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Residents urged to take care as smoke rolls in

‘A travesty of justice’

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The forest fire smoke that blanketed the Red Deer region on Monday is expected to have a choke-hold on Central Alberta for most of the week.

Poor air quality advisories for the area ‘WE’RE were issued by AlberRECOMMENDING ta Health Services, as well as Environment TO EVERYBODY after gusts of THAT THEY REDUCE Canada, smoke started blowing THEIR EXPOSURE — northward from WashState.

BUT PARTICULARLY ington Area residents are THOSE WHO ARE being warned that problems can AT HIGHER RISK.’ health result from the deteriorating air quality.

— DR. DEENA HINSHAW MEDICAL OFFICER It was already rated a “high risk” on the health index on Monday night.

Central Albertans may experience temporary eye and throat irritation and shortness of breath from prolonged exposure to smoky air, said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, medical officer of health for Alberta’s Central Zone, stretching from south of Edmonton to Drumheller.

“We’re recommending to everybody that they reduce their exposure — but particularly those who are at higher risk,” she added.

The worst affects could be felt by those who are very young, very old, or who have pre-existing respiratory or cardiovascular illnesses, such as angina, heart conditions, asthma or emphysema.

Everyone is cautioned to stay indoors as much as possible if air quality remains poor.

To reduce smoke in indoor environments: ● Windows and doors should be shut, thermostats turned down and furnace fans set to a minimum setting (don’t extinguish pilot lights). ● Fresh-air intakes on air-conditioners should be closed and filters cleaned. ● Residents should avoid running fans or ventilations systems that bring outdoors air inside. ● Floor air registers and fireplace dampers should be closed, and wood burning fireplaces and wood stoves should not be used. ● Car fans should be run on the recirculated air mode.

Alberta Health Services is also advising Central Albertans to reduce outdoor physical activities to keep from breathing in smoky air.

Anyone with concerns about health symptoms can call Health Link 811 to speak to a registered nurse.

The air quality advisories will stay in effect until further notice.

File photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate Staff

Amy Sorensen and Harry Midgley pose with photos of Trystan Sorensen, their son and brother, respectively. Trystan was killed on May 20, 2014, while he was longboarding east of Penhold on Hwy 592.

MOTHER OF HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM DEMANDING MORE SEVERE PENALTIES

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Hoping to have something good come out of her son’s death, a Red Deer mother is trying to change how hit-and-run collisions are prosecuted.

Amy Sorensen has been circulating a petition seeking defined mandatory penalties for all hitand-run collisions and more severe penalties for hit-and-runs resulting in major injury or death.

Her son, Trystan Sorensen, 18, was killed on

May 20, 2014, while he was longboarding east of Penhold on Hwy 592.

Jessica Lyn Masyk, 26, pleaded guilty to the three charges against her — failing to stop at a collision, public mischief by filing a false police report and driving while disqualified — last Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court. She will be sentenced in November.

“This whole thing has been a travesty of justice,” said Sorensen.

“It’s a game, you plead not guilty to get a lesser sentence and then you change your plea to guilty to get a lesser sentence. It’s almost as though the justice system is geared toward the accused, protecting them and getting them off and not holding them accountable.”

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Harris, Hart claim NDP nominations

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Paul Harris looks on as Dianne Macaulay gives a speech at the NDP nomination meeting in Red Deer Monday.

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New Democratic Party members went with political experience in choosing two Red Deer riding candidates on Monday night.

Two-term city Coun. Paul Harris and longtime NDP party member and veteran of four previous provincial campaigns Doug Hart got the nod. The vote count was not released.

Perhaps as a sign of the party’s rising fortunes locally, it was a standing room-only crowd at the Red Deer Public Library’s Snell Auditorium.

Red Deer-Mountainview candidate Harris defeated Red Deer Public School Board trustee Dianne Macaulay. Harris has taken an unpaid leave of absence from council until the federal election.

Harris said after the vote count he has a good feeling about the party’s prospects, dismissing the area’s long-time Conservative voting history.

“I don’t believe this is a Conservative stronghold.

Certainly, provincial politics in the last election

showed that. So, I’m quite confident that we’re going to get the vote out and we’re going to send a different candidate to Ottawa.”

Harris believes voters are looking for a party that will listen to them after years of Conservative rule.

“I don’t think Albertans have been heard for a number of years. I think we have been taken for granted. I think that is going to have a strong resonance (with voters).”

The Conservatives’ poor environmental record also doesn’t sit well with many people, especially in the agricultural community.

Harris will face off against incumbent Conservative Earl Dreeshen, Mason Sisson for the Green Party and James Walper for the Libertarian in the riding that covers the north part of Red Deer. A Liberal candidate has not yet been chosen.

Doug Hart, who has been an NDP supporter for 40 years, senses a high level of dissatisfaction with the government of Stephen Harper among voters.

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City adjusts speed limits Drivers should prepare for future speed limit changes on a few Red Deer roads in the coming month.

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Lacombe wins free outdoor concert

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Country music entertainers Tim Hicks and The Road Hammers are Lacombe-bound after the Central Alberta centre won the Coors Banquet One Horse Town contest.

Lacombe’s triumph over the contest’s other finalist, Shelburne, Ont., “is big news. Everybody’s really excited,” said Guy Lapointe, economic development manager for the city of almost 12,000 people.

“There’s absolutely a lot of pride to be one of 1,000 communities nominated and to get down to a short list, and to all work together to put our city on the map. ...

“Residents should be very proud of what we’ve accomplished,” said Lapointe of the more than 3,600 votes generated for Lacombe in the Canada-wide contest to bring a country music event to town.

Hicks and The Road Hammers will perform a free outdoor concert for 1,200 people on Friday, Sept. 18, at a yet-to-be-announced Lacombe location.

The Road Hammers are a Juno Award-winning Canadian country music group made up of Jason McCoy, Clayton Bellamy and Chris Byrne. Hicks is a popular singer/songwriter from St. Catharines, Ont. All but 300 of the free concert tickets will go to residents of Lacombe, Lacombe County, and possibly Blackfalds, said Lapointe.

The other 300 will eventually be made available to people from other parts of the country — which will help shine a spotlight on Lacombe and what the city has to offer, said Lapointe.

He believes the concert will boost the local economy by filling up hotels and restaurants. The Coors event is also expected to be promoted to a national audience during the upcoming Canadian Country Music Awards, and a documentary on it is expected to later air on CMT. “We’ll have great exposure on a national level,” said Lapointe.

Although he doesn’t think most Lacombe residents would consider their community a “one horse town,” the city does fit the contest’s criteria of having less than 50,000 residents.

Shelburne, Ont., with 7,200 people, also qualified as a finalist in the contest that was decided on Monday.

And it was a close race, said Greg Vallentin, public relations manager at Molson Coors Canada. “It was a difficult decision because both towns deserve to win, but ultimately we had to choose one.”

Lacombe won, based on a combination of online public votes (made after website visitors saw a video of its historic downtown and link to singer and Lacombe resident Gord Bamford), and input from a panel of judges. The panel visited the community in June and considered things like local transportation options, possible event sites, and local friendliness and civic spirit.

Vallentin said this is the first year for the contest that evolved from the location where Coors Banquet beer is brewed — Golden, Colo., a town of 20,000. “Because of this, we’re a brand that’s small-town proud.

We know that small towns often get overlooked when it comes to big shows, and therefore, we wanted to share our small town spirit in a big way, with communities across Canada.”

Vallentin believes the Coors Banquet One Horse Town contest will likely become an annual event.

Free tickets can be redeemed starting Thursday from www.coorsbanquet.ca/en/oht.

But Lacombe-area postal codes will have to be entered for people to qualify. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Spray park open again Red Deer’s downtown spray park north of the Golden Circle has reopened.

The Blue Grass Sod Farms Central Spray and Play was temporarily closed for repairs.

It reopened on Monday for regular hours of operation, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

A city news release says repairs were completed on the weekend. Staff continues to monitor the park to ensure things are working smoothly. The spray park closes for the season on Monday, Sept. 7.

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Employed in Christian book sales since 1987 in Red Deer, Barb Sheppard is still enjoying her work.

Her job and the jobs of other employees of Scott’s Parables Christian Store at Gasoline Alley will be no more as of Oct. 3. After 15 years at the highway location, Scott’s Parables is selling off its stock and closing for good, said store manager Jim Pearson. The store was to close earlier but the owners have decided to stay open until October. All items in the store are 25 per cent off, including $250,000 of new stock that has just arrived. Through September customers can expect prices to go even lower, said Pearson. This Saturday at 1 p.m., Scott’s Parables is holding a service of gratitude and appreciation for its customers.

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SORENSEN: Petition Sorensen has been gathering signatures on a petition she started in the wake of her son’s death.

She has been walking door-to-door and been active at the Saturday morning Red Deer Public Market getting signatures.

Another of Sorensen’s sons, Harry Midgely, set up the petition.

“He set it up because I was in too much distress to deal with it at the time,” said Sorensen.

So far, she has collected about 10,000 signatures showing support.

“Hopefully it will do something good, I’m trying to have something good come out of Trystan’s death,” said Sorensen.

“He was a really loving kid, he used to hug me to death. He’d give me a big bear hug and practically squeeze the life out of you.”

She feels Masyk isn’t being held responsible for her son’s death because none of the three charges deal specifically with the death.

“We spend our lives as parents teaching our children that you have to take responsibility and culpability when you do something wrong ... (but) when you get into the (justice) system, it reverses it.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

AIR QUALITY: Smoke could stay until Friday No short-term change is expected in the local weather forecast, so the forest fire smoke could stay in the region until Friday, said Environment Canada meteorologist Bill McMurtry.

Whether the haze remains high in the atmosphere or poses more danger by descending to street level is “hard to predict,” he added. This will depend on temperature, as well as where the highest concentrations of polluted air happen to be lingering.

Numbers are unofficial.

Hotter weather will likely mean poorer air quality, since cooler, smoky air from above will descend to fill the space vacated by rising hot air.

“The day-time heating brings smoke down and (poor air quality) becomes more concentrated,” said McMurtry.

The latest air quality information can be found at www.airquality.alberta.ca or by calling 1-877-2477333. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

NDP: Want a more transparent government “It’s not unlike the sense I sensed about two weeks into the provincial campaign. I think there are people are dissatisfied with the closed-door decision making of the current government and I think they want a more transparent government.

“They want government to represent their interests better,” said Hart, who is from the Ponoka-area and has a background in nursing administration.

Doug Hart The federal government’s controversial anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51 “rubs a lot of Canadians the wrong way,” he said.

“And I think those are the kinds of things that are going to haunt the prime minister; and I don’t think his chances are as good this election as they were last election.”

Hart’s opponent was Katherine Swampy, a mother-of-five and Revenue Canada worker, who said in her speech she hoped to provide a voice in Parliament for Aboriginal people and women.

In Red Deer-Lacombe, the incumbent is Conservative Blaine Calkins and Jeff Rock is running for the Liberals. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Web of deceit on the web NOT-SO-PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY FOR CLIENTS AT ASHLEY MADISON In our house, we have two computers. My wife has the laptop, and I prefer the one you can’t lug around. We share an email address, which is used as our online identity for I don’t know how many site logins connected to a large number of largely forgotten passwords.

I also have my own email address not connected to the laptop, so my wife need not be annoyed by my political junk while browsing her stuff.

So, I wonder: since my email GREG is listed on my blog sent to (I NEIMAN assume) billions of people around the world, has anyone used it to set up an account on the adultery website Ashely Madison?

If so, the site’s founder and CEO Noel Biderman says I have plausible deniability. If my email is discovered among the 30-odd million addresses — made public by a hacker group that revealed Ashley Madison’s client list — I can claim I’ve been hacked.

Wasn’t me! Someone absconded my email for hookup opportunities! In 30odd million cases!

INSIGHT

In my case, I trust my wife would believe me. I am terrible at keeping secrets and there’s no way I could hide or plausibly explain away an adulterous affair to someone as insightful as my wife. Not that I’ve ever thought about that. Really.

But 30-odd million people thought they could get away with it. And now their email identities are public.

A whole lot of them work for government agencies, and used their government emails to sign up as a person seeking to cheat on their spouse, looking for someone who is also seeking to cheat on their spouse. And paying for the hookup service with a credit card.

Setting themselves up for some pretty serious blackmail.

Ray Boisvert, a former assistant director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service, asked the question that immediately pops up.

Why on earth would you use your username, client ID from your credentials at work to log in and create an account on an adultery website like Ashely Madison?

Well, obviously, so the spouse wouldn’t find out. Better your boss at the school board, the attorney general’s office, the RCMP or the other guys in the executive suite. Better any of them than your spouse.

One of the exposed emails belongs to the executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party, John Doré.

He claims he signed on for research purposes.

Those of us with memories of the former Alberta government know how that goes.

But Noel Biderman was claiming Ashely Madison did not verify the emails of their clients for exactly this reason: someone could be falsely using your email account to look for hookups. He suggested out-of-date emails that no one uses anymore can be “harvested” by hackers and sold to people for this purpose.

No one can prove it’s you out there cheating on your marriage, right?

So you’re OK. Thirty million-odd times.

Josh Duggar is a guy I never heard of before. He’s a star (or used to be) of a reality TV show on the TLC network 19 Kids and Counting, about him and his devout fundamentalist Christian family.

Now we know he molested girls as a teenager, likes porn — and was a client for Ashley Madison. Another day, another tearful confession.

One wonders about the tearful confessions now being heard in the Pentagon, FBI, U.S. Homeland Security, Treasury, Justice, Department of State, to name a few Obama administration offices where service emails were used to compromise horny staff with sensitive portfolios.

Is everyone on the set of Homeland these days?

Duggar is reported to have paid just under $1,000 over the last three years for services rendered by Ashely Madi-

son. Multiply that by 30 million and you can see how the site’s owners want to sell an IPO, valuing the business at $1 billion.

Ashely Madison owns little more than a database and some rather vulnerable disks to store it on.

The hacker group says Ashley Madison’s business plan is stupid, their entire client base is stupid and the whole $1 billion “thing” should be shut down.

Biderman believes he can plausibly deny this.

Ashley Madison is Toronto-based.

There is a Canadian class action lawsuit filed against them seeking $760 million for the losses suffered by their sex-seeking clients who were outed by the hacker group’s data leak. Who would be stupid enough to sign up for that?

The site has a button to click where you can pay them to delete and erase your client identity. The hacker group says that’s impossible and you would be stupid to use it.

Biderman and millions of others may be in deep denial these days. But plausible? Not so much.

Duggar said two honest things when he came public: one is to admit that he is a hypocrite — which in his circles is a pretty serious thing. The other is to say you can choose your actions, but you can’t choose the consequences.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Changes in the natural world dramatically alter civilization Re: David Mathias’s letter to the editor of the Advocate of Aug 18.

I think David’s views succinctly describe some of the most important realities of the world we live in.

His opinions, I believe, are shared by many others.

Unfortunately and inevitably, because of the success of agriculture, humans have become, in only 10,000 years, the only that which can manipulate and upset natural forces of equilibrium to our ultimate advantage and disadvantage.

Civilization on Earth is fragile and there is an end game to our current direction.

At some time, likely in this century, major corrections will occur and they will be determined largely by natural law.

We, our leaders, thinkers, decision makers cannot successfully fashion a world that is exceptionally fair, equitable, peaceful and prosperous for all because of our human nature.

Our prime motivations are simple: individual survival first; competition; pleasure; wants over needs; more is better; consumption; short-term goals; attraction to the dark side; etc.

I’m sure we will continue to strive for a better world and I believe “the light” will prevail, but civilization will become vastly different in the 21st century and our young people are our main hope for the future.

Another perspective on these issues can be found in Daniel Quinn’s exceptional book Ishmael.

Kieran Lang Red Deer

Notley must control wild gas price fluctuations Dear Premier Rachel Notley, So as oil prices float around the $41-a-barrel mark, gasoline prices are still lurking way over a buck a litre. The price at $1.15 is higher than when oil was $58 a barrel.

So what are the excuses now for raising gasoline prices? Would it be an increase in the Alberta minimum wage? Extra tax? Either way, it’s just another BS excuse.

They’ll say anything try to explain away their greed so they can gouge the consumers. Now they even conveniently run out of gasoline at different stations.

When is this new Alberta government going to deem gasoline an essential service to the public and regulate the prices at an affordable rate with a “reasonable” profit to the companies that produce it and market it?

How many billions of dollars of annual profit do these companies have to make to be satisfied?

When are you going to stop them from robbing us at the pumps?

Quit jackin’ around, Rachel, and just do it. Do something positive for the people who voted for you.

Your position in office is a fragile at best and could end next election.

Dale Stuart Red Deer

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Why do we vote for invisible people?

This is the era of political intrigue and it has shown that we need to think about the process in a different way. I know we are in a federal election, an unwieldy 11-week campaign, but we just went through a pivotal provincial election and watched municipal follies across this country.

We are in the process of voting for our next member of Parliament and our next prime minister, and that precipitated the question about invisible people. Everyone, voters, reporters, pollsters, pundits, politicians, and neighbours will tell you who is going to win, here. We will elect an invisible politician, a loyal political soldier, a retiree, a trained seal, a puppet, a paper shuffler, a ribbon cutter and someone who will on most accounts disappear between elections.

Swing ridings, the ridings that appear to have options of invisible politicians, got gifts just before the election. For example in ridings in the Greater Toronto Area that political strategists determined were necessary to win, they received big gifts of funding for big-ticket items like concert halls, while Red Deer did not get necessary funding for our airport but got a small cheque for museum storage.

The politicians who are not invisible and are strong voices in the political process gets gifts for

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What determines if we have an invisible or a visible politician?

So why do we vote for invisible people?

Some will argue that visible individuals of any strength of character will burn out trying to accomplish or change anything in a big political machine.

They become targets and are often treated unfairly by the same machine that they were elected to give direction.

Often the political system is comprised of territorialists who guard their domain against interlopers and change. Employees geared to one system, loyal to one person or process, often living and working in a bubble may be resentful of progress, ideas and innovations. Individuals with strength and vision become burned out, frustrated and they leave, which encourages others not to join.

What can we do?

Stop electing invisible people. If you cannot name your elected officials, whether councillor, trustee, mayor, MLA or MP, six months before an election, they might be invisible.

Before you mark your ballot, ask yourself are you electing an invisible person? Will this person actually make a difference in your life? Has this person ever proven themselves visible?

I tend to ignore invisible politicians, and so do the powers that be.

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Leaders back on campaign trail as markets totter

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A precipitous drop in North American stock markets sparked fresh debate on the federal campaign trail Monday about which leader would be the best choice to manage Canada’s finances.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 768.5 points shortly after markets opened, before rallying to close down 420.93 points, a 3.12 per cent decline over Friday’s close. The dollar, meanwhile, closed down about half a cent.

For Stephen Harper, the plunging economy — fallout from China’s worst market performance in eight years — provided a welcome diversion from the relentless revelations of the Mike Duffy trial that have kept the Conservative campaign off balance for close to two weeks.

The prime minister’s office released a short statement Monday, saying that he had spoken on the phone in the morning with Stephen Poloz, the governor of the Bank of Canada. “Prime minister Harper and governor Poloz discussed the recent decline in global stock markets and commodity prices, slowing growth in China and emerging markets and the potential impacts on Canada’s economy,� said the statement, which offered no other details.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau blamed Harper for the economic mess and said they could do a better job of running the country’s finances.

Harper repeated that his government is the best bet in uncertain economic times.

That’s a message that the Conservative leader has been struggling to deliver as he fends off questions about how much his current chief of staff, Ray Novak, knew about Nigel Wright’s controversial $90,000 payout to Duffy in February 2013.

Harper said Monday the unstable global economy is the most important issue facing Canadians and urged them to stay with his party. “Given the challenges around us, we need to stick with a long-term plan that has been working and will work,� Harper said in Drummondville, Que. He said his political opponents offer proposals that would damage the economy. “What the other guys are proposing, at a time of enormous market instability, is that they would embark on large-scale, permanent spending increases,� he said. “They would finance that through deficits and through big tax increases, including tax increases on workers and on job-creating businesses.�

The New Democrats and Liberals punched back, blaming Harper for the current downturn.

Campaigning in Toronto with Mulcair, Stephen Lewis, a former Ontario NDP leader and international diplomat, attacked the Harper Conservatives’ stewardship of the country’s finances, calling them “economic poseurs.�

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was handed a suspended sentence and a year of probation in a St. John’s court today for stealing cards from a six-year-old boy’s party.

Thirty-nine-year-old Dustin Crocker pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 last week.

Court heard that Crocker, who suffers from serious medical issues, was in a state of confusion when he took the stack of cards from the birthday party in Mount Pearl four months ago.

He has apologized to the child and given him $250 for restitution of the gifts.

The Crown had proposed a sentence of 30 days incarceration, but Judge Mark Linehan said Crocker and his family have already been publicly scorned, so further denunciation was not warranted.

The boy’s mother said after sentencing that she is happy the case is over so both families can begin to put their lives back together.

She said she didn’t believe Crocker deserved jail time, adding that everyone makes bad decisions and Crocker has apologized.

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OTTAWA — A former lawyer for Mike Duffy advised him to defend the secret repayment of his contested expenses as a “contract� — a characterization that could bolster the Crown’s arguments about the senator’s alleged role in the deal.

New emails submitted as evidence Monday in Duffy’s fraud, breach of trust and bribery trial reveal some of the scrambling that occurred in May 2014 when details of the $90,000 payment broke in the media.

Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright had repaid Duffy’s expenses two months earlier, while Duffy and others inside the Prime Minister’s Office held to the line that Duffy had repaid the bills.

Duffy quickly consulted with the law firm Nelligan O’Brien Payne to find out how to handle any ensuing scrutiny by the Senate ethics officer.

Lawyer Christopher Rootham told him that because firm colleague Janice Payne had helped to strike a repayment deal with Wright, the repayment should be described as a “contract.�

If it had been a gift, that would have been more problematic, Rootham said in an email. “In my opinion, a good argument could be made that this was not a ’gift’ at all, but instead income received from a contract (negotiated by Janice),� he wrote. “The payment therefore falls under the annual ’confidential disclosure statement’ that you must make under... the Senate ethics and conflict of interest code.�

Duffy sent a letter to Senate ethics officer Lyse Ricard a few hours later, repeating the notion of a contract with Wright and asking her to review the matter.

This characterization of the payment as a contract is potentially problematic for Duffy now, as the Crown tries to paint him as the instigator or equal partner in a scheme to have the $90,000 in dubious expense claims paid back from someone else’s pocket.

Rootham goes on to tell Duffy that the “more serious risk� is if someone alleges he breached the Parliament of Canada Act — something that some experts did bring up at the time, but which never transpired.

The Act prohibits any member of the Senate from receiving money in relation to any “controversy,� or any person from offering the money to a senator.

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Hack taking a toll on families: police

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A cyberattack on a website facilitating extramarital affairs is taking a toll on families across the world, Toronto police said Monday as they announced two unconfirmed reports of suicides and a string of extortion crimes related to the hack.

Police warned those responsible that their actions would not be tolerated as an international investigation into the AshleyMadison.com breach is carried out.

“This ain’t fun and games anymore, this is reality, this is affecting all of us,” said Acting Staff Supt.

Bryce Evans. “The social impact behind this leak, we’re talking about families, we’re talking about children, we’re talking about wives, their male partners. It’s going to have impacts on their lives.”

Evans would not provide details on the two unconfirmed suicides, but published U.S. media reports have said a police captain in San Antonio, Tex., took his own life after his official email address was linked to an Ashley Madison account.

The Canadian-owned Ashley Madison site — whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair” — claims to have about 39 million members around the world.

The site was the victim of a cyberattack a month ago. Employees powering up their computers were greeted with a threatening message accompanied by the song Thunderstruck by rock band AC/DC. Hackers referring to themselves as the Impact Team vowed to release Ashley Madison customer data unless the website was permanently shut down.

Police said Avid Life launched an investigation, employed a computer security firm and contacted police, but last week the Impact Team released detailed records of millions of people from several countries registered with the website.

A Canadian Press analysis found hundreds of email addresses in the data release appeared to be connected to federal, provincial and municipal workers across Canada, as well as to the RCMP and the military.

U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security and law enforcement were also among those found to be using government networks to access the website, including at least two assistant U.S. attorneys, an information technology administrator in the White House’s support staff and a government hacker and counterterrorism employee at the Homeland Security Department.

“This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world and is very unique on its own in that it exposed tens of millions of people’s personal information,” said Evans. “The ripple effect of the Impact Team’s actions has and will continue to have longterm social and economic impacts. And they have already sparked spin-offs of crimes and further victimization.”

Police said criminals capitalizing on the cyberattack were using the leaked information to try extorting people through scams that included asking for fees to purportedly delete customer data.

“Nobody is going to be able to erase that information,” Evans said, adding that anyone being extorted should report the matter to their local police force.

Evans said those responsible for the cyberattack need to know their actions are under intense scrutiny by law enforcement partners around the world, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. He addressed the Impact Team directly, saying their actions are “illegal and will not be tolerated.”

“This is your wake-up call,” he said. “We are now doing a serious investigation and inviting all our partners.”

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Feds ponder warrantless police access to Internet subscriber info: chiefs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new administrative scheme that would allow police to obtain basic information about Internet subscribers without a warrant is one option being considered by federal officials following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that curbed access to such data, Canadian police chiefs say.

The glimpse into federal deliberations about how to address the highly influential court decision comes in a newly published background document from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, which is urging the government to fill the legislative gap.

Law-enforcement agencies require “real-time, or near real-time” access to basic subscriber information — usually a telecommunications customer’s name and address — to investigate everything from child sexual exploitation to terrorist threats, the police chiefs say in a resolution passed at their recent annual conference.

A researcher who has long pressed for more transparency around police access to subscriber data said Monday that law-enforcement agencies have yet to make the case for warrantless access — especially since companies can make information available quickly in a genuine emergency.

“We’re not at a point where it’s clear the police have a legitimate concern,” said Christopher Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow with the Citizen Lab at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

In June last year, the Supreme Court ruled police need judicial authorization to obtain subscriber data linked to online activities. The high court rejected the notion the federal privacy law governing companies allowed them to hand over subscriber identities

DNA evidence leads to arrest in 1995 sex assault CALGARY — DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man in a random sex attack against a minor more than 20 years ago.

A 16-year-old girl was forced into a Calgary alley on March 23, 1995, and sexually assaulted.

Police were not able to find a suspect, but reexamined DNA evidence in 2001 after the creation of the National DNA Data Bank. No matches were found at the time, but a match was found when the samples were resubmitted last November.

A man was arrested earlier this month after a nine-month investigation.

Charles Henry Desjarlais, who is 52 and from Lethbridge, is charged with sexual assault with a weapon.

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The court judgment came amid swelling public concern about authorities quietly gaining access to customer information with little evident scrutiny or oversight.

Telecommunications companies and other service providers — such as banks and rental companies — now demand court approval for nearly all types of requests from authorities for basic identifying information, the police chiefs say.

They reveal that a discussion paper spearheaded by the Department of Justice was recently presented to the federal, provincial and territorial cybercrime working group of senior officials. It outlined three legislative options for allowing access to basic subscriber information: ● An administrative scheme that would not involve court approval; ● A new judicial order process or a tweak to the existing regime; ● A judicial order process for subscriber information with a greater expectation of privacy, and an administrative, non-judicial one for less sensitive subscriber data.

The chiefs say they will keep abreast of the efforts of the working group, which plans to meet next in November. At the same time, two of the chiefs’ own committees will develop legislative proposals.

The Canadian Press reported in November that the RCMP had abandoned some investigations because of the new hurdles that flowed from the Supreme Court ruling.

The police chiefs echo these concerns, saying criminal investigations are “often delayed and in some cases, not pursued” due to the challenges involved in getting a court’s approval.

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CALGARY — It’s as cheesy as can be and features a moustachioed used-cat salesman trying to adopt out an abundance of cats at the Calgary Humane Society.

“Felines, felines, felines, feeeeeeeeeelines! We’re literally bursting at the seams with quality felines,” says the salesman in a less-than-subtle attempt to lure prospective cat owners.

“Black cats, white cats, tall cats, short cats. We’ve got cats of all makes, models and colours. They’re ready to practically walk off the lot.”

The video, just over a minute long and released last week on YouTube, has so far received more than 60,000 hits and helped the society find homes on the weekend for 30 cats — about twice the normal number.

“If we were going to do this, we were going to do it right — and by right we mean wrong — and make it look terrible and as cheesy as possible,” said Philip Fulton, the humane society’s manager of community outreach who played the used-cat salesman.

“We decided to ... pull from used-car dealership commercials and self-produced commercials and ... it’s gone like gangbusters. It’s just kind of exploded and got a lot of attention for our event.”

Finding homes for the 30 cats has freed up some much-needed space for the shelter.

Summer is the busiest time of year, Fulton said, because it is kitten season and there have been several high-profile seizures from homes which weren’t providing proper care for their animals.

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Defying gravity for gold CANADA’S SHAWN BARBER BEATS STARSTUDDED FIELD TO WIN POLE VAULT AT WORLDS

Canada’s Shawn Barber competes in the men’s pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Monday.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING — Growing up on the family farm in New Mexico, pole vaulting was a game to Shawn Barber, like road hockey or hopscotch — a chance to compete against his brother Braden and an excuse to stay out late on hot summer nights.

That pure love of the sport has never left the 21-year-old Canadian, and at the world track and field championships Monday, he drew on every bit of it to win gold — Canada’s first at the worlds in more than a decade.

“You’re going to have nerves coming into a big meet like this, but my whole goal was to keep my head down and make sure I remembered to breathe, and that’s the biggest thing for me,” Barber said. “And have some fun out there. Enjoy yourself. You only get to do this every once in a while.”

Barber was the only jumper to clear 5.90 metres on his first attempt, which was good enough for gold in a starstudded field. Defending champion Raphael Holzdeppe captured silver.

Renaud Lavillenie of France, the world record-holder and an Olympic gold medallist, shared the bronze with Pawel Wojciechowski and Piotr Lisek, both of Poland.

The medal is Canada’s fourth of the competition and the country’s first ever in pole vault. It was Canada’s first gold since Perdita Felicien won the 100-metre hurdles in 2003 in Paris.

Barber, who calls Toronto his hometown but grew up in the U.S., competes for Canada partly because his dad George did, including at the 1983 world championships. The Canadianborn George Barber gave Shawn his

first sawed-off pole at the age of four.

The Barber boys would leap irrigation ditches on the family farm before George installed a proper pit, under the cover of an old airport hangar.

Asked if he ever dreamed of a world medal, Barber said: “No way.

“I didn’t even know it was a sport until a couple of years into it, I was just doing it for fun. It’s a great pasttime for me so far, and for me to be able to come out here and showcase these talents to everybody is a great experience.”

The six-foot-two redhead laid down an impeccable performance at the Bird’s Nest Stadium, clearing every height on his first attempt. Barber and

Holzdeppe, the only other jumper over 5.90, then missed on all three attempts at 6.00.

The senior Barber still coaches his son, who is coming off an NCAA title in his senior season at Akron University, and a gold at the Pan American Games in Toronto. George leaned against the railing in the front row of seats Monday, coaching in a language of hand gestures that the two are well-versed in.

While George had a sneaking suspicion his son could be great — clearing 3.20 at age 10 and 5.55 by the end of Grade 12 were big clues — neither he nor his son saw this coming so soon.

Barber won bronze at last summer’s

Commonwealth Games, but has been the picture of consistency, rewriting his Canadian record so many times, he’s lost track of the number. It currently stands at 5.93.

“I think it’s a surprise to me and to a lot of people that I’m here and especially in such a technical sport as pole vault, that takes quite a while to mature,” said Barber — who could realistically compete for another decade, at least. “I think it’s just makes people excited for the future and excited for the next couple of years.”

Victory or not, the goal has never wavered. It’s a game to the Barbers.

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RDC soccer teams give A look back at solid showing in tune-up the 1993 World Series champs

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Queens 5 Eagles 2 Dave Colley was pleased to see his RDC Queens players adopt a selfish attitude Monday while posting a 5-2 ACAC women’s preseason soccer victory over the visiting Edmonton King’s University College Eagles.

“Five goals was nice. A couple of them I don’t think we’d get again. Their goalie made some errors but the fact that we were shooting is really nice,” said Colley, the Queens head coach.

“Usually we try and pass it in those areas instead of shoot, but they were connecting well for the five goals. They were hard goals, but later in the season the (opposing) goalie might have snagged them. But the fact is we are shooting and that’s good because that’s one of the issues we have year to year — the players pass it off rather than shoot. I’m happy they’re shooting.”

Finding the back of the Eagles net were Kelsie Caine, Nicole Friedl, Kassidy Lefteruk, Olivia Orman and Sydney Daines. Lauren Good guarded the RDC goal.

Good is one of three players Colley didn’t expect back this season, the others being Kaitlin D’Arcy and 2014 all-star Jessica White.

“They finished their courses and got to a stage where they were moving on,” said Colley. “But they went to move on and found that things didn’t work out, so they came back. They’re third- and fifth-year players. You’re going to take them any time.”

While Colley enjoyed the view Monday, he won’t be setting the roster until just before the start of the regular season, which opens Sept. 12 with the Queens hosting Olds College.

“We were throwing people on today to see what they could do at different positions,” said Colley. “I think Kelsie Caine played in about four different positions in different parts of the field. The midfielders all got a chance to play defensive, central and offensive mid. I was just spinning them around.”

The Queens are a veteran group with a sprinkling of rookies, including former Red Deer U18 Renegades captain Friedl.

“Some of the other rookies are from small areas, but they are good athletes and none of them

TORONTO BLUE JAYS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays are in first in the American League East and looking like a serious post-season contender for the first time since they won the 1993 World Series. Here’s a look at somemembers of the 1992 and 1993 World Series champion Blue Jays and where they are now.

PAT HENTGEN The right-handed pitcher was drafted by Toronto in 1986 and debuted with the Blue Jays in 1991. He came out of the bullpen throughout the 1992 season with a total of 50.1 innings pitched. Hentgen’s impact was really felt in 1993 when he led Toronto with a 19-9 record in the regular season with 122 strikeouts and 3.87 earned-run average.

He won Game 3 of the 1993 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up one earned run over six innings of work as Toronto rolled to a 10-3 victory. Hentgen continued to improve on the mound, winning the American League’s Cy Young in 1996. He retired in 2004. Today, Hentgen is still involved with the Blue Jays, working in the team’s front office as Special Assistant to the Organization.

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Red Deer College Queen Sydney Daines and King’s University College Eagle Miranda Tuininga battle for control of the ball during exhibition soccer action at Red Deer College Monday. are lacking in experience,” said Colley.

The Queens finished second in the South Division last season, then dropped a quarter-final to Grande Prairie on penalty kicks.

Colley expects his club to be back in the hunt this year.

“The potential definitely is there, especially when I had a player like Jess White sitting down today because she has a knee problem,” said the coach.

“When everybody gets fit, I think we’re going to be strong.”

The Queen will be in Camrose this weekend for a pair of preseason ACAC games and will host a top-flight Calgary U18 team either Wednesday or Thursday of next week.

Kings 4 Eagles 1 RDC Kings coach Steve Fullarton wasn’t as concerned with the outcome of Monday’s exhibi-

tion match versus King’s as he was with getting his rookies into the action and into early-season game shape.

“We have a lot of new players this year so it was nice to get them involved,” said Fullarton, following the Kings’ 4-1 victory over the Eagles in men’s play. “Match fitness is the big thing at this time of the year. There’s a big difference between physical and match fitness, so that was the main objective tonight.

“To win and to score four goals is always nice, but we did ride our luck quite a lot as well. It could have been different, but the goal was just to get the new players on the field, getting them used to our systems and playing with the senior players. We have quite a lot of work to do based on what we saw tonight.”

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Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

JOHN OLERUD Olerud became Toronto’s full-time first baseman at the start of the 1992 season and immediately made an impact. His sharp defensive play — with trademark batting helmet always on in the field — coupled with his strong hitting made him an important piece of both World Series teams.

He led the American League in batting average (.363), intentional walks (33), times on base (321), onbase percentage (.473) and doubles (54, also a career high) in 1993. That season he made career highs in home runs (24), RBIs (107), runs (109), and hits (200).

An exciting subplot to Toronto’s season that year was his quest to become the first player since Ted Williams in 1941 to hit .400 in a season. His average staying higher than .400 as late as Aug. 24.

Olerud played for the New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox before retiring in December 2005.

He nows lives in Washington with his wife and children. The NCAA’s John Olerud Award is given to the best two-way player in American collegiate baseball after his All-American play for Washington State University as a pitcher and first baseman.

KELLY GRUBER Blonde-haired third baseman Gruber was selected by the Blue Jays in the 1983 Rule 5 Draft, taking him from the Cleveland Indians organization. He was the first player in Blue Jays history to hit for the cycle, earning four hits in six at bats on April 16, 1989.

However, Gruber’s best known for his role in a non-call in Game 3 of the 1992 World Series. Gruber made a diving tag on Braves baserunner Deion Sanders’ foot between second and third base to record the final out of a triple play.

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The seven-figure decision CANADIAN SPRINT SENSATION FACING DECISION TO TURN PRO ON HEELS OF WORLDS BRONZE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING — Moments after Andre De Grasse raced to bronze at the world championships against one of the finest 100-metre fields ever assembled, the questions began.

What’s next? Will you turn pro?

The 20-year-old from Markham, Ont., faces a huge seven-figure decision over the next few weeks — whether to run his senior season at the University of Southern California, or sign with one of the dozens of agents clamouring to work with the young star.

De Grasse has talked about returning to school in the past, but didn’t sound so sure Sunday night.

“A lot has changed right now. I just got a bronze medal. I’ve got to talk to my coach and make what’s best for me and my family, so we’ll go from there,” De Grasse said.

“Whatever my mom says, that’s my goal, to get my degree first,” he hastily added.

De Grasse was offered a seven-figure shoe deal, a source told The Canadian Press back in June — well before Sunday’s breathtaking race for bronze at the Bird’s Nest Stadium, and even before his double-gold Pan American Games performance in July.

He’s a marketer’s dream. The track and field version of basketball star Andrew Wiggins, De Grasse is young, humble, likable and oozing with potential. And the 100 metres is the glamour event of the Olympics, a race that determines the world’s fastest man.

“Everyone is trying to sign him,” said Kris Mychasiw, managing partner

of Sprint Management. “If he said he wanted to go pro, and that he wanted to sign with us, I’d do somersaults around the Edge Walk.”

A shoe contract typically covers a several-year cycle that includes an Olympic Games and a world championship. But De Grasse stands to make money on more than just the brand of shoes he wears.

Mychasiw, who works in partnership with Canadian sprint legend Bruny Surin, estimates De Grasse could earn much as C$700,000 in endorsement deals in 2016, and could ink a shoe contract worth an additional $700,000 a year.

“The shoe deal is security but he would be very valuable in an Olympic year,” Mychasiw said in an interview from his Montreal home. “Companies like SportChek, Proctor and Gamble, et cetera would be interested to work with him as they are big partners of the (Canadian Olympic Committee). He would also command a very healthy appearance fee at meets.”

Usain Bolt, track and field’s richest athlete, commands as much as $400,000 to race in a meet, Mychasiw said.

The Jamaican superstar, who edged Justin Gatlin for 100-metre gold here, went out of his way to congratulate De Grasse in the broadcast area Sunday night in a momentous gesture.

“When you get acknowledged by Bolt, it means you’re the real deal,” Mychasiw said.

It’s been nearly two decades since Donovan Bailey and Surin were racing to Olympic and world medals. Canada hasn’t had a world contender since.

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Canada’s Andre De Grasse celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday. dian to run a sub-10-second 100 following those two (convicted doper Ben Johnson ran 9.79 in 1988 but all his times have been erased from the record books), and his bronze was the first world medal for Canada in the 100 since Surin raced to silver in 1999.

The 100 metres, Mychasiw said, is a “legacy event” in Canada.

“Donovan and Bruny set such a high standard of excellence, and it took nearly 15 years for anyone in Canada to run sub-10 and for him to run it five times so far in 2015 shows he’s not a one-hit wonder,” Mychasiw said.

“Heading into Rio, he will be consid-

ered a medal threat.

“What’s great with Andre, he doesn’t hide from anyone,” he added. “He goes out there and runs his race whether it’s from the middle of the track, Lane 8 in the Pan Ams 200 and Lane 9 at worlds.”

Athletics Canada appealed De Grasse’s lane assignment before the final, to no avail. De Grasse didn’t care.

“At the end of the day, it’s a 100 metres,” De Grasse said. “I wasn’t going to let that distract me. This is the final, this is the biggest race of my life, so I’m not going to think about no lane assignment.”

World championships Argonauts QB Harris taking season one game at a time snub costs Russia FINED $85,000 FOR LEAVING ICE BEFORE CANADA’S ANTHEM

ZURICH — The Russian Hockey Federation was fined Monday over the national team snubbing Canada’s victory celebrations after the world championship final.

The sport’s governing body, IIHF, said the Russian players deliberately left the ice before Canada’s national anthem was played after a signal from captain Ilya Kovalchuk.

The Russian federation had claimed its players had been confused after the rink-side gate was left open and took that as a signal to leave following the 6-1 loss in May in Prague.

But after studying video evidence, the IIHF said Kovalchuk gave an “unmistakable head gesture” as signal for teammates to skate off the ice early after collecting their silver medals. They did not stay to hear the Canadian anthem and watch the flags of the three medallist countries being raised.

“This was exceptional as no other team has ever left the ice before the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship medal ceremony was completed,” the Zurich-based body said.

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GOLD: Healthy “The big thing is to keep him healthy, keep him improving, and keep him having fun,” said George, who paced impatiently for nearly an hour in the media interview area before being able to congratulate his son.

George Barber still competes, including at this year’s Canadian championships, where he competed alongside his son, clearing 3.80. He added, he cleared 4.05 a couple of weeks later.

The competition keeps it fun.

“I compete against him on just about everything whenever we’re training.

But now he has to spot me two metres,” said George — they’ll wager things like dinner on a victory. Generally he just doesn’t like to lose, so we don’t need to have any side bets,” George said.

Elsewhere, Matt Hughes of Oshawa, Ont., was eighth in the men’s 3,000-metre steeplechase, in a season’s best time of eight minutes 18.63 seconds.

“I knew I was ready for a good one, it’s disappointing when training indicates you’re in great shape,” Hughes said. “I just know that so much hard work went into the season, my training was better than 2013 and 2014, I’m in personal-best shape, knocking on the door of 8:05. Just didn’t have it today.”

RDC: Rookies While the Kings’ 2015 roster will feature a number of rookies, including T.J. Johnson of Red Deer, the lineup will also include a solid group of veterans led by Julius Abegar, who two years ago was named the ACAC male player of the year and was selected as an All Canadian. Abegar didn’t attend RDC last year due to academic reasons.

“He’ll make a big difference. He’s very experienced,” Fullarton said of Abegar.

The IIHF fined the Russian hockey federation 80,000 Swiss francs ($85,000) after accepting it had apologized to Canadian officials.

The IIHF ruled that the open rinkside gate was “irrelevant” and noted that Russian players and officials were aware of tournament rules “because of their vast experience.”

“The panel is of the opinion that the occurrences on the ice show that this is not a result of an unfortunate misunderstanding” as Russia claimed, the IIHF said.

Kovalchuk, the former Atlanta Thrashers and New Jersey Devils forward, was not sanctioned ahead of his country hosting the 2016 worlds.

Kovalchuk retired from the NHL in 2013 to join SKA St. Petersburg ahead of the Sochi Olympics, where Canada won the gold medal.

He had signed a 15-year, $100 million contract with the Devils after being traded from the Thrashers in 2010 but left after three seasons.

The Russian federation said it accepted the fine, but stuck by its claim that the exit was a case of confusion rather than deliberate disrespect.

“The decision to leave the rink was Fullarton will also lean on returnees Andrew Jevne, Luke Owen, Mark Ibbotson, Chase Grenier and Alex Ingraham this season. Ibbotson, Abegar, Haydn McLean and Jerson Paez scored for the Kings Monday, with Owen handling netminder duties.

The Kings, who are in Camrose for two exhibition games this weekend and will host Grant MacEwan in another preseason match Sept. 2, finished in a three-way tie for second place in the South Division last year and — due to a controversial decision — were denied a playoff berth.

“We were hard done by last year, but we definitely hope to do better this year,” said Fullarton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

JAYS: Gruber It would have been only the second such play in World Series history. However, the second-base umpire ruled Sanders safe. Gruber tore his rotator cuff on the play but he still hit a key game-tying home run in the eighth inning, and the Jays would go on to win the game and the Series.

He was traded to the California Angels in 1993 but had to retire after 63 games due to a bone spur on his spine that threatened paralysis. Today Gruber holds baseball seminars and does public appearances as a motivational speaker for charitable organizations.

JOE CARTER The trade that brought Carter and Roberto Alomar from the San Diego Padres to Toronto in 1990 was the crucial move that created the Blue Jays dynasty of the early 1990s. Carter was a clubhouse leader in Toronto and made the final out of the 1992 World Series.

However, he is best remembered for his walkoff three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 in the 1993 World Series.

He stayed in Toronto until 1997 and briefly played with the Baltimore Orioles and San Francisco Giants before retiring in 1998.

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Collaros is the CFL’s passing leader (2,314 yards) and his 17 TDs are second only to Harris. Like Harris, Collaros TORONTO — Trevor Harris is living excelled in Toronto, completing 197-of298 passes (65.9 per cent) for 2,417 with for today.

With veteran Ricky Ray still recov- 15 TDs and just six interceptions over ering from off-season shoulder sur- two seasons before joining Hamilton gery, Harris, 29, leads the CFL in TDs as a free agent.

Harris said it’s no coincidence he, (19), passing percentage (74.1) and Ray and Collaros have all fared completions (195) while standwell in Toronto head coach ing second in passing (2,253 Scott Milanovich’s offence. yards). More importantly, he “You can’t be in a terrible has the Toronto Argonauts (6-2) system and play extremely tied atop the East Division with well,” Harris said. “It’s just not arch-rival Hamilton. going to happen.

But Harris isn’t allowing “Obviously Zach is in a great himself to look too far down the road because Ray, a three-time Trevor Harris system, I’m in a very blessed situation. This system fits me and Grey Cup champion and the East Division’s top player the last two coach Milanovich and coach Brady (offensive co-ordinator Marcus Brady) do seasons, is expected back soon.

“Ricky Ray is one of the best ever a great job of catering to my strengths and so when he comes back it will be and letting me make plays I’m capable a great thing for our team, one way or of making.”

Harris enjoyed a brilliant career another,” Harris said. “ I’m just grateful to play this week and that’s how I at Edinboro University, completing 66 per cent of his passes for 11,899 yards look at it week to week.”

Both Harris and Ray are in the final with 100 TDs. In his final game, Harris year of their CFL deals, leaving Ar- set the NCAA Division II single-game gos GM Jim Barker with an interesting playoff record by completing 50-of-76 passes for 630 yards and five TDs in an situation moving forward.

Ray, 35, began the season on the 84-63 loss to West Liberty University.

But Harris credits Milanovich with six-game injured list before being returned there last week. The Argos keeping him grounded as Toronto’s haven’t said when Ray might return starter.

“Coach Milanovich does a really but Sept. 26 in Ottawa seems a logical good job of pushing me mentally and target date.

Toronto visits Edmonton on Friday kind of riding me a little bit in pracnight then heads into a crucial home- tice,” Harris said. “He does a good job and-home series with Hamilton (Sept. of giving me a lot, bringing it back, giv7 at Tim Hortons Field, Sept. 11 at Rog- ing me a lot more and bringing it back ers Centre) before having a bye week. and proving I keep progressing.

“It’s really a big-time credit to him That would give Ray more recovery time and allow the Argos to stick with and coach Brady and even coach Maas the hot hand against two formidable (former Argos assistant and current Ottawa offensive co-ordinator Jason defences.

The six-foot-three, 230-pound Harris Maas) the last few years of taking the has led Toronto to three straight wins extra time to work with us.”

Milanovich likes Harris’s resiland it’s 6-2 for the first time since ’97 when Doug Flutie led the Argos to a iency, which was evident Sunday. After watching Jerrell Gavens return a second straight Grey Cup title.

Harris was the Argos’ third quar- fourth-quarter interception 29 yards terback in 2012 when Ray guided them for a TD to put Ottawa ahead 24-17, past Calgary 35-22 in the historic 100th Harris countered with a 15-yard touchGrey Cup game at Rogers Centre. Ray’s down pass to Vidal Hazelton before backup was Zach Collaros, now Hamil- Swayze Waters’ two field goals provided Toronto with its winning margin. ton’s starter.

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IndyCar driver succumbs to injuries JUSTIN WILSON DIES OF HEAD INJURY SUFFERED WHEN HIT BY DEBRIS AT POCONO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IndyCar driver Justin Wilson died Monday night from a head injury suffered when a piece of debris struck him at Pocono Raceway. He was 37.

IndyCar made the announcement at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Wilson, a British driver who lived outside Denver in Longmont, Colorado, was hit in the head during Sunday’s race by piece of debris that had broken off another car. Wilson’s car veered into an interior wall at the track, and he was swiftly taken by helicopter to a hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“Can’t even begin to describe the loss I feel right now. He was my Brother, my best friend, my role model and mentor. He was a champion!” his younger brother, Stefan, also an IndyCar driver, tweeted. Stefan Wilson said his brother’s organs would be donated.

The last IndyCar driver to die from an on-track incident was Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon, who was killed in the 2011 season finale at Las Vegas after his head hit a post in the fence when his car went airborne.

After Wheldon’s death, Wilson became one of three driver representatives to serve as a liaison between the competitors and IndyCar. It was no surprise: The 6-foot-4 Wilson, easily the tallest in the series, was well liked.

“Justin’s elite ability to drive a race car was matched by his unwavering kindness, character and humility — which is what made him one of the most respected members of the paddock,” said Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., the parent company of IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Wilson won seven times over 12 seasons in open-wheel racing and finished as high as fifth in the Indianapolis 500.

An acclaimed sports car racer, Wilson won the prestigious 24 Hours of Daytona with Michael Shank Racing, and he competed in 20 Formula One races in 2003 before moving to the U.S. to join Champ Car. He finished third in the Champ Car standings in 2005, and was runner-up in both 2006 and 2007. To support his career, his management team in 2003 created a program that allowed fans to invest in the driver. Hundreds of people bought shares in Wilson, who was dyslexic and a strong supporter of foundations related to the disorder.

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

The agreement began as a two-race deal for events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and then was increased to the final five races of the year. The IndyCar season concludes Sunday in Sonoma, California.

Andretti Autosport called Wilson “a tremendous racer, a valuable member of the team and respected representative to our sport.”

“While Justin was only part of the Andretti lineup for a short time, it only took a second for him to forever become part of the Andretti family,” the team said. “His life and racing career is a story of class and passion surpassed by none. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the Wilson family and fans worldwide. Godspeed, JW.” Wilson finished a season-best second at Mid-Ohio in early August. He

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Justin Wilson pulls on his balaclava during a qualifying session for the Pocono IndyCar 400 auto race in Long Pond, Pa. IndyCar faces a new crisis over safety after popular driver Justin Wilson passed away one day after being struck by debris during a race at Pocono. said after the race that he raced clean and did not take any risks that would have jeopardized eventual race-winner Graham Rahal because Rahal was part of the championship race and Wilson was not.

“Anyone who follows our sport knows Justin was one of the most wellrespected, highly regarded and loved people in the entire paddock,” said Miles, who passed on the Wilsons’ grat-

itude to the IndyCar safety team and medical staffs of the series, Pocono Raceway and the hospital in Allentown.

The family also was grateful to the entire motorsports industry.

“Particularly the Wilson family wishes to thank Justin’s fellow drivers, and their families, who have been so thoughtful, and kind, and supportive,” Miles said.

Manning tells SI he still can’t feel fingertips Pro Bowl receivers Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders have both praised Manning’s arm strength this summer.

Thomas said there’s “a little more zip” on ManBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ning’s passes, and Sanders said he told the 39-yearold quarterback, “Man, your arm’s a lot stronger ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — No glove on his throwing without the glove.”

“I feel like he’s just trying to get more catches or hand. No feeling in his fingertips.

Peyton Manning has ditched, at least temporar- something,” Manning retorted when asked about Sanders’ comments ily, the sticky-feeling, orange-and-grey ‘I’VE MENTIONED IT BEFORE, DUE TO MY INJURY, MY recently. “I feel like he’s going through glove he’s worn on you to try to butter HAND HAS SOME ISSUES. I’VE BEEN FORCED TO WEAR his throwing hand me up maybe.”

A GLOVE AND CERTAINLY IN CERTAIN ELEMENTS, at times since 2012.

Manning never He’s gone barehandHAVE TO WEAR A GLOVE. I PRACTICED WITH IT IN wore anything on his ed throughout trainTHE SPRING. I HAVEN’T WORN IT AS MUCH DURING hands before 2012, ing camp and also in when he joined the TRAINING CAMP. I DON’T REALLY HAVE A REAL his preseason debut Broncos. He has SET PLAN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I FEEL PRETTY at Houston over the said the glove was a weekend.

COMFORTABLE WITH BOTH.’ concession to the alHe’s said not to tered feel of his grip, read anything into it, — PEYTON MANNING especially in cold that he’ll probably IN AN INTERVIEW WITH SPORTS ILLUSTRATED weather, following still need it in nasty several neck surgerweather.

Manning even told Peter King of Sports Illustrated ies in 2011.

Manning usually deflects questions about his that he still doesn’t have feeling in his fingertips four health history or his current well-being, but he had years after the multiple neck surgeries he underwent a little fun with the questions a couple of weeks during his season out of football.

That hasn’t seemed to affect either his velocity or ago when asked about not wearing the glove during training camp. his accuracy.

He said he didn’t know if his grip was stronger

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now because “I haven’t really measured it by any means.”

Maybe, he said, he should test his grip in the kitchen with a jar of peanut butter.

“Yeah, I should. Exactly. A pickle jar or something,” he said, laughing. “Can I unscrew it?”

Seriously, though, Manning said that he’ll probably have to break out the glove again at some point.

“I’ve mentioned it before, due to my injury, my hand has some issues. I’ve been forced to wear a glove and certainly in certain elements, have to wear a glove. I practiced with it in the spring. I haven’t worn it as much during training camp. I don’t really have a real set plan one way or the other. I feel pretty comfortable with both,” he said.

Manning told King that the nerve damage appears to be permanent: “I can’t feel anything in my fingertips. It’s crazy. I’ve talked to a doctor recently who said, ’Don’t count on the feeling coming back.’ It was hard for me for about two years, because one doctor told me I could wake up any morning and it might come back.”

Despite the numbness, Manning has had some of his best seasons statistically since joining the Broncos. After averaging 28.5 touchdowns during his time in Indianapolis, he’s thrown for 37, 55 and 39 touchdowns while breaking records in Denver.

He’s entering his 18th season in 2015 trying to become the oldest quarterback to win the Super Bowl.

Coach Gary Kubiak has given him plenty of days off this summer in hopes of keeping him fresh and getting longtime backup Brock Osweiler more work.

Packers receiver Cris Carter apologizes for advising Jordy Nelson out NFL rookies to get ‘a fall guy’ for season with knee injury

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Green Bay Packers’ worst fears about the severity of receiver Jordy Nelson’s knee injury have come true.

The team said Monday only that the star receiver suffered a “significant right knee injury” that would cost him Jordy Nelson the season. Nelson, one of the top targets for NFL MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers, was injured Sunday in a preseason game at Pittsburgh.

“It’s difficult to lose a guy like that in a meaningless game,” Rodgers said after the 24-19 loss to the Steelers.

Coach Mike McCarthy was hoping for better results from more tests on Nelson’s knee in Green Bay on the team’s’ off day on Monday. But Rodgers’ sombre tone after the game foreshadowed the bad news for one of the league’s best offences.

The Packers, one of the top contenders in the NFC, will be without a playmaker who set career highs in receptions (98) and yards receiving (1,519) in 2014. Nelson had 13 touchdown catches last year and 43 over the last four seasons.

He and Randall Cobb formed one of the top receiving duos in the league, each catching more than 90 passes last season. Nelson is also one of the most respected veterans in the locker room for his leadership and work ethic.

While limited during the off-season following minor hip surgery, Nelson could often be found with a play sheet in hand and offering tips to younger receivers.

“Jordy Nelson is a key member of our football program both on the field and of the field, probably more so off the field,” McCarthy said in Pittsburgh.

“He’s a great player ... tremendous in the locker room, tremendous family man.”

The Packers have depth at receiver, but lack experience after Cobb.

Promising second-year player Davante Adams, who has had a good off-season and training camp, moves up as the No. 2 receiver behind Cobb. Rookie Ty Montgomery, who has impressed so far in practice, moves up to third receiver.

Myles White, who played seven games with the Packers in 2013, has also had a good camp. The 6-foot-3 Jeff Janis, a second-year player, has size but has been inconsistent. Jared Abbrederis has been sidelined by a concussion.

Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter has issued an apology for telling NFL rookies at a league symposium in 2014 that they should “get a fall guy” to help them avoid trouble.

Carter posted his apology on Twitter after an ESPN article drew attention to the remarks he made during a presentation last year. He told a group of rookies from NFC teams in the session that if any of them were to get into trouble off the field, it was important to have someone who would step forward and take the blame.

The NFL had video of the talk on its website for a year, but it was pulled after it came to light on Sunday night.

“Seeing that video has made me realize how wrong I was,” Carter tweeted.

“I was brought there to educate young people and instead I gave them very bad advice. Every person should take responsibility for his own actions. I’m sorry and I truly regret what I said that day.”

Former 49ers linebacker Chris Borland told ESPN he was disgusted by a session in the 2014 rookie symposium in which an unnamed former player advised young players to identify a “fall guy” within their circle of friends.

Video of Carter giving those remarks quickly surfaced.

Wearing his yellow Hall of Fame jacket, Carter is speaking to the group along with former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp. Carter pulls Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater onto the stage to help illustrate his point.

“You all are not going to all do the right stuff,” Carter is seen telling the audience in the video. “So I got to teach you all how to get around all this stuff too. If you’re going to have a crew, one of them fools got to know he’s going to jail.”

More than a year after Carter made the remarks at the leaguesponsored event, the NFL condemned the message.

“This was an unfortunate and inappropriate comment made by Cris Carter during the 2014 NFC

rookie symposium,” the league said in a statement. “The comment was not representative of the message of the symposium or any other league program. The league’s player engagement staff immediately expressed concern about the comment to Cris. The comment was not repeated in the 2014 AFC session or this year’s symposium.”

Jets safety Calvin Pryor, a rookie in 2014, said he didn’t think Carter was sending the wrong message.

“Not at all. He’s speaking real life,” Pryor said. “He’s been through a lot. People such as myself and others can relate to it, and some can’t. So it’s however you want to take it.”

Carter’s career arc has long made him a go-to resource for young players.

He has admitted that drug abuse nearly derailed his career while he was with the Philadelphia Eagles, and it wasn’t until he cleaned his act up after being claimed off waivers by the Vikings that he became a star in the league.

Seahawks closer to settling on o-line starters

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RENTON, Wash. — The constant shuffling along the Seattle Seahawks’ offensive line could be coming to an end.

Coach Pete Carroll and offensive line coach Tom Cable said Monday that the starting five the Seahawks used in last week’s preseason loss at Kansas City could be the unit that starts Week 1 of the regular season against St. Louis.

It’s been an arduous stretch through the first three weeks of training camp for the Seahawks trying to get their offensive line settled. But Cable and Carroll are

moving forward with the current configuration in the hope that a solid performance in this week’s preseason game at San Diego will be validation it’s the right group.

“We’ll see if they can hold it together and hold off the other guys that are battling with them but we feel good enough about it,” Carroll said. “We like the way that they mix together and they have a real chance.”

The two spots on the line that have been settled from the start have been left tackle with Russell Okung and right guard with J.R. Sweezy. But centre, right tackle and left guard have been a revolving door of players working with the first unit.

The latest adjustment last week

had starting right tackle Justin Britt move to left guard and backup Garry Gilliam, in his second season, step in at right tackle. Seattle also had Drew Nowak, a former defensive tackle in college, stepping in as the starting centre.

The results were mixed. Seattle’s offence failed to score a touchdown against the Chiefs and running lanes were scarce. But the protection for quarterback Russell Wilson was solid coming against the Chiefs’ talented defensive front.

“A little more consistency. Really good communication. Probably the most impressive thing was making some moves and then having everybody be on the same page,” Cable said.

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

● Men’s third division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park.

Sunday

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

Football Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

GP 8 8 8 8

West Division GP W L T Calgary 8 6 2 0 Edmonton 8 5 3 0 Winnipeg 8 3 5 0 B.C. 8 3 5 0 Saskatchewan 8 0 8 0

PF 292 223 158 165 PF 219 200 160 179 205

PA 156 207 228 148 PA 182 150 237 234 259

Pt 12 12 8 6 Pt 12 10 6 6 0

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’s game Montreal at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Toronto at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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

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

WEEK 11 Bye: Ottawa Thursday, Sept. 3

B.C. at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 7 Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S Pt Medlock, Ham 0 31 16 4 83 Shaw, Edm 0 15 18 7 76 Bede, Mtl 0 9 19 5 71 Leone, BC 0 12 15 6 63 Paredes, Cgy 0 10 16 4 62 McCallum, Sask 0 10 16 1 59 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 9 14 5 56 Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 49 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 2 0 0 44 Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37 Gurley, Tor 6 0 0 0 36 A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36 Banks, Ham 5 0 0 0 30 Stafford, Edm 5 0 0 0 30 x-Marshall, Wpg 4 4 0 0 28 x-Collie, BC 4 2 0 0 26 x-Elliott, Tor 4 2 0 0 26 x-Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 0 0 26 x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 0 0 26 Hazleton, Tor 4 0 0 0 24 .Lawrence, Edm 4 0 0 0 24 E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 0 0 24 Toliver, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 Milo, Ott 0 8 4 1 21 x-Cornish, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20 x-Dressler, Sask 3 2 0 0 20 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 3 2 0 0 20 x.Sutton, Mtl 3 2 0 0 20 x-McDaniel, Cgy 2 8 0 0 20 Arceneaux, BC 3 0 0 0 18 Bowman, Edm 3 0 0 0 18 E.Davis, Ham 3 0 0 0 18

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

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Baseball

Saturday

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

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Colorado 6 9 9 27 21 25 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

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 Los Angeles 13 7 7 46 49 Vancouver 14 9 3 45 38 Sporting Kansas City11 6 7 40 39 Portland 11 8 7 40 28 FC Dallas 11 8 5 38 33 Seattle 11 13 2 35 30 San Jose 10 10 5 35 31 Houston 8 9 8 32 32 Real Salt Lake 8 10 8 32 29

GA 32 26 33 30 30 29 29 32 38

Sunday’s Games Los Angeles 5, New York City FC 1 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.

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. 30 Portland at Seattle, 5 p.m.

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

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned OF David Lough outright to Norfolk (IL). Designated OF Nolan Reimould for assignment. Placed SS J.J. Hardy on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jorge Rondon from Norfolk. Reinstated 1B Steve Pearce from the 15-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHP Cody Anderson to Lake County (MWL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent OF Alex Gordon to Omaha (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent 3B Taylor Featherston and David Freese to Salt Lake (PCL) for rehab assignments.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed LHP CC Sabathia on the 15-day DL. Announced LHP Chris Capuano declined outright assignment, declared free agency and agreed to terms on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Kendall Graveman on the 15-day DL. Recalled 1B Max Muncy from Nashville (PCL). Fired third base coach Mike Gallego. Promoted Ron Washington to third base coach.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent LHP James Paxton to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Drew Stubbs and assigned him to Round Rock (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned 1B Matt Hague to Buffalo (IL). Recalled C Josh Thole from Buffalo.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated RHP Archie Bradley from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Reno (PCL). Released C Gerald Laird. Designated OF Danny Dorn for assignment. Optioned RHP Zack Godley to Mobile (SL). Selected the contract of RHP Jhoulys Chacin from Reno (PCL).

ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated RHP David Aardsma for assignment. Optioned OF Eury Perez to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Sugar Ray Marimon and C Christian Bethancourt from Gwinnett.

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Jorge Soler and RHP Jason Motte on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Tommy La Stella and LHP Zac Rosscup from Iowa (PCL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated RHP Chad Bettis from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP David Hale to Albuquerque (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Yimi Garcia to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Andre Rienzo to the GCL Marlins for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Optioned LHP Dario Alvarez to Las Vegas (PCL). Reinstated 3B David Wright

from the 60-day DL. Sent LHP Steven Matz to Binghamton (EL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned RHP Josh Wall outright to Indianapolis (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Tyler Lyons to Memphis (PCL). Recalled 2B Greg Garcia from Memphis.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent OF Angel Pagan to the AZL Giants for a rehab assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Chicago DT Jeremiah Ratliff three games for violating the league’s policy and program for substances of abuse.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived LB Marquis Spruill.

Signed WR John Harris.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived/injured OL Jason Weaver. Signed G Lucas nix to a one-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS — OL Rob Sims announced his retirement.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed WR Arrelious Benn on injured reserve. Waived/injured OT Brennan Williams and WR Damian Copeland.

Signed LB Mister Alexander, OL Will Corbin and WR Erik Lora.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived WR Michael Preston.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released LS Cullen Loeffler.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed WR Brandon Gibson on injured reserve. Re-signed LB D.J. Lynch.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived/injured S Justin Currie and LB Tony Johnson. Signed LB Ashlee Palmer and DB C.J. Conway.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed TE Matt LaCosse.

Waived-injured DL Davon Walls.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Activated OL Cody Wichmann from the PUP list.j SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released CB Jeremy Crayton. Signed WR Dashon Foxx.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed RB Akeem Shavers to the practice roster.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Mike Willie and OL San Longo to the practice roster.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Named Daniel Cherry III chief marketing and innovation officer for the club and the Prudential Center.

SOFTBALL NATIONAL FASTPITCH COACHES ASSOCIATION — Announced the resignation of executive director Lacy Lee Baker.

COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Announced the resignation of running backs coach Bo Graham.

BUFFALO — Announced men’s basketball F Justin Moss is no longer enrolled in school.

Kyrgios fined, suspended for comments to Wawrinka

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Nick Kyrgios was suspended for 28 days from any ATP-sanctioned event and fined an additional $25,000 on Monday for his comments to Stan Wawrinka at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.

The penalties, however, are withheld provided he meets certain conditions over the next six months, ending Feb. 24, 2016.

Kyrgios remains eligible for the U.S. Open, which starts next week and is not an ATP tournament.

The governing body of men’s tennis completed its review of Kyrgios’ conduct and cited him for “aggravated behaviour.” On Aug. 12, a courtside microphone picked up Kyrgios saying that fellow Australian player Thanasi Kokkinakis had slept with a player who reportedly is now Wawrinka’s girlfriend.

“This incident was egregious and reflected poorly on our sport,” said Gayle David Bradshaw, executive vice-president of rules and competition. “Nick has expressed regret, and the best result would be that he learns a lesson from this incident and that he understands he is responsible to the tour and to fellow players for both his actions and his words.”

The suspension and fine will be dropped provided Kyrgios does not draw any fines for verbal or physical abuse at any ATP tournament, and does not accumulate fines totalling more than $5,000 for any other offences at ATP sanctioned tournaments.

The 30-year-old Wawrinka, ranked No. 5 and the French Open champion, announced in April he had separated from his wife, with whom he has a daughter. The Swiss star has since been linked with 19-year-old player Donna Vekic of Croatia.

The ATP already fined Kyrgios $10,000 on Aug. 13. In addition, he was fined $2,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct regarding a comment to a ball person during the match.

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 69 55 .556 Toronto 69 55 .556 Baltimore 62 62 .500 Tampa Bay 62 62 .500 Boston 57 68 .456

GB — — 7 7 12 1/2

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 76 48 .613 63 61 .508 59 65 .476 58 65 .472 58 66 .468

Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 69 57 .548 64 59 .520 63 61 .508 57 67 .460 54 71 .432

Monday’s Major League Linescores

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 68 56 .548 62 61 .504 54 71 .432 50 75 .400 50 75 .400

GB — 5 1/2 14 1/2 18 1/2 18 1/2

AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 New York 000 000 001 — 1 6 1 Feldman, O.Perez (9), Qualls (9) and Conger; Eovaldi, A.Miller (9) and B.McCann. W—A.Miller 2-2. L—O.Perez 0-1.

GB — 13 17 17 1/2 18

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 78 45 .634 75 48 .610 72 51 .585 53 72 .424 52 71 .423

GB — 3 6 26 26

Boston 030 002 000 — 5 11 0 Chicago 100 001 002 — 4 8 0 J.Kelly, Ross Jr. (8), Machi (9) and Hanigan; Samardzija, Da.Jennings (6), M.Albers (8) and Flowers. W—J.Kelly 7-6. L—Samardzija 8-10. Sv— Machi (2). HRs—Boston, R.Castillo (5). Chicago, Abreu (24).

GB — 3 1/2 5 11 14 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

West Division W L Pct 67 56 .545 66 58 .532 62 61 .504 61 63 .492 49 74 .398

GB — 1 1/2 5 6 1/2 18

Baltimore 200 100 000 — 3 5 1 Kan. City 001 007 00x — 8 13 0 U.Jimenez, Brach (6), J.Rondon (7) and Wieters; Medlen, F.Morales (7), Hochevar (9) and S.Perez.

W—Medlen 2-0. L—U.Jimenez 9-8. HRs—Baltimore, A.Jones (24). Kansas City, Moustakas (14).

INTERLEAGUE Cleveland 000 000 001 — 1 6 0 Chicago 000 000 101 — 2 5 1 Kluber, Crockett (8), McAllister (9) and Y.Gomes, R.Perez; Lester, H.Rondon (9) and D.Ross. W—H. Rondon 5-2. L—McAllister 3-4. HRs—Chicago, Bryant (20).

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

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

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1 N.Y. Yankees 1, Houston 0 Cincinnati 12, Detroit 5 Kansas City 8, Baltimore 3 Boston 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Oakland at Seattle, late

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1 N.Y. Mets 16, Philadelphia 7 Atlanta 5, Colorado 3 Cincinnati 12, Detroit 5 Pittsburgh 5, Miami 2 St. Louis at Arizona, late

Tuesday’s Games Houston (Keuchel 14-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 5-9) at Detroit (Simon 11-7), 5:08 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (E.Santana 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Karns 7-5), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 13-6) at Texas (D.Holland 1-1), 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-9) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 6-6), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Miley 10-9) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 7-10), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Chavez 7-12) at Seattle (Montgomery 4-6), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 7-6) at Philadelphia (J.Williams 4-9), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 9-5) at Washington (Strasburg 7-6), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 5-4) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 4-5), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 8-8) at Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 8-4) at Miami (B.Hand 3-3), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 5-4) at Arizona (Ray 3-9), 7:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 15-6) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-3), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 1:40 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.

Toronto at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

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

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

Wednesday’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.

Detroit 400 10 0 000 — 5 11 0 Cincinnati 000 00 (10) 02x — 12 11 0 Farmer, Alburquerque (6), Gorzelanny (6), N.Feliz (6), Knudson (7) and Avila; Sampson, Balester (5), Badenhop (7), Hoover (8), A.Chapman (9) and Barnhart. W—Balester 1-0. L—Alburquerque 3-1.

HRs—Detroit, J.Martinez (33), Castellanos (14).

Cincinnati, Suarez (9), Phillips (10), Votto (24).

NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 011 344 102 — 16 20 3 Phila.

313 000 000 — 7 11 0 deGrom, Gilmartin (3), Robles (7), O’Flaherty (8), C.Torres (9) and d’Arnaud; Morgan, Neris (4), De Fratus (6), Loewen (8) and Rupp. W—Gilmartin 3-1. L—Neris 2-1. HRs—New York, D.Wright (2), Lagares (5), W.Flores 2 (14), d’Arnaud (8), Cuddyer (9), Dan.Murphy (10), Cespedes (6). Philadelphia, Howard (20), Rupp (6), D.Brown (5).

Pittsburgh 002 000 111 — 5 8 0 Miami 000 000 101 — 2 9 1 Happ, J.Hughes (7), Watson (8), Bastardo (9), Melancon (9) and Cervelli; Koehler, Ellington (7), Cordier (8), McGough (8), B.Morris (9), Dunn (9) and Realmuto. W—Happ 2-1. L—Koehler 8-12.

Sv—Melancon (40).

Colorado 110 000 010 — 3 6 0 Atlanta 200 111 00x — 5 10 0 J.De La Rosa, Germen (8), Friedrich (8) and Hundley; Teheran, Detwiler (8), E.Jackson (8), Vizcaino (9) and Bethancourt. W—Teheran 9-6. L—J.De La Rosa 7-6. Sv—Vizcaino (4). HRs—Colorado, Blackmon (15), Paulsen (10). Atlanta, J.Gomes (6), Ad.Garcia (5).

PGA Tour agrees to reduce matches for the Presidents Cup

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDISON, N.J. — The PGA Tour agreed Monday to reduce by four the number of matches in the Presidents Cup, giving the event its fewest matches since it began in 1994.

International team captain Nick Price has been lobbying for the change to help keep the matches close and interesting.

The Americans have won the last five times by a combined score of 95-75, and by at least three points each time.

For the Presidents Cup in South Korea on Oct. 8-11, Thursday and Friday will have five matches (fourballs or foursomes), down from six matches. Saturday will consist of four matches of fourballs and foursomes, followed by 12 singles matches on Sunday.

Each player will be required to compete in two of the four team matches. Previously, all players had to compete in at least three team matches.

“After numerous meetings and discussions, it was apparent that both captains felt passionate about their respective positions, as did their potential team members,” PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem

said. “But with no clear consensus between the two sides, it was up to me to make a decision that would be best for the event overall.”

The Presidents Cup began in 1994 with 32 matches and went to 34 matches in 2003.

The Presidents Cup was created to give international players from outside Europe a chance to compete in a team event made popular by the Ryder Cup. At the time, four of the top 10 in the world ranking were Price, Greg Norman, Ernie Els and David Frost. The Americans had just two players (Fred Couples and Corey Pavin) in the top 10.

But this has been a lopsided event with a few exceptions.

The Americans have won eight out of 10 times, and the combined score in those eight victories was 153-113. The International team’s lone victory was 20 ½-11 ½ in 1998 at Royal Melbourne, and the matches ended in a draw in South Africa in 2003.

“I think just looking at the record of the Presidents Cup, we’re 1-9-1. I think all of us on the team feel that a points change would really make it more exciting and more competitive,” Price said this month before meeting with

Finchem.

“I think win, lose, or draw, we all want to see it come down to the final match on Sunday instead of being done with eight matches left on the golf course on Sunday. That’s a big deal.”

Price said the International team historically lacks depth compared with the Americans, though that wasn’t always the case. For the 2007 matches at Royal Montreal, the International team had nine of the top 20 in the world, compared with five of the top 20 for the Americans. But the Americans didn’t lose any of the 12 foursomes matches and breezed to a victory.

Finchem also took one small step toward eliminating a glaring weakness in the event — both teams run by one tour. Starting in 2015, the host team captain will decide whether to start the Presidents Cup with foursomes or fourballs.

Finchem also said the Presidents Cup would revert back to singles matches being halved at the end of 18 holes.

After the tie in South Africa, singles matches went extra holes until there was a clear winner. The last four times, that hasn’t been an issue.

Cotto’s bout with Alvarez is on after long, tough negotiation

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — If Miguel Cotto’s fight with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is anywhere near as difficult as the negotiations to get them in the ring together, boxing fans are in for a treat this fall.

After months of strenuous posturing and painstaking discussions, Cotto and Alvarez appeared together in Hollywood on Monday to formally announce their WBC middleweight title bout, set for Nov. 21 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

The fight pits two of the sport’s biggest names in a long-awaited chapter of Puerto Rico’s long-standing boxing rivalry with Mexico. They have circled each other for years, and the negotiations dragged on for so long that both boxers took other fights earlier this year.

But both fighters are grateful the contracts are finally signed for a landmark night.

“Like any big fight, the negotiations are going to be hard,” Alvarez said through a translator. “But I’m honoured to fight a guy with his accomplishments. This is a big step in my career.”

Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) had a predictably large fan con-

BOXING tingent behind him during their public appearance in Hollywood, and the 25-yearold Mexican star is favoured by most oddsmakers against the 34-year-old Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs).

Alvarez’s fans booed Cotto and his camp repeatedly during their news conference.

They even jeered beloved trainer Freddie Roach when he predicted Cotto will win by a knockout.

“I don’t know what people say about the fight, and I don’t care,” Cotto said.

“I focus on myself, on my training camp. Nothing else matters.”

Tickets go on sale Tuesday morning, but they will be brutally scarce for the smallish Mandalay Bay arena, which doesn’t hold nearly as many fans as the MGM Grand Garden, Madison Square Garden, an outdoor Texas stadium or any other location seriously considered for this bout. Alvarez’s camp wanted the fight in Texas, where Alvarez drew 31,588 Houston fans to watch his stoppage of James Kirkland earlier this year.

Alvarez’s camp was careful not to assign too much public blame for the torturous nego-

tiations to Cotto, a famously deliberate decision-maker, and his new promoters at Roc Nation Sports.

“Let’s put it this way — it was quite interesting, the negotiation,” said Oscar De La Hoya, Alvarez’s promoter at Golden Boy. “But it was fun, because we all wanted the same thing. This is one of the most anticipated matchups in several years, so we all had one goal, and we eventually got there.”

Cotto’s promoters say he’ll be fighting for the biggest purse of a decorated career that includes world titles in four weight classes, a first for a Puerto Rican fighter. He became the WBC’s middleweight champion in June 2014 by beating Sergio Martinez, but is undersized for the weight class.

Alvarez also has never fought as a true middleweight, and they’ll fight each other at a 155-pound catch weight, barely above the super welterweight limit.

Cotto has revitalized his career under Roach, who cut down on Cotto’s heavy cardio work and focused him on workouts designed to keep him fresh.

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Commodities drop brings economic pain ALBERTA, SASKATCHEWAN, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR WILL BE HARDEST HIT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Commodity prices are tanking and they’re bringing Canadian markets down with them, but experts say some provinces will be feeling the pinch more than others.

“It’ll feel like a recession depending on where you live in the country,” said John Stephenson, chief executive of hedge fund Stephenson & Co. Capital Management. He said everything from oil to metals to lean hog prices are dropping as weaker growth globally weighs on demand.

“Virtually everything is down in price, and significantly down, not just a little bit,” said Stephenson.

The drop in commodities means petro-powered provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador will be especially hard hit, while the manufacturing heartland of Ontario and Quebec could get a boost from the lower Canadian dollar, says Robert Kavcic, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. Canada’s energy producers are hurting as the North American oil benchmark dropped to a fresh six-year low Monday, closing at US$38.24 a barrel. At those prices, many producers

are losing money on every barrel they pump out of the ground, said Kavcic.

“It’s getting to be a lot tougher in the energy sector now. You could actually start to see some production scaled back.”

The recent drop in oil prices has Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial’s chief economist, predicting a mild recession for Alberta this year and a sluggish recovery next year after forecasting in June that the province would avoid such an economic decline.

“Since that time the situation has changed pretty dramatically,” said Hirsch.

He said the fall in oil prices earlier in the year was just an oversupply issue, but crude is now also being hit with a potential drop in demand as cracks start to show in China’s growth. Stephenson said commodities will drop further as investors realize how slow the Chinese economy is actually growing.

He estimates the country is growing at three per cent, compared with the government figure of seven per cent.

“Its weakness is really problematic to the global markets,” said Stephenson.

But while China’s economy begins to waver, the U.S. economy is showing continued strength, with

good consumer spending and strengthening residential construction, said Kavcic.

He said the strong U.S. housing market has bolstered Canada’s lumber industry, which is one of the few Canadian commodities doing relatively well.

U.S. markets have also helped the manufacturing sector, which he said is improving despite the drop in spending by the energy industry. The industry is also getting a boost from the low Canadian dollar, which closed down 0.54 of a U.S. cent at 75.40 cents U.S on Monday.

“When you consider the Canadian dollar, plus U.S. demand combination, plus the benefit of lower energy costs though the manufacturing production chain, you probably end up getting a net positive,” Kavcic said.

Kavcic says BMO expects to see two per cent growth for Canada’s economy as a whole in the second half of the year and through 2016 as the dramatic spending cuts in the energy sector start to level off and other sectors improve.

“The better outlook in Ontario and Quebec and the export sector, and still decent consumer spending and housing environment should be enough to keep us out of a full-scale prolonged recession.”

CUTTING HAY

ENERGY EAST

Hurdle cleared for pipeline TRANSCANADA REACHES DEAL WITH NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTORS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A farmer cuts a hay crop in South Red Deer Monday afternoon. Recent precipitation in Central Alberta has helped to replenish the landscape during an otherwise dry summer.

Slowdown in China hurts already weakened market for oil

BY STEVEN MUFSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE For years, almost every barrel of new oil production around the world — from southern Iraq to Canada’s tar sands and U.S. shale oil wells in Texas or North Dakota — has been soaked up by China, either directly or indirectly.

Now, however, the prospect of an economic slowdown in China has pummeled international oil prices that were already being driven down by Saudi Arabia’s relentlessly high production, new Iraqi output and stubbornly prolific pumping by U.S. independent producers. Soon, assuming the nuclear deal with Tehran takes effect, Iran may boost its exports, too. The result: Crude oil prices closed Monday at just $38.24 a barrel, a precipitous fall from $95.39 a barrel just a year ago and down nearly 6 percent on the day. The price of oil stands at a 6 ½-year low, the same level it reached in the darkest days of the financial crisis of 2008-2009.

“China’s demand weakness just exacerbates tidal oversupply created by (U.S.) shale’s refusal to swing so far and Saudi/Iraqi production ramp ups,” Robert McNally, president of the Rapidan Group consulting firm and former member of the National Security Council, said in an e-mail. “China’s weakness doesn’t so much add to global supplies as fail to soak up an inundation of oversupply.”

Ever since it zipped past the United States in 2013 to become the world’s biggest net importer of petroleum, China has been a giant sponge for rising global oil output. In 2013, it accounted for 43 percent of the increase in global oil consumption. In 2014, it imported a net of 6.1 million barrels a day, 1 million barrels a day more than the United States. In May, the federal Energy Information Administration was still expecting China to account for a quarter of rising global demand.

Suddenly, those numbers are looking mushier.

And given that oil is a commodity whose price is determined by small amounts of shortfalls or excesses in production, a slowdown in China would drive down oil prices. On Aug. 19, the EIA slashed its crude oil price forecast for this year and next by more than 10 percent.

For consumers, low oil prices are, ultimately, good news, similar to a tax cut. And since the United States remains a major net importer of crude oil, lower prices help the nation’s trade balance and stem some of the flow of money to oil exporting countries, most notably Canada (the leading supplier to the United States) as well as producers in the Middle East and West Africa. China’s oil import bill will be lower, too. The other side of the coin is production.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was designed to constrain output and artificially drive up prices, but its members have frequently bickered over who should cut and by

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A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray. how much. Now, OPEC members seem more worried about market share than cutting output. And Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s swing producer, has kept production high as prices have tumbled.

“Saudi Arabia may at some point cut production.

But there is no sign such a turnabout is approaching,” McNally wrote to clients last week. “Riyadh possesses a massive $674 billion foreign exchange war chest and has plenty of room to increase borrowing with government debt at 1.6% of GDP in 2014.”

The kingdom has let prices plummet without support for about a year, openly saying it hoped to put a dent in expansion plans by rival oil exporters. Many of those rivals took a hit Monday on stock markets; one of the biggest U.S. producers of shale oil, Continental Resources, tumbled 25 percent before closing down 9.5 percent.

Yet Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, pledged to boost output “at any cost,” according to the ministry’s news Web site. And the number of active oil rigs in the United States, which fell by half over the past year, rose for the seventh time in eight weeks, according to industry data Friday.

That’s why China’s apparent slowdown is the focus of so much attention — for other commodies as well as crude oil. But China’s oil consumption figures aren’t exact, and that has added to the uncertainty in markets recently. China’s strategic petroleum reserves are growing, and the government hasn’t clearly indicated by how much. That has disguised some of the weakness in demand from China’s own flagging economy, many analysts say. Other world reserves are growing, too. The EIA said Monday that “inventories are estimated to have grown by 2.3 million barrels per day through the first seven months of 2015, the highest level of inventory builds through July of any year since 1998.

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MONTREAL — TransCanada Corp. resolved a major challenge to its $12-billion Energy East project after reaching an agreement with three natural gas distributors who say the deal insulates customers from the additional costs of converting the pipeline.

Under the agreement announced Monday, customers in Ontario and Quebec won’t be on the hook for extra construction and development costs and will save $100 million between 2018 and 2050, the natural gas companies said.

“Whoever will be using the system at that time will pay less than they would have otherwise if Energy East had not been going forward,” Gaz Metro CEO Sophie Brochu said in an interview.

Gaz Metro, Union Gas and Enbridge Gas Distribution had been battling for more than a year to challenge TransCanada’s proposed conversion of an existing 3,000-kilometre segment of cross-Canada natural gas pipe to oil.

Brochu said the agreement in principle between the Calgary-based company and the three natural gas firms resolves that dispute.

“The reservations that we had regarding the project we don’t have any more,” she said.

Union Gas president Steve Baker said the savings per customer based on consumption haven’t been calculated.

“I don’t think they would notice a huge amount in any given year but our objective was always from the start to make sure that consumers were not negatively impacted,” he said.

Energy East is a proposed 4,600-kilometre pipeline that would have the capacity to transport 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta to refineries and port terminals in Eastern Canada.

TransCanada (TSX:TRP) said the agreement ensures natural gas consumers in Ontario and Quebec will have sufficient capacity and reduced natural gas transmission costs should the project proceed.

The company said the deal also includes a commitment to increase the size of its proposed Eastern Mainline Project pipeline in southern Ontario to fulfil all natural gas contracts, including new ones for 2016 and 2017, and add 50 million cubic feet per day of additional capacity.

“It has always been our intent to ensure our customers in Quebec and Ontario would receive the gas they needed and we have done that through this agreement,” said CEO Russ Girling in a news release.

The company has said that converting a portion of the Energy East Pipeline would make the system more efficient and reduce transportation costs to customers. It is expected to amend its application before the National Energy Board by Oct. 30.

Enbridge Gas president Glenn Beaumont said the public consultation process undertaken by the Ontario and Quebec governments helped facilitate the agreement.

The Ontario Energy Board recently said the environmental risks of Energy East outweigh the potential benefits and warned the project would drive up natural gas prices.

The board estimated that on average, over a 20-year period, winter natural gas prices in eastern Ontario will be 11.9 per cent higher than if Energy East did not go ahead.

It said prices would increase because of a reduction in pipeline capacity, higher demand in eastern Ontario and reliance by New England and New York during periods between peaks.

The board said there would be no effect on prices in the summer and only a “modest” impact on gas that passes through a different trading hub for delivery to major markets in Ontario and Eastern Canada.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 118.41 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.02 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.96 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.14 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The continuing rout on China’s main market prompted a worldwide sell-off Monday that sent North American markets into a tailspin from which they only partially recovered.

The market’s benchmark S&P/TSX index plunged 768 points or 5.7 per cent in early trading, then rallied strongly before sliding again. Canada’s main index finished the day at 13,052.74 points — down 420.93 points from Friday’s close. Every sector of the Toronto stock exchange closed lower, with global gold leading the way down with an almost seven per cent decline.

It was the same story in New York, where the Dow Jones industrial average lost a breathtaking 1,000 points shortly after the open before regaining much of that ground, then faltering again to close down 588.40 points at 15,871.35.

The S&P 500 index was down 77.68 points at 1,893.21 and the Nasdaq plunged 179.79 points to 4,526.25.

“Obviously there was a rush to get out the door and too many people trying to get out at the same time,” says Conrad Dabiet, a senior portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

Dabiet said Monday’s market action reminded him of the flash crash that occurred on May 6, 2010, where U.S. markets dropped sharply — with computer algorithms and high-frequency trading worsening the losses — before quickly rebounding.

“It certainly felt like that again,” Dabiet said.

Dabiet says it’s hard to predict which way the markets will go on Tuesday — and whether Monday’s dramatic plunge, as well as last week’s losses, could be the start of a protracted bear market.

“I have no idea,” Dabiet said.

“I certainly hope things come back, but we’ve had a market that’s run for a long time here.”

The Canadian dollar was among the currencies trading lower as the price of many of its natural resources fell amid concerns about the strength of Chi-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.25 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.83 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.95 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.58 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.57 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.77 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.50 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.75 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.98 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.41 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.17 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.33 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.01 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.68 Energy Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.32 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.76 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.13 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 16.95 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 26.01 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 5.76 Canyon Services Group. . 4.15 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 15.92 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.170 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.73 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.710 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 68.72 na’s economy, the world’s second-largest. The loonie fell 0.54 of a U.S. cent to $75.40 cents US — its lowest close since August 2004.

On commodity markets, the benchmark crude oil price closed below the $40 a barrel mark for the first time since February 2009. The October contract for WTI crude closed down $2.21 at US$38.24 a barrel.

September natural gas was off three cents at US$2.65 per thousand cubic feet, December gold was down $6 at US$1,153.60 an ounce and September copper fell five cents to US$2.26 a pound.

China’s largest stock market, the Shanghai composite index, fell 8.5 per cent to close at 3,209.91 points, its biggest oneday loss since an 8.8 per cent decline on Feb. 27, 2007. That had a major spillover effect in Europe, where Germany’s DAX fell five per cent, the CAC-40 in France slid 5.6 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 4.5 per cent.

Underlying the gloom in China is the growing conviction that policy-makers and regulators may lack the means to stop the losses amid an economic slowdown, a banking system short of cash and investors pulling money out of the country.

“There is a lot of fear in the markets,” said Bernard Aw, market strategist at IG. The panic has underscored the scale of the challenge for Chinese leaders in seeking to curb excess investment and guide the economy toward a more sustainable pace of growth.

“My biggest concern is that global growth momentum is very fragile,” said Rajiv Biswas, AsiaPacific chief economist for IHS. “The most important step is to see China take further action to try to bring their economy to a seven per cent growth path.”

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,052.74, down 420.93 points

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.56 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.35 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.61 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.39 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.43 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 0.77 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.35 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.93 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.17 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 38.83 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.230 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 66.18 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.88 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.00 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.15 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.36 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.73 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.60 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.97 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 40.90 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.26 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.71 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.26 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.02

Dow — 15,871.35, down 588.40 points S&P 500 — 1,893.21, down 77.68 points Nasdaq — 4,526.25, down 179.79 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.40 cents US, down 0.54 of a cent Pound — C$2.0925, up 2.57 cents Euro — C$1.5383, up 4.14 cents Euro — US$1.1599, up 2.32 cents Oil futures: US$38.24 per barrel, down $2.21 (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,153.60 per oz., down $6.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.606 oz., down 24.7 cents $662.48 kg., down $7.94 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $2.50 lower $477.70; Jan. ’16 $1.90 lower $478.20; March ’16 $2.20 lower $478.00; May ’16 $1.60 lower $477.00; July ’16 $1.10 lower $475.30; Nov. ’16 $1.20 lower $455.30; Jan. ’17 $1.20 lower $456.50; March ’17 $1.20 lower $458.20; May ’17 $1.20 lower $458.20; July ’17 $1.20 lower $458.20; Nov. ’17 $1.20 lower $458.20.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 $1.50 lower $200.60; Dec. ’15 $1.50 lower $200.60; March ’16 $1.50 lower $202.60; May ’16 $1.50 lower $203.60; July ’16 $1.50 lower $203.60; Oct. ’16 $1.50 lower $203.60; Dec. ’16 $1.50 lower $203.60; March ’17 $1.50 lower $203.60; May ’17 $1.50 lower $203.60; July ’17 $1.50 lower $203.60; Oct. ’17 $1.50 lower $203.60.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 387,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 387,060.

Rooftop solar a key topic at clean energy conference

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Battles over rooftop solar electricity in Western states emerged as a key topic during an annual green power conference hosted Monday by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid.

President Barack Obama was expected to keynote the close of the eighth National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay resort. Obama is using an event that Reid has nurtured during his time as Democratic leader of the Senate to announce new executive actions and other efforts aimed at making it easier for homeowners and businesses to invest in green energy improvements.

Reid opened the conference on Monday highlighting a local utility’s plan to build a 15 megawatt solar generation project on 80 acres in the Nye County community of Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. It will serve the Valley Electric Association, and company chief Tom Husted said it could help lower electricity prices for about 25,000 customers in six rural counties in Nevada and California.

The debate about costs for consumers who install home rooftop solar panels and utilities that control the electric grid in sunny states like Nevada, Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah provided a point-counterpoint discussion between Charles Cicchetti of the Pacific Economics Group, speaking for consumers, and Lisa Wood of the Edison Foundation, representing utilities.

The question hits home in Nevada, where the dominant utility, publiclytraded NV Energy, reported last week that it hit a preset statewide cap of 235 megawatts on the amount of rooftop solar power it will buy back from customers.

Solar power advocates complain that the utility rate structure threatens to kill their fledgling industry. One

rooftop solar company that had begun expanding into Nevada pulled back several weeks ago, citing uncertainty about net metering, “It’s a misconception that rooftop solar users don’t need the grid,” Wood said. She called it only fair that customers continue to pay to maintain the transmission system from which they draw electricity during peak use times and at night. She also acknowledged that net-metering policies needed to be updated.

The misconception, Cicchetti said, is that consumers are required to buy power from the utilities. The bigger danger to the companies, he said, would be for rooftop solar users to become so alienated that they find ways to store electricity collected during the day and withdraw from the grid altogether.

“Pushback is slowing the progress we’ve made,” he said.

Reid, who has made clean and green energy one of his touchstone issues, noted in opening remarks that the key challenge today is “properly valuing rooftop solar, properly valuing energy efficiency and properly valuing other distributed sources of clean energy.”

One leader of a utility company said she welcomed the trend.

Almost one-third of the energy used

by California utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric comes from what the company president, Geisha Williams, called a renewable portfolio standard. Williams said 55 per cent of the company’s electricity is produced without greenhouse emissions.

PG&E serves an area with about 16 million people in northern and central California, and Williams said it now has some 175,000 customers with home solar generation.

Williams said her company gets as many as 5,000 applications per month for rooftop solar, and it has streamlined approvals so they usually take about five days.

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A display board shows the closing figures for the Toronto Stock Exchange, in Toronto, on Monday after a day of high volatility in the financial market.

Stock plunge an appropriate time review risk tolerance

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — It’s gut check time, financial advisers said Monday as stock markets around the world went for a wild ride testing just how much risk investors are really comfortable with.

The S&P/TSX composite index plunged more than 768 points in early trading, then recouped all but 77 points of that before again selling off for a huge loss of 420.93 points or 3.12 per cent to 13,052.74 at the close.

The dive followed a tumble last week that saw the Toronto market suffer through five consecutive losing sessions — including a string of triple-digit losses — that brought the TSX down more than 800 points on the week.

“If you are telling me today that your risk tolerance is not what you thought it was and you’re in the wrong model and you don’t want any downside losses, then we have some things to chat about,” said Brent Vandermeer, a portfolio manager with HollisWealth.

“This is part of what equity markets have consistently done and will continue to do and we have to endure these downside storms even though we get very fearful and worried it is going to keep going down to zero.”

The S&P/TSX composite index is down about 15 per cent from its high reached last year, while the Dow Jones industrial average is off more than 10 per cent from its high reached earlier this year. Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer at Sun Life Global Investments, said if you aren’t sleeping well at night, worried about your investments, you have too much risk.

“This is a great time to go and ask that question because it gives you a true answer as to what your tolerance for risk really is,” he said.

But for those willing and able to withstand the downturn, Adatia suggested there may be opportunities to be had for some investors in some sec-

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Quebec government approves proposal to build liquefied natural gas plant BECANCOUR, Que. — The Quebec government has given the green light to a nearly $800-million project to build a liquefied natural gas plant in Becancour.

Niels Stolt-Nielsen, CEO of StoltNielsen Ltd. and a principal shareholder in the Stolt LNGaz project, announced the go-ahead Monday at an event attended by Quebec Premier

tors.

“We think again that oil prices won’t be sustainable at $40 three years from now, so we see the energy sector as a great opportunity,” he said. “But people have to understand they could still go lower and, in actuality, I think they are still going to go lower.”

“But you’re not going to time exactly when those things start to bounce right back up.”

CIBC noted it expects the recent weakness in stock markets will likely continue into year-end.

“What started as a modest second devaluation of the yuan has now raised concerns of possible competitive devaluations, slower global economic growth and new fears of deflation,” the bank wrote in a note to clients.

“Interest rates have again started to decline, emerging markets have been volatile and equities have fallen. In our opinion, until we get some clear signs that deflation is not back on the table, and until there is evidence of stronger global economic recovery, equities will remain weak.”

While the drop in recent days looks big, compared with the downturn during the 2008-09 financial crisis, the move remains relatively small.

During the financial crisis, the S&P/ TSX composite index dropped more than 7,000 points from its 2008 high before reaching the bottom in 2009.

However, if the plunge in the markets has rattled your nerves and you’ve realized that you really can’t tolerate the risk like you thought you could, Vandermeer recommends making portfolio changes now, not waiting for a little bounce back.

“You can’t postpone and hope that tomorrow is better,” he said.

“The trend is usually persistent for a while and that’s the unfortunate part.”

Philippe Couillard.

Nielsen also announced a transportation partnership agreement with Quebec trucking firm Somavrac and Petro-Nav, a subsidiary of Groupe Desgagnes that specializes in maritime transport of bulk liquids.

Construction of the LNG plant near Trois-Rivieres is expected to create nearly 200 direct jobs before opening in 2018.

The company says more than 100 direct and indirect jobs should be created once the plant is in operation.

Stolt LNGaz Inc. is a Quebecregistered company whose partners are Stolt-Nielsen Gas, SunLNG and LNGaz. The project has received environmental approvals since it was announced more than a year ago to provide LNG to industries in Quebec not served by the existing natural gas pipeline distribution network.

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City adjusts speed limits

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Drivers should prepare for future speed limit changes on a few Red Deer roads.

City council recently approved first reading of a traffic bylaw amendment that will make the bylaw consistent with changes that have already been made to roadways, as well as address growth areas.

No funding is required to implement the changes. Second and third readings are scheduled for Aug. 31.

Wayne Gustafson, the city’s Engineering Services Department manager, said drivers will actually experience minimal impact.

After third reading and approval of the bylaw amendment, speed limits will be reduced: ● On the 30th Avenue/67th Street curve, the speed limit will be reduced to 60 from 70 km/h at intersections for

Clearview North, Timberlands and Garden Heights subdivisions. The speed limit will be reduced from the stretch of road between Timothy Drive to Garden Gate. ● At the south end of Red Deer, the speed limit on 19th Street, between 30th Avenue and the east city limit at Range Road 271, will be dropped to 70 from 100 km/h. ● On some roads in the north end of the city that were annexed from Red Deer County in 2009. Speed limits

will be reduced to 60 from 80 km/h on Range Roads 272, 274, 281, and Township Road 391.

In addition, the speed limit on a portion of Riverside Drive will be adjusted.

The speed limit from 49th Avenue to the Riverside Drive/67th Street westbound ramp will be adjusted to be a consistent 60 km/h.

Right now, portions are 50 or 70 km/h. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Perjury sends woman to jail for 16 months

ON BROKEN WING

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Perhaps reaching the end of its lifespan or perhaps just suffering from some harsh conditions this red dragon fly sporting some broken wing membranes rests near a wetlands area in west Red Deer, Monday.

Ellen-bound runner raises awareness for charity

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF On Sunday, Curtis Hargrove will begin his 2,400-km run — dubbed Hugginz Highway — to reach Ellen DeGeneres’s Hollywood studio by mid October.

The former Red Deer College student’s mission is to personally deliver a handmade blanket and letter to DeGeneres from Angel Magnussen, creator and co-partner of the non-profit Hugginz

By Angel.

Magnussen, an 19-year-old with Down syndrome and autism, sews blankets, pillows and knits soft hats and donates them to sick children and children with special needs in hospital. She wants to invite the TV host to come to her sewing studio on Vancouver Island to help make blankets.

Hargrove believes running to California will ensure DeGeneres and millions of people who watch The Ellen DeGeneres Show learn about Magnussen’s non-profit “I thought a creative way would be to run there because nobody’s ever ran to see (DeGeneres). I honestly believe it would be hard for her to say no hearing Angel’s story,” said Hargrove, 26, of Cold Lake, on Monday.

Hargrove has stayed in touch with

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BRIEF Alberta Green Energy open house hosts needed Are you or your company making a difference with green energy?

The City of Red Deer has put the call is out for innovators of green energy to showcase their efforts at a one-day sustainability show and tell on Saturday, Oct. 3.

Green Energy Doors Open is an annual showcase of sustainable energy and the green energy economy with a focus on decentralized energy (energy produced close to where it is used).

A city press release encourages businesses, farms and homes with sustainable energy projects to display their innovations to the public.

Events must showcase decentralized energy technology rather than at a large centralized plant.

The event must demonstrate or focus on a project or initiative in action.

This event is not about selling a product or device — rather to showcase

Magnussen since they met at the 2012 Grey Cup in Toronto, where both were part of the CFL’s Scotiabank Game Changers promotion that recognized people volunteering to help others.

He has since escorted Magnussen to her prom.

Hargrove ran across Canada in 2012 to raise money for Stollery Children’s Hospital and was recognized for his fundraising efforts that included a nomination for the National Philanthropist Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2014. He was also a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award in 2013.

The run was set for May 31, but was postponed when Magnussen had to undergo jaw surgery.

Magnussen doesn’t watch much TV, preferring to be working in her sewing studio where she regularly makes 10 to 13 blankets a week. But she does watch DeGeneres when her work is done for the day and was inspired by the comedian’s philanthropy.

Hargrove said her blankets have been shipped around the world and he hopes to meet recipients and their families during his run.

He plans to run 50 km each day, at a pace of about 10 km/h, to give him some time to talk about Hugginz By Angel in communities along with way. what is working in our own backyard.

The event must be free to the public.

Host organizations will be responsible for logistics and resources, while the city says it will help with promoting the event.

For more information on Alberta Green Energy Doors Open 2015 or to submit your event, visit www.gedo.ca.

Find Your Stride program urges active, healthy living A new eight-week program encourages physical activity and supports tobacco cessation.

Beginning Sept. 9, Central Albertans can take steps toward better fitness by participating in an eight-week pilot program, says a provincial press release.

The Find Your Stride program, offered by Alberta Health Services (AHS), is a free learn to walk or run program that provides the tools and supports needed to become physically active and improve overall health and quality of life.

Suitable for individuals of all fitness levels, the program targets individuals who use tobacco or have recently quit. Participants are not

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Hargrove will be in Red Deer on Wednesday to attend a fundraising kickoff party for the run to be held at 6 p.m. at Meatheads, at 5250 22nd St. “Red Deer is like a second home to me. I’ve got so much support from the community. It’s nice to be able to have the kickoff party there.”

Then it’s on to Port Alberni, B.C., where Hugginz By Angel has its studio and the starting point for his run.

“I’m getting antsy to get on the road. I fly out Thursday and from there, there’s no turning back.”

He hits the road at 10 a.m. on Sunday with a support van.

Hargrove is still looking for more sponsors to help cover costs during the run. Any funds left over will go to Hugginz by Angel.

“When you’re doing charity events and stuff like this you’ve always got to have a lot of faith. I believe 110 per cent in what I’m doing. That everything will work itself out. I know when I get to Hollywood, Ellen will be there waiting and I can’t wait to share with her, and the world, who Angel Magnussen is.”

For more information and updates during the run, visit www.hugginzhighway.com, or facebook.com/chargrove15.

Live feed videos will be available at Periscope at chargrove15. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

required to quit smoking or use other forms of tobacco as part of the program.

However, as participants embrace a healthy activity they may be more likely to let go of unhealthy ones, such as using tobacco.

Group sessions will be held once a week, for about 90 minutes and will be led by a facilitator. Each session will include a combination of walking, running and stretching regimes. As well, participants can discuss topics like benefits of physical activity, goal setting, healthy eating, injury prevention, information on tobacco and cessation, and how to remain active.

Find Your Stride will be offered in Red Deer from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, from Sept. 9 to Oct. 28 at the Bremner Ave. Community Health Centre, 2845 Bremner Ave. To learn more or to register, call 1-855-943-6718.

Dahlia, gladiolus show in Red Deer on weekend The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Show Society is hosting its annual show on the weekend.

Bower Place Shopping Centre will be the venue for the annual Dahlia

A Red Deer woman found guilty of committing perjury during a 2005 murder trial was sentenced to 16 months in jail on Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

In the May trial, the court found that Janessa Desiree Eliuk, 26, lied on the stand by taking responsibility for the vicious stabbing death of Grant Shoemaker to cast doubt on the guilt of her now-former boyfriend, Paul Lionel White.

White eventually pleaded guilty of killing Shoemaker on June 8, 2005, by stabbing him 34 times.

Eliuk was found to have willingly participated in a perjury plan created by White and his friend Kenny Deck.

White and Deck reasoned that under provisions in the Canada Evidence Act, Eliuk could claim to have committed the murder that White was on trial for and be protected from prosecution as a result of her testimony.

Justice Sheila Martin said aggravating sentencing factors in Eliuk’s case were the serious nature of the offence that White faced, the planning and deliberate and elaborate scheme to lie, and the intention to allow both Eliuk and White to walk free.

“It is a serious case of perjury,” Martin said.

“There needs to be some taking of responsibility for the falsehoods in court.”

Mitigating factors included Eliuk’s lack of a criminal record, and her acceptance that she lied during her trial, although she claimed it was under duress.

Martin said Eliuk was 16 when Shoemaker was killed, and found out a short time later that she was pregnant with White’s baby. She was living with White’s family while the plan to lie was developed so she felt pressure to lie.

Eliuk was also said to have fetal alcohol syndrome.

Martin did not agree with defence counsel Tyson Dahlem’s recommendation that Eliuk receive a conditional sentence to be served in the community.

The justice also decided the two-and-a-half to three-year jail sentenced recommended by Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre was too long.

Perjury carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

and Gladiolus Show and the Western International Gladiolus Show set for Aug. 29 and 30.

Staging takes place from Friday at 6 p.m. to midnight and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Judging takes place at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

For more information, go to www. albertadahliaandgladsociety.com.

Correction: Labour Day barbecue location An news brief in Friday’s about a Labour Day barbecue contained the wrong location for the event.

The Red Deer and District Labour Council is bringing back its annual Labour Day barbecue for the last long weekend of the summer.

Hoping to make it an annual tradition, the council will hold the barbecue on Sept. 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The event will be held on 51st Street between 49th and 50th Avenues.

The street party includes food and refreshments, face painting, a clown and other entertainment.

In case of poor weather, the free barbecue will move indoors to the Potter’s Hands Soup Kitchen, nearby the planned outdoor festivities.

For information, call 403-341-4868.

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Back to the basics Keeping your cool “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”

— W.C. Fields, American comedian, actor writer You can’t touch it but every day it affects how you feel about yourself. You can’t hear it but it is apparent in every word you say aloud or silently to yourself.

You can’t see it but you might catch a glimpse of it in that selfie you took yesMURRAY terday or the FUHRER face you see in the mirror tomorrow morning. It’s your self-esteem, and its level (high or low) will affect every area of your life.

In my workshops and counselling sessions, to explain the concept, I will often suggest that we break the term self-esteem into two words.

First, we look at the word esteem.

If we esteem people, we hold them in high regard. We think of them as being worthy and deserving of success and happiness. We admire and respect them. We consider them capable and able to challenge adversity and overcome it.

The “Aha” moment comes when we add the word “self” back into the equation. It becomes pretty obvious whether our self-esteem is poor or healthy.

I have also explained self-esteem as operating like an emotional immune

EXTREME ESTEEM

system. Consider, if you’re healthy with a strong immune system you can avoid most common ailments that plague others. It doesn’t mean that you’ll never get ill. It simply means that you will become ill less often and generally recover much more quickly. Your selfesteem works in the same way. When impacted by challenging events in your life, you will tend to rebound more quickly.

In my experience, the biggest difference between the individual with poor self-esteem and the individual with healthy self-esteem is the healthy self-esteemer strives for growth and self-improvement while the poor selfesteemer focuses on perceived mistakes and failings. The individual with poor self-esteem will often exaggerate or dwell upon the negatives as these tend to support and validate a poor self-image. These individuals are also prone to controlling and manipulative behaviour and often exhibit perfectionistic tendencies. Research supports the assertion that people with low self-esteem are more prone to depression.

A study by the late Carl Rogers, American psychologist — widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research — suggests that early programming has a tremendous impact on the development of self-esteem in children.

According to Rogers, the foundation for poor or healthy self-esteem is laid in childhood. Low self-esteem in children “tends to be related to physical punishment and [the] withholding of love and affection by parents.”

Though not always the case, a lack of encouragement and support during the formative years can certainly erode a sense of personal value and self-efficacy.

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Hothead: (noun) a person who is impetuous or who easily becomes heated and angry.

Yesterday the kids and I went for a walk to the park and in an effort for health and well-being, I decided we would take the long route.

As soon as we hit the fork in the path and I turned right instead of our usual left, they both stopped and stood there dumbfounded.

LINDSAY “Um, you’re goBROWN ing the wrong way Mom!” So- ME PLUS THREE phie said with blatant unease.

I explained that I wanted to take the long way so we could get some exercise.

What followed could have been a scene straight from the apocalypse itself.

There were devastating screams and horrendous moaning. There was “But why?!” and “No no no!” and even, “This can’t be happening!”

It was a sad ordeal, to say the least.

And it made me wonder where they both get this hotheadedness from.

Surely it couldn’t be me. Could it?

A few months ago, we decided to switch Internet/cable providers. There were some great deals going on with our current provider’s rival so we took the opportunity and jumped ship. Everything was going great. The kids were happy with the new channels they got and I was pleased to have my beloved HBO back. Jamie was the only one who was perturbed because his faithful hardwired Internet connection had to be switched over to Wi-Fi,

which he claimed made the Internet slower. I told him to stop being such a geezer and get with the times.

A few days later ,I received a letter from our previous provider stating that we still had rental equipment of theirs, including but not limited to their Internet modem. It took me the better half of an afternoon to locate all of the random pieces that were listed as not ours. It was the modem that I found last.

Admittedly, I am rather dim-witted when it comes to electronics of any kind. That’s why we keep Jamie’s brother Dan around — he’s our go-to guy when it comes to technology in general (and we consider the four-slot toaster tech savvy).

Unfortunately, at the time Dan was nowhere to be found. So there I was idiotically gawking at the hookups for the Wi-Fi and modem. I located the old modem but it hadn’t been sloppily tossed in an old box like the other items I had retrieved. It was sitting beside an unidentified device that had the new service provider’s name on it. The old modem’s lights were still flashing and it looked completely operational.

I tell you what — any rational person probably would have investigated this a little more. But not I, friends, not I. I got the new service providers on the blower and before they could ask me for my account number, I set forth on my tirade.

“Did you people use my old provider’s Internet modem to hook up your service? This is blasphemy! That is rented equipment and I need to return it! What do you expect me to do after I give it back? How will I get online?

How will I access the Internet without a modem?”

These were the actual words coming out of my mouth.

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Violent behaviour raises red flags for parents

FOCUS ON FAMILY

Has your son recently been exposed to a lot of violent television or video games?

Are there others in his life who display abusive tendencies? Remember, children learn by imitation and often copy what they see in the world around them.

If none of these seem likely, we suggest sitting down with your son and seeing if you can get him to pinpoint a reason for the cruel treatment he’s been dishing out.

Don’t raise your voice or blow your top. Instead, draw him out gently and question him patiently. Do your best to encourage him to talk.

We’d also encourage you to contact us at 855-771-4357 for a referral to a child psychologist or family counselor in your area.

This is especially important if you feel your son’s behavior indicates a pattern of abuse. Trained therapists will have many tools at their disposal that can provide you with the help you need.

Q: My wife and I have been married for six years, and overall, we have a good marriage. But her impulsive spending habits are a source of constant stress. Every month, we have the same argument when the credit card statement arrives. She cries and apologizes -- and then keeps spending! What can I do?

Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: It’s been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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We probably all fit that definition to some extent! But it’s clear from your description of what’s happening in your marriage that your current strategy is in need of a different approach.

Money is a very emotional topic.

People spend and save for a variety of reasons that are often rooted in needs like security, comfort, relational power and validation. So, when you and your wife have your monthly credit card confrontation, you’re not just discussing dollars and cents.

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Because financial issues involve emotions and relational tension, you

may also want to enlist the help of a wise and caring marriage counselor.

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But with financial stress and disagreement consistently listed as a leading cause of divorce, it’s an investment that will give your family’s finances —and your marriage — the best chance of staying on the positive side of the ledger.

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This is supposed to be fun?

Finding the joy in a soggy jog I did a three-km run around Crimson Lake recently with my daughters.

They called it a fun run and, actually, much to my surprise it totally was, especially when it was over!

It didn’t start off as much fun.

The steady drumbeat of falling rain I woke up to that morning watered the thought in my mind that the race may be cancelled. Though I would, no doubt, maintain the façade of being sorely disappointed if that should happen, I knew inTREENA side quite the opposite would be true.

MIELKE Time with my girls. Shopping. Coffee! Just hanging out.

No need to exert myself in any way, shape or form, other than, perhaps, walking slowly back and forth to and from change rooms at dress shops I have been known to frequent.

I allowed myself the luxury of fantasizing of spending such a morning while I drank my coffee, but before I knew it my daughter threw me a raincoat and, in her best teacher-like voice, said, “Lets go, we don’t want to be late.”

I zipped my thoughts into a waterproof compartment in my mind, shrugged into the oversized raincoat and resolutely tied the pink, sparkly shoelaces of my runners into an oversized bow.

I was ready!

At the beginning, my girls kept pace with me. But finally, slightly bored with listening to my laboured breathing and watching my own particular version of a very slow run, they forged ahead.

I was so grateful. Now I only had to keep up to a little four-year-old and a guy walking with a cane.

I squinted my eyes through the raindrops wishing my glasses had little windshield wipers on the lenses so I would know for absolute certain I was not running in circles.

I ran. It rained. I half walked, half ran, trying to remember what was fun about a fun run. Still, it

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FUHRER: Coping Children with low self-esteem may develop coping mechanisms that ultimately prove counterproductive, such as bullying and rebelling or, on the oppose end of the scale, refusing to participate and people-pleasing.

It’s easy to see how negative selfimpressions can be reinforced over time and evolve into set patterns of belief and behaviour. If we feel poorly about ourselves, it’s only natural that we will look for events that support and encourage our suffering, and we find them everywhere.

Admittedly, it’s more difficult to shift perceptions that are deeply ingrained than ones for which we have little investment. Overcoming poor self-esteem can be accomplished only if you’re willing to do the work, and even then it’s going to take time, effort and patience. But the payoff is worth the effort. If you recognize that your self-esteem is low, that’s a great beginning. Awareness is always the first step. It’s never too late to start making a difference.

Whether you’ve been on the journey of self-esteem building for some time or are just taking the first step, here are some suggestions that may help

rained.

But, suddenly, when I had half run, half walked until my pink sparkly shoelaces were dragging in the mud, I saw through my squinty eyes, what looked like a blurry mirage.

The finish line.

I doubled my speed, which meant I had become super charged, blowing past the four-year-old and the guy with a cane, like I was made of greased lightning!

When I crossed the finish line, my girls were there on the sidelines, cheering and clapping.

They even snapped my picture and, as I was to find out later, tagged me on Facebook. In the photo I looked kind of like the ‘before’ picture of someone who was having a very bad hair day, but still my face is stretched into an amazing grin that clearly spelled one word. Happy!

And later as we sat around having coffee and doing all the cool things I had fantasized about earlier, my girls mentioned that going on a fun run is so much more ‘fun’ that just running on your own.

And they wondered why.

I wondered as well, as I sipped my latte and munched on this melt-in-your-mouth delicious scone.

“I think it’s the people,” I ventured, finally. “I mean they don’t say, ‘You are only doing the three km? What’s wrong with you? Look at all those real runners in the 10 km.’

“No! They smile and cheer you on and even when people pass you on the trail they are very polite.

‘Excuse me,’ they say as they jog past. They don’t say stuff like ‘Hurry up, get out of my way,’ or even worse, ‘That’s as fast as you can go?’

“And in the end when you cross the finish line and everyone is clapping, you do feel like some sort of wonderful super hero!”

I feel the gaze of two pair of summer sky blue eyes on me as I finish the last of my scone and drain my latte.

“Let’s go, super hero,” my youngest daughter says.

“Yes, we have shopping to do,” her sister adds.

And, so ended the prologue of the fun run!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

make the path less arduous.

First, listen to the voice of the critic.

What is it that you’ve been saying to yourself? Listen closely as these statements are often automatic, almost like a reflex. Are they complimentary or condemning? Do they encourage and build you up or discourage and tear you down? If you have poor self-esteem, the voice in your head will be critical. Identify negative thoughts and capture them on paper. You may be surprised by what you see on the page and what you’ve been saying to yourself. You wouldn’t berate or belittle a friend in such a way, would you?

Second, stop being a generalist. A generalist will take a mistake or disappointing event and use it define his or her entire life. Think about it. What have you chosen to focus upon and what have you chosen to overlook or disregard? A generalist will often assume he or she knows what everyone is thinking. Unless you’re a mind reader, you really have no idea. A poor self-image will prompt you to assume the worst. And to make matters worse, you’ll choose your words and actions based upon the belief that the assumption is true. See the problem here?

Third, catch yourself doing things right. It’s easy to look for the bad but I’ll wager there are many fine and noble events in your life that are worthy of acknowledgment. When I started my self-esteem journey, I took out a

College students need budget training; 51% out of money before year ends

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If past practice is any indication, the majority of post-secondary school students will likely run out of money before the school year ends — and end up turning to the Bank of Mom and Dad for help.

A new poll from CIBC (TSX:CM) has found that 51 per cent of post-secondary students tapped their parents for additional financial support last year because they ran out of money. And according to the bank, there wasn’t much difference between students from higher- and lower-income families.

CIBC said some 48 per cent of students from families with household incomes of more than $125,000 tapped their parents for extra cash, compared with 52 per cent from families with household incomes of less than $75,000.

Sarah Widmeyer, managing director and head of Wealth Advisory Services, at the bank, said that even though 86 per cent of parents surveyed considered themselves good role models for financial planning, some students were treating their parents like personal ATMs. Widmeyer said young people need to understand that their parents may not always be willing or able to dispense extra cash and that being taught basic financial and budgeting skills before they go off to college or university is essential.

“Clearly, being a good financial role model doesn’t mean your children will understand how to manage their own finances,” she said.

“That’s why it is so important to teach them the importance of balancing a budget in their early teens because it’s a much a tougher lesson to learn when they are off living on their own for the first time in their lives.”

The online survey was conducted Aug. 13-17 among 1,001 Canadian parents who are Angus Reid Forum panellists.

The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

piece of paper and made a list. Initially, I felt a little guilty like I was “blowing my own horn” and that was somehow wrong, but I persisted and found things. You will too. You are worthy, deserving and capable. It’s time you reminded yourself of it.

On the topic of self-worth, Ram Das, American spiritual teacher and author of the best-seller Be Here Now, wrote, “Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

Building your self-esteem also builds your self-love.

When you care about yourself, you feel more worthy and deserving of all the good things in life.

Slowly, everything changes and you’ll change for the better too, and the change will touch every area and aspect of your life.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

BROWN: Properly “You had better get over here and hook it up properly because this is entirely on you!”

I had only paused to catch my breath when the unfortunate customer

service person who had picked up my call began trying to de-escalate the situation.

“Ma’am, I’m sorry you are having issues with this, but I assure you that it would be quite impossible for us to use your old service provider’s modem for our own use.”

“Well it’s hooked up, the lights are flashing! What do you say about that?”

I went on for quite some time repeating much of the same argument because I couldn’t find any other points to quarrel with in my state of blind rage.

“Ma’am, why don’t you just try to unplug the old modem and see if your service is still working?”

I did just that, thinking all the while that this was such a waste of my time.

I looked at the Google bar on my computer. I looked at the unplugged modem. It finally occurred to me that perhaps the old modem had only been plugged into the wall.

Silence and mortification followed as I quickly said, “Thank you, that’ll be all” and hung the phone up.

I looked over to Jamie, who was now hysterically laughing at my obvious faux pas.

“Who’s the geezer now?” he said between snorts.

Moral of this story: teach the kids that hotheadedness never pays.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

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North, South strike deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North and South Korea reached a deal Tuesday to ease animosities, with Pyongyang expressing regret over a recent land mine blast and Seoul agreeing to halt propaganda broadcasts that had pushed the rivals to threats of war.

During two rounds of marathon talks that began Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom, the Koreas agreed on a set of steps aimed at easing tension, with Pyongyang agreeing to lift a “quasi-state of war” that it had declared last week, according to South Korea’s presidential office and North Korea’s state media.

The countries also agreed to resume in September reunions of families separated by the war and to hold further talks soon in either Seoul or Pyongyang, both sides said.

The agreements were expected to quickly ratchet down tension that rose after South Korea blamed North Korea for the mine explosion at the border that maimed two soldiers and restarted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts in retaliation earlier this month.

But it’s unclear how long the good mood would continue as overall ties remain strained and many previous cooperation accords and projects remain deadlocked.

“I hope the two sides faithfully implement the agreements and build up (mutual) confidence through a dialogue and co-operation and that it serves as a chance to work out new South-North relations,” chief South Korean negotiator and presidential national security director Kim Kwan-jin said in a televised news conference.

The United States welcomed the agreement.

“What’s important here is that the two sides did get together, they did come to an agreement that they both found mutually satisfactory,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington, “and that tensions now, which have been running pretty high over the last few days, have an opportunity to decrease a little bit and take some of the air out of this.”

Kim described the North’s expression of “regret” over the fact the mine blast left the two soldiers injured as an apology and said the loudspeaker campaign would end at noon Tuesday unless an “abnormal” event occurs. It was not still clear whether North Korea was now admitting its involvement in the blast.

Pyongyang had denied involvement in the land mine explosions and rejected Seoul’s report that Pyongyang launched an artillery barrage last week.

Man accused of killing trooper suspected in second death

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — The roommate of a man arrested in a Louisiana state trooper’s death was found dead Monday, and the suspect in the trooper’s slaying is also suspected in this case, a sheriff said.

The man was found dead Monday in a home he shared with Kevin Daigle, 54, in Moss Bluff, Calcasieu Parish Tony Mancuso said Monday at a news conference.

He said a deputy went by the home Monday morning after authorities were notified that the roommate had not arrived at work. The deputy found the roommate dead amid signs of a struggle. The roommate’s name was not immediately released.

“We are just now processing the scene,” he said. “We really don’t have a lot of answers.”

Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, died Monday, a day after an apparently stranded motorist shot him in the head and then stood over him to tell him he was going to die soon, state police said.

Authorities plan to charge Daigle with first-degree murder in the trooper’s slaying. Vincent had been trying to help a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Mike Edmonson said.

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From the left, Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University in California, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley and U.S. National Guardsman from Roseburg, Ore., Alek Skarlatos, right, arrive at the Elysee Palace, Monday. French President Francois Hollande awarded the Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honor.

Three Americans, Briton receive France’s top honour

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The president of France pinned his country’s highest award, the Legion d’Honneur, on three Americans and a Briton on Monday, saying they “gave a lesson in courage” by subduing a heavily armed attacker on a high-speed train carrying 500 passengers to Paris.

President Francois Hollande said that while two of the Americans who tackled the gunman were soldiers, “on Friday you were simply passengers.

You behaved as soldiers but also as responsible men.”

Hollande then pinned the medals on U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and their longtime friend Anthony Sadler. All took part in subduing the gunman as he moved through the Amsterdam-to-Paris train with an assault rifle strapped to his bare chest. British businessman Chris Norman, who jumped into the fray, also received the medal.

The Americans looked earnest and slightly overwhelmed — and a little under-dressed — for the unanticipated event in the ornate Elysee Palace.

Their short-sleeved polo shirts and khakis contrasted with the gilded and

velvet-curtained ceremonial hall as Hollande read out their names one by one — and kissed them on each cheek, in French style.

It was an unusual ceremony for the French president’s office too, as dozens of photographers loudly shouted out the Americans’ names as they approached Hollande standing on the steps of the palace— unlike the quieter, more-subdued welcome for visiting heads of state. The four men listened to a translation of Hollande’s speech through earpieces, and the visibly proud mothers of Stone and Skarlatos looked on.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley also attended the ceremony, along with the head of French national railway authority SNCF. The men showed “that faced with terror, we have the power to resist.

You also gave a lesson in courage, in will, and thus in hope,” Hollande said.

Norman said it was less a question of heroism than survival.

“I said to myself, ‘You’re not going to die sitting there doing nothing,”’ he said after the ceremony. “I would do it again. But I don’t know — I think you never know the reaction you will have in those kinds of situations.”

The businessman said he “never thought I’d ever been given such a medal. I will try to be a credit to this honour.”

His arm in a sling and his eye bruised, the 23-year-old Stone has said he was coming out of a deep sleep when the gunman appeared.

Skarlatos, a 22-year-old National Guardsman who was recently back from Afghanistan, “just hit me on the shoulder and said ‘Let’s go,”’ Stone said.

With those words, Hollande said, a “veritable carnage” was avoided.

“Since Friday, the entire world admires your courage, your sangfroid, your spirit of solidarity. This is what allowed you to with bare hands — your bare hands — subdue an armed man.

This must be an example for all, and a source of inspiration,” Hollande said.

Stone left later Monday for Ramstein, Germany, where U.S. air power in Europe is based, and then went for a military medical check at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, according to spokesman Juan Melendez.

Skarlatos also travelled Monday to Germany “to accompany his friend after the traumatic experience they went through together,” Melendez said. Sadler’s plans were not made public.

Angry Lebanese want to junk politicians

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — It took a garbage crisis for Lebanon to finally snap.

Anger about the heaps of trash accumulating in Beirut’s streets boiled over this week with thousands protesting in the street against a government so dysfunctional it can’t hold elections or pick a president, much less deliver basic services.

While surviving the Arab Spring and neighbouring Syria’s civil war relatively unscathed, tiny Lebanon could find itself plunging into renewed chaos if further violence tears across the capital. And its politicians, many of them warlords from the country’s own brutal 15-year civil war, may be sweating through the end of this long, hot Arab summer.

“It shows the Lebanese society to some extent catching up with the rest of the Arab world in terms of popular protests against the central government,” said Rami Khouri, a senior fellow at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut.

In many ways, Lebanon never got over its civil war, which raged from 1975 until 1990. Some of the country’s aging warlords passed on their power to their sons and relatives. Consecutive governments neglected to improve the country’s infrastructure, leading to chronic water shortages and electricity cuts even now, 25 years after the war ended.

These longstanding grievances erupted after the government closed its main landfill Aug. 17, offering Beirut no alternative site. Mountains of garbage piled up on the streets, prompting a grassroots protest movement calling itself “You Stink.”

Decades of putting up with bad governance and corrupt politicians exploded at once. The “You Stink” movement, a rare, non-political people’s movement, quickly picked up supporters and expanded its demands beyond

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Lebanese activist chant slogans during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis in front of the Justice Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday. Organizers of the “You stink” protests that have captivated the Lebanese capital postponed anti-government demonstrations set for Monday evening after a night of violent clashes with police during which dozens of protesters and police officers were wounded. just the trash in the street: It demanded the resignation of the entire government.

Lebanon’s government operates a power-sharing system that supposedly ensures equal representation between the country’s Muslim and Christian sects. That often leads to incessant bickering and cronyism among the country’s politicians.

The country has been without president for more than a year, despite nearly 30 attempts by parliament to pick a new one. Parliament twice has extended its term without elections, though it isn’t working because some lawmakers insist on electing a president first.

The “You Stink” protests, which began as peaceful demonstrations, turned violent this weekend. A small group of young men repeatedly tried to tear down a barbed wire fence separating the crowds from the Lebanese government building, which houses the prime minister’s office and the Cabinet.

On Saturday and Sunday night, police fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters, battling them in the streets of Beirut in dramatic clashes.

Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the street. The two days of chaos wounded dozens.

On Monday, workers swept up broken glass and the burned remains of the violence on the street.

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Voyage of understanding COEUR DE PIRATE HOPES TO STEAL ENGLISH HEARTS WITH BILINGUAL ‘ROSES’

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Singer-songwriter Beatrice Martin, of Coeur de Pirate, is seen through a reflection in a window while posing in Toronto.

The songs here are so stormy and cinematic that they seem almost predestined to soundtrack the fall TV season’s most softly lit heartbreak montages.

In fact, all that sweep and swell renders Roses perhaps Martin’s least downcast set — though she says motherhood had a hand in that, too.

“It changes everything,” said Martin, whose daughter Romy was born in fall 2012. “My daughter really made me the better version of myself. I am a better person now. I’m a better human being. I’m patient and I’m centred and stable.

“I wasn’t like that before. I was meaner. I was shy and I didn’t know

Film giants defy death, tight budgets for one more movie

BY DOUGLASS K. DANIEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOOKS

Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of ’The Other Side of the Wind (St. Martin’s), by Josh Karp, and Mr. Huston/ Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston’s Last Film (BearManor), by Nat Segaloff

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: John Huston, Orson Welles, and Peter Bogdanovich take a break on the set of ‘The Other Side of the Wind in the early 1970s.

Man Who Would Be King, then another half-dozen in the 1980s. His final two films were showcases for his daughter, actress Anjelica Huston, who won an Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor and starred in The Dead.

As author Nat Segaloff suggests in Mr. Huston/Mr. North, Huston wanted to leave son Danny a similar legacy by setting up the 25-year-old to direct his first feature film. The elder Huston had signed on to play a key role in Mr. North, based on a Thornton Wilder novel, even though he knew emphysema was likely to keep him from following through. It did, and Robert Mitchum stepped in.

Segaloff was the only reporter granted access to the set during the six weeks of location shooting in Newport, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1987.

His firsthand account is less about Huston — much of that time he lay dying in a hospital — and more about a movie set under pressure. While hampered by his story’s connection to a minor film, Segaloff provides telling vignettes featuring Mitchum, Lauren Bacall and other Mr. North cast members and crew who ride out the modestly budgeted film’s problems to serve the last request of their longtime friend.

Forty-five years after Welles began filming The Other Side of the Wind, it remains a cinematic Sasquatch, intriguing for glimpses of footage on YouTube and keeping alive the idea of another Welles triumph. A recent crowdfunding project has sought to raise the money needed to finish it. Orson Welles’ last film, with John Huston as its star, might yet provide two Hollywood lions a final roar.

Douglass K. Daniel is the author of Tough as Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks (University of Wisconsin Press).

three years old and gained entry into the prestigious Conservatoire de musique du Quebec a Montreal at age nine. Five years later, she quit the conservatory, and her mother was crestfallen.

“The song basically talks about the relationship that we have, that is full of contradictions,” Martin said.

“Because as much as I love her, she was still this severe figure in my life and I didn’t know how to talk to her most of the time.

“And it’s just to say: let’s keep in touch, otherwise we’ll stop talking.

And that’s not good, especially now that I have my own daughter.”

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More recently, Frew wrote the 2010 Olympic broadcast theme I Believe and the Toronto Maple Leafs theme Free to Be (This is Canada’s Song).

According to a biography on allmusic.com, Frew is 58.

BRIEF Glass Tiger vocalist Alan Frew suffers stroke TORONTO — The vocalist of the Canadian rock band Glass Tiger has suffered a stroke, according to his Instagram account.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Alan Frew writes that he had the stroke on Thursday.

Frew, who also plays guitar, writes that he doesn’t have brain damage but has damaged the right side of his body, including his dominant hand.

He writes that he is “fighting the warrior’s fight” and promises his fans that he will release his latest CD and perform live as soon as he can.

Glass Tiger was discovered in Newmarket, Ont., in 1984 and went on to produce many hit singles including Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) and

Bindi Irwin to compete on Dancing with the Stars NEW YORK — Bindi Irwin will compete on season 21 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

Good Morning America revealed the news Monday with a live interview with Irwin, the daughter of late wildlife expert, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin.

“This is completely different to anything I’ve done in my life. I’m used to wrangling crocodiles, said the 17-yearold.

Irwin has worked to carry on her father’s legacy, hosting TV shows, writing books and co-writing books to promote conservationism.

Dancing with the Stars returns Sept.

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Few great movie directors end their careers on a high note. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t. Howard Hawks didn’t.

Anyone who has sat through 7 Women knows that John Ford certainly did not.

Orson Welles is among the great directors who are praised in spite of their final films. John Huston, on the other hand, managed to keep audiences on their toes to the very end. Reading about their last cinematic gasps in two new books aimed at movie buffs is to appreciate their obsession with shooting movies against all odds.

Welles (1915-1985) remains a fascinating figure in film history as much for his successes (Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil) as for his all too many failures. He is the rejected genius of American movies, his own worst enemy in an industry that provides plenty of enemies to start with.

In Welles’ centennial year, Josh Karp’s Orson Welles’s Last Movie serves as a primer about the director’s life and career while detailing how Welles spent years, beginning in 1970, trying to make a movie about a famous director trying to make a movie. He uses and abuses people who work for next to nothing just to be with him, coaxes or fools friends and strangers into accepting roles in the film, even skirts the law when it comes to obtaining location permits. More than once his crew pretends to be college students on a class project as Welles stays out of sight.

As told by Karp, the making of the unfinished The Other Side of the Wind could be a satire on Hollywood if not a screwball comedy. (Imagine Welles barking direction from the backseat of a Mustang parked on a neighbourhood street as his actual mistress and another actor performed a sex scene in the front seat, the crew rocking the car and dousing its windows with a garden hose to simulate a drive in a storm.)

Welles is charming one moment and irascible the next, displaying flashes of temper amid a steady beam of genius and selfishness.

Welles talked his friend John Huston into playing the fictional director.

In real life Huston (1906-1987) played the Hollywood game with a much defter hand. While Welles scrounged for money, Huston cranked out six feature films in the 1970s, most notably The

how to deal with certain things. And now she came along and she totally changed me.

“It really changes your songwriting,” she added. “It was very grim before.

My songs were very sad. And I couldn’t get out of anything. It was the end of the world. And now, there’s light at the end of it.”

It was that newly skewed perspective that led Martin to writing Drapeau blanc, which of course translates as White Flag.

Martin wrote the song about her mother, a pianist who encouraged Martin’s playing — at times, perhaps, too strongly.

Martin began playing the piano at

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TORONTO — You don’t need to be bilingual to listen to Coeur de Pirate’s new album, Roses, and conclude that Beatrice Martin’s pirate heart has been broken.

The wounds aren’t particularly recent, however. With her first album in nearly four years, the Montreal-based songstress explores a years-ago breakup (reportedly from Jay Malinowski of Bedouin Soundclash) with the eagleeyed view of someone now in a much happier place: married and raising a baby girl.

“Everything that came out was mainly emotions about wanting to move forward and wanting to have a positive outlook on life, even though the songs are still pretty sad,” Martin said in Toronto this week.

“I think to understand what being hurt feels like you need to find true happiness. ... And that same goes to actually be happy — you have to go through something really horrible.

“It’s kind of what I went through and today because I’m happy, I can write those songs because I understand what went on.”

Speaking of understanding, meanwhile, more listeners than ever will be able to parse Martin’s emotion-sick ruminations, since for the first time the 25-year-old has divided her album between English and French — with the scales actually teetering in favour of her non-native tongue.

Writing so much in English was both a practical challenge — “I got it proofread,” she conceded with a sheepish smile — and a practical decision, given that Martin’s robust fanbase in Quebec and France hasn’t yet translated to a sizable English following.

She’s now signed to Cherrytree/Interscope in the U.S., and she isn’t shy about her ambition to seize a larger audience.

“I want to reach out to everybody,” she said.

It helps that the brittle piano balladry upon which she established her career — yielding two platinum records, two Juno Award nominations and four Felix Awards — has blossomed into ornately orchestrated pop.

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Obituaries 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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BUDD, Freda Jean, 1926 - 2015 Freda Jean Budd (Schierman) was born June 5, 1926 at Calgary, Alberta, to parents John and Mary (Dippel) Schierman. John and Mary were born in Jagodnaja Poljana, Russia and immigrated to Canada in 1912. Freda was raised on her parent’s farm near Queenstown, Alberta, until, at age 11, the family moved to a farm 3 miles East and 2 miles North of Vulcan, Alberta. She completed her schooling in Snake Creek rural school, and in Vulcan, and then entered the Holy Cross School of Nursing in Calgary, and graduated with her RN in 1947. Also in 1947, for the first time, she met her future husband at a Church Conference in Vulcan. In 1950 she spent nearly a year nursing in Honolulu, Hawaii and then returned to Calgary, where she worked as a “Special” nurse for severely ill patients. It was there she became seriously involved with her future husband when they met again as she “Specialled” for his boss. She married Charles Budd in Calgary, February 09, 1952. They made their first home in Vulcan and then, in 1959, they moved to Brooks, Alberta, and in 1971 they came to Lacombe where she continued her nursing career, working at Alberta Hospital, Ponoka, Lacombe Nursing Home, Woodwards Store, Red Deer, and finally at the Family Medical Clinic in Lacombe. As well as nursing, she volunteered in her church, the suicide prevention line, nurse at summer camps, Meals on Wheels, fundraising for the Lacombe Pool, and the 1994 Senior Games in Lacombe, plus many other community services. In 1997, she was awarded a Paul Harris fellowship by the Lacombe Rotary Club in honour of her volunteerism and community service. She is survived by her husband of 63 Ω years, Charles, her son Douglas (Sandy) of Calgary, her daughters Janice of Grande Prairie, and Nancy (Mika) of Haleiwa, Hawaii; seven grandchildren, Alan Schell (Jennifer), Darren Salomons (Michelle), Colin Salomons (Ashleigh), Carlie Salomons,Chenoa Bishop, Alexa Budd and Llewis Budd, as well as 9 great grandchildren, Tyler, Teri Lynn, Caleb, Marcus, Claire-(Jeremy) Marie, Owen, Jude, Isla, and Lily; 3 foster children, Joyce (Riley) Stotts, Shirley (Ray) Tessemaker, and Harry Schickler, and her sister Lenore (Eric) Deimert, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents John and Mary Schierman, sisters Pauline, Lillian and brothers John, Dave, Sam and Albert. Funeral Services will be held from the Lacombe Memorial Center, 5214-50 Ave., Lacombe on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 2:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 202, 5943 - 50 Ave., Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca.

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37444 HWY 2 S P/T friendly receptionist, fax or email resume and 37543 HWY 2N good with details. Fax comm. abstract to 700 3020 22 St. resume 403-314-5307 403-337-3758 or FOOD ATTENDANT dtl@telus.net Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening Hair both full and part time.

CLASS 3 DRIVERS Stylists 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + w/airbrake endorsement benefits. Start ASAP. needed immed. for waste & SYLVAN LAKE BARBER Job description recycling automated & roll req’s P/T Stylist/Barber, www.timhortons.com off trucks. Email resume Drop resume off or contact Education and experience with a min. of 2 references Sherry at 403-887-4022 not req’d. to: canpak@xplornet.ca Apply in person or fax TOO MUCH STUFF? resume to: 403-314-1303 Let Classifieds help you sell it.

JJAM Management (1987) Restaurant/ Hotel Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Oilfield 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

COLTER ENERGY LP 40 hrs/week, + benefits , IS NOW HIRING 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., WELL TESTING: criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some Supervisors secondary. Apply in Night Operators person or fax resume to: Operators 403-314-1303 For full job • Have current Safety description visit www. certificates including H2S timhortons.com • Be prepared to work in remote locations for SUBWAY® extended periods of time Red Deer • Must be physically fit Now Hiring - flexible • Competitive wages, benefits full/part time Front Counter and RRSP offered Attendant opportunities Please email resume with available in multiple current driver’s abstract to: convenient locations over a jbecker@colterenergy.ca variety of day/night shifts.

Tired of Standing?

Employees receive Find something to sit on competitive industry wages in Classifieds and full time healthcare benefits. Enjoy being JEDCO Energy Services rewarded with bonuses, Corp is looking for a F/T free shift meals and Truck Driver/Winch/Picker potential for advancement.

Operator/Rubber Start your career today Tire Hoe Operator. and apply at Applicants must have their www.mysubwaycareer.com, Class 1 Drivers License & apply in store, Current Safety Tickets. email your resume to Please apply online at careers@rdsubway.com Jedcoenergy.com or call 403-342-0203. by attaching a resume You can sell your guitar or send resume to for a song... reception@jedcoenergy.com or put it in CLASSIFIEDS LINE LOCATOR and we’ll sell it for you!

710

Truckers/ Drivers

F/T TOW TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract.

Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Misc.

Help

DORA HOLLMAN Sept.18,1928 - Aug. 25, 2014 Mom, forever in our Hearts and on our Minds Loved and missed Dearly Angeline, Kathleen, Larry, Ivy, Bonnie, Ed and Families

720 760

LAMERIS, Guido Benjamin Phillippe Nov. 8, 1955 - Aug. 25, 2010 Well old man, it’s hard to believe it’s already been five years. We miss you every single day. It hurts to think we’ll never see you again, but we know you’re with us every step of the way.

We’re doing what we can to make you proud.

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

The Guinness is on you today, capiche? Love you.

Marlee, Derek & Brianne

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

CLASSIFICATIONS

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

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Oilfield

Miss you and love you always, Sylvia, Cheryl, charlene, Denise, Todd, Joe, Neil, Danielle, Kaitlyn, Aaron, Robyn, Rachel & Callie.

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTAINVIEW ROSEDALE

Whatever You’re Selling...

We Have The Paper You Need!

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW

Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

800

Scan to See Current Openings

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

Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

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

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’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS

Found

What Makes Us Attractive:

KEYS found on the corner of Rogers & Ramsay Ave. Has 4 keys with fob.

Call 403-346-9156 must identify.

CARRIERS NEEDED

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

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Personals

Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

• 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

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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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Fracturing Operators, Frac Sand B-Train Drivers

50-70

★

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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:

Just had a baby boy?

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

• 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

1500-1990

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

7113487H22

ASSISTANT First Aid, H2S and PSTS, valid driver’s licence req’d.

Need to be physically fit.

Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca

RETIRED professional person req’d to be personal assistant for a blind lady.

Ref’s req’d. 403-309-4554

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

SUPERVISORS

This day is remembered and quietly kept, No words are needed, we shall never forget, For those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day.

Unseen and unheard, but always near So loved, so missed and so very dear.

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

stuff

FULL TIME

TURNER, Harold March 29, 1937 - August 25, 2012

CAMPGROUND MANAGER

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NORTH HILL (6889 50 AVE) LOCATION

Classifieds 309-3300

SAT. AUG. 22 TO SUN. AUG 30 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

NO SALE - MON. AUG 24 or TUE. AUG 25 Tools, garden, housewares, ladders, toys, bikes, old magazines, golf clubs.

Too much more to list.

Weather permitting.

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

Now Hiring

Announcements Daily

38 WISHART ST.

GED Preparation

• • • • • • • • •

880

Misc.

Help

FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male.

Paid daily. Resume & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545

FALL START

820

800

309-3300

West Park

880

ACADEMIC Express

860

BLAIR George Matthew 1930-2015 George Matthew Blair passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday August 12, 2015 at the age of 84 years. George was born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan on October 16, 1930 to Andrew and Elizabeth (Lyttle) Blair. George graduated high school in Coderre Saskatchewan and obtained a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Saskatchewan and later a Masters of Library Science from the University of Washington while teaching two summers at UBC Faculty of Education. George had a rewarding teaching career.

His early years were in the Milestone School District, a two year contract for DND 4 Wing RCAF Germany and two years in Watson Lake, Yukon. George settled in Red Deer in 1961 to teach with the Red Deer School District #104 where he retired in 1983. George joined the Red Deer Regional Voluntary Association to volunteer in the gift shop managing the magazine and newspaper selection and received a 30 year service award in 2013 and in the same year received the Mayors Recognition Award for his dedication to volunteerism.

George was an avid bird watcher and enjoyed horticulture and nature. He was a true friend to many and through his philanthropic endeavors he supported scholarships and made many anonymous donations. George will be sadly missed by his brother John Blair of Moose Jaw, niece Betty (Norman) Briggs, great nieces Vonda Barthelette, Terri Quinn, Donna Briggs, Tammy (Terry) Tkachanko and great nephew Wes Briggs and all their children. He will be remembered by his long time friend of 60 plus years Mel Rainey of Richmond, BC and many other friends and colleagues.

George is predeceased by his parents Andrew and Elizabeth Blair, twin brother Joseph, brother, William (Nancy) and sister Nellie (Orville) Smith. Please join in an afternoon of remembrance and celebration Friday, August 28, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. at the Eventide Funeral Chapel. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to The Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation Scholarship Fund.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting: www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

860

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Obituaries

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Restaurant/ Hotel

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA CallDebbie at 403- 314-4307

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announcements

Earn Extra Money

¯ ROUTES AVAILABLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Red Deer Ponoka

Sylvan Lake Lacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email:

carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

7119078TFN

For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 D3

VINTAGE HUDSON’s BAY 3.5 point (84” x 62”) wool blanket. In very good condition. $95 (firm). ***SOLD***

1540

Bicycles

TREK 7000 ONYX series, Alpha custom aluminum frame, 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

1630

EquipmentHeavy

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

1640

Tools

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 VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. 403-885-5020

1660

Firewood

PRECIOUS MOMENTS angel of mercy collectible, new, ideal gift for a nurse, $40. 403-347-3741 RUBBERMAID storage tubs, assorted larger sizes, clean, $5/ea, or all 6/$25; bakers rack, like new 31”Wx17”Dx75”H, 5 glass shelves $90 403-755-2760 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.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

1720

Household Furnishings

NEW sofa bed, $125.

403-358-5568 SOFA and loveseat, exc. con., $200. 403-347-6706

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

1760

Misc. for Sale

100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

3 BDRM, 3 flr, 3 bath house at 7316-59 Ave. to rent to over 35 yr. old couple. Five appliances, fenced yard., deck and 3 car parking. Rent/DD $1650. Ph: 403-341-4627.

ACREAGE home 30 min.

E of Red Deer, Rent/DD $1300. 3 bdrms, utils incld’d. Must be working & have ref’s. 403-896-0127 AVAIL. Sept. 1, 3 bdrm. house for rent in Parkvale.

RENTED No pets. Apply in person or call RENTED

EASTVIEW main flr., 2 bdrm. 1100 sq. ft., hardwood, shared laundry, no VINTAGE Royal Doulton pets, n/s, $1350. incld’s Beswick horse, brown utils. Sept. 1. 403-350-6612 shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high SENIOR condo Legacy $40; Merrell Ortholite Estates 403-350-5054 shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, Condos/ beige, $95. 403-352-8811

Townhouses

1830

Cats

KITTENS, (2) 3 mos. old, 1 Male, 1 Female.

FREE to a good home.

403-885-2104

1860

Sporting Goods

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $195. 403-352-8811

1900

Homestead Firewood Travel B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

TWO high back beige bar stools, $20 each.

403-358-5568

AFFORDABLE

Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

rentals

Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

3030

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

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

2 BDRM. bi-level in 4 plex rent $995 403-314-0209

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Handyman Services

1200

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Warehouse Space

3140

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Pasture

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.

Call 403-343-7955 Rent starting at $949/month 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location.

Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031 SYLVAN: Furn. Private suite. + Cable, fridge, etc. $650/mo. 403-880-0210 SYLVAN: 4 fully furn. units avail. OCT 1. $1100. to $1400. 403-880-0210.

Mobile Lot

3180

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

BY OWNER 5 bdrm. 2.5 bath, 1400 sq. ft.

Sunnybrook bungalow $379,900 403-505-1663 OPEN HOUSE Aug. 22 & 23, 2-4pm.

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

4430

homes CLASSIFICATIONS

CONSOLIDATE All loans with rates from 2.1% business or personal loan bankruptcy or bad credit ok. Call 438-992-5916

4000-4190

4010

5000-5300

S.E. House, working M. $475./mo. 403-341-4664

5050

Trucks

4x4 HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Misc.

Help

Vans Buses

5070

2003 PONTIAC Montana EXT 69,000 kms., good shape, reasonable price.

Please contact 403-392-5733 to view.

Motorhomes

5100

RV RENTAL SPACE in Red Deer, secure with 24 hr. surveillance, gravel lot.

403-302-8793 for price and location.

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3090

2011 COLORADO, Z71 4x4, loaded for comfort, 45,000 kms., 1 owner, $27,500. 403-341-0603

wheels

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.

5050

SERGE’S HOMES

Money To Loan

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Realtors & Services

Trucks

3190

THE NORDIC

Rooms For Rent

4020

Houses For Sale

“COMING SOON” BY

FOR LEASE RIVERSIDE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

1/2 SECTION, 12 km south and east of Red Deer, avail. imm.

403-347-1253

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to MancusoCleaning #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2 www.mancusocleaning.com

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Contractors

1 BDRM. suite across from hospital. Own washer & dryer, N/S. No pets. $900 utils. incl’d. Avail. immed.

403-347-5206 2 BDRM. bsmt. suite, $950 + d.d. Close to Red Deer College, avail immed. n/s, no pets, utils. incld.

403-341-0156, 885-2287 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. Sept.1 $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458 2 bdrm. suite downtown area, above store, at 5115 Gaetz Ave. Quiet person preferred $950/mo., $950 d.d. all utils., except electricity.

Avail. Sept. 1. 347-3149 3 BDRM. 4 appl., incl. water., avail. immed. $875/mo. 403-348-6594 3810 - 47 ST., spacious 2 bdrm. suite, quiet neighborhood, stove, fridge, security, adult only, no pets. $850. Call to view.

587-877-5808 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445 FEMALE TENANT wanted, A.I.S.H. welcome, incld’s furnished bdrm., kitchen facilities, washer/dryer & utils. $500. rent & S.D. Phone Mike 403-346-8581 or 403-304-8472

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

2003 Chev S15 E/C, V6 auto, full load, $6500. Call Harold 403-350-6800 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

GPS, TomTom, XL350tm, lifetime updates, maps Canada, USA & Mexico.

No longer required.

Save $100. Asking only $60. 403-782-7439

880

Earn Extra Money

No s! ion ll Co ect

Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

services

OFFERING cleaning services. Homes, offices, move in/out, seniors 10% off. 587-377-0443 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

3060

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in restorative cleaning!

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1070

Suites

MORRISROE MANOR

Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays.

We’re looking for someone with: • A commitment to excellence • Good communication skills • Good physical fitness • Mechanical aptitude • Good hand/eye coordination

FREE. You pick crab apples. 403-346-3086

Cleaning

NORMANDEAU GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 apartments, avail. immed, appls. $1100. No pets, N/S rent $875 403-596-6000 Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm.

SUITES. 25+, adults only 4-plex, 4 appl., rent/$980, n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 dd/$980, adults with ref., n/s, no pets. 403-358-8586

Excellent Salary with Benefits CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

403-885-5020

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

3060

GROW WITH US

CHILD’s Wooden rocker, $35.; 3 man tent, $35; orange tree in Bonsi bowl $10; spider house plant, $4. 403-342-7460

1010

Suites

880

Misc.

Help

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; mirrors; new punching bag; black desk - office chair and file roller. 403-347-0939

Accounting

3050

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

Earn Extra Cash Earn $150 per week delivering newspapers to business locations in Red Deer on Wednesdays and Red Deer, Blackfalds and Lacombe on Thursdays.

Fuel-efficient vehicle is recommended.

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

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

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Please call Chris at 403.314.4302 or email cpadwicki@reddeeradvocate.com

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL. Free Quotes. 403-506-4822

Routes Available in Your Neighborhood

Red Deer Ponoka Sylvan Lake Lacombe call: 403-314-4394 or email: carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

GRAPHIC ARTIST The Red Deer Advocate is accepting applications for a full time SENIOR GRAPHIC ARTIST. The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and processing ads. Deal effectively and work cooperatively with all managers, advertisers, other supervisors and prepress staff as well as employees from other departments. Work towards maintaining efficient production workflow and customer service.

They must possess a strong work ethic, be well organized and able to assign and prioritize work based on deadlines.

Mac-based Adobe InDesign and Adobe Creative suite experience are definite assets.

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

ash Extra C ise! & Exerc

7109693H31

BRIDGE LAMP. (Antique) Copper and brass, lovely design. Has been professionally re-wired. $75 (firm).

Call (403) 342-7908.

MATTRESS topper, 2” foam style with zipper cloth cover, like new, seldom used. Was $129. new, asking $40. 403-346-2192

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

Residential Appraiser Seeking a Candidate or CRA qualified appraiser to join our professional team.

Soderquist Appraisals is a “top tier” full service real estate appraisal and consulting firm based in Red Deer, Alberta. Red Deer is a city of 100,000 situated within the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. The Red Deer region has a population over 200,000 and is one of North Americas fastest growing and most affluent regions.

The incumbent must be a member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and have a RECA appraiser license.

Soderquist Appraisals offers a commission based remuneration model, a positive and supportive office environment, and a full benefits package.

For more information about our firm please visit: www.Soderquist.ca

Forward resumes stating “Graphic Artist”

by Tuesday, September 1 to: wmoore@reddeeradvocate.com Drop off or mail to: Wendy Moore, Advertising Manager Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

To learn more about Black Press see blackpress.ca

No phone calls please. Please submit resume in confidence to:

mike.garcelon@soderquist.ca

51925K14

blackpress.ca X bclocalnews.com

7125108H21-29

1906 TREDDLE sewing machine, oak cabinet, very good cond. First $100 takes it. 403-877-0825

1760

Misc. for Sale

577698H4-28

1520

Antiques & Art

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

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TUESDAY, AUG. 25, 2015

UPGRADE YOUR ORGEAT AND YOU’LL FIND NOT ALL TIKI DRINKS ARE THE SAME

BY M. CARRIE ALLAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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made with almonds, this roasty variation goes beautifully with many American whiskeys. Adapted from Todd Thrasher of Restaurant Eve and PX in Alexandria, Virginia.

RECIPES

SweetMeat

PREPARATION: Pecan Water can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.

MAKES: 1 serving This drink takes the richness of roasted pecans and goes full-on Southern, pairing a nutty-flavored liquid with bourbon and a hint of peach. Adapted from Todd Thrasher of Restaurant Eve and PX in Alexandria.

INGREDIENTS Ice 1 3/4 ounces bourbon, preferably Belle Meade 1 1/2 ounces Pecan Water (see the recipe, below) 3 dashes peach bitters STEPS Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add the bourbon, Pecan Water and bitters; stir for 30 seconds, then strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a coupe glass.

Pecan Water MAKES: 3 1/4 cups

INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 cups raw, unsalted pecans, gently crushed 1 1/4 cups mild-flavored honey 4 cups filtered water STEPS Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spread the pecans on a baking sheet; roast them for 12 minutes, until fragrant; you’ll see their oils release.

Meanwhile, combine the honey and the water in a medium saucepan over low heat; cook, stirring until the honey has dissolved.

Add the pecans straight from the oven to the saucepan, stirring to coat; cook (low heat) for 30 minutes. Cool, then strain into an airtight container (preferably a glass jar) through cheesecloth or a nutmilk bag; discard the solids. The yield is about 31/4 cups. Refrigerate until well chilled (and up to 1 week) before serving.

A Southern riff on orgeat, which traditionally is

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There was a time when I didn’t really get tiki drinks. Brightly coloured, sometimes with plastic parrots or tropical flowers clinging to their rims, most of them seemed all flash. I suspect it’s because they were impostor “tiki” drinks at beachside bars, which get away with cocktail felonies by virtue of being on a beach. Most beach bars don’t know a falernum from a foxglove, and most customers don’t care.

Skunky corn lagers? Sure! Bright pink concoctions that taste like cotton candy met lime sherbet and had a monstrous sticky baby? Bring it on! Just leave us the alcohol and get out of the way of the view.

It wasn’t till I tasted a mai tai made with true orgeat that I understood. As a longtime hater of marzipan, I was surprised to find that almond flavour — which on its own I find irritatingly pushy — has a magical quality when deployed as a background note to rum and citrus. Shakespeare’s Ariel could have been describing what happens when you add orgeat to a drink: It doth suffer a sea-change/into something rich and strange.

Orgeat is fundamental to tiki, says Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, author of multiple tiki cocktail books, who recently opened Latitude 29, his tiki bar in New Orleans. It’s a star of the mai tai, the Fogcutter and the Scorpion, drinks that were superstars during the tiki heyday of the 1950s and ’60s.

Selecting Latitude 29’s house orgeat was not a task Berry undertook lightly. He knew everyone would judge the bar by its mai tai. And without orgeat, “it’s just a rum sour,” Berry says. “Almond flavour in a tropical drink just makes it so different and compelling. You want to order three.”

Of late, almonds have become a whipping boy of the California drought, which got me thinking about other nut syrups. What cocktail wonders could you get from orgeats of cashew, pistachio, seeds? Could you still call it orgeat if it didn’t have almonds?

Would it be something else, like a pistageat? I hoped not. A pistageat sounds like an obscure but critical organ of the inner ear whose failure leaves you permanently hearing Styx songs.

Happily, it turns out that the word orgeat has nothing to do with almonds; it comes from the French “orge,” for barley, the grain that was an ingredient for centuries. I have yet to find a satisfactory answer as to how the barley in orgeat recipes got lost over time, but out of curiosity, I tested an orgeat with the orge in it: boiling barley, then pressing out the liquid, which resulted in a glutinous mass of pale goo resembling the acid-blood of the Alien in the sci-fi movies of the same name, only less appetizing. But thinned out with brown-sugar syrup and a touch of vanilla, it was delicious, a bit like the milk that remains at the end of a bowl of sweet cereal. The glutinous quality added heft and density to the syrup, giving it a thicker mouth feel.

I might have played with it more had I not preferred that our kitchen not look like an extraterrestrial exploded in it, and had Dave Arnold — the genius behind the terrific Booker and Dax in New York — not provided such good guidance on how to science the pants off the whole orgeat business.

Liquid Intelligence, Arnold’s James Beard Awardwinning cocktail book, gives tips on how to use a blender, gum arabic and xanthan gum to turn any nut into an orgeat.

It’s Arnold’s technique that Lukas Smith, bartender at cocktail haven Dram & Grain in Adams Morgan, uses for the bar’s orgeats. The gum arabic serves as an emulsifier, helping incorporate the rich oils of the nuts into the liquid. Once the Dram & Grain team started working with Arnold’s technique, they played with black walnuts, pecans and peanuts — Planter’s peanuts, which went, amusingly, into a planter’s punch variation.

They now use a pistachio orgeat in their ‘BOTH SMITH delicious ThousandAND THRASHER .

Yard Stare. Smith even considers the . . RECOMMEND season. “It’s summerDASHING MOST time, so a fairly light toast will do. You want ORGEATS WITH to smell the nuts, not A HIT OF SALT. the fire,” he specifies.

“As we progress into YOU’LL BARELY the darker seasons, NOTICE IT IN THE we’re probably going to roast them heaviFINAL COCKTAILS, er and heavier as we BUT THE SALT go along, to get those richer flavours that ELEVATES THE you want when it’s cold FLAVOUR OF THE outside.”

Roasting turned the NUTS AND SUBTLY key for Todd Thrasher ENHANCES THE years back, when he FINAL DRINK.’ was figuring out a cocktail variation of a pecan petit-four. Thrasher, the bartender and general manager at Restaurant Eve and PX, wasn’t happy with the results from raw pecans and noticed the restaurant’s pastry chef taking peanuts out of the oven. “They’d gotten all oily, and I was like, ‘Hmm, that’s interesting.’ . . . I thought how when you’re making a caipirinha, you want all the oils to come out of the lime peel. . . . So then I roasted the pecans till they got brown and oily, and I put them in the water at that point.” Roasted to the point of fragrance, the darker nuts provide the core of his SweetMeat, a drink that makes me nostalgic for all the good food of the South.

Both Smith and Thrasher, who’s planning to open a tiki bar in the District’s wharf area in 2017, recommend dashing most orgeats with a hit of salt. You’ll barely notice it in the final cocktails, but the salt elevates the flavour of the nuts and subtly enhances the final drink.

These syrups are different from the classic orgeat (though both work pretty beautifully with aged rum).

Traditionally, orgeat has notes of orange flower and sometimes rose, which play into tiki concoctions as well. But these roasty syrups provide their own kind of heft, adding earthiness and fire that can deepen your drinks. I’m planning to see what I can get from pistachios, walnuts and honey. I’m hoping for liquid baklava.

NOTE: Those dabbling in orgeat but too busy/ lazy to make it might be interested to know that the orgeat Jeff Berry chose for Latitude 29 can soon be ordered from Adam Kolesar’s Orgeat Works, as can a Heavy Duty version developed for Death & Co. and a macadamia nut syrup developed for Clover Club’s Julie Reiner. Go nuts.

SweetMeat: this drink takes the richness of roasted pecans and pairs a nutty-flavoured liquid with bourbon and a hint of peach.

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