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ABOVE: Venturers with Red Deer’s 18th Morrisroe Scouts recently attended the World Scout Jamboree in Japan. Their trip took them to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall stand to remind us of the 70,000 killed instantly by the atomic bomb. LEFT: Evan Schollie was one of eight Red Deer Venturers and an advisor who travelled to Japan for the World Scout Jamboree. The Venturers visited a Japanese middle school as part of their experience.
NINE MEMBERS OF 18TH MORRISROE VENTURERS TROOP ATTEND SCOUTS WORLD JAMBOREE IN JAPAN BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF “Do you live in igloos?” Sylvan Lake’s Jocelyn Mosset got that question and others as she joined 30,000 others at the Scouts World Jamboree in Japan recently. Her curious interviewers from the Middle East also wanted to know if pet polar bears were a thing out here. She’s not sure if they were disappointed by her reality-check answer, she recalls with a chuckle. Dispelling a few myths about the Great White North was all part of the fun for the teen who is one of the nine members, including an advisor, of Red Deer’s 18th Morrisroe Venturers troop who made the journey to Japan’s Yamaguchi City along with about 350
other Canadian Scouts. “Really the highlight was going into a different culture and experiencing that,” says Mosset. “It was different because you got to see what their culture was like compared to yours.” The Scouts’ Japanese hosts provided a glimpse into their culture. They are “very, very respectful and very polite as well. They always make sure you have what you need.” A visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial provided a sombre experience. The park built around the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall serves as a memorial to the 70,000 people who died instantly, and another 70,000 who succumbed to their radiation wounds later, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city during the Second World War.
She describes the experience as “draining. It was a lot to take in.” Mosset, who turned 16 on Monday, joined Scouts as a seven-year-old and is heading into her third year as a Venturer, which is for Scouts aged 14 to 17. Other Venturers also spoke glowingly of their opportunity to participate in a jamboree that is only held every four years. “My favourite part was climbing Mount Fuji, and spending the extra week touring around Japan,” says Evan Schollie, who was joined on the trip by his father and Venturer advisor Bruce Schollie. The Red Deer contingent spent four days in Hong Kong with most staying on for 20 days in Japan, plus a day in Seoul, South Korea.
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Scott Robinson has hit the ground running as the CEO for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. Robinson has wasted no time getting down to business after officially coming on board in his new role on Aug.15. He has a temporary office sent up on the second floor of the Recreation Centre. It will fit the Scott Robinson bill until moving over to former Central Elementary School which served as a few years as the Gateway Christian School on 53rd Street by early October. Eventually the entire games operations will have the run of the facility. The Central Alberta Regional Consortium will continue to operate out of the building. In the meantime, Robinson said the status quo for the next eight to 10 months will consist of learning, planning and organizing. For the most part it will be the behind the scenes work of filling committees and building the work plan for the organization for the next six to 12 months. “I think the challenge will be managing all the parts at once with a small group of people,” said Robinson. “We will start adding people in the late fall/early new year that will be central to leading various parts of the games.” That will also include a call for volunteers who will be key to the games. He said there will be lots of opportunities for volunteers down the road. Plans are in the works for a potential event that will mark three years before the games – Feb.15, 2016 – as a way to keep the momentum alive in the community. The host society will also be at public events and sharing information about the games through its various social media channels. It was a little more than a year ago when Red Deer was given the nod to host the games.
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Willson House named Municipal Historic Resource BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The house that Loveland and Miller built has stood the test of time. The two-storey house at 5011 43rd Avenue was built for brothers Ernest and Arthur, relatives of the Michener family, in 1911 for $3,500. Just a few weeks ago the house, now owned by Patty and Mark Marback, became the city’s 18th Municipal Historic Resource, of which four are provincial historical resources. Janet Pennington, the city’s heritage community co-ordinator, said the home in Michener Hill was first identified for its significance when the city conducted a heritage survey in 2007.
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The city has been working with the owners for the last two years on the designation. “It is an absolutely beautiful house,” said Pennington. “It was part of that early residential development before the First World War.” For some time in the 1950s, the house was used as a home for seniors and was known as Grandview Lodge or Grandview Villa. “When we designated the house as a Municipal Historic Resource in August 2015, and with the approval of the homeowners, we decided to rename the house the Willson House after the two Willson brothers the house was built for in 1911,” said Pennington. “Naming a building or site after the person or people it was originally built for is a
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fairly standard heritage practice.” She said there are 2,200 houses built before the 1950s still standing in Red Deer. Of the ones already surveyed, most were built between 1904 and 1935. Pennington has been working with a team of volunteers and a few city staffers on its current heritage survey for more than a year. They have already survey 500 houses and in the next month they will 400 more. Last February and March, Pennington and her team walked every street in Red Deer to identify the 400 sites that will be surveyed for historic value.
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Known as the Willson House, this home at 5011 43 Avenue in Red Deer is an historic resource.
Tories drop two candidates The Conservatives stumbled as the federal election reached an unofficial milestone on Monday, dropping two candidates. Story on PAGE A5
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Foreign sailors paid while Canadian crews jobless: union
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Seafarers International Union of Canada is preparing to take the federal government to court over the use of foreign sailors — some of whom are allegedly being paid as little as $2 per hour — on internationally-flagged ships in Canadians waters. The labour group, which represents unlicensed sailors in all of the country’s coastal waters, has been firing warning shots for month over the growing refusal of shipping agents to hire Canadian crews — something to which the federal government has allegedly has turned a blind eye. The Canadian Press has learned the union intends to ask the Federal Court in Vancouver on Tuesday for a judicial review of the practice of issuing the foreign sailors temporary work permits. The union points to the 60,000 ton, Greek-owned tanker Almathea, which was just in the Port of Montreal and licensed to be transporting crude oil in Canadian waters until Sept. 13. Fourteen employment contracts, obtained by The Canadian Press, show hourly wages for non-licensed crew members range from as little as $2.13 to $8.80, depending upon the job and before overtime. Seafarers union president Jim Given said such exploitation is common in international shipping, where companies will hire sailors from the Philippines, Indonesia or other poor countries for a tiny fraction of what Canadians would make. “The Government of Canada is letting foreign ships replace thousands of qualified Canadian workers at a time when 25 per cent of our workforce is unemployed,” said Given. “The law is very simple. They’re giving work permits to foreign workers on ships in Canadian waters when the law says those jobs should go qualified Canadians first.” Canada Border Services Agency last year issued 142 exemptions to foreign ships so their crews could work legally in Canada, even though the union says shipping companies made no attempt to hire Canadian sailors. Another 59 C-10 exemptions have been granted so far this year.
SCOUTS: Split into camps “It was really nice to meet kids from around the world,” he says of the July 28-Aug. 8 Jamboree. “I traded lots of stuff with them too.” A giant flag courtesy of a group of British Scouts now hangs on his bedroom wall. He also came home with a jacket swapped from some Spanish participants. Scouts were split into camps of about 40 and organizers did their best to mix countries together. “Our neighbours were from Norway. We had some Saudi Arabians close by and some Japanese Scouts,” says the 17-year-old, who has been involved in Scouting for 11 years. “My favourite activity is we went into town and we visited a Japanese middle school and saw the students and did some activities with them and played some Japanese games.” Among the friends he made were Scouts from Argentina. He bridged the cultural divide by speaking to them in Spanish, which he has been learning at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Hunter Van Hecke, 16, has been involved in Scouts for nine years, says the experience will be a lifelong memory. “It’s probably one of the biggest highlights of my life so far,” says the Grade 11 Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School student. Climbing Mount Fuji — a two-day trek — was an experience not to be forgotten. Van Hecke also enjoyed learning about the Japanese culture. “Their food was very good as well.” The Jamboree provided a unique opportunity to see dozens of cultures brought together into such as a small area. “There were people everywhere. You could never not see people from all around the world. It was just an amazing experience. “I learned that everybody is different. They have different ways of doing everything.”
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One group of Scouts, from a country in southern Africa gathered every morning at 4 a.m. to pray together. Making it to the Jamboree took dedication for the local Venturers. They spent two years raising funds, taking to the streets for bottle drives monthly and often twice a month. Bingos, chocolate almond and sausage sales, and art raffles were also employed to cover the $7,500 cost per person for all transportation, meal, activity and accommodation costs. The next World Jamboree in 2019 will be held in West Virginia, U.S. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
ROBINSON: Worked as volunteer on bid process Robinson said he still remembers it as it were yesterday. He was among the hundreds who were glued to the big screen in the Welikoklad Event Centre downtown Red Deer. “I was never that nervous before,” laughed Robinson, who worked as a volunteer on the bid process. “ And absolute elevation when we won. The worst part was the fact that we were in the theatre and the live feed kept buffering. We weren’t actually getting it live.” He said it was an amazing experience and the community engagement was outstanding. “What we saw from the rally in August leading into that day made you really feel as though this is something incredibly special,” he said. “It is a once in a generation opportunity for the community. And it really felt that way.” Lyn Radford, the board chair of Red Deer 2019 Canada Winter Games Host Society, said she is even more excited than she was a year ago. “It’s amazing and the leverage and the things we are going to be able to do in the city because the games are coming,” said Radford. Radford said it will get more and more exciting as volunteers come on board and as they continue to
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But not every identified house will become a historic resource. Pennington said there has to be more research conducted before talking to the property owners about the possibility of designating the home. After the owners are on board, the entire process takes about nine to 12 months. The last time a municipal property was designated was on 56th Street in 2012/2013. Next on the list could be City Hall Park and Horton Spheroid water tower, commonly referred to as the ‘green onion.’ In order to be designated, a site must have some heritage value in its architectural features, a significant connection to the community or a significant event. The Willson House is significant for its association with the the early residential development in Red Deer and its moderate Queen Anne design influences such as its gable roof with patterned wooden shingles in the gable ends, a chamfered corner and the full-width open front porch. The large wooden fire escape on the east facade remains from the time when the house was a private nursing home. The original woodwork and windows are intact. “We are helping to preserve our heritage,” said Pennington. “The homes can become part of the heritage tours. “We are not just looking at really old houses. There were some really interesting houses built in the 1950s with modern features.” To find out more about the Willson House or other historic resources, visit the city’s archives at 4525 47A Avenue or email archives@reddeer.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Quebec asks Ottawa for refugee help BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Quebec government announced a series of measures to take in more Syrian refugees Monday, while acknowledging it needs a green light from the federal government before they can go ahead. As a result of the Syrian refugee crisis, the province announced it was ready to take in 3,650 refugees before the end of 2015 -- 2,450 more than originally planned. “To be able do that we need the collaboration of the federal government,” said Kathleen Weil, Quebec’s immigration minister, in a press conference. Accompanied by International Relations Minister Christine St-Pierre, Weil explained that since the federal government is in charge of border security and refugee policy, it would have to approve Quebec’s plan to bring in refugees on an accelerated timeline. When asked about Quebec’s announcement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government had already agreed to take in additional refugees, and Quebec’s request of 2,500 was in line with what they would proportionately receive. The Conservatives have committed to accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next three years, whereas Quebec’s proposal was for 2015 alone. Harper said the government was “looking at ways to speed up the process,” while protecting Canada’s security. “It’s essential we help the most vulnerable, not only first come first serve, and we have to know exactly who these people are,” Harper said in Toronto. “We are committed to protecting our security in this process.” Quebec’s new target would include 1,800 new privately sponsored refugees and 650 state-sponsored. Since the beginning of 2015, 651 refugees have arrived in Quebec from Syria. In 2014, the province took in 60 per cent of Canada’s total. The measures announced by the Quebec government would cost $29 million, the bulk of which would go towards language training, job aid, education and health care. The announcement came days after the shocking photo of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy with family connections to Canada caused a global outcry and thrust the refugee crisis to the top of international headlines.
Proposed bylaw would make Uber drivers carry commercial insurance BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton city councillors will vote on a proposal that could bring Uber out of a legal grey zone, and possibly shine a beacon of peace in a global battle between taxi drivers and advocates of the ride-sharing app. Scott Mackie, the branch manager for current planning in Edmonton, says proposed changes to the city’s vehicle-for-hire bylaw would require drivers with the ride-sharing service to have commercial insurance. The city says the bylaw would be standardized, so that all drivers for hired vehicles would need criminal background checks, as well as the right class of provincial driver’s licence and mechanical inspections for their vehicles. A public hearing is set for Sept. 16 so city council can hear reaction to the proposed changes. Uber, in particular, is fighting numerous legal and regulatory battles as it aggressively expands worldwide. Taxi drivers staged a large demonstration in Montreal last month to press the Quebec government to declare the ride-hailing service Uber-X illegal. “What this does is it creates categories so that each category within the vehicle for hire industry can be regulated managed at an appropriate level for the type of service that they’re operating,” Mackie told a news conference on Friday about the proposal. Mackie said that the commercial insurance requirement is included because the insurance industry has informed the city that personal insurance does not cover an individual who’s carrying passen-
gers for compensation. Alberta said in July that it has conducted a study of Uber’s insurance policies and it believes that they do not meet the requirements of the province’s Insurance Act. United Cabbies Association president Bahaj Manhas said his group will oppose the changes that would allow Uber to operate legally, noting that the fluctuating fares that ride-share companies charge would hurt licensed cab drivers. “Picking the pockets of the drivers who have been working for a long time. It’s going to be a big setback for their income because there will be an unlimited number of taxis in the street,” Manhas said after meeting with fellow drivers at Edmonton’s airport. Uber spokesman Xavier Van Chau said in a statement that Edmonton’s efforts to be among the first in Canada to regulate ride sharing are commendable. But he said special licences and high fees for drivers themselves wouldn’t be workable. “Most driver partners sign up on a short-term or part-time basis. With such rules, riders face the prospect of higher prices and unreliable service,” Van Chau said. “Other cities that have regulated ride sharing have instead adopted a model that licenses ridesharing companies directly.” Edmonton councillor Scott McKeen, who sat in on the closed door executive committee meeting where the draft bylaw was reviewed before it was made public, anticipated opposition. “I’m sure there will be backlash,” McKeen said. “But to ignore this technology is to allow a situation to continue where there is what are called bandit cabs, this sort of black market that I don’t think we can ignore anymore.”
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Regulator says Nexen can reopen utility pipelines at oilsands operation CALGARY — Nexen Energy is being allowed to reopen some pipelines at an Alberta oilsands operation after provincial regulators suspended the licences for them last month. The Alberta Energy Regulator says that after inspecting Nexen’s Long Lake facility and reviewing documents, it has determined that about 40 utility pipelines that carry fuel gas, natural gas and water pose a low risk to public safety and the environment. It says Nexen has demonstrated the utility lines can be operated safely and within all regulatory requirements. But the regulator says the remaining 55 pipelines affected by the order, which contain products including crude oil, natural gas, salt water, fresh water and emulsion, must stay closed until the company can demonstrate they’re safe. The regulator revoked the operating licences for the lines at Long Lake on August 28 due to what it called non-compliance surrounding pipeline maintenance and monitoring. Nexen says in a news release that the reopening of the utility pipelines means it will be able to maintain approximately 75 per cent of its Long Lake oil sands production and upgrader operations.
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Red Deer lawyer appointed to provincial court A Red Deer lawyer has been appointed to the Provincial Court of Alberta. Marilyn Slawinsky was one of two new judges announced last week. Slawinsky has spent most of her legal career in private practice, specializing in the areas of family law and alternative dispute resolution. Most recently she served as the policing manager for the City of Red Deer. Her long list of public service jobs include manager of Family Justice Services, the Family Law Information Centre and the Provincial Court Civil Claims Mediation Program in Red Deer. The list also includes the director of Dispute Resolution Services for the province of Alberta and Public Complaint Director and Legal Counsel for the Calgary Police Commission. Her community service includes board member positions with the Red Deer County Subdivision and Development Board, the Central Alberta Regional Assessment Review Board and the Red Deer Community Information and Referral Society. She has also volunteered with the Law Society of Alberta, the Alberta Legal Education Society, and the Golden Circle Senior Centre in Red Deer, and was a mediator for the Government of Alberta’s Family Mediation Program. Slawinsky received a juris doctor from the University of Manitoba in 1987 and was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1988.
Mom and daughter in B.C. animal abuse case face more charges CEREAL — A mother and daughter charged in an animal abuse case in British Columbia have been arrested in Alberta, where police say they’ll face more animal abuse charges. Cpl. Jeff Clarke says the names of the mother and daughter won’t be released until the charges against them are officially sworn. A news release from the RCMP states the pair failed to comply with release conditions from the charges they faced in B.C. and were located at a rural residence south of Cereal, about 225 kilometres northeast of Calgary. It states that when officers searched the property, 11 horses, 25 dogs and 17 birds were found to be in distress. The mother and daughter have been charged with failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking, cruelty to animals, wilful neglect of animals and possession of stolen property. They’re scheduled to appear in Hanna Provincial Court on Oct. 28. RCMP say all of the Alberta animals were seized and relocated with the assistance of the SPCA.
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Tragedy casts dim light on Tories The story of little Alan Kurdi and a beating from media outlets the world his brother, Ghalib, two young Syr- over before it became clear that it was ian boys who wanted new Abdullah Kurdi’s brother, bicycles and whose famMohammed, who had sought ily dreamt of the safety refuge in Canada and been and peace that we take for rejected. That provided granted in our country, has some solace to Conservaspawned a gut-check questives on the campaign trail tion being asked at home but did not alter the fundaand by those watching us mental question of whether from afar. this country was doing what Are we no longer the it could. compassionate and welcomSpeaking shortly after ing country we once were? Tima Kurdi broke a nation’s The answer is, yes, we collective heart, recalling are. her brother’s account of the TIM The entire country felt last moments of his family’s HARPER the anguish of Abdullah life on a dinghy flipped by Kurdi as he wailed at a raging waters as they sought Turkish morgue after idendry land on the Greek Istifying his family, just as we land of Kos, Harper showed shuddered a day earlier at the iconic rare emotion. photo of the little boy who had slipped His voice cracking, he said the phofrom his hands. to of Alan’s lifeless body washed up on Our reaction to this heartbreaking a Turkish shore brings “tears to your saga and calls for this country to do eyes.’’ something — anything — for people But he would not be prodded into willing to risk everything to escape the speeding up or expanding an inadhorrors of Syria shows we are still that equate refugee settlement program, compassionate nation. something most of this country was We should not be tarred interna- surely hoping to hear. tionally by those who represent us on Harper maintained that a bombing the global stage — Conservative Lead- mission against Islamic State, to save er Stephen Harper, whose world is those trapped in a war zone, was as built on dispassionate political led- important as welcoming refugees and ger sheets that will not be moved by providing humanitarian aid. personal tragedy, and his inept immiHe ably delivered his political mesgration minister, Chris Alexander, the sage, but this was a time for a heartthin-skinned, overly combative master felt reaction in the middle of an elecof obfuscation and doublespeak. tion campaign. Harper let the moment The Canadian reputation was taking pass.
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His minister Alexander returned to Ottawa hours after making a fool of himself on the CBC trying to defend his indefensible refugee performance by blaming the media for not covering the story. But the snarling Alexander is a perfect Harper cabinet minister for these times. He’s cut from the same cloth as former natural resources minister Joe Oliver, who branded anyone concerned about a pipeline crossing British Columbia as “radicals,” or former Veterans Affairs minister Julian Fantino, who branded those who fought for this country and were unhappy about their treatment as stooges of a public service union. If one sees the performance on the refugee file by Harper and Alexander as shameful, Canada is not alone in its shame. Britain, where an anti-migrant sentiment had been whipped up by the right-wing press, has resettled a grand total of 216 Syrian refugees, although it has provided asylum or other forms of humanitarian protection to nearly 5,000 others. In the wake of Alan’s death, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged he would accept thousands more. The United States has accepted about 1,500, but there were calls Thursday for the Obama administration to admit tens of thousands more. Canada has accepted 2,300, relying heavily on private sponsorships. But Alexander has never been sufficiently forthcoming about his govern-
ment’s performance after promising 10,000 Syrian refugees a home in this country. His one consistency is his umbrage when being held to account. In June, 2014, he hung up the phone on Carol Off, the host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens, when she pressed him on how many of the 200 governmentsponsored Syrian refugees at that point were actually in the country. When Maclean’s magazine sought an update in July on how many of the promised 10,000 Syrian refugee spots in Canada had been filled (Harper has pledged 10,000 more if re-elected), Alexander’s office made the reporter go through access to information, then told him he would have to pay for the research to get the answer. Alexander’s move to limit refugee claimants’ access to public health care, which put him at odds with Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne, was struck down by the Federal Court, which deemed it “cruel and unusual.” Then there was the ill-timed and unseemly encounter Wednesday with the CBC’s Rosemary Barton. Tima Kurdi expressed the hope that the photo of her dead nephew would be a “wake-up call” for the world. In the middle of a federal election campaign, it could be a most unwelcome wake-up call for Harper, who now has Canadians studying a refugee policy that seems unnecessarily hard-hearted. Tim Harper is a national affairs writer for Torstar, he can be reached at tharper@ thestar.ca
Choosing to hate at root of problem, not the weapon of choice The recent murder of a journalist and camera man just happens to be the latest example of senseless violence. While plenty of organizations and individuals use the killings to establish their respective positions on the matter of guns this letter is not a comment on firearms. What I’ve been thinking about is the root of violence. I asked myself: when someone is murdered what killed them? It might be by a gun but a gun is only an instrument. It could have been a car, knife, explosives, drugs, poison, fist or baseball bat — almost anything can deal a fatal blow. The key question is: who used the weapon? With that we get close to the real issue. Someone chose to kill. At the root of murder are emotional choices like hate or envy — to name only two. Such choices kindle a figurative fire leading to thoughts of settling a score or getting even. We hate how we are treated whether justly or unjustly and we envy the success of others whether they earned it honorably or dishonorably. Thoughts drift into dark places. Murder then is just as much a mental as physical act. The line from thinking about harming another person to actually doing it is just another choice. Sometimes that choice is only a matter of choosing and wielding a weapon. The venom in a social media post, bar room banter or private thought can be easily transferred to a physical act. Going deeper: why do we choose hate, envy or some other emotion? What default mechanism do we seem to have that leads to thoughts and acts of violence? Even in the so-called best of us seems to lurk a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If truly honest, we have all hated or envied enough to hurt someone. To what degree we could hurt is a scary consideration. There are societal realities to think about. It is easier to waste a life if it has been devalued. When personal rights became separated from personal responsibilities we opened a Pandora’s Box of evil possibilities. When violence becomes the first option in a dispute we revert to a barbaric ancestry. However these become excuses to justify an act of violence by claiming we are a product of an external influence. The root is still in a choice. Consider some healthy choices. Choosing to love your neighbor as yourself. Deciding to not tolerate violent talk or behavior. Choosing responsibility for personal actions. Cultivating healthy thoughts of self and others. Determining contentment versus the envy of others. If the problem is in our nature and we are simply not as good at heart as we have been lead to believe then someone please save us from ourselves! Gary Lewis Eckville
Voters need to think for themselves at election time Reagarding the recent letter (Monday, Aug. 31) in the Advocate regarding Ray Kowalski’s long list of questions. I have never been a member of any political party but I am a voter. We are bombarded by all political parties, TV media, paper media and advertisements, most if not all of which is negative. Ray Kowalski’s letter is just another list of negative items and not one clear positive
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solution. The negative BS, criticism of each other that comes from all political party leaders. Each party uses catch words like I will; we will do this or that if elected. Whoever is in power has no crystal ball to see into the future where real change is forced on us. But what we do have is a vast amount of political, media and public armchair quarterbacks who think they have all the answers. I would ask all voters to take time and think for themselves before casting their vote. Fred Gifford Red Deer
Notley sending wrong group for oil royalty review A bureaucrat, a banker, a politician and academic. Would this composition of a review board qualify doing a health care review? Yet Notley’s NDP government would have Albertans accept the group she named Friday doing an oil royalty review. What does this group as individuals know about the oil industry? Three out of the four virtually nothing. Watch Notley’s government actions, not its rhetoric. It is not an accident that Alberta NDP minister Lori Sigurdson is currently campaigning in B.C. for federal NDP candidate Jacqui Gingras who helped organize an anti-pipeline rally on behalf of LeadNow. LeadNow is opposed to every pipeline project currently proposed in Canada. Then Notley’s government shut down Nexen oil pipelines. After business hours on a Friday night. After naming the Royalty Review Board during regular business hours. Not accident as to timing. And what does Alberta oil need? Pipelines, not
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Tories drop two candidates BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservatives stumbled as the federal election reached an unofficial milestone on Monday, dropping two candidates from their slate in the important battleground of the Greater Toronto Area after embarrassing videos surfaced in the mainstream media and online. Jerry Bance, who was running in Scarborough Rouge Park, was the first to go after reportedly being caught on camera urinating into a coffee cup while he was an appliance repairman. The day got worse as Tim Dutaud, the candidate in Toronto-Danforth, was declared persona non grata by the federal party a short time later. A Conservative official confirmed a man seen making prank calls in several You- Jerry Bance Tube videos — including one where he pretends to have a mental disability — is Dutaud. The revelation came just before Prime Minister Stephen Harper said re-elected Conservatives would improve a federal disability grant program, one championed by Jim Flaherty, the late finance minister. During a campaign stop in Mississauga, Ont., Harper tersely attempted to put the best spin on the losses when asked what the incidents said about the quality of candiTim Dutaud dates he was attracting. “What this says is that we keep the highest standard for candidates and these two individuals are no longer candidates,” said Harper, who later in the five-question availability indicated that the Conservatives would find replacements for both ridings. Bance, who runs an appliance repair company, was bounced from the Conservative slate after the CBC reported its hidden cameras on the show Marketplace caught him urinating into a cup while he was on a service call in 2012. Video from the program shows Bance pouring the urine down the sink, then rinsing out the cup, all while the homeowner was in the next room. A statement from Bance released by the Conservative campaign Sunday night said he “deeply regrets” his actions on the day he was caught on the hidden cameras. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair cracked a joke in response, saying Bance must be in favour of Harper’s “trickle down” economics. The developments all came as the election campaign shifts into a higher gear. For political junkies and pundits, Labour Day is supposed to be the demarcation line between the sleepy summer campaign that began on Aug. 2 and the serious push to get the attention of voters ahead of Oct. 19. It is also the beginning, in earnest, of the labour movement’s effort to unseat the Conservatives by bidding members to vote strategically in key battleground ridings. Union leadership at Unifor, in Ontario, urged its rank and file to help elect NDP candidates. The Quebec Federation of Labour, meanwhile, said it plans to help any candidate that can defeat Conservatives in that province. Mulcair burnished his party’s union support by taking part in Toronto’s Labour Day parade, the largest in the country. “Mr. Harper has led a series of unprecedented attacks on labour in this country,” Mulcair said. “We have a different approach. We know by working together, we can achieve great things.” Justin Trudeau, also campaigning in Mississauga on Monday, was asked if labour’s stampede to get rid of the Conservatives would trample over Liberals and go right to the NDP. He dismissed the notion, saying he’s met with labour organizations across the country and looks forward to them voting Liberal.
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Trudeau requests meeting with Harper, Mulcair on Syrian refugee crisis BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAVAL, Que. — Justin Trudeau says he wants the major federal party leaders to sit down together before election day to discuss Canada’s role in the Syrian refugee crisis. The Liberal leader requested a meeting with Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair to talk about what can be done to support refugees and help them come to Canada. He sent a letter to Harper, Mulcair and Green Party leader Elizabeht May that the Liberals released late Sunday. “We must put partisanship aside and avoid becoming mired in the politics of this crisis,” Trudeau said in the letter. A statement from the NDP campaign appeared to show little interest in a meeting that included Trudeau. “Mr Mulcair’s objective is to meet with Mr. Harper because he is the one who can act,” Brad Lavigne, a senior campaign advisor said in an emailed statement. “The NDP believes that the Conservatives must do more and must act swiftly to get refugees to Canada,” added Lavigne, who said Mulcair has asked for a meeting with Harper. The refugee crisis has dominated the campaign trail over the long weekend as the political parties respond to what has been a global outcry over shocking photos of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy who recently washed up on a Turkish beach. The Liberals say Canada should take in 25,000 Syrian refugees before next year while the New Democrats say they should bring in more than 46,000 government-sponsored refugees to Canada by 2019. The Conservatives have committed to 10,000 Syr-
ian refugees over the next three years. Trudeau says Germany is “putting us all to shame” with its willingness to let in thousands of migrants this weekend alone. “Unfortunately this government has put out more modest targets that it has then failed to meet,” Trudeau said at a campaign event in Laval, Que. “We feel that 25,000 is a good start that we could get rolling on that would indicate our willingness, as a country, to step up and be once again a place of solutions in the world for people fleeing crisis.” The issue became a major issue in the campaign after word surfaced last week that relatives of Alan Kurdi wanted to bring the three-year-old boy and other members of his family to Canada. The boys’ aunt Tima Kurdi, said last week she applied for her eldest sibling to come to Canada but an incomplete application discouraged the family and prompted her other brother, the father of Alan, to try to smuggle his wife and two young sons to Europe. The boat capsized and the two little boys and their mother died. Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday, calling for changes to Canada’s refugee policies. It was the latest in a series of rallies held across Canada over the long weekend. Among the crowd at the Vancouver event were dozens of placards reading “Refugees Welcome,” “Help Not Hate” and “Open the Doors.” Nissy Koye, a friend of the Kurdi family, told the crowd that the Canadian system is designed to fail people fleeing their homelands. “It is too late to save Alan, Ghalib and Rehanna,” she said. “But it is clear that the Canadian and international community needs to do more to help. These are human beings, they are not pawns in a political game.”
Drowned Syrian boys mourned at memorial BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Dozens of white balloons drifted over Vancouver’s harbour on Saturday, to honour two drowned Syrian boys whose deaths have sparked worldwide outrage about the refugee crisis. The boys’ aunt, Tima Kurdi, stood looking at the sky after she and other mourners let go of the balloons, which had photos attached of three-year-old Alan and five-year-old Ghalib. With tears in her eyes, she tossed a bouquet of yellow flowers into the water. “Those kids, they never, since the day they (were) born, they didn’t have a good life,” she told a memorial service earlier that afternoon. Kurdi’s two nephews and sister-in-law drowned earlier this month after piling into an overloaded boat in Bodrum, Turkey, headed for the Greek island of Kos. Her brother was among the few survivors.
About 200 people packed a small Vancouver theatre, filled with white roses, balloons and photos, to remember the family. Sounds of sobbing could be heard as poems and prayers were read. A picture of Alan’s body on a Turkish beach attracted global attention and has sparked debate about the plight of refugees from the region. “When I saw the picture, this boy, facing down, I said, ’This is Alan,”’ Kurdi recalled. “I have to send that picture to all of my family, and they said, ’Yes. It’s Alan.”’ When she called her brother Abdullah, she remembered saying, “I’m so sorry. It was my fault.” She has said she feels responsible because she sent him $5,000 to pay smugglers to take them on a boat from Turkey to Greece. But he has told her not to blame herself, saying to her, “My kids, they drowned, or sacrificed themselves, to wake up the world.”
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Egypt court issues full ruling on Fahmy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — An Egyptian court released a detailed ruling Sunday on why it sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison for airing what it described as “false news” and biased coverage, a case long criticized by press freedom advocates and others. The ruling, published by the state news agency MENA, says the three men — Canadian national Mohamed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed — were by default members the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, which Egyptian authorities consider a terrorist organization. “It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Al-Jazeera media channel has dedicated its broadcasting to the service and support of the Muslim Brotherhood faction and that they have permanently sided with them at the expense of their media ethics,” the ruling said. “This provides enough ground for a conviction of belonging to a group based on violations of the law.” The ruling also said the three operated without press credentials and secretly worked at the Marriott hotel in central Cairo without a permit. The journalists and the network deny the accusations. Al-Jazeera has said it will appeal. After last weekend’s ruling, Mohammed and Fahmy were imprisoned, while Greste previously was deported. Their long-running trial is entangled in the wider political conflict between Egypt and Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based, following the Egyptian army’s 2013 military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood member. Evidence presented at the trial ventured into the absurd, including music videos and footage of animals, which defence lawyers and even the judge dismissed as irrelevant. Third-party observers say no evidence proved the charges. Critics describe the case as politically motivated. The men are seeking a pardon from President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who personally expressed regret over the trial and the damage it has done to Egypt’s international reputation. He has said it would have been better to simply deport the journalists. Al Jazeera had been waiting for Sunday’s detailed ruling, which could have been released up to 30 days after the verdict, to appeal. The case began in December 2013, when Egyptian security forces raided the hotel suite used by Al-Jazeera at the time to report from Egypt. The journalists began using the hotel as a base of operations after the Al-Jazeera English office near Tahrir Square was raided by police. Authorities arrested Fahmy, Greste and Mohammed, later charging them with allegedly being part of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood
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Four year old twins Phuoc (right) and Binh Wagner play during their first day at Junior Kindergarten at Ecole Elementaire publique Madeleine de Roybon in Kingston, Ont., on Thursday Sept. 3, 2015. Both twins had a liver transplant earlier this year.
Liver transplant twins start school BEGINNING TO THRIVE AFTER SURGERY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Little Binh and Phuoc Wagner hopped onto a school van recently on their way to kindergarten class for the first time. Their parents, Johanne and Michael, couldn’t get over the normalcy of the situation. At this time last year, there were some thoughts, however fleeting, that the twin girls from Kingston, Ont., might never make it to school. They had just been placed on a transplant waiting list for new livers because of the effects of Alagille syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects vital organs. Without new livers, the girls would die. Michael was willing to donate part of his liver, but he couldn’t give to both girls. And he wasn’t sure if he’d be a match for either child. So the family went public, their story capturing the world’s hearts. It turns out Michael was a match, and he let doctors choose which daughter would get his liver. The other would have to wait. Doctors chose Phuoc and performed surgery in February, giving her part of Michael’s liver. Then they waited. Two months later they found another donor. That one was anonymous. Life was chaotic. Now it’s calmer, as calm as it can be for a family with nine children. “It was quite normal, almost anti-
climactic, but this is the way it’s going to be and we don’t have to get stressed out as much anymore,” Michael Wagner says. Life has completely changed for the Wagners and their nine children. The twins, who are developmentally delayed because of the damage their failing livers inflicted upon their bodies, are reaching new milestones daily. Their skin glows. It used to have a yellow tinge, as did their eyes. The feeding tubes have been removed from their bellies. Their medications, which numbered in the dozens, have been drastically reduced. They can talk. They can dress themselves. And they’ve finally moved out of the cribs into their parents’ bedroom into “big-girl beds” in their own room. The Wagners had to shuffle their house around to give the girls their own room, which included giving up their master bedroom so their four boys could move into the newly created “dorm room.” And yet life is normal. Sure, there are the crises and ups and downs of life, but there isn’t a guillotine hanging over the necks of the girls. “Tonight we’re dealing with a little girl who doesn’t want to drink her milk,” Michael Wagner says. Just a few months ago, however, the situation was drastically different. Binh struggled after receiving the transplant surgery. She ended up in intensive care for a week. Her diaphragm was partially paralyzed and
she needed machines to breathe. She had a seizure. And white blood cells from her new liver caused an immune reaction against her own red blood cells. At that time, in Quebec City, Johanne’s father father fell out a chair, broke his pelvis and hit his head. He was in bad shape. Johanne had to decide whether to leave her struggling daughter in Toronto or head to Quebec. “It was tormenting, you don’t know where to put yourself,” she says. “Then I thought what my dad would tell me if he was able to speak — he would have said: ’You have to stay with your girl’ as he would have done with his girl.” So she stayed. But then her mother had an angina attack when she heard about her husband’s bleak prospects and was taken to the same hospital. Johanne’s mother was able to be with her husband for the last 45 minutes of his life. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage. After several transfusions, meantime, Binh got better. That’s when the milestones began for the twins. They finally got to see the ocean in Nova Scotia and visited their other grandparents. Nonetheless, the girls aren’t totally out of the woods. They’re vulnerable to disease and infection because of the immunosupression drugs they’ll be on for the rest of the lives thanks to the new livers in their bodies.
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VICTORIA — Three men are dead after a commercial fishing boat capsized near Tofino, B.C. A fourth man was rescued from a life raft early Sunday morning, said Lt. (Navy) Nicole Murillo with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC). The crew was hauling in a net when the ship listed, Murillo said. “They tried to correct it but unfortunately, the ship capsized and subsequently sunk.” The company that owns the 33 metre dragger notified the Coast Guard after crews failed to check-in around 10 p.m. Saturday night. The Coast Guard sent out three ves-
sels and an aircraft, and found the survivor in a life raft around 1:30 a.m. He was taken on to a cruise ship that had a full medical facility, and was transferred to hospital in Victoria Sunday afternoon. The bodies of two of the fishermen were found Sunday morning. Coast Guard boats and a helicopter, and several fishing vessels searched for the fourth man Sunday, and eventually found his body. Murillo said early reports indicate the survivor was the only crew member wearing a life jacket. The boat was fishing in a remote area about 55 kilometres off of the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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A man holds his child as he tries to talk to Hungarian police officers in Roszke, Hungary, Monday, as the migrants move away from a temporary holding center controlled by Hungarian authorities, just over the border from Serbia. The situation is confused with many hundreds of migrants moving in several directions and trying to reach a migrant registration camp, rather than wait for a unreliable bus service. people crossed over the weekend en route to Germany, Hungary’s leader hit back at European partners who blamed his country for stoking the chaos. Merkel told reporters in Berlin that Germany would ensure that those who need protection receive it, but those who stand no chance of getting asylum would be swiftly returned to their homelands. Germany is preparing to receive by far the largest number of immigrants, an estimated 800,000 by the end of the year, and Merkel said other EU nations should take some. Outside the EU, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the U.K. will resettle up to 20,000 Syrians from camps in Turkey, Jordan and Syria over the next five years. Announcing the vast expansion
of Britain’s refugee program, he told Parliament that Britain has a moral responsibility to act. Cameron said vulnerable children and orphans would be given priority. Orban mocked the European Union’s efforts to distribute migrants through a quota system and compared Hungary to a “black sheep” representing a voice of reason in the EU flock. He said Europe first must focus on security measures designed to force travellers from troubled lands to seek asylum in neighbouring countries, not travel thousands of kilometres into the heart of Europe. He said the current discussions on a new quota to handle 120,000 migrants soon would lead to discussions on hosting millions more.
Violence in Turkey escalated after a suicide bombing in July, blamed on the Islamic State group, killed 33 people near Turkey’s border with Syria, including many Kurds. Kurdish rebels held the government responsible for the attack, claiming that the government had been too lenient on the jihadists, and two policemen were killed in an apparent response.
He told Parliament that the attack was legally justified because the militants were plotting lethal attacks against Britain and the fighters could not be eliminated any other way. “There was a terrorist directing murder on our streets and no other means to stop them,” Cameron said, adding that the decision to launch the attack hadn’t been taken lightly. The prime minister said the deadly Royal Air Force strike was permissible because of Britain’s intrinsic right to self-defence and had been approved by the attorney general. The Aug. 21 attack on a car in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an IS stronghold, represents an escalation for Britain, which had not participated in military actions in Syria. Cameron said the threat made action mandatory.
U.K. military drone strike killed 3 Islamic State fighters LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron revealed Monday that British forces had used a drone strike over Syria in August to kill three Islamic State fighters, including two Britons.
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one point to hold him down once he was inside. Habre tried to thrash about as witnesses’ names and a summation of the charges against him were read aloud. Then he sang and cried out: “Lies!� Dozens of his supporters at another point rose and started yelling as he was held in his chair. Several more were forced out. His legal team walked out, though his court-appointed lawyers remained.
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GUATEMALA CITY — A former television comic was heading for a runoff with either a wealthy businessman or a former first lady in voting for Guatemala’s next president, days after the Central American nation’s leader resigned over a corruption scandal. With nearly 98 per cent of polling stations reporting Monday, comedian Jimmy Morales, who has never held elective office, was leading with 24 per cent of the vote. Businessman and longtime politician Manuel Baldizon and ex-first lady Sandra Torres were in a tie, each with about 19.6 per cent. Baldizon led Torres by less than 1,500 votes among more than 5 million votes cast. The top two finishers in the field of 14 will advance to a runoff to be held Oct. 25. Luis Fernando Mack, a professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Guatemala, said the electoral tribunal has a delicate situation on its hands and important decisions to make to resolve the fight for second place. “The fight will be fierce, they’re going to fight for every vote,� Mack said.
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Protestors gather outside Dr. Walter James Palmer’s dental office in Bloomington, Minn. Palmer killed Cecil, a black-maned lion, just outside Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. Palmer participated in an interview Sunday, Sept. 6, in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt, expressed agitation at the animosity directed at those close to him and said he would be back at work within days.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwean authorities seem to have cooled off on pursuing the case against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, amid fears that extraditing the American bow hunter for killing Cecil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe’s hunting business. It has been a month since Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri announced that the police would process paperwork to extradite Palmer for participating in a hunt that authorities here said was illegal. On Monday there were no new developments in the matters, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told The Associated Press. “I still have nothing on that case,� she said. The National Prosecuting Authority, which is responsible for processing extradition requests, said Palmer was not on its files because the police had yet to process a docket for Palmer, a dentist from suburban Minneapolis. In an interview with AP on Sunday in Minneapolis, Palmer said he believes he acted legally and that he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed a treasured animal in July. Cecil was a fixture in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park and had been fitted with a GPS collar as part of Oxford University lion research. Pursuing Palmer without a concrete case could rattle potential big-paying customers from the United States, said a Zimbabwean government official and safari operators. Theo Bronkhorst, a Zimbabwean professional hunter who helped Palmer, has been charged with “failure to prevent an illegal hunt.� Honest Ndlovu, whose property is near Hwange park, faces a charge of allowing the lion hunt to occur on his farm without proper authority. The hunters allegedly lured Cecil out of Hwange with an animal carcass. Palmer’s hosts should have ensured the hunt was legal, said Emmanuel Fundira, chairman of the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe. “These are the people expected to know the rules and advise clients accordingly,� he said. “Clients may end up thinking twice before coming to Zimbabwe if such cases are not handled carefully. Authori-
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Rebels youth get trial by fire SUTTER NOT CONCERNED ABOUT PRESEASON OPENING LOSS TO EDMONTON BY ADVOCATE STAFF Oil Kings 5 Rebels 2 ST. ALBERT — The Red Deer Rebels’ slow start in Saturday’s Western Hockey League preseasonopening loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings didn’t concern Brent Sutter. Nor was the Rebels GM/head coach disappointed with the manner in which his rookie-laden crew — with the roster featuring 15-year-olds Jacob Herauf and Eli Zummack — went about its overall business at Servus Credit Union Place while dropping a 5-2 decision. “We dressed a young lineup and it took those kids a while to adjust to the pace and the timing,” said Sutter. “Edmonton had a decent team dressed, so it was good for our young kids to go through that. It’s what that first exhibition game is about — getting those kids some game experience before they all have to go back to their midget teams. “With all that being said, I thought our veterans were fine, as well.” The Rebels had seven returnees in their lineup — defencemen Josh Mahura and Austin Strand, and forwards Reese Johnson, Jeff de Wit, Evan Polei,
Adam Musil and Grayson Pawlenchuk— as well as former Seattle T-Birds centre Lane Pederson, as opposed to nine for the Oil Kings. After a scoreless opening period, the Oil Kings got a goal from Colton Kehler at 4:43 of the middle frame and never looked back. Kyle Yewchuk and Lane Bauer both beat Rebels netminder Dawson Weatherill before the second intermission. The Rebels finally got on the board when Akash Bains connected at 3:34 of the third period, but Brandon Ralph restored Edmonton’s three-goal cushion at the 7:07 mark. From there, Musil closed the gap — beating netminder Carter Phair — 10 minutes later and Oil Kings winger Garan Magnes rounded out the evening with an empty-net marker with 23 seconds remaining. Edmonton starting netminder Alec Dillon turned aside all 10 shots he faced through the first half of the game, while Phair made 13 saves, including nine in a third period in which the Rebels held an 11-7 edge in shots. Weatherill made 29 saves while going the distance in the Red Deer net. Sutter was impressed with de Wit, Pawlenchuk and Polei, and also credited all 11 rookie skaters for at least holding their own.
“I thought they (prospects) were all good in their own way,” said the Rebels boss, noting that defencemen Ethan Sakowich and Herauf, along with forward Austin Pratt, were more than adequate. “Weatherill also played well in net,” added Sutter. “For our first (preseason) game, it was exactly what we expected. It just took the younger kids a while to adjust to everything.” ● Six players — Pederson and Wyatt Johnson (both Anaheim), Polei (Detroit), Michael Spacek and Nelson Nogier (both Winnipeg), and Musil (St, Louis) — will leave Wednesday for NHL camps, while Conner Bleackley will depart for Colorado Saturday. Haydn Fleury left last week for the Carolina Hurricanes camp. ● The Rebels resume their preseason schedule this weekend with two games at the Tri-City tournament in Kennewick, Wash., taking on the host Americans Friday and facing the Spokane Chiefs 24 hours later.Red Deer’s final two exhibition contests are Sept. 18 versus the Oil Kings at the Centrium and the following night at Stettler against the Medicine Hat Tigers. The Rebels’ regular-season opener is Sept. 26 at home to Edmonton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Stampeder defence overpowers Eskimos LABOUR DAY CLASSIC BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 16 Eskimos 7 CALGARY — Labour Day’s Battle of Alberta lacked touchdown celebrations, but not sack celebrations. The Calgary Stampeder defence made life difficult for Edmonton Eskimos rookie quarterback James Franklin in Monday’s 16-7 win over the Esks at McMahon Stadium. Led by Charleston Hughes, Calgary’s defensive line put Franklin on the ground four times. They marked those moments with log rolls on the turf followed by air kicks. “Charleston is the king of all the sack celebrations,” said Calgary linebacker Deron Mayo, who had one sack and forced a Franklin fumble. Hughes, who had sat out the previous game with back spasms, contributed a pair of sacks and five tackles. The defensive line’s resident choreographer insisted his post-sack routines were unscripted. “I have no clue what it means,” Hughes said. “It’s just something I made up on the fly with my d-line.” At 8-2, the Stampeders gained breathing room on the Eskimos atop the CFL’s West Division. The Esks dropped to 6-4 in second place, but get a rematch Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium. All signs point to quarterback Mike Reilly starting Saturday. His team trailing by nine points, the veteran pivot went into Monday’s game in the fourth quarter for his first action since tearing knee ligaments in the season-opener in Fort McMurray. Reilly was 5-for-12 in passing for 90 yards in relief of Franklin. “I would like to have come back under different circumstances in terms of us getting a win, so I’m disappointed that we weren’t able to do enough to get the victory here,” Reilly said. “Luckily, we get another chance at them here in just a couple days.” Calgary’s Greg Wilson scored the lone touchdown of the game on a 10-yard catch from quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell late in the first half. Rene Paredes kicked a trio of field goals with his third from 45 yards out late in the fourth quarter. Edmonton kicker Sean Whyte had two field goals and a punt single. Mitchell was 24-for-36 in passing for 251 yards and one touchdown throw. He was intercepted once. At 23-4, Mitchell surpassed Canadian Football Hall of Famer Jackie Parker for the best career record after 27 starts in the CFL. Franklin was the fifth different starting quarterback for Edmonton in as many Labour Day games following Ricky Ray, Kerry Joseph, Reilly and Matt
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Calgary Stampeders’ Freddie Bishop III, left, and Charleston Hughes celebrate their sack of Edmonton Eskimos’ quarterback James Franklin during CFL action in Calgary on Monday. Nichols. After a solid CFL debut last week to lead the Esks to victory over the Toronto Argonauts, the 24-yearold completed 13 of 28 passes for 105 yards. “Consistently, I wasn’t doing a good job of making good decisions out there,” Franklin said. “They did a good job of taking away the things we had success with. They did a good job of reading my eyes and making me stay in the pocket or at least get out of the pocket. Again, didn’t make good decisions with the ball today.” The Stampeders extended their win streak against the Eskimos to 12 in a row, including four straight Labour Day victories. Their traditional meeting on the holiday Monday in September was the first meeting of the provincial rivals since Calgary downed Edmonton 43-18 in last year’s West Division final. Monday afternoon’s clash in front of an announced sellout of 35,400 was played in sunny, windy condi-
tions until rain arrived in the third quarter. Calgary held the visitors to just five rushing yards in the first half, but the Stampeders lost No. 1 punt returner Tim Brown in the second quarter to a knee injury. Defensive cornerback Joe Burnett was pressed into return duties for the remainder of the game. September’s home-and-home sweep of Edmonton in 2014 was a pivotal swing in a championship season for Calgary as they went 6-2 in the second half after it. The Stampeders posted a league-best 15-3 record and defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to win the Grey Cup. “We went into this week saying these are two important games that we need to set a standard for ourselves and put some distance in between us and the rest of the teams in the league,” Hughes said. “We sent the message today we’re a strong team and we stick together and we’re going to battle no matter what.”
Blue Jays get pounded by Red Sox in series opener BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Sox 11 Blue Jays 4 BOSTON — The Toronto Blue Jays are trying to slug their way to an AL East title. They’ll need better pitching than this, though. Jackie Bradley Jr. had four hits with a two-run home run and four RBIs, Rick Porcello pitched into the eighth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the East-leading Blue Jays 11-4 Monday. The Blue Jays lost for just the fourth time in 16 games, but had their lead atop the East sliced to a half game over the New York Yankees, who beat Baltimore 8-6 on Monday. Working on seven days’ rest after complaining of fatigue, Mark Buehrle (14-7) gave up five runs on nine hits in 3 1-3 innings. The bullpen wasn’t much better, giving up six runs on eight hits. The Blue Jays lost the opener of their last series in Baltimore 10-2 but responded to win the next two games. Toronto manager John Gibbons said he has “some concerns” about Buehrle, who has had a couple of tough outings recently. The veteran left-hander said he felt fine. “I felt better today than I have in the last couple,” he said. “It’s pretty much September is what it was. It was just one of those days where their offence was there. I’ll take today — besides the results — just about any day.” Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak each hit solo homers for Toronto. Donaldson’s was his 37th. Toronto leads the majors with 191 homers and 750 runs. Bradley added two singles and a double and Travis Shaw hit a two-run homer for Boston, which posted its fourth straight win and eighth in 11 games. “I’m not trying to force anything,” said Bradley of his recent offensive surge. “I’m trying to swing at
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Boston Red Sox’s Jackie Bradley Jr. rounds the bases after his two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston Monday. strikes.” Porcello (7-12) had his third consecutive strong start since coming off the disabled list following a right triceps strain. He allowed four runs — three earned — and eight hits over 7 1-3 innings. David Ortiz had a pair of doubles and an RBI. The second was high off the Green Monster — below a sign with the white numbers “497” that signify his chase to become the 27th player to hit 500 career homers. The Red Sox broke in front 5-1 by scoring twice in both the third and fourth.
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Bradley homered into the first row of Monster seats in a three-run sixth. The 25-year-old outfielder, who shuttled between Triple-A Pawtucket and the majors this season, continued his torrid pace. Since Aug. 9, he’s hitting .446 with 24 extra-base hits in 25 games. “I think that there is a general overall confidence that he is showing right now,” Red Sox interim manager Torey Lovullo said. “And he can walk up to the plate and hit at any count and any pitch at any part of the at-bat, and that is from a lot of hard work behind the scenes that he has put in.” Xander Bogaerts’ run-scoring grounder pushed Boston in front 2-1 before Ortiz’s RBI double. Bradley and Mookie Betts had consecutive RBI singles, making it 5-1. TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman, who tore a ligament in his left knee during spring training, made his second rehab start Monday, giving up four runs on eight hits over three innings for Triple-A Buffalo. Red Sox: Ortiz was back in the lineup after leaving Sunday’s game with a tight right calf, but he did appear to be limping after his second double. ... 3B Pablo Sandoval also returned after missing three games with tightness in his back. CLIMBING THE RBI CHARTS Jose Bautista had two RBIs, giving him 614 and passing Tony Fernandez (613) for seventh on the club’s all-time list. UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (10-10) looks to keep his hot streak going on Tuesday night. He’s 7-0 in his last nine starts. Red Sox: Rookie LHP Henry Owens (2-2) hopes to bounce back from a rough outing. The 23-year-old, taped to a pole in the dugout in Sunday’s win over Philadelphia, was tagged for seven runs in just 1 2-3 innings in a loss to the Yankees on Wednesday.
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Collaros, Ticats roll past Argos BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tiger-Cats 42 Argonauts 12 HAMILTON — Zach Collaros and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats regained their Tim Hortons Field swagger Monday afternoon. Collaros threw four TD strikes to lead Hamilton to a convincing 42-12 Labour Day victory over the arch-rival Toronto Argonauts. The Ticats were coming off a 26-23 loss to Montreal on Aug 27 that snapped their 10-game win streak at the new stadium. Collaros, who finished 26-of-38 passing for 400 yards, helped Hamilton improve to 4-1 at Tim Hortons field and said it was important the Ticats reestablish their home dominance. “You never want to lose back-toback games especially at home,” he said. “You always want to defend your home field. “I thought it was huge, it was imperative to win this one.” After a docile first half, tempers flared in the second. One melee with just over five minutes remaining in the third quarter resulted in five flags, and yet another loud chant of “Argos Suck” from an energetic, season-high Tim Hortons Field gathering of 24,390. And many voiced their displeasure when Ticats Brandon Banks, Taylor Reed and Adrian Tracy were all flagged for unnecessary roughness. A fan ran on to the field with 2:42 remaining and managed to elude security staff before Toronto defensive back Devin Smith and Hamilton receiver Terrence Toliver combined to make the tackle. Collaros definitively came to play, showing plenty of emotion especially early on. He chalked it up to wanting to make up for the loss against Montreal as well as facing his former team. Twice Collaros threw balls into the stands following Hamilton TDs, one near Toronto’s bench. “The way we lost last week, I was still angry about that,” he said. “There’s no hard feelings (towards Argos), I love (head coach) Scott Milanovich and a lot of the guys on that team. “But I think anybody would be lying if they said they weren’t amped up to be playing against their old teammates and old organization.” Hamilton coach/GM Kent Austin
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Terrell Sinkfield Jr. makes a fingertip catch while watched by Toronto Argonauts defensive back Branden Smith during the first-half of CFL action in Hamilton on Monday. was pleased with his team’s response following its loss to Montreal. While being happy with Collaros’s play, Austin predictably said his young quarterback can still improve. “He’s playing well, we understand that and he needs to play well for us,” Austin said. “Things do centre around the quarterback quite a bit in this league. “That being said there hasn’t been a perfect game played yet in football and there won’t be one ever played in the future. Zach understands that better than anybody on this club and he’ll get back to work.” If Hamilton has a weakness, it’s penalties. The Ticats entered weekend action as the second-highest penalized team in the league and were flagged 17 times Monday for 152 yards. “We’ve still got to eliminate some of the dumb penalties that are hurt-
ing us,” Austin said. “It will especially show up in tight football games . . . so we’ve got to be careful and get those things cleaned up. “But I thought for the most part our execution was pretty good across the board.” Hamilton (7-3) assumed sole possession of first in the East Division while improving its Labour Day record against Toronto (6-4) to a stellar 31-131. The Ticats also clinched the season series with the Argos after winning the opener 34-18 on Aug. 3. If Hamilton and Toronto finish tied, the Ticats will assume the higher position. The two teams complete their regular-season series Friday night at Rogers Centre. Hamilton dominated Monday’s contest with 42 first downs and 502 net yards. Its defence held Toronto to 12
first downs and 242 net yards while recording four sacks and three turnovers. It was a second straight one-sided loss for Toronto, which dropped a 3815 decision in Edmonton on Aug. 28. Quarterback Trevor Harris finished 24-of-34 passing for 211 yards with a TD and interception. “I really thought we’d play well,” Milanovich said. “I thought we were ready to play well and it didn’t materialize so well. “I’m very surprised about that and I’m looking forward to finding out why.” The game-time temperature was 30 C but the teams also had to deal with a stiff northerly wind. Hamilton and Toronto both wore their third jerseys — powder blue and white for the Argos, all black with gold numbers for the Ticats.
Riders get fresh start after getting first win BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 37 Blue Bombers 19 REGINA — It feels like a brand new season for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Quarterback Brett Smith threw for 211 yards and rushed for 59 yards as Saskatchewan beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 37-19 on Sunday for the Roughriders first victory of the year. The win comes after head coach Cory Chamblin was fired on Monday, replaced by Bob Dyce in the interim. “Everybody is excited and I think we’re going to celebrate it tonight, but there’s a bigger mission that these players and these coaches have,” said Smith. “It’s just not about one win. It’s about finishing strong and getting as many wins as we can to make the playoffs and eventually the Grey Cup.” The Riders (1-9) pulled to within four points of the fourth-place Blue
Bombers and now sit six points behind the B.C. Lions (4-5). Despite a horrendous 0-9 start to the season, Saskatchewan has hope for a second-half push for the playoffs. But it won’t be easy. They’ll complete the home-andhome series with the Blue Bombers next week before they play host to the Ottawa Redblacks and Montreal Alouettes to close out September. They’ll face three West Division rivals in October, as well as the Hamilton TigerCats. “We still have lot work to do,” said receiver Ryan Smith. “We have been preaching all week to just go 1-0 each week and continue to work at it. We’ll see the results like we did today.” Jerome Messam rushed for a teamhigh 73 yards for the Riders. Nick Demski scored his first professional touchdown against his hometown team — on a 60-yard punt return — for Saskatchewan.
“It felt pretty good,” said the firstyear Riders receiver, who had 107 combined return yards. “Hopefully it rubbed it in their face a little bit. It definitely was a great feeling to score my first touchdown against my hometown Winnipeg Blue Bombers.” Demski’s big play changed momentum in the favour of the Riders, who handed the Bombers (3-7) their fourth straight defeat. “I’m happy for Nick to score against his hometown team,” said Dyce, also a product of Winnipeg. “I had bugged him after the Ottawa game saying he didn’t know how to get to the end zoneb& That was a huge spark for us (today). It was our first touchdown of the game, it tied up the game and it was just a really big play.” Winnipeg quickly jumped out to a 10-0 lead before the game was seven minutes old thanks to a Lirim Hajrullahu field goal and a one-yard touchdown run from quarterback Brian Bro-
hm. Saskatchewan countered with a Paul McCallum field goal early in the second quarter, which set the stage for Demski after the defence forced a quick two and out. “Everybody had great leverage and I just saw the hole,” Demski said of his return. “Everyone did their job and I found the hole and ran to open space and then into the end zone.” The Riders tacked on 19 consecutive points after Demski’s score — two field goals from McCallum, a 27-yard touchdown reception from Ryan Smith and a one-yard run from Rob Bagg — to flatten the Blue Bombers. Brohm completed 21-of-26 pass attempts for 184 yards, with his favourite target being Mick Moore, who caught six passes for 57 yards. The Riders announced an attendance of 33,427, the second consecutive home sellout of the season.
Wiggins leads Canada in win over Uruguay at FIBA Americas BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Canada 109 Uruguay 82 MEXICO CITY — Minnesota Timberwolves guard and former Kansas Jayhawks star Andrew Wiggins is used to playing in packed stadiums. So when he takes the court against host Mexico with the rest of the Canadian men’s basketball team Tuesday night at the FIBA Americas Championship, he’ll be ready. “I feel like big crowds and crazy fans, that get’s me going, it gets
me motivated,” Wiggins said following Canada’s 109-82 win over Uruguay Monday night in second-round action at the Olympic qualifying tournament. Wiggins scored 11 of his 18 points in the third quarter to lead Canada, which got double-digit points from seven different players. Andrew Nicholson poured in 15 points with 10 rebounds off the bench as the Canadians won their fifth straight game at the tourna-
ment. Nik Stauskas had 14 points, Brady Heslip added 13, Melvin Ejim had 11 and Anthony Bennett and Phil Scrubb chipped in 10 apiece. Nicolas Borsellino led Uruguay with 15 points. Canada plays Mexico on Tuesday night before closing out the second round of group play against the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.
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Keith Newton of Olds was the low Central Alberta golfer in the Canadian senior men’s championship at Medicine Hat. Newton finished 54th with a 54-hole total of 17-over 233 which included rounds of 73-79-81. Tom Skinner of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club (RDG&CC) finished 15th with a three-round sum of 234 (73-80-81). Frank Van Dornick of Camrose, a multiple winner of the Central Alberta Amateur at the RDG&CC, placed 16th with a 221 total (74-73-74), 12 strokes behind American winner Jack of Hall of Savannah, Ga., (69-67-73—209). Team Alberta, which consisted of Floyd Kilgore of Grimshaw, who won the provincial senior men’s title in July at the RDG&CC, placed second to Team Ontario. The following Central Albertans failed to make the 36-hole cut: Len Powell, Red Deer (80-77—157); Les Swelin, Sundre (77-85—162); Merv Dusyk, Sylvan Lake (8777—164); Dale Bingham, Red Deer County (85-85— 169).
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Fowler gets win after tense duel BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Rickie Fowler reacts to his eagle on the second hole during the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament in Norton, Mass., Monday.
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NORTON, Mass. — Rickie Fowler delivered all the right shots Monday at the Deutsche Bank Championship, and then he delivered some champagne. He stood near the wood railing overlooking a dozen rows of reporters, hoisting an empty bottle in one hand and a microphone in the other. “Let’s finish off the year right,” Fowler said. He certainly showed he is capable after a tense duel with Henrik Stenson at the TPC Boston. Trailing by three shots early on the back nine, Fowler rolled in a 40-foot putt on the 14th hole to pull within one and then seized control when Stenson hit a towering tee shot that came down short and into the water for double bogey on the par-3 16th. That combination sent Fowler to another big win. He closed with a 3-under 68 for a one-shot victory that assured him of a spot in the top five at the Tour Championship and a clear shot at the $10 million bonus in the FedEx Cup. Fowler won The Players Championship in a three-hole playoff in May. He won the Scottish Open with three birdies on the last four holes. “Being in those positions before, I definitely felt very calm out there,” he said. “I knew what I was trying to do. Knew what I had to do. And was very much ready to do it.” Fowler moved to No. 5 in the world, not quite part of the “Big Three” this year of Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day, but perhaps on the cusp of it. “They’ve clearly played the best out of anyone over the past few months to couple of years,” Fowler said. “So I’m trying to be a small fourth thrown in there. But there’s a lot of other really good young players playing well right now, as well.” Stenson was a runner-up in a FedEx Cup playoff event for the second straight week, and this one figures to sting. He holed a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 10 for a three-shot lead. And when Fowler hit a bold 5-wood to 10 feet for
birdie on No. 11 for a two-shot swing, the Swede answered with a 35-foot birdie on the 12th to restore the cushion to two shots. It all changed quickly and dramatically on the par-3 16th. “I obviously pulled the wrong club on 16 and was trying to get the most out of a 7-iron into the wind and ballooned that one a little bit and that was the crucial mistake. Making double there was really a killer,” Stenson said. “I tried to get those two shots back or at least one to force a playoff on the last two holes and couldn’t manage to do it.” The final hour was every bit as tense as The Players Championship in May, except instead of five players having a chance to win, this was a duel with Stenson the entire back nine. Fowler didn’t make any birdies after his long putt on the 14th, but he didn’t have to. Where he thrived was off the tee and his iron play into the greens. Swinging freely, he was never really out of position until he went just long of the green on the par-5 closing hole with his second shot. He played it safe with a putter to 10 feet, putting pressure on Stenson to the very end. Fowler finished at 15-under 269 and moved to No. 3 in the FedEx Cup behind Day and Spieth, with Stenson at No. 4 and Bubba Watson at No. 5. Charley Hoffman bounced back from a 76 to close with a 67 and finish alone in third. One of the loudest cheers was for a player who had no chance to win. William McGirt was on the verge of being eliminated from the FedEx Cup when he holed a 7-iron from the fairway on No. 17 for eagle. A par on the 18th hole allowed him to sneak into the top 70 and advance to the third playoff event north of Chicago in two weeks. Hunter Mahan kept his streak going by closing with a 70 to tie for fourth, moving him from No. 91 to No. 52. Mahan is the only player who has never missed a FedEx Cup playoff event since this series began in 2007. Jerry Kelly made birdie on the last hole for a 72 to get into the top 70. Keegan Bradley also got in.
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GERMANY’S ARNDT WINS FINAL STAGE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Bauke Mollema of the Netherlands rode off with the big prize on Monday, winning the Tour of Alberta championship and $12,927.28. Nikias Arndt of Germany gained a measure of revenge by outsprinting Michael Matthews to win the final stage. Mollema, riding for Trek Factory Racing, finished the six-day, 865-kilometre race in 20 hours 20 minutes 28 seconds. Adam Yates of Great Britain and Team Orica-Greenedge finished second, six seconds back, with Tom Jelte Slagter of the Nederlands and Team Cannondale-Garmin third, 22 seconds off the pace. Mollema held the leader’s jersey for five of the six stages, losing it only on Day 2 to Matthews, riding for Orica Greenedge. Yates had trailed Mollema by six seconds for the last three stages. “It was a great week for us,” said Mollema who came into Alberta not having raced for about a month. “It couldn’t have started better with the team time trial (which Trek won and Mollema had the fastest individual time) and that’s the reason I was in the lead all week and the reason I won. It was really, really hard but the team time trial was the key.” It was another solid team effort that enabled Mollema to win on Monday. His teammates controlled the peloton most of the day and kept Mollema in an ideal position for the victory. “There was a strong breakaway early b& not an ideal breakaway for us so we had to pull to keep the time difference about one minute,” he said. “It was never a really dangerous situation for us but still, with just six seconds difference with Adam, in the final five kilometres I was looking for him, where he was riding.” In sharp contrast to Sunday’s weath-
er conditions, Monday was ideal for racing with temperatures in the midteens with no rain but overcast skies. That enabled riders to hit speeds of up to 75 kilometres an hour on the downhill portions of the 11-lap circuit through and around downtown Edmonton that included 11 climbs up the steep slope of Bellamy Hill. A group of eight riders broke away early and remained about 90 seconds ahead of the peloton until the ninth lap when the gap was cut in half and the group was finally hauled in near the end of the 10th lap. The final stage, as expected, came down to the final few kilometres of the 124-km stage, with several riders and teams trying, unsuccessfully, to break from the large peloton that refused to let them go. In the final dash to the finish line, Arndt just held off the charge of the Austrian Matthews, who had beaten Arndt by a wheel width to win Stage 2. Arndt finished in two hours 44 minutes 57 seconds. Dion Smith of New Zealand was third. Mollema and Yates were both in the large group that finished two seconds back. “It was a pretty hard finish with the climb before and I needed the team around, they supported me well,” said Arndt. “We waited for the right moment.” That came on the last corner and Arndt broke for the finish, with Matthews right with him. Arndt said “with 150 metres to go, I could do the perfect sprint.” Yates was named the best young rider. Matthews, riding for Team Katusha, won the overall sprint title ahead of Arndt, and Benjamin Perry of St. Catharines, Ont., and Silber Pro Cycling was King of the Mountain. Each earned $2500 for their wins. Cannondale-Germin was the top team, worth $5000.
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Kaitlin McCulloch of the Notre Dame Cougars tips the ball over the net during junior girls game action against the Lacombe Composite High School Rams in the Fall Volleyball Classic at RDC on Saturday afternoon. The Lindsay Thurber Raiders defeated the Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers in the girls championship final. Notre Dame beat Lindsay Thurber in the boys final. Central Alberta Christian and H.J. Cody lost to Notre Dame and Lindsay Thurber in the semifinals.
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Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 78 59 .569 New York 77 59 .566 Tampa Bay 67 70 .489 Baltimore 65 72 .474 Boston 65 72 .474
Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit
Central Division W L Pct 82 55 .599 71 66 .518 67 69 .493 65 71 .478 63 74 .460
Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland
West Division W L Pct 75 63 .543 72 64 .529 69 67 .507 66 72 .478 59 79 .428
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Houston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m. Texas at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.
GB — 1/2 11 13 13 GB — 11 14 1/2 16 1/2 19 GB — 2 5 9 16
Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 10, Baltimore 4 Cleveland 4, Detroit 0 Boston 6, Philadelphia 2 Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 5 Houston 8, Minnesota 5 L.A. Angels 7, Texas 0 Seattle 3, Oakland 2 Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 8, Baltimore 6 Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 4 Boston 11, Toronto 4 Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Oakland 10, Houston 9 Texas 3, Seattle 0 Minnesota 6, Kansas City 2 L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, late Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (Gausman 2-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 11-6), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 10-5) at Detroit (Boyd 1-5), 5:08 p.m. Toronto (Dickey 10-10) at Boston (Owens 2-2), 5:10 p.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 12-9) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 6-6), 6:10 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 9-9) at Kansas City (Volquez 12-7), 6:10 p.m. Houston (Kazmir 7-9) at Oakland (S.Gray 12-7), 8:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 12-6) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 6-2), 8:05 p.m. Texas (Hamels 2-1) at Seattle (T.Walker 10-7), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 5:10 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 100 363 57 127 .350 Brantley Cle 123 475 62 152 .320 Bogaerts Bos 132 515 63 164 .318 LCain KC 121 472 88 148 .314 Altuve Hou 130 535 68 167 .312 Hosmer KC 134 504 83 157 .312 NCruz Sea 131 509 77 158 .310 Fielder Tex 132 509 62 158 .310 Kipnis Cle 120 477 77 148 .310 Kinsler Det 135 539 85 165 .306 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 40; NCruz, Seattle, 39; Donaldson, Toronto, 37; JMartinez, Detroit, 35; Pujols, Los Angeles, 35; Trout, Los Angeles, 34; Bautista, Toronto, 33. Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 115; CDavis, Baltimore, 101; KMorales, Kansas City, 100; Bautista, Toronto, 96; Encarnacion, Toronto, 93; JMartinez, Detroit, 89; Ortiz, Boston, 87. Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 17-6; FHernandez, Seattle, 16-8; McHugh, Houston, 15-7; Eovaldi, New York, 14-3; Price, Toronto, 14-5; Buehrle, Toronto, 14-7; Lewis, Texas, 14-8.
New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia
National League East Division W L Pct 76 61 .555 71 66 .518 57 81 .413 55 83 .399 53 85 .384
GB — 5 19 1/2 21 1/2 23 1/2
St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati
Central Division W L Pct 87 50 .635 81 55 .596 79 57 .581 61 76 .445 57 79 .419
GB — 5 1/2 7 1/2 26 29 1/2
West Division W L Pct 78 58 .574 71 67 .514 66 72 .478 65 73 .471 57 80 .416
GB — 8 13 14 21 1/2
Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado
Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 3 Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 8, Atlanta 4 Boston 6, Philadelphia 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Arizona 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 1 San Francisco 7, Colorado 4 Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 1
Thursday
Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 8, Washington 5 Milwaukee 9, Miami 1 Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 1 Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis 0 Colorado 6, San Diego 4 Arizona 6, San Francisco 1 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 2 L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, late
● High school football: Stettler Wildcats at Ponoka Broncos, 4:30 p.m.; Lacombe Rams at Notre Dame Cougars, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.
Friday
Tuesday’s Games Atlanta (Weber 0-0) at Philadelphia (Nola 5-2), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Harvey 12-7) at Washington (Zimmermann 12-8), 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Jungmann 9-5) at Miami (Conley 3-1), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Liriano 9-7) at Cincinnati (R.Iglesias 3-6), 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Hammel 7-6) at St. Louis (Wacha 15-4), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (T.Hudson 6-8) at Arizona (Ch.Anderson 6-5), 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 12-6) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 6-2), 8:05 p.m. Colorado (J.Gray 0-0) at San Diego (Rea 2-2), 8:10 p.m.
● High school football: Camrose Trojans at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 4:30 p.m.; Wetaskiwin Sabres at Rocky Mountain House Rebels, 4:30 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Hunting Hills Lightning, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Minor hockey: Red Deer minor midget AAA tryouts,7-9:15 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Three Hills Thrashers, 8 p.m. ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels at Tri-City Americans, 8:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m. Atlanta at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.
Sunday
● College soccer: SAIT at RDC; women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● Minor hockey: Red Deer minor midget AAA tryouts, 2:15-4:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Stettler Lightning, 3 p.m.
Hockey
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Harper Was 130 441 101 148 .336 Posey SF 129 479 66 158 .330 DGordon Mia 121 517 68 170 .329 Goldschmidt Ari 135 489 85 156 .319 LeMahieu Col 131 490 76 156 .318 Votto Cin 134 466 85 148 .318 YEscobar Was 120 461 63 146 .317 Pollock Ari 133 518 94 164 .317 DPeralta Ari 129 403 52 124 .308 MDuffy SF 125 473 62 143 .302 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 36; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 36; Harper, Washington, 34; Frazier, Cincinnati, 30; Rizzo, Chicago, 28; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Votto, Cincinnati, 27. Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 106; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 97; Kemp, San Diego, 91; Bryant, Chicago, 86; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 86; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 85; Rizzo, Chicago, 84. Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 18-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 17-7; GCole, Pittsburgh, 16-8; Greinke, Los Angeles, 15-3; Wacha, St. Louis, 15-4; CMartinez, St. Louis, 13-7; BColon, New York, 13-11.
2015 Western Hockey League Preseason Schedule Saturday’s results Portland 3 Tri-City 2 Calgary 4 Prince Albert 3 Seattle 5 Victoria 3 Edmonton 5 Red Deer 2 Moose Jaw 6 Regina 2 Medicine Hat 4 Swift Current 2 Everett 4 Spokane 0 Vancouver 5 Kamloops 3 Kelowna 3 Prince George 2 Sunday’s results Victoria 5 Tri-City 1 Seattle 5 Spokane 2 Edmonton 4 Saskatoon 3 Everett 4 Portland 3 Tuesday’s game Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 Portland at Prince George, 8:05 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 Everett at Prince George, 12 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 4 p.m. Kootenay at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11 Everett at Portland, 12 p.m. Kootenay at Seattle, 4 p.m. Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Red Deer at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 Kootenay at Prince George, 12 p.m. Red Deer at Spokane, 4 p.m. Victoria at Vancouver, 5 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13 Edmonton at Calgary, 3 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 3 p.m. Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Basketball
Football Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal
GP 10 10 9 10
CFL East Division W L T 7 3 0 6 4 0 5 4 0 4 6 0
PF 357 250 193 207
PA 194 287 241 196
Pt 14 12 10 8
Calgary Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan
GP 10 10 9 10 10
West Division W L T 8 2 0 6 4 0 4 5 0 3 7 0 1 9 0
PF 271 245 204 187 255
PA 197 181 250 310 313
Pt 16 12 8 6 2
WEEK 11 Bye: Ottawa Monday’s results Calgary 16 Edmonton 7 Hamilton 42 Toronto 12 Sunday’s result Saskatchewan 37 Winnipeg 19 Thursday’s result B.C. 25 Montreal 16 WEEK 12 Bye: Montreal Friday’s game Hamilton at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13 Ottawa at B.C., 2 p.m. Monday’s summaries Stampeders 16 Eskimos 7 First Quarter No Scoring. Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 13 2:10 Edm— Single Whyte 57 8:15 Cgy— TD Wilson 10 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 13:21 Cgy — FG Paredes 32 15:00 Third Quarter Edm — FG Whyte 23 13:49 Fourth Quarter Edm — FG Whyte 18 4:37 Cgy — FG Paredes 45 13:45 Edmonton 0 1 3 3 — 7 Calgary 0 13 0 3 — 16 Attendance — 35,400 at Calgary. TEAM STATISTICS Edm Cgy First downs 13 15 Yards rushing 42 49 Yards passing 195 251 Total offence 237 300 Team losses 34 26 Net offence 203 274 Passes made-tried 18-40 24-36 Total return yards 116 101 Interceptions-yards by 1-0 0-0 Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0 Sacks by 2 4 Punts-average 14-41.8 11-41.1 Penalties-yards 8-62 9-65 Time of possession 29:43 30:17 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Edm: Reilly 3-25, Simpson 4-11, Franklin 3-6; Cgy: Walter 9-26, Harrrison 3-18, Brown 1-2, Moniz 1-2, McDaniel 1-1, Mitchell 1-0. Receiving — Edm: Bowman 5-93, Walter 5-46, Lawrence 3-21, Bailey 2-16, Watson 2-12, Stafford
1-7; Cgy: McDaniel 7-74, Rogers 7-73, Fuller 3-58, Wilson 3-26, Walter 2-11, Harrison 2-9. Passing — Edm: Reilly 5-12, 90 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints, Franklin 13-28-105-0-0; Cgy: Mitchell 24-36251-1-1. Tiger-Cats 42 Argonauts 12 First Quarter Tor — Single Waters 82 1:52 Ham — TD Toliver 12 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 3:35 Ham — FG Medlock 16 15:00 Second Quarter Ham — TD Underwood 6 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 2:55 Ham — FG Medlock 20 8:40 Ham — TD Sinkfield 18 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 13:32 Third Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 49 5:23 Tor — TD Elliott 11 pass from Harris (two-point convert: Coombs 3 pass from Harris) 13:16 Fourth Quarter Tor — FG Waters 43 8:17 Ham — TD Sinkfield 16 pass from Collaros (convert failed) 12:35 Ham — TD Mathews 1 run (convert not attempted) 14:11 Toronto 1 0 8 3 — 12 Hamilton 10 17 3 12 — 42 Attendance — 24,390 at Hamilton. TEAM STATISTICS Tor Ham First downs 17 29 Yards rushing 48 108 Yards passing 215 400 Total offence 263 508 Team losses 21 6 Net offence 242 502 Passes made-tried 25-38 26-38 Total return yards 124 23 Interceptions-yards by 0-0 1-4 Fumbles-lost 3-0 2-1 Sacks by 2 4 Punts-average 5-45.4 2-43.5 Penalties-yards 14-130 17-152 Time of possession 27:50 32:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Tor: Kackert 5-37, Whitaker 1-5, McPherson 2-4, Harris 1-2; Ham: Holley 9-84, Collaros 4-22, Mathews 2-3, Grigsby 3-(minus-1). Receiving — Tor: Gurley 5-62, Elliott 4-42, Hazelton 4-27, Coombs 4-22, Owens 4-22, Whitaker 3-21, Dupuis 1-9; Ham: Sinkfield 5-110, Tasker 5-105, Toliver 6-90, Underwood 3-36, Holley 3-31, Banks 1-19, Grigsby 1-9. Passing — Tor: Harris 24-34, 211 yards, 1 TD, 1 int, McPherson 1-4-4-0-0; Ham: Collaros 26-38400-4-0. END Sunday’s summary Roughriders 37, Blue Bombers 19 First Quarter Wpg — FG Hajrullahu 50 3:54 Wpg — TD Brohm 1 run (Hajrullahu convert) 9:21 Second Quarter Sask — FG McCallum 32 6:07 Sask — TD Demski 60 punt return (McCallum convert) 7:32 Sask — FG McCallum 43 12:01 Third Quarter Sask — FG McCallum 25 4:31 Sask — TD R.Smith 27 pass from B.Smith (twopoint convert failed) 12:54 Fourth Quarter
Sask — TD Bagg 1 run (McCallum convert) 6:12 Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 58 8:59 Sask — Single McCallum 45 12:35 Wpg — TD Marshall 2 run (two-point convert: Brohm 3 run) 13:33 Sask — TD Brackenridge 22 fumble return (McCallum convert) 14:20 Winnipeg 10 0 0 9 — 19 Saskatchewan0 13 9 15 — 37 Attendance — 33,427 at Regina. TEAM STATISTICS Wpg Sask First downs 16 26 Yards rushing 60 161 Yards passing 184 211 Total offence 244 372 Team losses 14 42 Net offence 230 330 Passes made-tried 21-26 19-25 Total return yards 73 107 Interceptions-yards by 0-0 0-0 Fumbles-lost 2-1 2-2 Sacks by 4 2 Punts-average 9-40.3 4-36.5 Penalties-yards 17-140 11-98 Time of possession 22:15 37:45 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Wpg: Marshall 8-27, Brohm 8-22, Walker 4-9, Stoudermire 1-2; Sask: Messam 17-73, B.Smith 7-59, Allen 5-21, Dressler 2-7, Bagg 1-1. Receiving — Wpg: Moore 6-57, Adams 5-49, Marshall 2-23, Feoli-Gudino 3-20, Willie 2-15, Kohlert 1-11, Sherman 1-5, Walker 1-5, Denmark 1-4; Sask: Bagg 5-57, R.Smith 2-53, Dressler 6-43, Messam 4-34, Roosevelt 1-17, Allen 1-7. Passing — Wpg: Brohm 21-26, 184 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints; Sask: B.Smith 19-25-211-1-0. Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S Pt J.Medlock, Ham 0 36 22 4 106 B.Bede, Mtl 0 12 25 6 93 G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 21 8 90 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 13 21 4 80 P.McCallum, Sask 0 13 20 2 75 R.Leone, BC 0 15 16 7 70 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 10 17 6 67 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 49 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 4 0 0 46 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 6 2 0 0 38 D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37 T.Gurley, Tor 6 0 0 0 36 A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 5 4 0 0 34 x-A.Collie, BC 5 2 0 0 32 x-K.Elliott, Tor 5 2 0 0 32 B.Banks, Ham 5 0 0 0 30 V.Hazelton, Tor 5 0 0 0 30 K.Lawrence, Edm 5 0 0 0 30 K.Stafford, Edm 5 0 0 0 30 T.Toliver, Ham 5 0 0 0 30 x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 0 0 26 x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 0 0 26 C.Milo, Ott 0 13 4 1 26 E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 0 0 24 J.Mathews, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 T.Sinkfield, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 x-R.Bagg, Sask 3 4 0 0 22 x-B.Brohm, Wpg 3 2 0 0 20 x-H.Burris, Ott 3 2 0 0 20 x-J.Cornish, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20 x-W.Dressler, Sask 3 2 0 0 20 x-T.Harrison, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20 x-B.Smith, Sask 3 2 0 0 20 x-T.Sutton, Mtl 3 2 0 0 20 x-M.McDaniel, Cgy 2 8 0 0 20 S.Waters, Tor 0 6 4 2 20
Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 28 13 10 5 35 New York 25 12 7 6 43 Columbus 28 11 9 8 45 New England 27 11 9 7 38 Toronto 26 11 11 4 45 Montreal 24 9 11 4 34 Philadelphia 28 8 14 6 35 Orlando 28 7 13 8 33 New York City 27 7 13 7 38 Chicago 27 7 14 6 34
GA 34 28 47 36 44 37 45 50 46 42
Pt 44 42 41 40 37 31 30 29 28 27
Western Conference GP W L T GF 28 13 8 7 49 27 14 10 3 38 26 13 8 5 38 28 13 13 2 34 25 11 7 7 40 27 11 9 7 29 27 11 11 5 33 27 9 10 8 35 26 8 9 9 25 27 8 11 8 29
GA 33 28 30 31 35 32 31 34 27 40
Pt 46 45 44 41 40 40 38 35 33 32
Los Angeles Vancouver Dallas Seattle Kansas City Portland San Jose Houston Colorado Salt Lake
Saturday
● College soccer: Olds at RDC; women at noon, men at 2 p.m. ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs. Spokane Chiefs at Kennewick, Wash., 4 p.m. ● Major bantam preseason hockey: Leduc Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Stettler Lightning at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena.
Saturday’s results New England 3 Orlando 0 Montreal 4 Chicago 3 Seattle 2 Toronto 1 San Jose 1 Philadelphia 2 Sunday’s results Columbus 0 Dallas 3
Tottenham Watford Stoke Newcastle Sunderland
Wednesday’s games Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Kansas City at Portland, 8:30 p.m. Friday, September 11 Chicago at New York, 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 13 New England at Toronto, 3 p.m. Kansas City at Orlando, 5 p.m. D 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0
3 3 2 2 2
1 1 2 2 2
3 2 3 2 6
4 4 5 5 10
3 3 2 2 2
Saturday, Aug. 29 Newcastle 0, Arsenal 1 Aston Villa 2, Sunderland 2 Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 1 Chelsea 1, Crystal Palace 2 Liverpool 0, West Ham 3 Manchester City 2, Watford 0 Stoke 0, West Brom 1 Tottenham 0, Everton 0
Saturday, September 12 Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. New York City at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Salt Lake at Houston, 6:30 p.m. D.C. at Colorado, 7 p.m. Montreal at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Seattle at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.
English Premier League GP W Manchester City 4 4 Crystal Palace 4 3 Leicester City 4 2 Swansea 4 2 Man. United 4 2 Arsenal 4 2 Liverpool 4 2 West Ham 4 2 Everton 4 1 Southampton 4 1 Bournemouth 4 1 Aston Villa 4 1 Chelsea 4 1 Norwich 4 1 West Brom 4 1
4 4 4 4 4
Sunday, Aug. 30 Southampton 3, Norwich 0 Swansea 2, Manchester United 1 L 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
GF GA Pts 10 0 12 8 5 9 8 5 8 7 4 8 3 2 7 3 3 7 2 3 7 9 6 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 4 4 5 4 6 9 4 5 8 4 3 6 4
Saturday, Sept. 12 Everton vs. Chelsea, 1145 GMT Arsenal vs. Stoke, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City, 1400 GMT Norwich vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT Watford vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT West Brom vs. Southampton, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. Liverpool, 1630 GMT Sunday, Sept. 13 Sunderland vs. Tottenham, 1230 GMT Leicester City vs. Aston Villa, 1500 GMT Monday, Sept. 14 West Ham vs. Newcastle, 1900 GMT
Tennis Monday’s U.S. Open Results MEN Singles — Fourth Round Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. John Isner (13), U.S., 7-6 (0), 7-6 (6), 7-5. Kevin Anderson (15), South Africa, def. Andy Murray (3), Britain, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (0). Stan Wawrinka (5), Switzerland, def. Donald Young, U.S., 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Richard Gasquet (12), France, def. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. Doubles — Third Round
Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (3), Romania, def. Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky, U.S., 7-6 (3), 7-5. Marcin Matkowski, Poland, and Nenad Zimonjic (4), Serbia, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Rajeev Ram (15), U.S., 6-3, 7-6 (4). Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (6), Romania, def. Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (9), France, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3. Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey, U.S., def. Michael Russell and Donald Young, U.S., 6-2, 6-4. WOMEN
Singles — Fourth Round Simona Halep (2), Romania, def. Sabine Lisicki (24), Germany, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2. Petra Kvitova (5), Czech Republic, def. Johanna Konta, Britain, 7-5, 6-3. Victoria Azarenka (20), Belarus, def. Varvara Lepchenko, U.S., 6-3, 6-4. Flavia Pennetta (26), Italy, def. Sam Stosur (22), Australia, 6-4, 6-4. Doubles — Third Round Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, and Andreja Klepac (15), Slovenia, def. Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (3), France, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
FIBA Americas Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament SECOND ROUND GP W L Pt Argentina 5 5 0 10 Canada 5 4 1 9 Mexico 4 4 0 8 Dominican Rep. 5 2 3 7 Venezuela 4 2 2 6 Puerto Rico 5 1 4 6 Panama 5 1 4 6 Uruguay 5 0 5 5 Note: Two points awarded for a win, one for a loss. Sunday’s results Canada 103 Panama 66 Venezuela 72 Dominican Republic 68 Argentina 90 Uruguay 87 Mexico 92 Puerto Rico 86 Monday’s results Canada 109 Uruguay 82 Argentina 84 Panama 57 Puerto Rico 98 Dominican Republic 92 Venezuela vs. Mexico, late
Tuesday’s games Argentina vs. Dominican Republic, 11 a.m. Venezuela vs. Uruguay, 1:30 p.m. Panama vs. Puerto Rico, 5 p.m. Mexico vs. Canada, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday’s games Panama vs. Venezuela, 11 a.m. Dominican Republic vs. Canada, 1:30 p.m. Uruguay vs. Puerto Rico, 5 p.m. Mexico vs. Argentina, 7:30 p.m. End of Second Round PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Semifinals First vs. Fourth Places, 5 or 7:30 p.m. Second vs. Third Places, 5 or 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 Third Place Semifinal losers, 5 p.m. Championship Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m. (Note: Both teams in final qualify for 2016 Olympics)
Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Nick Goody from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Tanner Scheppers from Round Rock (PCL). National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Activated RHP Tyler Cravy from the 15-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated OF Randal Grichuk from the 15-day DL. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Claimed OT Bryce Harris off waivers from New Orleans. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed S Nick Perry, WR Jeremy Butler, QB Bryn Renner, LB Brennen Beyer, OL Kaleb Johnson, OL De’Ondre Wesley and TE Konrad Reuland to the practice squad. BUFFALO BILLS — Claimed C Gabe Ikard off waivers from Tennessee. Signed WR Dezmin Lewis, G Cyril Richardson, LB Kevin Reddick, S Jonathan Meeks and RB Cierre Wood to the practice squad. Waived WR Austin Willis from the injured reserve list. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DT Chas Alecxih, WR Brenton Bersin, LB Brian Blechen, CB Carrington Byndom, WR Damiere Byrd, DE Rakim Cox, OT David Foucault, LB Adarius Glanton, TE Scott Simonson and CB Lou Young to the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS — Claimed DB Harold JonesQuartey off waivers from Arizona and G Patrick Omameh off waivers from Tampa Bay. Terminated the contract of S Sherrod Martin. Waived OT Jordan Mills. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DT DeShawn Williams, RB Terrell Watson, WR Jake Kumerow, TE Matt Lengel, LB Trevor Roach, CB Troy Hill, QB Keith Wenning, RB James Wilder Jr., G-OT Dan France and G-C Trey Hopkins to the practice squad. Waived CB-WR Onterio McCalebb. Placed LBs Marquis Flowers and Jayson DiManche on injured reserve. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Claimed OT Austin Pasztor off waivers from Jacksonville. Traded RB Terrance West to Tennessee for a 2016 seventhround draft pick. Signed RB Shaun Draughn, DBs James Kendall and De’Ante Saunders, WR Darius Jennings, OLs Erle Ladson, Andrew McDonald and Darrian Miller and LB Hayes Pullard III to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived DE Lavar Edwards. Acquired RB Christine Michael from Seattle for an undisclosed 2016 draft pick. DENVER BRONCOS — Waived RB Montee Ball and C Gino Gradkowski. Claimed C James Ferentz off waivers from Houston and TE Mitchell Henry from Green Bay. DETOIT LIONS — Signed WR Andrew Peacock, DL Larry Webster, TE Casey Pierce, DL Kerry Hyder, DB Isaiah Johnson, OL Braxston Cave and RB George Wynn to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Claimed DT T.Y. McGill off waivers from Seattle and G Robert Myers off waivers from Baltimore. Waived-injured RB Boom Herron. Waived LB Amarlo Herrera. Signed LB Daniel Adongo, G David Arkin, WR Quan Bray, WR Duron Carter, OT Ulrick John, S Dewey McDonald, LB Josh McNary, CB Eric Patterson, DT Jeris Pendleton and TE Erik Swoope to the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed DL Richard Ash, TE Ben Koyack, DB Craig Loston, OL Chris Reed, WR Neal Sterling, LB Todd Thomas, DB Peyton Thompson and WR Tony Washington to the practice squad. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Claimed TE Brian Parker off waivers from San Diego. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Claimed QB Logan Thomas off waivers from Arizona. Placed RB Jay Ajayi on injured reserve-return. Signed QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson, OL Sam Brenner, DT Deandre Coleman, LB Mike Hull, TE Tim Semisch, TE Jake Stoneburner, OT Aundrey Walker and S Cedric Thompson to the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DE B.J. DuBose, G Isame Faciane, WR Isaac Fruechte, S Anthony Harris, LB Brian Peters, FB Blake Renaud, LB Brandon Watts, RB Dominique Williams and OL David Yankey to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Claimed DT Khyri Thornton off waivers from Green Bay. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Claimed DE Obum Gwacham off waivers from Seattle and LB Michael Mauti off waivers from Minnesota. NEW YORK GIANTS — Claimed DB Asa Jackson off waivers from Baltimore and DT Louis Nix off waivers from Houston. Released DT Kenrick Ellis. Waived CB Mike Harris. Signed OL Adam Gettis, OL Emmett Cleary, WR Julian Talley, DE Brad Bars, LB Cole Farrand and DB C.J. Conway to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Claimed DB Ronald Martin off waivers from Seattle. Released S Rontez Miles. Signed WR-KR Chris Owusu. Placed CB Dee Milliner on injured reserve-return. Signed LB Deion Barnes, FB-LB Julian Howsare, G Wesley Johnson, LB Taiwan Jones, CB Keon Lynn, WR Walter Powell, TE Wes Saxton and DE Jordan Williams to the
practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Claimed S Keenan Lambert off waivers from Seattle. Waived CB SaQwan Edwards. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Claimed QB Stephen Morris off waivers from Jacksonville. Signed G Brett Boyko, G Malcolm Bunche, CB Randall Evans, WR Freddie Martino, DE Brian Mihalik, RB Raheem Mostert, TE Chris Pantale, WR Quron Pratt, S Ed Reynolds, LB Deonte Skinner to the practice squad. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed CB Greg Ducre, WR Javontee Herndon, G Michael Huey, LB Ryan Mueller, S Adrian Phillips, RB Dreamius Smith and NT Damion Square to the practice squad. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed WR DiAndre Campbell, CB Marcus Cromartie, RB Kendall Gaskins, DT Kaleb Ramsey, LB Marcus Rush, NT Garrison Smith, QB Dylan Thompson, G Andrew Tiller and S Jermaine Whitehead to the practice squad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed TE RaShaun Allen, G-C Will Pericak, LB Eric Pinkins, OT Terry Poole, WR Kevin Smith, RB Rod Smith and WR Kasen Williams to the practice squad. Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Oliver Drake and OF Junior Lake to Norfolk (IL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the contracts of RHPs Joba Chamberlain and Louis Coleman from Omaha (PCL). Designated RHP Yohan Pino and INF Dusty Coleman for assignment. NEW YORK YANKEES — Selected the contract of LHP Chris Capuano from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Recalled LHP Jacob Lindgren from Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre and placed him on the 60-day DL. SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Danny Farquhar from Tacoma (PCL). Optioned LHP Edgar Olmos to Tacoma. TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Nick Martinez from Round Rock (PCL). Activated C Robinson Chirinos from the 15-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Carl Edwards, Jr. and LHP Zac Rosscup from Iowa (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Recalled RHP Logan Verrett, INF Dilson Herrera and C Johnny Monell from Las Vegas (PCL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reinstated 1B-OF Travis Ishikawa from the 15-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Recalled RHP Brett Bochy from Sacramento (PCL). Reinstated 2B Joe Panik from the 15-day DL. American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Exercised the 2016 contract option on RHP Jorge Martinez. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed CB Cariel Brooks, OT Rob Crisp, LB Gabe Martin, G Antoine McClain, WR Jaxon Shipley, RB Back Kerwynn Williams, TE Brandon Bostick, CB Leon McFadden, CB Robert Nelson and DE Lawrence Okoye to the practice squad. ATLANTA FALCONS — Claimed C Gino Gradkowski off waivers from Buffalo. Released C Joe Hawley. Signed LB Derek Akunne, OT Pierce Burton, TE Marcel Jensen, CB Akeem King, LB Stansly Maponga, NT Joey Mbu, QB Matt Simms and LB Tyler Starr to the practice squad. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DT Andre Fluellen. Signed LB IK Enemkpali, T Chris Martin, DE Cedric Reed, QB Alex Tanney and CB Jaylen Watkins to the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed LB Jonathan Anderson, LB Lamin Barrow, OT Nick Becton, DL Brandon Dunn, CB Jacoby Glenn, RB-FB Paul Lasike, WR Jalen Saunders, TE Gannon Sinclair, WR Emughedi Umodu and DL Terry Williams to the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Suspended offensive line coach Andy Moeller indefinitely for an unspecified incident. Signed QB Austin Davis. Signed OL Garth Gerhart and DL Dylan Wynn to the practice squad. Placed DB Charles Gaines injured reservereturn. DALLAS COWBOYS — Claimed OT Jordan Mills off waivers from Chicago. Waived LB Jasper Brinkley. Signed QB Jameill Showers, LB Dakorey Johnson, S Tim Scott and OT John Wetzel to the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Signed DT Jermelle Cudjo. Placed CB Alex Carter on reserve/injured-designated to return. Signed CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste to the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed WR James Jones. Released WR Myles White. Signed WR Jared Abbrederis, LB Carl Bradford, RB John Crockett, CB Robertson Daniel, TE Justin Perillo, DT Christian Ringo, G Matt Rotheram, LB James Vaughters and OT Jeremy Vujnovich to the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed LS Jon Weeks to a contract extension. Waived-injured S Terrance Parks. Signed G Karim Barton, WR Alan Bonner, LB Max Bullough, S Kurtis Drummond, QB Zac Dysert, RB Kenny Hilliard, S Corey Moore, DE Dan Pettinato, TE Eric Tomlinson and WR Chandler Worthy to the practice squad.
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Looking to dethrone the champions AFC EAST BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The AFC East got a lot more entertaining with one wacky, drama-filled off-season. Rex Ryan brought his bluster to Buffalo. The New York Jets cleaned house, welcomed home one of the franchise’s best players and saw their quarterback socked in the jaw by a teammate. Miami paid big bucks to bolster an already dominant defensive line by bringing aboard Ndamukong Suh. And then there’s the New England Patriots. The defending Super Bowl champions’ off-season was filled with talk of deflated footballs, lawsuits and Tom Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in the “Deflategate” scandal — and a judge later nullifying it. With all of those distractions, could this be the year someone else sits atop the division at the end of the season? After all, the Patriots have won 12 of the past 14 division titles. “At this time of year, there’s a lot of optimism around the NFL for a lot of different teams,” said Mike Tannenbaum, the former Jets GM who’s now the Dolphins’ executive vice-president of football operations. “But I can tell you with certainty the difference between our optimism and the other 31 (teams) is our optimism is earned.” Ryan can appreciate that kind of confidence. After being fired by the Jets as coach after six years, he found a home in Western New York. He’s already a fan favourite, blowing into town with the types of bold declarations and promises that always made headlines in New York City. “This ain’t the honeymoon period,” Ryan said.
“The honeymoon period’s coming, and I truly believe that. I truly believe there’s going to be such great days ahead of us that the true honeymoon period is getting ready to take place.” The Bills have certainly improved, and so have the Dolphins and Jets. But the question remains whether any of them will be able to dethrone the Patriots. Here are a few things to know about the AFC East: BRADY’S BUNCH After facing the possibility of going up against Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Jacksonville and Dallas with Jimmy Garoppolo as the starting quarterback, the Patriots got good news a week before the regularseason opener. Brady will be under centre on Sept. 10 against Pittsburgh after a judge erased his suspension — although NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell promised to appeal. Goodell had upheld a four-game suspension of Brady after concluding he was part of a conspiracy by Patriots equipment employees to deflate balls to gain a competitive advantage. But Brady and the NFL Players Association filed a lawsuit in late July to overturn the suspension — and won. So, Bill Belichick will head into the season with their on-field leader, who threw for 33 TDs and 4,109 yards while helping the Patriots to their fourth Super Bowl title. That’s great news for wide receiver Julian Edelman and tight end Rob Gronkowski, who combined for 174 catches and 16 TDs last season. DANGEROUS DOLPHINS Suh was signed to a six-year, $114 million contract, and will team up with four-time Pro Bowl selection Cameron Wake on one of the league’s toughest and sack-happy defensive lines. But the success of coach Joe Philbin’s team likely rests on quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who received a $96 million contract extension that runs through 2020. Tannehill threw for a career-high 4,045 yards
and 27 touchdowns last season, with a career-low 12 interceptions while possibly bringing stability to a position that has seen 17 quarterbacks since the days of Dan Marino ended in 1999. JETS’ TURBULENCE With new GM Mike Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles, New York made a splash in the off-season by signing cornerback Darrelle Revis, who played for the Jets from 2007-12, trading for wide receiver Brandon Marshall, and drafting defensive lineman Leonard Williams in the first round. The positive feelings were tempered by some negative news. Star defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson was suspended four games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, then was charged with resisting arrest 12 days later and could face further discipline from the league. The biggest blow came to quarterback Geno Smith’s jaw, broken by a punch from linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali. Smith is likely out at least the first four games, so the job is now veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick’s to hold — or lose. REX IN EFFECT Ryan has re-energized a franchise that has the longest playoff drought at 15 years, and helped the Bills sell a franchise-record 60,000-plus season tickets. The Bills’ biggest roster moves included acquiring running back LeSean McCoy in a trade with Philadelphia, adding controversial guard Richie Incognito, bringing in wide receiver Percy Harvin, and re-signing defensive end-linebacker Jerry Hughes. But like during much of his time with the Jets, Ryan is still trying to figure out who his quarterback is. The dynamic but unproven Tyrod Taylor will be the starter in Week 1 after beating out the disappointing EJ Manuel and veteran Matt Cassel for the job. PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH Patriots, Dolphins, Jets, Bills.
Colts’ sights set higher than just division title COLTS’ SOUTH Indianapolis simply has dominated this division since the NFL restructured in 2002. With the Colts Nothing has changed in the AFC South, where the going 13-6 last season, they won the AFC South for Texans, Jaguars and Titans all are chasing India- the ninth time in the last 12 seasons. Tennessee (2002 napolis, and the Colts have their sights set so much and 2008) and Houston (2011 and 2012) are the only other winners. higher than the division they dominate. Luck also is 16-2 all-time in the AFC South, with Yes, the Colts once again are thinking Super Bowl. With Andrew Luck taking the Colts one step further those losses coming in his rookie season. PROTECTING LUCK in each of his first three seasons and now having Johnson looks invigorated finally playing with an some more help, Indianapolis is looking for its third elite quarterback as he replaces Reggie Wayne afSuper Bowl trip in a decade. “They can place as many expectations as they ter 12 seasons in Houston. Irsay gave Pro Bowl wide want,” Colts tight end Coby Fleener said. “Our ex- receiver T.Y. Hilton a five-year extension worth $65 pectation from Day 1 has always been to try and million, and the Colts drafted Phillip Dorsett as well. bring a Super Bowl back to Indianapolis, and so Gore ran for 1,106 yards last season in San Francisco, but the 32-year-old running that’s still it.” back going into his 11th season The Colts reached the AFC ‘OUR EXPECTATION FROM has to prove he still has the legs championship last season afto give Luck the running game DAY 1 HAS ALWAYS BEEN ter winning their second he’s lacked. straight division title; they were TO TRY AND BRING A The key once again could be thumped 45-7 by the Patriots. the revamped offensive line. SUPER BOWL BACK TO So Indy brought in wide receivThe Colts brought in 32-yearer Andre Johnson and running INDIANAPOLIS, AND SO old Todd Herremans to play back Frank Gore to ease the right guard, and Pagano finally THAT’S STILL IT.’ pressure on Luck. picked Khaled Holmes as his Indianapolis is leaving some — COBY FLEENER starting centre. Jack Mewhort work for after this season. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS TIGHT END has been moved from left guard Coach Chuck Pagano is only unto right tackle while Hugh der contract for 2015, while the Thornton is out indefinitely Colts have only picked up Luck’s option, keeping the with a knee injury. quarterback under his rookie contract through 2016. HOUSTON’S WATTAGE Colts owner Jim Irsay sounds like he wants to keep Watt, the two-time NFL Defensive Player of the both his coach and pay Luck lots of money — once Year, has veteran Vince Wilfork nearby to help they handle business on the field. None of the other three teams appears to have the Texans’ stingy defence. Jadeveon Clowney, last the talent to stop the Colts. Houston keeps banking year’s top draft pick and limited to four games as a on J.J. Watt and that dominant defence, while the rookie, finally started practicing Aug. 17 as he works Titans and Jaguars hope they finally have franchise his way back from microfracture surgery. Coach Bill O’Brien squeezed out a 9-7 record in quarterbacks with rookie Marcus Mariota in Tenneshis debut season despite starting three quarterbacks see and Blake Bortles in Jacksonville. Here are some things to know about the AFC and playing four. Now O’Brien is on his fifth different quarterback South:
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with Brian Hoyer tabbed to start after being benched by Cleveland last season. Hoyer’s biggest help will be Arian Foster, second in NFL rushing with 95.8 yards per game last season — when the running back returns from an injured groin. RENOVATED JAGUARS After three years, going 7-25 the past two seasons and committing $180 million in contracts this offseason, the Jaguars believe it’s time to see results for all their hard work. Yes, they lost the No. 3 pick overall in rookie minicamp when defensive end Dante Fowler hurt his knee. They likely open the season without defensive linemen Sen’Derrick Marks and Andre Branch. But they invested heavily in an offensive line after giving up an NFL-high 71 sacks last season, and Bortles, the No. 3 pick a year ago, has been much more efficient this preseason after tweaking his mechanics and footwork. MARIOTA TIME Ken Whisenhunt started three quarterbacks himself his first year in Tennessee, which resulted in the franchise’s worst season since 1994 at 2-14. The Titans used the No. 2 pick overall on Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, and Whisenhunt wasted no time choosing Mariota as the starter to lead a rebuilding project. The Titans brought in defensive whiz Dick LeBeau and a handful of veteran free agents such as linebacker Brian Orakpo, wide receivers Hakeem Nicks and Harry Douglas, and tight end Anthony Fasano to help. PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH Colts, Texans, Jaguars, Titans.
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NFL’s toughest division just got tougher it will be tougher to get enough wins to qualify as a wild card. RAVENS RELOAD Baltimore was the only AFC North team to win a playoff game last season, beating the Steelers before blowing a 14-point lead and losing to eventual Super Bowl champion New England. The Ravens set franchise records for points and yards last season. Receiver Steve Smith, playing his final season, is Joe Flacco’s top target with Torrey Smith gone to San Francisco. There’s no Ray Rice controversy hanging over the team this year. “Overall, I think we’ve got a lot to build off of and a lot to feel good about,” Flacco said. CURTAINS FOR THE STEELERS’ DEFENSE LeBeau, Polamalu, cornerback Ike Taylor and end Brett Keisel are gone from a defence that slipped last season. The offence finished No. 2 in the league and should be one of its best again, even with centre Maurkice Pouncey sidelined by a broken ankle. Vick was brought in as Ben Roethlisberger’s backup after Bruce Gradkowski suffered a hand injury. Receiver Antonio Brown is an All-Pro.
CINCINNATI — Anytime there’s a debate about the NFL’s toughest division, teams in the AFC North are quick to point out the playoff appearances. Yep. Nobody can top them. The AFC North has sent more teams to the playoffs than any other division in the last seven years — 15 in all. Last season, the Steelers won the division at 11-5, and Cincinnati (10-5-1) and Baltimore (10-6) got wild cards. And that’s pretty much the norm. During the last seven years, the North has sent at least two teams to the playoffs six times. It got three teams into the post-season in 2011 and again last season. For overall excellence, it’s tough to argue with those figures. “You see the difference when we play other teams in other divisions,” Bengals receiver Marvin Jones said. “It’s definitely not as hard as our division and the games we play. When you play outside our division, you see how much easier it is to have some success.” There are some notable changes this time around, Please see NORTH on Page B6 especially in Pittsburgh, where defensive co-ordinator Dick LeBeau and safety Troy Polamalu are gone, and Michael Vick is in town as a backup quarterback. Here’s a look at the AFC North: ANOTHER THREE-PEAT? The division got three teams into the playoffs last season in part because of the scheduling rotation. It played the NFC South, which was one of the worst divisions in NFL history; no team had a winning record. It also got to play the AFC South with Jacksonville (3-13) and Tennessee (2-14). The North went 12-31 against the NFC South and 10-6 against the AFC GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU South. This year, it plays the West divisions, meaning
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Broncos still the best in the West AFC WEST BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The Denver Broncos have owned the AFC West since Tebowmania swept the NFL in 2011. They’ve won the division by an average of 3.67 games behind Peyton Manning, who hasn’t had any feeling in the fingertips on his throwing hand since undergoing neck fusion surgery while with the Colts. “Well, if I threw for 5,400-something yards and 55 touchdown passes, I wish my fingers would have been numb, too,” GM John Elway said. Despite dominating their division for four years, the Broncos are a team in transition. Tired of watching his team bow out with a whimper in the playoffs, Elway replaced coach John Fox with Gary Kubiak, his longtime backup and onetime offensive co-ordinator, last winter. Kubiak brought with him the blueprints that helped Elway cap his Hall of Fame playing career with two Super Bowl titles. It starts with a dominant defence and includes a powerful ground game based on the zone-blocking scheme, all designed to lighten the burden on an aging quarterback.
“John was very unselfish, knowing that his stats wouldn’t be the same,” former coach Mike Shanahan recalled. “Ultimately, he knew quarterbacks get judged by winning championships. And I think one of the reasons John is going in the direction he’s going in is it’s the formula he had for winning the Super Bowl.” The Broncos, who again drafted a defensive player — Shane Ray — with their top pick, gave Manning, 39, lots of rest this summer to keep him fresh. The only player who’s been in the league longer is Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri. While the long-term benefit is supposedly a fresher mind and body in December, things might not be so smooth in September. With four new O-linemen this season, zero snaps with both of his Pro Bowl receivers this summer and more time off than he’s ever taken, Manning was understandably rusty in the preseason and failed to find the end zone. “Well, maybe it’s not what he’s used to,” Elway said. “But I just think that at 39 years old, he can’t work like he used to work. And he’s got to be able to save that. He may not be as far along as he wants to right now because he hasn’t had that work, he’ll be much farther along in December by taking this time off, when we’re really going to need him.” Elway added that with a new coach-
ing staff, “there is going to be some growing pains early in the year.” “I think we can still win games as we’re developing the identity,” Manning said. A look at the rest of the AFC West: ROUGH ROAD The Chiefs signed Jeremy Maclin to upgrade an offence that featured zero touchdown catches from their wide receivers last season, a big reason they jettisoned Dwayne Bowe and his albatross contract. Like the Broncos, Kansas City’s strength is its defence. Justin Houston is back with a big new contract after his 22-sack season and he’s joined by Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Johnson and tackle Mike DeVito, both of whom tore Achilles tendons in the opener and missed the rest of 2014. They also get back Eric Berry, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in December and was declared cancer-free this summer after several rounds of chemotherapy. The problem: a brutal schedule. The Chiefs play eight of their first 11 games away from Arrowhead Stadium, one of which is their London game. RAIDER JACK The Raiders hired Jack Del Rio as their ninth coach since 2003 in hopes of ending their 12-year playoff drought. Oakland gave Derek Carr some needed options in the passing game with the additions of Amari Cooper
and Michael Crabtree in hopes he can improve on his NFL-worst 5.5 yards per attempt as a rookie. An improved running game behind Latavius Murray also should help take pressure off Carr. The defence has major questions in the secondary, but should be much better equipped to pressure the quarterback with second-year rusher Khalil Mack playing more as a defensive end than linebacker. CHARGING CHARGERS San Diego is a popular pick to unseat the Broncos thanks to the arrival of running back Melvin Gordon, a stout offensive line featuring former Denver left guard Orlando Franklin and a contract extension for Philip Rivers. Gordon is expected to help take some pressure off Rivers, who was sacked three dozen times last season and played through back and chest injuries. San Diego has consecutive thirdplace finishes under coach Mike McCoy, including being swept by Denver and Kansas City last season. “We’ve got to win games in our division to win the division,” Rivers said. “You can’t go 3-3 or worse in your division games and expect to win the division. We’ve gone way too long. Winning the West is what we’ve talked about and what our mindset is.” PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Broncos, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers.
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Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton (1) dives for the goal line against the Miami Dolphins’ Derrick Shelby (79) during an NFL preseason football game in Charlotte, N.C. Now that Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are the first team since the NFC South was established in 2002 to repeat as division champs, they see little reason why they shouldn’t win it again.
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NORTH: Steelers But in Pittsburgh, it always comes down to defence, and this one has a lot to prove. After the defence struggled during a preseason loss to Buffalo, coach Mike Tomlin said: “We continue to be slow starters and that’s disturbing. Some of those guys, quite frankly, look like the walking dead.” GET BACK TO THE BENGALS AT PLAYOFF TIME No other team has its reputation tied to one game as much as Cincinnati. The Bengals have reached the playoffs each of the last four seasons and lost the opening game each time. They haven’t won a playoff game since the 1990 season, the sixth-longest streak of post-season futility in NFL history. They’ve invested a lot of money in keeping the team intact during that four-year run, but many contracts are up after this season, making it one of those crossroads moments.
“It’s been four years in a row and I think if it doesn’t happen this year, then it’s probably never going to happen,” running back Jeremy Hill said. “Getting to the playoffs every year, that’s cool and all, but we want to get to the next level. I think it’s now or never.” ANNUAL QUESTION: WHO’S THE CLEVELAND QB? The Browns’ failed quest for a longterm quarterback turned to Johnny Manziel last year, and he struggled as a rookie and went into a rehab program. A sore elbow limited him during training camp, leaving his status uncertain. Josh McCown is the starter, but he’s a short-term fix. Cleveland has gone 4-12, 5-11, 5-11, 4-12, 5-11, 4-12 and 7-9 the last seven seasons with more change than success. Owner Jimmy Haslam has had three head coaches and general managers since taking over the team in 2012, but he now says it’s time to stay the course for a while. “We’re not going to blow things up, OK?” Haslam said during training camp. “I think we are on the right track and not blow things up.” PROJECTED ORDER OF FINISH: Ravens, Steelers, Bengals, Browns.
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mean offensive co-ordinator Mike Shula will be changing the way he uses the mobile quarterback. Shula says the Panthers will still use Newton in the zone read and don’t plan to put any restrictions on the 6-foot-5, 245-pound QB. That could be one way to mitigate the loss of top receiver Kelvin Benjamin, whose preseason knee injury required seasonending surgery. QUINN’S CHALLENGE First-year Falcons coach Dan Quinn has some major deficiencies to address. He inherits a defence that finished 2014 as far from the Seahawks’ NFL-leading standards as possible. The Falcons gave up the most yards passing and total yards in the league. They were near the bottom in sacks and points allowed. Atlanta’s offence has a good foundation with quarterback Matt Ryan throwing to wide receivers Julio Jones and Roddy White. But the offensive line has struggled and the running game is a work in progress. SAINTS OVERHAUL The Saints hope less reliance on Graham makes their offence more balanced and unpredictable, as was the case with their 2009 Super Bowl squad. New players on offence include centre Max Unger and versatile running back C.J. Spiller. On defence, two of the Saints top three cornerbacks are new: Brandon Browner and Delvin Breaux. Rookies Stephone Anthony and Hau’oli Kikaha are on track to start at linebacker. The Saints ranked second-to-last in total defence last season, so there’s pressure on third-year co-ordinator Rob Ryan to improve his unit. HOPEFUL BUCCANEERS Tampa Bay has finished last in the division the past four seasons, and escaping the cellar with a rookie quarterback won’t be easy. The Bucs are confident, though, that No. 1 overall draft pick Jameis Winston can make a difference if a revamped offensive line can give him time to throw and open holes for running back Doug Martin. Coach Lovie Smith is also counting on his defence, led by tackle Gerald McCoy and linebacker Lavonte David, to be better. Last season’s 2-14 finish was Tampa Bay’s worst in 28 years, but Smith stresses, “It’s about this year, and we know what’s at stake.” PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Panthers, Saints, Falcons, Buccaneers.
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Murray move helps Eagles, hurts Cowboys NFC EAST BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — When DeMarco Murray traded the blue star on his helmet for silver and white wings, the balance of power in the NFC East shifted from the Dallas Cowboys to the Philadelphia Eagles. That might be the difference in a division that’s had four different champions in the past four years. Last season, Murray helped the Cowboys end a string of mediocre seasons with a record-setting performance that catapulted Dallas to 12 wins and its first division crown in five years. But the All-Pro running back got a better free-agent offer from Philadelphia, where Chip Kelly overhauled the roster following a 10-win season that wasn’t good enough for a playoff spot. Murray is one of five new starters on an offence that has thrived since Kelly’s arrival in 2013. He joins new quarterback and former college roommate Sam Bradford, who looked sharp in limited preseason action. While the Cowboys still have Tony Romo, Dez Bryant and perhaps the best offensive line in the league, they’ll miss Murray’s franchise-record 1,845 yards rushing.
“We don’t say let’s take this player over that player because it’s going to make that team weaker,” Kelly said. “I know Dallas is going to be a tough opponent when we play them this year.” Murray doesn’t have to be a workhorse in Philadelphia. The Eagles also signed former Pro Bowl back Ryan Mathews and they have Darren Sproles. Dallas is counting on Darren McFadden and Joseph Randle to replace Murray’s 497 carries. The Cowboys are aiming to become the first repeat champions in the East since the Eagles won four titles in a row from 2001-04. The New York Giants and Washington Redskins won’t be a threat to knock them off. Eli Manning, Odell Beckham Jr. and the offence will score points, but defence is the big question for New York. The Redskins are a daily soap opera making headlines for the wrong reasons. Here are a few things to know about the NFC East: CHIP’S IN CHARGE Kelly gained control of personnel moves and made drastic changes. Gone are LeSean McCoy, Nick Foles, Jeremy Maclin, Evan Mathis, Todd Herremans, Trent Cole, Cary Williams and other players who helped the Eagles win 20 games in Kelly’s first two seasons. Bradford came over from St. Louis and
appears healthy after two ACL operations on the same knee forced him to miss the past 25 games. He led the offence to a touchdown in each of his four series in two preseason games. The biggest improvement for Philadelphia is the defence. Byron Maxwell and Walter Thurmond bolster a secondary that was awful the past two seasons, and Kiko Alonso fortifies a solid front seven. GETTING DEFENSIVE Murray’s success last season wasn’t the only reason the Cowboys beat out Philadelphia in the standings. A vastly improved defence led by co-ordinator Rod Marinelli was a major factor. The addition of DE Greg Hardy should help once he’s reinstated after serving a four-game suspension. And linebacker Sean Lee is back from a knee injury. But cornerback Orlando Scandrick (knee) is lost for the season, and linebacker Rolando McClain is suspended for four games. With Murray gone, the offence might have to rely more on Romo’s arm. The 35-year-old QB still seems capable of carrying the load. He bounced back from back surgery and had an outstanding season in 2014, and now seems healthier than he’s been in years. SPAGS RETURNS The most important off-season move the Giants made was hiring defensive co-ordinator Steve Spagnuolo, who
was in charge when Big Blue beat Tom Brady and the undefeated Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl. Spagnuolo has a tough task ahead with a depleted unit. End Jason Pierre-Paul’s status is uncertain, LB Jon Beason is injured again, and safeties Bennett Jackson, Mykkele Thompson and Justin Currie were lost for the season. Manning and Co. might have to win shootouts if the defence doesn’t improve drastically. Rueben Randle filled in nicely after Victor Cruz was injured to give Manning a formidable 1-2 punch at wideout. IN KIRK THEY TRUST Kirk Cousins beat out Robert Griffin III for the starting QB job, a move that could signal the end of RG3’s tumultuous tenure in Washington. The 2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year has been plagued by injuries since leading the Redskins to a division title and tearing knee ligaments in a playoff loss in January 2013. Cousins is 2-7 as a starter in three seasons playing behind Griffin. He’ll probably throw a lot to DeSean Jackson and hand off even more to Alfred Morris. The Redskins lost tight ends Niles Paul and Logan Paulsen for the season. The defence also suffered blows in the preseason with seasonending injuries to linebackers Junior Galette and Adam Hayward. PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Eagles, Cowboys, Giants, Redskins.
Seahawks still sit atop the hill in the West NFC WEST If the Seattle Seahawks become the first team to win three straight NFC titles, they’ll likely do so as champions of their division yet again. But the reigning conference champs see a challenge waiting in the NFC West. “When I first got here Arizona wasn’t so good, but now they’re starting to become good. I think San Francisco is still strong and St. Louis is trying to find their way,” Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner said. “I still think we have the best division in football.” The Seahawks are again clear favourites in their division, with Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and the addition of Jimmy Graham to their offence, and a defence that’s still expected to be among the best in the NFL. Seattle’s closest rival is now likely in the desert, with Carson Palmer returning to an Arizona roster that made the playoffs last season with 11 wins despite Palmer missing the final seven games with a knee injury. St. Louis has one of the best defensive fronts in football with Chris Long, Aaron Donald, Robert Quinn and Michael Brockers, but quarterback is still unsettled after giving up on Sam Bradford and bringing in Nick Foles. And no team has faced as much change as San Francisco. Jim Harbaugh is now coaching at Michigan. Frank Gore is running the ball in Indianapolis. And Patrick Willis and Justin Smith are retired. Here’s a look at the NFC West: STILL ON TOP For a change, most of the talk is about the potential in Seattle’s offence.
The addition of Graham gives the Seahawks a target they’ve never had for Wilson. Graham understands he won’t be getting as many receptions as he did in New Orleans, but the ones he gets from Wilson will be important. How will Graham’s addition help Seattle’s wide receivers and even Lynch in the running game in trying to build on an offence that was good enough to win two straight conference titles? “I know when the ball comes there are going to be big moments. And I know when the ball comes I’m going to have to do something with that ball,” Graham said. Defensively, the Seahawks should be just as stout, but have questions in the secondary with strong safety Kam Chancellor holding out and the addition of cornerback Cary Williams playing opposite Richard Sherman. DESERT RISING The Cardinals believe they have the talent to dethrone the Seahawks. They won 10 and 11 games in coach Bruce Arians’ first two seasons. They were 9-1 when injuries, especially at quarterback, helped lead to a 2-6 finish, including a wild-card playoff loss at Carolina. The key to the Cardinals’ fortunes is the health of Palmer, coming off surgery to repair a torn ACL. The 35-yearold quarterback has looked exceedingly sharp in training camp and has an array of targets, including veteran Larry Fitzgerald, second-year speedster John Brown, and rookie J.J. Nelson. James Bettcher replaces Todd Bowles as defensive co-ordinator, and both cornerback Patrick Peterson and safety Tyrann Mathieu are healthy. There are questions at linebacker. “For us to reach where we want to go, we can’t be potential,” Arizona
coach Bruce Arians said. “We have to be damn good.” ARCH MADNESS Could this be the year St. Louis jumps into contention in the division? Could it be the Rams last year in St. Louis? Those questions will hang all season. On the field, the debate will be about the addition of Foles and if he can improve an offence that has yet to catch up with the defence under coach Jeff Fisher. Foles will get the majority of the attention after coming over from Philadelphia, but there will be a lot of eyes on rookie running back Todd Gurley and — when he gets healthy — what he can bring to the offence. Defensively, St. Louis’ front-seven is among the best in the NFL. The secondary remains the concern. “I anticipate us contending for the West,” St. Louis general manager Les Snead said. “I’m planning on it, expecting it, and not scared.” REBUILDING TIME? Many familiar faces that helped San
Francisco reach the Super Bowl are gone. The retirements of Willis, Justin Smith and young Chris Borland, combined with off-field problems that led to the departure of Aldon Smith, leave significant holes on defence. The return of linebacker NaVorro Bowman is a huge boost and the addition of Darnell Dockett should help with depth up front. Offensively, there are changes around quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Two skill positions to watch will be running back, where Carlos Hyde takes over for Gore, and wide receiver, where Torrey Smith arrives to replace Michael Crabtree. They’ll all be playing for new coach Jim Tomsula. “We still have a lot of talent, so I don’t see why this year will be any different than what we’ve expected in the past,” San Francisco wide receiver Anquan Boldin said. PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams, 49ers.
NFC NORTH The competitive balance that has come to define the modern NFL has not exactly been evenly distributed across the different divisions. The Green Bay Packers sure haven’t been generous in sharing their hold on the NFC North. Befitting their publicly owned status in by far the smallest market in American professional sports, the Packers have been as steady a franchise as there is, with eight of the 13 division titles since the NFC North was formed in the league’s latest realignment in 2002. That includes each of the last four. The Packers are 57-22-1 since 2010, plus 6-4 in the playoffs. Their three rivals have reached the playoffs four times total in that span, with Chicago (41-39) owning the lone post-season victory, and Detroit (38-42) the only team to qualify more than once. Minnesota (31-48-1) finished a combined 26 games behind Green Bay over the last five years. “It doesn’t feel like there needs to be a lot of change. We’ve got the team that we want,” quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. “But it’s all about putting yourself in position.” STAYING ON THE FIELD Part of that “putting yourself in position” edict from Rodgers is avoiding injuries, which have been this team’s biggest problem and another testament to that sustained success. Green Bay’s worst season of the last five was easily 2013, an 8-7-1 finish eked out when Rodgers broke his collarbone and the Bears and Lions imploded in December. Last year, Rodgers played through a painful pulled calf muscle that limited his mobility in the playoffs. Well, the injury issue has already roared right back for the Packers, who lost top receiver Jordy Nelson (torn right ACL) for the season in a recent exhibition game. Green Bay’s ability to adjust to Nelson’s absence will be tested all fall. The ability of Randall Cobb, Davante Adams, James Jones, Ty Mont-
gomery and Jeff Janis to fill in for Nelson will be heavily scrutinized in Green Bay, but Rodgers has found myriad ways to make the offence work before. PAVING WAY FOR PETERSON Adrian Peterson’s return from the child abuse saga that sidelined him for all but one game last year has made Minnesota one of the oft-mentioned candidates to make a step forward. Peterson’s ability to pick up at age 30 where he left off will be one of the NFL’s biggest story lines, but most critical for the Vikings are the five guys in front, in the trenches. After a shaky 2014 season, the offensive line is already missing right tackle Phil Loadholt to a torn left Achilles tendon. He’s been replaced by rookie T.J. Clemmings. SUH LONG Ndamukong Suh caused his share of trouble and distraction, but there’s hardly been a more disruptive force on the interior of a defensive line than him. The Lions let Suh go as a free agent, and their ability to make up for his absence will go a long way toward maintaining a defence that ranked second in the NFL in fewest yards allowed. Five-time Pro Bowl pick Haloti Ngata was acquired to fill in for Suh, and returners defensive end Ziggy Ansah, linebacker DeAndre Levy and safety Glover Quin give the Lions the semblance of another quality group. BEARS WATCHING The Bears are now coached by John Fox, who was hired by rookie general manager Ryan Pace, but there’s another new piece to this team that went a combined 13-19 over the last two seasons. That’s the 3-4 defence, installed to help a once-proud unit try to fix some of the many flaws exposed in recent years. Outside linebacker Jared Allen, signed to play end in the old 4-3 scheme and coming off a career-low 5 ½ sacks, has been handed one of the biggest challenges with the position switch at age 33. PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Packers, Vikings, Lions, Bears.
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Murray gets sent home in fourth round U.S. OPEN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Andy Murray watched a 130 mph ace zoom by to create a two-set deficit at the U.S. Open, and then sat in his changeover chair and cursed at himself, over and over and over. A little later, Murray cracked his racket against the court once, breaking the frame, and went to the sideline and mangled his equipment even more, before meandering over to hand it to someone in the stands. Often able to spur himself by letting out some anger, the two-time Grand Slam title winner only briefly managed to get into this match. The thirdseeded Murray lost before the quarterfinals at a major for the first time since 2010, beaten 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (0) by 15th-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows on Monday. “Disappointing to lose because of that,” Murray said about his earlierthan-usual exit. “Obviously that’s many years’ work that’s gone into building that sort of consistency.” For the 6-foot-8 (2.03-meter) Anderson, known mainly for a booming serve but terrific off the ground in this 4-hour, 18-minute victory, it marked a real breakthrough: He entered with an 0-7 record in fourth-round matches at majors, including when he had a twoset lead against Novak Djokovic before losing at Wimbledon two months ago. This time, Anderson held it togeth-
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Roger Federer, of Switzerland, hits during his fourth round match against John Isner at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday. er, with the help of 25 aces and 81 total winners. “I’m a little lost for words right now,” said Anderson, who will face two-time major champion Stan Wawrinka in the quarterfinals. “I just managed to keep my composure throughout.” Murray, meanwhile, reached at least the quarters at his previous 18
Grand Slam tournaments, a streak that included championships at the U.S. Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013, along with four runner-up finishes. His last loss this soon also happened in New York, in the third round five years ago. Roger Federer also pulled off a shutout in a tiebreaker Monday, doing so in a 7-6 (0), 7-6 (6), 7-5 victory
against big-serving No. 13 John Isner. According to the ATP, Isner had never been beaten 7-0 in 428 previous official, tour-level tiebreakers. With Isner gone, and 68th-ranked American Donald Young eliminated 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 by Wawrinka earlier Monday, it’s the 16th Grand Slam tournament in a row with zero men from the U.S. in the quarterfinals. Isner had his chances against Federer, six times standing two points from evening the match at a set apiece. But Federer was masterful down the stretch in that tiebreaker, winning one point by returning a 140 mph serve before smacking a forehand passing winner, then using a forehand return winner off a 128 mph serve to earn a set point he converted with a backhand down the line. Federer broke in the last game, ending Isner’s streak of 110 service holds in a row at the U.S. Open, dating to the start of last year’s tournament. Federer’s quarterfinal opponent will be No. 12 Richard Gasquet, who got past No. 6 Tomas Berdych 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. Two women’s quarterfinals will be No. 2 Simona Halep against No. 20 Victoria Azarenka, and No. 5 Petra Kvitova against No. 26 Flavia Pennetta. Azarenka has won two Australian Open titles and twice was the runnerup at the U.S. Open. Kvitova has won Wimbledon twice. Halep was the runner-up at last year’s French Open. And Pennetta? Well, she is into her sixth U.S. Open quarterfinal in the last seven years after a 6-4, 6-4 victory against 2011 champion Sam Stosur, the last woman to beat Serena Williams at Flushing Meadows.
Canadian men look to finish the job in Belize in WC qualifier SOCCER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Belize becomes at least the 14th CONCACAF country stamp in Canadian captain Julian de Guzman’s passport. Chances are his short stay there will be pretty benign, given Canada’s 3-0 win in the first leg of its World Cup qualifier last Friday at BMO Field. The Canadian men, ranked No. 102 in the world, look to finish off the job Tuesday when they face No. 128 Belize at FFB Field in the return leg in the Belize capital of Belmopan. De Guzman says Friday’s win was a good confidence boost after a poor performance in July at the Gold Cup where Canada went 0-1-2 and failed to
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score a goal. Canadian coach Benito Floro, while happy with the overall performance against Belize, acknowledged Canada could have scored eight on the night. “Personally I think we still need to be more of a threat in front of the goal,” de Guzman said. “That being said, coming on the road now, playing in difficult conditions will definitely put us to the test to see where we stand on the road because it only gets harder.” Having escaped an extreme heat alert in Toronto, the Canadians will have to deal with more steamy conditions in Belize where Tuesday’s forecast calls for 32 Celsius — said to feel like 43 degrees. De Guzman, who has 83 caps, left Friday’s game in the 14th minute but says a calf injury has responded well to treatment. A healthy de Guzman is a real plus for Canada, especially
in a midfield already featuring Atiba Hutchinson and Will Johnson. Having already played for the senior side in such CONCACAF holiday destinations as Cuba, Dominica, Puerto Rica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the 34-year-old Ottawa Fury FC player knows more hostile countries await in North and Central America and the Caribbean. “In the early stages (of qualification), such as of now, it seems all nice and easy but once you go into the next group stage against teams like Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras, that’s when the pressure kicks in and the intensity hits another level,” de Guzman said. “But at this point now, where we’re at, we’ve been through it many times and we know all the islands are nice and pretty but we definitely need the result more than anything else now.” The Canada-Belize winner will be-
come part of Group A in the fourth round, the penultimate stage of qualifying in the region. That pool will feature No. 26 Mexico, No. 81 Honduras and either No. 107 El Salvador or No. 148 Curacao with only the top two advancing after round-robin play to the final hexagon round. De Guzman’s worst CONCACAF memory is the 8-1 humiliation in Honduras in October 2012 which ended Canada’s last attempt at World Cup qualification. De Guzman, Nik Ledgerwood, Tosaint Ricketts, David Edgar, Johnson and Hutchinson, who all played in that game, are part of the roster for Belize. Honduras is a ghost they want to exorcise. “A lot of us want to deal with that,” said de Guzman. “And I think a lot of the new guys who weren’t around want to prove something to the world that that happened by accident.”
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Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff Fall might not officially start until Sept. 23, but the season — and seasonal activities — are already underway at a local u-pick farm. The Jungle Farm kicked off their autumn season at the end of August, with their fall crops of strawberries and pumpkins ripe for picking. While temperatures dropped into the single digits this past weekend, hovering around just 8 C, a number of people headed into the fields to take advantage of the changing seasons, loading up on broccoli, beans, peas, squash and more. A few families made their way to the play area, meeting the bunnies, chickens and lambs as they
prepare themselves for cooler weather. A corn maze, designed to celebrate the centennial of the original homestead house, was also open to the public, as well as a stroller maze and an electronic pumpkin maze. An 18-metre strawberry mountain slide and pedal cars were also on hand for both the kids, and kids-at-heart. The Jungle Farm will be hosting two fall festivals this year: the Sauerkraut Festival on Sept. 19th, and the annual Harvest Festival on Oct. 3. In addition, they’ll have a Full Moon Maze open Sept. 26-27, the latter day also being under a rare supermoon lunar eclipse. The Jungle Farm is open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and weekdays by appointment only. It is located just east of Hwy 2A at 28120 Township Rd 362.
ABOVE; Pumpkins, squashes and scarecrows decorate the barn at the Jungle Farm, which kicked off its fall season at the end of August. BELOW; Sean Trivino gets ready to take home freshly picked produce.
ABOVE; Grace Trivino loads up on corn at the Jungle Farm, a local u-pick berry and vegetable farm, on Saturday afternoon. Few people were out picking and enjoying activities at the farm, as cooler temperatures and rainy conditions kept many indoors. RIGHT; Kylie Fraser, left, and Dane Inglis make friends with Midnight the rabbit, feeding her around her pen at the Jungle Farm on Saturday. Both the Jungle Farms rabbits, as well as others in Central Alberta, are already preparing for the cooler seasons and developing thicker winter coats. BELOW RIGHT: A couple of baskets of freshly picked strawberries wait to be taken home. Fall strawberries are available until Thanksgiving, weather permitting. LEFT; Nicole Bietz makes her way back through the Jungle Farm strawberry field with three baskets full of fall strawberries — one of the biggest attractions to the farm.
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UAW chief mum on target CONTRACT EXPIRATION NEARS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — With just a week left before contracts expire with Detroit’s three automakers, the United Auto Workers union says it hasn’t chosen a target company. But President Dennis Williams said Monday he’ll pick between Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler before the contracts end on Sept. 14. A target company becomes the focus of bargaining and could be hit with a strike if negotiations stall. A deal with one company also sets a general pattern for the others, although there currently are substantial differences beDennis Williams tween the three automakers. Speaking after Detroit’s an-
AUTO INDUSTRY nual Labor Day parade, Williams didn’t address whether the contracts would be extended and gave no details about how the talks that cover about 140,000 workers are progressing. “Everybody says to me ‘Dennis, have you picked a target?’ Yes. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler,” Williams said to applause during a post-parade speech. But afterward he told reporters that he would choose a single company by the time the current four-year contracts end. This year’s talks are expected to be the most contentious in years because all three companies are healthy and making money. The union wants a piece of the profits in the form of hourly pay raises for longtime workers who haven’t had one in a decade. It also wants to close the gap between entry-level workers who make about half the $29 hourly wage of
veteran employees. But companies want to cut labour costs to stay competitive with foreign automakers. All but Fiat Chrysler have costs that are higher than foreign companies with U.S. factories, according to the Center for Automotive Research. Companies want to stick with profit-sharing instead of increasing hourly labour costs. During the past four years, workers at all three companies have gotten healthy annual checks. Williams has said he doesn’t want a strike, but unlike four years ago, the union can stop work at any of the three companies. In 2011, strikes were prohibited at GM and Chrysler under the terms of their government-funded bankruptcies. To fund some of the union demands, Williams has proposed a giant health care pool to save money for the union and the three companies. Currently a union-run trust pays most health insurance costs for about 600,000 retirees and their spouses, and the companies fund health care for about 551,000 hourly and salaried workers and their families.
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Cross-border pipelines hearing to begin BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A U.S. court begins hearing arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims increased volumes of oilsands crude have been allowed to flow from Canada into the United States without adequate public input or environmental review. Indigenous and environmental groups filed a lawsuit late last year against the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State John Kerry in federal district court. Hearings start in Minneapolis on Thursday. “Plaintiffs’ members face increased risk of harm to their health, recreational, economic, spiritual and aesthetic interests as a result of the State Department’s decision to allow projects with significant environmental impacts to proceed without fully analyzing and considering the impacts,” the groups said in a complaint filed in February. At issue are a pair of Enbridge (TSX:ENB) oil pipelines between Hardisty, Alta., and Superior, Wisc.: Line 3 and Line 67, also known as Alberta Clipper. Both pipelines have presidential permits, the same crucial approval for cross-border infrastructure that TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has been painstakingly trying to obtain for its Keystone XL project since 2008. The two sides disagree over whether it’s necessary to go through that process again if more crude is to flow through those lines. “Enbridge is operating its pipelines consistent with the presidential permits and other permits that it holds for Lines 3 and 67, while meeting its responsibility and obligations to serve its shippers’ needs,” said Enbridge spokesman Graham White in an email. In court documents, the defendants say the claims “lack merit” and ask the court to “dismiss the complaint in its entirety with prejudice.” In early 2014, Enbridge announced it would be replacing Line 3 in its entirety and idling the old pipe, deeming that was a better option than fixing the whole 47-year-old line. At $7.5 billion, it would be the biggest project in Enbridge history. In court filings, the defendants describe the Line 3 replacement as a “maintenance-driven” project, while the plaintiffs say Enbridge is aiming to build a whole new pipeline that should be subject to a full State Department review. The upgrade will enable the line to pump a maximum of 760,000 barrels per day, up from the current 390,000, according to Enbridge’s own engineering analysis. Meanwhile, Enbridge is aiming to expand Line 67 from 450,000 barrels a day to 800,000 barrels a day. The plan does not entail laying down any new pipe; rather, capacity is to be boosted by adding pumping horsepower. Enbridge obtained a presidential permit in 2009 before starting up the first 450,000-barrel-per-day phase of the line, but the State Department says it needs to amend its environmental review before allowing the expansion to go ahead. That process is taking longer than Enbridge anticipated.
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Ken Greene, a co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, poses with Summer Sunrise Tomatoes in a field of Gift Zinnia in Accord, N.Y. The small business 112 kilometres north New York City makes seeds the old fashioned way. They are largely plucked, winnowed and packed by hand. They sell only heirloom seeds or varieties naturally pollinated by the wind, insects or birds, about 400 choices.
Fewer Canadians showing up in Montana as Canadian dollar continues to weaken BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KALISPELL, Mont. — Fewer license plates from Canada are showing up in northern Montana as the Canadian dollar continues to weaken and make shopping trips to the U.S. more expensive. As of Aug. 31, the U.S. dollar was worth $1.32 in Canadian currency, the strongest the U.S. dollar has been in at least five years. The Canadian dollar is tied to the commodity market, unlike the U.S. greenback. So when oil prices began falling this summer, dipping below $40 a barrel for the first time since 2009, the Loonie followed suit. Patrick Barkey, the director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana, said the drop in oil prices is the second gut-punch the Canadian dollar received, since the price for natural gas is also low. “Oil is just the second shoe to drop there,” Barkey told the Flathead Beacon. Already, some of the oil companies in Canada are cutting back. In March, Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield services and equipment companies, closed its operations in Medicine Hat, Alberta. In Montana’s Flathead Valley, that will likely lead to fewer shopping sprees from Canadian buyers because they’ll only search out the essentials for their trip, Donna Townley, an economist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, said
Restaurants will probably retain business but retail will suffer, if it hasn’t already, she said. At the Costco in Kalispell, where Canadian customers make up 10 per cent of the total sales, their absence has been noted. Warehouse manager Greg Gillingham said sales to Canadian customers are down about 30 per cent since last December. “It’s quite a bit of money,” Gillingham said. “It’s definitely affected us.” Barkey, of the BBER, said not only will it affect retail goods but the construction and real estate industries might feel the sting of fewer Canadians buying or building second homes here. Townley said businesses catering to Canadians in higher income brackets, such as medical tourism, won’t likely be affected as much, because those visitors have the cash to spend. Several factors still undetermined, such as the upcoming Canadian elections and the U.S. Federal Reserve decisions on potentially increasing interest rates in September, will affect the currency in both nations. If the Canadian currency continues to fall, Townley said, investors will sell their Loonies and buy U.S. dollars. And as oil prices continue to fall, speculators go back to the “safe haven” of the greenback, she said. “We have no control,” Townley said. “Those speculators dominate the market.”
Obama to sign executive order extending paid sick leave BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none. The White House wouldn’t specify the cost to federal contractors to implement the executive order, which Obama was to address at a major union rally and breakfast in Boston. The Labor Department said any costs would be offset by savings that contractors would see as a result of lower attrition rates and increased worker loyalty, but produced nothing to back that up. Under the executive order, employees working on federal contracts gain the right to a minimum of one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours they work. Stretched out over 12 months, that’s up to seven days per year. The order will allow employees to use the leave to care for sick relatives as well, and will affect contracts starting in 2017 — just as Obama leaves office.
The Obama administration has been working on the executive order for months, and chose Labor Day to announce it as Obama works to enact what policies he can before his presidency ends despite resistance in Congress to laws he’s proposed to improve workplace conditions. That push has reverberated in the 2016 campaign, where Democratic candidates are seeking to draw a distinction with Republicans on who’s most supportive of the middle class. “There are certain Republicans that said we can’t afford to do this,” said Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. He lamented how paid leave is seen as a partisan issue in the U.S. despite broad support in Europe. “The Republican Party is out of step with similar conservative governments around the world,” he said. Roughly 44 million private sector workers don’t get paid sick leave — about 40 per cent of the private-sector workforce, the White House said. In his speech to the Greater Boston Labor Council’s breakfast, Obama was also to renew his call for Congress to expand the requirement beyond contract workers to all but the smallest U.S. businesses, an idea that has gained little traction on Capitol Hill.
The Labor Day gathering in Boston was attracting other well-known politicians, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh among them. Vice-President Joe Biden, who is considering entering the Democratic presidential primary, was to echo the labour rights theme in a march with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Monday at a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh. Unable to push much of his agenda through a Republican-controlled Congress, Obama has in recent years used executive orders with frequency to apply policies to federal contractors that he lacks the authority to enact nationwide. His aim is to lay the groundwork for those policies to be expanded to all Americans. Earlier executive orders have barred federal contractors from discriminating against workers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, raised the minimum wage for contractors and expanded the number of contract workers eligible for overtime. Although labour groups have hailed those moves, they remain deeply skeptical of Obama’s push to secure sweeping new trade deals with the Asia-Pacific region and with Europe.
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U.S. job market in sweet spot SOLID HIRING, FALLING UNEMPLOYMENT BUT STILL-TEPID PAY GROWTH BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — On Labor Day weekend 2015, the U.S. job market has found an old sweet spot: 5.1 per cent unemployment — many miles from the 10 per cent joblessness America endured back in 2009. It’s the lowest rate in more than seven years, suggestive of healthy hiring levels that have traditionally fostered rising incomes, consumer spending and economic growth. In August, the unemployment rate fell on the strength of a decent if lessthan-stellar 173,000 added jobs. And most economists expect the government to eventually revise up that job gain because of seasonal trends that are notoriously difficult to calculate. Friday’s employment data reflected the durability of the U.S. economy, which has so far withstood distress worldwide: Tumultuous stock markets, a sharp slowdown in China, a perpetually struggling European economy and the start of a recession in Canada, America’s largest trading partner. Yet the report also spotlighted aspects of an economic expansion that has been steady without being fully satisfying: Wage growth remains slight. And millions remain relegated to the sidelines of the job market. Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, grades the job market as “good” but not great. “It’s a solid B,” LaVorgna said. “Definitely not an A.”
5.1 PER CENT UNEMPLOYMENT That figure serves as compelling evidence for why the U.S. job market is the envy of most of the industrialized world. The unemployment rate has dropped a full percentage point over the past 12 months, and for a good reason: More Americans are finding work. At previous times during the recovery from the Great Recession, the unemployment rate had dipped only because many people had abandoned their job searches and were no longer counted as unemployed. Employers have added nearly 2.6 million workers since last year — about 764,000 more than the number who left the workforce to retire, start school or end their job hunts in frustration, according to the government’s monthly survey of households. A 5.1 per cent unemployment rate also fits the Federal Reserve’s picture of a normal economy. And so it heightens expectations that the Fed will raise interest rates from record lows later this month. Maximizing employment is one of the Fed’s mandates. But the Fed must balance that task with its other mandate: To stabilize prices. And across the economy, inflation remains well short of the Fed’s 2 per cent target, at which point a rate hike would be appropriate. 10.3 PER CENT Besides the official unemployment rate, the jobs report includes a broader measure of joblessness: It takes account not only of people seeking work
Drywall case knocks at ‘China’s Great Legal Firewall’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — More than a year after suing the Cabinet agency that oversees China’s biggest state-owned companies, lawyers for people who say their homes were ruined by drywall made in China are still trying to get the lawsuit served on the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. And six other defendants — sued, like the Cabinet agency, as parents of the company that made the drywall — say they’re shielded because they’re Chinese government agencies. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon is considering damages for as many as 4,000 homeowners who say sulfur emissions from drywall made by Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd. ruined their homes and belongings. Damages could be well over $1 billion, say attorneys for plaintiffs in Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Earlier this year, Taishan paid seven Virginia homeowners and their attorneys $2.7 million plus about $500,000 interest. Fallon heard arguments earlier this year about whether those figures, with modifications for costs in different areas, can form the basis for awards in a class action lawsuit. The judge scheduled arguments Dec. 8 about whether China New Building Materials Group and five related companies should be dropped from the suit. He also recently ruled that the homeowners’ attorneys may go through diplomatic channels to serve the lawsuit on the Cabinet agency, which supervises China’s 117 biggest state-owned energy, manufacturing and other enterprises, including China National Petroleum Corp., China Mobile Ltd., and Air China Ltd. Generally, foreign governments are immune from civil lawsuits. However, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides nine exemptions, including commercial activity — the most litigated exception, according to the Federal Judicial Center’s 2013 guide to the law for judges. Diplomatic channels are the last option. An attempt to serve the law-
suit under the Hague Convention was rejected. A copy sent by Sandra Duggan, an attorney for the homeowners, showed the commission’s notation that it “is the Chinese central government agency which shall enjoy sovereign immunity and not be subject to foreign jurisdiction.” The Chinese government in Beijing also refused to accept a registered mail package of the lawsuit, associated papers and their translations into Chinese, Duggan said. She said lawyers have given the U.S. District clerk of court in New Orleans two copies of those papers to be sent through diplomatic channels. “Now we just have to wait a little bit more,” she said. She said she cannot comment about the motion to drop China New Building Materials Group and related companies from the lawsuit until plaintiffs’ attorneys file their response, due Oct. 27. In addition to claiming immunity, the companies say they shouldn’t be part of the lawsuit because they were just investors — some of them indirectly — and have had nothing to do with either drywall or business in the six states involved. “In blunderbuss fashion, Plaintiffs have sued everyone under the sun,” their attorneys wrote. “All but explicitly invoking the bogeyman of ‘China, Inc.,’ they have sued not just the companies alleged to have engaged in wrongdoing — specifically, manufacturing and importing defective drywall — but also companies that merely invested in those principal defendants; companies that invested in the companies that invested in the principal defendants; and completely unrelated companies in which those investors hold some stake.” If Fallon rules that they can be held liable, it could still be difficult to get evidence. “I think it’ll be an uphill battle,” said Dennis Shea, vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The commission released a report about legal dealings with Chinese banks, titled China’s Great Legal Firewall.
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but also of part-time workers who can’t find full-time jobs and other people on the fringes of the job market. This broader measure was 10.3 per cent last month, relatively high for a baseline unemployment rate of 5.1 per cent. When the unemployment rate was most recently this low, in early 2008, the broader measure was 9.2 per cent. That gap between 9.2 per cent in 2008 and 10.3 per cent today translates into an additional 1.9 million Americans who are still barely getting by, testament to a job market has yet to fully heal. 221,000 JOBS That’s the average monthly job growth over the past three months. That average could rise later because economists say seasonal adjustment quirks could cause the August jobs figure of 173,000 to be revised up by 50,000 or more. Why do job gains of more than 200,000 matter so much? It’s roughly twice the monthly influx of workers into the job market. It means that demand for workers exceeds the incoming supply and suggests that employers foresee continued customer demand. Tellingly, hiring in August shifted away from sectors with heavy exposure to the global economy. Manufacturers, for example, shed 17,000 jobs. The pace of hiring also slipped for business services. More than half the added jobs came from industries largely insulated from overseas turmoil: Government, education and health services. Their share of
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France’s Hollande sees economic growth rate picking up slightly next year PARIS — French President Francois Hollande says he’s confident the country’s long-stagnant economy has turned a corner and will post stronger growth in 2016, the last fullyear of his term. Hollande has made bringing down the country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate a condition for his possible re-election bid in 2017. Speaking at a news conference Monday, Hollande said “Growth is back. Not sufficiently, but we will definitely have a bit more than 1 per cent growth this year.” In 2016, economic growth will be 1.5 per cent, Hollande said. France achieved zero economic growth in the second quarter, after expanding only 0.2 per cent in all of 2014. EU statistics for July showed French unemployment rose to 10.4 per cent, from 10.3 per cent in June.
Canada pension funds buy stake in South Korean grocer Two Canadian pension plans are part of a consortium that purchased South Korean supermarket chain Homeplus from British retailer Tesco for around US$6 billion on Monday. The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board said it spent US$534 million for a 21.5 per cent stake in the company. The Public Sector Pension Investment Board, which manages investments for the federal public service and the Canadian Forces among others, was also a part of the deal but did not disclose its contribution. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015, pending approval from the South Korean government
job growth nearly doubled last month from 27.1 per cent in July. 40.3 PER CENT That’s the share of employed Americans older than 25 with college degrees. This figure has climbed more than a percentage point from 39.2 per cent over the previous 12 months. Seven years ago, the share of college-graduate workers was roughly 35 per cent. The change points to an encouraging shift since the recession: American workers are increasingly better educated. College graduates not only earn more on average than non-college grads, but on top of that, their unemployment rate is now a scant 2.5 per cent — less than half the national average. $25.09 The average hourly earnings have crept up just 2.2 per cent over the past year to $25.09. That increase looks adequate to some economists because of ultra-low inflation over that time. But an unemployment rate barely above 5 per cent would normally drive faster pay growth. That’s because when hiring picks up, the supply of available workers tightens and employers generally feel compelled to raise pay to attract talent. Yet since 2012, average hourly earnings have largely risen between 1.8 per cent and 2.2 per cent in the monthly reports — not nearly enough for many Americans to feel that their living standards have improved. and Tesco’s shareholders. Homeplus is South Korea’s secondlargest retailer, with more than 1,000 outlets across the country. It was originally founded as a joint venture between Samsung and Tesco in 1999. South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners led the deal and said the consortium will invest US$831 million in the business over the next two years. Canada’s national pension plan makes more than it currently pays out in benefits, and the CPPIB invests the excess money. At the end of June, the fund totalled $268.6 billion. Homeplus is facing criminal and civil lawsuits in South Korea after company executives including CEO Do Sung-hwan were indicted in February for selling the personal data of millions of customers to insurance companies for marketing purposes.
Bangladesh Supreme Court lifts ban on movie about garment factory disaster DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Supreme Court in Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the screening of a movie about a garment worker who was rescued from the rubble 17 days after a factory building collapsed in 2013, killing more than 1,000 people. In response to an appeal by the movie’s producer, a four-member panel of judges led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha decided late Sunday to stay a previous High Court order that banned the release of the movie for six months. Producer Shamima Akhter argued that the movie should be released as the country’s Film Censor Board had earlier approved the screening of the film after cutting some scenes in response to previous court directives. The film’s director, Nazrul Islam Khan, has argued that the real-life story of Reshma Begum depicts courage amid tragedy. Last month, the High Court banned Rana Plaza after a petition was submitted alleging that the movie has scenes of horror, cruelty and violence that could negatively affect workers in the country’s vital garment industry.
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Missing their little faces I’ve never been one to cry when the kids go back to school. I like to think of it as sort of a rite of passage for them, and me, in regards to independence and growth. However I’ve come to realize not all parents feel this way. These past few weeks as all of the children were setting forth on yet another educational year there seemed to be an excess of sadness from their corresponding parents. Perhaps, I thought, I should try to stop being so sentimentally stunted and take some time to think about why I too could become a mushy ball of sadness over my kids leaving the protective confines of my imperious wing. So I gazed lovingly at my two little darlings as they fanatically ran around the back yard while making farting sounds and calling each other obscure names like doodle-dodger and Stinky McGee. We have had an entire summer of funfilled activities and we managed to spend some serious family time together these past few months. We’ve soaked up the sun and reveled in all of the awesome adventures that summer vacation has had to offer. It truly has been a great summer break. Maybe just maybe, I will miss their little faces. I can actually see the changes in them since last June. They are more independent. For example, they now know how to get their own cereal in the morning. No longer do I wake to find Corn Flakes scattered haplessly across the kitchen floor and a leaking 4L of milk seeping out of the fridge door. Nowadays they have the wherewithal to kick the evidence under the table so not to be at fault first thing in the morning.
Their skills of deduction never seize to amaze me. They’ve also learnt where to put their shoes away so they can be easily found when leaving the house. This last one took some effort on Mama’s part to instill. There was many a, “WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES SOLINDSAY PHIE? WE ARE GOBROWN ING TO BE LATE!” But eventually my ME PLUS THREE little darlings got it. Now they make sure to leave said shoes smack dab in the middle of the floor of any given room so they always have quick access to them whenever they need. My wee wonders have become so outspoken over this summer as well. I’m sure their vocabulary has tripled, perhaps even quadrupled over the past few months. Once while wielding the miniature humans around in the grocery store on a particularly busy day, I was forced to lean over and quietly threaten to take away “tablet time” from Lars as this was his twentieth or so warning to settle down and quit pinching his sister. His response, “Ugh gosh Mom, your breath is so horrendous!” Yes, his exact words, loud enough in fact that I’m sure even the pharmacist on the other end of the shop heard. But don’t worry their use of new and expressive words don’t end there.
Sophie decided to chime in too. “Yeah it’s nasty!” And then began to reiterate in a sing-song fashion, “Mama’s got nasty breath, nasty breath, nasty breath, Mama’s got nasty breath- OH yes she does!” It was actually quite catchy which made the situation all the more demoralizing. But oh how I will miss them during their seven and a half hours of school days. I will miss jabbing the soft under-skin of my foot attempting to traverse through the hellish labyrinth of dinky cars that are spewed awkwardly around my living room at any given hour of the day. I will miss the constant preaching of the words, “I’m hungry” even though it has only been mere minutes since they last consumed their second breakfast. I will miss having to make, “we are having a relaxing day at home today” sound like a fun thing when really I have simply ran out of actual fun things to do with them. I know what this is starting to sound like — I don’t actually want to kick my kids to the curb or anything. Of course I will think about their hysterical giggle fits while I’m luxuriously relaxing in a bathtub at two in the afternoon. Certainly I will smile when their quirky antics are brought to mind as I am cleaning the house free of interruptions. I will obviously be thinking about them the entire time they are not in my presence. I suppose though that this is just the price we parents have to pay to see our kiddies graduate onto the next phase of life. And for me at least, that is no reason to get all teary-eyed over. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.
Millennials see themselves as selfabsorbed WASHINGTON — Even millennials don’t think much of their generation, according to a new poll Thursday. A Pew Research Center study showed that millennials — generally defined as those ages 18-34 — had far more negative views of their generation compared to Generation Xers, baby boomers or other age groups. More than half of millennials, 59 per cent, described their generation as “self-absorbed,” while almost half — or 49 per cent — said they were “wasteful,” and 43 per cent said they were “greedy.” Around 30 per cent of Generation Xers — those ages 35-50 — said their own generation was selfabsorbed and wasteful, and 20 per cent of the baby boomers said the same about their age cohort. Millennials “stand out in their willingness to ascribe negative stereotypes to their own generation,” the study said. The older the group, the more positively they saw themselves, the Pew study found.
Overcoming kowtowing and subservience tendencies “Gracious to all, to none subservient, without offence he spoke the word he meant.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor “Why did you do that?” she demanded. “Why did you let Jack take charge?” “Oh, you know how Jack is,” he replied. “He likes to be the foreman.” “But you know twice as much as he does about home repair!” Mark’s daughter was right. She’d asked Mark to help with home renovations because he knew what he was doing. He was focused and meticulous. It was one of the reasons she hadn’t asked Jack, her father-in-law, to be involved in the project. Jack was slapstick and sloppy. He was also boastful of skills he didn’t truly possess. Not being asked hadn’t stopped Jack from showing up, however, and once he did, Mark quietly handed over the reins of control and let Jack step into the role of project foreman. It was a role Jack relished and before long, he was instructing Mark on the finer points of home improvement. Though far more skilled than his new foreman, Mark followed Jack’s direction – even though doing so caused him stress and resulted in an inferior job. At last, Mark’s daughter intervened and sent Jack packing. Mark suffered from the affliction of being too subservient – too compliant. It seemed that Mark had always been subservient – kowtowing first to his harsh and non-demonstrative father and then to every bully and boss who entered into his life. Mark had convinced himself that it was easier to let others take the lead. He was being accommodating and respectful. In the long run, Mark’s subservient nature and hyper-compliance proved devastating to his self-esteem. Confronted by his daughter, Mark decided that the time for change was long overdue. Certainly, there are times when it is appropriate to bow to others and to let others take the lead, but when we’re consistently sacrificing our needs and preferences for the sake of others it becomes a serious issue – indicative of a lack of personal value and selfworth. If we want to be happy and successful, we need to pursue our passions with purpose. Being subservient will
not accomplish the feat. We may feel that we’re being accommodating but others may view us as weak or easily intimidated. This may encourage others to take advantage of us. In the short term, MURRAY we may be FUHRER able to fool ourselves with noble thoughts, but in the long run (and as we become more aware) we’ll likely find ourselves frustrated and resentful. Like Mark, I didn’t realize the extent of my own subservient behaviour until it was pointed out to me one day. Even then, I resisted the notion and, in fact, I was insulted by the observation. It hurt my feelings. I thought the person didn’t know me well and was being overly critical. I was being kind, accommodating and respectful. In fact, I was hiding behind my fear. If you’re wondering about your own leanings toward subservient behaviour, here are some insights that may help to bring some awareness of your compliant tendencies. Subservient people often exhibit approval-seeking behaviour. Typically concerned about upsetting others, they avoid becoming entangled in any sort of conflict. As a result, they’ll usually defer to others. This is the curse of the perpetual people-pleaser who in truth pleases no one. Lacking certainty in expressing opinions, they tend to retreat when challenged. This approval-seeking tendency leads compliant individuals to sweep aside their own needs and wants for the sake of others. Ultimately, this contributes to their feeling unvalued and unfulfilled. Subservient people also exhibit perfectionistic tendencies and are selfcritical. I remember reading once that one of the greatest fears of people with poor self-esteem is making mistakes. To contend with this fear, subservient
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TORONTO — Championing Canadian films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year means not waving the flag at all — this 40th edition will be the first in decades to not include a single Canuckthemed program. The feature film section Canada First! was eliminated after the 2011 fest, and now Canadian shorts have merged with the international shorts section introduced last year. Festival CEO Piers Handling says the move “speaks to the strength of these films” and “better serves the films and our audiences.” Several filmmakers agree, with veteran director Patricia Rozema questioning how many of her colleagues were keen to highlight their nationality so strongly. “The idea is that Canadian cinema is strong enough to swim in international waters and I’m fine with that,” says Rozema, who returns this year with the survival tale Into the Forest in the prestigious special presentations section. “It’s the problem with every minority, right? Do they have a women’s section? Would I want to be in that women’s section or would I just want to be a film among films?” Shorts director Connor Jessup says he’s keen to Photo by ADVOCATE news services be seen alongside foreign cinema as he introduces his ghost story Boy to audiences. Canadian director Patricia Rozema returns this year with the survival tale ‘Into the Forest’ in the Toronto “There’s something about putting films in a Ca- International Film Festival’s prestigious special presentations section. nadian section that felt a little ghettoized to me,” says Jessup, who also stars in the Newfoundland-set soon questioned whether she could make something coming-of-age feature Closet Monster, slotted in the story written by Benjamin August. “The writer came up with this whole new parable, both “raw and elegant.” Discovery section. “I was afraid as a filmmaker that I wouldn’t be “It felt like that was a whole section of movies a way of talking about this very dark chapter of history, the Holocaust, but in this completely unique able to make it beautiful, because the forest, by napeople could write off.” way.” ture, is a mess. It’s not ordered, and I love a clean A glance at this year’s lineup suggests Canadian The Canada/Germany co-production is one of four line,” says Rozema, known for Mansfield Park and I’ve films have never been stronger — homegrown projects feature heavily in high-profile programs treated homegrown features among 20 gala presentations. Heard the Mermaids Singing. “But in B.C. (there are) these giant old-growth to the best venues and time slots usually dominated The others include Mehta’s crime thriller, Jon Cassar’s Western adventure Forsaken with Donald and (trees) with Old Man’s Beard, it’s called. It was really by Hollywood. remarkable. It was very easy to make it look fabuKiefer Sutherland, and Paul Gross’s war tale Hyena They include Atom Egoyan’s Nazi revenge thriller Remember with Christopher Plummer and Martin Road, starring himself, Rossif Sutherland and Allan lous.” Canadian documentaries are also particularly Landau; Deepa Mehta’s gangster flick Beeba Boys Hawco. Six other Canuck films are in the special presen- strong this year, says senior programmer Steve with Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda; and Lenny Gravestock, who touts one of the largest selections in tations slate, which includes 57 films overall. Abrahamson’s Irish/ recent memory. In addition to Canada co-producThey include Brian D. Johnson’s portrait Al Purdy and Abration Room, based on ‘THERE’S BEEN A KIND OF INHERENT BIAS Rozema’s Was Here; Mina Shum’s look at one of Canada’s most hamson’s films they Emma Donoghue’s AGAINST CANADIAN FILMS FOR MANY include Robert Bu- violent student protests in Ninth Floor; and Avi Lewbestseller of the Canada/U.K. is’s climate change campaign This Changes EveryYEARS BUT I FEEL A SHIFT IN THAT. PEOPLE dreau’s same name, starring jazz film Born to thing. Meanwhile, Toronto-based doc maker Alan Brie Larson. ARE READY TO THINK MAYBE WE HAVE Be Blue with Ethan Zweig is the only North American to make it into the Egoyan returns Hawke as Chet Bak- exclusive Platform competition with Hurt, a portrait A PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE THAT’S WORTH to the circuit hoping er; John Crowley’s of disgraced runner Steve Fonyo. to redeem himself LISTENING TO.’ Overall, TIFF’s slate of 399 films has 39 Canadian U.K./Ireland/Canada after back-to-back features, including co-productions, which is up from period piece Brookflops The Captive and — PATRICIA ROZEMA lyn with Saoirse 31 features in each of the two previous years. ProDevil’s Knot. DIRECTOR Ronan; Guy Edoin’s grammers sifted through 1,225 Canadian submissions Back in May, he relationship drama this year, up from 1,114 last year and 1,042 in 2013. discussed reunitRozema said the appetite for Canadian film seems Ville-Marie; and Robert Eggers’s Canada/U.S. mystery ing with Plummer, who starred in 2002’s Ararat. He to have grown. The Witch. praised the veteran stage and screen star for turn“There’s been a kind of inherent bias against CaEllen Page and Evan Rachel Wood play sisters in ing in an “amazing” performance in Remember as an Auschwitz survivor suffering from early stages Into the Forest, in which a massive power outage forc- nadian films for many years but I feel a shift in that,” she says. es them to fend for themselves as society collapses. dementia. “People are ready to think maybe we have a perRozema says Page was the driving force behind “It’s just an extraordinary role for him. It’s one of spective on life that’s worth listening to.” the film, based on Jean Hegland’s novel of the same the most complex characters I’ve ever presented in The Toronto International Film Festival begins a film,” said Egoyan, going on to outline a layered name. The Juno star found the book and pitched it to Rozema, who immediately joined the project but Thursday.
LOS ANGELES — Summer blockbusters gave way to the small and highly targeted over a sleepy Labor Day weekend at the box office, with notable performances from the faith-based War Room and the Spanish language cartoon Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos. Sony’s War Room fought its way to first place in its second weekend in release, earning $12.6 million across the four-day holiday weekend, according to Rentrak estimates on Monday. The micro-budget family drama, which cost only $3.5 million to produce, has grossed $27.9 million to date. Financial success for faith-based films is not exactly a surprise at this point, but War Room’s impressive hold from its opening weekend is significant. Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst, attributes War Room’s second weekend success to heightened awareness after it nearly usurped Straight Outta Compton last weekend. Also, word of mouth is strong for War Room. Dergarabedian said according to exit polling, 75 per cent of the audience said they would definitely recommend the movie — a substantial and interesting contrast to the dismal critical reception for the film. “It’s just a great story of a film that really filled a void in the marketplace, with a message that the audience could really get behind,” he said. New release A Walk in the Woods, debuted in third place, behind previous champ Straight Outta Compton, with $10.5 million from 1,960 screens. The buddy dramedy based on Bill Bryson’s memoir starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte cost a reported $8 million to make and has taken in $12.2 million since its Wednesday opening. The action pic The Transporter Refueled, meanwhile, opened in fifth with a lacklustre $9 million from over 3,400 screens. Costing only $21 million to produce, this franchise outing subbed in a relatively unknown actor, Ed Skrein, for star Jason Statham, who had helped the previous three films succeed. Dergarabedian said while both films will likely perform decently in theatres, their VOD earning potential is great. “Both of those movies will end up being profitable on the small screen down the road,” he said. But, it was Pantelion’s Spanish-language animated film Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos, that truly stood out among the pack, taking in $4.4 million from just 395 locations over the four-day weekend. Although it doesn’t come close to the sensational $10.4 million Labor Day weekend debut of Pantelion’s 2013 film Instructions Not Included, it does still illustrate the significant power of an underserved audience.
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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire has pulled hundreds of bartending guides from state-run liquor stores after workers complained that the drink manuals contained sexually explicit and derogatory drink names such as “stripper mom.” The Concord Monitor reports the New Hampshire Liquor Commission paid $3,300 for 500 copies of the The Bartender’s Black Book Tenth Edition as a resource for retail store employees to answer consumer questions about wines and cocktails. Workers started complaining to the commission in April about dozens of drink titles including “panty dropper.” In July, Gov. Maggie Hassan told the commission to recall the guides. “She directed they be removed because they contain material that is potentially offensive to workers and customers,” her spokesman, William Hinkle, told the newspaper. The state’s 78 liquor stores accounted for $626 million in sales in 2014 and pumped $149 million in profits into the state’s general fund. Private enti-
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MEXICO CITY — A federal judge in Mexico has started proceedings against four officials accused of aiding the escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from a maximum security prison. The federal judicial council said in a statement Monday that two of those charged are members of the Mexican intelligence service who worked at the prison and two were prison employees in the control room. Guzman escaped through a tunnel dug to his cell on July 11. The four are accused of helping a prisoner escape and not following protocol in sounding the alarm. They are being held in the same prison where they previously worked. Proceedings already began against three others, including the person in charge of the control room and two guards. Guzman had already escaped another prison in 2001.
Japan PM wins further term as president of ruling party TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has won a new term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after facing no opposition for the job. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Abe would continue to try to revive the economy and “restore Japan’s greatness.” The party named Abe president after no other lawmakers filed applications to run against him in an election that had been set for Sept. 20. Candidates had to gain support from 20 other lawmakers in the party to run. Abe’s current, three-year term as LDP president ends on Sept. 30. His new term will run until Sept. 30, 2018. Abe took office after a general election in December 2012 that vanquished the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. He also served as prime minister in 2006-07.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.” In an interview with The Associated Press during a campaign swing through Iowa, which kicks off next year’s state-by-state primary campaign, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also said the lingering questions about her email practices while serving as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat have not damaged her campaign “Not at all. It’s a distraction, certainly,” Clinton said. “But it hasn’t in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we’re making to organize here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country. And I still feel very confident about the organization and the message that my campaign is putting out.” Yet even in calling the inquiry into how she used email as the nation’s top diplomat a distraction, Clinton played down how it has affected her personally as a candidate. “As the person who has been at the centre of it, not very much,” Clinton said. “I have worked really hard this summer, sticking to my game plan about how I wanted to sort of reintroduce myself to the American people.” As she has often said in recent weeks, Clinton told AP it would have been a “better choice” for her to use separate email accounts for her personal and public business. “I’ve also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible,” Clinton said.
Hundreds of officers attend funeral for Illinois lieutenant shot to death ANTIOCH, Ill. — Several hundred police officers from around the U.S. attended a funeral Monday for a suburban Chicago lieutenant shot and killed last week, and residents of the area turned out by the thousands to watch the hearse go by. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was 52 and on the cusp of retirement after more than 30 years with the Fox Lake Police Department, was shot and killed shortly after he radioed in that he was chasing three suspicious men on foot. His more than 1.6-kilometre-long
funeral procession wound through small-town Fox Lake and lakeside forests that were the focus of a manhunt for the still at-large suspects. Fox Lake is a close-knit village of around 10,000 people and located about 80 kilometres north of Chicago. Many of those looking on from the roadside applauded as the procession went by. Blue ribbons — a mark of respect for police — were tied to trees along the way. Pictures of the officer were placed along the route. And one person held up a sign that read, “You will never be forgotten.” Gliniewicz’s wife, Mel, wore a police badge on a necklace at funeral services earlier at a high school auditorium in Antioch, her husband’s hometown not far from Fox Lake. Mourners walked by his flag-draped coffin, many hugging his wife and their four sons. Fox Lake’s recently retired police chief recalled Gliniewicz’s fondness for the phrase “embrace the suck,” about dealing with difficult tasks. “Now we’re doing it today,” Michael Behan told the packed auditorium about Gliniewicz’s funeral. Gliniewicz, who also served in the U.S. Army, told dispatchers last Tuesday that three men ran into a swampy area and he requested a second unit. He died from a gunshot wound shortly after backup officers found him about 45 metres from his squad car.
Family sues American Airlines, says man sexually abused girl DES MOINES, Iowa — The parents of a girl who reported being inappropriately touched by a man while flying alone from New York to Iowa have sued the man and American Airlines, saying the airline failed to protect the girl. Muhammad Asif Chaudhry, 57, was arrested after the July flight on charges including engaging in sexual contact with a victim between the ages of 12 and 16. The Pakistani citizen, who has denied the accusations, has since been released on bond. The lawsuit alleges that Chaudhry moved to an open seat beside the girl. The girl texted her mother, who had just arrived at work in Iowa, saying she was woken up by a man inappropriately touching her with his foot and later his hand. “I can’t move cause the seat belt sign is on and I want to get away,” the girl said in texts turned over the FBI, according to the lawsuit. She began another text, “Mommy, I’m scared...,” and said a man tried to touch her genitals. The family’s attorney, Brett Beatty, said the mother was so stunned by the texts that she fainted. When Chaudhry left the seat to use the restroom, the girl alerted a flight attendant, who moved her to a vacant first-class seat. The airline reported the girl’s complaint to authorities, and an FBI agent met Chaudhry when the flight, the first leg of her trip, landed in Chicago. “American cares deeply about our young passengers and is committed to providing a safe travel experience for them,” spokesman Josh Freed said in a statement Friday, a day after the lawsuit was filed in federal court in Des Moines. “We take these matters very seriously and have cooperated fully and immediately with law enforcement’s investigation of the suspect.” Chaudhry denied touching the girl, according to the FBI. The girl gave the investigating agent a cellphone photo she’d taken with Chaudhry’s leg across her lap, the agent said, according to the documents filed by the agent in Chaudhry’s criminal case.
Mexican attorney general’s office holds tight to story that students incinerated MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s attorney general’s office remained convinced on Monday that many of the 43 students who disappeared in 2014 were killed and incinerated at a garbage dump, one day after an independent experts’ report said it did not happen. Tomas Zeron, the director of its criminal investigation agency, said there could have been errors in the investigation but they remain confident in the forensic science and the conclusion, adding that 100 investigators were involved. “We can’t be wrong,” Zeron said on Enfoque Radio Monday. Zeron’s office has been one of the principal actors in the investigation of the students’ disappearance Sept. 26, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Francisco Cox, one of the experts on the independent commission sent by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, told Milenio television that it is possible the students were burned elsewhere, but not at the dump. On Sunday, just hours after the report was released, Attorney General Arely Gomez said she would order a new examination of what happened.
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Weight in middle age may influence Alzheimer’s risk BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but when. Obesity in midlife has long been suspected of increasing the risk of Alzheimer’s. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health took a closer look and reported Tuesday that being overweight or obese at age 50 may affect the age, years later, when Alzheimer’s strikes. Among those who eventually got sick, more midlife pounds meant an earlier onset of disease. It will take larger studies to prove if the flip side is true — that keeping trim during middle age might stall later-in-life Alzheimer’s. But it probably won’t hurt. “Maintaining a healthy BMI at midlife is likely to have long-lasting protective effects,” said Dr. Madhav Thambisetty of NIH’s National Institute on Aging, who led the study reported in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. About 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer’s, a number that is expected to more than double by 2050, barring a medical breakthrough, as the population ages. Alzheimer’s starts quietly ravaging the brain more than a decade before symptoms appear. With a cure so far elusive, researchers are hunting ways to at least delay the disease, and lifestyle changes are among the possible options. To explore obesity’s effects, Thambisetty’s team turned to the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, one of the longest-running projects to track what happens to healthy people as they get older. They checked the records of nearly 1,400 participants who
had undergone regular cognitive testing every year or two for about 14 years; 142 of them developed Alzheimer’s. The researchers checked how much those Alzheimer’s patients weighed when they were 50 and still cognitively healthy. They tracked BMI, or body mass index, a measure of weight to height. Every step up on the BMI chart predicted that when Alzheimer’s eventually struck, it would be 6 ½ months sooner. In other words, among this group of Alzheimer’s patients, someone who had been obese — a BMI of 30 — during middle age on average had their dementia strike about a year earlier than someone whose midlife BMI was 28, in the overweight range, Thambisetty explained. The threshold for being overweight is a BMI of 25. The Alzheimer’s study didn’t track whether the patients’ BMI fluctuated before or after age 50. There’s no way to know if losing pounds after that age made a difference in dementia risk, although a healthy weight is recommended for many other reasons. Some of the Baltimore Longitudinal study participants underwent brain scans during life and autopsies at death. Those tests found people with higher midlife BMIs also had more of the brain-clogging hallmarks of Alzheimer’s years later, even if they didn’t develop dementia. Tuesday’s study adds to previous research linking midlife obesity to a risk of Alzheimer’s, but it’s the first to also find those brain changes, a clue important to examine further, said Heather Snyder of the Alzheimer’s Association, who wasn’t involved in the work. Meanwhile, the Alzheimer’s group has long recommended a healthy weight: “What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” Snyder noted.
HAND WAS SAVED AND REMOVED THREE WEEKS LATER BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Casey Reyes struggled for a way to explain the “sci-fi” surgery doctors were proposing to save her 87-year-old grandfather’s badly burned hand. “They’re gonna put your hand inside your stomach, kind of like a hoodie,” she told him. Frank Reyes agreed to the strange operation at Houston Methodist Hospital, and spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply. On Thursday, doctors cut his hand free of its temporary home and shaped some of the abdominal tissue and skin to cover it. Reyes hopes for near-full use of the hand he almost lost after a freak accident earlier this summer while he was changing a tire. “It’s a funny feeling,” he said in an interview while his hand was still attached to his belly. “Anything to get me well.” Surgeries like this — temporarily attaching one body part to another, or tucking it under skin — are by no means new, but they are uncommon. They are used on the battlefield, in trauma situations, and increasingly in research as a way to incubate labgrown body parts from scaffold-like materials. Dr. Anthony Echo, plastic surgeon at Houston Methodist, thought of it when he saw Reyes, a retired cattle ranch worker and school bus driver who lives in Missouri City, Texas. Reyes was home alone one day in late June, changing a tire on a trailer, when the jack slipped, pinning his hand against a fender. It was more than 100 degrees that afternoon, and it took half an hour for help to arrive. The hot metal was like an iron and “just cooked his hand,” burning through a thick glove and through skin, tendons and tissue, Echo said. Doctors initially tried a conservative approach, cleaning and bandaging the wound, but infection set it and most of his index finger had to be amputated. Still, the hand grew worse. “His skin was almost completely dead,” his granddaughter said doctors told her. “They said it looked like mummy skin.” Reyes was sent to Echo, who realized a skin graft or flap of tissue from another part of Reyes’ body would not work. The damage was down to the bone, and without a good blood supply, a graft or flap would die, he explained. Echo decided to try tucking the hand inside Reyes’ belly. “The abdominal skin actually sticks to the hand” and new blood vessels form to connect them, he said. Without this, “likely he would have lost all of his fingers,” Echo said. When he explained it to the family, “I thought it was more or less something out of a sci-fi movie.”
Parents want school district to admit son with Down syndrome EXPERTS SAY SIMILAR CASES FREQUENT BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. — The parents of a 12-year-old New York boy with Down syndrome are going to federal court to try to force their school district to provide him a local education in a case that experts say happens frequently across the country. “We strongly believe that, in 2015, and after 25 years of the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, every public school should be able to accommodate a student with Down syndrome or another disability in the classroom,” said Sara Hart Weir, president of the Washington, D.C.based National Down Syndrome Society. She said her organization hears of cases like Aiden Killoran’s “at least once a week” throughout the United States.
On Wednesday, Aiden was prevented from attending the first day of class with his friends at Westhampton Beach Middle School on eastern Long Island, according to his father, Christian Killoran. He and his wife, Terrie, claim Aiden has been given the option of attending classes in neighbouring school districts — an alternative they find unacceptable. They want him to be with the children with whom he attended elementary school. “The connection with home community is extremely important for children with disabilities for the familiarity, the relationships that can be formed within the community and a sense of belonging,” the Killorans say in a federal civil rights lawsuit. They are seeking a court order forcing the Westhampton Beach school district to allow Aiden to attend classes. It was
not immediately clear when a judge would rule. About 100 people protested outside the middle school on Wednesday morning, carrying signs calling for Aiden to be allowed to attend class. Christian Killoran said that school officials “simply do not want to undertake the administrative headaches to deal with this special education populous. They have taken the position that the school district will not accommodate his education.” Citing state and federal privacy laws, School Superintendent Michael R. Radday said in a statement that “the district is legally prohibited from discussing individual student matters and cannot comment on pending litigation.” Stephanie McGowan, associate dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Seton Hall University
and the mother of a child with Down syndrome, said the reticence of public school districts to accommodate such children is especially prevalent in middle and high schools. “Developmentally, as children grow the structure of the school changes and becomes more academic focused,” she said. “This puts a burden on school districts to provide services.” Christian Killoran argues that his son’s classmates also are being cheated because of the school’s stance. “All of the virtues and attributes that we endeavour to teach our kids — compassion, empathy, sympathy, kindness, all of those things are naturally elicited during the dynamic of interfacing with someone less fortunate than yourself,” he said. “All of those typical kids are being denied of the opportunity to interface with Aiden.
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Rosh Hashanah noodle recipe in a hurry BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I have such nostalgia for noodle kugel, specifically the one my father’s mother used to make it. This is particularly notable because she wasn’t much of a cook, though her kugel was really quite good. My grandfather loved to ask us about the kugel. “Can you guess what’s in here that makes it special?” ”Orange,“ we’d sigh. We had been down this road before. ”Orange!“ he’d say triumphantly, finger poking into the air. He never seemed to notice our lack of proper admiration for this smart addition to a plain old kugel. Now I get it. For this recipe, I tested kugel after kugel for months, chasing the memory of my grandmother’s. And I finally got the kugel I was searching for. However, there is a punchline to this story of nostalgia and food. When I made it
COOKING ON A DEADLINE for my mother, after finally feeling like I had nailed it, she said to me: “You know your grandmother never made that kugel. Her housekeeper did.” Apparently I have nostalgia for my nana’s housekeeper’s kugel. I think I’m OK with that. This kugel can be baked up to two days before serving; reheat it in a 300 F oven for 15 minutes or so. You also can make the kugel and refrigerate it unbaked for up to a day, then bake it just before serving. ——— NOODLE KUGEL Start to finish: 1 hour 45 minutes (30 minutes active) Servings: 16 ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus extra for buttering
the pan 1 cup raisins Grated zest and strained juice of 1 orange 12-ounce package wide egg noodles 6 large eggs 6 ounces cottage cheese 2 cups sour cream 2 cups whole milk ½ cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon kosher salt Heat the oven to 350 F. Butter a 9-by13-inch (or large round) baking dish. In a medium bowl, combine the raisins and orange juice, then set aside to soak. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the noodles and cook
according to package directions. Drain the noodles and return them to the pot. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together the orange zest, eggs, cottage cheese, sour cream, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and salt. Add the plumped raisins and up to 1 tablespoon of any juice remaining in the bowl. After the noodles have cooked and been returned to the pot, add the butter in pieces and toss until melted. Add the cottage cheese mixture and stir gently until well combined. Transfer the noodles to the prepared pan. Bake until a bit bubbly around the edges, well set and pretty well browned, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. If desired, increase the oven to broil and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes, or until lightly browned and crunchy on top. Transfer the kugel to a wire rack and let cool for at least 15 minutes before serving. It is great warm or at room temperature.
Cues from Italy in lamb chops and warm Caesar salad BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This recipe is a template for topping sauteed steaks or chops of most any kind with a wilted salad, a splendid dish for a late summer dinner. Mostly, I’m taking my cues here from the Italians. In Florence, they like to pep up their grilled steaks with a drizzle of olive and a spritz of lemon, which cuts through the meat’s fattiness. Then there’s veal Milanese, a breaded chop with a salad on top. But the latter dish doesn’t marry the salad dressing to the chops, as I do here, and my chop isn’t breaded. Also, Caesar dressing is rooted in Mexico, not Italy. All of which is to say I guess my inspirations were pretty diverse. How to marry the meat to the salad? By taking advantage of the concentrated bits of reduced meat juices at the bottom of the pan, as well as the juices from the resting chops after they have been cooked. It’s then that the salad’s flavours — anchovies, garlic and shallots — are added to the skillet, followed by chicken broth, lemon juice and olive oil. As noted, these are basically the ingredients for a Caesar dressing with a little chicken broth added. (The broth amps up the meat flavour while cutting down on the need for more olive oil.) If the very thought of anchovies sends you screaming for the exit, steel yourself and add them to the recipe as called for. Try it that way just once. You assume that the little devils are going to overwhelm the dish, adding nothing but fishiness. Not true. In this context, the anchovies are surprisingly modest; they provide salt and depth of flavour, but no obvious fishiness. As for the greens, feel free to experiment. If you prefer them to be more crispy and less wilted, don’t add them to the pan; just toss them with the warm dressing. Finally, I have called for lamb shoulder chops because they’re more affordable than rib or loin chops. They’re every bit as tasty as the pricier chops, even if they’re also marginally chewier. Of course, if you feel like splurging, reach for the more expensive cuts.
And know that this recipe works just as well with steak, pork chops and chicken on the bone as it does with lamb chops. ——— LAMB CHOPS WITH WARM CAESAR SALAD Start to finish: 35 minutes (15 minutes active) Servings: 4 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided Four ½-inch-thick lamb shoulder or round bone chops Kosher salt and ground black pepper 4 anchovy fillets, chopped 2 tablespoons minced shallots 1 teaspoon minced garlic ¼ cup low-sodium chicken broth 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 cups chopped escarole, dandelion greens (tough stems removed) or romaine 1 ounce shaved Parmesan cheese In a large skillet over medium-high, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Reduce the heat to medium and add 2 of the lamb chops, sprinkled with salt and pepper. Cook until lightly browned on both sides, 5 to 6 minutes total for medium-rare. Transfer to a plate and cover loosely with foil. Repeat with the remaining 2 chops in the oil remaining in the pan. Return the skillet to the heat and reduce to medium-low. Add 1 tablespoon of the remaining oil, the anchovies, shallots and garlic, then cook, stirring, for 1 ½ minutes. Add the broth and lemon juice and cook, scraping up the brown bits on the bottom, for 1 minute. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil, the greens, and a hefty pinch each of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring until the greens are slightly wilted, about 2 minutes. Add the juices from the resting lamb and remove from the heat. To serve, transfer the chops to each of 4 plates and top each chop with a quarter of the dressed wilted greens and the cheese. Nutrition information per serving: 500 calories; 380 calories from fat (76 per cent of total calories); 43 g fat (15 g saturated; 1.5 g trans fats); 90 mg cholesterol; 620 mg sodium; 5 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 26 g protein.
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GARLIC FESTIVALS HELD ACROSS CANADA TORONTO — Lovers of the “stinking rose� will have plenty of opportunities to sample its pungent delights during festivals devoted to garlic. Visitors may be surprised to learn there are dozens of strains of garlic and that the cloves can be used in both savoury and sweet dishes. Twenty chefs will be on hand at the fifth Toronto Garlic Festival, set for Sept. 20, to concoct such dishes as savoury garlic ribs and roasted corn with garlic butter. “We also have some more things that will challenge the palate,� says festival founder Peter McClusky. “For example, we do garlic and dessert items. People are always surprised by this and raise an eyebrow. They’re always happily surprised when they taste it.� A chocolatier is creating a dark chocolate truffle with black garlic. “Black garlic is fermented garlic. It has kind of a tarry texture. It’s got a flavour like licorice or coffee, chocolate, very dark deep flavour,� says McClusky, who grows eight strains of garlic on a farm east of Guelph, Ont. “It’s got a sweetness to it, so it works really well not only in savoury things but dessert items.� Caramelization occurs when garlic is roasted, releasing its sweeter, more mellow elements. Other sweets include macarons with roasted garlic, toasted homemade marshmallows with black garlic, roasted garlic chocolate ice cream — which always sells out, McClusky notes — and black garlic butter tarts. Meanwhile, visitors to the ninth Stratford Kiwanis Garlic Festival, running Sept. 12-13, may be tempted by black garlic chocolate brownies, garlic fudge and garlic ginger cookies. The Stratford event started because the Ontario garlic crop was being hit hard by the import of Chinese garlic and many farmers were struggling, says co-ordinator Teresa Renee. The crop is recovering, thanks in
Calgary cook heading to international competition CALGARY — Two Canadians are heading to international competitions this month — one involving cooking and the other wine tasting. Chef Michael Christiansen from Pear Tree Restaurant in Burnaby, B.C., will pit his culinary skills against entrants from as many as 25 other countries in a “black box� event in Budapest, Hungary. The 2015 Concours International des Jeunes Chefs Rotisseurs Competition, testing chefs up to age 27 with less than five years professional experience, is being held Sept. 11. The competitors, chosen through contests in their respective local coun-
part to awareness raised by the festival and the eat-local movement. Visitors to both festivals, which are each expected to welcome about 5,000 attendees, will be able to stock up on their winter’s supply of fresh garlic, along with condiments, jellies, pestos and other specialty items infused with garlic, and can watch cooking demos and presentations on health and wellness. Once you’ve indulged in garlicky food, consider entering the garlic breath contest at the Toronto festival. The Ontario Science Centre will rate the breath of contestants using a gas chromatograph, which measures parts-per-billion of hydrogen sulphide, methanethiol and dimethyl sulphide. In Stratford, Renee says there will be a demonstration that allows people to understand that different types of garlic can change the flavour of food because some are hot and spicy while others are mild. She’ll have some imported garlic on hand for people to compare. “Chinese garlic is watery and flavourless, in my opinion,� she says. Attendees can also learn what steps to take during the growing season to prepare garlic for braiding, then take part in a competition. Other communities in Ontario as well as B.C., Quebec and Alberta celebrate garlic. Coming up are the Verona, Ont., festival this Sunday and the Hills Garlic Festival in New Denver, B.C., on Sept. 13. In Andrew, an hour’s drive northeast of Edmonton, the 400 residents there welcome more than 1,000 people to their annual festival on Thanksgiving weekend, which will include a garlic peeling contest, an “Amazing Garlic Race,� a country hoedown and barbecue and, in a nod to the community’s Ukrainian roots, a perogy dinner.
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Husband learning to balance marriage with independence Q: My wife and I have been married a little over two years, and we’re really struggling with balancing our differences. We want to work as a team, but I think we’re each afraid of losing our own identity in the process. How can we reach a happy medium? Jim: There’s no doubt about it: Marriage is a paradox. Consider that for a relationship to be successful, couples have to limit their independence. But at the same time, they have to thrive as individuals. A good marriage takes the active involvement of two people -- the husband and the wife. On your own, you may have all the talent you need to be a roaring success in your career. But, in marriage, unless you work together with your spouse, your relationship is going to flounder. When two people each let go of some of their personal ambitions for the sake of the relationship, the bond between them will strengthen. But that’s just one side of the coin. The other is that the more connected you and your spouse become, the more important it is that you grow as individuals. Why? Because a healthy marriage consists of two unique people who can stand on their own. Entering marriage doesn’t mean you suddenly stop being who you are. It’s just the opposite. You bring yourself into your marriage, so it’s important to become the best “you� you can be. As a matter of fact, it’s those differences that help make a good marriage truly great. So, should your marriage bring you and your spouse together as one? Or should the two of you be strong individuals? The answer is “yes�! That’s the paradox of marriage. (FocusOnTheFamily.com offers plenty of resources to help you grow and thrive in both ways.) Q: My son just started middle school, and he’s hearing all sorts of new (to us) music that his friends and peers are listening to. I’ve gone online to check a couple of the artists he’s mentioned, and I’m shocked by their lyrics. What can we do? Bob Waliszewski, Director, PluggedIn: First, let me commend you for not dismissing your concerns as simply a part of a child’s growing-up. Studies
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have consistently shown that lyrical messages can strongly influence the lives of young people. As for a strategy going forward, here’s what I suggest. Call a family meeting, the sole purpose of JIM which is to esDALY tablish a clear policy regarding entertainment. Many parents don’t feel the need to verbally articulate boundaries regarding what’s acceptable and what is out of bounds. But trust me, modeling by itself isn’t enough. When our children were young, our family went a step further and put our commitment in writing. After each of us signed it, we posted a copy in a visible place in our home. It won’t take much time to write up your own “family media constitution.� The main point behind your efforts is to establish clear guidelines so there are no misunderstandings going forward. You may want to begin with: “Knowing the power of the media to influence our thoughts, behaviors and actions, we as a family commit to consuming movies, TV, videogames and music that are inspiring, encouraging and uplifting.� Once your family standard has been adopted and everyone understands the boundaries, it’s likely that smartphones, tablets, etc. will need to be purged. I’d also encourage you to revisit this conversation and convene a family meeting at least twice a year to gauge your children’s interest in all things media and evaluate their commitment to adhering to the family standard. Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.
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