”’ the coach said.

De Grasse ran 9.96 to finish second behind Bolt in his semifinal, and then, like she’s done all season, Smith-Gilbert gave him a few quiet words of encouragement.

“I knew it would be tough, but I knew he could do it if he really wanted to,” the coach said. “I just told him do what he needed to do, I said ’You’re able to go get a medal, you just have to go do it. If you really want it, it’s there for you.”’

De Grasse will run the 4x100 relay but not the 200, the event in which he broke the Canadian record twice this season.

The only time Bolt has failed to win gold in a sprint at a major championship since the 2008 Games was when he was disqualified for a false start at the 2011 worlds. But the Jamaican has had injury trouble this season, and many had their money on Gatlin.

“A lot of people counted me out,” Bolt said. “So for me to come and win, this is a big deal.”

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Stampeders keep Riders winless

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 34 Roughriders 31 REGINA — If moral victories counted, the Saskatchewan Roughriders may be undefeated this season.

The Roughriders came up short against the Calgary Stampeders on Saturday, falling 34-31 and dropping their eighth straight.

“It’s high,” said Saskatchewan quarterback Brett Smith of his team’s frustration level. “We felt like we had opportunities to win and we didn’t. Everybody is extremely disappointed.”

The Roughriders (0-8) have lost six games this season by four points or less. Their two most recent losses have been decided in the late stages. But the players know that close doesn’t count.

“There have been so many games where we have been this close. That’s the frustrating thing about it,” said Smith. “(Calgary) is the defending Grey Cup champs and they have an out-

standing team and we played the way we played.”

Calgary (6-2) snapped a 24-24 tie when quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and Tory Harrison hooked up on a 32-yard touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter. Mitchell used playaction in the backfield and found Harrison wide open in the flat.

Harrison sprinted to the end zone untouched for his second touchdown of the game.

The Stampeders’ next possession ended with Rene Parades’ fourth field goal, a 40-yard boot that put Calgary ahead 34-24 with 10:33 remaining.

“No one here can believe they haven’t won a game yet,” said Calgary receiver Eric Rogers. “That’s a good team over there. They were making plays all over the field. If they keep playing the way they did tonight they’ll get a win.”

Saskatchewan made it interesting midway through the fourth quarter when backup fullback Carl Fitzgerald blocked a Rob Maver punt attempt.

Junior Mertile scooped up the loose

ball and stepped into the end zone for the touchdown. Paul McCallum missed the convert, and the Riders trailed 3431 with a little more than six minutes remaining.

A solid rushing attack from Matt Walter helped Calgary control the ball in the game’s final minutes. Walter rushed for a game-high 107 yards on 18 carries.

Smith, who was making his first start at Mosaic Stadium, threw for 178 yards and three touchdowns, including a 24-yard strike to Devin Wilson and a 15-yard toss to Alex Carroll. His third touchdown of the day, a threeyard pass to Weston Dressler — and a two-point convert from Robb Bagg — knotted the score at 24-24. Smith also rushed for 54 yards.

“Getting better doesn’t count until you win the game,” said Saskatchewan defensive lineman Tearrius George.

“But (Brett Smith) gave us a chance to win the game. That’s all that we can ask for as a defence. He didn’t play like a rookie. He can play just as good as any other quarterback in this league

and if he continues to play this way then we’ll get over this hump.

“We can beat any team in this league, and we firmly believe that. We just can’t afford to make as many mistakes, all that stuff that has been hurting us, to get over that hump.”

Calgary’s Eric Rogers caught seven passes for 107 yards and moved into the league lead in receiving yards. His 46-yard touchdown — on a deep pass as time expired in the first half — gave the Stampeders an 18-9 lead going into halftime.

“I don’t know what the defence was thinking,” said Rogers.

“As long as I can get my feet underneath me and see the ball, then I know I have a good chance of coming down with the ball. The defenders might be scared to get too close and get a (pass interference penalty), but they didn’t play the ball very well at all. I took advantage of it.”

The Roughriders will visit Ottawa next week to face the Redblacks, while Calgary travels to Winnipeg to play the Blue Bombers.

Argos win wild affair over Redblacks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 30 Redblacks 24 TORONTO — Swayze Waters gave the Ottawa Redblacks the boot Sunday afternoon.

Waters kicked two crucial fourthquarter field goals to earn the Toronto Argonauts a wild 30-24 win over Ottawa. Waters, back after missing six games with a knee injury, also had seven punts for a gaudy 50.6-yard average and posted a 65.8-yard mark on four kickoffs.

Waters also made a hard tackle on Ottawa’s Chris Williams on one punt return. Waters’ performance earned him a game ball after the contest.

“Yeah, it felt good, being out six weeks was tough,” said Waters, the CFL’s top special-teams performer last season. “But it’s great to jump back in playing with (his teammates) and getting the win.”

Waters, 28, a native of Jackson, Miss., is in his fourth CFL season and one of Toronto’s most important weapons. Last season, Waters led the CFL in scoring (192 points), field goals (47), punting (47.7 yards per attempt) and kickoffs (65.2 yards).

The six-foot, 180-pound Waters made 47-of-52 field goals (90.4 per cent) in 2014 with a league-best 53-yard boot.

And on Sunday, his final three punts covered 59, 59 and 58 yards, respectively.

“Yeah, an unbelievable performance by him,” said Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich. “Actually, I shouldn’t even say that, it’s believable with Swayze.

“I thought our punt team as a whole was the critical factor in the game. He was not only kicking it deep but we were doing a tremendous job of covering. Chris Williams is a huge threat back there.”

Waters broke a 24-24 tie with a 34-yard field goal at 7:43 that was set up by Matt Black’s smart play on Andrew Wilder’s 33-yard punt. Black took the short kick in the air, resulting in a no-yards penalty that put Toronto at the Redblacks’ 30-yard line.

Waters then hit from 36 yards out with 2:04 remaining. Henry Burris marched Ottawa from its 35 to the Toronto 30-yard line before being sacked on third down with 41 seconds to play.

Burris, 40, finished 32-of-36 passing

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Toronto Argonauts’ Vidal Hazelton, right, catches a touchdown pass against Ottawa Redblacks’ Jerrell Gavins during the second half of CFL action in Toronto on Sunday. for 426 yards as Ottawa (4-4) suffered its second straight defeat to remain third in the East Division. Earnest Jackson had six catches for 114 yards while James Ellingson had four receptions for 110 yards.

But Ottawa was often its own worst enemy with 20 penalties for 228 yards.

“The only thing that’s holding us back now is mental mistakes,” Burris said. “We can’t take the stupid penalties that negate the drives or opportunities we have.”

Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell agreed.

“We need to clean that stuff up,” he said.

“The good news is we’ve shown we can be a good football team but we’re not there yet.”

Toronto (6-2 for the first time since ’97), sported its white and powder blue third jerseys and survived a frantic fourth to earn its third straight win.

The Argos moved into a tie with Hamilton (6-2) atop the East Division standings.

Jeremiah Johnson’s two-yard TD run just 18 seconds into the fourth tied the score 17-17 before Jerell Gavins put Ottawa ahead with a 29-yard interception return touchdown just 39 seconds later.

That capped a 17-0 stretch for the Redblacks and was Trevor Harris’s first pick in 152 pass attempts.

But Harris countered with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Vidal Hazelton at 4:12 before a sparse Rogers Centre gathering of 14,748 on a glorious summer afternoon with the roof open. It was Toronto’s lowest home attendance since 2003.

“When things aren’t necessarily going well I like the look in his eye,” Milanovich said of Harris. “He came off and I kind of smiled at him and he was over it in that instant.

“He was fooled, they baited him.

They kind of rotated at the snap and he thought there was not going to be underneath coverage and that guy just jumped it. It was a good play.”

Harris, who was 21-of-31 passing for 266 yards and three TDs to go with the pick-six, said nothing to Milanovich after the interception because he didn’t have to.

“I think like 80 per cent of our communication is non-verbal,” Harris said.

“We looked at each other and just said like, ’I know that was a bonehead play and we know we’re going to come back, we’re going to come through and win the game.”’

Kevin Elliott and Tori Gurley scored Toronto’s other touchdowns. Waters added the converts and three field goals.

Johnson had Ottawa’s other touchdown. Chris Milo booted the converts and a field goal.

Mariota shines in preseason home debut for Titans NFL PRESEASON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TITANS 27 RAMS 14 NASHVILLE — Marcus Mariota turned in a clean performance in his home debut, Tennessee cornerback Perrish Cox returned an interception 24 yards for a touchdown and the Titans beat St. Louis 27-14 on Sunday night to spoil Rams coach Jeff Fisher’s return to town.

A week after Mariota was sacked, threw an interception and lost a fumble that was returned for a touchdown, the No. 2 pick overall out of Oregon was 5 of 8 for 58 yards with no turnovers. Titans teammate Dexter McCluster dropped Mariota’s pass in the end zone, while Rams safety Mark Barron couldn’t hold a would-be interception off the rookie.

Fisher, the winningest coach in Tennessee history after more than 15

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WORLDS: Nipped Gatlin, who won the 100 at the 2004 Olympics before serving a four-year suspension for doping, had been unbeaten in 2015 and had the seasonleading time of 9.74 heading into the race.

“Got nipped at the line by great Usain,” Gatlin said.

Theisen-Eaton, meanwhile, managed to salvage silver despite being blindsided by an injury and all-around lack of confidence.

The 26-year-old from Humboldt, Sask., arrived in Beijing ranked No. 1

seasons, was honoured with a video tribute during the first timeout in the first quarter, and he acknowledged a standing ovation with a wave.

Tennessee’s defence looked much improved against an offence that ranked 28th in the NFL last year. With Cox’s interception, the Titans (1-1) finally stopped an opponent on the opening drive for the first time in six preseason games.

Nick Foles had a rough outing in three series for the Rams (0-2).

STEELERS 24, PACKERS 19 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Green Bay receiver Jordy Nelson limped off with a potentially serious left knee injury in the first quarter of the Packers’ loss to Pittsburgh.

Nelson landed awkwardly while trying to cut after making an 8-yard reception on Green Bay’s opening drive and did not return.

While Packers coach Mike McCarthy stressed the defending NFC North champions “will look for good news” in the world, but was in fourth after a disappointing Day 1 that saw her struggle in high jump and the 200 metres.

She finished with 6,554. Jessica Ennis-Hill of Great Britain won the gold in 6,669.

“At the beginning of the whole thing if someone had told me I’d get the silver medal, I would have been upset,” said Theisen-Eaton, who also won silver two years ago in Moscow. “I went to bed in tears, trying to figure out what was going on.”

She said the sub-par high jump “totally derailed” her, and she regained her confidence.

To compound her problems, a groin injury almost required her to withdraw from the event. She felt a sharp pain in her groin warming up for the javelin — the sixth of seven events — and she

when Nelson is re-evaluated Monday, quarterback Aaron Rodgers expressed equal parts frustration and mystification.

“It’s difficult to lose a guy like that in a meaningless game,” Rodgers said.

Rodgers completed 4 of 5 passes for 57 yards during two series of work for Green Bay (1-1), with one drive ending with a touchdown run by Eddie Lacy and the other with Rodgers getting sacked by James Harrison for a safety.

Ben Roethlisberger played into the second quarter for the Steelers (1-2), connecting on 11 of 14 passes for 100 yards a score. Pittsburgh Pro Bowl centre Maurkice Pouncey left with a left ankle injury in the first quarter and did not return.

49ERS 23, COWBOYS 6 SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Long black hair swinging from his helmet, 303-pound defensive lineman Mike Purcell intercepted Dustin Vaughan’s pass and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown to help San Francisco beat

Dallas.

Purcell, a practice-squad player in 2013 and for all but the final two games last season, provided the highlight again after his six-tackle day last week in an opening loss at Houston.

Dallas quarterback Tony Romo’s day was done after one three-and-out series then the Cowboys turned to Brandon Weeden, who left with a possible head injury.

The Cowboys (1-1) were expected to be cautious with Romo and Co. at Levi’s Stadium, where the troublesome grass held up after causing concern for coach Jason Garrett and owner Jerry Jones.

Craig Dahl also added an interception for San Francisco against thirdstringer Vaughan. Quinton Patton blocked a fourth-quarter punt by Tom Hornsey and scooped it up in the end zone for a 49ers touchdown.

Dallas avoided a shutout when fourth-string QB Jameill Showers threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Nick Harwell in the waning moments.

only attempted one throw.

“Then I was in tears again, I was crying these whole two days,” she said.

“Back in the hotel, I laid in bed for three hours, we said at 5 o’clock we’re going to go out and test it. At 2 o’clock I was like ’Is it five yet?”’

The pain was still there as she lined up for heptathlon’s final event, the 800, and she looked near tears when shown on the Jumbotron during introductions.

“Maybe this will be more valuable than the gold, maybe I learned something that will help me next year,” she said. “I’m trying to think positively, maybe that’s the key.”

Thorne sparked Canada’s strong day with his racewalk bronze in the morning. The 22-year-old crossed in a Canadian-record one hour 19 minutes 57

seconds, becoming the first Canadian to break the 80-minute barrier.

After being left off Canada’s team for the Pan Ams, he arrived in Beijing with lofty goals of a top-eight finish.

“And by top eight, I meant eighth,” Thorne said.

A key moment came with several minutes to go when Ecuador’s Andres Chocho was disqualified, leaving Thorne in third with no-one near him.

“I was in third, and I was like ’Wow. I have never been in this position before. I don’t know what’s happening.’

And I walked into the stadium, and it was just amazing, 50,000 people here in the stadium, I’m completely overwhelmed right now.”

Canada is looking to top its fivemedal performance from the worlds two years ago in Moscow.

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Love steals show from Tiger at Wyndham

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBORO, N.C. — Davis Love III’s long victory drought is over. Tiger Woods will have to wait a while to get another chance.

Love won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday to become the thirdoldest winner in PGA Tour history, while Woods’ season came to an abrupt end.

The 51-year-old Love closed with a 6-under 64 for a one-stroke victory over Jason Gore.

“Any victory now is going to be really sweet when you’re over 50,” Love said.

The dominant storyline all week at Sedgefield Country Club was the mere presence of Woods, who needed a victory to earn a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs opener next week.

He was poised to challenge Sunday, starting just two strokes off the lead. But he only had one birdie during his first 10 holes, dropping way off the pace with a triple bogey on the par4 11th. Woods shot a 70, finished four strokes back and ended at No. 178 in the standings, well outside the cut-off of 125.

“I gave myself a chance, and I had all the opportunity in the world today to do it,” Woods said. “I didn’t get it done.”

Now comes a break before his next

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Davis Love III tees off on the third hole during the final round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday. tournament, the Frys.com Open in October in northern California. It’s the first event of the tour’s 2015-16 season.

“This is my off-season right now,” he said.

Love — who started at No. 186 — played himself into The Barclays by earning 500 FedEx Cup points and $972,000 in prize money.

At 51 years, 4 months, 10 days, Love

trails only Sam Snead and Art Wall on the tour’s age list. Snead won the last of his eight Greensboro titles at Sedgefield in 1965 at 52 years, 10 months, 8 days, and Wall took the 1975 Greater Milwaukee Open at 51 years, 7 months, 10 days.

Love has 21 career victories, three in Greensboro. His previous two wins came across town at Forest Oaks in

1992 and 2006, and he had just one win since then — at the 2008 Children’s Miracle Network Classic in Florida.

“To have your name thrown out there with Sam Snead at any point is incredible,” Love said. “For some reason, this tournament has been good to guys in my age group.”

Love finished at 17-under 263. Gore, the third-round leader, shot a 69. Scott Brown (68), Charl Schwartzel (66) and Paul Casey (67) were two strokes behind Love.

Canadian Adam Hadwin had a difficult final round, shooting a 3-over 73.

The Abbotsford, B.C., native finished in 51st place at 5 under.

Love, who was four strokes back after three rounds, started strong with four birdies and an eagle on Nos. 2-6.

He moved to 17 under with an eagle on the par-5 15th — the first of his career during a competitive round on that hole.

He closed with three straight pars, walked off the 18th green with a twostroke lead over Brown and Gore, and headed to the range to hit a few shots and rest up for a possible playoff.

“You don’t really know what to do,” Love said. “You don’t go to the cabin and think that you’ve won.”

Brown pulled within one stroke of Love with a birdie on 15, and Gore made things even more interesting with an eagle on that hole.

Neither got any closer.

Ko edges Lewis in playoff to win CP Women’s Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS COQUITLAM, B.C. — It took a playoff but Lydia Ko won the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open for a third time Sunday.

Ko sank a two-foot putt to par the first playoff hole and win the US$2.27million tournament. American Stacy Lewis came close to forcing another playoff hole when her nine-foot putt for par stopped just at the hole’s edge.

The winner’s share of the tournament, being played at the 6,681-yard, par-72 Vancouver Golf Club, is US$337,500.

Lewis, who had started the day at 7 under and shot a 5-under 67 to force the playoff, looked shocked when her ball didn’t drop.

Ko pumped her fist after dropping her winning putt to finish at 12 under.

She had set it up with a 50-foot putt from the edge of the green.

Ko started the day tied for the lead at 10 under and shot an even par 72 on the final round. She had a couple of chances to win the tournament, missing a nine-foot putt on No. 17. On No. 18 she faced a 40-foot putt for birdie and came up less than two inches short.

It was the first playoff at the Cana-

Henderson saves the best for last, scores 5 under on final day of Canadian Open COQUITLAM, B.C. — She saved her best for last.

Brooke Henderson scored four of her five birdies on the back nine to card a 5-under 67 during Sunday’s final round of the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.

The 17-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., used back-to-back birdies on the final two holes to finish the US$2.25million tournament at 4 under.

She was the top Canadian, tied for 23rd place, and earned US$22,816.

It was a positive end for a hectic week for Henderson, who won her first LPGA tournament last weekend.

It also was her way of rewarding the large crowds that have cheered her the whole tournament.

“I wanted to show and give the crowd a little bit of excitement,” she said. “I think today I did that.

“I knew I was capable of it. The other couple of days I was hitting the ball not too bad, but just wasn’t making any putts. Today they fell.”

Henderson was 1 under on the front nine, then began pounding the ball and dropping putts on the back.

She boomed her tee shot on No. 17, then dropped her approach shot near the flag. On No. 18, she thrilled the crowd by sinking an eight-foot putt.

“It was a really fun day out there today,” she said. “To go four under on the back nine and finish birdie-birdie

dian Open since 1993.

Lewis, who has 11 career LPGA wins, shot six birdies on her final round, but bogeyed No. 15.

Ko, who was who was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, was an amateur the first two times she won the Canadian Open, meaning the prize money went to the second-place finisher. She was just 15-years-old when she won the Canadian Open on this same course in 2012.

That made her the youngest person to ever win an LPGA event. She also won the 2013 tournament in Edmonton.

So Yeon Ryu, who won last year’s tournament in London, Ont., shot a 64 to move up the leaderboard. She started the day at 3 under and tied for 21st place.

“The last three days were really disappointing,” said the South Korean, who has three career LPGA victories and eight top-10 finishes this year. “I am really happy with my comeback today.”

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp had a rough final round. She had four bogeys and finished with a 75 for a final score of 1 over. Maude-Aimee Leblanc, of Sherbrooke, Que., carded an 80 to finish 12 over. is definitely a cool feeling and definitely a momentum builder for this week.”

With her older sister Brittany acting as caddie for a second day, Henderson looked relaxed on the course.

Wearing all black, she high-fived a young fan after No. 15 and gave a wave walking up the 18th fairway.

The tournament was a learning curve for the rising star. Henderson already had proven her talent on the course but her week at the Vancouver Golf Club gave her a taste of the outside distractions she must cope with as her career progresses.

Outside of golf circles Henderson was a relative unknown until last week. That changed when she won the Cambia Portland Classic, making her the youngest Canadian to win an LPGA or PGA event.

On Tuesday Henderson was granted her Tour card and there were already predictions she could win the Canadian Open.

Besides trying to get ready for the tournament, Henderson dealt with news conferences, television appearances and corporate appearances.

While playing this week Henderson drew large crowds. Afterwards fans of all ages sought autographs.

All pretty heady stuff for someone who can’t even legally drink in B.C. “After a win, and coming back to Canada, I received a lot of attention,” she said. “It made my schedule extremely busy.

“It’s a great problem to have. I’ve learned a lot about myself and how I can handle it. I think it will be good for the next time.”

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lydia Ko of New Zealand poses with the trophy and two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after winning the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open LPGA golf tournament at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, B.C., on Sunday.

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Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 69 55 .556 New York 68 55 .553 Baltimore 62 61 .504 Tampa Bay 62 62 .500 Boston 56 68 .452

GB — 1/2 6 1/2 7 13

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 75 48 .610 63 61 .508 59 64 .480 58 64 .475 58 65 .472

GB — 12 1/2 16 16 1/2 17

Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 69 56 .552 64 59 .520 63 61 .508 57 67 .460 54 71 .432

GB — 4 5 1/2 11 1/2 15

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Cleveland 2 Minnesota 3, Baltimore 2 Texas 5, Detroit 3 Kansas City 6, Boston 3 Houston 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 4 Toronto 15, L.A. Angels 3 Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 3, 10 innings Sunday’s Games Cleveland 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Texas 4, Detroit 2 Kansas City 8, Boston 6 Minnesota 4, Baltimore 3, 12 innings Houston 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 innings Toronto 12, L.A. Angels 5 Oakland 8, Tampa Bay 2 Seattle 8, Chicago White Sox 6 Monday’s Games Cleveland (Kluber 8-13) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 8-9), 12:05 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 13-2), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Farmer 0-2) at Cincinnati (Sampson 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 9-7) at Kansas City (Medlen 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (J.Kelly 6-6) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-9), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Doubront 1-1) at Seattle (Iwakuma 5-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets 14, Colorado 9 San Diego 8, St. Louis 0

Toronto at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Boston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Kipnis Cle 107 424 68 136 .321 Fielder Tex 119 462 58 148 .320 NCruz Sea 121 469 71 150 .320 Hosmer KC 120 458 76 145 .317 Brantley Cle 110 427 52 135 .316 Bogaerts Bos 119 462 57 145 .314 Altuve Hou 117 480 64 149 .310 LCain KC 109 427 77 131 .307 JIglesias Det 110 389 40 119 .306 Kinsler Det 122 494 80 150 .304 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 37; CDavis, Baltimore, 34; Donaldson, Toronto, 34; Pujols, Los Angeles, 33; Trout, Los Angeles, 33; JMartinez, Detroit, 32; Teixeira, New York, 31.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 100; CDavis, Baltimore, 89; Bautista, Toronto, 85; KMorales, Kansas City, 85; JMartinez, Detroit, 81; Teixeira, New York, 79; NCruz, Seattle, 78.

Pitching Lewis, Texas, 14-5; Keuchel, Houston, 14-6; FHernandez, Seattle, 14-8; Eovaldi, New York, 13-2; Buehrle, Toronto, 13-6; McHugh, Houston, 13-7; Hutchison, Toronto, 12-2.

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 67 56 .545 62 61 .504 53 71 .427 50 74 .403 50 74 .403

GB — 5 14 1/2 17 1/2 17 1/2

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 78 45 .634 74 48 .607 71 51 .582 53 72 .424 51 71 .418

GB — 3 1/2 6 1/2 26 26 1/2

West Division W L Pct 67 56 .545 66 58 .532 62 61 .504 61 63 .492 49 73 .402

GB — 1 1/2 5 6 1/2 17 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 9, Atlanta 7 Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 2 Washington 6, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 11, Cincinnati 7 Houston 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Philadelphia 4, Miami 2

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Sunday’s Games Arizona 4, Cincinnati 0 Philadelphia 2, Miami 0 Washington 9, Milwaukee 5 Houston 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Atlanta 3 N.Y. Mets 5, Colorado 1 St. Louis 10, San Diego 3 Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 2

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Monday’s Games Cleveland (Kluber 8-13) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 8-9), 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 12-6) at Philadelphia (Morgan 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 7-5) at Atlanta (Teheran 8-6), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Farmer 0-2) at Cincinnati (Sampson 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Happ 1-1) at Miami (Koehler 8-11), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 9-8) at Arizona (Ray 3-9), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DGordon Mia 108 460 60 154 .335 Harper Was 116 400 86 132 .330 Goldschmidt Ari 122 440 79 145 .330 Pollock Ari 118 463 88 150 .324 Posey SF 116 430 58 135 .314 LeMahieu Col 117 438 68 137 .313 Panik SF 97 375 56 116 .309 Votto Cin 120 425 72 131 .308 MDuffy SF 111 413 57 127 .308 YEscobar Was 109 420 57 128 .305 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 31; Arenado, Colorado, 30; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 30; Frazier, Cincinnati, 29; Stanton, Miami, 27; Rizzo, Chicago, 25; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 24; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 24.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 93; Arenado, Colorado, 92; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 79; Posey, San Francisco, 79; Kemp, San Diego, 76; Rizzo, Chicago, 76; BCrawford, San Francisco, 75.

Pitching Wacha, St. Louis, 15-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 15-6; Arrieta, Chicago, 15-6; GCole, Pittsburgh, 147; Greinke, Los Angeles, 13-3; CMartinez, St. Louis, 12-6; deGrom, New York, 12-6.

Stoke Tottenham Newcastle Southampton Sunderland West Brom

Los Angeles 5, New York City FC 1 GF 35 38 43 42 34 29 37 32 33 27

GA 31 25 43 41 36 32 44 46 43 35

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Los Angeles 13 7 7 46 49 32 Vancouver 14 9 3 45 38 26 Sporting Kansas City11 6 7 40 39 33 Portland 11 8 7 40 28 30 FC Dallas 11 8 5 38 33 30 Seattle 11 13 2 35 30 29 San Jose 10 10 5 35 31 29 Houston 8 9 8 32 32 32 Real Salt Lake 8 10 8 32 29 38 Colorado 6 9 9 27 21 25 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s Games Toronto FC 5, Orlando City 0 San Jose 2, D.C. United 0 Columbus 3, Sporting Kansas City 2 Philadelphia 1, Montreal 0 Colorado 1, Chicago 0 Real Salt Lake 2, Seattle 0 Vancouver 1, FC Dallas 0 Sunday’s Games

Wednesday, Aug. 26 New York at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Houston at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 28 Los Angeles at San Jose, 11 p.m.

0 0 0 0 0 0

2 2 2 2 1 1

1 1 1 1 2 2

3 3 2 2 4 2

4 4 4 5 8 6

2 2 2 2 1 1

Saturday, Aug. 22 Manchester United 0, Newcastle 0 Crystal Palace 2, Aston Villa 1 Leicester City 1, Tottenham 1 Norwich 1, Stoke 1 Sunderland 1, Swansea 1 West Ham 3, Bournemouth 4

Saturday, Aug. 29 Columbus at New York City FC, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto FC, 4 p.m.

New England at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Houston, 9 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 23 West Brom 2, Chelsea 3 Everton 0, Manchester City 2 Watford 0, Southampton 0

Sunday, Aug. 30 Portland at Seattle, 5 p.m.

D.C. United at New York, 7 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF Man. City 3 3 0 0 8 Leicester City 3 2 1 0 7 Man. United 3 2 1 0 2 Crystal Palace 3 2 0 1 6 Liverpool 2 2 0 0 2 Swansea 3 1 2 0 5 Everton 3 1 1 1 5 Norwich 3 1 1 1 5 Chelsea 3 1 1 1 5 West Ham 3 1 0 2 6 Watford 3 0 3 0 2 Bournemouth 3 1 0 2 4 Arsenal 2 1 0 1 2 Aston Villa 3 1 0 2 2

3 3 3 3 3 3

Monday, Aug. 24 Arsenal vs. Liverpool, 1900 GMT GA Pts 0 9 4 7 0 7 4 6 0 6 3 5 4 4 5 4 7 4 6 3 2 3 5 3 3 3 3 3

Saturday, Aug. 29 Newcastle vs. Arsenal, 1145 GMT Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Bournemouth vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Manchester City vs. Watford, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Tottenham vs. Everton, 1630 GMT Sunday, Aug. 30 Southampton vs. Norwich, 1230 GMT Swansea vs. Manchester United, 1500 GMT

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Acquired OF Michael Choice from Texas and optioned him to Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Jose Valdez to Toledo (IL). Released 1B Marc Krauss. Selected the contract of LHP Randy Wolf from Toledo.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP A.J. Achter to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated LHP Chris Capuano for assignment. Recalled RHP Branden Pinder from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned 2B Tyler Ladendorf and RHP Dan Otero to Nashville (PCL).

Reinstated LHP Sean Doolittle from the 60-day DL. Transferred 1B Ike Davis to the 60-day DL. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Assigned RHP Jose Dominguez outright to Durham (IL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent LHP Manny Banuelos to the GCL Braves for a rehab assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chuck Weaver on a minor league contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded LHP Neal Cotts to Minnesota for a player to be named.

NEW YORK METS — Placed 1B Lucas Duda on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Dario Alvarez from Las Vegas (PCL). Acquired OF Eric Young from Atlanta for cash considerations and assigned him to Las Vegas.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Ryan Lollis to Sacramento (PCL). Reinstated RHP Mike Leake from the 15-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP David Carpenter, OF Denard Span and 2B Dan Uggla to Harrisburg (EL) for rehab assignments.

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Released OF KC Judge.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed INF Matt Padgett.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed LHP Brandon Stennis. Released RHP David Herndon.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Traded RHP Jeremy Strawn to Kansas City for RHP Joe Van Meter.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Mikey Mehlich.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed OF Nick Van Stratten.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released RHP Coby Cowgill.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Released OF Byron Wiley.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Waived DT Jeremy Towns.

Signed WR Austin Willis.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived TE Manasseh Garner. Signed TE Anthony Ezeakunne.

DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Jared Haggins and DB Taylor Mays. Signed TE Deon Butler.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed LB Adam Hayward on injured reserve.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Named Antony Calvillo quarterbacks coach.

HORSE RACING NTRA — Reappointed Judy Wagner to the board of directors.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent 1B Steve Pearce to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment.

BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Matt Barnes to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled RHP Jonathan Aro from Pawtucket.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned OF Preston Tucker to Fresno (PCL). Recalled RHP Lance McCullers from Corpus Christi (TL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Nick Tropeano to Salt Lake (PCL). Assigned 3B Conor Gillaspie outright to Salt Lake. Recalled OF Grant Green from Salt Lake.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Designated RHP Fernando Rodney for assignment. Optioned RHP Danny Farquhar to Tacoma (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Logan Kensing from Tacoma. Recalled LHP Roenis Elias from Tacoma.

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed INF Adam Rosales

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Janelle Parent of Ponoka was selected by the Calgary Inferno in the eighth round —32nd overall — of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League draft Sunday.

Parent, who last season suited up with the University of Calgary Dinos, is a former member of the major midget girls Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs.

Hayley Wickenheiser, generally regarded as the top Canadian women’s player of all time, was taken by the Inferno in the second round.

The five-team Canadian Women’s Hockey League also consists of the Brampton, Ont., Thunder, Toronto Furies, Montreal Stars and Boston Blades.

MARATHON Craig Schmitt of Red Deer placed fifth overall and first in his category in Sunday’s Edmonton Marathon.

Schmitt, in the men’s 30-39 division, covered the course in a time of 2:41.41.0.

Chris Capicio of Red Deer finished 15th overall and sixth in the men’s 3039 division with a time of 2:58.12.0.

on unconditional release waivers.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned LHP Keith Hessler to Reno (PCL). Recalled LHP Matt Reynolds from Reno.

CINCINNATI REDS — Placed LHP Manny Parra on the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Donn Roach for assignment. Recalled RHP Collin Balester from Louisville (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Justin Miller to Albuquerque (PCL). Designated RHP Rafael Betancourt for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Simon Castro from Albuquerque (PCL). Recalled RHP Jairo Diaz from Albuquerque.

Reinstated RHP Brooks Brown from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Albuquerque.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed 1B/OF Travis Ishikawa on the 15-day DL. Reinstated INF Jordy Mercer from the 15-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with 3B Scott Sizemore on a minor league contract.

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed LHP Frank Del Valle. Released RHP Steven Chapter.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Danny Gutierrez.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Reinstated IF Randy Ruiz to the active list.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed OF Josh Henderson.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Rob Blanc.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Activated OT LaAdrian Waddle and DE Jason Jones from the PUP list. Signed TE Deon Butler, LB Justin Cherocci and DE Erik Williams. Released WR Jarred Haggins and S Taylor Mays.

HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Agreed to terms with D Christian Ehrhoff on a one-year contract.

Wiggins scores 18 points as Canada beats Argentina in FIBA Americas tune-up SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Andrew Wiggins scored 18 points as Canada’s men’s national team opened the 2015 Tuto Marchand Continental Cup with a 85-80 victory over Argentina.

Wiggins went 6 for 13 from the field with a pair of threes in his senior team debut while Anthony Bennett, of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, added 10 points and 13 rebounds.

“I thought it was a good, hard-fought game,” said Wiggins, who also plays for the Timberwolves. “It was physical, both teams played well. We’ve got a new group of guys so we’re still coming together. You can see that we’re getting more fluid with what we do.”

Toronto Raptors forward Luis Scola led Argentina with 23 points.

Canada jumped out to a 30-23 lead after the first quarter and led 45-37 at the half.

The Canadians pushed their advantage to as many as 15 points in the third quarter before Argentina started to heat up.

The Argentines were able to rally and tie the game late in the fourth before Wiggins played the role of closer, hitting a baseline jump-shot with 26 seconds left.

Dwight Powell, of the Dallas Mavericks, sealed the win with two free throws in the final seconds.

“That was a very good first game for us. Argentina is a good basketball team, they stayed right with us,” said Canada’s head coach Jay Triano. “For a lot of our players, it’s the first time on the senior national team and we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.”

Sunday

● Men’s third division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park.

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium.

Football GP 8 8 8 8

CFL East Division W L T 6 2 0 6 2 0 4 4 0 3 5 0

PF 292 223 158 165

PA 156 207 228 148

Pt 12 12 8 6

GP Calgary 8 Edmonton 8 Winnipeg 8 B.C. 8 Saskatchewan 8

West Division W L T 6 2 0 5 3 0 3 5 0 3 5 0 0 8 0

PF 219 200 160 179 205

PA 182 150 237 234 259

Pt 12 10 6 6 0

Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Colorado at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts D.C. United 13 9 5 44 New York 11 6 6 39 Columbus 10 8 8 38 Toronto FC 10 10 4 34 New England 9 9 7 34 Montreal 8 10 4 28 New York City FC 7 12 7 28 Orlando City 7 12 7 28 Philadelphia 7 13 6 27 Chicago 6 13 5 23

● Men’s second division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium.

Today

WEEK NINE Bye: Winnipeg Sunday’s result Toronto 30 Ottawa 24 Saturday’s result Calgary 34 Saskatchewan 31 Friday’s result Hamilton 49 Edmonton 20 Thursday’s result Montreal 23 B.C. 13 WEEK 10 Bye: B.C. Thursday, Aug. 27 Montreal at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 28 Toronto at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29 Calgary at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 30 Saskatchewan at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Stampeders 34, Roughriders 31 First Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 46 3:22 Cgy — Single Maver 70 11:07 Second Quarter Sask — TD Wilson 24 pass from B.Smith (two-point convert failed) 0:18 Cgy — TD Harrison 6 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert failed) 7:19 Sask — FG McCallum 30 12:11 Cgy — TD Rogers 46 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert: Walter 3 run) 15:00 Third Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 23 2:52 Sask — TD Carroll 15 pass from B.Smith (McCallum convert) 6:20 Cgy — FG Paredes 16 10:55 Sask — TD Dressler 3 pass from B.Smith (two-point convert: Bagg 3 pass from B.Smith) 12:11 Fourth Quarter Cgy — TD Harrison 32 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 0:24 Cgy — FG Paredes 40 4:27 Sask — Single Early 45 6:27 Sask — TD Mertile 6 blocked punt return (convert failed) 7:44 Calgary 4 14 6 10 — 34 Saskatchewan0 9 15 7 — 31 Attendance — 33,427 at Regina.

TEAM STATISTICS Cgy Sask First downs 24 18 Yards rushing 142 144 Yards passing 303 178 Total offence 445 322 Team losses 53 15 Net offence 392 307 Passes made-tried 23-35 13-24 Total return yards 119 130 Interceptions-yards by 1-32 2-23 Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1 Sacks by 2 2 Punts-average 5-43.2 6-37.5 Penalties-yards 9-80 5-70 Time of possession 33:45 26:15 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Cgy: Walter 19-107, Harrison 2-15, Mitchell 2-13, Parker 1-2, Moniz 1-2; Sask: Messam 10-75, B.Smith 8-54, Dressler 1-10, Miller 2-5.

Receiving — Cgy: Rogers 7-105, McDaniel 5-67, Harrison 2-38, Fuller 2-25, Durant 1-25, West 3-19, Cote 1-12, Parker 1-7, Walter 1-5; Sask: Demski 1-72, Dressler 6-34, Wilson 1-24, Messam 1-15, Carroll 1-15, Bagg 2-11, Miller 1-7.

Passing — Cgy: Mitchell 23-35, 303 yards, 3 TDs, 2 ints, McDaniel 1-1-12-0-0; Sask: B.Smith 13-24178-3-1.

TEAM STATISTICS Ott Tor First downs 22 20 Yards rushing 60 44 Yards passing 426 266 Total offence 486 310 Team losses 20 24 Net offence 466 286 Passes made-tried 32-36 21-31 Total return yards 91 103 Interceptions-yards by 1-29 0-0 Fumbles-lost 3-1 0-0 Sacks by 4 3 Punts-average 8-35.0 7-50.6 Penalties-yards 20-228 7-65 Time of possession 30:49 29:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Ott: Je.Johnson 12-40, Burris 4-20; Tor: Whitaker 6-20, Kackert 5-13, Harris 2-6, McPherson 3-5.

Receiving — Ott: Jackson 6-114, Ellingson 4-110, Sinopoli 7-85, Williams 5-58, Je.Johnson 6-31, Price 4-28; Tor: Hazelton 4-55, Coombs 3-51, Spencer 4-51, Gurley 4-44, Whitaker 2-35, Elliott 2-23, Kackert 2-7.

Passing — Ott: Burris 32-36, 426 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints; Tor: Harris 21-31-266-3-1.

National Football League Preseason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 New England 1 1 0 .500 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 Miami 0 2 0 .000 South W L T Pct Houston 1 1 0 .500 Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Cleveland 0 2 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 2 0 0 1.000 Kansas City 2 0 0 1.000 San Diego 2 0 0 1.000 Oakland 1 1 0 .500 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 2 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 Dallas 0 2 0 .000 South W L T Pct Carolina 2 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 Chicago 2 0 0 1.000 Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 Detroit 1 1 0 .500 West W L T Pct San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 St. Louis 0 2 0 .000 Arizona 0 2 0 .000 Seattle 0 2 0 .000

PF 35 37 33 40

PA 35 46 45 58

PF 33 35 51 21

PA 24 43 45 59

PF 23 47 48 27

PA 10 67 56 31

PF 36 48 39 30

PA 30 32 26 23

PF 76 41 32 13

PA 27 34 35 40

PF 56 53 16 51

PA 54 54 26 56

PF 60 50 41 40

PA 31 21 35 24

PF 33 17 38 33

PA 29 45 56 36

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 40, Baltimore 17 Carolina 31, Miami 30 New England 26, New Orleans 24 Chicago 23, Indianapolis 11 N.Y. Giants 22, Jacksonville 12 Minnesota 20, Oakland 12 Denver 14, Houston 10 San Diego 22, Arizona 19 Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 24, Green Bay 19 San Francisco 23, Dallas 6 Tennessee 27, St. Louis 14 Monday’s Game Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s summary Argonauts 30, RedBlacks 24 First Quarter Ott — TD Je.Johnson 3 run (Milo convert) 8:38 Tor — TD Elliott 15 pass from Harris (Waters convert) 15:00 Second Quarter Tor — FG Waters 22 8:01 Tor — TD Gurley 17 pass from Harris (Waters convert) 14:23 Third Quarter Ott — FG Milo 36 14:04 Fourth Quarter Ott — TD Je.Johnson 2 run (Milo convert) 0:18 Ott — TD Gavins 29 interception return (Milo convert) 0:57 Tor — TD Hazelton 15 pass from Harris (Waters convert) 4:12 Tor — FG Waters 34 7:43 Tor — FG Waters 36 12:56 Ottawa 7 0 3 14 — 24 Toronto 7 10 0 13 — 30 Attendance — 14,748 at Toronto.

Friday, Aug. 28 New England at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Jacksonville, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29 Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Indianapolis at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

San Francisco at Denver, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 30 Houston at New Orleans, 2 p.m.

Arizona at Oakland, 6 p.m.

Golf Wyndham Championship Sunday At Sedgefield Country Club Greensboro, N.C. Purse: $5.4 million Yardage: 7,127; Par: 70 Final Davis Love III, $972,000 64-66-69-64 Jason Gore, $583,200 66-67-62-69 Scott Brown, $280,800 66-65-66-68 Paul Casey, $280,800 66-66-66-67 Charl Schwartzel, $280,800 67-66-66-66 Bill Haas, $174,825 65-66-68-67 Brooks Koepka, $174,825 67-67-67-65 Carl Pettersson, $174,825 64-67-68-67 Webb Simpson, $174,825 67-67-64-68 Jonas Blixt, $129,600 65-70-62-70 Ben Martin, $129,600 67-67-67-66 Ryan Moore, $129,600 66-69-65-67 Tiger Woods, $129,600 64-65-68-70 Martin Kaymer, $94,500 64-68-70-66 Justin Leonard, $94,500 68-66-65-69 William McGirt, $94,500 62-70-68-68 Sam Saunders, $94,500 65-69-69-65 Byeong-Hun An, $63,450 67-69-67-66 Jonathan Byrd, $63,450 67-70-67-65 Derek Ernst, $63,450 63-69-69-68 Lucas Glover, $63,450 66-70-67-66 Jim Herman, $63,450 63-69-66-71 Jerry Kelly, $63,450 67-69-67-66 Spencer Levin, $63,450 66-71-69-63 Cameron Smith, $63,450 67-68-69-65 Luke Donald, $39,960 68-67-67-68 Oscar Fraustro, $39,960 65-68-69-68 Morgan Hoffmann, $39,960 63-71-67-69 Camilo Villegas, $39,960 66-69-67-68 Will Wilcox, $39,960 70-67-67-66 Charles Howell III, $30,626 67-68-69-67 Ryo Ishikawa, $30,626 71-66-68-66 Vijay Singh, $30,626 66-70-69-66 Chad Campbell, $30,626 65-65-70-71 Harris English, $30,626 68-65-67-71 George McNeill, $30,626 67-68-67-69 Nick Watney, $30,626 66-65-68-72 George Coetzee, $23,220 65-69-69-69 G. Fdez-Castano, $23,220 66-69-67-70 Tom Hoge, $23,220 62-67-72-71 Cameron Percy, $23,220 65-66-67-74 Patrick Rodgers, $23,220 67-66-67-72 Tim Clark, $18,360 66-71-67-69 Austin Cook, $18,360 70-67-69-67 Brandt Snedeker, $18,360 70-61-67-75 Daniel Summerhays, $18,360 67-70-69-67 Branden Grace, $14,526 67-70-68-69 Kyle Reifers, $14,526 68-69-69-68 Vaughn Taylor, $14,526 67-70-67-70 Michael Thompson, $14,526 66-68-72-68

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LPGA-Canadian Pacific Women’s Open COQUITLAM, B.C. — Scores Sunday from the $2.225-million LPGA Tour Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, played on the par-72, 6,681-yard Vancouver Golf Club course: Final (x-won on first playoff hole) x-Lydia Ko, $337,500 67-68-69-72 — 276 Stacy Lewis, $206,304 68-70-71-67 — 276

So Yeon Ryu, $132,716 Sei Young Kim, $132,716 Alison Lee, $84,713 Candie Kung, $84,713 Shanshan Feng, $59,864 Charley Hull, $59,864 Lexi Thompson, $46,121 Inbee Park, $46,121 Karine Icher, $46,121 Lee-Anne Pace, $38,289 Mi Jung Hur, $38,289 Mi Hyang Lee, $29,819 Hyo Joo Kim, $29,819 Ilhee Lee, $29,819 Eun-Hee Ji, $29,819 Ariya Jutanugarn, $29,819 Jaye Marie Green, $29,819 Xi Yu Lin, $29,819 Lizette Salas, $24,623 Azahara Munoz, $24,623 Br.. Henderson, $22,816 Minjee Lee, $22,816 Paula Reto, $19,250 Ha Na Jang, $19,250 Sun Young Yoo, $19,250 Cristie Kerr, $19,250 Mo Martin, $19,250 Wei-Ling Hsu, $19,250 Jennifer Song, $19,250 Jessica Korda, $14,796 Danah Bordner, $14,796 Sarah Kemp, $14,796 Ryann O’Toole, $14,796 Carlota Ciganda, $14,796 Amy Yang, $14,796 Champions-Boeing Classic Sunday At TPC Snoqualmie Ridge Snoqualmie, Wash.

Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,172; Par: 72 Final Billy Andrade, $300,000 Bernhard Langer, $176,000 Guy Boros, $109,500 Fred Couples, $109,500 Mark O’Meara, $109,500 Fran Quinn, $109,500 Frank Esposito, $68,000 Chien Soon Lu, $68,000 Stephen Ames, $42,222 Wes Short, Jr., $42,222 Michael Allen, $42,222 Woody Austin, $42,222 Jay Don Blake, $42,222 Scott Dunlap, $42,222 Jeff Freeman, $42,222 Gene Sauers $42,222 Jeff Sluman, $42,222 Carlos Franco, $27,200 Mike Goodes, $27,200 Larry Mize, $27,200 Loren Roberts, $27,200 Tom Byrum, $22,600 Rod Spittle, $22,600 Paul Goydos, $20,000

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LOCAL SPORTS

B5

MONDAY, AUG. 24, 2015

Tanner Green of the Central Alberta Buccaneers fights to get through his Edmonton Stallions opponents during AFL playoff action on Saturday evening at the ME Global Athletic Park field.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Late FG lifts Buccaneers into semifinals

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Buccaneers 20 Stallions 17 LACOMBE — A punishing ground attack laid the foundation for a late field goal that vaulted the Central Alberta Buccaneers into the Alberta Football League semifinals.

With Saturday’s quarter-final versus the Edmonton Stallions tied at 14 and growing late, Bucs running backs Brett Lapointe and — to a lesser extent — Tanner Green ripped off impressive chunks of real estate that moved the ball down inside the Stallions’ 10-yard line. From there, Tylor Johanesson booted a 15-yard field goal with 43 seconds remaining and the Bucs held on for a 20-17 victory at MEGlobal Athletic Park and a semifinal date with the host Fort McMurray Monarchs this Saturday.

“I have to give credit to my O-linemen and our receivers for blocking down field for me,” said Lapointe. “We were just pushing the ball down their throats and they couldn’t do much about it.”

The Buccaneers’ late drive killed most of the final few minutes left on the clock and came after Stallions’ kicker Mike Millard had a 34-yard field-goal attempt partially blocked.

That the Stallions, who finished sixth during the regular season, were able to push the third-place Bucs to the limit was a testament to the quality of the Edmonton team, said Lapointe, who was the home club’s primary second-half ground weapon after Green carried most of the first-half mail.

“Kudos to them for coming out and giving us a good test,” said Lapointe.

“I mean, we were supposed to win this game, but they gave us a good run for our money. Now we just have to focus on Fort Mac.” The visitors opened the scoring in the final minute of the opening quarter when Jordan Miller, on a third-and-goal, crashed over from one yard out for an unconverted touchdown.

The Buccaneers answered back early in the second frame, with Green scoring on a one-yard run and Johanesson adding the convert for a 7-6 Central Alberta lead.

The Bucs then forced a turnover on downs at their own 41-yard stripe and quarterback Jarrett Burzak hit Pascal Plante with a screen pass on the next play, a pass-and-run — with Plante breaking a pair of tackles en route to the end zone — that covered 64 yards for a touchdown.

Johanesson converted the major for a 14-6 Bucs lead, but the Stallions took advantage of a roughing call on quarterback Travis Tyler to score their second touchdown, Tyler hitting John Kot with a 34-yard scoring pass that was followed by a two-point convert reception by Miller.

Kot kicked a 33-yard field goal with 1:25 left in the half and the visitors went into the intermission with a 17-14 lead.

Johanesson capped a defensive third quarter with a late 28-yard field goal to pull the hosts even, setting the stage for a series of wild fourth-quarter events that preceded the winning boot.

The Buccaneers were tagged with another rough-

ing penalty — on Stallions punter/kicker Kot — that moved the ball to the Central Alberta 47, but were saved when Jordan Willie picked off a Tyler pass.

However, the visitors got the ball back when Justin Frederick recovered a Lapointe fumble at the Edmonton 53-yard line.

Kot followed with a spectacular 35-yard reception — with the ball deflecting out and then back into his hands — to set up a field goal that was partially blocked. The Stallions never recovered as the Bucs running game took over down the stretch and ultimately decided the outcome.

“It was really close, that’s playoff football right there,” said Lapointe. “Edmonton pushed us in the regular season too (a 20-14 win for the visiting Bucs June 27). They’ve improved a lot this year. I have to give them credit for that. They’ve added some talent and have really dedicated themselves to improving.”

The Bucs were 33-9 losers to the second-place Monarchs July 25 in Lacombe. Despite the one-sided score, Lapointe is confident the Bucs can prevail while battling a potent team on the road.

“We’re going to have to go in there with the same mentality that we did today and just not deny ourselves,” he said. “We’re going to face adversity no matter what, but we just have to go in there and know that we’re the better team and that we’re going to come out on top.”

The other semifinal will feature the first-place Calgary Gators versus the winner of Saturday’s other quarter-final between the St. Albert Stars and the visiting Grande Prairie Drillers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Marshall rides away with new truck at Glencross Invitational Even a chilly night couldn’t cool down the hot nizers loaded the chutes with two more horses and streak a Central Alberta cowboy is enjoying. Ky Mar- the cowboys went at it again. This time, Marshall got shall did his part for charity by riding Friday eve- on City Storm, owned by Red Deer’s Justin Twogood, ning at the Glencross Invitational Roughstock Event, and wound up with an 85.5 — which was just half a and wound up driving home a new Dodge truck. point more than Adams spurred on Kit Kat — to give The Bowden bareback rider has been on the ros- him the victory. ter for each of the four years Central Alberta hockey Marshall has been enjoying a rodeo roll since winplayer Curtis Glencross has held the invitational ning the debut pro Bowden Bareback Riding event, rodeo event to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald held at the end of July.

House in Red Deer and the Hockey Alberta Foun“August has really been my turnaround point. dation. The top four marks of the 12 competitors in Right up to that weekend, I really didn’t have much bareback, saddle bronc and bull riding money won. I was kind of getting a little at the Daines Ranch near Innisfail come nervous about CFR,” he said. “Then in two back for a Finals and a shot at a buckle, weekends, I won close to $11,000 between part of a $5,000 purse and the use of a Bowden and the next weekend. That really Mountain View Dodge truck for a year. put me back in it, and now it feels great.

“I’ve made it to the short go every “Then you come to a charity event like year,” noted Marshall. “The last two this, and all you’re here (to do) is just to years I was second. To be runner-up help out and have fun, and you come out twice is kind of…. I really wanted it this crowned champion and you win this pickup year!” truck — it’s a pretty sweet deal. This whole Marshall made it back to the Finals, month has just been awesome, and this is along with his neighbor Dylan Bilton of really a way to top it off. Hopefully I can Innisfail, B.C.’s Logan Hodson and Manistay on this roll right through CFR.” toba’s Colin Adams. The finalists get to Marshall is the current Canadian allDIANNE pick their horse from the designated around champion and he’d love to vie for FINSTAD pen, in the order they finished. that title again. But it requires a minimum Marshall made a spectacular ride on of three placings in the season at both ends a colorful paint from the Calgary Stamof the arena. He had no problem getting the pede called Wannico Rocket, for an imriding ones, but he’s still one cheque short pressive 89 points. in his tie-down roping to be in the hunt.

“It was kind of the one none of us knew really “Last year, it took me to about this time and this knew what he was going to be like. He’s had some re- year I’ve only got two. There’s still a few more (roally good trips, so I kind of took a gamble and picked deos). I think I can hit another hit eight, to give me him. another shot.”

“He had an awesome trip, just stacked up and felt Big Valley’s Josh Harden is the only one to have really good. That was probably one of my best feel- met the requirements so far and he’s put himself in ing rides. He just threw your feet, and all you had a position over the last month to potentially make to do was set them. He didn’t cover much ground. Edmonton in both the saddle bronc riding and steer If every bareback horse could feel like that one, it wrestling. would make this sport a lot easier,” chuckled the Another veteran of the Glencross Roughstock 23-year-old.

Event is saddle bronc rider Todd Herzog. He made But lo and behold, Colin Adams came out on it out of the first round Friday night to meet up with American Thumper and equaled that score, so orga- a horse called Maiden Chick in the finals. The 84.5

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points he scored was just a half point more than last year’s Glencross champion, Sam Kelts, giving Herzog his first win at the event.

“It was close and I don’t think I rode perfect. I did get a little lucky too, but it’s dang sure just cowboy try out there and everybody’s putting their heart into it,” he emphasized.

“It’s a pretty big deal to win this. I’ve been a big supporter of it ever since it started up, and helped Curtis on the committee here, doing everything I can. Putting up banners, working on the ground or shovelling out the bucking chutes. I’m pretty proud to be part of this committee, and this whole deal. It’s pretty special to be a winner at it too.”

The truck couldn’t have come at a better time for Herzog, who became a new father in May and had just sold a vehicle that morning to help with a property purchase.

It was the second time Jordan Hansen has won the bull riding at the Glencross charity event, but it’s the first time it included a truck and he was pumped to claim the keys.

There was a scary moment in the short round when the bull he drew — Kill the Lights — toppled forward over Hansen before scrambling back to his feet.

“It hurt my knee a little bit,” admitted the Okotoks cowboy. “It doesn’t bother me too much right now, but who knows how it will feel in the morning.”

Hansen was given a re-ride and knew he’d have to put on a show to beat the 88 already on the board from Adam Jamison. That’s exactly what he did, chalking up an 89.5 on Rival Son for the $2000 cash, plus the buckle and the keys to the Dodge.

“I feel like I’m riding with more confidence,” said Hansen. “Everything’s kind of clicking for me. It’s kind of hard to explain, but everything’s working out good for me right now.”

Over the past three years, the Glencross Invitational Charity Roughstock Event has raised over $777,000 for the two charities. A cheque from this year’s effort will be presented later in the fall.

Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer-based rodeo freelance writer

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IndyCar driver suffers serious injury JUSTIN WILSON IN COMA, CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER STRUCK BY DEBRIS AT POCONO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG POND, Pa. — IndyCar driver Justin Wilson was in a coma and in critical condition after sustaining a head injury when he was hit by a large piece of debris that broke off a car in the crash-filled race at Pocono Raceway.

The debris broke off Sage Karam’s car when Karam spun into the wall Sunday. Wilson’s car veered left and directly into an interior wall. Wilson was swarmed by the safety crew and airlifted by helicopter.

“It’s just a tough one right now,” said Michael Andretti, car owner for Wilson and race winner Ryan HunterReay. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Justin right now. We’re going to see. Hopefully, he’s OK.” IndyCar had a subdued victory lane and Hunter-Reay was not sprayed with the traditional confetti.

The American said his thoughts were only with Wilson, an extremely popular driver in the paddock who speaks on behalf of his peers regarding safety and competition.

“All I know is that he was unconscious, he was not responding and he was airlifted,” Hunter-Reay said.

“That’s all very bad. I’m very worried right now.”

The accident was a grim reminder of the dangers of open-wheel racing.

Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died in 2011 after his car became ensnared in a fiery 15-car pileup, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Wheldon’s head hit a post in the fence, and he died instantly.

He was the last fatality in a form of racing that saw drivers Scott Brayton (1996), Tony Renna (2003) and Paul Dana (2006), among others, die after wrecks.

Wilson’s wife, Julia, was en route to Pennsylvania from their home in Colorado, while his younger brother, Stefan, also an IndyCar driver, was travelling from Indianapolis.

The race resumed after the Karam and Wilson accident with seven laps remaining and Hunter-Reay picked his way through the field. He passed Juan Pablo Montoya, Takuma Sato and then used a bold inside pass of leader Gabby Chaves to take the lead with

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Ryan Hunter-Reay (28) waves his hand as he takes the checkered flag under caution ahead of Josef Newgarden (67) to win the Pocono IndyCar 500 auto race Sunday, in Long Pond, Pa. Newgarden finished second. five to go.

Chaves then appeared to have an engine failure that brought out the caution with three to go. The race ended under yellow.

Hunter-Reay tried to get an update on Wilson before the race resumed, and again before he climbed from his race-winning Honda.

“I thought Justin was OK the whole time, and I thought he was in the ambulance with Sage heading off to get a routine check,” Hunter-Reay said.

Josef Newgarden was second and IndyCar points leader Montoya finished third.

Graham Rahal, who was second in the standings at the start of the race, was involved in an early crash. Montoya’s cushion went from nine points to 35 with next Sunday’s finale in Sonoma set to decide the title.

The finale is worth double points, and six drivers will head to California in contention for the title. Hunter-

Reay is mathematically eliminated, but picked up his second win of the season in what’s been a disappointing year for Andretti and Honda.

Hunter-Reay was one of many who was discussing safety measures —and not his win — for the open-cockpit series.

“Maybe in the future we can work toward something that resembles a canopy,” Hunter-Reay said. “Something that can give us a little bit of protection and still keep the tradition of the sport. Just to be innocent bystander like that and get hit in the head with a nose cone is a scary thought.”

The 37-year-old Wilson, a native of Sheffield, England, entered this season without a full-time ride. He latched on with Andretti and was in the sixth of seven scheduled races with the team.

The deal was put together right before the season-opening race in March and initially started as just a two-race agreement at Indianapolis.

Sponsorship was found for another five races as the season progressed, and Wilson finished a season-best second earlier this month at Mid-Ohio.

He said after the race that he raced clean and did not take any risks that would have jeopardized eventual racewinner Rahal because Rahal was part of the championship race and Wilson was not.

Wilson broke a bone in his back at Mid-Ohio in 2011. He missed the final six races of the season and wore a back brace for more than two months as he was restricted from any physical activity. The injury kept him out of the season finale at Las Vegas and the race where Wheldon died.

He broke his pelvis and suffered a bruised lung in the 2013 season finale at Fontana.

Wilson said in 2012 his injuries and Wheldon’s death did nothing to change his perspective or make him question his career choice.

Logano wins Bristol for 2nd straight year BRISTOL, Tenn. — As Joey Logano circled Bristol Motor Speedway, he’d briefly glance in the mirror to watch Kevin Harvick.

Logano had taken the lead on a restart with 64 laps remaining, but Harvick was closing in by using a completely different line. Refusing to get rattled, Logano stuck to what worked for him Saturday and won the Bristol night race for the second consecutive year.

“It was kind of interesting to watch it in the mirror, I was watching him drive in and I was like, ’He’s going to get me eventually,”’ Logano said. “It’s so interesting how we ran such different lines and be the same speed on the racetrack. We both found what works for us, and I really thought we were going to be able to pull away because I thought we were really good in the long run and then we didn’t pull away.

“It was a very exciting last 20, 30 laps for sure, and neat to be able to get a checkered flag again here at Bristol.”

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Federer wins 7th Cincinnati title, denying Djokovic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI — Roger Federer jutted his right index finger toward the summer-blue sky to celebrate his latest Cincinnati title. He would have needed both hands to count all of them.

Might as well just rename it the Federer Open. Or maybe subtitle it the Djokovic Heartbreak.

Federer remained perfect in Cincinnati finals, winning an unprecedented seventh championship on Sunday while denying Novak Djokovic the one title that always eludes him. Federer never faced a break point during a 7-6 (1), 6-3 victory at the Western & Southern Open.

Serena Williams got her name on the Rookwood trophy for the second time on Sunday, beating Simona Halep 6-3, 7-6 (5) for back-to-back Cincinnati titles. She heads into the U.S. Open trying to become the first player since Steffi Graf in 1988 to pull off a calendar Grand Slam sweep.

Canadian Daniel Nestor and French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin needed less than an hour to win the men’s double’s title.

Nestor and Roger-Vasselin defeated Poland’s Marcin Matkowski and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 6-2 in 54 minutes. The 42-year-old Nestor now has five Cincinnati titles to his name.

It took Williams six tries before she got her first title. Federer has never failed.

The Swiss star is 7-0 in Cincinnati finals, which always brings out the best in him. He loves the fast-playing courts and the small-town atmosphere in suburban Cincinnati heading into the bigcity pressure of the U.S. Open.

“I don’t know how many years I can come back, but I’ll try my best to be here many more years to come,” Federer said.

No surprise there. Federer is the undisputed king of this court.

“He’s very good on this centre court,” Djokovic said. “He’s more confident each year.”

By contrast, the world’s top-ranked player is 0-5 in Cincinnati championship matches, never winning so much as one set. Djokovic covets the title — the only one he needs to become the first to win all nine of the current ATP Masters events.

“The fifth time I’ve been in the title (match) and never won this title, so I guess I have to wait for Roger to retire,” Djokovic said. “I’ve been coming back each year wanting it more.”

Federer feels for him.

“I really hope you can win here someday,” Federer told him on court during the trophy presentations. “He deserves it. C’mon, so close.”

In addition to Cincinnati, Federer has won seven titles at Dubai and Wimbledon, eight at Halle. It was Federer’s first tournament since he lost to Djokovic in the finals at Wimbledon. With the win, he’ll be seeded second behind Djokovic at the U.S. Open.

qualifying. Then Busch won Friday night’s Xfinity Series race.

Although Busch dominated early, he had faded a bit as the laps clicked off. Then he was hit with a speeding penalty on the final round of pit stops and finished eighth. Edwards led 74 laps but had a tire go flat when he was out front and it cost him two laps.

“Damn,” Edwards said on his radio.

“All right, we’ll still get this. We’ve got a good car.”

He finished seventh.

Matt Kenseth, the winner for JGR in the spring race at the track, had no chance to sweep the season. An engine issue 177 laps into the race ended his night. He finished 42nd and said he

had no warning that his engine was faulty.

“They never warn you, it would be cool if they would send you a text or something,” Kenseth said. “It broke in the middle of the straightaway — it had that hop and that noise that it makes when you know you dropped a valve.

That left Hamlin to carry the banner for JGR. He finished a team-best third, but said he just didn’t have the same speed as Logano and Harvick. Asked if had expected to see JGR and Toyota celebrating once again, he noted that practicing in the day at Bristol doesn’t always translate to the night race.

Still, he said, “Did I expect it? No. But I thought it was probable.”

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course at Watkins Glen and now Bristol’s short track. He has won twice this month as he readies for the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

There are two more races before the playoffs begin.

“We are hitting it at the right time, that’s for sure,” Logano said. “I feel like we are right where we need to be.

I can’t wait for the Chase to start.”

Logano led 176 laps, second only to Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch, who led a race-high 192 laps.

“Our team just executed,” Logano said. “That’s what we did and that’s what we do every week. We just try to keep our heads calm and cool and just run our race.”

Harvick finished second for the 10th time this season. The reigning Sprint Cup champion has a career-best 17 top-five finishes this year and had his 250th career top-10 finish in 526 starts.

“Obviously, you want to win races, but we’re in position and feel like we can get that momentum swing at any point,” Harvick said. “Just really excited to be able to run like this at Bristol.

This hasn’t been notoriously my best racetrack.”

Many believed JGR would pick up its 10th win of the season, particularly after Denny Hamlin, Busch and Carl Edwards swept the top three spots in

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by ASHLI BARRETT/ Advocate staff Red Deerians celebrated the founding cultures of the city, immersing themselves in the ways of the First Nations, the Métis, and the Europeans this past weekend during Fort Normandeau Days 2015.

Exploring a teepee village, a make-shift camp for the 65th Mount Royal Rifles, and Fort Normandeau itself, people of all ages were given a glimpse of what life was like during an era when Red Deer was first being formed.

Butter and bannock making demonstrations were held, telling of much simpler times.

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Children had fun trying to do laundry the old fashioned way- with a scrub board and clothesline- and took part in three-legged races, and games of croquet.

The highlight of the event, however, was a series of black powder battle reenactments which pitted the 65th Mount Royal Rifles against the Métis and their First Nations allies, depicting what parts of five-month long North West Rebellion of 1885 might have looked like. While no battles ever truly occurred at the fort or the surrounding area, viewers enjoyed the battle and firing of the cannon all the same.

Live music, Métis jigging and a pumpkin pie eating contest were also part of the weekend festivities.

LEFT; Laura Allard does some Metis jigging on Saturday afternoon as part of the Fort Normandeau Days 2015 festivities. Allard, who performed a number of times throughout the weekend, has been jigging since 1991.

TOP RIGHT; Chris Torok, Lieutenant-Colonel of the reenacting 65th Mount Royal Rifles, lights the cannon during a battle demonstration depicting the North West Rebellion Saturday afternoon as part of the annual Fort Normandeau festivities.

BOTTOM RIGHT; Lyle Keewatin-Richards defends the teepee village during a battle demonstration reenacting the North West Rebellion.

BELOW; The 65th Mount Royal Rifles attack the teepee village during a reenactment of the North West Rebellion.

LEFT; Sage Maurier tries his hand at doing laundry the old fashioned way Saturday afternoon at the Old Fort as part of the Fort Normandeau Days 2015 festivities.

RIGHT; Red Deerians explore a teepee village set up at Historic Fort Normandeau.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Sarah Stuive first got into the natural pest control business — which uses predatory insects, or “good bugs,” to weed out pests — she never expected to be working with cannabis plants.

But thanks to Health Canada regulations that limit the use of chemical pesticides on medical marijuana in order to make sure the plants are safe for consumption, the biological control specialist says she’s seeing an uptick in business.

“I have seen a lot of growth in demand since the start of the cannabis industry,” said Stuive, who works for Global Horticultural and also provides her services to vegetable farmers and plant growers. “It’s a new alternative to chemicals.”

Although certain chemical pesticides are permitted on medical cannabis— Health Canada currently has a list of seven products that have been approved for use — some producers prefer to avoid chemical sprays, which can leave residue on the plants.

“Specifically in this industry, it’s very important not to apply chemicals topically, because when you burn the plant for the medicinal compounds, any residual product that’s left on the leaves as a resin, you’ll also be burning that and inhaling it,” says Emily Moeller, the grow and production manager at Bedrocan Cannabis Corp.

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gal grow-ops tends to be riddled with such chemicals, according to Moeller.

That can be particularly harmful for people whose immune systems are compromised, says Cam Battley, Bedrocan’s vice-president of communications.

“The product we produce is being used by patients with a variety of health conditions,” Battley said in an interview at the company’s production facility east of Toronto.

“Some of them are immuno-compromised; they have HIV/AIDS. Some of them are using medical cannabis to manage the symptoms associated with chemotherapy. For people in these conditions, for people with chronic illnesses, it’s better not to have any residue at all on our product.”

There are a number of pests that can feed on cannabis crops which specialists like Stuive are on the lookout for, including fungus gnats, shore flies, thrips and spider mites.

At Bedrocan, Stuive — whose job involves administering the pest control and monitoring its effectiveness — uses three kinds of beneficial insects to keep pest populations in check.

Hypoaspis miles is a tiny mite that lives in the soil and preys on fungus gnats, shore flies and thrips. Stuive administers it by sprinkling peat moss containing the mite onto the soil in which the cannabis plants are growing.

Microscopic round worms called nematodes are applied through the water system and will eat the eggs of fungus nuts that have been laid in the

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Sarah Stuive, biological control consultant, checks for bugs at Bedrocan Canada, a medical marijuana facility, in Toronto on Monday. root ball of the plant.

And amblyseius swirskii, a predator that lives on the leaves of the plant, feeds on thrips, white flies and spider mites. It’s often contained in sachets that are either stuck into the ground on sticks or hung on the plant with a string.

B.C. minister hoping to soothe Alaskans’ concerns after Mount Polley spill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s mines minister says he’s aiming to ease Alaska residents’ fears that their region could be harmed by a disaster similar to the Mount Polley accident in the province’s Interior.

Bill Bennett met with mining representatives in Alaska last November, four months after a tailings dam burst and spilled 24 million cubic metres of waste into area waterways, including salmon-bearing rivers.

However, Alaskans living downstream from northwestern B.C. mines said Bennett ignored their worries about the potential for mining pollution flowing their way in the event of another catastrophe.

A year after the August 2014 spill, Bennett said he’s taking the lead from state officials who have arranged dozens of meetings with conservation groups and tribal associations.

A week-long tour that began Sunday replaced plans for a southeast Alaska symposium the ministry stopped pursuing after feedback that the gesture only amounted to lip service.

Local advocates remain skeptical, but have agreed to participate.

“I’m going to get around a bit and see what it’s like to live in southeast Alaska and why people feel so passionate about protecting what they have there,” Bennett said in an interview.

“We have taken our time and done it right.”

Bennett and senior officials will host the majority of meetings in the state capital of Juneau. They will also spend a day in the native community of Ketchikan, visit commercial fishermen along the Taku River and fly to a B.C. mine site by helicopter.

‘I’M GOING TO GET AROUND A BIT AND SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA AND WHY PEOPLE FEEL SO PASSIONATE ABOUT PROTECTING WHAT THEY HAVE THERE.’ — BILL BENNETT B.C. MINES MINISTER

The minister said his main goal will be to correct the impression that the B.C. government approves mine permits under any circumstance, with little care for the environment.

Imperial Metals (TSX:III), which has spent $67 million cleaning up the region, was given a restricted permit to return to limited production of Mount Polley last month. Bennett has said sediment testing will have to continue for decades.

Bennett has repeatedly called Alaskans’ concerns “legitimate” and believes that presenting detailed information about the Alaska government’s role in approving B.C. mines will alleviate concerns.

His delegation will also seek progress on a memorandum of understanding about how the two jurisdictions could deal with transboundary issues such as testing water that flows from British Columbia into Alaska.

Bennett expects much of the week’s discussions to revolve around the Mount Polley disaster and, to a lesser extent, approval of the Red Chris Mine.

The mine, about 130 kilometres from the Alaska border, went into full production in June. Imperial Metals owns both projects.

“We’ll try to give some comfort to those who are worried,” Bennett said.

“They have every right to ask these questions and I think we need to go there and provide good answers.”

But a collection of conservationists, tribal groups and industry associations believe Bennett is missing their point.

The issue for southeastern Alaskans isn’t a lack of information, it’s their need for “enforceable protections,” said Chris Zimmer, with Rivers Without Borders.

The groups are calling for concrete measures to protect Alaska’s water and fish, including bonds provided up front to cover another Mount Polley-type accident, compensation if Alaskan interests are harmed, and a study on the long-term effects of mining.

Zimmer said an agreement solely to share information would not change anything. He said the groups want regulations enforced by the International Joint Commission, a Canadian-American organization working to protect shared waters.

Dale Kelley, executive director of the Alaska Trollers Association, said the visiting minister should expect a “tough crowd.”

“I do welcome him to our region and I’m happy he’s making outreach,” she said. “But it’s going to take a lot more than some quick meetings.”

Alaska’s Lt.-Gov. Byron Mallott and a delegation from the state made their own unprecedented visit to British Columbia last May to tour the area where the Mount Polley dam collapsed.

Mallott and his officials invited Bennett back to Alaska for his current trip after their series of meetings in B.C.

Biological pest control can be costlier up front than using chemical sprays, says Moeller, but in the long run producers who use this strategy could end up saving money.

“You won’t have to throw entire crops out because they’re contaminated,” Moeller says.

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BRIEF At least 1,000 protesters clash with Greek police at gold mine site Police in Greece say they have arrested 78 anti-mining protesters, mostly foreigners, involved in clashes outside a Greek gold mine. Police said about 1,000 protesters marched toward the mining operation in the northern region of Halkidiki. Many started pelting the police force with rocks and bolts and threw firebombs. The police gave chase for more than 2 kilometres. In a bus that had carried protesters, police say they found more than 100 big bolts, as well as slings. The arrested include German, British, Italian and Bulgarian nationals. Protesters say the police, unprovoked, fired stun grenades and tear gas. The Canadian-run mining operation has been suspended by the Greek government, which claims it has violated technical standards. The company, Hellenic Gold, has furloughed nearly 2,000 employees.

Anheuser-Busch takes exception to California firm’s ‘Queen of Beer’ campaign Budweiser has long been known as the “King of Beers,” and AnheuserBusch is taking exception to a craft brewer declaring itself holder of the “Queen of Beer” crown. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that She Beverage Co. of Lancaster, California, applied in December to register “The Queen of Beer” phrase with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Anheuser-Busch filed a notice of opposition on Wednesday, arguing that “Queen of Beer” is too similar to “King of Beers.”

Canadians unprepared for unexpected retirement Most Canadians would like to have the luxury and security of choosing when and how they transition into retirement, but the realities and circumstances of life often force them to retire early before they are financially prepared.

“There are a variety of reasons someone may experience unexpected retirement – from personal illness to caring for a sick loved one,” says Tom Cottee, vice president of retiree planning TALBOT with Investors BOGGS Group.

“While most of us plan for a smooth transition into retirement we also need to be prepared to cope with an earlier than expected exit from work.”

Two recent studies seem to indicate that a lot of Canadians simply are not prepared for that eventuality.

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A report on the anatomy of retirement by the Angus Reid Institute found that nearly half of Canadians were forced into retirement earlier than they had planned and more than a quarter of them now are struggling to make ends meet.

A total of 48 per cent of retired respondents said they retired earlier than they expected to because of circumstances beyond their control.

Twenty-seven per cent said they were struggling to make ends meet, 46 per cent said they were living comfortably but didn’t have enough money for extras. Only six per cent said they retired later than they planned.

The age when people retire in Canada is rising slowly but steadily. The average retirement age nationally has risen from was 62.1 years in 2010 to 63 years in 2014.

Having a comfortable retirement might be part of the Canadian dream but it can not necessarily be taken for granted.

In the Angus Reid survey 48 per cent of retired Canadians admitted to being worried about having enough money to last through their entire lives. And that angst also is shared by 74 per cent

of Canadians who are not yet retired.

Research from Investors Group has found that 40 per cent of working Canadians between the ages of 45 and 64 believe they would not be able to cover their cost of living beyond five years if they unexpectedly had to retire tomorrow, including 16 per cent who said they would not be able to cover their costs for less than one year.

Thirty-six per cent of pre-retirees say they are worried they will not be able to live the retirement lifestyle they see themselves having at their current pace of saving and investing.

“When faced with sudden retirement your previous savings goals and payment plan fall by the wayside and a new strategy must be developed to reflect your current assets and opportunities to generate income,” says Cottee.

“It is critical that those who are forced into an earlier-than- anticipated retirement adjust their financial plans to match the diminished number of employed years they had initially intended to ensure that they don’t run through their retirement income too quickly.”

The Investors Group survey found

that 40 per cent of Canadians currently are working with a financial adviser to develop a financial plan and have a better grasp of their retirement plans than those who are doing it themselves.

Fifty five per cent of Canadians aged 45 and older working with an adviser feel more prepared for retirement than the average person compared to 45 per cent who are doing the planning themselves.

“Sudden retirement may happen to you and it could occur at a time when you least expect it,” says Cottee. “ In all likelihood you won’t have the time to plan for it, save for it or prepare for it.

A financial adviser can not only help you plan for the unexpected but also can work with you to adapt your financial plan in the event of an unanticipated retirement to ensure you are able to maximize what you have and make it last as long as you need it to.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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An oil train along the Columbia River at Syncline, Washington. Environmental groups have been fighting a bevy of crude-by-rail projects planned on the U.S. West Coast.

Opponents take aim at U.S. West Coast crude-by-rail projects

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — To crude producers hankering for a route to market while pipeline proposals stall, a bevy of crude-by-rail projects planned on the U.S. West Coast may look enticing.

But efforts to connect trainloads of crude to refineries and marine terminals in Washington, Oregon and California aren’t having an easy time of it either. Big environmental organizations and small community groups have been teaming up to fight rail projects in various stages of development in the region. Among the concerns is the prospect of more Alberta bitumen, derided as “dirty” in some quarters, coming to the area by rail.

“We’re as much of a green enclave as you’re going to get in North America,” said Matt Krogh, a ForestEthics campaigner based in Washington state.

“There’s some real cognitive dissonance around allowing the expansion of a dirty and polluting industry in your backyard that makes no long-term economic sense.”

Some of the concerns centre on local safety. The Lac-Megantic disaster two years ago, in which a crude-laden train exploded and killed 47 people, is still fresh in many minds. But the larger implications of enabling more fossil fuel development and what that means for climate change is also playing a role in the debate. The broad issue of shipping resources from the U.S. West Coast — whether that be coal, oil or liquefied natural gas — raises an “identity question,” said Eric de Place, with the Seattle-based thinktank Sightline Institute.

“There’s a lot of anxiety about that,” he said.

A focal point of campaigns has been a $210-million project pitched by Tesoro Refining and Marketing LLC and Savage Energy for Vancouver, Wash.

The Tesoro-Savage project, dubbed Vancouver Energy, is the largest on the table, with a planned capacity of up to 360,000 barrels a day. That alone is more than 40 per cent of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which has been waiting for U.S. regulatory approval for nearly seven years. The idea is to bring in North American crude by train and then send it by ship to refineries along the West Coast, which have been relying on overseas imports to meet half

their needs as production in Alaska and California declines. Vancouver Energy says the project would reduce the West Coat’s reliance on foreign crude by 30 per cent. Tesoro spokeswoman Jennifer Minx said the terminal is set up to handle crude mostly from the Bakken formation, centred on North Dakota and stretching into parts of Saskatchewan, rather than heavy crude, like that from the oilsands. She cited a poll by DHM Research that suggests 69 per cent of Clark County respondents support the project because of its economic benefits and contribution to energy security.

“The Vancouver Energy terminal will be a modern, purpose-built facility with strict safety and environmental protections in its design and operating procedures. We actively work with our partners to make sure the entire supply chain is operating safely,” Minx said.

The Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation council is expected to release a draft environmental impact statement for public review in November — four months later than previously expected.

Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper, said he’s hopeful crude trainloads can be stopped.

“If you asked me a year ago, I might have had a different answer but there’s been unprecedented opposition to it,” he said. “It’s not just conservation groups. It’s pretty diverse and broad scale concerns about these projects.”

As for how much oilsands crude may make it to the U.S. West Coast by rail, a lot will have to do with weather pipelines to the British Columbia coast come to fruition, said Sightline’s de Place. If not, rail to the Pacific may become more popular. Kinder Morgan’s plan to nearly triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to the Vancouver area is being weighed by the National Energy Board.

Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal to Kitimat, B.C., has regulatory approval, but the company has not officially decided whether to build it.

Then there’s the question of whether the pricey crude-by-rail option is worth it, with crude prices are at their lowest levels since 2009, de Place said.

“I guess my message to the Alberta producers would be: good luck. You’re going to need it.”

Spotify knew it had some explaining to do.

The streaming music service apologized Friday, after changes to its privacy policy raised alarms among its more privacy-conscious customers — aka, those that actually read those policies.

Spotify’s latest policy asks for access to users’ pictures, contacts, voice controls and location information, which sparked some concerns that the company was going to spy broadly on its users’ habits.

But chief executive Daniel Ek explained in a blog post why the firm asks for the things it does.

The purposes are pretty straightforward and focus on customization: Spotify wants to access your pictures to let you personalize playlists or album covers, for example.

The company wants location information to see what music is trending where.

Contact access would enable Spotify to let you search for friends among its users in the future.

Asking for voice control permission, Ek said, also opens Spotify to offering voice controls in its app in the future.

Ek didn’t say that the outcry would prompt Spotify to change its mind about what it collects, but he did say that the company would rework its policy to be a little more clear.

He also promised that, while the agreement asks for blanket permission to this data, Spotify won’t automatically pick up that information from its users, or use it for other purposes: “Let me be crystal clear here: If you don’t want to share this kind of information, you don’t have to.

We will ask for your express permission before accessing any of this data — and we will only use it for

specific purposes that will allow you to customize your Spotify experience.”

The dust-up highlights a few things.

First, it shows people are actually paying more attention to privacy policies.

Last week, Microsoft also got dinged by some for a provision in its Services Agreement that includes language that it reserves the right to disable counterfeit games — though not on Windows 10, as many had feared.

The backlash is also a warning to companies that it’s not in their best interest to insert vague and overbroad language into their agreements.

Spotify can ill afford to deal with bad consumer sentiment right now, as competition heats up in the music streaming world _and having people close their accounts in protest, as a few users have claimed to do on Twitter, is never a good thing for any service.

Including more precise language and examples of how Spotify uses such data could have tamped down some concerns.

Finally, this should serve as a reminder to consumers to think about the data they’re sharing in order to use services.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind giving Spotify access to my voice control data if it meant I could bark out an order to turn the volume down.

But giving it access to my contacts is probably a step too far for me.

Others may draw the line in other places. The point is that it’s important to think about the data you’re giving up to enable certain features, on any service, and to make sure you’re comfortable with that trade-off.

5 things to watch for in Canadian business this week

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Five things to watch in Canadian business this week: Stock Market: Traders will be keeping an even closer eye than usual on economic events at home and abroad after major indexes in Canada and the U.S. officially moved into correction territory last week, largely on fears of a greater than expected slowdown in China.

Housing: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. releases its 2015 secondquarter financial report on Monday.

In its recent Q2 house price analysis, the federal agency warned that Toronto, Regina and Winnipeg are at “high risk” of a housing correction.

Banks: Canada’s big banks report their third-quarter earnings through-

out the week, starting with the Bank of Montreal on Tuesday and ending with Scotiabank on Friday.

The ongoing oil price plummet and a spate of bleak economic indicators in the first half of the year have sparked renewed concerns about the health of the banks.

Housing: Bank of Canada deputy governor Lawrence Schembri is in Kingston, Ont., on Tuesday to give a speech about the international perspective on the long-term evolution of house prices.

StatsCan: The federal agency has an array of releases this week, including one on Wednesday about economic immigrants and another on Thursday on statistics for enterprises. On Friday, Statistics Canada is out with its industrial product and raw materials price indexes for July.

Canadian retail gain signals growth in GDP, first time in 2015 closely reflects the industry’s contribution to economic growth, was little changed in June.

Output probably rose by as much as 0.2 percent in June, and it’s questionable how much consumers can contribute after that, said Benjamin Reitzes, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

“It’s just going to be mixed” for consumers, he said by telephone. “You still have the impact of lower oil and a generally sluggish economy, and we will see how job growth does,” he said.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz has said the “underlying trend” of inflation is about 1.5 percent to 1.7 percent, reflecting slack in the economy.

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OTTAWA — Canadian retail sales rose faster than economists forecast in June, a sign the economy grew that month for the first time this year.

Sales climbed 0.6 percent to a record C$43.2 billion ($33 billion), Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa, faster than the 0.2 percent economists surveyed by Bloomberg News forecast.

Consumer spending is being helped this year by a robust labor market and low interest rates.

The report follows gains in manufacturing, wholesaling and exports, and means the five-month streak of shrinking output may end when Canada reports gross domestic product data for June on Sept. 1, said Nick Exarhos, an economist at CIBC World Markets.

Those figures will also show a contraction for the April-to-June period before output picks up again in the third

quarter, according to median forecasts in Bloomberg surveys.

“We weren’t really relying on retailing to provide much, and the fact it didn’t decelerate or cause much of a disappointment provides some relief,” said Exarhos. June output may rise by 0.5 percent, he said, which would be the most since May 2014.

The statistics agency also said the inflation rate quickened to 1.3 percent in July from a year earlier, compared with 1 percent in June. The core rate, which excludes eight volatile products, increased 2.4 percent.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, campaigning for an Oct. 19 election, has touted the economy’s resilience through an oil shock that has curbed exports. Friday’s reports supported his case, with retail sales gaining in all 10 of Canada’s provinces, including Alberta where the damage from the oil crash is greatest.

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Men more likely to die ‘Stage 0’ breast from high-dose opioid use cancer is over-treated for chronic pain: study CANADIAN STUDY

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Men prescribed opioids like oxycodone for chronic noncancer pain are twice as likely as women to escalate to a high dose and die as a result of taking the powerful drugs, a study suggests.

The research by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that one in 45 men amplified their dosage over time to more than 200 milligrams of morphine or its equivalent, compared with one in 70 women taking the drugs.

Patients whose opioid use had snowballed were almost 24 times as likely to die as those who did not ramp up the amount of their daily medication, concluded the study, published Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE. “The absolute risks here are just staggering,” said senior author Dr. David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Toronto.

“This is really the first large-scale study to give us an idea of how likely it is that patients who are receiving chronic opioid therapy will die from their treatment,” said Juurlink. “And as somebody who has been quite critical of these drugs over the years, the findings surprise even me.”

The 1997-2010 study, which examined health records for more than 285,500 Ontarians aged 15 to 64, found that more than one in every 10 patients prescribed the drugs for the first time became chronic users.

As well, one in every 350 men and one in every 850 women died as a result of taking an opioid long-term.

“One in 350 doesn’t sound especially high, but remember there are tens of millions of patients on these drugs, and we’re talking about death,” said Juurlink. “So from a public health perspective, that’s a very big deal.”

Opioids like oxycodone, morphine and hydromorphone are prescribed

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Prescription pill bottle containing oxycodone and acetaminophen are shown in this photo. Men prescribed opioids like oxycodone for chronic non-cancer pain are twice as likely as women to escalate to a high dose and die as a result of taking the powerful drugs, a study suggests. short-term to patients with acute pain from injury, for instance, and have been a significant boon to those suffering from severe pain due to cancer.

Doctors also often prescribe them for chronic conditions such as low back pain, osteoarthritis, pelvic pain and fibromyalgia.

“These are all conditions where there isn’t good evidence for the use of opioids long-term,” said Juurlink.

“And, in fact, in some of those conditions it’s actively discouraged.

“And yet it happens, and it happens in part because doctors are desperate to help patients and patients with pain are desperate themselves, and we don’t have a lot of drugs at our disposal.”

While women are more likely to be prescribed opioids, men are more likely to be given a more potent agent, research has shown.

“I think doctors are probably more comfortable giving stronger drugs to men ... So when you are on stronger opioids, you hit that threshold more readily,” Juurlink said of a high-dose regimen.

TORONTO — Many women are receiving unnecessary treatment for a condition that is sometimes called Stage 0 breast cancer, the findings of a new Canadian study suggest.

Women who undergo single or double mastectomies or radiation as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, do not appear to be increasing their chances of survival, the paper argues.

The vast majority of patients — nearly 97 per cent — are expected to still be alive 20 years after their diagnosis, based on the findings of the study done by researchers at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital and the University of Toronto; it is published in the journal JAMA Oncology.

While 3.3 per cent will die, aggressive early treatments do not appear to alter the course their disease takes, the scientists report.

With DCIS, cancerous cells are found in the milk ducts of the breast.

The current approach to DCIS is to remove the affected portion of the breast and treat with radiation to lower the risk the cancer will return or spread.

But some women want more reassurance and opt for surgery to remove one or both breasts.

An editorial accompanying the article argues the findings should lead to a dialling back of the way women diagnosed with DCIS are treated.

“It’s not an emergency. It’s just not an emergency,” Dr. Laura Esserman, lead author of the editorial, said in a telephone interview.

“We need to stop the urgency, be more thoughtful, start generating different approaches, think about it as prevention.”

For Esserman, who is the director of the University of California, San Francisco breast care centre, the findings support the notion that some women with DCIS may not need surgery at all.

The right approach may be to actively monitor these women, only treating if the cancer progresses — in the same way many prostate cancer cases are now handled, she said.

The lead author of the paper, Toronto breast cancer expert Dr. Steven Narod, isn’t necessarily advocating that approach.

Narod believes the death rate would

be higher than 3.3 per cent if women with DCIS did not have surgeries to remove the cancerous cells — though how much higher would be a guess.

“The surgeons cure 97 per cent of it. If you did nothing ... we don’t know what would happen,” he said.

Dr. Barry Kramer, director of the division of cancer prevention at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, seemed to come down somewhere between Esserman and Narod.

“I would say we’re on a tract that is behind prostate cancer, but moving in the same direction,” said Kramer, who agreed that the study shows a lot of women are being over-treated for DCIS. He suggested that cancer research can be compartmentalized. So while many urologists and men with prostate cancer have become comfortable with active surveillance rather than immediately taking out a prostate, “the world of breast cancer may not have caught up with that.”

Narod’s research is what is called an observational study. It looked at the medical records of over 100,000 women diagnosed with DCIS between 1988 and 2011 and assessed whether treatments had an impact and how many patients were still alive after 10 and 20 years.

The large numbers lend confidence to the findings. But an observational study cannot prove that one course of action is better than another.

The death rate at 10 years after diagnosis was 1.1 per cent, rising to 3.3 per cent at 20 years.

Esserman’s editorial noted that the 20-year rate is similar to what the American Cancer Society estimates is an average woman’s risk of dying of breast cancer in her lifetime.

The study shows, though, that there is a subset of women for whom the risk was much higher. Women diagnosed with DCIS before the age of 35 had a mortality rate that was 17 times higher than would be expected for them in the nine years following their diagnosis. But only one per cent of the women in the study were diagnosed under the age of 35. Esserman said breast cancer researchers now need to do a better job of figuring out who is at higher risk of dying after a DCIS diagnosis and finding ways to prevent those deaths.

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TORONTO — A dangerous bacterial disease that has been rendered rare by vaccination has struck a little boy in Toronto. One-year-old Ethan Faria has had part of both legs amputated in an attempt to save him from a blood infection triggered by Hemophilus influenzae Type B. The child is being cared for at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, which is refusing to comment on his case citing the family’s desire for privacy. But earlier the family spoke with CBC about the child’s illness, which was first thought to be pneumonia.

On a crowdsourcing website, friends of the boy’s family described his situation as they attempted to raise $50,000 to help the family with expenses.

Ethan is suffering from a severe infection with Hemophilus influenzae Type B. Hib, as it is more commonly known, is a bacterium and is not related to influenza, a virus.

Once the cause of about 900 severe illnesses a year in Canada, Hib cases have become rare since vaccination to protect against it began in the mid-

1980s. Currently children are protected against Hib in combination vaccinations that also cover diseases such as polio, pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus. Reports suggest Ethan was up to date on his vaccinations, which would mean he would have received three shots containing Hib vaccine at two, four and six months. But a fourth dose is required to get optimum protection and in Ontario that booster shot is given at 18 months. The boy is too young to have received that last shot.

Dr. Shelley Deeks, medical director for immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases at Public Health Ontario, said Tuesday that the Hib vaccine is considered 95 per cent effective when a child has received all four doses.

Without the last booster, protection rates would be expected to be somewhat lower, she said.

The little boy’s case is clearly tragic.

But in general, parents do not need to worry about Hib if their children are fully vaccinated, Deeks said.

“Hib has been one of our huge success stories,” she said, explaining that Ontario nowadays only sees between one and 10 severe Hib infections a year.

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Bon Jovi re-books show because ‘integrity matters’ VANCOUVER

VANCOUVER — When Jon Bon Jovi titled his latest single We Don’t Run, he couldn’t have known it would take on new meaning in Vancouver.

The superstar had to scramble to re-book a show at a new venue after complications with a promoter forced the cancellation of a performance in Stanley Park.

Speaking to reporters before the concert at Rogers Arena Saturday evening, Bon Jovi said he’s never experienced anything like the mess with promoter Paper Rain Performances, but that he was determined to go ahead with the show.

“Integrity matters. If you give your word to somebody I think you should do the very best you can to follow through on that word,” he said when asked why he felt it was important that he perform.

“What started out as just an invitation to go and perform in a park that I liked, and a summertime kind of block party feel, unfortunately turned into something rather messy for a lot of folks.”

Although he said he wasn’t involved in the circumstances that led to the show’s cancellation, he apologized to fans for the “turmoil” the situation caused.The public spat between Bon Jovi’s management and Paper Rain began when the promoter announced earlier this week that the show had been axed due to low ticket sales.

Bon Jovi’s team responded that Paper Rain hadn’t paid vendors or acquired staging equipment, and the City of Vancouver said the promoter hadn’t acquired the right permits.

The promoter announced it was filing for bankruptcy a few days later.

It could not immediately be reached for comment on Saturday.

Bon Jovi called the snafu “a little

embarrassing,” but thanked those who came together to make sure the show went on, including Tourism Vancouver and Rogers Arena.

“It took our efforts to make this happen. And there was no way I wasn’t going to make it happen,” he said.

Fans who purchased tickets to the cancelled show were to bring their tickets to Rogers Arena.

No extra tickets were sold.

The show came a day after Bon Jovi released a new album, Burning Bridges, which he said marks the band’s final recording with Mercury Records after a 30-year relationship.

The singer spoke fondly of his memories in Vancouver, especially recording his band’s smash hit “Slippery When Wet” in 1986. Bon Jovi went on to record two more albums in Vancouver.

“From ’86 to ’92, this was absolutely home for the band,” he said.

“Our roots are very deep here, at a time when Vancouver was a much more innocent, small town that was far away.”

He recalled the original art for the album that would become Slippery When Wet, originally titled Wanted: Dead or Alive, featured the band posing with bushy beards outside a closed mine in British Columbia’s mountains.

The record company balked at the art.

Eventually, Bon Jovi grabbed a garbage bag, squirted water on it and wrote Slippery When Wet — and that simple image became the iconic album’s cover. He said it was fitting that the band recorded the album during Vancouver’s Expo ’86.

“It seemed to me like it was Vancouver’s coming out party in 1986.

Then, it turned out to be in essence Bon Jovi’s coming out party.”

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Probate Commissioner Wesley Yamashita told a lawyer for Patty King on Friday that she can subpoena the records, so he didn’t need to issue a court order.

The lawyer for B.B. King’s estate told the judge that he thinks Patty King is fishing for evidence that the musician’s longtime business manager, LaVerne Toney, mistreated him before he died May 14.

Toney, who’s executor of King’s estate, and attorney Brent Bryson deny Patty King’s allegations.

Bryson says B.B. King never wanted his medical records made public.

Patty King says she’ll keep fighting to get the records.

BRIEF Wax figure of Nicki Minaj to be under close watch after suggestive photos online LAS VEGAS — A wax figure of rapper Nicki Minaj at a Las Vegas museum is getting more security to keep away inappropriate visitors.

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas said in a statement Friday that employees will closely monitor the figure after images of visitors in sexual poses with the statue began appearing on social media.

The set around the statue will also undergo a redesign so similar pictures can’t be taken. The museum says it became aware Tuesday of at least one image online. The statue depicts Minaj in a pose from her Anaconda music video.

The Madame Tussauds museum chain is known for life-size wax replicas of celebrities that guests can interact with. Minaj has not commented, but she recently shared Instagram photos of fans posing suggestively with the figure.

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Actress Megan Fox files for divorce, ending 5-year marriage to 90210 star Brian Austin Green LOS ANGELES — Actress Megan Fox has filed for divorce from actor Brian Austin Green after five years of marriage.

The Transformers star cited irreconcilable differences for the breakup.

The pair has two sons together, and the 29-year-old actress is seeking joint custody.

Fox and Green began dating in 2004 and married in 2010. She listed June 15 as their date of separation, and her filing indicates they do not have a prenuptial agreement.

Straight Outta Compton tops box office again

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Straight Outta Compton easily maintained its box-office lead with an estimated $26.8 million in ticket sales over a sleepy late summer weekend at North American multiplexes, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal’s N.W.A biopic, a much buzzed-about hit, dominated over the late August releases that often characterize Hollywood’s dog days of summer. It has now made $111.5 million in two weeks, and continued to drive moviegoers, both male and female, despite renewed charges of misogyny in N.W.A lyrics and the film overlooking claims of Dr. Dre’s abuse of women. In a statement Friday, the rapper and producer of Straight Outta Compton said: “I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.”

Of the weekend’s new releases, the low-budget horror sequel Sinister 2 fared best, opening with an estimated $10.6 million for the Blumhouse production — well below the $18 million the 2012 original debuted with.

The result was good enough for third place, behind Paramount’s Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, which made $11.7 million in its fourth weekend of release. Fox’s assassin thriller Hitman: Agent 47 the second attempt in eight years to adapt the popular video game,

disappointed with $8.2 million.

It will hope to do better abroad, where the 2007 original made $60.3 million. It began with $8.5 million over the weekend internationally.

Lionsgate’s stoner action-comedy American Ultra, starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, also failed to spark much interest, opening with $5.5 million. The three new releases — all violent, R-rated, poorly reviewed options — divided up a similar audience.

The box office was down 7.5 per cent from the same weekend last year, according to box-office data firm Rentrak. Without a much-anticipated release scheduled over the next two weeks, the lull is likely to continue through Labor Day weekend.

1. Straight Outta Compton, $26.8 million.

2. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, $11.7 million ($25.2 million international).

3. Sinister 2 $10.6 million.

4. Hitman: Agent 47, $8.2 million ($8.5 million international).

5. Man From U.N.C.L.E., $7.4 million ($8 million international).

6. American Ultra $5.5 million ($1 million international).

7. The Gift, $4.3 million.

8. Ant-Man, $4.1. million ($2.9 million international).

9. Minions, $3.7 million ($8.8 million international).

10. Fantastic Four, $3.7 million ($16.2 million international).

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Jon Bon Jovi performs in concert with his band Bon Jovi in Philadelphia. A Bon Jovi concert scheduled for Saturday, Aug. in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been canceled after the city said the promoter had failed to obtain the required permits. The superstar had to scramble to re-book a show at a new venue.

The 42-year-old Green starred on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and appeared on the FX series Anger Management.

Fox starred in 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and its upcoming sequel.

NYC theatre company adds female-written play to its season amid criticism over all-male slate NEW YORK — The Manhattan Theater Club, one of New York’s foremost non-profittheatre companies, has added a play written by a woman to its upcoming season in the face of criticism that seven of its upcoming offerings were all penned by white men.

The company said Friday that this spring, it will produce The Ruins of Civilization by the British writer Penelope Skinner, but said the deal had been in the works for over two months and pointed out that 4 of its 8 plays last year were written by women.

The lack of diversity in the company’s announced slate frustrated theatre leaders who pointed out that the mission of the Manhattan Theater Club was to create “productions as broad and diverse as New York itself.”

Critics included the playwrights Kristoffer Diaz and Paula Vogel, who took to Twitter this week to ask the theatre’s artistic director, Lynne Meadow: “For a woman in theatre who attended Bryn Mawr, where is your sisterhood?”

Skinner’s play will join the theatre company’s Broadway and off-Broadway roster of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord,

Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair, John Patrick Shanley’s Prodigal Son, Nick Payne’s Incognito, Nick Jones’s Important Hats of the Twentieth Century and Florian Zeller’s The Father.

Frustration over the lack of women playwrights chosen to have their work onstage has lately gotten more attention.

According to The League of Professional Theatre Women, only 28 per cent of productions were written by women during the 2013-14 Broadway and off-Broadway season.

Meadow, who has been artistic director since 1972 and frequently directs, has championed women playwrights in the past, including Amanda Peet, Margaret Edson, Kia Corthron and Lynn Nottage. She won the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women.

The Interval, a website trying to raise the media profile of women in theatre, found that of the 11 new plays that made it to Broadway last season, only one was written by a woman.

Victoria Myers, editor of The Interval, wrote in an email message Friday to The Associated Press that she was happy a work by a woman was going to be added this season to the Manhattan Theater Club’s slate, but wished people would be as enthusiastic about supporting female artists as they are in calling out sexism.

“I definitely think it’s good that people are making an effort to say sexism in theatre is wrong, but I think the other half — the actually celebrating of women succeeding — is equally important and that’s what I don’t see happening that much in a lot of theatre media.”

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SIFERT Gordon 1956 - 2015 Mr. Gordon Wesley Sifert of Red Deer, sadly passed away on Sunday, August 16, 2015 at the age of 58 years. Gordon was born on December 17, 1956 at Regina, Saskatchewan. Gordon received his education in Red Deer; beginning in 1963, attending Central Elementary and Middle Schools and Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. He left Lindsay Thurber in Grade Eleven, later graduating with his GED Equivalent from Red Deer College, in 1980. Sadly during the summer of 1988, Gordon sustained a traumatic brain injury as the result of a work related accident. Although he faced certain challenges, his spirit remained true; Gordon was a gentle soul, with a heart of gold. He had a wonderful sense of humor and truly loved people. He was especially fond of supporting those who were mentally challenged and disadvantaged; helping others was important to him. Gordon was a man of great integrity, with a sincere and caring heart. Honesty and respect was of the utmost importance to him, and being a man of his word.

Gordon loved playing crib, squash and racquetball; he loved animals and always kept informed of current world events.

Gordon will be lovingly remembered by his mother, Norene Sifert of Red Deer, his sisters, Lori Anne Tucker and Jane Sifert, also of Red Deer, his aunt, Donna McKee of Red Deer, his niece, Shawna Kokotailo of Calgary, Alberta and his nephew, David Kokotailo of Red Deer, as well as numerous cousins, his half sister, Shelley and two half brothers, Ken and James, and many dear friends. Gordon was predeceased by his grandparents, Frank and Gladys McKee, an uncle, Gordon McKee and a brother-in-law, Bill Tucker. A Celebration of Gordon’s Life will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. with The Reverend Jeffrey Rock officiating. Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Gordon will be lovingly laid to rest with his grandparents at the Red Deer Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Gordon’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer and District S.P.C.A. at reddeerspca.com or to the Central Alberta Brain Injury Society, 202, 4805 - 48 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1S6.

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LANG Marvin Mr. Marvin Lang of Olds, AB passed away in Red Deer on February 26, 2015 at the age of 87 years. A casual celebration of life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #105, 5241 46 Street, Olds, AB on Friday, August 28, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial tributes in Marvin’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, Unit 1, 5550 45 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4N 1L1.

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VALE William David William David Vale passed away Sunday, August 16 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with his wife, Gladys at his side. Born April 16, 1943 in Red Deer, Alberta to parents Elizabeth and William Vale. Born, raised, working and residing in Red Deer and area his entire life, Bill touched many lives in his time with us. Bill had many careers, he worked in the auto industry as a mechanic, marine mechanic, service manager and service writer, trained in Marinette, Wisconsin as an oil well firefighter and worked with Red Adair, had his own business in the oil industry, Bill’s mobile Steam service, and many sales positions.

In recent years he worked for the Action Bus and his last and probably his most cherished job/hobby was driving a school bus for Aspire Special Needs, ‘bus driver Bill’ loved ‘his kids’ and would come home many nights with stories about them.

He loved fishing, boating, jet boating, camping but his number one passion was his singing.

Bill had one of the first Rock and Roll bands in Red Deer, and was honoured at the Red Deer Museum for his contribution to the Rock and Roll scene, he was also a member of the Jolly Corks, a group formed through the Elks club in Red Deer and they performed at many venues. Bill was well known for his beautiful, powerful, melodic voice. On so many occasions, Bill could be found in front of the stereo playing his favorite songs and singing along with them.

Bill is survived by his soul mate and loving wife, Gladys, his sons Lawrence (Tracy) Vale, Dean (Julie) Vale, Kurtis Whitelaw, Kenton (Jerri) Whitelaw, daughter Stacey Green, step daughter Rhonda Mackay, and Grandchildren Claydon, Austin, Tanner Whitelaw, Jayden, Keaten, Brooklyn, Brodie Vale, and his many brother and sister in laws, and numerous nieces, nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, his step brothers Tom and Bud Wright, mother and father in law, brother in laws Robert Sharp, Keith and Don Taylor and sister in law Joyce Calen. The family extends their sincere thanks to the Doctors and the nursing staff of the Red Deer Regional Hospital. A memorial will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, 2810 Bremner Ave, Red Deer at 1:00 p.m. on August 29, 2015. In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to Aspire Special Resource Center, 403 340 2606, or 4826 47 St., Red Deer T4N 1R2.

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CAMPGROUND MANAGER Tail Creek Park Highway 11 & Highway 21. Please submit letter of intent and/or resume to MARLENE LANZ Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3, President 1415 - 28 St. NE. Calgary, AB T2A2P6 Phone: 1-(403)569-8800 Or 1-800-267-5844

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: P/T friendly receptionist, 5111 22 St. good with details. Fax 37444 HWY 2 S resume 403-314-5307 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Hair Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Stylists Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

SYLVAN LAKE BARBER 40 hrs/week, + benefits , req’s P/T Stylist/Barber, 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., Drop resume off or contact criminal record check req’d.

Sherry at 403-887-4022 Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job Oilfield description visit www. timhortons.com

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SUBWAY® Red Deer COLTER ENERGY LP IS NOW HIRING

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time • Must be physically fit • Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: jbecker@colterenergy.ca •

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Now Hiring - flexible full/part time Front Counter Attendant opportunities available in multiple convenient locations over a variety of day/night shifts.

Employees receive competitive industry wages and full time healthcare benefits. Enjoy being rewarded with bonuses, free shift meals and potential for advancement.

Start your career today and apply at www.mysubwaycareer.com, apply in store, email your resume to careers@rdsubway.com or call 403-342-0203.

SUPERVISORS • 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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TRICAN is a global well service company with operations in Canada, USA, and Norway.

If you are a motivated, service-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills, we invite you to apply for the following positions:

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Fracturing Operators, Frac Sand B-Train Drivers

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that Trican’s safety program, Target Zero, is followed and is promoted to employees, customers partners and the public at all times.

• Operate various large duty trucks over outdoor terrain and through all weather conditions.

• Perform pre and post trip inspections and accurately ¿ll out all required forms.

• Perform rig-in and rig-out of all equipment, for travel • Operate all equipment in safe and responsible manner • Attend pre-job safety meeting on location • Perform maintenance on units and auxiliary equipment • Complete required paperwork • Establish and maintain effective communication with colleagues • Consult with supervisor and crew regarding any operational de¿ciencies

Experience & Skills:

• Valid Class 1 Driver’s licence is required, safe driving skills – current driver’s abstract required • Pressure pumping experience is preferred • High school diploma is an asset • Heavy lifting required, must be physically ¿t • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

What Makes Us Attractive:

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• Values-driven organization • Full coverage bene¿ts program, Health spending account, RRSP matching program • Global technical leader within our industry • Focus on safety, training and development • Career advancement opportunities

Working Conditions:

• 15 days on/6 days off • On call 24-hours per day during days on • Willing to live near base of employment • Pre-employment medical testing required • Working in all weather conditions

Please forward your resume and a copy of a current driver’s abstract (in confidence) Fax: (403) 314-3332, Online: https://trican.hgcareers.com Please visit our website at www.trican.ca for additional information about our company We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

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GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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1906 TREDDLE sewing machine, oak cabinet, very good cond. First $100 takes it. 403-877-0825

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

BRIDGE LAMP. (Antique) Copper and brass, lovely design. Has been professionally re-wired. $75 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

VINTAGE HUDSON’s BAY 3.5 point (84” x 62”) wool blanket. In very good condition. $95 (firm). ***SOLD***

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TREK 7000 ONYX series, Alpha custom aluminum from, gear shaft on each side of handlebar, 9 sprocket rear wheel, 3 sprocket pedal, Superstack hubs & rims, American Bicycle technology, largest bike company in USA. $200. 403-505-6597

BLACK leather furniture; SONY 36” TV and Panasonic stand; SONY 31” TV and stand and SONY DVD player; very large desk, sits 6 (brown); nice office chair; Kenmore range; mirVARIETY of miscellaneous rors; new punching bag; tools, $20. 403-885-5020 black desk - office chair and file roller.

Firewood

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Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Furnishings

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NEW sofa bed, $125.

403-358-5568 SOFA and loveseat, exc. con., $200. 403-347-6706

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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CHILD’s Wooden rocker, $35.; 3 man tent, $35; orange tree in Bonsi bowl $10; spider house plant, $4. 403-342-7460 COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

403-885-5020

For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD ORIOLE PARK

TWO high back beige bar stools, $20 each.

403-358-5568

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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, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

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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 FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Wanted WANTED • 3250-3390

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Fuel-efficient vehicle is recommended.

1 BDRM. condo on Pine Lake, fully furn., $950 utils. incl. except cable & phone Avail. now 403-862-2796 SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or 403-304-7576 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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RIVERSIDE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777 Start your career!

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“COMING SOON” BY Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

BY OWNER 5 bdrm. 2.5 bath, 1400 sq. ft.

Sunnybrook bungalow $379,900 403-505-1663 OPEN HOUSE Aug. 22 & 23, 2-4pm.

LAINCHBURY CONST. Show Home - Open House 110 Turner Crescent Fri. 5-7, Sat. and Sun. 10-12, and Mon 5-7 3 bdrm. 2 bath 1307 sq. ft. up, 600 down, maple cabinets and trim, den office and rec. room has bar & fireplace. 403-391-6444

2003 PONTIAC Montana EXT 69,000 kms., good shape, reasonable price.

Please contact 403-392-5733 to view.

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RV RENTAL SPACE in Red Deer, secure with 24 hr. surveillance, gravel lot.

403-302-8793 for price and location.

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

Tires, Parts Acces.

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GPS, TomTom, XL350tm, lifetime updates, maps Canada, USA & Mexico.

No longer required.

Save $100. Asking only $60. 403-782-7439

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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

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

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PADS $450/mo.

SAT. AUG. 22 TO Brand new park in Lacombe.

SUN. AUG 30 Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 BDRM. bi-level in 4 plex 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

2 bath. As Low as $75,000. NO SALE - MON. OR TUE. rent $995 403-314-0209 Down payment $4000. Call AUG 24 & 25 3 BDRM., no pets, at anytime. 403-588-8820 Tools, garden, housewares, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 ladders, toys, bikes, Central Alberta’s Largest old magazines, golf clubs.

NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 Car Lot in Classifieds Too much more to list. appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Weather permitting.

Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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2011 COLORADO, Z71 4x4, loaded for comfort, 45,000 kms., 1 owner, $27,500. 403-341-0603

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1/2 SECTION, 12 km south and east of Red Deer, avail. imm.

403-347-1253

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M/F to share townhouse, private bath/shower $600 + 1/2 utils. 403-318-8487 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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403-341-0156, 885-2287 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. Sept.1 $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com rent/d.d. 403-346-1458 2 bdrm. suite downtown Misc. area, above store, Eavestroughing Services at 5115 Gaetz Ave. Quiet person preferred Accounting $950/mo., $950 d.d. all ROBUST CLEANING 5* JUNK REMOVAL utils., except electricity.

SERVICES Property clean up 505-4777 INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Avail. Sept. 1. 347-3149 Eavestroughs and gutters Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

CLEAN UP AND JUNK 3 BDRM. 4 appl., incl. wacleaned. Free quotes. with oilfield service REMOVAL. 403 550 2502 ter., avail. immed.

403-506-4822 companies, other small $875/mo. 403-348-6594 businesses and individuals Painters/ RW Smith, 346-9351 3810 - 47 ST., spacious Decorators 2 bdrm. suite, quiet Entertainment neighborhood, stove, fridge, security, adult only, Cleaning JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

DANCE DJ SERVICES no pets. $850. Call to view.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 587-679-8606 587-877-5808 GET your floors profesADULT 2 BDRM. spacious sionally refinished to high Handyman suites 3 appls., heat/water Roofing gloss 403-392-7847 incld., ADULT ONLY Services Tired of Standing?

BLDG, no pets, Oriole PRECISE ROOFING LTD. Find something to sit on Park. 403-986-6889 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

BEAT THE RUSH! Book in Classifieds FEMALE TENANT wanted, WCB covered, fully now for your home projects.

A.I.S.H. welcome, incld’s Licensed & Insured.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, OFFERING cleaning furnished bdrm., kitchen 403-896-4869 small concrete/rock work, services. Homes, offices, facilities, washer/dryer & landscaping, small tree move in/out, seniors 10% QUALITY work at an utils. $500. rent & S.D. cutting, fencing & decking. off. 587-377-0443 affordable price. Joe’s Phone Mike 403-346-8581 Call James 403-341-0617 Roofing. Re-roofing or 403-304-8472 specialist. Fully insured.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

Insurance claims welcome.

Massage apartments, avail. immed, Contractors 10 yr. warranty on all work.

Therapy rent $875 403-596-6000 403-350-7602 BLACK CAT CONCRETE LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Garage/Patios/RV pads Seniors’ SUITES. 25+, adults only Sidewalks/Driveways n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Services Dean 403-505-2542

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3 BDRM, 3 flr, 3 bath house at 7316-59 Ave. to rent to over 35 yr. old Rooms couple. Five appliances, For Rent fenced yard., deck and 3 car parking. Rent/DD S.E. House, working M. $1650. Ph: 403-341-4627. $475./mo. 403-341-4664 ACREAGE home 30 min.

E of Red Deer, Rent/DD You can sell your guitar $1300. 3 bdrms, utils for a song... incld’d. Must be working & or put it in CLASSIFIEDS have ref’s. 403-896-0127 and we’ll sell it for you!

AVAIL. Sept. 1, 3 bdrm.

WEST LAKE, 2 rooms house for rent in Parkvale. avail., $650 each/mo., incl.

4614-47 St. No pets. Apply util., storage avail., n/s, inin person or call 403-347-2943. door cats on premises.

EASTVIEW main flr., 2 Avail. Sept. 1. Text or call 403-505-2288. bdrm. 1100 sq. ft., hardwood, shared laundry, no pets, n/s, $1350. incld’s utils. Sept. 1. 403-350-6612 Warehouse Space SENIOR condo Legacy Estates 403-350-5054

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2 Siamese, 2 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649 KITTENS, (2) 3 mos. old, 1 Male, 1 Female.

FREE to a good home.

403-885-2104

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Earn $150 per week delivering newspapers to business locations in Red Deer on Wednesdays and Red Deer, Blackfalds and Lacombe on Thursdays.

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SAW BLADE WALL CLOCK. Brand new/still in original packaging. Wall clock made from a 10.5 inch circular saw blade.

Has hammer & saw hour/minute hands.

Perfect for a workshop/ garage area. $12.

Call (403) 342-7908.

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Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, beige, $95. 403-352-8811

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For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday Oilfield ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

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Rent starting at $949/month 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central locaFREE. You pick crab tion.

Heat & water apples. 403-346-3086 Sporting included. Cat friendly. 86 HERE TO HELP MATTRESS topper, 2” Bell Street, Red Deer leasGoods & HERE TO SERVE foam style with zipper cloth ing@ rentmidwest.com cover, like new, seldom Call GORD ING at AIR HOCKEY by Sports- 1(888)679-8031 used. Was $129. new, RE/MAX real estate craft was $900 new, exc.

SYLVAN LAKE, Private asking $40. 403-346-2192 cond, $195. 403-352-8811 suite. + Cable, fridge, etc. central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net $650/mo. 403-880-0210 PRECIOUS MOMENTS angel of mercy collectible, Travel Houses new, ideal gift for a nurse, Packages $40. 403-347-3741 For Sale

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SKIL electric drill, $10; Black & Decker jig saw, $10; heat gun, $10; and new in box 30 wall mounted storage bins, $30. 403-358-5568

TV's, VCRs TO ORDER SONY Trinitron tv 26” HOME w/remote, used little $75, DELIVERY OF also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

THE 403-352-8811 EquipmentADVOCATE Heavy Misc. for CALL OUR TRAILERS for sale or rent Sale site, office, well site or CIRCULATION Jobstorage.

Skidded or 100 VHS movies, $75.

DEPARTMENT wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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MORRISROE MANOR 1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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Smoke screen lifting FIRE GROWTH REMAINS CALM IN WASHINGTON WILDFIRES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKANOGAN, Wash. — The massive cloud of smoke began to lift over Washington wildfires on Sunday. But as air quality improves, the fire’s behaviour could become more erratic and intense, fire officials said.

“It’s like a flue opening in a fireplace,” said Suzanne Flory, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service and the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team. “Smoke serves as a cap on the fire.”

The Okanogan Complex of wildfires was measured at 374 square miles Sunday morning, after growing more than 100 miles larger Saturday in what fire officials said was a relatively calm fire day.

Once the smoke lifts, humidity drops, heat rises and fires can flare up.

Flory said they would not know until Sunday night or early Monday how much the fire had grown on Sunday, but as of late afternoon, fire activity had been relatively quiet. Visibility and air quality improved Sunday.

The complex of fires was estimated to be about 10 per cent contained as of Sunday morning, fire spokesman Dan Omdal said.

Containment does not mean the fire has stopped burning. It means it has run out of fuel to burn in that area, either because it has hit a man-made fire line, a drop from airplanes of fire retardant, a road or a lake.

Some of the land within the fire lines is still burning, but other sections have burned out.

“We call it a wildfire, but much of the fire has been tamed,” Omdal said. “We are making progress,” The good news for Sunday is that less smoke means restrictions on air travel will be lifted and more fire tankers can drop water and chemical retardant, Flory said.

Air quality, which has been dangerously bad, will also improve when the smoke cloud lifts, but firefighters won’t be able to take a breather. “We tell firefighters, if you see blue sky, heads up,” Flory said.

Meanwhile, local officials have downgraded some evacuation notices, allowing some people to return to their homes. Thousands remain under evacuation notices.

Sarah Miller, a spokeswoman with Okanogan County Emergency Management, said residents have been warned to stay ready to leave at any time and to not drive around looking at the fires.

“People driving around are getting in the way of fire operations,” Miller said.

Steve Surgeon, a mechanic and scrap-metal seller who lost everything he owns except for his home on the outskirts of Okanogan, said he was just happy to be alive.

He stayed in place as the fire raced over a ridge and barrelled down toward his home, flames lapping just feet from his back porch.

“I’m alive,” he said with a sigh Sunday. “I

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Debris is all that remains of a home burned by the First Creek Fire on the west shoreline of Lake Chelan, Wash. on Sunday. shouldn’t be, but I am — and that’s what matters.”

Heaps of twisted and charred metal litter his land where the fire burned through. Surgeon estimates he lost more than $100,000 worth of property, including his shop, his motorcycle, several cars, a travel trailer and all of his tools.

“But I have my life and I have my home,” he said.

“Everything else can be replaced.”

Surgeon didn’t have any insurance to help cover the cost of what he lost and was hoping the federal government would eventually offer assistance.

“But all my titles to everything were in the shop, and that’s burned to the ground,” he said. “I guess I’m just going to stay and just try to slowly rebuild.”

Three firefighters injured Wednesday in a fire near Twisp, Washington, are recuperating at home after being released from the hospital, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources. A fourth injured firefighter is being treated at a hospital in Seattle. Three others were killed in the fire.

Meanwhile, a new firefighting mobilization centre is being set up at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane to help fight wildfires in Washington state. The base will be the staging area for 20 large fire engines and 10 water takers and will be run by a team from San Diego.

The new firefighting resources come one day after the Obama administration approved Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for a federal emergency declaration to help firefighting efforts in the eastern part of the state.

The new fire engines are coming from Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, Inslee’s office said.

Sixteen large wildfires are burning across central and eastern Washington, covering more than 920 square miles. More than 200 homes have been destroyed, and more than 12,000 homes and thousands of other structures remain threatened.

More than 1,000 people were fighting just the Okanogan Complex of fires on Sunday.

Koreas pull back from brink with talks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — Senior officials from North and South Korea on Sunday were in their second day of marathon talks meant to pull the rivals back from the brink, even amid reports of unusual North Korean troop and submarine movement that Seoul said indicated continued battle preparation.

While it was not clear whether any progress was made during the first round of talks, which started Saturday evening and finished just before dawn Sunday, the second day of diplomacy, for the time being, pushed aside the heated warnings of imminent war.

These are the highest-level talks between the two Koreas in a year. And just the fact that senior officials from countries that have spent recent days vowing to destroy each other are sitting together at a table in Panmunjom, the border enclave where the 1953 armistice ending fighting in the Korean War, is something of a victory.

The length of the first round of talks — nearly 10 hours — and the lack of immediate progress are not unusual. While the Koreas often have difficulty agreeing to talks, once they do, overlong sessions are often the rule. After decades of animosity and bloodshed, however, finding common ground is much harder.

Neither side has disclosed details about the first round of talks. The second session started Sunday afternoon and stretched into the night.

The decision to hold talks came hours ahead of a Saturday deadline set by North Korea for the South to dismantle loudspeakers broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda at their border. North Korea had declared that its front-line troops were in full war readiness and prepared to go to battle if Seoul did not back down.

South Korea said that even as the North was pur-

suing dialogue, its troops were preparing for a fight.

An official from Seoul’s Defence Ministry said that about 70 per cent of the North’s more than 70 submarines and undersea vehicles had left their bases and were undetectable by the South Korean military as of Saturday.

The official, who refused to be named because of office rules, also said the North had doubled the strength of its front-line artillery forces since the start of the talks Saturday evening.

The standoff is the result of a series of events that started with the explosions of land mines on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas that Seoul says were planted by North Korea.

The explosions maimed two South Korean soldiers on a routine patrol. In response, the South resumed anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years, infuriating the North, which is extremely sensitive to any criticism of its authoritarian system.

There was shock and worry Thursday after South Korea’s military fired dozens of artillery rounds across the border in response to what Seoul said were North Korean artillery strikes meant to back up an earlier threat to attack the loudspeakers. The North denies it was behind the land mines and the shelling, claims that Seoul calls nonsense.

The Defence Ministry official said the South continued the anti-Pyongyang broadcasts even after the start of the talks Saturday and also after the second session began Sunday. He said Seoul would decide after the talks whether to halt the broadcasts.

While the meeting offered a way for the rivals to avoid an immediate collision, analysts in Seoul wondered whether the countries were standing too far apart to expect a quick agreement.

South Korea probably can’t afford to walk away with a weak agreement after it had openly vowed to stem a “vicious cycle” of North Korean provocations amid public anger over the land mines, said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University.

It was highly unlikely that the North would accept the South’s expected demand for Pyongyang to take responsibility for the land mine explosions and apologize, he added. However, Koh said the meeting

Thousands of EU-bound migrants board trains and buses in Macedonia a day after storming border

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GEVGELIJA, Macedonia — Thousands of beleaguered migrants — mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing bloody conflicts — crammed into trains and buses in Macedonia that brought them one step closer to the European Union on Sunday, a day after they stormed past police trying to block them from entering the country from Greece.

On Saturday, about 2,000 rain-soaked migrants rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian officers, who had been sealing the border for three days. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were injured as the migrants leapt over barbed wire or ran across a field to enter Macedonia.

After the incident, police decided to allow mi-

grants to cross the border freely again from Greece, which is also overwhelmed by the human tide. Police officials said the blockade was imposed to try and stem the overflow of people that had caused chaotic scenes at a railway station in the Macedonian town of Gevgelija as thousands tried to secure places on overcrowded trains.

On Sunday, the migrants — many with children and babies — orderly boarded trains and buses that took them to the border with Serbia before heading north toward EU-member Hungary, which is building a fence on its frontier to prevent them from entering. If they manage to enter Hungary, the migrants could travel freely across the borders of most of the 28 EU-member states. The more than 5,000 migrants who reached Serbia overnight faced an overcrowded refugee centre where they have to apply for asylum.

might open the door to more talks between the rivals to discuss a variety of issues.

At the meeting, South Korea’s presidential national security director, Kim Kwan-jin, and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo sat down with Hwang Pyong So, the top political officer for the Korean People’s Army, and Kim Yang Gon, a senior North Korean official responsible for South Korean affairs.

Hwang is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea’s second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un. South Korea had been using 11 loudspeaker systems along the border for the broadcasts, which included the latest news around the Korean Peninsula and the world, South Korean popular music and programs praising the South’s democracy and economic affluence over the North’s oppressive government, said a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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‘Heroes’ to be presented Legion of Honour U.S. AIRMAN SAYS TRAIN ATTACKER ‘READY TO FIGHT TO THE END’ AND ‘SO WERE WE’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Three American travellers say they relied on gut instinct and a close bond forged over years of friendship as they took down a heavily armed man on a passenger train speeding through Belgium.

U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, recounting for the first time on Sunday how a likely catastrophe was averted two days earlier, said the gunman, an assault rifle strapped to his bare chest, seemed like he was “ready to fight to the end.” But he added, “So were we.”

Without a note of bravado but a huge dose of humility, the three described Friday’s drama on an Amsterdam-to-Paris fast train.

His arm in a sling, Stone, 23, said he was coming out of a deep sleep when the gunman appeared.

One of his friends, Alek Skarlatos, a 22-year-old National Guardsman recently back from Afghanistan, “just hit me on the shoulder and said ‘Let’s go.”’

French President Francois Hollande and a bevy of officials are presenting the Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honor on Monday. A French citizen who first came across the gunman near a train bathroom and a British man who joined to help tie up the assailant also are being honoured with the award, according to the president’s office.

The gunman, identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani, is detained and being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris. French and Spanish authorities say El-Khazzani is an Islamic extremist who may have spent time in Syria. El-Khazzani’s lawyer said on Sunday that he was homeless and trying to rob passengers on the train to feed himself.

Authorities in France, Belgium and Spain, where he once lived, are investigating the case. French authorities can legally hold him for questioning until Tuesday, when they must charge him or free him.

His case raises questions about train security as well as how a man who had been on the radar of all three countries managed to board the train unbothered and loaded with weapons.

Skarlatos said El-Khazzani “clearly had no firearms training whatsoever,” but if he “even just got

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From left, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento University in California, and U.S. National Guardsman from Roseburg, Oregon, Alek Skarlatos, attend a press conference with Jane D. Hartley, U.S. Ambassador to France, at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Paris, France. Sadler, Skarlatos and Stone helped foil a potentially deadly attack when they subdued a man armed with an assault rifle and other weapons on board a high-speed train bound for Paris two days ago. lucky and did the right thing he would have been able to operate through all eight of those magazines and we would’ve all been in trouble, and probably wouldn’t be here today, along with a lot of other people.”

Armed with an arsenal of weapons and apparently determined, he presented a formidable challenge to the vacationing friends who snapped into action out of what Skarlatos said was “gut instinct.”

His and Stone’s military training “mostly kicked in after the assailant was already subdued,” he said, noting the medical care Stone provided and checking cars for weapons elsewhere.

“We just kind of acted. There wasn’t much thinking going on,” he said, at least on my end.“ Stone replied with a chuckle, ”None at all.“ Stone and Skarlatos moved in to tackle the gunman and take his gun. The third young man, Anthony Sadler, 23, moved in to help subdue the assailant.

“All three of us started punching” him, Stone said.

Stone said he choked him unconscious. A British businessman then joined in the fray.

Stone, of Carmichael, California, spoke at a live

news conference at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Paris along with Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University in California, and Skarlatos, of Roseburg, Oregon.

Stone is also credited with saving a French-American teacher wounded in the neck with a gunshot wound and squirting blood. Stone described matterof-factly that he “just stuck two of my fingers in his hole and found what I thought to be the artery, pushed down and the bleeding stopped.” He said he kept the position until paramedics arrived, apparently in Arras.

El-Khezzani boarded in Brussels with what France’s interior minister said was an arsenal of weapons that included an automatic pistol, numerous loaded magazines and the box cutter. He was subdued while the train travelled through Belgium, but was taken into custody in the northern French town of Arras, where the train was rerouted.

El-Khezzani’s lawyer said her client doesn’t understand the suspicions, media attention or even that a person was wounded. For him, there were no gunshots fired, Sophie David said.

Fighting between police, protesters wounds dozens

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Lebanese activists, right, clash with policemen, left, as they try to cross to the government house during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday. Lebanese riot police are spraying thousands of protesters with water cannons in downtown Beirut, the second day of mass demonstrations against an ongoing trash crisis that is becoming violent.

Square. A few remaining protesters set tires ablaze there, with some even pulling down trees and throwing them into the fire. Thick black smoke drifted over the capital. Others damaged traffic lights and other public property.

At first, the protest began peacefully, with thousands angered over Lebanon’s political deadlock protesting.

The demonstrators take root in the garbage piling up on the streets after the capital’s main landfill was closed

NY stages topless parade with 60 cities worldwide, demanding bare-chest gender equality

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Dozens of bare-chest women taking part in the GoTopless Pride Parade took to the streets of midtown Manhattan Sunday to counter critics complaining about topless tip-seekers in Times Square.

Appearing bare-breasted has been legal in New York since 1992. But Mayor Bill de Blasio and police Commissioner Bill Bratton say the body-painted women in the square who take photos with tourists are a nuisance.

The mayor even suggested doing away with the pedestrian plaza at the “Crossroads of the World” — to control both the topless women trolling for tips and the costumed cartoon characters, some of whom were arrested last year for accosting non-tipping pedestrians.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the scene harkens to the pornographic “bad old Times Square” of the past.

Sunday’s parade was among dozens of such events in about 60 cities celebrating the worldwide GoTopless Day. New York GoTopless spokeswoman Rachel Jessee said the goal is for gender equality when it comes to baring one’s chest.

Two Dutch tourists relaxing on the park grass said they didn’t understand all the fuss.

“I don’t know why they’re making such a big deal out of it,” said Paul Martin, 37, of Amsterdam. “There are more important things to worry about than nipples.”

The women were not the only flashing sight. A lineup of police vehicles with lights flashing rolled along metal barricades marking the route.

Marchers had various motives for participating.

a month ago. An online group calling itself “You Stink!” and other civil society groups organized the rallies, calling on Lebanese to join them in a revolt against political corruption.

“We are ruled by corrupt losers! All of them — warlords, legislators and ministers — are working for their own interest and not those of the people,” said Nada Qadoura, a retired woman who took part in Sunday’s protest along with two of her friends. “The will

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The clashes broke out shortly before sunset when angry protesters tried to break through barbed wire in Riad Solh Square leading to the government’s headquarters. Police beat back protesters with clubs and water cannons, occasionally hurling stones at protesters who threw rocks and water bottles.

Later Sunday evening, protesters broke through the first barbed wire after intense clashes with security forces. When the protesters got closer to the government headquarters, police fired tear gas, forcing thousands to flee.

The protesters set a police motorcycle ablaze. Some protesters carrying clubs also attacked police vehicles, hurling stones and bottles at them.

“Shabiha!” the protesters would shout, an Arabic term often used to refer to thugs.

At least four men were seen being led away by security forces, their hand tied behind their backs.

Sunday’s protest was larger than the previous day’s, with some local television stations saying about 20,000 people participated. Protesters now are demanding that the country’s top politicians resign, saying they are not fit to rule to country. Salam, Lebanon’s prime minister, said in a news conference earlier Sunday that if this Thursday’s Cabinet meeting is not productive, “then there is no need for the council of ministers.”

Lebanon has a sectarian powersharing system that ensures equal representation between the country’s main religious sects. The arrangement often leads to complete paralysis, though Lebanon has been relatively calm amid regional instability. A resignation by Salam would risk plunging the country into further chaos.

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BEIRUT — Lebanese riot police battled in the streets of downtown Beirut for a second night Sunday after demonstrators rallied over government corruption and an ongoing trash crisis, violence that wounded at least 44 people and 30 police officers, authorities said.

The violence came hours after Prime Minister Tammam Salam hinted he might step down following violent protests Saturday that injured more than 100 people. The demonstrations, the largest in years to shake tiny Lebanon, seek to upend what protesters see as a corrupt and dysfunctional political system that has no functional Cabinet or parliament, nor a president for more than a year.

Protest organizers said they pulled their supporters out of the area after men they described as political thugs began fighting with police, trying to tear down a barbed wire fence separating the crowds from the Lebanese government building.

Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the capital’s commercial district into the night as police fired in the air to disperse those who remained after officers used tear gas and water cannons against the crowds.

Lebanese Red Cross spokesman George Kattaneh told Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel that the violence wounded 44 people who required hospital care, while some 200 others received medical treatment on the spot. A police statement said protesters wounded 30 police officers, one of whom was seriously hurt.

The chaos continued into the night as police battled masked youths who set up barricades in Beirut’s downtown and near the blue-domed Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in Martyrs’

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Dear Annie: Six years ago, our no interest in my feelings on the matdaughter left her dog with us. ter and refuses to consider a We’ve grown to love “Lasscompromise. What do you ie” and would never give think? —Can’t Stop Crying her back now. But she wears Dear Crying: Accorddown the furniture, scratching to the Humane Society, es the floors and leaves lots crating a dog is a perfectly of hair all over. appropriate way to train the Last year, we were animal not to destroy the blessed with grandkids, so house. The crate becomes now our living room is gatthe dog’s “home.” Even so, ed off from Lassie. We keep it is not recommended that her in a large crate, which you leave the dog in the is very comfortable and crate too many hours at a that I refer to as her “aparttime, because all animals ment.” She seems to like need exercise and human MITCHELL it, so when she is not playinteraction, and you don’t & SUGAR ing outside, I put her in the want the crate to become a crate so she doesn’t roam punishment. The point is to the entire house. train Lassie not to scratch Well, my husband is havthe furniture or do other ing a fit. He says I am cruel to “cage an destructive behaviors. animal.” I now sleep alone in my bedBut a certain amount of wear and room while my husband and Lassie use tear is to be expected from any animal the rest of the house. My husband has companion. If you are trying to prevent

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Lassie from leaving hair around the house or wearing down the furniture through normal usage, you are being unfair. Of course, your husband is being equally unreasonable by banishing you to the bedroom while he cavorts with the dog. Tell your husband that you are willing to rethink the issue if the two of you can discuss it with a dog trainer and both promise to abide by the professional advice given.

Dear Annie: My sister has been in long-term care for more than a year as a result of several strokes and a broken hip. I recently ran into her brother-inlaw. He asked me how she was doing.

He said he didn’t know where she was staying. So I told him. This brother-inlaw lives one mile from his nephew, my sister’s son.

Please, people, don’t forget about your loved ones. Don’t give excuses.

And if you decide to visit, refrain from carping about your lot in life. My sister can’t tie her shoes, dress herself, cut a

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HOROSCOPES Monday, August 24 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Stephen Fry, 57; Marlee Matlin, 49; Steve Guttenberg, 56 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour travel, study, education and socializing.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: The next 12 months is the time to display your versatile Virgo talents for the world to see.

But avoid overanalyzing things — fortune favours the brave.

ARIES (March JOANNE 21-April 19): MADELEINE Restless Rams MOORE — you’re on a journey and are in the mood for adventure but take a closer look at where you are heading. Perhaps you’re rushing an issue with a child, teenager or friend?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is your personal life or domestic situation very confusing at the moment?

Don’t make any long-term decisions today.

Wait until the dust settles before you take off on a new course of action.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Close relationships are highlighted today but with Venus still reversing through your communication zone make sure you are clear and precise when conversing with others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Money matters look complicated Crabs, as you help fine tune the finances of a teenager, relative or close friend.

A qualified person is waiting to assist so don’t turn down their expertise.

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piece of chicken or use the bathroom without assistance. I guess you could say she’s in her own kind of prison without parole. — Her Sister Dear Sister: A lot of people are reluctant to visit relatives or friends in nursing homes because they don’t know what to say or how to spend the time with someone who may not be communicative. They feel awkward and avoid going. So here are some suggestions: Bring photographs of people they know, play music they grew up with, read from a favorite book, ask whether you can take them for a walk.

Once you see how simple it is and how gratifying it can be, you will be more inclined to go again.

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.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Proud Lions love to pounce.

But today’s stars encourage you to get the balance right between thinking things through carefully, and grabbing opportunities when they come along.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Focus your attention on domestic duties and family matters.

You’re keen to sort out problems, but you need to realize that there’s more going on behind the scenes than you presently know.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There could be an unexpected problem with a friend or colleague today, as Venus continues to reverse through your networking zone. So extra diplomacy and understanding are required!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it comes to a close friend or work colleague, do you have unrealistic expectations? A proactive and cooperative approach will help you clear the air and reboot the relationship.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A combination of cool confidence and good communication skills help you move up to the next level professionally.

Plus tap into your intuition to help solve a stubborn personal problem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Resist the temptation to be worried and anxious about the future. The more openly you communicate your true feelings especially with family members — the better the day will be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Does a close relationship feel as if it’s going backwards? With Venus in retrograde motion until September 6 you’ll just have to be more patient and understanding than usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Encouraging someone to achieve their personal best sees you take on the role of Piscean mentor or teacher. But is a friend or colleague being 100% truthful and giving you all the facts?

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Lorelei Miner, right, of Sultans Choice Belly Dance Studio in Red Deer leads a Pound Fitness Class in the park north of the Recreation Centre Thursday. Using weighted sticks the group from Alberta Health Services Addictions and Mental Health worked through an hour long session. The youth involved in the “Move Your Mood” program meet a few times per week and take part in a variety of fitness based activities .

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